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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

She thinks that it's no place to go
And it's no place to leave.
SpilIing the Lingo
They grinned when the waiter spoke
to me in Greek, but their laughter
changed to astonishment at my ready
reply.
IT wanna roasta bif san'wich.
str-r-romberry pie, two cup skawfee,
was the simple and clear statement
made without besitation.
'Why did you put turtle in your
sisters bed?"
Because L couldn't find any frogs"
"Why does he shut his eyes when
singing?"
He can not bear to see others
suffer"
"How did you make such hit at,
J the banquet"
IT was called on for speech and
declined"
Ouch!
my hands are very soft. 1 keep
them that way by sleeping with
gloves on
"And do you sleep with your hat
on, too?"
Reversed AIibi
! Johnny's Ma: Johnny, there were
three pieces of cake in the pantry,
and now there is only one How
did that happen?
Johnny: Well, it was so dark III
there I didn't see the other piece.
"Papa, give me nickel"
"Why, son, you're too old to be
begging for nickels."
81 guess you're right papa; make
it dime"
what! Sold your car so soon?
How did you manage it?"
II remembered the line of talk the
man used who stuck me with, it,
Voice Con phone) Hello, is this
the fire department?
Lieutenant: Yes. What is it?
Voice: How far is it to the nearest
alarm box? My home is on fire and
I want to turn in an alarm.
She (archly): Promise you won't
tell anybody we're engaged!
He: L don't know anybody you
haven't told already.
Returned tourist (to his family /
Well I like Paris and Rome, but
the best part of the whole thing was
the trip over. Dent miss that, what
ever you do, if you go to. Europe
Wife: Oh, dear, I'm always for
getting.
Husband So I notice. Always for
getting this or for getting that!
Wife: Do you know, you are grow
ing handsome, hubby?
Husband Yes, it's way I have
when it gets anywhere near your
birthday
well, Art, I can tell you're
married man all right. No holes in
your socks any more"
No One of the first things my
wife taught me was how to darn
en-"
She Did Bob show you a good
time last night?
Her: Yes, he showed me very
good time, but he didn't take me
where it was.
"My hair is falling out" he told
the fresh young drug clerk.
"I want something to keep it in" +
Lets see," said the clerk, chow
will this pill box do?"
"It is said that paper can be used
effectively in keeping person warm"
"That's true. I remember a 80
day note of mine once kept me in
sweat for a month"
The boss was, tired of being con-
stantly importuned by one of the
workers for the next weeks salary,
and finally said:
"Mose, you're the limit. Say, what
would you do if you had all the I
money in the world?"
well, suh," answered Nose, studi-
ously, "de fust thing Ah'd do wild
at money would be to pay all NAH
debts-dat is, as fab as it'd co.
Mother" asked the little girl els
it true that all fairy stories begin
with Once upon a time'?"
''No, dear. Some fairy stories begin,
I am goin to attend lodge meet
ng tonight
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
Plucked From the Plains

We Know That Attitude
Dear daughters attitude toward bed
Her ma doth surely peeve:
She thinks that it's no place to go
And it's no place to leave.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
ABE MARTIN

read where one wuz deserted, but
hain't ever heard of bathin' beauty
gittin' drowned. Mr.. and Mrs. Leg
horn Tharp are on shOppin' trip
tday hOpin' t. pick up a divorce.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

"Why did you put turtle in your
sisters bed?"
Because 1 couldn't find any frogs"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

ords
Pilot and members of the crew
should be examined to insure they are
qualified mentally, physically and by
training and experience, it was agreed
at the conference.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

"Why does he shut his eyes when
singing?"
'He can not bear to see others
suffer-
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR
What we. never expect to enjoy is a
ride in a contented Ford.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
EXPERT

The modern telephone girl can not
only hear you, but she can hear you
mention numbers you never heard of
yourself.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

"How did you make such a hit at
the banquet"
II was called on for a speech and
declined"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
Ouch!

my hands are very soft I keep
them that way by sleeping with
gloves on"
"And do you sleep with your hat
on, too?"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
spiIIing the Lingo

SpilIing the Lingo
They grinned when the waiter spoke
to me in Greek, but their laughter
changed to astonishment at my ready
reply.
1T wanna roasta bif sanwich
str-r-romberry pie, two cup skawfee, .
was the simple and clear statement
I made without besitation.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

Papa, give me a nickel"
why son, you're too old to be
begging for nickels."
'I guess you're right papa; make
it a dime"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

She (archly): Promise you won't
tell anybody we're engaged!
He: L don't know anybody you
haven't told already.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08
Reversed AIibi

