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The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
The Wedding Ring.

1t is interesting to contemplate
the historical and romantic asso-
Citations clustering around the
wedding ring. Indeed, the ring
as a sign of betrothal, with all
It's mystical significance, is of
the most remote origin. In its
form of a continuous circle, it
was looked upon as a symbol of
eternity and hence a token of the
durability of the affections.
In speaking of this band of
virgin gold. Wheatley says:
This ring is made of gold signi-
flying how noble and durable our
affection is; the form is round to
imply that our request or regards
shall never have an end; the
place for it is on the fourth finger
of the left hand, where the an
clients thought there was a vein
that came directly from the
heart, and where it may be al
ways in view, and being a finger
least used, where it may be least
subject to be worn out; but the
main end is to be a visible and
lasting token of the covenant
which must never be broken.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
If There is Room.

A II aveling salesman died very
suddenly in Kalamazoo, Mich.
His relatives teIegraphed the
florist to make a wreath; ordered
that the ribbon should be extra
wide, with the inscription, REST
in Peace. +" on both sides, and if
there is room, 1--WE Shall Meet
in Heaven. +"
The florist was out of town and
his new assistant handled the
job. 1t was a startling floral
piece which turned up at the
funeral. The ribbon was extra
wide and bore the inscription,
Rest in Peace on Both Sides,
and if there is room We Shall
Meet in Heaven. Norman E.
Mack's National Monthly.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
1909 pool, members of the 1O1C
pool became desperate.

pool became desperate.
Realizing that the crisis had
come President LeBus last night
sent out kilograms to all the
members of the district board,
calling them to a meeting in
Lexington tonight. From early
In the evening reports had been
coming in telling of the utter
failure of the meetings held in
different counties, and when the
district board assembled at 9
O'Clock every member who had
read these reports agreed that
the pool was dead. Hence, when
the situation was reviewed by
President LeBus in address to
the board there was practically
nothing left but to declare the
pool off. and though the matter
was discussed until nearly mid
night, it was only postponing
the inevitable end. When the
resolutions were at last offered
by President LeBus they were at
once adopted.
AS he came out of the meeting
after the resolutions were adopt
ed, President LeBus remarked;
The crop of tobacco is the
poorest and toughest ever raised
in Kentucky, and we will let
them have it and everybody get
on the dump together. But we
will hold on to our good tobacco
pool of 1909 and make them pay
US good money for it yet.
Next year we will go to work
and cut out the crop from Can
ada to the Gulf of Mexico and
see who will win this fight in the
long run, the trust or the organ
lied growers of Burley tobacco. :"
Lexington Paper.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
Why Meat is High.

Thirty-five per cent, is the
amount of profit Armour & Co.,
forced the public to pay last
year. This became known
through statement submitted
by Armour & Co., in connection
with the listing of a bond issue
of $4,000, 900 on the stock ex-
change. The company by its
own showing made gross profit
of $40, 582, 900 for the year 1909
on capital stock of $50, 900, 900
and earned a surplus of 81, 127,-
926, or the equivalent of divi-
dend of 1916 per cent. AS the
price Of beef was boosted with
the beginning of 1910 it would
appear that IN the opinion of Ar
mour & Co.. a 35.5 per cent,
profit on capital stock is not am
pie, even though the commodity
involved is one of the necessaries
Of life. Armour & Co., is one of
the beef trust firms which enjoy
ed perfect immunity from prose
cution by the government until
Federal Judge Lands of Chica-
go, an insurgent forced the Taft
administration to take cognizance
of the fact that the beef trust
was illegally holding up the pub
lie.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
Remedy for Hog Cholera.

The Bureau of Animal Indus
try at Washington claim to have
at last discovered a serum for
the incubation of hogs which
makes them immune from chol-
era. The statement is made that
the Stock Yards Company pur-
chased thirty pigs weighing 40
to 60 lbs, from farm free from
cholera. They were inoculated
with the blood of hogs suffering
from the disease and all became
affected in five days. Then Is
were given each one dose of the
serum while the others were not
treated in any way. The treat
ed and untreated pigs were then
put in the same pen with four
inoculated ones. The untreated
pigs all took the disease while
the Is treated ones were not
affected. This a pretty good
test but will be followed up.
The Department is not distri-
buting serum to farmers, but
hopes the stockmen may arrange
to get it through State agricul-
tural bureaus live stock societies.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
The Postal Banks Cheat.

