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New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
PEOPLE PAST AND PRESENT
NapO1eon's Name

.sHE name Napoleon
written in Greek
characters will form
seven different words by
dropping the final letter
of each in succession.
When read, these
words form a complete
sentence, meaning, Ma
poleon, the destroyer of
whole cities, was the
New-York tribune., 1906-12-16

son and trade was inst
evolved by De Gum
Cev IN the boudoir of
Madam lie Pompadour,
and Pope could never
compose well without
first deClaiming ~ the
top OF his Voice To
rouse his nervous
system 70 the proper
pitch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Assistant Director NJ. o. Eldridge, of
the Office Of Public Road Inquiries, re-
Gently made road inspection trip
through the States of Maine, Massa-
chusetts and New York. In regard
to the road conditions In these States
he had the following to say in an in.
terview:
Il am fully convinced from my re-
cent trip that the roads which have
been built in the East through the aia
of the States and under the direction
of highway commissioners are the best
roads in the United st ties, and are
equal, if not superior, to the best roads
in the world. This is due to the fact
that these roads have been built under
intelligent supervision. by skillful
workmen, out of the very best materl-
ais and with American oad building
machinery; whereas most OF the roads
that ! have seen in the old country
were built by hand, aud have since
been maintained in the same way. In
spite of the long drought which pre-
vailed throughout the New England
States during the spring and summer
the State roads were firm and smooth,
and although | personally inspected
over 800 miles of improved roads.
did not see single one which had
raveled or which had signs Of wear
from the recent dry weather. In the
southeastern part of Massachusetts
and along Cape Cod Bay, and in the
southern part of Connecticut, the old
roads were composed entirely of sand,
but in spite Of the dry weather the
State roads built on these sand foun-
dations are remarkably hard and
smooth"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Some years ago in Alabama one OF
the most talented lawyers practising in
the South was the late Colonel Bragg
but he had peppery temper.
Not only did Colonel Bragg's dis
position involve him from time to time
in serious differences with his col.
leagues, but it also led him to break
or amicable relations with Judge
Robinson, most estimable jurist. who,
while presiding over suit in which
Bragg was interested, had by his de-
c.sion incurred the resentment of the
advocate. So. for long time the Col
onel declined even to speak to the
Judge. save when it was absolutely
necessary in the course of business.
Finally, however, his better nature
getting the upper hand. Colonel Bragg
determined to apologize to Judge Rob
inson and endeayor to effect renewal
OF their former comparatively pleasars
relations. Meeting the Judge one af-
ternoon on the steps of the State House
he impulsively thrust out his hand and
said:
"See here. Judge. let's be friends
again. This thing has gone on long
enough"
"Why-er, Bragg" asked the Judge
In the meekest and miIdest way i'm
aginable, whats the matter?'
Simply this, Judge" continued the
fiery Bragg, Il admire you so i'm
mensely that cannot for my life be
content to remain on bad terms any
longer. l felt that i must speak to
you"
"Why-er, Bragg" piped the Judge
in the thinnest of voices. a well-feigned
look of astonishment on his face, ''why
-er, Bragg, haven't you been speaking
to me?"
At this the lawyer wilted.- Edwin
Tarrisse, in Lippincotts.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
AN uNcoRRuPIsp PRESS.
The American Newspaper May navs
Faults But II IL Not venaf.

