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CHIEFTAIN
CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO.
VINITA INDIAN TERRITORY THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 IS95.
VOL. XIV. NO. 9
THE INDIAN
BInSlHfv
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OUR TIME IS VERY LIMITED.
We have but a short time to do business in Vinita. It is impossible for us to give the exact date of our
quitting but it is in a very short time. We have met with great success
from the time we began our Quitting- Sale.
We Have Unloaded
It is safe for us to say that we have done the bulk of the trade in cur line in this section of the country. Thousands of people
have visited our establishment during the past twenty-five days and the majority of them have purchased and expressed their sincere
regret of our quitting busines in Vinita. "PRICES WILL GO UP AGAIN A'PTER YOU ALL QUIT" is the great exel amation of
everybody.
THERE IS MORE TRUTH IN THIS THAN GOSPEL.
We are sorry for all that had to pav and will have to pay high exorbitant prices for what they wear in the future. We have lowered
prices in our line of merchandise from the time we began business in Vinita. BUT THEY ARE UNABLE TO KEEP UP WITH OUR
PRESENT QUITTING SALE PRICES. NO ONE CAN NO ONE DARE TO MEET SUCH LOW PRICES as we are making and
shall make to the pub'ic until our entire stock is closed out.
We will say to our patrons a-j well as to all the public that this is no scheme to sell off a lot of old giods on hand and then rehuy
some more goods as is very often the case.
We are Positively Selling Out-to-
- Quit the Clothing Business in Vinita.
An4-itis to be UNDERSTOOD THAT NOT ONE SINGLE DOLLAR'S WORTH of our slock will be moved away from here by us
It Has all Got to be sold Out Here in This City.
Nothing else will do it but our low prices. Seeing is believing. We ask of all to come and see for themselves but we ask of no
one to buy unless they see a saving of money for themselves. We are well reinforced with enough help to w.iit upon all as they come so
don't delay delay means loss of money to everbody.
Vlodel Clothing Boot and Shoe House.
Quitting Business in Vinita.
THE PEER OF MAN.
not When It Came to the Llnro of the Dia-
mond She Gave Up In Uet pair.
"I am the peer of any man!"
As she tittered these words of prond
defiance Finda Saycal drew herself up
to her full height and scornfully gazed
at the group of savants who sur-
rounded her. All but one of the throng'
cringed before her as if acknowledg-
ing her claim so great was her erudi-
tion so masterful was her manner.
The one who cringed not was hardly
v a savant. He was a professional base-
atball umjjipewith a large aggressive-
"lJf5gpompadourand black eyes that
regarded her with a look of confident
curing.
One by one the savants questioned
her. She answered queries in French
German Russian Italian - Spanish
Portuguese Chinese Japanese and
Norwegian. She read Greek Latin
and Hebrew at sight and she called
Sanskrit "easy."
"Gentlemen'' she pleaded at last
"t..y to make it more interesting for
me. This is mere kindergarten
work"
A noted Egyptologist then stepped
forward as the forlorn hope of the
baffled savants. Amid breathless ex-
citement he endeavored to humble her
with a cuneiform inscription but she
deciphered it as readily as a child
would have prattled her A B Cs.
"Do your worst!" she cried mocking-
ly. "There is nothing I cannot under-
stand." "What nothing?"
It was the umpire with the aggres-
sive pompadour and the keen cunning
eyes who spoke. There was a cynical
smile on his lips.
"Nothing! Nothing!"
She repeated the words as defiantly
as ever but there was a startled look
in her eyes as if she knew she pos-
sessed one vulnerable point and feared
he had found it.
"Nothing in English would puzzle
you I suppose?'
'Chancer without a glossary or
Browning without a key of course"
she sneered "but just try me. And as
for magazine poetry I can tell what
it means when it doesn't mean any-
thing. There is nothing I cannot un-
derstand." 'What then does this mean?"
Taking from his pocket a morning
paper he read aloud: "Nichols found
the leather for the left field fence.
