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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-04

when the squad turns out at midnight and often
he has already gone to bed. If he has not, he
probably goes soon after And this is his life.
He Is not a man. say those who have known
him long. of any extraordinary brain ability or
courage. He is impulsvc. changeabe and vain.
He goes about his little round OF duties in his
precinct longs for and seeks notoriety and boasts
about his devotion TO duty. There IS one good
thing about him." said Il man who had known
him for years, and whose expressed opinion Of
him was not altogether 1attoring: "he is good to
his men. He stands by them. whatever they do.
He will defend of his till he is proved to
have done something wrong. and he will try To
throw obstacles in the way of its being proved.
He may almost be said to believe that police
man do wrong"
Let this. then, be added to the qualities of his;
character and his life that have been dWelt upon
before, and together they will give Il summary of
the man which will not be far wrong. They will
now be found to be four: Personal ambition.
vanity, loneliness and the belief that policeman
can do no wrong.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
SNEAK OATHS.
Pet Phrases which Are Apt to BE
Harmful.

Harmful.
The natural tendency to eXclaim at
whatever surprises, annOys or pleases
grows into an unfortunate habit, which
thoughtlessness does not excuse.
Some people who would be shocked
at an oath, constantly use the words
Mercy" Goodness gracious" and
even such expressions as 20 heavens!"
THE Lord knows" and many others.
This shows something more than a
lack OF culture and refinement.
They are often uttered carelessly,
but sometimes with rebellious wish
to be just a little wicked, and make
as near an approach to an oath as the
reckless individual dare venture.
1t is sometimes difficult to correst
careless speech, but success in life more
often depends on knowing just what
not to say than what to say.
More often than we think, some fool
ish little remark costs us the respect
and esteem of some one whose friend
ship we value.
Habits control us, and if we indulge
ourselves in the impulse to exclaim
over every trifling occurrence in our
homes, the words will glide from our
lips unawares, and leave an impress
sion on other minds not easily erased.
Perhaps you have never thought your
pet phrases and expressions either
wrong or harmful, but you must ad-
NIT that they are useless II love ad-
miration and respect are worth win
ming, guard well the door of your lips.
Everywhere.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
QUEEN vICTORIA'S WEALTH.
British Ruler Not Near So Rich AZ
Popularity Supposed.

Some of our transatlantic visitors
are firmly convinced that the queen is
the possessor of enormous wealth. Even
in our own midst there is a general be-
lief that her majesty is very rich-not
ranking in fortune, perhaps, with a
Rothschild or duke of Westminster or
an Astor, but at all events rivaling
Jay Gould of a Belt, and magnates of the
second degree. The queen was rather
conspicuously poor for a princess, and
people have spoken pitifully of her mar
row lot in her early days. Her majesty's
civil list is far from being exceptionally
great, and, indeed, it is so parceled out
that she has but small control of it.
The sovereigns of Austria-H Hungary, of
Italy, of Prussia, of Russia and even of
Spain have larger incomes from the pub
lie treasury than she. The greater part
of her nominal income from the state is
appropriated to her household expenses.
Moreover, she has been unfortunate in
not coming of rich family. so that her
estates might be built up by inheritance,
as is the case with continental mon
archs, and she has had many poor rela-
tions to provide for. 1t is said that the
prince consort left an estate of C 100000,
in which the queen shared largely, and
the Saxe-Coburg family is far from be-
ing in need. But in 1885 her majesty's
private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby,
who ought to be a good authority, said
of the queens private affairs: ''She has
invested no money in ground rents, nor
does she possess a million TO invest"
Yet the queen enjoys large income
from the duchy of Lancaster; also for
the is years of his minority she had the
custody of the prince of Wales Corn
wall estates. She owns 1892 acres of
fairly productive lands in Great Britain
and possesses considerable property in
Germany. But all these known facts
will not provide for lie enormous es-
tate with which she j. credited. The
probabilities are that her majesty's
wealth has been exaggerated, but what
ii is will never be known, as the queens
last testament will never be probated
London Mail.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
NV Entire Line of Clothing
Greatly Reduced Prices.
j. c. GRAY

