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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

badly soiled when he squats in the cir
Gle with Kornalty, Kiowa Bill, Little
Wolf, Prairie Chief. Little Cali and
the other wise men.
The long pipe and many grunts are
the most apparent features of this
council, which sometimes lasts as long
as the night session of a state con-
vention.,
The ghost dance, however, enliv-
ened things. When time came for
the dancers to take their places, it
became evident what had been going
on In the tepees The participants
appeared in full glory of feathers, war
paint, blankets. buckskin garments,
beads and gaudy trinkets. These In
dams justified any colored picture of
a painted red man that has ever been
printed.
All dancers, squaws and braves to-
gether. join hands and form circle
around group Of few of the oldest
and wisest of the chiefs. The latter
sing or chant a tribal song. Their
voices are pitched in a shrill, high
key, which might be compared to the
treble" of the early-day white folks
class meeting, and the song usually
ends with war Whoop, which is a
bit disquieting to timid spectators. Oc-
casiona1Iy the dancers join in the
chant and also in the whoop, espee
cially when the dance is given by the
light of campfire and there is a bet.
ter opportunity of impressing white
folks
The dance is given in ffve-minute
rounds, between which the Indians
walk about and converse with each
other much as at a fashionable ball.
Conversation with white visitors is
limited to the younger Indians, those
who have attended school. The older
ones, when addressed, answer mo
savee.'' but il the person speaking has
something of interest to the Indian to
impart and VIII continue talking, he
usually finds that the brave under.
stands all that he cares to.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
FROGS FROM THE CLOUDS

At the conclusion of an extraordi-
narily violent thunderstorm the other
week. Mr.. Jack Ayre of Temple Bot
tom, near Cruwys- Morchard, in Devon
shire, Eng. found a long stretch of
road covered with thousands of frogs,
which, it is declared, cried like rab-
bits. =
Mr.. Ayr expresses the opinion that
the frogs came down from the sky,
and he is supported in this view by
another resident Of the district. who
has experience of monsoons abroad.
This expert says that in the still
ness which precedes monsoons in trop-
zeal regions all sorts of creeping
things come out of their hiding places.
They are often carried up into the air
by Whirlwfnds, and when the mon
soons break down they are deposited
again in transforms, as appears to
have been the case at CruWys-Mor-
chard.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

here?s asked the policeman Mamma
told me to sleep wifi the little chick
ems" replied the little chap, rubbing
his eyes sleepily and shiveriag with
the cold. He still chung to the precious
skirt and the old piece of burlap was
found to be still warm from contact
with the little sleeper's body. He was
taken to the Thirty-sixth precinct po-
lice station and turned over to the
Juvenile officer. Neighbors called up
the police station and informed the
sergeant that the boy was locked in
the chicken coop, and officers were
sent to investigate. The boys father
is waiter and works nights in a
downtown hotel. When arraigned the
woman confessed that she had locked
her son in chicken coop In the back
yard while she spent IL hours from
home. She told the court it had been
her practise to lock the child In the
chicken coop because she thought he
would be safer there during her alb
sence. She was fined SIS.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
BIRDS ATTACK BAKER
Driver Kills a Score of Them Defend.
ing Himself and His Load of
Bread.

Chester, Pa.-When Thomas VIII
son, driver of Philadelphia bakery
wagon, stopped to water his horses,
en- route to this, city, he was attacked
by flock of hundreds of blackbirds,
which few upon him, pecking at his
hair and eyes and making a general
onslaught on his cargo of bread.
Wilson used the butt of his
whip to fight off the birds. killing and
Gripping score Of them A dozen or
more of the blackbirds were taken
from the wagon after it reached Ches-
ter. Wilson thinks the birds were
prompted by hunger.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
CHICAGO BOY IS LOCKED IN
A CHICKEN COOP TO SLEEP
MOTHER ADOPTS THIS PLAN OF
KEEPING CHILD SAFELY
WHILE SHE'S AWAY.

