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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
A Scarlet Rider,

Lieut.. Col. G. E. Sanders, D. s. o.
of the Second Canadian Pioneer Bat.
TALON, holds a somewhat remarkable
record in the Canadian forces. He is
said to be the first Canadian officer
who has yer been known to suggest
that his command should be taken over
by a younger man. In view of the
splendid work which has been done
by the Second Pioneer Battalion, the
Canadian authorities have been rath.
err hard to persuade on this point; but
Colonel Sanders has, unfortunately, in
sisted that, while he may still be use.
full in other directions, pioneering is a
young mans job. Colonel Sanders,
who fought through the Boer war with
distinction, was before that war in
command of the Northwest Mounted
Police at Calgary. Indeed, he returned
to that command of famous "Moun-
ties" after the war.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
BRETHREN OF THE SWORD
Home Of Cult Was at Wenden, on the
North Line Of the German
Offensive in Russia.

The National Geographic society is
sues the following war geography bull
letln ON Wenden, on the line of the
German offensive in the direction Of
P%etrograd:
The town of Wenden, one of the old
est in the province of L%ivonia, is situ-
ated a few miles by rail northeast of
Riga. 1t is a picturesque place, built
two miles from the left bank Of the
River Aa. The Aa flows in a south
westerly direction from this point
through that part Of Russia known as
the Livonian Switzerland, not on ac-
count of the height of mountains-the
highest hill is only 265 feet-but be-
cause of the charm of the landscape
with its well-wooded slopes bordering
the river valley.
The story of Wenden goes back seven
centuries to the time when the Breth-
rem of the Sword, recognized by Pope
Innocent III in 1902, made this place
their headquarters in the campaign In
augurated by them to disseminate
Christianity among the heather 1.-Two
NUNS n CuSIlc was DullI HcIe III
1910, and though it is now scarcely
more than a crumbling ruin, as it was
Y restored after the destructive
fire Of 174S, around 1t cluster many
romantic and fascinating stories.
One of the most celebrated grand
masters of the Brethren of the Sword
was Walter Won Plettenberg, who rose
to power during the closing years of
the fifteenth century and was finally
recognized as a prince of the empire
by the Emperor Charles V In 1927.
~Plettenberg also built the castle Of
Riga (1494-1515), which has Jared bet
ter than the Wenden stronghold, for
1t is still used as the seat of the RUS
sian authorities Cor rather, was used
up to the time of Rlga's fall a few
weeks ago).
The most tragic chapter in the
history of Wenden was enacted in 1877
when the members of the garrison of
the castle, besieged by the forces of
the ~implaCable Ivan the Terrible, blew
themselves up rather than fall into the
hands of the car. The castle was
soon repaired, however, and a short
time thereafter was the residence of
Patricius Nidecki, appointed bishop OF
Wenden in 1888 by Stephen Bathory,
king Of Poland.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Position IN CRANE
NATURAL

ing-glass, or a knife. One old knife,
found In a cache hole where it had
been placed a century or more ago,
safely wrapped in a buffalo robe, was
made in Sheffield and was one of the
knives SEN out by the early Hudson
bay traders. The Indians sharpened a
steel knife with a file, on one side Of
the edge. The milestone was too
slow.
The village sites farther west are
more recent. On the Missouri river, at
the place described by Lewis and
Clark in their diary of the exploration
of the Northwest in 1906, sat the bend
In the river where the river flows
west" was a large village with more
than one hundred lodges. In these
more recent villages are found brass
arm-bands and bracelets, as well as an
occasional steel ak or flint-lock gun.
Their Domestic Life.
The bones In the refuse heaps show
the Arickaras lived on buffalo, deer,
antelope, elk, rabbit and wild fowl as
well as on corn, beans and pumpkins.
Parched corr has been found in the
lodges at every village site.
Only a sunken circle of ground like
an abandoned circus arena, but far
smaller, shows where one of the lodges
stood. A five-family lodge, built with
big timbers, may yield part of a cedar
post almost rotted away, despite the
comparatively dry climate. Each fam
lily had its cache-hole, or primitive
safety deposit vault. This was a jug
shaped hole four to six feet deep, in
which valuables were hidden when the
family left home to avoid hostile In
dams or to go on a hunting trip. The
mouth of the hole was covered with
sticks and leaves, so as not to be dis
~tinguishable from the surrounding sur
face.
The burial customs Of the Arickaras
differed from those of the Sioux. The
Arickaras buried their dead in the
ground, while the Sioux left the bod
les of their dead, wrapped in skins, on
scaffolds or in trees. The Arickaras
buried from one to six bodies in a
grave, the body lying on the right side,
with the head to the north. Digging
was hard with the primitive imple-
ments these Indians had, so the graves
were small, and the bodies placed with
the knees drawn up. Scarcely any
grave contains anything but the skele-
ton. Little or no paraphernalia was
ever buried with the body, except an
occasional bead or band of brass or
copper, showing the contact with the
fur traders. The earlier burial sites
yield nothing but bones. The graves
were three to six feet deep, and above
the upper skeleton were placed slabs of
cottonwood or ash or bubbles of will
low twigs, to keep wild animals from
digging into the grave. Other Indians
used fiat rocks for the same purpose.
There are thousands of objects in
the university's collection Of Arickara
relics. The collection wes begun in
1915, and as it grows the exact
knowledge of the life OF these early
Dakotans increases.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
South Africa Growing Sugar Cane.

