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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Bob Richards, president Of the p H.
& c. L. club is gathering evidence in
the case against f, L. Wren and he
expects to set a conviction on the
first ballot
But it is unreasonable to expect q
man to take a large hand iw the con.
yersation when he is with a nartg Of
women and the topic OF discussion IS
fan dresses.
Oscar Simpson has corkin' good
speech in cold storage He went to
Alex to unload it but the first day he
was rained out and the next day
llong-winded speaker used an OF the
time.
Hizzoner. the mayor, has made il
perfectly plain that he won't stand
for any more gaddin' about the streets
after 8 p. m. and boys and girls under
sixteen might as we'll make up their
mind to beat it home when the siren
sounds
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

And that others only have ordinary
debts and business and such minor
troubles?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Speaking OF severing diplomatic re.
lutions st isn't 50 easy to sever poor
relations.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

That some men have two or three
automobiles?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Ambition without energy Is a beau-
ttful car with four punetured tires.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

1t requires lots OF headwork to be
Il successful barber-in fact, the more
heads the more success.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

A man who isn't afraid Of the world
can easily turn the devils flank.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

And that many OF 1he pictures we
see lead us to believe they We're writ
ten three minutes later?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24
a STOLEN SMILE 'ER TWO
) 4+**4+%*4444

Scientifically Speaking.
The Milkman ito suspicious custo-
merl--You won't find nothing wrong
with that ma'am. All our milk's par
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

That vacations ure great things'
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Strange no song writer has
thought to write one about the Nom
day Blues.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

And That it rests many a weary man,
when he stays home aione2
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24
DoNTs FOR HOUSEWIVES
lon.t Be a househeld gfInd.

Don't be a household grind.
Don't knock his friends. You need
not accept them, but you can be coar-
teous always.
Don't invite company to dinner and
ther serve something you have never
tried out before.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

A congressman wants the Record
abolished That's the trouble with
most Of us.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

THAT a motion picture scenario
writer is born every three minutes?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

No wonder the poor, poet is rldiculed.
Often he presents a. beautiful thought
to man who would rather have a
chew Of tobacco. -
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

The Hawaiian craze is dying out.
There Is hope for the country vet.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

saD'orlOs NJ M DsuS r1OFs.a
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Talk OF dry state makes the seutl.
mental toper's heart ache for the poor
corn raisers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

And thar a lot more face powder ~
heing used with fatal resultsg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Before marriage the woman tries To
catch the man and afterward she does
also, come to think about it.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

His bait is the lare Of treRehery--
ana the angler gets mad II the fool fish
wont swallow II.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

That an awful lot Of gunpowder Is
being used with fatal resutsg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

And that the reason is they haven
anything in their heads to worry with
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

That some people never worry about
anythlngg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Old glories are not all passing away.
'Auctioneers and pAtent-medlcine ven
ders still strive 10 perpetuate the
grand old whiskers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

That money comes easier today than
II did ten years ago? M
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

Our language possesses elasticity.
but don't promise 10 "see about a
Thing when you 0nly intend 10 see
around It,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-24

The young man who Is always look
ing for snaps" IL atfleasi as aspiring
as the turtle hunter u H, Mackley,
In Ohio Farmer s
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-11

THE MIRACLE WHEAT.
It often happens that Nature produces a
new type Of an old plant. Whether this
phenomenon belongs to the principle and
process of evolution, I do not know.
The original of the Tomato grows vet in
Florida, and is not larger than big cherry
1t grew wild on the place I owned near Miami,
and l have chopped many of the bushes with
a bush-hook, in cleaning the ground for
shrubs and flowers.
The original of the chrysanthemum used
to be tolerated, at the back of our mothers
gardens, but was a somewhat despised occu-
pant.
The original of the most prolific cotton now
grown, was a freakish stalk, different from
it's neighbors, and cultivated afterwards to
ITSELF
The Watson Watermelon and the Miracle
Wheat may not be SO very far apart, in the
mysteries of nature.
have been growing watermeons ever since
| was old enough to ask for and get separate
little patch but none that I have ever seen
are like the accidental melon which my friend
j. p. Wilson of Barnesville named after me-
The seedsmen have made big money selling
the seed Of the Watson melon, but not a cent
did ever make. [ plant it, to keep it pure,
and for the family and my friends to enjoy
lt but we clear no profit on the sale of the
seed.
The same thing seems to pe true of the
Miracle Wheat: it is largely sold and has
been source of profit to some people, but
Pastor Russell got none Of the money.
If you are skeptical about the wheat write
to DR.. Joseph A. Carlton, Palmetto, Georgia;
or to Henry A. Aver, Cleveland, Tennessee
and buy pound of it for experiment.
Mr.. X. B. Stoner of Fincastle, Virginia.
was the father ''of this wheat" in the same
sense that j. E. Wilson is ''the father of the
Watson Watermelon"
Mr.. StOner was attracted by the appearance
of an unusual plant of 142 stalks in his gar
den, and at first took it for grass. When each
of the 142 stalks bore a full head of wheat
he believed he had discovered new variety,
gave it the name it bears, and began to plant
it separately, to see what it would do.
The evidence given at the Russell trial in
Brookly n-against The Eagle newspaper
cOnvinces me that Stoner's wheat is mar
velously prolific sort.
The Sunday School Board made the most
of the fact that Pastor Russell lost his case
when he sued The Eagle for SANDER The
verdict as yet settles nothing, because the case
is pending in the higher court on appeal.
Wig didn't The Indep and the Board so
state?
Eleven practical farmers from as many
parts of the country, gave personal evidence
In Pastor RusselEs favor; not single farmer
gave evidence against him. One expert"
from the y. S. Agricultural Department APP
peared for The Eagle, and against the wheat;
and from the testimony of this expert" I
would guess that he's close kin to the expert
of the Smithsonian Institution who declared
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-11
FACET Qsss O.
me Christian Index Again Com
ymemOrateS Pastor Russell.
A Peculiar Effort to Justify a Libel
On a Dead Man.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. y

