BASIS OF WEALTH
MOTHFR EARTH KIND TO ALL
HER CHILDREN.
TOE GREATNESS OF NATIONS
Utilization of Natural Resource* Goes
Hand in Hand with Civilization-—
Exhaustible and Renewable
Riches.
Old mother earth is the basis of all
■wealth. Greatness of nations is com
mensurate with the degree of utilisa
tion of the mineral elements ami other
products, all of which are the result j
of natural laws. The higher the civ- i
ilization the greater and the more eco
nomical are the uses of the earth’s
resources. In the great commercial j
and manufacturing centers of the j
world is found the superior intelli
gence. Wherever there is industry
there floyfshes civilization. With
the decay of commercial importance
nations retrograde and lose power,
and finally find a place in history
only.
Wealth of countries can be divided
Into two classes; that which is ex
haustible, and that which Is renewable.
The exhaustible is the mineral wealth,
gold, silver, iron, copper, and all the
useful metals—coal, salt, sulphur, oil
and mineral products which once util
ized in manufacture and commerce are
not renewable. The renewable wealth
is entirely in the vegetable and ani
mal kingdom and nearly all of it is
included in the field of agriculture,
using the word in its broadest sense,
and is represented by the crops of
cereals, vegetables, fruits, fibrous
plants, the useful gums, such as rub
ber, the woods of trees and all that
is of utility in the arts and manufac
tures.
me weauniest nanons, ana inose
that give promise of the longest ex
istence, are those that possess abun
dance of both exhaustible and renew
able wealth. Both classes afford a
field for manufacture and commerce.
The nation that lacks the conditions
necessary for the production of re
newable wealth, and only has exhaust
ible wealth, will eventually find its
resources for self-sustainence at an
end, and will of necessity become de
pendent upon some other nation.
?'o other nation possesses such di
versified resources as does the Unit
ed States. With mineral resources
that will require ages of time to util
ize, the millions upon millions of
rich timber and agricultural lands rep
resenting renewable wealth, and e\*u-y
natural advantage for manufacture,
within its vast territory hundreds of
millions of people can find homes and
sustenance for thousands of years to
come, and if necessary supply other
nations with a surplus of its products.
Thus the nation will grow richer
through disposing of its renewable
wealth for what represents the labor
and the exhaustible wealth of less fa
vored nations.
The countries comprising Great
Britain have little renewable wealth
according to population, and relies
chiefly upon exhaustible resources,
their utilization in manufacture and
the value of the labor of its people tn
manufacture for commerce of arti
cles from the raw products, both min
eral and vegetable, imported from
her dependencies and other nations,
tit is plain that the nation that . ex
changes its raw, exhaustible wealth
for the renewable wraith of another
country will grow poorer, and the na
tion that receives this exhaustible
wealth in exchange <or its renewable
wealth will grow richer.
Principles that apply to nations in
this regard, are also applicable to in
tegral parts of nations, and in a re
public like the United States, to its
states and lesser communities. Thus
it is patent that the state or com
munity that employa its people in man
ufacturing from lta products to the
greatest extent, instead of having
fhem go to the markets of the world
in a raw state, and retains within its
borders the profits accruing from
labor employed in the production of
its articles of commerce, will advance
in wealth and importance.
D. M. CARR.
Poor Prospects.
Kid McCoy (or Norman Selby, to
give the ex-pugilist his right name)
bought the other clay a $350,000 office
building in New York.
To a reporter who congratulated j
him on this opulence, Mr. Selby said:
“It is pleasanter to be well-to-do
than to be hard up. I tjiank good
ness I am not like the young man out
in St. Joseph whom I heard about the !
other day. He and his sweetheart j
certainly have poor prospects.
“A friend of mine called on this \
St. Joseph fellow’s sweetheart one |
night and found her embroidering.
“ ‘Oh, 1 say,’ my friend exclaimed,
‘what exquisite embroidery, don’t you
know. It is a little case for jewels,
isn’t it?”
“ ‘Well, no,’ said the young wom
an; ‘but you see, George, poor dar
ling, has nothing to keep his pawn
tickets in.’ ”
THE
BEGINS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, AT
Bullard, Earnheart & Magness’
BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS
Ten Thousand Dollars Worth of Merchandise bought the Big-Five sale in
St. Louis will go at 40 cents on the dollar. Will also include $25,000 worth
of goods already in stock. You must come. We positively will offer the great
est bargains ever known in the history of Batesville. You cannot afford to
miss this sale, as it is positively the greatest money-saving opportunity you
have ever had, or will have for the next twelve months. We are the only
people in Batesville who were represented at the Big-Five Sale which took
place in St. Louis November 18 and 19, and which included the Carleton Dry
Goods Co., Eley-Walker, Ferguson-JVlcKittric and Hice-Stix, the five largest
wholesale houses in St. Louis. The daily arrival of goods bought at this Big
Five Sale will enable us to guarantee your purchases. Any prices we have
made, or expect to make, will be fulfilled at our store within any time from
November 29 to December 21.
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This Sale includes about 79
styles of Men’s Clothing at
50 PER GT. DISCOUNT
LADIES’ CLOAKS
About 2S5 stylish Ladies’ Coats, bought
at the Big Five Sale, will ^ f\Q
go at less than mill prices. All $18 to $25 qualities go at
Men’s $1 Shirts...39c
Men’s $1.25 Shirts.---49c
A. F. C. Ginghams.-.- Qlc
Hope Domestic.8!>c
THE CELEBRATED
GOLDEN CROWN
FLOUR
$5.25 i BARREL
CHILDREN’S AND MISSES
DEAR-SKIN COATS SOLD
FOR HALF THEIR VALUE
BULLARD, EARNHEART & MAGNESS
THE FASTEST GROWING STORE IN NORTH ARKANSAS
BATESVILLE BANK BLDG. BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS