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^^vupmg concerns Poru has been mi progress during the owing to tho'great v \ apital that has gone. I? There aroabi. . ,„ _. In this country, consuml* 8 products I of 2,000,000 acres 0 f,-]j, and giving j employment to a,miUibEJt>pl°> 'g wonderful thrco years, nt of English that country. ~ is* Westorn farmwad^now urging tho t ^j a \ of a modification ot tT5»a-pro- duciig system to sec if mis/cannot be fornfd at times which wiJF eduoe tne *• radition of heat from /-earth and tlju/save the crops from •They have an old Irdener at the ipse of Industry in Iston Harbor,\ •„tcs William P. Andrea in tho Forum, ho has had himsot committed to himsoj on inorc than a hmlred times, ho 'knows when )/ is well off. 1 Ho o one-hundrcd-md-ten-ton guns o\ BriUshnnval sorrice are found prac- tically uselessTVSiiai, muses tho Boston anteript, is another illustration of the ct that it is very possiblo to havo too uch of a good thing even in big guns. From November 1, 1880, until July 1, 1891, labor editors, speakers and officers of labor organizations in Germany have teen condemned to an aggregate of about seventy years' imprisonment, and fines to the amount of $3481, for vio lating tho law restricting free speech and tho liberty of tho press. The robbery of the London and West minster Banlc in broad daylight fur nishes- evidence to the San Francisco Chronicle that the English thioves are as bold as thoso of this country, and that they are no more impeded in their opera tions in tho great metropolis than they •would bo in a town in tho wild and woolly West of the United States. AN AVERAGE MAN, A realistic story Without any gush or glory, With no sentimental limelight And no firework display, Bout a poor old ignoramus Who was never rich or famous, And who couldn't ignite the river, And who worked out by the day. A very common fellow Was this Ebenezer Weller, With the usual sharo of virtues. And with vices two or threo; He'd no fatal gift of bwiuty, But an averago sense of duty, , Neither very good nor evil— Just about liko you and me. .. A.nd ho w*ed an averago woman, Very nice and very human, Just about liko Ebenezer, Neither very good nor bad; Oft in harmony they'd warble, Often they would scold and squabble, But they loved each other dearly. And they couldn't continue mad. Never had enough on Monday To supply tho house till Sunday, Never made enough la April To support themselves in May; If they worked hard in November, They must work hard in December, And the coarso tread of to-morrow Was tho hard work of to-day. They worked on, grew gray and graver, Yet they never made him mayor, And she plucked no social honors, And his wages still were small. Then tho load of years grow weighty, And they died when they were eighty, And they put them in tho graveyard, And they left them thore. That's all. A realistic story Without any gush or glory - Yet this fellow Ebenezer . Represents the human clan; His the averago share of pleasure, His tho averago lack of leisure. His the average joy and sorrow Of the common average man. —S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. -was yellowish and wrinkled with age, and her gown was black and severely plain. . Louise was certain she had never seen her before. Her surprise, therefore, Matt Stillman to Nan Van tober by Wagcnen: \ \I've tho greatest piece of news for you. Ypu remeoiber' how Louisq Alley disappointed us Sail so dreadfully by _i ; /« nm S QoT-on nf» Incf. nummp.r. may be imagined when the caller rose staying away from \Saranac last summer, to her feet, and, coming quickly toward because a great aunt she d never seen ONE IN A THOUSAND. It is a rather impressive circumstance, •boasts'the New Orleans Timu-Democrat, that while, within the last twenty years, the consumption of iron per capita in Great Britain has actually declined nine or, ten pounds, in this country it has in creased from 165.58 to 339.28 pounds, or has more than doubled. It was a British statistician who declared that the consumption of iron was the best test of tt country's civilization. ' President F, R. Webster, of the Maria bounty (Cal.'