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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-07-24
IANNA1I

known 10 all the soldiers. cattlemen
Pc gamblers in the territory. Many
PANS we're laid aud many efforts 20
Pack the kiowa To his bonanza, but he
cceeded in evading them. Asked
Xhcre he got HIS gold he would point
70 the west, While drunk one day
told how he found the gold deposit.
n had been following wounded bear
pd the animal had crawied into cave
J die, He crept in after It. and
Ihen his squaw snapped out warn
q In the Klowa tongue and gathered
IN up and dragged him OF.
Scheme. of th. Wary,
The Indians love of display and his
ssion for gaming caused him to
pike frequent trips TO his bonanza In
{der to get sufficient sums Of gold 10
&pply HIS wants. At the frontier
Psts he was always surrounded by
mblers. sharpers and land sharks.
of whom piled him with liquor in
hope Of inducing him. while drunk,
oetray his secret. But for his faith
squaw they might have succeeded.
Once, when the sQuaw found that
y were being followed by half
led and gambler named Burlin-
me, who had hired him to track
I'm, the Kiowa woman halted on her
rney and made camp for the night.
e III her fire. made lean-to for her
FL, dragged him into IL and threw a
nket over him. Then she squatted
the IRE and remained beside II all
Mt In the morning she started
TO the post alone. Then the
tchers entered the lean-to. only to
that the buck had given them
Sip during he night. They did not
low the woman.
Nuggets OF Pure Gold.
the post the squaw bought Win
ster and then hurried back to her
p' Neither her husband, the half
ed nor the gambler were ever seen
an The supposition Is that the trail
succeed In tracing her buck to his |
and killed him there, and that
round them in HIS cave and shot
down, as they emerged from Il
20 with gold: II is known that
returned alone TO Fort Sill some
NV later and on that occasion
snt wagon and team. with which
headed for the Red River, probably
shg into Texas. Before leaving
'oid how Burlingame and his half
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-07-24
PRESIDENT BEALL.

league, dominated by John T. Brush,
Andrew Freedman and Colonel Rogers.
than is Mr.. Beall and is as ready to
lead or follow revolution as anyone.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

ing on the farm was erected a nice
five-room cottage. The stock was
fattened, and every farming imple-
ment was shielded for winter. This
Indian, who was once a noted fighter,
now puts in seven months In each
year on his place, and works even
harder than the average white farmer.
While one cannot say too much
good concerning his farming ability,
his moral character is in keeping with
other Indians Sometimes, when he
can get the liquor, he will remain
drunk for a whole month. He wears
a blanket in the winter, and attends
the medicine dances and dog feasts
in summer. So while the Government
has tanned him in one way they still
have a great deal to accomplish. His
steps are slow and halting. AS it is
with this Kiowa farmer one will also
find it with many other Indians. They
cannot take many advance steps in
one year; not even five will see a CON-
plete change in their condition. To
make a good farmer out of warrior
requires no less than seven years.
There are to-day about 267,sOO In
dians in the United States, of which
100000 do not work. Therefore only
seven per cent. of the entire Indian
population on the reservation earn
their own living, excluding the In
dians of the Five Civilized Tribes.
This is quite an improvement over
three years ago, when not three per
cent. were capable of taking care of
themselves.
There are to-day $3.50 members of
the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian
Territory. These are the Cherokees,
Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and
Seminole Indians. They yet retain
their land in severalty, but it will be
allotted before another year. These
are called educated Indians, and last
year they earned $1,5OO,OOO from the
sale of beef and cattle. 1t costs the
Government from $4,OOO,OOO to $5,OOO,-
900 every year to educate the red
skins and set them up in farming.
The Usage Indians-the richest In
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

In an article in the Kreutz Zeitung,
warmly advocating temperance and the
disuse of alcohol in the army and navy,
the writer brings forward remarkable sta
tistics in support of his plea. In l20
army prisons throughout Germany forty
six per cent. of all the murderers com
mitted their crime while under the infu-
ence of drink. Sixty-three per cent. of
per cent of serious injury to the person
and seventy-seven per cent. of criminal i'm
morality are due to the same cause. In
the navy, out of 1871 punishable cases dur
ing the last six years, seventy-fve per
cent. of the most serious cases have been
due to drunkenness.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
The Cherry Tree Frog.

