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In the old days the Six Nations were
the chief group of allied tribes upon
the American continent, and ruled
their savage neighbors by fear from
Canada to the Mississippi valley. Now
adays they sing small among the pale
faces, but at one time they were worth
treating with. The Mohawks have APP
parently disappeared as a separate
tribe. but the nations still are six, for
the St. Regis Indians, whose reserva-
ton is in the extreme northern part of
the state, are politically united with
the Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas,
Senecas and Tuscaroras in self-de-
fensive organization. They dress in
white mems clothes, but they still have
their sachems, their wampum keepers,
their long houses" and their tribal or
ganization. Few Of the Indians adhere
to the old tribal names though Scan-a-
do-ah is one of the signers Of the petit
ton. Pierce is the most common In
been a Pierce in the Carlisle football
squad. Other very usual names are
Farmer. Green, Gibson and Thomas.
Many are still called Johnson, after
the famous old British Gov Johnson, of
johnson hall. whose influence with the
tribes was so potent. The head chief
Of the six tribes is Baptist Thomas.
Though man of ability and character,
he cannot write, but makes his mark to
public papers.
Very few of the western states have
so many native Indians, or these SO
nearly ull-blooded, as does New York.
They work as guides in the Adiron-
dacks. as lumbermen, basketmakers.
baseball players. farmers. And one
full-blooded Shinnecock Indian is a
professional golf player and teacher,
and mighty good one.
OWEN I.ANGDON.
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The Nutritiye Value OF Food
Scientific Teaches Us O.
and How to Eat 1t.

special and proper interest in this
question, and is constantly seeking to
raise the standard of food products
of the country, to keep out limitations
and authorizations, and to advance the
scientific investigation of the food
supply as related to the physical needs
of the human race.
Prof. W. o. Atwater, who has made
a speciality of Investigating the nutri-
tive value of foods and the principles
Of nutrition and who is an authority
on the subject, says in substance that
it is a commonly understood PROPOSE
ton that the chemical substances of
which the body is composed are very
similar to those of the foods which
nourish it. Blood and muscle, bone
and tendon, brain and nerye-ail the
organs and tissues of the body--arc
built from the nutritive ingredients of
food. The principal tissue formers
are the protein compounds, especially
the albuminoids. These make the
framework of the body. Fats and car
bohydrates are the chief fuel ingredi-
ents of food. Sugar and the starch of
bread and potatoes are burned in the
body to yield heat and power.
The value of food for nutrimcnt de-
ponds mainly upon its composition and
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toria. His tragic death by accident
in New Haven during visit to Yale
college is well remembered. The
Paynes and the Stones were friends
in the old days in Ohio when neither
family was wealthy. Now marriage
in New York brings them together
again in mansion upon Fifth ave-
nue., with an unquestioned place in
society awaiting them. Col. Payne
was greatly pleased that his favorite
nephew should have married Mr.
Stones granddaughter. They became
acquainted through Payne Whitney's
college friendship for Adelbert Hay.
Besides the younger Whitney the
same block shelters the families of
Banker Stillman, president of the
STANDARD Oil bank" and Mr.. fetch
err, another heavy investor in the
same company. You migl.t say that
Fifth avenue now represents in turn
as you go north, first the railroad
kings of the Vanderbilt type, then
the Standard Oil group at about
Sixty-eighth street, then the might
lest men OF all in the steel group at
the Fifth Avenue Highlands" where
Carnegie has wrought his wonder
land amid the city's brick and stone,
and where Leeds and other Pittsburg
men are to join him with fine new
homes.
Few owners of the famous houses
one passes upon that 11a miles of os-
tentatious wealth are native to New
York. The Morgans are from Con-
necticut, the Wilson's are from Geor-
gia, besides those named above. The
Belmonts were from Germany one
generation ago, the Gerrys from
Massachusetts, where an ancestor of
note became famous for making the
first political Gerry The
Astors made their wealth in New
York mainly, and SO have the Van
derbilts, whose ancestral home in
Staten Island is now part of the
enlarged city.
ssThe Gentleman from Indiana
The movement is much the same in
literature. Publishers look to the
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uted the vigor perceptible through
out the work here.
