The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1900 Page: 4 of 4
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PREPARED
Paints
Why put your good money in
to a painters hand to buy ma
terial for painting your house when
you can get the product of yeare of
exper I 6ii oe
for less mon
ley? The old
ystera of pre
paring pum
from the raw
material as i
id used has
long gone in
to practica
disuse. With
out the appli
ances it i ii. xi to impossible to
eecure the Hume shade in two ssp
arate lota of pHint to nay nothing
of the quality. Ibis trouble can
be avoided by using prepared
ins
?"rtSriCOBej
SLVOUIB.MO iUS;
paints bandied by us.
P. G. Browning
"PHONE 30.
Three Marriage Licences.
Marriage licenses wore Issued today
to Robl. Wells and Cora Highland of
Catale; W. P Parish and Pearl Starr
of Alluwe. and Frank P. Ilagerty and
Cora Bluejacket of Wuejaeket.
Not Proof Against Disease.
W. C. Wright and a number of other
sportsmen were preparing for a camp
hunt east of Grand river expecting to
start tomorrow morning but on ac-
count of the smallpox ill that vicinity
will forego the trip.
Died at Memphis Tenn.
Mrs. W. M. Mellette received iutcl
ligence by wire this morning of the
death of Mrs. Joseph Meade of Mem
phis Tenn. mother of Mrs. Martin
Mitchell whose husband Mrs. Mel
lette's brother died on Christmas
day. Mr. Mellette will leave for
Memphis tonight.
AMAZING ADVENTURE JAPANESE ON OUR THEOLOGY.
Story of a Cast-Away Ships' Crew
as Related by Mark Twain.
How the Trac hi na of Chrttlajilr
Were Viewed In the
Lavt Century.
The Sarvlval of Every Person In the
Boat the Moat Hemarkable In
IlUtorr of AdTeatarei of
ThU Kind.
Methodist Revival Services.
A grand good revival meeting is be
ing held at the Methodist Episcopal
church (old Congregational) by ltev
II. J. Pool. So far there has been six
conversions and the congregations
are good.' The meetings will continue
through out the entire week; every
body cordially invited.
Red Hot From the Gun
Was the ball that hit G: B. Stead-
man of Newark Mich. in the Civil
war. It caused horrible ulcers that no
treatment helped for 20 years. Then
Bucklen's Arnica salve cured him.
Cures cuts bruises burns felons
corns skin eruptions
on earth. 25c a box
teed. Sold by A. W
People's drug stores.
Best pile cure
Cure guaran-
Foreman's and
Miller's Transient Shop.
Now that the vacant lot beside Gun-
ner's livery barn is to be occupied
with a new building the four-wheeled
snoe shop or Stephen Miller's has
again been moved this time into the
street opposite Katcliff's. He has
moved on and off the railroad right-of
way at divers and sundry times. The
morning the Harris building burned
Uncle Stephen came down smiling
ana swinging his dinner pail as usual
out round his schooner moved far
down the street out of the way of the
Are.
The title of Mark Twain's story "My
Debut as a Literary Person" give do
Idea of the terrible tragedy of which it
tells. In May 1800 a merchantman
was destroyed by tire at seaand the crew
and two passengers put off in three
boats with rations for ten days. Two
of the boats were lost b'jt the captain's
with IS frightfully emaciated men.
aboard reached the Ilawaian islands
43 dayB later after a voyage of 4000
miles or so. One of the two passengers
still survives and has long been a pro
fessor in Trinity college Hartford.
Mary Twain got the story from the sur-
vivors whom he accompanied from
Honolulu to San Francisco.
"It is an amazing adventure. There
is nothing- of its sort in history that sur
passes it in impossibilities made possi
ble. In One extraordinary detail the
survival of every person in the boat it
probably stands alone in the history
of adventures of its kind. Usually
merely a part cf a boat's company sur
vive officers mainly and other educat-
ed and tenderly reured men unused to
hardship and heavy labor; the un
trained roughly reared hard workers
succumb.. But in this case even therud-
est and roughest stood the privations
and miseries of the voyage almost as
well as did the college-bred young
brothers and the captain. I mean phys
ically. The minds of most of the sail
ors broke down in the fourth week and
ent to temporary ruin but physically
the endurance exhibited was astonish
ing. Those men did not survive by any
merit of their o.vn of course but by
merit of the character and intelligence
of the captain; they lived by the mas-
tery of his spirit. Without him they
would have been children without a
nurse. They would have exhausted
their provisions in a Week and their
pluck would not have lasted even as
long as the provisions.
