The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 45, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 6, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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BADGETTS
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1 JULY 21-2-3 and 4. 1
Every seasonal article in our mammoth
store will be sold if price is any in-
ducement. Look for full announcement
and prices next week.
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Indian Chieftain.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
SI.5C Per Year or Sl.OO If Paid
In Advance.
PubllshedTnursdaye by
Tni Chiki-taix Pcnugnnra CourxxT.
I). 31. HARKS Editor.
X. E. MILFOKD Manager
Visita Ixd. Teb. July 6 1899
We are confronted today with
an alien race in what not long
since was an alien country cele-
brating the natal day of independ-
ence of the race and the people who
have enslavenedand robbed them
not by conquest and by force of
arms as the Filipino but in the
face of solemn treaty the highest
form of statutory law. Just what
interest the common Cherokee In-
dian can feel in celebrating the
fourth of July is certainly not ap-
parent. The Declaration of Inde-
pendence was the beginning of the
end of Indian autonomy and down
through the decades of American
history has moved the death knell
of tribal rights and tribal self-government.
With no flag no coun-
try and no nationality the Ameri-
can Indian is about to yield up
the last vestige of patriotic senti-
ment in his being.
Newspapers on the east side are
coming into the single statehood
ranks so rapidly that Gulick of
the Capital can't find mythologi-
cal references fast enough to give
each of them notice. It is -peculiarly
appropriate that he should
draw upon mythology so heavily
in his talk on the subject as the
greatest myth of the present day
is the idea of a state made of the
Indian Territory alone. Purcell
Register.
The country press is showing
more signs of having brains in the
office now than ever before. There
are some mighty good editorial
paragraphs being written about
the value of newspaper space and
the need of getting value for it
when it is released to any person
or firm. Denison Herald.
The strongest argument yet
made against statehood with Okla-
homa is the report of the govern-
or of Oklahoma which shows the
indebtedness of that territory to be
nearly a million dollars. No
wonder the Oklahomans are cry-
ing for help to pay it.
The platform of the National
party that was to have been made
at Tucker's Spring in Tahlequab
last Friday has not yet shown up.
The Nationals ought to have two
platforms this year one for the
fullbloods and another for the bal-
ance of the voting population.
Vmita is a pretty good town and
has several fine institutions but we
challenge them to produce rrithin
their corporate limits a finar or
deadlier hog-wallow than that be-
tween Rucker's and the place of
the "Mist." Claremore Courier.
The Claremore Courier is dis-
pleased because the school super-
visor for the Cherokee nation has
not visited that bailwick. We
suggest that the Courier furnish
Supervisor Coppock with a map
with Claremore on it.
Oar exchange table this morning
revealed the fact that most of our
territory dailies failed to print
yesterday. Tho Daily Chieftain
gathers and prints the news holiday-
as well as other daj'S. It
car.not afford to miss an issue.
Judge Thomas will leave for his
oM home in Illinois about the
2oth inst. to sjiond the summer
in: r'he.
BIGGEST SALE OF
THAT RED CROSS MAN.
Could Have Been Little Due
From Vlnita.
J. F. Marston who came here
soliciting funds for the Red Cross
last seaBon and held a meeting at
the Baptist church is under arrest
at Charleston Mo. for turning in
Bhort remittances. The collection
at the Vinita meeting wa only a
few dollars much to the fellow's
disgust He said that Afton small
as she is put seventy or eighty
dollars in the hat and was a lots
better town than Vinita. While
under arrest it looks from this dis-
tance very much as though Mars-
ton's conviction will never be ef-
fected. He is clearly the agent of
the society. The information of
his arrest is contained in the fol-
lowing dispatch sent from Charles-
ton Mo. Saturday:
After successfully eluding the
federal officers for several days
"Reverend" J. F. Marston was
arrested at Fisk a little station in
New Madrid county and brought
to Charleston where he is wanted
by the county authorities. The
original complaint against Mars-
ton was made by Miss Clara Bar-
ton president of the Red Cross
society to tbe postoffice depart-
ment at Washington. In her com-
plaint which is now in the hands
of Inspector Sullivan Miss Bar-
ton alleged that Marston had been
fleecing people in various parts ot
Illinois Missouri and Tennessee.
