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ibir school AT g:J5 a. m. every Sun.
cay. d. II. Kay, Superintendent.
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Rev. Oscar Wright, Pastor.
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Sunday school every Sunday at
9:45 a.. u. WI Matthews, Supt.
Preaching l.. and 3rd sundays.
Lev. ". Ii. burchard, Pastor.
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Some had gone down with her. no
doubt; but two boats had got off, car
rying lights. They saw the tug ap-
preaching ana cried out and stretched
their hands to US; but Spearman
stopped the tug. They rowed toward
us then, but when they got near. Spear
man moved the tug away from them,
and then again stopped. They cried
out again and rowed toward us; again
he moved the tug away, and then they
understood and stopped rowing and
cried curses at us. One boat soon
drifted far away we knew OF Its cap
sizing by the extinguishing of It's light.
The other capsized near to where we
were, Those In Ii who had no life
belts and could not swim, sank first.
Some could swim and, for while they
fought the waves"
Alan, as he listened ceased con
sciously to separate the priests voice
from the sensations running through
him. His father was Stafford, dying
at Corvet's feet while Corvet watched
the death OF the crew OF the MlwaEa;
Alan himself, a child, was floating with
a lifebelt among those struggling In
the water whom Spearman and Corvet
were watching die. Memory; was 1t
that which now had come to him? No;
rather 1t was realization of all the
truths which the priests words were
bringing together and arranging right
iy for him.
Aians father died in the morning.
All day they stayed out In the storm,
avoiding vessels. They dared not
throw Stafford's body overheard or
that of the engineer, because, II found,
the bullet holes would have aroused
Inquiry. When night came again, they
had taken the two ashore at some wild
spot and buried them; to make ident-
tication harder. they had taken the
things that tkey had with them and
buried them somewhere else. The
chlld--Aian-Corvet had Struggled
ashore and sent away; he had told
Spearman later that the child had
died.
"Peace--rest" Father Perron said
in a deep voice. peace to the deadl"
But for the living there had been
no peace. Spearman had forced Cor
vet to make him his partner; Corvet
had tried to take up his life again,
but had not been able. His wife, i
aware that something was wrong with
him, had learned enough 50 that she
had left him. Luke had come and
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-08-18
THE IRON COURAGE OF CHIEF
DULL KNIFE

| NN THE morning of September 10,
~ 1878, western military telegraph
wires were hummlng with the news
dull Knife has jumped the reserva-
tion.' Army officers who had fought
him knew what this meant. For Morn
ing Star (Wo-he-hiv)-Dull Knife was
the translation Of his Sioux name
had proved his mettle one cold win
ter morning In 1877 when Col. Ranald
Mackenzie attacked his camp so sud-
denly that the Cheyennes could only
snatch up their rifles and put on their
moccasins before the soldiers were up-
on them. All that bitter day, with
the thermometer 20 below zero. these
naked warriors had fought off Macken-
zie until their women and children
had escaped.
After Dull Knife surrendered. he
and his people were sent TO Indian
Territory where they rapidly sickened
and died, until two-thirds of their mum.
Der had perished. In vain Dull Knife
appealed to the government to return
his people to their old homes. FL
nally in desperation he and Little
Wolf. the junior war chief, resolved
10 lead them from their hated reser.
yAtion.
But Dull Knife and part of the
tribe were captured. They were tax.
en- to Fort Robinson, Neb, and Inn
prAsoned In an old barracks. Then
they were told that they must be re.
turned to Indian Territory. Duh
Knife, a majestic figure In spite of his
worti moccasins and ragged blanket,
said: "Tell the Great Father that
Dull Knife and his people ask only
to end their days In the North where
the5 we're born. Tell them we want
no H. re war. But IL he tries to send
us ba>k, we will butcher each other
with our own knives have spoken I"
On January 5, 1870, the IAdIans re-
fused to start south.
