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tell them am here, and claim the reward; it is
more than you need. And then afterward," he
paused for brief moment, look after the boy.'
The farmer rose and strobe up and down the
room. Don't ask me! Don't say any more!" he
exclaimed. Il couldn't It's blood money!!
The man looked at him curiously. Think! he
exclaimed. Sooner or later they will take me- |
cannot escape them always, and then the boy will
be uncared for. Now know he will be safe and 1
can gladly do what must do. Oh, man. mani" he
cried passonatey Il have counted the cost; I
must stand my punishment. But as you love the
God to whom you pray, do not make my load heavier
to bear!'
All that evening the farmer and the talked
in whispers. The following morning they had an
other talk and then the farmer hitched his horse
and drove away toward the village.
After he had gone the seemed happier and
stronger than he had been in many days. He man
aged to go for a rambe with the boy, and he talked
to him Of many things; of the high ambitions of his
boyhood, of the happy days of his married life, of
the boys mother. All his life the boy remembered
that talk and cherished his most blessed memory.
Then they returned to the house and went to their
room. There the made the boy go down upon
his knees and pray for himself and his father. When
he was done, his father took him in his arms and
temptations came would be forget his honor. He
was still holding the boy when there came knock
upon the door. The opened it, and seeing the
farmer there, stepped quickly into the hall and
closed the door behind him.
Evening star., 1906-09-09

"Wel1, he asked breathessly did you succeed?"
The farmer nodded. The men are waiting for
you down stairs now,' he answered
The man gasped, and for a weak moment leaned
against the wall.
The farmer motioned toward the room. Don't
you wish to say good-by?" he said.
NO. the man answered; Il can't bear any
more"
Then he gathered himself together and started
to descend Once he paused. You will keep your
promise?" he asked looking fxedly at the farmers
face.
The latter returned the gaze solemnly. Il WILL
SO help me God he replied.
That ALL Without another word the man
walked through the door and climbed into the
wagon in which some strange waiting.
AT once they drove him away, and sadly the farmer
turned and started up the stairs to the little boy
who sat waiting for his father to return.
You may know that the mans sacrifice was not
in vain, for there time when Tommy was
elected Governor of his State and honored by all
who knew him. 1t Tommy himself who told
me his fathers story. He had died in prison; but
Tommy had had the body removed to quiet
country churchyard, and placed over it stone with
the mans name, under which were these words
There is repentance more noble than innocence
ITSELF
AS we stood beside the grave when he had finished,
Tommy turned to suddenly and said He died
in prison convicted feon but 1 think he was as
good man ever lived
Evening star., 1906-09-09

E evolution of a copper penny
is a romantic story And yet
this statement, as referring to
what is about to be written, is
misleading, as it is cent
the half of a real penny-that
is under consideration, and the
material of the coin is bronze.
The earliest cents issued by
this Government, near the end
of the eighteenth century,
were ofpure copper-big cart
wheels, weighing two hundred
and sixty-four grains apiece.
1t was soon ascertained that
their worth as crude metal was
actually greater than their
coined value, and SO it was
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1t is said that single automatic machine COM
pany in New York city takes in half a million
pennies a day. Inasmuch there is hardly
crossroads village in the country that has not
chewing gum, kinetoscope, music, or weigh
ing machine operated in this way, the number
of coins required to keep them all going is
enormous. The for forty and ninety
innocent bargains makes lot of work for pen
nies. The penny newspapers have also increased
their demand
From the treasury record of the cents and nickels
now outstanding and unaccounted for, one gets
idea of the number of minor coins lost. Of
course, this account goes back to the beginning
of the issue of the old-time copper cents, speci-
mems of which rarely seen NOWADAYS
and of which there eXtant hundred and
eighteen million four hundred and five thousand
The quantity of metal represented by these
antquated coins, nearly all of which seem to have
been lost is enormous
What has become of them? Nobody knows
The remark applies to the old copper half
cent, of which three million nine hundred and
three thousand six hundred missing None
of these haf-cents in circulation now Grown
to-day remember the copper-nickel cents
which were marked with a flying eagle, but
nobody now. There are millions of
them out somewhere; but knows where
Long ago, the coinage of the bronze two-cent
pieces was discontinued, and yet to-day there
extant somewhere fifty-seven million five hun
dred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred of
them.
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Cost of Unstamped Money

