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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-07


The following note by Mr.. Paul of
Chestnut on the method employed
by M. Georges Truiffent of admins
tering artificial food to plants is Of
considerable interest to horticulture
lists. After an analysis of the ash of
the living plant, the necessary salts
for given time, such as six months,
are weighed out and inclosed in a
metal cover to form what is called
a "pill, which is presumably in
serted in the pot, diffusion of the
salts taking place through the folds
of the metal, and the thicker the
metal the slower the diffusion. AS
the salts dissolve and disappear they
are replaced by core which ex-
pands until it completely fills the
pill" The salts have no action on
the metal cover which remains firm
and hard 1t is stated that the solu-
bility of the salts can be SO regulated
that pill may be made to last
three or six months, as may be de-
sired. By this method of feeding
large well colored plants are grown
in pots of less than half the usual
size. Gardeners Chronicle.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-07

Can you love one SO far beneath
youi" faltered Sir Roderick, his
voice trembling with emotion.
The fair Lady Constance leaned
from her easement.
Why, it amt more than 80 feet p
she exclaimed. looking down at him.
well, ! should hasten to cack1er
Love will at times annihilate time
and space as we'll as the long green.
Detroit Journal
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OUR LADY OF TEE s.cWs.

Ont Of the sun, out Of tho blast
Out Of the world alone passed
Across the moor and through the wood
To where the monastery stood.
There neither lutte nor breathing fife.
Nor rumor Of the world of life,
Nor condolences low and dear
Shall strike the meditative ear.
Aloof, unbalpful and unlSind,
The prisoners of the iron mind,
Where nothing speaks except the bell,
The unfraternal brothers dwell.
o
And ye, o brett rem. what If God,
When from heavens top he spies abroad
And sees on this tormented stage
The noble war of mankind rage
What If his vivifying eye,
o monks, should pass your corner bys
For still the Lord is Lord Of might.
In deeds, in deeds he takes delight:
The plow, she spear, the laden barks,
The field. the founded city marks.
He marks the smiler Of the streets,
The singer upon garden seats.
He sees the climber in the rocks
To him the shepherd folds his fiocks,
For those he loves that underprop
With daily virtues heavens top,
And bear the failing sky with ease,
Unfrowning caryatides.
Those he approves that ply the trade,
That rock the child, that wed the maid,
That with weak virtues, weaker hands,
Sow gladness ON the peopled lands,
And still with laughter, song and shout
Spin tho great wheel OF earth about.
But yer oye who linger still
Here In your fortress on the hill,
With placid face, with tranquil breath,
The unsought volunteers OF death,
Our cheerful general on high
With careless looks may pass you byl
Il<.l...
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-07
THE REAL SNAKE CHARMER.

