Honey Grove Signal. (Honey Grove, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1915 Page: 4 of 20
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Signal Pub. Co. - Publishers
i, H. Lowry - - - Editor
There are lots of things to
make one glad. One of them is
that old Huerta is still in con-
finement and not even allowed to
cuss the situation.
How the good old times have
changed! When the writer was
a boy people could have chills all
the summer and fall at an ex-
pense of not more than a dollar.
Now quinine is so high that only
the rich can afford to have a chill.
Never permit yourself to be
surprised by the gyrations of the
cotton market. A cotton market
that can go down under such a
bullish report as the late govern-
ment ginners report can do any-
thing.
Georgia has a new law against
liquor shipments which makes it
a violation of the statute for ‘ ‘any
one person to receive by freight,
express or other conveyance more
than one pint of liquor in one
week. ” The thirsty toper with
a large family now has a big ad-
vantage over the toper who has a
small family, or no family. He
can have a pint shipped to his
wife and a pint to each of his
children.
Mr. Bryan seems to be playing
for the title of Warwick. It is
admitted that he brought about
the nomination of Woodrow Wil-
son, and it is now easy to see
that if President Wilson is de-
feated next year, the defeat will
be chargeable to Mr. Bryan.
Theodore Roosevelt made Wil-
liam H. Taft president: then, be-
cause he could not control Mr.
Taft, he brought about his de-
feat. Is Mr. Bryan to play the
Rooseveltian role?
Old Kentucky came near drop-
ping into the Republican column
last week, the Democratic candi-
date for governor rolling up a
majority of less than a thousand.
Old Kaintuck spent a few years
in the Republican camp not so
long ago, and if she had gone
back into a state of wickedness
after seeing the glories of a good
Democratic administration, no
self-respedting Democrat would
ever again have drunk a mint
julep or sung a stanza of My Old
Kentucky Home.
Recent events show that Dem-
ocracy will have a much harder
fight next year than has been
anticipated. The collapse of the
Progressive party will undoubt-
edly mean something like its
former strength for the Republi-
can party. The Republican gains
in New York, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky at
last week’s elections will hearten
the Republicans and arouse them
to greater efforts, and they also
find much comfort in Bryan’s at-
tack upon President Wilson’s pol-
icies. We cannot but believe
President Wilson will be re-
elected, but the prospects of an
easy victory are by no means as
good as they were a few mouths
ago. _
Death by hanging received a
blow at Fort Worth Monday from
which it cannot recover, and the
next Legislature will undoudtedly
adopt some way less horrible for
the despatching of criminals.
When C. A. Myers, a man 60
years old, was hung in Fort
Worth Tuesday his head was lit-
erally pulled from his body by
the rope. The dispatches say the
head was left in the noose and
the body fell to the floor, blood
spurting from the body like oil
from a geyser and covering the
attendants. The gruesomeness
of a horror like this sickens those
who read about it; thoss who
were forced to witness it are de-
serving of all pity. Texas is not
ready to abandon capital punish-
ment, but Texas must find a more
humane and less shocking way
to kill.
All Texas congressmen have
been notified that they are ex-
pected to contribute $500 to the
fund to secure the National Dem-
ocratic Convention for Dallas.
Here’s where we get even with
Jeff McLemore and Cyclone
Davis. _
At last week’s election the
New Yorkers voted down a pro-
posed new constitution by a ma-
jority of more than 400,000. The
way the New Yorkers swat pro-
posed tampering with the consti-
tution leads us to believe that
most of them greV up in Texas.
Texas and New York may make
up their minds to get along with
the constitutions they have until
the crack of doom. The voters
just won’t stand for any changes.
The kaiser has outlined the
conditions on which he will
accept peace. We are no
prophet, but our guess is
that when peace comes it will
be on a basis that somebody
other than the kaiser has
dictated. —Botiham News.
And here we disagree. We
make the guess that when peace
is declared Kaiser Bill will name
the terms. Chalk the guesses on
the wall.
The president’s haste (as
some call it) to get married
again is really a tribute to
the first Mrs. Wilson, for if
his first matrimonial experi-
ence had been unhappy he
would have thought twice
before committing himself
to a second.—Carthage Reg-
ister.
This explanation will prob-
ably satisfy the women. But we
notice that the fellow who finds
his first wife so bad he can’t live
with her, and gets a divorce, is
in just as big a hurry to take
another.
