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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

General Cassius M. Clay once
Contemplated fighting duel with
Julian Hawthorne on account Of
disrespectful allusions to his wife in
a review Of his memoirs. He de-
manded an unequivocal rctFaction,
which Mr.. Hawthorne wrote, and
20 saved himself from violence. At
ter all, speaking musingly. review
Ing his life, he confessed to a re-
porter, when he was about 81, that
he was opposed on principle to the
duel, thinking 1t 4 savage way to
settle difficulty, but there are
some cases where it seems to be the
only remedy" 1t was not mis- wont
however, to wait for the slow pro-
ceases of the code-hIs bowie knife
worked much faster than any pen
and ink. "a
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

enlvsr.I.y prsi.a.sr ..A.lnsd.. &. spsII

&NiN~fafty FF#feN&rf Z rWtASa ~ 8Nota
inc " Simple Werd.
They tell i story out Al EYAnstoa
on one of the professors Of North
western university that the professor
hlmseh declares has got far past the
point where II Is any longer q Joke
This professor Is q teacher OF English.
the head o. department. and II thero
Is any one thing he demands Of bis
students Il IL that they shall know
how 70 spell the words they use.
. Not long aeo a difhculty. arose IN
Evanston. turing the settlement a
which this professor deemed II hia
duty 70 write q letter to one Of the 10
cal papers correctly setting forth the
facts IN the casa. In his letter he de-
sired to use the word "exonerate"
When he handed the letter 10 the sub
prban editor that gentleman said:
Professor, It seems to me that you
have misspelled one word"
'impOssibla!" said the professor "a
aismay ..Impossiblei You are auite
mistaken"
Wen, here II is." said the editor.
yYou have spelled exoneratc s.x-h-o-n-
crate. That is not right H4sa isa
The professor laughed. Isn't
night? Ha, ha. ha! That's IKE you
newspapeF men. refer you TO Web
ster." ......
But ] am sure Webster has II e-x-
0-n-e-f-at-e." fia RI 1istl
Then Webster cannot be right but
Webster has It my wGy. Cant ron
see how It is: E-x spells ex- meaning
without, and honor npelln honor
without honor. There you have Nv s5
I TBut exonerats doesn't mean With
out honor. II means. literally, to un-
load, to excalpats. 5fi'.ibf 81
@oh. we'll, print It any way you want
Il, said the professor. GROSSLY. IT'S
your paper, and haven't ANY right
to say what shall write, suppose
And the professor walked out. Etin !
contending that he was right.--Chica-
80 Inter Oeean.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04
Nav Slot MaohIne.


The slot" machine has entered q
rev field. For a long TINS, BY
dropping a penny in its NAV, ths
gum chewer. the man who likes %
know what his exact avoirdupoas
is, the girl who loves a losenge and
even the quick-lunch man hurriedly
seeking a sandwich have lseen ae-
corlmodated. But the new field is
a wider one. The diner m sonse
restaurants can now, by new in
VI itioa in the slot" line, resi- At
ease while he takes his meals and
reads complacently between bites
the religious notices on the walls,
for before he sits down he can 20
to a box, drop a penny in the slot
and out jumps key from another
slot. That key opens a closet am
pie enough for his hat and coat. The
very hooks On which he hangs his
Il, :heS lock also, 50 that even if
rhe door of the closet were opened
the articles cannot be hurried away
with by anyone but the owner.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04
Haokett as Alexander.

James X. HaclSett and his w,fs
Mary Manncring, have returned
from their six weeks in London and
Paris, and are making ready fr M
seasons work, one item Of which,
for Mr.. Hackett, will be the per-
sonation Of no less a character than
Alexander the Great, whom Pops
called "Macedonia's mailman In .
play by Victor Naples, Of which he
gave copyright performances il
London. Mr.. Hackett aims Il YER.
satility, sure enough; his leading
piece will Be John Errnine Of the
Yellowstone" in which he aas sho
title role, a Wild West hero.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

he aspired 70 q position loftieF than
be could iill. Like another Napol-
con, France was not enough to sat-
isfy his ambitions he must have a
whole continent and his Waterloo
was sure to come
The fall Of Zion need not dis
courage amy believers in the posi-
bility Of future City Beautiful.
The perfected society and the per
fected humanity are scheduled TO
appear, but they will not come
through The efforts Of Dowie and
his like Ihey will be brought
about by practical every day men
and women working along the lines
Of practical common sense and
Justice
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04
DOWIE'S DISASTERS