She appealed to the department
to put a stop in EOine way to his
practices.
His plan as suggested by Miss
Barton was to invite collections
for the Red Cross society. In
every instance his letters to her
were short tbe amount of collec-
tions claimed to be inclosed. This
shortage of course he charged to
the mail agents between the point
of mailing and Miss Barton. When
he was arrested he claimed that
he had not violated any federal
law but he practically admitted
that he might be amenable to the
state law.
It is thought that it will be a
hard matter to establish a case
against him in the federal courts.
Marston has been Operating in
Alabama Mississippi Missouri
and the Indian Territor7.
Letters of recommendation were
found on him one purporting to
be from Dr. J. D. Murphy pastor
of tho First Baptist church of
Charleston. He will be prosecu-
ted by the authorities of this coun-
ty for his doings at Belmont where
he succeeded in collecting a con
siderable sum of money.
Instructing Deputies.
Col. F. C. Churchill supervis
ing revenue inspector for the
Cherokee nation is at headquar-
ters in this city formulating plans
for prosecuting the work of his
department and instructing his
deputies in their duties. The
Cherokee nation is divided into
three districts each in charge of
three inspectors. H. B. Gray has
charge of the first; B. P. RaBmu6
the second and W. H. Irvin the
third. They will begin work in a
few days. Col. Churchill will
have his headquarters at Salisaw
and his force will report to him
there. Muskogee Times.
Vinita is proud of the distinc-
tion of being the only town of any
pretensions in tbe Northern dis-
trict where beer in some form and
under some name is not sold. Un-
fortunately we have a few citizens
who insist that tho town and coun-
try should be thrown open to the
unrestricted sale of liquor.
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SMALLPOX AT FT. GIBSON
Infection in a House Occu-
pied by Three Families.
A week ago and upwards a casq
of smallpox was suspected at Ft.
Gibson. It has now clearly dis-
closed itself to be such and no
communication with neigh-
boring towns is being permitted.
There are three families living in
a brick house near the railroad
track in old town who recently
came from Oklahoma to work in
the potato and cotton fields. One
of the men showed very strong
symptoms of being in the stage of
recovery ten daj's ago was cov-
ered with scabs and blotches. The
local physician suspected at first
the cause and to a confident told
it saying that if he could avoid it
he was not going back to see the
patient again. But he was evi-
dently compelled to do so with
the result that ono of tbe women
was found to be sick with the dis-
ease. Vinita learned a few years ago
by experience that these
smallpox stories get larger as they
travel but The Chieftain has cor-
rect information on the Ft Gibson
incident. By this is meant not
that the man and woman have
smallpox beyond question but
that the Ft. Gibson physician and
the town believe it to be such and
are taking due precautions. While
Vinita's admonition to keep cool
would be wholesome and timety
to some towns it is out of place
as it were in Ft. Gibson' case. As
the headquarters of a military es-
tablishment for nearly three quar-
ters of a century it has had re-
peated visitations of smallpox and
one or more of the cholera which
killed its scores if not hundreds.
A Stale Joke.
In one newspaper which insists
with owlish wisdom that tho press
of the territory wastes its time
when talking of statehood we
counted four items speaking slight-
ingly of the editorial profession
those jokes(?) that so many seem
to look upon as humorous regard
ing the patches on his pants his
half starving condition and others
of that nature which class the
editor in the same category with
the hungry hound that sneaks
around back doors begging for
scraps from the tables of the pros-
perous. The man who has no
higher opinion of his profession
than to uee his columns for solf
6lander is certainly justifiable in
saying nothing on the statehood or
any other live question. If in his
proper place he would be serving
as a wet nurse to a flock of geese
but if he must stay in the profes-
sion he thinks so little of he doe
well to confine himself strictly to
scissors and pa6te pot for so long
a time as a community allows him
to spoil good white paper in its
midst. Purcell Register.
Agent Schoenfeldt is now con
sidering the application of Henry
Jenkins of Vinita who desires a
place on the police force. He is
highly endorsed b the people of
Vinita and his application beare
the names of numerous citizens.
Muskogee Times.
