The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-04-03

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The farmer on sandy soil is think
ing some Of following the bended-knee
practice. Year after year less water
falls to make It yield a harvest.
The continued dry spell is making him
pious. His lot is becoming so serious
and his face so attenuated that even
the lightning-rod man passes him by.
Time was when he looked across at
his neighbors low, wet ground where
the frogs were playing tag and strain
ing their obligato afiutus singing fav-
orite sonatas, ard thanked the Lord
his ground was high and sandy. His
crops hourished like a fair lobbyist IN
q senatorial ante-room while those OF
his neighbors were sickly and sunken
in the swamp like the center OF new
wife's sponge cake.
10! All is changed. The two men
have changed places, the sand man is
talking out Of the other corner Of his
mouth while the low land fellow Is
feeling the pride the jingle Of the
guinea makes. The calf is bunting his
hired man now and he is thinking Of
buying an automobile by which to mar
ket his $1.25 potatoes, his 80 cent oats.
his SO cent corn and his $S8 veget-
ables. He no longer demands protec-
tion against calves and railroads; he
is looking through a roseate eyeglass
and effecting fashions heretofore for
eigR to his humble mode Of living. His
low, wet land has redeemed itself
True, most OF his frogs are dead. but
he can buy piano instead and be-
sides frog music is not au fait with
him any more His daughter has
thrown over the neighbor's Silas and
is talking OF giving an ice cream func-
tion with lady angers and dancing.
The wife has several new gowns and
the son gets his clothes tailor made.
The scarcity OF his nelghbor's crops
makes his all the more valuable and
dollars have grown on his liquid
soaked soil as thick as surgeons
eggs on a caviar sandwich. Truly.
the low land farmer is king this fall.
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AS the time approaches for the
anemone 10 blossom In the budding
woodland. we grow less timorous OF
the coal man. The fact that our coal
bins have become more or less has
beens, does not awaken in US that
cold and apprehensiye dread com
mon to q man who is being ground
under the heel OF a ponderous mon
opolyl With the bursting Of the buds
our independence again mounts the
pedestal and assumes to soar unfet-
tered. It will continue to soar until
the warm and languorous days OF
summer awaken us to the fact that
the ice man is after what the coal
man didn't get We refer coyertly
to our bank stockl But between two
evils let us prepare to celebrate the
gladsome days Of spring, when the
scent Of the May flowers is in our
nostrils and the June roses are pre-
pairing to titillate our olfaetory
nerves. when there is little to pay the
roal man and little TO satisfy the ice
man-not because we haven't Il to
iquidate but because in the joyous
springtime the bills are small II we
are diligent and careful we may save
enough to buy a Panama hat against
hat day when the ice man gets busy.
Spring! Spring. Beautiful |
SPRING." No wonder spring is beau
iful. with coal. ] 300 pounds. selling
Il $1,000 a ton! This promises to be
great season for spring poets.
A school teacher aged thirty years
toasted that be had never been kissed
y a woman. Presumably he had
lever kissed a woman. Six OF the
omping bellies Of the place we're miE-
d at the declaration OF the hoity-toity
chool teacher, especially so because
he taunt was thrown into their
aces at an ice cream table. Accord
ngly they laid for the man OF innocent
Ips and smacked him to a frazzle.
rery mad. IN fact as mad as a wet hen.
e rushed to a Justices once and
ad the Indiana beauties arrested for
ssault and battery. and now all the
oung and signing swains OF Indiana
re living in hopes Of being assaulted
nd battered.
The girls are wrong. however. and
Iiil have to pay for kissing this man
Iho II he ever marries viii have
-oubles Of his own squaring himself.
hey should have laughed his bold
eh to derision and passed him by
'ith a lofty scorn so well assumed by
le Indiana young ladies'. No man
no has not kissed. hugged and pro
osed to a girl at this age, is un-
orthy OF any ficn combined at
lck as they madt on his misguided
lllow. He was LN worthy OF their
steal"
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