The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-05-18

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white horses and black horses in
heaven. Now, stranger, this var dog
knows more'n any horse Oh earth, and
eff he can't 60 to heaven it amt no
place fur me, an don't want to go
thar"
DR.. Whipple was consecra.ed Bishop
of Minnesota in 1859, and since then
his work among the Indians of the
Northwest has Lecn household word
in the church. He is rich in passages
like the following:
Indians are rarely rude Or brusque,
and, owing to their keen observation,
when dining for the first time at a
white mans table they will conduct
themselves as if to manner born. En-
megahbowb, who has keen sense of
humor and has always taken pleasure
in relating stories to show this charac-
teristc Of his people, told me the fol-
lowing incident which occurred when
he was on visit to Washington with
some of the Indian chiefs. They were
dining at hotel, and one of their num-
Der, seeing a white man use pepper
sauce, took the bottle when passed to
him, and shook it over his plate. AZ
ter taking mouthful of the fiery con-
diment he kept an immovabie countc-
nance, although he could not prevent
the tears from coming. His neighbor
asked him why he was crying, and the
answer came, II was thinking of dead
grandmother. A moment afterward
the second Indian took the bottle and
used it with the same lackrymose re-
suit. The first man leaned toward
him and asked, "What are you crying
for?' II am crying" was the answer,
'bccause you didn't die when your
grandmother did,
| Enmegahbowh tells the following
amusing anecdote of his first visit to
Boston, in the early days when he went
east to raise money for a mission
church.
II was told that Boston was very
fine place. People very wise, very
good. | thing l must have new hat
for Boston. l bought very fine hat.
| When | went into the hall where l
made speech left hat with others.
When finished | went out, looked for
fine hat. 1t was gone; in its place
there was bad hat full of holes. A
reporter came to me and asked what
thought of people in Boston, | said, 4
did not get much money and my new
new hat was stolen. | said no more
On one of my visits | found a scalp
dance going on in front Of the mission
house. l had just come from the Chip
pewa country, and had heard that the
Sioux had killed one of their people.
Indignant at the brut.l sight, | took
our interpreter, Thomas Robertson,
and went to see the chief | said,
"Wabasha, you asked me for school
and mission. l came to visit you and
| see in front of the mission house a
horrible scalp dance. know the man
that was killed; he had a wife and
children; the wife is asking for her
husband; the children are asking for
their father. Wabasha, the Great
Spirit is angry! Some day He will
look Wabasha in the face and ask him
for his red brother"
The chief was smoking, but when |
had finished he took his pipe from his
mouth and, slowly blowing cloud of
cloud of smoke into the air, said:
"White man go to war with his own
brother; kills more men than Wab-
asha can count all his life. Great
Spirit look down and says, Good white
man; he has My Book; I have good
home for him by and by Dakota has
no Great Spirits Book; he goes to
war, kills one man, has foolish scalp
dance; Great Spirit very angry! Wa
| basha doesn't believe it y
The following incident shows the
wonderful chivalry of Dean Stanley
toward men who held views antipodal
to his own. at that time that the
Rev. DR.. Ward, who afterward enter
ed the Roman Church, was to be tried
for his heretiaal views by the authori-
ties of Oxford. Stanley met him and
asked if he had prepared his defence.
"No," replied Ward, ''and | do not
intend to do So"
THAT will never do" answered
Stanley: ''you must make one"
In the spring the birds are singing
As they build their summer home.