While it is not fair to say that
Capt. J.B.Turner "missed his call-
ing" the mannor in which he has
marshaled the hosts today shows
he would have made an excellent
soldier.
Tho lire brigade was a "hot
number." They would be dead
sure to save the lot if they got
there in time.
3t M I MQ
) THE CAPTAIN'S FOURTH
A Storj of I a.
By T. C. HARBAUGtf.
Q .... i. iiiii.i. i t i t i
APT. CHE VERS of
the galiant th
invalided heme from
Manila tat on the
pon.h of the old home
with a m-H-tpsper
abont to f!i iron) hi
hand. His hand-
some fa-e tanned by
scri?e under a trop-
ic sun r e v e a e A
t r r. o e b of physical
Buffering ana a be
1 ? ? k e 4 across tbe
stretch of J o t e 1 y
country visible be
yond the stately elms vbieh had stood eo
long Wore tbe old-fashioned home his
thoughts -went back to the days when a 4
boy be played there and life was foil of
careless fctea.
The paper blown by a little skit of wind
rippled from hi thin hands and fell at his
feet lie did not stoop to pick it up bat
let it lie whe it had fluttered. Presently
from the v'lbge just beyond the hills came
the echoes of a cannon's boom and hie face
for a moment lighted op U be remembered
that it was the nation's holiday and he
thought of the Fourths the years had earned
out to sea.
The door behind him opened so softly that
he did aot hear it nor tbe footsteps which
carae gazelle-likd to his chair When he
looked uj it was to fcaze into the race 01 a
fair girl wfioee hand bad fallen rghly upon
his pleeve.
"You remember you asked about Tracy
yerterdavl" said the young maid.
"Oh yes Tracy Wordsworth" said the
captain. "I had forgotten--almost."
Did tbe younj zirl beVere the captain?
She teemed o smile and for a moment her
gaze wandered frcin him.
"I have just found one of her letters one
she ferote me lest winter."
"Ahi"
"The last one I got from her I believe.
She mentions you in it."
The eapUin grew interested.
"I went to Manila last evauner. you
know Harriet. Tracy 1 Ah yes I knew
her when I cam 1 ck fiotn school bat the
family moved away shortly after that
and-"
Tbe captain's companion was opening a
letter with her dainty fingers and strange
to say be was watching her.
"Tracy thought she night come back this
summer" continued the girl. "She had
heard Eomehow that you were away and
wished you a safe return."
"Ttat s clever. I thought she had for-
gotten me."
"Xot quite a it seems. She never quite
forgets her friends but"
The captain waited for the completion of
the sentence but it was not finished.
"You are not going over to Hairptoti to-
day I believe?" suddenly asked Harriet.
"I believe I will. It is the Fourth you
know and I half promised Jackson that I
would help him celebrate it in eld style."
"If you keep out of the sua you will get
along. I'm doctor now you see" and the
speaker laughed. "I will order out tbe car-
riage while you make your toilet" and the
fair face vanished and the captain was alone
again.
"That was queer" he said to himself as
he kicked the newspaper away from his feet.
"I was thinkina about Tracr nrnAi and
stood pat for you and bad not time to Irt
you k3W."
"The) '.re all acquaints Harold" said
Coeds Harriet. "You won't be cuUcised
and beside they want to hear from one of
the heroes of Manila."
"Heroes fiddlestick?! Is every man a
hero beUM he does his duty?"
"And they're got an interesting pro-
gramme captain" said Jackson at this junc-
ture. "Judge Somen k to do the spread
eagle part of it and yon know what be ran
do. The West Milton quartette is to sing
and they're promised a patriotic song from
a young lady who lives I don't know just
where she came here or e Tut last mgnt.
So walk up to he trecches .p;c I'll
aland by you through thick and thin."
Ospt. Chovers appealed to Harriet but
that younz lady who had a great deal of
confidence in her soldier cousin urged hint
to accept the invitation extended through
Jackson and at last in sheer desperation be
agreed to do so.
Presently the programme committee
waited on him officially and he permitted
himtelf to be escorted to the speakers'
ttand. This was an elaborately decorated
affair and overlooked tbe pretty little pub-
lic square for which Hampton was famous.