constitution OF the Cherokee ma
| tion), "the title OF the common
property passed from the COM
munal ownership and became
vested in the newly founded gov
ernment of the nation"
Let US now see what kind of an
animal it is that we have here on
exhibition; it would be interesting
to know in what remote cline he
was captured, over what deep-sea
waters he was imported into this
land of plain common things.
The Cherokee nation is a civil
government, a body polite, a
sovereign state; and yet this sover-
eign state, as these learned judges
tel US, holds and owns the terri
tory upon which it exists, by title
IN fee simple. Is not that some
thing in the common law of real
estate just a little unusual, just
little monstrous? Sir William
Blackstone tells US that, "a fee,
in general, signifies an estate of
inheritance. Here then We have
the spectacle of a sovereign state.
acquiring territory by purchase
and taking It'll by a deed in the
wording OF which it contemplates
lis own death, and the final trans
mission of the estate to its heirs.
l. not that something a little un-
usual in the doctrines of real es-
tate? There is, it is true, one
particular, and perhaps only one,
in which a state, in the owning
of property, can be competent to
comply with the theory of a title
in fee simple: it can die, cease to
exist. But what about the demise
Of the state? Who are to be the
heirs9 Suppose the Cherokee ma
ton should "go the way of all the
earth," a thing not imposs,ble),
who is to be the lucky fellow that
is to inherit the goodly estate
which this decreased nation has
left behind it here upon the shores
OF time, to-wit, this Cherokee
public domain?" If Judge
Springer be correct, there would be
nobody on earth that could take
the property according to any
principle of known law; it would
be simply In the position OF a G. eat
prize dropped into the arena for
universal competition. And in
this general squabble for gain, the
law would make no distinction be-
tween a Cherokee citizen and any
stranger that might feel disposed
&c enter the lists.
The fact is, the honorable judges
who are at the bottom of this thing,
are little off the track just here;
the Cherokee nation, as a govern
ment, is not competent to take an
estate in fee simple. This princi-
pie seems to have been sufficient
ly understood by the contracting
parties at the time the patent was
executed, and also by the parties
who framed the treaty by the terms
of which this patent was promised
1t was not to be given to the
"Cerokee nation," but to the
Cherokee nation of Indians.
See the preamble to the patent.
Think, if it be :hinkable, about
the government of the United
States owning the territory of
Alaska by title in fee simple; such
a conception ia an outrage on prin-
ciple. The state, in our modern
theory of real property inherits
The status of what was known in
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
Fashions for Wee Ones.

Cashmeres and lightweight silks,
such as India and foulard, in small pat
terms are among the favorite materials
for little girls cool weather frocks.
Cashmeres IN light colors are always
youthful and are truly welcome after
the few years of oblivion TO which
they have been consigned. The IA
vorite trimming in their case is bands
of ribbon, silk or velvet in contrasting
color.
The little girl of to-day has as COM
plete a wardrobe as her mamma, and is
the proud owner of outing frocks, walk
ingcostumes, house and dancing gowns,
but into all the element of simplicity
must enter if she is well dressed in the
true sense of the term.
A very pretty little dress may be
made up in challie, China, India and
foulard silks, while less expensive
frocks may be fashioned in organdy,
dimity. null, Swiss or batiste trimmed
with embroidery, lace or ribbon.-Chi-
capo Record
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
THE PEARL OF AFRICA,
Flight of Mwanga from His King
dom of Uganda.

