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The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-23
SIX KILLED 0N COASTER
CONEY ISLAND PLEASURE SEEK
 ERS FLUNG SIXTY FEET.
Cars Were Rushing 70 Miles an Hour When Accident Cccurred-Ten
 Other Passengers Hurt.

New York, June 23-Carrying mer- rymakers at a speed of seventy miles an hour, two cars on the switchback railway at Coney Island jumped the track. Sixteen persons were hurled to the ground from a height of sixty feet and six of the victims are dying at the Coney Island hospital The fa- tally injured:
 Minnie Cobalt.
 Tessie Ericson
 Richard Raddemacher.
 Rose Wilson
 Manuel De Colo, all of Brooklyn.
 Harry Fletcher of Los Angeles, Cal.
 The others of the sixteen were se- riously injured. The railway has sev- en inclines running from the Bowery to the Beach. The highest of these is sky feet, and it was from this the victims were hurled.
 Ten persons were hurled from the cars and plunged through the mass ot painted scenery and props about the inclines. They landed in the road be- low in an unconscious heap. The oth- CT six went down with the cars and were pinioned beneath the wreckage,
 Policemen nearby, hearing the crash, sent for the reserves from the Coney Island station, and also put in ambulance calls The victims were quickly transferred in ambulances to the hospital,
 Pinto the nan ir charge Of the cars, Was taken lg the police station. He said the accident was unavoidable. He could not explain how he alone of all of those in the cars lad been un- hurt.
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REDUCED RATES

Pine Bluff and retsrn, s,. account Twenty fifth a s'' Communication of Grand ou' m ter Order of Eastern Sta. 1il' State of Arkansas On solo ., II 25th to 29th; good returnins 'u til July 3rd.
 Helena and return, s7:95; count annual convention Knights of Pythias (coIorod,. sale July 24th and 25th; good turning until July 29th.
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Notice

The annual session of the NJ vada County Singing Conventin will be held at Prescott on Sa urday and Sunday July } and 1910. Every class in the Count, is urged to send delegates to tb; meeting. The committee had n, suggested a book to be used, br come on and bring all voD books.
 j. A Bailey,
 Presiden
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passed a law abolishing the tax, but the mayor took a trip on a street car to get the evidence on which a test case will be pressed. The tax means $72,000 a year to the city if won.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-23
Frail Women
 Aided Fre(

The woman who is by nature noS robust cannot be too careful of be1 health. The foundation of all health is in the stomach Without good dil gestion the body is not nourished and then soon becomes feeble and weak In order to have good digestion reg-I ular bowel movement is absolutelyI necessary, and ii is at this point that so many women neglect themselves,
 In any of these conditions you cannot do better than to take Dr. CaldwelIs STupI Pepsin, the remedy that thousands oil delicate women are using. II is the greatI family laxative. and in addition to its| wonderful power to cure chronic consti.I patton and chronic indigestion, 1t con. tains tonic properties that strengthen ths| stomach muscles so that in time they will work naturally again without the aid of medicine.
 Any druggist will sell you a bottle forl the small sum of 90 cents. though persons who have used the remedy before aM| know what it is buy the Sl size. Mrs Amanda Grammar, of Alyarado, Va, whol is 6S and feeble. uses 1t regularly and speaks in the highest praise of 1t. Esther Pine, of Marion, Ind. is also an enthusiast of this wonderful remedy and she wished she had the fortune to tell the whole world about 1t. Both these ladies, as well as hundreds of others we could name first became acquainted with Dr. Cald- wells Syrup Pepsin through the doctors offer to send any sufferer a free test bottle direct to the home.
 He will send you or any other sufferer a sample bottle free of charge on receipt of your name and address. It is won- derfully effective in the stomach troubles of children and babies, girls entering the period of menstruation and old folks, all of whom need a gentle laxative.
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If there Is anything about your ailment that you don't understand, or If you want any medical advice, write to the doctor, and he will answer you fully. There is no charge for this service. The address is Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 5Os Caldwell bldg, Monticello, Ill.
