The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918 Page: 4 of 4
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largest pieces of commercial paper the Fed-
eral reserve banks have thus far discounted
for their member banks.
These figures 'strikingly illustrate the
adaptability of this system, of which we are
member, to the varying needs of borrowers.
Its vast resources are always available for
the protection of busness, large or small.
II you are not already getting this pro-
tection as one of our depositors, why not
open a bankiug account today and secure it?
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
A MESSA6E
TO THE NATION
OBSERVATIONS
BY J. A. P.
The present warm spell has
gladdened the hearts of the long
legged women who wear short
dresses. Its a sight to see some
women women with see-more
hosery and low-necked—very
low—dresses walking the streets
with the temperature ratiRinc
around 28. And when they get
sick witd la grippe, pneumonia
or some other ailments caused
from exposure, they wonder
what made them sick.
A great deal of interest is
manifest in gardening at the
present time. Everything is
being planted except beans—and
if Good Friday doesn't come on
Suuday this year thev wiil be
planted about Good Friday.
Some folks have an idea that
chickens can't fly before they
are hatched, but that is a mis-
take idea, for instance, eggs
have been soaring higher and
higher for sometime; in fact,
they got so devilish high that a
poor man could not see them.
Yet some people say there is
no money in raising chickens.
A farmer once tcld us that it
cost him twice the worth of a
fowel to raise it that he got for
it and it ate nothing hut the
waste on the farm. I believe
the story could be summed up
in four letters L-A-Z-Y. The
old hen, howaver,and her daugh-
ter, Miss Pullett, are now free
from the executioner's axe,
until after April 80th; but the
rooster is subject to have his
comb removed.
When it comes to food every-
body is Hooverizing beyond a
doubt, not because they are so
blamed patriotic but because
they haven't the "kale seed" to
meet the high demand for the
actual necessities of life. The
only solution to the present
shortage is for a lot of those
who left the farm and moved to
the cities to return to the farm.
Acccording to the way the
•viators at the different aero
fields are killing themselves try-
ing out different aeriel stunts,
it would be better for them to
be mere privates in the army
instead of a "high officers"—
you see they go up in the air.
The officers and Cadets that
belong to the aviations corps
are all College graduates and
jthey are trying to make their
| heads save their bodies. We
remember a few words of an old
song sang away back in the six-
ties when the States were at
war, they ran something like
this: "What I tell you, it is trufc,
without one word of blarney; the
men that does the lighting, ai#
the privates in the army."
Mrs. Kate Ahlers was convict-
ed of killing Phil E. Tucker and
Miss Myrtle Cunningham, Mon-
day, in the Criminal district
court and given a sen-
tence of ten years. It is a ques-
tion in our mind as to whether
she was justified in killing Tuck-
er and Miss Cunningham, or
not, if she was not her punish-
ment is not in accordance with
the enormity at the crime, if
she was she should by all means
been set free. If a man hus-
band's a woman and finally
deserts her to marry another
because there there is no mar-
riage recerd to show that he is
her husband, he ought to be
shot (this case is disposed of,
we have a right to speak). In
the first place a man who is a
man is not going to violate the
laws of the land by inducing a
woman to live with him as his
wife without having the mar-
riage ceremony performed, and
if not suited to be legally
separated. This Tucker did not
do and Mrs. Ahlers not only
carried the stain of a harlat
but also the disgrace that incar-
ceration i n a peninentiary
brings. It will be better for her
that she die in prision than to
live out her term and be thrown
upon a cold and uncharitable
world. No hell can be greater.
Church people turn aside from:
society has no open door al-
though as a matter fact quite a
lot of society is a scarlet as she,
the business world does not
want her, the back of every-
body's hand will be turned to
her. It were better that siie
had been sentenced to hang.
Now that the government has
placed a price on the 1918 wheat
crop at a minum price of $2.18 a
bushel, farmers have something
to stimulate them. They know
what they are going to get for
their wheat at the harvest. The
way corn is going, meal now
costing more than flour, it would
be well that a price was fixed for
it also. A large area of corn
should be planted, perhaps, it
may make good.
