Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 July 1872 — Page 7

T1HKI OF SLAVING JSQTAW.

... . Al,.n.lun her Werk-How lr. A in ''' ""r.1 ST l "...kirr. :,,,,".,:."r. lim Umber Wdii'l 'Sill ulw Inn An Himramii Fr .m the Cliit ajjo Tribune. i sti7 AMMI HrtN was a l rk in ,,f lh Ipiirtment at VubiBgUm. .1 er salary en.-, bUd her to ir,.sH fsshionably. Ht-r easy duties en- , , i i..r to li vote much tune to UlfU - 4 , , ama . i III pnlal improvement, mi ini-i"r n tt Cheyenne squaw in i'.ikuw. !' flounces and lUtiDfi ixt furbelows haJ I ,-.1.1 I. Inn Irulki lief It BXOUtMlKcu iui iu mi a pair of moccasins. Instead ot Lending pleasant hours in writing and reckoning, she passed weary MVS IB rounding nwda- Instead ot daintily aitcbiogat lavioiiing articles ol feminine Jorniuen'. BUM buckskin breichdothi fur hr copper colored chief, im: together the heavy skins with sinews for thread and a shsipened nail for a needle. All this happened because, up to iw.-.T ade had had much time for mental low., .....rnveuieiit. anu necause her idea of I .,.. . that end was to read novels. .... i n i n tt With notewortny punoura unmhcin Mneticati literature. She devoured Fenimore Cooper's stirring scene of savage heroism. She did not disdain the, ten cent novelettes of border life, The aviation of the Hast palled upon her She longed lor the free, wild, natural life of the West. The prairies were peopled, in her imagination, with .-rave, majestic Sachems, models of manly beauty and of all manly virtues, who, freed fiom the tordid care ol money, lived in perpetual abundance. She jnctuted them as hunting the buffalo or touting some inferior trio und then coming back to their luxurious lodges, to toy with their passionatelyloved wives, and pour fourth the Huod of nodical epithets which the writers of America, from Cooper and Longfellow down to Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., have conspired to attribute to that most prosaic being, the American Indian. It is not to b wondered at then that when Squatting Hear, a tolerably goodlooking chief of the Brule Sioux, came with a party of his fellows to Washington, in ISG7. Miss Barber, in a 'it ol temporary infinity, yearned to wed him. Her eaithly he.iven was to be married and to be a missionary. Here mu her chance and her Hiawatha. She embraced both. With due religious cert monies she became Mis. Squatting Bear, and lett Washington tor the. Wert. From this time her life was a constant enes ot rude disenchantment.. Her wedding trip consisted of I seven hunoivd mile ride, from the Missouri to the White Earth country, on a wild, vicious pony. Despite her native modesty, the want of any saddle compelled her to bestride the steed. Even then she fell of!', and fell off, until the grave, majestic .Sachems ridiculed her mercilessly, and the particular one of them whose wife she had become tied " . ! i ai. -i j her, Miueppa-like, on the hor.'e, and finally brought her, in that disgraceful plight, into camp. When she crept, sore and tired, into the rude fsjM which was pointed out to her, she was, to say the least, not pleased to be greeted by two dirty Mjuaws, one 40 and one 14 years, o! ae, ai;d to learn that she was Mrs. Squatting Bear "o. 3. However, she went resolutely at her missionary work. Her success was not brilliant. Beyond a large and varied stock of oaths, the Sioux were ignorant of English, and she was wholly ignorant of Sioux. When she masterei that language new difficulties arose. Her pupils would gamble, would cheat, would lie, would steal, would drink, and would not keep Sunday. She toiled on and on, but without result. Morever, whenever her husband went off on a scout, his two other wives imposed the most menial duties upon her. In vain she tried to read the Bible to them; they preferred to have her scrape buffalo robes, and gather wood, and cook food ; and they made her do it. Her life was varied' by a grand spectacular entertainment in the shape of the burning alive of a white soldier. Soon alter, Squatting Bear, in a fit of passsion, killed his oldest wife, and beat a hurried retreat. Miss Barber fell sick and was left at a temporary camp, fiom which she tied and tried