Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1891-03-19
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NIONn~uH NnCH NNNN OANIn tAUlNnt NuU
wish that they might be boys again. They
wish they could once more 90 back 10 the
time when they used to bathe In the mill.
pond and permit the yielding mud 70
squirt up between their weather bett en-
toes for half day at a time; when a ba,n
like this always produced a healthy glow
on their skins--about twenty mt l,es af.
ter they got home.
They yearn TO TO back half tury to
the days when they could cat anything
that grew or walked upon the face of the
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 10 20 back there aud
turn the grindstone while heavy and re-
morseess parent got up and rode on II for
an hour at a time in order that they might
once more know the sweet, complete, and
oblivious sleep Of vigorous boyhood.
To those who may pant to turn the
grindstone once more in order to win the
largest amount Of fatigue IN a given period
Of time, let me introdune the grindstone
Of an active newspaper, whereon various
people seek 10 sharpen their own private
axes, meantime impressing on the boy who
is turning i that they are doing il purely
for his good.
The number Of opportunities that's dali.
" paper has In twentyfour hours for
jumping on a great wrong with both feet,
while the gentleman who furnishes the in.
formation conceals himself In a eye one
cellar that opens with time-lock, is ali.
solutely appalling.
Outsiders have openly accused New
Workers Of lacking public spirit, and yet
il is a cold and extremely bleak day when
from twenty TO fifty men cannot be found
who are willing 10 drop in and furnish in
formation, provided their names are not
mentioned, which will shake the city from
center to circumference and result in the
violent death Of the editor.
Then there is the anonymous man, who
writes big, dropsical letter, In which he
courts investigation-for another man. Let
the gentleman who yarns 10 be boy
again and turn the grindstone for day or
,wo read the letters written to daily
newspaper by those who dcshe to make an
lpen confession Of the errors and trans.
grcssions Of someone else.
There is also the gentleman who wishes
10 raise a fund for his own widow. lie
ias been all his life a man who has labored
or the amelioratiUu of mankind; but now,
uefOre he has cot mankind more than half
ameliorated, he finds himself unable to 60
On and complete the job. lie has tried TO
accomplish bis great work by means of
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 think. that
the general public ought to be shown up.
'other gentleman who has been blown
" va gasoline stove while in the dis
charge of his duty writes 10 say that
cntterack is forming over one eve and
prominent opiimist has told him that some
lay he will bave 10 do all his seeing with |
lue eye. The catterack has already grown
large that he can almost hear il roar.
de desires a friend and hopes the Ameri. !
0an people will avoid the stirmatism Of
allowing a deserving man 10 60 in debt or
else borrow the money. He says, however,
That lie likes the paper firstrate.
Every man who jumps on the newspa.
per grindstone with his old. disab ed ak is |
very much pleased with the paper. It |
suits him exactly, and he SAYS that even |
when other people threw il down In disgust !
he picked it up aud read it.
Another man has been spoken to by a |
great many people about running for As |
SCISSOR Of bis town. He docs not wish !
TO do so, for be don't need it, and it is a
thankless job, but the way property was
assessed last year. in his place, ought to !
be shown up, and-it would DO much good. |
lie would be willing to write piece for
the paper, giving the inside facts about 1t,
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 striciest secrecy, and !
he would be willing 10 take the risk Of
preparing lch an article, with the under |
standing .hai it should 60 In as editorial. |
He would deny himself the pure and laud-
able Joy Of authorship, allowing the edi. |
torial. and the editor also, 10 be doTble
loaded, while lie mOdestiy and ilH0stenta.
u"lsly remained in Europe =
The freedom Ameritanr citizen who de-
slres an opportunity TO get up on ths TOD
ol S-Rews paper column In order TO shoot
of his mouth at a personal enemy and
then become extremely elsewhere Is said
10 be on the increase. The supply Is 50
much greater than the demand that the
foolkiller ought TO have more help in his
Office.
A day at the editorial grindstone, where
people come 10 write articles on health,
which contain covert illusions 70 their
style Of codliver oil; where the man comes
who has Just bought an option on queens
only TO see his means going down lhe al.
ley accompanied by three jacks and q
short. wasted revolver; where people con.
gregate who desire 10 raise funds for q
charitable object and act as treasurer;
where men who pine for change come to
suggest how 10 accomplish II. and also
good man for the place, would satisfy
most any one who desired few hours Of
contact with certain style Of patriot.
The coarse. revolving stuff that Is fed 10
IN average waste paper basket in twenty.
four hours would Oil the average man
with loathing. Some day the high -browed
poet cf the future will toss back his dark
and fluent hair, twang his Tyre few
times, end write poem entitled, THE
Wallet the Waste-Paper Basket" and it
viii make pehie's Inferno" look like q
lawn sociable.