The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1912 Page: 2 of 10
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No one has yet explained why wo-
men never need ear muffs.
In weather like this a little cold is
draught with great danger.
A milllon-dollar wedding does not al-
ways mean a happy married life.
This Is the weather that makes the
roses blossom on the sweet girls’
noses.
A statesman is simply a politician
who pollticates to suit one’s own fads
and fancies.
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Fresh air Is not necessarily cold air.
This little fact in natural science
should be kept in mind.
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You will not have to wait long for an
authoritative announcement concern-
ing the peach crop for 1912.
We have entire confidence in the
opinion that it is not yet time to put
away your winter underclothing.
When the millionaire for a day got
back home he had $1.53 In his pockets.
The waiters did not know he had it.
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Russia has imprisoned a man for
writing a volume of poems. Over
here we merely let our poets starve to
death.
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The peach crop' having been killed
twice already, we may be justified in
counting on a heavy preserving season
next fall.
Lower California, having permanent-
ly lost its revolution, has turned again
to bull fighting as the only satisfac-.
fig.
tory substitute.
The tipping evil has reached a point
where it should stop. A waiter in
Chicago got an heires?; also, another
In Philadelphia.
With prices continually soaring be-
fore long our scientists will have to
give their attention to finding a sub-
stitute for food.
Italy’s war expense is a million dol-
lars a day. To get an idea of the
enormous cost reduce a million dol-
lars to spaghetti.
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The thermometers are bravely striv-
ing to become normal again and if the
weather forecasters will quit forecast-
ing, all will be well.
One doctor who writes for the mag-
asines says an automobile is a tine
r . ' thing for catarrh. He doesn’t say how
■™§1 • often it should be taken.
Mr. Edison says he likes to read
. novels because they don’t require him
to think. Perhaps that’s also the rea-
son why so many people like to write
them.
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Am for the fellow who has been go-
ing with a girl three years without
renting a fiat and asking the question,
be had better look out. Something is
likely to happen. ^
Any man who can’t recall an old-
fashioned winter In a sleigh, wltn her
sweetness snuggling close and the
stars twinkling poetry, has a poverty-
stricken memory.
The Incineration of 300 old square
pianos scheduled for next spring in
Mew Jersey would be righteous if
among the number were your neigh-
bor's untuned instrument.
There seems to be a probability
that the government will not have a
majority in the German relehstag.
Nobody seems to be able to explain
what difference It would make.
A boy in London got damages from
a coo because he was bitten by polar
bears. The dangers of up-to-date civi-
lisation are now independent of time,
place^season or appropriateness.
Another severe blow has been given
' simplified spelling. Because the indict-
ment against a North Carolina mur-
derer recited that he shot his victim
in the “brest,” be was discharged.
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An Illinois alienist says a wave of
remorse Is sweeping over the country.
Come to think of it, this is the season
of the year when the greatest number
fall off the New Year water wagon.
The hens are usually blamed for It
when the price of eggs becomes pro-
hibitive, but for some reason nobody
has attempted to hold the cows re-
sponsible for the present price of but-
ter.
When the weather man predicts that
the weather will be colder It always
becomes colder; but we consider it
only right to give the weather man
credit for refraining from boasting
about it.
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A girl of seven In California saved
a passenger train from wreck on bro-
ken rails by presence of mind and
timely warning. This Is one of the
few exceptions prov.ng the rule
against the use In life of the infant
phenomenon.
A bride In Pennsylvania is accused
of trying to poison her husband bv
putting ground glass in his pie. If be
compared It with the kind his mother
used to make any Jury of housewives
would acquit her on the score of pro
vocation.
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters $f Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
A sharp plow indicates a bright
plowman.
Tod often optimism means simply
ignorance.
Sometimes the wish is father than
the thought.
If you’ve made good first you won t
need to boast afterward.
A man is scared a hundred times
for every time he is hurt.
Some people look on the bright
side of nothing hut a hand mirror.
Don’t set out to be a nubbin so
small that nobody will shuck you.
