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The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
Peach Crop on Move.

ClarkesyIllc,= The Elbortas are moy.
lng, Many oarB have been shipped,
and tho number Of cars shipped daily
VIII Increase for the noxt fow days
untll It reaches 100 per day No re-.
turns have been received from tho
Elborta sbpmont8, but the price
promises to DO fair Tho county Ia
fun Of hands seeking work as biokora,
and the streets are crowded with wag
ons and peach frames loaded with
peaches are returning for moro
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
ArtIeIes Of IneorporatIon.

Articles Of incorporation were filed
with the secretary Of state by the
Peoples Wholesale supply Company
Of huntington The capital is $4,000,
of which $4,000 Is subscribed,
Notice was given by the Parkin
Home bank Of Parkin that the capital
stock has been increased from $4,000
to $4,000,
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03

Jonesboro, - Tho farmers shor'
course was open at the First District
Agricultural College here with large
number Of farmers present from
Greene, CLAY, White, independents.
and CraIghead counties, and many
more are expected The instructor.
besides the regular faculty are,
Professors Nelson and Hewitt OF the
University Of Arkansas,
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
Faulkner County Report Received.

Little Rock. The annual report OF
the county oyamlner OF Faulkner
county has boon received by the do
partmont Of education, A gain Of 6s2
white persons Of school ago and losB
of isG negroes, net increase VI doG
Ia shown, The report shows tho total
school revenue Of tho county during
The year wOa sl3,oS63s, Of which S33,'
I55S5 was appended i5g t5sthtfs' ssl,
aries and lIi2Soi tor building pur
poses.
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03

Bentonyille.--Capt George T. Lin.
coin, one Of the leading apple grow
ers OF this section, has closed a con.
tract for 500 barrels Of apples to be
shipped to a New Orleans firm. The
apples brought a fancy price and the
name OF the grower and the name OF
hls orchard will appear on each bar
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
Marked Troe.-Eugene Carter,

Marked Trce.-hugene Carter q
young white lad about 70 years OF
age, was drowned in Little river ncar
Potter's Ferry, which Is about min,
miles cast Of this place, The young
fellow had been in the river bathins
with several other boys about his
own age, when he was seized with
cramps, and before assistance could
be rendered him he sank for the third
time.
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
Make Journey In Auto.

Little Rock-E B. Wells and G. w
Caylness real estate dealers OF Mon
ticello, accompanied by their wives
arrived IN Little Rock, having made
the trip in an automobile, They re-
port the roads In good condition
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03

soaErlt, ~ J-Goyernor Wilson an.
nouncod that w, J, Bryan had con.
irlbutod $1,000 10 the Democratic ma,
tlonal campaign fund, addressing tho
contribution 20 ApAgirt.
The Van Buren press., 1912-08-03
incorporation Matters.

Articles Of incorporation were flied
eth the secretary Of state by the
Northum Telephone Toll Register
Company Of stephens, Ark
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
The connoisseur.

Joseph E. Widener, being congratu-
lated at the Ritz Carlton in New York
on the excellence of his fathers pic
lures, smiled and said:
Yes, my father has been discreet
collector He is not like the New
York millionaire whom Sargent Wis
tied.
Sargent was taken by this million
airs through a huge gallery of dubi-
Gus Rembrandts. Titians, Raphaels and
Murillos
"'Mr. Sargent the millionaire said.
gazing pompously at the long lines Of
vast, dingy canvases, I have decided
to leave my pictures to some public in
stitution. What institution would you
suggest
~ suggest. said Mr.. Sargent. az
institution for the blind.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Story of a Chat With Him Just Before
the Convention at Which He Was
Nominated for the Vice
Presidency.

