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Hilda edged her way toward the
oool, inviting, old-fashioned veranda
where Mr. Riding had been seated when
he came forward to resent the intrusion
of Hilda Hoover and her band of en
thusiasts. “You see, we want to learn
more about Prudence Riding. We
have taken her as our patroness. We
have named our organization after her.
We are making the name of Riding;
famous.”
This with a flourish and a mock ora
tory that drew a smile even from Mr.
Riding’s vexed face. Hilda knew she
was gaining ground. She laughed one
of her famous disarming, teasing
laughs—it was that more than any
thing else that made the district lead
er of her ward in the city “come
across” with his signature on the suf
frage petition—and Robert felt the
ground slipping beneath his feet. He
actually invited her to continue the
com ersauon on tne veranda, provid
ing, of course, she would not invite the
rest of the pilgrims to join her.
“You see,” said Hilda, settling her
self gracefully in one of Robert’s most
comfortable chairs, “I know that in
side that dark, interesting old house of
yours I could find some papers, per
haps diaries, that would tell me more
about Prudence. You know that you
are very seldom here at Riding Hall,
and all the rest of the time this won
derful old place is closed. Well, don’t
you think you could let us, the suf
fragists of our organization, I mean,
have the privilege of visiting the house
say one day a week? You know it is
a sort of shrine to us. It is where our
patroness lived and died and it was
from this very house that she started
out on her memorable trip to the leg
islature. And another thing I want to
ask, Air. Riding—when we get our lit
tle life of Prudence Riding ready,
won’t you let us have your photograph
as a picture of the only living de
scendant of our illustrious heroine?”
Robert gasped and jumped to his
feet in amazement.
“Now, please, Mr. Riding,” Hilda
Hoover soothed. “I was almost sure
you wouldn’t. I could tell that you
thought you opposed the suffrage just
to look at you.” Here again Hilda
laughed ner contagious laugh.
“I’d like to know how you could
tell,” he said.
“In the first place, you are a bach
elor past thirty, and every bachelor
past tnirty thinks that woman's place
is in the home. That’s because he
hasn’t any woman in his home and
doesn’t ever expect to have. But just
wait. One of these days, Mr. Riding,
you are going to come around just as
easily as that.” Here, by a graceful
gesture, Hilda Hoover expressed the !
case with which a man could be mold
ed into a thoroughgoing suffragist in
the hands of a suffragist wife.
At that time Robert didn’t under
stand why he did it. He didn’t even
remember that he did it. But the fact
remains that he consented to having
Hilda Hoover examine the papers of
the Riding family in search of the
data needed for her life of Prudence
Riding. And a good half hour before
the time set for the first visit he found
himself pacing the veranda, watch in
hand. It was true, he had to admit
it to himself, that there was something
about Hilda Hoover—the contagious
laugh and the teasing smile—and the
eyes that looked at you one minute as
straight and calm as you please and
the next minute possessed the witch
ery of a coquette.
“Don’t you think,” said Hilda, when
she arrived and had taken her place
in the old library in front of a chest
of papers and documents that Robert
had opened for her, “don’t you think
that you can take time to go over these
with me? I don’t feel that. Lam re
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Otto Kahn
On Financial Farm Loans
Every citizen who desires to become capable in
business should study banking, and every farmer who
wants to see the business of agriculture properly financed
should study diligently the financial systems of other indus
tries All other lines of industry have developed financial
facilities adapted to their needs. We have all sorts of
financial syndicates authorized by law or custom to deal
in a certain line of securities, but in none of these finan
cial channels will farm securities travel without a bonus
in the way of an excessive rate of interest or heavy dis
counts.
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are private banks and they are the most important to
the financial life of industry. In no line of business does
honesty, efficiency and stability make more imperative demands than upon
private bankers, whose greatest asset is the confidence of the buying public
in his business judgment and integrity. Mr. Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Com
pany, when asked to state the relation of the private banker to the business
of the nation, said in part:
“One of the most important functions of the private banker is to be the
instrument for providing the money needed for the efficient conduct and
development of railroads and other industries. He does this by buying
securities in bulk from those needing capital, for which purpose he usually
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small, thus forming what is called a syndicate. Having in this way concluded
the buying transaction he offers to the public the securities purchased by
means o'. advertising, circularizing and through the facilities of the retail
houses included in the syndicate, many of whom employ traveling salesmen.
