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EDITORIAL
"OLD GLORY"
"America For Americans'
CALLED THEM INDIANS.
How the Red Men of This Country
Cams to Get That Name.
"But," said the little girl who has
now reached the dignity of owning a
geography, "why did they call the peo
ple they found In this country 'Indi
ans?' The people who live in India
ought to be called by that name."
Now, that was a very appropriate
question for the little girl to ask. And
the answer to the little girl and to any
other little girls and boys who may be
puzzled by the same thing Is that Co
lumbus and his men didn't start out to
discover America. They didn't, of
course, know there was any America
hero. What they did believe was that
the world was round and that by sail
ing far enough they would come tip on
the other side. Ton all know now that
what they believed is true, but in those
days most people believed that the
world was flat and that if a ship sailed
far enough out into the ocean it would
fall off the edge.
Columbus said that if he took a ship
and sailed and sailed he would at last
come to India. Now, India was a very
rich country, and for hundreds of years
Europe had been trying to And an
easier way to get there, so what Co
lumbus said appealed to a good many
merchants and traders, and Spain final
ly fitted out some ships for Columbus.
You all know that Columbus finally
did reach America, but he believed he
had sailed clear around the world and
had come to India from the other side,
so he named the people he found on the
shore "Indians." And after It was
found that this was not India, but a
new world, people went on calling the
people Indians because that was as
good a name as any for them, they
thought.—Kansas City Star.
English Is Bad Enough.
"Why talk of the difficulty of pro
nouncing Polish, Austrian, Russian or
Roumanian names," says a writer Id
the San Francisco Chronicle, "when
ninety-nine out of every hundred can
not pronounce scores and scores 01
English names? Just think of Bertie
pronounced as Barty, Dilwyn as Dillon,
Belvolr as Beever, Featherstonhaugh
as Festnnhaw, Dalzell as Dee-el, Ruth
ven as Rlwen. And these are by no
means the worst cases!"
Man's Perversity.
If the law were to edict that man
and wife should never he together for
mora than six months in the year it
■would be broken every day and men
and women would stand hunger and
stripes to come together for twelve
rnonthj in twelve: If love of home were
made a crime a family life would arise
more touching, than anything Queen
Victoria ever dreamed.—W. L. Georg*
In Atlantic.
Happily Disposed Of.
"Mr. Beats," the grocer said wearily,
'1 ask you for the last time, will yon
pay that $20 you owe me?"
"For the last time?" Beats replied
cheerfully. "I'm glad to hear you say
that, old man. Ybu know, I was get
ting awfully tired of hearing you ask
that foolish question:" — New Tork
Times
Inspiration
Miscellany
Do Your Work Well.
It Is necessary that we work before
we can enjoy recreation, for without
work there can be no such thing as rec
reation.
We are pificed In a world full of work
by a wise Creator, and it Is our means
of Justifying our existence to him and
our fellow men.
It Is our only reliable source of per
manent happiness and contentment as
well as the means of worldly advance
ment
AU work Is service, either directly or
Indirectly, and I think that that feel
ing of satisfaction and contentment
that comes over us at the end ot a
day's work well done can be traced
back to the rule that "it is more blessed
to give than to receive." If we can'
look back over our day's work and feel'
that we have given to it the best that
there Is In us we have done everything.
This applies to the humble laborer a*
well as to the highest official. The Job
doesn't matter; it is how it Is done
that counts. A day's work well done
Is one of life's greatest achievement*.
f>p your best every day at what you
are doing now and your advancement
will take care of itself. He who is de
pending on some special dispensation
of Providence for his advancement la
doomed to disappointment
So the next time wo feel that we are
tired of our work or that we have to
work too hard let's reflect that a "soft
Job will never get us anywhere," for it
is only through hard, difficult work that
the best there is in na Is developed, and
therein lie our greatest opportunities.
—John BurretL
TRAVEL AS AN EDUCATOR.
Seeing the World and Ita Wonders
Broaden* the Mind.
Millions of peoplo never travel. Rls
lug day after day. they look out open
the same scenes, go through the same
dally tasks and tumble Into the same
bed again at night, no different than
they were the day before.
Each year thousands are traveling
for the first time, not only the wealthy,
but the middle class and even the poor
est. They are coming to view travel
not as an extravagance, bat as the
price of cbmfort, health, experience
and knowledge. Ocean liners are ver
itable floating hotels, with ballroom*,
promenades and conservatories, while
trains are the last word In comfort
wl(h their thickly upholstered seats
and handsomely appointed dining cars
with up to the minute service.
The educational value of travel Is bo
flnnlng to have the greatest weight
Boys and girls who have been to the
best schools help complete their edu
cation by seeing the world or sach
parts of it as their time and circum
stances will permit The grown op
who is wise realizes the broadening In
fluence of travel and counts each day
well spent that brings him new expe
riences In foreign fields. No one can
fall to be uplifted by seeing some of
God's masterpieces or the handiwork
of man In picture, sculpture, cathedral
and splendid public edifices. Nor Is It
necessary to leave one's own country.
