Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1911 — MAN IS WITHOUT A COUNTRY [ARTICLE]

MAN IS WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Indian Picked Up In New Mexico Speaks an Unknown Tongue— He May Be an Aztec. New York.—The prototype of Edward Everett Hale’s "Man Without a Country" Is In Brooklyn. In his lonesome condition he goes even further than Hale’s character, for he is not only without a country, but without even a tribal affiliation. This Individual Is known as Standing Bear, but whether that Is bls name is not known, because no one has been found who can speak his language. He is living with Sidney Marlon, 568 Washington avenue, Brooklyn, who brought the Indian north from New Mexico. Mr. Marton said:

"I had been traveling and on reaching El Alfonso, N. M., I became acquainted with members of the Ararious tribes that lived in that neighborhood. Ono day I heard that there was a lonesome Indian living apart from the rest in the outskirts of the place. The stories they told me of this poor outcast moved me and I determined to investigate for myself. As soon as I announced where I was going the Indians with whom 1 had become friendly warned me that the outcast was a bad man and that he would shoot anyone who attempted to go to bls camp. “I didn’t take much stock tn their talk and rode on. When I came to the outcast’s camp ho was at first inclined to be hostile, but a few gifts and an intimation by signs that I was friendly won a greeting. “While In New Mexico I had learned a little of the language of many of the tribes, but in none of them could I make myself understood. None of the other Indians could understand Standing Bear, as we have named him, and he could not understand any of the others.’* Mr. Marion became so interested In the outcast that when he came north

he brought Standing Bear with him. Marlon said he had tried to find some one who can speak the Indian’s language, but although persons speaking various dialects have tried. Standing Bear has as yet been unable to make himself understood. Marlon Intends to communicate with the Indian bureau In Washington, hoping that through It the mystery of his "find” may be solved. “In the country where I found him," Mr. Marlon said, “there are numbers of Indians who live among the caves • In the cliffs, as did the Aztecs, as we read of them, and I am wondering If It Is possible that he Is a descendant of this long lost branch of the early civilization of the new world.”

Ice Cream Treats Barrod. Lawrence. Kan.—Gone are the days whqn the women students of Kansas univqralty may on weekdays go strolling in the bright moonlight, sit on the front porches of the rooming house, or chat with men students in the toe cream parlors near the college grounds. Members of the Women’s Student Government association, and several sororities are responsible for a new rule prohibiting such pastimes. It is believed that many women students have been neglecting their work in order that they might entertain friends. Since the new rule went into effect there has been an unusually large demand for library books. Home for New York’s Needy. New York. —Work will be commenced here shortly on a million-dob lar home for the needy, the gift of Henry J. Baker, a drug importer, who died two years ago leaving a large fortune. The home, a memorial to his parents, will be “for all needy persona who have passed the half-century mark." ■■ ' -■ ‘ ' >■ .