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WEIGHTED SILK.
Sometimes Ninety Per Cent Of the Ma.
terial Is Foreign Substance.

Sometimes Ninety Per Cent of the Ma.
terial Is Foreign Substance.
At the present day the practice of
weighing silks by mean of astringent
extracts, salts of tin, silicate and phos-
phate Of soda and a variety Of other
substances, all more or less injurious to
the wear Of the fiber, has reached such
a height that it is seriously affecting
the trade. This is especially the case as
regards black silk, but fabrics of other
colors suffer in the same manner.
1t used to be remarked that a silk
dress or q silk handkerchief would last
a lifetime, and this is almost true for
absolutely pure silk. But in much of
the fabric sold at the present day there
is not more than 10 or 10 per cent Of
real silk, all the rest being e%xtraneous
matter applied to the fiber in the decep-
tiva process Of "weighting."
Pure silk, when burned. leaves a
quantity Of ash which is always consid-
erably less than | per cent, but the ash
left by some weighted silks has been
found to amount to as much as 4S per
cent of the weight of the fabric.
The e%xtraneous substances to which
we have alluded are caused to adhere to
the fiber by passing the skeins through
hot baths of tannin extracts, tin salts,
salts Of iron, antimony, potash, etc,
and it has been found that when q silk
much charged with such substances il
heated it will not burn with flame, but
will only smolder away, leaving a very
large amoun Of ash behind.
But these weighted silks are, how
ever, of SO combustible q nature that
some have been known to take fire spon-
%taneously. a result due to the gradual
decomposition Of the substances used
for weighing, and disastrous fires have
been traced to this cause Spontaneous
combustion is liable to break out more
especially in black silks that are stored
ill warm. dry places. Chambers Jour
nal.
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Making a Bigger Dictionary.

Science is making the dictionary big
ger every day. A hundred years ago
nearly every common word now con
nected with electricity was wholly IN
known. Steam and all the names now
applied to railroads, engines, gas, the
telegraph, the telephone and a hundred
and n other important subjects never
had been heard of-and they would
make a small dictionary in themselves.
And now the single invention for throw
ing moving pictures OH screens, various
ly known as the vitascope or kaleidoscope,
has added dozens Of new words to the
language within the last year or two.
Here is a list Of the various names for
movement photographs"
Phantoscope, cri~terioscope, vitascope,
cinematograph, biograph, kinemato-
graph, wondorscope, animatoscope, vi.
tagraph, panoranograph. cosmoscope,
anarithmoscope, katoptikum, magni-
scope, zoeoptrotrope, phantasmagoria,
projectoscope, v%ariscope, cinograph, Gin
nomonograph, hypnoscope, centograph,
x ograph, electroscope, cinagraplloscope,
kaleidoscope, ~craboscope, Kaleidoscope,
cinematoscope. mutoscope, cinoscope,
aninaloscope, t~heatograph, ~chronopho-
tographoscope, photograph, k~inetograph,
rayoscope, motorscope, kinotiphone.
thromotrope, phenakistoscope, ene
trope, microscope, zinematograph, vitop-
ticon, stinnetiscope, Microscope, diaram-
iscope, lobsterscope, corminograph, XII
neoptoscope.-Chicago Record.
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THE TITLE
One Free Bird That Attracts Attention
Among Hundreds OF Captives.

