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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-06
THREE DIE SUDDENLY
FROM NATURAL CAUSES
Coroner hewitt Issues Certificates
Today in Deaths Reported
in District.

Certificates of death from natural
.auses were issued today by Coroner
J. Ramsay hewitt in three cases where
he persons died suddenly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-06

tons of the Standard Art, Marble &
Tile Co., of 334 c street. The latter
concern, through Attorney Simon
Freshman, complained that the de-
PENDANT labor organization was en-
gagged in dispute with the union
stone masons' and bricklayers as to
which of these organizations should
set the artificial stone which is han
died by the plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-06

yesterday afternoon while visiting at
SIS N street. She died before physi-
clan could be summoned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
How 1t Started
By JEAN NEWTON
THE THRESHOLD"

THIS word which describes a door
l. step or an entrance to house or
to a room and is used tiguratively TO
indicate the beginning or entering
upon any experience as ''the threshold
of life." ''the threshold of career"
has very interesting story.
Specifically, the threshold is a plank
or stone or piece of timber which lies
under door, the sill, the place over
which the first step is taken on en-.
tering. 1t comes to us-and that is
the strange part of the story-from
the Anglo-SaXon 'perswald" which,
from "perscan." signifies ito thresh y"
Tracing the connection of the word
in it's modern sense with it's origin, we
find that threshing, the beating out of
the straw from grains. has for ages
been the first step in the preparation
of the harvest for market.
(Copyrlght)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

was killed, and he gave to q mission
airy who had been adopted into his
tribe complete account of how he
planned the battle which ended so dis
astrously for the soldiers. This in
volved placing dummy figures in front
OF the lodges in the village to deceive
the soldiers. After thus setting the
stage he retired to the hills with his
warriors, having first sent the women
and children to place of safety Be-
fore the soldiers could recover from
the surprise at finding the village de-
serted, Sitting Bull fell upon them
from the rear and destroyed most Of
them.
t5) Sitting Bull visited West Point
in 1859. there met Cadet Custer, and
such warm friendship sprang up be-
tween the red man and white that Sit
ting Bull made Custer his 'blood
brother" Accordingly. the day before
the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Sit
ting Bull called council. told his war;
r1ors that they were to fight Custer
the next day. but that since Custer
was his "blood brother" they were
not to harm him. And then the cav
airy leader foiled the Indians kind
purpose by committing suicide when
he saw that all was lost!
From the most authoritative sources
of information available. the patent
aoSuroltleS OF these statements can be
disposed of as follows:
>
g. ~ Sittlns Bull was full-olood
s,ouA' norn on the 1rano river. ,. L..
aoou, ioS4. the son OF supchler OF
lne nunkpapa, named Four horns.
Mno changed ms name 10 sitting Bull
wnen ne mace meolclne In 1897. AS
d poy sitting Bull tine younger) was
,iIst khoWn as Jumping Badger. when
ne was fourteen ne accompanied his
C ta.ner On the warpath against the
lows ana counted MS hrst coup on
ene ooov or talien enemy. On The
ae.urn OF the party MS rather made
least' gave away many horses and
annouhceu tnae ms son hao won the
fisht 10 De known by his name.
CD This statement is too ridiculous
on the face of it to warrant denial. AS
for his ability to speak French, 1t is
possible that he picked up some words
and phrases from French Canadian trad
ers and others with whom the Sioux
came into contact, but more than that.
the story of his linguistic ability is
undoubtedly fictitious
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
CAUL.S

