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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
LEFT LUXURY FOR DUTY.
Once New York Society Girl, Now .
Teacher of Indians.

Teacher of Indians.
1t seetos hardly possible for young wo-
man to possess move of the qualifications
of steam engine than Miss Grace How
ard does. She is. a daughter of Joseph
Howard Jr, the well known writer. Turn
ing her back to the attractions of New
York society and the luxuries of home, she
established herself three or four years ago
on Il ranch ut Crow Creek, seventeen miles
from the town s Chamberlain, in South
Dakota and is devoting her life to the i'm
provement of the Indian race. She passed
through New York recently on her way to
Washington, where she went to stir up the
government, and | then secured "A state
ment from her on the general scope of her
work.
Some five years ago she visited the
Hampton school, where IA cousin was
teaching, and having taken her Cousins
place for time, during the latters i'll
ness, became greatly interested in Indians.
Soon after she visited some Of the agen-
ces, and returned to New York to make
preparations to settle in Dakota. Her
plan embraced the securing of land the
building of "A house. the establishment of
a school and of mission, and the further
ance of industrial work among the In
dians in the neighborhood she had selected.
| Her preparations included the getting of
an appointment to run government
school; the interesting of Calvary church,
/ of which she is a communicate, in the
religious work, and the mastering of such
| financial strenth as she could. The APP
pontment was easily secured. The church
makes an annual appropriation, and with
her fathers aid she obtained eighty acres
of land, built her house, and bought four
horses, light wagon, five cows, and such
other things as were needed.
She was bound by the terms of her APP
pointment TO maintain ten children in the
school She has twenty, five of whom act
as helpers" in domestic affairs. There are
also on her place white teacher and a
housekeeper. Religious services are con-
Quoted there regularly by Rev. David Tati-
yopa, who is an ordained deacon of the
Episcopal church. She has the most of
her land under cultivation. She visits and
ministers to sick and destitute Indians for
twenty miles around, using one span of
horses for roadsters, the other being work
ing horses. These visits she makes at all
times and in all weather. On one occasion
she spent nine days and nights tending a
dying man.
She receives 81 900 year from the gov
eminent for the maintenance of the school,
and should receive rations as well for the
twenty Indians maintained there. When,
as has lately been the case, she does not re-
ceive these rations she has to buy food and
fuel and clothing for them. 1t is with
reference to this fact as well as some
others that she made her visit to the au-
thorities in Washington. Her house is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

brave fellows appeared broken down in
health, and told how after desperate eff
fort they alone of the six had reached the
mountains and been saved by passing
shower. Death valley i.self never sees a
shower. The rainfall is dissipated by the
hot air, and even the tremendous storms
in Armogoza valley, which send at times
river a mile in width around the end of
the range and thence northward, never
moisten the dry earth. The flood is dried
up and lost before it has penetrated many
rods into the ovenike section.
At the south end of the valley IRE some
deep pools, fed by wonderful underground
spiiugs. They never overflow, nor is it
known that their level ever changes. 81
lent, dark and lonely, they are like great
brown eyes looking up from the CHASTITY
white stretch Of horror. In them are found
fish unknown elsewhere in the world, and
which have no eyes Surrounding the val
ley are other remarkable natural features
Sixty miles southeast is the Devils Play
ground, a dreadful waste across which a
furnace like wind constantly blows. The
black lava and hot sand of the plain radi-
ate the heat of the sun, so that looking
down from some eminence the whole land
scape is tremulous to the eye. and seems
tain, where the temperature is l40 dogs. in
the shade the year round. On the east side
the precipitous rocks are much broken up,
and the sun shining on the white points
and angles makes the mountain look from
distance as if whole conventions of ghosts
were there assembled The Indians be-
lieve on this account that the place is the
abode of their dead warriors Hence its
name, and the mystical tales which are
connected with it.
But Death valley is not to remain a terra
incognita. The United States government
has planned an exploration which will, il
such thing is possible, lay bare its secrets
Two parties will 90 into the valley from
opposite Sides and the department of agri
culture Will have the fruits of the eXpedi
ton arranged at Washington and shown
as n warning and "A study. Especial atten
ton will be given the animal life of the
valleys environs, and if any living thing
exists in the place itself specimens will bt
obtained Experts will collect plants
woods, rocks, soil, and indeed everything
possible. The explorers will carry al
abundance of supplies, and will not vent
ure into the valley until they have accu
rately located springs and streams, so that
they can reach them in case of necessity.
Perhaps among the wonders of the
strange region none is more noteworthy
than the legend of the ruins of a pueblo OF
castle, said by the Indians to exist il
Death valley and which may have beer
the four miners oasis. Long ago, so tn,
tale runs, Death valley was a fertile king
dom presided over by beautiful and fai
haired queen. She commanded her sub
iects to build her mansion. and for year
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
LOOKING ACROSS THE VALLEY.

