Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — A Modoc at Church. [ARTICLE]

A Modoc at Church.

One tolerably good thing is reported of that small section of the Modoc tribe now on a tour throughout the country at the expense of and for the profit of two or three white men. One of these Indians recently taught several small boys how to conduct themselves in church. The Indians, it seems, took Lexington, Ky., in their tour and chanced to be there on a.Sunday, when several of them attended the Baptist Church to observe the white man’s way of propitiating the Great Spirit and smoothing the path to the happy hunting-grounds. As a matter of course where the Indians were there were the small boys also, and a company of the youths managed to secure seats directly in front of the noble red men where curiosity could be thoroughly gratified. When the sermon began the boys turned round and stared at the Indians uninterruptedly, never flagging a bit in the gaze of open-mouthed wonder. The Indian, as a rule, is stoicai, but he was not stoical enough to endqre the gimlet look of those boys, which became, finally, unendurable. One of the Modocs, forced to action, leaned suddenly forward and seized a boy’s head as though he wanted a scalp, but he didn’t make any a> tempt to secure that trophy. He simply twisted the boy’s head around until it looked in the direction of the minister, and at the same time a significant gesture to the other boys caused them to look the same way. Never did boys pay better attention to a sermon than did those of Lexington during the remainder of the exercises, and the Modoc demonstrated that he had in him bigmaterial for a Sunday-school superintendent. —St. Louis Republican. —The exports of cotton-seed oil in 1871 were 65 054 gallons; value, $35,548. In 1872, 118.509 gallons, valued at $67,579. In 1873, 361.097 gallons, valued at $187,291. In 1874. 81,572 gallons, valued at $12,895. The exports are chiefly to Great Britain, countries in the south of Europe using this oil only when the olive crop is short. The price in 1874 varied from forty tp’sixty-seven and one-half cents per gallon, according to quality. —There was a most accommodating man who was captain of a steamship. One day a soldier lost his cap overboard and went to the Captain about it The old gentlepian said it was impossible to stop the vessel to recover it, but he kindly offered to make a mark on the rail where it went overboard and get it when he came back. “ Do you want to kill the Child?” exclaimed a gentleman as he saw a boy tip ■ the baby out of itscaniage on the walk. “ No, not qui e,” replied the boy; “ but, if I can get h:m to bawling, m >ther will t ike care of him while I co and wade in the ditch with Johnny Bracer!”— Detroit Free Press.