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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-03-12
Personals

Yes, yearly or monthly income fol
life.
Good fresh COW for sale. L. E. Hal
ter. dat
Bob Martin of Martinville is here
today.
Typewriters for rent. See ]. d
Dunaway.
G. w. A. Wilson is spending to.
day in Little Rock.
VIM. CADY, the baggage man
Phones 321, 113, 1872.
Miss Dove Harton left this morning
for visit at Little Rock
R. D. White left this morning on a
business trip to Walnut Ridge.
L. E. Leger, representing a Chica-
go paper house, is in the city today.
An income of $4,000 per month for
life would not be bad for your family.
Monthly and yearly income policies
cost less. Ask the Hartford Life man.
R. F. Parker of Vilonia was an
appreciated caller at this office today.
Mss Grace Miller left this morn
ing for weeks visit at Little Rock.
Prof. r. l.. Nixon returned today
from few days visit at Hot Springs.
Miss Selma Corley of Washita,
Ark, is guest of Miss Faye Canada
Land for rent, close to town. Also
400 acres for sale. E. o. Bran
non. DIFF
A good secondhand buggy and
harness for sale or trade. See w. T.
Wilson. d3t*
For Sale-Two good mich cows,
one-half Jersey. Apply to Mrs. John
Ingram. diff
w. D. Ketcherside, a Normal stu
dent, left today for a visit at his home
at Knoxville.
DR.. Jas. A. Anderson came up from
Little Rock this afternoon to visit his
family here.
Green Grove lodge No. 107, F. and
A. NJ, will hold a special meeting to-
night for work in the Fellowcraft
degree.
H. S. Traylor, who is connected
with the Robinson campaign head
quarters at Little Rock, is visiting his
family here.
Mayor w. H. Duncan and George
Shaw went to Little Rock this morn
ing to visit the Donaghey campaign
headquarters.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid So
clety held an interesting meeting yes
terday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Sam Heiligers.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy will meet tomorrow after
noon at O'Clock at the home of Mrs.
j. H. Stubs.
For Rent-40 acres four and one
half miles from town. Good land with
some pasture. r. H. Weems at Faulk-
ner County Bank. diff
DR.. c. R. Doyne left today for his
home at Lonoke, after a visit to his
parents, President and Mrs. J. j.
Doyne, in this city.
John Hamilton, o. J. Owen. John
Hartley, r. G. Bruce and John Grum-
mer are among the Conway visitors
in Little Rock today.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Pinson have
moved from Austin to Conway and
are making their home in the Pyle
cottage in the southern part of the
city.
Lost-On the railroad track be-
tween the oil mill and Clifton street
crossing, an open-face, silver case Ell
gin watch. Reward for return to this
office.
Mrs. Nicholas Bost, who has been
visiting her daughters, Mrs. 0. D.
Longstreth and Miss Grace Miller in
this city, left this morning for her
home at Versailles, Ill.
Don't forget that there will be over
5000 feet of the very finest moving
pictures and also high-class vaude-
vile at the Ark-Way tonight, all for
the usual price of 5 and 10 cents.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1912-03-12

This excellent attraction will be at the
Arkway theatre TONIGHT ONLY.
Don't fail to come out and see it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
doom LATTICE MAST
Navy Men Say They Must Be
Abandoned.
Practically Indestructihle, but Vibra,
ton Proves Handicap to Range
Finders and Dimisishes Ac-
s curacy in GuHnery.

