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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES.W ' r. - - : :;:r, VOL.5 12 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27, 12 PAGES NO. 76. ifTWAS A PATHETIC SIGHT. IRECONCIUATION CF THE ST. REGIS TRIBE WITH THE SIX NATIONS. The Former IWHve t Into l'tllowhip After hu KutruiiK.-mcn- t of SOO Vear. Song nf Wof t the Fall of the l'uner of tits On. o Mifhty League. ' , ICopyriRlit by Anwrlmn Prraw Association. . At n council of the New York state Sis Nation Indians recently held on the St. Regis reservation; Franklin county. New York, the tribe known us the Sr. Kogis was restored to the soriul and civil rights of the confederacy of the Iroquois, lio event of greater importance has cc- - to the Onondagas, in whose province the league was originated and who first be-- ! stowed the fifty sachem names, since continuing by heritage, nd the who, as an independent ' people hold the old law, to perform the ceremony of condolence (thd "raise" new chiefs, or ratify the investiture of all whom tho St. Regis limy have hereto-fore elected. Tho first ceremony was the or "condolence," which had the twofold object of lamenting with suitable ceremonies nil the deceased sa-chems ami chiefs and establishing suc-cessors. Thisi condolence was conducted by Daniel La Fort, an Onondaga sachem; Abram Hill, the hereditary tirekoeper, and Thomas Webster, the or keeper of tho national wampum belts. On him devolves the duty of "summoning" tho "nations" whenever a council is to take plix-e-. Previous to tho opening ceremony of condolence the sachems and chiefs, who had the right, seated themselves outside tho entranco to the council house, as Abram Hill, the lirekeoper by inherit-ance, "created" the council fire a syni- - bol that "the court of justice is always open." As the fire died out all proceeded to an inclosure where u new tire was "creat-ed." beside which tho "nations" seated themselves the Onondagaa, Seuecas and Mohawks, brothers by league law op-- I posito tho Oneidas, the Cayugas and Tnscaroras (at this council arrangements were made that tho four last Bhould bo represented by individual delegates), and tho "chanter," pricing slowly up and down tho open space by the fire, began this long, measured wail: Ilnili-hnih- l Won! Worn Hearken ye! We are diminished! Haililiaih! Woe: Woe! To Jc kawayr-nlen- . Tile clear land has b become a thicket. PalKhhalh! Woo! Woe! Ska-he- n yon. Tho clear places are de-serted. Haih Woe! They am in their graves, Hot-y-i Klvn. They who establisuod it. Haili! Woe! Kn yan een The Oreat League. Yet they declared Ke-n- ken yoi-w- at ye-- ll shall endure (fo lia. The (irent League. Haih! Woe! Their work has grown ba. old. Haih! Woel Thus we are become ten-lu- miserable. 1 ASA! : ty - ! A"PF!KW JOHN, JR. President of the Seneca Indians. ' turred among these jieople since the Revolutionary war, when, with the res-- j toration of peace, in lTol!, the political existence of the league of the Iroquois was substantially ended. These St. Regis Indians, now number-ing less than 1,000, are a dependent and V scparuto tribe included within the juris-- diction of tile state of New York. They! are descendants of the various trills of the Mohawk Iroquois, who, about. 1677, becoming proselyted to the Roman ; Catholic faith, forsook their old religion ; snd people and migrated from the Mo-- hawk valley to the banks of the St. Law rence, where placing themselves tinder the protection of the French they were known as the "Praying Indians" and as j the enemies of their kindred and league. f . Since that time they have not hud the j 4 brotherhood nor consulship privileges of 1 The clan relation whicli, designated by j - ' distinguishing "toteiua," is as effectual I '. as the blood relation and family name s:uu;i;; tlm-'p-alc facss.- - -- Nat huve. thsy I ! Wu permitted a seat in the councils of the league of the Iroquois-- , and it is j'lt'1(W f the past that at this day of the decay of that once colossal political structure the few who yet linger cling- - j lng to transmitted tribal institutions have welcomed these wanderers back into the remnant of its confederacy. To these few yet left to continue the law j the sacheuiship is still hereditary by tribal descent, and upon them devolves the "raising" or installing of a chief, whose title, however, terminates with the life of tho individual. In lh'sy these St. Regis Indians peti-tioned for admission or "restoration" to tho league that they might "recover," a.j. by ancient law, their right and pro- - ted ion of tho brotherhood which