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Show Thursday. December THE 1937 2.1, Was a "Happy New Year" for y Settlers 75 Years Ago It NGIMII. TIMES-NEW- Land-Hungr- ,, 41 . I'TAH -v r.'3 jxsETAv Cannibalism Just Keying Up WitvSciene ' On January , 863, the Homestead Law Went Into Effect and Many a Man Who Had Deen Rush to Pay Singing "Uncle Sam Is Rich Enough to Give Us All a Farm," Joined in the the Fee of $18 and Secure His 160 Acres of Land on the Western Frontier 1 PACE THREE Traveler's Myth, Declares Scientist By i:.MII.Y C. DAVIS "Cannibalism by o cgic ebcr vcc 1 C he A. VS'NU Service. A Philadi-lphia- New Babylon on Paper and in Fact. is a pure traveler's myth." This statement, which will surprise many people, comes from Prof. M. F. Ashley- Montagu, anthropologist of Mavan Kmpire May Have I Jem W reeked hv Social Upheaval C Western Newspaper Union. vjt4'! Srrvice. Initials on Linens Stamp You as Chic New York university. Professor Ashley . Montagu has grown weary of what he considert unfair tactics In accusing certain inhabitants of the earth of cannibal- violent ism. It social upheaval, with thrones is particularly It's smart to "be personal" when marking linens, for towels, pillow slips, sheets and even per-eonal "dainties" make known your ownership when embroidered with your very own initials. These are quickly worked in single stitch and French knots, either in a com- - 1 w unfair, he to call prehistoric men this hard name because they cannot pos sibly arise to sue for libel. What happens, as he points out In report to the Journal Science, is feels, litenilly shattered, may have Although a great many se'.t'ors wreck eel America's mysteriI 4 ous old empire of the Mayas, took advantage of the nuw o to get land, "the r re .i test which (lowered so magnifithis: rush of settlement into the cently in the tropics long bes I When charred human bones ore ' "V' '"v A ''A t I.,-i i region came in the sevfound at some campfire that burned After the fore Columbus. enties and eighties. This new scientific out thousands theory, of Act the Homestead years ago in the passed, brought back from Guatemala by Old Stone ace. It Is generally asthoughts of many of the soldiers an 2 of of the expedition sumed that cannibals feasted there. University turned to the West. As the boys museum and Pennsylvania partly Ana u me numan Dones are in blue sat around the campfire financed the American Philo- - cracked. Indicating that a human Hit vj- tthey planned what they would do sciihical by society, shows the "peace when the long bloody war ended. ful being extracted marrow, why, that and highly civilized Mayan settles all doubt. These folk were Many looked forward to the time Indians in warlike phase. Archeol- - cannibals, which suggests to most when as comrades they would move to the new land and start osists have long been mystified by minds that they had the low habit of the curious break in their civilizagobbling up other humans as unout life again. tion, when many stone cities In CenTattern 1553. concernedly as they would eat eleof time course "In the many tral America were abandoned. phant steak. of these plans were broken up; Their center of bination of colors or the same colcivilization shifted No "Missionary Stew." nevertheless, a large wave of mi- northward to Yucatan. or throughout. Pattern 1553 conBut, Professor Ashley - Montagu tains a transfer pattern of an algration flowed westward soon aft"Many scientists long have felt does er the war. Other soldiers who that not find such convincevidence it was inability of the Mayan phabet 2 inches high, two IVk had not previously planned seri- Indians to cope with the envelop ing, and he declares that It would inches high and one V4 inch high; A SOD nOCSE IX NORTH DAKOTA arrivon not stand up in any Primate court. information for migrating, upon ously ing Jungle, or some ether nat placing initials region This was the type of dwelling in which lived the pioneers who settled the ing home were dissatisfied with ural force, that led them to abanHe points out that. In modern and monograms; illustrations of 18G3. old surroundthe quiet life in the the passage of the Homestead Act in don elaborate temples and palaces," and all stitches used. times, starving primitives ings. After a few years near the said Linton Eatterthwaite, Jr., field even civilized men have been Send 15 cents in stamps or coins would was Law rich that prairie old home these men decided to director of the By ELMO SCOTT WATSON known to kill and eat their young. (coins preferred) for this pattern after it had cast their lot in with the West. expedition. produce abundantly The expedition, which returned to But no one would call these peo60U won't find the name of Daniel Freeman in any been broken by the huge prairie to The Sewing Circle, Needle-cra-ft , Piedras