Capital city courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1893, October 08, 1892, Image 6
c. v 3I- CAPITAL OPT COUKllfiR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1892 I1BRASKA CONSERVATORY of MUSIC Academic School for Girls, UMtln, Nsbrasfca All llranehesof MmIc, Art, Elocution, Literature, and Languages, TMwfel by a Fnoiilly of Hlxtren Instructor. Knch Teacher an ARTIST AND SPECIALIST. Tfcs only Conservatory west of llonlon own M IU own tmllillni Hint furnishings. A re- V limn for lnilv luilimt'. T to 1) 00 nrr term ol 10 wi uk. 1 union iium ror uniniogun nnn leneriii iiuurma.io O. a HOW KM,, Director. PHOTOGRAPHER lln lit ureal ox peine rilii(-tl lil ()l.l) hinlriinwiilK uitli ii new Hnlli' ntyrr, direct trout I notion, mill Is ihiw better tirrpitrvil tliHiiever to do lino work, fioin 11 locket up to life sire. Open from IOii lit. In I p. m.Humlnvs. Studio, iai4 O street. CIPIM $200,000.00. American i Exchange National Bank. IK. Raymond, rreildcnl. Burnlinm, Cashier. Liwli Gregory, Vice President I). O. Wins. AituCnihlft Lincoln, : Nebraska Capital, - $250,000 ami Dinxlorst (Mm-: John II. Wright. Pre. T. K. Hunders, V.P. J. II. Mil'lny, fusilier. P K Johnson, DPI mi. Tim Ooehrnli. K HHIier, T W l.nwcry, W I l))tnii General Itnnkln Huslness TratiKnctcil Collection 11 Specialty. DR. T. O'CONNOR, (BucccMor to Dr. Charles Hunrlno ) Cures Cancers Tumors Wens and Khtulns without 'he use of Knle Chloroform or Ether. Office ).CW O Strert-Owvn block. UNCOLN NEB. Ladies' and Children's air Catting and Shampooing a Specialty , SAM, W EST ERFI ELD'S BURR f BLOCK. Santa Fe Route 1 itcllsonjopekai Santa MR TawPopalar Route to the !T,),tllv'. Coast Through Pullman atj tourist Sleepers WE K?niJ! City an.d. SAN niEGO. LOS ANGELES, and SAN FRAN CISCO. Short Line Kates to PORTLAND, Oregon. Double Daily Train Service Between City and PUEHLO, COLORADO SPRINGS, and DENVER. Short Line to SALT LAKE CITY. The Direct Texas Route aM Trains Between Kansas City and Galveston. The Short Line Between Kansas City and Gainesville, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Austin, Temple, San Antonio, Houston, and all Principal Points la Texas. -Tke Only Line Running Through ths OKLAHOMA COUNTRY. The Only Direct Line to the Texas Pan-Handle. For Maps and Time Tables and Informa tion Regarding Rate and Routes Call on ' or AdJress K. L. PALMER, Passenger Agent, 13t$Farnam Stmt, 4gfya6i AN JNDLAN VJLLAdF OUR OOnnfiSPONDENT VISITS ST. HEGIS RESERVATION. Order .M it 1 11 In 1 11 nl Without A.l.liinif Court , Potlrn or t;iii.liitiU-lloi I luithum I.l, Yln-lr P.iitut Int-iils 11 n AiiuiKiiiiriil A l'riiieroii'iiiiiniiuii Spi-clnl CorrMioiiiliii('i. St. JlmiH, (jitobec, Oct. 0. A qitult i old village, leading from a point of l.iii . Itotweon tlto St. Lawrence nml Hi. Il rivers, mill straggling thenci) uln ij; !'. (ho St. Ilogls lunik for about lb" ill timet) of it mile. Tito Ikminoh of log or friitnt', In inw nlnr lines, or, itioro irregular still, i down without regard to any lino wliu ever. Some of tho houses lmvo font s In front and somo lmvo nouo, Tim itiilu street, lurgoly overgrown wltlt grass. winds twintliiKly, giving ' odd olTeot. A HT. HF.OI8 VIKW. , A most primitive and peculiar village K in, with handsome women, boatitl fully formed, liuslly weaving basket I uisiito mo oieti doors, titeir uaru eye gnzlng curiously as you iihhs hy; othet women walklitK with clustio step nlonn tho road, with dark colored lilntikets draped with raro effect over tint head and about the face, and enveloping al most the entire tlgum in their folds; dniK visau;od men hero and there, some wol; Iiik Iu the Kitrdeus, others preparing logs for being stripped into splints foi basket work. Tho village is partly within Canadii nml partly within the United States, hit', no differeitco is in any way apparent. No 0110 indeed can point out the exact boundary, its or tho lino of iron tssts set up to mark the division as agreed upon by tho treaty of Washington some have been destroyed, and one iu tho heart of tho villagu has been willfully misplaced. Somu 2,500 Indians there aro iu the village and the Canadian and United States reservations, of which tho