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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17
"If You Want to Live. Live at Pensa-
cola, Okla

This new NJ o. & G. railway town
Is located on the Grand river Just
east of Big Cabin creek on the Wilson
ranch in Mayes county. and is now
open to the public Those waiting
any information regarding business or
resident lots. may have same By com.
ing to townsite or writing James S.
Wilson. Pensacola, Okla. or seeing
Chas. Teenor yinita, Okla. the local
agent.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

The Mexican reyolutionists are hurl-
ing taunts across the border. They
would be thoroughly at home on our
bleachers.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

As economy is the SHELTON in the
congressional closet which should not
be alluded to in polite society. it is
surprising that President Taft drags
out the hideous subject in another
message
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

II you want something to talk about
in society you will find more material
by attending the automobile show
than by readifg shakespeare
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

How can they expect to enlarge the
circulation of the Congressional Rec
ord until they make it the right size
to line the bureau drawer with2
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

If you only get one delegates out of
a dozen. it is obvious that the Money
Power must have bought the rest. or
the majority would not be so big.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

All the congressman favor reduc-
ing the number of navy yards and
army posts. but as each of them is in
some ones district. none of them can
be touched
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

Although no one is reported to be
a candidate for the vice-presiGency,
il is too early to assume that no one
will take the job unless the pay is
raised.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

On those blue days when the de-
spair of the future of the republic.
Just wash your Office windows and
see how much brighter the political
outlook is.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

Some imprudent citizens remain at
home Saturday afternoon to clean up
the back yard. but it's more diplomatic
to lie low and see if your wife won't
do ii.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

They are busy at Washington man
ufaeturing political capitol. but it's
another thing TO get out on the road
and sell the stock to the voters.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

The most effective use OF the aero
plane in war is to give one to the
enemy and tempt him to have some
one 60 up in it,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

Hair dressing, massaging, shampoo
and hair switches speciality. Phone
6l2. $40 South Smith street. SCOTT
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17
DR.. A. w. HEBRON
PhYsician and Surrann

office in Barrett Building 10SK South
Wilson Street.
once Phone 26S, Residence Phone lss
Residence 223 South Adair Street
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-17

The Mexican revolution is the prin-
eipal sporting news nov
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
NEWSPAPER TRUTH.

Newspaper men over the country
will only laugh when they read this
paragraph in the current issue Of
Life:
What is really needed is some kind
of law by which when you read a
newspaper you can tell what articles
are true and what are not. That is,
of course, assuming that newspapers
sometimes publish the truth
Life goes on to explain the old pop
ular theory that newspaper articles
are colored and distorted in order to
make interesting reading material
The average intelligent newspaper
reader who stops to think of the
sources by which newspapers gather
their news and the experienced heads
that watch closely the possible bub-
bling of over-anxious reporters and
the ambition of each newspaper to
give out the facts and the facts only,
will join with newspaper men over
the country in laughing at this article
in Life.
AS old as the original mother-in-law
joke is the humorous idea that news
papers, as a whole, play with the
truth and dabble with the facts in
order to create screams for the head
lines and attract sensationally the
eye of the reader. This theory really
belongs between the covers of the his
tory of mythology. 1t is a deceptive
straw that sometimes is grabbed by
street car readers of red headlines.
Newspaper do not always print the
truth-but all worthy papers print
what they think is the truth. If they
are misled they hasten to correct.
The paper that gives the facts is the
paper that is accepted in the home
and is read around the evening fire
side. Goodness knows, the bare facts
alone are oftimes decorated with
enough sensationalism to appease the
appetite of the most scandal-hungry
reader.
However, If Life should have its
way and applaud law that woulo
make a newspaper swear to the We
racity and verify its news it woul6
find little change in the newspaper
that are read widely in the Ameri
can homes. The libel law takes
care of the truth lodging newspapers
and the accepted unwritten law OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
AYHAWKER JOTS

