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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15
EUTERPEAN
PROGRAM

The second session of the Euterpean
Fraternity will be held at the Chris
tian church Tuesday evening, Feb.s l5
The program will be called promptly
at p. nj. Attendance Of the meeting
Of this chapter will be strictly limited
to those holding certificates OF mem
bership in the Euterpean Fraternity
with the exceptions laid down in the
bylaws, a copy Of which is in the
hands OF each member.
Following is the program:
Characters and Program Committee.
watts-H. Macklin; Shelley S.
stephens; MacDowell-M Kate
Remington
Inyocation-Rev. A. J. Holt.
Characterization of MacDowell-A,
L. Mccoy
Vocal. THE Swan Bent Low to the
Lily''-Mrs. Lua Hatfield.
Piano. ITO a Water Lily'-aIrs. Ken
dali Galloway
ITO Wild Rose'-Aliss Ethel Dunn.
Description read by Miss Olive Nc
clintic.
Characterization Of Shelly Edgar
Cowan.
Vocal, From an Old Garden,-()
I pansv ~ Myrtle. Mrs. Chas. VIII
liams.
Poem, "The Cloud. S. stephens.
Characterization Of watts-Rev. S.
f. Wilson.
Piano (a) ITO the Sea- % TN Mid
Ocean'-Nlrs Kendall Galloway. De
scription read by II. MacSlin
Ten minutes intermission.
Presentation OF Watts pictures-A.
l. Mccoy
Piano. in Deep woods"-Mrs. D. a.
Roche Description read BY Miss Olive
/ McclIntlc.
Poem, Shelley The skslark"
liam +. Ramey
PIANO.
tal "a Deserted Farm Miss Ethel
Dunn.
10 AT an Old Trysting Place
Mrs A. T. Mccoy.
(c) From an Indian Lodge"-Niiss
Remington.
Description read by Miss McClintlc.
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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15
NOteSFrOm the Labor World

Company with. the whole of its EN-
ployes in the traffic and permanent
way department.
At the next meeting Of the Montreal
Trades and Labor Council the question
Of forming civic federation for the
purpose of settling all labor troubles
by Cancellation and arbitration win be
considered.
Before the recent election the
members Of the Montreal Typogaph-
teal Union decided to vote only for
such municipal candidates who use the
union label on their printing. Stick
ers to that effect were posted every
where.
The Central Labor Council of Stock
ton. Cal, has entered upon new
scheme for the purpose of raising
funds for the building OF new labor
temple. It has leased theater and
viii run a moving picture show there.
the profit to be used for the purpose
named
Preparations are already being made
for the Fort William. Ont. conven-
tion OF the Trades and Labor Congress
Of Canada. President Glocking ex-
poets that it will be the most impor-
tant in the history of the organiza-
tion. 1t is likely there will be keen
contest for the presidency
According TO the report Of John VIII
liams, State Labor Commissioner OF
New York, 1915 children under six
teen years we're found at work in fac
tories in the state during the past
year. OF this number s22, or about
eight per cent, were employed con
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15
TOOK ALL HIS MONEY.

Often all man earns goes to doctors
or for medicines TO cure stom ach,
liver or kidney trouble that Dr. Kings
New Life Pills would quickly cure at
slight cost. Best for dyspepsia, indi-
gestion. billousness. constipation, jaun-
dice, malaria and debility. Zoe at
Brown & cos. D&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15

The Roney Boys. who gave such a
successful entertainment In chlckaslia
last fall. are coming back. and viii
give sacred entertainment IN this
city Sunday evening. Feb. ~
No admission viii be charged, but v
collection VIII be taken and donated -
the Chlckashn United Charities.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15

trary to law In 1905 fully n per
cent of the children employed were UNI
der sixteen years The sanitary con-
ditlons in department stores Lave
been greatly improved and In some
cases are in advance oil the require
ments Of the law. but Of the 4,94S
children employed in such stores, 1886
were employed illegally.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-02-15

E1 eniy of old papers Tor sale az The
y Express office, very cheap. Il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-02

parliamentary helmsman OF the lower
branch of the national legislature, and
the presiding officer, Uncle Joe Cannon
or anybody else, would no more think OF
taking up the consideration Of bill upon
which there is liable to be debate with
out Mr.. Kinds standing at his elbow than
would the captain OF a vessel attempt to
enter dangerous harbor without first
taking on board an experienced pilot.
Folks who know say that Mr.. Kinds is
the foremost parliamentarian of the
United States, If not or the world. Not
only is he familiar with the rules and
practice Of the deliberative bodies OF
this country, but he has an intimate ac-
quaintance with those Of the leading for
eign nations and when a point comes up
for which there has been no precedent in
the national Congress he generally Is able
to find some ground upon which to base
his action out OF the parliamentary his
tory of the foreign governments.
This may be the last Congress in which
Mr.. Kinds will serve as parliamentar1an.
He is a candidate to succeed Amos l.
Allen Of the first Maine district, who sue
ceeded Thomas B. Reed. and who now
wants Kinds to follow him. He has
good show Of getting the nomination, too.
his friends say. although a son of Senator
Hale Is the principal candidate against
him.
Once upon time Mr.. Kinds was
newspaper man. He represented at va
rious times the Portland Advertiser, the
Portland Daily Press and other papers,
and came to Washington in 1890 as as
sistant clerk to the then Speaker, Thomas
b. Reed
Some folks call Mr. Kinds a natural
born parliamentarian, but there isn't any
such thing. 1t took him years to reach
of all parliamentary subjects. He began
in the summer of 1895 to collect the prec-
edents OF the House, writing them out,
largely with his own hand, in order that
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the reasoning might be accurately but
conciseiy expressed In form to b bound
in scrap books. This involved an ak
haustive search Of hundreds OF volumes
carried on this work during the days
and evenings when the House was not in
session and even during the sessions OF
the House when the nature OF the pend
ing business would permit. and during re-
cesses Of Congresses at his hcrua. in
Woodfords, or his summer home, on
Chebeague Island. AS fast as completed
a precedent was classified In the scrap
books, so as to be available in the daily
business Of the House. The field % pro-
cedure in the House is so wide and so
varied that the task OF collecting the
presidents was not completed until 1905.
making a period OF thirteen years for
the work. and when published with an
index digest Kinds Presidents" COM
prised eight volumes OF about one thou
sand pages each. The foot notes to the
text number by themselves many thou
sands. The work Is used by the national
lures. and has been cited in the courts.
notably in some recent cases in New
York and Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Kinds has also perfected in the la st
year a new manual for the House, based
on the law as established by the prece
tirely different from the manual used dur
ing the last fifty years. This work has
had the formal approval Of the House.
For this remarkable compilation OF
precederts the result OF night and day
labor for SO many years. Mr.. Kinds was
paid $4,000.
While everybody in the House hopes
that Mr. Kinds will be elected a member
as he seems TO want it-they all race
with regret the idea OF losing him as
parliamentarian and the proposition OF
IRVING C. NORWOOD.
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whiskbroom and f1icks the ashes from the
cigar with the whiskbroom, why. we are
afraid that we're going to fall down on
that laugh thing. We want to do what S
right. and we hate to hurt anybody's feel
ings or anything like that; but, honest In
jun. that whsk broom thing il becoming
However. we leave it all to you. Do you
still laugh just as easy over the whisk-
Pennsylvania avenue was paved with
wooden blocks?
We are striving manfully, too. to keep
up our habit of being ostensibly and visi-
bly, gleeful when the pair Of Sidewalk
comedians" standing in front of the drop
depicting long thoroughfare with no
folks walking on it. begin to swat. each
other in the chops with folded news
papers and say, II seen y'r sister yistiddy
wit a gink what looked like piece O.
cheese" or '"They tell me y'r old man
got pinched on Choosday fr swipin gas
pipe CAV, gittout! 1t wasn't gas
pipe, it was a dish o. prunes-haw, haw,
haw!D and who was that doll seen
youse moochin' aroun' wit las night? =
we try right hard. we repeat, to work up
the old, old cachinnatory stuff when the
sidewalk comedians pull these things on
us, and belt each other cruelty in the
stomachs with thei- walking sticks in adj
dition to the punishment they infiict with
their folded newspapers. But. somehow,
we feel, when We laugh at 'em nowadays.
that we're sort of trying to put one over
on ourselves; that our lawfter isn't on the
level: that our glee is phony; that our
haw-hawings are. SO to speak, sort of
punkerino incense that we're burning
counterfeitishly at an old shrine, just for
the sake of antique times.