Among Hundreds OF Captives.
In a big bird store where there are
hundreds Of birds Of many kinds inces-
sanity sq%uawking, chirping and singing
there is one that is free-a tiny tit
mouse. The window is full of cages
containing birds OF various sorts, and
one side Of the store is lined with bird
cages stacked up high all along. But
there is acne that attracts SO much at
tention as the little titmouse fitting
about the store at will. At night it
percbes on a gas fixture in the window,
and to that it comes back from its vari-
Gus excursions by day.
Customers that come III to buy birds
and birdcages and bird seed and Il
thing and another never fail to notice
the titmouse. They may not notice an
other bird there Individually, but their
attention is sure to be attracted by this
one as it darts about, free among SO
many captives, and they are likely to
smile at it, they are so pleased with it.
And sometimes children, looking in at
the windows of the bird store, come in
to tell the clerk that one of the birds
has got loose.
When it has nothing else to do, the
titmouse sits on its gas pipe perch and
perks its head this way and that and
looks about. Sometimes it whets it's
beak on the gas pipe. Every now and
then it dashes off somewhere. If it
wants a drink. it perches on the rim of
a goldfish globe-for home aquariums
and stock for them are sold here as well
as birds-no doubt to the great surprise
of the goldfshes and certainly to that
of the human beholders, who wonder
that it doesn't fall in, it has to bend
over S far to reach the water. But it
gets it, and when it has taken its fill it
flashes back to its perch on the pipe in
the window.
The titmouse catches spiders and 9TH
er insects, and it feeds in tho larger
cages when it will. It goes in and out
of them between the bars with perfect
ease. 1t is a very little bird, even with
its plumage in its natural form. With
its feathers pressed against its sides it
can get through a very narrow space
between the bars Of q parrots cage. for
example-With ease. There are in the
window a number Of parrots cages il a
row The titmouse almost flies through
these cages, stopping in each perhaps to
eat of the parrots food, but they never
modest it. Parrots that would bite at
the finger of a man who should put his
hand g enough to the outside of their
cage stand back in fright or sheer
amazement when the little titmorse
dashes in and perohes on their feed cup.
New York Sun.
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German Education.

The Germans are the most thoroughly
educated people in the world. What
they know they know well.
A fellow traveller had taken his de-
gree Of B. A. in the University Of Penn
sylvania and gone to that of Berlin,
where he spent three years. Subse-
quently travelling in Switzerland, he
met a young German whose range ard
accuracy Of knowledge weee simply Ee-
You'd that of any man Of the same age
he bad ever met. In many walks and
talks the German had absolutely pumped
the American dry. while his own store
of knowledge had only been touches.
Zach" said the German student che
day, Il shall never get my degree, it is
so difficult, it is SO much, SO hard. 80
long! / must have patience. I used to
see you Of the University Ct Berlin.
and, forgive me the question, how did
you get into the Cblversity:'
why, ! was admitted on my B. A.
from the University Of Pennsylvania, "
replied the American.
"Mein Gott!" gasred the German
scholar. II knew it lnust be some we
like that"
No better comment on the relative
standards of knowledge and tie thor
oughness Of the method by which it is
pursued could be Observation-Disclosures
Times.
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MlSER GENIUSES.
Men who Have Reduced Money Saving
to o Fascinating Art.

Men who Have Reduced Money Saving
to q Fascinating Art.
The fascinating study Of financial
gain amounts almost to genius IN some.
Avarice was the inspiration OF one OF
our own great men, Franklin. whose
memor is debased by his reputation as
.Poor Richard" The masterpiece OF
Balzac is his novel Eugene Grandet."
The hero, old Grandet, is a miser whose
financial genius amounts to the sublime
and which Balzac contrives and succeeds
in making almost picturesque.
Among the most distinguished misers
was Daniel Dancer. Upon he death or
his father Dancer came into the estate,
which yielded a good income. One of
his sisters lived with him and imbibed
the misery teachings. Dancer was re-
markable for the style Of his garments.
His coat was made of pieces of every
hue and texture, collected from tho
streets and ash heaps. His garments
were held together by a twist Of hay.
He and his sister lived happily in a
howell, the paneless sashes of which were
ulIhCuCu Will DCdluS, 1dSS w pdPSAc'
Soap and towels being expensive, Mr..
Dancer occasionally washed in q pond
and dried himself with sand. Three
pounds of coarse beef and IA dumplings
formed their menu for years. except
upon one occasion, when Providence
changed the course of these viands.
Mr.. Dancer, walking N day in
search of bones and other delicate offal,
found q dead sheep aud carried it home
in triumph. His sister received it as al
immediate gift from heaven. Time
went on, and the maiden fell i'll. Lady
Temple, a generous neighbor, was so
kind that Miss Dancer determined to
leave her e2, 600, but she died before
the will could be signed, and her brother
claimed her fortune a the price Of her
board for 80 years.
He constantly guarded against thieves
and concealed his gold and bank notes
with the spiders among their cobwebs
in the cowhouse and III the holes in
the chimney, covering them with ashes.
The light of generosity, however, pene-
trated one chink of his miserable soul
he loved his dog, and while denying
himself bread he allowed his dog a pint
of milk daily with other delicacies. Mr..
Dancers delight in life was to visit the
holes where his wealth was kept and
count it.
In his seventy-eighth year Dancer
became violently i'll, but refused to see
a physician. Again Lady Temple played
the good fairy at the wretched howell,
attending him to the last and was gen
erously rewarded by his immense for
tune, which he left to her.
1t would not be a difficult task to
show the influence of avarice upon ma
tions; the evils of society, the corrup-
tions of religion and the tragedies Of
war have often been instigated and sup
ported by this base passion. Detroit
Free Press.
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Sfor;.s OF Sir frank L.ockwos vi.

