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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
THE BOW AND ARROW
 OF HE INDIAN How These Important Imple- ments of the Chase Were
 Turned Out.
ouIvERs AND BOW CASES
The Best of Them Made From the Skins of the Otter
 and Panther.

The bows of the North American Indians were made of wood, bone or horn. Sometimes the bow was made of single piece of wood, sometimes of several pieces; perhaps it was of wood alone, or 1t might be backed by sinew or by the skin of some animal The material for the weapon was gathered whenever 1t was possible, and man might nave in his lodge a number of sticks each of which he intended ul- timately to fashion into bow, or if he did not live long enough for this. the bow wood would descend to his heirs. As the most important imple- ment of hunter or warrior, the bow was highly valued.
 Bows of bone were made sometimes of sections of the rib of large animals, spliced and glued together, and were usually backed by sinew. Those of the antler of the elk were sometimes in a single piece, and at other times in sec tions, beveled at the ends and neatly glued and spliced. Bows of horn were often made of several pieces similarly glued and spliced, but the horns of the mountain sheep were sometimes cut into long and slender rods which were laid together, glued and backed by sinew.
 Another type of sheep horn bow was in a single piece, the horn being cut in spiral from base of horn to point, this spiral being steamed or boiled and then strengthened and caused to dry straight. Bows such as these were un- usual, but they were also very pow erful, and never wore out On the other hand, it is said that bows made of bone or of antler were more for show than for use. They were good to look at and for a time were effective, but after few years became dry and brittle.
 Next to the bow, and in fact so much a part of it that it cannot be separat- ed from it, is the arrow, a complex Implement the development of which we may imagine to have been very slow, and which no doubt was well FduNdic6u tOWdIu AbS PiSeSAl ipIAn De- fore the bow was thought of. We may fancy the arrow to be the outgrowth of simple stabbing instrument, which developed into dart to be thrown, similar to certain toys still in use among the children Of our plains Indians.
 The arrow consisted of three essen- tial parts, the head, the shaft and the 1 feathers. Sometimes .he shaft was
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
sUpERsr1r1oNs or INDIANS.

Countess Meherenc de St. Pierre of Brienc, province of Brittany in France has just returned from a lonely three months trip that took her 1,6o0 miles beyond civilization in the far northern districts of British America. She went forth accompanied by only two Indian guides and penetrated to the sixtieth parallel, riding astride, tramp ing, padding in light canoes, floating down treacherous, rock picketed rap
 ids in clumsy native barges, and for one period of two weeks seeing no human being except her two Indian servants. "rhe Indians in that re- zion are very superstitious, very un- grateful, very Independent, but very honest, invited chief to have luncheon with me. He refused. To eat in company with woman would degrade him; he would lose caste with his tribe. In another part of the country I had some Indians and their squaws along on an expedition But the Indians would not permit me to shoot any game. One of the~tradi- tions of the tribe, left by some old medicine man long since dead, was that if woman were ever permitted to shoot moose or elk game would be- come scarce and the squaws would be- come powerful and master the men. I offered them $10 for every shot I might make, but money was no in- ducement. All up through that wild, rich country, everywhere I saw h. dians, never saw man who would do any manual work without having his gloves on. The men have as scft hand as a woman. The squa@s prs- pare the skins and fashion the moe casins, but the men do the hunting and boating. Each sex does it's own work."-San Francisco Chronicle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09

