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■ ’Vp' ——-n awfft The Noble Red Man !n His Western Home. How He Gets a Homestead From Uncle Sam, His Dignified Mode of Life, His Sports and Pastimes. When I was allottiuf? lands to In dians in North Dakota I lived in tents out on the Fort Barthold reservation about a hundred miles from a railroa' or a civilized settlement. With me was a surveying corps in cluding several Indians and an Irish man, a German, a Spaniard ami a mem ber of one of the first families of > ir- ginia. Wo joyously entertained any body who chanced to come by our way without regard to his present or pre vious condition. One day a boastful stranger hauled up, with hungry look, in front of our dining tent and without so much %s “good morning” for a preface, sprang off his horse and remarked: “A big syndicate is paying me 3> a day and expenses to sell land—no dif ference what I get for it or whether I sell it at all or not.” He seemed about to follow this an nouncement of his importance by ask ing the price of a ‘bite’ when I re plied: “Picket your bronco and sit down to s feast. This surveying crowd con trols all the country. I am working for a bigger syndicate than you are and it pays me bigger wages than you get just to give land away.” The invitation needed no repetition, but the statement that I was being paid to give land away required con siderable explanation to the visitor. And the explanation may not be with out interest to you. The Indians, you know, were long accustomed to have everything in com mon: to graze peir ponies ou the and earning for themselves the com- thwa ° f . healthful rivalry is established and ambition pre- ^y unfaH is fostered. ® F)*wes bill, under which allot- i. 8 ® r ® made, provides that the In- tha 8 hall become a citizen with all • t* thereunto appertaining within six months alter ho has taken “f allotment and severed his tribal re a ions, it provides also that the . -- r* 'l.l/Y the houes op the hohskis. Government shall keep the Indian’s allotment in trust for him for twenty- tne years. Then he is allowed to do ?? » P lea ? e * w jth it. It is supposed iii iT^ f* m e he will be able to hold his own against all settlers in the competition for homes. Just after getting an allotment, the average In dian would be strongly tempted to give a hundred and sixty acres of land for a week’s rations. I he next step after dividing out the lands and placing each Indian under '/("HAIM LONG BULL IN HIS REGIMENTALS. common plains; to get their wood from the common forests; to stack their tents where they pleased; to hunt or work and appropriate the com mon reserve as freely as the lish use the sea. This was their old time and natural way of doing things. It violates every principle of the rights of property and was correspondingly conducive to savagery. It is the desire of the Government to get them entirely out of this state and to make them citizens. One of the means to this end is to divide up the reservations that they have held in common and to allot the lands in severalty. That is, to give each Indian a homestead, mark it off by dist inct boundary lines, require him to build a honse on it, teach him to cultivate it, and in various ways help him along until he is able to support himself and his family upon it. Of course the Indians have to be suffi ciently advanced to be willing to do this before it can bo done with any degree of success. A portion of laud is allot ted to every man, woman and child. When the child grows up, instead of finding tlio land around belonging to THE PRIDE OP THE CAMP. everybody and nobody, he finds a distinctive tract all his own. He is thereby taught the law of inheritance. The desire at onces comes to him to leave to his children an inheritance at least as good as that which was left to him. He sees other Indians all around him cultivating their farms his own vine and fig tree is to bnild a school house, equip it well, put good conscientious teachers in charge of it, require every Indian of school age to attend it, and thus push on the work of civilizing the Indians right in the heart of the reservation. The Indian school question has for some years en- gaged more than an; other the thought of those interested in Indian work. And ‘‘the Schools to the Reservations” was the policy of the last administra tion, amt will, I presume, remain the P 0 !^ (He present administration. . ,.“ e .f ort Berthold reservation is on both enles of the Missonri River in the northern part of North Dakota. It contains about a million and a quarter acres aad is as far from civilization’s haunts as any similiar-sizod piece of ground outside of Africa. The nearest railroad train passes by nearly a hrfn- ured miles away. The nearest tele- M 'M 1 a instrument ticks at the same dis- mice. The agency employs a few »te men who have married squaws, nmi a missionary or two are the only "lutes on the reservation. rc , are tlire(> tribes on this reser- • 10 “. the Gros Ventres, the Mandans t ''Lt Arickare es. There is a sub- . “ °/ Gros Ventres known as the "and of Crow Flies High. They long «g° cut loose from all other Indians, acy had to be brought with troops om their mountain fastnessess down ™ the reservation. They call them- ;«‘\es “Hoshkis" (huskies), which .cans ‘bad lands.” They still refuse toafliiiate with any other tribe. t() (his unreconstructed band pi- “ a( ! (° make allotments. Crow „„ 08 “‘gh had been deposed as chief and Long Bun put in hiB placei 01(1 , w “° w c “lls himself Chief Medicine To i, 6 s ((h has great influence and 1° ’tse all of it for the bad. I Aue Indian chiefs are great sticklers for Crow F1 . e « High superabundance. The first time his J*®. caui e down to have • council th ^ e , 110 aS9 utued marshalship of hem although Long Hall, dressed in Was spokesman. They ted their horses and wagons within lew hundred yards of my camp and sent me word that they were ready for the conference. I replied that I was at my “tepee” and would be verypleased to receive them. Crow insisted that I should come to him and it was only after an hour or two’s parleying that he consented for his band to come to me. I was not afflicted with Crow’s spirit of dignity,)but I knew that if the game was opened by my going to him, I would never get one of his band to take an allotment without go ing for him with a horse and buggy and giving him his dinner to come. Most of these “Hoshkis” are hun ters, fishers, warriors, sports. They are great jumpers, runners, boxers, wrestlers. They have a supreme and loftly contempt for an Indian who will spend his time working “jnst like a white man.” They believe in the sov ereignity of leisnre. Wherever a crowd of them meet, they test their strength in manly exercise. Whenever their horses come together their mettle is tested in a race. They are brave, bright, strong. They have their ten der qualities, however, and the two little girls that they brought out from their tepee homes to show me as the ’pride of the camp’—the only two chil dren in the band that had been sent off to school—were as gentle and pretty us Indian girls should be. I induced them to decide to be “good Indians,” and there is hope in their future, They had heretofore refused to take allotments. They signified their will ingness to me, but they were very slow to put it into execution. When one came for his allotment, frequently, he talked abont this way: “What can I get?” He was given a great variety of land to select from. “I want none of that,” said he. “Is there any special piece that I can’t have?” He was told of the portions already allotted or re served. “Then,” he would cry trium phantly, “I want that or nothing!” and the allotting agent had a real nice time changing this notion. The average Indian’s god is his din ner. In infinenoe with him the “Great Spirit” does not play even a poor sec ond. You may fail to get him to agree to anything else, but if yon will invite him to a meal he will foresake all things and come with you. Then yon have at least a fair opportunity to rea • son with him and drill your persuasive powers. ../•• <* When an Indian who means busi ness—and there are manj* such—is to select an allottment, bs gets his pony, rides over the laa^f decides upon the neighborhood^ which he desires to live and then picks out the special tract i£(it he wants with a view to its wat||rgapply, its nearness to wood or gfohIJF anti all *of its convenienoei His decision once made stands, and it is usually good. Too frequently, how ever, he selects a piece of land that isn’t good for a thing in the wide, wide world. ‘ After the allotting agent tried in vain to induce him to select a better, he always comes to Mark Twain’s conclusion that “if he wants that kind of a thing, that’s just the kind of a thing he wanes.”—Claude N. Bennett, in Atlanta Journal. Enntsen’a nugget weighs a fraction over thirty-four ounces Troy, and came into his possession two days be fore he got out of th'3 land where famine stalks. This nugget is somewhat irregular in shape, but very solid. It is light yellow in color, and nearly four inches in length in its largest part and about three inches in width. It was weighed and found to be worth ex actly $583.25. "THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC.” Interesting; Young Woman With a Mis sion Now In This Country. Miss Mand Gonne, who has come to America in the interest of the Irish cause, is one of the most interesting young women that ever came to these shores. Her life has been one of love of country, the poor people of her country and romance. She now lives n 11 t'j nr s \ o ft f Tvi Deafness Cannot He Cured by local applications, as they pannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ope way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lininupf the Kustaohian Tube. When this tube gets in ti imed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is o tirely closed Deafness i < the result, and unless the ipflatn- matlon can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will he destroy d forever. Nine inses put of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed rendition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundied Hollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cored by Hall’s Catarrh «. ure. Send '""'"‘“T; * c... ToMo. 0.' If It Only Helped a Little It would be worth 50 c. nte. One hour’s free dom from the terrible irritating itch of tetter Is worth more than a whole box of '•etterine costs. It will cure—sure, aud it s the only thing that will cure. 50 cento at drug stores, or by mall from J.T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Oa. __ Gladstone, It Is said, only 117 pounds, and the Marquis of ftaMaburr, tb present Premier of Great Britain, Ups »he scales at 253 pounds. f To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative BromoQuinine Tablets. •.11 Druggists refund money li It falls to cure. 3V-. Former President Cleveiend has written the Texas Alumni Assoclatiou that his son will be la the class of 1915 or 1910 at Prince ton. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous- nese after ttrst day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $S trial bottl* and treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline. Ltd..98l ArehSt., Phlla.. Pa/ Lafcadio Hearn, who has lived many years in Japan, says that the grotesque pictures mneie by Japanese artists no w seem to him to be true. Chew Star Tobacco—The Beit. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. When Mark Twain was recently given a dinner by the Yleana Journalists’ Club he made a speech half in German and half in Kugllsh and kept his hearers laughing all the time. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reducing inflama- tion.allays pain.eures wind colic, 25c. a bottle. I have found Piso’s Cure for Coiyumption an unfailing medicine.—F. R. t,oTX, iaOo Scott St., Covington, Ky., Oct. 1.1SW. MISS MAUD GONNE. COLD NUGGET WORTH $583. It Weight Thirty-Four Ounces and Waa Found In the Klondike Gold Fields, Michael Knntsen is one of the few nr «erB who have come oat of 'the V oudike region with a sack. Hie in France, where she edits a newspaper devoted to war for jastice to Erin and where the imaginative Frenchmen have given her the title of the “Joan of Arc of Ireland.” She is a convert to Irish nationalism from the camp of the Unionists, and she declared npon reaching America that there was bat one object in life for her—the rights of the commoners of her native country. Miss Gonne is the daughter of Colonel Gonne, who was ah attache of the English embassy in St. Fetersbnrg. She was reared in the society which would accompany such a position, but ‘ >* stories** the, life Jonneli, the Liberator, came un der her attention, and at the age of nineteeh years she had resolved to de vote her energy and years to the oanse which had been his. She has been in active battle for eleven years, has worked among the lowly in London and the dnngeons and organized many societies for the improvement of the Irish peasantry. Sugar From Fotatoes. An extensive economical revolution is in sight, if the claims of Dr. Prinzen Geerlings tarn oat to be what the doc tor asserts they are. Dr. Geerlings, a Government official of Java and form erly Professor of chemistry at the Uni versity of Amsterdam announces the discovery of a simple method of con- Rheumatism Caused Croat Suffering—A Well Man Since Taking Hood’s. "I was afflicted with rheumatism and have been a great sufferer with this dis ease and also with stomaoh and heart troubles, but thanks to Hood's Sarsapa rilla I am now a w>41 man. My wife has been cured of kidney disease by Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” Auo. Scheeineb, 3i7 West 59th Street, New York, N. Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the best—in fact the One True Blood Puri (lei Hood's Pills cure all liver Ilia. 85 cents. «<1GET 00R PRICES> ^ST Cast every day; work ISO hands. LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPPLY COMPANY, AUGUSTA. GEQBGIA. Donble Guns and Rifles from 12 to $60. voiver*. 70 cts, up. Knives, Rs Seines. Tents, Sporting Goods of sll kinds. Send 3c stamps tor 76 paps Catsiogua si save 28 per cent. 490 W. Main St ALEX.L SEMPLE L CO. iMisviiit, Filagree Pin. Irooubcnuttfu Iter. .licoUVreelaud i Scarf Fin on the market to day. To introduce our late* Holiday Catalogue we will rent the Pin on receipt of Eltilll CENTS — Catalogue Fbee D.N. WATKINS* CO, Mf'gJtwelsri it Page SU Providence, B. I., ■ta ■ TrAIT* ore Property. Repre- n Air NTS aeet Wealth. Can be MM I 1»IW | W M# i„. Ar » Aeeianable. H INTENT Improvements in tools, implements, ■ household articles, etr. Write F. 8. APPLE- MAN, Patent Lawyer. Warder Bldg., Wash ington, D, o, Free circular end advice. JLow fees. If sfflicted with 1 sore eyes, use ) THE BIG KLONDIKE NUGGET-ACTUAL SIZE. chief distinction among the miners rests in his being tbs possessor of the largest nugget yet found in that dis trict—a solid chunk of gold that weighs, according to Dawson City quotations, nearly $600- verting potato starch into sugar. He has lodged his description of the method with the French Academy of Science, so as to secure priority for his invention, although he is not quits ready to make the details pnblio. Thowpson’t Eyt Watir S. N. U.-No. 49—’97. M CURiiS WHfcRt All SiLSt M , CouKh rup. Tantes ( ijp i "iTii * NORTH * FROM CHATTANOOGA OR HARRI- MAN JUNCTION VIA THE QIIEENAHD CRESCENT ROUTE Handsome Vestlbuled Trains. Through Pullmans from Savannah. Co lumbia, Spartanburg. Asheville, Knoxville, Atlanta and Chattanooga to CINCINNATI SHORTEST LINE. FINEST SERVICE. 0. L. MITCHELL. W. 0. RINEARSON. District Pass. Agont, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Chattanooga. Tena, Cincinnati, QJi wSBMMHPddMMEt .