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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

The writer Of this sketch was a little
fellow himself not many years ago.
He rememb bers how be used to look
with complete and absolute disgust on
his bony little arms and thin pipe-stem
legs. He used to look at the big mus
cles of one or two companions with
hopeless envy. In fact. II got so bad
that this particular little fellow deter
mined to get strong, If it took years to
do it.
The first thing was to get bar.
selected a nice spot between two grape
arbors planted deep in the ground
two heavy oak uprights, and fastened
firmly across the top. with mortised
ends, a long heavy pitchfork handle,
which was purchased at village store
at cost. ! believe, of twenty cents.
When the turning-pole was finished,
the next thing was to learn to do some
thing. The first thing learned was
TO hang on the pole. This may not
seem like a very exciting trick. but the
fact is my muscles were so weak that
it took all my strength to hang there
BY this time other boys became in-
terested. They began to put bars in
their own yards. aud the little fellow
had to superintend the operation and
give instructions. The oak uprights
should be about three by three, and
planted with side braces. The post
holes should be at least three feet
deep, and after ths posts were set
filled in with stones and earth firmly
stamped down. The bar must be just
a couple of inches out Of ones reach
standing under il flat-footed. Half a
dozen private bars resulted in a gym
nasium 10 an empty stable loft. The
little fellow watched his arms and legs
with great concern. aud could not for
the life of him see that they were get
ting any bigger. .--Harper's HoHHg ReO-
Dle,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

II a member OF the English parlia.
ment becomes bankrupt be is incapaci-
tated from sitting or voting.
Thomas Hughes has written an in
PRODUCTION for the English edition OF
LowelIs poems. to be published by
Macmillan.
A red fox guards the barnyard Of a
farmer In Butler county. Pa. and the
chickens aud geese are perfectly safe
from thieves when he is around.
There have been seven marriages
among the female clerks Of a New
York weekly paper in seven years. and
they each occupied the same desk.
DIR. C. F. Rand. Of Washington. has
an army cracker that was issued TO
him with nine others at Centrevilie. 10
July. 1861. when he was a private in
the Twelfth New York Volunteers.
Tolstoi who bitterly opposes all
marriages except what be calls angel
marriages" is the father Of sixteen
children. only niue OF whom are now
living. The youngest is three years
old.
The canuibal tribes near the Niger
delta. 10 Angola. and in the Congo
basin are probably the only natives of
Africa who habiiually eat human flesh.
They. however. are numbered by mill
ions.
Miss Helen Cloak, a pure-bred Ind
ian Of the Biackfeet Nation. has been
appointed hv Secretary Noble as n spe-
cial allotting agent in the Nez Perces
reservation She Is a well-educated
woman
The duke Of Cleveland is the ninth
British peer whose title has become
extinct since the present parliament
WAS chosen. Bot Lord Salisbury has
created twenty-one new peers since he
came into Office.
In person and attire the scrunulous
cleanliness Of the Malay women j. pro-
verbal throughout the orient. Tnics
daily she b1thes. changes her gar
meuls and washes aud rinses her lux
uFiant black hair.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

DOWN HE WENT ALL IMlhIhD uf'
that way, as jim started to mount I'm
afraid you'll geta fall
Jim turned on him like he d eat him.
Did you ever ride buffer?' he holler-
cd. The little dude man shook his head
and grinned Well, | have, sez Jim,
and he climbed on the by-shackle
"Of course Jim couldn't be the bronco
buster he wuz without his balance
bein' somethin' to bank on, and at first
it seemed as II 1t would pull him
through. 1t wuz a little down grade.
aud him and the by-shackle started of
purity friendly. though them things that
travels round the hubs did whack his
shins some. But he got his stirrups
after awhile and turned his head TO
wave his sombrero and give us a good
Texas yell, when he struck a snag and
commenced a-hoppin' up and down.
Then Jim lost his head. He had his
qnlrt in his hand and he began to lamm
ON the side of the machine like 1t was a
buckln pony. 1t only csroused around
worse aud he reached down and tried
haulin up on its head and usin' language
| couldn't repeat to lady. We boys
wuz a laffiu' to burst. and he heard II
and it made him wild; he wuz locoed
and be rode the thing for all he knew.
but he rode 1t for bronco and not
machine. He quirted 1t, he cussed II
and pulled up its head, and every time
we thought he WIZ gone LIE ketch his
balance and stick Finally he come to
htlle gully and he tried TO spur ito
make 1t jump. be said afterward--and
his spur caught in the spokes and down
he went, all twisted up in that thing till
it wuz a wonder all his arms and legs
wuzzn't broke.
Then it showed out how the little
dude man had stacked the cards on him.
for have never misdoubted that he had
wound up somethin' to go off in that
little colt hind wheel at the right time;
and when it seen he wuz down an
tangled so he couldn't git up it riz up
and pounded him like dog.
Jim must ha' had more pulky than
thought, for he called out to us real
ptiful to come and pull that thing
often him or it would kill him, and
when we did he limped of home without
word.
LAS for that little dude man he Of
fered to teach us all how to ride the
machine--a thing we didn't care for
and he laughed till the lid fell often his
spilled eye, and he looked more like
human ben' than l ever seen him
Chicago Aeies
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
WAMTEp,

