Would Eradicate Cattle Ticks.
William A. Fry, United States vet
erinary inspector, located at Rogers,
is in the city visiting among the leg
islators and working in the interest of
cattle tick eradication in Arkansas. A
bill appropriate money to be used in
placing certain portions of the state
north of the catle quarantine line will
be introduced, probably in the House,
within the next week or ten days,
according to present plans. In a writ
ten appeal to legislators for tick erad
ication,
Capitol Question Again.
The new state capitol matter is ex
pected to occupy the center of the leg
islative stage during the coming week.
At the beginning of each week since
the legislature convened a similar
prophecy has been made, but legisla
tors in position to know declared that
there was no doubt that both branch
es of the assembly will take up the
matter this week and that the fight
ing stage would be reached before thq
week ends. The governor and legisla
ture in general are urging speed in
the disposition of the matter on ac
count of the need of immediate work
on the new capitol and the cry of the
people asking that the structure be
completed as soon as possible. For
these reasons it is the intention of as
many legislators as have been he.ard
on the matter, to settle it as quickly
as possible.
To Punish Wife Deserters.
Senator Henderson’s bill to punish
men who desert their wife and child
ren with a maximum fine of $1,000, to
which may be added imprisonment,
was passed by a vote of 1 to 0. The
senator said the bill should be passed
in the interests of humanity and civili
zation. and declared that, as far as
he could learn, Arkansas is the only
state in the Union that does not
punish wife deserters.
Senator Wingo of Sevier wanted to
know if the bill provided a punish
ment for those husbands who mistreat
their wives. The senator explained
the bill did not include a provision of
the kind mentioned, but that in his
opinion the statute on wife beating
covers the subject.
Martin Announces Committees.
To visit Confederate Home—Messrs.
Heartsill of Sebastian. Hamilton of
Ouachita and Estes of Boone.
Committee on Rules—Messrs. Du
Laney of Little River, Parks of La
fayette and Leigh of Pulaski.
A petition was received from the
Daughters of 1812, asking that the
Seneral Assembly takes measures to
preserve the old Statehouse. The pe
tition was referred to the committee
pn public buildings.
To Print Prohibition Bill.
Following the report of standing
committees and the allowance of cer
tain minor claims, Mr. Parks moved
to have House Bill No. 114, providing
for Statewide prohibition, read the
second time and ordered printed. Mr.
DuLaney offered a substitute ordering
the printing of 300 copies of the bill
3n the first reading. The substitute
was adopted.
Mr. Cartwright of Stone sent up a
resolution providing for a change of
the rules of the Houee. He insisted
that his resolution would result in
giving every man on the floor an
equal show in the introduction and
advancement of bills. The resolution
was adopted.
Up For Second Reading.
The House at the instance of Mr.
A. G. Little of Mississippi county Wed
nesday placed tlie Smothers bill, re
lating to amendment to certain sec
tions of the Barker demurrage law,
bck on its second reading, after
which it was referred to the Judiciary
committee for careful comparison and
investigation. The bill intends to
strengthen the law by making it a
misdemeanor for the railway com
panies to collect demurrage without
having complied with all of the pro
visions of the law and at the same
time seeks to r<ynove that clause of
the law which the Federal courts
have declared unconstitutional.
Mr. Little stated that the railroad
commission is anxious to have- a bill
drawn that will meet these require
ments, and in view of the fact that
whatever legislation is enacted affect
ing the railroads will invariably be
Put to the most rigid tests of con
stitutionality he believed that a com
mittee should take the bill in tow be
fore submitting it to the House. The
suggestion was accepted and the bill
so referred.
For A Juvenile Court Law.
The juvenile court law, which has
been endorsed by tbe W. C. T. S. and
which E. R. Ratteree, police judge of
Little Rock, belives should be a
jaw in Arkansas will probablely be
introduced in the Senate at this ses
sion of the legislature. The Legisla
te Committee of the W. C. T. U.,
w'hich cosists of Mrs. J. W. Mark
well. Mrs. John Hinemon and Mrs.
Minnie Rutherford, who will urge the
legislators to pass this bill along with
the prohibition law and the compul
sory education law.
A bill providing for the establish
ment of a school at which cotton tex
tile manufacturing will be taught will
Probably be introduced in the house
within the next two weeks. T. F.
Hutchinson, one of the best-known cot
ton men in the state, has investigated
the matter and with the data he has
m hand declares that it is practicable.
