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INDIAN WEALTH FROM OIL.
Creeks Income From Their Lands
Government Sees They Are Paid.

Creeks Income From Their Lands
Government Sees They Are Paid.
The tremendous production of OIL in
the Glenn pool is making The Creek
Indians as rich as the Osages. A citi-
zenship in the Usage nation is now
worth about $25. 600, but the Greeks are
coming fast.
The average daily production In the
Glenn pool is l25, 900 barrels. OF this,
writes a Tulsa correspondent of the
Kansas City Times. the Indian owners
Of the land get IL, 500 barrels, one-tenth.
The oil is worth about ii cents a barrel.
This gives the Indian lessons Of the
10000 acres comprising the pool IS, 1875
a day. This amounts to 81. S72, 625 a
year. This is the royalty which is paid
as long as the oil is in the ground.
Then there is the money for lease and
bonus which frequently runs IS and $40
and sometimes $40 an acre. This is all
profit for the Indians.
The Indian never gets the worst of it
i'm the oil game because the govern
ment looks after him and sees that the
bonuses and the royalties are paid
hen u Further than this the gov
sees that the Indian gets the
full benefit of the market price. It's
h white man who is putting up his
money to develop the ountry and make
the Indian rich who has to tand all
the chances of a failure.
IlSIe ae 1Gu. lIloldll owners OF the
leases In the Glenn pool getting the
81 ,625 a year. This makes an aver
age of $15, $50 each on royalties alone.
That is more money than a cabinet off,
GER Of the United States or a Justice
of the supreme court receives as salary.
The beauty of 1T is that the Indian does
not nave to work to get the money. The
Indian agent comes around and hands
it to him.
Just for speculation a statistician was
figuring the life of the Glenn pool with
the life of other pools and he came to
the total of $35. 600, 900 which will he
paid out to the Greeks in royalties be-
fore the pool passes the stage of mar
ketable production. That will make
every Indian rich. And the beauty of
it is that the royalty is in the shape of
an annuity on a monthly payment plan.
The Indian cannot anticipate his royal
ties. He cannot sell them or make a
contract to sell them. The government
looks after that. All the indian can
do is to spend the none after he gets
1t every month. And he can do that as
well as anybody who ever lived.
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for tbs roasop-l have only been to one
howe! SHOW, and then. owing To the rain.
there was hardly anybody in e. grounds.
Perhaps, however. You have taken what -
called Ct poets license in using the title
IN question. and in any case, let me CON
gfatulatc You ON your beautiful poetry.
~"IA;mk.ng YOU once more for having
selected poor me as the subject of your
acrost.c-l am, yours very gratefully,
Dora Westwick."
Up. s.-Do you ever walk in Campion
park toward twilight? l do sometimes.
ID. W"
Reggie Blake rcad the letter half u dozen
times, and then sat down to think.
We'll, of all the extraordinary miscon-
ceptions in the world" he muttered, this
is quite the most wonderful. | haven't
written a single acrostic since l was q KID.
That sort of poem has gone out of fashion.
Anyhow, In just acknowledge the note,
and pretend to understand it, though for
the life of me, l can't make head or tai!
of this business"
Half an hour later. the following note
was ON it's way to Ca1npion Villa:
Dear Miss Westwick: ALLOW me to
thank YOU very sincerely for your kind
and appreciative letter. l also walk in
Campion park in the half-light. and shall
be there tomorrow evening. If you happen
To be on the bridge over the lake at about
80 1 trust / may have the pleasure of see
ing You.
II hope that you will not be annoyed by
this PROPOSAL, and, meantime, remain very
sincerely yours, "Reginald Blake,
Author of the Acrostic."
There was little sleep for our poet that
night. He lay upon his couch in a fever of
anticipation. asking himself a thousand
times what Miss Westwick would be like.
Perhaps she was u specialized old maid, of
q sentimental cast of mind, who dabbled
in poetry herself. He hoped Will all his
heart that such might not prove to be the
case, and, presently, he fell into "a titful
doZe, wherein all sorts and conditions of
ridiculous dreams concerning his unknown
correspondent held the high place.
Next day he contrived to perform his
duties at the bank without perpetrating
more than a dozen blunders, and when, at
length, the hours of thraldom were con-
cluded, he rushed home. consumed a
hasty meal. arrayed himself in his most
gorgeous ratment and sailed forth to
Campion Park, a picturesque little de-
mesne on the borders of the town.
