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The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
INDIANS OF THE VALLEY

armadillo (the peludo, pichi and
molita), and three species of gopher
or prairie-doglike rodents (the biz
cacho, the tucutuco and the quise)
are abundant in the valley, while 9TH
er species Of game are common in
the mountains not far away; in the
river are otter and plenty Of fish.
The inhabitants are as cosmopolitan
a lot as is to be found almost any,
where. AS in the greater part of Al,
gentina, the Italian predominates on
the farms and the Spaniard in tho
small towns; there are a few Ger
mans, English and Scandinavians, in
fact practically every country in El
rope is represented, usually by immi
grants of the humber classes; the ma
tive Argentine is represented by few
of the gaucho class and by wealthy
landowners who possess palatia
homes and spend much of their tim<
in Buenos Aires; and there is quite q
sprinkling of Chileans who have
filtered in through the mountains from
their own country near by, and the
Indian has by no means become e0
tinct.
Fruit Prospects There.
A great impetus was given to set
Ting and farming by several droughts
and crop failures in other parts Of
Argentina which drove up the price Of
alfalfa, a crop which was absolutely
guaranteed under irrigation. Othe1
crops such as wheat, barley, and to :
slight extent maize, are grown, bu
lately the planting of the vine has as
sumed enormous proportions. There
are vineyards Of nearly 1000 acres
and several wine presses have beer
| erected, one at Roca having capac
ity of 5000 hogsheads. Sheep and cat
tie coming from the mountains ant
| from across the desert are bought
fed and then shipped on again; hogs
too, are raised locally; the drying q
the natural pastures in summer doe,
not, however, permit of local ranch
ing. Fruits of all kinds grow vel
and are being planted, so that in gee
eral the small and mixed farm 10 8
the increase.
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reaches the plain where the Cossack
army is on the march. The War-god
has claimed his own Day by day
Marienka watches for the return of
her sweetheart, and at last the army
comes back. But Ostap is no longer
aliye. Marienka takes one look at
the corpse, brought back with full
honors. She smiles sadly, signs, falls
and expires.
For to Cossacks the war passion is
even stronger than that of love- Most
of the regular Cossacks, Pascal tells
us, form really a celibatory corpora
ton. Not that this should betoken
any confluence on their part. 1t is
the freedom from dom este ties rather
than any absence Of sensuality which
is thus denoted Cossacks on the war
path indulge in every caprice of lust.
The Cossack trinity, in fact, would
seem to be Whisky, Tobacco and
Girls.
So strong is the appetite for drink
that to crafty it Cossack is often
led to sell his horse. And their
horses are really part of their very
selves.
But mere plumber is not for the Co.'S
sack. For he has written somewhere:
He who desires nothing has nothing.
Let the Tartar be content with simple
pillage. As for the Cossack, he must
astonish the world. If there were
ladder to heaven itself, or staircase
to hell, the Cossack would find his
way thither and revel in his con.
Quests!"
While the Cossacks were still on
good terms with Poland they not only
furnished useful contingents to the
enemy in time Of war, but they acted
as the policemen of the steppes.
against the ravages of the Tartars'
Tartar incursions we're frequent, and
were warded off by bands Of Cossacks
numbering two or three hundred. All
might long they would sweep the
steppes and in the morning hide in
the ravines to snatch bit Of sleep.
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Joined side by side in a fight against
a common enemy. The attack or
Bohdan Chmielnicki G64S-165) is the
subject of Sienkiewicz's widelyread
novel, "By Fire and Sword" The
Cossacks of the Don gave Russia no
little trouble Under the leadership
Of Stenka Razine, who promised free
dom to all who would follow his
standard, the Cossacks rallied faith
fully to battle. AS with all such t1g-
ures, legends have grown up around
Razine, one Of which imputes to him
a felt cap which rendered him invis-
ible. He was finally captured in 1911,
dying by torture without SO much
as q murmur.
For a long time the death Of the
famous leader was doubted, and le-
gend has it that he made various ap-
pearances, now among Russian sail
ors, among Persian prisoners and on
the Caspian sea. He is here repre-
scented as a white-haired old man.
One hundred years later it was be-
lieyed that Pougatcheff, who then
played a role similar to that of Ra-
zine, was really an incarnation OF the
adventurous bandit and good fellow.
Soldiers First Of All.
Felicien Pascal, writing in one of
the leading European magazines OF
the Cossacks and their effects upon
the literature of the surrounding ma
lions. points out that in the novel OF
the Pole Michael Czajkowski, entitled,
1.-THE Zaporog's Sweetheart" the life
of the Cossack and the ideals for
which he lives finds one of it's most
effective and realistic settings.
First of all, as one by this time may
easily guess, the Cossack is soldier.
For battle he is born, and in battle he
finds his most glorious death. TO Ia
Dor is calamity, and work is looked
down upon. Every true Cossack must
bristle with a fierce independence,
must burn with passion for war.
And thus in the tale of the Cossack
and his sweetheart, when we find Os-
tap ready to thrust aside the sword
for the love of Marienka, we must
sec in his abandonment Of the fight
the greatest sacrifice possible to
Cossack. We come to the marriage
of Ostap and Marienka. At this mo-
ment troop of Cossacks is going by,
within Ostap's hearing. The latter,
despite all vows, seizes his white
steed, jumps on his back and makes
mad dash across hedges, bitches and
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06