Bell county people are to vote
on the prohibition question to-
morrow. Bell has been switch-
ing places from wet to dry and
back again for several years, the
last election giving the wets a
majority of 300. From all ac-
counts, the campaign now on is
about the warmest the state has
seen for a long time. Cyclone
Davis is there shelling the woods
for the prohis, Charley McDon-
ald is performing a similar ser-
vice for the antis, and Governor
Ferguson has been called from
the executive mansion to make a
few speeches for the antis. Be-
sides these there are dozens of
lesser lights on both sides mak-
ing the welkin ring and Bell
county is all excitement and
suspense.
There is a strong probability
that ex-President William How-
ard Taft will soon be a member
of the Supreme Court of the
United States. The announce-
ment that Justice White will soon
retire has been made, and with
the announcement comes the
rumor that President Wilson will
appoint ex-President Taft to fill
the vacancy. Justice White,
’though a Democrat, was appoint-
ed by Mr. Taft, and it would be
a graceful return of the compli-
ment for President Wilson to
name Mr. Taft when Justice
White retires. Mr. Taft is a
great lawyer and his ambition to
occupy a seat on the Supreme
bench has been greater than his
ambition to serve as President.
Thomas Edison, the electrical
wizard, makes an announcement
concerning the wars of the future
that is both horrible and pleas-
ing. He says machinery will do
nearly all the fighting and that
people will be killed a hundred
times more rapidly than under
the present plan of fighting wais.
Mr. Edison says most of the men
will be killed by merely pressing
electrical buttons, and that the
slaughter will be terrible. Mr.
Edison usually knows what he is
talking about. We shudder when
we think of the great slaughter
by machinery, but the soldier
will find it more comfortable to
sit in a nice room and press a
button than to face cannons in
the trenches.
Solomon said in his wisdom
that all men are liars, and
Solomon was correct. Every-
body knows something that
would make a good news
item in a newsnaper, but
when you ask them what
they know they do not know
anything. — Mesquite Mes-
quiter.
We really don’t believe Solo-
mon said anything of the kind.
Sol dealt principally with women,
and if he had brought charges of
untruthfulness against any it
would have been against some
female—and of course he was too
gallant to do that. Sol’s father,
David, got mad one day and call-
ed all of us men folk liars, but
but we can afford to overlook
David’s big talk, after reading a
history of his eccentricities.
. The Progressive party, better
known as the party of the Bull
Moose, is but a memory now. In
the states in which elections were
held last week the Progressive
ticket did not receive sufficient
strength to give it a place on the
ballot next year. This party had
a short life, but it served a use-
ful purpose. It made Democratic
success possible three years ago
and gave the country one of the
safest and best presidents that
ever guided the destinies of a
nation. The Bull Moose is dead,
but the country is far better off
because it lived. Four years ago
Teddy Roosevelt, the prophet of
the Bull Moosers, was the most-
talked-of man in America—today
the name gets little mention.
Such is fame.
W. J. Bryan is making more
trouble for President Wilson. In
a recent address Mr. Bryan de-
clared that the President’s pre-
paredness policy is a slap at
Christianity. This is indeed a
very serious charge. It is, of
course, the privilege of man to
express his views on any pro-
posed policy at any time, but it
is a serious thing to accuse a
high official of advocating the
things that seek the destruction
of the eternal principles of Chris-
tianity. If we read the Scriptures
aright, Christian people are urged
therein to preparedness against
the hosts of the devil, and if war
is not of the devil our views have
been wrong all these years. So,
it appears to us, that it would re-
quire a peculiar kind of reason-
ing to reach the conclusion that
preparedness against war is a
slap at Christianity. And there
are many who believe Woodrow
Wilson is a Christian and a pa-
triot, regardless of any serious
charges that have been or may
be made against him.
Discussing President Wilson’s
program of preparedness, Wil-
liam J. Bryan said in a recent
address:
‘ ‘It is a departure from our
traditions, a reversal of our
national policy and a menace
to our peace and safety, and
a challenge to the spirit of
Christianity which teaches
us to influence others by ex-
ample rather than by excit-
ing fear.”
In this Mr. Bryan has argued
himself out of court. We have
made a poor out at influencing
others by example. Notwith-
standing we are the greatest na-
tion under the sun, we worried
along with about the smallest
army in the world and a sixth-
rate navy. Our example didn’t
exert a very good influence on
the nations of the world. It in-
fluenced Great Britain to fill the
seas with battleships, it influ-
enced Germany to make of her
people one great standing army,
it influenced France and Japan
to spend every dollar possible on
armies and navies. Once upon a
time Great Britain undertook to
clean us up. We didn’t influence
her to quit her ugly ways by de-
stroying our guns and ships, but
by building more and using what
we had. If our example would
cause Europe and Asia to dis-
arm, then we’d gladly make a
bonfire of our battleships and
build bird’s nests in our cannons,
but history teaches us that it
would not.
