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The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

must be made on foot. Who of them all
would best fit into the imperative need of
carrying word to the whites?
The council settled upon little Charlie
Curtis, part Indian, part white, capable OF
speaking the language of both races. He
should steal through the lines of the attack
ers and should trudge away on foot those
sixty miles over road he knew WE'LL since
he had Travelled back and forth betM cen the
homes of his mothers and his fathers peo-
pie. Thus in the dead of night Charlie
Curtis left the reservation. Thus, though
he knew it not he put behind him the life
of an Indian and logged straight into new
world, where white men led far more frettul
and complicated existenees.
Charlie Curtis carried the message of the
Cheyenne outbreak to Topeka. While be
fingered about that struggling settlement on
Western frontier there came to him an
opportunity into which his peculiar qualif-
cations and training fitted rarely. He. the
wiry little Indian boy, born upon the plains.
reared upon the back Of pony, was given
q chance to ride as a jockey in races that
were then being held at Topeka and which
were the center of interest .fot. ali that part
of the West: He rode his races with credit,
won mopey for his employers, made for him
self reputation of skill as a pilot of fast
steeds ridden in competition with others If
their kind. {
So successful was the little Indian boy al
a Jockey that he became the rider for one
of those stablesf of the. West which follow
the races that in those days in the cattle
country were put on here and there, wherever
these frontiersmeD gathered to match one
against the other those prime clements ~
the civilization in which they lived. those
horses which we're so important suppis-,
ment to their existence: Charlie Curtis rode
races through Kansas, Missouri, Indian Ter
ritory; Colorado. Wyoming and Nebraska.
For Eve years he followed the races, and for
those FIVE years was popular idol Of the
borderland to those people who reTolved
about this manner Of 1ife.r That the circuit
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

no you kzow where there is a good sup
- ply of sawdust? II you do. stake out
your claim upon II, for should you be
farmer it may some day enable you to
economize on The hay and grain which your
livestock ordinarily consume, or il you are
just one Of the great army, of consumers.
perhaps you can save some Of the cold,
hard cash which you are now paying out
for raidns,s cracked wheat. malt, hops and
various canned ''whatnots" which bear. on
their labels some such warning as Do not
add an yeast cake. or you win get IN
alcoholic kick = -. ! -. 81
Wien sawdust is mixed, with dilute Ssul
phuric acid and cooked under? pressure with
steam the wood fiber. or cellulose. is par
TALLY converted into glucose, simple. sugar
which Is both wholesome and nutritious.
This glucose; may be dissolved out with
water. the solution neutralized with lime
and boiled down to the consistency of
molasses. By adding this molasses to, tn.
partially dried sawdnst residue a product
closely resembling bran Is obtained, which
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

makes an excellent cattle food. Experiments
in which this material was used to supple
ment the usual Livestock diet have met with
marked success, and It appears quite likely
that a product made from sawdust will
eventually be contributing to our milk and
meat supply. Perhaps the majority Of those
who do not own stock farms or have no
intention Of engaging in the dairy business
consider the production Of cattle food
rather uninteresting subject for investiEa-
ton. But very few of US remain lstless
and inattentiTe when some one mentions
that magic word alcohol" Whether one
still believes in evil spirits or considers the
Eighteenth Amendment the most important
part of the Constitution, the subject Of
Alcohol appears strangely stimulating to
rs all
The processing Of sawdust need not be
stopped at the point where glucose Is
produced. By allowing this sugar to fer
ment alcohol 10 formed, which can be seps
rated and concentrated by the we'll known
process Of distillation. While made from
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29
By William Anterior DuPuy

