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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

What are said to be the two oldest
vessels in the merchant service in the
United States arrived at Calais, Me-,
together few days ago. They are the
Polly. a schooner of eighty-four tons,
built in 1905. and the schooner Hiram,
built in 1919. The Polly is the vessel
that captured a British brig at Machias
in the war of 1912.
"A six-year-old German boy ar
rived in Santa Cruz, Cal, recently. hav-
ing made the entire trip from Bremen
TO that place alone. He wore a tag
bearing the name and address of his
California friends and had a ticket to
great attention and the utmost kind
ness from everybody during the jour
ney.
The story of the phenix is a COM
mon superstition in several countries.
According to the ancient and best ac-
cepted letters the world has but one
phenix. This animal, at the end of 900
years, burns itself to death in funeral
pyre of its own erection, and as soon
as it expires another phenix with
wings outstretched rises from the
flames.
San Francisco declares that it will
soon have the largest store in the world.
A big department store, TO be called
the Emporium, is now being built there
which will cover 5000 feet more space
than the noted Bon Marche in Paris.
1t is to contain, besides the multi
tudinous departments found in the big
stores of most big cities, cycling
school, barber shop, a bank and
candy factory.
A great many persons firmly be-
lieve that ants do not sleep. This
superstition arises from the fact that in
moonlight nights during the summer
ants have often been seen at work
about their nests. People of almost all
nations have believed that ants lay up
food for the winter. The alleged fact
is mentioned many times in ancient
and modern literatures, and is directly
stated in the Book of Proverbs. They
do no such thing. During the winter
they remain in torpid or semi-torpid
condition, reviving under the genial
warmth of the spring sun.
The bicycle has taken Holland,
and the state railroads have had to
determine what they shall do with it.
Unpaclled and accompanied by the
rider they win take it as personal bag
gage for the sum of seventy cents
equal to twenty-eight of ours This
is for any distance, but you can't go
far in Holland unless you go
round and round. The owner
must help take it on and off
the baggage car, and transfer il from
one train TO another where such is nee
essary; and the railroad will not be re-
sponsible for damage 10 an unpacked
wheel.
AT Alexandria the Serapeum,
where the last of the great public IL
braries was preserved. was recently
discovered by DIR. Botti. director of the
Alexandrian museum. The column
that rose in the middle, visible from
the sea as well as from the land, he
identifies with Pompey's pillar. He
has found the tank of the fountain
that stood in the central court and the
channels cut through the rock that led
the water to it, inscriptions of the time
of Hadrian and Severus dedicated to
Serapis. bull of fine workmanship,
remains of gilded ornaments and few
tombs,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
BELLOWS HOLD THEIR OWN.
Blacksmifhs stick to Them Notwithstand-
ing the Newer Power Blowers.

Hlacksmiths stick to Them Notwithstand-
ing the Newer Power Blowers.
The blacksmith's bellows has three
boards. When the bellows is set up
in position the middle board is fixed
the upper and lower boards are NOV
able. There is a valve in the middle
board and one in the lower board.
When the bellows is not in use the low
er board falls as low as the leather will
permit it, and that compartment is
then filed with air. With the work
ing of the lever and the raising of the
lower board the air in the lower COM
partment is forced through the valve
in the middle board into the upper
compartment, which is the reservoir,
whence it flows through the nozzle of
the bellows into the fire. When the
pressure from the bellows ceases the
valve in the middle board closes, and
the air is then forced out from the up
per compartment or reservoir of the
bellows by the weight of the upper
board; sometimes this board is weight
Cd to make it expel the air more rapidly
and forciDly The continuance of the
blast without the working of the lever,
caused by the gradually sinking upper
board of the bellows, may last for a
quarter of a minute; il is highly
prized characteristics of the bellows.
The blacksmith who is alone is thus en-
abled, If he should so desire, 10 use
both hands at the fire; or he might &c
across the shop and be back. swaying
the lever once more before the blast
had ceased.
A good bellows will last for many
years without repairs. Blacksmiths'
bellows are made in various sizes, from
twenty-four-inch to sixty-inch- The
thirty-six-inch is the size most COM
monty sold. The size is the width at
the widest point Bellows are longer
than they are wide, and they are made
of different lengths in the same width,
ordinary, and long. There are about
fifteen bellows manufacturers in the
country, including three in New York
and one in Brooklyn
Manufacturing and other establish
ments supplied with power FORCES are
nowadays equipped with power blowers;
and there are also various hand blow
ers, some operated with crank and
some with a lever, and there are now
used many portable forges and blowers
combined. The sale of modern appli-
cnces for blowing forge fires has in
creased greatly in recent years, while
the sale of bellows has not; but there
are shipsmiths and boiler makers,
wheelwrights, carriage and wagon max
ers and others who still use bellows.
and almost every horseshoer uses a
bellows, and prefers it TO any other
means of blowing his fire, so that there
are still sold thousands of bellows
annually.-N. Y. Sun.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
Polite Burglars.

