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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-01-10

LII 4uillCi 10 Oh OhS OWN iioe cOouJ'
The leading cigar is the "Sunburst,"
Nashville Students Thursday night.
Major Oborn is quite sick with grip.
Mrs. ]. B. Burckhalter is quite sick
with grippe.
The best cigar in Vinita is the
"Sunburst." 24jan
When you have an item of news
telephone A.
This week closes the work of the as
SCISSOR, practically.
"Sunburst" cigar is sold by the
Peoples drug store. "a
c. E. Holderman, of Welch, was in
town this forenoon.
Try the "Sunburst" cigar. at the
Peoples drug store. "a
The new city circulator is meeting
very flattering success.
Will Greer came down from Seneca
OH luis HOIuluS UTdlH.
Attorney VIM. Mellette went to
Claremore this morning.
Wesley Tiblow is in from the Bird
creek country this week.
Don't miss good thing-Nashville
Students Thursday night.
Telephone (No. 44) all items Of news
to The DAILY CHIEFTAIN.
Glen Cooper is now employed in the
harness shop of Lee Barrett.
DR.. Clinkscales is suffering from the
effects of severe case of grip.
Platinum cabinets 50 per dozen at
Vinita Photo car until advertised.
There are few towns so fortunate in
having good mechanics as Vinita.
The city council is called to meet to-
night at the mayors Office at o'clock.
Miss Edith Hubbard, of Alton, is
visiting with the family of DR.. Meri-
dith today.
Mrs. W. P. Henderson went to
Nowata to look after her interests
there today.
DR.. Bell is still struggling with the
grip and manages to keep out of bed
with an effort.
Mrs. Lulu Jones, (nee Duckworth,
of Alton, is visiting at the home Of j.
T. Gunter today.
The ladies missionary society of the
NJ. e. church met with Mrs. 6. w.
Clark this afternoon.
Heck Bruner took Joe Hubbard, the
man bound over for horse stealing, to
Muskogee, last night.
Walter Breedloye, Frank Connor
and Lake Moore, came down from
Fairland this morning
W. M. Mellette's house is good
sized one and is moving along rapidly,
during the open weather.
Twenty carloads of beer went west
on the main line of the Frisco Satur-
day, destined for the Philippines.
Next week court convenes and it is
about time the shooting gallery man
and all his ilk we're showing up"
Joe Butler had bout with the Odd
Fellows goat last night with the
usual results-the goat is all right.
Several very desirable lots in town
are found to belong to estates with
minor heirs, and cannot be purchased
Sam Frazier and Matt Hawkins re-
turned from st. Louis this morning
where they had been to market some
stock.
w. HI. Kornegay came home last
night after a business trip Of three OF
four days in the south part of the
territory.
Mrs. Matilda Lane, of Bronson, KS,
came in on the Katy last night, and
went out to the home of J. w. Wen
die this morning.
Subscriptions to both weekly and
daily are coming in rapidly. The
people are disclosing q very keen in
terest 10 public affairs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12

through all the 5000 miles of territory
between the Cape and Cairo.
It appears to be the purpose of
Great Britain to obtain not only an IN
broken line from north to south but
the control of ali the richer domains
on either side. and particularly those
which are not owned by people strong
enough to. protect their rights. The
strip owned by Leopold may not be
acquired in the way that most British
territory has been added to the pos
sessions of the crown, and it may
never become a part of the empire.
Leopold has offered to build the road
through Congo ard to operate it in
connection with the transcontinenta:
line, it is understood. This may en-
able Great Britain to worry along
without making a war upon him.
At all events ii is not at all i'm.
probable that the road will be finished
from the Cape to Cairo before 1915 In
the meantime the Transvaal will be
conquered and the distribution of the
celestial kingdom in Asia will be a
thing of the past. 1t doesn't take long
in these days of smokeless powder and
rapid transit for a great many great
things 10 happen in q few years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
Wanted to Take His Share.

