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The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Clean streets and sidewalks would be the best invest
ment that could possibly be made.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Don't let the movement to pave Wilson street stop
until it is dors.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

The relative strength Of Muskokee and the United
States is undergoing practical test
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

The white ntermarried citizens are as numerous as
ever.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Was Togo's visit to RojestTensky and praise for his
glorious bravery irony
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Some of the Commercial cubs's twenty proposition
are still unfulflied.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

II Togo should come TO st. Petersburg.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

Morning Glory butter 25c per lb.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-06-08

1t is now Oyama's move.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

40 We were able, trying to mako M
other foot touch the ground or get MINI
to loose his thumb from the buttonhole.
The instant he did SO he had no right to
whack us, SO that we chased him back
to his place, but If, while hopping, ne
managed to hit one Of us, both had to
fly home and hand in hand sally forth
to whack and be whacked. Very soon the
row of prisoners would number as many
as the free, but only the two end men
were free to use their kAouts, while we
could whack at will at the whole line,
especially at their Joined hands, to break
them.
Singlestick fencing was practiced with
few rules, and we had free whacking
matches besides. Skinny, now hockey,
was played in the streets and on the ice;
the only rule remember was Look out
for your own shins and smash all 9TH
ers." Our football wasnever brutal.
In our walks along the busy streets In
holiday hours, three or four in group,
it was our custom to set each othe:
"craddies, such IS this: We would
agree that the first one who should spy
a tall white hat on mans head, would
be entitled to give each OF the rest three
good thumps, unless they were quick
enough to spit (pretend to) over their
left little finger, These seemingly silly
games proved to have been an Invaluable
training in mental and physical alert
ness, the sugar-coated pills of practical
education, worth much more than half
of the book grinding drudgery we had to
endure
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
PREFER NIGHT TRAVEL.
Left to Their Own Inclination Hogs
Make Their Journeys During the
Cool Of the Night.

The Arizona Republican says the
hogs were corn fed and exceptions
ally fat. They were started for town
during the day, but by the time they
reached a point little less than .
mile from home many OF them were
unable to continue the journey, and
the march was stopped. During the
cool OF the evening they were taken
back home.
A hog is foolish thing, and In go
ing few miles many frequently take
unnecessary steps, thus making the
distance much longer than it really
is. This partly accounts for their be-
coming so hot such short way from
their starting point. They were al
lowed to spend the night at home, but
the next night the trail was taken up
again.
This time after dark, or rather after
shutdown, for it was almost as light
as day, from the moon. The hogs
seemed to be delighted with the new
order of things, and the way they
capered to town was a caution. It was
almost all the drivers could do to keep
up with them. They gave no trouble
whatever and reached the shipping
yards in fine shape.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
What We Call Accidents.

/: The number of accidents attended
with increasing loss Of life moves the
Cincinnati Enquirer to moralize on the
subject, in the course Of which 1t lays
stress on the term accident. 1t asks
IL in too many cases what we call &C.
cident is not, in fact, the violation OF
some law on our part which greater
vigilance would prevent. 1t says:
MAN and nature have united to make
the last few days period OF disas-
tiers appalling in number and results.
Miners in large numbers have been
suffocated, travellers by the score in
different parts OF the country have
been bruised, scalded and slaughtered,
and in the west whole towns have
been wrecked and their inhabitants
mutilated and slain by cyclones.
Exemption from disaster by storm ana
food, by earthquake and volcano, it is
not likely we shall ever attain, though
the danger from them can doubtless
be much diminished as we advance IN
knowledge, and in our control OF nat
ural forces, but everything should be
done to check the fearful loss OF life
and widespread injury that come
about by what we call accidents, but
which are as a m3tter of fact the re-
suIt of the violation of some law on
our part, which increasing vigilance
and care will more and more enable
ms to avoid"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

