The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-09-21
OSe Bullet Starts War
With Its Train Of Woes
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uedtn. oceans OF tears or women an
little children IL created. Ii flew int
the bourses and money markets of tn
world and cut their nerves. To under
stand the situation in Europe befor'
this bullet was fired imagine If yol
can, that every item Of civilization
everything that is good homes
science, art, music, surgery, educa
tion. culture, peace-had an been done
UP into one huge package and hung
by a slender thread over a deep preci
pice. Flor years this package has
swung this way. The winds Of wal
have often threatened it, but the
statesmen OF Europe have steadied il
and have strengthened the hold and
the storm has passed, time after time
And then along speeds this one lead
bullet, fired by high school boy nam.
cd Gabriel Prinzip. 1t cuts the rope.
The crash will be heard throughout
centuries.
h~iS AhtNip 10 hON 10 . ocSiCl.
Most probably he is dead From the
day he was seized by the crowds in
the streets the little town Of Serajeyo
and dragged OFF to jail, he has been
out OF sight Austrian censorship kept
back the news; his pnishment is d
mystery TO the courts Of Europe. 1t
all happened on Sunday morning, June
IS. King George of England was liv-
ing In buckingham Palace, in London,
enjoying the social season. In far
away ST. Petersburg the czar OF Rus
sia was entertaining Poincare, the
president Of France. The emperor
OF Austria had gone TO his summer
home for his vacation. Emperor Viii
liam OF Germany was playing on his
yacht al Kiel 1t was playtime for the
lords Of Europe and they were making
the most Of it. But lords as they
were. OF various sections Of mankind,
their sight did not reach TO that little
faraway town in Bosnia Chauffeurs
and high school boys don't often top
pie thrones and there are SO many Of
them and they are so common that
they cannot all be watched. But il
would have well paid these lords OF
creation and it would have well paid
all humanity this bright Sunday morn
day morning to have kept their eyes on
Serajeyo.
What's happening there seems
small enough, at first. A little crowd
OF citizens gp down to the depot 70
see a special train come In; i bears
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who.
II he lives win some day be emperor
OF Austria and king OF Hungary He
won't live three hours longer, but the
crowds don't know that, neither do the
kings and cars and emperors OF the
world. With the archduke is his wife.
They have left their four little chill
dren at home in Vienna and have
come 10 seraioyo, little town In Bos.
no, to pay a regal visit. Europe and
all humanity might well keep their
eyes glued to the automobile which Is
10 pass through the badly paved
streets OF Serajevo at 10 o'clock In
The morning. First there is a bomb
explosion. A typographer has thrown
it. 1t doesn't hit The automobile; IN
stead ii hits the elbow Of the arch
duke. II goes Off second later IN
the street, some yards behind the
royal car. The chauffeur, whose
wrong twist of the wrist half an hour
later Is going to help plunge into the
greatest war mankind has ever
known. has put on speed and saved
the royal pair. Destiny has decided
that II Is not at 1910 in the morning
that the archduke shall die. but at
iO:40 and that not typographer
bomb but a high school boys hand
shall cut the rope from which hangs
over the precipice of war the worlds
civilization and peace. The car speeds
On. The archduke is annoyed. When
he reaches the town nall he says to|
the mayor who has made speech oil
welcome: These speeches are an
right, but what about bombs? you
say I'm welcome in Serajevo, but they
throw bombs at me here. The mayor
looks worried, nut the job is too small
for a mayor. Even kings, working an
together and all the statesmen q
the earth, with the gold of all the
world behind them. won't be able to
handle the lob that the little mayor OF
serajevo is pucking his brows about
He telephones to the police TO renew
their vigilance What can the little
police force Of Serajevo do in this al
fair? It's matter for the greatest
armies the world has ever known 70
decide.
el1l return to the depot by an out
of.theway route says the archduke'
smiling. He's accustomed to attempts
acton. rnenherS of his own