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Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-01-11

Miss Kate Brown spent Saturday in
lexington.
Miss Helen Rollins Bennett lis re-
covering from Influenza
DR.. G. H. Rose Of Cynthiana, was
he guest of friends here Friday.
Miss Laura Deiugias, of Louisville,
Is with Mrs. ]. b. Stouffer this week.
Nys. Oscar Kisnkie Is down from
Irvine, a patient IN the Gibson hospi-
tai.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhodus have return
ed from visit TO relatives in Boyle
county.
Miss Van Greeinleaf has q light at
tack Of flu at her room at Madison In
stitute.
Miss Mary Sullivan is suffering
from flu. Also the Misses Shugars on
Third street
Mr.. J. c. Jones, of Ohio, was guest
Of his daughter, at the Pattie A. Clay
Infirmary this week.
MI Sn6rnc ochfNs WdSctb anu
family are quite Ill with flu at their
rooms on Second street.
J.H. Keller, of Mt. Sterling, has re-
turned home after a visit to the fam,
ilv of Mr.. NJ. F. Enright-
Miss Ethel Gregory a student at
the Normal, has returned from a visit
to relatives at Frankfort.
Mrs. Matte oldham has returned
from a pleasant visit to her sister,
Mrs. Virgil Smith, in Somerset
Messrs. John Landrum and ]. E.
Renaker, of Harrison county spent
Friday in Richmond on business.
Mrs. Joe Panther and children have
returned to Louisville after a two
weeks visit to Mr.. Joe Giunchigilani
and family.
DR.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Phelps returned
from Stanford Friday where they had
been to visit the formers mother Mrs
NJ. A. Phelps.
Mr.. John Shaw who went TO France
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
SIMPLY REFUSE TO BE OLD
Many Men Considered Beyond Their
Prime Enter the Lists With
Their Youth Renewed.

Two thousand years ago Cicero
wrote of the occasional old man whose
mind stands out of the reach of the
body's decay" and only a few months
ago farmer of seventy-five, whose
body as we'll as his mind was still
young, went into an employment office
in Philadelphia to obtain a position in
munitlon factory. There are men
who come back from retirement ut an
advanced age and make great successes
in this or that industry.
Doctor Osler spoke of the old Roman
who cut loose from his own compan-
ions and by living with young men ex-
tended his years to $50. A successful
newspaper editor at the age of sixty
three was asked to head an important
department in a great university. At
first he thought he was too old, but
then he had this idea:
ut is true that 1 am siXty-three, but
there are one million men in this coun-
try today who are only twenty-three.
will join that group and look at every
thing from their viewpoint.
"That will be the motto of my life
from this moment. Victor Hugo said
that forty was the old age of youth
and fifty the youth of old age. l will
make the sixty the age of adventure"
These you may say are exceptional
cases. But there is nothing exception
al about the fact that in many Of the
great commercial universities today
fairly large numbers of men from forty
to forty-five are taking courses. In one
of the correspondence schools the av-
erage age is nearly thirty-fve, which,
allowing for the many very young
clerks and the like who are enrolled,
shows how the older fellows are still
learning. 1t is literally true that age
Is to considerable extent habit OF
mind, largely within control of the In
dividual.-Albert w. Atwood in Satur-
day Evening Post.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
CANNOTLOSE TOAD
Little Amphibian Has Strong
Homing Instinct.
Like the ProverbiaI Cat, He VIII
Come Back to His Fixed Abode II
There Is Any Possibility of
His Doing II.

