The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 18, 1900, Page 8

\DAY CALL. - g SU would be committed then thy of a coffin manufactured by an Indian much difficulty and many experiments, When the excitement was over cvarpenter arrived from an opposite direc- was safely deposited. Then the walls % while the tio 'he body was placed in it without grew louder, and always the voices of the moving the blanket or showing the face. women were heard above the rest. It is the right hand was extricated from impossible to describe that wailing. It Its covering all the men passed by was not concerted: every one acted inde- it in line and hands with the dead perdently of the other; there was no at- » man. gave the cold hand tempt at a tune, but now and then the v gri touch of others was inusical voice ci a young girl, clear and ticeably gingerly. Then the hand was high-pitched, would lead in a sort of ca- T ag: 1d a young fellow, dress- dence, and the heavier voices joined in an ck clothes, with knick- incoherent dull cry. The women swayed Pullman tou-ist passing their bodies from side to side, waving in Needles had given him some the air little tufts of cedar, which they d in worn-out Indian tossed into the grave. Several middle-aged hat had no doubt been squaws, who were relatives of the de- v source, took his place ceased. rolled on the earth, and tearing the coffin. solemnly wound 2 away their scanty garments thrust sharp plated alarm clock, set the bone implements, like coarse needles, into 1gh the small nickel- e Sline e m and placed it within the coffin at the muscles of their arms and legs until . 2 rt man’s feat. The lid was closed the blood ran down in tiny streams. One G The r gr 1 n women gathered around, rapping wildly excited woman thrust two bone r e A with their knuckles, passing needles through her fat lips and smearcd o N k 1d down over it, howling the face of her children with the blood \ the time. Then some from the wounds. But in all this there gt and inkled bucks came for- was very little sign of real emotion. The > a Ifuls of dust. and, syr- young women, who stood in knots away ef > coffin, threw the dust from the active mourners, would smlie : at the same time pros- and simper and duck their heads if they 1 < on the ground. Their met the gaze of any of the white bys & s possess| £ ere plercing shrieks, so much S0 standers. Only one of the women shed ¥ host of littie Indian children on tears. and she was the sister of the mendi- A \ skirts of the mournful throng put cine man, quite an old woman, who stood ds to their ears because of child- at the head of the grave really crying bn-' hind a handkerchief that once was white, G was lined with new rush There stood beside her an old buck, He was a ¢ plit up the sides and spread out comical looking object, whose long lock dered wor- flat, and upon this carpet the coffin, With were surmountgd by a jaunty white stra e costume of f the deceased. squaw, W s distin- once a were gathered at the hut services consisted of a cor ce principa by \ the w wrapped in a \ o £ o > & On the Road 1o the’ Burying Ground ~ % - ,' hat and whose bony figure was radlant in scales, a. pair of army shoes and the butt horse as it stood upon the grave. Some actually de d t ¥ a red flannel miner's shirt and a pair of of a Government musket were laid in of the savages had knives. others sharp A o ragged gray trovsers. Mull neckties, that with much care, as if they were priceless others 1 s v were once white, were tied about his dirty diadems. thers club . red ankles. He was kind of preach- Next a dozen young Indians filled in the ad variou: P s e ives of the dead er”” one of the half-breed Indians <aid, grave. amid complete silence by the a w6 Ui Nk st s pmi - . g firdhid e g and his loud vociferation and violent ges- semblage, and then the dead medicine its groans was hacked, p he last of 4 e e e R tures were the only eulogies which were man's mahala brought a scraggy, slashed to death. Its ¢ of Uik Nowae ek ot st to console the mourners and do honor to starved broncho to the mnewly fo out by an old squaw with a the bones and s wa the virtues of the deceased. For he the only medicine man in this part, » his death® left the tribe unprotect grave. In a moment the second stilines 1 was broken by the wild A and screeches of the d stick, @ vells, hoots a thousa " All