Negras, a deserted city that ple cannibals. He also points out A Wave of Migration. of the dictionaries or encyclopedias of biography. plows, there was also much that Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., that many primitive tribes do ocN. museum Y. a soldiers of previous belief its the after university in the expe "Confederate justified was an previous he Nevertheless, important figure Please write your name, adrule ditions found well worth exploring. casionally consume certain parts of being unfit for farming. So there few years of the carpet-bahistory of our country as a symbol of what has was the human body for ritual purposes. dress and pattern number plainly. a certain amount of grim in the South began to leave the has unearthed new evidence to con adventures." America's of "one called been big "But," he adds emphatically, "no truth in a story current during chaotic environment lorced on mm a suspicion that damage to For Daniel Freeman was "The First Homestead that period. It was the story of an the people by military recon- thrones in sacred pnlaces was done people of whom we have any knowlstruction. As a result of these by human vengeance, not merely by edge makes any habit of cannibaler" and he acquired that title just 75 years ago when he Irish homesteader who explained HOUSEHOLD wave time and weather. Parts of thrones ism." became the possessor of 160 acres of land near Beatrice, the provisions of the law to an- combined factors, a mighty were even found buried in the out onto the landowner other of by poured to The sums prospective migration this: argument up Neb., under the provisions of the new Homestead Law telling him that "th" givernment QUESTIONS prairies, rolling rapidly toward jung'es away from the palaces Men, even civilized men, have been which went into effect on January 1, 1863. bets ye wan hundred and sixty the Rocky mountains until the showing that human hands had known to eat their fellows, undeacres iv land against yer $18 that grasshoppers stopped its flow in moved them. Tardy recognition of Free-- '' niably. But Professor Preventing Rust in Oven. After Basis of the New Theory. starve to death befur ye the middle of the decade of the would have us relegate to man's right to fame was mount a house on wheels and ye'll the oven, leave the oven door using it from claim to claim. "It live there foive years." realm those ghoulish picExplaining the scientific reason fairy-talwide open, to allow it to cool down given last year when "the pull to swear the tures of savages gleefully dancing ing which leads the expedition to de As a concession to soldiers who This allows all moisfirst homestead taken in the enabled riuce social upheaval in Mayan around a pot of missionary stew thoroughly. that he had a bona fide residence served in the Union army certain ture to escape and prevents rust. United States" was set aside on his claim," writes Doctor modifications of the Homestead an for Mr. Satterthwaite said: days, ordinary Thursday night as a national monument. Dick in his book. "This structure Law were made in later amend"The ancient Maya communities meal. Sliding Dresser Drawers. Rubenterwere not cities in the strict sense More recently his name has was a real money making dol- ments. One of these allowed war a candle stub or wax along bing since it rented for five of the word, but rather, religious veterans to apply their service been brought to the attention prise the sliding edges of dresser a day. Scores of Case drawers time in the army on the centers, and the absence of kitchens Second will make them move in of his countrymen. That was lars were proved with it." and Another in residence the sleeping quarters requirement. pal and out much more easily, even done in "The Sod House aces who had indicates an allowed that those structures the govEven thus when heavily loaded. written ernment,by the cheating were used primarily for religious fronserved nine months to take 160 Frontier, or civil ceremonies, and were not by Dr. Everett Dick, profes- tiersman wasn't yet satisfied. acres within (the limits of a railBaking Escalloped Mixtures. Chicago. For the second time priestly residences as has been sup sor of history in Union col- He thought that having to pay road grant, whereas80 all others in medical literature a case of Time and fuel will be saved If acres. It So could take up only too posed. was much. an acre $1.25 mixtures are baked in lege, Lincoln, Neb., and pub- he continued to ask for more and was this policy of favoring Union Nevertheless, they doubtless were favism is reported In the United escalloped lished by the D. Apppleton-Centur- y more in the way of legislation soldiers which thrust upon Daniel shallow, wide dishes or pans. erected at the instance of the States. Favism occurs not uncommonly in Freeman the fame of