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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-17

But Cyrus stood right up; he wuz the
warrior Bill allowed he was goin' to be;
our boy wuzn't the kind TO run. They
tell me there wuz bullet holes here, an
here. AM here over his breast We
always knew. our bQy wuza hefo!
Ye can thank God ye wuzn't at the
.jinln farms when the newssqanle that
he'd got killed The neighbors, they
were there. Of course. to kind Nv hold
as up an comfort US. Bill an l sot all
day ia the wO0dshed hOldin' our hands
an lookin' away from each other soi
never said word; jest sot there, SYM
pathizin' and hQldin' hands. II we'd
been tw0men. Bill an ] would uy
cried IAN beat our .s6rrids an hung
round each others neck, Ike tlle Monle
en folks done. Bein' we Wuz men, we
jest set there 10 the woodshed. away.
from allthe rcsB l6ldfn' hands an SYM
pathlzin' from that time on. le0tle
Lizzie wuz our daughter onr very
daughter. aH4hat sThz left 10 lis ii. diir
boy. ,Sher never shed "a tear. eFep'' like
a shadder round the house an up the
front walk an through the garden. Her
heart iwuz broke. You could. ~ It in
the ieetle lambkin's eyes an hear It In
l-laer voice. yunted-t0 tel her some
i-tisssP srswi11ll she kis5ed m. aIfi called
ne .fafhel' Wal ed-A N ntr: ''Lees
lle Lizzie, let me help yer bear yeg lQaas
speak out Tic sorref that's In yei bro
ken heart; speak It out leetle one, and
-ief me help yer.bear yer load
Bal Is isn't for a man to have them
feelin's -leastwise. II isn't for him 70
tell ~ em So field my peace and
made no sign
She Jest dropped, an pined, an died.
One mornin In the spring she wuz
siandin Ia the garden. an all at oncet
she threw her arms up, so, and fell upon
her face, an when they goi 10 hersail
thet .Tus left TO us Nv ieetle Lizzie
wuz her llfeless leetle body. l can't
tell5uv what happened next-uv the
funersil an ali that. l said this wuz in
tile snrine. an so it wus all around u.s.
bat Il wuz cold and winter here
one day mother sez to me: Reuben 2
sez she. softlike, "Marthy an is goin'
to tlie buryin'. ground for spell. Don't
you reckon It would be good time for
you u step over an see Bin while we're
goneT
"Mebbe so. mother" sez l.
II wuz pretty day Cuttln' across
lots I thought 70 myself what I'd say Ia
Bill 10 kind NV comfort him. I made II
up that ia speak about the time when
we WIZ boys together; Nv how we used
20 slide down the meetin' house hill, an
20 huckleberryln'; Nv how ! jumped in
the pond one day and saved him from
bein' drowned; NV the spellin' school
the huskin' bees. the choir meetln's, the
sparkin times; Of the swinmin' hole
the crows nest in the pine tree. the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-17

A man who knows his own faults.
and admits them. is very apt to be char.
liable with others
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

POINTS M OPINIONS.

As between Senator'S Hanna and
Foraker in the Ohio fight, what rea-
son has President Roosevelt to favor
Hanna?-St. Louis Republic.
The United States may produce
a millionaire some day who will be
philanthropic enough to sell his trust
products at home for the same prices
charged to the foreign consumer
Detroit Free Press.
Reciprocity, the handmaiden Of
protection, as high-tariff republicans
now delight to term that agu and
~eyasive policy. will doubtless be
found to have earned the title beyond
all dispute before the Fifty-ffth con-
gress shall have reached the day Of
final adjournment. What still re-
mains to be seen, however, is whether
the general public will be fooled into
believing that such a handmaiden
serves any but monopoly interests
st. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
A Good Resolution,

One of the best New Years reso1u-
tions we have heard of anybody MAX
ing is this: Not to speak of mis-
takes which make no difference"
How often the harmony of the home
is destroyed by the persistent men,
Der of the household who will argue
half an hour over the merest trife.
If one holds an opinion
on a subject Of any Importance it
should by all means be corrected.
But what possible difference does it
make whether Aunt Jane came to
dinner on Tuesday or Wednesday?
Yet we have listened to heated dis
putes that cast an ugly shadow over
on entire meal, or spoiled an even
ing's enjoyment, upon subjects of no
more moment than the time of a
visit or the state of last weeks
weather. In dealing with children
accuracy of statement should be
carefully cultivated, lest a habit of
exaggeration or untr~uthfulness be
developed. But for adults the fore
going resolution is worthy of gem
eral adoption.-Helpful Thoughts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
The Sweetest of All.