Lowe cracked a single sending Nichols
to second. Long smashed a corking
two-bagger through Eddie Burke and
tho cranks had heart failure as
two of the Bean Eaters crossed tho
plate. Busie's next ball twisted like
an elongated bedspring but Duffy
pushed his big bat against it for a
single. He fell asleep later on first
however and was nailed by Big Anne's
catapult throw.
"Tucker's pop fly was pie for Davis
and Nash fanned the ether three times
sending Beantown to the field. The
giants were goose-egged in their half.
Busie banged a twister with whiskers
on it to the infield but the leather
beat him out at first. Tiernan fouled
out. Stafford touched Nichols for
three bags but died when Farrel
popped a fly."
Pausing the umpire transfixed the
new woman with triumphant eyes
that seemed to burn into her very
soul.
"What does that mean?" he de-
manded. With a shriek of despair Finda Saycal
fell to the floor.
"Lost! Lost!" she moaned.
The baseball reporter's lingo was the
one thing on earth she could not under-
stand. St. Louis Republic.
Thousands of Dollars Worth of
.Mens and Boys Clothing Furnishings
A CONVENIENT TRUNK.
The Rattan damper Is Light and Inexpen-
sive. In the summer many people devote a
portion of the time to travel and the
subject of a suitable and convenient
trunk is a matter of interest.
There have been many changes in
this matter since the giant Saratoga
trunk was first introduced. The intel-
ligent woman of to-day prefers to use
two smaller trunks to one of such huge
proportions that it becomes a veritable
nuisance wherever and whenever it
Tins in rw ltf tsi nlnnK Tt i tfocnicprl
by baggagemen and is much more
liable to damage and breakage than a
trunk of smaller size.
One of the most conven icnt and in-
expensive trunks in use at present is
the rattan hamper or covered basket.
This is in chest shape with a flat cover.
It is generally finished with a heavy
cover of canvas bound with leather.
It is so light and easily lifted from car
to platform and. moreover so strong
although yielding that it is more dur-
able than a wooden trunk bound with
iron. This trunk is furnished with a
simple tray. The hat boxes and the
innumerable compartments of the old-
fashioned trunk have given way to
simpler fittings. Where one is travel-
ing a short distance bv Mrriafrf tho
little hat-box is especially convenient !
and it is astonishing to discover liow
many articles may be packed in one of
these small square trunks. The little
flat steamer trunk is exceedingly con-
venient because it goes under the seat
of an ordinary carriage.
Asa rule women carry much more
baggage than they did in olden times
and they are satisfied with a few
changes where many gowns were
once deemed necessary. One small
trunk is therefore often all that is
needed and supplies the place of the
huge trunk that was once deemed
necessary to the demands of a woman's
wardrobe N. Y. Tribune.
Ilees That Make Had Honey.
"Lovers of the product of the busy
bee will find it a wise precaution to
have their honey tested as to its purity
before they eat it or use it in a culinary
way." Prof. Bcmington gave a warn-
ing somethilg like this at a recent
meeting of pharmacists and at the
same time told of a German who was
extensively engaged in bee culture
and who had his apiary close to a
sugar refinery. A lot of rank mo-
lasses was accessible to the bees and
they gorged themselves on it. The re-
sult was their honey was equally rank
and unfit for nse. On another occa-
sion the bees fed on blooming digitalis
and their honey proved to be poison-
ous. Natural honey therefore is
liable to vary much and occasionally
when it looks best and sweetest it may
be loaded with poison. Unscrupulous
bee farmers are accustomed to forcing
their bees to increase their output by
feeding them sweetened water. The
honey of course is scarcely fit for use.
Philadelphia Becord.
An honest reputation is within
the reach of all; they obtain it by so-
cial virtues and doing their duty. This
kind of reputation though neithsr
brilliant nor startling is often tho
most conducive to happiness. Duclos.
No Came for Jealouir.
She I would like to draw your at-
tention to something but you arc so
jealous.
