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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-20

Footley-"WeH. You see, lie started
in to straighten out his wife house
hold accounts"
TRADE MORAL-The quality Of
what you have to sell is known
to some people all OF the time
and all OF the people some OF
the time, but advertise regu-
larry with us and you'll reaCI
all OF the people all OF the time
COME ONE, COME ALL
| have a good lot of hay. |
want to sell at once, as my health
is necessary that ! 90 to some
health resort in order to recuper-
ate. so | must sell at once. Don't
miss a bargain.
Col. O. !. Moncrief.
Misses Mamie Stewart and
Bette Brown visited in Gurdon
Sunday.
Five of the six rural mail car
riers of this place left yesterday
afternoon for Little Rock where
they go to attend the National
Convention of that body. Those
attending were; Ben Daniel,
Will Mitchell, Clint McCuller, J.
7. Burns AMI Will Buchanan.
Strayed-From pasture near
Arcadia one light brown mare
about ten years old, Is 1-2 hand
high, shod all round, little star
in forehead. Liberal reward
for her. Notify A. C. Stout or
O. b. Gordon at Nevada County
Bank.
The contract has been let by
the rail road Co. to move the cd
depot for the purpose of build
ing a new one. Auxier Bros.
was awarded the contract and
will tegin at once to move the
old structure.
What have you got to put on
exhibition at the county fair?
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-20
GET WISE; ADVERTISING
time is TODAY
A Trauic Case.

Footley-"Awfully sad about Sharp
ley He's always been considered
one of the best expert accountants In
town. He's hopelessl, insane. Dud-
ley-"What was It? Overwork"
Footley-"Wel you see. lie started
in to straightcn out his wife house
hold accounts"
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

one poIAs Bottles Eeasaa-se1
am 6Eitg Special -5eaL Saasssy
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

LOST Eauser rl SspRb.re sue-
rauuEal aF small diamonds, c.reuLlr
8al-a 10 Alaskan gihc5 and receive
reward
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

QUICK DELIVERY raONE o.
Baggage coal and wood 3sllgsrst
lpga shortest l1lcs 3ay and HLEhl
81 PRUDENTIAL.
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16
GRAND ABDUCTION oF STOCK
SALE

The HaaE EEa-l Is llH H1.l.-E IA
-u. l- Good a-lL az reduced
.as as laa are sg--us GOO -A
held 4aa sen aL a peg1- Years.
Herman ar.aI
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

Gene .l gE Pauns sst5gs tlE ll5all
EFs ana Val HlaZ BaaE delivered b.
Fllr home b. Eas Mascot
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

What IS -zs Use l walking when
ygl can cali up l,el sal -- ride
"a TIA hack en1ae Sd
WHAT'S Che Ese gg bu-u.as 5ratu
slol Ehel yaa can sail ug llsa aa4
sss rlck o. lzy Eo1d delivered a.
uBcaf Floaa
Go % the Dominion Hotel White
hlsss Tor eI-aH aua comfortable beds.
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

LlSF-CloFss leat deaisa El5st
Haah Leave BHa Ars. Mckenzie
ana reee.re reward 81
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

gzsa Mats Of ava Eilas tlss rsyslF
sd az TONY DOR zR0s
The daily Alaskan., 1910-06-16

COLDS Gauss HEADACHE
LAXATIVE HB9Ao llIN-NE. ,ae
=arI slide lel ami lra reale-g rs-
moves a4sa t4lI Cor GIiI aaa4
.gyz l1- signature 81 ISL GROVE %
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
In faith, he IN n worth gentleman,
Exceedingly well read.
II King Henry w.
Special Ambassador Roosevelt

At the funeral obsequies of Edward VII
In London. Theodore Roosevelt acted as
special ambassador to represent the
United States. The appointment was
made by cable and Mr.. Roosevelt cabled
back the single word, Accept This
appointment did not sldetrack Ambas-
sador Reid. 1t simply showed the peo-
pie of England that this country desired
the best possible representation upon the
sad occasion.
The late King Edward rarely failed to
show a kindly feeling to Americans. and
1t had been planned that he should meet
and entertain Colonel Roosevelt Death,
which knows no distinctions interviewed.
and our ex-President attended the ob-
eequies of his intended host as a special
representative of the American people.
No other American could so fifty have
filed the place. and perhaps no other
American would have been regarded so
favorably in that capacity in England
The appointment reflected credit upon
President Taft, who made it. and it graft
fed the people of this country to know
that the foremost living American was
by this appointment rightly placed at
the funeral of the late King.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23

