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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

Many of the Indian tribes use these arrows not only for fighting, but for the killing of birds and other game. They have one kind of poison which causes almost instant death if it gets into the blood. It attacks the nerves of motion and produces a paralysis of the breathing organs. At the same time 1t has no bad effect upon the use of the flesh of the animal as food. The Botocudos have very fine arrows which they carry in quivers. single culver will hold a dozen arrows. each of the size of a knitting needle. The Indians use spears of bamboo tipped with heads of bone or stone and for hand-to- hand fights they have clubs of wood. In the ends of the clubs they put the teeth of animals. The spears are sometimes tipped with teeth dipped in poison.
 Most of the Brazilian Indians are skilled in trapping and hunting. The museum has many fish traps made by them. These are so formed that the fish can swim in, but cannot get out Many fish are taken by poisoning the water For this vine called the tlmbo is used. It is bruised and thrown into the waters of creek or pool, which are so af- fected that the fish under the surface are stupefied or suffocated. They rise to the top and are easily caught. Fish are also speared by torch light and are killed by these poisoned arrows from blow pipes.
 Another Indian tribe of which the museum has many relics is the Mundu- rucu, found on the Amazon and it's tribu- tares. There are large tribes of them along the River Tapajos These Indians are much like our Igorrotes of the Philip pines or the head-hunters of Formosa. They capture and cure the heads of their enemies. There are a number of specimens of cured heads In the museum One such head is shaved except at the crown, the space over each ear being decorated with bright feathers. The head has not been reduced in size, as is com mon among some of the Indians of Peru It's features have been perfectly pre- served, the eyes having been filled with rubber or gum and pieces Of white bone inserted therein to represent the whites. The mouth is closed with black gum or rubber.
 The director of the museum tells mo that these savages are fast dying out and that many of tho tribes now in ex- istence are becoming civilized. During my stay in the museum some of the civ ilized Indians came in They were dressed in blue calico. and at first I thought this might be a uniform and that they might belong to one of the institutions of the
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among the exhibits of the National Mu- scum. Some that I measured are disks of light wood three inches in diam eter. They are almost as big around as a pint tin cup.
 The third and fourth families to which the Brazilian Indians belong are the Carlos and the Arawaks. The Carlos inhabited the. islands of the Caribbean sea They are supposed to have orig mated in the plains of Goyas and Mat to Crosse and from there to have trav- eled northward. The Arawaks were originally most numerous along the lower Amazon, but they were also spread over central Brazil The Carlos were ferocious and warlike. They were cannibals, and Columbus described them as such. The color of the Caribs Is that of copper. but it varies in the different tribes. They have long black hair and features somewhat like the Chinese. The people pull out all the hair on their bodies except that on the head. In some cases this is so even to the eyebrows.
 The Arawaks were physically un- equal to the Caribs, but they were more civilized, weaving cloth of various kinds and working in stone and gold. Their tribes were scattered throughout Brazil. and they reached to the Carib- bean and most of the West Indies Is- lands. Their chief descendants of to- day are found in the Guianas, although some of the tribes here come from them.
 During my visit to the museum have seen relics of most of the Brazilian tribes and models typical of the most famous of them. They have plaster figures here of the Botocudos with the blocks of wood in their lips make most beautiful hammocks of grass cloth embroidered with feathers. The Tacunas live along the Amazon and they use poisoned arrows as a means of defense. The museum has many blowpipes. such as are used to shoot these arrows. The pipes are about an inch in diameter and from 70 to 12 feet in length. They are made of hard wood, which is split and then hollowed out. After that the parts are glued together and wrapped with rattan so that they are perfectly alright The arrows are about a foot long and as thick as Q darning needle. They are as sharp as needle. On the blunt end of the arrow is a wrapping of cotton so made that it fits into a hole in the blowpipe. am told that the Indians can blow these arrows to a distance of 50 feet or more. The poi son is put on the point and sometimes 1t covers the upper part of the arrow It Is deadly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

