The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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Tttfc CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publisher
The chronic kicker and knocker is
ft public nuisance.
C. H. WETHERBE
in the
Preacher’s Helper
It does not take a cold wave long
to outstay its welcome.
Andrew Carnegie says that $10,000-
fc-year men are scarce. So are the $10,-
000-a-year jobs.
KE of the great fundamental
truths of Christianity la the'
|j'kBl deity of Christ. This truth
is one of tire foundation
doctrines of the whole Bi-
ble; and yet this truth, most plainly
expressed in the Bible, is disbelieved-
by thousands of professing Christians.
i have often wondered as to what
there is about Christ’s deity which
should lead any professing Christian
to deny it. Certainly, nothing can be-
gained by the denial, but, on the con-
:rary, a great deal is lost by it. The
fact is, there never would have been
a. New Testament, such as we now
have, had not Christ been verily God
‘.n flesh. Indeed, the Old Testament
would be largely valueless and mean-
ingless If Christ were net pre-eminent-
ly divine, even in various way3 by the
Old Testament prophecies, types, and
ordinances. And the New Testament
very distinctly proclaims Christ’s de-
ity. In the Gospel of John, 1:3, 4,
(his truth is made remarkably clear
and pronounced. Rev. Dr C. I. Sco-
field, in referring to that passage,
says: “We have the announcement
concerning the deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ that ‘in the beginning was the
word, and the word was with God,
and the word was God.’ Now there
is no explaining away of that state-
ment, and I believe that the hostility
manifested by the forces destructive
to Christianity, within and without
the church, to the Gospel of John. i»
due primarily to the fact that there
is no avoiding or evading it. If the
Gospel of John stands as a divine
This Is the season when the storage
egg comes out of hiding, looking as
Innocent as possible.
Massachusetts leads the nation-
Insanity. A record is a record,
matter how it is attained.
Speaking of inconsistency, some
men deplore the brutality of football
and then attend peace banquets.
As the governor of North Dakota
Said to the governor of South Dakota,
It’s a mighty short time between cold
waves.
Sometimes we get the foolish no-
tion that it would be easier to get
along in the world if 'We had less phil-
osophy.
Baby in Pittsburg, nine weeks old,
was operated on for appendicitis.
Borne people break into society at an
early age.
Perhaps the seventeen-year locusts
didn’t turn out in force because they
had gotten into conference with the
groundhog.
A crusade has been started in Bal-
timore for cleaner money, but most of
us are interested in quantity rather
xnaniiuaifty.
for any such thing as a fire-fighting
department with paid employes was,
of course, totally unknown in those
days. Tradition recounts that not
only was the Father of His Country a
supporter of this old-time fire-fighting
organization, but that on the occasion
of more than one fire he “ran with the
machine’’ in the good old-fashioned
way. Another organization which
rivals the veteran fire company
in interest is the Masonic lodge
of which Washington was a mem-
ber, and the lodge rooms of
which in the city hall at Alexandria
are filled with Washington relics of
priceless value.
Among the buildings In Alexandria
which attract much attention from
visitors is the old colonial mansion at
the corner of Duke and St. Asaph
streets, where Lafayette and his suite
were quartered wrhen the distinguish-
ed Frenchman visited this country
and where a great ball was given in
his honor. Not far distant is the build-
ing occupied as the first free school in
America—a school established through
the bounty of George Washington.
On Fairfax street, near Duke, is the
First Presbyterian church, built in
1774, and on Cameron street is the
town house of Lord Thomas Fairfax,
-than the nearest town or cross-roads com-
munity is apt to do to the present-day American
farmer in this era of rural free delivery and rail-
roads and trolleys and automobiles.
Alfred Vand€fbTrt\ha8 rented a fiav
for $40,000 a year, but we are willing
to bet that be Is afraid to talk back
'to the janitor.
It does not speak well for Wllkes-
ba^rre that the man who had a fistful
of money to spend had to go away
from home to spend it.
In spite of the weather man we re-
fuse to believe that winter really has
come until we have read about the
<chump who skated on thin ice.
It may be observed of the man who
fell six inches with fatal results that
he secured one of the features of an
aeroplane ride without the ride.
