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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publisher
CUMBY
TEXAS
Thus far this season anglers agree
that the biggest got away.
What a perfect rhyme there is be-
tween ‘‘April seeds” and “July weeds!”
Hurrah! The Maryland strawberry
crop is reported to be one of the best
on record. The optimists are not all
dead yet.
A Washington bulldog ate up one
enumerator’s census book. He may
find the long list of queries but ques-
tionable diet.
To judge from the way aviators
have been falling from the sky lately
there is at least one product of the day
which is coming down.
The prospect of a “Chantecler”
drama in this country should arouse
great hopes among the musical com-
edy players known as broilers. i
The couple who were married on a
Western Maryland train going at the
rate of 40 miles an hour evidently
wished the matrimonial knot tied fast.
A six-year-old girl in Brooklyn has
two' heads. It must be something of a
strain on her lungs when she gets into
an animated conversation with herself.
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New York city continues to go up in
the air. The plan for a new 38-story
building means a notable addition to
the finest collection of sky-scrapers in
the world.
Some claim that young Sidis, who is
elucidating the fourth dimension at
Harvard, is after all but a reincarna-
tion of Euclid. Young Sidis him-
telf says to this theory: “What bosh!’
There are a great many swollen for-
tunes in this country, but investiga-
tion will show that very few of them
»n be traced back to the Belgian hare
craze that caught so many hopeful
ones a dozen years ago.
Lord Kitchener, England’s big gen-
eral, knows what good soldiering is,
and having seen. West Point he gives
high praise to the military academy
as one of the best of training schools.
And American history shows his judg-
ment is correct.
In London a police magistrate de-
cides that it is proper when a woman
insists on wearing a big hat in the
theater to put her out The issue is
out of date in New York. The lady
takes her hat off, over here, rather
than put her neighbor out.
The bacteriological drama to be
iyen by Wisconsin girl students in
ich bacilli and germs will be per-
—oa—"*"ga ernoq tVio GViqTi.
tecler barnyard drama one better.
There will be curiosity to discover
which particular microbe will have
the leading role.
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An English novelist is in this coun-
try to study the women. The Amer-
ican woman just now seems to be the
most interesting topic of civilized cre-
ation. Still, there is no need to be
going to outside writers for a full un-
derstanding of her. It takes the na-
tive American to appreciate her full
worth.
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Prince Victor Napoleon will, it is
announced, renounce his pretension
to the throne of Prance. Prince Vic-
tor is about to marry a daughter of
the late King Leopold of Belgium and
she has a lot of money, so that it will
not be necessary for him to go on pre-
tending for the sake of having some-
thing to do.
"Fret not thy gizzard!” is the mot-
to that Dr. D. K. Pearson, Chicago’s
millionaire philanthropist, gives to the
world, at the age of ninety. It’s a
comparatively easy motto to live up
to, when you are a retired multi-mil-
lionaire, but it’s harder when you
don’t know where the money is com-
ing from to pay the rent.
There Is a "butter war” out In El-
gin, 111., the center Of a large dairy
Industry. One faction is trying to
hold up.prices to a certain rate and
another crowd wants the figure one
cent a pound lower. Meanwhile the
"ultimate consumer” is disregarded.
He is expected to pay whatever the
other fellows decide upon. That seems
to be the way the law of supply and
demand works with trusts and com-
binations running things.
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Good
Manners
They Count for
More Than
Anything Else
By DR. MADISON C. PETERS
Jesus Walks
On the Sea
Sunday School Lesson for June 5, 1910
Specially Arranged for This Paper
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MERSON says: “Give a boy dress and accomplishments and
yon give him the mastery of palaces wherever he goes. He
has not the trouble to earn or own them; they solicit him to
enter and possess.”
Good manners go farther than letters of recommendation;
like the gold standard, they are current the world around.
Lord Chesterfield well knew the truth of the proverb that
that “manners make the man.” He wrote to his son: “All
I your Greek can never advance you, but your manners, if good,
mav.”
