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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
Would You Have
Passed

Here are some of the literature
questions from the recent Chicago
civil service examination for public
library clerkships. which puzzled a
surprisingly large number Of the young
men and women who took the test
How many can you answer?
Name the authors Of the following:
THE Rubaiyat," Sentimental Tom
my" Stones of Venice" Jerusalem
Delivered" Quo vadis," wilhelm
Meister." "Blithedale Romance. /"
'Ninety-three," "Bigelow Papev. 4"
Arabian Nights Entertainments
Mention one person in each Of the
following departments of human
achievement who has become famous.
and state in what century and country
each lived; Architecture, music, paint
ing and sculpture.
Name the authors Of the following
quotations.:
(a) you must wake and call me
early, call me early, mother dear"
(b) ION with the dance! Let JOY be
unconhned."
(c) Something is rotten in the
state OF Denmark"
cd "The lowing herd winds slowly
DER the lea"
(e) "And lol Ben Adhem's name
led all the rest"
The next question involved famili-
arity with current tonics
State briefly what is suggested to
you by the following: French aca-
dcmy, the open door, Esopus. six
teen to one, Hall Of Fame, the boxers.
Abbotsford, Dalai Lama, Kremlin. the
Sistine Madonna.
Characterize briefly the following
periodicals.: Fliegende Blaetter, La
dies Home Journal, Review of Re
views, the Forum, Youths Companion
Harper's Bazaar, Pail Mall Gazette. Fl
garo, Public Libraries, What to Eat.
Name one work by each Of the fol-
lowing: Oliver Goldsmith, Chaucer
Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson.
William Dean Howells, Henry Field.
ing, Count Tolstoi. Alphonse Daudet.
Francis Parkman, Boccaccio.
Name five American works of ac.
tion published since 1890 which you
would recommend as good literature.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14

would come out to eat it before he
vas out Of sight He kept that up
antil each pair Of ground hogs had
raised six young ones to be half
grown. Then he set traps, and the
ground hogs we're so tame they walk
ed right into them. Then he killed
the whole bunch, twenty-four in all,
and took them to his father The old
man was wild, and Henry had to show
him the holes and the traps before he
would believe. He said the ground
hogs hadn't bothered the turkeys any
that year and he didn't think there
were any on the place. The fact was
tnat Henry had fed them so well that
they were too lazy to kill turkeys.
Well, the old man paid up, and it took
l"Vit quarter Of his flock to settle,
and Henry sold his share for a dollar
and half a head and put thirty-six
dollars in the bank The joke leaked
out and next winter it reached the
old mans ears. My, but he was mad.
AT first he was for whaling the hide
off Of Henry, but when he cooled down
a little it kind of tickled him that he
should be euchered in that way by a
boy Of twelve. and his own boy, too
And then when he found that the mon
ey went into the bank he became
pleased and said he could trust that
boy to get along all right; said he
guessed it was mostly his own fault
for making such a fool proposition.
That was the last time Henry ever
got ahead of his father, though, but
from that time on the old man took
more interest in Henry than any of
the other children, and he fixed his
property so that while thers was no
apparent excuse for the others to take
exceptions, Henry got more value than
any Of the others.-Selected.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
Created for You.

believe s=as ssrs vOrla was created for
Oh. '.aI1 rtsa brown eyes and baby
on htny VIM gray eyes and baby with
It was made and whirled out on eter-
nitys track
70 Just make playground all colors
All sapphire, and umber, and green, and
That we who are old are permitted to
10 help you and guard you. and watch
Ger your play.
For We who are old yesterday we're as
We were babies with black eyes. ana gray
eyes, and blue;
We romped II The meadows. and laugh.
And at night, tired out with our froilc
and fun,
We crept TO our mother so loving and
And she in one hand held our two tiny
feet,
And one arm held around US. and taught
us to pray.
All yes. we were babies like you yester-
Our papa stood by us as you're stands
And he stopped. just like this. for
sweet kiss or two;
Ana his look as he held out his arms
Wide apart
His iook-why twas just like the throb
in our heart
When we stand by your mothers and
watch while you pray.
We grown-ups were babies like you yes
ttrdayi
And the Lord let's us stay here, and play
here with you.
Because when you're weary we know
what to do.
Houston Post.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
A Race That
Saved a Train

