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The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
THE VANISHING OsAoEs

Luxurious Life Is Thinning Them Out,
as 1t Does PenHed-Up Game.
THE full-bloOd Indian is gradually
passing, just as the deer or the wild
turkey will soon die If penned up,"
said Col. John N. Florer of Gray
Horse, Oklahoma, who has lived with
the Usage Indians for thlrty-three
years, at the Coates House yesterday
My prediction is that in TWENTY-FIVE
years more there will not be a full
blood Usage left.
when 1 first went among the
Osages the tribe comprised between
5000 and 5000 people. Now there ar,
but 1,70O or 1900 of them, including, O.
course, all those Of mixed blood. Thi
Osages have been holding their owl
pretty well In point Of numbers In tn
last four or FIVE years, but they ar
doomed to go the way of their fellows
THE dying out Of the race Is due 4
large measure to the change In thei
habits of life. They used to be out /
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
En,demics of the Past.

The decrease in the death rate oA
great cities during the last few years
can only be appreciated by compart
son with similar statistics in the past
In the twelfth century not less tn"n
fifteen epidemics of disease ana nl%n'
famines sourged the people OF III.
gland. The thirteenth century Sd"
twenty plaques and nineteen tanl'neo'
while the fourteenth had black ie'
ord Of disease. g, ~
In 1349 the "black plague
"black DEATH" which was Drousn' ln 4no
Europe from the east, caused NV NV
death of 100000 persons IN honocA on
alone, while in Europe altogether -, ~
100000 fell victims to its ravaseS' -.
1885 the Sweating sickness Hpps",
ed in England, causing great uest,ur a ~
ton of human life. 1t reappe"ivu t,,oro, ~
various intervals for a century 'H''0
after. - +bt
The latest terrible Visitation 81 1eee m
plague in England was in loUs,.'G t n
by which 100000, lives were los' snI =,
London alone. This epidemic ""o 'n,oI i
lowed by the great fire OF looo ,,~a al
destroyed 10000 houses, incluuin9 lion N
the most densely populated p0' 'i'
of the city.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
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HmmaHE irrenressibe Bishop Potter has again
6~R% Rhroken out and more the pot OF con
versv Is boiling in consequence Not lons "e0
= Hha suggested the advisabty Of running s"'
RgT@S5SSaNoon "as Christ would it," or someulns
EMSnSsSAHooue,lv ss absurd Now he Is preaching sen
sasAazz~ sationalisr from the pulpit. III man -
come to church in ministers wear req coa'S an anu N
+hav wear black Ones then red ones ne say 90
Well if the idea to merely get men TO cnuic a. go +ho
ia to be the method adopted TO attain
nnd there really ought to be trouble about at an
u+tle vaudeville act might help some. The singing %
lo+oo nonular songs doubtless would draw packeu n
for everv service provided the small boys Woulu Oe a."
ouad +o whistle the chorus. blackfaced act "ouiu W
nonuIar with class 1t might be good IDEA 10 SCI
of Ela Wheeler Wilcox's poems to music for the
tho sentimental portion of the congregation lhoe0u
Ia to be the order Of the day IN the
there should be no all about getting the
Rut there are still oldashioned people VINO prefer
the church service and the odfashoneu pu
pit methods ,
Bishon Potter is either very unfortunate IN oeng Pceu
in false light before the world through the mSapprG
bansion OF the press or else he missed his calling II al
the press reports concerning his remarkable propoSon
are true he should have been press agent TOT clc
the advertising agent publishing house or the prop
etor and bartender Of model saloon IN the 1asnlol1D
section Of the city. the sake Of his calling II Is 10 u
hoped that he has misrepresened 1t IS oeclueu
disgusting and uncomfortable for those VINO mahe
of pey to Of prominent churchman os
cussinp model saloons Christ would run theln
and advocating senastionasm for the puptTerre Haut
Star.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

