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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23
A SCHOLARSHIPS DISSIPATION.
A Story by JnO. N. OskisOn, yinita's
Representative at Leland STAN
ford University

Scrupp himself said that his
story was not worth telling, but
Scrupp was then a world-weary,
hopeless, STOPPING old man. We
knew that he had been tried, and
were anxious to hear the story of
the trying. told my friend that
believed | could get Scrupp TO
tell me, because | made it habit
to sit on the old schoolmaster's s
doorstep on a Sunday evening,
saying few words and listening un-
weariedly to the reading of Enoch
Arden. Then, darkness coming
on, we would sit silent; each
dreaming his own dreams; mine
young and mostly unimportant;
his, | came to know, old, sadly
pleasant, despairing, absurd.
"You should have heard Pro-
fessor Shadson's lecture on that
poem," | began once, after the
reading. "He made me feel the
tradegy of it so keenly. There
must be many things happen in
real life like those set forth by the
poet, don't you think SOP"
"Many a one, young man, and
you don't have to take a four
years college course to know that
either. I'll tell you something of
what | know of the story of a
mans life. / knew him very
we'll" The old man looked at
me curiously, and | gazed out over
the prairie where the gloom was
settling, and traced figures on the
rough hewn, low doorstep. with
my pocket knife. He hitched his
chair little nearer the open door
and continued: Il was the one.
And since you want me to tell you,
I'll make the worthless story
short"
His recital was incoherent in
places, and | give it in my own
words:
Milton Scrupp, besides obtain
ing a second grade teachers GER
tificate in Kansas, had attended
lectures for two months in St
Louis. This was in order to un
derstand better the psychology o
his profession, and especially tC
learn something of the nature o
the little Indian children he was
going to teach in the Indian Terri
tory. He was to associate will
the Reverend Scott, who had beer
an earnest worker there for years
He had assumed his duty with ;
rather exalted idea of its impor
tance, and meant to do much gooC
quietly.
The school at the head o
Thompson's Branch was small
and the salary was not large
Twenty-Five dollars a month 70
two years, then thirty. five. TIL
pupils were dull, as a rule, beinl
made up of dozen Cherokee boy
and girls more or less pure blood
ed, and half as many white chill
dren whose parents were renter
in the Territory for numerou
reasons. 1t was generally known
that Anderson, who sent two chill
dren for several years, had beel
run out of his neighborhood IL
Arkansas because he persistent.
killed and peddled the beeves 0
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

the hills to make her next report,
the feeling sometimes that maybe
she won't come at all; the same
old whitfield benches in the old log
school house; the hoping, hoping;
the crazy notion you get at times
to 90 away over there and tell her
that everything is ready now. The
pictures that will come of what a
happy pair we would have been.
Children,-not these dirty, soul
less, unfeeling ones that | teach
but bright-faced, clean children
that you could take on your knees.
It's that that keeps me from being
cheerful always. But she will
come after while" The puncher
had ridden away without word,
leaving the old lover to his hopes.
X X =
1t was Just fifteen years after the
young medical student had come
to Scrupp's schoo! to make her re-
port, and twenty years since he
udQ Opcucu tuC oOAOOA Oii ehO hOoet
of Thompson's Branch, that my
friend and / rode over to ''sit up"
with the dying schoolmaster. He
spoke OF her in his last moments,
telling US to watch for her as she
rode up to the house from behind
the hills, and say TO her that he
had not used a bit of the old drug
since she went away.
While we logged slowly home in
the morning l told my friend the
story 1 had learned year before,
and he whistled pensively, remark
ing. in the end: "that habit of his,
wasn't it a terrible dissipation"
81 think it was rather pleasant, "
l answered. But he was thinking
of the morphine, while l thought
of the schoolmaster's long indul-
gence in his dream of hope.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