Washington.-The skeleton masts
on the United States battleships, dis.
tlnctly a feature OF American war
craft, are saiI 80 % doomed for the
scrap heap. There is a great deal OF
discussion in naval circles over the
apparently well-founded report that
the navy department intends to .aban-
don the skeleton masts with which
all battleships are now equipped be-
cause they have not come up to ex.
pectations, and from the viewpoint 81
naval experts are a hindrance and "a
handicap to efficient Workmanship.
The vibration of the mast, due to- its
slender mechanism, is said to be- the
chief defect. For this reason the
range finder, whose duty, it is TO pick
up the object and communicate the
distance to the gun pointers, Is un.
able to do SO with the celebrity and
accuracy that would be demanded in
a naval engageme
When the skeleton mast was intro
duced on American battleships 1t was
agreed generally a great step had been
taken in advance OF otfer nations. 1t
was the belief then and still is, that
the mast is indestrnet ible. which gave
the ship in time of actionaa big adj
vantage, for If the mast could not be
shot away the fire control system OF
the vessel At no dime would be threat
sened.
Mo IN ii, 3. ss 9, +;,, =;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06

No wonder then that the Red Cross is directing
it's first aid propaganda to the railroad men OF
the country and to the workers in shops, mills.
etc.
Not only is the Red Cross giving widespread
instruction in first aid to the injured (Which it
is argued is just as necessary as instruction In
hygiene) but it is conducting, by means of this
new type of car, campaign for the prevention
of accidents Statistics seem to Indicate that
about onehalf Of the accidents which result in
injury or death would have been preventable by
the exercise of proper care and reasonable pre-
ventve measures and the Red Cross is endeavor-
ing to teach workmen how to dodge mishaps and
how to minimize the effect of an accident if it
does appear inevitable !" ~s5
The Red Cross will not depend entirely upon
the lessons and lectures given on the first aid
cars, although these pave the way for effort In
the direction Of volunteer first aid work. Sup
plementing these series of charts and, more
important yet simple books of instruction and
surgical materials which can prove serviceabe
in unsked hands A special first aid book has
been issued for the of industrial workers and
has been translated into Italian, Slovak, Polish
and Lithuanian. In the near future there will be
issued other editions of this work specially adapt
ed for by women, by policemen and fremen.
by sailors and by farm hands and ranch workers.
OF course ut is not the thought that such in
struction will enable the most skilled of the
volunteer Red Cross workers to replace the doc
tor except in the of trivial injuries but
with the new knowledge these volunteers will
know what to do until the doctor arrives. and
often by stopping flow of blood by other
means may be enabled to save life when regu.
lar physician is not promptly the scene
To cover the full scope of this new work the
Red Cross has found it necessary to go even
farther and to supplement It's work of sinstruc-
ton by providing several different forms Of hrst
aid boxes equipped with certain simple remedies
and necessities such as are required In putting
the first aid instruction into practice In shops
and elsewhere. These supplies are sold at prfces
which are intended merely to cover the cost OF
preparation without providing any proht. and
that they supply q long felt want would seem to
be indicated BY tho fact that the Red Cross has,
during the past year. sold considerably more thsn
5000 worth Of such supplies And. not content
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
HORN Dinner CALL
London's Oldest Custom Relic Of
Crusaders.
eenchers, Barristers and Students
Summoned by Ancient Method
Recalls Days When Clocks
and Watches Were Un-
known,

Observation-Disclosures do old customs
cling more firmly than in the ancient
seat of legal learning, the Middle
Temple, London, which still jealously
guards the traditions it has inherited.
TO the present-day benchers, bar
risters and students are summoned to
dinner each evening during term time
by the blowing Of horn-a custom
which has survived on this spot since
the romantic days of the crusaders.
Every evening at $3.50 during the three
weeks of the legal terms, warder,
in gold-braided uniform, procures the
OK horn from the strong room of the
Middle Temple, and proceeding to the
famous fountain in Fountain court,
summons the members to dinner by
blowing blast on this primitive in
strument.
He then visits each court in turn,
according to ancient custom, and
many bencher throws up his window
to listen to the sound of the winding
horn, which has been heard continu-
ously in these precincts since the time
when the knights Templar established
themselves there in 1884.
It's use recalls the days when clocks
and watches were unknown, and the
voice o. the watchman, calling out
the time, vas Familiar sound through
the night watches Sun diais were
then the on1.y guides the people pos
sessed as to the fight of time, and
of these more than one still survives.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06

