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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-22

Only Forty Dollars to Pueblo and Return
To those desiring TO attend the openi 9
OF the Colorado mineral palace at Pueblo,
July 4. the Union Pacific viii acli tickets
at y fare for the round TIP on July / and
2. tickets GOOD TO return until and in
Guiding Jaly 20.
II. o. WILSON. +. d. Z. a.,
% North Main street.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-22

How to Prevent ECughness OF the Skin.
During cold. dry, windy weather this
question a~oItates the MIND OF every lady III
the land Who prizes a nmootb, soft skin.
There is nothing more ha miess and effect
i've than Wisdom's Violet Dream Tor pGe.
venting and eiadicatiug the Ill effects OF
severe weHthet. lry it.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

particular trooper, and though there
was hardly state or territory west OF
the Missouri in which he had not turned
out with the lark and welcomed in the
new born day. he seemed just as keen a
worshiper of the sun god as in the buoy
ancy of his bovish days, when, nearly Il
score of years before, he had first joined
the Eleventh cavalry. He was man
honored and esteemed in his profession.
He was well to do in the world. thanks
to the prudence and frugality of his
subatern days. He had hardly care
in the world. He had charming quar-
tiers, had charming station, and he was
welded only during the year before to a
woman whom he devotedly loved, and
who believed that the world had never
contained man so true and tender and
noble as he.
A very lovely woman was Mrs. Lane,
and very sweet and winning hostess
she made when doing the honorS of her
army home. There were those, to be
sure, who conld detect species of ner-
vousness and a vague anxiety in her
manner at times, and there were people
there always are, worse luck who
could not quite forgive her her present
happiness. or excuse it in her that after
having been wooed and won by and
welded to the Adonis of the regiment
some few. years before she had again
welded, and this time the most eligible
bachelor in the command. not much
more than two years after the not un-
timely taking off of her first husband.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

DO it yourself; they amt my cards.
l didn't put them there" answered the
man. with an ugly CLEAN in his black
eyes. while he drew from one pocket a
piece of channels skin and from the other
one of the captains big brass spurs.
There was no time for further remark.
Attention." came the order from the
sergeant, who happened to be nearest
the door. and the lieutenant entered,
Every man on the instant whipped of
his cap, and. facing the middle of thc
long room, stood erect at the foot of his
buuk-every man except one. With his
cap on the back of his head, his matted
hair hanging down over his eyes. Welsh
sat there 40 the table cOOlly polishing
the spur.
Get up there, Welsh" growled in
low. stern tones the first sergeant. Ion
with that cap, sir"
For all answer Welsh cooked his head
on one side, and, apparently unmindful
of the presence of an officer, became
critically and approvingly absorbed in
studying the polish which he was inn
parting 70 the smooth surface of the
spur.
Did you hear that order? Come to
attention. sir" repeated the sergeant.
And the men. aStoniShed at the breach
of discipline. looked curiouSly at the re-
cruit. now slowly and ScOwlingly find
ing his feet. He had not removed his
cap when the lieutenant stood before
him.
why did YOU not rise with the other
men. WelSh@" asked Mr.. Hearn, in n
quiet and deliberate tone oddly at varl-
auce with his usually quick and Snappy
manner, and the young officer looked
straight into the soldiers eyes As he
spoke;
Didn't suppose I had to-" was the
Sullen reply.
why nOt?'
well, tactics say soldiers actually at
work don't have TO rise and salute Of
ticerS."
''And what work were you doing?"
Work for the aptain-cleaning his
spurs.
There was strange silence in the
room. This was Il new Interpretation,
and for a recruit decidedly an original
one.
Where did You learn that idea,
Welsh?" asked the lieutenant, still calm
IN. though his blue eyes began te dilate
in way that indicated how thoroughly
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04
AN ARMY POR7IA.
p. csaugS KING. U. S. A.

