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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12
The TOWN
KILLERS ABROAD
The Office Makers will be
Abroad in a Month or
TWo.--ThePoor not
Needed.
NONE BUT THE RICH CAN
Sec the Come in.-God and
the Council to Help the
Rich Damn the
Poor-Let Them
Rustic"
NONE BUT THE RICH CAN

Inc last ordinance OF the sea-
son entitled "Ordinance No. 66,
regulating certain occupations,
professions, ETC." as passed by
the city council last Monday night
made its appearance yesterday,
and is the Lass monumental farce
passed by a city council that has
done nothing for a year but make
blunders and fall into them.
1t is a regular town killer, All
ordinance that bids only for CAPT
tai and rich men, while wiping out
all competition in putting an EN-
barge on the poor man who Is
struggling for an existance, The
man or men with capital have
plenty to pay the paltry s25 tax
while the poor man must be kept
in a thriving and taxing condition
in keeping the wolf from his door
and the city treasury full for the
ordinance builders TO have mean
with which to build big ditche-
and FIJI 'em up as monuments 10
their assininity. A few only o
these orders need be cited to show
the unfairness of the whole, and
here they are:
Section % taxes a cotton seed
oil mill with capital of $50 600
the sum Of s25 per snnum, while
Section 81 taxes the paper hanger
and painter, rich in a capital Of
brush or two. a pot of paint,
bought en- credit, and whole sui
Of paint and paste bedaubed over.
alls, the same sum Of s25 per
year. Section % taxes a Touring
mill with $4,000 capital s25 per
annum, while each contractor and
builder with al of his capital in-
vested in kit of tools is mulct
in the sum of $50 per annum for
being so unfortunate as to know
how to build just such a house as
that mill occupies.
Section II taxes "each com
pany or corporation discounting
or shaving papers" the sum Of
SO per annum, while the barber
engaged in shaving" faces is
taxed 81 per annum for each chair. I
For each Gotten compress, cost
so to 10000 each this council at
tempts to keep away by exacting
a tax Of s25 per year, while the
person with a Wagon or carriage
for the purpose Of transferring or
hauling freight or passengers the
sun OF s24 per annum is charged
for each Wagon, regardless
whether It is pulled by one horse
or two, or by mules. or is an au-
tomobile.
The whole ordinance is farce,
a biunder. an injury to the townin
is exorbitant assessments aud out
rageons imp ositions upon the
struggling poor. There need Be-
no excuse for the rich. they can
pay. or can fight such taxes TO q
successful finish The poor m
is simply crushed ont Of bus ness.
ia must seek an occupation not
an occupation or leave the
town.
A mar with a $500 or $500 stock
Of merchandise must pay tha same
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12
On Sale Today.

Seats will go on sale today for
th opening Of the ST Perkins en-
ioyment Monday evening. Get
i nr tickets at the Post-Onice
Drug tore and take a lady free,
this offer only holds good on
tickets procured prior to Z p N
Monday as no seats free at the
opera house. The opeulng play
is A False Friend.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12

The Missouri legislature has
passed a resolution of sympathy
for the Philippine surgents. Now
II ia IS same could elect the
notorious outlaw. Frank James
to be doorkeeper of that same
legislature it could easily be
dubbed the biggest set of fools
outside Of Tophrt,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12

a new time card will 90 into
effect oa the Chickasha division
of ihe Rock Island on January
l4 Two important changes will
be made in the running time Of
trains leaving Granite and Man
gum viii under the new card
leave 30 minutes later than now.
Also the train service on the
division win be made a daily ser
vice. Heretofore the trains have
only rnu six times week but IN
der the new card they willf un on
Sunday as well.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12

Seat on sale Saturday at P.O.Drug
Store.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
"gREAkINe" THE COLT.

