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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

There is perhaps fine distinction
between getting money HONESTLY
and getting it legally: 1t is the con-
census of legislative opinion in Ten
nessee that S7,5G0.00 per year is am
pie remuneration for the service of
any official in this state, and that the
best talent and service can be bought
for that sum; yet certain officials col
lect in fees annually, thousands up
on thousands more dollars. Problem:
Does any "bed rock" honest man want
or will he take money he does not
earnf
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

The friends of Elder |. A. Douthett
and members of the Christian church
will be pleased to know that on the
Fourth Sunday in June Elder Douth-
EFT will begin series of services at
that church. Elder Douthett conduct
ed ameeting here last year and his
sermons were both enjoyable and in
structive.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

The principal things now advertis-
ed on Lexington bill boards, are cam
ed tobaccos and cigarettes-canned
tobaccos, for which the farmer gets
perhaps 10c per pound, which "doped"
and canned, labeled and revenue paid,
goes at s1.20 per pound, while the
trifling stuff which goes into cigar
cites may reach at least $50 a pound
by time it reaches the ultimate con-
sumer. What foole we mortals be.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

The anti-fee bill passed by the leg
islature may prove to have "joker"
in il, as it seems to read two ways.
The Supreme court will get whack
ut it-and it may go the way Of the
snti-fee laws which have proceeded it.
The big fellows in the counties Of
Shelby, Hamilton, Davidson and
Knox, evidently have faith some
thing to have in the future, as they
put up no special fight against the an
ti-fee bill.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

II you have been uneasy about it,
let us reassure you: The fellows who
manufacture the goods, make the
American prices and are supposed to
pay the income taxes will be taken
care Of all right-and why not?
They are the ones who footed most
of the eight million delars presiden-
tial campaign expenses.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01
Every man in The
class knew 4he answer

PROFESSOR HAsKINs.
WAS A kindly soul.
BRIGHT ON some subjects.
BUT so absent.minded.
THAT ONE day at the BARRIERS.
He TOOK OF his collar.
TO GET shaved.
AND FORGOT where he was.
AND KEPT right on.
TILL THE cash-girl screamed.
AND A barber stopped him.
HE WAS a great smoker.
GUT HE'D often put.
THE BURNT match in his mouth
AND THROW away.
THE CIGARETTE.
HIS STUDENTS loved him
He WAS so full.
loF FUNNY surprises.
q
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01
FINER FARMING
BY H. A. Powers, Co. Agent.

When Must ! cut my Alfalfa? 1t
is from three to four inches high now.
Frank Mackey.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

If you want to sell one hog in June
let us know. 1t should be fairly fat
and weigh around 200 pounds to
bring the best price.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

The Holcomb- Porter Company paid
one farmer $500 for Is hens. As a
profitable side line, poultry has
brought many dollars into this coun-
txt
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

unless they were old and Improbable.
j. H. Mette.
T. A. Beecham bought some tank
age to feed to a sow and pigs. He
will add corn to the above feed. A
banance nation is worth while. Now
he should plant some sorghum to
throw in to the hogs.
Edward Brewer has been feeding
semi olid-semi-solid buttermilk to
two pigs and giving the other two
corn and shorts. The difference in
gain is remarkable. The bone and
muscle of the pigs that had the ami
NAL protein in addition to corn and
shorts is much larger.
We know a number of farmers who
would like to sell some farm product
in every month. We have about thir-
ty hogs in sight being finished for the
June market. Now if you want in on
this send US your name and the num-
Der you wish to sell. As soon as we
get enough pledged we will announce
it in the paper. The first names re-
ceived will be given first choice.
j. H. Mette, Poultry Expert of the
Memphis Development Farm Bureau
suggests that farmers grow sorghum
heads for poultry feed. He says that
throughout this section few hens are
now setting and that we should con-
tinue to set hens for some time to
come. He also advises that we use
water glass to put away cheap eggs
for fall and winter use when eggs
will be higher. For many years he
has raised poultry and made money
out of it. What he says should be
needed by everyone.
Walter Morgan has some red clover
and timothy that looks good. The
land is good soil anyway but the
ground is we'll covered with two crops
on one. Wherever the land is fertile
We can well afford to add some grass
to our clover seedlings, and especially
where we plan to allow it to remain
more than one year. Hay will get
very cheap before he closes money on
this venture. Did you say that it pays
to grow cotton and buy hay on our
chea pland? Don't everybody talk at
once.
A prominent business man of Lex
ington was in Memphis last week. He
had an opportunity to meet a number
of Mississippi Delta farmers. They
told him that they expected to plant
all the cotton. that they could possi-
bly, get in. Now if the cotton belt
viii just do this, Henderson county
will be compelled to grow very little
cotton for a few years. IL you are
planning to become independent of
this crop you are doing the proper
thing. We have said before that cot
ton is the best money crop for US. and
we still believe it, however. if the
prices were to decline some more we
would reserve the right to change our
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

