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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



'Henceforth, wherever thou may'st roam, 

 My blessings, like a line of light, 

 Is on the waters day and night, 



And like a beacon guards thee home." 



LIVES SAKED OUT OF DOOKS. 



BY SILAS G. WRAY, PHOTOGRAPHER, GRAND 

 JUNCTION, COLORADO. 



Many years ago near Provo, Utah, an 

 Indian boy was playing with a gun and 

 shot his mother accidentallv. It is the 



tears them np and will not use them. It 

 will be seen in the picture that the tent 

 is torn to pieces and the Indian blanket 

 was only put on him for taking the pic- 

 ture. 



"Provo Dick" says he has gone to 

 feed his brother many times in the morn- 

 ing during the winter months when he 

 had to chop his hair loose from the 

 ground with a hatchet, where it has 

 been frozen all night, before he could 



PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF AN INDIAN WHO HAS SLEPT OUT OF DOORS, 

 WITHOUT CLOTHES, FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. 



custom and belief of his tribe to pay 

 penance or punish themselves for any 

 offense or crime which they may commit. 

 This Indian chose to spend thirty years, 

 or as they term "thirty snows" lying per- 

 fectly nude exposed to elements with- 

 out any protection whatever, at the end 

 of which time he is supposed to get up 

 and take his place in his tribe again. 



It is said he has spent twenty-seven 

 years or "snows" and according to this 

 he will soon have served his time and 

 will get up again. The photograph 

 shows him and his brother, known as 

 "Provo Dick." His brother "Provo 

 Dick" is very wealthy and does not like 

 to have his brother punishing himself, 

 and carries blankets for him to use and 

 put up a tent for him to sleep in, but he 



get up and eat breakfast. 



It is certainly a very peculiar freak 

 of nature for a human being to live and 

 endure the scorching sun of the desert 

 through the summer and the frigid ele- 

 ments through the winter without a 

 stitch of clothing on him for so many 

 years, ihere is no animal that could 

 endure such treatment for any length of 

 time. Persons who have felt of his 

 flesh say it is as thick and tough as a 

 piece of sole leather. 



This poor Indian believes he is pleas- 

 ing "The Great Spirit" by punishing 

 himself in this way. 



His tribe, several years ago, became 

 suspicious of him and decided to get 

 rid of him, and took him a hundred 

 miles or more away in the mountains- 