When I was boy down on Cape
Cod, writes friend Of the Compan-
ion, l remember my mother scraping
the side of toad with her hoe while
working in the garden. The next day
mother noticed there was large scab
in the toad's side. 1t made her nerv-
Gus to look at 1t, and she asked me to
put the toad in a box and carry 1t
away. l carried the toad distance
of three miles into the woods and
dropped him. He was back in our gar
den the very next day; and although
l repeated the performance three
times it hoped back every time. FL
nally mother said not to bother him,
for the scab was healing.
never gave that second thought
until l happened to be studying under
Professor Sharp at Boston university,
when, to illustrate a point to the class,
he said that toads, like carrier pigeons,
possessed the homing instinct; then l
thought of the toad that mother had
asked me to carry sway from our gar
den at Provincetown, 30 years before.
1t happened next morning after Pro-
fessor Sharp made the remark about
the homing instinct of hop-toads that
a freight conductor came into the sig
nal tower where l am employed and
showed me hop-toad he had picked
up on the lawn at the Saugus station
and brought to Boston in his caboose;
he said he intended to put the toad in
his garden at Somerville to eat the
bugs.
l told the conductor about the eX-
perience | had with toad down on
Cape Cod and that Professor Sharp
had said that toads did really possess
the homing instinct. Finally, we de-
cided to tie a small tag to the toad's
hind leg with the conductors name
and address written on it; and he was
to turn the toad loose in his garden at
Somerville that afternoon. When the
conductors train arrived at Saugus
the next noon the toad with a tag on
which his name was written was hop
ping round on the lawn at the Saugus
station.
In order to prove still further that
toads do really possess the homing in
stinct l took q toad from my garden
at Wakefield, ten miles from Boston.
Putting the toad in box, l walked
to the Wakefield station and took a
train for Boston at half-past ten in the
evening. When | arrived in Boston
transferred to the Elevated and rode
to Charlestown, and at the corner of
Perkins and Haverhill streets, Charles
town, one mile from Boston, near the
signal tower where | work, / released
the toad. The toad was tagged with
my name and address.
AS | walked INTO my driveway in
Wakefield at half-past eight the next
morning a dusty-looking toad with a
small tag tied to his hind leg hoped
across the lawn from the direction of
the Metropolitan park reservation and
placed himself under the sill cock,
where the water dripped on him and
bathed his dusty back.-Youth's Com
DaniOn
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
WIPEDFROM EARTH
Only Dust Remains of Proud
City Of Babylon.
Belshazzar's Glorious Capital Now
Visited Only by the Archeoloeist
In Search of Mcmentoes of
a Long-Past Age.

The city OF Babylon or-today is rep
resented by nothing more than mounds
of debris, in which psychologists dig
for burnt-clay books and other treas
ures. Th?re Is no stone whatever In
that region, where the land is mere
alluvial deposit, and all the great
structures of Babylon, erected by the
labor of myriads of slaves taken In
war, were of sun-dried brick faced
with burned brick.
Babylon. a long time ago was cap
tured by the army of Cyrus. The town
was wet" and the population used to
stage some high old times. 1t was
provisioned for 20 years, and was by
far the most formidably fortified city
Of antiquity, being surrounded by
wall So miles long, $50 feet high and
81 feet thick. Half dozen four-horse
chariots could be driven abreast along
the top of the wall for the entire cir
cult of the metropolis, whose inhabit-
ants numbered 100000.
On a certain memorable night the
whole city went on spree. The
guards deserted their posts and in the
great palace of King Belshazzar
drunken orgy reigned
The banks of the Euphr ates where
it ran directly through the city were
defended by walls corresponding in
height and thickness to that which
encirced Babylon. They were pierced
at suitable intervals (where streets
ran parallel across the town. for ferry
gates, which were massive affairs of
bronze The river bottom, within the
city limits, was paved with brick. For
If desired, as had happened when
huge quays were built, the Euphrates
could be turned out of it's course, its
waters being diverted into an artificial
reservoir 100 miles in circumference
outside the walls. This engineering
eXpedient, in fact, had made it prac-
ticable to pave the bottom.
On the night of the most famous
jamboree in history, Cyrus, being
helped by spies within the walls,
turned the Euphrates out of its course
and marched his army over the dry
river bed into the city, entering
through one or more river gates which
had been left open. The royal palace,
a vast structure on the west bank, was
captured; Belshazzar, sword in hand,
was slain, and the city belonged to Cy-
rus.
He did not destroy it, but, ceasing
to be a center of dominion, it shrank.
A large part of the population mi
grated, deserving Babylon, whose huge
walls and gigantic buildings dnelud-
ing the tower of Babel and the famous
hanging gardens, built by Nebuchad-
rezzar for the enjoyment of his wife
Amytis) soon fell to pieces.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
PLAN TO USE Ignite COAL
Coal Deposits Of Saskatchewan to Be
Utilized to Supply Electric
Light and Power.

