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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Strayed OF stolen--One gray
mare about IL years old. weight
about 1000 lbs. liberal reward for
information leading to recovery
J. D. Lindsay, 5rI N. 5th St.27-3
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Strayed or stolen-One gray
mare pony, I3A hands high
branded y" on jaw. Had on COW
boy saddle made by Cross& Cheany
Headstau with bride. $500 re-
ward for return to ITO Kans. ave
Pete Hefner, Jr. 2o- st
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
Attest: JOE DEWs,
City Clerk.
Published March 20, 1907.
THE BEST INSURANCE.

Against hard times is a home Of your
own. If the roof over your head is
really YOURS, you are reasonably
sure to get along some how, no mat
ter what happens. To those who are
considering purchasing, It will pay
them to see me, as I have some choice
bargains this week in city property
and if you wish to sell your home
QUICK list with me, and you know
the rest.
3-2a-3t S. w. BIRD.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Wanted Woman who Is willing
to draw fair salary and who would
do little work around the house
occasionally, Will furnish piano.
Apply Mrs S. J. Lee, cor. 2nd and
Michigan, 2S-3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Lost Book Of credentials con-
tanning an Elk card S. A. 465Io,
belongs to L. L, Moore. Return
to Dietzels cream parlor and re-
ceive reward. 20 St.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
FOR RENT AT ONCE

The basement under the Daily
EXPRESS Office, Electric lights,
nice clean walls, ceiled, wood floor.
All in perfect condition, will rent
very reasonable if taken at once.
Just the place for a small business,
or lodge room. Apply at Daily
EXPRESS Office for terms.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Lost--A Citizens Bank Book
containing one note finder please
leave at Eagle Mercantile and get
reward. J. G. Mays 27 st
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
LAND FOR RENE.

100 acers of fine land 2A miles
Of Chickasha, to be put In cotton
only. See Clay Donovan.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Choice baled hay,
three miles southeast of town
Price very reasonable. Address
j. w. Mays, Chickasha. % ct
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
CHlCKASHA GREEN HOUSE.

Plants and cut flowers on sale at
all times. Monthly blooming roses,
funeral designs specially cor, 5th
and Idaho.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Sale-W White Wyandotte
eggs. In poultry raising it always
pays to keep the best Then buy
White Wyandotte, r. NJ. Harri-
son "a mile west OF Chickasha.
27-3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Wanted-Ioo customers to de-
liver groceries to during the
month Of April. Central Grocery
Co, Ist door N Of Early Hotel 2o 8
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
WANTED

Wanted Two live agents for
Accident Insurance; good Terri
tory and good field. c. w. Tai
mage, Gen. Agt.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Sale" Hello Polly Young
Mexican parrots. $3 to $5. Can
be seen at Matt Cooks place, II0
Chickasha ave. ~ st
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Three times tor one cent
a word. Minimum, Is
cents. Strictly cash in
advance. No ads taken
over the phone, or for
less than 25cts ::::
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

Three hines tor one cent
a word Minimum, Is
cents. Strictly cash in
advance No ads taken
over the phone, OF for
less than 25cts :s::
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Rent-Three furnished
rooms, second floor. bath and toll
ct connections, suitable for light
housekeeping, references asked.
Phone lis. 1913 south Sth st. 20 8
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
FOB RENT

For rent. Two front rooms,
nicely furnished, with or without
board, L. B Lodging House, and
and Iowa. N. P. Updegraff. 3o-3t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
-FoR SAL

For SaIe-Baled hay, delivered
anywhere in the city. Joe Earl.
22-l2t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30
FOUND

Found-A gold locket. Call
at Express Office, prove property
and pay for this advertisement z6 8
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Sale-Good horse and sad
die. See Wells & Co.. Real
Estate.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

For Sale Restaurant for sale
or trade. Call at Restaurant under
Chickasha Nat Bank, 26 st
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-30

The popular mart Of those who want something
who have something they do not want Try it and see
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
THE TRAGEDY OF POE'S
DEATH.

