Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, November 14, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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RENFREW* RECORD, ALVA. OKU, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 10IS.
PAGE THRI
IL E. DEGROAT, M. D.
specialist.
Have you any Eye, Ear. Note or
Throat trouble? I am a regular
graduated physician. Was In gen-
eral practice 15 years, but have
confined my practice for several
years to special work. I do nothing
else. DON’T go to a jewelry store,
or an optician to have your eyes ex-
amined and tested for glasses, when
you have a competent OCULIST
located In Alva for over four years.
The most important thing about get-
ting glasses ia to have them fitted
right. This requires the use of the
opthalmoscope and retinascope in
the dark room. Many times you do
not need glasses, but treatment.
Do you think the jeweler and opti-
cian can tell you what is wrong with
your eyes? Consult an oculist who
must be a REGULAR PHYSICIAN.
If you have Catarrh, see me about
treatment.
M. E. DeGROAT, M. D.
Consultation free. Office over old
Postoffice. Hours 9 a.m. to 12, and
2 to 6 p. m. Sunday’s by appoint-
ment.
GREAT KING CIC
Owned World-Renowned Spring
Near Famous Town.
VACATIONS ARE TOO BRIEF JjflU^^TJONAL
Sunmsciiooi
Lesson
Real Trouble Is Not Season of Year
In Which They Are Taken
But Their Length.
r
Sights to Be Seen Today by Pleasure
Seekers in Lough Alongside Old
Road to Kinsale Near One of
Erin's Famous Cities.
WE PAY CASH
Poultry, Eggs and Batter,
price* •
*
.. Come In and get our
1 before going elsewhere.
» Correct counts and weights *
guaranteed. *
J. P. REED. •
PURE FOOD BAKERY.
Wm. Ackerle, Prop.
The fllrst-clasa Bakery of
Alva. Corner of Fifth Street
and Barnes Avenue.
PEOPLE’S CLEANING AND
DYE WORKS.
Mrs. Ed L. Shldler, Prop.
PHONE 548.
704 Barnes Ave. Alva, Okla.
• ••••••••
«* dr. O. R. GREGG. •
» Homeopathic Physician, Surgeon,*
• Office Monfort Bldg. •
« Res. 911 Locust St. •
* Long Standing Chronic Diseases *
« a Specialty. *
T. J. WOMACK, •
Lawyer. •
Office Over First National Bank •
ALVA. OKLA. *
G. N. BIIjBY. •
Physician and Surgeon. *
Office Phone 59. Res. phone 81 •
ALVA. OKLA. *
DR. J A. TOWNSEND. •
DENTIST. *
Office over Owl Drug Store •
Office phone 166. Res. Phone 222 •
,#*•**••••*
« Office Phone 202. Res. Phone 3. •
-» A. W. CLARKE. •
* DENTIST—OPTICIAN •
* Work Guaranteed. Gas admin- •
* lstered. •
office over First Nat’l Bank. . •
«•••••••••*
DU. AMEND,
' THE SANITARY DENTIST
1 Monfort Building. Work Guar- •
anted. *
Phones: Office 408. Res. 350. •
W. D. ANDERSON.
Attorney-at-Lnw
Practice In State Supreme and •
all other Courts. Over Woods •
Ce. Union Bank. Office phone •
556. Residence phone 364. •
W. G. BESSEY. *
Attorney-at-Lnw *
Office in Emma Huston Building *
ALVA. OKLA. •
J. H. Morgan L. A. Walton •
• MORGAN & WALTON, •
• Loans, Real Estate •
v and Investments. •
• Rooms 10 and 11, Green Bldg. •
• Northwest Corner of Square. •
• Phone 51. Alva, Oklahoma. •
A little way tmyond the gallows
green of Cork, and just outside the
town, there is a great lough of water,
where people go a-pleasuring. Hut the
•sport above the water is nothing to
what is under it, for at the very bot-
tom of this lough there are buildings
and gardens far more beautiful than
any now to be seen. And, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, how they came there
was in this manner:
Long, long ago there was a great i
king, called Core, whose palace stood
where the lough now is. it was in a
round green valley that was just a j
mile about.
