davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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sciatlc RheumatI.m Cured.

L. Wagner, wholesale druggist
Richmond. Va, says: Il had a fear
full attack of sciatic rheumatism, was
laid up almost two months; was for
tunate enough TO get Mystic Cure for
rheumatism. This cured me after
doctors prescriptions had failed to
have any effect. l have also heard of
fine results from others who have
used it."
Sold by C:.o croJan, 1901 Second
avenue. Rock stand; Gust Schlegel x
Son, 220 West second street. Daven-
port.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01

GERMANY IS now engaged in figur-
ing up what IL costs for an emperor to
go 10 the Holy Land and back.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01

= Overcome evil with good. Over
come your coughs and colds with One
Minute Cough Cure. 1t is good. Chill
dren cry for it. 1t cures Group. bron-
chitis, pneumonia, grippe and all
throat and lung diseases. L. h
Thomas, A j. Riess and NJ F. Balm
sen, druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01

SPEAKER REED has joined the Port
land Golf club and become an earnest
deVOtee of the game.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01
The NM in the Cocoanut.

81 Louis Fost-D.Spatch.
The milk in the Philippine cocoa
nut : accounted for.
The resources aud trade of the ar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01

WHITTIER are we drifting? Here
comes a milk trust. Chalk that up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-01