This accompanying map shows the
eastern part of Tam&tave and Andeyo-
rante, GO miles apart, with four inter
mediate towns of minor Importance.
All along this coast is a series of la
roons, which have been connected by
artificial canals, so that a waterway IS
now open from Ivondro, eight miles
south Of Tamatave. and connected
Herewith by a railway, as far as Ande-
vorante, where ii turns into the River
Iaroka and follows that stream, with
the option few miles further up of
turning to the left to Mahatsara, the
head of the macadamized road, shown
nv double line. or to Brickaville,
which is the first depot of the railway,
,lelineated by a heavy black line.
The waterway formed by connecting
the lagoons has not been very sue
&essful undertaking, as the lagoons are
Of different depths, so that the CON
Meeting canals produce currents, one
lake at the expense of another, which
thus becomes TOO shallow, etc, and in
wolves elaborate dredging. This work
has been done by a separate company,
and it's results indicate that it would
have been preferable to construct a
railway along this coast.
The newly completed macadamized
road. which has in the main followed
the old native track, is undoubtedly Il
remarkable piece of engineering. The
Gradients nowhere exceed the limits
of safe locomotion by carts. carriages,
bicycles or automobiles. This road is
lust $50 miles long in its circuitous
track, though under 100 miles as the
crow flies.
In constructing the railway. the con-
tract seems to have stipulated that no
Malagasay labor was to be employed
This has meant successive importa-
tions of Italians (who revolted and had
TO be sent home ut government ex-
Dense), coolies from China, and In
dians. The last have suffered great
mortality from the attacks of flea.
introduced in the last few years by
the Senegllese soldiers, which pro-
duces. terrible sores and even NORTH
cation on the feet. All the material
nrnnloved must of course be of French
origin, brought by French citizens, and
in French bottoms, and this has to be
transported by sea from Tamatave to
Andevorante. and then by river to the
first depot of operations. What i'm
pressed me was the paucity of the in
habitants and lack of food produce
along the road. 1t is estimated that
ten years will elapse before the rail-
way can be definitely opened. Thepart
of the work now in progress is the
easiest section; the problem will be
the final climb over the edge of the
Imerina plateau tso-called), which
means sudden rise'of 1,500 feet This,
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digestibility. The composition OF
foods is determined by chemical
analysis.
eve live not upon what we eat, but
upon what we digest" During the past
few years many experiments have been
made to test the proportions of nutri-
ents digested from ordinary food ma
terials. The experiments are carried
on by means of respiration calori-
meter, which is an air-tight, metal
walled chamber in which the subject
lives during the time of the test. BY
elaborate and delicate appliances
everything taken in and given off in
heat, energy and refuse is measured
and weighed. In making the expert
ments the subjects are kept on sim
pie diet, all the food and solid excreta
are analyzed, and the difference be-
tween the two is taken to represent
the amount of food which the body Sc
cures for nutriment. From compari-
son of the results of many such expert
ments much interesting knowledge has
been gained of the relative digestibil-
ity of different kinds and classes of
foods. The accompanying chart gives
in compact and comprehensive form
some of the facts which have been as
certained.
In speaking on Errors in Food
Economy" Prof. Atwater says it is
the poor mans money that is generally
most injudiciously spent in the market
and the poor mans food is most badly
cooked at home. Scientific research, in
terpreting the observations of prac-
teal life, indicates that fourfold
mistake in food economy is very com
monty made. First, the costlier kinds
Of food are used when the less expen-
sive are just as nutritious and can be
made nearly or quite as palatable.
Secondly, the diet is apt TO be one
sided. in that foods are used which
furnish relatively too much of the
fuel ingredients and too little of the
fiesh-forming materials. Thirdly, ex-
cessiye quantities of food are used;
part Of the excess is eaten and often
to the detriment Of health; part is
thrown away in the table and kitchen
wastes. Finally, serious errors in
cooking are committed.
WILLIS S. EDISON.