village is part, ami this number is about equally divided between the two countries. Iu neither reservation is there a court, a policeman or a constable, yet uniformly good order is maintained. For tlto .United States portion there ! an annuity of $.1,000 or $0,000, and after schools and roads aro paid for there i.i loft somo two dollars per head not n very great annual sum. But tho Indians do not usually get evou the two dollars, for the govern ment hecs to it that all sorts of fees and commissions and traveling expenses and investigations aro paid for out of the reservation fund, It is unfair to make tho Indians pay for all this, because what is due thelitis interest on the sum for which they sold lauds to the govern ment, and the money theroforo belongs to them us a right and not a charity. Basket making is the principal oc cupation of the village, the men doing tho first rough work and the women and girls completing it. They become ninrvolously expert, uud many of their productions aro elaborato uud thor oughly artistic. The making of hi crosgp sticks is also quite an industry. Fishing is tho occupation of quite a number. Great eels uro caught and splendid sturgeon, while even the fit.it vanishing muskullunge is still from time to time the prizo of the more fortunate. Somo vegetnblo produce is raised with in tho limits of tho villago itself, but in winter all tho fences of this tract nro burned up, leaving u tusk of fence build ing for tho curly spring. Such nro tho community ideas that if a man doesn't euro to burn his fenco himself his neigh bors quietly remove it and burn it for him. Naturally enough, therefore, it is seldom that there is such nn omission on I tho owner's part. In tho reservations outsido of tho vil lago considerable funning is carried on, and quito largo farms tire by somo fami 3 lies operated. .Money, tliougu, Is neces- scurco, even among the most sue- and so it is but few who can afford expensive agricultural imple ' nients and farming machines. I Still somo of the farms nro very cred Iitable indeed. Especially is this the caso on the "Glebe lands" on tho fur titer side of tho St. Regis rivor a large tract of laud, over n century ago grant- ed to tho priests and cleared by them, 1 but which long since ceased to be theirs. I Tho mission church stuuds prominent I ly on tho point between tho two rivers, I and Is u quaint old gothic structure of I fitittia wttll II full B111tkWk inumn nuiwtln.l . t , .... . ' .' t, . take tlio place or nn earlier uud ruder structure. I, ! Tho priest's homo, nlso built in the lft8t century, stands close by a massive . ' . ' "1U, walls 3 to UK feet thick All the expenses of tho mission are borne by the Indians themselves, al though money is scurco among them. That tho town is what it is, is tho re suit of the tireless and self do voted en ergies pf its missionaries. Tho mission wns begun over a century and a quarter ago, and tlto continuous records of tho church aro still bacredly preberved for nil but a very few of the earliest years. Old mid yellowed with ago uro the rec ords, uud there is a quiet pathos iu read lug entry after entry of 11 missionary: then his last; then, in a strange hand, the record of his death uud burial; uud thou, continuing, the entries of his sue cessor. The oldest page is dated the 2d of February, 1702; "1, the undersigned, have buptizod with the ceremonies of the church a girl, born two days befoie.of Mary Jane Niikomi. r.n Abenaki, whom C10 god motlitr named Margin et Thetese," and the signature U simply "Gordau, J, S.," the Initials of the Society of Jesus. Hero itinl tlieto iu various x)lnt about tho reiniirkahly treeless town and treeless mutinous nro lofty wooden crosses, Intro and imposing, to which solemn church processions nro made on certain festival di-n, and one cross standing on the summit of u low ttee lens ridgo behind tho (own, stands out In strikingly hold tellef. The preaching is in tho Mohuwlt tongue, ntiil the chi..li is always well filled. Tho '.onttniinity is very rclt glous, and ovm Pitch ustloiiotieguhtrlt ntteiul sen leu do not fall to go to tin lirst I'ommtiniou; to marry only und. t 3hure.li siinctloti; to call for tho pili when dying, nml to with him to stun over their grave. Children, Instead of receiving tl names of their imrents, nro given sou new mimt) mid one which litis u iti-.n ing, ns, for example: "Ho bus u ipm' queer voice." "Ho carries llowers." lieuullfnl night." "His face is us loiu tut any others." The homes are usually simply fit lilshed. In some nro (iiitlnt, well kepi old fashioned articles of furniture. 