right flavor after it has been packed
and kept on ice"
The marketman te1ephoned that he
had some fine bear steak. l almost
wish I'd got that"
Il like it extremely but as you
must have heard me say, Mary cannot
simply cannot-cook It,"
ITS a pity that some new animal
can't be invented for you," said the
long-suffering housewife, rebelling at
last II was reading the other day
that they ate iguanas in South Ameri-
ca, and that the Digger Indians con,
sldered ants eggs a great delicacy."
II don't think am hard to satisfy
said the head Of the house, helping
himself to a substantial piece Of thu
meat before him. Perhaps I had NJ
right to hint that an occasional va
riety In my diet would be Wha
is this?"
"What Is which?" asked his wife, a
he chewed slowly and analytically.
"This-this meat"
ITS venison. The currant jelly !
to the right Of you"
II suppose you think that is funny,
said the head Of the house, trying I
look dignif1ed.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
FOOLED AGAIN.
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The head Of the house had partaken
of the soup in silence, with the air of
one who Is unwilling to diminish his
standing as an epicure by indiscrimi-
nate praise. But when the platter for
the meat course came in, he spoke,
says the New York Tribune.
Beef againv' he said, tragically.
"Do you know, my DEAR" dropping
into a plaintive tone, there are times
when beef begins to pail on me?"
I'VE had lamb yesterday" said his
wife, land on Monday, you know, we
had roast loin of pork"
"Oh, l know! That's just it. Beef,
mutton and pork, pork, mutton and
beef! One monotonous round, and all
taste alike. 1 sometimes think that
the eatable animals were originally
one, and were only gradually differen-
tlating by locality"
You don't care for chicken"
"Oh, / get tired of chicken, that's
ALL" with the patient tone Of several
martyrs. What l would like Is lit
tie change-a little variety"
I'VE had a rabbit stew last week
thought you enjoyed that. If yol
like, I'll have 1t again tomorrow"
My DEAR" said the head of tn
house, almost dropping the carving
knife in his agitation, II don't see VIII,
you imagine because 1 happen to ca
something with a tolerable relish
can stand it for seven days in tn
week! Let the rabbit rest for while
Beefr
The last time we had duck yo
said you never wanted to see al
other"
THE marketman sold you a blac
duck for a widegon," in pained voic
! But you didn't know that till 20
. got the bill"
~ knew it was overdone," with di
nifty. Then, as he inserted the point I
the carving-knife in a convenient scar
he murmured again, "Beefv'
g IF 1 had known you wouldn't ca
= for it might have had some fish"
l. "You can't get any fish that has t
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

the open air all the time, and when
they travelled 1t was always on horse
back. Even when they moved their
camps each Indian would round up his
string Of ponies and make pack ami
mails of six or eight Of them, to carry
his belongings. Now they ride about
IN buggies and carriages, the best to be
had. They are rich enough to afford
all the luxuries Of that sort, and, with
no incentive to exertion, their lives are
about as far removed from their for
mer habits of activity as could be.
Il was present at the council near
Independence, Kan, when the treaty
was signed by which the tribe surren-
dered to the government the Usage
ceded lands in southern Kansas, and
purchased In their stead the million
and half acres from the Cherokees
which they have since occupied Thaf
trade was a good thing for the Osages
They got $1.25 per acre for the land
and the deferred payments were tt
draw per cent interest. That mount
~A ~R AAPAN anu Is Tile source OF In
annuities which the Osages enjoy to
day.
Those were the good old days whic
the Indians always speak of as tn
buffalo days l went out on the plain
with them In their hunts for yeart
!, On west from the Usage nation ther
used to be times when one could Sc
y buffalo for miles and miles. At a di
d tance 1t looked like a dark, surpin
sea. In one year there I bought "a OC
J buffalo hides than there are
Il the whole country to-day. OF cours
70 there are lots of the younger membe
y OF the tribe to whom that is all a tr
70 d1don and they will sit around f
IL nours and listen to the elders talk
the old times. es."-Kansas City Journ,
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
- 0EDIT(gRlALSEMz :!
OplNlONs OF GREAT PAPERS ON IWPOK17 I'M
.--.-----.,,-;sz-5o%|Sz]ErSOS

49,. 4,ouo ORC M more Hydes available 1nere
dence IS a little or no pretense that the
is IN mos vear more or less, paid to these IA
voes by many companies is really earned Oy snt tha
take it because they can. 1t Is tne noney ,od ~
holders that is thus being privately aOsorpeu s,+o.
Con1d It reasonably be assumed that these tavorl'es
s"n +h,r dnttes as we'll as they could be performed
bv others the temptation Is to create new oces ~
there may be Jobs for followers - h7lhnnd IN
need of lob it is easy lengthen the pay roll =.
If there Is any business that should De 1 ~
methods absolutely above suspicion it Is that OF NE
ance, which carries interests that are S'ceu an
avs Tho n,or,+ system in the selection Of officers ana enl
ployes if it would eliminate all the evils tnat nave
yeoped in life insurance administration Woud at leas
reduce expenses and at the same time limit the c""'A
powers of the companies heads.
Policy holders have right to demand fair deal II
this matter Unless they deserving Of the 1mposluo
put upon them they will make their demand effective
| Indianapolis Sun.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

