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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

When the older members OF the
family seek amusement with the game
OF table tennis, it generally falls to
the lot OF the children 10 chase the
balls and pick them up OF the floor
but n there are no children and the
members OF the party tend toward
obesity the game Is robbed OF it's
sport and IS apt 70 be postponed I'M
III some more auspicious time. An
English inventor. having discovered
this state OF affairs has produced the
appliance which we here illustrate,
which viii enable one 10 pick up the
balls. without any exertion, from I'M
der furniture. Ia corners. against
wall or 10 any other awkward posi-
ton. This device is formed Of a wire
cage and a long wooden handle. the
former being made from a single spir-
al spring The space between the
coils ls somewhat less than the diam
eter Of the balls. but on pressing the
cage over the ball the spring will open
vide enough to admit the spherical
body within the cage There is suf-
heient space ia the receptacle for the
storage Of a number Of balls. and the
act Of picking up another ball when
one or more are in the cage does not
affect those inside To discharge the
balls from the holder, the ends ot ne
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

slowly but surely the Porto Rlcan
cigar is winning favor among the
devotees Of nicotine. When the prod
uct OF the colony first was introduced
into America it failed to meet the
approval OF smokers. Il was sold at
a price which made It compete with
high-grade Havana, and the average
man preferred the Havana. Now the
Porto Rican cigar competes with the
Iower-priced domestic grades. It was
sold for ave cents, and at this figure
has made a big stride forward in
popular sAvor. The real Porto Rican.
The plantation made" is uBcouth in
shape and is easily distinguished
from the Porto Riean cigars" made
In Connecticut, which are turned out
OF molds.
Tobacconists advise that care be
taken to give the colony weed a good
light and avoid chewing the end any
more than possible Under these
conditions. they say, # is as satIsfac-
tory as the ordinary ffteen-cent
cigar.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01


There Is no music that man has heard
Like the voice Of the minstrel Sea,
Whose major and minor chords are
franght
with infinite mystery
For the Sea is harp. and the winds Of
Cod
Play over his rhythmic breast
And bear on the sweep OF their mighty
wings
The song OF vast unrest
There is no passion that man has sung
Like the love OF the deep-souled Sea.
Whose tide responds to the Moons soft
light
with marvellous melody
For the Sea is a harp and the winds Of
God
Play over bis rhythmic breast.
And bear on the sweep Of their mighty
wings
The song OF vast unrest
There IS no sorrow that man has known
Like the grief OF the wordless Main,
Whose Titan bosom forever throbs
with an untranslated pain
For the Sea Is a harp. and the winds Of
God
Play over his rhythmic breast
And bear ON the sweep Of their mighty
wings
The song Of a vast unrest
William Hamilton Hayne. IN the Allan
tic Monthly
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01


Low ls the Intel q our dear Lords door
And who would enter IN
Must the new life begin
with little children, and the crouching
poor
with mourners and with meek and lowiy
SOILS.
With those who long FOR good
A. prisoners pine for food
or kneel IN dreams where living water
rolls
Beneath those gates-too low FOR human
pride
The blessed come and 90.
Each bearing seed to SOW
In Gods great gardens, or Hts meadows
wide.
WIN gentle Mercy. Peace and Purity,
They find their glad employ
sowing the seed OF Joy.
Nor know its name. nor what the fruit
shall be.
Sometimes the memory Of long past
day.
When they had suffered shame
And death FOR chrlsrs dear name
Sweeps o'er them like a cloud above theiT
way;
but on ! golden morn there falls Voice:
Come. @ ye blessed. comel
II Is the harvest home.
And an the fields are white With Jo-.
Rejoice"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

The electric liessaying hook OF J.
McKenna. scotchman. Is a long pole
with hook and an electric light at
the outer end The light Is made
to glow when seeking a body in the
water at night
The new Austrian steamship pro-
peller practically has eight blades. the
four that usually run out from the
boss being changed to straight sup
ports for the four propelling blades.
which are at the usual angle. and
meet at the outer end OF the boss. It
Is claimed that vibration Is abolished
and coal consumption reduced.
The growth Of crystals is so direct
ed BY P. de Wateville as to give the
transparency and luster Of cut and
polished stones. The method Is sim
pie. the small crystal being so mount
ed that while growing in a saturated
solution It can be continuously rotat-
ed at the rate OF several rotations per
second. Potassium and ammonium al
ums, copper sulphate and sodium chic
rate give particularly dne results.
Before the Academic des Sciences
NJ. Canletet showed that when a
glass object is covered with a thick
LAYER of strong glue the latter ad-
heres strongly when wet but upon
drying it may be detached and car
ries with II glass scales Of different
thiclnesses, which have been lifted
from the surface The glass which
IS thus treated presents a surfece
whose designs resemble those q
frost on a windowpane and have q
decorative effect
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

