The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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The Konawa Chief-Leader.
VOL 3
Consolidation of the Konawa Chief and Konawa Leader.
KONAWA, IND. TER., Friday, Aug. 3Q, 19Q7.
No. 40.
A CHARMING VIEW
Of mankind is to believe everyone honest. But it is a
false one. There are thieves and plenty of them.
Have you ever heard of one stealing a check book ?
No, because they know it is only valuable to the own-
er.' This Bank supplies all its customers, small or large
with CHECK BOOKS. You had better have one and
put your Cash out of the reach of theft. We are al-
ways ready to help you in some way.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
H- T.
DOUGLAS
President
W. H.
HOLMAN
Cashier
F. P. SWAN
Ast. Cashier.
AN ESSAY ON MAN
With a Few Suggestions Why He Should
Vote the Democratic Ticket
On September 17.
What is Man? This is the momentous
question of the day. Man is a herbiver-
ous, carniverous animal—compound, com-
plex and complicated. He is divided
into two grand divisions, known as the
animal and intellectual Man. As an
animal he walks erect, and spouts poli-
tics and spits tobacco juice. He has
two hands, two feet, two-hundred-
fourty-four bones in his anatomical
frame, including tlin'ty-two tt^eth, a
head and sometimes a little brains.
But of all the members of his body his
enormous stomach is the first thought
of and last forgotton. He was made
of mortar (composed of virgin clay and
spittle), moulded according to taste,
and dried to kill; so he is a brick; as a
brick he was dried very dry, and he re-
mains dry until this day—that part of
him familiary known as the the "whis-
tle." He eats to live and lives to eat
and kill animals. He eats clams, lob-
sters, sea gulls, vegetables, boiled
oysters and beer, and eats holes in his
pockets every year. When young he
is a conglomerated mass of egotism,
vanity and self-importance.
And, unfortunately, these charact-
eristics improve but little by education
and experience. He talks much, speaks
pleasantly, and says whatever will
make him most popular, and always
crosses the bridge the nearest way to
the $1. He is a dome^icated animal,
loves his wife and children, and is very
fond of their society; but after supper
he must go down town, for the Club
meets and his important presence
must be there.
Man boasts of calisthenics, athletics,
gymnastics, skating rinks, shooting
galleries, "horsemanship, loop-the-loop
and snolligosters." About 2 o'clock in
the morning he goes home, and if the
keyhole is where he left it he goes in,
sits down, rocks, and sings "Bye Baby
in the Tree Tops" to an empty cradle
until his wife begins to snore; than he
prostrates himself upon his peaceful
couch and dreams of salmon, lobsters,
deviled ham, and beer.
Man is a natural mechanic and spends
his vital force and the better part of
his lifetime building air castles. He is
not a creature of the present moment,
but wastes his valuable life living over
the past and exalting the great deeds
of others, or in amassing fame and
fortune for himself in the future. He
is a try ant by nature, and improves
but little by civilization and education.
He is brave to a fault and always fights
his greatest battles when he is by him-
self. He fights the battle of his coun-
try, deluges the earth with human
gore, causes the widows and orphans
to cry for bread, subjugates the world,
crowns himself monarch of the universe
and surrenders to none but womans
arms.
At the theater, church and elections
he is a smiling,genial companion,but he
is a tryant at home. He has a pleasant
word and smile tor every woman he
meets except his wife. She will never
know him. She may live with him
a lifetime and he will show her as many
new traits of character the last year
as the first. His highways and byways
are past finding out. At the age of
ten a child, at twenty wild, at thirty
strong, at forty wise, at fifty rich, at
sixty good—if ever. He is sometimes
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WE ARE STILL DOING BUSINESS!
At the old stand with a
complete line of goods.
Highest Price Paid for Country Produce
BLAIR BROS.
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i The BUSY BARBER SHOP
O. P. WALKER, Prop
A three-chair barber shop, well equipped with
^ the latest appliances to do good work.
First Class Bath Room in Connection.
Agent Sherman Steam Laundry.
popular and sometimes unpopular.
You show me a very popular man and 1
will show you a great hypocrite. But
show me a pure and true man, who
lives and dies for principal for the sake
of principle, who panders to no man's
whims for influence or money, and 1
i will show you a very unpopular man.
Jesus Christ was a true man and actea
I from a love of principle, but had no
policy about him and consequently was
very unpopular. And the same prin-
ciple yet lives.
When we contemplate man as
animal only, we can exclaim in the true
prophetic language that "down the
precipitous paths, into the dark valley
of death," he must inevitably go. The
.inal dissolution is a law, as much a
part and parcel of Man's, and all ani
mal beings, as the flow of sap or the
circulation of the blood through its cell
walls -that regenerates the tissues;
that are in turn as ceaselessly decay-
ing and passing away, by exhalation,
though the successive steps of such
wastage and progression follow each
other so imperceptibly that there is a
lielusive appearance of permanence.
Yea, on every woven fabric of animal
life the fatal shears of life must clip.
From the harm'ess little cherub, rocked
to sleep by the beating of its mother's
heart to old age with its hoary summit
and bending form, the primeval cause
must do its work. Millions have gone
before, and millions must pass beneath
the dark shadow. For thousands of
years—it may be myriads—and in thou-
sands of worlds remote, of which ours
may be the wreck, the procession has
been under the arch. It would seem
therefore, to be a small account in the
fathomless gulf of time and space, at
what particular period of his career
Nature's noblest work on earth should
be called hence.