According to a veteran New York
detective who has just gone on the re-
tired list after nearly forty years Of
service, the trust principle or combi-
nation of interests does not prevail
among criminals. In the recital of his
experiences, which he has impaired to
an interview, 1t is set forth that
gangs are by no means as common
to-day as they were when he first took
to sleuthing, and that pals" and part
ners" are growing few. The modern
criminal prefers to do his work alone
He is the independent laborer, the In
dividual operator, and having no as
vociates runs less danger, for the say
ing about honor among thieves ha'
little to rest on. pals" are easily
pumped" when they do not anticipate
the need of the process by "squealtng.
Another thing that the retired detective
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

It is well enough to denounce the
miserable tools in the councils of our
cities and to thunder against the po-
litical bosses. But they are not, after
all, the chief sinners. The chief sim
ners are the eminent and pious men
who occupy the chief seats in the syn
agogue, who make long prayers on
the street corners and who make
broad the phylacteries Of their gar
ments. Somehow or other we must
make such corporate crOokedness un-
fashionable. We must hold the stock.
holders in such concerns as this Phila'
delphia Gas Company to very strict
accountability. If man chooses tc
rob his neighbors through such instru
mentalities as this he must at least bt
made to know that his nelghbors un
derstands that they are being robbed
and robbed by him.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

To Give a Powder.-A successful
method Of giving powders to chill
dren is to cut open a small piece Of
chocolate cream, insert the powder
and close the chocolate again. This Is
one OF the easiest ways Of inducing
child to take a powder and less sickish
than the usual spoonful of jelly.
Enthusiastically very little treat
ment Is necessary. Little or no food
should be given during the acute stage.
The patient should drink large guam
titles Of water and should be given a
colon flushing at least once every day.
If the eruption is slow to appear or If
it Is repealed after once appearing,
give warm blanket pack. Temper
ature may be controlled by tepid
sponging Of the body.
The Salt Habit-A new freak in
| human alteration Is asserting itself
The new habit of salt eating Is moi
| only greatly on the increase, particu
larly among women of all classes, bu
is In many cases most serious dis
ease. 1t begins with a desire for larg'
quantities of salt with the food anI
If not checked reaches a stage IL
which the patient carries Jumps of sal
about continually nibbling at them
The hideous effects are a peculiar yel
lowness and shrinking of the Skin
which Is followed by the loss of a
the hair, even that Of the eyelids. The
cancerous affections supervene.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

An English critic says that the ac-
tress who is playing leading roles with
Sir Henry Irving has "a vile Ameri-
can accent because she pronounces
''tirst" "foist" and bird" boyd" Bless
his innocent soul, the critic doesn't
know that the poor girl is trying her
best to pronounce these and similar
words as she hears the English actress
es pronounce them. When she comes
back to Ameria all the critics will say
'How we'll she has picked up the En-
glish accentv
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
MiIwaukee's Bank Directors Pay the Penalty.

~ HE case Of the thieving bank president, Blge-
GRA low of Milwaukee, who robbed the First Ma
tonal Bank Of that city Of nearly $1,5O0Ooo, IS
l - particularly interesting because it shows how
SE5SSTPSNR little protection bank depositors may nave III
aSSxGSSSJ1 even bank Of the highest standing.
SdA"nO@A 1t seems that Bigelow, with the knowledge
and connvance of only one subordinate officer Of the bank
the assistant cashier able to abstract sum OF money
equal to the total capital and to escape detecuon
until it was too late any part OF the amount
What kind system Is 1t that permits such state OF
affairs to exist? What kind of directors are they Who
charged with the Of thousands OF other peoples money
consent to such system and shift their solemn response
bity on to honesty Of the banks executive officers!
The average Of large affairs who is member or the
boards number of corporations too often does not faith
fully and carefully discharge the duties he has undertaken
to his w~shareholders Chauncey NJ Depew for exam
pie is said be director in several hundred companies
obviously impossible for him to exercise any intelligent
supervision their affairs And yet the supervisor
the directors of corporation is the only protection
its shares and Of depostors in it, If it be
bank
The directors Of Milwaukee First National have hon
orably the of the Institution By pedGin
sufficient individually to make up the defacaton
But that is paying dear for the luxury they have indulge
Of negecting their plain duty to establish system tina
prevent the possibility Of oss.-Chcago Journal.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

