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THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
should stop a fast train at Frog
Hollow and whether it should build
a depot at Sand Slough and take
that power away from the legisla
ture.
Provide for the people of each
couty to pass their own stock laws
by vote, to create their own road
districts by vote and the people of
each school district to attend
strictly to the school matters, the
matter of consolidation, division,
building and bonding the school
property by vote and take that
power away from the legislature.
You sav they have this power
now. That is true, but the legisla
ture dabbles in it too and we want
to cut the legislature out of it.
Require all game and fish laws
to be general and state wide and
then a man would not have to have
a county surveyor and a map and
all the acts of the legislature from
1874 to date to tell whether he
was violating some local law every
time he caught a minnow or killed
a squirrel.
If that is done the legislature
will have nothing to do with local
legislation for these are the things
that are the most fruitful of local
legislation.
Then, again, our present consti
tution provides that any amend
ment offerred shall receive a ma
jority of all the votes cast in that
election before it can be adopted.
Last election an amendment al
lowing the people to bond the three
mil! road tax that they are now
voting in order to build permanent
roads was defeated though it re
ceived a big majority of votes cast
on that subject.
With it we could take oursame
money that we are spending every
year in doing little repair work and
build real and permanent roads
that would need almost no repair,
while now we don’t have good
roads and we spend all the money
we get keeping them in the same
condition we found them.
With that amendment we could
build the roads and have them and
pay for them without increasing
our taxes, but as it -is we pay for
the roads and don't get them be
cause we never have enough mon
ey to do permanent work.
Let it be provided that any
amendment to the constitution
shall become adopted if it receives
a majority of the votes cast on that
amendment. That is fair and it is
right.
Again. Beware of those Hol
ford bonds and the other Carpet
Bag issue of bonds that were re
pudiated by the Fishback amend
ment. It would be so easy to pro
vide a loophole in the constitution
whereby they could slip in and be
collected that it is almost danger
ous to frame a constitution. For
this generation to have to pay for
that giganic steal would be the
crime and calamity of the age.
Require the reincorporation of
the Fishback amendment in our
new constitution by all means. As
we are bone dry anyway let s put it
in our constitution so we will not
always be bothered with that ques
tion in politics.
Let the initiative and referen
dum be so drawn that it will work
in local matters easily. It is almost
unworkable for the local needs to
! day. Citizen.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Reagan & Henderson of
Huttig, Ark., has been this day
dissolved and that 1 will not be re
sponsible for the firm s debts be
yond this date. I will continue to
buy tattle. Robt. Henderson,
February, 19, 191?. Lillie, La.
Touched by reports of the terri
ble loss and suffering which the
European war has brought on the
peopl§ of Belgium, Southern pine
manufacturers are considering the
launching of a movement looking
to the donation of a cargo of their
product to be used in Holland for
building temporary homes for the
Belgians who have fled to-the
neighboring country.
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Dur Failing Physique
Something to Worry About
When Other Subjects Fail
When nil other subjects for worry
fall we can always fall back on the
deterioration of the national physique.
An insurance man makes the latest
contribution to this fascinating discus
sion. We learn that out of 1,300,000
applications for life insurance each
year 100.000 are rejected. A pen pic
ture of the average American protrays
him ns hustling too much for the good
of his health. "His hair has aged and
he is getting bald. His digestive or
gans have been given so many new
and arduous duties to which they are
not accustomed that they are showing
signs of rebellion. He is seriously
overstraining his heart, arteries, kid
neys, nerves and digestion. Under ex
ertion he is short-winded. His 400
muscles are virtually all soft from
lack of use. He never walks when he
can ride. The arches of his feet are
gradually falling because his muscles
provided to hold them up have weak
ened by long disuse.”
It seems that the average American
lias about every disease except house
maid’s knee. Is the picture a true
one? Are there not many exceptions
to this gloomy appraisal? How about
the hosts of baseball and football play
ers among the younger and the golf
enthusiasts among the older men?
