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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22
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I'm weary OF the bloody tale,
In fact, it's growing ALFRED stale
To read each day. "The allies vim
While Berlin says, Its false as sim
Si Simp says the longer cold wealth
er holds off the less our coal bills will
be.
1t was hard to tell whether Senator
owen or Bee Ho Gray made the big
ger hit.
Almost any woman will admit that it
is a big job to get the house cleaned
up when company is coming.
II would be lot more satisfying IL
we could get the official standing OF
the teams in the war league.
The baseball battle Sunday will have
to be decisive. Both sides are bring
ing up~iheir biggest siege guns.
III view of the continued complaints
about the h. c. o. l., it is gratifying TO
note that punkins are large and plenti'
full.
1t was somewhat surprising to learn
that ]. T. Hill was not elected presi-
dent of the Young Mems Democratic
club.
With his army surrounding the
peace conference and offering gentle
suggcg -nns, villa didn't take many
chances !, hen he swore he would abide
by the decision of the delegates.
One Chickasha deacon who is oppos-
ed to Sunday sports, says he is going
out to the baseball park next Sunday
"just to see Walter johnson" How
ever, it is a fairly safe bct that he
won't keep his eyes shat while the
game is goinS on.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22
STOLEN sMILE'R TWO.
incrediuIous.

q was outspoken in my sentiment
at the club today" said Mrs. Garrulous
to her husband the other evening.
With look of astonishment he re-
piled:
81 can't believe it, my dear. Who
outspoke you ?''-National Monthly.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22
JUST A THOUGHT
Ere the Day Is Gone.


Laughter should dimple the cheek,
not furrow the brow A jest should
be such that all shall be able to join
in the laugh which it occasions; but
If it bear hard upon one of the COM
pany, like the crack Of string, it
makes stop in the music-Ex.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

We see no reason for crediting Car
rama with the possession of any great
amount OF horse-sense, but-surely he
ought to know enough to realize thai
he wouldn't last till breakfast is over
In any contest with Villa. Our advice
to the "first chief" is to step to the
rear as gracefully as possible.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22
Military Tactics.

"My wife is going through some
army maneuvers with her last years
hat"
What dye mean, army maneu-
vers?"
"Well, she's turning the wings"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

m weary Of The bloody tale,
In fact, it's growing alfred stale
To read each day, "The allies win
While Berlin says, Its false as sin
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

81 Simp says the longer cold wealth.
er holds off the less our coal bills will
be.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

1t was hard to tell whether Senator
owen or Bee Ho Gray made the big
ger hit.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

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.a Xny erroneous reflection. on
,so,,, ,se easrscfer ; sfsndize or
aspufstlon 9 ofany person. 6rn,
or corporation sa0 s1y m,s4 %
,sasmesf = ssa which msy appear }
..a,,ti 70 re cOI1m0s of ne ErcSess
Z, kII be siadiy corrected uoo.
no1 or fhe nssssemenI.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

Almost any woman will admit that it
is big job to get the house cleaned
up when company is coming.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-22

Brussels maintains school for
graye-diggers, through which men
must pass to take up that occupation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
M0NOTONIES.

THE SHEEP TRACK. An Aspect OF i1n-
don Society BY NeSta u. Webster. l%ho'
pp. 40. D. p Du;ton & co.
With its obvious faults heavy upon
it--a lack of proportion between itSS
first and second parts among them, ana
a tendency toward eXaggcration Tor the
sake of contrast-this study OF eontem-
porary social life elsewhere as well as
in London has many cOuntervalllng
merits. II is worth while, for 1t weighs
against each other the rewards ana
the cost OF conventionality and It's re-
verse. Both are "sheep tracks" grow
ing increasingly monOtonous as one
progresses along the path, but whereas
the conventional track, prOsAic and
hard as il comes to be. offers COM
pensations of position and material ad-
vancement, the path through bohemia,
leads to a swamp OF dlsllluslon ana
waste. The girl of this story folloWS
them both, one after the other; ana
here, on the conventional track, the
author makes her mistake or eXag-
gerating the dulness of both the land..
scape Ito carry out the figure OF
speech) and Of the people encountered.
She does far better on the other pain,
that of the half-world in the longer
Dumas's original meaning OF the %ord,
of the women who have placed them
selves Just beyond the pale, who DEFY
conventionality Of necessity, and put
a cheerful aspect upon the matter. The
men, rowing from one path to the other,
invariably seek their wives or only
ono of them--the double standard. And
herein lies the tragedy Of the story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
BROADWAY ONCE MORE.