the In- women. against the ravages of rheumatism and djans, led by the bucks, rushed upon the out on the s head was beaten to jelly the departi ndian v nd or more blows by the other in the e bowels of the heast days round before the b consumption. We could not undersiand the Indian language, but a sturdy ranch-; @ << > er's son by our side, who has mck--‘n up some of thelr vocabulary, transiated for M l d g B R ystery of Dreams Revealed, jun doctor gone now: all Injuns die. Sick here, here, here (pointing to head, lurgs| The most authoritative work on dreams and heart). Die die; never get well. Baby | that has appeared for many years has dary of one's experience. We remember sick, no medicine; no get any better, pret. | Just been published in Vienna, the author that we have dreamed them. but we can- ty soon die.” 4 being Dr. Sigmund Freud, a distinguished not tell when and where the incidents Then the squaws, with thelr papooses | scientist and one of the best known spe- portraved in them took place in our ac. on thelr backs, wailed louder, and the | clalists in Europe ou the subject of nerv- tual life. We are lost in doubt as to the babies joined in the cry and tried in valn | ous diseases. Dr. Frcud has been study- origin of e such dream, and in this ‘i, . F ¥ to fight away the flies with thelr little | ing dreams for years, and he now gives to doubt we remain until some Sutsient By, - fists. The preacher talked on at inter- | the public the conclusions at which he has “event, which reminds us of our dream vals, describing the destitution of the :rg;‘at;ldr:r regard to their origin and sig- ‘and also reminds us of some earlier ex- ' died, t He maintains that there are certain psy- "1‘:‘{"';:‘ e };;::'fihh‘;c: the Sams ol m.‘: ‘h:lll:ml pro: ical I by 3 chilosloal o Y Ioeans of Which' inere 1s no dream wikiéh fs Bot fn some | (he sveming of the dreams can be interpreted. and further- 8 o R el dabieirs A PLert. - DTOpeE :‘a‘sersfn;fh‘r the result of one's actual dozen study will be found to be connected. in T TS T T T T AT altogether outside the boun- total destruction of 4 ng ank saddles, Ll gl iy b, ot O tribe and the skill and goodness of the ""HE“'(v T departed doctor.. Two blind women staod T~ on the edge of the grave, and every now and then had to be held back from siip- ping in the hole. Finally the preacher Jald the dead man's bow and &rrows on | fome' way with the daily lite or rather The simplest and the most easily inter- | had cultivated were to the coffin. Then a roll of blankets Was | i1y the thoughts of the dreamer while preted dreams, we are told, ars those of | SKins and blankets that he had thrown in at the foot of the coffin and | a0uye ™ According to him, all the mate. children, and it 18 by studying theee thut | lated during forty vears we two large coyote fur robes. Some mis- | pa) gyt of which our dreams are woven We may in time arrive at a thorough un- | There is not an Indian living w take was evidently made In the selecting | wag gt one time an actual part of our derstanding of dreams in general. In- Superstitious. The Disgers ca of articles, for a loud voice of vitupera- | experience. In other words, in our dreams deed, Dr. Freud claims that a study of duced to risk everlasting ill-luc tion broke out from the monotonous wail- | we only see sights and persons with whom the psychology of children will prove of | ease in their future 1d among ing, and a bed quilt lined with turkey I'Ed! we have been or arve in some way ac- as much service toward revealing the mountains by withholding for use calico was hurled by that fierce old | quainted. Our nightly visions have ever mystery of the psychology of grown per- | property whatsoever that contributed to squaw, with short skirts, over the heads | heen shrouded in mystery, and Dr. Freud sons as the examination of the structure the prosperity and happiness of a de- of the crowd back to the pile from. Which | admits that it may take us a long time and develonment of the lower animals | ceased. In the eyes of the Hualipis and it had been taken. The old boots, a | to discover their real significance. has done toward revealing the structure plu]aves an Indian who would treat the leather hunting bag, a pair of spring| There are many dreams, he points out, and developinent of the higher animals. . | dead is the lowest and vilest that lives.