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The advocate., 1897-02-17
> Sawyer, Kas.

EDITOR ADvoCATE:-There Is dis
position among many writer's In Kan
sas reform papers to deprecate railroad
legislation. There is much talk about
conservative legislation. Webster
says, Conservation Is the desire and
effort to preserve what is established,
and that a conservative is one who
aims to preserve and maintain an In
stitution in it's present state" And
this Is Populism, is itp For Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Michigan,
and perhaps other States, 1t is Repub-
liCan and Democratic. Bills are to be
introduced in the Legislature with a
good prospect Of becoming law to re.
duCe passenger rates to 2 cents. The
allied silver forces Of Kansas expect
nothing less than that it shall become
law, together with such measures as
will reduce the present exorbltsnt
freight rates. Some method should be
found to prevent discrimination be-
tween shippers either by rebates or
otherwise.
In Cherokee and Crawford counties,
the greatest industry is coal mining.
Under the control of the new coal
combine, or more properly, coal trust,
unless there is some control or regulS.
tion Of rates, the small operator out
side Of the combine will simply have
to close down and 90 out Of business.
Some coal shafts belonging to the com.
bine have already been closed, In
order that the output may be con.
trolled, and by this method control the
price. The effect Of this, to the small
operator as well as the consumer, can
easily be guessed, but perhaps the
heaviest burden will fall on those least
able to bear 1.-THE miners. Will some
well.posted plutoCrat please give some
reason why the miner, who does about
all the work In producing coal, who
daily takes his life In his own hands,
should usually be but @ few days
ahead Of stsrVstiOnP Those In the re.
form movement are nearly all farmers,
miners, mechanics, merchants OF small
capital, and possibly a majority Of
railroad employees. How can anyone
give good reason why we should be
conservative, using the term as de-
fined in the dictionary A matter Is
either radically right or radically
wrong. Only 9 few people, and they
of the interested class, dare question
the honesty Of Kansas people. We
propose to pay all of our debts, and all
we ask is equal opportunities. We
ask no legislation In our individual In
teEest that we are not willing to con-
cede to corporations. Railroad ex-
penses are paid from the income Of
travel and traffic. All they pretend to
ask Of the people is enough TO pay op-
Grating expenses, interest, taxes and
small dividends. Shall our Legislature
maintain present rates to cover high
salaries of corporation attorneys, at
least double capitalization, the past
system in which those most able to pay
ride free to enable them to pay their
contributions to campaign funds. l
think not. A. r. LEEPER.
Cherokee, KSs.
The advocate., 1897-02-17

EAbL6ru OJAJeb Will buuICo W Ao9VO
every one Of the minority without actual
representation in the Electoral College.
But right lie right and your d1ty is to
work In the direction Of real represen-
tatlOn of GlI the people, whether Of the
majority or minority, regardless Of
politics, race or sex.
Every State board Tor the manage
ment of any State institution or num-
Der of institutions, should be composed
of only three members--that is enough.
Not more than two Of these should be
of the same politics or sex. If the
members are elective, then require
County Clerks to put no more than two
candidates on the ticket of any one
party. This will enable the minority
party to elect one member. Boards
receiving no salary might, Of course,
have more than three members. 1t is
q mistake to tumble the defective, dc.
pendent and delinquent classes of the
State all together under the care Of
one board of "charities."
You will change the ballot law some
what, but only to improve it, let US
hope. The writer has already made
some suggestions on the subject in
these columns, and a Doniphsn county
citizen has added some excellent ones
about registration of voters, appoint
ment of election judges and clerks by
their party organizations instead of by
the trustees. To count ballots each
hour, as some propose, Is unwise, ex-
cept perhaps where l50 or more votes
are cast, and then the count need not
begin before noon. Counting each
hour will certainly have the result Of
reducing the chances Of secrecy, which
is the great aim of the Australian sys-
tenn. If but few votes are cast In
any one hour, 1t can be readily deter
mined about how certain men voted.
The announcement of the vote each
hour will be chiefly useful to our op.
ponents, who have the power of wealth.
If the vote is going against them, they
can use their money, their power of
coercion and intimidation and such
other influences az they control, to
change the vote before the polls close.
Many minor matters will claim q
share of attention in your work for the
common veal, as q mutual insurance
law, whereby farmers may be enabled
to protect themselves against loss by
fire, or such other casualties as they
may name. Such an organization
within the limits Of county would be
better and cheaper than foreign 1nsur-
ance companies, but as our laws now
stand to organize mutual companies ID
NAAuOuAts
The law governing township oTgani-
zation should be thoroughly over
hauled and the term Of all township
officers made two years. They, together
with all county officers, should be
elected in even years only. The salar-
lea of Trustees and others should not
exceed SO a day. That's more than
they can make at almost anything else
nowadays. The number Of Justices OF
the Peace should be reduced to not
more than one for a municipal town
ship of six miles square, and not more
than two for larger township, except
Ia NawAu a.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

