The Progress., September 15, 1888, Image 1

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VOL. 1.
7$ Progress.
Que, H. Beau lieu,
Theo. H, Beaulieu,
Publisher.
Manager.
ta. A WEEKLY STEWSPAPEH de-
voted te the interest of the White
Earth Reservation And general North
western News. Published and man
aged by members of the Reserva
tion.
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Wg^Pgarrpnted and Satisfaction
Indians Away From Reservations,
Not long since, Gov. McGill re
ceived a message from a settler,
vrhos. name has now escaped us,
oomplmnrng of Ind.an. away from
that they are a nuisance, guilty
of the United States rather than
state to interfere, forwarded the
complaint to U. S. Marshal Camp
bell, who returned the sams to the
State executive as a matter out
side of his line of duty, at the
same time offering a few words
which have both a kind and a
sensible ring.
He views the disposition of the
average settler as too harsh, too
prone to adhere closely to the let
ter of the law. He regards the
disposition to visit vengence upon
the Indian away from the reser
vation, as unjust when placed par
allel with the indifference mani
fested regarding the white man's
trangression of the law which pro
hibits the sale of liquor to Indians.
He is of the opinion, that if
seme of the righteous indignation
were directed by the white com
munity against the transgression
within their own circle, more
good could be accomplished than
by the effort to restrain the Indi
an from wandering.
We heartily approve of this sen
timent. We think that if indi
viduals and county officials would
exert themselves more in combat
ing the nefarious traffic, there
would be less complaint of depre
dation. One thing we can posit
ively assert, and the indignant
correspondent of Gov. McGills,
may here take a note of it, that
not one in a thousand of tho Indi
ans in this state who are away
from their reservations would
commit any trespass if not under
the influence of liquor. We mean
personal violence or trespass
against the private possessions of
any individuals.
We grant that any Indian might
transgress game or fish laws but
this he does unknowingly, or with
out realizing that any harm is
done. Accustomed to shoot game
and catch fish when, where or
how he wili, he knows of no rea
son why he should be prohibited.
Does any one believe that indi
viduals of the white race are not
daily doing the same thing
Such transgressions will occur
it is right that they should be re
dressed, and the transgressor pun
ished, be he white or red, but let
us hear no more of this silly blus
ter, "shot gun policy," etc., etc.
We have an impression that this
fierce advocate of the shot gun
The Indian Right and Wrong, offer him and his ilk: when
an Indian encroaches upon yot,
leave just as ydSi
woul any person whatever his
color, and if he refuses remember
the law of abatement lies not in
your hands, but in the State re
member that forcible measures of
abatement are susceptible of legal
,""WK h14 these truths to be self-evident,
thatAiji, MKN are oreatetl equal that they Jvja\, J.-,
are endowed by their CrenCor with certain attmoniSA Aim to
tinalienable right* that among these, are
I.tVB, LUIKKTY, A *KH PUBfttUr OS* HAP- "'"d
iiNRaR"-tooclartttiou of Independence, July
4th. 1776.
re a res
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policy would be the last one to papers and
dog whose bark IB the loudest is
the least dangerous.*
indeed place the deadly weapon in
the hands of his wife and retiring
into the cellar from thence await
results* We have this advice
oa
their resemfaon. He eompUuu tnritean and wflUbjeel to'ifl^
flnd
att ga
act
of depredations,
that if the executive fails to act
the settlers must resort to the shot be your duty Mr. Settler, but act
gun policy. The governor think
ofdepredations/'etcand asserts becausse i has theh
A ZIGZAG CONUNDRUM.
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put it individually into effect: *the collected, and all wero eagerly gropinir
in the mud.
"Ah, here it isl" said the gentleman,
He might Etching a sigh of relief as he picked It
up. It WA3 a half-smoked cigar. 5f
"That cigar cost me ten cents," said
the gentleman.
Then Hie silence became- so great
tlnit the roar of the street could be
pluinly heard.& Sun*
"A higher Civilization: The Maintenance of Law and Order.*1
WHITE EARTH AGENCY, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY. SETEMBER 15,1888.
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ing the matter within the province often wrong in fact as well as in
powenrd tvoi
redress. Do what you conceive to
within the bonds of law. You are
morals. You often have no worth
ier motive in driving away an In
dian from land or water that is
not your own merely from motives
of private interest. Providing he
has an agent's permit to be away
from the reservation, he has as
much right there as you.
We are glad to say that there
are hundreds of settlers who are
not of your way of thinking, and
who treat the Indian when they
come in contact with him as wor
thy of the same consideration as
he whose skin is white, and there
fore we honor them as we despise
you.
PueKle to Tlifl Auitrallun iloomernnqr a
SelentlHo Men.
Scientists have in vain studied the
boomerang to discover the socrot of its
curious flight. It is against all laws of
gravitation that an object hurled into
space should return to tho same spot
from which it was cast, as it itMmpo*
sible to explain the eccentric action of
a curved ball. The boomerang is all
tho more marvelous when we consider
that the savages of Australia were first
to use it and to apply the peculiar
properties of its form.
A Gorman scientist found that there
were larger and smaller boomerangs.
The larger ones are slender crescents,
plain on the lower side, rounded on
top, pointed at each end and sharpened
toward the edges. The lower end is
cross-grooved to aid in holding it. The
careful manner in which the savages
manipulated the weapon, trying its
shape, testing its qualities and scraping
it down, is significant of the importance
they attach to its having exactly the
right curvature. The wood of which the
instrument is made is an extraordinarily
heavy Australian iron-wood, and the
only tools used in making it are sharp
stones and pieces of glass. The smaller
boomerangs are bent at an angle of
forty-five degrees, but a,i'e in other re
spects conformed to the larger ones.
