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June 11th, 1908.
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THE SWASTIKA CLUB dlVES
THANKSGIVING DINNER
TO FRIENDS.
A delightful six o’clock Thanks
giving dinner was given at the
new Hailey building last Thursday
evening by 18 or more of the
Swastika Club.
Plates for more than 40 guests I
were artistically arranged on the I
row of tables which were beauti- i
fully decorated with ferns and
other evergreens.
After a short address by Prof.
E. L. Hays, Piiucipal of the Mc
Crory High School, with dear
Swastika for his subject, all pro
ceeded to partake of the bountiful
repast so g astronomically prepared
by the Club ladies, and to say that
everyone enjoyed the same with
the greatest gusto would be put
ting it in mild form.
The remainder of the evening
was spent in conducting an old
time spelling match, Prof. Hutch
ins, of Augusta, acting “teacher”
and Prof, and Mrs. Hays “choos
ers” for the two sides. Prof.
Hays’ “side” after a lengthy con
test proved the winner.
Among the out-of-town guests
were Dr. H. Y. Swayzee, of Ben
ton, Miss., and Prof. A. L. Hutch
ins, wife and sister, Miss Nell, of
Augusta.
BARS WHISKEY ADS
FROM DRY TOWNS.
Arkansas Supreme Court Sus
tains Law Making Whiskey
Men Liable.
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 30. The
state supreme court today sustain
ed the validity of the law making
it a criminal offense for a liquor
dealer to advertise for business in
“dry” territory.
The case was that of Julius Zinn,
of Little Rock, liquor dealer, vs
the state, and was appealed from
the Perry county circuit court,
where Zinn had been fined $200
for soliciting liquor orders through
mail circulars.
Zinn’s attorney attacked the
law on the ground that to prohibit
the sending of circulars bv mail
was an inteference with duties ex
slusively allowed to congress in
•determining what should be al
lowed and what excluded as mail
matter, and hence was unconsti
tutional.
The supreme court holds that
the law does not deal with that
question at all, but morally attacks
the “presence of circulars in pro
hibited territory,” no matter how
they got there. The judgement of
the lower court was affirmed.—Ex.
SWASTIKA CLUB.
The Swastika Club met with
Mrs. Bull on last Saturday after
noon. A very lengthy busiuess
meeting was held and much busi
ness transacted. After the business
meeting was over we enjoyed a
jolly good time and the delicious
refreshments served by Mrs. Bull,
gracefully assisted by Miss Terry.
The new books had been receiv
ed and at a late hour, after ex
pressing our appreciation to Mrs.
Bull, we adjourned to the libra
rian’s to get new books. The next
meeting of the Club will be with
Mrs. Fletcher Lewis on Saturday,
December, 5, 1908.
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WH DO CLHAJNING AND PRESSING.
Size Up the Successful Farmer.
The Danbury Reporter sizes up the
successful farmer of the future in the
following manner: "The day is com
ing when the small farm, the labor
saving machinery, the knowledge of
seasons and soils and rotations, and
the careful but intense cultivation,
shall constitute the equipment which
will yield handsome returns. The
farmer of the future who shall win
success will be an educated man. He
will know his fields like the potter
knows his clay, and his mind will be
as skilled as the hand of the artisan
who fashions the vase. He will be
able to Plan a campaign upon his
plats with the same precision that
Lee planned at Cold Harbor, and
execute it with the success of Jack
son at Antietam. As the lawyer
knows his code, he will be acquainted
with soils and strata, and as the prac
titioner is drilled in the art of civfl
procedure, he will know the rotations.
He must be familiar with precedent,
and his evenings shall be spent by
the fireside with text books and farm
journal, and the experiences of his
fellow soilsmen in other countries
shall be in his mind always. He must
be a student, but h s knowledge shall
not all come from books. Personal
experience, experimentation, test
plats, visits to othe- model farms, the
constant ambition for new ideas
these shall make his battery invinc
ible.”
