Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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OKLAHOMA STAT£ REGISTER
Oklahoma State Register
Published every Thursday by
THE OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY
Office 121 North First Street Ph ieNc. 132
EdtHbllnhtMl Deo. 17, 1890. Incorporated Dec. 17, 1903.
Entered at the Poit Office at Guthrie, Oklahoma, aa aecend claa* Mail Matter
Subscription Price Per Year
THURSDAY JUNE 9. 1904.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE ORIENT
The war of the Orient will add much to the
enjeyment of the world, beside the fear of the
"yellow peril," raised by some before our vision
like some guazy demon of new and uncompre-
hended terror to the so-called white civilization
of the Occident. Already, in the midst of war,
a time least conducive to the display of the bet-
ter side of a people, correspondents give
glimpses of artistic beauty and delight of the
Japanese people, altogether different in charac-
ter from that in line of history of our own charac-
teristics. Literature and art have about exhaust-
ed the wellsprings of our own organic life. All
the forms of expression of religion, literature and
art have been worked and reworked by the gift-
ed minds of the different nations coming down
the same stream of civilization and feeding upon
the same ideals as a common property. When
the expression of the same, primitive passions
no longer roused new emotions, all fields and all
epochs of history were exploited for art effect.
Schools of art followed one another—classic, ro-
matic, naturalistic, impressionist, symbolist, and
what not. These, too, were exhausted. The
very metaphysics—the psychology of Occiden-
tal human nature is exhausted. The terms de-
cadent, degenerate are generally applied to our
life, to our letters, music and painting, Our
modern literatures, because of a lack of new ma-
terial in human life, are either commonplace or
nurotic.
This war of the Orient, if it does nothing
more than awaken our interest in a people we
have heretofore thought not worth while, will do
much. It will make us seek the archeology of
the human nature that is so different from our
own, and yet left so many thousand of years alone
by us, was entirely sufficient unto itself and if
left alone, would still be sufficient unto itself It
has never asked us any odds, It never made any
inroads upon us. It was willing to leave us
alone if we left it alone. We did not see fit to
leave it alone; we insisted on inflicting upon it
what we considered our superior civilization, and
it had to adopt our grosser forms of it, our meth-
ods of overpowering or killing off all who didn't
receive our religion and our views of life, to de-
fend itself against us. Hence the present war of
self-preservation by Japan.
Yellow peril or no yellow peril, the Last
will from this on be of more interest than any
other part of the world. Yellow skins will make
no difference. It is what the people having yel-
low skins have done and are doing that will
be of interest. They are where they are by the
same laws of nature that we are where we are.
If we did not desire the yellow peril we should
not have disturbed it. Because it docs not think-
like us, live like us, is none of our busi.iess.
Another superior race, in numbers if not in char-
acter, might just as well find fault with us and
send missionaries to meddle w ith our faiths and
our conception of life.
Sufficient unto itself—as happy and as mis-
erable as we---was the great so-called Orient.
We of the Occident have entered it, thinking we
could better it, against its will, and the result is
liable to be that we will get more good out ol it
than its people. We will at least get new ingre-
dients into the psychology of our art expression
to relieve us from the steril field of our own
often over-worked past, in which all has about
been said that can be said by master minds, and
in which nothing new presents itself, until we art-
driven to explore the desease spots that are eat-
ing and corroding us, for the romance of new
mental and emotional pleasure.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INFLUENCE
The session of the Oklahoma Sunday School
association in this city was one of those events
that passes without public comment because it
is taken tor granted without thought. Leaving
out the moral and religious element, the Sunday
school is often the only source of mental culture
r the average boy and girl that never go Le-
d th< common school. What influence th>
ssions then received by the Bible lessons
i futuri life can only be estimated by the
'ica 1 illustrations play in the intellectual
1 ic men The Bible pictures and stor-
girl absorb in Sunday school never
'•aith may go but the ethical intlu-
ontroling taste in all depart-
iny a man knows nothing of
■rs himself < iii11• successful
hat he I- < i context
n his Sund. ;ho . I years,
poor l>< A- and girl i an
'any a moral and intel-
and in reflection, is
ons of childhood.
Sunday school children are flowers absorbing the
perfume of life, that no matter how tempestuous
their career may become, you cannot take-
away from them until they return to the earth.
•**
Harry McAleer gave himself up in Hiawatha
Kansas, and was examined for the murder of
Frank Evans, after having wandered the world
over, and no evidence could be found to con-
vict. He had seemingly killed in self defense,
but thought the officers were after him, until,
wrecked and broken down, he sought punish-
ment. The authorities refused to prosecute,
thinking him punished enough. Is not this, se-
cretly, always true, that the punishment is equal
to the crime?
**•*
Chas. H. Filson, chairman of the republican
central committee, is receiving many compli-
mentary notices from the territorial press upon
his appointment. They admit he is a hard work-
er and a skilled politician and that the campaign
could not be in better hands.
First the prairie fire last fall and now a cV-
clone and storms have made destitute people
im Comanche county. The homesteaders will
at least be able to borrow on their land enough
t* rebuild houses, but what will the lessees do?
They cannot mortgage their leases that are to
be reappraised this fall. This is an argument
for the sale of the school lands.
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OKLAHOMA'S ESTAB.
