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Show the fact that when a woman sets her complexion and personal attractions in the scale something will drop. The mournful fragments of a dying race will gradually lessen what their white brethren of the male sex have long since discovered. As they groan in the darkness dark-ness of their tepees and rub Rocky Mountain salve on thoso portions of t heir persons which have felt the caressing caress-ing touch of the adamantino soap of the government they will be ready to believe be-lieve that, although thero are none but wretched beings in misfit army clothes to see her, Cora Belle, as a woman, will insist on being beautiful if she has to whip the entire camp to secure that end. VANITY AND SOAP. Mrs. Cora Hollo Chaska, whoso name used to be Fellows before she married a citizen of South Dakota, who wears for the most part a coffee sack aud a feverish fever-ish Hush, has come to time ngain. Mrs. Chaska carried iuto the idyllio Indian lifo into which she was iuducted, the season and kiln-dried temper of the sehoolmarm which she once was. Tho other day she had an ebullition of spirit and several Indians have black eyes as a consequence The monthly ration of soap which a benign government wastes upon the sons of Lo arrived at the reservation reser-vation and Mrs. Chaska promptly claimed a quarter of it as her due, She spoke eloquently of the requirements of her lily comploxion aud pointod out the fact that axlo grease was good enough for an ordinary Indian. But the braves were about tired of Cora Belle. They had been sneered at by her for months because they preferred a change of climate to a chaugo of underwear; they had been bitterly inveighed in-veighed against for their lack in the way of tooth brushes and dentri-lice dentri-lice and now they proposed to show their hands. So Cora Belle was coldly informed that for the futuro she would bo allowed just her proportion of soap, and if she wanted to heighten the effects of hor complexion she could climb a tveo. ' They knew where they could trade the extra soap for a certain artielo which bites like a serpent and stings like an adder, anyway. In the scene which ensued soap Hew hither and yon, and warriors were doubled up like the letter V lying on its side. Cora Belle quit winner. They might have known she would. The flair vaa simnlv an exemplification of |