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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

"The kinshlp of living things" as
scientists phrase it. seems to explain
why it is that there are animals which
pursue the tactics of confidence men,"
A Hartford butcher has found such a
one, A patron, he tells the Post, has
collie that came to the butcher one
morning with a slip of paper in his
mouth.
Hello, doggy said l, and the collie
wagged his tail and dropped the paper
on the floor at my feet l opened a.
1t was signed order from his master
for a piece Of sausage gave the dog
the sausage. He ate it and went
home.
Time after time the collie came with
these orders to me.and finally | stopped
reading them. Each, | presumed, was
for sausage and each procured a
sausage. suppose, all told, the dog
got as many as twenty pounds of sau-
sages from me in two months.
But the master, when presented my
bill, objected He said he had only
given the dog about a dozen orders,
whereas must have honored nearly
a hundred.
Wen, the upshot was that the two Of
MS got together and did little detec
tive work. We watched the dog. We
found that whenever a sausage hunger
seized him he would hunt until he
found a piece of white paper-any
piece he could find-and bring it to
me.
| had been careless, you see. never
looking at the paper, and through my
the collie had fooled me
for two months.-Youth's Companion.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

TN man who had been keeping his
seat in crowded street car spoke at
last to the young woman who had
been eyelng him intently for five min
utes or longer.
Il know I ought to get up and let
you have my seat. madam" he said.
"but I'm pledged against that sort of
thing. / have just Joined the Sit Still
Club. an organization we have formed
in our part Of town, and if l should
violate the solemn obligation took
when I became a member of that body
| should be expelled and held up to
the execration of all the other mem
bers'
"That is all right, SIR replied the
young woman. "Yor mustn't mind
my looking at you. I'm member Of
the Stand and Stare Club
After which she continued to stand
and stare at him. Chicago Tribune.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

France which has always made fas-
hions for the world started the custom
Of sending doll OF TO Vienna. ,c
Italy and to England, whenever
fresh fashion came IN, ana the arrisa.
Of these grands courrIers DC IA modo
WIS an event Of the utmos, import.
anee. Even when the British ports
We're c,osed in war time. special per-.
mission was given for The entrance ot
this messenger from France. Mercler
speaks thus huunorousy about It,
1T is from Paris that be mos, I'M
portant inventions in fashion give tie
law TO the universe The famous doll.
that precious puppet shows the iatest
modes. One passes from Paris to Lon.
don every month, and from there GOES
to expand grace 10 all the empire. Ii
goes north and south. it peuclraies to
Constantinople and 10 st. Petersburg.
and the pleat which is made In Paris
by a French hand is repeated by every
nation who is humble observer Of she
taste of the Rue ST. Honore."
Perhaps this is the custom reelected
in Venice, where at the annual +.
held in the Plaza Of st. Mark on Asc,
sion day, doll IS always exhibi /
whose dress and laees serve as 4 mo..al
for the fashions Of the year
The earliest dolls brought to Amer.
lea from abroad undoubtedly came as
mere fashion plates, and only became
when they had served their
first purpose. NancyT, McClelland. ia
Good Housekeeping.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

Actuaries employed BY insurance
companies adopt a standard method ~
computing prospective ages Of risks.
TO ascertain how many years i person
Of given age Is ordinarily expected 10
live, the present age Is deducted from
eighty, and two-thirds Ok The remain.
der will indicate the likely future snau
Of life. Actuarial schedules are 4 unit
In this system Of calculation. In Mus.
tration Of the above statement. Aoe
twenty deducted from eighty wears
shows that forty years is the allotment
while age sixty from eighty. leavlne
balance Of twenty. represents thar ,lir.
teen years and three months Should IN
favorable routine, elapse before tha M.
sured individuals life is classified IN
The pasttense column. Thus II viii he
observed that insurance corporations
60 the biblical allowance of "tl,ree.
score and ten ten years better. Chic
ago Journal.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
The WAY OF A WAN
uis Criticism OF Fair Won,i an
Oyn Troubles.

ufs Criticism Of Fair W0n3i an
own Troubles.
"What lot Of time and thought YOU
women do give to your hair said ME-
Blank, with good-natured ralllery' 10
his wife one morning when she was
preparing to 20 downtown with h'hi'
and was standing before the glass al
tending 10 her front half. = Won
der what would become Of my bust
ness il / spent as much time over my
hair as you do over yours.
An hour later Mr. Blank was sur
veying himself anxiously in The MR.
ror before him as be sas in chair
at his harber's and the barber was
holding mirror back OF him, WINE
Mr.. Bland said. yes guess that VIII
do. You might take just the least 1T
tie bit off the front part of my ilair
and clip off 4 trde more just above
my left ear. Seems o me you've iett
it little longer there than 1t is above
my right ear And ! think I'll nave
you part my hair a little lower on the
left-just llttlei No, not thai low.
A little higher. That will do. NO,
don't comb it down quite so ilat and
brush it back more above the ears.
That's better, but IT'S siii, 100 fiat IN
front. Here let me take the comb.
See? | like it combed rather loosely.
Let me see how it looks in the back
again. Just hold that land mirror
back Of me again. Isn't there a hair
or two longer than the others right
back of the left ear? Getting thinner
and thinner on top Of M head, isn'e
ii? BY Jovel la give ten thousand
dollars for something that would keep
my hair from falling Qnt and leaving
me bald! Couldn't you comb my hair
somehow so that the bald spot
wouldn't show quite so prominently!
Yes, I've tried massage tor it. Had
my scalp massaged an hour a day once
for seven weeks. and was balder when
| left off than when began. Yes, 1oa
might powder my neck little and
just twist the ends Of my musnclc
into something of curl That viii do.
Now do l look all right? Good-day.'
The Womans Home Companion.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
WESTWARD.


Beyond the murky rim Of hills
Where fading city sunsets glow,
Tonight a robin swings and trills
In one tai cottonwood / know:
The shadows flung from branch and sten
Along the yellow sandbar rest
] shut my eyes to dream Of them,
Here in my window, looking west.
The shadows lengthen on the sand;
The log-built barn across the way
Throws wide its doors on either hand
Beneath the rafters piled with hay;
The palings of the gray corral
Glimmer and waver in that light
Above the sleepy brown canal
Out yonder on the ranch tonight.
Far of that sunset glory sleeps
On level benchlands golden brown,
Where browsing slow along the sleeps
One after one the cows come down;
And on their homeward pilgrimage
Each trampling hoof and horny crest
Shakes perfume from the tufted sage
oh, far faint incense Of the westl
Tonight, | know, beyond the rim
Where all my prairie sunsets fade,
Gods far white mountains look to Him
Clad in His glory, unafraid
The solemn light on peak and seaur,
The clear, still depths Of cloudless air,
The trembling silver of a star
What would | give to see them there.
The mountains call me back, to lay
My weakness on their boundless might;
The canons call me home to pray
In silent stainless shrines tonight;
Yet here in dusty mart and street
| shut mine ears against their CALI
Content to find my exile sweet
With love that recompenses all.
Youths Companion.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

That the war in the East has been
fierce beyond the precedent of any
modern war is suggested by the small
number of prisoners taken, says the
Christian. In many engagements ap-
parently no quarter is asked or given.
The combatants fight to kill as we'll as
to conquer We have heard of no pri-
son camps Eor of any great concourse
Of prisoners anywhere. Out Of all the
hundreds of thousands of men engaged
on both sides we do not know that
there have been 5000 anywhere taken
from either side. We have no evidence
that wounded men have been killed on
the field Of battle, but that the number
of killed has far surpassed the usual
ratio between killed, wounded and
prisoners seems evident. 1t may be
that the policy Of thorough going
slaughter is in the end quite us merci-
full as more humane methods would be,
the object being. to put out of action as
quickly as possible the greatest number
of fighting men. 1t may be also that
the savagery of this conflict will cause
a reaction against all war.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

