LEXINGTON LEADER. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
. . D. LYD1CK, Editor.
C!K<). IJ. LATHAM, Bus. Mtflt
; bome good stories for our
junior readers.
IjKXINOTON, - OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA A Nil I] I>IAN TE11RITOB*
Reports from Oklahoma are to the
effect that the corn crop is made. Cot-
ton and castor beans still need rain
and have suffered some for the lack
of it I
The contract for carrying the mail
from Fentress to Oxfuskee, L T., has
been awarded to Gardner Cowles, and
from C'anolo to Uval, I. T., to W. K.
Keese. i
Eight members of a family named
Elliott in Woods county, sat together
at a dinner less than a year ago. Since
that time four of them have taken
sick and died.
The Dawes commission announces
the lanq office sor the Creek nation
located at Muscogee will close Septem-
ber 1. Land offices will be opened for
the Creeks at Okmulgee and Wotr
umpke.
A Dcnnison dispatch says: The
Dawes commission enrolled twenty-
seven Chickasaws and 311 Choctaws at
Calvin, I. T., making a total of 11,400
Choctaws enrolled to date. About
3,000 freedmen have been enrolled,
The secretary of the interior lias sus-
tained the contention of Gov. McCur-
tin, of the Choctaw nation, in the mat-
ter of hay royalty. The effect of this
decision is that citizens must pay a
royalty of 50 cents per ton on all hay
cut by them for sale or barter whether
cut from the public domain or field.
Non-citizens will not be permitted to
cut hay at all except where they are in
the employ of citizens.
The first annual reunion of the Texas
and Oklahoma Cowboys' association
will be held at Quanah. Tex., in con-
nection with the Hardeman county,
Tex., fair, September 29 and 30 and
October 1. The cowboys will engage
in actual sporta of the plains, liberal
prizes being offered for those most
expert in the roping and riding con-
tests and in "broncho hustling " A
cowb >y parade will bo a feature. Dig
purses have been offered also for the
stock show.
Okarche Times'. Every citizen in Ok-
lahoma was pleased with the report of
Governor liarnes last year, as sent out
to the world as well as to the residents
of the territory, recognizing'it to be a
grand statement of the condition of
affairs in Oklahoma, as well as a mas-
terpiece in the way of a report. This
year the governor asks all to send him
photographs of farm and crop scenes,
natural scenery; fruit and grain dis-
plays, live stock, etc., for use by him
in illustrating his report.
Following is the opinion of the sec-
retary of the interior as to non-citizens
having a voice in the laying out end off
of the towns. The laying out of town-
sites in the territory is one of the most
difficult problems with which the com-
mission has to deal, and is causing
them the most worry. There are a
great many whites in the territory who
have made improvements, and who
labor under tho delusion that they
have vested rights which cannot be dis-
turbed or infringed upon in the laying
out of tovvnsites. As a matter of fact
these people have not vested rights;
they are intruders, nnd while it is not
intended that the commission shall
deal w'th the harshly, it is intended
to give little liced to their private in-
terests where these interests are di-
rectly inimical to tho public welfare.
Otherwise the la ing out of townsite?
would be an impossible task."
Mrs. John Calkins and Miss Sarah
Clapham were drowned in the Verdi-
gris river near Olagah. The women
were wading in the river and got be-
yond their depth. They were accom-
panied to the river by Mrs. Calkins'
husband and James Guthrie, to whom
Miss Clapliam was to have been mar-
ried this week. The men went up
stream, and when they returned the
women could not be found. The liver
was dragged and both bodies found in
less than five feet of water iu a short
time.
Upon a warrant sworn out by Detce-
tive McClure, of St Louis, deputy
United States marshal, arrested James
Green, at Durant, L T., on a charge of
the murder of Judge Hampton W.
Wall, of Buqueen, III., on tho loth
day of August, 1808 Detective Mc-
Clure says Green's proper name Is Otto
Mathias, and a reward of $.',li00 is of-
fered for him Green claims it as case
of mistaken identity, and tlmt ho was
in Texas at the time tho murder was
committed. Requisition papers in tli«
case have been applied for.
A Little Cyclone, lfow Iha Boys Dis-
covered a New Amusement—A True
Story — An Embarrassed Student —
Gladstone us a lloy*
A Mystery.
Flowers from clods of clay and mud!
Flowers so bright, and grass so green!
Tell me, blade, and leaf, and bud.
