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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
IDEAL COVER FOR THE FEET.
MOccasins Possess Many Advantages
over the Ordinary shoes
or boots.

The moccasin is the most rational and
comfortable of all footwear. In moe
casins the feet have full play; they can
bend and grasp; there Is nothing 10
ehafe them or impede circulation. In
moccasins one can move like an aero
bat, crossed slender and slippery logs,
climbing trees, or passing with ease
and security along dizzy trails on the
mountain side where a slip might mean
sure destruction. The feet do not
stick fast in the mud. In the north,
when the mercury is far below zero and
no civilized boot win protect the feet
from freezing, The savage suffers no In
convenience. His moccasins, stuffed
with dried grass, let the blood course
freely. The perspiration may freeze
ON the hay in solid lump of ice, but
the feet remain warm and dry. The
buckslSin moccasin, Indian tanned with
deer's brains and wood smoke, always
dries soft after a wetting In autumn,
when all the leaves and twigs are dry
as tinder, a man wearing shoes makes
noise in the forest like troop of cav
airy, but in moccasins he can move
swiftly through the woods with the
stealth of panther. The feet are not
bruised, for after enjoying for time
the freedom of natural covering, these
hitherto blundering members become
like hands, and feel their way through
the dark like those of cat, avoiding
obstacles as though gifted with a spe-
cial sense. Best of all, the moccasin
is light. inexperienced sportsmen and
soldiers affect high-topped laced boots
with heavy soles and hobnails, imagin-
ing that these are most serviceable for
rough weather. But these boots weigh
between four and five pounds, while a
pair of thick moose hide moccasins
weigh only II ounces. In marching
ten miles a man wearing the clumsy
boots lifts 90 tons more shoe leather
than If he wore moccasins.-Harper's
Magazine
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
PlrH AND POINT.

A man with more money than braiIs
very often succeeds in getting mar
ried.-chicago Daily News.
Bill-"She's poor and proud" Jill
IL don't see why anybody should be
proud, just because they arr POOR.
Yonkers Statesman.
We wonder that the superstitious
don't find more good luck in saving
money, and going 10 bed early at
ights.-Atchison Globe
So Feminine-Cl Clara-"I have my
photograph taken every three years."
Fanny-"Oh, whatever do you do with
them all?'-Pick-Ms-Up-
Northumberland you have no
clew, Mr.. Hawkshaw?" II have plenty
of clews, chief, but / can't make any Of
'em fit this case" cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Feminine Amenities.-"S said she
was shocked" asserted the girl in blue.
"She mnst have got hold of a live wire"
returned the girl in gray, promptly.
Chicago Evening Post.
Always to Blame.-M Mamma john
ny, fear you were not at school yester-
day. Johnny-"H'm! l know the
teacher told you. A woman can never
keep ecret."-Boston Traveller.
"Did you notice? She has white silk
suit which she wears to the baseball
game?" "Yes, she told me she thought
1t appropriate. 1t was made over from
an old ball ress.'-Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
Il am not at all certain" said the
father, "that my daughter loves You suf-
to warrant me in intrusting
her to your keeping for life" WELL"
replied the young man, perhaps you
haven't had the same advantages for
observing things that I e.'-Phila-
delphia North American.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
NATURES COLOR BOX.
Fruits and Vegetables When Prop
erly Used, Help to Enhance
Human Loveliness.

Mother nature is great artist, and
will beautify the plainest face if she
has chance. 1t sometimes takes
months or even years for her TO com
plete her task, but it can be done with
patience and full surrender TO the in
visible genius, says the New York
Herald.
Onions, from leeks TO Bermudas, are
bleaching, and so are lemons, aspara-
gus and celery. Spinach is the broom
of the stomach, as the French say, and
sorrel, in soup of puree, as they cook IT
In the provinces and at the students
restaurants in the Latin Quarter, is
great beautifier. Dandelion, lettuce
and all the salads will bring out the
red and white tints of the skin.
Beets, carrots, tomatoes. strawber-
ries, raspberries, cherries and black
berries are red and blood making, de-
veloping infantile loveliness in cheek
and lips If eaten, not now and then, but
three times a day. This is the fruit
cure or Garden Of Eden breakfast, and
it win be remembered that Eve had no
patent medicines, cosmetics or doctors.
Pineapple Is good for the stomach
and air passages. Rice, all cereals and
white vegetables, such as caulifower
and parsnlps, are wholesome. But
pickles and piercrust. hot cakes and
too many sweets viii make one look
pasty, because they lack the acids and
salts which nature needs to cleanse her
machinery. Oil she must have. too.
from the olive and nut, to keep The in
ternai wheels revolving.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