The Prescott daily news., 1910-06-23
The Prescott Daily News
 PUBLISHED BY The News Printing Go.

Entered as second class mail matter November 4th, 1905, at the postoffice 1t Prescott, Ark, under the act of ongress, March 8, 1879.
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sumed somebody asked Mr.. Mann n his
wife had made the good things. and, II
not. where they had come from. And
he began to laugh.
It turned out that the fruit cakes.
pound cakes and cookies had all been
made entirely out OF cottonseed meal at
some place down in Texas. where a
corporation OF hopefuls is confident that
cottonseed meal Is going TO supplant
wheat -four and cornmeal at some not
far distant day.
The stuff certainly was good. The day
afterward ! asked chemist friend OF
mine for some information about cotton
seed meal. and was surprised when ne
told me that 1t contained more nutritious
elements than meat, and was fine for
folks
Just think. 1t was only a compare
lively few years ago when the cotton
ginners used to brow cottonsesd away
even pay folks for taking 1t away. And
it's only use was for fertilizer. Then they
began to feed IL to cattle. and found 4,
made them fat Then they began to
extract cotton seed oil, which now makes
the journey to Italy and comes back as
the real product of the olive. At least
this was true before the pure food law
went into effect, and probably Is now. Ia
a certain extent And now cottonseed
meal is on the market for use in cakes
and bread and sucn.
Aren't we the progressive people over
on this side Of the globe?
IRVING c. NORWOOD.
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all these years, that women haven't
got as much sense Of reason az red
ant on a hot rock I guess I'm hopeless;
that's all.
VIVA say? You wanted to visit your
folks out on the farm during the holt
days, and 1 wouldn't let you go? Well.
dye spose L was going to have you
gallivanting around the country in the
middle OF winter, with nobody to look
after me here but that impudent rip of
a maid we had then, and everything
cold and clammy and dreary around
whats the difference between your
going then and goin this coming sum-
mer? A heap OF differences! All the
difference on earth! The summers the
time when. fellow sort Of feels like
throwing or the shackles and mean
you'd have q lot more fun visiting the
farm in summer, wouldn't you. than in
piling out there in the middle OF win
ter. with snow on the ground. and
''Oh, that's it. Is it? You like the
ocean breezes yourself pretty we'll in
summer, do you, and you don't feel
called upon to handbook yourself in the
middle Of Ohio during the fine open-air
months on the Atlantic seaboard, hey?
Oh, I might have known you'd say
something like that. Always, forever
perpetually, perennial1y thinking about
yourself and nobody else. I tell you
what, this matrimonial game as it's
practiced in the United States isn't
fair deal. and you know it, It's lop-
sided, and the man gets the punk end
OF it at every stage Of the route. He's
expected to dig out, day after day, week
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suggested that IL you were to visit your
people for a couple Of months this sum-
mer you could have a fine restful time
on the farm while L
"Hull, there you go! You imagine that
the minute q mans wife goes away on
summer trip he begins to haunt the booze
orfums and to hang around the stage
doors Of summer shows. and drinks ham-
self to the verge Of the d. is. and scouts
around playing poker all the rest OF the
time. That's the kind Of hasheesh stun
you read In the jokesmdth's columns. ana
you women all believe that dope. and
that's the reason you stick and stick ana
stick around until absolutely a fellow
sometimes feels like
Huh? It's no such a thing, and you
know 1t when you say it! Me all run
down and nervous and sick when you
came back home from your visit to
your folks farm three summers ago?