He approached the bridge with swiftly
beating heart. Standing by the parapei
was a tall. graceful girl, with wonderful
dark eyes and comely cheeks.
Some instinct seemed to rise up In
Blake's heart and proclaim to him that
this was Dora Westwick. and an instant
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OF ONE
FAMOUS PAINTING
Origin of the Renowned Pro-
duction, "Rock Of
Ages"

The Rock of Ages, that world-famous
picture. was painted by Rev.
A. Oertel. The artist, a native OF ga
varia, who came TO America IN ls4S,
it in the album of q young girl living
in Westerly, R. /. 1t impressed all who
saw it. suggesting a small painting of
the subject in oil, which he exhibited
at the National Academy of Design.
New York. This caught the keen eye Of
a Broadway dealer, Who, renll2lhg lts
| commercial value. induced Mr.. Oertel
to make a large painting. from which
photographs were struck off and n of
these falling into the hands Of Mr..
James, of Providence. r. L.. he pur-
| chased the right of publishing all sub
sequelit copies.
The painting was bought for 81. 600 by
Augustus Storrs. a Brooklyn merchant,
while the run upon the unframed pic
lures. ten inches high, got out by Mr..
James and selling for IS apiece, was
unprecedented in the history of pho
Biography, the operators being unable to
meet the demand and dealers losing
sales from insufficient supply of copies.
MIR. James next venture was a chro-
mo-lithograph made under his own su-
pervision In Paris. Passing through
| London on his way home he sold three
of these chromos for nine guineas to
Mr.. ave- the queens bookseller.
upon MS diilSdt III 1LINCl pool d lSlS-
graphic order awaited him from that
gentleman for thirty additional copies,
and on reaching New York he was
handed an application from him for the
entire edition.
Sales Have Been Phenomenal.
Indeed, phenomenal as was the sale
OF this creation in America, it was
| greater abroad. Ar English nobleman
hazards the assertion that in some one
of it's varied forms it is to be found in
! every palace and hovel in the island,
and a traveller returning from a tour
of the world exclaimed: The picture
haunts me. 1t follows me wherever
go. l have seen it in Chile. l have
seen it also in the PyreneeS.'
Two years after the appearance OF
the first photographs Mr.. James had
realized as his share of the profits $75,-
600. Mr.. Oertel, too, was in receipt OF
Il handsome income in royalties, anG
with this assured support (having pur-
sued his theological studies without as
sistance and been ordained to the
priesthood of the Protestant Episcopa.
church) he removed in 1867 to Lenoir
in North Carolina, and took charge OF
a congregation Impoverished by the
civil war.
Two years later an authorized copy
of the Rock of Ages was got out by q
New York photographer.
Mr.. Oertei's publisher sought protec-
ton from the law and the case was car.
ried into the lower and supreme courts
of the state. Scarcely had it been decid.
ed in his favor, however, when a Chi:
cage artist made a similar design
evading the law by the introduction o.
a ship in the background and the re.
versal of the female figure. This threw
the copyright open. The monopoly was
wrcsted from its owner and the market
flooded with pictures of every size anc
quality.
Thus as a financial venture terminal
ed the brilliant promise of the Rock OF
Ages,
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S''%ssF '99s.8 #..AN.Sa3T.- Ca47 sR13M hSag, RESERVED

Reggie Blake WAS a bank clerk in his
working hours, ora q poet in his moments
OF ease. The stern realities of ledscrs,
pass books, and trial "balasces" had beeM
unable To qucll the nascenc fire that
giowed in his youthful soul, and It was not
very long before the local ..aper Of the
little town of Raymead began to qu4veY
with Reggie Blake's illusions.
He had been drafted to Baymead from
tho head office of the bank. and he found
life uiutterably lonely in the small market
town. But for the diversion afforded him
by the spinning of rhymes, he told himself,
he would have crifted into acute melan-
cholia, and while this view was. perhaps,
undu!N pessin1stic, there can be little
doubt that existence at Baylnead was dull
enough attire the exh.laration of life in
London.
one evening. after q particularly heavy
Gays work, he was sitting in his dingy lit
lie lodging when the maid entered with u
letter. The missiNe was from Mr.. BloXa1n,
The editor of the Bay1neaa Argus, and 1t
ran thus:
My Dear Sir: j have been much pleased
with the poetry that YOU Nave been kind
enough to contribute to this journal. and
shall be very glad TO receive further me:ri-
cal contributions whenever you feel In
clined 20 forward the same. Yours faith
fully. John Bloxan.''
