Nebraska Newspapers

    Indian for the Senate
tit WAS ONCE A (IIY WAIf
Gnanah Parker Seeks
a High Office.
An Indian chieftain aspires to a seat
in the United States senate. This is
not strange, for other Indian chiefs
have had the same laudable ambition,
but in this particular instance the
aspiration might yet be realized. The
aspirant is a power among the tribes
of the Indian Territory and is famed
tor his achievements in the civil walks
of life in the great southwest. He is
strenuously working to form a con
federation of the tribes of the Indian
Territory in the hopes that statehood
for the territory will then Ik; easily
secured and his election as United
States senator would be almost sure to
follow. He is a man of wonderful en
ergy and executive ability and success
has always attended him in his under
takings. Those who know him will
not be surprised if he reaches the goal
CHIEF QUANAH PARKER,
of his ambitions—a Beat In the United
States senate. Quanah Parker is the
name of this remarkable Indian. He
Is the head rbief of the Comanches
and their all-powerful leader. He has
always been the ally of the white man
and by his peaceful, yet powerful, lead
ership has brought his tribe from pov
erty to agricultural affluence and to a
well-ordered social state. He is an
accomplished scholar and linguist, a
trained athlete, an expert horseman
and a millionaire. He is the owner of
thousands of acres of well-tllled farm
lands and lives in a magnificent man
sion. To the great Richelieu there was
no such word as "fail” and to Quanah
Parker there is no such word as "Im
possible.” He has banished this word
from the Comanche language. When
told that it seemed impossible that he
should ever become a member of the
United State senate, he said: "It is
my wish. It will be fulfilled. The
word 'impossible’ Is not in the lan
guage of the Comanche." Those who
know him do not doubt him, for they
recall the many remarkable things
that he has already done.
Quanah Parker Inherits his peace
ful disposition and his love of thp
white man from his mother, who was
a white woman. His grandfather, the
great Comanche chief. Quanah, when
on the war path at the head of 2,000
of his braves attacked old Fort Parker
on the Texas frontier and massacred
all the men, boys and women, spar
ing only the young girls. These were
carried away as squaws and slaves.
Among the number was Cynthia Ann
Parker, a beautiful 9-year-old child.
The old chief was so struck with her
beauty and Intelligence that he de
termined that she was a white chief's
child and resolved that she should still
be the child of a chief. He adopted
her and placed her in the care of his
Rquaws He surrounded her with all
the comforts and luxuries that he
could provide. She became used to the
ways of the Indiaus, learned to love
them and was happy with them She
grew to be a beautiful woman and then
old Quanaii gave her In marriage to
Ills son and successor, Peta .Vacona
Their first child was a boy and they
named him Quanah Parker, after his
grandfather and his mother, and it Is
he who is the subject of this article.
He learned the ways of the Indians
from his companions and his mother
taught him many of the gentle lea
sons that white children learn. He
was a remarkably strong and intelli
gent boy and his tribe looked upon
him as giving promise of becoming as
great a hero as Ills grandfather. He
was passionately fond of his mother,
Mud all the wild instincts of the In
dian race was subserved to her will
Her fate was the tragedy of his life.
Hu father, Nacona, was as fierce a
warrior as old Uuaitsh, and his hatred
f ir the whites w is equally as gu-at
While on the war path his >atup was
surprised by l.ieut. Hues, who after
ward became governor of Texas, and
the whites took many prisoners,
among them the white squaw of th#
dreaded ehuf. Naums After twenty
five years of searching Cynthia Ann
Parker was found jih • was taken to
her surviving relative* who re rived
her with Joy for the sto; > of her cap
tore had been ioi,| Hum t.ioe* at
every fireside (ill the frontier .Htie
h »**ver. Was not satisfied Her heart
was in the faraway wigwam with her
husband tb* great chief, Nacona and
hi r two little Kins Hue pt> nir'l to
return but h«r prayer* were not
ft e.led litre wa» forced to reins,it ,«
i splive amour: lue white* and final!*
■
«u mtmi* her hoc'*,ml Nacona had
die) of wounds received Itt battle and
Qutwl "ekn m t h tin’s br«t*V*.
awaited their mother's return. When
word of her death was brought to
thpm. Quanuh remembered what she
had told him In regard to being a good
man and doing good. In his grief he
took a solemn oath that he would be
come a power for good among fis
people and teach them the ways of
peace as his mother had wlshod hlsn
to do. Because of his undying faith
in his mother’s teachings he believes
I that there is nothing impossible for
him to accomplish In ills mission of
peace. He believes that she watches
over him, guides him and aids him.