Complaints are being sent to the
agent almost daily from different
parts Of the Cherokee nation that
gene is being killed and shipped
out of the country contrary to law.
If there is any being shipped from
Vinita, it is in the night time, or
so disguised as to have the appear
ance Of something else other than
game.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

Brigham H. Roberts, the pol
ygamous representative from Utah
was not sworn in as a member Of
congress yesterday. Representa-
tive Taylor, of President McKin-
ley's district in Ohio objected and
Mr.. Roberts was told to stand
aside. The matter will be referred
to a committee.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
THE BEAUTIES OF SAMOA.
Some of the Strange Customs That
Are in Vogue-Finery is Gradually
Gaining n FOOthold, However.

In spite of the simplicity of Samoan
attire, the natives spend great deal
of time beautifying themselves. Neither
sex is overburdened with clothes. The
common dress for both men and wom-
en- is the lava-lava, kind of kilt or
piece of drapery wound above the waist
in a manner whose adjustment seems
to foreigners nothing short of miracu-
lous. The adults, however, seem to have
no difficulty in keeping the lava-lava in
place, but the children are less expert
and careful of theirs, and often lose
the scant scrap of cotton stuff that
iRTves as an out-of-door costume.
Children Of all ages indoors, and ba-
bies in arms everywhere, wear no cloth
ing at all. This kind of garment--or
drapery, perhaps, would be better
word for it's, in slightly varied form,
common to most South Sea islanders,
as well as inhabitants of the Indian
archipelago and the southern countries
Of Asia. 1t is called by the Malays a
sarong, and its name differs in different
groups of Polynesia. The Kings of
Singapore, Ceylon, and the Malaysian
peninsula wear it loose or straight,
while the Burmese and Siamese tuck it
up something after the manner of the
well-known infantile accessory.
The finery and gimcrack adornments
of civilization are now gaining a foot
hold in Samoa, as elsewhere in the |
track of commerce, particularly with
the feminine heart, and it is not un-
usual to see Samoan lady gorgeously
arrayed in fine mat lava-laya COM
bined with ball gown waist or velvet
basque cut V-necked, or with her hair
done up empire style and wearing, to
complete her toilet, string of ferns
around her waist and a necklace of
sharks teeth around her dusky throat
bust, arms and limbs bare-prom-
.nading with all the refreshing grace
md conscious airs of Bridget on her
Sunday outing, the observed Of all OBJ
servers.
But there is one shackle of civiliza-
ion they positively refuse to accept
shoes and stockings. Perhaps, how
ever, this is because they can find no
covering large enough for the abb
original "trilbies." Nevertheless, in one
# the fights in which the native allies
# the Americans participated, one war
'ior was observed proudly wearing a
,air of 16-button black silk stockings
above the knees, with his
luge black feet protruding beyond the
oles, which were worn through. He
lad doubtless "looted" them from some
European house whose owner fed when
Iostilities began.
The Samoan hair is often plastered
With white lime and reached up, POM
iadour style, giving it when dry the
feet Of the Judicial wig worn by Eng
sh barristers. The lime is washed of
t night and renewed from day to day.
he result is a gradual change in the
olor of the hair, which, in undergoing
he bleaching process, passes from a
oarse, coal black through brick-red to
bright yellow. The effect Of this bril-
ant contrast with their shiny copper
kins is grotesque in the extreme, but
q their eyes surprisingly beautiful.-
ittsbnrgh Dispatch.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
Sermons Without Notes.