How It Is you're all so clean.
tf my fingers touch these sods,
Soo, they're streaked with sticky earth;
let you spring from clayey clods.
Pure, and fresh, and fair from birth.
Do you wash yourself at night
In a bath of diamond dew,
That you look so fresh and bright
When the morning dawns on you?
Sod, perhaps, sends summer showers.
When tho grass grows gray for rain,
To wash the faces of Ills flowers.
And bid Ills fields be green again.
Tell me, blade, and leaf, and bud;
Flowers so fair, and grass so green;
Crowing out of clay and mud,
How it Is you'ro all so clean.
—Gabriel Setoun.
A Little Cyclone.
Bertram was born and had spent all
fcls life on a Kansas prairie. He had
never watched the waves rolling In
from the ocean, nor picked up shells
along the shore, nor dug wells in the
landy beach. He had never listened
to the wind as It sighs gently through
(he tops of the pins trees. Indeed, he
had never seen any real woods at all,
nor any high hills; and he knew noth-
ing about great rocks that are so nice
to climb upon and that make such love-
ly caves to hide oneself under. But
he knew all about how the men on
ihe plains ride over the range to bring
the cattle together in a spring "round-
np." He had often played at "throw-
ing a rope" to lasso the stalks of the
tall sunflowers that bloom so thickly
aver the western plains. He had eeen
preat tires rushing madly through the
Jry prairie grass. He had even seen
half a dozen fires at a time far off
on the great round line In which the
*lde sky shuts itfself down over the
wide earth. He also knew how hard
the winds could blow across the great
spen plains. When the spring winds
same blowing all the way from the
Gulf of Mexico or the Polar ocean, Ber-
tram used to watch the great round
"tumble weeds" as they rolled rapidly
along faster than a horse could gal-
lop. Sometimes when the wind grew
fiercer than usual, it brought a thick
cloud of dust to choke the breath and
blind the sight. Then Bertram would
run into the house as fast as his legs
could carry him, and shut his eyes
almost fearing that the little house
would be lifted from its foundations
and be shaken to pieces by the fierce
wind of the prairie. When Bertram
was five years old Ills mother took
him to New England to visit his grand
mother and some cousins that he had
never eeen. Bertram thought the
rooms in his grandmother's house were
; very large—large enough for houses
; he said. He was never tired of run-
ning up and down the stairs, because
he had never before lived in a house
where there were any stairways to be
climbed. One day Bertram's uncle
brought home from the city a large
box, and to'd Bertram and liis little
cousin Frank that this contained some-
thing which they would like to see,
When they opened the box they found
In it—a toy village. There was
church with a steeple, a postoflice, a
ichool house, a store and some smaller
houses. There were a good many lit-
tle trees to shade the village, and a
number of little men and women to
walk about its streets. There was also
a depot and a train of cars to bring
people to and from the town. Both of
the children were delighted. "hey
took the little things out of the box
and looked at them one by one. Then
they began to build the town. Frank
had often been to the city with his
father, and thought that he knew all
about how a town should be bnilt. He
did not think that Bertram knew
much about towns. So it happened
that almost all the things that Ber-
tram set up Frank would soon change
to another place. Bertram soon be-
gan to feel that it was all Frank's
town, and that he was being left out
of the play. He looked very sober for
a few minuter. He stopped working
and watched the little town as it grew
tip under Frank's busy fingers. But
he was all the time thinking how he
could have r share In the play himself.
At last a new thought came to him.
Tho town was Just finished, with all
the treefl nnd houses set up in beautiful
order, and the little men nnd women
walking quietly around the streets.
Then Bertram cried out, "Hero comes
a slycnr.e!" and tilling his little lungs
with an, he blew out a great wind of
breath. Iu two seconds half of tho
town lay in a heap, with the frightened
little men anrt women burled under tho
overturned houses. Frank looked up,
feeling half angry. But Bertram's
eyes were shining He was not cross
or naughty; he only wanted to have a
part In the play. Frank's eyes began
to shine, too. This was a new kind
of fun. So he said, "Thst was a bliz-
zard, sure enough! Now the men
will have to go to work and build the
town over again." Then with a good
laugh both of the boys set to work
with a will, and soon the town was
built up again as good as ever. When
il was finished the second time Frank
ran to his grandmother and whispered
something in her ear. Grandmama
smiled, went up to the attic, and
brought down an old pair of bellow3
that ueed to blow up the fires iu the
great kitchen chimney a hundred years
ago. Bertram now looked on with
great curiosity while Frank took the
bellows, and made a wind that blew
several of the little men and women
half-way across the dining room car-
pet. After this, whenever Frank and
Bertram set up the toy village, the
very best part of the play was the
time when the cyclone came, and trees
and houses and men and women tum-
bled down together in a heap of ruini
—Mary Hall Leonard.
lilnnd's library.