Something of the poetry of the
home appears in a little story told by
the Philadelphia Times:
AS soon as it was announced that
Mr.. Alexander Simpson had been
elected to the office of president of the
Philadelphia Bar association, his law
yer friends went to his house and Of
fered him their congratulations.
Mr.. Simpsons small son was in the
room, and for several minutes he
watched the scene with round eyes.
Then he made his way through the
crowd until he reached his fathers
side.
A gentleman had just said: Il con-
graduate you, Mr.. Simpson," when
the newly-elected president felt a tug
at his coat tails. Looking down, he
saw his son.
"Well, what is it, my boy?" he asked.
ST love you, papa!" piped a tiny
voice, in reply.
Overcome with feeling, the father
lifted up his son and kissed him, then
set him down. As the little fellow
trotted off the men nearest Mr.. Simp-
SON extended their hands in silence.
Conventional congratulations some
how seemed out of place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
..she's coming here dav after to-.nor-

"She's coming here day after to-mor-
row to see her curls in their satin-lined
box; then if you will be here you can
find out who she is" answered the
jeweler.
Sure enough, Annie came to see her
curls as they looked ready for sale; she
wanted to see the box. While she was
admiring it and telling about Teddy,
and how the wine a doing him good,
the stranger with the gentle eyes ar
rived. He talked to the little girl for
awhile, then surprised the jeweler and
little Annie by bursting into tears.
They've told you about Uncle Luke,
haven't they?s he asked.
"Oh, yes, often" replied Annie. HE
is in Australia, where the bark falls off
the trees and the leaves stay on, and
where the birds have no wings, and ev-
e%rything is SO queeri"
but What if he came home?"
"Oh, he won't" she said; mother
has lost him completely"
But he has come home. I am he"
Then there was what Annie called ga
time"
That was how it happened that Just
as the doctor was praising Teddy's pa
tience, and saying how the wine had
helped him, there was a great futter
in the hall, and Annie bounced in, drag
ging a big man with kind eyes in a
rough face by the hand.
"My curls found him. It is Uncle
Luke, mother, and he has money
enough to buy my curls back two or
three times. / know, because he
said So"
And then there was much more of "a
time" And the doctor held Teddy's
hand while Uncle Luke told about his
long search for his sister, and mother
explained about fathers death and her
removal to the city, and how she lost
Uncle Luke's address and could not
get a letter to reach him. Then they
talked about Annie's curls, and the
doctor blew his nose furiously and dug
at his eyes, and Annie heard him say:
"Old idiot that l am! I guess I'll try
to see about a way of getting wine
when l prescribe it again for a boy
whose mother has that frightened look
in her eyes"
Annie tucked her little shorn head
uhoSA ChS dOStoA dIA1 anu whispered.
"But you see how it was best, don't
your My curls found SO much for us
they brought US an uncle. Just look at
mother; don't she look happy? Isn't
a good uncle the best New Years pres
emit in all this wor1d?"
Wine is a good medicine when one
needs it, and Teddy improved rapidly
Sc rapidly that he was almost ready
to try the new sled hat Uncle Luke
brought home to him on New Years
eve. AS for Teddy's mother, the roses
began to tint her cheeks again, and
Annie was sure she was the prettiest
and best mother in all the wor1d.-La-
dies World, New York.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
Popular Opinion Is strongly Against
the Nefarious Republican
Measure.

