The Times-Record. (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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through their respective party
could any great good against
trusts be accomplished.
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All advertising continued till order-
ed out and paid for. Statements will
be presented at close of each month.
T. K. Williams lias launched
the Renfrow Weekly Tribune, at
Renfrow, Grant couuty, Okla-
homa. It is well edited, and a
good local newspaper, but we
are rather afraid that its life
will be as brief as it is brilliant.
A Perry business tirin, an
nounces through the Republi
can, that if they owe a man,
woman or child in Noble coun-
ty, they want them to come and
get their money, and then kindly
ask those who owe them to come
. in and dig up. Those fellows
would be polite, if they were
hung for it.
Governor Barnes, lias appoint-
ed Lieutenant Colonel Roy V.
Hoffman, of Chandler, to be
colonel of the First regiment
Oklahoma National Guard, to
succeed Colonel Juo. F. Stone,
who was recently murdered.
The appointment is a good one
and generally satisfactory.
The industrial growth of the
South is puzzling to those states-
men who have always opposed
the national policies which have
made this growth possible. In
time tlie people in Dixie will
learn to appreciate the princi-
ples upon which their industrial
prosperity is to rest.—Peoria
(III.) Journal.
Delegate Flynn has movec
from the “Cherokee Strip,” anc
now occupies a seat on the re-
publican side of the House, lie
drawing the seat made vacant
by the death of Congressman
Chickering of New York. Sen-
timentally Flynn belongs in
the “Strip," but logically and
politically on the republican
side of the House, and we are
glad to see him there.
The Kay county delegation to
the Free Homes convention at
HI Reno, was a notewrorby one,
and included some men who
lave for years worked unceas-
ingly for the passage of a fee
lomes bill, and among them
none have been more earnest,
honest and faithful than T. N.
Athey, who has probably de-
voted as much of his time and
money to the righting of the
great wrong, as any other one
man in Oklahoma. The Kay
county delegation to a man be-
lieve that we are entitled to
free homes as a matter of right,
and not through sentiment.
After a squad of police had
been routed by a goat that had
been making a rough house in a
school room in Chicago, a teach-
er named Miss Campbell sallied
forth and vanquished the bel-
ligerent butter with a swift kick
in the ribs. J nother name has
been added to the long list of
Chicago women renowned for
feet of strength.—K. C. Times.
If anti-expansion should win
out at the next general election,
wouldn't it be embarrassing for
that party to know just what to
do with American territory ac-
quired without the consent of
the governed? The Louisiana
country, Florida and the Pacific
coast might object to being re-
turned to their former political
conditions.—Chandler News.
The memory of George Wash-
ington is today being revered,
and his work and charactor re-
viewed, it being the anniversary
of his birth. George Washing-
ton as first general of the Ameri-
can armies, and first president
of the United States, is of course
one of the most conspicuous
characters of the history of the
United States, and the majority
of the historians furnish us with
an admirable character. His
work as citizen, soldier and
statesman has left its impress
upon history, and the world ac-
credits him as being great, with-
out prying into his personal char-
acter or home life. Washing-
ton's Birthday, February 22nd,
will be an important date as
long as free America exists.
The National Populist com-
mittee met in Lincoln, Nebr.,
this week, and proceeded to
split, on the fusion rock. The
middle-of-the-roaders, were in
the minority, and a majority of
them, who are favorable to
Wharton and Donnelly left the
convention. The sentiment of
a majority of the committee was
favorable to Bryan, as the nom-
inee of the party for 1900.
The anti-trust conference held
in Chicago, attracted some rep-
resentative men from all parties,
and many admirable theories
were presented, but like all
questions of a reform nature,
and all conventions composed
of men of all parties, politics
could not be kept out, and be-
fore the close of the convention
the delegates became, republi-
cans, democrats and populists
Jake Admire lias suggested
many a good thing, and his
latest, relative to the selection
of the chairman of the territor-
ial committee and National com-
mitteeman is meeting with the
almost universal commendation
of the republican press of Okla-
homa. Mr. Admire suggests,
that both committeemen be elect-
ed by tlie territorial committee.
Heretofore it has been the cus-
tom for the territorial committee
to select its chairman, and the
argument used by the suppor-
ters of Mr. Admire’s suggestion
is that his selection by the ter-
ritorial convention will be the
expression of men more in touch
with the people, and would
coine nearer being a direct ex-
pression of choice from the peo-
ple. We can’t see much differ-
ence in it and the old plan. The
people should if they do not,
select their cjunty territorial
committeeman and his vote for
a chairman, ought to as fully
represent the voice of his coun-
ty, as if the vote was delegated
to a dozen or so delegates. It
altogether depends upon whom
are your delegates, and who is
your county committeeman, as
to whether the voice of the
county is expressed. Of course
in selecting a delegation of ten
or fifteen men you have a chance
to counteract the influence of
possibly one or two questionable
characters, where with but one
man, if he is unscrupulous, he
can cause his county a whole
lot of trouble. The supposition
is however that none but good
men will be selected by republi-
can conventions, whether by the
few or by the many.
|u. R K Crau.hrad
We •onetime* hear people com-
menting upon the hardabip» they ex-
perienced during the first few year*
following the opening of the Strip.
The experience* which they relate are
generally interesting and the hard-
ship* are not to be minimized in the
least for thore was no little suffering
throughout this now favored region
at that time.
And yet in the light of comparison,
with conditions now exislting in cer-
tain parts of China and India the lot
of our pioneers even in their darkest
days here was a favored one. The
scene of distress is often so far away
from us on this big round globe of
ours that the voice of suffering i*
stifled before it reaches us and so
makes but little or no impression up-
on our minds. This is specially true
with reference to affairs on the other
sideof the earth, but occasionally
there comes a plain statement of
facts that cannot well help stirring
us to an active and practical sym-
pathy unless we are void of con-
science and fellow-feeling.
