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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
CAN YOU TAKE YOUR meDIclNEr
Determine to Succeed, and Eventually
You viii "Get There"


A man should start out in life with
a firm understanding with kmseIf
that he is going to succeed; that he
has undertaken to do a certain thing.
and, no matter how long it takes, or
how difficult the process. he is going
to do 1t.
He should resolve at the very outset
that II he fails in anything he will
make the best possible use Of his fail
ure, get the best possible lesson from
II; that he will make of 1t a stepping
stone instead Of a stumbling block.
He should resolve that every setback
shall ultimately prove an advance.
There is everything in starting out
with an understanding with yourself
that there is nothing else for you but
the goal, that you are going to get
there sooner or later no matter what
stands in your way
If you are only half committed to
your proposition, however, if you are
so loosely attached to your vocation
hat the least opposition win shake
you from it, you will never get any
where.-Orison SWEET Marden, in Sue
cess Magazine
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

The most active spot in the United
States at present, and perhaps for some
years to come. is 0klahoma--the whole
state. But there are some places more
active than Others and they are made so
by the push and intelligence Of the people,
Some towns in Oklahoma are showing
remarkable growth. while others are max
ing rather slow growth Vinita must
not be in the latter class The start the
city has made during the last twelve
months has placed it in the list Of places
where there is something doing, and the
importance Of keeping it in that list should
be apparent
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

Gar Ferdinand OF Bulgaria again
demonstrates that the Prince Hal type
Of prince is not impossible, He was
wont TO be an idler OF the idlers. He
cared for nothing but sports. hunting
and shooting His own people he dis
liked extremely, and at one time re.
fused 10 go among them, yowing that
they were the most unwashed race in
Europe. But now he is doing every
thing in his power TO court popular
favor. He is leading a life OF ideal
temperance, and lately he presented
a botanical garden to the municipal
lty Of Sofia. He who was SO tactless
and impatient Is now a model OF pa
Lience and people now speak OF his
good heart. ."-Harper's Weekly.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
ANATOMY FOR THE BEGINNER.
Little Lesson Wherein Subject Is
Brought Up to Date.

Proceeding in southerIy direction
from the torso, we have the hips, use.
ful for padding, and the legs. The legs
hold up the body, and are sometimes
used in walking, but when riding in
automobiles they take up valuable
space which otherwise might be en-
ployed to better advantage.
Attached to the legs are the feet.
Some varieties Of feet are cold. Some
people are born with cold feet, others
acquire cold feet, and still others have
cold feet thrust upon them.
The surface of the body is covered
with cuticle. which either hangs in
graceful loops or is stretched tightly
from bone to bone.
On the face it is known as the COM
plexion, and is used extensively for
commercial purposes by dermatolo-
gists, painters and decorators.
Between the cuticle and the bones
are the muscles, which hold the bones
together and prevent them from fall
ing out and littering up the sidewalks
as we walk along.
Packed neatly and yet compactly in
side the body are the heart. the liver,
and the lungs; also the gall. which in
is abnormally large.
These organs are used occasionally
by the people who own them, but their
zeal purpose is to furnish surgeons
/ living -Iippincotts.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

The Japanese have no use for but
tons, buckles or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose OF fastening and
furnishes artistic possibilities seem
ingly without end The Japanese have
hundreds of knots. Some are as old
as the time when history was recorded
BY a series Of knots. just as it was in
China and Peru before the invention
Of writing There are dozens Of knots
IN common aid ceremonial usage, and
these every Japanese child can tie.
TO name but few, there are plum
Blossom, cherry blossom, iris, chrysan-
themum and pine tree knots. Also
there are Fujiyama knots, turtle and
stork knots, the ''old MANS" which is
easy to tie; the ''old woman's," which
is difficult, and many others.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
easAr MnTus N rAE onIENr.
Filiai Piety Highly Regarded in Japan
and China.


