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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

Munyon's Cold Remedy Relieves tn,
head, throat and lungs almost immediate
", Checks Fevers, stops Discharges OF
the nose, takes away all aches aad pains
caused BY cclds. II cures Grip aud OBJ
stinate Coughs and prevents Pasamonia
Price DO.
ter how chronic? Ash your druggist for
MUNYON'S Rheumatism Remedy and set
how quickly you will he cured.
II you have any kidney or bladder trou-
bic get Munyon's Kidn's Remedy.
Munyon's Vitalizc- makes weak men
strcnr npi -~eter"s lost powers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

An implanted duty done is better
than q planned duty undone.-Baker.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

Psttlt's Eye saIye For Over 100 Years
has been used for congested and infaned
eyes, removes film or scum over the ewes.
An druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo. NY.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

Every thread of gold is valuable,
and 80 Is every moment OF time
Mason.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

did you ever feel that the eyes OF
the world were upon your"
"Once a year, when wear the neck
ties that my wife gives me at Christ
mas."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19
important 70 Mothara

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA. a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that It
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-01-19

Signature Of G/MAzzZM
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Strain Became Too Great.

C. E. Ashburn of Staunton, Va, has
held what is probably the most unique
Office in the United States, that OF
manager of the city, an undertaking
which has sent him. nervous wreck,
to a sanitarium In Washington. For
years he ruled supreme, being dele
gated by the citizens of Staunton
with sole power to conduct the affairs
of the city government according to
his own judgment, just as he would
conduct a big business house Of his
own. He had the power to employ
and dismiss all city employees, and
his system proved success. Never
he's Staunton accomplished more in
the way of public improvements than
under his administration. 1t is said
that his worrying by office-seekers
finally broke him down.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
rAF MEssAeE OF THE STAR.

Go TO the window tonight and look
upon the city, yonder where the bar
racks of Want huddle in the shadows,
and tenements stand bleak against the
skv. where pitable, cowed children OF
lpriyation wistful and wan. yein-hungry
and heart-hungry, lie in the cold and
dream Christmas dreams that can
never come true-dreams such as you
dreamed back in the long ago, golden
dreams spangled with Hope, dreams
that will lose their way and fall
broken-winged, to earth.
once, upon the pinions of Fancy. you
sped into the mystic dawns' once, yo'
and Faith in magic argosies set brave
sails for cloudland's purple zones.
And now. Youth is dead and memory
lis stained with tears And your ships
have come home and they ride at an
chor.
Wise Man, what cargo did YOU bring
in their holds?
How did you barter with Life Dlt
von trade well? Are you content3
Where is your myrrh and where
rrankineense? Where is happiness
J and where peace and where is the glor.
of mercy and the JOY of giving and th'
: strength that comes with the lifting o
burdens?
r look up. behold the Star Of Bethlt
] hem. Heed the message.
E A thousand gray-souled women 81
! tonight with the ghosts Of Yesterday
Women, haggard by toll ard bruised
women with empty pockets and empt
e pantries and empty stoves; wome
e face to face with the dreariest TRACED
d in all motherhood, the explanation
n the empty Christmas stocking.
n And the star of Bethlehem keel
n calling to you. Wise Man, Wise Mar
d Gather your gifts ard go forth in ii
d name of the Lord to the mango
b. wheresoeyer the Child awaits yo'
a. coming Herbert Kaufman in &C
liers.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Safe From Detectives.

do you know" began the barber
as he laid the lather thickly over his
clients mouth, that we're the only
fellows l know Of that could commit
a crime and not be detected through
the Bertillon system or whatever 1t is
that pinches people by comparing
thumb prints?"
The victim moved uneasily in his
chair, but circumstances over which
he had no control sealed his lips. He
grunted interrogatively and politely.
Yes, sir! The reason is simple. We
amt got no thumb prints We get
'em all worn of rubbing our thumbs
over you fellers' chins. Fact! I'll
show you when l let you out of the
chair. My thumbs are pretty near as
roned-out-looking as your face will
be when / ge. through with you"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
rhE MURDER RECORD.