Chicago. Robbie Effert, i've years
old, was dragged forth, tired, cold and
sleepy. by two policemen from chick
en- coop filed with chickens in the
rear of 1910 Warwick avenue, this
city. where, it was said, he had been
locked in by his mother to sleep
while she went out to spend the even
ing with friends. The little fellow
was sound asleep. when discovered by
the officers, upon a piece Of burlap
and an old skirt, which the neighbors
had thrown over the fence to keep
him warm. What are You doing
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

At the International Congress Of
Aerial Leagues held in Boulogne re-
Gently some interesting demonstra.
tons were given Of special devices
for the protection of aViators in case
of fall. Among these was a safety
suit consisting of a padded head-piece
and jacket six inches thick, the entire
apparatus weighing only eight pounds
The inventor hurled himself head-frst
against very spiky place in the stone
work of the old walls of Boulogne and
suffered no inconvenience from the
impact.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
INDIANS COME TO
DANCE IN AUTOS
WELCOME, TWO BITS" GREET
ING or KIoWA BILL, TRIBAL
COUNCIL HOST.
RED MEN CHARGE GATE FEE
Ghost Dance, With Frequent War
hoops, Features of Big Three-Day
Meeting Near Hobart, Oklahoma
Great Attraction for Pale Face.

Hobart, Ok-tW Welcome, Two Bits, 2
was the greeting KioWa Bill gave the
white visitors who gathered at his
farm to witness the ceremonies at
tending the council and ghost dance
of the Cheyenne and KioWas during
their fall visit. A good sprinkling of
the Indians present made the trip
from their homes in automobiles.
Kiowa Bill is a crafty business man
and he knows the value of his chief
tainship and also of Indian ceremo-
malls. The gathering at his farm was
to last three days and provisions cost
money, so he proceeded to make the
show self-sustaining. Beef was the
chief article on the menu and often
there was not time enough to cook it.
The visitors found as much attrac-
ton In the personality of those gath
cred for the council. as in the proceed
ings themselves. The Indians still
take these councils quite seriously, or
at least appear to.
Lone Wolf, in his. clerical garb, was
there. Wolf represented the KioWas
in the opposition to the opening of
the Kiowa-Comanche country in 1901
so persistently that he lost standing
with the authorities. It was con-
Guided that he was more of a spokes-
man for wealthy cattlemen than for
his tribesmen and the government
has since ignored him, dealing with
his tribe through others. He is a Bap-
list clergyman and always appears in
civilian dress, which becomes pretty
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
Marries His Niece.

st. Louis. Charles NJ. vancil, sixty.
eight years old, will continue to be
uncle Charlie" to the woman who is
now his wife and who was Mrs. Ida
Corzine, a niece of Vancil's first wife.
She has always called him Uncle
Charlie" and the marriage will make
no change in the title of the husband.
This is the fourth marriage for Van,
eli and he has ten children living.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
erasshoppers Ate His Coat.

Washington, Pa.-Recently Oscar
West OF Venetia attended Sunday
school picnic. He dotted his coat.
rolling 1t into bundle and placing
it in a grassy place When he was
ready to start home and went to get
his coat he found 1t literally eaten up
by the hoppers
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
ROOSTER HAS A LONG FAST

A remarkable instance of a fowl
living twenty days without food oc-
Cured at Stamford, near Hythe, Eng.
A buff orpington cock, belonging to
a resident named Franks, had been
missing for three weeks, and was dis.
covered Wedged in the wooden founda-
ton on which haystack had been
constructed The bird was terribly
emaciated, but has now recovered.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
sHELL-FISH KILLS sEAGULL.

A singular occurrence is reported
from Barnstaple England A seagull
was observed struggling in the air
near the River Taw, and then to fall
to the ground. It was discovered that
a biValve had closed on the bill of the
bird and gradually suffocated it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
WONDERFUL ENGRAVING FEAT

An extraordinary feat has been per-
formed by Paul P Wentz of Sharon,
Pa. who has, on the head of an ordin-
airy pin, engraved the alphabet four
times and then added his name and
the date when he completed the work.
making 1f3 characters in all
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

me q well WOuldus
and Iwould Ike to
tell theWhole world
Of it. I suffered
frornfemaIe trouble
and fearful painsin
my back. I had the
best doctors ard
they all decided
that Z had a tumor
in addition TO my
female trouble, and
advised an opera
ton. Lydia E.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

A St. Paul burglar has returned
money he had stolen three years ago
He has evidently reformed partially,
When he completely reforms he will
insist on paying the penalty he in.
Cured by violating the moral and
criminal law.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Why should there be SO much ex'
citement when an aviator breaks the
record for attaining the greatest
height? The thing to become en-
thusiastic over, it seems to US. Is In
getting safely down from the greatest
height
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