1)1." forltig from tunny other Indian coin inuuitles, they do not caro much f" flowers, nor do they have any strlkit. Iiatretl for weeds, Tho moral staudaid Is higher than I miiny other reservations which uro mm in contact with the whites, and theit nro not nearly so many cases of disomi catthed by contact with white dopruvitj There aro more deaths from lung ills cases than from any other cause, an tho nvcrngo duration of life is good Many live to tho ago of eighty or ninoh years. A pathetic- reminder of nuclei t beliefs is the restlessness of tho sick ntn. their impatient desire to be borne frou. house to house, to remain for a time at each, hoping thus to find the spot when evil ititltience cannot reach them, urn. no matter how ill they aro none will tako medicine when the wind bluwf from the eastl Tho oldest man in the village is ovci ninety uud very white a descendant ol n white child captured by tho Indium near Albany long ago, when tho French ruled iu Camilla, and who grow to ma lurity among them. Many a foray did the St. Regis Iudiapt iu times past make into tlto Atluntk stutes. Originally of the Iroquois con federation, uud for tho greuter part Mo hawks, they took part, through being Catholics, with tho French rather than, as tlid most of the Iroquois, witlt the English, ami no longer considered as part of tho confederated tribes became a now people and turned their rilles and tomahawks uguiust their former broth reu and iillies. Anatakarias, "Destroyerof Villages" such is their grim designation for the president of tho United States, founded on uuforgetablo memories of past wars, past cruelties and past reprisals. Tho St. Lawrence flows by tho reser vation witli magnificent sweep and splendid majesty, while forty miles dis tant across level intervening plains ris the deep blue Adirondncks solemnly ini posing. RoilKllT SJIACKLKTUN, Jit. THE ORIGINAL "YANKEE DOODLE." Flfer IIiikIi .Mimlicr tlio Motliil for Wll- lnl'H Ci'lebriUi'il PHlutliiK. S pre I ul Correspomlcucn. OliuillTON. O., Oct. 0. Thoiisnnds of Americans are familiar with Artist Wil lurd'H celebruted painting, "Yankee Doo dlo," with its three Revolutionary vol unteers with fife ami drum, culling out the dofenders of American liberty. When Artist Willard painted that pa triotic picture ho took for his original Revolutionary hero Hugh Mosher, the famous fifer of tho Western Reserve. Mr. Mosher paid tho last debt of nature at his homo iu this villnge ut tho ripe I old ngo of seventy-threo years. His funeral was attended by hundreds pf old soldiers whom ho had delighted with his fife, and to whom his death wns re garded as Uttlo less than (.personal loss. nuon MOHitF.n. Mr. Mosher was u Isirn fifer, ns wero his father and grandfather before him. lie was a native of Ohio, and wns born in Luke county in 1810. His grandfather served iu tho Revolutionary war, his father in tho wnr of 1812, and ho com pleted tho family war record by nearly two yours' service tu tho Union iiriuy during tho civil wnr. Each of tho three generations furnished a fifer iu the armies of their country, uud tho grand son refused to lay his fuvortto lustra- , ment nside when peace wns restored, t For years he had been a familiar figure ut public celebrations, reunions, politi cul gatherings uud county fairs through out the Western Reserve, and had liter ally fifed his way into the affections of tho iwople of this part of tho country It was ut otid of these gatherings that tlio attention of Painter Willard was drawn to Mr. Mosher, who was in duced to serve us the model of the Revolutionary flfer. For muiiy years Mr. Mosher did little eUo thuu visit surrounding towns, iu re sponse to urgent requests, undnoguther lug of old soldiers could bo voted a really successful and enjoyable one that did not count among those present tin venerublo old fifer of Brighton, Fbkdbiuu K. Kinnry. PROFESSOR WADKIN3 ADVERTISES, Ami II Ii Oiitlnl Upon by HnTnn.1 Itral 1. ml Iiii. When Wndklns lived in Thompson street he iihi'd to hrag about IiIh nklll In white washing and ealehululiig, particularly In the shinies of blue. So they culled him "professor." A week ago lie moved far up tiitvi: to (VMl Weil One Hundred mid 1'litrty-fiTnl. nUtiV n..u .