The brief announcement was recently
made that Mwanga, the king of Uganda,
had fed from his capital and surren-
dered himself to the authorities of
German East Africa. No further de-
tails were given, but the bare fact was
full of interest. For that scapegrace
king is one of the best-known charac-
ters in all the Dark Continent, and
Uganda, the Pearl of Africa" is a
country upon which the attention of
the world has been much centered. 1t
is region of geographical interest and
of great political Importance, and it
has been the scene of some of the
most romantic adventures and most
earnest missionary efforts in all the
Dark Continent. The full story of
Mwanga's abdication and fight and the
subsequent development of affairs will,
therefore, be awaited with peculiar
eagerness in America, as well as in the
three countries which have for years
been contending for the possession of
that equatorial Kingdom.
The immediate predecessor of
Mwanga was Mtesa, who will be re-
membered as gentle savage" who
was most hospitable to the explorer
Stanley and under whose benign sway
Uganda was first brought TO the at
tention of the civilized world. There
was once hope that Mwanga would fol-
low in his footsteps, but it has never
been approximated in realization. He
has, on the contrary, proved to be one
Of the worst specimens of African bar
barism.
In religion he has been pagan, Roman
Catholic and Protestant by turns, with
interludes of unique deviltry. He was
the murderer of Bishop Harrington
and the fomenter of strife between the
French Roman Catholic and British
Protestant missionaries. He has played
fast and loose with Great Britain, with
France and with Germany, and indeed
has shown himself consistent only in
weakness, cowardice, treachery and
cruelty. Uganda is well rid of him.
and if the Germans will keep him from
ever returning they will promote the
cause of civilization and justice.
Uganda is now recognized as a part
of the British empire. 1t will, however,
still have king of its own. The Brit
ish will put Mwanga's son upon the
thrcne, with a council of regency. Thus
a stable government will be assured
and the work of civilization will go on.
For Uganda is really becoming a civ
ilized country. Its people are indolent
and unambitious, but they are docile
and intelligent, and take readily to civ
ilized ways. Agriculture and manufac-
lures have made much progress among
them. The gospel of good roads has
been preached and bicycles are not
unknown. Huts are being abandoned
for houses. European furniture and
clothing are used, and there is talk of
a trolley line. When the steam rail-
road from the coast is finished, as il
soon will be, there will be more rapid
progress, and the pearl of Africa" will
doubtless become the seat of genuine
and by no means rudimentary civiliza-
ton, TO which end Mwanga, by his
timely departure, has materially con-
tributed.-N. Y. Tribune.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16

The crocodile is about TO appear In =.
new role, that of a benefactor of So
ciety. A learned chemist, NJ. Metchni-
kof, at meeting of scientific society
recently, ,anpounced that whereas bacilli
exert an influence upon toxins and can
lessen or destroy them, these latter can
be converted into antitoxins only by
means of certain vertebrates. Among
these the crocodile stands at the head
for his special Office, and through his
agency the toxin of tetanus is rapidly
transformed into an antitoxin. 1t is
nevertheless difficult to imagine of what
practical value this information can be.
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
IMPRESSIONS or CHILDHOOD.
Once Formed They Last Through


Many persons of middle age recall
events. oftentimes the most trivial,
which occurred during the period of
childhood with greater readiness than
those of few months or years pre-
vious.
Impressions made upon the mind of
child are often indelible, therefore
the utmost care should be exercised by
those who have them in charge as to
the conversation to which they are al
lowed to listen and the events in which
they participate.
\ middle-aged woman recently Wis
tied a Vermont town where she had in
childhood been a pupil at an academy
which fourished in those days, but
which ceased to exist some years since,
the old building where its sessions were
held being removed.
The outlook from the windows of
one end of the school building had been
upon an ancient cemetery, and during
80 years of absence the visitor had re-
tanned as the strongest impression Of
her school life in the town the ap-
pearance of an old slate headstone with
the grewsome decoration characteristic
of the olden time and an inscription
setting forth the virtues of one Mrs.
Experience, relict of Abraham Slater"
which always met her eyes as she stood
in class beside a window of the school
house, and which seemed part of the
lessons reciIed there.
During an absence of 80 years q
reminder of the school invariably
brought a recollection of the head
stone, and during the recent visit she
found it still there in all its hideous-
ness, all that remained of the old school
life.
Thus impressions are often made up
on the mind of child by things which
have no connection with his real life,
but which stand out in bold relief
against the background of memory
with the same startling directness
noted by the amateur photographer
when he finds upon the developed plate
an object he had not intended to pene-
trate.
Like a sensitized plate, recording the
slightest impression, good or evil. joy
Gus or the reverse, is the brain of a
child. Many strong prejudices retained
through life may be traced to some in
fiuence received in childhood, some
word spoken, carelessly, perhaps, by
mature person in whose judgment the
child had implicit confidence.
Therefore the greatest care should
be exercised that the child brain should
be subjected only to cheerful, health
full impressions. Everything morbid
or sensational should be strictly with
held, and discussion upon subjects be-
yond the comprehension of the imma-
ture mentality should not be INDUCED
in when the children are present.
Like the unfolding of beautiful
flower is the mental development of
child. and, like the blossom, il attains
perfection only when all the conditions
are favorable. That blight or imper-
fection of any sort shall not mar its
complete fulfillment should be the con-
stant care of parents and guardians
Eternal vigilance" should be the rule,
that the entrance upon the broader life
of manhood or womanhood may not
be handicapped by impressions and
prejudices absorbed during the forma-
tive period. and which it is impossible
to erase from the memory. - Boston
RudOet
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
VILLAGES AND HOGPENS,
A Source of Disease and Injury &c
Country Towns.

