Norman Democrat--Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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HE recent Indian uprising in Oklahoma, if by a
stretch of the imagination it may be so-called, goes
to show that a large part of the picturesqueneBs
of the plains' warfare lias passed away with the
years. Crazy Snake's "last stand" was made
against the militia of Oklahoma. It was not long
ago that the whole western country as far as In-
dian regulation is concerned, was in charge of the
regulars of the t'nited States army.
Crazy Snake wore "store clothes." In his pic-
tures he appears like anything but the wild untu-
tored savage that one would paint an Indian beai
ing such a name as Crazy Snake. The fights In
the past between the palefaces and the reds were
tights In which, on the Indian side, were men wearing paints of all colors
feathers blankets, moccasins and leggings, or if the scene of action happen d
to be In the summer time, wearing nothing at all except breech clout and
P Many of the old picturesque chieftains of the plains have gone to the
happy hunting ground. Among them were those who died old enough to re-
member the day when the rifle was unknown to the red man except as a
weapon in the hands of the adver-
sary.
Old Rain-in-the-Face died not long i
ago and his epitaph is found in the
flippant paragraph that the Sioux
warrior and chieftain is at last a good
Indian.
Every redskin who ever raised his
baud against a white man is dubbed
a bad Indian. Rain-in-the-Face living
was of service to the world. He add-
ed picturesqueness and a spirit of
savagery to the dull canvas of civi-
lized life. Something is lost every
time that one of the old-time warriors
of the plain goes to ti e land where
the buffalo grass is always green and
where the herds await the Indian
hunter.
In the deaths of most of the great
Indian chiefs of old there was always
some tragic note. Most of them met
violent deaths. Perhaps (leronimo.
who passed away at Fort Sill, Okla ,
some months ago, was the only one of
many aged chieftains to die a natural
death. The Indians' picture of the
happy hunting ground is said by stu-
dents to have made violent death the
safest mode of entrance to the portals
of the redskin heaven in the Indian
mind. The quality of bravery dis-
played, the Indians also believed in
the old days, had much to do with
their happiness after death, and as a
consequence to die fighting for their
tribe was the aim of most of the old
school of warriors.
Rain-in-the-Face followed Little
Wound; Little Wound followed
American Horse; American Morse fol
lowed Young Man Afraid, and Red
Cloud is close upon their trail. Sioux
chiefs and warriors all! Shall no
voice lament their passing?
Most of these chiefs were Chris
tians—in a way. The water of bap-
tism sprinkled but it never washed
the war paint from their heathen
hearts. The only good thing the
white men ever offered them was his
religion, but they suspected it as they
succumbed to its outward forms. It
takes more than a prayer or two and
more than a little water from a font
to remove from the administering
clergyman the suspicion which the
red man attached to all of the white
race as the result of "a century of
dishonor."
Out at Pine RIdgo 15 years ago the
little Episcopal mission church was
turned into a hospital for the care of
the wounded survivors of the band of
Big Foot, the Sioux chief. The pews
and the altar had been removed and
straw had been strewn on the floor
and there lay the stricken women and
children—all the men of the band had
met death—every one sore wounded
by the bullets of the soldiers.
Where the altar had been lay the
wife of a chief and her four little
children, bearing the pain of their
wounds with what we are pleased to
call a savage stoicism. The sun came
up over the pine-topped ridges and
sent its light through the stained-glass
window over and above the place of
the altar.
The red and the yellow and the
blue fell upon the family group, and
on the blankets covering the wounded
children one read, transmitted by the
■un and the glass, the words: "Glory
to God in the Highest." Yet the wonder is that heathen-
ism still lays hold on the heart of the Sioux!
The tragedy of the fight at Wounded Knee, where Big
Foot's warriors, the women and the children, all save
a few, were slain, was not the fault of the soldierB. The
men of the Seventh cavalry lost scores of their com-
rades, killed and wounded. They were but doing the
duty enforced upon them by years of civil service theft
and misrule. The Indian, strangely enough, perhaps.
to those who do not know, ever has looked upon the
soldier as his best friend.