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LIVER DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Says €5 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
Alter a Few Doses of Black-Draught.
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Meadorsvllle, Ky.—Mrs. Cynthia
Hlgglnbotham, of this town, says: "At
my age, which Is 65, the liver does
sot to well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn't act My dlgesUon was had, and
It took so little to upset me. My ap-
petite was gone. I was very weak...
I decided t would give Black-
Draught a thorough trial as I knew It
was highly recommended for this
trouble I began talcng It I felt
better after a few doses. My appetite
Improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with * few
doses of Blaek-Dranght"
Seventy years of successful we has
made Thedford's Black-Draught
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught can
give In cleansing the system and re-
lieving the troubles that come from
constipation, Indigestion, lasy liver,
etc. Ton cannot keep well unless your
stomach, liver and bowels are In good
working order. Keep them that way.
Try Black-Draught It acts promptly,
gently and In a natural way. If you
feel sluggish, take a dose tonight
Ton will feel fresh tomorrow. Price
25c. a package—One cent a dose
All druggists. ( 2, M
Nature has implanted in ev-
ery human being a sense of
justice. This sense of natural
justice does not emanate from
any religion or creed; it is the
common possession of human-
ity. It constitutes the one
great distinguishing mark be-
tween man and ttie animal.
And the more highly educated,
the more highly refined a man
becomes, the stronger is his
sense of natural justice. We
condemn a violation of natural
justice, not because we learn
from a man or a book that such
an action is worthy of condem-
nation, but because it violates
that conception of justice which
was born in us.
We do not have to be told
that it is wrcng to tortuge a
helpless child. We do not have
to be told that it is wrong to
go to a farm house and burn it
to the ground, torture its in-
mates, and then throw them in-
to the burning ruins of their
own home. Such things are
repugnant to our sense of nat-
ural justice.
It is this elementary attri
bute of humanity, this quality
which distinguishes man from
the beast, which has been vio-
lated by Germany. Not only
has natural justice been violat-
ed, but its violation defended
by emperors, preachers, philos
ophers, teachers, and that mass
of individuals who sympathize
with the German cause.
While the most enlightened
teachers of humanity are tell-
ing us that man by aspiration
and effort can raise himself to
partake of the Divine nature,
Germany is teaching and prac
tlcing the doctrine that man
should invert the theory and
take his place amongst the low-
est types in the animal world
They hold forth as the goal of
human ambition, after centur-
ies of upward struggle, the fig-
ure. type and mentality of a
beast rather than that of a God
The animal which lives on the
flesh of others, whose right to
existence is based only upon its
strength and its ability to
crush its prey, would appear to
fce the German ideal.
It is largely because the Ger-
man idea is so repugnant to us
as enlightened Americans, be
cause their practices send a
shudder through every fibre of
our bodies and produce such
nausea in our souls, that we
are at war with Germany to-
day; and it is because of these
conditions t)hat every decent,
honorable, thinking man must
pledge, if necessary, his for-
tune, his life, his all, to eradi-
cate this unspeakable thing
which has fallen like a curse
upon the sons of men.
Conceive, if you can, the con-
dition of this world if we al
lowed such doctrines to prevail
Property would go to the man
with the strongest arm and the
most unscrupulous mind. Lib-
erty would die a shamefu
death. Freedom would shriek
as Justice falls. Religion would
perish from the earth and a
false God—one of blood, iron
and beastiality, would be sei;
up for the worship of a cring-
ing, cowering humanity.
There are indifferent ones
who say that such things can
never happen in this country,
These people do not realize
that one of. the penalties—the
greatest of all penalties—which
we should pay for defeat wouk
be the Germanization of our
people. One of the terms of
our defeat would be the privi
lege of Germany to trade, teaoh
and colonize freely in this lane
of ours. One of the things
coveted most by the German
mind is the souls of men, for
when they have these they
have their bodies, their wealth
their all, and if during the
course of the next generation
the Germans could capture or
even deeply influence the soul
of America they would consider
that they had won the great-
est victory in the history of
their Nation.