compound, consisting of more than one piece of wood The primitive head was very various. The feathering Is comparatively a modern invention, so much so that to-day traditions exist as to it's development, and the vari- o1s steps toward the improved feath- ering of modern times are given. Even within the last 40 or 30 years the ohil- dren among our wilder tribes have employed very primitive forms of ar- rows, using in their hunting of little birds arrows without heads and hav- ing merely sharpened flre-hardened point, arrows without feathers and again arrows feathered after an earli- CT method, of which, as practiced by adults, we know only by tradition.
 The bowstring was usually made of twisted sinew, sometimes put on the bow green and allowed to dry there In the southwest, however, the string was sometimes made of vegetable fibre. In other sections it might be made of strips of rawhide or intes- tines of animals.
 The bow and it's arrows were al- most always carried on the back in cases made of the skins of animals The bow case was long and narrow bag, just wide enough to admit the the unstrung bow, Immediately be- heath that and parallel to it, both cases usually being attached to a stiff rod of wood nearly as long as the quiver, was the shorter, wider bag fo1 the arrows. It was slightly longer than the arrows, and when arrows were tt be drawn from it they were grasped about the feathers, so as to prevent this important part of the dart from being ruffled.
 Among the plains tribes in old times the best quivers and bow cases were made from the skin of the otter but the hide of the panther was also highly valued for this purpose, and bow cases and quivers were frequently made from the hide of the buffalo calf In later times the skins of cattle were used for the same purpose, and I have an old bow case and quiver made from the skin of a mule, one of the pack train of the Seventh Caval- ", killed at the time of the Custer flght.-Forest and Stream.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
NAVY YARDS OUT OF WORK.

One of the results of the great naval excursion around the Horn into the Pacific will be the stoppage of work in the navy yards of the Atlantic coast. And this is pretty serious.
 There are now some 16,000 mechan- ics employed in getting the battleships into condition for their long cruise. The estimate of the department is that at least half of these, 5000 men, must be discharged when the fleet moves out. It is even doubtful that the re- maining half can be provided with work in the tinkering and repair of the few vessels left behind. There are one or two colliers building which may require their services, or the cut would be still greater,
 Unquestionably this is detrimental to the organization of the mechanical force of the nevy yards. No manufac- turing establishment fin ordinary run ming could throw out half it's trained force of employees and look to get back an equivalent force when business against becomes urgent
 But more unfortunate still is the dis
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
MORE READING MATTER.
New Books Added to the Free Public
 Library December 4.
NON-FICTION.

NoN-FICTIoN.
 Abbatts w., Index to the Magazine of American History, 1S77-1S9S.
 Alchin, c. A, Ear training for teach CT and pupil.
 Aldrich, R., A guide to Parsifal. Allard, F., Ten lectures on the mar tyrs
 Altmaier, c. L., Business school course in letter-writing,
 Bacon, E. M., Henry Hudson.
 Bagot, H., The lakes of Northern It. ally.
 Bangs, J. K, Alice in Sunderland. Barring Gould, s, A book of the Cev- ennes Barrows, A., Principles of cookery.
 Bates, K. L., From Gretna Green to Lands End Beer, C. L., British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765. Bevier, T., The House; Its Plan, Decoration and Care Bible, The, The Soul of the Bible; selections arranged as synthetic read ings, by U, G. B. Pierce Brewster, w. T., comp. Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism.
 Buffum, D. L., ed, French Short Stories; with notes and vocabulary
 Burrill, E. M., The State House, Boston, Mass.
 Bussler, L., Elements of Notation and Harmony.
 Butler N. M, True and False De- mocracy.
 Chancellor, w. D., A Theory of Mo tives, Ideals and Values in Education.
 Clarke, H. A., Highways and By ways of Music
 Clarke. w. J., Modern Sheep: Breeds and Management.
 Cole, T., Old Spanish Masters; en- graved by Cole, with notes by c. H, Caf1n and comments by the engraver. Dale, R, w. and A. W. w., History of English Congregationalism.
 Davis, R. H., The Congo and Coasts of Africa.
 Day, J. R., The Raid on Prosperity. Dodd, M. E., Chemistry of the House. hold.
 Elliott, S. M, Household Bacteriol- ogN 7IzIN Elliott, s. E., Household Hygiene. Eiliston, T., Organs and Tuning.
 Elterlein, E. von. Beethoven's Piano. forte sonatas Explained,
 F1orian, J. P. c. de, Fables (French) Geffroy, C., Les Musees d'Europe V, (French text.) Germanistischen Gesellschaft, Deut- sches Liederbuch. Gilman, L., Phases of Modern Music
 Glover, D. +, Dame Curtsey's' Book of Novel Entertainments.
 Goetschius, P, Counterpoiht Alp piled.
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of the endowment to some one pur- pose.
 This Is trivial by the proposal that any one gift should bind and control the entire policy of college so far as all it's students were concerned. Such a condition could not be accepted, we will not say merely with self-respect, but could not be accepted without vio- lating the covenant of Swarthmore with the giver of every other gift that his benefaction should be used to give the best education possible in the possible in the judgment of Swarth- more. These gifts were not given to aid the best education in the judg- ment of Miss Jeanes, however excel lent might be her judgment, however estimable her character or however liberal her gift.
 This proposition needs only to be stated to be convincing. It is well to consider large gift of this character in all it's relations and conditions; but the conclusion now suggested was, from the start, inevitable. Any insti- tuition may permit a donor to limit the specific purpose to which an endow- ment is devoted, but no donor can be permitted to add to the dedication of a gift to any one use the attempt to control general policy in education, and the example of Swarthmore will strengthen this resolution in every in- stitution facing the same problem. Ex-
 -TI. .sax. IaAt as President Swain suggests, is pos sible; but experiment on the control of college over it's policy is not, and ought not, to be possible.-Philadel- phia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
HE DECISION OF SWARIHMORE COLLEGE To College Could Afford to Ac- cept the Queer Offer. gHE REAL QUESTION \ Donor Cannot Expect to Con-
 trol the Policy in Education.