In the recent action of the Illinois
State Grange, renewing that body's
opposition to the passage of the ship
subsidy bill, there is found continued
proof of the fact that public senti-
ure in question and that strong pres
sure will again be brought to bear
in Washington to defeat the new bill,
says the ST. Louis Republic.
The basis of this unchanging oppo-
sition to the ship-subsidy bill was
correctly stated in that sentence of
the resolution adopted by the Illi-
nois State Grange which declared that
the defeat of the bill was sought be-
cause the grange believed sit to be
unwise and unjust and special legisla-
corporations at the expense of the
general public"
All the special pleading possible to
the republican GROUP backing the
~ship-subsidy bill will 0 remove from
the popular mind this just. conviction
that the is a syndicate meas
ure, placing a tax of many millions
upon the people in order that the
shipping corporations which inspired
the proposed legislation may be fur
Their enriched by subsidy. This truth
was made so plain in the Fifty-sixth
congress that the people + not like
ly to forget the teaching.
The present outlook, however, is
that the ship-subsidy bin will be n
acted into law. The republican party
is virtually pledged to the passage of
the bill. President Roosevelt has,
with more or less directness, in
dorsed the measure in his message
congress. The spectacle likely to
be presented in Washington at an
early date is that of the passage of
the ship-subsidy bill in the face of a
popular opposition which, under prop
er conditions, should make defeat GER
tain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

to be able to make his New Years and
her mothers brighter than Christmas
had been. As she wandered down the
streets revolving these thoughts in he1
mind and wondering how she might get
the necessary wine she passed many a
gay scene.
Early evening had closed down on
the city, and all the shops were afame
with light and brightness. Annie gazed
wistfully at the pretty things in the
great windows; she was but a little
maid, and could not help wishing for
pretty things for herself and for her
mother and Teddy.
But the wine-she must not linger;
she would only look in one more SHOP
and then-then she would seek the
great shop where wine was sold in bot
ties; surely the big, rosy-faced man
whom she had often noticed standing
in the doorway of his shop would listen
to her story of poor Teddy and give her
the wine.
So she stood before this last store-it
was a jewelry store-and, oh, how
beautiful the jewels looked-sapphires
and rubies and diamonds-how they
glittered. The sight was enough to
fascinate older eyes than Armies.
Presently something in one corner
of the window caught her gaze-it
wasn't a jewel, it was a switch of love
ly hair; not one, out several, and be-
low them in pretty, shallow, satin
lined boxes, were clusters of curls. A
sudden thought came to Annie; she
pressed her little hands together and
held her breath, then paused a mo-
ment to gain courage, and passed reso-
lutely into the great store. A kind
looking a came forward to meet her
and said: "What can l do for you, lit
tie lady?"
do you buy hair?" she asked.
Sometimes, little one; why do you
ask?"
"Will you buy mine? See, I have
plenty!" she answered, taking off her
hat and shaking her curls down over
her shoulders, and looking up with
anxious eyes.
"But, my little girl, are your curls
yours to sell?"
"Oh, yes. sir; if you only knew why
I must sell them, I am sure you would
buy them. Teddy is so i'll that he needs
things. and mother and here she
choked up so she could say nc more.
"And you want to sell your beautiful
hair to buy things for your sick broth
er; is that it, little one?"
"Yes, sir"
81 wouldn't take it, but"
"Please don't refuse me, sir; my hair
will grow in again; it grows awful
fast; see, it is below my waist"
"It is beautiful, a very rare color, and
so curly" said the man, stroking the
ripping mass of shining hair.
Mothers is just like mine, only it
is a little fady here and there. You
will take my hair, won't you? Please
do; it will surely grow again, and my
brother needs things so very, very
much; the doctor says SOL"
The man led her into a back room
and himself cut the glossy locks, lay
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
pITH AND POINT.

All Surprised-Bessie-"I was sur
prised when Mr.. Dashleigh asked me
to marry him." Tessie-Everybody
else was..-Ohio State Journal.
A man has no more show in an ar
gument when his wife and daughters
are against him than a deaf man has
at the telephone.-Atchlson Globe.
The average man is always anxious
to know the worst of his neighbor-
probably because of the fact that
misery loves company.-Chicago
Daily News.
'Could you do the landlord in the
Lady of Lyons?'" asked the manager
of a seedy actor. swell, l should
think I might; I have done a good
many Observation-Disclosures Tit-Bits.
Often Been Observation-Disclosures
that the band just played?' The
Dead March," "Oh, / see. Was it
any l%ivelier before they murdered
it ?"-Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
She-"Do you think my husband is
progressive??' He-"I should say sol
/ saw him nodding in church to-day"
Whats that got to do with his be-
ing progressive why hC was
moving a head, wasn't he?'-Yonk-
ers Statesman.
A Warning to Girls.-A young wom-
an at Garden City jerked her head
back to keep from being kissed, and
broke her neck. She did not get
kissed, either. 1t is a terrible warm
ing to the girls not to jerk.-Hutch-
inson (Kan.) News.
A Stupid Observation-Disclosures
stupid some folks are!" Hudson
ssFor instance?" Gibson-"I was sit
ting in the car last evening, and a
man came along and asked: Is this
seat taken?' And it was full of my
bundles. The fellow must have been
blind.'-Boston Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
DO YOU BUY HARP" SHE ASKED.