Eggs are cheap but as long as the
sales exceed the value of feed consum-
ed we would be slow to sell any hens
unless they were old and Improbable.
j. H. Mette.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

T. A. Beecham bought some tank
age to feed to sow and pigs. He
will add corn to the above feed. A
banance nation is worth while. Now
he should plant some sorghum to
throw in to the hogs.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

ONE DAY he had a tube.
OF RA0luM and he told.
THE STUDENTS all about 70.
AND FINALLY. by mistake.
INSTEAD or the tube.
He PULLED out one.
OF HIS cigarettes.
AND ASKED the class.
WHAT IS the one thing.
WHICH DISTINGUISHES.
THIS MARVELLOUS substances.
FROM ALL others on earth"
AND THE class roared.
THEY SATISFY"
|VHTHAT is it you've always wanted
w a cigarette to do? You know the
answer. Chesterfelds do it they not
only please your taste, they sattsfy!
It's all in the blend-a secret blend of
fine Turkish and Domestic tobaccos.
II puts Chesterfields where none can
touch them for quality and value.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01

Rev. H. R. Rose spent one day last
week visiting relatives in Memphis.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-04-01


was not suited to his personal appear
ance.
The next act on the program was
dinner and Newt told how the negro
servant loaded his plate from time
to time, and he never eating bite,
how he scalded his mouth with hot
coffee, how he thought a solid rice
pudding was cake of corn bread,
tried to break it and sank his fingers
to the second joints in the pudding
which is one that refuses to cool for
hours even at far northern points.
When Newt had finished singing the
red hot pudding from his fingers,
making non-Sunday-School ejacula-
tons and opene dhis eyes, all except
himself had retired from the table
and the dining hall and he had to stink
out alone. However, his cousin soon
came across him and asked one of the
Misses Zollicoffer to take him to the
parlor and entertain him with piano
music until she MRS. Gordon) found
time to have the promised talk. Newt
said that when he walked into the
parlor and the young lady asked him
to be seated, he pushed out Of his way
what he thought was the darndest
pincushion he had ever ''seed"-It
was an old-fashioned ottoman up
holstered in horse hair-and sat on
the floor. Miss Zollicoffer assured him
that the ''pineushion" was designed
to be sat upon, so Newt sat and the
music begun. Newt hauled out from
a pocket of that s2.96 overcoat the
most rancid Of snoring pipes, stuffed
it with half-cured hillside navy"
struck a lucifer match on his hip
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-07-07
ROUGH all our early history,
there runs the story of the In.

