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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

The new Pure Food and Drug Law
will mark it on the label of every
Cough Cure containing Opium. Chloro-
form, or any other supplying or
poisonous drug But it passes DR..
Shoop's Cough Cure as made for 20
years. entirly free Or. Shoop all
along has bitterly opposed the use of
all opiates or narcotics. DIR. Shoop's
Cough Cure is absolutely safe even
for the youngest babe-and it cures, Il
does not simply suppress. Get a safe
and reliable cough cure, by simply IN.
sisting on having Dr. Sh0op's. Let
the law be your protection. We cheer
fully recommend and sell it. Sold ~
MaHarney & Mye rs.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

1t is a well known medical fact that
pine resin is most effective in the
treatment of the diseases of the blad-
der and kidneys. Sufferers from back
ache and other troubles due to faulty
action of the kidneys find relief in the
use of Pine-ules. S1.00 buys 30 days
treatment. Sold by A.. p. Owens. 3m
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01
OMINOUS.

G. N Haskell leader Of the Democrats, and Henry
Asp leader Of the Republican minority clashed In de-
bate in the convention the other day the question
Of printing and after good part of the afternoon had
been spent in discussion Asp Is the octopus get
ting its tentacles on the Democrats already?
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

to yours horses as we'll as to yourself.
You need not suffer from pains OF any
sorU-@your horses need not suffer.
TRY a bottle Of Ballard's Snow Lini-
ment. 1t cures all pains. j. NJ. Ro-
berts, Bakersfield, Mo, writes: II
have used your Liniment for ten
years and find it to be the best have
ever used for man or beast. Sold by
Peoples Drug Store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01
Nrr. Retired Farmer.

Don't you want a business that viii keep you
busy in your town, and is easy besides making
good money. Start Billiard Room andr ~ ~ ~
a plaee of amusement: not as q gambling joint Get
a good location and write usi we will sell you
tables on easy terms Our tables usually pay Tor
themselves in six months.
X. {. Billiard Table mfg. Co..
s2llS25 Maiu.st Kansas city'-Mo'
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

Thirty-flve residence lots, adjoininI
the Electric park for sale. $3.50
each. $40. down and $40 per month
Ten per cent off for cash. This give
cur citizens of small means an opp0r
tunity to get a home. Every lot will
double in value in 6 6months.
Aft DIR. WILLIAMS, Phone 224-
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

Bees Laxative Honey and Tar the
original laxative cough syrup acts as
a cathartic on the bowels. Ii IS MADE
from the tar gathered from the pine
trees of our own country, therefore IS
the best for children. IL is good 1or
coughs, colds, Group, whooping cougn
etc. Try our free offer. Sold by Az
Owens, 5m
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

Think of DR.. Shops catarrh cure
If your nose and throat discharges-if
your breath is foul or feverish. This
snow white soothing balm contains
OH Of Eucalyptus, Thymol, Menthol,
etc, incorporated into an imported,
creamlike, velvety petrolatum. Ii
soothes, heals, purdes .and controls.
Call at our store for free trial box.
Sold bY McHarney g Myers.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

lust what is in Cascasweet ison the
bottle In plain English. Best for baby's
stomach bowels, and loss OF sleep.
so doses 25 cents. Sold by MaHarney q
Meyers and the Peoples drug store.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01

A sour stomach, bad BREATH a
pasty complexion and other consequent
ces of a dlsordered digestion are
quickly removed by the use of Ring's s
Dyspepsia Tablets Two days treat
ment free. Sold by A. p Owens. 3m
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-12-01
THE MARKETS
Daily Report Of Current Prices
in Vinita
PRopuCE

Quotations furnished by the Vinita
Produce company:
Country butter. .................. lie
Eggs, per doz ................. .. 2lc
Hens, per b................ ~. &c
Old roosters, each ...........lO each
Springs, per ID. b.....................7tc 7tc
Turkeys, per lb....... .....l lc
Geese, per ID. b.............. ....... oc
Ducks, per b.. ............ &c
Green salt hides, per lb.......9 to S4c
GRAIN
Daily grain market quotations fur
nished by the Frisco Mill Co.:
White corn, per bu. u...............28 28c
Yellow corn, per bu.. 49,. ......2Sc
Wheat, 60 test. t....................6 6Oc
Oats, per bu.. ....................z &c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
.LAyHA WKER JOTS

