The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 3, 1907 Page: 3 of 8
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(FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL
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CO-OPERATIVE UNION
^ i OF AMERICA
EVERYBODY DRAG.
When the smiles of spring uppear,
Drag the roads;
When the summer time is here.
Drag the roads;
When the corn is in the ear,
In the winter cold and drear.
Every season in the year,*
Drag the roadBj '
When you've nothing else to do,
Drag the roads;
If but for an hour or two,
Drag the roads.
It will keep them good as new,
With a purpose firm and true.
Fall In line! It's up to you;
Drag the roads! •.
Would you do the proper thing?
Drag the roads.
Set the system on tire wing:
Drag the roads. „
Give the drag a lively swing;
Toss the laurel-wreath to King!
Hats off! Everybody sing:
Drag the roads!
—M. Albertus Coverdell.
Diversification is always a live topic
and is always a live issue.
The time to talk to your backward
neighbor about the Union is today.
There is no better way to meet the
oppression of the implement combine
than to take care of the tools you
have.
Every time you put away your tools
and wagon out of the weather, you put
a nail into the vehicle and implement
trust's cffin. Drive 'em In!
The next meeting of your union is
the time for you to get busy and start
something or ask a question that will
start something. Will you do it?
And still the warehouses are going
up. Did you sit up and take notice
of the 15 cent cotton that is now go-
ing on the market?
Tell your neighbor how soon you
are going to make a spilt log drag for
your part of the road, and see if yon
can't get him to make a move in the
right direction.
A good subject for discussion at the
next meeting of your Union would
be, "To what class of animals does the
man belong who raises cottor and
sells it to buy meat and bread?"
Are you doing anything to get ready
for the jolliest meetings of the local
this winter you have ever had? You
ought to be on the lookout for things
that need to be done leading up to
the making of the local the "biggest
thing in town."
Just because it is hot right now do
not conclude that there is nothing to
do. The fall garden is a good thing.
In many localities, it is true that
there are but few things that may
be profitably planted in the fall, but
those few should be planted.
The local Union is in the hands of
you and your neighbor, and it is the
whole essence of the organization. It
is the spring from which the State and
National stream must flow. If the
spring is all right, it Is easy enough
for the stream to be kept clean. How
is your neighborhood spring?
Farmers, don't waste any time figur-
ing on what's to become of the non-
producing classes who might lose
their Jobs as a result of your plans of
co-operation. That's their look out.—
Abilene Farmers Journal.
The Farmers' Union cannot, It will
not endorse any man for office. Of
course the individual members can and
will take an active part in politics.
One may be for Jones, another for
Brown, but when they come to the
Union they will not try to get the Un-
ion to endorse elther.-r-Unlon News.
There Is pome political fighting to
be done, but it la not necessary for
the Farmers' Union to join arms with
any political school to do the fighting.
Let each political party fight its own
battles, wlille we spank those In all
parties who fail to do as we think
they should.—Georgia Union News.
Get your neighbors together this
fall and talk, about a consolidation of
the neighborhood schools. Make them
longer and get better teachers and
have them taught in better houses.
The way to do this is to have l'ewer
of them. Almost the first step In this
direction Is to get better houses, and
better roads. The prime matter all
over this country is better roads, all
the time and everywhere^
IMMIGRANTS.
The question of immigrants is no
little Importance to our people an 1
the following figures will give you an
idea of the number in the United
States each year: Lust fiscal year
Italy sent us 235,000 immigrants; Rus-
sia, 255,000; Hungary, 191!,000; Aus-
tria, 144,00; Great Britain, 111,000;
Germany, 37,000; Greece, 3G,000; Ja-
pan, 30,000, and Norway, 22,000, and
so on from other countries. Yet we
hear the cry from almost every news-
paper and from every demagogue
politician for more immigrants.
We have never yet been able to un-
derstand why certain classes are so
anxious for more immigrants. Here
In Birmingham wo have Greeks and
Italians who get rich In a few years and
take their'money back to tl)e old coun-
try. The fact is the (only immigrant#!
as a rule, who stay with us are the ones
who can't get enough of our money to
get away on. The country is filling
up too fast already.—Farmers Union
Guide.
A man who has been a farmer for
over sixty years, and who is a decided
success at the bus'.ufss, sums up his
experience in thepe words. "Farm
product have a selll'ng valuo at the
p'lico of their making—i va've just as
they come from the .-oil Xfoev have
alao an additional value to the farmer
who converts them into a more con-
densed form, by feeding them to live-
stock. That Is their feeding value.
We thus get to the manure value, and
it surely is a most important one. To
increase the fertility of the soil, i3
like loaning money at compound in-
terest—It doubles the value every
eight or ten years. The farmer who
Sells loses the feeding and manurial
values. If he parts with a ton of hay
for $9, say, and could make it pay him
$12 by feeding it to cattle and sheep,
he has lost $3 of the feeding value and
$3 worth of manure. In other words,
he has sold his hay for $G per ton less
than it was worth if used by him."
