The Texhoma Times (Texhoma, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1917 Page: 2 of 10
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THE TIMES, TEXHOMA, OKLAHOMA,
had a capital of $400
In Six Years He Was Well Off
An Alberta farmer, who had bor-
rowed from a loan company, In re-
mitting to thein the last payment on
his mortgage, decided to give them the
history of his experience, on a Mani-
toba farm. It was that of many anoth-
er farmer, and for the benefit of those
who contemplate a change the liberty
Is taken of reproducing It.
"I will give you hero a brief sum-
mary of my experience since coming
here six years ago. I was a new hand
nt farming, my trade being meat-cut-
ting and butchering. My capital was
$400, which was a first payment on
my quarter section (100 acres). Most
of my stock, harness, implements, etc.,
were bought at sales, all "on time,"
necessarily. The buildings on the place
were about as good as nothing and had
either to be rebuilt or replaced entirely.
There were 26 acres broken, and very
badly farmed, bringing poor returns
the first year." After mentioning a
number of mischances, he says: "la
spite of all these drawbacks, I have
done well. I consider my farm worth
$3,500 to $4,000. I have four head of
horses, 12 of cattle, over 400 purebred
Buff Orpington chickens and 125 tur-
keys, besides Implements, harness, etc.,
to run my place. I have a well 170
feet deep with an Inexhaustible supply
of water. The well with pump cost
me $400. I have built a $125 chicken
house and put up nearly $50 worth of
poultry fencing; linve built root cellars
to hold over 3,000 bushels of potatoes
and other vegetables. As to Income, I
raise about ten acres of garden and
roots annually which net from $000 to
$1,000 total. I generally sell from
20 to 40 tons timothy hay which brings
from $0 to $14 per ton. My grain Is
most all used on the farm except a
few hundred bushels sold to the neigh-
bors for seed. My four milk cows bring
In from $50 to $80 each (counting calf).
Last year 80 hens laid COO dozen eggs
•which averaged more thun 25 cents a
dozen (I always work for winter egg
production). The surplus hens were
sold In spring, dressed at $1 each. My
turkeys average $2.50 each In fall. By
having vegetables to feed my young
cattle, the two-year-old steers bring
|75 each In spring."—Advertisement,
(state news notes]!
SHADOWS OF COVING EVENTS.
May 10-12—Horse Show. Tulsa.
May Sfj-July 2X, Summer Si hool, A. &
M. Stillwater.
Sept. 13-15, District fair. Marlow.
Remove fresh coffee stains by pour-
ing boiling water through the fabric.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for livey,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
* laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv.
Even a tadpole can boast of his so-
cial position, for he Is In the bwIui.
"CMEI5" FOB
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.
No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation, Indiges-
tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels
—you always get the desired rosulta
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets to-night; put an end to the
headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-
ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other dlstresa;
cleanse your Inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi-
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
If you will take a Oascaret now and
then. All stores Bell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children—their little ln-
eides need a cleansing, too. Adv.
Missouri has joined the list of states
which maintain night schools for
adults In rural regions.
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo-
ing with "La Creole" llair Dressing,
and darken, In the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price, $1.00.—Adv.
Dealers in cotton products lu China
estimate the 1015-10 crop at upward of
000,000,000 pounds.
A MINISTER'S CONFESSION
Rev. W. II. Warner, Route 2, Myers-
ville, Md., writes: "My trouble was
(sciatica. My back was affected and
took the form of lumbago. I nlso had
neuralgia, cramps
in my muscles,
^ pressure or sharp
(|V " j, 3 pain on the top of
,£. <S /fW ■ f 5^4 my head, and nerv-
ous dizzy spells. I
had other symp-
tonis showing my
Rev. wm. Warner kidneys were a|
fault, so I took Dodd's Kidney Pills
They were the means of saving my life.
I write to say that your medicine re-
stored me to perfect health." DODDI6
KIDNEY PILLS, 50c box, any store.
Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—
Adv.
Weight for weight, a manlla rope
Is Just about aa strong as a steel one
Clean-up Days were held In many
Oklahoma cities last week.
Work has begun on the new Frisco-
Rock Island union depot at Oklahoma
City.
Three hundred citizens of Cordell
held a mass meeting and organized
a "Home Guard" cluo.
The congregation of the Duncan M.
E. church will erect a new church
building the corning year.