An exhibition of boomerang-throw
ing revealed a degree of strength in
the natives which was in astonishing
contrast with the thinness of their
forms. They took the weapon in their
right hand, with the flat side down
ward and the concave side forward,
and with a run and a shout, threw it
by a short jerk about one hundred
yards up into the air. It flew away in
a straight line, then turned to the
left, and returned in a curved line
back to tho thrower, whirling around
constantly and whizzing unpleasantly.
The curve which the weapon de
scribes in its return is not a screw-line
or a spiral, but is more like a figure 8.
The savages seemed able to control
their instrument, even when wind in
terfered to complicate its course. Once
the projectile went astray, and coming
in contact with a gentleman's hat cut
it off as cleanly as a razor would have
done. Popular Science Monthly.
Recovered His Property.
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A gentleman crossing Broadway near
Cortlandt street, while getting out of
the way of a heavy truck, dropped
something, and immediately began an
anxious search for it
"Must have lost his watch," said a
passer-by, joining in the search.
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THE POET WHITTItrt.
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A Mtrtted Tribute to III* Nobility of Char.
W AIi.
Thd Whole country and the whole
English reading world united in their
tribute of honor and esteem to the good
Quaker poet, John G. Whittier, on his
eightieth birthday. Whittior is an old
man whose work is done, \AU the an
tagonisms of his prime .are long since
forgotten, and alj the asperities of his
early work have long since lost their
bitt6rno89, and now, in tho benign
peace of his old age, he sits as it worn
in tho warm chimney corner of a Na
tion's regard, the most venerated
figure, perhaps, in the whole land. Mr.
Whittier has no.fmily of hisftownrtont
now, in his old
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idling family goes out pedyle.of He holdsregarpleasant
A NEW PRAIRIE TOWN.
Its Proprietor WAR Promt of I and Wanted
to Get a Railroad.
We were running a preliminary line
for a branch of the Santa Fe railroad
through Morton, one of the oxtrenn
western counties in the State, whei
one day about noon, after we had trav
eled across the country for what 1
should judge to have been eight or ten
miles without meeting a living soul,
man with long, matted hair and with
nothing nn but pants, shirt and i
broad-brimmed hat. rode up astride a
mule. He looked quite seedy, as you
Eastern people say. His face and
hands were almost black with dirt,
which had evidently not been disturbed
for many days.
"After dismounting and saying 'good
morning' he asked me what we were
doing.
Running a line for a railroad,'
said I.
'Then you are going too far to the
north.'
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'Why so?' "-t.
'If you continue on your present
line you will miss Prairie City by about
two miles, and, of course, you don't
want to do that.'
I told him I had not been aware
that we were so close to a city.
large is itP' I asked.
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the place of
granW in the Nation's heart.
'Thft wide-spread fooling of ivgard
for Mr*-Whittier is not duo entirely to
tho faci that ho is a poet and the pos
sessor oi a great literary renown. It
is due, in a largo degree, to tho con
viotion, which his whole life lias served
to strengthen, that lie is a good man
a plain, genuine man of homoly vir
tues, a man who, to the best light
within him, has done right. There
have been greater poets and broader
thinkers than Whittier who have been
lesser men than he. There have boon
men in this country of greater origin
ality, of keener wit, of greater literary
accomplishment*, but there have been
few whose characters have been built
upon a firmer rock-bottom basis of
sturdy worth than bin.
Then, again, Whittior pos^ossM that
inevitable attribute of groat minds
modosty. There is something about
true greatness that is always self-dis
trustful and perhaps the surest evi
dence of greatness in a man in his own
unconsciousness of the fact. Whittior
possesses this unconsciousness in a re
markable degree ami for this reason
the world is the more willing to accord
him that mood of honor that is, by him
self, unclaimed.
He has often been called "a man oi
the people." There is nothing weak
and literary about him. Tho learnt*:
affectations, the self-conscious vanity,
the spirit of caste and coterie that de
form the characters of so many literal*.*
people seem to be entirely unknown
-Whittier. Tho learned polysyllabica.
dignity with which so many eminoni
authors invest themselves, never freez
the trembling visitor at Whittier'n
homelike home. He is as plain as
farmer, and makes all men his neigh
bors. This is the style of man who en
dears himself to thoughtful, sturdy
men. He has followed Charles Dick
ens' advice to boys much beyond the
period of his boyhood^ and has "juv.
done all the good he can aud not made
any fuss about it."
It is not necessary here to speak of
Whitrier's poetry. His best poems are
known by heart to the lovers of Ameri
can song. His works will be critically
dissected and discussed by learned lit
erary specialists for many generations.
But the poet's contemporaries do him
best service in testifying to his no
bility of character as a man.Yankee
Blade.
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"Well, it isn't so very large yet,
but it is growing fast Then, as you
would be the first company to build a
roau to it yo would have monopoly
the freightuand passengea business
quite a ciwd had
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yUU wuu ull unve a monouoiv
which isn to be sneezed at
*How many dwellings, manufac
tories, mills, etc., has Prairie City?1
1
asked.
'Wall, it hasn't any of them things
yet, but she's grow in
'What the deuce have you in that
city, if you haven't any buildings?'
'Wall, sir,' drawing himseif up tc
his full height, *I have named the
town and have brgun to dig a well,
hain't that 'nufiT "--Philadelphiatfews.
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