1t is not often that Mr.. Tody Hamilton.
the genial American press representative
of Barnum & Bailey's circus, gets left"
but one of the occasions happened recent
~ at Portsmouth, where the show was,
writes e. w. Sabei in the Saturday Even
ing Post. The show had been fioated as a
limited liability company. and a great
many people have invested sums small
and large I'm II. At one of the perform
ances uo rolled a sailor none too sober,
and demanded free admittance because he
was part proprietor. He insisted, and
was passed over to Hamilton.
What do you hold in this company
asked Tody.
Il old one bloomin share. l do
BY the way, what's its NUMBER Tody
asked. innocently. Number 12756s." an
swered the man.
oh, No. 49, is It? Well. sir, do you
see the guy rope at the corner there?'
pointing outside. That's your part of
the show
OF rolled the sailor, whipped out his
knife, and instantly the rope kicked up
and the corner of the tent gave signs of
collapse. When the care-takers rushed at
him and demanded TO know how he dared
cut one of their contemporaries the sailor
blinked and said: Dye mind handing
me down that rope? It's mine. you
know"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
BOSSiSM IN OHIO.

According to the staff correspondent
of the New York Tribune, writing from
Ohio, the result of the election there is
due to McEean's unpopularity more
than to Hanna's popularity. The report
that Mclean was a nonresident of
the state was circulated with great dill
igence to his certain injury.
But the real fight, if this New York
journalists judgment may be taken,
will come next year. This will array
the Hanna McKinieyites against a
combined opposition, for there is a
growing distrust Of Hanna and his
methods; and, las the president sus-
tains Mr.. Hanna at every turn, he will
come in for a share of the rebuke."
The article continues: Although an
adroit politician and good organizer,
Mr.. Hanna's personal following in Ohio
is OF small proportions and of infinitesi-
NAL weight. In a popular election in
his own county he would simply be no.
where. All Ohio knows that it is the
presidential power and Mr.. McKinley's
personal influence which have raised
Mr.. Hanna to his present political alti-
tude, by many influential Republicans
held to be entirely undeserved. In thus
giving consequence TO the obscure
Hanna, previously an unknown politi-
cal quantity, the president has aroused
the jealousy of other Republican lead
ers and raised up enemies to himself.
Perhaps in so doing, in the hurry burly
of Ohio politics in the last few years,
actual injustice has been done some of
them. But, whatever its origin, it is
undeniable that Hanna, and, through
him, the president have a host of Bit
ter enemies in the Republican party"
This cannot be changed, however Re-
publicans may wish it. Hand in hand
with Hanna Mckinley went from the
governorship to the presidency, and it
is evident that he proposes to go on
with him to the end.
This ought TO make a difference in
Ohio next year. although state pride
viii help Mckinley and the fact that
Ohio appears to be irredeemably Re-
publican makes his chance of carrying
the state next time very good indeed.
Ever since the birth of the Republican
party Ohio has, without a single excep-
ton, given her electoral vote to the
national ticket. If Penn
sylvania can put up with and honor
her Quay, and New York submit to the
dictation of Platt, Ohio may continue
to endorse the coarse work OF Boss
Hanna But there are Republicans
who believe that the Buckeye state is
made of sterner stuff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

