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ment to large number of people, may be enabled to continue. It is hoped by Prof. Everman and his associates in the inquiry that they may be able to make important and practicable recommendation in this respect.
 While enormous quantities of various kinds of shell-fish are taken on both the Atlantic and Pa cific seaboards of America, it is an odd fact that the pearl button man. ufactories are located almost en- tirely in the middle west The largest factory of the kind in the country is at Muscatine, Iowa. Im-
 mense quantities of pearl buttons are made in Europe, but the cus- toms duties imposed on them by the American tariff are so nearly prohibitive that few foreign buttons are imported. The American in- dustry now is Ion it's feet'' and | American manufacturers can make as good buttons and make them at
 as low a cost as their foreign rivals.
 Home competition has kept down the retail price. The probability is, however, that unless a new
 source of supply of ''mother-of-
 pearl" is discovered, the price of ordinary pearl buttons will go skyward before many years.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17
PEARL BUTTON
 INDUSTRY AFFECTED
Lack of Raw Material May Practically Destroy Business in the West, Not
 withstanding High Tariff.

Washington, D. C., May IT, (Special.) = Notwithstanding the high protection in the Dingley tariff law, tho pearl button in- dustry is likely to be affected ser;- ously, if not practically destroyed in short time in tte middle west by the lack of raw material.
 Mussel shells, from which the house-wifely pearl buttons are manufactured by tens of millions, are rapidly decreasing, and, unless some measures are discovered soon to enhance the supply of pearl button makers will have to go out of business. The manufacturers have appealed earnestly to the gov ernment to do something for them. Tn response to the appeal, the bu reau of fisheries is about to under take an investigation into the causes of the diminution of mussels.
 In years past, the mussel, which is a fresh-water shell fish closely resembling an oyster, has abound ed in nearly all of the large streams of the country west of the Ale gheny mountains. For :. quarter of a century they have been sought by the fresh-water pearl fsher- man. These men drag the rivers for them and examine the shells ! only to ascertain whether they con- tain pearls. The shells, usually | broken, are tossed aside, but rarely back into the rivers. Millions of mussels annually are destroyed in this way and the shells of the fish so destroyed are not used by the pearl button makers. The latter collect the mussels in their way and on a tremendous scale.
 Prof. B. w. Everman of the bu- reau of fisheries, and other scien- lists of the bureau are engaged on an investigation into the causes of the shrinkage in the supply of mussels. As indicated in the fact; already stated, they will not have to go far to learn the cause;i Prac- tically the same causes Mave ex- hausted the natural supply of use full things. The rapacity and greed of man will not permit him to look into the future. In any event. he is willing that posterity should take care of itself.
 In the opinion of the government scientists who nave isquired into the question of mussel supply, the only thing 10 be done is to promote the growth of mussels by cultivat- ing them just as oysters are culti- vated. The causes of the shrink age in the supply are too evident to need serious attention. The im- portant question is to find a means of increasing the supply, so that a great industry, affording employ
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17
SCARLET FEVER

Please fake nu: zee: We have ih- stalled the cest ren :vato, and sterilzer kno'Jl to us for cleahl,.s the germs e"om carpets and mat tresses where diseases always bree We will call anG get your work and deliver same in :he best shape Our prices will bc right Call Olu 'pho14e. S96; new, i9. Yours tO serve.
 TURNER RLDD.NG FAt%TORs
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GOVERNOR LITTLE
 GROWS WORSE

Little Rock, Ark, May 17.-(Spe- al.)-Governor John s. Little $ worse. He will probaly not return to Arkansas. A physician has gone ,o Corpus Christi to consult. In. case Governor Little does return to Green. wood, Lieutenant Governor Pindall will continue to act.
 The Episcopal diocese adjourned
 this morning after selecting Fort Smith as the next place of meeting.
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ASSESSMENT TRAVELLING DIS.
 TRICT NO. i.

The tax book for the collection of the assessment upon the real property in District No. 1 (Fifth avenue), for the purpose of gravel ling has been placed in my hands
 All owners of real property lying in the district are requested to pay their assessment to me within thirty days from this date.
 If such payment is not made. action will be commenced at the end of that time for the collection of assessment and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this 11th day of May, 1907.
 A. G. RUSSELL, Collector.
 Office City Hall g a. m. to 12 m.
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SCARLET FEVER

Please take notice: We have in. stalled the best renovator and sterilizer known to us for cleaning the germs from carpets and mat tresses where diseases always breed We will call and get your work and deliver same in the best shape Our prices will be right. Call old phone, S96; new, 49. Yours to serve,
 TURNER BEDDING E AClORY.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17
NOTICE OF MEETING OF
 PLUM BAYOU LEVEE BOARD

