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, ..mageipmmito . • Tiff MELSTONE GRAPHIC • a R. A. LOCKRIDGE MELSTONE, MONTANA. Pauline Wayne may go on the stage in a rural drama. If baseball were taught in the schools there would be no truancy Will college football set about to equal aviation's record of fatalities? ileadlinea are made for the lazy who do not care to do much reading, When a joy rider is driving a mo- tor car while watching a biplane he is certainly up to date. What's the use of going over Ni agara Falls in a barrel when you can buy an aeroplane? cost of living In Chicago is cheaper than It is in New York.\ But who wants to live in Chicago? Some T.esslinistie person has pre- dicted a cold winter. Still, he may be interested in a woolen factory. Chicago theaters a:a to be per- fumed, but the stock yards will keep on doing business at' the old stand. Has anybody stopped to figure out what was do'no with all the money be- fore people began to buy automobiles? Over 92,000,000 young lobsters have been liberated off the Maine coast. Just in. time for the theatrical season. A woman who wedded a poet com- plains he cOuldn't support her. Evi- dently she found married life blank verse An inventive person in Boston le said to have built an automatic worn. an that talks. It wouldn't bc a wee man if it didn't The fellow who looked Into the gun to find out whether It was loaded is now adding 'to. the gayety of nations by eating toadstools. The pastor who declared childless wives should be deported struck I? heavy blow at the attendance upon the %untie! mothers' congress. - A writer says that every time two people are married one of them wins a great victory. Yes, we were licked that way once ourselves. A Joesoyite suffering from atteurna- tism case In contact with a live wire and Was cured. However, it is not likely that live wires will become popular. A Cleveland woman has secured a divorce notwithstanding the fact that her husband did not chew, smoke, drink, swaar nor stay out at night. Perhaps he snored. Several times roosters have been enjoined from crowing, but It took an Iowa court the other day to enjoin 001003 from smelling This may prop- erly be defined an strong action. In Brooklyn a woman has secured n divorce because her husband carried out the garbage for another lady. Evi- dently they do not regard loving one's neighbor as a virtue in Brooklyn. Andre Jaegerschmidt. who traveled around the world in forty days, In a Frenchman. Wo mention this merely to prevent our readers from gaining the impression that he is an irish• man In autumn, moro than ever, we re- alize that the year that promised so much in its gladamne springtime, moves in an Inevitable cycle, subser- vient to the Infinite and eternal law of causation. Speaking of easy money, a Chicago girl has just inherited $20.000 because her name is Jane. Besides. being named Jane Is its own reward. A New Jersey hotel keeper has is- sued an order prohibiting his wait- resses from talking to traveling men who eat In his dining -room, lie must want to got rid of the patronage of the traveling men We are told that a hawk tried to pick a diamond stud out of the shirt front of an unsuspecting citizen of Now Jersey Those Jersey hawks are becoming almost as formidable as Jersey 'skeeters Summer Resorts Offered Uncle Sam YOU CANT BEAT TH . 15 —IT'S A BARGAI0 I .? I W \SIIINGTON.—if Uncle Sam want- ed to go into the summer resort uesiness, now would be his golden op- portunity, lie has scores of chances to acquire for -a song hotel and resort property of great scente beauty, though possibly of little commercial value, according to the agents boom- ing them. Whether Uncle Sam will \bite\ will depend upon the national forestry commission. The efforts to sell are being made under the Weeks— Forestry law, other- wise known as the Appalachian Forest Reserve act. Last spring, when ad- vertisements were issued for land to be purchased with the $11,000,000 appro- priated by that law, the rush began. It has continued since then until near- ly every owner of a \busted down - at -the -heel summer resort In the moun- tain sections of the southeastern states and New England has tried to unload upon the government. Already over 2,000.000 acres have been offered tor sale to the govern- ment All of this is not summer re- sort property, but a considerable pro. - portion of It is The resort property Is not offered for the buildings on it. but for the beautiful \parks' about them, which are always heavily- tim- bered and suitable for forestry put , pose's, according to the promoters if all the land offered were to be bought it would probehly cost Uncle Sam $100,000.000 instead or $11.000,000. One of the leading summer resort \forest