An Austrian engineer. g. W. Meyer.
has been figuring on the possibility
Of running halfhouriy electric trains
between New York and Chicago, at a
maximum speed OF 125 miles per
hour. he shows how trains. each con-
slstins OF a single car carrying so
passengers. could be run by the poly
phase system with 1900 horsepower,
He would have a high tension cur
rent transformed in substations placed
at intervals along the line, and sup
piled to the motors al lower pres
sure. Niagara, he calculates, could
furnish the whole power required. Il
is the mechanical rather than the
commercial possibilities Of the scheme
that have occupied Mr. Meyers at
tention
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL.
In Dorchester. in 1889. Citizens Were
Taxed for Its Support.

In Dorchester. in 1889. Citizens Were
Taxed for It's support
The first public school in America
to be supported by direct taxation
upon the inhabitants Of the town"
was established at Dorchester, Mass.
in Nav. 1929
In 1886 David Thompson had set.
tied upon Thompsons island. Of the
coast Of the colony town. and in 1888
be gave the island to the town on the
payment OF 12 pence yearly rental.
Having transferred the island to the
town, the town council met May 20.
1888, and adopted the following
order:
IT is ordered the Goth day Of May.
1888, that there shall be a rent OF
e20 a year imposed forever on
Thompsons island, to be paid by
every person that hath propriety in
said island. according to the proper
ton that any such person shall from
time to time enjoy and possess there,
and this toward the maintenance OF a
ego a year to be paid 70 such school
master as shall Undertake to teach
English, Latin and other tongues,
also writing. The said schoolmasteE
to be chosen from time to time By
the freemen. and ii is left to the dis
cretion of the elders and the seven
men for the time being whether
maids shall be taught with the boys
or not For the levying Of this G20
yearly from the particular persons
who ought to pay X according to this
order, it is further ordered that some
man shall be appointed by the seven
men for the time being TO receive
this, and on refusal to levy it by dis
tress. and not finding distress. sucl
person as so refuseth payment shal
forfeit the land he hath in proprietl
in said island
Here. the first teacher was the Rev
Thomas Waterhouse.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

Alfred Henry Lewis tells Of Texan
who objected TO the presence Of a To-
eal exhorter who wished to offer pray
err when the vigilantes we're preparing
to hang a horse thief.
Your prayer may be all right mere
~ as a supplication," said the critical
one. 4 have no fault to find with the
PRAYER as prayer But it is plumb
inconsistent to pray at this time and
place"
why so?" inquired the preacher
This man is about to 90 into eter'
nifty. and he should be comforted and
his soul saved If possible"
saved nothing said the other
aYou want to send up a petition to
get this felon into heaven when We
are hanging him because he isn't ht
10 live in Texas, New York Times,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

prof. Comstock has ia hand an i'm
portant research on the proper mo
tions Of faint stars. thus increasing
our knowledge precisely Ia the field
where l.. will be the most uaeful. From
these motions. still too few in num-
Der. be has deduced a value Of the
suns motion in space which he finds
to be in substantial agreement with
the values heretofore obtained from
the bright stars. The mean parailax
Of the stars of the 10iz magnitude OBJ
served is about O.0O5~ and their dis
tance therefore. about 4o.00O0o0 radii
Of the earths orbit Stars Of the elev-
enth and twelfth magnitndes are not
more distant than those Of the ninth
and tenth and the average linear We
locity with which these faint stars
move through space is OF the same or
der Of magnitude as that Of the bright
est stars and about so per cent greater
than the velocity Of our own sun.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01


