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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02

Etsu had come-St Ives firmly be-
deved-as s psychological angWer TO
bis ysarniEg for color"
Her entrance was characteristic.
The artist, idly sfetching his thou
sandth American Girl, was startled
to perceive a small, gorgeous figure
wrapped IN sinuous folds Of gray and
cherry silk, bowed in mock humility
at his very feet.
Seven devils" exclaimed st. Ives,
splashing carmine all over the "Ameri-
can Girls" naughty mouth.
"Jes' me. mos. high migbtinessi
Etsu make YER fine model yer moch
need money" explained tie wadded-
silk bundle before him. The shining
black coils Of hair rose from their
humble position TO disclose a fresh.
girllsh face, daintily red as to lips.
immobile as bronze.
This, then, was no gift from the
gods, but a commercial transaction!
All the artist In ST. Ives nature rose
TO the quaint, colorful little lady
Etsu, taking stupefaetion for ac-
quiescence, lifted bundle OF costumes
from the floor and pattered toward the
dressing room
In 4 second she was back. Instead
OF the cherry blossom silk she was
swathed in heavy kimono whose
midnight luster was glorihed by gold
en- storks gravely reposing on one Les
against background Of perpetually
rising suns
"Etsu YER fine lady OF mikador
court, she said proudly, making q
deep genufection
st. Ives eyes took in greedily the
1.-THE figure, the small, fiower-like face
and heavy coils OF scented hair He
stared till the "ver' fine lady" became
disturbed; she dropped TO the flooi
in a pretty attitude and with childish
dignity and directness said 'Lady
play samisen, YER honorable great ar
list please to paintl"
And so, from day to day, st. lYeI
reveled in color
Etsu had been posing for him fo
two weeks. and the studio, with fl
litter Of East Indian bric-a-brac, ugll
Chinese idols and rare tapestries, wa
permeated with the faint fragrance
that chung 10 her kimonos
To-day Etsu had arrived at the stu
dio early. When he inserted his owl
latch key, strange, eerie murmurinI
reached his ears, and as he threV
wide the door he beheld Etsu prom
On her face before an image Of BUD
dha be had picked up In the orieni
She was praying softly and rapidly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02
nImpravIna tha ereed d Horaea. :

Among the vast number Of letters
received by Gov. Hughes on the sub
ject OF racetrack gambling the fol.
lowing is charged with pathos:
ITO the Governor.-My husband
CANDLES at the raceuack. We had II
children once, but there are only four
left. The others died because l could
not give them care. My husbands
gambling forced me to leave them and
60 out to work"
Evidently this misguided woman
does not appreciate her husbands
services in the cause OF improving
Observation-Disclosures Post-Express.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02

"Of course" she said, in tone
redolent with sarcasm. 4 am the first
girl you ever loved?"
"Of course. you are not, answered
the truthful young man, but you are
the last"
And being wise maid, she lot It
60 at that
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02

when a New York fireman answer
ing an alarm attempted to enter .
Fifth avenue mansion, he was re-
quested to wipe his feet.
No doubt he Is glad the butler
wasn't fastidious enough to order him
to change his hose-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02
Used cannon to Commit suicide.

Used cannon" to Commit Suiclos.
A Norwich, Norfolk, Eng. black
smith named Robert Want vas found
dead in bed at his house, q few days
ago. having apparently committed sui
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02
Greatly Relieved.

The old farmer imagined himself 70
be a sick man.
Il feel terrible, doc" he sighed as
be glanced at his tongue in the mirror.
4Oh, you are only suffering from
ennui," said the doctor, briskly Cut
1t out"
THANK you, doc."
"For what?p
For telling me to cut the ennui out.
thought you would cut II out your
self and send me in bill for five hun
dred."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02
FOB SALE

FOR sALls cIEAP-s lots on Sew
enth street between Penn. and III. ave-
nues. One 4-room house; good dGs7'ut !
barn and chicken park 50 fruit trees,
grape arbor; blaekberries and dewber-
rIes all bearing. Inquire at 70l III,
avenue Fl. b. Gregg. 4-2S-6t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02
Earthnuaks and EIreproof Theatsr.

The municipality Of Valparaiso is
about to erect a theater building with
a seating capacity Of 1905 on the site
OF the one destroyed by the great
earthquake Of August, 1906. It is to be
up-to.aate, and as nearly earthquake
and hreproof az can be built. Large
Quantities of steel win be used in its
construction.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02


Gone was the chlldlike naivete and
impenetrable calm Of the little Japan
csc model. A strange exaltatlon
breathed from every fold Of her silksn
garments and she hurriedly tucked
her tiny fiag-the emblem of Japan
into her sleeve as she mounted the
models throne.
"Well. Etsu. see by the papers
your country is recalling its subjects
there's 10 be war. It seemsl"
Yes. august highnessi" replied Et-
gu: 4the sacred one has spoken-hap-
py they who can obeyl"
She was strangely anxious to be
gone-the days work was spoiled and
St. Ives released her
Lifting a curtain that concealed an
old cabinet to get Etsu's customary
fee, ne stood appalled,. The cabinet
had been forced open, papers and color
tubes lay all about but every penny
the cabinet held had vanished
Gone. too. was Etsu, and without
the bis Of silver for which she always
waited.
In an instant St. Ives was half way
down the stairs; q second and he
gained the street There. Ike an ami.
mated water color. was Etsu, two
blocks away.
Etsu melted into a narrow doorway
Of Chinatown. and atin be followed.
Almost at the threshold Of an inner
room she was met by slender young
Japanese equipped foF a journey.
"Did you get it," he fairly hissed-
"Qulck, quick: tho son Of heaven
calls"
Here. Hoiol" She pressed a hand
ful Of loose bills into his outstretched
hand. eKawannon guard you and
oring q glorioas death"
JostHng st. Ives IN the dark passage
Holo rushed forth-from her he loved
to the great red death Of Japanese
soldier who fails IN battle fighting fol
the emperor
But Etsu, for whom there remained
only the small white death Of women
and children, drew from her silken
sleeve a small vial and drank deep
The pungent scent Of peach kernels
! filled the air
And 81 Ives staggered out into th'
sunlight to gaze with horrined eyes
on the long streamers Of "Banzai'
and picturesque Japanese hags thai
iiuttered in an alien breeze.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-05-02

HELP WANTED

GIRL WANTED good white girl
IS years old or over to care for my
wife while afflicted; good pay; work
very light Apply at residence SIS
South Eighth street R. D. Welborne
5-1.3t
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

passes the winter as a dark brown
helpless creature, entirely unlike either
the worm from which 1t came or the
moth into which 1t transforms. This
dark brown pupa, inclosed In a thin
cocoon of silk intermlxed with hair, is
stored away in some crack or crevice
under rubbish or even in the ground it
self. In April or May the nearly or
quite white moth emerges from the CO
coon, flies into the trees and in some
cases deposits as many as 500 eggs.
These eggs are set close together on
one leaf. forming a single tier and coy
ering an irregular patch on the sur
face. The larvae, Matching, construct
a tiny web under which they feed. AS
they increase in size more and more
foliage is included in their web until
they may exceed three feet in diameter
When the caterpillars become fully
grown they crawl down the trees and
seek out hiding places, as already
described, in which to transform and
lie during their helpless stage. From
the cocoons thus formed, in late July
or early August, the second brood Of
moths energies and deposits its eggs on
the leaves for the second brood Of
worms" This brood on reaching ma
turity forms the cocoons in which it
passes the winter
Ordinarily certain two and four
winged flies PARASITIC a sufficient per
cent of the caterpilars to prevent them
from seriously threatening the life of
any well grown tree, but this para
stism is rarely sufficient to prevent the
formation of some webs.
The property owner who values the
beauty of his shade trees cannot afford
to depend on natural enemies, but must
resort to artificial measures. If the
nests are within reach, the simplest
method is to wipe them out of the
trees and crush their contents. If
they are beyond reach, they must be
destroyed In any one Of three ways
they may be burned out by means of
IOuS hdhulSu lOlNui tucy hld9 NC w
away with pruning shears and their
contents crushed or burned; their oc-
cupants may be poisoned by thorough
ly spraying the foliage Immediately
about the nest with arsenate Of lead at
the rate Of three pounds to fifty gal
Ions of water. Paris green mixed with
twice it's weight Of unslaked lime and
used at the rate of six ounces to fifty
gallons of water may be substituted
for the arsenate of lead, but does not
stick to the foliage so well.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

