The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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OLD BRICK CHURCH.
THE DOMESTIC REALM.
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ABOUT AMUSEMENTS.
Dr.
Talmage Lays Down Some
Guiding Principles.
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hlniflon. May 13.
Tills discourse o( l)r. Talmage is in
accord with nil innocent hilarities,
while it reprehends amusements that
"belittle or deprave; text II, Samuel
ii, 14: "Let the young men now arise
V and play before us."
There are two armies encamped by
the pool of Gibeon. The time hangs
heavily on their hands. One army
proposes ii game of sword fencing.
Nothing could be more helpful and
innocent. The other army accepts
the challenge. Twelve men ngalnst
12 men, the sport opens. Hut some-
thing went adversely. Perhaps one
of the swordsmen got an unlucky
clip or in some way bad his ire
aroused and that which opened in
s port fulness ended in violence, cai i
taking his contestant by the hair
and with the sword thrusting him in
the side, so that that which opened in
innocent fun ended in the massacre
\ of all the 24 sportsmen. Was there
ever a better illustration of what was
true then is true now that which is
innocent may be made destructive.
What of a worldly nature is more
important and strengthening and in-
nocent than amusement, and yet
what has counted more victims? I
^ have no sympathy with a strait jacket
religion. This is a very bright world
to me, and 1 propose to do all I
to make it bright for others. 1 never
could keep step to a dead march. A
book vears ago issued says that a
Christian man lias a right to some
amusements. For instance, if he
comes home at night weary from his
work and feeling the need or recrea-
tion, pi ts on his slippers and goes
into his garret and walks lively
around the floor several times there
can be no harm in it. I believe the
church of Ciod made a great mistake
in trying to suppress the sportful-
ness of youth and drive out from
men their love of amusement. If God
ever implanted anything in us, lie im-
planted this desire. But instead of
providing for this demand of our na-
ture the church of God has for the
main part ignored it. As in a riot the
mayor plants a battery at the end of
the street and has it fired off. so that
•everything is cut down that happens
to stand in the range, the good as
well as the bad, so there are men in
the church who plant their batteries
of condemnation and fire away indis-
criminately. Everything is con-
demned. Hut Paul the apostle coin-
mends those who use the world with-
out abusing it, and in the natural
-world God has done everything to
please and amuse us. In poetic fig-
ures we sometimes speak of natutal
objects ns being in pain, but it is a
mere fancy. Poets say the clouds
weep, but they never yet shed a f-ar,
and that the winds sigh, but they
never did have any trouble, and that
the storm howls, but it never lost its
temper. The world is a rose and the
universe a garland.
And I am glad to know that in all
our cities there are plenty of places
where we may find elevated moral en-
tertainment. Hut all honest men and
good women will agree with me in
1he statement that one of the worst
things in these cities is corrupt
amusement. Multitudes have gone
down under the blasting influence
never to rise. If we may judge of
v.hat is is going on in many places of
amusement by the pictures on board
fences and in many of the show win-
dows there is not a much lower
' depth of profligacy to reach. At
Naples. Italy, they keep such pictures
locked up from indiscriminate inspec-
tion. Those pictures were exhumed
from Pompeii and are not fit for pub-
lic gaze. If the effrontery of bad
places of amusement in hanging out
improper advertisements of what
they are doing night by night grows
worse in the same proportion, in 50
years some of our modern cities will
beat Pompeii.
I project certain principles by which
you may judge in regard to any amuse-
ment or recreation, finding out for
yourself whether it is right or wrong.
I remark in the first place, that you
can judge of the moral character of
any amusement by its healthful result
or by its baleful reaction. There are
people who seem made up of hard
facts. They are a combination of
multiplication tables and statistics. If
you show them an exquisite picture
they will begin to discuss the pig-
ments involved in the coloring. If you
show them a beautiful rose they will
submit il t o a botanical analysis, which
is only the post-mortem examination
of a flower. They have no rebound
~ in their nature. They never do any-
thing more than smile. There are no
great tides of feeling surging up from
the depths of their soul in billow after
billow of reverberating laughter.
