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Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

A London man has invented an en-
CINE to be run by air. Presumably
hot.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

You have to understand human ma
ture mighty we'll to know that other
people aren't any bigger fools than
you are.-N Y. Press.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24
Followed instructions.

A lady going from home for the day,
says a writer in the New York World.
locked everything up carefully, and
for the grocer's benefit left card on
the back door.
"All out. Don't leave anything" it
rcad.
On her return she found her home
lansacked and all her choicest pos
sessions gone. To the card on the
door was added: Thanks. We haven t
lef, much"
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24
St. J0seph's
Liver Regulator.

| was afflicted with heart trou-
BILE and dizziness for 7 years,
and was under a doctors care
most of the time, but improved
very little, if any. | began TAX
ing St. Joseph's Liver Regu-
lator and when | had used half
box | felt that | was gaining
strength and getting better,
and after taking three boxes |
find myself in a highly crafty
ing condition.
Mrs. HESTER MCHUGH
Berthold, n. Oak.
st. Josephs Liver Regulator has been on
:he market for twenty-five years-it IS put
up in large tin boxes-it is guaranteed
to give satisfaction and keep its full
strength in any climate. 1t should be used
in all cases of digestion, Constipation, Bill
iousness, Dyspepsia. Sour Stomach, Dropsy,
Liver Complaint. Heart Palpitation. Chllls
and Fever, and all arrangements OF the liver
and kidneys.
sERsrLE MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga, Tenn.
At all Dealers. la ascent Boxes
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

Lightweight men always think they
are heavyweight thinkers.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

It's gasolene that makes the world
go round.-Life.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

1t is human nature to wonder how
SO many incompetent people succeed
where we can't.-Judge.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

No titled persons in this land. eh.
Don't foreign noblemen marry our
heiresses for their titles--to good real
estate?
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24
TWlCe-IULD TESTIMONY.

A Woman Who Has Suffered Tells
How to Find Relief.
The thousands of women who suffer
backache, languor, urinary disorders
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

Write Garfield Tea Co.. Brooklyn, N. Y,
for sample of Garfield Tea. Mild laxative
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

William GlynIe Charles Gladstone,
grandson of the great commoner and
heir to the Hawarden estate, has been
elected secretary OF the Oxford Union
society, a position which his illus
trious grandfather occupied rs years
ago. Young Mr.. Gladstone comes of
age in two or three months. and will
Hawarden estate, which has been
managed during his minority by his
uncles. Herbert and Henry Gladstone
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

been having heavy backache and
my general health was affected when
/ began using them. My feet were
swollen, my eyes puffed, and dizzy
spells were frequent. Kidney action
was irregular and the secretions high
ly colored. To-day, however, l am
well woman, and I am confident that
Doan's Kidney Pills have made me
SO, and are keeping me well"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. y.
"White Disease" in Africa.
Sir Harry Johnston, the famous en-
pIorer, once escaped from very tight
corner in Africa by a queer strata>
gem. A score or two of murderou3
,iatives had surrounded his tent, into
which, before rushing it, they sent an
envoy. The envoy was told the small
pox was in camp, and a wretched AL
bino was sent out as the awful exam!
pie. In five minutes the scared tribes
men had vanished. As Sir Harry well
knew, they feared the white c.Eease"
more than all the in"onti0ns OF A-2EiEl
Prince Won Bulow, the German
chancellor, who was overcome by
fainting spell while delivering an adj
dress in the reichstag recently, is a
political personality scarcely less in
teresting than was his great prede-
cessor Bismarck. In spite of his we'll
known and ardent patriotism his
courtesy to France en- one occasion
drew from another member of the
reichstag the remark that Herr Won
Bulow thinks in French or Italian and
then translates into German" He was
twice offered the rank of prince before
accepting.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24

IF you use Ball Blue, get Red Cross Ball
Rlue, the best Ball Blue. Large or.
package only 5 cents.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-24
he agent in your town.