ing each curl carefully down. Then
apron and gave the little shorn hea6
into his charge.
II believe that you are prettier thar
BEFORE" the kind man said, when the
hairdresser had finished. Then he laid
a little roll of bills in the child's hand
and babe her be careful not to lose il
on her way home.
Annie hurried home. When she ar.
rived mother was reading to Teddy,
and Annie crept in like a little mouse.
She removed her hat carefully, SO as
not to spoil the hairdresser's work,
then dropped the bills in her mothers
lap, with a merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, mammal"
"Oh!" screamed Teddy.
"Oh!" screamed mother, as they both
saw and knew all.
"How could you, Annie?' they both
cried at once; but the child looked as
pretty as ever.
GLOW came you to think of it, my
poor baby?" asked the mother.
"It's for wine-wine is better than
curls any day." answered Annie; then.
turning to Teddy, she Rugged him in
joy and said, softly: sect well, Ted
dy, and pay me back some day!"
Then she told how it all happened,
and how she was going in a couple of
days to see her curls in their pretty
satin-lined case. After they had both
kissed her and thanked her over and
yer again she crept away.
I'm glad l did it; but how lone
some my pretty curls will be!' said
the child.
But the curls were not at all lone
some. The kind man was looking at
them when n of the boys showed a
gentleman in. The visitor was a big
man and he had gentle eyes, though his
face was somewhat rough to look at,
I'm quite out of heart, Alfred; / can
get no clew; but what's that you have
there? Pretty, aren't they?"
Eyes, beautiful"
Then the kind man told all about the
little girl who sold the curls to him, so
she could have money to buy things for
the sick brother.
alfred, this hair is just the color of
Ellie's; could it be? Could it be Ellie's
child's hair2"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
CONSTITUTION VIOLATED.
The Republican Way OF Obtaining
Revenue to Pay for . White
Elephant.