Twelve hundred and fifty banks
in various parts Of the United
States already have made appli-
cation to the postoffice depart
ment to be designated depositor-
les for postal saving funds, and
648 postmasters have made re-
quests for the establishment of
postal savings banks in their Of
fees. About 80 per cent of the
applicants will be disappointed.
The government intends to start
but one or two postal banks in
each state for the present. Some
day, perhaps. possibly when a
central government bank which
can be manipulated by Wall
street comes into existence, the
postal bank system may be ex-
tended.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
Widening the Thanksgiving Circle.

Home is the natural objective
point for every one at the Thanks
giving season." says Margaet
E. Sangster in Woman's Home
Companion for Move mber. This
is why the stranger far from
kinsforlk and familiar friends is
specially lonely amid general
merry-making. Widen the circle
so that it may include at your
dinncr-table your boys chum
who can not cross the continent
to be with his own people on the
happy day, Let your daughter
invite from college two or three
of her girl friends to share
Thanksgiving with her.
Not long ago a man told me
that when first he left home to
become a clerk in a department
store in Philadelphia nothing so
touched him as the thoughtful
kindness of his employers wife
who never forgot to invite him
to her home on holidays, assuring
him that he was as welcome at
her Thanksgiving dinner as if he
had been a boy of her own.
There are ways of widening
the circle without necessarily
going into rhe highways and by
ways and bringing in the halt
and the blind. If there is among
your friends a washer-woman
who works hard to feed and
clothe her children, a seamstress
whose earnings barely cover her
needs, if there are orphan child
rem in whom you take an inter-
est. see to it that you share
Thanksgiving with them in an
unobtrusive way of sending good
cheer [ say, Intentionally.
amoung your friends. 1t is a
barren life in which sympathy is
confined to a single set of people
and unlesswe have friends among
all classes and conditions we are
to be pitied for our narrowness.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
The Great Balloon Trip.

Wellman, the daring acre
naut. with four companions. made
a dash last Saturday from Allan
tic City, N. j., in the huge air
ship. America. His Intention
was to cross the ocean to Europe.
For few hundred miles he
made progress, but at last he
met adverse currents and for
two days wireless communication
was stopped. He was swept
Southwark and his airship wreck
ed off the coast of North Caro-
lima, where he and all his COM
panions were picked up by a
passing steamer. 1t was a dar-
ing venture and shows the de-
termination of the present gen.
Grafton to out do all former adj
venturerS.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02

fill, but the blessed hope of see
ing her again should fully COM
pensate them for the grief they
have suffered in this affection.
May the dear Lord temper this
affiiction to their bruised hearts,
and l. am sure they have the
sympathy of a host of relatives
and friends, and we would point
them to the one who said, "Suf-
fer little children to come unto
me and forbid them not for of
such is the Kingdom of Heaven. :"
Mrs. w. H. Speer.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
A Hurry Call.

Is there a preacher on this
train?'' asked a large, dark-vis-
aged man as he passed from one
sleeper to another. At last, after
he had loudly repeated his query
for the 5th and 9th time, a grave
looking gentleman laid aside a
book and rose up from a seat
near one end of the car. II have
the privilege of being a minister
of the gospil, sir" he said. "Can
| be Of any service to your"
Yes, said the large passeng-
er. "A fellow back in the dining
car has bet me So that it wasen't
Lots wife who got Joseph in trou-
BILE and thought you might have
Bible with you, so | could prove
he was wrong and get the
money. National Monthly.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
In Memory.

Gracy Mable, little daughter of
Willie C. and Lilly Hays, of
Hatcher, Taylor county, KY, was
born December 10Th 1908, died
September 20 1910, aged one
year, nine months and thirty
one days, after a brief illness of
dyptheria. All that medical
skill and loving hands could do
was done to stay the approach
of death but,. His will not ours
be done.''
Mable as she was called was an
unusually bright child, the faith
er, mother and four brothers
lavished much affections upon
her, she being the only girl and
youngest child.
There is an empty cradle from
which the birding has flown and
a vacancy in the fond parents
hearts that no earthly glory can
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
Better Observe This.