-~~" --S A~tncAo HFokAt IDo VfAbukIy MA1
nipulstor Of Harmless Reptiles.
The famous snake charmers of In.
dia are divided into two classes
viz, the genuine and the imitation,
or the real charmer and the tricky
but clever manipulation of snakes.
The former actually charms the
venomous reptiles into temporary
docility and harmlessness, while the
latter merely handles those which
have been rendered harmless by the
extraction of their fangs.
The real charmer seldom performs
in large town, because snakes are
not as numerous there as in the
smaller villages and the jungles.
One of this class carries his worldly
possessions in two bags hung on a
bamboo pole which rests on one of
his shoulders. His most important
and highly priced belongings, his
pipe, a rude musical instrument
made of a gourd and section of
bamboo, he carries in his hand.
If you are living in the mofussil,
or rural district, and desireto ascer-
tain whether there are snakes har-
bored within the precincts of your
garden, pay the charmer a rupee or
two and he is at your service. Care
fully depositing his bags on the
ground, he sits down beside them.
crosslegged, closes his eyes and be-
gins to play a mournful melody
upon his pipe.
To the occidental ear there is moth
ing impressive or thrilling in the
performance, and you fail to detect
even faint resemblance to har-
monious arrangement of tones such
as you have heard in your native
land 1t appears more like an ir-
regular series of melancholy means,
soulful wailings and dismal shriess.
not unlike the productions of be-
ginner on the clarinet. You listen
with some degree of interest at first,
for the music, if it may be SO called,
is decidedly novel; then you feel
rather bored and are gradually
drifting toward the conviction either
that you are being bunkoed out of
your rupee or that there are no
snakes on the premises, when sud
denly you notice movement in the
grass some distance from the player
and the head of a snake appears
above the blades, swaying to and
fro at least a foot or two from the
ground.
If it is cobra, the hood is expand
ID and the eyes flash and sparkle like
electric lights. Presently, perhaps,
another snake will appear in diff
'erent part of the garden, followed
~ another, and, if your place is
we'll supplied with the reptiles, there
nay be dozen of them moving to-
ward the player in spasmodic leaps,
while swaying their heads and at
east one-fourth of their bodies clear
# the ground and keeping perfect
ime with the music. They seem to
,ive themselves up entirely to the
ascination of the weird sounds and
o lose all consciousness of every
hing else
As long as the man plays, they re
main within two or three feet of
i'm, while he sits with closed eyes,
pparently unconscious of their
resence And still, he seems to
Sield mysterious power over
hem, holding them at a safe dis
ance from him, while they never
ease to oscillate as il in supreme
cstasy. Suddenly be removes the
ipe from his lips and "Opens bis eyes.
lowly the snakes sink fat upon the
round and then glide swiftly away
trough the grass 0|s&o1z 1z5ri0& be-
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-07
TROUBLE ABOUT THE HATS.
Effects of Ahsentmindedness Among Menu
bers of Club In Newark.

Effects Of Ahsentmindedness Among Mem
bers of Club In Newark.
There is a club in Newark, N. j.,
whose members seem to have con,
siderable trouble about their hats
when they lay them in the rack al
the clubhouse. There have been fire.
quent instances lately in which
members have been unable to find
their own hats when ready to &c
home. 1t is a most sedate club, with
membership largely made up oi
staid, middle aged merchants, man
ufacturers and professional men
and there is not the slightest reason
for attributing the exchange Of
headgear to jocularity or convivial-
ity.
tits regarded as simple absence OF
mind when a sober lawyer goes
home with derby three sizes too
small for him perched on the top Of
his head and compels some equally
grave member to wear hat which
rests on his ears, or when member
leaves his silk hat behind and hur-
ries home wearing a soft hat which
is the counterpart of one hanging in
his own hall.
1t is said that this latter occur
renee happened quite recently and
that when the member reached home
and saw his own brown alpine on
the hall rack he compared the two
huIriedly and hastened back to the
club just in time to find the owner
of the brown hat making time
about its disappearance. The fius-
tered member handed over the soft
hat and explained the mistake, but
was still more fiustered when the
other member said:
But this is not my hat. buy my
hats of Smith, and this is one Of
Jones'"
In comparing the hats in his hall
the absentminded member had nat.
urally put his own hat on his head
and rushed back to the club. The
two members live close together,
however, and the exchange was
made that night. Another case
which happened did not end SO pleas
antly A member walked off with
another members hat and discover
ed next morning that it had the
owners name in it. He called upon
the owner of the hat at his place of
business and said:
II believe / have got yosr hat. /
took it from the club last night and
left mine behind. Did you get
II don't know. / got some old hat
and woreit home, but the first thing
[-did this morning was to buy new
hat and throw the old one away.
The visitor was somewhat abash-
3D., and after a n,s1n. 1T said:
"What had | better dor / don't
want to be wearing your hat around
own. /"
you had better do as / did. Go
1uy new hat and throw mine away.
|twae a pretty good hat and reason.
IDLY new. but I don't want it. I've
yot better one NOW. New York
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fore you have sufficiently recovered
from your astonishment to begin to
think of killing them. The charmer
never kills them; his religion for
bids it.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-07
PEOPLES
DRUG
STORE