And thus to countless rivulets gave
 birth.
 While loves death dealing bolts fell hera
 and there
 As loud the thunders roared in frenzied
 wrath:
 A moment more-behold the aftermath An earth refreshed. and purer sweeter
 air.
 How like the frenzy of the souls of men. Which. in a moment from a mood se-
 rene
 Into fury lash the placid scene, And, having found their vent, grow calr1
 again.
 And if, perchance, no bolt victim find, When calm succeeds, as storms it al-
 ways will
 There's tenderness in each new stream
 and Till. And all seems gentle, merciful and kind. There is certain section of uptown New York. officially known as Washing ton Heights Gin the 1908 and 14os) which of recent months has become so thickly settled with members of a certain race. that it is now known generally as ''Kikes peak" This. however is no slur on any race. A "kike'' Is one who is considered cheap" one who may have millions. or merely mills, but who clings to it tena- ciously upon all, occasions. using all his energies for the requirement of more.
 Don't believe it Is generally known that Howard Chandler Christy who has a studio in the Fifties (streets) and is now at work under a five-figu con tract. draws with his left hand. $ fact. nevertheless. but it does not follow that the amateur artist will have any great CT success by attempting to acquire anbfdextrousness.
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eighteenth century Pope Benedict XIV issued a bull communicating anyone who enslaved the red men, but 1t was long after this before slavery of the Indians was abolished in Brazil. The church has missions scattered over the country The Franciscan Sisters have a station at Itambacury in Minas Gereas where they have 1900 Indians. The nuns are teaching the Indian girls spinning. weaving and flower making. In Matto Crosse the Salesian Fathers have number of mission stations and in Minas the Capuchns working.
 According to the present plans of the government, the Indian territory has been divided into 10 districts each in charge of an inspector who reports an- nually upon their condition to the di- rector general. IL is proposed to settle the Indians in their own districts and to give them the same advantages as the immigrants, with the exception that they will not be allowed to dispose of their allotments. The government in- tends to preserve the tribal customs and internal organizations of the tribes as far as possible. and to use the chiefs in bringing about their reform In other. words. 1t expects that the red men shall reform themselves as far as possible, while the government pro tects them from robbery on the part of their fellows as well as on the part of the white man.
 The government will open free schools and will endeavor to create model colonies for the installment of such tribes as are unable to exist in the districts they formerly inhabited.
 Agricultural experimental farms will be established in each district. and there will be day and night schools and workshops for the use of the In- dians who are already pacifed. In alan settlements are in course of con- struction in the various states and the work of improvement is well under way.
 In Matto Crosse the terrible Nham- biquares have been pacified by the h. dian director, who Is building a tele- graph line through their territory. This man was attacked several times. but he retalated by giving presents to Ine dians. He had interpreters and met with the chiefs and finally succeeded In getting their good will. As result they have aided the telegraph department and have helped cut the way for the line through the forest. Four or five other tribes have been pacified without any loss of life, and great deal of work is going among various tribes all over Brazil.
 In the state of Sac Paulo there is a tribe known as the Kaingangs, whom un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
ny FRANK G. CARPENTER

ny 1T AeA4NN SADf' HIN
 (Copyright 1915, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Rio De Janeiro. tAI " l HAVE spent part of this week XIII in the National Museum of Bra l69HS6V gil, talking with the director GRXs3J and others about the strange Indians of this country The government here has been paying great Iattention to the collection of ethnological relics and it has now one of the finest exhibits known of the Indians of this bart of the world. There is much yet to be discovered and the scientists of the country are collecting material and pre- paring reports that will give new in Formation regarding the Indians of the South American continent.
 # We look upon North America as the Hhome of the red man and upon the terri 2tory occupied by the United States as 1labout the only home of the typical In- 3dian. The truth is the Indians of our clcountry have never numbered more than R few hundred thousand. The great bulk &of the red race has always lived on the &plateau south of the Rio Grande river sand on the South American continent.
 
