Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — Page 2
AROUND THE CAMP
BATTLES OF 7TH CAVALRY General Custer’s Regiment Had Many Thrilling Fights With Indians From 1872 to 1876. I In 1872 the Seventh United States cavalry had been scattered through seven states in the south serving as constabulary to aid the officers In the reconstruction policy, says the National Tribune in response to a query. The (threatening attitude of the Sioux In Xtekota called for cavalry and the iSeventh was sent thither. Gen. S r D; 'Sturgis, the colonel of the regiment, was assigned to duty at St Paul, Minn., and Major Reno with one squadwas detailed for escort duty with {the boundary commission. The rest of {the regiment went to Yankton, and Ithen under Lieutenant General Custer (reported to General Stanley at Fort Rice, where It'was assigned to duty in protecting the surveyors of the Northwrn Pacific railroad. The column left Ihrt Rice June 24, and August 4 General Custer had a fight with 300 Indijans near what was afterwards Fort Keogh and drove the Indians from the field by a charge. The next day the (Indians killed the sutler, veterinary wurgeon and one enlisted man. August ill the Indians attacked the regiment - (while in camp on the Yellowstone, but rwere driven oft and then pursued eight miles. The regiment lost one officer and two men wounded and one man killed. The Indian loss was 40 killed and wounded. In June, 1874, Custer went out from Fort Abraham Lincoln to reconnoiter ; the country, and spent 60 days in this. Ea September, 1874, six troops under lajor Lewis Merrill were sent to the epartment of the gulf, where they reimained until the spring of 1876. Then <all the troops of the regiment were .concentrated at Fort Lincoln to join (Terry’s column against the Sioux. The column left Fort Lincoln May 17, and (June 22 the trail of a large body of 'lndians was discovered on Rosebud !river, and Custer was sent with his (regiment to follow this, The scouts reported that a large camp had been (discovered In the valley of the Little (Big Horn. In order to prevent the escape of the Indians Custer decided to attack at once, and divided his regiiment into three squadrons, one of five troops, which hs commanded, and the others of three troops each, to be commanded by Reno and Benteen. Reno (was given the advance, while Benteen 'was sent off to the left and pouth.
The Indians Attacked the Regiment While in Camp.
Reno attacked first the greatest collection of Indians that had been seen within the memory of man, and was forced back on to the hills. Then the Indians turned their whole force upon Custer, who had made an attack from the other side, and 3,000 warrior* -equipped with the best magazine rifles surrounded the detachment and speedily exterminated it. Custer had with him 11 officers and 191 enlisted men. All of these were killed, as well as Becond Lieutenant Crittenden, Acting Assistant Surgeon DeWolf, Custer's ‘brother and nephew, and Scout Rey;nolds. Reno lost two officers and 46 Imen killed, and his surgeon and scout. !FV>rty-four enlisted men were wounded. The Indians renewed their attack •on Reno, but were driven off and finalily retreated. On the morning of June : I7 General Terry came on the battleifleld and discovered Custer's fate. The Indians dispersed and B!tting Bull With the larger part of them moved across the line Into Canada. After v some further operations against the Indians the regiment, except Troop C, concentrated at Fort Lincoln, and May 1, 1877, left there to join In the operations against the Net Perces. September 13, 1877, the Nes PerCes were overtaken and a fight followed, in which (three enlisted men were killed and .Captain French and ten men wounded September 30, 1877, the regiment had !a severe light with the Indians in the ,valley of Snake Creek, and finally. Or tober 4. Chief Joseph surrendered with tober 4. Vhlet Joseph surrendered. sMdrM. .< usanM-va— ; : > . • jraratiC'.
PREPARING FOR THE CORONATION OF KING GEORGE
LONDON. —Though the coronation of King George is several months away, the nation already is preparing for the great ceremony. Public officials concerned directly are making the plans for the event, and the peers and peeresses who will be privileged to witness the actual placing of the crown on the brow of their monarch are being measured for their robes. This applies only to the more recently created peers, for in the older families the robes' worn at previous coronations are treasured and will be used again. The costumers are busy making coronets of ermine, velvet and gold, large ones for the peers and smaller ones for the peeresses.
