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Uky tJaily (Eljifftatn OFFICIAL CITY (""APER Entered a second class matter August S, 19oS, at post omce In V'inlta. Okla.. under Act of March 3, 1879 ISSUED DAD.Y EXCEPT SUNDAY Published by 3. M MARRS PRINTING COMPANY hood home. ""' and uistr'' 1,o;eveI;. ,H There If ... element of triumph In no reason why we should not question returning to the place that raised you. the parting year about the year that if vour life has been even passably has its foot upon the threshold, successful POT If you left at any One thing especially marks the year period after infancy, you were always LHl Throughout the wor'.cl, the .un depreciated No prophet is without humanitarian spirit, long felt by th se honor ete In that feeling there is al- Who wal- h events and currents of v , an dement of envy. Village thought, has shown itself in action, wise men and boyhood associates al- Of tl most dramatic sort, ways hate to admit that anyone who On the other side or the world lay has had the same advantages that diica. In the grip of Confucianism; they had could ever outstrip them. It because, as we were told, the lfs very different when you return, teaching of Confucius was perfect, and No matter if it is a small share of the ::i:seiueuiiy niaue inuuBm mpmruw r, M. MARRS BOXING CONTEST Per week by carrier $ 10 Per month by carrier Jj Per year by carrier, in advance. 6.00 month bv mail, in advance. . .40 Three months bv mail, in advance I. 0 ,. ..hinder that you ous and change a crime. Yet the seed One year by mail in vance w graP( y(m 8Mm , sown by generations of alert Chinese .,.. prettv big man to the stay at homes, and by uousaoai o. uevo.eu cUIv IThe 'element or jealousy is reiir.ved. penus and Americans filially genni- Bince they are able to say lo them- nuwu. lira 1 T f . ., ...... .....i heei. iiennseil- n rcnnhlic has been de-! P selves, that it mey nan ubu chance they would have done as well elared. Not deep as yet are the foun . ... dat ions r the new government in the .or oetter. , ,, Even if the former country bump- understanding ana anecuo.is oi uit ....... ...h, , wpnt to school great, stolid mass of the Chinese peo h III "lilt " liwin JV . does call TOO ''Eddie" or "Tommle," Pie; "i" nevertneiess. me nauon ua OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO u . nr him t0() .ak-en the (Irs. great step-it has re, O Vinita, Okla. Tuesday, Decembre 31. O O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 0 don't step too high nor snub htm too taken the first great step-it. has ret- . ..e UaM ,1 tf nmtA nf lllB.nSA. . 1 ....l.. iii-.:. i'iii ii H I - iwiiif.i u it.v. - - A'h I HA. I I" nui'i'f . ,,. , .,.. ., ii,,ir like the Of what enormous strides Japan has noon yufw i " .. . . , . . old oaken bucket, after you have been tl0 on the path in which China is si i ia rat ed by your associates by the now setting an uncertain foot, the formal handle Of -Mister." 0ttB M the nunoo no turneu tue There is something rather tine about face of his people toward modern iWlng an honor with the influences Weals has come to remind us. And it . . . ... t., . . l pond to remember that what re- ...I r . I I I I VI . 1L II.Jl I ItOI- O rived and reinvigorated the ancient empire is the stimulating spirit of America. Even in autocratic Russia, the year has seen a triumph of constitutional ism :i steti toward nomilar rule. A HAVE A PLAN. O You wouldn't build a chicken O roost, nor give the old rail O fence a boost, nor make a self- O revolving fan without a defi O nlto set plan. When you've r O dog house to erect, you plan it O like nn architect; you figure O where each piece must go, and O work it out just so and so. It 0 is the same upon the farm O you plan ahead, the crops to O charm: or if your work is in O the mart, you plan it from the very start. Hut in your life it is not so. ' There, architects and plans don't go. Y'ou work in loose, haphazard way from youth till you are old and gray; you mix the shingles and the tile, the rocks and boards you loosely pile, you wield no level, square or plumb, your build ing oft is weak and bum. Oh life it is a sacred trust; and