A more bitter Illustration may
never be brought home to the Ameri-
can people of the criminal folly of
the present pursuit of foreign pos
sessions than is furnished in the pro-
visions of the Payne Philippine tariff
bill and through the need of its en-
actment.
The majority report on the subject
makes the case appear even worse
than it is, since not a solitary argu-
ment is advanced which a even pal
late the conditions which render
such an enactment possible or neces-
sary, says the Boston Globe.
What does the majority report urge
on the country? In a word, it says
that because the supreme court de-
cides hat the Philippines are domes-
tic territory, and because it is neces-
sary to build schools and attend to
other internal requirements of the
islands, it has become also necessary
in effect to suspend the constitution
of the United States, much after the
fashion in which we suspend the writ
of habeas CORPUS when conditions of
war or public turmoil demand.
But is there no other way in which
the expenses of this far-of terrific
rial white elephant could be provided
for? Is it not possible to govern this
political monstrosity without sus-
pending the constitution, without re-
pealing the navigation laws designed
for the protection of our domestic
shipping, or without engaging in the
collection of tariff duties the pro-
ceeds of which are to be otherwise
disposed of than by being turned into
the United States treasury? How
long are we to make the internal rev.
enue taxes apply only to a part of the
manufactured products, to all of
which the constitution designs they
shall be applied when they r levied
at all?
If the American people r not soon
Disguised with the state of affairs
which is here revealed they are in
deed an adventurous and a patient
people, who are willing, in the an
guage of Franklin, TO pay a pretty
penny politically and financially for
the colonial whistle.
Why do the imperialists not fall
back on the constitution? Why do
they persist in going from bad to
worse, when they might easily re-
trace their steps? 1t is because they
are trying to familiarize the people
with an understanding of the worth
lessness of the fundamental law of
the land when it interferes with ma
tiona1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Because it is
essential to the full fruition of their
purposes that no written constitution
shall stand in their path in their de-
termination to transform the politi-
cal institutions of their country un-
til they have become identical in form
and substance to those of the other
imperial systems under which men
are held in civil bondage, is we are
now holding the Filipinos and the
Porto Ricans.
Imperialism is truly the paramount
issue of the hour. No man who be-
lieves in the perpetuation of our
written constitution in all the vigor
and significance designed by their
trainers will, the Globe believes, hesi-
tate three years hence in turning out
of power root and branch the dam
gerous aggregation who thus prosti-
tute the free institutions of the Unit
ed States.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Teddy's voice trembled as he replied:
"Oh, mother, 1 was afraid he would
say l might die, and / wondered who
would take care of you and little An.
ME. 1 am glad God is going to let me
live to do it. Now I must begin to get
strong! Can't you give me lots to eat?'
Annie saw her mothers lips CULVER
as she turned her face from Teddy.
"Yes, my son, but not too much at
once, you know" she said.
Teddy looked very thoughtful.
"But is there anything in the house,
mother? I have been sick a good while,
and my last wages must be nearly
gone, and you haven't had time t. color
many photos lately, have you?"
The boys mother answered, brave
ly: "Sick folks mustn't bother about
these things, you know" Then she
left the room, and Annie saw that she
did so to hide the tears which were
streaming down her worn face.
II must do something; l wonder
what it will be?" murmured Annie to
herself, and, crushing her hat down
over her curls, she slipped into the
street.
Annie thought constantly of wine for
poor Teddy, and wondered if she sum
moned courage to beg a bottle whether
anyone would be kind enough to give
it to her for a poor sick boy, her only
brother. She knew that sometimes
grocers kept wine, especially around
holiday time, and felt sure if they only
Knew how very. very much it was
needed at home by her poor sick Ted
dy that some one of them would sure
~ give her a bottle. Then there were
other places where they sold nothing
but wine and such stuff, for she had
seen big windows full of the bottles,
with pictures of great punches of beau
tiful grapes standing behind them.
Annie wasn't a bold, forward child;
she was timid, but brave and resolute:
her love for her brother, at least, made
her brave for the time; so she resolved
in her heart to beg for the wine which
the doctor said would bring back
strength to Teddy. Christmas had
come and gone, but Teddy was so i'll
with the fever that Annie thought
nothing about the absence of the gifts
usual to that happy day; but now Ted
dy ~as to grow better. and she did long
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
MISPLACED PHILANTHROPY.
Am Instance of Mistaken Kindness
That Taught a Young Woman
a Lesson.

A kind-hearted East side young
mn who has some rather QuixotiC
notions had an experience the other
evening that her intimate friends are
still smiling about, reports the Mil.
waukee Sentinel. One of her pet the.
cries is that it is a young woman's
duty to give up her seat in a street
a to any elderly man who appears
to be fatigued, particularly if he is a
workingman.
About six o'clock one evening she
boarded an Oakland avenue car after
a hard afternoons shopping and had
hardly got comfortably seated in the
last vacant sea- when an old, sloven-
Unlocking chap, with Hibernian ear
marks, shambleG aboard. His APP
pearance was so unprepossessing that
the young woman had about decided
to abstain from putting her pet the
ory into practice when she noticed
that he carried a tin dinner pail.
With a mental sigh, she Spurred her
self on to do her duty, and, rising,
offered the ancient individual her
seat, smiling ~benignantly as she did
so, He seemed unable 90 comprehend
the meaning at first, but finally set
tied into the seat which she had
abandoned with a puzzled expression
on his weather-beaten ~countenance,
while she hung on a strap.
When she went out IN the car plat
form to get off at Belleview place
the old codger, whom she had noticed
cycling her in a queer way during the
trip, remarked to the conductor, with
evident satisfaction and in a distinct
" audible tone:
"Arrah, me boy, the ould man amt
out of the running yet, Did ye see
the mash 1 made on that purity little
gal?"
Since then the young woman has
been less demonstrative than usual
in her expressions of sympathy for
the oppressed laboring man.