Fillai piety. as is well known, is the
special virtue OF China and Japan.
From It springs loyalty to the emper-
or. who is regarded as the father
and mother Of his people" There are
no greater favorites with the Japan
ese than the -Four and Twenty Para
gons Of Filial Piety." whose acts OF
virtue are the subjects Of Chinese
legend.
One OF the Paragons had a cruel
stepmother who was very fond Of
iish. Never repining at her cruel
treatment Of him. he lay down on the
frozen surface Of lake The warmth
OF his body melted a hole in the ice,
at which two carp came up to breathe.
These he caught and took home to his
stepmother
Another Paragon, boy with a most
sensitive skin. insisted on sleeping
without any covering at night: 50 that
the mosquitoes should fasten on him,
white his parents slumbered undis-
turbed
Another Paragon. who was OF the
female ser, clung to the jaws OF IT,
ger that was about to devour her Ia
ther until the latter escaped.
The drollest of all these stories is
that OF Rorashi. This Paragon, though
10 years old, used to dress In baby's
clothes and crawl about on the floor,
his object being to delude his parents.
who were over 80 years old, into the
idea that they could not be so very old
after all, as they had such an ex-
ceedingly infantile son-The Sunday
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
Have You Notlcedf

Harker-Say, Coggwood, you are up
on automobile lore. When you have to
spin out five OF ten miles over smooth
roads to tow in a broken down
friend what do you call it?
Coggwood-Blameo lot Of trouble
and big sacrifice.
Harker--And then when you start on
thirty-mile spin through rain and
mud what do you call it?
coggwOod-Why, man. that's fun
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

Mana, French poodle belonging to
Mr.. Edward Ellsworth. a real-estate
operator Of New York, is surely the
most pampered canine in the world.
A private room at the Plaza hotel, a
tutor, a maid, private bath, and a
special menu are among the items on
the list Of the necessaries of life pro-
vided for the dog. The tutor is en-
gagged to teach Mana tricks more COM
plicated than tho ordinary Jumping
through hoops and "shamming dead, ;"
and Nana's food Is specially prepared
in the servants kitchen.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
Just sult HIm.

Il don't believe you'd work il your
lie depended upon it, snorted the
angry housewife.
And dat's where yer do me a great
injustice, num-" responded the tall
tramp. blandly. II / could have con-
ditions as I'd like dem. I'd work all de
time"
And how is that?9
Why, I'd like to shovel snow down
in Florida and run lawn mower up
In Alaska, num-"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
BInaham Has sense d Humor.

Police Commissioner Bingham is a
great believer in training and discip-
line as aids to efficiency. It is his am
bition to make the policeman Of New
York as perfect model Of training as
German infantryman. At the same
time he is a martinez who possesses
a sense Of humor. and one OF his
favorite stories is about a hospital
nurse who was being discussed by two
physicians
Was she a. trained nurse?" asked
the first medico.
She must have been replied the
other. "She had not been in the hos
pital two weeks before she was en-
gagged 10 our richest patient" ="
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

The county assessors of Oklahoma have
reported $4,000 dogs in the bounds Of
the state. 1t is barely possible that there
are few dogs not enumerated, and some
that walk on their hind feet.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

On account Of poor water pressure Mus
kogee lost quarter OF a million dollars,
this week The remedy lies in improving
the plant 50 that Grand river water may
be brought more expeditiously to that
beleagured city
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

No matter what the courts do with the
BiIlups bill the fact stiH remains that
water is free and the most wholesome
drink on earth.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
A EIr.t.cIass Poet

VINO is her she whispered to
the man at her side
"D'Rhymer2 Why. he's a poet. was
the reply.
a really. truly. frst-class poetg"
she breathe5
7 should say 50. approvingiy.
Why. he writes those condensed soup
Advertisements" The Bellman.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

The great fire at muskoeav yesterday
should remind vinita people Of the fact
that it has the bast water system and the
most Efficient fire department in the state
Of Oklahoma.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

When the Tennessee might rider" is
stripped Of the glamor Of romance wovt n
about them by imaginative space writers,
and brought to trial in a court Of Justice.
he cuts a sorry spectacle. An hour in
court takes the heroism out Of the whole
outfit.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