Vivid Description of the Closing
Scene in Edgar Allan Poe's Life.
From the Book News Monthly.
Had Poe been born a generation
later he might have been spared
ife's anguish, and his good name
would have been unbesmirched. In
the light Of modern science Poe be-
longed to class of unfortunates now
called dipsomaniacs. Modern scien-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22

AS the Republican tariff reform
ers insist that the reduction of the
schedules shall be left to the bene-
ficiaries of protection, why not in
sist that railroad regulation be left
to the railway presidents and anti
trust legislation to the trust mag
nates9 1t would be just as reasona-
ble.-The Commoner.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22

had its unknown priest baptized it
with all the hues Of the prism he
would not have changed its heredi-
tary title to imperial superiority ov-
er all its humber kin.
The primary form of food is grass.
Grass feeds the OK; the OK nourishes
man; man dies and goes to grass
again, and so the tide Of life with
everlasting repetition in continuous
circles moves endlessly on and up
ward, and in more senses than one
all flesh is grass. But all flesh is not
blue grass. If it were the devil 5
occupation would be gone.
There is a portion of Kentucky
known as the Bluegrass Region"
and it is safe to say that it has been
the arena of the most magnificent in
tellectual and physical development
that has been witnessed among men
or animals upon the American CONT
nent, or perhaps upon the whole face
of the world. In confederation of
this belief it is necessary only to men
ton the name of Henry Clay, the ora
tor, and the horse Lexington, both
peerless, electric, immortal. The en-
nobling love of the horse has extend
ed to all other races of animals. In
comparable herds of highbred cattle
Craze the tranquil pastures, their ele-
waiting protoplasm supplying a finer
force to human passions, brains and
will. Hog artists devote their genius
to shortening the snouts and swelling
the hams Of their grunting brethren.
The reflex of this solicitude appears
IN the muscular, athletic vigor of men
and the voluptuous beauty Of the
women who inhabit this favored land.
Palaces, temples, forests, peaceful
institutions, social order, spring like
exhalations from the congenial soil.
All these marvels are attributable
as directly to the potential influence
Of blue grass as day and night to the
revolution Of the earth. Eradicate it
substitute for it the scrawny herb
age of impoverished barrons-and in
a single generation man and beast
would alike degenerate into a com
mon clay.
If we would have one prosperity
commensurate with their opportuni-
ties we must look to blue grass. It
will raise the temperature, increase
the rainfall, improve the climate, de-
velOp a higher fauna and flora, and
consequently a loftier attendant civ
ilization.
Blue grass is marching into the
bowels Of the land without impedi-
ment. Its perennial verdure clothes
the bluffs and uplands along the
streams, its spongy sward retaining
the moisture of the earth, preventing
the annual searifcation by fire, pro-
noting the growth Of forests, and
elevating the nature of man.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
SOME PAGES TROY E1Y SCRAP BOOK

tifc investigation and research have
disclosed the existence of a malady
underlying drunken phenomena,
which it has christened inebriety or
narcomania--a mania for narcotism
or intoxication which it recognizes as
a specific disease, as is mental un-
consciousness, that not so very long
ago was believed to be a demoniacal
possession. Indeed, in the jurispru-
dence of some countries, as Belgium,
dipsomania is regarded as variety
of insanity.
There can be no question whatever
that, palliate the facts as we may, the
end of Poe was the most dreadful in
the history of letters. Francois Viii
lon disappeared into the night OF
Time after the career of desperate
criminal. His end can only be con-
Jectured fearfully. But in Poe's case
every ray that the twin lamps of cir
cumstance and judgment can bring
to bear upon the scene only serves to
strengthen the plain testimony of his
friend and physician. 1t was not a
record written for the eyes of rela-
tives and friends. It was not a de-
fense. 1t was the statement of
scientific man and humanitarian to
eye-witnessed facts.
AS to the scenes in the hospital, it
is best to draw a veil over what can
but too plainly be read between the
lines of current account. He was at
first unconscious-sleeping at once the
sleep of exhaustion and of death. To
this succeeded spells of deirium, con-
stant talking with spectral and imag-
mary objects on the walls, during
which "his face was pale and his
whole person drenched i'll perspira-
ton, F" which was not wholly subdued
till the second day after his admis-
sion. In the interval of lucidity
which followed" says DR.. Moran,
physician in charge of the hospital,
L endeavored to cheer him; but he
broke out with an imprecation that
the best thing his best friend could
do would be to take a pistol and blow
out his brains. Shortly after Civ
ing expression to these words Mr..
Poe seemed to doze, and 1 left him
for a short time. When l returned [
found him in a violent delirium, re-
slsting the efforts of two nurses to
keep him in bed. This state contin-
ued until Saturday evening, when
he commenced calling for one 'Rey-
nolds, which he did through the night
until 3 on Sunday morning. At this
time a very decided change began to
affect him. Having become exhausted
from exertion, he became quiet, and
seemed to rest for short time. Then.
gently moving his head, he said,
Lord, help my poor soul' and ex-
pired. His remains" the doctor adds
ut is his post mortem account to
Mrs. GLENN in a letter., "were vis-
tied by some Of the first individuals
Of tho aitu Yoopxy 20 ALo,,o
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22