~~F~@~@ r"t~fA
Faults But II is Not venaf.
The insurance corruptionists had no
difficulty in obtaining the services OF
leading members Of the bar TO protect
and defend them, muses. the New York
World. They had their allies and az
slstants among the financlers Of Wall
Street. They found friends in the In
surance Department, in the Legislature
and even In Congress. But Of the New
York daily newspapers not one has
been their accomplice or their ally.
1t is this fact that gives dispropor-
tionate Importance to Andrew HamiI-
toms statement that he paid out over
100000 to influence newspapers. OF
the truth Of this charge there Is not
scrap Of proof. 1t lacks both detail
and corroboration. If this money had
been expended its results must have
been public in the venal expressions
OF the papers purchase. Their corrup-
tion could not be concealed II they
gave any consideration for the money
that Hamilton claimed to have paid
them.
So far as the New York daily press is
concerned Andrew Hamllton's state
ment is certainly false. The New York
newspapers unanimously attacked in
surance corruption, and they carefully
printed every fact which came to their
knowledge. Evidence that any of'these
papers received bribe money could
readily have been used to still their mt
terances or to destroy their power by
exposure. 1t is morally and mentally
inconceiyable that if McCurdy or Nc
Call or Alexander or Hyde or Hege
man or Hamilton or Hendricks or OdelI
or Platt, or any one Of the long list OF
men involved, had had any evidence Of
newspaper pecuniary corruption, he
weuld have not long since produced It.
Mr.. Hughes would have been the first
to make public any such information
in his possession.
In this respect the daily press oR
New York is most certainly above pe-
cuniary suspicion and higher than any
other calling, occupation or profession,
including the bench and the bar Il Mr..
Jerome's accusation has any foundation
in fact. Even the Presiding Bishop OF
the Episcopal Diocesan Convention
successfully frowned down moderate
resolution of disapprobat:on of the men
who had a hand in the insurance cor
ruption.
Alone of all the great professions in
New York, its daily press can show
clean financial record throughout this
scandal. The Sensational newspaper"
has many faults, exaggcration being
the cardinal one. 1t might be and
should be more accurate. more thor
ough. more considerate, more careful.
But it is not venal
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

thought TO the good roads
proposition as embodied In
the Brownlow-Latimer bill, and has
reached the only conclusion possible
that Congress ought to quickly pass
this bill into law. Indeed, we do not
believe there can be Suggested sin
gle good reason why it should not be
done. We all know that the highways
are as essent al to our civilization
as the mills which grind our wheat
and corn are essential to our physical
comfort. We know that every pound
Of farm produce is to be moved over
the highways before it can reach the
railroad or the waterway for ship
ment; must drst traverse the highways
before 1t can reach the consumer The
road conditions in all but two or three
States are deplorable, in many sec
tions worst than when first opened up.
and in few sections are they at all
satisfactory. The States have dealt
with the highway question from the
beginning Of their existence as States,
No solution has yet been found The
reason is rot far to seek. The bur-
den of road construction and main
tenance has always fallen upon the
farmers-those least able TO bear it.,
while those equally benefited and best
able to bear the expense nave escaped
almost wholly the obligation. The So
tuition is in an equal distribution Of
cost This San be reached in but one
way. The Government of the United
States lays duties on consumption. In
this way the bulk of the money coming
into the national treasury is derived
from all classes. in town and country
alike. Everybody contributes to it.
The proposed good roads legislation
covers the case of necessity. because
it takes back to the people in equita-
BILE share that which they have CON
trlbuted to the government and pro-
vides for improvements that will
strengthen all our institutions and
make the country more prosperous
than 1t has ever been. The govern
ment uses tie highways as If it owned
them in fee simple, and yet contributes
not one cent to their maintenance. 1t
sends its agents along the country
roads, and permits no one to impede
their progress. At the beginning
Congress authorized the establishment
of post roads. The government has
not established such roads, but uses
those already in existence. claiming
unimpeded right-of-way wherever it
chooses to 70. The argument IS not
far fetched that the government owes
it as an obligation to the people to aid
in systematic road building in all
States, contributing in this way to
the general welfare. and furthering
the purposes for which government.
itself is sustained by its loyal citi-
zens. The friends of national aid to
road improvement only ask the fair
discharge of government obligation.
Brooklyn Uptown Wee 'ly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
NEWS EoR The WEEKLY.


