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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-31
HOPI FLUTE DANCE.
Beautiful Ceremony of Purely
Religious Character.
More Attractive Than the Better
known Snake Dance-Meaning
of the Sacred Rites Is Quite
Poeticnl.
Especial Arizona Letter.l

/" HE wonderful Snake dance of the
Hopi Indians of Arizona has often
6een described, and such is its
thrilling attraction that hundreds of
people from all parts of the word have
witnessed it. But many of those even
who have been present at the Snake
dance ceremonials are not aware that
at other villages of the Hopi (there are
seven of them altogether), another
series of ceremonies occur, equally inn
posing, far more beautiful and attract
I've, and, to the religious Hopi, equal in
Importance to the better known and
more exciting dance with the snakes.
1t must not be forgotten that to the
Indian in his normal condition dance
is never anything less than religious
ceremony. He may get pleasure and
enjoyment from its exercise, but, pri-
marily and chiefly, it is purely re-
ligious act, and is always associa ted
with worship in one or another of it's
aspects. The Snake dance, for in
stance, is prayer for rain and all the
consequent fertility of crops, ETC., that
come from the bene ticent showers that
water thirsty desert land. The Flute
dance is closely allied to the Snake
dance. 1t is performed every alternate
year with it. This year the Snake
dance ceremonies were performed at
the two villages of Walpi and Wash
onganavi. The Flute ceremonies were
at Oraibi, Shipauhwi and Shongopavi.
Naxt wear he Snake n a npa will he Der.
formed at the three latter villages,
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that each man shall develop his physi.
cal powers to the utmost.
Similar ceremonies were gone
through at the nearby spring as at
the one further away, and when they
were completed the whole party
formed in procession, and as solemn
ly as if it We're funeral march, pro-
ceeded up the steep trail to the village
and there repeated some of the cere.
monies already described.
The purport of all this it is compare.
lively easy to understand. The Snake
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while the Flute dance will be given at
Walpi and Washonganavi.
Now, while at Walpi, this year, there
were, perhaps, 200 to 300 spectators al
the Snake dance, but five persons saw
the chief portions of the Lelentu OF
Flute dance at Oraibi. Of these, three
were of the family of that Mennonite
missionary, Rev. H. Il. Voth, who has
already made himself famous by his
wonderful reproduction of Hopi affairs
and groups in the Fled Columbian
Denver gentleman, and the fifth the
writer. To see the ceremonies cost me
10 miles of weary, hot walking over the
Painted desert, carrying heavy cam
era and my provisions. Butts beauty,
grace and charm far more than repaid
me for the WEAKNESS of body.
After the secret Kiva ceremonies
irites in the underground chambers of
the fraternity of the Flute) the first
public rites of the day took place at a
spring near the home of Lolo.ami.
the chief of the Oraibi pueblo, and
about five miles west of the town.
Here is one of the pitiful springs up
on which the people depend for their
meager supply of water. Just before
noon men, women and girls might
have been seen vending their way from
the village on the mesa height, down
the steep trails, over the sandy way
trodden for centuries by their fore
fathers, towards the location of the
spring.
Every face was as serious and wore
as grave and earnest an expression as
that of novice about to be confirmed
in her hottest vows. Arrived at the
spring, an eminence just above it to the
southwest was the chosen site for the
preliminaries. Here an hour or more
was spent in prayers, sprink.ing of
meal before and upon the altar and the
painting of the symbols of the elan
upon the participants.
Other priests during the whole time
were on their knees or in other pos
lures of reverence, praying, singing or
chanting, and sprinkling the sacred
meal on or before the altar. A large
number of bahos or prayer sticks and
plumes were used. These are fea-
ture of all Hopi and cognate peoples
ritual.
At this time the chief priest left the
hillside and solemnly marched down to
the spring. 1t is circular in shape, and
with rude wall built around it. At
the opening in the circle three small
goard vessels were placed, two of
which held sacred water from some far
away spring, and the other was full
of honey. A singular thing occurred
about the filling of this honey jar. A
nest of bees had located in the wall of
the spring, and the chief priest, taking
it for granted that this was good sign,
had the nest dug out and the honey ex-
tracted from the comb, for his sacred
purposes. After he had prayed for
awhile the priests and women from
above all marched down, except the
Cute players. AS they stood around
the spring they sang and prayed, while
the chief priest stepped into the water,
bowling his face down over it, and wav-
ing his tiponi (the sacred palladium of
these ceremonies) in and through it.
Soon it was filthy. muddy mess, In
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-31

