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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08

NEWfUdH6 3 last 60GA n 1idAN@is
BY the death OF Father Ryder at the
Birmingham (Eng.) Oratory the last
left Of the group Of friends to whom
Cardinal Newman dedicated the "Apol-
ogia" has passed away. Henry Ig.
natius Dudley Ryder ends the list Of
those dearest brothers" who had,
Newman avowed, been so sensitive
Of my needs, so indulgent to my fail
ings, so cheerful under discouragements
Of my causing" The whole passage
covers a page and ELECTED from George
Eliot marginal note as interesting
as itself: Il hardly know anything
that delights me more,v she wrote,
than such evidence Of sweet. broth
erIy love being reality in the world
Father Ryder was a grandson of the
well-lmown Anglican bishop Of Lich
field OF mis- name. and was easily the
handsomest man in the ranks Of the
Roman clergy.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08

The stranger wandered into the po-
lice station.
'T IKE to see effort rewarded" he
began.
Well"
Last night / was robbed he con.
tinued, ''and the fellow who did It
manifested scrupulous desire to get
all | had. / find he overlooked this
two.dollar bill. If you run across him.
give 1t to him with my compliments.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08

Washington.--Afticles that have ac-
cumuIated in the dead letter Office,
numbering 1855, were put on sale at
auction by the United States govern
ment the other day. The principal
mems articles we're cigars and sus-
penders. but there were also vests,
rubber shoes and pipes. There we're
women's hose Ind the things that
hold them; gloves. handkerchiefs. rib
bons and articles which may be
elassec as lingerie.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08
SHIPS MESSAGE INTERRUPTED
BY BURSTS OF BAND MUSIC.
Incident on Battle ship Ohio Causes
CONSERVATION Among Operators
and Mystlfies Telegraph Ex.
perts ef the Service.

Washington. The many vagaries Of
the wireless systems Of telegraphy
end telephony which are now installed
on the vessels Of the navy are subject
70 constant study BY the electrical
experts who have charge OF the plants
They are OF especial interest now be-
cause Of the important part that wire
less communication will play in the
present trip Of the warship feet to the
Pacific.
During the recent assembling Of the
feet IL Cape Cod bay one Of the opera
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08
HoteI chaperonea eosham,s 80.

EIVN9I HHFIeI VTII9 N1EII5TTI L1IE|T-
New York.-Hotel chaperones is the
latest idea In New York. There are
many young women who would ike 70
visit the city, but viii not do SO alone.
At least one big hotel has decided to
furnish chaperones to women who
come to New York alone or to women
who come here with their husbands.
who are too busy to take care 0a
them. The women SO employed win
not only be chaperones. but win be-
competent guides to the shopping dis.
trict.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08

There Is a cunning which we in Eng.
land call The turning Of the cat in the
PAM" which is, when that which q
man says to another, he lays 1t as II
another had said It to him.-Francis
Bacon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08
GIRL RUNS THIS FUNERAL.
Child Of Twelve Brooks No Inssrfer.
enes with Mothers obsequlss.

New York.-A girl Of u, ordering
affairs Of life and death and assuming
responsibility with determination
which would make the average person
Of more than twice her years pause,
has given the residents Of Vineland,
n. j., much occasion Tor thought and
wonderment these last few days.
The child IL Gladys Holman whose
mother Madeline Hoffman, committed
suicide at Vlneiand by drinking poi.
son. Since her mothers death the
girl has insisted successfully In hav-
ing absolute charge Of everything con.
nected with her parents funeral and
estate.
When the woman's body was pre-.
pared for burial the child stipulated
that the body must rest in a white
satin-lined CONN. When her aunt, Mrs.
Sarah Fry, would have lnterfered,
Gladys not only brushed her aside.
but prohibited her from attending the
funeral.
A brother OF Mrs. Hoffman appeared
IN vineland and sought to take
charge Of Mrs. Hoifmans affairs. lie
was brought up BY his niece with a
round turn. When he objected the
child was sustained by Or. George
Cunningham Of vineland who tried to
save Mrs. Hoffman's life and who
had been friend OF the woman and
child,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-08

Teacher--If you are kind and polite
to your playmates, what win be the
result7
Scholar-They'll think they can lick
mel-Stray Stories
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lIn to Date Fable.

