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SHINER GAZETTE. SHINER. TEfXAS 0 Events in the Lives of Little Men THE FEATHERHEADS -----f----- The New Step-Papa UrtDCC. (OM BOVf- IS TUAT A LAUGH WELL-TMAT TAKES A LOAD OFF MY I WAS TV4IKJKIM THE OC GlQL VOAS SETTLE OM U5 L. HEtt SOME OWE lb TftOMPLE OVEQL FANNY'S GOT A STEP-PAPA HAH HAH? LET ME PRESENT MYSELF, FELIX, MY BOY IM YOOP.

MOTHEP IM-LAW'S MEU) I JUST WONDERED IP I COULD TOUCH MNL A HUNDRED TiL NEXT JTOlDAY 4 wMiern union wtswswpm ojbokii FINNEY OF THE FORCE Was Wanted THAT UfclklAllVh tjAVfc nt A DOLLAR. AM' SAID TO LOOK AQOUN HERE FUNNY! IS WHERE FOUND THAT WHtero Newspaper Colon Of the' TRIBES By Editiia L. Watson 0 The Iroquois The first successful League of Na tlons was that of the Iroquois, also known as the Five a io s. These tribes, the Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida and Onondaga, were united in a confederation by the efforts of Dekunawida and Hiawatha, those brilliant statesmen of the aborigines, about the year 1570. (One hundred and fifty-two years later, the Tuscarora were admitted to the league, which was known from then on as the Six Nations).

All the Iroquois tribes were much alike In their customs. Kinship was traced exclusively through the female hbrod, and the women controlled many of the political and legal situations. The lodges and their furnishings were he property of the women, and so were the children. All lands, including the burial grounds, also were theirs. Since women were the owners of so much of the tribal property.

It followed that the councils, even that of the league itself, while composed of men, really only represented the women and their rights. The penalty for killing a woman was twice that for killing a man. Women possessed the right to forbid their sons to go on the warpath; they kept close watch on the affairs of their tribe, and guarded the treasury, with a voice in the disposal of its contents. The feminists of today may point with pride to this great confederation as tiie protype of their desired civilization. In each tribe certain classes of persons held the position of chiefs, and tiiere were three grades of these, whose functions were defined by the tribal laws.

The confederation was an enlargement of tlie tribal government, which created new rights and duties, yet adhered closely to the precedent set by the separate tribes. The sensible laws and principles of the constitution of this confederation were due, in a large measure, to De- kanawida, a Huron, who appears to have been a man far in advance of his time. Hiawatha, a Mohawk, was the one who undertook the enormous labor of putting principles Into practice. The story of these two men almost passes belief, because of the time in which they lived, the obstacles they were compelled to surmount and the brilliance of their final anchievement for the Iroquois confederation will stand forever as a wonderful example of aboriginal government. When the Europeans first heard of the league it was already a powerful one, and as soon as contact with the whites enabled them to obtain firearms, the Five Nations began to conquer their neighbors on all sides and to extend their territory.

They were successful In this expansion until blocked by the Cherokee on the south, and the Chippewa (who were also expanding) on the west. In fact, the Chippewa finally forced them to withdraw from part of the country they had conquered, the peninsula between Lake Erie and Lake Huron. The Canadian Indians to their north were resisting their advance also, and when Champlain joined them and held the leagued tribes back, he created in the battled Iroquois most hitter enemies of the French. From this time on the French had cause to know the strength and the venom of these Indians, who. as they had become allied with the English, had powerful backing.

The French, realizing not only that these were dangerous enemies but also that they would be friends worth having, tried every means in their power to change their attitude. The missionaries were charged to befriend these Indians and to try to alter their enmity, and were successful in some individual cases. A good many from the Mohawk and Onondaga and a few from the other tribes, withdrew from their people and formed settlements of their own on the St. Lawrence river. These people, known as the Catholic Iroquois, were friendly to the French, and took part with them against their former tribesmen.

The league tried, time after time, to win them back, but finally gave them up as traitors who would not reform. When the American Revolution began it was decided among the Iroquois to let each tribe make its own choice of action. The league had always been friendly with the English, so that they all, with two exceptions, joined their friends in the struggle. The Oneida (the most cruel and least tractable of the Iroquois tribes) and part of the Tuscarora remained neutral. After the war those of the league who had been allied with the English were settled on a reservation in Ontario.

Those in the United States, except the Oneida, were given reservations in New York, while the Oneida went to Green Bay, near which place they settled. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) Yellow Head, a Blackfoot, has been selected by artists as a perfect physical type of the American Indian. Star for Every State in Flag of the Union Since the admission of New Mexico and Arizona into the Union in 1912, our flag lias borne 48 stars. With the addition of two more stars for these two states, it was necessary to rearrange the position of all stars in the flag.

In that year President Taft issued an Executive order providing for the specific arrangement of the stars in the flag, and also designating one for each state. Beginning at the upper left corner and following each row from left to right, the stars represent the states In the order in which they ratified the Constitution (for the first 13 slates) or were admitted to the Union. Here Is the pattern of the star field, with the name of the state substituted for each star: First Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland. South Carolina. Second Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee.

Third Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri. Fourth Michigan, Florida. Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California. Minnesota. Fifth Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota.

Sixth Washington, Idaho. Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. List of Active Members in League of Nations The League of Nations now has a membership of 54 states Here is the roll oi member states: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia. Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican ub- 11c, Esthonia, Ethiopia, Finland. France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala.

Haiti. Honduras, Hungary, India, Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama. Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, El Salvador, Siam, Soutli Africa, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela and Jugoslavia. The nations not In the league are these: Afghanistan, Brazil.

Costa Rica. Ecuador, Egypt, the Hedjaz and Nejd. Mexico, Soviet Russia, (U. S. S.

Turkey and the United States of America. Cylinder Made Air Pump A new device that can be screwed Into the spark plug hole of one of the cylinders turns that cylinder into an air pump that will produce two and a half cubic feet of free air per minute. This much air is sufficient to spray oil paint, germicide, insecticide, and liquids, says Popular Science Monthly. On the down stroke of the piston In the cylinder to which the device is fitted, the piston sucks in outside air through a spring-operated valve. On the up stroke, this valve closes and another opens, allowing the air to flow Into a storage tank or Into the pipe leading to the spray equipment.

If more air is needed than can he obtained from one cylinder in this way, two of the devices can be used at the same time so as to double the output. It Is designed to work at an engine speed equivalent to a road speed of 20 miles an hour. Baby Whales Hatched For the first time, writes a correspondent of the London Sunday Observer, the Budapest zoo has been successful in hatching eggs in an incubator. The four baby fish which appeared are disporting themselves merrily in a small stretch of water. As only considerable lake, the Balaton, would scarcely be large enough to harbor four grown whales as well as its yachting societies it is presumed that the whales will be sold, lila the baby hippopotamus born at London last last year, before the; reach an Inconvenient size.

Empty Honor Many years ago a virulent disease broke out among the English army horses and killed them in droves. A young doctor, Griffith Evans, made blood tests, and discovered the germ that was causing the be discredited by the army authorities, but he was right though, as ten years later the war office admitted. Now he is aged ninety-five, deaf and bedridden, living In obscurity at Bangor, in Wales. In recognition of his Invaluable work he has just been given the freedom of the city. Feel Younger I you feel older than your if you are and if you long for the vitality and enthusiasm of can fight weakness and aid Nature by taking Syrup.

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