Whether or not a cow is an asset
or a liability depends upon the cow.
A boy on the farm is worth two in
the city—especially at chore-time.
The trouble with the farmer is that
he. has learned so much that isn’t so.
A woman purrs at being termed a
kitten, but scratches when called a
cat.
There is all the difference in the
world between a sport and a sports-
man. t
The best advertisement of a farm
is thriftily kept farm buildings and
fences.
Always think twice before you
Bpeak once, and then be sure you talk
to yourself.
“Not less expenditure, but larger re-
sults,” should be the watchword of
our schools.
The sooner we base our taxation
on land values the sooner will unjust
taxation cease.
Lots of people don’t seem to know
the difference between resignation
and contentment.
Where the public is gullible the
grafter and the money he is after are
soon connected.
Doubtless it was alfalfa Nebuchad-
nezzar lived on during that seven
years he ate grass.
Those who hang around the coun-
try store the longest usually give their
cows the poorest care. „
FARMER COMING TO HIS OWN
President Barrett Writes InteresHhg
Letter on Conditions CohcerniiYg
Farmers' Union.
To Officers and Members of the Farm-
ers’ Union:
The farmers have just laid on the
shelf the only senator from the south
who voted against the anti-gambling
bill. Backed by the cotton exchanges,
he left the biggest clity in the south
with a big majority; but the boys in
the country had been furnished his
record, and they did the rest. A few
fellows “excused,” like this one was,
will do Cur cause more good than any-
thing else that can be done. It is evi-
dence seen and felt that you are “on
the job." The average politician re-
spects nothing but the power of the
ballot. It is up to the farmer to ju-
diciously exercise that power.
The biggest joke of the age in the
mind of the average politician is the
American farmer. It is only when
thoroughly shaken up and aroused to
exercise his power that the politician
begins to believe that he is in dead
earnest. An illustration is the defeat
of the senior senator from the Peli-
can state. Even the most self confi-
dent senator at the head of the most
important committee, secured by the
caste rule of seniority, does not refuse
to listen to election returns. The ef-
fect of election returns are so elec-
trical that one man actually said to
me with an anxious look: “Are you
fellows gunning for us?”
Let the good work go on. You are
not seriously considered until you
knock the “stuffing” out of some-
body.
It humiliating to come here . and
see how little is thought of the farm-
er, and how he is talked about by
some of these wise guys. Let us
give you a sample. A short while ago,
three congressmen met in a room at
the capitol and began a discussion of
the $75,000,000 pension appropriation.
One remarked that he had cast his
vote according to the “dictates of his
conscience.” Another spoke up and
said: “Stop right now—there is no
use of your lying to yourself about it.
I voted for the appropriation to catch
the old soldier vote and so did you. I
have voted for every crowd that came
along that had any votes tied to it,
and so did you; and I will continue to
do so and so will you; and there is no
use -in lying to each other behind
closed doors about it.” Another who
bad dropped in, seemed curious to
know when the limit of this cohesive
political purchase of class support on
election day would be reached. The
answer was volunteered that it would
last until “Old Rube at the plow,” who
is not getting much end paying the
tax bill, “wakes up.” All of which re-
minds me of a conversation which I
hao in the city with a man of national
reputation, who was given to flatter-
ing and cajoling the people, arraying
class against class and arousing pre-
judices. I asked him why he fed such
“rot” to the people as he did. He
replied: "Why, the damn fools like
it,”
Economy is the slogan of this con-
gress. In proof of this, when we men-
tion such measures you want, they po-
litely refer to that mollycoddle stum
they cut of reducing the number of
girl stenographers in order to econo-
mize, but they do not mention the
proposed $75,000,000 pension appro-
priation. Neither do they say any-
thing about how they increased the
number of members of an already un-
wieldy house, at an enormous addi-
tional expense.
