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THE DAILY HEUaLD, PLATTSMOUTIt, frEHUASKA, SATUKDAY. DEOKMHEK 10, 1S87 V It INDIAN "sxow dance; SCCNE AT' STAN DING ROCK AGENCY, FORT YATES, D. T. Ifa'f Nukctl ISiit'k lluiM-ini; l llw Ilcut f Tttmtitiii Wliilu Hki 1 ln-riiiiii-t-r SIuiuJm at H Ioh. Itiloxv i"it Ijf Soup for Il-rr-hliin iit. I had loiitf iH-en wanting t we r.n Iii t : I : i i i "mk.w d;in-o," when one SMitunhty, ittur the usual In tnont lily i.sue of rations, it was rumored that there was to be an iMiiiMially large one about four miles from t!i post. It was a -Ieui", fold winter witli Hit; Mercury btaialin at Ui lvis. In-low zero. The members of our little party were soon Miugly nestling in straw at the bottom of a govern ment sli-igli. uimI we wire traveling t'w.vril the dunce as fab! as four good mules could draw us. T!kj ih.aeu was hehl in a low lo house, abiiL forty feet lnugand eighteen feet wide. We aliyli'ed at, the uoor, around whieli were gathered quite a crowd of un invited spectators. The door and windows were open and the house, which was not divided into rooms, was lighted by two Kerosene lamps. We entered during a lull in MiO festivities. In one end of tho "room, squatting on the ground close to tin wall, were thirty-live or forty wjuaws, dressed in their usual calico dresses and woolen shawls. Around the walls tit the. other end fiat the male guests, each with his blanket or sheet drawn over him. In tine corner of the bucks' end of the room was a tomtom, or Indian drum, around which were seateil just as many old bucks as could crowd into the little circle. Near the middle of the room at the squaws' end was another drum, equally well pro idcd with musicians. Near these was a M::.:il stove, in which n wrinkled old buck was keeping up a tire Iry feeding It with twk-s. We ranged ourselves along the w;:;l near the door, and, although our en tr.nne was noticed by all, they gave no i;i lic;;tioii of it by look w word. C'ADKNC'K OK TIIK TOMTOMS. Soon after our entrance the old fellows around the tomtoms began to beat them with measured cadence, at the same time accompanying the hhiihI by crooning a weird song. Suddenly one buck threw oil his .sheer, and springing to his feet began to duce. lie was quickly followed by t lie others, and in a moment our brains wc.v almost whirling at the grotesque fcLiht. The dancing consisted of a series of horrible contortions of body and face, accompanied by the most blood curdling (thrieks and yells, the feet, meantime, keeping accurately the cadence of the drums. Imagine my surprise when I noticed that notwithstanding the extreme cold of the night these men were almost entirely naked, most of them wearing no clothing but a woolen breechcloth and a pair of headed moccasins. They were painted in the most striking manner from head to fiAjt. Kach had a headdress or lionuct of colored buffalo hair, with a friii go of eagle feathers running down the back, lirass bracelets and anklets and strings of be.ds also adorned many of them. The rie.'cription of the decorations of one of them will serve for all. In fidditlou to the adornments alxvve mentioned he had a double string of fleigh bells running from his ankle to a frti-a; passed around 1 lie leg at the knee. At the small of his back, and attached to his girdle, was an immense bunch of long, colored buffalo hair. His face was painted saffron yellow, with a large red spot on either cheek and horizontal red lines run ning across the forehead. His eyebrows nnd the edges of the lids were painted a d:;.7.!ir.g white. His body was red and his arms and legs were a light blue, with occasional bands of yellow. In one hand lie brandished a tomahawk, highly orna mented with colored horse hair and por cupine quills, and his appearance was truly hideous as he twisted himself into islmost impossible positions and gave his blood curdling yell. After the dancing had been going on for ten or fifteen min utes the tomtoms ceased and he retired to his place by the wall and covered his steaming lxnly with a cotton sheet. He hail probably walked a mile through the pnow with the thermometer 28 deg3. below zero, with only that cotton sheet to protect him from the cold. I have seen squaws walking through the snow in bare feet and carrying their moccasins and stockings in their hands. Each dance was terminated by the old dime novel war whoop, which the small lxy imitates by yelling, and at the same time vibrat ing his hand before his mouth. TKi: SQCAW3 TAKE PART. Op.ce in every hour the squaws are al lowed to take part in the dadoing while the bucks