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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1903.
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SLOPES ARE COVERED WITH ASHEN ROBES.'
Martinique, W. I., May 2.It may be
true that time heals all wounds but the
nd of the first year since the deadly
ruption of Mont Pelee finds Martinique
still mourning for lost St. Pierre.
Nature is generally quick to spread her
green cloth over every scene of death,
but the northern tip of the island re
mains as charred and ghastly as the
stump of an arm with its hand burned
off. The slopes retain their ashen robes
as religiously as widows wear their
mourning weeds. There is not a blade of
grass nor a sprig of green within the zone
where that consuming fire descended
just a gray waste overhung with the awe
some silence which always lingers where
the dead have been.
And in the distance is the angry moun-
tain,' blustering and fuming like a bully
swaggering over the form of a prostrate
foe. It is all that Is fearful and terrifying
and yet its hidden power, and the spec
tacle of its awful force, holds one fascin
ated to the spot.
It is hard to realize that this ugly, un
sightly heap of mud-stained, ash-covered
ruins is St. Pierrebeautiful, idyllic St.
Pierrewith its palms and vines and
flowers. It seems Impossible that so much
color and motion and life could have been
so quickly reduced to this shapeless, use
less waste.
The scenes of that last hour in the
doomed city must have been as full of
terror as will be those of the judgment
WtWMMHlHWW
r querin g them . Th chiefs sent a cour -
-,', teous request that the white
' would withdraw and leave to th Indians
v . the land which the Grea t Spirite had al -
c lotted for their dwelling place. With the
i message they sent a wampum belt to give
-,' -weight to the words,barrier of shells to
* hold back the tide which throbbed from
" the shore of Europe to te new world a
- wampum belt to curb the avarice of kings!
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day, but none were left to tell of them.
The sole survivor, a burly negro, was
locked in a prison cell, and when liber
ated was merely a dazed, chattering
thing with little reason left, and alto-,
gether ignorant of the cause that had
torn a city down above his head and sent
over 30,000 souls into eternity.
All idea of what took place in St. Pierre
on that last morning is mere conjecture
the~ imagination has to bridge between a,
knowledge of what the place had been
and the scorched and tumbled pile of
wreckage that now takes its place. -
The Blight of Charity.
Ther are few Instances in history where
the pity of mankind was so generally
aroused as in the case of stricken Martin
ique. Every civilized country united in
contributing to the relief fund. " Money
was raised by every means from indi
vidual donation to governmental appro
priation from the charity bazaar to the
grand opera benefit. The strings of the
world's money bag were literally unloos
ed for the little island's sufferers, and
thousands of frightened refugees from
the vicinity of the volcano were fed and
sheltered for months.
The supply, of funds seemed so Inex
haustible that the poor began to feel the
world's pity was a good thing to live on.
Why should they return to work when
money was given them so freely? The
professional trouble-makers encouraged
them in their idle ambition to do nothing.
THE SON G AN D THE SILENCE O F THE RED MAN
N THE shore of an undiscovered
continent the red man watched
for a Messiah. The ship'of the
explorer touched the sand, and
he cried: "At last the Fair
God comes! We have seen the
" , strange light in the east and the three.
' blazing comets which our fathers said.
' , should be his heralds. We -watched, and
where the morning sky stoops to the se.a,
we saw the white wings of his chariots.
Bring garlands and gifts of maize, for
. , the Messiah of the Indians has come."
Slowly the Indian realized that he who
. came from the east was his conqueror,"
' not his Messiah then he fitted the arrow
to his bow and fought the white man with
relentless fury, until driven back step by.
step he yielded the fair land of Mexico.
