The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, April 16, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Konawa Chief - Leader i
W. H. NATION, Pub.
KONAWA,
OK LA.
Fame Deferred.
iohn LaFarge, for many years a cele
Crated mural painter, when he received
* medal of honor from the Archltec
Itural league of New York, a few week?
ago, accepted it "with some retlcenct
,of thanks," as he said in a spirit ol
pleasantry, as coming rather late. Hit
•years of work were almost past, he
■said, and recognition now was useless
,"as a help to live, although had it been
accorded earlier it would have
smoothed a very toilsome road. A few
days previous to this presentation,
L
IS 80 (EARS OLD
SALVATION ARMY CELEBRATES
THE ANNIVERSARY.
ALL LANDS DO HIM HONOR
dred dollars afterward brought more f
than $5,000—of which, of course, he re- j
ceived nothing. Another academician, j
remarking on this fact, observed that j
fame sometimes yields little practical !
benefit to the one who wins it, to his !
Day Is Marked in America by Launch-
ing of His Plan for a University •
of Humanity.
New York.—With great mass meet-
. ' j ings in every city and rejoicing wher-
when Mr. \V. P. frith, membei of the ever jls goiters are found, the Salva-
Royal Academy, attained his ninetieth j Uon Army on Saturday celebrated the
birthday, it was noted that pictures he ! eightieth birthday of its founder and
had sold in his early days for a hun- I commander-in-chief, Gen. William
Booth. All the Christian world par-
ticipated in the occasion, for every-
where the venerable philanthropist is
honored for his deeds for unfortunate
humanity.
Gen. Booth himself presided over
several monster mass meetings in
family, or to comrades he would gladly Londfci. His advanced age and the
aid. Millet's "Angelus" was sold by j
:he painter for $200, but after Millet [
oecame famous it changed hands six
:imes, always at an advance, and was
Snally bought by an American for
$160,000. Yet its value, as a work of
art, was fixed when it left the easel.
3o the academician suggested that in
similar cases a percentage of the ad-
vanced price should be paid to the
irtist's heirs, or if there were none, be
used by the state to purchase the pro- I
ductious of living painters. Anomalies j
of the "Angelus" variety are not con- i
fined to any class of artists. Authors, |
composers, inventors and all who exer- \
cise creative gifts are subject to the j
experience shared by the painters, nor ;
is it easy to name a practicable rem- j
edy. All the more keenly, it may be, i
says the Youth's Companion, one feels
"the pity of it" that fame, or the re-
wards of fame, should come too late to
help a genius to live; and one wishes
that, before expending vast sums for
"old masters," prospective purchasers
would try to satisfy themselves that no
new master Is striving—and starving—
within easy reach.
As a much-needed stone in the great
organizational structure that William
Booth has been building during the
past 47 years, this idea of a school
for the systematic training of his
workers has been In his mind for sev-
eral years. On his last visit to the
United States the general made his
first tentative announcement of the
plan. Since then he has worked out
many of the details and he has just
consented to the beginning of pre-
liminary work in this country where
the need for trained workers has been
especially great.
Need of Trained Workers.
The scheme for a University of Hu-
manity grew naturally out of the de-
velopment of the 20 other depart-
ments. With a field as wide as the
world itself the work of the Salvation
Army is only limited by the number
of workers that can be secured and
its effectiveness by the understanding
and earnestness of these workers. As
uplift work has grown from local ef-
forts to help a few into a great in-
clusive movement which must miss
none, the problems of organization
have grown greater. Charity has be-
come a science and its application an
art requiring the highest development
of personal qualities of insight and
altruism.
This is the new work planned by
Gen. Booth. Those women, for in-
An important step toward stopping
the waste of the fuel resources of the
country has been taken by the United
States geological survey in Its tests of
the coals of the Rocky mountain region
at the government -plant in Denver,
Col. At that plant the purpose has
been to determine what coals of this
legion are capable of making coke
that can be used by the great metal-
Itirgic Interests of the west. Of 37
noals tested, the government experts
succeeded in producing good coke from
all but three, though a number of
these coals had never been known to
be capable of making coke. These re-
sults, which will prove of much impor-
tance to the west in the next few
years, were obtained by following out
a carefully prepared treatment of the
coals. Each of the coals was washed
In order to get rid of the ash, sulphur
and other Impurities which prevent
the making of coke that is of any use
in metallurgical work. The washing
tests not only prepared these coals so
that they made good coke, but also
demonstrated the fact that many coals
of the west which have too much ash
and sulphur to be used economically
under a steam boiler may be rendered
of commercial value through such
treatment.
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GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH.
