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Origin of Fire

The big fire that destroyed such a large portion of Hot Springs Friday afternoon and night started in the home of a negress living near the corner of Gulpha and Pleasant streets.
 She built a fire early in the afternoon in a charcoal brazier, intending to heat her irons.
 While waiting for the fire to get start she went visiting to some of the neighbors. A breeze came up and blew a flimsy cur tain over the red-hot coals. Ii blazed up like flash and a minute later the home of the negress was in flames. The frame houses surrounding 1t caught almost immediately and before the firemen could get 2 line of hose trained on the blaze lit was beyond control. The houses burned like finder anc the fire, famed by a strong breeze, spread to other and more substantial buildings.
 While not doing laundry work at her home the negress was employed as cook at the home of Hardy Hinton, one of thu well-known citizens of Ho Springs.
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nance. It is..said that each per formance is better than the pre- ceding one. The black commedian is one of the features of the performance that takes with the audience. The singing is up to the average and the dancing fine.
 All who have attended the show during the week speak in high terms of the clean bill that is given. Dawson Springs, Ky, Tribune.
 The Kadell- Kritchfield,- the pi- oneer popular priced amusement show will begin a weeks engage ment in Brinkley Monday night, Sept. 18th.
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Boosteretts

Winter would lose it's terrors if we had good roads.
 l Every good road in Monroe
 county is a road to success.
 The Brinkley-to- Wheatley road l is only a small part of the whole. Lets get busy on the rest. Did you help on the road last week? If not you weakened a link in the Ocean to Ocean High way, which is to go through
 Brinkley. Can you afford it?
 If your two days work a year devoted to the building of a good road will help to make passable road in the winter, you have done a greater service than to vote for a country saver.'
 The enterprising towns west of us are doing their part on the highway. The question is: Are we going to let our neighbors do more than we do? Local pride should be as a whip lash to our ambition and force us to do as much as any town does.
 A bad road is a strain on a mans religion. Have you ever passed friend mired down hub deep? You usually hear a choice lot of language that would not do to recite in Sunday School. unless the fellow is a mighty devout man.
 Take the most progressive counties in Arkansas and you'll Il
 see said counties all have good roads. It will help make a city of Brinkley, and help other towns lin Monroe county to grow. twill enhance the value of your prop erty, no matter where it is locat- ed in the county.
 Inst think about it for a mom- l lent. If a good road ran by your favorite farm, how much more would it be worth to you? It would place the country and the towns nearer together, because you could come so much quicker, and in marketing your crops you could bring just twice the load with less wear on stock and Wag- lon. A small tax would bring this about.
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Don't Sell Seed Cotton

another investigation which is
 lunder way is into the prac-
 eof selling cotton in the seed,
 before it is ginned. This GUS
 D probably is prevalent to con- 1erable extent in Arkansas.
 As far as investigations have pne, it has been shown that Ehe selling of cotton in the seed
 asort of game of chance, bas- fon the law of averages, and hould be discouraged. 1" The gin- kr bases his price on seed cot pnon the average out-turn of ggt and seed from day to day. It nl readily be seen that this ethod reduces all cotton to a ead level or average and is hnifestly unfair to the farmer mo produces a longer staple or 1e who grows a variety with a lgher percentage of lint.
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Pacific Barrier Destroyed