rent. They join i.ands and form a circle about their tomtom, and their dancing consists of a series of eide hitches to tho left, accompanied by sing ing. Tiioy slowly travel around the circle. Should any buck come near enough to tho circle, the squaw nearest seizes his hand, and he is compelled to join the squaw tl.ince and make his captor a present at its close. At not twee The i the : Jy i Th? intervals during the dance we had i-d two squaws enter, carrying be i them an iron pot slung on a pole, or was deposited near the stove, and ouaws disappeared only to repeated .ir.rn with other similar burdens, contents of the pots wc discovered if.aed the rorVeshments. I had the con cut- s;ty to look into one of the pe4, and was hurrilied to find it filled with a muddy liqu.ld out of which was protruding the grinning head of a good sized dog. It had been killed by a blow on the head and thrown as it was into the pot to boil. Kaeh guest brings with him to the dance n tin cup with which he helps himself to the soup at the proper time. At these dances the Indians even now work themselves into a perfect frenzy,and it has always lieen a custom with them to engage in a dance before going to war or on the eve of a battle. lor this reason they are allowed to dance only on certain Stated oecasious. I spoke nbove of the ornaments of eagle feathers. Th-e are the half whito, half black feathers from the eagle's wings, and are "greatly prized by the Indians, who consider them "good medicine. " But in order to be acceptable to the Indian, the feathers must have been taken from an eagle whose blood hr.e iiotbeen spilled. In order to accomplish this, the Indian goes to a place near eome eagle's nest and digs a cylindrical hole in the ground just largo enough to hold him in n standing posi tion. He carefully removes all tho earth takcu out, and then, placing the bodies of n few rabbits and birds .around the open? him the grass around the edges in order to hide himself ns much as p-ossible. He will remain there rometiincs for days at a time, until an eagle swoopa down tor (h ; bait. Then a dusky Land is thrust ont of the hole, ami clutches the bird's leg, and : V-" cuot hor oue is rnon choking him to death. ! r-Cor. New York ISuu. . . -. . AS ONE WHO WATCHETH. In out (iRaliiKt tli rtnrlc with waipi surmise; gii.nluwn uelfc'li down the worti, awl heavy OIRllt (liven no ilim j.rc.iui.sf of a heavenly lijclit. Yet turn, ) wml ! timarl the cunt thine eye: Nor ncy that day h:u4 come when faint limits ereep From fitrofT, icy pointed star; nor dream To find thy cheer in nickering taper's gleam. Nor sec!: the sad forelfuliieiM of Kleep. KM natch -though darkm-H.s U-st nguinst thine eyes. Open thy easement i wide be just to mark The faiutcsfc flush that lights the nnful ilurk; i) soul: look ever toward th eanlern skies! Margaret DelaaJ. JENNY LIND'S BEGINNING. A indicate Sucdinh t.iis'n l'irst Steps on the Ko.-ul tit l'nuie. j.:iriy m i;ns century l.'U there was born to a poor Swedish couple a delicate, insigunieatii. looking cluhl. She was christened Jenny, t lie family name of Iiiud being added in the register almost as an afterthought, sinco it seemed hardly possible that the child wotdd outlive its day of b.-ipiisn:. .Months passed; the lit tle ono lived, but could not be said to thrive. Heir I.iud, the father, had a small school in Stockholm. He was at sistcd by his wife, who seems to have taken almost no interest in her little daughter, for as the baby grew into ca pacity for walking and moving about, the mother left her entirely to the care of an ignorant woman, who locked the child in a room while she wont out to work. Hut in the tiny, delicate frame of this baby was something which showed itself even then as a :;paik of the divine fire. Before she could speak plainly the child could sing not merely catching a tune and carrying on the melody, but singing so that passers hy in the street beneath the window of Hit room where the child was kept under lock and key would pause to listen to the remarkable bird like notes. i-resemiy, v. r.eii me nine girl iiau grown to tier year, some one heard this mar velous trilling and vocalization, and en tered the house to lind out who was the songstress. There she sat, perched up in the window, cold, hungry and pinched looking, with a tiny kitten in her arms, to wnom !aoy that she was she was sing- uin in ;i voice nice a I'jrusn, lalting every note with a hint of tnat dramatic finish which made her in later years magnetic 10 i no uiuiest soul. This chance inquiry may be said to have decided Jenny Hind's future. 