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The West In the East
| Western People Becoming the millionaire Mag
| Along Fifth Avenue, New York

bass voice upon which he could have
relied for a livelihood if his pen had
failed him, as for several long and
absolutely successless years it
seemed as if it might. Both Tarking.
ton and Phillips were school friends
of young Senator Beveridge, who is
also somewhat of the spindle
shanked, hatchet-faced build. For
men not far from s. years of age
each, these lank Indianans have done
fairly well in their several ways.
The west hustles-that's the secret
When Secretary Leslie NJ. Shaw was in
New York the other day he got to the
ASSAY office in Wall street before any
body was there but the night watch
man. and he had to wait half an hour
before he could be admitted. Later in
the day he padded through the mad
down to a steamship dock to watch
the unloading of passengers from an
ocean liner Nobody knew who the lit
tie. man with the gray "sideboart1s"
was. and he was punched and elbowed
around the dock like any ordinary NOR
tai. which was just what he wanted.
He saw how passengers baggage is ex-
amined at the docks when the agents
are not clipped off," 1t was good
days work.
The typical wealthy New Yorker
wants to play golf and have a good
time, to dodge the spring months al
Falm Beach or on the Mediterranean;
or-no. that is not quite the case. The
typical New Yorker is really the man
makes himself at home.
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| William Suckamill, aged 20, was
found dead in his home in jefferson.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
of natural death, probably paralysis
of the heart, produced by excessive
drinking. He lived alone.
The Pastors union in La Crosse
adopted resolution against holding
funerals on the Sabbath.
Mrs. Betsy Il. Clark, Sparta's oldest
inhabitant, died in her ninetieth year.
Officers of the state fish hatchery
from Oshkosh visited Racine and de-
posted 100000 whitefish in the lake.
three miles southeast of the harbor
pier.
The State Agricultural association
at it's meeting in Milwaukee fixed the
dates for the state fair for September
to 10.
A boy was born to Peter Pintz and
wife, of the town of Prairie du Chen.
who has a well developed eye tooth in
his lower jaw. The child is healthy
and fat.
Nicholas Hoffman died at the age Of
Ga years at his home about a mile from
Mayville. He weighed 1862 pounds and
had never been sick in his life.
The dry goods firm of Olmstead
Bros, of Marinette, filed a voluntary
petition in bankruptcy in the federal
court in Milwaukee with liabilities
scheduled at $28, 622 and assets Of $21,
500.
Elizabeth PEBBLES and Edward M.
Healy, of Salem, were married in Ke-
nosha after having been engaged for
more than As years.
An apparent attempt was made at
midnight to burn Platteville. Incipient
fires were discovered in several places,
but only one proved disastrous, that
one being started in Taylor Bros feed
store.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of William Cody, who was
last seen alive December il, 1901, was
solved by the finding of his body at the
foot of the Monterey dam in James
Vile. Cody was about GA years old.
Charles Burnham, who after beating
his wife in Madison cut his own throat
but failed to kill himself, was sent to
Jail for four months.
DR.. J. II. Ritchey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Portage, has
been nominated for superintendent of
schools by the republicans.
One Of the strangest medical cases
in the history of La Crosse terminated
in the death Of Mrs. Frank Wichman,
who has been in a trance for seven
days.
The Sparta high school debating
team defeated the team from the La
Crosse high school.
Albert Preston committed suicide in
Grand Rapids by jumping from the
Green Bay and Western bridge.
james Quinn, Jr., of Beloit, was SEN
fenced in GAINESVILLE to 2h years in
states prison at Waupun for holding
up G. q. Moller on the night of Fehrn-
airy 10 and relieving him OF five dol
lars.
Aromance extending over half aoen-
fury and half continent has ended AT
Edmunston, y. Y. by the reunion of
William Kenyon, of Sand Creek Coolie,
and his mother. Mrs. Mary kenyon.
from whom he was stolen by his Ia
iher while in his second year.
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rate of some 2OO,- Have Come.
900 per year. More than this number
must come from outside, while the
natives are actually decreasing.
