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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
Deaths in shakesnsare.

Somebody has taken the pains to
count up the deaths in Shakespeare,
either on the stage or behind the
scenes, and finds the number ninety.
The variety of causes is great. Cold
steel accounts for about two-thirds,
twelve are old age aud decay, seven
persons are beheaded, FIVE die by poi
son, two of suffocation, two of strang-
ling, one OF fall, one by drowning,
three by snake bite, and one is
thumped to death with a sandbag.
The compiler of this curious table
has overlooked one of the most affect
ing in all the plays-that of Mamil-
lius of The Winters Tale" Mamil-
lius, son of Queen Hermoine, died OF
broken heart caused by grief over
the supposed peridy Of his mother.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
sneezinq corpetition.

A sneezing competition between
half dozen old women took place
recently in a certain Lancashire
(Eng) town. The competitors were
at liberty to use any means of bring
ing about a sneeze, a tin of the best
snuff being actually provided for the
purpose. Everybody present at the
unique contest went into commissions
at the sneezing feats of the contest
ants, one of the old danes keeping
up the performance until she fell
down exhausted. She was awarded
the prize. consisting of a sovereign
and a silk handkerchief
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
The Dreams Ahead.

What would we do in this world Of ours,
Were it not for the dreams ahead2
For thorns are mixed with the blooming
flowers,
No matter which path we tread.
And each Of us has his golden goal.
Stretching far into the years;
And ever he climbs with a hopeful soul,
With alternate smiles ands tears.
That dream ahead Is what holds him up
Through the storms OF a ceaseless fight;
When his lips are pressed to the worm
woods cup,
And clouds shut out the light.
To some it's a dream Of high estate,
To some it's dream of wealth;
To some it's a dream of a truce with
Fate
In a constant search for health.
To some it's a dream of home and wife;
To some it's a crown above;
The dreams ahead are what make each
life
The dreams-and faith-and love!
Edwin Carlisle Litsey in the House
keeper.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
sMueeLERs IN HARD LUCK
run" Of contraband Goods Spoil5d
at Last Moment.

run" Of contraband Goods spciISd
at Last Moment.
When Joseph Bonaparte was king
Of Spain good many individuals,
even those highly placed, enriched
themselves at the expense of the rev.
enue.
One day a contrabandista met
brigadier at Segovia, about to return
with empty caissons TO Madrid.
Look here, my friend" said he, 'T
want you to convey for me a quantity
of cannon balls and shells to the cap.
ital-as many as your horses can
draw" Then he showed him piles Of
these munitions Of war The briga-
der demurred-the weight would be
prodigious. "Bahl" replied the snug
gler. They are all of them black
pasteboard and are full Of velyets,
brandy and liquors. Get them safe
into the Prado and you shall be paid
for your pains rs louis dor. They
Will let cannon balls pass the bar
riers without taxing them."
lie OIlBduler dBleeu, anu managed
to get them into the Prado at Mad
rid in the night; but as those in the
plot were unloading the goods up
rode an officer.
"Hello." said he. THE very thing
we want. have orders to send a
convoy of shot to Seville wanted there
against those dogs Of English" And
he confscated the lot; but, finding
them remarkably light. broke one.
and forth gushed the finest cognac.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
Pearls Found in cocoanuts.

Pearls are not found in oysters
alone. Sometimes says a lapidary
"they are found in cocoanuts.
Il once cut cocoanut pearl. It
was the size of pea. and its quality
was good. 1t resembled an oyster
pearl. only II was little duller.
"Coccanut pearls are found in the
heart Of the nut. 1t is thought that
they are formed by the hardening of
the nuts flesh. They are, so to speak.
a kind of crystalized tumor or wart.
These pearls are rare They are
rarer than oyster pearls. They are
also cheaper than oyster pearls, being
less hard and less translucent"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
Iames Eisk,s PeddIer,s outat.