This is a picture of the Australian
tree frog (Hyla caerulea). Optimists
have long maintained that everything
which has been created has some use.
The use of the tree frog is to set an
example of cheerfulness. II am not
beautiful" thinks the tree frog, "and
therefore the way for me to make peo-
pie love me Is to be good and cheer
full" When the tree frog finds him
self becoming depressed by the thought
that he lacks the grace of the young
gazelle he is wont to restore his good
humor by allowing his mind to dwell
on the old joke about himself and his
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

Sometimes in the editorial columns of
daily paper we have the truth freely set
forth. Take, for instance, the Record
Herald, of Chicago. The editor of that
paper in commenting upon a remarkable
statement of one Mrs. Carrie Brown in
addressing the Social Economic Club Of
Chicago, that "total abstinence is some
times worse than intemperance," the ed
itor among other things says: drinking
water satisfies a natural thirst. drinking
whisky an unnatural one. Excess in
whisky drinking produces temporarily or
even permanently madman, a fool or All
lnsensible lump of blood and bones. Com.
plete abstention leaves the head clear and
all the bodily functions in a normal condi'
ton. The comparison will not stand a
minutes inspection. Abstentlon alone may
not make character, but intemperance un-
ioubtedly weakens the moral stamina, and
it is the opinion OF many physicians that
almost any use of alcohol internally is an
abuse of the human system, while Austen
ton helps toward virility and good health:
The theory that spirituous liquor is food
necessity is now absolutely untenable, and
there are not few people who hold that
it is not even medical necessity"
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

believe. But it is also true that fully
twenty per cent of them, after having
passed through training-school, will
return to the reservation and go on
the downward trail again. 1t Is quite
easy to teach an Indian, but another
matter to make him remember and
obey that which he has been taught.
One may travel through any reserva-
tion in the West to-day and find many
Indians at work in the fields. 1t may
seem odd to see q blanketed buck hoe
ing corn or driving binder, but such
things are quite common in New Mex
leo, Arizona, Dakota, and Oklahoma.
In Oklahoma vast fields of wheat are
cultivated by full-bloods, but they are
called civilized Indians, for the reason
that they belong to the Five Tribes. l
have ridden for a whole day through
vast field of wheat owned and culti-
waited by full-blood Cherokees. They
live in palatial homes, and are hos
pitable people, industrious and pro-
gressive.
1t was about 1887 that the United
States Government first came to the
conclusion that manual labor would
exercise a greater influence toward
civilization than anything else. That
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
Drink and Young Criminals.

The National Conference of Charities
and Corrections in session recently in
Washington gave prominent recognition
to the terrible increase of criminals. the
appalling growth of the population of our
penal institutions. 4 paper read before
Superintendent of the State Home for
Juvenile Offenders at Geneva, ILL.,, casts
valuable light upon this important ques-
ton. Mrs. Amigh is reported as saying
that every girl now in the home under her
care had one drunken parent, and in the
case of many of them both parents were
confirmed drunkards. Mrs. Amigh says:
eff we desire to raise fine stock we
never think of keeping the sires and dams
drunk all or half the time, and yet nearly
all the children who come to us are the
products of such conditions"
She goes on to say:
"One has to sit but one day in the Ju-
venile Court in Chicago to realize what it
is that fills all kinds of charitable and pc
nal institutions in Illinois as we'll as in
other States. All kinds of crime follow
in the wake of intemperance and some
thing must be done or we shall become
worse than a nation of lepers."
Mrs. Amigh mentions one particularly
startling instance which has unfortunately
been paralleled many times. She says:
eve had one girl brought to us not
quite fourteen years of age who had de-
lirium tremens, and we barely saved her
life. She had drank more or less since
she was ten years of age. What can We
say of the brute in mans form who would
ever give or sell intoxicants to child
like that"
1t might not be irrelevant to ask: What
shall we say of the man who legalizes
traffic the result of which, by centuries of
experience, is known to be such things as
these?-The New Voice.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Poem The woodman. by George $. Bur.
leigh-The Terrible Increase in tho
Number of Juvenile Criminals Attrib-
uted to Intemperance.
Trudge! trudge, beat and beat;
Trudge. trudge, weary feet,
Through the crusty snow and sleet, =.
All the terrors OF the winter are abroad
in field and street.
Crunch! crunch! slowly, slow,
Heavily the oxen go,
Plunging through the drifted snow.
With the white breaths on their shoulders
crispy as the drifts below.
Tramp. tramp! by their side,
Sounds the drivers sturdy stride,
Firmly set in manhood's pride,
Though his beard is white as winter by
the frost air glorifed.
Woe! woe! gate of sin,
Lo! the treacherous wayside inn,
With its tempting wiles to win
The strong feet that on that threshold
hence their slow death march begir
Gloom! gloom! in the air
A white darkness everywhere;
Storm has started from its lair,
And the poor belated woodman reels and
wrestles with it-where?
Cold! cold! far away,
Light of fire or light of day,
Comes there no reviving ray?
And he sinks to deadly slumber dreaming
of his babies play.
Cold! cold! see how stand,
Stranpe as snhinyes in tho sand
The swathed oxen, patient, grand,
And below-an empty bottle slipping from
a frozen hand!
Long, long, with eager strain,
Pressed against the window pane,
Pallid faces look in vain,
While the wretch who made them or
phans sits and chuckles Ger his gain!
National Advocate
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

