The Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 85, Ed. 1 Monday, January 9, 1899 Page: 3 of 4
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THE DAILY CHIEFTAIN.
BT OHIEPTAIlf PUBLISHING 00
.VIX1TA. INDIAN TERKITORY.
A SIMPLE PANACEA.
Olive Oil la necoiunirnded for Varl-
1 ana Ilia External and in-
ternal. Would you keep away wrinkles
""nerves" melancholy aud general
duwn-at-the-heelness? Would you be-
eome new sweet strong joyous?
Then absorb into your worn-out sys-
tem the simple remedy olive oil. He-
jrln by taking a teaspoonful every morn-
ing. Of course you won't like it no-
body does at first except B candle-eating
Eskimo belle on her native heath
but if you have the tenacity of purpose
which will bring all good gifts your
way keep on and keep on and keep
on!
First thing you know you will be tak-
ing three large tablespoonfuls a day
and liking it as much as you like olivea.
;You will sleep the sweet perfect sleep
of Infancy; you will eat you will walk
vou will wheel yon will be a delight to
yourself and all your friends.
But forget not that with this sov-
ereign cure-all you must eat only sim-
ple and nourishing foods and must se-
cure abundant sleep and exercise.
. Olive oil is especially remedial in
nerve troubles diseases of the liver and
excretory ducts eczema etc. In con-
nection with a fruit diet it prevents the
hair from falling out. When used in
massage and the bath the effects are
also fine.
Besides taking the oil pure and sim-
ple try to have it used freely in your
Icltchen for cookirg purposes. Instead
of butter or the dyspepsia-creating
lard. Olive oil gives a better flavor to
eggs croquettes meats and other ar-
ticle cooked in it; and the prejudice
against the frying pan will be modi-
fied when cooks learn wisdom and mod-
eration. In throat and lung troubles olive oil
is one of the best agents for throwine
off the mucus. It Is fine in diseases of
the stomach. Grateful patients assert
that Its effect on the mental powers h
wonderful stimulating the mind to
sustained and vigorous effort. and ren-
dering th'e user anything but "fat-
witted." paradoxical as the assertion
way seem.
Precautions must be taken in (retting
your supply. Go only to reliable dea'-
era and do not buy too large a quantity
.at once as the oil will not ke-p sweet
for more than two years after it i
made. Buy that which is Imported in
"bottle not thnt which comes in tin
cans or kegs.
A little sediment at the bottom cf
the bottle need not cause atHrm. I;
consists only of small particl.-s of the
fruit. Intense cold tends to make even
the best oil cloudy; but heat will
.promptly make it clear again.
Do not follow the barbarous custom
of mixing vinegar with olive oil a a
alad dresring. Just add a liitle ra.t
and pepper and the condiment will be
perfert.
Follow all these "do's" and "don't''
religiously and you will want to live a
thousand years and perhaps you may
live a h und ml and fifty! Housewife.
LETTER-WRITING.
Tnere la llarh Tnonahtlraanesa anil
Srlnsanpas Manifested la Cor-
reanoadence. In our letter-writing how i-ften we
fail to consider a we should the rights
and need of those at the other end o.'
the line of correspondence. We dasji
off a page in an hour of restlesnem
or of disappointment that ppeuks of
our unhappy condition and we are
careless of the effect upon the one whu
receives it ignoring the possibility of
the want of help at the other end of
the line and go on our way satisfying
ourselves with the fact that we have
given letter for letter. Some of tht
moot promising friendehipa have been
killed through thoughtlessness anJ
selfi-hnes In correspondence for the
written characters reveal the purpoec
of the one who penned them and a
sensitive soul will receive a chill
through the page read by the heart as
well as through" the eye. We need to
be Tery careful of the form of our writ-
ten messages for the one to whom
they are sent must interpret them
without the help or explanation of
personal expression. And then if
we would save a friendship throng u
the year let us be careful to keep up
a reasonable regularity in our corre-
spondence with the friend whom we
prize. Mary R. Baldwin in Woman's
Home Companion.
Spanish Onions and Mince.
Take large onions skin aud bovl them
tn salt water until you can slip out the
center of the onion. Into the aperture
thus made put any sort of meat finely
xninced and agreeably seasoned. Un-
cooked meat is best but any scraps of
previously-dressed meal may be used.
A little sage and onion may be mixed
In if liked. It is a matter of taste. Put
the stuffed onions on meat tin with
a little butter. Set U a moderate oven
and baste well while cooking. The
anions should be a rich brown when
one; serve with rood gravy Boston
Globe f
IS NOT A SINECUHE.
Mayor of a Large City Must Work
Hard and Steadily.
Oar Correspondent Spends a Day ai
tha Chicago fCxecotlva OHlce
aad Baca end Hears Man?
Strange Tkln.
Special Chicago Letter.