Me said he would break the colt or know
the reason why,
And | may say on his behalf that brayely
did he try:
But all the breaking that was done was
managed by the colt
Combined with which his owner had a
hard and sudden jolt.
He tried him with a saddle and he tried
him with a cart;
fIe tried him with all kinds of tricks to
make him stop and start:
And he would start and he would STOP
but with a suddenness
That proved most disconcerting and oc-
casioned much distress.
Then, rumlnating sadly on the trials he's
gone through,
The owner gave expression to this true
but solemn view:
81 undertook to break him and so some
thing had to break,
But i'm the trifling details have made
great mistake.
1--WE broke the harness and the cart; we
broke a saddle too;
We went against the garden fence and
easily broke through;
We also broke the pasture gate the time
he tried to bolt
In fact. there's naught unbroken but this
measly. stubborn colt.
>'But there's been much accomplished, for
I'm ready now to say
The better part of valor l hereafter VIII
display
The colt is still unbroken. but the
thoughtful one can see
The effort was not fruitless, for the brute
has broken me-"
Chicago Daily Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

boxes, cigar boxes; and one man could
find nothing better than a piece OF
stove pipe which he nailed TO a tree. so
high that the carrier can just reach it
by standing up in his cart. The owner
of this box has to come on horseback
TO get his mail or else bring ladder.
Another box is gourd with hole cut
in one side, and hung from the limb Of
a tree.
Besides all these, there are a number
of Uncle Sans own iron boxes, placed
by the government along the country
roads and from these the carrier col
lects mail each day just as it is done
in the city.
There is great advantage about the
life of rural delivery man. He is al
ways welcome wherever he goes. At
nearly every house along his route
some one is watching for him to appear
with his bag of letters and papers. He
hasn't much time to stop, but each one
has a word for him and he is generally
loaded up with choice assortment of
messages from house to house all along
the way. On the whole, when il doesn't
hail or rain or freeze too hard, the
rural deliveryman must have fairly
good time jogging over his route
Little Chronicle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

@ HE dwelt i'll the quiet, monotonous
security of 80 years of married
life. Her two boys were grown men,
older now than she was when she
was married. With the lessening
care and responsibility her love for
them seemed at least to have quiet
ed down into but steady-going
habit. Since their childish sicknesses
there had been nothing to re-
mind her or to reveal to them how
much she really loved them. Even
the care of her hoE:e, which she had
undertaken with such fierce joy just
after her wedding, had in the steady
grind of the eventless years been re-
duced to something of bore. If, per-
chance, some young girl or some mat
rimonial agitator had asked her wheth-
,er she loved her husband, she would
have responded, dutifully and truly, in
the affirmative, not even indignant
that the question had been asked or
remembering that the matter had
scarcely occurred to her for ten years.
She was making one of those con-
tinuous tours which are the house
wife's lot, Strengthening up the nun
dred and one things which always may
be found awry after the men have been
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
| A MORAL TALE.

There was once a boy in Kalamazoo
Who used to insist that he never would dc
The things he was told he had got to;
But of contrary mind would persistently
fly
In authority's face, and was minded to
The things that his mother said not to.
Now hold your ears hard, lest it happen
you rue
Such high handed way with the mater!
And bark to the fate of this boy who'd
rebel,
For his lachrymal glands had occasion
to well
AS he shouted in vain for his pater.
His mother had told him, as mother tells
you
(For mothers, though here or in Kala-
maZoo,
Are very much like one another),
That when 1t grew chill on November
His thick winter overcoat had to be worn.
And the boy with scowl said: "Oh,
bother!'
And then. unobserved, the boy took his
This bad boy speak of from Kalamazoo.
And slipped out of doors quite uncoated;
And thought himself clever and shouted
IN glee;
His morals, alas. so elastic could be,
l regret that they have to be noted.
Now 1T CHANGED on that day, with much
hullabaloo.
bear had come down into Kalamazoo,
And the town in alright had stampeded.
But the boy knew it not, and when in
the street
He met with Sir Bruin he couldn't re-
treat
His legs weren't sufficiently speeded.
my boy, you look cold! Your clothes are
too few"
Said this bear, with a wink, in Kalama-
zoo;
Now isn't my coat better suited?
No overcoat on! Now l really opine
You'd find it more comfortable inside Of
mine;"
And this statement was never refuted.
And now have told all that ever / knew
OF the boy and the bear and Kalamazoo,
For / never have heard how II ended.
So let us all hope that the boy disagreed,
And his pater, who found him no worse
off than freed,
Also found that his ways had been
mended.
Waldo, in Good Housekeeping.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
GOOD WINTER GAMES.
There Are Many That VIII Help to
Make Fun and Enliven an other
wise Dull Party.

