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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
AN ODD REUNION or sIoUx.
Return to Old Hnunts-SIuaws i'm
Tears for Dead PaEeface.

Within six miles of the business center
of ST. Paul there is an encampment of
Sioux Indians. 1t was the custom many
years ago for all of the Sioux who could
manage to get here to gather twice each
year on the bank of the Mississippi, near
Red Rock, for the purpose Of hunting, nsh-
ing and having good time generally. For
many years the custom has been abandoned,
but last Saturday, TO the great surprise or
the people living in that vicinity, the IN
dams began gathering from all directions,
good many in wagons, some on ponies,
number walking and few even arriving by
train. BY Saturday evening there were fully
two hundred Indians together. and then the
fun began, They were evidently glad to be
together again, for they set up large pole
in the middle of the camp and danced
about it.
The scene was weird one. and seeing il
one could easily imagine that there was
no such thing as civilization within a hum
dred miles. The women did not dance, but
the men who did were dressed semi barbar-
ousy. They wore shirts, trousers and bead
ed moccasins, whiic long strings of beads
wound around and around their necks and
bright colored sashes made their costumes
picturesque As they danced they chanted
a song of welcome in the Dacotah tongue,
and beat steadily upon their tom-toms.
small drums. There was one rather Pc
culiar thing about their actions-they never
appeared to see one another as they wound
in and out in the queer serpentine move
mentS of the dance.
Yesterday when the camp was visited by
the Dispatch, it was very quiet and, TX
cept for the smoke rising among the trees.
there was no visible or audible sign of The
presence of the barbarious tribe, until. fol-
lowing the trail into the woods, the whole
village was suddenly in full view. Groups
of young girls were standing about and an
old squaw was bringing. firewood upon heR
back, and number of young men We're
trying feats of strength In one of the
tepees, which stood by itself apart from
the others, was a young man, evidently a
leader among them, who acted as spoxes-
man. He, it seems, is a son of the old
chief of the tribe. who used to live at
Kapiosa. AS a sign of his rank he wears a
shirt with bosom Of solid bead work OF
most elaborate design. His Indian name is
Kaiah, but in English he is called Samuel
Thomas. The two Oldest men of the party
are Tasnonwonhdi and Tukancandska.
A little incident which occurred yesterday
morning would show that these people
have a great deal of feeling, although they
do not often show it. Two of the oldest
squaws in the party went to the Ford res
idence and asked for the elder Mrs. Ford,
whom they had known many years ago
and who had learned their language when
she came to this country sixty years ago.
and had always been very kind to them.
Mrs. Ford died last winter and when told
of this the old SQuaWS cried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
BLUEGRASS SEED.
The Seed of the Grass Which Makes
the Finest Pasture ON the FootstoOI.
New York Sur