Al1 .IEEks Dan make this for q few hours worh
each day. Salary oom. $40 samples free.
Ad. Z. nHsAxIN 4 co.. lls H. eth o.. CT. LouIe Na
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
wien SIZE STRUCK A sNAo."


when he'd sail along that way,
twistin' up his feechers once In awhile
to keep his glass lid on. he looked so
much like prairie dog and so much
wuss that 1t seemed to sorter down EN-
They never jeered him as he'd pass like
they do other folks. THEY'D set up at
mouth of their holes and look At him
kinder s. prised and respectful, like they
thought he wuz some sorter big, high
daddy prairie dog come to be king OF the
country; and as he got closer and they
got better view they'd seemed to get
sorter sick and faint and lay down on
their backs and slide down cellar with
out a word; and If any man had saw him
then for the first time aud picked him
of there couldn't have been found a
jury of good men and true in the state
of Texas that would have made IL muir
der.
We couldn't see our way to haze
him round none while he wuz on the
Bar X land for fear he'd write home aud
tell his pa; but one day me and Petite
and Buster and jim Guthrie and q lot
Of the boys wuz In of the range aud &.
hsngln' round down at the house Of an
old Mexican that sold pulky, lust a
spilln for some fun, when along comes
Mister Dude on his niekel.plated pony,
a-griunin' at to make prairie dog 60
out OF the business.
We all got up and gethered round
him aud begged him to light. while we
wuz a-pullin' him of the machine aud
a-touselln' bis store eio'es. He took il
all mighty good Datured. stood a-grin-
min and a-smokin' one Of his everlastin'
cigarettes, while we boys al come
round and lei on to crificise his nickle
pony. One Of us lowed II vuz too
high in the wethers. and another said
1t didn't have flesh enough on il to show
of its points fair jim Guthrie, he
Durtended to loos az Us teeth, and said
Ii wnzzn't nolhin but q FLY anyhow.
and no KNOWN what il would make 10
time with good handiin'. Some other
Aiick asked what br.ird it wuz. and we
let on fa find swaiic forks unier5iis. ami
ell kind 81 car marks aud iaw brands
and hip brands on a.
We went on considerable. aud
thought we Wuz amazin' funny, aad the
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
DISCIPLINE AT ANNAPOLIS.
The Course at the United states NavR
Academy Very Severe.

The discipline at the United States
Naval academy is Of the strictcst kind,
says the Boston Herald.
Some of the punishments for aca-
demic misdemeanors arc not only
unique but strikingly appropriate and
effective. When cadet Is guilty OF
tardiness at any formation he Is re-
quired, for a given period subsequent
TO report to the officer In charge half
an hour before the time of the forma-
ton. standing by until 1t takes place.
Those who oversleep themselves in the
morning are compelled for month to
turn out one hour before reveille, aud.
at the first note of the bugle, to report
themselves and the room ready for in-
spection.
Visiting during study hours is pun
ished by solitary confinement on the
prison ship Santee. as a corrective for
too great sociability. Inattention at
drill carries with it the penalty Of one
or more extra drills during recreation
hours. Habitual untidiness is cured
by requiring the careless cadet to re-
port for inspection 10 the officer in
charge every hour for a number of
days, usually month.
Should non-regulatlon clothing be
found In cadets possession it is seized
by the authorities as contraband, and
not returned until the offender leaves
the academy. II is thus difficult TO
appear out of uniform.
But the worst punishment of all is
that visited upon a whole class or the
entire battalion. and is inflicted only in
cases of insubordination on the part Of
such large bodies. In such cases the
guilty class, or all the cadets. are de-
priyed of the privilege of giving hops
and entertainments. aud worse yct.
they are forbidden to walk with or to
call upon The fair sex. This depriva-
tion generally weakens them, and dis
cipline triumphs.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
A BUCKlNG BICYCLE.
HOW A BOSTON TENDERFooT
0UEERED A TOUGH COWBOY,
Him Guthrie Mounts The silent stesd-
soon Is Got on and tho Little Dude
'.Laushsd with Ills spilled Eye"