Mr. ana Mrs. Lomon E. Pollett
will leave for Wynne Friday to
make that city their future home.
Representative E. M. Carl-Lee
and Atty. H. M. Woods, of Au
gusta, were here in a business way
this week.
W. P. Best has returned to his
home in Judsonia after spending
a couple of weeks in this city the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Johnson.
Rev. A. J. Patterson for the
past year Pastor in charge of the
M. E. Church of this city has
resigned as same and moved his
family to Mayfield, Ky., where he
will locate. He has honorably
severed his connection as our pas
tor by mutul agreement with his
Presiding Elder, Z. T. Bennett.
He will engage himself in writing
life insurance. His appointments
will be filled by his local preacher,
Rev. H. T. Raney.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
James Gibson, and family came
in Monday.
Sera Burrows left Monday for
his home at Beebe.
F. M. Rhodes has completed a
nice little cottage on his farm west
of DeView.
Rev. J. H. Barrentine, and fam
ily, of Weldon, are visiting rel
atives here this week.
We understand there will be no
winter school at Beards on account
of the teacher failing to show up,
as she was contracted to do.
Miss- Bishop, of Beebe,
came Friday of last week to take
charge of the DeView public
school which opened Monday Dec.,
1st.
The box supper given by the
1 5 • O IV TT • i .1 .‘l t • .
iauic© ui v icw nt lilt* iUCiuuuiM
church Thanksgiving night was
quite an enjoyable affair and a
big success in every particular.
The crowd was somewhat few in
number on account of the heavy
rain. After all had partaken of
the luscious edibles, a large cake
was auctioned off for the prettiest
young lady. Five names were en
rolled at the beginning but three
were later dropped from the list
leaving the coutest up to Misses
Rose Burkett and Velma Crossett,
the former receiving 582 votes
while the latter ran a close second
with 404. Tne proceeds which go
to the church benefit amounted to
$68.65. Every one should help
in the good work of repairing our
church. Mr. Stark will receive
donations to the same.
The ethics of home correspond
in a large measure with ethics of
society. All these virtues which
are crowned jewels of the highest
civilization have their inception in
the home. The glory and charm
of womanhood and manhood, the
niceties of character which give |
distinctiveness and beauty to child-'
hood anff youth, the adjustments
of personal and domestic relations !
within the home, the education of1
the impuses budding susceptibil-,
ities and growing powers of chil
dren all fall within the powers of
home ethics.
Doe* It Pay to Read
A farmer said, “I don't believe la
your book learning, study and all that;
I’d rather learn by experience.”
That man lost out as a farmer a
couple of years later and moved to [
town, where he made a very poor liv
ing working by the day, and doubtless
working for men who read, studied and
thought about their business and ap
plied in it, as far as practicable, that
which they learned from books, peri
odicals and their experience of others
given therein.
The man who attempts to practice
medicine without first having prepared
himself by study of the subject, lis
tening to otherS lecture, and gathering
all information he can from textbooks,
is amenable to the law, and often
subject to arrest. The same great
need of study and application to print
ed information is equally true of the
lawyer, the teacher and every one else
who aspires to make a success in
any particular calling or branch of
modern methods, science and develop
ment or application.
These we hold are all secondary to
the great work of production—of cre
ation. Did the farmer every stop to
think that he under God, is a creator?
We wonder how many farmers have
ever viewed their calling from this
standpoint. Stockgrowers, too—those
who raise horses, cattle, sheep, poul
try, swine, etc.—they are all co-owork
ers with the great Creator in shaping
auiuiai »u
itllU UWUCIUU3UI UL
Its many forms. Nature produces a
crude, wild and unkempt creature. It
is man’s hands, guided by a master
mind, that adds comeliness and beauty
to the rough and rugged animals of
the hills and valleys. It is the man
who has studied and learned how,
who makes two pounds of flesh and fat
grow where one pound was yielded be
fore. It is the skilled, the well read
and well informed—the practical poul
try raiser—who has the ability to in
fuse new energy and prolificacy in the
fowl, that a few decades ago was con
tent to lay only one or two nestings
of eggs in a season, rear a brood or
two, and then run barren the remainder
of the year.
