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The times., 1898-08-01
CURSES HIS MEMORY.
AS I'm Life. So in Death, Paris
Reviles the Late Prince

As In Life. So In Death, Paris
Reviles the Late Prince
Paris. July 3i.-Paris curses Bismarck.
dead as alive. The Temps says:
1T is an unpardonable crime to have
falsitied history, and they have thrown
into opposition for which they were never
intended two nations destined to be one in
thought and to work together for the
progress of humanity"
NJ. Valfrey, summing up in a long obit-
uary in the Figaro, says:
His death is a relief to the older gen.
Grafton. who have seen the works of his
audacity and his contempt for equity.
Despite the aureole around it, his name
remains consigned among US to national
desecration."
The following Is almost typical of the
Bismarck death notices which appear in
the papers here:
After quite ten years of torture has
died the forger of diplomatic documents.
the ferocious butcher and bandit whose
disappearance avenges the martyrs of
Bazeilles and the Parisians WHO died OF
hunger and misery during the siege, and
the glorious heroes massacred at Wishom-
bourg and Reichshoffen. May the earth
lie heavily on him.
Henri des Houx. the writer of Bis
marcks obituary In the Matin, says:
Applying all his powers to the great
ness security. enrichment OF his country,
he Systematically despised all sensbility
and morality. For eight years Germany
has been governed by an idealist passion
ate. sensitive prince. Bismarck resembled
his avaricious father. who had to witness,
while alive. the dissipation of his fortune
by prodigal son. He was delivered from
that torture a"
The times., 1898-08-01
How About the Spanish Commission

To the Editor Of The Times:
Your patriotic and non-partisan editorials have
been read by and many of your readers
with much interest and satisfaction / have
been particularly pleased to notice your express
sions of praise and confidence in President Nc
kinley on his course in conducting the war
with Spain. | am panied to read your editorial
in The Evening Times of July 20, in which you
seem to lack that confidence heretofore expressed
in the Presidents favor. Instead of asking the
question. 'iWill the President skulk or fight p
would it not have been better to have said:
President Mckinley be depended upon TO
do the right thing. Spain must come with honest
intentions for peace if she wants it. The United
States VIII dictate terms without fear of any
foreign power?' Do not lose Your faith in
President Mckinley carrying the war to a sue
cessful termination and securing advantages that
VIII be fully expected and justified under the
circumstance w. b. STEWART.
The times., 1898-08-01
A Queer Coincidence

(From the st. Louis Globe-D Dem 1erat.)
On Friday evening George Laird shot Walter
Lynch in front OF Lynch's residence at Anna,
Ill. Lynch was taken into his house and laid
upon his bed, where, after suffering for three
days, he died. The blood flowing from Lynch 5
wound stained the sheet upon which he was lying
in several places. After the sheet was washed
of the blotches OF blood disclosed perfectly
the features of the slayer, Laird The p:eiLre
the sheet, executed in the blood of the vic
tim. has been viewed by hundreds of citizens,
and nearly all agree that it is a striking like
ness of Laird. | have Laird, but
the blotch of blood on the sheet referred TO GER
curly hair. eyes. nose. mouth. monstache and
chin OF a man.
The times., 1898-08-01
Grent E:ngineering Project
From the New York SUM-

Y 10rA
There seems tosbe NO doubt that the tunneling
of the Simplon Pass, over the Alps into Italy, by
the Swiss government, will be the next great en-.
gneering project ito be accomplished in Europe.
The new tunnel will be longer by nearly four
miles than the Acnt Gents and st. Gothard.
though, in the opinion of engineers, the building
of it will be less costly and not so difficult and
the work is likely to consume only six or seven
years. Already a railway has been carried TO
Brieg, at tho foot Of the Simpon Pass, and
thence, according to the plan as laid out. the
tunnel will FOLLOW the windings of the present
road. ending neat the Italian border, but still
Swiss territory. There the work of construc.
ton, it is expected. will be most difficult tax
ing largely the resources of engineering skill,
now of course, much greater and more varied
than when the existing tunnels were built In
the case OF former tahne,s, & as s. rs Wen known
and now electricity Is. to be added-electricty
generated the spot by the abundant Swiss
waterfalls.
The times., 1898-08-01
NO CHANGE IN THE NOTE
Continued from First Page.)