The explanation that a man has
more sugar and sweetness in bis sys-
tem when he is maddest will probably
strike the majority as merely fudge.
Another gold field has been discov-
ered in Alaska. As usual it has been
discovered when the weather is too
cold up there for the average human
"being.
One Must Strive to Attain.
There are no hard and fast rules for
life in the New Testament, neither is
there any clear cut system of theol-
ogy. Why? Because God wants to
develop our spiritual nature, and
neither of these things would have
promoted that end. We can only
grow spiritually by constantly striving
to get a clearer comprehension of
truth and duty and striving to apply
the principles set before us in the
Bible in our own lives. I
It is more important to be study-
ing truth and gaining ever clearer and
fuller light than it is to know truth:
for it is by study that the mind grows
and if a man could know all there is
to know there would not be any way
in which he could enlarge his mind.
So it is with all spiritual attain-
ments. To be always gaining, always
growing, is the important matter.
Where a man actually stands in his
The canals on Mars are reported to
fbe Increasing. Perhaps the Martians
jhave been aroused to emulate the
rway In which the dirt is flying on the
dsthmus.
In George Washington’s time Alexandria—or
Bellhaven as it was at first known along about
the middle of the eighteenth century—was one of
the most prominent ports in the United States and
seemed to hold out every promise of extensive
development in the future. George Washington
himself took a hand in booming the port, which
developed an extensive foreign trade. The docks
were crowded with warehouses filled with corn,
tobacco and other products, while in the harbor
were always to be found many of the largest class
of cargo ships of that period loading and dis-
charging a variety of commodities. As the Amer-
ican terminus of a heavy overseas’s trade Alex-
andria became w’ell known in shipping circles in
England, and it was thought for a time that the
port on the Potomac would overshadow Balti-
more. Then came the various influences that
combined to bring about the commercial eclipse
of the little city, so dear to the heart of the na-
tion’s liberator. 'One of the first of these was the
establishment only a few miles away of the capi-
tal of the nation, which speedily overshadowed
Alexandria in various ways.' Then came the
building of railroads, which diverted much traffic
to other channels, and finally the Civil war
helped to put a blight upon the community
which had long been one of the strongholds of the
Lees of Virginia.
But even in this twentieth century neglected
Alexandria gets “on the map’’ as least one day
each year—namely, on the 22d of February, when
with each recurring anniversary of Washington’s
birthday there is a big celebration in the little
city that is filled with landmarks and objects
identified with the private life and public career
of the leader of the Revolution. Often the presi-
dent of the United States goes to Alexandria by
boat or trolley to participate in the exercises,
and the governors of Virginia and Maryland are
Invariably invited. On such occasions the town
which is located in closer proximity to historic
Mount Vernon than is any other community, ap-
pears almost too small to accommodate the
crowds that invade her public places. For, be it
known, for all that there are handsome, well-
paved business streets that afford a route of
parade for the procession that is an invariable
feature of this holiday, there are other highways
and by ways in the staid, dignified, conservative
old town that readily convince the visitor that
they have undergone little if any alteration since
the days of George Washington.
Old Alexandria is “going on” three hundred
years of age, for It was founded as long ago as
1730, although, as previously explained, It wan
known for some score of years by another name
In 1848 the general assembly of the colony of Vir-
ginia formally designated it as Alexandria. The
towfi retains to this day the names of its streets,
chosen in the days of long ago from the titles of
1 royalty and nobility. Thus we find as the most
conspicuous thoroughfares King, Prince, Duke
1 and Royal streets.
* Alexandria was the starting place of General
I Braddock’s famous expedition against the French
i and Indians which, ill-fated though it was, served
to bring George Washington, for the first time.
conspicuously before his countrymen. Here, in
the old Carlisle house, which remains to this day
one of the chief “show places” of the historic
Ollogodypsia, described as a lack of
ithirst, Is & new disease that has
broken out in New York. This is a
warning to gay and festive Pittsburg-
terS to keep away.
