The Indian Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 23, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 1, 1900 Page: 2 of 4
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Indian Chieftain.
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bTm. HARRS Editor.
M. E. H ILFOED Xanager
Vimta. Isu. Tkk.Feb 1 1900
BOERS WILL WIN.
British reverses in the Trans
val do not alarm Americane t
any great extent Hie sympatbie
of the masses in this country are
undoubtedly with the Boers whc
are fighting over again the oft
fought battle of libry. England
ha-- hought to enlitM the sympathy
of other nations by raising the cry
"The fate of the empire is at
stake." But the people on thih
Blue ol the water 'cannot under-
Bb id why the British gnven.men
could not contii.ne to exist without
crowding a poor little South Af-
rican republic ffthe earth.
Empires have their day. Gib
bon wrote the "Decline and Fal!
of the Roman Empire." Othet
historians have recorded the ris-
and fall of many empires which
came and went before smd since
the days of the Caesars.
And the causes of destruction
are not wanting: Corruption with
in is tbe one solitary cause of the
downfall of governments. Tb
vst empires of antiquity became
rich and profligate proud and
boastful; then came degeneracy
and disintegration. Then too
came feonie hard- people of simple
lire bold in battle believers in
God and the bible and the em-
pre patscd into their bands.
The barbarian has ever been
the corrector of civilization. Prov-
idence has been partial to tbe lest-
civiiized man and it is through
him that she .has killed off em-
pires which had become too much
civilized. The Boer exhibits just
such qualities as have been deter-
mining factors in the confl.cts of
the race.
Tnorefore if English pride i to
be humbled it is because she has
Ei-uck the wrong man the man
TVnom history should hive taught
h r 10 let aine. Torre is no cause
for alarm to he race especihlly ti
A nermans. Civilization can go on
w.thout a continued career of con-
quest of expansion of imperial-
is ji. So far as we are a"ble to un-d-
rc-tand the rituation the little
T an-jaal republic ought to stand
ar.. 1 judging from reports of the
wr will Hand and England will
eventually be forced to withdraw
an! give up the fight.
A LONG HATRED PATTTK.
Tlii kind of loctl pride that pa
tronizes home metitutions is the
kii.d that makes l"wns grow inti
c ifr and makes every citizen feel
th&t be is a joint owner in the
wi-ole concern wliich indeed he
is It i-hows a bettrr hjiirit to buy
y.iur plow or wagon or your gro-
cer! s or dry goods or clothing a
borne even if ynu do have to pay a
Bhade more than it does to send
your money away from home foi
the.-e necessary articles. Keep
every dollar at home you can anrt
let every line of business enter
pr.se join hands and stand mu-
tuary together. White this is
eminently tru of the lines of bus-
iness we have mentioned it is
equally true with reference to tht
Bapport of home newtpapers. Th
rankest kind of a fakir came to
this office a few davs ago and want
ed The Chieftain to print for bin
a rpec.il write-up of Vinita and
we refused believing that with tbe
newspaper facilities of the towi
th work could best bo done by
bme talent a-id the money ihui-
expeudtd go to home people
Oinrs took a different view of th
matter and a marvelous wiite-up
of too city and its people Is an ac
Complicbed fact. Tbe ridiculous
ne?H and utter absurdly of muc
ol the "fine writing" attempted
and the wonderful pedigrees an
the amazing wealth of some of out
ci zeng i. apparent throughout
T.ie Coiel'ftin prot-iti and in&Ut'
that no long nired man nor shor
hhred iTiimn sh uid be encm
ag-d 10 drup i! wn from some un
k iwn quarter nod thus n-m
w ere thy have not t-own n
gj-n.r wnre they iiave not 3'rewi
CHOICE TO HELP THE NEEDY-
Those who have recently visitet
the settlement in Delaware district
east ot (Jr.ml riv r bring repor e
of th piiintile cot'ditioii of somp !
the families who are quarantined
in their home on account of small
p.x over there. There are n grea1
rny very poor people in that
section anyway and when an in-
fectious disease is added their
troubles become serious indeed.
