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that the army and the navy of this
country’ should ever be put under com-
mand of kings and kaisers, for them to
determine when and where tlie war
should end."
in inverse order from their impor-
tance, as he saw it, he gave some of
the objections to war—first, its cost in
money; second, its cost in lives; third,
and infinitely of greater importance, the
fact that this country could not be at
war and be neutral, and that he be-
lieved that God in His in wisdom, had
foreseen that this, the greatest nation
in the world, should after 1900 years
play’ the_role of peacemaker and medi-
ator—a role impossible unless this coun-
try maintains its neutrality. He fav-
ored the McLemore resolution to keep
American citizens off ships in hostile
waters. "The war would cost proba-
bly 500,000 American lives did we enter
it," he said “and why should the loss
of a hundred lives of people who fore-
warned had gone into dangerous waters
cause the loss of 500,000?”
He closed by another sarcastic refer-
ence to the jingo press, declaring that
one could no more measure the feelings
of the people by the expressions of the
jingo press than one could measure the
on the afternoon train for Fort Worth,
w’here he spoke Friday night. '
ANSWER TO YT
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WHITE PRODUCE COMPANY,
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- 1 to drive home his point. It is not true,
or there would be no War in Europe
todays for they were prepared—Germa-
ny on land and Britain on the sea, pre-
pared according to their different sit-
uations. If this country ha been ‘pre-
pared’ we’d be in the European war to-
day.”
“Preparedness,” he said, “would pro-
voke war. Preparedness means that the
only way to secure peace is to make
I other people afraid of you— a doctrine
of terrorism—the same false philosophy
which has brought Europe to war."
He instanced the stage in this coun-
try’s development when all men would
I carry pistols as a parallel to national
preparedness. “You never heard a de-
fender of that practice say that the pis-
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unincumbered. Act quickly
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located in valley near P
Mexico in shallow water L, ,
M0 per acre. This is a sure enough bar-
LAND MORTGAGE BANK.
ginger bread and candies. ‘The world do
move.’ ’’—Sherman Democrat.
And after awhile it may be that we’ll
get right back to the beginning, when
men subsisted on fruits and berries and
the leaves of young plants and took
their medicine as it came on in the dif-
ferent seasons, thru the simple provis-
ion of Nature. Anyway we do know
that “poke salad” grows in the spring.
US
DRUGS AND JEWELRY
Denton, Texas.
THE WHITE PRODUCE COMPANY
Is going to pay 12c for good hens to
everybody Saturday and Monday, Mar.
18-20. Be sure and bring all your sur-
plus and tell your neighbors to bring
theirs.
Call your neighbors on the phone
and tell them. They and the White Pro-
duce Company will both appreciate it.
Old phone, 121.
New, 780.
Phone us any time.
THE WHITE PRODUCE
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Watch & Jewelry Repair Wark.
All work guaranteed, turned out
promptly, and at a reasonable
' charge.
tended first to the Normal college and
then on any other street in town on
which the property owners will raise
the money for the poles, the city do-
4 nal ng the electricity and up-keep, since
white way Lights merely take the
plaoe of the ordinary lights already
Installed by the city.
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P. Morgan & Co. are preparing to
floit a 975,000,000 loan in the United
. Slates for Canada. Canada is our friend
? Mid neighbor and- the new loan will
prove more attractive than the half
billion loaned to the older parts of the
gfaBUxmte. But, at that, we wonder if
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the continual lending to belligerent
| powers isn’t calculated to cause some
fn.ure embarrassment to this country,
whichever way the war goes. Men with
several hundred million dollars at stake
kaltment’s. inquiries about the local
doff’ce building Indicate at least
it the department hasn't forgotten
we’re down for a Federal building some
day.
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dispatches mentioned three cas^s of ac-
bldental death due to carelessness with
firearms. Near Ardmore a
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going to do their best to prevent
, any jeopardy to their security, and if
they are influential enough they are
gang to lean powerfully hard against
at tything that entlangers their money
and equally hard for anything that in-
cieases the safety thereof.