Do you know that If you have
child between the age of seven
and sixteen that you are obliged,
under the law, to send it to
school? Section 267 of the Ken
lucky statues provides that par
ents CT guardians who have child
rem in custody or control must
send them to school regularly all
the time during the whole school
year. Children may be sent to a
public, private or parochial
school, for a full term equal in
length to the full term of the
public school in the district in
which the child resides.
ANY parent, guardian or any
other person having custody,
control or supervision of any
child embraced within the pro-
visions of this act who shall fail
to comply with the provisions of
this act shall be deemed guilty
Of misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding twenty.
five dollars for the first offense
and for any subsequent offense
upon a conviction thereof, shall
be fined in sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail FOL
a period not exceeding fifty days
or both SO fined and imprisoned
in the discretion of the court. =
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
Pool Off.

The Burley Tobacco Society's
pool of 1910 collapsed like a
punctured balloon and was offici-
ally declared off Saturday night
at a special meeting of the dis
trict board, held at the court
house in Lexington. With the
Burley pool, the pool launched
last week by the Scott county to-
bacco growers, led by Congress-
man ]. Campbell Cantrill, was
also abandoned, and the vast bulk
this year will all be thrown on
the open market. President
Clarence LeBus stated Saturday
night that while the 1910 pool
had gone to smash, the pooled to-
baeco of 1909 would be held by
the Society until the situation
had been improved and better
prices could be realized.
For the past week it has been
evident that the 1910 pool was
II ttering but. President LeBus
and the other members of the so
ciety chung to the one hope that
the step taken by the district
board last week, inviting ont
siders to sign pledges to be
placed in disinterested hands,
and for which meetings were to
be held, would yet save the day.
For several days, however, re-
ports had been coming in that
buyers were securing the country
buying up tobacco at an average
of 10 to IL cents, and that ever
many of the growers who were
members Of the pool had secretly
sold their crops.
Yesterday the prices at which
the 1910 pool was being auction.
ed became SO low that the so,
ciety had to reject them, anc
with prospect of not soon getting
the money for their crops in the
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02

ing angels gentle and helpful,
even as our Master had and this
is blessed comfort.
In this hurry scurry life of
ours we pass by UNDECIDED those
hearts who are yearning for
kindness or brotherly love. Their
struggles for progress are not
appreciated or commended, and
with sad hearts, and weary
bodies, they toll on, and in sor-
row they die-die without that.
the most blessed of all achieve
ents-the awakening of the hui
man heart to a full appreciation
of life. 1t is our highest duty to
scatter all the sunshine we can
in the paths of our fellow crea-
lures, and where sunshine is,
there is love and where dwells
love, every noble aspiration of
the human heart dwells.
Why, Oh why, do we keep the
alabaster boxes of our love and
tenderness sealed up until our
friends are dead. Fill our lives
with sweetness, speak approving
cherry words while our earthly
ears can hear. Don't wait until
we're gone to scatter your flow
ers. [ would rather have a fun
eral without a eulogy, than a life
without a sweetness of love and
sympathy. Flowers on the cof-
fin cast no fragrance backward
over the weary way. There are
times in most every life when a
little kindness is as an oasis in
their lives. More human life has
been poured out through the
flood gates of human tears than
through the reins of those who
bled and died in battle. If we
want to be for some one a pana-
cea, a sadness remover, or a
grief erase, it will warm our
hearts with happiness and illum-
mate our skies with smiles, and
blot out the wormwood of some
ones soul. Its value is without
money and without price, and
will go to our credit in the big
leger way up yonder."
With best wishes for the Adair
County News, / am,
Very Truly Yours,
Mrs. Anna Hovious.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02

An ordnance has been adopted
in Covington limiting the number
of passengers in street cars to
one and one third the seating
capacity.
The Adair County news., 1910-11-02
A Letter From North Dakota.