him the dream and the conquest were
s" ended. "-' \'
Meantime the Indians along the shores
~, of the northern lakes and the Atlantic
,-V ocean were welcoming the French and
'% English, extending to them the native
*'' hospitality, furnishing them with food,
%*. and helping them fight their battles. But
'"' one. day they, too, awoke to the fact that
* those whom they
from' - our'yiIndiana gods." In 1762
there arose a prophet among the Del
awares, who said that he had jour
neyed eight days, alone and heavy heart-
ed,* seeking the Master of. Life. The pat'h
was hard to travel, but on the summit of
a high mountain he found the Master of
Life, .who gave him a message, to his
people, and a, wooden stick carved with
prayers. He commanded that the-Indians
cease from drunkenness, wars, polygamy,
and the medicine song, saying: "Become
good and you shall want nothing fight,the
-English, but live in peace with' your
French brothers purify- yourselves front
sin, and above all, recite at morning- and-
evening the prayers carved on the prayer
stick and in a few years you will be able
to drive out all the white men."
tribe to tribe the religious fervor spread,
until it became a passionate enthusiasm^
The Indians were to recover all their lost
land. This bouyant expectation prepared
the way for Pontiac. who united the ex
cited tribes in his great confederacy. To
the advancing English army he sent the
haughty challenge: "I stand in the path."
Full well' the red men fought in the
strength of the prophet's vision, and with
unwavering faith they followed Pontiac,
but when the war was finished, the
of the Great Lakes was lost for
ever -to the Indians, and Pontiac had
fallen beneath the knife of a traitor.
Crushed by defeat the Indians were
quiet for forty years. Then a prophet
among the Shawano received a revelation
from the Master of Life. It.was not un
like that of the Delaware prophet. The
people must throw away the fire water
and the medicine bag, they must also lay
aside ' everything they had learned from
the white man. If they would-return to
pure "aboriginal life a terrible catastrophe
would soon destroy the wfilte race
haed
w-
welcomed were con-
strangersregion
Indians
realizedcomall,
it
they sa the Englis h ships e even o
** ' the sacred island, of the Great Turtle,
^ they said in their despair, "We must turn
f from all the white men and seek help
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MUSIC
Emit
A concert will be given Tuesday eve
ning in the lecture room df the First Bap
V * tist- church by the Sunshine Glee club,"
an organization of sixteen young women
* .which has been actively engaged in scat-
, tering good cheer and sunshine thru the
''- city and state. The members have been
t hampered by lack of funds and this con-
^ cert has been planned to raise money with
v*- whjch'to carry on the work. The program
~ will be given under the direction of the
'/ president, Mrs. . Cleone D. Bergren, and
,1 the assisting people,-will be Mrs. Laurine
' / Luke Wright, reader, of Milwaukee Mrs.
v Louis Marchand Parks, contralto Traf
ford Jayne, tenor, and Cragg Walston, Vio-
. Iinist. The numbers by the club will be
.-', "Welcome Primrose," Pinsuti sextet,
"..', ''Summer Fancy," , Oliver and
&o," Kinross . MrsMetra,, . Bergre n wil
.-' simr
"Stlcalto'
bers will be "Shadows," Bond "Mignon,"
D'Hardelot. Miss HazeKBrown will.give
a reading and Mr. Jayne will sirig Kre
mer's "I Love" But Thee."
,r.
The Soceltie Philharmonique arid choir of
the Church -of Ste. Anne will give a con
cert in the Third Ward Republican hall,
Plymouth and Aldrich avenues N, Wednes
day, at 7 p. ni. The program follows:
Double quartet (a) '.'America." .*(b)
"France!" France!,"B. Pelletier ... A.
Chouniard, IB. J. Pelletier, George Plante,
Roy Bolduc, E. Parent, Al Lenoir and J.
C." Marquis*, soprano solo, "Violets," Miss
Orzilla Demers bass solo, "Adieu Marie,"
Gus Jasmin piano solo, "Grand Polka-'de
Concert," Miss Lillian Marsolaisr contral
to, solo, "Tatters,"- (old English melody),
Mme. C. E. Marchessault tenor solo, "lit
the Shade of the Pajms," Daniel Fitzpat-,
rlck - soldiers' ^ chbnis, "Faust,"
"Al
Polka,"-Mrs. Park's num
"Kfvr -
K ' ' '-'- , : , '- * '
Anne's choir of forty-voices declaraa.tion | since.his arrival here last September. For
THE
Thosei who tried to point out to them the
dishonor of living lazily on funds raised,
to alleviate suffering were unheeded. Had
they not suffered? Were they not deserv
ing of something: These were the ques
tions the busybodies asked them. Cer
tainly they'had.suffered! Of course they
were deserving! It is easy for some peo
ple to argue for any course that will pro
vide free bread and free shelter! *T3y the
time the new governor arrived from
France, he found many of his subjects-or
ganized into a sort of beggar guild and de
manding their support from charity or the
state or anything that would continue to
provide it for nothing. -
He did the fair thing. He offered to give
each one" a piece of ground, to build a
small house on it, and furnish the neces
sary tools and implements to start them
In "business. Would you believe that many
of the miserable beggars had the gall to
refuse this magnanimous proposition?