to walk sixty miles to Fort Fetterman. She was speedily caught. When Hiawatha beat her over her head, she turned to him the other cheek also, but failed to soothe his savage pirit by this act of Christianity. He knocked her down, and stamped on her, and performed an extempore war-dance on her, and finally, alter she hud crawled away, nU her for three ponies to a Cheyenne Chief, Baconsides. This was in 1870. For the next two years, her life was one of infinite degradation. She was treated as a mere animal, doomed to toil without ceasing, and made to yield implicit obedience to the whims of her owner, under penalty of brutal punishment. While with the Cheyennes, she was compelled to witness the torture of two teamsters from Fort McPherson, who were burned alive by their captors. Three weeks ago, she appeared nt Fort Benton, and was taken care of by the officers' wives there. Her wretched attire was exchanged for decent clothing, and she was sent down the Missouri, on her way to her old home at Milford, Mass., where she probably is by this time. An Irishman named Paddy Doolan, a ready-witted wag, who always had a word for everybody, let it hit whichever way it might. Paddy went into a grocery store one day to buy eggs. " How aie eggs to day ?'" he asked of the clerk, who was one of those over-smart fellows, by the wav. " Eggs are emw to dav. Paddy," replied the clerk, looking quite mumpaant upon two or three young lady customers who happened to be in the store. " Faith, I'm glad to hear yeez say so,' replied Paddy, " for the last ones I got here were chickens.''

HlniH for Slimmer. Froui the Philadelphia Lodger. After a springtime of unusual and protracted rigor, we feel warranted, in the presence of a thermometer languid ly oscillating between t and 100 Fahrenheit, in the conviction that we do not assume' leo gwnl a Oegiet of license in assuring our readers that summer is again come. This is quite as it should be. The wavering grain, the swelling fruits, the illimitable ureas of undeveloped ""g.irden hiiss," all need the mollifying an i maturing influences nf the summer sun, and they mean to have it. To those who may be restive under the 95 degrees Fahrenheit, we take the liberty of saying that all this is in harmonious accord with the wise provision of nature's law. We are now en paired in storing up the .superfluous csloiic to meet the needs of the system in January, 1878, when the thermometer shall indicate IS. The only precaution to he observed at such times is to be careful not to accumulate heat too fast. It is a conceded principle in science that heat is only another form of motion, or motion only another form of heat, we cannot now say definitely which. But admitting one of these propositions to be true (a thing which is inevitable if you deny the other) we see that all forms of motion which arc in any decree accelerated, are to be strenuously avoided. In this man should follow the example of th great mother, nature. During the spring months she bus busied herself in sprouting leaves and tender twigs, and in putting up unripe fruit in small packages, and now she permits the sun and air to do the work. The inference is obvious. If a man would keep cool during the scorching days of summer, he should leave to some other man whatever there may be of labor. If no other man will do it, he has still the hut resource left to all mankind an appeal to his wife. "one great detriment of hot weather is excessive perspiration. This, it is needless to say, is caused by taking water into the system, and our advice is to avoid water as much hs possible. When it is absolutely necessary that it be taken, it should tie diluted as much as possible with sugar, or something else, und even then used in small quantities, Very few people are really aware how much the health and temperature of the human body depends upon diet. It is estimated that to carrv on digestion

