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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-06
THE GAY MEXICAN CAPITAL.
CITY Of 350.ooo Inhabitants, Mo&f
OF whom Are horn Seekers
After Pleasure.

The City OF Mexico lies at an altitude
Of 1850 feet. its climate being equable
and salnbrious. Socially, it is one OF
the gayest capitals in the world. and
every year is becoming more popular
as . winter resort, says the New York
| Post.
| The city has about $4,000 inhabi-
tants, most of whom are born pleasure
seekers. Like all Spanish cities the
prominent amusement here is the bull
fight, which always draws an immense
audience of wealthy and fashionable,
as well as numbers of curiosity seek
ers. Then there are many theaters,
for Mexieans appreciate the drama
and good music.
Among the sights" TO which tour
lists are invariably directed are the
castle of Chapultepec. at present used
as the military academy (the West
Point Of Mexico). and as the residence
Of President Diaz, the national library
the mint. the museum, the Monte Pie
dad" the public markets, the scene Of
Alvarado's leap for life. the shrine Of
Guadalupe, the gardens of San Ange.
and Tacubaya, the great cathedral. the
theaters and the La yiga canal with its
bordering Paseo lined with flowers OF
every description and hue. the drives
always gay with stylish turnouts con-
tanning the dark-eyed beauties Of the
capital.
The City Of Mexico was founded by
the Aztecs in the Thirteenth century.
The Spanish invaders under Cortez,
were astounded at its size and the CO.
lossal character Of its editices. The
city is laid out as regularly as check
erboard with it's streets all at right
angles. It's public buildings are impos-
ing and Of great architectural beauty.
The residences Of the better cls sses are
spacious and handsome, and in most
cases are built around an open court
yard filed with graceful palms, bril-
liant flowers and flashing fountaits,
making an ideal retreat. There are
i2o churches. tbs largest and most i'm
posing IS The cathedral.
Iti< massive structure. built on the
ldif Of fhe ancient Aztec temple, is 200
ieet wide and <26 feet long. with two
,petrs nearly eco feet high. Numer-
as hotels offer variety 81 accommo-
tauon* to She ~ ranger. many Of them
rnasase1 s. 4merieans. though all are
canaH<I<d 81 he European plan. The
rates rance from 30 cents 10 five dol
lars f<f f4f. rsekered in Mexican silver
coi6.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-06
HAMLET MURDERED AGAIN.
somethinE VIE Enourh 60 Mako
shakespeare Turn over IN
His Grave.

An actor. stranded in a small min
ing town. was waited upon by a COM
mittee of miners. They told him that
they intended giving a play for the
benefit of some charity. and had come
to ask him to undertake the task Of
coaching the miners. The play was
Hamlet" and there were four as
pirants to the role Of Hamlet. relates
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. One
of these was powerful 1rishman, with
rich "brogue." Another a corpulent
German. with decided dialect. One,
Yankee. with pronounced nasal
tones. and the fourth equally unsuited
for the part he wished to play. The
actor called the four men together,
and informed them that there were
FIVE acts in Hamlet" and proposed
that he, as professional, should take
the act most difficult to perform, thus
leaving an act for each one Of the four
The proposal was accepted. The play
was given 10 large and most en-
thusiastic audience. while the finan-
cial success exceeded all expectations.
But the next morning the one small
newspaper Of the town contained the
following:
"The play Of Hamlet was given last
evening by our amateur dramatic
company. II has long been question
as TO whether Shakespeare or Bacon
was the author of this play. II can now
be definitely asceriained. Let the
graves Of both men be opened. lie
who shall be found 70 have turned IN
his grave is the one who wrote Ham
lpfsr
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-06

that all eies are centered on the In
dian Territory at the present timer
Because OF the prospects and oppor-
tunlties there for the farmer aud ar
tlsan: cheap lands, growing towns.
aud every feature OF development.
Write for descriptive literature:
March Issue. "Tbe Greek Nation, y
now ready. Address KATY" 30i
WaInVrlRht Bldg ST. Louis, 40. dl26
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-06

r. Eslppe coughs yield quick " to The
= ,41eI p cufsiife qualities Of Foiey's
HontF sad Tar There IS nothing else
"isH as good Sold by shanahsh 6
n .cbe'h DIV
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
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Personal.