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Friends of the Robertson law are ar-
n Aging petitions to-secure submission
o ' the question cl,whether or not the
. majority party of Texas wants the law
naterially .amended or repealed. Friends
of .the Gibson bill, which seeks t<> sup-
plant the Robertson law, some time
s nee expressed their desire to have the
rtstlon fairly submitted to determine
te wjghes of the voters- And with both
de agreeing that far, if they can agree
jrther on the wording of the amend-
MPt, there is no good reason why it
kould not be put to a vote in this
ear’s Primary, to determine, once for
0» if the people, of Texas want the law
stands, its repeal or its material
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Dunk Botts, Regular Correspondent.
Cricket Hicks, after a week's work,
has begun on the first heat of his spring
and summer vacation.
Frisby Hancock says it will soon be
the time of year when a fellow's clothes
feel like they are about two inches
thick.
A fellow in the Calf Ribs neighbor-
hood, who has been taking more pa-
pers than he can read for several years,
died a few days ago, and the Tickville
Tiding forgot to give him a nice write-
up.
The Horse Doctor was called Friday
night to see Poke Eazley, who took a
dose of horse medicine by mistake.
Miss Flutie Belcher has anounced that
for good reasons she has decided not
to wear any of the new style dresses.
The Tin peddler’s horse got excited
one day this week and ran away. No
narm was done by the horse, but Mrs.
Wash Hocks in the excitement got
away with a nice coffee pot.
The committee from the Hogwallow
Improvement Association, which was
appointed to see about the mud hole in
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It is, a red hot bargain. 112 acres
hiy improved land adjoining
lawn in Denton county. Good
.'only *65 per acre,
in good trade that is
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Pittsburg even outdid Honey Grove
freclnct In the majority for good road
bends, the former place making it al-
moaf unanimous. And now Hunt coun-
ty, n which Precinct No. 1. has re-
cently spent I WO,000 for first class
road, has organized a county good roads
association which is asking for a mil-
Uomdollar road bond issue for tlie en-
tire county. Almost every prosperous
equity in North Texas—except Denton
—has been inoculated with the good
roAds fever, and Denton county’s turn
may be next.
OLD SONGS
Last night I heard an ancient dame
hum divers songs of bygone years, and
tender recollections came, which filled
my old green eyes with tears. “Oh,
Birdie, 1 am tired now, I do not care to
hear you sing”; thus warbled on the
withered frau, while darning socks, like
everything. Beneath the bright Cana-
dian skies I used to sing that simple
lay; folks heard my boyish treble rise, I
and wished I’d quit, or go away. Where
are trte men who cried “Shut up I" and
promptly- sicked their dogs on me,
when I, before their wickiup; turned
loose that song in ecstasy? The bel-
dame by my fireside waits, and sings
old songs to you unknown, as “Wait
for me at heaven’s gates, sweet Bell?
Mahone, sweet Belle Mahonel", I used
to sing the same sweet song, beneath
the warm Canadian sun, and neighbors
rang the chestnut gong and put more
buckshot in the gun. Old songs I Sweet
songs! They blaze the track to bygone
days and vanished scenes, before I had
to break my back to earn the beef-
steak and the beans.
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er to kill one’s fellowman. No longer
content with land war, the inventive
ability of the brightest minds of the bel-
ligerents had been brought Into play
to evolve new and deadlier weapons—
the armies fought now above the
ground and beneath the water; using
death-dealing instruments that dropped
or hurtled sudden death on an unsus-
pecting people. “And the worst of it
is, this is a’war among the leaders of
civilized nations, among the Christian
nations of the world, who worship the
same God.”
Neutrals are Injured.
