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Local News of the Week.
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5 or 6 doses 666 will cure any
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
Attorney T. J. Gaughan of Cam
den was a business visitor here
Wednesday.
Misses Clara and Annie Mae
Perritt spent Thanksgiving with
their grandparents at Strong.
Attend the profitable farming
meeting at Seaman's theatre Wed
nesday night at 7.30 o’clock.
Pine heater and stove wood.
$3.00 per cord. Measurement
guaranteed. T. F. Ashcroft.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break anv
case of fever and chills. Price, 25c.
Mrs. W. L. Reagan was quite
sick the latter part of last week,
but we are glad to report that she
has entirely recovered.
Mrs. C. A. Berry spent Thankt
giving with her parents in El Dora
do and attended the school fa r
Friday and Saturday.
W. E. Farmer and family of Du
bach. La., motored here the first ol
the week for a short visit with hit
brother. G. S., and family.
C. B. Wood arrived home Mon
day from Orange, Texas, where he
was called to assist his aunt in
closing up the estate of his uncle
who died several weeks ago.
Malaria or Chills & Fever
Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS 4. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever wil not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c
There was never a fair held ir
Arkansas like the one just closed
at Hot Springs, and practically all
the creditable exhibits will be sent
to the Panama exposition, where
they will demonstrate to the world
what Arkansas can do in the agri
cultural and horticultural line.
The Ladies Missionary union of
the Baptist church held its an
naul Thanksgiving supper and ba
zaar in the basement of the church
Thursday evening, which was very
successful from, a financial stand
point. The rooms were tasteful!}
decorated with holly and each
booth attracted its share of atten
tion.
We have round trip tickets to all
local points on sale at this office
and would be glad to sell you roum
trip tickets, saving you money b>
buying them and at the same timt
make a better showing for our sta
tion in this manner. We solicit
your business. D. A. Keasler,
Agent St. L. I. M. &. S. Ry.
Rev. J. R. Rushing left Tuesda\
morning for Little Rock to attend
the annual conference of the Meth
odist church. Rev. Rushing ha:
been located at Huttig for the past
four years and according to thf
rules of the church will have to bt
transferred to another charge this
year. He has made many friends
here who will regret to have him
move but who wish him well in his
new home.
South Arkansas and Nortl
Louisiana have been enveloped in
dense smoke for the past weel
which penetrates the houses anc
is very irritating to the eyes. The
woods for miles of Huttig in every
direction have been burned ovei,
many miles of rail fence destroyed
as well as large quantities of stove
wood. The rainfall during Octo
ber was only a little over an incl
and none in November has made
everything as dry as tinder.
Reuben G Dye. chairman of the
Arkansas Tax Commission has
completed the assessments of the
properties of the public utilities in
the various counties, the increase
in the assessments being $1,152.
564 over that of the previous year.
The total assessment for 1913 of
the public utilities of the state was
$100,863,966. that of this year
being $102.01 6.534. Union coun
ty utilities are assessed at $188.
286.00.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure.
P. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have lcnown 1'. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, nnd believe,
lilm perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations mado by Ids firm.
NATIONAL BANK OP COMMERCE,
Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tnb.cn internally,
acting e rectly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75 cents p . r bottle. Sold
by all Tirugylsts.
Tak . Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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Arkansas Apple Crop Statistics.
The 1914 apple crop of Arkar
sis is estimated at 4,689,000
oushels, according to a report oi
the Federal Department of Agri
culture issued recently. Thi
yield in 1913 was 4,000.000 bush
els and 5,100,000 bushels in 1912
The condition of the crop at ttv
present time is 70 per cent normal,
and the average condition during
tne past ten year period has been
33 per cent of normal.
The apple crop of continental
United States is estimated at
230.249.000 bushels for 1914,
-vhile the yield last year was onlj
145.4000.000 bushels. The av
erage price being paid to farmers
for apples at the present time it
32 cents per bushel.
GATHERED FACTS
Motor launches are to be used In
China on the River Swatow.
Germany's annual excess of births
over deaths is now about 800,000
Rubber nails, for places where met
al ones would corrode, are a novelty
from Germany.
In the electric furnace gold boils at
2,400 degrees centigrade, or at 24
times the temperature of boiling wa
ter.
English locomotive works have
been so busy of late one English rail
way had to order ten locomotives
from Germany.
Oil instead of coal ranges will be
ised on the newest United States
jattleships because of its greater
cleanliness In cooking.
In France farmers are experiment
ing with a prolific potato from IJru
,uay, which perpetuates itself with
roots left in the soil.
