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The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
KISSING DAYS AT HUNGERFORD
Observance of an Ancient Custom by
an English Fishing Town.


Yesterday, says a late issue of the Lon
don Evening Standard, was kissing day
al Hungerford, n quiet community on the
western borders Of Berkshire, renowned
for its trout fishery and its faithful ad-
herence to the ancient customs of Hook
tide, which have been observed since the
days of john of Gaunt. Duke OF Lancas-
ter. who granted the rights and privi-
leges 20 the commoners.
At daybreak the town crier. arrayed in
new livery. took his stand on the town
hall balcony and blew his lusty blasts on
the historic horn, which is the symbol
of Hungerfordian liberty. Then the 'tutti-
men went forth bearing slaves garlanded
with flowers and made a perambulatiion
Of the town. kissing every lady whom
they met and demanding penny from
every male householder.
The sum thus obtained served to pur-
chase oranges for sCramhling among the
crowd of children who followed in their
footsteps. The ladies took the kissing IN
good part and the males paid up smiling
ly
Meanwhile the HOcktide jury was trans
acting more serious business in the town
hall, electing a constable who is both
a coroner and a mayor, also appointing
keepers of the keys Of the common cof-
fer. bailiff, pOrtreeve and other ancient
officers whose duties are rather obscure.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

Elk, and who shall say how many more? d?
And sometimes he dreamed of her mer-
cenary parent. Mad Bull, trading her off
10 a total stranger for great wealth i'm
ponies and blankets. II seemed TO him
as if he would never get back across the
great water to the reservation. and in
that case. he might just as well be on the
happy hunting ground as in London or
anywhere else
The accidents and sick list worried the
management as the Superstitious Indians
began tn fear that there was some bad
medicine" or some hoodoO in the cOndi-
tions. Sly FoXs case being evidently n
pure case of love sickness generating a
severe nostalgia or home sickness that
medical skill could not reach, something
had to be doing beyond the usual.
Love and Appetite.
The English medicine men gave Sly
Fox advice ne did not follow. and medi-
cine ne would not take His chiefs and
their medicine man held a pow-wow over
him, but their incantations and drum
humping did him no good. Even kindly
sympathy and CHEEKY encouragement
rolled off the young bucks sick soul like
water off a ducks back. Sly Fox had
reached the point where he no longer
cared to eat, and was indifferent whether
he was painted pea green or black.
Paul Frenzeny, the artist, as character
istically vagabondish a Bohemian as New
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
SLY FOX AND SKIPPING Bird AN INDIAN ROMANCE

! him. He could get no assurance that
/ Skipping Bird would wait for him 10
come back and overpower her with his
wealth and magnifcence. Lean Dog. he
had to admit TO himself was his equal in
/ person and ponies, as indeed were several
others whom he viewed with jealous sus-
| picion. And Skipping Bird was so ex-
asperatngly noncommittal, according
nothing more than the same shy smiles
TO each and all 1t was by conduct like
that he said to himself, that a woman
got to deserve a club; but. of course. that
would be out Of the question while she
was still a girl, and nobody but her
father, Mad Bull, had the right to club
her.
Then Sly Fox evolved a good idea. To
Cody he SAID: Why not take Indian girl
also? Show the pale faces the beauty OF
the Sioux maiden There is one beauty
you want. That is Skipping Bird. Take
her.' Bill. who is under all circumstances
an earnest member Of the committee on
personal charms, thought well of the
young bucks idea. particularly after he
had taken q good look at Skipping Bird.
But when the idea was brOaChed to
Mad Bull, the girls father, he proceeded
to live up to the reputation of his name,
and with engaging frankness swOre that
while he was not ayerse to contributing
squaw and a few papOoses to help the
show along, for a consideration. he would
have the scalp of the man who tried 10
take away his most valued and proudest
possession. Skipping Bird.
When the time came for the Sioux
contingent to join the show, Skipping
Bird was not among them, and il seemed
to Us that the squaws provided wera
rather older, fatter, less attractive and
better stocked with papooses than any
we had ever seen, though. perhaps, they
may have suffered by comparison with
our recolections of Skipping Bird.
1T IS all right. major" said Iron Tail
"Squaws look like these make no trouble.
Squaw look like Skipping Bird, all time
make trouble. Red just same as white,
all devils when young"
sly Fox Was Raging.
Sly Fox would have been glad to resign
his place in the Sioux contingent and re-
main on the reservation. when he found
Skipping Bird was not going along, could
himself an object Of ridlcule among his
people. But nobody accepts the ineyita-
bic with better grace than an Indian Slyl
Fox gallOped away In the troupe, imper-
turbdble and smiling, but with bitterness, |
rage and almost despair i'm his heart
That year the wild West" went to
London and spent the entire season in
their famous EaTl's Court encampment.
-Four of the Sioux braves in the outfit
succumbed to accidents sustained in the
arena and were laid away for their last
long sleep in West BrOmpJon Cemetery. |
a fifth took TO his bed and bade fair 10
join them. not in consequence Of any
hurt from horse, or man. or any illness |
that the English medicine men could dis |
cover, but because of a young face that |
was always before the eyes of hts heart |
for the sick man was Sly Fox Unhap- |
PLY. it was not only the face Of Skipping |
Bird that he saw. but with her and re-
cipients Of her smiles. Lean Dog, and Big
Thunder and Black Snake, and Running !
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

the reservation, which must i'm time grow
deadly dun for persons predisposed to
activity.
That latter consideration, however, was
not operative in the mind Of Sly Fox.
gallant young Ogalalia Sioux buck, who.
by the aid Of mighty log-rolling," pipe
laying influence" and pull" among
the older selecting chiefs, had firally got
himself into the band Of chosen ones for
the SeaSup of ISL So far as he was con-
cerned. there was no mOnotony on the
reservation. so long as the maiden Skip
ping Bird Was there. Though il seemed
TO him absurd to imagine that she lacked
appreciation Of his personal merits. or
that she failed to realize his superiority
over the impudent, intermeddling young
bucks who made goo-goo eyes at her.
Sly Fox would have felt easier in mind II
Skipping Bird had been more explicit in
stating her preferences IN hts, behalf He
and Lean Dog, his most obnoxious rival
had an argument-With hatchets-which
in its inception seemed likely to be an
effective variant upon the monotony of
life. but was interrupted and authOrita-
lively called off by Red Cloud. the chief.
who was boss Then Sly Fox moped
and sulked. until the happy idea Of going
with the wild West and coming back rich
and dazzling occurred to him.
Begnn to Doubt.
But after he had been enrolled among
the fortunate and his fever of exultation
had cooled little. doubts began to worry
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
Most 10 BE Fenred.

From Fliegeude Blatt7r.
Mother Ito future son-in-law)-I may
tell you that, though my daughter IS well
educated, she cannot cook
Future Son-in-law-That doesn't matter.
so long as she doesn't try.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26

Johnny Baker and Billy Sweeney. Well
did sly Fox know something would come
Of beating a drum SO fast as that. And
something did.
Clouds rolled over a round space that
spread until it seemed as if that whole
end of the cabin had melted away and
the edge 5f the world were just outside.
There. amid the clouds. a forest of pines
grew clearer and clearer. so distinct at
last that the Indian felt he could climb
one of them. Suddenly. from behind a
tree, the smiling face of "A girl appeared.
the face OF Skipping Bird. looking in his
eyes. He sprang up with a cry Of JOY.
Instantly girl and trees vanished. The
clouds rolled and whirled once more. He
was told that he must keep still. or he
would see her no more Penitently he
promised to be good
Quickly she reappeaged, not peeping
from behind tree, but life-size. standing
out upon grassy space, with look of
affection in her eyes and her hands ex-
tended toward him And. seemingly
from her lips in her sweet voice. he
heard, low but clear. Sioux words. that
being translated meant. Come back to
me. dear Sly Fox, your Skipping Bird
waits for you. Bring plenty of blankets
and the mus-zis-caw Oong green) and
we will be happy yet.
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
To Escape Reservation.

one Of the great events on the Sioux
reservations of Pine Ridge and Rose
bud. after the war of 1876. was Buff
falo BilTs" visit for the purpose OF
choosing somo warriors 20 travel East
with him. There was eager competition
among the Indians for the honor. Not
only would he who went with the ex-
hibition get a lot Of money. simply for
enjoying himself all season long. but
he would bring back trunks full Of
things for trade. desirable things from
the far-off cities of the white man. upon
which he could proceed TO grow rich,
and in addition. he would be, as long as
he lived. a man of standing, one 20 be
harkened TO and envied by the untrav-
eled. Perhaps, also, one Of the great ad-
vantages was escape, for season, from
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
soon Got Rich.

Just then the witch threw something
in the fire that made it blow up. The
figure disappeared and for a moment there
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
HY. MAJ. JOHN VI. BURKE.


The American Indian will stand here
after in history as a pathetic personality,
for. no matter what has been the career
of the various tribes of Indians. as a
race he has in fact almost disappeared
He is going 10 be especially interesting
in the chronological history Of man. ow-
ing to the fact that he seems to be the
only one of alien races that assimilates
with the white with profit to both.
We are learning late i'm the day that
many traits Of character that We're ac-
credited TO him as typical are not his
az ALL but were attributed 70 him merely
because Of the lack of intimate acquaint-
ance with his personality; intimate ac-
quaintance with him being prevented by
his implicable defense Of his rights, ~
through three centuries of continuous
war.
That he is susceptible 10 the finer
emotions, and not at all the stolid. stern
figure Of past literature. this recital of
an actual Insian romance viii show.
That wel-known and well-nked "oId
time Pro nomad Of the West-Big Bill
Devers, THE Tramp Poet" in his vaga-
bondish itinerary often camped with the
Indian and learned his better nature.
domestic traits. and friendly spirit in the
sad days Of transition from a continental
monarch TO a picker of crumbs from the
white mans bounty
In 1857. on Col Cody's first invasion
Of England, Big Bill wrote one Of his
characteristic letters TO him and alluded
20 the Indian thus.
And Bill. show him the Indian
In al his native pride
And tell John BuT' there's much to ssy
Upon the Indians side:
That prose writers and poets too
With Wgiudiea have had their way
To deTrec7te his friendship true,
While he has had mo- say.
Tell him in friendship he's a friend:
In war times he's a foe
Not 10 he sC1rned or trampcd on
As each If Us well know.
In hospitality % his Kind
He cannot BE- outdone
From ,he Grow" or Ogalialla Sioux
To the Aztec # the sun.
Tel him they are the remnants
Of fast decayiue race
That in Americas past history
VIII hold the premier place:
Fast driven toward the setting sun
Tron the mountain crest
But their names viii live forever
On the Waters Of Wild West.
e., I-sc.Ha u nasa-xaffnu
The Washington herald., 1907-05-26
Begnn to Doubt.

But after he had been enrolled among
had cooled little, doubts began to worry
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
MISSISSIPPI CULLINGS
Two-Cent Fares.

The railroad commission is at q
loss to account fer the marked de-
srease in railroad earnings, as shown
in the quarterly reports of common
carriers filed with the secretary dus-
ing the past few days. Traffic con-
ditions in Mississippi during the past
several months have been apparently
good, at least up to the average for
this season of the year, yet majority
Of the quarterly reports show that
the companies have suffered heavy
losses, as compared with the CORE
spending quarter last year. Despite
these figures. it is undertook that
two-cent mileage, on fiat basis, ap-
plicable to all roads in the state, will
be recommended in the final message
Of Governor Vardaman and the in
augural address of Governor-Elect
Noel, and it is believed that the mea-
sure will go through both houses with
very little opposition.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
To Drain Swamp.

At meeting of prominent plant
ers living in the western section of
Lauderdale county, steps were taken
looking towards the drainage Of the
famous Magowah swamp lands, Theirs
are about $4,000 acres of the most
valuable land in the county in this
swamp, which is under water during
the greater portion of each year, max
ing the land practically useless. Tho
scheme on foot is to construct a canal,
running through the swamp to the
Tombigbee river. The canal will be
about IA miles long and will have
numerous subsidiary branches. The
estimated cost of the canal is $780,.
600.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Baptist Orphanage.

Z DR.. ]. R. Carter, superintendent Of
the Mississippi Baptist Orphanags
has issued an appeal to the various
Baptist Associations now holding
their sessions in the State to take up
special collections for the benefit Of
the orphanage. d" Our new building
is about completed" says DIR. Carter
"and it was estimated that we would
need about $4,000 to Complete the
structure, but by doing as much Of
the work as we could ourselves and
using rigid economy we find that we
lack only $1,000 and I hope the Bap-
lists of the state and friends of the
orphanage in general will contribute
this amount as soon as possible, the
money being now due to the contrac-
tors. DR.. Carter states that the num-
Der of children being cared for has
increased considerably DUNG the sum-
mer, the orphanage now having 135
inmates.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13

Says the Chicago Journal: Often
It is the little things which bring
the great results where mystery il
deepest An "e" in a misspelled
word brought home his crime to the
forger Pigott. 1t was a couple of
hairs of squirrel which convicted
a woman of murder in case which
had long puzzled the police. Litera-
ture has sometimes to depend upon
as slender clues as this for establish
ing evidence not otherwise to be
gained. When commentators on the
works of Robert Louis Stevenson
were busiest they came across a man
uscript whose place of birth they
could not determine. Was it written
before he left home or after his ar
rival in Famra? There was crushed
fly upon one of the pages. They took
this to Verrall, the entomologist, and
he was able to decide. The fly was
of a species peculiar in the Poly
nesian Islands. Stevenson had writ
ten the notes in his island home.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13

Some sensation has been caused by
one of the prettiest Irish hostesses in
London declaring that she will have
only American, Scotch or Irish peo-
pie to her house. She says the Eng
lish people in good society are too
dull for words. The topic is begin
ming to be discussed. There is no
doubt that American. Scotch and
Irish people in society mutually fra
ternize more cordially than they do
with the English, while the lady in
question declares that English host
esses have to invite some Scotch or
Irish to every dinner party in order
to relieve the heaviness and make
things cheerful. Somebody else, on
hearing this. said: "Ah, that ac-
counts for the smart set being so
rapid; they have to skim on thin ice
to avoid petrifying in their British
frigidity"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Young Roosevelt Deserts.

Chicago.-Kermit Roosevelt desert
ed from the first squadron Of the Thir-
teenth Cavalry and is now where tho
softer sex can not annoy him with
their attentions. According to the
troopers, tho young mans peace Of
mind was destroyed and his sensitive
ness shocked by the lavish attentions
and unbounded curiosity of mature
women and young girls along the line
of the march from Fort Leavenworth
to Fort Sheridan. The crisis was
reached at Joslyn, ILL.,, where an eld-
erly woman invaded his tent while
he was yet asleep and patted him az
fectionately on the cheek. Then ne
packed up and took a train for Chi
cago, telling his friends he was going
northwest on hunting trip, where
he hoped he would never see a girl.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
BONAPARTE WANTS
OFFICERS CHANGED
WILL HAVE TO GET RID OF
SOME DEAD TIMBER.
DEPARTMENT HANDICAPPED
On Account of Salaries Paid by the
Department of Justice it is Heard
to get Capable Lawyers. Average
Amount is $4,000.

New York.-Attorney General Bon
aparte has decided that If he Is to
remain at the head of the department
Of justice to carry on an aggressive
war against corporations like the
Standard Oil Company, the American
Tobacco Company and others capable
of enlisting the best legal talent IN
the country, he will have to get rid
of some of he dead timber in his de-
partment.
The salaries paid by the govern
ment are not tempting to able law
yers. The highest paid to any assis-
ant in the Office below the solicitor
general is that to Mr.. Purdy whose
title is assistant to the attorney gen
eral." He draws $1,000. The Others
receive $4,000 or less. The majority
average about $4,000. The United
States attorneys ge more, and a nlsl
prius judge in Indiana, with court at
rare intervals, derives more from his
Office than most of the assistant at
torneys general.
Frank B. Kellogg and other special
attorneys have been well paid from
a contingent fund, but these. lawyers
get their commissions from the pres
ident direct, and seem disposed to
take orders from the white house ra-
Their than from the department of
justice. 1t has been suggested more
than once recently that when congress
begins peering into the expenditures
on account of these special federal
prosecutors and Investigators, and
their extraordinary fees of allow
ances, there will be much criticism,
for which the department of justice
will not be primarily responsible.
The attorney general would like to
see the department recognized so that
there would be more high class law
yers with modern ideas, fresh from
actual practice, and fewer old bureau
ideas. He would like to see the attor-
ney general recognized as the actual
as well as the nominal head of the law
department of the government, TO
whom every subordinate would be
accountable and from whom he would
take orders.
The Especial attorney, with row.
ing commission, ignoring the attorney
general and playing directly to the
president, and seeking to win presi-
Dental and popular favor by unique
and original methods of corporation
batting, is not conducive to the best
results, according to Mr.. Bonaparte s
idea.
Unless the attorney general is allow
ed to run his department and concen-
trate the energies of the prosecution
officers, he will probably verify one
of the cabinet resignation rumors.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Opening of Millsaps.

DR.. W. B. Murrah, president OF
Millsaps College, is busily engaged
with preparations for the opening of
the next collegiate term on Sept. 16.
Several members Of the faculty who
have been taking postgraduate and
special courses at the University Of
Chicago and John Hopkins Universe
ty, are expected home during the com
ing week, and all indications point to
an enrolment nearly twenty per cent
larger than that Of last year. One of
the features of the opening week will
be the dedication of the new $4,000
Mlilsaps-Carnegie library, erected on
the campus, and now nearing compile
ton. The principal addresses will be
delivered by Bishop Charles B. Gal
loway and DR.. Dunbar Rowland, d.
rector of the department of archivet
and history.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13

New York.-The personal eneoun-
ter between former President Stuy.
vesant Fish and President James T..
Harahan, of the Illinois Central rail
road, which took place last week, had
its sequel at a meeting of the board,
when Mr.. Fish again presented the
set of resolutions which brought on
the fistic bout between him and Me-.
Harahan. The board, it was an
nounced afterward, adopted the Fish
resolutions with some slight modifica-
tions. 1t was learned that Mr.. Fish s
resolution contained rather serious
charges against the present manage
ment and the demand that they be
answered. The resolutions alleged
that the affairs Of the Illinois Central
were virtually being conducted from
120 Broadway, where are located the
offices of the Union Pacific railroad
and E. H. Hartman. The resolutions
likewise contained clauses questioning
the legitimacy of certain financial
transactions in which the Illinois Cen
trail had been engaged.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Little sanctltles.

There are men in this great city
who insist upon living in houses and
streets whiRh have the same number.
There Is the president of a big cor.
poration, for instance, who searched
for weeks to find this corr hiDation. and
because he could not, wsnt to a holel
to live. He still keeps his eye out,
and is ready To snap up something OF
the sort at the first offering. Was
Justice Barrett one of the supersti.
tious? When he moved into Seventy
ninth street he bought No. 70 for a
home. Lots and cords OF stout-heart.
cd men have these little sanctities.
One gets notion that is his lacky
number, and will live nowhere except
In the fives. Another believes In the
sevens, third in the mines, a fourth
In the threes, etc. Some avoid the
thirteenth floor in business Office:
others insist on having a suite on
the thirteenth.-New York Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Artist Earle Affinity.

Cincinnati.-Miss Julia Kuttner
the young woman whom Ferdinand
Pinney Earle the first Socialist, de-
sires to marry after a divorce shall
have been granted his wife. who is
now on her way back to France with
their little son, is quoted in a publish
ed interview today as saying:
~ am not an interloper. have
not come between this man and his
wife. Mrs. Earle is not a martyr.
This day / would gladly give him up
for duty's sake, although he is the
only man l have ever loved, if the
wife would consent. But she viii
not. 1t was she who urged me to try
to fill the need in his life which she
admits she has been unable to meet
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-09-13
Cotton TO Be is Gents.

jackson, Miss.-The most iInpor-
liant action of the two days session
of the Southern Cotton Association
was the fixing Of the minimum cotton
price at Is cents per pound and $40
per ten for cotton seed.
A committee was appointed to con
fer with managers of mills in an ef-
fort to have the seed market open. at
$40 is possible.
President Harvey Jordan, General
Organizer Spith and President Wal
ter Clark, of the Mississippi division,
were appointed a committee to ar
range an itinerary for a tour Of the
principal cities Of the cotton belt 10
arouse interest in the work Of the as-
ISOLATION.