"The boat came near to being
wrecked at the Inst. As it approached
the shore the sail was let go and came
down with a run; then the captain saw
that he was drifting swiftly toward an
ugly reef; and an effort was made to
hoist the sail again; but it could not be
done; the men's strength was wholly
exhausted; they could not even pull an
oar. They were helpless and death im- ;
minent. It was then that they were dis-
covered by the two Kanakas who
achieved the rescue. They swam out
and manned the boat and piloted her ;
through a narrow and hardly notice-
able break In the reef the only break :
In it in a stretch of 85 miles! The snot
where the landing was made was the
only one In that stretch where footing
could have been found on the shore:
everywhere else precipices came sheer
down into 40 fathoms of water. Also.
in all that stretch this was the only
pot where anybody lived.
Within ten days after the landing
all the men but one were up and creep-
ing nhmiK Prnr.Ai-1-ir i 1? l.......
killed themselves with the 'food'
I At the beginning of the last century
an Italian priest named Joan liaptlsta
Sidotti was directed by the then Tppe
Clement XI. to go to Japan and preach
the Gospel. Sidotti reached Japan In
! six years and landed along the south
shore of Kyushu the southern island of
the Japanese group. He was dressed in
Japanese clothes wore a sword und had
his hair dressed in the Japanese man-
ner lie had procured the costume
and sword in Manila where there were
many Japanese. This happened in the
year 1700 A. D. Sidotti was taken to
Tokio then called Yeddo and placed In
confinement but was treated with con
suleration. He had many interviews
with a councilor of the shognu named
Aral Hakustki. He told Ami the book
of Genesis and of Christ's life but said
nothing of Christ's teaching nor of the
precepts of Christianity. The following
are portions of Aral's comments upon
what was told him and they are re-
markable for clearness of thought and
simplicity and directness of statement:
"Furthermore the teaching of the
west (Europe) says that Heaven and
earth and all things could not have
come into existence of themselves but
that there necessarily must have been
in existence a being who created them.
If however the idea that nothing can
come into existence of itself be correct
the question naturally arises: Who cre-
ated God? If however God came into
existence of Himself why could not
earth and Heaven have come into exists
ence of themselves?"
"It sounds like childish talk w hen the
followers of the foreign teaching say
that the breaking of God's command by
Adam and Eve was such a great sin that
they themselves could not have expia-
tea It but that 3000 ytirs afterward
uod was obliged to appear upon earth
in the person of Jesus Christ and ex
piate the sin Himself. Whoever gives
a command has also the power to for
give the breaking of that command.
What then stood in the way of His
pardoning Its infraction especially as
the whole misdeed consisted merely In
the eating of an apple? Was it neces-
sary for God to become man in con-
nection with so insignificant an affair?"
"The teaching of the west also says
that God sent a great flood upon the
earth and therein were all mankind
dTowned with the exception of Noah
nnd his family. But if God is the Crea-
tor of all things and their great prince
and father what reason had He for de-
stroying His own creations? Why did
He not make man in the beginning
good and obedient to His teaching? If
He did not have the power to do this
how came It that He had the power to
create the world ? And if mankind on
the other hand waa created so stupid
as not to understand the teaching of
God was this so great a sin on their
part that God the Creator and Father
of all things should have destroyed
mankind?"
Sidotti having described to Aral the
European custom of crossing one's self
when meeting another person and hav-
ing explained that the purpose of this
custom was to protect the individual
against lightning the devil and other
like things Arai remarked : "It is verv
of j wonderful that God the Christian God
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New Yards and a New Stock of the Best
.. and Cheapest Lumber to be had 'in the
country. We can supply you wants in
Building Materal at LouJesf Prices.
Let us figure with you on the next bill of
lumber you buy. Our prices are lower
than our competitors and
Otor Materials are the Uery B?sf Obtainable.
jftne inc oU
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mcy Tomatoes
Canned Whole.
New lot of extia fine canned corn.
Try an order from us. We keep the freshest
groceries in the city.
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ivA PROSPEROUS
the last few days some of them at j should first hare created lightning the'
Millions Given Away.
