The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1898, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1898. [ e INDIAN SCHOOL AT CARSON, NEV. one visit to an Tndian o s to in. = that Uncle Sam a t agree with the popular opin- jon as to the only recognized process over a bad Indian into a recipe, his deeds as translated into “Catch your In- ars thor- the best tion and e of element- ary education and simple echanical ol training. Then bake ) slowly, conscientious- & ly, for a dozen years, \%\ ut basting ~care- the wickiup ool sche At both sexes, in age ffom 1 1 o ree, to 3 ere are repre- ves of t Piutes, of the 10- s s and of the Washoes, and to one W lanket Indian of v \ s it's a pleas- thisireas be- h it it & Ame d not in the man I found these boys arson, brimming with good and Tl the most the gentle Rar demure and with a red rib- another tying upon her ning black ‘mently, up from about her. THREE LITTLE MAIDS enter into a discussion of the bloomer question. There are two sides to it—the s—in Mademoi- She is conventional- Bloomers are shocking, mascu- immodest, in her esti And could more easily women to forever forswear home and kindred than to don the humiliating objectionable, bifurcated garment. And her love for home, and her broth. er's, too, not a thing to be valued le Sam himself has had to intense fillal affection and re- ce into consideration. Vis- s to their homes should be as 1frequent as possible,”’ says rules. T and_ girls outgrow their fondness for home. rongest feeling they have, prob- »w that civilization has robbed the opportunities for excitement venture the old, wild life held. tter what the degree of her learn- be, no matter what she may ed_of white- ce notions of and comfort, the Indian girl r early assoclations. When 1aw mother, trudging t from the ¥ t on the railroad to the In- comes to visit Mademoiselle, traditional blanket, a pur- f tied about her walnut, old face, her worn mc gnarled, knotted hands, rubbing white women's £ the staff that helps her road, her patient bowed head still the burden of the papoose where the youngest of the Los and stews and sleeps—she is re- her well-dressed, Intelligent- question, not the bloome: selle Lo's opinion. ity itseif. line, you in the old, familiar tongue whic! , fi back upon whenever real her. sson to you, Mademolselle NoaY hose °d with c . borro full-pur: you y and ape, and for whe > you are despised and humil! onditions from which you cam an - girl 1 never ed for her mother. She never from schoolmate Ir disdain taught to be supercilious and superior in nd affected, and to belittle the filial love and obedience she owes that mother. belle of the Indi chool at Car- son is a young woma bout 17. Like her bang merry, her eyes her mouth a teeth are s Ruby can sew. § accomplished in this line as a hers in the culinary art. And anyone who has tasted kind of coffee she made for us to rink would issue a diploma immediately. The fame of Ruby's sewing has abroad, so that in another Indian where a seamstry is needed she been offered a position. Uncle Sam 6 h mployes pretty well. Ruby might ive a monthly salary in addition to board and her clothes that would 1 riches to the simple wants of an girl. But she doesn’t dream of ac Why? Simply because she in the place. She knows acceptance of the offered po- ns living far from her mother, Ormsby County. Nevada. i or gir. who is capa- mall sum of money Is 1 contributor 1o ‘the homse budget. The people whose lives have been spentamong the younger generation of Indians will out 1o you one instance after the r of such unselfishness. the all ones, at times, overcome their love sweets—for which no white-faced led darlipg has more desire—ahd re- from sending into town for the ould buy. tr the boys who adopt > civilized dress and wear it most eas- jly. The supposed femate facility for change of condition does not manifest it- self here. Among the girls at the In- dian school a graceful figure, a pretty pose, is rare. Mile. Lo has capped the climax of her conventionality by embrac- ing—or rather by being embraced by—the FROM SCHOOL. TERROR CREATED BY MORGAN'S RAID One Woman In Her Fright While Trying to Secrete the Family Silverware I SRHAPS in no location during the Civil War did people display greater terror than at Madison, Indiana, when word came that the raider Morgan with his band was -ping through the country, and would undoubtedly make that town his headquarters for a day or two at least. The citizens made up their minds to resist his encroachment, and welcomed as allies the panic-stricken country .ople who flocked in from all quar- believing they would be safer an in their isolated homes; for with o credulity of rural inexperience they, 1ad accepted floating rumors as actua facts, and endowed Morgan with the attributes of a demon; the more imagi- native boldly declaring that even torture was resorted to by him when valuables demanded were not forth- coming. In anticipation of the arrival of these refugees long tables were arranged in the market place, and for hours before the first dilapidated, creaking