Yes, it is great s’atesmanship, and
shows wonderful advances along eco-
nomic lines to buy votes with mil-
lions of dollars appropriations. But
when he wants the vote of you who
bear the burden of taxation he gives
you a song and a dance about econ-
omy, and proceds to fire a few girl
clerks to show how it can be done.
Another method of rubbing your fur
the right way is to bundle ,up a lot of
garden seed and other free junk, and
send it to you. This Arnica Salve is
on the way. You can be on the look-
out for it. I have seen great stacks
of it in the office buildings ready for
shipment. It will be expected to act
as a narcotic on your political nerves
and make you forget his promise to
get for you the legislation you need.
This congress is, and has been, play-
ing politics. They do not want to
agree. I do not believe the politi-
cians would settle the tariff question
for anything in the -world, it is worth
so much before election time. A whole
lot of them would not know how to
make a campaign if they could not
raise a row about the tariff. I am a
little afraid a fevs^ of our enthusiastic
advocates of the aafi-gambling bill are
not very anxious to see it passed, as
they would be more or less out of
campaign thunder.
My brother, if you could just visit
this place,Gand see that brave, fear-
less, rip-snorting congressman of
yours, who left home a short while
ago to save the country and make the
world give you a “square deal”—if you
could just see that same fellow since
assuming his duties as a lawmaker—
how docile, how inoffensive, and how
uncertain he is. Unable to say "Yes”
or “No” to anything, he promises to
give it his “careful consideration”
and “thoughtful attention,” instead of
his hearty endorsement and terrific
support, as his speeches on the stump
led you to expect.
It is astonishing how much petty
jealousy and envy exists among some
members of this, august body. Op-
posite political parties, of course, have
it in for each other, but the most
contemptible, measly, egotistical sen-
sitiveness can te seen by the close
observer, affecting every member of
the same party. But who would ex-
pect the house to be jealous of the
senate and the senate jealous of the
house; and that a crowd of farmers,
who hope to get joint co-operation on
your measures, must have greater
diplomatic tact than a Tallyrand to
overcome this ridiculous, absurd relic
of snobbish caste and senile priority?
Another phase t>£ ^ha difficulty to
be overcome in discussing the merits
of the measures we are advocating, is
the ever-present question in the mind
of the congressman, “How will this
affect my political future,” rather
than, "How beneficial it will be to the
country?” And right here, he strad-
dles the “pork barrel” as the only
means of safe navigation back to the
capitol.
Poor “old porker,” what a load to
carry.
Notwithstanding this deplorable
state of affairs it is good to know that
there are a number of statesmen here
—statesmen in the true sense of the
word—men who are earnestly trying to
help you.
My brethren, I would not for any
consideration be unfair to your con-
gressman. There is a reason for this
change in his attitude toward the
questions which he discussed in his
campaign. He is afraid you will not
back him up in his strong, vigorous,
aggressive fight for your interests. He
knows that the great special interests
of the country will take care of him
if he fights against them or refuses to
rasp against them. This situation
makes him doubt in his own mind
what course to pursue to save himself
from defeat at your hands that he
may continue to be your servant.
Many a congressman, no doubt, has
tossed on his pillow at night trying
to decide what course to pursue, with
. n earnest desire in his heart to do
the right thing, but he knows that
if he fights your battles, he must get
your support, and he has seen so
many come here and make these good
fights for you, and go down to defeat
at your hands, that he hesitates to
trust your loyalty—and this is the
tragic part o| the story.
If you want your congressman to be
what he really desires to be—your
friend, your defender, your advocate—
you should prove your loyalty to him
for his devotion to your cause, if he
proves himself worthy, and stand by
him in every conflict—this will give
him courage, it will make him aggres-
sive, it will make him determined,
and it will encourage young men who
really want to do something for their
fellow men, to enter politics and be
among those who were described by
the poet:
"Large bralnefl, clear eyed, of such as he.
Shall freedom’s young apostles be.”
C. S. BARRETT.
Washington, D. C.
MORE MULES NEEDED
Farmers’ Store Coins Mone^r.
