Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Foretold His Own Death. [ARTICLE]

Foretold His Own Death.

James Beckwourth, the famous scout, who became a war chief under the name pf Medicine Calf among the Crows, has related to the North American Review, an extraordinary feat of levitation which a great war chief of the Crow Indians performed in his presence on the eve of leading his warriors to battle. The chief was an aged man and professed to have a premonition of death. For many moons he had led the Crows successfully against their hereditary foes, the Blackfeet. It was not his heart that failed him now, but his medicine had lost its protency. In the dusk of the gray morning he led his brpves; out on. an open prairie, and, setting his shield on edge some fifteen dr twenty feet in fronjt ofhim, pointed to it with his lance. As the eyes of the flghing men rested upon the embossed surface of "the buckler it appeared to rise slowly from the ground until it reached a height corresponding to the head of the chief; it then, by the samq invisible means, passed through the air until it obscured his face and hid It from his warriors. A I thrill of horror pervaded the assemblage, but no word was spoken. It vjas taken as an emblem of his approaching eclipse, his banishment from this world, his journey to the land of the Great Spirit, to which all Indians, good and bad alike, went with unhesitating faith. The great chief was killed that morning. Windmill Power. InVentors are hopefully seeking to compel the wind to perform a more Important share of the world’s work. To encourage their efforts, the Netherlands Society for the Promotion of Industry offers a gold medal and IHSO for the best paper on the use df windmills and electric accumulators for supplying power to factories. Points especially to be considered are the average energy a comtaon windmill can produce in conjunction with storage batteries, the installation most suitable, the cost per horse-power hour, and the economy of the system on a large scale