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The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

The attitude of a woman waiting
to expect, but nevertheless secretly
hopes for, is akin to the pleased ex-
pectancy with which she sits waiting
for partners at dance. She fairly
brides at the thought that maybe she
will have good, long letter from
somewhere, or somebody, regardless
of the fact that II unanswered letters
from various people to her, grace the
top of her writing-desk.
Anything for me-" she plaintively
inquiries when you come in with your
hands full Of papers, magazines, and
maybe a couple of letters to yourself.
"The Woman's Paradise Maker"
you answer, handing her that periodi-
cal.
"Oh, pshaw!" she says viciously as
she rips it up and skips back to the
gowns, doilies and beauty column.
why, you haven't answered that
bunch on the desk, yet, have you?"
is your supplied inquiry?
What of it?" is her retort. you
got two letters yourself, didn't your"
she goes on with crushing feminine
logic.
You square yourself by letting her
read your letters, if you are diplo-
mat, and peace again does the dove
act.
There is one sinister feature Of all
letter-carrying, city or country, and
that is you finally come to regard the
carrier as your bitter enemy. He
could bring you mail if he wanted to,
you argue. Probably he overlooked
or mislaid it, and, when he comes and
goes day after day with nothing but
the weather report you get mad
enough to actually ambush and assas-
sinate him. Maybe he leaves a circu-
lar with somebody's name that begins
with a Nc" as your name begins
in your box instead of the right one
You meet him next day with a bit
ter smile and with studied pollueness
hand it back with baleful look as
much as to say, Probably that s
where some Of my mail is going"
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

saving time. If your target was up,
he stopped and took your letters to
town, even, though he had no mail
for you.
whats in a name" some wiseacre
said. What's in letter means great
deal more, especially if a man and
a woman are tucked away in a remote
eiyrler of the land, where the excite
Snents are confined to narrow circle,
and where the advent of a letter is
marked by a distinct thrill, whether
it be dun or circular; the gentle re-
minder that the grocery bill is past
due, OF the glad intelligence that the
Celebrated Bull-Con group of Bunk
Copper mines wants to make you
rich man by selling you grist of its
incompatible ten cent shares of bal
loon juice.
To my wife and l, cut off from the
turmoil and strife of the towns, buoy
ed and balanced in the dreamy pro-
cession of days that flowed past as
imperceptibly as sunshine, the rural
delivery was a never-failing source of
lll2IGSI, even WIFI we huCW we were
not going to get any mail. Even when
we had not answered the letters we
had, and when there was not the re-
hottest possibility of our getting so
much as a newspaper, there was al
ways the chance OF having somebody
elses mail left in our box
What tragedies and what comedies
are held in the mails? What curses
loud and deep on recalctrant debtors.
What moan from impatient lovers
Send some white ship across the
sea Of silence" sings one uneasy
spirit. But even then some ships are
cast away, some sails go derelict, and
many chasm could have been
bridged if only letters had gone
straight to their destination.
Our faithful carrier came at first
around II o'clock in the morning
after awhile he shifted to about five
in the afternoon, and from then on it
was usually this latter hour, except
as bad roads or storms made him
late He was 4 serious-faced man, as
became one who was doing $a.Q0s
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14
That's Right; Let EN- Run 1t.

1t seems that of all the most foolish
foolish is that member of the Farm
ers Union had right to open his
mouth about any political question.
Now, the idea of a man trying to claim
his rights as free-born American
citizen! We must not discuss any po
litical subjects for educational pur-
poses, or for any other reason. We
must simply pass our resolutions, but
leave the law-malling and executing of
the laws to the other fellows-they are
smart, we are not; they know what
the law ought to be, we don't: we
might pass a law that would help us,
and keep them from sucking the public
81. ca use 5o1ttfeaf ssif
leave that to them; it's their business
All we have to do is to pay the bills
let them make the bills. They don
make them according to the constitu-
ton every time, but what difference is
it? They can call special session.
It doesn't cost but $4,000 extra-and
change their laws to suit. We must
not monkey with politics! Why, that
would be trespassing on the rights Ct
others; as for us, well-we needn't
have any rights-just go on and re-
solve, but don't say politics; don't say
country schools; don't improve The
county roads; don't diversity your
crops-but go right on in the same old
ruts and be happy and forever more
contented.-The Farmers and Union
Guide.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14
LEARN TO GRADE COTTON,
So That You May Know What Ysu
Sell.