Our ponies loped easily together,
"This is beautiful place, but so lone
ly,'' said TO the tall, grlzzled ranch
boss at my side.
I've been in places where l wuz
worse of for musement and society"
said he, glancing approvingly at me-
I've been where 1t was so lonesome a
Teller wuz glad to meet even coyote
and where we didn't see a strange face
once IN six months, aud staid there
four years, too.
1T was down tother side of the Devil
river region, between the Rio Pecos and
the Rio Grande, wuz bunco Dustin for
the Hal Circle G. 1t wuz the lone
soonest. fur.awayest place ever staid.
Our outfit had been there three straight
years, and II we ever knowed anything
we'd forget IT, We had wore out every
deck of cards in the crowd but one aud
It was two queens and a deuce short;
and of rainy eyeniu's we used TO have a
free for all fight to see who should have
that TO play with, but as the fellers that
got licked always unused themselves
putting bullet holes through the cards
if a man dared TO hold up his hand there
wuzzent no good fun in card playin'.
We had raced all the ponies so much
that we knew as well when we set up
race which pony'd win as we did when
ii wuz over. There wuzzent town In
800 miles tit to get drunk ln SO when
the little event happened that L m a-goin'
to tell you Of we nachelly thought
providence had saw what hard lines we
wuz a hsyin and sent us something to
have fun out of.
1--WE wuz great pals with all the out
I'll at the ranch nearest neighbor to us,
the Bar X, about thirty miles north, and
I'm free to say that their bronco buster
beat me. / don't mind any pattern o
bronco, but he wuz just hungry for wild
mustangs and sich all the time Jim
Guthrie wuz his name, big two fisted
feller, always a chaffin and gassin' and
a runnin' rigs on folks.
Bar x is a Boston outfit and they
had young Boston dude to como out
there that laid over anything ever saw
in southwest Texas. He did sure wear
the ornriest clo'es to be good store
cloes that | ever saw His pants just
come to his knees like a little boys,
and he had sorter custard pie colored
brogans with nutmeg crater soles TO
'em. His cap beat creation ! reckon
they knowed he didn't have sense
enough to tell which wuz front and
which wuz back, so they'd put little
gable on both ends SOS TO hit him either
way he took l.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
transforming WITH BOOTH.
Amusing Adventures OF His Company In
a Rural virginia Playhouse.

One Of our funniest adventures hap
pened at Lees Landing in Virginia.
The improyised theatre was tobacco
warehouse. and was crowded by the
planters from miles around. We had
arranged to take the weekly steamer
that was to call that night and be-
tween the acts were busy packing up.
The play was The Merchant of Ven
ice.n and they were just going on for
the trial scet when we heard a whistle,
aud the manager came in to say that
the steamer had arrived and would
leave again in ten minutes.
"If we explain matters, said the
manager they will think they are
being cheated, and we shall have a
FREQ fight The only thing is for you
fellows to get up natural ending OF
the piece and ring down the curtain.
Go right ahead, ladies aud gentlemen,
aud take your cue from Ted here.
Ted was Bassauio and he decided to
rely upon tho ignorance of the Virgin
ians of those days to pull him through
all right. So when old Ruggles. who
was doing Shylock. began to sharpen
his knife on his boot. Booth walked up
to him and said, 'you are bound TO
have your pound of flesh. are you?n
You bet your life" said RuggIes.
Now, I'll make You one more offer, y
said Booth; lin addition to this bag Of
ducats I'll throw in two kegs of ter
back and two of tho best coon dogs in
the State.n
Pm blamed if don't do it. re-
sponded Shylock, much to the approba-
tion of the audience, who were tobac-
co-raisers and coon hunters to man.
And to show that there's no ill
feeling put In Portia. "we'll wind up
with a Virginny reel
When they got on board the steamer
the Captain. who had witnessed the
conclusion of the play, remarked; I'D
like to see the whole OF that play some
time gentlemen. I'm blamed II l
thought that fellow Shakespeare had
SO much snap to him. m."-NeV York Let
ter TO Charleston NetOs
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
TN 'FRATD Ir's TOO TAME ron ME,

