The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publtsher
CUMBY
- . - TEXAS
Girl bom in Pennsylvania has a
transparent back. Well backed up,
indeed.
If the men compelled the "women to
wear such clothes there would be
trouble.
London physician says veils make
women’s noses red. Sort of a veiled
Insinuation.
A New York man ran up a laundry
bill of $3,5 3Q. But, then, New York
Is a strange city.
Half the population of Franc** is
agricultural. And the other half lives
In the Latin quarter.
Large crops of preserves are report-
ed by housewives, not meaning the
peroxide kind, either.
A Kansas dentist succumbed to in-
juries while playing golf. And golf is
said to be a harmless game.
By the way, what became of those
feminine faddists who were going to
wear socks instead of stockings?
Autumn undoubtedly draws closer
the bonds of devotion—witness the
fond clinging of the affectionate fly.!
A man has written a newspaper to
ask how to get relief from snoring.
Why don’t he keep the snorer awake?
Esperanto may have been invented
so that the dove of peace would be
enabled to coo in a universal language.
Scientists say it will take a long
time to Btamp out the # hookworm.
Well, it took a long time to discover
It
The movement against tipping is all
right but it takes a whole lot of moral
courage for a man to live up to the
theory.
Banking
Money
Every Person
Should Deposit
His Savings
By JOHN OSKISON
VERY ONE with money should be a bank depositor—either put-
ting the money into a savings bank which will pay a low rate
j of interest and keep it safe, or into a commercial bank if it is
needed for day to day business.
There ought at this time to be no difference of opinion on this point.
Yet experienced bankers know that in every community there are many
possible bank depositors whom they never see in front of their receiving
tellers’ windows.
We are not well supplied with banks, considering our population, and
not a third of our people who ought to be depositors are so in fact. We
have one national bank to every 67,000 population; in England there is
one for every 3,000 and in France one for every 5,000:
In Sweden 40 per cent, of the people are depositors in national banks;
in England and France 25 per cent, have money in banks; in Italy 20
per cent. In the United States, however, only 9 1-3 per cent, of our pojlfc-
lation are depositors in the national banks. Of course the state, private
and savings banks and the trust companies get a vast bulk of deposits.
To overcome the prejudice wdiich undoubtedly exists against them, the
banks should advertise, widely and simply, the exact nature of their busi-
ness.
The savings bank should explain carefully and fully why it can pay
interest on deposits left in the bank for a definite period.
It should make clear to the people its purpose to serve them—make
anyone with a dollar believe that it would be profitable both to the dollar’s
owner and to the bank if the hank received that dollar as a deposit.
A commercial bank should explain that it is a business house, buying
and selling commercial credits. It should succeed in eliminating the old
type of small business man or farmer who deposits money in an iron safe
at the back of the store or in a tin can behind a window sill.
Courtesy behind the grill wrork of the bank counters is vital if the
small depositor is to be won and kept.
Also, one of the best methods of getting and keeping small depositors
is to induce as many as can be supplied to buy stock in the bank.
A famous English physician says
that by the year 3912 human beings
Till look like gorillas. We should
worry.
Now the fool who rocks the boat
will be succeeded by the sorrowful in-
dividual who didn’t know it was
loaded.
A London nerve specialist says
modern dress is actually killing
women. He’s a &«rv« specialist, all
right.
▲ New York alderman has been
eanght in a blackmailing trap. He
should congratulate himself he never
was on the police force.
A Chicago chauffeur who ran past
a halted street car contrary to law and
killed a man has been censured by
the coroner's jury. Which, of course.
Is a consolation to the relatives of the
victim.
▲ French novelist says that love Is
a criminal madness. He is not the
first to aasaj) the divine frenzy, but it
may be noticed in passing, that love
as a human Institution has survived
all its critics.
Even If prisons are all that they are
alleged by critics; they ought to be
quite good enough for the man who
rocks the boat, and who needs the
most drastic kind of treatment to rid
society of his species.
An Austrian professor, bound for
Mars, via the United States, has been
sent back. It is one of the few in-
stances in which we are forced to con-
fess that European estimates of our
resources ere entirely too high.
In very many cases apples are
brought to market loosely packed and
In wagons without springs, almost
invariably with barrels on end, and
this short journey is many times
harder on the fruit than the long car
transportation to the distant market
Girl Who
Secures
Best Not
Always
Clerk
BrHn.AauThi___
M»dt, lad.
The "unsatisfied servants are in the mi-
nority. I am quite sure of this, as I
tried several kinds of work in my youth
and found that at housework I could save
more money than a clerk and at the same
time de treated with respect and be hap-
pier in every day. I had lots of time to
myself and could do with it as I pleased.
I was never insulted and the little woman
for whom I worked was an angel. I am
sure she loved me and she treated me as
an equal (which I was not). She often
took me to the big stores to shop and to
the parks, always paying my fares and*
treating me to lots of good things.
She also took me to church, so that I could be friendly with the
young folks.
I am sure that my employer could not have been improved upon.
Neither was I lacking in beaux. They called on me and remained
until I had to tel Ithem to go—not one, but several, and good fellows,
too. I married a competent man with a salary. Think of it, you girls,
with your- puffed heads, your wasp waists and high heels! The girls
who clcerk do not always get the best. Sometimes little Gretchen or
Bridget gets him.
Then, too, see how near to the pantry you are if you entertain in
a kitchen. It does not take long to fix up a pitcher of good coffee and to
bring out some macaroons on a warm evening.
But if a girl makes up her mind to da housework I would advise
her not to ge* a position with the ultra-fashionable, but in some place
where she can receive instruction. Then she will be happy and sue-
tessful.
Following in the footsteps of Luther
Burbank a Denver horticulturist has
produced a rasp-strawberry. Now if
somebody would produce a plum-peach,
and combine some of the other fruits
tt might be possible to get ahead of
the pests which ravage the orchards,
by baffling them for a fe wseasons at
least.
A youth attending the Michigan
State Agricultural college stocked a
pond with frogs and Is more than pay-
ing his way by supplying frogs’ legs
to the Chicago market. It Is said he
ward.
be opposed by mere man.
bureau drawer.
•hake off the Chicago hoodoo is tc
■hake Chicago.
There are still a few guides left
bat hunters who aspire to pot one hai
better make their arrangements earl)
Boys and
Girls go
to
School
Hungry
The opening of a new school season
brings up th^ old troublesome question
of thousands of poor children going to
their lessons without having breakfasted.
It is true that in every large city a
multitude of boys and girls seek their
desks each morning without having had
any food. Many more go without a mor-
sel to sustain them for long hours after
they reach the schoolroom. It seems a
crime against humanity that these future
citizens of the United States should be
subjected to such severe punishment at a
time when they should be stimulated and
encouraged in the most important pursuit of life. To abate this evil has
been the ambition of some of our noblest philanthropists, and a great deal
has been done by them in aid of children.
It is a difficult matter to deal with for many reasons. For one
thing, a great many youngsters are loath to admit that they left home
without food, their sense of pride making them hesitate to reveal their
unfortunate domestic situation. It may be a long way off, but I am in-
clined to think a time will come when our juveniles will be given at least
one square meal during school hours, at public expense.
I* Br. V. B. Call«a.
Mffcar af Sekaal Saar*, Si. Laals, Ms.
Some of the recent articles on the sani-
tary cup have recalled to me certain of my
experiences at the time when I was a cow
puncher.
In riding the range it frequently hap-
pened that our outfit would be twenty-five
to fifty miles from a stream or spring, but
we did not have to do without water.
All we had to do was to look for a “buf-
falo wallow,” cut out a piece of the green
soum on top and drink to our hearts’ con-
tent of water as clear as crystal and as
cool as spring water. Many a time this
has quenched my thirst.
In all my experience on the range I never knew of a case of typhoid
fever contracted from this practice.
I would not take a chance in a residence district, as the water would
be unsafe. I will never refuse to drink from a ‘Buffalo wallow.”
r
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Real
danger in
Common
irinkind
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Hup
By Richard Knelt, Omaha, Neb.
T
F<
inners’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America j
j
A
_ t
latter* <jf Especial Moment to
lie Progressive Agriculturist '
! Power farming means brain farm-
ing.
I A full hand is better than a fat
head.
| Some beauties are not even skin
deep.
