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Urn to be
emphatically repudiate the
that they are organising or In-
to orgaalze a trust. They haven't
a canned asreement.
Right-hour day tor mothers? Tut,
tut! Most of them would be satisfied
If baby stays asleep long enough to
guarantee them an eight-hour night.
A New York policeman Interfered
with an eloping couple, taking them
for burglars. This might properly
be termed "an arrested marriage."
/ llver dollar coined In 1804 has
lust een sold to a Philadelphia man
tor $3,600. We have a much newer
one that he can have for a less sum.
Nothing looks so proud as a big
baloon sailing through space and
nothing looks so draggled as that
same balloon hanging from the
branches of a tree.
Those Indiana young women who
have resolved to marry no man who
hasn't at least $4,000 in cash seem to
forget that there is any such thing
as love in the world.
In an 'endurance race" for automo-
biles It Is not expected that either
the automobile or the driver can en-
dure the test of bumping Into bridges
or being dumped into a ditch.
A horse in a country town In Illi-
nois saw an automobile for the first
time the other day, and five minutes
later dropped dead. "Poor old Bill!
said the owner. 'He always did have
a lot of sense."
The telemenaphone, a new Inven-
tion, Is designed to take the place of
the depot porter who announces the
departure of trains. It can't be any
more unintelligible than the present
occupant of the job.
A Pittsburg woman wants a divorce
because her husband thought bean
soup was all she ought to eat. If he
wants another wife after the courts
have sranUrJMm his freedom/ It
b^A^Kwiiilook around <:u' Bos-
M"
t-
i Vimnftnawus jlven a subsidy
of $5,000,000 to an American company
to build a railroad aScross it. San
Salvador may as well say good-by to
revolutions. A railroad company of
that size will see to It that the coun-
try Is peaceably governed.
The othei dav a bride stepped from
her father's house, ran the gauntlet
of flying rice and old shoes, and reach-
ed the carriage. She was about to en-
ter when an old shoe, hurled by a
guest, struck one of the horses. He
plunged and frightened his mate. The
pair ran, and the bride began her hap-
py life with a broken leg. In time,
remarks the Youth's Companion, we
shall outgrow the thirteenth century
style of humor which leads us to add
discomfort and embarrassment, If not
danger, to a nerve-trying ceremony.
Mrs. Agassiz. the widow of the great
teacher of science, was herself
much interested in the cause of edu-
cation as was her famous husband
The first president of Radcltffe col-
lege, she was all her life the warm
friend and personal sympathizer with
tnd adviser of young women; and her
great wealth was used, not for os-
tentatious luxury, but for many quiet
iharlties. "A memory written all
white" Is the beautiful way In which
Mrs Julia Ward Howe summed up
her life.
Something suggestive to young men
with artistic skill Is to be found in
the recent decision of the secretary
jf commerce and labor, that owing to
the scarcity of the supply here litho
graphic artists may come from abroad
under contract. The lithographic com-
panies have been unable to find
skilled workmen enough at home, and
have had to Import them; and the
demand for fine lithography is so
great that much work is sent abroad
to be done by foreigners on American
paper and American presses.
"Never be contentious. Concern
yourself with your duties, and your
rights will take care of themselves."
A bit of parting advice from a general
to the graduates of West Point, but
applicable to all men, young or old,
college graduate or not.
That Finnish stateswoman's husband
who tried to commit suicide because
if the wreck of his happy home fol-
lowing the political victory of his
better half should feel a subtle bond
it sympathy for the New York citizen
who was tied face downward to the
t>ed and spanked by his wife.
Asa O. Candler, of Atlanta, Ga„ haa
subscribed $75,000 to the Wesley
memorial enterprise, launched by the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. Mr. Candler Is one
if the wealthiest men In the south,
rhlrty-two years ago he tramped to
Atlanta from his country home la
the state, his only asset being the
slothes he wore.
King George of Greece la proud of
his ability to do farm work. He can
plow, "cradle" grain, take care of cat-
tle and horses aad milk cows.
and a few
who wa>
singer
•took aad a vers
when he wet
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' "The lead lag womaa. known at
Monte Verde, ma of Spanish descent
utd had the quick temper so often
-'ottnd In jnembers of that race. There
*aj no love lost between her and
tony at beat, but they never really
luarreled until one evening, when she
*as coming np a flight of rather dark
stairs and he was going down, he
chanced to atep squarely upon her
oot. It was an accident, of course
but I suppose It hurt no less on that
account. At any rate, she gave Tony
juch a tongue lashing as one seldom
;ets from a woman. When she had
finished her tirade he answered,
quietly:
" 'Fer that lasht rema-ark I'm goln'
to let ye dhrown In the palce to-night.