THE superstition with regard to the
l. caul-the membrane which some
times envelopes child's head at birth
is by no means extinct. 1t is still
by many supposed to Indicate good
fortune for the child so born and by
many to be an infallible charm against
drowning, for the person who can get
possession of one and wears it about
him. Now and then cauls are adver-
tised for sale. What their market
price is now is uncertain; but it is
said that "In the Seventeenth GEN.
fury sailors used to pay from $50 to
$3.50 for one"
II was born with caul," says Dick
ems in the beginning of David Cop
perfield," and relates how his caul was
purchased by an old lady in the neigh
borhood whom 1t preserved from
death by drowning; the fact that she
never in her life ventured on the wa
ter being merely incidental.
The caul superstition can be clearly
traced back into remote history. 1t is
a survival of the worship of the
Egyptian goddess Isis-the caul is the
"veil of Isis" The word itself is a
form of the old Gaelic "call," veil.
Just why Isis should have had an es.
pecial connection with the water and
those who ventured upon it is triae
hazy; but there is no doubt that she
did and a ship was carried in the pro-
cession in her honor.
II is rather remarkable how often,
in investigating modern superstitions,
we run across traces of Isis-worship;
it is q reminder of the persistency
with which her cult introduced itself
into Grecian and Roman communities
in spite of the opposition of priests
and lawgivers.
70 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
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eOGOTy Martha Martin

"Not rude at all, Billie Brownie"
said Mother Warus. mot rude at all.
Now my Mr.. Walrus is one of the
grandest and most superb of crea-
lures.
He's a Walrus after my own heart
and, of course. why wouldn't he be?"
Mother Walrus laughed a great,
deep laugh.
"Of course" she repeated, "why
wouldn't he be, considering he is the
Walrus of my own heart?
''He weighs three thousand pounds,
and l weigh two thousand pounds.
"Ah. Mr.. Walrus isn't one of your
skinny gentlemen. No, he is fat. good
and fat, and full of wrinkles, for the
fat all wrinkles up, as there is so
much of it.
''There is plenty Of fat to spare. you
see. and it just folds up and wrinkles
UP and let's you know that there is
nothing stingy about the fairness
it's all there-penty of it!
His two ivory tusis are the most
beautiful / have ever seen.
I'VE are slow creatures when we go
over the ice, but we're good swim
merS."
'Gracious," said Billie Brownie. ITO
think Of weighing three thousand
pounds"
ITS majestic thought. isn't it?"
said Mother Walrus, with Walrus
smile.
"Ah, yes" she continued, we're not
small or dainty. We go in for size
and little else.
I'VE have so much fat that there
isn't much room for brains. We're not
very bright. In fact, we might almost
be considered stupid.
but we're as sociable as sociable
can be. and we're all very friendly
with one another.
"And. as I said before, though we
are so friendly with one another, our
own family always comes first.
''I'm not much of fighter. will do
no one any harm.
"But-if any one should come after
my baby-then. it is very different! I
should be so excited then, to protect
my big little one, that I'd be afraid of
no one and I'd fight. fight, fight.
1.-THE Mother Walruses will fight for
their young. They are afraid of moth
ing, nothing, nothing if their young
are in danger.
creatures" ended Mother Walrus, as
she beloved goodby to Ellie
Brownie.
(Copyrightl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

