Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1923, Page 28

PAGE FOUR Casper Sunday orning Tribune A PAGE FOR THE CHILDREN---STORIFS BY CASPER A Review of the Oregon Trail. h whose to pass Shawanoe, Kicka foot, Sioux, Da Pawnees and Kickapoos wei hostfie and aused the travelers much trouble. Dakotas however, were friendly, 1 often traveled with them. EVELYN LOGAN, a In snowing and in blowing In the cruel sleet, The flowers begin their growing, Far beneath our feet. Softly taps the Spring and cheer- ily, 4 “Darlings, are you here?” Till they answer, “We are nearly Nearly ready, dear.” Where is Winter with her snow- ing? “Tell us, Spring,” they say. Then she answers, “She is going, Going far away.” Poor old Winter does not love you, For hie time has passed. Soon my birds will sing above you, Set you free at last LAWRENCE JORGENSEN, East Casper, Grade 7. ——_ Mamma's Birthday Gift ULIA and her little sister, Kate, Went out to the yard one fine morning—Julla to work and Kate to emmuse herself as best she could. Julla seated herself in her father’s Dig rustic chair and began to work on a nice warm shawl she was mak ing for her mother’s birthday pres- ent. Kate had her doll and her dog, and for a time she played merrily with them. But when she tried to make the doll ride on the dog’s back the dog (ia like it, so he laid dawn by J a's chair. No amount of coaxing could move him, and at Inst Kate cried out, “Oh, what shall I do? Rover won't play, and I can’t play not alone. Ju an't you come and play with me?” Julla looked up from her work and emiled ae she said, “Na, little sister, Julia can’t play now, as she must get mamma's present ready for tomdrrow, but you you will, and I know her nico shawl all ttle Kate helps * mid Kate, “what can this skein of yarn for le I wind it into a nice bail I can finish the shawt,” me paki ia, K like all good little girts, was aiwayn ready the stretched her fat Itthe hands cut wile white Julia placed the skein of hem and wound {t into a © shéd was winding the yarn. Kate a beautiful story of littl 1 her mother pleased that she threw down the yarn teil her who helped wag « ae house to going to grow ® that mot * What faat, wo a, Ter cirl and wala, to help 1 Kate, “when your me? to ma mak mw bu she sald pathin, Bo next morning Jutia placed t haw! on her shoulders, saying, Kate and me, for Aor you ha ther was as not known AIL] LESKELA, , Grade 6, to help her mother, so | ] [Editor’s Note—The Tribune will print each week in the Magazine Section of the Sunday paper prose and verse by the pupils of the schoo Only the best articles will be printed, and each week an Honor Roll will be pub- lished, containing the names of the three best stories of the preceding week and the authors. The Tribune Story Con- test Editor will judge the stories and announce the winners weekly. All the stories are written in school, under the teacher’s supervision, and the contestants are not permitted to get help from their parents or from older persons, in the com- position.] _———— > : ie were years of womlerful prospe Pioneera’ of (Wyoming © | es) ea) of wondesrt pompous tlers came to our state Curing these Maze + ah ietentts rsa and took up government land, I k making their homes along our sate begrpavend ms, and fencing in their posses- Delawa name Maughnyaun | vama. The schoo's then were one-room we were mal explorers, trad-| buildings, with windows on each side. trappers, miasic scien-| and heat as well. ‘Their seats were | not as comfortable as ours today, but tists and glory-seekers who passed| tho. were quite comfortab The Re ee Ty now Known 8) children had to walle about two and : oa sq men were), half miles to school. Sometimes Nerendrye, pwns “explored ainidtd8y | sige radeon) ponten! ‘olter, in 18 nt in 1811; 8 - ae ae is Thin esis The size of their homes differed. mons in 1847, and California gola| depending upon the famtly. They were bullt of lozs and had sod roofs. Some of the walls had regular wall Although they di¢n’t have seekers in 1849. These explorers encountered many A seat, 2 paper. difficulties and endured many hard-| tng aHeaters and donvaniences we snipe. ‘The Indians were notialways |). cow they) wereies (HADEy ae friendly; there wero many depreda- we are now. They had husking- bees and sometimes dances at which all had merry time. Some tions and food was often scarce. a vanced civilization never will be able to pay its debt to the explorer, th a very 7, ares none frontiersman and the ploncera—all of | times the parents would tell the 3 whom have made present conditions| Gren stories at night which would possib'e. For the protection of thesa| Sometimes be continued eae | Pathfinders and settlers the govern. | three months. They usually had pro | ment established forts and military | 8Tams at Christmas time in a posta. The earliest of these is Fort | Wn homes. Although they didn have the books and things we have today, the boys and girls then were Laramie, on the North Piatte river, not far from tho Nebraska line. At | this place we have the first settle. | Just as interested !n the sckool ment of our ‘e, Wyoming. This| Work as we are ‘now. fort was a trading post, and fur| The Brooke Ranch is 18 miles business for