existed jirinr to their withdrawal in 16T7. This request having been favorably considered by the league, the "restoration" has now teen accomplished. Of tho original five nations (the Tuscaroras were in 1712 con-stituted the sixth nation) who ought to have been represented at this conciliatory council the Mohawks (the shield), Onon-laga- s (name bearer), Senecas (door- - keeper;, Oneidas (great tree), Cayugas (great pipe) there aro bnt two recog-nized nations who remain around the seat of their ancient "council tire" the Ecnecas and Ouondagas. The Cayugas, becoming absorbed with other nations, have lost their right of representation. Tho Oneidas, scattered in various directions, have no longer identity with the league. The Mohawks abaudoned their country with Brant ffcer the Revolutionary war, established themselves in Canada, and, save a few whose descendants yet remain incorpo- - JOHN tEER A St. Regis Chief. At the conclusion of this chant Sachem Webster sang the following: '.: Now listen ye who established the League. Aud, after a pause, continued: Now It has become old, Now is nothing but desolation, Alternating thereafter with the "chnnt-- ! er," who recited the remainder of the mournful song in tho Onondaga tongue: Ye are in your graves who established it, Ye hove taken it with you and have placed it un-- I der you. And thero is notion; left but a desert, j There you have tnkon your intellect.! with you. What ye havo establi-iiie- ye have taken with yoa. Ye have placed uud?r your heab what yeestab-- I lishe- d- The Great Leaguo. After this mournful evoking the warn-- i pum was passed around from one side of the house to the other, as the cere-- ! mony of "hanging the blankets" began. This significant and sorrowful custom w;is observed with grave seriousness. Blanket3 were suspended in the open i space, thereby dividing tho ohms, that thoy night "mourn in two houses," and a solemn stillness was observed for a few minutes, which indicated that there was no voice from tho dead to reply to them. j Soon afterward the blankets were taken down, and the time for present-- j ing candidates for chieftainship had come. Each candidate when brought j before the "namers" was separately an- - nounced, his merits mentioned, reasons given for his candidacy, and his achieve-ments of courage and personal worthi-ness extolled. This ceremony continued until each candidate had been "named" a chief, and, thus invested, "restored" by harmony of relationship to the old league from which his people had so lonir been seDiUitted. So has ended this remarkable and his-toric event. After an absence of more than 200 years the descendant lingerers of the wanderers from the league return to itii shelter "restored," and thus to be recognized hereafter as brothers by tho confederacy of the Iroquois, whose importance was once courted tiolitieal and whose geographical po-sition made themiimpires in the contest of the French for dominion in the west! HAEiurrr Maxwell Converse. ABKAM HII.T,. Mpn'xrr of the Onondaga Ti ll nnrt HfT"dltarf Fiivket jsor of too Six Nations.; rated with the New York state tribes, are subjects of the LSritish crown. At this convening of the fragment of tho once powerful confederacy, the Onondagas and Tonawanda-Seneca- s alone represent-ed by authority tho old league. These ' still adhere to the tribal laws and coun-- i ( eils. The Allegany and Cattaraugus Sene-- , ens have adopted a republican form of ' government, and so. losing their right ) of .sachem representation, on this occa-- j sion attended the coiuicil as guests rather than participants in its civil ceremonies. , The president, of tho Seneca nation. "if .Andrew John, Jr., also two of its conn- - M cillors Lester Bishop and David Ste- - 1 pheiis were delegates appointed to np-'- I pear for the Senecas and by courtesy of ' consent extended the hand of fellowship to the "returning" tribe. It reuiainw1 ' STILL A HALE OLD MAN. DESPITE CONTRARY REPORTS BAR-NU-RETAINS HIS VIGOR. Un Was 111 r..r it While, hut Is Now In Tntittut'tlnc llttslueaft ami Hm Made a w Will Ilia Advertising Schcnii'ii. Nunc t i ago the report went out from I.ridgeport Unit the veteran show-man. Phineas T. f!:irnnm, was on his deathbed. This was mkiii followed by n second statement that he had partially re-covered, was on the high road to health, hail made a new will and considered the feasibility of several fresh business enterprises. Then his affectionate and relieved constituency the entire United K la tea queried and remarked, "Another off i .. n" phineas T. Pakncm. advertising dodge, hey?' Probably not, but