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The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
VS. COVETED WITH WArER .

WAS COVERED WITH WATER"
Second, Moses states that. in the
period Immediately preceding the
Adamic erection, the earth had be-
come void" that is. empty" or "un-
furnished" and Science corroborates
Moses by asserting the same thing.
Third, Moses states that, in the
period preceding the Adamic creation.
darkness was on the face of the
deep" and Science, while the case
admits not of positive evidence either
way, POINTS TO FACTS THAT GO
TO SHOW THIS TO BE HIGHLY
PROBABLE.
Fourth, Moses declares that i'm
mediately before the advent of man.
the waters We're gathered together
and the dry land appeared" Science
positively proves the same thing.
Fifth, Moses states that immediate
ly before man, God created" a great
variety of new plants and animals
ioAS anu hSiu anu NIttSs UhutS ana
fowls, beasts and cattle'-to occupy
and inhabit the restored earth: There
is nothing so clearly proved as this,
says Science.
Sixth, Moses states that the last
and highest of Gods creative acts was
to make Man: And to this declara-
ton Science yields its heartist assent
Unbelievers, or infidels are great
boasters as to their honest desire to
know the truth. But the facts are,
that the last thing the ordinary in
fidel wants to know is the TRUTH.
By LIES they seek % overturn the
truth. In this they are adopts, and
inherit from their father, the Devil,
al Ibis specious and subtle abilities,
and "he was a LIAR from the begin
ming, and abode not in the truth, as
the Word of God well declares. 1t
is not so much the purpose of the
writer of these papers to answer
LIARS as it is his wish to strengthen
believers in their faith in the immut-
able and Interchangeable Word of the
Living God.
yinita. Oklahoma, Feb 2Sth, 1912
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
Editor vinita Chieftain.

Many of US have hookworm. Are
the southern people naturally any less
energetic than northern people? The
existence of the hookworm has been
demonstrated. 1t is prevalent in all
low warm contries. It's existence is
easily detected. Its cure is sure.
There is no energy, thrift, or even
health where it exists. The negro is
almost immune from its evil effects,
though often infected. 1t thrives
wherever nnsanitary conditions exist.
More in country districts than in
towns or cities, because less attention
is paid to sanitary conditions.
John d. Rockefeller donated $1,000
000 for the eradication of the hook
worn disease. There are eleven of the
southern states already organized for
battling the disease. One family in
Virginia had expended $500 in ten
years for patent medicines. There
had been eleven children in the fam
ily eight of them had died. One dol
lar and eighty cents worth of proper
medicine has cured that family; those
of them left. VIII Oklahoma doctors
get busy? Are there any children in
our schools who are indolent, dull.
who neither play nor learn? Is it a
fact that to have typhoid fever should
be looked upon as disgrace? Has
Vinita board of health? Who ap-
points them, and what are they ap-
pointed for? Vinita is dirty, filthy
town in many spots, and some of these
spots are pretty close to public places.
There are no reflections aimed to be
cast on any officer in this communica-
tion, but that there should be if pres
ent conditions are allowed to remain
as at present. The house-fly is the
progenitor of disease. Filth is the pro-
pagator of flies. If it was summer
time there is filth enough openly ex-
posed to breed flies enough to develope
any kind Of an epidemic produced by
germs.
Respectfully submitted.
CAPT. G. S. WHITE.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
(Second Series.)
MOSES AND SCIENCE NOT IN
CONFLICT.
The Times Preceding The Creation of
Man, as Moses and Geology Assert
(By John Marcus. B. 81