Such an institution was established in
Mississippi by that state at a very lit
He cost. All of the machinery was
furnished grat's, the various manu
facturers being more than glad to in
stall their equipment in a state plant
4s M advertisement
IN THE HOU8E,
Bills Passed
House Bill No. 118 (Clerget), re
lating to levee districts in Conway
county.
House C: No. 2 (Bellamy), provid
ing for the establishment of four agri
cultural schools. Vote, 84 to 7.
House Bill No. 17 (McCracken), re
quiring larger bonds for county de
pository in Conway county, and pro
viding for change of depository if law
is not complied with.
House Bill No. 119 (Simpson), re
lating to a school district in Scott
county.
House Bill No. 104 (Buorkle), re
lating to the fee to be charged in
surance companies for filing of arti
cles in the state and filing of pre
liminary notice.
Bills Introduced.
House Bill No. 122 (Bellamy),
amending Section 4732 of Kirby’s Di
gest so that money paid to the state
for state lands shall be refunded in
the event it is learned that a clear
title to the land cannot be secured,
the property in question being in the
possession of some one else.
H. B. No. 123 (Bradham), amending
Section 3608 of Kirby’s Digest so that
it shall be unlawful for any one to
shoot fish.
House Bill No. 124 (Brandham elim
inating “intolerable treatment,” as
one ground for securing divorces; pro
viding that no one can remarry within
a year after securing a divorce, and
requiring all parties to a divorce pro
ceedings to appear before the chan
cellor and in public.
House Bill No. 126 (Brown of Cleve
land), prohibiting anyone from fishing
on Sunday.
House Bill No. 118 (Clerget), con
ferring special power on Levee Dis
tricts Nos 1 and 2 of Conway county
so that those districts may issue $6,
000 worth of bonds, maturing from one
to six years after issuance, at eight
per cent interest, for the purpose of
raising money to bear the cost of
emergency levee work. Read twice
and made special order of business for
Tuesday morning.
Bills Considered.
House Bill No. 103 (Morris), pro
viding for the employment of county
convicts on the public roads. Read
second time and referred to Roads
and Highways Committee. Five hun
dred copies ordered printed.
Resolution Adopted.
House Resolution (Leigh), providing
for the appointment of a committee
of two, Messrs. Boulc and Whittington
of Garland, to call upon the former
secretary of state, Elihu Root, who is
at Hot Springs, and invite him to ad
dress the legislature on any subject
he may choose at some future date
when agreeable to him.
IN THE SENATE,
Bills Passed.
Senate Bill No. 5 (Robertson), to
prevent the carrying and sale of con
cealed weapons.
Senate Bill No. 82 (Rowland), to
appropriate $10,000 as a contingent
fund for use of the attorney general
in employing counsel to defend all
Arkansas acts that have been attacked
in the courts, excepting the railroad
rate cases. Only Senators Bush and
Cariock voted against the bill.
Senate Bill No. 134 (Rasco), to
amend Section C225 of Kirby’s Digest
so that in a case a judge dies or be
comes insane, the judge who succeeds
to the bench shall have the authority
to sign all pending bills of exception.
Senate Bill No. 89 (Henderson), to
punish wife deserters with a maxi
mum penalty of $1,000 fine or jail
imprisonment, or both. Vote, 20 to 0.
Senate Bill No. 131 (Rowland), to
amend Section 751 of Kirby’s Digest
so that a married woman will not
be compelled to sign a relinquishment
of dower in the absence of her hus
band. Vote, 19 to 1.
Bills Introduced.
Senate Bill No. 31 (Toney), making
$3,000 per year the salary of all cir
cuit judges and chancellors. Read
first time.
Senate Bill No. 137 (McKenzie), re
lating to children who are now or may
become dependent, neglected or de
linquent, defining the terms and to
provide for the treatment, control,
maintenance, protection, adoption and
guardianship of the person of sueh
children. Bill is town as Juvenile
court bill. Referred to Education
Committee and 500 copies ordered
printed.
Senate Bill No. 139 (Bush), to regu
late the attendance upon public
schools. Bill requires child'^n be
tween 8 and 16 years of age must be
..sent to school at least half of the re
gular school term or be given equiva
lent instruction at home or in private
schools. Five hundred copies ordered
printed and referred to Education
Committee.