- Country Club, has just itarted a rcmarkablo immigration scbemo. A subscription paper has been circulated among the gentleman farmers is proposed with the proceeds to from Germany 200 pairs of sky- '5pcbes, nightingales and A STOnT FOR THE GIRLS. \Yes they're all going to be there— Nan, and the two Fargo girls, J o Wuds- wortb—and oh,we'll just have a glorious tiracl\ and Louise Alley looked up from the trunk she was packing, her dark eyes shining with an anticipated joy. \Well you certainly deserve some fun if anyone ever did,\ rejoined her friend, May Stillman, fanning herself vigorously with a paper novel, \making a martyr of yourself stewed up here in town half the summer. Here, let me help you shut that trunk,\and May,who was by no means a sylph, promptly sat on the lid till the hasp clicked in tho lock. Mr. and Mrs. Alley had been spending June and July abroad, the trip having been undertaken by the doctor's orders for Mrs. Alley's health. But it was out of the question to take Bess, who was just five, and if she stayed behind, Louise must stay, too, and as the house bnd to be kept open for Fred, who was in business down town, tho three lived there for tho two months together. And now the travelers had returned, ind Louise was on the eve of derprting her, reached up on tiptoe and kissed her on the forehead. I'd havo known you anywhere, my dear,\ she said, \from your resemblance to your mother.\ '•Yes, but—but—\ And here Louise paused. Tho old lady, whose face, when one came to look at it closely, had n certain sweetness of expression, seemed so\confident that\she was known that tho young girl felt as though it would be almost like striking her to say that she had not tho remotest idea who she was. \I looked for you over at tho station,\ went on the stranger, pulling Louise down to a scat beside her on the sofa, and gently smoothing with her wrinkled fingers the fair ones she still held; \nn' I waited some time. Then 1 .thought somethin' might have kept you, so I in quired tho way an' come over in the ears by myself. But I'm most tuckered out. Can I go right up to my room? If I lie down for a spell I think I'd feel better.\ Her room 1 She had como to stay then. Louise was utterly bowildefad. Matters must be straightened out at once. '•I'm very sorry,\ she begun, \but— but I think you must havo mistaken the house. Was it Mrs. Theodore Alley you came to see?\ ' . The old lady, who had half risen from her seat, now foil back again with a lit tle gasp. \Mistake?\ she repeated. \Thore can't be any, can there, when you're Louise Alley? Didn't you get my let ter?\ \I beg your pardon,\ said poor Lou ise, beginning to grow very nervous, \I don't know who you are.\ Then you didn't get my letter I\ ex claimed the old lady promptly. \P'raps I ought to have fixed it different, but I'm Abby Moorhead.\ Ob, mother's Aunt Abby I\ ex claimed Louise, putting her hands out instinctively. \I—I thought you were out in Dakota.\ \So I was, my child, but I got back this spring and was sick a long time up •* 1 —in 'NTuw Rnmnshire.\ INDIAN TERRITORY A VISIT TO THE OHIOKASAWS, CHOCTAWS AND CRKEKS. seen before came to visit her? Well—no, tho great aunt hasn't died and left her a fortune, or even promised to mention her in her will, but she did give Louise a mine she had takon forta bad debt when sho was out in Dakota. And now some body has discovered tjhat the Louise Mine, as they call it, is a regular little bonanza. Louise wanted to give it back then, b'uf'Miss' Moorehoiisb wouldn't hear of it. She's found out some way what Lou gave up when sbestayed home that time, and declares that Jjiouise Alley is one girl of a thousand. \Vi^ell she is, bejides being a girl with several thou- .sanda now.\— The Argoiy. How tho Indian s Farm—The'Capito l nnd University— A Call Upo n tho Chief—Bifj Plantations Owned, by Some Hal t Breeds . at my brother's, in New Hampshire \But how did you know whero we were?\ inquired Louise. \Wo've only lived here two years.\ \That's what I'm going to tell you,\ went on Miss Moorehend. \It all came about so qucerly. You see the railroad to tho White Mountains runs through Con- man, and two weeks ago there was an nc- cident, and a passengers came to Tim othy's for linen to bind up tho wounds, an' if it wasn't Albert Bond.\ \Oh yes,\ broke in Louise. \He's a very old friend of mother's.\ But at this point tho oH lady's body swayed to ono side, and Louise sprang ' She was, Abyssal Sponges. \Some of the most beautiful things that live in the ocean are tho spo ages of tho great depths, which havo oftto very curious and interesting forms,\ ,-said a naturalist to a Star reporter. \No t least remarkable are the so-called 'sea\ nests,' which are in tho form of spheres or egg-shaped. The outer coat of ono of theso specimens is a complicated net work, over which a delicate membrane is spread. An ornamental frill adorns the upper part, while tho lower portion throws out a maze of glossy filaments like fine white hairs. These hairs penetrato the semi-fluid mud in every direction, thus holding the spongo in its place, while a continuous current of water is drawn by waving 'cilia' through all parts of the moss, passing out by a hole at the top. In this manner the animal absorbs whatever food may be afloat. \Another singular sponge is the 'glass rope,' which sonds down into the mud a coiled wisp of filaments as thick as a knitting-needle. Tho latter opens out into a brush, fixing tho creature in place after the manner of a screw pile. Still another remarkable sponge is found in tho deep water off tho Loffoden Islands. It spreads out into a thin cir cular cake, surrounded by what looks liko a fringe of whito floss silk. Yet apother curiosity is the 'eupectolla' sponge of tho Philippines, which Uvea embedded to its lid in tho mud and sup ported by a lovely frill.