The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-09-11

"The Mode
Our New Mergenthaler Type Cast
OF the water. ] told him | wasn't
feellng hrst-rate any way and needed
dose OF medicine of some kind and
If he would just bring an old tomato
can and come along and hold my
coat I'd go down and reduce the vol
ume of this apothecary's shop about
two quarts. He said all right, and we
went over. The water as clear as
crystal and not living insect of any
description could be seen in it. | dip
ped up can full and drank it. 1t
tasted like a new kind of desert that
| got for dinner at a country residence
one day last week. that was made up
of stewed potatoes, goldfish, caulifower,
onions, garliCk and three other vege-
tables which have not had time to
look up in the seed catalogue yet.
dipped up half cup more aud
drank that. Then ] walked around the
pebbled beach for half a mile looking
for something | could take away as
a memento of the lake, but could find
nothing worth taking home. Every
thing was quite safe where the bitter
waves broke on high rock near the
shore and seemed to laugh at me.
did not then understand just why they
wanted to laugh at me but supposed
it was because they hadn't seen any
thing else to laugh at lately. Before
| left this home the old gentleman
said to me, young man you carry an
honest looking face with you and I'll
bet you'll get along all right some
day" / thanked him and said, yes
sir, | don't suppose there is anything
about my appearance that would lead
you to think that one of my friends
had been sent to congress for six
consecutive terms and was going to
get two years more right away if he
wasn't awful careful" He said he
never would have thought it. l told
him it was fact but to please not let
it get out around town as expected to
pay my laundry bill and wanted to
leave as good an impression as possible
To my knowledge there has been no
chemical analysis of the water of
Medicine lake, but l kept thinking
about it all the afternoon and before
| went to bed that night, had some
how figured out that it contained about
two teaspoonfulls of EPSON salts to
the cubic inch or enough mercury to
make government thermometer.
can't exactly explain just what led me
to this conclusion, but l would be
willing to wager $40 that | am in a
degree, more or less correct.
Enemy Swim" is the name of the
lake where Rain-in-the-face used to
stab a cauvesian in the cerebsllum
with a tomahawk and then turn him
loose and see If he could swim to the
other shore without calling out the life
saving station.
Rain-in-the-face, I am told, was a
mighty chief. He could eat the hind
leg of large shepherd dog or start an
Indian massacre any morning before
breakfast if he wanted to. He could
sit in the shade of his wigwam and
watch his wife saw the wood or grease
the wagon without shedding tears. He
had beautiful daughter-Moonligh
she would get up and make a fire in
the stove, any morning, as soon as he
pounded on the stove pipe. Moonlight
loved Blue Dog, but because Blue Dog
didn't go to the same Sunday school,
didn't go to the same Sunday school
Rain-in-the-face told him he had bet
ter keep off the grass. He also told
him that his rations would be shut
off unless he quit sending Moonlight
cut flowers and Gunthers Sweets.
By investigation | have learned that
an Indians rations were usually shut
off with a rawhide string around his
throat just above his Adams Apple.
But even this did not avail. One night
when all were asleep, save a homesick
dog that howled, at the pale face moon
in the back yard-I understand that
the moon has moved out of the back
yard since that time-Blue Dog
climbed out of an upstairs window of
his fathers wigwam, slid down a post
of the piazza and stole away into the
silent night. Moonlight also climbed
out Of an upstairs window of her faith.
er's wigwam, slid down the post of the
piazza and stole away into the silent
night about the same time. For some
unaccountable reason these lovers stole
toward the same point about a mile
out of town. They met and decided to
go right on into the silent night, to.
gether, until there wasn't any more
night to go into. Now, the next morn
ing, Rain-in-the-face thought he would
get up little early and go out and
bring in pale face for breakfast, SO
he pounded on the stove pipe, as
usual, but Moonlight did not come
down. Then he swore in two or three
different languages. kicked the dash
board off the bed stead, got up, put on
his belt and went upstairs to see what
was the matter. She was gone! He
come down in great rage. got the
war drum, went out by the corn crit
and played dirge that awoke the
whole tribe. He then sent out invita-
lions to the 400" and had war dance
that morning before family prayers
After the ball was over. he got a
couple of Pinkerton Detective blood
hounds and started on the trail. Now