The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1907, Page 2

MODEL CITY IN WILDS GLADSTONE, MICH., A THRIVING INDIAN COMMUNITY. Town Owned by Lumber Company Is Full of industrious, Happy Red- skins Who Have a Govern- ment That Is ideal. Gladstone, Mich.—Few if any com- munities in the lumber districts of the north country can boasi of conditions more ideal than the village of Nahma, Delta county. The town possesses an electric lighting system, a water- works plant, a well-equipped fire de partment, opera ho’ a first class hotel, ebgirche wide, well- graded streets that are lined with shade trees, a natural park of pictur- esque beauty and a fine water front. Nahma and the country for 40 miles back are owned by the Bay de Noquet Lumber company. This concern is one of the largest and most successful schools, in the upper peninsula, and it shares | its prosperity with its employes. Dur- img the busy season the mills of the | company employ over 300 men, and the logging camps use 400 more. To transport the timber from forest to town a private railroad is operated. It possesses 40 miles of trackage, its own telegraph system and 100 cars | and four locomotives. Every board of the many millions of feet of lumber produced is sold on the dock at Nahma and transported from there by the purchasers. But little of the product is moved by rail and the great portion of it is taken south and east on vessels. As a consequence the winter's output accumulates on doz- ens of docks that aggregate several miles of water frontage. The ships which transport the lum- ber are loaded by Indians, a branch ef the Chippewa tribe, who live at Nahma. The men are paid 45 cents an hour for this work. The Indian village is ruled over by Chief Kissis, a venerable red man of 84 years. habits are perfect, but his example of right living is not generally follow- ed by his tribesmen. In fact, they a: gluttons, when their financial circum- stances permit. Big feasts and big sprees are their chief forms of pleas- ure. After spending in a riotous “jam-; boree” the money they have made in the woods in winter they sober down and wait for the first boat to come in. Then they work like beavers, and when the vessel is loaded another orgie is held in fact, alternate unti] navigation closes in the fall. The squaws can im- bibe as much as the bucks when they | Chief Kissis has | get the chance. never taken a drink, used tobacco or uttered an oath in his life. He labors industriously in the endeavor to teach thrift and sobriety to his followers, but his efforts thus far have been al- most futile. The residents of Nahma, instead of finding life lonely and irksome, have many amusements and are a hap- py lot. They have literary and danc- ing clubs, theatrical entertainments, snow-shoeing and tobogganing during the winter, while in the summer recre- ation is found in baseball and boating and picnic parties. The day of the heavy drinking, gambling mill worker is gone; in his place is to be found a well-dressed, intelligent man of good | habits The government of the village is a model. There is only one saloon al- lowed to do business of Nahma, and it is under the supervision of the lumber company. Gambli strictly forbid- den. The place closes at nine o'clock at night and does not open until seven o’clock in the morning. All electric lights in the town are extinguished at 9:30 o’clock, and, except when some sort of entertainment is going on, the community retires at a healthful hour. There is one physician in the town, a} ability, an he is paid the man of unusual for his services plan on assessment LAD OF 7 CROSSES SEA ALONE. Adorned with Many Tags Before He | Reaches New York from Russia. New York.—Adorned with a motley ;{ array of tags, which were pinned on his coat, shirt and trousers in many cities on the route from far off Minsk, | Russia, to this city Benjamin Meyerson seven-year-old is quartered this city. He is bound for where his parents, who left several rs ago, now reside. The boy remained with his uncle until recently, when his parents sent for him and he was started alone on what probably has been the most re- markable journey ever taken by a lit- tle fellow of his age. Benjamin's uncle tagged him so that the railroad men might know where to ship the tiny human freight. He also appended to the boy’s coat a re- quest that wherever the wee journey- er stopped he should be bathed. The child has been ¢crubbed in a score of cities. At each point where the boy changed cars he was retagged until, when he arrived two days ago on the Etruria he looked like a misshaped trunk that had gone through the grand tour. Puts Up Beer in Tablets. London.—According to a consular report just issued a Danish civil en- gineer has sueceeded in producing beer in the form of tablets. These are dissolved in hot water, supplying, when cooled beer of excellent quality aud flavor. Russia His | Hard work and jubilees, | in | the Hebrew home for immigrants in | Omaha, ; More Than 1,000 Census Enumerators Start Work in Oklahoma. Washington.