The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912 Page: 3 of 6
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r stood on a bridge looking at
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iw. They had been walking
pleasure and stopped on the
lge, which is not far from a
ve. The noist of th rushing
:ers prevented them irom
ring the trkin and the curve
vented the locomotive engi
a -1 from seing them until it was
n late.
' The incident recalls a state-
out of lion. Brovyn P. Lee of
hi Angelo, refcentiy published
i the Texas Press. Mr. Lee
,tes figures showing that 130 out
f 279 persons killed by Texas
ail road trains last year were
repassers, and that 49,113 <
lassers were killed in the United
tates, being 76 per cent of all
illed in the operation of railroad
rains during a 10-year pefiod.
vs be suggests, somethihg ought
!o be done to stop the trespassing
upon railroads. Human life is
coo valuable to be sacrificed by
carelessness. Besides, there is
au element of rank injustice in
requiring a railway company to
damages for injuries to persons
who have no right to be upon its
tricks.
The law wiselv provides for
the protection of railway .em
ployees and passengers by re
qi iring elaborate and multiplied
sa ety devices. It does so for the
conservation of human life and
fo r the preservation of the hap-
pi tiess of relatives and friends.
It should, also devise some meth
od for at least minimizing' deaths
"fd injuries to trespassers.
A railroad track should not be
ad as a footpath or a pro me
de.
Railroad corporations manage
keep livestock off their right
way by fences and stock
lards, but these do not deter
iman- trespassers who move at
11 upon any railroad track that
stin the direction of their
urney.
Crossing railroads upon the pub
. highways, which is necessary,
uses many deaths and injuries
lich it is impossible to prevent,
it trespassing beyond the high
tv ought be prohibited by law
th penalties sufficient to re-
-ain the person of average in
lligence.
Sound public policy in the pro-
ction of human life and simple
stice to the railway corpora-
ms call for some legislative
:ort to arrest the decade bar-
st of 49,113 trespassers upon
ilway tracks. That number o:
rsons represents a small city
d several million dollars a year
productive energ, not to men
m the homes sorrowed, the
>men widowed and the children
planed.
ffwmefpving
ll the Scotts deci
nd more land, w«lnt to At-
Canada, and were not sat-
isfied there and returned* Oi
the return trip all recoils in th
history of railroads wer^ broken.
Mrs. Scott and her thirteen chil-
dren all rode on one first-class
passenger ticket. At Omaha the
conductor made a vigorous pro-
test. "Madam, you can't carry
a whole Sunday school along with
you on that, one ticket, and you
need not tell me these are afl
yours. You will have to pay fare
for some of these." "The rules of
this railroad company provide
that a child under five years of
age may ride free When accom-
panied by its parents, don't
i;hey?"* retorted Mrs. Scott.
They do, but you will have to
show me." Then Mrs. Scott dug
down into her Bible in which was
recorded the names and ages of
each of the children. The con-
ductor had to give in. Mother
children and occupied five double
seats in a homeseekers car and'
paid for only one.* Mrs.
80 years old and heir husband
only a year her senior. The
mother and children are now in
Highland, Kan., while the father
is in Oklahoma seeking a location
for his large and promising fami-
y. He probablv will buy 6ome
cheap Indian land through the
Indian agency at Muskogee.
A Large Family.
The following clipping is taken
>m a Parsons, Kan., paper:
Oklahoma is about to acquire a
mark-able family. Mr. and
rs, Prank Scott of Highland
ewhe"
Texas surpasses any other state
in the natural resources and in
her ability to produce farm pro-
ducts under any and all cOndi
tions.
CHEAP M6uvEY
The Borrowed Dollar Fatxiotic.
Volume of Texas Money
Too Siaall.
Cheap money is the fount tha;
makes the brook of industry flow.
Under its nurturing influence, the
germs of civijization flourish and
bloom like the tree of life and its
blessings fall upon the land like the
dew of prosperity. Withdraw it
from circulation and industry with-
ers, civilization blights, prosperity
stagnates and poverty ^stalks over
the land.
The borrowed dollars vaults heav-
enward with its magnificent iky
scrapers, delves into the bowels oJ:
the earth. In search of hidden treas-
ures, spans the prairies With bands
of steel, thrills the air with {he
scream of factory whistles and
searches land and sea on its mis-
sion of commercial adventure.
The borrowed dollar, is the mdsi;
patriotio of our circulating medium
No declarations of war. are made
without its approval; it fights our
diotetee treaties of peace
and at its bidding nations have
sprung into life or sunk into obliv-
ion. It is the first to answer the
call "to arms" its voice is in the
roar of cannon; it fills the knapsack
of the soldier and it cam for the
widows and orphans ahd is one o:
the best friends Uncle Bam ever
had. fe 1
In times of peace, it performs
deeds of industrial heroism by res-
cuing sinking enterprises and liftin,
up fallen industries and no worth
enterprises ever appeal to it in vain.
Cheap money means prosperity to
the people.
If, by inviting cheap money to
Texas, we can reduce the rate of
Interest only one per cent, we have
a net saving to the borrowing pub-
lic of $10,000,000 per annum and
money will enable iriahy gi-
w
Equal rights of money is as im-
portant to our growth and d ve
it: fr equal
, for tnmty i ^wer,
mi
measure in our arm
Julv 1, mi, been m
and who have not bed an
nticated case of typhoid
fever.
The immunization of the army
has proceeded rapidly until, at
the present time, somewhat over
60,000 men have completed the
necessary three inoculations.
