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SPEED IN COLLECTING INDIAN
RECORDS URGED.
Washington.—If the languages, be-
liefs, traditions and customs of
Alaskan Indians are not to go the
way of those of so many other native
American tribes and be forever lost
to human history, ethnologists will be
compelled to work double time in the
next few years. This is the warning
brought back from an expedition to
the Yukon by Herbert W. Kreiger,
ethnologist of the National museum
under the Smithsonian institution.
Mr. Krieger found that the young-
er Indians have become thoroughly
Americanized. For them the pot-
latches—once ceremonial events of
t importance for the propitiation
of those spirits who could insure good
hunting or good fishing—are merely
opportunities for a good time. They
have forgotten their own magic and
their tribal folk lore. Only the old
people remember these things, and if
they are to be preserved these old
people must be interviewed before
they die. ;
Mr. Krieger's expedition was car-
ried out with aid from the Joseph
Henry fund of the National Academy
of Sciences. Its main purpose was to
follow up certain archeological and
ethnological leads uncovered by Dr.
Ales Hrdlicka in his survey of Alaska
under the Smithsonian institution last
year. Doctor Hrdlicka traced old In-
dian and Eskimo sites which might
throw light on ancient man In Alaska
and so help the solution of the vexed
problem of man’s origin in America.
As a result of Mr. Krieger's exca-
vations at Bonasila and his investiga-
tions at Anvik, Hologochalk, Shagel-
uk Slough and elsewhere along the
Yukon, he believes that any archeo-
logical evidences of ancient man in
the interior of Alaska are going to
be very hard to find, though there is
much of later date to be uncovered.
Mr. Krieger's most interesting dis-
covery was made far from the mouth
of the Yukon; it comprised examples
of the carvings of a coast tribe un-.
known before last year when both
Doctor Hrdlicka and the Canadian
archeologist, Doctor Jenness found
specimens of these carvings indicat-
ing the existence of the tribe on St.
Lawrence and Nelson islands.
They are done in old ivory and are
examples of an art unlike anything
else known from Alaska. The mod-
ern natives dig them up from old
graves and recarve the old ivory for
commerical puposes, thus destroying
many important specimens.
Evidence that a uniform stone cul-
ture prevailed at one time from the
Yukon down southeastern Alaska was
uncovered by Mr. Krieger. He found
certain stone implements, chiefly a
type of ax, common to the entire
area.
The places visited by Mr. Krieger
on the lower Yukon represent the fu-
sion points between the Eskimo and
Indian cultures. Although the inter-
ior is now entirely Indian territory,
Mr. Krieger found pottery, masks
and other objects which typify Eski-
mo culture. The Indians there have
many traditions of battles with the
Eskimos.
On his way back from Alaska Mr.
Krieger continued earlier explora-
tions for the bureau of American
ethnology along the Columbia and
Snake rivers. Last year he succeed-
ed in tracing a single prehistoric cul-
ture characterized by semi-subterran-
ean circular houses and cremation
burials from British Columbia
through Washington to Oregon. This
year he followed traces of the same
culture down the Snake river into
Idaho, hoping that it would lead him
into Utah and the northern outposts
of early Pueblo culture, thus con-
necting the prehistoric peoples of the
West from Canada to Arizona.
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Golf and Business no Longer Linked.
Golf is losing out as a business get-
ter. Since the habit of playig has be-
come nearly universal among execu-
tives, mere common interest in the
sport no longer brings individuals to-
gether. Devotion to the game has be-
come so general that it has lost its
competitive advantage as a business
asset to a large extent.
In the early days of the ancient
Scottish game, when golf players
were few in number, a common inter-
est in the same hobby made buddies
out of bankers and customers, law-
yers and clients. Now golf—like all
non-business activities—serves mere-
ly to create an attitude of friendliness
‘and to break down the formality of
| purely business contracts. But a mere
. capacity to play golf is no longer
enough to bring in business. In this
sense, the collateral advantages of
golf have been overdone. Popularity
breeds innocuousness.
Incidentally, the tremendous expan-
sion of facilities for playing golf in
, this country is tending to keep many
men of wealth, who formerly went
abroad each year, at home in the
summer.—Nation’s Business.
Says Air Mail Planes Will Land
on Roef.
Washington.—Air mail planes will
land on top of the New York city
postoffice building within five years,
Assistant Postmaster General Irving
Glover has predicted.
The method devised, Glover told
' the house postoffize committee, would
be similar tc the ome preposed for
landing air mail planes on the roof
of the Chicago postoffice.
Glover urged the enactment of the
Kelly bill reducing air mail rates
from 20 to 5 cents a pound and grant-
ing perpetual charters to air mail
| concerns.
Bargains That
Are
Real
27 of Those Boys’ Suits
Left
Sizes 15 to 18 years only. All belted model
coats. They are regular $16.50 and $18.00 suits.