Once The boards are In position only a
few minutes are required to finish the
process, and, as a rule, do that part
of the work myself The boards are
kept together by wire hook caught
across the two boards on opposite
sides of the rows of celery at each end
of the boards. This is done over the
/ entire patch until nothing of the celery
is visible but the green tops showing
above the boards. Four or five days
after boarding the celery is ready to
ship.
Though the shipping time means eX-
ira hard work. | always enjoy it, not
only because it comes at a time of
doors. but because it brings money re-
turns You get the fruits Of your five
months labor. and if you have kept
up with the market you can cal
culate within fraction of a cent what
each shipment will bring you The
wire hooks are jerked Off the boards
and the tall bleached stalks Of celery
pulled up bunch by bunch. A few
strokes of a sharp knife. and the roots
with the few unsightly outer stalks
drop off. and the transformed plant
loaded into the baskets to be takel
to the washing and packing shed.
This final process should be done IL
fresh cold water, and the celery should
be washed and picked over until eacl
bunch looks as white and glossy q
ivory. 1t is then put a dozen bunche
at time into a wooden form and tie
with tape the color preferred by thu
grower into a square, compact bundle
All excess top is trimmed away, ant
the bundles are then packed Will,
dripping wet with fresh cold water
into paper lined crates.
have sold celery as low as 20
cents a dozen and as high as 81. The
first price hardly pays, while the latter
gives enormous profits from the farm
er's standpoint. In the New York mar
ket grower can count on getting 40
cents a dozen for good celery and c9
cents a dozen for all extras. That
gives a good living profit and has ad
vantage of being sure.
After paying all bills for labor, fer
tilizer. rent on land (Which of course
goes into my own pocket and is only
a matter Of form. the wear and tear
on the greenhouse, garden tools and
the boards l always count on having
$1,000 a year from my little patch of
ground
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
you make him love herr"

you make him love her|
Certainly not"
"Are you sure? She loves him. and
she is immensely rich"
81 am perfectly sure. l cannot ere
ate. | can only destroy"
Jennie Carr. who had been removed
from Walter Higgins memory, insisted
upon seeing him as soon as 1t was safe
for him to undergo the excitement OF
the meeting. Mr.. Eig%ins senior. curl
Gus to know If his son would remem
Der her on seeing her. granted permits
sion at once,
"Oh, Walter" she said plaintively
I'm so sorry!
LET me see" said Walter. looking al
her scrutinizlngl-. $50 many people
have called to see me. Where have
met youY
This was enough for Mr.. Higgins
senior He took the girl away and
told her that the shooting had affected
his sons memory
One day six months later Mr. Hig
gins rushed into Professor Fulcrum's
wor!;rOom in rae.
"You have swindled mel" he cried.
How so?''
"My son has married the girl, after
all"
"Well?"
"You said that you could guard
against his love for her returning by
destroying his memory Of her His
love has returned He has married
her"
at has not returned. II he loves
her 1t is new love, not the old one"
at is certainly not a new one, fol
my son has had nothing to do with
her since you operated on him"
II don't believe It. My knowledge Is
based on long experiment and is exact
Find out what has taken place be
tween the couple since your sons re
covery and you will prove my posi-
ton"
Mr.. Higgins departed and in a few
days sent Professor Fulcrum the fol
lowing confession signed by his sons
wife:
always knew that the Higgins family
were opposed to me and noticed that they
were especially pleased when l was blot
ted from Walters memory. I had won
him once despite their opposition and re-
solved TO do so again, keeping my effort
a secret from them. began at the begin
ming in my own way pledging him not to
let his family know OF his meetings with
me; then when l had won him l married
him clandestinely before they could inter-
fere.
asian |ynv
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

