The Abilene Semi-Weekly Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 69, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 16, 1913 Page: 4 of 6
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MOIETY EDITOR.
Is4rndent Those
Southwestern Those. ...
No. 528
No. P30
(Aay erroseeua reflectlM upon tho charac-
ter ataadlag er refutation! at any person firm
r eorporatloa wklch nay appear In the col-
hmbb of TUB REPORTER will bo gladly cor-
rtct4 tipe 1U W1b brought to the attentloa
C Um lira.)
ClutiiMi! day will be Sept. J3rd. Gut ready
to do your part.
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Ik-gin mm to plan for a silo for your 11)14
feed crop. It will pay you. '
If it rains every day from now until Jan-
uary 1st 1914 it should not stop the move
inent for irrigation plants.
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There never was a better time to sow wheat
than now. The proim.su -of winter rains
should cause large acreage to be put hi.
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Deep plowing will bring results. Land
broken 1(5 inches deep in the Tall will grow a
better crop in the spring than if the plow
only runs 4 inches deep.
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They all come home saying "I am glad to
get back to Abilene." It is the amc way
when folkg leave the county. Truth of the
matter is thero is no better place to live than
Taylor county.
Jerome and Thaw are having it up ami
down. Jerome says you must and Thaw says
I will not. We can only wait in patience for
developments.
Chester If. Terrell of San Antonio has
announced vfor tho Democratic nomination
for the olliee of Governor of Texas. Mr. Ter-
rell was speaker of the house during the last
legislature and has n htring following over
the state.
Mayor Kirby has issued a proclamation
designating Tuesday September Uilrd as
clean-up day in Abilene and calling on the
people to join in an effort to make the eify
the eleaiu'ht spot in Texas. The Mayor an-
nounces that all gf the city officials will be
on hand bright and early on that morning
rc'iitl to kilt weeds and clean the streets.
41 We are going to make it the greatest elean-
'up campaign that Abilene ever witnessed.
Many of the merchants have already agreed
to close their stores during the forenoon and
overy man woman and child in Abilene will
be asked to join in and help" said the Mayoiji
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"ill-fortuno is suggi'SteM as a cause for
the disasters that have occurred on the
New York New Haven & Hartford Itailroad.
We do not believe in any such stuff. Poor
wud ini'flW'init management somtmlhcre v
responsible for the record the road has
against it. If it is true that the engineer
who runs his engine into the standing train
had only slept four hours out of twenty-four
it should not be hard to Hgure out where the
blame rests and mind you we do not say it
rests on the engineer. It is with the man
over him who sent him out to work unfit for
elieieitt servict.
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Momfoy Abilene Christian College opens
ii doors tu the public and invites students
from all over the state to enter. Tuesday
Simmons opens its door to the public. The
:ople of Abilene have just cause to he
proud of both of tliiKu schools. They bring
MMd people to our town and lots of them
auid help to ureate an atmosphere of morality
it tliw fity that goa to make Ahilene tr
lowit to be deuirud bj people who want it
live aiming moral intellectual people.
The boy or girt who fails to take advan-
tage of the opportunity he or hw may have
if attending kchool is actually hiiming
mcahwt their own life. The parent who al-
kews their child to Uy out of school or fall
lrWttd fti thair work h lining again!
tMr own ahihl. Children are apt to com-
plain aaiut teachers whew the fault is all
u ihm fcWhl. Teaeh are usually good and
imwfw iikii mew u ihc jiarenu we tuui
ar IHTAftarly prwiwrwl.
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CiUVMlL.
Tralv thin is the yot&m age of wvil sugi-
umetwi thv frtodilj growing rp tu-Cairo
&ailfwil ifcat nll m like a ? tra4 rt-
ry for Afriw the railroad that binds Bagdad
to DmiiMcwi across the Syrian Dencrt the
stibwy under the New York streets mid
river tho wonderful ateel trestles thm apaa
the ocean spaces between the Florida Keys
nnd give a direct Tond to Key West and Ihsfy
but not leitfit the eighth wonder of the world
the oniiM across the Isthmus of Panama
these arc all evidences of the pluck the dar-
ing the indomitable energy nnd the God-given
Intellect of ninn.
Now inspired perhaps by these other neh.
ievemeiits thero come across the Atlantic
whispers of n plan to tunnel under the Kug
lish CliHiinel and join Dover to Calais by a
subway through which will thunder rapid
transit eieeine ears.