Reversed AIibi
Johnny's Ma: Johnny there wer,
three pieces of cake in the pantry
and now there is only one How
did that happen?
Johnny: Well, it was so dark il
there didn't see the other piece.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

What! Sold your car so soon?
How did you manage it?"
81 remembered the line of talk the
man used who stuck me with, it,"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-08

Voice Con phone) Hello, is this
the fire department?
Lieutenant: Yes. What is it?
Voice: How far is it to the nearest
alarm box? My home is on fire and
I want to turn in an alarm.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

nernet11al summer, where he would meet
his wife sld children, and where the
rivers were alive with fish and the plains
swarnaing with buffalo and horses. Inc
had Indian. on the contrary, was doomed
to a place perpetually bound Win Ice ana
snow. 4,., r,.osso6
saTheir code of morals was short, yet
comprehensive; honesty, bravery, love OF
truth love for wife and children were
the virtues that entitled them to future
happiness; while the opposite vices WouIo
lead them to everlasting misery.
After hearing about the BLACK Robes"
(the Jesuits), and believing these pale
face" teachers could show the red men
the wav to heaven, the Flatheads sent
their Invitation to st. Louis for mis-
In In Speaking of the habits Of dress Of
the Flathead tribe, Father Pallaolno
says: . 1000 dooa,+1,
clad Their garments were made OF the
skins and furs Of the animals that sup
piled them with food, the buffalo, elk,
moose. deer, beaver and the like.
Little urchins, however, often had no
other garb but what nature provided.
Even in winter some of the little red
cherubs could still be seen in our day,
plodding through slush and snow IN their
angel garments, any other raiment prov
ling to them as cumbersome as ala saul S
arTnor to young David"
The aged priest receives a lew OLD
friends in his sick room from time 20
time, but he prefers to remain alone 10
dream of other days.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

dragon said. All this goes to prove the
brotherhood Of man, every race having
passed through similar stage of devel-
opment.
1t is admitted that music affects men
tai patients. THE therapeutic value Of
a composition states Mr.. Van de Wall,
depends on the influence it has on a
certain individual or patient at a GER
tain time in his particular life or state
Of disease" OF this the doctor is to be
the judge, as was the medicine man, and
the latter was probably the more accu-
rate observer. His mind was not dis
tracted by what he had read in the medi-
cal works-his study was the patient,
and if the medicine man thought the
case demanded a drum, a drum, and not
herbs, was his prescription.
1t is barely possible that our younger
generation, nourished as it is on rythm
and not melody, might respond success
| fully to a drum or banjo treatment; but
we Of yesterday or the day before, would
likely succumb to such remedies.
In fur-trading days it was frequently
! demonstrated that medicine men could
and did cure disease by other means
than music. One Of the most noted fun
| traders of the HudsonS Bay company
put himself into the hands Of an In
dian to be treated for rheumatism. He
was immersed in ice water, and theI
given vigorous rubbing daily for lonl
] period think it was nearly a month
/ His rheumatism fed before this heroi
manipulation never to return again.
Music" so run the lines, "has charm
to soothe the savage" Has savage musi
charms to dissipate the ills Of othe
races? This is now the question whicl
remains to be answered.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
Northern Pacific
TO Aid Fisherman
I'm Catching Trout

Fishing tours for the eastern anna
teur, which will give the tired business
man all of the thrills and save him
most of the eXertiOns of a mountain
trip, have been arranged by the North
ern Pacific railway, which has turned
out of its st. Paul Offices a car to ac-
cOmmOndate 10 persons on fishing and
hunting trips. The cars have all the
facilities of a modern private Pullman
and will be used in hunting and fish
ing regions of the northwest. The COM
pany also plans regular excursions
once a week, beginning July 1.
These parties will leave st. Paul, the
cars being attached to regular trains
They will go on local branch lines tC
fishing streams in the neighborhood o.
Red Lodge for several days, then for {
days fishing on the. Boulder and hnall!
end up weeks fishing trip on the Wes
Gallatin.
These excursions will be under tht
supervision Of guides who know wher
the fish are and how to catch them, ant
can also furnish reliable fishing storie
that can be told at home without DANCE
OF discovery. An additional price Of 50
a day for the car and extra service
charged each party.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

