The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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ORY
GIANT TREE OF THE TROPICS
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLIIINO.
We Courtship
sf c7Wiles
Standish
Willi Illustrations
by-
Howard Chandler Christy
ICopj right, The Bobbi-Morrlll Company)
The Spinning Wheel
Month after month passed away, and
in autumn the ships of the
merchants
Came with kindred and friends, with
cattle and corn for the Pilgrims.
All in the village was peace; the men
were intent on their labors.
Busy with hewing and building, with
garden-plot and with mere^tead.
Busy with breaking the glebe, and
mowing the grass in the meadows,
Searching the se.i for its fish, and
hunting the doer in the forest.
All In the village was peace; but at
times the rumor of warfare
Pilled the air witH alarm, and the ap-
prehension of danger.
Bravely the stalwart Mil^s StandtsB
was scouring (he land with his
Torces,
Waxing valiant in fight and defeating
the allen armies,
Till his name had become a sound of*
fear to the nations.
Anger was still in his heart, but at
times the remorse and contiitlon
Which in all noble natures succeed
the passionate outbreak.
Came like a rising tide, that encount-
ers the rush of a river,
8taying Its current a while, but mak-
ing it bitter and brackish.
Meanwhile Alden at home had built
biin a new habitation.
Solid, substantial, of timber rough-
hewn from the firs of the rorest.
Wooden-barred was the door, and the
roof was covercd with rushes;
Latticed the windows were, and the
window-panes were of paper.
Oiled to admit the light, while wind
and rain were excluded.
There, too, he dug a well, and around
it planted an orchard:
Still may be seen to this day some
trace of the well and the orchard.
Close to the house was the stall,
where, safe and secure from an-
noyance.
Ragliom, the snow-white steer, that
had fallen to Alden's allotment
In the division of cattle, might rumin-
ate in the night-time
Over the pastures he cropped, made
fragrant by sweet pennyroyal.
flax and worketh with gladness.
How she layeth her hand to the spin-
dle and holdeth the distaff.
How she is not afraid of the snow for
herself or her household.
Knowing her household are clothed
with the scarlet cloth of her
weaving!
So, as she sat at her wheel one aft-
ernoon in the autumn,
1 Alden, who opposite sat, and was
watching her dexterous Angers,
I As if the thread she was spinning
were that of his life and his for-
tune,
j After a pause in their talk, thus spake
to the sound of the spindle.
"Truly, Prlscilla," he said, "when I
see you spinning and spinning,
j N'ever idle a moment, but thrifty and
thoughtful of others,
I Suddenly you are transformed, are
visibly changed in a moment;
| You are no longer Prlscilla. but
Bertha, the Beautiful Spinner."
Here the light foot on the treadle
grew swifter and swifter; the
spindle
Uttered an angry snarl, and the thread
snapped short In her fingers;
While the impetuous speaker, not
heeding the mischief, continued.
"You are the beautiful Bertha, the
spinner, the queen of Helvetia;
She whose story I read at a stall in
the streets of Southampton,
Who. as she rode on her palfrey, o'er
a pattern for honsewj^es.
Show yourself equally worthy of b -
Ing the model of husbands.
Hold this skein on your hRnds, while
I wind It, ready for knitting;
Then who knows but hereafter, when
fashions have changed aud the
manners.
Fathers may talk to their sons of the
good old times of John Alden!"
Thus, with a Jest and a laugh, the
skein on his hands she adjusted.
He sitting awkwardly there, wl^h his
his arms extended before him,
She standing graceful, erect, and wind-
ing the thread from his fingers.
Sometimes chiding a little his clumsy
manner of holding.
Sometimes touching his hands, as she
disentangled expertly
Twist or knot in the yarn, unawares
—for how could she help It?—
Sending electrical thrills through
every nerve In his body.
IMAGES
CHRIST
FROM SABBATH READING
Lo! in the midst of this scene, a
breathless messerger entered.