$7.50
Just 9 All-white Shaker
Knit Sweaters
Slightly soiled ; Spalding make. $12 and $14 §
Sweaters reduced to
$5.35
Assorted Lot Men’s Sweaters
All small sizes. Regular $5 to $7.50 values.
Your choice now at
$2.
35
22 Pair Men's Heavy Work
Shoes
- Sizes 9, 10 and 11 only. All Lyon brand. Reg-
ular $4 and $5 valaes.
Now
$1.
96
THEY ARE AT
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ENGLAND RETURNS
INDIAN WAR CLUB
American Museum Acquires
Ancient Weapon.
~ New York.—The war club of an im-
portant Indian of the old Iroquois
tribe is a new prize acquired from
England by the Museum of American
Indian, Heye Foundation, here. From
marks on the weapon museum experts
have been able to reconstruct a good
deal of its past career, even though
any records or stories attached to JI
have long since been lost.
The handle of the club is carved
with the words “Oqdehtague le cam-
ara de Jeanson” which, translated,
means - “Oqdehtague, the friend of
Johnson,” according to Arthur Wood-
ward of the museum staff. On the
other side of the handle is engraved
the strange looking word “Warrag-
hiyagey,” which is the name the ¥ro-
quois gave to Sir William Johnson, the
British superintendent of Indian af-
fairs shortly before the American Rev
olution,
Bears Exploit Marks.
“The remainder of the cleared space
on the handle is filled with a series
of exploit marks,” says Mr. Wood-
ward. “There are war belts denoting
the number of times the warrior had
set out upon the war trail and the
number of times he was wounded is
shown, There ie a rude carving of a
full-length figure depicting on the
body the tattoo marks worn by an old-
time Iroquois fighting man. There
are also figures represting 13 men each
carrying a gun,” .
The ancient weapon recalls that in
1758, during the French and Indian
war, an Onondaga warrior was slain
by the enemy and Sir William John-
son’s secretary recorded his death.
This Indian bore the name of Otquen-
andagehte, which very nearly approx-
imates the name on the war club, and
the knife carried by this Indian bore
the same words, “friend of Johnson,”
that are found on the club.
“Jt would seem that the knife and
«lub both belonged to the same man,”
Mr. Woodward says, “and that the
club, being a well-executed piece of
work and more important than the
knife, was taken as spoils of war by
the Indian or Frenchman who kiiled
its owner. Later the club may have
been captured by some British
fighter, and so it found its way to
England as a curiosity. It would
seem that the club belonged to some
important man of the Iroquois who
stood in well with Sir William, then
the autocrat of Indian affairs.”
Sent Back as Curios.
Many of the early colonists sent
back to their homes in England, Hol-
land, France, or Spain numbers of
Indian “curios,” he states. Today
these souvenirs are among the most
valuable of all American ethnological
specimens, because they represent the
culture of the American Indian at the
time when he first came into contact
with the old world civilization.
Usurers Are Targets
of Press in France
Paris.—Usurers once more are be-
ing tracked down by newspaper cain-
paigns and public-spirited citizens in
France. After-war legislation has let
down the bars so that 10 per cent a
month loan sharks flourish, Their
prey is furnisted by the government,
whose vast army of more than a mil-
lion employees are among the more
poorly paid workers. Their need of
money drives them to the usurer large-
ly because government functionaries
still retain much of the prewar dig-
nity that makes it difficult for them to
borrow from friends.
Unable to prosecute money lenders
in most cases, one newspaper has sent
its reporters systematically to the
loan sharks and reprinted the con-.
versation regarding rates, with point-
ed comments intended to warn people
against excessive charges.
Nation’s Health Bill
Totals $4,000,000,000
Minneapolis, Minn.—The nation’s
health bill is $4,000,000,000 — more
money than the total cost of adminis-
tering the United States government
—the Co-operative Club of Minneapo-
lis was told by Dr. John A. Hornsby,
member of the University of Virginia
School of Medicine,
Doctor Hornsby, while attending
the convention of the American Hos-
pital association, said this money is
expended in connection with hospitals
‘and sanatoriums, for drugs, health re-
sorts and patent and quack medicines.
Pointing out that the $4,000,000,000
does not include athletics and recre-
ation that had health for their object,
Doctor Hornsby declared that prob-
ably the largest sum of money direct-
ed to any human activity is invested
in health, :
140,000,000 Blacks and
. 4,000,000 Whites in Africa
Sydney.—“There are 140,000,000
blacks and 4,000,000 whites in Africa,
and it is only a matter of time until
Africa will be ruled by the black
man,” declared Dr. H. E. Warcham,
who has had 25 years of experience
in missionary work in northern Rho-
desia. .