dian. He was here when our
ancestors came, and for two hundred
years at least he was factor in the
life of our ancestors, and had share
in directing the current of events of
those olden times. On every page of
the history of those times he appears
as prominent character and at times
almost as a dominating personality.
1t is, therefore, interesting to look
backwards and see what manner of
people were these Redmen, what their
numbers, and what their mode of life
for the more we know about them,
the better will we understand the
times when they were a power in
North America.
When the white man came and set
Elements began to be established in
North America the vast wilderness
stretching from the Atlantic to the
Mississippi river, and from the Caro-
linas on the south to the shores of
Hudson Bay, was divided between
two great families of Indian tribes,
distinguished by radical differences OF
language.
In what is now the Southern, the
Middle and the New England States,
and in the Provinces of Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick and Quebec, and
about the Great Lakes, dwelt the
tribes speaking various Algonquin
languages and dialects.
Further west these Algonquins held
what is now the States of Wisconsin,
Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana, and
bands roamed the hunting grounds OF
Kentucky.
Like an island in a sea of enemies,
lay the land of the Iroquois, with Al
gonquins on almost very side. This
land extended through the central
part of what is now the State of New
York. Up 1722 the Iroquois con-
sisted of Five Nations. In that year
they were joined by the Tuscaronas
of the Carolina country to the south,
and thereafter were known as the Six
Nations.
When the white man came the lro-
quois were almost continuously at
war with their neighbors, and had
they been left to themselves it is very
likely that they would have either ex-
terminated or absorbed every other
Indian community east of the Missis-
sippi and north of the Ohio rivers.
Their ambition to dominate or exter-
inmate was similar to that of the
Prussians of our time.
To the south of the land of the
Iroquois, along the valley of the Sus-
quehanna river in Pennsylvania, dwelt
the Andastes; along the southern
shores of Lake Erie were the Eries;
along the northern shores of the lake
from Niagara to Detroit were the
Neutral Nation; while the district
between Lake Simcoe in the Province
of Ontario, and the shores of Lake
Huron, contained the homes of the
once powerful Huron tribes.
Shortly before the coming of white
to New England in 1920, an epidemic
had swept off the Indian population
by the thousands, but despite that the
Algonquin population was densest in
that part of the country. Among the
tribes living there were the Mohicans,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-07-07
Saltwater, Minnesota, Thursday, July 7, 1921
WHEN REDMEN RULED THE LAND
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now stands the town of North Bay,
dwelt an Algonquin tribe after which
that lake is named.
One hundred and fifty miles to the
southwest, near the shores of Lake
Simcoe, dwelt the Huron Nation, a
member of the great Huron-Iroquois
family, and speaking dialect of the
Iroquois tongue. Here was found
great improvement upon the condi-
tions of life prevailing among the Al
gonquin tribes.
The Hurons lived in the northern
and eastern portions of what is now
the county of Simcoe, Ontario, on the
peninsula formed by Nottawassaga
and Matchedash Bays, at the south
eastern side of~Lake Huron.
During the years Immediately pre-
ceding the breaking up of the Huron
Nation by the Iroquois in 1649,
French missionaries lived among the
Hurons, and made an enumeration
of their villages and hamlets, with
seven hundred dwellings about four
thousand families and twelve thou
sand adult persons, or total popula-
ton of not less than twenty thousand.
Some of the villages were fortified,
but most of them were open and de-
fenceless. These villages were of
style common to all the tribes of the
Huron-Iroquois family, but nothing
similar exists at the present time. A
village on an average covered an area
of ten acres, and the dwellings were
clustered together with little or no
order. In some villages there were
dwellings two hundred and forty feet
in length, although in height and
width they did not exceed the others.
Champlain, who wintered among the
Hurons in 1915, states that he saw
dwellings more than thirty fathoms
long-one hundred and eighty feet.
The frame of one of their dwell
lings consisted of strong saplings
planted in double row to form two
sides of the house. The tops of the
saplings were lashed together; trans
versely poles were bound to the sap
lings, and the whole was covered with
birch or elm bark arranged like the
shingles on a roof, the whole being
secured with poles bound to the out
side of the structure by means of
cords of linden bark. Along the
crown of the arch or peak formed by
the fastening together of the tops of
the saplings, that formed the sides or
walls, there was an open space the
entire length of the house, left for the
escape of smoke and the admission
of light. At each end of the house
was a porch of similar construction,
and in the porches stood casks made
of bark, in which were kept smoked
fish, Indian corn and other stores not
liable to injury from frost.
Along each side of the interior of
the house ran wide scaffold about
four feet above the ground which
was also the floor. This scaffold was
made of bark, supported by posts and
poles, and the bark was covered with
furs and mats of rushes. Beneath
the scaffold frewood was stored; and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-07-07

Pequots, ,Narragansetts, Massachusetts,
and Penacooks-the Indians with
whom the early Puritan settlers had
to contend. They had made some
progress in agriculture, and Cham
plain, when he coasted along those
shores in 1605-6, saw points studded
with wigwams and waving with har-
vests of maize or Indian corn.
They also drew large supplies of
food from the fisheries along the
coast. These New England Indians
were, therefore, seldom reduced to
the verge of starvation, which was a
common condition with nomadic
tribes that lived by hunting. Fear of
the Iroquois drove them eastward,
and westward from the coast the
population was very sparse. The
northern part of New Hampshire,
and the whole of Vermont, formed a
no-man's land. This district con-
tanned no permanent inhabitants, al
though it was from time to time
visited by rowing hunters and prowl-
ing bands of warriors.
Although relatively populous, it is
doubtful if all of these tribes united
could have mustered eight thousand
fighting men.
In the eastern part of the State of
Maine and throughout the Province
of New Brunswick dwelt the Etche-
minis, who were hunters and fisher
men, but knew nothing about tilling
the soil. In Nova Scotia were the
Micmacs, closely resembling the
Etchemins in habits and condition.
In the country between Nova Sco-
tia and the St. Lawrence river there
were no inhabitants; and like con-
dition prevailed all along the south
ern shores of the St. Lawrence from
the Gulf to Lake Ontario. Hunters
visited those regions, but they had no
tenants. To the north of the river,
as far as the shores of Hudson Bay,
roamed the Montagnais. They were
the lowest of the Algonquin family,
and as their sustenance were almost
wholly derived from the chase, star
vation often overlook them and is is
said that at times they were not guilt
less of cannibalism.
Between Quebec and Montreal
there was scarcely any permanent In
dian population. At Three Rivers
was a small Algonquin band living
in daily dread of the Iroquois. When
Cartier visited Montreal in the au-
tumn of 1885, he found there large
Indian town known as Hochelaga;
when Champlain first came little
more than seventy years later Hoch-
elaga had disappeared. There was no
human life on the island except dur
ing a brief term in the early summer,
when the savages from the interior
came there to trade.
Along the north shore of the lower
Ottawa were few small algonquin
bands, one of which was the Petite
Nation. Further to the west, on the
great island of the Allumettes, dwell
what the French called La Nation de
lIsle. Still further westward, around
the shores of Lake Nipissing, where
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-07-07