That, in figures, is what the foreign
quarters" mean. / can remember the
beginning of the great immigration of
Russian Jews when the prosecutions
began. / saw these people by the
thousands as refugees on the wharves.
committees of charitable Hebrews at
tending to their needs and setting
them at work. Through interpreters
[ heard the stories these people told
OF their fight and their miseries. Now
they have within 90 years so filled up
the east side" that the other day the
great house of Lord & Taylor closed
its Grand street shop, which stands in
the midst of the new ghetto, because
the change in the neighborhood makes
a high-class dry goods shop no longer
profitable.
So at both ends of the social scale,
both of the very rich and the very
poor, it is true that the New Yorker is
not what he was in the old days. Five
million Germans alone have passed
through the gates of Castle Garden
and Ellis island, and more of them are
now in this city than in any town of
Germany itself except only Berlin
Not even Vienna, with its mixed popu-
lation of Germans, Magyars, Czechs
and Bohemians, has so many.
Some Real "0rigina1 New Workers.
Some real original New Workers
have rncenfly come To he fr0ht q crn
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Harrington belongs to a type IA
miliar in the middle west-in what
used to be the ''ague belt" Charles
Austin Bates, the advertising man,
David Graham Phillips, probably the
ablest of New Yorl's younger edi-
torial writer's. and Mr.. Harrington
belong to this type, but Abraham
Lincoln was the first man to make it.
famous. \ man of this build has a
head which appears small by com
parison with his phenomenally long
legs: his eyes have shresyd and
kindly twinkle: he is apt at putting
things, and he is essentially mans
man.
Harrington has, in addition to the
usual physical equipment of his Kind
in immense strength. powerful deep
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The 11-year-old adopted son of Sher-
if Murphy is said to have obtained the
keys of the county jail at Marinette in
some way and, unlocking the cell door,
allowed two tramps to escape. The lad
arrived in Marinette last fall as a
tramp and was committed to the re-
form school. The sheriff's wife took
pity on him and was giving the boy a
good home and an education. The
5youngster disappeared with the
tramps
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Fatally shot.

Mrs. Henry Bruins, living seven
miles west Of Waupun, in the town of
Alto, was fatally shot. The hired man
at work at the wood pile near the
house had loaded target rifle stand
ing against the woodpile about which
a number of children were playing. AS
Mrs. Bruins stepped out of the door
of the house one of the children, her
nephew, picked up the rifle and pointed
it at her in playful manner when it
was discharged, the ball striking her
full in the forehead and penetrating
the brain. She leaves n family of seven
Young children.
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quest Of Madagascar By the
~ ~ French in the year 1895, the
~ Nv absorbing economic ques-
go ton has been the creation
1870 of railway joining the
coast with the capital, Antanana-
rive, or Tananariyo, as it is most
frequently called. Madagascar is
one of the most irregular noun
famous countries in the world, not
in the sense Of altitude, but in the
mass Of irregular uphcavals which
cover the whole island, mp TO the very
coast line. The term plateau" APP
piled to the central part Of the island,
must not be taken in it's literal mean
ing. There can hardly be said to ex-
ist in Madagascar a plain of sufficient
dimensions to be called by that name.
IL was this mpenetrability of their
country which prompted the Hovas for
80 long a period TO oppose by inertia
the inroads of the white men. But
this il past history now; the French
gained control in 1895, and the great
problem TO be solved since then has
been the creation of roads to transport
1nen and goods to the capital.
The expedition from the west coast,
which has been thought to afford the
most practicable route for an army,
proved by it's disastrous episodes
costing the lives of 5000 men-that,
after all, the eastern side offered the
best means Of approach to the interior,
and u1auS for railway have since been
directed to that side. Successive com
panies failed TO accomplish the work;
plans were modified and remodified;
labor was done here and there in dis
connected patches; but definite line
Of action seems to have been taken
for the completion of the enterprises.
Gen. Gallieni has already made q rail
way in Tonkin and one in Dahomey,
and to his enthusiasm must be attrib-
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German veteran Dead.

Rudolphvon Kaltenborn, well known
in German veteran circles, as well as
among litterateurs, died at Merrill.
Mr.. Won Kaltenborn was an officer in
the Hessian army and served for Prus-
STA through the Franco-Prussian war.
He was e. years old and was the son
of the minister of war for the princi-
pality of Chur Hesse, having grown to
manhood at the court of that country.
