The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
Q. M. MORTON,>Publisher
CUMBX
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TEXAS
We all admire a man who won’t
jpoach and an egg that will.
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i A "husbandette" is apt to be found
Washing the dishes In a “kitchenette.**
j With some assistance from gasoline
Ithls has become a pretty fast country.
f The truth may be the worst of in-
sults, but that does not necessarily
Snake it a libel.
Fashion doesn’t give fine feathers a
ice to make fine birds; it needs
sm all for hats.
, Worship
Success
Business Gives
No Chance
^ for Religion
By REV. MADISON C. PETERS
When it comes to having bulldogs
(stolen by burglars, one must indeed
ifeel the biting irony of fate.
It’s Just about time for a new dis-
ease to be discovered. Pelagra and
Ihookworm are becoming ordinary.
To save our life, we can’t get deeply
Interested in the tomb of Ananias.
There are too many live liars in this
world.
The proposed trouser reform has
raised a great howl in the ranks of
the knock-kneed, pigeon-toed and thin-
shanked A polios.
A man in Boston wants a divorce
becauses his wife throws knives at
■him. It takes so little to make some
husbands peevish.
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Scientists have discovered a new ele-
ment, celtlum. Will it also be used as
a cancer cure until another new ele-
ment is discovered?
A Boston woman advances the
theory that overeating is likely to
cause race suicide. It is likely also
to cause bankruptcy.
, The light of a new star recently dis-
covered in the Milky Way was 150
years in reaching the earth. Pretty
alow, as things go now. '
. New York subway crowds fatally
trampled upon a young woman. And
•V' yet that city is hoping for a popula-
£*? tion of 35,000,000 eventually.
We are assured that a race of bald-
headed women is threatened. Maybe,
but many a man will not discover any
evidences of this until after the nup-
tial knot Is tied.
• A western man tried to commit sui-
cide because he had too much house-
work to do. He had reached a point
where breaking dishes no longer re-
lieved his feelings._________
AM an admirer of success. But I find myself at variance
with some in the conception of success itself. One of the ■worst
features of our age is the worship of success by itself and apart
from the means by which it has been attained. To be success-
ful is enough, no matter what has gone before. A man is meas-
ured according to his success in things material. Some of you
feel this bitterly, and you have reason to feel it, for it is a
cruel principle.
There is a success that is not worth the having and there
is a failure that is more to be desired than success.
Ve find that the word “success” is used only once in the Bible:
Be strong and of good courage; this book of the law shall not depart
out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that
thou mayst observe to do all that is written therein: for then shalt thou
have good success.”
These conditions laid down for Joshua are binding still; an inflexible
purpose at all hazards to obey the will of God and to do the right regard-
less of consequences has been the real secret to the best success in life.
Business itself gives no chance for getting religion, but abundant opportu-
nity to exercise it. A business man was accosted by a newsboy, “Don’t
you want to gimme a dime and set me up in business?” He related how
a streak of bad luck had left him strapped, and how many papers he could
buy for a dime and what his profits would be. The man gave him a quar-
ter. The boy said: “Shake for luck.” Now I call that bringing religion
into business.
You will need religion not only for others but for yourself. If you
are an employee it will enable you to maintain good cheer under discour-
agement and work towards your ideal in spite ~of a headache. If you are
an employer you will give a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work. It is
more important that good wages should be paid than that an office prayer
meeting should be established. The business into which you cannot, carry
your religion you would better get out of.
I have very little faith in the religious employer, who lives in a palace,
while those who work for him live in shanties. I know men whose tables
bend and groan with luxuries, while their workmen have to be content
with ten-cent meals. The hard-headed man of business need not be hard-
hearted. Un-Christian competition absolves none from the duty of Christ-
-like living.
Other things being equal, the man who enters
business life thoroughly imbued with the purpose ever
to act under his eye and gladdened with the joys and
hopes which religion inspires, has immense advantages,
even as regards his worldly prospects, over the maD
Who throws conscience to the winds.
“The righteous shall hold onto the way and
stronger.”
STRONG PLOW TEAMS
Principal Defects in Seed Bed for
Good Crops.