Dr. Own telle of one family of
fnther mother and fceveral Email
children who occupy a tingle small
room. Several of them are dan-
gerously eick and they had beer
living upon cracked corn alone up
til supplied with food eent from
V:nita sod that h blanket and
ragged qnilt wbb the entire
stock of bed cloth-
ing. It is said that the children
o' many families are almost na-
ked Little boyB and girls in tat
ters and rags shivering around the
fire. A number of people from
that section bring substantially the
-nme report. It has been suggest-
ed that a lot of old clothing might
) collected in Vinita and sent
over for distribution among those
a ho are unfortunate and afflicted;
uid if some one would undertake
e task of collecting it it could be
iisiributed by the board of health
f he city government haB assumed
' .e task of isolating the diseased
lies treating them and preventing
the spread of the disease which
comes as a heavy tho' unavoidable
harden now if the efforts of the
.- ty could be supplemented bypri
vi'e individuals a much needed
w.irk of mercy and christian chari
tv could be done.
CH00LS IN THE TERRITORY.
The metropolitan press and sev-
eral jingo papers in the Indian
'erritory are trying to raise an
larm about what they cbaracter-
ze as the deplorable condition of
vbite people in tbe Indian coun-
ry. II these papers are to be be-
eved at least 100000 while chil-
iren are growing up in ignorance
and poverty here solely form the
negligence of congress in provid-
ing an annual appropriation for
school purposes. But tbe state-
nents given out are at variance
with the facts. The white people
a the Cherokee nation are in a
much better condition every way
than are the masses in the elates
"om whence they come and all
his cry for congressional aid
immes from tbe army of politicians
and office holders with which the
ountry is greatly overstocked.
There is no more thrifty and inde-
pendent class of farmers anywhere
man are to ba found in the terri-
tory and throughout the country
ill be found neighborhood schools
wliere both white and Indian chil-
dren attend as regular and as gen-
erally as they do in the states. All
the towns have echools and have
had all along.
The school facilities in our own
city are a fair sample of what may
be found in other towns. We have
graded public school attended
hy about 400 pupilB absolutely
free to every resident of the town
of school age kept up by a tax
that no one considers exhorbitant.
Congress exhibited ils short-
sightedness in not allowing the ap-
propiation of the full amount
asked by the Dawes commission
tor carrying on the work in tbe
Indian Territory. The chief ob
jection at home and abroad to tbe
work of the Dawre commission
has been its tardiness in accomp-
lishing results. The whole coun-
try has become impatient at the
delays but when it is considered
that congress refuses to appropri-
ate the means for pushing the
work the blame thould not rest
upon the DaweB commission. II
the work is to be finished in two
3ears tbe appropriation must be
made sufficient to carry on the
usiness. A smil'er appropriation
neans a longer time in accomp-
ishiog tbe desired end. If the
ommissiou are to employ enough
men to do the work soon they
must have the necessary funds.
Congressman Bass Little of Ar
Kansas proposes to make the col-
ection of revenue due the Indian
ribes in the territory impossible
y repealing the laws under which
he' are sought to be collected.
This is rather a peculiar way of
getting at the matter but is far
nore commendible than the meth
d adopted by some officials that
)f refusing to comply with the law
i- d collect the money due the In
nans. Little is like the gambler
vho said "I know that my bus-
uess is illeeal. but then I did not
nake the laws." If gamblers
ootpads and chicken thieves could
.el a turn at law making they
tould no doubt soon be able to le-
ilize their business.
It is very clear trial whatever
Is tbe Indian Territory has Buff-
red in recent years the prospect
f improvement in tbe immediate
uture is not good. All indications
i int to a worse and more unsatis-
ctory state of affairs than we
i tve yet endured. But conditions
-re are drifting toward a crisif
.hen the turning point shall be
ached no one can tell. Tbe
treent year is a political year and
he chanceB are that no legislation
' a different character to what we
oave had will be attempted. The
ive tribes are very much in the
utitude of a man given a death
wound and left to die a slow agon-
izing death.
