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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
G. M. MORTON, Publisher
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CUMBY
TEXAS
Don’t abuse the weather man.
Farewell, a long farewell to the Ice-
man.
Fine weather brings out fine birds
on fine hath.
Some men make good money, but
mighty little of it.
A throne upheld by bayonets is sure
to fall sooner or later.
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, Aviators are pulling down some rich
prizes frqm the upper air.
From women down to census re-
s a > tarns we are against padding.
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However, the undertakers have
not yet begun subsidizing football.
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v * s As a Juggernaut the aeroplane is
running the automobile a mighty close
race.
A western farmer extinguished a
blaze in his kitchen with milk.
IBnough’ said.
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We’re come to the conclusion that
autumn has spring beaten forty ways
from the jack.
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In an aeroplane race there seems to
be no such possibility as betting on
a sure thing.
Here is where the foolhardy man
begins a dangerous intimacy with thd
pneumonia germ.
The age of aviation calls for a
race of spectators with eyes on the
tops of their heads.
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Japan exported nearly 1,000,000
pounds of human hair last year. Do
you buy your wife her share?
With forty bankers in the Leaven-
worth prison that institution is be-
coming too aristocratic for plain
folks.
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It you chew your "food with suffi-
cient care you will live a long time—
In fact, y<fu will have to live a long
time. / i
Cheer up! Soon the big chrysan-
themums will be competing for the
world's championship at the flower
v #how -
Strictly fresh eggs are said to be
few, but that does not discourage the
cheerful sign painter at the corner
grocery- f .
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So many automobile accidents at
railroad grade crossings teach the
necessity of care on the ! part of
drivers.
There are lovely bits of coloring to
be observed about sunrise these crisp
mornings, not including that on the
early pedestrian’s nose.
Chicago university professors have
quit making sensational statements.
One of ’em tells us as bit of news
that “Woman has ruled man for cen-
turies."'
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'■ a Virginia father -with 56 children is
a convict, but under the circumstances
be deserves Borne sympathy. Think of
supporting such a family on the aver-
age salary!
* There is a man in New Zealand who
lays claim to $167,000,000 worth of
property In New York city. He would
bave a better chance if the New York-
ers had not seen it first.
In orite respect the colleges are not
ap to date. They issue no life and
accident insurance policies to the
young men who go out on the football
field to battle for alma mater.
When a man rents a flat all he can
do about the place is to sit around and
look out of the window*. But when
be occupies a humble cottage he has
many things to keep his mind off his
other troubles.
The Connecticut tobacco crop and
the New Jersey cranberry crop are big-
ger this year than they have been for
a long, long time. Unfortunately few
©f us can live on cranberries and Con-
sec ti cut tobacco.
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A man whose automobile broke
flown the other day offered $1,000 for
s new and vigorous profane oath. A
pnnn who wants to swear and doesn’t
know how may not be good, but sim-
ply lacking in imagination.
American returning tourists will
now not only have to pay the duty on
what is in their trunks, but also on
the trunks themselves. And about the
only way of smuggling left now is to
bring trunk and contents over in an
airship.
It has been pointed out that that
New York judge who decided that a
man is not obliged to support his
mother-in-law is a bachelor. “Where
Ignorance is bliss” and the rest of it.
The “back to the farm” movement
gets another .boost in the tuberculosis
statistics supplied by the ceusus bu-
reau. From these figures it appears
that the occupation most favorable to
health and to freedom from consump-
tion is farming. In other words, out-
door life and activity near to.-nature’s
heart conduce to longevity.
Good
Mothers
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Future of Society
Lays in Her
Hands
By REV. MADISON C. PETERS
|HE OLD SAYING, “Like mother like son,” is historically
correct. Henry IV. of Germany becomes a miserable prince,
but blessed with a wise mother, Louis IX. of France grows up
to be a man of God. A distinguished writer has called atten-
tion to the fact that of the sixty-nine monarehs who have worn
the French crown only three have loved the people, and all
these three were reared by their mothers. St. Louis was trained
by Blanche; Louis Nil. by Marie of Cleves, and Henry IV.
by Jeanne d’Albret; and these three were really the fathers of
their people.
ISir Walter Scott’s mother was a superior woman, a lover of poetry
and painting. Byron’s worst enemy was his mother—she was proud and
ill-tempered. The mother of Napoleon was of superior mind and deep
piety. The .mother of Nero was a murderess. The mother of Patrick
Henry was marked by superior conversational powers. The mother of^the
Wesleys was distinguished for her intellectual powers and executive ability,
so that she has been called “the mother of Methodism.”