tached to Sitting Bull, the medicine
man. doing this. Diplomats and states
men of other nations who bring about
wars are usually far from the firing
line.
AS for commander In chief OF the
Indian forces" there was none In that
battle An Indian chiefs authority
over his followers was only nominal
and OF all the thousands of Sioux
(Oglala, Hunkpapa. Brule, Miniconjou
Sans Arc and Sihasapa) and Northern
Cheyennes on the Little Big Horn that
day. few. except possibly the members
of Sitting Bulls immediate band OF
Hunkpapa, would have acknowledged
his authority. The Indian leaders who
were principally responsible for the
tactics which resulted in the defeat Of
the Seventh cavalry. were first and
foremost, Gall Of the Hunkpapas. and
then Crazy Horse of the Oglalas and
Two Moons of the Northern Cheyennes
(5) So far as there is any authentic
record, the first visit Sitting Bull ever
paid to the East was, in 1858 when he
Red Cloud of the Oglalas and Spotted
Tail of the Brules went to Washington.
where they were received by President
Grant. If he visited Custer at West
Point or ever had any contact with
that officer, it is indeed curious that
Custer himself in his writings. Mrs
Custer in hers (notably her books
Boots and Saddles" Following the
Guidon" and "Tenting on the Plains"
or any of the accurate and painstak-
ing biographers of the leader of the
Seventh, never have mentioned the
fact So this incident can be dismissed
as pure fiction, as can Sitting Bulls
instructions that Clusters life should
be spared. The Custer suicide" story
has been repeatedly disproved by mer
who saw his body soon after the
battle
In stating that Sitting Bull was
more noted as medicine man than
war leader, it should not be sup.
posed that he was lacking in ability
as the latter, even though there has
been some dispute on this point. Col.
James Mclaughlin, agent on the
Standing Rock reservation where Sit
ting Bull spent his last years. has al
ways maintained that he was q phys
ical coward. and others have pointed
to his actions at the Custer battle as
evidence of that fact. DR.. Charles A
Eastman, the noted Sioux author. as
the result of his investigations among
his own race, has recorded several in
cidents of Sitting Bulls valor in bat
tie. and it is reasonable to suppose
that Doctor Eastman could come near,
er getting the truth about Sitting Bull
than any white man.
So final summing up of Tatanka
Yotanka-and perhaps some of the
entrants In the South Dakota poetry
contest may voice it in their verse
would write him down as brave war
rior in his youth. at a later period
the most sagacious and powerful med.
icine man the Sioux ever had and an
embittered "caged eagle in his last
years. From the white mans point
of view he was malcontent; from
the Indians. patriot. These were
the words of Sitting Bull once when
he was being questioned By an i'm
Fortunate American newspaper man:
Il am" said he, crossing both hands
upon his chest. slightly nodding. and
smiling satircally, "a manr'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

school educational classes seventy In
mates received special certificates
School Life.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
x1ssaass y y Il y
For Meditation
100000.
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
TRIPLE LEVEL OF LIFE

THE stone is dead. 1t cannot com
1 municate with anything that sur
rounds it. 1t has no correspondence.
A stalled automobile is on dead
level. Its intrinsic value has not de-
creased; but its horse power is nil. An
automaton is on the dead level. The
flowers are on higher level. They
make contact with a larger world OF
correspondence. They derive benefit
from the sun, rain and soil. Such con-
facts are necessary for their develop
ment. The bird lives still larger
life because it has a larger cor
respondence. Nature has provided it
with larger area of communication.
Put the bird into vacuum and inn
mediately it goes back to the dead
level, because it's nerve of corresponds
ence has been broken.
The stone on the dead level is acted
upon from without. The bird on the
living level possesses from within its
power of communication. You may
succeed in teaching dog a trick. but
the trisk dies with the dog. He cam
not teach it to another dog. The li1
ing level is circumscribed by very de5.N
mite limitations.
The. aspiring level knows no such
limitations. The aspiring level is the
realms of ideals, purposes, burning
ambitions. This mate desire to aspire
has been denied to all creation but
man. He possesses intelligence. the
brute only instinct. Emerson wrote,
MAN, thou art palace of sight and
sound. carrying in thy senses the
nights and mornings, the summers and
winters, carrying in thy brain the
geometry of the city of God, and in
thy breast all the bowers of love and
all the realms of right and wrong"
On the aspiring level. purposes
should be high enough to give a con-
structive value to life and deep
enough to guarantee very real salts
faction-for, ''The hand can never
execute anything higher than the char
acter can inspire"
tG. 1927. Western Newspaper Union.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
ABOUT THE WALRUS


0XXTELL tell of our ways" said
w Mother Walrus. "Yes, we'll let
them know about us"
Billie Brownie was wearing his
warm, warm coat which Old Man Win
ter had given him. 1t was made out of
the same material that Old Man Win
ter had his wardrobe made of. for no
matter how cold it is, it is never too
cold for Old Man Winter.
He is protected from the cold by his
regular winter clothing! But he won't
tell anyone just how it is made.
And Billie was wearing the shoes
and the cap and the earmuffs Old Man
Winter had given him. too.
"There are many of us about, as
you can see." said Mother Walrus.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

