The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publisher
CUMBY .... TEXAS
Keep cool and you will be cooL
Also, bash the post that rocks the
boat.
It must be great to be skinny in hot
weather.
Do not overwork yourself taking hot
weather advice.
More popular than others are hot
waves with broken backs.
Now the man who sleeps out of
doors finds it easier to make converts.
There ought to be a Nobel prize for
the personage who invented shirt
waists.
About the only time the women are
good listeners is when the preacher
is talking.
New York complains of a shortage
of water, despite the fact it is sur-
rounded by it.
Detroit's team loses a game on rare
occasions to prove that its players are
merely human.
Chicago is now advocating air tutths.
A short time ago one of its citizens
died in a bathtub.
A New Jersey man who ate pie
twice a day for 89 years is dead—gone
to his desserts, as it were.
i
After college professors reach a
certain age they don’t seem to care
what they say about women.
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There has been discovered one of
those old-fashioned baseball games in
which one team scores 20 runs.
At the Hoe library sale “The Swan
Book” brought $21,000. Its nedr owner
would not read it for twice that.
London dressmakers now propose
a gown with a detachable train. Hub-
by, we presume, will be the switch-
man.
However, the aviator who threatens
to fly up Broadway will not be the
only high flyer on that wicked thor-
oughfare.
“The earnings of the average New
York lawyer amount to about $1,000 a
year. “Earnings” is a diplomatic way
of putting it.
Stealing a base on the rest of the
country, a Massachusetts school is
using batting averages to stimulate in-
terest in mathematics.
New York has just sent $2,000,000 of
worn od$ money to Washington. The
fellows the New Yorkers took it away
from were, probably sent to the hos-
pital.
A New York miser committed sui-
cide because he was lonesome, and
yet you can hardly blame people for
not wanting to keep a miser’s com-
pany.
A western railroad has placed on
Its rails a car reserved for women
only, but the women do not after
all prefer an Adamless Eden on
wheels.
Don’t be discouraged if the results
you get from your garden make it
seem expensive. The price put upon
Madison Square garden in New York
is $3,500,000.
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A chewing gum famine' is threat-
ened ip Chicago as the result of a
strike. Our old-fashioned notion of
nothing to worry abeu' is a chewing
gum famine.
A canvass of the co-eds in Chicago
university shows that only two per
cent of them are planning matrimony.
That's all right; there’s no need to
hurry the girls.
There are a great many unreason-
able persons in the world, but few are
more, so than the New Yorker who
stabbed a deaf mute because he failed
*o reply to a question.
A Boston street car conductor
found a $5,000 necklace on the flooi
of his car. And we thought that
women who wear $5,000 necklaces al-
ways rode in automobiles.
A Brooklyn woman who is 101
years oI&*attributes the fact to her
habit of Rising every morning at 6
o’clock. Many feel that getting up
at 6 every morning is enough to make
anyone old.
Professor Sargent of Harvard has
it figured out that flowers will reform
bad boys. The next time your youth-
ful son pours water into the gasoline
tank of your automobile, hand him a
$5 bunch of violets.
"Let the. baby squall by all means.”
says Professor W. A. McKeever of
the Kansas Agricultural college,
thereby proving that all the massive
intellects have nc\t been corailed by
the eastern universities.
St. Louis has provided a farm home
for the horses of the city departments
when the animals grow too old and
infirm for work. Appreciation of an.
kind of past usefulness in public work
is so rare, either in man or beast, tha.
this grateful act to faithful four-footed
servants does credit to the city’s pub
lie spirit and generosity
F;
irmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
If you have a grudge, better lose it.
Mortgages seldom flourish on fertile
soil.
Apologies are the offspring of insin-
cerity.
A true spirit should be found in
every one.
Schemers use the unsophisticated to
further their plans.
Those who promise so readily fail
as readily to fulfill.
Overpoliteness is the surest indica-
tion one is not to the manner born.
Those bidden to our joys are often
conspicuous by their absence at our
sorrows.
He who tells you “I care not for pub-
lic opinion” contemplates defying the
proprieties.
A contented and intelligent rural
population is the true basis of a per-
manent agriculture.
The telephone, the silo and the
cream separator are all sure signs of
a progressive farmer.