Of his early dramatic days the late
Sir Frant Lakewood once said: ii
made my first appearance OH any stage
in the old theater at Bath. This theGter
was the cradle OF many a great rcputa-
ton, as surely as it was the coffin OF
mine. l was cast for the part OF o serv-
ant-one Of those faithful creatures to
whom wages are not SO much an object
as q comfortable home. Through five
acts 1 tracked a mysterious child, until
that mysterious child must have been
heartily sick Of me. 1t was an Irish
part, and for its delineation | had
studied and thought l had acquired a
real brogue, racy of the Emerald Isle.
We have been wondering subsequent
" said the manager, what dialect you
have been playing the part in. Some
say it is Scotch, some say it is Irish,
but the gasman, who tells me he has
often played the part, says it is Zumer-
Set"
Some time ~ Sir Frank received an
invitation to stay at a friends country
house in a remote district. But he
thought of taking a short holiday, and
as the invitation mentioned no length of
stay he telegraphed, MAY l stay six
days." The message was duly delivered
to his friend, who had to pay s shillirgs
to the messenger, and his reply was,
Eyes, of course, but don't telegraph"
Here was an excellent opportunity for a
joke, and Sir Frank was not slow to
seize it. AS evening was falling another
mounted messenger arrived at the coun-
try house and delivering a telegram de-
manded a further 6 shillings. The tele-
gram ran, why not?-Lockwood. -
London News.
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japanese Methods.

An English dealer, interviewing Okla,
the great modern japanese carver Of
worries, said to him: why do you
waste your time on carving the under
part, which is never seen! You could
work much quicker and make money
far more rapidly if You were to leave
that part plain" And the carver an
swered: God, who gave me skill and
taste, can see the under part. l dare not
leave it unoarved." That is the spirit
in which the work is done in far Japan.
small wonder that IL excels in beauty
and Individuality. -Exchauee,
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dhibcoaux 9entinel.
THE HOUSE OF WISDOM.

yhad not th~ought-ah, God, had I but known!-
THAT this sad hour should ever me befall
when thou judged the hottest OF sill
should come to be the thing must dlsown.
IA. II not true, that April morn, thy blown
Gold hair around my hair for corcnat,
Or is this truer-thou at the outer WALL
Unrcyal and with unrerentan' moaht
Yet prize ! now this wisdom | have won
Who must always renenber-nay my tear
Must close mine eyes, as thou wouldst hide ny
face
" some great meteor, kindred to the sun,
Should haunt the undying stars ten million
years
To fail, some noon. dead in thy market place.
Francis Sherman in Eookman.
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Christmas Boxes.

It was anciently a custom to carry a
box from door 10 door for the collection
Of little presents at Christmas. In an
old work entitled The Athenian Ora
Gle" it is stated that formerly it was a
custom to offer mass for the safety of
all ships that went on long voyages, to
each of which q little box was affixed,
under the Custody OF the priest, into
which the sailors put money or other
valuables III order to secure the prayers
of the church. At Christmas these boxes
were opened aud were thence called
Christmas boxes" In order that no
person should emit these presents the
poor were encouraged to beg ''box mon
ey'' OF tEell I@Eor neighbors to enable
them to add 60 tie priests perquisites.
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Teacher-What do We see above us
when we 60 out on q clear day?
Tommy-We see the blue sky.
Correct And what do we see above
us on . ninr day."
"As umbrella. "-Pearson's Weeklv
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Administered Ills Own Estate.

