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Evening star., 1905-08-26
INDIAN CHILD LIFE
REARING AND TRAINING OF LIT
TIE RED BOYS AND GIRLS.
Baby is Generally Allowed to Do
Pretty Much as He
Pleases.

From the Los Angeles Times.
Given a reasonable chance for life the
Indian child Is as happy, hopeful, ambitious
and playful as is the white child born un-
der much happier circumstances. He is,
too, quite as initiative, and, like his white
cousin, he apes the ways and manners Of
his elders and mimics their occupations in
his play.
The infant Indian possesses rather more
dignity than the ordinary white child. This
Is chiefly owing to the care he receives
rather than to inherited sedateness. In his
infancy he Is strapped to a board or Sc
curely packed in an elongated basket woven
for that purpose where he can neither kick
nor sQuirm. He cries less than his white
cousins because he early learns that 1t is
an Improbable occupation.
The Indian mother is very accommodate
ing. II her infant wishes to cry she let's
him do SO. She does not, like the white
mother, rush to the child when ne begins TO
howl and try to pacfy him. She lets him
howl till he tires of 1t, and ceases OF his
own accord 1t is because crying brings
them attention that most children cry. The
young Indian does not get the attention 30
he soon cuts out crying entirely. With cry
ing. kicking and. squirmiHg eliminated.
there is really nothing left for him but to
remain calm and look dignfed. This Is
what he does, as a rute.
The Indian babys wardrobe is a very
simple affair. 1t generally consists of q
single CLOTH or skin, as the case may be,
wrapped around and around the small one.
1t IL about two minutes work for the red
mamma to dress her child and bind II to
the board or basket which serves as a crib.
The board or basket is then stood upright
In a corner of the dwelling. IL her work 10
In the house. or against convenient bank
or boulder, II the work In in tho 6ald or IL
Evening star., 1905-08-26

coarse bread and meat and potatoes in a
few minutes, and, the gastronomic feat ac-
complished spend the rest OF the nour IN
saloons, if their money still holds out or
they MAKE touches.
A longshoreman does not make a touch
as d hobo or bum or tramp does. There
is no siding; no attempt to decoy 10 cents
from your pocketbook by means of hard
luck tale He comes up to you, conscious
of his strength, inwardly satisfied with the
look of admiration you give him, and with
an honest smile on his face ne says blunt
ly, as man to man:
Let me touch you for the price of a
whisky"
And unless you are miser you let your
self be touched whereas, If hobo should
approach you you would hurry on without
so much as taking the trouble TO answer
him by nod of the head.
Working Life of Longshoreman.
According to the philosophy of life of the
average longshoreman, 80 a week-at the
utmost SIPS a sum sufficient to provide
him with the only real pleasure to be got
out of living besides that of exercising his
muscles for day or so at time with the
giant weights of international commerce
"AIl work and no play'-only II ne were 10
frame it it would be ''All work and no
whisky"
1t Is his rigid adherence to this philosophy
that renders the longshoreman useless for
the stevedores purposes years before age Is
supposed to creep into the bone. When you
see a longshoreman whose hair is ever SO
lightly tinged with gray, set him down as
man who has worked steadily year In ana
year out You will not have to make such
note with any great frequency.
The most skilled longshoremen are the
ones who last the shortest time. They are
the ones who prefer living in the open along
the water front to living like white men in
houses; board is an excellent bed to them,
though they are well able to get one OF the
more approved variety The pluggers, on
the other hand. who are all too few to
cause the stevedore to look with COM
pliasance on life, the ones who earn
the good money the world is told that long
shoremen earn whenever a strike occurs
among them. They are the fellows who will
work fifteen hours at a stretch as often as
necessary and get five dollars and twenty
five cents for it. But the best ones-well
a half days work tossing about freight
tumbling. and when they go by the time
keeper at noon soodly portion of them
do not come back again that day, perhaps
Expert knowledge Required.
The expert part of the longshoreman's
work does not simply consist In knowing
the knack of handling with his two bare
hands alone every different kind Of freight
that goes to make up a general cargo He
must know how to load a sling so that the
various cases will not split open when the
winch draws the woven ropes about them
in lifting. He must understand how to ease
Evening star., 1905-08-26
Some Remarkable Inventions.
From Strand.


Among remarkable recent inventions arc
the pneumoslito. the topodict. the telemeter.
the telephone-ears and the thermophile.
The pneumoslito ie an automobile especially
designed for use on ice. but which can just
as easily be used on land. It Is moved by q
propeller wheel run by 2% horsepower
electric motor. the propeller turning In the
air and moving the carriage at speed OK
twenty miles an hour. The topodfct is
combination OF a pantograph and telescope,
by means Of which any person can make
drawing in correct perspective Of any scene
before him, even II he knows nothing what
ever Of drawing. BY means of the tele-
meter the exact distance of faF-away OBJ
jects can be measured and recorded. Tho
.'telephone-ears Is az apparatus by which
a ship Is automatically warned Of subma-
rine dangers. By the'aid Of the thermopbiie
1t Is possible to furnish heat by means OF a
fine electric wire which can be woven into
rugs, blankets or cushions. and all that is
required is a very small electric battery.
The inventor claims for 1t that Ii will do
away with the necessity of ever having fires
d even the coldest Of weathse.
Evening star., 1905-08-26
WHERE Drawn COUNTS
Herculean Labors ofthe Long
shoremen.
ALL MEN OF MUSCLE
WHICH is WONDERFULLY DEvEL-
oPED BY HANDLING FREIGHT.
Something About the Work Of These
Strong Men--Their Form
of Recreation.
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
When you see man with a bale hook
suspended about his neck, the wooden
handle resting upon a hairy chest, just
under a stubbe-strewn chin, know that
you are beholding a strong mana truck
driver But when you see man along
a seaport water front with a bale hook
in his narrow black leather belt, over the
left hip, with the handle forward, know
that you beholding much stronger
mana longshoreman. Indeed, know that
you are looking upon a man who. for all
around and useful strength, is probably
without a peer among the brawny workers
of the world.
This is the way of 1t: A man, to handle
iron, must needs have the strength to
handle iron ony-and the knack Of 1t,
which means a knowledge of the way to
his strength to the best advantage. A
hod carrier must also specialize his
strength. So the beef handler. The aver
age truckman is employed the year round
by some wholesale house to handle a GER
tain line of goods in cases, barrels, boxes.
bales, no matter what; and he, too, must be
a specialist. But the longshoreman-dd
you ever gaze at a pier loaded eighteen
feet high and It's entire length of six or
seven hundred feet with freight destined
to become the general cargo of ship lying
alongside? Freight in every conceivable
shape and of every conceivable material !:
iron, dry goods, casks and hogsheads,
canned goods bales and bolts and rolls ma
chinery, china? Well, that's what the long
shoreman must know how to handle; he
must have the knack of the ironworker,
the truck driver, the hand truckman and
all the other men who start our manufac-
lures, our foodstuffs and whatever we use
in our complex life, on the way to the mar
kets of the consumer.
Longshoreman's Herculean Labors.
How long. think you would a truck
into the side of giant packing case and
pulling 1t upon basement receiving goods
elevator, last at slowing away general
cargo into a ships hold-taking pianos on
a hand truck down a gangplank; tossing
bags of cement into sling that they may
be lowered into the hold; fastening two
whip-cortied hands about 60-pound case
of dry goods and by their agency alone
sending 1t sliding into the space meant for
1t between decks; feeding rolls of mating
or bales of stuffs from the loom into the ca
pacious NAV the other side of the port; ;
straining over steel rails and boiler plate
preparing them for lifting from the deck
of lighter into the after hold by a steam
winch? How long, think you, would a
truck driver last at all this-and much
more?
The longshoreman can last al 1t ten.
twelve and fifteen hours at a stretch, and
day after day, and at the end of q full
days work of ten hours seem as fresh as
when he was picked out of line of wait
ing applicants In front of the pier doors
by Stevedore at a little before 7 o'clock
in the morning. And when he works, he
works. Perhaps he does very little loafinS
Evening star., 1905-08-26
AMERICAN MoRTMAIN.
Will Public Institutions at Length
Monopolize Too Much Realtyp

