GERTRUDE THREE FINGERS AND PAPOOSE, OKLAHOMA.

Oklahoma, "Home of the Red Man," was so called by Col. Boudinet, a Cherokee. It was thrown open to settlement on April 22nd, 1889. At Chilocco is located one of the Indian Training Schools, where boys are taught various trades and girls are taught household duties.

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OKLAHOMA.

THE INDIAN GIFT.

ROM far back days, when on the western plains
Wild silence, in its awful quiet, reigns,

To days when progress lights the lustrous way,

Under the sun of empire and its sway;

From times when in the lonesome western land
The savage led his fierce and barbarous band,
To times that bless a better, brighter life,
Unknown to trial, toil and bloody strife,
This is the theme that here is sung;
A song from cruel hardship wrung.

On yonder mesa, lifted fair and high

From 'neath the blue of glorious western sky,
And on the undulating lands below,
Where blessed brooks and rivers flow,
The coyote howled into the echoing night,
Into the sun the eagle held his flight,

The buffalo, the antlered elk and deer,
In countless herds grazed on the ranges here;
Along a land untouched and free;
Clear and clean as the wind-swept sea.

Then ringing came the borderman's refrain,
And with it Cody, Little, North and Payne,
Couch and Clark, and all the advance band
That open flung the gates of "No Man's Land,"

And Oklahoma's domain, deep and wide,

Before the rushing, roaring, human tide,

That built amid the wilderness a State,

Modern, enlightened, throbbing, strong and great; Among the fairest sisters of the band

Led by Columbia's queenly hand.

We gave the Indian this bright gem,
Then took it back, and that's-ahem!

STATUE OF CAPTAIN
WILLIAM CLARKE

STATUE OF SACAGAWEA,
THE INDIAN WOMAN
WHO LED LEWIS AND
CLARKE THROUGH THE
INDIAN TRAIL OVER THE
MOUNTAINS.

Oregon is named from an Indian word, meaning "River of the West."
explored the State in 1804 and 1805.

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ON

N the beauty and the grandeur of the land of Oregon,
Its wondrous cascades and its lakes, its mountains,

plains, and streams,

From Shasta to Columbia's tide, that leaves fair Washington, From Idaho to ocean sands, the sum of fortune beams.

This gloryland where nature's mood is wild, and free, and strong, Where awful rise the mountain kings, where sweep the river

queens,

In majesty unspeakable, and where the forests' song,

In high hosanna, rolls above its sea of evergreens.

Over the mountain ranges and among the crags and peaks,
Adown the streams that turn toward the vast Pacific sea,
Where Nature unto Nature's God her sonorous aves speaks,
Along the canons and the dalles, the forests and the lea,
She repeats the flag, "Old Glory," repeats its waving bars,
Where blaze the crimson tintings of the sunset's lustrous dyes,
And gleams the snow of the mountains that reach toward the

stars;

The bravest flag that ever rose to kiss a nation's skies.

INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

This old and historic building was the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress in 1775. On July 4th, 1776, while Congress was in session, the Declaration of Independence was formally adopted, and on the morning of that day the old bell in the belfry rang out, proclaiming "liberty throughout all the land,"