mule wagon, with its frightened load made its appearance the housewives of Mad- isor had co-operated in preparing food in quantities sufficient for the needs of Lundreds, nor were their calculations misplaced; the town was for many days thronged with people flying from the dreaded Morgan. Numbers had ta- T 1 1 1 X fed a Sack of Corn Instead of the Family Plate. clothing upon ken nothing in their flight, but the their backs and the horses or mules which had brought them thither, and which were but an added tax upon the resources of the generous townspeople, Realizing that they were among friends and gauging the honesty of chance acquaintances by their own, many whose flights had been more de- | liberate told the story of hidden valua- bles, which they fancied were safer con- cealed upon the farm, to which they would eventually return than in their possession when making the journey to town where a turn of the road or dense thicket might conceal a raider. One woman, after exacting a prom- ise of secrecy from a small audience of females, and prefacing her revelation with the remark that she had inherited a quantity of silver from her grand- mother, related that the news of Mor- gan’'s approach had been brought to her in the night, and with the thought of the necessity of flight had come that of the valued heirloom. Her husband was absent on military duty and she was afraid to trust to the honesty of the colored servants. So, gathering the silver in her apron, she went in search of a strong sack in which it was deposited. She procured a spade after having warned her eldest son, a boy of 13, and, bidding him bring the sack from the | storeroom to a great tree which stood in the rear of some outbuildings. The frightened and sleepy boy reach- ed the tree by the time she had scooped out a shallow hole, in which he placed GHANGING A BAD INDIAN INJO A GOOD ONE. Results Obtained in Educating Lo at the Govern- ment Jraining School, Garson, Nev. corset. Perhaps it is this war between two inflexible materials—the Indian dis- position and the pattern-making corset— that prevents a harmonious result. But young Lo is distinctly handsome his gray uniform with Its red trappings holds himself so well. He is tall, his fig- ure is so straight and looks so strong. His dark face, when it is not of the broad, dull type, has a virile, serious air. His black eyes are keen, and his square set jaws make him look like a soldier. The crack regiment of the army might be formed here, if these young men can Hg!}ll as well as they look. “"How many of you,” I asked a group of the older boys, sitting studying quietly in a room, just before their teacher en- tered—no trace of that suppressed wicked excitement that pervades the Yankee xg}ic;a when 1151e cat's away—‘""How many You would go to figh we;e decllgred?" ght Spain if war ‘I would,” answered St (2 a fine-looking lad ‘S‘Sa would I1.” 0 would every boy in the room, with the exception of one, whose round. dark face was turned squarely upon his fel- lows, but whose mouth remained closed obstinately. Uncle Sam, you y count upon him. For Some. resean—tor the youth's intelligent face belies his character, unless there's good reason be- hind his determination—you have not gained this Indian’s good will. There's @ grudge against some one or something American that mere clothes and food and shelter will not cure. It would be inter- esting to know just what Injustice or in- herited resentment or imagined wrong makes this young fellow differ with his mate: e boys keep an eve upon the news- They're well informed upc cur- ents. Washington is their hero— at least it Is his name that comes from most of them in answer to a demand for the greatest that ever lived. Of s, this may chool boy prudence vouthful hypocrisy that seeks to glve the answer not in their own minds but supposed to be in that of the que tioner. When the subject of woman su frage was broached to these latter- savages nearly every boy in the room d ared that if the thing lay sters should vote. But w tion was put to the girls demure Mademofselle Lo cast eyes, simpered and declined to commit herself. No doubt she conslders voting quite as unladylike, fully as shocking, as the wearing of bloomers. But education and civilized surround- tngs have had their effec dian maidens neverthel the one hundred and fifty students school are girls. the reason of te for le civilization, but the knowle experience ‘among the Wash hen the this rning or ge gained by , the Sho- shones and the Piutes that when a girl's mind is enlarged by study, by living on terms of equality with het brothers, by receiving the little attentions nd a greater or less degree of deference which civilized man has decreed 1is woman's due, she is I and less inclined to act out the part which her mother, her mother’s mother and generations of red women before her never dreamed evading. In short, Mahala, civi a good command of English, ac to decent clothe Prop d_ and just treatment, objects to being a drudge. Jim—like all other Jims of all colors and shades at various epochs