"Let me look at your vaccina-
tion mark and see how it is get-
ling along" said a Claremore
young man to his best girl tho
jther evening. And he could not
think why she said "Sirl" in such
in indignant tone of voice and
flammed the door as she flounced
nut of the room until the family
doctor told him that girls are not
Vaccinated on their srmB any more. J
CHIEFTAINCY CONTEST.
Inspector Wright Hears the
Case at Tahlequah.
The Tahlequah Sentinel prints
the following account of the chief!B
ci.nteet heard last week by the
special Indian inspector:
Inspector Wright told all par-
lies very frankly that he had been
ordered by the department to in-
vestigate the matter that it had
b-en represented that council bad
not properly investigated the mat-
ter but he fcaid that the records
showed that the Cherokee law had
been complied with that it was
rient to a committee where evi-
dence was taken and a report
made and that he had no right to
impugn the motives or attack the
integrity of the members of tho
c-'iumittee. He frankly said that
he proceedings were regular and
g-Vb everyone to understand tbat
he wi-uld so report.
l'hi should be explained to all
the fullbloods and Mr. Wright did
in detail explain it to Daniel
Grittsbutbe will never tell the
masses. The masses are being
duped; they are being fleeced by
designing persons who are living
upon their creduht. They are
made to believe that they are
wronged and robbed and that all
of this can and will be righted
but of course it will take a little
"funds." Then the little organ-
izations are called together and in
whispered words lest their com-
mon enemy tbe white Indian
should chance to hear and over-
throw their plans they are told
that their laws and government
will be restored that game will
again abound that cultivated field?
will yield to forests etc. etc. pro-
vided a certain amount can be
raised. The poor ignorant Indian
without food or clothes proceeds
to mortgage or Bell his last piece
of property in order to "contrib
ute." Then the junketing trip is
planned and executed. It is re-
ported tbat the last one composed
of Gritts and John Grass with
Henry Dick for interpreter alter
making the necessary collection
started and reached St. Louis
where Dick reported that he bad
been robbed. Gritls and Graes
returned home and the last
heard of Dick was that he had
traded for a gas well in Parsons
Kansas.
The time has come when some
patriotic Cherokee speaking citi-
zen should tell the fullbloods tbe
truth and tell them frankly tbat
tbey are being duped.
Smallpox Situation at Grore.
Wednesday night the council
met to talk over the smallpox
Mtuation. Al the meeting three
members of Grove's medical board
were selected requested to visit
Charles Parker one and one-half
miles southeast of Grove to ascer-
tain tbe true character of the dis-
ease and so report. Drs. Lanier
Holland and Wells were selected
visitbd the patient Thursday and
report it a genuine case of small-
pox. This is the situation here
and the town is strictly quaran-
tined against the infected place
nd will be till such time as it is
cafe to raise the quarantine regu-
lations. Messenger.
Will Zevely formerly a demo-
cratic politician at Jefferson City
now a special agent of the interior
department at Washington is in
tbe territory again. He is the
man who uncovered the crooked-
ness of the Creek Indian warrants
and he is now at work on some
crooked combinations between cat-
tlemen and Indian agents tbat
promises to cause several vacan-
cies here in the territory. South
McAlt-dler Capital.
Inspector J. George Wright
went over to Tahlequah last week
and heard what there wbh to hear
ol the farcical contest of Wolf Coon
tor the place of Chief T. M. Buff-
ington. The same thing listened
to by the council last fall waB
again presented and the inspector
bundled up the papers and sent
hem to the secrerary of the inte-
rior. This closes the incident.
At Omaha a few daya ago four
members of the school board were
rrested on the charge of accepting
br:bes from a representative of a
wu.dow blind company who tes-
tified to paying the accused mem-
bers sums ranging from $25 to
S40 for which they agreed to give
him tbo contract to furnish the
schools with blinds.
President Mi-Kin ley has at last
relented and is now willing to al-
low a Cherokee delegation to come
to Washington when their serv-
ices are needrd and will approve
an appropriation for their actual
expenses. The days of ainecures
seems to be about over in the
Cherokee nation.
A bill has been introduced in
congress prohibiting railroads from
charging more than 3 cents a mile
for carrying passengers through
the Indian Territory.