Bringing In hurry and heat the ter-
rible news from the village.
Yes; Miles Standish was dead!—an
Indian had brought them the tid-
ings,—
Slain by a poisoned arrow, shot down
In the front of the battle,
Into an ambush begui ed, cut off with
the whole of his forces;
All the town would be burned, and all
the people be murdered!
Oft when his labor was finished,
with eager feet would the dreamer
Follow the pathway that ran through
the woods to the house of Pris-
cilla.
Led by illusions romantic and subtile
deceptions of fancy.
Pleasure disguised as duty, and love
in the semblance of friendship.
Ever of her he thought, when he fash
loned the walls of his dwelling;
Ever of her he thought, when he
delved in the soil of his garden;
Ever of her he thought, when he read
in his Bible on Sunday
Praise of the virtuous woman, as she
Is described in the Proverbs,—
How the heart of her husband doth
safely trust in her always.
How all the days of her life she will
do him good, and not evil,
How she seeketh the wool and the
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iSSHnKi
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and
Pressing Her Close to His Heart.
meadow and moun-
Such were the tidings of evil that
bi!rst on the hearts of the hear-
ers.
Silent and statue-like stood Prlscilla,
her face looking backward
Still at the face of the speaker, her
arms uplifted in horror;
as if the
valley
tain.
•Ever was spinning her thread from
a distaff fixed to her saddle.
She was so thrifty and good, that her
named passed into a proverb.
Sf shall it be with your own. when
' - • uo ui> uieu iu uurru
u ,€ spinning-wheel shall no longer But John Alden, upstartin
"m 'D, house of the farmer, and barb of the arrow
fill its chambers with music. Pierc'r- thr hrnr* *r hi* tri*. x u a
•n.™ .M. u. r.L„. iZd,t:s
hood D ter Once and forever the bonds that held
Praising the good old times, and the wit^-tlT"'1 3 C,aP"Ve'
days of Priscilla, the spinner!" 'Z?' f° 'T'8 0"' th°
Straight uprose from her wheel the Mln*W with n«. ,
beautiful Puritan maiden Mingled with pain and regret, uncon-
Pleased with the praise of her thrift n "h"8 , , t WaS d°ing*
from him whose praise wa* the P ; a!most WIth a en>nn, the
sweetest. motionless form of Priscilla.
Drew from the reel on the table a ' i>ress,n8 her cIose to his heart, as for
snowy skein of her spinning. !ever bls own- and exclaiming:
Thus making answer, meanwhile, to
the flattering phrases of Alden.
"Come, you must not be idle;.if I am
Those whom the Lord hath united,
let no man put them asunder!"
^ iwmm
Even as rivulets twain, from distant
and separate sources.
Seeing each olher afar, as they leap
from the rocks, and pursuing
Each one its devious path, but draw-
i ir.g nearer and nearer,
Hush together at last, at their tryst-
ing-place In the forest;
So these lives that had run thus far
In separate channels.
Coming in sight of each other, then
swerving and flowing asunder.
Parted by barriers strong, but draw-
ing nearer and nearer,
Rushf (I together at last, and one was
lost in the other.
(TO UE CONTINUED.)
t-AIl after year some name-
less monk labors on a
rough block of some cathe-
dral column till It turns
Into the very likeness of
Christ. He dies, and they
bury him In a forgotten grave; but
every morning the light streaming
through the eastern window over the
head of Christ, as from the eyes of the
Judge, touches with gold that Image
of the Lord wrought by his servant;
and as the generations pace the aisle
beneath, high above them, beautiful
and unchanging, remains the un-
known worker's memorial."—Ian Mac-
laren.
But, after all, It Is only nn image in
stone, and while multitudes may ad-
mire it, only persons of an artistic
temperament are likely to find any in-
spiration in It. *
And In any case, it is only one man
or woman In a million, or In ten mil-
lion, who can make such an itnrse,
even at the cost of the labor of a life- |
time.