The sun that shines in the face
rises in the heart.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

is carried forth, an unlovely thing,
tied up with a bit of clothes line to
keep its contents from falling out and
engaging the expressman.
The owner of the trunk swears to
herself that never, never again shall
such a contretemps occur; that she will
hang on to her key thenceforth and
forever as if she had been welded to
it-but, alas for the ways of fem
ininity, she doesn't. The next time she
allows herself trip the, key is gone
again.
The number of embarrassing situa-
tions which have resulted from the
mislaying of trunk keys is legion.
was travelling abroad. She arrived in
London when the MONDAY sun was
shining, and had her lightly strapped
trunks placed on top of a cab and
taken to the hotel. In front of the
hotel a large crowd Of new arrivals had
gathered, and the igrl, after alighting,
turned to watch the cabman take her
baggage from the top. He pulled the
largest Of the boxes toward him and
tilted IL to take II down, when, presto!
open it came and deposited a shower
of very long and very heavy black
stockings on his head.
1t was a terrible moment for that
American girl, and after she and the
cabman together had picked up her
possessions and stuffed them back, the
girl decided that she just couldn't stay
at that hotel-and she didn't
The uses of the trunk-key should be
sung in song and told in story, but
even then, no doubt, women would
not learn its value-until she lost hers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
What the Front Of Your I louise Indicates

The front of house, and OF course,
this does not apply to the temporary
structures that are now being erected
in San Francisco, is found to be indi-
cative of it's owners character. And a
revelation of the kind is more particu-
larly evident In dwellings OF the
severely modest order. From the
aspects of a mansion lying in what the
house agents would term "a park-like
expanse of ground" there is compare
lively little to be CLEANED. The archi-
lecture may be ancient, modern or a
medley of anachronistic excrescences;
the edge of the drive may be more or
less we'll kept; the strawberries and
hedges may be sternly clipped or al
lowed to stretch themselves little at
their ease But so extensive a shelter
must necessarily obscure the person
atty of the owner.
For genuine evidence Of individual
ity, or of the lack of it, those
streets which are lined with a
succession of the smallest order of villa
dwellings should be searched. AT first
sight the aspect of the rows is utterly
monotonous. The color of the bricks,
of the roof and of the front doors is
uniform throughout. The setting of
the windows, the unlovely slant of the
roof, and the poise of the squat CHM
neys is Identical in every case. The
whole represents an abject badge of
servitude to drab-hued convention. The
mean quarter of the poorest Italian or
Spanish city is heroic by comparison.
In revolt against the decharacteriza-
ton of poverty, ii will illuminate its
low walls. One almost trembles to
think of the effect that one of these
would produce in a street that wears
the sad livery of struggling respecta-
bility. This type OF building, more
over, once planted. would seem inera-
dicable. Fire and premature crumbling
may lay it low for a while, but 1t is
wont to spring up again In an even
more consistent fashion than that Of
the phenix For the latters reincar-
nations may well have produced an oc-
casional variety in feathers, but in the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