Now that Claremore has been
quarMntined Hhe will nrnhnhlv inlrn
the Vinita board of health Hrirma.
ly next time. I
WHO OWNS US.
Purcell Register Charges Of-
ficial Procrastination.
Who does the Indian country
belong to anyhow? Not to the
common Indian for many of them
have scarcely anything. By no
means to the non-citizen whites
for Mr. McKennon thinks this
class of people have no right to
breath the Indian air without per-
mission of the Dawes commission.
A recent event shows who are
the real owners of tho country. It
was proposed tbat a law be passed
at the present session of congress
providing for registers of deeds for
the Indian country. Possibly
there was no great benefit in this
to any except thohe who might
have been Bent here from the
states to fill the offices created. It
is not our intention to defend or
condemn this bill for we have
given it but little thought. Tbe
fact we want to call attention to is
that the federal court clerks al
once bad a meeting and it was
tttated that this meeting was for
the purpose of taking steps to op
pose the passage of this bill. It
was given out flat-footed by one ol
those present tbat the bill would
not be passed not becauf e of lack
of merit but because its passage
would reduce the fees received to)
the clerkB. And you have nevei
beard of the bill since.
What matters tbe convenience
of the people when the fees of the
officers are attacked? The Indian
Territory is only a grazing ground
for worn out political backs ano
nothing must be done to shorten
the graes. Things must be drug-
ged along as slowly as possible so
there may be feed here for yet
many years for townsite appraia
era who can put in a year ap-
praising two towns for the Dawee
commission which found complex
conditions here five years ago and
have succeeded in creating a chaot-
almost equalling tbat wLich con
fronted the Almighty on the first
day ol creation for lederal ofiicere
responsible to no power save tbat
which put them in office and who
serve the public only when it
serves them. And as we are told
I tbat "fleas have lesser fleas to bitt
'em" so has each member of each
ot these budies big particular para-
sites all working to the same end
that of holding on as long ab
possible to the present fat jobs
many of them knowing that if they
were forced to depend upon theii
own merits lor positions tbe.
-I
couldn't hold for twenty foui
hours a job as chamber maid in
livery stable.
And yet there are newspapei
men and other people in the ter
rilory who think it the best policy
thai we should knuckle down to
these officials and bend the ktiee
in the hope that "thrift may fol-
low fawning" that we must al-
ways epeak with a sort of "please
excuse me lor living" -air. For
one the Reg ster is tiring of al
thib and we are liable to hreuk ou
pretty soon and free our miud.
Purcell Register.
Why SotI
The yom g men about town an
"putting on the gloves" now and
the exercise of ftiarring has be
come a popular pastime. Who
knows but what we have in out
midfet some embryotic materia
that is capable of reaching the daz
zling heights of fame in the field
of pugilit-m. Stranger things have
happened. We may have on our
fcireete all unconccious of their
skill or prowets a Sullivan or a
Fitzsimmons or a Corbett or Jef-
fries. To allow these hidden en-
ergies to remain dormant and un-
developed would be at once a
shame and a crime. Why not get
up a team of young pugilists and
send in a challenge to Vinita and
go up there and give bet a few
black eyes? Tulsa Republican.
The equalization board is listen-
ing to complaints of taxpayers
whose assessments have been
raised today. Tho raise in the
aggregate amounts to about $100-
000. A fair and satisfactory ad-
justment will no doubt be made.
The board may have made Borne
mistakes but their worK so far as
understood ia approved by the
citizene generally.
The Rg ra Democrat contains
the announcement of the death at
Sapulpa I. T. recently of S. W.
Harmon who was for a number of
years a resident of Rogers and
while living there conceived the
idea of compiling the history of
the United States court of Fort
Smith which made itn appearance
under the title of "Hell on tbe
Bolder." Ft. Smith Elevator.
Govenor Sayers of Texas inter-
ested himself in the smallpox situ-
ation in the territory and has re-
queued the surgeon-general of iho
United States to take steps to
stamp it out before it spreads to
Texas. The latter has promised
to do all he can. Ardmoreite.
More than 300 members of the
seventy first New York infantry
which didn't charge at San Juan
have applied for peneione.