But it Is possible for every human i
being to produce an Image of Christ I
which will be an inspiration to all who I
see it and which will make an Impres- !
sion on the world that will be pernia- j
nent. For he who created man In his
own Image at first longs to restore in j
as that Image, which we have lost !
through sin, and he has sent his |
Holy Spirit to dwell In our hearts and
mold us into his Imatre. If therefore
we will but determinedly fix our eyps
on Christ as our leader, and strive to
follow him faithfully, this miracle of
transfiguration will be wrought In us
rciore and more fully as the years po
by And It will by and by be true of
is that "we all with unveiled face re-
flecting for rather, beholding and re-
flecting) as a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are transformed into the same
Image from glory to glor7, even as
from the Lord the Spirit."—(2 Cor
8:18.)
The Sacrifice Required.
The recipe for the attainment of
this great honor Is a very simple one, i
'hough not by any means easily fol-
lowed "I beseech you therefore,
brethren," says the apostle, "by the i
mercies of Ood. to present your bodies
i living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
Ood. which Is your reasonable serv-
ice for. spiritual worship). And he
not fashioned according to this world;
but be ye transformed by the renew-
ing of your mind, that ye may prove
what Is the good and acceptable and
perfect will of God "
The whole secret lies In that ex-
pression "the renewing of your mind "
As long as the customs and fashions
and ideals of the world occupy our
minds, and are accepted as worthy of
pursuit, so long our minds will be
fired on the things of this life; but If
with determined purpose we set he-
fore us as the goal of our ambition the
accomplishment of the will 0f Cod in
our lives, then gradually our whole
character will adapt Itself to this high-
er object of pursuit, and we shall be-
come like Christ *
Compromise Impossible.
The great trouble with many of us
Is that we do not and cannot realize
how Irreconcilable is the antagonism
between wordllness and Chrlstllness
and we are all the time trying to
patch up some sore of compromise be-
tween these two mortal enemies
- "!^Ve n0t the worl( ." John savs.
neither the things that are In the I
world If any man love the world,
the love of the father is not In him. 1
For ail that Is In the world, the lust
of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes
and the vainglory of life. Is not of the
Father, but Is of the world And the
world passeth away, and the lust
thereof, but he that doetb the will of
God abldeth forever."
Not only does (he man himself abide
for ever, but his Influence abides for
ever It la „ ||v1ns, ,h)nK a gp)r)tlln|
force which ennnot die and which re
produces Itself In other hearts and
lives perpetually, though the man with
whom It originated may be altogether
forgotten.
Product of Madeira Island Rivals
America's Great Redwoods
in Age and Size.
Lisbon.—When Madeira Island la
mentioned, people usually associate
with it the name of the wine which
was mjide from its luscious grapes, be-
fore the blight practically destroyea
the vines. They have given little, if
any, thought to the real meaning or
derivation of the word Madeira.
The Portuguese were the first of the
white race to colonize the picturesque
island northwest of Africa, and the pi-
oneers found the mountains and val-
leys covered wtih forests of giant
trees. So pronounced was this fea-
ture that they gave the island the
name of Madeira, which means timber
I In their language. Some imposing
j remnants of the great forests stlil re-
('*
imam*
The Dragon Tree.
main and among the most Interesting
are the dragon trees, a specimen of
which may be seen pictured in this
column.
This tree Is more than a century
old, and some of greater age, still
standing, are much larger. A tree of
this same species recently blew down
in the island of Teneriffe and scien-
tists have estimated that its growth
began before the birth of Christ. In
circumference, age and quantity of
timber the dragon trees rival many
of the great redwoods of California,
and their huge bulbs of spreading
branches often mak« them appear
much larger. They are the products
of tropical regions where heat and
moisture contribute to their growth.
Talk No. 10.
