The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-01-27
The Times Amt What They
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r. B. Quinn in the Guymon Herald.

such things as whist parties, grand
balls without square dance and a
caller perched on high place near the
fiddler; Or pizenin the atmosphere with
a sen-sen breath after takin' drink
| of good Ticker; or where bills were
broug around at the end Of themonth
instead of the end of the year or where
preachin' is held in regular church
instead of neighbor's house, where
Everybody is welcome to stay to dim
ner or all day for that matter: but
why enumerate, for the new tangled
way of doin' things has come to stay
The country amt typical any more.
In those days most every fellow ex-
cept the preacher would take little
drink in public, or bet on horse race
or play little draw" and nothing
much was thought about it. The best
citizens indulged and these things
must have been necessary TO the de-
velopment of the country else the
good Lord wouldn't have stood for it.
Men would assemble at a point like
Hardesty or Beaver and run horse
races all day for stakes huctuatir,
from pint of whiskey up to five dol
lars and they had more real rollickin'
fun in ten hours than modern methods
afford in a week. They didn't pay
much attention to small things excep,
pizenin' good Hayner breath with
the modern breath-killers was Sc
rious breach of etiquette, as above
noted, but if fellow was caught
cheatin' in any of the games or races.
or killed man without due and SUI
ticient provocation; or stole a horse OF
a COW land got caught), his troubles
we're sometimes numerous and painful.
The attention that he got was often
immediate There wasn't much bond
IN OF the defendant, delayin' the trial
and so on, like these modern courts
hand out for the benefit of the GRIM
inal.
Now at this day and time another
who were here then are not so young
any more and have shed their colt
teeth. They are gettin' old and more
sedate. They go to these whist par
ties and pretend to like it. Most OF
them have acquired families and its a
moral duty to set good example be-
fore their little white faces, which is
right and proper. They attend these
modern, jump-around two-step dances
yet they know they amt the real thing
there's no pinin' for backward steE
and recurrence of the times that were,
for they amt to be any more. History
amt goin to repeat itself in this
country. Everybody don't know it,
out most every day we see some old
mark strollin' round and lookin' wise
who used to now and then proclaim
himself woody wolf with burr in
his tail; yet you wouldn't think it oi
aim now for he's there proper when il
comes to spreadin' on the good citizen
stunt. Added years have made him
more sincere and his intentions are
more genuine. For he wasn't really
bad them just young, western ard full
)f ginger But it is all over now, fell
lows, and modern things have come tc
stay. Doing the modern stunt of
'leeping in pajam y is part of tn,
game. You really ought to go to
church any way once a week just to
please your wives, besides you'll be
'ettin' such good example before
your children (none of US are believers
in race suicide) and if you've never
thought of it, you know it would wor-
~ us most powerful If our children
should go the route that some of us
travelled even If it was fun
This last thing is something to
think about. We can stand the whist
parties; the jump-around dances with
40 caller; the bills at the end of the
month; goin' to Preachin' once weel
and so on. and il we don't like to burn
up insiuc anu say Hotiiit DuJ tnls
thing Of startin' the kids right and
Seepin' them straighV must receive
due and proper attention. 1t would
be powerful worryin' to see them hit
oil down the pike at a gait like the old
nan formerly travelled yet the modern
way of goln' fast don't seem to SHOW
much speed. It's agn' the Law, to do
any promiscuous shootin' and ridin'
and there amt nothin' to it anyway !;
rhere wasn't much then except the fun
Of the thing, but times have changed
There's nothin' much goin' on any
more like there once was. Even poker
amt what it used to be. There's no
more antein' ahead of the dealer. You
can't straddle any more "blinds": its
all jackpots now. It's gettin' to be
even powerful unpopular to smoke a
cigarette, and you can't get a plug of
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