From the New York Globe.
According to the computation of Miss
TarbeIl, the gifts of John d. Rockefeller
have amounted to s4O.OOO.OOO. If 1t be true
that he intends to bestow 100000 more
on the University of Chicago. his total will
be 100000. This will bring him within
striking distance OF Andrew Carnegie. who
has distributed something more than $1OO.-
600, 600. Mr. Rockefeller, with continuance
OF his gol. practice and with careful at
tention to his diet, may hope. with a deeper
purse from which 70 draw. to live long
Mr.. Carnegie's library gifts. his hero,
Scotch students, and institution gifts are
largely In the form of United States Steel
Corporation bonds. He has not found in
his pocket sufficient loose change for his
benefaction. Similarly Mr.. Rockefeller, II
he ceases homeopathic and goes In for al
lopathic benefaotion. viii be compelled to
cut into bis principaleveA - the sxtent.
Evening star., 1905-08-26
1t is in the forest, the cradle may be sus
pended from the bough of tree.
Simple Care of the Child.

1t is in the forest, the cradle may be sus-
pended from the bough of tree.
Simple Care of the Child.
The care of the child is as simple as it's
dress. 1t receives little attention outside
of the giving of nourishment at stated in
tervals. Occasionally, once week or more
in every two or three weeks, as may be
most convenient, several of the Indian
mothers make little bathing party, and
go to some pool or stream and give the ba-
bies a bath. There are none of the little
luxuries of the bath of the white baby. such
as scented soap, soothing powders and the
like. The little ones are loosened from their
bonds, their wrap is removed and they are
laid in the shallow water of the pool or
stream to kick and splash and disport TO
their hearts content, while their mothers
chat upon the bank nearby. After sea-
son they are removed and dried.
Are they tenderly wiped with soft, clean
linen? No, indeed. About the middle OF
each grown baby is tied a piece of cloth,
and they are hung by this cloth from the
bough Of some convenient tree, to dry In
the air and sunshine, while their mothers
continue their briefly interrupted gossip
Later the human fruit is plucked from the
branches, and the little ones are wrapped
and Graded when they ride upon the backs
Of their mothers to their rude homes.
1t has been frequently remarked that
Indian children all seem strong. healthy
and well formed. There Is a reason FOR
this in number of the tribes. 1t has
been the practice with most western tribes
to refuse life to weakly or deformed in
fants born to them. In the case of albino
children, which are by no means uncom-
mon, the child Is left to perish OF neglect
and starvation, for the Indians believe
that these children are marks of displeasure
on the part of the Great Spirit, and they
cannot be induced to meddle with the child,
either to put 1t out of the way by drowning
or suffocation, as Is their practice with
deformed children, or to give 1t nourish-
ment, tnat II may have a chance to live
When q child ia old enough to begin walk
ing the board or basket cradle is discarded,
and the next few years of the child's life
are years of freedom. He gambols about
the paternal dwelling. inside and out,
as do the puppies which are his companions.
He is naked, usually, unless he needs pro-
lection from the cold, and he can stand
much colder weather than ordinary white
children.
Evening star., 1905-08-26
A Scheme.
From the Philadeipbia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
IT think, dear" said the bright girl, you
had better speak to father tonight"
why tonight particularly7' asked her
timid lover. Els he In a good humor this
ey eningf
well, he's in the humor to give me to
you. I arranged with my milliner, Dress
maker and dentist to send their bills to him
this morning"
Evening star., 1905-08-26