Abilene comes up with two tomatoes
weighing two and a half pounds and
growing on a single stem.
An lola merchant has gone clear over
to Germany to purchase novelties Tor
his store, although he could buy better
ones at home.
Anna Carlson tells this story in the
Iindsborg News: A travelling man re-
ceived a telegram from his wife the
other day which read. Twins came
last night; more by mall The travel
ing man hunted up the nearest tele-
graph Office and sent the following:
Coming on first train. If any more
come by mail refuse them and have
them sent to the dead letter Office
Homer Hoch is responsible for this:
Cy Knocker was sitting on a box in
the shade Of the corner grocery Tues
day afternoon discussing various mat
tiers of public and private interest with
the faithful who are gathered there,
when the subject of women's clubs
came up. Cy launched into the subject
in a way that indicated that he had
given it much study. He declared that
he was dead against EN-. He said that
all the women did was to go and talk
and talk and talk, when they ought to
be home attending to their work And
ICY soon showed that he knew from ex-
/ perience what he was talking about.
| Said that he wouldn't say word
against his woman for she did the best
she knew how, but that she went and
wasted one afternoon every two weeks
attending the Missionary society meet
/ in. and even did 1t right at the time
when she didn't have half the weeds
/ in the garden cut And three weeks ago
/ she went off on picnic with this Mis-
sionary CLUB and never watered the
horse and the animal didn't have a drop
I all day long. Said he guessed he
oughtn't to have told that on his wo-
man, but that he was so out of patience
with women's clubs that he. almost for
got himself. Cy certainly made a
/ mighty strong argument. When he had
/ finished he closed his knife put it in
| his pocket, took chew from his Star
and said he guessed it was about time
| to 20 and feed Said he reckoned his
woman had the ironing done by that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

ment and perplexity that the girl could
not prevent a smile.
Can-can I say anything to explain
this unfortunate occurrence ?" he
begged.
Nothing except that you wanted to
shoot me-
But you know I didn't. You know
that hadn't the slightest idea of your
presence. I came out here to-to--''
ITO shoot my uncle. I infer that
you are stopping with the sailor, and
hearing of the little dispute of a few
days ago you volunteered your SER
vices as assassin Very kind Of you,
I'm sure"
Mr.. Lee looked at the girl in q help
less way He didn't believe there were
words enough in the English language
to set him right, and yet he felt a
great longing to be forgiven. She
maintained a saucy, accusing front for
a minute. and then melted enough to
say:
Il see my uncle coming in search Of
me, and If you don't slay him you may
explain things to his satisfaction
A track man would have made It g.
100 to 1 shot against, but he would
have lost. It took a year and more to
do 1t, and there was Captain Golden
to placate as side-issue, but the "as-
sassin" has become a devoted husband,
and the ''skulker'' is a loving wife, and
the two old men walk arm in arm
through the shrubbery and find no ex-
cuse for quarreling.-(C Copyright 10 O6,
by E c. Parcells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Iron the chicago News. ]

From the Chicago News
Only a foolish person is sensitive to
the ridicule of a fool.
Is the experience you have acquired
worth what it cost?
Even a man who is color blind
knows when he's feeling blue
Nine-tenths of mans so-called
dignity is nothing but bluff.
Failing in love is easy. but climbing
out again-aye. there's the rub.
Once in a great while the voters get
careless and elect an honest man.
A patent medicine testimonial occa-
sionally thrusts greatness on a small
man.
What man would call "enthu-
siasm' as applied to himself he dubs
tgush" in others
He is indeed a mean man who will
not add to a woman's happiness by
telling her she is good looking
In order to jibe with the eternal
fitness OF things marriage certificates
should be printed on bond paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
Houston Post.