In defining, or, rather, determining
what is news for country town the
personality of the news gatherer must
be lost, said w. r. Prewitt, Of the
Onawa Qowa) Gazette. at the meeting
of the Corn Belt editors at Sheldon. He
or she must learn to bury self" Your
readers and the public are entitled to
be given any news that concerns alike
both your personal friends and your
bitterest enemies. However, country
editors seldom have enemies. But.
speaking seriously, no editor should
have friends or enemies when defining
what is news in country town. It is
fact that usually the fellow with
whom you like to converse is the one
who will talk about the subjects which
most interest you. This same thing
applies more forcibly in the editing Of
a country newspaper.
IL you would please the greatest
number your opportunity to claim their
attention through your columns and
10 make them know they are getting
their moneys worth when they are in
duced to come around once year and
pay their dues is to find out what they
want to talk about and give 1t to them
as news. Because your contemporary
down the street captured an item last
week which you failed to connect with
is no reason why you should not recog-
nize 1t az such in your next issue. Of
course this refers to real news items
which every man with nose for news
will recognize. What is sometimes not
news is news. There are some happen
ings which everybody knows before
your paper is issued. or at least It
would seem that everybody was famil-
lar with the matter. Yet every one Of
these people will look your columns
through to see In what language you
tell the story, If for no other reason
than to disagree with your version.
There is d wonderful advantage in
the determining what is news by the
acquaintance you have over your ter
ritory. The editor of country weekly
should be the best informed man in his
locality on the geography of his county.
He should know, as far as possible,
every road, every school house and
every country church in the county and
extend his acquaintance to the widest
extent possible with its inhabitants.
Then when threads Of news, which
happens nearly every week, come fioat-
ing to you, you will be the better pre-
pared to get at the required facts. In
the handling of news from distant To-
calities and from other towns one must
depend very largely-in fact. almost
wholly-upon his correspondents, il ne
has no knowledge Of his people and
their environments.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

The Government OF New South
Wales has spent over $1,000, 600 for all
kinds OF means to prevent the growth
Of the rabbit plague. and 1t fas now
been decided TO fence in the whole
country with an immense wire net.
The expense for this wire net is es-
timated OF exceed $5.000,OO0, and II
is thought that the wire required for
this purpose can be imported from
abroad at the cost of about $3.50 pei
mile. delivered at Sydney.
The rabbit plague is increasing from
year to year, which is best shown by
the fact that such an enormous amount
as S5,000,000. or nearly ten per cent.
of the annual revenue of the country,
is to be spent for this purpose. st.
Louis POst-Dispatch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Vt takes heroine to be economical.
-Unloch.
Glory should follow, not be pursued.
-Pliny, Jr.
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most
trifing actions.-Tbackeray
The usual fortune of complaint is to
excite contempt more than pity
Johnson.
A given force applied for given
time upon given point is bound to
win. Napoleon.
Courage consists not in blindly over
looking danger. but in meeting it with
the eyes open.--Richter.
Character is bundle of habits.
Habits originate in the mind and are
registered ON the body. George ID.
Tripp.
Every persons has two educations;
one which he receives from others and
one, more important, which he gives
elf.--Gibbon.
The mere lapse Of years is not life;
knowledge. truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith alone can give vitality TO
the mechanism of existence Marcus
Aurelius
Half the sorrows Of women would
be averted if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless-nay,
the speech they have resolved not to
utter.-George Eliot.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Another revelation comes from
Texas. Ten million tons of sulphur
have been found in the Transpecos
region, the sulphur fields extending
over about 10000 acres. with thick
ness averaging Line and one-half feet.
The ore is the result of natural chem
ical conditions produced during the
lacustrine period. which was one Of
the phenomena of the arid sections Of
Texas during the plocene age, and its
appearance to mortal gaze in the twen-
tieth century is expected to stay the
hand of the importer for twenty years
TO come. The importation OF native
sulphur from Italy and other countries
amounts to from $4,000 TO 100000 tons
per year. SO large has been the de-
mand for sulphur $4,000 tons being
consumed in one ycar-that the sub
stitution of iron pyrites has been re-
sorted to in the manufacture Of sui
phuric acid. With 10O00,OOO tons Of
forty per cent. native ore sulphur to
hand, certain manufacturing processes,
it is expected, will be reduced twenty
per cent. and the present rate of I'M
porting will be offset for twenty years
st. Louis PosaDislatch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

