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ALL INDIANS
Mighty Warrior Whe
Never Killed White Man, Is Old-
est Redman,
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Bellefonte, Pa., February 9, 1912.
Big Politician Has Scheme to Reduce |
Congestion in New York Tene- !
ment Districts.
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Big Tim Sullivan has been looking |
about a bit in his Bowery kingdom, |
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Oldest of all Indians in the United
States, Sitting Elk, former chief of the
Ogallalla Sioux, is visiting in Denver.
the guest of the white man, against
whom he always refused to make
War.
For almost a century he has been a
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and 3 a Sse Gace the beajniest leader among his people, but, wiser
man in Tammany has hammered Out { spay oiher chiefs, he early realized
a land tax system, which he De | yo0 the red man was doomed and at
lieves will reduce the congestion in
the tenement districts, a New York | NEE Dpposduly he counseled peace
correspondent of the Cincinnati | .
Times-Star writes. “People in my |
| people knew he was no coward.
district sleep three and four to the | “I have never killed a white man,”
room,” said he, “and many of the! h B rr
* : "| he proudly boasts, “but I have fought
room have never bad & ray Gf SUI | mony baiiles, and 1 have done many
a " So. 5 big iz so high. brave deeds in my long life of ninety-
way Ugo. 1 ‘| six years. I was but seventeen when
The tenement owrer who is willing to | I waylaid and killed my first enemy.
He could well afford to do so, for his
| yoyage, and the government published
tear down his old building and put |
up a new one, with sunlight in every |
window and a bath in every flat, is |
afraid to do so, because he knows
that his taxes would go skallyhooting
up. The poor devils who rent his
flats would in the end pay for that
higher rate of taxation. Every eighth
chifld born in New York city dies be-
cause its mother has to go to work |
or starve. At the same time there
are 40,000 acres of good land lying |
idle within the city limits.”
Therefore Sullivan has a plan to cut
the taxes on improved real estate, and
increase the taxes on vacant prop- |
erty. He figures that owners would |
have either to build on their land—
which would relieve the downtown
congestion—or go to farming it, |
which would indirectly have the same
effect. “A watch dog on a farm lives
better than many of my constitu
ents,” he declares, “and yet, after
an experience of a lifetime down
there, 1 have yet to find the equal
of the families on the streets near
the Bowery for industry and economy
and courage. Maybe my land tax plan
is Bowery political economy, as has
been charged. I like it all the better
for that fact. The Bowery has had to
put up with Fifth avenue political
economy for a good while.”
Explosion Follows Volley of Dialects
Hurled at Caran, Which Results |
in His Discharge. !
Joseph Caran, laborer, tanned to the |
color of the faded red undershirt he |
was wearing, was arrested on a tech-
nical charge the other day, writes the
New York correspondent of the Cin-
cinnati Times-Star, and taken before
Magistrate Vooheis. The magistrate
scanned the papers placed before him.
noted the man's name and observed
his make-up. “Tell the court inter
preter to come in,” said he.
The court interpreter burst iuto &
gargle of Sicilian when he beheld Car-
an. Caran looked stupefied. The in-
terpreter tried the Neapolitan dialect
on him. Caran shook his head. The
interpreter tried Basque, hall a dozen
country dialects of Spanish. and some
low French on him. Caran began to
look indignant. The interpreter said
that it was no good. “Dees-a-man can-
not understan’ not’ing w'at Heye can
spik. He mus’ be man fom one dem
little islands in da Mediterranean,
w'ere dey no speak good Italtano at
all-a,” said the interpreter.
Caran listened with an air of grieved |
surprise.
“It's too bad,” said Magistrate Voor-
heis. “Take him back to the cells.
We'll have to hold him until we find
some one who can make him under-
stand.”
“PFwhat the divvle,” burst out Mr.
Caran, explosively. “Did yees t'ink I'm
a monkey, to understhand fwhat this :
chattering baboon here says to me?
| many years more—to be hale
That was a very brave deed. Since
then I have killed many, many ene-
mies.”
Sitting Elk is a total abstainer. He
smokes cigarettes, buf insists he has
none of the other bad habits of the
white man. He is childless, the last of
his line, but he expects to live for
and
{ hearty long after he has passed the
century mark.