He held the rank of lieutenant in the
army of his native land.
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dred thousands to Yale college or TO
some favorite charity now and then
always modestly concealing the
fact as long as possible-but the first
thing he knows his income has piled
up on top of the principal again. and
he is richer than ever. That's an
uncle worth having.
Col. Payne comes from Ohio, the
son of the late senator and Standard
Oil magnate, FL. B. Payne. His sister
Flora was the first wife OF William
c. Whitney, the street ear magician
His niece, Pauline Whitney. married
one of the marrying Pagets' from
England. One of his nephews mar
ried Gertrude Vanderbilt, whose
childhood home was just across the
street from the great Norman castle
on Fifth avenue, where the young
folks now live The other nephew,
Payne Whitney. recently married
Helen Hay, daughter of the secretary
of state, and Uncle Oliver as we'd
ding present offered to provide them
with place to go to housekeeping.
leave that to me-" he said.
TO fulfill his promise Col. Payne
has just bought a slice Of Fifth ave
nue. land for S5oo,0oo, being at the
rate of about So 100000 an acre, and
will spend as much more for man
sion of stately dimensions. Here
young Whitney will be within half
a block of his fathers great house
above, while his older brother, Harry
Payne Whitney, is nearly a mile far
Their down the street.
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Adelbert Record was assaulted and
robbed by gang of tramps in Sparta.
He was knocked inscnsible and ten
dollars and all his clothing excepting
his trousers were taken. The robbers
then placed him across the railway
track. lie regained consciousness just
in time to crawl off the track and es-
cape freight train. Sheriff Vieth
traced and captured a negro, whom
the victim identified as one of his as
sailants.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
ci.nntfe lumber DcnI.

The Hines Lumber company pur-
chased the largest tract Of pine lands
in northern Wisconsin, comprising one
whole county and portions of several
others. The sellers We're Bigelow
Bros. of Duluth and Chicago. In the
purchase are included a railroad 40
miles in length, the Nashbura and
Northeastern company's property,
and lumber plant covering SO acres
in the vicinity of Washburn, bayfield,
county, Wisconsin. More than 250,000,-
600 feet of timber is on the land. 1t is
said that 50 100000 changed hands in
the deal.
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study and thought, and laws are being
enacted from time to time by the pro-
gressive nations regulating and super
vising the food supply, that one begins
to wonder how the world ever managed
to exist before this scientific age ush-
cred in the scientific food prepared in
:: scientific manner by scientific men
foran enlighteneda and progressive peo-
pie hungering more for the knowledge
of the thing edible than the edible
itself. What one should eat and what
one shouldn't eat, comprising as it
does everything in the category of pos
sible and impossible foods, has been so
thoroughly discussed pro and con that
one is in a bewildered uncertainty as
toswhat to putinto his stomach, even if
he has the requisite price to procure
the same. From boarding house hash
to angels food, from mal<e-believe
coffee down to the dregs of the real
article the careful housewife has
placed in your cup in proof of it's genu-
ineness, you are led back and forth
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Too Had.

First Author-Stackson is a case
of where little knowledge is a dam
gerous thing.
Second Author-In what way?
why, he knows just enough OF his
tory to unfit him for being historical
novelist. Brooklyn Life.
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west for fresh
ness and original
ity.
just now New
York listens with
interest to the
tale that Booth
Harrington is to
run for congress
and perhaps to
become in truth
The Gentleman
from Indi a n a. !"
He would make
his mark in Wash
inUton
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how the east is
being rebuilt by
the west.
The Paynes are
from Ohio. SO,
pra ctically, are
the Hays. Secre-
tary Hay married
the daughter of
Adelbert Sto n e,
of Cleveland. His
S o n, A d e Id ert
Stone Hay, was
for a little time
United S t a t e $
c o n sui in Pre-
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through the petit
ton of the Iro-
quois Six Nations
t 0 c o n gr e S s
against the divi-
sion of tn cir tribal
lands. 1t is the
same old story
threatened j n Y a.
sion Of the solemn
~ sworn treaty
rights of the red
men. and no one
taking any partic-
II ! a I interest in
tha fhipu