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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

painfully and, seeing the door open, dragged
himself into the house.
Dsquieted, but full of pity for this unknown
man, whom she associated with the memory
of her son, the She-Wof stood aside and let
him in.
A piece Of black bread and pitcher Of water
we're on the tabe-the remnants of the old
woman's meal.
The man greedily devoured the bread and
drank the water.
The unknown, who had collected all his
strength TO grasp after this pitiful nourish-
ment, fell in heap behind the door, to which
he had turned again, and. without word,
without motion, went to sleep there, ex-
hausted at the very end Of his forces
The old woman's first impulse was to cast
the intruder out. But seeing him so near
collapse, she lacked the heart to do it. She
would have resisted like a she-wolf any one
who attacked her; before this defenceless be
ing she felt indifference rather than hostility.
She examined curiously the strong young
fellow, clothed in gray, with hair the color of
flax, square brow and the big round eyes Of
faence blue which she had seen him fix so
ravenousy on the bread crust. She found him
heavy and ugly in comparison with her Mael,
at once so robust and so supple and whose
beautiful black locks she had so often caressed.
She was brusquely interrupted in her ex-
animation by a sound of voices without She
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

indication that he considers it a joke?
Will the Republicans stand by their
platform?
Or by Senator Lodges wink?
Mr.. George Cromwell, of Richmond,
when interviewed in Chicago by suffra-
gists is reported to have said that ne was
opposed because he could imagine no
more desperate situation than where the
cook and the laundress were of different
political faiths
He did not touch on the desperateness
of a disagreement between the butler
and the furnace man.
All good regular Republicans in the
State of New York being now good suf-
fragists by their party platform, there
seems nothing for the ants to do except
perhaps to send Senator Root to convert
the labor unions.
One of the women who marched in the
suffrage parade in Chicago was asked by
a man opposed why they had their pa
rade in such wild storm. Because,
she answered, eff we hadn't you would
have said that it proved we we're unable
to go to the polls in rainy weather
The next day, when the weather had
improved, parade of fremen and other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

squatted before the sleeper and, in a harsh,
thick voice, arraigned him.
Il had a son like you-a youth big and
strong-stronger than you. He was so good
that neither you nor any other of your accursed
race could be so good as he! You and yours
have killed him. At the bottom Of you all is
monster ready to kill. You have fallen among
wolves. Il is their turn and they are going to
kill YOU
He understood nothing, sunken In his heavy
sleep.
The old woman grew more and more excited.
Now she spoke with loud cries, punctuated with
exaggerated gestures:
"You are among wolves here. The she-woves
avenge themselves when one kills their young.
The gendarmes would have put you back in
prison. | was willing to deliver you TO tina
gendarmes, but not that you should go back to
prison. The Germans have killed my SON. they
must pay for II. l have kept you for that You
are going to die. You Boche You Boche"
A billhook hung on the wall. With quick
movement she seized it, raised her arm and
hurled herself upon the sleeper. He gave
start and then fell back, stiff and stark upset
ting the candle, which was extinguished. In
the silence, in the obscurity, the wild laugh OF
the She-Wof echoed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By Alice Duer Miller

male employees Of the city was called off
on account of rain.
A dreadful doubt assails us as to
whether the Republican platform COM
mittee had carefully read its Dubuque
Telegraph Herald for May %, which
says:
every woman who demands that her
government stand for law instead of
license, for order rather than anarchy,
for the sanctity of the home instead OF
free love- for one wife rather than for
several, for the Creator instead OF
mythical being Of the skies should use
her clearest vision to see the hydra
headed monster of Socialism, Mormon
ism. Feminism that is believing forth
the cry Votes for Women that it may
use its unwilling victims eventually for
the accomplishment of its own bestial
ends"
We have to confess that this did occur:
A speaker who hoped that the conven-
ton would end in a marriage between
the Republican groom and the Progress
sive bride had been preceded by a speak
er who symbolized the two parties as
meeting beside the grave Of their dead
babe, the dead babe turning out, most
Unexpectedly, to be the body Of Abraham
Lincoln.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
IMPRESSIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.

IMPRESSIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
D%HE Republican convention and two
woman suffrage conventions
Z took place simultaneously in
Chicago A careful comparison of them
leads to the following conclusions:
I Women are too Unconditional to vote.
CD They did not shout for periods ranging
from one to forty minutes.
10Y Then did not beat on tin pans. whirt
rattles or giUe vent to rebel yells.
10Y Then did not eUsn haze a brass band
in the building
(4) They did not stand on the chars ana
throO their bonnets an the air.
(5) Then did not come 10 fist fights orcr
;o,nersonaL questions in the corridors
Of their hotels.
(e) They did not arrive on the PLATFORM
clospinc ton elephants and bears.
IT Women are too commonplace to
vote.
Not one woman in either OF the wom-
ems conventions was declared
On To yield to none in her Amer7cdn'sm'
(2) To be the highest embodiment OF me
purest national ideals.
(3) To be amply able to point the path to
victory honor and prosperity.
(D To possess dauntlcss courage, nnt"in9
cneroy torward-looking craftsmanship
and all the essential qualities Of true
leader.
*, To he able to rear Tor not to rear, ,ce
can't remember which founding
from the spawn Of an icy monster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

1T UELLO. mother, letter for you'll
"En Shouting these words the rural
~ carrier beat rudely on the door.
Having thus douby announced his errand to
the tenant Of the miserable hut, lost in the
midst Of the woods, he hurried away, taking
the shortest cut to the high road.
Inside the hovel an old woman had arisen
from the table at which she was taking a
scanty meal to 90 and pick up the paper
slipped under the door. 1t was an official let
ter bearing the seal OF the Mayors Office.
What could they be demanding at this time
of her. who possessed nothing?
Contemptuous rather than curious, she
opened the envelope, without beating of the
heart or a trembling of the hand, without the
slightest presentiment that its message would
bring misery into her home.
But scarcely had she cast her eyes over the
cold administrative phrases Of the letter when
she uttered the long, dolorous cry OF wound
cd beast Her fingers clenched the sheet on
which she had seen only two words-the name
Of Mael. her beloved son, and the announce
ment Of his death. He was no nrore-the hand
some boy who had not yet reached his TWEEN
teth year! Killed by the Germans, those ban
dts
She could not believe her misfortune.
With her grief mingled a violent wrath
against MaeIs assassins. Hate ended by OBJ
sessing this defaced soul. Without tear,
without tremble, she repeated:
"My son. my little SON."
She loved him absolutely, although he was
l. IL har
self a better mother to him than his own
mother?
This old woman, hardy as an oak, with an
squiline nose and eyes of steel, which gave
her a sinister aspect; who in the neighborhood
was known only as the She-Wolf because of the
solitude in which she lived in the depth of the
woods: who was accused every time an animal
fell sick in the stable of having used magic to
svenee herself on men and beasts-this old
WOMAN had all her maternal instincts aroused
by the little waif whom fate had brought TO
her DOOR She had found him one day, aban
doned by an unworthy mother, a few steps
away from her cabin. Without hesitation she
adopted him. He had grown up with her,
never quitting her, and the two beings isolated
from the rest of the world, had conceived
semi-savage affection for each other.
They had accused her of stealing the child.
They said she must have got enough money
out Of the mother TO raise the boy and also
10 support herself. They even limited that it
was she who had made him an orphan-that
by searching her cabin and its environs the
body of the unfortunate victim might be found
buried in the ground.
Public rumor had obliged the Mayor to make
an examination; after which the suspicious of
most people Gained down, without much chang
ing their sentiments toward the old woman and
her adopted son.
She reviewed all the familiar details Of their
existence. She thought of Maels departure.
When the war had taken him it had seemed to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18