Sugar planting is making rapid
strides in South Africa, and the last
few years have seen acres upon acres
put under cane, from Durham to prac-
tically the end of the new railway line
in Zululand, terminating at Somkele.
The coast of Natal and Zululand is
eminently suitable for the growth of
sugar cane, and many farmers have
given up their %up-country farms for the
more profitable sugar growing along
the coast belt. The climate is very
warm in summer, but as the main
work, the cutting and milling of the
cane, takes place In winter, sugar
growers are enabled to leave their
farms for a cooler climate during the
summer months.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

washed away in the flood until W e lose ourselves W will remain pleased. no
doubt Nobody before ever saw 10 many strange dogs in Washington. or
one thing. There was a great dane on f street the other afternoon as big ms
ar ", that took up the whole back seat of an automobile. I saw a Chinese
chow with a coat like silk and eyes al bright as stars.
Those dogs came here with their masters, who came OF the tide of war
to the national capital
1 had a friend from Indiana with me the other day. He was N Of these
newcomers. He had admired the public buildings, looked at all the soldiers,
walked both up and down in the monument snorted from Arlington to Rok
Greek park in a n automobile at o much al hour, and done a few other things
like that.
At last he stood on F street to watch the afternoon promenade
1t was there he spoke from his heart. Hoosier praise can % 10 furthar
"Why it's just like Terre Haute!" he said.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

turn make the war go. If operations should suddenly cease in the unob-
trusive residential var machine at fuel administration headquarters, it would
not be long before the nations a makers would have to stop their opera
tons.
Dr. Harry A. Garfield, fuel administrator, erstwhle college professor, has
built a "a machine which would make a fine nesting place for the doves of
peace. 1t is the most resdul and peaceful of the many warmaking estab-
nshments in Washington. The hustle and hustle Of other departments and
bureaus is absolutely lacking in the fuel administration
Perhaps 1t is the peaceful atmosphere of Williams college that has been
transferred Ito Washington with Doctor Garfield, but at an rate he has made
q ndseless wal engine.
ington. AS n organization 1t is also the smallest of the war organizations
Less thar 100 people are employed by this important body, which supplies
the fuel for the nation.
This is virtually a oneman war machine. Doctor Garfield has not been
surrounded with a large staff of experts. He has three assistants, all experts
in their W line Outside of these men the fuel administration is operated
by clerks who work at the direction of Doctor Garfield and his assistants
The clerical staff is not large. There is n o publicity organization and the
machine does not require large appropriation for its USE
1t is generally understood. however, that the hand at the lever of this
machine is the sam hand that u the biggest war machine of all, the
White House hand.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

They have gone about their business in a busnessike manner. The Red Cross
might be called a guide. Very little actual wal relief work, such as bandage
making, Is done by the national organization. But this work is all directed
from headquarters.
Not the least of the duties Of the Red Cross have been the raising of
finances. 1t will take millions and millions of publicly contributed money to
tabnshed a great moneysoictdng machine. Through this organization the
moneys contributed are diverted in those channels where they will do the
most good. Hardheaded business men, unswerved by sentiment, direct the
finances Of this organization.
As a warmaBing machine thu Red Cross is negative, but it is the greatest
afterremedy that any nation knows today.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

