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In the dining-room, ma'am." And
Mary threw open the door, thereby dis
closing long table with three huge tur-
keys. we'll Drowned, and n savory chicken
pie that was n mountain In itself, and a
glass reservoir of cranberry sauce that
set Mrs. Neitleby calculating at once as
to the probable amount of dollars sunk in
its crimson billows while, seated in hos
pitable array around the board, were Mr..
and Mrs. Begeerley the two sisters. and
the six little Beggerleys, Mr.. and Mrs.
Smithers, seven Little Smitherses. and the
six Leonards of Maine, second cousins
of Mr. NettlebT-twenty-s in akin
GLIDING her husband.
Mrs. Nettleby and her children sat
down and ate their thanksgiving dinner
with what appetite they might. But Net
tleDy had rather q hard time Of it that
night.
My dear" said that sacrifcial lamb,
what was 10 do? They didn't get the
letter. They said they had come to
spend Thanksgiving, aad of course L had
10 order dinner. What else could l dor"
-Do?- repeated Mrs. Nettleby, in ac-
cents of the bitterest scorn, couldn't
you close al, the blinds, and lock the
front door, and 60 down cellar AMI pre-
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Mn NJ hbEoh. by tue luuldns III
mastering our language may he best Illus
trated 10y a letter, of which had an exact
copy made. written by the l4-year-old
granddaughter of Red Cloud to her cousin,
the granddaughter of old No Flesh. 1t is
the result o seven years of boarding school
culture, aided by volume of CRADLES
Synonyms, on promising feminine saw
age mind "
This is the letter:
"OGALLA BOARDING. SCHOOL, PINE
RIDGE AGENCY, Dakota, June A, 1852
My Dear Cousin; / am going to drop them
few lines to let you know / am going TO
interlineation to You, but am not going
to informant you many words, VIC all go
ing to have vacation next three weeks
did not accept your acceptable letter for
long ago but you must excuse me my
cousin yos must intellectually what says
/ am in a hurry TO interlineation so l must
interineation incompassionate words so
you must ask your teacher their help
them Interrogation and dear cousin two
interrupt me l interlineation this
letter but their do SO this / made
black all over that one a blot 1 in
strumentality ask your instructor l am
going n tell you who | stay with in this
Boarding School Miss julia Remp &
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favor of the ratification and gave US
powerful aid. But after putting his own
signature to the papers which yielded up
his land ne died. "
"Are any or the chiefs who wore the
war paint in the bloody forties still
alive?n
Scarcely one, said Gen, Crook. "The
Indians have few veterans in the sense of
old warriors. If they had a pension bureau
the pensions would have to be drawn by
their young and middle-aged fighting men
or left undrawn. The oldest chief of any
note we met was Old Man Afraid of His
Horses, whose reputation is as much due to
the proves of his son, Young Man Afraid
of His Horses, as TO his own deeds. Yet
he is but 70 years old. He makes ven
cradle figure, however, among his people,
and in council of the chiefs passes for
one who draws his wisdom not alone from
this life. His face, strangely enough for
an Indians, wears a serene smile which
seems TO bear out the character -
"Did you meet any Indians whose intel.
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Sioux. They had the entree TO enough
maya lines and boys periodicals to spread
their aduation OF his character He went
East and his journey was a triumph. The
truth is that Sitting Bull. VIII was only a
medicine man, ran away from the fight
and viewed il from hill. When the
massacre was complete he descended 10 the
battlefield and filed his belt with scalps
torn from the dead The real leaders at
the Custer massacre were Red Cloud, who
headed the Western Indians, and Gall,
who charged at the front of the Eastern.
Though all Indian fighters know that Sit
ting Bull is a coward, nothing seems TO
disiodge him from the esteem of the old
maids Of Boston, and they were still writ
ing for his autograph when we were at
Standing Rock. "
From what Indians did you encounter
the strongest opposition
From the rich squaw men among the
Cheyennes, " said Mr.. Foster. "The squaw
men are whites who have married Indian
women and been adopted into the tribes.
Under the treaty OF 1868 they are re-
garded as Indians, and their signatures
were as necessary those of the real
reds. -
erich. did you say"
eyes, some of them are worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars in CATTLE which
range along the Cheyenne river. That is
why they declined TO sign. They did not
want their pastures abridged by the ces-
sion of land q the government. The
wealther squaw men are old Frenchmen
who went out West as boys with the
American Fur company. Depre, Narcisse
Narcotics, and Claymore on the Cheyenne
are worth at least 800, 600 each.
l. e =
left in the country. He has only twelve,
but he is trying to preserve them as If his
hope of returning to Paris when dead de-
pended on r. And he has a daughter
hdlf-bloode0. of course, who is one of the
most beautiful women / have ever SEEN
Her form is perfect, possessing the 1.-the
ness OF her mothers race idealiZed, her
cheeks are tinted bronze, and her eyes are
deep brown. / did not see her mother
but was told she was veritable Poca-
hontas The daughter is married TO
Douglas Carlin, son OF Gen. Carlin, and
they live at the Cheyenne agency.
1--WE had many funny experiences, "
continued Mr.. Foster. I'VE always had
difficulty in getting ourselves understood
in our set speeches TO the Indian councils
We relied on local interpreters-in most
cases Indians who had been taught our
language at the agencies-and the way
they bungled our speeches would have
made a man, proud of his oratory, sick. !
was making a speech at Standing Rock
White man has but little land, / said in
the course of an argument TO show that
it was better for each man To own piece
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Commissioners