News item: "a switchman from Her
| ington was shot in the railroad yarus
at Horton by another man." Rallroao
men certainly have querr anatomles'
Political wall from Minneapolis
Messenger: Slides of snow or rock OF
dirt in the mountains do not use mucn
discretion about sweeping away WnaI
is in their paths, and pohtlcal slloes
are often the same
Muses. Bert Walker: I have found
that when take a week off and AZ
tend to nobody's business but my own
get on with a whole lot less worry.
If you don't think this is so, try II
yourself.
Society item from Cassoday Times
A woman can use perfume and make
the odor a part of her dainty per-
sonaIity But give a man some or the
same extract and he will smell IKE
fire in drug store.
The Leavenworth Post is not worried
over war talk. Listen: We don't wish
Europe any hard luck, but if a general
war is to come, let her come While
the Kansas farmers have plenty Oh
wheat to feed the hungry armies.
The Norton Telegram surely meant
the automobile was owned by grocer
or a doctor or a dentist when 1t sald'
E. E. Jeter, editor of the Lenora News,
came over in an auto this morning to
ty commissioners.
Grand opera item from the Green's
burg Progressive; Casey Jones has
died a shrieking, whistling, phono-
graphic death, but his ghost still lin
gers, wandering ainlessly around and
sometimes issues his rag-time note
from the absent minded lips of a
passerby.
Grocers must be selling lots of rice
in Concordia. Note from Blade:
record rush was enjoyed by the mar
riage license department Of the probate
court Saturday evening and Sunday
and it is evident that Cupid is not
being scared by the. hard times buGa-
boo.
Apparently Lawrence has a griev-
ance against the way her street car
system is being operated. The Journal
World has this to say about the COM
pany's owner: The defeat of w. B. Nc
Kinley, the campaign manager Of Taft,
is impressive and is along the lines OF
good government. Mckinley belonged
to the old school and he was typical
practical politician. He had no place
in the advancing political movement
of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
EVENING CHAT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Ayoung girl bred in a small, suburban
! village, recently married a man from a
| large city and came to his home to live.
OF course there were many things in
the new environment which surprised and
interested her, and it was a pleasure to
hear her naive comments, but the one
comment which interested me far above
all the others was this: The women that
have met here are always talking about
how to keep ones husband faithful as If
that were the chief problem woman had
to worry about Why, in my home a
woman's chief problems were finances
and children and making a comfortable
home, and things like that The women
in our town were true to their husbands
and expected as much of them. There
were one or two men that people said
went around with other women, but that
was considered a terrible disgrace We
never expected it to happen right in our
own families the way you do here"
Seems to me that the little country
be sounded. In the last ten or fifteen
years women'S eyes have been opened !;
they have ceased to be the blind and
trusting wives, mothers and sisters they
used to be. And that think, is well
But is it not possible that some of us
have opened our eyes altogether too wide
and are seeing much more gloomy state
of affairs than really exists?
Ayoung married woman asserted to me
that she did not believe that more than
25 per cent of married men were faithful
to their wives.
What nonsenseI There may be a So
called upper class of society in which
that is true, but it most emphatically is
not anywhere near true of the backbone
of the country, the middle class, the peo-
pie you and know.
To hold ones husbands romantic love,
to keep him always A sweetheart, that is
indeed a problem and one that few wo-
men are capable of solving.
But to keep a husband faithful! don't
think that's a problem that the average
woman-or should 1 say the wife of the
average man-needs to worry about, I'M
less she gets into the I've-got-him-a nd-so-
it-doesn' matter-how-I-dress-an d-act at
titude.
To be sure, married life isn't all on the
heights, isn't all smooth sailing, but then
neither is any condition of life.
When married people aren't happy they
are likely to think it is because they
married, It's more apt to be just because
they are themselves and because they
are living in an ordinary old world,
where there is always more or less to
trouble and annoy. Half the time when
we think our problem is How to be
happy though married. it's simply 'How
to be happy though human"
Let's not make the mistake of being
cynical and pessimistic about marriage
and the sex relations, just because we
have acquired little knowledge.
1t really doesn't pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14

