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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10
Former Vinita Boys Escapade.

S. Fl. Hawkins. of Edna, was in the
city Tuesday, looking for his runaway
boy. The boy left Edna Monday and
they think he has gone west. He is
IA years old, dark complexioned, a
little short and heavy, black eyes and
hair, has a small scar on cheek, is lilo
blood Cherokee Indian, has on dark
suit, black soft hat, either light or
blue shlrt.-Coffeyvllle Journal.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10
Plenty Of Good Whiskey.

Heber Skinner, this morning, re-
ceived an invitation to be present at
the city hall Of Prince Albert on the
night Of May 10, The message con-
tained the information that there
would be "plenty of good whiskey,"
and "$l.O0 around Heber will prob
ably go up this evening, as Prince
Albert is only about $500 miles from
Vinita, in Canada.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10
FRISCO EXCURSIONS.
Church and Secret Order Gatherings.
Other Cut Rates.

Account of the German Baptist
Dunkard meeting held at North Man
chester, Ind, May 20 to Juue 8, the
Frisco line will sell tickets at rate of
one fare plus So for round trip from
all stations in Kansas, Indian and
Oklahoma territories.
For national Baptist anniversary,
Detroit, Mich, May % to 20, rate OF
one fare plus 50 for round trip from
all stations in Kansas, Indian and
Oklahoma territories.
Account of Mystic Shrine, Wash
ington, D. c., May % to "a, rate OF
one fare plus 50 for round trip from
all stations in Kansas, Indian and
Oklahoma territories.
Account general assembly Presby-
terian church, ST. Louis, Mo-, May II
to 81, rate Of one fare plus 81 for the
round trip from all stations in Kansas
Indian and Oklahoma territories.
Homeseekers tickets on sale May !
and Is, June 5 and 49,. For further
information call on or address nearest
agent. BRYAN SNYDER, G. P. A.
B. f. DUNN, D. P. A st, Louis
Wichita, Kansas. dW.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10

Wife-What do you mean by coming
home in this condition? Have you
any excuse TO offer?
Husband-I had one, Mira, blame
GOOD one, too. but I can't remember
Il now.-N. y. World
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10

The ladies wonder how Mrs. b.
manages to preserve her youthful
looks. The secret is she takes Prickly
Ash bitters; it keeps the system in
perfect order. For further particulars
call on Chapman s. Briggs. DIV
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-10
Probabilities.
FaIr tonIght and tomorrow.

gee today.
Watch repairing guaranteed at
Toremans.
Nothing but the purest drugs used
at A. J. GREEN'S.
Step into the Vinita meat store
and get a nice roast. d94
Gus Nichols for the freshest meats.
See his new ice chest.
Mrs. George Barrltt arrived from
Marionville, Mo-, today.
A. j. Green is now ready to wait on
you when in need of drugs.
Revenue Inspector Frank Churchill
went TO Galena Kan, last night.
A. j. Green can save you money on
those prescriptions. Night or day.
Improvements were made in the in
terror Of the Vinita national bank TO-
day.
The Vinita meat store is the place
to get a nice, juicy steak for break
fast. d94
Chief T. M. Burlington left this
morning for Tahlequah on official
business.
Red Cross bali blue is the best in
the world Large 2oz package costs
only cents.
Mr.. Matney, father OF David Mat
ney, south Of town, came down from
Kansas City yesterday.
John Miller has gone to work-real
work-and was caught in the act this
morning by DR.. Fortner.
II you wish to have beautiful, clear
white clothes, ask for Red Cross ball
blue. Refuse limitations.
Catoosa indorsed Preston S. Davis
Tuesday night for delegate at large
from the Indian Territory.
Prof Coppock went to the orphan
asylum this morning to be present at
the commencement exercises.
Mrs. II. b. Spaulding returned home
TO Muskogee this morning after visit
ing friends here several days.
The Catholic school closes the last
Of May, and preparations are being
made for the closing entertainment.
Beecher Chamberlin has 600 acre
pasture IA miles northwest OF town
to rent, plenty OF grass and water. is
Special business meeting at the
Baptist Church Saturday night at s.
A full attendance earnestly requested.
DIR. Galdwell's syrup pepsin is guar
teed to cure constipation, indigestion,
SICK headache and stomach trouble
People's drug store. d&w
John @. Gray brought home from
bis recent Texas trip something like
hat fun or rattles, taken from snakes
killed down there.
Prlckley Ash btters cures the kid
neys, regulates the liver, tones up the
stomach and purities the bowels. Sold
by Chapman & Briggs. DIV
Census Supervisor Darrough's house
hold goods will arrive from Wyan-
dotte tomorrow and he will make vi
nita his place Of permanent residence.
Men Only-as a rule buy drugs, but
ladies will find that the Peoples drug
store has many little things they often
buy. See their fine stationery and
perfumery.
j. J. Spencer organized democratic
clubs this week at Kinnison and
Eagle. Both clubs instructed del
egates for Davis Hill for delegate TO
the Kansas City convention.
Father Veresval, OF the Catholic
church, will leave about June !, for a
three mouths Trip 10 Europe. He will
lie will visit his mother in Belgium,
and later the Paris exposition.
There win be no preaching at the
Baptist church next sabbath, the
pastor being absent, attending the
Southern Baptist convention at Hot
Springs, Ark. Sunday school at l0a.m.
Don't forget that A. ]. Green has
moved his drug store TO Wilson street
.,,,t ,.,.,,id lilo IN hava his old IN stom-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

