The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 1912 Page: 4 of 14
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The Searchlight
E. M. GREEN, Editor
**SM Ml. H Tit filMi 'Itat c«
MfHcjhM m»4t
50c P«r Year Hi Mvace
far tatraacas uctit dasf aMttar at tki pastafflca at Caskiai. (Hi.
Mvartwae latas aula kaam apaa apafcatiaa.
This is a political year and
the crop of patriots is already
past all danger of drought or
flood. There is one thing migh-
ty convenient about this sara;
crop of patriots. It n.eds no pre
parntion of soil or after cultiva-
tion. They grow spontaneously
and seem to flourish best oq ce-
ntal and brick wall's, RTAre box-
es, and curb stones, 'i'bis erop
grows very rank but the unfor-
tunate thing about it is that it
has small market value and uses
much valuable time in its produc-
tion.
hj A. H. T. A. of Okla.
.' Our worthy Treasurer, Bro. B.
I Williams, while sending us a
small check for printing done
tempts 1.8 to Mtruvngauoe 'nd
arrouses desires we can not
fy, by telling ns that he has been
eating roasting
14th. We really feel as if *e
have a grievance against Bro.
Williams. Neverlhcles, the
g„„(| woman of the
grown some potatoes and atr ng
beans, the flonr man te1'
aome statements printed and we
are slowly emerging from our
long fast of winter. Wonder if
Bro. Williams hoed that corn him
self ?
A. H. T. A. of Okla.
The Searchlight takes no part
in what is commonly called poli-
tics" and will not advocate any
political creed or the claims ot
anv particular candidate. Nev-
ertheless, in a body like the - •
T.A. there are* no doubt, man}
men,' competent and faithful,who
could serve the people well, and
doubtless some of these are will-
ing thus to serve. W e shall be
glad to publish the names of all
Antis, without comment of course*
who are candidates for office, if
they are sent to us. We believe
it would be interesting to ine
brothers to know some of our
, umber are deemed deserving ot
honor and the confidence of their
friends.
A. H. T. A. of Okla.
What is the matter? We have
heard from none of the brothers
for several weeks. Well we have
been rather off ourselves and
suppose everybody has be<»n so
busy caring for the "mammoth
crops, that they have not had
time to write. But, brothers,your
letters, long or short, are and
have been the life of The Search-
light. The boys would rather
re-ad them than read the most
labored effort of the editor. We
are having some rainy days this
season. The next one that comes
along, just set down and write
us a short bit, or a long one, for
The Searchlight. The brothers
in other sections will he glad to
know how things are looking witi
you, the work of the local, the1
crops or general conditions.
Write us. .brother, everybody en-
joys your tetters.
A. H. T. A. of Okla.
Thank goodness that conven-
tion in Chicago is over and by
the time our readers see this, the
one at Baltimore will also be ov-
er. We may now be able to give
our attention to some of the more
common place affairs at least, un-
til that third party gets on its
working clothes. Of course, dur-
ing these conventions the aver-
age American citizen could think
of little else than the fortunes of
his favorite candidate. But the
nominations being made, we can
talk and talk about something
else, the weather, the l ugs, kaffir
corn, alfalfa, etc., aud can look
after the interests of th^ commuu
ity and the individual. By the
way, a very good way to attend
to "these latter interests is to pro-
pogate the principles of the A. H.
T. A., and thus make a practical
application of the principles of |
good government right at hom
Nearly everybody has time to
talk politics, cannot some of us
find time to talk the best promot-
er of good citizenship that is in
active operation today? Broth-
ers, all that is needed to bring
every good citizen into the ranks
of the A. H. T. A. of Oklahoma
and the I'nited States of America
is publicity. Will you not help
to give it this publicity?
A. H. T. A. of Okla.
0'ia'iping Human Nature.
The notion that I viVr.;,n natur?
is etir'fjgiixg, always 1n*the direc
tion of peace and harmony, of
love and e.-iarity ftne fellow-
creature, horror at bloodshed and
the abandonment af war, cannot
in the light of history be accept-
ed, unless we admit th'at the pro-
cess is very slow and that we are
still a long way in point of time
from reaching the goal of millen-
nial righteousness, says the New-
Orleans Picayune.
How slow has been the pro-
cess is seen from the most ancient
records, which show that human
nature thousands of years ago is
much the same as it is today.