Be thrifty on this little thing Dor/I
accept water for bluing. Think of It.
a little dab of bluing in a large boU
tie of water. Give me 10 cents. Well
I guess not
Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUHL
Best bluing value in the whole world
for the consumer. Makes the whol
family smile. Large packagea A.T
YOUR GROCERS.
Age of an Egg.
In a glass of water the fresh egg
will assume a horizontal position. Th«
egg of three to five days makes wltl
the horizon an angle of 30 degrees.
The angle Increases to 45 degrees fop
an egg eight days old, to 75 for one of
three weeks, and at 30 days the egg
rests on its point.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every Dottle ol
CASTOR1 A, a safe and sure remedy tor
Infants and children, and see that It
Bears the
Signature of t
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castori*
Unfair Play.
"Foul tactics," declared the quarter-
back.
"What's the trouble now?" demand-
ed the referee.
"I tried a kick for the stomach, but
this fellow blocked it with his face."
HIS MEMORY IS RESTORED
Then Husband of Pennsylvania Girl
Recalls He Has a Wife and Fam-
ily in Scotland.
Seattle, Wash.—One of the most re-
markable cases of forgotten Identity
was disclosed in Pierce county when
Jane Patterson Scott began divorce
proceedings against George Scott. Tho
young woman, whose home was in Al-
legheny, Pa., came west a. year ago.
She met Scott, a wealthy lumber man-
ufacturer, in Vancouver, B. C., and
married him. Later he became ill.
She nursed him back to health only to
have him remember suddenly that he
was married 38 years ago in Scotland
and that he had a wife and children
there.
He declares his name is Scott, the
complaint says, but cannot explain
how he came to forget his first wife
eo long a period. He does not recall
any fall or illness that would have
tended to Impair his memory. His sec-
ond wife was obdurate that there was
nothing for them to do but to separate
and she would secure a divorce.
Meantime Mr. Scott will return to
Scotland and Institute search for hl«
w'ife and children. The agreement
with the second wife Is that if he finds
them he will atone for his long ab-
sence by settling In his native land;
If he Is unsuccesstul In his Bearch he
will return and will again marry his
second wife.
Dr. Pierce b Pleasant Pellet# cure corv-
•tipation. Constipation is the came of
many di^p.ise:*. Cure the canoe and you
cure the disease. Easy to take.
What has become of the old-fashlon-
ed politician who used to imagine h*
! was destiny's only son — Toledo
Blade.
——— ...
Catarrh
One of the most common of blood die.
eases, is much aggravated by the sudden
chances of weather nt this time of year.
Begin treatment at ot.ee with Hood's Sap.
saparilla, which effects radical and per-
manent cure*. This ureat medicine li&a
i received
40,366 Testimonials
In two years, which prove its wonderful
efficacy in purifv ing and enriching the
j blood. Best for all blood diseases.
In usual liquid form or chocolated tab-
lets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses L
Splendid Crops
io Saskatchewan (Western Canada)
—' 800 Bushels from 20 acres "
wiieat wn the tbfttihtr'i
return from a Lloyd-
minster farm in th«
season of 1910. Man)
in that HSWrl.
other districts yield
ed from 25 to 35 nu-l
shels of wheat to the
acre. Other grains in
proportion.
LARGE PROFITS
are thus derived
from I he t N K K
M F. M E A h I \ N L) S
of Ue lrm < aiutda.
Tlit* o I lea I showing c&tiftas
to advance, laind Tallin*
shoti d double In two tcara' time.
<ai-Hln Kroi* tne.rnl\«Ml farm-
liifC, < HtTl«< ruUliiK him| tlulry-
liii; ur# all profitable. I- reo
;«•««!« of I UO arrea are
to ! • Itn<1 ifl t!i« very heat
dial rlrt*: 1 HO • «-re pr i -
floiiKUt 9M.OO |MT«rrf wlln>
In o**rtHln nri-a*. School a nn<!