Dir. Dowie's troubles have come
thick and fast, He has gone
through various tribula.ions since
he assumed TO play the role Of tbs
second Elijah, but Of late his trou-
bles have multiplied. Beginning
with his crusade on the unregener-
ate ia New York, where the howl
ing mob turns a deaf ear to his en-
treaties to enter the fold Of Zion,
dark disaster has followed fast and
follows faster. And now he sees
Zion City, the darling creature Of
his fancy tottering to its founda
tions. Zion the city that was show to
sinful world what a city built on
foundations Of righteousness could
do-Zion, the city where brother
hood was to be the bond that united
all men, is found to be a city built OH
sands, and despite all the prayers
and entreaties Of the prophet, his
followers refuse to donate the mil
lion dollars he asked for to prop il
up. The clamoring creditors Of the
second Elijah will not be satisfied
with anything but sordid coin and
50 Zion must fall.
II looks like the last chapter in a
story Of monstrous charlitanisin
graft is the American word. 1t
looks Ike the closing Of the history
Of another one Of the colossal conf
deiice games that humanity in
every age has permitted to be per
petrated upon it.
What though Dowie sincerely
believed himself-which is ques-
tionable-a real embodiment Of the
spirit Of Elijah Of old, What though
his healing touch banished disease
from thousands and his fiery pleas
for Righteousness touched the heart
and changed the lives Of scores.
The fact remains that he asserted
claims that no man could make
good. He assumed superiority
in wisdom and virtue and an author
ity over his followers that his char
acter and his powers could not
justify
The fall of his city is the logical
result that was to be expected.
Dowie the man Of burning eloquence
and a powerful personal magnetism,
could attract the multitude and in
duce men TO put their possessions
into his hands. He could arouse
the enthusiasm to create a Zion
City but he did not possess the
practical wisdom to sustaiuit when
founded
In his pulpit and his healing in.
stitulion he was Al hcme, and had
he coaaned his ambitions To this
limited sphere, he would probably
have been spared his present trou-
bles aud would have prospeFed, bus
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

Ithas not taken Japan long to gel
into the ways Of civilization. Less
than five years ago the consular
courts, such as the civilized nations
maintain for the protection Of theis
citizens in semi-civilized countries,
were abolished n Japan. Thla
summer an International sxpositioa
Is ia progress in Osaka, with exhib-
ITS from various Occidental nations,
and a surprisingly large display Of
Japanese products manufactured In
the modern way. There has been
no greater marvel in the industrial
and political history Of the world
than the conversion Of the rnikado's
empire from the standards Of Ash
attic stagnation TO Western life.
There are people who believe that
when China awakes the world win
see a still greater marvel.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

President John Mitchell, Of the
United Mine Workers Of America
is ii Colorado, conferring in regard
TO the settlement Of the coal strike,
Miners want the privilege Of select
ing their pit bosses and their physi-
clans. Il is said to be the intention
to order 4 general sympathetic
strike III all the mines Of Colo.
rado III case their demands are
refused.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04
THEIDLERss GOSSIP


The american People, said :
gentleman 70 the Idler yesterday
haVe plenty Of political freedoms
but they are far from having acs
quirsd social liberty | mean BY
this that in this country a man is
restricted BY. a great mass Of social
customs and every member Of. the
community makes himself d COM
mittee Of one to see that these rel
stric6ons are enforced. Every
man S neighbor and those who are
not his neighbors undertake to at
tend TO more Or. less Of his business
for him. They undertake TO say
what his anusements shall be-.
what he shall eat and what he
shall drink, and wherewithal he
shall be clothed Woe be into
him, if he di ilregard the voice Of his
self-appointed guardiansl Every
tongue in the community will be
busy and he will be called upon to
explain and give an account Of his
conduct. A man is not al liberty
to govern his actions according to
his notions Of propriety, but he
must submit to the dictates Of the
social arbiters. This is not free
dom; it is tyrany Of the very worst
hind.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

