Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ
Newspaper Page Text
GIVES DOLUS DILLS HOW CANADIAN T'D'NS RE CEiVE THEIR ALLOWANCES. Agent Distributes S2CO,CCO Among Tribesmen Each Year but Carries Only S3O,OCC How He Does It. Seattle, Wash. —Several years ago the Canadian government took from the tribes of Indians about Athabasca lake and river a large tract of land and in payment for the same it gives each year five dollars to each Indian snd $25 to the chiefs in one dollar bills. The reason for this is that the In dians dwelling in the district do not know the value of money. A paper dollar looks to him about the same as a blank piece of paper to a baby. Should the payment be made in sil ver, the simple minded child of the wilderness would punch a hole in it and wear it about his neck and thus a great deal of money would be taken from circulation. Should payment be made in one dollar bill the Indian is liable to lose it. Once each year a representative of the Canadian government makes a trip through the country and pays the Indians. On this trip he takes $30,000 in one dollar bills and will probably pay out more than $200,000. The natural question from civilization is, How does he do it? As the Indian knows nothing about the value of money his method of financial trade is on the value of skins. Everything he buys is reckoned by skins, and when one talks dollars to him, his face has the expression of a blank cartridge. Fortunately for the government, the Hudson Bay com pany has secured the entire confi dence of the Indians during the cen tury of dealing with them, and the money paid to the Indians finds its way into the trading posts of the com pany. Here is how the government pay master does his phenomenal stunt of paying $200,000 or more with only $30,000 in his pocket. He goes direct to a district inhabited by perhaps 2,- 000 or 3,000 Indians; here he will pay from SIO,OOO to $20,000 in “treaty money.” Each Indian and his family is given the five one dollar hills in payment for his surrender of the land, and each chief his $25. After making this payment the pay master takes a rest for a short time at Ihe Hudson Bay post nearest the pay station. Within a few days the In dians have made a line to the post and there purchased whatever look 3 good to them. They whack the money down on to the trading post counter, order something worth perhaps 50 cents and leave. The company agent charges the red man with what he has purchased and credits him with the balance of the five dollars, so that in the future he can trade out the re. minder of the amount. Within a week from the date of paying the treaty money every dollar of the amount has been paid into the trading post. The paymaster gives the post agent a check for the amount and starts for the next Indian settlement. SLEEPING MEN BEST THINKERS Also Act with Wonderful Quickness, Declares French Professor. Baltimore, Md. —Prof. Pierre Jouet, of the Paris Sorbonne, Hi a lecture on somnambulism at Johns Hopkins uni versity, said that while somnambulists can see things and speak fluently they cannot remember what occurred dur ing the delirium. He said; “The somnambulist has not our dull memory of things. He sees the ob jects he speaks of and really hears, feels and touches the, exactly as if they were real. “When a patient speaks he has a flu ency of language and even an elo- THE WINSLOW /HAIL quence tnat are superior to ms nor mal powers. When he acts he has a precision and quickness that are won derful. “The man who ran to the housetop showed more agility than he would have had in his normal state, even if he had not been paralyzed. “In connection with this precision and certainty of memory we find some strange mental blanks. You speak of patients and they do not an swer. You try to make your presence felt, they do not perceive. To make yourself heard you must dream with the patient and speak to him only in accordance with his delirium.” OWNS THE OLDEST CLOCK. Physician Has Eight-day Time Re corder with Long History. Supulpa, Okla. —Dc. D. W. Avery, of this city, is the possessor of what is probably the oldest clock in Oklaho ma. It is of the tall variety, generally spoken of as “grandfather’s clock,” and is of the same sort mentioned in Longfellow’s famous poem. The clock was brought .to the terri tory by Dr. Avery when he came here, and was made by his great-grandfa ther at least 150 years ago in the town of Preston, Conn. The works are of brass, and run eight days. The case is of solid cherry, while the