Having spent o. e day with the mayor
of Chicago I believe he earns his $10-
ooo a year salary. Of cour.e there
are lots of people who believe
they can run the city much better
than anyone else just as there are
lota of people who are sure they can
lun a newspaper a great deal better
tbun the editor. We have all acen these
people and we all know them. We all
know tbnl in theory things look much
better thun they work out n actual
practice. Now the man who thinks
that running the city of Chicago is a
sort of half-boliday picnic never made
a bigger mistake in his life. It doesn't
make any difference whether the mayor
la a republican or a democrat it all
amounts to the same thing when it
comes to transacting the business of
the city. The work may be dne poor-
ly; the streets may be dirty; the enr-
bage boxes may not be properly emp-
tied but there ia a certain amount of
work to be done good bad or indiffer
ent and somebody has to din ct it all.
That is the mayor's business and be
has his hands full.
If they would let him do his work
quietly it wouldn't be so bad but some-
body is after him all the time. If it
isn't the politicians it's the reformers.
or the women representing diverse and
liumrrous organizations for the propa
gation of all sorts of propositions so
it doesn't make any difference; there
is always somebody knocking at the
private door.
To get an idea of what the mayor has
to do I put in a dny with him not long
ago. I arrived at his office a little in ad-
vance of him. Ilia private ocretary
MAYOR HARRISON AT
E. M. Lahiff was in the outer office
sorting the mail. There are iiacksand
stacks of letters waiting for the mayor
every morning. All private tellers are
laid aside for the mayor's personal peru-
sa'. The others the secretary uses his
discretion in answering or turning over
to the mayor. That saves the mayor
time. Tr get rid of this mail is a day s
job in itself. There are conimunica
lions on almost every imaginable sub
ject. One man wants to know why the
city doesn't have a double bourd of nl
dcrmen so that one would bo a check
on the other and keep the paving
blocks from being stolen off the street
Another man aska the privilege of sell
ing cracker-jack on the east steps of
the city hall. Another want a job in
the water office. Another wants his
honor to go around to the gas house
and tell them if they don't cut down
their bills he'll shut them off. Another
suggests s congress of religions to be
held here next Fourth of July. A young
lady from away out west somewhere
writes in for an autograph. The pres
ident of the Woman a Society for the
Good of the Earth wanta the mayor's
opinion on the advisability ol electing
eld women for therms in towns oi tne
fourth class. Then there are all kinds
of complaints. The man who has no
business of his own makes it his busi
ness to see to it that other people do
(heir work right. There are several of
these men in Chicago and when they
re too busy looking after ths affairs
ef some one else to give everybody
proper attention they call on some of
their friends out of town to help them.
There is never a dearth of complaints
awaiting the mayor when he comes
dow n to the office. No matter how triv-
ial these complaints may be he exam-
ines and investigates every one of them.
If against certain department he
rails in the bead of that department
and probes the matter to the bottom.
Some of these complaints perhaps the
majority of them are groundless.
and many of the grievances re imag-
inary but the mayor looks into every
one of them and replies to them person-
ally.
Mayor Harrison reaches his office
at about 9:30 eveoy .morning.
He
doesn't vary fiva iinutea either war. J
w am ;
Be goes at once to his desk where hi
mall is nil laid out for bim. He bad
hardly got down to business the day
1 was there when mi alderniati cunie in.
The alderman wanted a pnrion for s
constituent who bad been seat to the
r.rldcwell.
"What's he In for?" asked tne mayor.
"Oh just some little thing-I don't
know exactly." said the alderman eva-
sively. Then he added: "lies a good
fellow you know and a handy man
around primaries."
"Wait till I see the record. " suid the
mayor
In another minute the papers wers
spread out on the desk liarrisun looked
up and suid:
"Why this fellow's in for wife beat-
ing." "Oh 1 don't know" said '.he alder-
man twisting in bis chair for he knew
the mayor was down on wife braters.
"Well I know" continued Mayor
Harrison "and that settles it. No wife
beater will ever be pardoned from this
office.
The alderman walked out and the
mayor turned to bis mail again. Then
Labiff stuck his head in at the door and
said:
"A lady wants to see you. Mr. Mayor."
"All right" said the mayor "let her
come In."
Agood-looking woman neatly dressed
n black went straight up to ths
mayor's desk in a business- like way.
"Mr. Mayor she began. "1 snould like
to have you buy a ticket for our church
raffle. It's only 60 cents."
Harrison reached far down into bis
trousers pocket brought forth a bright
half-dollar and banded it to her. She
thanked him. and as she softly closed
the door he sighed.
