The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
Like to Quarrel.

Even then they do not molest white people, but they do love to quarrel among themselves. Years ago, when parties or tribes that had recently been fighting each other would come to my house, some ot them would get drunk and pick up the quarrel where they had left off. Then the fuss was fast and furious, though there was never any bloodshed. Of late years they have been peaceable. The saloons have refused to sell them liquor so they are as well behaved as the boarders in any house in town.
 ''Few of them talk English, so they say, though I'm pretty certain that they know a good deal more than they admit. Not lcng ago one fellow who apparently couldn't speak word of English got sep arated from his interpreter. They all bring their interpreters, you know. This one was alone all day and there wasn't thing he wanted that he didn't manage to ask for as well you can.
 "I think they affect ignorance from shyness and timidity, strange as 1t may seem But they feel at sea in roaring city after the quiet of the plains. No, their languages are totally different, even between neighboring tribes. Sometimes l have a dozen boarders no three of whom can talk together"
 The hall of Beveridge's house is thickly hung with photographs of Indian chiefs from the days of Lincoln. Otherwise there is nothing to distinguish it as exclusively Indian in patronage.
 "They are just like other folks in their habits of living" Beveridge continued. Most of them are as regular in their hours as a Virginia farmer-and most of them are farmers. Practically all those from the Indian Territory follow the plough Except for a short time in sum- mer I always have ten to twenty boarding with me-
 The Star Boarder.
 The star boarder of Beveridge's wigwam is the chief of the Senecas, Andrew John. For many years he has spent the winter months here in the interest of his people. The. Senecas occupy a unique position among Indians and nations. They are a nation independent of the United States. which has made several treaties with them
 But we are also a corporation existing by special act of the New York legis- lature," said John. who is an educated man. He exhibited the act in the laws of that state. Tt Is puzzle to the lawyers as well as ourselves to determine just what we are as tribe and as indivd- uals," he added with that rarest of things among the Indians, a laugh.
 Several winter ago." he said when dShtu dDOul lIe leBeuuS Ol HIS people, "some twenty of us. representing half dozen tribes, used. to assemble here even- ings with interpreters and relate the prn- cipal legends of the various tribes. I was struck with this, that each tribe adopted as the favorlte animal of their tales that most frequent in its own country.
 ''The Creeks and Choctaws, originally from the south, were fond of the opossum and the rabbit. Our Seneca legends have to do with animals we hunted, especially the deer, though many of them are stories of the warpath. The favorite Seneca legend Is of a child of our tribe that over came giants and evil spirits. The Sioux told tales of marvellous battles with buff falo. and the Chippewas, from northern Minnesota, filled their stories with fur bearing animals.
 There was little resemblance in the or dnary tales, but in those that undertook to explain things in nature there was often much in common"