Then there's the sketch in which the
souse "jes' lef tn club, m dear." and
However. we only started to say that
the old TOMS do sort O. linger around
and hang on, don't they? c. L. C.
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"HoteI Spool"

LARRY LAUDER at a Scotch Dime,
81 In Chicago said during the haggis
course:
TN tell you a sto'y about Arthur Rob
erts and me. The pair Of US were in
Manchester when we saw, on the sport
ing page of the Guardian, a paragraph
that said:
I'm consequence Of the number of UNI
supported challenges recently forwarded
to this paper. we give notice that in flu
ture only genuine challenges can be ac-
cepted for insertion in our columns. AS
a proof OF good faith, each challenge
must be paid for at the uniform rate of
one shilling
Arthur, said I. Here's chance for
joke
How said he.
Il read the notice to him and then and
/ shall never cease to be proud-a Hotel
Spool challenge. OF course there is no
such game or sport as spool. Spool is a
word very few people have ever even
heard Of. To spool is to get off i'm
promptu nonsense on the stage.
We'll, our challenge ran:
Hotel Spoof-Harry Lauder, hearing
so much talk about A. Roberts being the
champion spool player of England, will
play Roberts game of Hotel Spool for
NV pouliuS q que, CdlCH DIS CdlCii CdIi,
over eight flights of hurdles, bathroom
barred. Address money and man. H.
Lauder. Comedy Theater, Manchester.
THAT was the challenge. and we had
no idea what it meant after we had
drawn it up. Nevertheless we carried 1t
boldly to the Guardian Office. The clerk
read it in daZed way.
One insertion, please, said Roberts,
planking down a shilling.
Excuse me- said the clerk. but what
Is spoof?'
Roberts glared at him.
None OF your nonsense with me-
young man. he growled. What is spool ?
You'll be asking what chess whist is
next
And the following morning, directly
under the editorial notice that only genu-
inc challenges could be accepted for in
sertion,' appeared our little paragraph
about Hotel Spool.
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pressroom and several who drop in to
sleep in the afternoon.
Third-Word comes from the Commits
sioners that the forty candidates are be-
ing carefully reviewed. Evidences on
the part of private secretaries that they
believe this news will be flashed in bulle-
tin form to every crossroads in the
United States.
Fourth-No work being done in the en-
tire District building. Young women in
Assessor Richards Office saying, ooh, if
they don't hurry up. just know I'll have
nervous prostration."
Fifth-Newspaper men soaring Waldo
Hibbs to death b. declaring that they
are going on in and profane the presence
of the board as it sits enmeshed in
thought.
Sixth-waldo Hibbs explaining for the
45454546th time that the present board is
not composed of former newspaper men,
and therefore has not the newspaper
sight OF things.
Seyenth-word is carried out, in great
solemnity. that the candidates for the
position on the board Of assistant asses
sOrs have been reduced to thirty-nine.
This after long conclave.
Eighth-Charles C.. Rogers explains to
newspaper men that 1t is improper to
wear shirts with detached cuffs.
Ninth-Dr. William C. Tindall worried
because he has not been called into con-
ference.
Tenth-Word comes forth that the can
didates have been reduced to thirty-seven.
Eleventh-James L. Feeney and Sidney
Bieber come to the pressroom and pose
for picture to be called 'The 1n-Bad
Brothers,
Twelfth-Newspaper men say they will
go home.
Thirteenth-Quick ending of mystery
and discussion. Appointment made in
time for morning papers.
And just think what would happen If
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but the southerner, with hereditary hatred
OF cowardice, has never forgotten those
una!filiated dastards who promised so
much and did so little for him. but so
much to discredit him in the opinion OF
the candid world.
And this is twice that / have been
made ashamed of my democratic brethren
for accepting such assistance. No matter
of last week, the glory of that fight. now
and hereafter, is all with Uncle joe
A BIG crowd of people. evidently all
"A in one party. and apparently from
out Of town. walked down the Avenue the
other day and filed into moving picture
theater. They packed the place from one
end to the other and many OF them
had to stand up. The fire regulations
were being violated in about four DIFF
ferent ways. for there were quite
number of stand-ups in the aisles.
Goodness" said a newspaper man who
happened to be standing near the door, Il
wonder what would happen if somebody
yelled fire. -
Not thing replied the manager
and proprietor of the place., with bored
air.
