Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-04-21

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pean and American consumption.
Through their shaving operations
the Bachokes came to roll in wealth.
1t is a poor Bachoke indeed who can
not wear at least three strings of blue
and red beads, buy very costly and
powerful spirit medicines from the
medicine man, keep a wife or two to
raise his grain and tobacco for him
and secure other necessities of male
existence.
Lazy and Immoral.
Knowing nothing of the dire events
that befell wealthy Rome or Greece
the Bachokes, nevertheless, followed
in the same path. They became exces-
sively immoral. Pipes, women and
song took the place of the more manly
and healthful exercises of Staying or
enslaving their neighbors. Instead of
hurting snake-poisoned spears and ten
pound, serrated edge hatchets and
knives at their fellow men the Bach
okes have degenerated so far as to lie
indolently sprawled out in the sun be-
fore their huts, playing the while steel
keyed musical instruments which
sound like musical boxes badly out Of
tune and smoking tobacco strong
enough to send any white man to his
grave at the first puff
Whatever may be said as to the
morals of the Bachokes in their rela-
lions to pipes, women and song it can
not be said that their immortality ex-
tends to the culinary line. They have
never been known, despite plenty of
} examples to the contrary, to cook and
eat white man.
The most they have done in this d.
: rection is to make medicine out of
several venturesome whites who have
, strayed into their country unarmed or
} unattended. Just what the pharmacol-
: ogic process is has never been
} divulged; it is a carefully guarded Sc
r cret of the suspicious and erudite
l medicine men of the tribe. But the
l resultant medicine is we'll known
1 though carefully guarded. 1t is dry
} powder which to the uninitiated gives
? no sign that the original owner was
l once filled with the Joy of living. and
5 is sold at a very high price by the
S medicine man.
Medicine Men Are Clever.
AS thoroughgoing as David Belasco
a are these savage black physicians
:. in creating the proper sort of atmos
s phere for the effect they wish to pro-
t duce. Clad in beads and feathers, sur
e rounded by horrific ghost chasers and
o spirit placators carved out of wood
/ and wearing a frightful mask that
y completely covers head, face and neck
g the Bachoke medicine man awaits hie
o patients in his dark hut
/ The medicine he distributes after
d properly blessing it depends upon the
s fee he receives. The sufferer with
rheumatism, may for few beads oil
o a chicken buy a pair of carved field
e mice to wear at his belt as a protec
o ton against the pains. but a man o.
e wealth who can afford to pay at leas
o a goat or a sheep can be completely
It insured, according to the medicine
o mans schedule, against further recur
1t renee of the malady. His medicin,
T. takes the form of an elaborated,
s. carved fetish, into the stomach o
X which hole has been cut and filled
with substance too sacred even TO
IS the medicine man to pronounce it
Is name-perhaps brass tack or piec'
IS of blue clay.
Ie But, If after all, the pains actual.
ID do recur? Well, contingency of thi
N sort has been carefully provided
against by the medicine man. Sucl
n things have been known to happen
Of But the reason for it is this: Som
10 other man in the tribe, an enemy u
If the sufferer with rheumatism, ha
lie been going to a rival medicine NAL
at and paying higher prices for more pc
m tent medicine, which permits him t
in harass the rheumatic patient with evi
D. spirits, hence the pains. But If tn
We rheumatic patient wishes to pay In
RS tie higher price for stronger medicin
It, then he in turn may set evil spirits t
at affecting his enemy, all OF which tn
he medicine man will be glad to arrang
h. for the proper consideration