The young captain wa given an ovrtion at
he walked to the seat assigned him. and he
cat a look toward Harriet who wi watch
ins the nroceedincs from the carriage
here Harriet reeaJie her in her cheerful
remlnifrcedt way. It s rot tbs first time I've
thsugbt of her lately W. pshaw! thst'k all."
He rose and enteral the house to reap-
pear on the porch a few minutes latet in urn
lorm reedy for the ride oer the lulls.
Tracy jame out iutt as the carriage was
brought round and ti e two cousins seated
themselves in it wlill John took up the
lines.
The noise af the celebrants now came over
the hills ivith more distinctness and the
-aptaln laughingly said that it reminded him
wt a. trifle of military hie. The ride was
pleasant because Sj-'h were chatty and pres-
ently the carriage pulled into the long main
ttreet of tbe western vflUge. The "liberty
pole" Boon to be raised with appropriate
ceremonies lay on the grovad receiving the
finishing touches and the captain was warm-
y greeted by old friends the moment he
was Men.
"We expect a short address from one of
the victoe of Manila" playfully ead Ja"k-
ton. "I was bold enough to give tbe commit-
tee an affirraatit-e repone for you and -"
"Why I neer wide a speech ''n iry We"
broke in Capt. Che-era. "look here Jack-
son; this will never J--."
"But hang it ''.: you can't well decline.
Seo what a mess it wou'd get me into. I
TK JWCfOlt TOW TOO SBE.
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"There's no dinir of Harold's !iTacing
the family name; that's '-ornithine hi. never
did and he ucd to be good at impromptu
speeches too" she reinaikid to Jackson
who had taken his station alongside the Car-
lisle for the purpose of conversing with her.
Judge Somen made a rambling bat in-
tensely patriotic address to which the large
audience listened with manifest impatience
for all knew that Capt. Chevers just home
from Manila would have something to say
and a living hero is better than a dead lion
at any time.
By and by the mayor of the village rose
and said as he waved his hand toward the
captain:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: We have with
us to-day one of the heroes of the bite war
with Spain a gallant citisen whom you all
know a soldier who fought under the ban
nets of Dewey and who was the first to plant
Old Glory upon the ramparts of the enemy.
We love to honor our heroes and this one
whom Hampton is proud to call her own
because his boyhood days were spent in
this vicinity we greet with a doable wel-
come upon this auspicious occasion. Ladies
and gentlemen; Capt. Harold Chevers the
hero of Manila!"
Tbe applause that soared skyward would
have called blushes to the cheek of an ad-
miral and tbe cartain's face crimsoned a
be arose whii livua sigrul for m.iro -.heer-ing
II; 0 1 cr '!' 1 wl'ffirf?d Ji-r-n.
m-r wj3 ' .iiL.Mf.rw ris nrasit
ri.' .1 1 r p rt!t frc begar to tcil the story
of Manila m.-dtt'y omitting an account of
Vf "A. y. ' KjNiwaV jf I yC
THABE YOU" CAPT. CHEVIRS.'
his own bravery. It was a story that thrilled
ever' one and when he closed with a tplen-
did perflation which was in face sn apos-
trophe to the American flag the enthusiasm
of the crowd was unbounded.
As he settled back in the chair he heard
the maater of ceietnouee announce that
"Miss WordaworUi from the west" would
sing the "Star Spangled Banner."
Capt. Chevers started at Jie name and
leaned forward as a tall regal-loukijg girl
advanced from one end of the platform and
Flood before tbe people. He could not see
her face for it was slightly turned awey
and then he settled back as her musical voice
began the national anthem.
T'ne crowd seemed to Siaud spellbound.
Such singiiig was z. revelation '.( eery one
Mho Ibtteued; never befon had the wurds of
Key's Immortal aiitbem thrilled them as un-
der the spell of that young girl's voice. Tbe
very bUds which hod been twittering in the
vhade-tieee paid tribute to tier with silence
and no one stirred until the last word had
died upon her lips.
Then a tumultuous cheer burst forth and
as she turned away blushing beneath her
wonderful triumph Capt. Cheveis started
to his feci
"Tracy Mi Wordsworth!" he ex-
claimed. "What a fool I am anyhow" he
continued sot to voce. " Tis another
Tracy-"
But the tall girl had turred and she and
the hero of Manila stood face to face.