1 remem ber her saying to me one day tiat she re garded all the "accidents of her childhood as peculiar and dramatic." Certainly this one was such, for t. he casual passer by wa3 Mine. Hundberg, a well known actress m Stockholm, and a woman of sullicient penetration to see that some thing should be done at once for and with this neglected but inspired child. Forth with Mme. Iiundberg went for Croelius. then the most advanced singing master in Europe, and, taking him to the attic which held the little Nightingale, bade him prepare to bo electrified. But it ap pears that Croelius, with one glance at the child, almost laughed aloud. Pov erty, delicate health and loneliness had combined to make her so unattractive that ns she stood before him he could not real ize that any voice could redeem the awk ward form and thin, sallow face, in which t'.ie eyes alone seemed luminous, from the first impression which they had produced. Hut when little .Jenny sang, the first phrase sent Croelius' doubts to the winds. Ho could not restrain his enthusiasm. Lucy C. Liilie in LSnpincott's. A:i Old Time Corn SlmcJiir.g. Corn shucking time in the south during slavery days was looked forward toby the farmer ana ins family as one of the big events cf the year, r.nd-w hen the runner came around to invite all hands to a corn shucking at .Tohu Smith's, or Bill Jones'. it was looked forward to by all who hti been invited the same as we look forward to the coming of u circus. The negroes from different plantations within live miles of John Smith's would start to the corn shucking soon after they had done their day's work and housed their stock. The leader, who was generally the largest man in the crowd, would sta'rt up a song, answered by all in his party, and could be heard for miles around. They would meet at the corn pile, and the one that could halloo the loudest was elected the captain, and would walk the corn pile and give out a song until the last ear was shucked. After the shucks had been put in a pen the owner of the corn pile was carried around the house on the shoulders of several stalwart negroes, all hallooing at the same time, and carried in and put at the head of the table and waited on by those who carried him on their shoulders. It was a happy time and the jug of old corn juice played a prominent part in the shucking, but it has all passed away, and the farmer who gets his corn shucked now has to pay well for it. Athens (Ga.) Banner. . I.OoJng the Sense of Smell. M. Lc Bee, a French savant, declares that civilized humanity is losing the sense of smell. As compared with savage hu manity, it may be said to have lost it already. The worst of it is, that M. Le Bee predicts the loss of the nose itself, as a necessary consequence of its loss of functional power. The size of the' present nasr.1 appendage cf one of the races that have been longest civilized encourages us to hope that M. He Bee (the name excites suspicion) is a false prophet. If he is not we will have to revise our standard of comeliness. "It may be that the civilized man of the future will see no beauty in a Greek statue unless it has lost its nose, which, it is true, is the case with most of thsni, St. James' Gazette. Leprosy in Europe. Dr. Ernest Besiner lately made a report to the French academy upon the reap pearance of leprosy in Europe. The dis ease, he says, has had a disquieting de velopment in Spain, chiefly in thi! province of Valencia, whence large quantities of fruit and greens go to Paris and other French cities. But the disease, he main tains, can only be transmitted from man to man directly; it does not either travel by the ground or by water or air. Neither is it hereditary. The bacillus of the dis ease is similar to that of tuberculosis; it may even be tho same species. The besf means to prevent infection oonsists in proier attention to hygiene, cleanliness and careful diet. Chicago News. Over IJecorotion of pburvue, - Enelish religious papers are again pro testing against the over decoration of churches at harvest home festivals. At a recent festival ia a Lancashire church the sacred edifice was about fillet! with sacks, of potatoes and great quantities of beets. turnips, carrots, applts, pears, tomatoeJ and huge vegetable marrows. Alto gether it looked more like a green grocer's shop than a church. New York Tribune. A rlr of Red Iloota. Among the Tartars of the Ukraine boots made of red leather are generally worn. This fact gave rise to a form of torture practiced, as an act of revenge, by the banditti who formerly infested that region. The victim's skin was cut round the upjer part