taken almost anywhere where there are rails
over which it may run. Incidentally it may be
mentioned that the railroads OF the country are
manifesting their appreciation Of the valuable
and distnterested work which the Red Cross is
doing in this sphere by hauling the first aid
tree OF charge their respective lines
The first aid car Is divided into two parts of
almost equal size. One-haf of the space of the
car is given over to an assembly and demonstra-
ton room-for, as has been explained, the car
is a hospital school on wheels-and the other
half is taken up by the living quarters for the
instructors and crew. These men live on the car
at all times, just doctors and nurses might
reside at hospital with which they con-
nected. 1t is in the assembly and demonstra-
ton room, however, that the chief functions OF
the car are carried on. The Is large
enough to accommodate considerable number
or people, seated camp stools, so that it Is
entirely practicable to use it lecture hail In
giving first aid instruction when there Is no
larger hall available in a town visited and when
weather conditions do not permit of the first
aid demonstrations being conducted in the open
air.
But the first aid car has another function quite
aside from Its primary purpose of nomadic
school. 1t may, occasion, be used as tenn
porary or emergency hospital and it is likely to
prove of great value in this capacity since it
can, upon telegraphic request, be rushed to any
camp or town village where disaster of any
kind has taken place and where there are may
hap, no regular hospital facilities of any kind
The car carries the necessary apparatus for
quickly Transforming the lecture room into
hospital ward and there is a stock of stretchers,
remedies. bandages and all the paraphernalia
necessary for use under such circumstances.
This latter equipment is in addition, of course.
to the appointments and instruction outfits
charts, books, ETC.. which are designed merely
for use in the regular instruction work on the
and which later will probably be the equip
ment used ninetenths Of the time, for summons
to lend aid in great disasters WILL happily, It is
hoped, be Of rare occurrence.
Few people appreciate the great need for more
general Instruction in nrst aid work such az the
Red Cross IS going to try to give through the
fundamentally Of it, new rolling stock. we
have become pretty well aroused "A this country
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06

by him may mean the destruction OF
the vessel. Naval experts figured a
12-inch shell would pass through the
skeleton mast without destroying it,
whereas one shot in the old style hol-
low steel mast would bring it down
and with it the whole fire control sys-
tenn. It was calculated several shots
could go through the skeleton masts
and it still would stand. But from all
indications those who advanced the
skeleton mast theory evidently were
carried away by their enthusiasm and
overlooked the drawback in another
direction that would be caused by the
vibration OF a battleship steaming at
full speed. 81 .....s
How much depends upon the range
finder can be understood only by men
who make, study of fighting at long
range, as was POINTED out by an ex-
pert who says the skeleton masts are
a failure. It was expected that when
the lattice work masts first made their
appearance other nations would be
quick to adopt them. It was a sur
" AoO W AuVOSoLOS vi CAO uCW ~ VI
mast that this was not done. The
skeleton mast is typically an Ameri-
can naval idea, but from all indica.
tons the defects now seen by experts
here were foreseen by experts in other
navies, and the American mast let
alone.
Those in favor of the skeleton masts
point to the excellent gunnery records
made in target practice since their
adoption as proof of their success, but
the counter argument is advanced that
If the range finders were placed on
more substantial posts the marksman-
! ship of the navy, increasing in excel
lence as it has done year by year,
would be still better and all records
for speed and accuracy would be
smashed. The unpopnlarity OF the
skeleton masts has been growing
steadily. It is said the change is not
far OF. and any day may see orders IL
sued doing away with what year or
two ago was thought to be great
stride forward in naval construction.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06