true story of a bank casnler whose
speculations with the money OF the
bank that employed him were to the
profit of the institution although the
cashier himself gained nothing through
mis- deals. The story is accurate IN
every particular, and the man who fig
ares in it under the name OF Brown"
is q millionaire well known IN
Chicago and New York. He is called
Brown for the reason that his name is
something else.
When he was IA years of age and at
tended q winter school in backwoods
district in New York state he fractured
some rule of the school into glittering
fragments. Diplomatic intercourse be-
tween Brown and his teacher was rup-
tured at once. Open war followed, with
the result that the strong armed peda-
gogue beat the boy nearly to death. IT.
respective Of whatever Brown might
have deserved in the administration of
hickory oil, the thrashing he received
was unnecessarily brutal and violent.
Brown, however, was not the boy to sui
fer for nothing when there was profit
in sight. His father was dead, and he
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
IN THE CIVIL WAR
These Patriotic Societies Did Valiant
Service for the Country of
Their Adoption.

The first turner societies in the United
States were founded in Philadelphia
and Cincinnati in 1848, and shortly
after the New York Turnyerein had its
start in, Hoboken, writes Ralph D..
Paine, in Outing Two years later
ten societies were fourishing, and
these were formed into national
turner union. The revolutionary
spirit which blazed fiercely in Ger
many in 1848 was crushed for the time
and many patriots of superior educa-I
ton and intelligence fed to this cOIn-Z
try as an asylum. They were strangers
in a strange land unable to coMmu-
nicate with the native born, and s0-.
ciability was limited to 1ntercGurse
with their own countrymen.
They had been turner's at home, us
ing this organization as nursery OF
patriotism, in which high ideals OF po-
litical, social and religious progress
were cherished, together with the
training of the body for the hardsnips
of the field and camp. This ideal Of
classic times, wisely reincarnated in
modern Germany to serve q nations
needs, was transplanted to the United
States by the fortune of war. The.
turner societies aroused some an
tagonism, based on the specious claim
that they were an attempt to create
a state within state, and to keep
the Germans apart from the life
around them. This contention WIS
magnifcently shattered little more
than a decade after the first turner's
were organized in this country.
When the civil war began these Ger
man citizens of the United States vol
unteered in such numbers that in New
York turner regiment was enlisted
and sent to the front under Col Max
Weber. The Ninth Ohio was another
regiment of turner's, from Cincinnati,
and in Philadelphia and st. Louis
turner's filled the ranks Of regiments
which did not have the distinctive
name Gen. Sigel commanded several
thousand turner's in his force, and was
their idol, for he had been q leader
Of the turner bund in his own land,
and was one OF the fighting revclu-s
tionary commanders who led his army
into Switzerland and there disbanded
it after the cause was lost.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Misfortune Makes Character.


Pain is soul tonic. Sorrow often
brings out the best there is in US. Hap
piness does not develop character. 1t
gives it surface brightness and decks
1t with prismatic bubbles, says Medical
Talk. 1t takes the deep-reaching arm
of misfortune to trouble the depths
and bring out the pearls that lie there.
The most magnetic faces are lined by
thought and noble care. Strong, un-
selfish love, even If misplaced and I'M
appreciated, ennobles the lover. 1t is
the frivolous, vanity-born emotions
that fritter away character and make
faces insignificant. To fail in high
aim after earnest and honest effort
81 not failure. The gain it brings in
strength and discipline will appear in
other directions. Misfortune has
often in the history of the world been
the means of making a poet, orator,
philanthropist, scientist Or statesman
out of person whose career, but for
the misfortune or physical disability,
would have been commonplace and in
Auence limited.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Man Of Mark.