of his legs and then torn oh by the feet. Some years ago the chief of a des perate gang of robbers lecanie so trouble some that a large reward was offered for his capture. A Hiv.sian soldier managed to secure the robber and to hand him over to his commander. Instead of being exe cuted the roblier was set at liliert. Ho had amassed wealth and was able to pay the commander a large sum to release him. One day, shortly after the capture, the soldier was surprised to receive a visit from tho robber chief. "You caught mo once," said he ;o Mie soldier, "but before you set out uikii another expedition in search of me I w ill give you a pair of reil boots for the journey." Having uttered this terrible threat, the- robber escaped. The soldier, knowing if he gave a chanco the threat would le executed, and having no confidence in his commander's honesty, determined to take the administration of justice in his own hands. He pursued tho robber, and after several days tracked him to a cave. Entering with cocked pistols in his hands, he found the robber. "You promised me," said he, "a pair of red boots; I am. come to be measured for them!" and then shot the chief dead on the spot. The Argonaut. Disorder In I'arirt Theatres. In Paris noisy demonstrations, at least iu the interior of a theatre, arc no longer considered good form, and they have be come exceedingly rare; but in the prov inces the public are very jealous of their rights, and on the slightest provocation assert them by whistling at any unfortun ate actor who may happen to incur dis pleasure. As far back as ICTo, a police ordinance undertook to put a stop to tho practice by forbidding under penalty of the stocks anything calculated td disturb the good order of a theatrical performance-. This, however, remained a dead letter, and the same may be said of the modern regu lations on the subject which forbid all acts in places of amusement that in anyway prevent spectators from seeing or hearing the performance. Were they to be enforced they would have to be applied against those who applaud as well as a&ramst those who hiss. Were this not done there would be a manifest contradiction in punishing a man tor giving a shrill whistle winch, after all, does not drown either tho words of the actor or the music of the orchestra, while those who by clapping their hands, stamping with their feet, or thumping on the lloor with canes and umbrellas are allowed to continue unmolested and to re commence at pleasure. In reality, ap plause does more to interrupt a perform ance than any expression of disapproba tion. Paris Cor. New Orleans Picayune. Vew York Cigarette Girls. A modern cigarette girl is nothing if not a myth. She is popularly supposed to be picturesque, gay, emotional .and not unlike the lurid Ouida's sparkling hero ine, who was Cigarette herself to one of her marvelous heroes. The actual creat ure of everyday life is a practical young person often little more than a child who sits herself down before her brown heap of shredded tobacco in the eaily morning and scarcely lifts either eyes or voice until the day's stint is over; often 2oorly dressed, rarely over jovous, but always industrious. Of course, it naturallv follows that In a class of people where girls from 10 to 15 years of age are set to work all the graces cf cultivation are not to be found, and yet the actual state of morality among them is far better than is often suggested. Ten years ago there were any number of girls wandering about from city to city and from factory to factory, and they were sometimes of little credit to womankind. They had been up and down so many times that they got careless, and they drank and said bad words, like their big, bad brothers. The manufacturers took it in hand and soon weeded out the unpleas ant element, getting as closely as possible to the line of faithful, honest girls. Fan nie B. Merrill in New York World. Why They Sat Apart. A peculiar case of boorishness is re ported as occurring at the Iceland Opera house the other evening. A young gentle man who had invited a young lady to at tend the opera with him was unable to get consecutive seats. Nos. 21 and 25 on a certain row were the best he could get. He bought the seats, however, and ex plained the situation to the young lady. 