kind to the effect that they climb up
the trees and bark. When he thinks
again that the gazelle is also swifter
than he (as it Isl he consoles himself
with the thought that he himself has
ball-bearing toes.
The tree frog has much to contend
against in his effort to be of good
cheer, and his success is the more
commendable. He lives in Australia,
for one thing, and that is so far from
the Bowery! But, as compensation
for this he is a subject of Edward
VII, and his satisfaction at this is
seen reflected in his face. Then, as
geographers know, Australia is on the
o-her side up from the Bowery, but
the tree frog smiles to think that he
lives in a tree, where he has only to
cling to branch and does not fall off.
And then, whenever there is a shake
down in any of the precincts adjacent
to the Bowery, the tree frog eXpe-
riences a shake-up, and again rejoices
in the compensation of nature. In
short, the tree frog leads a simple,
quiet, orderly life. with honest mo-
tives. generous impulses and earnest
endeavor and it's motto is Handsome
Is that handsome does"
This picture of the tree frog is taken
from Nature, and is scientifically ac-
curate. This account of him is not
taken from Nature, but is quite orig
inal, and aims to be popular rather
than scientific.-New York Tribune.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

making twenty-six bushels to the acre,
and corn running sixty bushels. He
titled the fields alone, except in havest-
time, when he engaged a number of
harvest hands to assist. His income
from last years crop was $3500. His
farm is a model one. Originally the
land, 600 acres in extent, was set aside
to him by the Indian agent. 1t lies in
the valley near the Washita River,
and the soil is well watered and rich.
In the edge of a patch Of trees border
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
The Crusade in Brief.

In Grinnell, Iowa, it is now unlawful fol
two people to 'congregate" to drink beer.
According to insurance statistics teeto'
talers may expect seventeen years more
life than drinkers.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed law forbidding the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic drinks pronounced
dangerous by the Academy of Sciences.
One of the most conspicuous buildingt
in Los Angeles, Cal, is Temperance Tenn
Pile. Temperance Temple was erected il.
1889, on the corner of Broadway and
Temple street, upon lot of ground do
mated by the Good Templars.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
THE INDIAN AS A FARMER

In the United States to-day there
are 30,900 Indians who earn their own
living by farm-work. Last year they
sold their farm products for a COM
bined sum OF $1,40S,S65, over and
above the expenses Of living. This
was nearly $40 per capita, which is
very good considering the fact that
thirty per cent. Of them have never
before farmed an acre Of land. Some
Of the Indian farmers never did a
days work in all their life before.
Some have been at work for five or six
years. One farmer, Kiowa living
in Oklahoma, raised last year wheat
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
900 bushels of oats, and 100000 BUSH