A poor farmer is generally a poor
guesser. Correct information is the
secret of success in farming as in
everything else.
Those who discourage us the most
in an undertaking are the first to tell
us “I knew you would succeed,” when
we have attained success.
One reason why so many boys leave
the farm is that the city demands so
many more good boys than it can sup-
ply and must needs draw upon the
country.
There are natures whose whole bu-
^manity centers in their own family to
the exclusion of every other human
being—and such natures consider
themselves paragons of virtue.
Better put the good apples at the
top, bottom and middle of a barrel,
because dealers now have a habit of
examining all three spots. This sug-
gestion is for the tricky grower only,
as all others do not need it.
The timid farmers who quit raising
hogs when prices were low are all
rushing back into the business and
will be ready to market just about the
time overproduction breaks prices to
the point where there is no profit.
PRODUCTION OF MORE COTTON
American Farmers Get But 12,000,000
Bales on Acreage That Should
Yield 30,000,000.
(By Q. H. ALFORD.)
That the American growers produce
12,000,000 bales of cotton upon an
acreage that ought to produce 30,000,-
000 bales is one of the striking state-
ments made by the Washington Post
in an editorial upon the cotton crop of
1910.
If the facts are as set forth by the
Post the point is not that the south
should produce 18,000,000 additional
bales of cotton upon the present area,
but that the area upon which the 12,-
000,000 bales are produced should be
cut down nearly two-thirds. This
would give the farmers of the south
ample room in which to produce many
other crops, the aggregate value of
which would exceed that of the cotton
crop.
The editorial of the Post follows:
“The world’s annual production of
cotton is estimated at 20,000,000 bales,
of which the planters of America grow
more than one-half, or about 12,000,000
bales. In the British provinces and de-
pendencies are grown 5,500,000 bales,
though all of it except the 1,500,000
from Egypt is inferior in quality to the
American cotton. The price of the
staple and of the fabric advances
year by year, which shows that the
production does not keep pace with
the consumption, and this, too, not-
withstanding ^the encouragement lent
to the planter in the market return
for the seed that yielded from ‘this
crop.
“While it is true that not one-fourth
of the cotton area of the United
States has been subjected to the plow
and the hoe, it is nevertheless obvious
that if our country is long to hold the
supremacy in the growing of cotton,
old methods of cultivation must be
supplanted by the new. A planter who
gets less than a bale of lint from an
acre seeded to cotton ought to quit his
job, for he Is not fitted for it. One
planter in Mississippi—the prairie re-
gion near the Alabama line in the
black belt—acquired an old worn-out
farm, and what with corn, peas, oats
and alfalfa he now has a plantation as
fertile as it was when the land was
virgin, and his acres devoted to cotton
yield him from a bale and a half to
two bales an acre.
“Many other farmers of that region
are pursuing the same methods with
like results. A noble vocation is that
of the farmer, and a profitable one, if
the farmer is fit for his job. The
main secret is the conservation of soil
and the second is intelligence of till-
age.
“America grows 12,000,000 bales of
cotton annually on an area that ought
to produce 30,000,000 bales, and would
outdo that even if every cotton planter
knew how to grow cotton, and would
nut his brains to the plow.”
Value of Alfalfa.
If you can feed the cows alfalfa
hay they will need less grain.
—
By P. EVAN JONES. Chicago
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* -
OME days ago I read a letter from a teacher or a professoi in
a town or small city who asked if it is worth while to ave
money. He had, during eight or ten 3*ears, saved and invested
so that he had now about $5,000. His object in saving wat to
build a home for himself ,and his family. During these ytars
of self-denial the lot on which he intended to build had gane
up in value from $600 to $1,000 and the house that he ind
his wife had planned to build for $5,000 would now cost
$8,000. Because of this the teacher or professor asked if it
is worth while to economize and save money.
Certainly it is. The teacher’s or professor’s own statements are a
convincing proof of it. The amount he now has as a result of his lav-
ing is so much money, whatever its bujfing capacity may be, or whether
property or building materials have gone up or down. And when a per-
son has $5,000 he can, with his experience in saving and investing, tery
easily in a few years get another $5,000. *
One of our great financiers said not very long ago that it was htrd-
est to save the first $1,000.