New YORK sun
Yes. yes" remarked the Kentuckian in
New York buying goods because the
Merchants Association had made it worth
his while to come that way Kentucky is
the only really bluegrass State, and while
she raises the grass, it is no small thing
when you come to talk about the crop of
grass seed. The era of prosperity is with
it this year, and the crop viii amount to
about 400 600 bushels. though some years it
isn't more than half that. The best of this
called fancy is worth g cents in the ware
house. or so cents in New York, and the
second grade known as extra clean is
worth IS cents in the warehouse AS the
most of it is high grade, you will see that
as bluegrass. At the same time the industry
Is not what you might think 1t was, and
there are only three seed-eleaners in the
other two at Paris. ST. Louis and Kansas
City have a couple, / think, but their out
put is very small. as kentucky raises the
great bulk of the seed sold. Ohio, Missouri
and Illinois are the only other States which
raise more than they use, and their output
is hardly worth counting
"As you know, bluegrass is never moved
so that there is no such thing as a blue
grass meadow. 1t is pasture instead, and
the grass is grazed entirely. Ii depends
then. upon how much pasture is grazed
as to how much of a yield of seed may be
had from 1t. but from eight to fifteen
bushels TO the acre is the way 1t runs The
harvest time is from the Sth to the 18th of
June, and the harvesting is done with a
'stripper a machine which is drawn
through the grass and strips off the heads
of It, catching il up as it goes along. This
is the seed in the rough and it is worth to
the farmer IS cents bushel. 1T is taken
then and dried until about the middle of
August. when ii is cleaned and put in sacks
for shipment. 1t used to be that dealers
waited until the next spring TO buy. but in
recent years the sooner they can get il the
better they are satisfied These are export
dealers exclusively, and all of the first crop
i'm goes abroad.
Bluegrass Is minutely fine. and so far
there has never been real effective clean
er made for ii, each man getting up the best
thing he can. As there are only five or six
cleaners in the country. the demand for
cleaners Is hardly enough to develop the tall
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dancing. Many of these little suburban
cafes have. in their front, squares of as
phalt specially prepared for these terpsi-
chorean exercises, and one may see some-
times. at once. half dozen of the bridal
parties bobbing in the two-step or swaying
in the waltz. These festivities are often
prolonged until after dinner and into the
evening Very often the new husband.
after a sufficient number of cafes has been
visited. becomes furiously jealous of his
masculine friends who in all innocence,
seek to compliment him by paying marked
attention to the bride. The Figaro the
other day had an amusing account of such
a party when the bridegroom, after pum-
melting his best man, turned his jealous
rage upon the bride herself. who was res
cued from his violence and carried home in
tears by her indignant mamma. That IS,
the account was meant 70 be amusing.
though 1t seems a sad beginning to the
married state. Another gay and festive
bridegroom. when the bill for dejeuner was
presented. confessed that he didn't have
sou to pay. and after a stormy scene. the
mortified father of the bride had to foot
the breakfast bill. But he had his revenge
by refusing to tip the walters.
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Letter in New York Evening Post.
The fashion of getting married is very
much in vogue in Paris during these days
of early fall The wedding festival among
the working people is a source Of amending
amusement to foreign eyes The favorite
DAYS for these celebrations are Thursdays
and Saturdays when one is continually en-
countering these strange bridal carriages,
all made of glass with white framework.
revealing to the gaze OF all passers the
bride all in white, the rev husband by her
side in his dress suit or black. white tie
and white gloves, and the dernure brides
maid on the seat opposite. while a string
of ordinary carriages rumbles behind with
the papas-in-law, the mammas- ln-law, ana
other relatives and friends This process
sion. at which all look with smiles Of
friendly sympathy. Is on its way to the
wedding breakfast. probably in the Bois or
al st Cloud or some other yerdant sub
urb. After this dejeuner there Is dance.
and then the afternoon is spent IN driving
from one cafe TO another drinking ah0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

my last 1t is true that it partakes of the
character of much household service. in
that II is ever doing and is never done: but
there IS feeling of accomplishment in the
TACT OF getting my quarters clean and the
grounds in order, and in keeping them so,
although it be at the cost of labor always
repeated and never ended.
Perhaps 1t is because l am still haunted
by the thoughts of the cruel bondage of un-
skilled labor, under which men exhaust
their powers of body and mind and soul
at work that. in the very conditions of its
doing, seems to harden them into slaves
instead of strengthening them into men.
that fail to feel keenly the want Of time
that 1 can call my own. | have an inde-
pendence Of vastly better sort in having
work which l can cali my own and which I
can do with some human pleasure and in
terest ana profit in its performance how
ever hard it may be
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

i. Steffens, In ScriDner.
The theory which underlies the methods

J. L. Steffens, in Scrbner.
The theory which underlies the methods
of conducting the business Especially,
though not exclusively. at the beginning of
an enterprise) is that most people buy Il
newspaper for a sensation, and the reward
for gratifying this demand is advertise
ment which increases circulation. When a
man opens his paper on his way down town
after breakfast or on his way home after
a days work, he wants a surprise--shocks
laughter tears. If 1t were something TO
think about that he wanted, the best COM
modify to offer for sale might be editorial
essays and important facts. But the com
mercial journalist. after studying and test
ing his market is convinced that his GUS
toners prefer something to talk about
There are some who do not, but they are
quickly disposed Of
What good does IL do me-" said a sue
cessful manager, Ito send a man off in a
day dream? ! might as we'll put him to
sleep. What ] want is the reader who likes
to talk. and then l want TO set him talking:
to make him turn to the next man and ask
him If he has read something in my paper.
That advertises the paper and sells 1t,
which Is the thing | am after. / have no
mission. W know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
As Surely as Sparks Fly Upward

