The Neosho Times from Neosho, Missouri • Page 4

If 'A 1 THE NEOSHO TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1915 THE NEOSHO TIME THE NEOSHO TIMKS PRINTING CO PUBLISHERS H. S. STURGIS KDITOB Entered at the postofflce nt Ncosho, second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR. THE WEEK IN HISTORY.

Monday, Dec. lauded iu New England, 1620. Tuesday, Dec. ad- to Union, 1787. Wednesday, Dec.

crossed Deleware, 1776. Thursday, Dec. burned, 1813. Friday, Dec. admitted to Union 1817.

Saturday, Dec. landed, 1620. Sunday, Dec. admitted to Union, 1787. they keep our daily interest in each other; they save us from the evils of isolation.

"I like to go back to the splendid principle on which the fine structure rests. And that principle is the free dom of the press. Our forefathers must have had the gift of prophecy in regard to the press; they must have foreseen to what power and influence it would come. They had no dread of publicity of official acts or motives. They had faith in the ultimate triumph of truth.

Jefferson was willing that error might be presented if truth could only be left free to combat it. He was opposed to a censorship of the press, and said that if he must choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without the government he would perfer to risk the newspapers without the believed that THE Republicans will have two candidates for United States Senator next year since Herbert S. Hadley has announced. Hadley is best remembered as the man who led the Roosevelt forces at the Chicago Convention which nominated Taft but afterwards his courage failed and he wouldn't follow the bolters. Throughout the paign he tried to steer a middle course and had no standing with jeither, Walter Dickey of Kansas City has been a candidate for some time.

Mr. Dickey has at least two sources for notoriety. First as a manufacturer of tile and other burnt clay products, and second as the head of a Kansas City concern that is MissourLjlver steamboat traffic. The tile business was profitable because Mr. Dickey had almost a monopoly of it and he made a million.

His steamboat business looks to us like a big "pork barrel" scheme to get the government to spend a few millions on the Missouri river in order that he may compete with the railroads. Many years ago the railroads put the steamboats out of business because the latter could not compete and it looks to us like folly to spend millions to help them get back their trade. public opinion would measurably correct things if public opinion were left free, but that government without a free expression of public opinion would soon become a despotism." W. P. Kirk, formerly a citizen of this county near Diamond, died Dec.

4. at bis home at Fentou, aged 8H years. He was a brother of Wiley aud Alex Kirk, deceased and the father of M. T. Kirk of Diamond aud Mrs.

Julia Earl of "Webb City. Mrs. W. Bridges aud Mrs. Bert Parr of are his graud-daughters.

HEIR TO GOULD MILLIONS To meet the cost of the greater national defense program, it the tax on incomes. This is altogether just and will meet general approval. Let those who own the property and who fear destruction from a foreign foe bear the expense of defending it. Perhaps if their taxes are raised their fear will somewhat subside. Indian Women Devote the Winter to Fancy Work.

Passing of Season of Feasts and Dancing Enables Squaws to Devote Time to Making Indian Trappings. hnldear. nt.r.pmnpe of the President's message to Congress is his condemnation of the disloyalty of certain citizens of foreign birth who have been naturalized and have sworn allegiance to this country. Heretofore, President Wilson has frequently alluded to hyphenated citizens and made appeals for their patriotism but not before has he boldly called them to account for "pouring the poison of disloyalty into the arteries of our national He says there is no law to meet the situation but intimates that there should be. This part of the President's message was applauded by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, "To live as a member of the great white race of men, to share its thoughts and its aspirations, it is necessary that a man should read his newspaper," said U.

S. Senator Sterling, of South Dakota, in an address to the students at the University of South Dakota. "The newspaper," he continued, "has come to be indispensable. It goes and penetrates everywhere, It has been said of the newspapers' that'they are to the whole- Civilized world what daily -JJJ 1 talk $8 to t)w household; four days without eating, John Doe No. 104, alias Austin Me Cleary, as he was called when he was a homeless waif, is now romping around Lyndhurst, at Irvlngton-on- Hudson, the estate of Mr.

and Mrs Flnley J. Sliepard, now known as Fin lay Jay Shepard, heir to the Gould millions. Mr. Shepard and his wife who was Miss Helen Miller Qould, recently appeared before Surrogate William A. Sawyer of Westchester county at White plains and formally adopted the four-year-old boy who was found on the steps of St.

Patrick's Cathedral by a policeman, near midnight of September 12, 1914. The boy was taken to the Children's society, from where he was transferred to St. Christopher's home at Dobbs Ferry. Here the child attracted the attention of Mrs. Shepard, who visited the institution in the interests of the Big Sister movement.

She was attracted by his hair and eyes, and his affectionate disposition, and this attraction finally led to the boy's adoption. SHE WAS AFRAID TO EAT Thomas, that Cheyenne social season has ended with the close of summer the women of tho tribes have more leisure for making and decoration ot moccasins and other Indian trappings. Their children are at school, their homes are stationary and dances and feasts Infrequent. Dealers In have learned that they get best results by supplying the Indian woman with all her materials and then paying for the work when finished. In this way an expert header will receive better pay than she might be able to do If she had to get, tan and cut hides for herself.