OLD MARINE CHART
Map Made for Amerigo Vespucci Still in Existence. Though Drawn Five Hundred Years Ago It Is Excellent Production of Its Kind—Owned by Roman Citizen. Rome.—Sig. Emilio Grossl of Rome has recently acquired a fifteenth-cen-tury nautical chart which belonged to the great Florentine explorer, Amerigo Vespucclo, and which is considered one of the most important and best preserved marine maps of the famous school of chartography of Majorca. This chart was accidentally discovered in 1800 at Florence in the family archives of the counts of Montignoso, and no doubt exists as to its authenticity. It bears an inscription in Spanish meaning that Gabriel de Valsequa made it id Majorca in the year 1439. Very little is known about Gabriel de Valsequa or Valseca except that he was a native of Majorca and that he belonged to the school of chartography founded there by the celebrated Ralmondo Lullo toward the beginning of the fifteenth century and which continued to flourish until the sixteenth. There are many marine maps in existence made by Valseca’s contemporaries and countrymen, Jaime Ribes. Matias de Villadestes and Mateo Prunes, but cnly three drawn by Valseca. The first is dated 1447 and it belonged to the Venetian nobleman D. N. Barozzi; the second, bearing the same date, was made to order for the celebrated Catalan navigator. Laurla, as it has his coat of arms prominently displayed; the third is so badly damaged that it cannot be identified. Evidently Gabriel de Valseca was well known, as his charts fetched good I prices. In fact, Amerigo Vespucci paid him 130 ducats of gold for this chart, a sum which corresponds to about S2BO. The Florentine explorer wrote down in his handwriting on the chart the amount of money he paid for it and his autograph. Besides proving the ownership of the chart it shows its great value even 500 years ago. The chart consists of a rectangular sheet of parchment about forty-threo inches long and twenty-four wide and it is admirably preserved. The left border is slightly discolored owing to an ink stain which is reported to have been made by George Stand, who examined the map at Florence in 183 C 1 and accidentally spilled ink over it. | Fortunately the stain has not obliterated any writing cn the parchment. It is evident that the chart was drawn purposely to serve fcr navigation. In fact all the ports and seaside cities and towns are carefully noted down and the coast line is designed j with great exactness, while the inland I cities are neglected and only the ] most important are given. The Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean are left in the natural color of the parchment. while the Red sea is painted red and the Baltic, the Arabian sea and the Persian gulf are distinguished by undulating blue lines. The Mediterranean and Black sea coasts are designed with great exactness and are crowded with the names of cities, towns Snd ports, the first written in red. the last two in black. The Atlantic coasts of Spain and France, as well as the southern coast of England, are -very carefully given and they contrast with the imperfect indications of inland regions. The chart IS inclosed on three sides — north, west and south—by a border which resembles a cornice. To the east of the North sea a chain of mountains is represented and. despite Its mistaken direction, it is evident that it is intended for the Ural mountains. There are seven cities marked on the coasts of the Gulf of Persia, and three on the southern coast of Arabia; Aden is marked at the entrance of £he Red sea and six other cities op Its coast*. In the in-
terior of Arabia there is only Mecha or Mecca surmounted by a flag; in Syria only Damascus, and to the south of it the holy sepulcher. Spain and Italy, with Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia, as well as the minor islands, are carefully drawn and denominated with exactness. Only the best-known cities appear in Spain, France and Italy, such as Sifctlago and Segura, Paris and Avignon, Florence and Venice. The Alps and the Pyrenees have been left out. England and Ireland are imperfectly marked, and so Is Scandinavia.
WOMAN’S BANK IS A SUCCESS
Experiment Tried in London Pays Financially and Otherwise—First Manager Talks. London.—Miss May Bateman, who organized the first woman’s bank in England, has given up banking for novel writing. ' “It was a bold project to launch a bank run by women for women,” she says, “but the experiment has been a huge success. At the outset we had to face a great amount of prejudice in every quarter, but that has now to a large extent been overcome. The undertaking has clearly demonstrated that women are quite competent to transact banking business. “But I have learned that the business of a bank manager possesses far greater human Interest than ever I conld have imagined. One would believe that his outlook is hedged in byfigures and heavy ledgers. The exact opposite is the reality. “I have come to the conclusion that there is no more human profession than that of a bank manager. Personality plays a great part in \t. A bank manager who Is to be successful must gain the whole hearted trust of his clients, for his counsel is sought on many points."