It is certainly gratifying to the pub-
lic to know of one concern Id the land
who are not afraid to be generous to
the needy and suffering. Theproprie-
tors of Dr. King's New Discovery for
consumpt ion coughs and colds have
given away over ten million trial bot
tles of the great medicine; and have
the satitfaction of knowing it has ab
solutely cured thousands of hopeless
cases. Asthma bronchitis
noarsness ana all diseases of the
throat chest and' lungs are surely
cured by it. Call on A. W. Foreman
and People's drug store and get a free
trial bottle. Regular size 50c and $1
tvery bottle guaranteed or price re
funded.
Corawa Canary Rafelnr
It is estimated that about 250000
canaries are raised every year in Ger-
many. The most important market is
the Cn'ted States which Imports over
lOu.OOO birds annually.
tbnrrh fM Firework.
Fireworks are sent off before lbs
rvires at the Eihia cathedral (in Bra-
mp in order to attract the attention
at the people.
any rate men who had freighted their
stomachs with strips of leather from
old boots and with chips from the but
ter-cask; a freightage which they did
not get rid of by digestion but by other
means. The captain and the two pas-
sengers did not eat strips and chips as
the sailors did but scraped the boot-
leather and the wood and made a pulp
of the scrapings by moistening them
with water. The third mate told me
that the boots were old and full of holes:
then added thoughtfully 'but the holes
digested the best.' Speaking of diges-
tion here is a remarkable thing and
worth noting; during this strange voy-
age and for awhile afterward on shore
the bowels of some of the men virtually
ceased from their functions; in sofiie
cases there was no action for 20 and 30
days and in one case for 44! Sleeping
also came to be rare. Yet the men did
very well without it. During many
days the captain did not sleep at all
21 I think on one stretch.
"Whea the landimr was made nil Tip
mm were sucee ssfuilv protected from
overeating e.-reept the Tortyghee;' he
escaped the watch and ate an incredible
numbr of bananas; a hundred and fifty-
iwo tne tlnrd mate said but this was
undoubtedly an exaggeration; I think
It was 151. lie was already nearly full
of leather; It was hanging out of hia
ears. (I do not state this on th third
mate's authority for we have seen what
sorx of person be was; I state it on my
own.; ine l'ortygbee' ought to baTe
died of conrse and even now It teems
pity that he didn't; but he rot well.
and as early ssany of them; and all full
of leather too the way he was and but
ter-timber aro handkerchiefs and ba-
nanas. Some of the men did eat hand-
kerchiefs in thee last days also socks;
and he was one of them." Century.
devil and similar bad things and then
taught mankind how to protect them-
selves against these things. It would
have been much simpler and surer not
to have created lightning and the devil
et all. In regard to the supernatural
the Christians appear to be upon the
same low level as the common people
here in Japan."
the above was translated from the
German of an article written by Dr. L.
Louholm professor in the University of
Tokio and published in the Jtittheilun-
gen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Na-
tur und Volkerkunde Ostasiens 54 Heft
Band vi.. Seite 149-198. August. 1394.
to all my customers. Thanking
you for your patronage during the
DaSt and SollVitinrr a sharp nf t-nnr
future business I am Yours truly
-GUS NICHOLS.
iiis oil tiffin
I have
in
A Homing; PIkpob's Lona- Flleht.
A homing pigeon owned at Church in
Lancashire has been returned to Its
loft after a remarkable adventure. It
was caught by one of the crew of the
Cunard liner Durania off the Newfound-
land coast taken to Liverpool and then
dispatched home bv rai'
ordered a new lot of buipa .nul TWr.a r. :
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my new stable. Call us up any time vou nond a nont
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at a reasonable price.
clean and safo
vones says nis wue i.as mr
quabty as . took." "What is that?''
M e doesn't rrw!!.j..iv .
If lease holders in the Indian
Territory are allowed to etay on
their leaseholds till they receive
the value of improvements they
have made thereon many of them
will remain in possession of In
j: . I r - n
man lanua lor iweniy-uve years
and allotment will have to be post
poned that long. The position of
the interior department that a por-
tion of the lands can be allotted to
the Indians at the present time
and the balance later on is ab-
surd and ridiculous. The interior
department is preparing to run the
biggest kind of a blazsr on the In.
dians just as the department hns
been doing for three years. Pen-
If yoii Wanf fo Board yofcr florse
this ia the place to keep it. We'll take good care of it and
keep your buggy good and clean. Telehone No. 78.
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West's bakery next to Mcriiorson's barber shop and
are prepared to attend all your wants in the meat
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Marrs, D. M. The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1900, newspaper, January 4, 1900; Vinita, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc772911/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.