twists and twines it's way in to the
park. It is triumph of engineering
skill.
The government has entire control
OF the park. All new roads opened
and the repairs and maintenance of
old roads and trails are entirely de-
pendent upon congressional appropri-
atoms. The roads are now in very fine
condition, a great deal of work and ex-
pense having recently been put upon
them, and steel and concrete bridges
have almost entirely replaced wood
en- ones. Prominent among the i'm
provements is the construction of the
line lava arch entrance at Gardiner,
at a cost of $4,000 1.-The new concrete
viaduct at Golden Gate, costing $1O,-
600, to replace the old timber trestle;
and the erection of a very fine con-
crete and steel bridge of artistic de-
sign across the Yellowstone river and
rapids, just above the upper fall of the
Yellowstone at the Grand canyon, at
the expense Of $4,000.
Fort Yellowstone, the military post
in the park at Mammoth Hot
Springs. Here, also, are the head
quarters Of the United States engineer
in charge of the park improvements,
and the United States commissioner.
Mammoth Hot Springs is thus the cap
ltal of the park. In recent years this
place has been greatly improved. A
Encouragement of roads, new buildings,
concrete sidewalks, a new waterworl1s
and an irrigation system and con-
sequent carpeting of grass on the old
white plaza in front of the hotel and
officers quarters, has metamorphosed
the locality. Mammoth Hot Springs is
the largest and most important place
in the park. Here all authority cen,
ters; it is the heart from which pulls
ate the currents of life which perme.
ate the park.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
1763-67.
For over 100 years this line was a
bone Of contention and England
finally sent Mason and Dixon to the
colonies to make an official survey
which was to be final.
at the end Of every fifth mile Of this
line a stone, brought from England,
was placed, engraved on one side with
the coat Of arms of Lord Baltimore.
and on the other, with those of the
Penns; while the intermediate miles
were marked by smaller stones, 16
inches square and Is inches high,
bearing a large letter M on one side
and P on the other. The line is ESQ
miles long.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
The New First Aid Car

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with carrying this first aid crusade
into the shops and mills and
throughout the railroad world. the
Red Cross has lately enlisted the
cooperation of the boy Scouts of
America, and first aid instruction is
being given to all of the youngsters
IN this organization according to,
plans and methods prepared by the
Red Cross.
Such are the demands upon it
that a first aid car cannot remain
Tor long at aSy given point. The
general plan adopted is to spend
about three days at each point Sc
lected by the railway ofrsials- that
is, the officers of the railroad sys.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
Summoning Lawyers to Dinner.

with it's quaint motto, on the walls
of the Temple buildings. It is to the
sworn enemies of the Knights Tenn
plar, the Saracens, oddly enough, that
as We do, indeed, the greater part of
our mathematical knowledge as well.
When the Templars founded their
new monastery between Whitefriars
and Essex house in the Strand, the
latter was, as it's name implies, merely
a beach beside the silver Thames, and
all around was open country, the site
OF the present law courts being large
field which was used as fitting
ground by the knights. In later days,
when the men Of law had taken over
the settlement Of the Knights Tenn
plar, the students, who were resident
in the Temple, were dependent on its
kitchen for their daily meals. After
hurried breakfast in the buttery at
eight o'clock they would take their
law books, and wander off along the
Strand, where, in summer time, they
lay under the trees and bushes study
ing law. Some would row across the
river to the Surrey fields, and wander
through the open country.
Half an hour before dinner the pan
yer man, who drew the daily supply
Of bread every morning from West
minister, used to take large OK horn
and walk along the rivers side, blow
ing the horn as. a signal to the stu
dents to return to the temple for
dinner. .......
The panyer man, who was formerly
charged with the duty of winding the
horn, had also to provide the hall with
mustard, pepper and vinegar, his an
nual wages in 1888 amounting to $26.
Other useful members Of the staff
We're the chief wash pot and the under
wash pot, the chief turn breach, the
stewards servant and under turn spit;
the last named receiving Sc q year.
The horn now in use In the Middle
Temple possesses no antiquarian In
terest in itself, dating back only some
ten years. 1t was brought. over from
the Argentine by one OF the members
shortly before it was found necessary
to discontinue the use Of the old one.
Eye horn Of We Middle Temple" had
become 80 decrepit, through age and
constant use, that the weird and fancy
sounds it emitted were calculated to
bring it into ridicule. It had become
a mass Of silver bands, which ha,
been added from time to time to keep
it together, and close up the cracks
its sides. But in spite Of these bay
the air still escaped 20 freely that
warder who blew It had to placea
handkerchief over the horn
time he used It,
So the ancient horn, which
sounded the welcome summons
ner in term Tor generation
placed on the retired list, and
only sees the light on grand i
hall, when Il 50 placed on {
with the rest Of the Middle
proud display Of silver plate
a. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
PIPE OR clGARETT E.
Latter Apparently the Form in Which Tobacc
Was First Used.