of the *girls world's ory—finds his squaw not so obedie t S0 devoted, not so unques- tioning e and cConfiding. As a great his n says, the advance in learning breeds a pessimistic, inquiring spirit. Buckle lauds this spirit, and to it traces all the glory of modern science. But Jim d t agree with Buckle, and when Mahala, after leaving the Indian school, pessimistically inquires of her lord why the greater share of the work is hers, and the greater profit is his, Jim becomes disgusted at her want of proper feeling, at her irreverent questioning of precedent, at her iconoclastic desire to destroy the time-honored decrees of the wickiup. So_when there’s a question in old Lo's mind as to which, the son or the daugh- ter, is to be yielded into Uncle Sam's keeping for a decade or so, the wise old Indian decides in favor of the boy. People who have had years of experi- ence in tea clare tha very favor: with those hing and trafping Indians de- the Nevada Indians compare ly in intelligence and docility in the East. They rank the Pi- The Shoshones come next and es 2 pper-colored school boys and em altogether happy in their sur- roundings. The kindergarten, with its cir- cle of dark-faced babies, singing, playing LAUNDRY. games and marching, s precisely like any other, save that the voices seem a bit un- familiar, not so shrill, more nasal, deeper pitched; and there is & slight sluggishne tion one doesn’t notice in white chil- Qrep, I saw a group of girls chattering and laughing in the washroom, off one of the dormitories—models of neat, small, white-bedded, iron cleanliness—while they ! round brown faces of theirs the shining, straight black looked like pretty human In the yard just then young aying marbles, These boys have good football and baseball teams. They were beaten, though, by the C n boys not long ago. When 1 beaten team for the rea ly, and a younger boy volunteered the an swer: “Oh, they didn’t dare half try. They were 'fraid of hurting the Carson boys.” ‘Which 1 t complimenta though it may be true, so strong and well-developed are the Indfan athletes, But it isn't _all play for these voung Americans. ir industrial training is not negle and all the work about the school from running the engine to mak- ing the rag matting that covers the stairs and halls is done by Lo and h sister. There's a i s case here of boy who read writes b who can read ordinary handwriting on when it is held bef a looking and turned topsy-turvey done in looking-gl world. nius, too her John Howe Indian, who pos making mechani train but once or twice in his life eclared by mechanical engineers al solutely correct in_every detail, so quick and accurate are his powers of observa tion, so great is his love for everything pertaining to machines of all kinds. They hi natural taste for music and drawing, but the great majority here as clsewhere is hoj ly commonplac The Indian mind ms unable to pe vance nd a_certain point. When that D ched an insurmountable bar- rier intervenes and forbids further culti- vation. Cooks, maids, seamstresses, the girls may become. Those red-brown fin- gers which have learned to write and to sew so well are hopelessly incapable when it comes to a question of running a typewriter, even. For the boys, too, destiny has ordained only subordinate positions. With a few exceptions, I found a surprising lack of ambition among them. They expect and are con- tent to become farm hands, laborers and kitchen servants. “It isn’t worth while,” declared a Car- sonite. *“What's the use of spending all that money on Indian girls and boys who'd be happier and just as well off out in the campoodies, where they all wind up sooner or later? There's many white orphan lacks the and boys get over And I tell vou, nine out of ten of 'em anyway go back to the old life as soon as they're allowed to leave the school. What's the use of teaching 'em to dress and act ana talk like white folks when they take to the blanket and the moccasin as soon as they get back to the wickiup?”’ The school at Carson is too young yet to answer this question. It hasn't yet sent out a young generation to battle against old habits and inherited tenden- cies toward savagery. It can point to individual cases, instances of such excel- lence that one is tempted to idealize. But enough time has not vet passed for the gathering of statistics which will_show what proportion of Indlan boys and girls “stay put. Uncle Sam, however, intends that they shall be temporar; necessary, he says, “w have attained full Ame and with it full and 1 nto the public school systems of the coun- to the spirit of Amer- o believe that that time MIRIAM MICHELSON. ican institutions will never come. his burden, his mother covering it with nervous haste and concealing the loose soil with pieces of boards care- lessly arranged, after which they made ready for departure, satisfied that their silver at least was safe. The woman had hardly received the last congratulatory remark of her list- teners upon her good judgment in this way disposing of her property, when one of her neighbors who had just