"No man il fonder of tobacco than an
Eskimo" said the Arctic traveller at
his club. "Tbe Eskimo depends for
hic tobacco solely on The white man.
For pound of it he would sell his
oldest son.
1T is odd to see an Eskimo smoke.
He chops his tobacco fine and mixes
it with chopped willow twigs, so as
to make 1t 60 further. Then he cleans
out with picker of bone the small
stone bowl of his pipe, and then he
plucks a lock of hair from his deer
skin suit and rams it down in the bot
tom Of the pipe bowl, so as to prevent
any Of the finely chopped tobacco from
escaping into the stem.
Finally he lights the pipe and
smokes it in swift series of long,
strong puffs, so that there may be no
waste. Each puff Is inhaled deep
into the lungs. and the first puff's
smoke is still streaming from the nos
trIls long after another pun has been
started. There must be, you see, no
waste. There must be none Of that
vain combustion of tobacco without
benefit to the smoker which goes on
continually among us.
"Often the most experienced Eskimo
win smoke so hard and fast that tears
will stream from his eyes. he will
cough violently, and sometimes YER
tlgo and nausea will seize him. New
York Press.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
A SONNET FOR THE CITY:

This day into the fields my steps are led
Thousands of daisies radiantly blow;
They have not brought from Heaven my
daily bread,
lnt they are like a prayer too often said.
! have forgot their meaning, and 60
From the colt rubric Of their gold and
snow,
And the calm ritual, all uncontrolled.
/ want the faces facesl remote and pale,
OF reckless ones, haggard and spent and
frail,
Excited, hungry! In this other mood
'Tis not the words Of the faith for which
all,
Bat to plunge in the fountain OF its living
blood -
Anna Hampstead Branch, in Atlantic
Monthly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

The farmer folk Of Iowa say that
while Edwin III. Blashfield, the New
York artist, may know all about paint
ing, he evidently doesn't know much
about driving yoke of oxen, or he
never would have put the driver on
the right side. instead Of the left, as
be has done in the mural decoration he
has just placed in the State Capitol at
Des Moines. The commission which
is in charge Of the work is reported
as being really in doubt as 10 whether
1t should accept the work as it stands.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

An interesting series of experiments
to test the military value Of airships
is about to be made by the French
artillery. 1t may be promised that the
fact of their value may be taken as
established to a certain point to the
satisfaction of the French military au-
thorities, since permanent "harbor"
for airships has been established in th~
artillery quarter OF the garrison Of
Toul. This ~harborr will he used as
continual centre for studying the
question as to what services can be
obtained from airships to aid the de-
Tense of a fortified place under the
siege.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Admirable as is the hen in many re-
spects-and in breakfasts and certain
mixed potations the fruit of her labors
is indispensable-her mental capacity
is as limited as her obstinacy is un-
limited. If she has ever learned at all.
she has learned slowly and against her
will; she is welded to tradition: she
does things to-day in front of the incu-
bator precisely as she did in the ark.
The older and more active she grows
the more foolish she becomes, declares
the Providence Journal. She contem-
plates a collection of doorknobs with
the same blind, complacent confidence
with which her ancestors on the mater
nal side regarded them fifty years ago;
she always lodges in the wrong direc-
ton, always escapes the missiles in
tended for her and usually succeeds in
having her own insane, e-ratic way
1t is impossible to deceive er, because
she is pasr mistress in the art of per-
petually deceiving herself. When the
Department of Agricultural educates,
reforms and improves the hen it will
have earned the right to cackle.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