He Say on what is it?
She A gentleman has been dogging
us for a considerable time.
He Unfortunately I have no ground
for jealousy on this occasion. The
gentleman is a sheriffs officer!
Wiener Luft
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Attorney-General Judson Harmon
said to a Cincinnati reporter: "I havo
found out why the Cincinnati man gen-
erally wins. It is because all the other
Ohio men women and children stand
up for and encourage him. My experi-
ence is that politics doesn't make any
difference when It comes to congratu-
lations." Gen. W. IL Jackson of Nashville
is the owner of the letter in which
August 12 1TS8 Andrew Jackson chal-
lenged CoL Waighstill Avery to fight a
duel which was prevented through the
offices of common friends. The two
men had quarreled over a lawsuit in
which they had been engaged as coun-
sel on opposite sides.
C Mr. John Wanamakerhas increased
his life insurance to the remarkable
aggregate of 52000000. He Is certainly
the most heavily insured man in Amer-
ica and possibly in the world. John
B. Stetson of Philadelphia has poll-
pies on his life for 5750000 and Hamil-
ton Ditson for $600000. Chauncey M.
Pcpew is said to bo insured for $500-
000. Galen Clark who in 1S5" discovered
the big trees near the Yosemite valley
is still guardian of that valley. When
he left New Hampshire in 1S53 he did
not expect to live a year. But in Cali-
fornia he spent his time hunting and
fishing bareheaded and barefooted and
to-day he is as hale and vigorous a man
of eighty as one can encounter any-
where. Lord Scarsdale father-in-law of
Mrs.-Curi.on nee Leiter is the rever-
end recto.- of Kedieston Eng. the
"living" of which is one hundred and
fifty pounds a year when as a Lon-
don paper says "it is not affected by
agricultural depression." The clerical
nobleman is a broad-minded genial
old gentleman of the kind English
novelists so frequently describe.
-Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore
daughter of the late President John
W. Garrett of the Baltimore fc Ohio
railroad while generally conceded tQ
be the wealthiest unmarried woman
In the United States is plain and un-
ostentatious in her way of living aqd
cares for little else but the develop-
ment of the philanthropic and educa-
tional projects in which she is en-
gaged. Princo Nicholas of Montonegro
has married off two of his daughters
but has throe more on his hands for
whom he can find no husbands and
two more aro growing up. The girls
are handsome and accomplished but
they belong to tho Greek Orthodox
church and must marry Into royal
families. The croivn prince is twenty-
four and it seems equally difficult to
find a wife for him.
Abbe Bambaud has received the
$0000 D'Audriffet prize for self-abne-gntion
from the French academy. He
became blind early in life and found
difficulty in getting ordained but de-
voted himself and his fortune of $00-
000 a year to relieving the poor of
Lyons. He established schools for the
street children and a lodging house
for aged people with 500 dwellings
where they are helped with work.
Lady Mary Hamilton-Douglas the
eleven-year-old daughter of the late
duke of Hamilton will bo one of the
richest heiresses of the age. Her
father could not leave her his titles
but left her the bulk of his property
including the isle of Arran which is
larger than the isle of Wight. Her in-
come now is eight hundred thousand
dollars a year and will be a million
and a quarter by the time she comes of
age.
Boots and Shoes.
'A LITTLE NONSENSE."
Binks "What's the greatest feat
you ever saw?" Jinks "TrilbyV"
(Biff! Bang! Verdict: Justifiable homi-
cide). Town Topics.
My landlady's daughter has a wheel.
And down the street she file.
Meanwhile the dear old girl herself
Gives us pneumatic pies.
Cincinnati Tribune
la languid summer when each tree
In lazy cadence rustics.
The blithe mosquito seems to bo
The only thins that hustles.
Washington Star.
Teacher "Frankic Fizzlctop you
were late this mornin?." Frankie Fiz-
zletop "Yes'm. 'We've got a now baby
at our house." Teacher "Well don't
let it happen again.' N. Y. World.