One way colonists rates selling
daily Sept. IS TO Nov. 80, to Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Sac
camento, $25, For further in
formation call on or write r. Steph-
ems, agent.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

Supporting Luella Morey in scenic
productions, new plays, new
scenery, new specialtes. Mon
day night, III Dixie Land.
Positively the first time everin
Chickasha. For Monday night
ladies' free seats may be re-
served before 8 p. m. Seats OH
sale Saturday at Haltonl & Owsley
Jewelry Store.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04
FOR aATE

will sell the Frisco hotel, now
known as the Gladstone. The no.
tells well located on I'll. avenue in
the Frisco addition confains fohr-
teen rooms and is furnished from
the parlor tb the kitchen with.
everything new, 1t must 20 at
once and at a bargain. "A. w.
Fredericks Office over Clay Dono.
vans Clothing Store corner Third
NV9 ppfGl'SiAs syS'l''sl III 4.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

"You have been sitting idly al
that bench for three long hours. =
You are wrong. couldn't pos.
Ably have sat here more industrious.
vi haven't got up to stretch naR
Sas orles. segg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

We have rooms to rent over our
Office suitable for two gentlemen.
Inquire at this office. Il
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

A stranger was speaking to the
Idler about the social life Of Chick
lsha. He was from the north and
was greatly surprised at the con
litions he found here. He expect
ID to find some Of the wild frontier
life depicted by the story writer's
on western life, who have never
been west Of the Mississippi river.
THE social conditions in Chick
ashap said he, are more like
those in the old, longestablished
communities than any I've ever
seen i'll a new town. I don't find
any Of the border rufianism that
people III the eastern states think
exists here. Your town is orderly,
you have good churches and school
and the sentiment for decency and
the highest things in social and in
dividual life is as strong as I find
anywhere. You have as many cul-
tured and refined people as I found
il any town Of the size I think
chickasha surPasses in these re-
spects any town similarly situated
that I've ever visited" /" The Idler
quite agreed with all the stranger
lad to say only reinarking t1at
his observations agreed with those
Of all who ever remained in the
town for any considerable length Of
time.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-12-04

A man whose business has made
il necessary for him to travel over
much Of Tue Chickasaw nation for
the past three years was asked by
the Idler what he thought Of the
prospects Of this country. Pros
poets, said he, / don't know any
country that has such spiendid
prospects beforeit. | know nearly
every foot Of land in this country.
The Washita valley and the numer-
GUS creek bottoms contain as fine
lands as exist any where.
There are, of course some rough
places, and some inferior soils, but,
taken as a whole, the country can t
be beat. One Of the greatest needs
of the country now is for good
roads. There are practically ITO
roods now, but + believe there will
be a movement started this winter
TO open the roads along the section
lines This vast area Of country
ID very sparsely settled. I don't
believe there is mor- than one set
tier to a section Of land in ali the
great region east and south Of
Chickasha. When this country
IS settled as thickly as Oklahoma,
You will easily support a town Of
/ 5000 population or more here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

Mr.. Walter Wellman has been telling the
public, in a publication called Success. that
a small number of members of the Senate
really control the business of that body.
These senators are Fairbanks and Beve-
ridge. of Indiana. Hanna and Foraker. Of
Ohio, Frye and Hale, of Maine, Lodge, Of
Massachusetts,. Aldrich, of Rhode Island
Allison of Iowa, Cullom. of Illinois, Plat,
of Connecticut and Spooner, of Wisconsin,
an even dozen. Let us see: II those sena-
tors could have controlled the action of
the Senate that body would have passed a
Cuban tariff bill. during the last session.
IL they could control the procedure of bust
ness now, Senator Quay could not have in
terposed the statehood bill, preventing con-
sideration of more important measures.
The facts are against the assertions of Mr..
Wellman. Any minority that is disposed
to prevent legislation can control the Sem
ate as long as it pleases to talk against
time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10
The First Newspaper.
New Orleans Picayune.

