SPECIAL ELECTION
FOR JACKSON COUNTY
Governor McRae has called
a special election for June 11
for Jackson county for the
purpose of choosing- a tax as
sessor for Jackson county, tc
succeed W. H. Terrell of
Tuckerman who was ousted
from office by a decision
handed down by Circuit
Judge Dene 11. Coleman last
M on day.
The contest proceedings
were instituted by R. T. Sim
mons who was defeated for
the office at the county pri
mary last August by 12 votes.
An examination of the ballots
cast in two townships showed
there were 67 persons voted
without exhibiting poll tax re
ceipts. A total of 130 illegal
votes were alleged to have
been cast, 14 of them for
Simmons and the remainder
for Terrell. There was no
evidence of fraud, all the
votes being cast by person;
who overlooked technical
points of voting. Several poi
sons residing in Bird township
voted in a different precinct
from the one in which they re
sided. Both Simmons and
Terrell will be candidates foi
the office at the special elec
tion.
JOHNSON HAD SMITH
BROWN OUTCLASSED
“My name is Smith and my
buddy’s name is Brown. I’ve
bet him a trip to the next
American Legion convention
at Knasas City that there were
more Smiths than Browns in the
Army during the World War.
W’ho wins?”
This query was received by
the Washington bureau of the
American Legion News Service
from a member of an Okla
homa post.. The answer was:
“You win, buddy Smith, by
3.900 majority. There we1'
51.900 Smiths in the Army
and only 48,000 Browns. It’s
a good thing, though, that you
didn’t get into a bet with one
of the Johnson tribe, who num
bered 53,200 in Uncle Sam’s
Army.”
Fortune Awaits inventor.
“Untearatio” linen has lung been
the dream of many people, le.it nl
though experiments have often been
made, the way to weave an Indestructi
ble cloth is still unknown, and no
one has claimed the fortune which is
awaiting the inventor who solves the
mystery.
You Won’t Get Bit If
You Trade at Jeffery’s
We have a car of
wire and nails in
transit. Also a car
of good flour in tran
sit. Get our prices
before you buy.
Jeffery’s
BATESVILLE
I
SOLDIERS LIKED THE PRiNCE
Heir to British Throne Fond of*Min
gling With the Fighters, When
He Was Permitted.
In the front lines a Canadian soldier
was building a fire one cold night of
lute autumn. Out of the night behind
him came a footstep. He turned, and
became doubly alert when he saw that
the man was not an officer of his regi
ment. The visitor approached the
blaze, held his hands out over it and
raid:
“This tire certainly looks good to
me."
The tone was pleasant enough, and
suspicion was almost unarmed when
the voice went fen :
"Have you wood enough? If you
haven't I'll get you some more."
The fire hnihlor felt some regret that
any suspicion whatever remained, but
there had been a special warning
against strangers not of one's own
regiment. In response to it lie was
about to question the newcomer close
ly, when an officer whom he did know
! came within the firelit circle and ad
dressed the stranger:
"Your royal highness, it is best that
you return to the automobile at once."
And the prince of Wales reluctantly
left the fire and returned to the place
where he officially belonged. It was
not the first time he had left that place
of his own accord and gone: forward
among the men. The Canadian who
tells the story learned afterward that
the prince’s staff had its hands full to
keep him from breaking away from
the official circle prescribed for him
and mingling with the men on their
own ground.
MUST HAVE ENVIED COMRADES
Pathetic Happening in English Court
That Marked the Observance
of Armistice Day.
The great clocks of London boomed
out eleven strokes. The city became
as silent as though It were a second
Pompeii miraculously swept clean ot
Its ashes. Motor cars and train cars
creaked to sudden stops. Policemen
stood like graven blue images at their
posts. Pedestrians doffed their huts
and stood as though they had not
known motion for centuries. It was
Armistice day and the city was doing
houor to those youths who had expe
rienced the Great Adventure.
In a dingy courtroom a murder trial
came to a sudden halt. Judge, counsel,
witnesses and the prisoner stood, and
for two minutes, with bowed head, did
silent reverence to those poppy
wreathed graves of France. Before the
prisoner flickered visions of that same
France only one year before. He again
saw the faces of comrades he had loved
and whom he had watched in the throes
of death. Incidents of that last des
perate sprint across No Man's Land,
with death on every side, came back to
him. Again he heard the shout with
which the trenches had greeted the
armistice. He had come safely through,
and now—
The two minutes ended. The city
came out of its trance. The somber
voice of the judge resumed—“and shall
hang by the neck until dead."