1t is often desirable to join sheets
of mica, and a very simple operation
will secure that result. Put clear
gelatin into cold water; let it remain
until it is softened, then press out any
excess of water with a soft cloth. Put
it over a water bath until it melts, then
add heated proof spirit to make it fluid,
being extremely careful not to put too
much of the spirit-simply enough to
liquify it. Meanwhile dissolve one and
one-third unc of gum mastic and
o%ne-fourth ounce of gum ammoniac in
four ounces of rectified spirit. Add
this to the gelatin and spirit solution,
stirring it very carefully, keeping the
mass in motion continually until it is
perfectly blended. Put it in glass STOP
pered bottles and see that it is perfect
" sealed. Warm 1t when wanted for
use and apply quickly. Then press
the sheets together and place a very
light weight on them, leaving them to
dry for several days.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
A New Cement,

Report is made in the chemical Jour-
nails of a new kind of cement COM
pound which has been introduced in
Europe with very satisfactory results.
This substance, to which the name of
"petriite" is given, is intended to be
used for the conversion of organic or
inorganic matter-whether it be waste,
wet or dry, pure or mixed-into a hard,
durable mass impervious to water, of
great strength and fire. from all at
mospheric influences. The compost
ton employed is not stated, but it is
in the form of a white powder, and the
statement is made that, mixed with
sand, it produces a sandstone of dur
able quality; with sawdust a body sim
liar to hardwood, but indestructible,
while with slate waste the result is an
agreeable marble. acc ording to the
Chemical Trade Journal the most re-
liable chemical authorities who have
examined and experimental with this
product have expressed very favorable
opinions as to it's value, and Prof.
Banschinger of the Munich laboratory,
who is one of the leading experts in
all such matters, states that the wear
ing quality of this new substance, with
sawdust, is equal to the best granite
and basalt.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

The web of the Madagascar spider
is to be utilized for the purposes of
silk manufacturing by a company of
French capitalists. The natives of the
island where this spider thrives know
very we'll the good qualities of this
thread, but their innate laziness pre-
vents their applying themselves to the
systematic exploitation of the webs. It
is still remembered that the Creoles of
Mauritius presented Empress Eugene
with a pair of mittens made of his spi-
der's threads, which were so fine that
they could hardly be noticed on her
hands, Tor they were almost transpa-
rent and ~colorless. A French natural
list has recently ascertained that the
Madagascar spider produces at the be-
ginning of its work more than 100
yards of thread per hour, increasing in
quantity until it produces more than
$50 yards per hour. A newly-construct-
ed little. machine, which winds the
thread on bobbins automatically imme-
diately from the spider, is to be en-
ployed in Madagascar. The spiders
themselves are to be raised systematic
cally in enormous numbers, and al
though the fabrics made from the new
material may be ~stupendously costly
al first, it is not unlikely that the pres
ent generation will live to see dresses
made of spider web.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
The Vanishing Mountains.

In a paper which he recently read
before the Scientific Congress at Paris,
M. de Lapparent expressed the opin-
ion that all mountains will vanish off
the face of the earth in course of time.
He declared that if the actual natural
forces at work upon our globe retain
their present intensity, in 1850, 900
years all inequalities of surface will
be levelled. He instanced as a striking
example the reduction of the Arden
mes. which were once a chain Of the
Alps, but which had already shrunk to
their present dimensions at the outset
of the Tertiary epoch. The Alps, he
said, exemplifed the youth, the Pyre-
nees the maturity, and the mountains
of Provence the declining years of
mountain ranges, while the central
plateau of France was typical of their
death and dissolution.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

death, told him: I'VE are now a peo-
pie without eyes, without ears, with
out a mind" Another portrait is that
of Tanapa, a Nayaho4woman, who took
her hair out of braid before standing
FOR the camera The Navahoes dwell
In houses of a very simple character.
The most common form consists of. a
conlcal frame, made by. setting UP a
lumber of sticks at an angle of forty
nVe degrees. An opening is left in one
side to answer as. a doorway The
frame is covered with weed, bark or
grass and earth, except at the apex,
Wher the smoke from the fire in the
center of the floor escapes Some
lodges are. built of logs in polygonal
form. Again, they are occasionally
built Of stone. Adjacent tedthe hut is
a rude shelter of branches where, in
fair weather, the family often cook
and spend most of the day.
In summer they build much sim
pier houses with a framework of
forked sticks, with a wind-break on
one side of slanting poles covered with
grass and leaves and earth. Their
medicine lodges are usually built in
the form of the ordinary hogan or hut.
They also have sweat houses or suda-
tories, ~diminutive hogans, except that
they have no smoke holes, as fire is
never kindled in them. They are
sometimes sunk partly underground
and are always thickly covered with
earth. Stones are heated in a. fire out
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
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. 1@eSepds Of fbe Ma9aboes. :
Ri III Observation-Disclosures