Every neutral nation had been in-
jured by the European conflict, and
everywhere additional revenues had to
be sought by governments to offset the J
injuries and losses from the w^r. The
ships upon which the United States had
depended for carrying and bringing pro-
ducts were interned and idle or many of
I them transformed into transports for
military service. Ocena freight rates
had been enormously increased so that
the rate on a bale of cotton was sev-
len times as great as it used to be and
I other ocean rates had increased in pro-
portion, throwing the heavy burden on
I the producers of this land. Every neu-
tral nation, moreover, is in danger of
being dragged into war against its will
and all have been forced to abandon
domestic and internal improvements by
Khe increased governmental expendi-
I tures necessitated by the war thousands
of miles away.
“We have found that international
law as it'now stands is based on in-
suring the rights of the belligerents and
not of the nations at peace. When this
was is over we want to rewrite inter-
national laws that regard peace and not
1 war as normal, and the nations at war
I must not be permitted to disturb the
I commerce of the nations at peace.
“Both sides of the European war have
violated the rights of the United States,
but neither side has. desired to violate
I our rights; the violations have been
incidental.”
The Cause of War.
I This war, declared Mr. Bryan, is not
a race war. It is not a religious war;
it is not a family war. Apparently it
I has no cause. Really the cause is in.
• the false philsophy—in false and ana-
chronistic theory that “might makes
right," "a brutal, barbarous doctrine”
I whose condemnation he urged upon all
thinking citizens. There is but one
moral code for individuals, he said, and
this code should apply to nations as
well. Covetousness was a fruitful cause
of war, and the commandments against
covetousness, "thou shalt not steal;"
’thou shalt not kill," should apply alike
to nations and to individuals. He spoke
of the retaliation—the followers of the
doctrine of like cures like; and that |
the nations, none of whom wanted war
and all of whom disclaimed responsi-
DENTON
STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
depths of the ocean by the foam on the
shore.
After his talk many in the crowd
pressed forward to shake Mr. Bryan’s
hand and to congratulate him on the,
forcefulness of his address. He and his
son, H. V. Bryan of Tucson, Ariz., left
Fresh vegetables received almost
every day. Our big trade In thia line
enables us to supply fresh stuff to our
customers all the time. TURNER
BROTHERS.
bed this week with illness. He doetn*t
seem to care much ,as he had to have
his pants patched anyways
Cricket Hicks is going to write to
his girl at Bounding Billows as soon
as he gels his hair cut.
Tuesday niuht the
ling Band serenaded a
Musket Ridge.
Ellick Hellwamrer, who wears a hat
like Yhe Depity Constable, was arrested
yesterday for Irvine to look like an nf--
ficer.
A high-toned musical entertainment
was given at the TiekMile opera houso ■
Saturday night. It looked like rain, ana
was as good an excuse as the public
wanted. . _
Yam Sims says he will be glad when .
the snake season opens, as he can then
carry aroung a jug with thin, to be
used in case of emergency.
Hogs allow Editorial
A delegation of ladies from the Dog
Hill church called on the Hogwallow
improvement Association on Thursday
night and asked aid in the task of rais-
ing funds to build the pastor a hen
house for his own use. Tlie association
being like everybody else was willing
to help in every way it could as long
as it didn't cost anything, finally voted
a unanimous vote of tiianks for the
confidence the ladies liad in the asset
rial ion by calling. The movement,
started by these worthy and hustling,
ladies is worthy of much unsolicited'-
praise. Why shouldn't the preacher
have a hen house? He must have
chickens and if lie can’t raise them of
lys own, won't tlie congregation have
to stand the strain? We are for ad-
vancement in all lines of endeavor, and ,
lhe preacher should be encouraged in
his ambition to be come selfsupport-
ing.
preparedness I favor. We’d have roads
then for the quick mobilization of our
forces at any time. And if the war
didn't materialize, we’d still have the
valuable use of the roads.” The navy
might be obsolete tn a few years, even
if the enemy did come, and useless if
war didn't materialize. Congress had
refused to pass a rural credits bill , for
which a 950,000,000 foundation was ne-
cessary, but It was considering the pre-
paredness bills with an annual increase
of 9800,000.000 a year.