Panama, Aug. 31. The las
 remaining barrier at the Pacific
 end of the Panama canal was
 blown out by dynamite this morn. ling. It was an intensely inter
 esting spectacle. At exactly 9:30
 o'clock an electric switch was
 turned on and the 1,500 specta-
 tors, including the Shriners visit ing here from the United States and officers of the British cruiser l New Zealand, were rewarded by a wonderful sight. Hundreds of tons of mud and stone were thrown high in the air and the thunderous roar of the explosion re-echoed in the nearby hills. I About 20 long tons, equivalent to 44,800 pounds of 45 per cent dynamite constituted the blast, which was one of the largest ever set off in the canal.
 The charge, which was rlaced in 541 holes at an average depth of 30 feet. tore a gap in the bar rier, but not to sufficient depth to permit water to flow through, as the sea level channel was at low tide.
 Equally interesting as the ex- plosion was the actual breaking of the barrier this afternoon, the tide creeping steadily up until at 1885 o'clock it was level with the top of the gap. A workman seiz- ed a shovel and made a small trench through which a Till of water trickled. Gradually it wid- ened until an hour later raging torrent. with a B foot fall, pour ed through an opening 400 feet wide into that part of the canal between Gamboa dike and the Miraf1ores locks, which previous ly had been excavated by steam shovels.
 This cut, which is 5000 feet long, 800 feet wide and Al feet deep below mean sea level, was entirely flied by 3 o'clock when the waters of the Pacific laved for the first time the solid masonry of the Miraflores locks.
 Dredges passed through the opening and in few days the last vestiges of the barrier will be removed, giving a practically completed channel at the Pacific end. The dredges will begin on September 2 to remove the last barrier of the Atlantic channel. When this work is accomplished ships may navigate to locks at both ends.
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w. H. McClain

w. H. McClain, one of Brink ley's most respected citizens, ] died very suddenly Sunday morn ing of heart trouble. At break fast he was in the best of health apparently, but soon after, he began to complain of a smother ingsensation and. growing steadi- lyworse, Dr. Murphy was sum- |noned. For time he rallied, and was much better seemingly but soon the attack came on again, and, although everything possible was done to revive him he was beyound human aid and soon expired.
 Mir. McClain was born in Rutherford County, Tenn. in 1861 near the town of Middleton which is now Midland. At the age of 15 he went to college at Knoxville. Graduating from this school, he went to work for a drug company in Nashville with which he remained for several years. He then accepted a travelling position with the Van Vleet Drug Company of Mem phis. On account of injuries received in a railroad wreck, he retired from the road about five years ago and, coming to Brink ley, purchased the New Drug Store of which he was proprietor at the time of his death.
 MT. McClain was never mar ried and had no relatives in this city, although he leaves host of friends by whom he will be greatly missed.
 His brother, c. G. McClain of Gilpin arrived in Brinkley Mon day and accompanied the body tc Midland, Tenn, near Murfrees- boro, where it will inferred in the old family lot in the Middle ton cemetery.
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s. I. A. Meeting

lee School Improvement As
 uatlon met with Mrs. A. R.
 ammond last Friday, and as
 aal the meeting was one of en-
 uslasm and interest.
 There were seventeen members
 esent, and the first part of the
 ernoon was spent in listening
 Vocal and instrumental music. nevocal numbers being rendered
 Mesdames James Woodfin and
 k. Collins and Miss Fife nnlap; the instrumental part of ne program was by Jennie and eorge Allen.
 After being entertained with Re music, there was a business eetlng, and the election of of eers for the ensuing year. Mrs. { F. Elledge, president; Mrs. nus \ Roescher, lst vice pres Pent; Mrs. J. A. Glover. End hee president; Miss Fife Dunlap Ru { vice president; Miss Della aggott. secretary; Mrs. c. I. alen, treasurer. Two new mem eers were enrolled.
 Alter the business meeting, eslnty refreshments were served " the hostess.
 The meeting then adjourned te meet Oct. 3, with Mrs. 0. H, Cooper.
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The Circus


 Hagenbeck &@Wallace circus showed here Tuesday. Owing to threatening weather only one performances (the afternoon one) was given, and one of the larg- est circus crowds ever in Brink ley, was present. On account of late unloading and the condition of the streets. no parade was given. ..The show as whole, was disappointing, not coming near up to what the spectators were led to believe was in store for them in exchange for their money.
 The usual crowd of toughs, who follow a circus were dump ed onto the town, but the police were vigilant, and those who re- mained in Brinkley were arrest ed, and after trial were fined in the Mayors court, Wednesday morning, and six of the offend CTS were sent to the county farm to work out their fines.
 Two or three men got too full of 'mother-in-laW tanner" dur. ing the day, and they also con- tributed to the city treasury. However, as whole, it was one of the most orderly crowds seer in Brinkley for a long time.
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has been so potent in securing freedom for guilty men, may be eliminated. Our court procedure and our law should be cut to fit the conditions of today. In every state the records are cluttered with obsolete and usless laws which should be repealed. We have too many laws and enforce too few of them.
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Good Show Coming

The Kadell- -Kritchfield show opened here last Monday night, for a weeks engagement. The first night was a record breaker, the large audience was appreci- ative. and the performance a de- cided hit.
 The crowds have been large each evening. Standing room only is the order of every perfor-
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If Knew You and Ton Knew Me

II knew you and you knew me-
 'Iis seldom we would disagree: But. never having yet clasped hands,
 Both often fail to understand That each intends to do what's right
 And treat each other ''honor brignt'' How little to complain there'd be Ii knew you and you knew me- Wheneer we ship you by mistake,
 Or in your bill some error make, From irritation you'd be free
 It | knew you and you knew me- Or when the checks don't come on time. And customers send us nary line, We'd wait without anxiety,
 If knew you and you knew me- when some goods you fire back,'' Or make kick on this or that, We'd take 1t in good part. you see, If knew you and you knew me- With customers, one thousands strong Occasionally things go wrong Sometimes our fault, sometimes theirs Forbearance would decrease all cares; Kind friends. how pleasant things would be If knew you and you knew me- Then let no doubting thoughts abide Of firm good faith on either side Confidence to each other give, Living ourselves, let others live; But ahy time you come this way, That you will call, we hope and pray; Then face to face each shall see And I'll know yon and you'll know me-
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Mitchell Howard

At the home of the brides father, at Hunter, Earl Mitchell and Miss Mary Howard were united in marriage Sunday even ing. The ceremony was said by Rev. T. J. Brickell of this city. Mir. Mitchell is one of Hunters young business men, while the bride is one of Hunters most popular youny ladies.
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Test Saloon Laws

4lo Rock, Sept. 8. Two
 from today the anti-saloon
 nassed by the last Legisla-
 hiIl be argued and submit
 the state supreme court.
 the act, which, if sustain
 the supreme court, will Scally eliminate all saloons
 Arkansas, as it would be ,sible for the liquor people
 nply with the law. It pro-
 that before saloon license $ obtained a majority of all shite adult inhabitants of ritory affected must sign Ions asking the county court ant license. Under the law hes are barred from signing ptition. The liquor interests sttacking the validity of the
 claming' that it should be red to the voters of the
 under the initiative and endum of the-state constitu- before it becomes operative. contention is based upon Emergency clause attached to ill3 which provides that it Idaot become effective until l tmonths after passage. The l r interest claim that the kgency clause means imme- ely after passage and not It months later, hence the Ire act is invalidated to that knt.
 { the supreme court sustains flaw, saloons will be a thing he past in Arkansas after II, 1914, and if the court sus- $ the contention of the liquor rests, the question will be mitted to the voters of the e at the election to be held eptember, 1914.
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Notice

Notice is hereby given that there will be a Public Examina- tion of Teachers at the Court House in Clarendon the 18th and 18th days of September A. D. 1913 to ascertain the Professions al Qualifications of all persons desiring to teach in the Public Schools of Monroe county,
 David Bowen, County Supt
 Monroe county. Ark Sept. 1st. 1913.
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American Salmon in Tasmania.
 American salmon in the fresh waters of Tasmania are prospering wonderful ly. Some of them increased in weight from two ounces to four pounds in 21 months.
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Strayed or Stolen

One small, brpwn mule about 12 years\Nld fblind in left eye. Had on A Mxas saddle, taken from the kak back of Gazzola Grocery o.xni&ht of Sept. 9th. Any informAk jon will be thank fully received and a liberal re- ward.
 Vno. c. Haller,
 Care of Jim Woodfin. Brinkley, ArEf
 If you ne( (Ak load or wood cal l5e. simm(9 Co.
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Logging Party Delayed