“Africans are net an inferior spe-
cles of people,” said Doctor Wareham,
“and they cannot be kept permanently
in subjection. But they need the guid-
ance of the white man.
“Co-operation with mvtual respect
w required.”
Wild Creatures Made
Subservient to Man
Man gained the dog by domesticat-
ing the jackal and different species
of wolves, in different parte of the
world and then by erossing or, by a
more or less unconscious selection
bred different varieties, until we have
at present a chaos of intermingled
forms, Something similar but on a
smaller scale was true of the domestic
cattle, according to “The New Stone
Age in Northern Europe,” by John M,
Tyler. One kind of domestic cattle
appears fully domesticated in the old-
eit lake dwelling. It is unlike any
wild European form. This is the Bos
brachyceros. It was almost certainly
imported. Mingled with its forms we
find those of the Bos primigenius, na-
tive of Europe and north Asia, but ap-
parently not domesticated. This is
the urus, which was common in Eu-
rope in Caesar's day, and lasted in
central Europe until 1000 A. D., and
still lingers in Poland. This wae a
very large and powerful form with
long spreading horns whose domesti-
cation appears to have commenced
toward the close of the Neolithic pe-
riod. It is not improbable that it was
domesticated, or at least tamed, inde-
pendently in different countries at
quite different times. Raising of cat-
tle was at its height during the Bronze
age; afterward the results seem to de-
cline and the cattle to degenerate.
Eastern Man Credited
With Remarkable Pun
Though Judge Ebenezer R. Hoar'’s
aame is scarcely known outside of
Massachusetts, he sat on the Supreme
bench of that state, was chosen by
President Grant as his first attorney
general, and after the refusal of the
senate—because of two honest rebuffs
of senatorial intrigues—to confirm his
nomination as justice of the United
States Supreme court, he became the
acknowledged leader of the Massachu-
setts bar. His wit was perhaps a lit-
tle too caustic for political prefer-
ment. He was one of the perpetra-
tors of what is doubtless the most
remarkable pun on record—a triple
pun. This feat was performed in a
conversation between the judge and
his cousin, Senator William M. Evarts.
The incident is related by Miss Ellen
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's
daughter:
Judge Hoar told me that he and Mr.
Evarts were talking together one day
about a lawyer, bright, but of doubt-
ful practices, who had lately come to
some distinction. Mr, KEvarts said:
“Yet he seems to have been getting
on lately.” The judge responded:
“Yes, more than that, he’s been get-
ting honor”; and Mr. Evarts instantly
added: “And perhaps now he'll begin
to get honest.”—From the Outlook.
~ Efficient Spending
Yhe . measure of real necessity Is
surprisingly small. When one finds the
medium ground between prodigality
and stinginess he will realize that he
can live there, even though his income
may be moderate. Greater moderation
in many things would leave us a
healthier and happier race, to say
nothing of what it would do for our
bank accounts. Certainly, before buy-
ing a thing one should honestly ask
himself whether he needs it. He
should, likewise, give himself an hon-
est answer.
The second principle of efficiem
spending is that when one has honest-
ly decided that he needs a thing he
should buy the best he can get. If
one buys at all, it pays to search the
market for an article of high quality.
Moreover, he is very apt not to find an
article of high grade unless he does
search the market rather carefully.
Fake Teeth for Bears
Animal dentistry, says a dentist cor-
respondent. is as risky as it is faseci-
pating. The filing of rough or un-
even teeth of a lion or tiger requires
not only strength but nerve, for you
cannot put a wild animal vnder gas
a8 You can a man or woman, To ex-
tract an animal's tooth is far from an
easy business, and in many cases it is
easier to pull a screw from a piece of
oak by means of a pair of pliers. A
well-known menagerie owner once had
an old pet bear fitted out with a com-
plete set of false teeth. The plates
had to be “glued” to the mouth of the
beast in order to keep them in place.
—Exchange,
War on the Sheldrake
Intresting and comely in appear-
ance though the sheldrake ig, its flesh
is not always appetizing, nor in some
other respects is It always worth its
board.
It is like the grebe a wonderful
diver, and has a reputation of living
in burrows, which it never digs.
For years the natural history books
declared that it was a vegetable and
insect feeder, but it is now claimed
that its strong red bill, with a knob
at the base, Is used for scooping up
young fish and especially young trout.
The American Scene
Americanism, we have long been
eonsclous, heartlessly takes the color
out of our immigrants. There was an
affecting instance the other day in am
Bighth avenue excavation, where twe
Italien laborers were wrangling. We
thought it quite picturesque, but om
close approach observed that on their
heads they wore the novelty caps se
common at Coney island. One of
them bore the legend, “Where did you
get those pretty blue eyes?’ and the
other 12ad, “Kiss me, dearie, I'm lone-
ly."--New Yorker. :
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Uncle Sam Makes Painless Traps for
Animals.
