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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04
Beware Of Ointments for catarrh
that Contain Mercury.

g. mercury will surely destroy the senae of snsil
and completely aeranga the whole system when
entering II through the mucous eurfacee Such
ArllcieB should hevor be nsed except on Dreecrip-
lions from reputable physicians aa the damage they
VIII 90 y ten fold 70 tho good you can possibly De.
klye from them. Halis CatATrh Cure, manufactured
~ 2. Cheney Co., Toledo, o., contains no mef-
curry and is taken internally acting directly upor
me blood and mucous surfaces Of the system. IL
Duying Halls Caiarrh CnFe be sure you get the
genuine. II ia taken internally and made In toledo
Ohio, by Z. ], Cheney a Co. Testimonials free
Beld by Druggists. Price, nc. per bottle.
fake Halfa Family Piila foE constipation.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Smith started up into 8 citing po
tnfa
Who are you3" he cried
The masked figure with the dark
lantern and sawed-on shotgun turned.
nonplused for tho moment, from the
bureau, end said, confusedly
why. ] am a-er-burglaF"
Smith settled back upon the pillow.
drawing the warm c0verlets about his
shoulders.
THANK goodness, be murmured,
sleepiiy; II thought you we're a
plumber"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

"Petrel" and petrol" both descend
from petra rock. Petrol comes
directly enough, through petroleum. I
rock oil, but ''Detrep through St
Peter, after whom the bird was
named. because It appeared to walk
upon the waves
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

4 sincerely believe. all things con
sidered, Hunts Lightning oil is the
most useful and valuable household
remedy IA existence. For Cuts, Burns,
sprains and Insect Bites, 1t has no
equal, 50 far as my experience goes. -
G. T. Huntington,
Eufala, Ala.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

The gifts Of fortune are often taken
away as speedily as they came; but
strength OF mind and personal nobility
are possessions which survive the ex-
ternal circumstances Of life and lift
It into grander planes. Halliburton.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04
Mechanically.

Judge-And what did the prisoner
say when you told him that you would
have him arrested? Complainant-He
answered mechanically. yer honor.
Judge Explain. Complainant-He hit
me on the head with a hammer
Everybody's Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

The smallest motor is that made BY
German mechanic. It is worked by
a battery deposited in his coat pocket,
and he uses the motor as a scarf pin.
II is working all the time, simply to
show that It is an actual working mo
tor. 1t Is curious tc see the little
wheels revolving a. the machine rests
On the scarf.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04
1T7-I HH410 81 II6110o-
Comedian Made Humor OF What Wac
Approaching TraaedN

'Wiliie" Collier. the comedian. was
an irrepressibis member Of q barn-
atorming combination which, some
Ten years ego. did the "tank" towns
Of tho niddle west.
The company had been doing a poor
business for several weeks when q
certain town in Illinois was reached.
Just before the curtain went up that
Aight, Collier was standing at the cur
tain "peep-hole," sizing up the audi
ence.
How's tho house, Willie?" asked
another player.
Wen" answered Collier. ''there are
some out there. But" he added, Inn
pressiveiy. we're still in the ma
iorIty. old boy, still in the majority g"
--Harper's Weekly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

lllbred Americans abroad. about
whom we hear complaints. arc no
more to be condemned than ill.bred
foreigners in this country. Lord All
cash. touring IN italy. was no worse Ia
behavior than the lordllngs who come
here prospecting for a rich matrimo.
NAL match.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Should you have q cough, cold or
sore chest, do not rely on time and ma
ture to cure. They may do so-they
may not. Use Simmons Cough Syrup.
1t is a balm for sore lungs and win
cure you at once.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

No doubt the duchess Of Marlbor.
ough can give her cousin Gladys
some facts about matrimonial life
among the titled that win prove prof
liable to the prospective bride.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Let Us try to make hopefulness and
patience contagious SO that everybody
may impart an influence OF cheer
Bishop Fitzgerald.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Paradoxical though It may seem. the
light bills rendered by an illuminating
company are usually heavy.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