At the meeting of the American Folk
Lore society in Philadelphia in De-
cember, 1885, the president, Doctor
washington Matthews, read a pa
per on the poetry and music of the
NaVaho Indians. He stated that
these Indians had a number of lengthy
legends, so numerous that he never
p to collect them all; an elaborate
religloh with symbolism and allegory
Ihat might vie with that of the Greeks;
ormulate prayers and m~ultitudinous
songs, composed Of all subjects. and
p for every circumstance of life.
we v grown somewhat accustom-
ed or recent years to hearing similar
statements about the American In
dams, but those who have described
The indian as a poet have as a rule
compelled us to reply upon their mere
assertions. When they have published
specimens of aboriginal tales and
legends they have been either SO adapt.
&c and improved as to lose their native
character, or so disfigured with strange
'alphaDets and unmeaning words as To
remain unintelligible to English read
ers.
Or. Matthews statements challenged
the attention of scholars in other
fields, who doubted that any such re-
hnement of thought and complexity of
ceremonial could exist among our re-
mote and ignorant savages. So little,
indeed, is generally known of the in
ner life of the Indian that when his
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a prosperous and wealthy people. Such
Trey now are for savages.
DR.. Matthews states that no exact
census has ever been taken, but from
various estimates it would appear they
comprise from 1000 to 10000 souls.
While classified by ethnologists as
belonging to the A~thabascah Stock;
their origin legend represents them as
d very mixed race, containing an
admiXture OF Ztinian and other Pueblo
stocks. There is nc general or prevail
ing Navajo type. Every variety of In
dan form and face is seen among
them. Their "countenances are as a
rule intelligent and expressive; some
stern and angry; some pleasant and
smiling; others calm and thoughtful;
but seldom are they dull or stupid.
The position of women is one of great
independence, and much Of the wealth
of the nation belongs to them; they
are managers Of their own property,
the owners of their own children and
their freedom lends character to their
physiognomies.
Manuelito, whose portrait Is repro
duced, was many years an influential
chief. Latterly he lost much of his
Influence through his Incorporate
habits, though he was regarded as a
sage counselor until the time of his
death, which occurred in 1893. Dr..
MQtthnuFC cfaton fL.A rI1-
some, an old Indian, in announcing his
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accounts were quoted it was urged that
he should make good his assertions to
the world.
There. are probably half a dozen per-
sons living who have an intimate &C
q%uaintance with Indian thought n
feeling and are able to record and ex-
plain it. Frank H. Gushing of the Zu-
mis-; ]. Walter +Fewkes' of the Mokis;
Alice G. Fletcher of the Omahas; James
Mooney of the Kiowas; Franz Boas of
the Northwest coast tribes, and DR..
Washington : Matthews of the Nava-
joes. Their opportunity has been iii
each instance unique. They have
learned the, lore of savages. from their
own lips as it was never learned be-
fore on this continent and as it will
be impossible to learn it after another
generation.
1t was for the purpose of stimulating
such collecting and for the publication
OF their work that the American Folk
Lore Society was organized in 1888,
and the last publication of this society.
a beautifully printed and illustrated
memoir of 900. pages, is devoted to DR..
Matthew'S admirable collection enti-
tied Navajo Legends (Houghton, Mif-
fin & Co., 1891. This work is in many
respects the most complete and perfect
study OF an Indian tribe that has yet
appeared. Taken in connection with
DR.. MattheWs%other papers on the Ma
vahoes, of which noJless than nineteen
titles are given in the excellent biblio-
graphy by Mr.. f. w. Hodge, appended
to this volume, we are furnished with
which, were 1t supplemented by equal
ly reliable publications concerning 9TH
er tribes, would endow with new inter-
est the surviving remnants of our ma
tive races. Fortunately, through the
efforts of the Bureau of American Eth
nology at Washington, an earnest at
tempt is being made to collect this
widely scattered material sbefore it is
forever too late.
The NavahOes are a tribe of the
great AthahaEcan ste OK, living in New
Mexico and Arizona and partly in Col
CIV ohu Otuh' my u uCllllLC
reservation of 10000 square miles in
the two Territories, but isolated famil-
les and small bands are found dwelling
where there are springs and other wa
ter supply in every direction beyond its
borders. Their land is arid, although
not an absolute desert, and lies at an
altitude of from 1000 to II, 900 feet.
Fortunately for them no mines of pre-
cious metal have been discovered up
on their reservation. They do not cul-
tivate the soil to any extent. Their
sterile country is fairly we'll adapted
to raising sheep and goats, which fur
nish their chief, supply, and the wool
of the sheep constitutes their chief
supply of wealth. AS domesticated
sheep and goats were unknown in
America previous to the discovery by
Columbus and in Mexico before Core
nado's expedition in 1910, it follows
that the Navan les have not been shep-
herds for many centuries. Indeed, it
would appear from their legends thu
It is not many years since they became
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