—
Poison Gas to Fight Squirrels.
Experiments in the use of poison gas
in exterminating grain-eating ground
squirrels are under way, according to a
report of the county horticultural com
mission to the Los Angeles board of
supervisors.
At the same time it was announced
that Los Angeles county has sold its
surplus stock of saccharine and strych
nine to Orange county in order that
the neighboring county can Join in the
campaign being waged against the de
structive ground squirrels.
According to Horticultural Commis
sion. r Kyan, the use of poison gas is
necessary at this time because the
squirrels, which have been practically
eliminated from the worst affected re
gions in the county by the use of poi
sons during the past few months, fail
to eat the poison at this time, pr*
ferring the new vegetable growth.
Bird Preserve Planned.
The propositi to establish an exten
sive wild bird preserve on the north
ern shore of Lake Erie is gaining wide
favor in Canada. Something must be
done at once, it is urged by bird lov
ers, to preserve the wild fowl and In- i
sectlvorous birds, or they will be
come as extinct us the wild pigeon.
There are strict game regulations in
the province, but the establishment of
a large preserve would assist the leg
islation. There is already a nucleus
of the proposed area in Rondeau park,
and it Is planned to extend this along
the lake shore west for 30 miles.
London Cats Victims of Plague.
The outbreak of a disease, which
has many symptoms to influenza, is
causing the death of cats by the hun
dred in London.
Tiie disease is not thought to he
communicable to human beings, but
distinguished surgeons nre unable tc
confirm the exact nature. It spreads
with amazing rapidity, nnd the symp
, toms are said to resemble closely that
of poisoning, except that death usu
ally takes place within two days.
Plan Memorial for Poe.
Taking as its inspiration a sugges
tion of Binsco Ibanez, the Spanish
novelist, the Bronx Society of Art and
Science has decided to erect a memo
rial in honor of Edgar Allan I’oe,
whose cottage in Poe park, the Bronx.
Senor Fbanez visited the other day.
Tiie Spanish writer started the fund
with a contribution of $100.—New
Turk Times.
DO TH E HARD THINGS FIRST,
tt you have something hard u> do.
Just go to work and do tt.
It you (i nclude to put it Off
You're pretty sure to rue it.
The lasl. t'iat’8 hard to do's the on*
That in d.s your first attention,
And, don,; it, you may escape
A lot of reprehension -
Fitch in, and do the hard tilings first,
I>et easy ones come after,
yoke this your rule, and life will mean
A lot of Joy and laughter.
*ut if you let the hard things go,
Your enemies will taunt you
With serious duties unperformed.
And all your life they’ll haunt you.
TRAGEDY WITH FEW WORDS
®arlor Drama in Which the Seen*
Might Be Set in Almost
Any Home.
Sim camp Into the room, where he
wit alone. Her clenched hand could
not totally con
i’ e • I the cold,
\ e glitter of a
knife.
Her face was
pale and drawn,
her eyes wild and
bloodi-hot.
He, the man—
the man whoso
name she Imre,
the man whom
-he had sworn to
love, to honor, and to obey—sat deep
n thought by the warm lire grate. So
■Jeep in til,, :gl't that he did not hear
H’e s'd per* ■! footfall of the beautiful
woman who ihv stood behind him,
with a strange, bitter smile upon her
dps.
Suddenly, with a gasp, she cast the
knife aside, and it fell flatteringly
upon tlie fender.
“1 p.-uif.ot she moaned wearily. “1
cannot!"
A pitying expres on swept across
die Oolitic granite of his cheek.
“What is it, darling?" he murmured.
Hut she spake no wdtaJ. Only, she
raised a pointless blank lead pencil.
She had been trying to sharpen it.
But in vain!
Dressed Beef.
It Is reported that Sir Francis Web
-*r is a wealthy manufacturer of
hemp goods in Scotland and tlie own
er of a stock range in Texas on which
thousands of cattle range, clad, during
the winter at least, in garments other
than their own hide and hair.
Sir Francis’ cows, it appears, wear
suits of hemp cloth made in his own
factory which protect t hem from cold
anti snow, make them less susceptible
to tuberculosis and ifvrease their dally
yield of milk.
Kach cow, it is said, has two suits a
week. They are not elaborate affairs,
by any means—simply overall blank
ets that tit loosely. There are 1,000
cows in His dairy farm and they use
2,000 hemp blankets a week.
