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THE CHEROKEE INDIANS.
GLIMF3E3 OF THE RED MAN IN A
CIVILIZED STATE.
Cherokee Life and Government “ in
the Indian Territory-A , Good -
e ool Sysem and Prosperity.
. Tahlequah, the Indian the Territory, capital of the Cherokees
in village, nestling amid is a lovely little
a range of. flint
covered mils. The capitol building is
as fine a fctate building as might have
been seen a xew years in some o¥ pur
Western States. The chief, at the time
of my visit, was Hon. D. W. Bushy
£ead. self to be Mr. quite Bushyhead has proven He him- took
a statesman.
great pains to instruct us in his manner
of running the government. There is
perhaps independent no government and in the world so
yet so dependent as the
Cherokee3’s. They have a large surplus
on hand or at interest, enough to more
thau run their government, for schools
and support of the blind are never fully,
expended. After paying every appro¬
priation they have a surplus of several the
thousand dollars left. They rent
Cherokee strip for almost enough to pay
all the current expenses of the nation,
and in addition to this they have vested
funds which bring in a large amount of
revenue. Their citizens pay no taxes,
they have no paupers, and consequently
no poorhouses. All the land is held in
common, and each Cherokee is entitled
to all the land he can cultivate or rent,
be it 100 acres or 10,000. If their present
prosperity continues, with all the facilities
at their command (which they seem capa¬
ble of taking advantage of), they will in
a few years become a race of millionaires.
Chief Bushyhead was a half-blood
Cherokee and half Scotch. He was
bom in Tennessee on the 10th day of
March, 1826, and was educated at one
of the mission schools. He made an ex¬
cellent official, and was in 1887 suc¬
ceeded by Hon. Joel B. Mayes, for a
number of years Chief Justice of the
Cherokee Supreme Court, who is the
chief at the present time. There are a
number of Cherokees who have become
famous, and among them is Colonel
William P. Boudinot, who,as a musician,
according to his training, excellent has no
superior. There are many Cherokees, and
musicians among the
when he was a young man Boudinot
stood foremost among them.
The Cherokee Government is a re¬
public. The chief executive is the
principal chief, who corresponds to the
President of the United States or
Governor of a State. The second in
oower is the assistant chief. They have
a national council consisting of a Senate
and lower house. They have a Supreme
Court to which all litigation from the
lower courts can be appealed, consisting and
of three judges. Their lawyers
judges are all men learned in the law.
many of them' being graduates ot law
schools in the States. The nation is
divided into districts which correspond each
to counties, and there is a sheriff to
district, and a circuit iudge appointed All
over every three or four districts.
officers are elected, either by the people
or by the National Council, except a few
appointed by the chief who have to bo
confirmed by the Senate. We found
many ambitious politicians among the
red men. The Senate is composed chiefly
of white Cherokees and is by far the
ablest body. The House of ltepresenta
tives, consisting of one from each dis
trict, is made up mostly of full bloods.
The Senate and House are both opened
with prayer. The Senate has a Presi
dent and the house a Speaker, elected
from its own body. there are three
clerks and two interpreters for each
body. A bill is lead in i_nglish and
JanJiage. god", S which make) the mills of the
Cherohee^Uwlafdtlzen^thet are in no T,h.e,uah grind siow,,. There
and some of them dress much better thau
their immediate white neighbors. public
We visited the missions and
schools of the Cherokees and found them
all in excellent running order. The male
and female seminaries are
buildings, the former about one and the
latter four miles from the capital. Fifty
students are admitted free to the male,
and fifty to the female seminaries free.
By saying free, we mean free of books,
board and tuition. The tuition and
books are free to all Cherokee children
who will go, and we have the first to
find yet who did not attend some school;
but fifty are selected, whose board is
paid during their tuition by the nation.
The Cherckee school system is some
thing of which they are justly proud,
Ali children are boarded in the buildifig
and are under the direct supervision of
the principal of the school. The princi¬
pals of these schqols get $1000 a year,
and are boarded at the expense of the
nation. The principals the assistants are white native men,
but many of are
teachers. The native teacher is gaining,
and it will not be long until the white
man will be removed from his comforta¬
ble position of a net thousand a year.
Not only are the principal of and the teachers nation,
boarded at the expense
but all their families, which make the
positions much sought after by peda
gogues with large families. ( ffie of the
assistant teachers in the female seminary
was Miss Ella Adair, one-fourth C hero
kee lady. Mis3 Adair was what might
be called a belle. She had none of the
Indian features, and we found her a well
educated and refined young lady. She
was very beautiful, possessed and made excellen
conversational powers, a very
agreeable companion. <acd after all the contrast
In contrast
is not so very great) was Miss Julia Six
killer, a full blood Cherokee lady. Miss
Sixkiiler was a pretty girl even if she
« “oodladiao a-dbis.mce
married a wmte man named Ivie. Sue
was a graduate, very intellectual, but
quiet and reserved, as most full bloods
are.
i There are many handsome ladies
among th* Chor&keos, and then there are
many typical hags, with tawny faces,
and high arched nose*, yet the traveler
through this country very naturally
comes to the conclusion that if these are
samples of the red men, he is not nearly
so ^ ad % he * ias b ® en P aintcd ‘
The Cherokee Advocate is the national .
organ of the Cherokees. It is printed
iu English and Cherokee, from the alpha
bet made by that wonderful Cherokee
g e . qu0 .yah or George Guess. It is a
yer y creditable publication and is sup
ported bv the nation. The editor is ap
pointed d by by the chief, his and assistant is paid con
fl rme the Senate a
stipulated salary. The paper, presses, paid by
type setting and all expenses are
the na tion, and all the money taken in
f or subscription and advertising is ac
C0U nted to the Government —Detroit
p ree p ress
SCIENTIFIC AN!) INDUSTRIAL.