IN that class OF typewriters IN which
the printing is effected by impress
slons from a rotary cr oseillating tyge
wheel. ii has been estimated thai the
knowing of the type-wheel 10 the print
ing position takes approximately rs
per cent OF the force necessary TO de-
press the key. A Georgia inventor has
an appliance for use on machines Of
this class which he believes viii not
only do this portion Of the work, but
perform other functions as well In
addition TO the magnet which operates
the lever 70 rotate the type-wheel elec-
trically- devices are also pro
vided for releasing the carriage feed
and hammer-operatin mechanism. 50
that not only may the type wheel be
brought TO ITS proper position, but the
carriage and impression hammer are
.aused TO act through electrical means.
This. Of course. means that the opera
tor has only 10 depress the keys far
Afnough to close the circuit, when the
Electric current viii perform the re.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
rAE pRAYsR o. A MAN.
Backward, Turn Backward, Oh, Tine,
in Thy Flight"


in Thy Flight"
Backward. turn backward, OH Time.
in your flight. make me a boy again,
Just for tonight Give me the bliss Of
that raptur0us time when } would so
swimming, say, half Of the time; give
me the blister that followed the bliss,
on the part OF my back that the sun
didn't miss, g.ge me the betting that
followed il then; make be a iuhilant
urchin again Backward, turn back
ward. Oh. Time. in your flight give ne
one chance at the teacher tonight,
the teacher that larruped me I'VE
times a day-Oh give me one chance
at that teacher. say And give me
the woodpile as big as hill let the
PLEASURE of splitting it cheer me and
thrill while the boys gayly jeer me
from over the fence Oh, give me that
bliss again--dan the expense. The
small reservation just over the hill
where the thought of the hoeing would
give me chill, the COW that earessed
me each eve with her tail as 1 tried
to draw milk for a twentyquart pail;
the hens that forever were wantiug 70
set; the pig with a stomach man never
/ filled yet the measles that hit me,
the colicky pain-Oh, give me the
/ bliss OF my boyhood again II you'd
M me with rapture and cheerful de.
light. backward. turn backward, Oh
Time. in your aight.-Alfred ]. Wat
erhouse in New York Times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
rnr LARoesr sAILINa vEssEL.
Recently Built in the Yards Of Busy
German Firm.

hcCcutly huit ~ tHg tefto " 10y
German Firm.
The extraordinary activity display
ed by the builders and managers OF
German steamship lines during the
past three decades has been equaled
by the energy shown in constructing
sailing vessels OF the latest type, ae-
oording to the New York Times.
Within the past feV weeks one firm
of German shipbuildefs has completed
what viii be probably the largest sail
ing craft in the world. according 20
report received by the state depart
ment from Henry W. Diederich, Uni
ted States consul at Bremen. The fol
lowing is the record or the years
work OF but one Of several firms 20
whose activity MI Diederich calls
attention:
'At the end Of its business wear
May 6. 1902. the Teeklenborg coir
pany. AT BremerhaYen. capitalized at
2 600 600 maras (SzT6 000) paid div
idend of 20 per cent. This concern
Twas occupied to its utmost capacity
during the entire year and the repair
and dry docks were continually in
use Six double-scfew freight and
passenger steamers and two very
large sailing vessels We're building. OF
which three steamers and one sailing
vessel were delivered 10 the owners.
The firm is famous al the world over
for building sailing craft and the yes
sci completed a few weeks ago is
probably the largest in the world. Her
name Is Preussen. She Is a five-mast-
I ed. full-rigged steel vessel. steel
spared throughout. Her length is
44O feet, beam 50 feet. She has car
rying capacity OF 5000 tons. while
her registered tonnage is 1000. Re
Gently she started on her first voyage
to the west coast Of South America.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
EelIpsss During the Year.

There viii be four eclipses during
the current year. two OF the sun and
two OF the moon. as follows.
I. An annual eclipse Of The sun
March 2s. visible as a small partial
eclipse on the Pacific coast Of North
America
2. A partial eclipse o. the moon on
the evening Of April -. the moon ris-
ing with the eclipse on. and ending
in Eastern standard time al S.25 D.
m: central time, 7.25 p n.
3 A total eclipse Of the sun Sep.
tember 2i.--inyisible In the United
States
4. A partial eclipse of the moon Oc
tober 9 and s. the eclipse beginning
With the setting OF the moon on the
Pacific coast Of the United States.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
Sonnet.

