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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-15
Coins Out Of Circulation

concerned, at the same date as the
three-cent silver piece.
Other Of these minor coins that
have had Their day are in honorable
retirement in the boards OF collectors,
in museums and elsewhere. Among
these are the nickel three-cent pieces
and the little old gray-faced nickel
cents, though it Is easy to run across
one of these little coins occasionally.
Their making at the mints lasted from
1857 to 1864. Then there used to be
silver twenty-cent piece. This is
also among the list of has beens."
Many Of course can remember the
days of the infants of coinage, the one
dollar piece that was in the habit Of
losing itself, so little it was, in the
vest pocket or in any other part of
ones apparel where 1t was allowed to
lie around loose. There were about
10000 900 of the babies coined. Where
are they roaming now? Then there
was at one time three-dollar gold
coin. Their manufacture was discon-
tinued by an act Of Congress passed
Sept 26, 1880. the same date that
marked the beginning Of the end Of
the gold dollar. In all there were
over a million and a half dollars Of
these coined.-W Washington Star.
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One frequently comes across the
old jolly-looking big copper cents, par
ticularly in small towns and country
places. It was in 1857 that their coin
age was discontinued by act of Con-
gress, and late archives in the Treas
ury department show that at the end
of the last fiscal year there were Of
them outstanding over a million dol
lars.
Further coinage of the half-cent
coins ended at the same time. The
total amount Of these coined all to-
gether was about 10000, 900, speaking
in round numbers. The two-cent
pieces were of bronze metal. Their
enforced retirement from commercial
activity began in 1878, since which
date the mints have not been busy
with their manufacture. The little
silver three-cent pieces trouble the
marts no longer, though some of them
may be hidden away somewhere to
serve as relics, Their coinage began
in 1857 and continued until February,
1873. The smiling little silver half
dime, the coinage of which began
over century ago, received its quiz
etus, so far as its manufacture was
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-15
Poets Should Wear a Uniform.

We have long been of the opinion
that the failure of our poets to wear a
distinctive garb was largely respon-
sible for the comparatively slight rec
ognition which they receive at the
hands of the people. To know a man
through his work is not enough, for
though these reveal his personality it
is not the personality to which re-
gard and affection usually attach. A
poet might circulate unwearyingly
through the streets of the city with
out being recognized as poet by a
single individual. He ought to do
something to attract attention to him
self, and we can think of nothing so
effective as the wearing of uniform.
This would at least provoke inquiry
as 70 the mans identity, and in time
would come to be known as the badge
Of the poetic caste.-Indianapolis
News.
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Long Sought Passage Found

