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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
MORNING PROGRAMS.

Something New and Complete for the
Forenoon.
The morning programs will be new
and different from anything heretofore
presented. Through DR.. Geo. e. Vim
cent of the Chicago University, who is
superintendent of Chautauqua insti-
tute, the original Chautauqua at Chau-
tauqua Lake, N. Y, lectures have been
secured to give line Of educational
lectures along three lines, Biblical, his
torical and sociological. These lectures
will be Of undoubted value and are GER
tain to awake a wide and continued
, interest. The men who are to conduct
them have been specially chosen for
fitness and information along the lines
mentioned.
A feature Law to the West will be
the Redpath System Indian camps,
more fully described in another column.
It is one Of the special morning fea-
lures and occupies the entire forenoon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
oPIE READ.


Opie Read, newspaper man, novelist,
playwright, lecturer and entertainer, is
Opie Read and like no one else. Mr..
Read escapes the alleged odium Of COM
parison because there is none in his
line with whom to compare him. No
writer Of fiction is better known and
more widely read. A big, magnetic,
friendly, humorous fellow is Mr.. Read,
six feet four, leonine figure with the
heart Of little child. He is mas
ter of humor and fun and pathos, a
type Of the Southerner, quaint, charac-
teristic and unique, just Opie Read,
genuinely American, genuinely fresh,
clean, entertaining and philosophical in
Opie Reads own way.
He is wonderful delineator Of char
acter, charming story teller. His pro
gram Is varied, indeed it is ebullient
and in great part extempore. His
readings from original and unpublished
writings, dialect stories, tales of South
ern life and above all, his own original
and peculiar personality, combine to
create great entertainer and one who
never fails to hold and charm his audi
nces.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
REDPArH SYSTEM INDIANS.

Something About the Organization
of Children Into Tribes and It's
Purposes.
AT the first session the boys and girls
Of from 6 to IA meet the teachers who
are to direct and organize the tribes
and follow the trail to the camp. In
dian names and war cry are chosen
and Vigwams are assigned The totem
pole Is raised, general ideas of Indian
life are discussed and the laws are laid
down. Legends and history of the ori-
gin of Indians are rehearsed. There
are games and sight work with BIRDS
Next forenoon Indians follow trail to
camp. Roll call answered by "Ho"
(Indian for yes), the war cry, legends
"How light and fire came to the In
dians," etc., games and nature work.
At each succeeding council something
new is learned and new features intro
duced. Stories and legends are told
concerning animals, flowers, trees,
things on the land and Of the water.
Some Of the Indian plays" are: Cap
turing the hostile spy, running the
gauntlet. carrying wounded, counting
coup, target practice with bow and ar.
row, feast day, racing, Indian wrest-
ling, buffalo hunt, etc, etc.
HOW THE INDIANS DRESS.
An Indian suit may be made thus:
For boys: Brown or tan cambria.
fringes sewed up the sides. A loose
coat, coming half way between hips
and knees, fringe around neck and
down front; around bottom; down mid.
die of sleeves; coat belted down. a
bright band around head for holding
feathers.
Girls dressed the same with one ex-
ception: A full skirt with fringe
around bottom.
INDIAN EQUIPMENT.
Each child make your own bow and
arrow.
Boys, make tomahawk from wood
and bring.
Girls bring wands made Of broom
handles.
Some boy who has drum, bring it
for tom-tom. He may be the medi-
cine man.
This camp is especially intended for
children from to IA, but it shall be
glad to have any papooses or grown
ups for visitors.
In the above meager outline every
grown up who remembers youth and
childhood may gather what the camp
means to children from the points of
fun, knowledge and cultivation. The
Chautauqua Indian is the redman of
the Longfellow and J. Fennimore Coop
err type, brave, honorable and cour-
teous. The camps are valuable addi-
ton to the possibilities Of the school
vacation time. They will be kept with
strict attention to the health and NOR
ais of the children by women Of the
highest repute and capabilities under
supervision Of one of Iowa's best known
teachers, Miss Pearl Head Of Jefferson,
whose long experience in this work pc
culiarly fits her for the position. Send
the children to the Indian camps. Let
them, like little Hiawatha, LEARN of
every bird it's language, all their names
| and all their coorotc
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22

