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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-01-03

however, to collect the special tax de-
linquent.
The contract provides for begin
ming Of work in ten days and the COM
pletion in sixty days, but the contrac-
tors say they are ready to start on
Monday.
The only other business at the coun-
ell meeting was the reception Of re-
ports Of officers and allowance Of all
bills. Collections for December were
reported as follows:
Occupation tax .. $235.95
Street tax .......... l53.OO
flnes .......4t...-... 40o,0u
OF about about $4,000 in special tax
on property in paving district No. I
all but S3l5 had been collected up to
last night.
Council adjourned to meet again on
next Thursday.
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

We have moved our furniture and
undertaking business into the Mckay
building, one half block west Of the
opera house.
CLAYC0MB & ANDERSON
12-S0-dtf
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CONGRESS- WILL PASS
FINANCIAL MEASURE

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! Washington, Jan. 3-With !
!. the approach of the reconven- :
!. ing of congress there is re- :
!. newed talk Of financial legis- :
!. lation. The house and the :
4 senate committees will bota :
\ resume sittings on the sub {.
+ jects and it now looks as if .
\ there might be something Of :
I. a rivalry between the two as =
= to which win report a bill. :
i. Senator Bailey expressed .
!. the opinion today that if the :
i. bill to be suggested BY repub-
y liean members reasonably APP .
= proaches the demands ii tne Z
+. democrats. it viii be permit
+ ted to pass without extended Z
:. opposition.
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west. The story is really true one
told by the man himself, who for pur-
poses of fiction is Matthew Fitzgerald.
He is possessed of a fund of humor and
good sense, though long, long pages of
description are calculated to pail upon
the reader.
This narrative. however, has the rare
and struug appeal that comes from a
definiteSaccount of attempts to solve
the concrete problems of existence un-
der unusual circumstances, something
of the appeal of Robinson Crusoe in a
story of modern life.
In his preface the author says he is
plain man with his life experience to
tell and that his daughter Elizabeth
will correct the grammar and spelling.
She has missed a few lapses made by
her father, but perhaps she, too, had
careless education.
The whole tale is told in homely
fashion. 1t is of homely people, too,
but it is entertainingly instructive. A
pretty little love story is woven into
it to give 1t the novel touch. but the
book reads like a genuine human doc
ument.
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Hillary on Her Own"
By Mabel Rarnes.GrnI

By Mabel Bsrnes-Grundy author of 'Dimbie
and l." etc. Published by Baker & Taylor
company. New York. Price si.50.
Hilary is one of three daughters of
a poor but well bred country family.
The father is zoologist and knows
nothing of the practical affairs of life.
The mother is model house keeper,
narrow. honorable and conventional.
One sister is an artist and the other
merely a nice girl" Hilary, ardent,
impulsive and imaginative, is bored to
extinction by the dullness of the domes-
tice routine. One day she announces
that she will go to London and work
She has been secretly taking lessons
In shorthand and typewriting. and she
thinks she can be somebody's secretary
The family is aghast all but the father,
who contributes to "the household" con-
sternation by voting to let Hilary have
her way.
Hilary's grandmother comes to call
and talk things over before she leaves
This eccentric, good hearted old lady.
who calls spade a spade, laughs when
Hilary says she is going to London to
work, and says she knows what Hilary
is going for, and that is husband.
am sorry, Hilary" said the grand
mother when the storm of protest
blows over. Il shouldn't have said that
1t was lie as far as you yourself are
concerned. l know you had no such
thought. But ii is true, all the same
This restlessness in young people; this
craving for change; this desire for
work, is nature making herself felt
Look al the restlessness and activity
of all young things in the spring You
are young, you are in the spring of
your life; you are bubbling over with
vitality. You want something-you
know. not what 1t is the inevitable
man"
Il don't want any man." cries Hilary
THE thought of husband makes me
sick. / shall never marry"
Grandmother smiles sarcasticaIIy
"All young girls say that" she replies
IF polygamy were allowed you'd have
six husbands"
In an airy. chatty fashion the author
uncovers lot of home truths They
are not all moral lessons for young
women-some are for the young men.
too-but the style is so delightful that
one can only enjoy all she says and,
no matter how plain the truth, one is
not offended.
Hilary goes to London She visits
relatives for a fortnight and during
that time presents her letters of intro
duction and tries to get a position The
situation secured. a boarding place
must be found and that is almost as
interesting an experience. The Sparrow
sisters. with whom she finally goes to
live, are so charming that one envies
Hilary her boarding house experience
One of the boarders in the house is an
Irish milliner. widow. She is full of
wit and humor and she and Hilary have
some interesting talks. They go for a
long walk one day and chat about the
duties of women. Hilary tells of her
home life and how she hated the mo-
notony of ii and yet loved her people
She tells of her mothers belief that a
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married woman should be interested
only in her housework and husband and
children and has no right to have other
longings. as to write an epic.
"A woman who has an epic straying
about her insides.' says Mrs. Brady,
somewhat inelegantly, "can pay d
woman who hasn't sixpence to dust the
piano legs while she is making a shil-
ling out of her epic (good poetry is
v2luable), and still have plenty of time
over the children. Men have been do
ing this for centuries, A barrister who
receives a hundred guinea brief at
tends to the brief, and doesn't waste
time in scrubbing his Office floor. 1
know a man who told his wife---a very
clever artist-that she was shirking
her responsibilities when she suggested
engaging a house keeper. But l can
be earning a hundred pounds she ar
gued. gently, while the house keeper is
doing my work for 80 or 40 And he
replied he had never heard of more
unwomanly suggestion"
The love theme develops as charm
ingly and naturally as the narration
of Hilary's other experiences. 1t is de-
lightful story and well written, a
great Improvement over the authors
''Dimbie and IT, which appeared about
q year ago.
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"The Housekeeper's Week
INV Marion Harland. ant.