n source OF Disease and Injury to
Country Towns.
1t is really remarkable what a part
the hog-pen plays in the well-being
and prosperity of the country. There
are in the United States $4,000 or 40, 900
villages of different sizes, and the most
of them have hog-pens and typhoid
fever. The connection is uniform and
direct. The hog-pen supplies the cause,
and the fever, or some disease closely
allied to 1t, is the effect.
1t has taken long while to convince
even the most intelligent settlements
of the vnlue of scientific sanitation, and
in the large cities il is a constant fight
to abate nuisances and compel people
to observe ordinary laws Of cleanliness.
But in the villages il Is much worse.
The populations cannot see the neces-
sity of the new-fangled notions, as they
call them, and any interference of a
board of health is an outrage and an
impertinence. We know of villages
where the doctors have been laboring
in vain fer years to eliminate the hog
pen. Their efforts are ridiculed, and
the hog-pens and the fevers, which
would never exist but for the unclean-
illness, remain.
After awhile the people of these small
places will see the importance of diff
ferent policy. When they realize that
the existence of hog-pens in a COM
munity will keep away all settlers
whose presence would be desirable. and
when they see their property depreciat-
ing in value because no one wants TO
live in villages where no attempt is
made to prevent disease, but everything
is done to encourage it, they may find
it to their advantage TO send the hogs
to the country, and then the health and
welfare of the whole nation will be i'm
proved.-Leslie's Weekly.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
FRIENDLY CRIIICISN.
Judge Springer's ntterances relative
to Land Tenure an Echo of the
Supreme Court. A Seem
ing Paradox.

EDITOR CHIEFTAIN:-There j;
only one point, il would seem, IN
which Judge Springer's decision
is open to criticism; and that is in
reference to the nature of the title
by which the Cherokee people
hold the lands which were decided
to them by the authorities of the
United States. And yet Il would
hardly be just to hold that accom-
plished magistrate accountable for
anything of error that might ap-
pear among his Judicial utterances,
because it is well understood that
the enunciations of his bench are
required to be only the lowland
echoes of thunders which emanate
from the cloudy cliffs that lie still
higher up the great peak of infal-
hble wisdom and eternal justice.
1t is law founded in the nature
OF things universal, that he who
attempts the practice of error will.
sooner or later, have to experience
some kind of Inconvenience as a
result, and, in the end, have occa-
sion, perhaps, to indulge feelings
of genuine repentance. This is a
law, too, against the penalty of
which there is no degree of power,
or prerogative, that can be allowed
to constitute any valid exemption.
If this were not so, how then arc
we to account for the pitiable man.
ner in which the judicial mind of
the United States has got itself SO
hopelessly befogged in reference to
the nature of the title by which
the Cherokee people own the lands
which they now occupy? Many
judges, high and low, learned and
otherwise, have grappled with this
question I; yet none of them have
ever succeeded in doing for us any
thing more than simply to tell US
what 1t is not /; all, however, have
been pretty generally agreed that,
notwithstanding the unquestion-
able formality OF the patent, the
pious solemnity of the bargain, as
well as the complete adequacy of
the consideration paid for these
same lands by the Cherokee peo-
pie, yet their title is not much of
a thing after all-nothing that
can, like a white mans title in the
states, intrench itself under consti-
tutional guarantees and there find
protection against the assaults of
sinister legislation
In this connection, Judge Spring
er's words, though not original with
himself, are truly interesting as
furnishing a distinguished illustra
ton of the truth of what we have,
Just above, been trying TO say.
at will be seen, says his honor,
under the head of Land Tenure"
(by the way, however, it is not
easy te see how that subject can
have anything TO do with the issues
to be decided)-''it will be seen
from the text of The patent by
which the Cherokee nation holds
the lands belonging TO it, that the
title is in fee simple" These
words are, of course, intended to
stand in line with those of Mr..
Justice Mott of the court of claims
in the Freedman case: "By the
adoption of the constitution" (the
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
Oldest Wage Garner