takes fS5 year to keep an English
raHway carriage in good order.
Lake victoria NyanZa. in Africa, is
over 100 feet above the level of the sea.
Bremen took 1.7O9.Ooo of the II. 500 600
pales OF cotton raised in the United
States last year.
Next March the Berlin Academy of
its existence.
1t is said there is more champagne
9runk In one year than the champagne
districts produce in seven.
The death rate from disease in the
D ndn navy last year was only $50 per
deaths were caused by cholera
81. Petersburg. which often has exhf-
DitionS OF French and English art Is To
nave one OF German art in January
which Will be something of a novelty.
Two years ago it was easy in Switzer-
iand 10 borrow money on good security
LOT TO S1e per cent. Since then money
mas become so scarce that and even 5
per cent is often asked.
BUSINESS in South Africa, including
cape Town, Is absolutely stagnant Food
stu1s have doubled in price, and thou
sands are without work or money to buy
the necessities OF life.
The average Boer farm house is a low
stone building, with corrugated iron roof
with ''stoop' along the front that taxes
tne place or our porch. 1t, too. is built
or stones and covered with clay packed
diu WOrn nara ana smooth.
Johannesburg. is a boom town. but.
unlike most cities of like character. it is
solidly and permanently built, many of
tne residences being veritable palaces of
granite and marble that would do credit
TO any or our American cities.
In a new method of propeIling steam
Doats longitudinal raceway is provided
on either side of the Ship with an end
less chain of propelling plates driven
ria n ion,
only.
Realistic snowstorms for theatres are
produced by new machine. which has
Two revolving perforated cylinders to
respectively. with electric fans under
each cylinder to drive the snow across
the stage as it falls.
In Soudan the horses are shod with
SOCKS made of camel's skin. In Australia
horseshoes have been tried of cowhide. A
German not long age invented a horse
shoe made of paper. which had been
saturated with oil. turpentine and other
ingredients.
The New York papers figure up a
state inheritance tax on the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt ofsover s.. 200 600 and a
federal inheritance tax: under the war
sum is three times the amount of Mr..
Vanderbilt's public requests.
From Mexico comes information de-
scribing particular herb, .'yerba de la
vleo p ,,, which is used With success in
fox-terrier. a bioodhound and three
horses, all OF which, bitten by rattle
snakes. have been cured by the herb and
are now well.
Austria has profted by the experience
of the last naval war and now owns an
ambulance ship. the Graf Falkenhayn
fitted up and presented to the government
by a private gentleman TO commemorate
Emperor Franz Josefs jubilee. The donor
has also given $1,000 forms to maintain
the vessel in time of peace.
The navy department has issued an
order to place metal furniture on the
cruiser Atlanta 1t was found that the
presence of the wooden furniture aboard
the warship during the late war was a
most serious menace to the men. More
the enemy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
A Flowerless Dinner.
(Washington Post.l


If ever there is a national divorce law
formulated, know woman here in town
who wants ii seen to that absent-minded-
ness on the part of the husband is put at
the very head of the list of causes for alb
solute dissolution of the marriage bond.
She has been married. only a year or so.
and a Few weeks ago she began house
was the day set for dinner party which
was to be in the nature of a house-warm-
ing. Her husband is dreamy-eyed man.
with a scientific hobby, and, although his
Observation-Disclosures has tried her patience
many time and oft before. she was so
very busy on this particular day that she
intrusted one of the important details of
the dinner 10 him-the flowers. AS he was
making ready to leave the house she said
to him that il would be necessary for him
to call at the florists and see about the
flowers.
Get some roses. and-oh. no. ask him if
he has yellow chrysanthemums. she
said. Now. don't forget
Il won't. my love" he said, dreamily.
Write it down in your notebook she
ordered. and obediently he did So He was
somewhat late in getting home that even
ing; and he found an early guest or two
upon him the moment he opened the
door.
Did go to the florist as told your
Yes. my dear. did" he answered. tri-
umphantly. Il wrote down just what you
told me. l asked them il they had any
yellow chrysanthemums."
We'll. we'll, she said impatiently, "and
what did they say2
They said they had Them he answer
know?"
1t was a dinner without flowers. The
hostess was a little red about her eye
Ids. and the host was manifestly i'll at
ease.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
His Great Triumph.

A good story is told of Mozart, the great
composer. at the time he was a pupil of
Haydn. Haydn one day challenged his
pupil to compose a piece of music which
he could not play at sight. Mozart accept
ed the banter. and a supper was to be the
forfeit Everything being arranged. Mo-
Fart took his pen and in five minutes he
dashed off a piece of music; then. hand
ing il to Haydn, he said: There is a
piece of music which you cannot play and
i can. You are TO give ii the first trial"
Haydn smiled at his pupil, aII. placing
the notes before him. struck the KEYS of
the instrument. Surprised at it's simplicity.
he dashed away until he reached the mid
die of the piece when. stopping all at once
he exclaimed: How is this, Mozart?
Here my hands are-stretched to both ends
of the instrument. and yet tbereis a mid
die key to be touched. Nobody can play
such muSic,''
Mozart smiled at the half-excited indig-
nation of the great master and taking the
seat ne had quilted, struck the instru-
ment with such an air of self-assurance
that Haydn began TO think himself duped.
Running along through the simple pass
ages, he came to that part which his
teacher had pronounced impossible to be
Played. Mozart was endowed, as our read
ers may have heard. with an extremely
long nose-a prodigious nose. Reaching
the difficult passage, he leaned forward
and struck his nose against the middle
key Haydn burst into a nit of laughter.
ana. after acknowledging that he was
beaten, declared that nature had endowed
Mozart with a. capacity for music which
he mad never before discovered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
OPINIONS OF OTIS.