BY Marion FIarland, author of Complete Cook
Book" Complete Etiquette etc. Pub
:, lished by the Bobbs- Merrill company Indian
apolis. Price 81 so.
This is essentially an encyclopedia
of household information AS the
authors Complete Cook Book is an
exhaustive manual for the kitchen, so
this new volume covers the whole sup
Elementary range of house keeping. 1t
contains directions on a thousand and
one matters of interest and importance
10 the housewife, compactly set forth,
readily found, reasonable, moderate,
scientific and satisfying.
The arrangement is one of the books
best features. The plan of naming the
chapters for the days of the week and
giving instruction in each for the kind
of work sacredly set aside by the house
keepers unwritten law for that partic-
ular day is not only clever, but prac-
tical as we'll.
Thus in the six chapters devoted to
Monday and Tuesday every phase of
washing and ironing receives attention.
Wednesday is devoted to baking, with
recipes for making old fashioned yeast
and instruction on mixing and the use
of the oven. The Thursday section is
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"Heartbreak Hill"

BY Herman Knickerbocker veile. author OF
The Inn of the Silver Moon, etc Pub
lished by Duffield & Co., New York. Price
S1.5o.
For several years Herman Knick-
erbocker Veile has produced nothing,
much to the regret of those who had
come to admire his very graceful tales.
Now comes a charming little idyl called
'Heartbreak Hill" that was we'll worth
waiting for. The tale is fresh and clean
as new mown hay and full of charm
and interest
The plot has to do with a certain hill
containing about a hundred acres.
which some early Mayhower ancestor
had taken from the Indians in exchange
for a demijohn of rum or molasses. II
is not quite clear which. This hill he
left in undivided halves to his two sons
and their descendants forever. When
this story opens in the present day the
two heirs are girl and a boy, distant
ly related. The hill had been named
Heartbreak hill because of its utter
worthlessness. No owner had ever been
able to do anything with the land; it
even spoiled an otherwise attractive
landscape.
as fine and dainty as anything Mr..
Veile has written, which is high praise.
The solution OF the problem of Heart
break Hill" is no strain on the credu-
ltties, and adds an interest to the pretty
little pastoral scene.
The book is attractively printed and
bound, and contains six excellent illus
trations in color by John Rae.
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"Demeslic Seience Cook Book