tho incident compels attention, nev-ertheless, to the old gentleman's abilities in that line. "Be careful to advertise in Borne shape or other," said Barnuni not long ago, "because it is evident that if a man has ever so good an article for sale and no-body knows it, it will firing him no re-turn. Tho whole philosophy of life is, first sow, then reap. This principle ap-plies to all kinds of business, and to nothing more eminently than to adver-tising. If a man has a really good article there is no way in which ho can reap more advantageously than by 'sowing' to the public in this way." Bannim poasesses a genius for ad-vertising, not only in the newspapers and by posters, but in many other ways calculated to attract attention Another element of success which ho has, and which goes hand in hand with his faculty for advertising, has been his assurance. He has humbugged the pub-lic and then written a book recounting his methods with remarkable frankness These methods of his more active life he did not seem to regard as anything to be ashamed of. They were to him brilliant strokes, "Preserve your integrity," ho said; "it is more precions than diamonds or rubies. The most difficult thing in life is to make money dishonestly. Our prisons are full of men who attempted to follow this course. No man can be dishonest without soon being found out, and when his lirck of principle is dis-covered nearly every avenue to success is closed against him forever. Strict honesty not only lies at the foundation of all success in life financially, but in every' other respect." One who is familiar with Barnnm's exhibition of the negress Joice Heth, tho alleged nurse of Washington, 161 years old, his woolly horse, his Feejee mer-maid, and other manufactured or par-tially manufactured curiosities, may be surprised at this explicit statement of the case by one who could talk so well about honesty; but Barnum was and is doubt-less strictly honest, as he interpreted the word, and although he palmed made up curiosities on the public he would have scorned to do anything beyond what he regarded mere shrewdness. Barnum has never done things by de-grees. He has uttered some good words about economy, but economy and pa-tience usually go together. Whether Barnum has possessed these faculties or not he has certainly declined to wait for avenues, by which to reach the public, to open up to him. He has opened them himself. In the days when Barnum was en-deavoring to establish the American museum, and later when in the circus business, he used to do a great deal of advertising in the then prominent New York papers. The Courier and Enquirer, The Times and Messenger and The Her-ald. "Night after night." he said, "at the midnight hoii ind later, 1 crawled up these several til paper staircases to put in these joi s some fresh and startling announu nt about my busi-ness. I even diil 's after the editor had gone home. 1( the foreman in the composing room had some authority then, and would often put the matter I offered in type or make an announce-ment for me." Barnum still looks back with pleasure to his friendly dealing with editors. ORIENTAL BEAUTIES. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SEE THEM, AL-THOUGH NOT AT ALL EASY. )ull Krr Trlla Son.x IulnrcHtlUK Thins About the lloinea ami the Home l.lfs if tho l'eo lo in Mohnmmrdaii Conn j tries. i Special New York, Even under th j prevailing iron system of leclusion the beauties of Islam are not wholly cut olT from the civilized world. Men, indeed, aro absolutely forbidden lo approach them, and so strict is this prohibition that it extend:! itself not merely to for. eigncrs and unbelievers, hut to thiso of their own race and creod ni:d even to their nearest relations. From the day of her marringo to the day of her death j a Moslem bride must never see or be sen by any man save her husband. But with lady visiters it is quite a different matter. Seldom, indeed, does the most i jealous and fanatical of Mussulman lms-- ' bands object to admit them to the so-- . ciety of his wives, and, in fact, such visits are of ten looked upon by the hou-- J est Bluebeard in t'.M light of a favor ralherthan an affront, inasmuch as it keeps his own ladies in good humor foi the timo being and saves him the trim hie of doing anything to entertain them. Let us suppose that you are a Euro-jiea-or American lady traveling along the North African seaboard, and about to pay a visit to the cuged beauties in the harem of some great Moorish digni-tary in Morocco. Following the two tall, red capped, white frocked Moorish soldiers sent to