Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-07-04
AN AMAZING MAGIC LANTERN
SENT ISL FOX" HOME TO
HIS BRIDE, ".SKZPPWG BIRD"

noa-Committai. ~G.G nothing more
than the sa..s shy smiles to each and
ali. 1t was ~ oon,luct like thAt. he
said to himself, ;hat A woman got to
deserve a clah; but of course that
would he out OF tn question while she
was still a girl ami nobody but her
fn,he., Mad icuil. had the riSht to club
her.
Then SLY Fo.: evolved a cool idea.
To CODY he said: Why rot ta!Ee In
liam girl also" show TIE pale faces the
beauty OF the Sioux maiden. There is
one beauty voI want. That is Skipping
Bir,.. Take her" Bill. who is under
ali circumstances an earnest member
of the con-" ittes OH personal charms.
thought we'll of The young bucks idea.
particularly after he lad taken "A good
.ooS ut Skipping Bird.
But When the idea was broac.cd to
Mad Eu.l. the giri's father. he proceeded
aat with Engaging framilmess swore
tina. white he was not averse to CON
%tributiag a sg.law and a few papooses
to help the show along, for a consider
alton. he woull have the scalp Of the
wan who tried 10 tax away his most
valued ana Droudest possession, Skip
ping Bird.
When th- time came for the Sioux
contingent to join the show. Skipping
Bird was not among them, INC 1t SEEM
Ell to us thai the quaw provided We're
rather Older. fatter, less attractive and
tetter stocked with papooses than any
we had ever seen, though perhaps, they
may have suffered in comparison with
our Iecollections of Skipping Bird.
1t is ali light. Major" said Iron Tail.
"SpuaWs lCck like these make no
trouble. Squaw look like Skipping
Bird. ali time make trouble. Red just
same as white. all devils when young"
Civ. J|,v ,rN,,IJ ha,.4 haa,, -I,J -
sign his place In the Sioux contingent
ana remain on the reservation when he
found Skipping Bird was not going
along, could he have done so without
thereby making himself an object of
ridicule among his people. But nobody
accepts the inevitable with better grace
tfan an Intlan. SiY Fox galloped away
in the troupe. imperturable and smiling,
cut with bitterness, rage and almost
despair in his heart.
That year the Wild West went to
London and spent the entire season in
their famous l.arls court encampment.
Four of the Sioux braves in the outfit
~sacculnbed 10 accidents sustained i'm
the arena = were laid away for their
last Ions sleep in West Erompton
cemetery. A fifth took his bed and
babe fpir to join them. not in conse-
glel;ce from any hurt from horse, or
ma;l. or my illness that the English
i'T"itiHe lneh coulu discover, but be-
cause Of a young face that was al
Ways before the eyes of his heart:
for TIE sick man was Sly Fox. I'm
happily. it was not only the face of
Skipping Bird that he saw, but with
'lsr and recipients of her smiles, Lean
Dog md Big Thunder and Black Snake
ard Hrnn.ng Elk. and who shall say
Tow many more? And sometimes he
scanned ot her m%ercenary parent, Mad
!. trading her off to n total stranger
= az ~ wealth in ponies and blankets.
L seemed to him as IL he would never
~ beck ac-css the great water to
-" reservation, and. in that case, he
isN. .i.s. as We'll be on the happy
a~r.tir- ground as in London, or any
'vhc.e ;lSN.
.ne ACCIDENTS and sick list worried
'hs management as the superstitious
!" iaas tegan to fear that there was
sore BAD medicine or some hoodoo
il the conditions. SLY Fox's case be-
:ng evidently q pure case of love sick
ness generating Il severe nostalgia Or
acne sickness that medical skill could
got reach. something had to be doing
oeyond the usual.
The English medicine men gave SLY
Eox advice he did not follow. and medi-
cine he would not take. His chiefs and
their medicine ma held a pow-wow
over him. but their lamentations and
': w ttitifiJlIlS lit nm no good, Even
kindly sympathy and CHEEKY en-
enlargement rolled off the young
bucks sick soul like water off a ducks
back. Sly Fox had actually reached
the point where he no longer cared to
eat and was Indifferent whether he was
painted pea-green or black.
Paul EranZeny. the artist, as charac-
teristically vasabondish a Bohemian as
New York ever knew, was that season
| with The WILD yvacf n g ssyDA<a IT, ~..,
boy Artist" doing the same work in
the arena as the cowboys and in the in
tcrva1s between performances painting
pictures in his teepee that were the
amazement of the people Of Europe,
where he remained and is now. The
case of Sly Fox Interested Pete i'm
imenseiy. The dramatic possibilities of
the situation appealed to his French
blood. The apparent absurdity of f.
deity TO an ideal bringing to such a
pass a healthy. vigorous and otherwise
sane young savage interested him as a
philosopher. He assayed to reason
with him was not a little advan-
tagged In doing so by knowing a good
deal of the Sioux language, which he
had picked up during his nomadic
western life. Nevertheless. he had no
better effect than any of the others.
Perhaps it is just as we'll not to re-
peat his cynical line of argument. The
ideal feminine. the inspiration of art.
music. poetry and religion. unattainable
and eve adorable. he naturally wor-
shipped. The realizable feminine. he
regarded as might be expected of a
Dlase boulevardier. OF course it would
have been ridiculous for him to speak
of the Ideal. to a love-sick young Sioux
buck.
Still the Indian pinned and grew
weaker, SO Pete tried a great and
wonderful experiment on him, havine
first been pretty we'll assured that the
young fellow had never even heard Of a
magic lantern. He was helped in his
design by his own somewhat copious
knowledge and keen artistic observa.
tons Of Indian girls. and specifically
aided by Nate Salisbury and June Kaon