,sieep upon the streets Of Topeka, in front
of its railroad station. its saIoons. wherever
the night lights burned, and people were
astir who might require bis services. Tor
years be was a part Of that life Of the mys'
terionE small hours into which the average
man gets but an occasional and uDcomprs"
bending peep. And this night life. he says,
was the cornerstone Of all that h has
since builded.
Here is what Charlie Curtis did. As be
waited BY the curb for q passenger. as he
patiently hung about his hack outside some
address where his fare fingered. a. his horse
munched the oats in his nosebaE for bis
midnight meal, Charlie Curtis was buoy
Those who can remember the life Of two or
-four decades ago recall the Elass-inclosed
hacks then % familiar. The driver sst on
his seat in the open out front and on either
side Of him burned dimly, sometimes
smokIly, an oil lamp. Those lamps OF bis
night hack lighted Charlie Curtis along the
road to learning.
A lawyer friend advised him, lent hin
books. By the light Of his hack lamp he
read them. Persistently, untAltertntly, In.
teillRenIy, Ine one EeseANeGSA AA-N--r
Jockey. hack driver, dug int the mysteries
Of the law. Il was q three or four yesir
course through this strange night school,
but at the end Of It Charlie Curtis, at the
az. Of twenty -one, passed bis law s1hmi-
nation and went into the once a. assistart
TO the lawyer who had guided him.
Success came to him almost immediateiy'
tn. incident which ushered Il in vas the
fact that a senior associate Of his with whom
he was trying a sensational murder case
went forth on a jambores at critical
moment and the younEster was left alone
With the life Of Q man depsndent upon his
efforts. No one had expected any other fate
than conviction for the man under trial.
and % when young Charles Curtis saved hin
b. accomplished the additional feat Of EaiH-
ing fame overnight as q criminal lawyer.
THIS was forty years ago. At the are
i of twenty four this young hwyer was
County Attorney and he found himself in
the Congress Of the United States by the
time be was thirty, a Congress in which be
has served almost constantly for the last
thirty years, a Congress which has placed
upon him successfully one responsibility
after smother.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29
Attention! You Home Brewers

wood residue, this is not wood alcohol BY
any means, but the variety which used to
make opdmists of pessimitts and spend.
thrifts out Of miSerS.
Ether and chIoroform, which are 90 indis.
penssble in modern surgery, are produced
through the agency Of alcohol. Next 70
water, it is the best solvent known, and III.
manufacture Of perfumery, havorinx eI-
tracts, various medicines, yarnishes and
dyes are to large extent dependent upon
1t. But what promises to be the most i'm.
portant role Of alcohol in the future in
that Of motor fuel.
Ii Is. estimated that from the uooJ nav
annually wasted at the mill fully 800 .ooo.
600 gallons Of alcohol could b, producer
and though this IL considerably less thar
our annual consumption Of gasoline, Il can
be increased very greatly By utilizing second.
growth timber and inferior stock unit for
other purposes.
Verify, science 10 delivering the ,rood."
when II IL sble 70 convert a vssts Ike saw.
dust into food, drink and motor fuel.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29
BY William Atherton Du Puy

familiar waterhole which he had known on
previous journeys. That night as the moon
came up, the old Indian woman, Julie Pop
pin, grandmother Of Charlie, gathered him
to her and talked to him long in the native
tongue Of the tribe. She told him that she
loved him and the tribe loved him as it
probably loved and prided in no other human
being. She told him Of the pleasure that
they all would take in welcoming him back to
the reservation and having him as a part
Of its life, but she told him that a reserTa-
ton indian asleep in the sun would not
amount to much and that il be came back
to them he would become such an Indian.
and that the rest Of his life would roll p1st'
in slumberous degeneration.
In the other direction, she said, at the
other end Of the trail, lay the homes Of his
fathers people Should be take the back
track, should he return TO the homes Of the
whites, should be grow into manhood
among those whites, he, like them, would
be a white man his would be the opportuui-
ties that come to white men bis would be
greater and a better and fuller life. She.
Julie Poppin, who loved him dearly, would
rather give him up TO this possibility than
to have him and keep him a reservation
Indian. Here was a pony ready for the
saddle and it was his IL he would take the
back track to the white mans country.
AND there in the moonlight the Indian
n grandmother helped the part indian
boy saddle his pony and watched him ride
away into the darkness and into the world
which has since given him honor and work
and responsibility such as come to few men
who are to the manor born.
Charlie Curtis, back among his father
people, had a bit Of money from the days
OF bis race riding and he determined to
make It 70 as far as be could while he at
tended school. For a year or two be main
tained himself by hook or crook and delved
into those mysteries that lie between covers
and hide themselves in hieroglyphics OF the
printed page.
Then, when his money gave out, be
turned to one Of his horsy friends Of for
mer times. the proprietor Of a livery stable,
and asked bis advice and help as TO ways
and means Of providing for himself food
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