conduct you, you thread your way through a cobweb of narrow, gloomy, filthy lanes almost blocked at times by heaps of dust and garbage, among which numbers of gaunt, woltish dogs are rooting hungrily. Meanwhile your two guides clear the way for your " horse or donkey through the eddying whirl of men, boys, camels, asses, horses and old women by constant shouts of "Cheloh! cheloh!" (look out) and re-morseless punches with the brass shod huts of their rifles. At length you halt in front of a high, bare, windowless wall, the only visibly owning in which is a deep shadowy porch of the key shaped form peculiar to Saracenic architecture, edged with balustrade somewhat lika ft lurjo. turn- - ile. This recss is lighted by a swing-in- g lamp of embossed gold, filled with perfumed oil, the soft light of whicli is flashed back in a thousand sparkles from the countless ti'.iy mirrors that cover like sctles the whole surface of tli-.- i wall. Jn the alcove sit or recline up.n soft cushions about a do: n women (some i f them not yet past girlhood), repress all types, from the sleek, tiger like beauty of thoCircassi.nl to the heavy, expressionless, voluptuous features of the West African .lalooi'. At first sight they look like an airy cloud of whito drapery, and only by d 'Trees do yon take in the details of the long white veil swathed round tile foreheal and floating down the back, the loose. wid- -' tdeeve l, em-broidered jacket over a thin white bod-ice, tho broad jeweled gir lie, th.i trou-sers of ilesh colored sl!, an I tho dainty little pointed slippers, Btifit with gold lace and richly embroidered with wed pearls, Ju.it at first they are rather shy of you. but this soon wears off, and, when freed from tha overawing presence of their portly lord and master, they crowd round you and chatter to you like chil-dren, exhibiting with childish pleasure tho jewels, chains and bracelets which hang on their smooth necks and round arms as thickly as tinsel on a Christum doll. The lirst thing to be done is to give you some green tea, which replaces coffee in Morocco. The sprijf --of mint that floats ia it is almost as great an ad-dition as the lemon juieu used in Hussia. while the accompanying sweetmeats of almond paste mixed with sugar and orange flowers bruised into honey are equally novelties in their way, and the quaint little handleless cups, pet like flower pots in silver stands, would make any collector's mouth water. When you have drunk your three cups (tho regulation number in Morocco) the ladies offer you a long pipe of eastern tobacco flavored with rose water, and express great surprise at your refusal. Then they Wgiu to criticise your dre.ss which they .examine with marked in- - terest and undisguised amazement while asking yon all sorts of questions, tho first of which is always, "flow many other wives ban your husband got?" Other queries follow, most of which are extremely comical, and some not a little embarrassing; ami whtn the time comes for you te depart yon hamly know which to wonder at most the extreme igno-rance of your new friends or their in-satiable curiosity. David Kkb. curious fretwork, and brilliantly paint-ed with alternate slripes of crinuon and blue. This leads into a marblo paved quadrangle with a tiny fountain splashing and tinkling in the center the "patio" of tha Spaniards, in fact, borrowed by them from their Moorish conquerors. Shady colonnades, run along it four bides, alxve which are cloistered passages protected by screens of lattice work. nd now you discover why the outside of a Moorish house is al-ways windowless, for with a jealous precaution thoroughly characteristic of the east all the windows open upon this inner court! Visitors being frequently received in the court itself, it is strewn with mats or carpets, and shaded from the weather by a colored awning, which subdues tho burning African sunshine into a rich summer gloom of purple twilight, such as that which fills the aisles of some vast cathedral. Beyond this lies a spa-cious saloon, with a richly carpeted floor and a paneled ceiling for which any Venetian noble of the Fourteenth century would gladly have given half his yearly revenue. No chairs aro to bo seen, but the soft cushions scattered about the floor and the velvet or damask liolsters placed alonff the sides of the room show where tho inmates are wont to squat or to recline. The upper part of i WALTER SCOTT'S DIARY. A .11 out Inlermtina; Iternrd of the Ureat Ni.velibt'a Lant lluys. Siiecirtl Correspondence.) New York, Nov. 13. Walter Scott's journal, just given to the public, bids fair to rank as