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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03

Ladies one-pieee blue and tan linen
dresses. $2.9s. The Banner Store. See
our ad. page 2. S-2t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03

For Saie-Rough on Flies, a disln-
fectant for an insects for sale by Hot
Mnesworth & Hnl. Try "a today 2-at
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03

The "chckasha Athletics new
independent baseball team. win play
at Alex Sunday
Six pair ladies' stockings that will
wear six months, $3.50 The Banner
Store, 4l9 Chickasha avenue 3-2t
c. c. c special sale this week on
chlldrens fancy hats and caps for %
and so cents See window. Cochran
Clothing Comuany 2-St
c. c. c. work for you while you
while you sleep, children. Planning
the latest styles in classy suits, hats
and caps. For $l.75 we can dress you.
Cochran Clothing Company 2-3t
c. {. c. special sale this week on
mems pure all wool worsted suits. for
$40. Regular values. $i5. Cochran
Clothing Company 2-St
Chndrens romper dresses. from 9S
cents up. The Banner Store See our
ad. page ?. s-2t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03

]. r. Abercromble is spending the
day in Oklahoma City
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03

Don't forget the silk dress sale al
the Banner Store. See ad. page 2.
3-2t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03
Looked THAI WAY. I

Looked That Way.
Same old ionQulls and dafodila,
see"
What's the natter Do you think
nature ought to set out some newer
modelA i"--lkansan qig Journxi.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-05-03
Additional Locals

4 + +4444 %@+%+ = = =
> WEATHER FORECAST. .
4 For chIckasha and vicinity: To =
= night partly cloudy weather; 4
= colder. Wednesday generally fair Z
= warmer =
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Sharing Plumber.

In an address at Omaha recently,
former Governor Joseph Folk Of Mis-
souri, said:
'Tf it be said that the protective
system is wrong. but as long as it is
allowed we might as well get share
of the plumber for our own state, the
answer is that sharing in the proceeds
of robbery could as we'll be justified
by claiming that since men will rob
we might as well profit by this weak
ness of mankind The real purpose of
protection is to stifle competition, and
to that extent help monopoly. The
time has come to protect the people
from monopoly instead of protecting
monopoly from the people. 1t is
claimed that under the protective sys-
tenn money is distributed by dripping
down to the people from the over
flowed pockets of the protective tariff
barons; If that were true, the people
would simply be getting back part
of that which was taken from them I'M
justly. Whenever a few men obtain
more than they ought to have through
privilege, there must be some who Will
have less than they should have. To
say that when everybody pays zoo
much for everything everybody is
benefited is to state an absurdity. IF
the privilege of protection could be &C
corded to all alike, it would in the ma
ture of things benefit no one. 1t is be-
cause it gives a few special privileges
at the expense of the many that these
few clamor so loudly for it. and it IS
for that reason the many should not
submit to it,
Privilege seems to get more firmly
entrenched despite all the constant
opposition. The fault lies in public
apathy. 1t requires more than lectures
and books and editorials and speeches
to arouse the people. 1t requires
something like the present unbearable
rise in prices. 1t requires something
to separate them from the usual
amount of food and clothing So. the
present situation as to exorbitant
prices resultant from high tariff legis-
lation and plumber by privilege may
do good after all, If the people are
awakened from their apathy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
The Argus Daily Short Story
Caught in Her Own Trap-By Horace Hill
Copyrighted 1910. by Associated Literary Press

