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THE DEMOCRAT. VOICE, COLEMAN, TEXAS.
1
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1913
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE
ftf the Democrat-Voice Publishing
Company.
ft. G. HOLLINGSWORTH........Editor
A. F. MARTIN........Business Manager
<!.nCered as second-class mail matter
at the post office at Coleman, Texas,
under act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year ....................ILOd
fltx Months ...................80c.
CASH IN ADVANCE.
PHONE 25
Amj erroneous reflection upon the
character of any person or firm ap
lairing in these columns will be glad-
ly and promptly corrected upon call-
the attention of the uanagement
to the article in question. _
Gaiety and a light heart, in dU
.virtue and decorum, is the best
medicine for the young, or rather
for all. Solitude and melancholy
are poison; they are deadly to all,
and above all to the young.
—Talfourd.
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AGRICULTURE AND RAINFALL.
The Democrat-Voice had the pleas-
ure of meeting Mr. J. D. Tinsley, ag-
ricultural demonstration agent of the
Santa Fe railway, who was in Cole-
man for a couple of days last week
for the purpose of making acquain-
tances and outlining his future work
in this section. It is Mr. Tinsley’s
purpose to secure the co-operation of
as many farmers in Coleman county,
as will do so, to assist him in demon-
stration work along the lines of in-
tense cultivation. He purposes to show
the increase in crop production on a
few acres cultivated after his meth-
ods as compared with the old hap-
hasard method so long employed in
this part of Texas.
Referring to the rain chart as pub-
lished in the Democrat-Voice, show-
ing the annual rainfall of Coleman
county for the past several years, Mr.
Tinsley says we are convicted by our
own figures.
The average annual rainfall for the
past thirteen years, as shown by the
chart in question, is a little above 2§,
inches. Mr. Tinsley kaV been doing
farm demonstration work on the New
Mexico plains where the annual rain-
fall is around 8 and 10 inches. He
says that with the amount of rainfall
we have, in Coleman county he sees
no excuse for not making an excel-
lent showing even in the dry years.
Taking the dry year of 1910 for
instance, which shows 13.53 inches
rainfall, of which 3.50 inches fell in
the month of September and 1.75 in-
ches in October. Under the present
system of farming in t^iis country,
says Mr. Tinsley, most of the rain-
fall in those months ran off because
the ground was not properly prepar-
ed to receive and ^retain it, while un-
der his method of early plowing and
deep plowing practically all this mois-
ture would have been retained in the
soil foV the propagation of the wheat
or other grain to be planted. In 1911
the rainfall for the months of July,
August, September and October, was
12.05 inches, and in December of the
same year was 3.68 inched. Had the
lands intended to be planted to grain
been broken, and broke deeply imme-
diately following the grain harvest,
or early enough to have received the
rainfall of the four months, July to
October, a bumper grain crop would
have been produced.
Further consulting the rain chart
in question, Mr. Tinsley notes that
this particular section of the country
is almost invariably favored with an
abundant winter rainfall, which espe
dally adapts it to the growing of
wheat and small grain. He also notes
that there is a line of demarkation
between Coleman county and the tier
of counties immediately to the north-
west of us as regards winter rainfall,
which is so essential to the growing
of small grain.
While Mr. Tinsley is an enthusias-
tic advocate of wheat growing in
Coleman county, he is by no means
taking a stand in opposition to cot-
ton production. He purposes to re-
duce the cotton acreage, but by the
more advanced and intense methods
Truly, no one knoweth what a day
may bring forth. Far sixteen long
dry years Mr. Bryan stood out in the
cold, asking an ungrateful people for
a loaf—today the hungry multitude
is looking to him for a hand-out.
In the city of Houston for the month
of February the deaths outnumbered
the births by two. This record is
not becoming to “Heavenly Houston"
—it reads more like Dallas where the
statistics are usually written in blood.
The Texas Senate killed the bill
which had for its purpose the prohi-
bition of members of the legislature
from remaining in the employ of rail-
roads, sleeping car companies, insur-
ance companies, and other public ser-
vice corporations,
The Democrat-Voice has received
Vol. 1, No. 1, of Freeport Facts, pub-
lished at the new town of Freeport,
Texas. The name of Raymond R.