As citizens of an enlighten-
ed democracy we must fight by
every means in our power this
menace which would steal our
souls and those of our children.
No greater tribute was ever
paid to a human being than
that paid to one of the old
iings of England of whom It
was said:
"His life was gentle, and the
dements so mixed In him
That nature might stand up
and say to all the world
This waa a man*."
It is for such an eulogy we
all yearn, unconsciously, if not
consciously, and those who
would laE restraining hands
upon us as we aspire are our
mortal and immortal enemies.
roe se
Latimer r
ways poaaoesi-d hint when he stopped
to peer .down into excavations where
SM& groped a Intel In « crazy network
of mains end conduits, or when ho
looked «p to the steel girders swinging
into place on the new skyscrapers.
Only now and then would he catch
eight of a heavy sledge In ploy, or the
heme of muscles. As a rule men
moved about in the tangle of clonce
as If enguged In nn elaborate minuet
He siiw men poised on the end of i'
*teel beam go through a graceful cal-
isthenics, with a measured wave ol
the arm, now this way, now that way,
: stories above the sidewalk. Yet the
sutnvays got themselves dug. ami the
pavement* were laid—and torn Uf
again—and the skyscraper grew a
eouple of stories overnight.—From the
Atlantic.
• lied the wonder that
Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old SUodard general etrengtheninj tonic.
GROVK'S TASTEI.KS9 chitl TONIC, drives out
Malaria.enriches thehlooii.and build* uothesys-
tem. A true tonic. For adult* and children. 60c
There is a practical aide to
every question, however great
and spiritual that question may
be. The warfare onJcehalf of
your better self, fqr your high-
er interest, and that of your
children, is being waged by
brave men who have the pro-
foundest claims upon your sym-
pathy and assistance. It seems
a pitifully small and totally in-
adequate thing that you can do,
but yet if that is all—do it,
and do it to the limit of your
ability. Place on record your
purchase of a Liberty Bond
when the Government calls up-
on you in the very near future.
TO THE OLD WOMAN
AND THE NEW WOMAN
Greeting. The best kind of
men, the men who count for
most in the world, the men
who have "done things", al-
most without exception have
been inspired by women. Dante
was inspired by Beatrice—
whom he saw only once. Soc-
rates was inspired by a lady
of whom he saw and heard too
much. Henry VIII of England
made history at the instigation
of a number of ladies. Shelley
wrote some of his best work
under the influence of Mary
Wolstanecraft—before she be-
came his wife. But these
women never did anything.
They stood on pedestals and
radiated inspiration.
Times have changed, and ap-
parently women have changed.
I do not know today of a single
woman of my acquaintance, nor
do I read of one in contempo-
rary history, who is willing to
be a silent partner in the bus-
iness of, a man's life, whether
that business be running a
kingdom, writing poetry, think-
ing great thoughts, or running
a business.
The influence which women
now exert and the inspiration
which they offer to the male of
the species comes from their
leadership in human activities.
Those of us who are inter-
ested in the raising of the Lib-
erty Loan in this section glad-
ly accept the new order of
things and call upon the new
order of women to inspire and
influence the men of the dis-
trict by their actions and their
example rather than by any at-
tempt to stand on a pedestal
and let sctaiebody else do the
work.
Woman today is claiming
equal rights with man, and
cannot expect to enjoy these
unless she is willing to take
her Bhare of the responsibilities
which rights and privileges al-
ways carry with them. The
woman who believes in the
equal civic right of the sexes
is bound to take at least as ac-
tive a part in the war as do.
the men. She can do no less
unless she wishes to violate
her own creed.
Let no-one suppose for one
moment that the writer of
these lines imagines that the
modern woman is less ap-
proachable on the grounds of
her womanhood and her moth-
erhood than the old fashioned
woman who was content to
knit socks, wash the children,
and inspire her husband; but.
it is permissible to point out
that the newer type of woman
should help in the Liberty
Loan Movement because she is
a woman, a \Hfe and a mother,
and because in addition to all
these things she is bound ab-
solutely by the creed of the
new womanhood to vie with
men for supremacy in the
realm of initiative and action.
It seems not unlikely that
the women of the Eleventh
Federal Reserve District will i
be the determining factor in!
campaign work during the
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Edison JSecital!
AT METHODIST CHURCH
FRIDAY NIGHT, EEBWlHRY 8, Wj
Phonograph Trio assisting the New Edison,j
"The Phonograph with a Soul", will appear h
The Phonograph Shop Trio
CONSISTING OF
Miss Pauline C. Ray, Soprano Solist;
Lala Bowen, Violin Solist; Miss Margan
Gaifftih, Piano Soloist. These artists wi
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appear in persen—assisting the NEW EDI,
SON PHONOGRAPH.
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Admission 25 Cents
The proceeds of this Concert to pay for a New Edi^j
Phonograph to be placed in the Rainbow Division boys fraj
Mesquite, in France.
H. O. COLLINS, County Representative
Headquarters at J. F. McCullough's Store
: for
Phonograph Shop, In<
Dallas Home of the Edison.
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NEED BIG HERDS
Europe's Meat Supply Must Cony
From America.
Warring Nation* Havo Depleted Llvi
Stock at Enormous Rate, Evei
Killing Dairy Cattle For Food.
American stock breeders are belnj
risked to conserve their flocks mil
herds In order to meet Europe's tro
mendous demands for meats durlni
the war and probably for many yeah
afterward.
The United States food adminls
tratlon reports that American atocl
raiser! have shown a disposition t«
co-operate with the government In In
creasing the nation's supply of 11 v*
stock.
Germany today Is probably belt®
supplied with live stock than any oth
er European nation. When the Ger
man armies made their big advanct
Into France and then retreated vlr
tually all the cattle In the tnvadei
territory — approximately 1,800,00*
head—were driven behind the Germni
lines.
But In England—where 2,400,001
acres of pasture lands have been turn
ed Into grain flelds—the cattle herrb
are decreasing rapidly. One of tht
reasons apparently Is the decl|nln|
maximum price scale adopted by tin
English as follows: For September
$17.70 per 100 pounds; October, $17.28
November and December, $16.08; Jan
lary, $14.40. The effect of these prlcei
was to drive beef animals on the mar
ket as B^pn as possible.
In France the number of cattle at
well as the quality have shown an
enormous decline during the war.
Where France had 14,807.000 head ol
cattle In 1918, she now hns only 12,-
841,900, a decrease of 18.0 per cent
And France Is today producing only
one gallon of milk compared to two
and one-half gallons before the war.
Denmark and Holland have been
forced to sacrifice dairy herds for beef
because of the lack of necessary feed.
Close study of the European meat
situation has convinced the Food Ad-
ministration that the future problem
of America lies largely in the produc-
tion of meat producing animals and
dairy products rather than In the pro-
duction of cereals for export when
the war will have ceased.
—
„ All in the Point of View.
A young lawyer in Florida was run-
ning f- r liffl'Hv «nys Every body's Magu-
elne, and undertook to cultivate the
acquaintance of till the country peo-
ple for miles rowKl—with the idea
of getting votes. One ev, nlng he step-
ped his horse in front of n little cabin
and inquired of the old man at the
door whether he might; nj*nd the night
at his home. "Sure, p-srtner," said
the old man. "Stop and 'light." The
lawyer followed him into the cabin..
There was only one ro< ;n. and In a
corner of it was stretch/.I a bearskin,
the trophy of a hunt, an i the only bed
of the hunter. A pumpkin served as
a pillow; In answer to the lawyer's
Inquiring 'ool;, the host , ointed to the
bearskin nnd said v itb ,<reat magnani-
mity: "Stranger, T fell ye what we'll
do—ye take the jitmkiri and the b'ltr-
fckln, and I'll rough it."