-uAi'. three rooms for himself. .Mrs. Wallace, the. colored housekeeper, looked liltn over Very dellh riitcly. "What's jo' nanii r" she finally asked. "Professor Wailklns," was the giuvo answer. "Huh!" Heedless of Keorn, the professor soon es. tnhllshed friendly relations with the house keeper, and she agreed to keep his loom In older. A tew days later theso friendly relations were dissolved when he an nounced his Intention of advertising for n housekeeper. Tliu advertisement was subjected to re vision and apieared on Sattiiday morning us follows; Ilnusiki'iNr A liuly wishing to liecomu n hotiM'kci'pcr for a f'elitleiniiii of kihmI tainlltiir, apiOy after t o'clock p. in., Profivnor Wiul kins. KID WestOno lliuulreit mnl Tlilrly-llict street. Harry Mc.Miiniis, who works In One Hundred and Thirty-first street, opposltu tliu iiofessor's house, read the notlee that morning. He could hardly believe his eyes. He read It again and again, and even went so far as crossing tho street to com pare the Lumbers. Then he went into Moouey'H stable ami said to the group that sat there; "Say. fellers, get on t' this, Profes-or Wndklns Is nilvcrtlsln fer a housokeeper. Jest hang round 'ml you'll see fun," mi: panoki) iiim. Tho fun began promptly on time. They could see the professor standing near the window of Ids room Hhaviug himself. After llnlslilllL' (lilt nlKirntloii In. i-ntnlii-rl his hair very carefully, and then spent ten minutes In tying his scurf. That over, he lighted a cigar and sat at the window. At I o'clock a short, stout woman of middle age came down the street. She reached the professor's house, glanced at the number and then at u slip of paper In her hand. Then she went in. I .ess than a minute later the door opened, and out she came blazing with wrath, strode up the street at full speed and was lost to view. This woman was hardly out of sight when another came down the street. She was a matronly looking woman, with blue eyes and a face, according to McManus, "that wouldn't tcnro it sparrow." Just ns ho reached the door Mrs. Wallace emtio out of tho house. McManus had taken up a position in the adjoining doorway ano overheard the following: "Does Professor Wndklns live heror" "Yes'in." "Wh what kind of a man Is hot" "He's a colored num." (Grin.) "Wh-whatl" "If you mean Mlstah Wndklns, who call, himself professor of calcimlnln and white- washln, and who wants u housekeeper, I ' can inform youthitt he's a colored pcrMiti," J said the colored housekeeper, with gre..t tllgnity. "D-u-u-uo you (swnllowlng invisible lumps) menu to say th-th-thnt n nlgget p-p-nut that advertisement in tho news paper?" "I said is colored person" (with mora dig nity). "Walt till I get a policeman." Tho matronly woman strode off qulvci ing with rage, hut she never came back. For tho next two hours women continued to come old women and young women tall women and short women, lean women and fat women, blonds and brunettes; some I poorly dressed, some clad in stylish splen dor. Not one of them boasted African blood. And every one of them was turned back hy the housekeeper, who guarded the honor of her house. All this time Professor Wndklns sat at his window unconscious of the storms that raged iu so many female breasts. About 4 o'clock lie cntne down stairs. McManus called to him, and the pro fessor came dejectedly across tho street. "Heen some ladles hero to see you," Mo Manns said roguishly. "Wh-wherof Wli-whenf Wh-wh" "Don't get excited, old man. They learned you wero colored and they went away." "That's tough, ain't Itf" exclaimed the professor, with wounded vanity. "If I'd a had ii chance to talk to 'em" "Don't say a word," hurriedly inter rledly Interrupted McManus. "There's two more coming down the street." Sure enough, two women were approach ing. They were tall and rather good look ing, and the nearer they came to the pro fessor's house the deeper grew the expro 1 slon of disgust on their faces. The pro- fessor crossed the street, stroking his goatee. He saw that one of the women held a piece of u newspaper Iu her haml. He dotted his hut and bowed. ' McManus can best tell what follows; I "The perfesser had a dleer on, and when be bowed I thought I'd die latighlu. Se we. 