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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
sARHwD ROYAL INVESTORS.
some Furopean Grown Heads who Hold
American Securities.

some Furopean Crown Heads who Hold
American Securities.
Emperor William owned at one time
$1,000 900 Of American securities
About two years ago his holdings were
transferred to the name OF the Berlin
banker. SO it is impossible TO tell ac-
eurately the amount of his holdings
at the present moment 1t Is estimate
ed however. that they agg. egate So
600 900 and his yearly income from
them is Sl50.00 So far as the record 9
here show the emperor never speculat-
"a IN Americans nor invested In in
dustrial securities. His holdings
have always been railway bonds
or stocks and his favorite issues
are Louisville & Nashville. Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe. Union Pacific.
Southern Pacific. Missouri Pacific and
illinois Central. The empress OF Get-
many is the individual owner o.
about $500 900 Of American securities.
These are in her own name. bus The
dividend payments are, by her order.
made 90 firm OF Berlin bank rs.
other members OF the German royal
household are owners Of American se-
curities. but the certificates are mostly
in the names Of their individual bank
crs. says the Minneapolis Journal The
securities so held amount to about
S4.000.O00. The car Of Russia holds
y6.000.O00 In American bonds and
stocks. principally the former. These
include issues Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road New York Central railroad.
Northern Pacific. Canadian Pacific
Southern Pacific. New York. New Ha-
ven & Hartford and New Jersey Cen
tral railroad His holdings are regis
tered in the name Of a ST. Petersburg
firm. 70 whom All communication re-
garding them are sent The royal in
come IS increased s5o0.000 annually BY
these securities. which. at the ruling
market prices show an appreciation Of
nearly $1,000. 900 over the averege price
at which they were bought Emn e-s
Eugenie had at one time invest d here
$loo00000. The royal family Of Spa n
holds today our securities Tor about
5000. .00Q-a ETeater sum than Il has
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

The circumstances In which Aida
was produced are worth a passing note.
The idea of5he opera was first sus-
gested 70 Ism5il Pasha. the then khe-
dive of Egypt. and Verdi was commits
STONED 20 write 1t, being left 70 name
his own price. This he fixed az $4,000.
and as lsmail did not willingly allow
question Of money to interfere with
the qualification Of his pleasure. Yer
dis terms were accepted. and he was
even offered an additional $4,000 to
proceed to Cairo TO superintend the
production This. however. he declined
to do. and for no more valid reason
than his unconQuerable fear Of trust
ing himself on the sea.-London
Chronicle.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

cepted ideals there is a homogeneous
family. and 10 it. as it was from the
beginning. the husband is the provid-
er and the wife the housekeeper- AS
provider the husband must be a hunt
er. for wild animals are the only
source Of food, and clothing and fuel,
and division Of labor with an accom-
panying medium OF exchange have
not yet been dreamed OF, much less
system Of property rights whcn
yields a lien upon the labor OF iei-oW
hunters. Each with his varying skin
and each with his own handmade I'M
Dlements. whose designs have come
down to him through countless gen
efations Of hunting ancestors, goes
forth to the hazard Of the hunt. What
he secures is his and game is easily
traced TO its rightful owner by means
OF the mark Of ownership on the har-
poon OF lance OF arrow which mas
caused death But there come times
when each mans catch is not all MS
own-times Of scarcity. when the sue
cessful hunter shares his game equally
with an the needful families Of the
station. even If his own Is in bitter
want of an he has. OF the helpless
there are few besides young children.
Sickness is almost unknown, and YET
/ life among them is generally a short
though a merry one. Through the in
/ finite chances Of the chase few hunters
t live to old age. and we were struck
by the fewness Of old women IN the
tribe. The enduring Of almost un-
4 broken cold IS a constant drain upon
vitality. and before old age has we'll
set ia life goes out from sheer ex-
haustion. OF cripples we saw only
one. and in spite Of the breeding in
i and IN but one case came TO our no
tice OF downright feeble-mindedness
But how. we asked at once, If land
and dwellings and even food are held
In common. how does the tribe pro-
tect itself from supporting in idleness
It's lazy members? There is a comi-
cal incongruity in applying 50 modern
term as public opinion to the
case Of q race Of men who have no
written characters, and numerals only
to Eve. who have no laws nor courts
nor police nor newspapers and whose
tribal regulations now chiefly through
channels Of physical fact. But II II
be not public opinion it is perhaps
their nearest approach to it in the OBJ
legation that each man is under not
merely to be a hunter but to be the
best hunter that he can. Apart from
physical disability he must be a hunt
er or else he IS not a man and has nc
chance OF securing a wife.-Scrbner
Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
9rOfanrp
Decreasing

