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■.'Ail? 1 * <. ; a‘1 ■ fr RUH m THE SHOST DANCE. HFARilTAY” AND Bl.(K LA\E VISIT TIE INttlANS. He «I4 Mai Gets His Meith Stretchet Frea Ear te Ear, ai4 Biek Gets 8tretche4. [From Fenosylvunlft Grit] I saw the ghost dance a few nights ago, and Lam; just able now to sit up in bed *»»• liy elbow and eat little thin gs out of a spoon. During these last four or fire days I hare l een raising the biggest and most robust scabs all over my back and side you ever saw, and 1 must weigh ten pounds heavier now than I did last week. Fll tell yon all about it. When Mr. Hole-in-His-Pauls told us about the ghost dance, Buck said we’d take it all in, if it cost a nickel, but he said we'd have to dress up in Indian style and pass as noble red men from Nobleteirn, or we couldn’t get in where the danoe was ghosting. Well, no sootier said than agreed to, so we hired Mrs. Hole-in-Ilis- Pacts to fit ns np and make bloody lainas odtoff the raw material we had oh hand. It pulled hard to lose oar whiskers, because a butcher’s kaWMMeftdui be made sharp enough to shave without pulling some of the wbiskewdutby thsroot. - Mrs. Hole-in-His-Pants said we’d have. jp.dress up in war paint, and when she got us fixed npwe hadn’t much on our bodies but paint lands of naked truth in when ) saw Back in breech and he saw me in the same outfit, > we died laughing almost, and Betsey felt so ashamed that she wouldn’t. look towards us, except through a hole in the teepee. Ypu see, Betsey didn’t intend to join In the £host dance, so she re mained white and sensible, while Bunk sod I hec^iiiic noble and red with ocher, and bare-legged and full efiusaa flmhand chilly. THna mat 0 o’clock when wc ranched the dancing ground in the Ndttdcd canyon, and when we got tiwi the dance was in fnli tilt nr they hare-h went Mid kicking up like the girls City dancing the toe skirts were i Salt Lake MW*' taiy milting in this case. Hole-in-dHis-Psnts was there, jumping high and kicking up behind like a school ma’m trying to turn a joasraanlt, but tbs stranger from the ttoux reeervation led the german in nil German style, eo Bock said. We atood on the outside and watch ed the <kng\ing legs and flopping arms wmylug bodies, and Hsten- id to their H pow*wow” and “saw* Brack-swat, fight Osw-chiok*awee- die!” for several minutes, bat one of the braves got his eyes on ns and dragged us inW the circle, and we hadto join in the dance and kick up like tgpmhool hoys threshing each iheidafioers Hist caught light of my besutifnl bald-head, with Ohijr one rooster-feather in the hair (for the other feathers had no hair to htogwflfte, and so dropped out one by one)—when they saw my bald- hgad fhiiunj like a new pie plate, tfley all stopped dancing for a iefit and looked at me, for they tlhe.rsal simon-pure ih, come according to the Indian proph- low soon the delusion While they were look- at the halo about my head, where knrph-Ught waa reflected from the linrftttjf, my foot caught under ft root and threw me out of balance, I sat down on a pup’s nest of outfit. With only a. thin kith between mejind a thuu- ■and cactus thorns. " Good lands, the yell tout oozed Out bf me hosted np every bit of Indian delusion, and they thought I wits an bid toothless squaw, instead of an Indian god sweat out of the aih And I didn’t remain seated more two bob-tailed seconds,although was vary weary. It was much ty to get up and go on with it buwness than to sit where I was s filing ;ly german, with n np like a steer „at an immigrant wagon, i though 1 could willingly quarter of a dollar to da' handful of daotus but of that breech-cloth of lands of bay mares, the i know mighty Well that their I Wouldn’t danbe around as ky SI I did,-and twist about and i like a snake with Its tail on a . lor them pesky cactus i did. prod me up sd badly, and f m Indian warrior must be too 1 to soisteh himself in times i were hsviug) butt did want i awfully had. lands of inserted into the muscles of the chest and the Indian hung thus sus pended in the air while the blood streamed from the cruel wounds. Some resorted to different modes of torture. Hole-in-His-Pants gathered a handful of the cactus I had sat down on, and began to chew them up, like a goat eating gum overshoes; some slashed themselves with their huntinf knives, some stuck their flesh full of cactus thorns, and all the time they kept up a wild song that added to the other horrors, for the Utes are not much better singers than a burro. Buck says to me—says he: “Old Leather Lips, we have got into a hail Columbia kind of a scrape! If we don’t soon begin to torture ourselves they will notice that we are not praying at full s]>eed for the messiah to come, and they will undertake to warm up our faith and enthuse us with a little tire on the altar, so to speak.” “I’m pretty well wanned up now, Buck,” I said, for the cactus stems Still smarted like Sum Hill with a tly blister on his bosom. Sure enough! Pretty soon one of the big chiefs came up to me (Chief Pnduwinkum) and said something to me in ludian Latin, and I nodded and smiled