Aranzas. She is small vessel and is not
fitted for carrying many troops.
The Third United States Cavalry will
leave tomorrow for Savannah. where soon
ii will be joined by the Second and Sixth
Cavalry, now here. All of the passen-
gers from Santiago brought on the Sar-
atoga are now in the detention hospital
at Egmont Key. No yellow fever has ap-
peared among them. They will be de-
tanned one week.
The times., 1898-08-01
SIX CHILDREN DROWNED.
They Were on Their wny TO Attend
~ Picnic

Humansville. Mo-, July 3.-Five girls
and oneE,cy were drowned near here to-
day while attempting to ford Pomme de
Terre River in a wagon. The stream was
swollen from recent rains.
Their ages ranged-from ten to fiftees
years. Beey were members of a party OF
seven wffe' were ON their way to attend !.
picnic at the Hermitage. None of +he
bodies has been recovered.
The times., 1898-08-01
Deadly Pleasure Bo,.

ehicage July 3l.-Two young women
ana hVe young men were drowned TODAY
Z oy the capszing of three pleasure hosts
at Willow Springs. a suburb.
The times., 1898-08-01

SPECIAL NOTICE.-we will sell you life
insurance and guarantee the premiums
to be less every year. The policies will
contain guarantees for their sale for
cash, or their pledge for loans. after
two CD years We viii negotiate a linn
tied amount Of insurance, up 10 300
on the lives Of persons who have made
application to other companies and been
declined. HADDAwAY & DOUGLAS. SO
Fourteenth Street northwest. ap17-tf
The times., 1898-08-01
How to Force Peace

(From the st. Paul Dispateh)
BY paying attention to armistiee proposals
and going ahead with the war, Uncle sam will
sooner force upon the reluc tant Spaniard
elHrence in his own Humanitarian views.
The times., 1898-08-01
DON CARLOS rs ACTIVE.
No Doubt That His Men

ArparentIy No DOnbt Tint His Men
Are Moving
Madrid, via Biarritz. July 31.-There ap-
pears to be no doubt that the Carlists
are moving.
The government denies this to be fact.
but numerous rumors point to its truth
1t is impossible at present to learn any
details here.
The times., 1898-08-01
UNDERTAKERS

J. WILLIAM LEE,
UNDERTAKEN,
332 Pa. Ave. y. ".
First-cInss Service 'PhCDe. 1895
The times., 1898-08-01
CHARGES MODERATE, MEDICINES INCLUDED
Consultation Strictly Confidential.

Daily Office Hours-l0 a. m. to p m. Mon
day, Wednesday, Thursday. and Saturday, tC
p. m. Sunday, 10 to u m.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
HAVE MOUTHS OF GOLD.
Thousands of Dollars of the Metal in
Teeth of London.

/ The expression lie has heart of
gold" will soon be changed 10 III, has
a mouth of gold," if the opinions of a
London dentist are not exaggerated.
He SAYS:
From a variety of causes teeth Gp-
pear to decay much earlier and much
more rapidly than they used to do In
consequence the study of dentistry has
progressed by leaps and bounds, until
now 1t is really astonishing what can
be done in the way of arresting decay
and in surrounding the affiiction when
Ii has run its course.
I'm one sense there are people whose
mouths are veritable gold mines. Speak
ing broadly, the people of London carry
no less than 10000 or e $4,000 worth
of gold about with them in their
mouths, representing something be-
tween two and three hu undredweight.
1t comes in books, each sheet being ham,
mered out to the thinnegs of tissue
paper. The books cost about c l each,
but each book represents a tremendous
amount of dental work-work which
might be estimated at about 20. The
demand for gold filling and stopping is
increasing year by year. In spite of
other substances which have from time
TO time been tried for economy's sake,
gold still stands supreme Aluminium
was at one time spoken of as a rival
which threatened to oust the more pre-
cious metal from use, but the demand
for gold has steadily increased, and no
doubt will continue to do SO. The
amount annually spent by the people of
London on their teeth is very little less
than half million sterling. 4 member
of the profession recently volunteered
his opinion that in two or three years
time the people of London would be car
rying in their mouths gold to the value
of $4,000. Just think of that. Then
bear in mind that such an amount of
gold represents nearly half million
sterling in dental work"-Chicago
Chronicle
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
LET BRIDES PROMISE TO OBEY.
II n Girl shrinks from the Pledge She
Had Reffer Remnin Inmnrried