Women of wealth and fashion in
New York are now personally lobbying
for the support of legislative bills In
which they are interested. Whatever j
may be individual opinion on this de-
parture from established convention
there is no doubt conditions are chan- j
ging and that the period of transition \
now unmistakably upon us is bound to
bring forth results leading to a marked
readjustment. Whether that readjust-
ment will be for the better or the
worse remains to be se^n, but hope Is
given by the fact that Important move-
ments of the present are in the main
morally aud socially progressive. At
fact that he was operated on recently
for cataract did not deter him from
taking part in the celebrations held by
his devoted soldiers.
University of Humanity Launched.
In America the day was marked
especially by the launching of another
of Gen. Booth's original schemes for
social reform in the United States.
At every post of the army was an-
nounced the beginning of work to
found a University of Humanity, a
great Institute for the training of
workers in social service. The uni-
versity will be divided between New
York and Chicago, and it is expected
to begin with a fund of $1,000,000. The
gathering of this fund Is the work
that the army now enters upon in com-
memoration of its famous leader's
completion of his eightieth year.
stance, who are to go among the
slums of the big cities must not only
have the desire to help but must know
how real helpfulness can best be se-
cured. They must understand by a
study of practical sociology some-
thing of the social forces that create
this poverty and crime and wretched-
ness. They must understand the dan-
ger of the unwise charity that merely
Increases dependence and understand
the value of better living conditions
in raising the moral courage of those
to whom fate has been unkind. They
must be able not only to correct home
conditions themselves but to impart
their knowledge and to Inspire with
a desire for betterment.
Value of the Orqantzatlon.
This will be but a small part of the
university's training in social service
as planned by the patriarchal evangel-
ist, but it serves to show of what value
such an organization will be.
Of the general's plan for the uni-
versity he himself said recently: "J
want to train men and women to deal
with misfortune. I want them in-
structed to combat with tho weak-
nesses and Bins of the drunkard, the
criminal, the pauper and the woald-be
suicide."
At 80 years of age the head of the
Salvation Army, after more than half a
century of almost unceasing activity,
is as vigorous and untiring as at any
time in his career. The inexhaustible
vitality and intellectual and physical
activity of this social reformer, philan-
thropist, preacher, author and traveler
are marvelous. At fourscore tie Is
traveling many thousands of miles
over the world every year, controlling
the destinies of his more than 7,000
corps of Salvation soldiery with their
18,000 commissioned officers, distribu-
ted among every civilized country,
preaching constantly to vast audiences
and doing an amount of literary work
that would be a factor to many a pro-
fessional author with no other occupa-
tion.
William Booth was born on April 10,
1829, in Nottingham, England, and was
trained for the Methodist ministry,
which he entered and became one of
tho strongest evangelistic forces In
that church. He grew dissatisfied,
however, at reaching only those with
some religious training and convic-
tion. He felt that there were thou-
sands whose need was far greater and i
he gravitated to the East end of Lon- [
don where wretchedness of all kinds j
was the rule.
In a disused burial ground on Mile
End road he pitched an old tent and
the first Salvationist meeting was j
held in that tent in 1861. The fiery |
eloquence of the earnest young '
preacher caught the attention of a j
crowd of poor Whitechapelers and be-
fore that first meeting was over he had
made several conversions, a perform-
ance that he has been repeating
throughout the world for 47 years.
How He Started the Army.
This first meeting resulted in the
formation of the Christian mission, j
from which It was the evangelist's j
custom to send his converts to the ex- |
isting churches of the locality, but j
finding that they were not welcomed j
and were in danger of slipping back
from sheer want of comradeship and j
Did Not Worry Her
Have the terrors of the French
revolution been exaggerated? A
French woma^i mentioned in Sir
Mountstuart Grant, Duff's diary had
lived in Paris through the last thirty
years of the eighteenth century and
when asked for her impressions of
the tragic times of the terror replied;
"The whole affair has Ibeen vastly
exaggerated. For my part, I never
found It necessary to abandon my
weekly 'at home' days."
Timber Too Widely Scattered.-
While there is an abun,lance of
suitable timbers in Brazil, it is diffi-
cult to find many districts where the
trees suitable for lumber are close
enough together for profitable work.
Transportation causes much difTlcuSe/
often making it impossible to trans-
port logs to a mill or lumber to a
market.
"Old age, when made more sweet
by sorrow, ennobled by pain anil with
an outlook on life mellowed by exper-
ience."
Cleopatra Homely!
So Cleopatra was homely after all!
Well, at the worst, history is only lika
those newspapers in which every po-
lice court heroine is young and beau-
tiful.
A South Bend Watch
Frozen in Ice
Keeps Perfect Time.