Opening for business on August 17,
1911, and declaring a dividend of 20
per cent at a meeting just held, the
Farmers’ Co-operative store of Tabor,
Iowa, shows a remarkable growth and
succesful business. The capital stock
is $29,000, all paid up. The company
first opened a grocery store, then add-
ed a meat market. Soon it will open
a lumber yard.
Animal Wii! Do More Work and
Costs Less Than Horse.
Their Immunity From Afccident and
Disease Is Proverbial—Good Qual-
ities More Than Offset Ob-
jections Raised.
(By J. M. BELL, Virginia.)
For generations the mule has been
used exclusively on the farm in the
south. They seem not to be in favor
to so great an extent on the farms in
the north and west. This seems a pity
as the 1,000-pound mule will do as
much work, live on less and last
longer at hard work, than the 1,200-
pound horse.
There is an old saying in the south
to this effect: “Two sets of mules will
last a farmer his lifetime. For in-
stance a farmer starting out at 21
years of age buys a team of mules
three years old. They are ready to go
to work. Four or five years of age
might be better, but at three years
they are capable of doing steady farm
or road work if properly cared for.
The writer has known them to be
put to regular work at two and a half
years of age and kept at it until they
had crossed the quarter century mark.
But to get back to the young farm-
er. He starts out at 21 years of age
it is only when, from advanced age,
their grinders fail to allow them to
thoroughly masticate their food that
their daily usefulness ceases.
Their immunity from accident and
disease is proverbial and so true is
this that it is seldom that one ever
hears of a mule being seriously in-
jured unless by gross carelessness or
neglect.
They are not subject supposedly to
glanders or farcy, the two most fatal
diseases of horses/ The conformation
and texture of their hoofs renders
them much less liable to lameness
than horses and when used regularly
on the farm and even occasionally on
the road, they will not require shoes.
Another thing in their favor is that
they can be stabled -without haltering;
a stable of 20 head of mules turned
loose -will not give the trouble of three
horses turned lose, as the former will
not fight but will live peaceably to-
gether as a visit to any big sale stable
will prove as here the mules are al-
ways kept in pens, free and turned
loose, while each horse is haltered in.
his stall.
In feeding mules it may be well to
remember that they will keep fat on
about three-fourths the allowance of
a horse of the same weight, that they
will eat up roughage and that their
grain ration will only be about two-
thirds that of a horse.
When it comes to daily care and
attention, the mule will live where the
horse will soon die.
These large-eared friends are also
more sure-footed than the horse,
Excellent Type of Mule.
with his team of three-year-old mules.
For twenty years, or possibly with
care, twenty-five years, they will do
good work. At the end of that time
they will, at the present prices, if fat
and sleek, bring from $50 to $75 each.
The farmer is now 47 years of age.
He buys another set of mules, they
last him twenty-five years. By this
time the owner is 72 years and prob-
ably through with the daily struggle
for existence, in fact, is in a_ position
to “rest on his oars,” as the saying is,
leaving to a servant no doubt the
management of the farm.
The longevity of the mule has been
a well-established fact for so long that
like the common law, the memory of
man knoweth not to the contrary.
Pliny, in his writings, mentions the
mule that had been used to carry
grain to the markets of Rome until he
w-as 60 years of age, turned out as too
old to follow his daily labor and this
aged, but faithful beast declined to be
shelved but insisted upon making the
regular trip to the market place al-
though free and unloaded, falling in
line as the other beasts of burden
began their journey.
It may be safely asserted that a
mule will last as long as its teeth and
OeSSi
Ten tons of hay will feed 100 sheep
one year.
Fow’ls are almost as subject to colds
as persons.
Let the pigs grunt, but never let
them squeal.
I^eaky feed troughs are leaks in
your farm profits.
A poorly grown, heart-broken colt
can hardly be given away.
Rations for chickens should Include
a small proportion of meat food.
Don’t let the cows out in the storms
to stand around. It doesn’t pay.
Jerseys have been bred at seven
months, but fifteen months Is better.