Compiled and arranged by William III. Lee
and Jennie A. Hansey (author of The Cen
tury Cook Book Published by Laird Il
Lee, Chicago. Price $3.50.
The standard Domestic Science Cook
Book" covers the entire field of house
hold affairs. In the cooking depart
ment all the branches usually touched
upon are treated with thoroughness,
and besides these are some famous
southern recipes. "a chapter on The
Chaing DISH" sickroom recipes, in
structions In marketing and carving
and a special brides department.. CIV
ing proportions for two persons> All
sorts of information in domestic science
are added to the cooking directions, such
as taking care of the modern kitchen,
laundry rules, instruction in sewing,
mending, embroidery, etc.
The system of indexing, with pat
ent thumb index to the various depart
ments. is new for a work of this kind
and adds much to it's value
The book is illustrated with 1S5
drawings and 16 full colored plates. 1t
is a welcome addition TO the literature
of house keeping.
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Economic functions of Vice"

By John McElroy Published by the National
Tribune, Washington. D. c. Price 80 cents.
A little book, The Economic Func-
tions of Vice." by John McElroy, edi-
tor of the National Tribune of Wash
ington, D. c., deserves generous pub
licity. Not only is it full of interest
to every sort of reader, but it is so
filled with quotable passages that Sc
lections are difficult to make. Every
sentence is worth reading.
The opening paragraph shows the
lines on which the author opens his
argument:
For some inscrutable reason, which
she has as yet given no hint of re-
vealing, nature is wondruously waste
full in the matter of generation. She
creates a thousand where she intends
to make use of one"
The author then tells of the millions
of eggs cast upon the waters by the
Goldfish and how few become fish. OF
course these eggs are of use-they feed
certain other kinds of fish which live
only upon spawn. From that point
the author takes the oak tree and it's
acorns as another example. How many
of the acorns which fall become oak
trees? He says: Life is sown broad
cast only to be followed almost inn
mediately by a destruction nearly as
SWlll. ne clipiidSlIcS tiit idcI Indl
the survival of the fittest applies to
all forms of life, animal as well as
vegetable, and that all forms of life
have hundreds of natural remedies
except man, his enemies being created
by himself.
1t seems a tragic condition of affairs
and many wise philosopher has
puzzled over the whyfore and the
wherefore. Mr.. McElroy says:
But our opinion of this law is not
cared for 1t is academic and super
fluous The main Importance attaches
to the recognition of the fact that II
is a law
He then goes to give numerous sta
tistics. among others that it would take
only "a few years to make standing
room a premium on the earth If there
were no means of depicting the popu-
lation but old age. He says further
There is only food and room fol
the best - and by the best is
understood those having that harmony
of mental and physical development
which brings them most nearly into
accord with natures laws"
All through animal life it is nearly
neck to neck race between extermi.
nation and production; it is nearly ar
unceasing struggle between the eaters
and the eaten. The author holds:
MAN alone is practically exempt
from what is apparently an invariable
condition of all other forms of animal
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''GantOn & Co."

By Arthur Jerome Eddy author Of .RecoIlee
tons and Impressions Of whistler Pub-
iisned by A. c. McClurg e. Co.. Chicago.
Price SI.JO
Chicago fares i'll at the hands of the
novelists. Norris in The Pit drew. as
Zola might have drawn. the inferno Of
the board of trade; Sinclair shocked
the world and crippled the business of
the meat trust with the revelations Of
The Jungle: now this less known
writer takes the cover off the business
and social mechanism of the monster
commercial city. Like Sinclair and the
fctionists who write TO reform, the
author of Canton & Co" deals in
high lights and dense shadows There
are no half tones in his revelations of
wickedness and misery
Canton & Co. is a firm of packers
in reality a trust. The head of the
house has two sons Neither of them is
fitted 10 take his fathers place in the
business. One is a dreamer. a poet,
who has a notion Oh becoming a pro-
fessor. while the other is in the office
learning the business the dreamer pre-
fers to hang about the clubs TO spec
ulate q bit in stocks, to devote some Of
his time to society-anything but at
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Truth" The Shrine of Silence" and
THE Kingdom of Love-" are the works
which made his greatest successes. His
latest volume is likely to be received
with interest by the new thoughtists.
whose name is legion.
This book is written to show the
power of mind over body One
can scarcely say that much new mat
ter is presented; but the facts which
have been slowly discovered during the
last few years are here condensed into
a reasonable compass, making a prac-
tical presentation of the entire field Of
psychology and it is thoroughly up to
date. There are interesting chapters
on .phychic force. telepathy. mental
magnetism, ETC., and how to apply them.
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2ou0pct00 by OnN H.H. GOoG