Mothers have trained our presidents and statesmen. Washington’s
father died when George was only twelve years old. Jefferson, Madison,
Jackson and Harrison the elder, were left fatherless when small boys.
Tyler, Hayes and Cleveland depended upon their widowed mothers for
their training. Abraham Lincoln confessed that among his most pleasant
>fther, to whom he imputed the
Lincoln also owned that it
that made him the
reminiscences were those of his excellent mo
best and brightest qualities he had inherited,
was his step-mother, more than any other person,
man he was. \
General Grant’s mother went into a room at a certain hour each day
during the war to pray for her Ulysses. President McKinley left the
capital and the affairs of state to watch at the side of his dying mother,
to receive her last blessing and to give her his last kiss. Garfield’s father
died when the future president was a babe. On the day of his inaugura-
tion he turned away from all the representatives of kings and queens, and
from all the great men and beautiful women who had gathered to do him
honor, and the first thing he did after he had taken the oath of office, was
to kiss the wrinkled face of his mother and say: “Mother, you have
brought me to this.”
John Quincy Adams, till the day of his death, said the little prayer-
his mother taught him, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” Daniel Webster’s
mother first fostered those abilities which ultimately made him so long
distinguished.
If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. The
future of society is in the hands of the mothers. The mother in her office
holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of char-
acter.
Our homes have made America peerless among the
nations. Any encyclopedia of American biography will
prove that our most illustrious statesmen, our most dis-
tinguished scientists, our most eloquent preachers, our
merchant princes, and our great benefactors came from
the humble families where mothers rule, not as queens
of fashion, but where the nursery for the family is a
nursery for the church, where the first lispings of child-
hood are the accents of prayer and the first thoughts of
the heart are the thoughts of God.
Many
Acute
Dangers of
Hatpins
By GY CLEMMONS
PETER’S
DENIAL
Sunday School Lessen for Doc. 4, 1910
Specially Arranged (or This Paper
LESSON' TEXT—Matthew 26:31-35, 69-75.
Memorv verses, 74-75.
GOLDEN TEXT—"Let him that think-
nth he standeth take heed lest he fall.”—
Cor. 10:12.
TIME—The denials were early Friday
‘nornlng’. April 7, A. D. 30.
PLACE-—In the court of the Palace of
the High Priest Calaphas. In the south-
west part of Jerusalem. .
Some legal restriction should be imposed
upon the size of hatpins that women wear.
Just the other evening in a crowded car a
man’s cheek was torn open by accidental
contact with the deadly weapon innocently
carried by a woman in her hat, while an
onlooker remarked that he had nearly lost
his eyesight in a similar manner but a short
time before, showing in evidence of his nar-
row escape a scar beneath his eye.
Women blindly follow a fashion without
taking thought as to its consequence. Pos-
sibly not one in a thousand realizes that the
exposed end of her hatpin constitutes a
menace against the community that is just as real as the carrying of deadly
weapons.
Hatpins have kept abreast of the size of hats, and no matter how
huge the headgear there is a pin big enough to protrude several inches
beyond the brim of the hat. ,
With exasperating indifference the wearer makes her way through
crowds, every movement of her hat threatening the face and eyes of all
near her. It is a wise man who stays out of crowds.
It is useless to request women to wear guards over the points of their
hatpins, for they wouldn’t do it; but legal steps should be taken to re-
quire it, and to restrict the size of the pins.
I do not make this suggestion in any spirit of jest. As a matter of
fact, the very method which woman has adopted for holding a hat on is
ridiculous.
Why can’t a woman’s hat fit and stay on her head like a man’s without
the necessity of jabbing through it a pin three feet long, to the peril of
other people when she gets under way ?
Darkest
Hour
Ever
Before
Dawn
Cheerfulness is not an inherent attribute
of humanity.
It is not an heirloom—though how much
more precious!—that can be handed down
from generation to generation.
Cheerfulness, not unlike a rare plant,
needs cultivation and care.
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Happy tlie mortal who, being touched
by it at birth, recognizes its preciousness
and guards it jealously, for it is very easily
lost trace of.
You may imagine yourself singled out
by misfortune as a target for all calamities,
misadventure and mischance. Then remem-
ber that the darkest hour is ever before the dawn.
This unquestionable assurance is well worth considering in the hours
of deepest trial that sooner or later invariably overtake us all.
It is nqt wise to permit petty annoyances to vanquish this guard of
'cheerfulness.
Build of it a strong wall, a “seven-walled tower of strength.”
By LENA VOGT
Chicago
Church Must
Disarm
Criticism
The first thing Jesus did for Peter
Was to set before him in his first in-
terview the goal and ideal of his life.
