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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03
The BuIi's.Eye.

They had been discussing some
vexed public question.
you hit the bull's-eyei" cried one
of them in approving Of another's
statement.
"Buifseye," repeated a third. why
is the targets bull's-eye so called?"
"Aheml Aheml" said the profes-
sor. This is one of many instances
in our language where words have
gained higher status than that with
which they started, and have been pro.
NOTED from the slang dictionary IL
the dictionary Of words Of respectable
and current use.
"Bull's-eye is found in the dictionary
Of The Canting Grew, In 1899, and was
the vulgar word for the central ring
of the target used as a mark for arch.
ers, which was colored differently
from the other rings. This may have
arisen from the ancient rounded
shields, cut from OK hide and strength
ened with a spike or central boss for
this shield or target; hence target was
often used as mark itself.
Then when sheet glass began TO
be manufactured the thickenad part
where the tube had been attached
was called the bull's-eye. Then this
term was successfully applied to a
lens OF glass, especially in a ships
side, and finally to the central boss ~
target"-Philadelphia Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

| PEAT THE COMING FUEL |
Genius of Chicago Makes Possible the Utilization for COM
s mercial Purposes of Hitherto Unvaued Product


lv and requires about S0.000,000 years
to produce anthracite, while Yankee
ingenuity produces a coal In all re-
spects Just as good in the space Oh
thirty minutes. That's the difference
And because this new plan has been
worked out effectually and actually
produces excellent smokeless coal ana
will be able to furnish It in immense
quantity at 81 or less per ton, the peo-
ple are to be asked to pay IS per ton
for It in order that trade may develop
another giant monopoly and stock
holders may wax fat on DIVIDENDS.
But these peat makers seem to have
the best 81 the argument, as the peat
lands are all but worthless without
their method. and the people need the
fuel, and, as they say, ''the people will
have to come to US and pay whatever
our fuel is worth in heat units-not re-
specting the cost to us OF producing
the fuel"
That they have the whip hand ana
are aware of the fact was made clear
to a representative who called upon
the president Of the corporation, Hen
ry S. Bunting. The Illinois Peat Fuel
company is the name under which the
corporation operates.
Mr.. Bunting made no attempt 10
conceal the fact that he was not phil
anthropically inclined. His candor
on this point, in fact, was interesting
from psychological viewpoint, as ne
explained that the stockholders OF MS
company had made him president not
with the idea of guarding the inter
ests of the dear public, but ito make
dividends for them" He proposed TO
fill his position with an eye singly and
solely to that end.
'Is it true that you are able to man
ufacture coal successfully out OF
dirt?" he was asked.
1T is true-out of certain kinds OF
dirt" Mr.. Bunting replied. I'VE are
making a very fine grade Of peat coal
by our patented machinery every day
right here in Chicago. We make this
coal out of turf, or bog mud, or peaty
ground, such as exists In great abun-
dance all over Illinois"
Does your process make really
good coal?"
1T is as good fuel as the world has
ever produced. just as good as antbra-
cite, as rich in heat units. besides last
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03
WHY THE PEOPLE SMILED.
Absent.Minded Preachers Headsear
Provocation Enough.

Absent-Mlnoed preachers Head9edr
Provocation Enough.
A well known cleric, who was noted
for his absent-mindedness was engag-
ed to preach in church il a neigh
boring city. He had purchased new
hat for the occasion. The young man
who was to escort him to the church
met him at the railway station.
Upon meeting him he said, after
what the parson thought rude stare,
Il beg your pardon, sir, but your
hat"
"Oh, yes; never mind the hat" the
clergyman interrupted, and proceeded
to ask some questions. The people
they met stared and smiled.
Strange how many people notice
when one has got new hat" thought
the parson. The church was reached,
and the worshipers approaching nat
urally turned to observe the noted
preacher. His host met him at the
vestry door to welcome him, but, hesi-
tating, said.
Pardon me, but pray why do you
wear your hat SO?
The tile was doffed, and the outside
found to be still covered with the
white paper. which the absentminded
divine had forgotten to remove!-Lon-
don Tat-Bite.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

a. grfZzled, Sun-tanned, nard-IeaIuIeu
man, whose face bore the stamp ol
hardship and adventure, was sitting
in the smoking room Of a New York
hotel. He happened to glance at a
calendar and saw that the DAY was
Dec. 81.
"By Jove!" he exclaimed. $50 to-
morrow is New Years day. Unless
something happens before then, 1t will
be the quietest New Year I've spent IN
twenty-three years.
in all that time have never been
so near my old home in Scotland as
am now. Often I've tried to get home,
but somehow or other New Year has
always found ME in a tight corner in
some out-of-the-way part of the world. Z
This mans experience is typical OF
that of many of the glohe-trotters in
this age, when people are SO fond OF
"going to and fro in the earth and
walking up and down in it" like GER
tain parsonage in the Book of Job.
New Years day, 1897, found one
Englishman facing death from hunger
and thirst on board life raft 300
miles southeast of Madagascar.
His ship foundered seven days be
fore in a hurricane. The boats we're
smashed by the fury of the waves and
some of the crew washed overheard.
The rest made raft out of planks and
spars. but during the night high seas
swept over the frail structure and car
ried away most Of the water and food.
"All we had left" said the man who
went through this terrible experience,
"were few tins of potted meat, a
small barrel Of biscuit anrd the small
est Of the water casks. That was all
we mad to keep life in twenty-five hun
CRY men.
I'VE made it last as long as we
could, but in four days everything was
gone. Some of the men fell into de-
spair and talked about throwing them
selves overheard. Perhaps they would
have done so, but during the night of
the fourth day half dozen big sharks
swan around the raft in circles. The
sea was phosphorescent and we could
see them plainly in the waves OF livid
fire which they stirred up as they
swan around. Even the half-crazed
men who had talked about drowning
themselves shrank from death in
sharks nav and stayed upon the raft.
Next morning saw by pocket
diary which carried that the day was
Dec. 80. To keep up the mems spirits
told them l had dreamed we were
going to be rescued on New Years
day. That appealed to the supersti-
ton inherent more or less in all sail
ors, SO I kept on telling them a ship
would come along and pick us up on
that dag sure, until began to believe
it myself. We even discussed grave
~ whether the sail would heave in
sight in the morning or the afternoon,
and one man who said he guessed it
would be toward evening became quite
unpopular.
New Years morning broke with a
dead calm on the oily, blistering sea
and a blazing sky that aggravated our
thirst tenfold. There was not a ship
in sight all morning nothing except
that CLASSY sheet OF water and that
cruel, cloudless sky above us. It was
the same in the afternoon, and our
hopes fell as the sun sank slowly to-
ward the western horizon.
"Just as we we're beginning 10 de-
spair, one Of the men screamed hyster-
tcally and DoinfAd to a thin trail Of
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

GLOBE TROTTERS NEW YEARS
Love of Adventure Has Landed Many Men Positions
and


smoke on the sky line. 1t was a New
Zealand liner headed straight for our
raft In couple of hours her doctor
was giving us a hearty dinner and
slops and weak brandy and water"
This same man spent another New
Years day off Cape Horn. He sailed
from Valparaiso in British wind
jammer," expecting to reach his Scot
tish home in time to spend his first
Christmas there for many years. But
calms delayed her for weeks in the
South Pacific ocean, and when she got
off Cape Horn she ran into tearing
gale. which brought her mizzen top
mast down on deck and ripped out all
her sails. For days she drifted help
lessly, exposed to the full fury Of the
western gale.
The crew labored industriously at
rigging up spare and bending new
sails. 1t was a task of tremendous
difficulty, for giant combers rolled
over the forecastle head continually.
filing the vessel amidships with green
seas.
Suddenly in the midst of this toll an
apprentice piped out:
Il say, fellers, this is New Years
day Have you all forgotten it?"
Delay your tongue" retorted the
gruff old mate. There won't be any
New Year dinner to-day, except your
usual whack of lobscouse."
The skipper was experimenting the
work from the poop rail and heard the
conversation.
Cook" he bawled out. Lay aft
here!"
The cook came out of his galley and
the captain asked what he could give
them for fancy dinner.
'Ncthin' but split peas, sir, an salt
horse and marmalade. There amt no
turkeys in my store-room, sir" be said.
Lets catch one O. them birds.
suggested an old tar, pointing to sew
eral abatrosses which were circling
about the wake OF the ship. "We'll
stretch a point this day and be for
given for it, l guess"
After several attempts an albatross
was captured with big fishhook bait
ed with salt pork and dragged aboard
triumphantly Served up nice and
brown and swimming in gravy. it
looked so much like a real turkey that
it warmed up the mems hearts and
made them think of the holidays they
had spent at home But when they
tasted it the resemblance ceased. 1t
was fishy and tough. The meat was
like knotted rope yarn and the gravy
suggested tar. However, it was
New Year dinner all the same, and it
was enjoyed as keenly as the finest
feast ashore that day.
An American traveller, who is well
known commercially in the West In
dies, was mixed up in one Of the peren-
NAL revolutions of Hayti in his hot
and foolish youth. Unhappily, he al
lied himself with the weaker side. and
one New Years eve sound himself one
of a small band Of desperadoes de-
Tending the stockaded town OF Mira
goane against a government army
which outnumbered them by more
than 100 to /.
During the night the government !
soldiers forced their way into the town.
Only about thirty OF the defenders
we're left alive.
STAND them up in line and shoot |
them" commanded Gen. Manigst.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03
KEEP FAITH WITH CHILDREN.
Matter in Which Mothers Sometimes
Show careIessness.

onoW Carelessness,
Many a woman who would not think
of lightly breaking a promise made
to a grown-up person is utterly care.
less about keeping her word with her
children. She promises whatever Il
convenient at the moment. AND sonar.
emily thinks that the breaking or
keeping OF those promises is mat.
ter in which she can please herself
and that her children have no right
to consider themselves aggrieyed II
she does not do SO.
A mother who acts thus does nor
child grieyous harm. She forgets that
the sense of justice Is strong N ouite
a little child, and that it is natural
and reasonable that he should exnact
his parents to be as good as theIr
word and to fulhll their promises
even at the cost Of convenience. Prom.
ises should not be lightly broken and
the parent who is guilty of this soon
loses his children's confidence. which
is one Of the sweetest things which
our little ones can give us.
When boys and girls learn 10 douht
their parents truthfulness savs
Woman's Life, they soon look around
Tor someone whom they can trust and
on that person they shower their AZ
iection and bestow their confidence.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

inch and makes briquet much more
dense than could be secured by pres
sure in fixed die. The surface is
then scared or glazed, to make it
weatherproof. This American eaethod
does away with the need of a cement.
while all foreign processes require
pitch, bitumen, or oil as a binder,
which costs more for the added mate
rial than the entire operation.
Mans inventive genius in the Chi
cago method has scooped nature, as
1t were, by applying great pressure
and heat-such as nature employs in
forming the worlds coal supply out
of peat beds ~-but nature works slow
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

Two years ago, when the heads of
big financial, mercantile and educa-
tional institutions were bending be-
meath the impositions of the coal trust,
President Harper of the University of
Chicago, shrugged his shoulders and
smiled.
Il do not fear the coal barons," he
said. IF the worst comes to the worst
l shall burn up my back yard"
The newspapers printed this decla-
ration of independence, giving 1t wide
spread publicity. Students of econo-
mics were impressed; and the average
citizen remarked, Absurd" when he
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

matically feed wet peat and discharge
dried peat at the rate of 500 pounds
every three minutes. The dried stpff
is then chopped and conducted
through a rotary drier and fed into
very powerful press, where, under
great pressure and heat applied to the
mold, it is pressed from soft, dry pow
der into a hard, dense block much like
coal. The peat is pressed through an
open tube, instead of against fixed
resistance mold, and the only base
is the movable base of other briquets
being pushed out ahead. which offer
resistance by friction against the side
of the mold. Yet that resistance gives
a pressure Of thirty tons to the square
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

left to do but find the proper way to
convert this peat ground into peat
fuel. While Boston theorists have
been speculating why this task was
feasible and really ought to be done,
a Chicago man of Scotch-Yankee origin
has worked out the problem to a
practical success.
The new method is an original one,
and simple. as all great things are
simple. The ground is dug by machin-
cry, conveyed by bucket chain to the
plant where 1t is dried in centrifugal
machines that whirl at the rate OF
$50 revolutions a minute and auto
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

ing just as long under proper condi.
tions of burning. Our peat fuel is
equally good as steam raiser or for
domestic use. It is even more clearly
than anthracite, as It is entirely
smokeless, sootless, sulphurless. Gin.
derleas and clinkerless, and makes
scarcely half as much ash. Think Of
having fuel that burns entirely up in
fame and leaves no waste OK course,
our peat fuel is not to be compared
with dirty, wasteful soft coal for a
minute. 1t is the equal Of anthracite
and will take the place Of hard coal
and compete with it in any market"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

An American globe trotter tells how
he once spent New Years day hunt
ing crocodile in Jamaica, West In
dies.
After long hunt the crocodile was
found buried beneath the mud in
shallow bend of river on the planta-
tion. The hunters only carried small
shotguns, which were useless against
the beasts tough hide, covered as it
was several inches deep in mud.
But the planter was man Of re-
source. He sent hurriedly for negroes
and set them to work to construct two
strong walls of bamboo poles across
the bed Of the stream, thus inclosing
the crocodile in prison from which
he could find no escape.
After the walls we're built every
body hid quietly in the tall grass on
the banks and waited. Hour after
hour they laid there. Their luncheon
Z co. Tod of sandwiches and a flask of
II inch.
It was not until the end OF the aft
ernoon that the crocodile, finding II
could not break through the bamboo
barriers, crept out Of the water. Be
fore 1t could drag the whole of its
huge carcass out Of the mud it was
lassoed and hauled toward the bank by
twenty willing hands
Too surprised to offer resistance. the
beast at first suffered itself to be al.
most dragged on the bank; but II
caught on the edge with its forepaws
and made desperate struggle. Twen-
ty yelling negroes hung on to the 9TH
er end Of the rope. but could not drag
that crocodile up; they could only
prevent 1t from Topping back into the
water again. Honors we're even in
that terrific tug-of-war.
At last yoke Of eight oxen had to
be brought. They soon dragged the
beast to the bank, where 1t was tied
around a trea and dispatched with
axes.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-03

But they were too weak to stand.
All of them we're wounded, half-staryed
and fever-stricken. So the govern
ment troops proppef hem up in chairs
and shot them as .hey lolled there.
Only the white man was spared, in
order that his case might be inquired
into.
When he protested to Gen. Manigat
against the cruelty Of shooting help
less captives that triumphant warrior
merely blew cloud of cigarette smoke
and remarked calmly: "C'est la
guerre."
Late on New Years eve," said the
American, they tried me by court
martial. When | woke up on New
Years morning was in the calaboose.
sentenced to be shot at sundown. II
wasn't very pleasant waiting. | was
quite glad when a gold-laced officer
entered the cell toward evening. with
paper informing me that his excel
lency, the citizen president had been
pleased to pardon me, in consideration
of the request of the American minis
ter and of the fact that it was New
Years day
Il believe they had never intended
to shoot me, but only to frighten me,
for they hardly dared to touch white
man whose country owned a navy that
might lombard their ports. Anyhow,
got out Of Jail in time to eat my
dinner with some American and Eng
lish friends on coffee plantation near
Miragoane."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
REDUCE ACREAGE.
HARVIE JORDAN ISSUES APPEAL
TO SOUTHERN FARMERS.
LAW or SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
This Constitution, Says Jordan, Only
True Medium Of Regulating
Cotton Prices.

Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 1l.-Presidcnl
Harvie Jordan Of the Southern Co..
ton Growers Association issued a ci!-
Cular letter to the farmers Of the
South yesterday regarding a redue-
ductiOn in cotton acreage for 1906.
The letter says in part:
"The Southern Cotton Growers AS
ISOLATION will not ask the farmers OF
the South TO reduce the cotton acreage
for 1906 less than that planted III
1908. The association does ask AMI
insist with all the force at its COM
mand, however, that the acreage plant
ed in cotton throughout the belt IN
1905 be not increased during the
planting season Of 1906. Let the
watchword OF every Southern farmer
be "DivrsificatiOn,' and through that
agency produce an abundance of food
supplies to maintain each farm.
The present estimated 100000
acres planted in cotton is sufficient
under normal climatic conditions 70
produce enough cotton to meet the
demands of spinners for the Amc"l-
can staple. Any material increase IN
the cotton acreage for 1906 will tend
to stagnate the cotton market and
depress prices below their Legitimate
value. The legitimate laws of supply
and demand is the only true medium
of regulating fair and legitimate
prices for our great staple product
President Jordan closes the letter
with a strong appeal to the farmers
to plant an abundance OF small grain,
corn and side crops and urges them
to raise more hay, cattle, hogs. etc.
that the farmers may become more
selfsustaining.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
VANILLA CULTURE IN HAWAII
An Experiment TO Be Made That May
Mean Much to the Islands.

The vanilla plant is grown in BOur-
bon on the east coast of Africa, in the
Seychelles islands, Tahita, FIJI and
Mexico. The Mexican vanilla bean is
the best and the Tahitian the poOreS.
product, the former fetching from four
10 twenty dollars a pound, while the
latter does not bring more tnan hall
a dollar a pound in the market, says
the World Today.
+ H Edwards, a planter Of lOns
experience in the SEYCHELLES islands.
while on a trip to Hawaii, was I'M
pressed with the suitability of the re-
giOn near kOna 10 the culture OF va
nilla, and determined to introduce the
plant. Going to the Fiji islands ne
brought back about 1000 cuttings,
but one-fOurth of these died on the
way to Hawaii. from being placed IN
the hold instead of on the deck OF the
steamer. Though the cost of labor III
the Hawaiian islands is high, as com
pared with that in other countries
in which vanilla is produced, the Deall
can be marketed at about $l.5o per
pound. AS vanilla of the Quallty
grown in Korea fetches five dollars
pound on an average and an acre
yields from $50 to 800 pounds, tna
crop is highly profitable.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
MAC STEWART STRICKEN.
Vocal Organs Are ParaIyzed-To Be
Placed in Sanitarium.

Sherman, Texas, Dec. 12.-Releascd
from a Mexican prison, in a dungeon
Of which he had lain for ten years.
Mac Stewart, the Confederate VeteI-
an in whose cause noble, sacrificing
efforts were made, was fated TO ENJOY
surceasc from woes but short sea
son. Word has reached Sherman that
a few days since at the home OF his
sister. Mrs. SaIIic Harm, at Chilli
Gothic, Hardeman county he was
stricken with paralysis, which mas
practically left him unable to articu-
late. His kinsman, Tom K. Stewart
Of Whitney, left for Chlllicolh" Sajuf-
day to place him in a sanitar;um for
treatment
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
Tennessee Praise,

Dayton, Tenn, Dec, 1lth tSpecian
Among many prominent residents
to praise Dodd'S Kidney Pills Is N,
y. r. Roberts Of this place. He tell,
of what they have done for him. and
his words will go deep into the heart,
Of all who are suffering in the same
way. He says:
Il was Il martyr TO Kidney Trouble
but DOdd's Kidney Pills completely
cured me. | shall always keep them
on hand in case there should be aDy
return of the Old trouble, but | am
thankful to say they did their work
so we'll there has not been the slight.
est sign Of my old complaint coming
back. The pain in my back used to
be terrible. II | got down had a
hard job TO get straight again. But
my back is like a new one now and
can stoop as much as please. | don't
believe there ever was any medicine
half so good as Dodd's Kidney Pills
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
National Farmers Union.

Texarkana, Texas: The executive
committee Of the National Farmers
Union did not leave for home until
Saturday night, and one Of them re-
NAMED over until Sunday morning. i
Is learned now that a meeting of the
committee was quietly planned Satu"-
day afternoon, but nothing was done
further than to decide on a meeting OF
the committee to be held at Dallas Oh
Jan. I. At that meeting plans will be
discussed and adopted for the publica-
ton of a national newspaper organ.
The question of national headquar-
tiers will also be settled, and from what
could be learned the choice of this
honor will be between Dallas and Tex
arkana. Other matters of Importance
to the order will also be taken up and
disposed of at the meeting.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-12-15
Pacific Mail Monopoly Broken.

Panama: Guatemala cables that the
agent of the Panama abroad makes
the official announcement that he viii
accept freight from those countries Via
that line from any steamer, thus ahoi-
ishing the Pacific Mail monopoly. This
will mean big increase in coastwise
trade and German steamers will prob
ably go into the trade, resulting in an
increase Of Panama Railroad freight
and saving of the trip around the
Horn.