Me believes that he can aid his people
through the halls of legislation at
Washington and for this reason he Is
firm in his belief that he will live to
occupy a seat in the I'nlted States sen
ate. With his ability, his great re
sources of wealth and influence and
his almost fanatical desire to fulfill
his mother’s wishes as he understands
them, it is not safe to predict his fail
ure.
WONDERFUL ENDURANCE.
Archibald Fork**' Uruat t>at lu thu
Turko-Nertlan War.
Vs an instance of the remarkable
Avers of endurance possessed by Ar
nibald Forbes, the famous war corre
yondent who died in London recently,
the following story is told: The brief
war between Turkey and Servla ended
with the battle of Djunla, in the au
tumn of 1S7G. Forbes was the only
correspondent on the spot, and there
Servla lay at the mercy of the Turks.
At a In the afternoon, when Forbes
rode away from the blazing huts of
Deligrad, more than HO miles lay be
tween him and his destination, the
telegraph office at Semlin, In Hungary.
He had an order for post horses along
the road, and galloped hard for Parat
Chln, the nearest post station. When
he got there the postmaster had a
horse blit no vehicle. All night long
he rode that weary journey, changing
horses every tifteen mites and forcing
the beasts along at the best of their
speed. Soon after noon of the follow
ing day, sore from head to foot, Forbes
was clattering over the stones of the
Belgrade main street. The field tele
graph wires had conveyed but a curt,
fragmentary intimation of disaster;
and all Belgrade, feverish for further
news, rushed out to meet the corre
spondent. But he had ridden hard all
night, not to gossip in Belgrade, but
to get to the Betnlin telegraph wir“.
and he never drew rein till he reach
ed the fprry. At Semlin he tok one
long drink of beer, and then sat down
to the task of writing, hour after
hour, against time, the great tidings
he carried. After he had written his
story and put it on the wires he lay
down in his clothing and slept twenty
hours without so much as turning. He
had meant to start back for Deligrad
on the evening of the day of bis ar
rival at Belgrade, but fatigue caused
him to lose twenty-four hours. It
seemed to him when he recovered from
chagrin at this delay that perhaps,
after all, he was. entitled to a good
long sleep. He had witnessed a bat
tle that lasted six hours, ridden HO
miles and written the Daily News a
telegraphic message four columns long
—ail in the space of thirty hours.
A PAINTER AT 96.
Thomas Sidney Cooper, member of
the Royal academy, is probably the
oldest of living painters, and certainly
the most aged of painters who are still
at work with the brush. Mr. Cooper,
although ltd years old, is an exhibitor
in the academy of the present season
in London. His paintings represent
ing the seasons are among the most
interesting pictures of the London ex
hibit this year. Sixty-six years ago
Mr Cooper hung up his first work of
art on the academic walls. It was a
painting of farm life and created no
little sensation, being the germ of the
great school of cattle painters who
have since delighted the world with
their work. It was the great Verbock
Lovcu of Brussels that discovered
THOMAS S rooPKft
I young Cooper's “feeling for rattle
I amt enrotiragc<l him iu hi» studies. The
j founder uf the niUI« h* boot began by
ilrawlng ib-.igns flu • urrtage decora*
(toil but imin*.I from that urn*fill
*rt by the Klentub master With hi*
hundredth ><ar of ttf** mi Might Mr
Cooper's »y» retain* all It* fine ilia
I comment tif color, w hile his hand Is
J iciaiiugly »»••.» •* in 4 his hr mb tru
luOUS WitHtOi at tin I % I'll
Although tb' ladle* of the diploma
tb lorpa k««* left their rsnh tor the
wife of the turb.di minister none of
theiw ha* ever been received by her,
and »hi* ha» never iriuruel any of the
1‘Slls Kiiyseb* ib*ev not permit s
I nr huh woman of high caste h go
Sitting Wtih <1.11 lattlel
% first tt* si iHukf1 (>i trtl
i fat hi* go ti Starlit
BISHOP HAHTZELL
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN
SOUTH AFRICA.
Horn In IlllnoU and KilamlH Hr re, Hr
W>nt to th« Dark i ontlnrnt Well
I'repared for HU Work -His InHuenip
UrMU
One of the most energetic of the
bishops of the Methodist church Is
Joseph C. Jlartiell, whose Jurisdiction
Ijes In Africa. Siuce his election to the
episcopate In May. 1896, Bishop Hart
zell has visited all parts of the conti
nent of Africa, traveling nearly 50,000
miles on railroads, steamships, by
hammock, on bullocks, by horse and
on foot. Hp has not only investigated
the work of the missions over which
he has ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, but
be lias carefully studied all the great
political and social questions that have
BISHOP JOSEPH C. HARTZELL.
to do with the future of the dark con- j
llnent.