it is necessary that the assimilating apparatus of the system (we dare not write stomach) should be raised to a temperature of 100 degrees. This, with the thermometer at J5 to 100 degree, creates a heat which is fearful to contemplate, and the aggregate of which we leave the reader to ascertain for himself. Logically, the conclusion would be that it is better during the hot weather not to eat at all. But as there are, doubtless, those who would resent any advice of this character, however reasonable, we refrain from proffering it. On the other hand, a few sugges tions would not be amiss. For breakfast, dry toast and cold fried potatoes ; for dinner, bone soup, pickled herring ; mints, cold corned beef with chow chow, and gooseberries an naturel; dessert, pounded ice, with or without salt. For supper, iced tea, with sugar. This course, if carefully followed up, will enable the most obese individual to go through the hottest day with impunity. It may be said, in conclusion, that the best way vo preserve one's health is to take pans to remain always well. Indeed, by following this injunction strictly, one may avoid cumbering the mind with needless rules, and many a physician's bill. A Highly Educated and Talented Family of Felines. From the NwhvUle American. A young lady friend of ours, who is not an old maid nor will ever be, provided our feel ings are well respected, has three educated cats, whose trained instincts render them interesting animals. One of those cats will, when she hears the doorbell ring, run to the room of the lady, and indulge in various gymnastics, such as arching its back and turning somersaults, apparently -xpressing a knowledge of the enjoyment she must feel upon " receiving a call." Upon oneoccasiontheyoung lady went out driving, when the cat followed the buggy as far as the outskirts of the city, when it was invited to and given a seat in the vehicle. One of the other eats, a William Varden, awakes his mistress at a certain hour before 10 o'clock everv morning, and it is danger ous for a servant or any member of the family to enter the room before this time. When a lady calls and William ki her. he immediatelv toes in searcn of his mistress, bounding up stairs and through every room till he finds her, when he seizes her with his teeth. Should a centleman call, this cat finds his mistress n.nd makes such known by mewiiigonlv. The third cat, which is much younger than the rest, takes great interest in music and goes into various antics when nnv one plnvs on the piano When there is vocal niu-dc this cat will nra nee about the floor, and occasional ly joins the chorus. Being rather hypochondriac, this cat likes mournful music, the sad strains of which usually cause the animal to crouch to the floor, where it remains as if in deep sympathy with the melody. The principal and certainly the most useful, if not beautiful, habit of these cats is catchimg mice and chasing rats. Their owner resides on North Sumner street, and it is said the cats came from Spain. A Missouai legislator clinched an argument against dogs the other day, by swearing that the money expended in BuntwtinK 21.000,000 dogs in the United States would buy 1,540,000,000 whisky cocktails every year.

Menagerie Mashed The Animals

Loose In the Woods. A New Huven dispatch says: John Robinson's citrus met with an almost Irretrievable disaster on the New York and New Haven railroad early this morning. The cages containing the wild beasts, the tents, and all the liatalihernalia had been shipped troin on a freight train to this Bridgi port city. As the train was passiug under a roadway bridge, two miles west of the city, the bridge foil. The falling tin ben first struck the platfoim cars, on which were the cages. Twelve of the 'utter were smashed, and six of the largest were swept off in an instant, strewing the track for several hundred feet with tneir broken fragments. The caged brutes thus suddenly freed from their imprisonment broke loose in every direction. The monkeys were the first out, followed quickly by two y ung lions and a wildcat. A valuable tiger, three striped kangaroos, and several of the animals were crushed and instantly killed. Most of the eagles, of which there was a valuable collection, flew away, as did also several of the smaller birds. The train was promptly stopped, and it was ascertained that four of the drivers had sustained severe injuries. 