The National tribune., 1903-06-25
WASHINGTON G., THURSDAY JUNE

and obtains from the parents of the erring
one, the return of his purchase value,
which generally consists in horses or
horned cattle.
When such a separation takes place the
mother keeps the female children and
smallest male ones. over which latter, how
ever, the father never loses all control.
The birth of child gives very little
trouble to the mother; still, large fam
lilies are rare. With 40 years the Apache
woman, mature at -, is old. wrinkled and
hideous. Very soon after birth the child
is strapped upon board at whose head
sort of protector against the sun is fixed
consisting of basket work, in which latter
the Apache sQuaws must be said to excel,
manufacturing mats water-tight jars, bas-
kets, etc. of pleasing FORMS symmetrical
| ly and tastefully adorned with colored hS-
ures. The coloring matter they extract
from different barks, roots and berries;
they also employ the cochineal which they
find here plentifully on the Nopal cactus
| (prickly pear plant; botanically Opuntia),
and with which, simply pressing the nests
of the little insects between their fingers
and mixing the juice with some alcoholic
fluid. they produce beautiful, indelible
purple color.
The birth of boy. especially if he is
the first-born, is made the occasion of 4
feast, which is celebrated with great re-
| JOlclnSS, DuI the HlHle given W .hc Su.h
ling baby is not permanent. AS indicated
above, another is substituted upon
the child's attaining his or her puberty,
when another more elaborate family feast
takes place. The boys learn from their
earliest youth that they are born to rule
all womankind the men do this quite ire
Iquenty with heavy hanD; they are
taught from tender age the use OF arms
and the tricks of the chase and are very
seldom punished.
In case of sickness or wounds the
Apaches generally make use of such herbs
and roots as are recommended ana gath
cred by their old women: the bite of the
rattlesnake they treat, it is said, quite fre..
quently with success, by the application OF
poultices made from kind of Euphor,
bia, small creeping plant here called
| "golondrina," which is beaten into pulpy
mass and applied upon the wound. In
desperate cases of disease. however, they
will call in medicine-man, whose treat
ment is generally pretty severe upon the
patient. For stomach ache and collie
have seen massage with fists and knees ap-
piled upon the lower part of the torso, as
well as an application of red-hot Goals
Their dead they burn in the presence of
all the deceaSed's relatives and friends
who maintain during the ceremony com
plete silence. q have never seen sober
male Apache either laugh or cry; l. e..
shed tears.) AS sign of mourning they
cut off from the names and tails of the de,
lparted mans horses few strands of hair
which are kept as memento by the mem
Ibers of the family.
The following anecdote which is said tc
be well authenticated would go far tt
show that our troops during at least some
of their earlier expeditions undertaken
against the hostile Apaches failed to i'm
press these wild rovers with any grea
amount of respect or fear: When Gen
Sherman, in 1882, visited the reservation
at San Carlos he was repeatedly i'm
portuned by some Indians with the re
Iqucst for cartridges, alleged to be for hunt
ing purposes. Cartridges" finally sait
the impatient General; Il suppose yot
want them to kill my soldiers wth?'
"Oh, no." answered the unsophisticatet
redskins; Cartridges for cowboys; fo
your soldiers club good enough, Grea
Father"
FCo ha cnptipuo6