Temperance Preperedneea. •
Pointing to the fact that the belliger-
ent nations had all taken steps to en-
force temperance that there might be no
division in their people’s patriotism for
the county rather than for John Barley-
corn, Mr. Bryan said he favored that
kind of preparedness in this country,
the abolition of the liquor traffic.
“Drive out alcohol and every American
can man will be a man whom you
may count for the defense of his coun-
try.”
Much of the preparedness agitation,
he said, was due to the fact that the
munitions factories now shiping 9300,-
000,000 worth of war munitions a year
to Europe will be out of a job when the
European war ends unles they are able
to get this country preparedness-mad
and provide a new and limitless mar-
ket for their war supplies. "Prepared-
ness will fatten a few,” he said,” and ,
beggar the many. If we prepare (
against an enemy, our preparation will
scare him, and he’ll prepare better. ,
Then w’e’ll get- scared and go another ,
notch upward in the preparedness scale :
and so on until bankruptcy takes us
all.”
He said that Navy leagues were not
confined to any on| country. They
were in all, and cited, the story of the
three men on one lake, one of whom
was induced to build a warship to de-
fend himself against bis neighbors.
That resulted in No. 2. building two
warships and the big navy man in-
duced No. 3. to build three, which caus-
ed No. 1. to build enough to offset both
the others, and the round continued.
“For us to change our policy now
would be to admit to Europe that their
policy of preparedness is right and that
we were wrong. The United States is
the greatest nation in the world today
without either army or navy compara-
ble with the ’prepared’ nations. Our
example would force our friends of
South America to divert their funds
from internal improvements to build-
ing and maintaining armies and navies.”
« Refers to President
The. kindliness of feeling Mr. Bryan
entertains toward President Wilson was
indicated in his first reference to the
President, toward the end of his speech.
He referred briefly to the President’s
speech befiiTe the Manhattan club, de-
claring that the President yielded his
own opinion on the preparedness ques-
tion to what he thought the people
of the country desired. “I believe he
was misled in regard to what the peo-
ple wanted,” Mr. Bryan said, “but I be-
lieve he was sincere in his attitude.”
Once later he again mentioned the Presi-
dent when he spoke of the thirty ar-
bitration treaties, which he believed
would result in the future in the names
of Woodrow Wiison and his owp be-
ing linked together as responsible for a
long step toward universal peace. These
treaties made war difficult tQ^declare
between the signatory powers/ he de-
clared, because they lasted indefinitely
and because-'they required the sub-
mission of any difference to arbitra-
tion, ''with the treaties irrevocable ex-<
cept after formal notice of a full year,
during which time war might not be
declared.
“Europe,” he declared, “when this
war is finished wil be worn out with
war. We ought to do what we can
to stop it and we certainly ought to do
all we can to keep the war hydropho-
bia out of this country.”
Want War Referendum.
He believed that war should be de-
clared only after it had been submit-
ted to vote of the people, the people
upon whom the burdens of the war and
the losses of life would fall. “And in
this referendum,” he said, "I want the
women to vote. I want them to vote
on all subjects, but I want particularly
that they should vote on the question
of war, for.upon them will fall a ma-
jor burden. And I would have the law
for the referendum so arranged that
those who voted for war should be cal-
led on first to serve with those voting
not to be in the reserve forces. But I
would put in the very first line of the
first army these jingo editors who are
urging war.”
He was opposed to war -under any
circumstances except for the defense of
the coQnty, but if this country had to
go to war with any of the present bel-
ligerents he hoped it would be held off
until after the present war had dosed
so the United States might meet its ene-
my alone. “It would be bad enough at
best," he exclaimed, “but God forbid
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front of the postoffice, reported that af-
ter an investigation they had decided
to let nature take its course.
For several seasons there has been a1
scarcity of fish in Gimlet Creek, on ac-
count of the remarkable number Jef-
ferson Potlocks has said that he has
caught. If Jefferson’s imagination is
not bridled in some way, it is feared
that fish will be so scarce, there Will
develop an over-gupply of fishing
worms in this vicinity.