desert more accessible and more easy
ind certain of remunerative develop
nent that the eyes of the colonist are
turned toward the less attractive,
saws Walter Fischer in the Bulletin OF
he Pan-American Union.
The most convenient method or
reaching the valley today is for the
traveller to take the train which leaves
3uenos Aires at 6:37 in the evening,
arriving at Bahia Blanca at 1925 the
following morning. Leaving Bahia
Blanca again at g.: IS on one of the trl-
weekly trains he reaches Neuquen at
lO:35 that night; there he passes the
night in a hotel or inn, leaves at 5:2O
n the morning and gets to the end or
he line on a mixed freight and pas
senger train at either 10:30 or 12:45
aoon, according to which of the b1-
weekly trains he happens to nave
taken.
Crossing the Rio Colorado, rather
shallow and rapid stream, the railroad
follows the river for about Is miles
and then strikes southwesterly across
the first narrow place to the Rio
Negro, which it reaches at Choele
Choel. From Choele Choel the trav-
sler follows the valley Of the RIO
Negro, which is wider below that point
and continues to narrow as one ap-
proaches Neuquen.
River Is Dark and Swift.
We are more particularly concerned
with that part of the valley extending
eastward one degree of longitude, or
about sixty miles, from the juncture
of the two rivers to the small station
of Chichinales. The valley is narrow
here, not more than ten miles from
bluff to bluff, with the fertile, irrigable
land north of the river about half that
width at it's widest and narrowing
down to almost nothing where the
rivers meet. The Rio Negro itself is a
dark and silent, deep and rapid
stream: a steamer is said to take only
as many hours to make the down triI
as it takes days to ascend the svsf'
current.
The melting Of the Cordillerar
SHOWS often causes considerable worry
to the Inhabitants, but there have beer
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
No Help for the
Panama Slides
By Andrew Dade. Civil Engineer. Chicago

ans lust before this from the French and
e times since construction began under Of Colonel Goeth
engineers visited the canal at the outset the SUBJECT
discussed and it agreed that 1t would be long
time even after the completion before would be entirely
free from Slides thoroughly the work might be DONE no
engineering foresight could guard against the work OF nature and we
got patient until Gold hill and other great bodies OF eah get
through pouring their dirt into the ditch
steamship lines operating the alwaer route
may be expected lose by the unexpected
on been estimated that result OF the recent disastrous se
the steamship companies neghborhood ST. by reason
of being indefinite period With steamer rates at the
ent high level daily cost steamship companies
holding vessel either terminal not less than oay
course government can do nothing.
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
COSSACkS OF TIE DON