One day in the first week Of June,
1881, was compelled to wait at the
railway station at Albany, N. Y, for a
train from the west that was reported
two hours late. The day was warm,
and the station platform was almost
deserted except by employees.
At last l heard a step approaching
and, looking up, saw Gen. Chester A.
Arthur. He carried a gripsack, which
he set down in order to remove his
hat and wipe from his forehead the
profuse perspiration which the heat of
the day had brought out
General Arthur seldom failed to
recognize any one with whom he had
acquaintance, even the slightest, and
his greeting of me. therefore, was
most cordial.
Il suppose you are on your way to
Chicago, general?" / asked, having in
mind the fact that the Republican ma
tional convention was about to con-
vene in that city.
yes" he replied II am to take
here the special train that is running
from New York city. came up to Al
bany yesterday to attend to some per-
sonal business and to visit my sister.
Mrs McElroy, whom I have not seen
for some time" She was the sister,
who, little over a year later. was to
become mistress of the White House.
AS we paced up and down the plat
form, General Arthur, whose train also
was late, spoke with great frankness
of the probable result of the balloting
for the presidential candidate.
81 doubt" said he-and he was one
of Roscoe Conkling's stanch support
ers in the Grant third term movement
II doubt whether we shall be able
to secure the nomination of General
Grant. Judge William C. Robertson
of this state seems to have his bolt
ing delegates well in hand, and | am
convinced that the delegates from
Pennsylvania who have stated that
they will not support Grants nomina-
ton will stick to that determination.
All this looks to me as if Grant can
not be nominated"
TN case you do not nominate Gen.
eral Grant" asked. who, then, is
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
ImpracticabIe Suggestion.

Robert Henri, the artist, was talk.
ing at tea at Sherry's, in New York.
about the Latin quarter.
"In the Latin Quarter" he said. in
little streets off the Boule Mich, it Is
possible to get a good dinner for Is
cents-and even at that there's many
a Latin Quarterite goes dinnerless."
Mr. Henri smiled and sighed.
Zone spring afternoon" he resumed,
"as | was sketching the horses of the
green bronze fountain in the Luxem-
bourg Gardens, youth stopped and
talked awhile.
"The spring sunshine on the youths
coat brought out all its shabbiness mer-
cilessly, and l ventured to hint:
Look here, old chap, why don't you
have that coat turned?'
He smoothed the shabby sleeves
ruefully.
81 would he said. If it had three
sides.''
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Poet Who Peddled a Classic

considered the book second Robin
son Crusoe. and was equally sure that
it would net it's writer and its pub
Usher each a fine profit.
Bryant entered upon his loves err
rand with great enthusiasm. But pub
Usher after publisher refused to be
tempted by the poets enthusiastic
praise of the story. They could see
nothing in the book, they said. that
would attract the public to it.
AT last Bryant carried the manu-
script to Fletcher Harper. He told
Harper what he had told other pub
fishers about the book; among other
things saying that though it was the
work Of a mere boy. it was, never
theless, in his opinion, second Rob-
inson Crusoe' Harper was decidedly
reluctant at first to give the book any
serious consideration, but at last he
told Mr.. Bryant that he would buy the
manuscript outright. including the
copyright, provided he did not have
to pay over three hundred dollars
for it.
Bryant. remembering what he had
been through, thought that was q
pretty fair bargain and he let Fetch
er Harper have the manuscript for
two hundred and fifty dollars. be-
lieve, and twenty-five copies OF the
book. You know the hit that the
book made in this country as soon as
it was published. And 1t was the
first American work to be widely
translated. ii Harper had accepted
il on royalty basis that would have
meant a small fortune for young
Dana. But Dana never regretted that
he did not reap fortune out OF the
book. He was satisfied with the
fame that the story brought him
much more satisfied than he would
have been with any pecuniary sue
cess"
tCopyright, 1911. BY e. J. Edwards. All
Rsnhtz Reaervnd-A
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05

Mexico and was therefore more compe-
tent than any civilian to address a
meeting called to secure recruits. You
know how backward the captain is ex-
cept before his friends said Rawlins.
Well, without the slightest hesitation
he stood upon the rostrum and made a
very plain and simple but earnest
speech, about Is minutes in length.
After he had finished four or five Of
the farmer boys came forward and
said that they would, on the following
day, come to our recruiting Office in
Galena and enlist
$50 1t was John Rawlins who in
duced Grant to make his first speech;
and it was Grants success as speak
err in that little village which led to
our making him chairman of the great
mass meeting which day or two later
was held in our Galena public hall"
Copyright. 1911. ~ E. j. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
WiIiiam Cullen Bryant Had Hard
Time Finding Publisher for
Richard Henry Dana's 1.-TWO
Years Before the Mast"