fornia. Arrived at the mountain range
they saw three great chains stretched out
before them, the Inyo and the Argus noun
tains forming the most westerly one, the
Paramint being next to the east and the
Armagoza the third, still farther east and
nearest them. East of the Armagoza range
is the Armagoza desert, and to the west
Death valley. They struggled across the
former stretch of sand and cactus, and the
horses We're nearly worn out when they
pulled into the awful region of the latter.
They had not gone far when the animals
grew too weak tn pull the wagons. With
a heroism worthy of the occasion. the un-
married men put the women and their
husbands on the best horses and sent them
over the back trail, believing that they
would be able to reach the last stream that
had been passed.
In few moments a cloud of dust hid
their friends from the eyes of the self-sac-
riflcing band. The families succeeded in
getting to water and finally, having wait
ed three days for the half dozen nob!o men
behind To overtake them, pushed ~ t.
California A wear afterwarl two Of tnes,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

not only a school and a church, but is the
place where open handed hospitality is ex-
tended to all corners. Indians of all ages
and both sexes are entertained there al
most constantly. So varied work is not
conducted without meeting and overcom-
ing difficulties that might well daunt a
strong man, yet this slender Young woman
carries it on alone, and shrinks from moth
ing that devolves upon her.
81 have tramped through snow up to my
knees, with only this child to help me-"
she said, pointing to a bright Indian maid
en- about IA years old who is with her, land
made my way to the barn, where we fed
and watered the cattle ourselves" And
she said it in matter-of-fact way, as if
thinking it quite natural that she should
do that or anything else that might come
up to be done.
Difficulties, in fact, seem TO present them
selves to her only in the light of fuel for
her enthusiasm. | asked her if she in
tended to make the present her life work,
and she said she certainly did, only she did
not expect to confine herself to the single
place now established. Her hope is to
found similar schools at other points after
she has made this self supporting or trained
some of the Indians so that they can main
tain it.
"Do you ever have trouble with I'M
friendly Indians>" | asked.
'Indeed no" she replied earnestly She
says everything earnestly Il would rather
trust myself among the Indians any time
than among the white people who come out
here as settlers. | have driven twelve or
fifteen miles at night more than once TO
reach an Indian village when ! was away
from home on business. The Indians seem
to appreciate fully what i am trying to do
for them, and they take the greatest inter
est in the school and mission. Some of
them walk as much as eight miles and
back every Sunday to attend divine serv-
ices"
"Was it a religious motive that impelled
you to undertake the work."
Not in the first place. / am more i'm
pressed with that now than when went
there suppose the lonely life may have
something to do with that. 1t gives me
more time for reflection. | began the
work, though, because thought the In
dians ought to be taught how to maintain
themselves. We say they ought To be self
supporting, and we don't give them
chance to be-"
In person Miss Howard is of medium
height and very slender. She talks with
wonderful rapidity and unbounded enthu-
siasm, and shows in every motion and
word that she is the possessor of great
nervous force and a surprising amount of
determination. One cannot imagine the
protestations of friends having the slight
est effect upon her after she became con-
WINGED that she was in the right.
DAVID A. CURTIS
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