South Bend Watches are accurate to the
minutest fraction of a second. Tbey art
not affected by heat or cold; you can
freeze a South Bend Watch In Ice
without affecting Its timekeeping
qualities In the slightest decree.
They are proof against variations caused
by railway travel, horseback riding, auto-
oversight, ho set about forming so- mobiling or any of the many jolts and jars
cieties of tbe converted. These he
found to be a potent agency for bring- j
ing in more, as the heedless East j
ender could be impressed by the
words of a former "pal" when he j
would not listen to a minister. So was i
created the central idea of the Salva- 1
tion Army.
The need of organization became |
apparent, but several methods were |
tried with little success before Gen. j
Booth hit upon the military idea and j
named his organization the Salvation
Army. From that time on the move-
ment grew amazingly and It has con-
tinued to grow without ceasing to !
this day.
Spread Over the World.
The movement began spreading to
other countries of the world in 1881
when it first reached the United
States through the influence of a silk-
weaver who had emigrated from Cov-
entry, England, bringing with him the
Salvation Army Idea and a strong de-
sire to continue in the work. It
reached Australia in the same year
through a milk dealer from Stepney, I
and soon afterwards the first Canadian |
corps was organized In a similar
fashion.
Five years later, in 1886, the gen-
eral made the first of many visits to
the American branches of the army
and he has seen them grow from a
few small corps into a veritable army
of tremendous influence and unsur-
passed efficiency. His first great
world-tour was made in 1891, when he
visited South Africa, Australia and
India. Since then he has visited the
United States, Canada, Australia, New j
Zealand and India four times, South j
Africa twice and Japan and the Holy |
Band each once
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BATHROOM MOTTOES
It is very odd that while mottoes
have been made. Invented and bor-
rowed for every other room in tho
house, the bathroom should be mot-
toless. Verses appropriate to the
guestroom come prettily framed, the
dining-room walls sometimes show a
mural decoration ol good cheer, an ap-
propriate verse Is carved Into the 11-
least the good sense of the public may j ',rary mantel, while smoking-room, den
be relied upon to check excesses in the I an<* "vlnK room each boasts a special
way of reforms. I lncentlve t0 smoke, loaf, or Indulge In
' cheery chatter in painted pyrographed
! or stenciled verse or prose. Only the
The ancient gold cup from which I bathroom remains mottoless.
King Edward drank to the health of No lnv|,atlon l0 turn on aB hot a
the city of Berlin has been engraved j bath as one wishes adorns its walls,
with an inscription recording the dates j No cheerful assurance that "In this
and the circumstanoes of the reception ! house water is a luxury, not a neces-
For example, take Bacon's "Cleanli-
ness of body was ever esteemed to pro-
ceed from a due reverence to God."
and placed in the strong room of the
Rathaus, to be kept as a memento. Ed-
ward VII. was the first foreign ruler
who has visited that municipal palace
,on its own behalf, and this ancient cup
iis to be treasured as the symbol of a
uew era in the history of Berlin
slty, so use it at will." Not even the
commonplace that cleanliness is next
to godliness serves as an •inducement
for the children to become amphibious
oftener than they are driven.
Surely, with so vast a field for Inven-
tion or imitation, there should be no
dearth of mottoes for the bathroom.
WHERE HE SHOT
Some years ago when there were
pigeon shooting and heavy betting at
the llurlingham club In England an
amusing incident occurred. It was a
Saturday, and there was a very large
attendance of both shooters and
guests.
Among the entries vor the cup was
a very young nobleman, say 21 or 22
years old, who had Just come into the
title and estates of one of the oldest
earldoms in Great Britain. He had
"money to burn," as the saying is.
When he was called to the traps he
backed himself to win, laying £20
to eight with the "betting ring" and
among the members of the club.
The noble earl missed clean with
both barrels, and after removing the
empty shells from his gun he saun-
tered back toward the scoring tent,
but Btopped half way to speak to Jack
Hammond, the man who supplied the
club with pigeons, and said to him,
in that peculiar drawling way so much
in vogue among the "upper ten" in
England: "I say, Hammond, where
did I shoot?"
Hammond touched his moleskin cap
and replied: "Well, m'lord, begging
your lordship's pardlng, I thinks aa
'ow your lordship shot in the bloomln'
big space around 'im."
A Peculiar Wl h.
Young Chap—Blame the luck!
future father-in-law has been indicted
for forging a check for 10,000 marks, j
If he is found guilty, then I cannot j
marry his daughter; and If he Is inno- |
cent, then I get nothing by way of a (
dowry. My only hope Is that he will
be set free—and also that he Is not
Innocent.—Fllegende Blaetter.
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