Show the indian with buffalo billt bills show cincinnati enquirer I 1 was talking recently to a person who had accompanied the buffalo bill show throughout eu rope and he be said to me 1 I had a very good opportunity to study indians far separated from their native place every idea which I 1 derived from my schoolbooks had to be changed change buffalo bill himself was as afraid as death of those indians and find the whole caucasian part of tho the show was in continual alarm especially the financial part of it lest borne some terrible crime might be committed by those wild people for which the managers would be held responsible by law on one occasion an indians salary was withheld for a week because he had bad misbehaved or had bad not turned up he ile had bad picked up enough E english anglish to say to the paymaster 1 11 I ax fix you the man thereupon barricaded barricades barrica ded his big door and took a shooter six to bed for two nights there was no alarm but the third night he happened to fall asleep and the trap of his door indicating di cating a forcible entrance he looked up pistol in hand find and there was the indian about to plunge a knife into him further on at two of the indians belonging to t 0 different biffl I 1 er tribes or nations had bad a dispute as I 1 to 0 which was the principal chief or a as they would have it among the w white bit e races ram which was the bigger indian and could lick the other one the gates were closed the two indians stripped themselves stark naked and started to carve each other up there would have been a homicide and a big trial at law which might have burst the show but for the squaw of one of these indians rushing in in with a club and laying them both bo th flat on the ground now it is wild people like this that our philanthropists philanthropists insist can be in a lew e ew years ye rs by education elevated to civilization people who reason in that way forget that as man is himself the product of an evolution from the an animal imal so a continuance in purely anima animal I 1 habits and ideas for generations make tho the work of regeneration as slow as wa was tho the work of betro gra grading diug GEORGE ALFRED townsend |