No statesman of England or Europe,
or even of Africa itself, Is better In
formed in regard to Africa than Is he,
for he has read all the standard books
by accepted authorities, has consulted \
with governors, explorers, merchants,
miners and all other classes of men,
from the highest to tiie lowest, who
make up the controlling population
and by personal observation has I
learned much that could not otherwise j
have been known.
In the future of Africa, Bishop Hart
sell will in all probability be an Im
portant factor. On that continent, as
in other parts of the world, the Chris
tian missionaries, among whom have
been Robert Moffatt, David Living
stone, Alexander Maekay, Bishop Han
nington and others wpI! known, have -
exerted a powerful civilizing and edu
eating influence and they will continue
to do so in the future upon the 150,- |
000,000 of savage natives. But they
will also influence very largely the
white millions who will before many
years populate the southern portion of
the continent, and divide it Into great
republics, free from European oppres
sion.
Bishop Hartzeli was a distinguished
man before he became bishop for Afri
ca, for which he was prepared by his
previous life-w’ork. He was born near
Moline,.III., flfty-six years ago.
In voting manhood Bishop Hartzeli
entered (larrett Diblha! Institute at
Evanston, 111., as a student, to prepare
for the ministry. As a boy he had he
roine an expert swimmer, and Lake
Michigan furnished him a fine oppor
tunity for the enjoyment of his favor
tlliiUop K'* ! J ihn W II million *<
retary of tii** Free-liti n V»l anil
.Hotilhern K>lm atumal noriety w »» i.n>*
I(f till* Hill i a Bill 4s ten ut> n t U>n*'.l ft»!
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hl» nano vii ni'Mt t4lke<| of l*r
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* here the i>IH>e* of the Kr»-lB»»’« Airf
.il l itmithern K I n -itton »t ui i ty »**•
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from Mount 1 nion eolleg. in !»>•'• ml
from lltMi.Mi imiv*‘f»lti in l*?! He
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1
NEW METHODIST BISHOP
/
RI.HMOP H A Ml I,TON
Ito sport. One day the report spread
through Evanston that a vessel had
been wrecked off South Evanston and
that many lives were In peril. Young
Hartzell. with many others, went to
the scene. There he found that noth
ing was being done to rescue those In
peril and no one seemed to be able to
do anything, for the waves were too
tempestuous for a boat to ride them.
Harta»ll saw that only one thing was
to be done. Ho partly stripped, tied
a rope around his waist, plunged Into
the waves and by heroic efforts saved
four lives. His heroism was appropri
ately recognized when In a mass meet
ing of citizens he received a memento
which he prizes to this day as one of
his most precious possessions. Two
years ago one of the men whom he
saved Introduced himself to the bishop
in Chicago. They had not met since
the day of the wreck.
Soon after graduating,’ Mr. Hartzell
succeeded Dr. John P. Newman (later
bishop). In 1870, as pastor of the M.
E. church in New Orleans. Early in
his work In New Orleans Mr. Hartzell
started at his own expense the South
western Christian Advocate. This pa
per was h power In reconstruction days
and a great educator to the negroes
Just emerging front slavery. After
some years the paper was turned over
to the church and is now published by
the Methodist Book Concern.
Mr. Hartzell'* interest in tho educa
tion of the negro soon attracted at
tention and he was elected a member
of the New Orleans School board.
Through the city schools and the
schools of the Freedmen’s Aid Society
of the Methodist Episcopal church, in
which he was appointed assistant to
the distinguished Dr, R. S. Rust, Mr.
Hartzell helped to shape the educa
tional policy of the city and the state.
In 1888 Dr. Hartzell was elected to
succeed Dr. Rust as secretary, the con
trolling official, of the Freedmen's Aid
society, a society which controls forty
seven colleges and other schools. To
this position he was re-elected in 189.’
j and 1898.
An Idyllic Iticiik fact.
Richard Whiteing, who is still rath
er the London celebrity of the mo
ment, does not exactly write Immortal
verse, but people are still talking of
his novel, “No. 5 John Street,” and
wondering what his next book will be
like. He is a personality that would
not' lose a particle of Its charm even
if one did know what his favorite rec
reations are, which he has never been
weak enough to disclose. At the pres
ent moment recreation has a delicious
significance for him, for, having at
last severed a connection of many
years with the Daily News, he is real
izing what it means to be a bondsman
no longer.