Baptlst layman, 20hy 1t ac0s that our Sunday
School Board felt it their duty to attack the
character of Pastor Russell, in one of the
Boards religious tracts?
To refute his doctrines, is one thing: to
hesmirch his character, is another.
If his doctrines can be refuted why bother
about his character?
The Baptist faith can't live and thrive on
the bad records of its opponents: it must live
and thrive on the truth of its 0acn creed and
the virtues of its oacn record
If Judaism could have been sunk by the
hypoc11sles Of Jacob, the crimes of Joshua,
and the lusts of David and Solomon, it would
have persisted ages and ages ago.
If Presbyterianism could have been identi-
fed with the one great and horrible crime of
John Calvin, it would never have saved Scot
land, and sown the seeds of free public educa-
ton in the New World.
If Roman Catholicism could be made re-
:nonslble for the hideous vices and atrocities
q the popes, the inquisitors, and the Jesuits,
1t would not now be the Cloud, the Shadow,
the Menace of Christendom.
If Lutheranism had fallen under the ma
! gnant hbels which rancorous papsts heaped
pom the very human and fallible Martin
Luther, there would today be no such free
com and opportunities for Man, Woman and
hlId, as are so common that, like water and
ar, they are not fully appreciated
y are IN danger Of losing Reformation
I<ess1ngS, because zee hare Forgotten Roman-
5Sn1'S curses.
WHY DID THE SUNDAY SCHOOL BOARD ATTACK
PASTOR RUSSELL?
But let us examine the defense which The
Ind IrOr, 49,.
sell
The present editor of our Organ is the
Rev. B. j. W. Graham, who published "a
tract to prove that it costs less to live in this
country than in China.
He declares that what he said about Russell
vas based upon what the Sunday School
Board published; and that he can't admit that
he was wrong without accusing the Board of
"falsfymg."
Bro. Graham says that if he were to do
this, he could be sued by the Board and also
by the author of ''the tract" who lis very
learned gentleman"-presumably a parlous
foe to meet in the Court-hOus
Well, now let's see about that: Since Bro.
Graham lodges behind the Board, and be-
hind the very learned author of the tract. it
becomes important to compare what Graham
SAID with what was said by the learned Board
-"plcked men and its 'regy learned gentle
man.
We Baptists are not VIGOROUSLY overstocEed
with learned men, and when we have very
learned Baptist writing a tract for u.s. we
ought to pay strict attention to what he saws,
and not try to improve on it-m0re especially
II our improvements take the direction of
courthouse encounter with libel-case
Now, when [ turn to the quotation which
my Brother Graham took from that tract
written by our very learned, but anonymous
Brother, | find that the very learned scribe
speaks of Pastor Russell's shirt sales, his lee
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-11
Thursday, January II, 1917.