years centered around |from Casper. The Brooks children went to school two and a half miles from their ranch, which they caled “The Little Red Schoolhouse.” In this school the chiléren furnishe4 their own books. They had Sunday school in the schoolhouse. Occaston- ally a minister came out from Cas- per. Our schools have improved rapidly. The geneal supervision of the pub- Me schools is entrusted to the Super- intendent of Public Instruction. Wy- oming has a system of free textbooks, and free education is given by the this locality. The fort was first built in 1834 and passed afterwards into the hands gf the American Fur com- pany who rebuilt it in 1836 of sun- drial bricks The government, in 1849, purchased the fortress as one of a series along the Overland Trail, | which were located to protect the set: tlers, but moro particularly to guard the lives of the emigrants secking western homes. For this same rea- son Fort Fetterman was established | near Doug's and Fort Caspar. By this overland route throush Wyom ing, thousands of emigrants went to |state to all children between the Oregon, The trafl made by the|ae5 of 6 and 21 years. stages can be traced yet when tray PLR ie cling over our prairies, | MEL! HIKANY, Sast Casper School, Grade 8th-A. Freighting over this great overland | highway became quite extensive in | 1856. This was followed by the Pony ° Express and a regularly established The Japanese Girl stage route. It took twenty days —_— to make the journey from St. Joseph. Mo., td Salt Lake l The | HERE was a Japanese girl, who City, h. was just coming home from posts were also used as stopping sta-| school, Her name was Yum Yum. tons to change horses and make | she was loved very much by the chil- necessary repairs, The years 1865,| dren in her home town. That evening she went up to seo |the children's teacher, whose name Union Pacific ratiroaq com-|was Miss Mann. Yum Yum had in- Dany began to cross the stato in 1847 | tended to teach right there at home. ‘68, and '67 were filled with bloody | ware and massacres. and rapidly pushed west over Sgr | But Mann maid she had to go to southern aren & baock-of-the-mountain piace for a During the territorial days, stock- | while. ralsing was the greatest industry of| The next day sho started, When Wyoming. Tho years uf 1880 to 1882! she got to the bridge that was on PICTURE PUZZLE 4 LENGTHENING DAYS OLD Good-by, Winter, You're almost gone, With all your merry sports and play; Old Father Sun is shining bright, And he will melt the snow away. So come and skate, and coast and slide; It won't be very long, you know; With wind and shine and lengthening days, Old Winter soon is bound to go. Good-by, good-by, to sled and skates, Good-by to snow man, melting fast; They'll all be memories very soon, For winter days can’t always last. } prised to see the children coming to meet her. They were dirty Uttle things. | As socn as she reached where they were going to hold school she began 0 The Lost Kitten NE day a boy was walking along to clean it up also, | the str@et. This boy’s name was After “a little while Miss Mann|7*°K- Jack was feeling very good came to see if she was ready to re-| ‘MS nice day and was whistling mer- turn home. Yum Yum said that she as he hurried to catch the bus could not return then, because she next corner, when a faint had grown to love the children very| reached his ears, much. Miss Mann sald that she| The boy was about to go on when must like her backtof-th@mountain|he thought to look around and see ome, and Yum Yum said she did like} where the souna me from.. He it very much, spled a little kitten 1: in the snow ng almost dead Jack picked !t up and started for home WILMA GUSTIN, Elk School, Grade 5. | | | | On the way home he met a big j bully, “Put that cat down," he sald, “that's my “But he fs almost dead,” said Jack. ‘Dead or no dead,| I put him dewn, T say “Can I buy AGO was a great hunter, boaster| Hm?" asked Jack. “All the money and story-teller you have buy him said the bully. up tricks ia Tago the Wise Hunter He often thought to ‘catch the: antieay | n 8 Isxall I have but I'll give} it to yc eplied Jac! One fay? Tago! went hunting. ivia| "= «omy ae eee ee a Painted a rope brown with grqen| .07 the way home Jack thought leaves and red berries on it. ‘Then | What his mother would say when she found out he had spent his bus| fare that way. ‘What is the matter| he mado a lasso of it and hung it| On a brush, A giraffe, an elephant, | @ lion und a monkey came to eat| With you?” asked Jack's mother, as the berries—or what they thought |e came in the door, were berries. They got their heads! Then Jack told how ‘he had bought through the lasso, Iago then pulled| the kitten with his bus fare, but told! the rape and re had them tight, He! his mother that he would start on threw them over his buck to take to| his errand again right away and walk his wigwam. He slready had quite|both ways. When he had finished a bit of fur and ment, he hung his head and waited for a| Iago went home and told the pav-| Severe scolding, ple his trick. They laughed and| “Since you have cone such a kind Praised him and sa'd he was very| deed, I will give you your dime. If brave. Iago admitted this himself. | you hurry you can atill catch the ELEANOR SHUMAKER, | bus.” FLOYD SMITH, Park School, Grade 4. West Casper, Grade 5. | mata | could find no trace of her. but his mother said.