fering from fever, ETC., while now the
drinking Of water in great quantities is
advised. Henry Ford's physician, we are
told. insists upon the drinking OF three
quarts Of water a day by his billlonalre
patient.
It is customary to ridicule or hold IN
contempt any observance OF an alien peo-
DIe. 1T is not our way" and that is SUI
dcient in itself to condemn 1t, or renoer
j. ridiculous. Only now we are seriously
trying 10 find out whether our INDIANS
were as stupid as we thought them.
The experiments with Indian music
was undertaken at the suggestion OF Will
liam Van de Wall Of the bureau Of men
tai health Of Pennsylvania, following his
Use of music, and noting It's erect IN
different hospitals for mental troubles.
The Indian medicine man served in
two capacities, as did the barber OF the
white men. when he was both surgeon
and hair-cutter. The medicine man
functioned as priest and physician, ad-
ninistering to soul as also to body. IL
was a responsible position, that merlted
respect and required preparatory instruc-
ton The Office called for man OF un-
usual intelligence, and from what we can
learn generally secured one. AS prlesC
he encouraged superstition, 1t Is true,
hut as physician he was obServant, ana
exercised much good sense. Like our old-
time country doctors, he went to heId
and forest. instead u W d VI Nl6 SOCAC 80
his rnedicaments, and surrounded their
giving with a certain amount OF mys-
terv. like our own physicians, who head
every. prescription with prayer to Jupl-
ter. and follow this with unintellig1ble
hieroglyphics, understood only by lev
aside from the initiated.
Like our doctors-or even more So
the medicine man tried to influence the
mind Of the one he treated. For this pur'
pose he used charms, music and dancing
Our own race has not outgrown the be-
lief in charms; although We laugh a
the negro who carries a rabbits foot, W.
may have a buckeye in our pocket as
cure for rheumatism.
Complying with Willem Van de Wall
suggestion, some insane patients Wer
tested with two Indian songs which hal
been arranged by Carl Busch for smal
orchestra consisting of stringed instru
nents and a flute. The twenty person
on whom the experiment was tried, hav
ing been seated and otherwise mad
comfortable, a Chippewa melody wa
played: there was an interval OF rest
then IL was played again, and still agat
with a rest between each rendition.
was believed that the music had salts
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

sixty years ago, at the personal solicita-
ton Of two tribal chieftains Of the Flat
head (Selish) Indians, who Travelled by
foot all the way from Montana through
the eXpanse of primitive wilderness TO
st. Louis, to extend "the call" Four In
dams started the perilous trip, but two
Of them died en- route.
The young priest-he had just turned
thirty-could not ignore the call. He
returned with the two courageous red
men. Since that time Father Palladino
has been the beloved padre OF several
generations of Montana Indians.
Last year the venerable priest cele-
brated the seventy-ffth anniversary OF
his ordination. He came to America when
| just a boy from a little village hidden in
the Appenipe mountains. He completed
his education in a Jesuit monastery in
St. LQuis and was later received into the
order.
Father Palladino knows the Indian as
perhaps no other living white man. He
has written number Of books, many OF
which are worthy chronicles of the early
history of the northwest. His best
known work is a volume called Indian
and White" written in 1894. Since 1917
he has been bedfast and he occupied
himself by writing.
Resents Name Given to "Flatheads"
Father Palladino resents the appelation
of "Flatheads" given the Selfish InCians-
, his Indians. He says this is wrong, since
these red men are shapely and do not
| practice the custom Of Misunderstanding
! as do the tribes farther west. The
Selfish or Flatheads were deeply religious
he says, and were responsible for the in
PRODUCTION Of white missionaries among
the red men.
r The Blackfeet, according to the ageC
5 historian, were deadly enemies Of TIN
2 Flatheads. They lived in what is nov
= northern Montana. The Blackfeet con
: sidered the Flathead buffalo hunters a
= trespasserS on their hunting grounds
which were west Of the Rockies, ant
since the Blackfeet had the advantage o
Y firearms obtained from white tradin
3 posts, they were able to maintain thei
: point, even though the Flatheads wer
; considered the best of warriors.
Father Palladino says Of the Flatheads
f when still pagans the Selfish or Flat
heads believed in good spirit and ba
n one. They also believed in future state
: of reward and punishment. With then
# the good Indian went to a country c
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
Music and Health--HOuU the Indian
Medicine Man Applied the Charm
of Tribal Music to His Wierd Rites