\— Washington Star. rod pairs of theac'^frjs ^olu witU her Mother and May Stillmatt ' ' —lioht's stay in the. Adirondack* They e ^feuvc by tho night boat thirt very noma, San Mateo and Sacra- ounties are pursuing JIarin example and .tu.-.^.,^^^ owers propose to rid themselves orms and insects which for years past have so seriously damaged their products. Theso are all soft-billed birds •and will not eat grain. One of the fads of tho German Em peror is to oblige workingmen to insure their lives. His system, asserts the Bos ton Cultivator, is very unpopular. It re quires about thirty years for these insur ance policies to mature, and if, through sickness or misfortune, payment ceases without death of the insured, allthatis paid is lost. It is regarded as another scheme to tax the people, as all tho em ployes and soldiers of the empire have q •part of thoir wages deducted to contribute to the compulsory insurance fund. There tire necessarily many policies that lapse. If workingmon want insurance they should organize companies on tho mutual plan, which would give them a part of the benefit of the lapsed policies. A military correspondent who ob served the Gorman military manoeuvres in Mulhausen writes: \Throughout f.h (ise manoeuvres I havo been very much struck by tho thoroughness of all the Sra .i3port, catoring, and other arrange ments, down to the minutest detail, as well as by tho remarkable enduranco of tho troops. Tho regularity with which' the several regiments arrrived at their destinations, and were fed and rested, was simply marvellous, considering tho duitancc3 covered and the prevailing Iicat. Everything went liko clockwork. ~hc Twenty-fifth Division bivouacked in \«lds lying to tho north of Mulhausen. jbey were encamped in rings about orty yards in diameter. A canvas fenco wo and one-half feet high was put up nround each ring for tho protection of tho men whenjteposing at night from e centre of each ring to warm tho slcep- ows. Ono company, lay, in each ring, Every soldier slept'in his greatcoat, with waistbelt fastened, nis valise formed his pillow, a bundle of straw his bed Close by, the rifles of each company wero piled in regular groups. There were five rifles to each pile, and on tho top of the muzzles a helmet was placed, the four remaining helmets belonging to the owners of tho rifles lying beside the butts. Two officers slept side by side in square-shaped, high-sided tents. Tattoo \ was not sounded on the bugles. .. JSvcry- •v thing was dono as in nctuab ^Arfare, '^Sentries wero posted within at About 'the extremes of tho camp, and Ather J j kept silcr t guard over tho three 3 belonging to the three battalions . regiraent .Vased and firmly planted 5 arouad.'|H tho wind, and n big bonfire ers, who lay in comprising 139 1 Louise \^n)\ j ^^ium &x. A Queer Custom at Windsor. A queer custom which prevails at no other court than that of Great Britain is tho solemn announcement at the begin ning of each course of the namo of tho cook who has prepared the dishes served. This announcement is made in audible tone, for tho benefit of Her Majesty, by one of tho clerks-in-waiting of tho kitchens. The origin of this custom dates back to the reign of George H, whoso chef having been temporarily in- capaciatcd by sickness was forced to abandon his duties to his principal mar- miton, a young fellow by tho name of Weston. So successfully did he fulfill the swoon. . task intrusted to him that he became a Louise reached behind hor and pulled great favorite of the king's, who pro tho bell, and presently Delia appeared «<» »<mir nf nhp.f. Tbis x crossed Texas in coming irom Mexico to tho Indian Territory and again entered a foreign country, writes I Frank G-. Carpenter—from Tahlequoh. Tho five civilized tribes, who own the best part of this Territory, claim to be in dependent nations. They have a civili zation, laws and a government of their own, nnd these Chcrokces have thoir own parliament at Tahlequah and they elect their senate and houso without regard to the United States. They have a presi dent or chief, who is olected by the vote of the people, and they settle all civil matters in their own courts, the' cases being plead by their own lawyers and decided by Indian judges. They have their own secretary