The bonanza kings built up San
francisco in the grand manner They
were a different race from the Pho
neers-less simple. less frank. and not
so broad; a more astute. complex
breed. But they were equally daring,
II they dared in a different way and
for other ends. They were men of
large grasp, who swept broad hor-
lion; humbly born, but gigantically
aspiring; in youth cramped and con-
fined by ignorance and poverty, in
maturity determined to square things
by recognizing no restriction of God or
man. They were the first far west
ern millionaires, the first money kings
and they rose to the requirements Of
their vast possessions with confident
ease, carrying bewildered wives and
children with them. A boundless self
reliance, a gallant fearlessness, a
bold joy in the hazards of the game,
marked them. They were born to
win-conqueror of destiny, before
whom fortune halts and capitulafes.
They were great spenders. The pri-
Vations OF youth had taught them
economies, but had stimulated in them
the desire to atone for the lean years
of the past by the abundance of the
present. They came down from gray,
sterile Nevada and poured out their
treasures to make San Francisco a
worthy market wherein rich men
might magnificently take their pleas
ure. On the crest of the line of hills
that bristled across the city they
raised great mansions in which lux
uriously to end their days, saying, like
their biblical prototype, Now. soul,
take thine ease" Works of art were
brought fom Europe, and decorators
from New York, that the Nevada
miner might be as artistically and as
magnificently housed as the million
aires of an older and more sophisti-
Gated east.-Geraldine Bonner, in The
Reader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
KANSAS COMAENT
WHOSE STEER IS IT2

When a butcher buys a steer he thinks
the money he has put into it gives him
a right to the steer. The facts now are
that he has few rights in that steer
His ownership is merely nominal the
people are his partners. It was not 50
a few years ago. but now the people and
the butcher own the steer in cahoots.
The government is growing. Instead OF
letting the butcher do anything ne
pleases with his steer the government
says that If 1t IS a sick steer it cannot be
killed for food. When the steer is kill
ed even if it is a sound and healthy
steer the government says that the
butcher shall not use preservatives 20
keep the meat long enough to sell it, II
the sales are slow. If he desires to can
the meat of the steer, he is not allowed
to spice it up, and call 1t boned chicken
or potted ham or anything but beef
More than that the house in which he
kills the steer must be plumbed and
have wash rooms and water closets
away from the meat cutting room and
the butcher is not allowed to employ a
man who has consumption. Thus does
society assert it's rights in the steer
There is no private property in this
country any more. The laws are maxi
ing US all partners. This is a growing
oyernment.-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

is a ''jumped-up' candidate who is per-
suaded to run by the politicians merely
to divide "Bs" vote. If one Jumped
up" candidate isn't enough others are
secured, and IA gets the nomination,
although in a straight contest between
/ a, and b or between a and &c >,
the former would be overwhelmingly
defeated. He is not the choice Of the
people.
This sort of manipulation is well
known to those who make politics a
profession, and it would be just as easy
for the politicians to win in primary
like that as in a convention. There is
little choice between them.
Another objection urged against such
a primary. applied to state, is that 1t
would aid the railroads to control nonni-
nations in this way. The railroads have
representatives in every county in tha
state. men of standing and influence.
It would take large sum of money
and months of time for the ordinary
candidate to visit every county and get
acquainted with the people. while the
railroad machine. working secretly pro-
badly. would have a big advantage in a
field Of three or more candidates. With
influential politicians right on the
ground IN each county the railroads
would win every time.
The State Journal has been search
ing for a way to overcome these objec-
tons. In some states a second primary
is held to decide between the highest
candidates. but this means double time
and expense on the part of the voters
and election boards, and Is therefore
impractical.
In Texas, conventions are held after
the primaries with each candidate rep
resented according to his vote in the
primary. Last Saturday the first pri-
mary election in Texas was held under
that law. There were four Democratic
/ candidates for governor=the Demo-
cratic primary is the only one that
counts in Texas. One candidate re-
/ ceived approximately one-third of all
the Democratic votes. and the other
three each received approximately
two-ninths. In an ordinary primary
the man receiving the one-third vote
would be declared the nominee, but in
Texas a convention VIII be held in
which each candidate will be repre-
scented by delegates on the basis of the
vote each received in the primary.
These delegates will make the nominal
ton, and this plan is therefore only a
degree better than the ordinary con-
vention, except that the primaries are
| all held on the same day.
There are other plans than these.
among them the LaFoIIette idea. sug-
gested in Kansas by ]. L. Bristow,
which will be taken up later in these
columns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.


LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Hospitality is often nothing more
than loneliness.
We heard a man today speak well
of his landlord.
Hot air is cheap enough until you
heat a house with it.
Half the people who are said to be
mean, are simply tiresome.
Jealousy is the great force that
prizes men and women apart.
It is a great art to know when YOU
must grant a disagreeable request.
Nobody is checked up quite as
closely as the young man in business.
1t is possible for a man to really
love and admire his wife. and then
deceive her.
It takes more fortitude to listen to
the average mans jokes than it does
to listen to his troubles.
One way the married women have
to prove they are satisfied is to talk
about an old maids lonesomeness
It is said so often when a man dies
1t is a wonder floral emblems are not
made containing the words: Hes
better off,
Peaches are so plentiful this
year that I am as tired of peaches as
I imagine a parrot is of crackers. -
Drake Watson.
A girl hasn't Travelled enough to
boast about it until she has callous
spots made by the suit case humping
against her knees
We are getting so familiar with
coup d'etat' that we haven't any
more respect for it than we have for
oatmeal for breakfast
We have reached the age when we
don't see what's the matter with eat
ing the picnic lunch on the dining
room table at home, and having no
baskets to carry
There are a good many mean hus-
bands like the peasantry of Russia
Always threatening to do something
worse than they ever do. though
what crimes they do commit are bad
enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
QUAKER REF1Ecr1oNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The CRATER has surely become a
buy-word-
Some people can't even do their
duty without striking an attitude
The pale Of civilization doesn't
necessarily mean face powder.
A string around an absent-minded
mans finger is a forget-me-not
No. Maude, dear. washing in sta
tionary' tubs won't keep the colors
from running
The actor who is anxious to be a
star doesn't mind making a show Of
himself.
Hoax-.'No; 7 don't care for mint
juleps dislike the mint" Joax-
ooh, that's all in your rye"
It takes a long time to build loco
motive. but any suburbanIte can make
a train in the fraction of a second.
The wind may be tempered to the
shorn lamb. but what the shorn lamb
wants is some way of raising the wind.
In fishing it is my delight
To take a bottle on the trip,
And though never get q bite
] frequently can take nips
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
THE PRIMARY OrnsTTON-I

LE1E EAAANA-A4GA NLSAION.-f.
The main objection to the ordinary
primary election IS that in a field OF
candidates a minority candidate IS very
likely to be nominated. For instance
suppose there is a contest in some coun-
ty between a town crowd and the
country districts; or between a court
house ring" that wants to keep the
offices. and other people who want to
elect some new men; or between a
whisky gang that wants to control GER
tain county offices in the interest of the
joints, and the decent element that
wishes the laws enforced; or, in state
primary. between the railroads and cor
porations on the one hand, and the
people in general on the other; or be-
tween a machine crowd and the oppon-
ents Of the machine.
Such divisions come up in nearly ev-
cry primary, and one side is manfpu-
lated by experienced politicians as a
rule, while the other may not be. For
the sake Of argument suppose that IA
is the candidate of town
crowd" for certain office .B's
is a country candidate for the same
office. &C" Is a farmer with consider
able influence who has political ambi-
lions. The town ring sends ennis
saries to 'C' who persuade him to run
for the same office. Ia other words CO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