After two years of experiments, the
Philippine government Is about to be
gin practical work in planting cam
phor trees all over the islands.
The development of quicksilver
mines promises to make large de
mands for cordwood and construction
imbers on the Tonto national forest.
Arizona.
On a railroad in Peru, that within
140 miles rises from sea level to an
iltitude of 16,665 feet, all trains are
jreceded by pilot cars to detect uu
Jxpected perils.
According to the geological survey,
there is good reason to believe that
Louisiana is underlaid by one of the
greatest natural gas fields in the Unit
'd States.
The Pearl river, Mississippi, was
sailed by the Indians the Tallahatchie,
the river of pearls."
Moosehead lake has had Its name
ranslated from Indian Seboomook
the head of the moose."
The Kiskirninetas of Pennsylvani
s named from an Indian word meat
'.UK "out of the Bast."
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Patents taker through Munn & Co. recalls
tptrial iibtlce% without charge, la the
Scientific American.
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NATION’S LABOR
PROBLEM
Over a million and a Half Wo
men Work as Farm Hands
in the United States.
j( By Peter Radford
ctujer National Farmer*' I'nion.
Our goverment never faced so
tremendous a problem as that
now lying dormant at the doors
of Congress and the legislatures,
and which, when aroused, will
shake this nation from center to
circumference, and make civiliza
tion hide its face in shame. That
problem is—women in the field.
1 lie last Federal census reports
show we now have 1,514.000
wom<n working in the field,
most of them south of the Ma
son and Dixon line. There were
approximately a million negro
slaves working in the fields when
liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed
our slaves and our women have
taken their places in bondage.
We have broken the shackles off
the negroes and welded them
upon our daughters.
The Chain-Gang of Civilization.
A million women in bondage
in the southern fields form the
chain-gang of civilization—the
industrial tragedy of the age.
There is no overseer quite so
cruel as that of unrestrained
greed, no whip that stings like
the lash of suborned destiny, and
no auctioneer’s block quite so
revolting as that of organized
avarice.
The president of the United
States was recently lauded by the
press, and very properly so, for
suggesting mediation between the
engineers and railroad managers
in adjusting their schedule of
time and pay. The engineers
threatened to sfike if their wages
were not increased from approx
imately ten to eleven dollars per
dav and service reduced from ten
to eight hours and a similar read
justment of the overtime sched
ule. Our women are working in
the field, many of them barefoot
ed, for less than 50 cents per
day, and their schedule is the ris
ing sun and the evening star, and
after the day's work is over tlv*v
milk the cows, slop the hogs and
rock' the baby to sleep. Is anyone
mediating over their problems,
and to whom shall they threaten
a strike?
Congress has listened approv
ingly to those who toil at the
forge and behind the counter, and
many of our statesmen have smiled
at the threats and have fanned
the flame of unrest among indus
trial laborers. But women are as
surely the final victims of indus
dustrial warfare as they are the
burden-bearers in the war be
tween nations, and those who ar
bitrate and mediate the differ
ences between capital and labor
should, not foiget that when the
expenses of any industry are un
necessarily increased, society
foots the bill bv drafting a new
consignment of women from the
home to the field.
Pinch No Crumb From Women’s
Crust of Bread.
No financial award can lie made
without some one footing the hill,
and we commend to those who
accept the responsibility of the
distribution of industrial justice,
the still small voice of the woman
in the field as she pleads for
mercy, and we beg that they
pinch no crumb from her crust
of bread or put another patch up
on her ragged garments.
We beg that they listen to the
scream of horror from the eagle
on every American dollar that is
wrung from the brow of toiling
women and hear the Goddess of
Justice hiss at a verdict that in
creases the want of woman to
satisfy the greed of man.
The women behind the counter
and in the factory cry aloud for
sympathy and the press thunders
vnit in their defense and the pul
pit pleads for mercy, but how
about the woman in the field?
Will not these powerful expon
ents of human rights turn their
talent, energy and influence to
her relief? Will the Goddess of
Liberty enthroned at Washing
ton hold the calloused hand and
soothe the feverish brow of her
sex who sows and reaps the na
tion’s harvest or will she permit
the male of the species to shove
women—weak and wear'"- from
the bread-line of industry to the
back alleys of povertv?
Women and Children First.
The census enumerators tell us
that of the 1.514.030 women who
work in the fields as farm hands
409,000 are sixteen vears of age
and under. W’liat is the final des
tiny of a nation whose future
mothers spend their girlhood
days behind the plow, pitching
hay ami hauling manure, and
what is to become of womanly
culture and refinement that grace
the home, charm society and en
thuse man to leap to glory in
noble achievements if our daugh
ters are raised in the society- of
the ox and the companionship of
the plow ?