It is the men who read, the men
who study, the thoughtful men, the
deep thinkers, who do these things.
These are the men who support the
agricultural and the livestock jour
nals. They are the men who read
books and papers on agriculture, on
fruit growing, on poultry culture and
bee-keeping. They are the men who
stand in the front rank, the leaders
in their respective communities. These
men have found out that it pays to
read and study any subject in which
they are specially interested and to
apply their knowledge thus obtained
to practical account in their daily
work—H. B. Greer, in Gulf Coast
Farmer.
The Boy On the Farm—and After.
Philadelphia Public Ledger: The
boy born on the farm has reasons for
being grateful. He is apt to begin
life with the heritage of health upon
which to build. He is not Isolated, as
a few decades ago. The probability
is that the mail is brought to his door
that there is available a telephone
service. The school within reach is
as good as the school of the city, with
better sanitation and a better moral
atmosphere. The amusements, sim
ple as they may be. are as instructive
and as elevating as the cheap thea
ters. Yet the boy, getting to the age
of liberty, leaves the farm, where he
would have developed into a substan
tial citiien, and hurries to the city,
in which the chances are that he will
attain no more individuality than one
fly in a myriad, swarm.
When this boy arrives at an age of
more serious discretion he regret?
that he elected to make bootless con
quests of the city, but it i6 too late.
If he has been one of the exceptional
successes he may purchase the old
rarra irom tne nanas or strangers;
but If wealth has not crowned his ef
forts. and generally It has not, he has
to let the years pass while vainly he
yearns for the country that once had
seemed so dreary. He had wanted to
hear the clamor of traffic Instead of
the song of birds, the rustle of rip
ening fields; and the traffic has be
come a deafening roar.
There are farmers who make their
lives narrow and hard, and to youth
hateful. They fairly drive the boys
away. There Is no excuse for this.
The farmer boy is entitled to his vaca
tions, to reasonable hours, his social
relaxations, his visits to the city. But
among the many thousands of boys
who have been Impelled toward the
city there is arising a wave of reac
tion. Among the new generation of
farmer boys, alert, Intelligent, reading
papers, books and magazines, getting
an insight into the world’s realities
without hardening and dispiriting con
tact with them, there is forming also
an opinion that the country is the
better place, the place for greater en
joyments, surer returns, fewer tempta
tions, a saner and more satisfactory
existence.
Overcrowding the young stock Is the
cause of much trouble end loss. There
are very few poultry yards in which the ,
chicks are not crowded more or less.
Crowding means bad air in the houses
or coops and distemper or roup is the|
result with sore head and pip thrown
in. As the chicks grow so rapidly we
fall to realize how much more room
they really need. Let us supply it
before it is too late. A severe culling
of the poorer specimens for the market
ie m additional remedy.
Farmers Educational
—AND—
Co-Operative Union
Of America
When Ma Changed Her Mind.
I’m a little farmer girl.
My name Is Elizabeth Ann,
And I’m the happiest girl alive,
’Cause pa’s a Farmers’ Union man.
Pa’s just lately joined the Union,
But I guess he’s all O. K.
For when you mention Unionism
He says "This time were going to
stay."
, <
When the organizer first come ’round
Ma 'lowed she wasn’t going to let pa
jine I
But she went to the county picnic
And now she’s changed her mind, i
J
Since ma heard the county president
And the other speakers talk,
Ma says the farmers should all line up
And then make ’em walk the chalk.
Ma told pa the other day
That he’d better talk ‘‘Union,’’ Jine
and go,
And pa, just a teasin’ ma, you know.
Bald “I ain’t got the dough.”