There has been considerable controversy
of late years to which country should
be conceded the honor of printing the first
regular newspaper. Claims have been sue
cessively put forward for Italy, France.
Germany. England and Holland. and all
with some degree of plausibility, but 1t
appears from recent researches that neither
one of these is entitled TO the distinction.
and that precedence should be given to
Belgium. 1t has been established by the
sntiquaries that certain Abraham YER
hoeven, of Antwerp. obtained in 1906 from
the Archduke and Duchess Albert and Isa-
belle the privilege of printing a news
sheet. AS the first German paper appeared
in 1915 at Frankfort. the first Dutch paper
in 1917, the first English paper, the Week
ly Gazette. in l622, and the first French
paper in 1881, ii would seem that Antwerp's
claims have some foundation and that
the Belgian city initiated what has be-
come one of the most influential factors
in modern life and progress. On the
strength of this il is proposed to hold a
great tercentenary celebration in Antwerp
some time during the year 1905. Ii would
be interesting TO compare the primitive
efforts of the journalist of 1868 with the
immense sheets OF news which the world
calls for to-day. Three hundred years ago
news travelled but slowly, and each COM
munity was In a sense, isolated But to-
day If some potentate of Central Africa
condescends TO sneeZe the world wants
to know just what caused the Utilization in
the regal nostrils and wants minute par
ticulars at that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

Able Men Are Absolutely Necessary I'm
All Branches to Make 1t Pay.

New York Tribune.
A railroad is machine for making
money, and the machine must be kept in
good order. To this end sound constructive
material is wanted and insisted upon, says
Golfers Weekly. Twentieth century rail-
way managers have a weakness for men
who do their work well. They have an
idea that by lifting the efficient ones to
higher seats the road is benefited in dollars.
This idea governs employment.
Suppose the applicant for position is
twenty years of age and wishes to become
an engineer. He is assigned to locomo-
tive in charge of fireman, but under the
general instructions of the engineer. Dur
ing a period of from two weeks to a month
he works without pay. because it is only
a tentative service meant to put him to the
final test of his potential fitness for the
work. If he comes out all right the en-
gineer gives him a certificate to the effect
that he Is believed to possess the makeup
needful to locomotive engineer.
Once in possession of this certificate Of
potential fitness the young man is soon
found on a freight engine as fireman, draw
ing full pay. In this capacity he serves not
less than three years. Then he is compe-
tent generally to take charge of freight
tically assured that he will in time be APP
pointed to a position of the first class-that
of engineer of a passenger train.
The operating department is one that at
tracts many young men not of mechanic
al turn of mind. They begin variously as
students in telegraph offices, ticket
offices, signal towers. etc. 1t takes them
six months or a year TO gain practical
knowledge of the routine duties of the men
in the lower grades of operating workmen
over whom ii is their aim as a rule to exer-
else supervision During the period of stu
denthood they receive from SIS to $40 a
month. Having served the time needful to
fit him for the responsibility the new rail-
roader is appointed agent at a minor sta
tion--a telegraph operator, a towerman or
a switchman. The pay of the station agents
or operators ranges from $40 to $50 month";
and switchmen get from $50 to $40 a month.
The term of apprenticeship for train
man is the shortest of all, and on account
of the quickly acquired earning capacity
the larger number are attracted to this
branch of railroading. Within a month the
new man may become a brakeman on a
freight train at $50 to SIS month In two
years he may become freight conductor
at $50 to 500 month, In six years, accord
ing to conditions, the post of passenger
conductor may be his at a salary ranging
from $50 to 500 month. In the train serv-
ice the matter of precedence depends al
most wholly on individual merit and
seniority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

On Jan. Mr.. William O'Keefe treasurer
of Marshall county. paid into the public
treasury si95.S1 interest on the daily balance
in his hands during the six months ending
Dec. 81. This sum, added to the amount paid
in by Treasurer O'Keefe for the first six
months of the year, makes the amount of
interest paid the county in 1902 81, 1867.
Mr.. O'Keefe says: "If the Legislature would
pass law compelling the treasurer to de-
post the county funds in the banks in the
name of the county the money would bring
a much higher rate of interest, as the
banks would then bid for the deposit"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

