The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-15

your noodle!" the preacher exclaimed.
"You can fool some OF the people all
Of the time and perhaps all Of the peo-
pie some of the time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time"
There may be polite gamblers In
Chlckasha who think they're not
known!" the evangelist continued.
But many have got their number, and
they can't hide from their own eyes.
Old Splitfoot's got your number. too.
The devil is not all-wise, but he's wise
enough to know yon, and don't you for
get it. Don't think you're going to
play a prank on God. He knows you.
He knows your shams and pretenses,
and He's not going to be Knocked by
you or anybody elsei His is an iney-
liable and incontrovertible law, and
you must let II hit you four-square--
what a man soweth that shell he also
reap!p
Tetley said man held his destiny in
his own hands, and if he sowed to his
carnal nature he would reap his car
nal tomorrow, but If he sowed to the
spirit then he would of the spirit reap
life everlasting. If Chickasha sows
whisky, Tetley said. it would reap
drunkards, and he plunged into a fiery
denunciation of liquor and its robbery
OF manhood, insisting that nobody
could get by and deal with it. He ex-
coriated liquor, showing the evils re-
sulting from it, and Illustrating the
ruin and misery it brought by preaent-
ing several instances OF its destruc-
tive action.
He related how hog-raiser on a
Mississippi island had accepted sam
pie hogshead OF sour brew as feed for
animals, but none of the high-toned,
well-bred hogs would touch it. A
hazel-spIitter, razorback hog, that had
never been able to get fat, Tapped up
the stuff and became drunk, where
upon all the decent hogs fled from IL,
with the razorback tearfully stagger-
ing after pleading for hearing. Fin
ally. when the razorback cornered the
decent hogs, it explained that 1t had
not known what it was taking, begged
forgiveness and cried: III you'll just
take me back into yoar decent hog
society again ! give you my word Ill
be just hog all my life and never.
never will try to act like a man
again."
A man filled with prohibition whisky
sat down and went to sleep on coffin
box In chickasha a few nights ago,
Tetley said, and he told Of a Missouri
mother who. when dying compelled a
promise from her besotted son to
never drink except she gave him the
liauor with her own hands He bought
quart bottle of liquor, put 1t in her
dead, cold hands, then raised the bottle
thus clasped to his lips and drank the
liquid, appearing at his own mothers
funeral in a beastly drunken condi-
tiou.
TetIey told Of an old neighbor had
had been a clever carpenter but who
went to the days and finally sold his
poor wiie's dead body to an anatomi
cal board for the sum Of $40, which
he spent for liquor Aud he related
another told BY Former Governor
Bob Tayior-of the bridegroom who
told his wife he was going to lodge
but who instead mixed with the boys
and got drunk. AS he left his home ~
was singing blithely, Sweet Little
Buttercups.p and recalling that as h'
neared home again he decided he mus
sing the same song In order TO deceive
his selpmeet into belief in his sobriety
Therefore he began caroling thickly
sweet little gutter pups, sweet littl'
gutter pups. He had been transform
ed from sweet little buttercup int'
dirty little gutter pup in only fev
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