Sim Flinders, who quit drinking dur-
ing the recent protracted meeting at
Hog Ford, was seen yesterday rubbing]
the spider webs off of his wabbly walk-
ing stick.
Ellick Hellwanger is confined to his
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our great seacoast cities, and along our
seacoasts so thickly that no force could |
rent and indirect of more than 975,000,- pass betw-een."
"" * ‘ *- Mr Bryan showed a little bitterness
when he denounced the division by
some preparedness advocates of the
American people into two classes, the
- Jone “men of red blood who advocated
been used, be said, to Increase the pow- preparedness :” the other “white-livered
cowards who opposed preparedness be-
cause preparedness, meant war. “It is,"
he said, “the code duello applied to na-
tions. Time was when no man dared
to face public opinion and to refuse
a challenge for a duel. But today every
state in the Union forbids duelling un-
der heavy penalties and It is the chal-
lenger who is esteemed a coward instead
of lhe challenged. v
“No nation is challenging us. But if
one did, I believe we would be justi-
fied In saying, No, we have the wel-
fare of a hundred million people to
guard, our ideals to preserve. We will
not wallow in the blood of our fellow
man as Europe is doing now.
“The propagandists are trying to pre-
sent a false issue to the American peo-
ple, and when they say that all who
oppose their plans favor premitting this
country to be overrun, they are saying
that which is not true. If any attempt
is ever made to overrun this country,
it not only can, but it will defend it-
self
“It is not the men who get up wars
who do the fighting. The army offi-
cers hold in contempt the volunteers/
but those volunteers have been
strength of every war in which the
United States has engaged.”
Defense not the Issue.
The great issue is not the defense of
this country, Mr. Bryan said with em- <
phasis, but a momentous change of this
country’s policy upon which its present ,
greatness has been founded and which
would convert this country into an
armed camp. He arraigned the jingo ,
press for its part of the preparedness
scare and ridiculed their comparison
of this country with Belgium, which
had 7,500,000 people against 100,000,000
in the United States and which was di-
vided from its neighbors by an imagin-
ary line while the United States is
separated from its nearest possible en-
emy by thousands of miles of ocean.
“If a man cannot differentiate between
an imaginary line and the Atlantic
ocean," he questioned, “what hope is
there for him?”
As showing the futility of enormous
fleets, he said that altho Breat Britain,
France and Italy had fleets thrice as
large as Germany, it had never been
able to attack German coasts. “Why’
Because of mines and submarines."
^Russia’s fleet was almost helpless be-
side that of the Germans, and yet altho
‘they were only a few miles apart, the
German fleet had never been able to
attack Russian shores. “Why? Be-
cause of Russian mines and subfriar-
, ines.”
“If the European nations had spent a
tenth as much making friends with
each other as they had spent in prepar-
ing for war, there would be no war in
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>1 This country in the past fifteen years
has spent more on its navy than any
bility for the war, were explaining and! other country in the world save one,
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The American expenditures on the na-
vy last year were ?14i,00,000; on the
army $100,000,000. Last year’s expendi-
tures to aid agriculture, affecting the
largest single class of citizens in this
country, were $23,000,000, less than one-
tenth as much. “And now the army>
board is asking for an appropriation of
$500,000,000 for the first year and a per-
manent appropriation of $319,000,000 a
year to bring the army up to its effi-
ciency, and the navy board is asking
a billion and a half dollars for new
ships and total appropriations of $760,-
000,000 a year for maintaining th? navy
at its highest point of efficiency. The
total crops of this country last year
were valued at $5,500,000,000, and the
probable net profit to the faivners was
$500,000,000. The army board, the navy
board and the coast fortifications board
apparently have no idea but that upon it
alone depends the defense of the coun-
try. The naxy board urges that the navy
should be able to defeat any enemy at
sea. The' seacoast fortifications board
urges that their forts should be able
to prevent any enemy from landing on
our shores. The army board urges that
the army should be big enough to
‘lick’ any enemy that has invaded the
country.”
