The Mustang Enterprise (Oklahoma [Mustang], Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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Genius Is a Disease
Among the Children
By DALLAS LORE SHARP
(ieniws
not to he
for the asking, neither is tal-
ent for flint matter, though
you can pt it hy the trying
It is jh-rfectly futile, how-
ever, to say, 44l«<> to now
I'll be a genius," nothing
that you can do to yourself, or have done to you, nlTects the genius hump
or ganglion, or joint, or whatever it mar chance to be that genius didn t
choose for its throne.
Talent, on the other hand, is often a matter of adenoids. If voui
child lacks talent, remove his tonsils. The increase of sheer talent for
the year 1912, from this single operation for adenoids (could it Ik* figured )
would amaze the secretary of agriculture, familiar as he is with large
increases in crops. There has not been a drop added to the bucket of genius
so far as we know.
The great difference, of course, is due to fundamental di(Terences in
the qualities (if they can be called qualities) themselves. 1 alent is gen-
erally distributed all over a person. If he has talent he has it from the
inside of his head to the flat of his foot. If he has genius it is local,
all centered in one spot—some set of cells of the head, or in the right hand
or left foot—anywhere but not everywhere.
Genius therefore is a kind of over-development, an abnormality,
whereas talent is the result of perfectly normal causes. Only normal,
healthy men are men of talent. The genius may he healthy enough
but whatever sort of genius he may he you will find the fresh streak in him .
for while the man of talent is a rounded whole made up of parts, tin
genius is a mere part for which the whole was sacrificed.
The test for talent is a wide range of averages; the test for genius
is single supreme excellence.
Take the case of Jimmie, for instance the boy who used to work for
me on the farm. Jimmie was a genius, lie wore a dollar watch, carried
it rather in the hollow of his hand a hollow that had been worn there b\
the watch. The watch cost him a dollar, and he looked at it for two
dollars' worth of time every day he worked for me. He had a genius for
keeping time—his own time and mine. Men of talent I had known; but
Jimmie was the only one who could kill time with a watch of that price
to such perfection.
Genius is a disease in children, as common almost as mumps. Talent
among children is rare. If you have a child of genius, as doubtless you
have, don't exhibit him. It aggravates the disease. Kvcry time a boy of
mine shows symptoms of genius I send him out to pick stones. It used
to be thought that such children died young. No, they usually linger alonj:
till college commencement day and then fade away. Not so the child
of talent.
If you are looking for genius by this test in yourself or in your chil«
dren, stop! Life will bring you its «
full share of disappointments. Don't
search for them.
Education will be one of
the means of transform in;
China into a modern repub-
lic. The younger Ghitiem
are eager to learn. I hav
recently traveled throug!
a greater portion of the re-
public and find that the young Chinese in all parts of the country an
anxious to learn the ways of the western world. I have talked to many
American missionaries who have lived in China for many years and they
are all of the same opinion. %
Wages are very small in China. In many places a laborer cannot
make enough in one day to purchase a take of soap. The missionaries
have been telling the children that by education they can earn more than
their fathers.
One of the first things that will be taught the Chinese children will
be modem languages, so that they can extend their trade with other coun-
tries.
The Chinese are very enterprising, and now that they have a republic
it will not be very long before they will adopt the modern methods that
are in vogue in the civilized world. Trade conditions will develop slowlv.
It will possibly be ten or twenty years be*fore really good results may
be obtained from a commercial campaign that is being inaugurated in
many European countries. Germany is looking abroad and will try and
get the lion's share of the Chinese business in the future
A number of hotels and
cafes in the west have start-
ed a movement that has
found favor with the men
Men are allowed to take oil
their coats in the dining
rooms of the hotels am1
PREStuim a. GOOuvvirt
i
IMS
and
Now this it) all ended. After today he
will avoid me. So I feel that 1 have
cause for thanksgiving, even if it did
cost me two dollars."
henry howland.