of the treasury and their own police, and politics cuts as much of a figure here as it docs in any place. Tahlequah is a town of perhaps 1000 people and the State house is in its cen. (er. It is a big two-story brick building which looks more liko a country court house than like a national capitol, and it in located in a large park filled with great forest trees. Around this the streets extend out in overy direction. They are wide' and unpaved, and they are lined with such buildings as you will find in a town of 1000 inhabitants in tho United States. The houses back of the main or business streets have big grounds, and some of them are eight and ten-room cottages. Only a few of the houses are built of logs and the most of them ure~ol boards and some are after the models furnished fa books of suburban architec ture. The capitol contains the legislative halls, the treasury department, the su premo court and tho department of edu cation. I visited it and I found tho treasury much liko a country bank, con tisting of a counter running across a teu by twelve room. Iron bars ran from tho front of the counter to the ceiling, and in the space behind there was a safe and an Indian, who talked to me through a little holo over the centre of the counter. The legislature was not in session, but I and an Indian editor and an Indian physician, both'graduates of eastern, uni versities, sit down with me at tho table. The only sign of Indian blood in them is their high cheek bones, and they talk- English and are dressed in the same' sort of clothes you find on Broadway.The Hon. Mr. Bushy head, one of tho most prominent of the Cherokee statesmen, who has been several times chief ot the nation, and who is as intelligent us any white man in tho Territory, tells me that 1400 white men have married Cherokee girls within the last ten years, and that there are now 2000 white men in this part of ..the. Territory.. Many of tho • Cherokee men marry white girls, and just here I would say that I find Indian girls hero who are well educated and good housekeepers. There are about pratofS The oppol tion charges! ciency and bad^goveru not been enough money tgifpay tna - fers, and.the friends of the chiof quite as 1 plainly that the deficit rises from. >!p other cause*. '•• In the meantime the big , .j seminary lies idle'and the unitfe'tsity has- \ no scholars. I went through tho sgmi -^J pary. It has as fine accommodutionVas jany college in Ohio, and it is run on the ' Mount Holyoke plan, the girls keeping Itheirown rooms in order nnd doing part f the housework of the institution. - - - ' By\aU'odd's the worst rrieh in \the In- \ ian Territory are the white men. There are teu drunken cowboys, horse thieves , and jailbirds to every one decent man./// among them, and this little town of Tahlequah, with its Indian population, , has iunnatoly better order than the towns, along the railroad where the whites have been permitted to do business. The hotel hore is good and I have not seen a bit of disorder or any drunkenness dur ing my stay here. It is against the law to sell liquor in the Territory, and that which is brought here is smuggled in by tho whites. There was a big celebration at Fort Smith the other day and tho rail road? troing through the Territorr i'ave ex cursion rates. The cowboys along the line attended and I happened to be traveling i a UD and caught her in her arms. Sho was, abandon his duties to nis prim.. as P she had expressed it, \clean tuck ; .red miton, a T^gU^ by he out,\ and was now on tho verge of a the picture of amazement. * _ \Here help mo up to my room..with Miss Moorehead,\ and Louise, witd com pressed lips, gently put her arm abound tho old lady's back Between tirr ^flJOi tho any ani*^^, M eR j e f t to go honl? and ^^elpedhdrmo.^ -_/ ~ 4 \ \ J the rest \of the family were giftitf three to Long Branch It was a busy time,but ovcryttjjng was a labor of love for Louise, for &as not ' every moment carrying her nearer to the joys that lay before her up in the north woods, where so many of her friends were already gathered,eagerly expecting her? At last the Long Branch party were got off and Louise had gone up to her room to put on her traveling dress. But just as she took it from tho hook tho front door bell rang. 'Who can that be?\ she said to her self. \I wonder if mother has forgotten something nnd sent back for it.\ She slipped out into the hall and leaned over the ballustrado as Delia an swered the summons. \Does Mrs. Alley livo here?\ It was a woman's voico that asked the question, a high keyed voice that Louise did not recognize. Then, on Delia's re plying that it was Mrs. Alley's homo,but that the lady herself was away, the vis itor went on: > \Yes I know, but Miss Louiso is in, isn't she? She is the ono I want to see.