1t had been my fortune to see Jim
Fisk when he had the famous ped
dler's outfit, with which he used to
travel over Northern New Hampshire
ard Vermont, he having succeeded to
his father, who had built up a profit.
able business in that line. It was no
ordinary peddler's outfh however.
There were ,iJur black horses, a col
ored driver with white gloves, most
resplendent brass mountings for
harness. and shining varnish for the
wareh0us on Printers Ink.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25

How sad that all great things are sad
That greatness knows not to be glad.
The boundless, spouseless, fearful sea
Pursues the moon incessantly;
And Caesar, childless lives and dies,
The thunder torn Sequoia tree
In solemn isolation cries
Sad chorus with the homeless wind
Above the clouds. above his kind,
Above his Fashioned peak. above
All sign or sound or sense of love.
How mateless. desolate. and drear
His lorn. long seven thousand year!
My comrades. lovers, dare TO be
More truly great than Caesar; he
Who hewed three hundred towns apart,
Yet never truly touched one heart.
The fearful. lorn, complaining sea
The very moon looks down upon.
Then changes, as a saber drawn;
The great Sequoia lords as lone
AS God upon that fahled throne.
No. no. True greatness, glory, fame,
Is his who claims nor place nor name,
But loves and lives content. complete,
With baby flowers at his feet
joaquin Miller.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
To Guide the blind.

Blind mems dogs in London form
large and most intelligent part Of
the very few dogs which earn living
or help their masters to do so. The
manner Of their education must have
puzzled many persons who have seen
them resolutely guiding their poor
master to his stand, or back to his
home, along crowded pavements and
over the cross streets. Many OF these
dogs are taught by half-blind man;
others are instructed by the blind
men themselves especially If they
have not always been blind and re-
member the streets and turnings.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
Song Of the Southland

The south the fair southland!
The southland for mel
The bloom -begemmed meadow
The whispering tree,
The land Of the mockbird,
And fruitage divine.
Where each breath is as sweet
And inspiring as wine!
Where white ships Of cloudland
Rock idly above
And spread their cool shadows
Ger fields that they lovel
Where the blue morning glOries
IN cataracts fan.
And rose petals fiutter
And lilies are tall
The south the fair southland
1t slopes 10 the SUM
And white crested billuws
Laugh loud as they run
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25

to a cute little sled along the coun-
try roads, the heifer answering the
rein as well as a well-broken colt,
and turning out for teams Of her owr
accord.
This spring Miss Noyes has used
the rig to gather sap in the maple
sugar orchard, thus making 1t useful,
as well as source of pleasure to her.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25

Animals attend a church service in
Cuzco, Peru. Pigs, goats, cattle and
poultry are brought by their owners
to be blessed on All Saints Day. The
seats are removed, and the animals
can trot about or lie down as they
wish After the ceremony the live
stock is formally given to the monks,
who receive little other payment for
their services.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25
DRIVES GALE TO HARNESS.
New England Girl Guides Pet With
Relns and Bit.

Relns and Bit.
The boy or girl brought up on q
farm in New England who does not
have any number Of pet animals Is
the exception rather than the rule.
With the boys pair of pet steers is
very frequent.
A young girl In Greenwood, In old
Oxford county, Me-, has gone the
boys one better. and instead Of a
pair Of steers, has trained to harness
a little heifer calf, which she drives
with reins and bit
The training Of the calf was under
taken by the girl, Miss Della Noyes.
granddaughter Of the late Augustus
Noyes Of Greenwood. veteran Of the
civil war, when very little.
She has a full harness. with bride,
bit and reins, and drives her hitched
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-25

Their worldwide long race
With grumble and roar,
To throw th nselves painting
AT last on 5 shore
Where boys are just boys.
And girls are just girls:
Not mannikinsl roddy- dow
Babies with curlsi
Who tumble and laugh
And shrek loud in their glee.
And are sweet. every one,
As real babies can be-
And lads are grown straight.
And clean -minded and tan!
And lassies are sweet
And are fair and their thrau
Is a world gifdling themel
The southi Sing the southl
With strawberries swect
As a kiss on the mouth
HI dston Post.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
THE PARTY PLATFoRM.