—The actual work of enumeration for the special census of Oklahoma and Indian territory has begun. The work is being done by 1,050 enumerators. The census bureau here has been notified by its representatives, who have been on the ground for some time making preliminary arrange- ments, that the intermediate details have been completed and that every- thing is in readiness for receiving the returns. The compilation and the tab- ulation will be done in Washington. The constitution convention, which was reconvened shortly after the pres- ident directed that the census be tak- en, is cooperating with the representa- tives of the government and has ap pointed a committee fof this purpose. Many errors were found in the new of hard work to straighter out, and the Washington officials have been able to render the local authorities | mueh valuable assistance in the mat- ter. Several clerks have been sent ‘out to the proposed state for office work in connection wth the enumeration, but the enumerators have been se- lected from among the inhabitants. The supervisors are under strict or- ders from Director North to make a complete and careful record of every | inhabitant that should properly be | enumerated. | SAYS WE THINK WITH OUR TOES. Another Sensational Theory Set Afloat by Dr. Joseph Simms. | Boston. The scientific | through Dr. Joseph Simms, of New York, who arrived here recently from Europe, is to be treated to another | i sensational theory concerning the seat of thought in human beings. “We think with our toes and with our fingers just as much as we think { with any portion of our brain,” says the scientist, who is about to write a book. He contends that the heart has more to do with the function of think- | ing than the brain. Dr. Simms points out that the brains of many idiots are large, yet their hearts are very small, whereas the brains of many geniuses have been below the normal, while their hearts have been abnormal. “We think literally all over our bod- ies,” says the doctor, who has made a life study of the chemistry of thought. “Thought is in the soul, which permeates the entire physical | being. The brain is a great heat pro- ducer, but it has Mttle to do with the function of thinking. We think with | our fingers or with our toes whenever we use them.” Dr. Simms declares that such world- | renowned scientists as Sir William Hamilton, of Edinburgh University, and Professor von Hartmann, of Ber- | lin, agree with him in his theory. | Senator Knox Tells Story on President to Elke’ Committee. Philadelphia —President Roosevelt is somewhat of a nature faker, according to Senator Philander C. Knox, Penn- sylvania’s presidential aspirant, who told this story to the Elks’ committee at Valley Forge: ‘President Roosevelt,” he said, “was surprised by a Kansas delegation at Oyster Bay not long ago. The presi- dent appeared, coat and collar off, trousers hitched by belt his forehead ‘Ah, gentlemen, to see you, delig ting in my hay, you down to the barn with me and we'll talk it over while | work.’ “Down to the barn hustled delega- tion and president. Mr. Roosevelt seized a pitchfork, but there was no on the floor **John, John the . but I'm busy put- “now to sounds in hayloft, ‘where's all the hay? ‘l ain't had time to throw it back, sir, since you t it up yesterday, sir,’ came a man's voice from the loft.” rew GIVES FORTUNE TO OLD NEGRO. Entire Estate Left to Servant to Sat- isfy a Debt. Philadelphia—-Members of some of Philadelphia's oldest families are an- noyed by a remarkable act of one of | their relatives, the late Mrs. Sarah Waln Hendrickson, a descendent of William Penn, who died in March, at her home in Walnford, N. J., 91 years old. Fourteen months before her |death, it has been learned, Mrs, Hen- | drickson signed over her estate, in- cluding the family homestead, por- traits, jewels, silver plate and antique | furniture, to a colored man, John Wil- | son, who had been in her employ 40 | years | Mrs. Hendrickson was a_ childless | widow, and gave her property to the | colored man, it is said, to pay off a debt of upward of $8,000 which he elaimed she owed him on account of unpaid wages, and small loans. Mermaid Babe Born Elkins; W. Va.—Shaped like the ;Mermaid of fable, a daughter born to |Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Campbell, of | this city, is puzzling local physicians. The infant has two distinct leg bones, but there is only one leg. There are ten toes and one heel. Abnormal as the infant is from the waist down, it seems to enjoy the vitality of the or- dimary infant. Its body describes a triangle, the one leg curved up to- ward the head | POPULATION OF NEW STATE. boundary, which required a great deal { world, | ROOSEVELT A HAYING FAKER? | and mopping ! he said, ‘delighted | Just come | shouted the president | BRIDGE WHIST CRAZE SUMMER COLONY AT NEWPORT WILD OVER GAME. Up Their Whole Time to It— Golf Ciubs Again. Popu- lar as a Result. ' ’ t i | Many Prominent Society Women Give ‘ | Newport Newport has the bridge w ; So has Narragan- sett Pier end Bar Earbor, but it is at Newport that the epidemic is most virulent. Here pursuit of the game has be come an obsession. Big sums of money are won and lost every day at the tables. Women in most instances are the most inveterate of the gamblers. The flushed face of the woman gam- bler can be seen daily in carriages that flash along Bellevue avenue. Her ner-} vous, eager manner betrays her. At ordinary social functions she waits pa- | tiently for the outsiders to depart in | order that the elect few may creep away to the boudoir of the hostess for an hour at bridge. Bridge is not the only game. More than one splendid villa here now con- ceals a dainty roulette wheel and a private faro layout for the delectation of the elect. To such an extent has the passion for play gone that some of the older heads are seriously discussing the or- ganization of an anti-gambling crusade. The effect of gambling