PiP
WHJEfc
1 BADGE!
FRIDAY SATURDAY
This Week. Special Housekeepers'
Napkins. For two days we will allow a 20 percent discount
for cash in our linen department. g & &
See the Goods
25c Table Linen good value Qflr
Friday and Saturday per yard Ljj
"40c Table Linen extra good val- QOp
ue Friday and Saturday yard OLKj
50c Table Linen extra good val- Af)n
ue Friday and Saturday yard TUl
Extra wide bleached Table Linen
worth 75c per yard Friday and Sat- fQOp
urday per yard UUU
Our $1 Table Linen is unsurpassed in
quality and finish Friday and Satur- Qfln
day per yard OUU
ioc hand Towels go Friday and Op
Saturday per pair "
A chance to replenish your supply of table linens towels and
napkins at bargain pricesFriday and Saturday.
W. R. Badgeft Mercantile
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A FATEFUL HOME.
Mysterious Chain of Crimes
on Bird Creek.
f 1 t rpi. 1 ti
u" aov u"j c.cu.ukuu.h.
II live colored shot and wounded j Beat of war. But between the two hap-
ieorce Clark another negro at I penings there la a blank. How does
r 1 d:j - . Ipl. I he Hto on shipboard? What does he
iwjwe h huluh uu Qiru ureeK.. ma
two men had some misunderstand-
r about some money Rowb owed
Hark. It is aid that Clark flour
-lied a razor and threatened to
ill R iwp when the latter fired a
ad of heavy shot at a distance of
mi leet the chargft taking effrct
11 Clark's richt hhonlder. Some
vadding and several pieces of bone
"ere removed leaving a hole in
he shoulder two inches in diame-
On the 20lh of last March Clark
(participated in an all round fight
a Elgiu Kan. in which he
-ec-ived injuries that caused the
.mputation ofjiis left arm above
he elbow. His body is covered
with old scars.
The shooting of George Clark
occurred at the former home of
L-wis Wright colored who was
hot and killed on February 20th
1S9S by Lewis Scott also colored
over a dispute about a claim.
Wright was chopping wood about
a mile and a half from his home
on land ciaimsa dv qcou wnen
lie was shot from ambush. Ev-
dence pointed to the guilt oi
Scott who after Bome delay was
tiied and acquitted upon some
technicality. On the 25th of last
May John Rowe's mother an
agbd negress died in the same
hotiee.
Within three miles of this place
on May 9 last year Joe Gillis
.hot and killed John Querry; Gil-
lis died from measles on July Sth
in the Muskogee jail while await-
ing trial Tulsa Republican.
A. A. Powe the new scribe on
the South McAIester Capita) has
"done gone" and fallen down on
one of Dickens' best known char-
acters. He 6ays: "Oliver Twist
never had a harder timeinDo-the-boys
hall." It was "Nickolas
Nickelby" brother that you are
referring to. Journalism in the
Indian Territory is aesthetic to a
degree and literary quotations
must be correct.
There is to be a famine in navy
beans. The government has just
purchased over a million pounds
for army use in anticipation of the
shortage. This is calculated to
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VINITA INDIAN TERRITORY
"TOHMX ATKINS" AFLOAT.
Ab Intrrjstlni; Account of Ills Life
n tlx Transport. Cn nont
to Africa.
TVe hear much of the embarkation
I 01 luiuuij iimiua iu uc ituui uu
also of hi dointrs when arrived at the
i - . .. .o
1 uu uuiiu uia iciauic uviuujwi
Hovr
-I ll
he fed and how does he generally
conduct Umself ? These are questions
to which nine persons out of ten will
reply:- "We do not know." There is
a notion abroad tbat the soldier afloat
It practically a third-class passenger
and treated as such. Xo such thing-.