If a girl shrinks from the word ''obey,"
or hesitates to speak it at the altar.
ii will be better that she shall never
approach the hour of her marriage
Either she is doubtful of her own love
or distrusts the heart of her lover. And
in either case her marriage will be
sin in the eyes of God. Where marriage
is a union of true love-and marriage
should be naught but that-the question
of "obey" is not thought of; it does
not enter the mind of the girl. One
thought alone is uppermost and su-
preme: the union of two loving hearts,
each filed with the thought of the other
both 10 be united in one complete
whole. That is marriage. and that
alone. Let nonessentials enter il, and
the holiest state in which man and
woman can enter this side of Heaven
becomes a wrong, an irreparable sin.
Shall these two girls, then, and all
other girls with their faces turned to-
ward the altar of marriage during these
weeks to come, say, "obey?" Yes, a
thousand times, yes. And as they say
it to the men of their hearts, so will
the men, in turn, promise to love them
as wives, "eyen as Christ loved the
church" which unites them, "and gave
Himself for it." No woman has ever
found it difficult to obey her husband
who loves her as only true man can
love one woman in a universe. She
does not find the little word coming up
in her married life to make her regret
its utterance. On the contrary, she
never thinks of it, except to be thank
full that she did not shrink from it. The
state of matrimony is not state of de-
mand on the part of the husband, nor
of obedience on the part of the wife.
1t is a perfect state that lifts two peo-
pie higher; a state where love is mas
terful and supreme.-Edward w. Box,
In Ladies' Home Journal.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
GRACE AND HEALTH.
Smooth and Easy Movements the Sc
cret of HeaIthfuI Activity.

Everyone has had occasion to observe
10 himself at one time or another some
peculiarly happy performance; an
action that was wrought with smooth
ness and ease; that was the result of an
unconsciously fine adjustment of means
10 an end, and had delightful finish
and completeness. A feat of this kind,
be it the writing of poem, the build
ing of bridge or the making of a per-
feet bow upon an important occasion,
gives us happiness. 1t becomes pleas
ant memory and enables us to bear up
against the mortifying instances in
which we were awkward and maladroit
An inquiry into the reason of our
satisfactions with these rare perform
ances would prove that simplicity and
directness had largely 10 do with their
success. "We forgot ourselves" as the
phrase is, and acted under an inspira-
tion that infallibly guided us straight
to the desired point without friction or
waste of energy. And this is the great
secret of healthful activity; to move
smoothly and easily to the point, avoid
ing all useless and spasmodic motions.
Just as 1t has been ordained that we
shall find enjoyment in harmonious,
economical efforts. it has been ordered
that we shall suffer from jerlly, ill
directed movements that so far from
being a part of our progress impede it
and waste both our muscular and our
nervous force.
The reason why smooth. gliding mo-
tions are pleasing to us, either TO our
selves or when we witness them in 9th
ers. is that they seem to be natural
and spontaneous. We like the idea of
reserved power. All appearance of
straining and struggling is painful, and
our sympathy with an easy, graceful
performance of a difficult feat reaches
the point of esthetic delight when we
look at beautiful dancing, excellent
rowing or even observe an example of
perfectly adjusted power In machine.
Smooth movements. those in harmony
with a plan, being always congenial to
US, and jerkiness always disagreeable,
the inference is instant that we can
eliminate one element of discomfort by
becoming direct and simple in all our
movements.
Many people think that gracefulness
is something affected, even insincere.
Perhaps they are thinking of the sick
ly grace" of the heroines OF certain old
fashioned novels, who moved through
the pages with languor that arouses
the just scorn of a wide-awake modern
reader. But "sickly grace" has gone,
along with ethereal delicacy" and 9TH
er cherished symptoms of blue blood in
a decline, and healthful grace has taken
its place. There is nothing deceitful
about tthat.-Florence Hull Winterburn,
In Woman's Home Companion.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
The Treatment of Feathers,

