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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
The Old Faith.

Thus saith the Lord; Stand ye in the
ways and see, and look for the old paths,
where Is the good way, and walk therein,
and ye shall find rest for your souls. -
Jeremiah vi, 16.
As a nan who Is travel weary. as a man
who is travel worn,
Who carries anew the CALLING loads he
over the road has borne,
Who carries anew each burden when
counting them DER alone,
While trudging his way through bog and
fen and stumbling on bruising stone.
As a man who is travel weary remembers
the first fair way
So a man goes back to the simple faith
that was all his own one day.
The simple faith he cherished; the faith
in the grass and sky.
The faith that he held in innocence with
never a doubling "Why2"-
When valley and hill and forest and
everything that Is
Was wondrously rich with a breathing
truth; an1 all Of that truth was his
When twilight and dawn were peaceful,
and his We're the dreaming stars
The faith that he held unconsciously ere
ever his soul had icars.
AS a man who is travel weary, he stands
on a lonely height,
And lOngingly looks at the stretching
way that ends in the fading light
And yearns for the pleasant pathways
as once he sought out their end
The faith that he held in an honest hold
as one does a faithful friend.
He turns TO the unforgotten, the years
when he wrought no wrong
And seeks for the faith that once was his
all simple and sweet and strong.
w. \. d. in Chicago Tribune.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
Reason for White Race

Gustave Michaud, the ethnologist,
writes: 1--WE have now every reason to
believe that both the Mediterranean
and the Baltic branches of the white
race are the result of the natural Sc
lection practiced by a cold climate
upon northward-migrating African ne
groes. Whatever be the cause of the
amount of pigment existing in the skin
of the latter, it seems to me that the
decrease of it was unavoidable as soon
as the race took to travelling north
ward. In northern countries, natural
selection tends constantly to harmon
ize with the color of the snow that
of every animal which hunts or which
is hunted; why should the blondness
of the northern man have different
origin?
Primitive tribes were doubtless fire.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

Public demonstration Of affection is
most repugant to the good taste OF
the japanese, and it is the absence
of this which is so generally mistaken
for lack Of genuine feeling. | recall
one man who was so devoted to his
mother Though l doubt whether he
could ever have been said to have
talked about" herr, that when she
died, while he was abroad, his depres-
sion was so profound that my husband
watched him with anxiety lest he
should commit suicide. The stoical
training may render more unsympa-
thetic a coarse nature; but repression
to the refined soul brings an exquisite
capacity for pain scarcely conceivable
by those who are free to give utter
anee to every emotion.
Another man said to me, Il rarely
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

In the far East has recently been
discovered a species of the acacia tree
which is a wonder of plant life. It
grows to 4 height of about eight feet.
and when full grown closes its leaves
together in coils each day at sunset,
and eurls its twigs to the shape Of pig
tails. After the tree has settled itself
thus for a nights sleep, if touched it
will flutter as if agitated or impatient
at being disturbed. The oftener the
foliage IS molested the more violent
becomes the shaking of the branches,
and at length the tree emits a nause-
ating odor. which. if inhaled for a few
moments. causes a violent headache.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

Disappointment. ailment or even
weather depresses US; and our look
or tone Of depression hinders others
rom maintaining a cheerful and
thankful spirit. We say an unkind
hing. and another Is hindered in
earning the holy lesson OF charity
rat thinketh no evil. We say pro
goking thing. and our sister or broth.
n is hindered in that days effort TO
he meek. How sadly. too. we may
hinder without word or act For
wrong feeling is more infectious than
wrong doing. especially the various
phases OF ill-temper gloominess.
loneliness. discomfort. irritability-
10 we not know how catching these
areq-Frances Ridley Havergal
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
Resolve Of the Rhymer.