| pome WINTER SOON IS BOUND TO GO” Pohachanta | WHERE was once a beautiful In- dian maiden whose name was! Pohachanta. She was so beautiful| that all the young warriors wanted to mar her, but Pohachanta did not care to wed, so she always said “No” to the warriors. Her father's name was Blue Heart. s he was chief of the tribe he| could Co anything he wanted ta with Pohachanta. He woud whip her when some fine warrior would| ask her to marry him and she re| fused. One day when a warrior named Red Deer had asked Poha- chanta td be his wife and she had refused Blue Heart gave her a severo| beating. That night when the campfires had died out and all was still, Pohachanta siippe§ on her mocassins and best deer skin dress and got a fine horse. Then, very quietly, she sped quickly away from the camp She had heard of a white man's village about ® hundred miles from there, so she decided to go there and hide or else marry some white man. When Blue Heart learned that Po- hachanta was gdne he ordered Red Deer to go after her. “Go and bring Pobachanta back.” he said, “and do not be long about it “What if I can not get her?” asked Rel Deer, “You alther bring Pohachanta back with you or be killed,” said Blue Heart growing more angry every | minute. Red Deer started out to hunt the but it was all in vain. He Soon he became known to the Indians as the “Wandering Warrior.” In the meantime Pohachanta had gono to the white man’s village and had married a man namd John Hilds- man. After a while Red Deer heard that Pohachanta was hiding in a settle ment some @istance from the en- campment of the Indians, and he started out to find her. It happened that Pohachanta’s husband was at when Red Deer came up to the door of the cabin. “I want Pohachanta to come home with mo,” said Red Deer, “But she is my wife.” said John Hildsman. “I cannot let her go." | Longfellow wag born. “You will be sorry for this,” sid Red Deer. That night the village was burned and Pohachanta and John Hilds man were burned, too. The hil still stands where Po hachanta was burned. It {s called ‘Hill of Disaster” by the Indians. FRANCES RAY. Park School, Grade 7. Henry W. Longfellow N PORTLAND, Maine, on Febru- ary 1807, Henry Wadsworth He lived by a bay, and tn back of the city was 27, a forest, where Indians still wan- dered. His grandfather lived with him, Wren he was a man he went to |Cambridge, Mass, end became a school teacher and wrote poems. Sometimes he would stop and look in at the village blacksmith, and this 1s where he got the idea td write “The Village Blacksmith.” He would read it to his own little girls. When he grew old his beard and hair turned silvery white, and Charles Kingsbury sald that it was the most beautiful face be had ever seen. BURTON PAGR, Grade 5. ee selene A Story of a Man's -Life 0 the rugged coast of Maine, on February 2%, 1807, Henry Ww, Longfellow was born. In the war of 1812 vessels took re fuge in the bay. Many Indians atill wandered in the forest. Longfellow's grandfather lved in the wilderness, and he had many interesting stories| to tell of the redmen. After a time} Longfellow took a trip around the warld, but he never forgot the pic. tures and stories of his boyhood, al-| ‘though he saw many wonderful sights, When Longfellow was 28 years of age he became @ teacher. Then he moved to a beautiful, interesting Revolutionary house. In this house his children were born. Here also he wrote nearly all his poems and stories. East Casper, RUTH MILLER, East Casper. A ' REDSKIN URGES INDIAN EXAMPLE FOR BEST LEAGUE OF NATIONS BY GAWASA WANNEH Descendant of Seneca Sachems, Clan of the Bear, Seneca Nation of the League of the Iroquois; Arthor of “The Constitution of the Five Nations.” ALBANY, N. ¥., March 24.—Wwhy do not the quarrelsome war-torn nations of the world make peace pat- terned after the successful plan of the Iroquots Indiana? The Tree of War stands in the Gar- den of Peace. Money ts the taproot ot the world’s woes; the supporting roots of the Tree of War aro jealous- superstition, ambition and revenge, venge. What prevents world peace? Only one thing: The world is not yet civil- ized. Lat us translate into these modern terms the League of Nations that the Troquole—called savages, indeed!— eatablished 600 years ago: The world should have a League of Nations and America should be called upon to etect a moderator, like Adodarhoh, the Ononéaga, who was the presiding officer of the Iroquois Wive Nations, Let President Hard- ing be the Adodarhoh of 1923 The sponsor of the Iroquole’ great plan was Jikonstseh, the “mother of nations,” To carry out the analogy let the Queen of Italy be the Jiken saseh of 1923, Under these directing hands, Ger. many should be forced to repudiate her internal indebtedness, An inter. national commission should be given the means to deal with the defeated central powers and to make them un derstand (hat justice as dispensed by &n informed and intolligent jury of na tions must be accepted Let the nations redeom their paper sent as many sachems to the council as