his marriage. Mr.. Ford. in his excellent
book, considers this question, and says
that stories Of his immortality are banded
about in clubs, a well known clergyman
has vouched for their truth, and a
United States senator has given further
currency to them by claiming special
knowledge of the subject" 1t is certain
there were scandalous stories af1oat about
him, but, so far as close investigation
shows, he cannot be called an immoral
man. He certainly was very impression
able to the charms of women, even to
the point of making his wife jealous at
times, but there is no we'll authenticated
instance of infidelity on his part. IN a
letter to Jefferson inviting him to Mount
Vernon, he said he had a pretty colOred
girl for him any time he came down.
The people in Posey county, Indiana.
have a tradition, and believe there and
elsewhere, that he was the father Of Gen.
Thomas Posey, who was the first terri
torial governor Of Indiana. AS Gen. Po-
sey was born in 1850, on the Potomac,
when Washington was a surveyor, the
story is not altogether improbable. Wash
ington was we'll acquainted with the Po-
sey family and, as his correspondence
shows, was instrumental in securing pro-
motion for young Posey, who served In
the Revolutionary army.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
IN GREECE AND ROME.

LIN GESEGCE AMI 6O1E.
1t appears that from the time of Homer
to the Persian war, the position of wo-
men was gradually lowered, until at
length the wife and mother was not
permitted to appear before the friends
of the husband and father She bore
children as a kind Of mental duty, and
was little better than slave. In the
Graeco-Roman epoch, however, an in
provement ensued, and the family life
became closer and more consistent. AT
Sparta, girls were brought up on an
equal footing with boys, and property
laws were uniform for both sexes.
Aristotle states that at one time two
fifths of the real estate of Laconia was
owned by women. The old Roman law,
anterior to the revolt of the plebeians,
made the marriage tie a sacred one, and
the free woman, the legitimate wife,
was accorded equal honor with her nus
band so far as the family was concerned.
Even after the popular uprising which
produced the law of the twelve tables,
and Notwithstanding the legal discrimi-
nation against her, the Roman matron
continued to claim and receive no small
degree of respect; and tradition says
that we owe her the street courtesy
which causes a man to step aside and
give way to woman. But the father had
full control of the children, and could
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
American Wars. Re-
beIlicns, lnsurrec-
tious, Riots, Strikes.