Kifty-yunrs ago some one proposed such
a tunnel but it awakened interest only as U
beautiful fairy tale might. Two things stood
in the way of its popular ncccplance as n
possibility. One was the seeming absurdity
of Its achievement; the other was the fear of
I'reueli invasion through it should it ever be
completed. England likes her insular situa-
lion and did not fancy the presence of an
overiauU'Uiiciersea link to iter neighbor.
And so. the channel subway was treated as
an entertaining speculation a pleasing plum-
tasy with which people amused themselves.
Ihil it is said that a serious note is creep-
ing into the airy speculations. Engineers
nre noiutiiiL' mil flint flm tnmml innhl ln
dug and cemented and otherwise fortified
against inundation in much less time than it
took to build our canal and at about half
the cost.
If tho idea strikes in deep enough it will
be only a comparatively short time before
Enidnild nml Franco u-'ill lie limMiur i im-nnl
each other under the surging waters of the
channel. Hoth countries have the national
grit and the engineering ability to achieve
success n sucli a tiling is possible.
It may not be so many years before Lon-
don will be holding a "Dover-to-Cnlais sub-
way exposition" and asking us to go over
and bear a hand. Then we will have either
to generously forget or poignantly remember
that she declined to exhibit at our canal ex-
position. Commercial Appeal.
The Kings
By Dr. Frank Craa.
OPEN MARKETS.
KI I'n.sn Tillli-u- Hill ifnrn in illrinn nnnmip tu
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know how to dose out the proper kind of
medicine to the white slaver and if this same
prescription was generally applied men of
this class would soon be placed where tluv
would be incapable of plying their nefarious
vocation.
Nobody has any sympathy for the white
slaver whether he is as in the California
ease merely a moral pervert or whether he
is as in real white slavery a heartless ami
shameless brute who exploits women for eom-
mereial profit. lint why do the law anil wv
eiety visit penal servitude upon the white
slaver while still inviting him to pursue his
base vocation? Commercialized vice districts
are the markets wherein the slaver disposes
of his captives and commercialized vice dis-
tricts are openly maintained or permitted by
our greatest cities. If the markets were elos.
ed would not the. industry languish t Dal-
las News.
Microbes
By Howard L. Rasa.
TI.IE microbe is a small four-lugged insect
with a frank open eouutenauce and is never
taken seriously until it is time to call in the
coroner's jury. Microbes are more to be
feared than cabbage worms or tho blood-
thirsty potato bpg yet people receive them
into their homes mud carry them around in
their clothes without looking into their fat-
imr or asking any questions about their fam-
ily connections. Microbes may be taken in-
ternally or externally although as a rule
they prefer to open a hhaft in thu human
system from the outside. It has been dis-
covered that when Cleopatra decidud to die
hi two jerks of a lamb's tail she did not call
in an asp. as reported by the Associated
Press ut the time but that she picked nut a
red.hlooded Egyptian microbe which had not
killed anvbody for several days. The des-
cendants of this microbe- are still roaming
around and padding the vital statistics. The
meilieat profession is authority for the state-
ment that lht mohl dmdly foam ui jmierjabejs.
are those which lurk in the jdiair ear drink-
ing cup and the string beau mustache. The
girl who does not care to be decorated with
microbes to whom sho has never boon intro-
duced should iunist upon the shorn lip. There
has never been an attempt to take u census
of the microbes now playing their infarioin
trade but it in estimated that the rim of u
tin eup will furnish standing room fur 1-
QQQfiQQ adults without crowding auj body-
off the edge We huvu always suspoottid
that the alleged louuiits which went out to
get I'haroah and ate holes in his best suit
were in reality the forefathers of tut wml
kUH miurnbe. It is well known that the Ku
bm gruWiopper which could eat its way
through a galvaulzad iron eorn rih vm sim-
ply a late wodel of tk microbe whiuh iW
troywd the profile of the Sphinx It in
bitter fact but true that the only way to
get Hd of iuierobta w to pass one's dav
iy uitr seeliutoii and kereue oil shower
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NOTHING mulcus ole
much tiredur than the idea
constantly harped ou by
ignorant and timid minds
that universal democracy
necessarily menus the wip-
ing out of all grades am-
ong men bringing every
person down to an equality
of common plaeeltCHS.