THE AUCTION BLOCK. \ Novel Of New
York Life. BY Rex Beach. illustrated
by Charles Dana Gibson. LIMO. PIP. AL.
Harper & Bros.
From Alaska to the Great White Way
is long jump, but Mr.. Beach negoti-
ates it with facility if not with much
originality. The life Of Broadway, of
the stage entrance and the lobster pal
ace has been "standardized"; much
fictional exploitation of it has evolved
mould. Still. those who are curious
about this sordid phase of New York
existence, especially those at dis.
lance, will find this story very MUCH
to their liking; and New Workers, II
they arc so minded. can play the game
cc fitting real names to its tictional
characters, to some of them at least.
Furthermore. Mr.. Beach gives the sor-
ddness a dark background OF melo-
dramatic revenge; and virtue, little
crumpled II not soiled beyond repair,
wins in the end. The panorama Is
complete, for it stretches from Pitts
burgh millionaires via politicians to
gurmen discreetly lowering on the
Horizon. The heroine is q salamandel,
exploited by her mother and brother;
the blackmailer hourishes, the VIII"
flows, automobiles run sixty miles az
hour under the stars, the music OF the
trotteries strikes the ear, and, as al
Ways with us, crime is allied with folly
and vice. 1t is all true, and 1t is all
here in abundant measure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
c.xo. w Cables Colorfu Picture of the Old South
sensationaism on the Veldt-A Famous MelO-
drama in Book Form-Other Novels.

the first of the kailyard school, won
him a popularity that he retained in
measure to the end; and when that
came he had but just given US a cheer
ing bit of modern Scotch romance
which bore signs Of renewed interest in
his work. In "Silver Sand" published
shortly after bis death in England,
and now issued in this country, he re-
turned TO that other vein of his, the
historical genre, though in this case
the history is but slight, the distance
Of time being merely employed to give
enchantment to the romance of Silver
Sand the Gypsy, Lord and Earl Of Little
Egypt, who lived in Galloway in the
days when Charles II was drawing
near the end Of his reign and James
was preparing for the measures that
would soon put an end to his BRIEF
rule. They we're troubled days in Scot,
land, and Silver Sand, or John Faa, had
his share in them. 1t is story typi-
cal of Crockett, full of wild romance,
adventure and danger, book that
closes his career worthily, since 1t IS
representative of most Of his earlier
work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
AFRICAN TALES.

WILD HONEY. Stories Of South Africa
By Cynthia StOckley. limo, up. SSl u T.
Putnams Sons.
It IS the melodramatic side Of South
African life that Miss Stockley presents
10 Us in these seven stories tales OF
the tragedies Of love and the hardships
and dangers and dark doings OF the
lonely stretches of the Neldt. There
is>cannibalism here, not Of the natives,
Of which many stories are told by Atri-
canders. but Of a degenerate white;
there are other horrors, too, OF re-
yenge so fiendish that it makes the
flesh creep; Of that danger to women
which is always present among sayaGes,
The danger for which our own plains
men kept their last bullet in the days
of the Indian on the warpath. Melo-
drama, indeed. is heaped up and running
over. with moro than glimpse, too, Of
the sudden fortunes which the country
OF gold still holds buried in its soil.
But best of ell one likes the authors
description of the madness that seizes
Upon the traveller lost in the bush, a
madness OF which the victim himself
remembers nothing if he is saved, and
which causes many days TO pass as II
they were but few hours. This de-
scription is q notable bit OF work, vivid
and memorable in the impression it
makes upon the reader.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
A Timely Monograph on the Turkish Capitu
lations by an American Diplomatist-
Annals of the Savoy Theatre.