his neighbors. Then there were
tales told of the others, but it does
not matter what they were.
Scrupp found, naturally enough,
that he did not understand the
children under his charge.
THE brats are not at all like
ordinary children" he was wont
to declare. "You can't scare 'em
by whipping, and you can't get
'em out Of the sulks by coaxing,
and those little white kids have
lived around here so long that
they're just as bad as the others
probably worse" :"
The fact that he could not reach
the hearts of these children of the
prairie by any of the arts he had
learned in the Cherryvale train
ing school worried him a great
deal at first. de called on the
fathers of the white children and
talked TO them of "the States"
until they believed that be was a
special detective sent to spy upon
them. He ate hominy and wild
onions at the log cabins OF the In
dians, patted the heads of the lit
tie fellows, and talked with crazy
signs to the silent old fellows un-
til they laughed in his face, and
the little children hid their grimy
selves in the bed clothes.
The life of a school teacher
twenty years ago in the small
settlements of the West, was not a
very cheerful one at best, and
shut off from familiar intercourse
with the people about him, Scrupp
grew exceedingly lonely. If he
had been any one else, he would
have left the place and entered
civilization, but being poxey old
Scrupp at thirty, and sensitive, he
sat quite still in his little attic
room at Jack Shorthair's and
brooded over the fact that he was
not properly appreciated. He
dreamed of doing some fine thing
one day that would astonish the
world. None but the poets had
ever felt as he did and, half-asham.
ed, he began an epic that was tC
embody his great thoughts. But
he found it extremely difficult tC
make his rhyme and thoughts
agree, so he gave that up.
He saw a little pinched- faced
boy die once, because the boy wa:
not strong enough to stand the
sanitary conditions of the Indian
home, and he began to think
about studying medicine in small
way, fancying that he might bt
able to save some lives. While
he was in St. Louis he had seen {
student use morphine to relieve
insomnia. He remembered very
distinctly seeing him bare his arm
insert the hypodermic syringe
with a slight twinge of pain, ant
compose himself almost at once
He did not remember that th'
student was almost a wreck, ant
deathly pale. He reflected tina
the drug was powerful, and if b,
had known how to use it, he cOul'
have relieved Painting Bears chilc
when it cried with pain. HI
reasoned that it was a duty to d.
the best for his unsympalhetic bu
human charges. Then he wonder
ed if the pricking of the syring'
was painful, and how long
would be after the injection befor'
the drug acted. He felt the flesh,
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

az he used to cut for his old twine
mended "bean shooter" where
Little Cabin Joined the main creek
and both went down through the
prairie together. The small branch
of the fork was not so thick with
timber as the other, nor so large,
but then it had to fret itself almost
to death away up there in the lime
stone region, before it was able to
start for the gulf. Far beyond that
log house on the creek where a late
breakfast was cooking for an indo-
lent full blood, he could see a
number of small tents, and faint
line of fresh, yellow earth. She
told him that this railroad now
building would be completed with
in a few years, and that he might
travel from Texas, if be ever found
himself there, up to Kansas City,
her home, with only half dozen
stops for food. In short, she made
him see the simple beauty of his
life and surroundings where he
had supposed all beauty was lack
ing. He saw, through the chang
ing light Of her eyes, sufficient
motive for old Painting Bears stop
ping on hill crests, when on an
early morning chase, to invoke the
rising sun. The silent old fellow
knew how to worship nature while
resting his pony, though he never
spoke his devotion.
Scrupp missed the frequent talks
he had been enjoying since the
strange young physician had come
down to gather material for a re
port, though he was bad enough
company for her during those
times. She had been chance bit
of life, blown out into the prairie
to him from the outer world, and
she carried back with her his whole
heart; a burden light enough for
her. The schoolmaster kept his
school, and it grew larger year by
year as more white men came to
the Territory to reap the rewards
of early settlement. The stoop in
his shoulders grew more noticeable
and the old consuming love for the
girl who had saved him, grew into
a settled melancholy. The few
letters that dri tied over the plains
to him from the woman gave him
small hope, but he clung to the
fancy that everything would come
right in the end. He said this
over and over to himself as the
years passed, losing no faith, but
filling his mind with bright fancies
of what might have been it-still
he had the hills over which they
had ridden, though industrious
men were burrowing into their
green sides, leaving small ground
squirrel holes out of which they
were taking coal for their winter
fires. The wide valley between
the creeks now showed black, cul-
tivated fields, and wire fences
struggled out towards the black
jacks. Cow boys spoke to him at
times as he went from his house to
the school, and wondered among
themselves, "what made the old
duck so blue" One of them, Gu
rious and diplomatic, had talked
to old Scrupp about his own girl,
and had drawn from him a pas
sionate outbreak, which frightened
the fellow, and ended with: "It's
the staying here forever, the wait.
ing for her till she rides in over
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