They were splendid shots, horsemen and
trailers They were accustomed to liy-
ing in the open, to enduring great ia
tigue and hardship, and to encounter all
kinds Of danger
But wars have been but Incidents IN
the career Of the rangers, for they have
been fighting a war of their own on the
Texas frontier for over sixty years Dur
ing that time they had hundreds upon
hundreds Of battles and skir-1lishes with
the enemies of law and order. III and
out of the state, as they frequently
crossed into Mexican territory in pur-
suit Of criminals. The work of wrestling
Texas from the control of the Iawiess
element which formerly reigned supreme
along her borders has been slow, but it
has finally been accomplished by the
rangers fighting for every foot of groun1
throughout the long years. Hundreds of
rangers have fallen, but greater num-
Der Of thieves. during the long struggle
Never were men more obedient to their
superior officers in time of action thar
the rangers, and probably in no ike or
ganiZatiOn was there ever such a lack Of
military discipline" when there was
no work to do The officers, as 4 rule
treated the men as their social equals.
There are a few rangers still in the
service of the state, but their work IS
light row compared with what their pred
ecessors had to do. Sill, they are alfica-
cious, brave officers of the law and al
ways acquit themselves we'll when called
upon to assist q sheriff in rounding up
particularly dangerous criminals. Texas
is the only state of the union that main
tanned "a regular mounted constabulary,
somewhat after the style of the Canadian
mounted police.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
: TIN be Year 1000.
What the World May Be a Hun
dred Years From Now.
ARTICLE NO. 10.
INDIANS.

INDIANS.
The number of Indians at the present
time is about 25O,000. A hundred years
hence they will number a million or SO,
the increase being due to the cessation
of wars, the spread of intelligence and
morality, the Improvement of hygien!c
conditions, the disappearance of the
medicine man, the better food supply
and the intermarriage with whites
Meanwhile some tribes will become Who'll
" extinct, leaving scarcely a trace OF
their history outside of the records Of
the Indian bureau, while other tribes will
increase and retain most Of their char
acteristic traits. The Pueblos, of New
Mexico who are rejecting SO successfully
the efforts of the government in their
behalf. will continue to be a favorlte
people for ethmologists and self-ostra-
cised Journalists who find pleasure and
profit in barbarism. The agencies will
disappear and friction between the diff
ferent departments of the government in
trying to run Indian offices will cease.
By the merging of the red man into the
indistinguishable mass of our population,
there will spring up new aristoeracy
claiming distinction by reason of Indian
descent. To be able to trace ones pedi-
gree back to some great warrior or big
chief, or TO have the right to claim de-
scent from one of the first graduates of
Carlisle, will be almost as desirable as
to belong to New York's four hundred
And then there will be societies of this
war, and that outbreak, or of this or that
tribe, and framed certificates of member
ship will hang in homes and offices.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
Report of
an Expert.
food and P0VepfV>

mainly upon coffee, sweet cakes and
condensed milk"
Prof. Atwaters contention is that a
family 'can be we'll nourished for less
money than they spend for poor nourish-
ment; that the cheaper pieces of meat,
with a variety of vegetables and oatmeal
and cornmeaI properly cooked would
give more nourishment at a much less
price than their present dietary, while it
would be equal in effect to a large in
crease in wages, with diminished illness;
but how are they going to learn this?"
They must be taught, and herein lies
the solution of many questions that are
sorely perplexing. The teaching must be
done by charitable institutions; the les
sons must go with the contributions to
the needy 1t is doubtful if feeding the
destitute with a Christmas or New Year S
dinner Of roast turkey and similar deli
cacies is an object lesson of much value.
1t simply serves the purpose of alleviat-
ing the present distress, but it does moth
ing more, even if it does not encourage
desire for dainties.
There is wide field for real, genuine
work in education in the United States.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