 tmillions at the time the new world was discovered. Americus Vespucius and oth- CTS found Indians along the north and east coast of Brazil and later they were found in great numbers on the Orinoco and the Amazon. Pizarro, when he went south to conquer the Indians, found mill lions of these semi-civilized people liv- ing on the high plateaus of the Andes, And we now know that there was great 5population running along the western half of the continent all the way from Pana- ma to Patagonia.
 Al Just how many Indians there were {in Brazil at that time we cannot esti- kmate. They probably numbered several 81hillions. They were found along the whole coast and In the great alluvial 6ssin. The white men enslaved them. They killed them by thousands and. not |P<ithstanding the Jesuits obtained a de- cree from the Portuguese government Freeing the Indian slaves they were kept In servitude here and there throughout the country for more than two hundred years. As late as 1907 A. H. Keane. the geographer. estimated that there were BOO 0000 Indians still in Brazil. I am told that this is an underestimate and that the population is probably million or more. There are vast tracts in Brazil that have never been explored. The coun- |try, all told has an area as large as |the United States proper and 1t has three 3states-namely, Amazonas, Goyaz and MattO Grosso-which contain more land khan one-ralf of our country. with an aggregate population not greater than
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til now 1t has been thought impossible to pacify. But the Indian officials have gone into the forests and have put them, so 1t fs believed. on the road to civiliza- ton. In doing this observation posts were erected in the forests. The officials and the interpreters would get up into trees and from there expound the theory of the government and its desire for the welfare of the Indians. In some places the gramophone was used and presents were liberally distributed. In this work the officials were In the heart of the woods. where they were at the mercy of the savages. It was something of a surprise that they came out with their lives
 In other parts of Rio Grande de Sul many of the aborignes have been put upon farms, and a number of agricuI- tural establishments have been formed for them in the state of Bahia. There are also agricultural colleges for In- dians in a half dozen other states. The land for these colonies has been chosen and surveyed by the agricultural de- partment and arrangements are being made for the training of the Indians. The method adopted to pacify the Kain- gangs and to interest them in civiliza- ton has been to establish posts" or stations. where there are ornamental and useful articles likely to appeal to the Indians. This leads them to come out of the forest and to gradually get &C., quainted with the whites. The method has been SO satisfactory that 1t Is being adopted among many of the tribes of Amazonas, and some of the latter have been given farming tools and are being taught agriculture. Tn addition to this number of laws have been passed de- lining the status of the Indians as re- gards civil and criminal law. Up until this time they have been regarded much as minors. but now 1t is proposed to give them all the rights of other citizens Their privileges are to be defined, and they are to be put, In short. upon the same plane as the other citizens of Brazil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
Perfectly Safe

From the St Louis Republic.
 You're a liar," drawled the little man.
 'What?' roared the big man. clench- Ing huge fist. Do you dare to call mo that, you poor. puny puppy?"
 T do." came back the defiant reply. "If you speak another word. you great lump of podgy pork. I'll soon cut you shorti'
 Cut me short. you cheese-mi te ?' shouted the enraged giant.
 "Yes. and here goes. snapped the thin armed dwarf, sharply: and, quick as lightning. before the burly one could utter a word he hung up the receiver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
Too Much to Expect

From the St Louis Republic.
 Look here" said the head of the firm. addressing the new stenographer 'this letter is all wrong. Your punctuation ia very bad and your spelling is worse. I can't afford to send out any such stuR to my clients"
 We'll she replied. ''Pm sorry If my work don't suit you. but was you ex- pecting to get |, Mrs. Noah H. Webster for $l3 a week?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

