Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 26, 1904 Page: 3 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1904.
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Epworth League.
"The Ten Virgins," when properly
acted by ten young ladies in accor-
dance with the following, makes an
entertaining program for an Epworth
League or any church social:
"Five were wise and five were fool-
ish."
The wise are to be dressed in white,
the foolish in black. For the wise, a
sheet turned d.own at the top and gath-
ered to fit the neck makes a suitable
•robe, and something white draped over
the head in Oriental style completes
the outfit.
For the. five foolish virgins, take
black cambric, sew up like a sheet, and
gather in at the neck, with a piece
of the same for the head; or a black
shawl can be used.
Each of the ten carries a small hand
lamp. The five wise ones have oil iu
theirs, but the lamps of the other five
are empty.
The stage must be curtained off
across the front, and also have two
small rooms curtained off on either
side. One of the rooms is to be well
lighted, while the other is to be en-
tirely dark.
The ten virgins arrange themselves
i na sleeping attitude on the floor by
simply kneeling down and resting their
heads on their hands—a wise and a
foolish one, closely facing each other,
near the front of the stage, and the
others in a semicircle behind, so that
all may be seen. The wise are on the
found in the Method)at Hymnal, No.
375:
"Late, late, so late! and dark the nigiit
and chill!
Late, late, so late! but we can enter
still!"
Then they s'top, and the wise sing
from within the lighted room, "Too
late, too late- ye cannot enter now."
Then the foolish sing the second
and third verses, and the wise ans-
wer each time with the refrain, "Too
late," etc. While the foolish sing the
fourth verse they all kneel down, and
when they come to the latter part of
it they lift their hands in an attitude
of earnest entreaty; then while the
wise answer, "No, no, too late, ye can-
not enter now!" thty bow their heads
and with hands over their eyes, seem
to submit to their fate. As soon as
the wise virgins cease singing the cur-
tain falls.*
When well acted this is very impres-
sive, and cannot fail to produce serious
thoughts. C. DE WITT SMITH.
Do Fertilizers Work Harm ?
As to how and why commercial fer-
tilizers effect plant life, and therefore
pay, there appears to be a wide differ-
ence of opinion between the scientists.
The Government Bureau of Soils em-
phatically discredits the theory that
the analysis of a particular soil will
reveal deficiencies in certain chemical
constituents, which can then be profit-
ably supplied by the use of commercial
fertilizers, containing the lacking ele-
ments, and presents some cogent rea-
sons for its scepticism on this point.
Prominent among these is the fact that
in no instance does the analytical
a given soil, and writes, 'Please ana-
lyze this soil and tell toe what crops
1 can grow on it,' I send him word
'Ask your soil itself what you can grow
on it; in that way, asking your ques-
tion direct to the soil, you can get your
answer, arid in no other way.'"
New Country Cotton.
m Lawton, Okla., Oct. 17.—The report
recently gained circulation that the
cotton crop of Comanche county weald
not yield as much as was estimated
a few weeks ago. This report was bas-
ed upon the assumption that the boll
weevil and the dry weather has done
material damage. More recent reports,
however contradict this and establish
the fact beyond question that the crop
will be as large as formerly predicted.
A gentleman from twelve miles east
of the city said today that he had forty
acres of cotton that will yield twenty-
five bales and that many of his neigh-
bors have crops equally as good. The
upland cotton is as good as tuat in the
valleys and is far easier gathered.
A report from Temple says: "Every
body is looking for pickers. There is
hardly a farmer in the territory tribu-
tary to Temple but wants help. Some
of the cotton is making from half to
three-quarters of a bale to the acre and
there is some reported that is making a
bale to the acre.
From Walter the report comes:- "If
the frost should withhold from the
cotton in this part of the county to a
reasonably late date the yield of cot-
ton will be very much better than
was hoped for some weeks ago. By
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A SCENE ON THE KINGFISHER CREEK, NEAR KINGFISHER CITY.
and his brothers at Colby Kan. for
the last five years. Their success iu
the business became phenomenal for
their facilities and Mr. Wilson and his
father decided to locate here to build
up'even a larger business and let the
older brother continue the business
there while two others 'began at Good-
land, Kan. This gave each of them
greater fields and greater individual
business. #
The Wilsons here took up a plan ot
advertising which for size and ex-
pense has never been undertaken by
any other Topeka real estate dealer.
They first contracted for large spa"e
in the Topeka papers and then grad-
ually extended their advertising into
outside papers of large circulation,
principally of the class of weeklies
and monthlies reaching twenty to one
hundred thousand subscribers each. In
each case, as with the local daily pa-
pers, Mr. Wilson advances cash with
his orders and never allows an account
to be booked. The results of his plan
are greater than he even- had supposed
and the real estate department of their
business has assumed proportions
which to the ordinary layman are sur-
prising. Their offices at 413 Kansas
avenue are furnished in an elegant
manner and a strong clerical force is
employed. They are heavy property
owners in Topeka and in different
parts of the state.
right, and the foolish on the left.
Each one has hera lamp sitting on
the floor in front of her The five wise
virgins have theirs lighted, but turned
down low. All the lights in the house
are to- be lowered except the one in
the side room on the right of the wise.
This will afford light enough for the
audience to see the ten virgins asleep.