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The gruff man, however capable, repels, while the man with a pleasing
way about him always attracts. To quote Chesterfield again: “Oil your
mind and your manners to give them the necessar/ suppleness and flexi-
bility—strength alone will not do so/’
Aaron Burr lost the presidency by one vote, but he became vice-presi-
dent, outdistancing men of twice his character and abilit}', owing to his
suave and courteous manners, his polished bearing and magnetic person-
ality. -
Josephine’s fascinating manners did more for Napoleon than any
dozen of his loyal adherents.
The art of pleasing is synonymous with the art of rising in the world.
Of course there are notable exceptions to the rule that a pleasing person-
ality brings success. Michael Angelo was a cold and forbidding man, and
though the people admired his works they cared little for him. Columbus
was unsocial, and to his taciturn disposition may be attributed the mutiny
of his crew, which with diffiuclty was allayed o.n his voyage of discovery
to the new world. Dante was never invited out to dinner in his life; he
was never welcomed at any fireside.
The “I don’t know,” “I don’t care” “none of my business” kind of
a man stays where he starts. Show courtesy to others—not because they
are gentlemen, but because you are one. '
Shabby clothes and rude manners are no longer looked upon as eccen-
tricities of genius. Negligence in dress will soon be
followed by corresponding negligence in address.
Carelessness in the matter of clothes undoubt-
edly lowers a man in his own estimate. I don’t believe
there is a man alive who can preach a good sermon or
can he effective and skilful doer of any good work
if he is conscious tha£ his linen is soiled and his clothes
are ill fitting and worn. There is about the ill-clad
man a sense of incompleteness that shears him of his
personal power and magnetism.
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Vocational
Training
lor Young
Women
By LOUISE SARAH ARNOLD
I have been asked to consider particu-
larly the movement for vocational training
for girls.
The causes are legion, reaching far back
into the past. The essential reason, hotr-
ever. is found in our dominant desire to
provide equal opportunities for all. Our
democracy is not content with less.
The thoughtful teacher can read in the
history of our schools the expression of this
desire. The schools were intended to teach
the truth and the truth was to make us
free. In building the curriculum we add-
ed subject to subject, opportunity to oppor-
tunity, until a complete system of education had been reared, erowned by
the university degrees. Not until our task was completed did we realize
that we had arranged a system which gave much to the favored few, while
it failed to provide for the immediate needs oij the many. The perfect
whole was fair to look upon, but the fragment apportioned to the boys
and girls whose school life was of necessity limited proved a fragment
indeed and not a portion suited to their needs.
During the past 20 years the conviction has gained ground that the
function of the school is not merely to train the scholar, but to develop
the citizen. It is this ideal which is so rapidly modifying our schools.
The young citizen must be made ready, morally, intellectually and phys-
ically, for his task.
This brings us to another cause for the present emphasis of vocational
training. In former times the girl was taught in the home, first to take
part in its duties and responsibilities; second, to become skilful in domes-
tic handicraft. Three-fourths of the vocational training now demanded of
the schools was formerly given in well-ordered homes. The modem home
in the city rarely fulfils this function. It has handed over to the public
school the responsibility of training its daughters. Until the home comes
to itself again, the school must bear its burden. Therefore it must teach
sewing, cooking and the various other household arts as best it can.
Herr Wilhelm Voight added to the
gaiety of nations when he personated
a German army officer and "held up”
the Mayor of Koepenick, although the
Imperial authorities, who do not relish
that sort of humor, sent him to prison
for his indiscretion. And now he finds
that the "joke” has a serious side.
Uncle Sam’s laws forbid the admis-
sion of Immigrants with a prison rec-
ord, and Herr Voight, who wanted to
locate here, has been deported as an
objectionable alien. The laugh at
present seems to be on the man who
made merry at the expense of the
German army.
