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THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE, COLEMAN. TEXAS.
THE DEMOCRAT-VOICE
iy the Democrat-Voice Pub. Co.
Entered as second-class mail matter
at the postoffice at Coleman, Texas,
under act of Congress of March 8,1879
DOUBLE TAXATION.
An' Abilene citizen, Mr. Hardy
Bonebrake, calls attention to an in-
iquity of our tax system, which, in
this inquisitive age, is timely and
to the point. Writing in the Abilene
Reporter, Mr. Bonebrake says:
“Is it right for the state to collect
double taxes from part of her citi-
xens?
“To illustrate: (A) saves up a few
hundred dollars and decides to buy
a home. He finds a place that suits
him for 83,000, paying $1,000 down;
gives notes back-on the place for the
balance; when time comes for him to
pay his taxes he has to pay the same
as if he had it all paid out, and at
the same time the man who holds the
notes against his place has to render
them. Therefore, the state gets dou-
ble taxes on two-thirds of the place.
Who has to suffer, the man who is
able to hold the notes, or the man that
is struggling to get a home? You can
readily see that the man who needs
help is robbed. Who is to blame? Is
that the way our representatives rep-
resent us in the legislative halls?
“If there is any time in life when
a man needs help and protection, it
is when he is trying to pay for a
home; but instead of his getting it.
he is robbed of money by the state,
that ought to go on paying out his
home.
“I have asked a number of men if
this law is just and right. They say
no, and I shall expect to continue to
get the same answer until I have
the pleasure of asking some of the
men we have sent to Austin.
“Other states have the mortgage
exemption law. Why can’t we, and
quit robbing the man that needs help
and protection?
“I would like to hear from others
on this subject”,
The city health officer of Houston,
making calculations for one week,
eetimates the annual death rate in
that city at 18.6 per thousand among
whites, and 30.53 per thousand among
negroes.
The Coleman county tax collector’s
books show that only 23% per cent
of the taxes of 1913 were paid dur-
ing the months of October, Novem-
ber and December, leaving 76% per
cent to be paid in the month of Jan-
uary.
The Democrat-Voice has placed
the order for a second carload of
news paper, to arrive on or about
March 1st to 10th, to be used in the
publication of this great family
weekly and for the use of other pub-
lishers, who may be running short.
That the Kansas penitentiary is an
‘incubator of the white plague,” and
17 per cent of the deaths in that in-
ititution, are due to tuberculosis, is
he report filed with Governor
lodges by Prof. F. W. Blackmar, a
prison expert appointed to 1 investf-
Approximately 3,000 Mexican fed-
eral officers and soldiers are under
guard of the 500 United States cav-
alrymen at Presidio, Texas, the Mex-
icans having crossed the border and
surrendered to the American officers
for protection. Uncle Sam finds him-
self with 3p000 boarders on his hands
which he must feed end shelter at
his own expense. Major McNamee,
commanding the U. S. troops at
Presidio, has received orders to move
his prisoners to Marfa, which is 67
miles distant from Presidio, from
which point they are to be transfer-
red to Fort Bliss, near El Paso.
The date of holding the 1914 Na-
tional Feeders and Breeders’ Show in
Fort Worth has been set for October
10-17. The Farmers’ National Con-
gress will convene in Fort Worth on
same date. Chief among the reasons
for changing the date of the fat
stock show was that it will not
interfere with any of the Northern
horse shows or livestock exhibits of
other states, thereby enabling the
Fort Worth show to attract the very
biggest exhibitors in the United
States. This is the only week be-
tween October 1st and December 1st,
which will not interfere with any
other horse show in the country or
any other Texas fair. The dates nam-
ed will follow the American royal
horse show at Kansas City, and in-
sures the greatest exhibition of
horses ever held in the Fort Worth
Coliseum. The Coleman County Fair
will be held just preceding the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show.
THE SILO SCORES.
A test conducted by government
experts at Amarillo for the purpose
of determining the value of ensilage
as a cattle feed, proved successful
The experts in their test selected
two herds of equal number and fed
them separately for thirty days. One
herd was fed on grass and cottton-
seed cake and the other on ensilage
with a small amount of cottonseed
cake. At the end of the scheduled
time the grass fed stuff scored an
average gain in weight of 22 pounde,
while the ensilage kept stock raani
fested an increase of 106 pounds.
WORRY.
Dr. Charles E. Jefferson says:
“Worry is one of the most fatal
of all transgressions. It is a sin
against not one organ of the body,
but against the body as a whole.
