The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-07
EDITORIAL NOTES

The first missionary to the Fris1ans
 was St. Willibrord, whose festival will be celebr ated today in Germany and Denmark by the descendants of those he converted to Christianity in the seventh century St Willibrord was native of Northumberland, and studied in Ireland under St. Eg0ert. In his thirty-third year he felt impelled to labor among the pagan tribes of north ern Europe, and with twelve compa- mics he set out to the mouth or the Rhine These districts were then oc- cupied by the Frisians. who were pa Eans, and for time they gteadfastly refused to accept the religion of Christ. Wilibrord could only labor in the track of Pepin Heristal, converting the tribes who were subjugated by that warrior He converted multitudess and boilt churches and appointed priests all over the land Wilibrord was con seerated the first Archbishop of Ut recht, and continued his missionary 1abors in Frisia and Denmark until his death in 73s-
 One hundred years ago this week General Andrew Jackson gave the hos tile Creek or Muskogee Indians a taste of the bad medicine of the palefaces by utterly routing their warriors in the battle of TaI1adega, in Alabama The uprising of the Creeks against United States authority began early in 1913, when the young braves, e1cit- ed by the oratory of TeclITnseh, began to ..dance the dance of the< Indians of the lake" The spirit of revolt famed forth in the massacre of Fort Mtms, on the Alabama, where but seventeen| persons out of 275 men, women and children living at the post survived the savage wrath of the unfuriated redskins Gen Jackson, although he hal Efz3 received in a duel with Thomas Fl. Benton, led a force of Tennesseeans against the aborigines, and captured two villages.
 On the seventh of November. 1913, Jacks0n's forces, consisting of 1, 200 in-| fantry and 300 mounted men, gath cred in a circle about Talladega, one Of the chief gathering places of the hostile reds. DesuItory fighting con- tfnued through the seventh and the eighth, and on the following day reached the point of a pitched battle. The general action began at sunrise and ragged with incredible ferocity for fifteen minutes when the Indians broke and fled in wild confusion. They were pursued for several miles, and over 800 Indians were slain. and many wounded The white loss was fifteen dead and eighty-f1ve wounded.
 Despite this defeat, the Creeks fought on until the following March, when fE iRed Sticks. were defeated in a battle which became a massacre, from which not more than twenty warriors es- caped- The Creeks were forced to en- gage in a treaty by which they sur Rendered a large part of their finest territory. Within few years the once proud tribe was reduced to a small strip of territory, and in 1882 they re- 1inQuished the last of their lands east of the Mississippi and were removed I to the Indian Territory. Therep they abandoned the chase and, with the as- distance Of negro slaves, devoted them BefFes to the cultivation of the soil At the time of their removal to the Indian Territory the Creeks numbered 22.6s4. Twenty years later they aggre- gated only A,s8s. Their alliance with The Confectionery was disastrous, for they not only lost their slaves but in ss66 were forced to cede to the United States 5000, 600 acres of their Indian Territory domain for thirty cents an acre The Creeks in Oklahoma now number 1S717. and. contrary to the general opinion, they are increasing sn numbers rather than diminishing.
 The Creek or Auskogee confederacy formerly held all of the present State of Georgia and a large part of Ala bama. The Creek women were noted for their beauty, while the men were athletic and graceful and famed as brave warriors. In summer both sexes went naked, except for a drapery of Spanish moss about the waist. They were skf1ful architects and artisans, and walled towns and beautiful tenn pIes abounded in their country They wonshipped the sun their Deity, and to 1t made sacrifices Of animals and grain. while the slaughter of infant boys was sometimes required. When Q human sacrifice was considered nec- essary, the mother was compelled to witness the slaying of her child De- spite such savage practices, the Greeks any other North American Indians, ex- cept the Iroquois.
 When that fearsome cry of Cornell! I Fell Yell YeIli CorneI1!" was first heard at Ithaca, awakening the good burghers of that York State'' town from their slumbers and to a reaIiza- tion that they had become the inmates of a fu1l-hedged varsity village, sided over the destinies of the new born institution of higher learning and strenuous athletics. That was long hgo-in 1s67s- to be exact,-and Cornell has taken its place among the worlds great universities. Since he left Cor nell in 1885, Dr. White has become a worlds figure, diplomat historian and philosopher whom the learned bodies of all nations have delighted to honor. but Cornell is the master achievement of long and illustrious career
 Dr. White was born in Homer, N Y, | eighty-one years ago today, Nov. 2, 1882 Sixty years ago he graduated from Yale, with the highest honors, | and then went to Europe for post graduate studies at the Sorbonne, the | AE