The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-18

some lllQFl4aL.QA OF Li-ls SUI t1-r
fully stored in the reeesses Of his
Uranium. and this is very valuable
Biblical knowledge. and il may be
that be knows the surnames OF each
OF the three Hebrew children Who
passed through the fiery furnace with
out being singed; and it might be too.
that be knows the names Of the innO-
cent children that we're destroyed by
the lions in the den where Daniel had
been thrown. and King Darius finding
thar Daniel had not been hurt, thought
out a refinement of cruelty and threw
the wives and children OF the parties
that accused Daniel The Book says
with great gusto that the lions brake
the bones Of the bodies OF these innO-
cent wives and children DisbOlical
crime, Yet this is the book from
which we draw our morality. civiliZa-
ton and justice, Could the Devil de-
wise a more refined system Of cruelty?
The Captain NAV have in his delibera-
tions over the morality Of the sacred
book. pondered on the peculiar test
that Moses devised TO prove the virtue
OF a woman that was under suspicion
For fear that this has slipped his
mind. ana 70 further convince him
that the assertion that be iterates and
reItsrates viz That the Bible is the
foundation for morality quote this
classic test
And the priest shall take holy
water in an earthen vessel; and of the
dust that is in the floor Of the taber-
nacle the priest shall ltake. and put it
into the water.
And the priest shall write these
curses in a book, and he shall blot
them out with the bitter water;
And he shall cause the woman to
drink the bitter water that eauseth
the curse: and the water that causeth
the curse shall ener into her and be-
come bitter LEV. XIV. 49, 52l
This was not all. an animals flesh
was burned and mixed with the water.
And when he hath made her drink
the water. then it shall come to pass.
that if she be detiled. her
abdomenl shall swell and her thigh
shan lot: ard the woman shall be a
curse among her people. Mum. Y.
l1. 20
This luminous way Of discovering
crime. certainly out deduees any Of
the Sherlock Holmes methods used by
the Captain in his palmiest days. This
was method which did not fail II
guilty. the curse followed, if not, no
result. A most wonderful Third De
gree police method
Now I have word OF apology for
the Captain. Like the besoued Fal-
staff. of Shakespeare's creation. he
babbles of green fields in his old age
and is retrospective, and things do not
, appeal to him that once excited his
most earnest inquiry. Every man has
his period OF dotage and decay-per-
iods when the blood IS running cool.
and doubtless it is these periods OF
time when the New Jerusalem appeals
to an individual so strong. OF course
according to the doctrine of the nth,
hour miracle, the man. who in the
Language Of Lorenzo Dow, has burned
the candle for the Devil and snuffed
il in the Lords face. is assured Of a
permanent residence in the Celestial
City. but how inexpressibly sad for the
Captain to have to acknowledge TO St.
Peter. that the reason he reached the
City OF the Biest, was because he was
scared there.
can not resist the desire in refer
enee TO the reputation the Captain
gave me in his last article to quote a
line from Shakespeare:
He who steals my purse steals
trash; But he that steals my good
name, taketh that which enricheth him
not. and makes me poor indeed. I
/ All Of the writer's in the Forum have
attempted to answer the arguments in
the same manner, l. e. by calling
names and invoking the aid of slander.