was not filed until 1908, and was not tried
until 1906.
Thus, the marriage relation lasted 81 years!
But you would never get that idea from The
Index, or from the "picked men, of the Sun
day School Board
At the trial, not single witness gave testi-
mony against Pastor RusselPs character, and
nothing was proved which indicated that he
had ever been guilty of either immoral words
Or deeds.
AS to the "frst wife, he never had but the
one: the second, belongs to the fiction depart
ment Of The Index.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-11
THE JEFFERSONIAN

regal luxury, to become a H1ndOO tramp
teacher: Matthew left Caesars tax-ofice to
take care of itself-apparently not waiting
until his successor was appointed and quail
fed: Mahomet abandoned his caravan and
mercantile business: and the Emperor Charles
w., reslgnlng his crowns, became monk
The very learned gentleman who wrote the
tract stated that Pastor Russell had trouble
with his wife because of other women" and
that a divorce was obtained because of i'm
proper relations with other women, especially
his stenographer "Such character is abhor-
rent to decent people"
This is fearful imputation to Law upon
any Christian minister, particularly when it
is the official accusation put forth by an
evangelical Board, for general circulation.
Bad as the iasinuatiom of the Board is. the
charge of The Index is worse, for The Index
boldly declares that "On account of aWeq0z
relations with other women, he was divorced
from his first wife soon after their marriages.
10 publish the charge of illegal relations
with other women" is a very different thing
from using the words Improper" and ''un-
savOry"
10 charge married man with Illegal rela-
tlons with other women, means in that con-
nectlon, criminal conduct, ADULTERY
In other words, the charges published by
The Index are clearly indictable: and, with
the proper innuendoes laid, the Sund0u
School Board IS also Na6ze to suit, if not to
criminal prosecution!
PASTOR RUssELL's WIFE DID NOT ACCUSE HIM OF
1NFIDEL1TY!
What were the facts?@
There public trial Of these Russell
cases, In courts of record; and the Board, as
well as The Index, knew that the facts could
be learned, with little expense and trouble
Some of the Baptists in BROOKLYN. or Pitts
burgh could easily have examined the records.
and made a trustworthy report to the Board
and to The Index.
What do those records show?
They show that Mrs. Russell acas ashed,
pOl11t-6Ianh, q0hether she qOanted to be un-
derSto0d as accusing her husband of adultery,
and she a1aSWered, "No!"
So far as / can gather the circumstances
there was a difference between Pastor Rus
sell and his wife, as to the management of the
religious magazine which he had founded;
and these differences finally led to the divorce,
In which she was given 800 month alimony
The question of illegal fraud arose when
he conveyed all of his property to the Publ
cation Society; but, as this property was
very large and very tangible-worth some
S25O,O0O-there was never any chance for
actual fraud, because the claim for alimony
could not possibly be evaded by the convey
ance to the Society.
The Sunday School Board and its "very
learned gentleman" stated that Mrs Russell
got her divorce in 1897, but that the troubles
of the couple began "soon after his MARRIAGE
The Index plunged ahead and said that on
account of the illegal relations, with other
women he was divorced from his first qcife
soon after their marriage"
According to the Sunday School Boards
'spicked mem the particular erring sister in
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-11-09
WOmen'S and Misses
Coats $l4.&

Novelty Coats of velour, kersey and mix
lures, in belted models, high collar effects
Sold formerly to $780,. clearance price
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-18
COssON INTERPRETs BLUE STATUTES.

Sunday except that of necessity
or charity. using both these terms
in broad and reasonable sense?
The statute then goes further
and relieves those from its provis-
ions who conscientiously observe
the seventh day of the week and
expressly permits travel or fam
lilies to emigrate.
These statements are clear, every
one Of them is clear. The statute i'll
question was made to prohibit certain
evils that existed in Iowa at that
time. No effort was made to regulate
what might come into existence un-
der changing conditions 1t cannot
be SO stretched and stressed now &C.
cording to Mr.. Cosson Only the
things named are forbidden. Mr..
Cosson thinks that the statute is well
worded and reasonable in its provis-
ions and that Mr.. Havner's mock de.
mand for its repeal was unwise, UNI
necessary and almost impairment. He
says that such sports as croquet, ten
is, golf baseball are not included in
the list of prohibited or Objectionable
sports. The omissions of croQuet and
baseball which were then in vogue III
Iowa Is significant. The omission of
tile GUedtI WHICH WIS tu6II III SA-
istence, is equally marked. The crux
of the matter then turns on the mean
ing of the word labor" as used in
the statute. all labor except of me-
cessity or charity being forbidden.
Mr.. Cosson contends that those who
play ball or other games. and those
who act or lecture or sing are not
performing labor" in the sense that
the statute uses. He contends that
labor in its natural or ordinary
meaning refers to work of toilsome
nature" He says that mo one could
contend that ball player, a golf
player, an actor or chautauqua
lecturer, or entertainer Is '1abor-
err" in that sense of the word. He
comes then to the ticket seller and
the janitor in church. about which
he says:
We admit that the ticket seller
is engaged in form Of labor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-18
WHEAT, BREAD AND THE HOUSEWIFE.