Mount Vernon Token Returned
A man in Massachusetts voluntarily
pays tp.xes on property which is leg-
When Mount Vernon, the home of Wasmngton,
was restored some 30 years ago the various
states were asked to send some token to be
placed in the rooms. The women of Kansas sent
a solid walnut, hand carved seal of Kansas to rep-
resent this state. For 30 years the beautiful seal
has been standing in the former home of the
Father of His Country and it has just been re-
turned to the Kansas Historical society to be
placed in the exhibit of Kansas curios.
The piece is carved from one solid piece of na-
tive Kansas walnut, one of the few perfect pieces
of walnut wood found In the state. A search of
several months was required to find a tree suit-
able for the work. One was found in Coffey
county and was cut down expressly for this carv-
ing. ■ It Is four feet long and two feet high and
is Intended to go over the door of some hall.
The seal was carved by the late Henry Worrall
of Topeka, the first artist in Kansas. He worked
all one summer on It. In the center is the great
seal of the state, painted in colors in oil by Pro
lessor Worrall. Around the seal are the w-ords
Ally nontaxable. He belongs to that
irare class that the world hesitates
whether to tag fool or hero.
Next to football what is more dan-
gerous than a bargain sale in poultry?
No~& another dash is to be made to
ithe south pole. It certainly requires
•courage, not to say daring, to plan
guch a trip just about now.
appear to many minds to De uimcui-
ties in the way of faith; but which are
really stepping-stones »o help us into
a larger and more robust faith.
Physicians tell us that mince pie
(Is a cure for insomnia, but we learned
iat an early age that it was an effective
»and pleasing cure for hunger.
Suspended Judgment the Safest Kind.
"I try more and more every year tc
nold judgment of others in suspense
till I can know all the facts at first
hand.” said one who was accused ot
hotn* too lenient toward offenders
A clergyman suggests that married
♦men wear wedding rings that flirts
imay distingi^ish them. Some women
■ claim to be able to spot a married
i-man merely by looking at him.
The latest thing in the line of clews
is the heel print of a burglar in a
It is getting so
freshly waxed floor,
that a burglar doesn’t dare to touch
(anything when he goes forth to burgle.
NAMING THE BOV
Two Texans became Involved In an
argument over religion and one of
them was shot to death. He lost the
argument, hut he is in a position to
about religion than the
Old Jum, gardener and general factotum, was
accompanied one day by a bright-looking lad
eight or ten years oM.
“Is this your hoy?” I asked.
"Yessuh, he mine, he las’ one I got. suh—Junior,
you wuffles nigger, n-ek your manners ter de
white folks!” -
"Junior,” I comtt|ented. ;“So he is named after
you.”
“Nawsuh,” the old man replied rather Indignant-
ly; “he ain’t named fur me! My name Jumbo,
whar my mammy git out’n de Bible. Dls hvar
chile name Junior cuz he: wuz bawn In June.”—
Lippincott's. i
know more
winner.
Nature always is compensatory. If
(the snow brings discomforts to some
(it also brings pleasure to others; if
lit spells loss to a few, It brings gain
ito many a man out of wTork. So,
'whatever the weather, let it be ac-
cepted with a philosophic spirit.
WISDOM FROM THE WED.
Singleton—It’s wonderful what love will enab?
a fellow to see in a girl that he never saw' before
Wedmore—Yes, and it’s equally wonderful wiat
love won’t let him see that he’ll see later oi *
Boston Evening Transcript.
Backbone of Character.
’Character is made up of small du
ties faithfully performed, of denial, of
self-sacrifice, of kindly acts, of love
and duty. The backbone of character
is laid at home, and whether the con.
stltutional tendencies be good or bad,
home influence will, as a rule, fan
them into activity. Kindness begets
kindness, and truth and trust will
bear a rich harvest of truth and trust.
There are many trivial acts of kind-
ness which teach us more about a
man’s character than many vague
phrases.—Scottish American.
A MAN’S WAY
“I hear the bride and groom are having truble
already.”
"Married only a month already, and qarrel-
tng?”
“Ch> they say.”
“What is the trouble?”
“Seems her husband wants to quit goflg to
afternoon receptions and get back to businsa."
WHAT WAS
fbrush, are being hunted by policemen
taviators. Now when comment is
(heard of detectives being up in the
ialr In the pursuit of crime it will
mean something very different from
£ts present definition-
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