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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1911-07-01
Personals

F. L. Blair went to Little Rock this
morning.
Roger Stevenson left this morning
for Morrilton.
Rev. P. Zell returned this morning
from Morrlton.
LOST-Pair rimless nose glasses.
Please return to this office.
Mrs. Custer Ludwig of Ola is. here
visiting relatives and friends.
Burt Jones of Argenta, former
Conway citizen, is here today.
If you need sweet milk or cream call
Jackson's Dairy. Phone 219-3 rings.
VIM. Cady, Baggage and Express
man. Day or night. Phone 321&10O. If
Do you want good Jersey COW?
If so, see Burr Walthal at once. diff
FOR SALE.-Six hens and one
cockerel Rhode Island Reds. Phone
316. 240-w4t*
Miss Lilly Hartley left this morning
for visit to Little Rock relatives and
friends.
FOR SALE.-Three Jersey male
calves, all subject to registration. See
L. w. Allinder. dat
Claud Gore returned to Little Rock
this morning, after "a short visit to
his family here.
Paul Naylor has returned to Little
Rock, after visit to the family of
Judge w. B. Wilson.
LOST.-Solar bicycle lamp between
town and Hendrix College. Reward
for return to this office.
Furnished Rooms for rent or board
ers taken. Apply to Mrs. j. E. Han
cock, corner Center street and College
avenue. If
Miss Mamie F. Wright left this
morning for her home at Fort Smith,
after visit to Dr. and Mrs. |. N.
McCollum.
Miss Mary A. Bernard, art teacher
at the Normal, left this morning for
New York, where she will study for
several weeks
Insure with the Aetna Fire of
Hartford. Cash capital, $4,000 900,
assets, $21,0 100000. J. D. Dunaway,
Agent, Conway, Ark. tt
Miss Nora Yelverton, who has been
attending the summer term of the
Normal, left this morning for her
home at Tuckerman.
Harry S. Speck of Ell Dorado is
here to visit his wife, who is spend
ing a few weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Witt.
Rev. A. P. Scofeld came up this
morning from Little Rock and went
out to Vilonia, where he breaches at
the Baptist church tomorrow.
Mrs. M. A. Owen has returned frorl
trip to relatives and friends at
Greenbrier and other points in the
northern part of the county.
7 ,ho 90
business college at Little Rock, came
up this morning to spend few days
with hi sparents at Greenbrier.
Governor George w. Donaghey is
spending today in Conway attending
to some personal business.
All the barber shops in Conway a.l.
be closed on July 4. In the list pub
lished yesterday the name of Gibbon
& Honea was accidentally left off.
This store will also observe the DAY.
Rv. c. S. Mason, who is i'll at Lay
man hotel, is reported to be slightly
improved.
The City Bakery will close at II
o'clock on the morning of July Attn.
Those desiring bread must get their
orders in by 10 o'clock and we will
positively close at IL. Caspar Dun
Just received fresh car cotton
seed hulls and meal. Let me put in
your summers supply now while they
last. w. L. Robbins. Telephone No.
1862. If
The City Bakery will close at il
o'clock on the morning of July Attn.
Those desiring bread must get their
orders in by 10 o'clock and we will
positively close at IL. Caspar Dunn
Taken Up-Two hound pups, ap-
parently pedigreed stock. Owner may
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1911-07-01
WEATHER FORECAST.

Tonight and Sunday, generally
fair.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27

THE military value of the cavalry | branch has been enormously in- creased by the adoption of wireless telegraphy, for the first time in this country thoroughly tried out in the Texas maneuvers.
 The signal corps had devised an ex- tremely light and portable wireless ap- paratus, easily carried on the back of a horse and capable of being put into operation from any point in the field within few minutes. It was found that the messages could be readily re- ceived when the cavalry detachment was anywhere within twenty-five miles of a receiving station, fact which added greatly to the value of the cav airy in its scouting capacity. A light collapsible steel mast, not much larger than a fishing rod, served to support
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Interior Department Issues Warning