There is marked similarity between
the views of Admiral Dewey and those
of Correspondent McCutcheon of the
Chicago Record concerning Otis in the
Philippines.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, one of the most pronounced i'm
perialists at the court of King Hanna,
printed an interview with the admiral
soon after his return from the islands.
When asked to be plain about the Sit
uation in the Philippines, says the New
York paper, Admiral Dewey was sur
prisingly frank.
81 can't imagine" he said. show they
have held out so long. 1 thought this
thing should have been over long ago,
as it should have been. Still. you
know, this is the rainy season, and
little could be done. General Otis tried
to do too much. I told him so. He
wanted to be general governor, judge
and everything else. No one man could
do this. When he does try it the re-
suit can well be imagined. This little
war can be easily ended. You can't
blame the people so much-they have
been ill-treated by the Spaniards for
so long that they mistrust everybody.
This is the difficulty in dealing with
them. Once they learn that we mean
what we say there is no trouble. All
of them will learn to trust the Ameri-
cans in time. They will get away from
the influence of Aguinaldo, or. rather,
those people of whom he is the tool.
Aguinaldo is nothing but figurehead.
He is of only average intelligence and
ability. The brains are back of him.
In Manila he is held at his true worth,
and there they know who is responsible
for what successes, il any. have at
tended the efforts of the Fiiipinos to
rebel against our government. Aguin-
aldo was only a clerk in the navy yard
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12

at Manila before he took the field
against the Spanish. The men who
actually have the most influence among
the Filipinos are lawyers. unquestion-
ably able men,
Mr.. McCutcheon reviewed at length
the censorship established by Otis. In
private letter to the editor of the
Record he said:
Otis now claims that we have a territory
sixty miles long-from linus on the south
10 Angeles on the north-but he neglects
70 state that in two-thirds of this distance
II IS as much as your life is worth to get a
quarter of a mile off the railway track.
Attacks are frequently made right in the
heart of the section which he claims is
pacified and conquered.
In conclusion. 1 think Otis is trying to
DO too much He is essentially man of
details. He works sixteen hours a day.
ana is usually sure to refer to that fact
when he gets to talking. One man cannot
possibly fill all the jobs of civil and mill
tary leader. and attend to all the petty
details Otis is conscientious and honest
IN a financial way He does everything he
can to save the government money. and
deserves a great deal of credit for it, but
surrestion in the right way, and l doubt
whether he ever will succeed unless he
gets SO many men that the insurgents
Will be smothered to death.
l think he should be relieved of the mill
tary end, at least. If not all, of the lob.
Bates or Lawton or Macarthur. l believe
would make good military commanders If
given rein don't know much about
Wheeler, but it strikes me that he would
make better brigader than COM
mander-in-chief.
But Otis holds on. The president is
determined to keep him in command,
1t seems. The war is dragging along
towards the end of the year. Spain,
with her ironclad navy, her smokeless
powder, her modern munitions of war,
her forts and European sympathizers.
was conquered in less than three
months, although we had to cover two
continents in accomplishing it. With
one tribe of south sea islanders cooped
up in one island Otis has put in ten
months of aimless and desultory war
fare, slaughtering tens of thousands of
natives, to be sure, but accomplishing
nothing definite.
No one knows why he should be re-
tanned at the head of the army, unless
he has a pull.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
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all eastern points &c
Dining cars on all through trains.
No railroad has better sleeping cars
than the Burlington Route. Not even
on the famous limited trains between
Chicago and New York are the sleep
ers brighter, cleaner or of more modern
design.
The cars on main line trains are
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are lighted by gas. Their smoking and
toilet compartments are unusually
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Thoroughly up &c date
Drawing Room has one full section
and a single lower berth, with toilet an
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modations on connecting lines
A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.
three feet four inches wide by four feet
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rollers. shows every state. county. i'm
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
STORY OF MAJUBA HILL.

