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Show I MYTH AND MAGIC I 9 " '- Tha OHerta f Death. The fablae end auperstltiona of the North American Indlena would fill a book. Hera la one of them: The flrat man and tha flrat worn " ' thetrlJeoBlarWcat ware llva forarar or ahould they dlaT Tha flrat man wanted the Blackfeet to live forever hut tha flrat womao. i heln the wleer of tha two. saw tkat If thla happened the world would become ovorpopulatad and that their people would alarva la cooes -quence. The controveray waged for long time, neither being willing to give In. Finally the leaua waa left lo chance and Iha wily flrat man aug-geeted aug-geeted that a chip ba thrown Into the water. If It sank, man were to die. ' Ba the flrat woman w.a too inoch for him aa osual She euceeeded In auhstltutlng a atone for tha chip. Of courss It aank and Blackfeet die the earns aa tha rest of ua. OOPtTAI. OOMJiASTIMrJI XAMaTD. WABHINOTON, Aug. lieutenant lieu-tenant Colonel Paul C. Hutton of the army medical corpa. ha been aaatgned aa commanding officer of the Fltaelmone' armv haapltal at Denver. He will aaauma the poet In about ten daya. It ws stated at tha war department, where Ueu-tenant Ueu-tenant Colonel Hutton baa been In charge of the hospital division ta ths surgeon gsneral'a office. |