To assert that the Prohibition party
is, or has been a party of one idea, in
the sense .that'it has delivered itself
or. but PINE governmental issue, is to
proclaim ones ignorance of the politi-
cal histery. Of. the: it;ati5n.
The. first national platform of the
Prohibition party was adopted on
Washington's birthday, 1872. It de-
clared that the President and Vice
President should be elected by direct
vote of the people. Up to that date
no dominant party had dared to assail
the present cumbersome and often I'M
just method. 1t demanded the regu-
lation of railroad, telegraph and steam
ship rates by law. Yet there are those
who seem to think that the statesmen
of the dominant parties discovered the
evil tendencies of monopolistic usur-
patton. If they did, the way was
pointed out to them by the first ma
tional platform of the Prohibition par
ty.
4 That same maiden platform of the
Prohibition party demanded civil SER
vice regulations in the employment of
public officials; the abolition of the
Ubiquitous fee system and the estab-
lishment of fair salaries for public
servants; sound, adequate national
currency issued by the national gov
eminent alone; equal laws for CAPT.
tai and labor and. opposition to all
monopoly and class legislation.
Four years later, in their second
national platform, the Prohibitionists
declared for the abolition of lotteries
and the refusal of the use of the mails
for advertising or conducting lottery
and gambling schemes, subject upon
which the Republican party did not
see the light till goaded by enormous
petitions. They denounced polygamy
and demanded it's abolition. The Re
publican party followed their lead
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
THE WAY OUT.

Following the decision of the U. s..
Supreme Court that liquor may be
sold to Indians who hold their land
in severalty, serious trouble is antici-
pated at several points, especially
near Indian agencies in Minnesota
and North and South Dakota,
AS a result of the rigid prohibition
of the sale of liquor to Indians on
the Sisseton reservation, South Oak
ota, the Sissetons have become civil
lied and law-abiding, the schools
maintained by the Presbyterians and
Catholics are we'll attended and all
the Indians have houses, many of them
costing from $1,000 to $4,000.
The latter part of this month the
government will pay the Indians $780,
900 as a part payment for the coded
land. Some of the families will re-
ceive from $500 to $500 each. The
result can be imagined. Lifelong
missionaries. among the Indians say
the danger to life, character and prop
erty cannot be exaggerated.
The Supreme Court is not likely
to reverse it's decision. The reason
able remedy now seems to be for the
citizens of Minnesota, the Dakotas and
the nation to reverse their decision
and delegalize the saloon.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
THE BALLOT THE TEST.

The Chicago Tribune declares that
the returns of the election in that
city show that it's people are over
whelmingly against closing the sa
looms ON Sunday. With the Demo
Gratis maintaining in the campaign
their proyerbial wide-open position
and the Republican candidate for Ma
yor telling deputation of Methodist
ministers that if elected he would not
close the rum-holes on Sunday, there
was nothing for those who believed
in Sunday closing to do says the
Tribune, "but to stay at home or vote
for Mr.. Stewart, the Prohibitionist."
There was small stay-at-home vote
and Mr. Stewards vote was only $500.
The Tribune, strangely enough, judg-
es a citizens intentions by his vote.
But, come to think of it, we know of
no other way of ascertaining the peo-
pies views and certainly in no other
way can they receive what they de-
sire. One of the most conspicuous
features of the Chicago campaign was
the failure of the church to stand up
to her own principles at the ballot-box.
There is nothing new about this, how
ever.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
IS YOUR PLEDGE IN?

The State Fund is steadily climbing.
A part of it is being expended also
and we believe our workers will agree
that the Committee is doing wisely
in bringing into the state the excel
lent talent which it has engaged thus
far.
The proposed Fund of $4,000 in
two years means pledges amounting
to $500 week. OF course this will
require heroic endeavor. 1t should
also be evident that the State Commit
tees solicitors cannot. raise the entire
amount 1t is up to every Prohibition
list to send in his pledge.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
Pifh OF the Press