When the war of the Dakota reservations was ended
the chiefs of the Ogalala and Brule Sioux, Kicking Bear.
Short Bull, American Horse and the rest, asked that
army officers might be appointed as Indian agents in
the place of the civilians who held those offices for
years. American Horse, when asked why he wanted a
soldier agent, took two paper bags and filled one and half
filled the other. The full one, he said, was the soldier
agent's bag and the half full one was the civilian agent's
bag.
This was the heathen American Horse's method of
describing the Indian's rations as they came from the
hand of agents with different ideas of honesty.
Captain, now brigadier-general, Charles G. Penny (re
tired), was the first soldier agent appointed at Pine
Ridge. Capt. Penny was in command of Company K.
Sixth United States infantry, at Fort Sheridan, a com-
pany which, with its command, Company F, Capt. Mun-
son, was sent to the post north of Chicago in the No-
vember of the year that the anarchists were hanged.
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Capt. Penny stayed at Pine Ridge a long time, and
the Indians bore testimony to the fact that the ration
bags showed no signs of having leaked any of their con-
tents before they were delivered at the doors of the
Sioux tepees.
There is a firm palefaco conviction that the red man
has no sense of humor. It were better, perhaps, to
qualify the statement by making it a trifle less sweeping.
It is the paleface at a distance who thinks that the In-
dian has no funny bone—the frontiersman knows other-
wise.
There Is old Red Cloud, the Sioux chieftain, now with-
in a short journey of the joys which the happy hunting
ground holds for him, who probably never laughed aloud
in his life, but who, behind his mask of stolidity, hides
as keen an appreciation of "the fun of the thing" as can
be found In the composition of any one of his white
conquerors.
Nearly 40 years ago Red Cloud, in the prime of his
fighting days, led. with other chiefs, an attack on the
whites near Fort Fetterman. Red Cloud had the better
of his foes on that day. Afterward, when the paleface
soldiers with blue coats proved too many for him, Red
Cloud had a change of heart.
He said that he had plucked out hatred. That was
one of Red Cloud's best jokes, and when the whites
could not see his face because it was turned away from
the council fire, the old chief smiled and his eye twinkled
with the joy of it.
A quarter of a century divided the light at Fort Fet-
terman from that at Wounded Knee. Red Cloud was at
the Pine Ridge agency when the news of the battle be-
tween the soldiers
the Seventh cavalry
and the braves at Big
Foot's band was
brought in by courier.
The chief heard of
the loss of some 300 of
his tribe, and said that,
notwithstanding the
fight and the killing,
his heart was still shut
against the return of
hatred for the pale
faces.
Not long after the
Wounded Knee battle
Miles and Brooke uc-
I ceeded In throwing
I troops about the bands
| of hostiles, and began
the task of forcing
them little by little In-
to the Pine Ridge
agency and to final sur-
render.
There has been criti-
cism of the action of
the Seventh cavalry at
Wounded Knee—un-
questionably unjust
criticism- and Col.
Forsythe. who was in
command, had been or-
dered into arrest as
the result of the out-
cry. which came from
philanthropists In states
far removed from the
scene of Indian war-
fare.
Gen. Miles wanted to
get the reds back to
the agency without pre-
\ cipitatlng another fight
\l and another fire of
ism. So It was
"W that he was urging the
Ogalala and the Brule
Sioux bucks to surren-
der. and was using his
troops rather for herd-
ing and for driving
purposes than for ac-
tual offense,
Young-Man Afraid-of-
Hls-Horses went to the
nd harangued his brother savages toplor.
It Is an old saying that If the stom-
ach is sound the whole body is safe,
because bo much depends upon the
proper working of the stomach. Many
persons find themselves with a dis-
order of the stomach which pro-
duces dyspepsia or a peculiar state ot
biliousness.