That, of course, means added ex
pense. but the yield of milk during the
cold weather is about 27 per cent
larger than from cows not thus pro
tected.
Old American Church.
<’ inmiemoration of the one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of tlie organi
zation of the parish of Christ's Episco
pal church, Newton. N. J., the second
oldest church in northern New Jersey,
took place in the presence of Bishop
Edwin S. Lines of Newark, wit+i many
persons attending.
The church was established under a
barter signed by King George III. The
parish was organized December 28,
1709. The first church was erected ia
1 s:_\'{ and was consecrated in that year
by Bishop Dross. The corner stone of
tin* present church building was laid
In iso,8.
The oldest church in northern New
Jersey is the Dutch Reformed of Wal
paek Center, built in 17!’>7.
China’s Coal.
The best Chinese coal is quite
as good as the best coal of the United j
States; and the various fields of mer- I
chantable coal are probably as great
in extent as all the rest of the coal
coal fields in the world, so far as they
are known. Anthracite of excellent
quality is mined in four provinces.
The largest field now worked is in
Shansi, and the famous mines of Bing
Ting produce an abundance of it. In
this district coal and iron are almost
within a stone's throw of each other.
HE HAD BEEN
THERE.
What is the
qutckc.s* way to
the police sta
tion, young man.
Insult an of
ficer, is th#
quickest, I
*ues3.
Rastus’ Property.
Lawyer- Well, Rastus, as you want ;
me to defciitl you, have you got any
Bioney?
Rastus—No; but I'.-e got a mule,
some chickens, an' u hog or two.
Lawyer Those wi;I do very nicely.
Now. let's see--what do they accuse
you of rte.ling?
Rastus—Oh, a mule, some chickens
an' a hog or two.—Providence Journal.
Ready to Qualify.
“You want to be a government
watchman?"
“Yes."
“You must take a civil service ex
amination."
“All right. G’mrae something to
watch."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
YEE EDITOR
_
Editing- a paper is a nice
business. If we publish a
| joke, people say we are rattle
headed. If we publish origi
nal matter, they say we don’t
give them enough selections,
if we give them selections, we
aie too lazy to write. If we
give a man a “pufT,” we are
| partial. If we compliment the
ladies, men are jealous. If ve
don’t we are publishing' a
paper not fit to make a bust'e
of. If we remain in our offio°
we are too proud to mingle
with the “common herd.” If
we are on the streets we are
not attending to our business.
If we wear good clothes, we
don’t pay for ’em. Now what
shall we do? Some may say
we stole this from an ex
change—and we did.
DAM SURVEY COMPLETED
Cotter May 24.—The engin
eering party that has been in
the field on White river for the
last 60 days running a precis
ion lever for The Dixie Power
Company’s dam, brought the
line into Cotter yesterday, com
pleting the survey. A perma
nent camp has been made at
Wild Cat Shoals, seven miles
above Cotter, for which a dial
ing crew will work, beginning
early in June. Drilling will be
done to test the bottom of sev
eral proposed sites . The new
drill has been shipped and will
reach here about June 1.
EACK FOR MORE TROUBLE
“When some men get to
fooling around women they re
mind me of a fool dog that
lives on my street," said the
Crusty Bachelor. “This dog
has been run over by an au
tomobile at least four times,
but every time he hears the
toot of a horn he’s right out
on the road again ready for
another bumping.
WOMEN
DEFEATED
for DIRECTORS)
Jonesboro May 23.—JudK"
Robert Dudley and Spencer
Harris defeated Mrs. J. L
Burns and Mrs. Jules- Hender
son in a bitte-ly c; .bested
lection for two places on tic
city school 1a ard. It ’»vas Hn
first time a woman had run for
ffice in this county, and the le
ague of v men voters made a
hard fight to elect its two can
didates. The votes were as fol
lows: Judge Dudley, 364; Mi.
Harris 336; Mrs. Burns,304,
Mrs Henderson, 298.
The Journal for good printing.
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stitute lor Camel quality and that mild
fragrant Camel blend, *
The fellow who smokes Camels, wants
Camels, a ha;, s because Camels have a
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can’t get ;■* another ’g-rette.
Don t e ieil you that any other
cigarette ' r-rv is so good as Camels.
Let yc ,r: e be the judge. Try
Camels, ; A fewsmooth, refreshing
put. ad : „ • d alk a mile for a Camel, too.