Now ma she had things fixed up,
And pa he couldn’t refuse,
Whpn ma. sairt “I’ll ap.11 pacs and butter
And pay up all your dues.”
So pa he hiked out to the lodge,
And Joined that very night.
And now for ma and pa and me I’ll
say,
The Farmers' Union IS all right
—Hollis C. Franklin In National Co
Operator.
The Great Battle of the Age.
While our organization is yet In ite
Infancy we realize that we are engaged
in a great warfare, but we have al
ready made manifest some of our
strength, yet In the near future we
shall see more of our manhood than
ever before.
All the by-gone struggles and selges
are only stepping stones to the golden
future, which will so outshine the past
that It will be a crown of glory In ,
the history of the grand old F. E. and
C. U. of A.
Since man has lived upon the earth
many great and trying questions have
been settled. Some by sharp debates
in congress, some by political cam
paigns, and still others by great and
decisive battles in which hundreds and
even thousands of human lives were
sacrificed.
Today one of the greatest conflicts ,
between man and man, which has j
never reached a final settlement, is the
strife between the producer and the |
manufacturer, or more generally speak
ing, between capital and labor.
Nation after nation, as it advanced |
In the scale of civilization, has dealt |
more or less in such conflicts. We
regret very much that we today are j
forced to be thus engaged, but we, the
producers and sons of toll, have en
tered our complaint against the capi
talist, contending that out rights have
benn trampled under foot and that we j
are not receiving a suffllcent or re
munerative return for the product of
our labor.
Out of such charges there has arisen
a bitter antagonism. The lines are
now more clearly and tightly drawn
than ever before, and while you may
not yet see and understand how peace
and prosperity Is within your grasp,
we can see with a prophetic eye the
coming trasformatlon in which pres- j
ent conditions will be changed and ;
power oi the long Intruding antagonlsl
crushed by defeat, and the gates of « J
nov r*r»rr* rr» a 1 a vat A m nnATIArl Until
Ul.
The regiments of our army are now
great, but ere they pass over the dark
ravine we trust that you who have no« ;
yet joined our ranks may see and j
realize that this great fight is for yo* i
and that it is your duty to fall in lint j
and help to continue the storming ot i
the breastworks of the enemy unti
our cause shall not only be recognize*
but until complete victory U perched j
upon our banner.
I ask you to understand, if you
please, that the issues involved in thli
great conflict are not to be laughed at
nor east aside with a smile.
There are great problems to bt
solved and the great Question will bd
settled and in the right manner. Maj
the final and decisive struggle be I
bloodless operation.
We, the laborers in this Southland
can count on our millions of men
while the other side can boast if its
millions of money. So it is plainly evi
dent and easy to see that this famoui
conflict is one of man against money, j
or a small army with great resource*
arrayed against a numberless army
with limited resources at present.
During these disputes justice ha*
and is still suffering many an unjust
The bacteria which work upon th«
elements of plant food in the soil,
converting them from an insoluble to
a soluble form, play a most important
part in life. Soil aeration is one ol
the things required by these bacteria
and this condition in the soil Is so
cured by continuous cultivation.
Fine wire netting about the yard ol
the little chicks will keep out rats un
less they dig under, if thsy do thal
better put cement floor under tbs a*
closure.
blow because the leaders of capital or
the speculators worship the Ko? S
selfishness under the rays of Hal!f
•tar and yet. amid all this, the c£L*
of our intended rights has forg^
ahead and we are steadily climbh^
the summit of the mount of victory
To whom must credit be given 'fm
much of the glorious wealth of the
world today? Should we (the follow
ers of the plow) not be recognised
Yes verily I 8ay we are worthy of
special recognition. Who but the
farmer is a more Important factor In
creating the millions of dollars that
go into the hands of the capitalists
every year? And yet he is the ledt
considered of industrial agencies.
But in the clamor for liberty it is
remarkable to hear the sentiments ex.
pressed in the heat of the conflict.