.......c~Tlr Colonci'S Daughter. "Ih'
,--+,r ~ From ne Ranks. "Dlnl-
p.s.., .TUo soldiers.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

dian ideas of fashion. The pair had a
child. little girl. born TO them. But
! for some reason the, distinguished man
left his Indian wife. probably diyorcing
her after the Indian ideas and fashion.
He then married lady of his own peo-
pie and has had since then large and
beautiful family. The Squaw-wife, az
ter the separation from her husband,
went back to her tribe in Washington
Territory. keeping the child with her.
The child at about fourteen years OF
age. was discovered at Father Chirause's
school at Tulalip, Puget Sound, by an
enterpriSing Frenchman. He offered
his hand and was accepted, and the
writer was privileged to be- present at
the wedding. So the little half-brecd
with a fair bit Of education started In
soon after as hOusakeeper in neat
little cottage, which her lively husband
maintained by log work at neighbor-
ing mill. Before our Father above "the
sauaw" was doubtless, like the c0ncu-
bine of the ancient Lcvitc, a bonalidc
wife. Men, however, who get 80 high
M i'm the world rs her husband did
we're never called "Squaw men," and
often the fact OF the Indian wife In later
wears has been most carefully sup
pressed.
The writer does not like the cogno-
men ..sauaw-men," for If We define the
term a we have used il. TO mean the
husband OF an Indian woman, 1t has in
our American history touched the high
est in the land, judges Of the United
States courts, members of Congress,
Generals in the army, officers OF the
general staff, most prominent mer-
chants and hundreds Of citizens Of the
first standing in the community where
they live.
Two things are usually asserted and
believed in common frontier society.
One is that the man who marrics
sauaw has degraded himself, and the
other is that the issue Of such marriage
is bad: that is, that half-breeds are
bright and Shrcwd enough but deficient
in moral character. This can hardly be
true as Il general statement. Nearly all
of our interpreters for the Indians were
at one time "Squaw-men" or hall
breeds, and their moral character has
not been Of the best repute. Yet they
compare iavorably with our own citi-
zens who have clustered around the
many Indian reservations simply Tor
greed. There is certainly no indigenous
taint-nothing that education and true
religion WIFI not overcome. as II does IN
either white man or Indian, unmiXed.
o. O. HOWARD.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04
CHAPTER LII.

1t was a lovely May morning. and a
warm south wind was blowing through
the open windows of Capt. Lanes coy
ouaters and billowing the dainty cur
tains of the breakfast room. Down In
the westward valley, close under the
bluffs. a white mist was creeping up
ward from the shadows OF the stream,
and here and there among the burrows
of the company gardens, and along the
railway embankment, little wlsps OF log
lowered over the soaking earth. 1t had
rained in torrents during the night. but
Nature emerged from her bath, glowing
in the rays OF a sunrise that the officer
of the day pronounced simply gorgeous
as he turned out for reveille.
A man less Joyous hearted than Capt.
Laue might have found much to delight
him in such a radiant morning. But
those sunrises we're old stories 10 this
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

and often obtained fat contracts, and so
accumulated a comfortable fortune. His
squaw made him good, faithful wife.
Her love for him caused her to study TO
make his home more and more tidy a
the years went on, but she mostly kept
apart from white women. Her children
learned to dress better than their mother
and gathered in the useful knowledge,
social and practical, OF other American
youth. The oldest son has already re-
placed his father in honest and profile
BILE business and the daughters are re-
specially married.
The old ''voyageurs," French emf
grants TO the West from Canada, who
served the Northwestern fur companies,
and Travelled through the wilds OF Ore
gop. were encouraged TO settle here and
there among the Indian tribes. They
were naturally led 10 marry Indian
women. The Hudson Bay Company. it
Is said, made IL a policy 10 favor such
marriages. Therefore you find half
breeds and French descendants OF
the enterpriSing ''yOyagenrs" wher-
ever you travel In that dark re-
gion. They are not generally on par
with our best business people OF the
West. though some are on the front line
of progress, yet, for the most part, they
are a kind. steady. self-supporting race.
Their sires or their grand sires were the
husbands Of Indian women. Many OF
their descendants to-day are in the West,
as they usually are in Texas, proud Of
their Indian blood.
The first time the writer visited the
Spokanes he came with a military 80
cort to the crossing OF the Spokane
river, many miles below the falls. H
was the ridge you cross TO go from
Walla WaIla to Fort Colville. Here
were the bell-shaped tepees Of the
Indians pitched in regular groups. per-
hans twenty Of them altogether. The
skeleton poles protruded beyond the old
canvas outsides, and smoke in small
puffs was gently ascending above them.
At the bridge was tho white man who
took the meager toll, living in a
wretched apology OF a house. The
tepees in cleanliness and order were
preferable. He had poor, hopeless
looking squaw wife and numerous little
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