Come, that is a ur!fe more encourage
ing" thought Reggie, as he smiled and
reread the communication. II never could
have believed that am editor could write
in cold blood TO a man and ask for verses.
III knock off something fresh at once
Drawing his chair closer To the table,
the young man se.zed a pencil and plunged
into thought.
Nov. what can / write about??" he
pondered. "'That is the question: as our
friend the melancholy Dane would say"
For nearly twenty minutes he sat with
Il perpleNed look upon his brow. until al
length an inspiration darted into his brain.
by Jove, | have it, he murmured.
'ili write something to be called "A Face
in the Crowd Brown was saying this
morning that every face In q crowd held
beauty for some one, and the idea is worth
celebrating in Verse. Here goes"
After manifold eraSurcs alterations
and all the other efforts that go to make
up the writing of a poem, Reggie produced
the following somewhat feeble effusion
which he t1attered himself, however, wa
rather good" 1t ran thus:
Dear face that looked to mine, and the1
departed,
Oh, tell me, shall we meet again?
Rich was the JOY that thy dear smile i'm
parted,
And thro' my soul thy image beams
again.
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latel ne Was poWlnS and holding out his
hands.
Miss Westwick, l think
Yes. that is my name. And you are
Mr.-Mr. Blake? IL hope you don't think
Very badly of me for wrlting?'
To this day Reggie is unable to recount
with any degrce of exactness what he said
and did in the exquisite moments tina
followed that meeting on the bridge. The
girls beauty took immediate possession of
his heart and brain, and when, an hour
later, he babe her adieu, he began to think
that he was very much in love.
Il suppose ] ought to nave told her that
she was under some mtsconception as to
that acrostic," he reflected, as he walked
home, but l was so delighted to find that
she wasn't a specialized old maid after all
that the incident passed completely out of
my mind. Anyhow, it doesn't matter much
one way or the other
In the weeks that followed Miss Dora
Westwick and Reggie Blake were con-
stantly together, and in the fitness of time
he was invited to Campion Villa, where
Dora's aunt, a benevolent old lady with
whom the girl resided. took an instant
fancy to the poetical bank clerk and made
him exceedingly welcome.
II am very fond, very fond of YOU liter
airy people, Mr.. Blake" she said gracious
ly. but don't you think you We're lust a
trine bold when you addressed an acrostic
TO a young lady to whom you had not been
introduced"
we poets often do bold things" he re-
piled evasively, land l think Dora-er-
Miss Westwick. l mean, has forgiven me
by this time"
Il have" returned Dora promptly, and
then changed the subject by Offering her
ad1nirer some cake.
The inevitable happened in due course.
When Reggie Blake was promoted to the
position of assistant cashier, and was mott
f1ed that a substantial increase in salary
would ~omp his new dignity, he
took his courage in both hands, as orr
Gallo friends would say, and asked Dora
Westwick to be his wife.
You know that 1 have loved you ever
since that evening on the BRIDGE he said.
as he took her hand in his.
Dora pouted deliciously.
Only since them" she whispered. "I-
I thought it dated from the hour when
you saw the Face in the Crowd'?"
Oh, ah, yes. of course stammered
Blake, turning scarlet. That remarl
about the bridge was a clerical error, as
we say at the bank. But, darling, we can
afford to ignore such trit1es now, for IL
want you to be my Wife
The hand that lay in Reggie's palm
tw!ned lovingly round it. and he knew that
he had gained his hearts desire Oh that
summer night.
Throughout the hAlcyon days Of tn en-
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BREAK THE RECORD
FOR TRANSFORMING
A Yew Tree. 700 Years Old.
Moved Over a Mile in
Germany.
From the New York Sun

LAX VI JUN.
Perhaps the most ambitious attempt
at transportation on record has just
been made ut Frankfort-on-the- Maizas
Germany. and the results are being
eagerly watched by botanists. The ald-
est yew tree in Germany, perhaps tn
the world. has been removed from Ia
old garden, which the rsru1i-
cipality is about to use for some other
purpose. to the new one. The distance
traversed was about a mile and u
quarter.
The tree was moved not on ccoux1
of any special scientific value but for
sentimental reasons. It's age is esl1-
mated by some authorities at 100 yeaEB
and 1T seemed a sort of sacrilege to cux
1t down without an effort to save It
Preparations for the removal were
begun three years ago under direction
of expert b%otanists. The principal op-
GRAFTON was the clipping of the t@ndrils
OF the roots to a radius of about six
feet This was gradually done, "a feW
at a time. so that the tree might ac-
custom itself to their loss. About tha
end of last May the colossal sask 0f
lifting the tree from it's bed aud paac-
Ing 1t on IA huge a constructed for
the purpose was begun.