Our methods have
u made US a good many
customers and our
medicines have made
a good many sick
- people we'll thanks
% IN a measure to the
skill of the physician
who wrote the pres
y cription. If you like
our service and our.
methods, we want
your business.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02

now HON Get has no home and she
must stay here and I'll get her married.
I won't let her marry any but Chris
tan man. The blue ribbon she wears?
Oh, that's to show she has some one
dead. What you call mourning.
While Suey Hin was telling about
HON Get two of the girls brought us
tiny cups of tea and corrections of
dried cocoanut A little three-year- old
girl in a red sam and yellow trousers
put doll in my lap. 1t was dressed
in Chinese style. most magnificently.
'Lunt gave me-" she said. in Eng
lish.
You boy and like dolls?"
81 not boy, I girl; All San looked
inquiringly at Suey Hin, for the child
wore the dress of boy.
"Oh yes, she's a girl. dress her like
q boy so the mission people will not
steal her 1 very cute! They see L
bring her up for a slave girl and then
they come and rescue her. oh, no. no,
not at all! make her look like boy"
Where did you get herr"
Fought her Bought her when she
was ten days old. She's smart. All
San, come here. Oh, she understands
everything! Now, All San, sing Jesus
Loves Me-"
The little one repeated the sentence
and then she said the whole of 1.-THE
Lord is My Shepherd" and all in very
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02

the girls SAID tney naQ Deen TO a Wnlte
mans store to do some shopping. They
opened their parcels and showed Suey
Hin and me what they had purchased
and Dragged about how cheap they had
bought them. All Ching gave a piece
of blue ribbon and q pair of long blue
silk stockings to Man Get. The girl
looked pensive and took the blue things
and patted them.
"She has just heard her father is
dead. You see 1 bought her in Victoria.
When wanted to love Jesus 1 thought
1 would ask her father to take her
home and get her married. l wrote to
him, but you see he is a very bad man.
He went right to a man, showed my
letter and said: You are going to San
Francisco. That fool woman gone
crazy. You buy Man Get. I sell her
cheap So he sell her to Loo Wing for
$3.50. He was sure she was very sick,
so he sell her very cheap.
Loo Chez did buy her and then came
here to me. He said: I win take HON
Get to her father. He wants her and
she can stay at home and be married.
He never sell her any more You see?
He lied,
i almost let HON Get go with Loo
Chez. He went away, he said, to buy
ticket to take HON Get to Victoria
But he drop this piece of. paper on the
floor. All San she was playing with
Loo Chez and she picked the paper up
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02

"Are your eyes tired?" asks a Column
bus avenue optician by means of a sign.
in his window. '"Try a massage, %
cents" The operation takes ten minutes;
and is very soothing. The optician places
you in a chair and quickly manipulates
the eyelids with his forefngers and
thumbs, rubbing them first toward the
nose and then back toward the ears. He
says that it prevents the circulation of
blood across the eyes and clears away
the tiny, fitting spots that sometimes
bother people who read a great deal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02
epace for Gast-oH GrI-Babies Near Swatow, China.
From a Photograph.

AS girl
miles
Christian missionaries
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Received payment,
LOO CHEZ.
Victoria. B. c., May l. 1898.


"Then I know Loo Wing had sold
HON Get to Loo Chez. but 1 said no.
oh no, not at ALL 1 would not let
HON Get go. Then Loo Chez went to
the Kwai Kung tong and made a big
complaint about me.
"Fong San came and he said I must
give HON Get to Loo Chez or he would
make me trouble. After all the money
I have paid Fong San. No! oh. I have
given him plenty money to protect mel
Well, he knew HON Get belonged to
me because 1 only said I would send
her to her father if he would keep her
and get her married When he sold
her that broke the bargain.
well, that was two months ago.
Last week Fong Sing came to see me-
He told us Loo Wing was dead. So
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-02
good English.

What will you do with herr"
Suey's face saddened. You could see
she was very fond of the child. Il don't
know; maybe give her to the mission
Do you want to go to the mission, All
SAM"
The little face clouded and the tears
began to run over the black eyelashes.
Suey gathered the little one up in
her arms. All Sans were not the only
wet eyes as she said: 81 good, L good
girl, Suey."
What will you do with the other
girls?" I asked.
"Oh, I suppose they get married. Only
they must marry Christians. 1 Chris
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tan now, and work always now for
Jesus. 1 used to work hard for the
devil, him you call Satan; but now
work harder for Jesus
HELEN GREY.
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BILL OF SALE.

brought
odos II must stay
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VERNAcULaR OF CRIMINALS.