\ Louise, hearing this, Kearly lost her balance and went head first over tho bal uster. A strange woman inquiring for her; and at such a timet She stepped hurriedly back into her room and glanced at the clock on tho mantel. It was ten minutes to four. May was to call for her with tho carriage at five. She must contrive in somo way to get through with her caller within tho next ten minutes. There wero so many \last things\ to bo done. But now Delia appeared with the mes sage: \Please miss,\ she said, \there's an old lady down stairs who wants to see you. She didn't send up her namo bo- cause she says you expected her.\ \Expected her?\ Louise repeated the words mechanically. \Why don't ex pect anybody but Miss May. You'ro sure, Delia, it is not she, up to somo of her tricks?\ \Oh no, miss,\ responded tho girl. \She's a sure enough old person, and sho seems kind o' feeble. Hor bag was pretty heavy for tho liko o' her to be carryin'.\ \Her bag!\ gasped Louise. \Is she a book agent?\ \No miss, I think not. She's been travelin' in from tho country, I take it, an' looks clean beat out.\ \Well I will g o down at once and see what she wnnts. The expressman has come for the trunk, has he Delia?\ \Yes miss.'' Louise paused for an instant with her hand on the door, racking her brain to try and gain somo glimmering as to the identity of the person awaiting her in tho parlor, some person who had said that sho was expected. \It's some one who knows the rest of the family are away too,\ sho mused, but this fact did not enlighten her in tho lpast, nnd finally she went down, still mystified. Nor was sho any wiser when sho en tered the drawing room and beheld a little old lady seated on tho sofa. Tho top of her head conjd surely come no higher than Louise's shoulder, her face stairs, wn { -T L T se ^i'f/ ust0I ftives. and preseT tl yi he °.P eD ^ he . r 3^ and inquiring^ aear? „ feebly. i \Yes Aunt Abby, but you /nust lie quite for a while, and try to p'et some rest. I will dnrken the room dfld come back soon, and I want to find you asleep.\ \ ~\ ' You are very kind, so liko your her,\ and the old lady's eyes fol- thc fair young girl out of the room. And Louise? With lips still com pressed she hurried back into the library, trying to feel that tho struggle was all over, and that right had tri umphed. \The girls will be horribly disappoint ed, I suppose,\ sho thought, \and May n Here the silver chiming of the tall hall clock striking the quarter af^ter four warned her that if suo wanted to keep May from stopping for her sho must send a note at once. \I'll write to her first. If she comes hero and finds I'm not going, there'll be a scene, I know,\ soliloquized Louise, as she pulled down the handle of the mes senger call. \But how shall I keep her from it?\ An instant's thought, and then sho hurried on into the library, seizingpapor motcd him to tho rank of chef. Tbis, of course, created great jealousy among his former comrades, and every effect was made to oust him from royal favor by rendering him responsible for all the culinary failures that appeared on tho king's table. Greatly d'stressed by so much injustice and fearing to losci his exalted position, Weston complnir.ed to the kiug, who immediately £av ^*>rder3 said [ pl'accd u 6ef6'fe ^ ArU 1 r3&2 cvc, ' foUhhffil 4 - responsible for its suTHK or failure should be called out in inloud tone of' voice.— New York Recorder^ Nitro-Blyceriuo Can't Be Annihilated. In manufacturing nitro-glycerine ono of the processes is to strain it through felt, usually through tho crowns of old felt hats, they having been found not only the most convenient (and effective for the purpose, but also preferable for economy. This felt is bm-ned up after using. At one of the factories in the northern oil field once ai employe re solved to test the life of nilro-glycerine, and ho took a hat-crown that had been used as a strainer, washed it thoroughly, and then put it through a course of treatment with alkalis. He laid the felt away on a shelf. It lay there two years, and one day the man happened to think of it and took it down. He had no idea that thero could possibly remain in tho felt the slightest suspicion of danger, and, to show that the stuff had been an nihilated, ho put tho folt on tho iron arm on the tinner's bench, and struck it with a hammer. The result was a surprise to that factory. An explosion followed that broke both arms oj tho workman, „, ... D-i , stunned threo other mec, hurled the and pen, and, not taking time to sit heavy iron arm through a two-foot wall, down, dashed off the following ' '— 1 * u - ••'—•'— lustm . DEAR MAT: 1 Don't stop for me. Explanations at boat. Yours, LOUISE. and wrecked the tinning shop. Nitro glycerine can't be annihilated.