While the figures show a total in-
crease of $800,000,000 a year for army
and navy expenditures, Mr. Bryan said
he would cut it to 9500,000,000 for the
sake of example and show what that
would do in ten years. “In ten years
it would total five billions of dollars,
and that five billions would build first
class macadam roads, costing over 98,-
000 a mile, thruout this country so it
would be gridironed by good roads
and that no citizens of the United States
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DO YtrfJ EXPECT TO BUILD A IONE? ~
—or a residence for rental purposes.
I can furnish the money, available at any
time. The cheapest money ever offered
in Denton for building a residence.
StiU buying and uxtunding Vundofu LiunNottt
and taking mortgage on clear property.
firearms. Near Ardmore a man shot
tod fatally wounded his little daughter
wiiile cleaning his pistol. At Weather-
•< for • xmail boy killed his smaller bro-
ther while playing with a gun At Ty-
ler A. young man accidentally killed his
rOom-mate while handling a pistol.
Hardly a day passes but similar trage-
* dies occur—the destruction of life for
one and the awful remorse for the oth-
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000,000. it has increased the bonded in-
debtedness of the belligerent nations
$25,000,000,000 and the end, after a year
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The sub-committee promises a vote
soon on the Brandeis appointment, and
the full committee will likely be large-
ly guided by the sub-committee’s re-
commendation. The charges against
Brandeis my men with a motive haven’t
shaken our confidence in him or in his
ultimate confirmation. But we confess
that when such men as former Presi-
dent Taft, ex-Governor Simeon E. Bald-
win and five other ex-presidents of the
American Bar association are willing to
go out of their way to present a for-
mal protest declaring their opinion
that Mr. Brandeis is not a fit man for
the place, it carries greater weight than
anything that has yet been urged agaist
him, and we are hoping that Brandeis
friends will be able to bring up some-
thing as an offset to these charges or,
at least, to give us a reasonable expla-
nation of their cause.
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The Department of Agriculture is out
in another bulletin, its third, against
the planting of half-and-half cotton.
Cotton of less than seven-eighths inch
staple is approximately the same spin-
ning value, the recent bulletin says, as
the bulk of the Indian cotton, and “on
economic principles the American pro-
duct should be maintained on a high-
er level of intrinsic worth than that of
India in order that the American crop
may not be forced to compete in mar-
kets of the world with the cotton of
India.” Localities that produce such
short staple soon establish reputations
for the inferior product, and all the cot-
ton in such markets will suffer on ac-
count of that reputation. Of importance
in this connection is the new United
States cotton futures law, which holds
that cotton of less than seven-eighths
inch staple is not' deliverable on the
future contracts provided, altho the leg-
islation does not affect the sale of spot
cotton otherwise.
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The peanut acreage in Denton county
this year promises to be the largest in
the county's history, just as each suc-
ceeding year has seen a considerable in-
crease since the experiment was first
“Whether you believe we are going
to get into the big war or not, you
should remember that Admiral Noah
built his ark on a hunch he had."—
Johnston County (Ok.) Capital Demo-
crat.
We don’t remember it that way, and
it occurs to us strongly that somebody
is taking liberties with the Scriptures.
But we won’t argue about it, because
our Bible is full of clippings and If we
should have to have recourse to it some
of them might get lost. 1.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ I. M. D. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
TROUBLE WITH IT.
I’ve waited all the winter long
For Springtime and the mocker’s song,
And sunshine, and the scented flowers
And warm, sweet, happy, out-door
hours;
And I’ve not said a single thing
About a-wishin’ for the spiring,
Or hating rain and cold and snow
Or gales that in the winter blow;
And haven’t pined nor teased nor wept
Because Jack Frost possession kept,
And used his power to the full
And kept me sad and mi^zable.
But all the time I thought of bow
The Spring would come—as!it has now;
And things would all be happied up,
Right to the brimmin’ of the cup.
And I would be so glad and gay
I could just sing, the livelong day.
But now—but now, there was one thing
That I forgot about the Spring—
I clean forgot there would come flies
JLong with the Springtime paradise I
"Here is good news for the children.
