The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-13
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Pocahontas degree for women. A
local lodge is a tribe and a meeting
is a council. The presiding officers
are chiefs, great sachems and inco-
homes, according to their rank. The
territory controlled by a tribe is a
hunting ground, and the jurisdiction
Of a great council is a reservation.
The treasurer is the keeper of the
Wampum n the treasury is the
Wampun belt.
Even in his calendar the Red Man
follows the imaginative nomenclature
Of the aborigine. His divisions of
time u as follows:
a breath is Minute
A run is n Hour
a sun Is .Day
a sleep is Night
Seven suns is Week
A moon is Mont
Snow moon February
Worm moon March
Plant moon is. April
Flower moon May
hot moon June
uck moon uly
Sturgeon moon .......... August
Corn moon September
Travelling moon is....-..... October
Beaver moon ........ November
Hunting moor is........ December
a great sun is Year
Rising of the sun is. 10000. Morning
Setting of the sun is........ Evening
High sun Midday
Low sun Midnight
An American eaa has been adopted
by the Red Men for the numbering Of
the years. This era starts with the
Great Sun of Discovery-the year Of
the landing of Columbus.
The Order of Eagles was Matched
not in any spirit Of p%layfulness but
in the very serious business on the
part of a handful of theatrical man.
ayers of sauelching an obstreperous
musicians union. The first nest OF
the Eagles was the stage of the Bella
Union theater in Seattle in the year
1898, and the product Of the egg was
first known as the Seattle Order of
Good Things" Its membership was
composed of theatrical managers
who combined pleasant social fea-
lures with the sterner business Of
curbing the power of their fiddlers.
When the membership grew too
large for the stage of the Bella I'm
ion the Good Things" moved over to
the Grand Army hall. Thefact that
might have lain undiscovered if John
Cort, then a local theater owner now
a theatrical manager of national
prominence. had not spied an eagle
surrounding the flagstaff which the
Grand Army boys had carelessly left
standing in a corner of the hall.
With the name came the view that
an Eagle naturally would have of a
broader field. The order grew be-
yond Seattle. beyond the theatrical
profession, until now. after fourteen
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has nearly 1000 aeries. scattered
from one coast to the other. with
a total membership Of nearly 300.-
900. These men are drawn from all
walks Of life. for in the realm to
which the Eagle scars n Eagle Is
considered the equal Of every other
Eagle.
The Red Rooster is still in the pin
feather stage and consequently. has
not yet strayed far from his home
nest in Chicago, but his name. The
Red BOOSTERS Of America" was chos-
and New York and other cities are
now preparing to establish ban
yards" The Red BOOSTERS make no
secret of the fact that they are ac-
tuated solely by the play spirit. but
the history Of such societies has prov
ed. as In the g Of the Eagles. that
eVen a Red Rooster htnSelf cannot
predict into what sort OF a bird he
will develop when he Is fully feather
ed out.
The Red BOOSTERS are drawn from
the ranks Of the high-class advertis-
ing men. the fellows who camp on
the trail and land the big orders. Tho
idea originated with Guy g. Osborn,
who represents in the Chicago terri
tory a string Of newspapers extend
ing from Boston to San Francisco. He
Is chief cock Of the Chicago BOOSTERS
and probably will become the high
cockalorum Of the great barnyard
when a national organization IL eff
fected.
The rooster was selected as tho
emblem because he is a staunch be-
lever in the value Of advertising. He
ALWAYS fights head first. fights to the
end, and when he falls. falls on his
back, ready to strike the last de-
spairing blow. He never quits till he
is dead. He u always gallant to tho