"I I want io thank you for your singing
Tracy -iardoi me Ms Wonlswotth"
said the stammering captain. "It was su-
jierb matchless. You used to sirg so well
at Lostcreek school you know when we"
"Thank you Capt. Chevers" interrupted
the girl. She held out her hand. "Yon
don't imagine that I have forgotten thote
davs. I hope?"
"Not at all; bat you see I Jfcl not remain
long at the school and while 1 have thought
often of those happy times I had quite !ot
airht of you."
The oupnts of the platform were now
quitting it as the scng was the last feature
of the programme awl Capt. Cheers es-
corted Mi Wordsworth to the carriage.
"I see you've captured another pnsouer
captain." lauehei Jackson cavalierly.
"W It an unconditional surrender!"
Both the captain and Tracy hlu-hed and
Harriet diplomatically came to the rescue
of both by welcoming her friend Tracy in
the warmest terms.
"I eues rou're fflad I added rou to tbe
prccramme. en captain r tne irrepressible
Jackaon broke In. "It's a great Fourth for
you. I imagine. Glad you came eh? Well
good day and good rack!"
In the excitement attendant on the pole
raiding Capt. Cbvers did not participate; as
Jackaon remarked to a friend he bad em-
barked upon "another campaign" and
"Cousin Harriet" seemed to be furnishing
a good deal of tbe ammunition.
When the events of tbe day were over and
the atar-iiang!ed banner Hosted from the
too of th" tallest liberty pole in Miai
county Capt. Chevers drove home with
Miss Wordsworth as Cousin Harriet's
nieat.
fi-1 EtrrytMng is ySiasaut at Orchard Kbob
and the reader wv.I not he rerpeif ed when he
bars that Traey Wordsworth has decided to
prolong ber stay among friends in the raf J
nor that Capt. Chevers Is looking fonranl
to a happy future whirh he dates from the
last "glorious Tonrth of July."
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HE liberty whose ad
vent upon American
soil we to-day cele-
brate and whoie
principle of the
greatest good to the
greatest number
making government the engine rather than
the lash and terror of the people was
nourished in those dim Teutonic forests
where our ancestors hurled defiance at the
"Roman legion and died for the preserva
tion of their ancient privileges. In its fee-
ble childhocd it needed isolation for its de-
velopment and was transplanted by the
hand tba: guides history 10 that mist-girdled
island where institutional government had
aa unbroken growth until the rights of the
people at last came into conflict with an
alien kingly authority and upon tbe field of
Bunnymede the vindication of the claim of
the common man to life liberty and the pur-
cant of happiness was maintained by sturdy
blows and doughty deeds.
In tblj crucial year of our nation's his-
tory a year that marks the departure from
the policy that for a century has guided our
law-makers and statesmen our thoughts re-
cur more and more to the history of liberty
and we draw lesons from the progress of
fre government in the civilisation of the
world. Oar banner has been planted upon
the far-away islands of the Pacific and upon
the beautiful trupic binds of the southern
seas as a message fo the world that the
rigi'tk ( ma: -hall triumph over the wrongs
of Urntim and that liberty's circle is not
conj;Wto uii'ii the world is girdled
1 hose who ?tud in tht way of civilization
rout-: 20 don ! before the forces of progress
xms is icif oictum ot me ages ana cruet
though it may sound to those whose view of
hist ry is bunded by the white iight of our
own day the survival of the fittest is na-
ture's law.
In reviewing America's share in the
world's civilisation the coldest heart luu-t
be tanTied with the glory ot her deeds and
tbe rsiid -ur of the position achieved by
adberenc? to exalted idea's. While cariag
oat 10T themselw home in the wilderness
the Americin colonist laid deep and broad
tbe foundations cf a natkn whose princi-
ple of individual right are almost Mention)
with those of our Teutonic ancestors at.d
may thus justh- claim to be the fruit of
Anglo Saxon ideas.