A man who worries is slowly
draining the springs of life. And
he not only stunts himself, but
he makes it harder for others to
grow and blossom. For your own
sake and for the sake of others
you ought to bring your soul into
a jubilant mood.”
RACE BETTERMENT.
John D. Rockefeller, at the age of
seventy-five, faces the future full of
hope, good will and—dinero.
—WWW—
There are only fifteen days more
in which to qualify. If you fail to
pay it by ’ ebruary 1st, you are elim-
inated.
—
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley says good
food and good cooking are preven-
tives of divorce. Wife, do you get
the hint?
—<*♦•»—
Train up a calf in the way it
should go—and it may become a
Baby Beef winner at Coleman or Ft.
Worth this fall.
—*>#♦—
George Cowan, editor and owner
of the Robert Lee Observer, has be-
come the owner of an automobile.
The price of rabbit skins must be
“up” in Coke.
The three thousand Mexican board-
ers, which Uncle Sam has on his
hands at Presidio, might be used to
a fine advantage on the public roads.
The high cost of beans is something
to be reckoned with.
The Standard announces that San
Angelo is in the midst of a wood
famine, there being only four car
loads of wood in the city. San Ango-
lans needn’t worry—they still have
fuel by the gallon.
A Pennsylvania man, who desired
death, but disdained suicide because
he believed his soul would be damn-
ed, hired another person to shoot him.
How foolish for a man to want to
die—and the fishing season so near
at hand.
-»»»—
If you have given any checks in
payment of gambling debts you may
stop payment on them at the bank
without fear of the law, according to
a decision of the Seventh court of
civil appeals of Texas. But an hon-
est gambler would not do such a
thing.
Hundreds of letters have poured in-
to the Treasury Department at Wash-
ington from persons who have gain-
ed the impression that there was
$35.11 waiting for the asking be-
cause the monthly circulation state-
ment of the department announced
this to be the per capita circulation.
Let the people rule.
—
The Democrat-Voice received in
Wednesday’s mail from the office of
the Internal Revenue Collector, a
blank form for return of net income
due under the provisions of the In-
come Tax. Supposing the depart-
ment made an error in the address,
we immediately forwarded the instru-
ment to Editor Wade of the Talpa
Post.
—
A Jersey City husband is said to
have poured alcohol on his wife and
set fire to her. It is possible there
are impetuous fraus in Coleman,
whose removal from the stage of ac-
tion would contribute toward univer-
sal peace and the disarmament of
nations, but it’s a cinch they won’t
be burned with alcohol. The intem-
perate husband would burn up his
own stomach first.
According to figures furnished by
the U. S. department of commerce,
the boll weevil has caused . a loss
in the production of cotton in the
United States in excess of 10,000,000
bales, which, at a value of only $50
a bale, represents a financial loss of
$500,000,000.00. The cotton weevil
has caused an enormous loss, but it
is not half so destructive to industry
as the political weevil.
Albert E. Park, of the University
of Chicago, recently declared with
much emphasis, before the American
Sociological Society that, “social con-
ditions in the Uunted States are
tending to develop in the negro a
racial consciousness.” This racial
consciousness, which Mr. Park de-
plores, is the original handiwork of
the Lord, and which, men like Mr.
Park are seeking to undo.
More than a dozen Coleman moth-
ers, with their precious cherubims,’
assembled one afternoon last week
for a few hours of well-earned social
intercourse and interchange of ideas,
during which time infant hygiene and
other subjects of vital importance to
the home were discussed. It was a
profitable afternoon for these good
mothers of men and it is stated the
subject of suffrage was not even
touched on.
ODDITIES OF THE NEWS.
Luther Burbank has produced a
white blackberry.
; W. O. Tubb is a candidate for
county and district clerk of Coke
county. Sitting on his own bottom, it
is supposed.
W. H. Boozer was laying in sup-
plies in Ballinger last week, when he
should have gone to San Angelo.
At Battle Creek, Michigan, where
the National Conference for Race
Betterment has been holding forth,
Dr. Carolyn Geiser of Shorter Col-
lege, Rome, Georgia, declared that
“Bachelors often remain bachelors
because women are spendthrifts, and
many women are spendthrifts be-
cause women’s colleges fail almost
completely in training their students
for the problems of life.
“Women’s schools are inefficient
because they fail to prepare women
either for livelihood or motherhood,"
she continued. “Graduates come out
of women’s schools physical wrecks
with a valueless flood of useless in-
formation and penchant for fashions,
which leaves them as nearly nude as
the law will allow. The average bill
of fare alone at girls’ schools is
enough to drive the students to bon
bons and rarebits.”