The need of pasture, hay and livestock
in good farming are thus seen.—Homa
and Farm.
Jeff Davis for President.
The President on His Vacation
Adlal E. Stevenson, of Illinois, form-
erly vice president of the United
States, is fond of telling of an odd ex-
perience he had shortly after the civil
war. At the time David Davis was
much talked of as the man to run
against Gen. Grant for the presidency.
A conference was held in Mr. Steven-
son's Bloomington residence, many
leading Illinois and other Democrats
bejng present. A good deal was said
about the possible candidacy of Mr.
Davis, but no one happened to men-
tion his first name. After the confer-
ence broke up Mr. Stevenson drew an
old farmer friend into a corner and
asked his opinion. The farmer was
from title extreme southern end of
Illinois. He said: "Well, Adlal, you
know I've followed your lead In poli-
tics for a good while and I'm going
to do it now. But, honest, Adlai, don't
you think it's a leetle mite early to
nominate Jeff Davis?" — Chicago
Chronicle.
Now is a good time to look over the
place and select the sort of trees you
will plant in all the odd corners that
you have been losing money on here-
tofore. The corners cost as much as
any part of the farm and when you
lose their product you are losing that
much of your active investment. You
can't afford it. Get busy and plant all
the corners full of trees.
How supremely important that the
farmer who would hold his cotton off
the market to force the price up should
be out of debt! No matter whether
he puts his cotton in a warehouse or
keeps it at home, if he has to get ad-
vances on it in order to pay his debts
he is in no shape to control the.mar-
ket. Ho may get money from the
bank and worry the buyer for a little
while, but the banker will worry him
later on. The only slidw is to make
what you live on and live on what
you make, as nearly as possible, until
you can snap your fingers in the face
of the cotton buyer.—Abilene Farmers
Journal. •
But improved machinery and tools of
today will take the place of hired la-
bor, and if well taken care of, is the
cheaper in the end. And there is this
to say for a machine: If you want to
work it after six o'clock there la no
kick coming, neither does it run
around to dances and drowse through
its work next day. The average farm
machine is more reliable than the av-
erage farm hand, and in a majority of
caseB it does the work cheaper.—Agri-
cultural Southwest.*
A Touch of Nature.
"When 1 hear a child crying like
that," said the sleepless woman as
they sat and listened, "I wish I could,
too. Hear the sobs, the shrieks. There
is probably nothing the matter with
her. She has lost her doll or her toe
hurts. That's all, but she'll feel a
whole lot better when she lets up. If
I could scream and cry like that for a
while at night when I wake up I be-
lieve I could go right back to sleep
again."
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Recent photograph of Theodore Roosevelt taken at his summer home at
jyster Bay, Long Island.
A MOUNTAIN OF SILVER
AMERICAN MAKE3 FIND IN CHINA
,BUT CAN'T DIG.
Is Prevented by Ancestor Worship—
Will Ask Uncle Sam for Protec-
tion Against Grafting
Mandarins.
San Francisco.—After watching pa-
tiently a silver mountain for 30 years,
unablo all that time to stick a pick
Into it, for fear of arousing the preda-
tory instincts of China's grafting man-
darins, J. H. Wright, shipbuilder, of
Shanghai, soldier of fortune, and, he
hopes, millionaire, in the sweet
by and by. has come to America to in-
HUSBAND SELECTS SUCCESSOR.
duce the government to back him
up and protect his property rights
when he does begin mining opera-
tions.
Wright is going to Washington, but
the success of his mission is open to
doubt, for the constitution expressly
prohibits interference with religious
liberty, and It is exactly that which
stands between Wright and the little
pimple on the face of the earth which
lie is certain will make him a rival
of Midases of Montana and Nevada
some day.
It is fung sui, the ancestor worship
of the Chinese, that has stayed his
hand and kept him tied up in a ship-
yard in Shanghai, while his mountain
fleams wnue wltb virgin wealth
somewhere within 150 miles of the
spars towering above the harbor.
JuBt where it Is Wright, of course,
will not say until he is sure his
Uncle Samuel will help him keep the
Chinese off, for fung sui, Wright be
lieves, would be a costly adjunct of
mining.
All these years he has kept his
prospect a secret because if he re-
vealed it every mandarin in the dis-
trict would at once stop the digging
on the ground that the steam shovels
and blasts were harrowing the soul:*
of his forefather* and demand per-
sonal injury damages.
"Those yellow grafters make your
San Francisco brand second rate,"
said Wright. "They would hold me off
until I paid for every alleged pain my
giant powder shot through „ the
wraiths that inhabit the underground
about my mountain.
"Probably it would cost me half of
what's in that hill for the mandarins
alone, and when it comes to grafting
the coolieB are as expert and insatia-
ble as your supervisors, who, I am
told, take anything from dollars to
beer checks or doughnuts. Their fung
sui would take what was left, and I
wouldn't get anything for the 30 years'
guard I've kept on that hill."