One afternoon last August a storm
of wind swept over San Rafael, Cali
fornia. Near the outskirts Of the
town and close to the residence of
James Cochrane, a prominent lawyer
/ OF San Rafael, a huge eucalyptus tree,
I fully 100 feet in height and two feet
! in diameter in SIS thickest part. was
blown over SO that the heavy portion
1 OF its trunk lay squarely across the
tracks of the California Northwestern
Railway. Shortly after five o'clock
Mrs. Cochrane, with a team Of horses,
started on a drive into the country.
She passed close to the track in her
carriage and saw the big tree lying
across the rails. Suddenly the thought
struck her that the Ukiah express was
about due. She looked at her watch
and it read $40 o'clock.
The train was due in five minutes.
Jumping from her carriage, she ran
down the track, hoping to flag the
train. The tree had fallen just at the
end Of a curve, which wound itself
about a tall hill. At the beginning of
the curve the track emerged from a
Uunnc, a=a II was evident that the
engineer in his cab would not be
aware of his danger until he was
right upon 1t. Then Mrs. Cochrane re-
membered the telephone. and turning
back, ran over the rough ground to-
ward her house. Once she stumbled,
but the distance was short and in
less than two minutes she was ring
ing for the railway depot. Train Dis
patcher Force answered her message.
All that he heard was:
Tree across track near the tunnel;
hurry; a train is coming"
Outside the station G. E. Gillbride
the baggage master, who is an expert
bicycle rider, was standing. Force
called to him the message, and with
a jump Gillride seized his bicycle and
was off. Force threw him a signal flag
as he started and yelled string of
orders after him as he spurted down
the street.
The distance was only about a mile
and the bicyclist rode like the wind.
@A~N~A AS HeAO SOuC dQOul DlOck ne
heard the shrill whistle of the com
ing train as it approached the tunnel.
1t was a race of man against train.
with a hundred lives depending on
the result. Gillbride reached the fall
en- tree jumped from his bicycle, ran
down the track, away to the mouth of
the tunnel, and as the engine emerged
from the darkness flashed his red
signal flag before the startled en-
gineer
The whistles screamed BRAKES
down." and, with the engine shivering
with the exertion, the train came to a
stop with the nose of the locomotives
cowcatcher scarcely two feet from the
fallen tree. Engineer Lewis. his face
white from peril, jumped from the cab
and hurried to the signal man.
Pretty soon a half hysterical woman
came down the track. 1t was Mrs.
Cochrane and she told Of the finding
OF the danger. The crew and mas
sengers thanked her over and over
again.-Little Chronicle.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
Safety in
Schools

The other day a credulous man Of
fered me some statistics relative to
accidents which had been compiled by
an insurance man" which showed
that people among whom the per.
centage of accidents runs highest are
the stay-at-homes. while travellers
upon railroad trains and steam boats
are comparatively immune. | didn't
accept the figures perhaps because
/ haven't much faith in statistics. but
l am prepared to admit that there is
very little safety left to any of us.
and that the little that. remains will
probably diminish in proportion as the
pathologists increase.
One Of the trustees of the Chicago
schools has Just called the attention
of his fellow officials and of the pub
lie to the fact that the sweeping OF
school rooms and rubbing down Of
blackboards as ordinarily done is a
deadly practice which gives to germs
an even more pernicious activity than
they ordinarily enjoy. AS a remedy
he submitted the following recommen-
dations in the form Of a resolution:
THAT the floors of all public school
rooms be covered with sawdust wet
with solution Of bichloride in the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14

