Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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RENFREW'S RECORD. ALYA. OKLA, FRIDAY, MAY 1«. 1*13.
PROS XI
Throat trouble.
graduated "** °
•rat prattle* >5 »“”*
zzizrsz nss
else DON’T go to a Jewelry store,
<,r an optician to have your eyes ex-
amined and tested for glasses, when
*“ have a competent OCULIST
located In Alva for over four years.
The most Important thing about get-
ting glasses Is to have them fitted
right. This requires the use of the
opthalinoscope and retlnascope 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
jour eyes? Consult an oculist who
iuust be a REGULAR PHYSICIAN.
If you have Catarrh, see me about
treatment.
M. E. DeGROAT, M. D.
Consultation free. Office over Post-
office. Hours 9 a. m. to 12, and
2 to 6 p. m. Sunday’s by appoint-
ment.
WE PAY CASH
Poultry, Eggs and Butter,
'..Come in and get our prices*
1 before going elsewhere. •
* Correct counts and weights *
1 guaranteed. *
•
> J. P. REED. *
*
PUKE FOOD BAKERY. *
Wm. Ackerle, Prop. •
•
The fiirst-class Bakery of •
Alva. Corner of Fifth Street •
and Barnes Avenue. •
**•*••••••
* PEOPLE'S CLEANING AND
* DYE WORKS.
Mrs. J. W. Washburn, Prop.
* PHONE 547.
* South Side Square, Alva, Ok.
• • •
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. BILBY,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Phone 59. Res. phone 81 •
■ ALVA, OKLA. *
Dlt. J A. TOWNSEND,
i DENTIST.
1 Office over Owl Drug Store •
1 Office phone 166. Res. Phone 222 •
Office Phone 202. Res. Phone 3. •
A. W. CLARKE, *
DENTIST—OPTICIAN •
Work Guaranteed. Gas admin- •
i tstered.
1 Office over First Nat’l Bank.
DR AMEND, *
THE SANITARY DENTIST •
Monfort Building. Work Guar- •
anted. *
Phones: Office 408. Res. 350. *
ee'ee'eeeeee
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OSCAR ROGUE, •
Violinist and Teacher. *
Brass and Reed Instruments. •
Studio Room 17, Monfort Bldg. •
Res. Phone 371. •
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W. D. ANDERSON.
A ttorney-at- Law
Practice in State Supreme and •
all other Courts. Over Woods •
Ce. Union Bank. Office phone •
556. Residence phona 364. •
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W. G. BESSEY,
Attorney-at-Law •
Office in Emma Huston Building *
ALVA. OKLA. •
! trade." and broke sometimes into riot i
| when it was denied them. The Hos-
I ton News letter had been known very
courteously to mourn the death of a
worthy collector of his majesty’s cus-
toms because, 'with much humanity." |
he had been used to take "pleasure j
in directing masters of vessels how
they ought to avoid the breach of ]
the acts of trade "
Sea captains grew accustomed to
very confidential relations with own- ;
era and consignees, and knew very !
wpII, without official counsel, how' to I
take the advice "not to declare at the
customhouse;” and things went very
easily and cordially w ith all parties to
the understanding
In 1761 that understanding was of
a sudden rudely broken and the trou-
ble began, which Grenville had the
folly to add to. Thp board of trade
determined to collect the duties on
sugar, molasses and rum. so long and
so systematically evaded in the trade
between New England and the West
Indies, at whatever cost of suit and
scrutiny, and directed their agents in
Boston to demand "writs of assist-
ance” from the courts, giving them
leave to enter what premises they
would in search of smuggled goods.
Colonists Resist Search Warrants.
There were instant exasperation
and resistance. General search war-
rants, opening every man’s door to
the officers of the law, with or without
just and explicit ground of suspicion
against him, no English Biibject any-
where would submit to; and yet these
writs authorized nothing less.
Issued under a questionable exten-
sion to America of an exceptional
oower of the court of exchequer,
they violated every precedent of the
common law, no less than every prin-
ciple of prudent administration; and
the excitement which they provoked
was at once deep and ominous. Sharp
resistance was made in the courts,
and no officer ever ventured to serve
one of the obnoxious writs. Such
challenge of the rocess was uttered
by colonial counsel upon trtyl of the
righ* moreover, that ministers would
be without excuse should they ignore
the warning, so explicit and so
eloquent of revolutionary purpose.
It. was James Otis who utterd It.
rwsh and heated action, and there had
been bitter debates before even those
significant premises for a revolution-
ary conclusion had been forced to
adoption. Old leaders and new, young
men and old alike, had willingly united
in the memorial of 1764; but now that
the Stamp Act was law. conservative
members shrank from doing what
must look so like a flat defiance of
parliament.
