The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-21
Look out for the "sllver Bow"
CentlemAnly burglars In Japan.

| Even tnc most Rentlcmanly OF our
burglars have msch to learn from
japan in the way Of politeness, If one
may judge by description Of the man
ncrs OF robbers in that country given
in the Atlantic. Three men broke into
dyer's house while he was away and
| gently asked his wife how much money
there was in the house. She answered
that there were just twenty-seven yen
and eighty-four sen. The robbcr
laughed and kaid: You are good old
woman and we believe you. If you
were poor we would not rob you at all
Now we only want a couple Of kimono
and this laying his hand on a fine
ssilk overdress. The old woman re-
piled: "All my sons kimono / can
give you, but beg you viii not take
that, for 1t does not belong to my son
and was confided to us only for dyeing.
What is ours can give, but cannot
give what belongs TO another "That
is quite right" approved the robber,
land we Shall not take it,
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There will shortly be presented to
the savants Of Europe and America a
relic Of antiquity rescued from the dust
OF the dim dawn of human life in the
western world, which promises to at
once throw light on the origin of man
on the western hemisphere and prove
the open sesame 10 further reading of
the early races of the earth in the far
east. In rocls-hewn tomb in southern
Mexico there has been found bronze
and hammered iron sword bearing on
its blade and handle in rich inlaying
OF silver characters of record and rep
reservations Of life distinctively AS
syrian and Grecian. The characters
ON one side of the blade are cuneiform,
says a writer in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat; those on the other cannot
be identified; possibly they are Hittite.
The first, fourth, sixth, eighth aud
eleventh letters in the easily recogniz-
able cuneiform characters of Chaldean
antiquity are exactly alike as craven
upon the blade; the first, fourth, sixth,
eighth and eleventh letters in the
mystic inscription on the reverse are
also identical. II is in the possession
Of Senor Gonzalc M. Afoliner, a de-
scendant Of one Of the oldest and most
illustrious families Of Spain, who is
resident in the City of Mexico. He
win soon lay 1t before the Smithsonian
institution in person, and until that
time II will not see the light of re-
search outside Of Mexico. The sword
and its scabbard OF bronze are massive
and well preserved. In total length the
sword Is twenty-six and one-half inches,
with blade Ct nineteen inches. The
roughly hammered iron blade shows
the crudity. of the early days Of the
iron age, but the exquisite inlaying Of
silver ON the bronze bears testimony to
the cunning Of the silversmiths who
wrought the weapon. To all appear
ances, and according 10 the inscrip-
tions, IL was a royal arm, for on its
ample hilt it bears in horizontal lines
the crowned head of its evident
wearer, while below, in cuneiform
characters on the blade, are apparently
the title and name Of the sovereign.
The sword and scabbard weigh twelve
pounds, Of which the sword alone rep
resents two-thirds of the total.
The story Of the discovery of this in
teresting relic is a romance. Seven
years ago q curiosity dealer in the City
of Mexico purchased it for few paltry
reals from an ignorant Indian from
Merida, in the state of Yucatan, in
southern Mexico. The dealer supposed
II to be nothing more than an old Roman
sword, such as were often worn by the
Spaniards at the time of the conquest
Of Mexico. The Indian said he found
1t in the depths of tomb which he
had penetrated, and that, with
bronze spoon, now also in the possess
sion Of Senior Moliner, II was the only
thing Of interest he had found. The
sword and scabbard were incristed
with half an inch of oxidation
from their long burial, and on being
cleaned up were offered for sale to
tourists along with the customary
more or less valuable stock in trade of
an enterprising curio dealer. For one
reason or another it remained in stock
until recently, when it by chance
caught the eye OF Senior Moliner, who
has made an intelligent study of an
tiquities. both in Europe and America