It seems that the good teacher or professor was discouraged because
he could not for $5,000 build the house which he and his wife had planned
for so many years. But, according to his own statement, the planning of
that house was the mainspring of the saving of that large amount he aow
has. And, besides, it has given them many happy hours. But any one
can build a very fine and comfortable house, with every modem conven-
ience, for $5,000. An unaccountable number of us—and myself for one—
would be more than glad if we had that amount with which to build a
home.
Both in Chicago and elsewhere have I seen houses, and good looking
and comfortable they have been, that have not cost more than the amount
the teacher says he has.
But if one has that sum to start with he can
easily borrow some more, even $3,000, if he believes
he ought to have*a home costing so much. Having
his own home and the habit of saving, it ought to be
comparatively easy to pay a loan on the house.
Certainly it is worth while to save money. The
teacher’s or professor’s owm letter is a conclusive and
convincing proof of it.
“ From
Under the
Flying
Chaff”
By A. W. MACY
Author of
“Shortcut Philosophy**
A framed-up excuse is sure to be a poor
one.
Heroes often come of unsuspected ma-
terial.
Those who speak as they think should
think before they speak.
A self-satisfied man is merely a case of
arrested development.
The shining shield of virtue turns aside
/many a poisoned shaft.
Experience often comes in wholesale
lots, but we always pay the retail price.
A good beginning may be half the bat-
tle, but a good ending is the whole thing.
The human tongue is the only instrument that does not wear out
with constant use.
Honesty may be the best policy, but the man who adopts it as a pol-
icy will bear watching.
What would the beasts think if one of their number should get drunk
and make a man of himself?
Diamonds are ground in diamond dust; so’must we be chastened in
the grit of our own experience. ,
Some people have no more sense of propriety than a caged rooster
that crows in front of a meat market.
(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
T
Much Joy
Found in
Adopted
Child
By FRANCES J. SCHNEIDER
Are adopted children ever a comfort?
Several years ago we laid our little daugh-
ter to rest and then our little son also
passed away. God only knows the pain of
parting and loneliness.
Some months ago we went to an orphan
asylum and took a little girl not quite two
years old. Our home has changed since
then. The child has crept into our hearts
and leaves no room for sadness.
Trouble? Yes, of course; but she is
ten times more pleasure than trouble.
When we contemplated taking a baby
our friends told us we did not know when
we were well off and that certain people that did not have trouble were
foolish to put their foot into it, and so forth. But when my baby puts
her arms around my neck and says “mamma” I feel repaid for any trouble
or worry she may be. My husband also loves her ns though she were our
own. / /
Moreover, we have friends in Ohio that have adopted two little girls
and I know that they would also advise any one to do likewise.
Every
Knock
Boost for
Better
Things
Many people of many minds go to build
this busy world. The writer is acquainted
with many excellent people who have the
average amount of brotherly love, who
could scarcely he called spiteful or narrow,
who are as free from rancor and spleen as
anyone (none of us is perfect), ahd yet
they are intensely annoyed by the many
unnecessary noises made by their thought-
less neighbors.
Because a person admires the howling
of a worthless cur or the crowing of that
3:00 a. m. nuisance, the rooster, it does
not necessarily follow that every one must
*)e overjoyed by these demorfstrations. Do unto others as }ou would have
them do unto you, but don’t twiddle your thumbs and believe you have no
kick coming when the noise breeders try to r^ib it into you.
The kicker, the crank and the generally discontented person have
been responsible for ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the betterments in
the living conditions of the world, and history repeats itself daily.
Here’s to the knocker—every knock is a boost for better conditions
H. W. WINESAP
Buffalo, N. Y.
MORE PRACTICAL IN FUTURE
Development of Modern Machinery
Renders it Necessary for Farmers
to Learn Co-operation..
In the future farmers will have to
learn more practical co-operation than
they have ever practiced in the past,
and that for several reasons. The
farmer is intensely individualistic. His
previous training has made him so.
He has depended on bis own right
arm so long that he has become quite
independent of his neighbors.