but a mere medicine man among the In
dians -
"Of course he would not sign the ratifi-
cation" said Gen. Crook. 'He knew il
would injure his reputation with the old
maids around Boston, who have given him
his fame. 10 have il go abroad that he had
consented to the surrender of the Indian
lands TO the government. We made an
effort TO bring him over. He is without
influence among his own people, and they
knew his stubbornness sprang not from
patriotism. Ii is odd-the name Sitting
Bull has throughout the world. 1t arose
from false account, originated by him
self, of the Custer massacre. He was tho
first Indian 10 bring a report of the affair
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hat Next

John Dervent and Peter Lott were
graduated at the same college on the
same day with equal honors. Both
men went West, and settled on ranches.
After six years one of their old pre-
ceptors visited them.
John was prosperous, but he knew
nothing of the world outside of his own
ranch. He took no interest in politics.
in religion, in books, or in social ques-
tons; he hardly knew who was Presi-
dent; he had hong ago lighted his fires
with his textbooks. For two days he
talked to his visitor of his COWS and
bullocks, of the rates of cattle on the
hoof in Chicago, and of beef in New
York.
When the professor tried to interest
him in any other matter, he stared at
him vacantly, or fell asleep in his chair.
The visitor went on with anxious
foreboding to Lotz's ranch. Peter,
too, had been successful; he was
shrewd and alert in his business, but
he was man of broad general infor-
nation and sympathies. His interest
was as keen in the questions of the day
as if he lived in New York or Chicago
His friend asked him presently how
he had contrived to keep himself thus
alive and young in thought.
"My father" said Peter, laughing,
"was a fruit-grower. He had one
maxim: Never let your orchard run
down. He necessarily set out new
trees, that were growing and ready to
bear when the old ones wore out.
when / left college, my brain was
very much like an orchard with plenty
of plants in it ready to bear fruit /
resolved not to let it run down. 1
would not be satisfied with the knowl-
edge L already had l would bring
in new slips and seedlings. took the
best daily newspaper, the best literary
magazine, the best religious journal in
the country. l helped build a church
and school-house in the neighborhood.
/ got up reading clubs, lectures and
concerts. In short, l followed my
fathers rule, and set out new plants in
my brain, instead of waiting calmly
until the old ones should wither and
die
1t is easy to tell, when we meet mid
dle-aged or old people, whether they
have, like John Dervent, left the in
tellectual growth of their youth to
wither and die, or, like his classmate,
have taken in daily new ideas and
knowledge.
what next?" says the busy farmer,
as he looks at the ground from which
one crop has just been reaped. He
makes haste TO SOW another.
Many of the boys and girls who read
these words have lately received a di-
ploma at some college or school, and
gone out into the world
What next?
Is your intellectual life to end now?
Is your brain to feed, during all these
coming years, on the small portions of
Greek, mathematics and history it has
received? Or will you daily plant the
seed of fact here, or set the graft of
new thought there?
The man of to-day must work hard,
if he means to keep himself up with
the life of his time. SO rapid is the
march of intellectual development that
the man who does not do this is soon
pushed aside and forgotten Youths
Companion.
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rarest stamps
RadiY Twisted.

Customer crushing into hardware
store)-I've just got time to catch a
train. Give me a corn-popper.
Facetious dealer-Don't you mean a
pop-corner?
"Yes, n cop-porner. Hurry up"
Don't you mean pon-corper2"
Hang it" (excitedly), Il said porn
copper, didn't II"
NO" (also excited), "you said pom
copper.
Il said corp-ponner.
"You said porp-conner."
II didn't"
"You did"
"You lie"
you're another"
take that"
"And that"
Give dollars or thirty days next
morning. )-Neto York Sun.
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What Rare Stamps Are Worth.