If you suffer from both stomach trouble
and constipation you are on the my to a
very serious disease. Kr< m just such con-
ditions come appendicitis, rheumatism,
skin discuses and similar disorders, be-
cause the waste matter that should have
been dispelled from the system through
the bowels lias found its way Into the
blood and vitiated it. What Is needed at
this point Is not simply a violent cathar-
tic tablet or salt, which usually does more
harm than good, hut a gentle laxative
tonic like I>r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
which people have ^een using for these
ailments for nearly a quarter of a cen-
lurv. It cured J. C. Lanharn, of Warrens-
burg, Mo . of stomach trouble of long
statidiru;. also William Voll, of 903 Ellison
8t . Louisville, Ky„ who had the trouble
for fifteen years.
However, if you have stomach trouble
i you want to know from personal experi-
ence what Dr. Caldwell's Syrup l'epsln
will do for you. If so, send your name to
the doctor and a free trial bottla will be
sent you. You are urged to send for the
free bottle, as the results from It will be
the best recommendation of Dr. Cald-
well's Syrup Pepsin. Then you will do as
over two million people did last year- ro
to vour druggist and buy a rerular bottle
at f>0 cents or >1, according to the size you
could mention hundreds and
if families who are never with
out It. You can never tell when
sun e member of the family will need
a laxative, and then no time should
bo lost taking Dr. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin.
If there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or if you want
any medical advlc, write
to the doctor, and he will
answer you fully. There is
no charge for tills service.
. The address Is 1 >r. W. B.
i Caldwell. 201 Caldwell bldg.,
I Monticello, 111.
Fattest French Soldiers.
Occasionally our Paris contemporar-
ies entertain their readers with an ac-
count of the tallest and the shortest
conscript. Now a journal has gone
one better and discovered the fat
tost recruit in the French army, who
has been found at Corbeii. This hon
orable distinction belongs to M. La-
verdlt, the son of a merchant in the lo-
cality. The young man turns the scale
at 268 pounds, avoirdupois, or rathei
over 19 stone.
'Twas Ever Thus.
"There are so many fast young men
nowadays," remarked the first young
woman.
"H'm, yes; you do seem to hav«
difficulty in catching one," replied th«
. ,t other young woman
miles of distance, footsore and foodless. during the nigm, they meet without speaking,
was looking in an unusually robust and well-fed con-
dition that frosty January morning IS years ago. Certainty Convenience Economy
it would be something of a joy to know just what Never has there been known a case
old Red Cloud had said to the Brule and Ogalala bucks' where Mitchell's Eye Salve has not
t i , white ('lav creek The old fellow was an given notable relief. A pure harmless
beyond the White (Jay creea. i nc o.a fo|. B„|)llca,lon to the surface
orator, and when there weie no white men Ist™1"* of the eye Hds; the simple* of raeth-
be knew the way to the seat of the savage passions r)ds wlth wonderfUi results. The price
Is the Indian lacking in a sense of humor. Old Kea 2B cents places it within reach of all.
Cloud used to get more genuine enjoyment out of tell- druSRlsts sell It.
Ing his unsophisticated paleface listeners the story ot
how lie talked peace in the hostile camp than Kicking
Bear ever did in running off a settler's stock—and this
means much.
There probably never will be seen again on this con-
tinent such a scene of savage splendor as that which
marked the final surrender of the Indian bands of Short attractive of military parks
Bull Kicking Hear, Spotted Elk, and the rest. The sur-
render took place at Pine Ridge In late January, 1891,
and for hours the savages came In over the rldgeB
guarding until the last their women and children from a
seemingly expected assault. They were painted the
black and green of the warpath, and their ponies were
daubed with vivid pigment. It was the close of what pertnanent register and kept on ex
perhaps will prove to be the last of the great Indian hiHtion in the church, which will t>'«
uprisings. It was the passing of the war glory of a great OJ^n to visitors and tourists.