and industry perhaps before the Egyp-
tan hieroglyphics were written or the
pyramids had been conceived-the
Pueblo Indians of America. Still
stranger, this people has preserved its
tribal integrity, held to its customs and
religion against the pressure Of time
and change and in the face of perse.
cution and terrors. Weavers from time
immemorial, they set and complete
their webs in the fashion of the by
gone centuries. Potters before Job
found use for sherds, they turn the
vessels as perhaps some dead and gone
Pueblo flung clay into shape before
what we call human history began.
Their secret societies. are Older than
the temple of Solomon. The so-called
Pueblo Indian reaches back perhaps to
the Lost Tribes and the day when
Behring strait was an isthmus and the
thoroughfare between hemispheres.
When in the daring and devotion
Of the earlier Jesuits, Padre Mig
uel pushed ahead of the conquering
host of Coronado he found the great
southwestern plateaus of the New Cal.
ifornia teeming with a people wise
with the civilization, dextrous in the
arts and devout in the religion Of the
ancient Aztecs. OF that great popula-
ton less than 10000 now remain. Cor
onado came and the miss: and the
rule Of the Jesuit were backed by Span
ish lances. The peaceful people rose
and left no vestige Of their conquerors
when the storm of blood had passed
Then the helmeted soldiers of Spain
came back with fire and sword until
the tokens Of subjugation waved from
every pinnacle Of the rocky Businesses
where the remnants of the Pueblos sur.
vived.
Outwardly they accepted the new
order, but in the inaccessible commlmes
Of the cliffs priestly secret societies
guarded as none other have ever been
kept alive the old religion, preserved
the ancient rituals and handed down
from one life to another the mysterious
and non-understandable powers Of the
Pueblo priesthood. Men learned to han
die deadly snakes unframed, to stand
in the midst of raging flames and es
cape ,scath and even "the smell of fire
upon their garments" The sacriflcial
knife and smooth sloping stone affairs
with their telltale cutters, disappeared
| but perhaps within sound Of the mis-
sion bell the human sacrifice shrieked
| unheard in the dim corridors Of the
tunneled mountain and the snake Skin
drums sounded as they had from the
SUBMITS of Aztec teocallis. The an
cient arts remained. The home life
continued in the hidden communes The
integrity Of the Pueblo religion was
kept intact within spears length OF
priests whose highest hope was to crush
1t and Of soldiers to whom the priests
slightest wish was an order. The
Pueblos continued Pueblos.
This Band of Ten is part of nys
FERROUS and dying civilization brought
with its story and peculiar life in its
interesting, curious and historical
phases to the information and enter
tainment of century of which 1t will
never see the close, remnant of the
first aborigines of whom any trace car
be found upon the American continent
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22


dren of the slums. He is
pastor of Grand Avenue
NJ. 3. Church, in Kansas
City, president of the
Boys Hotel Club, vice
president of the Juvenile
Improvement Club, and
leader in all movements
for the improvement Of
conditions that surround
the children who need
and lack care and a help
ing hand. He is recog-
nized as an authority on
boys clubs, public play
grounds, Industrial night
schools, municipal trade
schools and the other
movements of simil ma
ture that are commencing
themselves to students and
reformers of present and
future success in dealing
with the neglected children
who are to be the citizens
and the government of the
next generation.
DR.. McGurk has a re-
markable personality. He
IS Il man with a message
~ II mission. Temporal
mentally he must deliver
he one and work over
time on the other. He is
me of the new men of n
new age - forceful, pur-
poseful, who find their
field early in life and live
TO accomplish great things.
DR.. McGurk began his
work in the lecture field
at Buenos Ayres when To-
Gated in the South Ameri-
can missionary field.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
Daily TESTS.

There Is more cause for joy than for
complaint in the hard and disagreeable
circumstances Of life. A poet has said,
II count life Just a stun to try the
souls strength on" We are here to
learn Times lesson for Dternity's bust
ness. What does It signify IL the cir
cumstances about us are not Of our
choice. If by them we can be trained,
sssaSning the lessons Of patience, forth
tude,s perseverance. self-denying ser
vice, acqdiescence with Gods will, and
the hearty doing Of 1t. Circumstances
do not make character. just where you
are, take the things Of life as tools
and nee them for Gods glory; 90 you
will help the kingdom come, and the
Master will use the Things Of life In
cutting and polishing You so that there
shall some day be seen In you soul
conformd to His likeness. Rev. Malt.
bic D. Babcock, D. d.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
OUR WILD NElGHsoRs.