A cooking expert says oil of
much better than castor oil,
way to give it is to serve in
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letters have been introduced at the pre-
sent session of Congress, and since the
bills represent the ideas of about all
shades of political belief, the movement
may be acquitted of any charge of
partisanship. Just why drop letters in
the smaller towns may be handled for
one-eent postage and those in free de-
livery-towns require two cents has nev-
er l»een satisfactorily explaned except
by']M»re arbitrariness, because there is
-BO possible chance for it to cost twice
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J-lRe’re hoping that the white way
Mpo it the square and to the depot may-
be in place, by the time the District Fed-
eration 'meets here next month. Most
ot the materials are here for the West
Onk^yUHte way, but it will be hardly
possible No get that erected also in time.
The white way will probably be ex-! “The farmer with land adapted to grow-
inp peanuts," notes a recent A- & M.
bulltein, "can make no mistake in tying
to this crop, for, in addition to its being
the cheapest crop grown for cows, the
production of pigs to fatten on the nuts
will bring in a good return and is a
most profitable feeding operation." Den-
ton county has thousands of acres ot
land admirably adapted to this crop,
much of which is not able to make even
a fair showing in the staple farm crops.
We have been accused of being some-
what of “a bug" on the subject, but we
are vitally interested in anything con-
ducive to the general welfare of the
county, and we’ve noted too many suc-
cesses with the peanuts not to be too
anxious that the acreage should be in-
creased.Yes, Fattier is some dip
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excusing their own cruelties and bar-
barities by the cruelties and barbarities
of their antagonists. “The world knows
that war is not necessary to the moral
development of a nation, but is a curse
to the world.”
Preparedness Propaganda.
Thought of the-war and abhorrencejjf
war, he said, had divided this country
into two schools, both wanting, to pre-
vent war, but with vitally different
methods to that end. An Industrious
propaganda was under way to convince
the people of the United States that
the only way to prevent war is by pre-
s propaganda is not
true,’’ and Mr. Bryan stamped his foot
It would be a neat solution to the
trouble, from several angles. For one,
Americans have their creed of humane
treatment of the vanquished to main-]
tain. What Carranza would do to Villa!
if he caught him, would probably be!
“enuf” to satisfy the most lawless
American’s craving for revenge.
“The Commercial doesn’t feet' very
grateful to the man who knows the
facts, hides them, and when a small er-
ror is made by the newspaper, goes out
to knocking. We will probably get a
chance to land on the specimeff as he
deserves before many moons."—George-
town Commercial.
There are lots of folks who fail to
realize that if something happens of. , -. . ■ - . -. .
which a part of the general public W were carried for aggresion,- but
is aware the newspaper is going to I £th®T might be prepared to protect
publish it, if necessary, regardless of their rights or defend their honor. The
the objections of those who fail to ap- advocates of preparedness today are
predate the newspaper’s mission. To u®in8 the same argument without
do this sometimes it is necessary to changing a word of a letter. And yet to-
take second-hand information, and day every state in the Union
while every precaution is observed on escape from the logic the application
such1 occasions, mistakes will creep in.|°Y the same principles to nations as
It would be a lot better if. people would 40 individuals.”
realize that the newspaper is going to Extremes of Preparedness.
publish the news regardless of minority He told of the extreme prepared-
jobjection, and would assist it to get it I ness advocates, one of whom only re-
right. Not very long ago a Record- cently had pointed to the fact that our
Chronicle reporter approached a citizen] . . t
most concerned in an accident witness-
ed by a small crowd of people, and ask-
ed for details of the happening. The de-
tails were not forthcoming, and the re-
fusal to give them was in no uncertain
terms. When the story was published,
as given by two or three eye-witnesses,
there was a seeming discrepancy and a
visit from tlie c. m. c. The discrepancy
was straightened out,.but probably not
before the citizen had realized that it
is better to assist in getting a straight
report into print than.to try to stop
the machinery of publication, which Is
greatly more difficult of accomplish-
ment. . '
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