FITS, St. Vitas Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured BY Dr.. Kline'a
Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free 500
trial hottie and treatise. DR.. r. H. Kline,
Id. 9sl Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Lewis Single Binder straight Be. Many
smokers prefer them to l0c cigars. Your
dealer or Lewis Factory; Peoria, III.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

RED CRess BALL BLUE
should be in every home. Ask your grocer
tor It. Large 2 o.. package only cents.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

ALL UP-Tc DATE H0UsExEErERs
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Lewis Single Binder straight 6e cigar
made Of rich, mellow tobacco. Your deal
er or LEWIS Factory. Peoria, IN
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Little things are little things. but 70
be faithful in little things 10 70 Be
great.-st Augustine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Much that passes for patience ID
simply lazlness.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Among other pipe dreams are those
Of the church organist
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Some women would rather go broke
than not 60 at all.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-04

Manhattan's postofico receipts
amount to s5l,a7o daily.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28

Then to his lonely garret room
The stricken hearted lover;
Went with a soul despairingly,
Like some poor stricken ployer.
IAN hour had passed when he yelled out
He yelled and writhed and twisted;
Some said twas turnip collie, and
Some few en- love insisted.
"At any rate 1t took him whence,
He died before the dawnng;
And lovers all who read this tale
VIII take most solemn warning"
There were tears in Uncle Bob's eyes
as I finished reading the verses aloud,
and as soon as he could control his emo
tions he said:
ABE, that's the most beautiful thing
ever wrote in this world about a hired
man. It's good enough to put on the tomb
stone of a king. Henry had his faults,
like the rest of US. I never could get him
up at 8 o'clock in the morning as long as
he worked here. and If there was a g.
pound piece of corn beef on the dinner ta-
BILE he felt that It was his duty to eat the
whole of it, Taken all around, however,
he was a good man and deserving of all
good things we can say about him. I'll
have those verses framed and hung in
the parlor, and if there is such thing as
any one coming back from the other land
he'll surely come spooking around two or
three nights in the week to read that
poetry and realize how We loved him.
(COpYrighted.)
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
How's This :?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
out any obligations made by his firm.
WAIDING. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testirnonfals sent
free Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton. - 49,
Cars stop at Prices drug store, In the
center Of the big block
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28

she looked out of the window and
caught sight of four men hanging on
the fence.
BLAST the pedestriansv'
"And the neighbors will be knock
ing at the door. The folks that moved
in next door two weeks ago are from
the country and not used to such
noises"
Woman, retirei Retire up stairs!
Retire to stay retired! have hired my
hall and propose to play this horn as
long as / want to-
Mrs. Bowser could no nothing else.
Then Mr.. Bowser resumed. The
Revolutionists that killed the king
that blew on that horn had the proper
idea of things. They knew that it was
either his life or theirs 1t emitted
groans and grunts and toots and walls.
1t sounded flats and it sounded sharps,
and between them it sounded several
other things. Mr.. Bowser had been
insulted by Mrs. Bowser declaring that
he was no musician. The thought Of
that helped his wind at least SO per
cent as he blew. He had been advised
to hire a hall. He rolled his eyes
around the room and imagined that he
was in hall filled with ten thousand
people, and that he had got to toot
loud enough to send the shiyerS up
and the sDines Of every listener For
ten minutes the ruction went on. the
earnestness and the determination of
and then came a laundering knock at
the front door to interrupt g. long
drawn wall. Mr.. Bowser answered 1t.
There were two policeman there and
crowd behind them.
What the devil is this!'' demanded
one of the officers
Look at the red-faced murderer"
added the other.
"a rope and limb!'' shouted the
crowd.
Then Mrs. Bowser came down the
stairs and talked softiy and sweetly
to the officers. She explained that it
was only Mr.. Bowser, and 1t was only
one of his little ways, and that If they
would not club or lynch him he would
soon tire of his new toy and be look
ing around for a chicken farm or a
squad ranch, and in five minutes she
had worked the crowd out Of the
yard. Then she took the horn out of
Mr.. Bowser's hands and said:
when you get ready. to retire you
can come along up"
Three hours later, as he had not ap-
peared, she slipped down stairs in a
wrapper and found him asleep on the |
and there were undried tears |
on his cheeks. His musical career had |
been cut short. |
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28


