The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
TELLS LIVELY STOW OF
 EASTER WITH < .INOLES
BY LANGLEY.

as he kept trying to rub his eyes open.
 He my peeg." said Tiger.
 Sop quotll Blake, 'hes 8 nice pig"
 Think so,7 added Tiger, who then went on:
 My peeg, he get dry, he saueal-me too. get dry squeal. I squeal now"
 When the government ordered the In- dians of all sections to move to the west ern reservation set apart for their future occupancy the Seminoles refused to obey and shouldering their rifles they pushed further into the Florida Everglades and no sort of threats or persuasion has ever succeeded in dislodging them. They occupy the anomalous positioa of not be- ing within the Jurisdiction of any court either civil or military or amenable to any law, municipal, state or national. They cannot sue or be sued and 1t Is still an open question in Florida what could be done with one of them if they should commit a serious crime.
 The word Seminole means renegade or runaway and was applied to this tribe by it's own people for cause long before 1t defied the government and took pos- session of the interior Florida Ever glades
 Their moral code is said to be the most stringent on earth and nothing less than death will wipe out a moral stain. Their women never touch the flesh of man, not even to shake hands, till the day of their wedding.
 About the 21st of each June they hold what they call a green corn dance. At these dances the young squaws join hands and dance around in a circle within d larger circle formed by the bucks. buck steps forward and touches the squaw of his choice on the shoulder and within the hour tho marriage ceremony is performed This is their only form of eourtship.
 While we were taking some pictures of the Tiger and Willie families Easter morning Professor Blake tried to take a young squaw by the arm to place her in the position he wanted her and she jumped like a young deer and screamed as if knife had been plunged into her.
 They are devoted to their women and children, and yet, like all other Indians. "iet the women do the work"
 They eat and sleep both off the same table or bench. The meals are pre- pared in a large pot in the center of the camp and when ready to serve the pot is placed on the table and those who are to eat get up on the table, sit down in a circle around it. cross their feet and all eat out of the vessel with spoons or ladies. If the meal happens to be supper the pot is removed and the family goes to bed in a bunch on the table. The men always eat by them selves and before the women.
 On Easter morning a grondchild of Cypress Tiger was quite sick and l have never witnessed greater evidence of anxiety in my life than was pictured on the faces of those wild men and women. First one and then another would hold the little sufferer and walk it in true American style. About o'clock old Tiger came up to me and said.
 "Piclxininny he so seek; me fraud. Bad business, bad business. Medicine man, he no good-Piclxninny he die-me fraid, me fraid."
 We examined the child and found that it was suffering from a cold and was threatened with pneumonia. Itook piece of paper and wrote the names of three or four cough and cold medicines on it and gave him some money and told him to go to Cutler and get whatever one of them he could find. He struck out and walked the twenty miles to Cutler and back in two hours and twelve minutes.
 The medicine had an almost immediate effect and the child was soon relieved and old Tiger, notwithstanding the fact that he wanted to kill me the night be- fore, pledged me his eternal friendship and protection.
 He came up to me and said "Picki- niny, he better. Great white medicine man; he alright. You got a squaw?" Yes" I replied. 'I have one.' Think so, ojus" he said With this he left and fin Q little while he returned with a lot of beads and trinlxles and handing them to me. said
 You great white medicine man. Lika you. Take giva@ your squaw tell her Indian your friend and he your squaws friend, too; take her, her tell her keep"