The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1898-09-16
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Inc Red Man Not Greatly interested in
the Grand Sights.
A TOUR OF THE GROUNDS
serenely and Soiemnly Passing Through
the Great Buildings Withou Looking
to the Right or to the Lert-The Tent
e. Field OF the Various Tribes.

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Diue lagoon was motionless, save for
the ripping CLEAN that followed the
lazy gondoia. Reflected in it's depths
were the classic fronts of the great
buildings surrounding it. The shad-
ows made black blotches on the white
walks. In the shelter of one of the
curving colonnades sat a group of
turks, placidly smoking and viewing
the scene with aDpreciative eyes. The
Varicolored flags that surrounded the
roofs OF the buildings stretched lam
guldly with a passing breeze, and then
dropped YEARLY back as though ex-
hausted with the effort. The echo of
"a venetian boat song, charted by a
stalwart gondolier, ioated across the
water.
Down h steps of the Government
building came a brilliant procession.
Wrapped in blankets of gaudy hue,
their faces daubed with many colored
paints, coarse, unkempt hair hanging
over each shoulder, beaded moccasins
n leggings-as picturesque as a
group OF Sioux braves as n can often
see. Their carriage was dignified and
stately, their impenetrable faces I'M
moved by the splendor of the scene.
The snowy facades of classic architec-
ture, the shimmering sweep of the Ia
COON, the languid %gondolas, the distant
song-not one incident of the picture
before them caused one flicker of in
terest to cross those stole faces.
Suddenly they stopped. Intense in
terest was manifested in their every
movement. They crowded eagerly
around their chief who had evidently
found something unusual, and was ges-
ticulating violently. ] crowded up to
see what strange thing they had dis
covered. l found them intent on-a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" machine! Rain
1n-the-Face" was slowly untyirg from
a greasy rne of his fringed blanket.
a penny. 1mpressively he put it il
the slot; impressively he pushed the
button! AS a narrow bar Of chocolate
fell into his greasy palm, a shout of
triumph Went up from the noble
braves. They danced with excitement.
They laughed with glee.
Then their faces Strengthened into
gravity, they wrapped themselves in
their accustomed dignity, and, serene
ly solemn once more, started on down
the court. They walked through the
buildings with never a sign of inter-
est, turning their faces neither to the
right nor to the left, until in the Nam
ufactures building they came to a
great bottle which advertises a we'll
known brand of whisky. Here was
something they could understand.
With grunts of satisfaction they sur
veyed it from all sides. Hold heap
lots firewateri" said "Rain-in-the-
Face" thirstily.
On out of the building they strobe
down to the end of the Grand Court
and up the steps of the great viaduct
which connects it with the adjacent
Bluff tract. Straight on, not once
turning their heads to look back ut
the splendid scene spread below them.
What cared they for shimmering la
COON, they who knew the dancing wat
erfalls and the hidden purling brooks.
What cared they for the splendor of the
buildings, who slept beneath the maj
esty OF the sky? What. cared they for
a demonstration OF the riches OF the
West, who had known its woods and
mountains and plains before the white
man had come?
Turning to the left they entered
the Midway. The Moorish village
with its reproductions of the Alaham-
bras beauty, the golden domes and
gaudy minarets, attracted from them
no sign of recognition; but in front CT
the Mystic Maze they stopped again
and once more they went into costa
cies OF delight. This time it was the
great concave mirrors that excited
mirth. Holding their sides in laugh
ter they turned this way and that.
hugely amazed and entertained by the
sight of their gaudy bodies extended
-, oi.+h fn the civo nf a hJ1l1yu ho rraI
Fat man." grunted one "eat heaps!
UGH" and his squaw, grinning with
enjoyment, held her brown papUose up
to see. 1s ssEa
The "spielers" next attracted their
attention, and they stopped in wide
eyed admiration to listen to the man
who bawls through the megaphone
Have you seen the See-Saw? Don't
say that you have saw Until you've rio
den on the See-Saw! See?' One
aged warrior, freely daubed with yell
low ochre, wrapped in the most bril-
liant of blankets and wearing. to cap
the climax, a pair of green goggles,
evidently considered it a Few kind OF
battle cry, and danced gravely around
the bowling medicant, trying in vain
to initiate him.
They looked with naughty scorn at
a group of Acknowledged celestials, cur
iously at a clumsy camel laden with
laghing Arabian dancing girls, and
then proceeded unconcernedly on their
dignifed way toward their own camp
ing ground.
Here the group of tents belonging
to the different tribes were scattered
about in picturesque profusion. In
the center was a great artificial pond ,
of water where the red man. be he
Apache or Navajo, chief or warrior, /
brave. squaw or papoose, took his
morning plunge. The flaps of the
tents were Topped back. and here and
there one caught glimpses of brown
faces, Of gorgeous beaded triries. wal
bonnets hung with feathers. and time
worn tomahawks. In the center of the
Apache encampment doomed up a sim
lister wal teepee of painted buffalo !
skin. These war tepees are greatly
priced by the tribes to which they be-
long. and this particular n is over
two hundred years old.
The most gorgeous array of beaded
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