There Is plenty to be seen and learned
In our home land If we will only go In
search of It—Kathleen Hills In Les
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An Effective
Introduction
By ALAN HINSDALE
There are persons who have known
each otlier by sight for years and never
a wonl spoken between them because
they have never been Introduced. On
the otlter hand, there aro thoee who,
under some strong emotion, have at a
first meeting rushed Into each other"!
arms. This Is a story Illustrating the
latter feature.
Jim Conover, plainsman, aged twenty
five, long of limb, with a countenance
frank and fear'.esH, was riding through
a wood on one of the foothills of the
Rocky mountains. A rifle was slung
from one side of his sadtllebow and a
lasso from the other.
Suddenly he reined in his horse and,
sitting stock still, listened. He had
beard a shot
This was In the days when the In
dian still inhabited the plains, when
hundreds of thousands of buffaloes \
fed In huge droves.
There was little variety on the plains
tn those days, and Conover knew that
If the shot had not been fired at a buf
falo It had been Intended for either a
white man or an Indian. He had no
Idea of showing himself to either party
till he learned the situation. Dismount
ing, he left his horse to nibble while
he skulked, shielding himself behind
trees, in the direction of the sound.
Presently he ronched the edge of the
wood, and, looking down on to the
open, he saw a wagon, behind which
huddled a man, a woman and half a
dozen youngsters, the oldest being a
girl Just entering womanhood. Be
yond, hiding behind a rock or a bush
or any inequality in the ground, were
Indians. Conover saw several and
Judged that there were something like
half a dozen in all.
How was Conover to save them?
Save them he must, but without aome
stratagem his single rifle would not
suffice. But he had that one rifle and
a fair stock of ammunition. Ills pre»
ence was as yet unknown to either par
ty. How could he make himself a dan
ger to the Indians and encourage the
whites?
An Indian rose from out of a bush
and ran swiftly, intending to take cov
er hearer to the wagon. Conover had
brought his rifle to a ready and shot
the redskin on the wing. The shot pro
duced a change both in the Indians and
the besieged party, the former sticking
closer to their protecting objects, the
latter vainly looking to see where the
bullet that killed the Indian had come
from. One thing they knew—it was
from a friend.
Colleger's quick eye, which was dart
ing about him for advantageous posi
tions, caught 6lght of a tree some dis
tance to his right, the lower limbs of
which were within his reach. Bending
low and protected by bushes, he gained
this tree and In a few seconds had
reached the upper branches. Concealed
by leaves, he had an excellent view of
the Indians. He could see every one
of them and counted ten. Taking de
liberate aim, ho sent a bullet at the
one farthest In advance, and he rolled
over dead.
A shot from two different points put
consternation into the Indians and
hope Into the whites. Conover sent
several shots among the Indians, kill
ing or wounding one with every shot;
then, descending quickly to the ground
and taking a different position, he
flred asain, though this time, not see
ing an Indian, his shot was without
effect.
There were now half a doten Indians
in the attacking party, and the prob
lem for them was not how to get for
ward, but how to get away without
betas picked ofT by this new enemy.
Xho father of the white family, having
evidence that he was being assisted by
an unseen force, took courage and used
his rifle to advantage—not that he
killed auy Indians, for they were cov
ered, but that they were obliged to con
sider htm as an effective enemy.
Conover kept on firing at the Indiana,
but never from the same point One
shot would be sent from under a low
bush, the nest from the branch of a
tree thirty feet from the ground. The
shots from above were the only ones
that were effective.
Thinking to take a last shot from a
treetop where ho could soe his target,
Conovor saw from his perch that sev
eral new men had Joined the Indians
ari tlicy were all grouped together In
conference, some of them looking up
to where he was as though In doubt as
to his being as dangerous an enemy as
he appeared. Oiwver's rifle was of
long range, and h<r fired a ball right
Into the group. This startled them, and
another shot quickly following the first
put them on the run.
Conover now believed that the fight
was over and If not he could work to
better advantage with his allies, so he
went down and Joined them.
"How many of yon are there?" asked
the father.
"I'm the only one,'' was the reply.
"You don't mean that you've driven
off all those red devils alone?"
"Oh, I spread myself."
"See here, stranger," said the man,
with a tremor In his voice, "you've
saved me and my family from mas
sacre. My children will thank you.
Tills Is my daughter"—
Conover heard no more. A pair of
arms were thrown about his netfk atod
a face snuggled up against him, and
he could hardly have disengaged him
self If he had wished to do so. The
girl referred to had'a good grip onblm
and showed no sign of letting bim-go.
This explains the Introduction in the
beginning of this story.
W&i
fraternal orders
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagw&r No. 1.
A. B. meets ®very »«*
ond aafl fourth! Tues
day eT&nlng at 8:30 P
m. stwrp. Vleritlag brothers cordial
ly welcome. J. M. Tanmor, Arctic
Chijfif. W. B. Margraves, Arctic Re
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P. & A. M. No. 113
meet* 2d and 4th
Saturday Evenings
of each months. Visiting Brethren
ar* welcome.
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JAMES WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
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day night at 8:30
o'clock. Visiting
brothers cordially welcome.
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f. J. VJWDHWALL, Secretary.
Plohfter of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* In A. B. Han first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. m.
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come.
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P. H. Doree, Hoc. See.
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