To Cure Constipation Forever
Take CaScSrets Candy Cathartic 1oc or sc.
II c. c. c. fan TO cure, druggists refund money.
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replaced, as the Indians of these days
are not clever enough to do the work.
The newer poles were painted in many
brilliant colors, and the carving was
very smooth and exceedingly modern.
Some of the Indians made money
enough during the Klondike craze last
year to erect themselves totems dur
ing the winter, the favorite time for
.'potlatcheS."
Who is chief among these interesting
people? That is hard to tell. In one
village you will find several who claim
the honor. If an Indian becomes
wealthy he rises. and all of his totem
with him. He will give "potlatch'
to insure himself the title. At the
ranch in Sitka, the one who possesses
the great totem hatS-one wooden and
the other the cone-shaped one, both
gayly pictured-is the chief. Not long
ago an Indian stole these hats from
Tlantech, the chief of the Sitkas The
matter was brought into the United
States District Court, and Judge John
son returned the hats to Tlantech,
who since that time carefully guards
them. No stranger ever sees these rare
and wonderful pieces of work. When
the chief becomes well acquainted with
you he will show his appreciation of
your friendship by allowing you to adj
mire his greatest treasures.
dohCu ullIl, lllIOu5Il oil interpreter,
to explain the many peculiar markings,
but he shook his head and said that
they could only be revealed to his sue
cessor. I have my serious doubts as
to whether he really knows himself.
The summer tourist must content
himself, now that the totems are no
more, with the houses at Killisnoo,
whose front elevations are completely
covered with totemic inscriptions; the
one pole over an AUX Indians grave
at Juneau, signifying that he was
Eagle and his mothers family were of
the Raven clan; and such totemic Gu
rios as he may purchase either from
the natives or in the stores. Lastly,
with fine marine glass, he can descry
the dead houses of Bella Bella as he
enters British waters. From tall poles
streamers OF rags Of all colors float in
the breeze, and other poles bear the to-
tenn of the clan to which the deceased
belonged. These interesting natives
may truly say with Hiawatha:
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out OF the reach Of tide water. AS
the principal occupation is fishing, the
reason is easily understood. While the
steamer was docking all eyes were
turned toward these mysterious, elab
orately carved poles standing like giant
sentinels, apparently, to protect the
MONIES OF their builders, and surely
guarding their own history.
Many have an idea that these totems
are objects of worship, but such is not
the case. They are the genealogical
history of the builder whose home they
usually adorn. If placed over a grave
they commemorate some deed of valor.
The old Indians are exceedingly re-
ticent about enlightening the curious,
and very little knowledge has ever been
obtained from them even by the mis-
sionaries or the scientists who have
spent time in investigation among
them.
The word totem is derived from an
Ojibway word, meaning tribe, or fam
lily. An Indian totem is his crest or
coat-ofarms. Each tribe is composed
of several distinct clans. Each clan
has its emblem, as, for example, the
eagle, the raven, the wolf, the frog, the
bear or the whale.
The Thinklets, the name by which
the natives of Southeastern Alaska are
known, have two great phratries, or
groups. The Raven (YehD Phratry,
with Raven, Crow, Frog, Beaver Sal
mon and Owl clans, or sub-totems; the
Wolf (Khanukh) Phratry, with Wolf,
AUX, Bear, Eagle and Whale clans.
Members of the same phratry can
not intermarry. When man marries
he takes his wife's totem. The chill
dren all belong to the mothers clan.
AS in every family the father and
mother are of different clans, no single
clan can live apart from the rest, and
so 1t can easily be seen that where the
totemic relationship is strictly enforced
1t becomes a great social institution,
keeping down clannishness, and, in a
great degree, preventing war.
The Thinklets carve or paint their to-
tens on their houses, the prows and
sterns of their canoes, chests, halibut
hooks, bows and arrows and their
household utensils. The carvings are
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done in bone, wood and ivory. Their
bowls followed from wood and quaint
ly carved with the totemS and studded
with abalOne and the teeth of animals;
their grease spoons, with bowls grace
fully fashioned from the white horn of
the mountain sheep, while the handle
is the black horn Of the mountain goat,
artistically carved with totemic en-
blems, are treasured by those tourists
who are fortunate enough to secure
them for good price, as these Indians
are Shrewd statesmen and know the
value of their wares.
The totem poles are only erected by
the chiefs and the wealthy. The greater
the chief, the higher the totem Many
of them are of yellow cedar, from 60
to 100 feet high and nearly five feet in
diameter. The carvings represent sue
cessive ancestral totems, the owners
being on the top and the next below
that of the family from which he is
descended through his mother; the
one still farther down his mothers
grandfather on the maternal side. and
so on down to the ground.
The value of the totem pole is not
reckoned by the labor employed in the
carving, but the amount of money ex-
pended on the "potlatch," or feast, that
accompanies the raising of the totem.
The whole family, the whole village
and villages hundreds of miles distant
are. invited to the ceremonies, the num-
Der that are hidden depending on the
wealth of the host. The distinctive
feature of the 'potlach" is the distri-
button of presents, such as blankets,
calico, beads, furs, knives, guns or pow
der, each guest being remembered.
Many have in this munificent manner
given away their entire fortunes or the
accumulation of years. But what care
they? Their position in society is as
sured and they will always be spoken
of as wealthy, for does not the totem
pole indicate that? Does not the mem>
DRY of fine 'potlatch" live? Further
will he not be invited in return to other
"potlatches" and, having gained a rep
utation for great liberality, come home
with the finest that is given away?
The "potlatches" conclude with sing
ing and dancing, and often in drum
ken debauch. AS many Americans
had formerly been invited to attend
these ceremonies and found them OBJ
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jects Of ridicuIe and amusement, the
whites are now rigidly excluded from
a "potlatch.' Each Indian dresses as
gayly as he can and paints his face
in strange, groteSque designs. Many
appear arrayed as their own totem.
The chief wears his stored conical hat,
the sign Of his rank. These hats are
ingeniously woven Of inner bark, or
roots gayly decorated with totemic en-
blems, and the stories signify the num-
Der of "potlatches" the chief has given
One dancer wears a Chilkat blanket in
three colors-black, white and yellow
exceedingly beautiful in design and
workmanship, picturing the conven-
tionalized totems; another carries a
rattle, another a drum, another wears
a hideous mask, and all strive to make
the greatest amount OF noise.
The main street of Wrangel leads
along the water, and what a field for
thought What a mingling of the past
with the present! The totems, the
pride of the Indian; the stars and
stripes floating from poles equally high,
the pride of every free man. Fire has
effaced the history of the totem poles,
but fire or shell cannot obliterate the
meaning of the thirteen stripes and the
forty-five stars.
The most interesting totems among
those destroyed at Fort Wrangel were
those before Chief Kadashan's house.
The one to the left had at the top the
conventionalized eagle, the great crest
of the family to which his mother be-
longed; below that is apparently a
chief; then the beaver, the frog, the
eagle and so on. This was his genoa
logical tree. The one to the right had
at the top his own image, wearing his
stored cone-shaped hat.
Many tourists have wondered at such
ancient poles before the modern bay
Widowed house. Kadashan lived in
small hut when his totems were
erected. He accumulated considera-
BILE wealth afterward and built new
house and gave another great pot
latch" at it's dedication.
The crouching bear and whale totems
before a Stickeen chiefs house were
very old and moss covered. The bear S
tracks were carved to the top of the
pole.
These historical totems Just destroyed
in the big Wrangel fire can never be
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Trade and Labor in Our New Colonies