It may not be unknown to many of
the readers of the Times-Recokd
that Mrs. Craighead's father and
mother Dr. and Mrs. Hunter Corbett,
are missionaries at C'hefoo, China. A
letter from Mrs Cerbett received
last week give* a pitiful picture of
the extremities to which many of the
natives of the Shautung Province
are reduced. I shall quote freely
from her letter that you may see
certain conditions with which the
American missionary is brought face
to face. Mrs. Corbett says, writing
three days after Christmas, “I wish
you could have seen us as we left
Wei Hien on our county trip. Louise
—a six-year-old daughter—and I trav-
eled in a large whorl-barrow. It it
a peculiar construction, the large
wheel in the middle and seats on each
side. There are handles back and
front and these are held by two men
and a third pulls with a rope. The
two men have only to steady the bar-
row as al! the weight is on the wheel,
and the man who pulls has the hard-
est time A mat cover was put over
it and with plenty of beddiug to make
the seats soft and red blankets to
keep us comfortable, we thought we
were equal to any Pullman Palace
car in existence. We went about 20
miles a day for the first two days and
after that the stages were shorter as
we were among the churches and had
only a few miles to go each day. 1
had a most hearty welcome from all
the women Poor things! they have
so little in their lives, that a visit
from their pastor's wife was quite an
event. They could not do enough
for me to make me comfortable while
I was among them. We always make
our home in one end of the church
when we are visiting a station, but I
v.sited all the houses of the Christians
in t he villages. The younger women
would come for me and the older |
women would receive me at the doors
of their homes.
These old Chinese women are such
nice old bodies, and those who have
really become Christians and gotten
the truth right down in their hearts
soon have it reflected in their faces.
The contrast between them and the
heathen women with their hopeless
discouraged faces is very marked.
There is great desolation among the
people and it will be greater when
the spring comes. We had no rain
all last spring so that they could not
plant their grain and the fall wheat
was almost a failure on account of
the dryness. Fortunately the sweet
potato crop was fairly good and as
many of tlie people are dependent,
upon them for their winter supply,
those who have sweet potatoes will
not starve, it is almost pitiful to
see the way they hoard up every bit
of the sweet potatoes, leaves, vines,
stems and all. They boil the leaves
and make them up into balls with
their hands and eat them with a
piece of turnip or some other kind of
vegetable if they can get it. The
vines are fed to the cattle and any
refuse it saved for fuel in cooking
their food. The sweet potato itself
is cut into thin slices and dried out
in the sun on the threshing floor.
The very ends of the potatoes that
we would think were good for neither
man nor beast are carefully gathered
up with the rest and ground into
flour. Of this they make a kind of
cake. Sometimes they eat even the
dried slices without any cooking.
One day when 1 was walking along
the road I noticed several women up
in the trees and shaking and knock-
ing down the leaves which were care-
fully gathered up by some one below
I asked what they were doing that
for and they replied that they were
West 8l Dyer,
| New Wash 6oods.
Wc have just received a nice lot
of wash goods. Fancy Piques, Silk
Gingham, Madras cloth, Percales,
Dimites, Egyptian Tissue, Pongee
shirting, Corded novelties, India linens,
Lawns, etc. We think it will pay you
to see our goods as the prices are O. K.
Shirt Waist j* ^ >
Just received a lar^e shipment of Ladies’ shirt
waist. Come and see them.
§r Kid Gloves j* j»
r Nice assortment of Spring Gloves, number of
: shades, 51.00, $1.25, and $1.50.
cash WEST & DYER-
Blackwell, Oklahoma.
Phone No. 17.
Blackwell, Okla.
good to eat whan they could get no
other food. They were tlie leaves of
the apricot tree. Another day I saw
a little fellow with a stick in his*
hand at the end of which was a sharp
piece of iron three or four inches
long. I asked him what kind of a
play thing that was. He looked at
me, astonished that I should call it a
plaything, for he told me he gather-
ed leaves all day long and then dried
them for fuel. After that 1 frequent-
ly noticed the little children running
after the flying leaves and spearing
them until the iron prod was full
then taking them off carefully and
placing them in a basket and going
after more. Little girls had a big
darning needlo and long string on
which they strung leaves, and many
of the houses were festooned with
these strings hung up to dry; they
were frequently thrown over the
limbs of trees as well. In one beau-
tiful little place where the hills com-
pletely surround it the people scrap-
ped the grass on the hills from top to
bottom and carefully packed it away
for winter fuel. People in America
have little idea of the meaning of
the words “poverty and economy" as
the people know them here in China.
When I think of ail the wood that
goee to waste every year in America,
how I wish it were possible to send
great ship loads out here to this
shivering people. And yet they calm-
ly walk the surface of the earth ut-
terly regardless of the undeveloped
treasures lying beneath their feet.
1 hey are so fraid of disturbing the
spirits of their dead ancestors that
they will not develope the rich mines
that are known to be in these pro-
vinces.”
Mrs. Corbett goes on to speak of
the changes the American and Eng-
lish prospectors now on the field are
likely to effect. Meantime there is
untold suffering t hore which only the
*he charitably disposed can
alleviate Mrs. Corbett reached home
after a wheel barrow rid« of over -’DO
miles.
Okarche Cement.
Works Easiest.
The Cheapest Cement.
Amsden Lumber Co.,
Sole Ageuts.
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Randall, J. W. & McDowell, T. H. W. The Times-Record. (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1900, newspaper, February 22, 1900; Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1138697/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.