Bowling and hnskctball are popular
sports just now. Should not their
thousands of devotees help to raise the
physical average? The business men's
classes in our gymnasiums ought to
afford a little gleam of encourage
ment. Even the billiard players get a
certain amount of wholesome exer
cise. The patrons of the skating rinks
do not present exactly an emaciated ap
pearance. May it not be that health
and mortality statistics are kept a Ut
ile more strictly and accurately now
adays than formerly? There are
tests, too, for life insurance, such ns
that for blood pressure, for instance,
(hat were unknown a few years ago,
and these tend to reduce the number
of successful applicants. But, of
course, if one really wants to worry
over the degeneration of the Ameri
can physique, these considerations can
be ignored.—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Uruguay’s Golden Tree.
By far the most beautiful of the
trees of Uruguay, South America, is
the mimosa. This tree is an ever
green, and grows to a height of about
40 feet. Even when not in flower it
is very handsome, on account of its
dark green fern-like leaves and gray
green trunk. Tlie flowers are like lit
tle halls of golden-yellow pollen, and
they have a sweet scent. They cover
the branches of the tree from top to
bottom, and at a distance one would
almost say the whole thing was made
of gold, or had been transplanted from
fairyland.
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IT is possible to so construct a telephone that a
person using it could sit across the room and
have his voice transmitted over the telephone
wires.
The trouble with that sort of a telephone would
be that not only the speaker’s voice, but all sorts of
extraneous sounds would be transmitted—the click
of the typewriter or even noises of the street.
Your Bell telephone is designed for exclusive, individual service.
By talking with your lips close to the mouthpiece of the transmitter,
your voice alone is transmitted to the ear of the listener at the
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Real Love Powder.
A young woman who thought she
was losing her husband's affection
went to a seventh daughter of a sev
enth daughter for n love powder. The
mystery woman told her: “Get a raw
piece of beef, cut flat, about an inch
thick. Ttllce an onion or two, and rub
the meat on both sides with it. Put
on pepper and salt, and toast it on
each side over a red coal fire. Drop
on It three lumps of butter and two
sprigs of parsley, and get him to eat
it." The young wife did so. and her
husband loved her ever after.
Got Them All In.
Mary, who recites her prayers aloud
each evening, remembering her pa
rents’ neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Baker,
and the man who sells the goodies at
the corner store does so in the follow
ing manner: “God bless daddy, mam
ma, Mizer Baker, Mizzey Baker, and
the other baker, too.”
Sacrifice to Great Ends.
Did you over wonder why soldiers
; who have been through a war look
back upon It. despite Its horrors, as
: a time of great and beautiful experl
i ences? They never remember with
! loathing, but with a certain nimbus
j of glory, the long march, the cold
camping, the gory battlefield. The
same thing which glorifies the battle
field will glorify life if you will let
It; a common cause, a willingness
to sacrifice self for greater ends, the
kindly companionship of those who
suffer together.—Delineator.
Went Too Far.
A Kentucky mule was hitched to an
automobile to draw It from the mud.
The mule ran away with the automo
bile. The latter was in a sad state
when rescued, hut the mule calmly re
sumed 11s grazing. There are some
insults that even a mule cannot brook.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK ft MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a m .... Huttig 3:69 P- m
9:50 a. m. Monroe .2:07 p. in
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m. . . Huttig .. 12:30 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
EAHMEHVILLE A SOUTHERN HY.
North South
5:22 a. m. Huttig 2:32 p. rn
7:21a.m. Farmerville 5:45 p. in
local, t
10:10a.m. Huttig 2:22 p.m.
tArrives Monday, .Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
"■Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M. -meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M. Gibson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDEK1AH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. &
S. M. Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome. T. B. Weaver, T. I. M.
R. N. Benson, Recorder.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 520. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:50 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 548 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cordially invited.
H. C. Bedford, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G.
Mrs, Murray Maroney, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41 1 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors sramr
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge. Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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