or our mortality. Lying In the sun
shine among buttercups and dande-
lions OF May, scarcely higher in intel
hgence than the minute tenants of
that mimic wilderness, our earliest
recollections are of grass, and when
the ftful fever is ended and the fool
ish wrangle of the market and the
forum is closed, grass heals over the
scar which our descent into the bos-
ON OF the earth has made, and the
carpet of the infant becomes the
blanket Of the dead
AS he reflected upon the brevity Of
human life, grass has been the favor.
ite symbol Of the moralist, the chos.
en- theme of the philosopher. "All
flesh is grass" said the prophet
"My days are as grass sighed the
troubled patriarch; and the pensive
Nebuchadnezar in his penitential
mood exceeded even these, and as
the sacred historian informs us did
eat grass like an OK.
Grass is the forgiveness of nature
her constant benediction. Fields
trampled with battle, saturated with
blood, torn with ruts Of cannon, grow
green again with grass, and carnage is
forgotten. Streets abandoned by
traffic becomes grass grown like ru-
raj lanes and are obliterated. For
ests decay, harvests perish, flowers
vanish, but grass is immortal. Be-
leaguered by the sullen hosts of win
ter, it withdraws into the impre yna-
BILE fortress of its subterranean Vi
tality, and emerges upon the first So
licitation of spring. Sown by tie
winds, by wondering birds, propa-
gated by the subtle horticulture of
the elements, which are it's ministers
and servants, it softens the rude out
line of the world. It's tenacious fibres
hold the earth in its place, and pre-
vent its soluble components from
washing into the wasting sea. 1t in
vades the sohtudes of deserts, Climbs
the inaccessible slopes and for5idding
pinnacles of mountains, modifes eli
mates, and determi les the history,
character and destiny Of nations en-
obtrusive and patient it has inmor-
tai vigor and aggression. Blnished
from the thoroughfare and the field
it bides its times to return, and when
vigilance is relaxed, or the dynasty
has perished, it silently resumes the
throne from which it has been expell-
ed, but which it never abdicates. It
bears no blatonry Of bloom to charm
the senses with fragrance or splen-
dor, but its homely hue is more en-
chanting than the lily or the rose.
1t yields no fruit in earth or air, and
yet should its harvest fail for sim
gle year famine would depopulate the
world.
One grass differs from another in
glory. One is vulgar, another patri-
clan. There are grades in its vege-
table nobility. Some varieties are
useful. Some are beautiful. Others
combine utility and ornament. The
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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-22
A PROSE POEM ON GRASS.

AAON1OO 1nu CIOuo0
But he has written an article on
grass that displays the genius Of SEN
timent as well as of language. We
print it herewith. Those who read it,
and who catch its sense and it's poe
try will agree with us that he cannot
be an utterly bad man, who has
formed in his heart such thoughts
as these. Though Senator Ingalls,
probably comes as near being utterly
bad as such man can be.
Attracted by the bland softness of
an afternoon in my primeval winter
in Kansas, I rode southwark through
the dense forest that then covered the
bluffs Of the north fork of Wildcat.
The ground was sodded with
the ooze of melting snow. The
dripping trees were as motionless as
granite. The last years leaves, tena-
cious ingerers, loath to leave the
scene of their brief bravery, adhered
to the boughs like fragile bronze,
There were no visible indications of
life, but the broad, wintry landscape
was flooded with that indescribable
splendor that was never on sea or
shore-a purple and silken softness
that half veiled, half disclosed the
alien horizon, the vast curves of the
remote river, the transient architec-
ture of the clouds, and filled the re-
spOnsive soul with vague tumult Of
emotions, pensive and pathetic, in
which regret and hope contended for
the mastery. The dead and silent
globe, with all its hidden kingdoms,
seemed swimming like bubble, sus-
pended in an ethereal solution of
amethyst and silver, compounded Of
the exhaling whiteness Of the snow,
the descending glory of the sky. A
tropical atmosphere brooded upon an
arctic scene, creating the strange
spectacle. of summer in winter, June
in January, peculiar to Kansas, which
unseen cannot be imagined, but once
seen can never be forgotten. A sud
den descent into the sheltered valley
revealed an unexpected verdure, gilt
tering like a meadow in early spring,
unreal as an incarnation, surprising
as the sea to the soldiers of Keno
phon as they stood upon the shore
and shouted "Thalatta. +" It was
Blue grass unknown in Eden, the
final triumph of nature, reserved to
compensate her favorite offspring in
the new paradise of Kansas for the
loss of the old upon the banks of the
Tigris and Euphrates.
Next in Importance to the divine
profusion of water, light, and air,
those three great physical facts which
render existence possible, may be
reckoned the universal benefcence
of grass. Exaggerated by tropical
heats and vapors to the gigantic cane
congested with its saccharine secre-
ton, or dwarfed by polar rigors to
the fibrous hair of Northern soli-
tudes, embracing between these ex-
tremes the maize with its resolute
pennons, the rice plant Of Southern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-30
DISCRIMINATION CHARGED.
Lower Rates for Longer Than for the
Shorter Haul.