Proper
Training
of City
Children
Bj ERNEST LEWIS
An announcement from the British
foreign office is to the effect that
China has granted a concession under
the terms of which an American-Eng-
lish syndicate will finance the Chin-
Chow and Aigun railroad. This line
will run through a part of Manchuria,
and the concession represents the suc-
cessful negotiations with which our
government has been connected. In
fact it indicates acquiescence in the
propositions of Secretary of State
Knox looking to the fair recognition
of American interests in that quar-
A certain Chicago man recently ex-
pressed the opinion that the five-cent thea-
ter has a stronger tendency to absorb the
minds of the school children than any
other recreation, inasmuch as the city is
flooded with these cheap shows and chil-
dren frequent them oftener thsffi any other
place of amusement. This man is the fa-
ther of several children, vet he acknowl-
edges that it is impossible for him to keep
them off the streets in the evening.
When a father or mother realizes that
he or she has no control over the children
under 20 years of age, he or she should
examine himself or herself for the reason and not blame the children or
the five-cent show.
Whose fault is it that children attend the cheap show or run the
streets at night?
I believe it is advisable for parents to take their children to unques-
tionable places of amusement occasionally, but it is absolutely foolish
to allow them to gc as often as they desire, for children have no judg-
ment in such matters.
Parents should contrive iu every way possible to make the home life
pleasant and attractive to children, so that they will enjoy being at home
instead of on the streets.
It is not necessary to be cranks in the matter of discipline. Children
can be allowed a great many privileges which will not bring harm to them,
but parents should make it a point at all times to know just where their
children are..«■
LOVE SINKS TO THE STOMACH
Danish Wife Learns Pinochle and Is
a Good Entertainer—Her Duty,
She Thinks.
LESSON TEXT.—Matthew 14:22-36.
Memory verses, 26, 27.
GOLDEN TEXT.—“Then they thax
were in the ship came and worshiped him,
saying, ‘Of a truth thou art the Son of
God.”—Matt. 14:33.
TIME.—In the spring of A. D. 29, Imme-
diately after the last lesson.
PLACE.—The northern part of the Sea
of Galilee.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
The Source of Christ’s Power.—Vs.
22, 23. What was the effect upon the
multitude of the multiplication of the
loaves and fishes? “The feeding of
the five thousand was the quietest and
least imposing of Christ’s miracles. It
is safe to say that only a few of the
people were aware of what was being
done until it was over.”—David James
Burrell, D. D., LL. D.
The Imperiled Disciples and Christ’s
Good Cheer.—Vs. 24-27. Why did
Christ, if his disciples were to be in
so great danger, thrust them forth
into It without himself? The danger
was not apparent at first. “It was an
easy crossing, and it was quite calm,
and it was not far; they could see the
other side. He separated himself
from them with a purpose. He had
many a lesson for them to learn. The
night became unruly, and no small
tempest lay upon them; their bearings
were lost, and neither sail nor oar
could serve them. Their thoughts
must have pressed all and only in one
direction—to the mountain-top where
Jesus was!”—Rev. Armstrong Black.
When did Jesus come to them in
their distress? "In the fourth watch
of the night,” between three and six
o’clock in the morning.
Why did Christ come to them walk-
ing on. the waves? He must go to
them in that way, or not at all. Be-
sides, he doubtless had a desire to lift
the disciples’ thought of him to a high-
er plane, and prepare them for the
full recognition of his divinity. “The
miracle of the feeding of the multi-
tude had been a picture of the last
supper, a prophecy of his death; and
this miracle is a prophecy of his
resurrection.”—Rev. David Smith.
How did the apparition affect the
disciples? They cried out in great
terror, thinking it a ghost. “All at
once, in the track that lay behind
them, a figure appeared. As it passed
onward over the water, seemingly up-
borne by the waves as they rose, not
disappearing as they fell, but carried
on as they rolled, the silvery moon
laid upon the trembling waters the
shadows of that form as it moved,
long and dark, on their track. St.