900 bushels of oats, and 100000 BUSH
els of corn.
The Sioux outnumber the Osages
two to one, hence the value of their
products was even greater than those
of the Osages. But the Sioux go in
for cattle-raising, having sold 10000
head Of cattle in one season, and made
$53, 900 therefrom. The Cherokees are
also great cattle-raisers.
Practical farming is now being
taught in many Indian schools of the
Southwest country. An experiment of
much value was attempted among the
Cheyennes in Oklahoma not long ago.
An Indian agent wished the school
boys to milk cows for him. and agreed
to give each one who MIXED for three
months a nice calf. Fifteen boys
started, but they were so ridiculed by
the older men of the tribe that twelve
of them gave it up. Three won the
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

was the date when their first lands
were allotted to them. 1t was then
belived that the proper way to go
about teaching Indians to farm was
to place them on a quarter section of
the good land, saying, "You must get
q living out of this or starve."
In few years they found the un-
tutored savage quite willing to starve
or fight. In most cases he was more
anxious to fight. Some of the most
atrocious crimes have been committed
by these same border redskins who
had been placed on a certain tract
of land and told to work it. 1t was
after all this that the Government
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
No Sudden Falls in Character.

No one falls all at once. What seems
breaking Of shell from which the inte-
rior has been gradually removed. A boil
er suddenly bursts over on the west side
in this city and half-score of men and
women are killed, but that boiler had for
many years been preparing for the final
catastrophe. Rust and wear had done
their work. How much we need the ex-
hortation of the apostle: Examine your
your own selves."-N. w. Christian Advo-
cSte.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
THE sEGER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL COLONY, OKLAHOMA

calves, and the pride of being owners
of the cattle served as quite an assist
ance in getting other Indian children
to try. After a year twelve boys had
won calves, and the agent asked them
to plow corn for him, agreeing to
give them all the corn they could
grow. Ten boys volunteered to grow
corn, and they actually raised 5000
bushels, which was sold and after
wards converted into thirty head OF
steers.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
The Work of a Busy Man.

One of Boston's leading manufacturers,
whose large business interests demand much
of his time and thought, yet feels as if he
must do something for temperance, has for
some years given special attention to the
inculcation of temperance among the
young, particularly young men,. He be.
ieves in circulating the pledge after every
uses the pledge freely and has taken thou
sands. In a letter to the National Advo-
cate, he says Il expect to take 200c
pledges during the year 1901, mostly
men; one Sabbath l took between 800 and
400, average age, twenty-one."
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
AIeurlan Natives Dying On.

The rapid decline of the native popula-
ton of the Aleutian chain of islands is
told in report received by the Marine
it's assistant surgeon in Dutch Harbor,
Alaska. The report says that formerly
there were l2O villages on the islands,
with a native population variously esti-
mated at from 1900 to $500. Now in the
same district there only are ten villages
and 1000 inhabitants, exclusive of whites,
of which 800 are Creoles (mixed breeds
with Russian and other nat:onahties) and
700 Aleuts
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19

Each steer was branded with an in
dividual brand chosen by the boy own
er. This made them prouder than
ever, and more Industrious. Every
boy at the agency wanted to go to
work at once, and as a result of that
experiment the Cheyennes are the
most industrious farmers of any tribe
so recently on the war-path.-W. r.
Draper, in Harper's Weekly.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
How God Controls Souls.

Exactly as we are aware of some hidden
means by which the heart of our friend,
also separated from us by spaces which
cannot be crossed, nevertheless reaches
out invisible hands that grapple us by
''hooks of steel,' so we have been at times
trolls them and commands them where
they stand by the spirit which searches
their inmost souls. : Rev. Howard N.
Brown, Kings Chapel, Boston.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
Ouirinal's Walls Are Cracking.

The construction of the new tunnel be-
meath the Quirinal at Rome, Italy, has SO
seriously weakened the foundation that
the palace is endangered. The walls have
sunk and have become cracked, and what
is known as the Emperors' chamber has
been greatly damaged, wide splits having
appeared in the walls.
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
Joy in Believing.

