Show AN INDIAN TRADER i he ha gives it a picture of the red 1 ama us as he knows him there are arc about abou t 11 00 osa go il mr john florer not 01 long ago 1 washington star writer sir mr F flo was for almost thirty years one ol of I 1 traders of the leazes and owned a t lill indian store at the camp of 0 0 glorae in the osage nation ot of I 1 1600 individuals continued mr 1 fl flo F ome name IM tire are halt half bloods tim the a loutit 0 has a reservation embracing about acres ot of the land lan earth rolling prattle prairie and watered and here the unfettered osage w war his big glad sweet will he may fencel plough it graze erase it or let it alore alone th T are no lie strings art an osasc osage ao a historian to v N horn born truth la Is pr clous I 1 must admit adrin it that the ave indian la is very zealous loua ac il letting athla ill alone work vatic Is not attract attractive lVe to osage As an the 0 Is considerable of a take rake I 1 see a deal 0 of it when among them wh w j v might call widely known and lo 10 lov my guli elens c tits it a easy enough to pet get along vi tho the indians once you A U they are a peculiar people and a n d wants to figure on their 1 1 lne n g lr meadows egotists nothing on earth ear eve ever r so important to an indian as ill self to himself an indian Is alwa tremendous dous affair nothing else cist m aver As illustrative of 0 the innocent degotis ego of my blanket fiends I 1 recall he one day an old indian came n e i to the store and remark k rd it with I 1 I 1 a 11 1 ridden look in hla his fac ac oh my son I 1 am indeed i nt dead here he laid his head bead on on side a and it d lolled his hl eydi as though were nvere surely his last appearance my ily heart is 13 vor v ri heay heavy for or tr uncle note I 1 said in the osair tongue ton true M tie be not hot tell me what h hi caused cauncil th I 1 case of 0 katy bar the dov oh my son go 1 I aw all the 0 iee age in a cents 0 t weary dejection 1 I 1 hired white inan to plough tor lor me and I 1 he very wicked it I 1 leave jilin him fr ur ft a in r ute lite lie he will not plough so I 1 must ft by the field in alic tb hot bot lun iun and w wate or nothing will be done I 1 hilve have 1 bt obliged to stay atay there all lay day that th white man shou should id work and now I 1 11 I 1 I 1 shall die 0 of course my mir poor over worx wor osage friend did not die he lay do li on the floor and rest c d his hi 9 head 0 on 6 tack ac k 0 of coffee then I 1 gave eave him stick of clansman cinnamon to chow chew abich denominated UK tig medicine and a a while he recovered aas tho the osage continued mr afy flor flo as I 1 said Is not list much of a husban man mall wrapped in his big red blanket scorns be orns labor arid and denes defiles it were Y to offer him his choice between a 0 com billed mower and reaper and a dea cards card s lie he would reach for or the deck en 0 cards card once in three months the G gr rather goes down do w in in his pocket forth or poor indian then T hen it 11 Is payment hi day but this Is not 0 exactly 1 I a e aly largess on ill part of it tile great aither Fi ther the act ct 10 he has hag in his rocket pocket over I 1 oon the bank roll 0 at the nal no 4 which he keers keeps for or them so far ar lo Is g instance it 11 Is I 1 only tile hie poor indian his own |