on the nerve: of some women in the younger set, as } well as on their pocketbooks, is cre- | ating alarm. | And then the golf club claims atten- | tion. | The golf club had run to seed. | It was so far away it didn’t offer any | particular diversion after one had made | the long journey out to the place. Of | late, however, unwonted prosperity | has come to the club. Bridge whist | did it. Confronted with a situation | that spelled ruin tor the club the man- ; agers appointed a women’s committee to take matters in hand. The commit- tee turned to bridge whist. Now the | golf club has become one of the most popular institutions at Newport. Mem- bers even occasionally play golf as a recreation after several hours of en- | ervating play at the tables. Here it is that the passion for bridge is seen at its height. On a recent afternoon there were eight tables go- ing. Refreshing breezes swept in from | the ocean. Half a dozen of the best- known women in New York and Phil- | adelphia society lounged outside on | the terrace. Within at least 20 young | women and a few men toiled feverish- j ly at bridge. Among the stories they tell sub rosa at the golf club is one of a young wom- an who has won enough during this season to buy a handsome automobile, and another young woman who lost so much that her father threatened to cut off her allowance and refuse to stand responsible for any of her debts | if she does not quit the game. There j are other stories of matrons who are | heavily in debt to theis fellowplayers, | and a couple of men who practically support_themselves by means of their winnings WEDS GIRL, WON’T TELL NAME. | Millionaire Hearne Married to a Miss | of Seventeen. York—A millionaire of 50} ying a beautiful brunette of 17 summers latest romance of the Waldorf-Astoria | The groom is W. H. Hearne, of Wheeling, W. Va., a member of the Pennsylvania staff and a brother of | the late Col ank J, Hearne, at one {time president of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. The identity of the bride is not re- vealed. Her husband says, “It’s none of the publi business.” Just where the marriage took place cannot learned, but it is supposed in | west The few ; while be the for the first time Kansas City, | Mr was visiting his Mrs. Annie Armour, and his \ bride was the guest of Mrs. Kirk Ar- | mour | Soon } Mrs. | prised fr couple met a wee | sister, after Mr. Hearne’s daughter, | Archibald Mitchell, was sur- on receiving this telegram her father Meet me in Wheeling. to be married.” The daughter hurried to Wheeling, ‘but her father failed to appear. A few days ago he and his bride arrived at j the Waldorf-Astoria. Their devotion to each other attracted considerable | attention. Am going Danger In Handcuff Game. Washington, Pa—As a result of his efforts to emulate a handcuff expert | , Whom he saw at a traveling show, | Thomas Garbert, aged 22 years, is dead at his home at Roscoe. The | young man kept up his practice daily and learned to release himself from all kinds of loc and entanglements. | While trying to free himself from an especially difficult position recently he strained himself so badly that dropsy set in, resulting in death. Biggest Kansas Baby. Kansas City, Mo.—A baby boy that weighed 15% pounds arrived at the farm of Ceci! Van Berger, near Shaw- nee, in Johnson county, Kansas. It is the sixth child born to Mrs. Van Ber- | ger. None of the others weighed mere | than eight or ten pounds at birth. | “The child is healthy and well devel- | oped,” said Dr. E. P. Chace. “It is, I think, the largest baby in the state of sas, without a doubt.” er is a native of Belgium, % aad ‘ % DIAMONDS | Put Your Money in Diamonds. No Better Investment To-Day. Prices in the Diamond market are advancing, but eur prices have net been advanced in some time. We still have a large collection of | superb Diamonds which we bought a considerable time ago at lower prices than prevail today. We shall net advance prices on | these stenes. We are merchants |and not speculators and our fair | percentage of profit is all we ask. | So, as long as these Diamends last, it will be possible to buy them here under the regular market fer fine stones. Ladies’ Diamond Rings, $5.0@ t- $150.00. Ladies’ Diamond Broaches, $5.50 te $1,000. Diamond Earrings, $500.00. Diamond Scarf Pins, $7.00 up. Diamend Cuff Buttons, $7.00 up. Diamend Studs, $10.00 up. We have Ladies’ Handsome Dia- mond Rings set in Tiffany Mount- ing which we are selling at $30.00. This will make an appropriate pres- ent fer Christmas. Every stone a ball of fire. CLOCKS AND BRONZES Clocks ef all makes—American, French and German. We have a Clock as cheap as $5.00—must be seen to be appreciated. 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CATHOLIC GOODS We have the largest line ef Cath- olic Goods in the city. Genuine Pearl Rosaries, 35 cents up. Genuine Eight-Day Sanctuary Oil, $1. per gallon. Crucifixes, hanging and s Candle Sticks in Gc Brass. Sacred Hearts, Sclid Gold, 73 cents and $1.25. ing lver, ay Pear] Resaries, strung HOLMES’ HOTEL, Ne. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W. 2 — —- ee Wm. Cannon, —_—— 1225 and ,§1227%7th[ Street, N. W. SOLE DISTRIBUTER OF OLD PURI SIM WHISKEY : i “3CK AND ACCIDENT INS UE- ANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEE WHOLE LifR i277 =4VCE ad fat Sag _stnM8 PAYABLE ONE HOUS aeiwn VEATE e AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE ca... JSFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C.