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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
TRACE WHITE INDIANS
TO SCOTCH ANCESTRY
Now Orleans Folk Have Legend Of
an Early Settlement In Darisn
Tales Of EIopement.

New Orleans, LATHE recent dis
covery of so-called white Indians
on the isthmus Of Panama by the
Marsh expedition has unleashed itl
legend In New Orleans, versed In the
romantic lore of Central and South
America.
An expedition of Scotsmen. some
say. settled in Darien In the autumn
Of 1908 by authorization of the
Scotch parliament. This expedition,
numbering some 200 persons, In
cluded four ministers of the Church
of Scotland. who went along to estab-
lish Presbyterian organization. and
1t is told that because of their ascetic
tendencies some OF the sturdy Scotch
families rebelled against them and
were banished from the settlement.
Later, 1t Is said, others of the set
tiers were driven away by the Span
iards, and 1t Is thought likely many
Of them fled into the jungles and re-
manned. This. II the superstition Is
correct, might account for the white
Indians.
But the San Bias tribe of Indians
have a different story. Many years
ago. they say, so long ago that no
enc can recall the date, a band of
white men came to Darien and set
about to rob the red men of their
wealth. In their explorations. how
ever. the paleface visitors Incurred
the displeasure of an evil spirit and
soon they died
Their spirits, SO the story goes,
being accursed. we're driven into the
fever-laden Jungles. where they
stayed forevermore. That IL the leg
end Of the San Bias tribe.
According to their oldest chief
tains. no San Bias could intermarry
with another race. That law still
holds. and so strictly IL It observed
that even now white man visiting
their villages Is carefully watched
But there are tales Of Pocahontases
even among the San Bias, and they
say that some Of the women of the
tribe ran away with paleface men,
whom they married, only to be slain
later or their babies killed a few days
after birth.
II Is thought improbable by these
historians that the white
indian is Of Spanish origin. for the
men of Spain were never referred to
BY the indians as white men. but as
'jinetas," after the Spanish horse
man," This failure of the Indians TO
-efer to the Spaniard as white men
While that term was applied to other
trangers Of the jungles is considered
iolid ground for the theory Of those
hat believe the new-found tribe
from the Scotch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
PAYNE WANTS NAME
CHANGED TO MCKAY

Lee Payne, of Elk City, wants his
name changed TO- John Mckay, ac-
cording to petition filed Wednesday
at the County Auditors office. Rea-
son given in the petition is that
Payne and his wife were married at
Hamilton, Mont, under the name of
John Mckay in 1922. Applications
for changes of names are very un-
usual in Idaho county.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
Barriers Wife's 81, 900 Art
Work for His Funeral Costs

Syracuse, N. VA painting valued
at $1,000, entitled The Shepherdess
and the Sheep" II to become the prop
erty OF Syracuse undertaken az the
result Of the death recently Of Ben
jamin Q. Frazee, eIghty-seven years
old, Of Baldwinsville, after he had
been struck by an automobile In that
village.
Two years ago Frazee arranged
with the undertaken here that on his
death the painting. the work of Mrs.
Frnsee, now dead. would pay the fu-
neral expenses.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
Nz&UQzldTc1tzldGu1hW
~ '' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Best pen of four fat pigs. One pack
age Of Watkins stock tonic, P. A.
Rustemeyer.
Best Guernsey Calf. One package of
Watkins stock tonic. p. A. Rustic
meyer.
Best Pastry. One bottle of vanilla, p.
A. Rustemeyer.
For first Prize Duroc Gilt. $500
cash, II. A. Minis.
Livestock Record and Report. $500
DR.. ]. ID. Shinnick.
The price of success never fluctu-
ates.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
Every Yard Guaranteed

b TOT any reason whatever Everfa Wash Fabric fades.
WIN De refunded not only for the purchase price of the
or all making costs of the garments as well This
applies to every Everfast weave and color '' sDA'
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
Send them scampering off to school
IN fresh, bright clothes made from
EVERFAST WASH FABRICS

iIHE modern way to promote the
health and comfort of children is
to dress them in wash clothes all
year round-in fall and winter as
well as summer. And how well
they look when you make their
little frocks, suits and dresses of
Everfast Wash Fabrics These
pretty and practical materials
never fade. Tests without num-
Der have proved them fast to
sunlight, fast to washing, fast to
everything.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04