Senate Bill No. 154 (Rowland), to
appropriate $20,000 to eradicate the
cattle fever tick. Aims to make ef
fective act 409 passed by last legisla
ture. Referred to Agriculture Com
mittee.
Senate Bill No. 152 (DeRositt), to
enforce more effectually the liquor
laws in prohibition territory. If a per
son caught with liquor in his posses
sion in such territory he shall be re
quired to tell a magistrate where he
got the liquor. Government license to
sell liquor shah be prima facia evi
dence against* the n^rsnn having the
same. Referred to Judiciary commit
tee for thq purpose of having its
constitutionality passed upon.
Senate Bill No. 145 (Montgomery),
to fix thetpassenger rates of railroads
in Arkansas. Roads under 15 miles
in lengtfi may charge 5 cents a mile;
roads between 15 and 85 miles may
charge 3 cents and roads of greater
length, than 85 miles awmy may charge
2it, cents per mile. Referred to Rail
road iCommittee.
Senate Bill No. 143 (Dill), to regu
late the transportation of perishable
freight by requiring railroad com
panies to place the cars within 24
hours after 7 a. m., of the day follow
ing the application. Referred to Rail
road Committee.
Legislative Gossip
A petition was read in the senate,
signed by citizens of Franklin county,
asking that a state-wide prohibition
bill be passed at this session of the
General Assembly.
After a week spent in Little Rock
forwarding the interests of waterway
legislation, John A. Fox of Blythe
ville, special director of the National
River and Harbor Congress, left for
Texarkana and Camden.
No longer is the sound of the type
writer heard on the floor of the house.
The various stenographers have estab
lished headquarters elsewhere about
the state house and are in the house
chamber only when taking orders.
Mr. Rodman, sergeant-at-arm of the
Senate was granted an indefinate
leave of absence by the Senate so he
could go to his home at Altus and
superintend the repairing of his resi
dence. The recent windstorm unroof
ed. the kitchen of his house.
Mr. Monroe of Hempstead has a bill
providing for the “suppressing of
the art of science known as palmis
try.” The bill provides for a fine
of from $25 to $200 for any violation.
Mr. Monroe will introduce the bill at
the first oportunity.
Ex-Governor Dan W. Jones, who, by
virtue of having been governor, has
the privilege of the floor of the sen
ate, was a visitor one day last week.
The ex-governor has been in bad
health for several weeks, but he is
fast regaining his usual vigor.
Congressman Macon of the Second
district may have opposition for re
election, and his opponent may be
Marshall Patterson, now a state sena
tor. Senator Patterson was told it
was rumored that he would be a candi
date, but he did not confirm the re
port, or deny it.
Senator Hamiter of Pulaski asked
Senator Carlock what County Aesop
of Aesop fable fame was from. Sen
ator Carlock was using the ancient
personage as an illustration in a point
he was making against the judges’
salary bill. “Aesop was from Chicot
county,” the senator replied.
“Everybody’s a farmer today,” re
marked a member of the house one
afternoon during a somewhat lively
tilt between several members who
were telling of their records as farm
ers and in the same breath explain
ing that in opposing four agricultural
schools they did not desire to be re
garded as opposing the wishes of the
farmer.
•»
Senator Turner, in the discussion
of men and measures in the Senate
became personal. He declared that
Judge Frank Smith, who is judge of
the Second judicial district in Ar
kansas is the best judge that ever
held office in Arkansas. He said that
Judge Simth is a terror to gamblers
and blind tiger men and that it was
with great difficulty that the bar kept
him on the bench in the district. The
senator urged (hat the judge of the
district had made a great sacrifice in
accepting the position.
Reasonable Railroad Legislation.
When asked the other day what
was the probable outcome or the pro
posed Railway legislation, a promi
nent legislator said:
“What possible good can come from
any unreasonable anti-railroad legisla
tion? Only harm. Not harm to the
railroads only, but even greater harm
to the people of Arkansas who are in
terested not in breaking down these
great corporations, but in sustaining
and strengthening them in every
reasonable and proper way and thus
adding to their usefulness. The wise
politician who keeps his ear to the
ground must certainly have heard the
voice of the people on the line indi
cated. The wise politician is the man
who will head this voice. The people
an? tired of demogoguery and want
statesmanship.
"He is indeed blind who does not
see that the path of progress in Ar
kansas is marked by the railroad. I
believe in the regulation of railroads.