.Sout the same time CharlemG2ne
and Haroun-al- Raschid made q treaty
OF exterritoriality for French mer-
chants. The members OF the Hanseatic
League enjoyed the same privilege
wherever they settled, from London
and Antwerp to Novgorod in Russia;
Itelien merchants in the Low Coun-
tries and England had in the middle
ages the same right of bringing their
differences before their own consuls;
in The thirteenth century the Chris
tians in Jerusalem were placed under
the juridical authority Of the Knights
of Malta. the Moslems in Sicily and
Corsica being, in return, assured Of
exterritorisl rights. The modern
capitulations in Turkey had their be-
ginning in the treaty concluded he
tween Soleiman TIE Magnificent and
Francis ] of France in 1886.
But there is more. According to
our author, The rights of foreigners in
the Ottoman Empire were not forced
from the Turks, but granted by them
in that spirit of tolerance and justice
which runs so paradoXically through
Turkish history side by side with so
much OF fsnsticism and persecution.
The Koran, which is a book of law as
we'll rs of religion, distinguishes be-
tween True Believers, the People of
the Book Christians and jews and
the Heather, who have no rights what
ever and must be eXterminated. When
the Turk began to subject Chris
tians to his rule, he must solve "a
peculiar problem, having its origin in
the Moslem conception of the identity
Of the state and religion" The same
law, under this conception, could not
apply equally to both Moslem and
non-Moslem. The solution of the diff
Guilty found by Mohammed was simple
and reasonable. If, he reasoned, in
certain respects Moslems might invoke
from the authorities of the state the
application of Moslem law, it followed
that non-Moslems might likewise in
woke the application Of their own
laws in similar circumstances. As the
Ottoman authorities were not compc-
tent to administer such laws, the non
Moslems had the right to appeal to
their own religious heads, who thus
became. in a sense, political authori-
ties acting in the place of the Ottoman
authorities, and TO that extent we're TO
be considered as heads OF their re-
spectiVc nations. Certain embarraSs-
ments for the Turkish authorities
caused by this course were more than
offset By their relief o. the more en-
barrassing obligations of jurisdiction
foreign to Moslem law and usage. The
rights thus accorded, in a spirit of fine
justice, TO the Turks Christian sub
iects were subsequently, and with GER
tain notifications, extended to the for
eigners within their domnions. These
rights long ago ceased to be reciprocal,
whence the new Turkeys announced
intention Of abrogating them as in
compatible with the country'5 status
among the powers.
Apart from its usefulness for its
specific purpose, Mr.. Browns mono
graph will be found Of uncommon in
terest on a phase of history of which
but little is generally known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
A GOOD OLD NELODRAMA.

TIE SILVER KING. By Alfred Wilson
Barrett FOUNDED on the famous play 10y
Henry Arthur Jones and Henry lierinan
illustrated. Emo, PIP. @0J. q. W. OIL
l!ngham Company.
An older generation of theatregoers
still remembers the stirring interest OF
"The Silver King" a rafting melo-
drama linked in the memory with
"The Two Orphans" and other classics
of it's kind. We shall, no doubt, have
AN opportunity this fall to judge of the
plays continued vitality on our stage,
since it was revived in London last
season with abundant success. A NOV
ing picture version is also promised
Mr.. Barrett has made readable story
of the adventures of Wilfred Denver,
who, having lost his all at the Derby
and ruined his wife and children,
awOke from bout o. hard drinking to
find his one-time rival and relentless
enemy dead beside him, killed by his
revolver. lie fed the country, came to
America, and there made the lucky
strike that gave him the nickname
which forms tn title of the play,
whose further action deals with his
return home, the solution OF the mys-
terry of the murder, and his ultimate
rehabilitation and reunion with his
wife and children. Mr.. Barrett has not
attempted to write literature. He gives
Us melodrama in book form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
ITALIAN TOWNS
Completion of a Trilogy on an
Interesting Subject.