New York is to have a beer
queen" A brewery worth $4,000, OO0 pro-
ducing 1000 barrels of beer annually
and yielding 100000 in profit is to be
owned and managed by a woman. Aft
er years of litigation Mrs. Josephine
Schmidt has been awarded full possess
sion of the immense property left by
her husband and she will personally
conduct the business.
Joseph Synder, an athlete of 49,
who lives in Aetna, N. Y, challenges
any man of IS or older to walk from
ten to fifty miles. Mr.. Synder says:
TN walk him either with or without
canes, though 1 prefer to carry one
just for company / walk at least ten
miles every day, and the fellow who
takes up my challenge will have to
scratch gravel mighty lively to win"
John Barrett, the newly appointed
minister to the Argentine Republic, will
not go to his new post until next
month. He still has lot of work to
do in connection with his position as
foreign representative of the ST. Louis
fair. In the course of his trip around
the world on behalf of that enterprise
Mr.. Barrett travelled $4,000 miles, inter-
viewing fifteen kings and emperors en-
route.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
rhE uxIsHINEFF PETITION.

From some remarks attributed to the
President respecting the Jewish petit
ton bearing upon the Kishineff affair
IL seems that he is very much in doubt
as TO the treatment this country will
receive from Russia when it offers to
present the petition, and is somewhat
uneasy in regard to the matter.
The plan for bringing the petition to
the attention of the Russian govern
ment has not yet been decided upon.
One plan suggested is to send il to the
United States embassy at st, Peters,
burg and let the inquiry be made from
there as TO whether or not the Rus
sian government will receive it. The
other is for the State Department to
make a direct inquiry.
There does not appear to be much
doubt that the Russian government
win refuse to receive the petition. But
in what terms will the refusal be con-
veyed? viii the kindly feeling between
the two nations be preserved or will
their relations become strained?
No doubt the state Department and
the President have gone over the sub
ject many times. and have examined
it from every point of view
with the hope of discovering
some way of presenting the
petition without offending Russia. Ev-
identity they have discovered no plan
that is satisfactory. Our dispatches
yesterday stated that Secretary Hay
was in Washington, and that he and
the President were in entire accord in
respect to the Kishineff petition. This
statement was sent out probably to
offset the statement that has been ap-
pearing in the papers that Secretary
Hay was greatly irritated by the dis
patch that was sent out from Wash
ington a few days ago in which
an official of the State Department,
speaking unof cially, charged Russia
with bad faith in connection with the
Manchuria affair. That dispatch has
been the subject of a great deal Of
comment, and in more than one paper
it has been pretty broadly limited that
the President himself was the author
of it. Dispatches of that sort are not
calculated TO increase for Us the good
will of the nation at which they are
aimed. 1t is assumed that if Secretary
Hay had been in Washington at the
time no such dispatch would have
been given to the newspapers.
The President is quoted as saying
that sit would be no worse an insult
to US to have Russia reject the Kish-
ineff petition than it is to Russia that
the exigency exists for the presenta-
ton of the petition on our part" The
President may have expressed such an
opinion, but it is doubtful Il lie did.
If he did, 1t indicates thai ne is expect
ing that Russia will Tefuse to receive
the petition. and is apprehensive that
the relations of the two nations will
cease to be as friendly as they are at
present.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10