devoted to methods of removing dirt
from clothing, carpets and furniture,
with an exhaustive discussion of dry
cleaning Under Friday" is treated the
determination of household pests, and
Saturdays is devoted to the care of fur
niture and household utensils. That
subject takes three long chapters. and
no thinkable detail is omitted. Sunday.
with the subhead Works of Necessity
and Mercy" embraces information on
domestic materia medica. home surgery,
etc.
The hook is a fitting and valuable
crown to Marion Harlands long life
devoted to labor in behalf of the home.
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tend to the details of his fathers huge
business.
The business side the book touches
chiefly is the handling of big strike
in the stock yards. The social picture Is
even more repelling. 1t takes one in
timately into "a fast and vulgar set
that has not even the excuse of brains
for living. Most of its members have
money and lie awake nights devising
new ways to spend IL sensationally.
They have no interest in home life; the
married people are unfaithful and the
unmarried are scheming to marry for
money. They drink to excess and are
utterly depraved. One can not but pity
the occasional child in such setting.
The little Major" in this story is one
of the bright spots in a sorry picture.
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life Not even a parasite
wages destructive warfare against
him. This absence of destruc-
tive enemies must be compensated for
in some way and 1t is accomplished by
making vicious inclinations the agents
to weed out the redundant growths
and to select for determination those
which are inferior. depraved, weak and
unfit for preservation reproduction"
Mr.. McElroy then goes on to cite
the various means people take, them
selves unaware, of ridding the world
of its useless citizens.
"Immoderate use of stimulants and
the varied excesses and vital errors
which are grouped under the general
head of dissipation, a love of pleasure
or the still more expressive phrase.
"a short life and a merry one, ETC., are
fayorite ways of self-annihilation and
leave little to be desired in the COM
pleteness with which they do their
work
Mr.. McEiroy gives statistics. to show
the effects of beer drinking and whisky
drinking-the condition OF the system
after using one or the other for years,
but, even SO, says that intemperance
is one of the milder vices and that the
criminal grades of vice do their work
with swiftness in proportion to their
f1agraney.
Much food for thought may be found
in the following very interesting state
ment; vice is not so much a cause as
an effect--precisely as disease Is
symptom. Vice does not make a nature
weak or DETECTIVES; a weak and defec-
tive nature expresses it's weakness and
defects in vice and that expression
brings about in one way and another
the sovereign remedy for extermina-
tion.'
The prohibitionisfs. who hold that
the drink demon is the greatest evil
will be shocked to read that it is con-
sidered by McElroy mostly nonsense to
say that the devastation among our
fairest and brightest is from this cause.
The author says that with few excep-
tions every one who goes to perdition
by the alcohol route would reach that
destination by some other highway If
the alcohol line were not running"
paragraph with which reformers will
surely take issue is:
Whisky makes no man lazy, shift
less, dishonest, false, cowardly or bru-
tai. These must be original qualities
with him. II he has them he will
probably take to whisky-though not
inevitably-which then does the com
munity the splendid service of hurry
ing him along to destruction and of
abriding his infliction upon the pub
lic."
Nature is simply sweeping out her
overcrowded workshop and the cases
to which this reasoning will not apply
are fortunately few and far between.
A great deal of space is given to the
discussion of the drink problem but
the limited columns of paper can not
quote at greater length. Then follows
a discussion of the royal families of
Europe with the causes which have led
to their downfall and degeneration.
The last line is encouraging and at the
same tine is matter for serious re-
Election. 1t reads:S
The proportion OF bad men is rap
idly diminishing because bad men die
sooner and propagate fewer than good
ones"
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chance for millions. A verse, bit of
foolish doggerel. is given to each one
and this contains the key to the hid
den word. 1t is not a simple hidden
word contest by any means. and the
unscrupulous men are for blowing up
the safe and taking the money and
dividing it among themselves.
The working out of the plot is clev-
erly done and the pages are filled with
surprises. 1t is a new departure in de-
tective stories and one of the best.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-11
Talks to The Kings Children"
By Sylyanus Stall. ID. Publish,
Tir conipanv PhilndaInhja Price