This country holds the murder rec
ord. may hold it to the end of time;
the nations history is checkered with
everything in deadly crime. Our muir
derers are all acquitted if they have
money by the peck; and If hempen
moose is fitted about some slayef's
swanlike neck upon the galows where
the sawyers have left a hole for him
10 drop. it means he couldn't hire the
LAWYERS who bsst know how to stall
and yawp. 4 man may spend long
years in prisoa for forging a fye dol
lar check: the lowly bigamist gets
his'n. the firebug gets it in the neck
The cops pursue the idle vagrant AM
soak him on his funnybone; and in tbs
iailyard. large and gragrant, you see
the plain drunk breaking stone. Bu
lhe who shoots his fellow creature, ant
sends him to the great beyond, be
comes the daily's scare head feature
lis lionized, while out on bond. Hi
trial Is like an entertainment; he
freed, when lawyers cease to rage; h
never knew what fear or strain meant
and now he elevates the stage.
4 WALT MASON.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

American people have made up their
minds to put this trust-governed, mo-
nopoly controlled organization out OF
the governing business of this nation
'sWhy should the democrats care for
the machine national platform dectara-
tion? 1t is the same machine that turn
ed Cooper and La Toilette down at
Chicago. repudiated by almost unani-
NOUS vote the proposed plank in favor
.of physical valuation of railroads Why
should the democrats care what the
machine may do, that refused by a like
vote to approve the election of sena-
tors by a direct vote of the people, not
withstanding that 80 per cent OF the
United States favor both these reforms.
.oThe democrats should take a posi-
tive. leading attitude and let the re-
publican machine criticize the demo
Senator Robert L. Owen, in an In
teryiew published in the olSiahoman
of December 26, says;
Il believe the time has come when
the democratic party should take its
rightful place in the nation as the
party of affirmation, with positive
land not critical program IL should
no longer occupy the attitude of
party criticising the opposing party
"The republican party is no longer
the real power" he continued The
erats. The hypnotic force OF an ag
gressive constructive policy ON pubic
lopinion will be very powerful. The
man who has bold policy to declare
Iavow himself worthy of leadership
1.-THE man who waits to criticize such
Header confesses himself follower an'
mot leader. AS with men so witt
Iparties
let the demo give proof Q
Ithe faith that is in them by layinl
down an aggressive constructive po
Icy. by having their national convef
ton meet iirsl and make their nationa
platform with complete indifference t
i what may be alleged in the platforf
TO be drawn by tie standpat repubEca
machine that will nominate Mr.. Taft.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

Don't let anybody persuade you that
all sentiment should be banished from
your life, and that only cold business
of the strictest order should engage
your thought and action. In these days
of bitter struggle in the business
world men are apt to persuade them
selves that they are justified in doing
anything outside of committing crime
to get money and that that is the ap-
proved course in business circles. But
without sentiment life is tragedy too
deep and dark for human contempla
ton. Instead of cold-blooded money
getting. cultivate the finer sentiments
of life. Not maudiin. weak and vas
cilating sentiment that would make
wilkins Macawbers out of men bu
the warm-hearted kindly seItimen
that develops the Golden Rule in poo
weak human nature.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

The trouble that is now being exper-
fenced all over the state over the tax
question indicates that something is
radically wrong with our system OF
taxation. While locally. taxes are
higher because of the public improve
ments which the city has made, there
is no complaint along that line as the
tax payers feel that they were Justi-
fed in voting the bonds for these inn
proyements and have no kick coming
on that score. But when man gave
in his property at what he considered
its true value and be now finds that
the valuation has beer raised. too, in
many instances far above its original
cost he feels that there is an injustice
being perpetrated = Woodward News
Bulletin.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Enrn. Of Oath.

A chinaman has been thus sworn
in. On entering the box the witness
Immediately knelt down. and emma
saucer having been placed in his hana
he broke it. The officer OF the court
through an interpreter then addressed
him thus: "You shall tell the truth
and the whole truth, and if you do
not tell the truth your soul VIII De
cracked like the saucer" A Moham'
medan witness first placed his right
hand on the Koran, put the other
hand to his forehead and brought the
top of his forehead down to the BOOK
and touched 1t with his head. he
then looked for some time upon II
and being asked what effect that cere
mony was to produce. answered thai
he was bound by 1t to speak the truth
The deposition of a Gentoo has beer
received who touched with his hant
the foot of a Brahmip. Buddhist
have been sworn by 'the three holl
xistences-Buddha, Dhamma anC
Pro Sangha-and the devotees Of thu
twenty-five ornaments" and Parse'
on the Zend Ayesta. or by binding
"holy cord" round his body-Fron
the Law Times.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
AN oLo STORY.