That's all rot: was feeling as fit as
a bulldog when you got back that Time
only I was annoyed when you came
romping back upon me without letting
me know that you were coming. l
telegraphed for you, asking you 70
come home? Ha, ha! Well. well. II
had an Imagination like yours Ia be
unreeling best sellers with both hands
day and night, and I'd
but, shucks! What's the use OF
man getting himself all worked up ar
1uine with a woman? I'm fool to
do It. II haven't learned yet, after
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bogus fight against going out TO Ohio SOS
to make me keen on the subject Of your
going-aha. Well, men are a dumb lot.
but / guess you'll not find me SO dunno
as you thought. l know what these
country clubs in the middle west are,
you know. Know all about 'em. Those
country clubs out there can give the
sporty restaurants in a city cards ana
spades and then beat them up for het-
uppiness, and
Aha! So that's it, is it? And all or
those hanky-panks and rubzes of old
beaus OF yourse have staked themselves
to buzz wagons now. have they, and you
were framing up-scientifcally framing
up-a cute little summer for yourself on
your folks farm, were you?
We'll. I'm going to have my head ex
amined under the violet rays that's all.
1t needs ii. When you can come SO near
to getting away with frame-up like
that, it's pretty nigh time
But I guess I'm still allowed to han
die the little old canceling machine
around here. You lose on that Ohio
scheme Of yours for this summer-lose
good and plenty. / guess we'll just put
in the summer on this side OF the AL
leghenies. as usual, a couple OF weeks
at the beach. and so on.
But just to think of how near I came
to BITING You pretending all the time
that you loathed the idea Of visit to
your folks this summer, and all the
time you were thinking about those
rubes and zekes and their rattletybang
old gas gigs-and me falling for it! It'll
be a Lizzie's House finish for me, just
sure as I'm a foot high
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whisper or frightened mouth he
speaks, rather than with words. He
says:
Enter. but step softly"
Whereupon he makes bold to go m
side and ask for a copy of the health
inspectors reports for the week. Once
they were kept downstairs in DR..
Woodwards office, but now-who knows
where they are kept? Surely. the pub
lie never hears of them any more. Are
there any more such reports? Who
knows?
Then the bells ring. and attendants
come softly sliding in The trembling
reporter sneaks away. remembering
that he is to come again and ask for
the reports after conference has been
held. A conference is held. Secrets.
Muffied talk! Don't let them know
what the state of the public health
might be. Away with all newspaper
men!
But then, remembering what the
boys used to do toward getting SAL
aries raised, toward writing pieces for
the papers which showed the officials
off in complimentary light; remember
ing that once every half week long
columns would appear showing that
the force was really doing something
whereas now 1t might be dead and no
one would know the difference-the In :
spectors beg that just little bit be
allowed to go into the papers.
And Jove, sitting on his frowninS
mount, relentS.
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those with whom l have done business,
that is to say-possess business views
that are simply childish said the pub
Usher.
only few days ago permitted my
self to become quite unnecessarily vexed
with a writing man who came here to
see me. Last fall we published piece
of fiction he had written. 1t was his
first book.
Quite unexpectedly-that is. we Of the
firm didn't expect it, even IL the author
did-the book was big success as q seller
from the beginning. Within four months
we had sold nearly $1,000 copies Of the
book. This fine sale, of course, put the
young man who wrote the book in clover.
His royalties during those four months
were in the neighborhood Of $4,000.
This writer had never had anything
like so much money before, and erieve
to say that he quite lost his head when
the money began to flow in upon him.
Unfortunately. he had penchant for
bucket-shop gambling. Now. $4,000 is g
right tidy little Sum of money II devoted
to the ordinary uses and comforts OF
life. But 1t isn't such terrible lot of money
wherewith to crafty passion for gam
bling in bucket shops. Pretty nearly all
of this young mans $1,000 royalty money
on his book went into the tills Of the
bucket shop operators. When he was
pretty we'll cleaned out the sales of his
book had begun to sag quite appreciaoiy.
'.Of course. he noticed the sagging
sales Of his book. for he was very keen
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me and put me on the defensive; go
right ahead!
But I'll tell you one thing, and that
is that if you're not going to visit your
folks in Ohio this summer. l certainly
am not going to spend my vacation hik-
ing you around summer resorts. I've had
all that kind of stuff I care for Wen
stay right here and Hows that?
Would 1 keep this apartment open II you
went out to visit your folks? Sure
would, Where dye s'pose I'd sleep? On
top Of the Washington Monument?