Madame "I have been charmed
with your visit baron. I shall forever
lead a good life that I may have the
pleasure of meeting yqu again here:
after." The Baron "My dear madame
do not I pray you be too good.'1 Il-
lustrated Bits.
"I feed you didn't 17" said th.e
guest who had waited long and pa-
tiently for his dinner. "Yossah."
"Well you feed me. What I want is a
little reciprocity." Tho waiter looked
at him mournfully and then mur-
mured: "I'se sorry boss but I'se
afraid we's jes' out ob dat" Phila-
delphia Evening Telegraph.
The judge "Have you any reason
to offer why sentence should not be
pronounced upon you?'' The prisoner
"I ain't got much to say but it's
right to the point. When I shot the
feller I was only doin' it for fun; an
here you fellers are wantin' to hang
me in cold-blooded malice so you
air." Indianapolis Journal.
"There's one curious tiding about
congressman" said tho old-timer.
"What is that?" "When he's first
elected he'll hang around the town for
months waiting for the janitqr to open
the house of representatives. After
ho's half through the session you have
to put a rope around hs neck and drag
him in to get a quorum." Washiqgtqrj
Evening Star
"It is curious" aald Wilkes "how
Great Britain dominates the world"
"Very" said Barber "but you can ex-
plain it. She never loses a chanco to
conquer others. Baces that her armies
do not overcome herplcklosand saucos
do. Last yoar she exported 1300000
worth of pickles. Say you got ton
pickles for a penny each pound con-
tains 240 pence or 2400 pickles. One
million three hundred thousand times
2400 is 312000000a The human race
is strong but it can't withstand as
many pickles as that." Harper's Bazar.
Aftcra moment the sexton a short
bony individual tiptoed to the church-
door and lookod anxiously up and down
the street. There was no one in sight
except tho innocent harmless ragged
tramp The sexton looked at him a
moment and hesitated. Finally ho
went forward doubtfully and touched
Weary Walker on the shoulder. "I
beg your pardon" he said timidly;
"but would you mind coming inside
forafewminutcs? The minister wants
to say: 'My dear brethren' and there's
only mo in the church." Boston
Budget.
Too I.ong a Good Time.
Mr. De Witt Ah! Youth is the thing.
The time for a man to enjoy life is be-
tween 18 and 30.
Kitty Oh my! don't you think he
ought to marry before 30? Puck.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague was
large and mascuHnc both in appear?
ancc and demeanor. She could not bf
terined q beauty.
THE YEAR'S WORK.
REPORT OF W. 11. KIXO SY.N0M-
CAIi MISSIONARY.
A Field Ripe for Hie Harvest-Lack of
Money and Men -Christian Education
the Hope of the Indian as Much as the
White.
Mr. Moderator and Brethren:
Last year I prefaced my report
by referring to the "hard times;"
then I staled that we had been
crippled and held back at every
turn for the lack of money; I am
sorry to refer to tho same this
year but to appreciate what has
been done we must consider the
great disadvantages at which we
have been placed.
Those of you who have not had
the opportunity to see the entiro
field and witness the hard times
outside of your own field may not
appreciate'the full force of the ex
pression "hard times." It is only
when we see the aggregate of a
thing that we appreciate its mag-
nitude. All that was said about
"hard times" last year can be said
three times stronger this year
without exagg ration. In some
parts ot our synod the people are
absolutely destitute especially in
the newer sections of Oklahoma.
In the "Strip" country the peo-
ple had a hard struggle for exist-
ence; I am told that there have
been a few actual deaths from
starvation. Seasons have not been
good since the country opened up
and the people have raised noth-
ing; discouraged and pennyless
they are leaving the country by
scores; some parts are almost de-
populated. In addition to the "hard times"
at home comes the great and appall-
ing debt ot the board whose
shadow falls heavily upon us
bringing retrenchment to the worn
and hardships to the workers.