Some claimed the locations offered them
were unhealthful, others said their houses
were unsanitary, and still others claimed
that the government was not acting in
good faith and intended to seize their
crop's.: All " those who refused for one
reason or another insisted upon being
given the cash equivalent of what the
government intended to invest for them.
It afforded a rather similar case to the
miserly young man, who, when
a friend to have a drink, thanked him,
and said he was not very thirsty, and
dances resembled those, .of the^ modern
ghost-tlande. and the idea was?similar. Into
tnis, religious,, excitement.s came" Tecum
seh, '"The."-Meteor'''brother .of', the
prophet..- Like" Pontiac vhe seized the op
portunity for military .actiori",and:
.like " Pon -
tiac he'failed. 'The. vision, the'.song, and
the battle were .repeated * in Ohio -arid/'all
the land,,east.of 'trie Mississippi',was lost
to" the - Indians., forever." '. ' , /,
"Among the rugged drills" of-..Missouri^the
tragedy, was repeated.- A
tgvam of,the pathTt'o,heayen/ which, showed
just how"far, the
The
"Les "Vingt Sous du Bon Dieu,'? Mille Alice
Beaulieus . - short talk, Rev.' D. "Richard,
pastor of the Chureh of Ste.-Anne
solo, Chopin's 'p
By FREPJSJHC J. HASKIN
TOURISTS CLIMBING OVER THE RUINS OF ST. PIERRE. "NOTHING LEFT BUT SCORCHED"AND TUMBL ED PILES O F WRECKAGE." , ' V ^ i
if there were ntf-objections, -he-would
rather have the. money.- The only dif
ference . being that .the destitute . beggars
of Martinique, instead of requesting the
cash, demanded it, - " "-. - .- i y-" .'?._*
Starving Them Into Their Senses
The governor refused-=and the good-for
nothing element,.,-whioh-had been spoiled
by too much charity, refused. point blank
to go to work, fie promptly cut their
supplies off. A hot political: fight resulted
and the French minister of colonies had
to step in and.end.it. .Some of.those.po
litical meddlers who prolonged, the trou
ble by sympathizing - with and' encourag
ing the- loafers in-their unreasonable de--
mands ought to be- driven from the coun
try for taking..advantage. of a .national
calamity to furfher 'their, own ends.
The new governor'seems to be a strong
man and will doubtless starVe the charity
subjects .into going back to work.
Since the destruction, of St. Pierre thou
sands of sightseers have visited the scene.
The steamship lines' have transacted a
large business by carrying excursionists
from all points, in. the West Indies, from
the United States, and"from Europe. The
volcano in action presents a grand sight.'
Volumes of steam. and~smoke pour front
the crater, and.at. night the heavens re
flect the light' of its awful fire. There is
an element of danger in being sd close to
this -terrible monster .and the slightest
warning is all that is-necessary o precipi
tate a mad race for the beac% and the
4 asked by
rsoprano
faith simply believes'. -So the Indian race
kept its trust in ..the ^ Great Spirit "when,to
driven from home, starved arid despised.
In the far.west,, on the Columbia river,
a dream^ prophet, -.Smohalla by name,
brought to his people a message of. hope.
With elaborate' rituMrof'songs and -dances
his' folloWei-s worship/*!,.- arid,, .oyer them
was a banner of^symbqlicrdesigri.. On, this
banner was .a .atari .and Smqhalla. said-:
"That star is the north star. It never
changes. .'' It is always fri the'same place.