Gated the emancipa-
ton Of the slaves long before the rise
of the AbolitiOnists. Cameron came
into disfavor in his own State because
Of his friendIiness to the bill.
In 1857, however, the Republicans OF
Pennsylvania, recognizing Simon Gam"
eron as man Of sterling worth to
serve the nation III such d crisis aa
then threatened her welfare, returned
him to the United States Senate. 80
earnest an advocate Of peace did no
prove to be that doubts were entertain
ed Of his loyalty to the Northern cause
President Lincoln felt no such teafS'
however, in regard to the Senator from
PENNSYLVANIA, and when he was 10TH
ing his cabinet he chose Cameron aS
his Secretary Of War. 1t was IN tnlS
position that Cameron showed thar 10
was as stanchly for the cause ne hau
affiliated with as Lincoln himse1. III
fact, several of his measures were too
radical for Lincoln. In 1857 the TFesr
dent appointed him Minister 10 nus
sia,s where he was able to WIN the
:, friendship Of Russia to such an eAlen
: that it proved of great value 10 'n'
- United States in the course OF tne ""l
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

upon her achieve.
ments in peace, VIC
realiz ethe greatest
benefactors OF the
land are those who
have added to these
achievements, Among
these no name Is bet
ter remembered than
that Of Ell Whitney,
the inventor of the
cotton gin.
During the Reyolu.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

1t is often said that any man can
make himself rich who sets out reso-
luteIy to do so, but when this spec1ous
statement is analyzed there Is not
much in 1t to encourage anybody. The
faculty of making money by the exer-
else Of financial skill is probably the
rarest of all natural gifts. It is not
every man who Is musician, an ora
tor, poet, a mathematician, an In
ventor, lawyer, physician or an
engineer, but it is no exagsefation to
say that civilized society contains 100
men who are musicians, orators, poets,
| mathemaHcians, inventors, lawyers
physicians or engineers to every ono
who Is able by legitimate means and
by sheer financial ability to make
money. There Is nothing more foolish
than for a man who Is not natural
money maker to imagine that he can
acquire the knack Of 1t. 1t would be
far easier for a man who has no car
for music to become a musician or a
color-blind man to become an artist
or a man without sentiment or fmag
ination to become a poet. 1t Is sale
| that the poet is born and not made
and that Is true enough, but not sc
true as that money-making Is natu
raj gift and never an acquisition
There Is no one so painfully conscious
of this as a man who has become
rich by good fortune and who has los
=. his money. AS long as he had 1t h
;, | prided himself that he made it by hi
smartness, and even for a while afte
he lost it he thought he would g
e right to work and replace it. Year
= afterward his seedy clothing, his ben
v form and his lackluster eye proclaime
that he was not a natural money
maker and that his former prosperit
g was an accident. What makes peopl
, think that anyone can make none
II who bends his mind to 1t Is that a
most anyone can accumulate conslde
able money by living solely for tht
= end, We constantly read of beggal
l. and ragpickers who die leaving benin
Is them remarkable fortunes for thi
class of people, and there is no douI
that almost anyone with such a pa
ut sion for accumulation as they have ca
Of meet with the same success. The dl
v ference between them and the natur
. money maker is that they degrade sal
ruin their moral and social nature
e. the effort, while the natural none
to maker may even expand and eleva
rp his mind by his successes. The mi
ee who is not born to make money m
learn a lesson from the fable Of t
weasel. This animal in his travt
Is found a hogshead in which there W
H. great deal Of sugar and into Will
Q" he went without difficulty through
to small hole. He enjoyed the sugar
much that he stayed there week
two, and when he thought of retu
,ar ing home again he discovered that
he had grown SO fat that he could !
rit pass through the hole. There "
le- nothing left for him but to starve hi
he self back to his former size. The IL
ION who accumulates money by becom
as miser and a sharper parts compe
with his humanity and his self-resp'
and he will never be fit for human
In ciety again-at least until he loses
ma | money.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

Mosquitoes form the principal In
gredient in the atmosphere at Pana-
ma," says a government clerk, who
has thrown his job into the half-com-
pleted canal and returned. 1t must be
annoying for man to be obliged to
take snow shovel and scoop the mos
0uitoes out of the air so as to. get a
clear space when he wants to breathe.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

A Port Arthur diver told the Gar
that while he was working on the
sunken steamer PetropaVlovsk a spirit
told him that when the Russians de-
Eeated Togo the boat would rise to the
surface unaided. A little reflection
shows this is not SO unreasonable as
It first appears.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