From Harper's Weekly.
Big hotels are not for the sensitive
traveller and still less are big pensions.
A little inn, foreign household, will
take him. IL only for three days or four,
or pension where he may hear anything
at table except English. When compa-
triots meet they are bound to gossip.
and he wants no personalities at the
moment. He wants to live In other and
alien lives; whether at Siena he hangs
over the ramparts of the Liza on a
night of mist and moonlight to make out
down what valleys and through what
empty water courses Pierto Strozzi
marched away so silently nearly 500 years
ago. or whether he sits at round table
on humming boulevard slipping opal
colored absinihe and seeing in the pass
ersby Murgers sentimental heroines and
Balzac's brilliant and tropical heroes. In
one way or another he wants just to
''fiancr" until the pulse of the place beats
in his throat and the smell of the place
is strong and familiar in his nostrils
Wherever he goes he wants to stay till
he feels the sense of the time and the
spot, whether that takes him six hours
or six days. Sometimes a man can see
his London and make 1t his own be-
tween trains-the reek and glitter of the
Shiny asphalt. the thick bituminous air,
the yellow glare of haze at a streets
end Sometimes fatigue or temperament,
or just the jade Fortune will play him
false, and he may lnger week in Char
tres, rising for earliest mass in the chapel
of Our Lady under croft, sitting in the
darkening transept while the sacristan
Jingles his keys and the windows burn
bluer in the thickening twilight, and still
be sadly cold until the last hour before
the last train. Then the cloud breaks
up. Then the flower blossoms, and though
he would willingly abide all his life, 1t
matters little really whether he goes or
stays. For the voice has spoken, he and
the cathedral have understood each other
at last.
In a very little while we can under
stand the silent voices. if only we are
silent ourselves, and never in a hurry.
and never self-absorbed. We must give
ourselves up to the exquisite Influence,
await the oracle in a kind of passionate
passivity, surrender without reserves to
the genius of the place. And when the
power has manifested itself the revelation
Is just the finer ear, the quicker ear,
the quicker eye. the keener sense for
skyey spells and immortal airs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
Improving Public School System

Birmingham, like all rapidly growing
cities, needs more public school buildings
than it has If every child of school age
were to attend the pupils would be crowd
ed into the streets. But In point of eff
cheney the public schools of Birmingham
are unsurpassed in this country In many
respects they easily lead all the schools
of the south. while many northern cities,
some of them larger than Birmingham.
model their school systems after the one
brought up to a high state of perfection
by Superintendent J. H. Phillips.
1t has been DR. Phillips constant aim to
improve the schools and make the teach
ing of more and more practical value
The vocational work, which he inaugu-
rated not long since. is sure to have ex-
cellent results. And now comes another
important move on the part of the Board
of Education. In another column will be
found statement from DIR. Phillips in
which he announces that four summer
vacation schools will be opened in June
for the benefit especially of poor children
who from sickness or other causes, have
not been able to attend school regularly
during the school year. These summer
schools will continue six weeks. This an
nouncement will be welcome to many a
parent and many an ambitious child.
The vacation school will doubtless prove
so popular this summer that the number
will be increased next year. DR.. Phillips
and the board are to be greatly COM
mended for thus finding a way to extend
the educational advantages of the city
without any material increase in the
cost of the public school system.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
SLAVERY IN ALABAMA