Rev. DIR. George G. Lorimer. pas
tor Of Boston's famous fremont
temple, never writes a sermon and
never uses notes in speaking. He
carefully makes out a brief Of
his subject beforehand. corrects
this, commits 1t to memory and
destroys it.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

What is it? A cure for coughs, colds,
Group, whooping cough, hoarseness, sore
throat, and all bronchial affections OF the
throat, chest and lungs. so doses for so
cents. Money refunded If it fails to give
satisfaction; we mean DR.. Simmons
cough syrup. A. w. Foreman.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

F. A. Mills, 48, west 29th St.,
New York, have followed their
popular caKewalk compositions,
"Whistling Rufus, (" "At Georgia
Camp Meeting, " Happy Days in
Dixie" and "Rastus on Parade"
with "Impecunious Davis" +" which
is production by the same au-
thor, Kerry Mills.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

The city has been flooded with
circular letter proposing to sell
six year old Harvest Moon"
whiskey. Lee Levy, is the name
Of the firm. According to the
opinion Of district attorney P. L.
Soper this is violation ofthe law,
but as both the firm and the "Har-
vest Moon" are in Texas we hard
ly expect them to get into the
clutches of Judge Thomas.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

The Sweet Young Thing-Did you
know there IS a man in the moon no
longer? Some one has discovered a
woman in the moon.
The Savage Bacheior-No wonder
the man left.-Indianapolis Journal
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

Boys, the Tom Cat advises you
to follow not in the footsteps of
the loafer; nor example of him
who is born tired, for verify say
unto you their business is over
stocked, the seats on the corner
are all occupied, SO are all the
whiting places. 1t is better to
saw wood at two-bits a cord than
to whittle in loafng match and
cuss the government. My son,
whilst thou has left in thy skin
the sense of a jay bird, avoid the
cigarette habit, for 10, thy breath
stinketh like a glue factory and
thy whole appearance is less in
telligent than a store dummy; thou
art cipher with the rim knocked
off and il you continue to suck the
butt end of a cigarette, you will
land in loony's cell, and if you
don't go crazy it will be because
you haven't got brains enough
The Tom Cat.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
CHAPMAN & BRIGGS. ssscI4s assa4s
4 British Monument in BOSTON.

The Victorian Club. of Boston,
which is composed of British res
idents, purposes, If permission is
given, to erect a monument In
the cemetery on Boston common
to the memory of the 226 British
soldiers who fell at Bunker Hill.
Most of them are supposed to have
been buried in that cemetery.
''D" MIS-, sH9s.-Houston.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

Goods are sold cheaper in vi
nita than in Kansas City at the
retail stores," said a man today
who has occasion to visit Kansas
City and St. Louis often. To some
Of our people this is perhaps
revelation, but 1t is truth that it
is well to consider. Competition
in Vinita is sharp and the people
take advantage of it and buy goods
where they are the cheapest, quail
ity considered. There is little oc-
casion to send away for anything
on account of the price.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
TOURIST SLEEPING CAR.

st. Louis to San Francisco
Via Waco aid San Antonio.
Leaves st. Louis
on "The Katy Flyer
every Friday night.
Personally conducted.
Low berth rates.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
D" MIS-, Houston.

Why DR.. Simmons cough syrup is the
cheapest. 1t is the only cough remedy
giving so doses for so cents. Money is
refunded if not benefited or satisfied.
Try it. Ask your druggist for sample
bottle. A. w. Foreman.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

South McAlester is excited over
the admission Of colored man to
the bar as attorney, which event
took place Yesterday.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

Uriah Jones, Hezekiah Brown and
John Peter Smith will testify to the
wonderful curative properties of Dr. Sim
mons cough syrup. Sample bottles
free. Satisfaction or money refunded.
A. w. Foreman.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05
On the Banks Of the Nile.

