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Show THE PROVO HERALD HQ) LuiiILL J -- 1 J J BY EDV3HD D.GLAnit w MtrttMN mrrr if) ffim i ORT MYER Is in .Virginia on a bluff overlooking the 1 fl"vX Potomac river and the - thrcoun' apttai--ity-o- f try. - The tort always- is some garrisoned by pic.of. Uncle kled :ir trooper Sam's army. Gen. Leonard, Wood, Jttfe ranking officer of the service on tne active list and chief of the general staff, lives at Fort Myer, Other officers of high rank have quarters there, and manyan old' plains toan trooper who in the old days fought the Indians, and who later fought, the Filipinos, finds in the Vir ginia post an ideal garrison in which otirh1g"Ser'vfce The old Bofdlers at Fort Myer are . as great story tellers as are the old eaiiors of wooden ship days, who; meet together occasionally , at Annapolis. Stories of army life are not told alone In . in the enlisted men's barracks. the officers' clubs one occasionally '"gets oratory o-f- the frontier days. - Neither, officers nor enlisted men are given to talking of their Own experience, but if a taie of courage or of well endured concerns an. hardship other, the soldier is not slow to speak. d Here Is a story by an old . officer of regulars, who is just about to leave the active Eervlce for the camp of the retired list. He called his story "Old Blue Bog's Medicine" and it ran like this: Ralph Burnham, government tractor doctor, joined the cantonment on the Platte river the first of July. Burnham was an ambitious young fel-InwrhA-lrv- w. hla nrrvfoaalrtn and thought It was a good experience for him to go out where the Kiowas and : ) ' go T awr 'St.. " -- -- VWM viif i, rr 1 ' ' - j - i r --w ' t aws frsffrfrfssrss.a m .j it w ,zv i " 0 as-tol- Mrlakinceb Nmom rwf jnom MAK DEAD AUVE ' - ,. . the et y ' - -- by-na- me, tess -- -- ihm,icTcpa :' . I-''- ;' ld . in - he -- . A you-min- ' , e ne. . out-Som- of-BI- ue lJ-,.,- --;,- -- . lpk-4y.i- ! - week. She recovered, and the next day Burn-- , ham found at his door as handflOmeaTlahket " ever a Navajo as made. Blue Dog gave & iaC L " here on this steel business," he said, ly bringing back tales of the strange "you have put yourself out to be o ways much of mankind still have with , hospitable that I shall always think of their-- guests. With the Aplngi tribe of Africa Just' you as worthy to be a Society Islander. ., below the equator the essence of hos "Howb thatt Wby unless they have pitality is to Include among the presshanged Tery much slnoe I was in the ents of food- handed over to the visimiddle of the Pacific some years ago, tor a fat "slavi :."He-Toung and the Society Islanders are the most tender," the Jonor saysttlnUng that hospitable: people In the world. Of uu uuq cm ibui w approye 01 unit Bourse, their way of doing things isn't b'w uiuca oeiier man ine iowii. lust like New York or London. But etc that have been thrown In. "Kin It's right from the heai-- t meal."- -. Cm tie "Very often, when it comes to the other hand, the Navajo Indian consld-- i test -the "heathen in his blindness' erg the finest tribute he can pay Is' arena- ujr pretty well with the white to hire him wlfa ahamnin ttio fiAtail nf, man in taking care of his guests," the passing traveler with amole, the', remarked another member of the root of a plant grown in Mexico and. party. "Here on Fifth - avenue or some parts of the southwest, that is. Broadway what they do sounds queer, a very good substitute for soap. The but on the spot It feels good. If 1 Papuans of New' Guinea in the Pacific x should tell you that a North Ameri- have an even more novel way of show- can Indian tribe I dropped in upon ing great friendship for the stranger. . late one afternoon gave me a Turkish Wator nsiiu mrtA aatlpaotlnn bath to remove the dust and fatigue with them, so when a boat approaches . of a long day's journey "through the V...l uoiuiuB ycoiJie1. 