pared to
cheese-parings and cheese, or skim-milk and cream. The Indian gets the
parings and the skim-milk!

The Quaker agents, as they are called, are doing a good work, because
they see that honest dealings are had with the annuities paid them. If
the President had done little else, this feature of reform will redound
to his credit forever.

BURIAL OF A CHIEF'S DAUGHTER.

Spotted Tail, the head chief of the Brule Sioux, sent a request to the
commanding officer at Fort Laramie, saying "his daughter had died in
Powder River country (fifteen days' journey), and had begged her father
to have her grave made among the whites." Consent was given, she having
been known to the officers for several years, and her death was brought
on by exposure to the hardships of wild Indian life, and also from
grief, that her tribe would go to war.

He was met outside the "Post" by the officers, with the honors due his
station. The officer in command spoke in words of comfort, saying, "he
sympathized with him, and was pleased at this mark of confidence in
committing to his care the remains of his loved child. The Great Spirit
had taken her, and he never did anything except for some good purpose.
Everything should be prepared for the funeral at sunset, and as the sun
went down, it might remind him of the darkness left in his lodge when
his daughter was taken away; but as the sun would surely rise again, so
she would rise, and some day we would all meet in the land of the Great
Spirit."

The chief exhibited great emotion at these words, and shed tears; a
thing quite unusual in an Indian. He took the hand of the officer and
said, "This must be a dream for me to be in such a fine room, and
surrounded by such as you. Have I been asleep during the last four
years of hardship and trial, dreaming that all is to be well again? or
is this real? Yes, I see that it is,--the beautiful day, the sky blue,
without a cloud; the wind calm and still, to suit the errand I came on,
and remind me that you offer me peace! We think we have been much
wronged, and entitled to compensation for damage done and distress
caused by making so many roads through our country, driving and
destroying the buffalo and game. My heart is very sad, and I cannot
talk on business. I will wait and see the counselors the Great Father
will send."

The scene, it is added, was the most impressive I ever saw, and all the
Indians were awed into silence. A scaffold was erected