Il had rather an odd experience in
this state few years ago." remarked
a Toledo man who was a guest at a
Chicago hotel last week, says the Chi
cago Journal.
Il was driving across the country
with single horse when a bull broke
out of a field and attacked and killed
the horse. But for tree being handy
1 might have shared the same fate. 1
had hired the rig Of a liveryman, and
he demanded pay for the horse. Natur-
ally enough l demanded an equal sum
from the owner of the bull He claimed
that he had hired a neighbor to make
the fences safe, and that the neighbor
must be held. When it got along to
the neighbor he scratched his head and
said
Tim not to blame for it. If the bull
hadn't had horns he couldn't have torn
the fence down.
"There was a lawsuit in which the
four of us were mixed up" continued
the Buckeye, and l have always ad-
mired the erudtion of the justice of the
peace who tried the case and squelched
ii at that early stage.
AS for the killing of the horse he
said, he might have been struck by
lightning or met circus elephant and
fallen dead. That let's the hirer out.
AS for the owner of the bull, he didn't
set him on, and that let's him out. AS
for the man who mended the fences,
he did the best he could with the rails
he had, and nobody can blame him.
It's a case of Providence, with the
horse coming along and the bull busting
the fence at the right minute, and
costs will be divided among the four of
you, and the bulls horns be sawed off
and a ring put in his nose.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
PODe LeO's Ode.


Pope Leo possessed much merit as a
poet. He always employed Latin as
the language for his muse. His great
est lyrical work was written when he
was 80 years old and is lofty and ele-
waited welcome to the twentieth centu-
ry. The ode is entitled "A Prayer to
Jesus Christ for the Coming Century
and is rendered into English by An
drew Lang as follows:
Renowned in letters. famed in art,
The age recedes; of many a thing
Won for mans good from Natures
heart
Who will may sing.
The glories of the faded years
/ rather backward CHANGING mourn
The deeds ill done, the wrongs, the
tears
OF the age outworn.
Red wars that reeked with the blood of
man,
Wide-wandering license, scepters rent,
Fierce guile that threats the Vatican
These l lament.
Where is thy glory, stainless, free,
City of Cities, queenly Rome?
Ages and Nations kneeled to thee,
The Pontiff's home.
Woe for a time of Goddess laws!
What Faith, what Loyalty abides?
Torn from the shrines, the ancient
cause
To ruin glides.
Listen! how science wildly raves
Around the affairs oVarthrown.
Brute Nature, with the world for
Saves,
Is God alonet
Not made in Gods own image now
Is man-'tis thus the wise dispute
But sprung from one same cell, they
vow,
Are Man and Brute.
o blinded Pride on chaos hurled!
o Night proclaimed where Light should
be,
Obey thou Him who rules the world,
Man, and be free!
He only is the Truth, the Life.
He only points the Heavenward way;
He only frees the soul from strife
If men obey.
Twas He who led the pious throng
But now to Peters dust divine;
OF faith to live through ages long,
No empty signI
Jesus. the Judge of years to be,
Direct the tides, the tempest still,
And make the rebellious people free
To work Thy will.
Sow Thou the seeds of happy Peace,
All evil drive from us afar,
And bid the rage and tumult cease
OF hateful War.
The minds of Kings and Peoples mold,
Thy word may all enjoy with awe;
BE there one Shepherd and one Fold,
One Faith, one Law.
My course is run; long ninety years
Thy gifts are mine: Thy grace retain;
Let not Thy servants prayers and
tears
Be poured in vain.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10

Some weeks ago a very rich young
man of New York applied for mar
riage license. What is your occupa-
tion?" asked the clerk, among othey
questions. Gentleman" said the New
York man. A few days later a no
torious gambler was arrested in the
same city. At the Police Court his
pedigree was taken. What is your
occupation" asked the clerk Gentle
man." replied the gambler. Here, then,
are two definitions of a gentleman; one
being a man who is worth millions of
dollars, and the other being a man who
has no visible means of support, but
who lives at the best hotels, wears dia-
monds and CANDLES for an income. But
still another definition has been vouch-
safed during the week just endeds In
a Western court a witness referred to a
certain person as that gentleman"
How do you know he is gentleman"
the court asked the witness, after the
term had been used half a dozen or
more times in as many minutes. why,
because he keeps an automobile" was
comes to think of it, the witness had
no worse authority than Thomas Car
lyle for arriving at his conclusion. 1t
was during the first part of the last
century that Carlyle said that to be a
gentleman consisted in keeping and
riding in gig. In those. days the gig
was the SWEETEST things on wheels. 1t
has now passed into oblivion. practi-
cally, and its place in the front rank
has been taken by the automobile. If.
therefore, Carlyles cynical definition
was correct, manifestly the gentleman
of the present day is he who rides in
a horseless carriage.
But, as in the days of gigs, there is
still the clothes to assist in the mark
ing of the gentleman. Those who are
well informed with respect to the motor
carriage would never. never, consent
to the proposition that a gentleman
would go out in his machine wearing
a straw hat; it must be a leather cap
on the head, or the person" is merely
person and nothing more. And so
WIN q dozen Olner details. having ar
rived at the station of gentility through
the ownership of an automobile. and
the correct clothes to go with it, it is to
be hoped that the automobiles will eX-
ert themselves to live up to the title
OF gentlemen" The gentleman is
thoughtful of the rights and comfort
of others. He will not bump into a
pedestrian, and then dodge around
corner without waiting to ascertain the
consequences. He will not take de-
light in frightening horses on the road,
for the fun of seeing them rear and
run away. He will not crowd bicyclists
to the sidewalk or into the ditch be-
cause his machine is bigger and heavier
and can crush bicycle with safety
to itself. He will not scorch through
the streets, TO the danger of pedestrians
and others and thus bring all auto
mobilists into disfavor with the COM
munity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
BRIGHT BITS.

