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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
sTEADFAsT IN AFFECTION.
Faithful Attention of the Chinese
Mother When Her Child
Is Boy.

Inc Chinese mother is very fond o
her children. She is happy in theil
company and spends much time carin,
Ior them. In a Chinese family IN,
birth of child is a greater event thar
with other orientals. states the Pill
grim. Long before the child Is borr
the mother performs rites and cere
monies to propitlate the gods that her
child may be a boy. After birth the
little fellow is wrapped in old rags
and In winter is sometimes put in 4
bag OF sand sewed close around It's
neck 70 keep the little one warm. Great
rejoicing follows the birth II the child
Is boy; otherwise there is an air of
chastened disappointment. But good
Chinese parents make the best of their
little lassies becoming very fond and
even proud of them. | have known
more than one Chinese father to ex-
hibit his toddling wee girl for approx
al though always with the customary
national verbal depreciation OF what
belongs to one. Indeed this evidence
OF excessive courtesy may be found
everywhere in this strange land. Il is
good form to villify what is mine and
laud what is thine. MY good-for.
nothing family are ell still troubling
the earth with their presence. How
is your honorable familyg"
The fact that Chinese custom has
become nodded into certain set forms
has misled many travellers. II is. for
instance, generally accepted custom
in this country that gentleman shall
remove his hat when he meets a lady
with whom he is acquainted. but
Chinese visitor would fall into error
If ne assumed that this implied that
women. therefore. reduced men to So
cial servitude. So in China a woman
waits on her husband while he is eat
ing, because 1t has been the custom
from time immemorial In the same
way If they were travelling he would
walk beside the cart while she rode.
The education of their children is
matter of no small interest to the af-
fectionate Chinese mothers They
watch the little one from the day he
is born, to note superstitlous signs.
Let him cry Justify, and he will live
long. say the old grannies II he
teeths or walks to coon he will grow
up rnlovable in disposition. At first
the little Chinese are not very attrac-
tive objects. presenting rather a scaly
appearance, due to the custom of not
washing them lest they catch cold. A
month after his birth the boys head is
shaved. A great feast is prepared and
celebrated. the child now receiving his
"milk-name" When he enters school
this name is changed. as It is once
more when he receives his degree.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

from the Society islands in the Pa.
cine ocean the British consul tells how
change in fashion in the United
hingodm helped to ruin an industry
temporarily The story relates 10 tba
trade In pearl she'll. In 1903 this com
modify brought from gi.OOO 10 81 100 a
ton IN London. Then came a erear
storm, which caused much loss OF ne
In the Tahitian group. and prices went
up rapidly. The enhanced values ana
dobuts as to the future caused button
makers and others responsible for
fashion In dress to turn their attep-
ton to metal and other materials As
result, the demand has fallen on
considerably. the price of the shell has
since decreased by half. and stems
have had to be taken to check the
output
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
Music and stenorrarhern.

Music Affects people in peculiar ways
sometimes" said man who works in a
music store. AT our place Of business
we have four stenographers. whose
desks are in the same room with the
sheet music department The girls. who
hear every piece Of music that is played
for customers. seem to be affected queer
ly by the different selections. For in
stance. II fast tune is played they'll
pound those typewriters like fury. n.
on the other hand. slow music is played
they'll write much more slowly. ADJ
parently they keep time with the piano
unconsciously. The other day had lust
started the girls to work tyl a circular
letter which ! wanted in a hurry. when
the pianist began playing a slow SOL
emn selection. | saw what effect II was
having on the girls. so had the slow
music sidetracked. and. at my request
the pianist played rapid-fre twos,e-s
Tor hye minutes. The fast
brought the desired result had
letters all ready for mailing by the time
the hye minutes had passed. kansas
City Times.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
BOARDING BIG SNAKES.
Zoo Attaehe Says That Bcas Are
"Finicky and Fastidious
Critters"