An Ohio judge rules that pretzel
is not dangerous weapon. Whether
he will be SO confident concerning
the exhibition of sliced crcumbers re.
mains to be seen.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Why is it that the man who cum
ningly plans to murder his wife or his
sweetheart and brutally carries out
his plan always breaks down and
cries like child" when his guilt Is
fastened upon him?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Isn't there a fine touch Of uncon.
scious humor in the preachments on
American extravaganza which Ameri
can millionafres deliver when they
come home from motor tours through
Europe?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Thieves have been known to steal
hot stoves, but even this feat is sur
passed by that of robbers in New
Jersey who stole six cars loaded with
merchandise by cutting freight
train in two and escaping with the
bootY. So far. this holds the record.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

A Pittsburg bridegroom of FIVE
weeks deserted his bride because she
was "a block of ice" Naturally. she
Immediately proceeded to make it hot
for him.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

There is man in Virginia who says
that to marry after fifty means
trouble. He is an optimist. What
does he think it means to marry be-
fore fifty?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Someone has written an article on
.@The Duty Of the Dollar" this being
something that our American tourists
have been trying to dodge.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

When man of ninety-six walks
ten miles to get a marriage license
the truth that live is ever young gives
another knockout blow to the Os-
ierian theory.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

With the Bible still leading the list
of best sellers, the morals of the
country cannot be SO very much de-
Perforated, after all.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

If there is any argument in favor
of letting college boys haze them
selves it must be that they need to
get it out of their systems.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

In New York there is woman one
hundred and two years old who has
lived ninety-six years in Manhattan
Well, it must have been in Harlem.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

New York man, forty years old.
and about to wed, says he has never
yet kissed girl He'll still be
'about to we'd forty years from now.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

San Francisco is waging 8 relent-
less war against rats. but it doesn't
seem to have any effect on Paris
coiffures, so far.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

An Italian has invented an aero
plane which cannot fall This is an
Improvement even over those which
can swim and climb trees.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Possibly the society smuggler Ia
only kleptomaniac.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

"A New York woman who obtained
a divorce Is years ago has just ap-
piled for alimony. When is a poor
devil safe?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

New York street car conductor
breaks his arm ringing up fares.
Talk about streauosity in doing ones
duty!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Summer keeps running back for
Just one more parting word.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Further, an aeroplane, iudiciously
handled. lays golden eggs.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

King Alfonso is afraid he may lose
his throne. Foolish boyi-Why didn't
he put it in his wife's name?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

The new fiye-dollar bills will be
smaller, says an exchange. Easier to
break, too, we presume.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
the kaiser and pleasantly remembered
In the United States which he visited
some years ago, IS not only warm
admirer of the British, but is espe-
cially fond of their favorite sport
golf. He visits England and Scotland
occasionally, and when there never
fails to indulge in the Royal and An
cient game. Moreover, he sometimes
dons the kits when on the links, and
the photographer caught him when
dressed in the garb of the highlands.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

These are fine days to find mush-
rooms. If you feel i'll the next day,
you'll know that you didn't.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Wild grapes are very scarce this,
fall, says the Boston Globe, but the
sour variety are still plentiful enough.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

New York waiter buys 100000
worth of government bonds. "All
things come to him who waits.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

A French duke has invited his
friends to an aeroplane tea. Could
any high tea" be higher than that?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Detroit goat eats a SO bill. Well.
what goat ever got Indigestion from
swallowing ten bones?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Portland cement is to be cheaper
have you tried digesting it?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

Isn't it strange how automobiles
won't take a joker
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19
AFTER
SUFFERING
one YEAR
Cured by Lydia 8. Pink.
hams egetable Compound

Milwaukee, wis. "Lydia 3. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

The ancient civic ceremony with which opening
Oyster Fishery Colchester
board the ugge Henry
chester the clerk bearing
town clerk read declaration which dates 89 the
reign OF Richard Occur de Lion confirming
gingerbread handed
declaration which
of Colchester the chairman the
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-11-19

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27

Isn't there room for a suspicion as to
the quality and kind of his gray mat
ter?
You cost money, and you take more
floor space than he needed for himself
alone. He has to live in a locality far
removed from his former haunts. in
order to accommodate you 1t takes
him five minutes walk and a car ride
to get anywhere. When he gets home,
he stays therefor various reasons.
He drops away, from his old asso-
ciates. If he tries 10 keep in with
them, his new sense of accountability
makes him kill-ioy and a bore They
talk about a hunting-trip, or some
other of the self-indulgent delights OF
bachelordom. He reflects that his
hunting trip has gone for the extra
servant that he did not need till he
got wife; for prizes at card parties
at his house-prizes for which he used
to play in other mems houses, and for
which they paid; for cleaning satin
and broadcloth where there used to be
but serge and fannel; for all the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27
HURRAH FOR US!
IS WILLIAMS
SHOUT OF JOY
SENATOR-ELECT TALKS IN VERY
INTERESTING MANNER OF CAM
MONS GREAT DEFEAT ON LAST
SATURDAY,.