So surely will sleeplessness, nervousness,
loss of appetite and similar troubles shatter
the constitution, make it an easy prey to
all Understanding diseases Bicola pills. the
new discovery, cure all nervous and blood
troubles Bcola Pills make the heart right.
lungs right. nerves right. because they make
the blood right As female regulator BIZ
cola Pills are Invaluable furnishing pufe
blood 10 the brain and spinal cord Bicola
Pills. discovered and perfected by the Tur-
ners. of Philadelphia. The Turner's also
make
PO-MELIA-The infants friend the in
valid's henefactor. A perfect food. A new
discovery for the little ones and for the
weak.
TURNER'S LITTLE LIVER TURNER'S
A very small pill. Turns your liver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03
1T WAS HARD WORK.
A College Graduate as Day LabOreI
and Hotel Porter.
Walter a. Wyckoff, in scribner.

Waiter a. Wyckoff IN Scrihner.
L worked for nine hours and quarter at
West Point and had, at the end of the
DAVIS labor If the weather had been good
IS cents above actual living expenses. Here
| have usually worked from o'clock in the
morning until II at night at all manner
of mental drudgery and have gone TO bed
in the comfortable assurance that, in adj
dtion to food and shelter. / have earned 26
cents and q fraction. And yet. as u matter
of choice, purely with reference to the con-
ditions under which the work is done. /
should infinitely prefer a week of my pres
emit duties to a single day at such labor as
that at West Point
The work here is specific and It is mre
to be done as best | can. Responsibility and
initiative and personal pride enter here and
render the eighteen hours Of this work in
comparably shorter than the nine hours Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-03

Ihui macy, r; I. Eads, II. C. Pomeroy. Frank
Carter, Sig. MuehL Fisher Phafmacy, L Ill.
Renkert, l. N Helms, l.. A. Gable. Baron Bros,
1. s: Stoekman. J, =. Gauld, George Borst chas;
Rolling. Charles Watson Edward Reck, Conrad
Keller, c. w. Eichrodt, c. E. Ruch HadIev
Bros, Alma Babb Charles Lambert Claude
Field, A. NJ. Eyster. r. j.. Steward. Gus Lender,
A ID. Monirger. North lndianapolis--A. y. Ganld
& Bro. West ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hahn.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
AGRICULTURAL.
Edited by J w Palmer Matamoras,
Pa, to whom address all communications
intended for this department
4 LAW oHANen NEEDED.

The vinegar law of this state is
law makers Under the require
ments, farmers are greatly wroDged.
Four and a half per cent of acetic
acid is required to be present in it
and any person who manufactures
for sale, keeps for sale or offers for
sale any vinegar containing less
than that amount is liable to pen
atty Of 500.
As rule, vinegar made from
cider contains the requisite amount
of acid, but the farmer does not
know how to test it and dealers will
not buy it unless he can guarantee
the vinegar to be up to the standard
If the state is so solicitcus for quail
ity of vinegar, it should furnish in
spectors ON the demand of any
farmer who makes it, to test it free
of charge and thus make it marketa-
BILE. At the present time, all over
the state there are immense guam
titles of vinegar in farmers cellars
which they cannot dispose of be-
cause of the laws restrictions. The
statute is clearly in the interest Oi
men who make vinegar as a business
and as clearly opposed to the inter.
ests of the farmer, whose vinegar
as a rule, is better and purer thar
that made by the trade.
Further, the law requires thai
every farmer shall brand on every
barrel he may sell, his name, place
of business and the words " eide
vinegar" which is a foolish expense
and which serves no wise purpose
One of the two things the state
should do-repeal the law in its en-
tirety or provide free inspection and
an official certificate of its standing
when so required. The branding
clause is simply useless and shoul'
be stricken out.
The above editorial from the New
York Farmer applies so we'll fo
this state, that we republish it TO
the benefit of our readers. Only til,
other day, the writer was told by I
groceryman that he would buy hi
vinegar, providing we would stant
the fine if it should fail to pass tn
Pennsylvania state test.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT.

