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Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-20
Identified.

"Your man." said the promoter of
feast, lis has BEEN"
and yours retorted the whipper-
in for the rival show, lis a never
was"
Thus, by chance bit of repartee,
was the identity of the stellar at
fractions made clear enough.
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-20
BETTER FOR BOYS TO START AT
THE FOOT.
wealthy Man Troubled for Future OF
HIS Sons Because They Have
No Need to Rely on
Themselves.


now said man who has made him
self rich and is fast getting richer.
Its wondering what is going to be.
come of my boys
i have four sons, all young, and all
wholesome, natural youngsters, but if
l keep on making money the way I'm
DONG now | don't know what's going
to happen to them when they grow up
Iheres nothing like being born poor
to give man a real start in life. with
his feet firmly planted on the ground
where they ought to be, and he learn.
ing to rely on himself.
L was born that way and I've al
ways been grateful for it. If 1 had
been born rich / think | should have
been more or less of no account. I
had to get out and hustle and work to
get along, and the habit of work has
never left me since, as 1 hope it never
will.
But how is it going to be about my
boys? They may come to think that
they don't have to work, which would
be the ruination Of them, or would at
least put them out of the running with
self-reliant, able men,
I'm sending them to public school,
of course, and there they learn a heap
OF thing besides what they get out OF
their books. They learn for one very
valuable lesson that there are other
people In the world besides themselves
and that there may be plenty of PEG.
pie smarter than they are, and that
they've got to work if they expect to
keep their end up.
Boys are democrats. You can't put
on any Jugs or airs if you expect to
get along with the boys in a public
school,; if you want friends you've got
to be friendly. A good all around start
in life it is for boys to go to a public
school, and l hope my boys will profit
by it.
But | suppose in time they'll go to
private school, and then if they want
to they'll go to college, and there, what
with their money, unless they should
turn out to be very hardheaded young
men, they will come to train with
other young men with money, and so
get separated from the bulk OF their
fellow students and begin to live sort
of by themselves; and l can't imagine
anything happening to a young man
worse than that, his getting away from
the mass of his fellow men.
my boys have never known what it
is to be poor They have always had
what they wanted, and unless | should
fail or bust up or something, which !
don't expect to do, l don't see why
they shouldn't always have things, be.
cause as long as 1 had anything
should be sure to keep them. That's
human nature.
And, you see, there's the trouble.
They've got somebody to lean on, and
a man that doesn't have to isn't apt to
put out his own strength. The only
way in which a man can ever amount
to anything is by work, hard work.
''The man that doesn't work dwin-
dies and comes to be of no account.
And | do hope my boys will want to
work | don't care what they do if
they'll only work at it, and work hard
and faithfully. / think they're handi-
capped as it is; honest Injun, / think
it would have been better for them to
have been born poor, but hope they'll
turn out to be men,"
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-20

According to the British postmaster
general the post Office experiments in
typewriting kilograms have mot been
altogether satisfactory" The London
Globe conjectures that the telegraph
department wants something slower"
Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-06-20
out of the Question.

-. Knicker-"Do you forsweai
",' turing Lent?" Mrs. Booker
pea no; James has to have good
'oia or wouldn't get the money
-. w., nv Easter clothes"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