The library of the lato Congressman
It. P. Blafd of Missouri, numbering
some 150 volumes of an est.matcd av-
erage cost of $2.50 each, was lately sold
at auction in Sheiblna, Mo., for $11.
UNIQUE WINDOW IN CLUBHOUSE
A True Story.
Old Dapple was so tired when hay-
ing-time was over that grandpa said
he should rest a whole week, with oata
for dinner every day. "You're the
faithfulest old fellow!" grandpa said,
warmly strojdng Dapple's old nosa
back and forth—back and forth, lov-
ingly. "Now you shall have a holiday
and munch hay instead of rake it.
Wait; I'll trundle the big rake under
the mow, out of your sight, so you'll
forget there was ever any such thing
in the world as work." Then grandpa
went in to dinner with grandma an^
The Twins—everybody called theni
The Twins, with capital 'i s in theif
voices when they said it.- It was quite
late in the afternoon when grandpa
asked The Twins to lead out old Dap-
ple to water. "Let him stay and drink
as long as he wants to," he called after
ttem. "You neean't wait—he knows
the way back alone." .So old Dapple
stood and drank his fill of the clear,
sweet water, and The Twins ran back
to their play. But It wasn't long be-
fore grandpa taw them coming toward
him at a scamper. Doth their faces
were excited, and they shouted in a lit-
tle, breathless chorus—The Twins us-
ually spoke in chorus—"O, grandpa!
grandpa! quick! look up in the mow-
ing field! Old Dapple's up there rakin*
hay all alone, 'thout any rake or any
hay! He's goin' back and forth and
back and forth like everything!" And
when grandpa got on his "fur-offs" and
looked, sure enough there was faithful
old Dapple up in the mowing-field, pa-
tiently trudging up and down, making
neat turns at the end of every "bout!"'
His tired old legs wavered unsteadily,
but kept on. The afternoon sunshine
lay on his rough back and dazzled hia
old eyes on tho return tiips, but he
never thought of stopping. Something
suddenly dimmed grandpa's "fur-offs,"
and he toak thern off. "Faithful old fel-
low!" ha muttered. "Go lead him back,
children, and give him oats for Ills sup-
per. And how Tho T.vino hugged him
while they were doing it!
Constance Hamilton.
Oldest Creature.
The oldest creature living in the
World belongs to Walter Rothschild.
It is a giant tortoise, weighing a quar-
ter of a ton, and it has a known life
of 150 years.
Trlnce's Warning:.
The Prince of Wales has warned his
brother Free Masons not. to make
themselves cheap by wearing their Ma«
sonic regalia on ordinary occasions.
Without Liquor.
There is a district in Liverpool in-
habited by 60,000 people where intox-
icating liquor cannot be bought.
Smallpox In London*
Only one death from smallpox has
fcf.en registered in London during th«
past twelve months.
Aluminum Shoes for Horses.
Russia has tried experiments with
Aluminum shoes for cavalry horses. a
few horses in the Finland Dragoons
were shod with one aluminum shoe
and three iron shoes each, the former
being on the fore foot in some cases,
and on the hind foot in others. The
experiment lasted six waeks, and
Bhowed that ti* aluminum shoes lasted
longer and preserved the foot better
than the iron ones.—Boatou Tiaveler.
Aneient Prayer HooV.
A large folio book of common prayer,
of 1G52, which belonged to Bishop
Creighton, who wa3 Bishop of Bath
and Wells, England, in ICO, has bein
returned to its old home In the palace
et Wells, and added to the many his-
toric treasures of the library. It is an
excellent specimen of the binder's art,
having been found by S. Mearns, the
binder to Charles II.
Now the Higgest and Iticliest Show In
the World.
a day OF DAYS.
Coming of the l-l*a\v-Sells Show Will b«
a cd-Letter Event In Kansas
and Oklahoma.
Gladstone an a Hoy.
