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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-18

with Reverent Hands the Home Of
the Ancient and HonorabIes IL Be-
Ing Protected From Danger OF Fire
and Dry Rot.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-18

To prevent accidents when cleaning
windows, q German has patented a port
able balcony, which can be moved around
cts fixed on each frame to support it at
the top, the bottom resting loosely on the
Sill
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
Used No Judgment.

Here's an account of man who
has been arrested for stealing
plays" Z" said the man with the pa
per.
"For stealing playsl" exclaimed
the man who was smoking, in as
tonishment.
That's what the paper says"
"Oh, well, the trouble with him
must have been that he didn't use
any judgment. If he had stolen
some of the plays I've seen, they
wouldn't arrest him; they'd give
him vote of thanks. Chicago
Post.
Brown-Jones-What did Washing
ton do with that little hatchet Of
his2
Jones' -Brown-As far as / can see
he must have sold it to about 777
museums.-New York World.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
Reserved Seats Now on Sale
at Cooks Book Store.
Continued from LIST page.

the plaintiff is entitled to recover.
If you believe from the evidence
that the defendants, when they
published the article in question,
were not actuated by malice or i'll
will towards the plaintiff, and that
they believed the substance of the
chargeto be true, or if you believe
from the evidence that the publi-
cation complained of was inserted
in said paper without i'll will or
M malice towards the plaintiff, and
merely as an item of news, and not
for the purpose of injuring the
Repatriation of the plaintiff, then
the plaintiff in this case cannot re-
cover damages for the purpose of
furnishing the defendants, but he
will be confined to the recovery of
actual compensatory damages, By
compensatory damages is meant
such amount as will compensate
the plaintiff in the injury to his
reputation occasioned by the pub
lication. In arriving at this you
will take into consideration the
standing of the plaintiff in the
community, and the estimation
in which he was held by
the community, as we'll as his
general reputation, and also his
reputation upon the subjects en-
braced in the charge. and the true
character of the plaintiff as you
find it to have been from the evil
dence.
Z. If you believe from the evil
dence in this case the plaintiffs
general reputation was bad at the
time of said publication, he would
not be entitled to recover the same
amount as if his reputation were
good, and if you should find from
the evidence that the plaintiff had
previously associated with low and
degraded people, he would not be
entitled to recover the same
amount as if his associations had
been of a different class, and in
arriving at a verdict in this case
you will take into consideration
all the evidence bearing upon the
character, reputation and associa-
tions of the plaintiff.
s. The court further instructs
the jury that the law presumes
that the plaintiff was possessed of
a good character at the time of the
alleged publication, and that such
character continues with him un-
til the contrary is shown by the
defense by competent proof. The
burden of proof is upon the de-
PENDANTS to establish the bad char
acter of the plaintiff, and this must
be done by a fair preponderance
of the evidence.
8. The court further instructs
the jury that the right of the plain
tiff to the character and reputation
which his conduct deserves stands
on the same footing with his right
to the enjoyment of his lite, lib
erty, health, property, and of the
comforts and advantages which
pertain to the state of civil society,
inasmuch as security to character
and reputation are indispensably
essential . the enjoyment Of syery
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
Tricky THIEVES.


