The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-26

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 spring into line, and, with lowered | horns and stamping feet, face the | common danger. The tom-tom re.
 sumes and the dance around the fire
 goes on. Suddenly line of crawling
 Indians is discovered in the semi
 darkness. They rise and shout. One | caribou falls, the others escape. The
 Indians carry off their game with re-
 1olclng and the dance Is over.
 A scalp dance followed Gan Indian
 drama, as Black Wolf explained), led
 by Silver Wolf, a boy who has been
 and whose work is particularly fine. | The braves attack the camp fire, representing the enemy Al brave is killed, but is overlooked. His squaw
 asks for him, upon the return to the lodge; she starts out alone to find
 him; wolves and enemies are about and her cautious advance and grief
 upon finding her dead is well DOT l trayed. Then the dirge follows, as the braves take the body far back
 into the woods, until finally the wail- ing and singing is lost in the dis tance.
 MT. Seton has spoken of the emil
 nently religious character of the In-
 d1an-something our Wild Vests give
 
 addresses the Great Spirit in all his
 doings. He has told of a case at
 Fort Robinson, which one of our of
 f1cers reported to Washfngton How
 after certain Indians had been sur
 rounded for a week without food or
 drink, warming of their breaking forth from their position was given to the whites by their fierce, blood-curdling war song, which preceded their dash out against the soldiers, where they were all killed. Mir. Seton has per- sonally, and with great perseverance, found out what that barbarous and cruel war song was-in effect: "Oh, Great Spirit, we are going out to die For ourselves, we grieve not, but for those who are left behind. Help us to die as warriors should''
 The council was closed by all the braves and scouts forming circle about the fire, and with raised hands, reciting the Omaha prayer in the In dian tongue. While the small boys find the councils matter of greater or less amusement, the older braves and the chiefs conduct the routine in solemn Indian fashion
 Among those who were present from l Bridgeport were Andrew M. Cooper i Lucien Warner and family, Vim. B. | Kelsey, superintendent of the Strat- ford schools; Mrs. H. c. Went, Miss | I. K Mrs. Buckingham
 During the ensuing week, prepara- tons were made for a grand circus. which was to be the last event of the | period. The boys are ex- pected not only to plan the program put to manufacture the properties. The wonderful horses brought from the far west by special train, were made in camp of barrel hoops and xxyifh oh in1y | heads. That the boys forgot to paint eyes made no difference. The most intelligent living elephant, bought rom the Shah of Persia at immense expense, was also a Wyndygoul pro- 1uction and had fine thick head ma speaking eyes, though Front Legs complained that he could not see out If them at all, and that the clown lid not always hit the padding of the lead; while Hind Legs said he was mothered with dust under the bIan- lets The fire juggling was done with war clubs cut and made that very afternoon by the user of them. me draWfs platform, tn elion cage, md part of the grand stand were made mostly with Bridgeport labor. The drawf's platform, the lion cage, ; :, and partly Bridgeport The clown vas Alexander Leverty, and he was good one. The lion tanner was >ldck WOlf. The program began with an Indian !! murder trial, MT. Seton as medicine nan and three scouts helping. TheI 7estern horses then entered the ring. nd great was the racing and buck ' 1g until one horse stepped on the ront of his own chest and rolled over : nd over. Not even the services of : , ne ring master and the clown could z ct him into the running after that. ! le was thoroughly broken. Miss 2 essie Joakley did some wonderful : 1ooting with the rifle and the re- olver. No matter in what direction f le aimed, down would go a bottle he finally disgraced herself by kiss = lg the clown. King Bird gave an of ventriloquism and later dancing and hypnotism. He was ressed as woman, and it was evil 5 ent that some squaws should have cen consulted as to the method of citing into his clothes. Fire ei11g ing by Ishka Chissakid, the clubs sing loaded with waste soaked in srosene. Chariot racing with wheel irrows. Then the dwarf, the ele- lant, the clown, the dog and the ,rses all came on at once, and you 'uldn't hear yourself talk for twen-
 minutes. The final number was onologue by MT. Seton as lion mer. His portrayal of the lions, cir srowls and whines, their leaps Id flnal attack upon the tanner was 0nderful, but beyond description. At a council meeting on the 18th m, MT. Went was made an honor- y member of the Pocotopaug Tribe
 M1ddletown, Conn, being sworn in
 Chief King Bird. At the council e which preceded the circus on the Sun, MT. Seton, as Chief Medicine an. swore in MT. Went as an active smber of the Sfnawa Tribe of Cos b, and gave the new member the