IoNfgARDY TOWNS OF ITALY. by Eyer
ION r. Williams jr. Illustrated. l2mo
pp. xiv. 900. Dodd Mead & CO.
Mr.. Williams is of those whom the
charm of Italy holds in lifelong thralL.
From the profusion of his footnotes
and the liberality Of his quotations one
Judges that his acquaintance with the
literature Of his subject is uncom-
monty large. His interest lies in the
Italian past; of the Italy Of to-day he
is hardly cognizant. At most he gives
here and there expression to word OF
distaste, as when, on approaching Ber-
earno, he says that "to the modern
Italian the city means the recent wide
spread borough on the plain, vomiting
black smoke from scores of factories,
bumming with industrial life; to the
traveller and the aesthetic it means that
ancient picturesque hilltop, on which
Manzoni placed some scenes of the
'Promessi Sposi,' and the wondrous pro-
ductions of its great, bygone artists,
which are among the most purely beau
tiful of all the schools" History, le-
pendry, architecture, sculpture, paint
ing, the artcrafts of the Middle Ages,
these weave the spell Of Italy for him.
He does not claim 70 be an expert, bat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
OLD MISSISSIPPI DAYS.

crnEoN's BAND. 4 Tale OF tn WI,s I,
pv Georgc w. Gable. 49, ".
nv G. Yohn. limo, pp' 0"'
scribners Sons
Tho Old South has had its DAY III
o,,,. Sct;on Il has been long ana
SriII;ant one, enriching our llterstMuse
D,ith some pictures Of vanished ne
'hich will never lose their freshness
"a which will gain in historical vaiue
, a.i tbs nsssing of time. But as inc
ontn.belIum days receded younger
Generation of Southern writer's pegan
20 cYnloit the genre at second manu-
copyinq the work of the pioneers EN-
beljishine It until, in the end' the
drawing was utterly unreliable t ~,
nictnro fantastic and the colors oTll.
iant beyond all resemblance 10 WnHE
thew purported to represent. a c"sIo
was established; pdshche soon III
lowed. And when this happens tne
end is not far of.
Still. Mr.. Cable now proves that tor
one of the original masters OF the nc
tional picture of the Old South tne
material il still far from exhausteu'
He tells here a story of a trip up the
Mississippi from New Orleans on board
one oil the FAMOUS ElNtl
middle of the last century. There 10
nothing new in that, you will say; the
steamers and their passengers, the
planter, the statesman, The gambler
the gentle Southern ladies, the pilot,
the roustabouts, the landings al 60 e"i -
has been done time and again 90 ~
has. but never in Mr.. Cables way. MS
story is sure to interest you.
1t is a story Of plot, Of incessant.
complications based upon the rivalry oil
two families of steamship. owners.
There are threats of mutiny, for on the
lower deck cholera breaks out among a
marty of immigrants. All aboard play
their parts in this plot, and, as they
play them, develop the types that give
the booklets vivid quality Of color and
grouping and action, its historical value
as reflection of the views, the man.
ners, the conditions and the speech OF
the period. The picture is of beauti-
full mellowness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
ExrERRlToRIAL RIGHTS.