0, N. Robinson, treasurer of the company, had a narrow escape. He was asleep in the ticket wagon, which was smashed into splinters, scattering the money in every direction, but he escaped without a scratch. The loss to the company is estimated at $50,000. The rear car and its inmates escaped uninjured. The spectacle at the instant of the overturning of the cages was at once ludicrous and alarming. The monkeys chattering and screaming scampered up the sides of the broken bridge, and seemed to enjoy the fun ! The tigers, Blondin and Dick, after lapping up the blood of several of their less fortunate companions, sprang across the ditch and diappeared. The bear, crippled, limped off up the track, scaring the engineer and fireman nearly out of their wits. The conductor, chased by a hyena, saved his life by climbing a telegraph pole at a critical moment. The wolves dined off the smaller members of the happy family, and then disappeared in the same direction as the tigers, and, it is feared, after more prev. One of the large rattlesnakes was cut in two, but his companions, a dangerous boa csnstrictor and two smaller snakes, were last seen shooting off in the crass toward the citv. As it is known that several of the most dangerous and blood-thirsty members of the menagerie are loose, the utmost consternation reigns here. Jesnitism in Germany. A Roman Catholic Professor of the University of Prague has written a book giving some interesting statistics about the membership of religious orders in Germany. He makes it tolerably ob vious that the great Protestant Empire is, in insny parts, as much priest-ridden as Spain or Italy. In Prussia, the Pro fessor s figures show that mere is one priest or member of a religious fraternity lor every 584 Catholics of all ages ; in nravana, ine proportion is one for every 300. and tor all Oermany, one for every 481. Coming down to particular towns, the relative numbers of Catholic ecclesiastics and laymen are still more surprising. Taking the adult Catholic population of Cologne, it seems that out of every 105, there is one clergyman. In Aix-la C'apelle there is one ecclesiastic to every thirty-eight adult Catholics; in Munster one to twenty, and in Treves one to every ten ! Such data help us to understand how huge a task has been undertaaen ny rri.ice Bismarck in his struggle against Ultramontanes and Jesuits. New York Times. Murderer Shot While on Trial. On the 21st of June a noted horse thief by the name of James Pouglas was traced to a small body of timber in the vicinity of Thayer, Kansas, and surrounded by the Sheriff and a score of men or more. He made m desperate resistance, and fired on the party, and succeeded in mortally wounding Sheriff Rose, who died inside of twenty-four hours, before he was captured. On Friday, the 28th inst., Douglas was In the court-room undergoing trial, and a Mr. Ross, brother of the murdered man, who bad but just arrived on the cars, came into the court-room, and presenting a pistol in the rear of the thief's head, blew his brains out, the ball from the revolver passing through his head from behind the ear out near the temnle on the opposite side. A profound sensation was created in the court room at this sudden interruption, hut nublic sentiment soon sided with Mr. Ross, and the matter in all proba bilitv will rest there. Kansas City Bulletin. Lightning's Freaks. Durinir a recent thunder storm Mrs. Louisa Whittincton, a widow lady, re siding some six or eight miles west of Paulding. Miss., nccompanid by her lit tie son. a lad of eight or nine years, strmned at a residence near ner nonie . . 1 l to escape the rain. he nau oeen sn i i - . . . , , , ting on the portico with her son by her mde but a tew minutes, when a nasn ot liffhtnina strnck a shade tree immediate lv in front of the house, killing them both. While out in a storm in the vicinity of Bin Island, Bedford county, Va. ridine a horse and leading another, the Rev. J.J. Price was struck by lightninir. the fluid passing dow the han die of his umbrella, boring an inch hole through his hat, thence down his right cheek and side into the lody of the horse, killing both instantly. The led horse was not hurt. Mr. Price was found by Mr. Martin after the storm had passed.