dance is prayer for rain, which, ac.
cording to the Hopis ideas, is stored
in vast reservoirs in the heavens. He
also believes that there are vast water
supplies under the earth, and so, every
other year, he petitions the powers
that govern and control these subter-
ranean reservoirs to loosen the waters
and let them flow forth into the
springs. In one of the dances they
symbolic the water from above and
the water from below by linking the
first fingers together. This gives us
the Greek frct. and when this symbol
is copied in their basketry, we see this
classic design, purely the result of imi-
tation. and having as clear meaning
to the Hopi mind as the cross has to
the Christian. This is ar interesting
fact that writer's on Inc origin of tha
symbol have not yet noticed.
g. WHARTON JAMES
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-31

Partisanship aside, it remains
true that the policies favored by the
republican party are those of pro-
gressiveness and prosperity. The
moral is read Alright by the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat when it says: West
Virginia's greatest boom has come
since it joined the republican column.
Missouri has like endowment of min
eral wealth, but. politically, continues
to trot along at the heels of the most
narrow and selfish ring in the United
States" The biggest hindrance to
Mssouri's advancement is the polit-
zeal bourbonism which keeps it tied
to the Bryan chariot. That sort of
thing never failed to injure the ma
terial interests of a communicative
Times.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-31

GyCroker and other democratic
leaders appear to be entering upon a
political campaign for Admiral Schley
that will kill him as dead politically as
Admiral Dewey was killed as dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency.
Iowa State Register.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
d A cANoN1zED AMERICAN.
Mother Elizabeth Seton May be
Beatified by Rome.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Search is be-
ing made here for facts and reeds that
will authorize the enrolment of the
First Native American to be included
among the canoniZed saints. The Rev.
P. S. McHale, G.. NJ, president of Nj
agara University, has received author
ity to begin the work preliminary to
the qualification of Mother Elizabeth
Seton, who founded the order for the
Sisters of Charity in the United States.
In the Roman Catholic. church the
process of canonization is a long one
of investigation and trial and one that
proceeds with slow caution both here
and in Rome. 1t is noticeable that the
present subject is a woman whose ca
reer was all identified with the pro-
motion of the education of her sex and
estant Episcopal families socially
prominent in this city during the revo-
ilutionary era and the first years of the
century just closed.
Elizabeth Ann Seton was the daugh-
ter of Ricard Bayley, one of the fam
Gus old-time New York physicians.
Miss Bailey was married by Bishop
Provost in 1899 to William Seton, a
MEMBER OIL ali Olu ana
Scotch family. They had four children.
Mr.. Seton died in Italy, December 81,
1903, while abroad for his health, and
the widow returned to New York. She
became convert to the Roman Cath
Ollie faith in 1906 and four years later
removed to Baltimore. '3s
She then resolved to attempt the for
nation of a religious community, es-
pecially devoted to the service of wo-
men and children. The generosity OF
another convert the Rev. Francis
! Cooper, enabled her to buy a farm al
Emmitsburg. Md. Here, adopting the
rule of st. Vincent de Paul in vogue
in France before the revolution, she
founded in 1910 the order of the Sisters
of Charity. From that humble begin
ming it has increased and prosperet
until it now a vast association of piou:
women managing schools, aylums ant
hospitals all over the United States
Two of her daughters also joined the
order. The late Archbishop Bayley o.
Baltimore was her nephew, and th'
Right Rev. Mgr. Robert Seton, d. D., o
Jersey City, the first American honoret
by the Pope in the Roman prelatura, /:
her grandson. Mother Seton died a
Emmitsburg on January A. 1921.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
a Test of Faith.

NEW YORK, Feb. "A special to the
Times from Albany says: The hearing
on the Bell bill to prevent Christian
Scientists from practicing their art will
be resumed next Wednesday and prom
ises to be of great interest.
AT hearing last Wednesday several
of the Christian Scientists asserted
that there was no danger in germs un-
der Christian Science treatment II
was stated that the belief of the "Sci-
entists' in their immunity from germs
would be put to the test. One of the
members of the State Medical Society
1t is reported, will bring to the hearing
next Wednesday a vial of typhoid fever
germs. He will ask some of the "Sci-
entists" to demonstrate their. immunity
by drinking those germs
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
New Books New Books
GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR.