face is made of one solid piece of brass composition, hammered out by hand, then plated, and finally hand en graved in elaborate style. It is some eight feet tall, and is intended tc stand on the floor. Besides telling the moment and the hour, it has a second hand. “Iso ; calendar dial that tells the ‘ t 1 '“nth. The old clock stii: i s a ad- time as ever Couldn’t Fool Him Twice. The heavy clouds were massing in the west, the lightning was flashing, and the thunder was rumbling om inously. The fond mother gathered her young hopeful to her, and tried logically to calm his fears. ‘There’s no danger, dear. God sends the thunder storm to clear the air, water the flowers, and make things cool. You mustn’t be fright ened. It won’t harm you, and every thing will be better when it’s over.” The little chap listened intently, and when his mother finished he look ed at her quizically. “No, no, mamma,” he murmured; “you talk exactly the way you did last week when you took me to the dentist to have that tooth pulled.” Had He Been Napoleon. Mme. Calve, in an interview that she accorded to a young woman jour nalist, imputed her success to hard work. “There are many good voices,” she said, “that the world will never hear because their owners are too indolent to develop them. “It is like the story of the farmer, “Looking up from his magazine, the farmer said vehemently to his wife one night; “ ’Do you know what I’d have done [f I had been Napoleon?’ “ ‘Yes,’ the woman answered. 'You’d have settled down in Corsica and spent your life grumbling about bad luck and hard times.’ ’’ ■ ruit One can'ii! of uoful of tinned fr 't sail table spoonfuls pc d • and bring to a boil. B< -r f the fire and stir quickly the w n yolks of four eggs. Butter 4 dish and put in a lar? inned fruit. Beat the ■ "ggs to stiff froth, stir i. usluid. pour over the fruit, an null an hour. ’Tis Their Nature. “Why,” says the Baltimore Sun, “should grafters seek office?” Why should ducks enter the water? True School of Politeness. The society of ladies the school of politenes. —From the Spanish. POSTMASTERS. :... Be bon Prevails In Many Mississippi Counties. Jackson, Miss.—L. B. Moseley, feder al patronage referee for Mississippi, is having a hard time finding applicants Jot fourth-class post offices at the smaller towns of the state. This sin gular state of affairs in a common wealth where the office has never been known to seek the man, but gen erally a dozen or so men are hot on the trail of the office, is well nigh un believable, but it is nevertheless a cold blooded fact. Mr. Moseley has several pies to distribute, and there are more slices than eaters. There must be some reason for this I condition of affairs, of course, and it ! is attributed to the fact that Mississ- i ippians are too prosperous to bother ; with fourth-class postmasterships; that persons who are qualified for the places, chiefly country storekeepers, find that personal business affairs com- j mand their entire time and attention, . and they don’t care to look after Un- j cle Sam’s post offices merely as a matter of accommodation, and when j the salary or fees do not justify a performance of the work. Whenever a vacancy is about to oc cur, however, having a salary attached that is worth while there are always plenty of patriots who are willing to j sacrifice their personal affairs to see , that the government mail is properly forwarded and delivered. It is only the smaller offices that go begging, and frequently Commissioner Moseley is compelled to write letters that are well nigh heart rending to incumbents appealing to them to ac cept another term in the service of Uncle Sam. A year of so ago the government refused to allow a negro postmaster up in Madison county to resign, as there was no person in the commun ity willing to take the place, and the inspector threatened to prosecute him if he abandoned the office.. The negro is still holding on to the job he doesn’t want, and fears that the government will send troops after him if he makes another attempt to quit. CHURCHES WANT GOOD ROADS. Congregations Unite to Redeem Bad Pieces of Roadway. East Greenville, Pa. —Good roads, through a combination of church and state, are now assured for Upper Ham over township, and a corps of en gineers from the state highway de partment has been surveying about four miles of road at various parts of the township. The first to receive aid will be the road from Pennsburg to the East Greenville pumping station, then to Mumbauer’s mill. Another stretch