Sitting Elk moves tall and stately
. among his kinsmen, and puffs his pipe
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i thoughts of any immediate journey to
complacency unruffled by
the happy hunting grounds.
Bright of eye, keen of mind, the oid
| warrior dons paint and feathers for
! his
appearance with the Younger
members of his tribe in the headlong
dashes across the amphitheater at the
stock yards, and rides with an aban-
don which defies the spectator to rin-
gle him from the reckless redskins
who have but one-fourth his years to
their credit.
HOUSE WITH NO STAIRS
Pittsburg Man Plans New Residence
Embedying Some Very Unique
Features.
The new residence which is being
built on the Clearview plan at Mount
Lebanon, Pittsburg, for A, G. Smith |
of Pittsburgh, has some features which |
. are unique and probably not embodied
in any other residence in this section. '
The house is without stairways or
steps, the slope idea having been sub-
stituted. The grade of this slope Is
about ten per cent. Entering from the
veranda to the large reception hall
one's attention is directly drawn to
the unique method employed of reach-
ing the upper floor. In the living
room, which is probably 20x35 feet, a
large concrete fireplace and mantel
is the principal feature, with a wide
bay window. There are no corners to
the house, as each of the four ends of
the residence are of the bay type.
The only wood used in the construec-
tion of the building is to be found in
the door sills, windows and floors, the
latter of which will be hardwood. The
walls of the building are of cement,
finished with white cement trimmings.
Even the two bathrooms are fitted
with cement tubs. In all there are
ten rooms. The roof is of concrete,
surrounded with a parapet, the porch
roofs are of the same iype, thus ai-
fording second story porches in the
front and rear, both of which are fit-
ted up with concrete flower troughs in
which blooming flowers are now to be
seen even in the unfinished condition
of the house. On the front second
story porch a fountain is arranged.
—Engineering Record.
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Durability of Steel.
If vees can't talk U-nited States in .
court, take me to wan where they | It has been shown that nearly all!
do. That's ahll” - the failures of steel occur very early .
Magisirate Voorheis looked silently | in its history. If a plate or bar of
at Caran. took in his violently Latin | Wild steel lasts for a year in service,
scenery, and compared it with the it may be trusted to last for many |
obviously Hibernian accents that Years. The most injurious thing is
tumbled over each other on Caran’s | continued bending backward and for- |
lips. Then Mr. Voorbeis slipped him- Ward, as in what is called the “pant-
iggle. “Discharged,” said he. Ing” of a boiler end. As one authority |
vat a giggle Ie puts it, steel has a somewhat “tumul-
tuous routh,” but “in middle age it
is trustworthy, and in old age beyond |
reproach’ In regard to corrosion
Near the ancient country meat of
{he Carews in Cornwall, England, there is a difference of opinion, some |
! holding that steel corrodes more read-
stands a quaint old church, to the door :
of which are nailed four horse shoes, ily than iron.—Harper's Weekly.
These have been in their present po- '
An Ancient Bet.
' marks.
sition for nearly 500 years. A former
member of the Carew family made a
wager with a friend that he would ride
his horse a mile out to sea in Tor bay
and back again. The fact was more
difficult than appears at first sight, for |
the cross-curtents are dangerous, even
for boats.
He won the bet, however, and nailed
the four horse shoes of his steed to
the church door to commemorate the
performance.
Original Suffragette.
Mga. Johanne Meyer, the first Danish
woman to speak from a slatform in be-
half of woman suffrage, attended the
Universal Race congress recently held |
in London as the delegate to the Peace
Society of Copenhagen, As soon asthe
congress closed Mrs, Meyer began an
inquiry in behalf of the Danish govern-
ment to ascertain the effect that so-
cial and political work in England has
had on women. In 1870 Mrs. Meyer
founded tle first organization for the
betterment of women in Denmark, She
is now the editor of a paper «he found-
od in 1888.
All Are Alike.
The late Professor James is no ex-
ception to the rule: “Messages” from
the spirit world are uniformly lacking
in enthusiasm.—Kansas City Star,
i Gathering Fruit.