Uc is a tiassenger inasmuch as he is
an indinJual not one of the crew
carried on shipboard but he is a sol-
dier ever and subjected to much the
same discipline and routine as when
on shore Steerage passengers are
carried at least on the more up to
date boats in closed berths. Tommy
Je housed and fed in the open troop
deck. Jfrnging from the ship's sides
are plain substantial deal tables
scoured with the attached seats to
n-r .M.nA T M nf Mr
i.- . rn .... - foKt. Z.
bcam. sav a 60-footer each table ac-
commodates a mess of 13 men and in
the transport Bavarian each troop
deck-the one forward and the other
. .. i . ... u-
aft of the engine-room space has
x-ats for over 100 men. At the ship's
side end of each table is a powerful
electric light while the beam above
hold the hammock hook from which
Tommy hangs the canvas couch
-ivhlch he sleeps during the night.
Ihe soldier's night terminates at six
a. m. when the first bugle blows.
Then follows the first net of the day's
Toutine. The hammocks nre unslung
and taken with the bedding to the
deck above where they are aired until
10:30 a. m. Then they are taken down
and stowed in the room set apart for
that purpose. After the hammocks
etc. arc taken on the upper decks
comes breakfast consisting of dry
bread and chocolate and nothing
more. And then coraea the inevitable
smoke on the deck nbove. The next
meal after breakfast is of course din- I
Til?- finrl hurA nmiln tTif. mT 1 h- Tin !
means of nn ctenbhe character.
The soldier cooks who by the way
usually draw their cooked rations
iroia the chefs of the ship cannot
ring many changes on the allowance
which the admiralty portions out to
Tonnmy when afloat. To begin with
the daily nllowance of water per head
is six pints at leasrv nith n minimum
of one gallon when th ship in in the
tropics. Of meat there nre 12 ounces
of salt hH-t on Sunday and ditto on
Wednetd-iy with an equal quantity of
pork on Tuesday and Friday and 12
ounces of preserved meat on the three
remaining' days of the week. Where
cold storage is provided fresh beef
etc. may be dispensed In lieu of tho
salt meot mentioned. On Sunday
Tuesday and Thursday 12 ounces of
biscuit are forthcoming nml on other
ays one pound of fresh bread while
each wcik Thomas is allowed 12
ounces of flour together with one-
quarter pound of raisins and ditto of
rice. The supply of sugar is more
generous being four ounces oii Sun-
day and half that quantity on other
days. T'ere is not much chance of it
soldier t.ring of vegetables while en
routo ti the Cape for on four clays of
tho week he has two ounces of pre
'I serred .jwtntoes along with
livn
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Sale of Table Linens Towels and
You Will be More
15c Towels good values Friday 1 Op
and Saturday per pair ' u
25c all linen towels splendid val- Ofln
ues Friday and Saturday pair uJj
Our 3?c towels are hummers for OQn
the price Fridry and Saturday l.Vj
Our 50c towel is the best we could buy
for a 50 cent seller Friday and Sat- ACn
urday per pair T"Uu
Napkins worth $1 doz go at 80c.
Napkins worth $1.25 doz go at $ I .
Napkins worth $1.50 doz go at $1.20
Napkins worth $2 doz go at $1 .60.
1
ounces or cumpressea vegexaDies eacn
week and last but not least espe-
pecially when the possibilities of the
salt pork are considered four-nintba
of a pint of split peas per week. With
such viands as these aided by one-
sixth of a pint of vinegar half an
ounce of mustard one-sixth of an
ounce of pepper six ounces of pickles
and two ounces of salt per man per
week a skillful mess cook has of
course the materials for producing
nutritious if not luxurious meals. Of
tea the dally allowance per man is
half an ounce and half this quantity
is considered equal to an alternative
ounce of chocolate or coffee. There
is it will be noticed no fruit jam
butter or cheese and Thomas if he
wants these delicacies must purchase
them as he does his drink at the can-
teens and stores provided on all troop-
ers. Ilis early supper over he wHes
away the time as best he chooses until
8:15 when he must be in his ham-
mock. Syren and Shipping.
The Scots and Bararlans.
In a paper on "Recent Ethnograph-
ical Work in Scotland" read before the
British association Mr. Gray described
his obssrvations on the color of thfc
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Eas Aberdeenshire. The pigmenta-
. . . . . . .
?on ' he Eotch chdren was shown
J tble"deoapawa with the con-
Vl51""0"? l5
to traoition and history the lowland
' . . . . ' . .
j eriveda 'Tu'n ??