And the old woman became thoughtful.
"Well, have you seen this person? Has he
passed by here?"
The old woman shook her head in denial. She
stood before the door of her cabin and her big
body masked its sombre interior.
NO" she said; 81 haven't seen him. People
don't have the habit Of visiting me-"
THAT is true" answered the brigadier, with
a complacent smile; you scare people away,
instead of attracting them"
Then, tittering, he disappeared into the for
est with his colleague.
The She-W looked after them as they dis
appeared She remained a long time at the
threshold of the hut Night had fallen. SIMS
ter screeches reverberated through the woods.
Flying night birds skinned by the howell. The
branches of the big trees creaked in the wind
and afar off dog howled lugubriously.
The old woman re-entered the hut, closed the
door, lighted smoking candle whose rays pro-
iected in curious fashion her huge shadow on
the dngy walls
With this light she went toward the sleeping
man and pushed him with her foot. He slept on.
"Boche! Bochel" she cried out, brutally.
Half awakened he turned over.
eyes! Yesl" he said, and then fell back into
his leaden sleep.
The old woman put the candle on the floor,
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24
(By Frank B. Linderman.)

Over sixty years ago a band of
Chippewa Indians left Wisconsin and
came to Montana to hunt buffalo. In
the old days the Chippewas roamed
all over this country, even crossing
the main range of the Rockies in their
hunting expeditions, and bands Of the
tribe, under sub-chiefs, often remained
on the plains and in the mountains
Of Montana for years at a time. In
fact it was the Chippewas that drove
the great Sioux tribes to the Dakotas
and their old men tell of having COM
bined with their relatives, the Crees,
and driven the Blackfeet peo-
pie to Montana in very early days.
The first statement is easily verified
but I, have been unable to find proof
of the latter claim although I have
found these old men to be accurate
il retelling the history to their
tribe.
The Canadian line was, Of course,
unknown to the Indians and the Chip
pewas, after reaching the hunting
ground, naturally visited their rela-
tives across the boundary line in
Canada. These relations, the Crees,
hunted in this country and had al
ways considered it their territory, es-
pecially the portion about the Sweet
Grass Hills where sometimes there
we're battles between them and the
Blackfeet. All went we'll with the
hunting party of Chippewas and with
their friends the Crees until the last
Riel Rebellion when, taking the part
of their relations, the Chippewas
joined in the fight against the Can
adam troops which finally resulted
in the defeat of the Indians after
a brave and determined battle. The
war over, together they came back
across the line into Montana in 1885.
where they have ever since remained.
Most Of the old men are now with
their fathers and the majority Of the
Rocky-Boy-Little Bear-band is
Montana-born even if some of their
parents we're born across the line.
Wandered Up and Down Land.
Game was still plentiful and the
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24
NATIVES OF SWEDEN
BACK TO NATIVE LAND
WAR TIME PROSPERITY Az
TRACTS THEM; MONTANA
FARM HANDS 60.

Have you noticed that your Swedish
neighbors, eve right here in prosper
Gus Montana, are going back to the
land of their nativity. Prosperity,
because of the war, is the reason. The
Scandinavian countries are enjoying
a period Of prosperity such as they
never did before, and it is even more
general, population considered, than
the prosperity of the United States.
Hundreds of Swedish farm hands,
employed or Montana farms and
ranches, attracted by the high wages
Of Sweden and Norway, have gone
overseas to live with their people
temporarily and participate in this
prosperity. However, few Of them
have gone with the idea of remaining
permanently. After the war normal
conditions will come back, and they
will return to the United States.
Many fortunes have been made in
Sweden since the wal began, and with
all this forced business wages have i'll
creased and the COS, Of living has
doubled.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24