We all know very many games to
play; the trouble is TO think of them
at the right minute. If you are going
to give candy pull or cobweb party
it is well to have a good many games
thought up beforehand, alternating the
romping games with the quieter ones
in little programme so that there
may be no awkward pauses.
Have you ever been to swap" par
ty? Each one is supplied with four or
five little bundles, wrapped so that no
one else can suspect the contents. The
bundles may contain anything from a
tinsel ball to a sunbonnet. Each one
praises up his own property, without
telling what it is, and the swapping is
carried on with great show of bargain
ing. When everyone has swapped the
parcels are opened and the one who
has made the poorest swaps must tell
a story or suggest game, or in some
way entertain the company. After this
come other games, with apples and
nuts for refreshments.-Cinc En-
quirer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
mouse Killed by n Ring.

A lady suddenly missed a valuable
diamond ring from her finger, and all
that she could remember was that she
had recently washed her hands.
Fearing it had slipped off in the oper-
alton, plumber was called in, and
all the traps opened, with the hope Of
finding the jewel, but without avail.
Some time later the set bowl in the
bathroom had to be replaced, and
when it was removed, 10 and behold,
crowded in behind the water pipe was
the skeleton of a mouse, and around
the neck hung diamond ring, The
mystery was then quickly cleared up.
The poor little cerature had feasted
on box of bran, which the lady used
to whiten her hands, and into which
she dropped the ring. BY accident,
probably, the mouse slipped its head
through the ring, and then fled in
alarm. In passing between the pipes
the ring was caught and pinchnd
the mouse's neck. and SO it died.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
THE RURAL POSTMAN.
tie Works Hard for Small Pay, But
Enjoys Life and Is Welcome
wherever He Goes.

II you like driving % or 80 miles
day in all kinds of weather, this is the
very thing YOU want. To be sure YOU
will have to furnish your own, horse
and cart out of n salary of $500 year,
but If you can be satisfied with
chariot like the one in the picture, that
item will not be likely to cut large
hole in your income.
This particular man is n Pennsyl.
vania mail-carrier. At nine o'clock
every morning, except Sunday, he
starts out from the village post office
and all day long he is driving about the
country delivering and collecting
mails. His route follows the main
roads, but branches out now and then
to this side or that, in order to reach
some district where a number of fam
ihes are clustered together. In one
place he makes trip of three miles to
reach a group of homes, coming back
to the main road not over 500 yards
from the point where he left it. Every
house has mail box near the roadside,
where the carrier can reach il without
getting out of his cart. Sometimes,
where several families live. at dis
tance from the road, half a dozen
boxes, each marked with its owner's
name will be found nailed to the side
of convenient barn and here the car
rier leaves the mail and the farmers
come each day to find their letters and
papers just as safe as if they had
hitched up and driven some two or
three miles to the post office after
them.
There is no end of variety in these
rural boxes. Some of them are care
fully made and painted, but more of
them seem to be simply the first thing
that happened to come to hand. There
are tin cans and soap boxes, cracker
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

