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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19
FOR SALE.

For Sale-On hand at Rock Island
freight house, one high-grade phaeton,
only slightly damaged, ordered spe-
cial and is a splendid vehicle. for sale.
Make an offer. George Firmin, Agent.
12-17-3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19

For Sale-Two new broom houses
on rs feet Of ground On West Penn
sylyania avenue, near north school.
Rent for $14 month A bargain If
taken at once. See J. L. Robinson.
12.lS.3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19

ABIGAIL:
Your mother used Cold Medal FTouv
You can't fnd better. Don't try. MARrHA.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19

Wanted-To buy a letter press. Ad-
dress Box 791, City. 12.17-St
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19
FOR RENT.

For Rent-Larre furnished room.
AT Iowa. 1O-2Stf
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-12-19
Mrnrrnrn,

WHIPPED:
Gold Medal Flour is best for pastry.
BRATRIcK
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
THE COMING SHORTAGE.

The American Lumberman states
that it is in receipt of many letters
from mill points North and South
which indicate that on the beginning
Of the grain movement there would
be very serious difficulty in securing
sufficient cars to handle the unusual
ly heavy lumber movement expected
during the Fall and Winter months"
To add 10 the demand for cars for
the grain movement, the latest re-
port OF the Car Efficiency Committee
of the American Railway Association
states that reports from all railway
shops in the country show that for
two weeks preceding August a the
number of cars in bad order had in
creased 81 per cent-in excess Of five
per cent per month.
The movement Of grain is a move
ment which cannot be avoided. 1t is
not only inevitable but an absolute
necessity. While the statement is in
the nature of a self evident PROPOSE
ton it is made for the purpose Of cal
ling attention to the fact that because
of lack Of railway transportation facil
ities-an admitted lack even by rail
way managers-not only is the abb
solutely necessary grain movement
retarded, but all other movements OF
articles Of trade and commerce are
equally impeded, with lumber move
ments especially retarded this year.
The importance Of that retardation
cannot be overestimated in this sea-
son when all building trade journals
show a remarkable increase in the
number Of building permits issued,
and in the value Of the buildings.
Recurring car shortages are bur
dens exceedingly oppressive. They are
the cause of enormous annual losses
to all sections, to all branches of trade
and commerce and they bear with
equal oppressiveness on builder, on
and mechanic Yet the
remedy is easily found. In the i'm
provement of the waterways Of the
United States on the plan advocated
by the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress, the remedy would be
found. The waterways of the coun-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
WEEKLY ASToRIAN.

handed in making the suggestion; but
in the light of things at this moment,
it believes that Astoria needs a gen
uine Disbursements administration,
without regard TO politics at any point
in the game; and it should be started
in a mass-convention Of citizens *ho
are unified upon non-partiSan,
wholesome, clean and acceptable pre-.
dicate of Astoria first; the Taxpayer
next; the politician last, or not at ALL,
The city has simply got TO look to
diminution OF its public obligations;
it has done nothing to mitigate them
nor wipe them out; policy that
may not be neglected too long; with
out involving extraordinary sacrifice
in the long-run; there must be a ces-
sation Of the ever-accumulating pub
lie costs and something done to con-
serve the burdens in existance. 1t
takes business men to do these things;
men unhampered by political debts
while dealing with finances and other
hard factors; officers without respon-
sibility save to the city as whole
and free to do their best for the COM
munity, unchecked by the desires or
plans of boss or friend or agent.
There should be no trouble at all
to name strong hrst-class, safe and
dependable ticket this winter OF men
trained to business and to whom pol
itical honors are cheap compared with
the real success and credit of duty
we'll and successfully done We
could name half hundred square
clean, capable, appreciated citizens
from whom to select corps of mu-.
nicipal officers for the new term, and
if we are ever in the humor, we'll do
It and stand pat afterward, too.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02