the literary event of the year, and will int--es- t Americans quite as much as tho author's own country- - men. Scott's personality is of interest to us for many reasons, but chiefly for three: w ' j Ho worked himsViltf to death to pay his debts. None of the liltfoes he sang did a more heroic thing thailiat. He truth- - I ered up the floating traditions and rudo minstrelsy of his native land and wrought them into living forms of beau-- ! ty which have made the localities classio ground. But more than all he did a patriotic work which no other man has been able to do so fully for any country long distracted by civil war and feuds of race and religion. Why is it, the, political inquirer often asks, that the civil wars in Scotland were followed so soon by such perfect am-- 1 nesty and concord? Ono answer is self evident: all the heroic achievements of both sides have been thrown into a com- - mon stock and constitute the common glory of the country. The honor of giv- - ing poetic completeness to this work be- - longs to Walter Scott. In his inspiring lines Kelt and Saxon, Scott and English-man, Catholic, Protestant and Erastian shine, each according to his merits. This great work has not yet been done for Ireland. The journal covers but seven years, from 185 to 18:!,', and appears to have been written more to relieve the writer's mind under its load of trouble than to give information. The depression which followed the Napoleonic wars ended about ISiO, and as usual in such pawn the reaction made business men reckless. The era of speculation culmiuated in ifSt and ended suddenly in the worst financial revulsion Oreat Britain ever suffered. Scott was completely crushed. His publishers failed. All for whom he had assumed any responsibility failed, and he was saddled with the enormous debt of estimated by his best informed friends. Then the inborn nobleness of the man shone out. At the age of !5,"i, when lie had retired from authorship, he reso-lutely set to work to pay his debts by the pen. He surrendered all his prop-erty except Abbot sford, and there lived in the most; economical way. The next year he published "Woodstock;"' the tho wall is frescoed with appropriate texts from the Koran in quaint, arrowy, eastern characters, while along t he lower part damask hangings of white, scarlet or blue mask the doorways of several bed-rooms, from which three or four steps of polished white marble lead down into the saloon itself. Suddenly the hangings of a curtained archway at the far end of the room are thrust aside, and the master of tho hnuso in person comes forward to greet you a stately old eastern gen-tleman in flowing Moorish robes, whose long silky beard is as whito as the many folded turban that over-shadows it. Ho puts his hand to his j forehead in graceful oriental salnta-- j tion and Ix'gs you (in broken French or Spanish if yon do not understand Arabic) to consider his house and all that it con-tains as your own, after which you are requested to "honor with tho touch of your foot the threshold of his harem." Following the old gentleman's guid-ance, you are led through a maze of dark passages and low doorways, till you feel us if playing a never ending game of hide and seek. At length you halt before a flight of broad marble steps, leading up to a high archway, through the curtains of which come the ripple of female voices and the silver tinkle of girlish laughter. Beside tho steps stand, like bronze statues, two gigantic black slaves, gorgeous in white i and crimson, with drawn swords gleam-in- g in their huge bony hands. But at ' the sight of the "master'' and the ' Faring! li khnnoom" (foreign l.vly) the sabers are lowered in salute, the curtains fall back and yon are ushered into tho midst of a scene which appears to have come bodily out of the "Arabian Nights." ' Before vou lies a lanreand loftv room next, "Chronicles of the Canongate" and the "Life of Napoleon Oonaparte." On the last wolk alone he received enough to pay bis creditors nearly ijilo.000. IIo then produced nine considerable works in rapid succession. Paralysis struck him down in the midst of these exhaust-ing labors, and after a brief journey on the continent he died at Abbotsfori, Sept. 21, 1 Soon after his death tho profits of his works paid the last dollar of his indebt-- edness. The lapse of time has relieved the family of any anxiety as to injuring the living, and Mrs. Maxwell-Scot- t now gives the journal to the world.. It is written in a style of extreme freedom, which sometimes amounts to coarseness; but such was the custom in those days, and this journal