BThe managers of Swarthmore Col Be have reached the only conclusion bssible, as all educators have seen Ipm the beginning, upon the condi- bnal bequest made by the late Miss lanes, if this bequost involves a de- EEion on the future policy of the insti- Btion for all time.
 sThe issue involved in this legacy, fken upon condition that the college 9rego competitive football contests in &e future, has never been a choice be- cen football and $1,000, ,000"-if fe bequest were this size. The real estion raised was whether college sponsible for the education of it's Htdents should let any gift, large or 4 all, decide it's policy for all time to he.
 \ No college could do this and keep it's atract, express and implied, with it's I dents. Any institution which takes
 tuition fee of Q student covenants
 give its matrioulates the best of 1cation it's means and equipment | init while the student remains un- T it's care. Such an education varies # #th the needs and standards of the v It must vary with them. No col- < e can bind all it's future in educa- h on any fundamental question of icy.
 The issue would have been exactly
 same if the gift had provided that eek should always be studied by ev-
 pupil, or that no dead language buld be studied by any. Each of se ends might seem desirable to a hor and both of them have been \ led as a part of the permanent poll
 of institutions.
 But for college to agree in return
 a gift to accept any policy in edu- n ion in prominence would be a
 ach by an institution of it's con sS ct to use it's best judgment each
 r. under the conditions of that
 r, to give the best education possi-
 within it's means and resources. . football is, therefore, a mere incl
 t in a decision which gives Swarth-
 re an opportunity to assert the free
 h of education from any restriction
 the best light, the best knowledge
 the best purpose of the hour Ou1
 eges are hampered at every turn
 the conditions imposed on endow- hts. Our college education would be
 proved if they could all be swept
 ly. These, however, apply to the
 of one endowment for a single
 lr or object and limit the income
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
HE HELPED A LOT.

A philanthropic Cleveland man heard the other day of a family down in the flats who were in extreme need of financial aid He made a trip down to the poor, miserably furnished home and found that the family was, indeed, having struggle to get enough to eat He pulled three $5 bills out of his wallet and handed 1t to the gaunt, half-starved looking mother and told her to take it and spend 1t as she thought best.
 A few days later he returned to see how the family were getting along. All the members in sight still looked poor ly fed.
 Did you buy some groceries with that S15?" he asked.
 'Well, mo-" said the woman, with some hesitation, you see, it was the first time we had had so much money all at once, and it looked like such a good chance that we each went up and had 0 dozen cabinet lphotographs taken "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
Gordon, c. H. c. Pirie, Innocent t5e I