In the enactment of laws to prevent
abuses, and to guarantee to the peo
ple fair treatment. The rates ought
to be reasonable and there should be
no unjust discrimination. On the
other hand, I am most earnestly op
posed to legislation, the tendency of
which is to either destroy the rail
roads or seriously impair their value
to the people. All that a railroad com
pany has to sell is its transportation
of freight and passengers. Any laws
which reduce rates so that the gross
income is non-compensatory to the
railroad company, or any law that im
poses unjust and excessive burdens
upon the railroads in the way of ex
pense, ought to be condemned. If a
railroad is prosperous it will have the
means to extend its line; to build
branches, to erect machine shops and
roundhouses, and all this means the
employment of many men and the ex
penditure of large sums of money in
the state of Arkansas. Reasonable
revenues means a proper maintenance
of the property, good equipment and
efficient service. An unreasonable re
duction of rates, or imposition of un
reasonab'e burdens in the way of ex
penses, of necessity means poor track,
poor equipment, a slow and ineffi
cient service and the. development of
no new territory. The people want
the railroads, and they want them to
be prosperous, and any legislature
which does not meet this public de
mand, will not win the public ap
proval.”
Every time the St. Francis Levee
District is mentioned the Senate sits
up and takes notice, as it has been
conceded the “fur will fly” when ap
pointments to the Hoard of Directors
comes up. Senator Robertson of Lee
introduced a bill to amend the act
under which the district was created.
The bill has for its purpose the dis
continuance of the practice of requir
ing personal service on landowners
when their property is about to be
sold for taxes. Under the present
law, if a landowner of the district
lives In Fort Smith he must be served
personally with a notice of summons
In Fairy
Land
Where Children
and Grown-Ups
Should Roam
By RAYMOND BLATHWAYT,
English ..Author.
HE great, problem of to-day is, how best can one get hold of
the child inind?
You can’t do it by mathematics, or geography, or Latin
verse. You want to appeal to it by far more subtle and deli
cate means than algebra and the twanging cane.
To humanize you must first sympathize. And fairyland af
fords a happy hunting-ground, a never-failing point d’appui
wherein and whence one may first seek to compass the won
derful subtleties of the darling child-minds by which we are
surrounded on all sides, but of which, until it is too late, we
frequently have so little understanding, and with which so many of us
have such rare sympathy and correspondence.
The truth of the matter is this: the child-mind is the kingdom of
heaven, into which we cannot enter except as little children ourselves.
A littJe girl shyly whispered in mv ear the other day:
“Air. Blathwavt, do you believe in fairies?”
“Of course I do,” I seriously replied. “All sensible people believe in
fairies!”
“Afother,” she delightedly and triumphantly screamed across a crowd
ed luncheon-table, “Air. Blathwayt docs believe in fairies!”
Alany people will scarcely credit that a middle-aged man can sit
soberly down at this time of day and write about children and fairies
as I am doing gravely and sincerely, but I make no apology for so doing.
Bather do I make an earnest plea for the cultivation of the fairy mind in
the modern child.
The child who is not robbed of her childhood—the most precious gift
that God has given to every comer into this weary world—what a woman
she will make in after-life—the child with the fairy mind, the woman of
the fairy life. In fairyland, and in fairyland only, the child cultivates its
most natural faculty, imagination; and what is life without imagination ?
“You can hear the stars shining and the day after to-morrow com
ing,” once said a little girl to Air. Graham Kobertson, and it was for her
beautiful mind and wonderful charm of imagination that he wrote a
masque of Midsummer Eve, and through that masque and by means of
similar childlike pageants of fairy-lore he obtained a glimpse into and
a hold over the lovely mind of a child which to his life’s end he will never
forget, nor ever wish to regret.
Better than anyone I know, he is demonstrating the only possible
way to get right inside the child-mind.
And he is doing it bv way of the trees and the flowers, the birds and
the rippling woodland streams. To put it quite roughly, as he said it to
me the other day: “I am trying to hitch the fairy business on to Nature
all the time.”
It always is a mistake, sometimes a
i’atal one, for a woman too plainly to show
her love for any man, however much he
may profess his love for her. The gravity
of the error, of course,-is measured by the
manner of man whom the woman loves: all
men are not alike, and some few can stand
the test of utter security in the possession
of that tender thing—a woman’s heart.
But such men are as scarce as blue dia
monds, and no woman is wise who adores
a man and, still worse, tells him so. The
telling is the major part of the mistake.
