The Springdale news., 1906-03-30
note and Comment

 tend there Is nothing in adver- Using. We'll, suppose every busi- ness firm in the United States were to stop advertising entirely for inst one month, what would be the result? Any sensible per son can see at a glance that there would be stagnation in every line of business. All over the coun- try have sprung up large mail or der houses and the business has been built up solely by advertis- ing. The local merchant has the same opportunity to reach the buying public and increase lis buSineSe.
 A white man who was eontin- ually insisting that under no cir cumstances would lie put him. self on plane of equality with a negro, happened to be travel ing iu the woods of Arkansas and got lost. He wandered all day and all night without anything to eat. In the morning he ran on to q negro's cabin and asked if lie could get something to eat. The negro invited him in and said that the family was just sit ting down to breakfast, aid Ii the white man was willing to eat with them he Was weleonte Ny dark compleXioned friend. re- marked the white man aS lie made a bee line for the cabin, my head Is inclined to kick on race equality, but my stomach informs me that 1t Is no time to indulge Ill durn fool, unreasonable race prei- udice. If you will shove that side meat and corn pone this way you will see how willing 1 am. Mail and Breeze, Topeka, Kan.
 He was probably Kansas man.
 Have you ever thought how difficult 1t k to find all unbroken family Most of Us are frag- ments of families and are strug- eling as best we may There Is something in this life that makes Us forgetful of each others well fare when We become separated. How often do you write toI brother or sister? We dare say ii you sit down and count the days you will be surprised to find that 1t has been months perhaps years. Once in a while d letter passes telling of tie old love. and ask ing to be forgiven for not writing sooner, and then d long silence \ telegram is handed you; your fingers tremble as you tear the envelope; you read mother or sister died on such d day. You go away by yourself and shed d few seaidiug tears and regret a thousand times the negligence to the dear one. It IS now too late to do better by i that mother or sister in the days tocome This great broad world ! gets too far apart. The duties of life So thoroughly absorb our I tune that We forget things that should be remembered Ex- 1 change.
 A friend sends The News copy Of the Denver Times con- taining an article on Arkansas written from Fort Smith by ". l F. Curtis for the Chicago Record l Herald and the Times Mir Curl tis says some very good things E about Arkansas. but he islanders some of the best people on earth E when he says the natives are lazy f and indifferent But probabl , he exposes his own ignorance of com ditions in Arkansas more fully in 1 the following excerpt taken from hls letter:
 "Seventy-fve per cent of the native population are still merely scratching the soil for d couple of bales of cotton and enough corn to feed their families. A few razor-baek hogs running wild in the forest and feeding on acorus and nutritious roots, with eggs and chickens, furnish the diet of 9O per cent of the population. When family wants meat the father takes his rifle and goes out and shoots hog i'll the woods.