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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
EACH OF THEM LONG LIVED.
Two Friends Have Reason for Fight
ina the Destroying Angel.

TWO Friends Have Reason for Fight
ina the Destroying Angel.
Twenty-seven years ago friend Of
the Chicago manager of one of the
great life Insurance companies of the
country took out a policy with the
manager. 1t was an endowment pol
icy, maturing in fifteen years, and as
the policy was handed over to the ap-
plicant the manager took occasion to
remark to his friend that he had
made a good investment.
20 yes" replied the friend, quiz
zically; "the policy is all right You
won't be here to pay it, but l have
no fear that won't get the money"
Il will be here" returned the man
ager; "I'll hand the stuff out to you in
person"
And he did; and when the friend
had received his money he took out
another policy.
"Of course you won't be hers when
| come for this one, but guess it'll
be all right remarked the friend for
the second time.
"Ill be here again, Johnny on the
spot,' reiterated the manager, grim
ly. I'm see that you get it-you or
your heirs"
Twelve of those years are gone by
and every few days the two men
meet. The friend is a railroad man
AID is with the same road that he
worked for when he took out the first
policy, twenty-seyen years ago. The
manager is with the same company
which issued that same first policy.
"And John is just stubborn enough
to be there at the window when 80
in for that money in 1907, says the
railroad man.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

and heartsick, he had failed to give
her a helping hand or even to come
to-her with a word of cheer.
But she had reasoned in her great
mother heart that the boy had been
bereft OF fathers care and that the
great necessity that always had con-
fronted her had made 1t impossible to
give him the attention she should and
would have done. So if he was little
wild was 1t not her fault and the fault
of fortune rather than his.
Anyway she loved him with al the
passionate violence Of starved ma
ture and never once did she lose her
abiding faith that he would come
back to her and be her staff and com
fort.
1t was a sorry trial indeed, when
he joined the army after the call for
troops at the sinking of the Maine,
that never once had he come to her.
Never once had she seen him in the
uniform OF his country. Never did
poet or painter have vision half so
fair as her dreams of Johnnie in his
regimentals. For many nights sleep
did not visit her ragged cot. The swell
ing OF her heart with the pride Of the
thought that Johnnie, her Johnnie,
was a soldier and a hero forbade sleep
and threatened her very life. But the
days passed and although the post
where Johnnie had enlisted and where
he was stationed was near at hand he
never came to see her and never had
she seen him in his uniform. She
had seen many regiments march
through the streets on the way to
Cuba and as she gazed upon the sol
diers so straight and tall and noble
she had imagined how brave Johnnie
must look and she had wished, ah so
ardentiy that she might see him in
the garb of his country's defenders.
But he had marched away without so
much as coming to see her or even to
write her and with the same sigh of
resignation into which all her air-cas-
ties had vanished she had taken up
her hum-drum life Of toll again.
But still the germ of hope had sur
vived In her old heart. He was young
and wild After the war he would
steady down and would come back to
her and be her comfort and joy. She
had clung 10 that idea with an in
tensity which stopped little short OF
mania. That hope was all that en-
abled her frail body to hang over the
wash-tub by day and her trembling
fingers to ply the needle by night,
all that had enabled her dim eyes to
see the work before her, all that kept
the fires of life burning within her on
the scant food and little sleep she
allowed herself
But now It was all over. That brief
epigrammatic notice of his death
struck her to the heart as keenly as
ever did the loss of the most model
boy to loving mother. Johnnie was
dead. There was nothing more to
work for, to sacrifice for to hope for.
to live for. Through her binding
tears she did not see the form Of a
man clothed in the Khaki uniform in
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Spread Of Electric Power.

The following list of the worlds
water-power electricity plants shows
the aggregate power SO obtained in the
respective countries: United States
Of America, 527.467 horsepower; Can
ada, 22S, ,225 horsepower; Mexico, 49,
47O horsepower; Venezuela, 1900
horsepower; Brazil, 800 horsepower;
Japan, S,45O horsepower; Switzerland,
133,302 horsepower; France. 161, ,343
horsepower; Germany, S1.077 horse.
power; Austria, 10000 horsepower;
Sweden, 1000 horsepower; Russia,
10000 horsepower; Italy, 10000 horse
power; India, 1850 horsepower; South
Africa. 2.1O0 horsepower; Great Brit
ain, 1906 misrepresentation Engi-
neer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
(copyrlght, 1905. bg Daily stovy Pub. Coz