In his remarks to the Commercial
Club of st. Paul, James ]. Hill de-
claTed that we are profiigate nation.
The phrase is one of such happy COIN
age that it might be styled an inspira-
tion, comments the New York World
The conditions which make 1t apt
would be far from inspiring If we were
forced to look upon them as enduring
For we are indeed proAigate nation
just that. We are spendthrifts not
only of our natural resources. to which
Mr.. Hill referred and which we ex-
ploit without the slightest thought of
what is to follow when the treasures
are empty, but of our physical and
mental energies as well. We are
money reckless, work reckless, ambi-
tion-reckless, play-reckless, social-reck-
less, according to our spheres and our
callings. We are cutting down our
forests and our nerves, exhausting our
mines and our mettle, pihng our spec
ulations and our aspirations to the
tottering point. Literally, in the heat
of the day We take no thought for the
morrow, AS an exhibition rush it is
superb. 1t is not the sane life any
more than 1t is the simple. The signs
are out-with the graft exposures red
lettered among them-that it is time
to slow UP and sober up.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

One thing that NJ. Fallieres' cleo
tion makes clear is that France is
really republican at heart, asserts the
New York World. 1t is not only a
Government for the people, but a Gov
ernment by men Of the people. NJ.
Loubet, the son of humble peasant.
gives way to President, NJ. Fallieres,
who is the grandson of a blacksmith.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
a Lesson For pouhters.

Before we had any rock and shell
roads between this place and Rock
ledge a two mule team pulled sixteen
boxes of oranres from there to be
loaded on the cars. and t was about
all they could pull. Now that we have
hard roads tat same team of mules
pulls thirty We boxes OF oranges over
the same route with greater ease than
they formerly pulled sixteen. Let
doubters figure the gsin.-Cocoa and
Rockledge (Fla.) News.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

A West Virginia bridegroom has
beaten charivari leader into uncon-
sciousness. The supposition that a
bridegroom has no rights which a
charivarlS crowd should respect may
die out II bridegrooms are to follow
this striking example, believes the st.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

On eight acres of land ]. f. Daniels
OF Bristol. VT, raised. the past season,
200 bushels Of onions. 1900 punches OF
small onions, 1900 enbbages. 9oO
caullflowers, 100 bushels OF cucumbers,
100 bushels Of turnlps. 100 bushels OF
table beets, $50 bushels Of green peas,
200 bushels of potatoes, and three acres
Of sweet corn.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

At the request Of the Minnesota Good
Roads Association the City Council OF
Minneapolis has agreed to an annual
expenditure of $4,000 for the improve
ment Of the main thoroughfares inside
Of the city limits in addition to the
usual ward expendltures.-Goo Roads
Magazine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

The men who are trying to steal
Niagara yalls, says the Pittsburg Ga
zette, are the same kind OF fellows
who would cut down the giant red
woods for lumber or paste ADVERTISE
ments on Mr.. Wellman's north pole.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Professor Magee says: Comparing
the measurements of the average Uni
versity of California girl student with
those taken at Wellesley, we find that
the native California girl surpasses
her Eastern sister in the matter of
general symmetrical development. 1t
is agreed that the climate is more re-
sponsible than any other factor in
bringing about these results. Califor-
mia girls indulge in much more out
door exercise than those Of the East
ern States. The Wellesley girls
strength is rated at 2oO.0 pounds; that
of the California girl at 34l.6 pounds.
The Raphael standard type Of woman
hood would have a lung capacity Of
1898 cubic inches; her height being
FIVE feet five inches. The California
girl, whose average height is nearly
two inches less, has a lung capacity
Of precisely the same volume. which
is about ten cubic inches more than the
lung capacity of the Wellesley girl.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

Magnetic compasses are to be sup
piled in future to all British and native
cavalry regiments in India at the rate
Of four squadron.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

If the world were birdless. natur.
alist declares. man could not inhabit il
after nine years time.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12

The louisville courIer-Journal sug-
gests that before we discover the north
pole in an airship we would better first
discover an airship.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-03-12
Government Obligation.

A HE writer Of this article
has given considerable
thought TO the good roads
proposition as embodied In