being "The priests who constituted the ruling company of New Lining a Coat. When lining a class, and it is logical to assume Italy and occasionally in Germany. York. First Homesteader." It is a type of hemolytic anemia coat, put the coat on inside out. that, therefore, such sacred buildPrior to the Civil war Freeman This book is an important adHave the lining all ready stitched ings would not have lost their appeal that occurs among some persons had started a road ranch at Plum dition to the literature of Amerwho eat the bean Vicia fava, or who up, and slip it over the coat. It to the Mayas, and their construc Trail. on the ican pioneer life. It tells for the Creek, Neb., Oregon the of the inhale blossoming will fall into position naturally. pollen tion have been discontinued with Like other road ranchers, he was first time the complete story of out some change in the relationPin it in place, and finish in the plant. how the millions of acres of pubnothing more or less than a These beans broad, smooth, kid usual way. ship between priests and laymen. lic land that stretched westward squatter m the wild Indian-m- are eat"Possibly the change took the ney shaped Italian beans fested territory beyond the Mis from the Missouri river to the en by Italian residents in this coun form violent a of social in Split Pea Soup. Six quarts waupheaval little made souri. pretense They Rocky mountains were opened but not until 1933 was the first ter, one and try, which the and pounds beef priests themselves, live some of but to settlement, how kept farming case of favism reported in Ameriall that they stood for, were overHOUSE "TWELVE BY shank, one pound pig knuckle, one stock for trade with emigrants Americans swarmed over this can medical writings. FOURTEEN" thrown. That we do not know, of pound split peas, two onions, westward-boun- d smooth-rollinfor the Oregon virgin prairie. "A BONA FIDE RESIDENCE" The young man has recovered sliced. Crack the bones and cover course. But the discovery of evionce considered unfit for human country or the California the flow started dence that human agencies played from his severe illness, and his with cold water. Add the peas and seventies. Again which articles sold them to for him and there built the it get habitation, easy making in the destruction and physician. Dr. John E. Hutton of bring slowly to a boil. Boil steadstates of Kansas, Nebraska and land. During the fifties there was they needed, and provided bed westward only to sweep beyond some part York of sacred objects is signifNew but removal the hospital, ily for about four hours, removing the rain belt, droughts board travelers. for and South Dakota. North a popular song which declared and describes his case and the disease the scum as it rises. As the soup of the late eighties once more icant. "Uncle Sam is rich enough to Enlists in the Army. back to"For while that discovery does in general in the Journal of the begins to thicken, cook slowly in flung the Beginning with the land law of give us all a farm." It expressed order not to, scorch. Add the Freeman ward the East. At a later time the not solve by any means the mystery American Medical Association. that fact the Despite of these the of philosophy successiveexactly 1800, each piece was doing a prosperous business tractor, combine and dry farming surrounding the fundamental causes 8 few persons who eat this onions about one hour before the westward-farinOnly piorestless legislation passed by congress with his road ranch, he was pa- have once more made this region of the decline of Maya culture it type of bean become ill, according soup is done. had made it easier for the fron- neers. triotic enough to enlist in the habitable. During the peak years suggests that violence resulted from to Dr. Hutton. They may have been the When Abraham Lincoln, tiersman to acquire for himself army soon after the out in the early seventies and eighties those causes. If so, the abandon- eating beans for years with impua small part of the public do- first President from the Old Union of the Civil war. During whole counties were settled in a ment of the religious centers does nity when suddenly, usually in 'adult main. One of these was the land Northwest, was elected in 1860 break his term of service the Homestead fashion which rivaled the work not imply that the people left their life or in old age, they get a severe law of 1841, usually called the it was a signal for residents of Act was attack of favism. passed and late in 1862 of a magician who by means of country immediately. Act. It provided that part of the country to set up and the magic wand brought forth a the opinion of many scholbrief a obtained "Thus he furlough The prevalence of the condition in wida of free lands stiu clamor that the head of a family, a ars that the whole population left