The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1904 Page: 1 of 10
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Chandler News,
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSlkAP, LDll'OR AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. 13—NO. 21.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FEBRUARY 11, 1904.
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE FAILURES OF LINCOLN.
I "HE approach of Lincoln's birth-
day anniversary carries with it
a refutation of the prevalent cynical
motto, "Nothing succeeds like suc-
cess." For failure dogged every
step of his career. What the world
calls success was constantly eluding
him. In his case the "schooj of ad-
versity" was no empty phrase. It
gave him the training without which
he might have failed at the tremen-
• dous crisis which awaited his coming.
It was not merely that Lincoln was
bora to an inheritance of want, that
he had to make his own way with
only the schooling that he could
pick up, that his path was never in
pleasant places. He met discourage-
ment at every step. He went into
the Black Hawk war a captain and
came out private. He went to the
frontier on horseback and returned
on foot. His opportunities were so
poor that he was in great doubt
whether to become a lawyer or a
blacksmith. His start in business
was made in a general store. To
purchase the stock he was forced to
borrow on his personal note. The*
store "winked out," and the debts of
his partners came to him to pay. It
took him seventeen years to dis-
charge these obligations. It was his scruplous-
ness in this affair that earned for him the title of
"Honest Abe." The failure of his store was dis-
couraging enough, but to add to his trouble one of
his creditors attached his horse, saddle and sur-
veying instruments, by the daily use of which, to
use his own words, he "procured bread and kept
soul and body together." He ran for the legis-
lature and was returned eighth on the poll. A
second time he tried and was successful. Had it
not been for this rift in the clouds, his secretary
and biographer, Mr. Nicolay, thinks that even
his indomitable will might have been broken, and
he might have gone to the anvil to make horse-
shoes for the rest of his days. After serving four
terms in the legislature Lincoln tried to secure the
congressional nomination. He had the mortifica-
tion of being appointed a. member of his county
delegation when it was instructed for another
candidate—"a good deal," he wrote, "like a
fellow who is made groomsman to a man that has
cut him out and is marrying his own dear 'gal.' "
It was not until his second trial that he secured
the nomination and election. Even then his
political career was unpromising. The leading
Whigs of the district had agreed to make honors
go as far as possible by giving only a single term
to the congressman. Under this agreement Lin-
^ineoln's 9hil0i>0phi(.
God must love common people, he has
made so many of them.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inade-
quate to the stormy present.
Gold is good, in its place; but living, brave
patriotic men are better than gold.
It is difficult to make a man miserable
while he feels he is worthy of himself and
claims kindred to the Great God who
made him.
The strongest bond of human sympathy,
outside of the family relation, should be
one uniting all working people, of all
nations, and tongues and kindreds.
coin felt bound not to seek a renomination. But ,
he asked of the Taylor administration the com-
missionership of the general land office. It went
to a rival. Meanwhile, the young woman to
whom he was engaged to be married had died,
and his marriage a few years later proved only a
subtler tragedy. In 1854 he was the leading
candidate for the senatorship, but, though he had
forty-five votes at the outset, he was defeated by
Trumbull, who had begun with five. Four years
later his joint debates with Douglas gave him
undisputed pre-eminence and carried the state by
a republican plurailty of 4.000. But an antiquated
apportionment threw the election to Douglas. In
1856 he lost the vice-presidential nomination on
the Fremont ticket when "a favorable nod from
half a dozen wire-workers would have brought
him success." It is hardly correct to call all
these rebuffs failures. They were th • factors in
his training which gave him strength to ride the
storm that awaited his accession to the presidency.
Throughout his life Providence seemed to single
Lincoln out and challenge him to combat. And
because he proved undaunted and worthy of the
trust the fate of the nation was committed to his
keeping. From the struggle of overcoming diffi-
culies came the strength that fitted him for his
great responsibilities.—Kansas City Star.
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PLANT CANTALOUPES.
AS WE have frequently stated in
these columns, there is no one
thing that will contribute more to the
permanent prosperity of this county
than the establishing of a system of
diversified farming and truck-farming
and fruit-growing. There is too
much land in this county that is
unproductive, and there is too
much of that which is in use that is
not bringing the returns that it ought
to yield. There is no doubt but that
it will be better for the county and
for all our people when this condition
is changed so that every farm will
be producing something near its full
capacity and when there are products
of the farm to be put upon the market
every month and every week of the
year. If this condition is desirable,
and no one seems to doubt that it is,
the best way to begin it is to begin,
and the best time to begin is now.
There could hardly be a more favor-
ahlc'J.ime. It is not wise to under-
take too many new crops at onetime,
for to do so would render success
with those that are tried less certain.
If two or three new products are
tried and the farmers planting them
will arrange a plan of co-operation
in the shipping and marketing of
these products, the experiment will be successful
in proportion to the care given to these crops.
None of us would readily admit that we cannot
grow in this county successfully anything that
can be grown in the Southwest. Perhaps the best
crops for a beginning in the work of truck-farming
this year would be cantaloupes, potatoes, and
tomatoes, and, doubtless, the best of these would
be cantaloupes. There is hardly any product of
t!?<■ "farm r ; irdc:. that has kept pace with the
cantaloupe in its growth in popularity in recent
years, and the consumption of these melons has
increased enormously each year. During the
coming season the World's Fair at St. Louis will
supply an additional market, so that, if all Lin-
coln county were 'planted to cantaloupes, the
entire product could find a ready market at a
good price. It has been proven that the average
vield in this county, when the melons receive
proper attention, is from 150 to 200 crates to the
acre, and the price last year netted the producer
something more than a dollar a crate, on the
average. This will show that cantaloupes are
easily more profitable than fifteen-cent cotton,
though, perhaps, one cannot care for so many
acres. Another good feature of the cantaloupe
crop is that it does not interfere with other crops,
,and is marketable when the other crops are not.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1904, newspaper, February 11, 1904; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117752/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.