COMPLAINTS have been received O from settlers on reclamation pro jects that by reason of the misrepre- sentations of land agents they have been induced to purchase lands which were afterward found to be without any rights to water from the govern ment canals. The secretary of the in- terior issued a warning which, while 1t refers particularly to the Rio Grande project in New Mexico and Texas, is equally applicable to other projects containing large areas of private lands.
 "All persons are warned against ac- cepting any statements concerning this project without inquiry from the officers of the reclamation service. Ex- perience has shown that some warning of this kind is necessary because mis- leading statements have been issued regarding the project and the condi- hons existing upon 1t.
 Tn particular, attention is directed to the requirements of the reclamation act regarding residence and cultiva- ton. The act prescribes that no right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract ex- ceeding 16O acres to any one land own
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Wireless Telegraph for the Cavalry

the antennae necessary to establish communication.
 The real purpose of the recent great assemblage of troops in Texas, aside from international Considerations, was the creation of one tremendous mili- tary unit, and that was successfully ac- complished for the first time since the Civil war, in the opinion of Major Gen. eral Carter, the commander in chief of the maneuver division.
 Five times the cost of this operation would not measure the value to the country of the experiment, declared General Carter. It was the first oppor- tunity that the modern army had to get together all branches of the sery- ice-the infantry, the cavalry, the artil- lery, the transportation and subsist- ence departm ents-and to make a thorough test of what had been purely theoretical estimates of the proper bal ance between them.
 This problem was worked out by the test of actual practice, and General Carter feels that when he left Texas there had been brought into being the perfect military unit which had been so long desired by army strategists.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
STALE PHRASES ARE NEEDED
Writer Who Expresses . Powerful Emotion Must Say What Has
 Been Said Countless Times.

Our dramatic critic, in his review of Sardou's play Above Suspicion" said of one of the characters that This lips were sealed" and remarked that such phrases necessarily accompany such plays. They do. indeed. and the use of them makes one understand the emotional quality of such plays better than the most elaborate andy sis of them.
 There are hundreds of phrases like this, containing metaphors both vio- lent and stale, which are only used seriously by writers who snatch at the easiest means of expressing an emotion which they do not feel. For if a writer has 8 real emotion of his own to express he will either use metaphor suggested to him by that particular emotion or none at all. This is a matter of instinct, not of literary art; for a fresh emotion will not be satisfied with stale phrases but will feel itself misrepresented by them. That is one reason why. when power fully moved, we are often so inarti- culate. We feel that commonplaces will not serve our turn, but we have nothing to put in their place. The writer's task is to be neither inarticu- late nor commonplace. He must not be artless. nor must he give us bad art for good. If he has a new idea to express he Is not tempted by stale phrases. For they are associated with emotions rather than with thoughts. since emotions are not discoveries. like new ideas, and when expressed in literature are valued, not for their novelty, but for the power with which they are expressed. Thus, a writer who expresses a new idea says what has never been said before, but a writer who wishes to express a pow erful emotion has to say what has probably been said a thousand times. and by bad writers as well as good. These bad writers have burdened our memory with metaphors, some of them nfeless from the first, some kill ed by constant repetition, or in appro- in our minds because they have been so often repeated. The good writer's mind is often infested with them. so that. before he can find the phrase he wants. he must reject half dozen that he does not want. This is the penalty that he has to pay for living at time when literature is old and language sophisticated. London Times.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Census Shows Increased Farm Values

the extension of agricultural activities into western North and South Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, and into north ern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi- gan. These increases offset impor- tant decreases in other sections.
 The increases in total farm acreage, in the order of their importance, are: North Dakota, S3 per cent; South Da- kota, S6 per cent; Nebraska, 29 per cent; Michigan, 8 per cent; Wiscon- sin, 6 per cent; Minnesota, per cent; Kansas. per cent. and Mis- souri, per cent. The decreases are: Iowa. Indiana and Ohio, each 2 per cent, and Illinois. 1 per cent. There are also important decreases in the older sections of the other states, but these decreases are offset by the larger increases. The average acreage per farm reported in 1910 was 157, as against IA in 1900, an increase of IS acres, or per cent
 Each of the states on the western border of the division, and those along the Canadian border, show increases in the number of farms. These in creases, in the order of their, impor- tance, are: North Dakota, GA per cent; South Dakota. AT per cent; Nebraska. 6 per cent; Wisconsin, per cent; Kansas and Michigan, each per cent. and Minnesota, per cent. These in- creases are partly offset since the old CT, well-settled states show decreases in the number of farms, as follows: Illinois and Iowa, each per cent; h. diana and Missouri. each per cent, and Ohio, per cent.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
IS MADE OF RUSTLESs IRON
sisted corrosIon During a Period
 of 2,9oo Years.