PoPIion-vfa.: Schleswig-IIolstdn
"erg and llecklenburg-Schwer n
I the reputed original seats of the Angle.
i UUU iWAUilh XUC lOUICa BUUltCU Uiifcfc
me inree norm uerman districts were
more blonde than East Aberdeenshire.
Germany got more brunette and less
blonde from north to soutll and we
must go as far as upper Bavaria to get
a district approximating in pigmenta
tion to East Aberdeenshire.
Tho ntcrele Amour the Illndns.
In an article "A Hindu Home" in the
December number of the Nineteenth i
Century Hon. J. D. Bees tells how "at
the sixth mile we meet the raja mount-
ed not on an elephant but on a bi-
cycle and but that an attendant with
a broad gold sash over his shoulder
runs in front and another behind you
might almost take him for common
clay on a bike." Arrived at the palace
he finds that the rani is from a do-
meitic nolct of view monarch of all i
he surveys and her Brahmin husband !
i . . . i
hears the same relation to her that the
late prince consort bore to Queen Vic- I
toria. The rani tells Mr. Bees that j
after breakfast "you can ride my son's
bicycle in the courtyard and my lit-
tle boy aged five will ride his tricycle
and when I get a bicycle for my big
daughter the party will be complete."
Her Sllatake.
The conductor said there was room
for a few more inside.
At the Elephant and Castle xhen the
train turned west the customary con-
tingent of shoppers got in and there
was an uncomfortable jam.
But ihe little man kept his eyes on his
paper. He also kept his seat.
"i'arcion me madam" said a polite
man hanging on to a strap to a Im'r
standing beside him with an armful of
paper parcels "you are standing on mv
foot."
"I'm so sorry" said she. "I thought
it belonged to the man sitting down."
And then the little man's eyes were
lifted from his paper and she got the
scat. Pearson's.
3
mm
BAPGETTS j
Than Pleased.
Compy
ABOUT VARIOUS THINQS.
The quickest T?lnk on record is about
one-sixth ot a second.
Paris gets part of its lee by rail from
a glacier near Bri&ncon.
Of 124 law students admitted to the
bar in London 19 have Oriental names.
A church in Hawaii has raised $10000
fox missionary w.ork in the Philippines.
California roses contain 20 per cent
rtore perfume than those grown in oth-
er states.
Baltimore has the largest negro pop-
ulation of any city In the country.Jt
Is estimated to be about 125000.
Pennsylvania's silk Industry now
amounts to 132000000 annually an In-
crease of 33 per cent since 1S95.
Charcoal is the chief Italian fueL It
costs from $16 to $20 a ton In Italy cnJ
700000 tons are consumed yearly.
One day recently there were 106 car-
loads of watermelons on the railroad
tracks in Pittsburg. The cars contain-
ed 100000 melons.
One of our farmers came into a
ftorb a few dayb since witn some
pple3 to sell. The store keeper
ffered him 75 cents a bcshel. A
commercial traveler who was
I standing by said to tbe larmer:
"I I you had those apples in New
York you could get $1 50 for
them " "Ya-asI 'spose I could"
replied the farmer "an if I had a
pail of water in h 1 it would bring
. dollar a glass " "One on me"i
echoed the drumn.er as be picked
up his grip and slid for the door.
Wagoner Sayings.
"This smrJlpox 3'ou are afraid
of" said a Grand river farmer one
dny last week "ain't smallpox at
all. It't nothing but celluloid and
they ain't no use to canteen the
whole town for tbat "
field High
In fhe Estimation of
Practical Painters.
Every palllcn of the Horse Shoe J
p unt will cov er 300 or more square
leet of surfaci' in average condi
tion. 2 coats
to the gallon.
Every gallon
is full U. S.
standard mea
sure. It is
made topaifit
buil dings
with. It is
the best and
most durable
house rjaint
on the Aineri-can market today. It
can be had in any color shade or
quantity at tb e lumber office of
P. G. Browning
O" PHONB jo.
IT" 3Orrnnl Jnl
fersr
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