T lay low and permitted the figure to
fit away in the darkness. Then
dived into the letter box.
/ pulled out an envelope stamped
with leaves and flowers and cupids
and all such things and, looking at the
superScriptiOn, saw that it was for Mr..
Theodore Etherton, or my own self. 1
opened it, expecting some kind Of a
decoy from the little mischief maker
next door. and 1 was not disappointed.
The missive purported to be a valen
tine with the harmless anonymity usu-
al in valentines. But the recipient was
invited to Join the writer the next
evening at 8 o'clock in little summer
house in grounds at the time vacant in
rear of our place.
Here was accomplished what 1 had
been racking my brains to invent.
Miss Mary was intending to draw me
to a meeting with some one who
would probably turn out to be no one
and doubtless from a hiding place OBJ
serve my chagrin.
l don't know whether l was more
delighted with the Witness Of this
scheme or the innocence that was in
tending to perpetrate 1t. One thing ]
know; was yearning to get the little
girl encircled in my arms and heap
Goals of fire on her head in the shape
Of a volley of kisses.
The next morning from my window
at the rear of the house and overlook
ing the summer house that was in
tended for the scene of my disappoint-
ment / made a careful survey of the
grounds. A path led from a gate be-
hind our yard and a path from the
Blakes' yard to the summer house.
Between these two paths and near to
the summer house were some bushes.
Miss Blake would observe me going to
the rendezvous and would follow me
under cover of the darkness. What, if
anything, she intended to do l didn't
know; but, whatever it was, it would
be done from behind the bushes.
During the day l kept a sharp look
out upon the fair one next door-not
an inappropriate occupation for st.
Valentines day-and observed her go
ing about demurely, with never smile
on her face or, so far as 1 could see.
q twinkle in her eye. To look at
her one would have supposed butter
wouldn't melt In her mouth. There
was something fascinating in gazing
upon such innocence, knowing the
while that it was merely a cover for
the most arrant ROBUSTNESS. As for
casting the least bit of a sly glance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

Ny brother Tom is fifteen years older
than 1 and very different fellow in
every way. Tom never cared anything
about the girls. while l confess l al
ways had a fancy for them. When l
was fourteen l went away to boarding
school and stayed until l was eighteen.
1 had left Tom single, and single re
remained.
On my return l could see, over a
high hedge that separated our place
from the one adjoining, that during my
absence a family had moved in there.
among the members of which was a
girl as pretty as a peach. She was
about sixteen years old. wearing her
skirts to the tops of her boots.
rather fancied she was not averse to
practicing any kind of mischief that
might occur to her
This was a mere inference till ST.
Valentines day came round; then it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Uncertain.
unfathoned mystery

The great. unfathoned mystery
Is what lies just ahead
What does tomorrow hold that comes
With slow. soft footed tread7
You know the tale OF yesterday.
It's failure or success,
But what IS in the coming day
You cannot even guess.
Will It be like the days that have
Vanished from your view.
Or will II turn some different tricks
And show you something new2
Will life serenely glide along
Just like a story book?
VIII II contain some sweet SURPRISE
Or will you get the hook7
Most OF the days that come along
Are like the days that go
Or like some soldiers OF the line
All standing IN a row.
When they have served their little time
And tumbled in the ditch
It puzzles you in but a week
To know just which was which.
But, an, tomorrow-what OF ft7
WIN 1t be dun and tame.
A day of routine and. in short
Another Of the same.
Or will IL be a day that lives.
landmark. tail and bright7
What lies beyond that blackencd ridge
That marks the coming night? =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Insurance Against Strikes.

So great are the evils inflicted both
upon workingnen and their employers
by labor strikes that ingenuity has ex-
hausted itself in the search for means
of mitigating them If they cannot be
wholly removed. In regard to the car
rying companies it has been suggested
that as the public has the greatest in
terest in them they should be subject
ed to compulsory arbitration. 1t is in
tolerable that the business and inter
course of city, state or whole re-
gion of the country should be inter
rupted because the managers and en-
sployes of semi-public corporation re-
fuse absolutely to agree upon a set
Element of their disputes. But nothing
has been accomplished or seriously
attempted in bringing about lasting
truce between capital and labor in this
country.
! ON the other hand, United States
Consul Talbot J. Albert, at Brunswick,
Germany, in a report to the state de-
partment in Washington describes how
the principle of insurance has been
successfully applied to strikes as well
rs to property, lives and other objects.
so numerous have been the strikes in
fkat district that the manufacturers
have resorted to insurance as the only
effective means Of protection against
specuniary losses. Consul Albert says
that while the strikers suffer much,
they incur little pecuniary loss, be-
cause when their funds run out they
are supported by kindred labor unions
But the manufacturers are condemned
Z to inactivity; their production ceases
sand they are in danger of losing the
markets which they have opened at
great loss. It is hardly worth while to
calculate the relative injuries of an in
sdustrial strike, but as the workingmen
arc by far the most numerous, their
ssuherings are much the greatest, es-
specially when the strike fails of it's
object. When the funds of the strik-
sers are exhausted in long struggle
they must depend on charity or per-
slsh.
The German methods of insurance
against strikes as described by Consul
Albert differ in their application by
different companies. In the case of a
simple strike insurance begins at once,
but not always in cases in which the
workingmen are locked out by the en-
sployers. 1t must be shown that the
strike is not caused by the employers
before compensation is granted.
SAThe institution is In it's infancy. and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Notice for Bids.

