The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-25

lthing in war. If it cries and she wants lit to stop she simply holds it's nose. It is said, of course, that an Indian baby lnever cries, but that is a mistake. The disease is not so prevalent with them as with white babies, nor does it exist in individual cases in such an aggravated form; but, nevertheless, it is not un- known. One day a group of five squaws were looking at a circus parade in western town. They turned their five opposes around to see the gilded wagons go by. The horns began to bray just as the band wagon passed the squaws, and five Indian babies began to hows.
 The papoose, too, like the pale-face child, is the object of much maternal pride.
 Ruth, how is your baby,." said a white man one day to an Indian girl who had recently become mother.
 Heap good" was her reply. "He born same time Rosie's papoose. Ro- sie's papoose got no tooth. See, my pa- poose got two tooth."
 Ruth was Catholic girl, having gone to the Kate Drexel school. The Sisters gave her a Christian name, and she had named her papoose after the late Pope. The man gave Ruth a bright silk neck tie, and she at once tied 1t around the head of Leo, with evident delight in the effect.
 The Indian mother loves her babe, but she wants it to be boy every time. The boy can be warrior, and that is what both father and mother desire. The mother does not want her child to endure the drudgery which she performs herself, and the father is taunted if he is only the father of squaws The papoose never gets name until after it can walk. When it leaves the board, if it is a boy, he is called merely Hats-wol, which means boy, while a girl goes by the name of Pe-te-lis. When Hats-wol or Petellis gets strong neough, he or she is put out in the woods or on hill, and the father keeps watch. If the child is attracted by some animal or strange thing, or some ! thing unusual happens, 1t gets a name. Thus hats-wol becomes to tell why the Cayuses should break their tribal law and let his twins live. Yellow Grizzly Bear made a speech. To the tribe he recalled a legend which to the Indian is the same as history. He said that long time ago, when the bunch grass grew high, twin girl papooses, the chill dren of Chief Cougar Shirt, had been allowed to live, contrary to the Cayuse law. They grew up to be beautiful young squaws. One day two Bannock tilicums (braves) came to visit the Cay uses. The chief took them into his te- l pee. They fell in love with the twins. They planned to steal them. After a ] few days Chief Cougar Shirt and his braves, to make it pleasant for their Bannock guests, took them out for a hunt. the chief giving them his swiftest Iponies When they all had gone several miles the two Bannocks left the hunting party and started back to the tepee of Cougar Shirt. The young Cayuses, who had seen the Bannocks make eyes at the winsome twin daughters of Cougar Shirt, knew what the two Bannocks were up to, and began to chase them. It was wild race, but the swifter po- nies of the Bannocks bore them to the tepee where the twins were ahead of their pursuers. The visitors then mounted their own fresh, swift ponies, took the two maidens behind them and made way for their country down on the Snake river. The young Cayuses followed, but never caught the Banocks. Cougar Shirt declared war against the Bannock tribe. He went to see nearby l tribes, the Wallulas and the Umatillas, both of whom agreed to join him. But I before these two peoples could send | their warriors forward the Bannocks had come against the Cayuses and beat en them.
 T know you say now, kill my two pa- 1 pooses," said Yellow Grizzly Bear. But I tell you something" Then he went on to say that he had had dream, and Indians have great faith in dreams. His two papooses were to break the evil charm that the twins of long ago had cast over the tribe In his dream Yellow Grizzly Bear saw his twin girl papooses grow up to be young squaws, the most beautiful of their tribe. He saw one of them wed the son of the Wallula chief, and the other marry the heir to the Umatilla throne. The three tribes at the double wedding united. They all made war against the Baunocks, their foe for so long, and overcame them.
 At the end of the speech of Yellow Grizzly Bear ballot was taken, and not one present at the powwow voted that the twins should die.