THE PRICE OF EGGS.
From retailers in thirty-nine cities
the Bureau of Labor Statistics has
collected prices, on certain given days
of strictly fresh eggs. Between points
no farther apart than Newark and
Philadelphia, Buffalo and Boston, Los
Angeles and San Francisco, prices
on the same date vary from 25 to
50 per cent. For the country over,
every one of the seven dates reported
on by the bureau shows variations
exceeding 100 per cent. November
15 fresh eggs were selling in New
York at 75c a dozen, while they were
to be had in Detroit—a night’s ride
away—at 38c,
A staple commodity—produced ev-
erywhere and consumed everywhere
—which can be * easily transported
over long distances, should under
modern transportation conditions
tend decidedly toward uniformity in
price. If there were a real Egg
Trust in this country we should see
greater uniformity in prices—uni-
formity, no doubt, at a high level.
The trick is to “get the trusts’ or-
ganization without its greed,” says
the Saturday Evening Post.
RURAL SOCIAL CENTERS.
Peter Radford, in discussing the
back-to-the-soil movement, says:
“We need social centers, where
our young people can be entertained,
amused and instructed under the di-
rection of cultured, clean and compe-
tent leadership, where aesthetic sur-
roundings stir the love for the beau-
tiful; where art charges the atmos-
phere with inspiration and power, and
innocent amusements instruct and
brighten their lives.
“To hold our young people on the
farm we must make farm life more
attractive, as well as the business of
farming more remunerative. The
school house should be the social unit,
properly equipped for nourishing and
building character, so that the lives
of our people can properly function
around it and become supplied with
the necessary elements of human
thought and activity.”
MR. MAYES AND THE ELIMINA-
TORS.
Lieutenant-Governor Will H. Mayes’
reply to the pronunciamento of Mr.
Thomas is timely and to the point
when he says, in part:
“There is a small element or fac-
tion among those favoring statewide
prohibition in Texas that believes
every other question should be relegat
ed to the cause of prohibition; that
strict party lines should be drawn
between prohibitionists and anti-pro-
hibitionists on every issue that comes
before the people; that the legisla-
ture should divide itself into two
distinct factions in the consideration
of every proposed law; that all ex-
ecutive and other appointments should
be made with regard to a man’s pro-
hibition views rather than to his fit-
ness for service; that perpetual agi
tation of this question, to the neglect
of other great problem should be kept
up even when a prohibition fight is
not on; that fighting, insinuation, in-
crimination and bitterness effect more
than argument, reasoning and con-
ciliatory methods. This faction, in
my opinion, does not compose more
than five per cent of the people in
this state, who are sincere and earn-
est advocates of prohibition, and
those who compose it are really par-
ty prohibitionists, and not prohibition
Democrats. They belong in a party
of their own, rather than in |the
Democratic party, if they cannot in
good faith accept and abide by the
primary election laws passed by a
Democratic legislature.”
The manner of unloading Mexican
cattle from the boats at Galveston is
interesting. The animals make the
trip in pens on the lower decks of the
steamships. On arrival in port the
deck hatches are removed, the cat-
tle roped about the horjis in groups
of from two to five, and the rope
loops caught in the hook of a cable
hoist operated by a donkey engine on
the ship’s deck. The struggling beasts
are lifted bodily by the horns some
fifty feet in the air, swung outward
over the taffrail and lowered to the
wharf. Still roped and seated grace-
fully in the attitude of a trained dog
“begging,” the stock is examined by
the government veterinary. This ex-
amination concluded, the steers are
loosened and driven down the regula-
tion cattle chutes to the pens from
which they are loaded into stock cars
for shipment to Fort Worth.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1914
The New Year will be very much
like the old. year for every man in
Texas who continues to buy more
than he can pay for.—Dallas News.
A Coleman wag once remarked that
he would buy the court house
if it could be bought on credit.
Houston Post: A Chicago man has
a goat that dances. We suppose it is
a tangora.
Dallas News: When a man is
married and he and his wife live in
the same house he has to pay no in-
come tax unless their joint income ex-
ceeds $4,000 a year. And if she isn’t
a mighty safe counsellor, it wont.
So long as the American people
spend $2,000,000,000 on moving pic-
tures, $400,000,000 on candy and
$1,000,000,000 on liquor, they should
not expect a $50,000,000 reduction in
the tariff to count for much in low-
ering the cost of living.—Houston
Chronicle.