'a W hen8't h'ntwar fa re nn the plain, of South Dakota ^/^'oV .^I'XrU in
was brought to an end there was still hatred enough In hat(,hprv work during the ysar
the breasts of several of the chieftains to make another tb.f hatchery wors a s
outbreak possible. Kicking Bear and Short Bull. Siour lb. output of fish and egg* In 1908 was
. h eZns of proved valor and of known hatred for the greater than ever before In the.history
whites, were brought east under guard to Fort Sheridan. oT the ,g0rea V'thls number
Illinois, where they were kept prisoners until it was tAl of 2,871,456,280.
Shiloh Church to Be Repullt.
An effort is being made to build a
suitable memorial church on the site
of the original Shiloh church, on Shi-
loh battlefield, now one of the most
It was
on tb.is very spot the bloody battle of
Shilch was begun on the morning of
April 6, 1862 It is the purpose to
bulls a memorial church to cost not
less than *10,000. The names of all
contributors will be recorded in "
believed that their war lust had died Finally they were 2.413.809.225 were young
^tlll for war, though their hands and their bodies are The outuut of young fish exceeda the
incapable.
hostile camp ana naraugueu ma
ing them to obey Miles and to come in and .
dians no more. Young-Man's speech had rt
of the
dians no more. -
Then Red Cloud wanted to follow the eJcampt
re knows definitely whether Red ( loud
the general commanding or went on
if his own Initiative, but he
errand
young chief. No 01
was sent out by
his peace talking
* The hostiles were north of White Clay creek and went
of Porcupine Butte. Red Cloud reached their camp and
he talked at the council fire Then there happened a
curious thing. On the heel of the chiefs a pack band of
the young bucks broke away and began to raid. I here
was a fight with a squadron of the Seventh cavalry near
the Roman Catholic mission school, and an army wagon
train was attacked at a place not far distant from the
agency.
Red Cloud came back to the agency. Even his native
command of himself could not give control to the twinkle
that was in his ancienteye. But what a tale It was that he
told; The Indians with bad hearts had rejected his
pleas for peace and surrender, and had driven him, their
old chief, with curses and with blows from their camp.
He had plodded the trail from the camp to the agency,
footsore and foodless, and In this day of his failing sight
he would have been lost had not his granddaughter Star
Eyes—or some such name, for here memory is at fault
led him all the way by the hand.
It was with as near a sob in his voice as an Indian
ever gets that old Red Cloud told his story. Way down
inside he was enjoying the joke of it baiter, perchance,
than were his hearers. The old chief, who had made
Water the World's Banker
Th ancients called water one of the four elements,
and the work which It does In the earth's crust amply jus-
tifies the name. It is the world's banker, for it is by its
agency that the ores are accumulated In veins, and In a
sense it is a repairing architect. Water is the magic In-
strument by which copper and gold and silver are assem-
bled. it Is the true philosopher's stone; constantly at
work, dissolving, transporting and redeposlting. With in-
defatigable zeal and never flagging industry It searches
thro nth the Innermost recesses of the rocks, removing
treasures through their very walls, and often repairing
breaches made In the attack so skillfully as to defy de-
tection or to make the masonry stronger than when first
laid-
In an article hy II. W Wlnchell In Popular Sci-
ence Monthly the method of the action of water and the
Influence of climate, sun, rain, average temperature and
topography on the formation of underground veins of
ore ate suggested in an interesting wav and throw some
light on the future tendencies of mining science. Wo
maj. perhaps, imagine the water as laying down veins of
ore In means of a perpetual circulation.
li arrives at last at a state in which we may Imagine
It capable of dissolving anything. Finding no escape
downward and urged on by cooler and heavier waters
coming down, these saturated solutions begin to move
laterally and upward; and as they find their way hack to
the surface again tliey have to drop deposits of metal
which ihoy hold In solution. Such waters may finally
emerge as hot springs or geysers, finding their way
through earth fractures, and these fractures, coated with
metal hy the metal carrier, become the veins and lodea of
future ages.
Taking this theory for granted, It is evident that
many such considerations will govern the laying down of
oreii. Countries In which the rain descends through soft
rocks will he more likely to entertain mineral veins than
those In which the surface is arid or the rocks are hard.