built it, good or bad, we must. O country, empty pews eon.ro... uu. . Qf penlnBulai a, We ought to choose a noble O the pulpit orators, and many of then. ,n thjfj ver plan, and tash.on it tne nest dent Carlield who on taking the in augural oath turned to kiss his moth? Similarly it is a gracious act of the president-elect to give due honor to a civic parentage. .!.. .1... kna .1.. : i, 'ii!' Oil! I'l'Oin 0 I lit U"J o itv, D , g this town today, or who have gone out Duma has lived its full appointed time O . ,, , . .,., j !. new one hiui l.epii neaepfullv chosen in past vears, it may wen ne iuiuiihii, u , , . ir ,.,, n. honors or The event marks the real beginning I ion l iuis' i. ' j1-'" wealth ln the big world outside, that of stable constitutional government; share of the success is due to ior, aiinougn me luunu uuu is l- ..... . ,.nau,l iif li.tinir mi1 ii.nv l.p i-enetion. tile earlv lionie whose shelter anu w v...r. . 0 o n a larg O O 1 o ulse made it all possibh O ary. yet it is a working body, an in strument sure in time to pass, ar parliaments have ever done, into the hands of the people. As despotism is disappearing from we can. And yet you'll find, along the track, full many a life is but a shack because, for sooth, no plan is there, to make it permanent and fair. O PREACHERS AND EMPTY PEWS. O Oklahoma City has many fine (J i lurches anil tne cuuicne .nu wra . w Humus. Russia, so. too, is Oriental barbarism O attended. But In some parts of the D.7w.. Th 0 l ouiitrv ompty news confront some of : i J MVm "' -- noninll ir tl,i. fori O are pu.zjed to K,.o me - ,MU0 s,rjkingly point8 out, larg(,ly by n in :i recent editorial, the Atlanta . .. .. . ..... l,w..,t.ieimr "JUlIail lueaio, iicv.t en. un , uw u i oust i ut on notes mL OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO j i ..f mere to ;uosien. inn-. O failure of men to attend church is af- l.oH- fart bv many And what of our own home these V ll-l H tl tin .i IIU.....V..-V O preachers who grope blindly for the United States? There is a new spirit, n here, intangible, illusive, but none the The ' Constitution says that Bishop less preceptible by all who are intelli- j James H. McCoy, in his recent ad- gent and sensitive. For a generation OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dress ... the North Georgia Methodial after the ml war tne American peo-. O conference struck the cause at its core i" " l" v THE TOM MORROW YEAR. O when, according to press dispatches, material resources of the continent "censured the modern tendency to we Became niouey-uiau. anu u.st io, I with secular and trival matters B season and in a measure that spirit O in the pulpit to the exclusion of th- M equity which alone dignities tne O gn at Inue of salvation." The bishop possession of wealth. Not until re- O la right and if the churches wish to "'ntly did we. as a people, begin to O exercise their old-time Influence in this that great wealth is often hard of O wonderful and expanding age in which heart and devoid of understanding: O iiv tl.ev must take cocnizance of that men and women and even little O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 "The less we have to do Willi our sins the better." said Elmer son. For what we have done this ( losing year that we ought not to have done and tot what we have lt'lt undone Hint we ought to have done, Lord have mercy, have mercy upon us. And thee, neither with care lessness nor with enervating regret, let us leave the 1912 account and turn to the things we ought to dO In the tomorrow year. O h O di O his criticism. Viewing there, one pulpit practice here is almost tempted to child ri and greed; n were being sacrilioed to that money was learning to , sav talk with a voice so loud as to drown O that many ministers, forgetting their the cries of the sunenng ana tne ap 0 divine mission, usurp the functions of Peal of human rights. O "yellow journalism." We are guilty But when wo did begin to see, lead- j O of no irreverence to true religion when ers arose who demanded that the ad-. O we say that it is a common custom nutted evils be relormed. 1 hey havt O for preachers t out. a pair of been confined to no political party. they have been committed to no par ticular creed; but all without excep tion have placed their emphasis on onnnnnnnnrinririnnnn matnnhnricnl field-elasses for the lat O est fad or nostrum, in iK.litlcs or si (Inv.innir Wlluol. I'WII lla ihnt be ei.lle.l "nth! nnlill.' all of which sill was sick after smoking his first cigar, jects fall in the secular and not the the man rather than on the dollar. The Fortunately it was not one Of those religious held. The moment a "dis number of these leaders has been itven out in his behalf last Novem-1 covery1' s made, the views of the steadily increasing until, this last her .pieacher on that particular topic are year, they made themselves felt in . Q harangued from the pulpit Sunday divers ways throughout the country. The suffragettes may have Walked after Sunday to a restles and res nt- I heir influence has shown nseit in , to Albany to deliver u petition, but ful congregation. There is hardly a advanced legislation by many of the thorn will nnrhani he the usual diftl- whisner of the creed of the meek and states and by the national government eulty In walking down town to get a lowly Nazarene. But there are plenty and it has appeared in the decisions yeast take. of half-baked or pre-digested opinions of high courts of justice. It gives the - Q on alleged "issues of t ho hour," with year 1912 a noble place on the calen- A St. Louis hat rack attendant lias the result that men who come to dar of human aspirations, just bought a hotel out of the tips church looking for spiritual bread go fu, future? We may be sure that that lie lias collected, Perhaps by and away with an intellectual stone. the aspirations of democracy will not by he will wish he was at the counter Not one man out of one hundred al- U(1 gtified. The man is, indeed, greater again receiving i s touds service to be given first easy tllan tn(, dollar, and human rights 0 'lessons as to how he should vote, or greater than the rights of property; With New Year near at hand, here's to be, in kindergarten fashion, taught DUt since the one is included in the h very good ntggostion ftpm Itl Dur- his duty toward various matters 61 other, and property rights are no dette: "Get away from the crowd for public policy. If lie deserves a vote raore than human rights In property, a while and think. Stand on one side, at all. he reserves that function to we must see to it that the old Amer- !?et acquainted with yourself and see himself. He protests, inwardly, when ican virtues of thrift and ambition; whet kind of a fellow you are. Ask ! Opinions that may be diametrically op- the laudable desire to conquer, unaided yourself hard questhltts about vour- posed to his own are shouted at him nn alone, an honorable place among self. Ascertain, from original sources, from the pulpit. Having no recourse ,,,. fellows shall survive and shall not if you are really the manner of man. in rejoinder, he does the next best g unrewarded: that democracy shall . .. . Lvi- t... .,, ,,..,. Tl,. cnui-iilllv' . . . ... you say you are; ami it yon are ai-.mn.n i.e . .....i... . ... ........ , no, uegenenue i:uu nunruu?, tle BQcren missi in, in me preacuer is ways honest; if you always tell the square, perfect truth in business de tails; if your life is as good and up right at 11 o'c lock at night. aR it is at noo.r.' if you are ns good a temper once man on a fishing xcursion as you are on a Sunday school picnic; if you are as good when yon go to the city as you are at home; if, in short, are you really the sort of man your lather hopi3 you are and your sweet heart believes you are Cet on inti mate terms with yourself, my boy, and believe me, every time you come out of one of those private interviews you will be a stronger, better, purer man. IJnr't forget this, and it will do you good." It was a grand trouhy that Wood row Wilson brought back to lay at the feet of his mother town, Staun ton. Va But perhaps while he was carting around all the lr.urel wreaths and shiny badges that the voters and others have bestowed on him, be did not feel nearly so biggity as some of the rest of us on returning to a boy- to