Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-06-04

| Rocky mountains. Avoid hemorrhages
as much as possible, also railroad eating
houses. II you could get your name on
the list OF dangerous Indians at one of
the agencies, IL would be a good idea,
for you would soon get fat and well.
They live a good deal better than most
OF the poor ranchers and have nothing
TO do. There is a kind Of paint that
you can wear for years with oil over 1t,
and you had better not wash at all.
Then by saying nothing you will get on
first rate. You could almost grow a new
arm. Do not fear that you will fall In
love with a young Indian woman, for
you will not do so. Nice government
blankets will be given you, and you can
send away for your whisky to some pro-
hibition town In North Dakota.
Verdigris Mahoney. Visalia, CAL
You SEM two stamps for autograph.
One will carry II easily. Please advise
what / will do with the other stamp?
Sissy" Two Hundred and Fourth
street and Eleventh avenue, New York,
writes: care the divided skirts used
by Indian women while riding across
the plains?"
Yes, they use them almost exclusively,
alternating between those and the
cavalry pant. II you were to step into
the bedroom OF a comrade late at night
and judge by the clothing on a chair as
to who was occupying one-half your
couch, you might err. An aged scientist
who CANE to the Pine Ridge agency TO
study the Indian made this mistake, and
ever since he got home he has had yio-
lent spells, which no doubt were
brought on by fright.
The Indian woman still wears buck
skin leggings held in place by a shawl
strap which passes about the waist.
When | see any one wearing a strap
about the waist 10 hold up the trousers,
l often think OF the cruel and inhuman
manner in which / was treated by 3
large male teacher who almost drove me
to the wine cup at one time. He fancied
that he had a grievance against ms be-
cause / had put q large SNOWFALL IN his
pocket which In schOoltime melted and
made him feel damp and w%retched.
Sc he ascertaIned by some underband
method that | did it and then started
out to humiliate me before the school.
Ny trousers were held in place by q
bride strap called the thro2tlatch.
This he uhbuckled TO use, osteRsibly In
furnishing me, but really to give him a
better chance at my slender but beauti-
fully nodded leg. | graspsd at my
drapery quickly at the fatal moment,
for there we're those / loved who were
there, but the hend In human form
whipped my hands so bitterly on one
side that / had to let 90 or that side;
then be would fog the other hand, and
30 he had not whipped more than half
an hour wnen ] noticed that / had 70
grab q little lower each time, ard e
fendish strength seemed TO be given
me. / get his little finger In my mouth
and ran. The door closed between as,
and on / ran toward the depot. The
conductor saw that | was In trouble.
He said: run Ia the caboose aud put
on e pair Of my trousers, little boy.
There is no one In there"
l went in and put on the trousers, and
as the train bowled along ] began roll
ing them up from the bottom. do not
know what became OF the man teachers
little finger. Probably / lest It as / got
into the car. but / still had his c1rnellan
ring In my mouth and kept it as q me-
mento.
For q while as I sat In 8 strange town
with another mans trousers-trousers
that were rolled up so far that looked
like the longest wasted boy ever born
IN CAPTIVITY was cast down and grief
stricken, and / thought often OF my
mother aud father AZ home, and the
thought was almost too much for me,
but a sIngld : at my low brored
pants, and nto aringink laugh.
Since tho turaed my/personaI
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