On the plains of Delhi in India there
 stands a massive iron pillar. nearly
 sixty feet in length and weighing
 about nineteen tons This ancient
 column is literally a monument to the
 "antiquated" processes and metallur-
 gists that produced 1t. for 1t has re- sisted the attack of the clements dur ing a period of about 2,900 years in
 which fully a million times its bulk of Iron or steel has crumbled into useless dust. No one would suggest that civi- lized man return to the primitive and laborious methods by which the iron of this column was made so long ago. and besides there are not men enough living today to supply our present de- mands, even if all of them should en- gage in this type of manufacture. But, granting that the world would pay for a limited amount of iron as passive" as this old Kutub pillarf it is very doubtful whether modern tron-workers know how to make it. Probably this specimen of unusual iron was the re- suit of accident rather than design, as far as its resisting qualities are concerned, and 1t stands today the sur vival of the Attest, not so much be- cause it was intended to be. as be- cause 1t proved to be, the most last ing. For 1t Is not likely that a proc ess known to give iron of this kind would ever have been used so seldom, since the importance of a rust-resist- ing iron and steel was as much appre- ciated in those days as now. No doubt all the older processes made iron and steel which rusted- less-yes. and some of it very much less-than what Is usually produced today. but there is a great difference between this mere excellence and a resist ance to corrosion during thirty cen turies such as this column shows Magazine.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
How Dr. Graham Bell Keeps Away Heat

n URING the recent heat waves, cost O ing in six days 12O lives in New York city alone, Dr. Alexander Gra- ham Bell, the inventor of the tele- phone, stoked up the ice stove, his newest invention, in his Washington home, and felt quite comfortably cool while others were sweltering in an at mosphere from which there appeared to be no prospects of relief. Doctor Bell is not going to patent his ice stove.
 Doctor Bells ice stove is the exact opposite of the ordinary coal furnace While the latter consumes coal and radiates heat to keep up the tempera- ture, the former consumes ice and ra- diates cooling waves of air to keep it down.
 On the ground floor of Doctor Bells Washington residence is what was once a swimming tank. Having been built to hold water, it can safely be depended upon to hold cold air. It is a we'll known fact that cold air is heavier than warm air. Everybody has noticed that when a window is opened in a room in cold weather the feet feel the cold first. This is because the admitted cold air has fallen to the floor. So if cold air was poured into
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Character In HandwrItIna.

If you write a small, almost fem mine hand 1t may be sign that you are destined to be great statesman. according to David N. Carvalho, who finds that small handwriting is often characteristic of great men. Grover Cieveland's handwriting was of this type and SO was William McKinley's.
 You find this type of writing in the large handed men," said MT. Carval- ho. the men who are broad shoul- dered and well built. not perhaps tall. |"
 If you are a woman and make little pothooks at the end of your final ms and e's you are not likely to spend much money on the latest nov cities in dress, nor are you apt to bother to do your hair up in puffs. Indeed these little twists on the end of letters indicate that you would make a sensible and economical wife. Your defect would be that you might embarrass your husband by eccen- tricity in dress through carelessness. A slurring penmanship indicates liter ary ability.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27