A Cossack on horseback, says Pascal,
is. like a man on wings. There is a
veritable speed-mania that is not at
all dissimilar from the automobile
and aeroplane counterparts which
modern civilization has developed.
sorcerers and superstitions.
There was among the Cossacks no
constitution or legislative body for
tho steppe. Custom was the only
guide A conference usually elected
the chief. They are firm believers in
magic and sorcery, and not even the
introduction of Christianity has
wholly succeeded in stamping out su-
perstition. In Czajkowski's Cossack
tales there is characteristic scene
where a witch is visited for informa-
ton. We find her with her associ-
ates, Maruska the cat, and rooster.
Fire and wax complete the magic out
fit. She lights fire in the cave and
calls the cat forward. Maruska makes
a circle around the fire, all the time
mewing softly. The witch then melts
her yellow wax and places the ques-
toner in the magic circle described
by the cat. Strange letters are writ
ten down, followed by a good deal Of
hocus-pocus, and while the rooster
crows and the cat sinks into cor
ner, the witch pronounces a terrible
horoscope of love, blood and damna-
tion
The steppe is the symbol of silence,
of dreams and melancholy. The Co.'S
sacks have their type Of lyric effu-
sion, which represents, as Chojecki
has written, bitter voluptuousness of
suffering intoxicated with itself" But
this is true, concludes Pascal, only Of
the more intimate songs. For their
warrior ballads reveal the true Co.'S
sack, with their wild pulsation of the
Joy of combat, and their ardent pas
sion for the life of strife.
This in a way is a farewell appre-
citation of the Cossack, for the pres
emit war has demonstrated the COM
parative uselessness of cavalry, and
the Cossack soldier is above all things
a cavalryman.
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
/ There Are no Hun
dred Best Books
BvLP. WARRINGTON. New York

entitled s Mones Coincide satirue nestle there IN peace
The member of the Society Of Friends long missionary
home abroad oses soph Of Anatoe France and when
BY piece coincidence Cecoeur delightful ete From
an American beside William Barnes Poems OF Ru
Life housandfold better pleased than could ever have oeen
any intentional arrangement of these books together
What though Anthology "Hisory OF "ltchca1
Since the Ages Princpa shaps Poetry and Philosophy
rub oue another just little rudey?
Such uxaposin do poetry and philosophy no lasting har
and Is pleasantly piques my of the grotesque
After ALL there are no bookno hundred worst ones
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
r HERE is nothing very literary
about the average mans con-
ception OF the Cossack. This


formidable individual is Ordi-
narily looked upon as member or
an elite, redoubtable, savage cavalry,
who arc absolutely insensible to any
such emotion as fear. And, to be
sure, the present war has provided
both ample opportunity for the test
ing Of that fearlessness and proof OF
it's steadfast refusal to be intimidated.
The Cossacks have faced every MUIR
derous resource of the twentieth CEN
fury science with the same courage
that has distinguished them from
their earliest days, writes DR.. /. Gold
berg in the Boston Transcript.
Their fire, their spirit, their abso-
Lutte recklessness through fire, water
and steel are those of military COM
munity which at one time babe fair to
become a nation all it's own, but the
role of modern, purely warrl9e state
was left by history for the Prussia OF
Frederick the Second.
War, however, endangers literature;
the warrior needs a Homer for his
Iliad And so, if the Cossacks have
themselves been too busy fighting to
have time for the production OF any
thing but a rude literature, they have,
on the other hand, inspired genuine
works of art in England, France, Rus
STA, Poland. The last.named country
owes very much indeed to the inspi-
ration of the wild men of the steppes.
The original meaning of the word
"cossack" is that of free marauder,
brigand, nomad. "The Steppe," says
Gabriel Sarrazin, in his work on the
great romantic poets Of Poland, "en-
genders Cossacks." Here, in the mid
die ages was the place of refuge for
all manner of criminals, vagabonds,
refugees and fugitives, who banded to-
gether into a confederation.
Cossack life and that Of Poland have
time and again interpenetrated, now
in combat against each other, now
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06

I like the way in which
the most homogeneous titles
and subject-matters drift
together on my bedroom
shelf. 1t docs me good 70
see how close a pious trac'
tate and a blasphemous
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06

Slides have been more
frequent in the Panama ca
nal in the last year thar
before the ditch was opened
for navigation, but that was
to be expected. I have viz
tied the canal on several oc-
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06

Someone has said that
the farmers family faces
two problems-how to make
a living on a farm and how
to live on a farm. Although
many people would answer
unhesitatingly that every
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
Useless.

