Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-23
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Deserted Village

Deserted Village
Three miles outside Athens, in Calhoun
county. Michigan, is the main street of
deserted village" You follow the ruts
which lead off the highway to deeper ruts
through the fields, and when you come to a
struggling line of rude log cabins-black,
Starred by the weather, and tainted with de-
cay-one or two sheathed shacks Of the mod
ern type neatly painted but diminutive
farmhouse, and the remains Of a totem pole,
you are in the heart of a village that was. In
the neat farmhouse lives Chief Sam Man.
doka, relice of a long and ancient line Of
kings, and in the rest of the dwellings live
about thirty of his people, remnant of the
once powerful tribe of the Pottawatomies.
The people of Chief Mandoka were a num-
erous race in the days when the wretched log
cabins were built, and they lived in the man
ner of the wild things which they hunted.
When it was ordained that they live i'll a
more civilized manner, and for the sake of
their health in more sanitary dwellings, they
did so, and sickened and died-all but a
hardy few.
Thus, hardly twenty miles from city
where a great sanitarium forwards the SIM
pie life for people whose digestions have
been ruined by GENERALIZATION, race has
nearly died in the process Of being civilized.
Chief Mandoka, however, is nothing daunt-
ed. Having recently celebrated his fifty
eighth birthday With children and grand.
children about him in condition of com.
Portable prosperity, he is ready to look upon
the world and his people with contentment
and quiet happiness. He is wiry and
rather youthful chieftain, and, having kept
intelligently abreast o. the time, 1ntelligently
remembers the past.
He was born near Athens, and obtained
his schooling there. Also in the days of his
boyhood there were wigwams and council fires
in the woods about Athens, and strange tales
Wero told in the freight which touched the
history of the white man very lightly but
laid a cruel and ruthless hand upon the his
tory of his own people. There were tales
of the days when Heman Baker Of the settle
ment at LIE Roy frightened the ponies Of
some Indians whom he passed in the night
so that squaws were thrown and papoose
was badly hurt
Then the ominous world, "Kinnapoo
chemokaman" were muttered by the Indians
about the settlements and, since they meant
nothing less than "kil the white man." He
man Baker prepared to move with his family
to other parts. Only long and wordy con-
c,aves brought peace among the settlements
and persuaded the warriors to remove their
war paint. And even then a mutual conf
dence was slowfin returning.
The most melancholy tales Of all which
the boy Mandoka heard and remembers very
clearly were the tales Of the great immigra-
ton, when a paternal government decided
tndC the req man SHOULD move WSSIWdIu
Then families were browken up, and q
great panic seized the Indians Some fled to
Canada. Among those who marched into
Kansas with the blue coat guard were some
of high spirits, who made their escape to re-
turn again to the homely settlements Of
Michigan, where they found the Ehite man
was a friend indeed. About seventy-fve set
tied in Athens, and quietly remained in rude
huts but in perfect happiness. It remain
ed only for the blessings of civilization to
make them comfortable, unhappy and half
as numerous
France Accepts
The French government has accepted the
proposal of the British government for an
international inquiry into alleged Turkish
atrocities. The acceptance will be delivered
to the British foreign office in London by
Colonel De Staire the French ambassador
In it's note the French government an
nounces that it has instructed General Pelle,
the French high commissioner in CONSTANT
nople, to colIaborate with his British and
Italian colleagues in the Turkish capital.
Mount PeIee
Madame Pelee, reputed goddess of Kilauea
volcano thirty miles from Hilo, Hawaii, is
raising such commotion in her firepit that
scientific borings into the volcano, which had
been scheduled to commence this week. have
had to be postponed for two months.
According to Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr vol
canologst in charge of Kilauea observatory,
''all indications point to most sensational
flows from the crater
The lava in the lake Of fire has risen
more than seven feet this week and is with
in less than fifty feet of overlooking the
mouth of the pit. Flames play day and
night over the surface of the molten lake
and molten fountains active.