The country expects Congress to enact
some new antitrust legislation at this
Republican party on the defensive. No
subject has ever been more thoroughly dis
cussed and threshed out by the press and
people than has the trust question during
the last few years. and the time has come
when they expect Congress to act. The
first attempt at new legislation may not be
perfect and may have to be amended, but
Congress has information enoue now to
enable it to frame a measure embodyil.g
the main points that have been sifted out,
and there Is plenty of time to do 1t this
session
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

harm. These are the two subheads of the
argument. and they may be differentiated
by saying that free textbooks are not
necessary TO secure education of any child
whose parents are poor, nor essential to the
better education of any child whose parents
are not poor. Hence the proposition can
not be urged because of the benefits IL
would bestow. Free textbooks are an evil
because OF the prominent lesson in social
ism they teach, and because of the oppor-
tunities for corruption they AFFORD. With
these two arguments against 1t, and they
are good ones, ones that can be substanu-
ated, and no argument showing why tney
are in the least necessary to an improve
ment of our educational system, there is
no reason why the next Legislature should
pass any laws adopting free text-oooks.
We have state laws that are ample TO cover
all cases of poor children. Poor chlldren IN
Indiana can have not only their text-oooks
given them, but their clothing given them.
Consequently the tears that are sned III
behalf of the child whose poverty Keeps II
from an education because II cannot set
books are wasted The majority Oh tnem, II
may be added, are shed by the schoolpook
companies who see in the free textbook
proposition the opportunity for an enor-
nous graft
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10

Promising Field I'm Europe for Up-tO-
Date Machinery.


Mems eyes are turned toward the mys-
terious East as the next commercial world
to be conquered. 1t is a glittering and al
Turing field, to be sure-this great world
beyond the Pacific-but there is more
money for American manufacturers in Eu-
rope than in Asia. The Asiatics do not
know of up-to-date inventions and would
not use them if they did. But there is
Italy, the hoary home of arts and handi-
crafts, which offers a tempting opening to
enterprise of the Chicago type. In Genoa
for instance-that marble city browning
the Mediterranean-there Is crying need
of a few American inventions. The houses
average seven stories, yet elevators are
almost unknown.
Consul Richmond Pearson in his annual
report says: Elevators are greatly needed ;
the few that are installed were purchased
in Milan, and the contrivances are almost
comically defective. They take passengers
upstairs at snail's pace and cannot bring
them down at ALL" He adds.
There is most promising field here for
American cotton-mill machinery. Three
fourths of the mills now in operation are
equipped with old-fashioned machinery
made In France American plumbing sup
plies especially modern bathtubs, are gain
ing a foothold on the continent mostly in
the large hotels. An American commercial
traveller tells me that his house has lust
installed twenty-four porcelain-lined bath
tubs in new hotel at Stuttgart This fact
alone assures the patronage of American
tourists. American door locks and KEYS
ought to supplant the grotesque and pom
derous concerns found everywhere on the
continent. The key TO this consulate is
nearly eight inches long and weighs about
half a pound. The transportation of this
quaint Implement on/the person would re-
the key itself might easily be mistaken for
"A deadly weapon"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10
Michigan Beet-susar Men.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Messrs w. S..
Humphrey. III. II. Hatch and James G. Nc
Pherson, representing the beet-sugar inter-
ests of Michigan. held a conference to-day
at the committee room of Senator Burrows
for the purpose of deciding on a course Of
action with reference to the Cuban reci-
procity treaty. After the meeting they an
nounced that they had decided 10 wait until
after the committee foreign relations
should make its report on the treaty before
deciding on line of action. They expressed
themselves in somewhat skeptical terms as
to the possibility of securing any substan-
tial guarantee that there would be no re-
duction for the next five years beyond the
20 per cent. provided by the treaty, saying
that their principal fear lay in the opera
ton of the clause which protects Cuban
sugar to the extent of 70 per cent. over all
other sugars.