Only young men would have had the
audacity to urge such action; only
very extraordinary young men would
have had the capacity to induce the
house to take it. But such young men
were at hand, their leader as veritable
a Democrat as had ever taken the
floor in that assembly.
A Leader From the Plain People.
Patrick Henry was not of the aris-
tocracy of the colony. Good Scots
blood ran in his veins, quickened by
the lively strain of an old Welsh stock.
His father came of a race of scholars,
and, good churchman though he was,
knew his Livy and his Horace better
than, his Bible. His mother came of
a vivacious line of easy-going wits
and talkers, which had a touch more
of steadiness and energy might any
day have made famous.
His father had served his county of
Hanover very capably and acceptably
as surveyor, colonel, magistrate, and
his uncle had been beloved as the
faithful pastor of quiet parishes. But
they had been no long time in the col-
ony: they lived back from the tide-
water counties where the real aristoc-
racy had its strength and supremacy;
they were of that middle clasa of yeo-
men-gentlemen who love liberty, but
do not affect rank.
“A vigorous aristocracy favors the
growth of personal eminence even in
those who are not of it, but only near
it,” and these plain men of the mid-
dle counties were the more excellent
and individual in the cultivation of
their powers by reason of the contact.
But there was a touch of rusticity, a
neglect of polish, a rough candor of
speech about them which set them
apart and distinguished them sharply
enough when they came into the pres-
ence of the courtly and formal gentle-
men who practiced the manners of
London in the river counties.
A Rustic Figure in the Home.
Patrick Henry, at any rate, muat
have seemed a very rustic figure to
the Burgesses when he first came to
take his seat amongst them on m May
day in 1766.
He was known, indeed, to many.
This was the man, they muat have
known, who had won ao strange a ver-
dict from a Jury two years ago la the
celebrated parsons’ case at Hanover
court house, against the law and the
evidence. But his careless dress and
manner, his loose, ungainly figure, bla
listless, absent bearing, matt have set
many a courtly member staring.
For auch men as Washington, in-
deed, there can have been nothing
either strange or unattractive is the
rough exterior and unstudied ways of
the new mend her. Punctilious though
he was himself In every point of dress
and bearing, Washington’s life had
most of it been spent with men who
looked thus, and yet were stuff ol true
courage and rich capacity within. The
manner of a man could count as no
test of quaNty with him.
His experience bad covered' the
whole variety of Vtrginlaa life. He
was an aristocrat by taste, not by prln
riple. And Patrick Henry had, in
fact, come to the same growth aa he
Ip essential quality and principle.,
though by another way. Honry’a life
tmd been wilful, capricious, a bit bap-
(sard. Washington’s all the while*
subject to discipline: but both, men
tiad touched and seen the whole en-
ergy of the commonwealth, knew its
hope could divine its destiny.
There was but one Virginia, and
they were her children, it could not
take long to bring them to an under-
standing and comradeship in affairs.
A Winner in Debate.
It was characteristic of the new
member that he should step at once
and unhesitatingly to a place of lead-
ership when debate of the Stamp Act
stirred the house, and that he should
Carpenter’s Hall.
Instantly sweep the majority Into his
following with a charm and dash of
eloquence that came like a revelation
upon the quiet assembly.
lie was but twenty-nine years old,
but he had spent all his life in learn-
ing how the world went, and by what
manner of speech it was moved and
governed. He had roamed the woods
with no thought but for sport, or a
quiet hour with a book or his fancy
in the shape of the trees. He had
kept a country store, and let gos'sip
and talk of affairs of colony and coun-
try side take precedence of business
Finally he had turned with a per-
manent relish to the law, and had set
himself to plead causes for his neigh-
bors in a way that made judges stare
and juries surrender at discretion. In
everything he had seemed to read the
passions of men. Books no less than
men, the chance company of an old
author no less than the constant talk
of the neighborly land he lived in,
seemed to fill him with the quick prin-
ciples of the people and polity to which
he belonged, and to lend him an in-
evitably every living phrase in which
to utter them.
Hit Power Over Men.
The universal sympathy and insight
which made his pleasantry so engag-
ing to men of every stamp rendered
his power no less than terrible when
he turned to play upon their passions.
He was not conscious of any audacity
when he sprang to his feet upon the
Instant he saw the house resolved in-
to committee to consider the Stamp
Act. It was of the ardor of his nature
to speak when conviction moved him
strongly, without thought of propriety
or precedence; and it was like him
to* stand there absorbed, reading his
resolutions from a fly-leaf torn from
an old law-book.
It seemed no doubt a precious piece
of audacity in the eyes of the pre-
scriptive leaders of the house to hear
this almost unknown man propose his
high recital of Virginia’s liberties and
his express defiance of parliament
id tones which rang no less clear and
confident upon the clause which de-
clared "his majesty’s liege people” of
the colony in no way bound to yield
obedience, than in the utterance of
the accepted matter of his premise*.
