Wooden Sailing Vessels of iype
of 50 Years Ago are Being Built
The great demand for ships growing out of the present war has brought
new life to many abandoned shipyards, which are now running at full speed
turning out wooden vessels, some of them steamers and some of them of the
sailing types which cruised the seas 25 and 50 years ago.
The picture shows a wooden vessel in course Of construction at Essex,
Mass., and one of the old shipbuilders of 50 years ago who is back at his
job after years of inactivity. Essex was a great shipbuilding center in the old
days, but the coming of the steel ships almost wrecked the industry there.
Some of the old shipbuilders now at work are more than seventy years old,
but are happy as schoolboys as they shave down the planks and fit them
to the ships.
Forestry in Germany.
Forestry is one of the chief sources
of revenue for the numerous small
towns like Oberndorf, Germany, ami
the conservation of tree wealth has
boon developed to an almost exact
science. Roth on the royal land and
in the community forests the amount
of timber cut annually is not allowed
to exceed the annual growth. Numer
ous tir tree nurseries are scattered
throughout the region.
Wealth Without Labor.
Thomas II. Swope, Kansas City mu I
tiinillionnire, always declared tlmt li
novor earned a dollar of his millions
“All I did,” ho used to say. “was to
buy Kansas City real estate when peo
ple were anxious to sell and sell it oc
casionally when they were anxious to
buy, but l kept the most of it. 1 jus;
sat back and loafed, while the people
of Kansas City worked for me, and
built a great city and made me rich.”
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Loving a Grouch Away
? i
There's a look on the face you can
love away,
There’s a crease in the brow you cun
smooth today;
There’s a gleam in the eye you can
change to one
That is sweet as the ray of the morn
ing sun'—
It’s the touch of our loving, the
sweet of our wifi.
That scatter the shadows of anger
and 111.
There’s a grouch that you think will
he always the same,
So grim and so dark; but it goes as
it came
When you love it away with a tender
ness bom
Of the spirit of brightness and glad
ness and morn—
There isn't a grouch ever lived vety
long
’Nealh the spell of rt lose that is
sweetened with song.
Toil can love it away, love the ache
and the care,
Love the heart that is heavy with
grief and despair,
Till it lifts to the sunshine, as flowers
in the spring,
And responds every time to the song
tlmt yon sin?—
Forgetting its wrinkles and creases
and frown
At the touch of love’s fingers like
velvet of down.
--•Baltimore Sun.
Quail an Ally of Farmer,
"The moat value of tlie quail is in
considerable—negligible—when com
pared to the services these birds ren
der to the farm,” n bird expert of the
University of Oklahoma says. “They
prey upon 145 different kinds of de
structive insects and consume no less
than 1 -f) varieties of noxious weed
seeds. They stay on the job 12
months in the year and labor continu
ally when weather conditions permit.
I do not believe that the land owners
should permit a multitude of so-called
sportsmen to destroy this powerful
ally of the farmer.”
Made Leather From Seaweed.
Shark skins are not the only product
of the sea one can make leather from.
A French chemist more than 30 years
ago succeeded in making leather from
seaweed hy washing it with potash
and steaming it in a boiler. The ro
mance of leather lies in the tanning
of it, for the whole vegetable world is
pressed into service. Russia leather
owes its delicious aroma to the birch
bark it is tanned with, and the innp
preciatlve moth so dislikes it that tin'
presence of one volume in a row will
keep all free from insects.
Teaching Your Child the Value
of Money Through Experience
By SiDONIE M. GRUENBERG _
In his “Children’s Story-Sermons”
the Kev. I >r. Hugh T. Kerr tells the
following story:
One morning when Bradley ciune
down to breakfast he put on his moth
er’s plate a little piece of paper, neat
ly folded. Ilis mother opened it. She
could hardly believe it, hut this what
Bradley had written:
“Mother owes Bradley
for running errands....
For being good.
For taking music lessons
Extras .
$0.25
.10
.15
.05
Total
$0.55
TIis mother smiled, but did not say
anything, and when lunch time came
she placed the bill on Bradley's plate
with 55 cents. Bradleys eyes fairly
danced when he saw the money and
thought his business ability had been
quickly rewarded, but with the money
there was another little hill, which
read like this:
Bradley owes mother
For being good.$0.00
For nursing him through his long
illness with scarlet fever... .00
For clothes, shoes, gloves* and
playthings .00
For all his meals and his beau
tiful room .00
Tears came into Bradley’s eyes, and
he put Ills; arms around his mother's
neck, put his little hand with the 55
.pais in hers, and said: “Take the
money all hack, mamma, and let me
love you and do things for you.”
The homes of this country are full
cf Bradleys who know nothing of
rights ami duties as related to money.
And how should they know, never hav
ing learned? Among the children of
the foor there usually develops rather
early in life a keen appreciation of
the value of money. Whatever money
there is Is quickly spent, and comes
to represent pretty definitely the ne
cessities and the luxuries of life. A
nickel means a loaf of bread and a
penny means a stick of candy. Money
is hard to get and good to have, and
without it there is privation and mis
ery.
On the other hand, in the homes of
the well-to-do and in the country,
where comparatively little cash is
handled, the opportunity t > hecoui" ac
quainted with the sources and proper
ties of money are comparatively nar
row. Here people somehow have what
they need, and no special effort or
hardship is associated with getting
these things.
Money plays so important a role in
modern life that we are apt to take it
for granted without thinking especially,
of teaching children what they should
understand of the matter. Children
should learn these things definitely
«:nd practically, beginning as soon as
they are old enough to appreciate rela
tive values. A child can begin by buy
ing things for the household when he
is able to distinguish the coins and
count up the amounts. The age for
this will, of course, vary with different
children.
In households Hint do not manliest
through their activities anil conversa
tion the methods by which the family
income is obtained children should lie
explicitly informed on the subject. It
is not only embarrassing to the child
to display his ignorance when compar
ing notes with other children, but it is
a necessary part of ids understanding
of the world to know ju>t how people
obtain the precious tokens by means
of which they secure all their necessi
i ties und luxuries.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK A MONROE RY.
South
7;45 a. m . . Huttig
T:50 a m Monroe
North
3:59 p. rr>
2:07
Leaves.
11:26 a. m. Huttig 12:30 , ■ .
St. Louis, Iron Mountain &, Southern
FARMERVIL.LE A SOUTHERN RY.
North .
22 a. '
2 i a ■
Huttig
Far
So
9 "K
LOCAL, t
0:10 a. n . Huttig 2:22 p.m.
Arrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
ay from A nrop and goes to Farmer
A i !■ “ru .1' y. Thursday and Satur
day fr-'-" Farmerville end goes tr Mon
roe. X
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. 4 A.
M.me8ts every second an fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
• asorxs always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons. Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R. A.
M. meets every first and thirl Thurs
day evening a. h...sonic hail. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M. Gibson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDFLIAH. COUNCIL. JJ. D.. P. &
S M Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting oompan
ons welcome T. B. Weaver, T. I. M.
R N. Benson. Recoider.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320. Order of
the Eastern Star, meets ever , first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Soc'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. 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. 69,
meets every Monday night at 7:50 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G.
Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 4 11 W. 0. W.
meets every first an4 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'cIock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge, Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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