Gordon, c, H. c. Pirie, Innocent tbe i Great; Life and Times. Grafton Press, pubs, Two Centuries of New Milford Conn. Grant, F., The Peasantry of Pales- tine
 Gray, P, Computation of Life Con- tingencies.
 Grose, H. B., Aliens or Americans Hale, A. B., The South Americans: Story of the South American Repub- klics. Harris, n. F., Handbook of Acous- tic for Musical Students. Henderson, T. F., and Watt F., Scotland of To-day
 Henderson, w. J., Modern Musical Drift. Hutchinson, F. K, Our country homo Judassohn, S., A manual of harmony Keeble, s. E., A B c annotated bi- l biography on social questions
 Kullak, F., Beethoyen's piano-play- ing
 Le Bosquet, NJ, Personal hygiene. League of American Municipalities. Book of American municipalities.
 Lipperheide, F., spruchworterbuch: sammlung deutsoher und fremder- spruche.
 Monday Club The Sermons on the International Lessons for 1908
 More, L. B. Wage Banners Budgets, Newman, E. A Study of Wagner. Niccouliaud, C., ed. Memoirs of the Comtesse. de Boigne. 2 vols.
 Nietzsche, F, Beyond Good and Evil. Norton, 4. P. Food and Dietetics. Oman, J. c. The Brahmans Thefsts and Muslims of India
 Payne, W. M, The Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century.
 Perry, E. B. Descriptive Analysis of Piano Works.
 Pope, A. E. Home Care of the Sick. Raekster, O. Chats on Violins
 Ransome, A. Bohemia in London. Properties and Uses.
 Riley, l. W. American Philesophy3 The Early Schools.
 Rollins, F. W. What a Young Man Can Do.
 Shay, A. Political Problems of Amer- ican Development
 Singleton, E. The Story of the White House. vols.
 Smith, H. Modern Organ Tuning; the How and the Why.
 spillane, D;S History of the Ameri- starbuok, R. M. Practical Wrinkles for the Plumber.
 Takeheshi, Y. Japanese Rule in For Tapper T. The Music Life and HOW to Succeed in It.
 Terrill. B. M. Household Management. Tookey, w. A. Gas Producers for Power Purposes
 U. $. Census Bureau. Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents. 1904
 U. S Census Bureau. Statistics of Cities Having Population of Over s0.- 60.
 Wagner, R. ParsifaI; retold in the spirit of Bayreuth by o. Huckel
 Wallace w. G. Locomotive Break
 washburne. M. F. Study of Child Watson, M. F. study of Child Life.
 Watson, K. H. Textiles and Clothing. Wells, c. The Emily Emmins Pa pers
 Williams, B. O. sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris
 Juvenile. Blanchard, A. E. Three Little cous-
 Downes, A M Fire Fighters and
 Harboe P. A child's Story of Hans Christian Andersen.
 JenRs, T. When America Was New. P.S,), Bonnie Scotland rverg @rp's cbiia m Should ; Id Know SaOuS S'0s''3 Ward, Nj. A. (Mrs. Humphrey). Millv
 Wells. c. Patty in PariA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09
AN OLD ABBEY.

The parishioners of Upholland, near Wigan, are connmemorating the sixth centenary of the founding of their ab- bey church. The church has survived from the time when Upholland was noted for it's monastery and its priory of black monks The priory was orig inally founded in 1907, when Sir Rob ert de Holland constituted a college or chantry there with dean and twelve secular priests; and eleven yeaYF later, on the petition of the patron and founder this was changed by Walter, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, in-
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to priory of Benedictine monks. The old priory was conflscated by Henry VIII, and all that is now left are some fragments of ivy clad ruins. The ancient chapel of the abbey survives as the parish church of the quaint old world township of Upholland.- London Globe.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-09

Ernest Thompson Seton, after his seven months exploring expedition through the country north of the Hud- son bay, is again at his country seat, Wyndygoul, hard at work compiling data which will tell of the expedition In Janauary he sails for Europe on lecture tour through England and Scotland.
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charge of thes thousands of skilled workmen from government employ at moment when the shock to private Industry, due to the monetary disturb ance, has led to a serious curtailment of the number of employees Boston Post
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RUG SALE
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY SALES.

T of 900
  M be exchanged All will be gladly shown Monday and will be
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TO-DAY IS EXHIBITION ONLY.

them full
 and inspection of Sale December 1O and day
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-10
"REFORh'S" GREAT
BUT ''PEEPUL" PAY
CruSade'S Waves Strike
Popular Fancy, But Are
Expensive LuXurieS.

To the Editor OF The Washington Tines
In your issue Of the Sth Instant 1 read
the following
Texas is plainly making a bid for
popularity which other States viii dnd
difficult 10 meet II has passed a law
under whose operation everybody will
be secure in his immunity from life
insurance agents, because the life in
suFance companies are going 10 with
draw from Texas business.
This reminds me that few years ago
the Legislature OF Missouri. while az
hicted with a spasm Of reform nut a
crimp In the operations Of the big cor
porations' in that State. especially the
large insurance companies. and after
the spasm had spent itself. they proudly
boosted that they had driven seventy
two corporations out Of the State of Mis-
souri, Not long after this a terrible
confagratiOn devastated a large area OF
the business portion Of the city OF ST.
Louis, consuming many millions OF dol
lars worth Of property. Neither the
spasmodic legislators nor the big cor
po~ations" suffered-the people footed
the bills.
The Legislature OF. Arkansas. not TO be
less susceptible to the allurements OF
reform Khan their neighbOr,. Missouri
became inoculated with the virus also.
and they too drove the big insurance
companies out of Arkansas. The next
year after this great work of reform had
been accomplished. the cotton growers
OF Arkansas, who hitherto had paid the
Dig insurance companies but Der
cent 10 insure their cotton, had 10 go
over 10 Memphis, Tenn, TO secure in
surance, for which they had to nav Is
per cent, and many OF them could not
obtain II at any price.
a little more than a year ago 'sre-
form fastened its tentacles upon the
Ohio Legislature. and caused II to mass
a 2-cent railroad rate law. The year be-
fore the passage Of this law the people
OF ONO paid for railroad transportation
SZ2,Oo0eN. The year following its pas
sage, all special rates having been ahol-
ished. they paid S26.O000O0 for rail-
road passenger transpJti l.. ion - lust
900 Tor the delights of reform -.
II cost the writer $50 more for railroad
fare TO cast his ballot in Ohio last fan
Than it has for any year for the past
seventeen years
The Congress of the United States at
its last session. passed a pure food law.
just TO keep pace with reform" and
now the dear peepuI' are enjoying the
per cent more for the same brands OF
food than they were before reform"
came down the pike. Great is re
form I'm the eyes of refOTmerst Per.
haps The Times can enlighten US as to
wherein reform benefits the reformed
7. NJ. SULLIVAN.
May 3, 1907.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-05-10
FRIDAY, MAY 10. 1907
Next Winters Work.

The President wants TO make the
two sessions of the SiXtieth Congress
the crown of his. Administration.
He wants to get from them more
legislative accomplishment than in
ali the previous years of his service.
AID he will get it, largely because
he has made it so perfectly plain
that he is the master of his party.
There will be no revolt against
Roosevelt domination of Congress
next winter. Roosevelt will get
pretty much what he wants, be-
cause he has shown the politicians
that he is their master. 1t is not to
be overlooked, in any careful study
of the situation, that the comPro-
mise in Ohio means, among other
things, that the President viii be in
better control of Congress next win
ter than ever before.
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Playing 1t Fast.

\ short time after Congress- adj
iournment there began to be mani
festations of political interest about
the headquarters of the Roosevelt
Administration. 1t became appar-
ent, in the first place, that the Prcsi-
dent had some very definite and de-
cidedly advanced ideas about the
Legislative program for the remain
der OK lis term in office. Likewise,
it was presently made apparent that
the President wanted to leave the
Administration, when he should re-
tire, in charge of somebody who
would push the work on that pro-
gram, and on the things logically
developing out of it, after March 4,
1909.
They said it was 'brainstorm"
when the White House began to mix
matters in somewhat vigorous and
rather unconventional fashion with
the party bosses. They thought il
was ''brainstorm" until they heard
from the people, Then the realiza-
ton dawned that it was great poll
tics. From the day of the announce
ment of the five-million-dollar con-
spiracy things have been coming to
the hand of the President and ar
raging themselves for the further
ance of his plans.
For one thing, it is fairly to be
assumed. in view of the late devel-
opments in Ohio, that the third-term
movement will have 20 be dropped
soon. The President has never
weakened in his position of insist
ence that he could not take another
term. But, latterly, instead of siv-
ing out statements to that effect,
he has been doing something much
more to the point. He has been or
ganizing backing for another candi-