The logging party of the South ern national highway is on its way through Arkansas. The par ty, consisting of Col Westgaard, Dell M. Potter and others; should have arrived in Texarkana Mon- day night, but .were detained in Texas by unfavorable weather
 Upon their arrival at DeValls Bluff, they will be joined by Judge E. R. Screeton of Prairie county, Judge T. G. Trice of this county, Drs. E. D. Mcknight F. T. Murphy and T. J. Stout, ot this place, who will accompany them distance on their journey east.
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Mrs. Leyo Waddell d1na M Thursday from . vi1it MILL tives and friends i1 HEN Tenn. <
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First CHS dressmaking, work guarant Mrs. R. W. Brest next w Sims residence
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Tell '.m Seu s,w It in the Araus.
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Tell 'sm you saw Ii Tn the Argus
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EDITOR

the charter. the. campaign commenced with thir,
| ty DAYS of hard educational work in the news
papers All four of the newspapers were enlist.
ed and scores Of columns Of publicity of an etln-
cationaI nature were used. Cooperation, har-
m0nv Of effort and unity of action were
preached. ...... l.. !.
Forty Of the biggest men of New Orleans
wrote $50 personal letters each, thus making a
total of 5000 letters which we're sent TO list of
the Progressive Union nor the proposed change.
They just preached the doctrine of cooperation,
the need of factories, the necessity of tilng the
lands, and the need of more and better publicity
| for New Orleans. Four days after the mailing
of these 5000 letters, the Board of Trade an
nounced it would put on a membership cam
paign At that time the Board of Trade was not
c0gnizant of the plans of the Progressive Union.
The campaign of education now changed sud
denly, and conferences were held, in which The
Board of Trade gladly gave offer of their hearty
support to the new movement of the Association
Of Commerce
The meeting just previous to the amendment
of the charter was attended by more than 400 of
the prominent men of New Orleans, and one
statistician announced that a total of more than
$780, 100000 was represented in the gathering
This was evidence to the officers of the enthu-
siasm that had been created.
On Saturday, May 3, the meeting was held to
amend the charter. Mr.. Edward F. Trefz, field
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, was present by invitation, and adj
dressed the meeting
After this meeting eightsheet posters were
displayed on hundreds of billboards, window
cards were placed inIprominent show windows,
and great number of motion picture houses
displayed announcement slides, all telling of the
great movement for consolidation and co-opera-
ton.
Committee meetings are being held daily at
8 80 a. m. The committees meet again at noon
for lunch and for report, going the rounds of the
hotels on all days excepting Saturday, when they
meet at the diningroom of the Association of,
Commerce At the end of the first week the to-
tai was $45,975 The total aimed at is $780, 900,
and there is every promise that it will be-
reached.
The six divisions outside of that of general ad,
ADMINISTRATION are those of Industrial, Publicity,
Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers, Re
tail Merchants Real Estate Land and Immigra-
ton, and Conventions and Tourists.
This is New Orleans policy.
Is drifting or doing to be Honolulu's policy?
n
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DISASTER TO MUIR WOODS