they desired, but each nation had only one vote—and the vote was in- valld unless it was tho unanimous senso of the dologates, Nations that warred upon the Iro- quols League were broken up and direct league government established over them, Defeated nations were forced to repudiate thelr own internal debts and to make the reparations claim of the league the'r first busl- ness, Thero was no such nonsense money and issue no mere unsecured enables ue & urrency, Let them have an (ie freee as Rational currency and a central hank fn each eountry, Nothing would & Wettomiesy cavern, Hach GAWASA W. Piles Cause Nervousness and Destroy Health Over 20 years’ ex il not_cost you, mes and addres ommendations NNEH an the “right of self-<determination, for this meant disintegration and a re‘apse into savagery. Wampum was decreed the international medium of ‘exchange. | Peace was thus established and na- tions that didn’t like it were “‘gassed’’ by the effective means that made the Iroquois famous. | The modern world might take a lesson from the Indians—who had too much sense to be the savages many people think they were. lence in tronting Rectal Diseases with @ positive knowledge of what itively cure every case wo accept or As proot—wo offer the 500 cured patients whose betr friends brings us threo- to fourths of our busines induce p nd discourage war Lar herp Mile 2 wf eho i It you have any Rectal ‘Trouble, write for onr ]} It shou'd be done as th FREE BOOK ; Cured by Mild Medical did it: All nations were invited to git Meth * You will find {¢ filled beneath a metaphorical Tree of Peace with valuable information and helpful adv! after first casting theiy weapons into 5% Standish Hotel 1590 Calif, Denver, Cola,‘ day, ordered,” while, town, strike, wess, thing else, and water year? DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK THAT-- While the banks close for a holiday, While the stores shut up shop for Sun- While the grocer says, “We have some While the coal ma While the mercha While labor in other industries is on While the manufacturer goes out of busi- While the butcher makes you take some- While the farmer says, “T’'ll sell when prices go up,” Your gas, electric, telephone, street car right on servi: poor alike, 36514 Piseniomer ner Natrona Power Company SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1923. PUPILS The Casper Out-of-Door Girls HIS story is about some a Scouts, who fre hiking from summer school to their homes in Cas- per. Their names are: Grace Thomp- son, or “Tommy” as she ts called; Mary Rosa, Darlene Freed, and their guardian, Miss Elking, and Lo!s Mc- Christy whom they call “Crazy Lois. They had been walking for about an hour when Mary wailed, “Oh, where can Crazy Lols be?” ‘It's not where Lois can ba, but where'we are,” sald the guardian. “Are we lost?” gasped “Tommy. “Well, we must get supper and look for a place to sleep if we can find one,” answered Miss Biking. So after the supper was over and the dishes done they went in search of @ place to sleep, They soon came to a barn, and Miss Elking and Alice went into it. The others played a game until Alice came out for them. When she came they wanted to get a good night’s sleep, for they were to start early the next morning. It be gan to storm All at once the girls saw a rec light at the other end o the barn. It was on fire, but they got out safcly and went to a farm- er's house for the rest of the night The ext day they found Crazy Leis on tho highway in her car. After eating they started for th next camp. They were just about a mile from it when they had to go through a marsh. Alice was in the lead, Miss Elking next, “Tommy,” Mary, and Darlene last. ‘They heard a scream and when Alice and Miss Blking turned they saw ‘Tommy.” Mary and Darlene sinking in the marsh. They were trying to get them out when Miss Elking went in, also Alice was the only one left to go for help. By this time Lois had met some boys she knew. They had come to look for them, and Alice ran to them, The boys then went back to the marsh to get the girls out. They suc- ceeted in pulling them out after halt an hour, and then they went back to the camp. The boys stayed for supper and until about 9 o'clock that night. The next evening the boys ca: and left about 10 o'clock, but before going they had said they would race with the girls and the first ones who got to Casper should get presents. The prizes were to be a box of marsh- mallows for the girls and handker- chiefs for the boys. The next few days came and went as usual, but on the last night the girls made the boys angry. The boys then got ready and started about three hours after they left the girls’ camp. But the girls went as soon as they could, and you may guess they had to hurry to beat the boys. When they came in sight of they road the saw the boys and ran to get ahead of them. That night “Tommy” Thompson's father and mother gave them a party and on the table there was a box of marshmallows for each girl and a hankerchiet for each boy. They fun they had they could not express. WILDA BERRY. East Casper, Grade 6. n tells you to wait a nt moves to another supply companies keep ng the public, rich and days, 8,766 hours a Tribune Wantads Bring Results