Notice is hereby given that the P'unl Bayou Levee Board vii; meet at the court house in Pine Bluff on Tue sGay, May 21, next at II a. m. All persons having claims of over assessment of taxes are notified to appear before the board at said time and place with proof of claim that same may be ad- justed.
 PLUM BAYOU LEVEE DISTRICT,
 N. B. Beakley, President.
 J. T. Lipscomb, Secretary.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Bids will be received for the alter ations and additions to the Merrill In stitute for the Pine Bluff Y. NJ. c. A. June the 3rd. 1907, the right being re- served to reject any or all bids by the committee.
 Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Wilson and Hen driX. architects, on and after Wednes- day, May 23.
 w. H. LANGFORD, Chairman A. B. RICHARDSON, Secretary Building Committee
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17

Another objection to those rapid airship trips to Europe will spring from the fact that passengers vii! not be able to boast of having seen sea serpent on the way over.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17

To feel strong, have good ap- petite and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters. the great system tonic and builder.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-05-17

For rent-Two unfurnished rooms on East Second avenue, close to town. Electric lights. Reply w. H., P. o. Box 495, city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10
A Condition; Not a Theory

In the language of the "Sage Of Princeton is not
a theory but a condition that confronts We, as
nation, have reached the point where something must
be done if the industrial life of the smaller community
is to be saved.
take it that no one will question these propositions
first that the best interest of the nation will be conserved
by wide distribution OF the various industries second
that the closer the producer and the consumer be
brought together, under natural conditions of
teria and labor the better it is for both With these
propositions admitted the uphuiding and the proec
ton of the country rises to the dignity of national
question.
What is to be done?
Before oing into the question of remedies let see
what effect the development of the industrial possible
ties of the village and the country town would have,
first, upon the general prosperity of the nation and
second, upon the social conditions of both producer
and consumer.
Is it possible to scatter the so-called manufacturing
industries and operate them with profit to both cap
al and labor? The answer to this question contains
the ultimate fate of the small town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10
By RICHARD A. HASTE

trial development was most pronounced, we now find
abandoned factories which might be running with
profit to-day, and giving employment to thousands
of families had not the listened to the seductive
voice of the Crust"
1t has been now twelve years since the idea of indus
trial combinations took possession of the business
world 1t was the outgrowth of the crash of % and
was born of desire to limit production. This idea
has undergone complete change of heart, but the
effect on the small town is the same - business stagna
ton and = death
The fathers in their wisdom adopted the national
theory of protection = the protection of our infant
industries against foreign adults This good.
But they forgot make any provision for the protection
of the smaller infants in the domestic family against the
cannbalistc attacks of their older and stronger breh
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10

A large minority is therefore
liable to go off on d tangent and
clamor wildly for things that have no bear 49,
ing upon their material salvation Just
now the public attention is divided be-
tween the tariff revision and the death
shadow of the "Yelow Peril" Whether Japan vii
in time become menacing world power and interfere
with "our exclusive control of the Pacific is absorb
ing question. The attitude of the Californian toward
the little brgheyed Jap in the public schools is GER
tainy interesting psychological study but it doenot
concern the struggle of the for daily bread
influence in the least particular our commercial or in
dustral Institutions The question of tariff revision
comes nearer home and every good citizen ought to
sit up and take notice. He ought to know whether he
is Standpat Revisionst = and he should have
well digested reasons for his opinions
But the most important question before the American
people to-day is not being discussed. At least it has
not found its way into the magazines and the daily press
I refer to the question of industrial and commercial
protection of the country town against the unfair COM
petition made possible by modern combinations of cap
ital in large industrial centers. By the term
Country town. mean all villages, and cities with less
than fifty thousand population It is the industries and
the trade Of these communities that being driven
to the wall by modern American commerclallsm
These are E'infant" communities, and they need
and must have protection be wiped off the indus
trial map
The Survival of the Strongest
'To him that hath shall be given but from him that
hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath"
this was the law in the world of ethics two thousand
years ago. 1t is the law in the industrial and CONNER
cia world to-day The law is applied not only to indi-
viduas but also, and with particular force to cities
and communities. 1t is the law of concentration = the
law of the survival = of the fest but of the strong
est During the last years, this law has been en-
forced with such unsparng rigor that the small city
the country town has been reduced to mere pawn
on the great industrial chessboard The population
and wealth of the country at large has been increasing
by leaps and bounds, but the country town has had
hard work to maintain its own. Manufacturing nsti-
tutions great and SMALL obeying the centrpeta force
of accumulated capital have been drawn to the great
centers of population.
All over the United States and especially in the Mid
die West where fifteen to twenty years ago. the indus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10


Transportation facilities, the coal for power may be
obtained. Again there may be material, power
and labor, but the market may be distant yet cheap
transportation will supply the missing factor.
Transportation
So important part has transportation played in the
industrial affairs of this country that certain Commun
ties favored by artificial lines of communication, With
out possessing single natural clement neither MATERIAL
nor power, nor labor nor proximity to market have
become thriving industrial Centers Such development,
however, only demonstrates the influence Transporter
ton has upon the industrial problem and suggests the
necessity for its equitable adjustment.
There is scarcely village town the country
that does not possess natural facilities for economical
industrial production if it be given equal show with
its larger brethren in the matter of freight rates Here
is an illustration on commercial lines. For years the
railroads have given to the whole state OF Texas
blanket freight rate from New York and Chicago
That is to say, goods shipped from New York or from
Chicago to Dallas Houston San Antonio, or FL Paso
all carried for the same rate. All points within
this state enjoyed the same rate Dallas with its sew
entvive thousand population and large business in
erests could get better late than its neighbor one
hundred miles west with a population OF 1000. This
is unjust Yes, where the element of distance comes
in, but otherwise perfectly just. Leaving out the
ethical question and looking at results = Texas has no
big city that dominates the state its politics and It's
business But instead it has dozen fourishing cities
= cities ranging from 10000 to $4,000 population =
not too big to live in with comfort and profit
Under normal and fair conditions the tariff of trans
portation will protect every community in its industrial
rights Yet so conservative is capital, and fixed
become the lines of trade when established that
find the South still shipping cotton to New England
buying back the finished product and paying the freight
both ways. Minnesota and Wisconsin furnish Penn
syvana with iron and then buy it back in the shape
of structural iron and steel rails transportation charges
both ways added to the Arkansas is shipping
hardwoods Michigan which she afterward buys back
in the form of furniture. And Mississippi, with
abundant clay imports train loads Of tile from the nS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10

TNUBLIC questions that
- concern most deeply the
interests of the people
are often the last to be
discussed. The long-sufering
public is always looking for a
Moses to lead it out of the VIII
derness to the Promised Land.
A large minority is therefore
liable to 60 off on d tangent and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10

the industrial field. There may be raw
material, labor, and ready market, but
no waterfall nor cheap fuel out of which
to develop power; but if there be good
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-01-10

The prime factors which en-
ter into the industrial problem
everywhere are: raw material,
power, labor, and markets. The
last is modified by a subordi-
nate, we might say coordinate
factor, transportation. A COM
munity possessing any three of
these prime factors, under nor
NAL conditions, will succeed in
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26
QUESTION NO. 10.

Ed. CREssEr please tell US the
full meaning Of this scripture,
Aud his tail drew the Third pari OF
the stars " heaven and did cast them
10 The sar,h: and tho drsgon stood be-
ore the women which Vas READY 10 be
delivered for To devour her child a.
sc0n a, II was bornt~ Rev l2-i
=. NJ. Ray Cib'ol No
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26

I'm sorry to shy that our
a NJ. J. Burress failed to find
gig red apples in No. this
4 Nevertheless we are glad to
ssuch u enc With US.
sswriter seems very particu-
Vt to hurt my CUES tGslIng.
hoy have said enough to low
D noscs II hslfthe world.
Ait no man "Ivnilctb much"
evon makos Gu assertion
4 nrouses tie passions OF his
Il feltowmcD, We are luch nj
3nism 40 needs luaking IN CT.
10 work tho looso pieces back
sopcr place al lcasl three times
Fek. How uco tho old saying
must take o friend and his
Es or have no FRIEND for we
all fruitful. | heard N na1 re
y q short tlme ago W. can
believe alike any more than
ran look alike" liant tia,
n Our minds dlifc, ~ mu b
Ear iuccs. We l.ayc Raebis 70,
saavc equally MS many Luna
4 We have thousands of iotcll
Sal men and women--We hsv,
Ego number Of iaiots and fools
4 miods We cannot control
sw Inc lac man who would al
s himself dragged to tho cruc
\ lawicss asylum could bo pos
IL prevent It. Our Brain, NJ
III, II We could view II varie
&,uch 10 construction and shnp
BUR faces do. Tbs being th
y d. You wonder that ever,
ser don't suit every r,adet
ne prefers lies before tho truth
writer writes but states thc,
4 take tho truth every tim.
M my dear friend you mA,,
biz you have chosen tho tru.'
\ perhaps yoa hive fol far shor
q. lam not able TO say 20
To chosen the truth or havc moi
b alone knows. No doubt 20
feve you arc right aitd pcrbap
] hope sol cannot say
bw ! am right in everything --
b afraid 10 say il. You seer
nsisua,c that those who d,Hc
b youi belief vii, fall short q
|Gioty Of God: "He ,ha. think
As stsuds,h take heed lest b
IL Ill wss destitute Of bon
] wanted 10 homasteaa On
|sId apply o. tho land tIios an
IN 10 my proper ago and CIV
q necessary qualification
NJ Is DO justice Tor them I
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"a ~ TACO 10 rot so sHulges
-
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World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26

