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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
superstitious.

This is the third time you've been
arrested and brought before me for
drunkenness, isn't it?" asked the irate
justice.
Yes, jedge, it is. but it's all on ac-
count o my superstitions, jedge."
How so2"
We'll, whenever / see spirits / al
ways try to down EN-"
so this is the third time you've
been arrested for being superstitious?
Well, I'll bust another superstition by
giving you 30 days in Jail. thus proving
that there's no luck in odd num-
here F."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
Charity of the Poor,
An Instance of Pahos and Tender Sympathy In New
Yorks East Side-Deed OF Splendid
SeIEForgeduLness

the poor, found one known far and
wide as a profound scholar. yet as alb
jectly poor as his neighbors. Him
they asked, and without further ado
he came.
When the ceremony was over, the
parents told the rabbi they could not
give him anything but plate had
been placed on the table and that
whatever the nelghb.rs put therein
was for him. The collection amounted
to $3.50 within a few cents What that
meant to the rabbi no one knows save
such as have looked into the eyes OF
starvation and faced the weary day,
foodless and hopeless. The good man
gathered up the coins. each one a deed
Of self-sacrifce to the glver. looked
around the poor home. with It's scanty
furniture. gazed at the weary faces
gathered about him. paused, and then
going to the mother placed II all In
her hands, saying. Daughter. you
need it more than do without an
other word he went forth to his own
foodless and desolate home, where he
and his wife implored the God OF their
fathers to help them to earn the
longed-for food, the sadly needed next
meal.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
Wood Toothpicks, skewers aid Reels

One of the first wood mills estab-
lished in Maine was to manufacture
wooden toothpicks. A small machine
was invented, which at present gives
an annual output of 500 millions Of
toothpicks. They are made of the
smallest pieces Of waste wood, the
cost of the raw material being prac-
tically nothing The wooden skew
ers used by butchers are manufactur-
ed at the rate of a half million a
week. One mill alone turns out in
the summer season five million skew
ers and fifty million toothpicks, be-
sides a number of other articles.
Reels for cotton and thread are
manufactured at the rate of 250 mil
lions a year. For this output more
than fifteen million feet of white
birch is needed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
One for N. p,ekpoek.t.

When Mrs. Isabella Bishop, the
well-known traveller. was in the
United States she had at least one
funny experience. She was riding in
a car in Chicago ana felt her pocket
being picked, but said nothing at the
moment Presently along came the
conductor to collect his fares When
he reached Mrs. Bishop she qpie.ii.y
remarked: This gentleman, turn
ing to the thief. will pay. He has
my purse"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
A Yearly Paper.

In the frozen northland, almost with
in the Arctic circle, Mr. w. T. Lopp
Is looking after his publication, The
Eskimo Bulletin probably a unique
paper. It is published at Cape Prince
of Wales, and the Bulletin" is issued
but once every twelve months. Indeed
under the head Of the paper Is the an
nouncement, The only yearly in the
world"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
Nothing Unusual.

DR.. de Sarak. few weeks ago, lee
tured in Washington on Occult
Science" After his address he gave
a demonstration Of his power when,
by concentrating his mind on it. he
smashed into smithereens a bottle full
Of water The incident caused com
Inent and was discussed by several
senator's gathered in the cloak room
of the capitol
Imagine breaking a bottle by think.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01

irg of it," said one Of the statesmen
in amazement
That's nothing" said Senator
spooner blandly. i've known men to
think Of bottle and break a dollar
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
The Question.

Il is said that there is a woman
In Manchester who has eyes which
magnify objects fifty times their lat.
urai size
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01

II For I'm really swfully glad about
st."
But the next day was the strangest
lof all. Nita didn't speak to me once
while we we're dressing. Il was rather
glad, being late myself that day. She
didn't speak, but her face fairly
beamed.
At bed time she was still beaming
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01
SONG IN WINTER.

Ger the plangent wind dirges;
Deeply in each meadow
Night day. night time nefges
In monotony o white
Rainbow gold Of promise?-not a rayi
Desolation icy swayi
Swing planets. your shining courses!
Bear us past wintry and pain!
Work your wonder, ye vernal forces
fhrobbing through the rain
The old ende nj strain
April the bluehrd back again!
Clinton seollard The churchma
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-01

s8ss
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
Pepper and Salt.

1t is of great Importance to you
as well as to those with whom you
associate in business or social life
that your speech be always kindly
and without bitterness or malice CT
unlovingness in any form whatever.
You should be ever careful to speak
truly, reverently and helpfully.
Speech is, as it were, the seasoning
of life.
Love is the salt and truth Of the
soul, which makes life pleasant and
agreeable and happy for one and all.
Some people use pepper instead
of salt, and pepper is sharp and
biting. Their speech is full of sar-
casm, of censure, Of bitterness COM
posed Of words that burn and hurt.
Let us be careful to avoid the
pepper, but sprinkle our conversa-
ton literally with the salt of truth
and love which is the sunshine way.
Exchange.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
The Lord High Constnb1c.

The lord high constable Of England
was an official Of high rank in olden
times. The name Is contraction OF
comes stabuli, count OF the stable, or,
as we should now say, master Of the
horse. His functions were partly mill
tary, partly judicial and partly civil.
1t became G. hereditary office to the
Stafords, by one OF whom, the Duke
Oh buckingham, 1t was forfeited In 1921
Tor high treason, and has never been
revived, save for special occasions, such
as coronation. This office still exists
IN Scotland and IL reserved for the
earls OF Enroll. The present constable
OF the Tower, OF Dover, Windsor, and
other places is remnant of the old Of
nee, and the term police constable in
d.cates that The chief duty was to keep
the peace.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
Furnishing q Good Exeuae.

Doubtless you have seen these
cocoanuts that have been improv-
ed by the hand of art and made to
resemble human head-at an early
stage in the evolutionary process
by boring out pair of eyes, exca-
waiting nose and making a jagged
cut transversely to represent a
mouth, the whole being topped by u
fringe of fiber trimmed in rude imi-
tation of g juvenile Chinese hair
cut.
Whether you have or not, how
ever, the golden haired little maid
en- who figures as.thc heroine of this
story has, and numbers one of them
among her playthings.
The other day this little girl went
to the dentists to have an aching
tooth extracted. "Can I have the
tooth, doctor?" she asked after the
performance was over.
Certainly" he said.
She took the tooth home with
her and brought out the cocoanut
imitation of human head and face.
'Now," she said, inserting the
tooth in the jagged mouth Of the
helpless dummy. "I'll give you
something, to make real face
about, you ugly thing!"-Chicago
Tribune.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
Tho Sting Of tho NettIe.

The leaf and stem of nettle are
literally clothed with erect hollow
hairs. If one Of these hairs is view
ed under a microscope, it will be
seen that its free end, after taper
ing to very fine degree of slimness,
finishes as q little knob, while in
the other direction, after gradually
becoming more robust, it suddenly
expands into large bulb, CORE
spending with the poison gland Of
the adder.
The point Of the hair is very brit
tie, and contact with our skin caus-
es the end to snap off, leaving c
hollow needle point which readily
pierces our cuticle, and pressing up
on the bulb at the other end the
poison is forced through the CEN
trail channel and infames our blood,
The tender handed who stroke the
nettle are stung for their pains, be-
cause their gentleness has only serv-
ed to break the brittle points and
render them fit for piercing, but
the rough handed break the hairs
at their thickest parts, where they
are too stout to prick.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
Perseverance Rewarded.

"She has promised to marry you,
has she? Did she accept you right
off?"
ooh, no. I had to propose to her
four times"
sFour times! Gracious, but you
were persevering! What did she
say the. first time?"
sShe said if there wasn't another
man in the world but me she
wouldn't marry me-"
s'That was pretty strong. What
did she say the second timer"
"She said she liked me pretty
well, but she couldn't think of mar
rying me, for she. might see some
one she liked better"
'tHumphl And the third timer"
'The third time she asked me if I
wanted to tease the life out Of her"
cha! ha! ha! AND the fourth
time"
ooh, the fourth time she said if l
insisted upon it she supposed she
would have to say yes"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
UOyal HtN!rnqn

Queen Anne OF England and her hus.
band George, prince of Denmark, had
great similarity of taste. The two sub.
Jects that interested them most were
horses and dinner. a Jacobite allusion
to these pardonable weaknesses runs
thus:
There's Mary the daughter. there's Willy
the chcatcr.
There's Geordio the irinker there's Annie
the eater.
That King George III. Of England was
not popular with his subjects is evident
from the following epigrnm. which was
published In London on the death OF
Queen Caroline:
- cruel death. Why hast thou been un-
kind
hind?
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
WHAT is ELECTRICITY?
An Enigma Whose Solution Is a Puzzle
to tho Scientists.

An Enigma Whose Solution Is a Puzzle
to tho Scientists.
What is electricity? First we must
ask what is positive electricity? and
the answer is we do not know. For
myself / do not even guess, beyond
supposing it to be q mode of mani
festation or a differentiated portion
OF the continuous and all peryading
ether. It seems to exist in Jumps
the size Of the atoms of matter, and
no portion Of it less in bulk than
an atom has ever been isolated or
appears likely 20 be isolated. But,
although it may have bulk, it ap-
pears as if it had no appreciable
mass; the massiveness or inertia oa
the atom is probably due to some
thing else, in fact to the possession
of negative charges in equal amount.
This part of the doctrine is not yet
certain. More Investigation is urg-
emily needed into the meaning and
properties of positive electricity.
Meanwhile we shall only be follow
ing the lead of Professor J. J.Thom-
son if we assume that unit of posi-
tive electricity has a massiveness Cor
what is often inaccurately called
"weight'' either zero or very small,
most probably very small; perhaps
about l per cent of the mass Of
some atoms of matter may be due
to the positive electricity which
they contain.
But concerning negative cleo
tricity We know a great deal more.
This exists in excessively minute
particles, sometimes called electrons
and sometimes called corpuscles; !;
these are thrown off the negatively
charged terminal in vacuum tube,
and they fly with tremendous speed
till they strike something. When
they strike they can propel as well
as heat the target, and they can
likewise make it emit phosphores-
cent glow, especially if it be made of
glass or precious stones. If the
target is very massive metal like
platinum, the sudden stoppage of
the flying electrons which encounter
it causes the production of the ethe-
real pulses known as x rays. Elec-
irons are not very easy to stop,
however, and fair proportion Of
them can penetrate not only wood
and paper, but sheets of such metals
as aluminium and other moderately
thin obstacles. That is because they
are extremely small, much smaller
than the atoms Of matter.-Sir Oil
yer Lodge in Harper's Magazine.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
A RESOURCEFUl- MAID.
t4ow She Brought Her Father to Her
Way Of Thinking.

How She Brought Her Father to Her
Way Of Thinking.
She was in love with young doc
ior.
"Hes quite impossiblew cried her
mother, when informed of it.
"Out of the question:" asserted
her father.
che has dne prospects," insisted
the girl.
SYou can't live on prospects,"
said the father.
The next day she was ill.
81 can see nothing wrong" said
the physician who was called to at
tend her.
Nevertheless he left prescrip-
ton, but it seemed to do no good.
The symptoms she described were
conflicting and confusing.
Its very strange" said the ply
sician.
of you do not understand the
case We must get some one who
does" said the mother.
So, after week or more of cx-
perlmenting, another physician was
called in.
GA trifling indisposition," said
the second physician. "i'll have her
all right i'll day or so.'
But in day or SO she had him
puzzled. Her lover had told her
how to do it.
every time I see her." said the
second physician, 'there seems to be
some new complication. I can't
find anything radically wrong, but
her statements certainly show that
she is not all right"
BY this time the father and moth
er were worried, and they sent for a
specialist. The latter looked wise,
but he met with no greater success
than the two who had preceded him,
although his bill was considerably
larger.
The father had just seen the bill
when the girl called to him.
81 fear" she said wearily, "that
this trouble is going to continue in
definitely. Don't you think it would
be wise to have q physician in the
family?"
The father looked at her suspi-
ciously. i
Perhaps it would" he admitted.
"And it's 80 easy to have one,' -
she persisted.
"Arrange it to suit yourself" he
said rcsignedly, for he was man
who knew when he was beaten.
The next day che was able to sit
Up, and the day after she had en-
tirely recovered. But the father
continued to look at her reproach-
fully to the day of the wedding.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
Her Consolation

A woman was sentenced to i'm
prisonInent by a bench of magis-
trstes the presiding justice Of
Which was a well known officer Of
militia, whose pride in his regiment
vas the subject, of public comment.
On receiving her sentence she. thus
addressed the bench: "Well, your
wolships, my father was Jagged for
life, and my husband is. doing ten
years hard, and I have brother
and sister that are two out and
out bad ones, but ! thank the Lord
that made me that nobody belong
ing to me was ever connected wi
the smiishy! London Tit-Bits. Z
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
A HOUSE TRAGEDY.
The Climax to the Remodeins Of MIR.
Nuts Dwelling.

The Climax to the Remodeiina Of Mr..
Must's Dwelling.
'Yes," said Mr.. Mutt, cit was
rather odd the way I came to re-
build my house. You see, Mrs. Mutt
was in town one day and happened
to buy very handsome hall lamp
one of the kind that stands on the
post Of the stair banistoTs," and
then, says London Tit-Bits, lie went
on to describe the development Of
the house:
"Well, as soon as she got the
lamp home we saw that it was too
large for the style of the stairs, SO
had to get the carpenters to come in
and widen them and put in new
balustrades and posts, and set them
over more toward the center of the
, hall. When that was done the hall
didn't look like hall at all, and
had to have the carpenters tear out
the walls and make the old dining
room into a new hall.
"Then, of course, the kitchen had
to be torn away and rebuilt at the
back of the house, so that the old
kitchen would do for sitting
room, and there had to be q new
dining room built to match the
finish of the hall. And when things
got SO far we saw. at once that we
had to have a library off the hall,
and then the veranda had to go to
make room for the library, and my
pet rosebushes came up to give q
chance to build the new veranda.
"Well, to make long story short,
I had to remodel the second story to
match the first, and put q third
story on in order to take care OF
tho rooms that were crowded out
by the changes in the second. And
30 | had new house all round"
"And was your wife pleased?"
"Only partly. You see, just on
the last day, when the carpenters
had completed the third story and
were finishing work on the whole
job, one Of them dropped his ham
men through the skylight, and it fell
to the hall and smashed the lamp
that had started the whole thing"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
a Jack Rabbit, Roundun.,

A jack rabbit roundup in the
west is full of interest. A huge cir
Gle of hunters is formed, miles in
circumference, and an inclosure
built Of woven wire SO high that no
jack rabbit could Jump over is the
objective point of the hunt. From
the entrance to this Enclosure ex-
tend two fences, broadening out as
they leave the corral. Into this
Wedgelike space the rabbits are to
be driven, after which they will nat
9nrally run into the corral as the
only exit in sight. st:s
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
done SO l really don't feel I can kiss

you"
Charlie fully expected that this
stupendous threat would reduce Eva
to the lowest depths of despair and
bring her, fguratively speaking, to
her knees, but for once was he out
in his calculations. She drew up
her slender figure and pursed up her
rosy lips with an air that made him
feel vaguely uneasy. Was it to de-
fly him? Yes. Her next words
proved that it was so.
II am not sorry" she said. '"Not
a bit. I am glad. I would do it
again"
Charlie gasped. The situation
was SO unlocked for that he could
not rise to it ali at once.
Gas for kissing me-" Eva went
on, with a little disdainful move,
Swell, you will never have the
chance of doing that again, SO you
need not excite yourself"
Charlie found his voice then.
"1ou are talking at random now,
Eva" he said severely, ga bad habit,
against which / have always warned
you. Will you be kind enough to
explain YOURSELF" 2"
ooh, certainly" Eva answered. "I
can do it in very few words. Lord
Dolly proposed to me last night, and
I accepted him."
Charlie gasped again.
"But you are engaged to me-" he
calculated. "You must be mad.
You can't seriously contemplate
throwing me over for Dolly Dash
wood. The things impossiblep
She looked at him and smiled.
Incredible as it may seem to you,
I do contemplate it"
"But - but - but" stammered
Charlie, "this is very-er-extraor-
dinary behavior on your part, Eva.
Are you aware that you propose to
treat me in a most dishonorable
way, and-and-er-in short, very
badly?"
Her face grew grave.
'Ishould be sorry to do that" she
said more gently. 'I-I don't want
to be dishonorable or to treat you
badly, Charlie, but I am only hui
man, and no one but myself knows
what I have gone through in the
last few months. You have tried
me too hard. I was very fond Of
you at one time. and if you had
tre d me fairly I should have been
fond of you still. But you would
wear out saint, and I am only a
woman. I don't think Lord Dolly
would be hard on me. He may not
be very brilliant, but at all events
he is a mantle sort of man we
call gentleman--and knows how
to be generous, even to such an al
together inferior creature as a mere
woman"
She paused and looked critically
at her rejected lover, who now pre-
sented truly pitiable appearance,
with all the starch taken out of him
and general air of limp depression
pervading his being.
"That is all" she went on pres
emily. ssBut before you go there is
one thing that I should like to i'm
press upon you for future guidance
lit is always worth a mans while
to be just and fair, even to wo-
man."
She paused again and contemplat-
ed him with her big blue eyes, but
he said nothing. He was too be-
wildered to even speak. It seemed
to him that all the laws of creation
were reversed and the whole scheme
Of the universe turned upside down.
There was q hitch in the system
somewhere. It had failed London
Truth.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
How tho Naughty Boy Suffered.

'Your little boy is sick this morn
ing" said Mr.. Naybor sympathetic
ally.
eyes," replied Popley, che was
naughty last evening and I sent him
to bed without his supper
"Ah! And the long fast made
him ILL.,"
Long fast nothing! Before he
got to sleep his mother and grand
mother sneaked a Lot of things up
stairs and simply stuffed him.
Philadelphia Press.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
He Got Hia Wife. .

She was a dear little girl. Her
mother had taken her into toy
store to buy doll, and her young
mind had fluctuated long between
the fascinating boy -olls and the
charming girl dolls there displayed.
She looked longingly from one to
the other. At last she fixed on a
boy. Then, holding him up for her
mother to inspect, Mamma" she
said gravely, che needs a wife"
Needless to say, she got the girl
doll too.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
A Reminder.

New Father-in-law - Well, sir,
the ceremony is over. and now that
you are the husband of my daugh-
ter I want to give you a little ad-
vice. What would you do if you
should wake up some night and
find burglars in the house?
Bridegroom should tell them
that my father-in-law forgot to give
my wife a wedding dowry, and
they'd go away.-London Punch.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
An lmstession Of ,aasta.

1sThere's mighty few people" said
Farmer Corntossel, chat knows
what to do with a farm after they
get one"
.I have noticed that" answered
the girl with frizzes. "They always
insist on filling the whole place up
with corn and oats i things, when
they might have sucl lovely tennis
courts and golf links Washing
ton Star.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17
A Medical Director.

"How are you getting on 2" asked
johnson of young Tomkins, whom
he met in the street the other day.
"First rate" was the mans reply.
"What are you doing?" further
aueried johnson.
"I'm a medical director in an in
stitution."
ga medical director?
eyes. You see, I direct envelopes
in patent medicine house."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17

Intellectuslity is the cause Of
badness. 30 says . bsldhesded man.
The average man is very patri-
rotio-when there are no war clouds in
eight
"a girl is always willing to admit
she is fat il she doesn's weigh more
than no.
Most people are so busy trying
TO get ahead Of some friend that they,
overlook the enemy who is getting
ahead Of them.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-17

- As men Of parts, actors are not
in it with BARRIERS.
Man proposes, but after that the
woman takes charge.
- Money makes the marc go, and
sometimes proves, in consequence.
that she is spawned and has the
spring. halt.
- The love Of mnney ie .ke rec. G..
all asil, but it would seem useless to
offer prize for the man who is not
willing to daily with the root.