1t is said that even the most gentle
manly of our burglars have much to
learn from Japan in the way of polite
ness, if one may judge by description
of the manners of robbers in that coun-
try. Three men broke into a dyer's
house while he was away, and one of
them gently asked the wife how much
money there was in the place. She an
swered that there was just little in
the house. The robber laughed and
said: You are good old woman, and
we believe you. If you were poor, we
would not rob you at all Now. we
only want some money and this"
placing his hand on a fine silk dress.
The old woman replied: IAN my hus-
bands money can give to you, but 1
beg you will not take that, for it does
not belong to my husband, and was
confided to ms only for dyeing. What
is ours ! can give. but l cannot give
what belongs to another" That is
quite right" approved the robber, and
he Immediately withdrew with his con-
federates.- Tit Bits.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
A Judges Rlunder.

Although Judge Bacon has often ad-
Indicated in the Bloomsbury county
court on the fit and cut of ladies'
dresses in the old style, he is not yet
accustomed to the new woman. When
he took his seat in the tribunal the
other day he happened to glance at
the public gallery, and saw some one
there with a stand-up collar round the
neck ard a cloth cap on the head.
Take off your cap up there" cried his
honor. The person addressed made no
movement. You man, there, take off
your cap" repeated the judge, louder
than before. Its lady, your honor, "
replied an unknown voice from the
gallery. "a what?' said Judge Bacon.
"a woman, is it? Then why does she
dress like that?7 And when the
laughter had subsided he commenced
the business of the court. From the
new woman's cap there flowed a wealth
of flaxen curls, aud a clerk was heard
to whisper facetiously to the usher:
''She's waiting to be called to the bar
and has already bought her wig."-
London Telegraph.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
CONSCIENCE MONEY.
IL Is Almost Always Returned TO tn
Rigbtful Owner Secretly.

IL Is Almost Always Returned to the
Rrgbtful Owner Secretly.
The paying of conscience money if
rare enough in itself, but it is seldom
that such money is paid in person.
More frequently the payments are
made in such a manner that they can
not be traced TO the sender. The
senior member of a manufacturing
firm in one of Troy's suburbs had sim
gular experience in the matter of con-
science money one day recently. Thir-
" years ago he was engaged in man.
utacturing business in this city and
employed large number of women and
pirls at the factory 1t is likely that
among this number there were at least
q few who were not strictly honest, but
cnIy one has been troubled by guilty
conscience sufficient TO cause her tc
make restitution. This one, now an
elderly woman residing in Philadel-
mia. came to Troy a few days ago and
went to the Office of her former en-
ployer. She would not give her name,
but explained that when employed as
an operator in the factory thirty years
before she had on a number of occa-
sions so falsified her time sheets as to
be able to draw more than the sum to
which she was entitled. Her con-
science had troubled her all these years,
and by the direction of the priest &c
whom she had confessed she had come
on from Philadelphia TO make restitu-
ton. The manufacturer tried to as
sure her that the past was gone and for
gotten, and as he had never had knowl-
cdege of these false time sheets il would
be best to let the matter drop. He did
not want her money, but would freely
and fully grant his forgiveness, if that
was what she had come for. "But you
must take the money" insisted the
woman, crying pitifully. Il cannot say
exactly how much would be due you,
but want to pay you thirty dollars and
then beg forgiveness" The manu-
facturer declined to receive the prof
fered money, but this refusal made her
weep more bitterly than ever. She as
sured him that unless he consented 10
take the money it would defeat the en-
tire purpose of her long journey. In
the end she had to have her way and left
the money on the desk when she depart
ed. Truly, this is strange case, and
illustrates the power which conscience
exercises on human action--Troy (N.
" Times.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
Rlx I'm a Soprano,a Throat.