Thev seem as if nature had built them
by contract and made a bungling job
out of it. But, blessed be God, there
1 are people in the world who have
bright faces and whose life is a song,
au anthem, a paean of victory. Even
their troubles are like the vines that
•crawl up the side of a great tower on
the top of which the sunlight sits and
the soft airs of summer hold perpetual
carnival. They are the people you like
to "have come to your house; they are
people 1 like to have come to my house.
If you but touch the hem of their gar-
* inents you are healed.
Now, it is these exhilarant and sym-
pathetic and warm-hearted people
that are most tempted to pernicious
.amusements. In proportion as a ship
is swift it wants a strong helm-man.
proportion a* a horse is gay il wants
a stout driver, and these people of
exuberant nature will do well to look
at the reaction of all thwr amuse-
ments. If an amusement sends
you home at nijjiit nervous, so
that you cannot bleep, ami you
ri>e up in the morning not because \ou
are - ept out, but because your duty
drap* you from your slumbers, you
have been where you ought not to have
been. I'lierc are amusements that
send a man next clay to his work with
his eyes bloodshot, yawning, stupid,
nauseated, and they are wrong kinds
of amusement. They are entertain-
ments that give a man disgust with the
drudgery of life, with tools because
thev are not swords, with working
aprons because they arc not robes,
with cattle because they are not in-
furiated bulls of the arena. If any
amusement sends you home longing
for a 1 ift* of romance and thrilling ad-
venture, love that takes poison and
shoots itself, moonlight adventures
and hair-breadth escapes, you may de-
ad upon it that you are the saeri-
support your children when yofl
are dead. They will weep not one tear
at your burial.
1 had a friend in the west a rare
friend, lie was one t the first to wel-
come me to my new home. To tine per-
sonal appearance he added a generos-
it v. frankness and ardor of nat ure I hat
made me love him like a brother. Hut |
1 saw evil people gathering around,
him. They came up from the saloons.
from the gambling hells. Thev plied
him with a thousand arts. I hcv seized
upon his social nature, and he could ^ ^ _
not stand the charm. They drove him contains all the protein, the really val
on the rocks, like a ship, full winged. uable part of the milk. If. therefor
shivering on the breakers. 1 used to the cream, which is one-sixth of the
admonish him. 1 would say: "Now.. hole milk, is taken out ami replaced
I wish you would quit those bad habits j j)V 0n,>-sixth of a quart of skim milk.
A Hatch of Su**«* tlo« ii PertMlnlnu So
for the llouaev*
1/onalde ration.
\ word about skim milk. I his much*
abused food product is yet of the
highest value. Paradoxical as it may
seem, a quart of skim milk is more
valuable as food than a quart of whole
milk. Cream is pure fat. and is not a
muscle, bone or flesh builder it is sim-
heat-produccr; the skim milk
Washington Sometimes Worshiped
Within Its Plain Walls.
Itomnnttc Spot in Mm- \ alley of It ron d
4 reek, 'hen Mi lew from the « u i -
ilal. OU th«* Unr>lniid Side
« f the l'ototnuc.
ply
T
ome hyah, sometimes
Alexandry, an* sometime
a leetle chu*ch down t
tie Ferginny side o' de rivah j' hovj
de idee struck him. I was tole dat,
sah, l v a ole nlggah when I was jes*
leetle boy. I i yah ole ni<?gah. dey
iv. he was my gret-gran-pap. but T
dunno. Hit was mighty hahd to
•p track o' dent things in slavery
days, sah, when dey was a-buyin,* an'
Uin', a-buyin* an' a-sellin* niggahs
de whole time; but, leastways, eli*
'yah ole man, he say he seen de gin-
'ral come to chu'ch hyah many an*
many a time, iu a big seine boat. l)u
gin'ral used to have a feeshin slio'
on his place, an* dis 'yah ole niggah
he say he seen 'cm haulin* seine hun«
dreds o' times, an' tie gin'ral a-wad in'
pen
tieed victim of unsanctitied pleasure.