When Police Commissioner McAdoo,
Of New York, was a member of con-
gress he paid visit to Virginia
town not far from Washington. As he
was having his shoes shined at the
tavern very pompous individual
strobe around the place for minute
and stalked out.
Who's that?" inquired Mr.. McAdoo,
much amused. Does he own the
town."
Oats Kunnel George Washington
Blustah, sir" said the darby with the
brush.
..Well, he acts mighty large, doesn't
hep
''Oh, yes, suh," grinned the darby.
de kunnels de mos ambiguous pus-
son we's got leah, sub. - Cleveland
Leader. I
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
The immigration Problem,

notwithstanding immigration brings
again to the public mind the question
OF regulating the importation Of hui
man beings. It is matter of degree,
says Golfers Weekly. To close our
country to all intending citizens from
Europe is proposed by no one. To
leave it open entirely without restric-
zion would not be defended either.
The present laws are generally
deemed too lax. When our immi-
grants came from England. Germany.
Ireland and Scandinavia, the question
was a very different one. No: only
was the quality better; the number
was smaller, the need of population
greater and the purposes animating
the newcomers higher. Now they are
In large measure ignoran. tools OF cor
pOrations in America and government
agents on the other side. When they
get here they live in colonies and are
slow to amalgamate. During 1904 the
number was S12,S70. and the record
will apparently be broken in 1905.
"The west and SOUTH" as one objector
puts 1t, now alone constitute the only
truly American portions of the nation.
South of Mason and Dixon's line and
west of the Mississippi-that's where
you must look to find Americans. AS
the early pioneers drove the Indian
from the east to the west, so now are
the hordes of southern Europe drlv-
ing the Yankee toward the setting
sun"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Land Of Twins and Triplets.

Scotland is the land of twins and
triplets, holding long lead over her
sister countries in this matter. In IL
months no fewer than .1,625 mothers
gave birth to twins and rs presented
triplets. Scotland is among the few
countries of Europe where the proper
ton of male babies is greater than Of
females. Striking an average, it il
found that there are about 1O4 males
to every 100 females, but the sur
plus Of grown-up girls is nevertheless
large, as SO many men travel south
and apparently neglect to take the pre-
caution to obtain return tickets to
the land of cakes. There is yet an
other interesting fact about Scotland.
1t is the land of the hale old age. Re-
cent returns show that during one
year 673 people died between the ages
of 80 and 10O.-Chicago Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

was his own champion, fact which in
all probability enabled him to gain his
financial start in the world. He visited
a lawyer in the town, to whom he told
his story and showed his bruises. The
attorney brought suit for him against
the school teacher aud recovered a YER
dict of $1,000, which was compromised
by the teacher for $500. Having attained
this sum, Brown deemed his education
complete, gave up the school end
launched into business for himself. He
made money steadily, and within ten
years was the proprietor of shoe job
bing establishment in small town near
Boston, working 18 hours day. saving
about all that he made, and climbing
rapidly toward the goal of wealth he had
marked out for himself.
One OF his closest friends was the
cashier of the bank in.which he kept his
account They were both young men,
both wildly ambitious to make money
and to make 1t quickly. They had many
traits in common, but when it came to
nerve, Brown, as between the two, had
the market cornered. 1t was IN the days
before the stenographer and tE< type
writer, and Brown was one night
scratching away at his correspond
when the cashier ratified the latch on
his Office door. He was admitted, and
lost no time in declaring his mission.
''1'm IN trouble, Brown, and I want
your help"
Money or advice!" queried the eau
tious Brown.
Both
'I've plenty Of the latter said
Brown, but haven't so much OF the
drst: but I'll do what can. What's the
trouhle1"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
BA11ADE OF PATIENCE

It doesn't do to take offense
At each imaginary slight
A man will show a heap more sense
IT he can rein his temper tight.
OF course, he may be in the right;
Hio patience may be sorely tried:
But then there is no use to fight
Just let 1t Slide
You may see through a thin pretense
That's made with clear, unclouded sight
You may have solid evidence
That black is black and white is white
But then you need not spread your Ngn1
OF intellect too far and wide.
Don't contradict the blatherskite-
Just let it slide. @
We learn by long experience
That nothing goes to suit us quite:
We meet with ecorn and insolence
And silly SANDER, wrong and spite.
We sometimes rise up in our might
And vow we will not be decried;
But barking dogs will seldom bite
sJust let it slide.
L'Enyoi:
If some one has been impolite
Enough your efforts to deride,
Don't let it spoil your Appetite
Just let it slide.
Chicago Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Untidily Dressed Nnrsas.