q professions. interest, she told
herself, but it was necessary to in
interest the teacher intensely in
something, and since there was
nothing else in the half-savage
land to attract a civilized person,
she started in deliberately to make
the dishear'e 'ened schoolmastes fall
in love with herself. She got him
to go out with her on horse
back, when they rode for miles
over the wide expanse of prairie,
and returned tired out. Then she
would almost force him to smoke
pipes of very strong tobacco, for
that served in a measure as SUBJ
stitute for the old drug. Above
all she depended upon the in
fluence of her bright eyes. The
promise he gave her nightly as
She left his lodging house, changed
from: "I'll not take more than
three doses until | see you again."
to: "Only one tonight, my dear
friend" In two weeks more he
said bravely as he bid her good
night: "No more of that stuff until
you say so" and his eyes were full
of blind devotion.
1t was not an easy task that
Maria Pless had to perform when
she told Scrupp that she could
never marry him; that she had a
work in the world to accomplish;
that she should always think OF
him as the one who had given her
more aid than any one else. She
did not say professional aid," for
be would not have understood how
good "subject" he had been, and
it was not necessary. She sue
ceeded in leaving with the lonely
fellow a hope that things might
come right i'll the end. He had
given up morphine, and had looked
proudly on while the girl broke up
his syringe, and scattered the drug
to the winds. He felt no strong
desire to return to its use, now that
he could quit, and she had disap-
proved of it.
She went away to the railway
station, twenty miles to the north ,
one morning, and Milton Scrupp
rode beside her. His school term
would end soon: the grass on the
hills brushed the knees of the
horses. She spoke to him in Sc
rious mood of ones duty to
oneself. She made him see the
perennial beauty of the old famil-
lar hills which in winter time were
covered with a mass of dead grass,
twisted and matted, until some
sweeping prairie fire left them bare
and black. These hills were a
bright, waving green now, with
gray, jagged projecting masses OF
limestone breaking the mono.ony
of color Away to the east was
the long, wavering line OF trees
that marked the turns of CABIN
creek. The line seemed to twist
and jostle the shoulders of the en-
closing hills like sentient being,
crawling fast to join the great bot
toms and rock broken torrents o.
the Grand river. The black jacks
far to thesouth, set in relief on the
brow of the rise which bounded
broad level plateau of green
showed fresh and strong despite
their stunted proportions. There
were no high mountains, she tolt
him, to elevate ones eyes to, bu
couldn't he fancy a rude fork, sucl
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23
Tho Liver Keeps People Well.

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and energy almost from the first dose.
Price rs cents. Free trial bottle at
p. Shanahan's. yrb
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chill
blains, cOrns, and all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give
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Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

Can't express her thanks, scrofula
sores, terrible itching, entirely cured.
Mrs. Emily Ford, Eldora Hardin Co.,
Iowa, writes: 81 can't express my
thanks for the box of Beggs German
salve as it has entirely cured the ter
rible itching and burning, that was in
my ankles caused by scrofula' sores.
Peoples drug store.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-23

Take your work to the Excelsior
work first class; collars &c, cuffs 4c
per pair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-24
jyublic Notifies.

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sered as Is required BY the provisions the Railroad
To the Honorable the Board OF Aldermen The City and
The petition OF the Pelham Railroad Company re-
sss 5s5 gs oG5Docn
81 Ms YS Act to eyde or the
s ssdf|sf Railroads ss!ssd
p9rstion build construct maintain and oper
s and p Tos1ad for public
County ST e sas of New KY Sn
near ga5tOw on Harlem River and as or
as Third street along and through the street known
theme Ss %S1s r5 road to tn no%H
road tanes shG1sh 0ns me s Gy uRSn
aosd az Or petitions. Msrhas cSTnsTs and that
road described and Surface Saroad oi
usn ana add h iSns s: surface Of the fol-
~ Of the s. s ss S rss ..
cH inn aops ss@ S hSrs road or road to
ssa built constructed
s ss5: st st.. f9rs
s used o Or s rUu .
ThtrdMYour petitioner further shows informed
1iSSs;;ay 1;T obtain ne Bard =
sad and ascordnsy petitioner apples to your
to bs B6s S e Ps BRA and IN makes Application
ss4 o IS zSsr
use along the streets, and highways above
ana described together with all the necessary
ecors switches sidngs trnOuts turntables and cross
overs for the convenient working OF said railroad and fr
e accommodation OF the OF the company which NAV
signs. 80 HENRY r, -. p Ut AZ
a Da's d N he ' York, Day q
=, nen,y ~ Carey, being duly sworn deposes and saw
tnat the PelhaIn Park Railroad Company Is domestic
Cooperation ana that deponent is an ofcer thereof to-
VII PRESIDENT and therefore makes this
the foregoing petition Is the Knowledge OF de-
liked %POS Se en-
sworn TO before me this 9th day OF November 1891
- CLARENCE c. CORVIN
Notary Public No. l42, New York Cou,,-
All persons interested in TIE foregoing apn,,csta,
hereby Notified to be the and niscn ~
toned In said resolution. '' "eu-
WM. II. TEN EYcK
Clerk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-24
SUPREME CoURT-sECoND JUDICIAL

