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Show men do not disdain to help them on occasions oc-casions .any more than does a white man of pood disposition. We never saw, during our whole residence resi-dence in the Sioux village, a single family quarrel, and the children were rarely, if ever, punished. One example t.i illustrate this characteristic char-acteristic pleased and amused us not a little. One day Klying-by's wife came to our tent and asked us to lend her a small hand-mirror which we possessed. pos-sessed. We gave it to her, and then vatehed her to see what she would do with it. About a mile and a half or two miles away a horse race was in progress, watched by three or four hundred hun-dred mounted Indians. The squaw toolc the mirror, stood in front of the tent, and reflected a beam of sunlight from the glass along the ground in line with the group of Indians. In-dians. It was only two or three minutes before be-fore a solitary horseman left the band and came tearing over the prairie toward us. It was Flying-by, who .sprung oir his horse ut our door and looked inquiringly around. 11 is wife had gone back to her cooking, and was apparently ap-parently quite heedless of his coming. To his question whether some one had not sent for him, we could only reply re-ply that we had seeu bis wife playing heliostat with our mirror, whereupon he went over and spoke to her. In a moment he returned, and with a grin told us that, knowing he hud money, his wife had called him home for fear lie miyht be tempted to gamble gam-ble it away. He chuckled over her prudence, and told us that he might have made a lot of money if he hail stayed; and not a cross word was spoken. SIOUX FAMILY LIFE. Quarrels ftml Pimlslniwntd Arc Very Rnrc Arnim:: Itfintlvcs. A writer in Online irives an amusinp neeount of "Slcotehiui Arnoutr tlie Siou." lie says that tlu- kindness nnd ' iilienoe of theso people in their d-j d-j me.stie relations are very not ieeahle. 1 i he women havo certain duties to perform, per-form, as anions other races; but the |