The French, the best naval architects,
armor their vessels all around.
Holding the breath is found to control
the sensibility to tickling.
Electric snow plows are to be used on
the electric railway in Boston.
Not a poisonous reptile, Sound insect or
plant is found in the Puget re¬
gion.
A new cannon made for a Russian iron
clad .tow,, soi* ** weighing 1685
Bev. W. Holland, of Pittsburg, has
accumulated 100,000 bugs in the interest
“ f ^uner
Farad., hud th. cable in
the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of six
miles per hour.
Mr. W. Mattieu Williams urges the
adoption of locust paste, or potted lo¬
custs, as a table delicacy.
One of the real problems of the day
is how best to coal vessels at sea when
blockading or watching a port or when
cruising in war times.
The series traction system, tried and
abandoned in Denver, Col., improved is being ex¬
perimented with under patents
at Gravesend, England.
A Griffin, (Ga.) citizen who shaves
three times a week, has noticed that his
beard grows much faster cloudy. in bright, sunny
weather than when it is
On Malden Island, in the Pacific,
guano is conveyed to miles the coast over a
tramway about five locg, driven on which
the loaded trucks are by sail
power.
Hertz’s recent experiments prove that
actual magnetic waves are reflected and
interfere with one another, and that the
velocity of such waves is about what is
calculated.
^ . mountain , . of , iron .___, ore, , , . g ,
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and a square mfle m area has been found
hoethn & of tbe / ndl ^ ^eotogi
? al Sur l e y> \ m0D S the Shan Hills of
Upper T Burmah.
Marquetie, Mich., _ proposes an ex
tensive installation of lighting and trac
tion by electricity, to be under the con
trol of the city fathers. Water is within
convenient distance, and will greatly re
duce the cost for power,
Natural gas was discovered in Indiana
about two years ago, and since that time
seventy-nine new manufactories have
been established in that State, with a
capital aggregating told, $4,000,000, employ
ing, all 5800 men.
j n the recent trials of the United
states dynamite cruiser Vesuvius it was
noticed, particularly that the temperature
0 f ber fi re room and engine room was
very much below that usually carried in
vessels making a’sixteen-knot speed un
,j er Quinary draft.
^ . g now ua( ierstood that many puz
tling headaches arc due to overstraining
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“ SI light
to remedy _ the defects ol the Sight.
In the long continued experiments
conducted at Portsmouth, Eng-and, with
» view or determining the respective solid*
merit of compound armor and of
stee ^ armor as a protection for battle
s^ps, the superiority still remains with
the steel-faced armor now adopted in
tlie navy.
Paper doors are said to ffie great ini
provements over wooden ones. They
are formed of two thick paper boards,
stamped and molded into panels and
glazed together with glue and potash
and then rolled through heavy rollers,
After being covered with a waterproof
coating and one that is fireproof, they
are painted, varnished and hung in the
usual way.
Dr. J. M. Edmunds, in a paper in a
dental monthly, advocates the implant¬
ing of metalic roots in the jaw and the
building of artificial method teeth upon them,
He believes that this opens new
possibilities for dentistry. By planting
two metalic capsules in the rear of the
jaw and two in the forward portion, he
thinks it practical to lay a foundation
for a complete set of permanent teeth.
A Camel Market.
Nearly J00,000 camels pass in and out
of Aden, Arabia, every year laden with
the various products of the interior,
The camel market is a large space de
voted to the sale and purchase of the
camel-loads as they are brought in.
Every morning hundreds of laden camels
come streaming in from the interior.
Filing into tbe camel market the}* lay
down beneath their loads in the place
assigned end them, and complacently subject chew of
the or ruminate on the
their woes, while a motley crowd of
merchants, middlemen and traders cir
culate among them, bargaining and chaf
fering over the pile, of to wo«d char
CO al and fodder under which they are
almost hidden, or for the bales of hides
aE( j skins, tbe bags of coffee, or of
produce for the city market,—
]j[ ew York World.
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■ to PISO'S CURE FOR
I**’ CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good, Use
in in time. Sold by druggists.
u I believe Piso’s Cure
for Consumption H. Dowell, saved
niv life.-vA.
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ton, N. C., April 23, 1S87.
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The best Piso’s Cough Cuke Medi¬
cine is eor
Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
By all druggists. 25c.
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Hi b PlSO'S CURE FOR
CURES WHERE ALL Tflstss ELSE FAILS. Use
Co Sosti Cough in Syrup* Sold by druggists. good# n
H time.
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B H MOf Pill. Dtiftfl U HUT
IIE original formula for which we paid modiiicd £50,000
twenty years ago lias never been or
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Identical In quality to-day with
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tH T IKE all best ihinSit, it is extensively iini
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SORE THROAT and received more benefit
from its use than all other
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•A- U- Nic hols, 110 Gray St., Atlanta, Ga., writes:
“ wife for several has been suffering with
years
what physicians term Eczema, affecting her whole
body, limbs and scalp. Itappeared that her whole
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while it was thought she would die, as several doc¬
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was
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so, and to our utter astonishment she commenced
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D. M. McRae, Waynesboro, Miss^ writes: “My
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like magic and produced a complete cure.” ( %
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