01 wuom mey approTe desert, you'd say I was crasy, would- - at first sight they sprinkle wateKon at youf Well, that Is exactly what their heads and dance wildly anijj gajrl u i.i5 Duauuw AkQr lalUilUU lllQ wBu .4The Indians were the Havasus, or 4 i ne average traveler would - much the . Havasupais, whichever way you rather not become friends with a Terwant to call them. When I arrived ra del FueglanJor the people of that aft this village of theirs, hot and cov nationality know of no better way of ered with grime, I was as complete a expresslnr liking and showing- honor ktranger"as there ever was." henhanxby bugging the stranger. Aa chief motioned me to a seat beside these savages of the tip end of South him, and I was well satisfied in being America are very nearly the dirtiest received'-kindland allowed to rest. on record, and as tbelrl bodies are tio Indian, as you know, ever talks covered with grease.'clay and vermin much, and hence no warning of what such hugging is most offensive. ' It i was to come was given ,m. It could not to be avoided, thnueh. if an na hardly have been much over half an tive of high rank takes a strong liking hour beforr a youth beckoned me. 1 to his visitor. found out afterward that he was a There is a Siberian iriba thatmakes son of the chief, Intrusted with these a practice of eating a guest whom It YpeciaTrltes of hospitality toward much admires or .whoaer vlrtuetTll strangers. greatly desires to emulate, in order, "He led me to a tent Later I so the story goes that his virtues learned that was known as the 'first might "abide "la their midst" The guest house.' It was practically air r, ls.generaUjL-epeak-Ing- , safe in tight its entrance covered by a double country. flap of blankets. In It women of the If he visits the Tchuktchl close W village had," ever since my arrival, Bering's straits and gets into one of been - placing red hot stones, under their big tents he will find a family the direction of the lad. By now it almost completely nude. The women was filled with heat and steam. ' will not mind at all. If ' he passes "The boy told me It waj part of his muster they will honor him and make duy ocare for "my clothes . while I him feel at home. by putting strings went Inside. I made a record in get- of glass beads in their hair that has ting them off. There, never was a been copiously covered with grease. bath as delightful as that." Then, of course, having been shown Odd Custom of African Tribe. this courtesy, he must stay In the "My story will seem tame- - after smoky, stifling atmosphere and. aun. on those of you two," put in the man who hot boiled reindeer. was giving the luncheon, "but there's a The visitor to an Abyssinian village tribe In Africa, the Ovambos, whom must first sit under a tree and let Stanley or Livingstone or Lord Kitch- himself be observed. Then some imener or at any portant individual will step forward rate called the 'Merry People,' that and give him the freedom of his home. have your Tahltans and - Indiana beaten TheAsbangos meerthe" traveler with a mile when It comes to oddities Of dishes of red paint, and the than who hospitality. Their way Isn't nearly does not paint himself at once is definso pleasant as those w. have been itely "queered" in that Tillage. The bearing about What do tbey do? Zunis of New Mexico and Arizona ofHold water in their mouths as soon fer 'their guests a "cocktail." - It Is as you are seated at a meal and squirt made of meaqulte beans pounded It in your face. You are expected to Jar, parched corn and flour, be greatly delighted at this, and thetr and is reported to be a very superior your host comes around to you and soDetlzer. rubs your faee and head with fresh The black Batokas of the Zambesi butter. If a white guest protests he is roll on their back and deal themselves looked upon with suspicion. resounding slaps on their naked skins. "There-I- s another African tribe, If the rolling is prolonged and the you may like to know, the Nuebrs of slaps and the attendant yelling very central Africa, that have a custom loud the guest is high ia favor; (Some very like this. They greet those New Zealanders squat on the ground they are about to entertain by spit- snd weep. The Nubians wait anxious ting, yes, spitting, on your bands and ly for the coming visitor and are eagface. It is the most gross and bitter er to entertain. A Jar of fresh water Insult If you. do not. is always ready in each house of thi it Is- tribe for the atranger and no one else. of this custom, became 'terribly angry The. Kaffirs assure each white visitor at being spat upon. Ills first thought that he ranks as a chief and make waa to knock the negro down. Then, good in the way tbey entertain him. In his rage, a better way suggested An extraordinary custom prevails Cam 'n a , I n . Itself. He spat in the. mania face good UUQU..UUfl OUUUi.UW t ..1I i,vu.; and bard. To bis astonishment the lows, as