- DISTRICT.-In the matter OF aopica.,o,
petition OF william Brookfed Commissioner Of Public
Works OF the City Of New York, for behalf Of hs
Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty OF the City OF New
qure certain real estate the term real
fined said for the purpose OF providing for the
sanitary protection Of the sources Of the supply Of
the City OF New York
Public not!ce hereby given that we, undersigned
James B. Lockwood and william Wood. Commissioners
order Of the Supreme Court bearing Gate the 18th
day OF April 1905 and fled In the oace Of the County
Clerk Of Westcheser County the 2sth day Of June,
1895 Commissioners ascertain and apprase the COM
peusatiOn 10 be made 70 the OF and persons in
terested In the real estate laid down map OF lands
Register OF Westchester County. New-york, on the
2is day Of February. 1898. will apply Supreme
Court at Special Term thereof be held in and for
the Second Judicial District department, at White
plains y. y on the 9th day Of November. 1891 10
IN the forenoon Of that day. there
after counsel can De heard for the appointment OF
commissioner In the place and stead Of John Fenne
ceased said John Fennel having departed this life
subsequent the making and entry OF the order herein
before referred This application Is made In pursuance
ot chapter 1850 OF the Laws u 1898, being
the sanitary protection OF the Of the
further given that AZ the above mentioned Special
Term petition will be presented BY the undersigned for
tho appon OF commissioner Ill the vacancy
csoned by the death Of said John Fenne for such
order in tho premises as to the Court shall seem
and proper . $500
Dated New York. November 18TH 1881
JAMES B. LOCKWOOD.
WILLIAM WOOD.
Commissioners Of Appraisal.
once posoce for the purposes % this application
Office Of the Counsel 70 the Corporation Of the City
OF No. 2 Tryon Row New York City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-24
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
an APPEALS DECISIONS.

.,,a,v Nov 2s-The Court OF Appeals mas oeciueu
mai Elsa Forster shall be perpetualy ies.' .1o
syono suing the estate Of Salvatore canton i "a
900 which she claims was due her ioi ee ; e
ras.s The Appellate Divisions decision 10 ~
versed. and the order of the Special Term III,
netuauy restraining Mrs Forster from orineine 80
is affirmed Salvatore Cantoni was ne"''.' 80
the New-York Stock Exchange ana conuu'''N
bus,ness OF banker and broker ., Col,
The Court OF Appeals also handed cow" '''O
lowing decisions; o,., % 1afort agt
In Re- y Of MyTa Mary Paterson as
United States Industrial lnsussnce Uaith Costs
Julia Beno agt Troy and I anspspps sr New
Company, appellant; John nppcrzaEnt1Judgme re-
YORK naw tri,I granted costs TO abide event ar
People eE saE zf 8 as state Land Board il four as
nljcatons for land under wareri rxca and others
D a1d e.. Sorth Country Ciuborder and )uoseH
afHrmed. with costs A., = West. appellant
Gharles M kSn a ast g. cOs and q Fp n
APPELLANT: Henry s. Lawrence agt: n Aiken agt
See l. AEs ssva aPeeB ank appel
dom6oTders and judgments a smith % and anoiher
G. B. Ferguson az Gs;,sr NJ r admnisratrx, ag
Ismes Wills appellant: May Aug9'!WS ew Hen AIT
liant agt Elizabeth AldrIcn; aa G. Harris ana
WS% Ss Fox * agRssnt HsnPs
Parry n aPfsnId sst SewYork Chicago ana St
onis Railroad appellant; Gustave HeSe' g TROY
aSt. Henry NJ Tilford joseph L spnenant Mary
waste r IoepS Kaiser appellant In re
Stephen Brown and another as NeWYork City su-
So1f,es William r Gilbert appellant. recg1vs1
at Thomas c. Plat. as presiue'''
affirmed with costa -, \. codd,neton an
Matilda E Goodwin agt. Emily M CSqon nsW trial
Acknowledgement and order ie'e'''N NV
Pran,ed costs to abide event .,so,, act
Helen Mathews appellant and md rsessPpeiantJads
Fannle Hasrnnarsta Division reversed and that or
speca Tern affirmed With ,S Gosis executors ag
,,y Jo1hn n c1nben Observation-Disclosures Of Appellate
DIVISION reversed and Judgment e1tere costs IN the
I ti5nsrete Diyision and in thi. court ., -s.
Emma Condi Smith. appellant. as' fsImed with
cos1s against appellant personally
The Court OF Appeals calendar for to-morro" 49,
Nos 200 30. IA Lls5. 80 2l. AS ana "a
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MISSING LETTER PUZZLES BARRED.