On the fifth night they made des.
perate attempt to escape. Armed with
few knives and guns they tried to
cut their way through the soldiers
who swarmed about them. Some were
shot down; others, among them, Duh
Knife, escaped. After IS days OF wan.
dering, during which they kept alive
by eating their moccasins and few
roots, Dull Knife and his imme fiate
family reached the camps of his
friends, the Sioux.
after four years the old chief was
allowed to return to his home In Mon.
tana, where he died In 1885. He lies
buried on high butte near the val.
ley OF the Rosebud river In the land
ne loved so well and fought SO hard
to regain.
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Stories Of
GREAT
INDIANS
STANDING BEAR WINS LIBERTY
BY HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
tight. Is22. Western Newspaper Union.

! M NOE upon time writ OF habeas
~ corpus was invoked In behalf Of
an Indian and the decision In his case
marked new epoch In the conduct of
our Indian affairs. That man was
Standing Bear Fundamentally,
chief of the Poncas
| In 1877 the government decided to
remove Standing Bears people from
their ancestral homes In Nebraska to
Indian Territory. In spite Of his OPP
position, be and nine other chiefs were
taken south to choose reservation.
They would not select place. where
upon the agent refused them trans
portation home.
AT night they slept In haystacks,
shiyering with the cold. Their only
food was raw corn which they found
In the fields Their moccasins wore
out. After so days they reached the
Otoe reservation in Nebraska and as
they walked into the agents office
they left bloody footprints on the
floor Ten days later they rode
YEARLY into their home camp on
ponies which the Otoes had given
them.
In their absence an official of the
Indian department arrived to remove
the Poncas by force. Accepting the
Inevitable, Standing Bear prepared to
retrace his steps. After terrible
journey, during which two of Standing
Bears children died, the discouraged
Poncas settled In their new homes.
Within year third of the tribe per-
ished. Then Standing Bears favorite
son died. In January, 1879, he took
the bones Of his sons, and started
once more to Nebraska.
Two months later they arrived desti-
tute at the Omaha reservation. They
borrowed land and seed from the
Omahas and were preparing to put in
crop when soldiers appeared to ar
rest and return them to Indian Ter
ritory Then public sentiment inter-
vened Two white lawyers offered to
defend the Poncas and sued out a
writ of habeas corpus.
Although attorneys for the Indian
department contended that Indians
were mot persons within the meaning
of the law" Judge Dundy ruled against
them and ordered the prisoners re-
leased. "Once avenged my wrongs
with the tomahawk," said Standing
Bear" but the white mans way Is bet
ter. I lay the tomahawk down for
ever"
BY this time Standing Bears case
had attracted national attention and
q senate investigation of the Ponca re-
moval resulted In restoring them to
their old homes. Here September 6,
1908, Standing Bear died at the age
of eighty years.
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not tell lie too thought , had or
dered the doing of that thing
From the Miwaka, Ramsdell YELLED
curses at me, threatening me for whal
he thought that had donei looked
at Spearman as he got up from the
deck, and ] read the thought that had
| been In him; he had believed that he
could cut the hawser In the dark, none
seeing, and that our word that II had
been broken would have as much
strength as any accusation Stafford
could make. He had known that to
share a secret such as that with me
would make" him on the lakes for
the loss of the Miwnka would cripple
Stafford and Ramsdell and strengthen
me; and he could make me share with
| him whatever / made. But Stafford
had surprised him at the hawser and
had seen.
IT moved to denounce him, Father.
as realized this; moyed--but
stopped. lie had made himself safe
against accusation by me! None
none ever would believe that he had
done this except by my order, II he
should claim that; and he made plain
that he was going to claim that. He
called me fool and defied me. Luke
even my own man. the only one left
on the tug with us--beJieyed it! And
there was murder In 1t now, with Stat
ford dying there upon the deck and
with the certainty that all those on
the Miwaka could not be saved.
felt the moose as IL II had been al
ready tied about my neck And
had done no wrong, Father ! had
only thought wrongi
So long as one lived among those
on the Miwaka who had seen what
was done, knew would be hanged;
yet would have saved them If could
But, In my comprehension Of what
this meant, only stared at Stafford
where he lay and then at Spearman,
and | let him get control of the tug.