Wherever there is living faith there is
joy. A Christian may well doubt the re-
atty of his faith if he have not this joy.
1t may not always be consciously present.
but it dwells in the soul and gives charac-
ter to his life none the less. The deeper
and more substantial the joy the less de-
monstrative will it be. True Christian joy
is more than a passing emotion; it is a
condition of soul that grows out of living
faith. We first believe and then have joy.
joy in the Holy Ghost. The essence of
this JOY is peace-that peace which pass
eth all understanding. 1t is the highest
note in the ascending scale-frst, the re.
alizing sense of sin, then faith in Christ,
who alone can forgive, then the sense of
pardon which faith bestows, then the
peace which flows from pardon, then the
Joy which wells like living water out of
the fountain of peace. 1t is this joy which
begets that holy boldness and confidence
which enables us to exclaim with Paul:
"Who shall separate us from the love of
God?" May this joy be our never failing
possession
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
GODS MESSAGE TO MAN
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

Poem: Creeping or Soaring 9-The BooA
That BIesses-Comfort and Help in
the Book For Every Experience of This
Life--Passages That Comfort.
Upon couch of pain she lay,
And watched her treasure day by day.
1t was an emperor-moth's s cocoon,
From which new life was coming soon.
So very small the opening seemed,
How it would come she little dreamed,
As eagerly she longed each day
To see the prison-house give way.
AT length, from out that hole so small,
She saw her moth begin to crawl,
While slowly and most painfully
The insect struggled to get free.
How can it pass that narrow door?
When will my lovely treasure soar
Free on its brilliant wings?" she said,
SUnless l give it timely aid?"
Then, knowing not its Makers will,
She cut the binding threads, until
The moth was loosed; but as it came
Out into life twas weak and lame.
God formed it thus, and He knew best;
The insect needed to be pressed
through tndI cOnIHeu anu harrow space
To give it wings of strength and grace.
o foolish hearts, that think to show
More tenderness than God can know,
And by their lack of wisdom thwart
The grander end His grace had wrought!
False theories and weak love are ours
They leave the soul with stunted powers;
And lives God meant to soar on high
But creep awhile and early die.
Give Gods strong love the final test,
Whose ways are always right and best;
Made perfect through life's sufferings,
The soul may mount on rainbow wings.
Christian Standard
Passaic City record., 1901-10-19
Most Precious Book.

I was very much impressed recently,
says L. A. Banks, DID,, in making a pas
torial call on a lady who had but few
weeks before been greatly afflicted by the
death of her mother, by another phase of
this growth and development in a Bible.
The mother, who had gone away to heav-
en-, had been very devoted Christian
woman through long life and had dearly
loved her Bible. The sorrowing daughter
brought me that precious book to exam
inc. 1t was an old-fashioned looking book,
bound in the thick leather so common a
hundred years ago. But thick and heavy
as the binding had been it was pretty well
edges from much use. And a great many
chapters showed the evidence of having
been read and re-read over and over agasn.
One very interesting characteristic of
this Bible was that great many places
were marked with the occasion when they
had been used to the dear woman's COM
fort. Here was one that was read at the
funeral of her child. Here was another
that had been her comforter when she
was sick. Here was still another that she
, had eXulted in in time of great happi-
ness. And so all through the Bible were
these little wayside shrines where the good
woman had paused in her pilgrimage to
spiration she needed on her hard days, or
to give expression to her joy and gratitude
in times of happiness and rejoicing.
/ was greatly interested at hearing the
daughter tell how delighted she had been
to find that many of these passages which
had been such comfort to her mother
were now of the greatest possible comfort
to her, though she had never noticed them
with any particular interest until after
the great sorrow of her mothers death
came upon her. And with fearful eyes
she turned to me and asked: "Why is it
that these verses which | did not before
care for seem so new and precious to me
now? Is it because my mother loved them
so, and / loved them on her account?" /
told her / thought there was deeper rea-
son for it. Her mother had found the
comfort of these heavenly words in times
when great sorrow and trial had come to
her own life, and had marked them then,
and the daughter now rejoices in them
because she has grown into the same ex-
perience. She has grown up to her Bible.
She had not found them before because
now that she needs them they are wait
ing there, running over with blessing and
comfort.
As l handed back the worn and soiled
book said "That book must be great
treasure to you these days!"
"Ah, yes" was the answer, "a big for
tune would not buy that book from me.
When see that mother seems nearer to
me than at any other time 1 see her
again in her rocking chair by the window
with the Bible on her knees and the old
faraway look of heavenly peace on her
face"
1 walked away from that home thinking
how many people there are who are losing
beyond all possibility of recovery by not
planting out Bible in youth, so as to
have it growing and blossoming and bear.
ing its fruit through all the years of life
From Unused Rainbows.