The Pet Dog Used 10 Clear the Way For
the burglars.
A woman walked into the West
Sixty eighth Street police station
and told the sergeant at the desk
that her pet dog had disappeared.
1T was only yesterday" she be.
gan as she pulled small lace hand
kerchief from her belt TO be ready
to catch any stray tears, "and Cur
lylocks, my little dog, did want SO
much to go out for walk, and II
couldn't disappoint him. So out we
went down the boulevard. AS we
reached Sixty fifth street another
dog ran up to my little Curlylocks,
and the two scampered down the
street, never needing me. ! staid
there and waited for my dog, and !
went all around the streets and
never found him.
Don't be alarmed, lady" said
the sergeant. Hell turn up soon.
"No, he won't" answered the
woman. He has been stolen, l
know, for Curlylocks never would
stay away from home willingly. l
want your policemen to hunt for
him, and will pay a nice reward
to the man who gets him."
The sergeant ard captain both as
sured her that they would turn the
precinct upside down to find that
dog, and the woman left, somewhat
more hopeful than before. Nothing
was heard of her and the dog for
two days, but at the end of that
time the woman reappeared in the
station house.
IT told youso, said the sergeant,
without noticing her woebegone
look. "Dog came back just as I told
you, didn't hei"
"No, lie didn't" she replied, wip-
ing her eyes. II thought was 60
ing to get him back, but didn't.
DO you know, ] received very nice
little note in the mail the same day
I came here first. The note told me
that somebody-he didn't sign any
name-had my dog at place on
Canal street, and that he had seen
my advertisement in the papers and
knew that he had my dog, and If /
would go to that place at 3 o'clock
the next afternoon l could have my
doggie all right again.
II went down there at 8 O'Clock,
and the man who had the store told
me he knew nothing about any dog,
and when l showed him the note l
got he said again he didn't know the
least thing about it. i cried all the
way home.
when / got home, opened the
door, just as usual, and everything
inside our fiat was turned upside
down, and all my silverware was
gone, and every one of our wedding
presents had been stolen"
The sergeant whistled in astonish-
ment.
Now" continued the woman, Il
don't care for the silverware as
much as my husband will when he
learns about it, but ! do want my
dog back again.
Neither the dog nor the silver
ware was recovered by the police
New York Sun.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19

Nursery stock to trade for good
young work horse. Must be gentle to
work and ride. Apply at the nursery
or at this Office.
For sale, a lot $50 by 300 feet with
room house, good barn, smoke house
and other buildings, and good fenced
garden. A bargain for some one
wanting property in Vlnitd. Price
$500, cash.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
NHNT DEPARTMENT.

If you want to buy. sell or exchange any
thing. hire help. rent property. secure n
situation or get married. lose or find any
thing. you can profitable use this column.
Price: az cents line for each insertion-n0
transaction for less than 10 cents.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19

For Sale-A farm OF 4sO acres and
Of $50 In cultivation, six miles east Of
town, the very best quality Of land.
VIII sell all, or cut up into smaller
tracts and sell. The price Win be
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
APPRECIATED FRIENDSHIP.

The damage suit against the In
dian Chieftain is ended, we pre-
sumo, and it is source of pardon
able pride to the paper that so
many friends in Vinita and else
where, have risen up to defend its
cause, and express an interest in
the big legal battle just fought out;
and in which the reputation of the
paper is sustained by verdict
practically setting at rest the con-
tention that the alleged libelous
publication had damaged any one.
Vinita is the home of the paper,
and of its publishers, and the fact
that its friends rise up in such
numbers when its purposes are
assalled, is source of qualification,
and is keenly appreciated. The
very best The Chieftain has shall
hencefortn be the property of the
town. In a sense, newspaper
does not belong to the publishers;
it belongs to the people of the COM
munity in which it is printed.
When a publisher gets the idea
that he owns the paper, and that
the public has no interest in it,
then it ceases to be newspaper
and becomes the organ of the in
dividual. A newspaper has no
more right to suppress
a legitimate news item, than
it has to publish abusive articles
concerning individuals. A news.
paper should print the news, the
whole news, and nothing but the
news, and the community where
it is printed should see to it that
no man be allowed to suppress it,
or put it to unn ecessary trouble and
expense in defending groundless
and trumped-up libel suits.
Deputies at South McAlester
are out on hunt for witch.hunt-
ers, two women and a man having
been killed as "voodoos" by d.
rection of witch doctor. Its
good Oklahoma story but is hardly
what what was to have been ex-
pected from Oklahoma.
For Sale-A farm OF 4s0 acres and
Of $50 In cultivation, six miles east OF
town, the very best quality Of land.
Will sell all, OF cut up into smaller
tracts and sell. The price VIII be
..... -.... II 4
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
"0Id Times in DIXIE"

This lecture is full of eloquence and humor and makes
~ Col Ham dearer to all who hear It, The assocla-
ton have reduced the price from IS to so cents for
reserved seats and IS cents for general admission.
This is within the reach of ALL and opportunity to
hear ST lecture for 50 cents You can't afford to miss
it. Look for Endorsements of home people Thursday
and Fridays Chieftain.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-04-19
Friday Eve, April Il
ME-. CHURCH,


rAI uHM will close the course of lectures given
lUL. lllill by the Vinta Lecture Association, at
the Methodist Church Friday evening, April 2st,
with his famous lecture, entitled. ...,.......
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
Sykes vile, Md.

