Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-28
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The OregOnlan tells the story OF Ola Inuan
Chief Gary of the Spokanes. He educated
by the Hudson Bay company but i'll his old age
preferred to live in tumble down teepee made
of skins little outside of Spokane He died
there the other day. His body dressed i'll
full dress suit of broad cloth with the neces
>ary accompaniment of starched white shirt
necktie. etc
His Indian friends were shocked at the UNI
natural and uncomfortable spectacle that he pre-
scnted His old blind wife dressed in blanket,
came to the casket, drew her hand backward and
forward over the starched shirt, shaking her
head in dsapproval even while cronlng an In
dian death song This the Oregonian cites as
emphasizing the fact that white man cannot be
made out Of an Indian, and gives many other H.
Illustrations to emphasize its position.
Ii is no doubt correct, but then is it strange
that cannot be transformed from mmem-
oral habits customs and thought in a genera
ton two? Are Indians different from
white in that respect?
OF late it is great habit with white people
to build sleeping porches on their houses and
despite the comforts within the house the
billiards. that rage outside, persist in sleeping
the porches
Is that anything but an instinct that was
drawn from the ape who prefers to sleep in a
tree rather than take the chances of being COB
bled up by the tiger that prowls for prey under
the trees at night
All these people will tell you how much they
have gained by sleeping in the open air. Now
the air that comes into the window of com
Portable is just pure that which
blows porch The gain in flesh is not
due to the porch; but it, too, comes from the old
time. When the big ape in ancient days got his
sleeping place in tree top fixed, great tran
guilty him, from the knowledge that
no tiger could nip him when he asleep. This
at last also became hereditary and the fattening
process of those who sleep on porches is merely
hereditary tranquility.
Did not the old sage declare that there was
nothing new under the sun? 1t is the same way
under the moon.
Again. no doubt the OregOnian has known
many of the old shouting Methodists up in Ore
gon men who refrained from evil, did good, said
their prayers, were honest with their Lord. Now
suppose the editor of the Oregonian were trans.
lated in deep vision. such as John saw; given
all the attributes of the blessed, and could be
permitted to and touch of these old Ore
gon shouters, and could find his ghost robed in
celestial white, his spectral fingers twanging a
thirtystring golden harp and aurora bOrealis
halo playing around his brow; would he not on
awaking next morning go down to the Office and
through the OregOnian next day advertise
scoup, the astounding experience?
Would he not declare that the ghost of Bill
Sykes or Tim Jones was the most uncomfortable
looking ghost he had seen, and that the all
he was playing on the harp suonded to him like
a confused mixture of the Star Spangled Ban.
ner'' and Dixie?
But that would show merely the effect OF
heredity upon the editor; that following an
earthly and immemoral instinct his unframed
preferred Dixie and the sStar Spangled
Banner" to the solemn refrans that echo down
from the sapphire arches. float along the golden
asles and die in murmurs the circumambient
air of Summer Land