It was this spirit of Individualism that
brought forth the soldiers anl statesmen of
the ar of independence the detruvracy
that wrote f-r the recognition cf '.'.ie iigh
of the cundus man at Jiunnvmede found
worthy successors ra men who foaghtNit
Banker Hid to preserve liberty. Transplant-
ed to American soil tbe seed of freedom
sent oat hopes that tcok root in tbe world's
consciousness and European constitution-
alism at well as American liberty was the
fcejition.
In ita is'ancy democracy was content to
maintain the integrity of the territory of the
western continent and to assert that Eu-
ropean monarchy should 1-e denied tbe
privilege of aggreos'.on thereon. In its
auuinood this same democracy recognizee its
duty and responsibility in ibe moral uplift
o mankind and the dissemination of that
Christian cMiiaatiou in which its own
strength rests.
Th brain of depiocvacy evolved tbe
myriad devices that hat e enfranchised labor
by procuring for it leisure for telf cultiva-
tion. It brcnght forth the telegraph and
the applications of steam and has made all
men bioU-ers 1 Oun bnngirj them Into
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llillieiiiiliasielilsiMeeeii
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a hun-'red jeara it h .s bee r e ;'.. V?dc r of
the world's -wealth imt ri!C 'U- .if i'.s grvet
destiny it if no content t- reft npou its
laurels nor pause in it endeavor.
Sensible of its solemn or ligation to its
own people and to those pew peoples whose
fate ! within its" keepipjc conscious 0 the
loyalty or Its crreat tMtTitre elective masses.
America faces the future fterloly and with
an unfaltering trust in the Mot High God
who holds the nations in Ilia hiu'. and has
allotted each fdnee time "began their work
in perfecting man and making him worthy
of an immortal souL LOU V. CHAPIN.
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O-AIORROW being
the Fourth of July"
said Carrol Graham's
hired man "of eourse.
it's a holiday."
".U usual'.' nodded
his 3 oung employer.
"Some friend. f
mine are coming over
to celebrate."
"Very wdl-only.
Jim keep most of
your noise aa far '
away from the farm
as possible."
"What's up 1
TTrtn.lpr?" TnarvWIc! TTrmMtt .Tpfn. starlnff. '
"Cropa coming right purtieet gal In Cheater
good as his and him bluo as indigo!"
"Hey I can tell!"
Jem turned to face one of his fellow cde-
brators of tbe morrow.
"Can you?" challenged Jem.
"Yes. They say Graham has lot the
farmhitch in the pureeedin's miscing
paper."
"Sho!" goggled Jem.
"They say that purty Nellie Mason's
rich father has stamped down that big foot
of his and no pauper shall wed his gal! if
Graham can't produce a suttin doeyment
the farm passes to that miserly hull-uncle
of hh'n."
"Tho world's coming to an end!" gaped
startled Jem.
It was true; like a bolt from the blue there
had come to the ambitious young farmer a
shock that thrilled then prostrated.
In a flat-h one of life's. brightest pictures
seemed blotted out.
The accredited owner of Spring farm was
informed that a large claim had been set
up by hU half-uncle supposed to have been
pid years since -Graham had vainly
searched for written proof of its settlement.
"That's why he won't celebrate no Fourth
of July this j ear" ob-erved Jem' infor-
mant departing. "He's got to vacate and
etart life all over Again on nothin'."
"l'oor lad!" sighed Jew. "Drat :he staff.
I've no heart left in me!" and he drew from
us iocket a two pound package of "cele-
brating" powder. "Where snail I stow It?
It's retVy stuff to have about the premises.
Jem moved a ladder to an old unused
toolbouse ascended and pushed the peek-B.-e
of gunpowder up under the eaves.
Through gaping cracks in the shingles he
miw it rt on a board directly under.
"Safe till morning" he ruminated. "Tlnm!
I'd -oil it cheap! Feel like sitting in the
churchyard instead of celebrating think-
ing over my sine and that peaky half-
uncle's also! l'tssonal opinion he's a
cchemlng fox and Graham's being cheated
out of borne gal and happine!"
Thus a dWtant cannon Fourth of Ju'y
had come!
Bang!
Tint was nearer Fourth of July seemed
rieht at the door of Spring farm.
The howe shook. At tbe leeonuding ex-
plosion Jem hurried outside' to join Car
GRAHAM TOLLED IT? THE COVER.
roi Graham. An amazing scene greeted
them.