Truly, formerly of Coleman, appears
as assistant editor of the new publi-
cation.
Rev. S. M. Tenney, chaplain of the
Rusk penitentiary, is appealing to the
people of the State to contribute
books to that institution. Mr. Ten-
ney’s appeal has a special claim for
consideration by reason of the fact
that the recent fire at Rusk destroy-
ed that prison’s library of 4,000 vol-
umes.
—-.vS-*—-
Ordinarily we are in sympathy with
organized government, but in the case
of Mexico we wish the revolutionists
God speed. If the traitor, General
Huerta, is responsible for the brutal
assassination of President Madero.and
there is little room to doubt it, we
hope the revolutionists may get him
and hang his hide from the castle of
Chapultepec.
It is announced from Washington
that a Texan is not elligible to the
office of Ambassador to Mexico. The
alleged traditional animosity between
Texas and Mexico, that is supposed
to date back to the war of Texas In-
dependence and the war of 1845,
stands in the way, even at this late
date, of a Texan representing the
United States in the Mexican capital.
nnie Webb Curtis, president
of the Texas W. C. T. U„ addressed
the members of the Texas legislature
the other morning in which she advo-
cated the enactment of the bill to pre-
vent the sale of doped drinks and espe-
cially condemning a certain well known
soda fountain beverage. Iq the course
of her remarks the good lady also
dropped in a word now and then in
favor of woman suffrage.
Answering an inquirer who desiies
to know if there has been a Baptist
president of the United States, Rich-
mond Times-Dispatch says: “There
has not. There have been eight Epis-
copal: Washington, Madison, Mon-
roe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler,
Taylof, Pierce and Arthur. There
have been six Presbyterians: Jack-
son, Polk, Buchanan, Lincoln, Cleve-
land, Harrison, Woodrow Wilson.
There have been four Methodist chief
magistrates: Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
McKinley. Van Buren and Roosevelt
were adherents of the Reformed
Dutch church. John and John Quincy
Adam were Congregationalists. Fil-
more and Taft were Unitarians. Gar-
field was a Disciple."
—
CURING TUBERCULOSIS.
of cultivation he hopes to keep the
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production up to the standard, and at
the same time produce the other crops
indigenous to the soil and climate of
this section of ’country. The” Demo-
crat-Voice hopes the farmers will co-
operate with Mr. Tinsley in his com-
mendable work.
y the least of it, Sir Thomas
Is a dead game old sport.
Well bet you the (soft) drinks
that you can’t name all the members
of the Wilson cabinet without looking
in the book.
Writing for the benefit of the med-
ical profession. Dr. bascom Lynn, su-
perintendent of the State Tuberculosis
Sanitarium, located at Carlsbad, Tom
Green county, published in • a recent
issue of a Texas medical journal a
communication containing advice
which is valuable to the public gen-
erally and is of especial interest to
persons infected with tuberculosis in
an incipient stage. Among other
things, Dr. Lynn says:
“Tuberculosis is both contagious and
infectious, hence it is the duty of
every tuberculosis patient to destroy
every tubercule bacillus he or she ex-
pectorates, by this means to protect
those about them.
“Consumption may be cured or ar-
rested if treatment is begun in the
early stage of the disease, and fol-
lowed in a rational manner under the
direction of a proper medical attend-
ant. It is very essential that patients
should co-operate in every particular
with their physician. For the cure or,
arrest of consumption, patients should
have an abundance of fresh air—pre-
ferably life in the open—and nutri-
tious food. Nutritious food consist*
of good, rich milk, fresh eggs, beef,
mutton, ham, breakfast bacon, poultry,
some sugar and starch foods well
cooked. We give our patients her.1
three regular meals per day and milk
and eggs between meals; hence they
get milk and eggs with each meal and
also between meal*. The key to suc-
cess in getting well is abundance of
good, fresh air, sunshine and rest.
“Cleanliness is one of the most im-
portant and essential principles you
should observe, as you can reinfect
yourself easily by being careless in
that respect. Wash your hands often
and take your bath regularly each
day.’ Alcohol rubs are good, for that
purpose use four ounces good grain
alcohol to eight ounces of water. Use
a soft linen towel to rub the body well.
