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The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

and the other fellows field adjoin- ing not get any rain at all Guess these fellows had better quit wbipp- ing their wives if they want good rain
 George Stephenson intends to begin drying apples Wednesday, the t"enty-fourth. It seems as though the busiest time of the year is close at hand when you hear them talking of hauling off their biz red apples
 Jim Vernon and Owen Edwards, two prominent young farmers of this place. visited with relatives and friends near Springdale and John son last week. They seem to like the country out there, also the people But it i5 most too far for the boys to go very often
 Guy Brannon, who has been out near Aline, Okla, for the past five months, came in Saturday morning to spend d few weeks visiting with relatives and friends of this place He says crops look fine out there. but he seemed to be proud to get back 10 his old stamping ground
 There was quite a crowd attend ed the ttaeky' party al Miss sylvia Maxon's last Wednesday night The taekiest couple present was Charley Miller and Mis- Bethel Mars, who received a box of nice candy Ice cream and cake were served after which all went home rejoicing over being present
 Ginsr Onnen
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

The patient should be kept from contact with outsiders as much as possible, although strict isolation is not necessary. This serves the double purpose Of protecting others from Infection and the patient from annoyance by visitors Where there Is reason to believe that the source of infection is a water supply that must still be used it is necessary tO boil all such water before drink ing All typhoid fever patients should be bathed once a day with warm water for cleanliness sake, and as the occasion arises. accord ing to the doctors instructions, for the control of fever All water so used is contaminated and may read fly become dangerous source Of infection, consequently it must be sterilized. This may be accomplish ed by chemical disinfeetants as above directed or by boiling twen- ty minutes Bed linen and gowns should be changed often and are invariably contaminated They may be sterilized by soaking in l to % Carboiie Acid Solution. or 1 to loco BiehIoride of MefcurE Solution. or to 704 Formalin solution or by boiling twenty minutes \ typhoid patient should be keEt on a good mattress bed with clean linen in light well ventilated room The house should be well screened and all flies entering should be killed immediately.
 Milk Of Lime is made by adding quart of powdered freshly slaked lime to gallon of water It is useless unless made fresh every two or three days. Air slaked lime is useless.
 One to Twenty Carbolic Acid so- lution is made by adding one and one=half ounces of earbolie Aeid 70 quart Of hot water.
 Biehloride Mercury Solutions are best made by using the tablets readily obtainable on the market Those eolored blue are preferable to avoid accidental administration
 Formalin Solution Formalde. hydel is readily obtainable and thoroughly effective. though is fumes are irritating 10 the eyes.
 afbolie Acid. Biehloride of Mer= eary and Fofmalin are poisonous and due care mustbe Used in haad= ling them.
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26
JOHNSON
HOUR