The Story of the Hidden wild Life
About us Told by Naturalist
OF High Repute and Profusely
Illustrated with Colored Stereop-
ticon Pictures-A New and Charm-
ing Lecture AbsOrbingly Inter-
esting to Old and Young.
Mr.. Ernest Harold Baynes, secretary
Of the American Bison Society, an asso-
citation that carries the prestige of the
name of Theodore Roosevelt as its hon
orary president and Of Earl Grey, gov
ernor general of Canada, as vice presi-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22

dent, comes to west s#1sHHaHIa
ern chautauquas with zaa|
new and Accordingly
interesting illustrat-
ed lectures. He is
naturalist Of high repute, in N
dorsed by John Burroughs as \
one, who knows animals and
tells the truth about them.
All his life has been devoted
to the study of wild things and animal
photography. The story of Our Wild
Neighbors,' as told by Mr.. Baynes and
illustrated by hundreds of unique and
valuable pictures taken in infinite pa
thence, under hardship and often at
the risk Of life and limb, affords an
evenings entertainment and offers a
fund of interesting and curious infor-
nation that holds his hearers absorbed
to it's too early close. One sits wonder
ing that so much of intense life has
multiplied and existed about our feet
unknown and unnoticed
Mr.. Baynes has the rare faculty of
charming" wild animals. He makes
friends with the hawks. The chick
adees feed from his lips. He knows
them all, their hidden paths, secret
places and their intimate life. More
than this, he has the gift to tell their
secrets charmingly and with the enthu-
siasm of the born naturalist. His pic
lures show the home life. OF the ground
sparrow with it's nest at our feet and
the inaccessible aeries Of the red hawks
and the eagles.
Baynes and his lectures are new to
the middle west. That they will prove to
be as successful and as highly appre-
ciated as they have been in the proven
bially hard to please east is safe and
easy prediction. He knows how to tell
q story for which there is an insistent
recent demand. His information Is ac-
curate, his wit nimble, his personality
excellent and his noble eagerness" to
bring human and animal life into closer
and kindlier relations impresses and
convinces Don't miss "Baynes, the
Wild Animal Man" And don't let the
children miss him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
4 Strange People
Are They Descendants Of the
ancient Mound Builders?

w persons are
aware that in
strangely con-
structed dwell
ings perched on
the cliff S of
New NJ e x i C 0
still survive the
scattered rem
nants Of a civil
lied people who
knew and prac-
ticed tine arts
of com m e r ce
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22
DR.. DAN M,eURk

Comes with demand. He is primar-
lily the apostle Of the neglected children,
the advocate and defender of the chill
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22

Don't try to correct your brother I'M
til you have communed with your Fa-
Their.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22

uellver a series OF
lectures in Boston.
This invitation was
signed by Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale,
Edwin D. Mead,
John ]. Enneking,
VIM. Lloyd Garri-
son, Alice Stone
Blackwell, Louis
Prang, Sylve 8 ter
Baxter and others.
The Boston Adver-
tiser said: Ills
co n CT u sions on
burning questions
Of the day will be
of great value. !"
The Boston Herald
$ aid: Professor
Will is a W ell
known authority"
The Boston Globe
8 a i'd: Professor
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-05-22

A pessimist knows that man is a
poor thing because he has investigated
scarecrows.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27
OFFICIAL CALL FOR REPUB-
LICAN CITY PRIMARIES,

The republican voters of the city
of Perth Amboy are requested tc
meet in their various wards on Tues
day evening, April 28, at 1890 to 8
o'clock, for the purpose of electine
delegates to the state and congress.
sional conventions to be held al
Trenton on Tuesday, May 5, 1908
The meetings will be held at the
following places:
First Ward, First and Second Poll
Martins grocery store, 145 Madison
avenue. One delegate to each con.
Second Ward. Washington hose
house. One delegate to each con-
vention.
Third Ward. Liddle & Pfeiffer's,
No New Brunswick avenue. One
half delegate to each convention.
Fourth Ward, First and Second
Polls. 249b Smith street. One dele
gate to each convention.
Fifth Ward. Mcclellan hose house.
One-half delegate to each convention,
Sixth Ward. 1872 Woodbridge
road. One-haIf delegate to each con-
r. H. WILSON,
Chairman County Com
IRA B. TfCE,
Chairman City Com
P. HENRY TAsTALL,
Sec'y County Com
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27
HUGE WEIGHT
FALLS ON Man
LabOrer's Foot Crushed and Is Am
putated--Five FeI|ed by Railroad
Frog at Washington Street.