Preston B. Goodwin, the newly ap
pointed minister to Venezuela, ha|
been a newspaper man all his life ana
has never before held public office.
He is a native of Princetor, Ky.
Ball Through Neck, But Will Live.
Weatherford.—Although a bullet
from a large calibre revolver passed
entirely through her neck, the nine-
year old daughter of A. Hirshberger of
near Weatherford will recover and
probably escape any serious results
of an accident with a pistol that she
didn't, know was loaded. The little girl
found the weapon, which is a large
one, In the dresser drawer and in
some manner it was discharged, the
bullet hitting her squarely on one side
of the neck und passing through.
Osages to Claim Riverbed
Pawhuska.—Superintendent Carrol
or the Osage agency, stated that the
Osage nation probably will get direct-
ly into the famous Arkansas river
bed controversy with an injunction to
prevent drilling for oil between the
Osage shore line and the Larry No
Legs Island. A derriek has been
erected by parties acting under* a
lease obtained from the state by for-
mer Governor C. N. Haskell. £lie
claim of the state to the bed of the
Arkansas will be resisted by the
Osages.
Transforming China Into
Modern Republic
By N. DOMANN, Berlin, Germany
The rebels htfve begun a campaign
directed at the interruption of traf
tic between the capital and Vera
Cruz. The first efforts were highly
successful fbr they seized silver bul-
lion and currency estimated to be
worth nearly one million pesos.
In 1911, despite the heavy death
rate from cholera in Italy, the births
exceeded the deaths by 350,000, and
in 1912, with no epidemics, by 49S.000,
making a total increase in population
for the two years by births alone of
848,000.
Kx-president Zelaya of Nicaragua
is in New York City under an as-
sumed name. He may be returned
to Nicaragua to answer for the mur-
der of Cannon and Groce. tw'o young
Americans, in the revolution which
deposed him.
Let others sigh, and call the days
Now Coming melancholy;
I've got my winter's stock of coal,
And it is paid for. bless your soul;
I'm full of thanks, by golly.
"Why are you complaining, Edith?
What has happened?"
"Mrs. Waldron has spoiled my
Thanksgiving."
"How did she do that?"
"Hy getting a winter hat that is just
like mine."
"Oh, well, imitation is the sincerest
(lattery, you know."
"Hut she got it two weeks before 1
got mine, and I didn't know it."
Thanks for the present, thanks for the
past;
Thanks for the future, hidden and
vast;
Thanks for the water, thanks for the
land;
Thanks for the turkey; Isn't life
grand?
Crops have all been harvested, and
mighty good ones, too;
No danger that the government will
go to smash, I guess;
Mary's had the measles, but the doctor
pulled her through,
And the world is full of reasons to
be having thankfulness.
"Why is it that you will not permit
your husband to carve the turkey, Mrs.
Barker?"
"Because the gravy doesn't match
our new dining room w.dl paper."
The man who eats the proper way
May eat on next Thanksgiving day.
"Where the carving tools are," said
the visitor, "endeavoring to be faceti-
hib, "there is the head of the table."
"Oh, 1 don't know," said Mrs. Hen-
peck. "I generally have the coffee pot
placed at the head of the table."
! "Remember, my friend," said the
philosopher, "that you have many
things to be thankful for."
"Yes. 1 know that, but I have a son
who thinks he is learning to sing
tenor."
"Of course you don't have to work
on Thanksgiving, do you?"
"I should say I did. 1 always have
to carve the turkey."
"You don't look at all thankful.
What's the trouble?"
"Oh, it's all on account of our next
door neighbors. They had a parrot,
but it died a couple of weeks ago."
"It seems to me that ought to be
sufficient cause to make you feel
thankful."
"It would if they hadn't got a phono-
graph and about forty dollars' worth
jf ragtime records."
"Well, you look cheerful for a man
who has just been touched. Didn't 1
see you give money to the man you
were talking to a moment ago?"