John uses an expression which shows
us, In the pale light, those in the
boat Intently, fixedly, fearfully, gazing
at the apparition as it moved still
closer and closer.”—Edersheim.
Why did Christ (Mark) make as if
going straight by the disciples? "He
w’ould wish his disciples to recognize
him. He would wish them to under-
stand distinctly what he was doing,
and what he had done, and what it
was in his power to do. He would
wish to pass onward by their side,
and in their view, till it should be the
very best moment to turn and give
them relief.”—Morlson.
How did Christ reassure them when
they cried out in fear? It must have
been with a radiant smile that he
said, "Be of good cheers; it is I; be
not afraid.”
The Half-Hearted Disciple and
Christ’s Rebuke.—Vs. 28-33. What dis-
ciple was first to answrer Christ?
Characteristically, Peter. And "the
combination of doubt (if It be thou’)
with presumption (‘bid me come on
the water’) is peculiarly characteris-
tic of Peter.”—Edersheim.
What should this experience have
done for Peter? "It should have made
him more cautious afterward in his
avowrals, his too self-confident boast-
ings, of what he would do and dare
for his master.”—John Foster.
How did Christ rebuke Peter as he
saved him? It wTas a gentle rebuke,
"O thou of little faith, wherefore didst
thou doubt?”
What was the effect of this miracle
upon the disciples? They were
amazed beyond measure, not only at
the walking on the water, but at the
immediate cessation of the storm as
soon as they had taken Jesus on
board.
Human Misery and Christ’s Healing.
—Vs. 34-36. Where did the boat land?
With what seemed miraculous sudden-
ness (John) the disciples made the
rest of their journey across to the
northwestern side of the lake, and
came into the land of Gennesaret.
What happened Immediately on
Christ’s arrival? “See how Jesus
Christ goes to work again.”—Joseph
Parker. He was at once recognized
as the marvelous healer, and the
whole region was aroused to bring
their sick within reach of his wonder-
ful powers.
How did they expect the cures to
he wrought? They were satisfied if
they could get close enough in the
crowd merely to touch his garment.
Illustration. Prayer? is something
for every day, and not merely for
emergencies. "I knew a man, a good
man, who passed through a threaten-
ing experience in his business for two
or three weeks; and he prayed more
in that time than he had prayed for
fifteen or twenty years. He confessed
as much to me, and he regarded it
as an honorable confession. That is
not Christian prayer.”—John Rhey
Thompson, D. D. Christian prayer
meets emergencies with the quiet con-
fidence born of a long series of an-
swered prayers and blessed commun-
Ixuts all through the years.
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"After marriage love sinks to the
stomach. There is no doubt of it, my
friend. The old adage is right.” Here
is a suffragist, a good suffragist, from
Denmark, who has seen life and who
knows.
“Three husbands have I had,” says
she, according to the New York Eve-
ning Sun, “and of what I speak I am
certain. My first was an Englishman—
a race reputed difficult; my second was
a Dutchman out of Holland, a good
man, though Dutch; my third is a
German, an ‘echt Deutscher.’ Yet
ifrom all these three have I received
never anything but respect. Each has
been an excellent husband; and for
why? I have known my,business as a
wife. That is it in a fistful, yes. After*
marriage love sinks to the stomach.”
Mme. Volkman, the president of the
Independent Woman’s Suffrage club In
■Harlem, speaks with the conviction
and authority of experience.
“Let us come back to that duty of
a wife. Evening comes. The good
wife prepares for her husband an ex-
cellent repast, adorns herself within
keeping of his means and from six to
'ten o’clock of an evening is she her
husband’s company.
"Pinochle she must learn, also dom-
inoes. If she has no taste for these
.things that does not signify. It is her
duty. A man will stay in his home
quite content evening after evening
so that he can put between his teeth
a good pipe and sit down at ease to
pinochle. !