How 1t Wa Accomplished.
A sort of crate was built ahorf tho
roots with the earth clinging ID them
as fast as they were laid bare. t,ae tres
being kept erect by guy ropes When.
this was finished 1t was slowly ra1shod
along skids to the vain, which was
located In a trench. SO that its floor
was about on a level with the bottom
of the crate.
The crate was about 10 feet square
and 6 deep. The tree is about G6 fes1
tall and some of the lower branches
had to be pruned to keep the1ns frc1ra
damaging the roofs of houses along the
way. The weight Of the tree and SKIS
packing was at 10000 pounds
and to carry it the truck was made OF
enormous strength.
1t was decided that it would BE i'm
practicable to put the wagon on wheels
as each one would have to carry "A
weight of 25. 900 pounds. or more thar,
German locomotive wheels an. tested
for. Besides it was figured that less
damage would be done to the road by
using rollers OF American hickory I'm
places where sewers or other pipass
were underground heavy timber hnarnss
were arranged to take the Metriat ar
the rollers for fear the conduit yypula
be crushed.
The mechanical part of the trans
plantation was carried out triurusalart-
ly. The tree is still propned up in it's
new location lest the wind should blow
1t over before 1t gets a solid hold or
the earth 1t is watched and watereE
from day to day. 1t is not certain yet
whether it will accustom itself To i1H
new home. but there are great h.srses.
that it win.
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LIZARD sPoUTs BLOOD.
Scientist Confirms an Old Legend
About Mexican ReptiIe.

Scientist Confirms an Old Legend
About Mexican Reptile.
That certain lizards have the power
to emit IA stream OF BLOOD from their
eyes has been a tradition of the south
west from time out of mind. but many
scientists have classed 1T With the jew
ell in the toad's head and the hoop
snake. Raymond Lee Ditmars, cur
ator of reptiles in the New York 70
clogical society made exhaustive re-
search to ascertain what foundation
in fact, If any,, there is in the tradition
Of the blood spouting lizards. He had
nearly made up his mind that it was
purely mythical. when he came upon a
startling demonstration Of its truth
He had received a particularly fine
and after photographing it, proceeded
to measur it. The result he tells in
his Reptile Book"
The latter process" he says. seem
ed to greatly excite the creature. 1t
finally threw the head slightly upward.
the neck became rigid, the eyes bulged
from the sockets, when there was a
distinct sound like hat produced #
one presses the tongue against the
roof of the mouth and forces a small
quantity of air forward. h rasping
sound, consuming but the fraction OF
u second, was accompanied by q jet
OF blood at great pressure.
ut hit the wall -four feet away. at
the same level as that Of the reptile.
The duration of the flow OF blood ap-
peared to be about one and a half
econds, and toward its termination
the force gradually diminished. as
noted by a course of drops down the
wall and along the floor to a position
almost under the spot where the rep
tile had been held. The stream OF
blood seemed to be as fine as a horse
hair and to issue from the eyelid.
which was ~momentarily much swollen.
For some time after the perform
ance the eyes were tightly closed, and
nothing could induce the lizard to ope
them. Within two minute after 1t
was placed on the ground the pro-
trnding aspect of the eyeballs and the
swelling Of the eyelids had disap-
peared.
Most surprising was the amount OF
hood expended. The wall and floor
showed a course of thickly sprinkled
spots about one-eighth Of an inch In
diameter. There We're 103 of these
EDOtS."
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Motor PROOF Roads.
the Philadelnhia Press

The complaint is made everywhere
that the heavy high speed automobiles
are very hard OF roads as at present
constructed. The complaint is loud in
England and is made the subject of an
article in London Engineering. The
motor cars stir up the dust and keep
it stirred up, so that in some places
it never gets time to fairly settle. The
rubber tires of the heavier, swift NOV
ing motCr-cars press flat ON the surface
of the road. and as they pass on suck
the dust from the interstices of the ma
terial which makes the roadbed, send
ing the dust in the air and leaving the
stones exposed, unsupported and tend
ing to work loose.