A Boston man recently paid a visit
to a small town in Vermont and was
surprised and shocked at the amount
Of profanity he heard in the streets Of
that VILLAGE. He declared that all the
men. and boys swore incessantly In
their conversation; that with them
profanity had become instructive,
commonplace and even necessary. IL
had through long use lost all its force
and emphasis. had become an insep-
arabic part Of the everyday and sim
pie speech.
His remarks seem 20 bear out the
recent statements Of a prominent New
York lawyer who claims that the IN
aabitants Of the smaller villages Of the
country do more swearing In one week
than a person would hear in a large
city I'm a month His views on the de-
crease Of profanity in our large cities
are interesting He says
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

The lower animals do not draw
very fine distinctions; civilized men
measure things by milllmeters. A saw
age who is building a hut gets two
poles which seem about the same
length. and a difference Of a foot or
two doesn't matter. a man who builds
a locomotive. or a safe door. or a type
writer. OF a chainless bicycle must
have fittings that will not vary by the
hundredth OF an inch. An essential
condition OF culture Is unremitting
care for a host Of trifes. all Of which
unite to make the perfect whole
Without accuracy and punctuality. no
civilization. All our sense Of beauty
is perhaps merely the recognition that
certain forms have exactly hit an inn
perceptible middle-ground between an
infinite number Of slightly different
possibilities. II there Is any one thing
which shows an educated man Il don't
say a college man, for it must be ad-
mitted that this is usually the very
thing that a college man Is as ignor-
ant OF as the nakedest savage in the
heart Of Australial Il Is that he knows
the enormous. fateful, all-signifcant
difference between a thing which Is
right and a thing which Is almost
right. that he approaches the great
truth that the difference between 80
and 100 Is not 1, but inhnity-J. T..
Hatfield
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

Work Of Department Of Agriculture IN
ne snnihweat

Work OF department oA Ab--~@'t@+o -
the Southwest
"As early as 1874. DR.. George Vaser,
the botanist Of the agricultural depart
ment, began his work on the improve
ment Of the forage supply Of the
United States At that time the hay
product OF the country amounted to
about 25, 5,000,000 tons per annum. In
the Northern States the forage prob
lem was already, in the main, solved;
but in the South and in the West there
was a deplorable lack Of suitable for
age plants. New England and New
York had brought their grasses and
oloYers from Great Britain. and owing
to a general similarity Of climate, had
found them satisfactory Their use
had extended also to the middle west
with equal success. With the increase
of stock raising IN the cotton country
Of the South. however. it was found
that the old and Well-knoWn forage
plants must be replaced by others, bet
ter suited to the warmer climate. Ddr-
ing the next decade, following the
rapid depletion Of the wild forage sup
ply of the far west and the establish
ment Of homesteads throughout that
region. the similar discovery was made
that the common forage plants Of the
East could not Withstand the dry cli-
mate. For many years the department
brought together by correspondence
information along these two lines and.
in 1884, collected it in the form of a
book entitled. The Agricultural
Grasses of the United States" In the
year 1888 the lump sum appropriated
for botanical Investigations and ex-
periments was increased from $1,000
to $4,000, and the establishment Of
forage experiment stations was at Car
den City, ia western Kansas. A large
number Of grasses, both native and
foreign was cultivated at the station
without irrigation. At the end Of the
/ FIVE years lease. in 1898, after the va
rious species clearly not adapted to the
I region had been thrown out year by
I year, the experiment resulted in the
demonstration that two forage plants.
Hungarian bronze and red Kafir corn,
and one grain, Jerusalem corn, were
the crops best suited TO cultivation In
those portions Of the southern great
plains where irrigation was imprac-
ticable. few other plants. notably
Colorado buestem. gave promise Of
success. and their cultivation has since
been followed in other portions Of the
plains. The station was an object les
son to the thousands Of despairing
farmers. 1t showed them that Kafir
corn could produce a good crop when
everything else was killed BIZ the
drouth, that Kafilr corn was the equal
Of maize for fattening hogs and feed
ing farm stock. and that it could b.
made into good bread.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
ALL THINGS COMMON.
ESKIMoS HAVE AN IDEAL So
CIAL system.
a Far-North Tribe Organized as One
Family Hunters Must Di-
vide with All in Times Of Need sick
ness Is Almost Unknown. v