There will be democratic rally at the
iown Hall Friday night. August %. at
eignt O'Clock. The speaker will be Win
heid luck OF Winchester, Mass. Every
one cordially invited to come and hear
the address.
Mrs. Glysson Moves and Mrs. George
Hall OF South Danville are both very ii.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Eastman OF
Hardwick visited at George Hodgdon's
Monday.
Mrs. James S. Thompson of Everett.
wash, has been visiting at Salma
Boston excursion Sept. /. See page 1.
There will be an outdoor band concert
Saturday evening of this week.
F. W. Jessup and son, Arthur, of
brooklyn, n. Y, visited at M. G. Nor.
rilfs several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lane of St Johns
bury visited at c. H. Wilson's recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Leighton OF
Dover, N. H., Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Hunt
OF St. Petersburg, Florida, and Mrs l..
+. Beede. of Atlantic Mass, are STOP
ping at the Elm House.
Plynn Bolton and his daughter were
thrown from wagon a few days ago,
and Mr.. Bottoms injuries are proving
quite serious.
The following resolutions were passed
on the death of Brother William G.
Bartlett, who died June %, 1908, a
charter member of Washburn Lodge, No.
80, F. & A. NJ, Danville, Vt.
Whereas, 1t has pleased God, through
the inscrutable working of his Provi-
dence, to translate our Brother to the
Grand Lodge above, therefore be it,
Resolved, That in the death of Brother
Bartlett this Lodge suffers an irreparable
loss of one of its most faithful and eff
Gent companions; also that we hold in
grateful memory his devotion to the
Masonic fraternity.
Resolved, That copy of these resolu.
tons be printed in the St. Johnsbury
CALIFORNIAN and Republican and sent to
the members of the bereaved family; also
a copy placed upon our records.
H. NJ. OsGooD,
w. H. CAss,
IF. MORRILL,.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

There is an old fellow who lives in
dry" New England town who has a
very poor opinion of New York, to
which metropolis he recently made a
visit 1t may be remarked in passing
that the old gentleman is one of the
pillars of the church in his native vii
lage. Upon his return home he sat for
some time upon a sugar barrel at the
grocery and then suddenly burst out:
Then felers down to New York is
as bad as thieves. Cheat your eye
teeth out fore you know it,
Gosh. Hiram. You don't mean to
say you got bunkoed at your ageY' the
storekeeper demanded, dropping the
nail tongs.
Yes, | did, toor' was the angry re-
ply. Il wen; to a sody water fountain
an asked the Teller for his best sar-
syDr.,.a, an l give him the regular
wink"
"Welly' the storekeeper demanded.
We'll, by heck, | got it, was the
Disguised reply
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

loo many at time and set out. After
the setting out the raking begins and
then the fight against weeds. If there
Is any place where weeds grow faster
than In a celery patch, | have never
seen it. OF course it is because there
Is always so much more moisture in a
celery patch than on land where other
vegetables are grown. If the weeds
ever get a start in a celery patch, the
only thing to do is to pull them up by
hand and haul to a pile and burn. Il
weeds don't grow on the ground, it is
no use to plant celery.
Along about the first Of June begin
TO board the tallest of my celery
Boarding celery now takes the place
Of banking earth around it. In June
it is impossible to bank celery with
anything like satisfactory results. Even
the boards will sometimes rot it be-
fore the blanching is begun. For
this purpose use ten inch boards ten
feet long. These are carried into the
patch and laid between the rows.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

extra large heads | receive 60 cents
q dozen. There isn't a month in the
year when celery is not in demand in
New York city, so there can be no
doubt about getting good prices, pro-
vided the celery is up to the mark.
To raise celery to be marketed in
June my work begins in January. The
first step is to get good celery seed
and SOW 1t in boxes in a greenhouse.
Under normal conditions it will re-
quire three weeks for celery seed to
come up. though there have been oc-
casions when have forced it up with
In eight days. and the result was In
every way satisfactory AS soon as
the two little leaves appear on the
plants the process of "pricking" begins
and drags through February and
March.
AS regards the greenhouse, | would
advise plenty of moisture and air, but
not too much heat At whatever tenn
perature you begin always be careful
to keep it from the time the seeds go
in the ground until the plants are
taken ont to be set in the f ~ When
| have Ind occasion to eds
| have carried the T. cess
straight on until the plan ready
to set out AS rule. put my seed in
with the thermometer in the eighties
and keep that temperature right
straight through.
In April. as soon as the ground is
warm enough to pillow. the out Of door
work begins. After the ground is
thoroughly plowed the fertilizer must
be sown. and with a rake and harrow
the surface must be made to look as
smooth as velvet. The young plants
are then taken from the greenhouse, not
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26