— Boston Transcript. Electric Light and Piant Growth. Late3t among tho bulletins of tho MThere, I hope that isn't unjustiflablo Agr j cm f ura i Experiment Station of Cor deception,\ and scribbling off tho ad- | ne)l xjnivereity is ono that gives a verj dress, Louiso sealed the envelope and ' called to Delia to give it to the messen ger, who had ju3t appeared! Then sho rang for another boy and sat down to writo her note of explanation to Fred. This dispatched, she tiptoed into her own room, saw that Aunt Abby was sleeping, and then went into her mother's apartments nnd sat down by the window. Tho whole thing had come about so quickly that she scarcely realized yet what she had done, and kept thinking sho was wasting precious minutes when it was now nearly five and her traveling dre3s still hanging on its peg in the closet. The sound of carriage wheels suddenly stopping startled her. Had May come after all, and must the battle be fought all over again? No, it was at the Dryers' opposite. The girls were going away. - There came the trunks down the stoop, then the goodbyes in the doorway nnd the. flutter- jngs of handkerchief from the carriage window till it turned into the avenue at the corner. A lump ros2 in Lou'ue's throat. \It seems hard, almost cruel when I stayed here in New i'ork thoso two months, looking But here sho interrupted her own thoughts resolutely. \No tho hard and cruel part would be for me to send that well meaning soul back, when sho had come all this distance just to keep me company. It isn't her fault that the letter went astray. All I must do is to keep her from know ing.\ An extract from a letter written in Oc- 7 very interesting account of some experiments made on plants with a view of determin ing the influence of the electric light upon their growth. To that end a green house was divided into two equal parts by a tight board partition. On one side the plants are left to tho ordinary con ditions of growth, but on the other sido the vegetation was treated to tho sunlight by day and to tho electric light by night. The results of these experiments showed that tho uso of tho electric light at night hastened the maturity of tho plants, and the nearor they grew to tho light tho greater was the acceleration. Lettuce thus treated was sold two weeks earlier than its neighbors on the other side of the partition, although both wero planted at the same time. Equally suc cessful results wero obtained with other vegetables.— Philadelphia Record. Swimming Cavalry. Good results of tho persistent training of German cavalry horses in swimming have begun to appear at a recent drill of tbo Second Uhlan Regiment of tho Guards, between the Heiligenseo and Neidcr Nuendorf scores of horses swam the Havel without tho aid of halters or guides. All except nine or ten appeared to have lost completely their innate fear of water, and plunged iuto tho river without being urged. The few timid horses were guided across the river by means of halters in the hands of men who preceded them in rowboats. Not a few soldiers whose hosres took to the water without hesitation threw off their clothes CMBP BUSHYHEAT). and swam icripU after them.— Batton,'Iran- •1 'I took a look into the balls and called up on Mr. Mays, who has for two termi served as the chief of the Cberokees. 1 found him in his executive chamber on the second floor of the capitol. He is a big, broad shouldered man with a bivt head and an intelligent face to be seen. \ His hair is dark brown and the lower half of his face is covered with a short brown beard. He was dressed in citizen's clothes, and his talk was in as' good English and as full of ideas as that of the average American Congressman. He has been supremo judge of the nation for years, and he is a very intelligent man. He has a fine farm not far oil from Tahlequah, and ho cuhivates the soil after as scientific methods as those which prevail on the estate of Uncle Jerry Rusk in the garden of Wisconsin. During my talk with him the question of tho Cherokeo strip came up, nnd ho told ine thnt thero was no doubt but that tbis valuublc piece of land would eventually bo sold, and ho evidently thought that the Indians ought to be allowed to set 1 it to the highest bidder. Said he: \This strip contains over 3,000,000 acres and these are 03 fine lands as exist in the United States. It lies north of Oklahoma and west of tho Osages and it is well watered and valua ble. I have received 5 number of offers for it since I have been chiof, and a Kan sas City firm would have given us $30,- 000,000 for it. Another party offered us $20,000,000 and a third offer which we have had was $18,000,000. We.maj have to sell it to tho \United Stqtes, bul if we do we ought to get a fair pries for it.