and shook my head, just as though I understood every word he said, and replied—says I: “Bet your life, Mr. Pudawinknm!” and I patted him on the back and continued: “Finest dauce I ever saw in my life, old Winkum stink thinkum—bully, magnific, so to eak.” And I started off trying a new figure in the shirt dance, and kicked old Pudawinknm in the stomach, causing him U> late his tongue, after which he shook his fist at me and swore in Wurtemburg Dutch or some other dialect equally as mysterious to me. There wasn’t many warriors now, for most of them had hung them selves up by the breast and ham strings, and were dangling in the air like eo many hams and flitches hang np in a smoke house. Everybody was bleeding like stuck pigs, except Back and I, and a few cactus eaters on the ground gathered around old Pudawinknm and began a loud talk in Greekroot, pointing at Buck and 1 with ah an angry flourish. But Buck and I went on daheing harder than ever, thinking they would overlook our lack of self tor ture, and we sang so lond that the echoes catne back from the sides of the oauyon in chunks big enough to jolt several of the Indians down who were hung up by the loose skin of their neoks. But the Indians soon came for Buck and I, and caught us and tied our hands behind our book for Hole- in-His-Pants had recognized ns, and be mid that we must suffer -some of the torture too, or the messiah wouldn’t come while the white men acted the hypoorit in the great ghost dance. Buck began to beg like a pale red cow for her oalf, but it done no good. Hole-in-His-Pants said he must go through a little performance, or it woula spoil- the meeting and the efficacy of the other Indian prayers. So they bang him up by the ham strings or his left leg—hung him up to a cedar limb and told him to say his prayers jnst as hard as he conld, and they would take him down in a few minutes if they didn’t foi get him in the great rush of religious duties. And then, good lands of getting skinned yourself instead of yonr to discuss saved, or ont of bis leg, and his knife and tobaepo dropped out of his pocket, and he was afraid Hole-iu-His-Punts or Pudawinknm would gobble them np and keep them as part of the performance. Buck and I yelled at the top of our voices, but my mouth was stretched so wide that my voice issued forth as broad its a baud saw, and the Indians thought we were praying at our level best for the red messiah to come, and every hotly yel led at their best, and Buck hung high, so to speak. I havn’t the least idea how long the Indians would have left us in that condition, or how long it would have been before my mouth would have snapped over my head, like pinching a seed out of a ripe cherry, for Betsey came rushing into the circle and demanded of Hole-in-His- Pants that Buck and I should be set oose at once. The chief didn’t like the inter ruption, but Betsey had fed the old cuss so often that he couldn’t handy refuse her; but old Pudawinkum in sisted that we must be rolled in the cactus bed before we left the place, and wo had to submit to the per formance. Buch was so lame wo could hardly get him off the dancing ground, and my mouth was stretched so wide that I would have made a splendid ghost in the best regulated family, and 1 had more cactus thorns in iby bide than there are Christians in two States. Besides this we were both bruised and skinned to some extent, and our systems went into the scab raising business next day and have continued on ever since in the cultivation of festers and scabs and blue spots, and the messiah hasn’t come yet. My mouth is slowly getting back to its usual size and beauty but every time I undertake to kiss Betsej she ties her hair in a knot and runs a stick of stove wood in the loops, tc nsure her self against getting swal lowed. Chief Hole-in-IIis-Pants has done the square thing with us since wt were laid np, for he sends ns all tht {rub We need, besides furnishing m vith a teepee, and also sends bit avorite doa into our tent ever] morning to lick our sores. L’he dog is a very sociable critter, and hi always remains, after licking be bear’s grease from ourselves long enough to scratch off about a quart of fleas from his hide, after which he steals a bone and passes out to bark audpretend the messiah is coming. we are going to leave here just at soon as our crop of scabs get ripe and we pull our cactus splinters all out, and the next time they want to sweat a messiah out of the desert, they may do it themselves. Still, for the sake of science and American history, I am not sorry we , oined in the sweat and ghost dunce, even if we failed to sweat an Indian out of the thin western atmosphere. I got my views and mouth broaden ed to a great extent, without moving my ears back. Fabaway Mobys. Some were for hanging me up like HB f: J|f i * v! . . "1; 1 I didn't dare to, the more 1 seemed to want to scratch. Jt the SioUx chief worked foatures to the dance, tailing the dancers they must torture to the fnli extent of en- the same as in the snn i-that the messiah would „ oti them and come St oaoeto assist them in getting back Ihsir OMStry from the cursed white IftaB. 