"Chloris Of the Island" by H. B. NJ,
Watson.
"The Infdel." by NJ e. Braddon.
"Falaise, the Town of the Csnqueror.' -
by Anna Bowman Dodd.
The Little Bible" for young people,
by Mackail.
.SEhe Expatriates," by Lillian Bell.
The Conspirators," by Robert w.
Chambers.
"Afleld anS Afoat," by r. R. Stockton.
.eThe PageahtEy of Life" by whitley.
1.-THE stickit MINISTER'S Wooing." by 8.
r. Crockett.
The Bennett Twins" by Hurd.
The Weird Orient,"-Spy Iliowizi.
How to Tell a StorA." Mark Twain.
"Stringtown On the Pike" by John Uri
Lloyd.
Concerning Children,f' by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives" by
Worthington.
Z How to Cook Husbands" by Worth
ra s ;ss %''a by
The Problem Of Asia" by Capt. A.
T. Mahan, u 81 N.
The as Cardinals s2zuffDox'" by Henry
The Cardinals gRose," by Van Tassel
.The Crisis in fchina," by Beresford
Colquhoun/a and others.
The Waterss of Edera," by ouida,
And marry other new books received
per zea,randia.
316 FORT ST.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
Attack on Americans. /.

MANILA, Feb. 2.-Lieutenant Hicken
and detachment of thirty of company
M. Thirty-fourth regiment, while
crossing river Tuesday night We're
surprised by insurgents gathered at
Fiesta San Lucia, Island of Cebu They
were attacked in front and both TANKS
by hundred rifles and more Bolomen.
Five Americans We're killed, four were
wounded and two are missing. The in
surgent loss is believed to have been
heavy. Captain Malley, with detach-
ment, REINFORCED Lieutenant Hicken.
They recovered some bodies which were
mutilated. / Additional detachments
were sent and are endeavoring to sur
round the insurgents
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
The Chinese Crls,ss

PEKING, Feb. In. de Giers, the
Russian Minister, had three hours
conference with Lii Hung Chang this
afternoon. The foreign diplomats be-
lieve that it is urgent that they should
hold out for no punishment for the
Princes beyond Punishment NJ. de
Giers has stated that Russia will not
consent to the execution Of Prince
Tuan.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
BE STILL.

Be still, o heart! thy king will send thee
The clouds or sunshine as is best:
His own right hand shall e'er defend
thee,
Then trust his love, and know his rest.
Jean H. Watson.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20

NJ. E. Lawton has $4,000 acres OF
good Land in Stevens and Traverse
Co. for sale on favorable terms, one
half fare for around trip.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
WILMONT.

Allen Button of Harton this state
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. DaVis
for a week from here he goes to
British Columbia.
ION the occasion Of C. W. Davis
birthday last Saturday a. party Of
some twenty couples of friend of the
family swooped down on the afore
mentioned G. W. Davia and did
most successfully surpriseshim. A
very pleasant time was enjoyed sur
prise him again. ::
Not much news this week it be-
ing to cold for any thing to happen
Mr.: and Mrs: "A: shrauyer. drove
to Worthington Wedne sday. likely, to
consult Santa Claus to induce him
to be present with US Christmas eve
NJ. c. L. Winter and family one of
our prosperous farmers northeast
of town departed for Eugene Oregon
Friday The climate of Minneota
did it's best to leave lasting i'm
preston on his mind by freezing
Mr.: Winters cal. on his way to VIII
mont to take the train.
For sale-A black boar, ZOO lbs ;
two miles west of Worthington
D. Behrens.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
HOW TO MAKE HENS LAY IN
COLD WEATHER.