Astounds the Old Leaders.
Debate flamed up at once, hot, even
passionate. The astounding, moving
elouquence of the young advocate, his
instant hold upon the house, the di-
rectness with which he purposed and
executed action in so grave a matter,
stirred the pulses of his opponents
and his followers with an equal power,
and roused those who would have
checked him to a vehemence as great
as his own.
The old leaders of the house, with
whom he now stood face to face in
this critical business, were the more
formidable because of the strong rea-
son of their position. No one could
justly doubt that they wished to see
the Old Dominion keep and vindicate
her liberty, but they deemed it foRy
to be thus intemperately beforehand
with the issue. Almost to a man they
were sprung of families who had come
to Virginia with the great migration
that had brought the Washingtons, in
the evil day when so many were flee-
ing England to be quit of the Puritan
tyranny—royallsta all, and touched to
the quick with the sentiment of toy-
.1*.
Twts now a long long time since
Cromwell’s day, Indeed; generations
had passed, and a deep passion for
Virginia had been added to that old
reverence for the wearer of the crown
in ■ngiand. But theoe men prided
themselves still upon their loyalty;
made it a point of honor to show
themselves no agitators, hot constitu-
tional statesmen.
It made them grave and deeply anx-
ious to see the privilege# that were
most dear to them thus violated and
denied, hut R did not make them hasty
to quarrel with the parliament of the
realm. They had Intended opposition,
hut they feared to throw their cause
away by defiance. ’Twas as little wise
as dignified, to flout thus at the serer-
eign power before all means bad been
exhausted to win it to '’forbearance.
The Speaker of the House.
It wan not the least pert of the diffi-
culty to face the veteran's speaker .John
Robinson, so old in affairs, so stately
in his age, ao gravely courteous*, and
yet with such a threat of good man-
ner# against those who should make
breach of the decorous traditions of
tl>e place. But the men chiefly to be
feared were on_the floor
(To bo Continued.)
MiAIlONAL
SurwSoiooL
Lesson
(By E. O. SKI.LKRfl. IMreotor of Tun-
ing I Apartment. The Moody Bible In-
stitute of rhioaifO.)
LESSON FOR MAY 18
JOSEPH MEETS HIS BRETHREN.
l.BSSON TEXT Q<»n 42:5-17.
(JOl.DKN TKXT—"Whatsoever a man
aowetlt, that shall lie also reap." Oal.
6:7
Joseph was thirty years of age when
he reached his position of supreme au-
thority, but we ought not to allow our-
selves to forget those thirteen years
of humiliation, during which he waa
betrayed, sold Into slavery and neg-
lected by those whom he befriended.
Yet those were days of fidelity tn his
service, of victory over fierce tempta-
tion. of enduring unjust Imprisonment
—a long period of patient waiting but
a valuable period in that now at thirty
years of age he comes to this position
of power fully equipped with that
knowledge of men, control of himself
and faith in God aa to be properly fit-
ted for the burden of responsibility
thrust upon him.
Beauty Is Only v
Paint Deep
when it comes to houses. When the paint
wears off, the house is no longer beautifuL
A house in need of paint is an eyesore to
a community. In justice to your neigh-
bors, as well as to your self-respect, you
should keep your house well-painted and,
in justice to yourself, you should see that
Dutch White Lead
I Dutch Boy P>int«r Trade Mark)
and Dutch Boy Linseed Oil
paint is used on your building. You can
secure the most beautiful a- well as the
most durable results with this paint. By
adding colors-in-oil any tint and any shade
can be obtained.
We sell these materials as well as all the
other painting requisites.
Come in and have a talk with us, and see
if we can’t suggest a color scheme t*>r your
house that wi.l appeal to your good taste.
CAREY & CAREY
Did Not Forget.
I. The Brothers Need, vv. 3-6. The
famine was not confined to Egypt, but !
reached over to Canaan, where Jacob >
and his sons lived. The desperate-
ness of the famine is Indicated by Ja-
cob’s command to buy, “that we may |
live, and not die.” But Jacob is too ;
old to travel, hence the brothers un- I
dertake the journey. Twenty-two
years have passed since that experi-
ence when Joseph’s brethren cast him
into the pit. They have been years
filled with wonderful experiences for
Joseph. Now their attitude is changed;
instead of being his tormentors they
are suppliants at his feet. During
these seven years of garnering Joseph
had set up his own family and two
sons were born, the names of whom
were significant.
The possession of a child of his own
would naturally quicken his inquiries
as to his father’s household, for he
assumed that in the order of events
his father must be dead.