The Emancipation Celebration was a
success. Of course mistakes were made
in the parade and by not having free
doors In the afternoon, but our friends
must remember that this was the first
time in our history that a parade took
place, and we intend to improve in the
future by our mistakes in the past.
The welcome address, by Hon. VIM.
T. Henshaw, Mayor of our city. was ex-
cellent and highly appreciated by every
one there. In the person of our distin-
guished Mayor, we have generous and
kindly citizen;a master spirit in thought
and friend who planted seed of good
counsel deep in our hearts that is bound
to grow to an advantage and in thank
fulness and everlasting honor to him
The Hon. w, Ashbie Hawkins, the
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

What does John Mitchell Jr. think
of Governor G'yler after his action in
not a i low wing the Washington
Zouaves to enter Virginia with their
arms. We think it showed meanness
and cowardice on his part and ALEC
on the part of those whose consciences
made them towards. If Virginia
had treated tie colored people right,
there could have been no more
o b lection to colored malitiamen
marching with their arms than for
whites TO do the same thing. Had
those men in Washington been white,
the Governor would not have said a
word against their taking guns.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

The Age consoles itself by head.
lines thus-"First blood for the
AfroAmerioan Press" We have
said and done all we could to have
no colored soldiers, unless every
officer from COLONEL down be col
ored. If the Afro. American editors
had the influence to get officers high
as Captains, why have they not
enough influence and pluck tot ask
for, and not be satisfied with any
thing less than COLONIES, MAJORS
&C. 1t can and it ought to be done.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

One thing about Bishop Turner,
no one who ever talks with him
thinks he is dishonest or trying to
deceive. Judging from the recent
shooting of those seven colored peo-
pie in Illinois, Bishop Turner told
the truth when be said the difference
between the South and North in
killing Negroes is this: "The North
holds the Negro, while the South
kills him."
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

Be fair. Why give your thousands
to lift up and educate African heath.
Ell, when millions at home need it?
Why go wild over the cruel preju
dice heaped on Dreyfus, when you do
far worse with Americas best and
most peaceable citizens. Citizens
who have never shirked this govern.
ment when in need, and who have
done more to make place of wealth,
beauty and intelligence than sll other
nations combined? All! truly, st he
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

An Emancipation Celebration was
held in our city yesterday. 1t ives
q brilliant success. The program
was as follows: welcome address by
Mayor Henshaw; Grafton by ". Ash
bic Hawkins, Esq, prominent at
torney, of Baltimore, Md: and an
address by Prof. S. G. Cross in the
evening. We hope this may be an
impetus for the people to hold one
yearly hereafter.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

Is it possible that China is going
to help Aguinaldo? If she does, ia.
pan is likely to follow, and as we
have been saying all the time, it is
rot known when nor where this
country's war with other and too far
off nations will end. We hope for
peace at any rate, for too many lives
are being slaughtered for nanght or
for greed and gain-a curse that
grows as time passes.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

The pardon of Dreyfus shows the
power of public sentiment, and
should be an incentive to the op-
pressed of this land. The Jew is as
much antagonized as the Negro but
he is a unit for his people and their
riohtss tire Negro 70 not, heoca bis
eakness aod failure 10 accomplish
bat aoioD, Industry ard too4oa
have 5os 5aa Jews.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

orator of the day, is a whole-souled.
straight for ward, clean minded and in
defatigabe fighter of wrong doing. His
speech was of the bert 1t was apropos
to the occasion. deep lin thought, and
was enriched by beauty Of rhetoric and
grammar. ,@"Sr
Prof. S. G. Cross, author of the "Ne-
gro and the Sunny South" spoke at
night. 1t was wonderful speech. He
is Gods type of an American citizen.
He believes in the eternal rights of man
freedom of thought, and freedom in,
everything for the Negro with all other
peoples. 1t is glorious thing to see in
this period such new Lloyd Garrisons
sbpddi here and there. He is rich in
wit, happy in a deba,e and beloved by
all good thinking people. May God give;
us more and many such white friends.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

Hardly. A fellow said the other
day, that big bass had more sense
than the big fish commissioner. He
ought not to talk that way about 90
distinguished man as George M.
Bowere, for it is said he learned more
CT The science of fishery in Elk months
thin shy man who ever lived.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
SToRER COLLEGES CONDITION.