reservations\ which the gov- ernment has been asked to buy 113 the Natural Bridge in Virginia, for which something like a quarter of a million is wanted. Accompanying the offer was a beautiful painting of the bridge, which was great for scenic beauty, but did not seem to be much for tim- ber. No charge was made for the pic- ture, it was explained. A large number of other resort and hotel properties In the bite Moun- tains and the much advaltised \Land Of the Sky,\ or \Sapphire Country,\ of Car'olina are being offered to the government at. ridiculous prices— whether ridiculously high or rldleu• Musty low will be tor the forestry corn mission to say. To Auction Off Decrepit T IIE contemplated sale by the United States goverement of 43 warships classed as obsolete in the latest navy report will open an extensive field to the battleship. broker. The lot will in. chide battleships, armored and pro- tected cruisers, monitors and gun- boats. Rapid development in the building of dreadnoughts has caused battleships and other war craft which ten years ago were coneldered formid- able, to fall behind present require- ments. Consequently the government plans -to get rid of them, either by breaking them up and selling them as junk, or disposing of them to South American republics. Among the battleships classed as ob- solete are the Kearsarge. Kentucky, Alabama, Maine. Maesachusetts, in. diana, Ohio. Oregon, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. It coat to build them $6.4,405,225. When the Kearsarge and the Kentucky were put In com- mission several years ago they were This Country Warships imong the finest battleships afloat The cruisers doomed to the scrap heap are the Brooklyn, New York, St. (Mills, Charleston and Milwaukee. The Brooklyn was Admiral Schley's flag- ship at the battle of Santiago. Vise total cost of these is $20,350,275. The unarmored cruisers that were 'service- able in the Spanish war, but In a mod- ern sea battle couldn't approach the enemy within ,ten miles or more, are the Olympia, Dewey's flagship at the battle of Manila bay; the Raleigh, Baa timore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston. Marblehead, Atlanta, Philadelphia. San larancheco, Montgomery, Minneapolin. and Columbia Total cost, $25,965,782. Full of Foreign Spies S l'IES, according to reports in Wash- ington, are still at work finding out tor the nations which they represent the secrets of this country's defense. Not satisfied with their \military at- taches\—sometitnee called the title of a spy not In disguise—these nations. directly or indirectly, have bpen work- ing all the time throughout the world collecting Information. In New York itself there are doubt- less many spies besides the commie. , Some years ago a young lieutenant in , a foreign army spent Ills vacation on this side of the Atlantic, admittedly reporting to his government the vara City Forester Prost of Chicago pro- poses a new manual for the boy scouts. Instead of marching about with toy gum he would have them equipped with grubbing hoes and dispatched in a war of exterminntion against the weeds of Chicago This would result In two things good' forthe boys—they would learn the 'mince of the weeds aad would secure healthful exercise It would benefit the public by doing away with the weeds outs activities of the United States, es- pecially In some of their tsarina pro- tectorates lie returned to his nome country, and nothing more was heard of him for several years. One day toward the end of 1910 a man who Mid met this talker on Ms first visit was Much surprised to meet him again on a ferryboat at New York city. The °nicer was dressed In eiv- Illan clothes and either did not recog- nize his former acquaintance or pre- tended not to recognize him. When addressed, however, he readily ac- knowledged his identity. lie said he was In this country permanently anti was working in a factory on Staten Island This factory was within halt an hour's walk of seine of the most important fortifications on the Atlantic seaboard. Some time later the acquaintance called up the factory to see if the man was still there. Ho was not, but had left shortly after the Interview on the ferrybont. Draughtsmen Separated From Pay -Roll E IGHTY draughtstnen, whose annual salaries aggregate a quarter of a million dollars. were dispensed with at the end of last month.. l'his force has been busy for years making inel %/dual plane for the government's pub- lic buildings throughout the land The treasury officials. In taking stock of cash on hand, found that they had only money enough to pay these draughtsmen Therefore they asked congress for $200,000 to ' keep them on the payroll tor the next nine months, completing the fiscal year. -But there was