While ] am a hayseed poet an am oft
compelled TO show 1t by a-writin'
bout the cider an the sass,
Bout the bees a-makin honey. bout the
ducklln's rat and funny or the JOYS
Of seein home a country lass,
Still a poet has some feeln' an TO YOU
I'm mine revealin' every year that s
passed above my head
Since / first begun a-writin' in the fall
I'd be in-ditin' mushy stun about the
leaves a-turning red.
An this year. tho I may rue Il. I'll be
hanged II l viii do It; I'll be swig-
gered II I'll write a pesSy line
on the suDject have mentioned; firm as
granite I'm intentioned, even tho ]
lack the where-withal TO dine.
I will write about the cattle or the merrY
miikmaids prattle; bout the harvesl
moon a-hangin overhead.
But I'll be forever swiggered. III be bal
lywhacked an 1iggered. II I'll write
about the leaves a-turnin' red.
Louisville Courier Journal
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
DOING WITHOUT THE SUN.
What One Scientist Thinks Of oul
Independence Of Old Sol.

independence of old Sol.
A human race which makes its car
wheels and napkins out Of paper. says
Gerald Stanley Lee, in the Metropoli-
tan Magazine, it's street payements out
Of glass, its railway ties out OF old
shoes, which draws food out Of air.
which winds up operas on spools.
which has its way with oceans, and
plays chess with the empty ether that
is over the sea-which makes clouds
speak with tongues, which lights rail-
way trains with pin wheels and which
makes its cars 81 ly stopping them
and heats its furnaces with smoke
1t would be very strange If race like
this could not find some way Of at
least managing its own planet-and
(heaped with snowdrifts it bel
some way of warming it-of melting
or a place to live on. A corporation
was formed down in New Jersey the
other day to light city By the toss
ing Of the waves We are always get
ting some new grasp-giving some
new sudden almost humorous stretch
to matter. We keep nature fairly
smiling at herself. One can hardly
tell when one hears of half the new
things now-a-days-actual facts
whether to laugh or cry. or form a
stock company or break out into sing
ing. No one would quite dare to say
that a thousand years from now we
will not have found some other use
for moonlight than for love affairs
and 10 haul tides With. We will be
manufacturing moon yet, out Of COM
pressed starlight, and heating houses
with it. It will be peddled about the
streets like milk, from door to door.
In cases and bottles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

soothing drinks, external appliances
and the knife, bathing, abstinence and
tranquility, assisted by a confident
hope of benefit. He was represented
sitting. one hand holding a stan, the
other resting on a serpent's head; a
dog erouched at his feet, accompanied
by a cock, sometimes by an owl
These animals are meant to typify
the qualities which physician should
possess, the owl being emblematic oe
wisdom, the cock Of vigilance, the ser
pent of sagacity, and, besides, of long
life His course was, evidently, to
work chiefly on the imagination, as
he relied largely upon the influence
of dreams and visions to furnish the
patients with the potency Of the pow
er Of mind over matter, thereby ap-
pearing as the first instituter of faith
cure efficacy, which is becoming moro
popular and believed in every day. It
is, doubtless, the best remedy for
hypochondria."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

LOYALTY to Christ involves loyalty to
man as man and brother. man OF
every cline and condition and nation.
a little boy without father and moth
er was sent on the cars alone to ?
distant state to an uncie who ofere
Rim a home. wien asked how he e
neeted to reach his destination with
out anyone to care for hin. he said.
MY Sunday school teacher sewed the
directions on my coat" and showed
taem. They we're these: "Inasmueh
as ye have done It unto one Of the
least Of these My brethren. ye have
done it unto mo-" Christ was travel
ing in his perfon and was served N
serving him.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
JOKE NOT ON BURGLARS.
But the Trap Set for Them Was a
Splendid Succeaa.