half-breed children, who gazed curious
ly upon strangers and ran TO cover here
and there upon approach. Soon a white
man, lame minister, made his appear
ance, having come hither from dis
tant mission. He had been invited to
officiate at a wedding. A white man,
rather of the old Georgia Cracker" or
der, poorly dressed in old, gray cloth
ing, perhaps thirty or thirty-fye years
of age, was the bridegroom.
The bride had come with her Indian
parents. She was IL or l. years old,
had a healthy. handsome cOuntenance,
but a very sulky, downcast look. We
who looked on could but feel that some
how she had been sold TO this man. The
ceremony began by the singing OF
Christian airs, like the "Old, Old Story,
in the Spokane language, first in the
several tepeeS and then at the gathering
at the toll-keeper's house The cere-
mony was very brief, it being that OF
the ordinary Presbyterian marriage.
The two white men, the groom and the
toll man. were Americans. In all that
upper country they were called 'squaw-
men," They will soon perfect them
selves in the Indian tongue. The en-
tire tribe henceforth will look TO them
for explanations of the conduct of other
white men, and as soon as possible make
them and their wives their interpreters
and their mediators.
Again referring to ancient Israel, we
notice that certain Leyite married a
woman Of Bethlehem, Judah, and that,
Notwithstanding that she was his wife
and he himself named in the records dis
tinctly as her husband, still our trans
lation calls her his concubine.
There are several similar interesting
inter-marriages between whites and In
dams. For example, An old and dis
tinguished frontiersman, whose name,
should | repeat it, would at once be
recognized, was married after the In
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04


verse is the more exact statement, viz,
that the customs OF our Indian tribes
and their rough neighbors often remind
us of the ancient IsraeliteS and their
strange neighbors.
In the tribe of Dan, Samson, the son
of Munoah, was born about the year
ll56 before Christ. He became giant
in strength, and, half employed char
acter, seems TO have been set apart for
the punishment of the wicked Philis-
tines, who were the uncomfortable
neighbors of the Danites.
On one occasion he went down TO Tin
nath, saw a Philistine woman that de-
lighted his eyes: so Sampson said to his
father: Get her for me, for she pleaseth
me we'll" He married her, and the re-
suit of uniting Hebrew and heather was
most unhappy life for. both. BY the
threat of burning her and her fathers
house with fire." the enemies of ISreal
succeeded in making her entice and be-
tray her husband, and so there was
through this treachery a terrific war
brought on. The story is familiar tC
every child.
A like tale. thoroughly true, repeats
itself in the neighborhood of hundreds
of our Indian tribes. On our frontiers,
when we had frontiers, the white man
whether Spaniard, Mexican, French
man, English or American, who married
an Indian woman was called ''squaw
man." and in Il few instances the "squaw
man" had been made To suffer betrayal
like Samson of old; and then have re-
suited some of the most relentless wars
of our time accompanied with outrage,
burnings and slaughter. But yet the
results have not, in the main, been bad.
II is thought that the putting OF man
upon horse adds TO the picture OF the
man and the horse, but while ii does
this, il always takes something from the
dignity of the man 10 be so mounted.
We have hardly visited a tribe of In
dams without finding at least one white
man married to an Indian girl or woman.
The wife soon learns from him TO live
i'm a house and TO do the work, in a
rough way, that women did in the house
of his youth. She is raised to a higher
mode of living, learns TO dress fairly
well and is a true friend and ompanion
to her husband: but he himself usually
has shrunk away into lower life. His
personal cleanliness suffers, his clothing
is shabby and his self-respect
is lowered. So in such a
pair the man has less dig
nifty in carriage while the woman has
more than the queen OF the proudcSt
Indian chieftain, but can not well stand
up and compete with her worthy white
sisters in the essentials of a prosperous
home life. 1t may be well TO particu-
larize.
Near Fort Stevens, Oregon, a strong
young man many years ago settled upon
farm. 1t was before the old Governor
of Washington Territory carried ship
load of manageable teachers around
Cape Horn and white women were
few and far between. He married a
woman of neighboring Indian tribe.
He carried on Il good trade with the
garrison at the fort; was enterprisng
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04
SQUAW MEN.
GENERAL 0. 0. HOWARD EXPLAINS WHY THEY
CAN NOT BE HAPPY.
In Nearly Every Indian Tribe There Brs White
Men Married 10 Indian WOmen-SOms In
teresting Life Stories Of Men Who
Have Indian Wives.