In the middle of the courtyard was
a spring of fair water, so pure and
*o clear that it was the wonder of the
world. The king thought a great deal
of this Hpring that was such a curi-
osity within his palace. People came
in crowds front far and near to draw
the precious water, until at last the
king feared that his wonderful spring
might become dry.
So he had a high wall built around
it, and he would allow nobody to have
the water. This was a great loss to
the poor people who lived round about.
The king had an only daughter, and
sometimes he used to give her the
keep of the well, for he could never
trust his servants to fetch him the
precious water.
One night the king gave a great
feast, at which many princes and lords
and nobles were present.
Now there was present at the feast,
among others, one young prince who
was very handsome. Right merrily
did he dance with the king’s daughter,
and the musicians played the better
for seeing their dancing.
At supper this young prince sat
next to the king’s daughter, and she
smiled upon him as often as he spoke
to her.
In the midst of the banquet one of
the great lords said to King Core,
‘ May It please your majesty, here Is
everything In Abundance that the
heart can wish for both to eat and
drink, except water.”
“Water!" said the king, mightily
pleased at some one calling for that
which he had purposely left out. "Wa-
ter you shall have, my lord,” said he,
“and speedily. And It shall be of such
a delicious kind- that I challenge all
i he world to equal It. Daughter,” he
added, "go fetch some In the golden
vessel which I caused to be made for
the purpose."
The king’s daughter was called Plor
Usga, which In English means spring
water. She did not much like to be
told to do such menial work as fetch-
ing water before so many grand peo-
ple. But she dared not actually refuse
to obey the commands of her father.
SUU she hesitated, and looked down
upon the ground.
The king, who loved his daughter
very much, seeing this, was sorry for
what he had asked hor to do.
"Daughter,” he aaid, “I do not won-
der at your fearing to go alooa so late
at night. But I doubt not the young
prince at your side will go with you.”
The prince was pleased at hearing
this. Taking the golden vessel In one
hand, with the other he led the king’s
daughter out of the hall so gracefully
that all the other princes and nobles
gazed after them with admiration.
When the two came to the spring of
water in the courtyard of the palace,
the Princess Usga unlocked the door
with great care.
But as she stooped down with the
golden vessel to take some of the wa-
ter out of the well the vessel proved so
heavy that the princess lost her bal-
ance and fell in.
The young prince tried In vain to
save her, but the imprisoned water
rose and rose so fast that the entire
courtyard was speedily covered with
it. and the prince hastened back, in
great terror, to the king.
The door of the well being left open,
the water which had been so long con-
fined rejoiced at being free, and rushed
forth in great volume, every moment
rising higher, so that It was reached
the hall ot entertainment almost be-
fore the prince himself arrived. And
by the time he had reached the king’s
side he was to his neck in water.
It was but a very short time before
the water rose to such a height that
it filled the entire green valley In
which the king's palace stood, and so
the present lough of Core was formed.
Yet the king and his guests were not
drowned. Neither was his daughter,
the fair Usga, who returned to the
banquet hall the very night after this
dreadful event.
And every night since the same en-
tertainment and dance go on in the
palace at the bottom of the lough, and
they will last until some one has the
pluck to bring up out of It the golden
vessel which was the cause of all the
mischief.
Nobody can doubt that it was a
judgment upon the king for shutting
up the well in the courtyard from the
poor people.
If there are any who do not believe
this story, they may go nnd see the
lough of Core, for there it is to be seen
to this day. The road to Kinsale pass-
es at oue side of It. When the waters
are low and clear the tops of towers
and stately buildings may be plainly
viewed In the bottom by those who
have good eyesight, without the help
of spectacles.
