Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Christian Endeaver Indians. [ARTICLE]

Christian Endeaver Indians.

During the late State Coaventioa of the Young People's Christian Endeavor Union, held in Seattle, Waah., every hospitable home was, of course, willing to shelter and help entertain the numerous delegates. Among those who thus offered the hospitality of their homes was a gentleman having an elegant home on Beacon Hill, who, for the want of a better name and for the purpose of the story, will be called Black, White, or any other color. In assigning the delegates, the committee came across the Beacon Hill name, and trusting to fate that no offense would be given, five Biwashes, from the Puyallup reservation, who were among the delegates, were sent to that address. When the tribe arrived with their paraphernalia there was consternation in the household, but the good people took them in with true Christian spirit. The Indians were ushered across the threshold, and they stalked along in true aboriginal style, one after the other,until the first parlorwas reached, where the floors were ingrain tiling of polished wood, smooth as glass. When one of the women, who was in the lead, set her foot on the smooth, polished floor, her feet flow oat from under her and she went down with a thud. The other four, two squaws and two men, immediately took warning and refused to budge. They stood as If glued to the spot, and their rigid, stoic figures took on the appearance of tobacco signs. After that the I ndiatis could not be coaxed into the house— except for dinner—and they spent the time for the next few days squatting under the trees, holding couacils of war. It is also related that at night they were so afraid of these smooth floors that they would enter the house on their hands and knees. They were happy when the convention closed, for they were of the firm conviction that an attempt had been made to malm and injure them-that they were victims of a deep laid conspiracy.