One Man With Four Mules, and a
Disk Plow Will Accomplish More
Than Four Men With One Mule
—Keep Soil Full of Humus.
(By G. H. ALFORD.)
The principal defects in our seed
bed for farm crops are shallow plow-
ing and insufficient humus, or decayed
vegetable matter. Thin soil devoid
of vegetable matter has never pro-
duced maximum crops.
We ought to plow deep for the fol-
lowing resins: First, to increase
the water holding capacity of the
soil; second, to let the water escape
from the surface without running
over the ground and washing it off;
third, to permit the air to circulate
freely for a considerable depth in the
soil; fourth, to secure crops against
drought by enabling the roots to go
aewn to perpetual moisture; fifth, to
increase the area from which the
plant roots may obtain food; sixth,
to fill the soil full of humus for a con-
siderable depth.
The soil must ke kept full of life-
giving vegetable matter, or humus.
The soil must be in a loose and open
condition so that air, water, and plant
roots can easily come into contact
with every grain of it. The soil must
be full of humus to prevent it from
packing after every heavy rain. The
soil must be full of humus in order to
increase the storage capacity for wa-
ter and thereby enable it to hold
enough water to carry the crop
..through the longest drought in the
summer though heavily fertilized. The
strong teams and large plows, the
wages of two or three men can be
saved and this will soon buy the ex-
tra mules or mares while the deepen-
ing of the soil and the turning under
of vegetable matter and the increased
yields will more than pay for the
large plows.
The one-horse plow means a shal-
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* A Chicago professor has won an
automobile In a guessing contest. We
believe this is the first time a Chicago
college professor has ever admitted
that he was guessing.
In Ohio there is a judge who holds
that a woman may take money from
her husband without his knowledge
or consent and be guiltless of steal-
ing. This is likely to cause more
bachelors to struggle along without
wives.
At a hearing In New York on a pro-
posed ordinance to limit the length
and powers for mischief of the femi-
nine hatpin a number of women pres-
ent approved of the measure and not
a single voice was raised against It.
The fair sex may always be relied on
to do the unexpected thing.
France
Leads
the World
in Thrift
By H. C. BEAR
Wilmington, N. C.
In a contest in New York to decide
what are the 25 most beautiful words
in the English language the judges
threw out “truth,” because they
thought it had a metallic sound. An-
other surprising thing about the con-
test was that the man who won did
not have "money" in his .list of beau-
tiful words.
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Now that the aeroplane has demon-
strated its ability bothWo rise from
the deck of a warship afid land there-
on, Its practical possibilities for war-
fare will be largely increased. In
fact, the next big war will be unique
In the world’s annals, unless so many
wonders in the way of invention act
to keep it from occurring.
__France leads, nil ihe^jcArlA in Thrift.
My wife and I and our little five-year-old
girl were to stay almost a year in Europe,
so at Nice-1 hired a young French woman
who was willing to act both as nurse anci
maid. Her English was excellent, as 6he
had spent some years in the United States,
and she spoke Italian as well as her native
tongue. Her ability along practical lines,
such as embroidery and needlework, was
equal to her linguistic cleverness, and long
before we parted with her she had that
little North Carolina tot talking French
with the best Parisian accent.
But it waa her knack of saving money that opened my eyes and
brought a realization of the tremendous deficiency of the wage-earning
class of my own country.
The pay of this young woman, as fixed by herself, was 80 francs a
month, or $16 in our money.
Of course all her traveling expenses were paid and from time to time
she was given small sums in recognition of her faithfulness and skill.
Well, at the end of ten months, when the time came for us to return
home and settlement was made with the nurse, how much money do you
/Oppose I paid her? Just 800 francs.
Not a dollar of her pay had she drawn in all that time, and so I just
added 200 more francs to express jny appreciation of a young woman who
could be that provident.
The counterpart of that French girl hardly exists in the United
States, but if we had plenty of her kind the nation would be in far more
fortunate fix.
Disk Plow Pulled by Four Mules,
' wowmjf wrouem mexnou or Breait-
ing Land.
Soil must be full of humus to furnish
food for the microscopic life that
makes the unavailable plant food in
the soil available for the plants.
