Judge — January 12, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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rea Parody on Stephen Massett's Great Song, o Tan Leniavny Spake Mp Morne comes back from the byegone years. The Indian Medicine Man. There are more things in hea Than are dreamt of in your p earth, I —amtet, been justly celebrated from for ingcunity, enterpris and invention. ‘These have displayed the selves in various ways, with vat Its But one of the most rkuble develop- ments of the lesser order which it has yet produced, is the intinerant vender of In- dian cures, A lantern-jawed, green-eved monster, with long hair, who travels on his cheek, lives on his mother-wit and credulous antrymen, — Civilization has not teried him, ‘The sight of a well-dres from this Avion ha time immemo usr ren ene of vacancy commonly ntutored intellect gl . when the uratively, be world was rnicions doetr heresy of education. He still elings lik drowning man to the remnant of that war- ace of red men, who flourished the ahawk with such reckless the ears of Captain Smith. ite pleasure and dramatic effect upon famous passage in American histor to which [have just alluded, and dwells at length upon the personal comeliness of the swarthy-skinned female individual passin under the enphonions cognomen of Poca hontas. He assures you in stentorian tones that Pocahontas was an accomplished linguist, although erroneously supposed to be igno- rant and uneducated; and substantiates his argument by stating, that on the occasion of her intercession in behalf of the captive, . Sudvey btvrenes, iia T hear it and feel it, thro’ smil anker lies dead and a hand so heavy toil and care by mother. ‘The lullaby spanked n exclaimed, in a flight of eloquence, Quon- sque tandem abutere nostea palunlen?™ and, Waxing angry at his seeming apathy, pro- ceeded st the venerable chieftain by the tender application of an ‘old brute,” who has no sympathy for human. sufferin d concludes with the startling intelli- gence that, in th f human events, the father of thi Indian girl, who could sling the s nid quote the Latin classies with such dexterity, died, was gathered together and buried in the cemrlery of his father’s, The Indian medicine 1 Corn Doctor, has no sepa the several Stat faney is exuberant, flattering, his earria and, in fact, he has istics in_ common with m clans. T pis glitterit anair of studied ni about his dress. and a celluloid ¢ He is fertile im re- sources to elude the vigilance of the police; has no sympathy for the « temperance, and can detect th “old rye” as far as the winds of heaven waft the seent. The herb vender, as a rule, w mmed white felt hat, his lucid intervals his conversation does not differ very essentially from that of ordinary people; but when he climbs to the dizzy heights of oratory, which he considers his native element, he living embodiment of the sublimly ridicu i tions are frantic. Ile is plished acrobat and a startling confirr of Darwinianism. THe scorns as un rated nonsense what he is pleased to term the How theories in favor of homeopathy and alopathy, For the horse doctor, how- unlike the identity from many character- t modern politi- itis to say in addition, his knowl superficial. There i nd dilapida n unclean shirt Dr | The Old Squatter Se dulte- | scathed from the fiery torrent of his right- cous indignation. Th tion of heterogeneous corpuscles, ave uncer: tain, © Occ ally he will remain for two or three days in a then disappear suddenly and silently came, to ply nefuriotis trade in sow nt village, kindly and been known to surrender h hotel, with or testinion movements of this recondite agglomera- He is of a disposi has never » souvenir proprie- r such cireum- such comb, ne would hardly attitude to the lat able of feel er towar nevertheless, In » the uninitiated. However, Lean enlighten the few words.” ‘The her n though he does a Incrative ~ hus a rare faculty, which forms the most important act in the drama of hi And that is to tak ition, before it is pr led upon by the hotel keeper to settle his account. What wonder then, that the pro shes his teeth in impotent 1 in the bitterness of h © villain, villain, sm damned villain’ Lae neeredit his former guest— trange as it may reader ina s * Richard III." Grapratny, 1 re comin of the old squatter in town and are yielding f the great innovation of life society. women eateh purchase a millinery Sometimes 1 times. ume to the capital, he refu kea drink. « traditional prejudices known to eat dinner at sid for the } of his forefathers th ns, hotel—when s formance. — Seve heen and a bear hide to the city fun-lovir hing of the play's his- and looked upon the affair as a new invention of Yankee ingenuity. “What do you think of that asked the sq Richard. Putty peart fur a feller that’s got the ' ativm like he seems to have it. He's a putty good talker an’ mout make a good but he wouldn't be no ata log rollin’,” und he placed his his knee: azed intently. the pped the funeral pro- the old fellow turned to. his friend fellov aiter’s friend, indicating Duke nd When sion, nd said “Te ain't got no more r hen aigs: has h “Hush, don't talk. people turnin Don't you see th nd looking at vot talk in this country. to do? I widder. a_courtin 1, I will be dad blamed ef he perdence Ole Nick h mighty easy on what Did yer hear that? though. y ible woman even ef she does w’ar that she |ever, he has no antipathy, who escapes un- | pot-lookin’ thing on the top o” her head.