Nearly all the events in the history
of Israel that are recorded In the Old
Testament happened within a territory
no bigger than the state of Connecti-
cut, whose area Is 4,800 square tnlloti,
and into lim.lly any other country has
there been crowded from the days of
Abrtcam till our own no much history
—that is |< any, so many events that
Take HERB1NK for indigestion. It
relieves the pain in a few minutes and
forces the fermented matter which 5
causee the misery into the bowels where,
it is expelled. Price 50c. Sold bv Ciillom
& Porter.
The Toll Franco Has Paid.
Four-fifths of the women In France
wear mourning, say the correspond-
ents, and we believe them, bat we are
not among those who credit reports of
n France "exhausted" and "bled
white," observes a war writer. French
women go into mourning on the small-
est provocation. Rye shops abound.
Every little way in a French city one
encounters the sign, "Mourning In 24
b urs." When mndame puts on black,
no one straightway Infers the demise
of monsieur. Much more likely an
uncle by marriage had dropped o%
or perhaps some eighth cousin thrice
removed. It is always possible that,
for one wooden cross on n battlefield,
there will be six doien gowns at the
dye shop. No one denies that the
French army has suffered terrible
casualties. No one feels Inclined to
understate them, the French least of
all. But only Americans who have
never lived In France wIlHmnglne that
the swarms of blaek-clad women Indi-
cate a proportionate number of dead
Toilus. The truth Is, Pollus were never
o plucky as today, never so efficient,
land, despite heartbreaking losses,
inevgr eo numerous.
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savo the world. That UtiFl'k
pose of tho organlioti
United St a tea Food AlH
lion—by voluntary off
vide tho food that t
needs.
C. S. FOOD ADMINIST
Whenever You Need a <
Take Grove s
The Old Standard Grov
chili Tonic ia equally va
General Tonic because !♦
well known tonic properti'
and IKON. It acts on th J
ont Malaria, Enriches
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Burials on HllltJ
Buffalo Bill Is not the
to be burti d on n hilltop. Cj
nnd Robert L>uis Stove
buried on high points,
builder lies on a kopje fl
and the novelist on the
of his bdoveJ Samoa,
supposed to have been bv;
back In Snxton churchyard. |
Children who ha{
cross, fretful, and
time. To rid the v w«;
parasites WHITE'S CRF
FUGK is an approved re
tht worm* have been drivttil
child grows strong, healthy si
Prico 25c per bottle. Sold hyj
Porter.
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DR. W. C. CULLOM
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Palace Drug Store.
MESQUITE, TEXAS
_ have beeo recorded In the annuls of
rty Loan .Campaign, ■ mankind.
and. these remark* are address- j Nor is it only that Palestine isrenlly
ed to the women of the District • country. The traveler con-
In the hope that they will take ■" h® m"*"* ui*.nt that
in this important work the po- " a """J1 r#ro"1
sition which they have claimed j llTL* ni nothing ' — *
a« dhcfr own; namely, that of ' m"
comrade, co-worker, tven load-
er, In all matters in which both
men and women are
concerned for the national
good.
mlt carrying snow for eight months In
the year, it la Kermoo, Maifir KMMO
feet high—Herinon, whose fountains
feed the rivers of Damascus.—Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
Competent. Conrtions ind Reliable
DR. 0. X. FAISON
DSSNTIST
160H film Street, Dallas, Tetas
?. J. Eckford W. L. Curtis
Attorneys at Law
61®-20-2l-22 Slaughter Bldg., Dallas, Texas
Phone S. W. Man 528
DR. J. B. BRYANT
Physician and Surgeon f
Special attention to diseases
of women and children. Office with
Mesqulte Pharmacy, N, E. corner
Mosquito, Texas.
DR. A. P. JO;
Physician and
Not specialising, b«t/jW
attention given Obstt
eaaea of Women
pther practice.
Office In Drug Store, next
Mesquite
Hiram P. Lively
LIVELY & G066ANJ
Atlorney -Ai t*
Offices: Suit# 402-6 Co*
National Bank B«¥
Dallas, Te*as. Phonf
WHITEHURST &
Attorncys-a* -M
'% Will practice In all the
COMMONWEALTH B/
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