Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 262, 16 August 1919 — Page 17
RICHMOND, INDIANA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919
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W Indians Still Live in America Resfrl American Indians are still ive hj (lhis country and live much thflgjme kind of life they lived Hsrs ago when they or Bome of eir relatives lived in the very rne places where we live now. cfcst of the Indians that are left i 4fcv. are what we call Amencand Indians, because they live iirtly like Indians and partly like In&ericans; but there are some ' . i i .i r ny. jive in uurmern pans ui vauala and Alaska, in places that are
j.tyer wild still, and that live in e, same old way that their grandtfhers lived years and years ago. 3 tie names of some of these tribes I e the Nascaupees, the Montagiis, t!he Ojibways and the Crees. ilicy are just like the Indians we h ad &bout when we read Cooper's Hoiies; about the Indians, for their ijily bpoks are the woods and the ter'ays, and in these their :5oiedge is almost perfect. 4 po inter this Indian travels on A 'foe3 an witn a og team, 5 eld, in summer he goes everywhere his canoe. Many of these Inj Jans use the old birch bark canoe, iiEl, but many have bought the iaivas-covered canoe like the . 9 li)ite man uses. Not many white Jen, have come to these out-of-the-!y places ; but some have, most-
in ocdjtu ui me; vmuauic unit; lisftals whose fur will bring the apper a great deal of money. .iFor two centuries or more the audson Bay Company, that most "iterprising and most romantic rporation in the history of the orld, handled these natives withit friction. Many of the engages the Hudson Bay Company and ie Northwest Company were jung Scotchmen, used to a hard, ugh life at home. Take a sixjot Scotchman with whiskers a Lird long and a hand like a fullzed ham and he is something of a aboriginal himself. The natives spected this type of man, because e could carry a man's pack and J.-Duld paddle a bit after he had .arned how. From these pioneers.) trough intermarriage with Wood, j ;ree or Ojibway squaws, many of lie fur-brigade members sprang. was the white men who superin;nded the fur trade of these two Treat companies; the men who did .ie work were half-breeds or In3ans, and it was their steady Suck and perseverance that took lie Montreal cargoes through to ;dmonton each year by mld-sum-)er. Nor were these long trails on 'oth sides of the Height of Land, "brthXto the Arctic ice or west to rrng with dry packs and clean
'Jlfggings. Much of the going was "1 rniie-h mnd and water and fllimv
ipruce roots. Every mouthful of od eaten by engage or priest of le far northern posts, every pile furs that ever got to London or ew York or Montreal, was carried an-back across scores of slippery ortages "and over countless bard, ugh places. The Ojibway, the Cree and the lontagnals are the most wonder ful canoemen In the world. They possess a sixth sense in rapiaIJunning and if they say "run it" Sou can safely lay a bet at odds sat they will run it and come p irough dry even through water ie mere glimpse of which makes our hair stand up and sends chills I hasing up and down your spine, ; On the pack trail their ability to bte, using only the leather headand or tump-line, loads of duffle nd outfits weighing 300 lbs. over mile and often a two-mile portpre. the traveling of which keeps Die best of white woodsmen busy b keep his feet, is simply marvelus. A few years ago, up In Hailybury, in Northern Ontario, I saw bet won by one mn roison, wno arried 900 pounds on such a trip, alf a mile: it doesn't sound pos sible but It was actually done, a heasurod half mile at that, but on fairly level street. Formerly their houses were hiilt of bark, or occasionally ot
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children's section of tiftT Richmond, issued each Saturday afternoon. The Palladium office, or to receive, skins, but since the advent of the white man's axe, they have become, in my estimation, the finest builders of log cabins In the world their skill with the axe is simply wonderful. Now, when the Indian of the North desires to build a cabin, he selects a site with suitable timber close by, and proceeds to clear the site; then he selects the bestsuited, straightest trees, cedar, if available, more often spruce, that will average between 14 and 20 inches across; down they come always dropped within a few feet of where he figures on laying them. Reeling the bark, if spruce, he begins with the bed-logs, notching either end and lays the next logs crosswise, nesting snugly, so they do not "ride"; thus each layer goes on up, from 9 to 12 logs in each side; each end is then raised by additional logs, kept in place temporarily by supports, and these, using the axe only, leveled from a peak down to the main logs of the sides, when the roof logs are laid in notches; the roof is made of split cedar, if available, otherwise of adzed or flattened poles. All chinks between the logs are "stogged" or filled with moss, driven in firmly with an edged stick and mallet and the floor is poled and adzed; a camp that is comfortable, lasting and warm with a stove when the temperature is 60 below zero is the result. They are very proficient in making enowshoes, being the original inventors of the webs. They make the framework of spruce or birch in the North, and the webbing is generally of moose hide; of caribou and deer when obtainable. They
cut the hide Into strings, stretch them between two trees and then weave and lace them into the frame. The types run to the bear's paw model, almost as wide as long. The rabbit Bkin blankets which they make are the warmest covering imaginable. For these the northern hare or snowshoe rabbit skin, tanned with hair on, is used; it, too, is cut into strings and ' is closely woven. One can sleep out at 50 below zero rolled in one of these and be most comfortable. To make a fire the Ojibway first lays two birch logs of fair size parallel, about two feet apart; crossed on these he places spruce or tamaras, later, if an all-night fire is desired, heavy birch. Always he uses green birchbark for lighting; whether it is wet or not it surpassess even paper for the purpose and paper is not available for the North Woods Indian. Under treaty agreement all the Indians in the Height of Land region of Ontario receive from the Indian Department a supply of twine for fishnets. They are very deft in making these fishingnets for the Indian fishes with nets in preference to hook and line. They still make their own snowshoes, moccasins (from moose and deer skin), dog shoes and harness from the same material; and while many use steel traps, they also adhere to dead-fall methods in trapping. All in all they are, as I said above, a success in their own part of the world, nd it is well for us if we can take their hands and call them brothers. Many have called me "Nishishin Saginash" "good white man" and I am proud of their epithet. S. E. Sangster, in Boys' Life.
