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Vol. 57. Jaspeb, Indiana, Friday, J UNE 18, 1915 No. 37. 5

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TAHAN AS HE IS TODAY: r A MOST interesting feature of our coming" ilcdptUh Chautauqua i program will be the appearance on one evening of Tulian (Rev. Joseph K. Griflis) in his great lecture, "Up From Savagery." Attired in full Indian dress, he relates as thrilling a life story as ever fell to the lot of any man in America. Mr. (trims' mother was a quarter breed Osae woman. If is father was a white man, a scout known all over the frontier by the name of California Joe. Their home was near the present ztt nf fht p tv of Gainesville, in

J Jfc w w-- w m Texas. . j A band of Kiowa Indians raided that section when Mr. Grilüs was but a babe and carried into captivity large numbers of the inhabitants. They killed his mother, and Chief Zepkhoeete of the Kiowas took the baby with him, back to the country of the KioW9.s, and , presented , him to his wife, who .decided that his name should be Tahan, which means "Texas man." The Btory of his capture was told the boy long years a f er ward by an Indian of the trib whoA participated in the raid. The boy loyd his foiter parent an though thy had been his own, and thtj took tho same car of him that thy CUd t tkelr own kildren. t He tll many interesting toiriw f'kow thty taufit him obedience to hit parmmtm, rea?ct for th mmiy 94 tbmy kaew anjtMaf aboot am of him father's UutrucUon In tmattftf Uiffalo A&4 othar fam and in horteback rldInf aad Un dlitanc liaUnmg. He also tells many stories of priration on the southwestern piaiai and how they drank water from buffalo tracks and ate their meat piw. H learned how

to kindle fires in a pouring rain without matches and to tie a hore to a hole in the ground; also how to tell the tribe to which an Indian belongs fcy the shape of his moccaain as left in the dust tracks. 1 Tshau witnessed the so called battle between the Indians and Quster's Seventh cavalry along the Washita river, "Ln what is now known as the state of Oklahoma. The captives, of whom Taban was one, were driven on to the Bettlers' camp, and It was just followinv this that Tahan learned he was

- not a Kiowa Indian and that the chief and hiu wife were not his real parents. Th whit men contended that he was not an Indian and that he was a captive among them, and the story of the raid into Texas then came out The Indians wero compelled to give him up, and one of the white men took him into Texas, where ho slept in the quarters of the horses. ' One nigat, however, ho became so lonesome and homesick that he took one of the horses and hit the trail toward the Kiowa country and eventual1 found road which led him to the nnp nfcd to his old Indian companin. where he remained until he was sixteen A time went' on the Indians besran to mlnsle unite freely wlh the white, v io were mtisrantly bvcomiiiK more hiuncrous an the frontier, and the Klo-

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$10,000 Prize JScrccn Production, No more pathetic scene has ever been screened than that of the meeting between "Esther" (Lottie Pickford) and her gypsy sweetheart, ' Arthur" (Irving Cummings), hero and

DRESSED AS A SAVAGE. was were Invited to attend an agricultural fair and horse race at Muskogee. In one of the races Tahan, riding his pony, Buckskin, won, and a government officer who witnessed tho race immediately sent for Tahan and arranged with him to enlist for special duty as a scout' For two and a half years he serred in this capacity, when one day he was Insulted by a young lieutenant Then he and another soldier, known as "Gee Whiz," detrtd and fled to the Cheyemies. They were captured, court martialed ad sentenced to death. Imprisoned at Fort Reno, awaiting the day of ex-

AS A SALVATION ARMY CAPTAIN.

the year 1SS7 he went to Cleveland and held revival meetings in the Scranton Avenue Free Baptist Church. Out of this revival came the Phildelity Free Baptist Church of that city, with a good membership. Next he went to Buffalo, where he held meetings in the Free Baptist Church, out of which grew the Second Free Baptist Church, at the corner qf Grant and Ferry streets, and later he served this church as pastor He had a strong leaning, however, toward the Presbyterian Church and finally decided to change to that .denomination. He was .subsouuontly'oidained into the Presbyterian Church and became pastor ff the South Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, a church of some 300 members. While pastor of that church he started other mis sions in that city, which have ..ice grown into churches. . He was attendin a missionary meet inj? iu Buffalo eaio day when the p:irdon for tke technical otTense ho hau committed while a savne was bivuirh to him by Rev. Ward, pastor of an

TAHAN AND HIS SISTER AS THEY APPEARED ON THE PLAINS.

other Presbyteiian Church in that city. I lev. Griflis had told a few of his friends of the technical charge which was hanging over him, and they took it up with President Cleveland, who when he heard all the circumsrar.ces quickly granted the pardon. Following his conversion Rev. Griffis was for a time also a missionary' among the Indians He spent a year and a half among the Senecas in New nrk state. He has isited the Chip-

was Inter i : l (I caprism. jcwu ili juiiucmhh, me mu. in wu-

tVf t er sore four v r' ork with the kota, the Utes in southern Colorado,

Solvation- Army hr f. - k up work as t he different trihes in 1 -.idian Territory iv o mhuMM tndppendeulli'. Alwritlan-l t'o OJlbways in Canada.