The old woman laid down the paper
carefully upon the table and pushed
back the cheap spectacles upon her
forehead. She looked dazed and shot
a glance Of pitiful appeal at Mrs. Hen
derson, who had run in from the room
across the hall, to show her the sad
news. First Mrs. Henderson had read
1t 10 her and she had reached for the
paper in dazed sort Of way, as
though unable to comprehend the due
purport of the others words. She
had put on her cracked old glasses
and painfully spelled out the brief
line pointed out to her. 1t was a
laborious undertaking for there had
been but little time for learning even
TO read and write in Jane Brad.ey's
hard and pinched life. Finally. how
ever, she had conquered the line. 1t
was only a little line in agate type In
a list Of dead cabled from Santiago.
JOHN BRADLEY. s7th Infantry; sell
low fever
That was all-only that one littie
line-but the spelling out of It swept
every CLEAN of hope from the ioyless
life of the reader. She made no sound
and Mrs. Henderson, who had been
expecting half with hope and half
with fear an outbreak Of sorrow, felt
10th disappointed and relieved.
No outbreak No there was no out
break. But that moment If dull Mrs.
Henderson had but known It she saw
the breaking OF a human heart. The
old woman, bent and shriyeled and
worn and faded out was as
still as summer day. Only
the fading OF the last sug-
gestion Of light in her duh gray
eyes told OF the terrible weight Of ice
and lead that settled upon the poor
ola crushed heart. Presently the thin.
wrinkled face dropped into the tired,
worn fingers and the tears trickled
down onto the faded calico gown
Mrs. Henderson gulped spasmodically
feeling in some inadequate manner
the pathetic tragedy Of the moment
and quietly slipped back to her own
troubles IN Number 5S.
Her going or staying we're Of small
moment to the old woman in her great
sorrow. The overburdened old mind
held for a lifetime TO sodden things
had been released for a brief moment
by the awful catastrophe which had
overtaken her and this newly clarl
fed mind was filed with great
panorama.
She could not realize at first the
dreadful import Of the brief line.
Johnnie dead-her Johnnie. her only
boy. and the image of her husband,
dead these many years. 1t could not
be true. Johnnie, ah, how graphically
the picture arose before her Of the
happiest days OF her life-reaIly her
only happy days. when little Johnnie
was playing at her knee and filling
her starved heart with his childish
prattle. even while she still toiled-
but with new energy and new hope
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

and new courage. And she remem-
bered how the childish prattle had
nerved her for the fearful struggle
which had followed and never since
had ceased.
The awful nightmare Of her hus-
bands death and the narrow margin
by which she saved his body from a
grave in the potter's field rose before
her and her heart warmed as she re-
membered the comfort and courage it
had been to her in those dark hours
OF unyIeldlng grind and sickening
worry and morcless self-sacriiice. to
hold the llttie man-child to her bosom
and feel his warm arms about her
neck.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

To be sure he had not always
treated her right-at least SO said all
her little world, and perforce she had
been compelled to admit to herself
sometimes that it did seem SO. He
had been wild and fallen into bad
company and instead OF being the
help she had SO fondly counted on
his escapades had cost her all her
little savings. To be sure neighbors
had told her that he was a graceless
ne'er-do-well scamp. and that she WAS
fool to slave for him. To be sure
sometimes she herself had thought a
little bitterly Of him. when Ill, weary
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Needed a Dcctor.

so you've got a degree as doctor
Of music, ehp said the friend Of his
childhood
Yes" confessed the artist, proud
". "it was conferred on me yester-
day."
"Well. don't suppose you kin hope
for much practice yet while" mused
the friend, but, say-my gals parlor
organ got all smashed to bits when
we moved last week Would We like
to try yer hand on that?'
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
VIE of PsrsonaI Preperty.

Rube-~Not SO FAST; just let me
Iugtrate what am saying. Now,
'spcse I should come running up 10
YOU fast like. an say: 'Pard, ] Just
seen a stranger runnin' of with your
wife and yer morse and buggy Dye
mean to say that wouldn't rile ye4
what would yc say to me? IAats
The pint"
Abe-eWsn, ! 'spects the first thing
woxld ask would be as to wnich
buggy he stole. the wan with the yei'
low or the red wheels ! set neap
store on the yallcr wheel buggy
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
.Iuat the Maahine Wanted.

aHelio. Weggy Wheah We you
been, old chappy?"
I'm a man OF affaiahs nov. Ferdy.
You cawn't mean It! Are YOU work
lng?' 4.
"Fiercely, bah Joyel Tell me, old
fellah. what do you cczsidah the prop
ah manner OF cutting couponsg
Heavens, Wcggyl I've 70 dear
But it seems to me I've heard OF an
instrument called a revenue cutter, Y
know"
Bah. Jovel l must buy one at once.
Thanks, awf'ly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Pleheaded in the Extreme.

Howes-Y You have no cause to be
angry with Shedd simply because he
disagrees with you on this question.
Every question has its two sides
Barnes-I know that, confound 1t.
but why can't he choose the same one
that | have chosen? He could do it
just as well as not, and he would ii
there was any decency about him.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
raklnn the surer Method.

Mother-Have you told Olga that II
she insists on marrying that lieuten-
ant who is SO deep in debt you won't
give her penny?
Father-No: / guess | will tell the
lieutenant instead-that will be more
effective. -Fliegende Blaetter.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
london LIkes anedeIIa.v

Reporting sousas first concerts Of
his new season in London, the Mail
says: The audience liked a new com
position of Mr.. Sousa's entitled AT
the Kings Court but they went into
shouts Of delight over a rendition Of
'Bedelia.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Not in the Dictionary.

Irate customer cant find words In
the dictionary that are warm enough
to express my opinionl
Cheerful proprietor--I don't doubt
It, The words you want aren't in the
dictionary. Detroit Free Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
A Distinction.

Huldah, the Blanks colored girl, had
been invited to ball and she said to
her mistress;
Some Of dc othah gals is gwinter
rut on full eyenin' dress, but isn't
What DO you intend to wear?" ask
ed her mistress.
Ne? Oh, is jess gwineter war
my cloes." was the reply. -Lippin-
cott's Magazine
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Those Two Words.

"She broke off her engagement yes
terday, and now she's sorry for IT.
Il don't think so. She told me last
night that she didn't care
"Yes, but she told me to-day that
she didn't care-very much"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
He owes EverYhody.

"Oh. he'll never come around this
way. He's afraid of meeting someone
he owes"
"Beg pardon, Did understand you
to say owes or knows?'
what's the difference? It amounts
to the same thing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
HeIpIess RacheIor.

AS the proud mother was showing
the baby to o bachelor friend, the
youngster suddenly began to bawl.
Hes crying" ventured the bach
elcr
"Well.' retorted the proud mother
sharply, all babies cry"
"Of coursel OF coursel don't
mind hearing him below"
BELOW? Why, my baby is no bull
lock"
And then the bachelor fed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

$50 all is over between us?"
Eyes"
I'VE shall never meet again"
mo"
goodby."
"Goodby."
"Goodby-- -and--er--dont forget to
come early tomorrow night 1 hate
to 60 in the theater after the curtain
rises. Houston Post.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Inst the Nature Of the Boy.

Lets go over TO Baxter's pond to
skate
"oh, it's too fur. let's skate here
on the crick."
But the ice is a heap thinner over
at Baxter's.'
"All right. Come ahead"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Lenal Aviee.

Tenant-The plaster in the house |
occupy is falling down, and I'm afraid
if have it fixed and take it out OF
the rent the landlord will kick. What
would you adyise me to do?
Iawyer-Move. Five dollars, please.
New York Weekly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

A bond salesman just back from
Maine says he asked an old fisherman
in a snow-bound hamlet what he did
with himself evenings.
The reply was: "Oh, sometimes
sit and think. and then again just
sit."-Boston Record.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
In DISGUISE.

Aunt Prudence-Do Mary and James
act as if they thought their married
life was blessing?
Uncle Blackwell, no, not exactly a
blessing, unless it might be a blessing
In disguise Woman's Home Com
ran!on.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
a Gentle Hint.

"Oh, yes" Mr.. Staylste was saying
bcastfully, "Ive never felt the least
bit unstrung; my nerves are always
steady as deck.
"As what?' asked the weary girl
ga clock"
"Ah, yes; a clock. clock"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

'He's a great practical joker"
II suspected as much
"Ah! he has been playing some
prank on you, eh?"
mo, but l played little joke on
him yesterday and it made him furi-
GUS"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
provoked Beyond Ens,,r.roa

Police Justice-Prisoner you are
charged with kicking your wife in the
stomach, biting her ear off and knocl,.
Ing out two front teeth What had She
ccne 70 provoke such a brutal assault?
The Prisoner-She said wasn't no
gentleman.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
4 MayC CONS.

McFluo-I see that Dedbetc has re-
signed from the Gran6sons of the Rev
osutlon. Re had a good deal Of trouble
getting in, too.
Sleeth-Then why cid he resign?
I" as ne disappointed in the crder??
McFlub-In way. yes. He Joined
uacer the impression tnat member
ship made him eligible for pension
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Maklno Proper Allowances.

ammerly-H-h-have y-you g-g-got
a couple Of hours to s-s-sp-spare,
T-t-thompson?
Why, | don't know
what do you want?
Stammerly l-l-lile a t-t-ten
m-m-minute t-talk with you.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
tommy Was wise.

Tommy" said the next-door neigh
Dor, "did you know your mother has
been looking for you?"
"You bet" answered Tommy that's
vhy she can't 1nd me-"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

Miss wltherspoon--Do you believe,
Mr.. Jimsby, that there is in us sixth
sense as yet undeveloped-perhaps to
be developed?
Jimsby-- Yes, ma'am-horse sense!
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Enqlish as Spoke.

Mrs. Jinks- They're one of the old
families, | hear; rich, Of course.
Mrs, Malaprop-No. indeed They're
Just in modern circumstances.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Tommy Gets Information.

Tommy Figgjam-"P Paw, what IL
this thing they're goln t have n
kooshy--a provisional gov'ment2r
Paw Figgiam-"It's just a scheme
to stop the bread riots"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Sure Enough.

Cassidy see some wise scholard
Is claimin' that Adam an Eve wus
Chinees.
Casey-Tut! tut! man; shure they
must a been Irish. Wuzn't they
evicted-P Philadelphia Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Just Suited Uncle.

Nephew-Oh, the gout is nothing,
uncle. shouldn't mind if had It.
Uncle-I shouldn't mind, either, if
you had it.-Scraps.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
Insubordinatlon.

Mamma-Now, Tommy, when tell
you to do thing, you must obey me.
Tommy-Aw-I amt your husband.
Cleveland Leader.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

Living in fiat, eh? How do you
like your janitor?'
"Oh, he's drunk half the time"
"Oh, my!"
Eyes, but unfortunately he's sober
half the time, and then he gives us
trouble"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11

Completing the Quotation.
Johnny-Paw, what's the rest of
that quotation beginning Truth is
nighty?"
Father Scarce" l reckon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-11
lesson raunht At coIIeae.

LC5aOTI aUJHt at OVIT~SV'
Uncle Josh-You've heard Of them
agricultural colleges, haven't you?
Uncle Silas-Yes. but what do they
amount to? read where one Of them
graduated a lot of fellers the other
day and not one of them is willin' to
take up farmin' as an occupation.
Uncle Josh-Well, that kind of looks
as if they'd learned a good deal about
is.-Success.
still Running.
81 lost my watch in the river three
years ago, and it is still running"
What. the river?"
mo; the installment jewelers. bill"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-29

| ment the feelings of an Englishnan sub
lectcd to similar treatment. Would yo,
be SO greatly surprise. would you reail,
be indignant, if you found one day tn,
Chinese legation surrounded by howl
ing mob. and Confucian missionaric:
everywhere hunted to the Ieath9
What right have you. then, to be sur
priscd. what right have you to be indlg
| nant at even the worst that has tallcr
place i'll China What j. there 50 strange
or monstrnus in our conduct?
Remember that it was at the point o1
the sword that you forced MS TO receive
embassies whose presence VIC have al
ways regarded as elRn Of national IN
initiation. But our muhS were barharous
ami cruel. Alas, Yes. And your troops
nations Of Chri,tcndOn Ask tho once
fertile land from Pcku to the coast
ask the corpscs Of murdered men and
outraged women and children: ask the
innocent. mingled indiscrininatcly with
tiS sulity aSh Viz NHIlSt, tlat rover VI
men whom you profess to serve. to Judge
between us who rose in mad despair to
save our country. and you. who. avcng
ing crime, with crime. did not pause to
reeilct that the crime you avenged was
the fruit of your own iniquity
And yet--softly. now this book was
not written by Chinese official at all
1t was pennol by young Englishmf
who was never out Of the sound of Bow
Bells. The genuine thing isn't equal to
the imitation.
"a Corat landscape beats nature: Mil
ton saw more after he was blind than he
ever saw before: Edwin Arnold pictured
the Orient before he had visited it, in
phrases SO matchless that travellers re-
called the objects they had missed or for
gotten; Kant gave lectures on the Alps,
but refused to go and sec them, for fear
they would become cheap
The Red Badge Of Courage" the
crcepicst picture Of war ever etched. was
written by youth who had never seen
4 'nusket fred; Macallay declared that
no one knew India so we'll as Burke. who
had never been there and here we have
The best brief ever prepard for the Chi
aese. written by an EnRlishman and
translated into the Chinese by ex-Min-
ster WI and sent broadcast throughout
he Celestial Empire
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-29

1t is fact not generally known that
Major Mckinley always had fond
ness for editorial writing. During the
winter passed at Canton after the ma
jor had been elected president he wrote
several articles each week for d Cleye-
land newspaper. 4 fetv OF us, anxious
to forecast iickinley's policy after he
became president. were put wise" AMI
Oh one oc"&N.on examined the penciletf
manuscript after it had left the. hands
Of its writer. I'D
That "copy'' must be In existent
somewhere about Cleveland. soue11fS
1t would cast strange side lights f1fsaog
Mr.. NcKin.ey's Cuban policy. Prior n,
March 4. 1897. he rfas decidedly ayers..
TO interference In behalf Of the suffer
Ing reyoluttonists.
1 nave the best reasons fer knowing
that bundle of actual photographs
taken among the .'reconceutrados'.
opened his eyes to the terrible fact that
General Weyler was deliberately starry.
Ing the noncombatants. And yet the
late president never would have con.
scented to go to war for Cuba had not
the disaster happened to the Malna.-
Pittsbnfg Dispatch. J