RLANKS for nickels cost fourteen cents hundred,
~ and blanks for cents cost and three tenths
cents a hundred. They sent to the mint in
Philadelphia. where all minor coins made, and
each is struck with the design that gives to it
commercial standing.
Obviously, the evolution of the cent begins in
the copper mines. The metal comes from the de-
posits about Lake Michigan and from the neighbor-
hood of Butte, Montana. The ordinary smelling
processes applied to the ORE and the impurities
iron, lead, silver, and gold-separated. The puri
fed copper goes to dealers who have agents in all
big cities and is bought from these agents at market
rates by the firm in Waterbury, for about twelve
and one-half cents pound avordupois
At Waterbury the metal is mixed with an
alloy according to recipe prescribed by the Treas
ury Department at Washington, which is ninety
five per cent. copper, three per cent. tin and two
per cent. zinc. Pure copper is too SOFT but this
alloy, has been found, by long experiment, to be
wholly satisfactory. 1t is maeabe, not brittle,
and excelently retains its original polish
The copper, when purchased by the Waterbury
concern, is in the shape of bricks. These cut
into slices and pressed out under heavy roller into
strips the thickness of cent. These strips are
passed beneath punches that work rapidly up and
down, stamping out one by one, the little disks,
which fall into receptacle below. The disks after
being put into chemical bath are raked out and
transferred to revolving barrel full of sawdust
where they turned about until friction with the
Evening star., 1906-09-09
Melting Up Old Coins

A S fast as these old coins have come into the
treasury, they have been converted into those
of the style; but this has nothing to do
with the millions of pieces referred to as still
outstanding The old coppers, with the addition of
Evening star., 1906-09-09
By Julian Heatwo1e

sawdust rubs off their dull-hued unattractiveness
and they become bright and shining
In fact a box full of cent blanks newly manufac
tured, is pretty sight, the fresh copper disks
looking like SO much yellow gold. One might, in
deed, say that they look golden than the gold
itself inasmuch as copper, when bright and new,
has sheen more brilliant than that of gold.
The blanks fed to- machines, which mint
them at the rate of eighty minute, stamping by
dies both sides of the coin at once and automatically
disposng of one while receiving another. The COM
pleted pennies dropped into boxes beneath and
all that remains to be done is the counting of the
newly made pieces, which is done with marvellous
rapdity by the worker who thinks nothing of reckon
ing three thousand of them in thirty seconds He uses
a device known the counting board, which reckons
five hundred at time This is an inclined plane;
by metal partitions which, in height, exactly equal
the thickness of the coin. The cents are spread
over this board and drop into the grooves prepared
for them all surplus pieces falling Oft.
Value of Pennies by the Pound
nNE pound avordupois of the cent blanks makes
~ dollar and forty cents worth of pennies when
coined; in other words there are one hundred and
forty blanks to the pound. The blanks are shipped
to the mint in strong wooden boxes.
The stream of copper which flows out continually
from Philadelphia has history like that OF many
rivers in western deserts which are lost finally in the
sand. Nobody knows what becomes of the millions
millions of cents that are mlnted annually the
production varies from twenty-five million to ninety
million per annnnD; they simply vanish from sight
and are gone forever. The phenomenon
seems strange and is not easily accounted tor =
People say What becomes ~
of all the pns?" That is easily i 4 =
answered. Pins soon corrode, 4aENs
and thus are soon transformed L
into nothing that is recogniz-
able copper cent, the ssgN2s!y 81 81
other hand, is ndeStructble, E#ssaAax&Es
comparatively speaking. But fs@#sSXM8zs$N
the solution of the problem tkx%s EAHHEss117
seems to be that cents are sub EsS
ect to accidents than any Asiiss iT E2ssA gIa
other coins they change hands k2S5 E EfAgs$
ten times &Ssa9 eS&NsA ~
often as Dimes =. Ell HHssfAz4E'
for example, - T.; III Eas Ea
and, being of ,f5TNSA-s5 E3 HMSVHy.S EY
small value SiRSyi AFSNA u gsss9S1Esa %
they are not HA sSstta Ri sesss EssEsEsges szs.
cared for. 'fSgffS SSazy l'SSkSsS kzzssSs@E &9s
Thus it is S.Ssj4sa-I S ~ EIsiss sSSssSssssst
that the mint --sssssssss az-->r. AFsb bfE@ksSA NM
in Philadelphia M Esasj MI x2HS
is obliged to keep turn 49, SA%|3Sssf
ing out pennies at d }bS4tff5
average rate of about a AsS&SS
four millions month, EfgMs& IS
in order to keep up TssS# Z:
the supply. The pen Minted at the i3EfFHM .
ny-in- the slot machines Rate of Eighty @aEj
have greatly increased Minute ,y
the demand for cents. =
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deemed necessary to reduce their weight. IN 1898
this done, and the weight of the coin brought
to two hundred and eight grains, and three years
later the weight was again reduced to one hundred
and sixty-eight grains. The present current cent
weighs only forty-eight grains.
The fact is, that while the Government loses
money on its gold coinage, and gains more or less
on the silver pieces it issues, it comes out away
ahead the cents and nickels. Into gold eagle
for example, is put exactly ten dollars worth of the
in as hardening alloy, and the cost of mintng. A
silver piece of any denomination is half profit, all
expenses paid. But the profit the manufacture
these so-called minor coins-smooth disks of the
proper size and weght-are furnished to the Gov
ernment on contract by firm in Waterbury, Con-
necticut
Evening star., 1906-09-09