Our recreations are intended to build
us up. and if they pull us down as to
our moral or as to our physical
strength you may come to the con-
clusion that they are obnoxious.
Still further, these amusements are
wrong which lead you into expendi-
tures beyond your means. Money
spent in recreation is not thrown
away. It is all folly for us to come
from a place of amusement feeling
that we have wasted our money and
time. Vou may by it have made an
investment worth more than the
transaction that yielded you hun-
dreds- of thousands of dollars. Hut
how many properties have been rid-
dled by costly amusements.
The first time I ever saw the city—
it was the city of Philadelphia 1 was
a mere lad. 1 stopped at a hotel, and
remember in the eventide one of
these men plied me with his infernal
art. He saw I was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town.
He painted the path of sin until it
looked like emerald, but 1 was afraid
of him. I shoved back from the bas-
silisk I made up my mind he was a
basilisk. I remember liovv lu* wheeled
his chair round in front of me, and,
with a concentered and diabolical ef-
fort, attempted to destroy my soul,
but there were good angels in the air
that night. It was no good resolution
on my part, but it was the all en-
compassing grace of a good (iod that
delivered me. Hewure, beware, O
young man! "There is a way
seemeth right unto a man,
end thereof is death."
The table has been robbed to pa;
the club. The champagne has cheat
ed the children's wardrobe. The ca
rousing party has burned up
boy's primer
that
but the
tli<
vith
come
mot her's
one
and
wait-
The tablecloth of the
corner saloon is in debt to the wife s
failed dress. Kxcursions tlia* in a
day rnnke a tour around a whole
month's wages, ladies, whose lifetime
business it is to go "shoppiivVlarge
bets on horses, have their counter-
parts in uneducated children, bank-
ruptcies that shock the money mar-
ket and appall the church and that
send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the man-
sion and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music
the whooping of bloated j
home to break their old
heart.
I saw a beautiful home where the
bell rang violently late at night. I he
son had been off in sinful indul-
gences. His comrades were bringing
him home. They carried him to the
door. They rang the bell at
o'clock in the morning. Father
mother came down. -They wer
ing for the wandering son, and then
the comrades as soon as the door
was opened threw the prodigal head-
long into the doorway, crying:
"There lie is as drunk as a fool! Ha.
ha!" When men go into amusements
that they cannot afford, they first
borrow what they cannot earn, and
then they steal what they cannot
borrow. First they go into embarrass-
ment and then into lying and then
into theft, and when a man gets
far as that he does not stop short of
the penitentiary. There is not a pris-
on in the land where there arc no
victims of unsanctitied amusements.
Merchant, is there a disarrange-
ment in your accounts? Is there a
I leakage in your money drawer? Dri
not the cash account come out right
last night? 1 will tell you. There is a
young man in your store w andering off
into bad amusements. The salary
you give him may meet lawful expend-
itures. but not the sinful indulgences
in which he lias entered, and he takes
by theft that which you do not give
him in lawful salary.
1 go further and say those are un-
christian amusements which become
the chief business of a man's life. Life
is an earnest thing. Whether we ate
born in a palace or hovel, whether we
are affluent or pinched, we have to
work. If you do not sweat with toil,
you will sweat with disease. You have
ml that is to be transfigured amid
the pomp of a judgment day, and after
the sea has sung its last chant and
the mountain shall have come down
an avalanche of rock you will live
and think and act, high on a throne
where seraphs sing or deep, in a dun-
geon where demons howl. In a world
where there is so much to do for
yourselves and so much to do for
others (iod pity that man who has
nothing to do.
1 go further and say that all those
amusements are wrong which lead into
bad company. If you go to any place
where you have to associate with the
intemperate, with the unclean, with
the abandoned, however well they may
be dressed, in the name of God quit it.
They will despoil your nature. They
w ill undermine your moral character.