A writer in the June Atlantic
Monthly well says that the bo-
ings and sayings of the, ancients
have a vital force for us and are
not mere lifeless records, simply
because of the identity of their
motives with our own. The story
of Joseph and his brethern, the
fables of Aesop, the proverbs of
Solomon, the philosophy of Soc-
rates, the sayings of Marcus Au-
relius, the poetry of Shakespeare,
art- as true for us today as they
were, for the world to which tlicy
were given. Perhaps the highest
value of the Bible is the fact
that its portrayals of human na-
ture, though among a district
and peculiar race and in an en-
vironment utterly foreign to
that of today, are absolutely
faithiul to our own times. And
this is true as far back as we can
catch the faintest glimpse of
man's activities on this planet.
In every age there has been a
pre-existent period of human so-
ciety in which people, save ir»
mere manners and fashions, were
much the same as in succeeding
ages, and, therefore, if human-
nature is constantly changing for
the better, the process is very
slow Says the writer mentioned:
"What does change—and this,
is the foundation of our faith in
better things to come—is that
fund of human experience which
we call civilization. Year by
year, century by century, this
t'und grows and changes, and. at
any epoch, it constitutes the chief
factor in the evironment of life.
Men learn from research and ex-
perience, and what they find of
real vitality they build to th?ir
institutions, and the child that
comes into the world today grows
up under very different influenc-
es from those which surrounded
the children of one, five or ten
centuries ago. His nature is
trained along different lines and
subjected to different restraints,
and the same raw material yields
j correspondingly different result-.
That the outward expression of
his nature has changed is no evi-
dence that his nature itself has
changed. It proves simply that,
while human nature is ever the
same, the growth and influence
of civilization produce from this
same nature ever-changing re-
sults. ''
We w7ill reach the millenial
that the sight of the affection
is not the knee but the hip. We
are all familliar with the pain
under the shoulder blade which
comes from an afflicted liver.
The stomach too, can produce
pain in many parts of the body.
A disordered stomach will give
us pain as far away as the head,
and, when one gets a cramp in
his toe it is often due to acidity
of the stomach. Swallow a pint h
of soda and the cramp will dis-
apear.
An aching tooth will produce
neuralgic pains in the face, and
very often a violent pain at the
back of the head » due to far a-
way kidneys, which themselves
may suffer no pairo at the time.,
-o—
Every whippersnapper has be n
purloining ideas from Bro. Davi's
"I Am the Printing Press," and
we imagine "as to how" we can
follow suit: I am the eountry
state finally, because it is divinely printing press; I am au inani-
i !11 1 — >1. Irinlr
Tongue - Twisters.
Now that they are talking of
having a department ftw stam-
merers under the management
of the board of educate®, some
people are wondering what will
be taken as the limit whiieh shall
mark a stammerer fromi a person
who has only an occasional stut-
ter on certain words.
If anything of the kindi is done
it is probable that some learned
doctor will devise a system of
tests, for the powers of speech
just as they do now ton- the
powers of sight. Some day we
may see children asked to> stand
up and repeat something: like
this:
She^ sells sea shells on the- sea
shore.
The shells she sells are sea shells,
I'm sure.
So if she sells sea shells am the
sea shore,
Then I'm sure she sells sea shore
shells.
Here is another one that should
prove an excellent test of a
smooth running tongue.
Kimbo I • mble kick his kins-
mnn s kettle.
I>id Jvn'bo Kemble kick his
kinsman's kettle?
Wlehre's the kinsman's kettle
that Kimbo Kemble kicked.
o
The Printing Press.
promised to us, and we will know
when we get there, but it may be
a long time yet.
o
Curiosities Of Pain
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Pain some times behaves in a
curious fashion. There was a
soldier in London, after the Boer
war, who complained of excruci-
ating neuralgic pains in his right
foot. This very much amused
his friends, for he had lost his
right leg.
The explanation was that pain
happened to be in the trunk of
those nerves which had sent
branches to the foot.
Sometimes a patient comes to
a doctor complaining of pain in
the knee, and he is greatly sur-
prised when the doctor tells him
mate and kicked-aroun' but im-
mortal contraption; I am the
bull's eye for the daily paper joko
musket: I am a good-natured ma-
chine that enlightens and enter-
tains hundreds of delinquent sub-
scribers : I possess a fountain of
youth—several gallons of glossy
ink always keeping it so; I have
a bed, and it is born the editor's
knowledge; 1 have a plate but
from it I eat not; I have a fly,
but it is never swatted; I have
tapes to measure the size of paper
the proprietor is able to afford;
I have forms but they are only
with me when the editor w;tn?s
me to squeeze their pretty'type';
I—pardon my loud use of the
magnificent pronoun and go
dream the rest if you desire iti
—Hazel Green, (Kv.) Herald.
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Green, E. M. The Searchlight (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 1912, newspaper, June 26, 1912; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284948/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.