The Champion, Indianapolis, liquor
paper: Does the national Republican
party ever talk of prohibition? No; the
national party shuns it as a mad dog
So does the Republican party in 35 states
In those states it is high license party.
The Defender, It is easy to swell up
with disgust at the drunkard and indulge
in blistering language in characterizing
the vice of drunkenness, but simply do
ing that may not touch the hem of the
liquor traffics garments.
Leslie's Weekly. The saloon should
not be permitted in the new common
wealth (Oklahoma) in any form or under
any name. For congress to give it's
sanction to it's existence under any guise
would be to add one more grevious wrong
to the many wrongs which have stained
the record of our dealings with the Indi-
ans.
Mountain State Patriot The man who
will allow a license party to nominate
him, is almost sure to allow that same
party to control his vote
California Voice: Not a day passes
that we do not wish that we could show
the contents of our daily mail bag to
weak, doubling souls who are afraid Pro-
hibition may not succeed.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
Tit for Tat

The health of the public is the first
essential and should be safe-guarded
by every possible legal requirement.
Gov Johnson.
Let it not be supposed that the gov
ernor has come into the Prohibition
camp. The above is only an extract
from his veto of the bill giving legal
recognition to chiropractic.. To be
unto the third and fourth generation
and is the chief inspiration and abet-
tor of homicide and suicide, but when
it comes to legal safeguarding the
state against it, why, the governor
isn't in it.
An aroused and determined public
sentiment standing for order and re-
spect of law can force officials to do
their duty, but failing in this can fill
their places with those who will
Gov. Cobb of Maine.
Improvement in this regard is pos
sible even through the agency of the
old parties. But the safest road and
shortest cut to the enforcement of
law regarding the liquor traffic is
through party not only sworn to
but also organized for just this pur-
pose. Such party will usually nomi-
nate men-the Prohibition party does
who personally favor law enforce
ment But even if some of the Of
ficials of such party had little per-
sonal interest in the cause at stake,
they would enforce the law in order
TO hold their jobs.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01

hibition principle and toward the cleo
ton of a reliable champion thereof.
Nothing is needed in order to the
complete victory of prohibition. but
an increase of such votes. And, thank
God! they are coming. In prohibition
states where officials of the old par
ties have allowed blind-piggers to run
riot sheriffs are beginning to be cleo
ted on straight Prohibition ticket
and they have the piggers on the run.
And Prohibitionists are being elected
to Legislatures ON straight party
ticket who are making records which.
command the respect of the good citi-
zens of all parties.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

All the temperance and prohibition
organizations of the state have united
in an effort to secure more reason
able and patriotic celebration of the
Fourth of July Our workers are urged
to plan for such celebration as will
definitely advance the interests of
our cause 1t is important that these
plans should be well along before
others have arranged to make our
natal day one of dissertation and dis
sipation Let the children and young
people be given place on the pro
gram. The various state organizations
will do all they can to supply the de-
mand for speakers.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
Brief and Brainy

There can be no municipal reform no
permanent improvement of the condition
of the working classes, no pure politics,
while the saloon exists.-Rev. P. Clare,
Mankato
Preach, but your voice dies away; har-
angue the multitude. but you reach only
a few: but thrust into the pockets of
the million the bit of temperance litera-
ture, let it be carried home to speak it's
silent word to the heart and carry con-
viction to the mind and subsequently to
inspire the action. Here is a practical
work.-Rev. A. P. Doyle.
[Backbone's plan is still better. We
send our paper by mail direct to those
whose addresses are furnished us and
notify the recipients that their paper has
been paid for. We also stop this class
of subscriptions at expiration unless re-
newed. Our rates are at the head of the
second page. 1t is not necessary to send
the money now. Send your pledge and
names now and your money at any time
within a year1
have noticed that railroads and other
large business enterprises of recent years
have ruled against men who drink. This
is a good policy, I think, and so long as
1 am governor of the state the same
policy shall be maintained in it's bust
ness.-Gov. Hanley of Indiana, in speak
ing recently concerning appointments to
office under his administration.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01