Poor soul, the center Of my sinful earth
My sinful earth, these rebel powers that
thee array
Why dost thou pine within and sunei
dearth
Painting thy outward wall so costly
gayg
Why at 50 large cost, having SO short
lease.
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion
spend2
Shall worms inheritors OF this excess.
Eat up thy charger Is this thy bodys
end2
Then soul, lie thou upon thy servants
loss.
And let that pine to aggravate thy
store
Buy terms divine in selling hours OF
dross;
So siait thou feed on Death. that feeds
on men,
And Death once dead. there's no more
dying then.
william Shakespeare.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
MONEY IN HIS DREAMS.
insomnia Would Be Real Afliotion u
Augustus Thomas.

insomnia Would Be Real Afiicton n
Augustus Thomas.
Whom Augustus Thomas. the play
wright. was a newspaper reporter In
St. Louis he enjoyed the reputation
of being able TO walk less and gel
more stories than any other man on
MS paper. He was what is called now
adays a good dreamer. and this accom-
pllshment has aided him wonderfully
in the profession which has made him
famous Some Of The best simaieas
in his plays have evolved from his
dreams. Many OF the plots. the scenes
and the stage settings have come to
him. according to his intimate ac-
qualntances. while he has been taking
a light nap IN a steamer chair on the
spacious piazza OF his home in New
Rochelle Il was one afternoon IN
June that he discovered Alabama
and II was while the cool breezes from
the Sound swept over him one night
IN August that he found In Mizzoura.
Il was by big log fire in his den that
he first met The Earl Of Pawncket
and he is now awaiting the coming Of
other distinguished personages TO In
froduce to the public.
Some persons have money IN their
dreams. only 10 find themselves broke
when they wake up but every time
Gus Thomas opens his eyes after one
OF these pleasant experiences he finds
himself many thousands Of dollars
richer. II he Is ever afiicted with In
somnia Il may cost him his fortune
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

Shall YOU complain who feed the worio z
Who ciOthe the w0rldl
Who house the world2
Shall YOU complain who are the world
or what the world may do2
As from this hour
You use your power
The world must follow you
The worlds life hanEs on your right
hand.
See 10 II what YOU do!
or dark OF Hight.
or wrong OF right
The world is made by you
Then rise as you ne'er rose before
Nos hoped before.
Nor dared before.
And show as ne'er was shown before,
The power that lies in YOU!
stand all as one
TIL right is done.
Believe and dare to do
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
RuLEs EoR Tne EnIToR.
Ten Commandments Which Should
Be Implicitly obeyed.

Be Implicitly Cpegcu'
Thou shalt not have respect =
thine own style to the exclusion q
all others
II. Thou shalt not make unto thy
self a symbolic craven image Of
thine own composition, nor bow down
70 It. nor worship It because it Is
thine own. for the public may not
agree with thee and may visit IFS
contempt upon thee and upon the
generation OF thy precious gray brain
tissue. sending all into justly deserv
ed oblivion
III. Thou shalt not take The blue
pencil to an authors work that is
superior to what thou canst do thy
self
IV. Remember that thou leave the
authors work whole. Six days shall
thou labor to improve thine OWL
style. Then on the seventh day
thou shalt respect the individuality
of another's composition and give
unto thy overworked blue pencil rest
v. Honor the parentage Of al
work falling into they hands tina
thy days of revision may be long il
the Office Of thy activities.
VI Thou shalt not murder the cere
bral offspring Of another.
VII Thou shalt not adulterate tn
authors composition with any o
thine own.
I VIII. Thou shalt not steal the idea
OF manuscript that thou hast rea'
and rejected.
TX. Thou shalt not bear false Wit
ress against the character Of manu-
script. thereby causing its rejection
X Thou shalt not covet they neigh
BORIS manusc .pt. nor his intuitions
aor anything that is thy neighbor''
Neither shalt thou 80 revise th
manuscript Of another as to caus
lhyself 10 be likened unto the an
nal whose name is written with tn
irst vowel and double sibilant
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