One of the great sea classics of
English literature LIS Richard Henry
Dana. Jr.'s Two Years Before the
Mast" AS is well known. the book
was the outcome of a voyage that its
author made as common sailor
around the Horn and up the Pacific
coast in the fifties of the last CEN
fury. He left college to make the
trip in the hope that the hardly life
on the deep would cure his weakened
eyesight, caused by an attack of
measles. His father, Richard Henry
Dana, the poet, was fully able to send
his son on a health seeking sea voy-
age as passenger. even on one ex-
tending around the world. But young
Dana, as a lad, had conceived great
fascination for the sea. and it was his
own idea that be sail before the mast
At that time he was still in his teens.
Young Dana wrote the story OF his
experience as sailor partly on ship
board and partly after he returned to
his home. The story finished. he
showed the manuscript to his father.
1.-THE old gentleman was delighted
with it., said the late Col. George
Bliss. for many years prominent
politician OF New York state. and an
intimate friend OF the Dana family.
He was so delighted with it that
about the first thing he did after read
ing 1t was to hunt up his warm friend,
William Cullen Bryant. and give him
the manuscript to read. Bryant grew
almost as enthusiastic over the story
as the boys father had done. and
when Dana. ST., asked Bryant II he
could find publisher for the story.
Bryant gladly replied that he would
uaabs every effort to do 30, since ne
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Arthur Wanted Western Man

likely to be the choice of the conven.
ton? Blaine?"
mo, not Blaine But for him Grant
would be nominated. If Grant can't be
nominated, Blaine can't be-"
Does that mean a dark horse?"
asked. 'Or John Sherman" Sherman
was an avowed candidate.
General Arthur looked az me queer.
ly for a moment before replying.
do you really think that the New
York delegation would support the
nomination of Sherman in view Of
what has happened?" he asked. He re-
ferred to the fact that it was John
Sherman, who, as secretary of the
treasury under Hayes, had caused
Arthur's removal from the Office of
collector of the port of New York
an act that greatly angered the New
York organization.
For myself l should like to see
some one nominated from one of the
states west of the Mississippi river II
we can not nominate General Grant"
Arthur continued.
"The temptation will be great, Gen.
eral Arthur" I said. ito publish the
fact that you. and presumably your
friends, have some Republican who
lives west of the Mississippi in mind
as second choice in case you cannot
nominate General Grant"
'Tt wouldn't do at ALL" he replied.
hastily; 'it would mix everything all
up"
We'll" | said, ''in case you nomi-
nate far western man for president.
the convention will probably come
east for its candidate for vice-presi-
dent"
General Arthur smiled. ''The vice
presidency is so remote contingency
until the candidate for president is
nominated that we haven't given it a
moments thought" he said almost
any good Republican who lives in the
east would make good candidate for
vice-president. Personally, l should
be inclined to name some one from
Pennsylvania or New England, but the
matter at this time is not worth mo-
ment's consideration"
That was the attitude of the man
who few days later was himself to
be nominated for vice-president and
who, as we paced the platform to-
gether, tacitly admitted to me that he
was contemplating his election on the
following winter as United States SEN
ator from New York to succeed Fran
els Herman.
Who General Arthur's far western
choice for the presidential nomination
was | never learned.
Copyright. 1871 by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Again the Poor Eat Man.