Official figures continue to show
such prosperity as has not been
known for many years. The ex-
porta ton of wheat in November was
nearly fifty per cent larger than
during last year, and the shipments
of last week from the Atlantic ports
are the largest recorded in any
week for many years, if not at any
time in the history of the country
In round numbers the actual exports
of wheat for the crop year thus far
has been hundred million bushels.
If the increase in price is taken in
consideration it will be seen that
farmers are getting a large sum Of
money for their crop this year.
Corn is also being largely export
ed, the increase for November being
nearly a million bushels in excess of
the month last year
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
THE TWO SUGARS.

Many people will be surprised to
learn that the production of beet SUI
gar is decidedly greater than the pro-
duction of cane sugar. This fact is
brought out, however, in a late
number of the Forum, by on article
from the pen of e. f. Atkins, in
which he places the production of
beet sugar for the world in the year
1867 at 4,991, 900 tons of which the
United States produced 10000 tons,
against total of 2,s46, 500 tons of
States produced y775t,, ,,6ob t5Ahas. tt5Aas nittfhfas nfittfhfas
certainly indica tes that efforts to
test the ability of various sections
of this country to advantageously
produce beet sugar are based on
sound reasoning-Stockman and
Farmer.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
OUR EXPORTS INCREASE.

Thirteen nations offered formal
prote SITS against the Dingley tariff
bill, probably larger number then
ever before. The records of our
commerce since that law went into
effect show that in the face of nearly
every country thus protesting our
sales have increased under the law,
instead of decreasing, as was pre-
dicted by the opponents of the bill.
Taking the thirteen countries which
offered protests, and comparing
their purchases from us in the first
two months of its operations with
the corresponding months of the
preceding year, they are found to be
twenty-five million dollars greater.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
Where the Wild Pigeons Are.

Thirty years ago there were large
numbers of this wild wood bird in
this section, and flocks containing g
hundreds if not thousands were
common. They disappeared almost
as if by magic and there has been
much speculation as to where they
went 1t did not seem as though
they could have been exterminated,
and while the face of the country
remained practically unchanged,
they suddenly ana without apparent
cause deserted it, and for many
years the sight of a single wild pig
con to say nothing of f1ocks of any
size has been unusual. A correspon-
dent in an ElPaso Texas paper writes
that August 3rd he returned from q
trip over the new Rio Grande, Sierra
Madre and Pacific railroad running
from Ell Paso into Mexico about
one-hundred miles into an unin-
hablted heavily timbered coun-
try. He found wild pigeons there in
bunch of timber oak by the thou.
sand, which to all appearance were
the same birds which darkened our
skies years ago. The location mon.
toned is in the Sierra Madre range
of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico, and
is a new wonderland which has
hitherto remained undiscovered and
until short time ago has been the
roaming ground of the Apache. It
has great forests of oak and pine
which make it fitting abode for
the birds while in tho valleys large
quantities of corn and other cereals
are cultivated.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03

the books as occasional attendants,
but now they are regularly in place
and will be until after the Chr ist-
mas distribution when their zeal
will again flag and they will become
It is adoubtful policy to
thus encourage such boys and girls,
and has on the whole demoralizing
effect on theschool. Those who at
tend regularly, are not slow to dis
cover that their material reward is
perhaps no greater than that of
those who do not, and children often
guage their actions by no higher
standard. If presents are given to
those irregular i'll attendance at all
there should be system by which
absences should count against them
and certain number of marks de-
bar them from anything more than
recognition. There is no reason
why every boy and girl in Milford
should not attend some Sunday
school, no more than there is why
the parents should not attend church.
and if the Christmas presents were
Withheld from those who do not with
reasonable regularity appear the de.
privation might be one inducement
for better attendance, though by
no means the highest.
Now boys and girls try next yeal
and see if you cannot become regu-
lar attendants, aud 50 deserve not
only the commendation of having
done your duty, but the present yol
expect to receive as we'll.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
Five Arab MssIms.