Secretary Shaw declares nobody Is
authorized to say that he is a candi-
date for the Presidency. Uncle joe
Cannon will continue, however, 10
have strong suspicious.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
Necessary Mobilization

Knox-Why don't you cut that out?
Tone your talk down bit
kendor-Well, it's all right to call
spade a spade, isn't it2
knox-lnstead Of calling it YOU
might whisper it occasionally.-Phila.
delphia Press.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

gTzggwaHN s the United States the boom? Look at
e.; S: XXI: !,
R8@r@8Ag month people added to popu-
HSSWeg ation than the State Of Nevada contains;
than may be found in any Of many Of our
thriving young cities All the seeking better their
don all here for that purpose Some of them
doubtless undesirable people, but the great majority will
prove good material for the making Of American citizens
AS nation the boom. Our reputation as the
land Of opportunity keeps up and in all the
Europe the poorer classes stirred by the story We
ourselves at times to undervalue our Inheritance
What appears to the German the Italian the Russian
the Irshman something rich beyond compare, and
duces him to pull up his native stakes travel thou
sands Of miles to get in touch WITH is to matter Of
the everyday, and quarrel with 1t and about it. anG
talk about the downward road to perdlton If the for
egner may learn from u.s. may in this thing learn from
| him.-Washlngton Star.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

DR.. R. s. Macarthur says Mr.. Rocke-
feller's deeds rise to heaven like IN
cense. DIR. Washington GLADDEN. thinks
they rise more like coal-oil gas.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

plerpont Morgan pays his house
keeper $4,000 a year. This seems to
be a lot of money, but it saves P1erp
the cost Of advertising every three
weeks for a new cook.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

though he was but mere boy, Whit.
ney rendered Inestimable service BY
making nails by hand. Without his
endeavors at that time New England
would have gone without nails.
1t was while. visiting at the Georgia
nlantation Of General Nathaniel
Greene, after the close of the Revolu.
ton, that Whitney conceived the idea
Of the cotton gin, by which one man
was able to do the work of one thou.
sand. His invention made cotton
cheap and It's cultivation enormously
profitable. 1t gave clothing to the world
in an abundance which had not been
thought possible. The poor profted by
this invention more than by any other
class. 1t was a colossal gift to hia
country and to mankind, that wAlcn
Eli Whitney gave.
The machine was so simple In Its
fundamental idea that any one could
copy it; before he was able to patent Il
his shop was broken into and his mode
broken; he never received any materia
returns from 1t.
But his reward has been in the fac
that he was one of the benefactors o
the world.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

The London people failed to observe
that the drama was elevated by /
stage full of Mrs. James Brown Potter
and expensive furniture.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

South America has finally brought
itself to see the point. Instead OF
threatening to lick US, Argentina Is try
ING to establish closer trade relations.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

1t has reached the point now where
anything commendatory of Mr.. Rocke-
Teller and his methods Is sut1clently
novel to merit attention.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

The Mormon missionaries are to In
yade Vermont If they carry scrip or
purse, they are likely to lose 'em IN
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

has noted is that criminals are better
educated now than they were in the
early '70s. He thinks that crimes
which demand in the perPetrator a fair
education and considera BILE knowledge
of the ways Of finance and the ways
of the world are more common than
they We're.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

1t is said there never was king
who was really happy. For the eXpla-
nation. consult the bomb-throWers.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
Leittio tseSSonS
IN Patriotism
~~>>,>,,.,,.o,,c,

"Let our object be our country. our
whole country, and nothing but our
country."--Daniel Webster.
When we stop to consider that tba
greatness OF our country depends NOT
so much upon her prowess in wars A.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19
An Exception Among Men.

Smith-Smiley is an exceptional
man. don't believe he has an enemy
In the world.
Jones-That's right. Why, even his
relatives always speak we'll of him.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

Perhaps deep down in his, soul Hoch
wonders how he escaped so long.
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

AS between the ikon and the torpedo
boat, we are inclined to pin our taltl
to the latter. r s......- ~. ri
The Caldwell tribune., 1905-08-19

most I'm por t a II t
measure that was
claiming the atten-
ton of the country
was the bill known
as the Missouri COM
promise. Cameron IA
vored the compro-
mise, feeling that 1t
was justified as a
peace measure. His
State was naturally
opposed to slavery in
any form, as the
Quakers had advo,