He was to be changed from the Simon
we have Just been viewing into Peter
the Rock. . His ineohesive qualities
were to be unified into one beautiful
whole; the separate and sometimes
discordant notes of his character were
to be formed into the exquisite har-
monies of a Hallelujah chorus. He was
like the soft stone in some quarries,
easily cut and shaped when first taken
from the quarry, but soon hardening
into rock. Peter expresses the possi-
bilities Jesus saw in the -nature of
Simon, an “ideal which God would
make divinely real.”
For three years Peter was an ear-
nest pupil in Christ’s school. He made
many mistakes; he fought many bat-;
ties on the battlefield of his heart;
he had some severe reproofs, but he
had a wise, encouraging, patient
teacher. After a time he was advanc-
ed to the highest grade with James
and John. “The first essential for suc-
cess is a soul,” an awakened soul.
One of the most interesting studies
for a teacher, is to go carefully
through the Gospels, and study
Christ’s method of teaching and train-
ing such an unruly but earnest scholar*
as Peter was.
“Thou shalt deny me thrice, disown
me as your Lord, and Master.” Peter
was sure that he would not fail in the
hour of temptation. No one knows
what he will do in unexpected circum-
stances. But Jesus did all he could
to put Peter on his guard.
An interval of some hours. Geth-
semane; Peter, wearied, sleeps oa
guard. The arrest; Peter and all the
apostles desert Jesus. But Peter and
John follow afar off. The trial before
the Sandhedrin in some room of Caia-
p'has’ palace, opening into a court.
Peter was sitting with the servants
and others around a fire and he denied
Christ before them all, who were
gathered around the fire.
The main charge was prominently’
made by one, a kinsman of Malchus,]
who had seen Peter in J;he garden and
was known to St. John from his ac-i
quaintance with the high priest’s
household. For thy speech betrayeth
thee, “betrayeth,” shows that thou art
a Galilean, and therefore one of his
disciples, or why else art thou here?
Then began he to curse, call down
curses on himself if he did not speak
the truth. . And to swear, to call God
to witness that it was true. It is
more than probable that Peter, in his-
earlier life as a fisherman, before his
conversion, had been in the habit of
using profane language, and now, in
the sudden surprise of temptation, the
old habit broke forth anew, as the lan-
guage of youth, long unused, is almost
certain to be employed in times of
great excitement. It is a long and
hard discipline that entirely conquers
the sins or youth.
“I know not the man.” And this in
the very presence of Jesus. “The
ways down which the bad ship Wick-
edness slides to a shoreless ocean
must be greased with lies.” “A lbs is
put out to interest, and the interest is
compound.”
It was now that Peter was “sifted
as wheat.” Part of what he thought
was wheat was really chaff, and this
terrible sifting under temptation blew
away in the roughest manner most
of the chaff,— his inconstancy, his
fiery temper, his self-confidence, but
preserved all the good in his charac-
ter, purified and perfected.
We can be good in spite of falls.
,God can bring good out of evil. That,
in his glory, and our hope. But he can
do far more with our victories than
by our failures.
Then Jesus looked upon Peter. The
Greek word for “looked” occurs but
in one,other place in the Gospels.
It means that "he looked into him,”
into his very heart, “with eyes that
went like lightning to the quick of his
conscience.” Peter remembered the
warning, and went out and wept the
bitterest tears of repentance.
From this time on Peter was a new
min. The charcoal bad become dia-
mond. He describes the effect in his
first Epistle (1:7). “That the trial of
your faith, being much more precious
than of gold that persisteth, though
it be tried with fire, might be found un-
to praise and honor and glory at the ap-
pearing of Jesus Christ:” Peter re-
joiced when he could express his love
to Jesus by suffering in his cause. He
wrote a letter which has been a com-
fort and a power all down the ages.
His victory—not his fall—in the great
crisis gave him power over men to the
end.
"In the pain and the repentance,
and in the acquaintance with the as-
pects of folly and sin,” says Ruskin,
“you have learned something; how
much less than you would have learn-
ed in right paths can never be told,
but that it is less is certain. Yojjr
liberty of choice has simply destrov&d
you so much of life and strength
never regainable. It is true you know
the habits of swine, .now, and the
taste for husks. Do you think that your
Heavenly Father would not have
taught you to know better habits and
pleasanter tastes if you had stayed in
h* house.
EV. JAMES H. M’LAR
EN, pastor of the Cen-
tral Park Congregational
church, Chicago, de
dared in a recent ser-
mon that the church ol
the present is the recipient of many
just criticisms from men of the world,
and it would do, well to profit by
them.
“The church in its ancient fgrms,
has passed,” said Doctor McLaren,
“and its modern form is likewise pass-
ing away. Notice, I say form, and to
this I would add custom. Time is the
test of all things. To its infallible
decision must be subjected the things
of science, government, religion and
all else. Science proves and she
disproves. But custom, clings.
“Witness the passing of old ma-
chinery, likewise of old theories no
longer able to retain their place in
any sound working philosophy of life.
Witness also the passing of ancient
forms, in religion and theology.
“That is not to say that some good
has not risen out of this stratnge mass
of curious forins and now impossible
beliefs. Quite often we find a spirit
accompanying them utterly foreign to
the forms in which they are clothed
—a spirit which grappled with the
higher and the truer, which it at times
beheld with singular clearness and
beauty, but which in lieu of the times
and customs it could neither unfold
nor retain.
“The profound student can catch
even, between the lines of Calvinism
glimpses which a future mind, equally
strong and more enlightened, will
formulate into a great working the-
ology which we do not now possess.
Infinitely truer and sweeter than hia
theology was the soul of St. Augustine,
and there was never a theologian
whose heart was more thoroughly an-
chored in the infinite. And this is
.true of many an aneient and modern
theologian and creed maker.
World Is Progressing.
“Out of this age of absurdities the
world has passed into another age of
less absurdities and less cruelty, and
yet an age whose religious effects
have pained and crippled the more en-
lightened and hindered the progress
.of the kingdom of God.
“I refer to the age of creed, class
and sect distinctions. The first has
passed, the second is passing and the
third is doomed to die. The age of
Christ and Christianity is coming, but
is not yet^here. All we have yet re-
ceived is a foregleam, a prophecy of
what Is yet to be. *.
“That the church of today does not
meet the demands of the age is too
painfully evident to need comment
Certainly, the church of today is not
without its magnificent examples of
life character and generosity; herein
is its salvation. But that it is far
from meeting the demands of our ad-
vanced life and progress is true to an
extent that most people do not real-
ize.
\ “On one of our Chautauqua pro-
grams this season, in which the speak-
er also had a part,,one of the greatest
was delivered by a brilliant young
lawyer of the New York bar on “The
Trial of Jesus From a Lawyer’s
Standpoint?’ From Renan to Chan-
ning a more beautiful tribute to Jesus
had not been paid. And yet this high-
class lawyer and man, honoring and”
worshiping the Christ as he seems to,
has no use for the church and does
not attend it.
“ine manager of the platform, also
a leading lawyer of long experience
and one of the finest citizens of Iowa,
assumes a like position, while a lead-
ing physician in the audience declared
himself a member of the same ‘big
church.’ Those are not the coarser
skeptical class, but men of the higher
type.
Criticism of the Church Often Just.
“These gentlemen gave quite freely
their reasons for the position which
they take, which, by the way, are not
new. We have heard the all before—
that the churches are still too narrow,
too sectarian, too intolerant, and that
churches—especially in the smaller
towns—are so numerous and conflict-
ing that they maintain only a medi-
ocre ministry which does not appeal
to the brains and heart of the com-
munity at all. That the gentlemen
referred to have a misconception of
the 'church is plain to be seen, but
that there is ground for their asser-
tions and sometimes for their position
i is likewise unfortunately true.
“To set such criticism aside as un-
worthy our attention were utter folly
j on our part. The true man is he who
will listen to his critics, if they are
! Just, and strive to profit thereby. And
' the church will do well to observe the
{ same rule.
[ “As a remedy for the defects cited,
the speaker developed the following
points: A more united, a more com-
prehensive and a better working or-
ganization. Denominationalism must
go. These things of the past will suit
no tiroes to come. They have had
their day. Give us now a real union
of Christendom in the name and spirit
of Jesus. Let the smaller churches
unite their scattered forces and main-
tain a stronger ministry. Secondly:
“Let the church become so strong,
so sweet, so vigorous, so self-sacrifi-
cing in life and spirit and practise
that the ecclesiastical tyrant, the
church boss, the religious hypocrite,
with his cankered gold, or the ig-
norant creed victim, with his rule or
ruin policy, shall find no welcome or
Quarter in it.”
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She Covered Her Head. /
Scene, a country church of Episco-
palian denomination in process of
being decorated for the Christmas *
season. The rector, who has a strong
leaning toward forms of all kinds, is
fastening a festoon of evergreen
about the baptismal font, when, en-
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ously flings her hat upon the seat of
a pew and comes to his assistance.
The rector suddenly observes that
she is hatless and remarks severely:
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bidden that women shall come into
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