: Life's worth living, provided one
lives it well!
i Wake up and move up, and then
be ready to lift up!
\ There are not many vacations in
i the school of experience,
j The dinner bell often rings loudest
'when there is least to eat.
1 Some people can only attract at-
tention by slamming doors,
j It is hard for a man to come in
jOut of the rain in the arid region.
I The greatest disappointment to
■ some folks is not getting their own
1 way.
1 Many an aviator who goes up with
I the lark comes down with a dull
thud.
} Pleasure with some people consists
of doing the things they cannot afford
to do.
\ Some folks always drive at top
speed, and never get anywhere,
either.
I The best place to invest spare
money is in the farm of the man you
best know—yourself.
j Good crops are the result of busi-
ness management plus fair soil plus
an ordinary season.
1 When a man thinks he is being
abused by the community he is prob-
ably the subject of more charity than
.he has any idea of.
' That farm which is clad in ragged
edges and fringes of weeds gone to
seed in the fall is going to be hard
to keep dressed clean next summer.
FOR MORE PURE-BRED STOCK
Growing Interest Seen In Co-Opera-
tive Breeding for Encouraging
High-Grade Dairy Stock.
Coincident with the development of
the work of cow testing associations
has been an interest in co-operative
breeding, or circuit breeding, for the
purpose of encouraging and facilitat-
ing the growing of pure-bred and high-
grade dairy stock. The main centers
of activity along this line of work of
which reports are available have been
in Maine, Minnesota, Michigan and
North Dakota.
| The general plan of these associa-
tions In Maine Is as follows: A
community of farmers Interested in
the Improvement of some one breed
of cattle form an association binding
themselves by an agreement to ad-
vance the interests of that breed and
to use only registered sires. The
bulls are purchased by the associa-
tion from among the best herdB of
the breed represented and are used
on the herds of the members of the
association, regardless of whether the
cows are pure bred or grades, until
such time as Inbreeding would result,
says the Dakota Farmer. A general
shift Is then made, giving each mem-
ber a new male without any addition-
al expense. The most productive ani-
mal soon becomes known by the value
of his get. If it is desired to sell
pure-bred or high-grade stock for
breeding purposes, advertising is
done through the association and the
sales made by its agent.
The co-operative breeding of milk-
ing Short-horns by the Minnesota ex-
periment station, in co-operation with
this department, was taken up in 1907.
The associations are organized from
among men who have bred and han-
dled pure-bred Short-horns for milk
and beef production. Meetings are
held two a year to discuss matters of
interest to the co-operators, to report
progress made, and to suggest plans
for Improving the work. A circuit
superintendent is employed who, un-
der the direction of a council consist-
ing of the president of the association,
a representative of the department of
agriculture and a representative from
the state experiment station, advises
and directs the general management
of the herds, and keeps record of feed
consumed, milk produced and breeding
power of the animals in the circuit.
He spends two days with each mem
ber, during which he weighs the milk
produced by each cow and makes but-
ter fat determinations. From these
dally records kept by the owner the
annual records of milk and\butter fat
production are computed.
The Holstein cattle work at the
North Dakota experiment station, in
co-operation with this department, was
begun in 1909. According to the an-
nual report for 1911 of the bureau of
animal industry of this department,
a year’s record of all the cows in the
herds was completed January 1 and
showed that some of the pure-bred
cows produced over 500 pounds of but-
ter during the year.
The work of the Michigan station
was Inaugurated in 1908 under the
direction of a field agent appointed by
the state experiment station. During
the first five months' work ten co-
operative associations were formed
and seven others were in process of
formation. About fifty registered
sires were introduced, and 2,100 cows,
which were bred to grade and scrub
sires in 1907 were bred to registered
bulls Id 1908 and 1909.
GREAT PROBLEM OF NATION
Not Tariff Nor Money Questions, But
Economic Distribution of Neces-
saries of Life.
(By A. C. DAVIS, National Secretary-
Treasurer of the Farmers' Union.
The Farmers’ union never began a
year with brighter prospects than
marks this beginning of our ninth
year as a national organization. Some
years we have had considerable more
noise and excitement at our conven-
tions than was manifested at Chatta-
nooga, but noise counts for very little
in this movement. The men whose
leadership insures success for the or-
ganization are the men who have
lived through the days of loud denun-
ciation and extravagant promises and
have learned well the lesson of quiet
determination. Such we had at Chat-
tanooga.