Jem's fellow celebrants had arrived
one had thrown a package of firecrackers
aloft
It had fallen on the toolhouse roof
sjrks had dropped Jem's gunpowder had
ignited.
Three affrighted runners were dodging a
shower cf sp'inter.
A fourth lay Sat. Ha got up with a yell
grabbing a bleeding chin.
"Something hit me!" he nhouted. "Aha!"
with a pounce "it Was thia.
"My father's old He box!" eried Graham
recognizing a familiar object.
"It was hidden in the toolhouse'
Jem
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parwr' A ry of jov nng ouT.
"i u"d something" flu'tered Jem.
"Ye-." mxmmured Graham in ieep exno- .
tion "I have found happiness!"
inai rii mil ine recoverea document
rnean; the farm Nellie life at it fullest
fatrest!
"Here" said Graham and a MB slipped
into Jem's hand "celebrate!''
"I'll bet" whispered Jem's gossipy
chum "that pay for a wedding charivari
also!"
"I hope!" murmured Jem fervently.
"He deserves everrthing that's good. And
she too. tbe angel-bless her! Hurrah! The
exphwion seems to have shattered the
eVMids and everything is golden g'ori'jus
Fourth of Jury sunshine!"
WELDOM J. COBB.
nLlSTKRIXrS OLD TIJIB.
Johnny Did yer enjoy dis Fourt' Willy?
Willie You bet. I only had two blisters
fast Fonr'. Dis year I got free 'fingers
blowed off. Philadelphia Free. i
Hanils and Jloath Fall.
Fulton street Brooklyn near
bridge terminus.
"Hello Biffing are you crazy?
What are you doing with that pack-
age in your mouth t" j
"Why ljoat crossed the street."
"What's that got to do with it I"
"I had to take my life in my
hands." New York World.
Tm Swhm.
He The sum of woman's happi-
ness may be put into three words "1
love you. "
She And the sum of man's hap-
piness may also be expressed in
three words "Pay to bearer. "-Chi-cagoNews.
Didymua the Alexandrian was
born blind; but notwithstanding
this defect attained such great skill
in mathematics geometry and logic
that he was reckoned one of Use
wonders of his age.
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HI llorse House.
James Jones is an eccentric char-
acter of Anderson Ind. who is just
a little light in hie top Hat Ho
wtinted to-build a btahle for his
hone bnt didn't have much idea of
how largo to make it He was cer-
tain however that he didn't want
it a bit larger than was necessary.
A brilliant idea etruck him that
Li brilliant for a man of his mental
standing and he proceeded to put
it into effect He drove a stake into
the ground about on the spot whore
he wanted to build and tied the
horse to it Then he drove three
other stakes one at each corner of
tho horse. Then he nailed the hide
boards to the stakes pat a roof on
and had a stable whioh was war-
ranted to fit the horse without be-
ing too large. When he had it all
finished he started to take the horse
out bnt found that he had not
builrll wisely in that h had made
no door. He knocked the boards off
one end of the building and made
them into n swinging door and then
his stable suited him. As for tho
horse's probable opinion of it well
that's another story. Detroit Free
Pres.
The Itoail to Wealth."
A gentleman saw the following
advertisement in a paper: "The
road to wealth. Send 12 stamps
to ." The gentleman sent 12
stamps and in return for his outlay
received minuto instructions how to
get to the Bank of England from
' any part of London. London Fun.
i Theatrical Troubles.
i "There is one thing" said the
i heavy man of the theatrical eompa-
i ny "that'll have to be attended to."
! "What is ir." nsVml tlin ctnrrn
manager.
"You remember the scene in which
I pledge the princess' health in this
crybtal goblet of foaming wine?"
"Yes."
"Well yoti can do ono of three
things. You can make that cold tea
weaker put some sugar in it or elsa
get some man who isn't in danger
of making a wry face to play tho
part" Washington Star.
The Opinion or One Who Knows.
Wife Robbie is bound to get mar-
ried. Husband Yes and he'll bo bound .
an infernal sight tighter after he is
married. Detroit Free Pross.
CELEBRATION.
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