Congressman Albert Burleson of
Texas has bill pending in Congress
to instruct and direct the National Ag-
rcultural Department to appoint a
commission of experts to prepare a
table of grades for cotton, not to ex-
coed thirteen in number, these thir-
teen grades, middling being the basis,
to be the official ruling and legal
grades in all cotton sales and trans
actions.
President Roosevelt, in his message
to the Congress when it met in regular
session last December, recommended
the enactment of a law establishing an
official and legal grade table for grain,
and what is right, proper and good for
grain is right, proper and good for cot
ton. The principles involved are iden.
teal and the necessities in the one in.
stance are as imperative as in the
other.
Every market has it's own tables and
systems of grading farm products SOLD
by grade and every buyer has his sys
TENS and methods. all of them wholly
one-sided and arbitrary and rendering
the producer defenseYess to save him.
self from being imposed upon, if any
one should be DESTROYS of taking adj
vantage of him. 1t certainly seems to
be eminently fair and just that the
government should fix legal systems
that cannot be deviated from nor
changed, save by the government It
self, the power creating them.
How many grain growers, how many
cotton raisers, old or young, can sam
pie and grade their products?. Are
they not always at the mercy of the
buyer, whoever or whatever they may
be, as to the quality of their goods? A
farmer would be ashamed of himself
if he couldn't examine horses mout'
and tell it's age; look over it's body anS
limbs and detect all it's blemishes
spavins, windgalls, etc., or tell abou
it's eyes; or be ignorant OF the things
he should know when he went to buy
mich COWS, or beef cattle, or hogs
Then, why should be be ignorant or
the quality of his wheat, or corn, or
oats, or cotton?
The Farmers Union saw the point
early in it's life and began the move
ment to educate it's young men along
these lines and established cotton
grading schools in the South. Now we
see the business colleges advertising
cotton-grading department in theii
courses of study. Really, the agricul
tural colleges of the St21as A-.-.-ss<
teach II t2ec-o ..----o-. through the eff
forts of National President C. S. Bar
rett the agricultural college of Georgia
has added the grading of cotton to It's
curriculum. Every agricultural col
lege has its textile department, and
the grading of cotton could readily be
made part of the course of learning
in these departments. Each one OF
these colleges also teaches its students
how to grow grams, and It would D.
very easy to add how to grade them.
will it be easy for these col
leges, for the business colleges and for
the Farmers Union cotton schools to
teach these things If the government
will establish fixed grades so thai
ing the same thing.-Co-Operator.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

You no doubt have a fine court
house, and you are mighty proud o. it.
It is a fine tribute of your generosity
to see you provide a fine place for
your officials to transact their bust
uess, while you are transacting much
OF yours out in the mud, belly-deep to
your team. Yes, it is rather too gem
Grace up and build good roadsl
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

/ think more of us farmers ought to
raise more corn, wheat, oats, rye, peas
and hay than so much cotton Then
we could get something for our cot
ton. think we ought to set our price
on our cotton and produce and keep it
at home until we get our price, and
say nothing about the price; keep it in
the Union. What about this, brother:
Would not this be a good idea Mrs.
M. F. Slaughter, in Union News.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

No man is a good citizen who does
not own a home or is not striving
to own one. The renter has nothing
at stake in any place. He can move
on" when things do not go to sui.
him. The home owner will do some
thing to make things better when they
go wrong. Get home, and then
help the other fellow to do the same.
You may depend on it that you are
your brothers keeper.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

1t is mighty late to talk about the
value of good seed, but the point to be
made is this: The importance of the
use of good seed for the balance of
your paintings is as imperative as it
was for that part 20 uhave already
planted. Get good seed; it is as i'm
portant as are good breeds Of live stock
and fowls.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14
FARMING Is An Intricate Business.