* RIMINOLOGY has it's own Language
| .-terse, expressive and incompre-
hensible. to the uninitiated. 1t is
| necessarily a growing as well as
~ shifting, changing language, to
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-08
Patch Grove.

Crowded out of last weeks lssue)
The Royal Ncighbors entertainment
Saturday night was well attended A
few failures occurred but the program
was well carried out and we believe
all went home satisfied with the results
The tourists who left here for Eng
land and Oregon have long since ar
rived at their destinations and been
heard from. The Robertsons are de-
lighted with Portland, while Mr.. Col
Inns away in Merry Old England is
having high old time with the friends
OF long ago, amid the scenes of his
early life.
Our town schools will close on Fri
day of this week. They have arrang-
ed for an entertainment in the even
ing from which they hope to realize
enough to complete payment for their
organ
In one of tho hard storms Of last
week, Walter Taylor, living a mile or
more south of town, on the Blooming
ton road, on the old Garside farm had
the misfortune to lose two head of
horses, they were struck by lightning
Cattle trying to shelter themselves
near wire fences during electrical
storms are in great danger of being
struck; there were several buildings
struck in this locality
The rains of last week intcrfered
with corn planting to a considerable
extent; many had not finished when
the storm set in Corn will be IN I'M
certain crop here this year. b.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-08

included pretentious populistic Wis
loning which few years of reelection
and experience ought to cure.
Blanche Rotl. schild in Growth o
American industries" was the ncxt
speaker She carried red roses
Though small in stature Miss Roths-
child is not small in thinking capac-
ity. Her essay was carefully com
posed and made good impression or
her hearers.
Then followed very pretty voca
duet between Mr. Earl Ivey and Miss
Martha Baxter, 600 Pretty Rose, .
Mrs Geo. Baxter presiding at the
piano.
Miss Bessie Suttle was the next cs-
sayist, Her subject was "The His
tore Sea, the Mediterranean. In
the treatment of her essay Miss Suit
tie proved that in her school work She
had delved deeply and to a purpose in
TO the rich mines of ancient history.
She has not failed to catch breath of
the sentiment and romance waited to
us from the magical sea on and around
whose waters the wonderful peoples
OF antiquity played lily or well their
parts in the drama Of life The speak
or has n strong, resonant voice which
she used with excellent effect in her
delivery.
Miss Alma Bradley appeared next
carrying a bunch of red roses. Her
essay was one of the best and most
original on the program. She has a
clear voice and distinctness of speech
that made her easily heard Hers
was the unique subject "Why do We
Write Essaysp She showed the adj
vantage to be gained from early work
in composition and traced the nilu-
encc OF the habit Of putting ones
thoughts in written form in youth to
practical uses in later years.
Win j. Webb's Grafton on Mis-
trust" was full of good sense and had
in it the true patriotic ring lie
pleaded for less misirust and a larger
faith of man in man. lie pricked
deeply the bubble Of hypocritical rre-
'eH'N W NV II - WI Allli tllSa VI liDIlil-
clans affect on the assumption that
they are reformcrs when in fact they
are only petty fault-iinders In voice
and elocution he ranks with the best
Of his classmates. His Grafton re-
ceived the heartiest applause Of the
day.
Mrs Goodscll then favored the aud
fence with "A Kiss in the Rain"
which was much enjoyed
Puritan Women was the subject
Miss Katherine Boughton selected for
her commencement essay 1t dealt
with types of New England women
famous in history, poety and romance.
1t was a good essay. Miss Boughton
has a commanding voice and figure
and received many words of praise
She carried red roses.
The last cssayist 20 appear was Miss
Helen NJ. Moulton. She had hand
some bunch Of pink and white carna-
lions Her subject, "A National
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-08