I keep my hearjt On that -star. I never
change.'-' He.taught that plowing orvdig
ging of the ground was' a sin against "our
mother-/ the, earth,' arid told the. people" that
"after a while, when God is ready, he will
drive away all the people except those who
have obeyed his laws." . Only the Indians
who,lived upon the,free gifts of nature
would remain. -"" '3- '/-
- TheNez Perces.bf Idahb-welcomed the
doctrine of Srnohalia, but in a few years
war. followed-in.the path, of the ,vlsipn. The
fertile.-valley .of the.
prophet"
.-among
the ^Kikapoosvwas1
inspire* d to "draw a dia -
-Indians.doctrine
&di rogressed.
He explained his religiousT
Fro m
eral Clark at St. Louis, and besought him
to write b their Great Father, .the presi
dent, telling him how good his Indian
children were trying to bey "'and "begging
him not to allow-them to -be pushed far
ther west. The religion he taught was
pure and true. He said: "My father,
since I talked with the Great Spirit, our
women and children and ourselves, 'we
have not such good clothes, but we don't'
mind that. We think "of praying every
day to the Great Spirit!" My father, .since
my~ talk with the Great Spirit'* we have
nothing cooked until the middle of the
day. The children get nothing hi the
morning to eat. We Goliect them all to
pray to the- Great Spirit." to. make our
hearts pure and then eat. We bring up
our children to be good-^I have done. . I'.
trust to the Great Spirit." . - '
It was. a pathetic appeal, with" the faith
of a ilttle child that, if the 'race could
become "good," the Great" Spjirit would
.protect His own. Faithfully, the Indians
recited the prayer sticks, but the prophet
of the Kikapoos lived to see his tribe re-^
moved' into Kansas.
Theology reasons and formulatesj-' but
td.Gen- ^
white settlers"
a first,season ft\k is. undqubtedly..quite a
record for a nef man"..-* Mr. Fischer .has
refused several lexnptlng-.offers to-go east
this summer, having decided ..to reniain in
the city the' greiter.' part'.of the tirhe aridv
prepare a completely ew'repertoir for
the coming seasm. -Fete next summer Mr,,
Fischer is cohsiJeVing .'^. splendid offer to.
go to Riga, -Ru 3sia, as - solo- 'cellist of a
large symphonj orchestra, and to later
tour Scandinavi % "arid Finland'" with" Mrs.
Fischer. -As }y had. conteiriplated Visit-,
ing his-old "European friedsmextyear, he
will most trol3ablyaocept' Mrs. Fischer
will then give^Bjornson's "Bergliot" on
the Scandinavia i.tour, -,.-
piano
Valse J'oji. 34, No. 1,' Miss
Leontine Landry mezzo soprano, "Let Me
Dream"Again," Mile. Andree de Raiche
recitation, ' "The ."Dandy Fifth," Theodore
Payette ' base solo, 'The Bandolero,': L.
0'Donnell solo, "A Dream of .Par-
adise,*' Mille. Alice Laferriere -and Mabel
Plante march . Roriiairie,. "^'Louriage et
Gloire,' Ste. Anne's choir." -:-
Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Fischer returned
from Fargo, N. D., last week where, they
filled a most successful engagement, Mrs.
Fischer giving Bjornson's "Bergliot,"
both--in Norwegian and English. Their
gubllc work for this season is practically
over. ' Counting the last' concerts,- Mr.
.___ Fischer has all in.all filled oyer ,ljB0-en
flte^ gagements inaAd out of the-t5pfit: Cities
An event f^aoT-Sjjgall-.interest" Jin-mu^
sjcal circles locally, is the engfrgerne$fc by"J"
the Firsf tJfiitatiibff efiurch, .^Pghtfi street
and Maryplapei ot.fr.gB. Fisher, - the'wet_ f
known bantdii o:
and soloist for "the, three remaining
'If-v
boats. A scare is a part of nearly every
visit/ and the excursionist has hardly
had his money's worth unless he can
return with a tale .of hairbreadth escape
from death. The curio venders earn large
sums by selling bits of bone and blackened
spoons, knives, etc., supposed to have been
picked up in St. Pierre. Most of this stuff
is manufactured.
