The Noble Red Man
0 In His Western Home.
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(gS) How He Gets a Homestead From Uncle Sam, His
Dignified Mode of Life, His Sports and Pastimes.
When I im Allotting lands to In
dians in North Dakota I lived in tnnta
ont on the Fort llnrtbold reservation
about a hundred miles from a railroad
or a civilized settlement.
With me was a surveying corps in
cluding several Indian and an Irish
mnn, a German, nHpnulurd and a mem
ber of one ol the first families of Vir
ginia. We joyously enturtniued any
body who chanced to come by onr way
without regard to his present or pre
vious condition.
One day a boAslfnt stranger hauled
np, with hungry look, in front of our
dining tent and without so much as
"good morning" for a preface, sprang
off his horse and remarked:
"A big syndicate is paying me .." 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 abont to follow this an
nouncement of his importance by ask
ing the price of a 'bite' when I re
plied: Ticket your bronco and sit down
to a feast. This surveying crowd con
trols nil the country. I ami working
for a bigger syndicate than you are and
it payn me bigger wages than you get
just to give laud away."
The invitation needed no repetition,
but the statement Unit I was being
paid to give land away required con
siderable explanation to the visitor.
And tho explanation may not be with
out interest to you.
The Indians, yon know, were long
accustomed to have everything in com
mou: to graze their ponies on tho
n a 1ia hliuiafl tvilli it It la anntinRAtl
that by this time he wilt be able to
hold bis own ncninst all settlers in the
competition for homes. Just After
getting nn Allotment, tho Average in
itial, tvnnlfl Iia itrih rrl tnriilitnd to
give a Hundred and sixty acres 01 lan'.i
fill a tvnalt'M ratifitiM.
Tho next step after dividing out the
Intula nml titnnlnif AAi.li Tnilintl under
his own vine and tig tree is to build n
TUB 1IOMM Of TUB IIOHRR1S.
school house, equip it woll, put1 good
oousciontious tcncliors in chnrgo of it,
require every Indian of school Age to
Attend it, Anil thus push on the work
of civilizing the Indians right in the
heart of tho reservation. The Indian
school question has for some years en
gaged more than any other the thought
of those interested in Indian work
And "the Hchoolstothe lloservations"
was the policy of the last administra
tion, And will, I presume, romnin tho
policy of the present administration.
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 sohool were as gentle and pretty
as Indian girls should be.
I induced thorn to decide to be "good
Indians," and there is hope in their
future.
They had heretofore refused to fake
allotments. They signified their will
ingness to me, but they were'very slow
to put it into execution. When one
CAine for bis Allotment, frequently, ha
talkod about 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 averago Indian s god is his din
ner. In Inlliicnco with him tho "Orent
Hpirit" does not play even A poor scc
oud. You may fail to get him to agree
to anything else, but if you will invito
him to a meal he will foresake all
things and coma with you. Thou you
have at least a fair opportunity to rea
son with him and drill your persuasive
powers.
When nn Indian who means busi
ness nnd there are many such is to
select an allottment, he gets his pony,
rides over the land, decides upon the
neighborhood in which he desires to
live and then picks ont the special
tract that ho wants with a view to its
water supply, its nearness to wood or
coal mines, its meadows, lis plow
ground and nil of its conveniences.
llis decision once made stands, and it
is usually good. Too frequently, how
ever, he selects a piece of laud 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 tft Mark
Twain's conclusion that "if he wants
that kind of n thing, that's just the
kind of a thing be wants." Claude N.
IScnuett, in Atlanta Journal.
which affords endless amusement to
the little ohildren on rainy days.
'THE IRISH JOAN OF ARC."
Interesting Yoang Woman With s Ml.
Sinn Now In This Country.
Miss Maud Oonne, who has com
to America in the Interest of the Irish
enuse, is one of the most Interesting
yonng women that ever came to these
shores. Her life has been one of love
of country, the poor people of her
country and romance. Hhe now lives
in Franco, where she edits a newspaper
devoted to wnr for justice to Krin and
where the imaginative Frenchmen
have given her tho title of the "Joan
of Aro of Ireland." Hhe is convert to
Irish nationalism from the camp of the
Unionists, and she declared npon
reaching Amorica that there was but
one object in life for her the rights of
the commoners of her native country.
Miss Oonne is the daughter of Colonel
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sinking llin first of Things In the Mnnn-
lnlm of IVnl Virginia..
In the mountains of West Virginia,
where there is little money to spare
lor the small things of lire, are to be
seen, says tho New York Tribune,
many evidences of making the best of
things. Tin cans, traditional diet of
goats about New York, are here made
into hanging baskets. They are cnt
into strips longthwise, fastened in po
sition by wire and the whole is lined
with a moss to prevont tho escape of
the earth.