Keep your mouth and teeth clean;
milk of magnesia is splendid for that
purpose. Sterilize your toothbrush
each time you use it, with boiling hot
water. You should go clean shaven,
as beard and mustache are filthy and
a harbor for germs,"
1 ** —
WASHINGTON HOODLUM1SM.
From the Houston Post:
While the Post is not an adfbcate
of woman’s suffrage, fearing that the
sex will lose more than it gains when
the agitation in that behalf shall prove
to be successful, as from present in-
dications seems to be a possibility of
the future, it regrets the display of
hoodlumism in Washington that sub-
jected the marching suffragettes to
insults and lewd remarks as they un-
dertook to carry out their pageant
for impressing the public with their
earnestness in the matter of demand-
ing the ballot.
In this country the suffragette
movement has not sought to further its
cause by acts of violence, as in Eng-
land, hence in whatever orderly meth-
ods it adopts to enlist public sympa-
thy it is entitled to respectful treat-
ment on the part of the general pub-
lic, and certainly to the fullest pro-
tection of the law against interference
with the presentation of its claims.
So outrageous was the conduct of
the mob on the occasion referred to
that the senate has instituted an in-
vestigation into the alleged lack of
protection given the pageant by the
Washington police, who by special act
of congress had been directed to pre-
vent any interference with the proces-
sion.
In the hearings by the committee
Thursday the indignant suffragettes
were not slow about telling their
grievances. A marching New Hamp-
shire matron testified that “the crowd
hooted and jeered; men tried to get
the floweis from our coats; and one
man struck his foot "in front of my
daughter and tried to trip bbr. At
another point two policemen in uni-
form were standing together and were
encouraging the crowd to jeer us. One
policeman looked as though he was
going to take hold of the young girls
who were marching with us. We were
more frightened by the police than by
the crowds.” “It was as though we
walked into the neck of a funnel,”
testified another suffragette. “One
policeman to whom I appealed stood
with his arms folded and said: “Oh,
the crowd is doing very well.” A
maiden suffragette testified that “the
crowd pressing against us would re-
peat the alphabet, count to ten and
sing ‘Rato, Rato, Rats,’ as they mark-
ed time,” and another said that “a
man in the crowd caught her by the
foot and that she kicked him loose.
Another caught her sister by the hand
and others rubbed their arms.”
Awful, simply awful; it shows some
of the things that women will sub-
ject themselves to when they have
secured the same political rights that
men enjoy and in the exercise thereof
are no better protected than the lat-
ter are. It suggests the thought that
with every sweet there is a bitter.
Houston Post: If Mr. Bryan is .so
strongly in favor of disarmament, for
heaven’s sake let him go to Dallas and
start the good work there.
Tioga Tribune: When the legisla-
ture runs out of anything else to in-
vestigate, we would suggest that the
question, “What Makes a Wildcat
Wild?” is yet to be decided.
The Menard Messenger thinks the
law should be amended so as to per-
mit the selling of fishing tackle up to
ten o’clock Sunday morning.
Brownwood News: A woman, with
pronounced tendencies for the privi-
lege of 'suffrage for her sex, asks:
“Why do not our legislatures pass
laws prohibiting the open use of to-
bacco, as well as other vices?” Per-
haps it is for the same reason that
they do not pass laws to prohibit
men from wearing their hats on the
back of their heads, or laws to pro-
hibit people from drinking coffee
from a saucer, or laws to prohibit the
chewing of gum, or laws to prevent
stunningly shaped women from wear-
ing peek-a-boo shirtwaists and skin
tight skirts. No doubt if our legisla-
tures had the proper encouragement
they would enact many, very many
law* on astonishingly new subject*.
As the News goes to pres* this aft-
ernoon (Friday) every indication is
promising for a rain. The wind has
been in the east for thirty-six hours
and Clouds are lowering.—Zephyr
News.
We had the same symptoms up here
at Coleman and it looked like a right
serious case for awhile.
Dallas News: Our idea of an ego-
tist is a man who starts a rumor and
thinks it a revolution.
As it looks now, the state legisla-
ture will adjourn April first. It is
somewhat puzzling to understand
where the joke comes in,—Temple Tel-
egram.