1t has been one year since |
chatted with my friends through
the columns of this friendly
paper, and so | am knocking
again for re-introduction.
/ feel that | could not greet
you better than to have Mr.. John
Wolford and wife sing No. l in
Windows of Heaven No. 3, fol
me, and make it my sentiment.
Really Pm thinking today of you
ALL
| said one year had passed, and
faded away. Have we left any
foot prints on the sands of time
In this year I've seen much OF
the handiwork of the Lord. He
has visited this country with a
frowning face. I've seen pretty
green fields of waring grain, in
three days time, turn yellow and
dead, as a result of hot winds.
But we are heroic still, we be-
lieve it is Gods Way" and like
the old Martyr of old, Though
he forsake us, we will trust in
Him still F" 1t some times takes
a blow to arouse us. and we feel
that We have had our blow.
In my letter to you, am go
ing to take a retrospective and a
present view of life. In order
that my readers may fully appre-
ciate my letter, let them go back
with me to some free from care
days of childhood and let us be
children together. Let us get
far away from the hustle and
mad rush of life, and breathe a
sweet fresh breath from the
fields of wheat and corn and Wis
it the old orchard where we, as
children, knew where the apples
hung reddest and ripest, and sit
under the old sycamore tree
down by the old spring house,
where Tom carved his name so
many years ago.
And rea'ler, Haven't you many
fond recollections clinging round
Your old school davs? Would you
not like to go back and tread Gin
the same happy way where your
footprints have been rained out
for many years, and go to the
meeting house and hear SER
mon preached from the soul?
Well, my mesmeric spell is
over and am standing at the
bead of a flight of years, and
casting downward glances. |
may need an Interpreter to help
solve some Of the hard things of
life, and if Bunyan in his Pill
grim's Progress never left his
pilgrims without a comforter.
neither will | in my vision of
life. These hard knocks of life
are only blessings in disguise, if
we could only bend our wills with
His. 1t is so hard to always say,
Thy will be done"
After the first comes the resig-
nation, which is like a calm Sc
rene, dewy morning after a
night of thunder and tempest.
One of the most beautiful feat
ures in the narrative is the feel-
ing presence of our departed
ones The history OF our Lord
from first to last is fragrant
with the sympathy, and musical
with the presence of these shin
ing ones. They announced his
coming to the Blessed among
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES
 SALE.

Notice is hereby given that whereas on the 31st day of March 1908, w. M. Caraway and wife, Rosanna, executed a deed of trust, in and by which they conveyed to c. F. Toll, as trus- tee, the following described real estate situated in Monroe county, Arkansas, to-wit: The south west quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two in township three north and in range two west, estimated to contain forty acres, to secure B. and R. H. Toll in the sum of one hundred and sixty-fve dollars and sixty-six cents, due by promissory note of even date herewith, payable in twelve months after date, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date until paid; which said mortgage was duly acknowledged to, and filed for record April 3, 1908, and re- corded in the office of the record CT of Monroe county in record book z at page 588; and whereas said note is now past due and remains wholly unpaid; and whereas said c. F. Toll, trustee, as aforesaid, has been called to sell said property and has re- fused to do SO; and whereas the undersigned has been appointed in writing by the said B. and R. H. Toll, the benefciaries in said mortgage, as trustee to act in the stead of said c. F. Toll; and whereas I, as such trustee, have been ordered to advertise and sell said land in satisfaction of the said mortgage debt and in- terest, Now
 Notice is hereby given, that as such trustee, and under and by virtue of the power and authority l in me vested by said mortgage, and pursuant to law, l will at the front door and main en- trance to the post office in the town of Brinkley in said county, | ON SATURDAY, THE 28TH
 DAY OF MAY, 1910
 between the hours of ten o'clock l in the forenoon and three O o'clock | in the afternoon, offer and sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash the said land, to- wit: The SWl4 SEA Sec. 3z 1 T 3N R 2W in Monroe county, Arkansas, together with all and singular the tenements, heredl- taments and appurtenances sit uate thereon or thereunto be- longing, to satisfy the indebted ness secured by said mortgage; the terms of said sale to be cash.
 ] CHAs. B. THWEATT, Trustee.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27