Special COTTesD0adeace Of the Register.
CUICAGO January .
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04
FRO BE coNTINUED.l

WHILE the fields we're roaming over,
Breathing new-mown hay and clover,
Well think of her, as is our wont,
Whose teeth and breath are, every day,
White as white clover-sweet as hay,
And all from using SOZODONT.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

,. $50 D. 70 Lipp'nc''- Company
.l-h... ana published oy special 'F-
usut w.tl -a.n.
CONTINUED.
hand was ordered back TO quar-
oh. .antl.u- were notified 20 IN
.,.ir companies on their own pa
.. end merely exchanging his helmet
...-...-. cap and laying aside his Saoer
..,..s. strobe oVcr % the Office pass
....-b. three cavalry troops that
nearest him, even cutting across
......-4Je as though 20 avoid salute,
....sr,d directly I'm front OF c troop.
..,. drawn up in double rank and
order fartheSt 90 the south side.
. u.arn. temporarily in command.
.--a.,d lu inspecting carbineS' but
..,e. the rcgimeuta. commander
...,r.d his work and raised his
-..t. ta. ,i>or of his helmet.
.. I'D on. Mr. Hcarn. said the
GRANNY. 81 did not mean 10 ln-
..l Nevertheless. he VINO hau
... .-t.rt.cu Oh rhe other companies
halted Boz front of G. and was
..r-. thr mems faces with eyes that
... -un of gloom. Next be strobe
.....i .h, right of thc .iDe ana passed
I.ta .. lI'". '' ,..ssrs rh, tallest
n-c"'- '". ,..''. and ,yb.re he fixed
t'l "'' ...ii... rail-. slender.
lis gaze 's ''. ........ b.. looked him, over
'-l muse ...'' .........3 bin, slowly
.rum nca' l'l'''' -, I'M. closer
without uh' .h..s,l5iar's
noted -n1l '". --- r-,.l ms +l,.
ieit band tN.lcl't ""' ... -,
colonel approached 1-t quay. 81, t. '.''''F
seemed Co rise .- ."' o5'".'' r..
H.- was QurAl --.p'" wv DE '..i
was u.s. other 'p.ol.' ..-,'" i.1
i.rtt- Mason -.
Joined DIS ''.'"' 49,
.Fe- never "~''-' ......,.,
straight G" .i' -..~,,
have pare" "
searching gaze ,.....-
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.t.r. else co''.' '''- '. .,,. .'' 80 q,
-au inVr>, 7ll.'"- .'
troop was au>rh. OH $40
.nol % young o.Acti VINO ''"' "o' " ..,-'
r...rl boz tA".r AT. |'ia l's - 1"u 'lo
SD, regarded iai''1i'~. .Ie ',@ ,'ei'1
a, perhaps OBJ. mos, Nfo''''',.- %. an ' ei''
-.pa.teru> he was "N eN .e.,, .,, uO' -
man. lur ia'I'.'H' a"" '' ''''''''s, S'
of whom bis mrA Nal ''0'.''' '"S''l
proud. lat .-' ..- .iI,'l-"''o" sway
%. ,-.i .'l.. .'',., sh,~t ~ rbe
f-ri ,,5 horse
."' 10 'l' -, -.
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captain was ,An.N ..- ANA vas o"'p'',''S
........ .....'i. Ill.
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..-'..'.. ..'..i $50, ,,.5 a.
-.- ..5 Lr ,Le tiwe Anil wa>
...r.d ln th.r, was nothing the troop
.->o. Is would not do for their young
commander.
Ea.s sheep. they say. exist in every
fu.s. ars while fftv or more of their
men >wore bv their lieutenant. and We're
proud 90 serve under him. there were
r.raa1, two soldiers in the troop who
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-01-04

y old friend
of the writer
of this pa
per often re-
marks that
the b i b | c
history Of
the children
of Israel and
their heath
enneighbors
always re
mind one of
the present
Indian Gus
toms. Prob
ably the con-
The National tribune., 1891-10-15

