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The Washington times., 1909-10-21
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ROCKLAND. Maine. oct 21.-The new
DreadnOught class battleship Delaware
arrived today from Newport News for
her official acceptance trial on the
Rockland course.
The Washington times., 1909-10-21

We are pleased to announce the opening to-
9Th and Streets. This new building and it's
equipment, including refrigerated sanitary show
cases and our own refrigerating plant are the
results of months of careful study and years of
experience.
Prompted in the belief that the public ap-
preCiate cleanliness of display and handling of
meats, up-tO=date methods and system, we have
spared nc expense to make this the finest market
in Washington, where the same high grade quail
ty, low standard of prices and courteous treat
ment that has made our go Ia. Ave- store famous
will be maintained
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02
TOMBSTONES

thelot, James Malloy, William
McCue, Henry Pohlman, Louis
Knop, Bernard McCloskey, H. c.
Mccarthy, John McCloskey,
Hon. Samuel Robertson, Frank
Custer, Max Dinkelspiel, W. O..
Hart, Michael Mulvihill, D. B.
Martinez, Urban Koen, A. Bald
win, Jr., A. J. Stallings, T. w.
Danziger, Page M. Baker, George
Denegre, Louis Madere, Judge
P. E. Burlington, Recorder j. j.
Fogarty, Frank J. Owens, Fred
Grieshaber, L. H. Marrero, Jr.,
Louis LeBourgeois, Hunter C.
Leake, Frank Mooney, H. H
Knickerbocker, Thomas Killeen
Henry Hourbeight, Walter F
Jahncke, O. I. Mcclellan, Edward
Dunn, J. J. Maxwell, Gen. Wal
ter Guion, Chief Thomas O'Con
nor, Inspector W. J. O'Connor
O. B. Steele, DR.. John Callan
Louis Blouin, Senator JOSEPH
Voegtle, E. P. White, Samuel [
Gilmore, Charles R. Kennedy
Charles J. Hauer, George Lord
John P. Sullivan, J. M. Gleason
A. F. Marks, Judge LAIR,
O'Donnell, DR.. Joseph A. Danna
( DR.. R. G.. Holcombe, J. Wake
: Ross and Henry Sitter.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02

sard, Watkins, Ransdelland PuJo,
Louisiana; Williams, Mississippi;
Clark, Missouri; Dawes, Ohio;
Madison, Kansas; ROdenberg,
Illinois; Campbell, Kansas; Fer
ris, Oklahoma; Craig, Alabama;
Hamlin, Missouri; and Russell,
Texas.
The pallbearers were:
Active-Walter G. Murphy,
Thomas Council, Hugh McClos-
key, John Fitzpatrick, John T.
Michel, Charles D. O'Connor,
Thomas G. Rapier and c. Taylor
Gauche.
Honorary-Gov. J. Y. Sanders,
| Mayor Martin Behrman, Lieut..
Gov. P. M. Lambremont, Justice
F. A. Monroe, Judge [. D. Moore,
Senator S. D. McEnery, Senator
Murphy J. Foster, Hon. Newton
G. Blanchard, Congressman K
F. Broussard, Congressman A
P. Pujo, Congressman ]. E. Rams
dell, Congressman j. T. Watkins
Congressman George K. Favrot
Congressman Albert Estopinal
Hon. R. G. Wickliffe, J. G. Hen
riques, Hon. W. W. Heard, H. G
Dupre, Robert Ewing, W. {
Chevis, Victor Mauberret, Ale;
Pujo, L. H. Marrero, Paul Ber
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02

Passing the town of Garyville,
La. situated on the Y. & M. V.
Railroad, some miles below
Lutcher, the traveller looking
out from the train window would
not be likely to regard it as more
than an average sawmill town,
perhaps a little below the aver
age so far as a view of large
buildings is concerned. But the
writer in conversation with a
lady from that town, some weeks
ago, was amazed to find that it
had made steps to the higher
Christianity and the higher civic
life which leaves many another
more pretentious town far in the
rear so far as actual accomplish
ment is concerned.
In the first place, Garyville has
done what Dr.. Washington Glad
den many years ago advocated
with such fre-and futility-as
the right course for Protestants
in small towns, viz, not to have
three or four separate evangell'
cal organizations, worshiping in
mere shacks and starving their
preachers; but to drop minor
differences of religious opinion
and observance and unite in one
Well-built church, minlstereo
unto by one Well-paid, competent
clergyman.
This Garyville has practically
done. After other denominations
had tried for a separate corpo
rate existence without success
bv common consent the Protest
ant Christians of the town unltet
with the Presbyterian church
Their undivided support goes t.
it; the building is receiving al
necessary comforts and improve
ments, and a minister, far supe
rior in education and talent t
what the usual small town, o
even large town, can acquire, /
.. theirs.
All this material visible gooo
: in addition to the spirit OF unit
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02
Garyville, louisiana.