Sunday liquor sellers of Cincinnati. Pre-
vous to that, however, his earnest and eff
fective work in charitable enterprises and
social reforms had won him an enviable
name all over Ohio, and Governor Hayes
made him member of the state board of
charities. The doctor and eN-PreSident
Hayes were intimate personal friends, while
the same strong attachment existed be-
tween Mrs. Davis and Mrs Hayes. DR..
Davis often entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes
at his hospitable home. Before his depart
ure for Washington to be inaugurated in
1871 President Hayes made speech from
the veranda of DIR. Davis residence.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

and spreading, clothed with waving moss,
the plumelike palmetto, the clustering
maugrove, the endless varieties of climb
ing. creeping vines, all are there. The
banks for miles are bordered with cab
bagr palmettos, live oaks, oleanders (Which
there attain the size and height of fine
trees AMI bloom throughout the winter
the Spanish bayonet, sort of porcupine
in the vegetable world, and the magnolia,
a queen of the forest. whose beauty is a
constant delight.
Bananas seem to grow without thought
from any one They appear to be simply
a nortion of the luXuriant life of the eli
mate and soil gone to waste, a sort of over
flow of natures vitality taking to itself
shape and form.
But one cannot be wholly absorbed in
the products of the soil, for the inhabitants
of the river will claim attention. Near
what is called the Narrows one sails over a
river bottom which is a great oyster bed.
AS | remarked the immense size of the
shells at one point native standing near
drawled forth
"Thur hev bin shells picked up here
abouts they tell me, that humans foot
could stan into"
And indeed | could well believe it, pro
vided the humans" foot was small
enough.
The river swarms with the finest of fish
among which the slim, silvery mullets,
from nine inches to two feet in length, are
the favorites. They often run in shoals
mile or more in extent, and from one
eighth to one-fourth of mile in width
As they advance, with a noise not unlike
that of distant train of cars or rising
wind in IA forest, their course is clearly in
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
GATHERING ORANGES.

Dictated by the sudden leaping to the sur
face Of individuals from the school. At
frequent intervals, here, yonder, anywhere,
there darts up to the air cleaning, gilt
tering body, making a vault of from one
to three feet, Whether this is playfulness
on the part of the joyous, white sided null
lets, or a sudden effort for more elbow
room, or simply "way2 they have. | am
not sufficient naturalist to decide.
AS watched them one day lady in a
group near by remarked that it was van
ity and a desire to be noticed that caused
them to leap
A cynical looking man near her replied
''that it must be the female mullet that
does the leaping."
Another male member of the party re-
forted, with bow to the lady, st certain
ly must be so if grace and beauty are to be
reckoned as feminine"
The mullet reserves it's real parade fol-
night and moonlight. One glorious even
ing ! was persuaded by an old expert tc
try sail, went to the wharf where the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
Andrew Jackson,s Errors.

The errors OF Andrew Jackson are now
universally acknowledged, since Ameri-
cans have grown wise enough to see that
greatness is not necessarily faultless. Omit
ting minor matters, the passages in his life
which all Americans now regret are three:
his marriage, his duels and other personal
encounters, and his so called appointment
and removal policy. Partisan malice once
painted his acts as fiendish; his eulogists
made them innocent or praisworthy. At
present the plain truth is enough.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
SHE THOUGHT SHE MIGHT WALK.
1t Was Only an Hour by Rail, and She
Had Never Travelled Before.