He's Honest


Behold him in clothes that are ancient
But he's hOnesti
Others have fortunes that ne might have
But he's honest:
~ night be unlatches p rlclzety door.
His little ones play on a carpetless floor,
And his wifes face IS wan, she is hoping
10 more
But he's honest,
His tastes are the simplest his wants are
And he's honesti
He works when there's work that is easy
And he's honestl
He putters things here he puts patches
And The poor little children consigned to
Must shiver and live on the scantiest
But he's honest.
He might have had wealth or he might
have won fame
But he's hOnesti
No thousands abhor him or know him by
name,
But he's honestl
He never has tried to push others aside.
Upsetting their hopes and destroying
their pride;
The ones he protects in hovel abide
but he's honestl
He sIoqches along; as If going nowhere
But he's honestl
The world could well spare him but why
should he care?
He is hOnesti
He might have done much for the good
Of mankind,
But work makes him weary. and. drag
ging behind
With the ones who have failed, with the
worthless and mean
He fancies the Lord must be glad to
have seen
That he's honest.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
Wisdom for Wlves.

A wife should not imagine it intel
lectual to make unlzind remarks, says
the Boston Sunday Globe.
A wife should frequent her own
home and not those of her neighbors.
A wife should never discuss her
husband, even with her dearest friend.
A wife should endeavor to beautify
the home, not grumble at the lack Of
ornaments.
A wife should confide in her hus-
band, but need not worry him with
Tletty troubles.
A wife should review her conduct,
condemn it where it is at fault and
amend it to the best of her ability.
A wife should remember that a
number Of people may make a house
hold, but only one can make it a
home. She is the one.
A wife should realize that there
comes time when extreme cheerful
ness is about as trying on the nerves
as the scratching Of a slate pencil.
A wife should not be suspicious be-
cause her husband does not, for once,
come home by his usual train. Very
often business may detain him In
town, and it will not soothe his nerves
to be questioned as to his delay when
he does arrive. Quarrels can easily
be avoided by a little tact and conf
dence-end lack Of jealousy.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14
The WIndows Of the MInd.

If the windows of your mind are
thrown wide to the sunlight there is
no place for the darkness.
If they are thrown wide to good
cheer there is no room for sadness.
If they are opened to sweet
thoughts there is no quarter for the
bitter.
II they are bright with hope there
is no lurking spot for despair: if they
are bright with courage there is no
harborage for fear.
If they are filed with tranquility
and peace there is no room for discon-
tent.
If they are filed with sweet temper
there is no place for anger; if thew
are filed with tenderness and SYM.
pathy there is no shelter for sweet
revenge"
If they are filed with gratitude
there is no place for benefits forgot.
II they are dlled with the milk Of
human kindness there is no rosra or
refuge for ill-will.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-14

proportion Of to 1000 and then thor
oughly swept.
THAT all windows shall be wide
open during the sweeping and clean
ing Of school rooms. provided the
weather will permit.
That all bIackboards be wiped of
lth wet sponges to prevent the
! reading Of the chalk dust, which is
= fceedingly injurious to the lung
: ssues.
THAT all furniture and woodwork
be wiped off at least once a month
with a solution of bichloride.
"That all windows and doors be left
open during intermission, except in
inclement weather"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION.
Strong Appeal Against Lynehing. for
 Whatever Cause.

