Brenham Daily Banner (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 16, 1912 Page: 4 of 6
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BRENHAM WEEKLY BANNER.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1918
BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
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standing or reputation of any person, firm or cor-
poration which may appear in the columns of The
Banner will be gladly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
LIVE OAK HILL.
The more one thinks of the Live Oak Hill
idea of a school picnic, the more it appeals. The
idea was that a picnic does not necessarily
mean a trip to the country, but to the city as
well and acting on that theory they came to
town last Saturday and spent the day.
There is considerably more common ocnse to
the thought than is immediately suggested, un-
less one is a veteran of the ordinary rural pic-
nic—that is, a picnic spent in the country
Our idea of having a nice, comfortable time
doe* net consist of scrapping nat-< and gatlui-
ing in the latest crop of wood-ticks to be re-
picked as they fatten. Nor does it entirely ap-
peal to our description of having a good time
to mash down a lot of virgin weeds in an ef-
fort to locate a couch for a close, stuffy nap,
or work an hour to put up a swing merely to
work several hours "running under" to take
turns at swinging. The list might be contin-
ued indefinitely. Every phase of picnicking
might be included and the single, solitary fea-
ture of even mild pleasure is the^actual mas-
ticating exercise. ,
Live O.' k Hill pupils showed rar» wisdom
coming to town. The older ones might have
felt a little embarrassed during the parade
through the city, but that soon wore off. At
any rate they returned home with pleasing rec-
ollections cf a day well spent,
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HOW TO PLANT COTTON.
Progressive Farmer
Now, the majority of farmers who have bad
stands of cotton are themselves responsible.
They use faulty methods planting. While it
may be that occasionally insects or storms will
ruin a stand of cotton, yet the most of the poor
stands are poor from the beginning. There's
a reason. Let us look into the matter and dis-
cover the cause.
First, the matter of seed should be carefully
considered. Seed to bring good stands must
be of strong vitality. There is no better way
to get such seed than to cull them in the
field from the open stalk, and after being gin-
ned, screen them. This screening the seed
will get out the small ones, which as a rule
produce only weakling plants at best, and often
do not come up. This accounts for a great
many people being able to get better cotton
from two-year-old seed. The weak and imma-
ture seed do not come up after they reach that
age. Seed which have not been properly cared
for by not being kept in a dry place should not
be planted. ,
Second, the condition of the seedbed at plant-
ing time goes a long ways towards getting a
stand of cotton. Owing to htere being so
many different types of soil and such a vari-
ance in the rainfall in the cotton-growing
states, it is hardly practicable to outline a
system of planting that will fit under all con-
ditions. But we can safely say that we want
a seed-bed full of moisture, but not one that
is cold or wet. Cotton seed will germinate with
a small amount of moisture much better than
with the soil laden with water.
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AT XEAST 90 PER CENT HUMAN.
East may be east and west may be west, and
the Oriental may have his own peculiar views
of life. But, after all, he is 90 per cent hu-
man and only 10 per cent Oriental.
The Chinese declaration of independence,
with its desire for a just government and for
the laying aside of race prejudices, is the ex-
pression of a common humanity under the in-
fluence of the great democratic movement that
in sweeping around the world in the Twentieth
Century.
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THE WICKED SHALL BE WANDERERS.
My God will cast them away, because they
did not hearken unto him; and they shall be
wanderers among the nations.—Hosea ix, 17.
THE MARSHALL SPEECH.
Galveston News-
Mr. Marshall is in a fair way to prove that
a vice president can be useful, even if that dire
contingency which makes the main raison
d'etre of his office should happily never be real-
ized. At all events, he suggests by his own
proper conduct that when a vice president gets
surfeited by senatorial oratory he can drop
his gavel and hie himself to some banquet or
other function, and there vent himself of all
the ideas and emotions he may have been im-
bued with while presiding over the senate. If
succeeding vice presidents do not emulate his
example it is likely to be, we imagine, because
not many of them are apt to be so well equip-
ped to perform this extra legal service. He en-
tertains some old fashioned views that are re-
freshing in these very modernistic times, but
views which, though old-fashioned, he makes
applicable to present problems. And what
further equips him is a knack of expressing
himself in a galvanic kind of way that must
shock into action even the mind that is predis-
posed to quarrel with his opinions. That he
has courage to say pretty much what he thinks
regardless of the susceptibilities of present
company, even though that company should be
his host, would be abundantly testified, if tes-
timony had been needed, by his preachment be-
fore the National Democratic Club in New
York City the other night.