The cry is of the same order as lg
heard from the depressed legions or
the wage earners. As an illustration
we will quote an extract from a ser
mon we once read in which the good
theologian said:
“Good people, things will never g»
well so long as there be villians and
gentlemen. By what right are they
whom we call lords greater folks than
we? On what grounds have they de
served it? Why do they hold us in
serfage? If we all come of the same
father and mother, of Adam and Eve,
how can they say or prove that they
are better than we, if it be not that
they make us gain for them what they
spend on their pride? They are clothed
in velvet and warm in their furs and
ermins, while we are covered with rags
and Datches. Thov hav« _a
spices and fair bread, and we eat cake
and straw and water to drink. They
have leisure and fine houses, ws have
pain and labor, the rain and the wind
In the fields, and yet It Is of us and
our toil that these men hold their
state."
This is one of the many pictures at
which we may look and see our own
conditions.
The dignity of labor demands that
the laborers are Justified in combining
their forces for mutual protection, and
the initiative must be taken by us our
Belves, therefore, we have organized our*
forces and have shown what a formida
ble host we are. It is a case of a great
nation awakening out of sleep to see
how large she is. So our hosts have
come to see that they have all power
In their hands, if they can only mani
fest it. We see that the problem la
not easy of solution, yet each struggle
Is a step toward the end, and our army
even at the cost of many mistakes
and blunders, will continue their agita
tion, and push their campaign until
some Waterloo, Gettysburg or Plain of
Abraham is reached, where their deci
sive battle will be fought, and the
causer of Unionism win Its day. Till
then all hearts must be patient; every
soul in earnest willing to suffer If
need be, until the day of redemption
is at hand.
So let us stand hand In band and
clasping hands, united, all nnited now,
and united forever. Yours in thr
Union—Wm. R. Burt, Wilton, Ark.,
in National Co-Operator and Farm
Journal.
Non-Union Man Benefits.
I believe that the benefits from the
Union have been wonderful, indeed,
but I believe, too, that It has benefit*
ted the non-union men more than It
has the union men, for this reason:
The holding of cotton makes the prioe
go up; there la just enough held to
keep the price up around 11, 11 or IS
cents, and the non-union man did get
that for his cotton, while at the same
time the union men. thoae that held
and afterward sold, never got that for
one bale; while those that are yet
holding haven’t got that, nor their 15
cents, either. Yet I believe if the union
mAn ninnA rfluid have sll held their
cotton that they would have obtained
the IB cents just as easily as they did
the 10 cents, the year before.
Brother, quit buying anything from
those that oppose us. And out who
they are and don’t tell them the rea
son that you are going to quit, but
just quit.
So we are soon going to haT* a
Farmers’ Union cotton mill In the pro
gressive city of Fort Worth?
I see some are opposing that meas
ure, very ably, too; but it’s because
they haven’t yet ascertained the real
benefit that that move will be to us.
I haven’t space to give the reae
why I speak as I do, but I'll Ju*t r*J
mark that I do oppose the so-calie
warehouse system to the bitter en
The spinners have to have the eo .
it matters not where he finds It.
course to bulk it up is * S°°d ld*a’ J*
you can do that at gin lots and sere
this expense.—W. A. Little, in Nation
al Co-Operator.
It Is only a very dominant husband
ho can convince his wife it
is fault that she forgot to
iranlum bed to protect it fro®
-Indianapolis News.
About the only person who d°“
iem to be particularly concerned 1 ^
»w over the future of the farm
ie farmer—Providence Tribun .
The forestry department of the goT
rnment has ordered the ranger*
;vada to kill on sight all wild hors
und on the government on
lore are about 16,000 wild ^
e reserve. They are doln* “,Qg
.mage to vegetation and attrac
im*Htic animals to their her
Lice llke~to~~hlde away under the
ids of the roosts. Every time J
ray, lift the roosts and give tnj*
dose that will drive them *»t
tod and all.