A man who has never been able to
make a living at anything else will
probably fail if he undertakes farm
ing. Farming is not the vocation OF
poor managers or lazy men. To make
a successful farmer requires as much
intelligence as it does to succeed in
any other line of business or profess
sion.-Valley Mills (TeXas) Tribune.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

All those trees you painted last fall
will need some attention this summer
if they do well. Keep the grass away
from them, and be sure that they are
not eaten down by the stock. They
will pay for all the trouble they cost
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Did you ever notice how much more
respect you have for the man who has
some flowers growing around his place
than you have for the fellow whose
yard is brier patch?, Well, the world
busy getting into the ranks of the re.
cnactah1e
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Why, yes, it is likely that there is a
cotton holding trust all fixed up among
the cotton raisers. Suppose there is;
it is a trust that we can make the
spinners and he handlers of our prod
ucts pay something like it's worth. If
that sort of a trust is wrong, we are
going to stay wrong. Do you hea'
that, Bud?
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Don't laugh at the farmer who is
thinking of buying an automobile. He
Is simply leading where you will soon
be following. An auto is a good thing
for the farmer and for his teams, pro
yided he makes a good thing of it, but
as time waster, to the fellow who is
faddishly inclined, it takes the whole
bakery.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

A farm that only makes living
after working it in reasonably dill.
gent way is not worth having. You
can make living without farm with
any reasonable opportunity and dill.
gence, so that it appears that the farm
is in money invested in a poor way,
if a living is all you get out of it.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Were your stock protected from
those billiards. that came down occa.
sionally during the winter? If not
you have failed to be good man. The
merciful man is merciful to his beast
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

All good farmers are fighting the i'm.
plement and vehicle trust by taking
care of the tools and vehicles they
have on hand. Then, too. they are
doing better work by keeping the tools
in good, disable condition.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

When you get ready to plant a
mortgage, remember that you are tying
a drag to your foot that will get heav
Ter as the days of it's existence multi
NJ
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Look out for the mortgage moth. It
is wonderfully insidious, and 1t viii
eat you up ere you are aware il yo9
don't look out.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14
Every Lover of Good Music

should take advantage of the offer tbs
Jerome H. Remick Co. of New York make
in the advertising columns of this paper
to send for % cents the words and music
of nine of the best pieces of the Merry
London. Paris and New York.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14
Get Busy.

cit costs to advertise"
Some person says.
But what of that? This much is nat:
It always pays.
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

And the Southwest is coming to the
front on diversification. This is
thing that the Union should stand TO
and strive for all the time
The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-14

Malice supplies the want o. age
Latin.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03
THE INTERSTATE FAIR