-Ethel-'Do you really think the
lieutenant will propose to Beth"
Edith-"Oh, yes; he has several med
ais for bravery, you know!"-Puck.
II told papa your poems were the
children of your brain" What did he
say?" "Said they were bad enough
to put in the reform school. Judge
Weren't some of those transactions
by which you profited trife irregu-
lar?" mot for me-" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum. They were quite the
usual thing. Washington Star
II am afraid, dear" said the fair
girl, that it is my half million that
draws your affection to me-" You
wrong me, Myrtilla," said the impas-
stoned youth. You might scale it
down-lemme see-say 10 per cent, and
it wouldn't shake my constancy in the
least. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Hartford Comm Times (Dem.)
says "At Savannah, Ga, on Monday,
all the lawyers were glad to attend
a reception in honor of Judge Parker
of New York, and the dispatches re-
port that some efforts were made to
draw him out on politics. I hope the
next time l meet you one of the men
who were introduced to him remarked
you will be occupying the White
House oh, but you are joking was
the reply But 1 am not he was
told 1t is not related that any fur
Their reference to politics were elected
from him. But it is clear that the
eminent New York judge has made
very happy impression upon the peo-
pie whom he has met on his Southern
tour"
Under the headline, "Georgia's Fine
Example" the New York World
(Dem.) discusses the killing of the bill
to divide the school fund between the
races in proportion to the amount of
taxes paid by each and adds: This
recalls the fact that the Georgia Leg
islature at it's last session rejected
measure aimed at the exclusion of
negroes from the voting lists. The
spirit of fair play thus strikingly ex-
hlblted in one of the most typical of
Southern states is the spirit in which,
after the passions of this period of
mobocratic madness have cooled down.
the negro problem both in the North
and South-for it is no longer a sec
tional but a national problem-will
have to be met and mastered"
The New York Evening Post Gnd1
says THE state of Georgia has add
ed lustre to its record by refusing to
distribute school funds according to
the tax receipts from the blacks and
whites respectively. The resolution to
that effect which was overwhelmingly
voted down in the Legislature, had a
kind of specious, arithmetical attrac-
iveness. But the legislators of Georgia
were prompt to see that the principle
of racial school budgets was wholly
un- American, and that its application
in other cases than the negroes would
leave uneducated the classes that most
needed school training. 1t is only fair
to add that the other Southern states
have in this matter followed a
straight course. In several instances
it has been attempted to make the ne
groes bear the whole cost of their own
schooling; but invariably such bills
have been defeated. The South gen
orally reserves it sophisms and grand
father clauses for political use Geor-
gia has certainly not suffered any of
the ina ined horrors which are the
only apology for discriminating legis-
lation i'm other states. These would
do we'll to study I'm Georgia the su-
periority of cOunsels of fairness over
promptings Of prejudice or panic"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Mistletoe Camp No. a.
Woodmen of the World.
Special Notices-Dissolution Notice,
Hotchkiss & Nevill; Ship Notice.
Strachan & Co. Agents; Dissolution
Notice, Champion & Evans; Ship No
tice L. Trapani & Co, Agents.
Business Notices-A Secondhand
Snap. G. w. Thomas; Elberta Peaches,
at MINISTER'S.
Amusements-Free Vaudeville Show,
Bohans Pavilion. Tybee.
Mothers. Here's Your Chance-B. H.
Levy & Bro.
One Ton New Crop Turnip and Cab
bage Seed. T. Shuptrine, Scotsman.
Many Special Inducements-Daniel
Hogan.
Grass Furniture Is All the Rage
Lindsay & Morgan.
silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Special Sale To-day Only-Gustave
Eckstein & Co.
Economy Is Wealth-Moorehou
Manufacturing Company.
Yellow Jessamine Soap-The Del
monico Co.
Vibratlon-Wm. & H. H. baltimore.
DR.. warburg's Tincture-Get 1t At
RoWlinski's. 20" 'F
Hand Made--M. Wilensky.
Hotels and Summer Resorts-Hotel
Normandie, New York City.
Medical-Cascarets.
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10