They deserve great credit for what
they have accomplished and they
should be given every encouragement
to become self-supporting. They
should be especially commended for
their honesty and respect for the
laws for when necessity pressed the
hardest, they were never thieves.
Commissioner Gives Aid.
Too much credit cannot be given
Commissioner Cato Sells who has
been constant in his efforts to aid
them since the matter was first
brought to his attention nor to Sec
rotary of the Interior Lane who has
been pronounced in his desire to help
them to get a reservation. Commits
sioner Sells eve visited them on their
new reservation and with Mr.. Theo-
dore Gibson and the writer spent
several hours among them one
Sunday recently. Mr.. Sells made a
thorough investigation Of their af-
fairs and talked with them at length.
81 am delighted with them and
their work." said the commissioner.
"They have been too often misrep-
resented and you men have told me
the truth concerning them. I shall
not abandon them but shall keep
them in mind and if they continue to
show themselves so worthy, I intend
to further help them. 1t is worth
while to be of service to people who
try to help themselves and although
[ could i'll afford the time necessary
to m here with you, I assure You
that l wouldn't have missed it for a
good deal. I know now that these
Indians are all right and | am their
friend as you have been. Write to me
and help me with your advice to the
Indians for they believe in you and
remember I shall always be glad to
listen to what you have to say"
1t was a bitter cold day and the
ride to and from the camp from
Havre was uncomfortable but Mr..
Sells was game and as he babe us
farewell he declared again, "Those
fellows are workers."
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24
COMPARISONS
WILL MAKE LAWS
FARMERS ORGANIZATION
HAS CONTROL OF NORTH
DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
AS Result State Will Probably Ovm
Terminal Elevators and Packing
Plants; President Townsley An
nounces Change.

The Non-Partisan leaguers Of North
Dakota, a farmers organization with
a large following in northeastern Mon
tana, will control the next legislative
assembly of North Dakota. The first
ann OF the organization, so far as the
farmers were concerned, was to secure
appropriations for the erection of
s%tate-owned terminal elevators in
North Dakota, Minnesota or Wiscon-
SIN, and a state-owned packing plant.
The refusal Of former legislators to
grant the farmers these state-owned
facilities was the direct incentive to
the organization, not only of the Nom
Partisan league, but of the Equity Co.
operative Exchange, which now has a
large terminal elevator partially con-
structed at st. Paul.
1t is possible that should the pro-
gram OF the non-partisan league as an
nounced before the primaries and dur
ing the campaign, prevail in the legis-
lature, the equity elevator would be
taken over in the name of the state
OF North Dakota. Even in this case
it is believed one or more additional
elevators would be provided for at the
terminals of Duluth and MINNEAPOLIS
IN addition to one in the state of
North Dakota.
The latest issue of the official organ
OF the Non-Partisan league, however,
IS contained in a signed editorial BY
President A. c. Townsley, which
would seem to indicate a change in
his plans for the league.
1t is the opinion of persons in touch
with the inside workings Of the league
that the change Of program will not
be entirely popular with the farmer
element which made it's fight solely on
the basis Of securing the terminal ele-
vators for their grain for the millers
in the terminal cities of st. Paul, Min
neapolis, Duluth and Chicago.
President Townsley in his ante-elec-
ton editorial says:
"The farmers of North Dakota have
been rallied together around a declara-
ton of principles, known as the pro-
gram Of the Non-Partisan league. The
leagues program is not its real pur-
pose. Let the leagues enemies take
these words and make the most of
them. The leagues real purpose can
hardly be expressed.'
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24
H0W Bill Broke Into Hotel Business
When Hun10rjsts Made Shelby Hum