factory result, in arousing the hearers
from their apathettc condition.
Miss Frances Densmore Of the bureau
of American Ethnology has this interest
ing story to tell concerning the Chip
peWa melody employed. Miss Densmore,
be it known, is well informed on every
thing relating to our Indians, having
lived on many Indian reservations, and
while there collected 1000 Indian songs.
A medicine man sent drum to an old
Indian who was bedridden, accompany
ing his gift with the advice or command
that the sick man play on it. This he did
with enthusiasm and pertinacity, while
singing to its accompaniment, and dnally
evolved real song, written in four hats
by our musicians, and OF peculiar rythm,
the principal tempo being three quarter
notes to a measure. varied in one IN
stance by inserting a four-four measure,
and at the very close two-four measure.
The combination Of drum-thumptng and
song is said to have cured the afflicted
one, and it is claimed by the hospital
authorities in the case of its being used
that its curative powers were due to the
rythm.
The other melody tried out was that OF
a San Bias medicine man. While longer
than the Chippewa song, 1t was charac-
terized by the same varying rythm
swinging from two-four, to f1ve eight ano
three-fOur time. The San Bias Indians
are also known as white Indians" Thetl
home is on the Isthmas Of Panama. The
San Bias melody was used as headache
remedy, in some instances with marked
success, being Genominated soothing IL
| its effect. Whether this result was due
/ to the music or to the accompanying
words, which have been translated init
English as here given. is the question.
"I bring sweet-scented flowers and pu
them in water.
I dip cloth in water and put it aroun'
your head,
Then I bring a comb, part your hal
smoothly, and make it pretty.
Everyone comes to see you get better.
And I tell you you will never be coll
again.
Go to sleep and dream of many animals
mountain lions and sea lions;
You will talk with them and under
stand what they say;
When you wake you will be docto
like me-"
From the above it will be seen that tn
white man is not the originator OF FIRE
verse, or else it is a hold-over from hi
mot too remote antiquity, when b
! roamed the woods care-free, and dresse
in a costume of blue tattOoing.
Nor is the Siegfrid story unallied
! the San Bias song. After tasting tn
: blood Of the slain dragon, the Morse hel
| understood the language OF birds. 81
l fore that, however, he knew what tt
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
VIII Grow Pure Seed

Fourteen farmers of Teton county have
made application this year to the Mon
tana Seed association to produce grain
under rules and regulations Of that as
sociation. OF these, six are growing reg
istered Supreme wheat, two registered
Marquis wheat, one Martin oats, one
Trebi barley, one G. l., 10 fax, one New
Turk winter wheat. The Supreme wheat
is being produced by Gordon Monkman
Of Bynum, IL acres, j. A. Baart Of Fair
field, nine acres, L. G. Passmore Of Farm
ington, six acres, Garnet Mcdonald of
Pendroy, 20 acres, D. E. Fleshman, Dut-
ton, acres, ]. r. Jones, Pendroy, so
acres, L. G.. Passmore, Pennington, 90
acres Marquis wheat w. d. Jones, By
mum, 13e acres Marquis wheat, William
Reiquam, Collins, four acres of Martin
oats, j. E. Hodgkiss. Choteau, seven acres
of Trebt barley, e. Mitchell, Dutton, three
acres Of New Turk winter wheat.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

Out of the shades of the vanished
West. five surviving heroes of the dime
novel days have been called to rally on
the plains they helped to conquer.
Diamond Dick, Pawnee Bill Deadwood
Dick. CAPTAIN Lutte North and "The Evil
Spirit of the Plains will assemble at
Norfolk, Neb., this month for what may
be the last tryst Of the frontiersmen.
Age has brought weight to the 1.-the
figures which once swung easily into the
saddles, and has dimmed the eyes which
gagged with precision the targets OF their
rifles. And the years have brought new
demigods to the generation which views
Indian fighters and express riders as less
real than TRANSATLANTIC hiers.
Famous Five
But the famous i've are to be heroes
again for a day, as leaders OF welcome
Norfolk plans for members OF the Ma
tional Editorial association when they
stop at Norfolk on a tour to the Black
vention at Omaha.
Exploitation of the frontier figures in
dime novels of the pioneed era was based
in each instance upon some actual ex-
ploit.
Diamond Dick, now DR.. Richard Tan
ner, Norfolk physician, made a record
ride OF $500 miles in 1873 without a
change of horses, bearing an important
message and its answer.
! Deadwood Dick, today a Black Hills
rancher, won scars and spurs as pony
express rider and Indian fighter during
the Black Hills gold rush Of 1876.
Last living leader Of the Oklahoma
boomers is Pawnee Bill, who as Maj.
Gordon w. Lille now owns large buf-
falo ranch at Pawnee, Okla. He was the
last partner of Buffalo Bill.
! W. F. Carver was nicknamed by the
Indians ''the Evil Spirit of the Plains, "
because Of his rifle prowess, before he
and buffalo Bill organized the first wild
uyac hn nc l1e
greatest horseback rifle shot of all time
He is bringing from his ranch near Hold
rege, Nebr., $4,000 silver plated saddle
priced reminder of his show days.
Captain Lutte North headed the PawneC
scouts, organized to protect construction
workers from Indians during the building
! of the Union Pacific railway. At 81 ht
lives in Columbus Nebr
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
PAGE FOUR
(By MRS. NJ. E. PLAsSNTANN)