And now he could support a wife,
Provided she'd be his'n.
I" Come off the perch! the maiden cried.
Don't take me for no dilly:
To wed q hunp-backed man
Would be in me most silly.
"I'n wed millionaire or none
I'll be the lady naughty;
I'll make the critters round about
Regard themselves as dotty."
Thus spake she to our hired man
Thus spake in terms most jeering;
The blow struck home-he fled afar,
Still followed by her Jeering.
ITO ease the ache of broken heart
To ease hu-mfl-i-a-tion;
To smother that great love Of his
Which loved like all tarnashun.
Poor William sat him down and ate
Four turnips in succession,
And nothing intervened between
To cause a slight diSgressiOn.
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
WORKING FOR HIM.

About four miles out of Selma,
Alabama, came across a colored man
whose mule team and loaded wagon
were stuck fast in a mudhole in the
road. The mules were nodding in
sleep, and the driver lay on the grass
by the roadside with his hat over his
face.
"Here-are you the man who runs
this outfit?'' I asked as I dismounted
from my horse.
"Ize de pusson, sah," he replied, as
he sat up.
How long have you been stuck
here?"
"'Bout an hour, I reckon
well, what are you waiting for 2"
Fur some white men to come
along. boss. No use to worry about it.
I've been yere befo' and know jist
how it works. Sit down and see for
yourself"
Ten minutes later four white men
drove up in a buggy. Seeing that the
mules were stuck, they got down. Sc
cured fence rails and went to prying.
and, without the least help from the
driver, finally extricated the team and
sent 1t on its way. AS 1t started off
the colored man queried of me:
"Is you a stranger to dis kentry.
boss?v
YES
.Iookin' around to see what you
kin see?''
yes"
wall. den 1t must strike you dat
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
THE ALASKA TRAIL.
The Government Road From White
Horse to Dawson.

One trail still leads to the north
along the Great Government road from
White Horse to Dawson, a gold seeker
writes. 1t is about $50 miles, we'll tim
bered all the way with spruce. poplar
and cottonwood; some jack pine just
starting in thick masses of many
acres.
Forest fires ten years ago drove most
of the game and fur to other parts, yet
we see fresh signs of bear and fox in
the dusty road every day for miles and
miles. Some duck, mostly mallard.
canvas back and black duck, and geese
and swan show up nearly every days
travel
This is the middle of May-the grass
is four inches high, blue and white flow
ers along the roadside, some straw
berry blossoms, and vet a pane of
glass frozen in our camp kettles each
morning. Fruit is killed 1000 miles
south.
This government road is a solitude
in summer, not a person for 100 miles,
but in winter when the ice stops trav
Ell on the mighty Yukon river, then this
road is a wide-awake, thriving, bust
hing, et-there runaway for the traders
and miners Great four and SiX-horSe
stages slam through the road night
and day from both ends.
Change horses every p miles at ho-
tells called roadhouses. The charges at
these roadhouses are $1-50 for each
meal, 81 for bed, 81 for hand-out lunch
con; beer etc, 25 cents per drink, hay
and oats to 10 cents per pound. The
hay comes from Spokane and the oats
from Manitoba, both points about 1.oO0
miles away. Both articles are first
class
we were oVertaken on this road by
four droves of beef cattle of 125 head
in each drove They were shipped from
Calgary, Canada, and Seattle. Wash.
SEQ miles by rail. 1000 by sea, then 120
miles by rail, 140 miles on foot, then
by boat $50 miles to Dawson, 1,200
miles to Fairbanks. Feed, both oats
and hay, average 800 per ton.
The first cost of cattle is about $40
per head. They are stall-fed until 3
years old, and weigh from 1900 to e.
200 pounds each; the best in the land.
The freight on each Is more than $to0.
the feed and care another $100.
They sell in Fairbanks for $3.50 to
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28

"And now I'm told that have no ear
for music said the purchaser as he
lifted it up and puckered his lips for a
toot. II am coolly and calmly and de-
Hberately informed that can't even
whistle tune, and am recommended
to hire hall! BY John, We'll see about
it! The neighbors object to little soft
music, do they? Well see about that,
too. Well see whether the neighbors
run this house or I do"
Mr. Bowser sat down and drew a long
breath. Then he raised the cornet to
his mouth and let her go. The sound
was a combination of grizzly bear growl
and the shouts of a man slowly sinking
to horrible death in a quagmire. 9th
er sounds followed. They were sounds
of saws saving against iron. They
were sounds of a man with the asthma
trying to hurrah for Bunker Hill on
Fourth of July. They were sounds of
FIVE or six dogs engaged in deadly con-
hict over a bone, and five or six more
joyously Fastening up to take part in
the scrap. The pawnbroker had told
Mr.. Bowser that when he got the thing
to going not to stop and let 1T cool off.
but to keep it at the red-hot pitch. The
until the wind gave out and the noise
died away like the tail-end of a cyclone.
BY that time Mrs. Bowser had come
down stairs to say:
DO you know that you will scare the
cook to death with that noise If you
keep on?"
BLAST the cookP' retorted the player
as he raised the horn and blew another
medley of walls and screams.
"And that pedestrians are already
stopping at the gate" she continued as
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
HONEST ABE U. S. NJ.
He Finds No Let Up on Poetic
Calalnities.

| At the first house I stopped at in my
/ wife warned me they were for my poetry
down at Farmer Niles. Being foreWarne6
was ready and Mrs. Niles good sou
| that she is, took me into her confidence
at once. Her daughter Miranda had had {
fuss with her feller and expected to los,
him, and she had been aro und for weei
enough enough to to keep a iast Years robin alive
She was then lying down; with t,o ! head sd
! fearful story. and then sat down and IN
dignantly dashed OF the following. AS
chalk for a poetic outfit the meter wob
| bles a little In places. think the tab!t
| was loose on its legs. Either that or dsf 4,
| bore on too hard with the chalk;
..The autumn winds are signing.
The 9olden leaves are dying,
The meadows are. a-looking mighty drear1
The flowers OF June e. hath a,fnHd Withered'
And bitter is the falling, lonely. tear.
''The breezes sigh in sadness,
And look in vain for gladness,
Around me there Is nothing but despair;
Once had friend % cherish.
And a love to care I'd nOurfSh,
And lover with curly, kinky hair.
But e stub-nosed Nancy Jones-oh,
With her body mostly bones-oh,
And a top-knot of the yividest of red;
From my side did she inveigle.
with waggle and wiggle,
He for whom my falling tears are sheo.
''Cood-bye. Hiram-Hiram ,Buffing,
DO not think that am bluffing.
Soon you'll hear I've perished all for thee;
Soon I'll be beyond the caring
Soon my body they'l1 be bearing -
To the home beneath the weeDin' willer
tree.
"some Paris Green I'll soon be taking,
And with inward tremors shaking,
AS the spectre gives my. throat a clutch;
And therefore kindly leave you,
And your darling Nancy mutchy much
.T-here. Randy. what did I tell your
exclaimed the mother as I finished read
ing the verses.
in five minutes after he got here" was
"And hasn't he done it? Isn't that poet
ry going to make Hi Jackson get up and
swalIer his living gizzard, and won't it
make that living skeleton of Nancy
get a piece of paper and copy the thing
as soon as you can and send 1T to Hiram
Abe never writes a any ny bt poetry nv that a dont sn
bonnet against a shoestring that he comes
crawling around this evening and asks to
Miranda chirked up at once and was
making a copy when I left. Mr.. Jackson
didn't wait till night. He came right away
after aanneT on a9n G6ristmas day can't en-
dow universities, but now and then L can
make poor maid happy.
Down at Farmer Bob Taylor's they had
lost their hired man since L was along
ast, and Uncle Bob wouldn't let me go
past without leaving some poetry. The
man was taken i'll in the night after eating
four raw turnios. but as he was also In
owe and had been disappointed the doc
.ors were not sure which had caused his
.aking off After hearing all the particu-
ars and drinking quart of new cider I
sat down and wrangled with my old muse
Until she ground out the following:
Our h.red man, he was in love
DUR William Henry MOrrow;
So blithe and gay and frolicSome-
so free of care and sorrow.
"A year went past-he told his love
His wages had been risen:
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
About New Books and Authors

A. A. Graham, a Topeka attornav
and formerly claim agent for the
Rock Island railroad. has written
book about Mexico. 1t is not travel
story but philosophical and COM
prehensive study of the features of
the country philologicaI rather than
topographicai. His study is divided
into the following heads: Descrip-
tive, Industrial, commercial, religious,
political and social. Mr.. Graham is
poid-he says some startling things
ana skaters a few idols. For in
stance, In speaking of the mineral re-
sources of Mexico, he says: Except
IN few noted instances, the country
IS poor In minerals but rich in pros
schemers. looking for good things in
which to induce their friends to in
vest money. Are the mountains COW
cred with timber? No, only brush,
Building stone? No; these rocks are
not MT for permanent structures and
houses built of them must be kept
plastered, both outside and inside to
preserve the walls"
Mr.. Graham's observations on the
agricultural possibilities of Mexico
are by no means fattering either.
This might be called a summary;
Wheat grown only by Irrigation
quality poor-fiour dark and harsh
not enough grown for home consump-
ton. Little rye. Barley grown to a
limited extent, very short-harvested
at all. Corn great staple of the coun-
try-grows later than in United |
States with more slender stalk having |
small ear about four inches in length, |
grains long and shriveled and loose |
on cob. Average yield about seven or !
eight bushels per acre. His estimate |
of the fruits is but little more alluring |
or promising. In his chapter on the
feature of Mexico the |
author enters into a rather extensive |
economical discussion of the railroad !
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28
kLS

Vol. W, Peer Gynt; Vol. v, Emperor
and Galilean G. parts); 5Vol. VI, League
of Youth, Pillars of Society,"; Vol VII
Dolls House, Ghosts: Vol. VIII, Enc
Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Vol
x, -Hedda Gabler, Master Builder; Vol
XXI, Little Eyof, John Gabriel Bork-
man, When We Dead Awaken. Scrib-
ner's Sons are the publishers.
The January Century will be a 'flc-
tion number" and among the contrib
utors are the authors of the following
popular books: THE Divine Fire. "The
Fugitive Blacksmith" 1" Hugh Wynne,"
"Gallops, The Call of the Wild" and
THE Magnetic North" There will be
also stories by three new writers.
1t Is seldom that two sisters are rep
resented simultaneously on the list OF
a single publisher. 1t is therefore a
curious and perhaps unprecedented oc-
currence that here should be, not one.
but two, such cases on the present fall
the case of George Madden Martin,
whose new "Letitia" keeps company
with her sister, Eva Madden's 1.-TWO
Royal Foes and again in the case of
Nora Archibald Smith, not only
is her collaboration in the new
volumes of McClure's Library
of Children's Classics, but is the inde-
pendent author of one of the most de-
lightful of the seasons juveniles, '"The
Adventure of Doll" p
Mrs Wilson woodrow, in her new
book 1.-THE New Missioner" has given
a picture of Rocky Mountain mining
camp that it would seem impossible for
any woman to have written. for, the
reason that 1t would seem impossible
for any woman, delicately nurtured,
and used to eastern refine1nents of lux
ury and comfort, to live long enough
The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-28

out his package from its hiding place
and removed the wrappers to reveal a
secondhand cornet. He had seen it in
the window of a pawnshop as he was
about to pass, and while he stood look
Ing at 1t the pawn man came out and
offered him a bargain that he couldn't
resist. 1t was the veritable cornet that
king of France was playing on when
the Revolutionists called to say that
he must part with his head to show that
he had no hard feelings against the
common people. 1t would just fit Mr..
Bowser. He had the wind for it, He
could lie back in his Morris chair and
blow and blow and blow, and feel ten
times the satisfaction of beating Mrs.
Bowser at euchre. The instrument was
purchased.