The Alva Commercial Club has been
reorganized under the name of the
Alva Commercial and Farm Bureau.
More than one hundred and fifty
residences are either building now or
have been completed in Ada within
the last forty days.
All records for high prices In the
Oklahoma City hog market were
broken again when live pork values
on the open market climbed to $14.80.
Three unmasked men, armed with
revolvers, last week held up and
robbed the Frisco passenger station
at Okmulgee, secured $69 and made
their escape.
The Custer county fair association,
arranging for the annual fair at Thom-
as in October, has derided to reduce
the prize list so as to make fewer but
better awards.
Miss Vera Carter, heroine of the
Vireton cyclone, in which sixteen of
her school pupils were killed January
4, will quit teaching and take a
nurse's training course.
Although a majority of the ballots
cast In Guthrie's primary election fa-
vored the transfer of Convention hall
to the Oklahoma Methodist Univer-
sity, the silent vote killed the propo-
sition.
W. A. Durant, of Durant, represen-
tative in the legislature from Bryan
county since statehood, will be a candi-
date for the democratic nomination
for governor in the next state primary
campaign.
One hundred and fifty more section
hands employed on the Iron Mountain
railway went on strike last week for
an increase in wages from $1.55 to
$2.50 a day. Close to 250 section men
are now on strike.
John R. Boardman, president of the
Boardman Company of Oklahoma City,
has assumed the presidency of the Ok-
lahoma Employer*' Association, suc-
ceeding Adam L. Beck, of Ada, whose
resignation was accepted by the board
of directors.
The "meanest ^nan," although his
identity is unknown, lives in Lawton.
He entered the Congregational church
Sunday night and stole a glass bank
containing nickels and pennies depos-
ited by children of the Sunday School
as birthday offerings.
It is reported that there will be a
number of farmers in the Bristow sec-
tion of Creek county try their hands
with a small field of broom corn this
season. If this is a fact it will be the
first broom corn planted In the county
for commercial purposes.
Thirty extra guards have been plac-
ed around the big smelting plants in
Kusa since war seems a certainty.
Workingmen are closely scrutinized
by guards as they go and come from
work, and it would be difficult for a
stranger to reach any of the buildings.
The Muskogee county comm'Lion-
el's have fixed April 10 as the date
for the election on $1,000,000 ; ail
bonds to be Issued by the count : r
the purpose of building good road.^. It
Is anticipated that the bonds will
carry although there Is strong oppo-
sition in certain quarters.
Richardson and Grant, owners of
the Jack Rabbit ranch in the south
end of Kiowa county, have just re-
turned from Dundee, Texas, where
they purchased three pure blooded
sheep at a cost of $300. All livestock
and poultry now kept on the ranch
is of the best breed obtainable.
Fire totally destroyed the new
school building at Colbert. This in
the second brick schoolhouse to be
burned at Colbert, in thirteen months.
Incendiarism is suspected as it was
In the previous case. The building
was erected at a cost of $20,000 last
fall and was insured for $11,000.
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion of Oklahoma, in their eighth an-
nual conference at Sapulpa uuani-
mousiy pledged themselves to the aid
of the government in whatever way
they could be of service. Mrs. W. O.
Klrod of ^Okmulgee was re-elected
state regent and the delegates chose
Enid as the 1918 meeting place.
John B. Couch, '89er and member
of a well known Oklahoma county
family, who shot and killed his sister-
in-law, Nellie Dunn, an Oklahoma
City teacher and Rowland P. Williams,
a prominent musician In January, was
found guilty of the first murder and
given life sentence last week. He will
be tried at once on the Williams
charge in an effort to get a death
sontence. Ills defense, which was
closoly modeled on the Harry Thaw-
Stanford White case, emotional In-
sanity, was entirely ignored by the
('ury.
Lilies of Peace
O! beautiful Easter lilies that
open your hearts today
In the dusk of the proud cathe-
dral, or the village chapel
gray,
I look at your creamy petals and
your buds of pearl and
■now.
And think of the stifling trenches
o'er the wide Atlantic'*
flow,
Where the soldiers wounded and
weary, unshaven and un-
shorn,
"rouched like beasts In their bur-
rows, wake to the Easter
morn.
And their only Easter anthem Is
the rumbling cannon-
whcel.
And In place of the Easter lilies
are rows of cruel steel.