Aside from being FIRST class town in
which to live, Vinita has acquired the
reputation Of being the best place in the
whole country to buy goods vinita stores
handle about everything one would want,
and at prices that attract far and near
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

Do you know OF any other town in Ok
iahoma Of not more than FIVE thousand
that has spent more for public improve
ments in the last year Than vinitas
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

The handful Of knockers who started
out to defeat the Auditorium proposition
are making sorry spectacle Of them
selves. The animus Of the opposition was
too thinly velIed to be hidden long.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

DO you know that we are on the
verge OF a milk famine?"
4 should say I do. Our baby is
fussing about It all the time"
What does your baby know about
itr"
He Is being weaned. Houston
Post
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14
The Weather.

Tonight and Friday fair and
colder
Local obseryations. for day pre-
cedine. furnished BY C. E. Lahman:
Maximum temperature. 80 degs
Minimum temperature. IS
Temperature al Y p. m. 20
Precipitation, 2
Wind direction. north and south.
Cloudy.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-01-14

It R"is the brand on that hide on the
Tillman fence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Hutchinson News cannot figure
it out why the agitation for fire es-
capes should continue undated after
the numerous reviyals held in Kansas
during the winter.
The Wichita Eagle notes that Will
liam E. Sterne of Topeka told San
Diego people that prohibition in Kansas
doesn't prohibit and then it asks
why is the gentleman in San Diego?'
In the fact that a Garden City mat
rimonial agent patronized his own shop
and married a mail order wife, Paul
Lovewell finds a denial of the state
ment that shoemaker always goes
barefooted.
Here is an old, familiar story Atch-
ison's new broom is sweeping clean
The newly elected city administration
is driving the jointists and the gam
blers in that burg to cover. But the
question is for how long?
Dodge City, Garden City, Kinsley
Larned, Great Bend and some other
towns out that way are dreaming of an
Arkansas valley racing circuit to re-
lleve the monotony in the fall when the
work on the farm is thing of the past
The Stafford Odd Fellows are fig
uring on a $4,000 building. There is
nothing odd" or queer about these
men or their many brethren in the
state except part of their name. They
are All the pest OF IellOWS Ol Tile tliel-
getic and successful sort.
There are only eight hundred voters
in the city of Anthony which recently
decided to try the commission form oil
government This is good evidence that
it is the same with voters as with
everything else. It's the quality ano
not the quantity that counts.
Colonel George Harvey, editor OF
Harper's Weekly and the North Ameri-
can Review, who would probably moi
be on speaking terms with Mr.. Roose'
Welt if they were the only two men In
the whole world, will deliver the com.
mencement address at the University
Of Kansas.
Sumner county has one Indian resi-
dent, Lone Wolf, a full blood of thf
Kiowa tribe. His wife is Of the Sac
and Fox variety. He has recently
opened a blacksmith and carriage shoI
at Ashton Lone Wolf and his wife are
both graduates of the Chilloco ant
Haskell colleges.
They seem to work backwards, as i
were. on many things in Girard. A
menacing looking bomb was fount
there the other day and it is now re
lated that the bomb was made to d.
ne damage. The airship which was
built in the same town did not fly
Maybe it was made that way on pur
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
PARTY LINES FADING AWAY.