Among this entire number, and
covering a period of nearly three
years, but twelve cases of typhoid
have developed and no death has
occurred. One man at the
Guantanamo Naval Station died 5
days after first inoculation from
case of walking typhoids This
is the only fatal case of typhoid
n the government service in any
one on whom the inoculation had
been begun. The record of the
itanuever Division in camp at
San Antonio, Texas, during the
past summer has been most in
structive. An army division hav-
ing an average strength of 12,800
men, all inoculated, occupied the
same camp for four months, from
to July, and in this com-
mand but one case of typhoid de-
veloped. This was a mild case
in a hospital corps man who had
not completed the inoculations
necessary for protection. There
were forty-nine cases of typhoid
with nineteen deaths in the city
of San Antonio for the same four
months. During the same period
that this camp exi?ted at San
Antonio, between three and four
thousand men were in camp at
Galveston, Texas,' and in this
command no case of typhoid oc-
curred, while city of Galveston
furnished 192 cases of the disease
during the existence of the camp.
The city and the camp had the
same water, milk and food sup-
ply, the only difference being
that the camp had been protect-
ed by inoculation.
About 8000 men were scattered
along the Mexican border mostly
in small camps, manv of them in
localities where typhoid was
present, yet of this command only
one man contracted typhoid,
which ended in recovery.' In a
recent number of the Journal of
the American Medical Associa
tion, Captain Phelan, of the Med-
ical Corps of the Army, contrasts
the record of these camps with
those of the concentration camps
of the Spanish-American war,
and says that it is inconceivable
that, with such conditions, the
practical abolition of typhoid
could have been effected without
the use inoculations.
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XXIII. HASTE
ISTORY tells ub that the battle of Winchester was won by
the valor and courage of General Sheridan and the poet
has given us a graphic description of "Sheridan's Ride,"
as he hurried to the battlefield and saved the day, the battle
having begun witti Sheridan twenty miles away. The battle for
commercial supremacy is now raging on iand and jwa. Our
strategic position, our undeveloped resources and our proar$§g|ve
citizenship makes Texas the battlefield of Twentieth Century
civilization and every man in Texas must ride under whip and BW/r
to save the day with the Panama Canal less than three years awsy.
Who Kills Cock Robin?
Each winter the robin red
breast come down from the north
bearing, perhaps, of the famous
southern hospitality. Poor fel-
low, he does not even share in it,
but he very frequently contrib-
utes to it as the piece de resist-
ance at the successful hunter's
■table.
The Poet Whittles has told us
why the robin's breast is red:
"He brings cool dew in his little
bill . .
And lets it fall on the soul of sin.
You can see the mark on his red
breast still
SHERIDAN'S RIDE.
Let those who would wear a laurel wreath of victory answer
the bugle call of progress and rally round the plow and the
hammer; and amid the smoke of industry, the roar of the furnace,
the rattle of the dinner pails ahd scream of the factory whistle,
plant the flag of grand old Texas on the parapets of prosperity.
To arms; Forward! March! Texas Needs Great Men.
prouder of his feat than this
young American warrior who is
allowed to wantonly shoot down
the winged visitor who comes
to southern sunshine to escape
the snow and ice of the north.
Each year the flights of ducks
are smaller and more infrequent,
thanks to the pump Shot gun;
years ago the wild pigeons were
exterminated; the quail shooting
is rare sport even for the wealthy;
the turkey has disappeared to
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the mountain wilds; the dove is
now being ruthlessly slaughtered
and in a few years, it too, will be
found only in public museums.
The game hog has bad bis day
and his day in Texas is about
over. Only the robins come in
numbers for a few weeks each
years. Then the pot hunter is
in bis paradise.
.The little robin red breast sits
upon the tree top. cocks his head
to one side, gives a frindiy twin
kle
breast
and chirps cheerfully; 'Tm not
afraid. You are only bluffing.
Southerners are such hospitable,
chivalrous
Bang!
"All the birds of tbe air are
a-sigbingand a*obbing" for poor
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Three-Quarter Carat Diamond
^Spokane, Wash.—After repos-
ing three months in an impromp-
tu jewel case in the form of a
chicken's gizzard, a three-quar-
ter carat diamond, belonging to
E. M. Reel, a motion picture ma-
chine operator of Spokane, was
restored to its owner recently."
Reel lost the gem, which is valued
at $75. from its setting in a ring
he wore last September, while
working in the yard at his resi-
dence. The chicken, then a
young Rhode Island Red rooster,
seized upon it as a choice morsel
ond swallowed it. His digestive
qualifications were too slight,
however, lor proper disintegra-
tion, and the diamond lodged in
the gizzard. In the meantime
Eeel gave up his search for tbe
sparkler, concluding it was lost
to him for all time. A few days
ago be went to the hen house and
killed the rooster for dinner.
Mrs. Reel was dressing the fowl
when she found the missing dia-
ov* hears hiabritfht „m<mdand now claims propnetor-
to his eye, bears ms ong^t , Qf the stooe Reer8S0lace
st for the hunter s target jn form Qf choice bits of
was in the form of choice
theTooster after it was cooked.
The tide of civilization is rush-
ing into Texas like a surging sea;
our mwese are opening up like
flowing from the moun-
;our farms are pouring
:li a stream of golden wealth
the channel of trade; and
tes are belching forth
of newly made riches—all
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McCarty, Richard H. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912, newspaper, February 22, 1912; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth126050/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stonewall County Library.