"You did. I'm thankful, too. He said
he would pay me back the day after
Thanksgiving."
"Do you expect him to keep his
promise ?"
"No; but I'm thankful, just the same
For a year or more he has been boring
me with stories about his child and
funny' things the kid says and does.
THANKSGIVING RECIPE.
(The following is a recipe which
has been thoroughly tested out by
very many people, and which, while
at times somewhat costly, wttl be
found most satisfying, not only at
this particular season, but through
out the year.)
One year's work, well done.
A nice clean business, either small
or large, but free from debts; or,
the very best job that you can
get by hard work.
Of services to others, as many as
can be rendered—the more the
better—covered over with forget-
fulness.
A few favors received from your
best friends, well remembered.
A perfectly clear conscience,
And
Belief in the universal brotherhood
of mat/, congealed into every-day
practice, „
Mix all together, and season well
with chec rfulness.
IN TIME OF UNHAPPINESS
Facts About President Lincoln's
Thanksgiving Proclamations Dur-
ing the War.
The initial date of the national
Thanksgiving has been fixed at Sep-
tember 3, 1S64, but this seems some-
what arbitrary. On April 10, 1862,
(Nicolay & Hay, Complete Works, vii.,
144), President Lincoln issued a proc-
lamation recommending general
thanksgiving and prayer for the na-
tional victories on the weekly day of
religious observance next following
the receipt of the proclamation. On
July 15, 1K63, tlx., 32) he issued a
thanksgiving proclamation for vic-
tories and appointed Thursday. August
G, as the day of such observance. A
second proclamation in the same year
dated October 3, (ix., 151), In more
general terms appointed the last
Thursday in November as a day of
thanksgiving and praise. On May 9,
1864, (x., 94), he issued a less formal
'recommendation of thanksgiving"
without setting apart any day for ob-
servance. In the serial examinations
of these records we now discover that
the assignment of the initial date to
September 3, 1864, is more than arbi-
trary, It is absurd. On that day Presi-
dent Lincoln issued two orders of
thanks and rejoicing" (x., 2121. tender-
ing the national banks to Farragut,
Canby and Granger and setting apart
September 5, 6 and 7 for national sa-
lutes of 100 guns. On October 20, 1864,
(x., 245 , he issued his second thanks-
giving proclamation for the last Thurs-
day of November. These thanksgiv-
ings were a part of the war feeling.
That they were continued after the
war and were turned into more gen-
eral channels is due to the success of
the agitation carried on most earnestly
by Sajah Josepha Hale, editor of God-
ey's Ladies' Hook.
Young Man:-
What salary are you earning? Have you the
prospect of earning more next year, and will that
more be enough? I am interested, to know whether
or not you are satsfied with your present position.
Every week we receive a number of inquiries
from business men in this and other cities in the state,
asking for good stenographers, good bookkeepers.
We are unable to fill more than half the requests re-
ceived. Business firms willing to pay $75 to $r25 per
month for stenographers and bookkeepers have diffi-
culty in findng young men to fill these positions.
Many young fellows doing work of the hardest
sort that gives little prospect of advancement, could
but for one thing—INCENTIVE—improve their
place in life. It takes some time, effort and desire to
secure knowledge that will increase your earning pow-
er, but look at the rewards.
A number of the most prominent men in busi-
ness today were stenographers—some were book-
keepers. They fitted themelsves when they were
your age for the work they are doing today. To the
young man from 18 to 22 who is not earning a satis-
factory salary; who is willing to devote a little time
to study, this is the fellow I want to enter my school.
Write me about yourself, what you want to do. If
you are anxious to secure the knowledge that will fit
you for a position that will give you the opportunity
to earn more money, I will provide that place. I will
tell you how long it will take and how little it will
cost. Write to me personally.
JOHN M. HILL
Care Hill's Business College
Oklahoma City
Reasons for P.ejoicing.
In all gifts the individual has shared
and has cause for giving of thanks.
