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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
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Machine Makes chanoe.

A Chicago man has invented what
he calls an automatic cashier"
which is just what he calls it. This
machine threatens to put the short
change" artist out of business, and
prevent any possibility Of error on the
part of cashiers who, hand out huge
quantities Of cash each day to Gus
toners.
The inventor is sfraid to claim that
his machine will put the pretty girl
cashiers in restaurants and hotels out
of position, but he claims 1t viii en-
able any one to make change correct
ly without thinking, and may thus
enable the restaurants to hire even
prettier girls to preside behind the
counters and draw trade, besides Civ
ing them more time to converse with
the customers.
This machine makes change auto
matically. A customer who owes a 70
cent bill hands in IS. The cashier
drops the check and the bill into the
machine, pushes button, and from
out of the machine drops $4.27.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

1t makes all the difference in the
world, in results, whether you come
to your work every day with all your
powers intact, with all your faculties
up to the standard; whether you come
with the entire man, so that you can
fling your whole life into your task or
with only part of yourself; whether
you do your work as a giant or as a
pigmy. Most people bring only a
small part of themselves to their
tasks. They cripple much Of their
ability by irregular living, bad habits
in eating and injurious food lack Of
sleep. dissipation Of some other folly.
They do not come to their tasks ev-
cry morning whole men, part Of them
selves, and often a large part, is sorae-
where else. They left their energy
where the were trying to have good
time. so that they bring weakness
instead of power, indigeTsnee and
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Fierce Tigers Of China

They are truly Chinese in their tastes
in this respect. One of these animals
will go at steady trot with dead
pig thrown over its back up the sides
of steep hills, jumping over huge
powders and taking cross cuts over
the most inaccessible ground. The
physical strength of a tiger is some
thing enormous, and its capacity for
deyouring large quantities of food is
scarcely less amazing
"A Chinaman asleep in a tiger-trap
IS something Of novelty, even for
Perak.p says Penang writer. "A
coolie was discovered one morning
near a Kinta mine, having apparently
passed the night in the trap. When
reused he said that sleep had over
taken him and so he chose the one
spot least likely for the tiger to visit
1.-The trap that had been set for
year without result. He thought that
the tiger knew a thing or two about
traps"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

Operating gold mine to secure
funds for the juvenile court of the city
of Denver is the latest fad of Mrs.
J. j. Brown, one Of the society lead
ers of Colorado's capital, according
to the Cleveland Leader The funds
Of the treasury upon which the judge
of the juvenile court in Denver has
drawn to reclaim boys from their
wicked ways have been fearfully low
of late. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, father
of the juvenile court movement in the
west, appealed to a Mrs. Brown,
whose wealth and social position have
made her the patron OF all the chari-
ties of the day.
"If you could only insure us an in
come of $4,000 year." said the judge
to this resourceful woman.
Mrs. Brown was lost in thought for
a brief space and then said: II will
insure you twice that sum; the boys
of Denver deserve attention from so
ciety. / will lease claim in Cripple
Creek and give them the proceeds"
The next day Mrs. Brown penned re-
grets to a round of fashionable func-
tions and was off to the great mining
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Success Of Liquid Fuel.

A successful method has finally
been invented for injecting liquid fuel
into the furnaces Of passenger boats.
The fuel is brought under a pressure
OF from ten to twenty pounds to the
sQ1are inch and evaporated by a
somewhat modified "Kortings burn
er, without use of steam. This appa-
ratus works very satisfactorily, with
out noise and without the loss of
fresh water. Formerly he liquid
fuel was injected into the furnaces
by means of steam jet, making very
much noise, great inconvenience,
annoying to the passengers and Caus-
ing the loss of much fresh water in the
form of steam A suitable furnace
arrangement, recently invented also,
guarantees proper and perfect burn
ing of the fuel, so that very little
smoke escapes from the funnel, steam
is kept regularly at the same pres
sure during the voyage, and the boil
er is kept at uniform temperature,
thus preventing much trouble from
leakage and other damage.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
aplsmaI swamp no More.


The famous Dismal Swamp in Vir-
ginia is coming into profitable culti-
walton. The first company to promote
Dismal Swamp was organized in col
onial days. George Washington was
one Of the promoters and the largest
stockholder. His company owned two
thirds Of the 100000 acres OF the
swamp ana built canal to float the
timber from its property.
Little has been done from that
time until recently, except by lumber
men. In the days before the war the
swamp was a popular refuge for rum
away slaves. 1t is situated in the
southeast corner Of Virginia, and II
extends from a few miles from Nor
folk. At its highest points 1t is only
fifteen or twenty feet above tidewhter.
Its streams are SO pure that their
water is sought by vessels going on
long voyages.
It was long thought that the swamp
was malarious and that white men
could not live there the year round.
This notion has been disproved by the
truck farmers seeking a cheaper land.
who are clearing up the swamp and
turning it into prosperous truck
gardens.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

Annoy is an island city on the China
coast, near Formosa. There are
mountains west of Annoy and accord
ing to a correspondent there are tigers
in them. These tigers lead an easy
and independent life in the caves and
dens which abound. They come out
of these every evening just as the
shadows creep over the land and the
blue mists rise from the lower ground
and hide the hills. Then the inhabi-
tants get within their houses and keep
the door between them and these
savage brutes. Many poor woman,
coming with water from the well, or a
farmer, delayed too long in the fields,
has fallen victim to them. The nights
are spent by the tigers in foraging,
and the foxes and wild cats that roam
the hills and the dogs in the villages
become their prey
There is nothing, however, that
gives the tigers such supreme delight
as the capture of a good-sized pig.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
"In the Northern Seas !"

'In Northern Seas" a book by e.
Wilmington, recounting the adventures
of Alfred Searcy in northern Austria
fla, has the following about turtles:
when | went down the coast on one
occasion | obtained magnificent tur-
tie shell, worth about 500. The coast
is infested with hawk-bill turtles, from
which the article of commerce known
as tortoiseshell is taken. There is
also an unlimited supply Of the green
back turtle. from which the famous
soup is made. have eaten the hawk
bill turtle, but the green-back is con-
sidered the proper one for edible pur-
poses. have seen the natives kill the
turtles and, after cutting out the
meat, scoop out the rich green fat,
which lies between the meat and the
shell, and eat 1t hot and raw. The
turtles come up above high water mark
and scratch out nest in the sand,
where they lay their eggs and then
cover them over. The eggs are
hatched by natural heat. In the first
nest l found l obtained ten dozen
fresh eggs. We used them in ONE
let's"
Mr.. Searcy also says: when pass
ing through belt of mangroves we
started thousands and thousands Of
flying foxes. Soon great eagle ap-
peared on the scene and. having spot
ted fine, plump fox, started to cut
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Mine Dividends for Waits

camp. She exchanged the frilled and
fiounced gowns of costly material
which had set two continents agog by
reason of their cost and beauty for
the rough ''togs' of frontier woman,
and surmounted her wealth of glossy
hair with sombrero instead Of Pa
risian creation.
Personally she inspected the ores
of the claims from which she hoped to
select the property she would operate
for the Denver juvenile court. She
went down into the mines often in
the iron-bound bucket dangling from
a rope windlass. She knocked frag
ments from the hanging wall with
miners pick and took them to an
assayer to determine the value of the
lead" She examined more than a
dozen claims in the four days she
spent in Cripple Greek and out of this
number she selected one that was
rich enough to pass muster.
Since the mine was opened six
weeks ago the smelter receipts, be-
sides paying expenses OF operation,
have added over 81 900 to the juvenile
court fund in Denver.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

it out. Away the victim went, dodg-
ing among its fellows. Every now and
then we could hear plaintive cry,
as the eagle followed it up. The others
did not seem to take the least notice.
When the creature was fairly out OF
the crowd the eagle pounced on 1t and
sailed away have never tackled
flying fox myself, but by the natives it
is considered great delicacy, and
only old men are allowed to eat 1t.
To convey some idea of the numbers
which congregate together, when near
Echo island on one occasion, we saw
what we thought to be clouds OF
smoke The dense mass turned out
to be flying foxes"
when at Oojountambanoona, in
Bowen straits, on one trip, | saw a
native with a spear prodding large
mass of coral rock" relates Mr..
Searcy "This was at low water and
the native speared a rock cod every
time. The fish had been left there by
the tide. Blacks at Port Essinston
have very clever way of catching
fish in rockholes under water. 1t is
done with plant which they secure
in the jungle. The plant is well
brushed, fastened to a stick and
thrust into the hole. 1t must be a
strong narcotic, for if there are any
fish there they are turned up, but af-
terward recover"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
A Cosy Corner.

ported by copper wire running from
the outer edges to a large screw eye
In the corner. The background
above the shelf is rich red burlap in
solid color. The panel effect is made
by sewing on a three-inch strip Of
green burnt leather Suitable PIC
lures and antique fixings are also
hung on the wall above the shelf.
The wall below the shelf is dark
green burlap stitched tight.
The couch is six feet three inches
long. 1t is upholstered; but usually
looks best with a "ka-zak" couch
cover thrown over it. The grille
effect at the top is red leather with
gilt balls suspended between dia-
monds. This work of art is sold by
the foot and comes in all colors.
Monk cloth in solid green is used
for the roof, the curtains being
looped back. To the right and left
are pair of oriental portieres. The
oyerdraperies are Of solid color green
velour fringed with red and green.
The rest of the design sufficiently
shows the method of treatment.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
One Requisite Of Success

dullness instead of enthusiasm and
alertness, to the performance of the
most important duties of their lives.
The man who comes to his work in
the morning unrefreshed, languid and
listless cannot do good, honest days
work, and if he drags rotten days into
the year how can he expect sound
career or a successful achievement?
Good work is not entirely question
Of will power; often this is impaired
by low physical standard. The quail
ity Of the work cannot be up to high
water mark when every faculty, every
function and every bit of your ability
is affected by your physical and mem
tai condition. You may be sure that
your weakness, whatever its cause,
will appear In your days work
whether 1t is making boots or selling
them. teaching school or studying.
singing or painting, .chisellng statues
or digging trenches. Success.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Reoelusr and rransmItter.

There is not a great deal Of effort
expended in the operation Of holding
a conversation over the telephone and.
therefore, it might be assumed that
there could be no improvement made
in the apparatus with view of sim
plifying the business, but with most
Of the instruments now in use 1t Is
necessary to make some notes, as is
often the case. the proceeding is some
what awkward to conduct with sin
gle hand.
Some telephone equipments have
been made with a combination receiv-
er and transmitter, but these must be
held in the hand sld do not simplify
matters to any extent, but two Balti-
more men have recently put on the
market a combination which has,
among its recommendations the fact
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
THE NEEDS az AFRICA.
Appeals to the People Of All Nations
for Rights.

Appeals to the People Of All Nations
for Rights.
II is but very little that we ask
tho right to work on our own soil,
among our own people, ruled by some,
at any rate, of our own rulers, and to
be permitted to eat and drink what we
think good for us, instead OF having
deadly poison poured down our
throats, says the Century. Even II for.
eign powers should for a time be
financial losers, they cannot eventual
ly be anything but gainers-aided by
country almost unlimited in its capa-
bilities, and the willing, grateful serv'
Ice Of 10000, 900 Of people rescued
from the moral as well as physical
death now staring them in the face.
They will not have the obstacles pre-
sented to them in their own country;
all will be with them in this crusade,
leaders and people alike are stretch
ing out their hands for aid.
We appeal, not to England, not to
France, not to Germany, not to other
empires and states, but to the con
sciences of the individual men form
ing such nations. We appeal, not fop
a gift or favor, but for our right Ever.
as the Americans appealed for their
rights, and obtained them by heroic
measures, SO do we claim the right for
freedom to worship God" and to wor'
ship Him by sobriety, industry, good
will and all the Christian graces.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

The difficulty Of avoiding "howlers'
when one is translating from English
into such language as that of the
Nicmac Indians Of Nova Scotia must
be very great, says the London News.
We hear from the Bible Society
curious case. 1t is the first edition Of
st Matthew In Micmac the translator
found, when he came to revise 1t, that
in chapter xiv, Z, instead Of 'Nation
shall rise against nation" he had writ
ten, "A pair Of snowshoes shaN rise up
against pair of snowshoes." And
yet there was only one letter misprlnt-
ed-naooktukumiksljik "a Dation), hay
ing been displaced by naooktakumik-
silk Ia snowshoe). If the Micmacs
have word that long for nation"
what mouthful their word for 'em-
pire" ought to be. But probably they
haven't any word for 1t. It would be
OF no use to them, for they are a small
people and probably ardent naooktuk-
umiksikalists TO q man.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Russia 1905

A red haze hung over the mountain,
The fail In the valley was still,
A lone woman wept Ger baby taat
slept,
And the grain lay unground at the mill.
A pillow in the half-cloven furrow.
A forge that was smokeless and dead,
While oyer 1t all hung the stiffness,
pail,
And the haze DER the mountain. blood
red.
And over and over and over
BY village and farmhouse and hill.
haze, bloody red, all the landscape
o'erspread
And the valleys deserted and still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken,
The fields al the harvest ungleaned,
And lone vigil Kept by a woman who
wept
With a babe at her bosom unweaned.
T.ien down from the mountain horse
man
Dashed .plumed and sworded and
mailed:
Nor heard he the moan of the woman
alone,
Nor saw he the grain all unfailed:
ITO armsi For the battle was bloody;
ITO armsn For the columns were
thinned;
And over the land rang his brazen COM
mand,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
Poultry DRESSING.

A delicious stufFing for chicken or
turkey is made by taking two scant
teacupfuls of stale bread crumbs,
one-half pint of oysters. drained and
cut in half. Season with little salt
and pepper, celery salt, one table
spoonful Of butter one-half teaspoon
full of sweet cream to moisten the
crumbs and one well beaten egg.
1t will take three ,cupfuls of stufing
to fill an ordinary sized fowl.
Chestnut stufing is also delicious.
1t is made by taking one pint of
chestnuts that have been peeled,
blanched and boiled till tender in
slightly salted water.
Drain them over the fire and mash
fine; moisten with one tablespoonful
of thick sweet cream, season with
salt, white pepper and little nut
meg.
Then mix in two tablespoonfnuls Of
melted butter and one cupful of bread
crumbs. Garnish the dish with whole
boiled chestnuts and brown sauce.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

The following incident was often re-
lated by a resident of Newton Upper
Falls, now deceased:
When the Rev. Sylvester Cobb, the
late Universalist divine. lived in Wa
terville, Me-, in his young days he did
more or less farming on his own place.
It happened one year that his neigh
bors started to raise turkeys, and the
turkeys persisted in getting over the
fence and raising havoc with Mr..
cobb's cornfeld.
Mr.. Cobb called on the neighbor
one morning and explained the mat
ter. but all the satisfaction he received
was: Il guess corn won't hurt the
turkeys"
Mr.. Cobb went home, loaded up the
old muzzle-loader with corn instead Of
shot and laid out two OF three Of the
turkeys. Throwing them over the
fence 10 the neighbor, he said: THE
corn does not seem to agree with your
turkeys"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27

For his horse wore the wings Of the
wind.
Then fatherless lads from their novels
Went shouldering ponderous guns,
And old men and gray tottered weakly
away
To find the rude graves Of their sons;
For country Is higher than kindred,
And what Is the glory OF Sod
Unwet by the flood OF its yeoman's RED
blood?
And warts 1t not more than God?
So. Epmen with babes at their bosom
Gazed out DER the burrows untitled
Through the haze resting red Ike the
blood that was shed
In a faraway struggle unwilled;
And eyes that are swollen and anguished,
Uplifted in silent appeal;
20, God Of the Poor, does Thy mercy en-
dure
OF steei?'
And over and over and over,
BY village and hamlet and hill.
The haze resting red like the blood that
is shed,
But the hail in the valley Is still.
The earth at the seedtime unbroken.
The fields at the harvest ungleaned,
And a lone vigil kept by a woman who
wept
with babe at her bosom unweaned.
II. w. Foley, in New York Times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
ONLY HALF APPLE FOR HIM.
Fine Distinction Made by Policeman
at Washington.

AZ WdSntn9tOHs
Mayor Mcclellan is fond of relating
this experience which befell him when
a congressman in Washington: Zone
night when | was walking down Penn
sylvania avenue" said Mr.. Mcclellan,
II saw a big policeman standing on
the corner acting in suspicious man
ner. He held one hand behind his
back, as If he were concealing some
thing. Just for the fun Of the thing
approached and asked him: What
have you there?' For an instant he
looked startled and, then quickly
bringing his arm around in front OF
him, san KS an apple; have a bite?
No. sir said sternly. Don't you
know who l am? Don't know you
from a lamppost, sir Well, ! am
Congressman Mcclellan Is that so?
Then take half of this apple. sup
pose IL you we're a senator I'd have to
give you the whole Of it!'"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
FoR THE COSY CORNER.
How a Comfortable Nook May Be
Made Artlstically Beautiful.


Made ArtlsticaIly Beautiful.
Who was the first possessor OF a
cosy corner? An ape, gorilla, or a
man9 we have all read of the lion
and his den, and other wild animals
having their exclusive places OF re-
treat, and now comes man with his
animal nature cropping out of him,
and even passing his semi-barbarian
days. he, too, wants a cosy corner,
or a place Of retreat, where he can
go all by himself and spend an even
ing to read a book or to smoke a
"two-fer." The cosy corner has De-
come an artistic necessity in the
modern home; so much so that hun
dreds of dollars are sometimes spent
in their construction and the fixing
up of such places. The accompany
ing design is built on wood frame,
using 1x3 stun. The frame is sup
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-27
chief Foe % oooaRoada.

All practice and experience have
clearly proven that the greatest foe
10 good roads is water. The drain
age Of improved roads is, therefore,
one OF the first principles Of road
construction. and its Importance
Should not be lost sight OF. Water will!
make mud Of any soil however hard,
and unless it can be led away, mud
must follow as the inevitable result.
The fact has been stated so many
times that it almost seems out Of
place to refer TO it here.