BY SENATOR FORAKER.

do pretty much as they like; and that
is practically the form of government
which we shall be able to give to our
dependencies.
/ do not anticipate any trouble from
the people of Porto Rico or of Cuba. 1t
has become the fashion recently to
abuse the people of Cuba. 1 think they
are unjustly treated. They are a peo-
pie who have been oppressed for so
many years that it is not surprising
they should be little wild. But by ma
ture they are peaceable, easily gov
Gated people than the Spaniards in
Cuba and a much better educated
people than the Spaniards in Spain.
They are charged with looting. The
same charge was made against Sher-
mans men in the famous march to the
sea, when they found it necessary to
forage. Nothing that the Cubans have
done is worse than the charges made
against some of our own soldiers of
robbing the grave of Confederate
soldier for souvenirs and even of ex-
tracing the teeth from the dead mans
skull for the purpose of getting the gold
from them But we know that the
wild acts of few men do not represent
the civilization of the people of the
United States; and while we condemn
the individuals we do not condemn the
people. Many Cubans may have done
wild and indefensible things They
could not be any worse than what the
Spaniards did just before they left San
tiago, If reports are to be believed. But
they are not the Cuban people And
under benefice-t rule I an sure we
shall find that people peaceable and
well disposed and orderly.
1 believe we shall develop a great
trade with Cuba, Porto Rio and the
Philippines, and one that will be very
profitable to us.
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ony must be controlled according to
local conditions.
In this we must consider the example
of England rather than that of the
Continental powers. l don't mean that
we should initiate England, but that so
far as we consider the example and eX-
perience of other nations we should
prefer that of England to that of other
countries. 1t has always been the pol
icy of the Continental countries-Spain,
for example to make their Dependent
cies a source of revenue. England, as
I understand 1T, has always made her.
dependencies self-supporting so far as
possible, but there she has stopped.
She has depended on trade advantages
for her profit. Wherever she has found
a people to govern she has found way
of governing them.
We can do the same. But we must
not try to make our dependencies a
source of direct revenue. We must adj
just their revenue laws so as to make
them self-supporting-if necessary, so
as to support the garrison which we
shall maintain-but we must be salts
fled with that.
/ do not believe in a preferential
tariff in our new possessions. England
has never had a preferential tariff in
her colonies, 1 believe, until one was es-
tablished in Canada in retaliation for
our tariff law. England has been able
to extend her trade without any tariff
advantage Trade follows the flag; and
If we give the people of Porto Rico and
Hawaii and the Philippines a liberal
government they will trade with us and
we shall profit enormously. They say
we shall have difficulty governing the
Philippines. / think not. The Tagals,
as 1 understand 1t, are the most peace
able of people. They are good-na-
tured and easy-gong. Any people
ought to be satisfied to- be permitted to
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What Three Big Firms of National Repu-
tation Think about Our New
Colonial Trade.
Colonial Trade.