Probably the oldest citizen Of Amer
lea engaged in daily toll for wages is
Barney Morris, whose duty it is to keep
paths and flower beds in Prospect park,
Brooklyn, free from waste paper and
rubbish. On June 10 last Barney cele-
brated his one hundred and fifth birth
day. He was born in Temple Court Par
ish, county Cavan, Ireland, and came
to this country rs years ago. Aside from
his wrinkled skin, the only sign of his
great age is the absence of teeth. His
hair has been the same shade of iron
gray for 20 years.-Chicago Tribune.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
Astronomical Phenomena Explained.

A discovery of much interest TO as
tronomers has been made by DIR. L. l..
j. See, who is IN charge of Lowell OBJ
servatory at Flagstaff, \. T. The cause
of the twinkling of the stars has al
ways been a mystery, none of the
theories advanced having stood the
test of thorough investigation. DR.. See
has found the cause to be the presence
in the atmosphere of innumerable little
air currents or waves, which dart
through the air and cause a break in
the light from the star. The result is
that to beholder on the earth the star
has the familiar appearance of twink
ling. These little air currents can be
distinguished through the 24-inch tele-
scope very plainly on nights when this
twinkling is observed most by remov-
ing the eyepiece of the instrument.
This discovery has been called to the
attention of the Royal Astronomical
society of London.-N. y. Herald.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
Deformed Fingers in Criminals.

'The fingers of criminals" says a
medical man who has studied them,
"are, in nine cases out Of ten, in so1he
way or other deformed. People who
are constantly being convicted of theft
are found to have long, thin fingers, a
wide space separating the first and sec
ond, and the little finger crooked. In
murderers the fingers are short and
thick; the thumb is long, and the hand
altogether powerful. In cases where
excessive brute force has been used the
little fingers on both hands have been
found to be weak and deformed Knotty
fingers are prominent where craftiness
is exhibited. Among habitual crimi-
mails, especially burglars, the fingers are
found to be thicker at the tops than
near the knuckles. Out of 5000 GRIM
inals recently examined, 90 per cent.
were found TO have deformed fingers
London Answers.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16

r. E. Lynch was up from Tulsa a
few days since. While they were not
burned out their building was consid-
erably injured and their stock badly
damaged by removal, the aggregate
loss reaching several thousand dollars,
though fully covered by insurance.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16

Mrs. NJ. h. Ford, Ruddelrs, ILL.,,
suffered for eight years from dyspepsia
and chronic constipation and was
finally cured by using DeWitt's little
early risers, the famous little pills for
all stomach and liver troubles. p.
Shanahan. 8
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16
Plum Sauce for Meats.

To each pound of damson plums add
half cupful of sugar, half an ounce
each of cinnamon, mace and cloves
Tie the spices in a bag. Remove the
stones from the plums and boil until
it becomes thick like jam. - N. Y.
Ledger.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-12-16

Take your work to the Excelsior
Steam Laundry, or drop card in the
post Office and 'et the driver call for
your package. Prices reduced and
work first class; collars &c, cuffs &c per
pair.