The fact that Storer College haa
been in existence for thirty-si years
ia evidence that it ought to be able
to stand alone; and of its own inli1-
ence for good, be able to fill itself
to over flowing with familiar and new
students. But the very fact that
Bracket has persons out begging
parents to send their children there
is the best of evidence that S.orer
College ia 10 bad state of affairs
1t plainly shows that it is gong
backward, or dying with temporsry
consumption-and may the good
Lord hasten the time Of its death, ii
Bracket stays there in any manner
as teacher. We positively know
of no school in America 80 badly run,
and where man has had mora
chance to and has made more money
than Bracket.
In the first place Bracket is nov
and never was good teacher and the
oorest kind of disciplinariaD
Had it not been for his wife, in tAe
absence of all the good teacher
Bracket has gotten rid Of, Store
College would have been dead too
long to talk about.
We positively know of no livir
man, SO over estimated for doirg
good as Bracket is. The Nortn
thinks be is the most perfect man Of
this age, and it seems to have been
his chief aim to make them continue
to think that way. Added to the
above, Rev(D Jaekleg and Jockey
Newman, and his woman, both Of
whom disgraced the good name Of
Hagerstown, no! long ago, including
Dick Thompson, passed resolutions
endorsing Storer College and begging
the Lord TO b ess poor brother
Bracket, sc. 1t is the biggest piece
of rot known, and it in itself should
be enoagh TO make decent parents
keep their children from Storer Col
lege. When lewdly known people
meet and d orse an institution
charged with as loose morals as
Storer is, it is time to keep your
children FROM Sioref Callegs. 7JeIt
west, We shal produce tbs resolu-
tio4a aud caGaEaa4 Eeseasg "a tna1na
Ia u mean tl@a 1ecp gear cblldEen
h0ue.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

Tue Charles Town Free Press, the
t'sAsl Family Journal" he's entered
upon its seth birthday, and becomes
and better every issue. For
our pa 4, we would like to see Editor
Gaiiatar at the helm SO years more.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

O09 o. lIe 0aNpa1l 0QtaQ13l- q
tariff, is the trust. If this gigantic
evil is not torn to pieces, it is sure to
ruin this country. Like it's mother,
it only breathes for the rich, By max.
ing working slaves Of the poor. As
everything is going into trusts, or
has gone, you are powerless to do
otherwise than buy at their combined
prices, but one thing you can do, vote
against and kill it.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER % '99

The Pioneer Press is unalterably
opposed to trusts, as it has been for
years against the tariff. The latter
parented and gave birth to trusts,
and they must prove the most deadly
things ever fostered in America,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

The Douglass Lyceum has not yet
rounded out month of existence
but it has already firmly established
itself in the hearts Of the people. 1t
is bowling success in every particu-
lar and fills long felt want in this
community. 1t has also thoroughly
demonstrated that our people can
accomplish many good things if they
only allow brains and Intelligence to
take the lead and relegate ignorance
TO its proper station. The program
for Friday Sept. 29th will be found
in another column. Every body
should turn out and hear the inter
esting pppers which will be presented
by some of Martinsburg's up.to,date
young men Hurrah ! for the Lyce.
um. It has come to stay.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
WILL SUE THE CITY.

