Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-03-19
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A Few Philosophical Remarks, tho 10.
suit or nil Nyo's Observation,

wish that they might be boys again. They
wish they could once moro 70 back 10 the
time when they used TO bathe Ia the mill
pond and permit the yielding mud 10
SQUIRT up between their weather beaten
toes for half day at a time; when bath
like this always produced healthy glow
on their skins-about twenty minutes az
ter they got home
They yearn to go back half century to
the days when they could eat anything
that grew or walked upon the face Of tue
earth. or few In the sky above or swan In
the waters beneath, and yet feel no re-
morse. Some have even said that they
would be willing TO 10 back there and
tarn the grindslone while heavy and re-
morscess parent got up and rode on itfor
an hour at time in order that they might
once more know the sweet complete, and
obliyious sleep NJ vigorous boyhood.
To those who may pant 10 turn the
grindstone once more in order 70 win The
largest aInountof fatigue In given period
Of time, let me introdune the grindstone
Of an active newspaper, whereon various
people seek to sharpen their own private
axes, meantime impressing on the boy who
is turning It that they are doing II purely
Tor his good.
The number Of opportunities that a dali
" paper has in twenty-four hours for
jumping on great wrong with both feet,
while the gentleman who furnishes the IN
formation conceals himself In eye one
cellar that opens with time-lock, IS alb
solutely appalling.
Outsiders have openly accused New
Workers Of lacking public spirit, and yet
Il Is cold and extremely bleak day when
& Il lt.,
who are willing 10 drop in and furnish in
mentioned, which will shake the city from
center 10 circumference and result In the
violent death OF the editor
Then there is the anonymous man, who
writes a big, dropsical letter. in which he
ourts investigation--fo another man Let
he gentleman who ycarns TO be boy
again and turn the grindsiono for day or
wo read the letters written 10 a daily
newspaper by those who desire 10 make an
open confession Of the errors aud trans
/ glessions Of someone else.
There is also the gentleman who wishes
1 to raise fund for his own widow llo
has been all his life man who has lnbored
Tor ihe amelioration of mankind; but now
/ before he has got mankind more than half
ameliorated, he finds himself unable to 90
on and complete the Job lie has tried TO
accomplish his great work by means of a
lecture which he has been giving at $50
/ per pop He now finds that the general
/ public. with one mad impulse, remains
away from the lecture, and he thinks that
/ the general public oughtio be shown up.
/ Another gentleman who has been blown
1 up by a gasoline stove willie in the dis
I charge Of his duty writes to say that a
4 oatterack is forming over one eye, and a
prominent optimist has told him that some
4 lay he will have TO do all his seeing with
one eye. The catterack has already grown
/ "a large that he can almost hear it roar.
He desires a friend and hopes the Ameri.
can people will avoid the sugmatism Of
allowing a deserving man TO so IN debt or
else borrow the money. He says, however,
J thai he likes the paper tirst-rate.
Every man who jumps on The newspa-
per arindstone with his old. disabled ag is
very much pleased with the paper. II
suits him exactly, and lie says that even
when other people threw It down in disgust
he picked 1t up aud read ii.
Another man has been spoken 10 by a
great many people about running for As
SCISSOR Of his town. He does not wish
TO do so. for he don't need H. and It Is a
thankless Job; but the way property was
assessed last year, in his place, ought 10
be shown up, and it would do much good.
He would be willing to write piece for
the paper, giving the inside facts about it,
II his name could be kept out Of the mat
ter. lie had often heard that in such
things you could rely on a newspaper
Office to preserve the strictest secrecy, and
he would be wiling TO take the risk OF
preparing such an article with the under.
standing that Il should 20 IL as editorial.
lie would deny himself The pure and laud'
able ioy Of authorship, allowing the edi.
torial, and the editor also, TO be double
loaded while he modestly and unostenta.
tiously remained in Europe.
The freeborn American citizen who de
sires an opportunity 10 get up on the top
of newspaper column in order to shoot
of his mouth at a personal enemy and
then become extremely elsewhere is said
to be on the increase. The supply is So
much greater than the demand that the
foolkiller ought 70 have more help In his
office
A day at the editorial grindstonc. where
people come TO write articles on health,
which contain covert illusions 10 theii
style Of codliver oil where the man comes
who has just bought an option on queen.
only to see his means going down the al
ley accompanied by three jacks and 1
short wasted revolver; where people con
gregate who desire to raise funds for 4
charitable object and act as treasurer
where men who pine for a change come tC
suggest how TO accomplish il. and also a
good man for the place, would satisfy
most any one who desired a few hours oi
contact with a certain style Of patriot.
The coarse. revolving stun that is fed to
an average waste paper basket in twenty
four hours would ill the average mar
with loathing Some day the high -browet
poet of the future will toss back bis darl
and fluent hair. twang his Tyre few
times, and write poem entitled, 'Thl
Wall of the Waste Paper Basket and !
will make Dantes Inferno look like