Hut tho motive force of
democracy is not envy.
Democrat- glowers at
nresent-tbiv irnuii. full. mil
because it does not believe in aristocracy
but because it docs believe in real nrinlniM-n.
ey nnd is out of patience with humbug stipe-
r.oi iiy. l ue piuioemt or .ew York the her-
e.htary noble of London and the kings of Hu-
lope we do not feel pleasant toward thorn
si.uply because they have no rational right to
their glory.
Tin re always have been and will bo genu-
ine kings of men lenders rulers all the mori'
i Wiful the less power they have. To them
the common man is .proud to look up and to
Wiv " master." Hut these are the very kind
which would have more opportunity under
democracy than under nrivileifn.
Such are Dante Shakespeare Hneon . h'm-
coin Gladstone Maz.iui; Wagner. Heelh-
oen Haeh; Fraueiii of AssiSti. Luther Wes-
le ; Socrates Plato Kant ; Pasteur. Melehni-
hoff Ivoeh; and the like; and over all the
"king or kings" tho Carpenter's sou nf
Nazareth whose short life influenced man-
kind more than any battle auv dynastie
ehr.ngej any discovery.
We waul the eheap pewter kings of arti-
lieial convention to get out ami give this
kind a chance.
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Efficient Housekeeping
By Henrietta D. Grauel
(Domestic Science Lecturer.)
A VOICE just came over
the telephone wire say-
ing Pluiibu .Miss (traul
write some recijics for
sweet potatoes."
It is a pleasure to do this
for thy are pluntilul at
this season and more whole
some than Iri.ih pot it toes
or almost any other vege-
table. '
It is no credit to you to
cook those lowly vegeta-
ble well but it U it disiiraee to sere them
moist and hgay so insist on having the
oitriige-hi-urted Jersey sweets. Pare them
or serape them us thinly as you can and hoi-
piiekly in water emitiiiniug a sprinkle or
Mill and a good tlash of sugnr. When ten-
der fiiouuh to pierce with a fork drain and
ool. Slice in hhlf-ineh mits or in rounds
4p in melieil butter and then in sugar pbo'c
on a wire rack like a toaster over a dripping
pan in a wry hot oeu. A soou as I he slices
a. brown serve on a hot platter.
.Mexico to mnke up for the many annoy.
iinecM she has made our eouyitw has presen-
ted some excellent inw dishes to us. One of
these is .Mexiuan hwecl potlttiTfritturs; nillsh
the boiled sweet potatoes ndd two eggs a
half a eup of flour a pineh of salla dash of
pepper two inhhwpuonK of migitr and enough
rich milk to make a batter that will drop
from a spoon. Frj ou a buttered griddle nnd
eat with syrup
Auuther Mexican recipe that is different
rrom any thing in the American cuisine and
et vere nppulhtlug is steamed sweet potutu.
Thin dish if made exactly a- ilire'uled hero
will have a flavor very much like fried spring
chicken.
Take it tablespoon of bacon dripping nd
one of butter mix in half us much flour. Stfr
this in a baking dish over it low fire until it
hettiiih to brown add u ipiart of diced pareil
hweet pot at nun. Pour on enough boiling
water to almost eovur put well flttiin liil
on the dish nml nook in the ovoit until the
water is evaporated or absorbed. Sivi in
the dish they were baked in with plemy of
butter.
Plantation Pudding Is sontewhat similar tu
Um uhnxti JbiIie&WFjlsito-t-pottttv4itto-tloep
dih add ialt pop pur and butter or
syrup nml butter n jott prefer pour on
little cream hardly I'liougli to show hetwuuti
the slicis. Hake in a moderati oven until th
potaiouk are wry brown and tender
In Slum and KaU India tbU vgtabb u rw
gawlcd a a sweet and U pruoorvuti in a rieh
itugar syrup to be UArd as a till bit after a
foiiht but whathe-r you bake thum a la Ma-
rion that is in hut iibhwt out of dour or
augiiiBiit their rlh wwui-i with mmr ur
honty muk them wtviirj- with pltinty of but-
ter. I um onmlimw ahkwl why sml potatou
turn blaek when boilad. Thu ii humuu thuy
"jutaiti so lare tt iiuantity of iron and w
mukml in an iron kettle itinl then snljtwl
to the nation of (he air. It my be prevented"
if ou du not part' tht until after boiling.