I'VE think the introduction of
NM American goods into the mar
wv kets Of our recently acquired
territory for the next twelve
months will be very meager. The peo-
pie have become impoverished and the
countries laid waste by years of strife,
and until the agricultural and manu-
featuring industries are re-established
and the burdensome taxation remodeled
on an equitable basis, together with
unqueStioned protection to property
throughout the islands, all efforts to
push trade will result in loss. We do
believe, however, that a wise admins
trat1on of the affairs of these countries
will bring capital and energy and
stimulate the natives to DEVELOPMENTS
previously unknown, which, with mod
ern appliances of production, will in
crease the output proportionately
While these changes must necessarily
be slow, we think our country will gain
largely by the acquisition we have
made-notwithstandi the life and
treasure it has cost-and the new ter
ritory will ultimately afford opportuni-
ties for trade and commerce beyond our
present comprehension.
E. c. HAZARD & CO.,
New York.
N HERE Is no question in my mind
that the markets of Cuba and
i Porto Rico are to be opened for
the products Of our farms and
factories. Those markets are dependent
on the United States for a market for
their products-tobacco, coffee, etc
and it is natural we should send them
in exchange labor-saving machinery
and provisions. AS to the effect on
produce in general do not think the
consumption of those countries will be
sufficiently large relatively to materi-
ally advance prices. The United States
has a surplus of productive capacity
and an increase in the volume of pro-
duction has tendency to reduce prices
through the economies which result
from the conc uct of a large business.
and that is going to have a tendency to
increase our exports not only to these
countries but to others.
CHARLES r. FLINT,
New York.
IT HE opening up Of the Spanish
West Indies and the Philippines
i will be good thing for our flour
and grain trade. Before the abro-
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VIENNA'S STRANGE WEDDING.

~ ONE days ago, says a London
paper, mysterious wedding took
place in one of the Roman Catholic
\ churches in Vienna. The bride,
- fiat, fair and forty drove up
alone in a hired carriage to the
church door. There the lady was
received by the bridegroom man on the
shady side of sixty, and wearing shabby
genteel and threadbare clothes. Saying
the words. 81 am the bridegroom he in
troduced himself to the lady, and without
a word more the two went to the altar
and were married.
The lady, with the faintest bow possible
then left him and returned to her hotel.
Within half an hour the bride was on her
way to her home in the Caucasus, while
the old bridegroom found his way back to
his home, the Vienna workhouse
Soon it was rumored that this strange
lady was the owner of large estates in the
Caucasus, and had taken this step in or
der to give her son an honorable and il
lustrious name. This was done by her
marriage with the shabby genteel man
out of the Vienna poorhouse; the latter
lineage in the Pennsylvania district of
Hungary. but he has fallen upon evil
times, and, having lost all his property,
is glad to end his days in the workhouse
of the Austrian capital.
1t was a matter of Indifference to this
practical mother as to what manner of
man gave the protection of his name to
that husband and wife will never again
meet; but she made arrangements for his
future by assigning him yearly income
to be paid by q Vienna banker.
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NAPOLEON Ill SNUBBED.