II. A Brother’s Memory, vv. M7. Jo-
seph at once recognized his brothers,
but treated them brusquely, demand-
ing from whence they came and the
purpose that brought them hither
(v. 7). Again (vv. 8. 9) the text re-
minds us that Joseph remembered.
Only God can forgive and forget. But
Joseph is an inspiration to us that
though wo may not be able to forget
we can forgive. The question might
bo .raised, "Why then did Joseph dis-
simulate?” The answer is threefold:
(1) Joseph desired to ascertain the
characters of his brothers. Did they
remember? Yes, for they replied that
they were “twelve brethren." Ten
were before him, one at home and
“one is not.” That their characters
were not entirely changed is evl- ,
denced by their words, “We are true
men" (v. 11), which of course was not
the truth. (2) Joseph desired to know
of his father and of their home life.
The accusation that the brothers are
spies called forth the statement that
the father, Jacob, is still alive. The
third reason for this treatment devel-
oped out of these first two, vi*., Jo-
seph desired to reach his father and
Benjamin, whom he had never seen.
We do not commend Joseph’s method
as being of the highest ethical value,
for his standard was not the standard
of the man who knows Christ. Joseph
is a type; there is only one perfect
man, Jesus Christ, and Joseph poic's
toward that promised Saviour.
Guilty Consciences.
Joseph knew his brothers told the
truth about their not being spies, but j
he also knew that they lied when they 1
asserted themselves to be true men
and that one brother “is not.” Here
is the lesson of mistaken estimates of
one’* self and that a man’s true value
is known and appreciated. Little did
they realize, however, that their false-
hood was being read as It was uttered
and that the man before whom they
were standing was this same brother.
Joseph affected not to believe any of
their story and demanded proof (▼▼.
16,16) of their assertions. After three
days in Jail be appeared to relent and
ordered that only one of their number
shonld remain aa hostage. The result
of all la shown in v. 81. After invol-
untarily leaving Simeon shot up In the
Egyptian prison their minds traveled
back to that tiaae twenty yearn before
and they reasemhered Joseph's an-
guish and distress when they would
not hear, “therefore la thin distress
come upon as," Their guilty con-
sciences are aroused.
Jacob's cry, “All things are against
To Our Pfltrofw:
We are prepared to take care ot your
harvest loans at regular rates.
During the last year we have carried
every customer through without forc-
ing in a single loan or raising our rates.
We invite new business assuring to
all a square deal. We pay interest if
left on time deposit.
Alva Security Bank
Alva,
OUm)
j A. STINE. President
GEO NICKEL Cashier
GEO. W. CROWELL, Vice-President
FRANK G. MUNSON. Ass t Cashier
NO. 5587
THE
First National Bank.
ALVA, OKLA.
Account, of Merchants. Stockmen. Farmers, and Individual, solicited. Ever, accomodation extended
consistent with eafe and conservative 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. Vie invite you to
open an account with us today.
Woods County Union Bank
North oi Court House
COLD DISC ROLLER |
Let Us Help You Do Better Work
WITH BETTER IMPLEMENTS TO DO IT WITH
WITH BETTER SHOD HORSES TO DO IT WITH
HYDRAULIC TIRE SETTER
ALVA MACHINE WORKS & AUTO GARAGE
Uw Beat Salve la Ika W«Mr
C. O. DILLOW
DEALER IN
Coal, Hay, Grain and Feed
Field and Garden Seeds
Telephone 151 - - - C«h Psid For Grsin
623 Flynn Ave. Alva. Okla.
v. 36, was a mistake.
wm alfvw and exalted that he aright
save the life of Jacob and hto chil-
dren. Simeon was alive aid drawing
hto brothers back to KgypL Benjamin
would come back safely. I
Emphasise the fact that we esanot
forget our wrong acta and that Joseph
was not troubled by any such mem-
ories. Also emphasise the return of
good for evil, Jtora. 12 :20, 21. Joseph's
brethren were sowing the fruit of the
seeds of ouvy and malice they had
sown twenty years previously. So also
was Jacob reaping the seeds of his
deceit, for In spite of hi# great ma-
terial prosperity he has great anguish
of heart We try to sow and not to
reap. See that the seed thoughts in
the heart are .right. The grace of
God forgives sin. but It remalna v
terrible fact in our lives.
J. A. Bowling, M. D. P- F- H,rod* M* D*
R„ PKon. 103. Re, Phone 239.
„__- OFFICE PHONE 115.
Gsaxral Practice - X-R«y an! Electrotherapeutics - Surgery
Suite 3-4-5 Monlort Building. ALVA OKLA.
Frank Howerton
Funeral Director and Emhalmev
2nd door west ol Monfort’i
Phone 492
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