"I overheard this, but thought noth
Ing of It, and went away laughing.
"The piece we were playing that
week was called 'A Woman of the
World.' The second scene of the first
act is the deck of a Hudson river
steamboat; time, night. The only deck
passenger is an Irish glazier (Ben-
ton). The heroine of the piece (Monte
Verde) has been deserted by her
lover, who has gone to New York, and
she Is following him my this boat,
Humiliation, however, at last over-
comes her, and she resolves upon sul
clde. Coming upon deck, she makes a
long speech, closing with: 'Good-by,
father; good-by, mother; forgive me
for this rash act,' and jumps over-
board, The glazier jumps after and
rescues her; and as he lift her over
the rail the curtain falls on the first
act.
"That particular night she made her
speech and" jumped, but Benton made
no move to rescue her. I happened to
be standing in the entrance, and
called to him In a loud stage whisper:
"'Tony! Tony!'
"He calmly turned around toward
me and said:
"'Phwat is It?'
"'Jump overboard and get that wom-
an. Quick!'
" 'Aw,' said he, with supreme indif-
ference, 'let 'er dhrown.'
"We were compelled to ring the cur-
tain down without rescuing her. She
was drowned all right enough, but we
had to resuscitate her before the piece
could go on."
owl wm Mv«d vttti the
of power, though instead of ten
houses, four or six were used to oper-
ate the circular saw. We prided our-
selves in those davB that we had
the latest up-to-date machinery and
that we were ahead of many of our
neighbors. Later the steam engine
(horse drawn from place to place)
took the place of horses for thresh-
ing, though many farmers at first
refused to have anything to do with
it. Then the steam traction engine
displaced the older type, but it re-
quires a team in attendance to haul
coal and water and sometimes more
than one team, depending on the
proximity of these articles.
As regards the other machinery,
al>out the house or barn, we turned
these bv band. The water was
pumped bv hand and the corn was
shelled by hand. The churn and the
grindstone were strictly hand imple-
ments, and as for spray pumps and
cream separators, we did not know
the need of the first, and the only
kind of a cream separator we had
was the old-fashioned "skimmer"
which our mother welded with con-
summate skill. Later, when the
cream separators came in vogue, wc
got ii small one and turned it by
band, and whenever, to this day, we
if he wishes. There are several
kinds of power used in these days
for propelling machinery, but none
is so useful and convenient on the
farm as gasoline power.—Farm and
Ranch.
PERUVIAN COTTON BOGY.
The Truth About A" Alleged Competi-
tor of Texae Cotton Field*.
Prof. J). A. Saunders, of Waco,
Texas, kindly sends us the follow-
ing notes, gathered in conversation
with Mr. Alfredo Broggi, of the Ag-
ricultural Department of Peru, who
is traveling through the cotton belt
of the United States, making a
study of the cotton conditions and
of our methods of cultivating and
handling the crop.
The climutic conditions and some
of the methods of cultivation are so
different in Peru that possibly an ac-
count of these will be of interest
to the readers of Farm and Hanch.
V 1:
i md oroo wo-
flOO,000,000 a year. Om
,000 tooi are crashed for oil
' f, and the meal and fiber,
I refuse all have their value.
We still waste about 6,000,000 torn
a year, which will all be utiliied in
the< near future.
The cotton seed industry now em-
$74,000,000 capital and 15,-
hands. The cotton sed oil is
worth $31,000. The oil cake and
meal used for cattle feeding amounts
to nearly 3,000,000 pounds, worth
$5,500,000. Fiber to the amount of
$5,000,000 is taken from the seed
preparatory to crushing.
Europe buys $35,000,000 of the
product, half in oil and half in oil
cake and meal. The oil is mixed
with olive oil and reimported into
the United States under French and
Italian labels. The meal and cake
go largely to Denmark, Germany,
England and Holland, where they
are fed to live stock.
In this country the soap bakers
are among the largest users of cot-
ton seed oil. The soap makers will
in future take about all the cotton
seed oil that can be produced. The
oil is used as u substitute for animal
oil in cooking and in making arti-
ficial butter. It also has numerous
other uses.
The materials that used to be
Revival of Old Inns.