The tug, whose wheel | had dashed,
heading her Into the waves, had been
moving slowly. Spearman pushed me
aside and went to the wheelhouse; he
sent Luke to the engines, and from
that moment Luke was his. He turned |
the tug about to where we still saw
the lights Of the Miwaka. The steam
err had struck upon the reef; she hung
there for time; and Spearman-he
had the wheel and Luke, at his or
Gers, was at the engine-held the tug
off and we beat slowly to and fro I'M
III the Miwaka slipped or and sank.
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Oh tnP mowers 10
others Of the flowers And she taught
them the dainty ways of all Humming
Rirds, and how they must fit hither
and thlther, always doing good work,
always quick and dainty and never
wasting time.
"The honeysuckles are our best
friends" she whispered to her chill.
dren. and off they flew once more
bnzzing. buzzing:
"rhe honeysuckles are our best
friends"
"They will give us strength for our
long trip this fall" Mother Humming
Bird added, and rs they all flew for
,he lloneysuckle bush the honey.
suckle flowers whispered:
1--WE will always be friends IT tho
dear. duiniy Humnilng Birds"
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Natures Changes.

The eastern slope of the Rockies
was more humid In the Cretaceous and
Tertiary than now, as one may judge
by the petrified forests scattered from
the Yellowstone park to Arizona, and
the remains of holly, oaks, elms, chest.
nuts, secuoias and other trees In the
fiorissant shaIes of Colorado. In the
Tertiary age the East and West were
again united by land. But this was a
period of successive uplifts and de-
pressions. Areas became submerged
and their forests destroyed. Other
areas were subjected to severe changes
locally. Erosion and other disturbances
must have greatly modified the char
acter, proportion and distribution OF
the species. Then came the Ice age.
and forces established themselves
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ohsNA titaDs anu
Mother Hullming
Bird encouraged
them. but she did
not flatter them
now. .-
For they were
a little older now
and could no
longer be babied.
as they had been.
SO she helped
them when they
felt weary. and
$ b 0 W e d them
many Humming
Bird secrets.
They learned
that they must
help carry mes
sages from some
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littl, nest her
self and had
looked after her
babies all by
herself from the
very start.
In fact, Mother
Humming Btr d
wanted no help.
She didn't care to
engage a nurse
for her babies
she wanted to
( e e d them and
teach them and
love them with
out any one else
to share with her
In her work and
in her pleasure.
She had made
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-08-18

such beautiful
home nest of cobwebs and moss, and
1t was covered outside with pieces OF
birch bark which made very lovely
home. 1t looked the color of tree
too, which made 1t safer.
Oh, she was proud indeed of her
nest, and how she loved fixing 1t jux
to suit her.
! You know how people will move
their furniture this way and that way
just before they are settled? They
want to have everything In just the
right place and have it look cozy and
pretty and comfortable and home
like
so does Mother Humming Bird ar
range the moss and the birch barb
and cobwebs that are the chief decora.
tons Of her home.
Now this Mother Humming Bird
I'm telling You about had two dear
little Humming Bird children. Mother
Hummlng Birds feel that two chill
dren are the perfect number, for they
can divide their time so nicely and
evenly between two.
MY darling little ones" Mother
Humming Bird whispered and buzzed
as she talked to her children, you
must do many things. You are sew
eral weeks old now, your feathers are
pretty and are growing nicely. Your
beaks are longer, and as the beaks of
Humming Birds should be as soon as
they grow up little
Eyes, you're growing into perfect
looking children You are children of
whom any Mother Humming Bird
would be proud, and indeed | am
proud of you. Now / must give you
lessons In flying"
And Mother Humming Bird taught
her children to fly.
"Ah,' she said, you were but
week old, darlings, when pretty-green
feathers appeared on your dear little
backs and your beaks began to show
that they were growing then, too.
in about two weeks time you had
so many many feathers, and now You
have all little birds could ask for
You are very wonderful"
So Mother Humming Bird showed
how much like all mothers she was
for her babies had done Just as
other Humming Bird babies had done
and other mothers had been proud
just as she was proud.
