Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-04
A FLAT FAILURE.
Tho Matrimonial Mishap of a Sioux
 Warrior.
ue wcds Modern Maiden and Then Pines for obiivion-Bis Fin de Steele Bride Would Not Chop Wood Nor
 Draw Water

 of Willow creek, s. D., recently which for humor and touching pathos has yet to be equaled in the history of this sec tion of country. Paul Medicine Body, Sioux warrior, becoming tired of life and disgusted with the perfdy of the weaker sex, attempted suicide at the end of rope, and his aged father brought the instrument of destruction to Fort Pierre, appealing to the coro- ner to go out and sit" upon the body of his son, who, he averred, was much not sufficient evidence that the man was dead, however, the coroner declined to go.
 On October 20 last, says recent dis patch, Paul Medicine Body and Martha Head wended their way happily over the hills and down through the can yons of Bad river to Fort Pierre They were to be married, and all the pent-up joy of sizzling love could be seen spread ing itself over their swarthy features as they realized that the fruition of their hopes and desires was soon to be consummated. No more of the aimless ~ fg No more rude awakenings from long and blissful dreams of Hunting grounds, of fabulous wealth, to the dull prosaic necessity of building fire and cooking breakfast. The cobwebs which had accumulated in the apex of his tepee would no longer impede the blue smoke from his wigwam fire as it curled
 Irayenward to be lost in the clear at- nIospherc of his beloved Dakota land
 lie Dencycd that "as the cord unto the bow Is, 90 Is woman unto man" Thus sang tts joyous Medicine Body, and as he fOndly conjured up scenes of his dutInl wife patiently cutting the pile of wood he thought what noble being was wuiuanl In diversity how comfort lug, and III prosperity how lovablc! Medicine Body was given much to day dreaming Un that eventful October morning and the more he dreamed the faster grew his pace toward the clerk of the courts office. Johnston Jeff. ries, who was then clerk of the courts, happened to be in barber shop grttng his whisilers trimmed, and it was there that Medicine Body found hIm. ile applied for license to wed the coy madden, and Mir Jeifries, who always earned one Ur more of those ncScssLry documents about hiIn. fnrtb- with prOduled one. Medicine Body, bcing Of a tullfty ana economical turn, then mate oycrturcs to the clerk of the courts, who was also a justice of the pefte, to marry thcm on the spot in consideration of a cord of dry ash wood 1 The bargain was struck and there, | while the barber occasionally nicked his customers as he y0ld funny story, the solemn rites Of holy matrImouy were performed from the standpoint of q frontier justice of the peace.
 aledtclne Body and his wife, with | thumplng hearts anu minis full of an | tN1pdrous Uf joys To come, btstrodc | their ponies and set thelr faces toward ! the setting sun. Back over the hills ! and through the canyons they went to | the ancestral tepee, where they ex- | pectci to live long life Ot nndll2yed happiness together l}ut MediGlus i!ody | w;lS doomr,i To be distliu,iJned. Martha i would not cut the mOud nOr yet brush l the cobwcbs from his Iepcc, har jo many other things, small ID themselves, but l which iu the aggregate go Co make up l the qualities of duuful, towing help. meet, while her liegr lord, the descend. ] ant of long line of noted warriors, sat and smoked his pipe in peace, So 1 he became morose. sullen, dnd wOuli no longer mastiIale the more or less
 savory dishes which Martha prepared
 for him, until at last life became du ID. i tolerable burden to him and he took
 his trusty lariat and went hunting for tree. No tree belng in sight, he took
 the next best thing. raftcr n a barn.
 and sought a happy bunting ground.
 where women's rights had not entered
 its cnlightcntng wedge and he could 1 follow the traditions of his race without
 molcstation. His friends, however,
 discovered him in time to save his life
 One more argument on the side of those
 who claim that marriage is n failure.