Estevan, Sask.-Plans are defnite-
ly under way to utilize the Ignite coal
deposits of Saskatchewan to supply
electric light and power to the cities
of Regina, Moose Jaw, Stevan, Wey'
burn and intervening towns. Several
of the municipalities already have apf
pointed delegates to a convention
which soon is to be held. The plant
is to be erected in Estevan. The
Canadian government will be asked
to guarantee the bonds of the devel
opment project and each city will beI
come responsible for a fixed propor'
tiOn of the bond issue.
The Saskatchewan Ignite fields are
practically inexhaustlble, but the coal
is low grade. The steam boiler meth
cd is therefore not adapted to the
work, and it is proposed instead to
use a suction gas producer. S. G,
Dethbridge, city engineer, in a report
to the Estevan chamber of commerce,
estimates the power plant will cost
$1620,000 and the power line S4,643
a mile, or $685., TAO for the entire 180
miles of its length.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
SIS BY AIR TO PARIS
Tickets for Trip Now on Sale in
London.
Use Bombing Machines for Passengers
Until New Designs Are
Produced.

London.-Tickets are now being sold
at $50 each for journey-by-airplane to
Paris, passenger service starting as
soon as circumstances permit. The
journey by air will be done in two and
one-half hours, the distance being 240
miles. Holt Thomas, of the Aircraft
Manufacturing company, is backing
the enterprise, which Is expected 20
find favor among tourists and business
people During the war many public
officials have flown from London to-
Paris. Bonar Law prefers to so that
way. Allowing half hour p either
end of the journey to get to and from
the airdromes, the entire journey will
require but three and one-half hours.
Until new designs are produced
bombing machines which can carry a
load of $3.50 pounds, travel 12S miles
an hour and climb 5000 feet in five
minutes will be used. Experiments
have shown that by covering the
fuselage with glass passengers can con-
verse readily, the roar of the engines
being minimized Thomas hopes to re-
duce the one-way fare to $50 within a
few months.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07

these activities at as early date
as possible.
Whenever it is possible to
utilize public means, wherever it
is possible to undertake public
work, or things that are valua-
bic for peace-time purposes, it
should be undertaken as prompt
ly as possible. 1t may not be
needed, but it ought to be pro-
vided so that it can be utilized
il it is needed.
Personally, | am opposed to
the creation Of work solely for
the purpose Of giving employ
ment to somebody. | look upon
that as being so much waste !;
wasted intelligence, wasted en-
ergy, and waste Of material. But
the same argument can not be
made against employing labor
for useful purposes, and this
should always be borne in mind,
that, if you have millions OF men
out Of employment and by vir-
tue of their being out Ct employ
ment, unable to supply food and
clothing and shelter for their
families, they are going to insist
upon the opportunity Of earning
livelihood.
81 am not one of those who
take the ground that a country
or a government owes every
man a living. But all govern
ments, all organized society is
man-created, and consequently.
more or less artificial because of
the restrictions that must of nee
essity be imposed for the pur-
pose of enabling us to live in
harmony with each other. And
because Of those restrictions,
men have got always the oppor
tunity of working for them
selves, and | am .one of those
who believe that all good gov
ernments will see to it that
every man has the opportunity
to earn living. In other words,
the government does not owe
him a living, but it owes him the
opportunity to earn a living"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
"HospitaIizedn a New Word.

A new war word has appeared,
which, unhappily, we are likely to hear
very often in the future. The word
is "hospitalized," says the Manchester
Guardian. 1t is applied to soldiers
who have been a long time in hos
pital, whose minds have lain fallow
and have lost mental fiber. So far
little has been done in an organized
way to rectify this deterioration.
1t is chiefly among officers where
disqualification" is evident. In many
cases young officers who have been
seriously wounded and had a long con-
valescence have found when they
went back to the army or were inva-
lided out and returned to their pro-
fession or business, that they were far
from what they were before, their
mental energy having weakened, and
they were unable to grasp affairs.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
What Germany Escaped.