There is no doubt that proportion
of nurses, whose training is anim-
peachable, do not dress as trinity as
they might when they are out-of-doors.
If unqualified persons dishonor the
uniform by appropriating it withou.
right, those who are entitled to the
uniform should honor it by wearing il
becomiEgly.-London Hospital.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

prof. ]. D. Quackenbos. formerly .
.-ofossor In Columbia university ana
an authority on hypnotism. says he be-
,,aves the success Of Marshal Oyama In
.ha present Manchurian campaign Is
Ana to his hynotic power and highly
cultivated knowledge OF telepatny.
p rs ouackenbos says these faculties
500 heen responsible for the success
=. i, great military commanders from
Alexander to Oyama. At the same time
:. !. not beyond the bounds OF reason to
:. S,,n,,oae that good shooting has helped
some.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Raped and Didn't Know Il

Dumley-I never saw man like Brix-
ton to drift away from the subject under
discussion.
Barrass-As for instance?
Dumley-I just asked him what he
was doing the night saw him down the
road, and he evaded an answer by re-
marking that he had known people to
get rich by attending to their own bust
ness. have no doubt he has; but why
should he mention It at that time Chi.
cago Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
A Profitable
ENLIGHTENMENT
= r is the generally

/ is the SeuSIdiAy
accepted t b e or y
that the majority
of bank officials
and of other peo-
pie who speculate
with money not
their own are GER
tain to go down to
everlasting smash,
financially, as well
as morally. 1t is
impossible to deter
mine how large the
percentage is, for
the reason that
nothing is ever
heard of the men
who speculate and
who win OUT 1t
is only the losers
who come to the
notice of the pub
lie. This is the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

when we stop to consider the millions
md millions Of foreigners VINO nave
.ome ia America and have become loyal
.nd nrosperous citizens, the results as
.onish even the keenest students OF So
S.s,oav savs Joe Mitchell Chapel in the
r5.,ional Magazine. The remaking OF
-.t;ues az half a dozen countries into
american citizens is no small undertake
ing, and involves constant succession
- economic sacrifices on the part OF
chose already engaged In our industries
+hat 10 the highest degree honorable to
4heir unselfish humanity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

How Bride Money Is Transferred to
Purchased Legislators in Poker
Games-The Betting Ingredient
A "Stake-Holder" Who Decamped
A Lobbyists Clever Betting
Manoeuver-An Envelope Deliv-
cred to Wrong Party = Few
"squealers."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

/ In breaking down the barriers between
che sexes the women are beginning to
practice toward men the same impolite-
ness that they formerly reserved for
each other. Men no longer as rule
Give up their seats in street cars to wom-
an hecause they have been taught by
nainful experience that the women as
!. class no longer appreciate the couf-
tesv In doing so, says the Kansas City
Io,rnal they are rarely rewarded with
eyen a glance and almost never word
!, thanks. The man who lifts his hal
,vhan he offers his seat is often frozen
nth a stare which implies doubt as to
his sanity or his motives: The time may
-. -. come when the man who lifts his ha:
- . woman except upon society dress
parade viii be regarded with contempt
for his mental softness.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15
Or Goes out.

The torch Of truth wanes dim when
the winds Of opposition die Chicago
Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-15

per to be brought forward as an ac-
cuser or witness. And it will be
found that most boodling transactions
which are brought to light are given
publicity first over a bar. Some one
gets drunk ana talks 1t is seldom
that any letter, telegram or written
paper of any kind is brought forward
in court to testify against beodler.
=
For some years there reposed in the
safe of a high state official an en-
velope. common manila paper en-
velope, which contained five 500 bills.
This envelope, carefully sealed. was
found by member of the house on
his desk in the legislative hall
Across the envelope ives written his
last name. He opened tt and found
the enticing new bills sle belonged
to the unpurchasable, but member
Of the same house, bearing the same
name, was looked Upon with some sus-
picion. The mar who found the en-
velope on his desk sought out the
other man and offered him the en-
velope. The "other" man indignant
ly denied that the money was for
him and refused to accept the en-
velope. That evening the "other"
man was heard soundly lecturing .
well-known lobbyist for his fool ac-
ton" in giving the right envelope to
the wrong person. The man ON
whose desk the envelope was placed
turned it over to the state official and,
no one claiming the money, sfter
some years it was turned into the
conscience fund" of the state treas
urer. There is where the envelope
method worked the wrong way.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
JUSTICE FOR POLAND.