I think of the ruined altars with
broken debris strewn,
The roofless walls that totter
a-Kape to the sun and
moon.
The bells in the battered towers
that hang so sad and still.
The silent pipes of the organs,
the darkness and the chill.
The empty aisles and the silence
where once the musio
poured.
In a silver flood of gladness to
greet the risen Lord,
And kneeling among the lilies
fragrant and pure and fair.
The white and wondrous lilies, I
breathe an Easter prayer.
"Lord of the Easter morning, in
thy compassion great,
Bind up the bleeding nations and
cleanse their souls of hate.
To Europe's war-worn people
their ravaged homes re-
store.
And bid the fields of battle grow
bright with flowers onca
more;
And let these Easter lilies that
gloriously unfold
Beneath the painted window of
saints In blue and- gold,
From snow-capped Fujiyama to
purple isles of Greece,
Bear through the world a mes-
sage of everlasting peace."
—Minna Irving in Leslie's.
unbiffinonal
SlNMfSfllOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the.Sunday School Course in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1S17, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR APRIL 8
Memories of
Easter Days
ASTER memqries, past and
present 1 Tenderest vanities
of earthland, fragrant with
tho odor of Anhunclation
lilies and bound about for-
ever, with a scroll bearing
words of promise 1
Long ago the gowns whose soft har-
monies delighted have faded; with the
vanishing years have gone the dainty
love tokens and the lover; still the cov-
enant remains and the golden glory of
the promise:
"I am the resurrection ai)d the life!"
Far above the high-backed pew the
minister's voice intones the Easter
text.
Stretch as she may her fat little
chubby neck, baby Anne cannot see
the minister; so she gives herself over
to thoughts of glories of her new Eas-
ter toilette; a round, pink-faced maid-
en she Is, sitting straight and proper
as becomes her yedrs; she counts ex-
actly five; in a new little gown, low of
neck and short of sleeves, and a very
round, short, little skirt; a monstrous
scoop bonnet, tied with fat pink little
bows under her fat, pink little chin.
Admiring contemplation of her two
white-stockinged legs, projecting from
beneath stiffly starched pantalettes, is
Intermingled with pleased anticipations
of soon beholding the fat pink, also
green, blue und red eggs, awaiting her
at home after the Easter service.
The minister's voice sootlies.like lap-
ping waves; of a sudden the proprie-
ties of 1845 are fosgotten; little Anne's
golden head falls agairfct her grand-
mother's shawled arms, and she
sleeps I
"I am the resurrection and the life!"
Again the words of the Easter text
fall upon "Miss" Anne's ears un-
heeded.
This Easter a lover in uniform
stands by her side; about him all of
her thoughts center.
Ills gift is the nosegay in the silver
flower holder that dangles from the sil-
ver ring on her finger.
The new Easter toilette is even a
thought of hltn, for were not its beauty
nnd Its modlshness planned to win fa-
vor in his eyes?
Silver poplin It is, with a tight-fitting
waist, pointed in front and in hack,
but its full splendor reserved for skirt
effects, of yards of close-gathered, glis-
tening breadths, falllug over an
enormous crinoline, but lifted on one
side to reveal the coquetry of a scarlet
satin petticoat; a crocheted uet of
scarlet chenillo confines her black
curls, and scarlet are the loops of vel-
vet that fall in a curtain from the
back of her tiny triangle of n bonnet.
The minister and his world are so
far nway.
l.it'e—and the joy of Easter lilies,
aud love, nre so near!
"I am the resurrection and the life!"
The little black-draped figure (if the
little old lady in the high-backed pew
straightened perceptibly ut the words
of the minister as he read his Easter
text.
For nn Instnnt Iter face against the
crepe of the mourning veil she wore
gleamed like a lamp of alabaster; then
the flame went out in grief, for the
losses of the years; the husband, the
little ones, the bitterest loss of all, tho
boy—her first born—who died at SI-
honey.
Tremblingly she strives to draw the
mourning veil across her withered,
wrinkled little old face to conceal the
slow-gathering tears of age; straight-
way a bundle of chiffon and satin
shook itself away from her lap nnd a
tender little rosebud face framed In a
crushed, beruffled little bonnet of
dainty rose pink looked lovingly into
hers.
"Granny crying?" she begged. "Little
Anne naughty? Little Anne sorry;
don't cry, granny."