'Oh, it won't matter," she 6aid, "doubt less the person who has No. 23 will readily exchange." With this in view they started out last evening, and upon arrival at the opera house found No. 23 already occupied. The owner was an early comer. But contrary to their expectations no amount of polite persuasion could induce the occupant to move. The smile of beauty and the threats Of brute force alike had no effect and our two friends took their separate seats with a final helpless protest. The occupant of No. 23 did not move once during the performance, nor go out between the acts, and strange to relate, when the audience filed out and the liousc was left dark and silent, No. 23 was still occupied. Drunk? Oh, no! It was always occupied bv a post. Albany Journal. No Tenants for Haunted Houses. Let a house be a little damp, so that people move in and out rather frequently, and the old women in the neighborhood immediately declare the house haunted and locate there in times long past the most horrible tragedies. So common is this that it would appear every agent has three or four haunted houses cn his list. House hunters seem to have all these spook infested residences on their list, and if one of these houses is recommended to 'them as just what they want they'll say, ' Oh, wc saw that place. The neigh bors say it's haunted and we don't want it." Nearly all will say they don't be lieve in ghosts themselves, but for all that, they won't rent a house with a reputation of being haunted. There are several houses in St. I.ouis which have not been rented for as long as five years at a stretch, simjdy because., they have the reputation of being haunted. People will bear with rats, reaches, bedbugs, any thing in a house, bat the possibility of there leiug r.n uneasy" spirit lurking around is too much for the average renter. : Keal Estate Jian i GJobrDeniocrat. . . I Cleavage of Recks. Certain hollows in hard sandstone near I Lima, Pern, were ascribed bj Lyell to ancient sea action before the rocks were elevated aljovc pceaii Jevel: A lesidei t observer, however, finfta the hollows to be still increasing iu eteeand unnil-cr, ril believes then to be dee to cleavage caw. ? by the growth of lichens which live On the focka. Arkansaw Traveler. THE CROWN PRINCE'S VICTORY. flow the Prutitlan Force DefeitlfHl the Autrlann In the War of 18C0. On thpld of June Prince Frederick Charles crossed tho Austrian frontier, and six days later he was joined by the Army of the Elbe. They were at Gittsehim On hit left the crown prince, with his army, was at Koenig inhoi", a day's march away, while tho Aus trian hail retired in Koeniggrate, ready for lutttlo. Tho plan of attack was very simplo. Prince Frederick Charles, with his three corps, was to assault Benedeck with his five, while Bittenfield was to fall uion tho left flank of tho Austrian'! and tho crown prince attack their right. But the crown prinoo was twenty -five miles away, and it was 4 in tho morning before .CoL von Frankenstein, after a terrible ride, arrived nt the crovva prince's headquarters with tho king's com mand to join Prince Frederick Charles. The battle began at 8 o'clock in tho morn ing, the king, Moltko and Bismarck being on the field. The needle guu worked terrible havoc among the devoted battalions of Aus tria, but they kept their ground, and for a long time tho scales of battle hung pretty evenly. For a time it soomcd indeed as if victory would rest on the standards of the Hapsburgs, and tho Prussians looked for the coming of the crown prince as eagerly as Wellington hyl once looked for the coming of Blucher. "Would to God the crown prince would come!" Suddenly Bismarck lowerod his glasses and drew attention to certain lines iu the distance. All toleseoies were pointed thither. At first the line3 wero pronounced to be furrows. "They are not furrows," said Bismarck, "the spaces aro not equal ; they ere advancing lines." It was tho crown prince's army, that had been delayed by the condition of the roads, which tho rains bad made all but impassable. Ouly twenty-live miles, but it took tho army nine hours to do the distance, and the crown prince lost li per cent, of his men through exhaustion by the way. Tho crown prince lost not a mo ment in getting his forces into action. Vio lently assaulted on both flanks, and fiercely pressed in tho center, the Austrians began to slacken their flre, to give way, and then to retreat. Tho battle was won, and the honors of having decided it were the crown prince's. Bismarck himself admits how critical was tho situation of tho Prussians at one point of tho buttle. Globo-Deniocrct. A Duet with Chief Left Hand. Duels wero as common in tho west in those days us in tho south, and tho following story is told of Jim Baker challenging Left Hand, the great war chief of tho Arapahocs. He was known by that name by tho whites as it was remarkablo to ::ce an Indian who was left handed. His Indian