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RICH OSAE INDIANS. They Have $8 536 000 In the United States Treasury Which they Want to Get The ()sage Indians. of ()klaha ma. want their monye. say: a 'Wash ington letter to theNews am' Cour ier. On the b,)oks of the United States treasury the sum of S8.;36. ooo stands t. their credit. and the.y have sent a delegation t , Washink. tol to ask that it be iivided up among th'em. Ip to the p)ro.nu tille lith 1vcave received only tie in terIv. Prnesidwem. RAsel he coul do. When he inquired what the O-a-es needed the caJh for, one of the ch-efs replied tat ther were Imch! ; ned 1f anon: o biles. Thi' \waS a ioke. of couu. ut there ~ 1c isral "i reaso, whly tic Osag.s shoul no have biles if they vant them. It is an old sorV 11at 1Icy are the richest peopl in the wi rl. Evryv yo : Woman in the rl'e is an heiress M her own right an( each buck. squaw and child is worth not far irom Sio.ooo. Every individua among them owns 76 ares of lan -1 or considerably over a square mile. worth at the least calculation SF ar acre: to which must be added $467in ca.sh in the treasnry. ed a large slice of the "tate of Nan sas. extending from .1dic1e Lodge eastward to Neosho. They sold the strip to the gov:--nment tor $1.2; an a acre. anl part of the mony'v equivalent was paid by the .Indian bureau for a tract of .400., ooo acres of fertile land. to which the tribe was removed. The bal ance. amounting to .-536.0m. has been held in trust for them ever since' hv the treasury. As interest on the sum they re ceive annually :421.713. of which $9o.ooo in cash is distributed among them each quarter. the bal ance of S61.713 being expended by Uncle Sam i schools and in va rions other xays for their bene*1t. The Osages lease a large part of their lands to cattlemen. in this way adding conSiderably to their. annual income. Where. as frequent ly happens. a household consists of father -md mother an:1 six r scven c.hlren. the family " w.. rth sme thing like 5$o.o or 8t0.0o0. ani each new infant horn adIs Slo.00" or so to the wealth of the establish ment. This includes no- reckoning of accumulated prn.ertv. ,I which man membern f tIe :r;be possess a great dieal. <nding wel! built houses. agricuural t d and do mestic ani:ras. There :re 12.000 cattle (".ooo h. rses on the reserva tion, all of theni beli-nging to the Indians. It is not surpri5ing. then. that the O)sages are ca lled: the richest peo p)le in the wo~rl. E'very year each miembler of the tr!ibe receives fro the governlment S233. the income o a family of ten fromn tis source alone b)eing accordirgly. S2-300 p)er annum. AddI to this the inc'ome from 7.680 acres of land, worth at SS an acre Sf61.000. andl it is oh viouis that -starvation is not immi, nent. No wonder that those In dians employ w~hite men to work for them, while for the most p)art they themselves pursue an exis tence of elegant leisure: The earlier history of the Osages seems to have been one of repeat ed migrations. They' were contin ually at war with other tribes, and this~may have been a cause of their mloving about from place to p)lace. For a while they~ dwelt near where the city of St. Louis now stands: thence they' moved up the Mlissouri river to the Osage river, and from the mouth of the latter stream up pnear to its source. in 1685 they re sided on the Osage River. in sev enten villages. andI they remained in that neighborhood tuntil a comn paratively modern date. Lewis and Clark located them there in 18o4-the Great Osages (500 war riors strong) on the south bank. the *Little Osages six miles away 250 warriors.) and the Arkansaw~ band (600 warriors) on the \'ermilion river. Later on thy moved south west into Southern Kansas. The Osages are among the larg est and best formed of American Indians. Customarily the bulk of the males has been composedl of warriors, and hunters, the remain der being divided into two clases cooks and doctors. The doctors are a priet and magicians. There is, by the way, a great deal of "wiz business about the religion of the tribe. which is wholly unlike any other cult known among the aborigines of this country. It is a kind of sun worship. the orb of d-y hein adored as a god. The word ( )sage seems to he a crruption Iof the name formerly i nvcn bylic the tribe to itself-mean ing Simply people. All of its tra t.n * re carefully )res-rve(I by a t ict. wIhise meetings are v;h 1e by~ ela rate rites: and I; IIf ihese traditions is that the acetors of the Osages V ird; lirno the upper worll. Thre was in the region vhcre thk tyuse to (k.xell-and this is no h- sniphur spring. wich ie'i as sacred by the: ag They accustomQed at re_! imervals to throw votive offer V 'im) it. such as d1int knives heads, to obtain the favor the g o4 v:atcr. NIt ong ago \. i 1: ,lilmes. now director1 _t bureau, of theoLogy. dug oIt te spring and fI'und there an as 1hin mixture of such human artifacts, with mastodon