The good Queen Bess in great dis
tress beheld a puddle in her way. She
stopped and sighed Great Scott!
she cried. "Tll get all spashed with
mud and clay" And then bloke took
of his cloak and threw it at his SOW
ereign's feet: and so she trod across
dry shod. and went kerwhcoping down
the street. That valiant knight, who
saw her plight and acted Johnnie on
the spot by that small game won last
ing fame. and is embalmed in poets
rot. 4 thousand jays went on their
ways that morning. doing useful
things: they moved their grass like
men-alas, no poet OF their labor sings
They pushed their piows and milkec
their COWS, and dug their wells anc
planted trees; no Tyre is hit none
throws a fit, embaIming iaborers Ike
these. They bad their day and passed
away. and went to sleep in unknowi
graves. The poet writes of cheap johl
knights. and Ger some foolish actlol
raves. It's still the same; we han,
out fame and Doodle to the grand stan
guys: and toilers. poor. unsung, OF
seure, must cough up when they'd az
vertise. Walt Mason.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Resourceful Janltor.

Vacuum cleaners were recently
used with great success In a New
York office building which had been
visited by fire. in the removal Of the
water which had accumulated as the
result of the presence of the firemen.
The janitor was instructed to make
every effort to have the Offices in
readiness for the occupants next
morning, 80 that their business would
not suffer any interruption, and in or
der TO get rid of the water In the car
pets and on the floors q number OF
vacuum cleaners we're secured and
put to work. with the result that
things were In perfect order for the
commencement of the business the
following morning.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

Judge c. B. Stuart in a speech at a
bar banquet at Oklahoma City last
night anent the recall of judges said;
'If a certain percentage of dissatis-
fed people can put judge of a high
court in this land upon the rack and
hold him up to the execration of his
fellow citizens, how shall we get good
men to go upon the benchg"
'1f weak ones go there" he contin-
ned. the liberties of the people are
lost. because this weak man having
his ear constantly to the ground listen
ing for every sound az popular displeas-
ure at a decision which he had made
or which he intends 60 make will lose
ard surrender all Independence OF
Judgment, and the great safeguards OF
property and Of personal security viii
be swept from the earth as with the
besom of destruction. The success OF
the litigant will be measured by his
personal popularity The rich and un
uripcipled suitor will seek out the
weak and venal and will endeavor te
corrupt the lectorate The poor mar
without friends and without influence
will be doomed. Partisan politics viii
control the judges and courts of jus
tiee will become the prey OF reckless
demagogues and the scene Of wicked
and unholy strife"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

The decision of the United States
circuit court of appeals anent the in
PRODUCTION of intoxicating liquors in
eastern Oklahoma places the ban on
the LIQUOR business more effectively
than ever. There is little likelihood
that this decision will be reversed by
the supreme court as there seems to
be little left as grounds for an appeal.
The decision recites the policy of the
government with reference to the sale
of intoxicants to Indians for more
than one hundred years which has
been uniformly against furnishing In
dians liquor at all. II has been thor
oughly demonstrated that the Okla
homa state laws as enforced have been
failure and the country has beer
flooded with liquor OF course there
will be violations of the law hereafter
but by concerted action on the part o.
state and federal authorities the Law
should be generally enforced. No state
/ in the union has the opportunities t
give prohibition fair chance as has
1Oklahoma for the next fifteen years.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
prohibition League oratOricsl contes

In all the colleges and universities
of Oklahoma preparations are being
made for the big oratorical contest Of
the Prohibition League for College
Men to be held under the aspices of
the Christian University at Enid early
next spring The state university. the
agricultural and mechanical college.
most if not all of the FIVE normal
schools, Christian university, Kingfsh-
er college, Oklahoma Baptist college.
Oklahoma Methodist university, and
Oklahoma Baptist university will en-.
ter representatives in the big forensic
contest. Most Of the schools have al
ready begun preparations as the local
contest at which the representatives
will be chosen are scheduled to occur
Immediately after the Christmas holi-
DAYS. The winner of the Enid con
test will represent Oklahoma in an
interstate one to be held somewhere
in Texas later in the year The sue
C6S6IuI COuDClllOl db thoS SAAAS t'@-@ -
designated to speak for the southwest
in the great national contest to be held
in 1912. Thus it is possible that some
Oklahoma college man who enters the
contest at Enid may have accorded to
him the much coveted honor of being
styled the premier college orator of
the United States. The contestants
will be required to speak on some
phase of the liquor question. The
state university league leaders made
their preliminary announcement last
, week scheduling the Sooner contest
} for the first week in February. Much
! interest is manifest and it is probable
that number of men will aspire to
represent the university of Oklahoma
at Enid.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Big oil Sales.