“I know what I say. Three hus-
bands have I had and with each one
It was the same. Now once a week
there comes to my home a small club
of my husband’s. Three friends, a
little beer and pinochle that makes for
him his pleasure. That is my hus-
band’s one outside diversion. Ten
cents or so changes hands for a
pastime and for one evening I am re-
lieved.
“Perhaps you ask: Is it not hard for
an active woman of brains night after
night to sit opposite her man and to
play at pinochle, That is neither here
nor there, my friend. Some sacrifice
is necessary to all success. Only
from a contented man will a wife get
all what for she asks. Only from
many contented men will many wlvej
receive that woman’s suffrage.”
Enclosure and
Liberty
Accidents In Cotton Mills.
Cotton spinning mills in England,
France, Belgium, Germany and the
United States have, for a century at
least been prolific sources of acci-
dents arising directly from the ma-
chinery in use, as distinct from other
causes. It was this prevalence of In-
jury among cotton mill workers on
the continent that called into being
the Society for the Prevention of Ac-
cidents in Factories in Alsace 20 years
ago, and excellent work has been car-
ried on by this society and its ramifi-
cations among the cotton mills of
Alsace Lorraine and Rhenish Prussia.
It must, in fact, be credited to that
disinterested body of mechanicians
that they were the main pioneers of
efficient safety devices for cotton ma-
chinery. During the last decade mills
in England have adopted several of
these appliances, improved on others,
and from the inspiration given by
those early efforts British engineers
and machinists have invented many
more which do good service every
working day in the mill. The United
States are now actively falling into
line, and insurance companies are giv-
ing serious attention to the proper
safeguarding of machinery in mills
under their supervision.—H. M. Craw-
ford in Cassier’s Magazine.
A Legend of Embroidery.
Konan-tin, called "the Goddess of
Mercy,” who was a missionary to
Japan from China, having left her na-
tive land to teach Buddhism to the
Japanese, is said, according to tradi-
tion, to have been the earliest instruc-
tor in the art of embroidery known to
the Japanese.
The young woman, who was a nun
of high standing, was obliged to take
refuge in a temple for a time, and
there she and other women mission-
aries who had gone to Japan in the in-
terest of Buddhism wrought out in
their embroideries their religious
dreams of a future .world.
From this example the Japanese
learned the rudiments of the art which
they so wonderfully developed.
Other traditions have it that the
nun did not teach the art of em-
broidery, but that she inspired those
who wrer© already acquainted with it
to strive for more serious expression
of their religious feeling through this
art. £
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A Wave of Reform.
A Kindly Old Gent who was crossing
a bridge was shocked to see a Tough
Little Boy sitting on the rail and
chewing the stub of a cigar. He said
to the boy: “Sonny, it grieves me to
see one so young indulging in such n
degrading habit. Drop the nasty thing
Into the water and promise me you
won’t smoke another one, and I’ll givt.
you a dime.”
So the boy dropped the stub, and
promised. “And now,” said the K. O.
G., beaming through his glasses and
handing over the coin, "tell me what
nice things you can buy for ten
cents.”
“A package uv cig’retes,” said the
T. L. B. as he ran away.
Next day when the Kindly Old Gent
crossed the bridge, there were ten
Tough Little Boys sitting on the rail,
all smoking cigar stubs.—Lippin-
cott’s.^*.
fW^HERB are two joys •worth mark-
ing in a man’s life; the joy of
passing from the confinement of
the house into the space and
freedom of the outside world, and the
joy of passing from the bleakness of
the world without into the comfort
and safety of his dwelling. In the
open door between the little and the
large world, in the recurring transition
from freedom to sehlter and from shel-
ter to freedom, lie the movement and
meaning of existence, writes O. W-
Firkins, in Unity.
