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After all, in what land, in what race, nationality, or community can be found the vaunted vestal home of assured peace? And where is human nature so perfected that circumstances might not awaken the dormant demon of a man's innate savageness?

But then again the practical view of the non-industrious use of nature's cornucopia of world-needed resources, and the inevitable law of the survival of the fittest, must "bring the flattering unction to the soul" of those--to whom the music of light, work, and progress, is the charm, the gauge of existence's worth, and to which the listless must hearken, the indolent attend, the weak imbibe strength from--whose ranks the red man must join, and advancing with whose steps he must march cheerily to the tune of honest toil, industrious peace, and placid fireside prosperity.

Passing rapidly through the, to them, marvelous experience of the railroad, and its flying express train, the sight of towns, villages, cities, over valley, plain, and mountain--to the magic floating house (the steamer); sadly learning, while struggling with mal de mer, the existence of the "big waters" that tradition alone had bruited to incredulous ears, was passed the first portion of a tempestuous voyage. Its teachings were of value in bringing to the proud spirits of the self-reliant Dakotans the terrible power of Nature, and of the white man's marvelous skill, industry, and ability in overcoming the dangers of the deep--the reward of patience being found in a beautifully smooth approach to land. The Sicily Islands and a

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AFTER THE BATTLE--FIELD OF WOUNDED KNEE--CAMPAIGN 1890-1891

non-fog encumbered journey up the English Channel--unusually bright with sunshine--the grand panorama of England's majestic shores--her passing fleet of countless examples of all kinds of marine architecture, the steaming up of the River Scheldt with its dyked banks and beautifully cultivated fields, opened to the marveling nomad his first edition of Aladdin, and landed him, wonderingly surprised at the sight of thousands of white men peacefully greeting his arrival, in the busy commercial mart of Antwerp.

After introducing the Indians to hotel life for the first time, a tour of the city was made, among the notable points visited being the Cathedral, which grand edifice aroused their curiosity. The grand picture, Ruben's "Descent from the Cross," brought to the minds of all-white men, "friendlies," and "hostiles"--the contributing cause of the late regretable campaign, the "Messiah craze"--an interest intensified by the fact that the aesthetic-looking "SHORT BULL," and some of the others, had been the leading fanatical believers (probably, even apparently, conscientious), promotes and disciples of the still mysterious religious disease that lately agitated the Indian race in America. In fact, after the death of "SITTING BULL," the central figures of this strange belief were "SHORT BULL" as the religious leader, and "KICKING BEAR" as the War Chief. Grouped together with "SCATTER," "REVENGE," and others, in moody contemplation of this subject, was the late defier of a mighty nation of 65,000,000 people nearly all whom teach or preach the truthfulness of the picture's traditions--

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After all, in what land, in what race, nationality, or community can be found the vaunted vestal home of assured peace? And where is human nature so perfected that circumstances might not awaken the dormant demon of a man's innate savageness?

But then again the practical view of the non-industrious use of nature's cornucopia of world-needed resources, and the inevitable law of the survival of the fittest, must "bring the flattering unction to the soul" of those--to whom the music of light, work, and progress, is the charm, the gauge of existence's worth, and to which the listless must hearken, the indolent attend, the weak imbibe strength from--whose ranks the red man must join, and advancing with whose steps he must march cheerily to the tune of honest toil, industrious peace, and placid fireside prosperity.

Passing rapidly through the, to them, marvelous experience of the railroad, and its flying express train, the sight of towns, villages, cities, over valley, plain, and mountain--to the magic floating house (the steamer); sadly learning, while struggling with mal de mer, the existence of the "big waters" that tradition alone had bruited to incredulous ears, was passed the first portion of a tempestuous voyage. Its teachings were of value in bringing to the proud spirits of the self-reliant Dakotans the terrible power of Nature, and of the white man's marvelous skill, industry, and ability in overcoming the dangers of the deep--the reward of patience being found in a beautifully smooth approach to land. The Sicily Islands and a

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AFTER THE BATTLE--FIELD OF WOUNDED KNEE--CAMPAIGN 1890-1891

non-fog encumbered journey up the English Channel--unusually bright with sunshine--the grand panorama of England's majestic shores--her passing fleet of countless examples of all kinds of marine architecture, the steaming up of the River Scheldt with its dyked banks and beautifully cultivated fields, opened to the marveling nomad his first edition of Aladdin, and landed him, wonderingly surprised at the sight of thousands of white men peacefully greeting his arrival, in the busy commercial mart of Antwerp.

After introducing the Indians to hotel life for the first time, a tour of the city was made, among the notable points visited being the Cathedral, which grand edifice aroused their curiosity. The grand picture, Ruben's "Descent from the Cross," brought to the minds of all-white men, "friendlies," and "hostiles"--the contributing cause of the late regretable campaign, the "Messiah craze"--an interest intensified by the fact that the aesthetic-looking "SHORT BULL," and some of the others, had been the leading fanatical believers (probably, even apparently, conscientious), promotes and disciples of the still mysterious religious disease that lately agitated the Indian race in America. In fact, after the death of "SITTING BULL," the central figures of this strange belief were "SHORT BULL" as the religious leader, and "KICKING BEAR" as the War Chief. Grouped together with "SCATTER," "REVENGE," and others, in moody contemplation of this subject, was the late defier of a mighty nation of 65,000,000 people nearly all whom teach or preach the truthfulness of the picture's traditions--