The Headlight. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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THE HEADLIGHT.
FRIDAY, NOV. 30.
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EAST BOUND. WEST BObbD
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Lota I Freight
No 492 7-45 M No 491 I 09 P M.
P 0 Rudolph, Agent
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NKW HRICK
AL T A.
SGHOOla BQQKS
CHARM OF CHINA.
"111*11 Uvlac" W m t oiniuo« | l o« la
CrlMlWtl Km
What 1> the charm of China that 1
Is, for European*? Why Is it that not
Infrequently they prefer living there
to reniainlrp at tat>me In clrtllsed
America? There U an account of a
your.g woman, the daughter of woalt ly
parents, who«e husband was an of-
ficial of the Chinese imperial customs
service under Sir Robert Hart. Hei
father, while making her a prolonged
viblt some four or five years ago, was
•truck even than by the signs of hos-
tility to foreigners. He was so much
Impressed Ljr the danger of life in
China that he made his son-in-law a
fine business offer, to remove any
financial objections to returning to
America. The son-in-law's consent
was easily obtained, but the daughtei
yielded only out of regard for he* fa-
ther. Life In China seemed tta'Mi to
her far more attractive than Iff® in
America, because, for one thing, they
have no "housekeeping" problem
there. Thr perfection of the Chinese
domestic service goes far toward mak-
ing life there comfortable for Euro-
peans. "You see," explains a resident,
"giving a dinner in China meanB "Im-
ply telling your major-domo that you
want to give one. You don t bav > to
bother about it further. So dlnuer-
giving, formal and Informal, is a fea
ture of t'.e l'fe. The pick of a very
good market—I refer to the treaty
ports—Is at your dispose.- and what
In America Might be caH-d high liv-
ing' Is a commonplace. The foreign
residents, leading, of course, an Iso-
lated life, draw close together as a
community, and form a charming so-
cial circle. They are. e* a rule, *™e
cosmopolites, well educated, well b .
representing all nations' tt*ent>
are represented In the Shangha 1.0 -
ony). cultured by travel, careful of
etiquette, fond of sport: In short, peo-
ple of the vorld. delighted to meet
In their variety, all more or less on
an equality, without C e very rich to
arouse envy or the very P<*>r to excite
pity. Then tv.re l« no pressure, no
'hustle.' such as we have here. AI
business stops at 4 o'clock In the a
noon, and from then until 7 o clock,
the dinner hour, you have your choice
of your favorite sport or diversion
riding, driving, boating tennis and
cricket."
RUSSIA OF TO^AY.
The ItrprMilng l v«rty of thr Roaalnn
People.
Poverty and Illiteracy naturally go
hand In hand. In no other great
country of the world is poverty—uni-
versal. monotonous, hopeless poverty
—the national characteristic of the
people. The only parallels I know are |
in some of the Balkan states. At al-
most any point in rural Russia you
might think yourself in the interior of
Servla or Bulgaria, except that even In
these countries the pcor peasant is
not quite so poor, snd his bearing l>
more Independent. Long train r-
neys in Russia are depressing eryeri-
encea. Once post the limits of the
towns, every village Is the seine—a
wide street or two- not really streets,
of course, but deep dust or mud. ac-
cording to the season, and from a
score to a couple of hundred gray, one
story wooden houses, usually dilapi- i
dated, and a church. Russia Is still
first and foremost an agricultural
country; she produces Including (Po- j
land) two thousand million bushels of
grain, and grain products form mor.!
than half her total exports to Europe,
therefore, at the right se.ison. there
sre great st etches of waving fl°lds
and later, the huge mounds of straw,
whence the grain has been threshed
But It 1b In her mo*t fertile districts
that the worst famines occur, for fa-
mine—a little one every year, a big
one every s vpu years—has now be-
come a regular occurren<"\ And the
country, as one files across It. leaves
the general impression °f indigence
In sharp and painful c- "tr'ast
western Eurr >e. th?re ar* virtually no
fat stackyards, no cosey ^rm house,
na chateau of the local lauds owner, no
squire's hall—pitiful assemblages of
men and women just on ♦.! • hit.ier side
of the starvation line. And, from all
one learns, disease Is rife. Whole vll
lages, 1 «as told by m®n who knew
them well, ft poisoned with syphilid
and the a-.ithorlMes gravelv alar.i.ed
at th terrible state of thlnes, ft.ive
appointed of late, sevjral uominlJ-
slons of Inquiry to devise remedial
measures. Drunkenness, too, Is a> na-
tional vice, thf peasant having his
regular bout whenever he has saved
up a small sun.—From "Russia of
Today." by Henry Norman In the Oc-
qotjer ScribnerV
I hav a full line of standard School Books as re
puired by the Territory and can furnish you any book
you desire. All School Supplies kept in stock. .