Man builds for himself a cabin
against the rain and the wind, but he
has no sooner compacted its walls and
stopped its fissures than he pierces it
with a door that he may walk forth
into the air, and slits it with windows
that, even while he lies at rest under
the thatch, his eyes may roam abroad
and soar into the heavens. Birth it-
self is his first grasp of freedom, and
it is only when life leaves him at the
edge of the grave that he succumbs to
complete and final enclosure. Nature
has housed him in a casing t)f flesh
and bone; and not content with this
he strips the fleece from the sheep and
the fiber from the n^d to spin and
weave a little tenement of his own
which he takes about with him in all
journeys; but even thus he leaves his
face bare to the sun and sends his eye
and ear to travel abroad through
space and bring him forage and booty
even from the distant horizon.
Man’s Contradictions.
He builds his chalet in the valley
behind the shield of the mountainside,
but he follows his goats upward to the
peak that while they browse he may
overlook the world. He buries himself
in thq heart of the primeval forest;
but alwrays, if he may, by the edge of
a great stream by whose aid his raft
or canoe may find its way back to the
cities he has left or forward to the un-
pierced wilderness. He frames his
house of oak or of marble to be a fast-
ness for himself and his sons against
the destroying centuries; yet at the
same moment he heats water in a
sealed chest that the fierceness pf its
rebellion may transport him to the
ends oi the earth. He fashions a
church where he may be alone with
his God; and, to exclude the world
from his precinct, he makes its doors
massive and tempers its light and
stains its windows; but straightway,
to get back to the freedom he has lost,
he draws out its nave into columned
aisles of noble amplitude, and rounds
out a mighty dome into the very image
and semblance of the sky he has ex-
cluded. He rims himself in the little
square of his bed at night, but the
sleep which shackles his limbs more
firmly than iron is the door through
which his spirit escapes Into the
boundless and pathless kingdom of
dreams. Confined in the body to a dot,
of time and often to a shard of space,
he plays with the earth in his mind as
a child with a toy balloon, and his
imagination makes the centuries its
balls or marbles.
Need of Rest and Security.
But if he is born to seek freedom,
he is none the less filled with the need
for rest and security. He emerges
from the mother’s womb only to find
himself with his own consent in the
scarcely wider inclosure of her arms.
On the great prairie he pitches his
tent or rears his house of logs, shut-
ting himself from the glory of the sky
that he may shield himself likewise
from its terrors. Adventure and youth
are strong within him, and he leaves
the land for the free, broad spaces of
the sea, but his first step thereto is to
rim himself in a narrow boat, and if
he stays aboard for a night he wilt
roof himself in with a cabin that ho
may screen himself from the vastness
he has longed for. He loves, and tho
world is too little for his dilated heart;
and his next step is to stake out a plot
and build walls and carve a. roof-tree
within which the great world, cosmic
or public, shall have no license to In-
trude. With the wings which love
gives him he flies only to the nest. ,
He is artist and poet; he -will put the v
sky upon canvas, but always within,
a frame; he will let out his soul in
music, but only in the palings of
verse. The mercy of nature has made
even the boundless heavens assume
to his feeble eyes the aspect of the
celling of a habitation. Space for his
sal?e narrows itself Into a roof and
tl.e stars which are worlds for his un-
derstanding are only i tapers for his
senses. He is set in the narrow curb
and frame of life, lest he should per- '
lsh from the mere weight of immor-
tality.
Should we venture too far in saying
that as the instinct for freedom is
rooted in the soul of man, the instinct
for repose and shelter Is no less deep-
ly imbedded in the body? The one
urges him into the lonely spaces; the
other nestles or crouches beside the
fire. As long as man lives, the in-
stincts wrestle with interchanging
victory and death can end the strife
only by parting the combatants. The
body finds in the grave the absolute
and final goal of its instinct toward
enclosure, and the soul reaches its
complete life or its total effacement in
the attainment of that liberty which
its aspirations have prefigured.
A happy nature is sometimes a gift,
b t it is also a grace, and can, there-
fore, be cultivated and acquired; and
it should be a definite aim with those
who are training a child.—Lucy Souls-
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