The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-07-07

IN whore it viii do the most good
The doctor had been out TO one OF
hose performances where the clothes
are supposed to be all ready and the
po-cart landed in the woodshed. He
was aweary when Morpheus seduced
hiBa to sleep, and his tired limbs
Jumped a bit now and then as a new
bride does when tickled slyly on the
bottoms Of her feet.
Then into Gods beloved sleep"
there crept a dream. The doctor was
on a journey. Finally he landed In
wide-open town in an unknown terri
tory. AS he walked along the streets
the people continually consulted their
watches. Abruptly a bell rang and
some one called out in a loud voice;
''The Crack Of DOOM"
Immediately there arose a mighty
din, men, women and children
screamed. firearms were discharged,
lneendiary fires sprang up, painted
women dashed through the streets in
negligee. vice faunted a red nag,
liquor flowed from the open dcorways
Of the saloons. and scream upon
scream Of distress rent the air.
OF a sudden a red-faced brigaAd
grasped the doctors watch and was
away in the fiutter Of a second!
Again tolled the belll And the
voice:
The Crack Of Doom is now overl"
Immediately business resumed and
peace settled upon the city.
What does all this mean?" ques-
.loned the physician, wonderment and
Tear depicted in bis face.
The man accosted stopped and turn
Ing saia
art thou a stranger to the Crack
Of DOOM"
Except to the extent Of one gold
watch" answered the man OF medicine
with an attempt at a smile!
Il will explain," continued tte citi-
zen. In this place men are wronged,
IS indeed they are everywherel We
have no courts to punish the wicked,
but every thirty minutes there Is an
Interval Of ten minutes in which
scores are paid lawfully
should a man iujure you, you may
with impunity, kin him during the ten
minutes interstice The law absolves
You from all blamel Vice is permit
ted only during these recesses, and
40 liquor is sold except between
strokes Of the belli"
IN a moment doom win strike
again" admonished the informant
turning away. with his watch in his
hand
X was even so. With a great clamoI
the brazen note blared on the air
Toward the physician came = greai
burly virago with a bloody knife II
her teeth. There was murder in hei
eye and determination In every SCI
line Of her face
without waiting for the attack, this
doctor few full at her throat
There was a piercing scream. ThS
man q pills awoke with a start, hi:
asnds clutched wildly in the lace o.
ais wife's robe-de-nuit at the tbroatl
eOhl OH Obi" screamed thai
frightened woman, what are you do
lng? Trying to kill me2"
~No. my dear. answered the doctor
iazedly, Il have just got home from
The Craci; Of Doom
We'll. for goodness sake. doctor
never 80 there again If you are t,
'epeat tlis operation gasped his bet
er half with fervor.
And he never hast
Some years ago We saw a mar
BANGED
As a general diet we would prefer
less solemn functions-but in follow
Ing where duty led. we witnessed th'
execution. This bit Of experience II
recalled by a newspaper account OF {
hanging during which the populac,
elamored to see the villain die
Strange. isn't it, that men seek t.,
leath exhibition? And yet We have seel
them climb trees and mount rooftopi
to look within the boar0ed inclosuri
where grim justice demanded a lh'
for a lifel
And woman! nee we knew won
an. loYable in many ways. a lady al
/ ways-and yet she sought to see
murderer hangt4l When pleading
. failed, she sought an eminenee hard
BY the Jail yard and strovs to see tn
trap when it bore downward with it
victiml
II purpose to fght it out on this line
Il takes an summer ~ S. Grant
AS the hot weather approaches wa
seems on the increase. Walking
homeward last evening, enjoying
25-cent cigar that the trusts have re
luced to six cents, we came suddenl,
ugan man in the gutter who CAV
] every evidene of being sunstrucb
Examination proved, however. tha
! whie the battle ragged, it was no
NE sun. but a highbau that hal
struck him.. Indeed. since the torril
waves have begun to play tag witt
the cyclones over this great countr.
of ours, the days and nights are file
with hghballs that como sizzlial
) over the bar. striking their victim
square in the mouth. There is a gasr
Ing. gurgling sound-and all Is still