John Salvatore, an Italian laborer,
about twenty-five years old. living in
Newark, had one foot so badly crush
ed at the Washington street crossing
OF the Central and Lehigh Valley
railroads yesterday morning, that it
was amputated.
Men were removing the old frogs
and relacing them with new ones. A
gang of men were blocking up frog,
which weighed several tons and in
some way the bars OF several men
slipped. The extra weight was too
much for the other men and the
weight slipped from its bookings.
About five men were knocked to the
ground and stunned and Salvatore's
foot was caught.
A call was sent for the ambulance,
which removed him to the hospital.
Another laborer was struck on the
head by block and slightly injured.
The work was resumed and the new
crossing installed without further
trouble. A wrecking car was used
to aid the men in sliding the frogs
into place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27

Although q large majority of the
delegates chosen at the primaries In
this city last Thursday night favor
Joseph e. Stricken for district dele
gate to the convention at Denver, 1t
is practically certain that w. Parker
Runyon will be the choice of the
Middlesex county democrats. Mr..
Stricken has the support Of nine Of
this city's twelve delegates. Mr..
Runyon Is sure OF only one vote, his
own. The other two are in doubt.
The county machine, however, has
seen to it that enough votes will be
secured for Mr.. Runyon throughout
the county to assure his selection.
Mr.. Runyon, 1t has been learned, has
invited the local delegation to be his
guests at dinner and has forwarded
them TRANSPORTATION to Trenton.
Monmouth county will get the
other delegate from the third dis
trict. The choice is expected to be
M. A. Rice, of Atlantic Highlands,
although DR.. o. C. Bogardus has put
up a great fight Ocean county will
have the alternates.
The outcome, as outlined above, is
a blow to the younger element in the
~
the success of the past two years has
been due to them, and Mr.. Stricken,
as county chairman, was expected to
land the delegaey. The machine
feared. however, that the younger
element might refuse, to bow to the
will of Smith and Nugent, but would
be more likely to affiliate with the
Hudson county democrats. Oliver
~ &ss 10 hx q
member of the state committed
Mr.. Stricken has stated that he
will go to Denver anyway, II defeated
at the convention tomorrow.
Mr.. Runyon has, it is understood
ordered about 100 dinners, those In
vited including others besides the
local delegates.
Trenton, N. j., April 27.-The Demo-
cratic state convention to select twen-
ty-four delegates to represent the state
in the national convention at Denver
will be held in this city tomorrow.
There will be present about 1000 dele
gates. The indications are that the del
egates selected will be sent to Denver
nninstruoted. There will, however, be
several Bryan men in the convention,
including the solid delegation of Hud-
son county, Leader Robert Davis Of
that county having declared for Mr..
Bryan. Mr.. Davis wants to go to Den
yer as delegate at large and has an
nounced his candidacy. The Essex
Democrats, under the leadership Of
former United States Senator James
Smith. Jr,. are opposed to Mr.. Davis
Mr.. Smith is a candidate for delegate
at large and Will probably be chosen,
Another delegate at large will be Frank
s. Katzenbach, Jr., of Trenton, who
was the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor last fall Outside of Mr.. Smith
and Mr.. Katzenbach nothing seems to
be settled. If Mr.. Smith persists in
his opposition to Davis, the chances
are that Davis win not be chosen, al
though his own county will constitute
nearly one-fifth of the convention.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27

CAMPAIGN
DESCRIBED
]. Frank Burke, leader of Anti
Liquor Forces In This State,
Delivers Address.
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