 - ohm Mccoy arrived Sunday
 from lengthy sojourn at
 gee, Okla.
 lumber of the neighbors enjoy
 H ice cream supper at Virgil
 sen's Saturday night
 iSob and Virgil Wilkinson will '"e Wednesday morning on an uhrland trip to Melville, Ark. rWilliam Drain and wife returned anday to Vale from visit to Mrs. gsrain's parnets, Mir. and Mrs. J. S. e1Bookout.
 The school board made their an nual enumeration report last week. There are 124 persons of school age in this district
 Ava Bohannan returned Wednes- day from a sojourn of several months near Cherryvale, Kansas Alva is staying with Bob Wilkinson again.
 J. T. Rush, who has been living on the Davis Jersey Farm for sey- eral months moved to Fayetteville last week. Jim Bookout has nov ed to the Davis place.
 Sunday is the day for the singing convention here at Johnson and the local singers are expecting a visit from number of neighboring sing ing classes.
 No thresher has been in this neighborhood yet. A machine has been at workk just east of Johnson, and the local farmers are very anx- ious for it to get on down the creek.
 Mrs. Maude Hanks and son. Bur Til, visited al Vale. Ark. the latter part of the week. and returned Sun day evening with her daughters, Bess, Blanche and Berniee aho had spent the week there
 Mrs. Anna Elders and daughter, Miss Bessie, of Round Rock, Tex, visited with Mrs. Will Crum the lat ter part of last week Mrs Elders is a former Arkansawyer. but has resided in Texas for a number of years
 There was an effort made some weeks ago by local promoters to put in big fruit evaporator and can ming factory here. but not enough interest could be aroused. so the project will probably fall down for this season
 The Frisco is doing a big freight business from the south since the peach. melon and vegetable season opened The big refrigerator trains go north in several sections at can non ball' speed every few hours dur ing these July days
 Mrs. S T. Finley and children of Fort Smith, have been boarding at the Cottage Inn for several weeks. MT Finley came np Saturday and ae- companied them Sunday over to Sul- phur Springs, Ark. where Mrs. Finley will visit relatives.
 The Clear Creek valley around Johnson got a big rain last Tuesdat and another on Wednesday of last week, so the corn fields are looking fine, but out on the uplands, only a few miles away, folks are begin ming to need rain for their crops.
 Oscar Bailey received mseaage yesterday from Limedale, near Mon te Ne, Ark, that his brother, Buck Bailey, had been killed in an aeci- dent at the lime kiln there The accident occurred some time yes- terday morning. and was caused by the breaking of a hoisting cable which let a tram car loaded with rock fall back and knocked young Bailey from a high tram way His father and two brothers Oscar
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

and John live here They went up to Monte Ne yesterday evening Buck Bailey was about q years of age, and leaves widow and one child He had worked here. and wa well liked by his fellow workers.
 W G Hanks was out from Fay etteville sunday to see his father, Capt. c P. Hanks. Will works with a lumber company Fayetteville, and enjoyed a vacation Of several weeks a short time aso IL was his first rest from work for several years.
 R. NJ. Liehlyter returned Saturday evening from a business trip 10 Boynton and other Oklahoma towns He had the pleasure of meeting a cousin out there, Will Lichlyter. It had been nearly a quarter of d cen tury since they had been with each other
 The local public sehool opened yesterday with an enrolment of 7S Prof. J. L. Harris and sister, Miss Fanny, of Fayetteville are the teach CTS. They went up to Springdale yesterday evening for a wholesale lot of new books to be used by their pupils.
 Arthur Smith. our rural route car rier, is down at Fayetteville where he will be with his mother until she passes the crisis Of the result of the injury she received when she fell yesterday. Orlan Greenhouse, the able assistant carrier, Is attending to the mail while Mr. Smith is away.
 Mrs. Sarah Cawthorn arrived yes terday from Mckinney. Tex, and will spend some time visiting with relatives and friends here. She says that the health of her husband, Newt Cawthorn. has improved quite 6 bit since they moved 0 Texas. They have fine crops in their se tion Of country th!z year
 Sergeant William Jones return ed to Fayetteville yesterday after a conference of several days here with the remains of the old guard of the reservation Republican machine Jones has been the Sir John Fal- staff of the machine crowd for many years, and he cannot comprehend the cause of so many Republicans en rolling under the Progressive ban her.
 \ great big crowd attended the doings at John Luper's Saturday night The Stony Point band was there and furnished music The pro ceeds of this ice cream supper is to be used towards defraying the ex- pense of fixing up the interior Of the Stony Point school house before the opening of the next term of school We have been unable to learn the net amount of money re- alized
 Grandma Smith stepped from the porch to the ground at John Lich- lyter's yesterday morning and sum- bled over a piece of timber which caused her 10 fall inflieting an in jury which will probably keep her crippled for life. She is - years old, and very feeble. So she was sent down last night to the hospital at Fayetteville where an operation is to be performed today Drs Ellis and Wood were out yesterday evening and decided that her right leg was broken near the thigh and that ow- ing to the hot weather it would be best to have her moved to the hos pital where a physician could be near and where trained nurses could be at her side Grandma resided here with her son, Arthur Smith. and a host of friends hope to see her recover speedily.
 Mulkeepmo.
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

ed Saturday night and Sunday morn ing as the preacher was expected to preach and did not come. Think he is holding a protracted meeting at Cave Springs
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

Wise is the man who can distin- guish between golden opportuni- ties and glittering generalities.
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

Why brood over your troubles? Any half way intelligent len will tell you you will only hatch more.
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26
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The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

Letting We'll enough alone means iry-rotting in the rut.
The Springdale news., 1912-07-26

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The Springdale news., 1912-07-26
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
At a bisadvantass.