FALL FLOWERS.
“To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she
speaks M
A various language;
For his gayer hours she has a voice of
gladness,
And a smile, and eloquence of beauty;
And she glides into his darker musings
With a mild and healing sympathy
That steals away their sharpness
Ere he is aware.”
So wrote William Cullen Bry-
ant in Thanatopsis, perhaps the
most glorious view of death that
has been given to the world. We
have not in mind, as the poet
had, the separation of the soul
and body that men call death,
but to us the first stanza of his
masterpiece speaks so truly of
the floral beauty that now bright-
ens and gladdens our world that
we are prone to believe it must
have been penned in late autumn
v/hen the fall rose wore its most
radiant robes and the many-
shaped, many-colored chrysan-
themums bordered the gardens
and the yards.
Truly, to the lovers of flowers
and to those who ‘‘hold com-
munion with them” they speak a
various and a glorious language.
No person can walk through the
flowering rose gardens of today,
his eyes susceptible to the beauty
of color and form and his soul in
love with the Maker and Giver of
all beauty and be unhappy. No
man can gaze upon the waxlike
whiteness, the modest pink, the
glowing yellow and the ruby red
combined in the vase collection
of November roses and withhold
a paean of praise to the God of
the beautiful.
Flowers—angels of mercy, joy,
peace and love; singers of songs of
gladness, crooners of love-notes
of sorrow that ‘‘glide into our
darker musings with a mild and
healing sympathy.” They carry
the message of love from the
bashful school boy to his rosy-
cheeked angel in youth’s golden
morning, when innocence is upon
the brow and eternal springtime
is in the heart. They weave
themselves into garlands of
matchless beauty and bedeck the
hair of the bride as she marches
beside the man she loves to Hy-
men’s holy altar; they carry a
message of hope to the couch of
the suffering; and at last they
nestle upon the hallowed mound
under which reposes all that is
mortal.
We cannot but believe, some-
times, that God did not make the
flowers for man alone. Surely
the Perfect One on High loves
the beautiful and the perfect,
and when he looks so longingly
for the perfect and the beautiful
in man, his highest creation, and
his great heart sorrows because
he finds them not, how delight-
ful it must be to rest His gaze
upon the perfect form and the
glorious painting of the rose.
The Signal carries several ex-
tra pages today. These pages
were added in order to give the
merchants of Honey Grove space
to speak of their goods and their
prices. We do not know whether
the news and editorial columns
of the Signal are of much inter-
est to the people of this country
or not, but we do know that the
advertising columns are of su-
preme importance to the con-
sumers. Honey Grove mer-
chants have laid in enormous
stocks of goods this year. They
are experienced buyers, know
how to buy, and when to buy.
They have seen that the cotton
crop in this section will be short-
er than was promised when they
purchased their stocks, and they
know it is better policy to sell
their goods at reduced prices
than carry them over to another
season; and so they are making
extremely low prices that will
move the goods at once. If the
readers of this live within a
day’s journey of Honey Grove
it will pay them to come
here to do their trading. The
stocks are larger than can be
found in most towns and the
prices will be found very satis-
factory. Read the advertising
pages in today’s paper; it will
pay you.
The “top crop” of cotton is
another shattered hope. Most of
the farmers say they can pick all
their top crop in one sack, and
many offer to sell out this portion
of the cotton yield for a dollar.
Occasionally a top crop comes as
an unexpected guest with a gift
that turns despair into joy, but
as a rule “top crop” does the
farmer more harm than good.
Its possibilities serve to hold
prices down, and not once in ten
years does it add materially to
the yield. Our farmers would
be glad to see a frost that would
put an end to top crop specu-
lation and top crop influence
upon the market.
Having settled all diplomatic
troubles with Germany, Presi-
dent Wilson is now having a tilt
with Great Britain. A very
strong letter was sent the “moth-
er country” a few days ago re-
garding the interference of Great
Britain with shipments of goods
of various kinds from this coun-
try to neutral nations. Ruler of
the seas, as she is, England has
not hesitated to arrest American
ships loaded with goods for neu-
tral ports and drag them into her
own harbors. If the ships prove
their right to proceed they are
released after a long delay, but
if explanations are not entirely
satisfactory to English prize
courts the cargoes are confiscated.