The series of articles by Mr.. J. w.
Edmunds on Transvaal affairs, which
is running in the Sunday issue, has
provoked 4 great deal of interest and
comment among the reading public.
This mornings article is on the events
that led to the battle of Majuba hill,
the Bull Run of the British army in
South Africa. While Mr. Edmunds
writes from the standpoint of a Briton,
he is generous in his tribute to the
bravery of the Beers and their natural
ability as pioneers. The story of the
events that led up to the disaster lays
much of the onus on the British Off
Gals, who showed such lamentable
want of tact in their government of the
Dutch colonists. and goes far to ex-
plain the bitterness with which the two
races-Dutch and English-have re-
garded each other ever since.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
Those of the Past.

Games Oppenheim in New York SUM-
We are the living. our hearts all a
Borrowing,
Where have you gone from US, where
are YOU lost?
You who have toiled for us,
Ranging the world for us.
Why have you left us here counting our
cost?
You, the great God-men of ages for
gotten,
You, the great God-men of our today.
All your vast number,
oh. where do you slumber.
Where have they lost you-on what
lonely way?
Back to the elements long they have
Hearts all a-bleeding with sorrow and
plain
All that we know of you,
All that we have of you
Is the great work of Your hand and
your brain.
Nature. who helped you. who bent to
your will-Dower,
Many the years you have gone back to
her,
You and your mightiness
Such does our heart confess,
We never knew you just as you were.
oh, the vast army of those who have
gone from u.s.
Whence have they faded; oh. where
are their souls?
Hollow the heart in us,
Sorrow apart from us.
We. too. are going, but where are our
goals?
We. who are God-men. will join the
mystery,
Millions of hearts will be bleeding and
sore
Why must we leave you all,
Why must we grieve you all
Why must We join the men gone be-
fore?
You who have faith in creeds and
religions.
You are the only ones who can reply
Hope in the soul of you.
Joy in the whole of you
Faith is your fact, and answers your
why.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
The WAYS of Maidens Fair.

IS. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald.t
They looked the new moon in the face.
Now, make a wish. said she.
II will if you will make one too"
He answered pensively.
They gazed up at the crescent that
Hung in the western sky.
And wished and turned away, and each
Broke off a little sigh
They sat alone upon the steps,
He and the maiden fair,
She looked around to be assured
No one was lurking there.
What was your wish?'' she Sweetly
asked:
'Ah. something good. know;
Confess and l will tell you mine.
Perhaps, before you CO.
He looked into her upturned eyes,
Her little hand sought his.
My wish tonight" he said, was what
NV fond wish always is:
/ wish that /. somehow, might find
The road that leads to fame
That. dying. / may leave behind
A great, an honnered name
She pulled her little hand away,
She sighed another sigh.
What fools they are who wish, she
said:
Good evening and goodbye.
And going home. he wondered at
The sudden change of air
Some people know so little or
The ways of maidens fair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
philadelphia Call.)
How An Englishman Told It.

Here is joke which comes fresh from
the Erin, Sir Thomas Liptons yacht. The
names were given to the writer but they
were supposed for obvious reasons:
young woman on the Erin. while
every one was waiting for wind, asked:
What Sang expression which you have
in America pieaseS a pussy cat?
The listeners all gave Ii up. of course.
Why. rubber neck, was the reply.
One of Sir Thomas British friends heard
il and thought IL was SO good that he
called friend up to hear the conundrum.
1ne one summoned came, all expectancy
The enthusiastic admirer of the story
could not wait for the young woman who
had originally sprung the joke to repeat
il. but started to tell IL himself
What slang expression which you have
in America pieases a pussy cat?"sh ask
ed.
why. smooth her back" was the reply.
and the answer brought out greater
roar than had greeted the original story.