Recent occurrences in the house of
representatives during the consideration
of the Payne tariff bill and in the ac-
ton taken on the rules to govern that
body for the present session of con-
gress make it evident that the dictates
of party leaders are not in any way
supreme in these days of grace, as they
were a few years ago.
Never has there been quite such a
splitup, or mixup, which seems a bit
more appropriate, among the members
OF the house of representatives as there
was in the final votes on the adoption
of the new rules. One set of Republi-
cans worked hand in glove with one set
of Democrats for one proposition. An
other coterie of Democrats worked just
as keenly with another crowd of Re-
publicans for a different method of
procedure. And similar alignments, al
most unheard Of before in congress
sional halls. occurred on various fea-
lures of the tariff bill. Take the lum-
Der schedule, as an instance. The
Payne bill provided for a tariff of 81
per thousand feet on lumber. This was
in line with Republican principles. Re-
publican leaders and free lumber have
been utter strangers for years and
years. On the other hand the Demo
Gratis have always stood shoulder to
shoulder for free lumber and free ev-
| erything else with a few exceptions
Still as many as 60 Republican mem
bers tried to defeat the lumber sche-
dule in the Payne bill and place lum-
Der on the free list. If all the Demo
Gratis had followed their leaders they
would have Joined these so Republicans
in this particular fight and carried the
day. Many of them did join forces
with the Republicans on this PROPOSE
! ton, but, strange to say, at least i,
would have been strange had it occurred
a few years ago. there were 40 ode
Democratic members who broke away
from the traditions of their party and
voted with the standpat Republicans t.
retain the duty on lumber, and thi.
help was numerically strong enough tc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14


allow Mr.. Payne and his friends to have
their way in this respect
For several years past, in this Sec
ton of the country, at any rate, party
lines have all but been obliterated in
municipal campaigns. During the past
three or four years they have not been
eleaved to with any degree of pertinaci-
ty in the state legislatures, and par
ticularly in Kansas. Democrats have
voted with Republicans and vice versa
on many important matters of state
and in line with the interests and de-
sires Of their constituents. These COM
binations have put to utter rout some
of the plans of the organizations of
both parties And now this spirit of in
dependence has broken out at last in
national legislative levels. All of which
is encouraging as being evidence that
the people are coming into. their very
own and are working out a way so that
their voices will actually be of some
weight in the administration of their
rational government, as we'll as in their
state governments and the government
of their cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
QUAKER NIEDITATTONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Recorf

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many a fellow takes the cake who
isn't much of bread winner
The pork packer also realizes that
the pen is mightier than the sword.
Some men are SO anxious to give
the devil his due they go out of their
way to do it.
Few of us know as much about orr
selves as other people think they know
about us.
The principal reason we do lot of
things Is to keep some other fellow
from doing them.
Many fellow buys a dress suit TO
get married in and never has occasion
to use it afterward.
Blobbs-"I believe that all luxuries
should be taxed" Slobbs-"T-ben 7
suppose you are in favor of a tax on
bachelors
A man is up against a hard game
when he goes to have his picture ia
ken and is expected to look pleasant
while his wife is or buying her new
spring hat
Hoax-"He was poet, and she
married him to reform him." Joax-
How did it turn out?" Hoaxz"Fine.
He hasn't written anything since he
was married"
Nel1-"She admits she made mis-
take In marrying man old enough to
be her grandfather" Believes
she had an idea he would only live a
| few months, and they've been married
nearly year now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


Treat spring just as you would treat
friend you have not learned to trust.
If a man is big and fat. and keeps
his mouth shut. he can bluff nearly
anybody.
If it is nicer to be a man than it is
to be a woman, it must be tough to
be woman.
You needn't love your enemy: if you
refrain from telling lies about him,
you will do we'll.
Admiration for the style of hats the
women bought for Easter, will have to
be acquired, like taste for olives.
Misfortunes are like wild geese: A
to come along. and is never prepared
for them.
great many years ago. when it
terested friends asked rs the young
man a church member" But today,
the interested friends ask. What does
he get?"
The Extremely Wise Guy, who looks
at you with a wink, as much as to
say, People have been fooled, but
don't try it on me-" is usually fooled
easier than any other of the 81 va
rieties of men.
When a man is left with a lot OF
motherless children on his hands, he
usually scatters them among his rela-
tives. If it is the woman who is left
with fatherless little ones, she keeps
them together, and earns a living be-
sides. Women develop great energy
when left without a man. In fact, all
the widows we knew are getting along
q great deal better than the married
women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
HUAOR or THE DAY