Etah is but the most northern Of
some dozen stations occupied by the
Smith Sound Eskimos One hesitates
at the word settlement" because it
conveys an idea OF permanency, both
as to location. and also. in a measure.
as to the personnel Of the body Of the
settlers, and this Is only half true Of
the settlements Of the tribe of less
than $50 individuals who live at scat
tered points along the coast from Cape
York to Foulke Fjord. The points Of
settlement are permanent. apparently,
having been chosen, doubtless.
through a process Of selection with
reference to shelter and food supply,
continued through many generations,
but the families that inhabit them
vary each year in accordance with
a curious reshnfiing which takes
place, quite spontaneously. it appears,
at Peterawik glacier, where there is
a tribal gathering every spring. One
rarely finds more than half dozen
families at any place, and each Of
them may have spent the previous
year at a different station from an
the others. Il is easy to conceive Of
a certain solidarity Of tribal organiza-
tion which results from such a system,
and which It would be difficult to
improve upon under conditions cf pre-
carious food supply that makes
necessary the widely scattered living
of the families Of the tribe Not only
are their ties Of all degrees Of blood
relationship which bind each member
10 the others. but each is personally
known TO all through the intimacy Of
closely interdependent existence.
which is the only manner Of life pos
sible to men encompassed by an arctic
world and the serious business OF
whose lives is to hunt for uncertain
supplies yielded by wild and some
times fierce animals. There is no tri-
bal organization. no chief, nor any
elders Ia authority; indeed, no pre-
meditated. structural system Of any
kind but a quite simple order which
issues naturally from the facts of
equality and OF equal sharing in all
the essentials Of livelihood. With
certain naive differences from our ac-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

Cheese it, is in an English slang
dictionary Of 1911, and the definition
shows that the phrase was then used
in the same sweet sense as that Of to-
day. And the phrase came banging and
bumldng down the last century. The
Ingenious tfeorge Augustus Sala in his
"Gaslight ind Daylight" (lS59) wrote
in ths chapter "Strollers at Dumble-
downdeary" about young Harry, who
held earnest parley with members Of
the upper gallery who were peiting him
and his friends with nutshells and
broken piles. 1.-TWO or three hall0s.
and now. thensl accompanied by a
strong recommendation to cheese IT,
q. e.. act Of cessation), cause these
trihing annoyances to cease" You
see that Mr.. Sala thought 1t necessary
TO explain the phrase to his genteel
audience. The dictionaries all say that
cheese it" IS thought to be a corrup-
ton Of cease It," Maybe they think
so. We are inclined to believe in a
more remote derivation. Cease it." is
too easy. Boston Journal
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