"Granny" Anne of seventy smiles
through
"I am the resurrection and the life."
It is "Mistress Anne" now, if you
please, in the old family pew; her
husband on one side of her and her
children on the other like heads upon
a lily stalk, who smiles in happy
thought.
How Jack had laugh'ed at her co-
quettish confession that she had chosen
black for her new Easter gown since
she was afraid she was too old now
for gay, bright colors. (As if the new
Easter dress had not been chosen as a
special test of becomingness, with Its
long, slender polonaise and perky lit-
tle bows everywhere over the shirred,
puffed, bouffante underskirt!) There
m
vi:
Again the Words of the Easter Text.
Was no confession of years in the tiny
"capote" of glittering jet, with wide
bows of fllmy tulle.
The test had succeeded royally.
To John and the children she would
always be ever lovely, ever young.
"Granny's Heart's Ease!"
The joy of all the Easters that are
dead and gone were not sweeter than
her smile, for Is not "baby Anne" the
joy of the new, the "earthly always"
of "Granuy Anne,," nnd full recom-
pense?
Easter Night
The fasts ate done; the Avea said;
The moon has filled her horn;
And in the solemn night 1 watch
Before the Easter mom,
So pare, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding sir,
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings
If one should earthward fare
— Edna Dean Procter,
Easter's Message Still Impressive.
Easter crowns mujestlcally the un-
folding loveliness of the year, nnd Lf
the world scuds up echoes of discord-
ant conflict, Easter time's message
gains In impress! veuess of incuniuf
oa that account.
Genuine
Cooperation
r—————
Assured
JESUS RAISED LAZARUS FROM
THE DEAD—EASTER LESSON.
LESSON TEXT-John 11:17-27, 43, 41
(Read 17 to 44).
GOLDEN TEXT—Jesus said unto her,
I am the resurrection, and the life.—John
11:25.
This lesson occurred about two
months before the crucifixion, Jesus
being in Bethabara at the time of this
call (See John 10:40; 1:28). There
are four recorded cases of resurrec-
tion from the dead: Jairus' daughter
(Matt. 9), the son of the widow of
Nain (Luke 7), Lazarus, and also Je-
sus after his crucifixion (John 20).
I. The Lesson of Unbelief. Bethany,
the home of Lazarus, is on the south-
eastern slope of Mt. Olivet, two miles
from Jerusalem. Christ and his (lis-
ciples were on the east side of the Jor-
dan, having been driven there by the
hostility of the Jews (John 10:31). He
purposely delays his stay in that place
that this event might give an oppor-
tunity for the manifestation of his
wonder-working power. This delay
was in face of his supernatural knowl-
edge that Lazarus' sickness had been
fatal, for he said plainly to his disci-
ples, "Lazarus is dead." Philosophers
have often called death a sleep, but al-
i ways one from which there was no
awakening; hence the skepticism of
these sisters Is not surprising. (1)
They limited the power of Jesus to his
person—"If thou hadst been here." (2)
They also limited his power to a cer-
tain place, "If thou hadst been here"
(v. 21).
II. The Lesson of Pain. The suffer-
ing of these sisters produced sacrifice
and self-devotion. Suffering brings
blessing to others. It is also a means
of self-culture. Suffering drives us to
the Christ, and reveals to us the un-
realized side of Christ's character
(v. 25). Jesus is often never more
kind than when he seems to be least
kind. In the midst of her skepti-
cism and pain Jesus gave Martha a
new and glorious thought about the
resurrection. "I am the resurrection
and the life." If we desire that, all
we have to do is to get Jesus himself-
(I. John 5:12). Resurrection has to
do with the body, and life has to dt
with the spirit (John 17:3). All wUl
ultimately experience resurrection, but
only those who believe on him re-
ceive life (John 3:36). There is a
resurrection of life and there is a
resurrection of damnation (John
5:29). Martha answered, "Yea Lord,
I believe that thou art the Christ, the
Son of God." It is all-important that
we should really believe that (John
20:31; I John 5:1-5).
III. The Lesson of Love. Love al-
ways manifests itself in deeds. Mar-
tha secretly and quickly arose and
left the wailing friends to go and
meet the waiting Master. "The Mas-
ter is ^ome." He still comes, and
calls to us, and, if, like Martha, we
spring up gladly to meet him, he will
fill our lives with blessing and joy. Je-
sus came to these sisters individu-
ally (vv. 21, 28). He had entered the
danger zone in order to be there
(v. 8), and it was Thomas, the
doubter, who wanted to accompany
him (v. 16). "Jesus wept," not with
the walling of professional mourners,
but with the silent, grief-stricken sis-
terd.