While the question as to which preceded the
other the egg or the hen, lis Still subject for dis
pute in the district school debating societies. the
question as to which came first into use the pipe
or the cigarette, appears to have the greater part
of the EVIDENCE so far as white testimony is con-
cerned. in favor Of the cgarette-and anti-tobac-
conists put that in their pipe smoke it, the
Indianapolis News remarks. When Columbus land
ed on the island of Guanahani which he called San
Salvador, on October IL, 1892 he and his men saw
TO their great aSton1shment number OF copper
colored natives collected the shore putting
clouus of smoke from their lips and noses. They
We're smoking what later came to be called tobacco
the leaves of which the natives had formed into
cylindrical rolls within the husks of the indian
corn. While this was evidently the most primitive
way OF burning the leaf, there pipes long be-
fore Columbus arrived. Large numbers OF pipes
have been found in so-caIled Indian mounds in the
central west, as we'll as along the northern lakes
and throughout the south. In 1919 when Cortez
invaded Mexico, the natives smoked pipes made
from reeds and richly ornamented. Montezuma it
3 has been recorded, was accustomed to take his
pipe after dinner when it was brought to him with
much ceremony by bevy OF beautiful matdens anu
handed to him after he had rinsed his mouth with
scented water
The North American Indian usually made his
pipes out OF kind OF stone known as red pire-
stone. of which there were large deposits in tie
Odd Sioux country and the great spirit is said &c
have given his Endorsement to this particular :,-
lterial, which might have been Sioux MONOPOLY.
I In these words:
This stone is red. It Is your flesh 1t belongs
to you in all. Out of It make no more tomahawks.
war hatchets nor scalping knives, use it only to
make the pipe OF peace and smoke therefrom when
you would propitiate me and do my will"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
Fathers Joy Unabated,

Guthrie, Okla.At sixty-four years
Of age. w. w. Elan, a farmer living
living east OF blanchard, Okla, is the
father Of his twenty-fourth child,
which made its appearance at his
home a few days ago. The mother
of the child is Elam's third wife. OF
his twenty-four children, eighteen are
living. Elam has spent his entire life
on the farm. This places ELAN at the
head Of his class In Oklahoma.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-01-06
R42ED4GLVQ TIL HAD or a
- Pillow WORlrLAM

tenn whose lines are being traversed.
AS many first aid DEMONSTRATIONS
and lectures as possible care given
in the time allotted, AS la srllle4it.
is not practicable thoroughly tol in
struct men in first aid work in SO
short a time, but they learn consid-
cradle Of the subject and there is
an arousal of interest. wM:h almost
invariably results in the organize
ton of first aid curps watch is de-
veloped by local physicians and
with the aid of ths Red Gross in.
struction books and#emelgency out
fits. Still further toi.stimliate inter
est throughout the eountIN the. Red
Cross has set aside a funN Of S. 600
the income of which is3}to be- dis
tributed annually III lprizts too the:
first aid workers who show N the
greatest proficiency Cor Wto perform
exceptionally dangerous pr arduouss
first aid work. u
The past few Years has seen re-
markable progress inSthe prof iencyi
attained by workmen in caring fols
their fellows who lave suffered in-'
juries in the line bit their work
From the rough ara q ge1y
in which the work VA;
s.,i els yed sorp w u
injuries peculiar TO MS owl speaias
vocation. modern antiseptic methods
have been acquired and now the, JIM
fortunate victim Of an accident is
given all the chances in his tight for
life that modern science can devise
There is no longer idle hands and
anxious moments awaiting the ar
rival of the surgeon, and rough but
sl1ilful hands perform the first aid
treatment which gives relief to the
sufferer, and in many cases means
the saving OF his life. All large