Its no joke running a boarding
house for big snakes, said a man who
has spent most Of his life at work in
the reptile houses Of various ZOOS.
you wouldn't think a boa constructor
was finicky. fastidious critter but he
is. and as some OF the biggest cost
something like a thousand dollars to
import. why they have to be ooddled
like a millionaires baby
After the big snake gets rested
from his long voyage. not having had
a meal all the way, we try to tempt his
appetite first with a plucked chicken.
II has 10 be right fresh, for II II is "a
hours old the sarpIlt won't touch IL.
He examines II carefully with his
tongue and then, il II is up to the
mark, swallows It whole In leisurely
fashion. His jaws are wonderfully
elastic I've know a 'strictor TO get
around an animal four times his own
diameter
well. II HIS snakeship won't tackle
the chicken, the trouble begins. for he
must eat. and heroic measures must be
taken. There is no poison In a strict
or's fangs. but they can tear with their
teeth and strong jaws. There are four
rows of teeth in the upper and two in
the lower jaw. sharp pointed and
edged like razor. Now to make the
big fellow eat you must enter the cage.
Be cautious and calm, for II you show
any excitement he'll nip a piece out OF
you. Walk into the cage softly and
when you get chance slip blanket
over the snakes head. When you've
done this successfully push his head
outside the cage, where Ii is caught
by an assistant and hauled out Some
times 10 men are required to draw out
the sarpint and hold him in a straigh.
line. The snake is then taken into
warm room. every man holding on like
grim death, and his Jaws are forced
open and half a dozen guinea pigs ad-
ministered by force.
Though II takes Is men under the
circumstances to feed the strictor.
sometimes when he is strong he can
toss them about like straws. but gen
orally he gives up after a while and Is
glad ic get back TO a tank Of warm wa
ter, where he is allowed q couple Of
weeks in which 10 digest his enforced
meal.
Snakes In captivity THAT is. the
biggesD you won't have to feed forci-
bly, more than three times before they
will eat of their own accord
How they do eat when they feel
like IT, Most OF these big snakes die
of pneumonia or diphtheria for it's
hard to keep up In captivity the tenn
porature in which they are accus-
toemi to live. II the air is kept below
70 way of they go.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

height they ought The greatest life
ever lived on earth was a life Of serv-
ice from beginning to ending. and ws
should initiate that fair and white
example.
Girls. | don't want to preach to you,
but / see beyond the sehoolroom.
These are your lovely days. Every
day spells for you some incentive To
duty. bestows on you some opportu-
nily worth having and using. Prize
the living present" Il is the founda-
ton of your future Some OF you won
der what you are going 10 be by and
by. As your class prophet. let me tell
you. that il depends altogether on
what you are at this moment There
fore. again. be doers. not dreamers-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
studying Greek in Boston.

Opportunity to learn modern Greek
has never been so good as at present
in Boston. Fruit stands run by Greeks
are in spots more numerous than cigar
stands. Their owners are glad to
give all the information possible about
their native tongue, and they subscribe
to and exhibit number of newspapers
printed in Greek. To those who have
studied the Greek of Xenophon it is not
difficult to make out what the news
papers contain. and it is a pleasure to
find modern instances parading in
clothes of an ancient tongue. Modern
Greek seems easy to learn. A young
Irishman became employed in a
Massachusetts, avenue Greek fruit
store. and in the course of a year spoke
the language of his employer ith
astonishing profciency.-Bostop Rec
ord
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

zone motor two nervous systems" I" is
said to be the formula that applies soon
er or later to him who rides in an auto
mobile; so It is a good thing. perhaps.
that the motor is so far a pastime of the
rich. to whom places like Homburg and
AK are open. II has been observed by
more than few lately. though. that the
motor omnibus conductor is becoming
infected by the nervous irritability that
seems to belong to this sort Of locomo-
tion. The civility. varied at most by oc-
casional sarcasm at the expense of a
tiresome passenger. TO which the rider
in omnibuses is accustomed, Is being
replaced by the motor conductor with
impatience. if with nothing worse. 1T
will be a great pity II the good-natured
raillery OF the omnibus yanishes from
our streets. Humor. after ALL is worth
far more in life than the ability to get
from one place to another in the quick
est possible time.-London Chronicle.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

rise TO its Importance. The all-around
scholar Of the present will one day bs
the all-around woman in business. In a
profession. in society. or. bes, Of all in
the household Nowhere else can an
all-around girl be so useful and so low
able as in her home. / wish that the
girls write for and to whom am talk
ing might every one be the sweetest
home daughters in the wide world.
One Of the essentials OF happy and
successful womanh0od is that women
should be interesting. A dull, common
place. unresponslve woman may have
pretty face and a good figure. but not
withstanding her beauty people will
soon grow tired of her and seek other
company. One cannot be interesting
unless she has both sympathy and in
formation.
A girl who has made herself familiar
with several fields Of learning and who
has a well disciplined mind may not al
ways be able to talk brightly. but she
will know how to listen intelligently.
Better still. she will know when to keen
still. an invaluable bit Of knowledge for
a woman.
Old people will find this girl charm
ing and considerate. Busy men will
feel rested in her presence. and as for
her father and mother. they win be re-
paid in her sweet. bright and useful
for the sacrifices they made
when she was In the schoolroom. Many
parents have to deny themselves far
more than their children dream that the
children may be educated. They are
always repaid In full by the children
VINO are developed in an all-around
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

The late Gen. Isaac ]. wistar. Of Phil
adelphia. was condemning war at a
meeting Of the Academy Of Natural
Sciences. At the end Of a vivid descrip-
tion of wars horrors he smiled "A
woman he said. twice married. stood
with her second husband beside the
grave Of her first. Here she mur-
INJURED. a hero lies. You would not be
my husband to-day. Jack. had John not
been killed at Gettysburs. Oh the
man cried. iercely, what a curse war
isi''
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
Triple Horror.

Sunset Sims-So yer Jess had three
jobs offered yer all ter oncei How did
yer feel7
Northern Lytes-Oh, goodnessi Just
like woman il she should see a ghost.
a mouse and a burglar all simultane-
ous.-Life.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

What sd the whale do after he let
Jonah go asked the youngster.
q don't know" answered his father.
Judging from the custom 10 such mat
tiers, | should say he went around tell
ing other whales enormous yarns about
the big man he caught and who got
away. Washington Star.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
"ALL ROUND" GIRLS
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERI.
CAN SCHOOL LAssIEs.

Dorothy viii Find It to Her Advan-
tage to Be an All-Round Scholar
All-Round Scholars Develop Into
All-Round Business, Society and
Zone Women-The Girl Familiar
with Many Subjects Makes an In
telligent Listener-she VIII En-
large Her Circle Of Friends and
Admirers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

are you happy now that you are
ricn! asked the old-time friend
don't know that I'm happy au-
s~ered MT Thousands. but I'm sure
| N not as discontented as would be Il
was broke Stray Stories
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
His Own Mug.

O'Toole-G;ve me a shave.
New Barber-Have you your own
mugs
Me own mug. is Il? An do yez
think I'd be after goin around wild
another felly's face atop me shoul-
?''-Pittsburg Post.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04

&. Inc Inc ~armest thanks a man ever get
y y D DeIore be performs the service.-N
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
1copyrlEht lsls. b5 ). B. sowiss.l

Strenuous Rivalry in Any Sport Re
suits in Abuse-Moderate Bicyc-
ling the Best Of Exercises-The
Erect Position Not the Correct One
Never Ride Until You Are Fa-
tigued-How Bicycling Will Re
duce Ones Weight-The Bicycle
a Godsend to the Frail Woman.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
THE CLASS EMBLEM
II OFTEN BRINGS INSPIRATION
TO THE SCHOOLGIRL.

Loyalty to a Glass Flower Raises
School Girls Code of Honor-An
Appropriate Emblem Will En-
body the Glass Spirit-The Color Of
a Bit of Ribbon May Stand for q
High Principle-"semper Fidelis'
and each for ALL"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
theatrical Notes.

That Spokane will witness the bust
est summer season in its history is
now an assured fact with the ever pop
ular Shirley Company at the Audito-
rum, new stock company at the new
Columbia, and light comic opera at
Ada Rehan, who has been sick for
the past two weeks, is threatened with
appendicitis.
Miss Maude Adams, during a per
Torrance of Peter Pan" at the En-
pire theater in New York city a few
days ago, had a narrow escape from
serious. if not fatal injury by being
hit by the drop curtain.
Nine Nordica will probably be the
leading soprano at Oscar Hammer
STEMS new Manhattan Opera house
next season.
The Seattle theatre property, locat
ed at the northeast corner of Third
avenue and Cherry street in Seattle
has been sold to Stirrat & Goetz by
Mrs. Mary Miller for s227,000. A
week before Mrs. Miller purchased the
property from ]. ID. Lowman for $3.50.
600.
Manager Petrich Of the Spokane
theater says he is booking attractions
all through the summer season.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Morris Buck, who shot and killed
Mrs. Canfield, the wife of the oil mil
lionaire of Los Angeles, Cal, has been
sentenced TO be hang June 1. 1t is said
Buck resided in Spokane before going
to California.
Port Wrangel, Alaska, was entirely
destroyed by fire that started in the
barber shop of the Pioneer hotel. The
whole town was wiped out, with the
exception of the one and one store be-
longing to Robert Reid. Thirty eight
houses that composed the residential
district were burned to the ground.
Wrangel has a population of 400 per-
sons, half of whom are Indians.
Steven A ID. Puter of San Francisco,
who is wanted by the United States
government as a witness in the land
frauds cases in Oregon, was arrested in
Boston recently by U. S. Marshal w.
b. Burns of Washington. d. c., but
after being in custody less than half al
hour Pu or drew revolver and sue.
ceeded in escaping.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
Good Joke ON Eiremen.

The Hiram (Ohio) fire department
has the finest assortment of girls hose
in the state, as a result of an appeal
for new equipment. The fire depart
ment has been in great need of more
rubber hose with which to fight fires
To raise funds a subscription paper
was passed among students and citi-
zens. the goods not being neglected. A
student solicitor called on the young
women of Bowler and Millen halls and
asked their assistace. Next morning
he found a clothes line stretched
across the street from his window
bearing some 80 pairs of women's
hose of varying sizes and colors.
On the line in big letters was this
inscription: The ladies of Bowler and
Millen halls take PLEASURE in contrib
uting 80 feet of hose to the support
of the Hiram fire department"
The students have now taken it up
on themselves to identify the donors
in each case, and there is consterna-
ton in the dormitorIes.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
WANT Dance HALLS
CERTAIN CLASSES OF CHICAGO
CITIZENS FAVOR THEM.
Over 300 Societies of Germans, Nor
wegians, Swedes and Poles Paraded
the Streets-Prominent Men on
Speakers PIatform-strong ResoIu-
tons Adopted.

Resolutions demanding that the
Chicago city council authorize the
mayor to issue special bar permits for
dancehalls and that the state legis-
lature grant complete reliel and home
rule in regard to amusements were
passed by 1000 representatives of Ger
man and Bohemian societies gathered
in mass meeting in Chicago Sunday
afternoon Outside the First regiment
armory, where the meeting occurred,
was an overflow gathering estimated
at 10000. In marching order more than
300 societies of Germans, Swedes, Nor
wegians and Poles paraded in Michi-
gan avenue, with flags and numerous
uniformed bands.
The speakers who addressed the
meeting scored the reformers, the
mayor and the states attorney, whom
they held responsible for the revoca-
ton of their permICs. The uemonstra-
ton begun early in the day, each sec
ton of the city contributing it's quota
of men, women and children, forming
the various divisions, which poured
into the Central Loop district and pro-
ceeded in a struggling mass to the
rendezvous in Michigan avenue.
Streetcars were impeded in their
movement and traffic in Michigan
avenue was completely interrupted for
several hours. The drivers of auto
mobiles, who tried in several instances
to force their way through the crowd
were roughly handled and compelled
to turn back.
Men prominent in affairs of the city
including a number of aldermen, occu
pied seats on the platform.
Samuel Alschuler, former candidate
for governor of Illinois on the demo
cratic ticket, was one of the speakers
He declared that the societies stood
for the enforcement of the law which
does not destroy the liberty of those
not engaged in violating the law.
The meeting closed with the adop
ton of resolutions protesting against
all attempts to deprive members Of
the societies of the right to enjoy
themselves in their own way, and de
handing that the city council amend
the dramshop license in such a man
ner as to authorize the mayor to ISSUE
temporary permits for the sale o.
liquors to societies of a lawful char
acter, and calling upon the Legislature
to amend the laws so that the cities
and towns of the state shall be sci
governing in the matter of amuse
lments and recreatiOns.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
LoNDoN's WHEAT MARKET.
Grain Trade Has Two Branches OIL
Exchanges.

There are two distinct branches OF
the grain trade in London, and two
markets or exchanges. Mark Lane, in
Mark Lane street, originally known as
the corn market" is the market for
spot stuff" that is, grain or -four on
the spot, in vessels just arrived OF in
warehouses on the docks. The tran
sactions are AL of a jobbing nature
in parcels" consisting Of 1000 to TO-
900 or more sacks $3.50 pounds) Of
flour. or 1000 bushels and upward Of
grain.
The other market is the Baltic" /.
e.. the Baltic Mercantile & Shipping
Exchange. This is "the home OF float
ing cargoes," and its members buy
grains and other products in the mar
kets of the world for shipment to Lon
don in cargo lots. The entire cargo,
however, is not necessarily all the
property of one house.
There has evolved from the Baltic
grain market, OF necessity, the Corn
Trade association, which is probably
one of the most perfect working and
useful trade organizations in the
world. II has established uniform con
tracts for use with the different grain
exporting countries, 1t fixes the stand
ard of grades, except with America and
Canada, and arbitrates all differences
between buyer and seller.
There is no future" market in Lon
don similar to the pit of the Chicago
Board of Trade. the Minneapolis Cham
Der of commerce and other American
exchanges. Both the Baltic and Marx
Lane had future markets, where hedg
ing and speculative trading was done
until some four or five years ago, oil
until America ceased to be large ex
porter of wheat. American wheat was
at that time the basis for trading Now
Argentine or plate" wheat is the
standard both in London and Liver
mol
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
pYNAMITERs IN NEW YORK.
Charles Moran and Others Have Been
Arrested.

Charles Moran and others Have Been
Arrested.
Charles Moran, a member of the
bridgemen's union, who was arrested
several weeks ago with two other UNI
ion workers. charged with attempting
to dynamite the Bliss building now
being erected on East Twenty-third
street by Post & McCord, has made
complete confession to Assistant
District Attorney Train. Mr.. Train
says he implicated several others and
the New York and New Jersey branch
es of the union, declaring that they
furnished the money to have not only
the Bliss building, but other buildings
destroyed and the work of construc-
ton halted, because contractors insist
upon an open shop. The district at
torney's Office has refused to divulge
the names of the walking delegates
involved.
Moran was arrested along with
Thomas Weir and John Guthrie by a
squad of central office detectives as
they were about to place 20 pounds
Of dynamite in the Bliss building and
blow it up.
A week after they were arrested
Guthrie confessed, duplicating MQEsf
and-Nw cir and the walking delegates
The story told to Assistant Distric
Attorney Train was substantially thu
same as that recited by Guthrie.