Could the individuals who have
kicked out the traces because of some
fancied grievance or because they
thought every dime invested as dues
should return a dollar in interest, re-
alize what a tremendous force this
union has been in the affairs of men
during the past decade, I am sure
that every one of them would hurry
back to the fold. It is safe to say that
at no time in the history of our great
country has there been a more wide-
spread determination to diagnose the
disease of our body politic and apply
a specific. Men in all walks of life
know that something is radically
wrong. This can now be stated with-
out the fear of being called an alarm-
ist. It is so evident that the most
pronounced optimist recognizes its ex-
istence, and it is a happy sign that
our great nation is getting right close
up to the real trouble.
Politicians used to feed the people
on the poetry of politics, but they
didn’t fatten. It takes hard work to
supply the beans and bacon to put on
flesh. People found out that it took
effort to succeed and that the particu-
lar color of the political party in pow-
er had little to do with the problem of
existence. They are willing to work,
and work hard, but are insistent in
the demand that their labors shall be
properly rewarded.
The great problem before the Amer-
ican people is not. the tariff, it is not
the money question, it is not the fa-
vorite planks of the political parties,
but it is the economic distribution of
the necessaries of life. Man is first of
all an animal. His higher intelligence
makes him desire to be a first-class
animal. Proper food and clothing are
essentials, first essentials. In our de-
sire to conquer the wilderness and
make a great nation we have neglect-
ed to study closely this all important
subject. Countless multitudes are suf-
fering and will continue to suffer until
we learn that every being must have
the ppportunity to provide the crea-
ture comforts. Our responsibility
ends not with the present, but ex-
tends to generations yet unborn.
This problem has never been treat-
ed as a national question. The Indi-
vidual has been left to Bolve it as best
he might. Look at the awful condi-
tions that prevail as a result of this
neglect. A few wax fat because they
can and do manipulate the products of
the many, while the great body of
producers must fight hard to get even
enough for an existence.
Why do I say that our great think-
ers are getting close up to the real
trouble? Because all of the efforts
now being made to find what is the
matter will eventually get around to
this problem. Soon nil of this grop-
ing about and striking here and there
will stop, and, in common parlance,
we will get down to ‘‘brass tacks.”
The country life commission and the
agitation about the rural credit sys-
tems of Europe are steps in the right
direction. It will not be long until
the leaders in these movements will
be abreast of the Farmers’ union in
the effort to handle American prod-
ucts economically and equitably.
Take all the help you can get in
working out this problem, but be sure
that you do not depend entirely upon
the help. Let us all work at It. Leg-
islation will help some. Commercial
bodies will lend assistance so long r~%
It means dollars to them. Railroads
are getting anxious about freight ship-
ments and will help considerably to
eliminate grafters in the fruit and
vegetable business, so that fanners
won’t get discouraged and quit rais-
ing these things. But all of these
agencies combined will amount to but
little unless the farmer is in the
proper attitude. The whole thing
hinges upon the determination of the
farmer to be a business man. If he
really means business he will get into
the union, the only organization that
has so far attempted to reach the root
of the matter.
For the benefit of the doubting
“Thomas” let me say that a consid-
erable number of farmers belong to
this organization. They have “stuck.”
calamity howlers to the contrary not-
withstanding. Let me make this next
statement strong, the national union
is in better shaep financially and oth-
erwise than ever in its history. What
does all this mean? Nothing less than
that the American farmer has learned
that his own organization is his best
friend. He does not expect to solve
the problem of economic production
and distribution by tomorrow, but he
knows that we are traveling that way.
Unorganized farmers do not seem to
be making very rapid strides in any
direction. Let us all Join in this for-
ward movement and sooner, perhaps,
than you realize, we will have-solved
the marketing problem.
Sheep for Food.
Poultry excepted, no class of farm
animals are so well adapted to sup-
ply the farmer’s table with fresh
meat as sheep.
A Saving Man.
Uncle William, who wasn’t especial*
ly noted for his generosity, was ao
j costed in the village post office by
his shrewd little nephew namesake.