1 SOOnefMjd thantorture began kids Iren tied to lonrltad, to which hooks ‘ |j}0 jh«Wtf.W' i - grandmother, they what I should do to words to that effect 1 hanging Buck, but Hole-in-His-Pants said I was too old for such a great display of zeal and would study up some other means of torture. Then he sat down and began to scratch bis head in deep study, and pretty soon he said he nod found e plan—also a few cactus splinters, for I saw him yank several ont of his hide while he was thinking up the plan. 'J'hen he took liie and tied me to a sapling, aiid took two strips of raw hide anil wet them and stretched them out as far as he cOuld, and tied a hook to the one end of each string, and fastened the hooks iti each corner of my mouth, and tied the other end of each string to a tree on the right and left of me, and dre# the strings tip taut and fastened them, which stretched fity mouth at the corners Until it became os large as the mouth of a ward politician, hud gave me the appearance of a boot-leg iu the aetoi pelng turned wrong aide out Good lands! how I suffered, and led for the messiah to hurry up materialize, tor I 'eared this torture would turn me throng side Put if it was kept np very long. But) good lands of stretch-o-mile- before-teariug-on-ittch, my miseritss had only commenced. Ptidawindnm now brought a blazing torch and held it close up to the rawhide strap, and it began to shrink up and pull the left corner of ,my beautiful mouth away around.tq my ear; and then he did the same to the other cord, and that pulled the other corner of my month away around to my right ear, and my mouth looked like a red gash cat clear around my head, like i berch tree girdled by rabbits. It was orfnl or even worse. I ex pected every moment that my mouth would slip clear over my head, ami leave me forever with such a broad grin on my countenance that couldn’t look solemn and serious even at the funeral of a millionaire. Buck was in a worse fix than was, beoanse ths blood began to rush to bis bwd| and the hamstrings umojfc&f yfttn tearing for Infants and Children. “ Cattovi a is so Troll adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription enown to mo." II. A. Ancuta, M. D. t "U So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. ! Cast or la euros Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives hleep, and pro litotes di gestion, Without injurious medication. Thk Ckntauh Company, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. of an hour if it would be doing bin a favor. After about 10 minutes we arose and proceeded on our way with out further adventure. There is n disposition on the part of onr fellow townsmen to guy ns, and of course the critter who runs the dishrug weekly down the street is out iu a double, leaded article telling how we crawfished. We-aru serene, however. Wc are not a college graduate, nor do we claim to be a philosopher or statesman, but wc do know enough to “hands np” when a chap has the muzzle of two gnus pressed against our palpitating bosom and is rather anxious to pull the triggers. , No Syndicate.—Last week our esteemed fellow townsman, Captain Carter, sent a note to this office to the effect that he had just received a fighting dog valued at $300 from his brother in New Mexico. The cap tain looked for a half column article on that dog in onr last issue, and not finding it he gave out that he would form a syndicate with a capital of $50,000 to establish a'rival to The Kicker. Tuesday afternoon we buckled on our gnus aud paid the captain a friendly call. Only two shots were fired—both of which miss- ud—before he abandoned his idea of a syndicate and expressed his entire satisfaction with our editorial policy, which is to run The Kicker on met ropolitan principles. Captain Curler is a progressive citizen, aud Captain Carter’s fighting dog is a valuable addition to our local resources, bui Captain Carter will keep right or running the Bold Eugie saloon and let journalism take care of itself. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. As a blood-purifier, the most eminent physicians prescribe Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It is the mosc powerful combiuation of vegetable alteratives :r offered to the public. As a _ log aud family medicine, it may lib freely used by old and young alike. Printed envelopes from $2 to $3 thousand at The Hekaed jo! office. “The Harnbier,” the best bycicle in America, cun now be bought on easy terms. Apply at Tub IIehald office. THE ARIZONA KICKER* A Field Where an Ambitious Man Caa Find Wiags. Not Yet.