The development of modern ma-
chinery renders it necessary for farm-
ers to learn to co-operate. For ex-
ample, as we have pointed out be-
fore, a lone farmer in building & silo
necessarily goes to a heavy expense
not only in the construction of the
silo, but in the purchase of silage ma-
chinery, especially the power and cut-
ter. Now a cutter will do for two
farmers just as well as for. one, or for
three, if they will plan their corn so
as to continue the cutting period over
two or thVee weeks.
Farmers would do well to co-oper-
ate In buying a small threshing out-
fit rather than depend on the large
outfit, while their grain may be spoil-
ing in the shock. There must be co-
operation in this line among the farm-
ers in the neighborhood. They should
either all thresh out of the shock or
ail stack, for the reason that the large
machine coming in wants to clean
up the whole neighborhood at once,
which cannot be done if it is partly
shocked and partly going through the
sweat in the stack.
Western farmers have been quite
successful in co-operating in the way
of manufacturing butter and cheese.
They have found by experience that
it is better to havd a creamery or a
cheese factory in which the milk can
be worked up into the desired product
co-operatively, thus saving labor to
the women folks and paving the way
to a uniform brand of high market
value.
They have been able to co-operate in
the establishment of canning factories
—and some up-to-date farmers have
co-operated in selling their eggs,
stamping them with the name of the
farmer and the date, having them
gathered up twice a week, and then
stamped again at the office with the
company brand. They are thus able
to supply strictly fresh eggs to the
grocer or general store In the nearest
town, or for that matter in the dis-
tant city. This kind of co-operation
ought to put at least three cents a
dozen on the eggs, perhaps a small
matter to the Individual farmer, but a
big item tc the community.
The greatest success the farmers
have made in co-operating is in the
marketing of their grain. This is es-
pecially true in the sections largely
given over to grain growing. They
have established co-operative elevators
in great numbers in northern Iowa and
central and southern Illinois. We see
it reported that at a recent meeting of
thg Illinois Farm Elevator association
there were 800 delegates, representing
130 out of the 250 farmers’ elevators
in the state.
Farmers have not been so success-
ful in co-operating In buying as in co-
operating in selling, although a num-
ber of the co-operative elevators
buy co-operatively such things as salt,
coal, lumber, and In some sections fer-
tilizers. In one sense this is a fine
beginning, a very large beginning, and
yet after all it is only a beginning.
The necessities of the farm will com-
pel co-operation i to-a much greater ex-
tent in the future than in the past.
Perhaps nothing but necessity will
drive farmers to It. It was necessity
that compelled the western fruit peo-
ple to co-operate. Otherwise they
were at the mercy of the shipping as-
sociations and railroads.
Therefore, we say we are just at
the beginning of co-operation among
farmers; and the sooner it comes, the
better. By and- by we shall learn to
co-operate in buying as well as in sell-
ing, and thus eliminate much of the
cost of distribution in the cities, which
perhaps does more than anything else
to prevent the farmer from getting a
fair return for his labor.
BETTER SYSTEM OF FARMING
Farmers Should Raise More Crops
That Will Enrich Soils Instead
of Depleting Them.
(By G. H. ALFORD.)
Let us lay the cornerstone of pros
perlty in the south. Let us remove the
stumps from our land; let us reduce
the washing of the land to the mini-
mum by deep plowing, the addition of
vegetable matter and the building of
broad embankments with a fall of
about one inch in fifteen feet; let us
rotate our crops and include legumin-
ous crops in our rotation; let us de-
vote much of the land to pastures
and the livestock business. In other
words, let us reduce the washing of
our land to the minimum and adopt a
better system of farming—one that
will Include more crops to enrich in-
stead' of wear out our land—one that
will include more livestock to consume
the leguminous crops that must be
grown to economically enrich the land
and to make manure to still further
enrich the land. Rich soil is the cor-
nerstone of prosperity.
Propping Heavily Laden Limbs.
Watch the trees which are heavily
loaded, and if the' weight seems to be
too much for the limbs, they should be
propped up or tied together. One of
the best ways to do this is to stand a
pole beside it and tie it securely to
the trunk of the tree. From the top
of this pole run ropes to every limb
that needs support.
GOLDEN TEXT—“What Doth the Lord
Require of Thee, but tq Do Justly, and to
Love Mercy, and to Walk Humbly With
Thy God.”—Mic. 6:8.
