Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — How It Struck Poor Lo. [ARTICLE]

How It Struck Poor Lo.

A United States marshal from a frontier district, wh® was here recently settling up his accounts, said that he had once arrested an Indian for selling whisky to his fellow aborigines on a government reservation, this, of course, being contrary to law. After the arrest the marshal felt it his duty to tell the Indian how depraved had been his conduct. The Indian listened stolidly until the marshal had gotten through with his homily, and then inquired: “Me want to get out of this trouble. Can’t white chief help me?” “No one can help you now hut God,”.said the marshal, wfth a sort of irreverent solemnity. The Indian shook his head in a hopeless sort of way and exclaimed: Humph! God he heap like Uncle Sam. Injun never see him.” —Washlngtop News. “Well!” exclaimed -the damsql who got free admission to tjie s^orld 7 s Fslt, “things have come, to a pretty pass."—Washington Star.