Tke Larches The larches are the lady pines You'd know it by their hair, And by their prim and dainty ways And by the gowns they wear. Their gowns are green, their hair is fine And fluffy In the breeze; And, just like girls, they huddle up Apart from other trees. Walter Prichard Eaton.
"FOUL BALL!" (A THRILLING ANIMATED MOVIE IN FOUR
iTH&WlSfflNGpLANB JL 6 M WILLI S WlHTSR j
The children never had dreamed of a palace Quite as large as the one they saw when the airplane landed them in front of the Palace at Versailles. You know this was where the Peace Treaty between the allies and Germany was signed. The palace is one of the most famous places in Europe. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago the place where the palace now stands wa3 just bare ground. A very vain king, called Louis XI V ruler of France at that time, decided that here would be an ideal place to build a great palace for himself. Books tell us that he spent one hundred million dollars to build the palace and to make the grounds about it beautiful. In 1871 when the war between France and Germany ended, the treaty was signed there too, but the Germans had won that war and France had to sign what Germany told them to. It would take me weeks to tell you all about the wonderful rooms See this Boy? HE is eating something. WHAT can it be? Can vou eruess? Whv it's ICE CREAM. WOULD you not like to have some. JOHN ERNEST CHARMAN. 240 SOUTH 4TII ST.. RICHMOND ,IND. (On type writer.) REELS)
in the palace and the costly furnishings. What Jack and Jane wanted the most to see and what you little folks want to hear about is the room in which all the great men from all of the countries in the world met to sign the treaty. In the first place this room is called "The Hall of Mirrors," because it is lined completely with great big looking glasses. Tho room is two hundred and thirty-five feet long. You will have to get mother or father to tell you Just how long that it. It isn't very wide though, maybe not fifty feet. The floor is of a beautiful tile, laid in a fancy pattern. The windows on one side of the hall look out over the great gardens surrounding the castle. At one end of this hall a little platform was erected and a table placed on the platform. At the table was one chair. When the treaty was ready for signing, the men stepped up one by one and wrote their names on it. First of all the two men picked by the Germans signed it, then President Wilson. After him came the men from the other big nations and then the smaller ones. The man who toog the children and their friends through the castla showed them where the platform bad been built and everything else about the room. He even showed them the inkstand with three ink wells In it which had been used during the signing of the treaty. This ink stand, he told them, is to be kept always as a relic of the great peace conference. The children saw, too, a tiny bell, which had been used to call all the delegates together at the meetings. This will be kept too he told the children. When the children had been through the palace they were taken next to the place where the German peace delegates stayed while they received the treaty. This was the Hotel Des Reservoirs. The children felt very proud to know that they were seeing the places about which the whole world had read for months during the peace conference, but were unable to see. Copyright, 1919.
JOKE While at a gathering an accomplished pianist. was ptaying a Liszt rhapsody when Rosalind, listening attentively shouted, "Why don't you sing it?" The pianist of course, could not go on, while the crowd roared with laughter, leaving little Rosalind wondering why such a nice piece has nd words. M. G. Joe has been spending his first vacation on a farm this summer. When he saw the chickens all lined up on the roost for the first time, he exclaimed, "How do they ever stick on to that grand stand while they are asleep?" E. L. R. Arthur attended children's party. at which the refreshments served were lemonade and cookies. The hostess saw that Arthur was not drinking his lemonade, so asked him if he didnt care for it. "O, yes," he answered. "Lemonade is all right, but ice cream is my favorite." G. II. Melba has a habit of sucking her finger. Her mother promised her a , pearl ring on her birthday if she would stop the habit. At the end of the first day she Inquired: "Ma, if I had the ring on my finger don't you think I could remember more better?" L. T. Randall, when asked why he didn't take his turn in the swing with his playmates, attempted to describe the feling of dizziness that swinging gave him, thus: "I don't like to swing, Lt gives me such an airy feeling in my stomach." E. K. Mother could not find her garden tools that James had been playing with and said, "Now, James, try and remember what yon did with mother's little hoe and rake." After studying a short time he said. "My think Just won't work backwards." Necetity. "They say that one person can live well on ten cents a week by folowing theconversation diet. Do you believe It's possible?" "No, but I'm going to have io prove that it's possible when Christmas Is over."