COLD WEATHER.
A New York chemist gives a re-
cipe which he says will make hens
lay eggs regularly through the cold
est winter. The recipe includes a
pound Of powered albumen, mixed
with pound of red OF black pepper,
ground fine. Two teaspoonlfuls of
this should be added OF u quart of
half wheat bran and half corn meal,
enough to water being added to
dampen the feed but not to make it
sticky.
A quart of this hot feed should be
given to each twelve hens every
MORNING, and y quart of whole
grain, wheat or corn, or the two
mixed, every evening. After two
weeks Of this kind of feeding, the
chemist say, the hens will begin
lying, and will lay all winter.
One man who keeps 100 light Bra
hmas secured an averge of seven
dozen egg each day all winter. An
other poultry raiser-ssys that he
has secured more than 200 eggs each
day from $50 hens.
The feed is very cheap, as pound
of pepper may be purchased for 80
cents, and a pound Of albumen at
any drug store for go cents. This
feed fifty hens for month.
Arrangements for the big Mas
que1ade ball to h. given Xmas
night at thu. Masonic. Hall have all
been completed anil to say the least
this will be the biggee: Of ;ts kind
ever held here.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
Market Report.
LOCAL NEWS.

25c little folks picture books for
100 a tMorland's.
A full line and big stock Of Lambs
Wool Slippers soles, all sizes from
two to five, five and half to eight,
eight and half, seven, eleven and
half to two, two and half to eleven
at the Shoe Store, Schwartz's.
"When you can't tell what to get
for a gift get "a good book. " This
is what Emerson said we
keep good books at extremely 10"
prices. ''City Pharmacy (Humis-
toms old store.
F, S. Burroughs residing on the
Easto farm came ner being asphyxi-
ated one night this week. Upon his
awakening during the night he felt
a strange stupor or sensation and
realized something was wrong and
got up, finding the room full OF gas
which was escaping from the coal
stove.
The Odd Fellows rendered JOS
Joynson farewell at A. o. U. ".
hall Wednesday evening. Refresh :;
ments were served and. the evening
was very pleasantly passed. Mr.
Joynson leaves in few days for
Newhrk, Oklahoma. He was one
of the old residents Of this county,
most highly esteemed in the neigh
borhood he resided, the townshlpIand
wherever known, He was Noble
Gnard of the I. O. o. F. here two
terms, and elected delegate to the
Grand Lodge. His character is best
explained by one Of his friends, VINO
said ''Jos, has heart as big as an
OK. Mrs. JOHNSON was presented
with berautiful silver table piece
as d memoir. ... Vi i. 5ss,ss.ss :.s.s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CUREI

| DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CUREI
by local applictions as they canno
reat b the diseased portion of the eal
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness is cused by. inflan1ed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eusta
chan Tube. When this tube is in
fiamed.you have a rumbling-- Sound
or imperfect herring. and when Il
is entirely closed, Deafness it the re-
suit, and unless the inflammation can
be taken out and this tube restored
to- its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases
out Of ten are caused sby Catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed
condition if the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for, any case of Deafness { caused
by cata1rh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrah Cure. Send for
circulars, free. F. J. Cheney and
Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists,
75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The M. W. A. have rented the
Stitser Peterson hall.
Seventy-five different styles of
pocket knifee at Hartley's
AS we go to press the Thresher-
men of the county are organizing
Threshermen Is Union.
L.d. Anderson and family lett
Thursday for their new home near
Watertown, s. D.
According to the old Swedish
custom, there will be service at the
Tabernacle Christmas morn
ing six o'clock.
Xmas trees aud holly
at Golf & Gibsons.
Swan Andrew. johnson of Lorain
township bought a Moline organ
Monday from Carolus O. Peterson.
Follow suit.
!. Razors, straps, aud brushes. A
nice Christmas present at Hartley q.
For first class work go to the
Worthington Steam Laundry. Goods
call for ana delivered to any part o
the city phone 1913.
We personally visited the
markets early last fall and
we think our assortment of
everything GIN the crockery
line is full and complete.
w " Loveless.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
APPLES!.

We have the finest lot Of
barrel apples in Worthing-
ton and we are selling them
= t less than wholesale price,
" w Loveless
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
\ We are cff,>::ir>;; special bargains
II hand sleds. Fl. NJ. Palm and Son.