quicken the individual conscience by iii. application of gospel i rut hs and the expounding of BtbtcaJ princt- Jfe, !l' the minister succeeds in tnoid.'UI e man's conscience it is a pretty ate assumption that that par tlculai ninii is going to vote right on any issue invoking his own Or the colu mn itv'es welfare. Hut il time that should be devoted to Instilling loyaltv to righteousness is squandered with personal tirades upon extraneous po litical and secular subjects the preachers have only themselves to blame for empty pews And this is the final test . The de nomination! that avoid this policy, and concern themselves with spiritual mat ters only, are not faced with the prob lem of empty pews! Oklahoin in. Wherever democratic ideals have gained ground, the success of the ('.rent ItepuhlW its common sense, its self-control, its stability as taken hold upon the imaginations of men. We therefore owe it to a world that we have led in ideas of government to "n'e ourselves with flfBUiess and COmmOU sense; but that does net mean that generous f c'ing must be rebtfkd or altruism forgotten. It Is our glorious opportunity to show the world that Christ's eeOOSd command niiMii is not dynamite but cement Youth's Companion. o AT GRAND THEATRE Thursday Night, Jan. 2nd Ernie Dean vs Bart Gordon 15 ROUNDS IS Two Good Preliminaries Admission 25c & 50c. Ringside $1.00 TheDaily Chieftain Reaches all the people in Vinita, along the Rural Routes and near by towns. The people who spend their money in Vinita read the Daily Chieitain. It covers the adver tising field like a blanket. Advertise your business in a The Chieftain St TO PATRONS. Ail pupils that have become six years of age since school opened last September must enter school within O- the next two weeks or they can't enter 1912-1913. """" until next September. It is hoped that Nothing is more certain than thut all parents having children falling tin- the future grows out of the past. It is der the above condition will start them less certain which contemporary ten- to school at once, dencles are destined to thrive, grow W. 0. MASTKKSON. strong and transmute themselves Into Superintendent. .i Oklahoma, County of Craig as. n the CctUtty Court within and for Craig County, Oklahoma. S the matter of the estate of .Mary K. Witt. Deceased) William 1". Witt. Administrator. Probate No. M17. NOTICE OF FILING PETITION TO ASCERTAIN HEIRS. TO ALL PKHSONS INTERESTKD AND CLAIMING AN INTKREST IN THE ESTATE OP MARY B. WITT. DECEASED: You and each person are hereby notified, that on the 26th day of Dec ember 1912, William K. Witt. Admin istrator of the estate of .Mary E. Witt, deceas 'd. tiled In this Court his petit ion in due form, praying that the right of all persons interested in the estate of Mary R. Witt, Deceased, be aoeer- t liir. d and declaired by this Court, and it be determi led as to whom dis tribution should be made. The following, so far as known, is a inscription of all the real estate of which the deceased died seized or pos sessed is as follows, to-wit: South half of Northeast Quarter of South sresl Quarter of Section 13 Township 2."i North. Range IS East, in Craig Quarter of Northwest Quarter of Sect ion 24 Township i'.". North Range 18 East, Craig County Oklahoma. That the said William K. Witt and Panata N. Witt, father and mother of the deceased minor, respectively, are the only p?rsons who have appeared and claimed any interest in and to said estate, in the course of adminis tration up to the time of making ordr lor this notice. That you and all other persons not hereto named, who have or claim any right, title, or interest in said estate as heirs or otherwise, are cited to ap pear before this Court at the Court Room thereof, In Vinita, Craig County Oklahoma, on Wednesday the 20th day of Keburary. A. D. 1913 at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day. and exhibit and prove as required by law. your respective claims of heirship, owner ship or interest in said estate and show cause why said decree of distri bution should not be made. Dated December 26th 1912. IAMES E. McCCLEOl'tlll Clerk of the County Court Davenport- Rye Attorneys. 18-21