While awaiting the coming of her friend. the mother. 3 visitor 10 Bal tmore household was holding desul- tory conversation with one of the little girls in the dra wing room.
 Where are your two little sisters 2" the caller asked
 "Oh. they" observed the little girl with the air of one upon whom respon- abilities rest heavily-"they're out somewhere to have what mother calls mischief and what they call fun"
 And why didn't you go to share in the 'funT" asked the caller.
 The child sighed. Mother trusts me so dreadfully." she explained, that I can't have much fup."-Lippincott'S
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Soap haas shs sost Sc.

4 writer in Science tells Of an iHGea- ious littla skin about two inches long which be cpnstructed and prnVided with g piece of soap for the motor. The boat was ct wood, parafined to repel the water. The soap formed the stern haard of the skin. The boat was placed an still water in q bathtub and began to move as soon as the water came ip contact with the soap, After gathering headway it reached Eeloci- ty of two inches q second. The power was derived from the potential energy Of the surface water film set free by the diminution of surface tension. this reduction being due to solution af the soap.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
His Way of Helping.

When he examines in civicS the pet question of a certain teacher is:
 What would you do 10 cut down the expenses of running the city?"
 That question appeals to youthful patriots and embryo 6nanciers, and civic reformers evolve brilliant schemes for looping several millions of dollars of the annual budget
 But at the last examination the prob lem was tackled by an nnimaginative youth. who seemed unable to save the city by spectacular methods Hard facts had a grip on him. and he finally wrote:
 Run errands for the mayor and not charge anything for t"-Washington Star.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
4 Eic In a Poke,

A pig poker is a dealer in piss-not the large and portly fellow whom you meet now and again at the country market with q cargo Of g hundred or more pigs of all ages. shapes and sizes for sale. but little man who for the most part carries his wares upon his back or occasionally perhaps in 8 wheelbarrow. 4 poke of course. is g packet or sack. and pig poker, therefore, is one who deals in pigs car ried round from place to place in a poke. The old proyerb anent the fool ishness of buying pig in poke" has its origin. of course, in this time hon. ored method of pig purveyipg.-London Globe.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
The Vital Questiea,

This overheard conversation is full of matter for consideration. The speakers were girls, one apparently young. the other trying to appear young. Get the subtle distinction? Well, one Of them was saying: T met Jimmy Teppd yesterday. You know Jimmy. don't youT"
 "Sure l know him. CT used to. Did you tell him was going to be mar ried soonf'
 "I sure did"
 "Did he ask how soonT
 "Well. he asked something like that"
 Didn't he say. How soon?
 'No. dearle: he said. How lopgY "- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Almost A Tracedy.

.'It was a lovely night The stars were twinkling. the moon was shining. the dogs were bowling. and the cats were holding forth in chorus. l was strolling along the track when sud denly saw a beam lying across the rails looked at it. but much as l wished. l hadn't the power to move. l was in trainble l did not know what to do. for just at that moment l heard the rumble and roar and rattle of coming express Nearer and near CT ii cane Louder and louder grew the noise. What was fo do? w"s poweriess. And then the engine leaped at the beam-and passed on unscarhed II was-it was a eam"-London Answers
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Ia ths Ssukl

Lauyar-Tol claim to he @ pnofes sor. What Is your degree and where did yau get It? Witness-The only de gree eyer got was the third. and the police gave it to ma-Raldmare Amer !cap.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Soaked Them fhrauah.