New and UnconventloaaI school New
Much Favored Ia Europe.
When Aubrey Beardsiey had nothing
else to do ne was wont to put a pen
ell to paper and. without Withdrawing
it. outline the figure Of a woman. Some
times he would thus draw the head Of
a satyf, prolonging the arms to repre-
sent limbs Of a tree, foliage laden He
had a habit Of twisting the torso In
such wise that a portion Of the rear ell
ovation was to be seen advanced we'll
to both right and left IN the convolu-
tions. This was his style in illustra-
ton. over ia Eur0pe-France espe-
cialiy-a new school Of architecture has
much vogue just now. 1t may be called
the school which represents Beardsley-
ism in architecture. The expOnents OK
this school practically founded by MI.
Bing. have a way of fashioping adorn-
ments. exterior and interior, fashion,
ing structures themselves in the twist
ed. impossible manner which Mr..
Beardsley following the wiGdings Of
vagrant pencil. placed before ihe world
as art productions. They can it Part
Nouveau over there remarked John
Mead Howells. a New York architect
Of considerable not 4 an inclined
TO the belief that Burne-Jones and
Rossetti and others Of their pre-Ra.
phaelite school originated .his new art.
Beardsley. to be sure. while but an IL
illustrator. did many things which seem
to be In a measure copies in structures
/ have seen in Paris. would not say
that they were actually copies, but they
represent the queer, twisted and dis
torted human figures. the oddities ia
curves and other outlandish shapes
which violate all the canons Of art. The
smaller buildings in the recent expo
sition had manifestations Of this new
school which fully exploit its eccen-
uicities. / saw a number Of tenement
houses ia the Champs Elysees which
are covered all over with the strange
figures. The thing developed just about
the break between the old and new
salon The new people have pushed
their ideas-if they can be called such,
for. really, they resemble fused con-
struction, and that without lesign-
and have made some progress over
there Here? Well I can not say that
/ have encountered much Of it, on,
indeed, can recall a single manlfesta-
ton
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

The president Of the French Acad-
emy Of Sciences at the last meeting
of that body announced that Nine.
Guzmann, believer in the plurality Of
inhabited worlds. had bequeathed to
the academy a sum Of 100000 francs, to
be given to any person who shall have
succeeded in entering into communi-
cation with one Of the heavenly bodies
with the exception Of the planet Mars.
The "wlll.r N. Levy adds. wisely pro-
vides that on each occasion that prizes
could not be awarded during the space
Of FIVE years IN succession the eOm-
pound interest win be devoted to the
promotion Of the serious work Of as
tronomy. The intention of the foun-
der will be scrupulously carried out
and the prize will be put up for compe-
tition in the present year.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
Swearing 8etomiug Nn-
tommou In Eargf
Cities.

ITO my mind the elimination Of pro
family from the daily conversation is
q matter Of culture rather than Of re-
ligion. Men cease to swear from gen
tlemanly instincts, just as they avoid
other forms OF vulgarity. ] attend a
club regularly where several hundred
men lunch each day-men Of all lines
Of trade and Of the professions, men
who smoke and drink their wines and
liquors within reasonable bounds. But
they don't swear You viii not hear
one oath a day. and when you do II is
a past Of some story that Is told and
IS dropped in for picturesque empha-
sis. The same holds good OF the men
meet in other walks of life You
don't hear much Of it from the team
sters and other workmen in the
streets. have heard more oaths from
one country yokel In one summer than
from all the men I have met In New
York for the past 10 years.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

II. in speaking of chance, we mean
simply something whose cause we do
not know. IT may be allowable TO use
the word. but L we mean by It any
thing which happens without a cause
it is an Injurious fallacy (which should
be banished from every mind and
every lip. II we remember that every
chance is only an illustration Of our
own ignorance. we shall be less likely
to use the word inadvisediy. and if we
habituaily search for the causes OF
things and turn our Ignorance into
knowledge, we shall gradually curtaiI
the idea OF It within narrower and
truer limits.-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

The true end Of statesmanshlp is
70 promote the greatest public well
fare whether this means saving dollars
or spending dollars. when economy
viii contribute 10 this welfare econo-
my is good. but where it viii cripple
some important branch Of public SER
vice then economy is bad: and the
public official who tries to make a
record in defiance of this fact Is no
real friend TO public welfare. Where
sinecures exist, or useless political
job commissions. or where waste
occurs by poor organization Of the SER
vice. then economy and reorganization
are in order; but where important
work would be less effectively done by
arbitrarily abolishing Offices and re-
ducing the number Of employees. then
the path Of statesmanship is to point
out the grounds for disungu ishine be-
tween the two cases and shape poll
c.cs accordingly.-Gunton's Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