ilitary Ballooning Story of the Parts

Klege nanisms. The London h'cw summarizes an interesting account just published of the doings of the Paris siege balloons, which show that ballooning is by no menus so dangerous a mode of traveling as many would have us b lieve. Out of sixty-four balloons which left the French capital, only two came to a bad end, and a these were lost at sea in trying to escape the enemy, it is but fair to nuppose that they would otherwise have descended safely. Curiously enough, northerly wind, which would obviously have been the most favorable for driving the balloons to the south of France, end therelore out of the reach of the enemy, seems rarely to have helped the besieged. This fact alone ad led much to the difficulties to be encountered by the aerial navigators in keeping out of harm's way, and really the only wonder is that so many of the voyages, Veing made is a northeasterly direction, there wer not more captures effected. Only five balloons were actually taken by the Germans, although, as may be supposed, many had very narrow escapes, sixteen in all falling within the enemy's lines. Two of these there whs no chance of saving, for they wont right over into hostile territory ; one of these unfortunate conveyances descended in Prussia and the other in Bavaria. Several accidents happened to the aeronauts in their descent, but if we except the two iHstancet of balloons going out to sea, only one of these ended fatallv. Of the sixty-four bal loons dispatched, fifty-seven reached a safe destination, carrying 150 navigators and passengers. The duration of the voyage was, on an average, but three hours at the commencement of the service in September, 1870, but as the German troops approached nearer and surrounded the capital more effectually, it was deemed desirable to make a longer journey, and in January the average voyage was between six and seven hours. At this period, too, it was found necessary to dispatch the balloons during the night, so that they might get a fair start and be well out of rifle shot when passing over Versailles and the outposts of the German army. The most memorable voyage was thus made on the 21st November, when the North Sea was traversed by a balloon which reached Christianip, after a voyage of some fourteen hours. The distance traveled was certainly not less than 1,000 miles and at the rate of seventy miles an hour beyond a doubt the fastest rate of locomotion on record. The balloons themselves were constructed of oiled silk, and mostly contained some 2,000 cubic meters of gas. They were designed and manufactured under the superintendence of M. Godard, whose fame as an aeronaut was well established before the siege. A number of volunteers from the French navy, chosen for their peculiar fitness for the service, were traiaed to navigate the balloons. Most of the balloons car ried passengers, and generally several hundredweight of dispatches, together with a basket of pigeons, to be em ployed as return messengers. In some nslnnces, too, dogs were carneu oui, in the hone that these would find their way back into Paris, laden with letters for the besieged ; hut there was no instance, we believe, of these animals fulfilling the hopes of their sanguine owners. The manner in whih news was con veyed by aid of these balloons at very regular intervals from the 16a. .September, 1870, until the 28th January, 1S71, will long be remembered. The 50,000 messages which were actually sent into the beleaguered city, between the same dates, by means of pigeons brought out by the aeronauts, must all be put down to the credit ot the balloon service, so wonderfully organized and effectively carried out. How It Feels to be Blown Up. A survivor of the recent disaster to the tug-boat McDonald, on the Missis sippi, thus tells the story of his experience : I was awakened from sleep by a heavy concussion, followed immediately afterward by a second and heavier one. Everything seemed to give away, mere was a rush of hot air, and I found myself coing through the air. Something st ruck me in the side and broke my ribs. I knew in a minute what was the matter, and I had all my senses about me. It seemed to me that I went up a frightful distance. How fcr, of course, I cannot tell. I felt the hot air that started with me, and struck a cooler current. I went up head first, and, as I stopped, turned over and came down head first. The thought passed through my mind that this was unfortunate, for 1 might strike a piece of the wreck and injure myself. Just then a stick struck me, and whirled me over so that I struck the water feet first. The blow left a mark on my right leg abouteight inches long, and crippled it so that I could not use it. 1 took in a full breath of air as I touched the water and soon began to rise. The thought struck me, what if I come down just in time to be hit by a falling timber. As I came up 1 thrust up my hand over my head to protect it, and caught it on a piece of the roof, cutting it somewhat. My theory m that it was a part of the roof over me. I had followed it up and beat it coming down. 1 looked around and saw the wreck had already sunk. The deck seemed to be attached in some way to the wreck, for I floated away from it, and began to look around for something to cling to. I found a mass of tin. ber, and was soon after picked up by some men in a skiff. Onr hundred and seven convicts in the Connecticut State Prison have petitioned the Legislature for the p.i.ge sf a more stringent liquor law. They represent that more than three-fourths of the inmates of the prison owe their :....ni..i;nn A i 1 r ti ihn influence 11 1 1 K-n i -r i o.nii uiimrvi of strong drink.

Current Items.

