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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1904)
i wuii lUMUijuimiiMppai The Commoner. W0VE1CBER 11 1KH 3 rajRReNT Vyjfr rZs. V "- VB - Jk. "W. t ""! "- TV W VMM-. fr, f t mr---""- AN INDIAN woman of tho Creek tribe, whoso name Is Flxlco. and who is said to be 105 years old, la among tho claimants for a share of the "loyal" Creek fund which is being disbursed by tho governmenl at Okmulgee. Referring to this woman the Kansas City Journal says: "She is a full blood Creek, living in the Indian town of Weogufgee, Creek nation, which has been her homo for seventy years. She was brought to Ok mulgee from her homo by a distant relative. She made the trip of over thirty miles on a cot, having been carried in that manner from her town to Spokogee in a uuggy and from there in the bag gage car of a passenger twin to her destination. She was borne into the room where the payments are being made by four men, who carried the cot into the room in the presence of the government officials. She was properly identified, and taken back to her lodging, where she is being cared for until her number is called and she can draw her check. While sho has waited nearly every other original claimant has died. Her skin is as dry as .parchment. It is drawn over face and arms so tightly that it makes her look like a skeleton. Her eyes; although sunken far into the sockets, are bright Her mind, is clear and her memory re markable." JB. LAGDAMEO, a Filipino student of Yale , Torestry school, was refused the right to register m order to vote. Mr. Lagdameo was told ' that he must become naturalized before he could vote. Lagdameo said that, as the United States owned the Philippines, he was a citizen. After considerable argument the situation was brought to the attention of Assistant Attorney General Kobb at Washington, who made this statement by telephone: "The supreme court of the United States has held that a Filipino is not a citizen of the United Stated. . Therefore, if the law of Con necticut reaulres a voter to be a citizen ., he must be naturalized." The Filfp'Ino was not registered. SINCE the opening of the World's fair at St. Louis, the name "Jgorrote has occasioned tu usual interest. Regarding the proper use and spelling of this word, the Brooklyn Eagle has this to say: "If you want to be strictly correct you must spell it 'I-g-o-r-o-t,' not 'I-g-o-r-r-o-t-e and pronounce it with the short sound of T as in 'it' and tho long sound of 'o as in 'coat says the Rochester Post-Express. And above all don't plu ralize the word, else you commit a solecism as serious as adding the plural 's' to 'sheep.' The government has adopted this form 'I-g-o-r-o-t-e,' and its future publications will spell it that way. L'xicle Sam accepts the advice of the committee on Pnillppine geographical names appointed by Governor Taft a short time before his return to the United States. This committee Is composed of men of scientific knowledge of languages, selected because of thel special fitness for determining the correct spelling of Filipino words." THE origin of ine word is very interesting. Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, one of the committee, and chief of the ethnological department of the Filipino exhibit at St. Louis, in his report just published gives a iiistory of it. He says that Morga in 1609 used the word "Iglot." Early Span iards also used the word frequently as "Ygolotes," and today soine groups of the Igorot, as the Bontoc group, do not pronounce the "r" sound, which common usage now puts to the "word. "The word 'Igorof is now adopted tentatively as the name of the extensive Malayan people pt Northern Luzon," he adds, "because it is applied to a very large number of mountain people by themselves, and also has a Tecognized usage in ethnological and other writings. Its form 'Igorot' is adapted for both singular and plural, because it .is both natural and phonetic, and because it is thought wise to retain the simple, native forms of such words, as r it seems necessary or best to incorporate in our language, especially in scientific language." IF 4 UNIQUE technicality insures the winningof his case. Jake Grucin. a saloonkeeper of: At lanta'Ga, is on the. road ,to success. The Atlanta Constitution says: "Two true bills were found against Grusln by tho United States grand Jury. In ono there were two counts. In tho first bill he was charged with rectifying liquors without a license .in that ho had mixed whisky from two barrels; in tho second bill tho first count was unlawfully using whisky barrels that had been used, and tho second count was falling to obliterate government Btamps after the whisky had been usod in tho barrel. On tho first indictment and tho second count in tho second indictment, Grusln was acquitted. On tho first count of the second in dictment ho was convicted." G RUBIN was to have been sentenced when his lawyers gave notice of an extraordinary mo tion in which it will bo claimed that as the indict ment read "in the year of. our Lord, one thou sand and nine and three," the alleged crime was committed 811 years ago; as "one thousand and nine and three" was the year 1093 and not 1.903. This novel motion on the statute of limitation is creating considerable interest among tho legal profession. A REMARKABLE story is told of a dog at Yatesvillo, Pa., by the Cincinnati Enquirer. It Is explained that for six years tho dog accom panied his master, Bernard Dougherty, a track walker, on his beat between Yatesvillo and Shenan doah, Dougherty training tho canine to carry tho handle of the flag between his teeth. Dougherty died last night. The dog at daybreak, as usual, . stood outside tho house waiting for his master. Then, evidently thinldng Dougherty had gone without him. tho animal ran to tho track, and, entering a shanty where tho track walker kopt a flag, procured it and started along the track until the train was met. when the absence of the watch man was discovered. MUCH has been