"Why?" asked the newspaper man.
Because said the proprietor. 'all
these people are visiting deaf-mutes.'
And he ordered the piano player to take
a rest because 1t wasn't any use to turn
out perfectly good music for the crowd.
IN the Congressional Directory Asher c.
! Kinds is called 'the clerk at the
Speakers table" This might mean al
most anything. He might run errands, or
hustle ice water for members. or do odd
jobs around the House But it doesn't.
As matter of fact Asher Kinds is the
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onjenoo, who stakes us to a peek at sep
arate costooms with each and every Tilt?
Nothing. We'd just do nothing, that's
all. The world would balance UP the
books and pull down the shutters and put
the cat out and turn off the gas and go
out of business.
Also it crept dolefully through our
mind the other night that 'twould be a
bleak kind CT a world If vodeveal were
suddenly to decline to let US have any
more of those horizontal bar acts with
the funny man Of the troupe pulling the
hobo stuff.
Rutherford B. Hayes was President
when first we saw that. Twas in a va
riety show, a combination run by Tony
Pastor, that we saw it, And when we
say it all over again the other night II
was difficult for us to believe that the
same folks weren't doing it as did it then.
Certainly they couldn't have been. could
they've? But they looked the same.
The main gink Of the outfit had the
same Sicilian BARRIERS moustache, with
twisted end". and his slick hair was
still reached way up on the side, and
he had the same nifty blue silk elastics
to hold UP his tunic sleeves, and for
sure thing he had the same trick of
wiping his hands with his handker-
chief after each stunt, and then causing
the handkerchief to vanish mysterious
ly and baffiingly before our very eyes.
And, Of course, the funny horizontal
bar artist, with the hobos makeup,
bore a marvellous resemblance to the
bum who accompanied the act We saw
during the Hayes regime.
He had the same dainty, delicate,
chaste trick Of hoising himself up atop
of table by frenziedly clutching the
slack of his-er-his neither garments.
We remember. oh we remember. how
we laughed just At to bust when first
we saw him do that slack-clutching thing
back in the year 1877
We felt it. therefore. bounden, al
most a sacred, duty to laugh just the
same way when he thus hoisted himself
only the other night. The laugh may
have sounded a little hollow and forced
and sepulchral in our ears: but we laugh
ed: we have a naive reverence for old
customs old observances. and so we
laughed. But. However. we found it
not quite so easy to chirk up with the
old laugh when the bum pulled whisk-
broom out of his pocket and proceeded
to brush his clothes with it.
Y'know, after you've been handing 'em a
laugh for that whisk-broom thing for
about thirty years and odd, why, 1t be-
comes sort o. Oh. well, you know how
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lance almost equal to that assumed W
Kinks Corners when Representative Dig
inbottom comes to spend the day with
the Hon. Josh Peppercorn. A young
friend of mime, who represents q local
paper at the District building, tells me
that there Was as much secrecy and
smoke and rushing hither and yon over
the vacancy In the board of assistant
assessors as there would have been II
somebody had suddenly discovered Capt.
Kids treasure out in front OF the
White House.
A pen picture of the hours preceding
that moment when Waldo Hibbs woihd
come from the Commissioners room
bearing in his mouth the magic name OF
the appointee:
First-commissioners gathering togeth-
or for secret condave. Newspaper men
asking them, as q matter of course. VINO
would be the appointee. Hush, hush! cho-
rus from trembling private secretaries.
second-Larger conclave of newspaper
men. three from each of the morning pa
pers, four from the police headquarters
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idealism, the uniforms worn by regular
army soldiers; and underneath the pic
lures of uniforms is fine lot OF beauti-
fully written and printed text, informing
all hands what splendid thing 1t Is to
be an enlisted man in the army; the
money soldiers get the privilegesS they
enjoy, the promotions they attain. the
foreign countries they have a chance to
see, and SO on.
When young fellers who don't look par
ticularly prosperous halt at the pictured
uniforms and begin to humble over the
text of the appeal to enlist, it's the BUSH
ness of the grizzled old swaddie to take
EN- in hand, SO to speak, and tell 'em a
lot of appealing and intimate first-hand
details about the big bet they're overlook
ing by remaining in civil life and not TAX
ing on with the sojers of their Uncle
Samuel.
l noticed. passing that way, that most,
if not nearly all, of the young fellers
thus addressed by the old-timer on re-
cruting duty just sort Of grinned and
then passed along.