try are OF inestimable value--hut not
utilized as they would be il improved
upon the plan suggested, cmbodying
the work as part Of the fixed policy
of the government, upon definite
plans, with annual appropriations ad,
equate to the work, with the work
continuous and embracing a policy
but no special project.
There is no necessary hostility be-
tween rail and river Europe, with
its wise policy on the subject OF wa
terway improvement, finds the one
means OF transportation complement
ing and supplementing the other-the
river carrying the heavier articles, as
it would carry the lumber for the
American lumberman and avoid the
present prospective shortage--avoid,
ing congestions when the necessary
grain movement begins and inevtab.
" avoiding all other congestionS of
the railways which are, admittedly,
inadequate in their facilities for car.
rying the freight offerings Of the
country. The true remedy and the
enduring remedy for. freight conges.
tions is in the improvement OF the
waterways on the plan suggested by
the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
A Travelling Mans Experience.

Il must tell you my experience on
an east bound 0, R. & N. r. X. train
from Pendleton to lie Grande, Ore, :
writes Sam A. CARRIER, a we'll known
travelling man, II was in the smok,
ing department with some other trav-
cling men when one OF them went out
into the coach and came back and
said, There is a woman sick unto
death in the car at once got up
and went out, found her very i'll with
cramp collie, her hands and arms were
drawn up so you could not straight
en- them, and with 4 death-like look
on her face. Two or three ladies were
working with her and giving her
whiskey. ! went to my suitcase and
got my bottle OF Chamberlain's Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ct
never travel without it), ran to the
water-tank put double dose OF the
medicine in the glass. poured some
water into it and stirred it with a
pencil; then | had quite time 10 get
the ladies to let me give it to her, but
succeeded. l could at once see the
effect and | worked with her, rubbing
her hands, and in 20 minutes | gave
her another dose. By this time we
were almost into lie Grande, where |
was to leave the train. gave the
bottle to the husband to be used in
case another dose should be needed.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
SEA-WALL MANIPULATION.

AS a principle of municipal devel-
opment sea-wall here is alright, and
the Morning Astorian is an ardent
friend and exponent of the project,
first and last; but always, upon the
primal theory that the scheme is fra
med-up to meet every exigency OF
fault, failure, defeat, dere1iction and
mis-handling. We want no rash and
half-baked propositions merged into
a dictum that cannot be broached un-
der the appellate codes Of the State;
beyond record the righting Of error
or wrong, and immune from the in
tervention of some power to amend
it when the time for amendment
comes; we want no commissions die
tated by people at interest, to be vo-
ted upon willy nilly' and haphazard-
ly, nor are we going to have these
things if little fore-thought and time
ly warning can avert them.
In the first place, there has been al
together too much secrecy maintained
in the framing of this new PROPOSE
ton; press nor people have not had
proper access to, nor familiarity with,
the processes, reasons, arguments and
conclusions that have prevailed in the
making of this grave and significant
attempt at framing costly charter law;
the matter seems to have been dealt
with in hypothetical way altogether,
without engineering advice or ascer-
tainments, without surveys or sound
ings on the line of improvement, with
out reference to the establishment Of
fixed, formal and legitimate munich
pal grades, nor any of the fundamen-
tai prerequisites attaching to an en-
ormous scheme of the sort; and until
it is simplifed, made public and TN
derstandable in all its bearings on
the popular purse, patience, and
knowledge there will be those, and
plenty Of them, who will fight it to
the last ditch.
It is too fine proposition to be de-
spatched in privacy and with ill-ad-
vised precipitancy, and upon merely
supposititious estimates Of depths, al
ignments, bearings and grades; there
is vastly too much at stake for things
to proceed as they are at present; and
we counsel those in charge to get
nearer the people and make things
more manifest before they seek to
foist anything unacceptable on the
public, trusting to the partisan impul-
ses Of the electoral season to rush
them to successful 6nality.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
PLAYING BLACK HAND"