The chief enemy to progressive agri-
culture is the one-horse plow. The
equipment is generally a small mule,
too weak to do good work. This
small mule and a turning plow is a
guarantee of poor land and small
crops. One man with four mules and
a disk plow can do more and better
work in breaking land and turning
under vegetable matter than four
men with one mule each. By using
Oid Method of Plowing In South.
low soil devoid of vegetable matter.
There is only one way to deepen a
thin soil and that is by plowing deep
and by turning under vegetable mat-
ter, such as corn and cotton stalks,
oat and pea stubble, grass and trash.
A deep soil full of vegetable matter
is certainly desirable and there is
only one way to deepen a thin soil
and that is by the use of strong teams
and large plows. We cannot plow
deep or turn under corn and' cotton
stalks, pea, soy bean, or velvet bean
vines, grass and trash with a one-
horse plow.
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Many Vegetables Forgotten.
It is well to remember that many
plants which once were used as vege-
tables have been allowed to drop out
of our bills of fare. Our forefathers,
for instance, sometimes dined oft
elder top and burdock root, and the
early shoots of the hop were consid-
ered a great delicacy and were cooked
and eaten as asparagus. Walter Jer-
rold, in his “Highways and Byways of
Kent,” .recalls a time when Kentish
children could “tell of many pleasant
hours spent among the hedges in
search of the wild hop top and of . the
wholesome suppers made upon the
well earned treasure ere they learned
to think their food the better for be-
ing rare and costly.
Mosquitoes Bred in New Jersey.
— -hfew Jersey has 290,000 acres of Balt
marsh and 90 per cent, of the mos-
quito output is credited to these de-
pressions. To stop their breeding,
long, straight ditches are dug by ma-
chinery, draining the ground sufficient-
ly to receive and retain water for the
little fishes with which they are
stocked and which eat the larvae with
great relish. Places too spongy to drill
are filled with sand. One small marsh
near a popular summer resort bred in
a single season 96,000,000 mosquitoes,
according to careful estimates. It was
filled up at a cost of $35, and the re-
sort is now more popular than ever,
for the pests are no longer known to
it.
RAISING CORN IN MISSISSIPPI
Sanitary reform is marching on.
The New Hampshire legislature has
adopted a law empowering the State
Board of Health"to restrict the use
Of common drinking cups in public
places. Combined with the move-
ment by railroad companies to elimin-
ate the common drinking cup in pas-
senger cars this means much in the
pray of safeguarding health.
Uncle Sam certainly has grown to
be a big boy. The census of last year
shows that the three Pacific coast
states, California, Oregon and Wash-
ington, now have a larger population
than that of the entire thirteen
colonies when they started the Revo-
lution and set up in business for
themselves. And the fathers never
even dreamed that there would be
Pacific coast states.
Good
Reason
For Many
Small
Things
By WILLIAM E. MOONEY
Chicago
The hobble skirt may figure in an of-
ficial inquiry. It appears that a num-
ber of Syracuse ladies have filed with
the public service commission a com-
plaint against the traction company op-
erating lines in that city, alleging
that the steps- of the cars are too high,
/ thus preventing women from getting
ready access thereto. And the defense
■nay De tfiat if the ladies did not wear
constricted garments they would ha vs
toss difficulty entering the cars.
It has often been said that “technicali-
ties are The safeguard of the law,” and so
much has been heard about technicalities
in these so-called bribery cases that it
might be well to explain some of the rea-
sons for technicalities.
In all criminal cases the accused has
the right by constitution to be informed
of the nature and cause of the accusation
The indictment must set forth the offense
with clearness and all necessary certainty;
and every ingredient of which the offense
is composed must be accurately and clearlj
stated. It is the privilege of the accused
to raise any question as to the validity of the indictment and it is the
duty of his counsel to prevent his being tried on^an^invalid indictment,
and from taking up the time of the court with a sham case. If a crime
has been committed and the indictment upon that crime states no crime
it is the fault of the state’s attorney, the representative of the people, as
he has clear knowledge of what the indictment must contain. Where a
crime has not been alleged the quashing of the indictment is but the vin-
dication of that fundamental principle of a republic that no person shall
be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. To
convict a man for an act which by the record of the court does not consti-
tute a crime would he the act of despotism.