(By Jonn Marcus, Is. 81
Thesis in Text:-"And the earth
was without for mand void; and dark
ness was upon the face of the deep;
and the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.-Gen IL.
In the first verse of Genesis Moses
opened his account Of the origin OF
the Universe-"In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth
and in this sublime statement de-
scribes the state in which our globe
existed Immediately prior to the com.
mencement of the creative acts, which
are found embodied in the remainder
of the first chapter
The Mosaic narrative makes it very
clear to the careful student of the
Bible that vast gap is observable
between the CREATION of the earth
as set forth in the first verse, and the
CONDITION in which it is found and
described in the second verse. In the
former article | adverted to this fact
that there must have elapsed a long
and indefinite period of time. On the
walls of this chasm of time might be
hidden from the exact knowledge OF
the present race of men. On this the
Scripture has but little to say, or at
least we have only hints as to what
transpired to a race of beings that
may have inhabited the pre-Adamite
earth. In another paper the writer
may give his views with regard to this
matter, but 70 rthe present it is pur.
posed to show that there is not a par.
tiele of conflict between the Bible and
actual science, as evidenced in the
testimonies of the very best and ablest
scientists, philosophers and geologists
who have stood, and do stand, at the
head of all of their class.
This much, however, may be said
in this connection: In Jermiah 4:23-26,
lisa. PAL, and 14:18, we see it clearly
indicated that the earth had under
gone a cataclysmic change as the re-
suit of divine judgment. And the
face of the earth, even at the present
time, bears almost everywhere the
marks of such a catastrophe. Fur
thermore, there are not wanting inti-
nations which connect it with prev
ious testing and fall of angels. If my
reader will turn to Ezekiel 28:12-15
and lisa. 14:19-14, which certainly go
beyond the kings of Tyre and Baby
lon, he will find much to reflect upon,
an dthat would seem to point to such
an event of judgment
In succeeding papers l wish to show
that no Christian need fear that the
foundations may be uprooted," for
they are as firm as the throne of God
itself. purpose making manifest the
following facts, as recorded by Moses,
the inerrant transcriber of Gods own
words;
First that what Noses regarding the
period Immediately preceding the
Adamic creation, is in perfect accord
with Science: Viz that the EARTH
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08

planet, covered above its very noun,
tain tops with the black clouds of de.
|struction. was rolling through space
in a horror of great darkness"
Now the question arises, What could
have occasioned so great and terrific
a catastrophe? What was Gods pur
pose in thus destroying the work OF
His hands? If we may draw any in,
ference from the history of our own
race. SIN must have been the cause
of this hideous ruin: "Sin, too" as
Pember says, which would seem to
have been patiently borne with
through long ages, until at length its
cry increased to Heaven, and brought
down utter destruction"
Geology reveals to us the fact that
the fossil remains show, not only that
death and disease prevailed-insepar-
able companions of sin-but that
there prevailed among the then living
creatures of the globe, ferocity and
slaughter. This fact proves that
these remains have nothing to do with
our world; since the Bible asserts that
all things made by God during the Six
Days were very good, and that no evil
was in them till Adam sinned.
Vinita, Okla, March 2, 1912.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
SEVEN YEARS FOR BANKER.

Muskogee, Okla. March 4-Follow-
ing an all days argument for new
trial, Judge Ralph e. Campbell of the
federal court Saturday overruled the
motion of w. l.. Norton, former Tulsa
banker, and sentenced him to term
of seven years in the federal peniten-
tiary.
Norton was convicted by jury here
week ago of making false entries
and misapplication of funds in connec-
ton with the American National bank
of Bartlesville, of which he was for
merly president. He will now appeal
to the United States circuit court of
appeals in st. Louis.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
Jim Grow" Retrial Denied.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. pa new
trial was denied William ]. Thomp-
kins, a negro physician, by Judge Van
Valkenburg in the federal court today.
Thompkins recently lost a 100000
suit against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway and the Pullman com
" in test of the Oklahoma Jim
v" law.
ompkins slept in a Pullman, which
Kansas City, until the train had
red Oklahoma There he was put
of the sleeper.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
(Third Series)
MOSES AND SCIENCE NEVER CON.
FLlCT.
The Earth Once Covered With Water,
Preceded BY Glacial Action.
(By John Marcus.)
FIRST PROPOSITION:

Moses asserts that the earth was
covered with water preceding Mans
advent. With this Science agrees.
All over the face Of our globe we
have the latest geological proof as to
our proposition. The most superficial
deposit on both Eastern and Western
Continents is composed of gravel, sand
and stones, and spread out or heaped
up without stratification or order Of
arrangement. 1t covers not only the
lower and more level tracts of coun-
try, but also the sides and SUBMITS of
mountains. The Writer has seen this
with his own eyes on the Pacific coast
in Western Canada, and in various
parts of the United States, in both
valleys and mountains. This forma-
ton is held by geologists to be the
work of Glaciers, Icebergs, and Water,
during the Glacial Period In the
States of Washington, Oregon, and
British Columbia, and especially
Alaska, are Glaciers that carry on
their slow, moving bosoms great
blocks of stone and masses of earth,
while underneath they carry and push
forward in the same direction other
similar blocks and masses, crunching
and grinding them to fragments and
to clayey paste; and at their lower
ends or bases these mixed materials
are found accumulated and spread out
over greater or lesser extent of
ground
The great geologist, Professor Har-
ris, says:
''As the increasing cold of this per-
iod set in, it gradually encased the
earth, as Greenland is today, in ice
and snow, that went on augmenting
and consolidating in the valleys and
over the sloping plains into vast NOV
ing glaciers. The arctic temperature
these glaciers attained a thickness of
many thousands of feet; and though
advancing but slowly, yet by their ir-
resistible weight and long-continued
ac ion produced vast results over the
face of the earth. Descending from
higher to lower levels, ploughing and
grinding and mixing the earthly ma
terials below, and carrying trains of
fractured rocks and fallen gravel upon
their bosoms, like the Alpine glaciers,
on reaching the sea of milder tenn
perature they discharged and scattered
their great burdens. Long did this
continue, far and wide over the con-
tinents; at length great change of
action took place, but carrying on
the same with very similar results.
The land gradually sunk to great
depth; the sea rushed over II, and in
time lifted the glaciers and icefields
with all the broken rocks and frozen
earth attached to them. and floated
them in icebergs over the plains and
hills as the currents on winds would
carry them. In passing over hill-tops,
or considerable elevations, their great
depth would touch the bottom and
bring them to a stop; there they would
rock and rake, till, like stranded
ship, they would break up, and finally
melt away. and drop their immense
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cargoes over the suface of the sub
merged ground"
Thus the Great Creator prepared
the earth for Mans habitation. II is
fact to be seen in various parts Of
both continents that in this way blocks
of granite weighing scores and even
hundreds of tons We're conveyed from
great distances over plains and val
leys, and landed on the tops of hills
and high mountains, where they still
remain, undoubted witnesses that
those hills and mountains were then
under water NO CLEARER OR
MORE CERTAIN EDIDENCE OF
THIS FACT COULD BE DESIRED
Drs. Page and Professor Jameson
assert that the latitudes in the north
OF Europe underwent vast revolu-
ton as to climate, and that some new
revolution as to sea and land took
place at the same period; at all events.
the large Mammalia of the Tertiary
period disappeared, and THE LAND
WAS SUBMERGED TO THE Ex.
TENT OF SEVERAL THOUSAND
FEET FOR WE FIND WATER.
WORN BOULDERS ON THE TOPS
OF THE HIGHEST HILLS"
What we desire to prove by the best
scientific authorities is, that the pre-.
eedent has been established as to a
universay deluge long before the flood
of Noahs time. And what God AL
mighty did once He could do again.
Now Professor Dana states. from
numerous evidences, that "the aceum-
ulation of ice over North America must
have been at least 1000 to 5000 feet
in thickness, with hundreds of feet
of snow above this. And Agassiz
says that during the greatest ex-
panse of the ice-tields, there were but
few prominent peaks of mountains ris-
ing above them; where the mountains
are much below 5000 feet, the ice
seems to have passed directly over
them" The same conditions prevail
ed at that time in the Eastern Hemis-
phere.
Now then, in concluding this paper.
let us suppose this ice-cap of 5000 or
5000 feet thickness was equal in dens-
ity to more than 1000 feet of earth,
accumulated in similar way. Then
the CENTRE OF GRAVITY must have
been shifted 1000 feet to the north;
and as the ocean would naturally fol
low and adjust itself into sphere
around this new centre, there was nee
essarily a sinking of the water about
the South Pole to the amount Of 900
feet, while an elevation to the same
amount must have taken place around
the North Pole. But this is not all
for at the time the iee-sheet was form
ing on the northern hemisphere.
sheet of equal size was melting at the
southern. This would double the eff.
feet, and produce total submergence
of 1000 feet at the North Pole And
this was amply sufficient to reduce
the earth to precisely the condition de-
scribed by geologists, and in which
MOSES declares it to have been Gov
Erred WITH WATER"
From all the foregoing facts and evi-
dences, given on the authority, and
for the most part in the very words,
of geologists of the highest name, the
conclusion is obvious, and that is we
are entitled to feel warranted to main
tain that the teaching of Scripture is
happily and absolutely corroborated
by the deductions of science.
Vinita, March 1st 1912
Second Proposition)
(This article should have preceded
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
THE PUBLIC FORUM