William Ewart Gladstone, at the age
of 12, was the best looking boy who
ever entered Eton, and the brightest
fellow who ever left it. He was al-
ways proud to claim membership with
one of the old families of commerce,
and to the last declined all honors and
titles offered him by the queen, pre-
ferring to remaio "one of the people."
His mother traced her ancestry to the
royalty of the fourteenth century. She
was a woman of very great accomplish-
ments, and exacted obedience from her
six children. Gladstone's earlier life
was passed under the direct care of this
wise and watchful mother. Her boys
were required to perform some manual
labor, and to take much physical ex-
ercise, and were instructed in wood-
sawing and carving. A man's treat-
ment of his wife is a reflection of his
mother's memory. In Gladstone's
beautiful study, called the "Temple of
Peace," were three desks—one for po-
litical and business correspondence,one
for literary work and one for Mrs.
Gladstone, who was a most discreet, as
well as able, woman, and had not only
the gift of silver-tongued speech, but
of golden silence when occasion re-
quired.
An KmlmrrMHHe<! Student.
Mr. Spurgeon used to tell a good
story about one of his divinity stu-
dents. It was his custom, In order to
test the powers of tho young men for
speaking, to give them, as they wert
about to ascend the pulpit, a text to
discourse about on their own plan and
in their own words. This, of course,
was not before an audience, but simply
among themselves for practice. On tho
occasion referred to, .he gave to a
young man, who as yet had not tried
tho ordeal, the simple word, "Zac-
chaevs." Tho young man, trembling
from head to foot, said: 'I will divide
my r bjeet into three parts. First, We
read that Zucchaeus was small of stat-
ure, and I never felt smaller than at
the present moment. Second, We read
that Zacchaeus climbed a tree, which
reminds me of my ascent into this pul-
pit. Third, Wo read that Zacchaeus
made haste to comc down—which ac-
cordingly I will now do." Whether this
man ever became a great preacher or
not, wo are not told, but he certainly
showed that he possessed ready wit.
This will be a red-letter day for the
votaries of sawdust and spangles here-
abouts. The coming of the gre A
Forepaugh-Sells combination of cir-
cus, museum, zoological and hippo-
dromatic attractions, which lias been
so long and pleasurably anticipated,
will then be an accomplished fact.
From newspaper reports, and other
sources, we take it that Forepaugh
and Sells Brothers have eclipsed their
own brilliant achievements of the
past, and it is pleasing to note that
their tour of the country thus far has
been one coutipued ovation.
r* One fact which
— the press agree
uPon with great
" ~ unanimity is that
/*x the Big Dual Show
attracts tho most
£42 lashionnble and
""^cultured audien-
- ccs of any tented
' show that has ever
visited their re-
spective cities.
Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers have al ways been known
as the "kilt gloved' sliov. men; tho
splendid discipline of tlieir employes,
tho courtesy shown patron*, and the
ab cnce of all repreliensiblo practices,
being distinctive features of the exhi-
bition.
The attractions are of such infinite
variety that the most diversified tastes
will be fully satiated. Acrobats, gym-
nasts, riders, contortionists, vaulters,
wire walkers, jugglers, strong men and
jesters, will disport themselves in the
several rings and on tho central stage;
the hippodrome races of ancient Home,
as well as modern contests between
Kentucky thoroughbreds and English
flyers, will be given on an ellipse that
encircles the arenas and stage. Tho
zoological and museum departments
teein with costly and absorbingly in-
teresting novelties, and the establish-
ment throughout is unquestionably a
model one in every respect.
A grand spectacular street pageant,
exhibiting the vast and varied proces-
sional resources of the combined shows,
will start from the exhibition grounds
nt 0 a. m.. and trr. ver.se the principal
thoroughfares of the cities. Two per-
formances will bo given in each town
at 2 and 8 p. m , the doors opening an
hour earli r, in order that spectators
may be alTorded ample lima in which
to view the menagerie and museum.
Tho management respectfully suggest
that ladies and children attend the
matinee, as a per'eet crush is expected
at night (.'heap excursion intes on
all lines of travel. The following is
the route of tho Big Doutilo show
Vinita, Thursday, Aug. 31; Chandler.
Sept I; Oklahoma City, Saturday,
Sept Shawnee, Sept. 4; 1U Itru'o.
Sept. 5j Enid, Sept. U; \\ i liitB, Sept.