“1 go to bed at 12 and -ise with the
lark," he was heard to say to a friend
the other day with a twinkle. "The
London lark?” Inquired the friend,
rather unkindly. "I don't know," an
swered the great, man, chuckling, "but
it is the lark that gets down to a 10
o'clock breakfast.”—Philadelphia Post.
KiM'tlt*'* Court l4in|fuafce«.
The czar and czarina, In their pri
vate intercourse, speak English and
German. French and Italian being but
seldom spoken by their majesties
when alone The czarina did not learn
Russian till after her betrothal, but,
though as yet speaks It very slowly, it
Is with a good accent and great dis
tinctness.
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In II»hi*'i In' » iwm1 fw *ia*
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put.tin itil ■» liblurr *il lh- Kpl» >i**l
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tftri iit*l bum
And Now Me is Gov
ernor of Alaska.
John (}. Brady, who Is new in the
east in the interest of the development
of the vast territory of Alaska, of
which lie is governor, is a self-made
man i:i the best American sense. At a
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria the oth
er evening he referred t<» the time
when he was a waif and an outcast in
ihe slums of New' York. Many of the
governor's friends are familiar with
the romance of his life. Others who
heard his brief reference to his youth
ful hardships were curious to learn
more. Oov. Brady never hesitates to
tell the story. "Kspecially,” he says,
"as it may be an Incentive to other
boys who are as poor and friendless as
I wag once.” The man who is now the
governor of 570,000 square miles of
territory was born in squalor in the
lower end of Roosevelt street, New
York City. Ilis father was a drunken
longshoreman. His mother died when
he was a child. At 8 years of age
"Johnny” had turned his hand to most
of the devices by which the New York
gamin seeks to keep body and soul to
gether. He had sold newspapers,
shined shoes, run errands, carried
satchels to the steamboat docks and
haunted the Hast river water front in
the hope of picking up an odd job now
and then. Sometimes he found a
lodging in the Newsboys' homo. As
often as not he slept curled up in a box
or in some dark corner of Chatham
sijuare. One night a big policeman
roused him from ills bed in a packing
case, and Johnny confessed that he
was hungry and that he hadn’t any
home to speak of. His worthless fath
er had married again, aud Johnny
found little favor with tho stepmother.
So they sent him with a boatload of
other waifs to Randall's island. On
the island Johnny made friends rapid
ly. Among others with whom ho found
a fast boyhood friendship was a home
less lad named Uurke. In the summer
of 1839 the Children's Aid society ar
ranged to ship a cargo of boys to the
west, where homes had been secured
for them on farms. Brady and Burke
were among those selected to go, and a
happier pair of youngsters never took
the famous advice of Horace Greeley.
There were twenty-seven boys in the
party, but no member of the philan
thropic Children's Aid society would
then have been bold enough to predict
that there were two future governors
among the tousled-headed urchins rid
ing in the one car. But so it was.
Brady Is now governor of Alaska.
Burke is a former governor of North
Dakota.
When the carload reached Indiana,
Johnny Brady was consigned to the
home of John Green, a leading lawyer
of the town of Tipton, who had asked
for the "ugliest, raggedest and most
friendless boy in the lot." Johnny
then became “Jack." To the kindness
and good influences of this Christian
home Gov. Brady attributes his later
success. Mr. Green stimulated his am
SENATOR PENROSE
Senator Boies Penrose, who is am
bitious to wedge his ponderous bulk
into the vice-presidential chair, does
not add to the majesty of his mien
when he addresses the senate. There
Is a tenor twang to his voice, a high
pitched and unmelodlous sing-son?,
SKNATC.it HOIKS PENROSE
strangely inconsistent with It It* cum- ,
maud lug. manly figure He Is la.k
[ Ins. too. in the sense of the dramatic,
he hr unlike his fellow youthful eol- |
league. Heveri’lge, ill this respect, who
I > ould readily step front the senate to
i the stage. When Penrose speaks his
huge arms hang listlessly. There is no
oatise or punctuation to his common
i places lie rant Ides on In a monot
onous treble. sc ttiltlgl) heedless of th"
• ffe.-t of his uninusleal roh-e and In
i!1 ffer.nl to the pain he la ihltietlns >n
, the senate, tvntose ha» made many
friend* and likewise many enetules by
Hiving wholes tie promises to secure
goyerutttrtit positions to all eonsttt- 1
s»sti that apply If .-very clerkship
, III Washiuaton were Va< ant there
would not lev It Is Itacrled enough po
sition* to Mlhft the dense • row la that j
l*rntu«« Has deluded He Is pleased to j
usml kin. elf s« a statesman of on
limit-I Inttoen- e. and dislike* to tut n
H!tl> tno swat I her • by ronfeasing
• bit there are in te« and hounds to h»*
I« Wr r ttesil** he ta v ml tingle ant
hit Ion* wifi wants to make and to * 'I
bition and turned his energies in use
ful courses. He w-*nt to the village
school, applied himself to his studies
and- afterward took the preparatory
course for college in the Waveland
academy, liver ready to assist him.