Skirts will be shorter this fall
Women will be free to kick about tbs
election results.
AS goes Main Street, 50 goes the
Nation.
A broker is a fellow who helps to
get you broke.
Some folks eat to live so they can
live to eat some more.
We always enjoy the speech Of
politician after he quits.
When it comes to getting married.
often the best man" wins.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04

Our assortment of Everfast
Wash Fabrics contains materials
tor children's aprons, rompers,
suits and dresses. And for your
self there are charming weaves
tor dresses and frocks for work
or play; and also lovely fabrics
tor table runners, bureau scarfs
and luncheon sets. All can be
washed and boiled and they will
not fade. And you may choose
from glorious range of alluring
colors.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
PUBIC SALE

The Public Auction of Geo. w. Will
kin will be found on another page of
the Free Press Look it over and
arrange to attend. 1t is Thursday,
Sept. IL.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
WILL HAVE SALE

S. B. Deuel., who lives a little ov-
er a mile out of Grangeville, on the
Mt. Idaho road, will have a public
sale on Satur ay, Sept. 20. His bills
will be out soon and the ad will ap-
pear in the Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
Attention Farmers

have a carload of smutless
wheat for seed on hand, and
are ready 10 fill your order.
Vollmer-C Clearwater Co.
S4-tf
advertisement.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04

Germany has now been given to
understand she must pay a dollar
down and dollar forever.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1924-01-04
DaddYs t
FairYTale
POINTS
81 MARY. GRAHAM. BONNIE.
A-a vtSrtst hsvpAPtl UNION ---