The householder Smothered his wrath
and descended to the basement.
Are you the plumber?' he asked of
the grlmy looking individual who was
tinkering with the pipes in the cellar.
Yes, guv'nor," answered the man.
Been long in the trader
"'Bout a year. guv'nor."
Ever make mistakes?"
"Bless yer, no. guv'norr
ooh, then, l suppose it's all right! I
imagined you had connected up the
wrong pipes. for the chandelier in the
drawing room is spraying like a foun
tain, and the bathroom taps on firep'-
London Answers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
OSCAR COX.
History of SMALLPOX,

Smallpox appears to have been first
described by Rhazes, an Arabian ply
sician living about 900 A. d 1t was
introduced into southern Europe in the
time Of the crusades and slowly spread
into the more northern regions. In
1917 It was carried from Spain to San
to Domingo and thence to Mexico.
where it is said to have swept off
3500000 Of the natives 1t spread rap
idly all over the new world, and whole
villages and even tribes of Indians
were carried off by It.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
Sharks and Divers,

Contrary to Whit is generally sup
posed. the fully equipped modern diver
does not dread sharks in the depths,
though there are cases on record
whore these monsters have bitten saw
agc.y mt the air pipe, causing serious
leak and almost drowning the man be-
fore he could be hauled up Sharks
are, however, VIGOROUSLY timid and
all the experienced diver has to do to
brighten them away is to open one of
the air valves in his dress and cause
stream of bubbles to rise up all around
him, whereupOn the tiger of the deep"
will make off in abject terror. A far
more real danger is getting entangled.
st. Nicholas.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
'tf~fiTifTE'ff
A PSYCHOLOGICAL
CASE OF 1899.
GOriginal.l
Professor Fulcrum, | believe"

tOriginall
Professor Fulcrum, | believe"
"At your service, sir"
81 understand that you have beer
for long while close student of the
brain and have made some remarkable
discoveries"
Il have simply been building on the
scant knowledge held by our grand
parents. 1t has been reserved for US
fin de steele people to point out the
exact spot on the brain that directs
any special condition"
"Your modesty is wasted on me, pro
fessor 1t is you who have made this
last discovery. How did you do it,"
"Vivisection. Our ancestors found
difficulty in getting consent to expert
ment on animals Now, with some
400,000,O00 Of people, life is so CHEAP
that we can operate on human beings
l am indebted to malefactors for my
discoveries. And malefactors are in.
debted to me as well, for | can now
make an honest man of a rogue"
"By what meansT
"Trepanning. For instance, l know
the exact spot in the brain that pro
duces kleptomania. | cut away bit
of the skull and find an abnormal
development of the brain directly un
der it, This cut away, and the pa.
tent has no more desire to steal"
Can you turn hate to love, or vice
versa?"
"No. but l can destroy either the one
or the other"
"Now we are getting down to the
object Of my visit. My son is in love
with a girl whom I do not wish him
to marry. Can you destroy his love
for herr"
"Yes."
"How?"
Recent development in microscopy
has shown us that each sensation has
a minute corrugaton on the brain Or
a certain point in your sons brain will
be found a little protuberance com.
posed Of these minute corrugatons
If this protuberance Is removed the
love is killed"
"ForeverY
mot necessarily. Another operation
is required to prevent its return. ]
must cut away a certain tiny particle
in the bump Of memory for that par.
ticuar girl"
Every we'll professor. l will bring
my son to you at once. He is waiting
without"
Professor FulCrum consented only OF
the payment of an immense fee and
guaranty of indemnity in case the so,
claim, damages. Then the young
man was shown into room. where
an anaesthetic gas was turned on
When he was unconscious be was
placed on a table and the operation
performed. On coming to his senses
he found his head bandaged and was
told that a burglar had shot him. max
ing two bullet holes in the brain. lie
was to be kept quiet till the wounds
healed He was removed to his home
"Who the dickens is this Amanda
Brown who is sending me fowersT
he asked one morning during conva
leScence.
His father, who heard the remark
and hoped that he would marry the
donor. was delighted He rushed of
to Professor Fulerum to tell him that
the operation had been eminently sue
cessful
"Now, professor" he said, there Is
a girl wish my son to marry. Can
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-08-26
The Wronu Girl,

After whole year of married bliss
young man named Hahn, living at
Volosca, Dalmatia discovered that he
had not married the girl he intended.
When he proposed to her he mistook
her for her twin sister, who 50 re-
sembles her that they can scarcely be
distinguished, and he did not realize
his error until he began calling her by
her Christian name instead of by the
terms of endearment he had hitherto
used.