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171Chicago Record. NOBE 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 barves 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] | 171 |