was q region quite unlike any that now re-
ey single event. 1t happened one day down
at Kansas City, the most easteriy and fur.
thest advanced toward civilization Of any
OF the communities which Charlie Curtis
visited. Yet here in Kansas City, while be
was over at the stables, Jesse and Frank
James, redoubtable outlaws Of. their time.
Swooped down upon the gate after all the
admissions were paid, held up the suthori-
ties at the points Of their revolvers and car
ried away the gate receipts.
SENATOR CURTIS showed me his
~ strong, sturdy hands and upon them GER
tain white scars which resulted from wounds
OF his youth. These scars, he said, came
from an attempt which be made to ride in
race famous renegade horse BY the name
Of Headlight, a fast q horse as galloped on
the tracks Of the West in those days, out q
horse given to blind, ungoyernable ten
dency to bolt, to dy the track, to hurl himself
and rider into any obstacle. The little In
dian boy thought, however, that be could
handle Headlight and be rode him in one
Wild race. y He rode him half around the
track, but at the turn at the end Headlight
= drove straight on, and through the fence.
over an embankment. horse and rider going
at frightful speed, were hurled. These
white scars on Senator's hands resulted
from this encounter with a renegade race
horse.
For Ave years Charlie Curtis was Jockey
Then at the end Of the season be found him
self back at Topeka, and there came to town
in the course Of its wanderings a group Of
the Indians from the Kaw Reservation from
which this boy had once brought message
Of the attack Of the Cheyennes. In this
group were a number Of blood relatives Of
the Jockey and among them was none other
than Julie Poppin herself, his full blood
grandmother, the daughter Of old Chief
- White Plume. The reservation boy was
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29
FROM CABBY TO SENATE

TUBE busiest two men in the United States
L Senate this season has been Charles
Curtis. Of Kansas. the Indian" who is
likewise the man Of al those In public life
who has the strongest, most romantic, pic
turesque and altogether marvellous career
back Of him. ~.
1 say the busiest two men, for Senator
Curtis has been holding down his own job
Of whip" most exacting Of senatorial
Assignments, and, in the absence of sena-
tor Lodge, who has been absorbed in the
international Conference for the Limitation
Of Armament over at the other end Of town
and in attempts in a literary way to burnish
the bird Of paradise Of the South Sea
Islands, he has also done the work OF
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

As combination whip and leader" Sen
stor Curtis was saying, 1T is necessary for
me to be always present when the Senate
is in session As chairman Of the Committee
on Rules try to give an hour or two each
day to the work of that body. ! am on the
Appropriations Committee, am one Of its
oldest members. and appropriations require
much detailed attention. try 10 participate
in the work of the Finance Committee, OF
which l have long been member. These
are amoug the most serious tasks OF the
Senate, and try to do them full justice.
In the mere matter of correspondence /: is
necessary that have four steDographers %
take care Of dictatiOns. 1t is a strenuous,
active life Of much responsibility. Obviously.
there was little in my early days that offered
me particular advantages in reaching this
goal. Since this journey has been possible
for me, who started so obscurely and who
had so many early handicaps, is there any
reason why any boy anywhere should not
consider that to him all thing are pos.
sible?'
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