They will drop you when you are de-
stroyed. They will not give one cent
and become a Christian. "Oh, he
would reply. "I would like to. but I
have gone so far I don't think there is
any way back." lu his moments of re -
pentance he would go home and take
his little girl of eight years and em-
brace her convulsively and cover her
with adornments and st rew around her
pictures and toys and everything that
could make her happy, and then, as
though hounded by an evil spirit, he
would go out to t he inflaming cup, and
tli ' house of shame, like a fool to the
correction of the stocks.
I was summoned to his deathbed. 1
hastened. 1 entered the room. I found
bi m. to my surprise, lying in full every -
day dress on the top of the couch. I
put out my hand. He grasped it ex-
citedly and said: "Sit down. Mr. lal-
mage. right there." 1 sat down, lie
said: "Last night 1 saw my mother,
w ho has been dead for 20 years, and she
sat just where you sit now. It was no
dream. I was wide awake. There was
no delusion in the matter. 1 saw her
just as plainly as 1 see you. Wife, 1
wish you would take these strings oli
me. There are strings spun all around
my body. I wish you would take thein
off me." 1 saw it was delirium. "Oh.
replied the wife, "my dear, there i*
nothing there, there is nothing there.
He went on and said: ".lust where you
sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She
saiil to me: 'Henry, 1 do wish you
would do better.' 1 got out of bed, put
my arms around her and said: 'Moth-
er, I want to do bet ter. Won't you help
me to do better. Won't you help me."
No mistake about it, no delusion. I
saw her the cap and apron and the
spectacles, just as she used to look :.'0
years ago. Hut 1 do wish you would
take these strings away. They annoy
me so! I can hardly talk. Won't you
take tlieni away?" I knelt down and
prayed, conscious of the fact that lie
did not realize what I was saying. I
got up. lsaid: "CJood-by. I hope you
will be better soon." He said: "(Jood-
by, good-by."
That night his soul went up to the
God who gave it. Arrangements were
made for the obsequies. Some said:
"Don't bring him in the church; he is
too dissolute." "Oh," 1 said, "bring
him. He was a good friend of mine
while he was alive, and 1 shall stand
by him now iliat he is dead. Hring him
to the church."
As 1 sat in the pulpit and saw his
body coming up through the aisle I
felt as if I could weep tears of blood.
1 told the people that day: "This man
had his virtues, and a good many of
them. He had his faults, and a good
many of Ihein. But if there is a man
in this audience who is without sin.
let him cast the first stone at this cof-
fin lid." On one side the pulpit sat
that little child, rosy, sweet faced, as
beautiful as any child that sat at your
table this morning, I warrant you. She
looked iiji wistfully, not knowing the
full sorrows of an orphan child.
Oh, her countenance haunts me to-
day, like some sweet face looking up-
on us through a horiud dreatn. On the
other side of the pulpit were the men
who had destroyed him. There they
sat, hard visaged, some of them pale
from exhausting disease, some of tlieni
tlushed until it seemed as if the fires
of iniquity flamed through the cheek
and crackled the lips. '1 hey were the
men w ho had bound him hand and foot.
They had kindled the fires. They had
poured the wormwood and gall into
that orphan's cup. Did they weep?
No. Did they sigh repentingly? No.
Did they say: "What a pity that such
a brave man should be slain? ' No. 110;
not one bloated hand was lifted to
wipe away a tear from a bloated clie< k
They sat and looked at the coffin like
vultures gazing at the carcass of a
lamb whose heart they had ripped out.
J I cried in their ears as plainly as
could: "There are a (iod and a judg-
ment day." Did they tremble? Oh,
no. no. They went back from tli
house of (iod, and that night, though
their victim lay in Oakwood cemetery
I was told that they blasphemed, and
they drank, and they gambled, and
there was not one less customer in all
the houses of iniquity. This destroyed
man was a Samson in physical
strength, but Delilah sheared him, and
the Philistines of evil companionship
dug his eyes out and t brew him into the
prison of evil habits. Hut in the hour
of his death he rose up and took hold
of the two pillared curses of God
against drunkenness and linden
Ik < and threw himself forward until
down upon him and his ■companions
there came the thunders of an eternal
catastrophe.