The Tapir-"How on earth do
you manage to go at such pace
without any apparent exertion?"
The Alligator-"I'm an automo-
bile, yoa duffer. ! just swallowed
an electric eel"
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

The expenses of the United
States courts in the Indian Terri
tory for the next fiscal year are
estimated at $4,000.
The record-union., 1899-11-30
SOME LOCAL QUESTIONS.

1t Is estimated, after careful calcu-
lation, that the taxpayers of Sacra-
mento would be saved a very material
item of expense if the laws against the
deposit of rubbish In the streets were
enforced. And why is it not done?
Whose fault is it that ash, tree, garden
and shrub trimmings and sweeping
heaps are cast into the street
daily and left there to be scat
tered, beaten into the road surface and
to become nuisances, which taxpayers
generally must pay for digging out and
removing? If it is possible to put a
duty it is to have offenders arrested
who litter the streets, and use them as
repositories for filth and rubbish, there
should be a shaking UP of such official
dry bones as would result in reform.
1t will be useless for officers to plead
ignorance Of these offenses. We could,
II called upon, indicate just such NUS
ances as are referred to existing under
tAe very noses OF city Of1c1alS. But
then officers dislike TO swear out war
rants. Such procedure secures the en-
nifty of voter or so, and votes in
these days are the desire Of all hands.
We are repeatedly told swear out a
complaint and arrests shall be made"
Has 1t come to this that the ordinances
of health and cleanliness are to remain
dormantsif no one rises to complain and
assume the responsibility of making
oath to- the patent truth, staring every
oficialsin the city in the face? By the
way, what are officials salaried for.
anyway. If not to see to it that the
municipal ordinances are obeyed which
enjoin common decency upon the peo-
pie in the use of the streets.
The record-union., 1899-11-30
THE DAY.

It is not. the purpose to deliver the
conventional homily on Thanksgiving
Day Every human being ought to
know what he has to give thanks for.
Every individual has reason to be
thankful for something. No matter how
poor his lot, he has no reason to re-
proach Providence. The architect of
his own fortunes, a free-will being, no
man has cause for reproach that he is
not, as are the brutes of creation, de-
void of responsibility and held to no ac-
countability. AS a nation we have
clearly defined reasons for thankful
ness that our condition is what it is,
that the nation is prosperous, its people
without reproach before the world, it's
mankind it's services still engaged in
the cause Of humanity and the extern
sion Of the institutions of free govern
ment and self rule. Let us give over
the day to wholesome pleasures Of re-
union; the gathering at the home fire
side; the acknowledgment to the AL
mighty Of gratitude for our being; to
cessation from business; to twenty four
hours rational departure from the
beaten track of daily toll; to such ex-
tension from our bounty to the less for
tunate, as kindness. ability and regard
for our fellows should prompt.
The record-union., 1899-11-30
Mrs. Morris Letter to
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LETTER TO MRS. p1xxHAn NO. 1869

LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 1869
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DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-When COM
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The record-union., 1899-11-30
OUR EASTERN POLICY.

The timid journals of the East which
ENORMOUSLY ask what this involvment of
the United States Government in the
Chinese open door policy of England
has to do with our material interests.
and which insists that our Government
is violating the holy traditions of the
nation" in having anything to do with
the matter, should look at our treaties.
They will find that we are doing no
more than safeguarding them. and that
such action is not against, but in the
direct interest of China
We have certain commercial interests
and rights in China. We insist that
these shall be respected and will claim
that they shall be further expanded to
be equal to those OF any nation now
proposed to be specially favored.
But we are not seeking any Chinese
soil, none of her ports, none Of her de-
lenses or Notifications, nor are we pro-
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posing to NEEDLE with her domestic
concerns or internal politics. What II
is proposed that the United States shall
do, however, is to call halt upon the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Chinese Empire,
and that this shall be done by safe
guarding our commercial rights, as
stated.
By so doing and demanding the place
ment of them on a level with the favor
ed nations we will estop the greed OF
States which are seeking to destroy
Chinese independence. When we tell
foreign Governments that in their
movements in China no interest of ours
must suffer, they will pause and think
it over. In short, as the Omaha Bee
we'll puts it, the American Government
is not going to stand by and see China
broken UP without word of protest.
Nor will We quietly and submissively
permit our treaty rights secured by
compact with China to be disregarded
and destroyed by such readjustment of
the empire as would make them value
less. Our Government could not do
less and fulfill its duty to it's citizens. :"
The Concord IN. HI Monitor puts
it exceedingly well when it declares:
This position is tenable and is taken
none to soon. When European spheres
of influence become areas of sovereignty
it will be too late to protest, as the
sovereign power, Russia, Germany or
France, can fix the tariff duties for i'm
ports to such territory the same as at
home and the same as the United States
can fix them for the Philippines and
Porto Rico. To-day in all parts of
China our goods enter upon the same
terms as those of the most favored ma
ton, a right We have secured by re-
peated treaties with that empire. The
question is not the securing of new
privileges. but the protection of an ex-
listing right. That right being menaced
1t is our duty to protect and to secure
written guarantees that whatever ac-
ton is taken by European nations our
goods shall enter Chinese territory upon
the same terms as those of any other
nation. Our possession of the Philip
pines gives force to our protest.
The record-union., 1899-11-30