An inquisitive stork one day poked
his head through crack in the fence
surrounding a pigpen. The pigs were
alarmed at the unusual sight and knew
not what to do until one wise porker
suggested that they try to appease the
wrath of the supposed monster by the
use Of fattery
ooh, see what handsome creature!
squealed one pig. THAT must be a
member of nobility. See how high he
holds his head and watch the beauti-
full curves of his legs"
"And what look Of wisdom!" said
another. "Hark! You can even hear
his mental machinery working, creak
and throb. will bet the ring Of my
tail that he is poet"
Other pigs spoke of the transcendent
beauty Of the stork, while many re-
ferred to his evident erudition, and the
stork listened and was pleased. So
pleased, in fact, was he that his head
swelled enormously and could not be
pulled back again through the crack
in the fence. Then the pigs, realizing
his difficulty, dined on stork a la mode.
Moral.-Always regard fattery as
the compliment OF sharpery. 'p>
.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
THE BIRD CLOWN.
A Queer Kind of Fellow Is the Yellow
Breasted Chat.

breasted Ondbs
The oddities Of the yellow breasted
chat begin even with his classification
To think of q warbler the size OF
Baltimore oriole, warbler with a
song like a. hooking bird! Indeed,
there is little about the chat that is
not remarkable. He goes in for the
weird and the spectacular. If Nature
designed MIN to show what she could
do in the way of the unusual and the
eccentric. she had remarkable success
This bird and not the catbird Is the
real CLOWN of the woods" Clown OF
the thicket would be more apt, for, like
the catbird, he prefers the shrub and
lower trees. A wild tangle Of brier'
and vines Is a favorite haunt. 1t Is
only the better to survey such a re
treat that he mounts to the top OF
tree. From his lofty perch he sings
to the amazement and bewilderment
of the person that hears the song fol
the first time. More likely than no
he will become invisible and silent
upon the first attempt to approach
him. remaining quiet and hidden til
you move on again; then he chuckle'
loudly and scolds and spits and SCOTS
till you are out Of sight and hearing.
No bird Is so fearful Of being seel
or such a master Of hide and seek. i
IS worse than useless to try to steal
march on him. He manages to be al
ways on the wrong side Of the mex
bush. If you should find his nest
which is a pretty little basket Of straw
and weed stalks lined with fine grasses
and strips of soft bark or leaves PLACED
q foot or more above the ground among
| tall weeds or bushes, the sitting birt
steals away and Is at once lost t.
sight. Take a peep at the white, re-
speckled eggs and then hide among
| the bushes as far away from the mes
as you can while still keeping it II
sight. You may have to wait for a
hour and even make other trips to tn
! spot but this is the surest way to ge
q good look at this shy One.-St Mich
olas.
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A HUMAN MACHINE.
He Was Able to Correct Language
He Did Not Understand.

He was Ado 10 OOii wv - 49, -
He Did Not Understand.
When Max Muller was preparing MS
edition of the Rigveda he had, so the
story goes, an illustration of the In
stinctive wisdom Of the composltor'
In providing the manuscript for about
5000 sheets Of print the author nat
urally tripped from time to Time
Whenever he did trip, there on MS
proof was the error queried in a care
full hand. Surely, he thought, some
unknown scholar in the university
must be overlooking his proofs with
kindly interest and making the correc-
tions for him. Inquiry showed tnat
this was not the fact. The corrections
were the corrections Of the man VINO
set I'M the type. Did this man, then,
know Sanskrit?" Muller asked. NOT
hit of It.. Use and wont enabled him
TO detect the errors as hungry chlld
scents q cooking dinner. The discoV
erv originated through his arm rather
than from any intellectual doubt, ana
that arm was palsied!
This printer had sustained an acci
dent leaving him with an arm partly
paralyzed. and as this made him slow
err with his setting his masters turned
him on to Sanskrlt with which he haC
had no previous acquaintance. lie had
TO learn upward Of 800 types FOR the
work but he learned them and accus
toned himself to the work. Now
many of the letters In Sanskrit cannon
follow each other or, If they do, mus
he modified. In writing Muller some
times forgot these notifications, bu
they were all marked on the PROOF
Muller was so interested that he sough
out the printer to ask him how NJ
was able to correct a language whicl
he did not understand. The explana
ton was remarkable: "You see, sir
nv arm gets into regular swlni
from one compartment Of types Il
another, and there are movements tina
never occur. So If l suddenly have t
take up types which entail new
movement l feel it and put a query.
! What a dogs life the "nu spelling" o
Artemus Wards, which Is the sam
thing. would have caused that marvel
GUS human machinei-St. James Ga
Zette
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
WOMEN CIGARETTE SMOKERS.