"One of the best repartees ever made,
because the briefest and the justest,
was made by the gorgeous Lady
Blessington' to Napoleon III When
Prince Louis Napoleon was living in
impecunious exile in London he had
been constant guest at Lady Bless
ington's hospitable and brilliant but
bohemian house. And she, when visit
ing Paris after the coup d'etat, natu-
rally expected to receive at the Tuille-
ries some return for the unbounded
Inequalities of Gore House Weeks
passed, no invitation arrived, and the
imperial court took no notice of Lady
Blessington's presence. At length she
encountered the Emperor at a great re-
ception. AS he passed through the
bowling and curtseying crowd, the EN-
peror caught eight of his former hos
tess. All, Miladi Blessington Restez-
vous longt--lps a Paris?' Eft vous,
sire? History doc5 not record the
usurper's reply"
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" HE question Of cheap labor in
Porto Rico Hawaii and the Phil
ippines and a good many other
things will have to be deter
mined by Congress after careful
investigations There is a provision in
the treaty with Hawaii which covers
This point temporarily, so far as that
new possession is concerned. The com
mission appointed by the President will
consider the conditions which exist
there and on their report the action of
Congress will be based. AS to Porto
Rico and the Philippines, if we keep
them-and l hope we shall-we must
decide what to do
These new possessions do not come
into the United States as new States
or Territories. Their people do not nee
essarily come into the Union on an
equality with the citizens of the United
States All the talk that we have heard
about not having the power to govern
colonies is worse than twaddle. The
United States has the plenary power to
govern any new possession in whatever
part of the world and in whatever man
ner Congress may see fit to provide.
We are governing Alaska now, but not
as a State or Territory of the United
States I am not prepared to say how
Porto Rico should be governed, or Cuba,
If Cuba should ever ask for annexation:
but they will not have to be admitted
to the Union as States or Territories. /
believe that any colony should be gov
erned by giving to its people the great
oct amount of self government consist
ent with the conditions. But every col
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Lo! how all things fade and perish!
From the memory of the old men
Fade away the great traditions.
Great men die and are forgotten.
On the gravepostS of our fathers
Are no signs, no figures painted;
Who are in those graves we know not,
Only know they are our fathers.
OF what kith they are and kindred,
From what old ancestral Totem,
Be 1t Eagle, Bear or Beaver.
They descended, this we know not,
Only know they are our fathers.
MARY DICKSON.
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cation Of the reciprocal treaties Cuba
and Porto Rico took about 1,000 900 bar
rels of our flour. This is handsome, Of
course, but it means less than 1 per
cent of our wheat crop. AS for trade
with the Philippines, there is not much
opportunity for flour trade except
with the whites. The natives are too
poor. AS a matter of fact that is one
trouble with the possibilities of the
flour trade all over Asia and Africa
The vast mass of the people are clothed
with simplicity and their own hair;
they eat what comes handy and costs
least. Still all these markets will help
swell the grand total of American ex-
ports of wheat and flour, and the West
Indian market will be good thing for
some of our l.-ilIerS.
MITCHELL BROS. CO..
Chicago
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\ HE question of cheap labor in
Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil
ippines and a good many other
things will have to be deter
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From photographs by Taber.


by
family
to
the that hidden depending
calico beads us knives
runes i
debauh Each Indian
chief
ngenousy
bms. the of
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PRINCE B1sMARcKs NAME.

The origin of the name of the great
statesman who has passed from US has
nuzzled many of his countrymen. On one
coca sion Count Herbert, his eldest son,
gave the following explanation: A
streamlet Of the name "Biese" flows into
the EIbe, and it has always been believed
in the family that in the thirteenth CEN
fury a MARK existed on the. Biese, the
commander Of which, according to the
custom of the day, was called Herr Won
Risemark. and that in course of time his
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descendants altered the name to Bis
marck The Prince was always very par
ticular that his name should be spelled
correctly with &C. Bismarck-not Bis
mark. A well-known correspondent of
London paper, without any sinister in
tentions, used invariably to write Bis
mark in the memorable days at the be-
ginning of the seventies. but made the
correction at Bismarck's personal wish
From the London Telegraph.
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HEN the news of the de-
struction by fire of the noted
totems at Fort Wrangel
reached the thousands OF
tourists and returned gold
seekers who had visited this
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interesting village almost at the en-
trance to Alaska, a regret-a feeling of
sorrow-passed over them, for one of
the most interesting chronological fea-
lures and historical landmarks of the
great Northwest had passed away for
ever. Fine totems may still be seen at
Kasa-an and Howkan, but they are off
the regular route of the steamers.
Who that has made this trip will
ever forget these giant posts before the
Indian houses? The Indian villages
of Southeastern Alaska are all built in
sheltered coves along the beach just