\ This strip has nothing to do with this part of the Territory. The nation owns some of tho finest lands of the Ucited States in tho northwestern part of tho Indian Territory, and from the stage rides which I have taken through their country I judge thnt not more than one-tenth of it is cultivated. Still it all sceinn to be rich. I rode from Musko gee, the biggest town of tho Creek nn- tion, to tho Arkansas River, which we forded, aud thence came on to Fort Gib- sou and by another stage down here tn Tahlequah. Along the whole way the soil was fertile. Tnere were great plains covered with luxuriant grass and the ride was more liko ono through a well kopt English park than through a half settled Indian reservation. It is the same throughout theso civilized nations. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail road passes through four of them and this is the best road for visiting tho In dian Territory. All along it, from Texas to Kansas, you sec rich farms, fat cattle and there are a number of very fair towns, the biggest of which is Musko gee, with its 2500 people. You see also great stretches of unoccupied land, and these Indian nations have curious regu lations in regard to their lands. Every Cherokee has tho rich! to as much land as ho can use, and ho can hold all the land he fences in, provided he cultivates it. Ho has also the right to a quarter of a milo of land for grazing outside the fences all around his farm, and somo of these Indians havo big es tates. Tho farms hero range all the way from 160 acres to 16,000 acres, and many of the farms are managed by white men who get in here by marrying Cherokeo wives. There ar8 about 25,000 Chcro- kees, ouTtho wnltes have so mixed with them that the full-blooded Indians have practically died out, and the Cherokee nation is mor(/ white than Indian to-day., X am. stopping at a very fair hotel here,, 4000 Cherokees engagedinfurming and they have about'70,000 head of cattle 100,000 hogs and 13,000 horses. I see excellent cotton fields, nnd they raise more than a bale to the acre. The best farms, however, are owned by white men or half-breeds, and white men are acquiring more farming territory here every day. \ Somo of the best lands in the^ Indian Territory are those of the ChicKasaws, and ycu find some of tbo largest farms amoug them. Frank Murray, a — nian, married to a Chickasaw woman, has 16,000 acres under cultivation and he keeps 5000 head of cattle. He is said to be worth half a million dollars and ho adds to his lands every year. Sam Paul, a half-breed Chickasaw, has B000 acres under cultivation, and whito man named Rector, who married a Chickasaw girl, is farming 600 acres Here among the Cherokees there is a half-breed named Starin, who has 3000 acres, and there are many other farm much larger. The Chickasaw country is the only one which has been surveyed and divided into sections, and I Ion' think that there is n good system o record among the other trib03. Lands may bo held as far as their improve meats arc concerned, but an Indian can not sell his land to n white man. The Texas cattleman look with envy on these rich plains cf green, and they try all sorts of dodges te get in. Not long ago in tho Creek country they tried to steal 250,000 acres, and they built 110 miles of wire fenco around this. They had something like 10,000 head of cat tie on this land and they rather defied the India'•s. The Indians held a council and. wen along the fence and chopped off the posts olosi to the ground. They We don .'t know about x said the wire; that may belong to the white men and CIIEHOKKK UXIVERBITr, one of the trains by which they returned- I have never seen a more drunken, disrep utable and disorderly crowd. Themert wero wild with liquor, nnd rod-faced cowboys with big hats on thoir heads jumped up and down, yelling and crow ing liko roosters and swearing they could whip any blanked man in the car. They are many negroes still in the In dian Territory nnd you will find many of rhe Creeks who have intermarried with The negroes. The Choctaws have also- many people of mixed Indian and negro- blond, and the Chickasaws had big cot ton plantations before the war and had many slaves. These Cherokees here are the proudest of all these Indian tribes. They are'the- aristocrats of the Five Nations. There -e stores here run by the Indian s tauite •i good as those of the white men in the- owns along the railroad, and I amW- irised to see what big stocks of goods- they carry and what variety of articles- they use. The dry goods stores contain: all kinds of ladies' dress goods, and these women here do not confine them- f elves by any means to calico. Such as- i have seen wear as good clothes as you. will find worn by the women of any •own of this size in the United States, and they dress in exactly the same way^ Most of the families of Tahlequah have- sewing machines, and nearly evexyj' house has a piano Or organj They use cooking stove3 and have- exactly the same kind of household! furniture thnt you will find in an Ameri can village. The men dress in the same and < TWO CHEEK BOYS. won't touch it. But as for these posts, he? were cut from our forests and they belong to the Indians and we will cut them down.