On Broadway there are two restau- rants--one directly opposite the other. It Is generally admitted that the one at cheaper prices, but the one on the east side is far more successful. That's Broadway--'if you know what I mean"
 As a result of recent cave-ins, and a few accidents. the New York subway has been dubbed "the -blunderground railway" However. seats are still diff fcult to procure thereon, and, as d matter of fact. it is easily the greatest underground railway system on earth. Comparing the subway systems of Phil- adelphia or Boston, to that of New York Is like comparing Paris. Tenn, to Paris, France. Even the big suffocation act recently put on. by the New York sub way resulted in but one death. The casualty list for the cave-ins was no greater Resides we may as well be- lieve in tive can't get about with cut it.
 Several southern girls from Florida were here recently as prize winners In newspaper contest. They were given free trip to New York city. The interviews in the local papers made these girls seem to be utter illiterates. There is apparently, no greater fun for the New York newspaper reporter than to write up the southern dialect as she is not spoken. However, as pictures were used In connection with the published interviews the girls probably did not object.
 OCTOBER
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 WI munth in Washington. The plain peepul sS4y who air tennents of the predditory rich v must eether bind themselves and theere airs and assigns forevver to pay rent |exactng landlord else get out and hustle up sum luther landAd to pay rent to- The average land lord is scholarly Christian gentulman whose hole |desfre is to pleese his tennents and make things Iextreemy cumfurtabu for them as possbull, until afture the eese is signed; aftur that formaty evver is dewly attended to and atested cealed and 3delivvered the landlord develops grouch and cold land houghty manner extreemy annoying to sed ten nent The leese itself is instrumint that defies understanding. It is printed in turns and mettafors tmost confusing to the average layman; compared with it an insurrense poysy in fraternel organniza- fs1on Is as clear as mud. One thing serain it binds the tennent to his rent and binds the land lord or his agnt assigns to collect it. aside frum |that the obligasions upon the tennen air vast and manifold, but those of the landlord if magnifed |milyun times, couldn't be three feet away through magnifying glass of wundrus powers
 Most evvery boddy in Washington exsept the pred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

too intimate knowledge of what the glare really is.
 Then, if their wings are still able to carry them i've started them off "strol- ling" and now they are flying, however, you get the mixed metaphorical ideal they flutter down into the busy business section, only to lose themselves in the rush and hurry of the great throngs that have no time to help out fellow who is unable to help himself. In the shadows of the big skyscrapers they lose sight of the sum- and the end of the story-the end of Broadway-finds them among the outcasts and "down-and- outs seated desparingly upon the cold benches in Battery park. They still may turn and make the fight back again, or if they are utterly hopeless, there remains the harbor at their feet.
 However. Forty-second street doesn' t know that Battery park is on the Island of Manhattan. The newspapers? Why. bless you. the prominence, prevalence and pusillanmosity of the press agent have long ago destroyed a faith that was never of strength to move mountains.
 Yes. old Broadway is just about as usual, and it's going to be lively win ter season beyond doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

Neer was fair October fairer. nor an
 other month so fair
 Meath the deep. impenetrabls blue
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21

LONDON. March 2o-The naval censor
said tonight that there was absolutely
no truth in the widely published report
that Vice Admiral Sackvile Garden had
been killed or wounded during the bonn
hardment of tho Dardanelles. The report
was spread after the announcement that
Vice Admiral Garden had been relieved OF
command OF the British division Of the
allies having been incapacitated by ILL
ness. and that he had been succeeded by
Admiral John Michael De Robeck.
PARIS. March ~ important Turkish
reinforoemonts have arrived TO man the
Notifications on the coast and Gulf Of
Smyrna, according 10 dispatches from
Mityicne, Troops are hard at work re-
pairing the for,s 6amaged by the bonn
bardment OF tho allied fleet, The fort OF
Castraki is reported 90 be undamaged.
Mines Will be placed in the vicinity OF
Glazomene. few miles west of Smyrna.
Sea archllghts from Turkish batteries iilum-
inato the waters Of the Eulf and those
along the coast at night
A Havas dispatch from Athens says
that mine sweepins IN the Dardanelles.
which began at a. m, Friday, was In
terrupted by shower OF shells from
Turkish forts.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21
AUSTRIA TO CEDE |
A A PART or TRENT
Count Palfjz is Authority fon State
ment that Pact Was Signed in ...
Vienna Last Sunday.
ROME JOURNAL QUESTIONS IT