The Chronicle overlooked another
joy item—that of $800,000,000 inves-
ted in pleasure automobiles and an
additional $500,000,000 annually for
joy riding.
Texas Industrial Record: When
a man gets to that point when he
thinks he can gain a dollar easier
than earning it, he is treading a
dangerous precipice.
San Antonio Express: If all mar-
ried persons got along as smoothly
as that Georgia couple who have liv-
ed together sixty-seven years with-
out a cross word, people would have
to go up in an aeroplane to have a
falling out.
Did you ever stop to think what
kind of world this would be if ev-
ery man could have his way?—
Ballinger Banner-Ledger.
Perish the thought, it’s too awful
to contemplate.
Ballinger Banner Ledger: We have
heard the statement repeated over
and over every since as far back as
our memory records, that a rich mas
is not as happy as a poor man; yet
every man desires and is seeking un-
happiness.
Houston Post: An Alabama post-
mistress refuses to give up the of-
fice to the man appointed to suc-
ceed her. They say she is a repub
lican, but the reluctance with which
she parts with the office is distinc-
tively democratic.
Rabbit Sausage.
Since the county quit paying a
bounty for the killing of mule ear
rabbits, they have become very num-
erous to the detriment of growing
crops. It has recently been found
also that they make a splendid food
product and will greatly cheapen the
high cost of living. A full grown
rabbit will dress about five pounds.
The meat trimmed off the bones, a
pound of fresh pork added to the five
or six pounds of rabbit, and all
ground together through a sausage
mill and seasoned with salt, red and
black pepper and sage, will make a
sausage far superior to pure pork
sausage. A syndicate, it is said, is
planning to establish a packing house
at some convenient point in West
Texas for the manufacture of rabbit
sausage and grind the bones into
chicken feed.—Brownwood Bulletin.
As a matter of expediency, it is
presumed, the rabbit packing house
will be established in Coke county.
Hamilton Record: It is said that
time changes all things. We believe
it now since scientists have discov-
ered that in order to make a boy-an
obedient son it is necessary to oper-
ate on the opposite end from that of
when we were a boy.
Lubbock Avalanche: A man found
a ten dqllar bill. He paid his rent
with it, and his landlord paid his
grocery clerk, the clerk paid his
board, and the landlady paid a debt
she owed to the man who found the
bill. He took the bill to the bank
and deposited it, and the banker
threw it out as counterfeit. Now
who was the loser by the deal or
was anybody? General discussion
now in order.
Cullen Thomas put the elimination
proposition up to Mayes and Lane in
a manly and patriotic manner and so
squarely and fairly that if they re-
fuse it can no longer be doubted that
they put personal ambition above par-
ty principles.—Bronte Enterprise.
We are constrained to ask, when
did statewide prohibition become a
Democratic party principle? Mr.
Mayee’ reply to the prom
of Mr. Thomas is to the point
he said: “This faction, in my opin-
ion, does not composed more than five
per cent of the people in this state,
who are sincere and earnest advocates
of prohibition, and those, who com-
pose it are really party prohibition-
ists, and not prohibition Democrats.
They belong in a party of their own,
rather than in the Democratic party,
if they cannot in good faith accept
and abide by the primary election laws
passed by a Democratic legislature.”
IALUMET
■■ng powder
The cook is happy, the
other members of the family
are happy—appetites sharpen, things
brighten np generally. And Calumet
Baking Powder is responsible for it alL
For Calumet never fails. Its
wonderful leavening qualities insure
perfectly shortened, faultlessly raised
bakings.
Cannot be compared with
other baking powders, which promise^
without performing.
Evcn a beginner in cooking
gets delightful results with this never-
failing Calumet Baking Powder. Your
grocer knows. Ask him.
RECEIVED HIGHEST AWARDS
World’. Puro Ewd Expoulioo, CUcaao, ffl.
Pari* Eipedtioa, Franco. March. ISIS.
Mon
A PLEA FOR THE SKUNK.
The U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, observing the value of the
skunk to agriculture, has issued the
following:
“The skunk, which is represented
throughout the country by a number
of varieties, is an animal of great
economic importance. Its food con-
sists very largely of insects, which
are destructive to garden and forage
crops. Field observations and labora-
tory examinations demonstrate that
they destroy immense numbers of
white grubs, grasshoppers, crickets,
cutworms, hornets, wasps and other
noxious forms. The alarming in-
crease of the white grub in some, lo-
calities is largely due to the exter-
mination of this valuable animal.