Billie Brownie had asked Mother
Nature If he could call on a porcu-
pine and hear something of the ways
Of the porcupine family. He asked her
to give him the power that day and
evening to understand %porcupine talk.
And Mother Nature agreed.
So Billie Brownie went forth TO the
dark woods and there he met a por-
cupine.
Are you all alone?" asked Billie
Brownie.
"All alone" said the porcupine. 81
like to wander about my myself. I'm
not SO very sociable. None OF us are,
you know"
I'm not really sure whether l know
that or not" said Billie Brownie. II
don't know much about p%orcupines. /
may as well be quite truthful and adj
NIT my ignorance"
I'm not surprised at it," said the
%porcupine.
Billie Brownie didn't think that was
a particularly polite speech, but then
he imagined that the %porcupine's
mother had probably never told him
to be polite.
But the %porcupine explained him
self after n moment.
ut is not" he said, because | think
you are an ignorant creature for | do
not. | feel sure you are filed with
wisdom and that you know much about
much, or a great deal about a great
deal, or however you would express it.
But there are few who know much
about p%Orcupines.
"Now and again we squeal a bit or
growl, but mostly we believe in being
silent.
Our mothers never have to say
Hush to us. We are so quiet by ma
ture. And our mothers don't meet
each other and chatter about the ways
of their children. They, too, are so
quiet.
"We sometimes wander where there
are camps. We are a little more So
ciable then and we rather like to see
people camping out In the great woods.
We like to eat vegetables and bits Of
bark and twigs and fruit and oh, dear,
how we do love salt!
Everything should be favored with
salt and we even like salt all by It.
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A look OF alarm spread itself over
Bream's face.
"Jane Hubbard! Oh, say. have @
hearth"
"She's a very nice girl"
"She's SO darned dynamic. She
looks at you as If you were a giraffe
or something and she would like to
take a pot at you with a rife"
Nonsense! Run along. Get her
to tell you some of her big-game hunt
ing experiences. They are most In
teresting."
Bream drifted sadly away.
II don't blame Miss Hubbard" said
Sam.
What do you mean?"
Looking at him as IL she wanted
to pot at him with a rife. / should
like to do 1t myself. What were you
saying when he came upT'
"Oh, don't let's talk about me-. Read
me some Tennyson."
Sam opened the book very willingly.
Internal Bream Mortimer had abso-
luetly shot TO pieces the spell which
had begun TO fall on them at the be-
ginning OF their conversation Only
by reading poetry, ii seemed to him,
could 1t be recovered. And when he
saw the passage 81 which the volume
had opened he realized that his luck
was in. Good old Tennyson! He was
all right. He had the stuff. You
could send him to hit in a pinch every
time with the comfortable knowledge
that he would not strike out.
He cleared his throat.
"Oh let the solid ground
Not fail beneath my feet
Before my life has found
What some have found so sweet;
Then let come what come may.
What matter II l go mad.
I shall have had my day.
Let the sweet heavens endure,
Not close and darken above me
Before / am quite quite sure
That there is one to love me. . :"
This was absolutely topping, 1t was
like diving off a ~springboard. He could
see the girl sitting with a soft smile
on her face, her eyes, big and dreamy,
gazing out over the sunllt sea. He
laid down the book and took her hand.
There Is something" he began in
a low voice, (Which | have been trying
to say ever since we met, something
which | think you must have read In
my eyes"
Her head was bent. She did not
withdraw her hand.
Until this voyage began" he went
on, II did not know what life meant.
And then l saw yos! II was like the
gate of heaven opening. You're the
dearest girl l EVER met. and you can
bet I'll never forget :" He
stopped. I'm not trying to make It
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self or things that just have a salty
flavor or taste.
Sometimes we stay Il long time at
the top Of a tree, especially when it is
cold. We keep to the top of q tree
then as people will stay indoors. l
was n Of four little porcupines and
1t was not so very long before l start
ed away from home to look out for
myself. We are independent creatures
and are not little and helpless when
we are born.
mo, we are quite gOod-sized then
and we are born with all our splendid
quilts. l suppose you know how in
correctly these quilts and what they
can do have been spoken about?'
II think I know what you are going
to say" Billie Brownie nodded, "but
l would like to have you tell me again
just how it is you act with those quilts
of yours"
1--WE swing Our great spiny tails
about and strike at the enemy and the
quilts stick into them. But we do not
throw our quilts. We have to touch
the creature with them. So many think
we throw our quilts and that is quite
Incorrect"
THAT is about the only thing / have
known about your family" said Billie
Brownie. otherwise you have told
me ali new and important facts which
/ shall be glad to hand on to others in
terested in points about pOrcupines."
SWELL" said the porcupine. 1.-THE 9TH
er day l was pretty mad. Some one
said. OF what good are porcupines?'
THAT was enough to make anyone
angry, l think. l might as well say,
OF what good are people?' People
live and eat and have their own habits
and their W ways just as p~orcupines
have.
"Of cours otr flesh has been eaten
and that has been considered good,
but that is not the way I'd speak OF
myself as being of any good.
II would say, Ladies and gentle
men! Porcupines are of great good
because they are. This is the simple
%porcupine explanation. AS we are not
great takers we do not use many
words, and as we don't talk much we
don't have to think much and that Is
as satisfactory an explanation as l
have thought up for all Of you"
"Well," said Billie Brownie, II think
that is a good one. 1t satisfies me at
any rate. And now, that the night 10
almost over, i must be off, for / have
an engagement at dawn"
"Good-by," said the porcupine.
"Your engagement at dawn doesn't
sound so interesting as we porcupines
love the night time best Of all"
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rhyme" he said apologetically. "Bil-
lie, don't think me silly . . ]
mean If you had the merest
notion, dearest l don't know
what's the matter with me . f..
Billie, darling, you are the only girl
in the world! l have been looking for
you for years and years and l have
found you at last, my soul-mate.
Surely this does not come as a sur
prise to you? That is, / mean, you
must have seen that I've been keen.
There's that ID Walt Mason
stuff again." His eyes fell on the
volume beside him and he uttered an
exclamation of enlightenment. ITS
those POEMS" he cried. 1--WE been
boning them up TO such an extent that
I'm trying to say is. Will you marry
me?"
She was dropping toward him. Her
face was very sweet and tender. her
eyes misty. He slid an arm about her
waist. She raised her lips to his.
Suddenly she drew herself away, a
cloud on her face.
Darling" she said, I've a confes.
sion to make"
"A confession? You? Nonsense J"
IL can't get rid Of a horrible
thought. l was wondering if this will
last"
Our love? Don't be afraid that II
will fade / mean f.
Why, it's so vast it's bound to last
that is to say, of course il will"
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IIIIIIIWUWIIII]