result Of this reflection the vision Is
weakened, if not destroyed
Moreover, the mirrorlike binders not
only reflect sunlight, but they reflect
objects as well, so that a blinded"
horse sees not only objects directly ahead
of him, but has a more or less blurred
vision of other objects, intermixing with
and confusing the image of objects di-
rectly before him, and as a consequence
ne Is rendered uncertain in his move
ments and is easily scared No further
proof Of this is needed than the fact that
nervous horse, with a reputation for
shying and running away, often becomes
tractable If the binders are removed.
because he can then see distinctly what
before he could only see indistinctly and
confusedly.-Our Animal Friends
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
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under the influence of the maxim that
like cures like" Our forefathers held
it as strongly as any modern savages
a few hundred years ago, and it is not
extinct among us to this day. Various
p ants resemble snake in flower or mode
of growth, and for no better reason
they are accounted remedies for It's bite.
A root which curls and twists procIaims
It's own virtue, as one may say, and if
it be notified there Is no further room
for doubt. Some of these resemblances
are so strong, indeed, that the fancy OF
the savage becomes quite Ineligible.
In Oriental countries, in Europe and
America, many people believe in the eff
ficacy of a certain kind of porous stone
which sucks up the poison of snakes and
mad dogs, but when the stones are trac-
ed to their source it was usually found
that the snakes were not poisonous nor
the dogs mad. These so-called poison
sucking stones have been analysed, but
nothing found in them to justify the
claims set up for them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
ARTICLE NO. 6.
John Bach McMaster.

wish it, because of the dust they would
make, so he told them that he would not
leave before 8 in the morning. But"
as he enters in his journal, Il did it a
little after 5, by which means L avoided
the Inconvenience above mentioned
that is, the dust of the roads. At an
other time he told an English traveller
that ''he never was so much annoyed by
the mosquitoes in any part of America
as i'll Skenesborough, for that they used
to bite through the thickest boot" There
are many instances of this kind to be
found outside Mr.. Weem's history.
That Washington was a man OF perfect
rectitual is undobuted, and, in business,
exact in all his dealings to the last cent.
He would have his just dues to the ut
termost, and he YVES equally prompt in
paying. Many of his letters show this
trait in him, and many anecdotes are
told illustrating it.
There are those who say that Wash
ington's love affairs did not end with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
The Strange
Things People
Believe.
900 SQpeggfi150ns~~
10. Is.

bringing" form to the present day. But
the horseshoe-shaped mark has been a
mystic symbol from immemorial. DAYS
and all that modern superstition has
done has been to fit it to the horseshoe.
The mark sometimes painted and some
times cut, has been seen on ancient
Shrines and temples in the interior of
China; it has been in use for many CEN
turtles in India; it is to he found in the
Aztec ruins and on the stonework of the
buried cities discovered in all parts of
the world
1t has been found incised on the sa-
cred Churinga stones of the tribes of
Central Australia and painted on the
bodies of such of the tribesmen as have
gone through the religious mysteries
peculiar to these aboriginal survivors.
Government officials and travellers have
tried TO induce the tribal priests to
eNpound the horseshoe mystery to them.
but it was either too sacred or too OBJ
scure, and they learned nothing save
that the mark was an Indispensable
part of their mystic rltes-the very
20 M of it, as it were. The horseshoe
mark is found also in British Guiana,
i'll the region OF the Amazon, in Georgia,
ard Illinois, in %ululand, in tho temple
O. the goddess. Nut in Upper Egypt
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
Cr0MbIes OF Our OCym.
ARTICLE NO. 9.

SIXTY YEARS OF WAR AGAINST
OUTLAWS IN TEXAS.
No body of frontier constabuIary in the
history of the world ever held better
record for bravery and effective work
than the Texas Rangers. They have
been magnificent fighters ever since the
time when forty of them cut their way
through Santa Annals army to the Alamo
to join its little band OF desperate de-
tenders, and there gave up their lives
with Davie Crockett, Sam BlWie and
Travis. A reunion of Rangers was held
at San Antonio in November, 1879, at
which thousand or more veterans We're
present, many of them white-naired men
who fought the murderous Aplches,
Comanches and Kiowas in the 405 and
sos, but the greater number were those
who saw equally dangerous service on
the Texas frontier in the fifteen years
Immediately following the Civil war and
whose principal duty it was TO drive cUt
the Mexican raiders from across The Rio
Grande, and to overcome the white Ges-
peradoes and thieves who banded to-
gether and terrorized the settlers Of tie
border counties.
III the war for the independence Of
Texas, in the Mexican war and in the
Civil war the the Texas Rangers did no.
table service. Many of them joined the
rough riders when the Spanish-American
war was declared, and Of them Col.
Roosevelt has written:
1--WE drew a good many recruits from
Texas, and from nowhere did We get a
higher average, for many OF them had
served in that famous body Of frontier
fighters, the Texas Rangers. These need
ed no teaching. They were already
trained to obey and to take responsibility.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
Things Good, Bad
and Indifferent.
Odds and Gmd@>