How many multimillionaires were present
the press account inexcusably neglected to
note, but we imagine that such as were present
must have felt, when he got through, that the
heaping of millions upon millions is a pretty
unflattering and even fatuous work for a man
to be engaged in, even when every dollar in the
monumental pile exhales an aroma of strictly
honest dealing. When, as we fear in many
cases is true, the whole pile gives off a stench
peculiar to corruptions, then, as he said most
graphically, there is generated a force that is
explosive and destructive. Already the coun-
try has become pretty firmly convinced that
laws and institutions which facilitate the ef-
forts of the shrewd and strong to exploit the
dull and weak must be got rid of, by gentle
means it may be, but by almost any means that
may become necessary, however ruthless. Ap-
parently Mr. Marshall thinks we need some-
thing more than just laws and equality of op-
portunity, assuming equality of opportunity to
be a possible achievement of statesmanship;
and so he sugests, rather than proposes, that
the shrewd and strong must learn to curb their
greed and content themselves with the absorp-
tion of even less than an honest deference to
just laws would enable them to make. It is a
bold and rather a big idea, but tomorrow, or
day after, at most, it will probably not seem
so preposterous as it doubtless did to some of
Mr. Marshall's auditors. ,
AN EATER OP1 RAW FOODS.
They are atavistic who gravely hold that
man made a mistake in discovering and ap-
plying the principles of cookery. This is appar-
ent from the discovery of a skeleton in the most
recent paleolithic deposit of Hailing, England,
containing teeth which had abcesses at the
roots, as a result of overwear, with exposure
of the pulp cavities. The Hailing man, Prof.
Keith teaches, may have belonged to a totally
different genus of human being—a branch that
was not in direct line of descent to modern
man. Some defect of living habit, either in-
stinctive or acquired, doomed this race to ex-
tinction some tens of thousands of years ago.
Was it his persistent consumption of raw
foods?
.It's possible, of course, to get subsistence from
roots, grains, and herbs in which the nourish-
ing starch has not burst the confines of its cel-
lulose coverings by the application of heat.
Such foods requires severe cominution, how-
ever, for which the buccal apparatus of the
ruminant animl sais best adapted. Pasturing
kine "fletcherizing" their cuds eke out a peace-
ful but laboring existence. Man, doubtless,
was constrained to imitate their method in re-
mote ages. But like his modern counterpart
among the dietetic faddists, he could not long
survive. ,
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The Marquis of Huntly has admitted to a
London court that his wife supports him and
that he has no means except that which his
spouse allows him. As a member of the no-
bility, he is apparently setting himself up as a
model of frankness.
In some of the states, where the "full crew"
bill is pending, the railroads assert that they
will compel all employes to pay transportation.
Which causes the question as to where the line
of distinction will be drawn between who is an
employ and who is an official.
Baseball
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Baseball is a wholesome, democratizing in-
fluence; like death, it is a mighty leveler, de-
stroying artificial distinctions between man
and man. It has the advantage of being a
sport whose essential theory, like that of foot-
ball, it is easy to grasp, whether you do or do
not understand the finesse of squeeze plays and
double steals, Texas leaguers and pinch hit-
ting, balks and sacrifices, inshoots and foul
strikes. The heroes of the diamond have dim-
med the luster of dime novel villains and led
many a boy, in the zest of adventure and over-
flowing animal spirits, to wholesome emula-
tion. When baseball is compared with the cru-
el and sanguinary pastimes which masquerade
under the name of "sport" in uncivilized lands,
the devotee of clean, honorable and manly ath-
letic competition is inclined to give thanks that
baseball is our national sport and that the pop-
ularity of the game in the United States is firm-
ly and finally established
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Was Napoleon Near Paris
New York Post.
In A. W. Macy's "Curious Bits of History"
is a record of the changes in the tone of the
Paris newspapers as Napoleon approached the
city after his escape from Elba.
March 9, 1815, it was announced that "the
cannibal has escaped from his den." On the
tenth: "The Corsican ogre has just landed
at Cape Juan." On the eleventh: "The tiger
has arrived at Gap." On the twelfth: "The
monster passed the night at Grenoble."
On the thirteenth: "The tyrant has cross-
ed Lyons." On the fourteenth: "The usurper
is directing his course toward Dijon, but the
brave and loyal Burgundians have risen in a
body and they surround him on all sides." On
the eighteenth: "Bonaparte is sixty leagues
iVom the capital; he has had skill enough to
escape from the hands of his pursuers." On the
nineteenth: "Bonaparte advances rapidly, but
he will never enter Paris."
On fhe twentieth: "Tomorrow Napoeor
will be under our ramparts." On the twenty-
ar.*t: "The emperor is at Fontainebleau " On
the 1 v/enty-second: "His imperial majestv
last evening made his entrance into the Pa'ace
of the Tuileries, amidst the joyous acclama-
tions of an adoring and faithful people.