We are agreed with Major Strong,
late Adjutant General in MacArthurs
division, that while we will whip Agui-
ing trouble will not cease in Luzon until
we have possession of those 1900
Mausers. Not only that, but we must
manage to shut off the means of a new
supply. There will remain for a con-
siderable time a rascally lot of fellows
who will conduct bands of banditti and
dub themselves insurgents, unless we
deprive them of arms and facilities for
getting new supplies.
The record-union., 1899-11-30
Starting a Blast Furnace.

Few people who have not actually
run a blast furnace realize what it
means to fill the capacious NAV of one
of those monsters. A stack Of 2OO-tons
daily capacity, running on 90 per cent.
ore, must have delivered to it each
day something more than 400 tons of
ore, 2oO to 300 tons of coke, and over
100 tons of limestone. besides sand,
coal and minor supplies-say 900 tons
raw material. Add the 200 tons of
pig iron product shipped out, and we
have daily freight movement of / 100
tons, taking no note of the disposition
of the Stag. The mining of the ore re-
quires the labor of 80 to 300 men;
the coal mining, coke-making, uuarry-
ing of limestone and transportation. at
least 800 more. The furnace itself
employs about $50 or more hands.
Starting up furnace of ordinary ca
pacity, therefore, calls Immediately for
the labor of nearly a thousand men:
for the use of at least thousand rail-
way cars and many locomotives; for
perhaps several steamers and vessels
on the lakes; for capital, from the
mines to the pig iron, of one to two mil
lions Of dollars, and last, but not least.
for high order of managing ability
Engineering Magazine.
The record-union., 1899-11-30

Concerning the Presidential success
sion, recently fully explained in these
columns, it is now asked if the sue
cession is to pass on the death of both
the President and Vice President down
through the line of Cabinet officers,
what will be done if one Of these should
be found to be not native born as the
Constitution says the President must
be? The answer seems to US obvious
AS the Constitution declares that the
incumbent of the Presidential Office
must be native born citizen, and as
the act of succession prescribes that it
shall apply only to those Cabinet Off
GERS who are eligible to the Presidents
chair, when one of them is reached who
is not native born he will be skipped
Tor the next on the list. If, however,
all the Cabinet officers should die. there
would be a. lapse in the Presidential Of
nce' as the Act makes no provision for
succession beyond the Cabinet officers.
VI course, such a contingency is very
remote Yet it is within the possibili-
ties. In some railroad or steamer acct
dent 1t might happen that all the elig-
IDLE Cabinet officers would be killed
'and we had one accident in which two
Cabinet officers We're killed.. In such
q case when call upon the succession
line would be made there would be no
one to qualify as President. 1t would
seem therefore to be the part of wis
oom, remote as is the probability of any
sucn untoward event to supplement the
succession Act of 1886 by bill pro-
viding for the filing of the Presidential
cnair IN case of vacancy in it and
the death or disqualification Of all the
Cabinet officers.