The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1903 Page: 4 of 34
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THE CHANDLER NEWS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1903.
ON THE "DUDE" TRAIN.
Johnny Drummer, Wha is Side-
Tracked to Let the Limited Go
By, Expresses His Senti-
ments Regarding that
Superb Train.
"It has been ny dieam of joy supreme
To ride in plush and velvet splendor,
Parlor car for a swell tail-ender,
Platform fenced with a swell brass fender,
On the Regular Limited Train.
Electric bells right under your nose,
Porter to come and brush your clothes,
Grub in the diner, the best that grows,
A downy bunk for a night's repose,
On the Regular Limited Train.
Chorus
Biff! Bang! A mile a minute,
No other method of travel is in it.
I want to go ripping, skipping and zipping
Away on the Limited Train.
These lines ate not original with
me. They are taken from a tuneful
comedy, "Peggy from Paris. "The
little ditty sung in George Ade's
jingle danced through my brain the
other day as we lay on the siding at
Prairie junction, or some other place,
to let the Santa Fe's westbound Cal-
ifornia Limited go by. It was a
gorgeous train of palace cars, and
behind the plate glass observation
windows beauty ana fashion and
youth and old age were lolling
among the luxuriant cushions, some
visiting, some reading, some pleas-
antly dozing, some making wreaths
of cigar smoke, some gazing dream-
ily through the windows at the pass-
ing of cities and fields and forests
and rivers.
I stood on the rear platform of the
last car of our train and watched
the California Limited as she faded
away toward the golden west. And
I thought of the difference between
travel now and travel in the days of
'49, when it took the gold seeker
half a long, weary year, filled with
all kinds of hardships, to travel the
distance that is now covered in three
days. I thought of the slowly mov-
ing wagons, the dust, the stones, the
jolting, the thirst, the hunger, the
homesickness, the snail-like crossing
of the plains, the laborious climbing
of mountains, the weary, dragging
weeks, the never-ending trail.
In these palaces that had just
glided by were people going to the
same place to spend the winter
months where the climate is perpetual
summer. And they were not to en-
dure a single hardship on the jour-
ney. When night came they were
to lie in beds whose soft embrace
makes sleep a luxury—and in the
day time the velvet cushions of their
seats were to be made deeper still by
pillows—and they were to spend a
delightful part of their time in the
gilded and glittering dining car,
where e^fery dainty thst ever tickled
the palate is enticingly served—in
short, they were to have on the trip
all the comforts of home, and of the
best kind of home.
I stood there and watched them
pass out of sight while my soul was
consumed with envy. But I de-
rived some consolation out of re-
solving that some time I, too, would
see California, and I promised my-
self that if ever I did go there it
would be over the Santa Fe.
"Johnny Drummer."
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A Few
Hot Prices
8 Pounds New Prunes for 25c
8 Bars Silk or Lennox Soap for 25c
12 Bars Laundry Soap for 25c
2 Cans Good Salmon for 15c
8 Packages Washing Powder fot 25c
Large Pail Jelly for 35c
4 Pounds Choice Mixed Candy for 25c
2 Pounds Morning Glory Coffee for 35c
Everything else in proportion.
If Competitors Sell as Cheap Let Them Advertise.
LEADER GROCERY CO.
Opposite First National Bank.
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Are You Foolish?
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Boy :—Say, Pa, what do they mean by saying "Penny wise
and pound foolish?"
Father :—"Why, it's where a man loses a dollar to save
a nickle."
Boy :—"Well, Pa, were you that way when you let your hogs
all die because you did not want to pay out money for Liquid
Koal that CORBIN & LYNCH sell so much of."
Father :—"Johnnie, don't talk so much."
13 loom field. Neb,, Dec. 18, 1902.
I have sold Liquid Koal for si your now and never have found an
article that gives such universal satisfaction as Liquid Koal does.