No joke about it, it’s a business
proposition. Only two dollars per if
they continue in session, while it’s
five when they are called again, which
will be on or about April the two.
Menard Messenger: It looked for
awhile as if Texas was going to have
to whip Mexico and the United States
both.
Brownwood News: Washington au-
thorities report than 400 people were
hurt in Washington on inauguration
day. Of course when a nation takes
a new clutch on the axle of destiny
somebody naturally gets mussed up;
but then that 400 casualty list on
inauguration day won’t be a marker
to the number of class favored de-
predators that are due to get into the
injured list during the next four years.
The average yearly profit at the
Casino, Monte Carlo, is $5,000,000.—
Ft. Worth Record.
Which probably accounts for J.
Pierpont Morgan’s trip abroad.
Peaches and Cream.
Teague Daily Herald: The Herald
is pleased to acknowledge receipt of
copies of a new exchange from west
Texas, the Coleman Democrat-Voice.
It is this editor’s humble opinion that
the Democrat-Voice is the best weekly
paper published in a similar sized
town in the State of Texas. It is a
perfect model of neatness, artistic
make-up, and then it is edited with
discrimination and the ability of a
master hand is in evidence all through
its scintilating pages.
Emilio Madero
Tells of Brothers
Tragic Death
San Antonio,. Texas, March 8.—The
following statement was made by
Emilio Madero in regard to the death
of his brother, Francisco I. Madero,
former President of the Mexican Re-
public:
“In regard to the killing of my
brother, Gustavo, General Huerta in‘
vited my brother Gustavo to dinner,
together with two Generals, who were
friendly to yie Maderista Administra-
tion. Huerta had with him two special
officers for the dinner. They were
very friendly and made several toasts
relating to coming events,which were
supposed to be toward the successful
assault of the citadel. At the end of
the dinner Gen. Huerta said he would
like to take a last look at the firing
line, and asked my brother Gustavo
if he would lend him his revolver.
My brother tendered his revolver, and
Gen. Huerta stepped out of the room,
and the officers then told my broth-
er, in a very rough way, that he was a
prisoner, and the other officers were
taken with him to the National Pal-
ace, and then taken to the Citadel,
where he was mutilated in a most
atrocious and immoral manner. My
brother had but one eye, and the re-
maining one they cut out with a
knife, also cutting off his lips and
his nose, before murdering him, and
he was mutilated almost beyond all
recognition by the family. And I
want to state that up to the present
time, so far as I know, the body has
never been delivered to the Madero
family.
Francisco Shot in Palace.
“My brother, Francisco I. Madero,
the President,. was taken a prisoner
the same day, and was supposed to
be sent, accompanied by some of the
staff of Huerta, to the prison. P.Iau-
quet then came in, traitor that he was.
The soldiers, not knowing what was
happenir^r, and not knowing to who
to be loyal, were at a loss when Hu"
erta pqd Blanquet, ordered them to
turn on the Government. Blanquet
said, ‘Enough of this clownish busi-
ness. Fire!’ and then they were ta-
ken to prison. And Marcos F. Her-
oandes was also killed there, brother
of the Secretary of th; Interior, un-
der Francisco’s administration.
“My brother, Francisco I. Madero,
and Pino Suarez were killed in the
palace qiid never resigned office. They
pretended he had been shot on his
way to the prison. They took them
out in the street at midnight and
DREAMING
Dreaming of you as the sun sinks low,
Over the rriountains of ice and snow;
Wandering if you care or know:
Dreaming of you.
1
Dreaming of you as the stars appear
Lighting the heavens, so bright and clear;
I’m all alone in the twilight, dear,
Dreaming of you,
Dreaming of you in the grey twilight—
Dreaming of you in the soft moonlight—
Dreaming of you in the darksome night,
Dreaming of you.
MY SONG.
The sun still shines from an arching sky,
The same -sweet breze still wanders by,
The same cool vines still cling to -the well,
The rose still blooms in the flower dell;
But where is the song I used to know,
One that would bubble, and swell and flow
From my happy heart the whole day long,-
O, land of my youth, where is my song?