and harmony which having one
church only supplies. This may
not be possible everywhere, but
it is ideal.
Again, Garyville has a reading
club which supports a reading
room where all the magazines can
be found, where ladies are ad-
mitted and yet where the men
can go in their shirt sleeves af-
ter the work of the day is done.
There are billiards, chess and
checker tables, and if we mis-
take not, a gymnasium. The
minister aforementioned has
charge of the reading-room at a
fair salary. The dues are Scots
monthly, and Mr.. Bloss, the
manager of the saWmill interests
of the town, has promised the
club ten thousand dollar build
! ing so soon as the membership
reaches two hundred, which it
will do very shortly.
Now can Garyville be consider.
ed ordinary, after thus accom-
plishing two such desirable OBJ
iects in civic life: church unity
and the spending of spare time
proftably as well as pleasantly
Many towns with their shabby
churches and poorly paid minis
tiers, their dull-as-ditch-Watel
slowness, with only the saloo1
and illicit places of questionable
pleasure for workingmen, nigh
: we'll envy Garyville-and prof
by her example.
= We have no doubt that Gary
Vile has other problems to NEE
T.. and solve, but if she but handle
} them with the success of thos
mentioned she will soon by nat
: ural evolution become a mode
= town. What has already bee.
D done commands our admiration
r and the first time we can slip O
S from business, we shall dro
down there and consult tn
|. townspeople about their boo
y club at least.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02
We Will Refund Your Money
If BaItar's Rheumatic Remedy Does
Not Cure Your Rheumatism.

Baltar's Rheumatic Remedy is sold
with the distinct understanding that
if it is not entirely satisfactory your
money will be refunded. The price is
81 bottle.
Give Baltar's Rheumatic remedy q
fair trial. If it does not cure your
rheumatism write to the manufacturer
and your money will be returned to
you without delay, without argument,
without any annoyance whatever.
Could we afford to make this offer
if Baltar's Rheumatic Remedy was
not all we represent it to be? Can
you afford to pass this opportunity Of
curing your rheumatism when we take
all the risk?
81 a bottle at Mumford's Drugstore
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1909-01-02
Judge R. c. Dayey is Dead.

Judge R. G. Davey, Louisiana's
Representative in Congress from
the Second District died at the
Hotel Dieu in New Orleans, Sat
urday morning, after lingering
illness.
Mr.. Davey was conspicuous
representative of the class OF
common-sense workers. He was
one of the best known men in the
halls of Congress, and his long,
practical experience rendered
him a valuable man for the Sec
ond District to have at that post.
A Louisianian by birth, ne first
saw the light of day in the city OF
New Orleans, Oct. p, 1853. His
youth was passed in securing an
education obtained at the schools
of New Orleans, and subsequent
ly at St. Vincent'S College, Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, being graduated
therefrom in 1871.
Mr.. Davey had almost from
boyhood exhibited a keen inter
est in politics, and was a Demo,
crat of sterling worth and integ,
rity whose counsel was always
instrumental in guiding the par
ty to success. December 1879
he was elected a member of the
State Senate and so faithfully
and we'll did he serve the inter
ests of his constituency that he
was re. eIectedin April, 1884, an(
again in April, 1892. Mr.. Davey
was President pro tempOre O
the Senate during the session!
of 1884 and 1886.
In November, 1880, he wa
elected recorder Of the FRS
Recorders Court, and re elected
November, 1882; re elected April
1884, and served until 1888. Il
April of the latter year he wa
defeated for Mayor of New Or
leans. He was elected to tn
ty-third Congress, pOsitivel,
declined a denomination to tn
Fifty-fo Congress, was re
elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty
seventh, Fifty eighth, Fifty-nint.
and Sixtieth Congress. He Ia
bored hard and faithfully in tn
interest of New Orleans and tn
district, and always with tel
ing effect. He was a member c
the Interstate and Foreign Con
merCe Committee. lie was
man of strong character, homes
and sincere, and his friend
were only limited by the numbe
of his acquaintance.
The funeral was held in Me-
Orleans Monday and was attenC
ed by large number of prom
nent people, including several {
the dead statesman's colleagues
Committees to attend the II
neral services of the late Repr'
sentative Davey of LOuisiar
were appointed by the sergeant
alarms of the two houses OF Co
gress, as follows:
For the Senate-Messrs. M
Emery and Foster, Louislan
McLaurin, Mississippi; Frazie
Tennessee; and Taliaferro, Flor
da.
For the House-Messrs. Bron
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30