\ The result was that the Texans had to take their cattle out of the country. A great many Texas cat tle aro grazed in the Territory by Indians for Texans, and there are a number of pastures in the Creek country ranging i n size from 10,000 to 60,000 ncres. Thoy receive from $1 to $1.50 a head, and' although the grazing of cattle in this way is against the law of the tribes, it is winked at and permitted to bo done. Many of the Cherokees employ white men to work for them, and in the Chickasaw nation, in tho Washita Val ley, there is a farm hfty miles long, the owner of which is an Indian and tho laborers are white. There is an Indian hero who has a costly residence in tho centre of 1000 acres of beautiful land, and among his hands arc some Cherokees that get sixteen dollars a month. ,rl i.ey could havo farms of their own, but don't seem to care to take them. Ihadatalk with Governor Smallwood, who wa9 for a long time chief of the Choctaws. I met him at the little town of Atoka and found him a very intelli gent man. He tells me that the Choc taw nation has seventeen counties in it, and that it has its senate and house, just as the Cherokees have. Its governor gets $2000 a year as a salarynnd is elected for a term of two years. He has the same authority as one of tho govern ors of our States, except that he cannot pardon. Governor Smallwood says that there are about 18,000 Choctaws, and that these believe in the Christian relig ion nnd are «f all denominations except Catholic. Tho Choctaws livo in log houses nnd plain cottages, and their peo ple are steadily advancing in culture. There is no State in the Union that pays proportionately more toward education than the Choctaws, and I find that the Cherokees here have an excollent system of public schools. Ono of the leading political issuasbere at Tahlequah is the publicscliool system. They have o big boys' college nnd a fe male seminary, and they have a system of public schools which extends throughout the country. The revenue of the nation, however, ran behind and these schools have all been shut up for a year fen ac count of there being no monoy £o pay tho teachers, and the questionjof tbis payment an^d the reorganisation 'of the schools is ode which the yluag Cherokee J A are none, I clothes. Somo of the pd^swi ri and these are generally full-blooded ones,! live in log cabins, and these do nothing', but- fish and cultivate a little ground for, their Own corn, These, I understand^ aro chiefly in the eastern • part of tho nation, whero thero is a mountainous- country. Tho Indians themselves know that thoy must be eventually swallowed up by the- whites, and though they will not con fess, this, they say that if it doc3 comer the Government must pay the Indians fori their lauds aud allow each one a simple title to a farm. The Indian Tor. tory has now only about 80,000 ludiai Still the country is much bigger t! New York and Massachusetts, and nearly the same size as Kansas.' It- would support a population of five or sir millions, and it contains tho best- lands in the Uuited States. < A Husre Ball on a Deer's Heart. The queer deer whose' head is showa- lere was shot in a forest'in Bohemia not :long ago. It had a huge ball of bone, 'or horn, on its forehead'in tho place of 'antlers. Gumption. \How shg.ll merchants handle their surplus money?\ eehocd a bank presi dent to the reporter's query. 'Tut it into real sstate,\ was the terse an swer. \Shall they invest in stocks? No. How much ready money shall they keep on hand? Well, that de pends on the man and the require ments of his business. It would he- dilllcult to establish a percentage. How do prudent men guard against possible stringency In the money mar ket? By using good judgment. \In fact, I should say that ono word,would answer all your questions- —gumption. Every merchant is con stituted so differently that it is im possible to make rules that shall ap ply to the affairs of all, and each must use gumption.\ Two Queer Epitaph's! In the graveyard at Childward, Ens' land, are the following queer epitaphsr \Here lies tho body of John Smith. Buriod in the cloisters; If ho don't jump at tho lost trump, Coll 'Oysters P \ [\Hero lies mo and my threo daughters Trought here by using Seidlitz i '