This is not a fair deal, and Eng-
land has been so told in words
that can not be misunderstood.
There is no danger of serious
trouble between the two coun-
tries, but from the tone of Presi-
dent Wilson’s letter it is evident
that Great Britain will have to
quit kicking our ships around.
Germany quit when Uncle Sam
showed his teeth, and there may
have to be a display of molars
before Great Britain will consent
to be good.
We have felt for some time
that certain speakers who go
through the country stirring up
bitter feeling between the
churches, and certain papers that
are printed for no other purpose
than to abuse some religious de-
nomination, deserve rebuke, and
we are very glad to see the re-
buke administered by such high
authority and such a splendid
Christian gentleman as our be-
loved President, Woodrow Wil-
son. In his address before the
Manhattan Club last week Presi-
dent Wilson said:
“We should rebuke .not
only manifestations of racial
feeling in America, where
there should be none, but
also every manifestation of
religious and sectarian an-
tagonism. It does not be-
come America that within
her borders, where every
man is free to follow the dic-
tates of his conscience and
worship God as he pleases,
men should raise the cry of
church against church. To
do that is to strike at the
very spirit and heart of
America.
“We are a God-fearing
people. We agree to differ
about methods of worship,
but we are united in believ-
ing in divine providence and
in worshiping the God of
nations.
“We are the champions of
religious rights, here and ev-
erywhere, that it may be our
privilege to give it our coun-
tenance and support. The
government is conscious of
the obligation and the nation
is conscious of the obligation.
Let no man create divisions
where there are none.”
These are wise words, spok-
en by a great and good man. Let
us hope they will have a far
greater influence upon the people
of America than the denuncia-
tions of bitter partisans who fat-
ten upon prejudice and rejoice in
the work of stirring up hatred
between those who ought to be
friends and co-workers.
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Says a woman writer: “Here
is the way I add six months’ ex-
tra wear to my husband’s shirt
when the stiff linen collars have
rubbed a hole through each side
of the front just below the collar
band and the cuffs have become
frayed at the edge. I cut the
tail from the shirt in the back
and substitute a new tail of long
cloth. From the middle of the
tail of the shirt I cut two straight
pieces just the size for soft
French cuffs. Then from the
two remaining side pieces of the
tail I form a new bosom in the
front of the shirt by stitching
these on very carefully and
neatly matching the pattern of
the material.” What do you
think of that, fellow members ©f
the listening sex? When father
took off his shirt it would look
like a crazy quilt. And yet this-
kind of information is published
almost daily. Wife is so devoted
to husband that she reads all the
literature she can find on the
subject of being economical with
his clothes. She is anxious to-
save money for him in this way.
But husband should not wear a.
shirt of this kind. The tax om
his dignity would be too heavy.
Although the public might not
see its defects, no man could be
at his best in such a garment.
After wife had done this great
work for husband she would feel
that she had saved him enough
to buy a $49 coat suit for herself.
Then they would walk together
down the street—she arrayed in
new finery from every corner of
the earth, and he wearing noth-
ing new but his shirt-tail.
When mother goes to launder
the children it does look as if she
could remember which is the sore
ear, the sore hand, the sore fin-
ger, the sore foot and the sore
toe. But she can’t. If you are
anywhere in the house you can
tell that she doesn’t remember.
The darkest period of the day
for a boy is when mother is hold-
ing him with one hand and a
wash rag with the other. - If she
happens to be angry at pa it
looks as if she tries to take out
her spite on her son’s ears. She
scrubs them a little harder than
usual. The poor child leans away
as far as he can, and cries bit*-
terly. She hurts each of his sores
two or three times, fills his eyes
with soap and turns him loose.
Then she calls up the next chap-
ter of the family story and tor-
tures him in the same way. The
wretched men think they have a
hard time, but if one of them
had to dress, flog, wash and un-
dress four or five children he
would run away from home be-
fore the end of the second day.
It is easy to please the average
woman in the matter of a house.
She likes practically every place
in town except her own.
When all the dresses are fin-
ished and paid for and daughter
stands at the altar, father listens
to the impressive ceremony. Then
he leaves unnoticed and goes out
into the world to make a new
start.
The bottle-fed baby has one
advantage—he doesn’t get slap-
ped when he bites.
When a fellow gets up and
says he can’t make a speech he
goes ahead and proves it.
Most mothers know a neigh-
bor’s child that they would be
willing to board and clothe for
the lickings they could give him..
If Republicans really think
times are hard they must have
been listening to the talks that
married men make at home.
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