his benefactor recognized the advan
tage to the boy of having to work his
own way as far as possible. So "Jack"
was never Idle. All the time he was at
school he was earning what he could
to help pay his way. Mr. Green had
destined "Jack” for the law, but about
this time the boy decided that his mis
sion was (he ministry. He had his
way about it, and went to Yale, deter
mined to work his course through col
lege. During his years In Yale he
helped to make both ends meet by
chopping wood, making fires, ringing
the chapel bell and doing any other
manual labor that offered a recom
pense. Later he earned something as a
tutor. Because of the true demo
cratic spirit that prevails in moat
American colleges, Brady, though poor.
GOV. JOHN G. BRADY,
was popular. After graduation, true to
his purpose to be a preacher, he
worked bis way through the Union
Theological seminary, depending al
most entirely on his own resources. In
those days, while in New York, he
never missed an opportunity to talk
encouraging to boys whose lot was as
forlorn as his had been. It was through
the Influence of Dr. Sheldon Jackson
that Mr. Brady went to Alaska as a
missionary. He was a pioneer In the
task of civilizing the Indians, and in
the section where he labored as a
teacher and a preacher nineteen years
ago the governor is still frequently re
ferred to as Itev. John Brady. As
business developed in the territory
Brady became a trader and opened a
store In Sitka. Here he prospered so
well that he became the manager of
the Sitka Trading company, and soon
acquired a one-third Interest in the
concern. He proved to bo a shrewd
business man, but he never relin
quished his active Interest in mission
ary work. When three years ago
President McKinley was looking for
the right man for governor of the ter
ritory, the honor fell to the versatile
John Green Brady almost by a process
of natural selection. His excellency
now ha3 a happy home and a wife and
live children to share it.
as many friends as possible. As a re
sult he dictates countless letters daily
to be sent to the heads of various de
partments, asking positions for his
frletnds.
COULDN’T WORK GIG NUMBER.
Irate I’arljr'. Ineffectual Attempt on the
Telephone.
Several commercial travelers were
gathered about the desk of a down
town hotel when the clerk called their
attention to the behavior of a stout
party wearing a straw hat and who ap
peared to be vexed at something that
had transpired in the telephone booth.
"I have traveled all over this land of
forest and alkali,’’ said the stout man.
as he mopped the perspiration from his
forehead, ’’but 1 never heard of any
thing quite as bad as this." ‘ What Is
the trouble?'* asked the placid listen
er in blue serge and tanned shoes.
"Matter? Why, Just think of it, the
bell bov informed me a few minutes
ago that a party desired me to call a
number on the telephone and 1 have
been trying for tlftpen minutes to con
vince the operator at the other end of
the line that I am* not crazy or under
the Influence of root beer. She Insists
that the number I called for is not in
the telephone directory, and in spite
of all 1 could say she told me to leave
the wire and seek a frlenu.” "What
number did you call ” Inquired tha
smiling Joker in the blue serge and
tanned shoes "Why, 4-11-44," said
the angry man, "and 1 know It's !u the
book,”-—Chit ago Chronicle.
Home IihIiah
Th<* (I’liiiK of the families of th«*
Cheyenne to out* hi Fort Supply |q.
elude* Mm Short Nos*', formerly Mu*
I'lpiiiK Woman Mrs Hit; Head. form
t-rly Mina Short* Kiuf Mr* N'lhhM, for
m**rl> MU* Voting Hear; Mr* White
t’ro* formerly Ml*r Chwk l*ip»\ Mr*.
Howling Water, formerly Mu* Crow
Woman a NO Mr* White Skunk Mr ,
Sweet Water, Mu* Wnlk High, daugti
ter of Mr White Calf, mol Ml** Ouge,
»l<*p-ilaoaliter ol Mi llaril Cg*e TIim
,mutt at Kurt Supply are proud nt
iheir uniform* ami ihetr military
work 'I lie women are ptootl of ikeir
Itiuhand* a lot father* who are thus
< lliployetl. arol lot iloilht al*o of the
nano* they U*r
"Nearly all the t|e*>i> •* ik»'
have giyeti Keiiltoht an unenviable
reputation lad iheir urlin in *»«r «l*ll
war *ay» Col iahn H I htottioou of
Httrivhli it* h»
The i vtivii truth* are the *;vip*t,
' I** Ike we* Snon