'Ladles, V ye lookln fer Perfesser WndkliiN?' 'Yes.'se. they. 'That's me,' sei the perfesser. 'You Perfcwwr Wnd klns,' sea one o' du ladles. Be perfesser grinned 'ml sen; 'Yes, dat's my name. I w'y. lookln fer a nice housekeeper.' Den one o' de ladles kinder screamed, 'ml she up wlilder umbrella and hanged de per fesser oir de dleer. De perfesser made a break, but de udder lady gisldlm hy de coal ami grubbed him hy de t'roat. Den de llrst ludyshe batiued Mm all over do head 'ml she Jest lambasted d' life onto' de poor nigger. De lady not had hold ttv 'lm tried toscrateli lui hide eyes, 'ml do 1 perfesser gave a tug 'ml gol Ichhu. Den, ' b'Jee, he run ferde river, 'nil I ulu't seen I Mm since." According to .Mo.Muniis, Mrs. Wallace and the other neighbors, at least forty women applied fertile vacant housekeeper ship that day. The professor saw only two, hut he does not regret that as much -s he did. New York Sun. Now s the Time to Buy! IjBSI!l(J!WrTTp!55!SHfW?H?!Sy BUY" Manufacturers Agent ! I have just received at my repository, direct from the factory, a lnr?e line of FHtST CLASS JI'Oi'A", and nm offering the n nt prices that positively dis tance nil competitors. See my line of Pliaeto Sti w And all the lntest Novelties In tliu Carriage Hue. llclng manufacturer's agent for some of the greatest factories, I am in a position to offer goods at closer figures than retailers. It will pay ou to cnll and sec my ATi'ir l.IXE hemic making purchases. E. R. GUTHRIE, 1540 O STREET - 1540 STREET POLSOM'8 si- HAS NO ice Our Pnrlors are the handsomest and contest in the city. Fine line of Confection ery and Unkery Goods always fresh. Sunday Orders Telephone 501. HAVING just assumed peroonul control of my handsome new stables, It will be my nlm to conduct a first-chi.. establishment, giving best of care and attention to horses entrusted to our keeping. STYLISH CARRIAGES. Single or double, and a fine line of nished, DAVE FITZGERALD, Prop. FRANK RAMSEY, Foreman. Stables 1639 and 1641 O Street. 'imMlAwmi, immmmmi O. My. imcmi? jjwti Lincoln, Neb An Old School ina New Location. Ninth Year. 25 Departments. 30 Teachers Uenutiful, heiilthy locution, mngniticeni lliv locution, miiuuinceut modations, strong ' faculty, comprehensive cnrirUinn miuu-ncets uiui mw txpcu ui.iu mi .t .-i -' . I 1 - The SCHOOL FOR THE MASSES A practical education wlfhout needle's waste of lime orntnei is li.inislied U ihi- Western Noimnl College You can Enter any Time and Choose Your Studies This greiit scrool N located In lliwthorne, three miles southwest of the (Kist office ind w II he conne-:ted b elecliic street car line. YOUR CAR FAR.!. PAID. Iu ordrr that nil may see our many advantages In the way nt luilldlnvis. equipments f.icully, etc we will pav your car fare from your home to Lincoln provided uu are present o'n the opening day of the fall teim, Sept. i8oj Write for particulars. r-eml inline anil uililri,H'is of '.'A .oinn; petip'e anil we will semi you chiiloKof lino lA-luel. ruler, t'lerinnmeleror war's sulieripilon In our llltiHirnteil eiliinillonal monthly. UATA UKHIKS AMH'Illi UI..VUH, KHKI.. Address IVJI M. (!ltl)A, I'res. or WESTERN MOBHAL COLLEGE, Lincoln, FSOM ns, i EQUAL. Promptly Delivered. 1307 O Street. rreys CREHM Finest in the City THE NEW LINCOLN STABLES. well-trained horses for livery use, fur day or night. Telephone 550 kw it liii 1-ttA.hA Siih-'Usl4 ivaSr-il'0MB' Sii jgiSjTS fSixtiviX 1 Mt 1 1 isC1 iuiuiiiuitvarv it Tff I W, 'ntt v ' s!v- iii "J" , P AtnArnli!) 1iHSiMiirvaAll'irLf iiip niinilITii' mmiiiues, line cuuinmcnis, superior nccoin curriculum, thorough tti'ik, high mornl and 1 .. .1.1. Neb. .1. KINSI.I'.V, Heeiitui) iiiidTreiisou'r. WWWIISIMniWWIBIIIlWW5lfiSiWiiiriwrii ttt ma.