It is a matter of common observation
where white grubs are particularly
abundant in cornfields to note little
round holes burrowed in the ground
about hills of corn. These are made
by skunks in their search during the
night for these grubs. During the
recent outbreak of grasshoppers in
Kansas it has been determined that
in many cases a large proportion of
the food of skunks consisted of these
grasshoppers. Some of the most de-
structive insects in agriculture are
such*ks do their work below ground
and out of reach of any method that
the farmer can apply, and it is against
many of these that the skunk is an
inveterate enemy. Notwithstanding
all of this, there is probably not an
animal that is as ruthlessly slaugh-
tered as is this one, whereas it is
equally entitled to protection with,
if not more so, than some of our
birds which enjoy this prvilege.”
While the skunk may be a destroy-
er of insect pests .to a limited ex-
tent, the department of agriculture
may not be aware that the skunk’s
favorite meal is “eggs straight-up”
with a liberal portion of spring
chicken rare.
It is stated that the„ Hon. Sam
Sparks of Bell county will make his
formal announcement for governor of
Texas in next Sunday’s newspapers.
VAUE OF 1913 CROPS.
In round numbers it is estimated
that the total farm value of all crops
for 1913 is $6,100,000,000. The total
farm value of animals sold and
slaughtered and of animal products
is $3,650,000,000, making an estimat-
ed total at the gross value of farm
products in 1913 amounting to $9,-
760,000,000.
It is roughly estimated that of the
13 crop, valued at $6,100,000,000,
approximately 62 per cent will never
be sold^Bfit will remain on the farms
where it w&x^produced, leaving only
48 per cent tyhicl/ will be sold for
cash. This will ljeduco the estimated
cash sale of farm crops to $2,929,000,-
000.
It would appear, therefore, that
the total net cash sales of both crops
and animal products for the current
season will be approximately $5,847,-
000,000 which will represent the to-
tal cash income of all farmB in the
United States.
BLOODY CHAOS IN MEXICO.
(Fort Worth Record.)
Huerta is reported not to be great-
ly worried over the fall of Ojinaga.
He attended a bull fight on Sunday
afternoon and received a tremendous
ovation. Earlier in the day, the Mex-
ican dispatches add, there was a dra-
matic procession of prisoners “herd-
ed through the streets from Belem
prison to the soldiers’ barracks, where
they were placed in the barracks.
Wives, mothers and sweethearts of
the men trudged beside them shouting
invectives against Huerta.”
Nero fiddling while Rome burned
was scarcely less edifying than
these incidents reported from the cap-
ital of Mexico. They portray the
brutishness of the Mexican ruler,
the contrasts'of pleasure and misery
among the Mexican people and the
insecure support of the dictatorship
which rests upon an army composed
of conscripted convicts.
The scene at Ojinaga was not less
portentous. The federal army had
fled to the United States, instead of
surrendering in defeat, in order to
escape massacre under Villa's bar-
baric policy of taking no prisoners.
If anything were needed to exhibit
the hopelessness of the Mexican sit-
uation it is not furnished in tfeso
facts. r
We are not surprised that members
of the American congress are grow-
ing restive under the President’ pol-
icy of moral suation and financial suf-
focation, for the success of Villa
promises to be nothing more than
the substitution of one butcher by
another. It is plainly to be seen,
from the incident of the impressment
of prisoners into the federal army,
that the moment the constitutional-
ists reach the capital, if not long be-
fore, the miserable conscripts will
desert their enforced colors and
that their sympathizers among the
lower classes will take advantage of
the slightest opportunity to wreak
vengeance upon all who are connec-
ted with the Huerta regime,
carnage of the French revolution
be repeated upon a somewhat sn
ler scale when the final crisis comes
in Mexico.
It is this impending state of
bloody chaos that . challenges the
foresight of American statesmanship.
/
CHURCH SETS FREE LUNCH.
(Cincinnati Dispatch.)
To make the church as attractive
to the needy as the saloon, the Rev.
A. N. Kelly adopted the plan of pro-
viding free lunch at his church every
evening from 7:30 to 8:30 o’clock.
Soup, coffee, sandwiches and cakes
are served. After the free lunch
there is a sermon. A few who have
no place for the night will be invited
to rest a bit in the upholstered plush
pews. *
“There are some thing* we canq^*
learn from the saloonkeeper,” said *
the Rev. Mr. Kelly. “The saloon-
keeper knows men. A great many
preachers do not Men, especially the
down and outs, do not go to saloons
just to become sodden. They need
warmth and cheer and food, all i
down-and-out man immediately
wants. To compete with the saloon
I serve a better lunch.” !
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