oroposed will run southwest of Pennsburg to the Perkio men paper mid and to Haring's ho tel. Work on the road will be com menced next spring. Besides these two stretches, the New Goshenhoppen church will help the township supervisors to construct a mile of excellent road, and St. Paul's Lutheran church of Red Hill will do a similar favor on a mile and a half piece of muddy read, making stone roads out of both. WAR FOR CHEAP WINE ON. California Producers in Struggle for Control with Those of Middle West. New York. —A great fight for the control of the cheap domestic wine business of the United States is on, with the producers of California solid ly arrayed on one side and those of the middle west on the other. The business amounts to a very large total annually and millions of dollars are represented in invested capital. The probabilities are that no truce will be reached and that one side or the other will be benefited in any .event through the thrashing out of the wine situation. The California Wine association has [Z OCX K>.) v decided to lower prices materially al ter January 1, in order to drive their eastern competitors from the rich wine-consuming centers, such as New Orleans and St. Louis, where the east erners were able to secure a strong foothold after the San Francisco dis aster of last spring. Professor Reveals Color of Men. Philadelphia.—Dr. Ranke of the Ger man Anthropological society has re cently undertaken to describe thy physical characteristics of the earliest men, as ascertained from the examina. tion of prehistoric graves. They were, according to Dr. Ranke, of a yellowish color, and had coarse hair. Their heads were peculiarly shaped, the part of the skull that contains the brain being large relatively to the face, while the face itself was small. They had other peculiarities, among which was the rudimentary or undeveloped condi tion of the third molar, or back grindei tooth. The doctor believes that the first men originated in Asia. Dust an Enemy to Long Life. London. —The eminent physician Sir Lander Ilrunton, in an article con tending it ought to be the rule rathei than the exception for men and wom en to retain their life activities fron, 90 to 100 years, cites dust anion:.' other life shorteners. Dust, he says is one of the greatest enemies of art vanced life, since it is the frequent cause of colds and respiratory dis eases. He himself found that fre quently in taking a dusty book fron. a library shelf he caught a cold in tht head. This recurred so regularly that he now resorts to sponging the dusty edges of the books and shelves with a solution of carbolic acid before dis turbing the dust deposit. • i LUNCHEON OR DINNER, Carrclon of Ocef, a Recipe That It Well Worth Trying. To make this get two pounds of beef from the round ami hire the butcher chop it fine. Mix the- r.ffily wiih one small onion chopned "ne or a tea- Mils minced parsley. rounding ta spoonful of onion 're, two tahle spoontills minced nay, four round ing tablespoonfuls soft bread crumbs, three ta’m’s nfu’s melted butter, two teas ■< ’3 of lemon juice and the gra <■> l 'or rind of a half lemon, two ‘on >!s of salt, a half teaspoonfu l half a teaspoonful of celo\\ rind the yolks of three egos. ’ Roll into a compact, oblong si a" in one thickness of butte-cc e- -Pace in a baking pan wit r ■ n'ul of hot water, and bake u' rßes in a hot oven. B: si ;■ ue; t y with two tabiepoonfuls of • ‘ter m< Red in a half cup boiling wa \s s 11 as done, remove the part d serve with a brown sauce, or wlk '<*a •]>• cooked turn onto the baking " a ’ a’f can of hot tomatoes that ’ 1 mi sea soned to taste with sa ■ ->per but ter and sugar and fii ihe baking. When ready for the table garnish with parsley. Horses and Motor Cars. “God created horses for the use of mankind and the devil invented motor cars for the destruction of mankind.” remarked a coroner at Shrewsbury, England. “The reporters may publish that statement, Mr. Coroner?” sug gested the foreman of the jury. The coroner said they might publish it as much as they liked; it was quite true. So here is the genesis of the motor car. Same True of Spelling. When I was in England, before the “entente cordiale,” I discussed the metric system with an Englishman. The English system of weights and measures, he admitted, was complex, but he said it was precisely because of its innumerable difficulties that it constituted a marvelous instrument for making supple the young brains which filled the English schools.—M. Grimm in Le Journal of Paris. 3