in summer the occupants of the house
slept on the scaffold.
The fires were on the ground in a
line down the centre of the house,
each fire serving two families. In
winter all slept around the fires
closely packed together.
Just under the vaulted roof, and
running across the house, were num-
erous poles from which were sus-
pended weapons, furs, clothing and
ornaments. In autumn the squaws
also hung from these poles numerous
traces of corn in the ear. When the
fires were burning the house was
usually filled with smoke in winter,
producing inflammation of the eyes,
which in old age frequently resulted
i'll bli.dness. Sometimes as many as
twenty families lodged in single
house, each with its numerous unruly
children and pack of snarling dogs.
Privacy there was none, and nothing
of the peaceful home-life so highly
priced by the normal white man.
A fortified village enclosed by
deep ditch, and inside the ditch was
set palisade lined with many thick
nesSes of bark. Around the inner
side of the palisade, and about five
feet from the ground, ran a platform
with wooden cutters by means of
which streams of water could be
poured down on fires kiadled on the
outside by an enemy. Here and there
along the platform were stores of
stones to be used against an attacking
enemy. Rude ladders for mounting
the rampant completed the fortifca-
ton.
AS regards the land the Hurons
were communists, individual owner
ship being unknown. Each family
had the use of as much land as it saw
fit to clear. The trees were felled
by burning off their trunks by setting
fire to piles of dry brush heaped
around them on the ground. The
soil was titled by the squaws by means
of wooden hoes or similar imple-
ments made of bone. Among the
stumps were planted their crops of
corn, beans, pumpkins, tobacco and
hemp. After the crops were we'll up
there was little attempt to keep down
the weeds. No fertilization was at
tempted but when after a use of ten
or twelve years the fertility of plot
of land became exhausted and the
supply of frewood distant the village
was, abandoned and new one built
on a spot whose resources had not
been drawn upon.
In the Huron country there was
very little game and vension was a
luxury found only on feast days. Nu-
merous dogs were raised, and their
flesh was highly esteemed. Sometimes
bears were taken alive and in some
villages they were kept for time in
captivity and fattened for some grand
festival. The Huron's stable food
was Indian corn, cooked in a variety
of ways, but always without salt.
The main stock of corn was kept in
caches, or deep holes in the earth,
lined and covered with several layers
of bark.
The Hurons had made some pro-
gress in what may be called the arts
of home life. Out of clay the women
made pots for cooking, (Psss .. ool 81
New Britain herald., 1921-12-28
PECULIAR ACCIDENT
Car Left In Reverse Backs Out of Garage and Crashes Into Vcrarda Across the Street.

A peculiar accident occurred yes terday afternoon to sedan car owned by William G. Muller of 494 East street at the service garage conduct ed by Angelo Paonessa on Hartford avenue. Nr. Muller had been haV- ing trouble with the car and had driven it in to the garage for inspec- tion. Edward Hawley, garage me chanic, was working beneath the car and asked Mir. Muller to step on the self-starter, Evidently the car had been in reverse, because as soon as the starter was applied, it started to back out of the door, gaining speed until it crashed through the heavy folding doors of the garage into a veranda of. a. house across the street
 Mrs. Muller was in the rear of the car at the time but she was not in- iured and Hawley, who was under meath when it started also escaped Mir. Muller made a dash for the door of the car when it started, but on aC- count if being a closed one, was un able to open the door to stop it. The back of the. car was badly smashed and the gasoline tank was broken off. The veranda was also damaged con sidcrably.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-28
STRANGE VISION
old Italian Lady Believes Unknown Soldier To Be Her Son--Iicggcd
 To Src Body or Hero

Rome, Dee, 2S.--A dramatic iu- cidcnt of the funeral of the nknown Warrior in Rome has just become known On tn, last night when the coffin was exposed in the grand Church of santa Maria dogli AnEch a poor old woman who had come from Venice appeared at the church and passionateIy implored those in command to allow her to see the form within the coffin because, she declared, her dead soldier son had appeared to her in q vision and had assured her that his was the body buried In the sacred receptacle,
 I'lnging herself on her knees she cried: "I implorc you for the love Of the Madonna, let me stay here all night, and then when all the people have gone away, you will surely lei me look just onct again on my own boy"
 She was kindly and tenderly told that her desire was impossible Of ful- filment and it was with great diff culty that she was persuaded to leave the church.
 It will perhaps he a comfort to the poor old woman that she will Cer9in- ly believe to her dying day that her boy rests in the great monument of the Italian nation.