ured the thing out at length with sew
eral engineers and reached the stag
gering total of 10000, 10000 feet Ten
billion feet is 1.S93,939 miles. You
could almost build tower to the stars
with such a stupendous pile of lumber.
1t would circle the globe IS times and
build tidy footpath IS times around
the earth. 1t would also make a tall
stockade to girdle the earth with. Fiji
ty times as much lumber would reach
to the moon. If. as some textbooks say,
her lunarship is only 90,000,000 miles
away.
Figuring with the engineers on the
four story brick building, I assumed
for standard the estimate for cement
is one. barrel for each thousand bricks
laid in the walls, or 54S barrels of ce-
ment for 54S,000 bricks. In the con-
struction of ten thousand such build
ings the consumption of cement would
be 5,4S0,000 barrels. A barrel of ce-
ment is used for every yard of con-
crete In the foundation footings. and
with 500 yards of concrete in the foun-
dations there would be required for
the entire building S4S barrels of CO.
ment. OF course, there is no way OF
estimating now what number of build
ings will require new foundation foot
ings, or any sort of cement support. but
1t is pretty safe to say that at least
100000 barrels will be used for this
purpose, making a total OF $500, 900
barrels. Then we must take into con-
sheraton the great number of REIN
forced concrete buildings that will go
up in San Francisco. An average Of
1000 or 5000 barrels of cement to a
concrete building is a fair estimate,
say the engineers.
No doubt Greater San Francisco will
be able to show the world at least 1000
or 5000 reinforced concrete buildings.
for the city is not merely going to re-
gain her former size, but expand enor-
mously. Then this would mean 12,0A0.-
900 barrels of cement for superstruc-
tural concrete work. In the aggregate
then the rebuilding city will devour
1S.500,060 barrels OF cement. This is
more than the entire production Of ce-
ment in the United States a few years
ago, though in 1904 the country pro-
duced 26,505,SS1 barrels.
But think Of San Francisco rising
from the most awful calamity in his
tory. about to use in the span of a few
building people consumed in a year.
A good quarry Of lime rock with
which to manufacture a high grade of
cement would be mine of wealth in
California for the next ten years. Doz-
ems of pFospectors are out hunting for
good California lime rock and this
means the development of a great in
dustry for the State. The disaster to
this city will undoubtedly have done
much toward the development of the
resources of California in. the manu-
facture OF building materials before the
city has been rebuilt. The demand for
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

case of one of these buildings the pros
pect of an altered feature is infinitesf-
NAL.
But human ingenuity has contrived
to insert a touch of individuality into
even such. unpromising matter as this.
it is visible within the lower window
that is set by the side OF the door.
This space. indeed, is all that is avail
able for the display of the inhabitantss
taste and whimS. The first tenet in
the creed of these window decorators
demands a table in the center Of the
exposed area. Indeed, the table is as
indispensable to the decorate scheme
as a wedding ring to a matron. for IT is
upon this that the object which charac-
terizes the houses Is placed IL must
be admitted that the scope which these
latter embrace is reasonably large.
Extending from the worsted mat to
the more ambitious globe of goldfish,
1t claims a widespread assortment of
exhibits. One of the most justly popu-
lar of these consists of a plant in it's
pot. Diversity here is evident in the
latter rather than in the former. for
the predominance of the geranium
among these plants is accumulated to
degree that must lead many to sup
pose the flower indigenous to windows.
II is in these spots. too, that the artifi-
cial blossoms of the early Victorian
gle against total extinction Reposing
in glass or reckiessly exposed to the
outer air. the waxen petals cling with
wonderful Pertinacity to the remnants
of a patriarchal existence. II must be
admitted that after the passing of a
certain number of windows thus decor
ated the sight of even moribund fern
in Its glazing pot that hangs within a
bamboo triangle comes with a sense Of
relief
The effect of the numerous china or
naments that prevail is sometimes the
reverse of that which was intended.
The aspect of even a dancing nymph Is
apt TO become sardonic as one regards
the prospect upon which the fixed por-
celain smile is directed. The large
spotted dogs and cats Of the same ma
terial that gaze outward with sphinx
like stare fit in far better with the spot
But there is more than this to be seen
In the windows of these modest streets.
There are ornaments of the marine or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