Your Uncle Sam believes in kind-
ness to animals; he hates to see them
suffer.
One of his men Vernon Bailey,
chief field naturalist of the Bureau of
Biological Survey, has perfected a
trap that will catch animals without
causing them to suffer so terribly as
do the old devices. Instead of toothed
steel jaws which grip into the flesh of
the unfortunate animal, causing it un-
speakable torture during the long
hours before the trapper arrives to
kill it, is a wire mesh net which com-
pletely incloses the captive. The
plans for making it are given to any-
one who wishes to save suffering.
Mr. Bailey designed the trap es-
pecially for his work among the
beavers. By its use he is able to cap-
ture these animals alive in consider-
able numbers and move them long
distances absolutely unharmed. He
has returned from his commission io
help stock the streams of the State
of Pennsylvania with beavers. From
a small number, the beaver popula-
tion of Pennsylvania has increased by
leaps and bounds.
A beaver caught in this humane
trap actually will look upon his cap-
tor as his friend in a few days, ac-
‘cording to Mr. Bailey. When he is
released on his new breeding grounds,
he will not make a wild dash for lib-
erty, but will come up to his captor
to be petted. The human character-
‘istics of the beaver in many respects,
the most intelligent of the native an-
imals, make it especially fitting that
more mercy be used in trapping it,
Mr. Bailey believes. :
Slight variations on this trap ren-
der it suitable for the capture of
muskrats, minks, and other fur bear-
ing animals which inhabit the banks
of streams. i
Another of Uncle Sam’s devices
used by the Biological Survey re-
moves the necessity for the most cru-
el of all steel traps, the great bear
trap, which required exceptionally
‘strong jaw springs to hold the great
animals who blunder into them. The
new device is a form of the old box
trap on a much stronger scale, When
the bear grabs the bait, a spring is
released and a plank door drops down
behind him. He is not harmed in the
least.
The cruel steel trap will soon be
a thing of the past. This means
much for the thousands of animals
that are trapped every year.—Ex.
menisci fy ems
Pins by the Billion.
More than twenty billion pins are
used annually in the United States,
or about 200 for each inhabitant, ac-
cording to recent statistics, and the
number is said to be ever increasing.
Ten factories are engaged in their
manufacture.
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—“Good gracious, Son; we've just
run over a poor man! Stop Stop!”
“Keep still, Mother; youll make ev-
ery one think this is the first time
we were ever out in an automobile.”
—La Rire.
Safety First is Now Considered. —
Highway engineers are recognizi
as never before the fact that build-
ing for safety is one of the greatest
responsibilities resting upon them im
developing the road programs of the
country.
“Road builders are making every
effort to build safety into the road
rather than depend upon warning
signs and devices alone to protect the
motorist,” said Prof. S. S. Steinberg,
of the University of Maryland and as-
sistant director of the national high-
way research board, in a recent ad-
dress. “Many state highway depart-
ments, as Maryland, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, and many large cities
are making a careful study of the
causes of highway accidents.
“Records are left by means of a
highway map on which a colored pin
is inserted at the spot on the map
where an accident has occurred. A.
different colored pin is used for each
type of accident. An accumulation of
pins shows in a graphic manner the
location where the construction should
be changed.
“Highway engineers are also relo=
cating the main roads to eliminate
curves, to avoid railroad grade cross-
irgs and to reduce steep grades. In-
cidentally, these relocations save dis-
tance, avoid costly bridges and mean
benefit to the motorist in the cost of
vehicle operation.
“In Illinois a road 1150 miles long
was relocated almost entirely through
out its length, thereby saving 30
miles of unnecessary distance and
eliminating 31 grade crossings. Re-
locating the road from Kansas City
to St. Louis, a length of about 300
miles, saved 41 miles in distance and
eliminated 15 grade crossings.”—Ex.
og
Instant Death.
The efficiency and rapidity with
which criminals are put to death in
the electric chair is explained by
Frederick Tisdale in an article in Lib~
erty.
“The process of strapping in the
criminal and attaching the electrodes’
is completed in about 49 seconds,”
points out the writer. “So swiftly do
the attendants work that the current
enters the prisoner’s body 70 seconds
after he enters the death chamber.
The current is kept on about two min-
utes. A second and even a third
shock may be administered as a pre-
caution. While the current is on &
humming sound is produced in the
body.
“Penologists declare that death by
electrocution is instantaneous,” con-
tinues ithd author. “The heart is
stopped and the brain paralyzed be-
fore the nerves can register any feel-
ing. The veins and arteries offer a
perfect course for the current.”
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Those Funny Welsh Names.
A school teacher from Ypsilanti,
one from Kokomo, and one from Spe-
onk went on a Cook’s tour and visited
Wales.
“What funny names these Welsh
towns have!” exclaimed all of them,
in unison.—Life.