name was Ki-Wct. A mountain stream and little iostofllco near Denver bear the name Ni-Wot, in honor of the old warrior. It was early in the sixties, when Jim Baker was living on Clear creek. that ho had excited the animosity and liatred of Iieft Hand. On one occasion Left Hand and a band of his tribe camped near Jim Baker's cabin. Believing that they wero bent on mischief and that his old enemy intended to make war on him, Baker, with rifio in hand, went alone to Left Hand's camp. The Indians were amazed to see Baker enter their camp alone, and much more bo wheu they saw him walk up to Left Hand and say: "Is Left Hand, the great chief and warrior of the Arapahoes, here for peace or warf Tho chief, startled by the nerve and also the abrupt questions of the speaker, hesi tated a moment. "Which is it my Indian brother wants?" again said Baker. "Paleface no friend of Arapahces," replied Left Hand. "Me no afraid of Jim Baker. He shoot rifle like Kit Carson, but Left Hand no afraid." Angry words followed, and Left Hand shouted out: "Mo heap great warrior of Arapahoes; mad at paleface. Left Hand come to fight, and fight now," shaking his lifle defiantly. "Fight with rifles?" asked Baker. "Left Hand no afraid palef ace rifle; fight with rifle hundred yards." "Left Hand has spoken like a warrior and I will fight," replied Baker, for he knew that he was mora than a match for any Indian with hi3 rifle, and although tho only white in or near tho Indian camp, he feared them not. Tho hundred yards were stepped off, and Baker and Left Hand took their places; but before either had urcd a shot tho Indians in terfered and put an end to the intended duel. Baker then threw his rifle over his shoulder and returned to his cabin, and was never afterwards molested by Left Hand. Denver Cor. New York World. In Regard to Explosives. The prevailing opinions in regard to explo sives are, in the main, incorrect. The state rnent that the main force of a dynamite ex plosion is downward will go uncontradicted in almost any company that has not given explosives special attention. But, in fact, there is no shootvg upward or downward cr edgeways with one explosive more thai: with another. They all explode alike, and the variety of effect is caused by the differ ence in their power that is, the rapidity with which they explode. The -explosive-power of powder", which, of all explosives, L; best understood, is about 40,000 pounds to th square inch, and 'other explosives are meas ured as being a fiven number of times stronger or weaker than powder. The force of that explosive is generally believed to be upward, when, in fact, it is equal in all direc tions. But it bums slow enough to allow the air to get out of the way. Dynamite, on the other hand, explodes so rapidly the air cannot be displaced ia time to prevent its force downward being much greater in proportion than that of powder. It is because dynamite will break a stone be neath it that the people think its greatest power is in that direction. To prove that it is not, suspend a large stone in the air and suspend the dynamite charge to tho under side of it. The work of eleutruction will be as complete as though the stone had been underneath. San and Fire Symbols? There aro to be found occasionally vpon the walls cf old brick houses, at about the line of division bctwoea tho first and second stories, flat pieces of iron five or six inches in length, and "shaped somewhat like tho letter B. The use of these articles "was clearly brought from England, where it is, gtili con tinued, and a writer gives a curious account of its origin, and pieaning. The writer 6ay that the figure ia question is an early symbol of tho sua. It is still used in Herefordshire and other parts of England. Ho once asked an old servant of the family a Gloucestershire man the reason for- the particular form of these irons, and the reply was that "they were made thus in order to protect the house from fire as well as from falling down." if ono will examine irto the ontiquiti-ia of the Isle of Man, bo will find tho seal ot the government shows a curiouat combinatioa ot this pjuro. The samo was on the official seal of Sicily, Wo can tracQ Its use to the oldeet countries of Apia, but Jts origin was earlier tuan history gives any raconL xiaturc. Wbea a girl gets to be 25 or mora, it's just 13 wxil not to pTS ttr ary I rrt -j ) - ' ' - THE FURNITURE EMPORIUM PARLOR SET! FOR ALL IP1 TDT IK& 3" Parlors, Bedrooms, Dining-rooms. Kitchens, Hallways and Offices, -(iO Whci c a magnificent stock of abound. 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