“Say, uncle, this is my birthday.
Can’t you give me five cents?” Con-
scious of the amused gaze of the on-
lookers, Uncle William slowly reached?
into his pocket, saying, “I did have a.
nickel, but,” withdrawing his hand, “I
guess I haven’t got it now.” “Oh.
look again, uncle,” said little Willie-'
“If you had one you must have it yet.’'
Woman’s Home Companion.
True Brotherly Feeling.
We must repeat the often-repeated
saying, that it is unworthy a religiou®
man to view an irreligious one either
with alarm or aversion, or with any
other feeling than regret and hope
and brotherly commiseration.—Car*
lyle.
Temporarily Postponed.
"Why, Rastus,” said Smithers.
“what are you doing here? I thought
you were going to be married this*
morning?” “Why, yass, ah was, Mis-
tuh Smithers,” said Rastus, “but dat
ceremony am temporarily postponed*
sah. De bride, she done run off wiv
dat wuthless niggah Tham Jonsing,
suh.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Our Own Business.
Whilst I do what is fit for me and
abstain from what is unfit, my neigh-
bor and I shall often agree In our
means and work together for a tim®
to one end. But whenever I find my
dominion over myself is not sufficient
for me and undertake the direction of
him also, I overstep the truth and
come into false relations to him.—
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Loose Photographs.
Stenciled linen makes a very good
case for photographs if a book is not
wanted. The case folds and looks lik®
a book cover, but inside are pocket®
of different size for the various pic-
tures. A stenciled border of plain col-
or around the edge, with a design in?
the center, is sufficient decoration^
Gray linen or crash are excellent ma-
terials to use, as they are very dur»
able.
Children’s Right of Liberty.
Do not forget that every child ha®
a right to some leisure and some free-
dom from observation. It is possible
to be too watchful. If children ar®
taught to drink after food and not
with it, as a normal thing they will do
It naturally, and suffer less from diges-
tive troubles than if they drink fre-
quently during a meal.
We Favor Stricter State Boards.
We operate on general principles*,
and discharge the patients in about
two weeks. Some are better than
when they entered; most of them aro
worse. And yet few die. They h&v®
wonderful powers of resistance.—-
From a Young Doctor In Honolulu.
Simple Club Doings.
While Mrs. W. was busy In het-
k^chen preparing the light refresh-
ments for her bridge club, which in-
cludes the more well-to-do of the neigh-
boring county, Sally Hill, a poor farm-
er’s child, came In with a donation off
home-made pickles. "My mother be-
longs to a club, too,” said Sally. “Doe*
she? And what do they do? Play
cardsr* "No.” "Sew?” “Oh, no;
they Just draw names out of a hat to
see who’ll have the next meeting.”
Beauty In Expression.
If the great number of women who
believe that they are sadly lacking
in beauty who pass valuable time and
money in vainly trying to acquire it
could but be brought to realize that
the highest form of beauty is that
of expression! This is attained by the-
possession of inward graces, which,
frequently transform a so-called plain,
face into one more beautiful and win-
ning than the combination of a per-
fect complexion and regular features.
African Ants.
These insects sometimes set for-
ward In such multitudes that th®
whole earth seems to be in motion. A
corps of them once was seen to at-
tack and cover an elephant quietly
feeding in a pasture. In eight hour®
nothing was to be seen but the skele-
ton of that enormous animal complete-,
ly picked. The business was done, and
the enemy marched on after fresh
prey. Such power have the smallest
creatures acting in concert.
Monkey Enjoyed Brief Liberty.
A monkey which escaped from a.
shop in Argyle street, Glasgow, Scot-
land, the other day, bolted Into a fruit
and confection shop, where it jumped
about and evaded capture by getting
on to a high shelf, from which v&nt&g®
point It absolutely refused to b®
tempted with monkey nuts and other
eatables. From this shelf It jumped
on to the fanlight above the door, and
in this way took Its departure. It then
climbed into an adjoining sausag®
manufacturer’s, and got behind th®
counter, where it upset many articles.
A considerable time elapsed before It
was captured.
SECOND HAND
BAGS
We pay cash for all kinds
of second hand bags. Mako
us a shipment.
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills.
DALLAS. TEXAS
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