a great favar",its superannuatruler of the tribe groveled before ed men and women to invite as. their him. "Now I know,' be said, that you guests for a final feast those who wlU are 'great chiefl' " V make' a meal of them when they are The whimsicalities of hospitality are killed. This is g novelty in the way unending, though civilization is clear- of banquets." The hospitable' Gant ol' ing them away piecemeal. It may. not Africa have strangers met by the vilbe true, as some have predicted, that lage chiet He heads a procession ol New Zealander wfll ever .stand and his . councilors and ' women. One.. Di look on- the ruins of London bridge, the women carries a white ' chicken, because by- the time that famous another h plant with flowers growini structure does fall there will not be oa it,, yet others vessels of tntoxicat any New 2ealanderi left, but, as, wit-- ingiUquida ; .' ':'.V , hone of your surgeons who are up la matters of sentiment could probe and get out the bullet or perhaps I'd better say arrow, for that's the kind of ammunition the little chap who shot Jim uses. - YoOee Jim. was nigh onto fifty when he got his sights fixed and held on to this pretty reature with blonde hair, blue eyes and pink the blanket cheeks. It's always the way with the old fellows "that" was the sumwhen they get stuck on .something young. It goes mer that the Kiowas J 1 V. 4 l iBi) , hard with them. You see the girl has beard how and the Comanches was that Jim had always been steady, had it western went out and raided Kansas, mill' except as a never seen the Inside of and Nebraska. It was one of the worst how he had of Ihe member moreover, and, and the guard, troops ; yesrs for the settlers $4,00Q drawing 4 per cent with the paymaster known to Indian, warfare. Things had and was sure of going out as a first sergeant in been-quiabout the cantonment on the five Platte till late In August- - The garrison jfears with forty plunks a month. "Jim always went into a fight to win, and he was ignorant that the Indians were got onto the track of that girl and hung to it thinking of mischief. r; Burnham . bad reJust as- be did to the Kid's trail down In the ceived word from the east "that the Apache country when I Troop was chasing that young woman who was to beUrs. Burnwas, in ' red devil through the Arizona helL The girl led ham Helen;Truxton Jim on for a while coauettish like. Just to make to come response t6 his earnest letters, I don't, suppose sh.fWr TXS'e,t-iii &?7S&&. A'X to cared a rap for him. the chaplaJrt have something to do in "Well, finally we all thought that Jim had the niarrying line. Helen Truxton was corraled ber all right It was given out that the At her an Orphan and school teacher. Twelfth's chaplain was going to have a Job tying lover's solicitation she left civilisation two up. None of the boys congratulated Jim the the The for Platte. behind and started too make to was the 6be hearty.'because inosrof them had sized the last" which in stage affair up right, and wouldn't have It that the girl never reached the part of the lourney was good enough for Jim Benson. She might y ;:. cantonment Comanches were kicking up a row, there to do a be all right for a rookie, but not for an old one "The Kiowas Jumped from their Platte encamplittle surgery for the soldiers. "A contract doctor's pay was $1,500 a year, ment the night before and went on the warpath. Jjwho had seen more campaigns than the girl had years. I ought to have told you before that this Old Blue Dog went with them, somewhat to the and Burnham concluded that be' and a, certain amasement of the soldiers. ,He had always been" particular petticoat was visiting at the e post She . young woman down east could live comfortably came from down Iowa way somewhere.