edition, they cut a hole through the prison roof and escaped in the darkness of the iik'ht. For three ;. v-irs Tahan was a wanderer, suspicions and afraid of everybody Towi'r I t!i- Mtter part of his vnndeHr:s tie crsy, the border into ( anndri ;iti I one n'.i !n r.ondtn. Out., stopped to iisten fo t !i :avation Artny on the street. He w.-n. to the meeting in the Sahn rinn Anrv hi! I. became a u.ewber of tle Sa' Hiu Army and

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THRILLING L1F2 STORY OF REV. jOSEPK K. GRIIT1S, "TAH AN"

A White Child A Kiowa Captive Paleface Savage Recaptured by Custer An Indian Soldier Court Martialed Deserter Escaped Military Prisoner A Hunted Wanderer A Convcrted Savage Salvation Army Captain i Succewful Clergyman A Widely Known Lecturer

LOTTIE RCKF0RD AND IRVING CUMMIN0S(IN SCENE FROM TliS DIAMOND FROM THESIS FLYING" JO.00O fiRIZC PICTURIZED ROMANTIC NOVEL. heroine of "The Diamond From the Sky," the Flying "A" continued photoplay, just before the flight of the latter to Richmond to avoid arrest. Shortly before the meeting of the two lovers, "Esther" had rescued "Arthur" from, tne river, where he had nearly drowned after being hurled with his auto into the water from a

precipice, in Kicnmona, ne tens ner, he will make a man of himself, and some day return and marry her. m m Give tho Farm A Name, Givt tho farm a namo and keep

the farm up to the name. A name

gives distinction it 13 an exj r ?io" of honest pride, it shows au interest

iii the place, tt means something

more than so many acre3 of brown earth, a dwelling and barns. It means a place that one fee s is in the West senoe the home of himself .aakihie- family, entimeat gathers around it and crystalizes so that at last the owner does not sa much ask in detlining years, "How can I get for my farm" but "Who is going to succeed me on it?' 7 And that meanB a deepening and strength

ening of home ties anu those of

locality, both of which ar greatly

needed in America rural Ufa,

But for practical raaeoni as well as sentimental It ii wise to beitow a name upon the farm. No n eelf-res-pecting man would gire a good name to his firm aid than Step and then keep the farm in poor condition. I'ht sense of pride prompt

any man to do his leyel begt. That

would mean better cultivation,

huse and barn painted, fences in

good condition, better stock and

better cn-ps, and more attractive

appearane within and without the dwelling. There is scarcely a farm,

hnwever situated, that some approp

riate name may not be given it.

Landscape, a spring, clump ot trees

positiou, and historic associations are among the ma y things that

may suggest the name. And always

remember this, that it is with the

farmer more than anyonelse, rests

the solution oi the pro lern ot arrest-

trantivft hnmfi. a home that has a

distinctiveaeFS about it, goes a long

way toward the solution.

The Newspapers Get 'EmWhen a hand bill is droped at the door, do you Fee three members of the family rush for it at once? Do they c'amor good naturedly for the first perusal of a dodger? Does mother diide it into part?, give one part to father, another to Willi?, still another to Susan, and keep the adv. part herself. Do the., drop into easy chair? and read that hand bill Ihroueh fim the north e.-ist nnrncr to the south west mi gl-? Net on your (intypo!

'I lie lirri one that finds th;t I;ii dj Atters an imptecatioi. of di-nl-ifiuction, crumbles it into a wad an thiows it into oblivion. Dont'

the)? You kiK'W they do bicaus you have been angry yourself at finding your mai box full of truck

and your front porch all littered

wjth various colored papers. iNo use talking, n" ufo arguing against thin gospel. Tne man who puts his ad in the home papers if the man who gets there. Ex. The great speech-makers just now are The Courier's advertisers. They are talking from tho band

btand. Read then-. The Courier advertisers are let

ting down the' price bars into the

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Prohibitions Meddler; By JameSvC. Kelly Prcbition is a disturber." It is a prolific breeder of enmities and thernpst modern and efficient instrument for dividing a peaceableand prosperous community. Its methods array friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor. Underpretense of solving the so-called liquor question, prohibition.sows social, political and commercial discord and at the

same time it aggravates and complicates the problem with which -

it concerns itself. ' : Prohibition has yet to exhibit one instance where it has settled the liquor problem. . For more than half a century it has dominated MainejßüTTtodüy we find that state voting constantly either upon theuesiion of prohibition itself or whether or not the prohibitory laws shall be enforced. What is true in Maine is also true-in-other states and in smaller prohibition divisions. For proof of these statements I need only to point to the fact that the' "dry" agitators find it necessary to maintain organizations and pass the hat in "dry" as well as license cammunities. The explanation is simple enough, when it is remembered that the people are about eveny divided upon the prohibition questionrIndry,, territory, so-called, one-half the population dictates oj. attempts to dictate the personal conduct of the other half. THe great liberal minority vigorously resents this invasion of what it sincerely considers a personal matter. Discord is the

inevitable result. Under the license system each faction is per-

mitted ta regulate its personal habits without interference from the other'änd, with the exception of a few agitators, every one is content-

Prohibition is a constant meddler which injuresa community

far more than the intemperance which it pretends, but usually fails, to cure. It has made such a nightmare of the liquor

question that thinking men have come to fear the question itself

far morfe than they deplorejthe intemperance from which it

sprung, Advy t

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ChaUtaqua week at Jasper July 1st to 5th.