Wright says he discovered the ore
leads while on a trip Into the Interior
just after he had been sent by a Phil-
adelphia firm to superintend some ma-
chine work in the Chinese port. He
remained there so as not to let the
mountain get away. When he arrives
in Washington he will tell Secretary
Root about his find and ask him to In-
duce the empress dowager or some of
the yamens to guarantee that the
ghosts of ancient grafters will not
feel more than say $50,000 worth of
pain.
Larry's Wish.
It was a sultry afternoon in mid-
summer and Larry was perspiring and
laying gas pipe in the blistering
trench. In a nearby tree a little bird
was caroling forth, shielded by the
cool branches. "Sure," exclaimed l.ar-
ry, as he halted a moment to remove
the big beads with a red handkerchief,
"'tis an unjust wur-ruld. I wish 1 was
that bur-rud." "And why do you wish
you were that bird?" asked the inter-
ested policeman. Larry blinked at the
blazing sun and smiled grimly. "Be-
.cause, me bhoy, such a day as this ut
is better to pipe a lay than I'. is to
lay a pipe."
Wearing Widow's Weeds, Obedient
Relict Again Becomes a Bride.
Philadelphia.—Fulfilling a deathbod
promise to her husband, nine months
ago, that she would marry his chum,
Mrs. Maria Di Clcco, 23 years old, of
South Sixth street, lias become the
wife of Antonio Di Mattio, In the home
in which her former husband died.
The late husband of Mrs. Di Cicco
and DI Mattio were playmates in
Naples, and one day the latter saved
DI Cicco from drowning in the bay.
DI Cicco never forgot the brave deed,
and even after coming to this country
and marrying he kept up a correspond-
ence with his boyhood chum. When
Di Mattio came to this city Di Cicco
insisted that he make his home with
himself and wife.
Then Di Cicco contracted tubercu-
losis, and .although everything was
done to save his life, he rapidly wasted
way. When he saw that death was
near ho called Ills young wif#and Di
Mattio to his Ufedside and made them
promise to wed each other at the ex-
piration of nine months after his
death. They agreed and Di Cicco
died happy.
The bride was attired in the black
dress which she wore at her husband's
funeral, and despite the occasion, re-
laxed none of the literal or figurative
mourning, which she has expressed
continually for Di Cicco since his
death. She makes no pretense of lov-
ing her new husband, but frankly
states that she is simply fulfilling her
former companion's wishes. Di Mat-
tio, on the other hand, states that he
has always loved his new wife.
Boston's Woman Guide.
Boston is said to have the only wom-
an guide In the United States to places
of historic interest. She has equipped
herself with so much useful Informa-
tion that she believes herself to be
able to answer any reasonable ques-
tion about Boston. Her specialty is
taking about parties of women, teach-
ers and school children. Though an
unusual thing In this country, woman
guides are to be found in foreign
cities; a number earn their living by
showing visitors about London.
$8,000,000 on Office Walla.
Kansas City, Mo.—The wall paper
in the offices of a commission com-
pany at the stockyards exchange in
Kansas City represents an outlay of
$8,000,000. This remarkable wall pa-
per is made up of canceled checks.
There 1b no check on the wall that rep-
resents less than $1,000. The largest
la for 130,000.
American Contrivance in Central Asia
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The subject of the photograph is the last horse-ferry on the Mississippi.
The raft is propelled by stern-wheel paddles driven by horse-power, the horsea
pulling levers on the deck exactly like the old-fashioned Scotch threshing-mill.
The Peking-Paris motorists found a similar machine in use In Central Asia.
LIEN ON MAN'S LEG.
Shylock Case in Which Flesh and
Blood Judgment Is Asked.
Seattle, Wash.—Suit has been be-
gun lit Justice Carroll's court, the na-
ture of which may well cause Shylock
of the drama to retire. For not only
does the present litigant demand an
entire right leg, but in addition, asks
judgment in the sum of $25 from the
defendant named in the action.
In the cothpla it filed Jules J. Pen-
sis alleges that «ast May the defend-
ant, John Spreutels, who was in sore
need of a leg, asked for the loan of $45
with which to provide an artificial sub-
stitute. The money was given, and in
return a promise exacted from Spreu-
tels that when fully equipped he
would repay the loan in labor to be
performed for his benefactor at the
rate of $20 a month.
The deal was made. The money was
turned over for the purchase of the
leg and the addition made to Spreu-
tel's anatomy. All went well for a
time, and then, the complaint says, the
defendant in the present action be-
came dissatisfied. Soon he left hlB em-
ployer, taking both legs with him.
Now Pensis wants his money, and
failing to get that, demands that he
be given the care and custody of the
artificial leg until such time as Spreu-
tels la prepared to produce the balance
of the loan held to be still unpaid.
. Golf Playing In England.
England has 2,000 golf clubs with
300,000 members who use 500,000 golt
balls per week and walk over the links
about 250,000,^)00 miles per year.
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Banger, John. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 3, 1907, newspaper, September 3, 1907; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340958/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.