-'.'Onfairly friendly to the whites. Well, there were enough on that amount-unt- il he chose to quit Kiowas the and finally and night she gave it out'that she was going skirmishes, Uncle Sam's service nd pick up a practice worth fights home, and that Jim must go down there for the were pretty thoroughly smashed. The stage in 15,000 a year bt thereabouts. Burnham was She cleared out, and in a few days spllclhg. which Helen Truxton had been a passenger to tne '' gulne - after-the-ofetlowTgets a furtough and clears Platte was foundrThe-- d river and four men-pas- "The doctor recruit -r-eaehed-the-eanti There was no out. too, following the trail; as we heard after, finirfirs were deatUand scalped. ment about 9 o'clock M the morning. Outside way down to Iowa. Now, you must Just get trace of the girl. :, tne' troops'. quarters "was a big Kiowa encamp-bold of this fact Jim was kind of a pious chap, "Those who know something of Indian , warbut he loved the flag bette; than any Bible that . -- Tore, fare and savage methods can imagine the feeling few broken-spirite- d Oneidas on a barring was ever printed, but for a 8O0rtttaelhatiglrl heart Four weeks that .was Npw York reservation. . He hadn't been in camp ssTTfux-to- n -was above the flag. Jim was Just crazy for her. rescuing had ib Our before an Indian sneaked in and aBked alive had been given over. One morning, - The story Is that she wouldn't come back and for the surgeon. It happened that4he regular wouldn't marry him unless he quit the army, then Blue .Dog, with his wives and children, showed , army surgeon had gone shooting . for the morn aiba-of-tofl-th- e Kiowa and there." Jim tried to quit through the regular old encampment ing, and the Kiowa buck was turned over to bp. old told fellow his The red he There tepee: pitched tape channels, but they, wouldn't have it down beBurnhamHsThad 'sneaked' Into the camp, ' in Washington. the commanding officer that he had been forced cause he did not want his fellow braves to know r " "Jim Benson, veteran medal of honor -- man. to go out and that he had come back to his that he was a messenger after the doctor. The fighter in a hundred fights, lover of his flag and Kiowas believed implicitly in their own 'medicine friends, the whites,- - as soon- - as Jie could. The colonel knew something of Blue Dog and beM n man ' nd ..annar.tallv n ttr)v-tnmcountry, and as good a soldier as ever wore quar-- . ' ""; him. lieved termaster'a shoes, . deserted, and deserted for a chap named Blue Dog. "At noon that same day the old medicine man "Burnham was old half in signs and half in petticoat I forgot to say that Jim got his wad went to Burnham's quarters. 'Your medicine Is of money from the paymaster before his leave words that a Kiowa buck was sick. He went - strong.' he said Is stronger. e wag op, Xjhqw along with the Indian until they reached the ."Th ere was another desertion inside of a month edge of the reds' camp. 'There the Kiowa pointed . You raise up Kiowa brave who was dead. You cure sick papoose, but I have stronger medicine ""AfteF Jlnr quit the colors. This time a woman where the sick man lay, , out a 'tepee as the-nlathan that You come see.' did. the deserting, though a fellow helped ber to and . then disappeared. Burnham went to the Burnham Went along With the old fellow, not. do It and along with the woman and the fellow lodge and entered. He was met-wlt-h growls and . realizing what he was driving at. He reached went Jim's mpney. J a. frightful odor.: On the. ground lay a Kiowa : "Jim's heart was clean broke. He got in com-- . the tepee, which was a big double affair, with the warrior unconscious, and round him was dancing Into and skins curtain a it like with municatlon his old captain somehow, and dividing, falling and chanting the most hideous-lookin- g creature - that Burnham had ever looked on. two parts. Blue Dog squatted on the ground and be tried Jto work the thing through . the department for"Jim, but there'd been a heap of deserThen he ' began burning. Incense and chanting. "The dancer was old Blue' Dog. In addition to tions about that time, and despite Jim's medal the dancing he was burning some sort of Indian , drew circles and danced in them. Finally he let " his he out terrific a his twenty-fivshriek,' arm, and and, "f raising years with nary a' 'blind nor was was which asafetida He worse than Incense, said to Burnham: 'Kiowa medicine man make a day In the mIH against him, the honorable the of the trying to drive the devil of sickness out ' dead alive.' V secretary of war said that if Jim was caught prostrate warrior. '.' '' '' --he must .' "Blue Dog jumped backward, and in an Instant . "Burnham saw In an Instant that the buck on the curtain of skins fell, and. Burnham, with a 'It was rumored around old Fort Johnson that the ground was suffering from ' epilepsy .r He " ' swung his medicine case round and began ' to ' staggered mind and blurring eyes, knew that . Jim had been seen on the edge of the woods looking at the old place and seeming kind of wild take vials.. Old Blue