Evening star., 1936-08-09

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placed under their heads FOR pill.
lows. = = . -
They are now all resting side BY
side, like one happy family, at the
lower end of Prairie Grove Cemetery
northwest Of the city. The enchant-
ing click Of the festive revolver, they
no longer hear. The sighs of the Kan
sas zephyrs are unheeded. The sport
i've grasshopper. perched on a head
board, chewS his cud and chants his
harvest song without the fear of God
In his heart"
The notoriety of Boot Hill under
went revival in 1924, when the Ro-
tarianS of Kansas held their State
convention at Dodge City. DR.. c. H.
Simpson of the local club conceived
the idea Of giving out-of-town guests
a real thrill by planting few con-
crete skulls in the old graveyard and
having boot toe protrude here and
there above the ground. His artificial
corpses were named after celebrated
pioneer characters.
Most Of the visitors thought that they
were seeing genuine souvenirs of the
wild and woody days of Bat Masterson,
wild Bill" Hickok and Bill Tolgman,
Their amazement and horror so am
used Dodge City residents that they
left the synthetic cemetery intact and
thousands of tourists, who subsequent
ly visited the hill, went away with the
impression that the bodies of the old
time gunmen still lay there in petrifled
state.
RUFFALO hunting in 1s36-Buf1alo
are still hunted in the West.
Though the hunt Of today draws
sportsmen and sportswomen from
every part Of the world, 1t is a mere
ghost Of the old-time buffalo hunt,
when Indians drove their mustangs
among the stampeding herds and
shot their arrows into the sides of as
many bison as they could overtake.
Today's hunt Is held generally in
January. It's setting is House Rock
Valley, geological pocket on the
edge Of Kaibab National Forest, in the
Grand Canyon district of Northern
Arizona.
The herd is the only one in the
United States which is not fenced in,
though the natural barriers constitute
an adequate check to prevent straying
When the time comes for the an
nual hunt, to keep their numbers In
check, the attendant decides on which
animals are to be killed and points
them out to the hunters. Each hunter
stalks the animal assigned him in any
way he desires. While horses and
even automobiles have been used, most
sportsmen prefer to approach their
quarry on foot. AS practically all OF
the people permitted to take part in
the slaughter are expert shots. the
animals are not caused to suffer un-
duly. Women are allowed to partici.
pate and they bring down their animals
with as much skill as their masculine
associates. Every State and nearly
every part of the world is usually rep.
sented among the hunters. Each
year. from 800 to 1000 hunters apply
for permission to hunt the 8 ol
10 buffalo marked for slaughter. One
principal and one alternate are chosen
to dispose Of each animal. When q
principal Is unable to attend, his
alternate takes his place.
IOLD-TIME church singing-When
New England was first settled
there were no hymn books available
TO the church congregations, 80 each
church had . precentor. whose duty II
was to lead the singers by reading
the Psalms, line at time, and set
ting the tunes.
The congregation knew at first
about 20 Psalm tunes. AS people did
not have hymn books in which the
tunes were written down beside the
words which properly went with them,
the precentors were sometimes unable
to prevent the congregations from
shifting from one tune to another.
When the loud-voiced individuals who
started the crowd off on wrong track
were identified. they were fined. The
court records of Massachusetts, refer to
many instances OF this sort. One re-
port from Worcester reads as follows:
Deacon Hart. the Chorister, one
Sabbath day in setting the Psalms, at
tempted to sing the Bella tune. Your
memorialist, being used to the old
way, did not know the Bella tune
from the Pax tune and supposed that
the deacon had aimed at the Cam
bridge short tune and had set it wrong.
Thereupon, this petitioner raised his
voice In the Cambridge short tune and
the people followed him except a few
who sang the Bella tune. So, there
was an unhappy discord and the
blame was all imputed to your poor
petitioner and John Hooke, Esq, as
sistant, sent for him and fined him."
THE Blue and the Gray-Every
April 26. a group Of Southern
women decorates the graves Of the
Confederate dead buried at Films
Point National Cemetery, ~ miles
northwest Of Salem, N. ]. The
monument, the only one erected
on Northern soil to the soldiers of the
South, rises 80 feet and commentaries
2,436 soldiers who died at Fort Dela-
ware, Pea Patch Island.
Ten thousand Confederate prisoners
were crowded into this fort. most Of
them taken at the battle of Gettys-
burg. Cholera broke out and Is per
cent of them died.
War ended and Spring came. On
RESORTS.