because over every ten or twelve lonsshore-
men is a foreman-an assistant steyedore.
Perhaps that's it, partly; but if you have
ever watched a gang of say 800 longshore-
men at work loading or unloading ship you
have undoubtedly remarked the evident
relish with which the husky belted-and-
hooked giants handle weights that would
cause your back to snap in an effort to
bulge them even. Not the most driving
stevedore could create such atmosphere.
Only one thing can cause it. That's pure
delight iA work. And that's what the long
shoreman surely possesses, albeit he prob
ably does not know it, because it is sub
conscious.
Proud of His Prowess and Work.
Yet he shows that this precious posses
sion Is his in his talk-when he does talk,
in short, jerky sentences; on the whole,
he is a silent hulk of a man. given more
to deeds than to discussing them.
Feel this arm he will say, when he has
washed the dust from his throat with a
level glassful of vile water front whisky,
taken straight. See this chest" and he
will lay that extensive part of his anatomy
bare. ANY fat on these here legs? and
he will work the muscles until they show
in spite of their coverings Dye think m
gon' to die O. consumption? I'm murder
fat here-give me work.
He is inordinately proud of his muscles.
He glories inwardly in his ability to sing
out Justify, Here" and swagger off the
pier with a devil-may-care air at noon after
five solid hours of heart-breaking work. He
feels health and strength rioting within him
and so he works-or gives the appearance
of working-largely for the works sake.
But because the longshoremans heart
seems to be in his work when he works,
It must not be supposed that he is a steady
worker as long as work Is to lie done at
80 cents an hour by daylight and 40 cents
by night. steamship company that can
make use of 175 longshoremen al one of its
ports every working day will find the names
of 500 of 600 longshoremen on the payroll
on Saturday night; he Is a rare longshore-
man who works six days straight running; {;
there is one other thing that he delights in
besides work, and that is whisky.
His Sole Form of Recreation.
He is as proud of his ability to drink
great quantities of the intoxicant as he Is
of the peerless set of whipcords that hold
him erect as an arrow at the end of a fif-
teen-hour stretch of rush work.
Let the noon hour come, and before the
timekeeper has hardly had time to file away
longshoremen who have just been checked
neighboring waterfront saloons doing their
best to drink them dry. They give no
thought to lunch until they have consumed
enough of the straight stuff to make bat
talon of average men drunk then they
strike into the cheap eating houses of the
water front, bolt heaping platefuls or
Evening star., 1905-08-26
pelight L. Athletic Sports.

Children of from six to sixteen years flnd
deal Of delight in active games and ath-
letic sports-wrestling. racing and such
games as deer and hounds. mimic battle,
follow the leaksr. throw the spear and htAe
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-30

the mint juleps in the left wing of the
Whites House. Chicago, where the
cementsidewalks curl up at the edge
at midday, has put in bid; st. Paul,
where old Sol gloats in a sort of
steamy funk when he isn't busy melt
ing down the lamp posts, steps to the
fore as an ideal spot Kansas City
and Indianapolis have put up their
hands, and Portland has SHE'D cas-
tor into the ring. Seattle, always
warblous of Puget Sounds fine Italian
climate, blows a loud bazoo, and even
Everett, the Pittsburg of the west,
butts in with big claims. And all the
while Bert Huffman has been silent.
Well, Welt
Pendleton has whole lot to offer.
She can guarantee the shaven Jap and
the bewhiskered slav seven solid, un-
disturbed nights Of sleep each week I;
she can pledge the thermometer not to
elevate past ITO; she can put up bonds
that no dignified envoy will be OBJ
liged to stop the deal while be buffers
Squashed mosquito on his bald head,
and she can offer as many daylight
working hours as any summer resort
on the map. She can indemnify her.
self against cyclones, waterspouts,
earthquakes, red rains, anarchy and
eavesdropping. She can produce cli-
mate warranted not to crack, fade,
rip, ravel CT run down at the heel.
All these things, of course, Baker
City can offer in larger quantities; but
Baker City is too busy to be disturbed
by bunch of ENJOYS who can't speak
the Bakerian patois and who probably
do not drink coyote cocktails. Pen
dleton, though, won't be busy till
threshing time. And Bert Huffman
never thought Of all this! Fie on you,
Bret Huffmanl
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-30
COMMENCEMENT SEASON.
(Oregonian. J

For the past two weeks the air has
been vocal with orations suited to the
college commencement season. The
country school house, the nucleus of
all educational endeavor, the starting
point in school life to which learned
doctors of law and divinity and min
listers of art and science look back
with affection and reverence, and
stately college halls from which stu
dents pass out, the study course COM
pleted, has alike been gay with flow
ers, resonant with music, and glowing
with happiness and pleasure. The
graduating exercises have taken as
wide q range, within time-honored
limits, as was possible, and gaity and
music, present triumph and future an
ticipation, have ruled the whole.
Many wise and some foolish things
have been said upon these numerous
occasions, but the trend and tone Of
all addresses have been uplifted and
the effort everywhere has been toward
higher ideals. In the older colleges
the effort has been more elaborate,
but the words spoken have not been
more sincere than have those address
ed to pupils passing out of the gram
mar schools into the high schools, or
more scholarly and withal more prac-
tical than have those addressed to
students who have gone out by hun
dreds and thousands from the smaller
colleges of the land.
The public mind never at any other
time rises SO sympathetically to meet
the ideals of youth, the ideals of JUS
tice, the ideals of right living, as
when the young men and the young
women of the community stand before
it, prepared by the best instruction
that the country has to give to assume
the duties and responsibilities of life,
each holding in his or her hand ere
dentials in the form of a modest roll
of paper or parchment which testifies
to the industry, application and pro-
ficiency of the holder in the work pre-
scribed. For this reason the lessons
of the commencement season, trite
though they may be, are lessons OF
value. The seeds of proven wisdom
and accredited virtue that they SOW
fall not on stony ground, but literally
upon good soil, where many of them,
| at least, take root and grow.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-30