nOnOrlDg great leader
in a new way. Sitting
Bull, the Sioux. is to be made the
subject of poetry contest to be con-
Quoted by Pasque Petals, South Da-
kota poetry magazine. G. N. Herried
of Aberdeen has offered a cash prize
for the best 40-line poem on Sitting
Bull, to be submitted to the magazine
before December of this year. f'From
my viewpoint, Sitting Bull was one OF
the truly great among the many no.
table Sioux of the Dakotas. in spite
of the fact that he has been misun-
derstood and maligned." Mr. Herried
has declared.
There are many students of history
who will confirm Mr.. Herried's esti-
mate. So far history's verdict on Sit
ting Bull has been handed down main
~ by white men who saw in him only
tr0ublemaker, irreconcilable to the
fate imposed upon his race by the
white men under the name of civili-
cation. If ever the red man is called
upon to hand down verdict, he will
probably find in the fact that Sitting
Bull was irreconcilable kind of ra-
cial patriotism that can only be ad-
mired. misguided though it may have
been.
1t is doubtful if the name of any
other Indian is so well known to the
average American as is the name of
this warrior and tribal leader of the
Hunkpapa Teton division of the great
Sioux or Dakota confederacy. And a
corollary to that statement is that it
is also doubtful If there have ever
been told about any other Indian so
many wild tales, and if there has ever
been included in them so much sheer
bunk as have been told and written
about Tatanka Yotanka (Tatanka-
Buffalo Bull; Yotanka-Sitting) Here
are few of the choice bits of mis-
information that have at one time or
another been given out as fact, and
as such have been accepted by some
so-called historians:
"a Sitting Bull was a half-breed,
and after receiving good education
from French-Canadian priests, returned
to his people and went back to the
blanket"
t2) Sitting Bull was graduate of
West Point, who gradually drifted
back into savage life He had various
solid requirements, could speak French
like a Partisan, was a close student
of Napoleon's campaigns, etc, etc.
CD Sitting Bull was a Mason, knew
the Masonic ritual and lodge work as
we'll as the emblems and on at least
two occasions saved the lives of white
men, captured by his warriors. because
they wore Masonic emblems
(4) Sitting Bull was commander in
chief of all the Indians at the Battle
of the Little Big Horn where Custer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
Man 0utdoes the Birds

Factory-made wings have eclipsed
the feathered species. Lindbereh's
nonstop flight was 3.610 miles. The
distance flown b. Chamberlin and
Levine is estimated from $500 to
4.400 miles. The longest nonstop
flights of birds have been those of
Alaskan plovers from the Aleutian is.
lands to Hawaii distance of 2.4OO
miles, and the annual migrations of
golden plovers from Newfoundland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
Educating ConUicts

Nearly 100 prisoners each year dur
ing the past four years have enrolled
in courses offered to inmates of Rock.
view penitentiary by the engineering
extension department of Pennsylvania
state college. Ten courses were given
during the year just ended. and at
recent final exercises of the night
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON
A NJ ERICAN INDIAN DAT

which is observed on the
third Friday in Septem-
Der in many states, has
an added touch of inter-
est this year because Of
the announced plan for
honoring a great leader
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
Valuable Man

Sweet Thing-Oh, are you really an
OIL driller? l didn't suppose fat
man like you could do that kind OF
work
Driller-The company pays me q
special bonus, lady. You see when
we strike oil suddenly. all have TO
do is stick my leg down the hole. and
she's capped.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
GA w s
~ By Viola Brothers Shore

FOR THE GOOSE
THE first time kid does some'm
bad might not be his fault. But
the second time is always yours.
The kid that gets scalded drinkin'
cocoa'll blow on an ice cream soda.
You can centrally get bread for the
askin' pearls without
FOR THE GANDER-
Formerly it was considered good
dope to make friends with a girls
mother. Nowadays girls is so con-
trary it's almost as much as your
chances is worth. to have a girls
mother put in kind word for you.
Besides months of cultivatin' girls
mother won't prove half as enlight-
enin' to man as five minutes tall,
with kid sister or brother.
However, it don't hurt to toss the
old lady few kind words now and
then. Because if they don't like you,
they got way of hangin' around the
dining room, with the French doors
half open and crampin' your style.
But of course If you gotta lotta
Jack you can count on your money
to make the mere go.
tCopyright.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

and Nova Scotia to the Leeward is
lands and the northeastern coast of
South America a distance of 1.7oO to
1900 miles
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