3IereI fernh with 4 egftMe brniih cut out
jhi rtftperfwetioi with m fctlitr ktnfc mid
eook jn a poreel'iu mu with enough wattr
to wttr as well ai a Ud.
Mark IS. ItiiKsdnlo. tho JrrJgalliiK en-
Blneof has tteon to Abllqne elos.nl
hts contract with Urn Young 5Icn
Hooator Club nKil will begin work on
the pinkos of mombors of the Coatful
West Tcxns trrlgntlou Asfoelnllon on
next Monday 1Mb. Mr. itiiKndiiln Ihih
the first week's work nwjinl out. and
Mr. wood sacrotnry of tho club will
log hla route out wwk by wk for
the next two or three mouths nml
any 0110 who desires Mr. iinRMlnle'
Borvloo would do well to umko nmll
enttoa at once to the dlrolor of tho
Irrigation Association la whose dis-
trict thoy live girlnf tho locution
of thplr oroirtj. the niannni of inml
they wish Mr. HaRRclale to Insiiort for
lliem. uiid autke arniiiKcinonts for his
tmesiiortntiuu from whoro lip may tic
to their iilacos. The fall rains iuivo
already commenced and It uill i
much bettor for thoRp who Intend t
build diuiis to catch the vory first
ruins nosBlblc. ih thoo who build
dams liile will fail to net the linn..rn
n uiu willior IMHHUIIRH Wlllrll ftH' al
vnlunblo ns thoao In tho nnrlnR nnd
siunniur. ncconllng to IrrignliiiK x
porfB. Mr. HngBdnlo Will begin Mon-
day morning on tho Clonr Fork about
twelve mll.'H north of Alillcnc. mid
will work this way until he go's t..
town which will nrolmuly take liltn :
weeks or more at the end of that time
or thonsiboiits his tluio will be open
nml tho first to make their ntudlen-
tlon and get U10 Bamo allowml. will be
the first served.
THE
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS
NATIONAL BANK
Is depository for the
United States and the
State of Texas and is
the only such deposi-
tory in Abilene.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS
NATIONAL BANK
The Old Established Baak
From timo iinnunorlnl there has been
u class who ou04ud llroeronn of nnv
sort Just because airtli cln8s they wore
noii-progrenslvo and could not help It.
nun not bacniiBU of any bad motlvmi
Thou thero has always been anothur
class- who oppoHe nearly all priigrcss
for ulterior niallvua In fuct oppo
all progress whtili does nor result di-
rectly In iiersonal gala to them Indi-
vidually and Abilene Is "long on thlw
chins. Never was a town this size ho
scourged with a clan of this sort
Nothing can lie goodno matter how
beneficial to It community at largo
unless It will he iirnfltulil m thu
crowd. If the cttlmns or Alilleiw do
not know who they are. all Mmt Ik
necessary to do to find out ts tVllsicn
alid sv who are discouraging the liloa
of Irrigation. It is apparent to every-
ono that the moc for hclpint th
mniior In hl efforts to mnko small
irrigation a nuceea Is one width can
redound to ljuniillt of no ona pcroon
ir eliiiue.fMidgfursthiU reamn4lt is
also notlccablo that opposition to the
scheiuo conivs from that ulnB8 who
have eoiuo to oxpect nothing to he
Uoiib iiiiUwh done by thamh pg and
don with an ey hiitglu to thrtr own
sptflBh gain and eniuulajeiiu Tile jm-o-ole
or thU town and community have
overlookdd ami condutiud tiitw kind of
action from tho inceptiuu of tho uwa
and U in tlmo that nil the cltizonslilu
should join in all progrcesive moves.
fnstttil of our favorite crowd of knoek-
trs !)Klnniii(; their work soon a
anyHinig Ih startiHl tiuk it is run
by Uihm and for them. For the pri.
out wn aro follig eoruuoly ubout our
work hoping and praying that w may
lio allowml 10 couttnuiT to do so with
out havtiiR Ui uioro than ntgeat ilm
wo know our duty nml iniBiid to do It
no matter who It has to oppotu or
WIUBU. I
Monday evening the sth. the lioorcr
unm gav a wutitruiuluu tiBiit nu
mokur. A larsu uuuibcr of cittzfiu
and mt inkers wore prcatnt 'flic .t
wual of the uiscUug lout aln-udy bii
ahoalclad In tb columiiu. hut
wish to kijf that wc iughli appra Iui
ho uteiidauee or o nmy or on
older citlzum and lippm i.u th- li
terfiHt wiiown iiy tlicm in our win.