When the railway superseded the
diligence, the coach, the chaise and
Sterne's "dlfobllgeant" as meuns of
Europen travel it was nitural that
the small roadside inn should suffer
loss of patronage.
Your tourist, unless a sentimental
lourneyer like Sterue or Stevenson,
began to leap by rail from spot to
spot, like a grasshopper upon a map.
He breakfasted in London, took train,
lunched in Brighton, New Haven or
Dover, had tea at "Calais or Dieppe
snd supped in Paris.
Now with dining cars he's even
worse, unless he be a motorist—a
sentimental motorist. And despite
speed and rumors of speed, there are
such things as sentimental motorists.
Indeed, It is owing very largely to
this class that such of the old inns
it France and England as managed
to survive the Introduction of the
railroads have blossomed Into renewed
prosperity and usefulness. — Travel
Magazine.
Big Man's Long Row in Small Boat.
John Carmody of Washington re-
cently made a trip from that city to
Colonial Beach, a distance of more
than 70 miles, in a small rowboat
eight feet long, four and a half feet
wide and seven inches deep, and as
Mr. Carmody tips the beam at 247
pounds the trip is a remarkable one.
Mr. Carmody left Washington June
26, and with no other motive power
than a pair of oars and a big um-
brella, like those used on wagons,
which he used as a sail, he made
the trip In -18 hours and arrived in
safety at the beach Friday, June 28.
On the trip Mr. Carmody made sev-
eral stops along the shore to make
himself some coffee and to cook
something to eat. But In order to
make the time he did he had to keep
going steadily, with but little time
for Bleep.
His Remarkable Record.
There Is one of the most remark-
able men I know—and he's a very or-
dinary man at that," said a passenger
on a street car to his companion.
The person indicated was black-
haired and dapper. "He's a neighbor
3t mine," the passenger added.
"Does that make him remarkableV
"Not yet. But what Is his age?"
"Forty-five, perhaps."
"You're wrong. Everybody Is at the
.irst guess. That man is not only a
grandfather, but a great-grandfather.
He was a father at 19. His daughter
was a mother when she was 17, mak-
ing him a grandfather at 36. His
daughter's daughter also became a
mother at 17, making him a great-
grandfather at 63. He's less than 64
to-day, looks 45, and has the spirit
and elasticity of 40. Yet he doesn't
amount to much otherwise. That's
why I say he Is at once remarkable
and ordinary."
An Observing Professor.
'I notice that Prof. Mustard says
Benjamin Franklin wrote only a few
of the verses used by him In Poor
Richard's Almanac, most of them be-
ing the work of noted English poets."
"I'm afraid Mustard will begin to no-
tice soon that some of the jokes In
the later almanacs are not entirely
original."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Judge R. D. Doak.
sec a picture of a pretty country lass
turning the; handle of a cream sepa-
rator we are reminded of the fact
that it takes more power than the
Average country girl possesses to
turn one ol' these machines ever}'
clay.
Times have changed and the evo-
lution of machinery for various pur-
poses has progressed so far that the
farmer is in constant need of some
convenient power to operate these
labor saving appliances. The horse-
power, whether the sweep type or
the treadmill, lias its disadvantages
and limitations, and can not compete
with that most convenient of all pow-
ers oil the modern farm—the gaso-
line engine. For the pittance of two
cents per horsepower per hour or
even cheaper rate with the large
sized engines, the gasoline engines
will toil away, night or day, eating
nothing while they are idle, can be
started in a moment, always ready
and do not need a tank of water
beside them all the day long. In
the city, electric power can be had.
though gasoline engines are increas-
ingly used, but on the farm the elec-
tric current is not at hand and the
gasoline engine is the cheapest and
most convenient source of power.
Many men are using portable gaso-
line engines for threshing grain and
operating hay presses. Others are
operating corn shellers, feed mills
and wood saws with the same con-
venient power, while for pumping
water thev are the best and most re-
liable thing vet discovered.
On the dairy farm, where some-
kind of nn engine is needed every
day, the gasoline engine is just the
thing. The cream separator is oper-
ated every dav and if butter is made
on the farm the same power can op-
erate the butter worker and churn as
turns the separator. For all these
the gasoline engine fills the bill, antl
as the dairymen buy milking ma-
chines they can and will operate
them with the same engines.
As farmers use the gasoline engine
more and apply it to operating vari-
ous machines, they will find it con-
venient to group these machines in
one place and have a sort of a power
house. By means of belting and
shafting the one gasoline engine will
operate feed mill, corn sheller, cream
separator, churn, milking machine
grindstone and washing machine,
and if the owner wants to be strict-
ly up-to-date, he can make this en-
gine turn a dynamo to generate elec-
Dr. W. A. Warner.
