THE CHKMAYVA AMERICAN
stood for some moments. Moore fin
ally walked to where he could see the
Indian's face, and was surprised to see
that Washakie was weeping. Great
tears were rolling over his scarred
cheeks, and occasionally the great, fear
less warrior sobbed, something that no
torture could have made him do.
In due course, Washakie turned about
and said slowly, "Tell the White Father
for me that when the Frenchman gives
thanks he has plenty tongue, hut no
heart;, when Washakie gives thanks, he
has plenty heart, but no tongue." A mes
sage, it may be added,, that none under
stood better than the silent great man
to whom it was sent. ' -
. ' Gdod old Chief Washakie fought in one
huridred and fifty-seven battles in aid of
the whites.
LEGEND OF THE PIPESTONE
( The Dakota, Indians have conflicting
traditions about the formation' of the
Red Pipestone quarry, where their an
cestors met to get material for pipes,
taid A . ' H . Gottschall. One of them
. is,., that a great flood once spread oyer the
country and the Indians gathered on
the summit of the quartz bluff hoping to
be saved upon its crest. Bat the water
continued to raise and at length drowned
them all, their bodies being changed in
to red stone. Another tradition declared
that many years ago the ; Sioux and
Chippewas had, battle on the spot, and
the blood that was shed sank , into the
ground and became this red stone.
Still another asserts that the blood of
the Buffalos slain by the Great Spirit
flowed down upon the rocks and formed
stone. The quarry is located in the
southeast corner of the Dakota land.
-The stone is obtained by digging down .
four or ten feet through soil and slatey
red rock. The quarry was ceded by
treaty exclusively to the Sioux Indians
in 1857. The pipe is an emblem of
peace and the quarry was considered a
place where war and enmity must cease.
Taking into consideration the many
evidences of very ancient excavation,
the picture writing on the rocks, the old
mounds and remains of fortifications, as
w7ell as the vast number of old graves in
the vicinity of the quarry, it is evident
that the quarry was the meeting place
of the Indians for centuries. Milwaukee
Free Press.
SOM E CURIOUS FACTS.
China produces 400,000 ounces of gold
annually.
Seven thousand British subjects are
born at sea every year.
In the Kock of Gibraltar there are
seventy miles of tunnels. -
Nearly one-half of the people of the
world subsist chiefly on rice.
Of the world s population, only one-
third use bread as a daily article of food.
Smokeless powder throws off 'a faint
haze, and is clearly discernible thioiigh
violet glasses. .
The roar of a waterfall is produced
almost entirely by the bursting of mil
lions of air-bubbles.
In the Middle Ages, no butcher was
allowTed to offer for sale the flesh of a
bull that had not been baited,
The Japanese vary less in height than
any other nation. In Europe the
French display the greatest uniformity.
The czar has a single estate covering
over 100,000,000 acres that is, about
three times the entire area of England.