First Peasant year 2oll,-So their family is very wealthy. How did they get their start? Second Peasant-One of their ancestars droye an American tourist to the railroad station back in 1all-New Yors Tmes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
A Hostiesi Eaat.

~That writer is paradoxical poet" Tn what wayT
 T called to see him one day and found that his idyi moments were keeping him husT."-RalhmoFe Amer lean.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Pe It kaWl

Have you forgotten that slo you borrowed of ne some time aga7
 ''Oh. no: still have it in minIr "Wen. don't you think this would be good time to relieve yapr mind?"- E1changa
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
A GpmpIex Accomplishment. t.

4 eempIex Accomplishment. T understand yop speak French like s native"
 .No.7 replied the student -I've got the gram mar and the accent down pretty fine, but it's hard to learn the gestures. Star.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
Sailed His Bluff

rHe told her that he would gladly die for her"
 "The same old hlu1. Did it catch herT
 'No. She told him she would gladly let himF
The Wrangell sentinel., 1912-10-03
MEASURE OF SUCCESS.

It IS one of the appointed condi- tons of the labor of men. that in proportion 10 the tune between the seed sowing and the harvest IS the fulness of the frmt and that eener- ally. therefore. the farther of we place our ann and the less we de- sire to be ourselves the witnesses of what we have labored tor the more wide and nth will be the measure of our success.-John Ruskin+
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

as everybody guesses, there's not
great deal of silk in II.
With this enormus demand for SILK the
silk worms have not hustled DIT IN
turning out their supply OF silk, no mai
ter if the owners sit up all night watch
ing the mulberry trees and trying 10
tenpt them with scientific feeding. So.
with all the girls crying, "Give us cheap
silk for our dresses and waists and the
women insisting upon silk Innings
throughout and the young men demand
ing silk shirts and the prosperous, tired
business man wanting it for his under
wear. the manufacturers have had to do
some scheming 1t must be admitted
they have seemed TO have achieved the
impossible.
OF course. the solution was adulteration.
Here they have performed wonders. One
dealer saws There is no such thing as
absolutely pure silk, and every manufac-
turer knows it is a physical impossibiltty
to dye black silks without adding some
weight to the fabric" Another declares:
ut is impossible to detect the real quail
ity of silk in a garment; the only way TO
acquire this knowledge being to submit
it to a chemical analysis and this, of
course, is impracticable. Women buy
from style and color without knowledge of
the quality. | can place two pieces of silk
on the counter, one at S1b50 yard
and the other at 81. and they cannot tell
the difference in the qualities
The practice of adulterating skein-dyed
silks is almost universal.
Many substances are used to load the
silk. but the one now most in use is salts
of tin. II ii is not used carefully the silk
ON which, it is used rots fast. and in any
event it Is destructive to the fiber. The
greater the weighing the quicker the de-
cay.
So then the manufacturers turned to
some substitute for ill--something that
would look like silk, glsten like silk, feel
like silk and yet not be silk at all. The
trouble with the wood pulp fiber was that
when it was wet it turned back to a
pulp and parted readily under tension.
So lot of experimenting was done, and
this difficulty was overcome, so that now
the artificial silk is introduced into wash
cottons as silk stripes or figures, and
washes very we'll.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