The indebtedness of S3GG.00G with
which the board began the year
has forbidden new work and limit-
ed tho old. Debt at that end
means starvation at this. (Jould
the church realize what this awful
debt i doing for the cause of home
missions surely she would rise in
her strength and pay it at once.
In addition to the financial prob-
lem that faces us there are a num-
ber of other things which make the
work in this synod very difficult.
One of the problems is the
country work. The people are so
scattered that is very difficult to
get at them and it is hard to find
men who are willing to take this
neglected and unorganized work
We have only one man who is giv-
ing his time exclusively to the
countr' work; others go t-ut from
the town Sunday afternoons and
during week days and preach to the
people in the immediate commun-
ities. This makes the' work hard
for some of our brethren it is a
great task to preach three times a
day but it seems to be all that we
can do for tho country just now. I
am glad that some ot our minis-
ters are not only going out them-
selves but they are organizing
Sunday schools in the little school
houses round about and sending
members of the home church out
to superintend; this is a double
blessing; it helps the country
places and it develops the lay
force of the home church. The
most effective work dono among
the country people is that of our
Sunday school missionaries. Too
much cannot be said in commend-
ation of their worl. They are the
advanced guard spying out the
land and opening up the road for
the ministor and the church.
Nearly all the work we have in
the country is the result of their
labor. Until the board is able to
give us more men for this needy
work we must hope to hold it
through the Sunday school mis-
sionaries. Another difficulty in
this country is the broken and dis-
organized character of the family.
The people who have come to
Oklahoma and the Indian Terri-
tory are in a great measure people
who haye lp.st fortunes to rOtrive.
The country is filled up with un-
fortunates. Thp majority of them
have left behind all restraining in-
fluences; family tie? have been
broken; the home has beendis-
organized; the family altar has
been abolished and their religion
is reduced to a piece of writing and
carefully laid away in the bottom
of the trunk. The people do not
feel at home; they are unsettled
and uneasy; things and people are
constantly changing &o that it
makes the church work move
slowly.
These are a few of the diffi-
culties peculiar to this country but
notwithstanding these we have no
cause for apology or discourage-
ment. Permit me briefly to call your
attention to what wo have done
during the past year and to what
remains 3ct to be done.
The poverty of the board and
the country has been greater this
year than at any time in our syn-
odical history yet with gratitude
and thanksgiving we report the
best year of them all. The past
year notwithstanding the hard
times outstrips any previous
yerr.
Our gifts to the boards and to
self support last year was 813305
this year they were $19160 an in-
crease of So.Soo or more than 33
per cent. The average gifts per
member last year was 84 this year
they were 80 an increase of fifty
per cent. Surely this ought to en-
courage us when the older and
more established synods have
come short qf their last year's
record. But we can and must do
batter next year. This year we
gave to the board of home missions
SI 039; for every dollar given we
have received $45 in return. Out
of our 10G churches49 did not give
a cent to home missions. During
the year we have added to our
number of communicants S07 an
increase over last year of 202 or
about 33 per cent; about the same
per centage as has been made in
the increase in our Sunday
schools. We have built twelve
new churches some of them very
handsome buildings at the follow-
ing places: Enid 'erry Ponca
City Elm Springs Ft. Gibson
Tahlequah Talihina Muskogee
and four other points among the
full-blood Indians. Two or three
new churches are now being built.
We have organized eight new
churches with sixteen ruling
elders.
We have now fifty-six ordained
ministers six licentiates four local
evangeliMs and seven candidates
for the ministry. In all this num-
ber there are only three pastors
and three self-supporting churches.
I wish we might have more pas-
tors and fewer stated supplies.