either Article that sou have re. :
frrcd them too. Almost assnrdly
they will see, that If YOU are.
right in your ascension, in re-.
gard to the equality of man and
beast: in their being n living soul:
They will see also that the de.
claration of Peter in his first
Episi!c 3 %, are wrong. And
it they say you are right; they,
then, in order to get Peter out of
the mnddle, they will have to do
just what YOU did; that is, add u
little to what Peter said. For
YOU say Bro. Rust in this Lam
guagc. Now | say there WERE
mere souls in the ark than
eight, Poor Peter YOU ought
to have known better than to
have made such a mistake as to
say that there WI, but eight
souls saved by water. When il
yon would Of inst looked down
through the anels of time until
l9u1 yWu cClll have behela--"I"
Mr.. Rust Declaring that there
WEnE more souls than you SAID.
any thing about, Now Peter vou
Ought to have said that you mcnt
HUMAN SDrL..' and not OF left
this much vi your meaning out
OF your dee 'a'a.lon FOR Il" Mr..
Rust to pat in for yoa, Oh. God
almighty why did YOU choose
such an iiiitera'r man rs Peter:
When you q. God Might have
known that Il" MIR. Rust"
would have to let the world of
people know in--his day what
Peter mcnt. And add il to what
l'r.c" h d said. For ErU. Rust
goes on and says Then you
might ask why did Peter say
there was just eight, II there
was more than eight" And |
lUmonunn y answer by sayin,
that Peter had reference only to
IuMAN .,OCl." ....
And then B,o. Rust goes TN
land corrccts Peter still. further.
and adds a little more by saying,
lwhy Pete" had reference TO
human souls only. X, cause the
great plan of salvation was for
humanity pnly.'
! W" do no, know any thing that
We might say that would elevate
the Bro in hi; greatness any
more than We have said Now
Bro. Ra>t you say that there
was moro souls in the Ark. We
,o@k yun, We're they saved, OF
did they perish? rndouh. ably
z if tn1. we're IL tie All. thew
We're saved, oi else they were
, LIT. Now If the Great plan of
salvation was for Humanity
'only TlfUSu tell us Bro. Rust
, VIA this great plan was 10 the
inh"btan's OF .he Ark? Espec.
+, iully \ >ah and his family? And
!. please tell ne what position the
two Cainitcs hcll III the Ark?
Now We shall let you rest IN
this point, until You answer
:, these questions. And turn to
some Of our abscrditics, and
;. nonSenc" which you spoke 81 ant!
task yol If this il, the first one ..
the abserdites. Please read, :.
{
i, Bu. il.,h with the lie tnrreof which
!. is 'hc h,HHd ,:.y"pt s,sl! 20 no. ca
u, C. 8 1
o. & It this one.
With someiInSc wee t.nobefli.nt
when c'cr The inpes..f,,.rg ot Gct
Waited in The ,.lys Of Noah. while III,
= ark W." p'rps,irg, wherein few. TIA,
%, rish, snuls wrro s,y,ity wafer.
= rt'"r "a
Or ,.s u this one.
'''' Of every living thing Of al. aest
NO ct ever sort shsit thu bring int
T., ark. y ksep them alive with thee
y Confined to page s.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26

also 30 rsrdsred "Snu'" whHra it
rsfers e beast. Bu. this one script.
urs ia s,ough IN upaet Mr. CARROTS
,hecrv tat th@rs was maa.
created whicheid ~. have living
Sui.
Solomon in Eccle $40 was
rferinc u al men all the srns
OF tho one man Adam.
Now ! shall not mention tho
nonsense IN the latter part of Mr..
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26

y 2l-28-a4, Who were these
IAN aud VIII At was the vow?
did Paul have to purify
nc knG 10 ut charges with
when he is already pur-2
N shave their heads?
4 what does it s'e"ify?
,s1t ia there to be learned
ghis today.
4 9, A. Slmons,
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1907-12-26

Garre..f arvicle, but will leave the
suhjs.a with the readors. and ark
themto do Mr.. Garrett justice by
his article 10 which this
is an answer. and also study both
that one and this ono, and SEQ for
themselves who is wrong.
You-s in the truth.
i. 9, Rust.
Min Grove No.,