While mass was being celebrated at
the cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception in Portland, Me-, on recent
Sunday a young lady from Boston,
fine vocalist, was assuming the leading
soprano part. When the solo "Salve
Regina" was reached the lady sang the
solo, and had just reached the con-
cluding measure, her pure, crystalline
notes falling most agreeably on the
ear, when the members of the choir
noticed that she turned pale and placed
her handkerchief to her lips, giving
a spasmodic cough. A fly had flown
down her windpipe and shut off her
wind Fortunately at that moment
the full chorus had to sing, thus pre-
venting any break, and when her turn
came again the lady was able to re-
spond. The poor fly was afterward
found on the bosom of her dress He
had paid for his temerity with his life.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
Pretty Polly In a Fix.

A Snowman at the fair possessed q
beautiful parrot, which accompanied
him everywhere on his peregrinations
through town and country, and excited
the admiration of the gaping crowd by
its capital imitation of the showman's
voice and tones when inviting the pub
lie to step into the booth. One day the
faithless creature broke it's chain and
escaped into neighboring plantation
Soon a number of men and boys were
on its track, but before they had gone
far they heard loud noise caused by
the screeching of birds in the wood.
On arriving at the spot whence the
sounds proceeded, they found poor Poll
perched on the withered branch of a
tree, bereft of most of its feathers, and
surrounded by a flock of screeching
crows that were mercilessly pecking at
it with their beaks. Notwithstanding
this pitiable state of affairs, the crowd
of seekers could not refrain from laugh
ing as they heard the poor victim
scream out at the top of its voice: Zone
at time, gentlemenl Don't crush so,
please, Take your timel There's plen-
ty of roomr'-Internation Curgast.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30

on boat on the Thames. and just as
he was going to take him in he went
overheard and disappeared in the dark
waters of the river. Every effort was
made to find him again, but without
success, and this time we were sure he
had been drowned
"For year afterward nothing was
seen of him, and then we heard of him
in Liverpool, and one of the Scotland
Yarders went there to take him, if pos
sible- He spotted him, as usual, down
about the docks, where he seemed to
be careless, and again he took TO the
water and escaped. By this time we
felt that he wasn't born to be drowned
and that he would turn up again. He
did, several times, and each time he
got away. At last, about five years
after l had been in America, l received
a letter from a friend of mine at Scot
land Yard to the effect that the water
dog as we called him, had been cap
tured by an accident He had been
seen near the docks by a roundsman
and chased, and as he went toward
the water across the dock he tripped
and fell. striking his head on a stan
chion and falling into the water in an
unconscious condition. He was fished
out and resuscitated, but before they
brought him around they discovered
his amphibiousness, so tospeak. Fast
ened around his neck was a rubber
tube, ten feet or so long, with mouth
piece ready handy at one end, and the
other end fastened into a small cork
float, so that when he went into the
water he stayed there, either swim
ming away or holding to dock pile,
but never coming to the surface for
air, as he got all he wanted through
the tube, with its open end in the float,
which wouldn't be noticed one time in
a thousand in the dark in such nasty
water as is about the docks. OF course
they would have got onto him after
awhile, but the accidental falling saved
time and explained a mystery. which
he no doubt guarded sacredly, even
from men of his class, for know none
of the thieves we ever caught could
give him away."-Washington Star.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
PURE PATRIOTISM.
A French Soldier Who Was Always Rea
to Do His Duty.