OF view is that Of the typical American
Of the Middle West.
l led him back into the past. for l CON
celved that there must have been in the
beginnings of this unusual public man some
elements quite set apart from thes experi-
ences of the general run of us. l found
that this whip Of the Senate was born
on the plains of Kansas as long Iago as
1851 One would not have expected him
to be sl1ty-two years Of age, for there is
no gray in his black hair and none Of the
wrinkles OF age yet appear on his full face
He told me of Julie Poppin, his Indian
grandmother, the daughter of the old chief.
White Plume, who had wed with a French
yoyageur, one of those forerunners in the
Mississippi Valley of a civilization which
was in century to perform such a remark
able Transformation. And the daughter Of
Julie PopPin married a frontiersman of
English extraction by the name of Curtis.
and to this couple was born young Charles
destined to reach a high place. So 1t works
out that but one fourth Of the blood of this
Senator is Indian, although his appearance
would indicate AZ stronger native American
strain.
TT WAS about the year 1870, and Charlie
Curtis had gone back to the reservation
to live with his mothers people. Sixty
miles west of Topeka this reservation slept
in the sun, and the Indians who there made
their homes idled about, as wards of thu
Government are prone to do when relieved
of the responsibilities that were theirs when
they reamed free over the plains and main
tanned themselves from the kill of the buffalo
herds. -. g.
One day as the reservation drowsed Ian
guidly there broke upon it that rattle of
musketry which carried its members back
to the earlier days of the more active life.
The Kaws were being attacked. Like hawks
swooplng down upon a quiet barnyard had
the Cheyenne Indians out of, the west de:
scended upon this isolated band of ancestral
enemies. Charlie Curtis and the Indian
CHILDREN of his age were playing by the river
side. and he remembers well the manner in
which the ,Cheyennes, decked in plumes and
war paints, circled the camp and poured
their volleys Of fire upon it. He remembers
we'll how the stalwarts among the Kays
sprang to arms, barricaded themselves and
throughout the long afternoon kept the at
tackers at bay. '... ..
When night settled down and with it the
uncertainty of what was transpirins out in
the darkness. the great desire of the Kaws
was to send a message out through the lines
70 the white people sixty miles. away at
Topeka, telling them that the Cheysnnes
were on the warpath and praying for help.
The enemy had, however. already run Oh
all the horses Of the ,Kaws, so the journey
The Washington herald., 1922-01-29

Charles Curtis, Indian Boy, Rose from
Jockey to Leadership in Upper House
The New York herald., 1922-08-15

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ATTACK SHIPPING BOARD
Protest Alleged Offer to Meet
or Beat PriUate Rates.

Charges that Shipping Board opera
tors in the intercoastale trade are Of
fering ito meet or 10 beat any freight
rate that is made by the privately owned
lines were made in communication
sent yesterday by the American Steam
ship Owners Association to the shipping
Board The statement was drawn up
by Winthrop L. Marvin, vice-presidens
and general maraeer, and formally ap-
proved in the afternoon at meeting at
tended by the interested members.
The ship owners charges were made
in furtherGnce of their position. taken
earlier, that the Government owned ves-
sells in the coast to coast trade through
the Panama Canal ought to be with
drawn from competition with private
owners, who are already operating more
American ships than the trade is able
10 support. In the latest communication
the attention of the board is drawn 70
the "fact that since the board was first
addressed upon This subject the over
tonnaging Of the micronesia trade has
had its natural effect in the virtual
breaking up of the intercoastal confer
ence and the initiation of a rate war"
The statement further says:
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class passengers. malls and mdse Went to
foot of 18th street. Hobolsen, Nj
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Boston Aug H. to the United American. Line
with mdse. Went to pier q, Bush Docks.
Brooklyn. :,
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Boston Aug Il. to the Lamport 4 Holt Linz, nn
pier s. Brooklyn.
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