Among the passengers on DOWN
town car the other evening were fat
man, lean man, who proved to ba
deaf, and couple of giggly girls. On
one of the side streets German band
was engaged in making life miserable
for the residents of the neighborhood.
The fat man shifted uneasily in his
seat and remarked sarcastically to the
lean man in a low tone, 'Music."
The lean man plqt his hand to his
ear and said, "Eh?"
'Music,'' repeated the man in loud.
er tones.
BEG pardon, am not able to hear.'s
said the lean man
Music" yelled the fat man, SO, loud
that the passengers ali Uttered and
the little giggly girls all grew red in
the face.
''Oh." said the lean man as he
turned around and looked about him.
The little German band was out OF
sight by this time, and the passengers
laughed immoderately at the vain at
tempts OF the unfortunate man to find
the object of the fat mans comments.
Fat men are proverbially good ma.
tured, and by that time the oddly of
the situation had dawned upon this
particular fat man.
Hum" he said. you folks needn't
laugh. Our friend saw fully as much
music as you and / heard"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Hob Cost Of AntItoxIn.

DIR. w. A. Evans of Chicago thinks
the price charged for diphtheria anti
toxin in this country is too high. He
says:
"Antitoxin was discovered by Won
Behring of Germany. 1t was put to
practical use by Roux of France.
These men gave their discovery to
the world. A number OF manufacture
ers went into the business In this
country. They had to buy no patent,
pay no royalties It does not cost
much to make antitoxin. Five thou
sand units can be made for so cents.
the cost of the syringe Is 10 cents
say total of so cents. Some manu-
facturers make 1t for less. They sell
it to the state for 81 for 5000 units.
II, however, you are a laboring man
getting 50 day and your child needs
5000 units, you pay the druggist $3.50.
If the diphtheria infection is on the
tonsils 800 units are all that is usual
ly needed. but If 1t is in the nose
$4,000 units are about the $3.50.
If your child has been sick for three
days with the disease 10000 units are
about what is needed-$30."
Doctor Evans says that for sixteen
years physicians have known what to
do for diphtheria-how to diagnose
1t, how to prevent It and how to cure
It. He says that the death rate from
diphtheria IS dropping down. but that
it is villanous there is any death rate
from Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Persuaded by RawiIns, He Addressed
a Meeting Near GaIena to Re-
cruit Company After the
Attack on Sumter.

When General Grant became presi-
dent on March 4, 1869. he made John
A. Rawlins secretary of war. Shortly
a volunteer Illinois regiment in the
first year of the civil war. Rawlins re-
signed that post in order to assume
the duties OF assistant adjutant gen.
eral on General Grants staff. From
then on until the close of the war.
Rawlins served on Grants staff. He
was the youngest of all the men who
served with the great commander. but,
nevertheless. he was one of Grants
closest advisers in military matters.
He also was his chiefs intimate
friend: and it was most natural for
Grant, when he knew for certainty
that he would be called upon to make
up a cabinet, to turn to General Raw
Inns as the one man to fill the office
of secretary OF war. But that post
General Rawlins occupied for few
months only. He had contracted con-
sumption as the result of exposure
during the war. and In September.
1869. he died.
One afternoon In 1901 l met the late
General A. c. Chetlain, then OF Chi
cago, who, as a resident of Galena,
H.. in 1861, had enlisted in the first
company OF volunteers that left Grants
home town in defense Of the Union.
asked General Chetlain il he had
known well General Rawlins, who was
a resident of Galena at the time of
the war
Indeed I did," was the reply. land
l remember well the intimacy that
existed between him and Grant prior
to the outbreak Of the war. | have
only to shut my eyes now and see
them in memory as they sit together
In Grants fathers leather store earn
estly discussing political questions,
and, most earnestly of all, the one
great question of tte day-would there
be war between north and south?
<A"But though they often differed on
IN her questions, on the question of the
disability of war they were fully
agreed; and Of all the men who gath
5IcU III Tic lS6LuGI ClOIG 1AOLA SAAhC W
time to talk the matter over they were
the only two who felt that war was
surely coming and that it would be
a prolonged struggle. Rawlins thought
that it would take as much as five
years to overcome the south, while
Grant would declare that no one could
tell how long it would take to do that.
And then they would have a time of it
trying to convince their fellow citi-
gems that they were wrong in the be-
lief that, if war did come, the north
would be able to subdue the south in
30 days-an opinion commonly held
throughout the north at that time.
Aid well l remember, too contin-
aed General Chetlain, that it was
RawliHs who persuaded Grant to make
the first speech he ever delivered.
! LAS soon as we had received the
news that Fort Sumter had been fired
On, Immediately began to recruit our
first Galena company, of which l
was elected captain, and with which
Grant went from Galena to Springfield,
the state capital, where the company
was mustered in. 1t was thought
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
How Grant Made First Speech