In that strata between the ages
of sixteen and forty-five are 950.
000 women working as farm
hands and many of them with
suckling babes tugging at their
breast, as drenched in perspira
tion, they wield the scvtlve and
guide the plow-. What is to be
come of that nation where pover
ty breaks the crowns of the
queens of the home; despair
hurls a mother’s love from its
throne and hunger d’ives inno
cent children from the school
room to the hoe?
I lie census bureau shows that
155,000 of these women are forty
five years of age and over. There
is no more pitiful sight in civili
zation than these saintly mothers
of Israel stooped with age. drudg
ing’ in the field from sun until
j sun and at night drenching their
, dingy pillows with the tears of
despair as their aching hearts
j take it all to God in prayer. Civ
ilization strikes them a blow
j when it should give them a
1 crown, and their only friend is
j He who broke bread with beg
! gars and said.: “Come unto me
I all ye that are weary and heavy
1 laden and f will give you rest."
I Oh, America! the land of tlje
free and the home of the brave;
the world’s custodian of chivalry,
the champion of human rights
and the defender of the oppressed
—shall we permit our maidens
fair to he torn from the hearth
stone by the ruthless hand of
destiny and chained to the plow?
Shall we permit our faithful
wives, whom we covenanted with
C.od to cherish and protect, to l>e
hurled from the home to the liar-i
vest field, and our mothers dear
to he driven from the old arm
chair to the cotton patch?
In rescuing our citizens from
the forces of civilization, can we
not apply to our fair Dixieland
I the rule of the sea—“women and
! children first ?”
There must he a readjustment i
of the wage scale of industry so
that the woman can he taken
from the field or given a reason
able wage for her services. Per
haps the issue has never been
fairly raised, hut the Farmers’
Union, with a membership of ten
million, puts its organized forces
squarely behind the issue and wt
1 now enter upon the docket of civ
| ilization the case of "The Woman
in the Field" and demand an itn
i mediate trial.
Over-production and crop
mortgage force the farmers into
i ruinous competition with each,
other. The remedy lies in or
ganization and in co-operation
in marketing.
Old men have visions, vnun\g
men have dreams. Successful
farmers plow deep while slug
gards sleep.
Whatever change the tenant
farmer makes, it is houtvd to be
for the better—it couldn't be for
the worse.
The soil is like a man’s hank
account. It can soon be exhaust
ed by withdrawing and never de
positing.
The growing of legumes will
retard soil depletion and grea tly
add to its power to produce.
Education is a developing" of
the mind, not a stuffing of flhe
memory. Digest what you read.
rLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY
RANSOM INTO THE COF
FERS OF WAR.
Nation Rings With Cries of
Stricken In 1 tstry.
By Peter Rsdfcrd.
Lecturer National Fajim*r>’ I’nion.
King Cotton has suffered more
from the European war than any
other agricultural product on the
American continent. The shells
of the belligerents have bursted
over ii’s throne, frightening his
Mibjects and shattering his mark
ets, and, panic stricken, the na
tion cries out "God save the
Icing."
People from every walk of life
have contributed their mite to
ward rescue work. Society has
danced before the king; milady
has decreed that the family ward
robe shall contain only cotton
goods; the press has plead with
the pul<*ic to "buy a bale"; bank
ers have been formulating hold
ing plans; congress and legisla
tive bodies have deliberated over
rchef measures; statesmen and
\\ riter* have grown eloquent e\
pounding the inalienable rights
of "llis Mfljesty" and presenting
schemes for preserving the finan
cial integrity of the stricken
staple, but the sword of Europe
has proved mightier than the pe i
of America in fixing value upon
this product of the sunny south.
Prices have been bayoneted, val
ues riddled and markets decimat
ed by the battling hosts of the
eastern hemisphere until the
American farmer has suffered a
war loss of $400,000,000, and a
bale of cotton brave enough t<
enter an European port must pai
a ransom of half its value or gc
to prison until the war is over.
Hope of the Future Lies in Co
operation.
The Farmers’ t'nion, through
the columns of the press, wants
to thank the American people for
the friendship, sympathy and as
sistance given the cotton farm
ers in the hour of distress and to
direct attention to co-operative
methods necessary to permanent
ly assist the marketing of all
farm products.
