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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
NEW HISTORY OF WAR
Task for Whoever Will Write DescriptonJ of
Recent Battles in the East

/ The Franco-Prussian war had the
quickest history Of any conflict, but
then 1t was quickly fought
Historians and others we're writing
about our civil war for more than a
quarter of a century after the surren-
der at Appom, ttox. Then came the
spat we had with Spain. am as good
an American as lives, but when we
think of the war which has made Jap
an the wonder of mankind we forget
the snanking we gave Spain, and have
to go back to the civil war to find any
thing in our war history worth talking
about. The American Revolution does
not look very big now, does It?
The historians who wrote about
NapoleCn's retreat from Moscow gave
us the most dramatic incidents in war
history. | don't know how many were
true. | used to believe with all my
heart that Marshal Ney did fire the
last gun as he crossed the Beresina,
and that he did enter the tent Of his
master, powder-stained and ragged,
and that he really exclaimed when Ma
poleon asked him who he was: I am
the last of the rear guard of the grand
army. And also believed that Ma
poleon embraced him and said Bet
ter is an army of deer commanded by
lion than an army of lions command
ed by deer
"Historians of the Abbott school re-
corded these incidents, and they and
other incidents sold books for fifty
years.
'But all that has been wiped out In
the last few weeks. 1t has hurt my
business. picked up Victor Hugo's
description of Waterloo the other day
and tried to read it. Maybe my pre-
digested breakfast food was not up
to the mark, but l threw the book
aside and found myself reading the
pitiful fragments of censored news
about Nogi's veterans as they hurled
themselves against the Russian le-
gions with the cry: Clear the way.
We are from Port Arthur! New York
Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
MOVE TO THE NORTHWEST.
Stream of immigration Into Canadian
Territory.

Stream of immigration Into Canadian
Territory.
New England is likely to contribute
this year more freely than ever be-
fore to the stream of immigration
pouring into the Canadian northwest.
For some years the eastern farmers
have gone north and exchanged their
improved farms for a prairie holding,
but the easterner this spring has
caught the infection, and not a week
passes but several families from Bos-
ton and its neighborhood apply for
the certificates of the Canadian gov
ernment tnat entities them to trans
portation to the northwest at greatly
reduced rates. 1t would, however, be
a mistake to consider them Ameri-
cans, in the full sense of the term.
Many of them hail from Canada or
England and have come to the United
States with no particular success. To
them Canada is not foreign land.
and the change Of allegiance, II
change there be, comes more natur-
ally than to an American of several
generations standing Boston Trans
cript.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
HER HEART WAS TOUCHED.
Heiress Had Scheme to Help Unfortu.
nate Foreign Nohlemen.

mo" said the heiress, Il have made
up my mind that shall not marry the
Count. cheerfully admit that
should ike to have a title. And l
rather like the Count. He is hand
some, dignIfied courteous and good
natured. and think he would be lib
eral with my money If he had it. But.
you see, there are so many other i'm
pecunious noblemen and my heart
bleeds for them all. They have been
brought up to marry American heir
esses and there are not enough heir
esses to go round-and some of them
won't so. Something ought to be done
for these unfortunate people"
And what do you propose to do2"
why, | thought of establishing a
free employment agency to aid the un.
fortunate nobleman to get work when.
owing to his inability to marry an
heires',, he is forced to look for q job.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29

"The histories that will tell of the
lighting about Mukden will not be
printed in my time" said the veteran
secondhand book dealer. "Of course
war histories are not written now as
they were when | was a youngster. /
fancy that the war in the far East will
have no such historians as Headley
and John S. C. Abbott Our own civil
war; out of which such countless
stories have been woven, never had
such historians. Maybe it is well that
it is so. They were not sticklers for
facts. But they were artists. They
painted pictures which one could new
er forget.
"Zola's lie Debacle' gave one the
nightmare, but still sold more copies
OF that work than | ever did of Car
lyle's French Revolution. But both
win be eclipsed by some future his
torian who shall tell us Of Mukden
and the retreat to Telling.
"The nomenclature of the battles in
the IdT IdSJ Will OpCidNC3 III :" eAANo
at least, against the historian who
shall undertake the work. But the
next generation will in time become
familiar with the names which now
puzzle and distract. We do not even
know the geography of that country
yet. We now speak of Pultowa as
readily as we do of Gettysburg, but
when the former battle was fought |
imagine the name was a iawbreaker
to all except the natives.
"The japanese, as we all agree, are
marvellous fighters, but will they ever
give us their side of this war? You
may depend upon it, the Russians will
never tell their side. Who will be
the historians OF this greatest contest
of the world?
1T will be possible to obtain certain
data. We shall know the numbers en-
gagged; we shall be told, in a general
way, how many were slain. But 1t
will be a long time before we shall
have any such histories OF the strug-
gle as we have had of other wars.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
sacred vuIture9 Shot.

A specimen of the very rare
"Pondicherry" or sacred vulture" Of
India and Africa was shot recently in
South Africa. Its measurements
we're: From tip to tip of wings, LOG
inches; from beak to tip Of tail, AZ
inches. The sacred vulture," which
grows to an immense size, has its
head bare, neck covered with folds
of skin of a pinkish hue, and tremen-
dously powerful beak and claws. 1t
is described as very self-assertive,
driving off all other birds from their
prey. 1t builds enormous nests of
sticks and leaves and lays but one egg
during the season.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
WHAT the MuzzIes Were Eor.

A prominent summer resident OF
Dublin, n H.. while driving in the
nearby town Of Chesham met tiller
of the soil driving a pair of oxen.
The oxen were equipped with muzzles
to prevent their stopping to feed by
the reason. Mr. X, not under
standing why the muzzles were kept
on the oxen. asked the native:
why do you keep those muzzles on
the oxen?"
The farmer replied: Some of you
city folks are so blamed green the
oxen mistake you for grass. and | am
obliged to keep them muzzled to pre-
vent them from eating YOU"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
powrx Of cerxantes, Wife.

A biographer Of Cervantes. the au-
thor of Don Quixote," says: with
high ideals in his mind and but few
pieces in his wallet, he married, on
Dec. 12, 1884, with Dona Catalina de
Palacios Salazar y Vozmediano. The
tenth of his fortune, which Cervantes
settled upon his wife, amounted to 100
ducats, while an inventory of the
brides effects include several planta-
tions of young vines in the district of
EsQuivias, small town of New Cas-
tie; six bushels Of meal and one of
wheat, some articles of household fur
niture, two linen and three cotton
sheets, cushion and two pillows
stuffed with wool; one good blanket
and one worn; tables, chairs, pots and
pans; brazier, a Crater, several jars,
sacred images. in alabaster and silver
gilt; a crucifix, two little images Of
the baby Jesus; four beehiyes, forty
five hens"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
EaIled to Pan ont RIoht.

III every man would take home a
bunch of flowers or box of candy oc-
casionally, remarked the bachelor, 1T
would make welded life move along
good deal more smoothly"
.eThat shows what you know about
IT, retorted McRobinson. Il tried that
once and my wife promptly went into
Mysteries over the horrible confession
she thought was coming and ] only
got out of it by admitting that l was
drunk. and l hadn't touched a drop
for over three months, by hooky!".--
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
ENDURANCE OF THE JAPs.
Point That Has Most Surprised the
Medical Observers.

Point That Has Most Surprised the
Medical Observers.
To medical observers the most sur
rrising revelation of the war is the
endurance of the Japanese. Apart
from his immunity from disease, the
reports of which are incredible, the
Japanese, with a gun upon his shoul-
der has accomplished feats never
thought by psychologists to be posi-
bic. in the Orient" observes a med
ical man, there is new art of war
depending upon the new style of
physioue of a race which has never
Lefore been put to this work" The
Japanese soldier is short, stocky and
blessed with muscles big enough for a
r,uch taller man, and, consequently,
he is aDie to do more work than a
European or American of equal
weight" The rural letter carriers of
.rauan think little of a distance for
N hich we demand horses and the rick
shaw man has been known to tTot
forty miles a day, dragging his pas
senger behind him. America" says
a medical periodical, opened this land
to Western civilization, and placed
modern weapons in the hands of 5O,-
100000 such bodies" and SO set up
rev problems.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
Lemons as nIa as PumpkIns.

when | told my acquaintances
about the big lemons down in southern
Mexico they wouldn't believe me, but
now have the proof" said G. W. o.
Martin. as he exhibited lemon that
in size resembled medium-sized
pumpkin or prize sweet potato at a
country fair.
The monster specimen Of the genus
citrus measures 26 inches in circum.
ference the longer way and % inches
the shorter dimensions Of the oval,
its weight being four and two-thirds
pounds-El Paso Herald.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
saIIors, Phrases Much used.

Neptune and his mermaid queen,
Amphitrite. are responsible for the
coinage of many maritime expressions
which, though used in books on the
sea and by sailors in metaphorical
sense, are also employed as SMILES
quite commonly among those who do
not ego down to the sea in ships. I"
Even in society one may hear the ex-
preston of couple being "spliced. :"
or that young man is the "mainstay"
OF his family, while he who is less
prosperous is taken aback," is
hard up" OF has the wind taken out
of his sails"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
A CURIOUS FAMILY TREE.
II Represents an Oak and Is Made Of
Fourteen.kara Gold.

Fourteen-karat Gold.
A novel product of the goldsmith's
art takes the form of a genealogical
tree. The tree, which stands about
fifteen inches high. and is fourteen
karat gold, Is an oak with spreading
branches and full foliage. On the sub
stantlal and somewhat gnarled trunk,
says the Jewelers. Circular, Is a small
plate with an inscription indicating
that James X. and Marguerite H. Og-
den were married in 1912 in Phila-
delphia, Pa. Another plate indicates
that fifty years later, when the couple
celebrated the golden anniversary OF
their marriage, this tree was present
ed by their affectionate relatives and
friends.
A number of acorns scattered
among the twigs bear the names of
various members of the Ogden family
who were of this world at the date of
the presentation. On the silver base,
now black with age, are six acorns
inscribed with names of members Of
the family who have departed this
life. The idea was that when a mem.
ber of the family died his acorn
should be cut off the tree and buried
in the base.
1t is understood that the original
cost OF this tree, which was made in
Philadelphia, was 1900.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
NATURAL GAS in ENGLAND.
Struck In 1882, No Use Seems to Have
Been Made Of II.

Struck IN 1882, NJ Use Seems to Have
Been Made Of It.
During the last summer says an
English magazine OF 1892. bore was
put down at Johnstone. to the depth Of
l50 feet, for the purpose Of procuring
water. The boring was mostly
through shalc or till.
At the depth of 125 feet. or thereby.
the workmen heard a noise proceeding
from the bore, which they supposed to
be from water rushing upward, but
which proved to be from gas
The bore was sunk twenty-five feet
deeper. when an abundant supply Of
water was procured, so as nearly to
rise to the surface. The supply of
gas, however, did not fail 1t con
tinues TO ascend through the superin-
cumbent column Of water with hiss
ing noise, and, when light is ap.
piled, burns with a blue flame.
No analysis has been made of the
gas, but from the accounts Of the
workmen it may safely be concluded
that it is hydrogen. The quantity Is
so considerable as nearly to be suf-
ficient to supply two or three gas
burners of the ordinary size. 1t gives
out little light in combustion, prob
ably from the absence of carbon in
its composition.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
EVERY ONE ASKS HIM.
HOW HE GOT RID OF HIS OBSTINATE
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
Mr.. Jones Tells OF the Way by Which He
Treated Himself successfully
When Doctors Failed.

~~~~~
Six physicians, all Of them good, one Of
them a specialist, had done their best
for Mr.. Jones at different times during
three years, and stifl he suffered fear.
fully from the torturcs of rheumatism.
The rheumatism that had been DOR
mant in his system was suddenly
brought to an acute stage by exposure
while he was drawing ice in February,
1901. Fro . that time ON for period
of more tian three years he was con-
stant sufferer He tried many kinds OF
treatment, but the rheumatism wouldn't
bulge. When regular doctors failed,
and one remedy after another proved
useless, many said II should think he
would give it up and save his money"
OF his condition at this time, Mr..
Jones says: my rheumatism started
in my right thigh, but in time it ap-
peared in every muscle of my body.
lost the use, Of my left arm en-
tirely and nearly lost the use Of my
right one. MY feet were badly affected,
especially the bottoms of the heels.
When my right side was affected there
was swelling, but the left side didn't
swell when the disease settled there.
The internal organs didn't seem to be
involved at all. The trouble was all in
the muscles and the nerves"
Among the few who still encouraged
Mr.. Jones TO think that cure might
yet be found was a friend who had rea-
son for great confidence in DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills, and acting on her
advice he bought box of them in Sep
tember, 1904. The story of what fol-
lowed is brief. but nothing could be
more satisfactory.
When | was on the third box, . says
Mr.. Jones, II could realize change for
the better. l felt sure then that DR..
Williams Pink Pills were the right
medicine for my case. l kept on with
them for several weeks longer and now
l am entirely well, and everybody is
asking what / took
Mr.. William Jones lives as Oxford,
Mich. DR.. Williams Pink Pills effect
wonderful cures in rheumatism, because
they work directly on the blood which is
the seat Of the disease. They are sold
by every druggist.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
LlttIe MIX Drunk in Japan.

Japanese girls seldom drink milk,
a Japanese woman in this country
says. The COW is almost an unknown
animal in Japan. But without this
article frequently found in the Amer
ican woman's health and beauty menu,
the Japanese women, while not ro-
bust in physique, are delightfully."-
we'll rounded, every hone and muscle
covered with a sufficient quantity of
flesh, and they have skins Of notice
ably fine texture.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
HAIR STEALING NOT NEW.
Piferer Of Womans Charms at Work
Eighty Years Ago.


There was remarkable scene in a
London police court on March 12,
eighty years ago, when number of
poor, excited women stood before the
magistrate arguing as to whom should
be the spokeswoman. At length one
was found willing to voice the gHev-
ance. 1t apeared that barber named
Rushton called at her poor abode,
and politely asked to look at her hair.
She took off her cap at his bidding,
and protesting to fall in raptures with
the beauty Of its color and texture, he
offered a guinea for it, Being in
Strengthened circumstances the offer
was accepted, and Rushton at once
cut off the whole of her hair, and ran
away without making any payment.
It transpired that all the other women
in court had been similarly treated on
the same day Efforts were made to
catch the hair thief. but without sue,
cess.-London Answers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29

Supt. Joseph F. Scott of the Con.
cord reformatory tells this story OF
an old uncle living in Vermont: The
uncle was past "a when his nephew
visited him, and. among many inqui-
ries referring to the veterans health,
old times. etc, he was asked. We'll,
what do you do now to pass away
the time?"
"Do?" said the aged and infrm one:
"do? Why. just set here and think
Of every darned mean thing i ever
done In all my life'
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
Birthday GIFT.
Oh, never. never, surely,
Were eyes observed to shine

Oh, never. never, surely,
Were eyes observed to shine
So softly and demurely
AS yours did into mine.
The while you led me, love. to wher
In blushing beauty lay a pair
OF fancy slippers, wrought in rare
And delicate design.
There, in such hues invested
AS tongue hath seldom told,
My four initials rested
Upon a ground of gold;
And frail forget mel nots Of blue
A fairy ring around them drew
OF brighter flowers than ever grew
Upon terrestrial mold.
Alas. for loves devotion,
And hope foredoomed to falll
With undisguised emotion
The sequel i recall;
For in the velvet depths Of those
Twin slippers my expansive toes
Could find no haven Of repose-
They were size too small.
Punch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
1he Younn poctor,s crItIos.

''The young doctor has hard row
to hoe remarked a physician at a
recent dinner. IF he does not own
a horse and carriage the people say
he cannot have large practice. II
he does own horse which happens
to be fat the people insist that he can
not have much work to do. If, or
the other hand, the horse happens to
be bony. they circulate the news that
the doctor keeps his horse only for
show and IS so hard up that he can't
afford to feed the animal properly"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
LadIes. beware Of cheap Gowns.

A writer in an Eastern magazine
quotes man at the head of one of
the largest dressmaking establish
ments in the world as saying that
while he made gowns for $3.50, mo
ambitious society woman would think
of appearing at an important dinner
in a $3.50 gown. 1t would injure her
prestige" Lady readers will please
note this, and govern themselves ac-
cordingly. if they don't want to hurt
their predigested prestiges.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
my wIfE's PEOPLE COMING"
I'VE have had a splendid winter" In
Wertern Canada.

Wer%ern Canada.
Canadas thrush this year is wonder
fully great and considerably ahead OF
any previous year 1t is always inter-
esting to those who contemplate NOV
ing to read expressions OF opinion
from those living in the country It
is therefore our pleasure to reproduce
the following, written to an Agent Of
the Government and forwarded to
the immigration Branch Of the Depart
ment of the Interior at Ottawa:
Birch Hills. Sask., Canada. Feb. 1, 'o5.
Dear Sir:-I take pleasure in drop
ping you a few lines to let you know
how we are getting along up here and
how we like the place. We have been
here close on to a year now and think
the place is fine. We have been out
every day this winter working IN ths
bush getting out logs for buildings,
etc, getting rails for fencing. We
have not suffered with the cold as
much as we did in Chicago. My lit.
tie boys are out every day with their
sleighs having good time The low
est the temperature has been this
winter Is "a below, and it is very stlll.
no wind.
We had a splendid summer. We
put up about so tons OF hay and will
have about 30 tons TO sell Hay
brings sS per ton now and will be
higher in the spring. We have 20
acres broke and ready for crop. we
worked on the Can. Jor. Ry. fos
awhile this summer IN am just 8
miles from the r. r. ldd town site.
The steel is all laid to within 2
miles OF the river and we often see
the train bringing supplies for the
Bridge.
My wifes people are coming up
about May. wish you would write
them and II there should be any one
coming 10 Prince Albert that could do
with half car let them know. The
homesteads are all taken up within
~ miles Of us. l often think If this
land were only in the States what a
rush there would be. 1t is the rich
est land and most productive / ever
saw, and the climate is o. K
| know that people back there that
write to do not believe me when
write them what a splendid winter
we are having They think we are all
frozen up. We have only about s
inches Of snow. and there are cattle
on the range that have not been
rounded up this winter. Day after day
the Their raises up to SO and 60, and
l don't believe we have had day
this winter that 1t stayed at zero.
MY wife says that we used to think
ihat zero was cold in Chicago. But
we don't mind It one bit. Christmas
night we went out and drove s miles
with our 3 little boys. It was 20 be-
low, and there was not a whimper
from any one Of them; I'd hate to do
II in old Chicago.
Well. guess viii close and you
can tell any one in the U. S. that they
cannot do better than come to the
Prince Albert District / remain,
Yours truly.
. (Signed) J. d. Head.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29

for almost every artist of any promi-
nence, both for Photographic pur-
poses and for ideal pictures. Her liv-
ing picture poses some years ago in
yankee Doodle Dandy" are still re-
membered along Broadway. She posed
for a statue exhibited by George Bar
nard at ST. Louis. Whistler often
painted her and she was the model
for CARL Blenner's Spring"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
FAIR MODEL IN TROUBLE.

Beautiful New York Woman CO.
Respondent in Divorce Suit.
Clara Betz, the beautiful model
who is named as correspondent III a
divorce suit brought by Mrs. Mary
Frances Hutchinson Of New York
against her husband, wealthy shoe
maker. is probably the best known
model in the world. She has posed
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29
m AY n. III AaD A21Y

engaged to Helen Could" here Dr.
Brady paused. After glancing around
at his audience he continued; En-
gagged to Helen Gould-to meet her
and discuss the needs of our work for
superannuated preachers" After quiet
had been secured DR.. Brady was voted
out of Office by the stewards com
mittee.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29

The skeleton of the biggest whale
ever captured is being put in place in
he national museum at Washington,
md hereafter people who go to the
capital to see the elephant ought also
o see the whale.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-04-29

Before criticising your newspaper
Tor what is published therein, consult
The files Of the editorial waste paper
basket and see what you have es-
capped