The people of the United States face the
fact of shortage in the wheat crop produc-
ton. While this shortage is to be deplored, 1T
should serve as a stimulus rather than dis
Icouragement to action If there is less winter
wheat, there must be more spring wheat and
other grains to compensate; and conditions for
greatly increased production of these can be
made excellent, if proper provision is made.
However, for present use despite the cry OF
spectators, there is sufficient quantity OF
wheat to provide for the making OF bread into
loaves of the used-to-be size and at the old
time prices Big city newspapers report that
the twenty cent loaf is possibility in the near
future, despite the fact that flour has de-
creased in price two dollars barrel within the
last three days, and may continue to slump for
indefinite period because of the fact that
the government has made rule suspending
quotations and trading in wheat. There is an
immense reserve power in the American house
wife which can and will be put to work if she
goes about one particular business with the
promptness and energy the time demands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-18
Navy Beans, IS Cents Pound.

Springfield Register: Navy beans,
enc of the most important articles of
food, are now selling in the market at
25 cents a pound retail They sold a
few months ago at 5 cents a pound or
6 pounds for Is cents.
The purchase of beans by the gov
eminent may have had something to
do with this increase of 500 per cent
in the price of navy beans; but that
is made an excuse by spectators to
rob the people. twenty-five cents a
pound for navy beans! Nothing like
this was ever known before Corner
ing Of food products is crime and
should be summarily dealt with by
the government. The identity of the
guilty parties to the sandbagging Of
the people should be ascertained and
the practice stopped at once. And
Navy Beans" is a good slogan with
which to carry on the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-18

Conditions unforeseen when the bill was
passed may force the repeal of the hteracy test
restriction on immi grafton. There IS an I'M
deniable labor shortage In the country which
can hardly fail of becoming serious IN the
early future when half million men are
called to the colors and as many more, perhaps,
are drawn into ship building and other indus
tries abnornally stimulated by the war
The rivers of immigration which formerly
reached us have shrunken to trickling rivulets.
Instead of the million and quarter aliens, or
nearly that who arrived in the year before the
war. only about ten thousand month come
through the New York City gate today, and if
our allies are allowed to recruit their armies
here from men of their own racial stock, as
NAV be done, our country would lose, if it is
not losing now. more able-bodied workers than
it receives.
Concerning conditions to follow the war we
can only speculate. No one can certainly say
whether the old hives viii send new swarms
here or keep them all at home There are argu-
ments on both sides. Some believe that the
new Europe socializod as it bids fair to be and
with its vast landed estates broken up, will be
so attractive to the masses that thousands who
left their home lands to come over here will go
back The steamship companies appear to
hold this view, and some of them assert that
transportation facilities will be taxed to the
utmost in carrying the multitudes back.
It was estimated in the German reichstag
recently that by death in the war and by de-
crease of births the empire had lost nearly four
million people, and the surplus of females is
now two million, which is more than double
what it ever was before. It cannot be doubted
that there will be great need of labor in
Europe to rebuild its ruined cities its de-
stroyed industries, to restore its ravished lands
and to repay its enormous debts VIII this de-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-18
criticisina the War Taxes.

New York World. Taxing nearly
everybody and everything ~in the
| United States, the war revenue bill
meets strong opposition on all sides.
1t would be remarkable indeed if a
hastily drawn measure reaching so
many commodities, transactions, in
comes and estates should not embrace
Iserious errors, but criticism must be
specific and supported by proof and
not based upon doctrinaire theories or
selfishness.
While there is no great joy in tax
ing interests, each paying it is a pro.
cess which, If Just and seasonable, all
will accept with more or less cheer
fulness. The first tests to be applied
to bill Of this kind are simple ones.
Us it certain to produce the revenue
NEEDED? Are its rates reasonable? Ii
not, what makes them unreasonable?
1t Is truism of taxation, as it is of
Legislation against crime, that laws
too severe defeat themselves.
Confronting grave emergency de-
manding prompt action, congress
must be exhorted to proceed with this
business free of partisanship and pre-
JUDGE. New tariff taxes are laid upon
raw materials and tea and coffee,
sources Of endless controversy in the
past, but this is no time for a renew
al of the argument. 1t is no time
either for sordid struggle of any
other kind between rival classes and
interests, each looking for reprisal or
| favor.
With unexampled resources, the
American people enlisted in great
cause, may easily bear new tax bur-
dens much heavier than two billion
year. The first public duty, how
ever, in making these demands is to
be sure that they do not by excess Of
any kind political, economic or So
I'cial, cripple or destroy industry and
credit. BY such means the fountains
| of national wealth, even the streams
of patriotism, may be dried at their
very sources.