sharp skrmish lost their commander Mai Lewis.
The Cheyennes broke away. battalion of in
fantry thrown across their tracks but the willy
savages eluded all save few of the soldiers
who in a sharp skrmish lost their commander
Maj. Lewis.
The trail led to of the low hills that chain
the reservation The Cheyennes had taken refuge
near the summit in natural hollow. The sides OF
the hills sheer and slippery to the lurking
place of the savages. 1t was place admirably
adapted for defense few men could hold it
against regiment
Capt. Vessels, in command of the cavalry, saw
that the attempt to take the hilltop by assault
would be to sacrifice the lives of half of his men.
He threw a Gordon around the hill, knowing that
the warriors could not escape, and trusting that
in a few hours hunger would force them to sur
render. Meantime the Cheyennes were active.
They picked off many trooper, and at noon on
the day following the night of their fight ball
struck Capt. Vessels in the head. The wound
not serious, but its effect was to make captain
and men eager for charge. Capt. Vessels went
to the front of his troops and prepared to lead
them up the slippery hillside in the face of the
fire of the best Indian marksmen on the great
plains
All things were prepared for the charge, when
to the amazement of the troopers, the whole band
of Cheyenne warriors, naked to the waist and
yelling like devils dashing down the hill
side straight at the body of cavalry. The Indians
had thrown away their rifles and armed only
with knives. They were going to their death and
they knew it, but death better than a return
to the reservation which they hated.
Vessels and his troopers of the Third cavalry
tried to spare the Cheyennes. but the warriors
would have death at any cost With their knives
they plunged into a hand-to-hand conflict with the
troopers and before they We're slain they exacted
price for their dying
When the time came for the burial Of the In
dians Tea Kettle chief found to be alive
but unconscious. Tea Kettle was carried back to
the fort and there made comfortable.
squaw sought the wounded warriors couch
and handed him pair of scissors which he instant
ly plunged into his heart. He spurned life In the
knowledge of the fact that his brother braves
dead.
The Sioux nation heard of the bravery OF this
Cheyennes and they adopted the women and chill
dren. and some of the boys, grown to manhood
went with the Sioux on the warpath In their las
great uprising.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30