laughter. His idol not only remained;
she assembled even higher on her
pedestal She had taken this harmless
way of letting him know that she was
a Vassar girl and that she would be
there during the coming winter.
Suddenly Tommy swept in the other
girls Was there perhaps one among
them whom he knew?
by Jove, yes!" Tommy beamed in
wardly. THAT is Sylvester's sister just
behind my divinity. will look up Syl-
vester, renew my acquaintance with
his sister Jane, and lo!-this winter
dances" Tommy sighed contentedly.
"A spring wedding is most probably
what I will be in for"
A few days later Edna Fenton and
Jane Sylvester were shopping for the
coming term at college.
Edna, dear" Jane put in suddenly,
Il want you to have a perfect love OF
an evening gown for the dances this
winter
Jane Edna blushed and turned
questioning eyes on her chum, you
always have some male person whom
you want me to meet. Who is it this
time?''
Jane colored guiltily, then smiled.
He is six feet tall, has reddy-brown
hair and laughing blue eyes, and is
perfectly mad to-come to the Vassar
dances-I wonder?" Jane looked sud
denly and suspiciously at Edna. Edna
Fenton, you have been flirting this
summer
Edna lashes futtered down much
as if Tommy Dean had looked into her
eyes.
''It don't matter" Jane continued,
because Tommy is the very man my
brother and 1 have had in mind for
you = but for goodness sake, please
have a decent wedding and not an
lopement-though I fear, from the
look in Tommy's eyes, that the latter
will be the case"
Edna blushed and slipped a hand
within James.
Tommy and I have always been
conventional" she said. = Copyright,
1912. by McC1ure's Newspaper Syndi-
cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
BACK mo THE som.

They write and they talk about Back to
the Soil,'
The men in the cities broad mart;
Ihey sing of the farm with its health
giving charm,
And living near natures heart.
Ihey talk of the sunrise, song of the lark,
The lay of the gold-earning hen;
Ihey sing OF the trees and the whispering
breeze,
These artists of speech and of pen.
They paint in rare colors the glory Of
dawn,
And picture the roses of June;
They hand out the goods of the meadows
and woods,
The glow of the rare harvest moon.
They sing of the sheep on a thousand
hills,
The lowing of cattle all day;
They tell of the glad, and leave out the
sad,
These men in the cities broad way.
o, Back to the Soi1' is all very well,
If you're blessed with bundle of rocks;
1t takes a big pile to farm it in style,
And meet all the setbacks and knocks.
I've tried the old farm as a boy, as a man,
And this truth is sunk deep in my knob;
With all of it's charm, the best time to
farm
Is while holding a good city job.
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
DEFINITIONS OF "a FRIEND"
TFrom Tit-Bits.1


The first person who comes in when the
whole world has gone out.
A bank of credit on which we can draw
suppIies of confidence, counsel, sympathy,
help and love.
One who combines for you alike the
pleasures and benefits of society and SOL
tude.
A jewel whose luster the strong acids of
poverty and misfortune cannot dim.
One who multiplies joys. divides griefs,
and whose honesty is inviolable.
One who loves the truth and you, and
will tell the truth in spite of you.
The Triple Alliance of the three great
powers, Love- Sympathy and Help.
A watch which beats true for all time,
and never runs down"
A permanent fortification when ones an
fairs are in a state of siege.
one who to himself is true, and there
fore must be SO to you.
A balancing pole to him who walks
across the tight-rope of life,
The link in lifes long chain that bears
the greatest strain.
A harbor of refuge from the stormy
waves of adversely.
One who considers my need before ny
deServings.
The jewel that shines brightest in the
darkness.
A stimulant TO the nobler side of our
nature.
A volume of sympathy bound in cloth.
A diamond in the ring of acquaintance.
A star of hope in the cloud of adversely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
HUNOR or THE Day