Jackson, Miss, March 26.-"Hurrah
for u.s." was the comment of Senator
elect John Sharp williams, former
Democratic minority leader, when he
learned that the Democratic minority
and Republican insurgents had sue
ceeded in downing Speaker Joe Can
non and ousting him from membership
on the committee on rules.
"a good start has been made, but
more remains to be accomplished be-
fore the lower house of congress will
be truly representative body" con-
tinued Mr. Williams.
The leader of the minority should
command his forces on the floor, and
not from the chair, as the leader of
the minority is required to do. Fur
thermore, the speaker should be a fair
and impartial presiding officer, con-
filming his rulings within the scope of
parliamentary law, and not exercise
the prerogatives of partisan party
leader.
Under this plan we would have a
bipartisan government, and that
means a representative and progress
sive government"
When asked what he thought of the
part played by the insurgent Repub-
licans in the downfall of Cannon, Mr..
Williams said:
Il must confess that feel very little
sympathy for the insurgent Republi-
cans, nor can | believe that they are
entitled to any large amount of praise
for the part they have played.
For nearly six years / endeayored
day after day, to convince this element
of the, Republican party in the house
of the injustice of existing rules, point
ing out that the absolute power placed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27
"WHY SHOULD MEN MARRY?"
|-"-| E-I


items. large and small, that the advent
of a woman adds to a mans expense
account.
Acquiring A wife. he is at home
nowhere except at home! It's the only
place where he really ought to be,
when he is not in his office, earning
the whereWithal to pay for the cage,
He even feels bound to continue one
of the bad habits he cultivated in the
dreamy days of first possession-he
telephones and apologies for being
late to dinner, or for dining away from
home. Every hour brings its proof
that he has given up his freedom.
And for what? For one of us
Miss Egglsston is clever, all right.
But she has only talked of one type
of woman, the woman who is a variety
of human parasite, who considers mar
riage in the light of a good thing"
and a husband as valuable and
necessary asset, who is expected to
slave down town to meet certain ex-
penses with which she swamps him,
until. perhaps, she is good looking,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27

prosperous widow-a childIess widow
for the type of woman of whom Miss
Eggleston speaks is going to shirk re-
sponsibilities Wholesale; it is the very
keynote of her nature.
ldealisn1
In justice to thousands of the good
sweet women of the earth, who hold
to the idealic in marriage and what
1t should mean both to the man and
to the woman, Miss Eggle5ton is, to saw
very little about it, bit unkind.
The woman who knows life. who
knows the thousand and one little diff
ticulties which arise in one day in the
business world, is not the kind who
loads her husband with the hopeless
knowledge that all the vesults which
he may make possible by extra hours
of brain flag, extra energy expended
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27
BY Bonnie 5urnhan,
and By Request.

l don't believe, candidly, that you or
or any of us are particularly concern
ed over just why men should marry
or why men should not marry-it' S
largely matter of taste with them
unless we" happen to be a scheming
mamma with an over supply of daugh-
tiers. or are growing exceptionally anti
quated, maybe, with no idea at all how
to take the fat jolly old world and how
to play with it!
Do you know what Katharine Eggle-
ston says about it?
Have you read the article in ques-
ton?
I'm going to quote her.
The Sacrifices of Matrimony.
Why" asks Miss Eggleseon. why
should he marry US? Why not be
honest? Isn't it the plain, unvarnished
truth, that a man who contemplates
exchanging his undeniably blessed sin
gleness by asking to be doubled with
some fiuttering and uncertain female
ought to be examined for the symp-
toms of some mild phase Of insanity?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27

Katharine Eggleston, a clever wo-
man writer with bunch of fairly
good ideas, wrote a plain talk upon a
subject of general interest" the other
day for the Munsey magazine. entitled
why Should Men Marry?"
AS for mel read the article with
interest, and admired her cleverness
In being so refreshingly honest con-
corning her views, comfortably con-
cluded that, however, with it all, the
caustlc Katharine had given the wo-
men rather rotten deal-and let it
20 at that.
But when Id received two or three
marked copies of the story, and had
been asked by a particular book
wormy sort of brain affinity of mine to
discuss it publicly, it was up to the
subject Why Should Men Marry" TO
be the victim of another worrying. and
by another woman, too,
All this, of course, is in the nature
of explanation, apology-almost any
thing you'll want to call it-and lust
as you please!