Some poor fool is playing the dan.
gerous "black-hand" game in this city
and the sooner some Of our "sleuths"
run him down and head him out OF
Astoria, the better for him; he is not
hurting the place, nor its people, the
least little bit; but he is laying himself
liable to a first-class case of man(0
handling if he gets in the way of
some of his victims, or rather pre-
sumptive victims. We do not be-
lieve the police have very far to go
for the man, though the proof essen
tial in a case of the kind may be the
stall that will hold the game a bit
longer. He is sure to give himself
away sooner or later; just as he did
couple of years ago, and when he
does, there are two refugees up in Sa-
lem, either of which will fit his case
to a dot. What he needs most is
seven years of good, hard, daily la
Dor, uncompensated. and enforced to
the letter and the limit.
There are plenty OF people in AS
toria who are quietly watching him
and one or two more of his freaks
will put him where he will find let
ter-writing an onerous task rather
than fippant and vain-glorious road
to sudden wealth. We may be mis-
taken in the man, but we do not be-
lieve it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02

the difference this country since first visited the United States
fifteen years ago
THE DANGER FROM RELIGION.
DENIAL 5ELIEF-THAT 49, ATHElsM-HAs SPENT
FORCE WHAT THE CHURCHES HAVE TO FEAR IS MORE IN
sDloUs observation-disclosures.
The in the says he church back number" He
feels that he do without it. you ask him whether he believes
in God in the existence infinite power superior man. the
chances that he will say Yes But questions of dogma dn
tons Of creed do not interest him. and he refuses himself
about them He has made his mind that he get along without
region-hat is religion it has been expounded him. But this
DOES NOT MEAN NECESSARILY THAT HE is IRE
LrGIOUS
1t that this indifference pronounced America
than England just orthodoxy strictly defined and
unyng here And where there indifference the church
form other conclusion than that the church itself blame
Yet the need of religion has been greater age country
than this country and in the day live in Churches exist and
preachers maintained remind and nations of the eternal
laws they obey and the eternal love which they may And
the United States they yet be needed the manay Of social
order.
EITHER THE CHURCHES HAVE LIVE TO THE
KEEPING THE SOUL OF THE NATION ALIVE OR THEY
WILL PERISH
Statistics gathered by Dr. Josiah Strong show that the gain Of the
churches in membership in proportion to the gain in population
steadily and rapidly falling off, In the twenty less than
half what the preceding twenty The trouble that TOO
MUCH OF OUR RELIGION BOTH AS 1T is PREACHED
AND AS 1T rs PRACTICED, LACKS LIFE. The attitude Of
number Of persons toward like that Of the New York banker
who said certain preacher the conclusion Of his "Ths
the first time knew that religion had anything do with
living thought had to do only with dying and going to he
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
THE WEATHER

Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Wednesday fair, cooler, except near
coast.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
ADMINISTRATION.

The Astorian may be bit fore
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02

but by the time the train ran into lie
Grande she was all right, and | re-
ceiycd the thanks OF every passenger
in the car" For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-09-02
Religion For the
Living, Not Only
For the Dying.
. BY the Rev. DR.. CHARLES F. AkED of New York

Z HE question of the decreasing membership and waning
! influence of religon-the churches-s not denomi-
national question. 1t is not national question. 1t is
question as wide as Christianity itself Conditions
in America are, broadly speaking, the as in Eng
= land and in England as in the rest of Europe can
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

"Oh, dear mel" she sighed. How
absurd. You should be capable of
more technical things than that"
'A-h-h-h!" gleefully. 81 see.
President His Own Plumber. Re-
pairs Busted Lead Pipe Under
Kitchen Sink. Uses Original
Though Weird Method of Wiping a
Joint 1 guess that's get 'em 60
ing" Is
mo no, no." Mrs. w. showed an
noyance at being misunderstood
Something more inspiring; some
thing that would indicate architec-
tural gifts"
Anything to please Madame the
Presidentess," he cackled. Hear
this: Executive Mansion Ruined.
Wicklebridge Puts Unsightly Man
sard Roof on Classic Structure.
Condemned by Building Inspec-
tor"
"You are absolutely impossible"
snapped his spouse. you couldn't
do that by yourself, and, besides,
I'd order it down" CO.
Then that settles it, the brute
shouted. 'Virago's Vandalism!
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28
REALISM THAT is REALISM

arrested for abstracng articles the that
merely seeking local a shoplfting
Perhaps might
effect plagiarism Ebert
Hubbard addicted
without infracon of the criminal
To get material for realistic literary Georgia boys
well educated writing shot
plea of
make of insanity the
kind of books in which such realism
Oceans of blood
the people
In novels hsoies-hat killed
the pleasure of the public sacrificed
and pestilence
Fortunately not all noves
depict shopiftng have
publishing
Several ilusrious
material their
holdup
the
ing the emotions himself your
without waiting n he
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28
THE FIRST FROST