The high prices which the rarest
specimens of stamps now realize will
explain how it is that the trade in for
geries has become what it is in these
days. The 1910 English stamp, V. r.
(black), with the letters in the upper
corners, will easily fetch SO used and
e5 unused. The black stamp, without
the letters V. r., can be sold for one
penny and two pennies each. The red
penny English stamp heads are not
worth much more than waste-paper
price. The standing prices are for the
rarest stamps.
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Charging Bear, and by reason of his SUI
perior mind is the most prominent chief
on the reservation. He could not be the
leader he is, however were he not known,
to be also brave. His speech in
answer to the proposition we submitted
his tribe for accession OF part of their ter
rtory was by far the ablest we heard, and
every chief of any following at all adj
dressed us l have preserved a shorthand
report OF the Interpreters version of his
speech. 1t will show that he understood
the treaty of 1868 and the recent act OF
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tend not to be at home? I've no pa
tience with you'll"
Three days afterward the three young
est Nettlebys broke out with scarlet
fever. The seven little Smitherses took II
of them, the maid took il Of the Smith
erses, and Mrs. Nettleby had her winters
work before her.
Il wish to goodness l had stayed at
home" thought Mrs. Nettleby.
And the amount of thankfulness she
felt that year was not oppressive, in spite
of the Governors Thanksgiving proclama-
ton.
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A Presenting Little Girl.

A little girl, who made very frequent
use of the word guess" was one
day reproved for it by her teacher.
Don't say guess, Mary" said Miss
Jones, SAY presume.
Presently one of Mary's little play
mates coming up TO her, remarked
Il think your cape is very pretty,
and my mamma wants your mamma to
lend her the pattern, because she is GO
ing to make me one like it.
MY. mamma has no pattern was
the prompt reply; "she cut it by pre-
sumo"
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ligence really i'm
pressed you,''
"At the Standing
Rock agency" an
swered Mr.. Foster,
1--WE met a man
whose strong sense
would be conceded
anywhere, and who
struck us an intel
lectual giant in COM
parison with other
Indians. He is
known to the whites
as John Grass and
IL IL -. -.
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10 u telegraph STA
ton, and the picture
he drew OF the mas
sacre. with himself
in the thick OF the
fight, seal ping OIL
GERS aud soldiers
right and left, made
an indelible impress
sion ON the aforesaid
Old maids. They
sent him presents,
bought his auto
graph at stiff prices
for he had learned at
an agency school TO
write his name-and
dubbed HIM the last
gs.sa.nf ,l.s.f - a..
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of land, as among
the whites, than to
have the land held
i n C o VI N on, as
among the Indians.
Judge of my feel
in gs when Mrs. Nc
Laughlin, an agents
wife, who was ia
miliar with the In
dian tongue, told me
that the sentence
had been rendered
by the interpreter
white man has a
budding little lamb. ,
But | think the diff
cIlties experienced
~ I.Is... T.,
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IT is asserted that no Towering plant
was ever found growing within the Ant
arctic Circle. But there are 7G2 differ
ent kinds in the Arctic Circle, fifty of
which are confined to that region. The
colors are Chiefly white and yellow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-11-27