worth while to have somebody go to a
little suburb of Galena. some three or
four miles beyond the city limits, and
make a speech that would urge the
young farmers round about to enlist in
our company. Rawlins was well known
and liked in that community, and /
asked him if he would undertake this
task. He replied that he would be
glad to do so. adding, as an after
thought, that he'd take Captain Grant
with him.
We'll, at the appointed time Raw
Inns and Captain Grant drove out to
the suburb, and Rawlins told me after
wards that he made brief speech
and then introduced Captain Grant,
saying that the captain had already
served in the United States army in
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
Natural Tlmepiece.

There is no need for clocks on thA
Aegean sea any day when the sun is
shining. There nature has arranged
her only timepiece, one that does not
vary though the centuries pass. This
natural time marker is the largest sun.
dial in the world. Projecting into the
blue waters of the sea is large pro.
montory which lifts its head 5000 feet
above the waves. AS the sun swings
round. the pointed shadow OF the
mountain just touches one after the
other a number OF small islands.
which are at exact distances apart
and act as hour marks on the great
dial
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05

The use of wooden flooring is on the
increase in Italy, taking the place OF
the former extensive demand for mar
Bile, thing and cement Oak, larch and
pitch pine are mostly adopted, and but
little, If any maple. birch or beech has
been brought to the market
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-05
FIGHTS POSTAGE
INCREASE
American Newspaper Publishers An.
ISOLATION COMMITTEES Attacks
Plan to Double Rates.

Washfngton-A warm attack on
Hitchcock's plan to increase the sec
ond-class postage rates is contained in
q bulletin Just issued by the postal
committee of the American Newspa-
per Publishers association. Don G.
Seitz OF the New York World is chair
man of the committee The bulletin
says:
The extent to which the post
Office department does not carry Sec
ond-class matter is well revealed in
the following abstract of inquiry OF
publishers conducted by house COM
mittee on expenditures in the post
Office department civilian A. Ash
brook, chairman) concerning the vol
ume. weight and handling of the out
put of publications entered as mail
matter of the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1911:
Inquiry was made OF all publish
ers, approximating thirty thousand, of
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
More than ten thousand returns
were received, embracing sixty-six
plus per cent. of all tonnage of pub
locations.
The publications reporting repre-
sent an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies, the
weight of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
"'These publications delivered by
mail in such period weighed 633, 012,-
902 pounds.
They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, and news companies
$40, 466,574 pounds, Of which an unas-
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They de-
livered by express, 202, 729,510 pounds.
and by other rail shipments 121,491,-
TAB pounds. The rate by express and
rail varies from n to 1 cent per
pound, but the bulk of these ship
ments went at rate of Il to II cent
per pound.
1.-The post office for the year end
ing June 80, 1911, handled 951, 001,-
$50. and excluding one-half million
pounds free in county matter, 1t re-
ceived one cent per pound
"All this goes to add to the alb
surdity of the proposed Hitchcock leg
islation doubling the second-class rate
from one to two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter as
they do advertising.
"The proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached ST.
100000 two years ago. 1t becomes
preposterous in face of surplus.
What business has a Transports
ton corporation, which is all the post
Office is, to prescribe how business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers canp0A afford to ex-
pand their columns nd the call
of the days news, bTsBSan they be
expected to control tie requirements
of their advertisers who have right
to reach the public as copiously as
they care to.
1T cannot be assumed that such
legislation will ever get by congress.
But publishers are requested to fight
the theory that the right to send their
output by mail is a privilege" The
figures show it is not.
THE post Office is badly man
aged business. That is all. We
should fight its dictation, its censor
ship and its inefficiency.'