zone of his eyes was spilled. and he
KEEP a glass lid on il; but the lid didn't
fit very good. and be had to sorter grin
'casionaii feep it on; and the sight
of him at them imes-if you'll excuse
my sayin' so-wuz enough to make any
man cuss.
He was son of the president of the
Bar x company and they said be- d been
Atudin somsthin' too hard at college,
think twsz Lsthetics they named it
and they'd sent HIM out to get over it.
He brung out what he called .
machine, or by-shackle of course
yon' We saw em2-a big whesl with
saddle on. aud little wheel a tagein'
it, lie wuz frad as death of anything
like good pony-wanted EN- to shoot
baldfaced mustang. the best racing pony
on the Bsr X. because it jumped on
Mexican 10 a few times one day after 1t
:hrowed him; but he git up on this
here by-shackle. and set up in the saddle
and fold his arms, and make her 80
wherever he wanted her to.
Some of tho boys lowed he made il
run with his feet, aud be did kick round
purity lively part of the time; but other
times he d just nut them slim legs of
his up over its ears Uhngs he called
handle bars). and smoke a cigarette,
and it would rack on just as peaceable
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

llttlo dude mau seemed to think so. too.
for he grinned heeious all the time.
Finally he sez: Some o you boys like
to ride herr Jim--he wnz managin' tho
haze--he spoke up and sez Dunno, |
never tried anything o that sort. I'm
frald It's too tame for memo need to
ask II she's gentle and well broke,
lookiu' at the little dude mans thin
shanks, and hollerin' out lafiln' I'LL you
could "a hoard him a mile.
"She's all right, sez the little dude
man sorler quiet, IL you understand her
disposition aud galt--don't try to get on
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

Baron Hirsch. the Jewish philan.
thropist, has signed a notariai deed
empowering his representatives 10 ex-
pend E2.OO0 600 for the purchase OF
land and the location Of colonies in
the Argentine Republic.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03
Beware Of oIntments for Catarrh that Con
tain Mercury.

rs mercury win surely destroy the sense o
smell and completely deranrc the whole sys
tenn when entering e through the mucous sur
faces. such articles should never he used ex
cept on prescr ptions from reputable physi
clans. as the damage they will do Is ten fold q
the goOl you can poss bly, derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by =. J
Cheney Co. Toledo. o.. contains no mercury
and Is taken internally, and acts recfly upon
the blood aud mucous surfaces Of the system
Tn luYiug Hal s tatarrh Cure be sure you Get
the genuine. II is taken internally. and made
Ia Toledo. Ohio. hy ~ J. Cheney 4 Co.
- sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-12-03

Syrup
For Throat and Lungs

"Ih have been i'll for
Hemorrhage "about FIVE years,
"have had the best
Five Years. medical advice,
"and took the first
" dose in some doubt. This result
"ed in a few hours easy sleep. There
twas no further hemorrhage tillnext
"day, when / had a slight attack
(which stopped almost immediate
"ly. BY the third day all trace oi
" blood had disappeared and I had
recovered much strength. The
fourth day l sat up in bed and ate
"my dinner, the first solid food for
1.-TWO months. Since that time !
"have gradually gotten better and
am now able to move about the
house. My death was daily ex-
"pected and my recovery has been
" a great surprise to my friends and
+" the doctor, There can be no doubt
"about the effect of German Syrup,
"as l had an attack just previous to
"its use. The only relief was after
" the first dose" J.R. LoUGHHRAD,
Adelaide, Australia. u
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
The Legislative Record.

Three thousand, five hundred and
ffty-two pages of the Legislative
Record, containing the proceedings OF
the last legislature, have been issued
up to date. For each page the con-
tractor, Clarence M. Busch, of Phila-
delphia, receives $500. At this rate
the state has already spent $I7, ,4o4 SO
for this publication. Twenty compos-
itors are now at work on the Record,
besides pressman and stereotyper,
two assistants, a proof reader, galley
boy and foreman of the composing
room. Thirty-two pages are being is
sued daily Next year Mr.. Busch
will add over 1000 pounds of new
type to the plant SO that the publica-
ton can be gotten out quicker than
ever before. Twenty. eight years ago
the state paid sixteen dollars a page
for the publication of the Record.
Lively competition has gradually
brought it down to the present price.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
The Delamater Sale.