, Scientists Still Quarreling. .
The scientists are still debating the
cause of this eruption. Hardly any two
of them agree.. Professor McGee of the
bureau.-of-ethnology holds to the theory
that the Pelee eruption was primarily an
explosion due to boiling going on in the
interior of the earth, the elements within
possessing the power of expansion and
chemical reaction in other words, im
prisoned elements seeking a vent. He
says it seems evident that. the. lava mass,
of which the uppermost' crust, exploded
on May 5,' had coritfnued to rise in the
verit' after the temporary .shock of the
initial explosion in April, and by May 8
it" had 'reached sucn a height in the throat
as to seek relief from the" immense pres
sure of the
lowetemperature"
r earth
ean depths,' the mass, like other rocks in"
a"state of nature, was' saturated with
water and charged with mineral sub
stances ready.to flash-into gas or to oxi
dize 'on contacts with the air.- The viscid
"plug, of red hot rock forced its way up
ward, rending-the interior rocks then the
jcepted the rule of:the dominant race,,but
young Wovoka there came those riiys
terious voices that had whispered to the
prophet- of the Delawares and his suc
cessors. Wovoka fell. asleep, "the sun
died," and in a vision he saw a blessed
country where the dead were alive again,
happy and young a land where there was
no pain, no sorrow and no dying. He said
that he
talkeds
if they would live at peace with the
white men and not lie nor steal nor quar
rel ^aihbn'g themselves, this Indian para
dise would come upon the earth. All
the white people would suddenly be de
stroyed, the buffalo arid game would re
turn, 'the ,dead Indians would be alive
again,-'and, with their.- friends, wbuld be
happy and prosperous forever. The ghost
dance was the ritual of this .religion its
songs were accompanied" only by the
mystic, rattle, and its gospel was a letter
written*by Wovoka and sent-.from tribe
to .tribe. Xears ago the Delaware prophet
commanded his people, to-fight the Eng
lish wltlx all their - power, but repeated
failure hadr shaken' the Indian's faith- In
his own strength. Wovoka, depended en
tirely upon' supernatural means "for the
destruction:.of the "white race, and his
"letter" was a peaceful "evangel"Do no
'rharm'. to. anyone do not tell lies you
must not fight arid when your friends die,
you must not weep. Do not refuse to
work for the whites and do not make any
trouble, with .them.^until you leave them.
When-fhe earh
Lapwafi
was lost to.the'
Indian forever?, and-
Chie Josep h was a
prisoner. ' " '' ' * " - ' ' "
. - In the .Mason., valley of Nevada, _ a boy
wasborn'in lS56'who was destined to. sway
the remnant of .his people. This boy was
WovokaV the jiie$siah of the ghost' dance,
the founder ef/the mighty "religious move
ment which swept across the western plain
and sent its ^.waves fa^r lip ampng'the
northern'.hlllsT a.nlovement" which has
been carefully studied-and fully, described
by James. I Moqney, to whom "the present
author-acknowledges her indebtedness.
.TheTiiitle valley where .Woybka was
born was only ihfrty,miles".in' length, a
strip of sage^prairie, walled in by the
giant Sierras." ' Phe.-Piutes of the -valley
were peaceful laliorers. on. the farms, of the.
Tfiey seemed to have ac-
s shakes (a t the coming
of the new- world do not be afraid. It
will not hurt you. I want you to dance
every six weeks. Make a feast at 'the
chance .that everybody may eat. Then
bathe-in the,water. That is all. Do not
days before -the: summer vacation^ ' The
society is to be-* congratulated on this
acquisition arid ' it is'preparing. itself for
a musical treat for the next" few Sun
days.. , -, ,,
.. The'. follpwirig musical program will be
given to-morrow -by Mr. an Curtis
Sbmers,.- organist,
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HISTORICAL]
SECTIOSI'--'S'II
plug passed above the zone, of rock pres
sure great enough, to compress the steam
into water, arid with this relief the liquid
flashed, into steam and the super-heated
rock matter into gases, while the unox
idized compounds leaped" into flame and
smoke as they caught the oxygen of the
outer air. The lava was probably acidic,
and when the imprisoned droplets of water
expanded they formed bubbles, immense
quantities remaining in the form of vesic
ular pumice, a great amount of this being
.blown into the fragments of which vol
canic ashes consist.