Cne requisite alloy OF
tin and zinc, have
been used for mint
ing new cents. The
same thing has been
done with the half
cents. The copper
nickel cents with the
flying eagle have
been melted down
and made into nick
els and pennies; they
were eighty-eight per
cent. copper and
twelve per cent. nick
el. The bronze two
cent pieces have been
made into ordinary
cents, the alloy being
the same; while the
old nickel three-cent
pieces have been
utilized for making
five-cent nickelS.
1t is a curious fact
Evening star., 1906-09-09

that up to 1886 there was no limit on
the cent as legal tender. One might
offer ten thousand cents in payment of a
debt of one hundred dollars. Since then,
however, the cent has been legal tender
only up to twenty-five cents.
Evening star., 1906-09-09

is obliged to keep turn
ing out pennies at an
average rate of about
four millions a month,
in order to keep up
the supply. The PEN
ny-in-the-slot machines
have greatly increased
the demand for cents.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

There is nothing so pleasant as that
bright, cheerful, at-peace-with-the-
world feeling when you sit down to
your breakfast. There is nothing so
conductive to good work and good
results. The healthy man with a
healthy mind and body is better
fellow, better workman, better
citizen than the man or woman who
is handicapped by some disability,
however slight. A slight disorder oi
the stomach will derange your body
vour thoughts and your disposition.
Get away from the morbidness and
and the blues. Keep your stomach IN
time and both your brain and body
will respond. Little indiscretions oI
cvereating can be easily corrected and
Won will be surprised to see how much
better man you are. Try q iUGle
Kodoi For Dyspe psia after your meals.
Sold BY Peoples Drug Store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01
Winners Laxative Syrup for all
Stomach Troubles.