An interesting address on temper
ance was delivered in the First PreE-
byterian church last night by j.
Frank Burke, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League OF New Jersey.
Rev. James H. Northrup, pastor
of the church, introduced the speaker
who used as his subject "The Signs
of the Times" Mr.. Burke showed
great oratorical ability and gave a
number Of funny anecdotes in con-
nection with his address.
According to the speaker the tenn
perance movement really began
about 100 years ago, when a few
men formed society and pledged
themselves not to drink any intoxl-
eating liquors only on sheep washing
days and several other important oc-
casions, such as holidays and feast
days.
Mr.. Burke said that the pledge IN
those days was very different from
the one taken today, When those
men took the pledge" he said, "they
regarded the matter lightly, but now
IL the pledge is taken, 1t means to-
tai abstinence. To show how lightly
the pledge was regarded Mr.. Burke
told the following story.
"A man who had taken the pledge
wanted to indulge, and when he was
missed, O. search was made for him.
He was found in a barn In state OF
intoxication, and by his side a tub
OF water, with sheep in 1t. In this
way he created holiday of his own. =
Mr.. Burke showed how the move
ment grew, and said at the present
time public sentiment is in favor Of
total abstinence. The speaker made
the comparisons without favoring
either political party and throughout
his address, spoke on non partisan
principles.
He showed how the saloon men
held the votes together and sup
ported the side from which they ex-
bected favors. There are twenty
Ave times as many church men as
there are saloon men" said Mr..
Burke, "but the former are divided
and for this reason In the past have
gained but few points.
The church men he said, only
started to fight the liquor question
about fifty years ago, and that only
during the past fifteen years have
they made any unanimous concen-
IrHt6Q uBHl. ucI dic now Gil JO1A-
ed on the local option question he
said and realize that to wins they
must gain one thing first.
Mr.. Burke related that when the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad laid
off many men recently on account
OF the money stringency, 1t was
learned afterward that the men who
had been dismissed were all tipplers,
and those who were retained were
temperance.
The railroads now he said, will
not employ men who are In the habit
of becoming intoxicated and have
made liquor abstinence one of their
strictest rules.
The pledge today Mr.. Burke said,
means total abstinence, and 1t is
generally regarded sacred by anyone
who takes It. After the railroad
discharged so many men on account
of intemperance," said Mr.. Burke,
thousands took the pledge and the
example was followed all over the
country,
Mr.. Burke spoke over an hour and
not once during his discourse did the
attention lax.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27
SUIT OVER INSURANCE
FOR DEATH OF HORSE

Another law suit, in which Jacob
Robbins and Nathan Wilentz are in
terested, is likely to be tried within
a few weeks here. Robbins was at
one time an employe of Wilentz. In
the recent tobacco fight between VII
ientz and the Hlppen Brothers, he
lost position which he held with
the latter. Since that time Robbins
has been engaged in the horse in
surance business.
He has insured about 125 horses
In this city, among which was one
belonging to Wilentz. The animal
died few days ago and now Wilentz
seeks to recover the amount for
which it was insured, The premium
it is alleged, was not paid.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27
ALLEGED MURDERER
IN MIDDLESEX JAIL

New Brunswick, Apr. 27:-Tony
Giorgioni, accused of murder, was
brought here on the 2.59 train Sat
urday afternoon from Philadelphia,
on requisition, by Detective Hoffman.
Prosecutor Berdine has instructed
that the witnesses and principals be
kept separate, SO two witnesses are
kept In the witness department; an
other in the women's department
and Giorgioni is confined in the
main part of the jail.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27
CAR CAUGHT
AT CROSSING
Trolley Jumped Track on Smith
Street Crossing Other AC-
CidentS on the Railroad Here.

Two railroad accidents and one
trolley mishap occurred within this
city's limits since Saturday noon.
None was very serious and in no
cases were any persons injured.
The trolley accident occurred late
street Central railroad crossing,
when a large double truck car ran
off the rails and stopped on the rail-
road tracks. The car was filled with
passengers and there was hurried
scramble to gain exit Employees OF
the trolley company were stationed
near the New Brunswick avenue
crossing, and another south of Smith
street to warn northbound trains.
Little trouble was experienced In
Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-04-27

running the car on the rails again.
Engine No 8,168, a large new
passenger locomotive, was derailed
near the bumpers Of the Pennsyfva4
MIA tracks, at Fayette street, Satur-
day afternoon. 1t was necessary to
send to Railway for a block and fall
to lift 1t back on the rails. The en-
gine could have been run back on
the rails, but ii was new and the
tender filled with coal and water, 50
1t was deemed best to life It into
position.
Saturday afternoon an engine
bumped into line of freight oara,
west Of the New Brunswick avenue
station of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company. One of the cars wAd
smashed at one end.