|
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the men forcibly employed al, a
coal mine In Alabama set fire to the
stockade within which numerous other
men we're confined in the hope, probably,
that in the confusion there might be an
opportunity for general break for lib
erty. The plan did not work out that
way. Thirty-six men were burned TO
death and one man was shot by a guard.
Now these men were all convicts. They
were prisoners of the state of Alabama.
But they were not locked up In peniten-
tiaries. They were sold into bondage to
the operating company at SO much head,
and there they were to remain until their
sentences had expired. Thus does Ala
bama traffic in crime. There is nothing
to prevent the state from making whole
sale arrests on trivial charges at any
time when she feels the need of little
ready money-which is practically all OF
the time-and gathering 1t in by leasing
out her prisoners
This incident serves to call attention
once more to the fact that slavery still
exists in certain southern sections. There
Is no other name for it. The system is
foul blot upon Alabama and upon all
other states where the same outrageous
methods are pfacticed. AS a rule, the
stockade Is den of brutality, little better
If any than the slave pens of Mexico. In
Mexico when a poor wretch gets into
debt he is made to work it out by 1eas-
ing himself to plantation. He is tempt
ed to get into debt. Then his doom Is
sealed He goes to the plantation and
to the lash, and the mortality is some
thing frightful.
And so in these southern slave pens
there is no consideration shown the pris-
oners. They are regarded as brutes and
treated as such. The state assumes no
responsibility for them. OF they go as
convict laborers to any employer who
won't pay decent wages and looks to the
state authorities to provide him with
cheap workmen. Is 1t any wonder that
the poor wretches guarded behind stock
AIDES and subject to the most cruel punish
ments sometimes take desperate chances
with death In their eagerness to escape
from their hard administers?
This system of leasing out convicts is a
crime In itself. 1t is an outrage. 1t is
a relic of barbarism without excuse or
defense. In these days the treatment of
prisoners has become a science to which
penologists are devoting time and atten-
ton In Alabama apparently the main
idea of the government is to make crime
profitable to the state, or to escape the
expenses of correction. with no regard
whatever to society at large.
In permitting stockades to exist, in
driving prisoners into them, in selling
their services to private slave drivers.
Alabama stands disgraced. And she is
not alone In her disgrace, either.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23

complished, and constitution is to be
adopted at the end of four years rather
than ten years.
This goes to show how rapidly China
is becoming a new China. Very soon
indeed she will be able TO defend her
self. There Will be no more looting of
her palaces. There will be no more
territory grabbing in progressive China.
Before this century is ended China will
stand out one of the strongest eoun-
tries in the world, and perhaps one OF
the most enligh tened and intellectual
lands in the universe. A new China is
TO be the chiefest and best product of
the twentieth century
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
Why Is Senator Lorimer Silent?

The people of Illinois are becoming
FESTIVE under Senator Lorimer's silence
He makes no defense-no effort to clear
away the faint on his title to an United
States senatorship. 1t Is plain he will
have to change his attitude If he ex-
poets to have any influence in Washing
ton or respect on the part of his col
leagues in the Senate. A defense or a
resignation is plainly expected in I'LL
nois.
The Illinois papers contrast Lorimers
silence with the attitude of Senator
Percy of Mississippi. AS soon as the
latter heard that he had been attacked
he turned back to his state to confront
the legislator who asserted that he
had taken a bride. He declared he
would not hold his office a minute II
there was the slightest faint on his
commission. He was not even content
with a confirmation by the legislature
of his right to represent his state. He
demanded a primary in which the entire
matter should be passed upon and de-
cided. but the state executive commit
tee and Governor Noel refused to sane
ton his appeal to the people.
Five legislators have been indicted
for receiving brides to vote for Lorimer
Three have confessed. Does Lorimer act
as Senator Leroy Percy did? No, in
deed. He not only does not resign, but
he takes no step to demand an inves.i-
CATION. He is simply silent. He keeps
away from Washington, However.
The Lorimer case is one of the most
distressing and disgraceful this country
has ever known, and the longer Lorimer
evades the issue the more disgraceful
does it become, both to himself and his
state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
Public Cotton Warehouses