driven in dumped at her feet a corn sack, which emitted a jingling sound, and said to her astonishment: “I noticed that you uns had left a right smart lot of silver in your store- house for Morgan’s men to melt up, so 1 brung it along.” It appeared that this man, not know- ing of her departure, had stopped to offer neighborly assistance to the “war widow” and her children in their flight; finding them already gone, and think- ing that they might have in their haste left many needful things which he could convey to them in his rcomy farm wagon, he began searching and came across the sack which contained the silver. The owner's curiosity to know what she had really buried was not grati- fied until, on her return home, she dug up a mouldy sack in which was a mass of sprouting corn, of a choice variety, which had been kept in the storeroom for seed, and which the frightened boy had seized in place of the sack contain- ing the silver. Parties were at once organized to re- sist the marauders, and horses to con- vey the newly recruited men were in demand. Many of the people could not understand that the Government would indemnify them for any loss of prop- erty furnished to protect the interests of its citizens. Among this class was an old German woman, whose business talents and cs,p_gbmtles for holding her own had long Deen a subject for local remark. This woman was the owner of a span of fine gray horses which, with others, were demanded for the use of the Gov- ernment. Believing that her refusal to deliver up the horses would be sufficient to send from her door the officer who made the demand, she informed him that she could not sell or loan them to ‘“the Government or anybody else.” At this the order was given for the horses to be led away, and she then commanded her two sons to resist the “robbers,” which they attempted to do, but were soon compelled to desist. The mother, knowing that she at least would be safe from rough treat- ment, caught the animals by their bridles and endeavored to lead them back to the stable, at which the vol- unteers, slipping off the bridles, grasped the horses’ manes and hurried them | away. Still determined not to yield up her property, the woman, running after, | clutched the tails, preserving her hold | as they were led up the street of lhe‘ town, and above the laughter that met her at every side, rang her screams for | help and her denunciations of the men | she termed thieves, until at last she | was forcibly led away, The manner in which rumors origi- | nate was als illustrated through a talkative youth visiting relatives in Madison at the time, and who expressed himself freely regarding the dreaded Morgan, whom he professed to admire and declare was not as black as he was painted. The wrath of the exclted populace was naturally directed toward him and doubtless the high standing and known loyalty of his family was all that saved | him from paying a severe penalty for | his rash speeches. A woman, either wishing to avoid trouble or seeing opportunity for a practical joke, one night pinned a card upon the door of the house at which the young man was a guest, on which was written a few words of advice re- garding his departure from town by a certain date. It had the effect of caus- ing him to stay in seclusion the fol- lowing day and make for home under cover of the next night’s darkness. The card with the line upon it was found by some children, and this, cou- pled with his departure, gave rise to the story that he had been seized while in bed, and after severe castigation led beyond the town limits and told never to return under penalty of death. N AL MU FIE AND NOW EATS CLAY EN years ago Irene Jones, at play with other children in the “branch” which ran by the door of her cabin home in Southern Arkansas, ate a mud pie. She is now a confirmed clay-eater and is one of Dr. Sutter's patients at the City Hos- pital. She is 23 years old. She was 13 when she first tasted clay. She has eaten it regularly ever since. : In the South, among the colored peo- ple, clay-eaters are as common as “dope” earerz in St. Louis. Once ac- quired the habit takes such a firm hold on a person that it is next to impossi- ble to shake it off. The strength of the habit does not seem to depend so much on the effects produced as upon the acidulous taste of the lighter quality of clay found in the South, which contains among other ele- ments silica and alum. There is a bellef that, as in the case of Irene Jones, the habit originally had its rise in the tasting by children of make-believe pies made of the clay. It is in this way at least that the habit is acquired by white people in the South. Of late years a great many young ladies of good families have be- come slaves to the habit. The explana- tion given by them has always been that while playing as children with col- ored girls of their own age, they were induced to eat the mud pies and quickly became addicted to the habit. Irene Jones is suffering from inflam- matory rheumatism, and her conditiog is due, in large measure, it isj believea, to her