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The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
WHAT LIQUOR DID.

During a temperance campaign Tn d certain state the proprietors oi the breweries published in a local paper the following notice: Alexander the Great drank beer and conquered the world before he was thirty-tWo Ter haps he might have done it sooner II he had not drunk beer but you d bet ter take no chances" Shortly after ward the same paper published the following as a rejoinder: Alexander the Great died in drunken deO1ucn at the age of thirty-three. You'd bet ter take no chances
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16

living near the proposed road here petitioned for petition the honorable county court for public road to be opened as hereinafter described, to- wit:
 Beginning at Rhineboldt's mill on Section line between Sections (6) and (7) Township CID and running west on Section line between Sections CD and Q2), @ and CID, t3) and (10) Township CID Range (21) West to the Southeast corner of Levi CoX's place in Section (4) Township CID Range (21) West, there intersecting the Prescott Road.
 Said road is petitioned for in view of the fact that said section line is about to be closed up thereby cutting off from their mail boxes all parties living East of the present termina- tion of the rural delivery mail route, and from the town of Prescott.
 We therefore pray the county court to grant this petition.
 D. P. Rabin,
 Rhineboldt & Rhineboldt. w. F. Foster, T. E.. King, and Others.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
A LIVE TOPIC.

The subject most universally dis cussed, aside from the weather, is that of temperance. In the newspaper world it is no longer the country week. ly and the small city daily, but the great metropolitan papers, as we'll In the smoking compartments of Pullman cars, at weekend parties, on the porch, in the family circle, among business men at their desks, everywhere, sup pressiOn of the liquor traffic Is the liv- est question up for general discussion before the American public. The magazines, too, are devoting much space to the discussion Story writers are teaching the lesson of the value of abstinence and the worthlessness of the man who drinks. It is no longer the lonesome fight of the preachers and the extremists conservative com mon sense and consecrated patriotism have also taken up the cudgel against the business of legalizing the selling of truction.-Alabama Citizen.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16

all being situated in Section Thirteen Q3), also North half of the North west Quarter, the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter. and the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section Twenty-four (24g.
 All in Township Thirteen ll3) South Range Twenty-two (22) West, ana containing in the aggregate 3S2 acres more or less.
 Said sale will be made to satisfy judgement in favor of ,said. party Plaintiff in this case, and sad sale will be made on credit of three months and the purchaser will be re, ouired to execute note with approved personal security for the purchase price. and a lien will be retained on said land to secure the payment of said purchase money. Given under my hand as such Com missioner on this 7th day of October, 1914.
 J. A. BAILEY, Commissioner in Chancery.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
DOCTORS DISAGREE.

Writing on What Science Says About Alcohol" in a recent number of Munsey's Magazine, MT. Burton J. Hen drick alludes to the differing methods employed by physicians and laboratory workers. "The latter" he says "care nothing for theories and inherited knowledge; they submit everything to experimentation the test tube and microscope. The remarkable fact is, he continues, that, though the doctors may disagree about alcohol, as about many other things, the scien- lists apparently never do. Practically all who have really experimented have rendered the verdict strongly against it. Alcohol in their view is not a stim- ulant, 1t is not an appetizer or an aid to digestion, 1t is not a food in any real meaning of the word, it is not an inspiration and help to mental work and 1t does not increase muscular ac- tivity In other words, cold blOoded modern science brands as untrue prac- tfcally all the claims for alcohol which poets, philosophers, convivialists and even physicians have made since the beginning of civilization"
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16

Cambridge, Mass, has been tenn. perance city for 26 consecutive years In October, 1913, it's mayor gave out the following facts:
 1886. 1913. Population ..... 59000 10000 Valuation 1859, 9,445,670 $117,1S6.40O Savings banks
 deposits s6,56O,934 $26,243, 3,736 Depositors .... 21,215 63,645
 This, the mayor believes, is more than the natural or ordinary increase and undoubtedly due to the nolicense policy.
 The number of children attending public schools in 1886 was 9,631, of whom 516 were in the high school. In 1913 there were 16,000 public school children, of whom more than s,G00 were in the high schools. This, D points out Mayor Barry, shows a marked increase in the number of children who by reason of better con ditions are privileged to continue their education in the higher grades"
 Concerning the effects of temper ance upon the business interests of the city, he says: During the years there have located in this city over twenty new concerns representing various industries. It appears that these new concerns employ abou+ two thousand persons, with annual pay rolls of over s1,O0O,Oo0, md have ex- pended for suitable buildings to carry on their industries in this city over s400,000.
 We have 1t from some of the busi- ness men who have recently come to Cambridge that one of the principal things that attracted them to locate here with large number of employees was the fact that Cambridge is well established as no-license city"
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
Society Backs Masaue Ball.

St. Louis society has sprung a sen sation by getting behind the public masque ball which will be held at the Coliseum there the night of Thurs day, Oct. 8.
 James E. Smith, president of the St. Louis Symphony Society. is chair man of the Executive Committee.
 Unlike the Yelled Prophet ball. the masque ball will be open to the pub lie at large, on payment of au admis- sion fee.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND NATION.

The total amount of revenue re- cetved from the liquor traffic, includ- ing duties on imports, is less than S350,000,00O annually.
 The cost of the traffic to the nation $5,OO0,OOO,O00, or over $14 for every revenue dollar received.
 The raw material of the saloon is the boy.
 It's finished product is the drunk ard
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
14th Day of November 1914

sell at public outcry at the East Door of the Court House of Nevada Coun- ty, Arkansas, at Prescott, Arkansas, the following lands in said County, to- wit:
 The South half of the Southwest Quarter.
 The North half of the Southwest Quarter,
 The Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter,
 The East half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, and a strip of land in the Southeast cor ner of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, lying on the East side of settlement road running North land South, containing 214 acres, and
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
IN NEVADA CHANCERY COURT

Notice is Hereby Given, That by vir- tue of decree of the Chancery Court of Nevada County mdae and rendered it's June, 1914, term, in a certain case therein pending wherein W. E McLain is party Plaintiff and R. w. Wade and A. C. Bown and Hattie Bown his wife are parties Defendant, that the un- dersigned as special Commissioner in ChancerY. will on the
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
LID ON THE NAVY VESSELS

At midnight, June 30. Secretary Dan iels dry" edict went into effect. and John Barleycorn walked the plank of the American battleship. The event was one of interest, say the press dis patches, especially on the vessels in Mexican waters. On board the New York, July 4, was held the first dry smoker. Soft drinks were served.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
NoiicE FOR PUBLlcA,,o,
La, dsnd Office 'l at 'Ss eanattssr laatsrio,, u October 8, 1914. '"'aen' Aka Arrssa,||

,., N4TIcF: ,III is hereby e;vor U ry Harvey. of Sayree, Fa1sr A ,1 that on January 27, 1918 .rr' nai iSnsas, X Stead SIe,1 Entry, Serial No. Isae oSSata 2 Id NE; NE 4 ,6 SEA 2 and the SET0 Si Tv0'S5, y5, fa' ton t.3 2 22S, Township l1S' s. 15 NE7 X 2th Principal Meridian ISange Saag 2, 2o| tlce of intention to mako lIs lS; tlel| mutation Proof, to estabIiihm llJ Ihmsl al O the u land above described iibspIiSh ne slaia EKeglster and Receiver Id' of tS t9SefoIel State Land Office, at Camdt0nse Dr tne ua IaI,l IaI, on the 27th day ,1i''lS1 of No11sss,' Al
 Claimant names as witDe....
 Henry Meadow, of savro ',es' s.,
 W. k. Dewoody, of Sayre' re' AarSaa A K
 James Meadow, of Sayre Sre' asrSaa 4 TX
 E. l.. Meadow, of Cale Aarsa1 IT
 N' D. NEWTON, Reginst,, leg n,
 Do it now! Advertise,
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
PUBLIC NOTICE OF COMMISSIONS
 FRS SALE

Public Notice is Hereby Given that in pursuance of the provisions of a decree of the Nevada County Chan cery Court made and rendered at it's October Term, 1914, in the case of Thomas c. McRae as trustee and oth- CTS, plaintiffs and l. H. Sandusky and others defendants, the undersigned, being the commissioner named in said dpcraa will on
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16