A French Soldier Who Was Always Ready
to Do His Duty.
Few men, not endowed with brill
liant ability. have left behind them
more honorable or distinguished rec
ord than NJ. Victor Duruy, a French
statesman and scholar who died recent
ly at the age of eighty-four. His life
was an exemplifcation of the rewards
which may wait on the faithful obedi-
ence of the Scriptural maxim: What
soever thy hand fndeth to do, do it
with thy might"
He began, as many another young
scholar has begun, as a teacher. Here,
in the performance of his duty, he
once had occasion to turn out of his
class Victorien Sardou, who afterward
became famous writer. Young Sar-
dou had failed to get some part of
lesson in Egyptian history, and had
said to NJ. Duruy that he thought he
might proftably omit it."
But ]" said Duruy, ''as your teach
er, am the sole Judge as to that"
And l, since 1t is l who have to
learn. ought to have some choice in
This impertinent remark earned for
Sardou the suspension which he re-
ceived. Sardou, as a man and genius,
obtained early the literary distinction
which caused him to be chosen a MEM
Der of the French academy-the forty
immortals," and when Duruy, in his
old age, as TIE crown of laborious
life, was proposed as member of the
same body, Sardou supported him cor
daily and he was elected.
Duruy. as an eminent and practical
educator, was wanted by the emperor.
Napoleon Ill, as minister of public
instruction. The emperor sent for
him and proposed to him to enter the
ministry.
But, your majesty" Duruy an
swered, II have taken very little part
in politics"
$50 much the better" said the en-
peror.
And what part l have taken has
been against your
mo matter" said Napoleon, ''you
are the man l want for minister of
public instruction"
Duruy took the place and worked
hard in it, still doing with all his
might the work that came to his hand.
In the war with the Germans in 1870
there was no political work for him to
do. For the time, after the surrender
of Napoleon, all who had been in the
government were discredited. So, at
the age of sixty, Duruy enlisted in the
national guard as a private soldier
One evening in September, 1870,
Jules Simon. then minister of public
instruction, was entering the ministry
when he thought he noticed that the
soldier on guard at the door, who pre-
sented arms to him, had a familiar
face. He paused and looked steadily
at him.
"Duruy," he exclaimed, lis that
you?"
at is I-Duruy," the soldier an
swered.
"A common soldier?"
"A common soldier. One can't be a
minister always"
But see that one can always serve
as an example"
Duruy smiled, and stood at salute
while his successor entered the build
ing. 1t was not until fourteen years
after that he was elected a member of
the academy-the highest honor. in
literature or learning, that French
man can hope to attain. 1t is possible
that the fact that Duruy had always
stood ready to do his duty, no matter
in what direction it lay, had much to
do with his elevation to this honor
Youths Companion
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