cement in this country under normal
conditions SO far exceeds the supply
that vast quantities of it are imported.
A fleet of a score of vessels (steam and
windjammerS) is on its way to San
Francisco now, carrying many thou
sand barrels of cement. 1t is estimated
that between SIS, 900, 900 and $40. 00O, 900
worth Of cement will go into the re-
building of the city, and that which
goes into reinforced concrete, say the
members of the Structural Association,
cannot be shaken or burned down.
Should 1S,500.00 barrels Of cement be
stretched out in a straight line, allow
ing feet for each barrel. they would
extent more than $4,000 miles Stood
one upon the other leach barrel is more
than feet high they would rise into
the circumambient more than 10000
miles. There are about fifteen slaves
to a cement barrel. and were these laid
out in strip the width of a stave they
would stretch seven times around the
world-1S0,0O0 miles-and this is prac-
tically waste lumber. Think of the
glorious bonfires 1T would makei
"a long session at the mathematics
required to estimate all of the building
material that will go into the new and
Greater San Francisco" said James L.
Mclaughlin, head of one of the big
construction organizations, would soon
TAX the STAMINA Oh the very DeSI me0ldl
fiber. II is simple enough to make esti-
mates for the construction Of great
manufacturing plants. or even manu-
featuring towns. when staff of trained
and experienced engineers get down to
figuring: but an estimate OF the sup
plies needed for the rebuilding of a
metropolis is a far different matter. In
the erection of every building you are
compelled to face different conditions.
There is an ever varying ratio of sup
ply and demand. There is the problem
of prices, availability of material. the
labor situation and d host of other
things to consider when giving esti-
mates on big building operations.
Take a skyscraper, for instance;
there are forty different trades repre-
scented in the construction of such a
building. Take the item OF steel
about 10000 pounus; then there are
the millions Of brick to be used ia such
building. millions OF feet Of lumber,
carloads of nails TO hammer the lum-
Der together, carloads of glass to I'LL the
tens of thousands of square feet Of
windows. Why, If should sitN down
to casually figure out estimates on a
cityful of sky-piercing buildings be-
lieve I would soon be on the verge Of
distraction. 1t requires a staff of ex-
perts to figure out even an individual
building project on large scale, as
building organizations do these things
nowadays with scientific accuracy.
Returning once more to the mass of
estimating have launched into. 1T
ought to be interesting to figure in
even the number of doors that will be
>swung on the hinges of the new San
Francisco. The four-story building I
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
The Ever Elusive Key of Trunk

She is a very unusual woman who
knows where her trunk key is when
she's about TO start on journey. Men
have many advantages over their sis
tiers. but none greater than that Of
owning a key-ring.
II a woman had a key-ring. and a
chain TO carry il on. and a pocket to
keep il IN she would not be so unpopu-
lar with her masculine relatives in the
summer time. But she has none of
these things.
When she comes home from a trip
she puts the key to her trunk care
fully in a small box. The small box
she places in a large box in the left
hand corner of her top bureau drawer.
There comes time when she needs
the small box. and so she takes, the
key out OF IT and keeps it in the big
box for a while.
Later she needs the large box-to
send some caramels away-and she
takes her trunk key and places it care
fully in some hiding place selected by
herself for its obscurity.
Then she prepares TO go travelling
and at the last minuue-the very last
minute when the eXpressman is at
the door-her trunk-key cannot be
found.
It is at this moment that her mas
culine kinfolk revile her whole sex.
They ask why woman was made IL
not to torment the souls Of men. They
ask why women go travelling, why they
don't have pockets. and why they don [
remember where they put things, all
in one breath.
In the end, these remarks not serv-
Ing 70 bring forth the key, the trunk
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

der-sheIls culIed from some tropical
beach, and very occasionally small
models OF sailing vessels. Curiousiy
enough. perhaps that which demon
strates the least intelligence on BEHALF
of the inmates, Is the exhibition OF a
more or less bulky book. Any literary
value that the book might ever have
possessed has long ago atrophied into
a condition of mere furniture. 1t Is
a thing TO be busted, replaced, and
busted again. The opening OF its pages
has become a crime for which child
would suffer the same penalty as for
breaking a waxen flower.
In many houses of the kind II 10
noticeable that the ornament within,
whatever Ii may be, Is supplied with
a more or less appropriate foreground
by means of the decoration OF the win
dow sill But this venture. though
occasionally altogether successful, is
apt to be attended by failure proper
tionately great The verve and dar-
ing Of the attempt, discouraged by
smuts, has frequently departed. leaving
behind il a tragic aftermath A minia-
ture fence will show it's small bars.
wrecked and in disorder. The cork
veneer OF an ob1ong dower-box will
cape at intervals to reveal the uncom-
promising tin beneath. while the earth
within, gray and depressed. has long
become oblfvfous OF the power to feed
even the most ascetic OF weeds There
are numerous other methods. OF course.
by which the window-Sill may be
adorned or married. as the case may
be, although the scope is not so large
as that which the space behind the
panes permits. So far as the house.
front is concerned. all possibilities
would seem to begin and end in this
regiOn The sight of a trellis-wOrk
porch alone would be sufficient to stig-
matize the dwelling that owned II as
bizarre. One can figure the attitude
of the surrounding establishments as
similar to that OF collection OF work
aday factory hands to Pierrot in
their midst. AS to the inmates them
selves, il is a moot point whether,
cowed by the architectural laws of such
districts they reluctantly sacrifice all
sense of variety. or whether such eff
forts as they make are faint symptoms
of rebellion against monotony. ana OF
a cropping toward an unattainablo end
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