I "About this time," an almanachtst
might remark, "look out for letters iu
the papers vaunting the superiority
of autumnal vacations to those taken
| during the heats of summer." Wheth-
er lie remarked it, or not, the onlook-
er would always find them, and. if a
thoughtful person with much knowl- |
edge of human mature, he might pro- j
ceed to propound the theory, or hy- !
pothesis that every such letter is writ-
ten by somebody who, his vacation
j being past, wishes it wasn’t.
Hence come, or at least very prob-
ably may come, these fervid eulogies
j of fall as the year's pleasantest sea-
j son—the season when, much more j
than in summer, life in the open has i
1 its rewards and joys. Of course, the
j eulogies of autumn are all true
! enough, but, just the same, when next
summer arrives everybody who can.
! will quit the city for the sake of
j avoiding work when it seems hardest
to do.
We think more of present woes
j than of future pleasures, and while we
! all know that the country is at its
finest in autumn, we also all know
! that the city isn’t bad then, either,
while It Is very distinctly so in sum-
! mer
The real trouble with vacations is
■ their brevity. Six months, or nine,
would be about the right length. Still
better, perhaps, would be a vacation
from idleness of two weeks in the
year devoted to toil, done Just to
make the other fifty appreciable by
contrast. Probably most of us would
love our work If It didn't take more
of our time than that.
Snyder & Tyree
Goldschmidt Wireless.
According to a writer in the engi-
neering supplement of the London
Times, the Goldschmidt high frequen-
cy generator has brought long-dis-
tance wireless telephony measurably
nearer. With this generator it is a
comparatively simple matter to con-
trol the oscillations by a microphone.
The method is described as depending
on the simultaneous use of two gen-
erators “running slightly out of step,
or asynchronously, the microphone
currents affecting the field excitation
of one of them. Any slight boosting
up of this field Is Just sufficient to
bring the two Into step, with the re-
sult that an Instantaneous and large
rise of current is generated for charg-
ing the aerial.” It is also added that
preparations are nearing completion
for a demonstration of “automatic
telegraph over a distance of some
4,000 miles between Hanover and
Tuckerton.”
The Rainbow.
We habitually think of the rain cloud
only as dark and gray; not knowing
that we owe to it perhaps the fairest,
though not the most dazzling, of the
hues of heaven. Often In our English
mornings the rain clouds in the dawn
form soft, level fields, which melt im-
perceptibly Into the blue; or, when of
less extent, gather into apparent bars,
crossing the sheets of broader clouds
above; and all these bathed through-
out In an unspeakable light of pure
rose color, and purple, and amber, and
blue; not shining, but misty soft; the
barred masses when seen nearer, com-
posed of clusters or treases of cloud,
like floss silk, looking as if each knot
were a little swaith or sheaf of lighted
rain—John Ruskin.
Moat Expensive Advertising.
Few persons appreciate the enor-
mous cost of advertising a popular
product before it obtains popularity.
One of the most successful advertisers
in the country, whose income reaches
hundreds of thousands of dollars an-
nually. told Leslie’s Weekly that he
wasted at least a quarter of a million
dollars “before he learned the adver-
tising game.” He estimates that he
spent this amount on circulars, gaudy
lithographs, sign boards and street car
advertising, out of which he received
so little benefit, as far as he could
trace it, that he regarded the expendi-
ture as money pretty nearly wasted.
World’s Richest Iron Mine.
The richest and probably the larg-
est Iron-ore mine in the world is lo-
cated at Kiruna, Lapland, In latitude
68% north, which is about the same
as the northernmost boundary of Alas-
ka. The climate is somewhat milder
than In Alaska, and these mines are
worked the year around.
About 1.600 men are employed, and
the equipment is all of the most mod-
ern machinery obtainable. Machine
tools for the repair shop, air com-
pressors. and rock drills, and several
of the largest steam and electric shov-
els are of American make.