VXI ASHINGTON.-The value of farm W land per acre in the north central states has practically doubled in the last ten years, according to bulletin issued by the census bureau. The to- tai value of farm lands and buildings in the division has increased from less than $1O,OOO,OO in 1900 to more than $2O, O,OOO, ,OOO in 1910, while the number of farmers has increased only a frac- ton of one per cent
 More than two-thirds of the farmers In the section own their own farms, while more than half these owners have their land free from mortgage. A slight decrease from 1900 is shown in the number of owners, while the ten ant farmers have increased by more than twenty per cent. significant feature of the bulletin is the indication given that the older states of the sec tion are decreasing in agricultural i'm portance, presumably owing to in creases in urban manufacturing popu- lations.
 The total amount of land included in farms in 1910 was reported as 349,- 962,000 acres, as compared with 317,- 349,000 acres in 1900, an increase of 32,613, ,000 acres, or ten per cent. This important increase is largely due to
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Ha Waa 2 ,PIsnnnaI

A Northwestern missionary bishop used to tell a story which was re peated to us last week by Rev. w. W. Washington of Cuyahoga Falls.
 T met an old farmer in North Da- kota." he relates, land in the course of conversation I-asked him if he was connected with any religious denom- ination. 'Yessir.' he answered. I'm a 'Piscopal'
 "Of course this gratified me, and I asked him what parish he belonged to.
 Hadn't heard about no parish he said, with puzzled expression.
 Well. what diocese? I persisted.
 "'You got me there, too
 Where were you conf1rmedT
 "'Dunno what you mean
 Then how are you an Episcopal ian?'
 "'Oh,' he answered, brightening up at once I'll tell you I went to a church down in Bismarck last winter, an they called 1t 'PiscopaL And heard the people sayin' that they'd d done things they hadn't orter done. an' left undone things they'd orter done" An I says, That's me. to a t." an since then, I've called myself a 'Piscopal.'
 Now I understand" continued the bishop, laughing, why the membership of our church is so large" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27

the ordinary room it would flow out under doors and through floor cracks wherever it could find them.
 In addition to the old swimming tank, which Doctor Bell has fitted up as a study, with easy chair, couch and table and books, the inventor needed an apparatus for supplying cold air to the tank. This was simple matter. A large ice box was constructed and into this about 200 pounds of ice are fed twice every week. Air pipes lead into the ice box and other pipes convey the chilled air into the inventors study. the flow being regulated by an electric fan.
 While the president of the United States, judges of the supreme court, ambassadors, legislators and others were sweltering with the thermometer at 90 degrees and above Doctor Bell sat in his study, where the tempera- ture never rose above 65 degrees.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
photoaraph Burned ManuserIpt.

The processes of color photography have recently been applied to obtain legible photograph of the writing on burned manuscripts which were un- readable by any other known means. As long as the sheet has not been en- tirely disintegrated positive results can be obtained every time.
 The charred manuscript is carefully arranged, in as near its original shape as possible, on a sheet of glass. and covered with drying varnish. after which 1t Is backed by another sheet of glass.
 By using carefully-selected color screens and orthocbromatic plates perfectly legible photograph of the writing may be taken. although there may be no marks on the charred re- mains that are visible to the eye This is the only known method that will give results when the writing has been made with vegetable inks. Ordinary photography can be used successfully when the ink contains aniline or iron in its composition Popular Mechanics.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
WHAT ENGLAND FEARS
STARVATION RATHER THAN IN-
 VAsIoN IS ITS DANGER.
In Case of War the islanders Food Supply Might Be Exhausted in
 Few Months.

With ships bringing foreign food supplies into England at the rate of 6 434 worth every minute of every day in the year, Great Britain cannot accumulate stock of provisions large enough for years supply, some ex- perts say not enough for half a year.
 "Others doubt If we could hold out for three months without foreign sup plies." says the Queen, "and all agree that three weeks war, or even threat of war, would enormously increase the price of foodstuffs. In the or dinary way the proportion of food and drink brought over the sea is over AZ per cent. of our total imports, being in round figures e250.OOO,OOO out of a total of g O,OOO, 900. Of this sum s70,000,000 goes for grain and flour alone. and nearly fifty millions for food and drink not otherwise speci- fled, and excluding fifty millions for food, drink and tobacco subject to duty.
 What we as a nation have to fear is not invasion but starvation To the great mass of the people of this coun- try the question Is not Shall we win or lose in war? but, shall we have enough food to live on when the next big war comes? It is to meet such an emergency that the use in this country of silos for grain, or national granaries, has been advocated.
 'The cost of creating and maintain ing silos might be considerable, though we suppose the cost of single dreadnought would easily cover it; but as an insurance against panic it would we'll be worth the expense, while as a safeguard in time of war and against imminent famine it would be invaluable, and might easily turn defeat into victory and disaster to safety.
 Gibraltar is provisioned for two years and Malta has silos which keep corn good for as long as four years, thus supporting the truth of the Bib Heal statement that Joseph in the dry climate of Egypt fed the people with corn stored for seven years. The idea is the gradual collection of an amount of wheat equal to one years import and its automatic renewal by exchang- ing it for the new grain as it arrives at the different ports.''
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Jenny Geddes.