/
III hand sleds. II. NJ. Palm and Son.
Rocking chairs, book cases, desks,
md a large general stock of furni-
ture suitable for Christmas presents
ct H. NJ. Palm and Son.
Heaters, cook stoves, and steel
ranges at Hartley's:
'sDuffy's sweet cider
4Oc gal. Goff & Gibsons.
! have some fine carving sets cheap
at Hartley's.
.WANTED-To clerk Auction Sales
ana. 1uake Low Rate Optional Farm
Loans Citizens National Bank.
I'd leave my happy home and cross
the drak bule sea,
~ Rather than be without Charley
+ and my Rocky Mountain
Tea. City Pharmacy.
Old Maids convention at Peter
son and stitser Hall, Worthintgon,
Jan. 10, 1902, by NJ. W. A.
- The funniest thing out. 25 maids.
100 laughs. Everybody invited,
| seating capacity $780,. Tickets CSC.
| Reserved seats 35c. Children under
~ 15c.
VIM. Bebensee loaded his car of
personal effects Thursdy for ship
ment to Iowa.
W. w. Loveless reports selling
over fifty five dollars worth of
crockery yesterday.
L. j. Anderson and family were
surprised by the members of the
Swedish Mission Church, at their
Church, last Wednesday evening.
Leaving as token of their love a
present. The absense of the Ander-
son family will be deeply felt in the
Church and community.
+ When looking for a Christmas
present and cannot find what you
want just stop at the shoe store,
Schwartz.
In candy, nuts, fruit,
crockery and glassware, we
lead them al on amount and
price sold. w w Loveless
re- Some Of our prominent young
men bought up large supply Of
blank cartridges Wednesday night
and started out to charivari Ernest
Dewey. They drove out in the
country about five miles and when
d. within about half mile Of the house
hitched the team and went out
scouting. They reached the house
safely and without alarming anyone
and thought they were very sly but
closer investigation found the house
desreted. Don't say anything to
them when you learn who they were.
In apples we have the
Porter, Ben Davis, Vine
Sap, Ark, Blacks and Twigs.
Complete line of fruit at the
right prices.
Golf Il Gibson.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
FAST TRAINS ON THE OMAHA.

FAST TRAINS ON THE OMAHA.
Rumors of an almost complete
change of running time of passenger
trains on the Omaha and North
western lines are rife in St: Paul
and Mankato, and it was learned TO-
day through a semi official source
that the new time card will most
likely go into effect the first Of the
year. Just what particular changes
are to be made no one outside of the
charmed circle of railroad magnates
and those who have in charge the
operating Of trains knows to a
certainty. However, it is said that
Nos. 8 and 4, known as the Mime
apolis and Omaha day express, will
be known as the flyers. It is re-
ported that No. which leaves St.
Paul at about 10a. m. will depart at
LA. m. and will reach Mankato about
Up. m. It will get into Omaha at an
earlier hour in the evening than at
present. It will make but two stops
between Mankato and St. Paul and
Minneapolis. It will make connect
ions here with the west bound North
western passenger.
Nos S and 6 will carry buffet cars
and do the local work between
Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis.
No. s, north bound now arrive here
at a few minutes before / o'clock
and No. south bound passes this
station at 1926 a. III.
The change reported on the tab for
the northwestern are: Train No. i.
east bound arriving here at $50 a.
m. will reach here in time to. con-
meet with Omaha No. 2 north bound
and through sleeper to the twin
cities from South Dakota point
will be transferred to the Omaha
train at this junction.
No. /. west bound arriving here
at II :05 p. m. and laying up for. the
night, is due to run to Pierre. A
sleeper for South Dakota points will
be transferred from Omaha No. /
to this train. It is quite likely that
no sleeper will be attached to No. u
and this train may be put into the
local service.
1t is said that the Omaha and
Northwestern - lines ARE to make
these changes to meet the new SER
vice that will be established on the
road after the Mankato-
Pennington line is competed, thus
Mankato another outlet to
the twin cities.
Supt: Shaker and Trainlnaster
Kennedy Of the Omaha road went
TO st. Paul today and it is said their
mission there is to discuss the new
time card.
The new departure in train SER
vice for Omaha would appear to in
li>ate that the Milwaukee was pre-
pairing to give the Omaha road COM
)e, ition for business in that section
If the country. ---Mankato Daily
Review.
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A large stock of Caf1dy,
prices right at Goff &
Gibs0ns.
See our large and = well assorted
stock Of Dolls. q. NJ. Palm and Son.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-12-20
WANT COLUMN
FOR SALE, RENT ETC.

For Rents houses. J. D. Pratt
Wanted. girl for general house
work. Enquire at Post Office. F.
r. Coughran.
For Rent-Six room. house with
good care Of gro1nd-APply at this
Office.
Wanted - A. girl to work in store.
A.G. Kadesky.
House for rent-Enquire at this
Office or Burlington Restaurant.