For 8afety at Sea.
Of all the suggestions made for the
elimination of the diggers the Scien-
tific American says the most notable
and most obvious one Is that of the
English committee on boats and
davits that the size of lifeboats shall
be very greatly increased. The com-
mittee proposes a type that shall pro-
vide accommodation for no less than
250 passengers. They will be decked
over throughout the greater part of
their length, and they will be driven
by gasoline engines of sufficient pow-
er to give them a fair Bpeed.
Wide Circle.
“What progress Is the plumber ma-
king in locating the leak In our gas
pipe?"
"Well, he's covering a good deal of
ground,” said the housewife. “He has
inspected the adjacent poolroom thor-
oughly and now he is looking over the
saloon next door."
IHy E. O SELLERS. Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago 1
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 16
THE DEATH OF MOSES.
I.ESSON TEXT—Ileut. 34:1-12.
GOLDEN T EXT—‘ 'Precious In the
sight of Jehovah is the death of his
saints." Pi. 116. IS.
I. The Old Leader, vv. 1-8. We have
now come to the last of our lessons
which have to do with Moses. Pol- ; |
lowiug his lamented failure at the
time of the second arrival at Kudesh-
liarnea, Miriam dies; at Mt. Hor,
Aaron departed and his office is be-
stowed upon his son, Eleazar. Then
quickly followed the plague of ser-
pents, the defeat of the king of the
Amorites, Balaam's folly, the apostasy
of Israel which was cleansed by blood
through the zeal of Phinehas, and final-
ly the arrival upon tho plains of
Moab.
^ Law Confirmed.
Here Moses repeats and confirms
the law to this new generation of
Israel, delivers his last charge, sings
bis last song, ascends Mt. Nebo to
view Canaan, and Is "forever with
the Lord.” In the passage marked out
for this lesson we have the account of
the passing of this wonderful servant
of God- Returning to ch. 31:1-8 and
32:44-62 we see this Journey In pros-
pect, after that we read Moses’ parting
blessing and In this section we read
of the fulfilment of that prospect
Moaes anticipated his departure by a
quiet dignity, absolutely divorced from
haste or fret, that was characteristic
of his life of submission and was the
essence ot his lit* of faith.
Before departure Moses solemnly
charged this newer generation to ob-
serve the law, declaring that It Is not
a vain nor an empty thing, but In deed
and in truth to them the way of life.
Then comes the simple dignified ac-
count of this last act of obedience, sim-
ple, yet sublime. Yonder we see him,
viewed by the hosts of Israel, as he
ascends the mountain alone—yet not
alone—prepared to spend his last
hours upon earth with Jehovah, who
doubtless appeared as the angel—
Jehovah and pointed out to him the
land he so much longed to enter, but
could not because he failed to sanctify
God in the sight of the people at a
critical moment Taking the glory to
himself on that occasion demanded an
act of punishment as a warning to
the people, hence, ‘it went 111 with
Moses for their sakes,” Ps. 106:32.
There upon the mount God's covenant
with Abraham Is confirmed and with
undlmmed eye and undiminished vigor
(v. 7), Moses was shown the fufll-
ment of that promise, his body was
laid at rest by God himself, in an un-
known and unmarked sepulchre, “over
against Beth-Psor,” ▼. 6.
II. Th* Nsw Leader, v. 9. God never
leavee his people without a leader
and hence Joshua Is exalted to com-
pensate Israel tor the loss of Moses.
“The king is dead—long live the
king.” The worker dies, the work
goes on and many times the victories
of the new leader are fully as great
and far reaching as any won by the
former leader. Joshua was not Moses,
he was Joshua and as such called to
face new problems.
III. A Great Charactsr, vv. 10-12. The
description of Moses Is of one who saw
Jehovah face to face, a peculiar dig-
nity, and the secret of his greatness.