The request of the confederate veter-
ans who were guests of G. A. R. post
in Chicago Tuesday evening for the re-
turn of the flags captured during the
war should meet with a prompt and
courteous response, says the Spokes-
man Review. When congress acted
favorably along the same lines in re-
gard to the confederate flags in the
possession of the war department at
Washington long step was taken in
the direction of healing the old sores
that even after the lapse of nearly
half century are still to some extent
in evidence The healing process has
been greatly promoted in the last de-
cade and much of the old southern
rancor has disappeared. Any bitter
sentiment that still remains is con-
tanned in the breasts of the old men
who fought for the lost cause and to
whom the capture of the flags was a
painful accompaniment of defeat.
But even these are few, and their re-
quests should be granted.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-30
OVERLOOKED A BET.
Maverick. J


Bert Huffman has overlooked big
bet. Maverick admires Bert. Nav
erick thinks Bert is just what the doc
tor ordered. AS an editor, Bert has
all the rest of us sewed up in sack.
Bert, you know, before he began
moulding public opinion in the 13-em
columns of the Pendleton East Orego.-
ian "fired a hog ON Harriman's road, y
as Frank Spearman would say--in
plain wah-wah he was locomotive
stoker on the o. r. g. N. between La
Grande and Pendleton. He fired that
hog so carefullee that now he writes
loaded BREWER editorials on roll top
desk and satisfactorily adjusts all
systems, social, political, financial,
and SO forth. Bert also writes poems.
Some are good; others are better.
Bert is making of the E. 0. one of the
pest papers in the state.
But to revert. Bert recently over
looked whole stack of yellows. He
tailed and refused, as editor of the E.
o., to present Pendleton's claims as a
summer resort, in the hope of getting
the Russ-Jap peace commission to sit
there when the good old summer time
begins to sizzle the fat from the diplo-
matte corps at Washington and boil
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-30
DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

&C. E. S. Wood in Pacific Monthly
aided this work so far as could,
doubtingly, but hopefully. / am still
hopeful, still doubling. 1t is too
soon to pronounce upon SO radical a
change, but it does seem as if all the
evils of 'what is every body's business
is nobody's business" hovers about
this experiment. 1t has perhaps rob-
bed the boss of some of his power in
his plant tool, the convention, and he
has not yet SO adapted himself to new
conditions, as to organize and dictate
the party candidates completely at the
primaries. Meanwhile the ''good
citizen" is is still content with being
Just good" and leaves politics to the
politicians. The consequence is that
in the republican party (Which holds
the greatest chances for the prise) is
a stampede of self-appointed candi-
dates; and in the minority democrat
ic) party, men are reluctant to stand
at all, and for many Offices there are
no candidates. | still believe this a
move in the line of progress because it
removes wells and secrecies, but just
so long as politics brings plums, you
will find plum hunters; and it is they,
not the good citizen" who will by
work and organization capture the
plum tree. The remedy is to either
rob politics of its tremendous power
over our property in taxes. contracts
for improvements. franchise granting,
ETC., and bring it more and more to
the basis Of merely affording peace
and protection: or else to have the
very best men in the community hold
Office. This last seems perpetual
failure aud never more so than in the
nominations at the primaries You
may bring the trough of politics to
the best people-but you cannot make
them drink.
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Among the tramp printers are to be
found some of the best workmen in
the art preservative. Among them,
ZOO, are to be found some most worth
less and accomplished beats and graft
ers that any trade or craft can boast
Of. The Press Office has of late been
visited by numerous members of this
panhandle" element, who have by
their numerous acts of in gratitude,
just about sealed the lid of our gen.
erosity box. The disappearance of a
few more Sticks" "bodkins" and
rules" will of necessity force us to
close our free lunch department.