The temperature in Central Peru
ranges from sixty degrees in winter
to eighty-eight degrees in summer
Over the entire cotton region of
Peru there is no rain, all crops be-
ing raised under irrigation. The
lands are usually flooded every ten
days. Thret varieties of cotton are
g-own, Egyptian. Peruvian and the
American upland cotton. Peruvian
cotton makes immense stalks and
produces very fine lint, ranging from
two to two and one-half inches in
length, but does no: yield heavily
enough to iustifv its- general culti-
vation. Cotton is planted in Sep-
tember and October, and picking
usually begins in March and is con-
tinued throughout the year in some
sections of the country. Cultivation
is practically all dine with the
"lama," a small, flat >vul blade sim-
ilar to a mason's finishing trowel at-
tached to a long hai die. Labor is
abundant, the average wages paid
being about twenty ents per day
The majority of the natives are na-
tive Indians, although a few Chinese
and occasionally a negro is found.
Last year Peru produced alwut 100.-
000 bales of cotton (150,000 Ameri-
can bales), 5,000 of which were con-
sumed at home, and the remainder
exported. The chief objection which
the Peruvians have to Chinese immi-
gration is that the Chinese inter-
marry with the native Indians, and
the offspring resulting from these
marriages are very indolent, vicious,
and in every way unsatisfactory cit-
izens.—Farm and Ranch.
The postmaster in Dallas is in re-
ceipt of a letter from a Tonawanda,
X. Y. girl asking him to put her
next to a real nice cow boy who wants
a poor but loving wife.
One of the Three Medals Presented to
the Indians by President Polk,
in 1S46, Now in Pomeslon
of Judge Moor*.
J. D. Martin.
treated as waste or positive detri-
ments are now in many industries
the chief profit bringcrs.—El Pas)
Herald.
A TEXAS ICONOCLAST.
Does All Sorts of Things to the Proud
F. F. V.'s.
Virginia is now celebrating with
n nice little county fair the landing
of the English settlers on its soil on
May 14, 1607, a circumstance which
it vaunts as the beginning of all
things on this continent.
Everybody knows that Sir Walter
Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Ar-
thur Barlow to America in 1584;
that they made a landing on the
coast of Xortli Carolina, and upon
their return gave a most flattering
account of the country, and that in
the following year another expedi-
tion under Ralph Lane settled on
Roanoke Island. We leave North
Carolina to defend its own claims to
antiquity.
When, therefore, our valued con-
temporary contends that Virginia is
five times as old as Texas, we respect-
fully refer it to Bancroft for some
of the facts of history, and not go
about prating of its little old 300
years of white man's history. If
Virginia wants a squabble on the
line of antiquity, we refer it to
Xortli Carolina, with its twenty-
three years of priority. Virginia is
not in the class of Texas, which has
to its credit nearly eighty years mort
antiquity than Virginia and fifty-
four more years than North Caro-
lina.
As for quality, we will let Virginia
do the boasting. The Post would
not violate the traditional modesty
of Texas in vainglorious boasting.
It is enough to say that the great
Sam Houston left his native State
of Virginia and finally settled in
Texas, which he found incomparably
superior to the other States in which
he sojourned. More than 25,000 na-
tive Virginians now reside in the
State, and nothing could ever tempt
them to return to their native soil;
while it is very likely that the C01
Texans who are temporarily sojourn-
ing in Virginia will be back before
another watermelon crop is made, to
live for the balance of their days
ic the commonwealth which Theo-
dore Roosevelt so appropriately de-
scribed as "The Garden Spot of the
Lord."—Houston Post.
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"the wife aakednw If I wouldn't like
to go to the Mar service, at church
tint owing—with her, of course. I
caught her sxchanglng a glance
aeroas the table with our eldest boy,
• tyke of ten, when she made the
■uggeatlon to me. Therefore said 1
to myself right away, It Was a put up
job*
"But there I was. No way to get
out of It I thought a bit aggrieved!)'
of the comfortable, lolling smokes J'd
miss If I went, and I experienced Just
a toenchy touch of resentment over
the rather smooth and serene way I
was being chiseled out of 'em. But
there was no way out.
'"Why, certainly, mother, I'll go-
glad to,' said I, as hearty as I eould
make It, and then a* 'a i caught that
significant «*wNv5is of glances be-
imMa iiw doy and his mother, Just
as if they'd achieved some kind of a
victory or other.