81 never been on the cars before" said
the little old lady, settling herself in the
seat and arranging her skirts. my son
got married fifteen years ago. and went to
live to Bridgeport. He kept a urgin' me
to come to Bridgeport, but says to him,
Il amt never been on the cars, and don't
think would like it,
"'Now. motner,' says he, you won't
have no trouble ut all. You jest git on the
cars, and you have nice cushioned seats
and yoL see ITS of strangers. Mother
says he you would like it, know
"'Well john | says, it don't seem
right to me, an old woman, to 20 gaddin'
about in new tangled cars
"But every time he come to our house he
kept urgin' me.
"'John, says, 4 might go if could do
some knittin' on the cars. But | amt
willin' to set idle with my hands crossed
and do nothin.'
"'Why, MOTHER says he, 4 amt never
see any women do much SEWN on the cars,
but, bless you'll lots of 'em knits. You kin
Jest sit there and knit till you get to
Bridgeport
John, says 1, T'll go to please you, but
don't think it's right
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

In the forms of dyspepsia that are due to
some disorder in the action of the muscles
of the walls of the stomach physical and
mechanical therapeuIical agents, such as
massage. electricity and dydrotherapeutics
are usually "A valuable complement to the
dietetic and pharmaceutical treatment.
But these means are not to be considered
a. anything more than a complement to
the usual treatment, and the relative dis
credit into which they have fallen NAV
possibly be accounted for by the fact that
certain physicians expected greater results
from them than they were able to furnish,
and also by the fact that an attempt was
made to draw up certain absolute rules
instead OF being guided by the features pc
culiar to each case.
The massage of the stomach can be per
formed in two ways-when the stomach is
full or when it is empty. NJ Cseri, of
Pesth, has given very careful set of drec-
tons for the massage of the stomach when
it is full. 1t must be done when the food
has become thoroughly impregnated with
the gastric juice-that is to say, two or
three hours after meals, at the very mo-
ment when the spontaneous contractions
of the stomach begin to pour its contents
into the duodenum. In this way we attain
twofold end by helping to start the
chymiiied mass on its way, and by stimu-
lating the contractility of the stomach at
the very moment when it should begin to
act physiologically.
! The patient SHOULD lie fiat on the back
the head raised by two pillows and the
mouth open. 1t is well to begin by gen
tie friction in direction running from the
larger curve of the stomach toward the
| pylorus for two or three minutes. Thi.
should be followed by kneading move
ments in the same direction and for a sim
! liar length of time, and then by more en-
ergetic and deeper rubbing, to end up by
rapid and gentle friction performed il
/ such way that the whole seance shall moi
last more than ten or fifteen minutes
! Paris Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

reached his seven
tieth year W h e II
deaths summons
came. His wife,
whom he married
in 1919, survives
him. DR.. Davis
attained prom i
hence outside his
profession so IN e
years ago Is presl-
dent of the Law
and Order league,
which made Il per-
sistent an d par
TALLY successful
crusade against
the gamblers and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23


The captain produced corn sack, placed
them in it, and put out the torch, leaving
us no tight but that of the moon, as it
played IN wondrous loveliness over the
water.
l settled down to enjoy it, when-presto!
what new change is this? Is the captain a
magician? Are we floating on sea of
silver? Are those fish metallic? Surely
never was a moon that illumned like this
before.
"What is it?" eagerly asked.
"They say it is fas fore-us," was the diff
ficult reply.
And so it was. We were sailing on a
phosphorescent sea, through which dashed
in every direction phosphorescent fish
Standing in the bow | watched fairy
like scene. Beneath me, through the
water, darted what seemed to my excited
fancy millions of fish, each apparently a
piece of FURNISHED silver. | could dis
tinguish the Jewish, the sawfish and
quantities of mullet and other common
varieties all ablaze with light and every
scale on their bodies clearly defined. They
looked like meteors as they cut their way
through the water The boats PROV threw
back not curling spray, but "A cleaning
mass of light. The waves did not break
into shining drops from white crests, but
rose ana fell in polished rolls like molten
metal Farther out, where the stream
moved more gently the top of each tiny
ripple became "A flashing line, and cros,ing :
each other these lines lay on the water like
frosted lace of an ever varying pattern.
In short Indian river, the paradise OF the
fisherman and the hunter, with its oranges,
its pineapples, its thriving towns and open
ing industries, deserves not n letter. nor a
chapter, but IA book, in two volumes, bound
with the skins of its own alligators- the
dethroned kings that are still heirs of the
realm. II. X. INGRAM.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

scene of the bat
tie, being then in
charge of the wag-
on train. 1t was
by meri t orio u s
service as an lndi-
an fighter through
n in e successive
years that he
gained a captain
cy. Then he was
detailed to t h e
school of instruc-
ton at Leaven-
worth, and from
there went TO the
uphnDl Af ia. nraa-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

tice at Jefferson barracks, ST. Louis A
year ago he rejoined his command and
the other day marched out to meet death
at the hands of a savage foe He com
manded Troop l., of the Seventh cavalry,
and was much loved by his soldiers. 1t is
said that during former winter campaigns
he went for nights at time without sleep
that his tired sentinels might rest, and
often on the march he took the coat from
his back to shelter the shivering shoulders
of sick or wounded private.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
Education Among the ,Iormons

The census bureau announces that the
first complete statement of schools con-
trolled bv religious body" has been re-
ceived from the secretary of the general
board of education of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. The figures
show that in Arizona, Idaho and Utah
the Mornons employ ninety-six teachers
who have charge of 5.092 pupils of botf
sexes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

Insanity shows decrease in New York
state according to the latest statistics. A
forthcoming official report will show 523
cases of lui,acy in 1890 as against 59S in
1889. About one-half the afflicted are from
New York city and Brooklyn.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
HE WAS A GALLANT SOLDIER.
His Name Was Capt. George ID. Wallace,
and He Fell Near Pine Ridge.

Capt. George ID. Wallace, who was killed
recently in a battle with the Sioux lndi-
ans near Pine Ridge agency, was ~ years
old at the time of his death His boyhood
was spent in South Carolina. At the age
of 20 he received an appointment to the
West Point Military academy, and his rec
ord of promotion was as follows: Second
lieutenant Seventh cavalry, June II, 1872;
first lieutenant, June %, 1876; captain,
Sept. %, 1885.
Wallace took part in the frontier cam
paigns of 1876, and on the day when Gus.
ter fell was only twenty miles from the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
FAMOUS DEATH VALLEY.
A LAND OF DESOLATlON WHERE
FURNACELlkE HEn1 PREVAILS.
Neither Man Nor Beast Able to with
stand the Awful Temperature-A Pro-
posed Government Exploration The
Legend of the Princess Curse.

Copyright by American Press Association
There is one place inside the boundaries
of the United Stares which the most in
trepid explorer has never investigated, and
returned to tell the story of his journey.
The Valley of Death into which rode the
Six Hundred was not so fatal as are few
hundred square miles in southern Calf
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
A Russian Social Reform.

Russian women have agreed on social
reform that meets with general favor.
They urge men no longer to take off their
hats to them in cold weather, and the men
in consenting say, The ladies; God bless
'em!n
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23

IMAGINE several
acres of light gray
sand as level as a
/, floor, IN d you
IN We a Florida
pin e apple field.
\ The product is not
so easily pictured.
The plant is like a
cabbage in that it
grows directly on
the ground. The
radical or root
leaves spread out
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
A TORCH USEb fOR'BAIT.
EXPERIENCES OF A TOURIST. ALONG
THE INDIAN RIVER, FLORIDA.

A visit to Pineapple Plantation Fol-
lowed by n Moonlight Boating Excur-
sion-How to Catch Mullets-waves
Aglow with Light.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-23
END OF A USEFUL LIFE.

The Career of DIR. John Davis, Who Ex-
pired suddenly the Other Day.
DR.. John Davis, who died very suddenly
one evening not long ago at his home in
Cincinnati, had attained prominence not
only as physician but also in public af-
fairs. He was a native of Ohio. and had