Musical Comedy Star-I can't stand
it one minute longer. l want q di-
vCrce.
Her Mother-My dear child, nothing
but the war news ever has the least
chance these days Of getting o. tie
front page: London Opinion,
The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06

If the question :FWhat ii
to be done with our girls ?"
was more carefully consid-
cred and more wisely deter
mined, the other problem,
''What to do with the boys"
would be easier of solution.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-10
"A GALLON OF CREAM"
LAKE COUNTY WOMEN ORGANIZ-
ING FOR UNIVERSAL
SUFFRAGE.

The Universal Franchise league OF
Lake county is doing some active
campaigning in behalf of the cause.
On Thursday a suffrage rally was
held at the high school auditorium,
at which the plans were made for
.canvassing the county.
Tonight a suffrage rally will be
held at Junius. A number of suf-
frage speakers Of both sexes are 60
ing to Junius to boost for the cause.
Wentworth, Chester, Ramona and
other county centers will be visited
next week.
The officers of the Lake County
league are Miss Alice Lorraine DAILY,
president; Mrs. Edith Beaumont, vice
president; Mrs. o. w. Cummings,
secretary, and Mrs. J.. II. Sullivan,
treasurer. The committee arranging
the rallies consists of Mrs. 0. w.
Cummings, Mrs. r. S. Westaby, Miss
Emily Glatz, Miss Frances Sullivan,
Miss Marlys Hexom, Mrs. Edith
Beaumont and others.
A monster petition addressed to
the voters of Lake county is out.
This is to be circulated among all the
women in Lake county. In several
counties in the state more than nine
ty per cent of the women have al
ready signed this petition.
The petitions from all the counties
of the state will be forwarded te
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-10
BREAK CAUSES DELAY
TRAINS FROM SIOUN FAILS YES
TERDAY AFTERNOON CAME
BY WAY OF EGAN.

Regular trains scheduled to travel
over the cutoff between this city
and Sioux Falls yesterday afternoon,
we're routed by the way of Egan, ow-
ing to the breaking down of an en-
CINE which was pulling a work train
on the former line.
The accident occurred near Cotton,
about twenty miles south of Madison,
A flywheel of the locomotive broke,
and with it the connecting rods. 1t
was necessary to block up the en-
CINE, and make repairs before the
track could be cleared. Several per
sons who had purchased tickets for
Cotton spent the night in Madison.
Although a considerable distance out
of their way, the Cotton passengers
came here on the afternoon passen-
ger from Sioux Falls, thinking they
could take a freight train which is
due to depart from here. over the
cutoff" at 5 o'clock. Upon their
arrival in Madison, they learned that
the repairs to the work train engine
had not been completed, and that il
would not pass through Cotton, but
would follow the same route the pas
senger train on which they arrived
had taken. The track was cleared
last night.
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SUFFERS Stroke
AGED MARCUS, IA, LADY RE-
MOVED FROM TRAIN HERE
CONDITION IMPROVED.

After having suffered a stroke of
paralysis of the right side, Mrs. Chris
Knutson, aged 76 years, of Marcus,
Ia, was released from the Madison
hospital today, and with Mr.. Knutson
and Miss Anna Scott, a granddaugh-
ter, departed this afternoon for And
over, where the party will visit with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knutson and Miss
Scott were to have passed through
Madison last Monday on a Milwaukee
train due to arrive from the south
at 2:15 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Knutson and Miss Scott were
riding in the same seat. Shortly
after the train had passed Saranac,
about ten miles south Of the city,
Miss Scott turned to find her grand
mother apparently asleep. After
making unsuccessful attempts to
rouse her grandparent, the young
lady summoned Mr.. Knutson, who
was in another car and Conductor
Conley. 1t was at first feared that
she had succumbed. She was taken
off the train here and removed, in
an unconscious condition, TO the hos
pital. She quickly responded to med
ical treatment.
Mr.. Knutson and Miss Scott have
been staying at the home of Mrs. b.
NJ. Turner, 409 Josephine avenue.
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reel" SHOOTIN'
But 1T WASN'T FUNNY, SAY
MADISON MEN WHO HEARD
BULLETS WIFI BY.