To realize what is yet to be done
we have only to look at the extent
of our territory and the character
of its population. It reaches out
east and west about 500 and north
and south about 210 miles. It is
larger than Pennsylvania Dela-
ware Massachusetts and New Jer-
sey combined It has a popula-
tion of at least 750000 of this
number 31000 are Protestant
Christians. The proportion of
Christians to the population in the
whole United States is one out of
four; in our two territories it is
one in twenty-three. Such figures
are dreadful. If there ever was a
place that needed live energetic
work it is in this country. Wick-
edness and ungodliness is at high
tide in this land. It seems as if
the forces of evil aro massing
themselves in this country for a
desperate effort against the king-
dom. I would like to speak at length
about the cilia that are coining to
us for the gospel but will not take
your time suffice it to say that
scores of places are asking for men;
our answer must be"impossible."
There are a number of places
where we could organize to advant-
age if we were able to supply the
fields. The work among the
treedmen ought to be pushed and
the work among the Indians must
have more support. We could
place a dozen men today among
the Indians if we had them but
all that we can do now is to hope
and pray
Tnere are only a few vacant
fields in the synod; nearly all our
churches are supplied. Some of
the churches have been looked
after by the Presbyterial mission-
ary. Upon the whole the year
among the churches has been very
encouraging. A number of special
meetings have been held which
have brought blessing to the
churches. Tho increase over
last year has been more than
33 per cent.
One of the most interesting fea-
tures of our work in the synod is
the educational work ;-r;d as this
part ot the work need" u- be em-
pbasizecj permit me tu speak a
little at length upon it.
Because of the debt of the board
a number of schools have been
closed. Last year we had in the
synod thirteen schools with forty-
six teachers and 1.5S5 scholars.
The work of education is speci-
ally important in this country
where the foundations of a new
6tate are to be laid and the struc-
ture of a great commonwealth is
to be reared. But the beneficial
results of education are condition-
ed by the character of the educa-
tion. Not every one who seeks an
education knows the true end to
be reached by it.
When I say that the great need
of this country is education I
would have you understand what
I mean by education.
There are two extreme views as
tq the encj'or motive of education
prevalent in tho minds of people
today; the one whose chief expon-
ent is Matthew Arnold makes cul-
ture the chief end to bo reached
ability to move in cultured circles
is the goal; to this class belong the
famous four hundred; the other
bonded by Fourde makes utility
the primary motive of education;
the object of this class is to get an
education as an aid to temporal ad-
vancement; education is lowered
to the level of self aggrandi&hment
but neither if theso motives will
dovelop true men or safe citizens.
The true education is that which
seeks to train the soul for complete
and successful living; whose main
motive is the development of the
best and purest sentiments of the
human soul. All true education
must be moral first intellectual
secondly. It is not what a man
knows that is of value to himself
or his country but what lie feels:
not the accumulation of facts and
figures that may be crammed back
in his head but the live sends of
truth planted in his soul. It is
not the man who knows most; but
the man who loves mostjwho feels
most who lives mo.t who is
needed in the world today.
You do not educate a man by
telling him what he knew not but
by making him what he was not
and making him what he will be
forever. For says Ruskin.no wash
of weeds will bring bick the faded
purple and in that dying there
are two processes. First the
wringing and clea.isjng which is
the baptism with water and then
the infusing of the blue and scarlet
oolors gentleness and justice
which is the --baptism with fire.
The teacher wlio can infuse into
his-pupil the principle of true liv-
ing and lead him into the circle of
the higher realm of thought ard
inspire him with pure and lofty
ambition? is the ideal teacher.
The student who goes out from
college with his head full of fig-
ures and tacts and his heart empty
goes out to become a menace to
society nd a peril to the state.
The curse of the land today is ed-
ucated rascality and immorality.
The man who walks our streets
with the air of a lord using his
mouth as a smoke stack for a cigar
factory passing in social circles as
the admiration of all the ladies in
town because of his wisdom and
wit wnose heart is as empty of
principle and pure motive as the
heads of those who tolerate him
are of good judgment is of Ijss
service to humanity and more dan-
gerous to the state than the wild-
est savage that chases the game
over the plains because he is ca-
pable of doing the gn ater harm.
The educated head that is not act-
uated by an educated heart is a
positive detriment to humanity.
