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Chicago Record.
June 14/93.

NOBLE RED MEN IN WANT

ATTRACTIONS OF THE STREET FAKIRS
IRRESISTIBLE TO THE CHIEF.

Their Purses Are Empty and Gaunt Hunger
Oppresses Them--The Merry-Go-Round
Has Undone "Spotted Bear," "No-Neck,"
and Others--Seductive Peanut Stands and
the Plaintive Barrel Organs Lure
"Many Knives" to Financial Ruin--"Blistered
Heel's Penchant for Posies.

The child of the forest, whose reservation
is on Sixty-third street, sits within his tepee
and suffers from want. The gaunt specters
of poverty and woe stalk beside his lodge
poles. Peace and plenty have fled from his
wigwam and all his little children distress
him with their cries. The red warriors are
destitute of wampum. They no longer have
the wherewithal to buy corn and their
noblest braves are broken in spirit and hide
their faces in their blankets to conceal the
unmanly tears.

It is the merry-go-round that has done this
thing.

Spotted Bear and Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses
have gone broke against this devise
of the evil one. And the noble chief of
No-Neck has ridden till he can no longer buy
bread.

"Many Knives" and "Curley Legs" have
also harkened to the seductive wooing of its
barrel organ, and the peanut stand has completed
their downfall. "Running Horses"
has purchased of popcorn until he can no
longer go upon the war path. Glass canes

[Drawing]
THE RED MAN'S RUIN.

have been the stumbling block of "Whistling
Antelope." "Blistered Heel" has blown
himself in on button-hole bouquets and cocoanut-
fiber hats, and the tribes are desolate.

"Young-Man-Made-of-Iron" was full of
peanut candy when he fell to rise no more,
and the "Laughing Rainbow" has only a
blanket full of chewing gum to show for a
month's hard work.

Wherefore the red men humbly pray the
great father that he will send his warriors to
purge the reservation from these temptations
which beset their path, and they beseech
that the merry-go-round may be made to disappear
from their reservation, that its insiduous
luring may no longer tempt their
feet from the trail that leads to the happy
hunting grounds and their little children's
stomachs may no longer be empty.