When Aaron and Miriam murmured
God declared that Moses was different
from all other prophets in that, “with
him will 1 speak mouth to mouth, even
manifestly, and not In dark speeches,
and the form of Jehovah shall he be-
hold,” Num. 12:6-8. Moses himself
declared to Israel that when God
spoke to them out of the midst of the
fire, "I stood between the Lord and
you,” Deut. 5:4, 5. The supreme
teaching of this lesson is the fact tbat
great as Moses was, he was never-
theless excluded from the promised
land as a warning to Israel.
On the other hand this story Is a
wonderful illustration of the tender
compassion and watchful care of Jeho-
vah even to the end. Even the discip-
line of Jehovah is accompanied by
gentleness. If be muBt needs be ex-
cluded yet he is not excluded from
communion with Jehovah.
Thus this saint who was separated
to the will of God passes out of life.
In the hour of the consummation of
his life work bis spirit passes into
yet closer fellowship with God. The
Psalmist In the words of the golden
text moBt beautifully suggests that
such an hour la a delight to God, and
suggests the welcome which must be
awaiting his saints. Do not forget the
last glorious appearing of Moses after
the lapse of the centuries when:
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HILE THEY LAST—
50c grade Ladies Winter Vests and
Drawers for
25c.
35c grade Ladies Winter Vests and
Drawers for - 20c.
We have a new supply of the Silk Mes-
lin U.idarskirts in white, black, tan,
blue, wine, green and cerise at $1.98.
Extra and large California Wool Fleeced
Blankets - - $1.98.
Our line of Blankets is very complete.
iL.
Remember you get 100 Votes to the Dollar in
the Piano Contest.
Central Business College
1222-24 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
We take you as you are and train you
until you secure and successfully hold a
paying position. We find employment for
you outside school hours, if desired, to pay
for room and board. By our new Scholar-
ship Plan success is sure if you attend school
and do your part. Write at once for litera-
ture explaining this great plan. As we
have school all the year students may en-
roll at any time.
Central Business College
1222-24 Oak St.. Kansas City, Mo.
J. A. STINE. President
GEO. NICKEL Cashier
GEO. W. CROWELL Vioa-Prasidea
FRANK C. MUNSON. Aw l Cashier
NO. 8887.
... THE ...
First National Bank.
ALVA, OKLA.
Account* of Merchant*. Stockmen. Firmer., and Individuals .olicited. Every eccomodation eatended
consistent with safe and coniervative banking.
We Want The Farmers Business
Every farmer should deposit all his money in the banK and
pay his bills by check. He then becomes well
known to the bank officers and it is easier to secure an
accommodation when he needs it. We invite you to
open an account with us today.
Woods County Union Bank
North of Court Home
c. O. DILLOW
DEALER IN
Coal, Hay, Grain and Feed
Field and Garden Seeds
Telephone 151 * Cash Paid For Grain
623 Flynn Ave. Alva, Gkla.
•On the hills he never trod
Spoke of the strige that won our life
With the Incarnate Son of God.”
“Desth and Judgment were a con-
stant source of fear to me until I real-
ized that neither shall have any hold
on the child of God.” D. L. Moody:
Do not put death out of consideration,
but welcome It as Moaes 1-omed
it. When we stand on Pisgab, can
we say we did our full duty? In that
hour the plaudltB of men will be
stilled.
Moses was & great hero, prophet, j
priest, law-giver, poet a.ud general, |
yet Israel could erect no monument j
over his grave to do him honor. It i
was a greater honor to follow his
admonitions and obey the law.
J. A. Bowling, M. D. P. F. Herod, M. D.
Rea. Phone 103. Re* Phone 239'
___— OFFICE PHONE 115.
General Practice — X-Ray and Electrotherapeutics - Surgery
Suite 3-4-5 Monfort Building. ALVA OKLA.
Frank Howerton
Funeral Director and Embalmer
Phone 492.
2nd door west of Monfort's
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