The design for beadwork is often agreed upon beforehand, as well. In this way the Indian is saved from decision and the dealer can be sure he will get the designs and sizes which have been found to suit the markets. Moreover, this prevents the low Insteps which are Invariably found In moccasins made The Indian has worn heelless footgear for so many generations that his instep is not as high as that of most civilized men, and and the result Is that, if left to themselves, the moccasin makers turn out footgear that few white people can wear. But for all this the making and beaded design are genuine "Indian" in every respect, and have been carefully copied from old models. The present system probably has done a great deal to preserve old Indian patterns, which might have been forgotten or changed If left unstandard- tV-K- 1 fv It IB remarkable with what deftness and speed an expert can cover a pair of buckskin moccasins, using only thin strand of sinew and a sharp awl.

The Indian woman has been adept at this work for years upon years, and her best work is easily distinguished from the cheap Irregular work of factories. The art work of Cheyenne women and Cheyenne men is quite different. The man's art is realistic and is intended to represent things as they are. He devoted his attention to painting tepees, shields and buffalo robes, and these pictures are never twice the same. The women, on the other hand, employ unchanging geometrical designs, squares, circles, triangles and lines.

Flowering lines and flower patterns are utterly unknown to the women of the plains tribes, and whenever seen should be regarded with suspicion by the collector, as It is more than probable they came from Germany. Some of the forest tribes, such as the Ojibway, use these flowering patterns, but none of the true plains Indians do so. In reading the designs on a mocca- sln one can usually say that the triangles are tepees if they stand upright round the sole. If not, and especially if they are pointed toward some other figure, they stand for arrowheads. Every Indian design means something and sometimes the colors have a second significance, quite independent of the design.

A square with triangles pointing toward it represents a buffalo attack by hunters with arrows. Without the arrowheads about it a square is usually meant for a star. Diamonds stand for lakes. Sometimes moccasins were made with a bunch of fringes a foot long at the heel. These were intended to smooth over the tracks by tha wearer, so that anyone following him might be unable to know who had passed.

they also were decorated, when the wearer was Of course especially mounted. As time goes on and buckskin becomes scarcer the makers of moccasins will have to turn more and more to other kinds of leather, if they do not have to give up making them altogether. ASKS U. S. TO FIND MOTHER Greek Girl Worried Sick on Trip to Coast to Meet Her HUB- band-to-Be.

Sacramento, to speak English and fearing to make it known she had money, lest harm befall her, Miss Vasiliki, nineteen years old, traveling from her home in Greece to Sacramento to meet her husband-to- be, almost starved during the four days ot her journey from New York city, through 21 states. Unfamiliar with the customs ot this country and thinking that her Journey would end. within an hour or so, she did not eat on the entire trip, because of her fear to make it known that she had over $100 In her completely exhausted, she staggered into the arms of the )T. W. C.

A. Through an interpreter her story was learned. Her lover, James Kallas, has been located at Kennett, Shasta county, and the wedding will, take place as soon as she recovered from her expert- Indian Woman Has Not Seen or Heard From Her Parent In Thirteen Years. Kansas City, Indian woman about twenty-four years old with a child almost eleven years old was in the federal employment offices recently seeking aid in finding her mother from whom she has not heard iu thirteen years. The woman, who says her name.is Juanita Myers, says her huSband died a few years ago, leaving an estate in Chicago of $20,000, but that she has been unable to collect any part of it.

Her child, she says, is with relatives in Chicago, Her mother, she states, has been twice niarried uince she last saw her, and her father, married' her mother under the of Johnson, The 'mother was a Cherokee Indian. Father of 22 Dies at 99. Martnette, Benedict aged ninety-nine, the father, of 22 children, the oldest of whom la seventy- eight, died here recently. He was the father, ot four pairs of twins, course, the men will come, but we want the ladies, too We do not need to appeal to the know us. But we want the ladies to know us just as well aud to feel sure that in our store they'll find the kind of gifts they're seeking and the kind of service that makes Christmas buying easy.

So for the convenience of both the ladies and the menTwe providelhis lisFof useful, appropriate and practical men's gifts that every man will greet with the spirit of sincere appreciation that is so much desired. it at the man's gift means Some Gift Belt Cuff Buttons Garters Gloves Hosiery No. 6130 Bine Serge- Suit Scarf Shirt Clothcraf Suit Umbrella Sweater Coat Sweater Vesb Suspenders Hat Olothoraft Overcoat Underwear Boxed Holiday Set Muffler Raincoat Scarf Pin Handkerchiefs Collars Necktie We learn from the fable That you need a new table For the dinner on Xraas day We have every kind For the critical mind very-little pay. Ask Your Wife and she will name a dozen different articles of Furniture needed to complete your home Ask Her Again and she will specify some particular piece that is more urgently needed than the rest. It may be a table for the Christmas dinner, or something else that she has been wanting for a long time.

Give it to Her for a Christmas present, and make the joy of giving as great as that of receiving. But if you want to surprise her, or are hesitating as to just what to get, you can do no better than to come around and look our stock over and price the different articles, tljen you will have no difficulty in making your decision. We are arranging a special Christmas Gift Department in the front of our store, including many useful articles of lasting value, such as Framed Pictures, Smoker Stands, Needlework Baskets, Chairs, Writing Desks, Etc. We invite you to come and see. J.C.

HE CARSON E. CLARK, Manager.