By Sylvanus Stall. DID. Published by the
yir company Philadelphia. Price 81.
The many readers of DIR. Stalls for
mer book, Five Minute Object Ser
MONS" will enthusiastically welcome
this. the second of the series for chill
dren. This volume of short religious
talks for the little folks and for those
who desire to speak to them helpfully
and suggestively is just what it ought
to be; plain. well illustrated, fascina-
ting and practical. These talks on the
common subjects of life are bright and
crisp models of point and brevity. The
truths presented are after the manner
of parallels - presenting important
truths of the gospel to the comprehen-
sion of even the smallest child.
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"The Mastery of Mind

By Henry Frank Published by R. F. Fenno
& Co., New York. Price 81.
Henry Frank, author of The Mas
terry of Mind is the founder of and
lecturer for the Independent Ethical
society of New York. He is also pres
ident of the national new thought
alliance and has written a number Of
books. which have been favorably re-
ceived by the reading public. The
Doom of Dogma and the Dawn Of
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Powers of the American People
BY Masuji Miyakawa. author Of .
JAPAN etc. Published by Baker 1
cnrnnanr Nau Nnrk Prica 60 "a

BY MasuJi MIyakawa, author OF Life OF
Japan,H etc. Published by Baker & Taylor
company, New York. Price $500
This book was reviewed at some
length about a year and a half ago,
but SO important has it come to be
considered that second edition with
extensive additions has become neces-
sary. For the benefit of the public
who do not know much of Dr. Masuji
Miyakawa few words on his work
may not be amiss.
The author is Japanese attorney
admitted to the federal and state bar;
he is editor of the comparative law
bureau of the American bar associa-
tion, lecturer at the State university
law school of Indiana and member of
the American Society of International
Law.
Readers who have had the privilege
of reading the books on our democ-
racy by De Tocqueville. Munsterberg
and Bryce, giving the French, German
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-11
"The Little Bfean Brother

By Stanley Portal Hyatt. Published by Henry
Holt g. Co.. New York. Price $3.50.
The management of the Philippines
at the time of the last Filipino revolt
inspired Stanley Portal Hyatt to write
The Little Brown Brother" book first
published in England. Like many an
other from that land dealing with
American procedure. 1t is frankly CEN
serious. 1t is in fiction form, and
those taking issue with the author will
insist that he has lived up to the
modus operandi chosen for expressing
his convictions.
This book Is calculated to stir to In
dignation the people who think that
America has done mastery work with
It's seriously complex situation in the
orient. However, the viewpoint OF an
outsider is ever interesting and often
helpful.
Leaving out of this consideration the
authors discussions on the political
situation. the plot introduces charm
ing love story with strange and unu
sual settings. The hero of the book is
Direk North, young Englishman. who
has been dropped from the army at
home because he is unable to clear
himself of suspicion without involving
another He drifts out to the islands
and meets Clare Westley, the daugh=
ter of an English merchant living in
the Philippines Their story is car
ried on to a happy end.
The author is new to American read
ers. His style shows practiced hand.
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"AngeI esquire
By Edgar wallace. Published by Henry Holt
& Co New York Price $1.5O.

& Co.. New York. Price $1.50
Here is an up to date detective story
to be read at sitting. A young and
unsuspecting girl becomes a possible
heir to millions of pounds left by
strange and criminal old gambler. The
gambler has remarkable safe built
to hold his wealth and it is fastened
by yet more remarkable combination
lock. which can be opened by one word
only. The word is not revealed to the
girl, who is aadaughter of one of the
men the millionaire has ruined, nor is
it revealed to three others, all equally
bad characters, who are also given a
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and English views will have much
pleasure in this Japanese picture. For
the most part the book is fiattering
and some qf it which was too frank
in the earlier edition has been diplo-
matically polished for the present vol
ume
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n Lord of Lands"

BY Ramsey Benson. Published by Henry Holt
Co., New York. Price Sl.J0.
This is an unusual story of man
with a very small income and large
family, who determines to leave the
city and become farmer in the north