Do you Brinkley contestants know that there are people right here in town who are casting their vote s for outside contest ants? It's a fact. Do you know why? They have been solicited by the o -tside contestant. Did you know that you will have to fight in this contest all the way? It is getting along now where the hustling tells. We don't hear or know as much about this contest as you do but what we have heard leads us to believe that you we got to hustle and keep hustling all the time, in order to have the dray stop at your house and uni load that beautiful piano, some time in the near future.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
AN IDEAL HUSBAND

is patient, even with sagging wife. for he knows she needs help. She may be so nervous and run down in health that trifles annoy her. If she is melancholy. ex-
 citable, trouble, with loss of ap- petite, headache, sleeplessness, constipation or fainting and dizzy spells She needs Electric Bit ters the most wonderful remedy for ailing women. Thousands of sufferers from female troubles, nervous trouble, backache and weak kidneys have used them and become healthy and happy. Try them. Only Soc. Satisfaction guaranteed by All Druggists.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27

: Ezra Gossage returned to Hun te,. this week after a four weeks visit among his friends in Evans vilk:, Ind. ard Flora, Ill. i HA o. Penrose and B. s. Carle- ton owing to the heavy rains were forced to abandon their car at McCiory and return via Cot ton Belt.
 Geo. nenrick, of Belleville,
 who purchased rice land in tie
 Hunter district, is the guest o1 Gao. H. Poston. MT. Henrick will remain a few weeks this wear, and next year will develop
 his property
 r The straw berry supper given Fy the Ladi ss' Aid Saturday
 y,ioht was ] decided success.
 n,he tables were beautifully deco rated with 'oses. The seven lit He girls who assisted were: | Mary Ennm, Quisenberry, Anra IFMcCree. Carria Chapit, Mary Howard, Susie Reach, So'a Kos, kenbaum.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
| y Ek, of Brinkley, W

I U MEk, of Brinkley, vii mo fe lis family to Wheatley and ta z up tEo work for the rest of t. year in Bro. Heatley's place. Bro. Msck's sermon Sunday I ght interested his many hear CTS.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred H. Hunter and son left for Des Moines, last week. MT. Hunter will re- turn in a few weeks to look after his large rice interests. Mrs. Hunter will spend the Summer in Wisconsin. Their many friends will welcome them back.
 Rev. Heatley, pastor of the Methodist church, has resigned his pastorage here and at Wheat ley and has gene to Mamm, tn Springs where he has entered the Presbyterian church. His many friends regret to see him leave but wish him all the suc- cess in the world in his new field.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
A REGULAR TOM BOY

was Susie-climbing trees and fences, jumping ditches, whist ling, always getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruises, bumps, burns or scalds. But laws! Her mother applied Bueklen's Ar nica Salve and cured her quick. Heals every thing healable Boils Ulcers, Eczema, Old Sores, Corns or Piles. Try it 25c at All Drug, gists.
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27

One curious thing about the average victim of the fraudulent wiles of pseudo religious sharpers and fake spiritualists is that he is unwilling to be convinced that he has been feeced out of his money by rascals and impostors.
 I was drawn into a case once where a rich widow had been hypnotized by band of clever swindlers. They posed as medi- ums and their regular stunt was to produce the lady's deceased husband. They caused his figure to appear in weird phosphor- escent light at every seance and topped this off hy having the departed tell his
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27
Widow Saved
 Against Her Will
By COL. L. 0. LATHAM of St. Louis

$ooo the perpetrators of the fraud This she did gladly through her vneraton of the dead man and when into their ghoush hands nearly all of been left her. It with the utmost d cy getting her to take advice and refuse any further demands made by the crooks thoroughly had she fallen under their influence.
 $oooo remaining to her she going to give them to erect temple with her husbands wishes 1hereupon steps, and the a being put under arrest were made percentage of their M gotten wealth. Almost to the very sought protect resented action and was
 long got friendly n grateful frame of mind
The Brinkley argus., 1910-05-27

Cidtc SUCH cndTdcterS uIueT tne cover OL DOOkS Parents forget that from the perverted admira- ton of such heroes to the emulation of their deeds IS but step. Since so many parents neglect the supervision of their children in this respect and the public is the sufferer in the end, it devolves upon society as matter of sefprotection to suppress the sale of such perncious literature. It inconsist ent to hang body of men for preaching anarchy to adults who supposed to know better, and on the other hand to allow the broadcast dissemination of similar ideas supefyng the moral perception of our youth. It is noteworthy fact that most of the mur- ders highway robberes and other atrocous crimes, the relating of which fills our newspapers, are committed by persons of youth and vigor