Again, any amusement that give
you a distaste for domestic life i
bad. How many bright domestic cir
eles have been broken up by sinful
amusements! The father went off,
the mother went off, the child went
off. There are to-day the fragments
before me of blasted households. Oh,
if you have wandered away, 1 would
like to charm you back by the sound
of that one word, "home." Do you
not know that you have but little
more time to give to domestic wel-
fare? Do you not see, father, that
your children are soon to go out into
the world, and all the influence for
good you are to have over tlieni you
must have now? Death will break in
on your conjugal relations, and alas
there is more protein to the quart of
skim milk than to the whole milk.
Prof. W. (). At water, one of the highest
authorities on food products, and the
United States government expert,
states that the sale of skim milk
should be encouraged, or at least per-
mitted. Of course it should be sold for
what it is. A cheap and wholesome
food product is found in it, and one.
too, it may be added, that is sometimes
more digestible than the whole milk,
:,s cream disagrees with many persons,
says the New York Post.
Flowers for the dinner board should
not be of a heavily scented variety.
The lovely narcissus, attractive as it
is in the spring, is too fragrant for use
in the centerpiece. Daffodils are to be
preferred, or tulips, cit her equally well
telling the story of coming summer.
Some varieties of carnations, as well,
carry almost too rich a perfume. The
large double white and pinkish white
veined with red, and the dark red that
is fairly black in some of its petals,
arc none too fragrant, and a bowl of
them, assorted or massed in a single
variety, is one of the most effective of
dinner pieces.
A delicious pineapple pudding serv es
the fruit cooked, in which way it is
sometimes preferred, though fresh
pineapple at its best can hardly be
celled. For the pudding a firm but
fully ripe pine should be pared and 1
cut into slices half an inch thick. Cut
these slices into tiny rounds, and line
a small round mold, bottom and sides. I
Put into a saucepan a quarter pound of |
butter, same of sugar and rice flour;
work together, and add a half a pint of
hot milk; stir until boiling and stand |
aside to cool. When cold, add first the
yolks of three eggs, and when welll
mixed stir in carefully the whites,well ]
beaten. Turn this mixture into the
mold and steam one hour. Serve with |
a liquid pudding sauce.
Now that the French earthenware |
biggins are produced at a price that
brings them within reach of every-
body. no breakfast table should be
without one. They can be bought in I
the size for the average family for as
little as 85 cents, and $1.25 buys one big |
enough to serve a large household. I lie
suggestion already made in this de-
partment, to fit, a disk of blotting I
paper over the perforated bottom of 1 j'.'tn'l'-i
the upper vessel, should not be disre-
garded. One large sheet of blotting ^ ^
paper, desk size, will make 60 disks for I Q^en Gf v>ric k imported from Eng-
the biggin. Their use saves one-third I
of the coffee, and. percolated through |
one, the liquid is beautifully clear.
WERE ALL AG'IN HIM.
old Mnn Who Wn* In Don IK nn to n
StrmiKfr'H Slneerlty fi'llit
Another Hat*'.
"Do you think," said the old man. ns
he halted at the, corner grocery and |
loved with a basket of clothespins
my person in this town has my
happiness at heart?"
No, sir," promptly replied the
Peer, relates the Chicago ( hron-
icle.
Do you think that a cock-eyed man
who never saw me until yesterday can
lie unselfishly interested in my fu-
t ure'.'"
Not. by a jugful."
la offering to introduce me ti.
ividow and try to bring about a mar- |
riage lie would probably be guided by
sordid motives, you think?"
"Certainly 1 do."
'•Having secured my $2.*>. he wouldn't
arc whether my future years
full of bliss or wretchedness, would
he?"
"Not by a durned sight."