DYSPEPSIA, heartburn, sour stomach,
hilliousness, sick headache and all
troubles originating from the stom-
ach and liver. To keep your liver ac-
tive means good health to you; II
adds tone and vigor to to the digest
i've organs and stimulates the liver
and kidneys to healthy action: lInol
satisfied after using one-half return
and get your money back. we guar
antee every bottle to do as we nave
stated above. Sold by Winner Drug
Co.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

You can rsee me poison Pine,ules
clears out of the kidneys ana plauaeI.
Al single dose at bedtime Will SLOW
YOU more poison upon rising, the nexI
morning than can be expelled from
the system in any other way. Plne-uies
dissolve the impurities, labrlcaUe uhe
Kidneys cleanse the bladder, relle,ye
main and do away with back-ache
speedily, pleasanently, permanently
Sold by, A. p. Owens.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

Prof. Tyler, of Amherst college, said
recently: ga man can live comfortably
without brains: no man ever existed
without a digestive system. The
dyspeptic has neither faith, hope or
charity Day bg day people realize
the Importance q caring for their
digestion; realize the need Of the use
of a little corrective after 0vereating.
A corrective like KOd0l For Dys-
pepsia. 1t digests what you eat. Sold
by Peoples Drug Store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

On account of international associa-
Jon Of Fire Engineers at Dallas, Tex
Is, October to II Frisco will sell
round trip tickets at rate Of one fare
plus $500 (S1O.OO). Dates of sale,
October 6 and I. Final return limit,
81 days from date of sale.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

Cramp colic, Cholera morbus, dysen-
tery summer complaint and especially
for children teething. Mothers, there
is nothing better to supply the gas
tric iuice in the stomach. Every Dol,
tie guaranteed If properly given, Full
direction on every bottle Sold only
by Winner Drug 90.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

From August to October the Frisco
will sell one way second class colonist's
tickets to almost any point in the
northwest at greatly reduced rates.
For rates, routing, etc, see Frisco
agent.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

WHY does the sun burn? Why does
mosquito sting? Why 90 we IeeI
unhappy in the Good Old Summer
Time? Answer: we don't. We use
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye, and
these little ills don't bother u.s.
Learn to look for the name on the box
to get the genuine. Sold by Peoples
Drug Store.
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Try US

Buy and Sell and Loan Money
Indian lands, Farms and Coffey-
n properties. If you wish to SELL,
g your property with US; if you wish
BUY or SECURE a loan, write for
+ Bargain List or Loan Circulation,
call at our Office.
Kansas Land Co.,
1lO f. Eighth Street,
Colleyville, Kans.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01
New Orleans Excursion

Account supreme lodge knights of
Igthias. Vinita to New Orleans and
6turn s2l 40 Dates ofsale; October 49,
X and Is. Final limit, October 80,
|ith privilege Of extension. Upon
|epositing ticket with special agent
\ New Orleans on or before October
q and upon payment Of fee Of so cents
ae of limit may be extended to
each starting point up to November
b. RI. A. Farthing, agent, M. X &
\
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pon,t Be Bloc

and lose all interest when help is
within reach. Herbine will make
that liver perform it's duties properly.
]. B. Vaughn Elba., Ala, writes;
"Being constant sufferer form
constipation and a disordered liver, |
have found Herbine to be the best
medicine, for these troubles OF the
|Karket. / have used it constantly.
II believe it to be the best medicine OF
|lts kind, and / wish all sufferers from
these troubles to know the good Her.
|bine has done me-" Sold by People s
Drug Store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

M. T. Lynch, Editor Of the Phillip
bnrp. N. j., Daily Post, writes: Il
have used many kinds Of medicines
for coughs and colds in my family Du1
never anything as good as Foley s
Honey and Tar. ! cannot say zoo
much in praise Of it." A. P. Owens.
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DO you want to keep posted? Sub
:cribe for The Chieftain and have the
news of the world delivered at your
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week, that's all.
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CITIZENSHIP CLAIMS

If you have citizenship claim PEN
ding and are not yet enrolled, or nave
before the Interior Depart
ment, write Immediately to William
w. Wright, registered attorney, Cor
coran Building, Washington, d. ..
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Kansas Land 90.
CoffeYville, Kans.