IV. The Lesson of Power. Jesus
had let natural causes work to their
fullest extent. Coming to the tomb,
Jesus said (v. 39), "Take ye away
the stone." It was four days after the
death of Lazarus before he came
forth. Jesus was soon to die and
rise in three days after his entomb-
ment. The stone hnd to be removed
from the tomb of Lazarus; it rolled
Itself away from the tomb of Christ.
The restrictions which Christ placed
upon his exercise of power, viz., that
he allowed Lazarus to die, to be
burled, nnd his body to reach the
point of putrefaction, and not to come
forth until Jesus himself, in his body,
was present at the tomb, emphasizes
the lesson of the restraint of power
for the glory of God. Out of such
extreme circumstances of seeming Im-
possibility God manifested his glory
(Rom. 8:28).
Browning hns given us a wonder-
fully imaginative picture of his re-
newed life on earth;
And oft the man's soul springs Into his
face
As if he saw again and heard again
His anse that bade him rise,
And he did rise.
The effect of the miracle was two-
fold. Many who were present be-
lieved on Jesus, others did not.
Some went to the Pharisees tc
relate what they had seen, ouly tc
meet with rebuff.
The remainder of the chapter is oc-
cupied with the plotting of the Phari-
sees against Jesus, and from this
gruve there stretches the shadow ol
a cross upon the path of Jesus.
This miracle ranks next to Christ's
own resurrection as a demonstration
of immortality.
Are we on resurrection ground 1
Has the stone been rolled away?
The resurrection of Lazarus proves
that our earthly existence Is only tem-
porary, that our real existence lf
eternal.
h
Nature often needs help
to keep the digestive
system in a normal condi-
tion, and with the aid of
OSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
you are able to provide the
co-operation Nature requires.
But He Gave Up His Rib.
"It is the unexpected that happens.'',
"Yes; Adam had no idea of marrying:
Eve."
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN!
Cincinnati man tells how to dry
up a corn or callus so it lifts
off with fingers.
j
You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because a few
drops of freezone applied directly on a
tender, aching corn or callus, stops
soreness at once and soon the co n or
hardened callus loosens so it can be
lifted off, root and all, without pain.
A small bottle of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
tively take off every hard or t|bft corn
or callus. This should be tried, as it
is inexpensive and is said not to irri-
tate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get a small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house.—adv.
A Good Job at Last.
When one lias the same caddie at
golf for several days running, it is nat-
ural to be interested in his personal
and hpme affairs. Such an interest
in one of the caddies at Camden, S.
C., led to this conversation:
"Your father living, Zeke?"
"Oh, yassir; my ole man llvln'."
"Does he work?"
"Oh, yassir; he wukin' now."
"What does he do?"
"Well, cap'n, my ole ma* he used
to be a Methodls' preacher; den he
quit an' got to be a Presbyterian
preacher; tin' bimeby he quit dat an'
got to be a Baptis' preacher."
"Is he a Baptist preacher now?"
"No, cap'n; he is all right now, suh;
he's a caddie up at Plnehurst."—New
York Evening Post.
Wild Life Seizes Its Chance.
Bird life in Italy and southern
France-has never been so plentiful, in
the memory of living inhabitants, as
it is now. In Britain there lias been
a noticeable increase in such animals
as field mice, hares and otters. From
Russia have come stories of wolves
which dared even to attack detach-
ments of soldiers, from Africa reports
of devastations by lions.
It is plain that the humbler creatures
of the earth are taking advantage of
mankind's concentration on the busi-
iness of war. They multiply, move
hack into regions once their homes, but
long abandoned, grow bolder and more
defiant of the great enemy.
Steady
Those Nerves!
If it's caffeine—the drug
in coffee — that's causing
shaky nerves, the remedy
is perfectly plain —
Quit coffee, and for a
pleasant, healthful table
beverage, use —
P0STUM
Postum is a delicious
cereal drink, pure and
nourishing and absolutely
free from any harmful in-
gredient.
There's a big army of
Postum users who are en-
joying better health and
comfort since joining the
ranks.
"There's a Reason"
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