St. Pierre Consumed by Gas.
When the imprisoned water burst into
steam,. the heavier gases were evolved,
and while the steam shot skyward, carry
ing volcanic ashes in vast dust clouds,
the gases rolled down the slopes, burn
ing as they went, while the heavier
masses of rock torn from the: throat of
the crater by the viscid flood were dropped
for miles around. It seems evident that
the burning gas consumed St. Pierre, be
fore the red-hot rocks reached the town.
The aerial thunderings spoken of were
due to the escape of steam and other
gases from the crater info high layers of
the atmosphere and consequent electrical
disturbances.
crust.-'f
Coming up
with the" high-
o subterran, -
, Vulcanism is one of the stages in a
normal cycle of continent growth. The
first stage is that of loadingi. e., ac
cumulation of sedimentary massesas at
tell lies." The songsy of the Ghost
Dance are the swan song of a race.
In them is poured . out - all " the
disappointed hope of the' years, -
the heartache and.the homesickness. They
sang of it all, and begged the Great Spirit
to pity their desolation. They sang until
the mind ruled the j)Qor starved body, and
in a trance the. Indian saw all for which
he yearned. He saw the. home-scenes of
the years of plenty he watched again the
making of pemmican he heard again the
wind whistling thru the teepee poles, while
within the fire burned brightly, and the
games went merrily on. When the Indian
awoke from the- trance he sang of what
he had seen.
A woman remembered the days when
she offered the hospitality-of her lodge to.
the wayfarerthis is her song:i",':,".*
I am mashing the berries,, .-
They say travelers are coming on the march, .
I stir (the berries) around I stir them around,
I take them up with a spoon of buffalo horn
And I carry them, I carry them (to the stran
gers).
A man saw visions , of. the. hunt and
dreariied that the buffalo .again, roamed
the prairie, he saw. the runners. who .had
been sent .put. to .locate, the herd return
ing with haste,'and he sang: ,_ "?
He! They have come back. racing,.. -..* -,v^
Why, they say there is to be a buffalo Hunt
over here:
Make arrows! Make arrows! " 51-.
Says the father, says the father, -ts* - -'- -.
A young girl saw her dead mother,-arid
on waking, from her trance she besought
her mother to come back, singing:
Mother, come home mother,- come tome
My little brother goes about' always crying,
My little brother goes about always crying,
"Mother, come home mother, come home."
A heart-broken mother made moccasins
for the baby feet that had long ceased to
need them. She made them-of the softest
with God, who told him to
go back1
to hi people, and tell them that
teous, O. T. Morris, Arthur H. Jones,
/Misses' Jennie May Williams, Helen E."
Long andi Myrtle "Virginia Thompson with
Miss Helga- Olsen and Mrs. Myrtle F.
Hufty.. as accompanists. - - .Jfl|^^tt^
vformerlFisher y organisd t of-'th e
First l church, ,
^.'D-'Congregationa'"-f.-
- -- ^ v-Carrington- w -' -
'Organ prelude, "Ghorale"-:h.. ..i..8:^.Flagler.
TJarytone solo, MO.Thou Sublime Sweet
Evening star*'..(from tannhauser)..Wagner
Mr. Fisher.
Offertory, barytone solo, "Bring No More -n .*,
Vain Oblations" (recitative and "?*.-
- aria from Isaiah) Fatten
.,. . . . , .. Mr.. Fisher.
Organ, postlode ".Pilgrims' Ohcrtie"
-
' "y '-' - - / - - v - ? --^S5 - :
i...: (fcom Tanchauser) .Wagner
iPcityT-as precentoi hsyferiiri bnurch Wednesday evening.^The
- -" "Sun- - program will be given by Mrs. W.. N,/oc-,
Miss Helen* Lois Currier, a pupil of
Sophus M. De Void, will give a piano re
cital Thursday evening in the Unitarian
church. Miss Currier will'play sonatas
,from Mozart and Beethoven- and give
groups from - Chopin and Mendelssohn.