clay-eating propensities. She came here a month ago from Southern Arkansas and secured work as a servant :t 3925 Washington av- enue. s The clay here is not as good as the Arkansas article, and she told the doc- tor she had not been eating it very reg- ularly. The desire for clay does not come on her at regular intervals. “I eat it when I want it, and when I don’t want it I let it alone,” she said. —_———————— WATER'A CURE FOR INDIGESTION. “We must give special attention to the outside of the body as well as the inside,” writes Mrs. 8. T. Rorer on “What to Eat When You Have Indiges- tion,” in the March Ladies’ Home Jour- nal. *“The skin must be bathed every morning with tepid water, followed by abriskrub. Thisis equally as important as correct diet. A good rule is to use water freely inside and out. At least two quarts of water daily should be taken; half a pint the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, a cupful of warm water before each meal, and the remaining quantity divided and taken before meals.” —_———— The smallest perfect watch ever made is owned by a Russian princess. It was first placed in an exquisite gold case, cov- ered with the most minute, but literally perfect, Watteau scenes in enamel; then, at the princess’ desire, the works were removed and placed inside a splendid dia- mond’ scarcely two-fifths of an mch in diameter. GREAT DANGER ON BIG WAR VESSELS Accldents that have befallen war ships in times of peace when no one was looking for any danger. The capsizing of the Royal George is probably the most disastrous accident on record. Admiral Richard Kempenfeldt. mouth of the Thames. A pipe below the water line needed some repairs, and as it was so simple an aff the ship was not docked. In order to get at the pipe the ship was “heeled,” or listed to | one side by running one broadside of guns from one side over to the other. The Royal George was a iine of battle- ship and the pride of the British navy and in full commission. All her offi- cers and men were on board, together with any number of their visiting friends, to say nothing of a swarm of trades people. Soon after she was “heeled” a stiff land breeze sprung up and the great ship capsized. Nearly eight hundred people were drowned. The battleship Eastern Monarch an- chored off Spithead on June 2, 1839. She had just reached home port after a voyage from India and had on board, not only her own officers and crew, but a great number of invalids from the army and navy stationed in India. She had in all over 500 men and officers on board. Many had been absent from home for years. There was great re- | . Jjoicing that night when the Eastern Monarch anchored within sight of the shores of old England. During the merriment a lamp was upset, and the ship burned to the water's edge, with great loss of life. A similar accident destroyed H. M. S. Goliath ¢n the night of December 1875, just three days before €hristmas. She was a training ship, andhadaboard over 500 officers, men and boys, mestly boys. She had just returned from a long cruise and lay in the Thames. The boys were anticipating the.Christmas festivities, and in their pranks upset a It was the flagship of Rear | The | ship was anchored off Spithead at the | lamp in the oil room. The ship was a total loss, but this time the loss of life was comparatively small. The boys on the sailing frigate Eury- dice were not so fortunate. She was homeward bound from the Bermudas. About 300 officers, men and boys were on board, and she came up along the | Isle of Wight with every sail drawing | and her ports open. Off Ventnor, the famous watering place on -the Isle of Wight, the boys manned the rigging and cheered cheered to those on the beach. squall struck the old frigate, over she A nearly ev- ery person on board was drowned right before the eyes of hundreds of persons | within hailing distance on shore. |- Ten years before Ericsson built the | monitor C: n Cowper Cowles of the | British navy invented what he called | a turret- It was not until some ears later that the Lord High Ad- miral accepted the captain’s plans and hip. rdered ‘a turret ship built. H. M. S. | s nched in 1869 and | seemed to be a “hoodooed” ship from the start. She was a full rigged iron hip, armored and with steam as 1 auxiliary power, High bulwarks | were intended to be let down, uncover- | ing the two turrets when the ship was | cleared for action. | “On September in the Bay of 1870, she was sailing iscay. A squall sprung the topheavy ship full | heeled”’ -“and never | ons on board | only cighteen were saved. When the H sat to try some one for in lesing the ship the only : could try was James May, a gunner. ery other officer was lost. | ® The Victoria, with 700 persons | aboard, capsized in the Thames on | May 24, 1881, and over 300 were drowned. In the merchantman V- ice hundreds of ships and tho nds of | lives have been lost right in port, when | the ship is supposed above all other times to be safe. It is only a few days ago that considerable wreckage was done right here in San Francisco har- bor. i ne | per: