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Paducah, Texas, Oct. 5, 1916
THE PADUCAH POST
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OPPORTUNITY To GET EVEN
Farmer Had It In His Heart to Do
Unto Others as It Had Been
Done Unto Him.
Here is a good motor story: A
farmer strolled into a motor sales-
house.
"What's that worth?” he asked,
pointing to a small car.
•Five hundred dollars,” was the
reply.
"And that?” pointing to a better
car.
“Seven hundred and fifty dollars."
"And that there one?" pointing to a
seven-passenger with a jerk of his
thumb.
‘‘That one is a fine car and is
worth twelve hundred dollars.”
"I’ll take it," said the farmer.
‘‘The car iB cash, you know,” said
the salesman.
“Yes, I got the money," said the
farmer, as he pulled a roll of bills out
of his pocket, peeled off twelve one-
hundred-dollar bills, and paid for the
car. “Now, you'll show me how to
drive the critter?"
“Sure," said the salesman, "that's
a part of the sale.”
So they started out, and after going
three miles overtook a man in a
wagon with a mule team. The sales-
man tooted and honked, and tooted,
but the man with the mules refused
to heed. Finally the farmer said:
“This is my car, ain't it?"
“It is,” said the salesman.
"And I paid for it?”
"You did."
"Then," Baid the farmer, "you run
right over that sunnavagun; that’s
the way automobile drivers always
done with me!"—Toronto (Kan.) Re-
publican.
PUT HEALTH IN FIRST PUCE
Present Generation of Youth In Many
Ways an Improvement Over
Those of the Past.
Our young people in their habits
and tastes cherish and crave and ad-
mire health with a devotion unpar-
alleled since the days of the Greeks,
writes Francis Greenwood Peabody in
the Atlantic Monthly. The call of the
fields and of the wild, the inoculation
of early childhood with the fever of
athletes, and the enormous distinc-
tion obtained by strength, agility and
pluck—even the unprecedented can-
dor of literature and conversation
concerning sex. parenthood, eugenics
and feminism—all these signs of the
time, though they may involve new
risks, unquestionably free young peo-
ple in large degree from the intro-
spection, sentimentalism, morbid con-
scientiousness, prudishness and pruri-
ence, which have afflicted earlier gen-
erations. Fearless, self-confidence,
even audacity, issue from this health-
iness. Nothing is too personal to be
mentioned; nothing too startling to
be welcomed; nothing too sacred to
be criticized. The most repelling of
traits is sickliness, either of body or
of mind. Strong doctrine, naked truth,
undisguised convictions, are marks
of the cult of healthiness, and the re-
sultant type of youth is one which can-
not be observed without admiration,
as one watches an athlete stripped
for his game and rejoicing in his
strength.
No Two Faces Alike.
The boss barber, who worked at the
st chair in a Broadway shop in the
tervals when he wasn't punching the
sh register, stepped over to an old
stomer who had just entered and
id in a low tone: “Y’our regular bar
r is sick today. Try that man on the
urth chair. He’s a good shaver.”
ie is not,” said the customer. ‘T’ve
ed him. Guess I'll let ’em grow un-
tomorrow." "To tell the truth,"
Id the boss, "I can’t tell which of my
rbers are good. The other day I was
aving a man who told me that man
the fourth chair was the best bar-
r he'd ever struck. But I also have
ard men say, like you, that he was a
m workman. It's the same about all
a men in this shop. I suppose we
ie a lot of trade because men go too
ich on their first impressions of bar-
rs. But what can I do? Shall I fire
it barber who he says nearly
raped his face off? Of course not.
at's the sort I'm up against all the
ae: It’s because no two faces are
Widow's Lucky Find.
Ever put your hand in the pocket of
a castoff garment you are about to give
the ragman and pull out a $20 bill
that's been hiding from you? Those
who have know the joy it brings.
But what must have been the feelings
of the Jersey woman who, while going
through her late husband's effects,
found a bank book showing that he
had deposited $72 in a bank in 1854
and had left it there undisturbed? She
may now collect from that institution
$J,620—a neat sum for a rainy spell
of weather. Some women under the
same circumstances could almost for-
give their husbands for shuffling off.
The Head of the Firm.
As ho appears to t
The Office Boy—A large fat being
whose grumble is worse than Jove s
thunder and whose commendatory nod
hi worth almost any amount of per-
sonal inconvenience.
Head Bookkeeper—A good man,
with no head for figures, who has ar-
rived at his present exalted position
by a combination of luck and pull.
The Stenographer—A pleasant old
party with singular weaknesses and a
strange capacity-rarely exercised,
however—to make one cry.
His Wlfo—A baby.—Ufa.
MUST NOT BECOME MACHINE GET AFTER nC0LD” QUICKLY TOM MARSHALL’S READY 'AMY AlWAYS UNJ3RINK OF DEATH
Many Reasons Why Too Much Devo-
tion to Habit Is Bod for Indi-
vidual Worker.
This force of habit is a good thing.
It makes it possible for one to do a
great deal of routine work with prac-
tically no exertion. Once the pat-
tern is made, little attention is re-
quired. The brain acts almost auto-
matically. moving hands and feet as
may be necessary to accomplish the
leslred action.
But habit can be injurious, too. And
by this I don’t mean bad habits. 1
mean that the habit can be much over-
3one, and that when this happens inia-
;ive and originality die. You become
little more than a machine, s,nd
though you may get through your al-
loted work perfectly, you are your-
self fading out as an individual, los-
ing interest in existence.
You girls whose work is pretty much
all routine want to take care that
habit doesn't make an end of you A
certain amount, of routine labor is
restful, and good for you. But aeep
from letting yourself sink into a day
in and day out routine that requires
practically no thought, hardly any at-
tention. if your work tends to that
sort of tiling make yourself do it in
new ways, watch out for short cuts,
bring your mind to bear on al! its
details, try to seek better ways of do-
ing what you are busy over. And if
your work is really hopeless then es-
cape from habit as much as possible
the rest of your time. Don’t so much
es go home the same way every day
In the week, vary your amusements,
take up some study on the side. Re-
fuse at all hazards to atrophy your
mind by falling into the unchanging
bsblt of doing everything the same
way, and thinking of everything tbe
same way.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
RATHER SPOILED THE EFFECT
Lawyer’s Eloquent Addreee Nullified
When Hie Opponent Related
a Little Fable.
A barrister who was possessed of
an unusually loud voice was making
an eloquent address to a jury. His
case was fairly strong, and bis
trumpet tones made the rafters ring.
The jury looked thoughtful and much
impressed.
The opposing barrister bad a face
like a hatchet and a thin, low voiee.
He began: "As I listened to the
thunderous appeals of my learned op-
ponent I recalled a fable. A lion end
an ass entered into a compact to slay
the beasts of the field and share the
spoils. The ass was to go into the
tiiicket and bray and frighten the ani-
mals out, while the lion was to lie in
wait and kill the fugitives. Well, the
ass sought the darkest part of the Jun-
gle, and. lifting up his awful voice,
brayed and brayed and brayed. The
ass was intoxicated with his own up-
roar and thought bed return to see
what the lion thought of it. He found
the lion pale in the face and trem-
bling. What do you tlftnk of that for
braying?’ said the ass. 'Don’t you
think I scared them?’ 'Scared them?’
repeated the lion In an agitated tone.
‘Why. you’d have scared me if I didn’t
know you were a jackass!”’
As He 8aw the Play.
“Oh, do tell me something about the
play last night. Tlfey say that climax
at the close of the third act was sim-
ply grand,” she said.
“Yw. I am inclined to think it was
very good,” he replied, without any
marked degree of enthusiasm.
“Can't you describe it to me,” she
continued, beaming radiantly.
"Why,” explained he. "the heroine
came stealthily on the stage and knelt,
dagger in hand, behind a clump of
blue ribbons. The hero emerged from
a large bunch of lilacs and as soon as
she perceived him she fell upon him,
stabbed him twice, and sank half-con-
scious into a very handsome aigrette.
This may sound a trifle queer, but the
lady in front of me came in late for
the performance and became so in-
tensely interested that she forgot to
remove her hat, and that's how it
looked to me.”
Ancient Mississippi Bay.
The lower valley of the Mississippi
has experienced many vicissitudes dur-
ing bygone ages. Geologists tell us
that during the Eocene era, when the
shores of the Gulf of Mexico lay con-
siderably farther inland than at the
present time, a long, bavliRe extension
of the gulf filled the present val-
ley of the Mississippi up to the mouth
of the Ohio.
The boundaries of this ancient bay
were not Stationary, but shifted slowly
back and forth from time to time, so
that open sea was gradually replaced
by brackish water, and this by swamps
and peat bofs. The succeeding ad-
vance of the sea buried these old peat
bogs beneath accumulations of clay,
sand and sea shells.
Newspaper Blanket.
How many have ever heard of a
newspaper blanket? Even people who
have downy comforts and fine blan-
kets find it impossible to keep warm on
a cold night. Take two sheets—worn
ones will do—have several newspapers
—the metre the better—tack (or baste)
them two or three layers thick all
over one of the sheets. Use common
wrapping twine and a darning needle
to fasten them. Then lay the other
sheet on and tack it, here and there
to the newspapers, and sew the edges
roughly with a cord to make it more
compact. It Is impossible for air to
penetrate tbe paper.
Disagreeable, Dangerous Malady Has
Many Preliminary Symptoms
That Give Warning.
Colds can easily be prevented If
care is taken to avoid those things
which lower tbe resistance of the body
and if one pays special attention to
building up the resistance of the
body. How important this is may be
seen in the fact that athletes in
training seldom, if ever, contract
I coldB, Good Health observes,
j How. then, are we to know that a
cold is impending? First of all. in
' most cases, there is a feeling of chil-
liness and slight feverishness. The
head also feels stuffy and full; the mu-
cous linings of the nose and throat
feel dry and parched, due to conges-
tion at these points. Frequently there
is a feeling of languor and an "aching"
of the bones, especially at the joints.
! Headache is also often present, and
lack of appetite. Bad breath and
coated tongue are almost invariably
present. The victim is usually con-
‘ stipated.
The “nipping” process consists, first
j of all, in getting the blood away from
the head and chest into the lower ex-
tremities. The best means to this end
is a hot foot bath—as hot as can be
borne. A bucket of any kind will
serve the purpose; especially good is
a bucket that will allow the water to
reach as near the knees as possible.
Take particular pains to see that the
room in which this treatment is
given is warm and free from drafts.
IN THE “THIEVES’ MARKET”
Remarkable Institution In Small Mexi-
can City That Haa Sphere
of Usefulneee.
The so-called "thieves’ market" in
San Luis Potosi is one of the most
curious and characteristic institutions
of the little Mexican city. Here are
found tools and implements, knives
and pistols, bottles, binges, valves,
chains, bridles, razors, religious books
from the old Barcelona press, cheap
jewelry, doorknobs, and, in fact, any
sort of nonperlshable merchandise.
The name of the market Is not discred-
itable to either the proprietors of the
various stalls nor their customers,
but It is probably correct in Its impli-
cation that thieves sell here their
small plunder.
It is said that some of the proprie-
tors deal in more valuable goods,
such as antique pieces of brasswork.
china and silver, precious stones and
metals, but these are not offered to
the public. The pawnshops turn over
to this market cheap articles in hard-
ware and jewelry, and American goods
are often seen, particularly cheap
watches, buttons and safety razors.
The market prevents waste In that
every sort of second-hand article may
be bought and used again.
Teaching Children to Think.
Miss Margaret Maguire, principal of
the Washington school of Philadel-
phia. who has gained a deserved rep-
utation for her work among the chil-
dren of immigrants, scored a point in
her address at the summer school of
State college when she insisted that
the great need of the day was to
teach children to think rather than
to fill their little minds with a mass
of unrelated information. She held
up Louis Pasteur as a model to her
one thousand teacher-auditors and
said that he was taught to think and
to digest information in his youth.
It would be a great gain for human-
ity if this truth could be brought home
to all educators, and especially to
those who have charge of the elemen-
tary schools. The tendency of tbe
day is t# "cover ground.” The teach-
er who graduates the largest class
gains the most distinction.
The idea is all wrong. The shy pu-
pil who fails in his recitations may
mean more to the world than the one
who glibly memorizes whole chapters
of lessons.
Lightning Hit His Ring.
Hope Beam’s finger ring is in the
Jeweler's shop because the ruby set-
ting was loosened by lightning. Also
he is alive and well after one of the
most exciting experiences of his life,
having, faced death in an Instant’s
time when a bolt of lightning struck
in the concrete midway between the
Deaderick and Empire buildings.
Beam was shocked severely, the
electricity following the wiring Into the
office where he was working. Several
woman In the office of a physician
next where the lightning struck were
also shocked.—Winchester (Va.) Dis-
patch Norfolk Vlrginlan-Post.
Dog Attacked Fur-Top Boots.
A Cleveland woman was walking
down a street, wearing a pair of these
new fur-top shoes. A dog saw the
fur and made an energetic attack, di-
vesting one of the shoes of its trim-
ming.
All of which Is interesting. For the
dog may have thought that he recog-
nized in that fur an old-time foe—the
neighbor's cat. But even if he did.
women have cause to be thankful, for
in that event, women who wear fur-
trimmed shoes may feel sure that
rtnee, woman’s old enemy, will give
them a wide path.
Connecticut Smoke.
After many years of experiment and
tbe loss of much money, tobacco farm-
ers in the Connecticut valley have
succeeded In profitably raising shade-
grown tobacco. Most of this Is used
as wrappers for flve-cent cigars. It
sells for from $1.60 to |2 a pound,
whereas the duty alone on Imported
wrapper leaf is $1.66 a pound.
Kentucky Orator Hard to Corner, as
Frankfort Belle Found Out to Her
Great Discomfort.
Tom Marshall of Kentucky, who
flourished as an orator and wit in the
last century, was a gallant gentleman
who, opportunity offering, distributed
his osculatory activities without re-
gard to age, race or previous condi-
tion of servitude. On Christmas eve he
I met in the hall the pretty octoroon
' slave maid of Miss Breckenrldge. a so-
ciety leader and belle. Tom kissed
her and she was so responsive and
he so liberal that he expressed his
j appreciation by giving her what he
supposed was a $20 gold piece. In
fact, it was a gold medal that had
; been presented to him by the citi-
zens of Frankfort. Ky , for some serv-
ices rendered to that burg The girl
tried to change It. when the Store-
Keeper, supposing it to be stolen, im-
' pounded it and gave it to her mis-
j tress. The girl being called to ac-
I count admitted that it was a Christ-
; mas gift from Mr. Marshall and con-
1 fessed that the hall was dark and that
5 Tom kissed her before she could help
! it.
Miss Breckenrldge determined to
give Mr. Marshall a lesson in good j
manners, so that evening at a brilliant
social function she assembled half a
dozen Louisiana belles about her and,
calling Tom to the group, handed him
the medal and said: "Mr. Marshall,
here is something you parted with in
the dark. It is restored to you in the
light.” Tom replied promptly: ”lt
was dark, sure enough, but believe me,
Miss Breckenrldge, If I haa known it
was you I wouldn’t have given you a
cent.”
BEAUTY NOT AT FIRST SEEN
Makers of Furniture Were Slow to
Recognize the Supreme Worth of
Mahogeny Wood.
Like the use of a great many of the
factors connected with the arts and
the sciences, the discovery of the
beauty of the grain of mahogany for
furniture was accidental, says a Lon-
don contemporary. The story goes
that a certain West Indian captain
who had brought back to England
some planks of mahogany as ballast,
decided to give the wood to his broth-
er, a Doctor Gibbons, then building a
house on King street. Covent Garden.
But the planks were so hard that
the carpenters objected, and the plan
for using them fell through.
3<>me time later Mrs. Gibbons want-
ed a small box made, and the doctor
sent the mahogany to a cabinetmaker.
In his turn the cabinetmaker objected
to the hardness of the wood, but the
doctor persisted so much in his re-
quest that the order was finally ex-
ecuted.
The finished box polished so nicely
that the doctor ordered a bureau made
of the same wood. Tbe cabinetmaker
displayed that in his shop window be-
fore delivering it. The duchess of
Buckingham saw it and begged enough
wood from the doctor to have it dupli-
cated, and mahogany furniture soon
after came into favor.
Home Partnership.
The president of a woman’s college
in the United States believes that
every woman should be brought up to
earn her own living, if necessary, but
adds: "I am not willing to say that
a wife and mother in a home does
not earn hers. I oelieve that in most
cases she does. The average mar-
riage is a partnership, in which the
wife does her share in keeping up
the home and caring in it for the chil-
dren, and the children belong equally
to the man and woman, and are their
Joint responsibility.
”1 certainly do want women to have
all their rights. What 1 look forward
to is the day when no woman shall
be at a disadvantage, because of her
sex, and when no woman shall be
able to take an unfair advantage be-
cause of it. Botn conditions exist
today, and each is a necessary corol-
lary ot the other.”
Races of the World.
The Slavs are one of the chief divi-
sions of the Aryan race. They are di-
vided, as a race, into two leading fam-
ilies, the eastern and western Slavs.
The eastern Slavs comprise the Rus-
sians (Great Brltains. Little Rus-
sians and White Russians); Bulgar-
ians, Serbo-Croats. including the Ser-
bians and Montenegrins; and Slovenes
in Carinthia, Carniola, and part of
Styria. The western Slav family is
divided into the Poles, in Russia, Aus-
tria and Prussia, and tbe Kassubes;
the Czechs, or Bohemians, and the
Moravians, with the Slovaks in Hun-
gary: and the Lusatian Wends or
Sarbs in Saxony and Prussia. The
theory is that their original home was
in Volhynia and White Russia.
Walnut Oil.
In France tne cneap walnuts are
used tor theirioll, and 100 pounds of
walnuts average about eighteen
pounds of oil. v\ alnut oil is used in
France more than olive oil, but is not
manufactured at an in the United
States.
Walnuts as iooa are composed as
follows: Black walnuts, refuse V4.i
per cent, water 0 per cent, protein
(.2 pet cent, lat 14.t> per cent, car-
bohydrates 2.0 per cent and asn 5 per
cent.
English walnuts are composed of
refuse oS.l per cent, water 1 per cent,
protein ri.s per cenr.. rat 26.6 per cent,
carUonydrates o.8 per cent ana ash
u.t> per cent
Workers in High Explosives Realize
What May Be the Result of a Mo-
ment's Carelessness.
Explosives are solids which, under
certain conditions, suddenly change
into heated gas occupying many times
tbe original space of the solids. Ordi-
nary gunpowder, when fired, turns
into gas. of which the volume is 4,000
times as great as that of the powder.
No wonder the bullet in front of it
leaves the muzzle of the rifle in a
hurry.
Today there are scores, even hun-
dreds. of different sorts of explosives
known to science. Some, such as lyd-
dite, require a very considerable shock
to exulode them. Qthers. such as ni-
troglycerin, arc fearfully dangerous to
handle, for a few extra degrees of
warmth or a very slight jar is suf-
ficient to turn them Instantly into gas
Of the latter type there is nothing
quite so unstable as iodide of nitro-
gen. It has to be made in alcohol.
When allowed to dry it appears as a
brown powder, and so unstable is this
powder that a toucti with a teather
will set it off. The experiment has
been tried of leaving a tew grams
upon a table mixed with a tew grains
of sugar. The first bluebottle that
flew on the table and began to crawl
among the grains caused an explosion.
The mere jarring of the air by a
loud shout or a heavy footstep is suf-
ficient to detonate iodide of nitrogen,
and it need hardly be added that no
one in his senses would attempt to
make this terrible stuff. To do so in
any quantity would be equivalent to
committing suicide.
Nitroglycerin is not so dangerous as
this iodide, but at a temperature of
only 100 degrees—that is, very little
more than the warmth of the human
body—it begins to decompose.
Tons of nitroglycerin are turned out
every day, for It Is the explosive from
which guncotton is made. But all the
mixing vats are artificially cooled by
colls of cold-water pipes.
GREATEST OF ICE PALACES
That Constructed by the Czarina Anna
of Russia Is Conceded to Have
Been the Flneat.
Ice for architectural purposes is
used with wonderful results In north-
ern countries. Probably the most
remarkable building constructed
wholly of ice was the palace built on
the Neva by the Czarina Anne of Rus-
sia. Large blocks of ice were cut
and squared with great care and laid
on one another by skillful masons,
who cemented the joints with water,
which immediately froze. The build-
ing, when completed, was 56 feet long,
17% feet broad and 21 feet high. It
was of but one story. The facade
contained a door surmounted by an
ornamental pediment, and six win-
dows the frames and panes of which
were all of ice. An elaborate balus-
trade adorned with statues ran along
the top of the facade, and another bal-
ustrade surrounded the building at
the level of the ground. The ground
was further adorned with a life-size
figure of an elephant, with his mahout
on his back. A stream of water was
thrown from the elephant’s trunk by
day and a flame of naphtha by night.
A tent of ice contained a hot bath.
In which persons actually bathed.
There were also several cannons and
mortars of ice, which were loaded
with bullets of ice and iron and dis-
charged.
INTERURBAN HITE A WORK
TRAIN
M KINNEY, Texas, Oet. 2.—
The 4:41 limited interurban ear
- to Dallas ran into an open
! switch in South McKinney this
afternoon and rammed into a
j work train. Thirty passengers
were injured, many receiving
painful cuts and bruises, but it
is thought none were seriously
hurt.
Among the injured were Dr.
E. S. Blythe, wife and little son.
of Allien: Miss Bess Chandler of
Allen, Tom Watson of Richard-
son. Beecher Johnson of McKin-
ney, T. O. Johnson of Cullleoka,
Sid Coates of Allen, Seth Robins
of near Allen, Mrs. O. M. Mar-
tin of Dallas and others whose
names could not he secured.
The crew ori the work train
which took the siding in order
to let the limited pass, it was
stated, forgot to close the switch.
The motorman on the limited was
going at his usual rate, not sus-
pecting any danger, and plunged
on to the siding and bumped into
the work train before he could
stop. When Conductor Sears saw
what was taking place he told
all passengers to get out of the
seats. This forethough probably
saved some of the passengers from
being seriously and probably fa-
tally injured, as many jumped
from their seats at once.
The limited was pulling a trail-
er which had several passengers
in it. These were not so badly
shaken up.
Some of the passengers on the
front ear were taken from un-
der the wrecked seats, when the
ear stopped. A great many were
injured by flying glass.
This was first Monday in Mc-
McKinney. The wreck occurred
sengers on the ear, were return-
ing to their homes in South Collin
after spending the day in McKin-
ney. The ears were not thrown
from the tracks, hut the siding
was torn up for several feet.
A special ear was sent out to
the scene of the wreck anti
brought all the injured back to
McKinnel. The wreck occurred
at Dowell stop in South McKin-
ney.
M. J. Loftus of Sherman, sup-
erintendent of the Dallas-Deni-
son interurban line, and Claim
Agent C. Smith of Sherman were
in McKinney tonight looking into
matters regarding the wreck.
The front of the car was bat-
tered and nearly every seat in the
ear wrecked. The motorman prob-
ably escaped death by jumping
from the car.
The injured were brought back
to McKinney, where they were
given medical attention. Conduc-
tor John Sears and Motorman
Albert ITnsel were in charge of
the ear.
AFTER NEW HIGHWAY
Meant in Kindness.
A policeman had told two old vag-
abonds sitting in the park to move
on, and as 1 followed them along the
street one of them said:
"Jim, I think he means us kindly. ”
“Yes, I think he does, too.”
"He knows that we’d be apt to sit
there until we got a chill and then
pneumonia and death might follow.
"That’s it.”
“Whereas, if he tells us to move on
we keep our blood circulating, avoid
all danger, and are spared to our
friends and the world.”
“That’s correct.”
“Which is very kindly of him in-
deed, Jim; and if It so happens that
we meet him again, we'll impress it
on his mind that we know how to feel
grateful, even if we bean't high-toned
nor rich!”—Baltimore American.
Division of Rsces.
Th* division of the earth’s popula-
tion according to race is as follows:
Indo-Germanic or Aryan race (white),
occupying Europe, America, Persia.
India and Austria, about 775,000,000;
Mongolian or Turanian (yellow and
brown), living in Asia, about 682,000,-
000; Semitic (white), living in Asia,
Arabia, etc., about 65 000,000; negro
and Bantu tblack), found in Africa,
about 150,000,000: Malay and Polyne-
sian (brown), inhabiting Australia,
about 35,000,000; American Indian
(red), found in North and South
America, number, including half-
breeds, about 25,000,000.
Extending Charity.
Shut not thy purse strings against
painted distress. Act a charity some-
times. When a poor creature (out-
wardly and visibly such) comes be-
fore thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the “seven small children,”
in whose name he implores thy assist-
ance, have a veritable existence. Rake
not into the bowels of unwelcome
truth to save a halfpenny. It is good
to believe nim. If he be not all he pro-
tendeth, give, and under a personate
father or a family think (if thou pleaa-
esu tnat thou hast relieved an indi-
gent oacbeior.—Charles Lamb.
Friday members of the Com-
jraercial Club were called togeth-
i er to meet Messrs. C. E. Hall and
ij. A. Walker of Altus. Okla.,
land C. W. Gilliland. W. S. Cross
'and W. I. Hollis of Hollis, Ok.,
I in regard to the Ozark Trail, an
onto road that is being planned
to run from 1 ho Ozark Moun-
tains in Missouri to FI Paso. Tex-
as. thence to the Pacific Coast.
Quite a number of the local
business men gathered to hear
the visitors telY of the plans of
bring the ‘‘Trail through Altus,
Hollis and Childress, thence west-
word to either Lubbock or Plain-
view via Northfield.
The route given above is th«
most logical and one the officials
of the ‘‘Trail” prefer. It is said
that one line will branch off
from a point in Oklahoma to
Amarillo and will be logged as a
tributary to the main highway.
This highway will be an all-
season road and will mean more
than the Colorado-to-Gulf road,
which benefit is appreciated by
almost every community the road
touches.
The route via Childress and
Lubbock is by far the shortest
and can be secured if the proper
effort is put forth. Amarillo
is doing all she can to secure
the route of the main road, but
if the people of this territory
show sufficient interest there is
no doubt as to which road wiH
be logged as the main highway.
The Childress Commercial Club
informed the visitors that this
city was willing to give all aid
that would he expected and the
visitors departed on their way
feeling good over the welcome
and co-operation expressed by
Childress.—Childress Index.
It is estimated that at 200
years of age an oak tree is full
grown. At that it is a few hun-
dred per cent ahead of some peo-
ple.
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