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193 mON KAIL VERSUS INDIAN TEAIL,. 193 of the river terrace, and as the temperature rose dur- ing the day he would go down mto the water to wet his body, and then resume his steady, easy, jogging ffait, with both arms brought up beside the chest, the fists being clenched and held almost in front of the , breast bone. An instance of excellent time made by an Qjibwa mixed blood, at White Earth, Minnesota, has been placed on record. The Indian referred to was sent for to enter a race against professional run- ners. He left the plow at noon, and after dinner walked about 23 miles to the place where the race was to be run, and next morning made 100 yards in ten and three-quarters seconds." Talk about transportation in modern times. It was the fortune, or rather misfortune, to take the train from MarysviUe, Marshall county, Kansas, in the year A. D. 1907 for the very spot that^s being de- scribed, and where our men are stopping in Quivira. Manhattan in a bee line is less than fifty miles from MarysviUe, but by the railroad which skirts the Blue river makes it about fifty-five miles, but it took nine hours for the journey; then make comparisons. Ah, and this express (?) train carried the mail! But tins demonstrates the superiority of private owneri^hip of railroads. ? ? ? ? ? ?"?,! The little experience above recorded is not an iso- lated one, for many of the roads now passing through Quivira have "no ties that bind" either the rails or the public. They carry the mail, accommodation is frail over roads that fail, causing engineers to pale passengers to weep and wail, goods to get stale; but