The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-12


is sweated out by two blankets
boiled in hot water and wrapped
round the body and third wrapped dry
around them both. Fourteen hours Of
sweat ct an even temperature viii
bring out all the scarlet fever. I'll tell
you another wonderful cure for tuber-
culcsis,'' said the medicine chief. Take
two Spanish flies ana put one on each
breast and let them bore right through
TO the lining of the lung. When the
aperture is made clap poultice on each
opening and you VIII get a cupful of
corruption out of each lung. This is an
old Indian remedy. and when the chiefs
visited England long ago they told il
there to the doctors, who tried il sue
cessfuily. In making medicine earth
or sands of different colors, ashes OF
certain plants, bones, birds, animals,
reptiles and other ingredients are Sc
cured and mixed together IN shallow
dish and gently stirred with stick
Indian mothers bear many thildren.
"Thc Indian woman IS an easy moth
er. She goes to a thicllet alone and re-
turns with the child IN her arms A
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Can you tell me OF some of the secret
signs which they blaze with when they
want to indicate danger?'
There are so many said the med
icine man. that hardly know where
to begin.
"a sapling cut off to within three
feet OF the ground with the bark peeled
and stone laid on top of it signifies
danger. A trunk with tomahawk
sticking in it signifies war, attack and
revenge. A tomahawk or knife driven
into the ground signifies declaration
OF war"
What are totems and watous?"
a totem is the coat of arms Of each
individual. There may be also such a
thing as a national totem. A totem has
no connection whatever with the medi-
cine bag of the individual. nor has it
necessarily any religious significance"
Can you explain to me the mysteri-
Gus secret which has always been per-
fectly inexplicable to me how the In
dams carry off their dead?"
Il do not wonder that you should be
puzzled over such problem" said the
medicine man. Il will tell you. 1t is
a common belief among the Indians of
the plains that no warrior who has
been scalped ever lives again. but is
condemned to utter humiliation. This
is the reason why the Indians try to
scalp every white man they can, SO as
to prevent his ever pursuing them
again in the happy hunting grounds be-
yond the grave. For this reason the
instant an Indian falls he is seized and
carried of the field. The secret of such
a feat lies in the drill back of it. The
rider is trained to stoop down from his
horse while he Is at fill speed and pick
up light objects lying on the ground.
Gradually heavier weights are selected,
until at last few Indians reach state
OF such remarkable proficiency in this
art as to be able to stoop down, and,
picking up the body of the heaviest
man, swing it across their horses. War
riOrs are forewarned to raise their arms
from the field if wounded or dying.
This act is generally performed by two
Indians. Riding at full speed neck TO
neck on either side of the Frustrated
form, the riders stoop at the same in
slant, seize the wounded warrior and
with double effort swing him up in
front of one OF the riders, who Scurries /
Off with him to safe cover or camp.
''In the drills the picking and the |
picked up take turns at playing dead |
or wounded. This is the reason why !
in every engagement with the Indians
unknown are the only report which !
young heutenants thirsting for glory
can make with nothing to show for
their pains.
THE Indians are greatly helped in
this by the horsehair loops which go
round the neci<s of their horses and in /
which they hang by one arm, using |
their horse as shield"
What is the secret belief of the In F!
dams regarding a man that is either
strangled or smOthercd?"
They beliSe," said the Old medicine
man, that Il soul goes out of the
mouth at death, except when a man is
either strangled or smothered- In such |
case the soul hovers around the body |
forever. This is why they dread hang |
ing SO much. No Indian will ever fight |
in the dark, for he believes that should |
he be killed in the dark bis soul would |
dwell in the dark forever"
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