The only lmpe for the country is
in a higher Christian education;
this is the need of tho world; this
is especially the need of the In-
dian Territory.
The Indian Territory needs a
higher Christian education first
as a safe-guard to its social life
and happiness.
The perils that threaten society
in this country nre more serioui
and numerous than in any other
part of the west. We are beset on
the one hand by the ignorant and
superstitious Indian; we are en-
dangered on the other hand by the
unprincipled white man There
is no part of the west where so
many kinds of life are thrown to-
gether; we have the highest and
best and we have the lowest and
meanest. There is growing up in
our midst a heterogeneous mas3 of
ignorance and vice which like the
union of explosive acids will bring
wreck and ruin to this beautiful
land unless we educate. In behalf
of your social life and happiness
you should welcome every effort
toward higher education.
Again the Indian Territory
needs a higher education as a safe-
guard to its national and political
lifo. There is nothing more fund-
amental touching the circumstan-
ces which effect all human beings
than space. It conditions largsly
all human activities and relation-
ships hence the great influence
railroads have had upon modern
civilization. The world has been
brought together by the railroad
and telegraph and set spinning as
it were on a much smaller axis at
a far more rapid rate.
With these improvements the
isolation of an- people will become
more and more difficult. The
time was when the red man could
roam the prairies from north to
south without coming in sight of
civilization the monotony of his
desert life was unbroken by the
tramp of empire; the quietness of
his wigwam was undisturbed by
the pale face seeking a bride and
her broad acres hut now the keen
whistie of the locomotive is heard
throughout the land civilization is
knocking at the door of the Indian
and it is no longer possible for the
red man to cut himself loose from
the rest of tho world and live in
isolation; there is no spot in Mex
ico or South America dark enough
to shut out the light of American
civilization. It is not my office to
pass judgment of the treatment of
the Indian or to enumerate the
cruelties heaped upon him by the
white man; the fact that a great
national crime may have been
committed against the Indian does
not make the present aoy le33 ex-
cusable for the future; the fact is
the Indian is face to face with civ-
ilization and he must rise in his
manhood and meet it as a citizen
or lose his identity as a race.
There is no getting away from the
march of civilization; thero is no
longer any chance of isolation and
whatevermay be done in the fu-
ture with the Indian as a nation in
his relations to the United States
there can be no action that will do
away with the need of a
Christian education.
higher
If the Indian is to maintain his
place as an independent people
and preserve his tribal govern-
ment he must educate. Statehood
or not allotment or no this coun-
try is in the birth throes of a great
change. Tho bands of ignorance
and superstition that have held
the Indian for so many centuries
are beginning to break and must
continue to break or tho Indian
will be known as other peoples
of the past only in bistor'. The
law of race is the "survival of the
fittest."
If as some think we are on the
brink of statehood all the greater
is the need for higher and better
education. The foundations of a
new state must be laid and a wise
and patriotic citizenship must be
trained.
One oT the secrets of the grand
march of American civilisation and
improvement is the importance
the framers of the "institution and
the men who gave .uape and mo-
mentum to the country placed
upon education. The great de-
sire of Washington was a universal
education and a national univer-
sity. The ordinance of 17S7 that g.ive
the first grant from the general
government to support schools and
advance tho cause of education de-
clared that religion nio;ality and
oducation being necessary to good
government and the happiness of
mankind schools and the means
of education shall be forever cn-
coumged. We must havo sound
and Christian education if we fit
men lor what Arnold calls "the
highest earthly work the work of
government" and that work is be-
coming more and more difficult all
the time as westward the march
of empire makes it way and as
the problems political and social
financial and commercial educa-
tional and industrial in joint array
rise and confront us.