Notice is hereby given that bids will
be received by the undersigned on the
following repairs on the Rock river
bridge, one mile southeast of Hills
dale, III;
On removal of old plank of bridge
and furnishing of $4,000 feet of good
white pine or fir plank inches thick.
10 to u inches wide. 16 feet long:
best of oak plank 10 be used TO com
plete floor
On removal with stiff bush ali scales
or loose paint from ironworll of bridge
and giving two coats of graphite and
linseed oil paint.
On building concrete pier at east end
of main bridge. pier to be reinforced
with 1900 pounds of 3-S-inch steel rode
laid both ways. Dimensions of pier,
at bottom. % feet long. 1 feet wide:
at top. q feet long. 2 feet wide.
Contract will be awarded at Hills
dale Feb. 8. 1910. All bids must be
submitted to John Weckel or Swan
Dahlberg. Moline, who will furnish all
information desired. The committee
reserves the right to reject any or all
bids. All bids must be submitted not
later than Feb. T. 1910.
JOHN WECKEL.
BEN GREENE.
Committee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been help
ed by the president of the Industrial
and Orphans Home at Macon, Ga,
who writes: I'VE have used Electric
Bitters in this institution for nine
years. It has proved a most excellent
medicine for stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles. We regard it as one of
the best family medicines on earth"
1t invigorates all vital organs, purifies
the blood, aids digestion, creates appe.
tite. To strengthen and build up pale,
thin, weak children or rundown peo-
pie, it has no equal. Best for female
complaints. Only so cents at all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
PAINLESS ANIMAL TRAINING.
Paris Geological Psychologists Start q
New Circus Seminary.

New Circus Seminary.
Paris will soon own a wild animal
training institute which will lend addi-
tional significance to the showman's
claim that 1t is ''all done by kindness"
1t is the outcome of project formed
by the Society For Geological PsychoI-
ogy, body which receives a subsidy
from the state.
Psychical persuasion, as it is called.
without corporal punishment is the
sole method that will be followed. EX-
actly how it is to be applied is as yet
the secret Of the trainers. The staff
will include learned biologists as well
as a selected number of animal tanners
who have had practical experience in
circuses and menagerles.
Those who aspire to a professional
career in this direction may receive
their tuition at the institute In Paris.
The first lot OF animals to undergo the
treatment comprises Hons, tigers. Loop
ards, hyenas and bears. These will be
transported from the geological gar
dens to the new institute. which is To-
Gated in an adjoining building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
AMENDMENT Good
JUL Law Limiting Taxation to
Per Cent Approved by
Supreme Court.
TEST IN SANGAM0N CASE
Ground Was That 1t Is a Local and
Special Act Regulating Counties
and Townships.

