Show INDI INDIANS NS HAVE BECOME I Within sight or of the monument that marks marIn the greatest battle battleground ground in America the Crow Indians are arc engaged ed In III all the tho peaceful purr suits of husbandry Only a d of ofa a century ago their red brothers ought fought Custers mon coon and left them deaden on the held field sa says s the Butte Bulle ln n nI I From rom a trait train window the battle ground may now he viewed and the tourist C who drives across the historic knoll is safer from hostile at attack attack tack than the man who treads tho ho sheets of New York In years ars and loss less j r wonderful change has hns taken n place in li this western of ours Nothing line like it IL perhaps can be found In the history of the world A dispatch from Manila yesterday told of tragedy In a part of tho lino earth An Englishman related how his companions live five other men had been captured by cannibals from the Admiralty islands and eaten Every now and then such stories drift In from Pol Polynesia That sort sorl of thing has been goIng on there for countless centuries LOD Long before the lute first white mariners explored that unknown part or of the world its Inhabitants wa waged war on each other othel the victors dining off their conquered foes Conditions ha have Improved among those Islanders but that there thee still remain romain cannibals In the remote places is attested hy by bythe the tho titles that thal reach the outside world orM occasionally In the sa savage age of a gen generation genn oration ago has turned farmer but butIn butIn In some of the far at awa away island kingdoms king kingdoms doms of oC the tho Pacific the native nathe of to toda today da day is a savage still sUIl and his chil dren for aU all wo we know may ma adopt the evil practices that have havo prevailed among them for centuries AU All of oC which goes to show that civilization advances rapidly only in those lauds lands where the way is prepared for it Left to themselves the American Indians would have remained sa vaSes savages and this fair land would not be even lu in the first stages o of development |