Which, naturally, impelled me to ask
the old-timer why they did that. The
old soldier on recruiting duty whom
thus addressed knows the army inside
and out He has been soldiering-real
soldiering-for nearly thirty years. and
was chasing the 'Pache Kid and Geron-
imo away back in the eighties. What he
doesn't know about the inside game of
soldering as an enlisted man in this
mans army could be compressed in a
very small space. He has repeatedly
been in the Philippines, went through the
Boxer campaign knows Cuba and Porto
Rico by heart, and harks back to the
days of hard soldering on the frontier.
They're just nibbling-not biting sos
you could notice it, said the old-timer to
me, after having spent fruitless quarter
of an hour in telling a couple of likely
looking young chaps about the fun of
being recruits, only to see them turn
away with the invariable grin after he'd
paused for breath.
Il reckon the young fellows In this
town must read the papers, went on the
old-timer. And there isn't much chance
TO fool people who read the papers.
Those uniforms on our signboards look
most of the young chaps just laugh when
they swing by and take a peek at the
pictures of the uniforms.
You may fool kid with jack In the
box, but you're not going to fool a grown
up man with cute colOred picture.
This, understand, is all on the side
and under your hat; I'd lose me cor
poraIs stripes If they found out that I'd
been chaw baconing or barracks-laWyer-
ing. But there are some things that even
an old swaddie like me enjoys getting out
OF his system.
"Ysee, it was figured out by the army
folks at the top of this recruiting bust
ness that when the hard times first broke
out, quite a spell ago now, the young
fellows would be driven into the army In
sets of fours They rubbed their hands
over that idea.
But it didn't come off that way. I've
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eyed hero as portrayed by the illus
traitors.
Take his haircut, too. We know hull
slews and slathers of right good looking
young fellers who do not part their hair
way down on the side, you know; who.
on the contrary. part their hair quite
often in the middle, or brush it back
pompadour. or part it on the side. but
not way down on the side. and they don
slick it up, either, but just give it sort
Of a dab with brush and comb and then
fare forth into the highways and by
ways. looking wholesomely human.
But the illustrators just will make all
OF their twelve and half-footers side
parters: way down at the side-parters,
at that: and If you happen to meet up
with an illustrator (as the humble I'M
dersigned did only yesterday and tell
him about that. and other things in con-
nection with his sukylooking heroes,
why, he'll just sort O look you over out
of the corner of his nigh wick much
as to say y'know, that you didn't study
with Julian for about twenty minutes.
and that you wouldn't know how to wear
a nifty velvet studio coat If you had one,
and that you didn't know an illustration
from ten cents worth of Cuttings and
that you had a noive with you, a sure
enough nofve, to intimate, etc, etc.
Oh, well.
Next week, with the audiences kindly
indulgence, we are going to project a
humilious word or so with reference to the
illustrators portrayal of the Heroines of
Current Fiction.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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wings squad should occur!
DURING the last few years, when Cam
- non and Cannonism have been ac-
tive issues before the country many
appreciations-and depreciations-of I'm
Gle Joe have been written. But it re-
manned for New England democrat,
who seems to be sore on his party in
the House for combining with the re-
publican insurgents to encompass the
defeat OF the Iron Duke" to turn
loose real classy line of language on
the subject. He calls this sketch of
Uncle Joe, or whatever it may be, which
he sent to Representative Roberts of
Massachusetts, After Mature Delhi
Grafton" Here it is:
in the House has been good for the
country or bad for the country, affects
in no way true Americans estimate
OF the superb fighting qualities of the
man. No American with a grain of that
courage in his makeup that was nur-
can read the story Of the contest of
the week ending March 10 but he will
feel the blood of generations Of fighters
tinging to his finger tips and uncon-
sciously will find himself repeating that
favorite of our school days: 'Spartacus
to the Gladiators.'
I'm all the history Of the ages. when
knighthood held the stage and chivalry
was at it's best, in all the stories of the
crusaders, wrestling holy things from the
hands of the fnfidel. there is no more in
spring spectacle than this
mo mail-clad knight with broken he'll
met-clasps and riven shield--trampled in
the bloody coze of lost f1eld-ever struck
back at the forces that bore him down
with more deathless courage than that