"Ah,' said little Humming Bird One.
as she called the elder one, ''you have
been so good to us, Mother Humming
Bird. You have fed lis with honey
from the flowers and you have given
us the most delicious Of insect meals
You have been so good a mother to
u.s.
Yes said little HummIng Bird
Two. you fed us first with your long
tongue, then you put your long bill
down our threats. and so we had our
food properly given to us--or properly
given to us according to Humming Bird
ideas"
Nov we must look more after our.
selves. We must practice flying
So the Humming Birds practiced
heir flying lessons more and more
after this. And
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-08-18

The bin of the albatross is a pale
pink color, shading to yellow af tbs
tin
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pDdddys
ID6EyeniN8
Fairy Tale
MOTHER HuMMiNo BIRD
~WARY GRAHAM BONNER
con nohr " vBIlsn ntsvAsss uspoA

Mother Humming Bird had every
right to be proud. She had built the
The Washington times., 1922-12-24

quite frequent in the day of Abdul
Hamid, whose suspicion led him to in
dulge In the most fendish forms of
cruelty. And in extreme cases the women
who had given offence were bundled up
in sacks and dumped by night in the dark
waters of the Bosphorus. The police have
mo- authority in the harem. The Sultan,
is the whole thing, chief of police, judge
and jury and executioner, and he does as
he pleases. He and his eunuchs rule the
harem with an iron hand, and they have
to-. Scarcely day passes but one of the
ladies goes to the chief eunuch with
tale of what so-and-so is saying, doing or
plotting. Then the eunuch has to get
busy and verify the rumor, no easy mat
ter at that
One of the chief causes Of trouble. in
the harem is the jealousy of the fading
flowers toward the new, young and bloom
ing members. Each new acquisition is
prospective favorite, and consequently
looked upon with disfavor and suspicion
by her mates, and right away they begin
to plot against her. And so it goes day
after day, plotting, intriguing, jealousy
and falsehood. II Is not what would be
called happy household.
The older members of the harem will
find il hard to land anywhere. For years
they have lived life of Incidence, with
out a thought in their heads, utterly help
less to turn their hands to anything. to
maintain themselves. Their beauty has
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faded and their charms have disappeared.
They never saw cook book or type
writer, and it is very doubtful II they
could get job as chaperone.
Some Of the prettiest and youngest,
those who still retain their charms and
fascinating ways, can find new masters,
and in some cases husbands. II she goes
to man as his sl"ve, he has to pay for
her. But If a man will take one as his
wife, the government will furnish sum
of money by way of dowry.
Some of those women who now find
themselves out of home are called
"Calfas," upper slaves of mature age
whose job it was to teach each new conner
the art of fascination, how to smirk and
act coy-like and please the Sultan. It was
their business to instruct the girls how
to preserve their looks both as to com
plexion and attire. They must always
have their hair combed and be ae?s.y
dressed and try at all times to be alluring
and desirable to their master.
No doubt these &C. as could find
lucrative employment here as their. spe-
cialty is something Of lost art in this
country.
The beauties of the Sultan's harem
have in the past been recruited MAIN
" from the Circassian tribes which
have been famed for the loveliness of
their women. There have been some
Syrian, Greek and Roumelian girls and
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mother of several children. This is the
only known case of any western woman
of rank becoming a Khadine.
Although the Koran and Ottoman law,
both religious and temporal permit the
Sultan, like every other devout Moslem,
to indulge in polygamy to the extent of
four legitimate wives, neither ex-Sultan
Mehmed or any of his immediate pre-
decessors on the throne have ever gone
through the customary forms of marriage.
Nor have any of them had consorts in the
strict sense of the word. The mothers
of their children have all been slaves,
never princesses, indeed, the only
princesses are the daughters either Of the
Sultan or of the princes of the imperial
family, They alone have a right to the
title of Sultana and can put forth claim
to blue blood and enjoying as such con-
siderable amount of independence and .of
relative freedom. If so-called hareni
woman had the good fortune to give birth
to child by the Sultan, she was ad-
vanced to the rank of Khadine and pro-
vided with a separate household .and
establishment of her own. ed"'"
Quite naturally all the harem women
yearned to become mothers of Sultanas
and Of princes in the line of succession to
the throne and to thus attain the dignity
of Khadine with households of their own.