flashes, insomnia, etc., and I am
pleased to testify to the wonderful re-
suits I obtained from the Vegetable
Compound. l heartily recommend it to
any woman and l will be pleased to an
swer any inquiries that might be sent to
me through the publication of my testi-
monial. Mrs. H.. L. BRADFORD, 100
Armstead Street, Phoebus, Virginia.
Consider carefully Mrs. Bradford's
letter. Her experience ought to help
you. She mentions the trials of middle
age and the wonderful results she OBJ
tanned from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
If you are suffering from nervous
troubles, irritability, or if other annoy
ing symptoms appear and you are blue
at times, you should give the Vegetable
Compound a fair trial. For sale by
druggists everywhere.
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was q small deck which seemed TO
have lost its way and strayed up here
all by itself. 1t was the deck on which
one could occasionally see the patients
playing an odd game with long sticks
and bits Of wood-not Switchboard but
something even lower In the mental
scale. This morning, however, the
devotees of this pastime were appar-
emily under proper restraint, for the
deck was empty.
This Is jolly" he said, sitting
down beside the girl and drawing a
deep breath Of satisfaction.
Yes, l love this deck. It's SO
peaceful
Its the only part OF the ship where
you can he reasonably sure OF not
meeting stout men in tlanneis and nar-
tical caps. An ocean voyage always
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1924-01-04
CHAPTER iV--Continued.

"Sorry! The SUI is shining bright
or than 1t has ever shone In the his
tory Of the race. Why don't you get
UpT'
Nothing will induce m 10 get up"
"Well, go a regular buster and have
an egg for breakfast"
Eustace Hignett s%huddered.
"Do you think / am an ostrlch?"
He eyed Sam sourly. "You seem dew
fish pleased with yourself this morn
ingl"
Sam dried the razor carefully and
put 1t away. He hesitated. Then the
desire to confde in somebody got the
better of him.
'SThe fact !s," he said alphabetically,
SIN In lover
ain love-" Eustace Hignett sat up
and bumped his head sharply against
the berth above him. HAS this been
going on long?"
"Ever since the voyage started"
IL think you might have told me-"
said Eustace reproachfully. II told
you my troubles. Why did you not let
me know that this awful thing had
eome upon your
"Well, as a matter OF fact, old man,
during these last few days l had a
notion that your mind was, so to speak,
occupied elsewhere
"Who is she?'
ooh, a girl I met on board"
Don't do 1t ~ said Eustace Hignett
soleinnly. "As a friend l entreat you
not TO do II! Take my advice, as a
man who knows women, and don't
do itl'
"Don't do what?'
S'Propose to her. | can tell by the
glitter in our eye that you are in
rtending to propose to this girl-prob-
ably this morning. Don't do 1t.
Women are the devil, whether they
marry you or jilt you. Do YOU realize
that women wear black evening
dresses that have to be hooked up in
q hurry when you are late for the the
alter, and that, out Of sheer wanton
mslignity, the hooks and eyes on those
dresses are also made black? Do you
realize Z"
~Oh, Ire thought 1t all out"
sAnd take the matter of children.
How would you like 10 become the
father-and q mere glance around you
will show you that the chances are
enormously in favor OF such a thing
happening-of a boy with spectacles
and protruding front teeth who asks
questions all the time? Out of six
small boys whom l saw when / came
on board, four wore ~spectacles and
had teeth like rabbits. The other two
were equally revolving in different
STYLES. How would you like TO be-
come the father
ssTlnere is no need ID be indicate"
said Sam stiffiy. "A man must take
these chances"
"Give her the miss" pleaded Hig-
nett. "Stay down here for the rest
of the voyage. You can easily dodge
her when you get TO Southampton,
And. IL she sends messages. say you're
I'll ane can't be disturbed"
Sam gazed at him. revolted. More
man ever he began to understand how
n was that n girl with ideals had
broken OFF her engagement with this
man. He finished dressing, and. after
n satisfying breakfast, went on deck,
1t was. as he had said, a glorious
morning. The sample which he had
had through the portfolio had not pre-
pared him for the magic of IL. The
hip SWAN In a vast bowl of the pur-
est blue on an azure carpet licked
with silver. 1t was a morning which
fmpelled a man TO great deeds, q morn
ing which shouted 10 him to chuck his
chest OUT and be romantic. The sight
Of Billie Bennett, trim and cleaning
q 4 pale cream sweater and 2 whit
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WILL YOUR"