1T have my speech nearly completed Il
suppose you have marshaled your argu-
ments in serried rankS?" mo; haven T.
taken up that part Of It; But ! haye Sc
''She said she'd marry me If felt the
same way a year from then" did you?
Yes, but toward another giri."-The Tat
Ter.
How is your rich uncle, Tommy?
Very i'll; I'm afraid he won't last long.
s'Then you can lend me that $40 / asked
you for last week. '-Meggendorfer Blat-
ter.
The Elderly LadymYes, the magistrate
band without fighting?' And I seq, Not
happily. Yer Honor" / sez.-Kansas City
Journal.
Taft has. gone around the globe
number OF times" "Well?" Now, for
change, the globe will revolve around
so you abandoned the simple style of
advocate of the fad: II found it so diff
tS edser that
The Lady-Whats your trade? The Ho-
bo-Lady, I'm a captain of industry. The
Lady-1n those clothes? The Hobo-Dis is
me fatigue uniform.-Cleveland Leader.
Clarice-It isn't what man earns that
makes him rich, you know, Clarence. Clar-
ence-No; it's what is saved by his
father.-Chicago News.
What was that sentence the choir re-
peated so often during the litany?" s'As
near as / could make out 1t was we are
all miserable singers boston Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. !

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Many man has been bitten in a
dog trade.
Money is the most efficient substi-
tute for brains.
their own sensitiveness.
He is wise fool who knows enough
to keep it to himself.
Some people never pay anything but
visits to their relatives.
Much of the so-calIed milk of hu-
man kindness is buttermilk.
The dentist often shows his teeth
without opening his mouth.
The man who can't button his coat
hasn't clothes enough to go round.
1t takes a good neighbor to appre-
eiate neighbor who thinks he is bet
ter.
The average man no sooner does a.
kind act than he begins to feel big
over it.
There is always plenty of room at
the top of a ten-story building that
has mo elevator.
People who are afflicted with
kleptomania always feel that thew
should take something for il.
Somehow a woman never seems to
enjoy a good cry unless she has two
or more reasons for starting the briny
flow.
Youth is the springtime of hone:
but when man gets a little older he
stops hoping and begins to reach out
for anything he can get his hands on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

buy foreign title. he ended the long
siege and departed"
"Who came with you and your
father, then 2" he inquired.
"Oh! that was Cousin Cyril. who is
just out of college and needs the tonic
of our mountain ozone"
Slipping lightly from the back of
Slap Dash, she came over to Ned, and
in her cid way put both hands on his
strong young shoulder.
Now, Ned" she said, ''you won't
leave Circle H. will you? Father
ssWhy did you treat me as you did
in New York? 2" he moodily demanded,
evading the question.
Before a stranger-and LORD
roguishly. IF, sir. you had come to
breakfast next morning, IL might
have treated you otherwise.
He turned, facing her squarely.
With one of his strong hands he I'M
prisoned both of hers and held them
against his breast.
"What would you have done if-if
I had Gomez" he said breathlessly.
Her lovely face went very crimson
under the search1ight of his eyes; put
she answered bravely. NED. Ia nave
kissed you right out"
The foothills looked natural again.
The sun shone with its old-time CLINT
and simmer upon the gray desert
sand. He had no longer the 1eVerish
desire to get away to fresh scenes.
Gypsy, since you wish it," and taking
his written resignation from her ne
tore it into fragments. SAY, sweet
heart" he added, putting an arm
tenderly round her waist, I'll buy
out Bar t tomorrow, and Wen run
righted, 1909. by Associated Literary
Pressl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
THE SUMMONS,

One whose time was spent
AS the shadow flickered DER him
From the clefts where it is pent
summoned the Sphinx before him:
Intimate pulse of my heart
Nearer than child or wife
now that our ways must part,
What can You do for me, Life?
What are the things you have done
You cast me out on the sands,
Meshed in blind web spun
Sy dead. unthinking hands.
"Fettered here in the dark
Yet drawn to the spheres afar:
lou give us the glow worms spark
And mock US with the star.
You take the rose of love
And crush it In your hand;
In hard, cold ways you move
We cannot understand.
To our last dim lurking place
You bring the spoiler Death"
over the Sphinx's face
Fluttered a smiles wan breath
-sAda roster Murray. in the New York