"Well, the boy executed his usual
disappearance soon after dinner, and
then, allowing me to burn up just
one cigar, my wife began to hustle
and hustle me around, aqd presently
we were on our way to the May serv-
ices. I had to grin a bit sheepishly
as wo drew nigh the portal.
" 'Fine work for you, little lady,"
Bald I to the boy's mother. 'Do you
know how many years It's been
since I attended May evening serv-
ices?'
" 'Please don't tell me,' said she.
'I don't want to hear. And don't ever
say anything like that before the chil-
dred—you know how they notice
these chance remarks," and with that
we were inside the cool, fragrant
church and on our way up the center
aisle to the pew.
"Well, weK, what a long
stretch of years that fragrance
took me back across—that min-
gled fragrance uf loses and
drifting Incense. Noticed It the min-
ute I set foot within the church—
first the smell of the roses that were
heaped up on the main altar and on
the side altar, and then, as we got In-
side, that other aronia of the Incense.
I declare that those two fused frag-
rances—and they go mighty well to-
gether, If you've ever noticed—just
clean picked me up and set me back
on the road a good 30 years, and a
good bit of that road right hard going
at that.
"The wife and I sat down in the
pew, and I was listening to some of
the old familiar May evening music,
full of dim reminiscences, when the
mother gave me a alight nudge.
"1 turned ami looked at her, and
her eyes were shining mighty bright,
sure enongh. And she was nodding
in the direction of the altar. I thought
that she meant that she wanted me
to stop looking around at the decora-
tions and thinus and to pay attention
to what was going on at the altar,
and so I followed her gaze.
"Well, then I understood the mean- ,
ing of that put up job between the j
boy and his mother.
"For there was the boy on the altar
in surplice and cassock, at the right
hand of the priest, at that. 1 under-
stood. all right.
"When I turned to her again her
eyes were still shining away like as if
they'd—but, when it conies to that. 1
couldn't see her very well myself, for
it all came a-romplng back to me in an
instant that she looked just exactly,
for all the world, like my own little
mother had looked, away back yonder
over the craggy path of the years,
when she'd seen me diked out In cas-
sock and surplice for the first, time—
for all the world and to the life! Same
shining, starry eyes, same trembling
around the corner of the mouth,
same speaking pride of the features
—the joy of the mother-woman when
she seeB one of her own taking part
for the lirst time In a rite at any kind
of shrine!
"That's why she'd got me out of my
armchair to attend the May evening
services. The conspiracy between her
and the boy stood revealed. Rut I
didn't feel aggrieved about those sac-
rificed smokes any longer!"
New Cure for Baldness.
For his curious theory that baldness
is due to lack of upper chest breath-
ing, Dr. Delos M. Parker, of the De-
troit College of Medicine, claims veri-
fication by thousands of observations
during many years. No victim of
common baldness was found who
breathed properly. The lungs being
imperfectly filled and emptied, It Is
supposed that residual air is left In
the upper passages, and develops a
soluble poison. This poison specially
affects the scalp, where the skin is
practically bloodless, and, therefore,
of low vitality. Persistent return to
correct breathing has been followed
by disappearance of dandruff in one
week and beginning of a new growth
of hair in six weeks and a fresh cover-
ing has been developed on a head that
had been bald 20 years.
O*' !
ags; there's bo doubt of H. But 1
our pirtt*—«r« Immortal, and tor as
to ago Is for us to commit an unpar-
donable folly.
Doas iinmortaltty age? Tha stars
are to all Intents and purposes Immor-
tal, but have you noticed any per-
ceptlble diminution of their brllUaaea
since, well, sine* we became tha great-
est nation that the sun ever shone
upon?
Don't look at your face In a glass
and ask yourself, "am I getting old?"
Look at your spirit In the glass of
your friend's treatment of you and try
to discover whether It is getting old.
And If It Is—drop ten years.
It will not be 10 hard as It seems.
Think young thoughts. Keep your
mind wide open to the reception of
new ldeas> Don't, when you get to be
40, say to yourself, "I'm one of tha
'has-beens.'" Only 40 yean old! Why,
you ought to be a colt at 40. For all
I know, I have 60 yean before ma.
And It a man has 60 yeaT* to come,
what Is the use of considering 40 odd
that have gone?