A tun of straw will make H50 pounds of paper. Sixty thousand acres of land in Florida were recently sold for $4,000. A vol no lady of Margaretsville, Va., committed suicide last week because her brother was a forger. It was the glass monopolists who induced Gilmore to have cannon at the jubilee. There is not a whole windowpane left in Boston, nor out as far as Salem and Peabody. Therk are 192 mills in the State of Nevada, used in the crushing and reduction of various ores. Their capacity equals 8,325 horses ; they carry 2,48 stamps, and cost over $10,000,000. There are now in the State of Connecticut ninety-four fire insurance companies and forty life insurance companies, the former having $70,000,000 in assets, and the latter $250,000,000. Mas. Chastian, of Elizabethtown, Ky., has a genuine madstone, which, when applied to a snake-bite or wour.d made by a dog, adneres to the flesh so strongly that it requires great effort to remove it; and when placed in a glass of warm water, the poison rises slowly to the surface. The manufacturing statistics of the Census Bureau are so far completed as to show that the n-o-s product of manufacturers for the last year was $4,000,000,000. A n i-huer of wealthy Hebrews in New York intend to start a daily paper there. They are prepared to risk half a million dollars in such an enterprise, or more if it be required. They have made several ineffectual efforts to buy an established journal in that city, offering, it is understood, as much as a million dollars. Tue Indians have learned the " emotional insanity" dodge. One James Lane, living near Trinity Center, Cal., was shot recently by a treacherous savage who had gained his confidence, and, upon demanding of the Indian the cause for his act, the latter bounded off with the rifle, crying out: "Me heap crazy ! Me too much crazy ! Me too much crazy !" A people may be known by its advertisements. In Pueblo, Colorado, the prevailing amusement on Sunday afternoon is " a chicken dispute." In the Colorado Chieftain we find, not in the " financial articles," but among the " business notices," the following announcement : Money loaned in moderate amounts on short time. Pre-emptors thuxly accommodated. Office near where Lamkin's game rooster g:t killed. R. K. Swipt A Co. An unauthentic story is that the sheep in Colorado have long wool, in which dust accumulates during summer. Then when the grass has gone to seed the wind carries the seed into the meshes of the fleece. In winter the rain falb, the dust is turned to mud, in which grass grows, and then thousands of sheep may be seen traveling about in verdure clad, and with their pastures on their backs. Female Beauty. In Peru the longest ears are considered the handsomest, and as a great mark of beauty in females. Some people stain their teeth black and some red, and in Ba que the women do not consider themselves fit to be brides until they have shaved their heads close to the skin. The Mexican women rejoice in low foreheads and very thick heads of hair, the blacker the better, and the coarser it is the higher the appreciation, while the Italians venerate red, golden ana light hair. The Spaniards fancy slight, slender figures in their women ; the Italians, on the contrary, are fond of full developments of limb and figure. The Orientals and Westerns are also at complete antipodes as to the manner in which they interpret beauty and what relates to it. The Eastern women use yellow cosmetics, while the French and English dread that tinge in their complexion. The Asiatic, whether of China or Siam, is delighted with the olive skin and high cheek bones of the Mongolian women. Hall's Journal of Health. Germany's War Speculation. The war expenses of the German Empire, in its recent " raid " into France, were $277,500,000, while its cash indemnity from France amounts to $1,244,000,000, or, including tax-paying value of Alsace and Lorraine, to $1,440,000,000. This leaves a net cash profit to Germany on the war of !?1,162,000,000, or nearly five millions of dollars a day for every day of the war. The utmost that had ever before been done was to make a war pay its expenses out of the enemy. But since the incursions of the hardy and vigorous Goths and Vandals into decrepit and demoralized Rome, there has been no such magnificent return even from wars of conquest. The Franco-German war being a war of self-defense on the part of Germany, and of aggression on that of France, the net result is all the more astounding. A rvous Barber. This morning I went down to take a ten cent shave. The barber pulled and hauled me, and sawed and scraped my alabaster chin until I thought he was about to skin me alive. ' What in thunder are you trying to do, Charley?'' I asked, looking up into the lace of the negro barber like a victim of misplaced confidence. "Shavin' you, sar, dat's all." " But your razor is as dull as a hoe !" "Well, sar, my hand sort trembles, and I s afraid et I lake a sharp razor dat I cut you I know I can't pos'bly cut you wid dis dull one." Honest freed man I Eli Perkins. It is thought that Sism may yet become civilized ; the King has already learned to swear, and wears a shirt.