Now lines are also found for the old
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I.ONQ 1SCLL IN 1118 ItEGIMENTAI.fi.
common plains; to got thoir wood
from the common forests; to stuck
their tents whore they pleased; to
hunt or work and appropriate the com
mon reserve as freely as tho fish use
the sea. This was their old time and
natural way of doing things. It
violates every prinoiple of the rights
of property and was correspondingly
conducive to savagery. It is the
desire of the Government to got 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 distinct boundary linos, require him
to build a house on 'it, teach him to
cultivate it, and in various ways help
him along uutil he is able to support
himself and his family npon it. Of
course the Indians have to be snfll
oiently advanced to be willing to do this
before it can be done with any dogroe
of suocesa. A portion of land is allot
ted to every man, woman nud child.
When the child grows nn, instead of
finding the laud around bolongiug to
TUB PRIDB OP THB CAMP.
everybody and nobody, he finds a
distinctive tract all his own. He is
thereby taught the law of inheritance.
The desire at onoes comes to him to
leave to his ohildren an inheritance at
least as good as thai which was left to
him. He sees other Indians all
around him oulti rating their farms
and earning for themselves the com
forts of life. A healthful rivalry is
thus established and ambition pre'
vioiuly anfelt is fostered.
The Dawes bill, under whioh allot
ment are made, provides that the In
dian shall become citizen with all
the rights thereunto appertaining
within six months alter he has taken
bis allotment and severed his tribal
relations. It provides also that the
Government shall keep the Indian's
allotment in trust for him for twentv
fit years. Then he is allowed to do
Tho Fort Bortliold rosorvntion is on
both sides of the Missouri River in the
northern part of North Dakota. It
contains about a million and a quarter
acres and is as far from civilization's
haunts as any similiar-sized piece of
ground outsido of Africa. The nearest
railroad train passes by nearly a hun
dred miles away. The nearest tele
graph instrument ticks at tho same dis
tuune. The agoncy employs a few
white mou who have married squaws,
and a missionary or two are the only
whites on the reservation.
There are three tribes on this reser
vation, the Oros Vontres, tho Manilans
and the Ariokaroos. There is a sub
tribe of Qros Ventres known as the
baud of Crow Flies High. They Jong
auo cut loose from all other Indians,
They had to bo brought with troops
from thoir mountain fustnessess down
to the reservation. They call them
selves "Hosbkis" (hnskios). ' which
means "bad lands." They still refuse
toamliate with any other tribe.
It was to this unreconstructed band
that I had to mako allotments. Crow
Flios High had been deposed as chief
and Long Bull put in his plnco. Old
Crow now calls himself Chief Medicine
man. Ho still has great influence and
is said to UBe all of it for the bad.
The Indian chiefs are great sticklers
for dignity. Crow Flies High has a
superabundance. The first time his
band came down to have a council
with me he assumed marshalship of
them although Long Bull, dressed in
full regimentals, was spokesman. They
baited their horses oud wagons within
a few hundred yards of my camp and
sent mo 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 parloying that
he oonsented for his baud to come to
me. I was not aillieted 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 mm Ms dinner to come,
Most of these "Hoshkis" are hun
ters, fishers, warriors, sports. They
are great jnmpers, runners, boxers.
wrestlers. They have a supreme and
loftly contempt for an Indian who will
spond his time working "just like
white man." They believe in the sov
ereignity of leisure. Wherever a orowd
of them meet, they test their strength
in manly exeroise. Whenever their
horses come together their tnettlo it
tested in a race. They are brave,
Drignt, strong. They nave their ten'
der qualities, however, and the two
I little girls that they brought ont from
a nonsRRHon tunc.
horseshoes. Instead of having holes
in posts to hold tho ends of the mova
ble bars oi the fences, or the more
awkward double posts, with cross
pieces of wood joining them and hold
ing the bars, ono thrifty man has
nailed horseshoes to the posts nnd
rests the bars on them. An idea of
vmy tit
MISS MAUD 00NMK.
Oonno, who was an attache of the
Lnglish embassy in fit. Petersburg.
She was reared in the society whioh
would accompany such a position, but
as n young girl the stories of the lifo
of O'Connell, the Liberator, came un
der her attention, and nt the age of
nineteen years she hail resolved to de
vote her energy and years to the causo
whioh had boon his. Hhe has been in
active battle for eleven years, has
worked among the lowly in London
and tho dungeons nnd organized many
societies for the improvement of the
Irish peasantry.
Sugnr From I'olntncn.
An extensive economical revolution
is in sight, if the claims of Dr. Prinzon
Qoerlings turn out to be what the doc
tor asserts they are. Dr. Oeerlings, a
Uovernmont oflloial of Java and form'
erly Professor of chemistry at the Uni
versify of Amsterdam annonnoos tho
tliscovory of a simple method of con
verting potato starch into sugar. He
has lodged his description of the
method with the French Academy of
Hcionoo, so as to secure priority for
his invontion, although he is not qnito
ready to make the details public.
COLD NUGGET WORTH ti83.
It TVnlghs Thirty-four Odium and Was
Found In the Klondike Gold Fields,
Michaol Knutscn is one of the few
miners who have como out of the
Klondike region with a sack. His
chief distinction among the miners
rests in his being the possessor of the
largest nugget yet found in that dis
triot a solid chunk of gold that
weighs, according to Dawson City
quotations, nearly 8000.