Strong Appeal Against Lynching, for
 Whatever Cause.
 There seems to be great deal Of mis- conception in the public mind with re- spect to Iynching. Because a man has committed crime for which the law provides the death penalty, many per- sons believe that it makes little differ enee whether the criminal meets his death at the hands of a mob or through due process of law. But it makes, all the difference in the world-the dfffer- enea between civilization and anarchy or barbarism.
 Wherein does civilization especially differ from barbarism? In civilized so- ciety we have laws for the protection of life and property and courts for the administration of justice and the pun ishment of crime! Under barbarous and savage conditions there are no es- tablished laws; brute force rules and a spirit of revenge dictates punishment.
 In our country we have constitutions and bylaws made especially for them selves through their chosen represen- tatiyes in conventions and legislatures. The people thus delegate their sover- eign power to representatives to make laws for the government of organized society-the state. When those laws are made they represent the sovereign x1-{li n {, fraa ,oao3,io oxy,aSc,ed |,,S,, o,I, the ballot-box; and it is the duty of every law-abiding citizen and of every olyer of his country to obey and up- hold the laws made for the public good, Even if man believes a law to be inn polite or unjust St is his duty to obey 1t because it represents, while on the statute book, the will of the majority i the power which makes the law of the land. If a law is not wise or just a majority of the voters can have that law repealed or modified by the legis- lature. The constitution itself may be revised whenever the people wish il done.
 Our laws then represent the will ot the people. deliberately expressed through regularly constituted legisla- tive bodies. Each man by his vote linn its his individual freedom for the gen. eral good, and thereby agrees to obey the laws which express the will of the majority of the people. Hence there can be no such thing as a community
 taking the law into it's own hands" ir a civilized country where the courts ars I in operation The mob, whether il numbers one hundred or one thousand or five thousand. simply tramples tht flaw of the land under its feet when, undertakes to punish criminal foi any cause. whatsoever, For whatever the crime the criminal Is entitled to g Itrial where evidence on both sides may be presented and considered with dut deliberation in a court of justice. That Is very different sort of thing from 6 mob frenzied by passion and thirstint ] for blood. a
 Our laws er1lbody the mature thought and wisdom of the Anglo-Saxon rae
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
THE CONSOLIDATED
Acquirfes Valuable Property on Court
 Street.

Acquirfes Valuable Property on Court
 Street.
 The New York, New Haven and Hart ford road, it is authoritatively stated, has acquired the Old Mersick property on Court street abutting the railroad tracks. The property was purchased from the building investment company of which the late Charles S. Mersick was the largest stockholder. The price is not made public but it is understood that the figure is nearly $95,O00. At torney Henry c. White of the law firm of White, Daggett & Tilson, acted for the investment company.
 The acquiring of this piece of prop erty by the Consolidated road shows it's determination to proceed with the proposed plan of widening the cut, a favorable decision having just been rem dered by the state railroad commission. The Mersick property will be used for the purpose of eliminating certain curves at that section and is really one of the most important purchases made by the road of land for cut pur- poses.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
NO TRUTH IN RUMOR
THAT VICE PERCY R.
 TODD

Is to Resign His Connection With the
 Consolidated Railroad-Statement De-
 nied by President AIeIlen and by Mir.
 Todd.
 There are always runiors and riimors concerning men holding high official po- sitions in railroads and other corpora tions, most of which turn out to be baseless and only idle gossip. Such an one is that referred to by President Mellen, of the Consolidated road, in the following official communication reeeiy- ed last evening:
 "Nr. Mellen noted in the Register last evening the statement regarding MT. Todd's connection with the road and the possibility of his not remaining longer in it's service.
 "'So far as his knowledge goes, there is absolutely no foundation for the re- port, nor can he understand how the same could have originated.
 Tt is not true there is friction be- tween Mir. Todd and himself, nor any thing but the best of feeling and heart 4CSL 5OOO AiilB AlC hSpAOACS l4lS pup- lication of the story as calculated only to annoy and harass those who have enough of bother and worry about other matters to be spared even the necessity of denial.
 MT. Mellen has been aware such a rumor has been in circulation, and Is glad of this opportunity to set the mat ter right"
 Vice President Todd, when interview ed last evening on the subject, said there was absolutely nothing in the story that he contemplated resigning his connection with the railroad com pany, and that any reports or rumors on the subject were purely airy Pigments of imagination. His relations with MT. Mellen were of the most cordial, agree able and satisfactory nature.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
HAVOC oF TIE STORM.
Yesetrday One of the Meanest Ever
 Served Up.

