Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-02-21

George Johnson was taken to st.
Johnsbury hospital on Monday for an
operation for appendicitis. The orer-
alton was successful and be is doing
as well as could be expected.
Mrs. Victoria Cameron. who has
driven to her school at South Glover
from Glover village all winter. has
been boarding at HI. E. Clark g for
two weeks. Her school closes thi
week.
Mrs. Fhila Bean, who is spending the
winter at the home of her son, G. P. |
Bean, will be 95 years old Friday, Feb. |
| %. She is interested in all current |
events, reads the daily papers, cares
! for her room, knits fine lace and is
able to do many useful things. We
hope she will remain with US to round
out full century of useful life.
Our lecture course has been very
satisfactory and it is hoped our people
will make an earnest effort to contin-
lie another year. Our numbers are
not large and good talent costs high
but we can have them if all will help.
The members of the association and
those interested are requested to meet
at the town hall on Thursday of this
week at one o'clock for the TRANSACT
ton of business.
TAHAN
The last number of the Glover lec-
, ture course was considered by some
who heard it as the most interesting
number of the course. Tahan ap-
peared before his audience in a suit
of fringed buckskin embroidered with
beads, with belt ard scalping knife
and long black hair in two braids
b over his shoulder and with the scalp
lock braided separately behind Who.
ever loses this scalp lock according to
e Indian tt additions cannot enter the
: Happy Hunting Ground''of the here
after. Stuck in the scalp lock was
n the distinguishing eagle feather. Toe
n young to remember 1t save as toli By
q his captors he told Of the death of hi
e mother, killed by blow from q
Ratchet aimed at him. as she stoopec
to protect him after she had repealed
e the enemy until the ammunition gave
n out. His father, white scout, wa
,: away and he and his Indian mothe
. were alone in their cabin. An Indian
seized him from where be, sat dab
= bling his hands in his mothers blood
Is to dash his brains out against tn
70 wall, but he chung to his captor s.
n. tenaclously that the superstitious In
dian dared not kill him and he wa
taken to the camp and given to tn
wife of the chief, who loved an
f. reared him as her own. He told o
' the Indian life, of their freedom fror
the vices that degraded the whit
at man with all his boasted civilization
Thieving was punished by death an
was practically unknown. Their
fe were no unbelievers among them, al
-worshiped the Great Mystery an
ne went away into the solitude of tn
a. forest to do so. They had one stanc
ard of morals for men and wome
alike and whoever transgressed thi
d standard was punished by death. Cou1
IL age and bravery were taught tn
child from his early years and reve1
he ence for parents. He cited instance
m where the government had use
blacklist treachery in its dealing
with the red man and said that an ur
m provoked attack of white troops upo
r. Indians was mentioned in history as
e, great victory but when reds similarl
attacked whites it was called mass;
nt ere. He was made governmer
Mt scout at about 20 years of age. Wa
as later struck by his superior office
for refusing to black his boots, d.
serted, was captured and sentenced
SIS be shot, escaped and fled to Canadi
er where he suffered the depths of po
err erty and despair, was taken into tt
Salvation Army and a way W;
oened for him to live and to learn. +
Il. was then "a years of age. Althoug
,g he never attended school he educate
ri himself and became minister of Il
Gospel and is in charge Of Presb
terrain church in Buffalo, N. Y.