and village sites, burial grounds and
and studying the relics of these first
settlers-or were they first, after all?
A find of hammer stones, arrow heads
and charred hearth stones In an old
soil layer two to six feet beneath the
surface last summer indicates earlier
inhabitants than the Arickara.
When the Indians followed the buf-
fore the white man came, there were
fifty or more populous villages along
the Missouri river. The early tribes
of Arickaras In the Missouri valley,
like Dakota farmers today, grew corn
and pumpkins, for the Arickaras were
farmers. They built lodges of poles
and willow thatch, daubed thick with
mud to keep out the searching fingers
of the billiards. Their clothing was
made of buffalo skins. The shovel
with which they dug their fields and
the trowel with which they spread the
mud plaster on the walls of their
houses were made from the shoulder
blade of the buffalo. Their arrow
points and knives were of flint or bone.
This was the life of the Arickaras be-
fore the first white traders came, be-
fore the Sioux Cor Dakotah) Indians
pressed by white settlers from Canada,
poured in from the north and east. 1t
was the stone age, when to make a
hammer required days of grinding and
working on some boulder found in the
creek bed, with an outline like that Of
the tool to be made.
Fine Collection of Relics.
More than sixty skeletons of the
Arickara tribe have been unearthed
and are in the university museum.
Hundreds of hammer stones, arrow
heads, beads, bone tools and bone or
naments are also in the university col
lection of the Airckara relics. Even
the national government has not near
ly as good an Arickara collection. The
only two Arickara tobacco pipes ever
found In a grave are In the university
collection. There are many fragments
of the e~arthenware pots or bowls used
by the Indians in cooking, and two en-
lllClg uiihulii6Ch W NhlNh bLO
the kind of pottery work the ancient
Indians made.
The age of much of the material
found is predetermined, but that a
great deal of it dates back to the Pc
Rod before 1850 is certain, for at about
that time the Sioux or Dakota Indians
began driving the Arickaras relentless
ly up the Missouri and to the west
ward.
The other Arickara village sites
show no trace of contact with the
whites. No article of metal can be
found In the most ancient locations
Farther west, and up the Missouri
river, the excavations yield scraps OF
copper obtained from the first traders
from which the Indians made orna
ments and, by twisting the thin sheet
copper into cones, arrow heads shaped
like tunnels which slipped over the
end of the shaft Of the arrow. Al
occasional blue or red bead comes Il
light, or a brass ball, or bits Of look
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Kind OF acreatureD re Was.

Donald and Charlie, boys OF eleven,
had seer an old-time thrilling melo-
drama and the next day were repeating
1t for the benefit of an audience of
small boys in the garage of Charles
father. Charlie was the william" and
Donald the "heroine." After Donald,
with the villain covering and shlvering
before him had denounced the other
bitterly, he thrilled his small audience
with the shrieking climax. "Out of my
way, abdominal creature !"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Strained the Glass.
meant It.

The oldest inhabltant of Little
Cockleton possessed a telescope he new
er used.
"Why don't you make use of it some
times, James?" asked a neighbor.
sit used to be a good n" said James
sorrowfully, 'but it's broke now"
Broken" asked the neighbor. "Who
did thatT"
"Well," said James, at was such a
good n that 1 could see the old church
steeple five miles away quite plain,
but Joseph, the scoundrel, got the lend
Of 1t and tried to make out the steeple
Of tn e MethOdy chapel more'n ten
miles away. He tried and tried and
couldn't, so that strained my glass, an
it's never been right since. Drat Jo-
seph"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
unearths corn.erIndIna ouern.

An interesting relic of early Scot
land was unearthed in Cramond re-
Gently. A grave digger was preparing
for a burial, when he dug up, at a
depth of about five feet, the neat half
of the upper stone of a primitive corn
grinding quern, measuring IS inches
In diameter, and showing half OF the
central hole. Search without success
was made for the other fragments.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

traced out and
studied in detail
by w. II. Over of
the University Of
South Dakota.
What sort Of
people were this
now extinct race?
How did h e y
live? What was
t h e ir ~religion2
What degree of
culture had they
attained?
During a period
of a Mr.. Over
xrfrtE11 aa~~ pi&An
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Modest Chorus Girl.