Poland, like Ireland, has been de-
prived of it's once sovereign power
In many respects the history of the
two countries has run in parallel lines.
The partition of Poland has been re-
ferred to by historians as the greatest
crime of modern times. Like the
Irish, the Poles have never been con-
quered. They have been overwhelm-
ed by superior forces but in spirit
they have never surrendered. The
enemies of Poland have tried to justi-
fy the deprivation of eighteen million
Poles of the right of self-gov.
ernment by the plea that the Poles
never were able to successfully gov
ern themselves. 1t is said that when
Poland was sovereign power it was
faction-riven and anarchy prevailed.
Is not that the same plea which has
been made against the Irish by Eng
land? In many other respects does
the case of Poland resemble that of
Ireland. 1t seems now at last that
Poland is to receive Il measure OF JUS
tice through the present constitutional
and liberal movement in the Russian
Empire. The recent DEGREES of the
Gar in relation to Poland are certain
ly full of promise and encouragement
Many of the restrictions and disabili-
ties of that people have been removed.
Rights for which Polish reformers
have been working for years have
now been allowed at one sweep. The
Poles have been granted the right to
acquire landed property. The Polish
and Lithuanian languages are to be
taught once more in the primary
schools, and regulations which were
heretofore enforced for the purpose
of the classification of Poland have
been abrogated. The Car has di-
rected that laws outlined in his de-
cree shall be formulated within six
months. The assemblies of the Pol
ish mobiles have been re-established
and there is reason to believe that a
new era has dawned for Poland.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
THE CATHOLIC PAPER.
1t Ought to Be Welcome Weekly

1t Ought to Be a Welcome Weekly
Guest in Every Catholic Home.
The solemn injunction laid by our
Lord upon His apostles of preaching
the Gospel to all the nations is u
matter quite familiar to every Catho-
lie, says the Church Progress. To the
limits Of their power and the time
allotted them on earth they complied
in the fullest measure with the divine
command. But the task was not to
cease with their death. The Gospel
was also to be preached to the yet un-
born generations. Otherwise our Sa-
vior's passion and death would be in
vain. Hence He impaired to them
the power of consecrating their sue
cessors, who in unbroken line are the
bishops and priests of our own day.
Today, however, much Of the world
sits in the shadow of idolatry. Heresy
stalks boldly where the truth once
reigned, and false teachers have led
AAAAAOAo away AACO CAAOASOuS AOIAOAS
Of our Lords sacred doctrines. Our
own beloved country has not escaped
the contamination. In the beautiful
southland live a multitude of souls
to whom Gods proper Gospel is al
most as much unknown as it is to
their ancestors in the interior of Afri-
ca. In the west, southwest and other
sections conditions, though not SO bad,
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Of their hearers, at such time of the
day as they may deem most conven-
lent for the people, but not during the
hour in which the children are taught.
In this instruction they are to make
use of the Catechism of the Council
of Trent, and they are to divide the
matter in such way as within the
space of four or five years to treat of
the apostles creed, the sacraments,
the Lords prayer and the precepts of
the church.
While these regulations will give
the pastors of congregations and their
assistants more exacting duties to
perform, the work can be made easier
by calling to their assistance intel
ligent and pious lay persons who will
De found competent and ready to
teach the catechism to the children
and even to adults who are in need
of such instruction.
Nothing that the Holy See has
promulgated in recent years will be
so beneficial to the church as the car
rying out of these regulations.