'If I subscribed to everything tbnt
1 am asked to subscribe to" said he.
it would cost me H5.000 to $20000 a
year; but I could n t refuse that wom-
an she was so easy about it"
Then he picked up a letter. There
were three minutes of silence. The
private secretary announced a delega-
tion of colored men from the First
ward. They wanted more representa
tion on the pay rolls at the city ha!L
Before the delegation got away a man
THE "ALTAR OF DUTY."
who had slipped in the outer door
edged up to the desk and said he wanted
a free peddling permit to sell campaign
songsters. Then an old man came ia
and asked for transportation for his
son who was stranded down in Kalama
zoo. He was followed by a vounir girl
who begged the mayor to sign an end
less chain for the relief of the heroes of
Kl Ciney. After that they came string-
ing along for all sorts of things. Wom-
en wanted to get their sons pardonel
from the bridewell for drunkenness
men wanted jobs sweeping the streets
presidents of big corporations wanted
more privileges three West side politi-
cian wanted his honor to speak at
their meeting the whole town seemel
turned loose and all the time ths
mayor was skimming through his mail
sending for clerks in the different de-
partments asking questions and an-
swering them.
He glanced at his watch and saw that
it was 11 o'clock. He went into the big
general office to which everybody has
free access and took a seat at a desk be-
hind s long railing. This desk is called
at the city hall the "altar of duty."
Here the mayor receives the publio
from 11 a. m. tiil 1 p. m. Everyone is
welcome. The people from all parts
of the city come here to see the mayor.
They present their petitions to him.
They ask for his advice. They ask him
for assistance in all kinds of projects.
Some ask for alma. All receive a hear-
ing. This "altar of duty" is one of tha
most interesting features of the citT
hall. One has but to note the hetero
geneous mass of people ' assembled
there to learn a lesson in human na
ture. The old. the poor the ha!r-and
the blind are there.. Faces pinched
with poverty and faces stared with
crime peer over the tall railing at the
mayor. At the "altar of duty" many a
poor soul receives the word of com
fort that is needed to cheer and helo
him. It Is the best thins- that Mavor
Harrison has originated and now that
it has been inaugurated it is likely that
it will be continued by bis successors.
FREDERICK BOYD 8TEVRNSON.
Connects Germuny with Asia.
Germany now has four steamahia
linea keeping np regular connection
with eastern Asia .
CLOAK ROOM GOSSIP.
Envious Representatives Are After
Tom Reed's Scalp.
Lively Times la Ihe Senate Haw Sen-
ator Drown Learned to Shoot
The Vanaooa Herndan
Hons Coterle.
Special Washington Letter.
The national house of representatives
I. 1 Inn f..m.nt Tl ltal.im.il
F Mil CttltJ ill lMUli.1 -
! - Imilniv 11 l-i ft n n nlflni fni I lid 11.
ture and one of the most important ia
the plan to dow n Tom Heed.
Of course In ths house of representa-
tives there are 350 statesmen each pos-
sessed of individual ambition. Every
on of them can see innumerable co-
gent reasons why he should some day
become president; and every one of
them wonders why the people cannot
aee it too..
Well Tom Heed ia in the way of all
of these men; that is of bis own party.
He bestrides the house like a huge
colossus; apd nearly all of the others
fear him.
In a cloak room this afternoon the
anti-Heed men were discussing tbe sit-
uation. They concluded that they
must first unite upon some strong man
in place of Heed; and then proceed to
make their combinations having In
view the proper geographical distribu
lion of the other offices the positions
of clerk sergeant-at-arms doorkeeper
postmaster and chaplain with the sub-
ordinate offices under those officials.
Thus the plotting is begun. From day
to day the plot will thicken. Meantime
during tbe short session of the house
it is presumed that there will be a hurly-burly
time and that Heed will add to
his stock of enemies.
The senate is becoming more and
more noisy every day. Of this in the
language of somebody in one of Gilbert
and Sullivan's operas there is:
No possible doubt.
No possible doubt.
No possible doubt whatever.
More than a dozen times a day the
presiding officer has to appeal for or
der. More than a dozen times Mr.
Teller or some one else calls attentiin
to tbe very audiule conversation and
only too frequently a senator has to
pause in his remarks until the buzzing
which makes the senate sound like a
sawmill is allowed to cease. The old-
fashioned dignity of the senate the
time when every man listened or sat
quietly in his seat seems to have
passed away. Diffidence has given
place to indifference and one senator
talks to the chair while S9 senators
gossip with each other.
Thomas Jefferson bad different ideas
about these things when be wrote his
manual. "No one" said he in the
guilelessness of bis simple mind "is to
disturb another in his speech by hiss-
ing coughing speaking or whispering
to any other." He had a number of
other things which he did not think il
right to do notably walking around.
reading papers or writing. He thought
bless his dear old soul that a man
who did not have tbe attention of his
colleagues ought to sit down "lor" he
HILL DENOUNCING BROWN.
says "it scarcely ever happens that
they are guilty of ill-manners without
sufficient reason or Inattention to a
member who says anything worth
hearing.'
But of course Thomas Jefferson is
dead snd gone and In the rush and hur-
ry of this fin de aiecle period why
should any attention be paid to what
he said about good manners a century
ago? That is ncient history.
So here s to the senate the noisy
bustling busy senate and may it
grow noiser busier and more bustling
everyday.
"When Senator Brown now dead
was a boy" said a Georgia member
"his father reared him with an iron
hand. He made him do everything
he attempted; if he failed he got
whipped. The eder Brown didn't whip
the coming senator through any ex-
cess of cruelty but it was his system.
He proposed to make every failure of
his son cost smartingly. This would
promote endeavor; he would try with
might and main not to fail and tbe
elder Brown waa .confident this would
do him a world of good.
"'It gives my sea Joe an incentive
to. success' said the elder Brown. 'I'm
not rich enough to offer a system of
rewards and bait my boy to victory!
but thank heaven ' I'm a strong
healthy man and esn inaugurate a sys-
tem of punishments and belt h:m into
being a winner.'
"The old gentleman's system had
points and may have served in its re-
moter effects to savs tbe senator's
life. ":
"Young Joe Uked to hunt gray squir-
rels. The elder Brown bad no objec-
tions. He would outfit young Joe with
the family rifle an eight-square with
a barrel about Ave feet long. Then he
would measure out a dozen charges
of powder and bestow upon him a
dozen bullets caps and linen patches;
enough alj rouud for a dozen shots.
"At the close of the bunt the old
gentleman took s strict inventory.
For every charge of powder and every
bullet missing young Joe must produce
a gray squirrel shot through the head.
" 'You've got to plug "em through
the head Joe' said the old man. 'Any
other sort of klllin' would be sloven-
ly and I'll not raise a boy of mine to
grow up a careless sloven about his
work.'
"If Joe failed to produce a squirrel
killed through the head tbe old man
took down a long pliant reliable hick
ory and walloped him. As a result.
when Senator Joe Brown was a grown
man indeed to the day of his death
he was the surest deadest sbot in all
Georgia.
"Now here's where the skill and the
wide repute It gained for him stood
him in good stead. He waa involved ia
i political fight with Ben Hill.- They
BROWN LEARNING TO SHOOT.
made very sarcastic not to say in-
sulting speeches at and of each other.
Hill was the be&t talker Georgia ever
saw and the wny he peeled tbe hide
off Joe Brown was a solemn thing. One
night he went too far.
" 'They accuse Senator Brown' said
Hill 'of being a gambler and a wine
drinker. I will defend him from these
charges. I don't believe them; I deuy
them. To gamble and to drink wine
while vices are after all the vices of a
gentleman and there's nothing of tha
gentleman to Joe Brown.'
"At this Brown went after the vola-
tile Mr. HU1 a la the code duello-
He wanted blood. It was then his dead-
ly skill with firearms "was recalled and
friends interfered. They didn't want
the useful Hill killed.
"Their intercessions as well as Im-
precations to Hill when it was re-
called to him of the way Brown had
been reared to shoot all had such a
good effect that Hiil apologized.
"Hill was a brave man but he wasn't
a fool and good judges who watched
the incident at the time say that tbe
rifle accuracy of Brown which his fa-
ther had whipped into his skin had
mightily to do with inclining Hill to a
reconciliation."
Ex-Senator William Pitt Kellogg
who now resides in Washington waa
one of the seven gentlemen who in tha
territorial days of Nebraska at tha
outbreak of the war. boarded at the
Herndon house in Omaha. The inci-
dent is curious in the light of the in-
teresting circumstance that each of tha
seven in after year occupied a seat oa
the floor of the United States senate.
Kellogg went to Nebraska as the fed-
eral judge of the territory. His his-
tory is well known. He went to Louis-
iana and was sent to Washington as a
United Statea senator. The second in
the list is ex-Senator Spencer " who
went to Omaha as private secretary
to G. W. Saunders the territorial gov-'
ernor. He was sent to the senate at a
later period from Alabama. Saurdera
himself afterward represented Ne
braska on the floor of the senate. Tip
ton wno was one of the two first sen-
ators sent by the state of Nebraska to
represent it in the upper branch of tha
national legislature was chaplain of
the First Nebraska regiment raised for
the war. Eight companies of the regi-
ment were recruited in Nebraska; tha
remaining two were mustered in on the
other side of the Missouri river and
consisted of Iowa troops. The regi-
ment was in command of John " M.
Thayer the next in the list of seven
ultimately to go- to the senate repre-
senting Nebraska. When the state waa
admitted to the union Tipton and
Thayer were its senators. Senator
Hitchcock succeeded Thnyer and at a '
considerably later period Senator Pad-
dock came to the senate. He was sent
to the territory by President Johnsom
as its secretary. BMITH D FRX.
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