When gathering fruit, peaches or
. pears, a clever woman invented =o
; simple device that insured the pluck-
i og of fruit without danger of bruising
~The top was taken off a tin tomato
can and the can attached to the end
of a broomhandle, so that it formed
a cuplike arrangement,
The can is put up underneath the
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fruit and a slight shake given to de- |
' tagh it from the tree, letting it fall
into the can, which is lowered and
; emptied quickly. Put a can on the
{ end of a clothes prop if the fruit hangs
high.
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“George Sand.”
i It was from Leonard Jules Sandeau,
the celebrated French novelist and
dramatist, born at Aubusson a century
ago, that another and far greater
writer derived her nom de guerre.
When a young student in Paris San-
| deau made the acquaintance of Mme.
Dudevant, and during a short-lived
friendship they collaborated in a
novel, “Rose et Blanche,” which was
published in 1831. Then they parted,
but Mme. Dudevant, while relinquish-
ing Sandeau’s friendship, took to her
self a portion of his name and elected
‘to be known henceforth as George
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ER CE ——
GRIM TRAGEDIES OF OCEAN.
Many Vessels Abandoned at Sea That
Are Constant Menace to
Navigation.
There is a grimness about the brief
news dispatch which states that the |
derelict destroyer Seneca, of the Uni
ted States revenue cutter service,
weighed anchor and steamed out of |
New York harbor to search for dere
licts of the seven-day storm which
ended recently. Vessels that have been
abandoned at sea, unless deliberately
destroyed, continue to be a menace to |
shipping for a long period following |
their abandonment. For many years
it was customary for sea captains, on
coming into port, to report such dere-
licts as they had observed during a
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charts in which the position of the re-
ported derelicts was shown, in order
that sailing masters might be on their |
guard against collision with them.
There was at one time some talk of in. |
ternational co-operation in the task of |
clearing the sea of these floating |
ships, but nothing came of it, and the |
United States government finally |
took the matter up on its own account,
being for a long time the only govern. |
ment which did so, and presumably it |
occupies that position to this day. The
vessels designated as derelict destroy-
ers are specially fitted out with dyna
mite and other means of destroying
and sinking the floating menaces to
navigation, and the significance of the |
departure of the Seneca lies in the
fact that the storm of last week is
supposed to have caused many wrecks
off Hatteras and along the coast of
the Carolinas,
HARD TO PAY THE TAXES
French Deputy Runs Afoul of Red
Tape When He Tries to Get
on Tax Roll.
Jean Javal, who was elected deputy
of the Sens division of the Yonne de
partment in France in 1910, bought a
house in Sens just after the election
Discovering a few days ago that he
had never paid any taxes on the prop
erty he looked up the list and found
that his name had never heen placed
there.
Ag no self-respecting socialist-radi
cal republican deputy would care fc
avoid such an obligation, and not for-
getting the weapon non-payment of
taxes would give to his opponents in
a future election, M. Javal wrote to
the authorities asking to be inscribed
on the list.
The letter was returned with the no-
tification that his request could not be
considered unless it was sent in on
stamped paper, with a 60 centime (10-
cent) stamp.
Violin Was a “Find.”
Gaylord Yost, violinist, has a valu-
| able violin which he acquired under
| interesting circumstances. His story
of the “find” as told by himself fol
lows:
“One day In Berlin, as [ came out
of one of the music stores I was
stopped by a couple of gypsies. They
had at least a half dozen violins caught
up loosely by the necks. Some were
stringless, cracked and dirty. They
asked me if T wanted to buy a violin
cheap and I replied that I was always
locking for good violing. Meanwhile
1 had scanned the violins and I ob-
served one with very artistic lines and
workmanship, good varnish, but in bad
repair. 1 asked him how much they
wanted for that one and they replied
120 marks. Of course I could not try
! the violin in the street so I gave them
! my card and told them to call in the
afternoon. As soon as I placed the
bow on the strings I realized what
it was. I finally got the violin for 79
I guess it was cheap. Would
I sell it? Well, hardly.”
Real Enemy of Aeroplane.