Yesetrday One of the Meanest Ever
 Served Up.
 As if to discover whether or no our virtues had overlived the celebrations of Christmas-tide the weather bureau foisted upon us yesterday day of weather that was the meanest of the mean.
 The attack began with a cavalry charge of sleet, which made a desper- ate but futile effort to cut off the troll ley service. Sleet wheels were pressed into service on the trolleys, and de- spite the fact that about fifty of the cempany's cars were disabled through having their motors burned out by the water which flooded the tracks during the day the car service was very we'll maintained.
 The storm was combined with a yer itable January thaw,' and the com bination has resulted in making the city streets like rivers for water. The walking was rendered abominable, and the melting snow and rain made the crossings like streams in early spring time
 In New York the storm played havoc with transportation and .telegraphic fa- cilities.
 Falling on top of the snow-covered paven1ents and sidewalks the rain has formed a hard crust of ice, and New York was like a great skating pond. The rails of the surface cars and ele- vated trains were so slippery that no effort was made to keep anything like schedule time. The suburban trolley lines were almost paralyzed and trains were reported late on every line.
 To the farmers and manufacturers of the state, however, the storm came not as an evil but rather as a blessing.
 The water supply question had be- come a serious one all over New Eng land, and in Connecticut the n1anufac- turing communities were face to face in most instances with an enforced shutdown of the establishments owing to failing supply of water in the streams which supply power.
 The train service of the Consolidated railroad was badly hampered by the storm. Telephone and telegraph wires were put out of business. In several instances of heavy ice formations on the wires broke them down and thus crippled the service
 The rain wa a severe blow to the ice cutters, who had laid plans to begin in real earnest in case the weather con- tinued cold. Instead the thaw melted xrea1Ny Htr taAt= Al, aIJ sra4 s..-, lakes of the city and gave the industry a setback. It will be a week or two before the ice will be in such good shape to cut as it was when the pres- ent thaw came.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
MANuFAcTuRE OF CRIMINALS.

MANUFACTURE OF CRIMINALS.
 It is frequent remark that our jaiIs are hothouses of crime, but the truth of it is seldom brought home to us more forcibly than by, the following para graph from The Philadelphia Ledger about two inmates of the Bridgeton, N. J., county Jail: Frank Rasinger is apparently the least interested person in the arrangements planned for the forthcoming legal battle. A playful schoolboy, Il years old Morris Mittnex, is his cellmate. The boy, bright, sturdy little fellow, was brought to Bridgeton from Milville for playing truant at school" The editors of Charities were attracted by this brief item and began an investigation which soon disclosed the fact that Frank Rasinger, the truant schoolboy's cell
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
ate, was a self-confessed wife mur.

mate, was self-confessed wife mur- derer.
 Mrs. Clara T. Sykes, president of the Vineland Children's Aid society, con- ducted the investigation and learned that this boy of Il had been, for IS days, daily and hourly in close asso- citation with the most degraded crini- nals in the jail. Besides the murderer whose cell he shared he had access to the hospital ward, where another wife muderer, an attempted sucide, was flying. As often as the sheriff released Morris from his cell, which was at cer- tain hours every day, the boy sneak ed' around to see this man, whose cori- versation he found interesting. Two other prisoners had the freedom of the corridor at certain hours, and with them the boy established rather more women in jail on charge of keeping disorderly houses.
 When the turnkey was asked his req son for placing the boy in the midst of such degrading surroundings, he cit ed the New Jersey prison regulations prohibiting the confinement of children with common criminals. Anxious to conform to the strict letter of the law, he selected the most uncommon crirni- nals', i'll the jail for the boys daily companions. Not the least amazing feature of the whole ssffair.was the conl- hitting magistrates unwillingness to release the boy, even after the circun- stances of his prison life were made clear. However. the release was final ly effected and the boy is now at lib- erty. As Charities points out, the evil still exists, and not only in New Jer- sey but in many other States, the county jails are busy with their. manu- Pfacture of criminals. Public Opinion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28
a1inter gesnrts.

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 Magnolia Springs, Florida. Ideal cli- mate, dry; free from mosquitoes. Boat ing, fishing, shooting, golf, tennis, and bathing. Pure water. Illustrated book let. O. D. sSEAVEY.