take one of the white cocoons that
look like grains of rice, and run down
into the house with it, as fast as pos
sible. Then she will come back for
another, and pretty soon there will
be nothing left where you turned over
the stone by the narrow roadway,
leading down to Ant Town.
The ants are very busy workers,
and when you see little heap of dirt
in the path you know that they have
been making new room or digging
earth they have brought up while
they worked.
There are great many different
kinds of ant folks. In some cities the
masters and mistresses are very lazy,
because they keep slaves to do all the
work.
ut is so warm and sunny to-day
we must bring up the babies for an
airing said one ant slave to an
other, as they met in one of the halls.
"You bring them up if you want
| to, but l have too much to do. First
l must go with my sister slaves and
find food for breakfast. Then we
must feed our masters and mistresses,
and afterward go out and harvest
the grass seed for winter" So they
hurried along and the first brought
the babies up to the warm, dry cham
ber near the top of the ground.
The ant cows are tiny green bugs,
such as we often see on our house
plants, Their milk is like honey, and
the ants are very fond of it, The ants
know that these little cows would die
when the weather grew cold if no one
| looked after them; so when fall comes
they drive them into the COW sheds
they have made, and feed them all
winter, the same as we do our cows
| Orange Judd Farmer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
QUEER LITTLE PEOPLE.
They Have Cozy Underground VII
lagos and Their Capital Is
Called Ant Town.

The cities where the little people
live are down under the ground.
Each city is like one great house
with lots of rooms. There are nurser-
les for the babies, storerooms where
the food is packed away, living rooms
and long galleries leading from one
part of the town to another, and up
to the top of the ground. There are
even little cow sheds, where the tiny
cows live in winter.
Some of the little people are black,
some are red and others brown. Go
out in the field and lift up large,
fiat stone and you will find the gate
way to one of these cities.
The ants, as we call these little folk,
will hurry about and each one will
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
BesuiIing Childhood.

When my little son could scarcely
walk, says Rev. C. Il. Brady, a west
ern missionary, l took him to the
cathedral one day, when | returned
for something l had forgotten after
morning service.
| left the child in the nave. and
when | went back to him he had ad-
vanced halfway up the middle aisle,
and was standing where the sun
threw a golden light about his curly
head. A tiny object he was in that
great church.
1t was very still. He was looking
about in every direction in the most
curious and eager way. To my fancy
he seemed like little angel when he
said in his sweet, childish treble,
which echoed and reecnoed beneath
the vaulted roof:
Papa, where's Jesus? Where's Je.
sus?"
He had been told that the church
was the house of the Saviour, and on
this, his first visit, he expected to see
his Lord.
That baby is quite grown up now.
Not in the faintest particular does he
resemble an angel. The other day,
when rode off to the wars, he aston.
ished even me with this request:
Papa, if you get wounded, don't
forget to bring me the bullet that
knocks you out. l want it for q
souvenir for my collection"
Fortunately for me, If unfortunate.
ly for him, l brought him no bullet
Youths Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

about, when, beside the hatrack, her
eyes fell upon letter, fallen evidently
from her husbands pocket just before
his departure for the city that evening.
She stopped TO pick it up, with an un-
worded comment on mems carelessness,
saw that it had been opened, and think
ing she recognized the writing of Il
sister-in-law, went to the light to read
st.
1t was only when she came to the
signature that she realized she had
been mistaken in the writing. Then
she reread it.
A letter like that to her husband!
From strange woman! What could
it mean?
The phrases, as she read them again,
seemed to ring in her ears. Her head
was swimming. She dropped the let
ter as if it were fire and fled TO the
next room. Her eldest son glanced up
from his book, saw that something an
anaSed her, but supposed he was doing
the wise thing in keeping quiet.
She was dazed and must try to think
ft,qsrt. Had her husband, after all she
III,
doiie' anything which would Justify a
strange woman in writing thus to him ?
Her knitting needles clicked and flew,
while tears stood in her eyes as men,
ory after memory of her married life
crowded on. How well she remem-
bered the morning they first met-the
sweet fragrance of the apple blossoms,
the songs of the robins, and her Young
lover, so tall and manly. Then the
wedding in the little country church,
their new home and the unending joy
OF that first year of married life. She
remembered, oh, so well, the big ram
bling country house that was her first
home-a house so much too large for
their little store of furniture that they
moved from one suite of rooms to an.
other in an effort to enjoy ii all. Then
/. came the birth of her first son--and
she saw through her tears the first
gray hairs in his head as he bent over
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

NO" said Mr.. Erastus Pinkley, II
never wears gloves"
81 has noticed dat yoh hams amt
got de style on 'em," rejoined Miss
Miami Brown.
"Tain' 80 lack o. style. dasn' war
'em on account O. de police. Eff was
ter kivver dem hans wifi gloves I'd
be arrested inside o. two days foh
kyahyin' concealed weapons. s."-Wash-
ington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01
THE LETTER
BY Geo. w. Gerwig.