You see, my dear, my idea is that IL
YOU went out to Ohio, why. we could let
the maid go, and I could just sleep here,
you see and get my meals anywhere.
and the janitor's wife could keep the
apartment Strengthened up, and probably
while you're gone I'll have the place re-
papered and new burlap put on the dining
room walls; and look at the fun you'd
have with the chickens and things out
there on the farm-how you do love
chickens, to be sure!--and you could have
those fine old buggy rides you like so
much. and you'd feel a thousand times
better out there than you would padding
I'D and down a board walk In some fool
summer resort where you'd have to dress
four or five times day, and
Huh? Why don't l go out to the farm
with you, then? BY the way, I'm going
to have some Of these alienists look your
head over. 1 certainly am. What! You
want to drag me off to a measley old
mean to say, how the dickens could
leave my work? Answer me that? Any
how, when it comes to that, and since
you're SO blamed inquisitive about it, let
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He says the papers can learn the
whole truth.
And the truth is. after all this hard
work. this secret conclave. this patter-
ing OF the gum shoes over the sacred
pavement in the northeast corner OF
the fifth fioor-let me repeat-the truth
that comes from this great upheaval is
that Mike Murphy and Boots Nc
Cracker were convicted Of keeping a
dirty free lunch fork and were repri-
manded horribly in the Police Court.
HAVE eaten everything in the way of
= breakfast food, from chopped hay to
desiccated corn cobs, and thought there
was nothing in the way Of near-feed In
the almost human dietary that I hadn't
tackled. But I was wrong. The other
day, just about lunch time. Charlie Mann.
superintendent Of the House press gal
lery, pulled a. big box out of his store
room and opened it UP. Then he laid
out on the big table in the working room
of the gallery the most scrumptious look
ing fruit cakes. the most attractive LOOK
ing pound cakes, and the crispest, brown
est. incest looking, old-fashioned. home
made cookies, that ever were seen.
''Get busy. gents he said.
And we all did.
After the last crumb had been con-
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me tell you that our cases are wholly
different. You were virtually brought UP
on that farm out there, whereas I don
know anything about farms. I was born
and bred in the city, and
"Oh, that's all the more reason why 1
should enjoy learning something about
farm life, is it? Great line OF reason
ing that. Why don't you ship as car
penters mate on q man-O'-war sos you
can learn how to SILVER your timbers
and splice the starboard rail ridgerope
and all like that? Huh?
But here I 60 again. Numbering On
like an Internal pulpnut, when I know,
or ought to know, that there isn't
chance in the world that you'll ever meet
my views with regard to anything, and
that
"How's that? You were only fooling
and you meant all the time to go out to
visit your folks in Ohio? Well, that's
something like til That's a dear girl,
and I'm sure you'll have the finest
Imaginable sort OF a time. and when
you get back
How? You're sure yourself that
you'll have a fine time, because there's
a fine new automobile and country club
out near your folks farm now. and all
Of your old beaus have sold their horses
and buggies and bought themselves au-
tomobiles, and you-er-you-you-
Well, I like that, logged ii don't!
So that's your idea. is It? Well, 1
always thought 1 was more or less
blind. and now I know it. I see 1t all
now. You've only been putting UP
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rs he in?" trembles the reporter.
Hush. I'll see.' returns the attenu
ated attendant

"Is he in?" trembles the reporter.
Hush. I'll see." returns the attenu-
ated attendant.
And thereafter ensues a long, long
wait. Hours, perhaps, pass. Editions
go roaring to press, the droWsy hum or
the streets Is punctuated by the cries
of newsboys who know nothing of the
waiting. trembling reporter in the ante
room Of the northeast corner of the
fifth floor Of the District building. Mys-
FERROUS gum-shoed folk pass in and out
with whispers on their lips. Papers are
Rugged to the breasts Of those who
have them in charge. Sly chances are
cast toward the trembling reporter. who
clingS desperately to the hope that he
may get an interview.