Of course the banker and the syndicate count on a reasonable profit for their
services; on the other hand they run the risk of the securities, which they
have definitely bought and paid for at a fixed price, remaining on their hands
wholly, or in part, if the public, for one reason or another, should be unwil
ling to buy them. The selling of securities is a highly specialized trade,
requiring much experience, organization, machinery and scrutiny. This is
one of the reasons why corporations do better in offering securities to the
public through bankers than if they offered them direct The willingness
of the public to buy depends upon their confidence in the integrity and the
judgment of the banker who makes the offer, and a banker who attempts to
mislead the public, or who is deficient in care or judgment, would very soon
find himself without customers and, therefore, out of business. In many
European countries, the functions of the private banker include the placing
of bonds secured by farm mortgages. Bonds of this nature are issued in
large quantities by mortgage banks who buy mortgages on farms and other
real estate and deposit them as security for their own bonds, which in their
turn are sold to bankers It is to be hoped that similar institutions will,
in course of time, be created in America, thus placing the farming industry
on a par with other important industries in facilities to obtain capital.”
sponsible alone. "THey must be very
precious to you.”
In spite of the fact that he had prom
ised to play a round of golf with a
neighbor that afternoon, Robert re
mained at home. When, after a week
of visits, Hilda Hoover expressed her
desire to continue her investigation
during another week Robert actually
canceled some important business en
gagements in the city in order not to
miss her daily visits.
‘Anyway,” said Robert, after they
had turned the last page of the old
records that proved that Mistress Pru
dence Riding actually did batter down
the doors and that she was indeed a
very militant woman. “I don’t blame
her. i should think that this world
would be better off today if there were
a few more women like her. I don’t
mean to boast, but I’m glad to have her
for an ancestress. I like a woman
with a mind of ner own.”
Robert looked eagerly at the face of
Hilda Hoover and then gazed up quick
ly to the faded old portrait of Pru
dence above the mantlepiece.
‘‘Do you know, ’ he said, “I think you
look a good deal like Prudence. You
are both women after my own heart.
And do you know, Hilda Hoover, I am
not going to promise to let you have
my picture in your book because I
don’t think it would help the cause.
But any time you want to have your
picture in that book with the words
‘Mrs. Robert Riding, the present mis
tress of Riding Hall,’ written under it,
it’s a go.”
(Copyright, 1915, by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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thern D strict:
Mary Burt, Plaintiff,
vs
John Burt, Defendant.
The above defendant, John
Burt, is hereby warned to appear
in cnis court within thirty days
and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff, Mary Burt. 1-25 Adv
L. W. WiNFREE, Clerk.
Hutchins & Hutchins, Attorneys
for Plaintiff. Jan. 8, 1916.
TOO DEEP FOR HER.
Green—I’ll try to bring Richards
home with me. You’ll like him; he’s
a “bohemian.”
Mrs. Green—I never met a Bohe
mian, but I met a Bavarian once,
♦nd I didn’t like him at all.—Boston
Transcript.
SOONER BE SHORT OF TIME.
Bix—Time is money, you know.
Dix—Maybe so. Yet I never could
convince myself that it is as incon
venient to be in a hurry as it is to be
broke.
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ONLY THEN.
“Do you tell your wife about the
things you do?”
* “Only when I suspect that she has
found me out.”
HIS RECORD CLEAN.
“Your son doesn’t work very hard
in the office since he left college.”
“No, he doesn't want to jeopardize
his amateur standing.”
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
J. M. Jackson, Helena... .Circuit Judge
J. N. Rachels, Searcy...
.Prosecuting Attorney
E. M. Carl-Lee, Augusta.
.Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
J. T. Angelo, McCrory. .Representative
Sam Vann, Vanndale.
.State Senator, Seventh District
A. L. Hutchins, Augusta.County Judge
E. D. Robertson, Wynne.
.Chancery Judge
R. E. L. (Bob) Spradlin, Augusta_
.Sheriff
L. W. Winfree, Augusta.Circuit Clerk
Wm. Moorman. Augusta. .County Clerk
Walter Jimerson, Augusta...Treasurer
Edgar Miller, McCrory.Assessor
Alex Beilis, Augusta.Surveyor
T. W. Woodbury, McCrory. . .Examiner
Dr. R. Q. Patterson. Augusta. .Coroner
Dr. R. N. Smith, Augusta. Health Officer
CITY OFFICIALS.