The worldly wise do mot always know
as much about the world cas- the world
knows about them.
He was cunning chap who said: Or
thodoXy is my doNy and 'heterodoxy is
the other fellows.
Men" observes ana up-to-date novel,
ARE but poor prophets in the strange
country of a woman's mind.
Washington fndorsed@tle idea that if
there had been no God men would have
been obliged to imagine. one
''Adieu,' formerly .=sfgnifed ITO God
1t was an abbreviationsof a benediction
used by friends when. Fsarttng.
Charles Kingsley observes that true re-
hgion viii make a man a more thorough
gentleman than all the COURTS Of Europe.
The stoics taught Coo Is the soul of the
world, and that mans supreme good is
to live in the perfect harmony of the uni
verse.
what is the difference between a
straw hat and a kiss through the tele-
phone"' mo difference, because neither
is felt
"Starve' was once to die any manner
of death. Wycliffes sermons tell how
Christ starved on the cross for the re-
demption of men,
The belief in and worship of one per-
sonal God is called monotheism. Juda-
ism, Christianity and Mahommedanism
are all monotheistic.
There are places in the large cities
where clergymen can buy sermons print
ed. They cover all subjects and can be
had for any season.
The farther along we get the more peo-
pie there seem to be who think that a
gold ounce of prevention is better than a
silver pound Of cure.
Meat once meant any kind of food
In an old edition of the Lords prayer the
well known petition is rendered: "Give
us this day our daily meat
'"Tariff' was the name of the Moorish
chieftain AbouaI Tarifa, who had a
fortress near the Straits of Gibraltar,
and levied toll on ships and merchandise
passing through.
Corpse once meant body, whether
living or dead. Many old writs are ex-
tant in which the sheriff or his deputy
is commanded to bring the corpse of
such a man into court
Christian Scientists are going to erect
another church in Chicago According
to their own doctrine, if they would only
think and believe they had one, it would
be there. But perhaps they can't think
and believe hard enough.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
VOYAGE AROUND nay
CHAMBER"
"RED BADGE OF
COURAGE"

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE.
This work attracted a great deal of
attention both in England and America,
by reason Of the nature of the subject,
and of the authors extreme youth. It
is a study of a mans feeling in battle,
written by one who was never in a bat
tie, but who seeks to give color to mis-
story by lurid language. Henry Elem
ing, an uRsophisticated country boy, en-
thusiastic to serve his country, enlists
at the beginning Of the Civil War. Young,
raw, iptense, he longs to show his pa
triotisIh, to prove himself a hero. When
the book opens he is fretting for an op-
portunfty, his regiment apparently being
nowhere near a scene of action His
mental states are described as he waits
and chafes; the calculations as to what
it would all be like when it did come,
the swagger to keep UP the spirits, the
resentments of the possible superiority
of his companions, the hot frenzy to be
in the thick Of it, with the into,erable
delays over and sore doubts of courage
Suddenly, pell-mell the boy is thrown
into battle, gets frightened to death in
the thick of it, and runs; after the fun
is over crawls back TO his regiment fair
Iy vicious with unbearable shame. The
heroic visions fade; but the boy makes
one step towards manhood through his
wholesome lesson. in his next battle
courage links itself to him like a brother
in-arms. He tests and is tested, goes
into the thick of the fight like a bowling
demon, goes indeed to hell, and comes
back again, steadied and quiet. The
book closes on his new and manly seren-
ity.
He had rid himself of the red sickness
Of battle. The sultry nightmare was in
! the past He had been an animal,
hlistered and sweating in the heat and
pain of war. He now turned with a
lovers thirst to images Of tranquil
Skies
stephen Crane was born in New Jersey
in 1870, and died in 1900 while on a
trip to Europe. For a young man he
achieved a reputation for both his prose
and poetic efforts. The book described
above appeared in 1895.