According to dispatches from San
Francisco Capt Ronald Amundsen
has discovered the northwest passage.
If so, he has finished the labors of
hardy sailors and other explorers for
centuries past 1t was the commercial
instinct that led to the first great voy-
ages of discovery. This instinct had
two phases. One was to extend the
limits of the northern fisheries. The
prosecution of the whaling Industries
is estimated to have added over $780,
000.0 900 to the wealth of the world in
the 200 years before the middle of
the nineteenth century. The other
phase of the commercial instinct was
the desire to shorten the water route
between the ports of western Europe
and the rich orient. The era of sci
entific research in polar exploration
did not begin until the last half of the
nineteenth century. The humanitari-
an spirit that led many expeditions
to engage in the search for Sir John
Franklin resulted in enormous addi-
tions to the worlds knowledge of
those regions.
John Davis in 1888 succeeded in
reaching what is now Godthaab,
Greenland, and his three voyages
gave the first great impulse toward the
northwest passage. There followed a
succession OF brave men, each of
whom added something to what was
alreaty known, and then in the last
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to go to him. / met one of the con.
tract surgeons coming from the tent
and asked him what was the cause.
He said: There's nothing the mat
ter at all. He is playing off and | am
going to send him to his regiment
went in to the sufferer, asking him
where he was wounded. He said all
he knew about it was that as he was
going up the ridge shell from a rife
cannon had passed IN front of him SO
close that it took him off his feet,
knocking the breath out of him, and
that when he came to his senses he
experienced the most unusual pain in
bis bowels, and that there was no let
up to it.
There was no visible dlscoloration.
His pulse was normal and the only
thing to indicate anything wrong was
his respiration, which was like
that in case of lung fever. called
the doctors attention to his way Of
breathing, and they all, except the
major in charge, who was not pres
ent, said, 'Malingereri and one Of
them took hold of him In no gentle
manner and tried to pull him off the
cot, and said mean things to him.
can see now the agonizing look the
poor fellow gave the doctor, pleading
all the time that he was mortally
hurt, and he died while yet the doctor
was tugging at him, and in the pres
ence of more than a dozen persons,
one of whom was Mother Bickerdike
Was Mother Bickerdike indignant?
Well, | should say she was! And
there were others that we're, and there
is one who hasn't got over it yet and
who spoke mis- piece at the time. In
honor of Americans l will say that
chat assistant contract surgeon was
Canadian, and. further, that If he will
call at my address, | will give him
the best in the shop.
THE soldier was not 'ong dead be-
fore the doctors had him on the am
putating table holding a post-mortem.
| was allowed to be present and saw
one Of the most unique cases on rec
ord brought to light The man had
sustained a complete disintegration
Of his small intestines--torn all to
pieces-and yet there was no SWELL
ing OF the abdomen to indicate any
such condition. That Canadian got
his walking papers that day. The
facts in this case can be found in the
official papers Of the general field hos
pital. Army Of the Cumberland, on
fle at Washington, and II this should
meet the eye Of any Of those present
at the time would be pleased to
hear from them. The commissary SER
geant cf that day is very much alive
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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From islands asleep In the tropical deep,
Past shores where the billows are be 20.
ing,
Ger hill capped with green and fair val
leys between,
Speed on when the dawn smiles her
greeting;
Der broad. fertile plains where the god
Plenty reigns,
Der mountains snow-crested and
hoary,
Sweep westward. but know that where
ever you go
The sunrise illumines Old Glory.
Through Golden Gate flee to the isles OF
the sea,
It's folds are still ripping before you;
wherever you roam that fair emblem OF
home
Lends light to the day that shines Ger
1t CLEANS on the seas as promise IN
peace,
But flaps DER the battlefield CORY
AT Libertys call, a protection for all;
The sun ever shines on Old Glory.
Wherever It waves, there the shackles Of
Must crumble and vanish forever;
The country whose winds kiss Its colora,
II binds
With ties that no foe can disseyer.
Its blue and its stars tell OF Liberty's
wars
And all men are learning its story;
Y floats round the world like new hope
unfurled:
The sun never sets on Old Glory.
j. A. Edgerton, In National Magazine.
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century, in the 40s, came the i'll
fated expedition of Sir John Franklin.
Franklin had two ships and 129 men.
Years after his departure a member
of McClintocks party found, in 1859,
records which showed that the Frank
lin ships had been abandoned April 22,
1S4S, Franklin and twenty-three 9TH
ers having previously died. And 105
men had perished in an attempt to
reach Fish river. Their route is
marked by graves and skeletons and
the whole party practically van
ished from human knowledge. The
last search for news Of Franklin was
made in 1S7S-79 by F. Schwatka and
w. H. Glider, who in King Williams
Land found many skeletons and relics.
The northwest passage successfully
resisted all attempts at discovery.
Much easier was the northeast pas
sage. AS in the case of the northwest
passage, men began looking for 1t
soon after the discovery Of America.
Two of the earliest English explor-
ers were Willoughby and Chancellor
who in 1853 opened Archangel bay.
Later the Russians took up the mat
ter It was Adolf Erik NordenskjoEd,
Finn, who first solved the problem
of the decentralization of Asia and
Europe He reached Yokohama in
1879. from Vega, in Russia. having
made the northeast passage without
disaster.
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ReunIon Al Manassas. Va.