II washed in benzine, white or light
colored feathers are not likely to lose
either their curl or color. They should
be swung in the air until dry. An
other plan for treating white feathers
is to wash them in warm water and cas-
tile soap, rinse three times TO remove
fully all the soap, pass through a warm
solution Of oxalic acid and then lightly
starch. Dry in a warm room by lightly
beating each feather against the hand
or near the fire. To curl ostrich feath-
ers have dull knife, with the top hol-
lowed out near the point, If you are 60
ing to make a business Of 1t. Hold your
feather over fire, but not sufficiently
near to scorch 1t. shaking 1t gently until
warm; then, holding the feather in the
left hand, place the fiber of the feather
between the thumb and knife edge, and
draw II along quickly, curling the end
only. If the feathers are damp at any
time the curl may be retained by hold
ing the hat over the fire and waving il
until dry; then place in a cool room for
the 6bers to stiffen. Feathers may also
be curled over knife held near a hot
hatiron, the heat making the curl more
durable. A little blue in the water in
which white feathers are washed i'm
proves the color.-Chicago Chronicle.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
UNPAID SCAvENGERS.
shelIfish and Insects Perform Useful
Labor.


The crustaceans are among the i'm
portant scavengers of the sea and are
also valuable for food for fishes. The
collection of crabs, shrimps and lob
sters forms large industries all over
the world, contributing directly to the
support of man. In Delaware the
horseshoe crab is used as guano, while
the collection of fossil crabs, as trilo-
bites, is peculiar industry. The fresh
water crayfish produces a concretion
used as an antacid, well known to the
chemists. We owe many of the beau
ties of our summer fields to insects.
all of which have their special functions
and use. Even the prosecuted flea NAV
render man service by keeping the
drowsy watch dog awake, while the
mosquito in tropical countries may aid
in preventing the human inhabitants
from living a continual siesta.
The flies are among the most valu-
able insect scavengers. The spiders
prey upon flies, holding them in check
The silk of the spider is used as cross
line in astronomical instruments, and
that of a Bermuda species as sewing
silk. Bridge makers have obtained val
liable suggestions from these silent
workers, from whose web one of the
kings of France is said to have made
a coat. Grasshoppers and locusts are
enemies of civilized man, but are eaten
by the Indians, while in the Malay coun-
try the dragon fly is considered deli
cacy.-C. F. Holder, in Appleton's Pop
ular Science MONTHLY.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
WHY ARE FLOWERS FRAGRANT7
Still a Subject of Discussion Among
the Scientists.

The great leading object of nature in
providing nectar and fragrance in flow
ers is still a subject of discussion in
scientific journals. That some flowers
are unable to fertilize themselves and
must have the aid of insects is certain;
and ii is also certain that in many cases
this fertilization is accomplished by
the insects while on foraging expedi-
tions for the sweets which flowers fur
nish. But some well-ascertained facts
cover but small portion of the ground.
The fertilization is as often accom-
plished by insects in search of pollen as
in search of honey; but it is not con-
tended that pollen is given to flowers in
order to make them attractive to in
sects, as is said of the sweet secretions.
1t is believed that nectar must be of
some direct value to the plant, as well
as the pollen; and the effort is to find
out what is the chief Office of nectar in
the life history of the flower. Since
thought has been turned in this direc
tion a new class of facts is being re-
corded.
In California grows lupine Qupinus
ccnfertus) which often takes exclusive
possession of large tracts of land. 1t
does not yield a particle of nectar. 1t
has bright crimson violet flowers, and
these are produced in such abundance
that the color of the mass may be noted
at long distances. But II has fragrance.
This is so powerful that the traveller
notes it long before he meets with the
growing plants. The pollen collecting
insects visit the flower in great num-
bers. 1t is believed that cross fertiliza-
tion can be effected by these pollen-col-
lecting intruders. At any rate, the frag-
rance would be thrown away if it were
provided for the mere sake of advertis-
ing for insect aid-as the other numer-
Gus species of lupine which have no
fragrance are as freely visited by bees
for the sake of the pollen as is this
species.
The cross fertilization is effected as
freely without fragrance as with it.
Thispoint has been a ade before, though
with no reference Il the philosophical
questions involved. Fragrant flowers
are the exception, not the rule In
some families of plants where there
may be several scores of species only one
or two are fragrant. This has been es-
pecially noted among the wild species
of violet. But no one has so far been
able to note the slightest advantage in
life economy which the sweet-scented
ones possess over the odorless ones
n. Y. Independent.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
The Demure Old Lady.