Mr.. and Mrs. Cotterell never had any
children Of their own, but they adopted
and educated several orphans and start
ed them in life. Uncle Matthew, as all
who knew him loved to call him, had q
religion Of his own. 1t was to do good,
and be was always looking for opportu-
mites for practicing his religion. Char
liable to a fault, he often gave to the
undeserving, but he said it was because
he did not care to risk refusing one who
might be worthy.
I'm spend what 1 have" said Mr..
Cotterell, land that Will prevent any
fighting over my estate" Upon this
suggestion he acted, and the result was
that be spent the declining years of his
life in doing good. He was the executor
Of his own estate.
When Matthew Cotterell died, North
Bend lost a citizen who had been iden-
titled with its growth and prosperity,
vino had given Of his means to promote
the city's welfare and who was ready at
all times to do something more than
talk. But more than this the poor lost
a friend and the state lost a splendid
citizen.-Omaha World Herald.
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For Sale.

4 DESIRABLE PROPERTY SITUATED
n Mt about 3 miles below the town If Tai
hntaux OF the right descending bank of Bay
III Lainurche. belonging 70 Mis. Arsene Bsr-
g-rop. measuring one acre frort on the Bay
on and 40 acres deep. with dwelling and iss
provainpnts thereon.
For further particular RI apply TO.
c. . pANTIN.
p506t Ttibsdaax. La
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-10-13

through the brush or steering d
mule, oven IN government service.
Az there isno royal road to the
temple of knowledge 4 would sug-
!gest 10 all those who aspire to the
calling Of surveying and engineer
ing . term Of study in some good
college as leading to closer results
than any known method.
"A. Fl. COLLINS.
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THEsword ''pillager" nust be q
misnomer when applied to those
Northern Indians. The Indian
department at Washington must
have been thinking Of Tahlequah
when it,was looking for q name
for those bsllioose red men.
.Plunderipg Indians would do for
some Of the Tahlequah crowd, tho
they never plundered anything
but their own treasury to any
great extent.
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One Of the young women members
Of the Summer theatrical stock com.
pany went to market the very hot
test morning 4f the week Under the
awning back of the market house she
stopped to bargain with an old colored
woman cstting there.
TITS dreadfuliy hos, isnt n mann
myf~ she said.
Deed It Is, chile, , said the old WON
an. ~'deed 1t Is. tTain't right fer II
70 be hot this-a-way. ten you 20
years ago when the blessed Lawti made
the weather we didn't have these stew-
ing days, honey, no, indeed, we didn't,
but now these biggety men up at this
here weather Office has the making Of
the weather, they certainly does send
Us anything they plsases, and they
aint slillful chile, they aint skill
ful. Washington Post.
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Electricity Interferes with Science.
The observations of earth currents
at Greenwich observatory have been
made practically useless for several
years by the electric railway from
Stockwell to London, modern instru-
ments being SO sensitive that indica-
tions sof the current of this railway
have been detected more than 100
miles away. An early effect Of the rail-
way led to funny experience. The
generating station was visited by the
magnetic superintendent Of the OBJ.
servatory, and on his return to work
the tracings Of his magnets showed q
curious detection, which continued
day after day, but only during the
hours of his attendance The idea
that he was magnetized was a startling
one, But one day he left his umbrella
at home and there was no disturbance,
the umbrella having been . perma-
nent magnet since the visit to the
power station. Chicago Chronicle.
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The story wired from Wichita
a day or two ago to the effect that
John.D. Rockefeller controlled the
entire mining interests Of the In
dian Territory, probably origi-
mated in the fertile brain Of w. r..
Draper, the whilom Chelsea corre-
spondent, now Of Wichita.
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at the Hotels Today /.