Splendid Success.
There had been number Of bur.
glaries in the neighborhood. and the
young electrician thought it would be
a great thing for him il he could catch
the thieves.
Late tonight when you come in,
he said to his father, you must leave
your key in the door, That will be
the bait"
The old gentleman nodded
Il will have a wire strung so that
the key may be charged with el>etri-
city" the young electrician went en-
"That will be the hook"
The old gentleman rubbed his hands
and nodded again
"9etween the bait and the hook we
VIII land some Of these providers to-
night" the young electrician asserted
That night the old gentleman went
to his club. The young electrician
strung his wire and waited. The po-
liceman on the beat stopped at the
basement entrance just to get bite"
and see that no one had run away
with the cook. The young electrician
became tired waiting and began ex-
perimenting with his wire and the
battery.
The old gentleman came from the
club in cab little before midnight.
The cabman had "been there before" I"
and he solicitously inquired if he
should find the keyhole for the old
gentleman.
The old gentleman thought it
would be good plan.
As the cabman turned back SOM
ersault over the railing of the front
porch he kicked the old gentleman in
the stomach and knocked him down
the steps He also gave a yell that
could be heard eight blocks and land
ed on the neck Of the policeman. who
was just backing away from the base
ment door with piece Of pie in his
mouth.
It spoiled the pie. And the old gen.
tleman was arrested and fined for as
saulting an officer who was engaged
in the discharge of his duty.
The burglars are still busy.-New
York Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

A single pound Of coal is capable
Of producing 236 horsepower. and
could do the work of an express loco
motive for one-hfth Of a minute. In
other words. it is enough to haul a
train OF eight cars, including the Pull
man eiecplng-ears and dining-cars, at
the rate Of fifty miles an hour one
sixth c: mile.
In saving wood a man may work
at the rate of about sixty strokes a
minutes and his saw-blade may have
progressed five feet a minutes, but a
circular saw, driven by machinery,
will cut seventy times as much wood
in the same time. And yet this one
little pound Of coal contains power
enough for $50 such saws.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

expectations were indulged in that in
course of time the average rates OF
travelling would be at least double the
ordinary speed of the swfftest convey
anees drawn by horses.
It was anticipated that the general
adoption Of railways would lead to "a
vast decrease in the consumption Of
oats and hay by the substitution Of
steam engines on lieu Of horses and
that portions Of the soil which had
been allotted to the growth Of such
produce might be appropriated 10 the
raising Of food suitable to the human
species'-an important consideration
in the time Of the corn laws. Il could
not have been foreseen that the rail-
way system. SO far from superseding
horses, would lead to an immense IN
crease in the demand for them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

In 1880. when the railway was
opened between Liverpool and Man
chester. the Liverpool terminus was
at Mapping, says the Liverpool Post.
Lime street tunnel was not completed
until about six years later. At first
the service consisted Of three trains
each way on weekdays and two on
Sundays, but this was soon found to
be insuficient. After Lime street sta
ton was opened there were six first
class trains and six second-class
trains each way on week days and two
of each description on Sunday.
The journey Of thirty-one miles oc-
cupied nearly two hours. which led to
complaints that the speed was too
great to be pleasant and caused dlzzi-
ness. On the other band. sanguine
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
rhe Mesaane Of the Faee.

Faces have an influence that words
can never have. The eyes, the brow
the lines of the whole visage speak
out as the tongue can never speak
The face is not merely physical; il
changes inevitably as the inner man
changes. Hard thoughts. evil desirea
selfish ambitions. show through the
countenance as in 10 other way. And
the influence Of these inner thoughts
and purposes Of ours is felt by those
who merely lock az us. Ii is not
enough that we should have a care
about words and deeds as influencing
Others: the very countenance itself.
lighted from within. should soeaS
forth a clean. wholesome message TO
all who look us in the eyes.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

One Of the stories attributed to
Bishop Potter concerns a young and
inexperienced clergyman who had
just been called to a city charge. At
the end of the first month his salary
was paid by a check, and he took it to
the bank and passed it in at the pay
ing teller's window That official
looked at it and then passed it back.
Its perfectly good" he said, but l
viii have to ask you to indorse it"
The young clergyman took his pen
and wrote across the face of the
check. Il respectfully subscribe to the
sentiments herein expressed. New
York Times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
Mhen Lona sermons Prevailed.

A Scotch preacher, not in the pres
ent degenerate age, has been known
to preach from five to six hours at a
stretch, and sometimes, when ons
preacher had finished his sermon an.
other would begin, and there would
be a succession of preachers. deliver
ing sermon upon sermon, until the un.
happy congregations were kept listen
ing to "the Word" for as many as ten
hours without a break.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
japanese a Loving Race

speak Of my mother, for a foreigner
does not understand that a Japanese
mother may be just as dear to her
son as his to him and by the Japanese
it is not expected that one should utter
ones deepest feeling" That same son
tainted with grief when his mother
died, and when consciousness returned
rose to make light Of little dizzi-
ness" without reference to its cause.
To this day, whenever he goes home,
he carries with him his mothers let
ters, mounted on a beautiful roll OF
ivory and brocade, and on the amir
versary Of her passing beyond his
mortal ken quietly devotes a portion
Of the day to meditation and special
thought Of her. Even to his wife, de-
spite the closest bond of love, he says
not. This is the day of my mothers
death. The Outlook.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

quently decimated by hunger, as the
Canadian Indians are to-day. Those
hunters who show on the snow sal
low face, black hair and beard, dark
eyes, worked at a disadvantage when
compared with somewhat lighter COM
plexioned comrades. They we're more
conspicuous on the white field, and
could not so easily approach their
prey within striking distance. In time
of famine, mortality was the greatest
in their families.
"This eliminating process was re-
peated generation after generation,
always leaving the larger posterity.
However small may have been the diff
ference in the mortality. we know to-
day that a characteristic against
which such a process is at work, al
ways in the same direction, is doomed
to disappear"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
How He speIIed II.

A Brooklyn physician whose mem
Dry for names is very poor Becently
had a patient in his Office for whom
he was asked to fill out an application
for some position. Not wishing to be-
tray the fact that he had forgotten the
mans name he casually inquired. as
he poised his pen above the paper:
by the way, how do you spell your
name?"
The man gave him curious glance
and said: "JO-NE-S-Jones."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

1t has long been known that a boat
sail shaped something like a Japanese
umbrella would practically do away
with all danger Of a boats capsizing,
as the force of the wind on it would
have no tendency to incline the boat.
But no such sail had been found until
an English inventor made what he
terms a cyclone SAIL It resembles
a huge. fat sunshade pierced with
holes and tilted slightly to one side OF
Is handle. which represents the mast
II the boat
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

Some Woros ihat 20 Not hhymc.
Bulb has no rhyme. Culm, cusp
recumb, gulf. month. doth, amongst
are other rhymeless words having the
sound of as in but. Few patrician
words in the language have this vow.
el sound. so commonplace and with
out dignity; hence poets turn to ii
only for blood, flood and few sim.
liar turbulent monosyllables. They
use It often. however. in forcing ths
accent from the antepenultimate syl.
liable to the final, where its unpleas
ant sound is concealed by the soft
ened stress. Thus has many rhymes
such as felicitous. mysterious. inglo
rious, etc.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
The Beliefs Of Youth

Jes' half as long-but anyhow. it turns
EN- into snakesi
An eff a feller don't believe One-haif the
things he hears
darnin' needle comes along an sews
up both his ears
Our cook she's superstishus-she's scar
ed as anythin'
II someone spills a little salt or don't
pick up a pin
An when was a kid I'd walk down to
tn gate an back
An think that I was poisoned II my foot
stepped on a crack
I know them things Is silly-I cross my
heart. I do
But I guess lots O. things IS so at soma
folks never knew
-Burges Johnson. in Everybody's Maga-
zine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

onct I went a-fshin' with man what
had a reel
An fancy hooks n catgut n fish pole
made of steel.
He never got a single bite from early
until late,
lust 'cuz he didn't take no stock in
spittin' on tn bait
Yes. he kin laff an jeer, but where's his
fish I'd like to know2
Oh. 1 guess lots o. things Is true at
some folks say amt sol
D'iever drop a horse hair into tn vat
rim trough
An leave il there for weeks an weeks
'thout drainin' Of it on
An Il YOU use a human hair they say
it only takes
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
COMPEL USE OF VOICE.
Electric Shock the Means Of Compel
Ilnq Articulation.


A young woman of Leeds, who had
not been able to speak for five years.
has recovered her voice through cleo
tricity. One of the hospital surgeons
who operated said: we occasionally
get patients who are unable to speak.
not through any organic ailment, but
simply because they are in hysteri-
cal condition. and we often cure them
by strong electric shock. AS a rule
they yell out, and then they have no
excuse for not being able to speak. We
do not suggest that such patients have
been shamming. They actually can
not speak, although there is nothing
wrong with their voice They are the
kind Of patients who sometimes go
under quack treatment and make re-
markable' cures. There is a good deal
of faith healing in the matter"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

Where God Placed Thee.
aefk not to fee the place God placed
thee in,
For where He wills is the true place
for thee;
thou hadst thine own choice. thou
couldat not win
spot all restful where no rough
winds be.
AsFe thou thy life, with patience sweet
Make rich the lives Of others in thy
walk
Strengthen thy soul with words Of Holy
Writ,
And season with sweet charity thy
Il. Fletcher.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
MendeIssohn a Youthful PRODIGY.

Mendelssohn used to conduct the
concerts in his fathers house when he
was so little that he had to be mount
ed on a high stool to be visible to his
orchestra. He played il public when
he was 3, and at IL composed a canta-
ia and produced nearly sixty move
ments. songs. sonatas; trios for vio-
lin. violoncello and piano, and organ
pieces.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08
losIna EaIth When ThInas 3D. vi

Losing Faith When Things Go Well.
People say. IT IS easy to trust God
when things are going well with us
That Is quite true But let US not for
get that if is a great deal easier 70
stop trusting God or thinking about
Him when things are going well with
us. and we do rot seem to need Him
SO much as in the hours Of darkness.
There is danger Of losing faith when
things go well. And It is this danger
from uninterrupted prosperity the
psalmist Is referring to when he says:
Because they have no changes there
fore they fear not God" Certainly
prosperity and untroubled lives have
their own most searching trials Of
faith.
There are disadvantages OF haying
things go we'll. One. as we have men
toned. is forgetfuiness Of God. Il IS
a strange perversity of human nature
that We are so likely to leave God olt
Of mind when things are goiDs well
with US. while we cali upon nm most
quickly when in trouble Another IS
pride and self-suficiency. II does not
taks uninterr.ptedSs y osperity long to
engender these feelings Ia most OF
men. lt takes a large measure Of
grace to successfully resist the tend
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-08

An5as the marriages recorded in
Ber-sl last year there were 121 Of
bloodrelations: 100 C these were
1rr.srcs ~ cousins.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-29
siGoURNEY.

Sigourney, Nov 2S.-The Christian
church people served dinner in the
White hall Thanksgiving.
Miss Bessie Seymour and Mile
Brown spent Thanksgiving with Mar
garet Stanton at her home in Oska-
loosa, and will visit friends there until
Monday
Ten rural mail carriers from differ
ent parts Of the county held a meeting
for the coming year: J. A. Mcclure,
president; j. M. Wilson, secretary;
MT Emmett, treasurer. They set the
date for their next meeting for the
first Saturday in June in Keota.
Sigourney had a football game on
the commons Thanksgiving. Eleven
young men from Thornburg and the
surrounding country came down to
beat the high school boys. The game
with score of 10 to 0. Annie Benton
was the hero Of the hour on account of
his excellent work. Others who at
tracted much attention on account of
good plays were Mr.. Schilling and the
two Devine boys. A good crowd were
in attendance and intense interest was
manifested by the spectators through
out the entire game.
j. P. Talley is spending his vacation
at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Hugo F. Goeldner and Henry F.
Wagner returned from the ST. Louis
fair early Wednesday morning.
Waldo Kline came home yesterday
morning after an extended tour with a
street fair company over the south and
western states.
H S. MciVcker, brother of our
county clerk, is to be new deputy in
the office and will take the place soon
Ex-County Supt. S. A. Potts is to
be the new teacher in the Thornburc
schools.