Tulsa, Okla, Dec. 81. = Again the
Prairie Oh and Gas company was fore
ed to draw heavily on their reserve
stock of Oklahoma crude oil during
December to supply the market de
mands. The company's report for the
first twenty-one days of the montf
shows that while only 1857 .250.21 bar
rels of oil was collected through theil
gathering agencies, the firm furnish
ed to the market during that perlot
2,055, 5,24959 barrels. The deficit, 19S,
099,3S0 barrels, was taken from thei
reserve stock held in storage
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
And the Old Man Pondsred.

So" said the girls papa. furiously.
you think you could make my little
girl Arethusa happy This young
man considered his prospective father
in-law, who had gout and q face like
fire engine and an S0-horsepower
temper. She's been happy with you,
sir, hasn't she?" the young man asked.
Il think so. my boy--I think So" re-
piled the girls papa. Il certainly
think so, I think so, certainly. I'm
certain | think So" Well" chimed
4 in the young man, sweetly, III she's
ibeen happy with you certainly think
!! I can make her happy. ] think So
think so. certainly. I'm certain think
+ so."-Chicago News.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

Oklahoma is doomed to a long seige
OF high taxes and grinding economy,
IT Is perhaps true that no one in par
ticular is to blame for present condi-
tions and no political party will be
able to bring relief instantaneously.
Kansas has been debt ridden state
for a generation, but county after
county of that splendid state has by
good business management gotten out
of debt. And so it must necessarily
be in Oklahoma. 1t behooves every
county in this state to begin at the
eerliest possible moment the work OF
ratrenchment and fine business man.
agement. Oklahoma went wild with
the magnitude of its greatness, Its
boundless resources and its unpre-
cedented growth. The desire to dc
great things seized the whole people
and we have gone pell nell into the
auagmire Of reckless plunging and IN
extricable debt and the grip of high
taxes is upon us. But it is no time tc
sit down and pine and grow hopeless
The courage and sense and business
ability of the people of Oklahoma vii
win. The politicians must be throttlef
ard clean non-partisan business meth
DDS adhered TO. 1t is long fight and
lhard fight but not losing fight.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

Homily from the Watonga Herald:
IT'S not too much for a man to say he
never had an enemy. You could write
that over a cabbage head. 1t would
be appropriate in an essay on mush or
a panegyric on putty. 1t makes a first
class epitaph above the grave of an
OK. If you never did anything to make
anybody mad at you, you have been
called a man through courtesy You
should apply for place as dummy in
a window of a clothing store"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
The coming year is a leap year. after
which there should be no old maids.

A pertinent subject OF discussion for
newspaper publishers in Oklahoma is
the cost of newspaper production and
1t has its phases of interest for the
public as we'll Sometimes thoughtless
persons are disposed to eriticise their
home papers and to compare them un-
favorably with the newspapers in older
or larger communities, The cities and
towns of Oklahoma have'as good news
papers as are printed anywhere in
towns of the same class, and better
than are to be found in most of the
towns of their size.-Enid News.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
Horrible Death Christmas pay.

Tulsa. Okla, Dec. q. = A horrible
death was meted out to Douglas Had
ley. thirty-five, an engineer for the
Prairie Oil and Gas company, Christ
mas Day. He was killed instantly when
his head was smashed between the fire
box of six-ton boiler and the gate
post at the company's yards today. His
relatives cannot be located, although
he is known to have two sisters resid
ing somewhere in this section of the
county.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29

Objections to Senator Owens bill
for a national department of health
(Senate Bill No. - have come largely
from followers of various sects and
cults who feared that their business
of treating the sick might be inter-
fered with. Many of the more sin
cere opponents of this much-needed
law are evidently too ignorant to un-
derstand that congress can exercise
only those powers which have been
delegated to it by the state, that the
regulation of the practice of medicine
stands on the same basis as the reg
Iulation of other occupations and
trades. which is not a function OF con-
gress. and that any federal law at
tempting to regulate the practice OF
medicine in the states would be void.
Repeated explanations have been
made that congress has no authority
to regulate the practice of medicine OF
iany other profession or calling IN any
I state, anu IHdl Tic ODlCNt VI thC 49,
Ibil is the prevention and not the
treatment of disease. Apparently
these explanations have not been con
vineing perhaps some people have
never heard of them. To Teassure
those who are honestly opposing the
owen bill on account of such a mis-
conception, Senator Owen last wees
introduced the following amendment
to his bill:
'sThat the department of health es
ltablished by this act shall bave nc
power to regulate the practice OF medi
cine or the practice of healing. or t
Interfere with the right of a citizen t'
emplay the practitioner OF his choice
within any state of the Union, and al
appointments within the department
shall be maze without Discrimination
against any school of medicine or 0
healing"