first wide exploitation of the materials
in which It has been used. The manu-
facturers have been experimenting with
it for the past year in this country. al
though it has been used abroad FOR
long time, and declare that they have
at last overcome all the drawbacks to
its Use.
1t was only year ago that the first
extensive plant for the manufacture OF
the wood pulp fiber was established IN
Pennsylvania. The company had great
faith in its ultimate success. for large
factory was put up to give work TO
1000 hands. 1t began operations with
100 operatives. but in the short time
since it began it is now running to Its
fun capacity. and the 1000 pounds OF
yarn a week has been increased to 70
600 pounds a week.
The company has already made plans
to expend $1,o00,OoO for two new fac
tory buildings, new machinery and 800
dwellings for operatives on the factory
site Yet the output of this plant Is
only small part of the artificial fiber
consumed by the manufacturers of the
different commodities in which 1t Is
used. No other infant industry in the
United States has had such a remark
able and rapid growth. There are now
a half dozen firms manufacturing it.
You see, it all comes from the fact
that everybody wants to wear silk. The
day was when a woman got q black
silk dress and wore 1t for years. and
only people of means possessed this one
silk dress But go down to the beach
any Sunday afternoon and almost every
other woman who comes along is wear
ing a silk dress of some sort-foulard
taffeta silk striped muslin, charmeuse
crepe de chine or null.
The girl whose pay envelope holds s.
or $40 a week wears silk stockings
they are pseudo-silk, at any rateAcot-
ton soles. then silk as far up as mod
esty requires, and thence cotton again
You see silk shirtwaists in the win
dows at s1.50 and knitted silk ties fol-
men at 20 cents. No other crowd in
the world, made up of the same people
in the same rank of life. presents such
an extrsvagantly dressed appearance
as does the crowd at any of the sea-
side resorts around New York.
Never has there been such a demand
for silk and never has it been so cheap
That is apparently the truth. You car
go to the cheaper stores and buy silk
on bargain day for as low as 80 cents
a yard. The goods look like silk, but
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

ury receipts in 1907 exceeded the disburse-
ments by 100000. Two years later the
disbursements exceeded the receipts by
sllso00.oo0. For the past two years re-
ceipts have again exceeded disbursements.
The general fund in the treasury vas
s272, 100000 in 1907; three years later it had
fallen to S1O6, 100000 Under our present
system of keeping a large surplus gov
eminent fund idle in the treasury these
wide variations in the yearly balance
not only seriously disturb the money
market and the business Of the country,
but force the secretary of the treasury
to enter actively into the money market
as paternal overseer Of the machinery
of credit.
1t not infrequently happens that sur
plus revenues accumulate in the treas
ury just at time when the banks are
straining their resources to grantS all
the credits needed to finance a business
boom. The treasury then takes money
out of the banks and boards il Just at
the time when the country most needs 1t.
If the business boom goes so far as to
strain credit to the breaking point, then
the treasury must come ito the relief of
the situation" by depositing some of its
boarded cash in the banks. In recent
NtdIS titt litcSNA ila9 sb1Sh 'eiA th6
large surplus, and it has been in a posi-
ton to relieve financial tension by de-
posting funds in the banks. In Decem-
Der. 1907. following the money panic, the
special deposits in the banks by the
treasury had reached $256, 100000. Three
years later they were reduced to $1,000. 900.
In the fiscal year 190S-1909 the treasury
withdrew s100,O00,0 coo from the banks.
Secretary Has Dangerous Power
This state of affairs places IN the
hands~bf the Secretary of the Treasury
a power greater than any American
should have The power of the secretary
to influence the money market by depos-
its or Withdrawals of public funds Is al
ways dangerous. No government officer
should have this power 1t has been a
great burden. believe on the shoulders
of every recent Secretary of the Treasury
department.
II the people realized how dangerous is
the power in the hands of the Secretary
of the Treasury, they would insist that
the treasury be at once taken out of the
banking business. Accustomed as we are
to government interference with the
money market, few of US realize how the
treasury in the past few years hasRex-
ercsed the central bank function of reg
ulating the discount rate. The treasury,
by alternate deposits and Withdrawals
of the public money in the banks, as we'll
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

! as by other devices, has attempted to reg
ulate the discount rate.
The Treasury Department should be di-
vorced from the money market and from
the banking business, and the way to eff
feet the reform is plain. We should have
in this country quasi-public institution
not only to hold the ultimate cash re-
serves of the banks and to regulate the
rate of discount, but 10 act as the fiscal
agent of the government. Such an insti-
tuition would hold the government bal
anees as deposits, and the government
could check against them Just as any
large business concern checks against its
balances in bank. With the government
balances deposited in such an institution.
the business of the country would never
be disturbed by the treasury boarding
up cash., and the Secretary Bof the Treas
ury would no longer be forced to NEEDLE
n tho money market.