went over the subject OF the mate
rial that the new city will absorb with
the engineers of the different depart
ments in these organizations and was
soon enabled to reach some startling
conclusions, or, rather, sum totals in
brick, timber, stone, cement, steel,
cast iron. window glass and other
building material that will be used
during the reconstruction period.
Eight hundred thousand miles of
brick! More than one million and a
half miles of lumber!
In order TO reach such stupendous
approximations four-story brick
building A feet wide and 10 deep was
taken as a standard. OF course there
ings, but there will also be a great
number of smaller ones. In the greater
city, then, using the above standard as
basis of calculation, there should be
at least 1900 brick buildings
To return to the standard four-story
brick building. there would be used in
it's construction $4,000 bricks. Then in
1000 such buildings the walls would
consume 6,576,0O0,OOO bricks. BY ac-
tual measurement I found that the
brick manufactured in this city is seven
and one-half inches long. BY a simple
multiplication we find that we must
use 49,S2O.OOO.OOO inches of brick. or
about us, 400 miles-more than thirty
times the distance around the globe.
brick weighs about five or six
pounds and in usual maui there are in
the vicinity of 500 bricks to a load.
It is difficult to realize that we are
going to cover the debris SCARED city
with 6.576, 100000 bricks and that we
will need 1S,154.Oo0 teams to do the
hauling, 1guratively speaking, of
course, for the hauling will extend
through a period of years. With two
horses TO every brick cart 26,3Os, 900
equines will be brought into requisi-
tion, or it might be better to say that
if the hauling was to be done all at
once that vast number of animals
would be required.
Each wagon and team covers or ex-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

II AVE you ever during your
leisure moments considered
what vast amount OF
money, energy and mate
rial viii be demanded in the recon
struction Of the fire devastated section
Of San Francisco?
Few have probably. and those few
perhaps have not come anywhere near
the great figures which evolve them
selves out OF this herculean undertak-
ing. The bricks alone that will go into
the rebuilding Of the burned district if
set end TO end or strung together like
an interminable necklace. would wrap
around the world thirty times and leave
"a lap-over greater in length than any
transatlantic cable. If put into a wall
OF a single bricks thickness and 1--WE
feet high the latter would girdle the
earth
This is not a mere random specula-
ton. nor a bit Of idle assumption based
upon figures obtained in a dreamy spec
ulation- II is based upon estimates as
certain as the confidence of san Fran
ciscans in the future greatness Of the
city, no matter what angle of view
they have Of the mammoth undertaking
OF rebuilding.
Considering the situation casually, il
does not seem so great task TO cover
four square miles of ruins with splen-
did metropolitan buildings when we
view in our minds the great terrific
ries built upon by other cities of the
world. In the days of modern en-
cheering marvels we have come to
look upon huge construction projects
as merely a matter of the wherewithal
TO build.
But to go over the matter in great
detail with building experts, engineers
OF great building organizations, archi-
tects and other professional men soon
leads the way into staggering mathe-
mates. especially the figuring neces-
ssry to estimate the material that will
go into the construction Of 1900 build
ings Of the permanent type that in a
few years viii cover the burned area
Of San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

II AVE you ever during your
leisure moments considered
what vast amount Of