COBB HOUSE,
Nv. S. Rouse, Omaha.
r. w. Price, st. Lonia.
S. S. Cobb, City.
SRobt. =. McC Clure, City.
. Q. B. Denison, City.
r. 7. Cooke, Nashville, Tenn.
Ada Cooke, Nashville, Tenn.
Harry E. Don Carlos and wife, City.
Sidney M. Brown, Caney, Kan.
w. r. Edwards, Caney, Kan.
o. L. Morgan, Kansas City.
w. w. Read, Kansas City.
Henry Kittler, Carthage, Mo.
Jas. R. Gray, St. Louis.
Albert Morris. Nowata.
J. H. Morris, Hudson.
w. o. Bergman.
O.B. Roller, Deer Caeek, o. 7.
GREEN.
E. S. Wilson, Springfield, Mo.
J. A. Edmonson, Carthage, Mo.
J. S. McGowin, Kansas City.
c: w. Winterholer, Kansas City.
&c. B. chi1ds, Claremore.
VIM. Kuhn, claremore.
c. W. Haush and wife, Miami.
Jennie Haush, Miami.
J. H. Dick, Tah1equah.
d. M. Muskrat. Evansville. Ark.
John Grass, Chelsea.
w. S. Davis, St. Louis.
G. w. Bennett, Oolagah.
T. H. Buford, Oolagah.
c. A. Schmay, Oolagah.
T. M. McPheeters, Samantha, Mo.
y. E. Childs, Columbus, Kan.
Dollie B. Watson, Tulsa.
d. L. Moberly, Eureka Springs, Ark
R. B. Dunigan and wife, Sapulpa.
WESTERN.
r. Ironside and daughter, Sapulpa.
I'D. Hitchcock, M. D., Alton.
]. Gore, Bluejacket.
E.G. Toilet, Wagoner.
4. B. Edlin, Wagner.
John Lipe, ciaremore.
T. E. Smiley, Tulsa.
j. D. Cox, Nowata.
7. G. Smith, Talala.
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Fake Surveyors

EDITOR CHIEFTAIN:-I desire to
call the attention of the many
readers Of your valuable paper to
the large number Of fake survey
ore now swindling the citizens of
theterritory.
In surveying the twenty-four
milesblocks and sub dividing them
into,townships of six miles square
the gevernmentused their own or
employed competent engineers to
do the work, men who were gradu-
ates and thoroughly qualified.
LIN the sub division Of townships
into sections, chain work, placing
corners, and pounding mules over
the back. almost any one having
friends with a political pull was
considered eligible, muscle being
the chief requirement.
Upon the completion Of the
work of surveying this territory,
many of this latter class fattered
themselHesaas being masters of a.
technical profession sbecause they
had been on government work, "
and with few exceptions are now
engaged in what they call farm
surveying"
By taking course and measuring
distance aronnd outside Of fences,
it is possible to make q map Of
any given farm, very simple and
quick procedure, but Of no earth
ly practical benefit to any one ex-
cept it be to the member of the
gang" who maRipulates "any old
thing which he calls can invest
ment. =
Whale survey of a. farm when
made upon scientific principles is
j good thing for the people Of this
country 4 assert that no individual
has right even in this much i'm
posed upon Indian Territory to
claino a kn0wIed0e of a nrofesainh |
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The Wagner Daily Sayings has
changed to an all home print, which
shows enterprise and looks a great
deallbetter than the patent sheet.
Wagner is a good town and the
Sayings is q credit to it.
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EDITOR

The Cherokees are not the only
Indians the government is trying
TO civilize. The Pillagers are
coming in for some attention just
now
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Dallard's Sn0w LIniment viii cure
lane back sore throat, wounds,
lllfains, bruises. cuts. old sores. Ladies
7 win cure your backdeiie. z5N 1yc.'
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Nrs,. Benham 'Was the het1i where
you stopped homelilxef
Benham very. There wasn't a
thing on the bin OF fare that was At
V eat N 7. World.
The Newtown bee., 1898-07-15

seen every day riding on our street on
Columbia wheel, presented to her on her
last week.
Master Fed Snlim&n of Bridgeport is
a born farmer. He with his pony, Trixy,
carted and Iaked hay all last week and
his latest achievement Is his driving q
pair of oxen a mile through the farm to
cart rye. He is but II years old, and the
vorder is to those who watch him what
The oxen think when they see who is
driving them.
Mr. and Mrs F. E. S'lliman, Mr. and Mrs
Homer Godfrey of Bridgeport spent Sun
day at L. R Hoyt's.
Mr. and Mrs David Provost of New Jer-
sey are visiting at James A. Smiths.
Master Fred Slliman of Bridgeport lie
spending two weeks with his uncle, l..
R. Hoyt.
Master Dougla's Williams is ag in sut-
fering with an attack of quinsg.
Henry Nichcl8 has returned to business
in Darbury.
The Ladies' Aid Society met in tn,
church parlors, last Thursday, and hat
tea served from five to seven. There wa
good attendance.
Albert williams If Westport spent Sur
| day with his father.