< liurohra In «*tery a«-ttle-
niMit. Hln Hte unexrHlad,
aoll the rli heal: woo<l, uui*r
ami tin! id In c material
plentiful. 89
► or partlcnlar* as to location,
low •w'tt'rrs rallwar ratt* and
d«'nrri|it It«« llliiM rul« d fatiipblrt.
..i i -*t \V(*ttt. ' and other In-
nJwrlte to ct IninJ-
gration, Ottawa. C'nnadn. or to
Canadian Coveroaimit AgecL
W. H. ROGERS
125 W. Ninth St.. Kansas City. Mo.
I'leoM write to tbeac«nt nearest you I
EUILDING UNDER 3 FLAGS
Old Cahokia Court House Haa Served
Under French, English and
American Bannera.
Chicago.—An Interesting building
to be seen in Jackson Park, this city,
la the Cahokia court house, reputed
the oldest public building in the Mis-
sissippi valley.
This ancient structure was built
about the year 1716 at Cahokia, III.,
SINGLE
BINDEGj
Clears
Good
WIS
He Had One *-«se-t.al.
Mr. I.eo—"Why did you let yonr
daughter marry fhat little bandy
egged sport "• Mr Monk—'Why. he s
'be best climber n the jungle and
that's quite important when food la
o bigb."
Luke 19:3.
Deacon—"I fear It's the Sunday pa
per <ve must blame for our small
morning congregations pastor" "as
tor—"Yes, many of our people are
ike Zairheus. pre.ented .rotn getting
near our l-ord by tbe press."—BosJol
Transcript
The Meekest Man.
Our notion of tbe meekest man I*
one who Is afraid to attempt borrow
ing a part of bis salary 'rom bis wils
—Atcblson Globe
The Light Foot on th e ~<-eadle G"ew Swifter.
What We Live For. ,
What do we live for If not to makt
j the world less difficult for eacb other?
" —George EIIol
Listening Times.
What we need above all things in
these crowded days Is the-Kettlng apart
of many listening times; times ol
quiet In which we cen hear the
heavenly voices that call to us unre-
garded In the busy day (;od h„
something to say to us which, in the
whirl of our earthly ambitions. we can-
not hcr.r; and he makes the noises of
the outer world to cease that lie may
speak to the soul Sometimes he
tries us In the night," sometimes he
"glvetb songs In the night," some-
times he gives us "a vision In the
night; I it nil of those we shal1 ut-
terly miss If there is no rjulet time
In which be can come near to us
There are many ways of preparing to
receive l.lesslr gs from on high; hut
one of the most essential Is hls:
"Comnnne with your own heart and
b« still"—O H Knight.
TELEPHONES
SWITCH BOARDS and SUPPLIES
bur a por ..nal call of a representative of
THE DEAN ELECTRIC COMPANY
Write to
11(10 U-x.nuton Street Ft. SmHh, Ark.
Tuffs Pills
Vi'.hf. *t! to t whoever h.
oourl/h .h Lif" ,hc '""J IO "•Imitate oiid
oourl.h thct-Kly, ftve appctlt, . and
dlvelop flesh.—
t>f. Tutt Manufacturing Co. New Vorlt.
The Message.
Religion has an economic message
It b:i . grea' social program Hut
first of all It comea with commanding
•othentlclty aa u word to mora! strug
glers under the stress and strain ol
the behests of consciousness — He?
L. H. Hough, Methodist. Brooklyn.
Old Cahokia Court House.
and has served In various public ca-
pacities under three llags—tbe
j f'reijch, British and American., At
different periods It was used for both
, civil and military purposes and is
recognized as the olde:^ county seat
building (St. Clalr county, III.) In the
; original northwest territory. It has
; been called "fort" a>id "garrison" by
l early J'rench, IlrlMih and American
; authorities and early documents at-
test. Its use as a public scliooihousc.
The building Is constructed of
squared walnut logs set on end In
th« early Krenoh manner of stockndu
construction. The logs are held to-
gether with wooden pins.
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