Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1888-10-25
NOTES FROM ADAIR.
Our Correspondent Takes a Different view Of
Death.
OUTSIDER.

Death.
An express once has recently been opened
at Adair.
Il. Williams lcolored) succeeded John =.
See as foreman OF section, on the Goth.
Mrs J. H. ward from Patton's ranch re-
turned to her home at Moundyille. Mo-, on
tile ltth.
MIR, Bonebrake and son. OF Parsons. father
aud brother OF Howard Bonebrake, arrived on
the lota aud will spend several days visiting
and hunting
The latest addition 10 AdAir improvements
IL a cart owned by Air skinner, in which the
ladies may be seen riding down broadway In
regular metropolitan style.
October 18th was pay day and all the rail-
road boys were informed that they h ad receive ed
their las, check with Mo. Pac on them, ss the
NJ. X. & T. would go out OF the system on the
flrst OF November.
The little daughter OF Mr. Wears died on
the 18th. This 10 the fret death that has oc-
CURED in Adair for great while. There were
no funeral services. The body was inferred In
the burylng ground near Ed AdAIr's.
The Adalr school IL 10 be taught on the
subscription plan at sl.OO per scholar per
month. Miss vada Couch, OF vinita. IL to be
the teacher. II is to be hoped that ten to nf-
teen pupils can be secured. But be that as IL
may the school will go on.
That was a iowery and we'll written disser-
tation on death by friend "Bauze" In last
weeks CfuEFTAIN. But, l cannot avoid the
temptation TO correct his unseriptural and uu-
philosophical Idea when he says the reason
why we grieye and sorrow over the dead is
''the power Of love " | think not. Doubt
less we love and doubtless love Is a power,
but that love causes grief or sorrow cannot be
true. Light cannot produce darkness, neither
can heat produce cold. Love Is no more like
grief than light ls like darkness. How then
can 1t produce grie1 The truth is, people In
general grleve over the dead because OF q false
aud loyeless theology, because Of false phil
osophy OF what death Is and what death does
for the dead. The poet says;
There is no deathi
What seems 30 10 transition "
Why then, may be asked, DO we speak OF
death As lfit were a fSetg because Il seems SO
/ For the sa.pe reason we say Of the sun. II
rises, when, a.. p0int OF fact, II does no such
thing but only seems so.
! Ifso. then. 'there Is no death, - what Is ill
/ ~ ~ tfhheltoi- passing iiolh one room ~
/ Gods house into another. In this transit on
/ which We call death. the appearances are de-
eeptlye to the physical eye, for the real man
the life princiPle-does not die al ALI II
moves out Of "thll mortal. ." this t"uement oi
clay, Into It's "houke not made with haads,
eternal Ia the heavens" 4"
Why then do We grlevel Not from love bui
I from fear-feAr that the separation may b,
eternal. Fvr, As most people are taught. No
one can be positive OF his own eternal wei.
| fare far less OF Another's. Hence fear bring
grief, since possibly We may never meei
again 4"
II people could be reared TO look on death al
| II is-a transition, an exchange of houses-ant
10 look upon lie as II is-an endless discipiin,
co-eternal with the God who gave Il aud al
always subject TO his authority and auder hll
Supersisiou-therc would be less grief, lesi
sorrow and this world would be far more Joy,
ful than Il Is. Love Ia not the mother OF grief
october a. iSSs. WHO.
-Gastoh Meslier has been Sc lecteC
by the receivers Of the NJ, X. 4 T. a,
general passenger and ticket agent
aud A. s. Dodge, general freight agent