I can safely say that i have not one dissatisfied customer, I honestly
think that if every farmer vould use it there would 1 e very little
hog cholera in the courftry. 0 H. G. Mundkbi/jh
Due Hundred Dollars deposited iu the following banks for anyone who linds any
of the testimonials we publish from time to time not genuine: City National Bank,
York. Nek: Sheldon Mate HanK Sheldon. Io Oklahoma Tru^ ;trd Hanking Co.,
Oklahoma < ity, Okla. Manufactured by National Medical Co .Sheldon, la. York,
Neb. For sale and guaranteed 1' (~\ |> "RTNJ /A T YMPH
Use according to directions and if V-/V/ITS-IN KD X li
it does not prove satisfactory, Chandler, OKla.
your money bacK.
Love and G. W. Dog Irons.
A pair of rusty old dog-irons, that
are adorned with correct pictures or
images of the father of his country
are priceless relics in Comrade W.
H. Allanbaugh's well-filled curiosity
shop. He has flatly refused to ex-
change the fire-place irons for a span
of big mules.
There* is quite a romantic history
connected with the over-hundred-
year-old irons. Mr. Allanbaugh
first saw the dog-irons at the fire-
place of the rebel, Bell, who was a
member of Jeff Davis' cabinet, and
our hero was detailed to guard the
Bell premises and family, near Mur-
phreesboro, Tenn. Miss Bell, a
charming beauty, and young Allan-
baugh became well acquainted, but
their opposite political ideas pre-
vented their getting married.
Our hero bluntly informed the
young lady that next to herself he
thought more of the dog-irons with
Washington's profile on them than
of anything else on ihe Bell planta-
tion. She promised to will them to
him, and gave him writings to that
effect. He was soon ordered to
other parts of the seat of war and
never saw the preity girl again. He
often, however, thoifght about those
striking G. W. dog-irons.
Three years ago some good spirit
induced him to stop a few minutes at
a small house near tne road-side
somewhere in Oklahoma. The col-
ored family were packing their house-
hold goods into a wagon, preparatory
to moving to Texas. Just then he
spied the George Washington dog-
irons, and he was almost paralyzed
with astonishment. He asked a few
questions, and was told that the dog
irons during the war were in Massa
Bell's house on Stone river, in Ten-
nessee, and young miss willed them
to a Yankee soldier by the name of
Will Allanbaugh, but thaf he
never found. He induced the col-
ored folks to wait until the n?xt day,
when he would produce the will. He
hastened, found Miss Bell's piece of
writing and returned with it next
morning. Some of the negroes were
able to decipher the dog-iron will,
| and the old colored lady recollected
j when he stood guard outside the
Bell mansion in 1863. The irons
were gladly turned over to the right-
ful heir of the curiosities. Comrade
Allanbaugh .is now convinced that
'■truth is often stranger than fic-
tion."
The Oklahoma War Chief.
E. L. Brown, of the blooming city
of Davenport, near Chuckaho, called
at the News office the other day,
i and having been a chum of the late
boomer Captain David Payne dur-
ing that fearless pioneer's campaigns
! for the opening of Oklahoma, from
the first to the last, told some perti-
nent historical facts about the Okla-
homa Boomer War Chief, which was
printed by the boomers on a boomer
press in the boomer land of Okla-
homa.
The first edition, which consisted
of about 40 copies, was printed on
the Chickaska, about four miles west
of Hunnewell, Kan. Most of the
papers were captured and burned by
ihe soldiers, who also dtstroyed and
| scattered the type belonging to the
printing concern. They tried to de-
molish the press with a sledge ham-
mer, but*happily failed. Then Cap-
tain Payne and the' other editors of
the War Chief had a few small
editions of the paper printed in
Kansas. They took a lot of new
type along with them to near the
present Oklahoma City, and after
fixing up their old printing press,
editedana published several editions
J of the Chief. All the papers were
promptly mail- ! to the boomers' rel-
atives and friends in the states.
Mr, Brown, who was one of the
editors of the War Chief, says that
they published the paper every now
and then up to the noble Captain
Peyne's death. He doesn't know
what became of the press, but is
willing to pay twenty dollars for a
copy of the Chief and $100 for the
historical boomer press. He prom-
ises to donate the press to the Okla-
homa Historical Society if he ever
gets a sure hold of that identical
printing press.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1903, newspaper, December 31, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117740/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.