Springfield, Ill, Feb. 2.-The
amendments to the JUL law passed
by the legislature at its regular ses-
sion last year are held by the SUI
preme court, in an opinion handed
down yesterday, to be constitutional.
The result is that taxing bodies will
be limited and the rate of taxation
will be kept to per cent, instead
of Pc cent, as under the old law,
which is repealed by the amendment.
Inc supreme court holds that the
new amendments to the JUL act are
consti( tional, and reverses the de-
cision of Judge Creighton of the San
CANON circuit court, who neld the
amendments to be unconstitutional.
Demurrer VIII BE Sustained.
1t remands the case with directions
to sustain the demurrer of County
Clerk Charles Opel to the petition
of William BooCh, assistant super
visor of Sangam en- county, who had
asked for a writ of mandamus di-
recting County Clerk Opel to extend
the taxes as reported to him by the
various taxing bodies of the county.
The lower court held that the
amendments to the JUL law limited
the constitutional powers Of the
county to levy taxes sufficient to sup
port it's own government and that
the act was a local and special Law
regulating county and township az
fairs.
Court Defines Taxing Power.
The supreme court held that neath-
er counties nor cities have any inner
ent power to levy taxes, but the pow
er is dependent upon legislation. and
it may be destroyed or discontinued
at the pleasure of the legislature, I'M
less there is an interference with
some existing obligation and a con-
sequent violation of some constitu-
tional provision. The objection is
held to be unfounded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
"LEr NE col I DON'T KNOW YOU"

ME GO! KNOW YOU.
became a certainty The girl, whose
name was Mary Blake. gave herself
away by very simple process A
cousin. Maud Blake. considerably older
than herself and very proper old
maid, was visiting ct the house. A
valentine came through the mail for
Mr.. T. Etherton and was delivered TO
me. My brothers name Is Tom and
mine is Theodore. both initials letters
being ct" Since l considered Tom too
old a fogy to receive a valentine, |
took the benefit Of the doubt, opened
apd read it. There were some verses
in it referring to the warnthOf mid
die aged heart, which convinced me
that it was intended for Tom. Open
ing little pocket built in it, l took
out bit of paper on which had been
scrawled almost illegibly, Maud"
1t seemed rather strange to me that
an elderly person like the middle aged
spinster next door should send my
ministerial looking brother a valentine,
especially with her name on 1t. /
was bothered for time. then all of
a sudden the whole scheme flashed
upon me. The little humbug Mary was
intending to perpetrate joke on her
cousin.
But 1 was not Of an age myself to
waste time in repentance for having
spoiled love story. 1 was busy hatch
ing mischief myself. raclzed my
brain for some plan to pay the heart
less Mary in her own coin. but without
much success. Toms valentine had
come in the mail delivery the evening
before st. Valentines day. ! said moth
ing to Tom about it. not intending that
he should do anything to spoil any
FRANKS 1 might decide TO play on the
perpetrator of the joke.
We have letter box beside our
front door, and that evening while
coming around from the back to the
front Of the house 1 saw a figure steal
ing in at the gate and on tiptoe up
the walk to the house. Stepping be-
hind tree where would not be OBJ
served. l saw the fgure-it wore a
dress-go up to the letter box and slip
something in. Not caring to declare
myself at this stage of the proceedings.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
High Prices.

Some heavy editorial writing is be-
ing done by newspaper editors who
espouse the cause of Aldrich, Cannon,
ct al. in an effort to explain that pres
ent high prices OF the necessarles of
life are in no way connected with the
present robber tarifs. They attribute
the trouble to other alleged causes.
A few of them profess not to know
what the causes of the trouble are.
Others assume to know it all, and some
blame the people themselves for their
own inability to meet the prices exact
ed by unmerciful monopoIies.
One of the republican editors tells
in beautiful dictum that it could not
be the tariff, because articles. tariff
upon which they say has been re-
duced, have been increased in price
proportionately with articles the tariff
upon which has been increased.
In almost every state in the union
movements are being started in oppo-
sition to the high prices. Legislatures
are passing resolutions calling for in
vestigations. Well meaning enthusi-
asts have started boycotts upon GER
tain articles, and protests have gone
up against conditions existing which
affect the breakfast table. They affect
the home. They affect every man,
woman and child.
These movements for an investiga-
ton are all right, ard we hope they
will result in exposing causes, but we
do not have faith that action against
the beef trust will bring any be;cel
results than were obtained from the
famous beef trust investigation OF
some years past, or the sugar trust
investigation which did nothing but
effect the escape of the monopolists
who were guilty
In brief. it is expected that this IN
vestigation will go down in history
with the others. as only an effort to
hide the real facts and shadow the
actual causes.
The cost of living in the United
States today is high largely because
Of the robber tariff law.
The present tariff law was devised
by Senator Aldrich, a close friend of
the trusts The trusts are reaping
the benefits.
1t is an undisputed fact that Presi-
dent Taft and his political lieutenants
promised during the campaign that the
tariff would be reduced. When they
took Office they did not keep their
promises, but increased the average
tariff rate. Such laws and such en-
from the national admin
istration make it possible for the
trusts to monopolize production and
establish prices at a standard that is
exorbitant and oppressive.
Some good may be established In
this effort to ameliorate conditions.
but no permanent good will be accom-
plished until the people take advan-
tage of the next opportunity to place
in office members of congress who will
stand up and secure enactment Of a
tariff law which will curb the trusts,
and by curbing the trusts limit their
over products, and. make 1t
impossible for them to dictate exorbi-
tant prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Feb. 2 in American
History