said of -the overbearing auth ority displayed by ofllcors of the German army. Their subordinates Lave heen compelled at times to submit to tho grossest insults. Tho Berlin cor respondent for tho London Standard cites an In stance where a non-commissioned officer named Barschau, of tho J3aden regiment of foot artillery, nas heen sentenced to a year and a half's imprison ment, with degradation to the ranks. Not content with ordinary methods of breaking 'in recruits which appear to prevail among Prussian non-commissioned officers 1. ixing their ears, hitting and kicking them Barschau used to make his men undress and dress again all night, or he would amuse himself by keeping them creeping backward and forward, under their beds. This would bo" varied by making them march up and down in tho hot barrack rooms in full uniform, with bare feet, until they sank through exhaustion. If they re fused to sing at his orders, ho used to thrash them unmercifully. A man who had let some gun cleaning oil drop on he floor was ordered to lick it up, and was beaten for declining to do so. A favorite recreation was to make the soldiers kneel down by their oeds before going to sleep and re peat a blasphemous prayer containing admissions of their stupidity. THIS correspondent adds: "Hardly a week passes now -ithout the disclosure of one or more disgraceful cases of brutality on the part of German non-commissioned officers. Soldiers, as a rule bear a great deal without complaining before thev bring themselves to report their superiors, and it may be taken for granted that numerous acts of brutality are perpetrated in the German army without ever reaching the ears of the puhllc. Tfr ia little wonder, adds the correspondent, that German parents often look forward with fear and despair to the day when their sons have to serve under men 'who are able, if jo disposed, to make ?livS of their recruits well nigh intolerable.", AVERY pretty story is told of Emperor Nich olas I by we princess of Meiningen. It is ex plained by, the princess that Nicolas was very mucbopposedtb dueling, Upon one, occasion a young offlcor whom the emporor loved very dearly en mo to ask his permission to fight a dtiol and was promptly refused. "But, your majesty, the fellow boxed my enrs. My honor Is gone. Unless I punish him in n duel I will have to kill myself." "Very well, my son. como and attend mo to pa rado," said tho emporor. When tho review was finished Nicholas called on all officers to form ft squnro around him; then ho ordered tho would-b duelist to his sIHo and naked Mm beforo tho as sembled generals and comrades: "Where did that scoundrel Btrlko you?" "Hero," replied the officer, pointing to his blushing cheek. Tho czar ad dressed his generals: "Gontlcmon, witness how I wipo out tho blemish." And Nicholas bent over tho young man and klsflcd him on the cheok thr'c times." BY A RATHER oxponslvo bit of economy, Don ald K. Osborn rocontly lost 300. Tho New York World tolls the story in this way: "Osborn who was a clerk In tho Indian sorvlco at Yankton Agency, was fined that sum by Judge Garland in the United States court for using an official en velope for his prlvato business. Thoro wcro sovoral counts in the indictment and Osborn pleaded guilty to ono. Ho continues In tho public servlco, having been transferred to an Indian Territory agency." A READER of tho Now York World living at Hazel, S. D., sends to that paper this inter esting communication: "The people of tho eaat do not know what beef is selling at hero in this cattle country. Tho trust will pay only two ceaU por pound for tho best of cattle. Look at what they have to pay In New York for beef today I Never in tho history of cattle-raising wore cattte worth so little as they arc at the present time to tho cattle-raisers. But as soon as beef goes to the butchers' hands It sells for as much as it did five and six years ago. Compare that with your market and see how much profit there Ib in hand ling beef for tho beef trust." HOBART LANGDON Is authority for tho state ment that Insanity predominates among; . dark-complexioned persons. He says that only 3 per cent of tho total number of patients in a certain southern state insane asylum had light hair and only 2 per cent blue .eyes. Mr. Langdon adds: "It struck mo as a rather curious fact that dark haired and dark eyed people should so largely predominate among tho insane, but the matter of latitude might play some part in this, I thought; for naturally there were more dark than light haired people in that section. Just as a matter of curiosity, however, I thought I would write to asylum authorities in -certain other parts of th country to see what the ratio of light haired in mates was to those who wore dark, and expected to And tho percentage Increase in communities where the total of light haired people was larger, but in this I was mistaken; so I am led to infer from the statistics I gathered that there is a greater possibility for insanity among dark haired than among light haired people. My figures were obtained from sixty-eight asylums, located in nearly every state In tho union, and a few in Can ada and England. Tho total number of patient in these institutions was 16,512, of whom 703 had light hair and only CO red or auburn locks. la other words, 9C per cent of the inmates were bru nettes, with either black or hrown hair, the latter in varying shades. In one asylum in New England there was not a. single Inmate that was hot ft brunette." MISS ROSE PERKINS of Huntington, Mass., 'enjoys tho novel distinction of growing young again at the age of 85. Writing about thl lucky woman a correspondent for the New York Tribune says: "At tne auvanceu age oi at miss Perkins finds that her hair, which has been snow white for many year, is beginning to turn black. Sho is also beginning to cut a set of new. teeth. This process of renaissance began about seven years ago, when her eyesight, which had failed her several years before,' was suddenly restored to Jlil L ; ( 1, 4,r -.mW ;