The thirty-slxth annual reunion of
the Society of the Army Of the Poto-
mac, Of which Gen. Horatio c. King
is president, was held at Manassas,
va. on May 10 and IL. Forty years
ago the soldiers of the Army of the
Potomac, on their last march from
Appomattox, crossed Bull Run on their
way to the grand review. At that time
they were so impressed by memories
of the field where they took their
first lessons in actual war. that they
marked two historic spots with rude
monuments, which they solemnly ded-
icated with imposing ceremonies to
the memory OF their brothers who fell
In the beginning of the conflict. It is
an interesting fact that this battle
field, the nearest to the national cap
ital, was the only one thus marked by
the soldiers themselves before they
went home.
The citizens OF Manassas invited
the Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac, at its Hartford meeting last
year, to hold It's reunion for 1905 on
their historic plains. This invitation
was unanimously accepted. The ap-
prehension that Manassas could not
properly accommodate the society was
entirely removed by the erection OF a
new and beautiful hotel, which has
recently been opened. The corps and
society business meetings and e pub
lie exercises were held in the new
court house on Grant avenue. Public
exercises were held the first day, May
10, with campfire at night, The
next day. May IL, there was a drive
over the battlefield, with luncheon
at the Henry House. The Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills. ID. d., pastor Of Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, was. the ora
tor for the reunion.
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Man now his virtues diadem
Puts on, and proudly wears
Great thoughts, great feelings, came to
them
Like instincts unawares;
Blending their souls sublimest needs
With tasks Of every day.
They went about their grayest deeds
As noble boys at play.
And what II natures fearful wound
They did not probe and bare,
For that their spirits never swooned
To watch the misery there
For that their love but flowed more fast
Their charities more free.
Not conscious what mere drops they cast
In the evil sea.
A mans best things are nearest him.
Lie close about his feet;
It is the distant and teh dim
That we are sick to greet;
For flowers that grow our hands beneath
We struggle and aspire.
Our hearts must die. except they breathe
The air of fresh desire.
Yet. brothers, who up reasons hill
Advance with hopeful cheer
oh, loiter not those nights are chill,
AS chill as they are clear;
And still restrain your naughty gaze
The loftier that we go, ~
Remembering distance leaves a haze
On all that lies below
Richard Moncton Mines.
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We May Crow Old.

We May Grow Old.
The child Of s, worn out al last
With romping. romping through the
day,
Upon his mothers lap falls fast
Asleep and dreams again Of play
Until a fairy honey bee
Comes browsing to him from the void,
Play. baby, while the fun is free
Some day you may be growing old"
The lad of 20 who has known
A certain puppy love affair
Signs like a man who has outgrown
The world and all its shallow glare;
He sees himself stale, tired. blase,
Sick of ambition. honOrs. gold.
And murmurs in a careless way,
Il think I'll soon be growing old"
The man Of 40 as the hair
Proves sorry traitor to his skull,
Strokes lovingly the spaces bare
And thinks of weighty things and dull
or some remotely distant year
When bones shall creak on hinges cold,
Remarking more in grief than fear,
Some day shall be growing old"
The grandad chewing at his gums,
His so years already gone,
Twirls his stout stick between his thumbs
And sees the old world rolling on;
Low in the ashes of his days
The fires OF life their ardor hold.
How time does march along' he says,
Some day, perhaps, may be old"
New York Globe.
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7 h e NJ n Of Old

l know not that the men of old
Were better than men now,
OF heart more kind. OF hand more bold,
OF more ingenious brow;
/ heed not those who pine for force
"A ghost Of time to raise
AS II they thus could check the course
OF these appointed days.
Still, ii is true. and overture,
That l delight to close
This book of life self-wise ana new,
And let my thoughts repose
On all that humble happiness
The world has since foregone--
The daylight OF contentedness
That on those faces shonel
with rights though not too CLOSELY
scanned.
Enjoyed as far as known,
With will by no reverse unnamed,
With pulse OF even tone,
They from to-day and from Tonight,
Expected nothing more
Than yesterday and yesternight
Had proffered them before.
To them was life a simple art
OF duties to be done,
A game where each man took his part,
A race where all must run;
A battle whose great scheme and scope
They little care to know,
Content as men-at-arms. to cope
Each with his fronting foe.
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Missed Her EavorIte Some.

Last summer a little girl living at
Mt Auburn, Cambridge, wanted to go
to Sunday school with her sisters and
brother. AS she was not much over
three years old, her mother was
afraid she would not keep quiet; but
the eldest sister promised to bring her
home Immediately in case there
should be any trouble. But Annie, the
little one, behaved very well. and
when she came home with the others
she could not tell her mother quickly
enough what q fine time she had.
what did the children do, Annie?"
the mother asked.
"Oh, they sang hymns. and teacher
told them stories"
And what did you do, Annie?"
Il folded my hands nicely and kept
very quiet, and when they sang did,
too: but, mamma, isn't 1t queer.
they never sang Yankee Doodle"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-15

IF you we're ever a newspaper re-
porter and had experienced a news
paper reporters efforts to discover
the responsibility" of a railway
wreck you would appreciate what is
meant-this concentration.
Let me illustrate.
"A few years ago wreck occurred
on middle west railway in which the
lives of large number of Italians
were snuffed out. These aliens were
all the slaves of New York padrone
who was shipping them west to work
on a railway at that time being built.
l have forgotten the number killed,
but it was between twenty and thirty.
The Italian consul in Chicago hurried
to the scene and the affair promised
to result in certain international COM
plications. Naturally the reporters
sought to fix the responsibility. One
engineer had jumped. We made an
inquiry of him in the face of the rail-
way detectives injunctions to move
on" His reply was:
DCllCI doh tic ulopdlCuGi.
The hint was telegraphed back to
town and a reporter looked up the
dispatcher. The poor chap was wor-
ried and in his anger he blurted out:
Better ask the division superintend-
ent who's to blame" The division
superintendent, to friend, not a re-
porter, hinted that higher up they
could talk If they wanted to. And
so after six days the New York cor
respondent had little talk with the
president Of that road. The good man
turned his eyes heavenward, and
mumbled something about an act Of
Cod.
If it is left to the railway director
ate every railway casualty is directly
traceable to God. That is why the
"act of providence" phrase is incor-
porated in railway freight contracts
and in all steam~Aip passenger
tickets. And yet the directors them
selves employ every possible means
to frustrate such facts of providence"
which otherwise they do not
where they themselves are concerned.
Were you ever held up an hour on
siding to let a directors special"
pass? have been. Once 1 was held
up five hours in the southwest to that
end. The railways always adopt and
maintain block system" when the
directors special" goes over the line
and the block, then, is not a matter
of one or even two miles, but rather
an entire division.
One recalls in this connection
Thomas Nast's pointed cartoon pub
lished in Harper's Weekly forty years
ago, in which were pictured two rail-
way directors tied to the boiler of
locomotive, with the caption: IF this
were done. railway wrecks might be
fewer" And that, remember, was
forty years agoi-The Pilgrim.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-15

Buoyancy of spirits is one Of the
chief traits in the character of the
Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, head Of
the Armour institute in Chicago.
A watchful newspaper reporter over
heard the famous preacher ask at a
hotel ofice for DR.. Lorenz. the hip
specialist, Thinking that here wasi
a storxg the reporter waited until DR..
GunsAulns came down, then ap-
preached him with the question:
WAS there anything Of public sig
nifcance in your call on DR.. Lorenz?"
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OIL What A wormI

This story is on Edward Sturtevant,
soldier Of Keene, N. H., who was
killed at the battle of Fredericksburg,
Va. A specialist had in druggists
window a number of bottles of alcohol.
preserving what he claimed to be
worms which he had expelled from
patients. Each bottle was labeled
with the name of the species, and a
display card called attention to the
collection.
Mr.. Sturtevant got long, stuffed
snake, and got into the shop in some
manner one night and hung the snake
with the bottles. In the morning the
clerk noticed an. unusual crowd 1tn.
front Of the window. and, going cut to
investigate, saw the snake. inscribed;
This Is worm; Oh, what a
worml"
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TRICKY RIO GRANDE.
MINING MANS EXPERIENCE WITH
THE RIVER.
Narrow Eccape From Loss Of Work
ing Materials and Life Taught Him
Two Lessons-Advce Of oId-Timer
Saved the Situation.

"To give you an idea OF what sort
Of river the Rio Grande is I'll tell
an experience that | had in getting
across it with a DERRICK" said Ray
mond McDougall, mining man from
New Mexico. II was a contractor in
rock work in those days and was TAX
ing my derrick from the east side of
the river to the Magdalenas. The der
rick was on four wagon wheels and
four mules were hauling it. | had
my two helpers along and one of them
drove two mules. He was an old
timer, which was lucky, and if l had
trusted TO my own judgment | might
have made a mistake that would have
cost me my mules and derrick, if not
my life.
1--WE reached the Rio Grande an
hour before sundown and saw
wide river bed, but no water-only
dry sand from one bank to the other.
1t was new kind of river to me, but
my driver said that it was all right
that 1t was way the Rio Cfande had.
The water was there, only it was flow
ing through the sands under the
channel instead of in it. being a
tenderfoot was for camping on the.
nearer bank where the grass was
good, but Mccartney, the driver, said
that would never do unless | was will
ing to take my chances Of staying
there a week or two; that water some
times came down the channel, a good
deal of it, and it would be well to get
across while we were sure that we
could.
I'VE started across over the dry
sands and l was thinking what an
easy way it was of fording river
when of sudden the two lead mules
were floundering in a quicksand and
the whole outfit came near being
drawn in. We got the two leaders
clear of the harness and the other
two mules drew them out, one at a
time. We hitched them up again and
by making long circuit got past the
quicksand and to the other bank.
"By that time 1t was 10 o'clock and
the moon had risen. The mules had
just begun to climb the bank when
we heard a roaring noise up the chan
mel. 1t came from a wall Of waite;
that stretched from bank to bank and
was travelling toward US fast. 1t
looked in the moonlight to be four
feet high, and there was high water
behind sending it on. We didn't need
to holler to the mules. They heard
what was coming and clawed up the
bank like cats.
I'VE got out all right, derrick and
all-and there was not three minutes
to spare. Befocs we had finished our
supper the river was full, bank high,
with torrent that eddied and roared
as 1t rushed past our camping place
as If it had been sorry to miss us and
would like to get up where we were.
There was not cloud in the sky or
sign of rain anywhere and the food
may have come from a cloudburst in
Colorado 200 miles away. But it came
near getting us.
Il had learned one lesson, and that
was in travelling by wagon always to
camp on the farther side of a stream.
And I had learned to put no trust in
the Rio Grande.'
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Peculiar Mortal Wound.

Speaking OF what cannon balls
were capable Of doing, while seeming
ly harmless" said Dan r. Anderson,
brings TO memory strange case Of
nm Ohio soldier at the battle OF Mis-
sionary Ridge, Nov. 23 or "a, 1863. He
was brought to the general field hospi-
tai, Army Of the Cumberland. and was
put in tent near the commissary
tent, SO that could hear him groan
in his agony. His groaning was ex-
cessIve and something altogether un-
usual--so much so that 1t caused me
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a Deadly Recommendation.

"A friend Of mine" says Ernest
Cushing Richardson. librarian of
Princeton university, twas considering
the matter Of an Investment in a grow.
ing western town. Every advantage
OF the town was painted to him in
glowing colors by correspondence. and
finally he was informed that by the
following mail he would receive a let
ter from the leading business man
Of the place. When the letter ar.
rived it proved to be from an under.
saker."
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"Oh. no" said DIR. Gunsaulus. II
consulted him about this affiiction in
my walk. But he said; Cheer up.
There's no hope for you You'll never
be any better. The Sunday Maga-
zine.
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And Now They DoaNet ,speaks
IS Gofdelia4ArI had SIX offers Of mar
riage last month. What do you think
OF that7
Elvira-I think man with such
bulldog tenacity is worthy Of better
fate.
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SHIFTING THE BLAME
HARD TO PLACE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR RAILROAD WRECKS.

Official Explanations Of Accidents Are
Something In the Nature of Jest,
According to Writer in The
Pilgrim.