varies from year to year. It west. The result was the returned to Nebraska to look over prosperous city." Italy ow or a single man over twenty-on- e True, some of these "boom the southern 'Old Empire' country occurs oftenest after the first inbecame some of the highly advertised years of age could file a claim Homestead Law, which land there. towns" existed only on paper, under the leadership of their priests gestion of green beans in season for 160 acres of the public do- a law on May 20, 1862. A land office had been opened Babylon, Kan.," for exam- may be more justifiably questioned." and among those who eat them fremain. The claimant was required Under its provisions any per at Nebraska City and when he "New But others became realities Death may occur after ple. quently. on the a erect to claim, son who is the head of a family, dwelling December 31 he and grew into cities. On July 4, "Ci eating only a small quantity. make proof of his settlement to or who has arrived at the age of arrived there oncrowded ouuvv ver PLENTY OF DATES NOW.. .DENTON'S iicc with set- 1873, at a celebration in Buffalo the town the register and receiver at the twenty-on- e years, and is a citizen found 500 children sang FACIAL MAGNESIA MADE HER United States land office, for of the United States, or who shall tlers eager to take up claims un- county. Neb., Be Name school hymns where 1J New which that official received fifty have filed his declaration of in der the new law which was to go Sunday before SKIN FRESH, YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL wild Indians had next New months But day. cents for each claimant. tention to become such" and who into effect the will. at a and roamed was Year's holiday Day we Romance hasn't a chance when big ugly Washington. should arms Maybe Be Then the settler was required has "never borne against Span had to rejoin his regi- Amer- sing, "Way down upon the Shawnee to Men love the soft Although the pores spoil to swear that he had never pre- the United States government or Freeman smoothness of a fresh young complexion. of that era hailed the pas- river," if the famous old Suwanee icans en to aid its and comfort not was the he given before, empted Denton's Facial Magnesia does miracles Johannesburg, South Africa. Skysage of the Homestead Act as a river got its' name from those owner of 320 acres in any state emies" was allowed to file a claim out of the wildest for unsightly skin. Ugly pores disappear, event in their nation's histhe scrapers towering Shawnees. 160 in great of certain acres land for not settled he had or territory, skin becomes firm and smooth. tory, its results were not always Pointing out that there are two Rhodesian bush will be the landon the land for the purpose of specified areas, or for 80 acres in Watch your complexion take on new beauty which two in the travelers as marks be had as by theories rivthe optimists Suwanee happy explaining such as selling it and he had made no more favorable localities, Evan tha firat few treatments with Danton' Facial most will time the be. would had act The lieved recognize neither years' er's Dr. John name, they proved, maka a remarkabla ditiaxanca. With agreement or contract with any- those within a railroad grant. one great weakness and that, as R. Swanton, of the bureau of Ameri- spectacular structure of its kind in Magneaia tha Danton Magio Mirror you cart actually aaa one, directly or indirectly, to turn For each 160 acres the homeof your akin bacoma smoothar day by taxtura tha new southern the Dick in can Africa, Doctor out, points bridge Ethnology, says that Shawnee "lay the land over to anyone else. After steader was charged a fee of $18, day. Imparlsction ara wash ad claan. Wrinklea it made homestead-in- g Indians were gypsies of the Indian across the Zambesi river. that fact the Before you know tf Denton'e gradually disappear. oath and this making proof of which $14 was to be paid when taking too easy. The government en- - race. While other eastern Indians First definite particulars can now haa brought you entirely new akin loneliness. of the truth of his claims, the set- he made his application for the failtlTA hv Tint ronuirinrt stayed home, or at least within fa tmiroooH OFFER EXTRAORDINARY be given about the huge project, tler was allowed to purchase the land and the balance when "final Saves You Money more than the mere minimum of miliar boundaries as a rule, Shaw- which is being financed by the Beit Ton can jvVclaim at the minimum appraised proof" was established. Within Denton's- Facial Magnesia on tha try a cmai;ii iui t uumc, umy ten nee groups roamed the map, leav Railway trust, founded by Alfred most liberal offer we have ever mads good for six months after the date of fil price, usually $1.25 an acre. few weeks only. We will send you a full 12 os. acres