when l came out on my regular trip
the other morning." relates the Lee
stage driver, ''the only passenger l
had was an old lady of very demure
manners. Twas most dead for a smoke,
but had sort of got il into my head that
the old lady was n religious and fussy
party. When we got along a piece.
however, | got TO lingering my to-
barker, and, by snuIn, just couldn't
resist the temptation. SO l turned
round TO the old lady and asked her if
she had any objections TO my taking a
Whit or two. She Strengthened up like
a monkey on stick.
BY gosh, young man. she shout
ed, you've hit me just where live. I've
been hankering for smoke all the
morning. Gimme a match
''She pulled out black +. D., and |
tell you. mister, men that old lady
made the stage look like a steam engine
gcing up a grade. (Me.)
Journal
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-01-20
SUICIDES SHUN IT.
Declining Popularity of Prussic Acid
as an Agency of Self-DestructiOn.

as an Agency OF Se1f-DestructfOn.
Twenty years ago the most familiar
method of suicide was poisoning by
prussic acid. Last year there were 3S4
suicides in this city, POS men and SO
women, and of this number, as far
as the official records of the board of
health go, not one used prussic acid.
All the other poisons which are known
to the science of medicine and can be
easily procured were represented in
the list-arsenic, muriatic acid, carbolic
acid, cyanide of potassium, hydrate of
choral, bichloride of mercury, paris
green, the favorite with female suicides;
carbon monoxide, hydrocyanic acid,
lime chloride, strychnine, morphine,
nitric acid, opium, oxalic acid and rough
or rats, but no prussic acid by separate
classification.
The term prussic acid was first ap-
piled, chemists say, to the sesquicyanide
of iron, the acid of Prussian blue. 1t was
subsequently applied to the protocy-
anide of iron, to the cyanohydric of
iron, to the hydroguret of benzyle, the
essential oil of bitter almonds and of the
laurel cherry, and to cyanogen, and it
may be possible that persons suicidally
inclinedand who accepted ''prussic acid"
as clear and sure cut to oblivion from
all mundane cares and griefs became
perplexed at the definition of some of
the chemists and turned their attention
to other acids, the scientific status of
which is more clearly defined. And to
this reason, perhaps, may be ascribed
the growing Indifference to prussic acid
which is shown by suicides generally,
at least in the city of New York, for in
Europe, as far as recent official figures
90. prussic acid retains its former pop
ularity, so to speak. as II mems of self
destruction by suicides.
The figures of the New York board of
health show that one of the suicides of
1896 adopted n method of destruction
which would scarcely entitle his case to
the isolation which the board of health
gives it-one suicide by the use of alco-
Lol. One peculiar circumstance about
suicides observable in the last annual
report which the board of health, as
such, in the present city of New York
will make, is the fact that though the
number of male foreigners who COM
mitted suicide during the year is three
times greater than the number of native
horn male suicides, there was very little
difference between the native born and
foreign born female suicides. OF 50
in all. 40 were natives of this country
ard 40 were foreign born. The number
of male suicides is usually about three
times greater than the number of fe-
male suicides. but between the years of
16 and &c the number of male and female
suicides is substantially the same;
after that the number of male suicides
is, of course. much greater. Between
the ages of IS and 65 last year, of 122 sui
cides, 105 were men.-N. Y. Sun.