This is the condition created by fast
moving motor cars on all but the very
best roads. Engineering argues that
this is no Impeachment of motor cars,
but of the roads. 1t is the function of
a road to carry such traffic as is re-
quired to pass owe it, and if we cannot
do this without causing a nuisance, this
authority maintains it is an inefficient
construction. A stone road of improved
construction, with a binder of very fine
stone and stone dust is not proof
against The suction process OF the auto
mobile wheel. The treatment of the
road, after being cleanly swept, to a
coat of hot tar, we'll brushed into the
interstices, is the remedy suggested by
Engineering. Sand is laid on the tar
TO keep it from being picked up by
vehicles. At the cost of $500 a mile a
year n road of this method can be kept
dust free and secured from the disin-
tegrating consequences of automobiles
passing V lust or mud.
The automobile or motor-car has
come to stay. and roads will have to
be built with a view to the increased
burden placed lDOn Them rNhic r,au
raise nice questions as to the adjust
ment of the costs, but that is a separ-
ate consideration. Those who must
drive their motor-cars at the speed of
steam engines should be made to find
other .roadways than the public high
way for such purpose. But an i'm
proved road is not improved enough
that will not stand the strain of auto
mobile traffic moving at a reasonable
, speed.
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cLEvELANp's VALUABLE BOOK
Catalogue Of Collection of Jade |,
Worth $4,000 in Book Market.

Saea.o9ue O. Colieceion OF Jade 10
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Locked up i'll a safe in the Cuyahoga
building is the most valuable book in
Ohio. the most expensive in the entire
collection of the Cleveland public IL
brary, and the costliest ever designed
in the world.
The book is Heber Reginald Bishops
collection of Jade" 1t is a catalogue
OF beautiful carvings and designs made
from this rare and valuable stone.
Bishop, VINO was a New York mil
lionaire. was a collector of this stone,
and nae his entire collection catalogued
ton was presented by him to the Met
ropolitaE museum of New York. A
room was fitted at a cost of SEQ, 900 to
receive the collection.
Upon Bishops death, the executors
Of the estate had 100 copies OF the book
were destroyed. These hundred books
We're distributed among the crowned
heads of Europe and to several of the
leading libraries of the world, he
Cleveland public library securing a
copy, the only che in Ohio.
The book is a magnificent specimen
of the hookmaker's art. and demon
s%trates one mans fealty to a lifelong
hobby. The book is in two volumes.
eighteen by twenty-four inches. The
paper is hand made, each sheet before
the impression. being worth twenty-five
cents.
The book costs $4,000 per copy. The
ink used is Of the finest. and cost over
IS. The books are nearly seven inches
thick, and the larger weights seventy
eight pounds, containing $50 pages, with
Illustrations in colors. Crushed leyaut
binding is used with handsome doubles
of garnet watered stlk. The backs are
decorated with plain artistic gold tool
ing. The etchings are of copper plate.
made by eminent French artists.
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Washington. for the national capital 10
his ultimate destination.
His purpose there is to arouse interest aT7
his plan for Il national highway TO e~
known as Pioneer Way, and to sarestcha
from the Missouri river to the parsfsA
along the line OF the old Oregon trail n
way" to use MIR. Meeker's own words.
that shall make traffic practicable by tina
trackiess car. a road of cement THAI sf,sfa
he thronged with the coming generations"
Ezra Meekcr is 76 years old AT aa aEs
when most men are content to lag sssade
Hfe's burdens this prosperous olo farnse1
chooses to renew his youth by practically
living over again the life of pioneer tlays
and by defeating his old age to what Aa
believes to be II public duty.
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Mixed on Clans.
From the Cleveland T>a.ae

HlOII IL SlCSeldnQ Leader.
When the late Jere Rusk was governor
of Wisconsin he attended a clarabake In
New Jersey. and. Of course, had to xnak.
a speech. He begun by saying that he
had greatly enjoyed their low nerce0
claims. A long faced old man across the
table scowled and said in a stage whisper.
Little necks. not low necks.''
Governor Teusk paid no attention 10 him
but after dinner the long faced 1,aan tol-
lowed him out of the hall, tYosa .1o.js.
have man claims in Wisconsin, L rackon.~
said he.
We'll" said Jere. I'VE have s1,,sas, t,us
it's a good way to water, and in driyIns.
them across the country, their feet Eel
sore and they don't thrive very we'll"
why, man alive!" said he. CLAIMS
haven't any feet!"
Soon after that he buttonhoIed one uY
Rusk's friends. rs that fellow governor
of consin he demanded. .W-al.-
he continued. p'r'aps he maye be a smart
enough man for Wisconsin. but he is n
good deal OF a fool at the s~eashore--