To be sure, there are ^ky-rockets of
26 and 30 that rise brilliantly, but
they may be spent sticks ini a tew
years. Let your flame of life bum
steadily, and replenish it from time to
time with young thoughts, and you'll
be as young at 50 or 60 as you wera
at. 40 or 30 or 20—no, you were old at
20; older than you'll ever be again.
If disease spares you, youth Ilea la
your own bands.
Wha*. Is the secret? Kindly thoughts,
good cheer, and the feeling that you
have not robbed another man> in get-
ting what you need. Of course, If yoa
have failed to see that other people
have rights, and have simply played
the fascinating but wicked game of
"grab," you'll grow old so fast that
people will forget that you were ever
yoting.
They Bay a woman Is as old as she
looks, but a man is as old bb he feels.
Make It your pleasure to feel as young
as you can, and Induce your wife to
do the same—for I don't believe the
ungallant first clntiBe of the aphorism
—and you'll get so young that your
son will call you "my boy," and you'U
call him "old chap."
And a nation of "young men" Is un-
conquerable.
Unfair to the Telephone.
"Of course, the telephone service
Isn't always just what we would like
to have It," said a telephone man, "but
't would probably surprise the average
subscriber If the truth were known,
to learn how often the telephone Is
unjustly abused. People break ap-
pointments and shift the blame upon
the innocent telephone Instrument
scores upon scores of times every day.
It Is much easier to say, 'I was near
the 'phone all afternoon and it did not
ring,' or, 'I tried to get you and Cen-
tral said you didn't answer,' than to
admit that the appointment was in
reality forgotten or purposely broken."
Exculpated.
The regular patron was indignant
as the waiter spilled the soup.
"You're tipsy!" he exclaimed.
"Couldn't be on your tips. See?"
responded the waiter; at least not so
Inebriated as to Impede his menial
processes.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Farm Work for Women,
For various reasons, one of which la
that farmers' wives and daughters
have all the work they can do in the
house at harvest time, It Is not likely
that women will ever do much outside
farm labor except In emergency, says
the Indianapolis Star. At the same
time it must be said that the old argu-
ments against It will not hold. It Is
no heavier than work at the wash tub
or the Ironing board, and is far more
healthful than bending, over the sew-
ing machine day In and day out. Yet
these occupations are regarded as
strictly feminine and no protest is
ever raised against them save by
women themselves now and then. The
exertion is no greater than is called
for by gardening, which is constantly
being recommended to women by
physicians as a means of building up
their health; nor does it call for great-
er physical exertion than golf, or
make them more weatherbeaten.
Though women are not likely to en-
gage In such work extensively it Is
not worth while to lift the hands In
horror at the thought of their do-
ing so.
Keep Cool About Crop Shortage*.
Nature has the habit of striking
averages. Bumper crops every year
would mean overproduction, which,
like overpopulation, nature abhors and
regulates In Its own time and way. It
would be false optimism not to recog-
nize the fact that this Is one of the
years chosen to offset and average
down such fat seasons as that of 1906,
when the products of the soil glutted
every market and choked every ave-
nue of transportation. But there Is
another error to be avoided. Heed
should not be given to the gambling
Jeremiahs, who preach famine, desti-
tution and agricultural, financial and
Industrial distress. The one true con-
clusion to be drawn from the reports
of farming conditions is that cropa
will he sufficient, though not abund-
ant, and the season one neither of the
best nor worst.
Still Chasm Between Nation*.
There Is little love lost between the
Chinese students who are flocking In
crowds to Tokio to learn western
civilization at second and their Japan-
ese fellows. The Chinese studenta
live their own life apart from the Jap-
anese. with whom they mix as little
as they can. This Chinese mode of
life is wholly repugnant to Japanese
feeling. The Chinese students refuse
to smoke Japanese cigarettes, which
have the names stamped on the paper
In Chinese characters, since they look
upon It as a profanation to burn their
sacred letters.
What H* Meant.
"That speech of yours was a classic,"
said the admiring friend.
"Your criticism," replied Senator
Sorghum, "is kindly intended, but dis-
couraging. The formal expression of
a public opinion Is something like the
composition of music."
"You mean it should fall soothingly
on the ear?"
"No; you want to keep away from
the classical and get something that
will hit the popular taste."
Immunity.
"Do yon refuse to answer on tha
ground that you might Incriminate
yourself?"
"I'll leave that to the court. It I
'told the truth' I'd get a year. Tha
'whole truth' would mean at least ten
years, and 'nothing but the truth'
would be life, sure."
So they rated him as Immune and
called a witness who knew nothing of
the r~~~
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