STATIONERY
My stock of Stationery is complete as well as up-to-
date The very best letter ar. d tablet paper.
DRUGS
4
THE FAIR
I have he most complete and mcst pure stock in
"W oods county. Prescriptions accurately c mpounded.
J. W. J40JIF0JIT'
rp6kNElTlVU(j STORE- i
ALVA ojo A-
Saturday,
THE
UGPPKK
we would
^^^Teasecl 'ftoi
have you call and see u. before you buy. Remem
ber the sign—the large red top boot.*®***
PEOPLE'S DEALERS-
1 1 vVe have just received a Fall Stock of
Men s, and Boy s Clothing, Gents Furnishing Good*
—.1 ' 'I Hats. Caps. Boots and Shoes.
MhHre'n New Brick,
N. W. CORNER SQUARE,
-O-
ALVA, OKLA
TRADE AT STIPES, IT 'PAYS.
1
DISCOUNT
—Hat Sale—
One Day Only.
SATURDAY,
.ALVA, OKLAHOMA.
Subscribe for the Heod-
j light 1 dollar per year.
ar<> busily euga^vl in beating th«lr '
U!nbn-Tm*l*n B.** S Tlwlr W*jr«
Frauz oKia and Karl Oretach. young
Austrian*. arrived In New York the
busily eugasr _
wny around the c-rth. They havo
"".Vh Wider ot 120.000 with Chevallor de
KamarofT. a Xluulan nobleman. The*i
men are 2S veara old each. and are ex-
pert cle-'trlrlsna. Their chief stock in
11 tide Is an ability to tricks on a
wheel. They t;ired pretty well In Eu-
rope, and bad 230 maria on leaving
Hamburg oa Rept. 12 This, according
to contract, tfiey had to give to tome
charitable Ir.atltnilon. so the Red Cross
society was made the ben«*clary.
Three year* Is the s;x\ce of time In
which the to'ir rr.nst be competed
livery capital of every co-mtry In the
world mint hp vlslte 1 and the Kavel-
er must lard In Vienna without a
i cent. They worked their way aoroas
tlu- At; T.t'c p • T stewards and
Tti« "Prot«-«t i t I'opo.
Popo Cieiueui AlV. has bson called
the "Protettant bec*u«e he la-
ttued a bull in 1.773 npprwsinK tha or-
der of Jexulta Thl« so«.iety ww
t&bllahed by Ignatlua de l^oyalo In 1587
to establish Uie power of the Pope.
Proteatants, kings and. national bish-
ops w«r« to be reganl«d ad enemiud,
and It became th m<wt influential so-
ciety la the courch. In lt 66. when the
Jesulto w«re In the height of their
power, PasoaJ puldh.beJ a hook a^aiuat
tbem, and from that time the r Inlln-
•nce declined, until Prance. Portugal.
Spain anil otaer countnee o: Kuvapo
demanded Uiat the Pope oboUah the
, u U. ti... P.clto- ;
New Turk letter Chicago Tribune. p,u >1L- ,n
W e commence our
great_23^r~
DECEMBER
SALE. . , •
This is the month of
the year for Under-
wear, Overcoats,Mack-
intoshes, Ladies Jack-
ets. Ladies Capes, Furs,
and Winter Dress
Goods. Our stock of
the above goods was
never so complete as
at present and we are
cutting the price right
at the commencement
of the season We
make it a rule never to
carry over goods from
one season tu another
and our customers
profit by this system.
DON'T FORGET
to provide Arctic Over-
shoes for the cold
weather that will sure-
ly come. All rubber
goods have advanced
since we made our pur-
chases, but we sell on
the old basis
Buy a barrel of those %
Ills Red Apples ^
now as they will be ^
Scarce Mini High j®
during the holidays. jf
S. B. SHARE & BRO.
ALVA. —0— OKLA.
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Salter, L. A. & Salter, F. A. The Headlight. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1900, newspaper, November 30, 1900; Augusta, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth352223/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.