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HOW INDIANS COMMUNICATE News Travels With Wonderful Rap idity Among the Red Men. The rapidity with which the news of orders given out from the Union Indian agency and Dawes commission spreads to the remotest corners ot the Creek nation is a continual source of- wonder to the Federal officials. When, says the Kansas City Jour nal, the regulation compelling Indians to accept the pay for their land in installments of $io a month was an nounced, it seemed that every Indian in the Creek country knew it at once, for the petitions for sale dropped off immediately. A few days ago, when the order was revoked and the Indian was allowed to pay for 'his land at the rate of $5 per month, practically ev erybody knew it the next day, and business in the Creek land sales de partment suddenly became lively a gain. Vhen it is remembered that there are several thousand full blood In dians in tfie Creek nation who, cannot speak or read a word of English, and who have no way of learning the news of the day except by word of mouth, the speed with which intelligence is communicated to them is most re markable. Most of the full bloods live in the hills and mountains, far from railroads, and in sections where daily or even weekly newspapers are seldom or never seen. General Pleasant Porter, chief of tie Creek nation, and the best inform ed man in the tribe, when asked to explain the phenomenon, said signi ficantly: "It may be telepathy. Let me ask you a question. How does the buz zard flying through the air learn that an animal has been killed and why are there 'h.undreds of them on the scene in less time than it takes to tell about it? You may call it instinct, or any thing else you please, but the Indians keep as well posted on news that in terests them as the newspaper reading white people. "My people have formed the habit of communicating whatever interests them to their neighbors and asking them to pass it on. Every train that leaves Muskogee is loaded with In dians who know personally of an or der. They pass the word along, andi it spreads like wildfire. In the early days the Creeks had regular couriers who carried the news. One of these would visit a town, and at sundown the people would gather around him and hear the information he had to it;npart. The town king would then detail some one to pass it on to the members of the next town or tribe, and the same method would be re peated. "I 'have known," said the chief, growing reminiscent, "of foot carriers traveling Ioo miles a day with import ant messages. One morning during the Creek rebellion I sent a messenger out .to get volunteers for my army, and before the sun set 1,200 men came into my camp. "Warriors had a way of announcing the approach of an enemy by giving war whoops. If the yells followed closely one after another the enemy was near. One prolonged whoop in dicated that the enemy was many miles distant, with: no danger of im mediate attack." Just Like Him. The following is from the Tri State Odd Fellow publis~hed at Green 4rille, S. C.: Bro. Otto Klettner, P. G. M., of Newberry, S. C., has paid his subscrip t'in farther in advance thnan any sub scriber we have. He sent this paper: $3.00 recently, which pays him to March 15th 1908. Bro. Klettner is an Odd Fellow from his heart, and has proved him self to be one of the best friends we have. When we were making a tour in the interest of starting this paper, he is one of the few men that volun teered to help us financially. Pat ting the writer on th'e back he sayc "Brother, should you ever need any money in running your paper, just call on me, and you can get." We ap preciate this friendship, and say, God bless and keep him, grant that his pleasures may never be less. The Verdict. Records of the ancient city Geor geana, founded in 1640, better known at the present time as York Harbor, No., contain some quaint and unusurai gtories of the early life 'of the town. At the entrance to York Harbor a Make Your Own Ice Cream. There has just been placed in all the grocery 5tores, a new preparation called Jet-O Ice Cream POWDER which is meeting with great favor, as it enables everyone to make ice cream in their own home with verylittletrouble.Everythingipthepackageformak ng two quarts of delicious ice cream. If your grocer :an't supply you send 25c. for two pkgs. by mail. Van Ila,Chocolate, Strawberry and Unflavored. Address, The Uenesee Pure Food Co., Boc 295, Le Roy, -N.Y. bold promontory known as Stage Neck. extends some distance into the sea, from which formerly, in stormy weather, a temporary light in the form of a lantern hoisted upon an apright pole was displayed as a warn ing to mariners, says Harper's Week Iy. One dark winter night a sloop was wrecked on these rocks. A surviv or, on bei-g questioned about the :atastrophe. said: "The vessel struck, turned over on ler side an: the skipper and another barrel of whiskey rolled overboard." The local coroner was summoned and his somewhat startling verdict was returned: "We find that the deceased fell from the masthead and was killed; he rolled overboard and was drowned'; ie floated ashore and froze to death, Lnd the rats ate him up alive." LOW RATES. To Charleston via Southern Railway May 8-13, i9oS, Account of Ger Rifle Club, May Festival And Golden Jubilee. Attractions: The Famous Bicketts greatest acrobats in the world se cured at the largest salary ever paid to Aerial artists. The D'Acos. the most sensationa: act ever given in America, including Mlle D'Aco the 'human electric light sensational and thrilling. Greatest event of the kind that has ever been given in south4and. Scheut zen park converted into dreamland excelling in. brilliancy beautiful Lum park. Rate one fare plus 25 cents (minimum rate 5o cents) from al points in South Carolina. From Au gusta and Charlotte. Tickets sold May 8, 9, and ioth with final limit May 13th, 1905. For full information apply to an: agent of the Southern Railway, oi R. W. Hunt, 'D. P. A., Charleston, S. C. URIC ACID GRAVEl I CAUSED BY THE KIDNEYS BE ING UNABLE TO CA RRY THE POISONOUS WASTE MAT TERS OUT OF THE BLOOD. The urine of persons suffering from uri acid or gravel is generally scanty. and afte it has stood awhile, a reddish qediment lik brick dust forms in it. ' In ao inced stage the uric acid sometimes appears as fmn sand, or large crystals. Those who pass gravel in any consider able quantity are usually troubled with in fammation of the kidneys, bladder anc urinary organs, sour stomach, indigestion heartburn, gout and rheumatism. 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