experiences in the treatment of wound
ed hearts. 1t has always been held
that ninety per cent of such cases must
prove fatal, death being caused either
by shock or by the flow of blood into
the p~ericardial cavity, whereby the
hearts action is gradually brought to
a s%tandstill. Hitherto no serious at
tempts have been made to save the pa
tents life. Herr Relin, however, con
celved the daring idea of applying pre-
clsely the same treatment that would
be used In the case of an external
wound. A mar was brought into the
hospital dying from a stab in the
heart: He laid bare the organ, and
succeeded in checking the hemorrhage
by means of a suture. The patient
made a capital recovery, and was pro-
duced before the congress alive and
well.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02

h4oos
have been when this %stupendous work
was finished. Modern methods OF
building are rebuked by some OF these
old piles, and it has been questioned
nov much of our best work will be In
evidence 5000 years hence. History
tells us that the canal known as Bahr
Joussuf was constructed 1000 years ago
and is yet fulfilling the purpose for
which 1t was made. The canal runs
almost parallel with the river Nile for
about two hundred and fifty miles. 1t
turns and curves, creeping through
meadows and along the foot hills,
carefully preserving it's level until it
reaches a point where it turns west
ward, and running through a narrow
pass, reaches a district which without
1T would be a desert incapable of cul-
t1vation and devoid of vegetable prod
ucts which would sustain life. OF course
h statement that it was built by Jo-
seph, the son of Jacob, may or may not
be true. but that it is of untold i'm
portance to that region need not be
stated. There are traditions that this
canal was originally intended to sup
ply a lake which was nearly five hun
dred miles in circumference, and that
this lake was the source of fish supply
OF that region, and that the value of
this product was at least two hundred
and fifty thousand pounds a year.
Modern engineers are giving more at
tention to old time methods than they
did half a century ago.. They are
learning that undue haste and undue
cheapness are not at all profitable.
They are also learning that here is
room for even more knowledge on the
subject, that cheap materials and
scamp work are not to be relied upon.
When these old builders built they
builded to the glory of God and not to
the enriching of the contractors who
took the job.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Fire-PrOOf Babies,

Babies need no longer burn to death,
Wise men have discovered and practi-
cal mothers have adopted a solution
which renders clothing absolutely fire.
proof. The Siebrath formula repre-
sents a prescription consisting of 5 per
cent alum and 5 per cent phosphate of
ammonia, which renders the substance
absolutely non-inflammable. All that
is necessary is to steep the clothing in
this solution and the tissues so treated
will resist the flames, ever if they have
previously been rubbed with gunpow-
der,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
A Shrewd ~ScOtchman,

The Scottish-American tells a story OF
a cobbler who was sentenced by d
Scottish magistrate to pay a fine of halt
a crown, or, in default, twenty-fou1
hours hard labor. If he chose tie lat.
ter, he would be taken to the jail at
Perth. "Then I'll go to PERTH" he said
for I've some business there" An Off.
cial conveyed him to Perth but when
The cobbler reached the Jail he said he
would pay the fine. The governor found
he would have to take it. "And now,'
said the cObbler, 81 want my fare
home" The governor demurred, but
discovered there was no alternative.
the prisoner must be sent, at public ex
pense. to the place he had been brought
from. The cobbler was siXpence ahead
through his shrewdness.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Another Triumph of Surgery.

Every day brings tidings of some
new victory in the field of operative
surgery, these triumphs being mainly
due to the iudicious boldness of pro-
fessional men, aided by the antiseptic
method and an increased knowledge of
anaesthetics. At Berlin a day or two
ago Herr Relin, of Frankfort-on-the-
Main, astonished the members of the
Surgical Congress by recounting his
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
Can the Nervous System Be E~ducated9

Can the Nervous System Be Educated?
The question of the susceptibility Of
the nervous system for training came
up in a scientific discussion not long
since. There was a good deal of diff
ference of opinion as to the possibility
of training the nerves. According to
the most comprehensive opinion a
great deal depends on the owner of the
nerves. 1t is possible to train certain
classes and conditions, while others
are hopelessly unsusceptible. The will
of the individual, the pliability, or
rather the impressionability, has ev-
erything to do with successful nerve
training. AS a matter of fact, the de-
sire to be trained must be present
first of all. 1t comes from within. and.
prompted by the desire of the individ-
ual a course of training may bring
about the happiest results. Train
ing nerves against the will of the pa
tient reminds one of the old adage of
convincing a man against his will
"he is of the same opinion STILL"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-02
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