No event of the whole modesty
greater majesty than does the first
Jack Frost is the epoch maker
He stealthiy
ing But all berys him
OF candesine meeting with over.
Like Aladdin in old, in
he sprnkes all the fields
with baze red blood At his magic
of the air is turned
Gone the sutry months
loafulne days. energies
stored in the body milk
be hardened into meat by the chill of frost.
The spirit of the time ambition
busy harvesting of the golden of
1t is that the wisely
and the suggard
1t is now that the superiority of in which
there is cheat and of the which
And the golden
shall
ures of wisdom which nature gives us?
Shall fail
the human heart inexoraby the fields?
well to just carefully only better
enduring things?
though
our to the lessons of the endless cycle of
not doubt that good seed well
springtime.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28
IF the WckLebridQes
Were in the White
House
BY FRED SCHAEFER

II desire, Cicero" announced
Mrs. Woodbridge, in rather an
authoritative manner, that you
place weather strips on the doors
and windows. You have neglected
it long enough"
Don't you want me to paint the
shack while I'm at it, and lay down
a cement sidewalk in front, and
build bay in the south elevation?"
snarled her husband. What do
you think | am, builders ex-
changer"
you don't take enough interest
in the care of your home" his
wife went on in a more concilia-
tory tone. you should take ex-
ample from your neighbors, who
are very handy at small jobs about
the house"
ooh, no; you don't mean me,
Guinevere," retorted he, with a
CLEAN of unholy righteousness in
his eye. I'm destined for higher
things, you know. Unless you've
WEIGHED on the forecast, I'm the
gee who's liable to be president
some day. You wouldn't expect me
to waste any time on mere repair
work."
yes, would" replied she, with
spirit. ut is unwholesome for any
man to do brain work to the ex-
clusion of manual labor. and the
dignity of toll is recognized by the
most exalted"
II begin to get hep" murmured
Mr.. W.. nodding his head compre-
hendingly. Headline: White
House Torn UP. No Levee Today.
Wicklebridge Is Beating Carpets
Does that stack up to your dream?"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

A WOMAN'S HEAD AND
SHOULDERS WAS SUDDENLY
lSILHOUETTED AGAINST THE
LIGHT.
himself was the author of the re-
markable letter, the still raw Incl
dents of the Bergonzi violin and the
Diemel book, my own futile call,
the sending away of two such men
as Mullen and Wright, one like a
whipped boy and the other In alb
ject fright. the mystery overhang-
ing it all, these were the proddings
that sent me back, with a grim
determination to see something,
and to see it at all hazards.
The night had grown cloudy, the
fog from the river seemed to lay
like clammy tarpaulin of mois-
ture over every object. found the
gate ajar, as we had left It, l
slipped into the shadow of the tall
building that stood opposite the
| stable and looked vainly for some
sign of life about the premises.
Suddenly the street light at the
far corner of the square suffered
/ fitfully and went out. For an In
slant only was there darkness. But
during that instant l had seen a
flare of light in the murky atmos-
phere above the house. l was as
If some one had opened the sky
light to bright room. The street
light came again. suffering at
first, as If indignant at the exposure
it had brought about, and finally
settled down to a steady glow. In
the more brilliant light the momen-
tary glare that had caught my eye
was extinguished From my posi-
ton in the alley the roof of the
house seemed In no way different
from the ordinary dormer roof. The
| light must have come from some
where near the center. I suddenly
became possessed with desire to
look down on that dormer roof.
Back of me, and standing almost
against the tall building in the al
ley, was one of those high tele-
phone posts surmounted by plat
form.
/ thought nothing Of pushing my
way up the pole to this elevated
lookout. The roof was now a few
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28
WALKING TO HEALTH

