Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 9

repre i Repid Growth of Eagle City, Oklahoma Town That Rose from the Prairie Practically tm Twenty-Four Hours—Now Flourishing and Prosperous, ee Some time between midnight and ‘sunrise on Dee. 4, 1902, a new town was placed on the map of Oklahoma. Its name is Hagle City, and it has sev- eral thousand people by this time. What was a stretch of vacant prairie on the evening of Dec. 3 had ‘many residences and business houses in course of construction at sunrise on the 4th. It had a daily newspaper, the Eagle City Star, in operation on the latter day, with several lumber yards, restaurants, hotels, a long-distance tel- 2phone system, a big city hall, with other accessories and accompaniments of civilization. A city government will soon be at work there, Uncle Sam’s mails are delivered in it with as much regularity as in any other part of the west. Another name will be added to the country’s gazetteers. In the politics and social economy of Oklahoma territory and state, hence- forward Eagle City will have to be reckoned with. What would Boone, Harrod, Logan, Robertson, Sevier and the rest of the founders of Kentucky and Tennessee have thought if they had heard of the establishment of a town in a few hours, with connections with every other community in the United States, and with most of the conveniences of civilization? What even would the founders of Kansas, who came on the scene two-thirds of a century after Boone and his compatriots had done their work, have thought of this feat of the citizens of Eagle City? In Kansas’ case many towns were estab- lished after laborious \eparation which disappeared in quicker time than they were created, and have long since dropped off the gazetteers and the maps. Some ambitious Kansas towns with imposing names back in the 50s and ’60’s are now corn fields. History has forgotten them. Bven tradition is a little dubious as to the spots on which they stood. But no such fate is likely to come to Eagle City. Lawton and several other towns in Oklahoma in recent years had as swift a rise as this latest—the latest except Snyder, which was born a day afterward—accession to that territory’s map. All are on the map still. All are flourishing.. In fact, Oklahoma itself was a lightning crea- titon. The place that we call Okla- homa, which, at a certain noontime in April, 1889, had not a single inhabi- tant, possessed a permanent popula- tion of 50,000 before sunset on that day, with residences; hotels, restaur- ants, stores, banks, printing offices and the general equipment of a mod: ern community. Its 61,000 people in 1890 were found by Uncle Sam’s cen- sus takers in 1900 to have increased to 398,000. Probably they number 450,000 or 500,000 now.—Exchange. The Habit of Profanity. By Constant Use It Becomes Second Nature to Those Unfortunately Addicted to It—Remarkable Case in Point. “Profanity,” said a Chicago clergy- man, “becomes such a habit that some men use profane language in absolute ignorance of the fact that they are do- ing so. I have known several men of this kind, and their virtues were such that I could not honestly blame them as I should when they were guilty. The habit I condemned, and did what I could to correct it, but the sinning itself seemed to be so much a part of them that I treated it with a leniency which I knew was not right, and yet I could not wholly con- demn them for it. “I remember particularly the case of old Ben Stiles. Ben had been a sailor for many years, and when I first knew him he was the most profane man I had ever heard talk. In every other respect he was one of the finest char- acters I ever knew in his walk of life. He lived near me, and frequently did odd jobs about the parsonage. In this way I came to know him quite well, and in the course of two or three years I had almost broken him of his pro- fanity. But not entirely, and whenever he was deeply moved he was sure to swear in one way or another. “At first Ben would not come to thurch, but by and by he was present every Sunday, and when we had a great revival on one occasion he con- fessed his sins and asked the prayers of the church. He only needed the revival influence to come out squarely on the right side. We were all pro- foundly rejoiced when he arose in the meeting and asked for our prayers. I took him by the hand and told him he must pray himself, while we were praying for him, “We knelt together, and for some time Ben could not speak. Finally he found utterance, and I am sure I shall never forget that prayer, and I know that the tears of the Recording Angel blotted out the one word in it that should not have been there, yet was no sign that he was not truly re pentant. ““Q Lord, he prayed, ‘help me, aj ing poor sinner. I’m sorry, O Lord, for the sins I have committed, and help me to be better, if I ain’t too d—d bad. Amen.’ “It was unlike any other prayer I had ever heard, but it was from the heart, and Ben never knew that he had used the wrong word. He died a Christian, ten years after his con- version, and after that last unexpected oath I never heard him swear again.” The Woes of a Mother. Housc-Hunting in the City No Joke for Those Who Are Blessed With Children—One Woman's Humorous Experience. “Hunting for rooms with children is fo joke,” said the woman with the tired looking face. “Why, you'd actu- ally think they were a disgrace in- stead of a blessing. The time I’ve had this day would try the patience of a saint. I’ve been looked over, consult- ed about in insultingly audible tones, told that they’d take me ‘on trial,’ until really I’m half dead and savage enough to bite.” “I know,” sympathetically broke in e@ jolly little woman in the corner. “J’ve been through it all. But I fin- ally got a place, owing to the fact per- haps that the landlord had a sense of humor.” “Oh, do tell us about it,” said an- other woman. “I, too, have a child, and I, too, have tried to move, but I’ve been compelled to stay where I am on account of my young hopeful.” “Well, it was this way,” began the good-natured little woman. I’d been hunting for days, tired and cross; oh, dear me, yes. And to cap it all, baby was cross, too. I always took him with me. It saved the trouble of answering questions. I had turned from dooreto door, and was utterly discouraged; sometimes it was noth- ing more than a look and a snappish ‘No, we have nothing to let here,’ in spite of the fact that the ‘Apartments to Rent’ stared me in the face. “Baby was so Villainously cross that I finally took him over to my sister’s flat and left him there with her, and started off to see a flat she had rec- ommended. It was a pretty flat, suit- able in every particular, and the arrangements were being made for me to have the place when suddenly my prospective landlord turned to me and said: ‘By the way, have you any children?’ “T groaned, There it was again— the same old question. I could not tell him a lie, and knew that just as soon as I told him the truth it would be all up with the flat.” “*Yes,’ I answered. ‘Yes, I’ve got one. But if the good Lord will let me live until I get home I'll take him out in the back yard an@ kill him!’ “Well, the man nearly had a fit, he laughed so hard, @d then I nearly had one, for he made an exception in our case, and he and the young hope- ful are great friends. Indeed, he laughingly maintains that he saved the child’s life."—New York Times. eee 2 00 0 eee HOW TO CONTROL CHILDREN. Steady, Gentle Firmness Is the First Requisite. Bursts of passion in a little child must be met by steady, gentle firm- ness on the mother’s side. Loud out- cries. should be hushed not by angry words, but by @ grave quietness of yoice and speech, which helps to re- press them by mere force of contrast. Passionate gestures, such as blows, kicks and drumming with the heels upon the. floor, should be prevented by physical foree if necessary. Above all, the thing coveted, if it causes the child to fly into a rage as the readiést means of obtaining it, sheuld never be granted. As the child grows older and:can be reasoned with, he or she should be taught to avoid the begin- nings of wrath, to struggle against -itability, and fot to give way to it | in words when it rises in the mind, says the Washington Star. Quick-tempered children often have generous, lovable natures, easily in- fluenced for good. A wish to please another and to do what is right for its own sake may be made strong enough to close the lips against the torrent of angry words that rushes to them, and so helps them to victory. Each effort at self-conquest makes the next one easier. A Peculiar Lady. Miss Nuritch—I think I'll take this bracelet. You're sure it’s made of re- fined gold? Jeweler—Certainly. Miss Nuritch—Because I do detest anything that isn’t refinedi—New York Weekly. An honest man is the noblest work of God—end the loneliest. HIS VERY SAD END FOLLOWED. Beliboy Took Water to the Room of a Kentuckian. “W’'ot’s become uv dat red-headed bellhopper w’ot always said he could guess. w'ot people wanted by de way de bell rung?” has : “He hopped a call from four eighty- six yestiddy mornin’,” explained the head bellboy. “He took up a pitcher uv ice water, because he said the bell rung like it was a thirsty call.” “Well?” “Well, dere was a guy from Ken- tucky in dat room, dat’s all.”—Judge. Ask Your Dealer For Allen’s Foot-Ease. Bonen, 8 olien, Sere, 1ot Callous, Aching” wollen, Sore, Hot,’ * Bweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Ac- cept no substitute. Sample mailed Fran. Zaress Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. Up-to-Date Anatomy. A young medical student at Bowdoin college once asked the late Prof. Park- er Cleveland if there were not some more recent works on anatomy than those in the college library. “Young man,” said the professor, measuring the entire mental caliber of the youth- ful scholar at a glance, “there have been very few new bones added to the human body during the last ten years.” —New York Sun. Extortion From the Inexperienced. “It cost me $1,000 to get my di- vorce,” said the Boston woman. “You were swindled,” replied the woman from Chicago. “That’s about twice as much as I ever paid for any of mine.”—Philadelphia Record. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Thomas Adams, Mandan, N. D., corn planter; Johan Byro, Hanska, Minn., stack knife; Conrad Glaum, Audubon, Minn., horseshoe; Charley Lind, Isan- ti, Minn., currycomb; William Little, Duluth, Minn., fish hook; William Spil- lane, Red Lake Falls, Minn., shovel at- tachment; F. Straub, Flatiron, S. D., hose clamp. 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