VT HAS been announced that the Liv-'
ingston Kiwanis club recently OBJ
Il served a Music and Health week, the
connection between the two subjects
being closer than might be supposed, or
the Livingston Kiwanis recognized. MUSIC
has long been used to cheer those VINO
are i'll in mind or body; it is now oelng
tested in order to ascertain its curative
effects. Not alone is the music OF ma
tions calling themselves civilized em-
ployed: the songs of the Indian medicine
men are now under observation In Lne
Manhattan state hospital of New York
City, according to recent report In the
Minneapolis Journal.
Medicine, throughout the ages, has
been largely a matter of experiment;
what was deemed healing at one period
being rejected the next and what was
forbidden by the physicians OF yesterday
is prescribed today.
Not very long ago it was held that
water should not be drunk by those SUI
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
Diamond Rather killed

Evidence Of high water in Great Falls
tourist park was one large diamond rat
tlesnake, driven out from his home some
where along the river by high water and
hoated in The snake was killed by an
employe and was on exhibition at the
U. S. Rubber company offices on First
three and one-half feet long and had
nine rattles.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

In a quiet little room in st. Patrick's
hospital at MissOuia,l overlooking wide
plains that once teemed with Indians
and buffalo, lies a wasted, thin-faced
man, calmly awaiting the. final sum-
mons of a Master he has served for
more than ninety years. Now and then
his eyes shift from view of the plains
to little crucifiX hanging on the wall,
and his lips move in prayer.
He is Father Lawrence Bruno Palla-
dino, S. j., the last of that picturesque
little group of pioneer Jesuit mission
aries whose struggles in pushing through
the frontiers with the torchlight Of CIV
ilization fill so many interesting pages
Of American history.
AS he gazes over the broad vista, now
dotted with prosperous homes ano
streaked with cement highways and steel
rails, he seems to dream of the days
when he walked there among the Indi-
ans, teaching them the simple truths o1
Christianity.
Called to Montana Sixty Years Ago
Father Palladino came to Montana
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

The. cooperative egg marketing ven-
ture for western Montana launched at
agricultural economic conference at Mis-
soula last winter is progressing, accord
ing to Miss H. E. Cushman, poultry spe-
poultryrnen and farmers for the output
OF 10000 hens. The organization viii
start marketing operations as soon as the
output OF $4,000 hens is assured. Or. w
B. Walker Of MissouIa is one Of the lead
ers IN the effort.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
Wool Clip Brings S5c

The JEFF Doggett wool clip approximate
ing 1000 heeces was sold at Fort Logan
q few days ago for Soc to Arthur Ward
OF Helena, buying for the Color Woolen
Mills, Of Providence, r. I. This ia the
top price for recent sales In this vicinity.
Harriet Tooley, Of Hariowton, was among
the wool buyers here this week.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

A gold nugget, weighing 81 ounces,
valued at 81 ,026 was taken out at the
head Of Nevada creek, near Stemple, by
Fred Mead, veteran prospector and Ar
thur Woods, according to a report
brought to Helena a few days ago.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
TO MEET
PLAINS HEROES
NORFOLK, NEB., PLANS UNIQUE AS
ERING OF SCRIBES

Diamond Dick, Pawnee Bill, DeadwOOd
Dick, Captain Lutte North and "The
Evil Spirit of the Plains" Will Join in
Welcome to y. d. A.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17

Some troubles are due to the fact that
most Of us think we amount to more
than we do.
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
LAST OF JESUITS
NEARING The END
FATHER LAWRENCE PALLADINO HAS
LIVED SIXTY YEARS AMONG
INDIANS OF NORTHWEST

Came to the Flathead Country When
Very Young Man; Was Close Friend and
CO-WOrker of Father Ravalli and other
Western Montana Pioneers
The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
uOL dIluOuuCtu MS plans.
VIII Guide Dawes

F. Clatterbuck of Big Arm was in Ro-
nan recently. MIR. Claterbuck is a guide
and stated while in Roman that he has
into the mountains this summer, among
them Vice President Dawes and DR.. VIII
Mayo.