nothing extra coming from congress to meet such a situa tion anti It was suggested that as the government has over six hundred drawn 11111I111 for all kinds of public buildings the draughtsmen could ete dispensed with and new buildings au- thorized built upon plans already made use of. Of course without the necessary money the treastura•officiala had to let the draughtsmen go. Tho old prac- tice of carrying clerks when there was no 0100e3' to pay them with and hale Mg congress make up the deficit when convenient does not appeal to the of- ficials in the departments any longer. Several years ago ta law was passed making It RD offense for an official w create a deficit or to use money ap- propriated for one specific purpose for another purpose for which the regular appropriation had become exhausted. Not only will there be a saving of $250,000 for the present fiscal year, but there will also go on indefinitely a saving of a quarter of a million dot - bars each year. ,There are now In the United States, efected and In use, 662 public build Inge, costing from $26,000 to $8,000,00u each, the last named figure being the cost of the Now York custom house \BILLY BOWLEGS A very small Indian boy with a very long Indian name crouched behind a grassy knoll In a Florida swamp one day in 1836. With a bow as tall as himself he was sending a succession of arrows Into a group of desperately lighting United States soldiers. It' was the battle In which brave Major Dade and his little body .of troops were wiped out by Osceola's fierce Seminole warriors. Osceola (as an earlier article of this series told) took actual command of the Semi- noles; bet their Sachem was Micanopy an old man. The little boy with the big bow was Micanopy's grandson. From babyhood he was a ferocious, war -loving little chap Ills efforts to sit astride the broad backs of the natlye horses and ponies had bent his legs into odd shape. The Indians often nicknamed each other from some peculiarity of face, figure or action. So the lad's real name was quickly forgotten and he was known through life as \Billy Bowlegs \ Such, at least, was the way the Americans translated his longer Spanish title of \Guillermito a las piernas corvas.\ A Boy Warrior. The Dade battle was the first of Billy's many fights. In it he slew sev- eral white men and, by reckless cour- age as well as by Seminole cunning he won then a fame that wets soon to spread throughout the United States. Osceola had wrought terror and desolation front one end of the Semi- nole cetintry to the other. When he was treacherously seized while going to a conference under a flag of truce, the govte nment thought It would be easy to farce his leant:Hese tribesmen into stibmiselon. But the war -fires Osceola !lad lighted were not to be so easily quenched. For years the conflict dragged on before the author- ities were able to ship the sullen Seminoles west, to the reservation laid out for them As it was, about 350 of the fiercest refused to go and managed to escape the government's agents by hiding in the Everglades. These re- bellions Seminoles chose Billy Bow- legs for their sachem, or head chief. Many years had passed since the Dade fight and Billy had grown to full manhood Ile was a crack shot, • ff a weitrior of marvelous strength and endurance, and had, moreover, the faculty of escaping from every tight piace In a hich be Chanced to find him- self This last-named quality led his aupeestitioas followers to believe Billy han the power to make himself invis- ible. At one time he secretly led a party of his braves on a sixty-nsile march away from their Everglades stronghold to Lake Kissimmee, where at daylight he fell upon the fort there and well-nigh carried It by storm be - tore the rarge garrison was fairly awake. Beaten back at last by super- ior numbers, he retreated in good or- der. -• Captain Clarke. commandant of the fort, led u party of soldiers In pursuit of the retreating Indians. This suited Billy Bowlegs perfectly. lie en- trenched his men around a little hill, and peureci forth such a galling, dead- ly fire that the troops were beaten back with heavy loss. Reinforcements were hurried to the spot by General Hartley, who hoped to catch the Semi- noles before they could get back to the safety of the Everglades But Billy Bowlegs was too clever tor him. The war department, angry at the Seminole leader's audacious raids, sent a big expedition under Colonel townie to crush -him. Loomis divided his force and attacked, the Everglades from many different points. One com- pany was so fortunate as to come upon a party of Indians who were car- rying their wives and children to a place of safety. Billy Bowlegs. was leading the fugitives. The troops gal- loped down upon the