Knutsen's nugget weighs a fraction
over thirty-four ounoes Troy, and
came into his possession two days be'
fore he got out of tin land where
famine stalks.
This nugget is somewhat irregular
THE REALM OF FASHION.
The advantage of a waist that can be
made either high or low is obvious,
says May Manton. The design shown
ia the illustration becomes suited to
tiADiRs waist wrrn ADJirsTAnr.R yokk.
day or evening wear, as the yoke and
sleeves are added or omitted. The
lining is tight-fitting, having the nsual
number of pieoes and seams, and closos
in almost all the now styles. Tho
smartest and trimmest tight fitting
costs are moulded to the figure like a
habit, and are covered entirely with
appliqned or braided designs. Bnt
tons to match the trimming are often
used, nnd when this is the case tho
bnttons are small. On the other hand,
large buttons are utilized quite con
siderably for decorative purposes,
some of them being very handsome In
deed, but the distinctive fettnre about
these indisponsahln articles this year
is that medium-sized ones are ont of
date. They must either be very tiny
or very large.
SJSSSY rinsnne 'or (litnfirnl Yfenr,
Camol's-hair epingelinn, in a rich,
dark shado of pittm-oolor, is hero
tastefully deooratod with brnid. Bon
net of shirred plum velvet with strings
to match trimming of black wings and
violots. No other style of basque is
so gonorally becoming, and as here de
signed, it can be mails either donblo
or singlo breasted as pictured in small
sketch. The habit basque, with un
derlying box-plait in centro, revived
among the autumn modes, will be
especially wolcomed by ladies inclin
ing to embompoint, particularly by
those of middle ago. The perfect sd
justinen is Accomplished by double
bust-darts, back, side-back and under
THE Bid KLONDIKE NUQOET-AOTUAL SIZE.
this and a further suggestion is given
in the illustration. The old shoes are
nailed npon the side of the cottage and
hold the . "alpenstocks" of chestnut
and pine used in mountain climbs.
Beneath the tucks is a "ana table."
in shape, bnt very solid. It ia 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 b worth ex-
aotUtOoS.29. - . ---
A BTYLISn WINTER W.0U8E.
at the centre-front. When it is to be
made low it is cnt at the line of per
forations, when high the back portion
of the yoke is faoed onto the lining,
but the front portion is cut separate,
seamed at the right shoulder and
finished at the edge and left shouldev
where it closes invisibly. The full
portion of the fronts is shaped onto
the lining, the right side lapping over
and closing invisibly at the left. Under
arm gores separate them from the back
whioh has the material applied at the
line of perforations, and the fulness
drawn down to the bolt at tho waist
line. The sleeves are snug-fitting but
slightly mousqnetaire above the elbows
and terminating in small puffs at the
shoulders. As Jshown the material is
pearl-gray cashmere with yoke of pas
sementerie edged with velvet ribbon
and frills of soft, gray silk muslin.
Both neck and waistband are of gray
velvet ribbon and at both throat and
wrists are frills of the muslin. - When
worn low the yoke and sleeves are
omitted. The neck ia finished, as pre
ferred, and frills only are worn at the
shoulders.
To make this waist for a lady in the
medium size will require two yards of
lorty-Iour-inch material.
Stylish Winter Hlouv.
The stylish blouse .shown in tho
large illustration is designed for street
wear and is equally appropriate for
heavy cloth and suiting material. As
shown, it is made of rough-surface
cloaking, in a worm shade' of tan cloth,
the refers faced with the same mater
ial flj brown, and trimmed with brown
braid and olives. The fitting is effected
by shoulder and nnder-arm seams, the
blouse proper being seamed to the
slashed basque portion at the waist
line. The sleeves are two-seamed,
finished with deep cuffs and small in
proportion to those worn in the gowns
of the season. At the neck is a high
flaring collar, and at the waist ia worn
a belt of dork brown leather. The
closing is effected invisibly at the centre-front
by means of hooks and eyes,
and the garment is lined throughout
with plaid taffeta silk.
To make this blouse for a woman of
medium size will require two and a
ball yards of forty .four-inch material,
tyltoh Jacket.
The jackets of the year have very
bjglooUars. There is. no exqeptioa to
this rnle, and Medici effects are seen
arm gores (of which there are two iu
sizes above thirty-six-inch bust). The
neck is finished with a close-fitting
standing collar. The fashionable
sleeves that fit the arm closely have,
the requisite fulness at the top ar
ranged in box-plaits, the trimming of
braid forming epaulettes in military
stylo. i
For shopping, traveling, cycling op
general wear the mode is a universal
favorito and can be developed in any
of the seasonable woolens in plain or
LASISS' BASQUE.
mixed textures. Large or small but
tons can be need in closing and the)
basque can be simply tailor finished
with stitched edges or decorated witU
braid in an endless variety of designs.
To make this basque for lady in
the medium size will require two and
one-fourth yards of forty-four-inchi
material.
Mw lrM Trimming.
Velvet ribbon, with silk fringe less
than an inch wide falling below each
row, forms one of the many modes of
dress trimming.