OF Whistler, the famous American
painter, an artist said at the Grolier
club in New York:
L knew and admired Whistler in the
early days of my career in Paris. He
lived luxuriously; I lived in q garnet.
Though he liked me none the less for
that, he did not permit any false deli
cacy to keep him from joking me about
my poOrhouse ways
"One day, in a very shabby suit,
was strolling on the Boulevard des
Italiens when some one hailed me from
the rear. I turned and saw Whistler
fastening toward me in his tall hat and
his lemon colored gloves, waving his
long black cane.
All said I, rather fattered, so you
recognized me from behind. did you,
master?'
Yes said Mr.. Whistler. laughing
maliciously, I spied you through hole
in your coat"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bill Doonttle thinks he Is a regular
Spartan, but even such a little thing as
a chigger can make Bill howl to beat
the band.
4 X
If you go out camping at this time
of year, don't be finielky If you eat a few
ants in the pie. Be thankful that it isn't
beef trust meat.
y
Mr.. Bryan won't lose very manyvotes
in Kansas on account of his associating
win King Ed. Kansas associates with
wheat kings and cattle kings a little
herself.
y
Looks as though Anthony Comstock
is trying to boom the circulation Of the
catalogue of the Art Students league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.

IFron the New york Press.1
girl learns to love swimming very
early when she has a good figure.
A woman certainly looks funny
when she has been st7nburned through
openwork-
The bigger hurry : man is IN to get
married the longer Re viii have to fig
IRE out why.
Girls have such hhicIy notions most
of them would like to marry q hus.
band to match then complexion,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

The town of smith Center IS having
trouble because there are not enough
houses in the town. Employers of
labor have hired men with families to
come there and work but the men
have not been able to come because
there was place for them to live. All
the houses and boarding houses are
filled, and there is no place for new
corners. Incidentally there are other
kansas towns which are having this
came trouble
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
HOsfn NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of tine state Journal
avgav during the summer may have
Ehs paper mailed regularly each day
30 any address at t'se rate OF ten cents
D week or thirty cents q month (by
mai onIy). Address changed as often
as desired. While out Of town the
Efhss Journal VIII be TO you like a
da1Iy letter from home.
Advances payment Is requested on
khese short tSme subscriptions, TO save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

This paper wishes again to en-
phaslze the point made by J. l. Bris-
tow in his reply to the square dear
questions. when he said that the two
cent fare issue is only a minor con-
sideration when compared to freight
rates. The State Journal has de-
clared before that il the railroads
could be assured that they would be
allowed to charge such freight rates
as they please they would freely grant
4 two-cent passenger rate. Com
paratively few people are interested
In passenger rates. Half of the peo-
Die Of Kansas are not on train from
bne years end to another. and many
others do not take more than one or
Two short trips a year. But everything
BE farmer raises, everything the town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
THE sUafNlER BACfIELoR.

He can't go the lonesome ways
The house is big and empty
AS barn;
And its master doesn't hardly
Give a darn
Whether he stays there at all.
Where the phantom voices call:
It's long, long time till fall;
That's no yarn.
He can't find the poker bunch
Any more,
He can't go the lonesome wavs
AS of yore,
he has lost the old know how,
Lost the wish for rowdy-dow,
Lost the old companions now,
And he's sore
Baby voices lifting. laughing
Call him. CALI
baby footsteps seem to patter
Down the halli
It's lonesome time O. year.
Its long. long time and drear,
men the babies aren't here.
Darn it all!
Houston Pc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04

-Four Chautauqua assemblies has &c
been held in north central Kansas this
year-at salina, Beloit, Lincoln park
md Clay Center. These towns are all
most IN the same territory, yet every
one of these assemblies was largely at
tended and each was a financial sue
cess. A few years ago only those peo-
pie who made pretenses Of culture"
attended Chautauqua assemblies. but
now all classes go to them and are
benefited by the intellectual stimulus
that they give. Bring on the Chau-
fauquasi Long may they wavel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
ERON OTHER PENS


Bryan is receiving ovations in Lon
don in 1906 He got ovations in the
United States in 1895 and 1900s but
they failed to register themselves at
the polls. Those on the other side of
the water count for still less. Lon
don does not poll a very heavy vote in
the United States electoral college
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-04
m THE MEANTIME.

Mr. Bryan claims that Mr.. Roosevelt
purloined his policies, and Judge Par
ker insinuates that Mr.. Roosevelt pur
Joined his idea of enforcing the law. In
the meantime the Republicans are still
holding all the off1ces.-New Yor.j
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