Chorus Girl-Understand, now. !
want no publicity about my marriage
to Harold Gottmunney.
Reporter-Very well.
Chorus Girl-Just a modest photo
graph of myself In tights and a. scant
~half-coIumn in an inconspieious place
on the front page.-Puck.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

into WOman's estate and does not care
to be called "little" any more, thank
you, so Washington has become a little
bit bigger, a little bit different, almost
before we realized 1t.
Most of us are not ~displeased. The
city has a new beauty, an added at
Effectiveness. There is a rush, a roar,
a crowding and a jamming to. which
we are not accustomed. But we are
taking to it like ducks that know they
are in their own stream, and unless
our stream Is so swollen that we are
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

section OF the city, from the OUTSIDE
the fuel administration appears entire
ly unwarlike.
Within there are no evidences Of
war, with the exception that there are
always many people waiting to see
the fuel administrator. Doctor Gar
field, and to talk wal with him.
Through the wheels of this ma,
chine, however, there is the daily
grinding which is turning out the fuel
which runs the factories, which In
turn send ont suDDlieS. which again in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

out defanty from his pedestal we the broad wee of the potownn
Several proposals re o. foot in regard to the prom dsnotiou .n a
made of this statue and the indications are that old redericL no g. " ue
% come off his perch before long. Senator Robert I. Owen of 49, "m
has suggested that the statue be thrown into the Potomoc vhioSn oAiuhomIa
but this plan is not likely to prevail, a there is too much vooa - 20 near e o.
heroic figure to waste in these war times. "on1e IN he
One suggestion which is advanced by any army omcors a. p-.1,i
statue be sent back to Wilhelm, not in Its present form but Una - 10 = ot .e
and made into cannon and that the cannon be sent over 10 ~ ~ pe me eo
iecency into the knisers legions. "o' d nue
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

n, UT ut UHIIHU
States army officers as they enter and
depart from the Army War college.
The general public, and especially
the part OF the public that has to visit
the war college, is getting mighty res.
tive over the sight of the kaiser's
great-grandfather, five times removed.
as he stands the sole and only statue
IN 'front.' OF the War college, within
which American army officers are
planning the downfall of his descend.
ant. The fnthar Of p.nnA
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08

Gross Is not to make war, and It Should
not properly be called a war machine;
but 1t has made more preparations for
alternating the effects of wal than any
other organization In the world.
The Red Cross is not, as is popu-
larly supposed, an organization of
physicians and nurses. In fact, one
can't even smell medical odors around
the building. The Red Cross is an
organization of trained business men
and statesmen, who have been formed
into a body to alleviate the war pangs.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Oldest l~nhabItant.

Lost soul-why did they send that
monkey down heref
Old Timer-Don't you know who
that is? He's our ancestor-CartDons
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Fuel Administrations Help in Conducting War

MOST inofensrve and unwarlrke is the va machine which supplies the
wi energy that makes the war move on-the fuel administration. Housed
in n of Washingtons fashionable old residences in the most exclusive
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Proof That the National Capital Is Growing Up

W AsHINGToN is growing up" Whether w like it or not and right before
" Our W eyes, the national capital is changing Like a beautiful child
whom day We call "lMnle Mary" to find the next day that She has ROY
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Truly Wonderful Work Done by the Red Cross

LuASHINGToN-n a great white marble building overlooking the Mall
w about Washington monument is the greatest unofficial war machipe in
the world-the American Red Gross headquarters. The business Of the Red
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
Statue of Frederick the Great Becomes Eyesore

. EFORE long the statue of Frederick the Great which the kaiser nraserod
- to the United States 10 years ago-unucky 13-is going t OBJ made TO nor
form some sort of use In the war for democracy, instead of gazing With
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-08
BY r. w. JONES.

Gradually the life of the Arick-
ara Indians of the Dakotas is being
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-18
Pratt Resigns Owing
To Differences With
Secretary RodfioId

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-18
lAFOLLETTE-GRONNL
GROUP TO F|LIBUSTER !.
ON AERIAL MEASURE.
HOPE. OF PASSING THE
BILL. QUICKLY PASSES
Objccling Senators Oppose
Drafting Of Men for The
Aviation Service.

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ar n nuui vote bornTo thu food bH
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noon. ilr un,InI mnrting hour. Thht
hopn wnr virtually abandoned later,
however. whom w" purD0HnH o1 mo
mrnnrIrn'n crIiFCn b"cnmC apparent
Senator ChnmbrTlnin. manager Tor tho
bin. rnid ho did not bcllovc u couln
br puarcd tomorrow ''Or without con-
HIdrrnblr diEcu sBIOn later
Sent 10 cOngrrBs with the urgent
r"uncsi that consideration be cXpe'
dltcd TO avoid Unnecessary delay In
launching the program that omc1aIH
Eny will turn the balance OF power In
the air against Germany. The Dill WaA
passed by the h0Hsc last Saturday
without II roll call and Today WAS rsY
ported lnvorably by the senate mill
larry rnmmlllcr without amendment