The present emergency pre
sents as grave a situation as ever
confronted the American farmer
and from the viewpoint of the
producer, would seem to justify
extraordinary relief measures,
even to the point of bending the
constitution ^nd straining busi
ness- rules in order to lift a por
tion ■ if the burden off the backs
of the farmer, for unless some
thing is done to check the inva
sion of the war forces upon, the
cotton fields, the pathway of the
European pestilence on this con
tinent will be strewn with mort
gaged homes and famine and
poverty will stalk over the south
land. tilling the highways of in
dustry with refugees and the
bankruptcy court with prisoners.
All calamities teach us lessons
and the present crisis serves to
illuminate the frailties of our
marketing methods and the weak
ness of out credit system, and
out of the financial anguish and
travail of the cotton farmer will
come a volume of discussion and
a mass of suggestions and finally
a solution of this, the biggest
problem in the economic life of
America, if. indeed, we have not
already laid the foundation for at
least temporary r.elief.
1 More PViaroahs Needed in
Agriculture.
Farm products have no credit
and perhaps can never have on a
permanent and satisfactory basis
unless we build warehouses, cold
borage plants, elevators., etc., for
without storage and1 credit facili
ties, the south is compelled to
dump its crop on the market at
harvest time. The Farmers
Unions in the cotton producing
states haive for 'the past ten years
persistently advocated the con
struction: of storage facilities. We
.have built during this period
1 2.000 warehouses with a capacity
of approximately 4.000.000 bales
*nd looking backward the results
would seem encouraging, 1 tt
lookjng forward, v\e are able to
uou.se less than one-third of the
crop and warehouses without a
credit system lose ‘X) per cent <>f
th&ir usefulness. I he problem :s
a gigantic otie—too great for the
j farmer to solve unaided. lie mu-t
have the assistance of the hank
er, the merchant and the gover i
ment.
In production we have reached
the high water mark of perfect) n
in the world's history, hut our
marketing methods arc mo-t
primitive. In the dawn of his
tory we find agriculture plowing
with a forked stick hut with a
system of warehouses under gov
ernmental supervision that made
the Egyptians the marvel of civ
ilization, for who has not ad
mired the vision of Joseph and
applauded the wisdom of Pliaroah
for storing the surplus until de
manded by the consumer, but in
this age we have too many Jo
sephs who dream and not enon:.;it
Pharoahs who build.
RAILROADS APPEAL
TO PRESIDENT
The Common Carriers Ask for
Relief—President Wilson Di
rects Attention of Public to
Their Needs.
The committee of railroad ex
ecutives, headed by Mr. Frank
Trumbull, representing thirty
live of the leading railroad sys
tems of the nation, recently pre
sented to President Wilson a
memorandum briefly reviewing
the difficulties now confronting
the railroads of the country and
asking for the co-operation of the
governmental authorities and the
public in supporting railroad
credits and recognizing an emer
t gency which requires that the
railroads be given additional rev
) nines.
The memorandum recites that
the European war lias resulted in
general depression of business on
the American continent and in
the dislocation or credits at borne
and abroad. With revenues de
creasing and interest rates in
creasing the transportation sys
tems of the country face a most
serious crisis and the memoran
dum is a strong presentation of
the candle burning at both ends
and the perils that must ultimate
ly attend such a conflagration
when the flames meet is apparent
to all. In their general discussion
the railroad representatives sav
in part: “By reason of legisla
tion and regulation by the Fe<J*
ersl Government and the forty
eight states acting independently
of each other, as well a» through
tile action of a strong public opin
ion, railroad expenses in recent
years have vastly increased. No*
criticism is here made of the gen
eral theory of governmental regu
lation. hut on the other hand, no
ingenuity can relieve the carriers
of expenses created thereby.”
President Wilson, in transmit
ting tlie memorandum of the rail
road presidents to tlie public,
characterizes it as “a lucid state
ment of plain truth.” The Pres>
ident recognizing the emergency
as extraordinary, continuing, said
in part:
“You ask me to call the atten
tion of the country to the imper
ative need that railway -credits;
he sustained and the railroads
helped in every possible way,
whether by private co-operative
effort or by the action, wherever
feasible of gov ernmental agencies
anil [ am glad to do so because [
think the need very real.”
The conference was certainly a
fortunate one for the nation and
the President is to be congratu -
lated for opening the gate to *
new world of effort in which
everyone may co-operate.
There are many important
problems in our complex civili
zation that will yield to co-opera
tion which will not lend them
selves to arbitrary rulings of
commissions and financing rail
roads is one of them. Tlie
with the .money is a factor
cannot be eliminated from
business transaction, and
public is an in teres led pa-tv
--hould always lie consulted
sappily the President has invited
ill to participate in the solution
jf our railroad problems.
man
that
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