ing this command elected these delegates: Charles
II. BHtiplic. Col. Charles II. HRpgood, :. ID I'D
wards, and John d. Billings
Gnmrade Hawkes., Of Washington, has been
spending his ION in Boston aud vicinity, ana
whine here has visited many Posts, before whom lac
Has outlined the prospective plans FOR the entcfiai-
ment Of visiting veterans ga Washington al the
National llncampment next year.
Few veterans aware, they enjoy the bright
smile which perenminlly lights up the features Of
the genial Granger who Is 80 admirably guiding
the destiuies OF the Grand Army of this Depart
mont. that Commander Smith was for nearly Tour
years carpcl-bAgEcr OF The best type. ln lSo9 NC
aud us brother located in Mississippi, where MS
brother WAS elected aud reelected Circuit Judge.
while himself WAS made County Superinlendehi "i
Instruction, Ia this position he cstablsheda lnrEe
number Of colored schools, aud later served ms
Clerk of the Court. Well would ~ have been Tor
that State aud lis people had they retained the
citizenship uf these two sturdy patriots. Had u
done 80 This Department would have lost one OF
lis best Commanders and the Connecticut Ahles
one Of H. sturdicsi Changers,
The 18th anniversary OF Post 40. Maiden, came on
Oct. 2 ~ announced About $50 comrades ana
friends were present. Among The guests present
aud speaking were Maj Mggiu, Department tom-
mHideF Arthur A. Smith, Junior Vice Comnnnder
u w Hall, A. A.-ticn IA. %. Moore. Inspector W. A.
No,herhee, Hon. George w. Walker, Henry L..
Turner, aud others.
Senior Vice Commander Churchliill and Judge
Advocate Puinum viii attend the opening ot a lhir
Nov lO az Milford the fair 20 he under the auspices
of Post %
Hancock Post. Is7. OF Daliou Is to have a grand
Union Campfire Dec ., the first given by this Post.
Tho l7th annual Reunion Of the Massachusetts
Association, Union EN Prisoners Of War. VIII he
held at the armorv If the National Lancers, Bos-
ton. Wednesday, Oct. n, "a j. ~. Dinner at
The a6th annual Reunion Of the lsl Mass. faN.
will be held AT the Hrmory 81 fllc National Lancers,
Boston, "Wednesday. Oct. %, ut ~ ~. Dinner ni =
The annual Reunion of the lst Mass. L. u.s. was
held at Noung's Hotel, Boston, Oct. b. Boston
The National tribune., 1891-10-15
WA
ALMOST FREE.
10 National Tribune
Subscribers Only.

THE NATIONAL tribune has made a
contract for an immense number Of Watches,
and proposes to sell them for a short time
% Subscribers only at prices that will seem
incredible to those people who have a kuowl-
edge of Watches. The most wonderful part
Of this offer is thai, although We can gss
hundreds OF different makes, we c0nfne this
proposition to those made at Watham and
Elgin which, as our readers well know, are
absolutely without rivals. They are I'M
questionably the best Watches in the world.
While we hope and expect to be able to con-
tinue this offer indefinitely, yet il Is possible
that since our profits are so small We may
feel obliged to discontinue il without notice,
and we therefore advise our subscribers 20
order at once. Remember that We GUARANTEES
each and every Watch to be the latest and
best product Of the Waltham or Elgin fac
tories, whichever yOu may select. Our pre-
yiCus offers still hold good, but il is for
your advantage to order from this offer such
Watches as it contains We want it dis
tinctly understood that "a this offer is pri-
marIly for the benefit of veterans we want
them to make as much rs possible By selling
TO their friends. and as soon as it appears
that they have been supplied we expect to
withdraw the offer without notice
We guarantee satisfaction in every case.
Always state whether you wish a Waltham
or an Elgin, and give the number of our
offer
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CHAT WITH CONTRIBUTIONS.

Acceptable contributions received from Alex
der. Aiumnus, Grace, Guidon, j. C. NJ, 10
King. Kosciusko McGinty. Lalla Roolzh, Maiol-
lea. Max, NJ. G. s., Nyas, Oliver Oldbucl, Pro-
teus. Rex Ford, Rokeby, Xiphias, and Zenith.
$50 many veteran puzzler5 responded to our
call for contributions that we are obliged to
give our reunion" in two parts the latter of
which will appear in a few weeks. KosciuskO
McGiuty. A. f. Holt, Rex Ford and Oliver Old
buck are newcomers to Mystery. Their repu-
tations are well established and their work
needs no eulogy from US. Nestor is on hand with
one of his most clever flats; Maude presents a
crvptogram which is far from easy; Alai0lica's
s'sevenD is n fine combination, and Washing
ton is ably represented by Damon. In point
Of excellence of contributed matter, we believe
this issue will compare favorably with any of
its predecessors. while we are justly proud of a
list of so bona ide solvers.-We expected to
publish q brief history and picture Of the vet
eran Nyas this week. but il could not be COM
pleted. Mystery has already made rapid prog
ress, and our biographies will hereafter be an
interesting feature Universal sorrow is felt
at the suspension of Puzzle Calls. Adonis was
an expert puzzle editor. and his department.
was very popular. Nypho, too, is no longer an
editor Like most wholly puzzleistic ventures
Mystic Taps was of but ephemeral usefulness.
Beech Nuts Thedom will appear about
Nov 10. K. D. CHESTER.
~ l591 EUGENE.