G. W. Barber.Mayor
Walter W. Raney.Recorder
J. G. Pulley.Day Marshal
O. K. Porter.Night Marshal
Dr. H. P. Hargis.Health Officer
Aldermen: G. L. Carson, C. Crutzer,
•T. F. Morgan, H. D. Swayze and E. T.
Wherry.
Council meets first Monday night of
each month in the Council Chamber in
the Farmers & Merchants Bank Bldg.
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.
AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP—Justices of
the Peace: C. L. Jackson, Augusta, H.
L. Byrd, R. F. D. No. 2, Grays, and A.
H. Hamilton, Augusta; Constable: Sam
Anderson, Augusta; Road Overseer:
Ben Simmons, Augusta.
CANEY TOWNSHIP.—Justices of the
Peace: C. J. Harding, Hunter; Con
stable: -; Road Overseer: W. S.
Hunt, Hunter.
whitk hivjkk TuwJiEHir.—jus
tices of the Peace: Rube Dunn and
W. D. Overstreet, Fitzhugh; Constable:
Roy Hight, Fitzhugh; Road Overseer:
Chas. Peebles, Fitzhugh.
DeVIEW TOWNSHIP_Justices of
the Peace: L. B. Winfree, McCrory,
and A. J. Stapp, R. F. D. No. 2, Mc
Crory; Constable: Neal McCue, Mc
Crory; Road Overseer: J. L. Bronte, R.
F. D. No. 2, McCrory.
COTTON PLANT TOWNSHIP—Jus
tices of the Peace: R. E. Mills and B.
A. Trice, Cotton Plant; Constable: Chas.
W. Brooks, Cotton Plant; Road Over
seer: I. R. Thillips, Cotton Plant.
BARNES TOWNSHIP-Justice of
the Peace: A. E. Ridgeway, McCrory;
Constable: -; Road Overseer: T.
W. Roberts, McCrory.
FRANKS TOWNSHIP.—Justices of
the Peace: F. H. Cole and D. H. Fow
ler, Hillemann; Constable: A. L. Doss,
Hillemann; Road Overseer: Geo. Smith,
Hillemann.
POINT TOWNSHIP_Justices of the
Peace: Lee Presley and T. B. Stegall
(col.), Gregory; Constable: Ed Holler,
Gregory; Road Overseer: J. D. El
dridge, Gregory.
DENT TOWNSHIP.—Justice of the
Peace: M. A. Sparks, Morton; Consta
ble: Jack Whittinghall, Penrose; Road
Overseer: A. Materna, Morton.
CACHE TOWNSHIP. — Justices of
the Peace: E. L. Joyner, Wiville, and
N. H. Chaney, R. F. D. No. 2, McCrory;
Constable: Gid Capshaw, R. F. D. No.
2, McCrory; Road Overseer: Wes Re
neau, Howell.
FREEMAN TOWNSHIP.—Justices of
the. Peace: L. Spears and T. E. Trice,
Cotton Plant; Constable: Jesse Spears,
Cotton Plant; Road Overseer: G. N.
Cochran, Cotton Plant.
GARDEN TOWNSHIP.—Justice of
the Peace: D. L. Nelson, McClelland;
Constable: H. E. Miller, McClelland;
Road Overseer: J. F. Buchanan, Mc
Clelland.
PUMPKIN BEND TOWNSHIP.—Jus
tice of the Peace: John W. Browning,
McCrory; Constable: -; Road
Overseer: Ed Gibson, McCrory.
COURTS.
NORTHERN DISTRICT
CIRCUIT COURT—Third Monday in
February and August.
CHANCERY COURT—Second Mon
day in January, May and December.
COUNTY COURT—First Monday in
January, April, July and October.
PROBATE COURT—Fourth Monday
in January, April, July and October.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT
CIRCUIT COURT—First Monday in
March and September.
CHANCERY COURT—Third Monday
in January, May and December.
COUNTY COURT—Second Monday in
January, April, July and October.
PROBATE COURT—First Monday
following that of the Northern Dis
trict.