Of the memories that gather around St. Giles cathedral. Edinburgh, none is more cherished by the Scotsman than the story of Jenny Geddes. Charles l., determined to force epis- copacy, commanded that on July 23. 1887, the English church service should be read in every parish church in Scotland. On that Sunday a great crowd gathered in St. Giles. and when Dean Hannay, in a surplice, began to read the prayers such a commotion ensued that his voice was drowned. One voice, however. rose above the din-Jenny Geddes. Out! Out!" she cried. Does the false loon mean to say his black mass at my lug?" And seizing her stool she threw 1t at the head of the astonished dean. There followed such an uproar that the ser vice had to be abandoned.
 In modern and more peaceful times this event, momentous in its outcome. has been commemorated by two me morial tablets in the cathedral. One is to Dean Hannay, the other. erected by Lord President Inglis, is to the memory of "a brave Scotswoman. Janet Geddes, who on July 23. 1887. struck the first blow in the great struggle for freedom of conscience. which after a conflict of half a cen tury, ended in the establishment oi civil and religious liberty"
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
The Because Man.

Suppose everyone did just what he Intended to do and no one failed "be- cause" Then there would be no fail. ures to point out There would be no subjects for sermons for those who had no because" attached to their names The man without the title could not point to the because" man and say: He did not succeed be cause" So the because" man may take heart and feel that because he did not he is surely at last the sub ject of this sketch. True he did not scale the rugged wall, nor climb to heights unseen" by the masses who are also other because" men.
 Most of us are because" men, we yearn for the unattainable; we feel that life is a failure. But maybe the realities are dreams of callow youth did not come nearer the dreams than we think. Maybe the awakening will show that the because" men climbed higher than they thought and maybe the judge will show those who stood on the heights that the clouds are well worth striving for but in the depths there is some sunlight" But the man should never have because" as an excuse.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
He,a RecuperatIna Now.


 Twas Friday afternoon, and the ed itorial stan were hard at work, wher suddenly the pen of the chief sub editor ceased It's inky scamper.
 'T say" he called, Ifs 1t more COT rect to refer to a man who goes uI in a balloon as an aeronaut or a bal loonist7"
 "Balloonist." growled the specia commissioner, who had just drifted in.
 "BaIloonatic." suggested the story cite editor, with a suspicious glance toward the fighting editor.
 "Aeronaut's the right word" said the man who writes the paragraphs decisively, land I can prove it"
 ''Nonsensel" growled the staff in chorus. You can'ti"
 "Of course can! You see, it's this way. When a man goes up in a balloon he goes up in the air. But as a matter of fact he doesn't know whether he'll remain in the air-or-not See?"
 When the curtain fell the fighting editor was furtively stalking that poor paragraph editor. and in his hand he held his new club.
The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27
Adxartaue In short sIaht.

A. man who owns a pair of near sighted eyes read the other day of the Illustrator who could do better at his craft because he was color blind
 q honestly believe" he said. that I get more fun out of life because I am nearsighted. The fun more than compensates for the nuisance of wear ing glasses.
 "When look out over a landscape from a mountain top I often take my glasses of. I see nothing but color. The outlines are very vague and tho colors are laid on thick The sky is bluer and the hills are more purple and the valleys are greener. am not troubled with lines or details. When I have got all the color I can hold then I put my glasses back on again and see what persons see who havo normal eyes.
 'The result is that get two charm Ing pictures where many persons only Let one"