In a small Missouri town there lives
a good deacon who, despite his harsh,
hoarse voice, always joins vociferously
in the singing at church, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. In the same
town is a little boy who has become
the proud possessor of a gorgeous
string of profanity, which he is very
fond of displaying. His mother, find
ing her arguments had no appreciable
effect in eXpurgating from the youth
full vocabulary the Objectionable words,
sent him to the deacon, in whom she
has all confidence, to see if the latter
could not put stop to the swearing
habit That dignitary pictured to the
boy the beauties of heaven in vivid
language and then told him that those
who take the Lords name in vain can
never enter there. The boy pondered
a moment
What do folks do in heaven, dea-
CON- he asked.
"Oh, play harps and sing"
Are you going there to play harps
and sing when you die, deacon?"
Il hope to, son. replied the deacon,
modestly.
Then what's hell like?" asked the
boy earnestly, after some thought.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-10
A BANK PRESIDENTS BIG FEE.

The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press gives an entertain
ing account of the way in which Jo-
seph c. Hendrix president of the Bank
of Commerce of that city, outgener-
allied a lot of the worlds greatest mill
lionaires and financlers, and compelled
them to pay him s25O,OOO to retire from
the presidency of the bank.
1t seems that some of the great life
insurance companies and one or more
of the big trust companies of New
York are interested in the Bank of
Commerce and the Western National
Bank. While Mr.. Hendrix was alb
sent in Europe on vacation, the
fnanciers and millionaires who are
interested in these banks, insurance
companies and trust companies PLAN
ned to merge the two banks. 1t is
well known of course that the Bank
of Commerce is one of the richest
in the world, it's stock being worth
several thousand dollars a share. on
Mr. Hendricks return from Europe he
found negotiations we'll under way.
He also learned that the president of
the Western National Bank was slated
for president of the merged institute
ton.
He at once set to work to find out
what strength he could muster among
the stockholders of his bank to pre-
vent the merger, and found that he
could secure enough to make his OPP
position quite formidable. 1t was the
understanding among the promoters
of the merger that Mr.. Hendrix would
be offered a few thousand dollars when
informed of the plan to merge the
two banks-that amount being con-
sidered sufficient to satisfy him for
the loss of his job.
They sounded his friends about the
matter and discovered that he
wouldn't consent to withdraw his OPP
position to the merger unless paid
S250,000. The financiers and million
aires thought the amount out of all
reason and they decided they would
simply proceed with their plans with
out taking Mr.. Hendrix into consid-
factor in their opinion.
But they were surprised to find that
he was of so much consequence that
they couldn't carry out their plans
without his consent. Then they de-
clared that the merging scheme was
off-they wouldn't pay any suoh fee.
But it seems they had gone too far
in carrying out their scheme to aban-
don it, and so they had to tell Mr..
Hendrix that his terms were accept
ed. So this man, who only a COM
paratively few years ago was a news
paper reporter in Brooklyn, got the
best of some of New York's ablest
fnanciers and at the same time pock-
eted a fee of $250,O00