Little Janet has. besides a good ap
petite. a devout turn Of mind. and in
her innocent zeal in this direction is
often an example to the rest Of the
family. Her observance Of the silent
Quaker grace at the beginning Of
each meal is pretty thing to ook
unop with its spirit Of naive and
trustful thanksgiving.
Al supper the other evening Janet
had gone through her usual grace
then the viands We're brought IN, and
she Immediately bowed her little head
again in silence.
why. Janet is saying two graSes.
said her elder sister
yes answered Janet; ''nut when
/ said the first one ! didn't know we
we're going to have fried chicken
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

Several handsome paintings have
been placed recently on the walls Of
the cafe at the Fifth Avenue hotel
The man who hung them evidently
has a good idea Of the eternal fitness
Of things. Suspended just over the
sign OF a drm Of Wall street brokers
is picture Of flock OF sheep. the
thickness Of whose fleece lndicsses
that they are ABOUT ready 70 be shorn.
VERY appropriate is the inevitable
comment Of those who notice the
iuuaposition Of the sign and the paint
ing.-New York Times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01

There was an opening for 3 butler
in the family where Bridget was cook
and she promptly applied for the
position in behalf Of her brother.
Il take It that his reputation NOR
ally is all that could be expected =
suggesssd Madame.
"'Xe use me. but would you mind
saying that question over ag'in2' ask
ed Brifset.
Il say. repeated Madame. doubt
less he is a man Of moral character. "
Sure, mum. sure-but don't
know il I'm afther un'erstandin you.
Madame waxed slightly impatient.
"Oh. is he a good man. Bridget?'
"Gcod. is ii? Sure he could lick th'
eyes out OF any shpaipeen from Cork
to Klkennyi" was the enthusiastic
reply.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
POPULAR SCIENCE

quently freed. The last report Of the
board racites that twenty-four salmon
so marked were caught during the
next season. or these twenty-four,
nineteen were taken in the same river
in which they had been set free during
the preceding season; four were
caught IN waters close TO their birth
place, and only one in distant waters.
This latter specimen was taken 500
miles away from the place where i
was set free In Norway. Salmon re-
member. then. and have an acute
sense Of direction, as we'll as prefer
ences Of a marked character.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
kArFIa LICE o. pnoMlss
How the Act Of Parents Prevented
fhe Hmm 81 cnlIdrnn

TIRE Union Of Children.
Considerable amusement has beer
Afforded the inhabitants Of Crad0clx
Cape Colony. BY a breach Of promise
case in colored circles. which is des
cribed BY the Westminster Gazette
The members Of the party mostly
w0men-were arrayed In brilliant col
ors or pure white Plaintiff. named
Caroline May, wore a black dress
with scarlet silk blouse and round
her neck a gold chain, which hung
ia loops to her waist. where it was
fastened With sovereign pendant
and trinkets Defendant. fine,
swarthy. intelligeatlooking fellow,
bearing the name of Andrew Africa.
was attired in gray iannels and SPOT
less linen with a coronation medal
and ribbon on the lapel Of his coat.
The aggrieyed maiden told the
court that she claimed 800 damages
for loss of comfort and home life De
fedant had given her an engagement
ring and arranged with her father as
TO the number of cattle he was TO pay
for her. and she at defendants re
quest left the domestic situation
where she was employed. Africa
wrote her many love letters. Her
mother bought the wedding dress and
outfit which included the following
articles: Plates and forks. cups and
saucers, twenty pounds Of butter six
pounds of fat a butter pot, a sugar
pot pictures and frames
Defendant asserted that as his
father could not come 10 terms with
the girls father as to the number OF
cattle to be paid for the girl herself,
impatient at the delay. broke on the
match. Without the consent Of both
parents, according to native custom,
they could not marry
The resident magistrate accepted
the defendants version and dismiss
ed the case. He said the trouble was
really between the parents and not
between the youth and the girl.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-05-01
two Are Readv 70 MARRY.

A gentleman met a young woman
who had formerly been a servant in
his house. and in a peculiar way said
to her:
why. haven't you got married
yet?"
No. sor.
wen. / thought you would have
been married before now"
"Oh. no. sor," she said, but thors
two waitin'"
Two he exclaimed, why, you
don't mean TO marry two, do you?"
No, sor."
Then. who are they?" he In
CURED
why" she replied. naively. the
two that's waitin' is the parson and
me!'-Spare Moments.