Interrupted on a professional visit
to Arlington last night. Or. II. H..
Frudenfeld and Harold Hooval, who
was driving with the doctor, witness
ed a shooting affray which bordered
on the frontier day variety and which
could very well form the nucleus of
a scenario for the most mellow melo-
dramatic three-reeler.
1t was shortly after dark when DR..
Frudenfeld and Mr.. Hooval, who had
left Madison at about 7:30 o'clock
last evening, came within sight of a
lumber wagon and an automobile
standing just north of the line which
separates Lake and Kingsbury coun-
ties. A close view revealed two men
inside the other automobile, which
was standing beside the road and one
mar leaning against the car. When
the machine in which DR.. Frudenfeld
and Mr.. Hooval were riding had ar
rived to within fifty feet or so of the
other car, a man suddenly leaped
from the stading automobile, and,
closely followed by the second man,
started at top speed toward the
north. The car in which the doctor
and Mr.. Hooval were riding had just
passed the fleeting men, when three
pistol shots were fired in quick sue
cession.
Evidently believing that a little
horse" play was being staged for
their particular benefit, the Madison
men did not pay particular attention
until a fourth bullet fired, whizzed
dangerously close to them. They look
ed back to see the pursued man fran
tically waving to them, and to see the
pursuer take aim and fire again.
The Madison automobile was slowed
down, and the escaping man jumped
into it. The man with the revolver
is said to have shouted to those In
the car to stop, and to have waved
his hand at them. 1t is said that he
followed for a considerable distance
The rescued young man. who
proved to be Henry Norby, residing
few miles south of Arlington, told
that he had been held practically
captive for more than an hour, ant
that he feared for his life. He re
lated that two young men living no
far from his home had driven to hi
place in the forenoon and had asked
him to accompany them on a trip t.
4 Nunda. He stated that he had con
sented, with the understanding tina
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he be brought back home within a
few hours. Arrived in Nunda, he told,
the trio started drinking and playing
cards, and did not start home until
late. He said that when part way
home, the wagon in which they were
riding was stopped and the card
game resumed. He declared that he
had protested against resuming the
game, for he feared the two men
with him.
After the game had proceeded for
a short time, according to Norby's
story, a small automobile came
along. Thinking the time a good
one to get away from the other two
men, he declared, he motioned TO
two men in the machine TO stop, and
when they drove abreast of the wag-
on, he tried to enter their ar. Nor
by told that one of his two com
panions thereupon knocked him
down, and that the men in the auto
mobile jumped from their car and
ran TO a farm house. The game was
then transferred from the wagon to
the deserted auto. 1t was shortly
afterward that the car bearing DR..
Frudenfeld and Mr.. Hooval hove in
sight, and Norby made a second and
successful attempt to escape.
While the Madison men were in
Arlington, the marshal in that town
was summoned by telephone to visit
the scene of the shooting.
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THE CHURCHES.

Synod Lutheran Church-There
will be services Sunday evening at S
O'Clock in the English language
Alfred Nelson, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church-Services in
the morning as usual. Rev. ID. j.
Mitterling will preach. Christian
Endeavor at the usual hour. No
evening service.
First Baptist Church-There will
be the usual services tomorrow. 1T
is to be Children's day at this church
and in the morning the pastor will
speak on the Children's day thought.
In the evening there will be the Chill
dren's day program. 1t will be a
program of special interest. The b.
Y. p. u. will meet as usual and al
the usual time.
Methodist Episcopal Church -
Preaching services and special music
at 1920 a. m. and s p. m. Sunday
school at IL m. Epworth league de-
votional service at Z p. m. A good
instructive, spiritual time is assured
those who attend. You are cordially
welcomed.-G. ID. Brown, Pastor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-10

Mrs. John Pyle, of Huron. state pres
ident of the Universal Franchise
league, and will be presented by Mrs.
Pyle and the state officers to the leg
islature at its next session.
The slogan for South Dakota is
"A gallon of cream for suffrage"
All women of the county are asked to
contribute a gallon of cream or its
value to the cause. Money may be
left with Mrs. Sullivan, the treasurer
at Jacks Restaurant or at the Lake
County National bank.
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