was a mystery to Dorothy's friends
why she did not marry. Suitors she
had In plenty, and admirers who would
have wooed her had they dared but
Dorothy, to all appearances, was invul-
nerabIe.
1t was daring the winter after her
tweIity-sixth birthday, that she, in com
pany with her father, was travelling
in England, and the fame Of the great
surgeon, Doctor Dinsmore, came to
their ears. People focked to him in
scores; his operations were wonderful,
and his sympathy and generosity some
thing to be told Of by the destitute and
suffering with tears and blessings.
A rapturous hope thrilled through
Dorothy's heart when she first heard
Of him. She remembered that Oscar
had told her Of studying medicine and
surgery. although he had never prac-
ticed- but then, Dinsmore was a COM
mon enough name. Oh. If 1t were only
he--the man whom she had never for
gottenl
They met at last, at 4 reception. 1t
was her old-time lover. grown tride
broader, his dark hair slightly sprlnkled
with gray, the gay insouciance of look
and manner gone, and in It's place a |
gravity and dignity which relaxed at
times into genial pleasantly that was
irresistibly attractive.
He came to her soon. There were
spectators all about them, but they
only saw two old friends meet with a
handclasp and smile; they never
knew what the souls of the man and
woman said to each other in that brief
glance
Dorothy went home from the recep-
tion in such iubllant spirits that her
father wondered mildly what had come
over his quiet daughter.
But he understood when Dr. Dns-
more called the next day and made
formal proposal for Dorothy's hand.
80 this accounts for your refusal Of
the best men Of our acquaintance"
said Mr. Stretton, rather qulzzlcally. as
he turned to Dorothy.
les, ldtHtAs NNly iultlll'
"Well, Doctor Dinsmore, | am glad
10 be able to grant my hearty ap-
oroyal, although Dorothy, Of course,
s Of age to choose for herself and
i'm glad to see. sir, that your money
ias not Kept you from a truly noble
"NIr. Stretton," replied pinsmore,
Irawing Dorothy within the circle Of
lis arms, ITO your daughter | owe
What | am to-day. Six years ago,
When was living an idle. selfish life !
f dissipation, she refused my offer of t
and told me to make a man
I myself. So, you see, sir, woman's
no has been my salvation; and her
Yes shall be the magic word which /
pens the way TO happiness. T-Naw e
'ork News
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
a Personal ravor Of the court.

One of the most picturesque figures
of the New York bar was the late
Thomas Nolan, a lawyer, whose witty
retorts furnished subjects for merri-
ment at many a lawyers gathering.
Now, Nolan was ct one time counsel
for a poor widow who was suing 4
construction company for the death of
her husband. The case had been
placed upon the day calendar, but had
been frequently postponed, and Mrs.
Moriarity by the time she had made
her fifth call was in an exceedingly
disturbed frame of mind. consequently
the tones of Nolan's rich brogue were
more than usually fervid as he fought
against the sixth adjournment.
Il am sorry" said Justice Drugo.
"but your opponent has shown me
good cause for the adjournment, Mr..
Nolan, and the case will, therefore, so
over until tomorrow"
"Yery well, sor,1 said the barrster,
sweetis, but might l ask wan per
sonal favor Of this coort?"
Certainly, sir, with pleasure"
''Will your honor kindly sthep down
to my Office and just tell Mrs. Mortar
ity that you have adjourned the
case e?-Success.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
WORDS OF WISDOM.

No prayer, no praise.
Worship fits for work.
Sorrow is Gods sieve.
The Father Of lights makes tie fam
lily of light.
The steps Of greed do not lead TO Tie
throne of grace.
To laugh is proper to The man.
Francis Rabelais.
Nothing is given 50 profusely as ad
vice.-La Rochefoucauld.
Gods angels are never apparent lest
we should depend on them nor ever
absent lest we should despair without
them.
Hungry judges soon The sentence sign,
And wretcbes Gle that jlrymeh may
dine.
.Alavnnlpr poun
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

Notwithstanding the many French,
Italian. Hungarian, Yiddish, Chinese
and German restaurants in New York
City, it should be profitable for some
one to open a real American eating
place where genuine American dishes
would be provided. declares the New
York World. Almost ali Of the popula-
ton of This city came from somewhere
else. and every nationality has brought
with it its own cooks and its own cook
ing, except the Yankees, the Pennsyl-
varians. the Virginians and the people
who were born in one of the original
thirteen colonies and who We're brought
up on the food Of their fatherIand All
along the Eastern Shore of Maryland
ana Virginia, in Berks and Lancaster
counties, Pennsylvania, across to Fred
erick, up the Housatonic Valley and
nOrtn ~ behhihS'Vl W tue otheT sue
of the Shawangunk Mountains and
here and there throughout ali the old
States. there are well-established cases
of good American cooking. where pie
takes the place OF predigested break
fast food. There abound fried mush
apple butter, doughnuts, scrapple, pork
and beans, wafiies, sausages in snake
like coils. fried chicken. sweet potatoes
baked in molasses and a hundred and
one other dishes Of which Americans
should be proud. Why not have them
in New York?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

When General Miles was in Porto
Rico, as commanding general Of the
United States troops, raw recruit
from Tennessee was detailed for duty
as his orderly. The recruit knew abso-
lutely nothing of military etiquette,
and on receiving orders to report TO the
commanding general for duty he saun.
tered over to the tent Of that dignitary,
where the general was in conference
with several staff officers.
Entering the tent without the for
mality of salute the Tennesseean re-
marked: "Well, Miles, did You want
to see meT nj
General Miles bristled up. "Don't
call me Miles, he began irritably.
Then the humor Of the situation
dawned on him and be added with
grim smiIe-"That's too formal. Call
me Nelse."
Then he proceeded to read the recruit
a lesson that he never forgot on the
amenities Of military life. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

All the night-birds are noisy. They
cannot consort with one another in
happy companies as do the warblers
and thrushes and fnches, and sing and
whisper, but muse call loudly and long
to one another in the darkness. On
coasts where Detres and certain other
night-hunting sea-birds abound, all
day sitting on their eggs or hiding in
burrows, you will hear no sound from
morning till night. but after dark the
air is filled with shrill cries.
The loud, reiterated calling of the
Southern chuck-wilrs-widOw and Of
its Northern cousin are familiar. A
whippoorwill will sound its cry sew
eral hundred tines in succession with
out a pause. Owls hoot or utter a
harsh sort of laughter rarely pleasant
to listen to, and night-herons and bit
terms squawk and boom.
Sweet songs occasionally heard in
the darkness are those of wakeful
day-birds, as the nightingale or our
own oven-bird. Ernest Ingersoll, in
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

The German professor had not been
in this country very long, and his
knowledge Of English was still some
what shaSy. He was anxious to learn,
however, and never used German in
speaking 10 the students if he could
think of the English equivalent. He
Nas young and handsome, and as all
the students were young women, he
was universally adored As he was
hurrying to recitation one day he
bumped violently into a young woman
who was rushing in the other direction
to another recitation. Stopping and
taking off his hat he murmured:
"Oh. promise me-"
And the maiden, blushing rosy red,
said she would.-New York Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

Recently, in a county in central Penn
sylvania, the writer passed over a most
excellent piece Of highway. built by
the State Engineer, under the law now
Id opera On in this State. This piece
Of good road was soon passed over and
then we came to a road nearly as bad
as country road could be. The re-
fnark was made to the driver that 1t
would be well to extend the good road
The reply was. 1T will not be done
The farmers believe that it VIII cause
automobiles to come this way. and
then tiIey cannot send their wives and
daughters to town on business. Often
It is not convenient for a man to go
to town, and the women go. but no
man will trust his women to drive on
road frequented by automobiles"
have heard this statement several
times recently in this Stale.
In my own experience was recently
saved only by good driver One Of
these machines came dashing at us at
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
To ENTERTAIN GUESTS.


and How 1t is Played.
A group of young women gave very
novel party recently, and the guests
enjoyed the evenings entertainment
1t was called an alphabet party, but
no pencils OF paper were used. All
the guests We're seated in row, and
each one was called upon to say the
alphabet backwards. Five minutes
was allowed for each recitation, and
any person who failed to run off the
letters in that time was dismissed
from the group. All those who sue
ceeded in getting through drew lots
for prize, which was a book contain
ing the alphabet in rhyme and picture.
Then the guests were asked TO say
half the alphabet by skipping every
other letter.
The fun of this game when done
quickly and within the time limit can
not Se understood until tried All
those who accomplished the feat drew
for the prize, which was n dainty
bisque statuette of schoolboy. The
young women were then asked to say
the alphabet, having each letter begin
Il noun of the class named. For in
stance, if the hostess named fruit"
the player began, apple, banana"
etc. If boys began, Arnold, Ber-
nard, Charles and so on. Zach per-
son failing removed his seat from the
circle, and the prize winner in this
game was the one who remained in the
line when all the other players had
failed and had withdrawn. Her re-
ward was a copy Of reading book.
Then the guests were asked to write
a nonsense alphabet rhyme. Each per
son took a letter and wrote concerning
a flower, the name Of which began
with the character chosen. Then the
person drawing "A" wrote verse
about the astor.
The last game provoked the most
Every player was given
a letter Of the alphabet and told to
bear il in mind. After everyone had
received letters the mistress of cere-
monies passed along the line small
box in which were slips Of paper
Each slip had written upon it a COM
mon noun Of some sort. The nouns |
were very diverse. Thus one slip had |
Heroine" upon it and another read |
House Fish" Dog" etc. Imme-
iiately after receiving the slip play
ar was obliged to name proper noun
Of the class given on the slip and be-
ginning with the letter in the alphabet
illotted to him. The player whose let
.er was .'EH and who drew Dog, was
ucky enough TO thing at once of
'Fido." The drawing was continued
Until all the players but one had failed.
rhe victor received an appropriate
prize.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

An Indiana family is in great distress
because their pet dog ate up ten $50
bills that happened to be lying loose in
the house. The dog. too. was in great
distress until they killed him and re-
covered the mutilated bills Evidently,
BY the way, this family does not keep
a horse, otherwise they wonld have
thought nothing Of feeding an animal
on $50 notes.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

1t has been discovered at Venice that
the antiquities" purchased there by
Americans are manufactured by enter
prleing Italians. Some enterprising
Americans should build factories in
this country so that we may manufac-
ture our own Venetian antiquities and
at the same time save the customs
duties on them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

The rules and customs of polite So
ccty are varying, arbitrary and unac-
countable, says the Kansas City Jour
nal. What is allowed this year may be
tabooed next. To-day audiences, ire
spective of age, sex and rank, regale
their senses of sound and sight by
performances in theatres which would
create offense if referred to plainly
in general conversation. Polite soci-
ETY. tolerates, in one form Or another, as
many outrages against deeency and
modesty as do the unceuth denizens
of the woods, plains and mountains.
All classes of mankind err to an mex
plicable degree in these particulars. 1t
is to be regretted that they do not dis
play more consistency and practical
common sense in their customs and
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

A herd Of cattle recently attacked an
automobile near San Francisco Some
Of these days the horse will realize his
danger and there will be trouble for
the berzine go-carts.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

The lawyers of San Francisco have
organized a club whose object is to
reduce the expenses of litigation. They
will doubtless take all the money saved
by charging larger fees.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

A Maryland octogenarian is boasting
Of having voted his seventy first time
at the late election. That's nothing.
Lots of men vote that often at every
election.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

n fearful rate and frightened gar no,1e' l,,'
hut the driver was able to conirol MN.
Ii would not seem proper to permit
steam locomotives 10 rnA on lhe pun
lie roads as the machines caieu au'o-
mobiles are permitted to run. YET one
is locomotive rs much as me olnep
ana lust as dangerous. In TINS sH1e
it is becoming clear that we musl h"Ne
more stringent laws to regulate thenl'-
DR.. George G. Croft, LewlsDurs' iar
IN Tribune Farmer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

The Indian population in Canada has
so diminished that there is hardly
enough left for a decent insurrection,
states the Buffalo Courier
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04

Short measure milk bottles are
among the latest innovations which
can be dispensed with, observes the
Buffalo Courier.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-04
Far uis Own Good

The fruit farmer should be an en-
thusiastic advocate Of good roads