One of the worst storms ever know
in this vicinity swept over this eoun
ty last Sunday afternoon. Reports 0
barns destroyed, houses unroofed
trees blown down, fallen windmill
and broken fences have come from al
directions Two representative o
the arts preservatlvc. Photographic
Walton and the editor of the Herald
got one of Charley Stephens lively
stepping teams and mads an excursion
through a portion Of the damaged
country near Lancaster Monday fore.
noon.
The first evidence of serious destruc-
ton we found was at Thomas Carmo-
dy's, about three miles northeast OF
Lancaster. Last Sunday he had a
coy residence and splendid barn
100 feet long. 40 feet wide and with
24-foot posts, besides foundation
basement wall of ten feet. To-day he
has the house and the basement Of the
barn with part OF the sides still stand
ing but with roof, ends and parts Of
the sides scattered in Undesirable
ruins northward for five or six hum
dred feet. The storm came while the
Carmodys were milking. The wind
had been blowing hard, black clouds
were rolling, suddenly there was a
bright lightning flash, furious gust
OF wind, and then to the music of
loud crashes Of thunder the roof and
sides Of the barn began to fill the air
with flying debris. At The first alarm
the cattle ran, frightened, down the
valley. Some members of the family
took to the cellar, others sought par
tial shelter behind an old log stable
Then the pieces began to drop. One
section twenty feet square or more
fell with a crash right where a mo-
ment before were the cows and their
mixers, another piece even larger
went sailing through the air just a.
bove the head OF Willie Carmody, and
hit the ground fifty feet beyond, one
piece grazed the corner Of the house
and another buried itself in the
ground by the kitchen.
Strange TO say there was no damage
to animals except that two or three
little pigs were killed. The spotted
horses were unhurt in the basement
of the big barn. A patient old hen
was found next morning sitting on
her nest on a pile of hay, that the
storm had left, as contented as though
a roof was still over her TO keep off
sun and rain.
After Mr.. Walton took a view we
drove on TO the next scene Of destruc-
ton. This was the ruins Of the fa-
nous Sam Oates barn. This barn
both for IFS large size and its elevated |
site, was slightly landmark and noted |
throughout all this region. 1t could |
be seen for miles in almost every
1t was 100 feet long, so |
feet wide and had 24-foot posts and a |
basement nine feet deep. 1t was
built in 1895.
The wreck at the Carmody place
was bad but it couldn't compare with |
The destruction here. This magniii-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-06-08

Newspaper" was an argument for a
newspaper less local, more reliable
and more truly national than any now
published. Three chief faults of So
called national newspapers were
enumerated, viz; first, their local
character, devoting too much space
to minor matters of their home city,
second, lack of proportion, hiding
news of real value between long ar
ticles of sensational trilles. and third
political unfairness. Miss Moulton
has good voice and presence and
made an excellent impression on her
hearers both for the matter of her
composition and the manner of its
presentation.
Music was the next number, a pretty
double trio by Mrs. Goodsell, Miss
Baxter, Mrs. +. f. Mccoy, Miss Morse
and the Misses Schmitt.
There were seven other graduates
who had prepared essays and orations
but were excused from speaking as
follows: Ocea Estelle Ray, Education
in the South; John d. Henkel, Expan-
sion; Sue Adele Muesse, A Martyred
Heroine; Maud Hymer, Permanent
Structures Rise Slowly james r. Webb,
Liquefaction; Belle Walker, Progress
OF the Nineteenth Century; and Fred
j. Vande Wall, Industrial Expansion
Principal Clarke called the class to
the stage. He announced that all the
members of the class had done well
but that two, Bessie Suttle and Helen
Moulton were entitled to special men
ton and credit for having received a
standing of 80 or above on a scale of
100 in every branch of their high
school course. The principal then
read the roll Of the class and handed
to each member as he stepped forward
a diploma. This closed the formal
exercises of the day; the next half
hour was given to congratulations.
In the evening the juniors (now
seniors) gave a reception to the grad
yates in the opera house All high |
school students were invited. Music,
dancing and social time occupied |
the evening until about 1880 O'Clock. |