highway between Hinckley and Nun
eaton towns, leaves Tamworth on its
right, and after once more almost
losing itself near LIchfeld bIazons
wide again over Cannock Chase and
finishes up as one Of the finest roads
in the kingdom all the way to the
pious city Of Shrewsbury,
1T is easy to understand why it's
glory departed before the advent Of
motors-at Weldon From Towcester
to Shrewsbury there IS hardly a town
or village Of importance on its route.
while the Birmingham road is herring.
boned with populous towns. And so
as there was no use in running empty
coaches along deserted roads they
went the other way. and as distances
were too great for local trafiic to keep
it going as a highway. it fell into dis.
repair. and served only as q place for
a glorious gailop over the grass.
There are plenty OF other Roman
roads. used IN places and then dying
away into lanes and paths and even
private drives. have bumped along
them going to shoot partridges Ia
cambridgeshire, pushed my way along
them for grassy miles on the top Of
the Mendips. met them in Sussex, on
Salisbury plain, and there is hardly a
road out Of any town ending ID 'cester
that does not start on the foundation
OF these proud legacies Of Caesars
legions.
Il do not pretend that every Roman
road leads from where one is to where
one wants to go, but, beginning with
Waiting Street, and going on with the
great Fosse Way and the Pilgrim S
road, new avenues for speed without
disaster could be opened the narrow
suburbs of provincial towns could Be
freed greatly from through motor
trafic, new districts could be toured.
and in the remaking of these arteries,
the unemployed could be far more
usefully employed than in planting
eabbages and selling picture postcards
Of their sleeping quarters. Most mo-
toaists would not gramble Al q revival
Of the old turnpike system on these
roads If certain privileges as to free
dom from ridiculous police traps and
such like absurdItlea as are practicea
on them were givens but for nonmotor
lists the chief advantage gained would
be in the availableness once more Of the
ordinary roads for the purpose they
have been used for during the pasl
century Of providing playground fol
children, which latter reason is, O.
course, writ sarKastick.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
SEEKS PIRATE GOLD

treasure lies, 80 feet below. buried in
quicksand.
As the story goes. the pirate Ia.
trobe on the night before his execu-
ton at Kingston. Jamaica. placed IN
the hands Of a boy who had been
forced into service on his ship a pack.
ct Of papers. and these it seems he
kept until as an old man he died on
board a ship in the Pacific ocean Into
the hands Of a young DR. Davidson,
who attended him in his last illness.
this old sailor placed the packet Of
papers Thirty years afterward. in
1883. DR.. Davidson fitted out an ex-
pedItion and visited the spot where
the gold is supposed TO be buried. but
It was found that the quicksands
bafFied their efforts and Dr. Davidson
and his crew we're forced to return
home empty handed
Eight years elapsed. Cornelius
Healy had been with the expedition,
and he tried to get up another one in
1906. but he couldn't raise the money.
And 50 nothing was done until W II.
Small. a Lancashire man who has
spent most OF his life In the United
States. got hold Of the packet.
He wasn't well-to-do, but he man.
aged to get enough together to buy
the 45-foot yawl Catherine two years
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

NOVEL METHOD or SUPPORTING
TEMPORARY TRACK.
Inventive Engineers Found New Way
of Making q FIN Across Marsh
Expense Saved By the
Operation.

An interesting use Of galloway
to support a temporary track used in
making a fill across a marsh IS de-
scribed in Engineering News New
York, October 10y. The writer notes
that although the suspended galloway
with travelling bucket is a standard
method Of making long, inaccessible
railway fills, a galloway has rarely
been used as the framework on which
to lay track for the carrying Of
dump cars. The railroad on which
this method was used In two places
is the Lake Shore & Pittsburg rail-
road, now under construction from
Cleveland to Pittsburg. We read:
Although the same general princi-
pie was utilized in each one Of these
examples, the local conditions we're
different and the details Of construc-
tion were independently solved. The
first was made over a deep marsh Of
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
CREATURE or AFRICAN JuNeLEs
SNAPPED BY CAMERA.
so- First Time in History This bare
Animal Has Been Seen Alive
by a White Man and Ills
Picture Taken.


That interesting creature, the okapi.
allied to the giraffe, and discovered
BY Sir Harry Johnston on the eastern
border Of the Congo forest (near the
semhki river. which joins the Albert
Nyanza and the Albert Edward lake,
had never been observed ard studied
by white man In its living state until
five months ago-when a young calf
okapi about a month old was obtained
by signor Ribotti at Bambilli, On the
Eveile river (about 400 miles north
west Of the original locality.
The skins and bones OF the opaki
which have been sent 10 England have
Invariably been obtained by travellers
from the natives. No sportsman or
naturalist has shot an okapi or even
seen one alive, The half-breed servant
Of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander saw and
tracked for two days with natives an
okapi on the Eyelle river near the
spot from which the photograph from
which our picture was made comes,
The natives dug pit trap for it and
+, speared It, Boyd Alexander did NOT
see it until 1t was dead. The timidity
Of the okapi, its rarity, and the re-
moteness of the Congo forest, the
fringes Of which It inhabits, are the
reasons why white men have hitherto
not seen the okapi alive.
Special interest therefore attaches
to signor Ribottrs photograph. This
young calf was brought In by natives
to the stockaded and well-provided set
tlement at Bambilli last April. It wal
about a month old, and between twC
and three feet high. After living few
weeks in captivity 1t died, but 1t Il
not at all improbable that live speci
men will before long be successful.
managed, and make Its appearance Il
some Of the ZOOS Of our large cities
The difficulty will be to find vegetable
food which will suit the peculiar tast
Of this forestdwelling ruminant, wit
It's small, delicate front teeth. suite
only to cropping young and soft veg'
tation.
There is no doubt that the Pygmie
Of the Ituri forest use the name Z
'Okapi" for this animal. u have show
the photo Of the okapi and also band
of the striped skin and the stuffe
specimens in the Natural History mi
scum to the little people from tn
Congo brought to London by Colon'
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
One Dollar for Every foot.

Some years ago woman was re-
turning late at night from a social
function took to the tracks Of the Ola
Colony railroad as the shortest way
home. and In crossing a trestle above
a country road made a misstep, fell
through the timbers and broke her
neck, relates the Boston Globe.
The next day her husband called
upon the superintendent and stated
that he thought he was entitled to
some compensation for the loss of his
wife, as she was hard worker and
assisted materially In meeting the do
mestic expenses.
she was trespassing," replied the
superintendent, which relieves the
company from all responsibility"
q know it, said the man, but she
was a good woman about the house,
and I hardly know what am going to
do without her"
We'll, upon what basis win you
settler"
she fell how many feet?~
about IL, / should say"
do you think dollar a foot Is toe
much?"
The superintendent nearly fell from
his seat, but upon recovering he paid
the man $12, which he charged to his
own account, as he felt that the ex
perience was well worth the price.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
Annranllca sohnnla.

The system Of apprentice schools
Of the New York Central lines is con
sldered by railroad men to be the
most important departure ever insti
tuted by the motive power department
Of any railroad system in the United
States. It win not only improve labor
conditions and add efficiency to me
chanics, craftsmen, master mechanics
and oficiaIa Of the operating depart
ment, but It Is expected to solve the
vexing question Of strikes. It has
been found, too. that since tn,
schools were established there hai
been much less spoiled work IN th,
shops and the men take greater care
There are now nine schools on thl
system, $50 apprentices being snrolle,
as pupils.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
HOW AND WHERE THIS INDUSTRY
IS CARRIED OH.
Provides Employment Tor Many Of sbs
Women and Children Of the
Sunny Land-From Co.
coon 70 Fabric.

How many ladies' think Of the Won
derful Transformation through which
the golden thread, the precious prod
uct Of the laborious silkworm, must
go before the woven material reaches
their hands? Yet to study the manu-
facture Of silk. step by step, IN every
phase, from the cocoon state until the
silk Is made into skeins ready for the
weaver Is both interesting and In
structiye Italy stands first IN Europe
IN the silk spinning manufacture; then
come France, Germany, Austria and
Spain. Hungary has only lately taken
10 the rearing Of the silkworm. Eng
land cannot do 1t on account Of her
cold climate. The greatest part Of the
silk produced IN italy comes from the
Lombard and Venetian regions; but
Piedmont produces a quality Of silk
superior to any other.
Those who have never visited an
Italian spiIningmill can have no ade
Quate idea Of the lives led by the
many women (of from u to so years
Of age) employed. Few Of us think
Of the obscure existence Of these wom
en- when the wonderful products ol
their work are before us. Most Of the
Eplnning-mllls in Italy are in villages
or small towns, and the workers ar,
generally girls from the same place
or from the neighboring villages
These poor girls earn from 50 cen
times to a frame a day at most; they
walk for miles to reach the mill EARL
in the morning, and go home at dusk
On their way they sing popular songs
However scanty the wages may be
some peasants are so poor that the,
are glad to earn them. working L
hours day. in excessively heated
rooms, in which even IN winter thl
heat is oppressive.
The eocoons. when first sent to tn
spinningmill. are spread over a tabl
TO be selected. From the bright yellow
cocoons a very fine quality comes, AM
from the faulty ones, Of course, al
inferior quality. When the choice /
made. the cocoons are washed IN no
water. and are left IN 1t for some tim
10 get cooked After the washin
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

A good story about James ]. Hill
was told to group Of his friends by
Norman w. Kittson, a man who was
years ahead Of Hill in the Red River
country, and who, to use his own ex-
preston, packed my kit from La
Cross to Winnipeg and back" This
was distance Of about 500 miles, and
Kittson went on foot and traded in
furs all along the route with the In
dians. He was another wonderful man
Of the early west. Kittson became
rich, as riches went, when Hill was a
clerk in a steamboat Office in st. Paul.
When Hill began his great career by
buying q railroad and extending It
norghward, he interested Kittson in
his enterprises. Hill needed credit,
and Kittson allowed him to use his
name.
Il knew" said Kittson, that ! had
indorsed more paper than was
worth; but l had confidence in him
most Of the time. Then I got scared
and felt that everything was gone, and
that it didn't make any difference. and
signed anything that Hill brought.
It is almost unnecessary to say that
the smash never came; that Hill used
Kittson's name with good effect In the
east, where he was reputed much
wealthier man than he really was; and
also that Kittson had a great deal
more when he closed up with Hill
than when they first began business
together.-The Sunday Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

President Haiahan Of the Illinois
Central at q dinner In New York com
pared foreign with home railroads.
and another thing he said, aonr
railway servants are more courteous
than foreign ones Foreign porters and
ticket sellers are very crusty lot.
AN American and q Briton were
once riding up 10 London IN a first.
class carriage. The American, at a
certain station. leaned out and said
to the porter on the platform:
What station Is this, brotherg
Birmingham, Of course, said the
porter in a surly tone. Can't yon see
the name posted up?
The American, after drawing In
his head. Raid to the Englishman:
Now that was a piece Of dis
courtesy you wouldn't meet with In
America. An American porter would
have answered me with polished po-
liteness.
The Englishman smiled.
"'Ah, but 1t was your own fault,
that rebuff, be said. Pardon me for
mentioning it, but your manner was
too bluff, too rough-and-ready. The por-
ter took you for a--er-a bounder.
Now, at the next station / will myself
ask porter some question, and I'll
ask It In the gracious. condescending
way we do such things over here.
warrant you I'll receive the most cour
teous Of answers.
All right, said the American
shortly, a little hurt at having been
mistaken for a bounder
Well, at the next station, the car
riage drew up near porter, and the
Englishman-he was a typical, rotund
rosy old John Bull-put his head oui
Of the window, showed all his false
teeth in a glittering smile, and purredi
Porter would you kindly tell m'
the name Of this gtation?'
THE porter glanced up, and then, a
he slouched of, called back over hi
shoulder:
All, shut tina trap, tina bacon-facel
old buffer! Put tina daft fat head ii
before / knock it off for thee.'"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

TO And at the end Of his long
cruise to the coast OF Hondurasg He
expects It will be the latter and is
hopeful OF loading his little vessel
down with the s6,O0O,000 and sailing
back home to enjoy his easily gotten
wealth. Bill Small Is master. mate
and owner Of the likely yawl Gather.
Inc. moored at foot Of Twenty-thir0
street. South Brooklyn. It won't be the
fault Of his seamanship, skill, persist
ence or pluck II he doesn't finally
come upon the s6.o00.00O in Spanish
gold buried a century ago by "Black.
beard Latrobe. on q tiny, uninhab.
tied island of the coast Of Honduras.
It has taken him eight years to get
the ship and the money to make the
try, and now he's ready. If he sue
ceeds. 1t will be where others have
failed. Many have already tried for
the treasure buried BY that thrcatcut
ting. ship-sinking buccaneer, Latrobe
once the terror Of the seas, until jus
tlce put a rope around his neck and
swung him on into eternity.
Think OF @6.0OO,O0O II Spanish
doubloons, jewels and solid gold ALTA
ornaments waiting for the man wh'
can find them
And Small, Of Lancashire, England
knows that spot. He says he has thu
longitude and latitude Of the island
ana a chart with the triangle Of ma
hoeany trees. These located, he cai
20 straight to the place where n
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

thread is treated. The thread Is wound
round a spinning wheel with a mano-
meter, which Is put into motion by a
handle. The skeins are at last twist
ed and thrown into baskets. After be-
ing carefully weighed they are sent to
the weaying-mills. All these operations
are for the finest silk, used only for
expensive materials. The coarser silk,
which is used to make cravats, shawls,
bed-coyers, and sometimes ladies'
blouses-b -blouses that IN appearance
are Of the finest quality. but are done
for after a fortnight's wear-is treat
ed somewhat differently. And what
becomes Of the industrious little worm,
the patient, untiring creature that for
many das's has worked hard to con-
struct its golden prison? Even after
death, after being cooked and re-
cooked In boiling water, the worm is
worth something; 1t makes an excel
lent manure for hemp and fax plan
tations.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

ago. she vas In pretty bad condition,
having been laid up FOR several years.
But Capt. Small got to work with his
own hands and finally he had her fit
to cross the Atlantic. He even at
tended the Liverpool Nautical college
to get further knowledge Of naviga-
ton. Work and study took all OF
eighteen months. Then he was ready
to start on his journey Of 7,1Se miles,
starting for the Honduras coast BY
way Of New York, in bis little yaWl,
with one man. Angus Horn, as crew.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

A Stretch Of the Roman Road Near
Haltwhistle, Northumberland.
that the best road builders were the
ancient Romans, who overran the isl.
and and constructed their highways to
all parts OF the island. Most Of these
roads have been lost and forgotten
because with the development Of the
centuries the country has grown away
from these ancient highways. But
with the coming Of the motor car the
need OF good straight roads has been
realized, and some thoughtful individ-
ual Of an investigating turn Of mind
has traced out these old and almost
forgotten roads and seriously proposes
that they be utilized as motor speed
ways
Some OF the old big maps Of Eng.
land show these roads and make Il
plain that England was covered with
3 veritable network Of straight Roman
highways. These roads fell into ais
repair anu ul1Noc WuEH lnC UHlilAuk "
new towns on the routes necessitated
the leaving Of them by their users tC
get to those places. Says a writer Fl
The Car: "The best known example
OF one of these roads is the greal
waiting Street. Every motorist t-wht
does not live eternally on the RIPLEY
road-knows how from London thil
road runs almost straight through st
Albans, Dunstable and Towcester til
It comes to a little place called Wee
don. And here. because most people
I suppose. wanted to go to Coventr.
or Birmingham or Warwick. the roal
now turns of to the left, and only
little lane. that comes perilously nea
to being q grassy one. keeps the direc
course the Romans arranged man.
centuries before.
But Il one perseYeres and follow
that lane to about six miles east 0
Rugby it turns into q road Of sort
again. and then, once more a rt
spectacle thoroughfare. IL becomes
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21

and cooking" the cocoons are put
ia ebatteuses7 for brushing. When
this operation Is accomplished, the
cocoons, with their silk threads form
Ing a kind Of skein, are placed in other
basins, and the weaving work begins.
AS in all the other operations, these
basins contain bot water, and there
is workwoman attending to each
one Of them After this last bath the
silk thread is completely detached
from the cocoon, and, accurately guild
ed by the workWoman. Is wound round
a spinning-wheel. forming a skein.
When the skeins are ready they are
taken into another room, where they
are carefully looked over and got
ready for weaving. Lastly the skeins
are taken into the room where the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-21
ssnsn cets BuIk o. Lumber Trade.

During 1906. 100000 feet Of Amer.
lean lumber was imported into New
chwang, the value being sSS,7S6 gold.
The total lumber imported amounted
ID II. .4e7 ,867 feet; value. 1902, 6s6 gold.
The bulk Of the trade during the year
was captured by the Japanese. who,
BY their great activity and neaFnesa
of supply, had things practically their
own way. Most Of the Japanese lunA
Der imported came from Korea