teeth. maImloth teeth. bones of an ex tinct species of horse and remains of imodern animals. Nearly i.ooo flint imlplemelts of the finest de I serntion were secured, thanks to the pietv of the Osages. According to the records of the Indian bureau the Osages in 1843 ! uImlbercd 4.102. In 1877 there w:e only ;.ooi of them. and In i184 onlv about half of theqe re mainled. o 1.547. At this rate the, tribe would sI on have disappeared IVtirelv. possibly leaving half a IzeI multi-mil!ionaire Indians to eniov the poisseizion of all its . weaIth: but sncec then it has in creased somewhat and the last enunleration puts the Osages down at 1.833. There is a good deal of white blood in the tribe now. and full Nloods are still diminishing in numbers. Many of the latter even yet cling to the aboriginal dress and cuistoils and occasionally one may I see the proprietor of a fine estate dtelling in a bark lodge. while his hired white iman occupies tile rame mansion. Not a few of the :ribal heiresses have narrierd white husbands, some of whom sell liquor I an will m.'ne fc)rom the Indians at aming i'it. on the whole. the ! i(agev lead a peaceful and content eC w'le not toO laborious. exis tenc--a is suible and becoming Sr teic people who have a right to w called the riciest ill the world. WOMEN OF SPIRIT. Fair Sex of Japan Fane Flame of Chivalry In the Sterner Sex. 't ''cre teacing. It is fro frtom his cradle .reve.rencedl her sonl 1s1erlr. that the p)ugnaneity of :h l isaners is derveed. Iojl: Bois, who has dwelt lo in that cotntry. writes ill an aticle just publllishled ihere. Ile dtecribes the women of Ja nn as far fronm the fragile. (loll like creatures pictured by Pierre Loti. Th Iere is stern stuff in their mla):e up. In every household the mother makes a cult of the historic wvorth is and heroes of the race. Shle goes through a dlaily cere mony in the presenlce of her chii Idren. froml which they learnl thle names and dleeds of those great inl Itheir country's chivalry. she extols, the glories of wvar andl inmpresses upon thlem the shame that it would be to live if tihe slayer of their fath er lived. Thbe wife hlas great authority_ in tle hlousehloldl and her semmig Isubection is largely a matter of' maiiers. .Shle shares tihe counlsels of her hlusb)and. and influences his 'career to greater extent thlan do the wie of the western landl. ofThe emlpress of Japanl is the b)est ofillustrations5 of this. H-arkuko (oiticallv named the "empress sprilg") is a daughter of tihe ino ble house of Ichigo, one of tile fine 'families of great "kuge." or court Ipersonages, from which a mlikado mar choose his consort. Until her ighteenthl year, when shle waS chosen by her sovereign, she wvas brought t'up in tihe strictest seclus iol ill tihe old capital. Kioto, anld received the customary education fa aughter of a princely domain. Great pains were taken to teach her literature, to develop her ar tistic taste and to school her in the writing of graceful or inane verse. She is 54 years old, a year older than her husband. Having no chil dren )f her own. she is c(ntent to see the son of the megaki. or con eubine. reared as the heir to the crown and to recognize him as her future lord if she survives her hus band. .\lonogamy is now the rule in Japan and( the next mikad will probably he the last of left handed birth to reign. The present em!Pe r ror 's likewise a megaki's son. 1"press Spring" has been truly a Ihelt)Ipmet and an inspiration to her husbandl. Sei caused the first lapanese irls to be sent to America. in 1871. to actuire the western natio-nal normal school anI patr(ized, the S!talisheniit of the Japlanese Rel CrThoss society. She gives money. time and care to charitable works. visible the hospitals. especially that :tor wome,nii and children in T!o*k;t where she distributes toys and lux tires. She has no companion in the se lusion of her own apartments in the palace of Takugawn. lere she wears the national costume. in lark colored silks. I-er apart ments are simple. in the style of old apan. with beautifully lacquered furniture. The tnor is covered with potless white matting. on which he sits or squats. H er r,,mis open into those of the emperor. The state aparments are tir nished in European styk. The palace. huilt in tSo.is in the i I.l native style of architecture. but it is equippled with the modern im provements" familiar to the west -water. electric lights and heating apartments. The ladies of the court live in a separate building. from which a covered passage leads to the gal cerv. Japanese etiqutte is so coin plicatcr that these ladies spend a seven. year's apprenticeship to learn their dities. Each has her own apartment and even her own cook. The women of present day Ja pan lives under far more liberal aws than her mother did. There is now a law for divorce by mutual c nent. \\'omien kctures are not nknown. 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