7; Wintleld, 8; Perry, ('I;,, t); Newton,
11; Emporia, 12; Tope! f \
Made to Order for a Ulan Who Was
Separated from Ills Wlf^
In the Kinloch cl'ib, at St Louis,
there is a stained glass wiidow with
an odd history, says the St. Loula Re-
public. It is not an ordinary window,
with its parts joined by frames of lead,
but is of the finest kind of colored ca-
thedral glass, so perfectly joined that
the seani3 are not visible. It is paneled
In shape, and in, tho colored glass ap-
pears the face and form of a beautiful
woman. She is in the costume of a
dancer, and her skirts fall but little be-
low the knees. The figure is perfect in
its proportions, and the face is one of
surprising beauty. When the club-
house was finished the art commltteo
looked around for something unique in
the way of decoration. They found It
in Chicago, where they had gone ex-
ploring. Entering the art store they
told the dealer they wanted to see tho
choicest thing he had. The dealer re-
plied that he had a beautiful colored!
window panel, which was left on his
'hands through a peculiar chain of
circumstances. A rich Chicagoan had,
Immediately after marrying, decide#
that as a part of the decoration of hla
new home he would have a window in>
which the face and form of his wife
would appear. Ho got together the
necessary photographs In appropriate
costumes and brought them to the
glass window concern, where estimates
were made as to the probable cost. He
wanted naught but the best, and was
not content to have the picture painted
or burnt into the glass. He wanted
the work done in the actual colored'
glass. The dealer was obliged to send
the photographs and an extended ex-
planation of what was wanted abroad,
and there the window was made. It
took months for its completion, and
when it was finished and returned the
dealer notified his rich patron. But
the window never found a place In the-
rich man's house. They had been mar-
ried long enough to become estranged!
j and divorced. The rich man had com-
pleted the house he had built for hie
bride and was living alone in It There*
were enough sad memories about th&
house without having the face of the
woman from whom he had separated1
looking down on liim from one of the
great windows, so tho work was never
accepted. ' That is tbyeason the mem-
bers of the Kinloch club were able to
get such a truly beautiful and origi-
nal window as a decoration for their
mantel.
COLOR SCHEME.
Should ilo Carefully Studied In Famish*
Ing; Various Rooms.
There are rooms in some houses that
produce a sense of irritation on nerva
and brain on those who are sensitive to
| color, so crude and harsh and jarring
! are the arran Bents of the same. Go
into another room in some other house,
j where all the colors soothe and delight,
i and you will find soft olives and dull
j blue and blue-greene, having an inde-
| scribably gentle influence. The blue-
| green or olive prevails in the carpet,
j the ground being deep blue and the all-
! over pattern soft olive and dull blue.
| The olive prevails In the long curtains,
I and takes on rather golden tone, while
the sash curtains are entirely of the
j softest dull, blue India silk, trimmed
J with tassel braid to match. Tho Hoi-'
land shades are In ecru. There Is an
j absence of conspicuous figures, pattern
j and ground. A bit. of pale rose or
yellow, or old gold, or dull red, may be
used In such a room. An old fan, for
example, ornamented with a bow of
pale rose satin and displayed against
a light olive wall, tells for much more
than against a wall flowered or fig-
ured conspicuously in a dozen different
colors.
' CKir's Military HonsoNoUl.
The military household of the czar is
composed of 98 officers of various
ranks, S3 of whom belong to the army
and 15 to the navy. Nineteen mem-
bers of the rojal family ue included tu
this Met.
But few men can handle a hot lamp
chimftey and repeat the ten command
ments at the same time.
1 ake care of your sense while young
nnd your dollars will take care of you.
when old age gets its work in.
Faultless Stareb.
Rest and cnes farthest, gives stiffness and
•la*tinity. No sticking, blistering or break-
intf. fcvery -grocer Holly it, nearly every*
body uses it. 10c a package..
Its surprising how gladly some poo-
p e will exchange a small load of trou-
f"r n large load of cheap liquor.
"You Never Miss tho V/ater
Till the Well Runs Dr*.'*
We nevtr realize the •value of health
untd ,t is gone. When old time strength
And -vigor are wanting, purify the blood1
h <*king Hood's SarsapariUa.- soon re
stored appetite, perfect digestion. steady
nerves and even temper will pro-ve it is
bringing bach the glow of perfect health.
JICCllS SaMabwuffa
i
i
■ t
/1
i
♦
■ i\
= V