But above and beyond these he or «he
upon rellection will find the chiefest
cause for thanksgiving in the posses-
sion of life and health, in tiie preser-
vation of loved ones through another
year. The person who can remain in-
sensible to this on such an oecasion
is indeed to be pitied—as much so as
the individual who is not moved to
express his thankfulness in thought
for others less favored. This is the
real spirit of Thanksgiving, the spirit
that must find its deepest expression
in generous deed and love.
Owen Finally Sent to Iowa
Governor Cruce has honored a sec-
ond requisition from the governor of
Iowa for Ralph Owen, arrested in
Muskogee two weeks ago, and want-
ed in Emmettsburg, Iowa, on a charge
of obtaining money under false pre-j
tenses. Owen was released from cus-
tody under the first requisition, the j
criminal court of appeals holding that l
the original complaint was defective.
He was re-arrested on a new fugitive
Officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: President, J. L.
Wilkin; vice president, G. B. Stone,
who was named when Mr. Atwood re-
signed; treasurer, J. F. Warren; sec-
retary, I. S. Mahan.
Jesse Hensiey, i'i years old, son of
Mrs. Rosa Hensiey of El Reuo, was
shot and almost instantly killed while
hunting ducks.
E. P. Hill, representative from Pitts-
warrant and is now on his way back burg county in the fourth state leg-
islature, announced that he will l-
to Iowa.
BOYHOOD'S THRONE AT THIS SEASON
Western Cafe Custom Is
Becoming Popular
Br D. P. PARKER. Ontlii, N.b.
cafes during the hot weather. Of course, it is not every man that want,
<0 do this, but it does make a great many men feel real homelike to U
able to take off their coats and roll up their sleeves in a swell cafe with-
out fear of falling under the displeasure of the head waiter.
A few of the waiters in the more elite establishments consider the
coat less person with great contempt, but they have orders from tin
management to keep mum. It doeB seem pretty hard that a man should
have to sit in a restaurant in a heavy coat on a very hot day while the*
are surrounded bv a host of pretty girls wearing dresses which comi
under the ban of the police for being improper. There is nothing wroiif
about a man taking off his coat while eating. Suspender, do not look
very nice, but if the men are allowed to take off their coats in restaurant,
it ii more than likely that they will be willing to do awuy with suspend* r>
during the hot weather.
The w;st is always starting some new fad. Women all over the
world have had their day, so it is now about time that poor man should
he given a chance.
Don't Forget to
DO YOUR
s
EARLY
After long services in congress from
the First Oklahoma district, Repre-
sentative Bird S. McGuire will retire
from public life next spring and en-
gage in the practice of law at Tulsa, i
where he will form a law partnership. I
John Hoskins. a Shawnee farmer, |
was fatally injured when he was j
thrown from a buggy while his horses !
were running away down a steep hill, j
Altogether twenty-three miles of j
county roads were improved during ;
The good roads crusade in Tulsa I
county.
Oil is running from the waste at j
the rig of the Oklahoma Mutual Oil
and Gas company near
City.
a candidate for attorney general
th£ democratic primary.
Oklahoma
Nov. 21 and 22
"The Smart Set
PRICES—50c to $1.00.
Nov. 24 and 25
NORMAN K. HACKETT
—in—
"The Grain of
Dust"
PRICES—50c to $2.00.
Thanksgiving Day.
Matinee and Night.
Mutt &. Jeff
PRICES—25c to $1.50.
WmUM
NIGHTS - 7.30 - 9.00 PM
LOWER FLOOR - 20c<*30c
LYRIC
THEATRE
The Best in Vaudeville
AND
FIRST RUN OF
National Pictures
Any Seat Ten Cents, Anytime
Continous Preformance.
THE EMPRESS
111-113 Weit Main Street Oklahoma City
MOTION PICTURES CONTINUOUS
! 12:00 noon to 11:00 p. m.
'■ ENTIRE CHANGE EACH DAY
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