FOREIGNERS IN TURKEY. Their Jurid'
teal status. BY Philip Marshall Brown
12mo. N. vii, Isl. Princeton university
Press.
The announced intention Of the
Turkish government to abrOEate the
so-cslled "capitulations" comforting
exser.itoriality upon foreigners resid-
ing in its dOminions gives this inform
ing little volume great and immediate
usefulness. Its author, now assistant
professor of law and diplomacy in
Princeton University, was formerly
secretary Of our embassy and charge
6'aFaires at Constantinoplc, where, in
the course OF his inquiry into the
nature OF the exact rights of foreign
ers resident in Turkey, as distin-
guished from their privileges and their
undue pretensions, he found that the
sources of information at the service
OF the juridieal student were scat
tered, incomplete. and often contra
eietory. This book presents a brief
cod;ficstion of these rights, which
should and its way into the hands Of
or Giplonatists, students of interna-
tional law, and of all who are inter
ested in or write upon our relations
with Turkey. The author also offers
working hypothesis on which to base
those establishments in the relations
between the Porte and the govern
ments OF the powers which are sure
to be called for soon.
OF wider interest is The historical
study Of exterritorial rights with
which the volume opens. To the aver
age reader of the news OF the day
these rights appear in the light OF
concessions wrung from non-Chrlstian
governments for the protection OF Tor
cigne~s: and they also are gonerally
believed 70 be of comparatively recent
date. As q matter Of fact, they are
among the oldest accommodations IN
the history of international inter
course. originating in the needs OF in
ternstional commerce. Herodotus tells
MS that in the fifth century B. c. King
Amasis of Egypt allowed Greek mer-
chants to settle at Naucratis and per-
mitted them TO be judged by their
own Judges. according % their own
laws and customs. Exterritoriality was
recognized by the ancient Greeks and
Romans: rs early as the ninth century
Of our era China granted it to the
Arab merchants settled at Canton:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19
HOWELLS AS REPORTER
His Feeling Of Responsibility
and independence.

In "Harper's" for September, William
Dean Howells tells Of his boyhood anf
of his first beginnings as writer. III:
father Was a newspaper man, ard IN
addition to other activities had report
ed the proceedings in the Senate, a
Ohio, for some time, when
at the age of twenty, the future novel
ist succeeded to the position:
The first winter of my legislative
correspondence began with letter
to a Cincinnati newspaper. | had a
desk appointed me on the floor of
the Senate as good as any Sem
ator's. Every privilege and cOur-
tesy was shown the press, which
sometimes, | am afraid, It's cor
respondents accepted ungraciousiy
enough. Either the first winter or
the next, a reporter was expelled
from the floor of the House for
his OVERLOAD criticisms of some
member, and ] espouSed his cause
with quite outrageous ardOr.
had, indeed, such a swollen ideal
OF the rights and duties of the
press that | spared no censure Of
Senator'S / found misguided. |
Was perhaps, nv "hOily hbLSN W
my twenty years to judge them,
though this possibility did not oc-
cur to me at the time with its
present force, but if I was not i'm
pressed with the dignity Of the
Senate, the dignity of the Senate
chamber was a lasting effect with
me, as in fact that of the whole
Capitol was. seemed to share
personally in it as | mounted the
stately marble stairway from the
noble rotunda, or passed through
the ample corridors from the Sem
ate to the House, where it needed
not even a nod to the sergeant-at-
arms to gain me access to the
floor: nonchalant glance did that.
But the grandeur of the interior,
which | enjoyed with the whole
legislative body, was not more
wonderful than its climate, which
was tempered against the winter
to a summer warmth by the air
rushing from the furnaces in the
basement through gratings in the
walls and floors. They were for
me the earliest word Of the COM
fort that now pervades our whole
well warmed American world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-19

involved was s140. Sullivan scquiesced,
but Gilbert refused to pay his share:
that carpet, he maintained, would not
add q sixperce 20 the box office re-
ceipts. He lost control OF his .peppery
temper, went to law, withdrew from the
old partnership, and formed troupe
OF his own. Still. Mr.. Bridgeman main
tnins that beneath Sir william Gil
bert's autocratic, Cesarian attitude,
which sometimes gave offence, there
beat kindly, sympathetic heart.
One other partner the Savoyard9 had,
a silent one whose work was OF the
greatest service to them-Mrs. D'Oyly
Carte. a capable business woman, who
is not neglected in these pages. Some
extended reference to the fortunes OF
the Gilbert and sullivan operas IN this
country would have been welcome,
down to the artistic rcvivGis which
have been such a pleasant feature Of
our theatrical seasons for several