Aerial torpedoes in the form of d.
minutive airplanes were among the
American war-waging prospects when
the signing of the armistice ended the
struggle.
A powerful weapon Of destruction
which could have been used with ter
rife effect against Notifications, cities
and opposing armies was in process Of
experimentation, according to facts,
which have leaked out at Washington.
The secret of the invention has
been closely guarded. Even now the
authorities are unwilling to make pub
lie the details. Except that they ap-
peared toylike, compared with the air
plane, the construction was similar,
engines and planes being provided.
Unlike airplanes, they necessarily had
10 be self-propelling without pilots to
guide them. The torpedoes had a
range of GO miles.
BY means of a wonderful mechan-
ism it was claimed to be possible TO
direct their course with great pre-
cision. At the exact moment desired
the torpedo would explode, destroying
the miniature airplane, of course but
causing widespread destruction. The
torpedoes were designed to carry 300
pounds of L N Il.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07

The memory of Florence Nlghtin-
gale, the worlds first woman war
nurse, is honored in the design of the
insignia of the American Army Nurses
School, just established this year.
Florence Nightingale, in the Crimean
war, was known as "the Lady of the
Lamp" and the new insignia has
lamp superimpOsed on the caduceus Of
the medical corps. This, the first
military school for nurses ever estab-
Hshed, has 1000 students already en-
rolled, and 5000 others have been ac-
cepted for the three-year course.
Each student will wear the uniform
and insignia of the school.
What difference, if any. the sign
ing of the armistice and the end Of
the war may have upon the hospital
training plans has not been announced.
1t is supposed that the work will
continue.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
Keeping Up the White House.

President Wilson has been extreme
ly conservative in allowing eXpendi-.
lures for the White House since het
has occupied it, and not a dollar has
been expended, particularly since the
declaration of war; that could pos
sibly be avoided. Last year. however,
the walls in the state parlors were re-
papered, but the same design of wall
paper was kept in all of the rooms.
The handsome patriotic design of the
blue field and stars, which was re-
stored in 1903, and which has been so
popular, still graces the walls of the
blue chambers. The rugs were re-
placed by new ones, while dainty new
curtains of lace were hung under the
heavy draperies. All the furniture
has been reupholstered in the same
pattern. These small renovations have
given to the first floor at the White
House a very attractive appearance.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
When at Work Keen Busy.

Sometimes an abundance of time
spols man for the best work.
1t has been noted that most men do
their best under pressure. Too Often
men are spoiled by not being kept
busy during office hours. 1t may be
there are some who can stand to be
busy by spurts. But the average man
begins to loaf when occasion offers
and can't "get the gait" when the
rush comes. Besides, there is dan
ger of developing habits of procrasti-
nation when the job is Indifferent as
to time. AS a matter of fact most
men allow a job to lie until they have
just time enough to produce it any
way. SO the wise man will keep HIM
self busy. He will see to it that he
develops the habit of getting down to
business as soon as he reaches his
office. He can then afford to leave
his business at the office where it be-
longs and enjoy himself at home and
get ready for the next day.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07

The Firth of Forth is, of course, one
of the most notable things in all Scot
land. From Kincardine, where it Of
ficially begins, to that imaginary line
Just west of the Isle of May, from the
East Neuk of Fife to the mouth Of the
Tyne, in Haddingtonshire, where it OF
ficially ends, is a distance of 4S miles;
while from shore to shore the eX-
panse of water measures anything
from one and half miles, at Queens
ferry to seventeen and a half miles
off the Isle of May. Within this great
expanse of water whole fleets may
ride at anchor in perfect safety, and,
although little is known of the great
scenes which must have taken place
in these waters during the last four
years, the story of the Firth of Forth
during the great war, eliminating, as
it did the other day, with the surren-
der there of the German high seas
fleet, will be not the least interesting
of the many stories which still remain
to be written.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
Shop at Home. Buy Downtown.