It Is iiiiiiHiiiil to h.iw fcu. h u hit);
attiindiiiics at any fun-tUui tjr ilu .n
and a mor intercut wia huu o
he liijulntNS niBfitlng than in iit
Hprad and ttiiHiker. Kr in.-iiii
we hu had has ahown an lu tmmt- in
taterwl and lit nii-ntcrln. Wa al-
ways have live yauM to ditxtiu ao.1
IiiUKjrtant and Inierastlng imstiwiw tn
traiwast. W isimilttlly invle ever
ciUzou of Ablltis o our ntiMttnKii and
will uJm adrtoo ami ounmel a
all 4lme front tlB Httandtni;. riiw-
oitt souiMtwe ami gt th Inkidrallun
10 ao otnnlttf it Is modi nornrat-
tfyitiK vm Iiilrwiag XSaifMm -ImtHf
on loganil lutwiMwiy man- m
thwn being Judan TUr are ian
rmmI men In this town cajwhls of gro
gfflod If thy wouia only imhnrv tlot
tolBiu and g to wurfc wUh it h rt
Ktml and rultbfMt wirvaiu uaii gt
yor rwaJ Ji pays la ih long rm
FIRE INS URA NOE!
Tho fire companies represented by us af-
ford protection that is absolute. Losses
paid t once without unnecessary "red
amTrcst assured tlmt you will receive a fair
and liberal settlement in case of loss.
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Louis Cm Wise & Son
"Tho Wise 7ur With Wimm
aood. In the section where I visited
ih had not hud anyraln for two
mniitjm. and nil cropn were Muffcrlni:.
the cotton having nhed all late wiuarea
nnd early cotton was opening prema
turely.
Mngiulno la a town or about 1500
H6piilntlnn. on tho Ick Island mil-
road and is ten miles from Mounf
Mugazlno. n fumuuH aiiminor reort
where I had the pleasure of spending
ono day. It Ik called the Queen of Hie
OwtrkK and lies bonwn Um Arknn-
aH nnd Onchita Itlvrrg in Veil and
fi8nn counties. Tills mountain Is
Mid to jjo the highest between the
Alleghoiiey and Hocky Mountains the
government report Ine It 'L'.S23 feot
nhovo gi level.
I enjoved eating tho varloiiH varie-
ties of fruits drinklnir the cold clear
Rprlng water and. nbuve nil. the kind
traatiuoitt of relatives nml friends hut
t wouldn't exobangti our old drv West
Teo for the state or ArkunsuH S.
U. Nely. Jr. In TuscoU Valley Vldette
M M Smith
tending court
lif Dnidahav
iicre retui
home jctcrdaJ evening
after at-
icd JjfiTs
111 mYmUtf JmWimmtl m
A quick reliMMftmi lumhnco nnd
rheumatism JiadYVtho applica-
tion or HiuitXf .iCtttnlUF Oil. the quick
acting 1 iiiUieuJC A rrwnd writes -c
have bi-ejt iMfig Huia Llghti.'ior Oil
for IJen Dfnn.I dtm It aoJi. ail
ot:iers.Js-MrJ -. T. NevfcW.' Oor.ion.
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pervb.t'I ll dialers. adv.
of Ovalo. aa in Abl-
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lene yefltJhlnv on husliwss
ports that the ruins k his
liae been only ligl
as much as has fa
1- I. Snyder who lad been on lurv
duty her for several days returned
to him home at Iberis yesterday after
noon.
Severn
Grove Hill.
nlnir Oil curi!
case of Rheumat
toothache I
for all you clal
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dealers.
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The completion of paving In front
of Kd S. Hughes Wholesale I In rd ware
building was made Thumduy.
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Fouud It To He u I'nltj lllsf Uorld.
Crop .Ire Spoiled auj vrrjf
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tm far MaiaiMe ArMuww. aad JEr-
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befort. UM lhtrci ai tMn 4Ht to
feic me a tarsM wkjwop
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The Abilene Semi-Weekly Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 69, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 16, 1913, newspaper, September 16, 1913; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth331415/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.