Denver.-All indications point to the
first annual Colorado Interstate Fair
and Exposition to be held in Denver
next week as being by far the largest
exhibition Of the kind ever given In
the West.
The fair opens Monday, September
7th, with a grand military demonstra-
ton. Governor Buchtel, President
Charles E. Stubbs of the Fair associa-
tion, Mayor Speer of Denver and
other prominent men will speak. The
entire detail of United States troops
from Fort Logan, together with several
thousand of the Colorado militia, will
participate in the opening ceremonies
1t is Labor Day and the labor organiza-
tions will also have a celebration. 1t
has been arranged that Denver shall
be decorated and illuminated all week.
Pains fireworks forms the attrac-
ton at the fair grounds for Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights and upon these nights there
will be no special attractions in the
city.
Friday night will be an illuminated
automobile parade through the princi-
pal streets of the city, and out to the
fair grounds. 1t is expected that 5000
autos will be in line
Saturday night will be masked car
nival on the streets of Denver, with
masked ball in Ell Jebe Temple.
Every department at the Interstate
Fair is filling rapidly and the display
will be one of the most remarkable
ever gathered in the West. In the
mining exhibits alone will be twenty
tons of selected ores.
In the horse and cattle departments
will be the finest animals in the world.
This department will be the largest
ever seen west of the Missouri river
and some famous animals will be ex-
hibited.
There will be special running and
harness races every afternoon, and
also a horse show in front of the
grand stand. This horse show is open
to the world and promises to be by
far the best ever seen IN the West
Knabenshue, the airship man. will
be here with his great passenger car
rying airship, and II. G. Powers is
gathering together a Midway similar
to the Pike at ST. Louis. and to be
known as the Great Divide, that will
be replete with new and striking at
fractions.
Gargiulo, the great band master,
and his band will give concerts twice
every day, and in addition will be
score of other bands, so that music
will be one of the big features
1t is promised by the fair manage
ment that there will be something 60
ing on every minute, so that the sew
enty-five thousand people expected
will have plenty of entertainment
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03

AS road builder Napoleon was almost
famous as he was a military genius. The
roads of France are the best in the world, in
augaurated and many of them planned and
built by the little corporal One OF the Illus
trations shows road In southern France where
a mountain is tunneed and the side of the
road walled up with masonry. This road is
one OF the sights Of southern France 1t proved
splendid investment and is visited by thou
sands of people every year.
In Norway and Sweden many Of the roads
are built by blasting out a shelf from the solid
rock. What is true Of Norway and Sweden is
equally true of Switzerland. where the roads
are uniformly good and the admiration Of every
traveller.
In faraway Australia and New Zealand splen-
did roads abound. while in our own great coun-
try less than eight per cent. Of the roads are
permanently improved! There is reason We
have been working upon the wrong plan. We
have treated the roads as purely a local and
not general proposition. Highway conditions
influence market conditions and this touches
everyone The roads abroad are generally
good because the central government helped to
build them. The steps to take here to solve
this question are first state and next national
aid, and not put the whole expense on the
township or road district.
In colonial times there were few cities Of
any size and most people were producers Of
what they consumed The spinning wheel was
to be found in their home and many hand looms
In every community. The "homespun" pre-
vailed There was very little travel from one
community to another. Many persons were
born, grew old and passed away without going
20 miles from their birthplace. Produce was
largely a matter Of barter and exchange be-
tween neighbors. There was no telegraph. no
railroads. few newspapers and an uncertain
and Intermittent mail service Postage was
from Ave to ten times the present rate and
consequently there was little correspondence
The several communities were selfcontained;
their interest and business was usually bounded
by the horizon. How natural then that the
public roads should have only a local sgnif.
cance. Under such conditions what interest
could the rest Of the world have in them? The
concept that the roads belonged to those that
used them and 1t was their duty to care for
them was the logical sequence OF the times
When the railways came and spread over tho
country. and cities were built where the wild
flowers grew, the factory plan came In and
relegated the spinning wheel and hand loom
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03

as a basis of circulation. The government needs
roads. The rural mail service is costing now
$35. 900 900 per year. 1t will soon cost $780,
OOO. 900. With good roads everywhere good
service can be performed at a saving Of 20
per cent This means saving of $70O0000
to $100O0.O00 per year in the cost of the ser
vice and this would pay the interest on very
large sum of money.
The government has the right under the
constitution to build roads or help build them.
1t needs them to use and 1t has almost un-
limited ability to help build them. If the gov
ernment were to issue $400,0 900 Of two per
cent. bonds to assist the states in building
roads that are used for rural mail delivery,
say in paying one-fourth of the cost the sum
would be sufficient for the purpose and the
saving in rural delivery alone would pay the
interest on the bonds. While the government
would save from $1,000, 900 to $10.000,O00 the
people would save $15OOO0.o00 to 100000 900
by good roads. The great need Of this country
to put 1t a par with other countries in the
matter Of transportation is good country roads.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03
Use OF Microscope in Unique Test