"The war made a new kind Of
Christmas buyer" the clerk at one
of the uptown stores said the other
day. "They are not at all like the un-
decided, unpleasant hangers-on of for
mer years, the women who come to an
noy and annoy before they finally buy.
Now they are brisk and alert. They
know what they wish and buy it when
they see it, without the usual quib-
bling and indecision of other years. 1
think a woman described it best when
she said the other day:
Last year l came downtown and
shopped half a dozen days before l did
any buying. This year l shop at home
and then when get downtown l buy"
indianapolis News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
BIG WAGES ATTRACT BOYS
Dodge School at Philadelphia for Mon,
ey to Be Had for Work in
Shpyards.

Philadelphia.-So many boys under
sixteen years of age have been kept
out of school by parents to work in the
shipyards here at big wages that the
shipyards themselves have taken up
the problem.
On one day 115 parents were in the
magistrates court charged with all
lowing their boys to work in the ship
yards in violation of the law.
Il should worry" said one parent.
81 was fined $14 and costs and Johnny
made $50 the last week he worked"
The decrease in overtime and Sun
day work since the armistice was
signed is already helping to abate the
evil.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
EXPRESS PAcKAGETTEs

= j. y 4 + = + +
Gen. Winter sounds retreat,
Calls off all his snow and sleet.
But | know he will come back
He just plans a fresh attack.
Personally, we don't take much
stock in the theory that the women
voted for Sam Durbin merely on ac
count of his looks.
However, there is nothing to him
der you from repairing your New
Years resolutions if you have broken
them.
If the peace conference doesn't get
down to it's knitting pretty soon, the
Sit-and-argue club will take the play
away from the diplomats.
AS far as we know, the psycholo-
gist has never explained why a man
will shiver half the night rather than
to reach down and pull up the cover.
But there is nothing to indicate
that John Barleycorn's business is
going to be any betetr this year.
ST Simp says he notices that it is
always slushy under foot when the
snow is melting on the sidewalks.
w. w. Horn has his car so well
trained that when it takes a notion
to get stuck" it picks out a place
right in front of his house.
Billy the iceman, hasn't been boast
ing a bit about the big business he
has been doing lately.
Another reason why 1919 is going
to be a great year is because base
ball is coming back unto its own.
When you see a modest manlwear-
ing a tie that rivals Joseph's famous
coat of many colors, it is pretty
safe to infer that Santa Claus came
to see him. &c g1safSF y
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
The Military Haircut.

eve are all militarists now," said
Representative Kirby of Arkansas.
81 was being shaved in a barber
shop the other day when q grizzled
chap in a captains uniform came in.
He saluted smartly and seated him
self in the chair next to my own.
"'Har cut, he said in gruff tones.
allow would you like 1t cut, sirP
the barber asked.
"The captain, who was baldish, an
swered, gruffer than ever:
"Line up the hairs and number off
to the right. odd numbers each want
a half inch off. Dress smartly with
bay rum and brilliantine. Then dis
MISS"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
Find Potash in eeoraia.

Cartersville, Ga.-Vast deposits of
high potash states in this district and
high potash schist in Pickens county
have just been located. This new
found supply of potash, it is said, will
make Georgia and nearby territory in
dependent of the rest of the world in
the matter of fertilizer manufacture,
now in such a precarious condition
because of the falling supply of pot
ash.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
Easy Money.

"You have grown rich as a stock
promoter"
"Yes," replied the man who wore
a diamond scarf pin.
"How did you get into that line of
businessT
81 realized early in life that 1t is
human nature for people to count
their chickens before they are
hatched."
"Wen.'
'That makes it easy to sell them
phony eggs."-Birmingham Age-Her-
aid.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07

Advance Agent lin Hickville)-Do
you think the people of this burg
would flock to a 50 show?
Manager (of the Grand opry house)
They might if you make the price
30 cents for the best seats. Anything
over that makes them merely straggle.
Buffalo Express.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-07
Is Last Person to
Hear of End of War

Manchester, Conn. - While
many local citizens were claim
ing the honor of being the first
to hear locally of the news of
the signing of the armistice in
France, DIR. w. e. Greene re-
turned from a trip to Maine,
where he had been hunting in
the woods, and announced that
he was probably among the last
persons in the country to learn
of the end of the war.