After all are arranged, the curtain'
is drawn aside, and some one stand-
in within the lighted room reads
very distinctly the parable of the ten
virgins, as found in the twenty-fifth
chapter of Matthew, down to the sixth
verse; then she rushes out to where
the virgins are, and cries out, "Behold,
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to
meet him." Then the virgins will slow-
ly rise; the five will turn up their
lamps, the others will attempt to light
theirs, then they will say to the wise,
"Gives us of your oil; for ouj- lamps
are gone out." The wise will answer
all together, "Not so; lest there be not
enough for 'as and you; but go ye
rather to them that sell, and buy for
yourselves." Then while some appro-
priate music is being softly played,
they march, black and white together,
beginning with the first two and
marching down through the center,
toward the back of the stage; there
they separate, the wise going into the
lighted room, the foolish into the dark.
The foolish then march back again
across the stage ,and stand in a row
in front of the lighted room. Then
the music ceases, and the five foolish
virgins sing the first verse of a song
chemist advise the application of as
much fertilizers as is indicated to be
lacking by their analysis.
That commercial fertilizers promote
plant growth under certain conditions
the bureau admits, and it is conduct-
ing experiments with a view to ascer-
taining the reason why. It is still too
early to Say precisely what this in-
fluence is, Vat some startling sugges-
tions are advanced by the soil experts.
For instance, they say that it appears
thus far that the chemical fertilizers
usully act on the plants rather than
on the soil, enabling it to absorb and
digest a greater amount of plant food
than would otherwise be possible, pre-
cisely as a dose of pepsin acts on the
human stomach; or, again, as a stimu-
lant, just as whiskey or nitro-glycerine
will act on the human circulation.
The belief is generally entertained
in the bureau that the amount of fer-
tilizer which the most lavish exponent
of this class of farmers advocate is
too small to act on the soil, or even
to be distinguished in any subsequent
analysis of the soil, even though the
deficiency, as shown by the prior chem-
ical analysis, was most marked and
the application most generous.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief Chem-
ist of the Department of Agriculture,
agrees with the' analytical chemists
that the proper- analysis will show In
what directions the ^oil is deficient in
plant food, yet at the meeting of the
Association of Agricultural Experi-
ment Stations last fall, Dr. Wiley said,
"When a man sends me a specimen of
reason of the rains some people have
been predicting an early frost."
Duncan report: "Duncan has to date
bought nearly double the amount of
cotton bought by any other town on
the Rock Island in the Indian Territory
and nearly all this cotton comes from
Comanche county. The yield there Is
from a half to three-quarters of a bale
to the acre."
Farmers on the streets of Lawton
daily bear out the assertion that the
cotton crop of the county is much larg-
er than was expected.
Big Realty Dealers.
Topeka Herald.
An advertiser who is attracting con-
siderable attention in the state today
is A. P. Tone Wilson, jr., the real
estate dealer at 413 Kansas avenue of
this city. He is developing into an
extensive user of printer's ink ic pa-
pers all over the west and particular-
ly in the Herald. His announcements
in this paper have attracted much
comment because of their size amf fre-
quency and because of the wide scope
of territory covered by his lists of
property for sale. No other real estate
dealer in Kansas and few others in
the west are spending as much money
for newspaper space as he.
Mr. Wilson while yet less than
thirty years.old, is a law school grad-
uate and practicing ' attorney. He
has been associated in the law, real
estate, loan and insurance busi'ness
with his father, Anthony P. Wilson
One on the Boarder.
New York Times,
A few days ago a young man went
to see an old friend who is blind.
The old man lives in a boarding house,
and he was chuckling to himself when
the young man came in.
"I have had a very funny experi-
ence" he explained. "I "went to bed at
about 10 o'clock last night. When 1
awoke I lay still for some time;
then I began to think it was about
time to get up. In a little while 1
heard some one go down stairs, it
must be 7 o'clock I thought. That
sounds like Brown. He always goes
down at 7. I got up and went over to
the mantelpiece where I felt the hands
of the clock. Sure enough, they point-
ed to 7. So I washed, put on my
riothes and combed iny hair. I got
my palm leaf fan and started down
stairs.
"I went to the dining room which is
in the basement and sat down at my
place. Brown did not seem to be
there and no one was down yet. So-I
fanned myself and waited for my
breakfast. After ten minutes Mary had
not come in. I began to get mad and
called two or three times loud enough
to be heard a block. But nobody an-
swered. I thought perhaps the girl
had overslept herself. So I thouglit
I'd go and tell the landlady.
"I felt my v/sty up stairs again and
knocked at her door. No answer. 1
knocked again, harder. This time 1
heard a little scream and a jump out
of bed. 'Oh, heavens' she called, 'What
is the matter. What can have hap-
pened.' Then she opened the door.
" 'I'll tell you what is the matter,
madam,' I said severely. 'Here it is
about 7:;30 and none of the servants
are up yet. I've been waiting for my
breakfast for about a quarter of an
hour and there's not a soul in the
kitchen. What's more you had better
see to things here a little better, or 1
shall—' Suadnly she began to laugh.
" "Why, Mr. Blank she creamed,
'Whatever made you think it was 7
o'clock? It's only 1 o'clock in the
morning! Well this is a good joke.'
"I very quickly turned around and
went up stairs again. I felt the hands
of the clock. They were still at 7.
Then I undressed and went to bed.
"It's very rare in that house that
they have a joke on the boarder. But
that was certainly one on me."
and WhUkey Ilablla
cured at home without
pain. Book of particular*
■ ______ N.-nt I'KKK. B. n.
' Woollvy, J1.0.,Allunla,€i}u., 103 N.Pryor St.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 26, 1904, newspaper, October 26, 1904; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88022/m1/3/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.