The earl of Westmeath. the newly
elected representative Irish peer is
just 80 years Of age. and has taken a
deep interest In politics ever since be
left Christ church. He was an atiache
az Washington before be became one
Of Mr. Chamberlain's private secretar-
les. and his experiences include a visit
TO Newfoundland as secretary 10 the
royal commissioners In 1898. The ha-
rony of Delvin. which is his. has been
held BY the Nugents from the time Of
Henry IT.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
Tome Anecdotes * *
~ - and Incidents

sergeant, but he recalled the ammuni-
tion incident and was very cordial. 1t
was arranged that the five old chaps
should be at Gen. Howard's half an
hour before the reception was to begin
that evening.
At the appointed hour, clad in their
best. boots glistening, hands in white
gloves, and as erect as veterans of their
age and experience would allow, they
appeared on the walk in front Of Gen.
Howard's house.
Have them come in, Gen. Grant
said, and they went direct to his room.
After shaking hands both hands with
his two hands-he turned to the clus-
ter Of officers and men and women and
asked them TO excuse him for a time,
and then led them 70 another room,
where for more than half an hour the
six veterans Of two wars had a re-
union. The general remembered and
alluded to the mule tanning experience.
He had many pleasant words for each.
Hundreds Of ladies' and gentlemen had
gathered in and about the house. Twice
Gen. Howard went to the door to tell
Gen. Grant that the hour for the re-
ception to begin had arrived and twice
the general had said. wait a few min
utes more
Then. after he had taken each by
the hand and spoken a tender good
by. he stepped to the door and called
out.
Howard, go ahead with the receD-
ton
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

Deeds are greater than words. Deed
have such a life. mute but undenlabl,
and grow as living trees and frui
trees 90: they people the vaouity O
time and make it green and worthy
why should the oak prove icg-cai
that it ought to grow. and viii grow
Plant it. try it; what gifts Of diligen
iudicious assimilation and secrotio
it has. Of progress and resistance, 4
force to grow. viii then declare them
selves. Carlyle
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

says the Punxsutawney Spirit. But
IN spite OF the attfactiveness Of the
young lady and the excellent purpose
10 which the proceeds were to be de-
voted. business was slow. Three young
men hatched out a very wicked scheme
to stimulate business, and incidentally
stimulate the crowd IN attendance at
the festival They procured a quart Of
whisky. and when the attention Of the
young lady was attracted elsewhere
poured fl into the lemonade tank They
then began telling about the excellent
quality OF the lemonade A number Of
people tried it and reported to their
friends
Business began TO boom.
Il was only a little while until the
tank was empty. and had to be redlled
lt was a great hit
Some time afterward. when one Of
the wicked young men confessed the
diabolical conspiracy to stimulate the
sale or lemonade. and It came 70 the
ears OF the minister's Wife. she cried
about Il and said q was a scandalous
shame.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25

Thomas Flemming OF Delavan. Wis.
walked Off Chicago. Milwaukee e
ST. Paul express train going at the rate
of forty-seven miles an hour and cs-
caped with a split head, broken nose.
bruised eyes and sore body. He board-
ed the train for Milwaukee At KAN
sasville. west Of Racine. he stood on
the platform OF a coach and bis hat
blew of. and he followed after t. AZ
posse Of fifty citizens went in search
Of Flemming. expecting to find hid
mangled body. but be had struck in 4
snowdrift. was rendered unconscious
revived and walked to KansssYillel
where he was found.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
Grants Old Sergeant


One OF Grants old sergeants was a
farmer In southern Oregon when the
general arrived at postland homeward
bound from his tour around the world
He read OF the proposed receptions 10
be given him IN the city and also at
Vancouver barracks. and could not re-
sist the temptation 10 make the trip
and once more see the old commander.
says the Saturday Evening Post Al
Vancouver he found a number Of men
ne had known when the army was IN
Mexico. The old fellows made up their
minds 10 make a regular, not a hus-
tling. reception cali upon the general
The ordnance sergeant said that as he
had carried ammunition to Lieut.
Grant at the battles Of Palo Alto. Mon