Different forms of review are suib
ed to classes of different ages and
different degrees of development, so
that a variety of methods is sug-
gested below. Some of these plans
may need to be united with others to
fill out the session, and any other
changes and adaptations of them may
be made that seem best to the
teacher.
The quarter’s lessons have take*
up six books of the Old Testament.
There have been five lessons in Sec-
ond Kings, two in Second Chronicles^
two in Isaiah, and one each In Jonah,
Micah and Hosea. Select six mem-
bers of the class and have each
write a three-minute essay on one of
these books, telling about the general
course of the lessons or lesson from
that book, and the teachings brought
out therein. Let the class listen care-
fully to each essay, and at the close
dictate a set of questions, which you
have written beforehand, on the quar-
ter’s lessons as & whole, having the
class write answers to the question*
as they are read.
The teacher will write on slips of
cardboard or heavy manila paper a
series of questions on the lessons of
the quarter, about five questions on
each lesson. These questions will
cover the principal facts of the les-
sons, and will be so framed that tbs
answers can be very brief, yet ade-
quate. Lay the slips of paper, face
down, on the class table or on a largo
book held in the lap, mix them up,
and have the class draw them one
at a- time, in turn. The scholar that
draws a question will read it aloud*
and then answer it if he can, retain-
ing the slip. If he does not answer
correctly, or at all, the next on hie
left will try to answer It, and so on
around the class. The scholar that
answers it will hold the slip, and the
scholar that holds the largest num-
ber at the end of the recitation is de-
clared the victor in the little contest.
Announce this plan a week in ad-
vance, that the class may study for it.
Take a series of lesson pictures.
Obliterate the titles of the pictures*
and fasten a bit of ribbon to each.
Place the pictures in a box open at
the end, and let the ribbons extend
outside. The scholars will draw;
these pictures out one after the other*
each scholar telling the class about
the lesson to which his ^ pictures be-
longs, holding up the picture as ho
does so. After the pictures have
been used once, if there is time they;
may be returned to the box and the
exercise may be repeated. This form
of review is especially adapted to the
primary department.
The class will be divided, at least
a week in advance, into two sides*
each side with a leader. The sides
will meet by themselves and each
prepare a series of questions on all
the lessons of the quarter. The teach-
er will meet with each side and mats
sure that the questions are fair ones*
and clearly expressed. On review day
the two sides will sit facing each oth-
er. One side, through its leader, will
propose a question to the other side*
which will answer if it can, speaking
always through its leader, but always
after consultation1'with the rest of the
side. Then the second side WilL pro-
pose a question to the first side, and
so on, alternating. If the answer is
wrong, the side that proposed the
question scores a point; if partly
wrong, half a point. The side that
Is defeated may be required to give s
social, at the teacher’s home, to the
other Bide.
This review, which is especially
suited to adult classes, consists of S
series of essays or talks on the prin-
cipal topics of the various lessons.
As far as possible, the speakers will
choose their topics or lessons, but
the teacher will have a list ready for
suggestion. The following list will
be an aid:
I.—The Healing Side of Religion.
II.—Our Unseen Defenders. III.—*
Starting the Young in Their Lives.
IV.—Our Care for God’s House. V.—•
The Universality of Christianity.
VI —Th^ Perils of Pride. VII.—Our
Work for Our "Country. VIII.—Tem-
perance Work Needed Toda^. IX.—
The Madness of Militarism. X.—God’s
Forgiveness, and How to Obtain It.
XI. —Reform Methods That Succeed*
XII. —The Final Results of Sin.
The Same Lord.
The Lord we have known as laying
down his life for us is the same Lord
we have to do with every day of our
life, and all his dealings with us are
on the same principles of grace. Ths
great secret of growth Is looking up
to the Lord as gracidus. How pre-
cious, how strengthening it is to know
that Jesus is at this moment feeling
and exercising the same love towards
us as when he died on the cross foruB
' Have a Purpose. _
Live for something. Do good and
leave behind you a monument of vir-
tue that the storm of time can never
destroy. Write your name in kind-
ness, love and mercy on the hearts
of thousands you come In contact
with year by year; you will never bs
forgotten.
Trick of the Devil. ,
The devil is putting the butter tm
the right side of his bread when bs
gets a big sinner to count ths hypo-
crites in the church.
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