Postmaster Van Colt has received instructions
from the Postoffce Department that al newspapers
other periodicals. containing advertisements OF
schemes offering prizes dependent upon lot or
chance will be debarred from the privilege OF the
malls. For example. incompleted words which the
contestants are to solve by supplying the missing
letters, such as Wa, city in Austria: c.
P-N-A-EN. q city In Denmark; CA---N a
city in the United States, The last named It will
be observed can be made into Camden, Canton.
Capron, Carbon Canyon all cities OF greater or
less Importance In the United States. II Is mere
matter OF chance whether the competitor selects
the words designated by the promoter the Cor
rect list. and upon this selection hangs the chance
Of obtaining the prize
Papers containing advertisements of this char.
sctar viii not In future be admitted TO the mails
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prcrosals.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Washington. D.

C. November nth. ls97.-Sealed proposals are
herehv invited and will he received AZ this Department.
,tntl o'clock p NJ Tuesday January II. iS9s at which
will De opened Ia the presence OF at
,csdte steel and wood Propeller. for the L =
coast and Ceciec Survey Tor service In Alaska and tbs
eutian Islands The limit u the appropriation Tor The
hdr and completion OF this vessel i one Hundred aDd
TSsnty-fve Thousand Dollars sl230ol said vessel 10
=, bo constructed accordance with plans and specrca-
lions provided By L. ; COAST AND GEODETTC SUR
Wv which together with forms OF proposal contract.
% .sr AND GEODErIC SURVEY OFFICE after Deem
~ tSo7 PROPOSALS will BE- considered only from such
t.rs as can the satisfaction OF the Sec-e-
tary OF the Treasury that they possessed OF the nec
sarv nan and facilities Tor performance OF the work.
Idsnca as 20 this ability must accompany the proposal
esel and her machinery complete IN all respects re-
oirei by the plans and Specifications contractor plans
r1 differing those % the Department
viii however considered. The said vessel must -
CONNECTED and delivered or before February |. lsn
Rdies are Informed that because Of the urgent need -
spee,y delivery the element 81 tine 20 be consumed n
her construction will he consideration IN determining
Inc award OF the contract Each proposal must he ac-
c,unanied with a cash deposit certified check payable
n, th order Of Secretary ~ the Treasury. IN the sln
rive Thousand Dollars $4,000 The certified check OF
No successful bidder viii be retained until the execution
OF formal bond contract and the approval ~ ne
by the secretary of the Treasury. and the certified
cheks OF the unsuccessful Bidders will be returned mme
,tev after the proposal Of the successful bidder shall
nae been accepted Bids must be addressed 70 the Score
tsrv OF tho Treasury. and be endorsed the enveops
vEY STEAMER FOR SERVICE IN ALASKA AND THE
kEITINN ISLANDS" The right is reserved 10 reject
80 ~ ali bids and waive defects II deemed for tho
interest OF tue L. j. GAGE. Secretary.