Hearts are willful things, and sometimes
unbeknownst are lost, but at least the woman need not advertise the fact.
There is much worldly wisdom in the Saying that with impunity one may
break all the “ten commandments” if one only obeys the precept: “Thou
shalt not be found out.”
Undeniably there are times when, if hypocrisy merely be the power
to dissemble the concealment of her real feelings, the wisest women are they
who can play the role of thoroughbred hypocrites. It is one of the axioms
of polite.society that while a woman may have the same desires as a man,
she has not the same right to express them.
She may be much to be pitied for the excess of her affection, but her
misfortune is the less if she is strong enough to hide it; strong feelings
of any kind frequently are the occasion of discomfort, both to those who
possess them and to others, and violent emotion has a tendency to degener
ate into hysterics, which sometimes are profitable to the hysterical one but
always unpleasant to those who endure them.
But an occasional taste to show how good is the object withheld, stim
ulates the desire. “To give much, to give more, but not to give all,” has
been said to be woman's most precious secret for retaining a man’s love
indefinitely, if not forever.
Woman
Hide
Thy
Love
By HELEN OLDFIELD.
I have studied all the “cults” and “new
thoughts,” Hindoo mysticism, reincarna
tion. spiritualism and the rest, and back I
come to the old-fashioned religion that’s
between the two covers of the Bible. 1
don’t try to find out whether the Scriptural
history of the Jews is correct or not, or
whether the old Book is wabbly in its sci
ence. Those things are not essential, and
the clergymen who dissect and compare
and analyze and qualify the Bible do it,
not because they think it will help people
to do right and be decent, but to tickle
their own intellectual vanity and get their
names into the newspapers.
1 believe in the Bible from cover to cover, but 1 declare 1 don’t know
about the church and the ministers! You know 1 always read a great
deal of history in preparing to write my novels. I read 1*1 volumes to
get facts for the "Lion’s Whelp,” and 90 volumes before 1 started "The
Black Shilling.” And it seems to me that, as a body, the clergy have
never once been identified with a single movement toward greater justice
to the mass of people—until they knew the movement would succeed.
Where the money is. where the power is vested, there 1 have always found
the organized church, Protestant and Catholic.
It is the clergy's own fault if church-going is falling oiT. If unbelief
is rampant—and it certainly is in Xevv York and the e her large cities—it
is because the ministers, after building up a blind belief in themselves
rather than in the simple common sense of righteousness, have been caught
! serving two masters.
Old
Fashioned
Religion
the Best
By AMELIA E. BARR,
Novelist.
Showing the Right Spirit.
A little boy had been naughty at
dinner, and had been sent away from
the table just as his favorite dessert
—cabinet pudding with butter and
sugar sauce—was being served. About
nine o'clock that evening, when the
other children had gone to bed and
his parents were alone in the sitting
room, a tear-stained little face and a
white-robed figure appeared at the
door.
“Mamma,” it said, bravely, between
sobs, “you told me never to go to
sleep when anything wrong had been
done until it was all fixed by right,
so I came down to tell you that—that
—that—I—forgive you and papa for
what you did to me at the dinner
table.”
It will Stay There
“In my family medicine chest no
remedy is permitted to remain unless
it proves beyond a doubt the best to
be obtained for its particular purpose.
For treating all manner of skin trou
bles, such as Eczema, Tetter, Ring
worm. etc., Hunt’s Cure has held its
place for many years. I have failed
to find a surer remedy. It cures ifrth*
ing instantly.” R. M. SWANN,
Franklin, La.
Indian Pholosophy.
Quanah Parker, a Comanche chief,
recently visited an ice plant in an
Oklahoma town. He was much inter
ested in everything pertaining to the
plant. After he had been shown
throughout the building, he remarked:
“White man smart. White man heap
smart. White man smarter than God.
God make ice in winter; white man
make ice in summer.”—Judge.
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Mrs. Z. E. Goforth, 2119 Holly Street,
Kansas City, writes: “After using a
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Hunt’s Lightning Oil, I am almost
well of Catarrh. It stops my head
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out it.” She is right.
Avoiding Embarrassment.
“Dickey,” said his mother, “when
you divided those five caramels with
your sister did you give her three?”
“No, ma. I thought they wouldn't
come out even, so I ate one ’fore I
began to divide.”—United Presbyter
ian.
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from the organ grinder’s viewpoint.
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