Then there will he few "bonanzas" in Siberia or Russia
or Switzerland; and the countries of mild climate and soft
surface rocks will be most productive. A local difference
may exist on either side or the mountains; the best ore
shouts are un the sunny side, tho culd northern shaded
sides produce few veins.
The output of young
greatest previous record for any one
year by 376,000,000.
AMBITIOUS.
CLOCK HANDS 20 FEET LONG
Made of Bridge Truss Design, of
Manganese and Bronze, and
Weighs 1,700 Pounds.
On the building of a clock company
Hi Brooklyn just now are to be seen
the largest hands that have ever been
made for a clock. They arc destined
for the tower of the Metropolitan Life
building.
Fourteen feet £j'om th# center pin
to the tip is tho length of the minute
hand, and there is six feet of counter-
poise, making a hand 20 feet over all.
The hour hand is 11 foot long
These hands are made of manga-
nese and bronze, and are of bridge
truss construction. They weigh more
than 1,700 pounds.
Over the hands there is a covering
of wireglass which will allow of illu-
mination. Through each hand there
In making a sweep around the circle ! are 24 electrical tubes, In pairs. When
the minute hand passes three stories the hands are illuminated it is estl-
of the building. When one of the j mated that it will be possible on a
hands is in front of a window it is clear night to tell the time they mark
necessary for those working within to | at a distance of 24 miles. They will
cease work, owing to the hand com-1 be about 400 feet above ground level,
pletely shutting out light. i There Is to be a clock on each of
the four sides of the tower. There
will be a 7,000-pound bell, with a ham-
mer weighing 170 pounds, and four
smaller bells to strike the West-
minster chimes.—New York Herald.
Girls Harnessed to Plows.
Remarkable accusations were made
against a young married couple,
named Colander, who were recently
tried at Itzehoe, In Schleswig Holsteln.
The accused were engaged as "house
father" and "house mother" in charge
of a female reformatory at Guekstadt.
Traveling with Phials.
In traveling with toilet bottles or
tediclne phials, which cannot be dis-
ensed with, first ascertain that the
orks are sound and will not allow the
cut
which though of charitable foundation, t
was affiliated to tho local house of
correction and took over responsibility
for a number of girl convicts. Certain
of the inmates, it was alleged, were
systematically ill treated, deprived of liquids to pour through. Then
food, put Into chains, strapped on to a small pieces of thin, pliable wire.
hoard and Hogged, and subjected to Draw a piece around the neck of
horrible Indignities, tho nature of each bottle and make one loop, draw-
which it Is Impossible to Indicate Ing tight, l'ut tbe other end across the
Finally the Indictment asserted that; cork and form another loop around
the girls were harnessed like horses neck of bottle. So prepared the bottle
and made to draw plows and harrows may be packed In either bag or trunk
m the fields. | without danger of spilling.
Employer—What! want another
raise? Why, you're getting $5 a
month!
Office Boy—Yesslr; but I'm engaged
now, and my girl wants to be took
about.
NOT DRUGS
Food Did It.
After using laxative an® cathartic
medicines from childhood ft case of
chronic and apparently ln-urable con-
stipation yielded to the s< lent itlc food,
Grape-Nuts, In a few day.*
"From early childhood I suffered
with such terrible constipation that I
had to use laxatives continuously go-
ing from one drug to another and suf-
fering more or less all the time.
"A prominent physician whom I con-
sulted told me the muscles of the di-
gestive organs were partially par-
alyzed and could not perform their
work without help of some kind, so I
have tried at different times about
every laxative and cathartic known,
but found no help that was at nil per-
manent. I had finally become discour-
aged and had given my case up as
hopelcsB when I began to use the pre-
digested food, Grape-Nuts.
"Although I had not expected this
food to help my trouble, to my great
•urprlse Grape-Nuts digested Imme-
diately from the first and in n few
days I was convinced that this was
Just, what my system needed.
"The bowels performed their func-
tions regularly and I am now com-
pletely and permanently cured of this
awfut trouble.
"Truly the power of scientific food
must be unlimited." "There's a
Reason."
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