under cultivation, and a ing traces of their presence from Beit, partner of Cecil John Rhodes. abottle "A HABITABLE DWELLING" on and he be the land to had (retail price $1) plum a regular sized box ing Frauds. was no mention of New Jersey to Texas. Creek IndiThere link well. of to is of famous Milneria Wafers (known throughout It Salisbury, capital on it. Fur begin improvements as tha original Milk of Magnesia the of country Other settlers personal qualifications and equip- ans in Georgia twisted their name Southern Rhodesia, with Lusaka, the thermore he was Despite these provisions to make ment immediately. tablets), plus tha Denton Magio Mirror (shows decided to give ment. Thousands were deceived into Sawanogi. of Northern Rhodesia. all for skin specialist sees) what law, plus additional regulations his homestead required magnanimously you your capital $1 Don't miss out on this remarkabla offer. the "boy in blue" the opportunity into thinking that securing a piece Dr. Swanton says there is one established by the register and residence for five his permanent Unlike the famous Victoria Falls only Write today from the years of land was all that was necessary missing link, needed to prove Indian arch, erected in 1904, the one which receiver to guard against fraud, date of the first papers. Any time for the first filing. settlers figured out innumerable after that date the settler could In the midst of a New Year's to make a competence for the origin for the name Suwanee. So will be flung across the Chirundu far, no evidence has shown the gorge further upstream will be a schemes to "beat the game take out his final papers, provided dance at theathotel the land office owner. Shawnees roaming as far south as suspension bridge, carried by cables the The land office usually required a that he did it within boom of Freeand was midnight great opened "Following seven and to file his claim the eighties when the tide of mi-- the OkeQnokee swamp in southern suspended from towers 120 feet in house "at least twelve feet half man up stepped years after filing. This final on 160 acres near the town of SELECT square," so some settlers whit process gration began to recede, central Georgia, where the Suwanee rises, height. consisted of giving eviPRODUCTS. Inc. tled out a tiny house, 12 inches dence that all the conditions Beatrice. Five minutes later the Dakota and western Nebraska though they may well have been One single span, a fifth of a mile of - 23rd St, 4402 .VWaTV"Then witnesses his contract with the federal land office was closed and Free- and Kansas presented anything there. They are known to have long, 1,050 feet to be exact, will by 14 inches. LonglslandC.ty. H.T. a YVw Chattahoo-chie as of been far return his south on as the land out would swear for them that his ernment had been fulfilled. Ifgov set occupied farms, Enclosed una journey but a Va V. o' he man carry the roadway over the abyss. (cash or stamps; I to the theater of war. Those five Everywhere was to be seen the river, near Atlanta. iiouse was "twelve by fourteen." could VV with a such its land wrucn sena me juui Together spans, evidence, approach give lor n historic of other of were the river's of which there are to be four on Or they might swear that his was theory ones, for scars patches The special Introductory was then granted upon the minutes combinatioa. fast reverting to the name, which is more widely "a habitable dwelling" when it patent they marked the opening of a which were Southern Rhodesian side, the two the a of for witnesses, n testimony caved-ia new era in the history of the Amerconsisted of only four logs laid well, and the cepted, is that it is a shortened mality known as "proving up. walls of sod shan- - form of a Spanish name given the bridge will measure nearly a quar" n the form of a square ("Sure, ican frontier, the symbol of which tumbled-dow. Varne of a mile from end to end, makAn Irishman's Explanation. was that distinctive pioneer home ties that had served their purpose river, San Juanito, or Little St. ter it twice a bird could inhabit such a as as the Victoria .AddrMB. ing long Stft Although much of the land on the prairie the sod house or in proving up for the settlers who John. j Falls structure. I Another form of fraud was to available under the Homestead "soddie." had since left the country." Sff. City por-tuni- ty w trans-Missou- r 4! . ri - trans-Missou- ri New-York- m g Ashley-Montag- u e pre-empt- or ns five-ye- Favism in United States ar er 1854-1890- ," land-hungr- y one-ha- land-hungr- lf y g gold-field- s, Post-Gradua- te home-seeke- rs g GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES Pre-empti- lar-th- er t; xi May land-hung- " Real Zambesi Bridge Single ry gypsy-In- dians, m - Pre-empti- DENTON'S Facial Magnesia 1 once-broke- ac-so- d, n f:3Kf ' -- -- J |