The fiigate bird of Africa is the swift
est of winged creatures-so rapid that
sailors believe it can start from
home in the morning and alight in
America on the evening of the same
day, thus crossing the Atlantic in about
eleven hours. Enlightened observers,
however. place the speed at one hun
dred miles an hour.
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Florence Hawk them 2 girls stay with
them In here. Next time II you send me
one OF your picture will send you one ac-
curate ribbon or one OF my picture 10 not
30 compassionate TO take their nicture so
II you accept my INDECENT letter l will az
cept your letter before the instrument
make Us have vacation. Now this all,
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Congress with regard to detail beyond
the q asp Of most Indians. His questions
were pertinent, and his illustration of the
impression prod iced on him by the gov
ernment's proposal to pay $l.55 an acre
for surrendered land which might be set
tied by whites the first year, 70 cents the
second year. and 30 cents thereafter was
particularly good. "
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IT has been satisfactorily demon
stratod that the arsenites are effective
against the codlisg moth; that in their
use there is no danger TO the fruit OF
the tree upon which they are used
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said ajor Warner,
Twas a big, bony
Indian of iron con-
stitution, the stanch-
est courage, and
great influence at
Pine Ridge. SO re-
markably free was
he of any surplus
flesh that the In
dians, who are never
fat, sccentuated his
popularity by the
name they gave
It,.. H. u.au -
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am going to work now bell rang so l must
going go TO work work in laundry whis
ask your abodarian, this one meant
teacher that is me Miss Emily r. Cloud to
her cousin Mabel No Flesh good by 81 by
write soon / am astonished hurrah"
cod No Flesh, Mabels grandfather. ~
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IN CE their re-
turn from the land
of the redmnn, Gen.
Crook, Major W ar
'ner and Mr.. Fos-
ter, the gentlemen
co IN sin & the
Sioux commission,
have had many in
teresting expert
ences To tell OF
their visit among
the Sioux. Asked
about the prom
inent people among
the Indians, espe-
,cially concerning
.Sitting Bull, Ma
jor Warner said:
"a great chief
among the whites.
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WHEN thieves fall out honest men
should got their work in.-New Orleans
Picapune.
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a. some eighteen years. and the farmers boy
johnnie
Thought never damsel was one-half so bonnie.
1f~ farmers boy Albert was equally sure
Tat hay-Jennie's sister-his heaftacne couiu
cure.
And 90 these two sisters. by special request,
We're there TO take dinner, dressed up IN their
best
.sennie was pretty, and dainty though vain, .,
While May was more sensible honey ana
-Give Jennie the wishbone" said Johnnie at
last;
Accordingly, TO her the wishbone was passed,
And all the while that her dinner she ate,
The vishbone was resting close by her plate.
With united action they all waded in
I'LL thelr knives and their forks made irregular
She turkey when finally laid on the shelf,
Was only a wreck OF its once gorgeous self
The squash, tie potatoes and cranberry sauce,
And inince pie and pumpkin, with crust all en-
bossed,
Had each done it's duty and every ono
Drew back and declared the dinner was done.
NOV. then, who viii wish?' cried Jennie the
fair,
Il viii !" said they ALL and then came scuffle
Insomuch that the wishbone was lost in the
shuttle.
And puTsu ed 10y Johnnie, she quickly did fly
Clear through the sitting-room into the hall,
In chamber, in cellar, in rarlor, and all.
Then from sheer exhaustion dropped into a
chair,
With checks all aglow, and tumble-down hair;
And johnnie ruSned up, aud without mucn ado,
Snlacked kiss on her lips, and don't know
but two.
@Iet us wish,' said May "for still have the
bone.
n "a due you, think, for your chase to atone
Now, dear reader, we ought to have told you be-
fore,
That, though May liked Albert, she loved John
ME more,
And her honest wish, when she pulled on that
bone,
Was that some day she might have him all for
her own.
They pulled on the wishbone, and May won the
toss,
But what was her gain was by no means his
loss,
For from that very minute affairs took turn,
And Johnnie and May friendly, learn
That when Thanksgiving Day again takes its
place
They'll have hooked up together for life g rugged
race.
We know not what Alfred and Jennie will do,
hut the neighbors all think they will got mar
ried too.
Now May is ready ut all times to own
That there's boundless virtue in turkeys
wishbone.
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neighborhooI in N, and was one of
those who, as her maid all-work ex-
pressed it. would skin flea to save the
hide and tallow." Mrs. Nettleby liked
to make n show, but she had a deep
rooted aversion to spending. And enter
tanning company on Thanksgiv ng Day
was one of the things that could not be
accomplished without the latter concom-
liant.
Mr. Nettleby. a little, weak minded
man, who viewed his big wife with respect
ful admiration looked dubiorsly at her
But, my dear, said he, how are YOU
going to help it2 They've sent word they
are coming"
Ill go to your sister Belinda's, up in
sSugartuck County"
MIR. Nettleby felt of his chin. They
haven't invited us, said he; that is, not
especially"
20. fddlestieks!" said Mrs. Nettleby.
Belindas always glad to see me and the
children. And as for staying at home to
gorge Mrs. Beggerlev and her six chill
'dren, and Mr.. Beggerley's two sisters, 1
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CHIEF SITTING BULL.
ACCORDING TO GENERAL CROOK HE
WAS AN ARRANT COWARD.

Only "a Medicine Man. He Ran Away from
the Custer Right ana Viewed IL from
Hili-oueer Experiences of the Sioux
Commits -ioners.
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{ EMMY and Johnny,
n and Albert an d
Mary
ySat at the table ON
Thanksgiving ay.
This turkey, all
stuffed. and basted
and brown,
Upon a big platter
vas turned upside
down;
With its legs pointed
skyward, its wings
pinioned back,
Asold Farmer john
son began the at
tack.
He carved n nice
piece from the rich
steaming breast,
And passed TO his
wife the first
,,faea aud hast.
Then said, Now,
Miss Jenny. what
cut do you llkeY"
20, please give me
just what you hap
pen 20 strike
Some white meat, or
dark, or q leg, or a
wing"
She was n guest, ana
a sweet, profit y
thing
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LIKED TO MAKE A SHOW.
BY DRIFT.

HE Beggerley's com
ing here to spend
Thanksgiving" aid
Mrs. Nettleby. Not
if / know it,"
Mrs. Nettleby Vas a
chose listed and calcu-
lating woman, W h o
lived in a hand some
house in q stylis h
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