"(Iroeer, I thank you!" feelingly ex-
claimed the old man, as he turned from
the clothespins to cranberries and let
a handful dribble through his fingers.
"While I am a stranger to you, you
seem to have my welfare at heart."
Yes, 1 have. I'd like to sell you a
box of wagon grease for a quarter."
But what use qoiiIiI I make of it?'
ITse it to soak your head in. '
"DKN PK ft IN" It AT. SWORE."
I roun1 up to his waist in de watali,
| a-swearin' an' a-eussiu' when de seiae
it hung on a log—"
•Swearing and cursing!" we ex-
claim. "Surely not! They say that
| Washington never swore in hi* life."
•Well, I dunno," said the old darky,
I shaking his hand dubiously. "1 reckon
de gin'ral was inos' like any yethel*
which they never do | mun what ain' sickly; an' when de.
t>inc got hung up, w hy 1 sped lie jes*
I naclially took on an' swore like any-
body else. I've seed right smaht n"
ieine hiiulin' in my day, but I nevahyit
ice a seine took off u hang without i\
phrase of I pow'ful sight o' cussin'. Anyways.
when de shad an' licrrin' season was
| alio' 'nuff.'
Here was history indeed, and a lit -
| tie later we were able to verify it,so
far, at least, as concerned Washing-
ton's attendii
| eliurch, and hauling u i
diing shore.
This old church is surrounded by old
colored people and very old poor white
I people, who carry the traditions which
were handed down to tliem through
tVutrr-l.tllra Are I'.B.IIr Grown.
All that is needed to grow watt
lilies is ti tub, sunlight from six
eight hours a day, some rich garde
soil and a little water. The easlci
way to grow them is from seed, an
the prettiest varieties are the African,
or Zanzibar; they are purple, blue and
red. To sow tliem take a common
bowl and half fill with finely sifted soil
packed down level and hard. On the
surface scatter the seed evenly and
cover with not over a quarter of an
inch of fine sand; then very gently fill
the bowl with water so as not to dis-
turb nor wash away the sand, l'lace
where the water will be kept at a tem
I weather when the roads were too
] heavy.
Less t linn a quarter of a mile farther
| down the river road we came to the
parsonage, and the European exploit-
ers of ancient dwelling places cannot
I portion, a very wide stairway, with
I galleries above. The liriek walls are
sound as ever, and it must have
I been an elegant home a century and a
| half ago. but the interior has been
abused. Very little of the stucco work
remains; just enough to show that th«
walls and ceilings were once beautiful-
ly ornamented by skillful workmen.
The paneling and laboriously hand-
| cut scrolls decorating the walls are
badly broken. But these, the arched
I cupboard in the dining-room, and the
folding inside shutters in the deep re-
I cessed windows, show that the par-
sonage was expensively built. The
rector must have had as grand a home
he had in England, and his sur-
roundings were much more romantic.
Besides he had the satisfaction, as he
ate his shad, bass, lamb chops, beef
and "corn pone," of knowing that he
was a sure enough missionary to the
| heathen. Under the circumstances, in
this elegant home, how he must have
| enjoyed himself!
One day in the near future, jve will
take a day off and ramble down the
Virginia side of tlie Potomac, and see
some other quaint historic places.
SMITH D. FRY.
I.lnisul.lif Triumph In China.
It was during the height of the late
military troubles in China, und an
English correspondent was standing
near two Alsatians of the German
troops. One said to the other:
"Schang, sehynt d'sunn schun
(John, is the sun shining yet?)
His companion replied; ",1a, d'sunn
sehynt sehun lang" (Yes, the sun has
been shining a long time).
An English soldier chanced to pass
as this interesting conversation was
progressing, and he stopped to listen.
Then he exclaimed feelingly and with
evident admiration;
"Wonderful fellers these Hermans!'
Only been here a week, and blowed
if they ain't talking Chinese alrendj'l"
if you have to stand over the grave of
one who perished Ireni your neglect!
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Miller, L. G. The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 1901, newspaper, May 23, 1901; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc104875/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.