presents the real man. Some passages are quite affecting, among them those which relate how the extent of the appalling calani)y upon Hm. I H. Beahle the shadowy interior of which looks de-- ' light fully cool and shaded after the bhs-- I ti ring glare outside. The rich J'ersiau carpets leave enough of the floor uncov-ered to let you udmire to the full one of those miracles of ornamental mosaic which are still the wonder of all who visit the Taj Mahal or the Alhainbra. From the vaulted roof ha.'ig splendid silver lamps of the kind familiar to those who have seen the mosques of Tunis and Cairo. Tall vases tilled with gorgeous flowers stand ranged along either side of the entrance, and above the silken hang-'- , ings that ( lothe the lower wall? rows of stately areheg rise in all the splendor of theii colored fretwork, liirhtiiu tm with one great rainbow tne dim and dreamy twilight of that enchanted palace. At the far end of the apartment is a ' small, high roofed alcove, raised some-- j what aliovo renf of the room, from i which it is sejarated by a movable si1'-- " i (JqasalB Y Q COHNBROS. 0 T ry 1lusl1 Garment in our stock at KJ ..'.i Tcr ccnt less than former jT' prices. Braided Cloth Wraps 25 per cent, below cost. ' ' Every variety of Cloth Jackets at actual " ' manufacturers' cost. ' t All Misses' and Childrens' Garments marked down to seventy-fiv- e cents on the dollar. Ladies' Tea Gowns Below Cost. We havj just four Real Alaska Seal J Jackets left. They cost before the . in seal 8o, SS5, ioo and $120. rN4' Orise are to-da- y worth 90 per cent. but can be bought at the prices during this sale. Vm J COHN BROS. ST O k : THE SCHWEITZBR CLOAK ano SUIT C q --p . 55 Main Street, Salt Lake City The 0r!y Exclusive Cloak and Suit House in Utah NEW GOODS I NEW STYLES. Otal ai Montana Machinery Coip C. P. MASON, Manager Headquarters for all Classes of Machinery. Engines and Boilers from power ana upwards in stock for i mm diate delivery. Steam Pumps, Injectors, Horse Whims, Hoisting Engines Rck Breakers, Wall's Rolls, Ingersoll Air Compressors and Drill, Lubri eating Oils, Mine, Mill and Smeller Supplies, Silver, Gold and Ooncaatrat rg Mills erected and delivered in running order. Maine Office and Warerooms 259 S. Mais Street. Salt Late D. S AGENCY. BUTTE, MONTANA. MARRIAGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION f S2CX000.00 Capital Stock. ' .. Sec. A. H. MATNB, TrS C. M. (OrP, Ilest ! T. MAYNE. VtrePTO't j. E.DARMEB, The Utah M arrlaR Kndc.wmf nt Association orgHr.t unrtrr ths JnT?j wim a eaeltal Mock of r--' '.0 now offers to its members the best inducements ol XOV)"- 1. to endow Its member, with One Thoue.nd Bolter. X that ivFP'.'Ctiv inarr apss ' Call at th omi-- e for further Information. 56 West Second South St. - - Salt LakryOlty Close of un Hiinorublu Career. Br. C. A Miller, for many years past superintendent of Longview asylum, near Cincinnati, recently died quite sud-denly after an active and exceedingly useful career. Al-though not noted for any remark-able discovery in medijine. he was still widely known as a suc-cessful adminis-trator of Long-vie-and as a hu-mane and skillful physician. He was born in ISm!) Dlt. C. A. MII.I.I'-R- . inAtllenscomny O.,. taught school at a verj- - early age in Ohio and Missouri, graduated from the Ohio Medical college and was surgeon for two years of the Thirty-fourt- h Ohio, lie leaves a widow and two cliildreu. .he llii.in; i'HHHintt. son and daughter. An old Yalo half hack was in a rail-road accident a year or two ago, and lost a couple of legs and an arm or so, had most of his bones broken, and was battered and bruised beyond recognition. As he was being tarried away on a stretcher he opened his mouth feebly and murmured. "Did we get a tourh-down'r- " IIo thought he had been taking part in an animated game. New York Kun. . Hung tho Wash' un the Electric VTIre. A very careless t rick of a domestic in a family residing in the Corliss block was to use an electric wire running over the roof for a clothes line. The wire broke and came near setting fire to the block. The wire was eight inches above the clothes line, and she had been cau-tioned aljout using it. That's the way careless people soiuetinrcs do. Haverhill In some ninety species of plants grow-ing both en the coast and in the interior of France, Tierre Lesage has found that proximity to the sea causes a thickening the leaves. Mary W. Wtltnw Kn snrVApdMl Maria Mitchell as professor of astronomy at Vassar college, advocates the study of science for girls, with the express object tf disciplining their emotional natures. |