Gas Turned Down, But He Wasn't
Maud-So you've accepted Jack. You
must regard him in different light from
what you used to. Ethel-To tell the
truth, there wasn't any light at all when
1 accepted him..Boston Transcript.
son fall on his neck and weep?" Cos
he had ter kill the fatted calf, an de son
wasn't wort ft."-Houston Post.
PA, why is fool and his money soon
parted?'' $50 that a wise guy live
without working, my boy."-Detroit Free
Press.
Contentment is the sweet satisfaction
of knowing that you have more of this
worlds goods than you can possibly use.
Puck.
HE means we'll" Maybe so, maybe
so, but I fired him because he's too
blamed willing to let it go at that
Detroit Free Press.
Knicker-But you can't shoot before
the seasons opens. Bocker-It makes no
difference; never hit anything, anyway.
Judge.
THAT girl has rejected me three times"
confided the disconsolate youth "WelI,"
replied Miss Cayenne, you should feel
encouraged. A girl who will listen to
three proposals from the same man must
think something of Observation-Disclosures
Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
KANSAS COAAENT
ADVICE NOT TAKEN.


1t does look as if the great mould
ers of public opinion had lost the
mould. In the recent deplorable cleo
ton none of the great men of Kansas
carried their own precincts and none
of the great newspapers circulating in
this state were backed up by their own
communities. Beginning at the big
end, there is the Kansas City star
which could see nothing but Roose-
welt and yet when the returns came in
Kansas City went against Roosevelt
by a large majority. William Allen
White and the Emporia Gazette have
fought most CALAMITY for the Bull
Moose and for Stubs, but Lyon coun-
ty went against them with a whoop.
Down in Wichita Henry Allen and
Victor Murdoch, with their great
newspapers, labored for the Progress
sives, but Sedgwick county went DEM
ocratic and especially jolted the Unit
ed States senator. Joe Dolley's coun-
ty of Wabunsee went for Hodges
and Thompson. Joe MERGERS county
did likewise. Stubs lost his home
ward and his home county. The To-
peka Capital lost its editor a lot of
votes by supporting Stubs, but Shaw
nee county went against Stubs by an
awful lot. Congressman Jackson was
beaten in his home county. So was
Brady and the Lawrence Journal.
Senator Bristow's county went DEM
ocratic and beat Stubs by big ma
jority. And so it goes clear down the
line, even to the News which had to
see Taft and Stubs lose Reno coun-
ty. Very evidently the voters of Kan
sas marked their ballots as they pleas
ed and not as they were told.-Hutch-
inson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
ny THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Most of the secrets of success aren't
secrets.
You may ask too much, but the
chances are you won't get it.
Waiting for someone else to do it is
not the swiftest way to get it done.
Laziness isn't acute until one would
rather freeze than work to keep warm.
Even if one wouldn't accept, there is
a certain satisfaction in getting the in
vitation.
If you don't give your friends the
best of it you will give them the worst
of it.
AS one grows older, he would hate
to live in a country where it showed
enough to suit boy.
There is a difference between con-
versation and monologue that some
gushers fail to grasp.
An Atchison woman is so slow she is
called The Parade: it takes her SO long
to pass a given point.
Probably the hardest job is to keep a
white horse from looking like it should
be sent to the laundry.
1t is our theory that speeches seldom
are sufficiently important to warrant
printing them in book form.
Women are this sensible: Skirts one
sees on the streets are rarely as tight
as those outlined in the fashion mags.
ST kick a good deal, but not so much
as I used to before finding out how
very little it was apt to help matters.''-
Rufe Hoskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
says UNCLE CAV