One still often reads comments on
the effects of musketry on aeroplanes,
usually written by those who have
probably never seen the effect of bul-
lets fired from a distance. It has been
truly said that to hit a “rocketing”
aeroplane with a rifle shot is an ex-
tremely difficult mattgr, but to con-
clude that the aviator is therefore
immune when at 1,000 feet up is ab-'
surd, says Sir Baden-Powell. It is |
not the danger from one marksman
that has to be taken into account,
but volleys from a whole battalion. If
3,000 or 4,000 shots be fired at a ma-
| chine while it traverses one hundred |
| yards, there is a good chance of its
| sustaining some danger so long as it’
| is well within range. It is, however,
the Maxim gun that seems likely to
| be the most formidable enemy of the
. aeroplane, All such guns must in
! future be mounted in such a way as
| to enable them to be fired nearly ver-
. tically.
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How to Use a Life Preserver.
“The worst trouble about a life
preserver,” said an old sailor, “is that
few people know what #0 do with one
when it's thrown to them. Many a
man would drown in trying to get a
: life preserver over his lvead,
“The average person struggling
! about in the water would try to lift up
i the big life ring and put it over his
head. That only causes the man to
. sink deeper and take more water into
his lungs. .
“The proper way to approach a life
- preserver in the water is to take hold
| of the side nearest you and press upon
it with all your weight. That causes
the other side to fly up in the air and
down over your head, ‘ringing’ you as
neatly as a man ringing a cane at a
county fair. After that the drowning
man can be rescued.”—From the
' American Boy. ;
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BEING BRISK A.GOOD HABIT
Children Should Be Taught Quickness
in Running Errands and in
Dressing Themselves.
PRINCE MIGHT GET ° SHO1
But Mrs. Pattison Was Willing Her
Husband Should Face the Burg-
lar Alone.
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¥ a child is allowed to acquire a
slow, dawdling manner when told to
do any particular duty it will be
found very difficult to effect a cure,
and this means a serious hindrance to
success in after years.
Mr. and Mrs. Pattison awakened
suddenly. Doth thought the noise
came {rom the basement.
“Petter go and see what that is,”
said his wife uneasily.
burglar!”
“Oh, I hardly think it's a burglar,”
Teach them while very young to do
everything promptly and to finish
what they have commenced. If they
are sent on a message make them to
clearly understand that they must go
direct to the shop and not loiter on
the way. Children may be seen at
any time carrying a message and lin-
gering to look at everything on the
way.
I often wonder at what time the
| poor mother gets her messages home,
when I see a child loitering about in-
stead of walking along briskly.
Pattison said as he turned over in
bed.
“Yes,” his wife returned, “but then
it might be. Oughtn’t you to go and
investigate?”
Pattison never had gone in much
for burglar chasing, but he wasn't |
afraid of a burglar. Or if he was he
wasn't going to let his wife know it.
He arose irom his bed and strode
bravely forth, stubbing his great toe |
as he did so,
Then he paused
to think what |
Quickness in dress, also, should be in-
sisted upon. If too young to dress
themselves they should be taught to
keep still while the mother or sister
puts on their clothing.
At a later age forbid any running
about the house until fully dressed—
and quickly dressed. Some little
maidens are rather fond of looking in
the glass while dressing and this is
a habit which should be at once re-
pressed. It not only encourages van-
ity but it causes the child to waste
much valuable time,
would be the best way to approach
the burglar.
He wouid call little Prince, Mrs, Pat-
tison's pet dog, and have him go on
ahead and bark an occasional bark.
“Then,” thought Pattison, “if there
really is a burglar in the basement
like as not he'll run before 1 get
there,”
Prince up to that time didn’t know
there was a burglar around.
Pattison called the dog softly:
“Heah, Prince,” he whispered, “heah!
heah!’
Mrs. Pattison heard
whisper for the dog. “Why, George,”
she exclaimed in alarm, “you're surely
not going to take Prince down with
vou after the burglar!”
“Why, er—ah—the fact is,” bluffed
Pattison, “IT thought if I took the dog
along he might help me find the burg-
lar.”
“Yes,” retorted his wife, “but Prince
might get shot!”
Not the Conservatory. !
Young Lady--The Musical conserv-
atory is in this building, isn't it?
Janitor—No, mum; the Musical
cqnservatory {8 ‘hout two blocks
down street,
Young lady, & iously—I—I was
sure [I heard pupils practicing vocal
exercises. Are you sure the Musical
cgnservatory is mot here?
Jagitor—Yes'm. Nothin’ here but
demkisés’ offices, mum.—New York
Wealfly.
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