He was one of those inquisitive i'll
dividuals one meets on shipboard who
persist in boring the captain with non
sensical questions. For 20 minutes the
captain had answered the volley of in
terrogations with a smiling face, but
now he was losing his patience.
"But, captain" insisted the bore, rs
1t really true that we have fresh vege-
tables all the way over?"
"It is, SIR" responded the master,
"and now ! must be getting"
"And fresh meats?"
Yes, sir, and as | said"
"And fresh milk?"
"Yes, but you will have TO excuse
me as"
"Just one more, captain"
"Well, what is 1t? Be quick"
Where do you get your fresh milk
from at sea-"
The captain made megaphone oi
his horny hand and roared. From ouI
herd OF sea cows that follow in on
wake, sir. Look over the stern at
eight bells and you will see the stew
ards milking them"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30
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Capt. Fechet had his Hotchkiss thrown into
action and he dropped a shell in front of the
ghost dancers, and then the command charged
down the hill
The shell had it's frightening effect the
savages, who held aoof though still pouring in
their fire. which was answered by the soldiers
Fechet himself took rapid course to the log
house, with his life in his hands every step of
the way.
Inside the hut were found three of the Indian
policemen dead and three mortally wounded The
wounded resolved on exacting a price for their
coming death, were still using their rifles against
the besieging foe. The soldiers finally drove the
savageS to flight.
The few that were left living of the little force
OF Indian police told this story. Lieut.. Bull Head
had arrested Sitting Bull and had led the chief
from his cabin only to be confronted by hundreds
of crazed savages. Catch-theBear and Strike-the-
Kettle, two of Sitting Bulls men, strobe through
the Indian ranks. raised their rifles and fired
Bull Head shot through the body. Dying, he
turned quickly and killed Sitting Bull. Strike-the-
Kettle killed Sergt. Shave Head Instantly Po
liceman Lone Man killed Catch-the-Bear. Then
the surviving policemen sought shelter in the
cabin and held off the ghost dancers as has been
told.
With the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine
Ridge Sioux, who went on the warpath in De-
cembcr $780, were few stalwart warriors of the
tribe of the Northern Cheyennes. That the Chey
ennes braves were so limited in number due
to the fact that IL years before the nation exed
and longing for its old home, had met with prac-
tical annihilation in the attempt to regain it,
The Northern Cheyennes had been sent to
reservation in the Indian territory following one
of the uprisings against the whites. Their hearts
they left behind them in their old home and the
warriors yearned to return.
Late in the fall of the year 1878 the Cheyenne
braves, taking advantage of the temporary alb
sence of their soldier guardians gathered to-
gether their women and their children and dashed
northward in the direction of the land where
their fathers had lived from the time back of the
beginning of tradition.
They had been told by the Indian agents and
by the soldiers who acted under orders, that they
never could take the trail back to the north.
but they paid no heed to what was told them. but
gathering their possessions they set out,
The Cheyennes' love of home, natural and SYM
pathy-compelling to everyone except to those who
thought that an Indian should have naught to do
with homesickness, was the cause of the destruc'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30
CODE OF TRAMPDOM
HlERoeLYPHIcs USED BY TRAMPs
AND HoBos.
interesting Code of Signals Made Use
of by Homeless Wanderers in
Country Districts to Warn
Others Following.

Readers of stories about the tramp
and his ways are, perhaps, inclined to
take what they read with a grain of
salt, but this much may be said with
certainty. Tramps do have a system
of signs and symbols, by which they
communicate with their brethren on
the road. When the New York police
recently opened the new municipal
lodging house, they discovered in the
process of moving from the old build
ing piece of paper, apparently left
behind by some forgotten lodger Some
peculiar characters on the paper at
tracted notice and an examination of
the accompanying handwriting, which,
by the way, bore evidence that the
writer had at one time been man
of culture and training showed that
the hieroglyphics were none other than
a code of signals of trampdom. That
these signs are used by the tramp fra
ternity is well known to those who
dwell in country districts. They have
often noticed strange marks, meaning
less to them, gracing their gate-post or
barnyard fence 1t is the language of
the tramp, to whom each sign has its
own meaning. The accompanying cut
is reproduction of the signs and in
| terpretations found in the New York
municipal lodging house.
1t is not a difficult task, in exam
lining some of thes hieroglyphics, to
see why they should have been select.
ed. AT any rate, one may hazard guess
on the subject. There is the symbol
used to inform the fraternity of an
arrest; it represents prison bars, nc
doubt. Notice the warning that dog
is in the garden, by stretch of the
imagination, the rectangular figure
might be taken to denote garden, ant
the queer little figure inside, with the
four vertical lines, might very well bt
the dog itself Work here" is alst
open to amateur analysis. The eros!
probably refers to the saw horse, com
npnly used in chopping wood, while
the other symbol might conceivabl.
indicate the saw, although it would b,
hard to convince many that a sav
built on such lines would prove an et
fective implement, even in the hand
Of the most skillful hobo.
Get out of the town as quick a
possible" is self-explanatory. Seeming
ly, when tramps set eyes on that tol
en-. theirs is not to reason why, bu
merely to leave the arrows far behinC
The symbols for mo use" and ''yo
can get food" were probably chose
for their simplicity; if any other 81!
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30
pauperlsm increasing in England.

There were more paupers in Eng
land than ever at the end of January
despite old age pensions, the proper
tion in London being The highest since
1881, according to the government re-
turn Just published. The total num-
ber of paupers in England and Wales
was $50, AGO, of whom 288.S31 were In.
door. The proportion thousand of
population was 24.1 an increase of %
from last year and OF g in indoor
paupers. The total in London was
ls3,226, a proportion OF 27.8.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30
Dummy Soldiers Long Walk.