They declared for universal peace, and
international arbitration, to which
principle the Republican party gave
it's first tardy approval in 1904.
The Prohibition party was organ
lied and has been maintained for the
purpose of the destruction of the traf-
fic in the citizenship of the nation,
the spoliation of it's wealth and the
polluting of it's civic and social virtue
through the insidious poison of alco-
hol. But it has pointed the way to
other reforms. That some of the re-
forms which it has advocated have
been accomplished and that others
are at present securing more atten-
ton than it's main issue does not point
to their greater Importance but the
rather proves their relative unimport-
ance.
Many politicians brave enough to
yell defiance to political chimpanzee
tread softly in the presence of gov
ernmental gorilla.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
WHY NoN-PARTIsANIsM FAILS.

w II ISOtN-E m tSRiNIS" Nt-Ss
"The Republicans of the state want
me to protect the party. The passage
of this bill as it is will ruin the party.
1t will cause both Cleveland and Gin
cinnati to go Democratic and will
lose the state for the Republicans. +"
So said Gov Herrick of Ohio year
or SO ago to State (now NationaD
Superintendent Baker of the Anti
saloon League. The Governor was
defending himself for having compel
led the emasculation of the Brannock
bill, whose passage the Anti-saIoon
League had sought.
This brings out in plain English one
of the greatest weaknesses of the
non-partisan plan of legal opposition
to the saloon. The liquor traffic DOM
mates the Cities The cities hold the
reins of power in large share of the
states and usually in the nation as
we'll. AS goes New York City, SO goes
New York. AS go Cleveland and Gin
cinnati, so goes Ohio. AS go New
York and Ohio, and in some cases a
very few other states similarly domi-
mated by the cities, that is, by the
saloon, so goes the Union. Therefore
no one distasteful to the liquor traffic
must be nominated for high office.
Not that every Legislature or Cover
nor or Congress or President is the
complete tool of the liquor traffic;
that is, not that they all would go to
| the extreme limit desired by the sa-
LOOM What we mean is rather that
such Legislatures, Governors, Con-
gressional majorities and Presidents
are not the open enemies of the sa-
loon.
The American Issue displays the
auuve statement of Gov. Herrick in
large type at the head of the page and
across three wide columns with the
heading Gov. Herrick Fears to I'm
duly Offend the Liquor People OF
Cleveland and Cincinnati" and with
apparent establishment exclaims, "And
so the saloonkeepers. of Cleveland and
Cincinnati are to be preferred before
the church-members and temperance
people and homes of Ohio! Exactly
When were they not? Where are
they not? Why should they not be?
These church members and temper
ance people and homes-most OF
them, complain, resolve, threaten and
vote the old ticket lest worse
thing, the election of the awful "whis
key democracy 60 should come te
the state or nation. Why should the
shrewd politicians who set up the
pins go out of their way to enrage the
liquor men and drive them out Of
the party-for what? To please the
temperance men who protest their
love for the old party and who CAM
be driven from it.
Look at this matter again. Almos
invariably, whenever the enemies Of
the saloon oppose a candidate fol
office because of his friendliness tt
the liquor traffic, a larger number O
liquor votes from the opposing party
go to him because of his saloon pro
clivities than he loses on that account
What is the remedy? We see none
The weakness is in the system-non
partisanism. A ballot withdrawn from
a saloon candidate of one of the OLE
parties is more than likely to be off
set by the saloon vote of the oppos
ing party. On the other hand ever!
vote cast for candidate of the Pro
:. hibition party counts both for the Pro
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01

Before the liquor traffic is relegated
to inoccuous desuetude bodies of
Christian ministers and laymen will
have ceased to hold their functions
at such noted boozeries as the Nicol
let House, Minneapolis, and the Hotel
Ryan, st. Paul.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
Editorial

Good men differ as to whether
Rockefeller's gifts should be refused
as tainted" money. But there is no
doubt that the saloonkeepr's license
fee is blood money and that it should
never be placed in the public treasury.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01
BACKBONE

FINISH.
Spirit the and spirit interests
p'sw WAVE OF PRofeiTioN COUNTRY
eRRoWINe sTRoMegR gHcA DAY
III ON ATELY"
fellow
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1905-05-01

Four of the most popular men in
American political life today are Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Governors La Fol
lette, Deneen and Folk. 1t is worthy
of note that their strength with the
people is chiefly due to the fight which
they are making against gigantic
wrong.