Written for the Democrat-Voice by a Coleman county girl.
raised a little row and pretended he
■was killed then. No one was allow-
ed to visit him that day. My sister-
in-law, Francisco’s wife, and my sis-
ter, when they were allowed to see
him, say he told them he knew that
he had to be killed, but they must be
brave and not cry or break down.
My brother also told his Vice Presi-
dent, Pino Suarez, that he knew he
would be shot down like a rat, but
Suarez was his most loyal friend, and
declared he would die with him and
never desert him, that he wanted to
meet the same fate as Francisco. They
were always loyal friends.
‘‘After cutting out the one good
eye of my brother, Gustavo, they then
mutilated his body terribly and set
him up to be fired on by the people,
and all other stories to the contrary
are lies.”
Re-Union of Confederate Veterans.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 1, 1913.
To the Newspapers of Dixie:
On May 27, 28 and 29, the grand
old men of the south, our veterans of
the tragic four years of ‘61-65, will
gather in annual reunion in Chatta-
nooga. Many of these will come for
the last time to a United Confederate
Veteran reunion, tty, follow the tat-
tered battle flags under which fifty
years ago they fought in the ensan-
guined fields about this historic city.
It will, for many reasons, be the most
memorable reunion in the history of
the United Confederate Veterans and
will be an occasion that will arouse
the sentiment and touch the heart of
the now prosperous south.
The executive committee in charge
of the preparations for the reunion
request to say that every promise
made to the veterans as to comfort-
able accommodations and enjoyable
entertainment will be carried out to
the letter, and you feyy assure your
readers to that effect. In the midst
of the battlefields of the ’60’s, a city
of 100,000 population has been built
up. Chattanooga combines all the
enterprise of the new south with rev-
erence for the traditions and princi-
ples that the Southern veterans hold
dear.
This ought to be an occasion for
the assemblage of Southern newspa-
per men to gather inspiration as to
what the South did a half century
ago and to realize what it today,
and I trust, therefore, that you will
arrange to spend three days of May
27, 28 and 29 in Chattanooga. Hoping
to see you then, I am, fraternally
yours, G. F. MILTON,
Editor the Chattanooga News.
TEXAS LEGISLATOR
GETS GAY—WEARS HAT
DURING THE SESSION
Austin, Texas, March 8.—Represen-
tative Ross of Comanche county de-
clined to doff his hat at today’s ses-
sion of the house of representatives
and insists that he will continue to
exhibit his contempt for the rule he
has transgressed until the companion
rule against smoking is invoked and
sedulously enforced. Mr. Ross does
not smoke. The aroma of pipe and
cigar may be pleasing to his nostrils,
but he does not enjoy the thick clouds
that accumulate in the house on days
when the weather forbids’proper ven-
tilation. Consequently, sitting at his
desk this morning he proceeded to don
his headgear. A number of his col-
leagues immediately protested and
raised points of order against his ef*
frontery. The sergeant-at-arms in-
sinuated himself into the scene and
suggested the propriety of Mr. Ross’
instant compliance with the rule re-
specting headgear. Mr. Ross drew
himself up to his six feet something
and suggested the propriety of en-
forcing the rule against smoking and
pulling the rule book on the members,
he quietly observed that he did not
intend to comply with the provision
against hat wearing until the others
had complied with the regulation
against smoking. Mr. Ross made no
bluster—he merely look as if he meant
it, and he was troubled no more.
Throughout the session he wore his
hat.
I can furnish you the Waxahachie
Ideal Sarsaparilla and extracts. L. L.
Lewis, phone 70. 8-11
Before buying flour, Mill Run bran
and other Mill products, secure prices
from the Coleman Mill and Elevator
Co.
Demonstration!
American Beauty and
Madam Grace Corsets
DEAR MADAME:
You are given a very cordial invitation to attend this demon-
stration at our store and we are extremely anxious that every lady
in our city and vicinity attend some time during the week.
MISS MEWHART
the expert in charge, will show you;—
How to properly fit and lace a corset
The right selection of the correct corset for your figure
The corset that should be worn by the large, stout figure or the
slight or medium figure.
How to Avoid Corset Troubles
and at no cost to you
March 17 to
Coleman to Call and See Her March 22
A. D. DUNN
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