This department in the Daily and
Weekly Chieftain win be for the use
of correspondents who wish to discuss
subjects Of interest to intelligent read
ers. The Chieftain is not responsible
for the various views hereunder ex-
pressed. All communications should
be brief, pointed and courteous. The
longwinded disquisition will be slower
in getting published, and the short
article will get the most readers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-01
Old Roman Elevators.

Recent correspondence from Rome
tells that Commentators Boni. the di-
rector of the Palatine excavations, has
at last reached the foundations OF the
prehistoric city, upon the site OF which
Rome of the kings was built. He has
also proved that Juvenal and Martial
have been correctly construed by
philologists when they declared that
the word "pegma" or 'pegmata" did
not always mean the mechanical de-
vice at a theater used to lift actors
aloft on a platform, but often meant
an elevator operated by weights anu
used TO lift the ancient Roman from
his garden to his house, which might
stand on the cliff above. At both the
Palatine and in the Forum the Com
mendatore has found relies of these
''pegmae" used in private houses.
Among the most striking of recent
finds is a series of beautiful frescoes
of the Had, which Commentators
Boni assigns to the period of Vergifs
youth. We may thus imagine the
future author of the second book OF
AEneid, studying from these pictorial
representations the tale of Troy d.
vine" on the famous hill to which he
dedicated so much of his eighth canto.
Thanks to the deep borings which
he has carried out it is now possible
as he says, to expose to view the ms
tory of the Palatine from the earliest
tn the latest times of classical
antiouity-from the primitive settle
ments of the Prisco- Latins down TO
the splendors and extravagances OF
the imperial age, from Evander TO
Heliogabalus.
One of the most important hnos 10
the base of the imperial throne III
what Commentators Boni calls Donil-
tian,s coronation room: the throne
was approached by three steps o.
Egyptian granite, of which fragments
are living about on the spot. FROM
the throne to the altar is naturai
transition; from the thone OF Doihi-
tian we pass to the vast altar Oh
Heliogabalus, that strange heirophah'
T., tho long list of Roman emperors'
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Wnman lie Eco Expert.

Investigations OF TWO OF the Woii" .
r,ost commonly used foods, eggs ana
noultry. have, established Dr. Mary y.
pennington's reputation as an expert Oh
the United States Bureau OF Chemistry
popularly called the Pure Food Bureau.
n, Pennington, who is chief of the Gov
arnmeut,s food research laboratory at
pbiladalnhia. is one of the highest sal
or;ad women under civil service, and is
tha only woman who has been placed in
charge of one of the research lapoFa-
tories used for pure food Investigations.
She receives a salary of $1,000 year, ana
has a corps of Is assistants on her stan.
This position has been won after seven
vears, hard work for the Government.
DIR Pennington having been appointed
A meteorological chemist in the Bureau
of Chemistry in 1905, after taking her
undergraduate degrees from the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. She was promoted
70 her present position four years ago
she is making studies of eggs and poul-
trv not with view of increasing the
volume of these farm products, but IN
regard to improved methods of conser-
walton of these articles of food by better
handling and refrigeration In her
on;nion. better methods must be adopted
in the handling of poultry and eggs 10
protect the nations food supply, to give
more profits to the farmer, and to give
the consumer an improved grade and
more wholesome product at reasonable
price According to DR.. Pennington, care
less handling and excessive waste make
the public pay high for an inferior pro-
duct. A revolution in the industry OF
producing eggs will be brought about
and the product much improved II the
shippers who gather eggs will follow the
Government experts suggestions to buy
by quality and not by. count ,a as
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At present. DR. Pennington thinks that
there is too much buying by case count
that is. purchasing in cases by the 90
dozen lotsA Under this system good eggs
may become mixed with bad by the
country merchants. who gather the pro-
duct in small quantities Buying by
count puts the bad farmer on the same
level as the good farmer and there is no
incentive to take extra care and trouble
to get the eggs TO market in a frests
clean. and unbrollen condition. BY grad
ing eggs, and selling by quality, there is
a gradual improvement of the product.
and the profits of both the farmer and
shipper are increased.
The woman investigator estimates that
nearly half a billion dollars are spent
for the eggs which are eaten by the peo-
pie of the. United states "a eh year, sthe
farms producing more than s2,0eo,eOo
cases of IS dozen eggs each. In New
York alone nearsv 5oO0Aoo eases pf eggs
are used each year, and the number
eaten annually by each person is more
than 800.
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Stamp Out tuberculosis.


Is. it pessible?s Yesu it can be done
rightpheres in Augusta it is an in
fectiohs ana also preventable disease
Proper education of the public as 70
its dangars and method of corhmuni
cation together with careful medical
treatment and supervision will pre-
vent it. The Augusta Anti Tuber-
culosis League is organized TO do this
work. Do you want to help the
League in its attack on this disease
Then join it by sending your name
and one dollar to Mr.. Edwin C. Dud-
ley. treasurer. 3 Meonian Bldg. He
will acknowledge its receipt and make
you a member for one year. Every
dollar counts. Send il now. 1t will
be used TO help support. among other
things. a visiting nurse, and dis
pensary.
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The Death of Vice President Sherman

The death of Vice President SHEER
man Is peculiarly sad. at the close
of a campaign from which he has
been barred from active part by ILL.,
ness, to his sincere regret. 1t has
been 10 Mr.. Sherman a marked mis-
fortune that he could not perform
his part of the strenuous work fos
his party in its hour of need.
Mr.. Sherman was a kindly man of
genial and generous disposition, loyal
of his ideals and devoted to his
friends. his party and his country.
His faith in the principles of Repub-
licanism never faltered and his devo-
ton to those principles caused him to
be twice honored as candidate for
Vice. President of the United States.
Contrary TO many fears expressed
by the public, the death of Mr.. Sher-
man will introduce no complications.
Should the National Republican COM
mittee fail in its position the Elee-
toral College is competent to name
another for Vice President In case
of failure there, the U. S. Senate could
still perform that duty.
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add them and you will have the
dota of the fall of the German En-
pre- said the witch. =,
The figures added together came 70
1913
All this was told on the authority Oh
the Great william, who had about as
little superstition III his makeup as
any man living to-day.
He did not pretend TO account loi
the accuracy of the aged seeress lore
casts. He simply stated them as an
incident of his career
And twice the old womans propne-
cies have proved true. WIZ the
third and last of her forecasts De YER
flied by history? ,,a
II is this which the German people
are asking ana which they woulo sise
,pucb TO know. And in tWeiVeiiioii'ii
,ba;r nuestion will have been answer
ed v,,,..,
Tho old story was told when William
+ died in 1885, after being eroWheu
Emnercr in. 1S71se Now II has been re-
yived on the eve of the greatest crlsls
the empire has ever faced.
Ubether one is superstitious or hot
g is pregnant with possibilities, TINS
la ct of the old wife's prophecies.
VIII the German Empire fall IN
1918?
Who knows?
And meanwhile the red flood oil So
cialism rises higher.-New YORK lei
egram.
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Water Receptacles.

We in this country have SO MANY
kinds of cheap pals, cans, boxes ana
receptacles of all sorts ready 10 oui
hand that it is hard to realize what
straits the people in cruder lanos are
nut to for such things. In large pa,,
of the Orient wine and water are sun
carried and stored in bags mace oi
skin. usually goatskin with the nan
side inside, just as in Bible days Even
now the same rule applies asaiiis.
quitting new wine into old pol1'es,
for the ,lampness soon rots the iea'h,
or and makes it weak. In ASA anu
Africa bamboo joints are utilzeo io'
making receptacles in great variety.
The bamboo in favored places gro"
70 a diameter of six inches or more
and a Joint" from foot to TWO Zee.
or more long, makes an ideal bottie Vi
ing for nature provides it with a
partition of each joint which makes l.
watertight Bamboo is very light ana
very strong. and it is a strange thihe
that it is not imported into the united
states for it would be used in immense
quantities for a thousand purposes
Pathfinder.