The "Honest Man a Woman
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Six Men Defeated Fifty Others
Former King Manuel of Portugal declares in
an interview that he believes he will soon re-
turn to the throne of that country. Which
must be more or less welcome news to the
press agent of Gaby Deslys.
Pitiladelphia Ledger.
A wealthy man died in Brussels, leaving
nearly the whole of his fortune to a young wo-
man who was entirely unacquainted with him
He was a very eccentric man, and set out,
like Diogenes, in search of an honest man. His
"tub" was an omnibus, and his lantern a small
coin. In the omnibus he took his seat near the
conductor, and always showed himself very
obliging, passing up the money of passengers
an dreturning the change, but to the latter he
always managed to add a franc, or a half-franc.
Then he would watch those to whom it came.
They would count it carefully; notice the ex-
tra coin, and invariably slip it into their pock-
ets. No one thought of the poor conductor,
whose meager salary of three francs a day
could ill spare such a loss. ,
But at last a young woman passed hers
back with: "Conductor, you have given me
half a franc too much."
"Diogenes," delighted, following her home,
made inquiries, and as the answers were satis-
factory, made his will in her favor, though he
never gave her warning that her half-franc
was going to bring her a million.
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Roman Herald.
A remarkable incident during the recent op-
eration in Epirus is reported in the following
semi-official communication: ,
A heroic encounter occurred on the Argyro-
castro Road, when a sub-lieutenant of cavalry,
named Vouros, accompanied by five troopers,
meeting a detachment of fifty Turks, attacked
them, and after a fierce engagement twenty of
the Turks were killed and the remainder made
THE LESSONS OF NATURE.
William Drummond.
Of this fair volume which we world do name,
If we the sheets and leaves could turn with
care,
Of him who corrects it, and did it frame,
We clear might read the art and wisdom rare;
Find out his power which wildest powers doth
tame, ,
His providence extending everywhere,
His justice which proud rebels doth not spare,
In every page, no period of the same.
But silly we. like foolish children, rest
Well pleased with colored vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribbands, leaving what is best,
On the great writer's sense ne'er taking hold;
Or if by chance we stay our minds on aught,
It is some picture on the margain wrought.
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IN A HUMOROUS WAY
Between Two Wharf Salts.
"Wot th' doose did ye tell 'im there was a lot
o' fishin' for? Wi, ther' ain't a couple o' cod-
lin within three miles o' the pier1, an' you knows
it."
"That's all right, ain't it? The less fishes
there is, the more fishin' ther' is to git 'em."—
London Opinion.
In the Telephone Booth.
Dear Old Lady (using call office telephone
for first time, to operator at the exchange) —
And as you've been so nice and attentive, my
dear, I'm putting an extra penny in the box for
yourself—Punch.
Might Be Either.
,He—Is the new place just opened on your
street a tailor's shop or a public spooning par-
lor
She—A spooning parlor. What do your
mean ?
He—Why, I noticed a sign in the window:
"Hand Pressing Done Here." >
She Meant All Right.
Mistress (getting ready for reception)—
How does my new gown look in the back, No-
rah?
Maid—Beautiful, mum. Sure the'll all be
delighted when you lave the room.
Not Yet Decided.
"I want some sort of present for a young
lady."
"Yes, sir—financee or sister?"
"Er-why-she hasn't said which she will be
yet."
Right Way.
Orator—Now, then, is there anybody in the
audience who would like to ask a question?
Voice—Yes, sir; how soon is the band going
to play?—New Orleans Times-Democrat,
Napoleon Lost Something, Too.
Host—That is the sword of my great uncle.
He lost his arm at Waterloo.
Guest—Yes, it's a terrible place for losing
things. I lot a bog there only last week—Lon-
don Opinion.
A Query.
The Preacher (raising his voice)—Salvation
is free- Do you want it?
Editor (suddenly awakening)—If there are
any prominent people mixed up in it you might
give us 700 words—Puck.
Her Plans.
Soubrette—Which divorce colony are you go-
ing to?
Star—I haven't been able to find out wheh
has the best bureau of publicity.—Judge.
Never Again.
She smoked just one—
No more, you bet!
She calls it now
A "sickarette."
Inquisitive.
"Pop, did you hurt yourself last night."
"Hurt myself! What does the child mean?
"Why, Jimmy Smith's papa said he saw you
fall off the water wagon."—Baltimore Ameri-
can.
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The Iceman.
"There wil lbe a shortage of ice next summer,
and then what will you do?"
"I expect to sell enough ice this warm win-
ter to enable me to retire," announced the ice
dealer with a grin,—Kansas City Journal.
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