He plays the part Of one c1ingfng 10
rock of forlorn hope, like wrecked
sailor crouching on a granite coast
with beating rains soaking his tat
tered and miserable clothes He can
not rise supreme, Indifferent to the
calumnies of this atmosphere OF men
who try to slip behind his back so
that he will not see that they have n
copy OF the birth reports in their c1ench-
ed hands. Why do they slip thus be-
hind him? Because the reports may
contain some newsstand, faith, ne
might be constrained to print 1t.
Whilst he, poor soul, says:
Faith. birth report 10 better than
nothing at all"
Then speaks the attenuated attendant.
With his eyes and the half-formedi
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in dealing with a man like that were
great deal more inclined to treat him gen
erously than with one who does the BOBBY
act and fills the air with his lamentations.
lone Of the most successful men now
on our list of authors knew how to take
his medicine when he first brought mis-
wares to us. and assuredly he has lost
nothing by it.
The first book he gave to US On the
royalty basis. 1t was far better piece
of fiction than the average, but it died
1t couldn't be given away.
1T came along at the wrong hour. or
something, but, anyhow, he never got
cent out Of it, for we didn't get back the
cost of putting the book on the market.
But the author made no complaint at all.
Said he'd been taking chances all his
life, and that he never looked for the
color of money. anyhow. until he saw the
money in his hand. But the next book
he submitted to us he said he wanted to
sell outright, because he was dead broke
and had a. family and needed a little
money for himself. He named the mod
est sum Of $500. and we bought the book
outright at that figure. We had a good
deal of respect for that writer. on &C
count Of the game way he'd taken his
failure to make the cost Of the pens and
ink and paper out Of his first book.
well. that second book Of his was the
biggest kind of a winner from the first
week it appeared on the counters. After
the first fortnight we were browbeatins
our bookbinders because they couldn't let
us have enough copies Of the book 10
supply the demand. The book started
right off among the six best sellers, and
in a case like that we wouldn't felt bit
put out, nuch less surprised, had the
author turned up and suggested that he
ought to have a look-in for some OF the
big profits
"But the fellow never came near us.
Didn't emit whimper when all Of the
newspapers, in their literary reviews,
were cracking his book up to the skies
and when the publishers trade papers
book was enjoying. If he had taken the
usual petulant and peevish part OF
authors in such circumstances. the $500
for which he had sold the book certainly
would have been all he'd ever have got
out of it. But when the book had leap
ed past the $4,000 mark inside Of six
weeks. 1 had little conference with my
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TAi\H

srybody they know about what they saw
did. said and what she and he said while
on their summer vacations.
It is a pleasure to be able to record the
fact that quite q number Of the susges-
tions then put forward were cheerfully
and, we hope, successfully adopted In
Washington by victims of returned sum-
mer vacationers.
We find now, however, that q new need
has arisen, viz. a method or methods
whereby the returned winter vacationers
may be eidetracked from dull and dreary
narratives of their Journeys or voyages.
The winter vacationers are becoming
very numerous in and around our midst.
and they are just a. keen to herd you
into a shadowy corner or pin you against
a stanchion and tell you the hull thing
about their trips as are the summer vaca-
TONERS. A great many or the winter vaca-
TONERS are just now getting back to our
fair city. Consequently 1t becomes I'm
perative to discuss, tentatively. as IL were.
new methods of thwarting them In tneir
Durpose to tell all hands al about tnear
winter vacations.
We can see now, with tho perspsc,a. "e
OF time yawning between now ana iast
summer, that some OF the methods We
then suggested may have been character-
ized by certain crudeness winch peInaPs
served to arouse suspicion. For exempao.
when upon meeting the man you k nov
time since his return. you suddenly cap
your hand to your jaw and begin 70 moan
about an liberated tooth. followinS IN
ny incontinently beating 1t down the
street Ito dentists. as you mu.tes
agonizedly over your shoulder, the just
hack vacationer is bound to regard your
action with more or less doubt. psrtic-
ularly If before encountering you he has