ROME, Marchf2O,-(Via Paris. y
Count Palfjy, counsellor of the Aus
trian embassy to the Vatican. is
quoted by the Idea Rationale as de-
claring that preliminary agreement
was signed Sunday at Vienna under
which Austria would cede TO Italy
that portion of the province of Trent
extending from the region of Friuli
20 the IsonEo river. The newspaper
thinks, however, that this report is
being spread simply to gain time.
Negotiations stnI in Progress.
ROME (via Paris. March 2O.-Unoffl-
cial negotiations to determine the ques-
tion whether territorial concessions
should be made by Austria to Italy be-
fore or after the end of the war. 1t is
asserted here. are in progress between
Count Volpi. who conducted similar ne
gotiations in bringing about peace be-
tween Italy and Turkey in 1912. and Ka-
jetan Mercy Won Kapos-Mere, former
Austrian ambassador at Rome. Having
failed to reach an agreement at Vienna
they have come TO Rome to continue
their discussions.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21
Germans Seize Oil
Aboard Danish Ship
Enroute to Stockholm

LONDON. March sO-A cargo 81 oil
aboard the Danish steamer Bryssel has
been confiscated by the German author
tiles in the Pomeraniap seaport Of Swine
munde, according to a dispatch from
Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph
company, The vessel was released.
The feeling at Copenhagen. the dispatch
adds is that the. fact Germany needs oil
does not justify the sizure Of the Brys-
sells cargo
The Bryssel was bound from PhiIa-
deiphia for Stockholm. with cargo OF
oil and was stopped IN the Baltic on
March II by a German cruiser and taken
TO Swinmunde.
The vessel previously had arrived at
Kirkwall and had voluntarily submitted
TO an examination by the British authorf-
ties. who permitted II TO pass. II also
put into Elsinore. Denmark. where Il re-
ceived declarations from the consignees,
certified by the Swedish authorities. that
the Oh was destined for use only IA
Sweden. A dispatch from Cgpenhagen
March p said 1t was believed at the Dam
ish capital that the Bryssel had been
stopped By the Germans because It was
suspected that the ship carried cargo
other than that which had been declared
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21
Canadian Charged
With Trading with
Enemies of Britain

LIVERPOOL. March 20.--(Via London }
George Arthur Gatehouse. a Canadian
living in Montreal was taken into GUS
tody today at Liverpool on the charge Of
trading with the enemy" Details of
the charge have not been revealed. Bail
was refused Gatehouse was about to
sail for America.
Mr.. Gatehouse has been abroad repre-
senting a Philadelphia concern. He ad-
mitted that he had been in Holland, put
he declared he was innocent OF any in
tention OF train gwith the countries hos
tile TO Great Britain.
PHILADELPHIA. March %. - George
A. Gatehouse, who has been detained IN
Liverpool on suspicion of having traded
with Great Britain's enemies, represents
the N. p. Sloan company. cotton mer-
chants OF this city. Norman p. Sloan,
member OF the company, said today
that Gstehouse left here several months
ago TO establish a connection in LIVER
pool to take care OF the selling OF cotton
for the Philadelphia house. The COM
pany has customers among the mills in
Holland.
The Philadelphia company has no GUS
toners in Germany. Mr.. Sloan said. and
has not sold cotton 10 any OF the enemies
of Great Britain.
GatehOuse and his wife left Montreal
last April and took up their residence
here in September.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21
Several Hundred Men on French
BattieShip BouUet Are Killed

PARIS, March eO--tNia 1sondon>-Of.
ficial announcement was made here this
afternoon that siXty.four men have been
saved from the crews of the French bat
tleship Bouvet, sunk In the Dardanelles
March H.
The losses on the other ships OF the
French oivlsion which took part in this
action are declared to he slight. Tho text
OF the communication follows:
French battlcships had the honor OF
attackinc the forts In the naIrows OF
The Dardarenes at short range on March
10. They accomplished this task with
visor and we're highly praised by the
British sailors. Rear Admiral Gueprotte
telcsrephs that the honor OF the French
flag has been fully sustained. although
dearly bought by tho loss OF the Bouvet.
The number OF survivors is actually
known to bo' siXty-four. The number
killed and wounded on the other ships Of
the division is small"
The Rouvet in times OF peace had a
complement Of 6el mon II II the custom,
however, to increase the number OF men
ON board vessels OF tais class In times OF
war Consequently the Houvet may have
had considerably greater crew when Il
mot disaster.