—We have not received our appointment as postmaster ef this town yet in place of the wretch ed critter who has been handling the mails for the last three years, but we are not worrying any. Even a post- office comes to him who waits. It’s only a question of time when we shall lave the right to register at a Chica go hotel us editor, mayor, senator and lostmaster, and during the interval we may pick up a deputy marshal- ship or something of the sort. This is a field where an ambitious man is not hedged around by barbed wire fences. If he is determined to soar, he can find wings. We have collared everything we reached for thus far, and we feel just os sure of the post mastership os if we were already in stalled and throwing half the circula tion of our esteemed contemporary nto the wastebasket os an act of SHILO’S CURE, the great Cough aud Croup Cure, is in great demand. Pocket size contains twenty five doses only 25c. Children love it. Sold by Druggists. Fits, dizziness, hysteria and all nervous troubles ourtd by Magnetic Nervine. Sold and guaranteed by Dr. J. A. Boyd. KARL’S CLOVER ROOT will purify yonr Blood, clear your Com- plection, regulate your Bowels aud make your Head clear as a bell. 25c. and 00c. rcy t are editors id this territoy who arc not looking for anything “fat.” They have bur heartfelt sympathy. It Was ua.—Monday night at 11 o’clock, as we were returning from the soiree given by Mrs. Flint on Gila place, a stranger rose up from the earth aud commanded us to throw tip our hands. We didn’t stop to in quire his name, age or voting place, but up went onr hands, ana our _ res- sidu at the same instant . The editor in chief of a great New York paper would have stopped to ask for data and been bored. The mayor of Cm cinnati; Chicago or St Louis would have waited for an introduction, ac cording to Social custom, and aWoke in that brighter and better land two minutes later. The man iu front of us was no gentlman, blit we didn’t tell him so, as a Boston editor would have done. Keeping us covered with one of his guns he used the other hand to remove onr watch and cash and we tried to smile blandly during the ojieration. When he had cleaned us out ho suggested that we lie down in the sand. We regarded the sug gestion as a good one aud adopted it without a dissenting vote. When be hinted that he was out of shoes and thought ours would fit his feet, we hastened to coincide with his views He took a liking to our bat, and we instantly offered to exchange titles with him. When he was ready to disappear, he asked ns to remain in our recumbent and ungraceful posi tion for five minutes, and we prompt ly assured him that we would cheer- fail/ spit) tim tins out to a quarter When the blood is loaded with impurities, the whole system becomei disordered. This condition of things cannot last long without senous re sults. In such cases, a powerful alterative is needed, such as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It never fails, aud has no equal. SIIILO’S CURE is sold on u guarantee. It cures incipient Con sumption. It is the best Cough Cure. Only one cent a dcse. 25 els, 50 els., and $1.00. For Malaria, Liver Troc ble,orIndigestion, ue • BROWN'S IROH BITTER; W. L. DOUGLAS 83 SHOE okn/i3&iin. And other npoolnltlot tor OanUamMi, UdlM. Bon nod Klnoo wo ttao Best in the World. B«a duorlptlT* hdrertiM- hwnt which will appeor in thli paper. Take no Substitute, but tail st on having W. 1.. DOUUl.AS* SHOES, with noma aud price stamped < I bottom. Sold by A. i. Broom. Darlington. 8. f. TAKI THK BIST CURE ^ THAT Cough rr WITH Shilohs CURE Thu Oamas Cocoa Cdb* promptly eurts where all otlx-rs fall, Coocha, Croup, Bore Throat, Hoarseness, whooplnn Cough and Asthma. For Consumption Jt has no rival; has cured thoneande, and vffll curb tod U taken in time. Sold by T)mrgt*te on a gupr- ontee. For a Xiitac Bnc!r or Chest, ttao SHILOH'S BELLADONNA PLASTBR^So. ILOH’Sy IftWs lCATAPsRH ^REMEDY, sW&wSS: " If Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. WIFT’S SPECIFIC I'OR renovating th* entire system, eliminating all l*o iso ns from the Blood, whether if scrofulous or Malarial origin, this prep aration has no equal, . • "For eighteen months / had an eating sore on my tongue. I was treated by best local physician. -, but ebtained no relief ', the sore gradually grew worse. / finally took S. S. »V., and was entirely cured after using a few bottles? C. 1>. McLkmopk, Henderson, Tex, ■'RKATISEon Hlood andSlda JJiseascs mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. 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Scrofulous fiorei, ulnnauiar BweRingt, RheumstUm, Malaria, old Chronic Utosrs that faavs roilitedall tnatir ' — tmtirsat, Catarrh, DDD& CU £P nr.r.HPoisoK iitlo DliWMeTSseKt, Cfcror.Tc Knuris "TioaiplaiDU, !^?^ tart*) Prison, Tetter, Coaid Head, ttr., eto. f. ?■ P. 1» a powt'rftri ton to, ami an cxce'.lent uppetissr, URES RHEUMATISM ouUctng np Ui*.- eysieui rnpniiy. Ladtei whole iv.umi are polione.1 and whose blood la In an lim.ure condition, doe to menttmU Irragularttlw, art CURES [ALARM bt-Lulwirly irerrltto«n7"tn<P*vJn!rir^in!cnI? "TonfiooS 1 cleaiuiiig properties of P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke Rook .LIPPHAK BEOS., Pwwioten, OruggiCvS, L'ppman’e Klouk, SAVAHIAS, 00, SOTTS CONSUMPTION in its early stages can be cured by the prompt use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral It soothes the inflamed issues, aids exRC'r*orr*!o v t, ard he te > r»cov#rv. » Pr. J. G. Ayer & Go. 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