The young lady across the way says
she sees letters of credit advertised
for persons thinking of going abroad
and if they can't afford to pay cash,
she should think they'd better stay at
home.
t@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09

But, though we love to so about in
big groups, we have nice family
life and are devoted to our own.
1--WE are great, huge creatures,
aren't WEI" D.
Enormous" said Billie Brownie.
"If it wouldn't be rude" he added,
after a moment, 81 would like to know
how much you weigh"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-09-09
Waterloo Repeated

Hobbs-I understand Tom and his.
wife just had their first quarrel. Was
it serious?
Dobbs-very. He gave in 3 W.
established precedent.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-18
WelI-Trained Horses

visitors to circus or fair are al
ways much impressed by the clever
acting Of the horses which prance
around the ring, and rise up on their
hind legs and dance to the music of
the band. In fact, so highly have
horses been trained that at the circus
OF Cortz Altdorf, famous continental
ring, a horse made number of bal
loon ascents alone. The ancients arc
said to have been great masters of
horse training. The people of Italy
taught their horses to dance to the
music Of the pipe. In the Thirteenth
century there was shown a famous
rope-dancing horse, while the artists
of the Fourteenth century found
plenty of scope for their talents In
depicting the different methods enl-
ployed in the instruction of perform
ing ponies and horses, one of which
was taught to tap his forelegs and
hind legs on board like man play.
ing drum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-18

decided to economic In the mat
ter Of paper hanging. thinking that /
would save the paper hangers bill and
put the money into preferred trotting
stock. So I read household hint,
which stated how one should make
and apply paste to wall paper, how
to apply the paper. and all that. The
paste was made by uniting flour. wa
ter and glue in such way as to Sc
cure the paper to the wall and yet
leave 1t smooth. First the walls had
to be "sized." However, l took a tape
measure and sized the walls.
Next 1 began to cook the paste in a
large milk pan. 1t looked very repul-
sive, but it looked so much better than
it smelled that / did not mind. Then
i put about cents worth of it on one
roll of paper and got up on the chair
to begin. My idea was to apply it to
the wall mostly, but the chair tipped
and so I papered the piano and my
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-18
Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons.
WNU Service.

door, and a shot from Tracy's gun
fired by his partner nicked the yell
low man in the leg-down he went.
Wentworth, the room was so full
of smoke couldn't see the middle
at all. And there was the slim fellow
on one side-gun in hand and watch
ing the room with eyes as green as a
cat's-stooping and helping Dave with
his left hand to crawl behind table
that was knocked over.
Il stepped forward to the end of
the bar and put up my hand. Boys
1 says, I call this fight fit Whoever
you are, partner I calls out to the
slim fellow. put up your gun. You've
done the job and done it right Then
the spectators that hadn't spectated
crawled out from under the chairs
and tables and began to peek in at
the doors and windows. This has
been a pretty fast celebration said,
loud as 1 could. But / want to tell
you all something. This place is closed
for the night; finish up somewheres
else There's q young woman-well
known in this town for the good was
in her and more particular for the
bad was in her-lying dead by her
own hand upstairs-let us have
peace!"
Doctor Carpy had finished. He sat
silent. Wentworth spoke. ITS kind
of Cq1riouS thing" said he ref1pctivnlv
"but I came up here to Sleepy Cat
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-18
Az, That's the Rub

The word 'scrape," meaning a diff
ficulty or some unfortunate predica-
ment, has several synonyms. as rub"
a squeeze" a "pinch," ETC.. all of
which are younger than the term
"scrape," and of slightly different in
depreciation. Getting into a scrape"
came from Scotland, and the express
sion is as old as the ancient and
honorable game of golf. In Scotland
a rabbits hole or burrow is called a
'scrape." When players ball rolled
into one of these holes 1t was mani
testify impossible to play it, and the
rules Of the game recognized this
fact by naming but slight penalty for
the player He merely "got into a
crape."-Chicago Journak
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-02-18

Unless above himself he can erect
himself, how poor a thing is man =
S. Daniel.