Mr. DeVold will sing a baritone solo and
Miss "'Dorcas Emmel "Will be the accom
panist. ^ /,"".. ' '
Misses "MaxT"Etme6 of Faribault, Minn.,.St.
Harrlette Lowry, Elizabeth Nye, Lilian
"Vaughn -and Birdie Anderson have com
pleted the teachers'.course.in the Johnson
.School of Music and will give a piano re
cital Monday evening in the school audi-
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A^ctnc,er.tfwil be give.-'?.in'.Oliver n Pres-
the mouth of the Mississippi, "the Amazon,
and other large rivers the second stage
is that of baking, or tumefaction, by the
conduction of earth heat from the-' holi
interior upward ther third stage is that]
of uplift, partly, thru.expansion from heat
ing from below the fourth stage-is thaii
of unloading, degradation by rains anfli
river when the former sediments are lifted'
above sea level to again become dry land j
and the final stage is vulcanism, or ex
travasation of the hot rock matter of the
depths partially relieved from pressure byj,
the unloading. Recognition of this- cycla,
has done much to systematize and sim
plify knowledge concerning causes and!
origin of volcanoes.
Professor Hill of the geological survey],
says: "The causes of the volcanic errm-i
tlon of Mont Pelee and of all other vol
canic eruptions is still one of the great
unsolved problems of earth physics, and
is a subject which can give origin to an
infinite number- of theories and specula-*
tlons-.
- Each school has its adherents and near
ly- every adherent has some modification*
The public has the privilege of taking
all the data and thinking out its own
conclusion. The adherent of each school
finds many faots in nature to substantiate
its ideas, but the investigation gradually}
leads up to the fact that this earth is
a shrinking globe with a great hot un
known interior concerning which much is
yet to be learned." . . ---*-
' .
leather and brightest of beads and
brought them to the ghost dance, if per*
chance she might see her child in a Tjeau
tiful vision. Waiting for the. mighty,
catastrope which should, without their,
aid, destroy all the white men and make
.their dreams a reality, the Indiana
patiently "danced the ghost dance" and
sang their vision songs. . Sometimes they
seemed to see the end of their hope and
they sang.
The spirit host is advancing, they'say, {i$':
They are coming with the buffalo, they sayy
They are coming with the new earth.-they say.
Days past, but the promise came not*
Exhausted, and with tear-stained.
they sang: - . . ...v
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-mi
.*'"5/Jfaces*,
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Father, have pity on me, - "-.* .J 'i?S. \J
Father, have pity on me, . ' 'f- - ' r .*'**? -J^I
- I am crying for thirst, " - S-4 ?,'^
. All is goneI have nothing to eat. ^-^
Among the Sioux the ghost dance T
came a tragedy. The military spirit of
Pontiac and Tecumseh awoke in Sitting
Bull. Under the inspiration of religious
excitement a last effort was made to unite
the Indian tribes in open rebellion against
the whites." " The battle" of Wounded
Knee was fought Dec. 29, .1890. Defeated
and captured, Sitting Bull, like Pontiac,
fell at the 'hand of an Indian, and the
last'.warrior was dead.
On the Dakota prairie there is a grava
where nearly 400 ' Indiansbrave war
riors, little children, women and old
menwere buried without a Christian '
prayer. The grave is marked only by
posts at the corners, and on these posts
a faithful Indian friend has rubbed the
mystic red paint of the ghost dance.
After the songthe silence.
The prairie folded her tired children in
the broad bosom that had, carried them
so long,* and there, waiting the coming of
the true Messiah, the singers, sleep. '
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torium.-They will be assisted' by Misses
Anna Youngquist and Etta Smith.
The graduation recital of. Misses Isa
belle Hendricks, Florence - Burgess and .
Katherine Eictiten of" Stillwater will be
given Tuesday evening in Johnson hall.
The three young women are. pupils of
Gustavus Johnson and graduates of the
Johnson School of-Music. Miss Josephine
Hanson will assist in the
t
program.,,,,0r s -
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