No nation has made such un-
paralleled advance as America;
400 years ago an infant now the
mistress of the wold. What is
the secret? Our fathers who
planted the seed of this republic
came to the new world bringing
with them a power and a promise
from the greatest age of European
advancement. They lived in that
century that saw at its beginning
the coronation of Elizabeth and at
its end the fall of Cromwell; a
century marked by extraordinary
genius amazing achievement the
decay of authority and the swift
advance of popular power; the age
of Raleigh Drake Bacon Shakes-
peare and Milton; illumined by
printing and stirred by tumultuous
force by the reformation. Out of
the vehement life of northern
Europe in England Holland
Sweden and Germany so full of
enterprise and productive energy
came the early settlers ot America
bringing with them the life and
force of the century set on fire
with the spirit of liberty and free-
dom of worship and with the fo'ree
of a century behind them forming
in their constituent moral liie one
people fearless energetic con-
structive industrious; intensely
practical politically active and
religiously free. Hence came the
early American spirit in whose
light arose this republic which
interlinks our annals with those of
the noblest time of Europe and
makes us heirs to the greatness of
its history.
America is the gift of the renais-
sance the revival of learning that
swept over Eu-ope making ready
the path for the reformation and
preparing a people for this new
world.
Wo today are forming another
commonwealth the empire of the
west which is to be the latest
product of the ages Time's last
and noblest offspring the star of
empires on its western throne.
But this future empire is to be
conditioned by the character of its
education. Tho only safe citizen-
ship is that which is educated and
intelligent and the only successful
government is that which is found-
ed ou Christian principles and
guided by Christian senti-
ments. The he i of the In
dian Territory is in
cation of its youth ou who are
anxious to aid "in solving tho
greaUlndian question give your
influence and your monoy to the
cause of education and the desert
shall soon blosscut as the rose
and the red man will take his
stand by the side of his pale-faced
brother and the two together as
one people prompted by the same
motives and animated by a broad
humanity will march into the
brotherhood of states and place
their star upon the flag of tho
Union.
In closing I want to express my
thanks to the brethren of the
synod for the kindness and co-operation
which I have received at
their hands. The past two years
have been hard ones because ot
the newness of the work and the
peculiar condition of the field. It
has taken me thus long to become
fully acquainted with the fields.
I have not been able to respond to
all the calls because of the lack of
time. No one who has not held
the office of Snyodical Superin-
tendent knows how much work
there is to it. The correspond-
ence is hoavy the inconvenience
of travel i? great. During the
year I have traveled 10000 miles
several hunJred by buggy. I have-
preached 140 sermons and made
a number of addresses; have aided
in the dedication of six new
churches and attended seven meet-
ings of Presbytery. I have vis-
ited almost every field in the
synod and helped in meetings at
Vinita San Bois Norman Cband-
lier Stillwater and Ardmore. Tha
year's work has been very pleas-
ant and encouraging the outlook
is full of hope.
Respectfully submitted.
W. R. King
Synodical Missionary.
Tho Dscovery Saved Hs Life.
Mr. U. t'aillouette. Druggist Bear-
ersville. 111. says: "To Dr. King's
New Discovery 1 owe my life. Was
taken with La Grippe and tried all the
physicians for miles about hut of no
avail and was given up and told X
could not live. Having Dr. King's
New Discover in my store I sent for
a bottle and began its nse and from the
Si st dose began to get better and after
using three bottles was np and about
again. It is worth its weight in gold.
We won't keep store oi house without
it." Get a free trial at A. V. Fore-
man's drug store. 2
A self-teaching music chart learn
youto play in thirty minutes given
free with every organ sold by Vinita
Muic House.
Mallard's Horehound Sjrnp.
We guarantee this to be the best
cough syrup manufactured in the
whole wide world. This is saying a
great deal but it is tine. For con-
sumption coughs colds sore throat
sore chest pneumonia bronchitis
Asthma croup whooping cough and
all diseases of the throst and lungs.we
positively guarantee Ballard's hore-
hound syrup to be without an equal
on the whole face of the globe. In
support of this statement we refer to
every individual who has ever nsed it
and to every druggist who has ever
sold it. Such evidence is indisput-
able. Sold by P. Ehtnahan. 4
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