LISIIED CHARACTER
The recent storms have proven that Oklaho-
ma is through its years of probation as to its
character for climatic decency and temper. It
has passed through many phases and had to
"make good" in each characteristic before it was
fully accepted into the good fellowship by the
other states. Fach new ideocinccacy was exag-
erated into dangerous unreliability or unsuffic-
ency. When the country first opened the cow-
boys said there was not rain enough to raise
grass; then corn was doubted, wheat never went
so far south and cotton never so far north.
Peaches and grapes were admitted, but apples—
no, never! An apple was never known to grow
in such a country.
When the drouth idea was pretty well dissi-
pated, then the cyclones came, and the cyclone
caves took the place of the prairie dog towns.
Like the nursery tale dragon cave, Oklahoma
was believed to be the original home of the cy-
clone, where it had lain in secret lair all these
many years to rush, demon-like, out, and swoop
down upon the sunny dales, peaceful hamlets
and conjested marts of the unsuspecting and
innocent balance of the country.
A territory is like a small boy. It is put
through all the paces, made to do all kinds of
capers, before it can become one of the gang.
Or like a new beauty in the neighborhood. All
her pin feathers are pulled off to see what she is
made of before she is received into close fel-
lowship and allowed to join the gossip about the
others In view of the general distruction of
life and property by storms in Kansas and else-
where the extraordinary rains in parts of Okla-
homa have attracted no specially yellow color in
tho telegraphic dispatches. Oklahoma is entit-
led to go on a rampage occasionally now with-
out being "cut direct" by the other states. It is
found, after close comparison, they have as
many bad habits and failings as we do, only we
were the new comer and they were in cahoots.
« •«
J. F. Marcell, who got thirty-five years for
wrecking a bank at Highland, Kansas, is learning
the tailoring trade in the Kansas penitentiary
under Fmmett Dalton, vvhe wrecked a bank at
Coffeyville, Kansas. Thus highway robbery and
expert booking are placed on an equalitv.
It is a good thing that the readers of tin State
Capital and th< Leader do not read the number
of metropolitan papers the nevvspayer men do,
for it would give them nausea to swallow over
again all the paragraphic wit ai d editorial opini-
on that thev had read in other paper-
*««*
Those who criticise Oklahoma's agricultural
exhibit at the St. Louis exposition should in con-
sideration that they saw it during th. first two
weeks at the fair, when necessarily it must have-
been in an incomplete condition. Tin men who
got it together are about as capable as any in
Oklahoma; it is a well known fact that they
made great effort to have people save lini dim-
ples of product- for them all last sunnr. r, and il
there is not now a fair sample of 'Oklahoma's
productiv ity it is as much the fault of these crit-
ics as any 0111 Oiu of the hardest things in the
world is to get a viti>! ictory exhibit of the re-
sources of a community. Vanity alone would
seem to inspirt persons 10 contributt > \tra >idi-
narv articles, but in this case it does not , em. Un-
til di honesty in expenditure of funels hi charg-
eei, il an be taken for granted that the be -1 ef-
fort possible was made bv those in charge to
show the be st side of Oklahoma at the St. Louis
< xposition.
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CLIMATE AND CROP
CONDITIONS
j For week ending Monday, June 6,
19#4:
i Cloudy weather prevailed during the
[ week, with general and excessive pre-
j eipitation on the 2nd and 3rd. and scat-
| tered thunderstorms on the 1st, 4th,
and 5th.
The excessive precipitation caused
all the streams to overflow, over the
greater portion of the section, and bot-
tom land craps suffered much injury,
especially wheat and cotton. The
heavy winds and hail accompanying
the rains caused much damage to cot-
ton and other crops over nnmerous lo-
calities.
Wheat has made a good growth, is
filling and heading out well, and ma-
turing; soft wh«at harvest has com-
menced. over a few localities, but work
was delayed by the haavy rains; the
prospect continues for a half yield or
better over the central and eastern
portions and a third to half yield over
the western portion; some rust is re-
ported.
Oats made a fair growth, are head-
ing out, and range from good to poor
condition.
Corn made a good growth, is in good
condition, and much of it is being laid
by; the heavy rains delayed work and
fields are becoming weedy.
Cotton growth was hindered by the
wet weather, but the crop is generally
in good condition and is being chopped
out and cultivated ; much damage was
caused to the crop by heavy rains, wind
hail and overflow.
Potatoes are doing well and are being
dug with good to fine yields reported.
Kaffir and broom corn, cane, millet,
castor beans and milo maise are plant-
ed and up to good stands and making a
fair growth.
Range grass and meadows made a
good growth and stock are in grod con-
dition.
Alfalfa is still being secured and
some in the fields was damaged by
heavy rains.
Grapes are in good condition and
promise a large yield ; berries are giv-
ing a large yield; considerable fruit
was shaken down by high winds.
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BUGGIES, BINDEK TWINE.
WAGONS HARNESS
Just received a carload La Porte Buggies, and are mak-
ing a very low price on same. Champion Binder and
.'lowers, Turnbull and Bain Wagons- First class Binder
Twine and a complete supply of Team and Driving Har-
ness. Come in and see me '%%%%%
C. W. LITER
213 EAST
OKLAHOMA AVE.
T he Ideal Deering
I BINDERS am> MOWERS
1 egether with a full line of supplies
are for sale and on exhibition at
•I A. ANDERSON'S
Hardware and
Grocery Store
113 East Oklahoma Ave. - PHONE 102
€:■ . and examine the 1904 machines and
buy fyour Hardware and Groceries at
- J*. ■>*"** ->'t iVi.ii Lowest Market Prices.
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