But this happened very infrequently,, and
the Sultans, in spite of their harem
women and army of slaves at their. dis
posal, have always had very few children.
Thus Mehmed VI, recently deposed, had
but three children, two grown-upS and
married daughters, Sultanas Ulvia. and
Saliha, and son, the ten-year-old Prince
Ertogrul, the apple of his fathers eye.
When the old Sultan Abdul Hamia was
put TO rout in 1909 by the young Turk
ish revolutionists and--hs harem., dis
banded, there were many sighs of; relief
from among the ladies for he had been
a cruel master. But the recent Sultan,
Mehmed VI, was, according to all reports,
a kindly old soul who liked his ladies and
was very nice to them. They will, there
fore, miss the old man and his kind at
tentions and will often long for the good
old days when all they had to- do was
eat, sleep, and sit around, wondering
which buzzer the boss would push next
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fresh lot comes in. Gradually they de-
velop veritable pepper tongue and the
spirit of jealousy and intrigue grows on
them. Having nothing to do, they are
bound to get into some mischief. The
yearning for diversion grows stronger and
stronger, and this, diversion usually con-
sists in plotting against each other for
favors from their master.
The eunuchs, perfect gentlemen every
one of them, have their hands full every
minute of the day, ferreting out these
plottings, preserving order and keeping
the ladies out of each others hair.
It is quite natural that such situation
should exist. A conglomeration of women
and young girls, cut off from the outer
world, lacking the education and high
ideals Of inmates of convent, having no
interest whatever in literature or the arts,
time hangs heavy on their hands. The
only way that appeals to them of reliev-
ing the .ennui is to indulge in intrigue for
their own advancement and comfort. And
the harem has always been a hotbed of
jealousy, quarrelipg and plotting. They
all know the dangers which they run in
the event of any indiscretion or violation
of the harem rules, which, Of course. are
very strict. They are at the mercy of
any kind of punishment that the Sultan,
or even his chief eunuch, chooses to pass
out.
Flogging and frightful torture were
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even some from Roumania, Servia and
Bulgaria. The parents of every beautiful
girl born in the southeast of Europe and
Asia Minor know that she has market
value at Constantinople and that she will
fetch a large price there among the
purveyors of the Sultan's harem.
They are preferably purchased while
mere children and are then brought up
entirely in the harem, mostly under the
care of the "Calfas," who are entrusted
with the duty Of training them throughout
their early giflhood for the purposes
which they eventually are to serve.
The purchasing is entirely done by a
eunuch, who bears the title of Grand
Master of the Slaves and by the so-called
Grand Mistress of the Slaves. The latter
Is dressed according to Partisan fashions
with the appearance of most respectable
old lady, just the sort of person to
chaperone young girls.
So far as is known there has been only
one instance Of western woman of birth
and position finding her way into the
harem at Constantinoplc as one of its in
mates. A French woman of the old ar
istocracy, and bearing an illustrious name,
was seized py Moorish pirates in the
Mediterranean while on her way from
Marseilles to Naples in the Eighteenth
Century, and was carried Oft to CONSTANT
nople where she was sold to the
purveyors of feminine beauty Of the Inn
perial Seraglio. There she became the
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sit and think, and most Of
them just sit. The result is
they develop into most excel
lent gossips. In fact, the
harem is famed as being the
greatest. bunch of gossips in
the world. SURPRISING the New
England sewing circle and
the Summer resort front
porch.
The ladies of the harem are
allowed to receive female Wis
itors, and as these are the
only links between them and
the outside world, the callers
are very welcome. When one
comes in all the ladies sit
around in a circle. smooth out
their dresses, fold their hands
and say, Nov, let's have, the
latest dirt" And they get it.
All the scandalous gossip Of
Constantinople finds its way
into the harem, and the veiled
ladies roll these bits Of scan
dial under their tongues and
humble them over until a
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.o ,ssa " AmerIerr we,.,y INC Hre.' Britain ns