Walking day and night, without
single stop, a dummy soldier is max
ing 100000 steps every "a hours in
an endurance test to determine the
life of several new cartridge belts
which are under consideration by
the board of ordnance and fortifica-
ton of the army The dunimy's tour
of duty is at the Rock Island Ill.
arsenal. The dummy is the size OF
an average soldier. BY special me-
chanical apparatus it is made to walk.
with the guidance of a wire cable, as
though on sentinel duty, in circle
In one end of hall The mechanism
is such as to give the dummy the
same motion as would be experienced
by the average soldier in walking.
About the waist of the figure are
strapped the various belts, one at
time, which are being tested. Each
is filled with the regulation cartridges.
the principal test being made with
the sharp,nosed bullets, to determine
how long It will take for these to
wear through tho pockets of the belts.
Chicago DAILY News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30

nificance attaches to them, it is un'
known except to the favored few. But
the amateur Investigator reaches the
end of his rope when he tackles the
symbols which te1l the reader to pick
yarn" because there are women in
the house." Apparently, women in the
house, is good news to the tramp with
fearful hard luck story to relate. But
whatever bearing these particular
symbols may have on the matter is not
to be answered.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30
City. C. V. A

City. c. V. A
Query-Please advise me through
your pension column whether widow
is entitled to a pension under the fol-
lowing circumstances: The woman is
the widow of union officer mustered
out of the service with the rank of
brigadier general after the close of the
war. A bill was presented to con-
gress in her behalf for pension of $50
per month, but she married again, an
eX-confederate officer who has since
died. Her first husband had a fine
military record, but never applied for
a pension, although deserving one. Is
the widow pensionable under existing
laws? If so, how can she secure pen
sion on account of the service of said
first husband?-J. T. c.
Answer-The widow referred to
would be entitled to pension under the
general law on account of the service
of her first husband, the union officer,
from the date of his death to the date
of her remarriage to the eX-confed-
crate officer, provided she can show
that he died from disability due to SER
vice and line of duty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-04-30

the death of the great Sioux chief. Fhilanthro-
pists in the east who never had seen an Indian
tepee insisted that Sitting Bull was murdered and
that the blood of the savage was upon the head
of the nation.
1t was left to Col Edward G. Fechet now pro-
fessor of military science at the University of
Illinois, to learn the truth of the shooting of Sit
ting Bull and to give knowledge of 1t to the peo-
pie. Col. (then captain) Fechet made one of the
hardest rides known to the troops of the plains
before he secured the facts in the case of the
passing of the great Sioux chief to the happy
hunting grounds.
Sitting Bulls home was in log hut on the
Standing Rock Indian reservation of North
Dakota In the summer of 1890 he gath
cred many of his braves about him
and told them in picturesque Sioux language
that Messiah to come who would lead the
Sioux nation to victory; that the whites would De
annihilated that the buffalo would come back
and that the red man would once more take pos
session of the earth.
Through the medicine men Sitting Bull worked
SO upon the feelings and the supersttions of his
warriors that they came to believe that by wear
ing certain garments which were called ghost
shirts their bodies would be safe from the Dullets
of the soldiers
When Gen. Miles learned of the teachings OF
Sitting Bull and of their rapid spread the chiefs
arrest was ordered Accordingly Indian police
led by Lieut. Bull Head and Sergt Shave Head
were dispatched from Fort Yates to arrest the
the Eighth cavalry was ordered with his COM
mand, consisting of two troops, and, If memory
serves two light field pieces, to make a night
march to Oak Creek about 1S miles from Sitting
Bulls house, there to receive the prisoner when
he was turned over by Lieut.. Bull Head.
Capt Fechet and his men reached the rendez-
yous at A: 80 a. m. on one of the coolest mornings
of a Dakota December day. There was no sign
of the Indian police nor yet of the scout which
Bull Head was to send in advance to inform
the cavalry officer OF his coming.
Fechet's soldier instinct told him at once that
there must be trouble. His men had had the
hardest kind of night ride but they were will
ing and he pushed forward rapidly After he
had made several miles he was met by scout
who was riding like mad. The runner told Fechet
that all the Indian police who had gone to arrest
Sitting Bull had been killed by the ghost dancers.
and that there thousands upon thousands
of them :d.iy armed and in their war paint ready
for battle.
Fechet looked his small command and
went ahead at full gallop, his only thought being
To gave such OF the policemen as might be alive
and giving no heed to the other thought that
ahead of him might be overwhelming numbers
of the savages and the fate of Custer. 1t was
a terrible ride from that time on
When the morning was little advanced the
men OF the command heard firing. which seemed
to come from different points. On they went un
III they came to the brow OF the NIL belo"