"Well," said the old stockman,
looking around the lobby Of the finest
hotel in Montana, as he settled down
in the comfortable leather chair and
puffed away at u cigar the manager
had just handed him, "this certainly
is some hotel Bill is running.
"Marble and mahogany from top
to bottom, beds that make you
sleep in.' and grub that makes you
eat too much-some hotel"
"And say" he continued, as he
leaned back, "you wouldn't have fig
ured that Bill'd eve' have a shebang
like this if you'd knowed him when
[ first a into him 25 years ago.
You'd certainly never recognize Bill
in them good clothes, with a white
collar and a diamond as big as a Mex
lean bean in his tie if you wasn't told
it was the same man.
"Not but what I didn't think in
them days that Bill had it in him. A
man that carries his head like him
and has an eye like Bill's always does
settle at the top of the pan. But,
gosh, there's been some change.
"Bill was born near Des Moines,
Iowa, and as a boy was known as the
champion lightweight corn shucker
Of Hog Bristle county. However, on
arriving at young manhood he took a
dislike to work, and after boarding
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24
A Square Deal for Rocky Boys Braves

country unsettled. Up and down the
land they wandered as they had al
ways done until the white man be-
gan fencing the plains and until
even the forests we're claimed as pri-
vate property. Then they were
driven to the outskirts Of the towns
where, by trading* such trinkets as
they were able to make, they sus-
tanned life. Buckskin became scarcer
and scarcer. Buffalo horns that be-
strewed the open lands disappeared
and with these gone they could no
longer make articles to sell the whites
and SO resorted to the garbage cans
in town-alleys for food. They would
work when work could be obtained
but it was ever hard to get, for them.
Winters always reduced their numbers
and some have actually starved with
in sight of plenty. All have been in
a weakened condition because of the
lack of food for long periods Of time
during the last few years.
A few white men interested them
selves and for years they have striven
to secure relief. Food and clothing
have been begged yearly by these
friends while government aid has
been had intermittently for a few
weeks at a time. Promises made by
members Of congress came to nothing
and not until 1916 was anything done
to relieve their suffering in a perma-
nent or substantial way. Three town
ships of land embraced in the old
Fort Assinniboine Military Reserva-
ton were set aside for these Indians
as a reservation and, with only a few
dollars worth of food among them,
they settled down to learn the wavs
Of the white man, With their mis-
cradle ponies and the plows furnished
by the government they have raised
and harvested 1000 bushels of wheat.
5000 bushels of oats, 5000 bushels of
potatoes, 1000 bushels of carrots, L.
500 bushels Of rutabeggas, 500 bush
els of. turnips, 500 bushels of onions,
! 900 bushels of beets and $50 tons of
hay.
Traded Ponies for Seed.
There was not sufficient seed to
plant all the land they prepared and
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-24

MS wages Of So a month for eight
years ne just naturally stepped under
meath a freight train one morning with
his bankroll and took a seat on the
rods. He give one lingering look at
the old homestead and told the brake
man he could urn Ter loose.
"BM found a pleasant travelling
companion in Brakebeam Ben, a noted
tourist, who kindly divided his n
v%ersation and whatever other little
things he had on him with Bill. Some
OF the latter made lively company.
Chill found travelling pleasant, and
ne made lots Of stops at points of in
terest along the line: making the ac-
qualntance OF numerous gentlemen
who wore stars and brass buttons.
They all took a kindly interest in
Bill, and after insisting on his spend
ing a few days with them. showed him
the right railroad track either a out
of town and wished him Godspeed.
ga year or so later Bill arrived at
McCartyville, a town which was about
as quiet and peaceful in them days as
Mexico is today. McCartyville con
slsts of a graveyard and one Or two
ghost cabins now, but then; located on
the eastern slope Of the Rockies along
the line of the Great Northern when
the road was under construction, it
was the toughest camp in America,
and that was covering a lot Of terri
tory in those days.
"The most prosperous business men
in McCartyville were the undertakers.
and they kept two shifts at work all
the time. They used to call at the
hotel every morning to carry out the
victims Of the night before, and there
wasn't any questions asked.
"When Bill stepped off the train
at McCartyville he had an Iowa thirst
and was as welcome as his remainin"
$3.50, which was good for just ten
drinks. To this prohibition-raised
boy this was a real novelty, for where
he came from no one drank without
hiding in the cellar, and Bill tells me
| that the lives of a lot of his friends