Mrs. Horace Hignett. world
famous writer on theosophy. au-
thor OF THE Spreading Light"
etc, etc, arrives In New York on
a lecturing tour. Eustace, her
son. is with her. Windles, ances-
trail home Of the Hignetts, Is his.
so her life is largely devoted 10
keeping him unmarried. Enter
her nephew. Sam, o OF Sir NAL
laby Marlowe, the eminent Lon
don lawyer. 1t is arranged that
Sam and Eustace shall sail to-
gether on the Atlantic the next
day. Enter Bream Mortimer,
American, o of a friend Of an
i~nsufferable American named
Bennett. who has been Fostering
Mrs. IIignett 20 lease Windles.
Dream informs her that VIII
helmina Bennett Is waiting for
E~ustace at the Little Church
Round the Corner. Brean him
self is in love with Wilhelmina.
Mrs. Hignett marches off 20 Eus-
faces room. The scene shifts
10 the Atlantic at her pier. Sam,
heading for the gangplank, meets
a SlOrlOuS, girl Win
whom he instantly falls in love,
though her dog bites him. Eus-
tace appears. heart-broken. IL
appears that his mother had
''pinched his trousers and de-
Iayed the ceremony, w~hereupon
Wllhelmlna had declared the we'd
ding off. Sam is pushed over
board. has n desperate struggle
In the water with another swim
mer and ~rejoins the Atlantic at
quarantine. The red-headed girl
is Wilhelmina Bennett-"Billie."
She halls Sam as a hero and In
PRODUCES Dream. Eustace, n poor
sailor, keeps TO his berth. He
doesn't know Billie Is on board
Sam makes warm love.
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Copyright by George II. Doran Co.

| skirt had the effect Of causing Mar
lowe to alter the program which he
had sketched out. Proposing TO this
girl was no: a thing to be put off till
after lunch. 1t was a thing TO be done
now and at once. The finest efforts
OF the finest cooks in the world could
not put him in better form than he
felt at present.
Good morning, Miss Bennett"
"Good morning, Mr.. Marlowc."
isn't IT a perfect day."
"Wonderful :"
1T makes all the difference on board
ship If the weather is fine"
Eyes, doesn't ltY"
Shall we walk around?" said Billie.
Sam glanced about him. 1t was the
time Of day when the promenade deck
was always full. Passengers in CO.
cOOns OF rugs lay on chairs, waiting
in q dull trance till the steward should
arrive with the eleven o'clock soup.
Others, more energetic, strobe up and
down. From the point Of view Of a
man who wished 10 reveal his most
sacred feelings 10 a beautiful girl, the
place was practically Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street.
Its so crowded." he said. Lets
go onto the upper deck"
"All right. You can read to me. Go
and fetch your Tennyson.'
Sam felt that fortune was playing
into his hands. His four-days' ac-
quaintance with the bard had been suf-
iclent to show him that the man was
there forty ways when 1t came to writ
ing about love. You could open his
collected works almost anywhere and
shut your eyes and dab down your
finger on some red-hOt passage. A
proposal of marriage is a thing which
Is rather difficult to bring neatly into
the ordinary run of conversation. 1t
wants leading up to-. But, If you once
start reading poetry, especially Ten
nyson's, almost anything Is apt to give
you your cue. He bounded light
heartedly into the stateroom, waking
Eustace Hignett from an uneasy doZe.
Now what?" said Eustace.
Where's that copy Of Tennyson you
gave me? / left it-ah, here 1t is.
Well, see you later!"
"Wait What are you going to dor
'Oh, that girl l told you about" said
Sam, making for the door. "She
wants me to read Tennyson to hG on
the upper deck"
"~Tennyson?"
Eyes"
ION the upper deck?'
That's the spot"
"This is the end" said Eustace Hig-
nett, turning his face to the wall.
Sam raced up the companionway as
far as 1t went; then. going out on
deck, climbed a flight Of steps and
found himself In the only part Of the
ship which was ever even compare,
lively private. The main herd Of pas
sengers preferred the promenade deck,
TWO layers below.
He threaded his way through a maze
of boats, ropes and curious-shaped
steel structures which the architect Of
the ship seemed TO have tackled on at
the last moment In a spirit Of sheer
exuberance. Above him lowered one
of the tunnels, before him a long,
slender mast. He hurried on, and
presently came upon Billie sitting on
a garden seat, backed by the white
roof of the smokeroom; beside this
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1924-01-04
An Inconsiderate Man.

"We've simply got to call q halt" he
said. "We can't go OF living beyond
our income forever" Il knew you'd
do something to spoil the day for me-"
she replied. 'This is the first morning
for a week that l haven't had a head
ache."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Cohens Ahead of Smiths.

The Cohens are ahead Of the Smiths
in the city directory Of New York.
The book contains 1881 pages and
weighs eleven pounds, four ounces.
There are nearly $500 Cohens and
Coins and approximately $500 Smiths
and Smyths. There are 233 Abraham
CohenS.