The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-10-15
THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1908.

was stamped the inscription, "Pils-
bury's best X k l thought at the
time that if Pocahontas looked any
thing like this squaw and l were in
Captain John Smiths place l would
rather had POwhatten land on me with
his battle ak than to have her throw her'l
arms around my neck and call me her
little tootsie wootsie.
Washington is the greatest hop
growing state in the Union, and at the
time l landed in Seattle the picking
season had just opened. So after spend
ing few days in the city, friend in
duced me to throw pair of blankets
on my back and accompany him to the
hop fields. The hop growers depend
largely on squaw labor to gather their
crops. Thousands of Indians from all
the adjoining states assemble in Wash
ingtOn during this season of the year.
The squaw comes there to work, the
buck to collect her wages and spend it
in card playing and horse racing. The
Indians that saw in this hop country
were much better to look upon than
the two have described, still they did
not size up to the ideal of my youthful
fancy.
The Indian is an inveterate gambler
but 1t was against the law for a
white man to gamble with him, because
poor Lo is as easy pickings for the pale
faced, paste-board juggler as green
gosl,ng is for her, hawk. Now 1 was
led to believe that the Indian was
brave and honorable, and when he
made promise put his life up as q
bond to keep it. read of his naughty
demeanor and of his aristocratic mod,
of life, and of how easy it was to ruff,
his dignity. The Indians bravery re
minds me Of the small boy who is will
ing to fight only when his big brother
, is with him, and do not believe yo,
could find any dignity about him will
the aid of a search warrant. IIe doe
not possess as much honor as a tow
path mule, and his promise isas worth
less as divine prophets certificate ol
heaven. His table manners woul'
shock bulI-pup that was bred ant
, raised in Chinatown. Some of the In
dians that l saw we're SO filthy tina
they would contaminate the Chicag
River by washing their face in it.
Uncle Sam was represented in thi
hop country by small army of L.
. Deputy Marshals. These officers wer
. there to enforce law and order, espe
ciaiiy to prevent white men from sell
D ing the Indians booze. The arres
p and conviction of white man for thi
D offense meant tidy little sum of mon
:, ey, not only for the marshal but fo
' the Indian who caused the arrest, an
t some of the Indian spies could put u
: q Job and manufacture evidence tha
u would be q credit to Harry Orchart
q Uncle Sam is a shrewd old duck, bu
l. these marshals and their red stool pig
d cons pulled his leg, and pulled it goo
y and hard for great many moons b'
: fore he go: wise. but when he did tuu
ble, lie sent several of his secret seryic
j. men to investigate, and it did not TAX
II Sans sleuths very long to round up
# large bnnch of crooked deputy ma
It shals. Any white man found intox
y Gated would be arrested and charge
l. with selling whisky to the Indian
3 One of the secret service men VIII
n feigned intoxication was arrested AL
j. half q dozen Indians not only swOI
that he sold them booze but they pr'
It dnced the bottles with the wet good
!. in them.
D The blanket Indian, that is the Ind
r an who clings to the customs Of bis for
It fathers is a much better man in ever
d respect than the Indian who hi
10 adopted the white mans garb, togeth,
]. with his vices and habits. F. M.
. Natures Law of