The reported destruction Of Muir Woods on
Mount Talnalpais brings a feeling Of regret To
many Honolulans. Perhaps the. most famous
group Of redwoods in the country are there
named after the famous authOr-naturalist, John
Muir. The grove is the gift to the federal gov
eminent of Congressman "Blly' Kent, well.
knownin Hawaii, and when Kent made the gift,
he refused to allow the woods to be named in his
homer.
Probably nine-tertths of the people Of this ter
ritory who travel are familiar with these mag
nificent forest monarehs, standing by the paths
constructed from Muir Inn into the heart of the
canyon. Some of the trees are 800 feet high and
of tremendous girth. The tract contains 295
acres and was accepted as national monument
on January 9, 1908. President Roosevelt set the
land and trees apart by special proclamation
under the public land laws. The Muir Woods
have been left in primeval grandeur, unspoiled
by the artificialities of the landscape gardener.
Though many of the trees, on account of their
mammoth size, may be saved from the hurrying
flames, the beauty of the woods fris probably
ruined forever. Muir Inn is probably destroyed
also The loss of this great grove of trees is a
national disaster
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the club. Consult General RENTERS
and Mrs. Renters win give fecep-
ton for the visitors.
The entertainment Of the crew on
the ship viii e confined almost ex-
clusiyely to Thursday, said Mr.. Da-
yies this morning. Mr.. Davies Is the
chairman of the committee appointed
at a mass meeting of the British resi-
dents to arrange program for the
sailors. 1t is probable, however. that
they will be given an opportunity to
see the ball game Sunday at Moiliili.
Thursday there will be. athletic
events for them at Kapiolani park.
Prizes will be given. The sailors win
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NEWzEALAND
REACHES PORT
next SUNDAY
Continued from page one,

the troops at Schofield barracks, or
dered by Brigadier-Ge General Funston,
commanding the Hawaiian depart
ment. The officers are to be taken to
the barracks Thursday afternoon in
automobiles, where the drill and mill
tary parade, probably the largest ever
held here, will be given. The officers
will be the guests of Brigadier-
General Funston and staff and Gener-
al Macomb and staff The machines
will take the officers direct to the
army post and will there be enter
tanned by Colonel McGunnegle, post
commander. During the entire after
noon the officers of the New Zealand
will be the guests of the army'N ~
The navy's entertainment tof the
officers will be at the Country Club,
where a reception will be given. at
which the officers will be the guests
of Rear-AdmiraI Moore, and officers
of the local naval station The Uni
vers.,y and the Pacific clubs will
take a hand in the entertainment at
"a joint smoker. The Commercial
Club will invite the officers on an
automobile tour of the city on Sunday
to be followed with refreshments at
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IEfNIIEYIEWG

c.. G. BOCkUS-I hope that there
are some golfers among the officers OF
the New Zealand They will be well
ecmed on the Country Club course
SAM CHILLINGWORTH - The
Stanford team will practice every day
at Moiliili, and by Saturdays game
against Punahou, the men should be
back TO form
THOS. YELLEK - Aviator Geiger,
who arrives by the Logan, being also
a fine baseball catcher, should be able
to catch the-'flies'. / say, now, cut out
the rough stuff.
NELSON DUVAL assistant engi-
neer. U. S. engineers office - Maui
outdid It's proverbial hospitality in eel
ebrating the Fourth of July. To use
the vernacular. it was some celebra-
ton.
SAM CHILLINGWORTH = Those
Stanford college boys will have to
play better than they did yesterday II
they expect to win any games here.
But their exhibition yesterday was
hardly fair to them, I believe. After
twelve days aboard ship they, hadn't
got rid of their sea legs. Two or
three days rest and practice should
make them look and act like an entire
ly different team.
c. A. COTTRlLL - AS an enthusiast
tic baseball fan | wish to protest
against the exhibition given at Moili-
iii yesterday by Pitcher Lawson, ct
the All Service team. Umpire Stayton
should have booted both him and the
Stanford twirler oil the. diamond for
conspiracy and dilatory tactics,that de-
layed the game FULLY an hour. We got
home to dinner at $3.50 last evening.
when we should have been home at
$50.
COL. D. NJ. APPEL. M. c., u. S. A.
department surgeon) Some of the
officers at Schofield Barracks tell me
that they are. considering a commune
cation to the chief of the quartermas-
ter corps, advising against the substi-
tuition of the wooden service uniform
for the cotton, recently proposed. 1t Is
essential in this climate to have uni-
form that can go into the tub. 1t
might be good thing, though, to au-
thorize the wearing of a lightweight
blue uniform for men ON pass. so that
they could present smarter appear.
ance in the city. Blue, If made of
light enough material, would be all
right for dress wear.