But when we contemplate Man as an
intellectual being, possessed of life im-
mortal, as he enters the shining por-
tals of the planet Saturn and wings his
way across fathomless space, io his
everlasting home, paralyzed ■vith awe
we stand and gaze at the departed
traveler in wonder and astonishment,
and repeat the question, "What is man
that thou art mindful of him." What
is Man, is a question that centuries
have striven to answer but have sig-
nally failed. I claim that much has
been acomplished and volumes added
to our store of knowledge—comparing
the present intellectual status with the
days of antiquity—yet there is an abyss
in psychology beyond which no psycho-
logist has been able to transcend. All
authors after whom I have read on the
subject of metaphysics have located
the immortal mind of Man in the brain
and the nervous system the medium of
communication between the mind and
external world. And this has been satis-
factorily demostrated by experiments
on the lower animals in so far as the
mode of communication is concerned
Nevertherless, there is something in
this brain and nervous system of Man
which is mysterious, and marvelous to
contemplate.
The psychical Man is no less complex
and compound than the physical Man,
but indeed much more complicated as
this is the part of Man in which the
Supreme Architect made the most
gorgeous display of his work-
manship and ability. Writers on men-
tal psychology name the component
parts of the mind, and point to the
offices which they perform, and draw
diagrams illustrating their positions,
placing the will at the climax of the
mind; and, as stated, the will fills the
highest office in the mind and reigns
monarch, as it were, over other and
minor constituents of the mind such as
intellectual operations—emotions, ideas
sensations impressions, etc., on a de-
scending scale and ascending scale
from impressions to sensations, from
ideas to t motions, to intellectual opera-
tions, to the will placing it in the chair
of intellectual supremacy. This clear
ly illustrates tne mode of commucation
between tne mind and external world
through the meiium of the special sen-
ses. But that this stops, indeed, very
far short of a thorough comprehension
of the mind of Man, is obvisious to psy-
chology students. 1 affairm that the
will is not the highest force in nature
neither is it the supreme dictator, and
Continued on Page Three
LEST YOU FORGET
Take a note of this fact lest you forget,
Reliable drugs at this store you will get,
In here is the place your prescriptions to fill,
Best care is u«d here, and experienced skill,
Buy medicines here, patent goods of all kinds
Every popular remedy here you will find.
You find in our line toilet articles nice,
& soaps and perfumery right in the price,
There is beauty throughout our wallpaper display,
Rich patterns, bright as the flowers in May,
In shades that are sober, or hues that are gay.
Best grades of paints are found at this place,
Brands that wear well and cover most space,
Every price is all right on that you can bet
You know it already but do not forget.
Tribbey & Tribbey
Konawa,
Ind. Ter.
1
To The Voters of
Seminole County
Gentlemen and Friends:
After summing up the situation
in this county and seeing the dan-
ger that is staring us in the face,
as in many other counties, as to
"Negro rule", I appeal to every
home-loving citizen of this coun-
ty who believes in separate
schools and the white man rulii.g
and managing our government,
to vote for the democratic party
straight, which has no negro of-
ficers in it. We know what's in the
republican party,negro office-hol-
ders. Don't let any man per-
suade you to swap votes, to vote
for the man, or any such stuff as
this; for these are some of their
tricks to split the democratic
ticket and wedge in a man here
and there, for every man they
they get in office pushes us near-
er to mixed schools and "negro
rule." These reports that have
been and are being circulated on
some of the democratic nominees
I have investigated, and find to
be false, and are being used sole-
ly for the purpose of trying to
defeat a portion of our ticket.
As to the past, that is over, and
made, but we are none perfect,
and,should we allow the repuuli-
cans to show us how to correct
our mistakes, if any, by voting
for some of their party which
they claim as better men? No,
God forbid that su:h be done. I
desire to meet and talk with as
many of my friends as possible,
and will make an effort to see as
many of you as I can.
I again appeal to all who be-
lieve in separate schools and the
white man rule, not to stay away
from the polls because you dia
not get every man you wanted,
but to come out on the 17th day
of September 1907, and vote the
demecratic ticket straight by
placing the X at the head of said
ticket. Yours very truly,
WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Ex-Democratic Candidate for
Sheriff, Seminole County.
August 24, 1907.
suf-
the
Children if* Pain.
never cry as do children who are
fering from hunger. Such
canse of all baby's who cry and are
treated for sickness, when they really
are suffering frrm hunger. This is
caused from their food not being as-
similated but devouaed by worms. A
few doses of White's Cream Vermifuge
will cause them to cease crying and be-
l earnestly appeal to my friends, j gin to thrive at once. Give it a trial,
supporters and the whole party,
let's bury these little feelings . Don* G'ru,n* 1«
,, , , . . when your joints ache and you suffer
with the hatchet, pay no atten- faom rheumatism. Buy a bottle of
tion to any of these campaign re- Ballard's Snow Liniment and get in-
ports, put Our shoulders to the star)t relief. A positive cure for rheu-
wheel and elect the whole demo- matism. burns. cuts- contracted mus-
cratic ticket from top to bottom. de8' 80re c*e8t' f t B"gy;
,I7 . „ | a prominent merchant at Willow Point
We may not have every man of TexMf says that he finds Ballard's
our preference on the ticket, and Snow Liniment the best all round lini-
there may have been mistakes ment he ever used.
WE WILL GASH YOUR CHECKS
When you have checks to be cashed, no matter what bank they
are on. You are welcome to bring them here and save the time
and trouble of being identified at other banks.
Should you wish to open an account, we will be glad to issue you a
book and a supply of checks at any time. Even if you wish to keep
only a small account here, you may be assured of courteous atten-
tion, and the best service that this bank has to offer. You are
always cordially invited to visit '.his bank, and he will try to make
business transations with us a pleasure for you.
The Konawa National Bank.
C. B. HYDE, Pres. H. E. FULLER, Cash.
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Cox, M. J. The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1907, newspaper, August 30, 1907; Konawa, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc98527/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.