Indians, shoot- ing, slashing and capturing But when the smoke of battle cleared awa l y it Naas found that Billy Bowlegs had escaped—as usual. Force, diplomacy, trickery, bribery, were all tried against him in vain. Billy could not be caught. At length, little by little, Ms best fol- lowers were killed or imprisoned, and the brave old chief was *glom of all his power, lie was oesl, for the sake of the Seminoles who remained. to sue for peace. With 165 of his peo- ple he was sent to Indian Territory. But the surrender broke his proud heart. Within a few months after his removal from the Everglades he died. UNCAS \My heart is not my own; it Is yours. My braves are not mine, but yours. Command, and I obey. I will trust the English before I will trust mine own people. The Indian that -plays an Englishman shall die by my hand.\ The man who made this speech -of loyalty to a group of grim -visaged Pu- ritans was Uncas, sachem and hero Nor were his words mere Idle boast- ing had already proved their truth, and was yet to prove it in a tar more dramatic way. Uncaa was born about 1688 Ile was a sub•chief of the Pequot nation, and up to middle ago had had no adven tures especially well worth relating. 13ut in 1635 he headed a party of mal- contents against the Pequot sachem Sassacus In the fierce little war that followed Uncles was expelled from his \nation.\ But he took with him a band of loyal followers and formed a new tribe' which he called the \Mohe- gans\ (an ancient name of the Pe - quota). Ile made himself chief of the Mohegans, and conquered for them a fine stretch of land near where Lyme, Conn., now stands. Then he turned his attention to avenging himself on hie old enemies, the Pequots. A Deed of Vengeance. The Mohegans were not 'strong enough to tackle thorn single-handed. so he signed a peace treaty with the English settlers of New England, and in 1637 joined the colonists in their expedition against . the Pequot nation Micas guided the soldiers to the Pe - quota' chief stronghold, a village forti- fied by high wooden palisades So fiercely did the English and Mohegans assault this town that all but four- teen of its Pequot inhabitants were Slain Then up and down through the Pequot country Uncas led the attack, Until the whole \nation\ that once had cast him out was subdued. In reward Uncas received ,ft largo slice of the Pequot lands When the war was tics Welly over he threw himself heart and soul into an effort to save the sur- vivors of his crushed enemies from punishment at the hands of the Eng- lish So eagerly did he Interfere to rescue the Pequote that the English' 'eciared Mtn 11 traitor and he narrow 'v eeeeped with his life. But Uncas quickly proved hie fidelity to the Eng- lish, and did so in such emphatic fashion that the Pequots deemed him a double traitor and plotted to murder him. Uncas swiftly avenged this murder plot by, swooping down upon Segues - son, the Connecticut river sachem, and laying waste his village's. Next he (mind himself involved in a quarrel with ailantonomoh, sachem of the mighty Narragansett nation. htlanto- nomoh had beerf, accused of conspir- ing to massacre the white neuters in 1640 and again In 1612 the Narragan- sett sachem had been arrested and brought before the Massachusetts magistrates on this charge and rind had much trouble In clearing himself, alinntonomott dared not attack the white men, but wreaked his spite by invading the country of their allies, the Mohegans. The Narragansett's. 1,* strong, marched Into -Uncas's territory, destroying all in their path. 'Incas could scrape together barely 600 men to Meet the invaders. The two forces met near the Yantic river falls. Battle and Victory. A terrific conflict followed. By mar- tial skill and utter reckless courage Uncas defeated the Narragansetts— double the number of his own force— and captured Miantonomoh. Instead of dealing with his fallen foe In usual fashion, he carried Minntonomoh be- fore a council of Massachusetts elders, who promptly condemned the captive to die. Uncas's / own brother was per- mitted to strike the death blow All the local tribes now combined against the Mohegans, and but for the aid - sent him by the English Uncas must. have been overwhelmed. As It wits. , he fought for years like a tiger against his allied fd4e, and held his own against them. Thomas Leilingwela a. settler, smuggled provisions to hint once, when In 1656 he was besieged by the Nnmegansetts. Uncas, in grat- itude, gave Leflingwell (lie tract of land now occupied by Norwich, Conn. Uncas lived on until 1682, dying at 1. the ago of ninety-four. To the end he refused to embrace his white. al- lies' religion, and was described by Massachusetts clergymen In 1679 as \an old and Wicked, wilful man,\ e, • A • •