Hoo. Charles, It. Caldwell and
Judge George LOOMS have been re-
famed az counsel by long list of
friends Of Henry Lee, and instructed
to bring suit against the city of
Parkersburg, various policemen and
ell other persons who assisted in ar
resting and combining Lee in the city
lookup. The suit is to be brought
in Lees name for $4,000.
The plaintiff to THE action is the
colored cripple who has a shine stand
at the Ohio River railroad station.
Last Saturday pight,it win be venem
o5gst tho BOY in the railroad Offices
s n ls8 Sf'fi slth new guit Of
eloshas He SOCK hia old ones (and
they Heca very old) TO the shore Of
Sne river and pinned note on tnem,'
which read that be had committed
this rash act because he had failed to
spend all his money, signing it Glen.
ry." The energetic police gos wind
of asuicide, they thought, and when
they found they were fooled went to
the First street theatre and hauled
Lee to the police station, where he
was kept until Monday morning
without a hearing and then sentenced
TO five days for "disorderly conduct"
This was the way the police had of
getting even.
Lee has so many friends, who sym
pathize with the terrible misfortune
which makes him a deformity, and
they became So indignant that the
boy was released without serving the
full time for which be was sen tenced.
TheGe friends have banded together
to force legal action against the city.
They baae their claims by alleging
that Lee was arrested without war.
rant for no violation against the city
ordinances and sentenced to serve
time in prison before warrant
had been issued. State Journal.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD
~ TINE TABLE May 22nd 1899,

No leaves Philadelphia 4 80 p. m, Har-
risburg 7 SIS 4 m. Mechanicsburg 13 a. m.
Carlisle 93s a. m Neville So a. m. Ship
pensburg I6 m Chambersburg g IS
m. Greencastle 10 OF am Hagerstown. 10 as,
a. m. Martinsburg II Is Winchester 12-
So.
No7 leaves Philadelphia q as q. m. Har-
risburg $50 Merchandising 40 Carlisle
4.33 MELVILLE 456 .Shippensburg 5.I6s
Chambersburg, 5,3S Greencastle o. Hag.
755.
No leaves F'tiisieiphia II ao.p m Har-
r3snufg 6 % M Meetanjcaag "a Car
T, Hsic 54 IN 1'S isTl i 03 5hIBpeaSff,rg 8 %
Chsmbs tsb9sg 642 Green astle be Hag~
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23

tk'aeks are at your own door," and
t9l holds you responsible for their
b Eter treatment
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
WlNr ALL CoLoRED OFFICERS.

WHIT ALL COLoRED OFFICERS.
~s can not see how any Afro A meri-
Gao, who has one spark of manhood
and raoe pride can enlist in President
MoKinley's "colored regiment" to GO
90 sAe Philippines, there to fight
d gaiGss their own color, who like
We % a nerica, are fighting for liber-
So " ID ell officers above the cap
ae white, it requires that a
1 nan forget that he is a man
NY gould enlist. If President Nc
hEsg and the War Department
t35aE.sa IL advisable to draw the color
Iile IN making up the ranks, why
not ars " the color line when it comes
to awsrding the shoulder straps, aud
glysus two real colored regiments,
officers and men? Perhaps the Presi.
dent, &c he Hon. John P. Green tells
ID, is still building up can admins
s1gtion party, which can only be
doue among white men" If 80, per-
1sps be can do without our votes,
which he surely will have to do, if
this policy of bis ia to continue.-R.
W. Tyler, Of Columbus, Ohio in the
Golored American.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1899-09-23
DEWEY CELEBRATIONS.
SPECIAL RATES
IN EFFECT VIA
BALTIMORE " OHIO R. R.

BALTIMORE " OHIO r. r.
At New York, Sept goth and Both.
On account of Dewey Celebrations at
New York, the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Company will sell excursion tick,
cts from all points on it's lines east of the
Ohio River. AT ONE FARE AND ONE-THIRD.
FOR THE ROUND TRIP, good going Sep
TENDER 2sth and goth. and good return-
ing un,ii October 4th. 1899. inclusive.
Az Washington October I'd and Sd.
For this ocGas.oa the Bait in ore & Ohio
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets from all points on its lines east
OF the Oaio River, at ONE FARE FOR THE
ROUND TRIP, good going October LIST and
I'd, valid for return until October 4th,
inclusive; except that from Philadelphia
and intermediate points to Washington.
tickets will he sold October I'd and 3rd,
valid for return until October 4th, 1899,
inclusive.
A shocking tragedy occurred at
Magnolia, W. Va, Friday morning.
1t is supposed that trsmps killed Mr..
Abner Kessler, Sc years Of age. his
daughter and grand daughter and
beat the hired man, Mr.. Gross into
insensibility and left him for dead.
The woman and child were burnt
with the house. O! what miserable
imps and f1ends in this world.