The hidden of health
book to the walks
Half the ailments perplexites affc us are
remeded or forgotten in the exercise of
1t gives glow and body mind
And the is here of
the Establishments
by going out into the good and beautiful world
walking amid the falling
find something
neutrality-suspicious. that
life lasts
The world of who will
need lack learning therein
The lessons teaches forth particu-
larly at this respondent
some revelation the
There paths man or
woman would walk
mi
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

feet below my level. A narrow halt
circle Of light trellised by what
might have been ornamental
wrought iron work. rose from the
center to the height of perhaps five
feet. The coping which ran around
the edge was high enough to con-
ceal everything from an outsider
below.
While / watched, q woman's head
and shoulders were suddenly .sil-
houetted against the light Of the
room. She pushed back a horizon
tai window. and stretched her arms
through the interstices of the iron
work. At that distance. in the un-
certain light, I was only able to
make out the contour of the head.
with its loose, flowing hair.
A dozen conjectures want seeth-
ing through my mind. Why should
there be a room of such arrange
ment In that unusual part of the
house? Why should a woman of
any sort, young or old, could not
make out, be leaning YEARLY
against the window gratings at
half past two in the morning? Was
she prisoner? And what connec-
tion could she have with the mys-
FERROUS letter? My brain was fairly
whirling about for some reasonable
thing to begin with, when the
woman left the window.
heard the sliding frame go back
into place, and the 4ight was ex-
tinguished.
do not know how long l unused
there, with my legs dangling, and
my hands clutching the slender
supports. My awakening, however.
was a rude one. l felt, rather than
heard, half dozen raps on the
pole, and then a voice, thick and
brogue despatched, came up to
me:
"Be hivin', ye'd betther be afther
a-coomin' down."
(To be coneinued.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

Masterpiece of Wonder Working
Wicklebridge Put On the Blink.
Havoc by Hindering Helpmeet
Leaves Official Family Drenched
by Downpour. Domestic Difficulties
of Patient President Reach a De-
nouement. Takes Refuge with
Salvation Army and His Shivering
Children Are Cared for at Charity
Creche."
That clamped the lid on Mrs. w.
until the next session.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

Ar6asaiNsc gone zodtanh0 nvs.e1oy E,ssoe
leas7Yassr lsos NENII1sfR Ta7TfeRNf z3SFl

asked one Of my own class for any
Information whatsoever. suppose
1t was pride In the first place. and
a Discrimination amounting almost
to morbid fear to put myself under
the obligation of such people in the
second. But knew when, from a
point of comparative safety,
bundled Wright into a cab and
sent him away, that I would never
be any the wiser for his nights
experience.
The realization of that fact, the
growing suspicion that Templeton
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-28

mechanical ingenuity of years had
waited for the brain of a woman of
society to solve one of the difficult
problems that has baffled en-
gineers ever since the first appli-
cation of steam was made to mo-
tive power.
This genius is Mrs. Ada H. Van
Pelt of this city, who, as she nears
the three score and ten mark, has
perfected a working model of a
device that in the opinion of ex-
perts will revolutionize steam
power. By the use of pendulum
bars and weights employed in a
simple counter balance she has
succeeded in completely overcom-
ing the dead center"
Thus she saves the 10 per cent
of energy which has heretofore
been lost in giving the fy-wheel
momentum to carry the piston
across that "black beast of the
mechanical engineer-the dead
center-and the successful opera
ton of her new engine convinces
scientific observers that the I'M
solved riddle will cease to be a
bugbear.
Mrs. Van Pelt's device is moth
ing more formidable than three
horizontal bars so weighted and ar
ranged that at the point where the
piston rod fails to exert it's power
on the crank shaft, the pendulum,
formed by the rods, gets busy and
drives the engine beyond the dan
ger mark.