Dog gave a yell,, :4. Helen Truxton waa In the tepee beyond surround-- , e ; ed by the wives like. One night one of the old quartermaster Dog.. , and three bucks entered and told the doctor In. shacks got cn Are. It was Just before target "Safe, and unharmed she was, and saved by pretty tough English nhat he couldn't try & BIue Dog. - practice season and the building bad a dozen big .. ... medicine till. Blue Dog got through. Blue Dog ' "Blue Dog turned to Burnham. There was a - boxes of ammunition In it There was a pretty got through In ten mlnutea The dancing had curious expression In his eye. It was as much . stiff wind blowing and it looked as If the barand exhausted him, his unconiois patient had ' not as much as trembled an like a twinkle as could find a place In the eye racks and a lot of other things would go,. If that eyelid. of an Indian. 'My medicine,' he said, 'raise dead,' stuff had exploded the other buildings would at Burnham him Ha had the 'Then went; but It do more wonder than that Nfor palefaces have gone sure The fire was fairly eating around , buck on his feet Inside of five minutes, and wlta 1 for no cure some but and Indians boxes and the fellows lought shy of It those say this, of the the stimulation brs'jdy that the doctor find It.' and the chief drew;tn 'the dirt a heart All ;at oncet; while. had 'given liberally th Kiowa acted as though crowd .jwaa,. bearlDg rroftesy-tlirougtibackv-somebody- be Bhie- - llfer-- -" Jumped cleans through the-Ii- ne flpm wo a "Blue Dog looked amazed, but be told bis fel and plump into the fire. He grabbed a box and A sergeant with the sleeve of his blouse well threw it out clear of the Maze, and then another lows that it was - his own medicine that had a little .. covered with enlistment stripes told the other day T and another, though the flames were" burning, bis broughtjtbe buck around but that it was " ' " ' ". clothes and 4?olng up , wreathlike about his head.H this tate of the service: slow in acting, that was all. 'What's that you aayT said Sergeant Toole, "M'hen he bad done the business clean and 'Three weeks after this Burnham was routed out of bed one night by a pounding. on the wla-- i 1 be sat down at the -- barracks table around which ' good, tbe man Jumped out of the flames and ran were seated a dozen comrades. ."You say there C 'to the woods. Well 1 guess you- know who it dow frame of his long shack. He rose'and found was. It was Jim Demon. We found him dead .old Blug Dog without Blue Dog had a pretty "never was any good In a deserter?... Well.-you'yIt by Jus one, and -- have made, a 'four the next day In the thicket, but 'the curious part fair smattering of English. . 'missed . Didn't you ever hear tell matetr was that "Jim's body was wrapped "Little one sick.' he said.. Com same tepee.' ."Instead of a bull's-ey- e. tjfthe Jim Benson" pf I Troop of the Twelfth '.'Jim in - an old garrison flag " that bad been pinned "Burnhara followed the old medicine man. who was a deserter, so Washlngtcn. people said, but . about him by the last effort of those poor burned 'disappeared Just as the other Kiowa had done ;. Jim loVed the flag bands. '";:;'.'. Jim . ".hough V rou see, ,that v deserter before reaching the lodge. The doctor found a '.. ; Weil, what "Wnat' should him made 1 desertt a child of Blus Dog suffer ha was, If he did thla that they' might though fever, tossing; " and ; moaning In delirium.; ; BluL Dog tame in. "c maVe.an old soldier desert but a womaat-- bury, him- with1 the. flag. e in twenty-flv"Did was do Itf - Yes, and gave him the regu before the service kIQ "Jim years aald. they'd they, Teople mustn'tknowbe "' ' " ".: 'or me.'-'-'- . be struck bis flag'to a petticoat all those latlon three rounds over the grave and the best prayer' that the old. chaplain newt bow, to pray. "Burnhflm tended the child surreptitiously for fellows,, when he got bis he was hit so. bad that (tv-A- ness the Japanese transition from picturesque garments to frock coats and top hats, expanding commerce levels and gradually does away witb;oddl--. tieB. -- Returned missionaries, explorers and those who travel in out of the NE of the most unique traveler's tales heard in New York for some time was related by by an Englishman at luncheon downtown recently. "You --have done so much for me, uamer, - a'" - e 7-- of r 'T Ing-fro- . '- . llit ... 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