Mashed Chestnuts.-Boil, remove
brown skin and mash the same as po-
tatoes. Add butter or cream, salt, pep
per and serve at once.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
Baked Pears. Take good-sized
pears, arrange them in deep baking
dish, into which pour half pint of hot
water in which has been stirred half a
cupful of sugar. Cover with lid or in
verted dish and bake slowly, frequently
basting them with the sirup till they
are tender. They are excellent served
with cream.-Prairie Farmer.
Warm Ginger Cake.-Two and one
half cups of flour, one cup of molasses,
one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of
melted lard, one cup of boiling hot
water, one large teaspoon of ginger
and one teaspoon of soda in the water.
When thoroughly mixed add two eggs,
beat together and bake in a dripping
pan.-Frances L. Owens, n Chicago
Record.
Fruit Coolxies.-Two cups of sugar,
two thirds of cup of butter, one cup
of chopped raisins. one-half cup of
water, one egg, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Flavor with cloves,
cinnamon and nutmeg. Cream the but
ter and sugar. add the other ingredients
and -four enough to render it stiff
enough to roll out. Bake in a quick
oven.-Boston Budget.
pa;faI ono of
young white ol1ra well in cold water.
put into porcelain-lined or granite
kettle ian iron kettle discolors the
okral with half pint of water and a
teaspoonful of salt. Cover the kettle
and simmer gently thirty minutes;
then add one tablespoonful of butter.
one tablespoonful of vinegar, and pep
per, and more salt if necessary. Boil
up once and scrve.-Rural New Yorker.
-Deviled Eggs.-Boil number of
eggs hard. and when cold cut each in
two lengthwise. Take out the yolks
mash them with fork, mix with but
ter and add minced potted ham and
French mustard. The followed whites
of the eggs should be filed with this
mixture, the two halves of each being
pressed together and then each egg
wrapped in tissue paper, the ends of
which are twisted TO keep the halves in
placc.-Housekeeper.
Flour Gems.-One and one-half cup
iuls of flour. one and one-half cupfuls of
milk, one teaspoonful of butter, one
egg, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Mix the flour and bak-
ing powder together, stir in the melted
butter and the milk, and then the egg,
we'll beaten. Beat the whole until light
and foamy and with il nearly fill the
gem pans. which should be hot and well
buttered. Bake for fifteen minutes in
O quick oven.-Prairie Farmer.
-Haricot Pie.-Boil half a pound OF
haricot beans which have been soaked
all night. Grease a pie dish and line
the bottom of it with as many beans as
will cover it well. Season with pepper,
salt and dash of chopped onion. Then
add layer of hard-boiled eggs, cut into
thick slices and seasoned, Next an
other layer of beans, and on them few
tomatoes (tinned will do), cut into
slices. Pour in a little good thick
gravy. Cover with short crust and bake
till the pastry is cooked.-Leeds Mer-
curV.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-01-30
THE MONASTERY MENU.
What Holy Brethren Ate During tho FIJI
teenth Century.

What Holy brethren Ate During tho Fif-
teenth Century.
To one familiar charge it is satis-
factory TO find that the brethren could
plead not guilty. There was no gor-
mandizipg at St Swithin's- The seri-
Gus meals of the day were two. dinner
at noon and supper between six and
seven; besides this there was a bowl
of porridge for breakfast. and for any
one who desired it n cup of ale and
hunch of bread was ready in the re-
fectory at three, when the after-din-
ner sleep vas over. The kitchen bills,
il must be allowed. are strangely
heavy; two thousand one hundred
pounds for the years fare, exclusive of
bread, beer and wine, to a modern
mind would call for liberal reductions.
But if the fare was plentiful it certain
ly was in no sense luxurious, even at
Christmas or on the festival of ST.
Swithin himself; and upon fast days
there is an equally plain proof in the
daily bills of fare that dinner and sup
per were each a very sorry business.
Fast days, too, were disagreeably
numerous before the reformation.
There was not only the long season of
Lent in which TO subdue the willful
appetite, but all Advent, and every
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
throughout the year. At such seasons
the boards must have been painfully
bare, for the only admissible eatables
were fish, eggs and vegetables, and
upon occasions such small mercies as
figs and raisins. Thus on Wednesday,
November IA, 1892, the bill of fare for
the two meals was salt ling, eggs and
an entree of oysters
On Saturdays the diet was rather
more liberal, two or three extra dishes
of fish being added. But happily the
whole year was not made up of fast
days. and for an example of an average
bill of fare we may take that of New
Years day, 1893 Upon that occasion
the brethren had for the two meals
moile Ia dish of grated marrow and
bread, beef and mutton, numbles (the
tenderer cuts from a haunch of veni-
SOM, steaks as an extra dish, and bread
and beer at discretion, as our neigh
bors say. Sometimes instead of the
moile they had brose, or toasts soaked
in the dripping of the roasting meat;
soup often figures as a supper dish;
fshballs, or rissoles, tansy pudding,
batter, custards. calves feet, tripe, all
appear among their side-dishes. On
festivals there was no more than the
slightest increase in the character of
the dinner; perhaps a dish of spiced
vegetables and an extra entree.-Chi-
cago journal