The Frisco will. sell tickets to
Cloudcroft, N. NJ, daily until Sep
tember 81 atrate Of one fare plus tifty
cents. Final return limit October 81.
See Frisco agent.
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Kansas Land Company's New
Addition


Lots lay high, and beautiful,
and close to the business
part of Coffeyyllle; within easy walk
inc distance of Fruit Jar Factory,
Excelsior Plant, Paper Mill, Pottery,
Oil Refinery, M. X. & T.. and Santa
Fe Depots, and only five blocks from
School Buildings; have water and gas
and sewer Accommodations, and on the
proposed street car line. Prices, sl2o.
90 to 100000. Terms: one-hfth cash,
balance $1,000 per month"; You can
make from FIFTEEN to FIFTY per
cent on your money invested In this
property.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-09-01

Children like Kenuedy's Laxative
Honey and Tar. The plea santesU auo
best cough syrup to- take, because u
contains no opiates. sold by Peoples
Drug Store.
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LOCAL NOTES

N. S. Waldrop OF near Big CaDih
was in the city today,
Fresh Candy every hour at the Sill
yermoon Candy Kitchen.
Andy Hampton, postmaster at
White Oak, was here today,
Sanitary Plumbing, steam and hot
water heating. Nipp Bros.
Theo. B. Frear is one Of the Demo-
cratic speakers at Welch today.
Try some of those cream carmels at
the Silvermoon Candy Kitchen.
William Hearod Of near White OAK
transacted business in the city today.
A marriage license was issued this
morning to Harry Rice and Miss
Florida Terry, both Of Chelsea.
Chieftain wants are little pilots
that steer big things into business
Try one; only one cent word.
Mrs. f. M. Lewis and daughter
Winnie have returned from a visit
with relatives at Franklin, Neb.
The Modern Woodmen of the In
dian Territory will hold their next
annual meeting next year at Tulsa.
A. B. Watson returned yesterday
from New York City where he pur-
chased large invoice of goods for
his racket store.
w. e. Halsell, who has been con-
fined to his home by sickness for
several days. was able to be down
town yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Fahrney, Mr. and Mrs.
Bullock and Mrs. J. o. Wolfe went to
Alton this morning to attend the
me citing of the Grand River Baptist
association.
Lee McCamish, deputy marshal at
Grove, came in this morning with
Blue Runabout, wanted for having
forged Lee Barrett's name to prom
lssory note for S25.
John d. Mars and John Mead re-
turned this morning from Sloan
Springs, Ark, where they have beer
playing baseball for the latter part 81
the summer. Sloan had an excel
Ilent independent team.
The auditorium company has not
vet nsceiyed1 the plans for The
protected casino and bathing pool
The architects in st. Louis yesterday
pnoned, however, that the plans would
be here the first of the week.
The advisory board Of the Modern
Woodmen selected at Muskoget
Thursday, for the ensuing year Is
Icomposed Of G. M. Swanson, Musko
gee; DIR. Deziil Hawley, Tulsa; DR.. J
w. Craig, vinita, and @. e. Hunt
Wagner.
A clipping from the Denver Posi-
Iconveys the information that II. L
McClintock, a brother Of the edito
of Thes Chieftain, has just been ad
Imitted to the bar of Colorado. Oul
of a class of a hundred or more exam
ined for admission this spring HI
stood first.
Rev. W. M. Kendall of Ardmore ar
rived in the city today and will assis
Rev. w. f. Dunkle in revival services
during the coming week. He will
preach tomorrow night in the Metho
dist church. Although blind, Mr.
Kendall is counted one of the bes
preachers in his denomination. HI
is a young man.
Rev. J. E. Wolfe of Gwendale i:
now in Liverpool, Eng, and his bro
ther, J. o. Wolfe, has had word from
him concering evangelistic services
held on the piers there attended b.
many men and women. Rev. Wolfe
besides preaching, is collecting fund
for the Murrow orphan home a
Atoka.
A press dispatch from Muskoge
Estates that Grant Victor has selected
1.-THE following executive campaign
committee for the Republicans Of tn
Indian Territory: William Busby
Ichairman, South McAlester; +. G
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IChIeftain wants are little pilots
lat steer big things into business.
one; only one cent a word.