The United States bureau Of chemistry has
found that the microscope may be used to excel
lent advantage in the examination OF food and
drug products for the discovery Of adulterants
This is a new idea and large amount Of work
has been done in the application Of the micro
scope to analytical work. but there are GER
tain parts Of the field as yet untouched. MI.
croscopc tests have become an important ad
5unct to the test-tube and blast-lamp methods
OF analytical work.
As an example of the use OF the microscope
a case recently. brought to the attention of the
bureau OF chemistry was q sample Of celery
seed adulterated with nearly 40 per cent of
powdered rock. This adulteration was of such
a character as would easily escape the notice
of the ordinary buyer. The usefulness of the
simple magniner In examining food and drug
materials, however, is limited and recourse
must be had to the compound microscope for
the examination OF the products which are
made up Of small articles
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03

Commercial starches can be identified with
considerable accuracy by means Of the MI
croscope. The examination of spices forms an
other interesting application Of this method
Of food analysis. In coffee and chocolate prep
arations roasted chicory. cereals, and peas in
the case Of the former and starchy materials
and cocoa shells in the case of the latter. can
be detected by means Of the microscope.
Thickeners used in the production Of ar.
tifcial 1elles. Jams. and other CONNECTIONS. can
be more or less easily detected by microscopic
tests. The thickener materials are gelatin
starch, agar-agar, gum tragacanth and gum
arabic. Another example OF microscopic ex
animation is the detection of flowers of which
honey is made. This is OF practical value In
the analysis of honeys purporting to be from
certain flowers. detailed description Of how
the microscope comes to the aid Of the chemist
when he endeavors to detect fraud in food
and food products Is given in the year book
OF the department Of agriculture.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03

of distribution has grown up by which food
and other products are shipped half way
around the world from where they are grown.
The cost Of this distribution is prime factor
in determining the market value of everything
of this nature. 1t all must pass over country
highways In order to reach the consumer, the
facility and cost of performing this service is
in a large degree determined by the physical
condition of the highways. Therefore, within
a few decades roads purely local matter
has grown into one of state and national i'm
portance. The former conception is giving
way; the progressive states have taken up and
are taking up the subject as one of interest.
Under the conditions the state recog.
nizes its duty to the highways. State aid in
road building is the result. The next and final
step is national aid TO supplement state aid.
Let us see by comparison to what degree
our own country is able to assist In road build
ing. How better can this be done than by com
pairing the government debt and interest
charge per capita? Let us do so.
The national debt of France per person is
$144; England. $3.50; Germany. $49; Italy.
$S2; SPAIN $sS; Australia $27s: United States,
$11.11. While every Frenchman has s6.O5 in
terest to pay per year We have 20 cents.
Strange 1t may seem this country needs
larger debt. There Is a dearth of good Sc
curities. More government bonds are needed
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03
Kew To Photographs

Copyright, 1905 by Underwood & Underwoodl
I. Norway Road Blasted Out of Solid
Rock Which Runs to vorine Falls. 1t Is
IL Feet Wide.
2. Thoroushfare Connecting saramula
and Cashmere, India, Which Is Lined
with Tall Poplars.
3. Women Doing Mems Work In Con-
structing Road at Darjeelins, India.
4. Typical German Woman Road-mak-
er at Work Breaking Rock for Thorough
fare Her Wage Is Equivalent to IS
Cents Day.
S. A French Road Cut In the Mountain
Side. This Thoroughfare Was Planned
by Napoleon 6onaparte.
Gilpin observer., 1908-09-03
Beneath His Station,

A young lady went into well known
establishment few days ago and said
to the shopwalker, DO you keep sta
tionary?"
mo, Miss" replied the shopwalker
'if l did I should lose my job"