Since life is sooner or later strug-
gle, that young man is fortunate who
learns early to give blows and take,
and who is made aware by hard eXpe-
rience that whatever we do not fear
We may conquer. He reaches the hey
day of manhood fully armed and un-
afraid. Thus equipped, there are few
who may say him nay.
He that greets Hardship on the
threshold of youth may find her a
cruel taSkmiStress, but still a friend.
For it is her peculiar function to act
as nurse to the potential conqueror,
that he may in the end overcome her
and turn her out of doors. Her dis
cipline is rigorous, but they that in
good time show her the door are a
hardy breed.
There is no scurVier trick of fate
than that which banishes Hardship
from the cradle only to permit her
to stink at the side of her victim on
his downhill path to the grave. 1t is
no misfortune to have had toll
hardened youth, if toll has made
Whom the gods hate they lull in the
cradle and crush a little way this side
of the tomb. 1000
1t is no idle boast of the self-made
man that he has learned mastery
where others have been born to a
mblance of it, only to lose even that
counterfeit. 1t is not without excel
lent grounds that he boasts that his
strength is superior to that of his
neighbor of the sheltered IDuth. For
he that has fought his way up through
poverty and misfortune has girded his
loins with enduring courage, and for
shield he bears the knowledge that
his strength is equal to all demands.
copyrighted, 1912 by the Mcclure
News Syndicate,)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
QUAKER MI-DrTATIoNs

IFrom the Philadelphia Recordl
Only a fool will take his holiday be-
fore he earns it.
Even the egotist may have the wool
pulled over his rs.
1t is seldom that a man is a beau
and bow-Iegged, too.
Contentment is a jewel that doesn't
depend on its setting.
Never borrow trouble today that
you can put off till tomorrow.
Many a woman is more apt to wor-
ry about her complexion than about
her conscience.
The man who hides his light under
a bushel is apt to think the whole
world is in darkness.
NeII-"Young Mr.. Saphedde prides
himself upon being well balanced"
Belle.-"Yes, he even parts his hair
in the middle"
The shoe dealer always has to be-
gin at the foot, but the halter realizes
from the first that there is plenty of
room at the top.
Happiness is altogether matter of
capacity. A second piece of pie means
more to a small boy than a six per
cent dividend means to his father.
Wigwag-'I have never known that
slow Bjones to help any one out of
difficulty" Guzzler-"Oh don't
now; he sometimes carries a cork
rev.
I've never made election bets;
never hope to make one.
They've not we find with vain re-
regrets,
So apt to make as break one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-14
FROM OTHER PENS
NEW KANSAS IDEA


There used to be a popular supeesti-
ton that every man in Kansas was a
politician, but there is at least one in
that state who isn't. He is Dean C. H.
Johnston, of the University School of
Education, of Topeka, and it is a moral
certainty that he never expects to go
before the people in an election, for he
advocates depriving school children of
their customary holidays, shortening
the vacation period, and having sessions
six days week instead of five. The
youngsters are in arms, as might be ex-
pected, and as they will grow UP some
day and have the ballot, boys and girls
alike, the political outlook for Prof
Johnston would appear to be a brunette
one. According to the professor there is
no reason why the schools should re-
main closed three months out of the
year, with a loss in efficiency to the
organization. He believes that teachers
are as able to get along with an an
nual vacation of two weeks as are
clerks, business men, and other brain
workers, while he thinks that the
American child enjoys too much play.
and is better off in school than on the
street. Every fall, he declares, it takes
three weeks for the instructors to over
come the evil effects of the vacation,
which has upset discipline. He points
his argument with the statement that
in order to attain its greatest efficiency
machine must be run as many hours
as possible. The vital flaw in the argu-
ment, of course, is that school children
are not machines: nor is II desirable
that they should be. The factory child
is machine. but would Prof. Johnston
go SO far as to claim that he is superior
to the school child? The modern tend
ency is entirely opposed this theory.
Not only is the vacation for teachers
and pupils an established custom, but
the treadmill processes are constantly
being thrown aside. The school child
of the future not only will have vaca-
tons and plenty of them, bur greater
freedom, less studying to do, especially
at home, and he will begin his schooling
at later age.-Washington Post.