Never tell all you know: for ne
who tells everything he knows often
tells more than he knows.
Never attempt all you can do f;
for he who attempts everything he
can do often attempts more than he
can do.
Never believe all you hear for he
who believes all that he hears often
believes moro than he hears.
Never lay out all you can afford /;
for he who lays out everything he
can afford lays out more than he can
afford.
Never decide upon all you may
see for he who decides upon all that
he sees often decides on more than
he sees.-Christian Work.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
Artificial flowers.

In London and Paris thousands of
women aud girls are employed in
the artificial flower trade. The
petals have been heretofore made of
silk, satin, muslin and velvet colored
and then skillfully fashioned into the
semblance of blossoms. This, Cas-
sells Magazine says, is all about to be
revolutionized by the discovery of
substance for flower making which
wholly eclipses the most delicate
textile materials ever manufactured
and which will probably take their
place for this purpose. 1t is a very
thin shaving from the inner pith of
an oriental palm that grows in
Form osa, and can be compared to
nothing so well as the almost trans
parent petal of white poppy or a
delicate tea rose. A lily petal is
robust in comparison with this mar
vellous substance which has all the
sheen and translucence, and even
the slightly frosted appearance, seen
in some white flowers.
1t can be tinted far better than
silk or muslin, and is practically in
destructible. In wet weather it
gives and falls a little limp, just
as real flowers do, but when the sun
comes out it crisps, reasserts itself
and takes a new lease of life and
beauty.
So admirably adapted are roses
and carnations made of it for button
hole and other bouquets that when
fairly on the market they will most
likely make a considerable differ
ence toithe florists, as the fadeless
flowers never really droop, and will
do duty over and over again.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-03
Political Gossip.


that Congress will promptly ratify
the Hawaiian annexation treaty, as
has already been done by the
Hawaiian Congress.
The country will congratulate
Chairman Dingley on his new tariff
law when Congress meets. Neither
he nor Congress will have occasion
to be ashamed of its record.
THOSE newspapers which were
talking of defeating Mark Hanna"
for the Senate have suspended that
kind of talk since the sentiment of
the country has been heard on that
proposition.
THE attention of Mr.. Bryan is re-
spectfully called to the fact that
there are whispered rumors from
Mexico that it's statesmen and finan-
eies'svrePs vaeeinpslV couteJJnnlatipg
A growing disposition is reported
among the statesmen of China to
adopt the gold standard, and there
is reason to believe that that gov
ernment will shortly follow in the
tteps of Japan, and lay aside the
silver standard, under which it now
suffers such inconvenience.
"SEoRETARY Bliss has evidently
carried his business habits with him
to the Interior Department. He
has succeeded in getting down the
estimates of his subordinates for the
next fiscal year over 100000
This is an effective way every time
of fighting a deficit. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
THAT self-appointed +" commits
sion" of silver men who went to ia
pan in August to find out the real
cause of the adoption of the gold
standard by that country doesn' t
seem to be in any hurry about re-
porting. Can it be possible that
the Japanese gold-standard states
men have converted them ? Or did
they find the facts against them ?
THERE s no particular cause for
alarm over the announcement that
Mr.. Bryan and his silver associates,
who recently put their heads togeth-
er at Louisville, are deter mined to
keep up the fight for silver" The
facts are that the Republicans made
gains in the countries which Mr..
Bryan visited in Ohio, and also
made gains in the cities which he
visited last year.
Work on the reciprocity features
of the new tariff law is making
splendid progress. A dozen or more
countries have already indicated a
desire to enter into reciprocal rela-
tions with the United States, and
there is every reason to believe that
this feature of the new law will
prove even more satisfactory than
did the reciprocity features of the
Mckinley law.
Grave doubts are expressed by the
Chicago Tribune as to whether the
merchants or farmers OF the United
States want war with Spain. 1t
argues that both these classes are
just beginning to feel the steady in
huence of a conservative admins
tration at Washington, and any
steps which lead to or even threaten
war with Spain would seriously |
affect the improved conditions.