AS the world grows older and more
complex the more readily do people ac-
cept plans and policies that in an earlier
and simpler age would have been DIS
countenanced as socialistic.
A case in point is cropping out in New
Orleans. The Louisiana legislature is in
session, and a bill has been introduced
authorizing the port commission to build
and operate warehouses for the storage of
cotton.
This is certainly a new departure, for If
public warehouses are to be built in
Louisiana for cotton why not build more
for sugar and rice? Presumably the pri-
waite warehouse is to be crowded out, and
this means that new army of office
holders is to be added to the public force
It also means that new opportunities for
graft and waste will be opened.
But still cotton warehouses in which
cotton can be stored and kept at low
rates are greatly needed in New Orleans
The Crescent City feels the keen rivalr,
Of Galveston and Savannah, and in II,
shorts to hold its own at least it pro-
poses to build public cotton warehouses.
Well, II they are honestly and efficientl,
conducted they will prove a blessing tc
the cotton states at any rate, and tn,
pending bill may prove the beginning
OF a policy that may become widespread
ana beneficial
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23

man with so much as making request
of this kind. Then, In addition, there
are the kind and friendly letters which
he receives. which, so far as possible,
he acknowledges. but which 1t is simply
out of the question for him to acknowl-
edge at such length as he would really
like to do.
Even when he was in Africa Mr..
Roosevelt received requests that, with
out exaggeration, may be called appall-
Ing in their number and character A
favorite request was for tigers claws,
the writer's being in beautiful ignorance
of the fact that no tigers are found in
Africa. Other unknown correspondents
frequently asked for lions claws ap-
parently not understanding that to take
off the claws of course ruins the skin,
so that each request was practically
that Mr.. Roosevelt should go out and
kill lion exclusively for the benefit of
a correspondent of whose previous ex-
istence he had never heard He was ap-
pealed to for monkeys, parrots and lion
cubs by other we'll meaning people; one
gentleman wanted a pair of small ele-
plants, another pair of zebras, an
other a 250-pound snake-these requests
evidently being made in bland ignorance
of the fact that to meet them would
have demanded totally different type
of expedition. especially equipped at
cost of many thousands of dollars, to
catch wild animals for the purpose of
distributing them gratis to unknown in
dividuals.
| AS for requests for horns and skins
on the part of men who apparently
thought that the expedition was con-
Quoted on a broad eleemosynary basis.
they were legion-one man standing out
above his fellows because of his modest
request for ''enough leopard skins to
make an overcoat.'
All sorts of things are sent for his
inspection or approval or to re-enforce
request for his special aid Birth GER
tificates, university diplomas and papers
of this kind which are of real value to
the people who send them, are for
warded to him by writers who appar-
entity suppose that he has nothing to do
| but to make parcels and packages and
buy postage stamps.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
POEM ENRICHED SCOTLAND

thence into Ellen Douglas region, and
following backward the course of Fitz-
James ride to Stirling castle. This
trip, by steamboat, rail and coach. has
made Inversnaid, Stronachlachar. the
Braes o. Balquidder, Ben voirlich, Ben
Venue and the Trossachs familiar to
more Americans than ever saw James
town.
The Glasgow water works have rath-
err spoiled Loeb Katrine by flooding the
strand where Ellen Douglas kept her
boat But Ellen, says the London Out
look dominates the whole poem: and
Loeb Katrine is surely haunted by her
still. Hers is the figure one would call
up on the silver strand had one the
power of Cornelius Agrippa; and the
accents of her mountain tongue seem to
blend with the breeze from the blue
lake
And FitzJames and Black Sir Rod
erck have also their backgrounds, their
settings. The knight in Lincoln green,
with his black and tan bloodh ounds, be-
longs to the Trossachs. with their tow
ering crags and birch trees. while as
to the chief, does one not always pic
.ture him on his native heath, like his
descendant, Rob Roy, his tartans way
ing in the sunlight?
1T was surely this placing of these
figures just where they should be
placed that sent the English visitors in
crowds to see the scenes to which they
belonged, to behold the spot where the
knights gallant steed lay dying, to look
into the cave where Ellen prayed to
the Virgin, to gaze on Lanrick Mead,
where the clansmen mustered, and seek
Coilantogle Ford, where the desperate
duel took place."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
swILLIE" WAS BUSY
when Mamma Found Him He Was
"Passing Cards" for Bootblack