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

La Grippe is epidemic catarrh.-It spares
no class or nationality. The cultured and
the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pau
per. The masses and the classes are alike
subject to Ia grippe. None are exempt-all
are liable.
Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the
grip got you? Grip is well named The
original French term, Ia grippe has been
shortened by the busy American to read
grip Without intending to do so a new
word has been coined that exactly describes
the case. As if some hideous giant with
awful Grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp.
Men, women, children, whole towns and
cities are caught in the baneful grip OF a
terrible monster.
Pe-ru-na for Grip.
Mrs. DR.. c. d. Powell President of Ep-
worth League, also President of Loyal Tenn
perance Legion, writes from Chehalis,
Wash:
Il have used several remedies in cases Of
severe colds and la grippe, but none CON
sider of more value than Peruna. Mrs DR..
c. d. Powell.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus.
After-EHects OF La Grippe.
Miss Emma Jouris, President Golden Rod
Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Burling street,
Chicago, H., as follows:
"This spring l suffered severely from the
after-effects of la grippe. AS the doctors did
not help me bought bottle OF Peruna."-
Miss Emma Jouris.
Congressman Hownrd's Letter.
Fort Payne, Ala.
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus,
Ohio:
Gentlemen-"I have taken Peruna
now for two weeks and find am very
much relieved. feel that my cure
will be permanent. have also taken
it for la grippe and take pleasure in
recommending Peruna as an excellent
remedy TO all fellow sufferers."-
NJ. w. Howard, Member of Congress.
La Grippe Leaves the System In a
DepIorabIe Condition.
d. L. Wallace, charter member of the
international BARRIERS Union, writes from
Is Western Avenue, Minneapolis, Mimi:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

d. L. Wallace, charter member of the
international BARRIERS Union, writes from
l5 Western Avenue, Minneapolis, Mimi:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-02-01

Following severe attack of la grippe
seemed to be affected badly all over.
"One of my customers who was greatly
helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and
/ procured bottle the same day. Now my
head is clear, my nerves are steady, enjoy
food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth
dollar dose to me. IL. d. Wallace.
Grip Causes Deafness.
Mrs. NJ. A. Sharick, chaplain G.. A. r.
Woman's Relief Corps, writes from Fre-
mont, Wash:
When la grippe was the prevailing illness
in this Western country ! was laid up the
whole winter, partially lost my hearing,
and had a very bad case OF catarrh of tho
head and throat.
81 read Of Peruna, tried it and had my
hearing restored and catarrh cured. can
not speak too well of Peruna. Mrs. NJ. A.
Sharick.
La Grippe Cured I'm Its First stage.
Lieutenant Carice Hunt, of the Salt Lake
City Barracks OF the Salvation Army, write,
from Ogden, Utah:
1.-TWO months ago vas suffering with so
severe cold that could hardly speak
"Our captain advised me to try Peruna,
and procured bottle for me, and truly it
worked wonders. Within two weeks was
entirely well "-Carice Hunt.
Congressman Whites Letter.
Tarboro, N. C.
GentIemen-"I am more than salts.
fled with Peruna and find 1t to be an
excellent remedy for the grip and ca
tarrh. have used it in my family and
they all join me in recommending II
as an excellent remedy" Geo. II.
White, Member of Congress.
Remained In Feeble Health After
Cured of La Grippe.
Mrs. T. w. Collins, Treasurer Indepen-
dent Order of Good Templars, of Everett,
Wash, writes
after having a severe attack of la grippe
/ continued in a feeble condition even after
the doctor called me cured. My blood
seemed poisoned. Peruna cured me. .'-Mrs.
T. w. Collins.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Of
Columbus, o., for free book on catarrh.