NEW HUNTING TRICK
“Greenhorn” Shows Maine Trapper New Way to Coax Geese. Young Man from “Bosting” Springs Surprise When He Makes Record of Goose Honk en Machine and Reproduces It. Moluncr.s, Me. —“Taik about your city folks bein' green in the woods! I want to tell ye that it don’t alius do for us folks to be too sure we know it all.” said Ace Goodhill when he came in this week from Moluncus iake tc get a new pair of moccasins. • Last time Ace was down-from the lake he told of the greenest kind of who had joined his party of campers, and the yarns he spun gave the villagers many laughs. "It was this way," he explained. “That y.ouug feller Burt from Bosting who thought a doe was a she moose when he came into the woods sot his mind on sbootln’ some geese, and you couldn’t get him shet of the idee, ‘l've •at 'em to home,' says he. 'an' they're mighty tasty. I would ruther have ’em than anything 1 knows on.' says he. So there was no other way but to go shoot some. ' “But I never seen geese so tarnation wild. Why. after the sports had bargwhanged around the lake for deer since the openin' of the season you couldn’t get nigh a goose, and, though v.e tried it three days, we didn't get a feather. 1 tried all tbe tricks I knowed. and finally on the fourth day I did manafce to wing one and fetch hiai to the canoe honkin' and squawkin’ nt a great rate. “I was Jus’ goln' to put the critter dfat of mis ry with the paddle when young Burt spoke up ami. says he: “ ‘Don’t kill him till 1 can get a r*c-
FINDS $165 IN MICE NEST
New York Man Recovers Money Saved by Wife Who Died . Several Years Ago. Port Jervis, N. Y. —James Babcock was hunting about his cellar fdr a piece of stove pipe when he found hidden in an opening in the wall an old coffee pot, filled with loose paper, in which mice had made a nest. In cleaning the vessel he was surprised to find several pay envelopes he had received from the Delaware & Hudson company when he was watchman for that corporation some years ago. They were yellow with age, but in each he found a bill in a good state of preservation, and on counting them found they amounted to $165. The money evidently had been saved by his wife from his monthly wages. She died 12 years ago, and S6OO was found deposited by her in a New York city bank, which she had set aside from her husband’s earnings. N ■"
FINDS OLD WHITTIER POEMS
Samuel T. Rickard Says “Whole Nest” Revealed by Study of Periodical Poet Edited. Mass. —Samuel T. Pickard, the biographer of John Greenleaf Whittier,, and now living In the old Whittier home here, tells of his recent discovery of a “whole nest of poems by Whittier, never before recognized as his.” In commenting on his study of a volume of tbe New England Review of 1830-31, Mr. Pickard says; “While it was edited by Whittier, I find much that has escaped me hitherto. I have found a whole nest of poems by Whittier never before recognized as his. The signature was the odd one ‘Feramorz.’ “I find the ‘Feramorz’ poems are Whittier’s, and that he used this signature before and after he became editor of the Review.”
ord o’ his voice with the phonygraph,’ says he. ‘With what 1 ?’ says I. ‘The phonygraph,’ says he. and begun, to paddle to camp like all possessed, whilst I hung to the goose. “I didn’t know what in tarnation he was up to, but he was boss, so I kep' holt o’ the goose, and it wa’n’t long before we got to camp and set the phenygraph to goln’ while I prodded the goose to make him honk. Then we finished him for the pot. Wall, I never heard the likes on’t. When we set the machine to goin’ it let out the gddsrndest honks ye ever heard, and a 3 natural as anythin’, and all over the lake the geese begun to get up off the water and fly round to see what had happened to one o’ their brethren. “ ’That ’era'll fetch ’m,’ says young Burt, and loadin’ the machine Into the canoe, we sot out for the lower end of the lake, where we had a blind amongst the eel grass. We loaded the guns, aot the phonygraph to goln’ and laid low. It wa’n’t long before all the geese on the lake begun to git up ond fly around, answerin' the machine and gettln’ nearer and nearer till they come within range. This waa our nigral for lettla’ flicker, and the way they fell was a caution.”
Society to Oppose Rudeness.
Berlin.—The Society for the Encouragement of Politeness held its first meeting. Miss Meyan, the founder, reported 200 members, and said branches had been established in Dresden and Leipsic. The object of the society is to facilitate public inter course. Its motto Is “Do as you would be done by.” Monthly meetings are to be held whereat instances of rudeness in public can be brought to notice and discussed. The Berlin school authorities have promised their active support to the movement.
JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY
Nothing mortifys me so much az the kowardice I find In mi human natur. Necessity lz stronger than enny law, -gospel, or all the attributes ov human natur combined. Violent grief Iz like a straw fire; it soon expends itself, and, besides, leaves little ashes. I like a pashionate man better than a sullen one, just az I like a hornet more than I do a snaik. The man who kan’t learn ennytjhing, only bi experience, won’t profit even bi what he learns that way. In looking the whole thing over, very kluss, I think I never hav seen a ritch man who waz very We should look upon all failures with compashun, for We find even in a good cauze az meny failures az we do suckcesses. Thar iz nothing more dangerous to a yung man than the luv ov notoriety, for no one kan tell into what rekless paths it will lead him. One ov the gratest plezzures ov life iz to work for our children; but generally, the gratest drudgery that our children kan do lz to work for us. The man who kan’t keep a secret kan’t be trusted in ennything. He iz to be treated like an orange—the juice iz to be squeezed out ov him, and then he is to be dropt \ " The man who haz livetf to be three skore years and ten, and haz both eyes and ears wide open, and hiz thoughts alive, haz a full idea of all thare haz ever been in the world ov enny consequence iz now, or ever will be. Human natur lz the same now az It waz in the days ov Noah and hiz arK; the same kauzes produce thfe same results; and the we hav no reliable ackount ov .Noah’s having enny korns on his feet, he certainly would have if he wore boots a size and a half smaller than hiz feet.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Friendship is a branch of self-love. When a man is easily bought the buyer is usually sold. Many a politician who expects a plum is handed a lemon. of the worst things under the sun is a shady reputation. If some men were compelled to pay as they go they would stay. A woman is naturally off color when she removes her complexion. We always feel sorry for a dignified man when the taffy is being passed. Some people never know when to stop and others never know when to begin. What puzzles a small boy is how his mother can stand it to wear such a hot slipper. A good dinner has about the same effect on a man that a pjood cry has on a woman. Run for office and read the oppositions newspapers if you would see yourself as others see you. Beware of the man who gives you a tip on the races. He may have an ingrown grudge against you. When a man doesn’t get married all the married women think it is because he has been disappointed in love —but all the married men know better. Don’t try to convince a man that he isn’t as clever as he thinks he is unless you have no use for his friendship.—Chicago News.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Good luck la merely escaping bad luck. Teachers can cultivate brains; they can’t create them. Most people spend their time either eating or talking about It. The Lord must take care of good women, for certainly men don’t. The first time a man wins a bet the devil writes him down in bis books to lose 60. A girl who will wear big, fat rubbers, however bad the weather, doesn’t want to get married. A wise child learns to like to be spanked so as to get a lot of spoiling to mako Up for it right after. The crafty thing for a man to do would be to convince bis wife he loved her so much he hadn’t any left for her relatives. It’s worth thinking about how mad a man cam be at first with a girl for refusing to marry him and how grateful to her afterward. * .F „ It's just humgn for an old bald-head to want young girls with a mass of curls to pretend they can tolsrate him. —New York Press.
SAYINGS OF NAPOLEON.
•A constitution should be short and obscure. I When it comes* to conspiracy, everything is permissible. See that proprieties SJe observed and that notbiiig ridiculous is done. I I had rather talk to sobers than to lawyers. Those make\me nerv- - ous. I have tried not to be the man party. I refused to be the tool of any party. Strike hard at any one, whoever he may be, who shows the first signs of wabbling. Capture that rascal Georges dead or alive. Ts you ever catch him, have him shot within 24 hours \ Penal laws should read as though engraved on tables of marble and should be as concise as the Decalogue. ) • I want no triumphal arches, no ceremonies. I have too good an opinion of myself to put any value on 3uch flimflams. There is no greater coward than I am when I am drawing up a campaign. lam like a woman in the throes of childbirth. It is peace we have conquered. That is what must be said in every newspaper; every theater; what must be repeated in prose, in verse, even In ballads. What a thing is imagination! Here are men who don’t know me, who have never seen me, but who only know of me, and they are moved by my presence; they would do anything, for me. —“The Corsican,” by R. M. Johnston.
BY THE BACHELOR GIRL
The spider who boasts about her web Is a long time catching the fly. The girl and the place don’t make much difference to a man if he happens to have the time. Any article, even a husband or a wife, becomes worn and dull and loses all its pristine beauty and attractiveness after a few years. Chobsing a husband is like choosing a hat; it is so hard to find one that has style, beauty, usefulness and durability and yet may be got at your own price. A man marries when he is tired of play; a woman when she is tired of work. Is it any wonder that most married people appear -to have “that tired feeling?” When a man has done anything particularly atrocious he lbves to go about calling himself a “fool;” it makes him feel so moral and injured and irresponsible. It .is difficult for a girl to decide whether to marry a soul-mate who will feed her vanity and her sentiment or a middle-aged bald man who will feed her on real food. It is much more comfortable to he considered a “little devil” and get a credit mark every time you do anything right, than to be considered an "angel” and get a black mark evevy time you do anything human.
ANVIL SPARKS.
Nothing succeeds like salvation. A man can doubt the truth until he will actually believe it a lie. When a mans’ sins find him out cnly his best friends try to find him in. About the best that can be said of some people is that nothing can be said about them—either good or bad. The rural mail carrier in prohibition states knows the temperance people on bis route by the kind of mail they do not get. Many a working man would get more good out of his Sundays if be did not draw his Saturday night’s pay until Monday morning. The man who forgets to be thankful on Thanksgiving day may be the very man who has been getting more than his share out of all the other days. Only a really good man can lm- . press another really good man with his goodness, without pretending that he is good.—Christian Herald.
WORTH REMEMBERING
Be considerate. Don’t always think of self--of what you want —what you like—but think of your fellowmen. Kind words never hurt anyone yet. - s And they nevet will. Speak an encouraging word now and then to thoes around you. Think of them. Give them s lift. Thai you can do by being considerate.