Old ewes should be fattened and
disposed of before they lose any teeth.
Ducks are never troubled with lice
unless housed with chickens or tur-
keys.
it is best to reduce the milk produc-
ing food, so that a mature cow will
dry and rest for a month to six weeks
before calving.
Ground oats, wheat bran and a little
oil meal, together with some alfalfa
or clover hay, will keep the brood
sows from becoming feverish.
resist heat and flies better and do not
chafe so easily.
The objection many farmers raise
to the use of mules is that they do not
breed, that they are stubborn, often
vicious and that they are entirely un-
suited to pleasure purposes.
Those objections are worth con-
sideration but the many good qualities
of these sturdy beasts seem to more
than offset them.
From a commercial standpoint it
may be well to remember that a pair
of six-year-old mules, well matched,
well broken and well grown, say
weighing 1,100 to 1,300 each, will bring
from $550 to $000. \
Now it takes a mighty good class of
farm horse to bring such a price.
More mules should be raised by the
farmers all over the country. Breed
your heavy set farm horse mares to a
good-sized, stylish Jack ancl when
your colts come take care of them and
they will prove to be about the most
profitable stock on the place, either
to work or to sell. *
You will find them easier to raise,
easier to break and cheaper to keep
than horse colts. And, when you
want to dispose of them they are al-
ways in demand.
FIX PLOWSHARE FOR ALFALFA
Edge Ground Around to Resemble
Blade of Bread Knife*—Roots
Cut Off Easily and Clean.
Anyone that has ever plowed al-
falfa sod knows how hard the roots
are to cut, says a Canadiaji writer in
Popular Mechanics. In plowing many
of the roots are not cut off. I had a
Plowshare For Alfalfa.
field of alfalfa at one time that I
was unable to plow, as my team was
too light to draw the plow through the
the roots.
After thinking It over for a time, I
j decided to make the edge of my
plowshare like the cutting edge of a
bread knife. The edge was ground
on an emery wheel as shown in the
sketch. I had no trouble in plow-
ing the field. The roots slip over the
scallops and are cut off easily and
clean.
PECULIAR AFTER EFFECTS
OF GRIP THIS YEAR.
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Leaves Kidneys in Weakened Condition
Doctors in all parts of the country-
have been kept busy with the epidemic:
of grip which has visited so many
homes. The symptoms of grip this,
year are very distressing and leava
the system in a run down condition,,
particularly the kidneys which seem,
to suffer most, as every victim com-
plains of lame back and urinary trou-
bles which should not be neglected*
as these danger signals often lead to>
more serious sickness, such as dread-
ed Bright’s Disease. Local druggists
report a large sale of Dr. Kilmer’s.
Swamp-Root which so many people
say soon heals and strengthens the
kidneys after an attack of grip*
Swamp-Root is a great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy, and, being an
herbal compound, has a gentle heal-
ing effect on the kidneys, which is al-
most immediately noticed by those
who try it. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton, N. Y., offer to send a sample
bottle of Swamp-Root, free by mail*
to every sufferer who requests it. A
trial will convince any one who may
be in need of it. Regular size bottles;
50 cts. and $1.00. For sale at all drug-
gists. Be sure to mention this paper*
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His Flowerlike Way.
Mrs. Givem—How do you shovel off
the snow?
Weary Willie—I stick me head!
above it like the crocus, mum.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate-
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels*
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take.
Do not gripe.
A man’s nature runs either to herbs
or weeds; therefore let him season-
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other.—Bacon.
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PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS
Tour druggist will rtslund money If PAZt) OINT’-
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Bieed.Di* or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 60c.
It sometimes happens that a man
who talks like a book is a plagiarist.
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liver or bowels. Help
Nature with the- best
system-cleaning tonic,
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in water used as a gargle is
antiseptic and healing.
Here’s Proof
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years and can testify to its wonderful
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croup, lame back and rheumatism and
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REBECCA JANE ISAACS,
Lucy, Kentucky.
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