l651-Sir William Phipps, famous as
governor of Massachusetts,, born;
died 1898.
1S4S-Treaty of peace between the
United States and Mexico signed
at Guadalupe; end OF Mexican war.
1894 - The famous war corvet Kear-
sarge, which vanquished the Con-
federate cruiser Alabama in 1864,
wrecked during a storm in the
Caribbean sea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
MOVING With the Times.

"a man to get along these days must
accommodate himself TO conditions"
But suppose he can't?"
Then he must 20 by the board
There is Comoner. He started I'm life
running a delivery stable. Then he
turned into bicycle repair shop and
next TO a garage"
Il suppose he is satisfied nowY'
40: he is thinking Of Transforming
It into an aeroplane station"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

With an attempt on the part of the
government to reduce expenses by
looping off expensive commissions.
why not let the monetary commission
be made up of 80 bankers now in the
Leavenworth penitentiary. Every one
Is a f1nancier Of high type, and most
of them held up their hands in holy
horror few years since for fear the
government might coin a dishonest
dollar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Whom He Suspected.

"Does any insanity run in your fam
1y?' asked the examining physician.
Doctor, didn't come here to be in
suited"
But. 1 must know your family his
cory
You are not limiting at my mother
in-law, are you?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Farmers Clock Device to Feed Horse:

Farmers Clock Device to Feed Horses.
An alarm clock attachment which
feeds and waters the horses was re-
Gently put in operation on the farm
of George Howe Of Center Hill, near
Hartford, Conn. At $50 o'clock every
morning the alarm goes off, releasing
a weight, which slides several quarts
of oats into each stall and removes
the covers OF the water pals. Thus
Mr.. Howe is enabled to sleep an hour
later every morning. Moreover. all
the horses are fed simultaneously. and
there is no jealous neighing because
one horse is fed before his neighbor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

1t is announced that Senator Lori
mer has found himself still unable to
have that patronage talk with Senator
Cullom 1t must be remembered that
Senator Cullom is an old man and no
doubt a little hard of hearing when 1t
comes to questions such as thawing in
the matter of distribution of the Of
fees
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Committee.

Do you know that Group can be pre-
vented? Give Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the crorpy cough
appears and it viii prevent the attack.
It is also a certain cure for Group and
has never been known to fail. Sold
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

If troubled with indigestion, consti-
patton, no appetite or feel bilious. give
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
let's a trial and you will be pleased
with the result. These tablets invig-
crate the stomach and liver and
strengthen the digestion. Sold by all
druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

Boost for Rock Island. Stand by
your pledges to make the city great
Industrial center, and you will be re-
warded for your pluck and enterprise
by seeing your brightest hopes re-
allied.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02
Explained.

IS-fsAaANGNs
"You seem TO be getting out rather
early for you, Brown"
"Yes"
Feeling pretty spry, eh?'
"Nawr
"Then why this thusnessT'
1.-THE COMPOUNDED bill collectors get
around awfully early this year. and
Just have TO beat them to the few dol
lars ! have got"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

- In Portland, Ore, a man has sold
for $25O,006 lot which he secured
for a shotgun years ago. Men hav-
ing shotguns ought to do well in
Portland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-02

Walter Wellman intends to sail
across the ocean in his balloon. This
Is the same man and balloon that sail
ed thousand miles from the pole.