The claims put forward in southern states
Of freight rate discrimination are daily be-
coming more complicated. While North
Carolina Is declaring that Virginia Is re-
ceiving rates more favorable than those
given the Old North state and propose to
fight for concessions that will allow her
to compete in the distribution of goods
through that section of the country, the state
of George is declared to be favored over
South Carolina in the matter OF coal ship
ments from Tennessee. This claim is put
forward in a complaint just lodged with
the interstate commerce commission by
P. ]. Rice, who ships coal to Charles
ton, S. c., from the Jellco coal mines
in Tennessee over the Georgia rail-
way the Louisville and Nashville and the
Southern. Mr.. Rice elaine that although
Augusta, Ga, is farther from these mines
than is Charleston, S. c., the former city
receives a lower rate than does Charleston
The commission is asked to look into this
discrimination and to grant proper relief
for the people of Charleston. AS the Geor-
gia railway is intimately connected with this
claim of discrimination, the question may
arise whether that road under the influence
of the legislature of Georgia has endeavored
to secure discrimination rates for the state
which controls it in the handling OF inter-
state commerce in order TO promote the
trade advantages of Georgia over South
Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-30
BRIDGE A RECoRD-BREAKER
Largest Structure Of It's Sort In the
World

MONTREAL, August 3O-The onehec
bridge was remarkable, in that It was tn
be the longest single span cantilever bridge
In the world. the length Of the span in the
center being 1900 feet, 200 feet longer than
that OF the Firth bridge, at present the
worlds longest single bridge span. There
has been no bridge across the St. Lawrence
below Montreal. At Quebec City traffic was
refr1ed across the river. This expense being
held responsible for the failure of Quebec
to grow, number Of citizens secured a
charter from the dominion government to
bridge the st. Lawrence. A subsidy of r.
100000 was secured from the dominion and
another Of $3.50 GO from the government of
the province Of Quebec. while the city Of
Quebec gave grant Of 10000. The pro-
motors put up 365OOOO
The contract was let for the erection Of
the stoneWork to NJ. P. Davis & Co, and
for the ironwOrk to the Phoenix Iron Com
pany OF PhoeniXville. Work was begun in
1900 The original estimate Of the cost was
In the neighborhood of s., 10000, but this
was found to be too small. The company
finding itself i'll difficulties and the govern
ment needing the bridge for the national
transcontinental railway, an agreement was
reached by which the government agreed
to guarantee the bonds of the company up
to SI.UU,O0o Under this agreement con-
structon has been proceeding. When COM
pleted the bridge was to have accommodate
ton for double-track railway, two lines
OF electric tramways and two roadways
foot and vehicle traffic
At the time Of the collapse the cantilever
span on the south side of the river had
been completed, as well as the approaching
span and some 200 feet Of the connecting
span between the cantilevers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-30
Crusade Against War.
From Everybody's.

FROM EveryDOuyS 8.
Had you wished to know the full sweep
and trend Of the pacific movement, you had
gone. as I did, among the unofficial dele
gates at The Hague conference. There
were many Mr.. w. T. Stead presided over
club in the Princessengracht. The Bar
onness Won Suttner, who wrote that epoch
making book, Lay Down Your Arms!" had
her pacific circle. The peace associations
were represented by men and women from
every land. Among them you met neither
irony nor diSillusiOn. AS you listened to
them you realized that'the Great Ideal has
made its way into the remotest parts Of
the earth, that it has become part Of the
intellectual life of mankind. The most po-
tent delegates were those unaccredited
members Of the peace leagues and associa-
tons, who represented the hopes of far-on
Java, OF far-off Kansas, Of Norway, Of Eng
land. They we're not worrying about Oar
winian laws of equilibrium. 1t may be that
they are not practical But they are preach
ing crusade-ln all languages-against
war. They are stripping 1t of its glory;
they are demonstrating its absurdity in an
age when men know one another-and may
freely discuss their differences: and they
are familiarizing the peoples and above all
the governments with the theory of peace.
There was something very charming about
these little gatherings-with their enthu-
siasms and lawless idealism. You see they
discussed only how peace might be made
permanent and universal: not upon them
was laid the diplomatic duty Of seeing how
peace might be made profitable.