The personal property of ex-senator,
and late candidate for Governor, G..
w. Delamater, was sold at public sale
by the assignees, Messrs. Haskins &
McClintock. There was large at
tendance at the handsome residence
on Chestnut street, lately occupied by
our once distinguished, but now ek-
tinguished townsman. Many creditors
expressed their disappointment when
they found bare rooms and an almost
empty house. Little remained of value
scarcely enough to furnish two
rooms, and the whole sale at the house
only amounted to about $a5o, and
about the same amount at the barn.
The horses had been sold previously.
Indignant depositors declared that
the house was gutted like the bank, and
that, the way things are panning out
the property of the bankrupts will not
more than pay the preferred judgments
of $II5,ooo held by the members of
the family and their Notwithstanding
nothing to apply on their debts of about
ST., 100000. The assignee says that
what was taken from the house previ-
ously was under the $500 allowance, of
which Mr.. Delamater had availed him
self, and also articles claimed as per-
sonal property by Others. rs.-Meadcilie
Messenger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
The Germ Destroyer.

In the field of discovery and inven-
tion, medicine has not kept pace with
surgery That, perhaps, is natural !;
service surgery is the mechanical
branch of medicine. The general &C
ceptance Of the germ theory of disease
however, opens new field for medi-
cine, and will take it completely away
from the medieval supersltitions that
still cling to its skirts. And yet medi-
cine is not without its discoveries. 1t
has long been known, and the fact is
now recognized wherever the test has
been made, that Swift's Specific IS. S.
S. will destroy the germs of malarial
disease, the microbes of skin disease,
and the bacilli of contagious and other
forms of blood poisoning, elects them
from the blood, and purifies and builds
up the system. No medical discovery
of our day has achieved such remark.
able success.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
Ny Head was Fairly Rotten,

And how much / suffered it is hard to
describe. That loathsome disease,
catarrh, caused the above, and the
doctors said they could not relieve me.
| paid hundreds of dollars, for which l
received no benefit. got more good
from two bottles of Sulphur Bitters
than from all the money paid to doc
tors | shall continue the Sulphur
Bitters. as | have great faith that they
will cure mes. M. Day, Al Han
Over st., Boston. float.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
What 1t Does.

Greek Must Go.
The most dangerous attack on Greek
in the schools and colleges yet seen was
made the other day in England st a
meeting of the head masters of the Eton,
Harrow, Rugby, Winchester. Westmin-
ster, Charter House, St. Paul's, Clifton
and other schools-one of their usual
annual or semi-annual gatherings. 1t
was led, or in fact made, by Mr.. Well
don, the head master of Harrow. He
advocated the abolition of obligatory
Greek both at school and college and
the substitution of science or modern
languages, on two grounds.
The first was the need Of adapting ed
ucation to individual tastes and capacity.
The second-in the interest of Greek
study itself-was that the Greek lam
guage might be left in the hands of those
who really loved it, and could cultivate
it with success-to sort Of classical
elite, in short, who would rescue it from
its degraded condition rs the bugaboo Of
ounces and sluggards. There was good
deal of discussion, pro and con, which
elected nothing very new, but Mr. Well
don came within two votes of carrying
his resolution, this adverse majority be-
ing obtained by the adhesion of two of
the smaller schools.
We doubt if anything so ominous for
Greek has yet occurred, for the English
public schools are its stronghold today,
and indeed England may be said to be
its main champion. 1t has never struck
such deep roots in education and genera
culture Oh the continent or in this coun
try.-Ncw York Nation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-07-17
No. 17s.--An Acrostic Problem.

Make small cardboard counters, and let.
ter them like the printed ones on your dia-
gram. Place them exactly over the cor
responding ones in the picture, and then
move them as follows: Moving one letter
at n time, get, in the three spaces A, word
describing an insect. Letters or counters
cannot skip or jump. but each one must
have n clear path. When this word is
made move three more letters to b spaces,
making word representing color. Next,
in G spaces, make an animal. Last, in ID
spaces, make a pet name for girl. When
the words are properly arranged, the ini-
tials reading down will give kind of
meal, and the finals will give the name of
n garden. The numbers will serve for ex-
y,lai ininv noyac