Sometimes it may seem that delay is given by such procedure, hut
the accused has the right to be heard on any objections or defenses he
may have. Is it not better to delay a matter a little while to find the trutl
than to go swiftly ahead on the wings of falsehood?
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Ths illustration shows a field of
corn planted after a crop of potatoes
on the farm of Mr. Giles, near Hat-
tiesburg. Miss. Mr. Giles took a yard
stick and touched one hundred ears
by simp’y turning around, but not
moving from the same spot South
Mississippi farmers never fail to raise
all the corn they need if they are
farmers of experience. Corn in South
Mississippi is worth the price in Ne-
braska with the freight added and
commission man’s bit at each end of
the railway
Spring Medicine
There is no other season when medi-
cine is so much needed as in the spring.
The blood is impure and impoverished—a-
condition indicated by pimples, bpils and
other eruptions on the face and body, b>
deficient vitality, loss of appetite, lack of
strength.
The best spring medicine, according t«
the experience and testimony of thou
sands annually, is
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
It purifies and enriches the blood, curet
eruptions, builds up the system.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
ohocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief - -Permanent Core*
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the eye*. Small Fffl, Small Deoo,SmalFHcs)
Genuine mo*tm* Signature '
HUNT'S
LIGHTNING OIL
THE LINIMENT FOR
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
ALL ACHES AND PAINS
■fg’d. by A. B. Richard* Oadleln* C*., Storms, Tam,
FAMILY PRIDE.
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Prof. Stork—-And how are we get-
ting on with our studies, Ernestine T
Have you been promoted to the fly*
lng class yet?
Little Miss Quacker—Oh, no, pro-
fessor. Mother has decided that Z
shall not take that course. She/ says
anybody can fly—Htrnt only the best
families take to water naturally.
Vhe Tragedy That Wasn’t
He raised the shining knife; his face
Was dark. The woman before him
shrank back a step. The knife fell,
plunged into the flesh, again, and once
again.
Then the woman spoke thickly:
“Three’s plenty; they're such big.
chops.”—Judge.
EDITOR BROWNE
Of The Rockford Morning Star.
“About seven years ago I ceased
drinking coffee to give your Postum a
trial.
“I had suffered acutely from various
forms of indigestion and my stomach
had become so disordered as to repel
almost every sort of substantial food.
My general health v^as bad. At close
intervals I would suffer severe attack*
which confined me in bed for & week
or more. Soon after changing from
coffee to Postum the indigestion
abated, and in a short time ceased
entirely. I have continued the daily
use of your excellent Food Drink and
assure you most cordially that I am
indebted to you for the relief it haa
brought me.
“Wishing you a continued success, I
am Yours very truly,
J. Stanley Browne, -
Managing Editor.”
Of course, when a man’s health
shows he can stand coffee without
trouble, let him drink it, but most
highly organized brain-workers sim-
ply cannot.
The drugs natural to the coffee ber-
ry affect the stomach and other organs
and thence to the complex nervous
system, throwing it out of balance and
producing disorders in various parts
of the body. Keep up this daily pois-
oning and serious disease generally
supervenes. So when man or woman
finds that coffee is a smooth but dead-
ly enemy and health is of any value
at all, there is but one road—quit.
It is easy to find out If coffee be the
cause of the troubles, for if left off 10
days and Postum be used in its place
and the sick and diseased conditions
begin to disappear, the proof is un-
answerable.
Postum is not good if made by short
boiling. It must be boiled full 15 min-
utes after boiling begins, when the
crisp flavor and the food elements are
brought out of the grains and the bev*
erage is ready to fulfill its mission oi
palatable comfort and renewing th«
cells and nerve centers broken down
by coffee.
“There’s a Reason.”
Get the little book, “The Road te
“Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever rend the above letterf A am
one appear* from time to time. Thej
are arennlne, true, and full of kuuu
interest.
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Morton, George M. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1911, newspaper, March 17, 1911; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770153/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.