Why shouldn't women smoke olga
rettes If they choose? Cigarettes are
not particularly harmful except TO
young persons. After one has arrived
at the age of twenty-five years there
is no reason why one should be denieu
the comfort Of tobacco"
Thus declares a society woman OF
New York who Is st'Ang crusade IN
favor of women cigarette smokers.
Well
ut is all a matter of TASTE" as the
old woman said when she kissed her
COW.
II depends on the point of view.
Smoking is regarded by most persons
as an unlady-like habit, but the habit
is not everywhere regarded as ungen-
tlemanly-like, so that custom has much
TO do with opinion in the matter
However,
The average American does not ike
TO see n woman smoke. SO that she
who has regard for the good opinion
of the average man Will not indulge III
the habit. AS for the womans right
TO indulge, who will contest itf
Customs change.
In the days of our grandmotherS II
was customary for women, especially
elderly women, to use tobacco freely
Some of us We're commissioned in those
DAYS to fill "granny's pipe from the
Goals of the ancient fireplace. And
some of us first learned to smoke IL
that way. Earlier in the history OF
the country the grande danes OF th'
old time drawing rooms were famous
snuff takers.
Now the smoking habit appears TO DE-
coming back. If you will so into al
most any high class" restaurant II
the large cities you will note tina
many women smoke cigarettes at table
In Europe the practice is becoming
quite general among society people.
The sensibilities of the old fashioned
Derson are greatly shocked when hi
first observes women smoking IN pup
lie And he shrinks from the though
of his wife or daughter doing such
thing.
Indeed, one feels as if he could al
most denounce these people because o
what he feels to be a useless, hlth!
innovation.
But
If men expect women to give up tn
smoking custom they must themselve
set the example The man who smoke
cannot logically deny the right to
woman. Every reason alleged agains
tho feminine use of tobacco hold
against the masculine use.
Is it not so?
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
1T IS THE RUST.

The idle machine is liable to injury
no less than the machine that Is ID
active use.
The idle machine grows rusty.
Air and dampness do damage no less
than wear and tear. Very soon the
coating formed by the corrosion covers
the bright metal. The parts become
STIFF The machine mas suffered injury
though it has been subjected to no
usage.
What is true Of the machine is true
of humanity.
For instance
You neglect to exercise the working
parts of youEsbody. You indulge them
in idleness. They cease to be strength
ened by use. They grow fabby. Inc
working force is lessened. Neglect OF
continued exercise Of the parts causes
the entire machine of your body to run
stif1y. 1t Is the rust.
Or
You neglect to exercise the working
parts of your brain machinery. Men
tai corrosiOn follows. The rust of idle
ness covers the parts. There is only
one way to keep your mind bright. 1t
is the way to keep the machine bright
the way Of use, Of employment, OF
exercise.
Or
. You neglect to use the moral force
that is in Won. There is q weakening
somewhere. The moral machine be-
gins to let down. Moral corros1on
comes. Soon the parts are rusted.
And so Of society or government
associated humanity.
Note this;
Neglect Of his citizenship by the citi-
zen weakens the working forces OF
government. When the caucus or the
| primary or the convention or the bal
ct box. each a working part Of govern
ment is regarded as of small impor-
lance the rust collects. Disuse causes
the machinery to work poorly. 1t
breaks down at some point. 1t is the
rust
And so of the moral fxrces Of society
-disuse of them brings the rust.
Let US therefore keep our bodies
from friction by systematic exercise.
Our minds bright by using them.
Our souls clean by working them.
And, as for society, let us help to keep
its working machinery bright and free
from the rust that corrodes and de-
stroys.
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GOOD FOR YOUR BLUES"

When you begin to Il ink you have
hard time In life
Just then is good time to compare
your condition with that Of some VINO
have q harder time than you, more
sorrows than you, less prosperity than
you.
Should you happen to be in the sort
of mood described read q touching
passage in the life history of a poor
Milwaukee woman-read it anyway
this from "the short and simple an
nails Of the poor"
Mrs. Mary Wiedig, widow, lost her
only child, o little girl. She had no
money to give the child decent sep
ulcher. She went to the poor commits
sioner. And this is the sequel:
Mrs. Wiedig staggered up the path ID
the cemetery which led to the plot OF
ground where her husband was buried
bearing the little coffin which held the
body of her little one. She took
spade she had put there the day before
and began to dig. Poor woman! She
was digging the grave OF ner only cnlld
the last tie that held her to earth.
And as she worked she sObbed and
cried. She called on the dead man
under the ground to help her bear her
sorrow till she could come to him.
One who passed through the GENE
terry heard the crying and went to the
SPOT where the frail woman bent to
her awful task.
She explained why she was digging
the grave herself. She had no money
to pay the sexton. 'They would have
buried her for me for nothing If l had
let them put her grave over there In
the potter's field. But she was sucn
little child, SO little, and sometimes
when / was obliged to leave her alone
she was afraid Of the dark. l wanted
her to lie by her fathers side so she
would not be afraid. l told the poor
commissioner how 1 felt, and he gave
me this coffin. The woman who lives
next door from me is coming out mex
Sunday to plant some vines"
And the agonized mother talked on
half wild with her grief and scarce
knowing what she said, calling tender
ly the name now of husband, now Of
child.
The man had heart. He hurried t
the sexton and gave him money to dig
the child's grave and money to rounc
the little mound and plant some simple
flowers. And the woman cried, but this
time the tears were sweet instead O
bitter.
This story is not from the pages o.
BalZac.
Neither is it fancy sketch.
1t is printed in a reliable newspaper
which gives full particulars concerning
the woman's home and history.
Compare your disappointment anC
troubles and sorrows and heartache'
with those Of this miserable one.
You have not passed through hades
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orchestra, pant a picture write "
book. run locomotive, make the plans
for a house or build one, till farm'
manage q store. plead a cause diag'
nose q case?
The world, like Diogenes OF old, mas
IFS lantern out always looking TOT
MAN. 1t will pay his price II ne Is
the right man. he can have what ne
wants If he can do the job.
Add value to yourself!
And there is only one way by Whicl
YOU can do that. 1t is the old way the
hard way of labor, strife, toll, concen
tration.
The men here mentioned, you say
were born to their tasks. POSSIBLY
But one thing is certain-they maze
hands, eyes, ears, valuable by cease
less conscientious labors.
You cannot make yourself a Vaiua
BILE asset by the rubbing Of an Aiao
din's lamp.
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To YOUNG MEN.

Jan Kubelik, the viOlinist, has insur-
ed his left hand for $2500O0.
His left hand Is worth that much to
him, and more. Were he to lose that
left hand or to suffer permanent dis
ability by accident or disease there
would be an end to his violin playing.
You see. the violinistVgets his tones
by the use Of the fingers of his left
hand. 1t is not his right hand which
makes the fourishes with the bow that
does the business. 1t is the trained
fingers of the left hand which carry
the violinist's intellect and feeling to
the very tips. These sensitive fingers
know to a hairs breadth just where to
place themselves to give out the subtle
shades Of meaning and sentiment
Kubelik's fingers are educated fin
gers.
That is why they are worth $4,000
apiece.
Just so Theodore Thomas might have
insured his ears for large sum, the
marvelously sensitive drums Of those
ears detecting instantly the slightest
discord in bis great orchestra.
And so Burne-Jo Jones could well afford
to insure his eyes. Without them he
could not paint a vampire" Those
eyes take in subjective beauty and
charm and make them objective.
Those eyes are better educated and
therefore more valuable eyes than or
binary eyes.
Young man
The world is asking Of every young
man today not 50 much what do you
know" as WHAT CAN YOU Dor
Can you do some one thing better than
your fellows--play a violin, conduct an
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
Heart to- Heart
Talks.
NJ. rnWIN A. NYE.
BECAUSE
BY EDWIN A. NYB.
Copyright, 1893. by Edwin A. Nye.


Don't gamble, young man.
Because
Every game should be played for the
sake of the game. Real sport should
not be lowered to the plane of betting
Clean sport demands that the game
should be played for the love Of the
game itself and not for the money
there is in 1t. Do not spoil good sport
by bad practice.
Because
It is cheap and mean way to make
a nasty dollar. Each time you win
the other fellow loses. You get his
money for nothing How do you know
he can afford to lose? The loss may
make him commit a crime. Where
does that leave you? Be a man. Pay
your way. Earn your own. Don't try
to beat your way.
Because
Gambling will lead you away from
good company into bad. Gamblers dc
not belong to good society. They and
their kind herd together. If you herd
with them you must get down TO theli
level. Yor can't keep clean and live II
the mud.
Because
1t will unfit you for business. The
fellow who sits up half the night &c
play poker is in poor shape to solve
business problems the next day. he
who keeps his eye on the Rce tracf
or the board Of trade quotations mus
take his eye off his business. And he
who neglects business is unreliable
BE cannot serve two masters.
Because
The fever of gambling will soon &c
into your blood and vitiate your life
Instead of giving every man a square
deal you will come to look for the ad
vantage you may take of every man
And shortly you will come to the piac
where the fine flush to honest endeayo
and the fine edge to honor will disap
pear.
And because
And this perhaps is the last thin
that will restrain you-so we put ]
last-because 1t is wrong.
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He WAS COLOR BLIND.

New York man named Black COM
mitted suicide the other day and took
the trouble to tell the world his rea-
sons.
Somehow the average suicide seems
to feel In an indistinct kind OF way
that his rash action requires some sort
Of justification.
Black left a note In which he says
he found no beauty in life, nothing but
hypocrisy, deceit and selfshness."
An honest wall, doubtless, but
A little introspection might have
tuaght him that the lack was not in the
world, but In himself. There is plenty
--.,--s
Of truth and sincerity and self sacri
fee in the world, but he could not
zee 1t.
Why?
Because he saw only what every
man must sea reflection Of himself.
he who is drunken can see only @
drunken world. He who Is a pessi
mist sees gloom. He who is dishonest
considers all men dishonest.
Every man is a microcosm-a NINA
ture world.
II this man had looked into the
world of himself he would have there
discovered a share of the hypocrisy
deceit and selfshness" he complained
Of In others.
II he found no beauty in the world
Il was because there was no beauty ir
his life, else the beauty In his life
would have found fit companionshiI
with the beauty that is everywhere.
And contrariwise-
One Is asslmilated into the likeness
of those things that he loves and ad
mires. If this man had really loyeC
and admired beauty and truth anC
goodness he would have been changed
into. the likeness Of beautZ and truti
.--cs-<9uuunu-xx
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And the Minister Smiled.

A certain minister recently called
upon one of the families in his parish.
He assembled the steps and knocked
at the door. Receiving no response, he
was about to depart when he heard a
window in the next house open and a
woman's voice say, Mrs. Smith, the
minister's at your door,"
What was the pastors surprise and
amusement when he caught Mrs
Smiths response waited gently around
the corner of the house, Ssh, dontyou
s'pose l know IT."
The next Sunday after service Mrs
Smith met her pastor and expressed
her sorrow that she was away when
be had called.
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and goodness. That is the Inevitable
law of assimilation.
That is the trouble with the average
critic and reformer. He fails to criti-
else himself. He neglects to reform
himself.
If Diogenes, instead Of going about
the streets of Athens with a lighted
lantern looking in vain for an honest
man. had held the lantern to the re-
cesses of his own heart he might have
discovered a lack as great.
Poor suicidel He was color blind and
could not see the beauty that was all
about him.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
PuIIinu That Hair.

"What makes me really mad" said
the woman. sis to spend minutes, may
be hours, trying to get hold of a white
hair which shows up on my head ike a
dazzling light, yet which is tantalizing
" elusive when l try to catch it, and
then when l do finally separate 1t from
the brown hair and give 1t a yigor
GUS pull to find that l have snatchec
out a good brown hair, after all, anC
left the white one still shining. "-NeN
York Press.
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Triumph Of Mind.

Victim Of Delusion-Doctor, I'm aw-
fully afraid I'm going to have brain
fever. Doctor-Pooh, pooh, my dear
friend! That is all an Illusion Of the
senses. There Is no such thing as
fever. You have no fever; you have
no br-hm-no material substance upon
which such a wholly imaginary and
supposititious thing as a fever could
find any base Of operation. Victim
Oh, doctor, what load you have tax
en- from my-from MY have mind
haven't l, doctor ?-Chicago Tribune.