From the New York Morning Telegraph.
A glistening car with liveried root-
man on the curb stood at the Firth Ave-
nue. door of a fashionable jeweler. Sud
denly a richly dressed woman, wildly ex-
cited. rushed, out. followed by several
young men from behind the counters.
"Where is my willie?" she cried. II
was looking at some jewels and he
sIinped away, Have you seen Willie?'
4 The footman shook his head stolioiy
In the negative.
Just then an elderly man, who was
reading a card and grinning. came into
Fifth avenue from around the corner.
He interrupted the excited mother.
..I beg your pardon, madame" he said
.J5e must have left blythe side door
while you were absorbed In the jewels.
I really thought 1t strange that a child
from some home of wealth should be
nassinr cards for bootblack. That is
what he was doing. He was probably
pressed into service by the quick-witted
bill passer."
She rushed through the crowd, and
found the child busy, as the stranger
had said.
NASTY cards!" exclaimed the mother.
seizing them Indignantly.
Willie was dragged to the car howl
ing.
"where did you get them?' she de-
manded.
Man gived 'em to me-" he bawled.
MAN told me to give EN- to my friends.
I want my cards"
Struggling with his mother, he was
whisked away in the car.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23

From the New York World.
TT is just a hundred years since SCOTS
poem, THE Lady of the Lake APP
1 peared. Not in one single year of
the century has it failed to bring to
Scotland many thousands of dollars.
Lockhart tells us that Immediately aft
or THE Lady of the Lake" was pub
katrine. and every hosiery in that
neighborohood was crammed with "A
succession of visitors. and from that
time the post-horse duty in Scotland
rose to an extraordinary degree"
Before THE Lady of the Lake" ap-
peared the Highlands of Scotland had
been unknown to jewellers south of the
Oh eviots, but from the date of its pub
LEGATION, the Southron invaded Scotland,
though more peaceably than in days of
yore.
Mr. st. John tells us in his wild
Sports of the Highlands" that young
English ladies took to wearing tartans
especially those of a gay color-and
the quiet jPerthshire loch and glens
were overrun by tourists quoting the
poem as they climbed Ben Venue. 1t
has been said that Walter Scott brought
more money into this country than any
other Scotsman.
Tourist "shrines" elsewhere have usu-
ally been associated with historic per-
sonalities-sueh as Shakespeares tomb,
Plymouth rock, the cell of Downward.
But 1t is historic fiction that has poured
money into the Highlands; for THE
Lady of the Lake. is a novel in rhyme.
Nowadays tourists do the trip in a
day from Glasgow to Edinburgh, be-
ginning with Rob Roy country, passing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
DIVORCE CARDS

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
A Cincinnati woman has issued divorce
cards explaining that she cannot see why
1t is not as proper to do that as to make
formal announcement OF engagements or
births. The Cincinnati woman probably
got her idea from John Jacob Astor, who,
a few months ago, gave a notable divorce
supper In New York.
Divorce cards will, in addition to the
information they convey, be useful in
showing the social standing of the di-
vorced lady and gentleman. For those
who make fine pretensons handsomely
engraved cards will have to be used,
while people in the humber walks of life
may be expected to get along with mere
printed cards. 1t might be suggested that
a particularly dainty grass widow might
add a pleasing touch by having her di-
vorce cards adorned with baby ribbon and
sent out in sweet scented envelopes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-23
A woNDERFUL GOWN

From the New York Press.
The gown which Mathilde Townsend OF
washington will wear at her marriage to
Peter G. Gerry has been shipped from
Paris. There are many things ABOUT 1t
that are interesting. The train alone, 1t Is
said. cost SIS, 900. 1t is a superb ex-
annie of modern point lace and Is OF ex-
ouisite workmanship The entire exterior
OF the costume is composed of point d'Al-
encon. which is considered by connois-
seurs as the most artistic and most
daintily ornate of all fabrics. The train
falls from the shoulders with a shawl
like effect. The under structure of the
gown is of white satin, yelled in the
finest of mousseline de sole. Parisian
costumers say the gown has two other
interesting features. First. the corsage
Is cut very low, like the gowns for
royal brides in Europe. Miss Townsend
has set the wedding hour at o'clock, and
she assumed that 1t would be proper to
wear such gown. Secondly. the skirt
10 OF the questionable cut, having
decorations and garlands. The gown was
ordered by cable, and the story is that
only 4 hours were spent in the actual
dpaking. - -