Cambridge, Mass, has been a tenn perance city for 26 consecutive years In October 1913, it's mayor gave out the following facts:
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16

others defendants, the undersigned, being the commissioner named in said decree, will on
 Saturday, November 7th, 1914, between the hours for judicial sales, at the north door of the court house in Prescott, Nevada County, Arkan- sas, proceed to offer for sale at pub lie auction to the highest bidder the
 blowing real estate in Nevada County Arkansas:
 West half (W1a) of the northeast quarter (NEI:
 North half (N1a) of the northwest quarter (NWA) of the southeast quarter (SEH):
 All in section eighteen GS) town ship eleven CID south, range twenty one (21) west, containing 100 acres more or less.
 Terms and Manner of Sale: On credit of three months, the purchaser being required to give bond with ap- proved personal security, bearing in- terest at the rate of ten 10) per cen tum per annur for the purchase-mon- ey, provided that if the purchaser, de- sires to pay cash and avoid the pay ment of interest he may do so, and provided that if plaintiffs, or either of them become the purchasers, they shall be required to give bond for such amount as their bid may ex- ceed the amount of indebtedness and costs adjudged. Said sale is made for the purpose of foreclosing deeds of trust executed by Labelle Sandusky, and the equity of redemption of her heirs at law, and is made subject to the debts of the estate of J. w. Sand usky, deceased.
 October 18th, 1914. 15-22-29 J. A. BAILEY, Commissioners
The Prescott daily news., 1914-10-16
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

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Evening star., 1914-07-26

that they were considering whether the
United States could consistently enter
the black republic and take over the
management of its sorely misapplied and
shrinking finances.
And that Uncle Sam will play every one
of his cards before he will permit the
island to be taken over by Germany or
any of the other world powers who
desire the Mole ST. Nicholas base is
best evidenced by what the United States
has done in the past. and principally by
the incident o fthe gun-runners in 1887.
In the closing days of 81 the island re-
public was in little more than it's usual
fomenting state. Gen. +. u. Legitime and
Gen. F'lorvil Hippolyte were each be-
traying and scheming for the govern
mental reins then held in the palsied
hands r the unstable patriot President
Saiomoh Both of the revolutionary fac
tions were purchasing arms and muni-
tions of war. Each was straining every
resource to prevent the supplies from
reaching his opponent.
Then came the day when Gen. Legi-
time, expelled from the country by Saio-
mon. succeeded in defeating the old pa
triot and declaring a dictatorship. while
Hipolyte was forced to content himself
with becoming the head OF govern
mental commission.
But this solution of the Haitian inter-
. nal dissensions did not solve the problem.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

asthmatic gunboats. and towed them out
to open sea by way Of reprisaI But
the Haitian government seeing the error
of its way dug down into it's govern
mental jeans and redeemed the dread
nouShts.''
Then came certain German bankers
who already had accommodated the black
republic with several loans, and proffered
500 500 additional to the distressed island
upon conditions which included, II is said,
right and title to the long coveted Mole
St Nicholas. and it was this bit of in
formation which sent the fond old parent
into the sauabble.
The hand which the United States has
taken in the Haitian game remains to be
played. But some-of Uncle Sans cards
hand is the cruiser Washington. whose
commander. Capt. EDerle, was July 2i
last ordered to Port an Prince with con:
fidential instructions. following cabinet
meeting wherein the President and his
advisers vigorously discussed Haitian af-
fairs Then there are four other United
States cruisers on the Caribbean station
now innocently cruising along the coast
of the Dominican republic, 1aitis next
door neiEhbor. within easy wireless hail
cards up the sleeve. so to speak, in case
of necessity.
Following the sailing of the Washing
ton, U'lrich Duvivier. minister from Haiti
was clOseted in long conference with
Seeresary Bryan July ], and at the con
clusion of this meeting it was reported
Evening star., 1914-07-26

and the power of old Simon was totter-
ing. The United States. too, needed a
naval base. because that was before the
days we controlled Cuba or Porto Rico
But the cruN of the matter, as far as
the United States was concerned came
when a Boston company fitted out an
old wooden steamship, the Haitian Re
public, and she sailed for the island on
the Windward passage. Her cargo
might have been the innocent kind of
machinery Compton said it was; or again
it might have been mltrailleuse machin-
cry. But, however. that might be, the
de facto eovernment-Hippolyte crowd
seized her.
THE fact that the Haitian Republic was
Boston owned was sufficient warrant for
the United States getting interested, and
so, one morning early in February. 1SSS.
the Yantic. ossipee and Galena lifted the
mole at Port au Prince. TkRre wasn't
Evening star., 1914-07-26

any foolishness about it. either. The gun
covers were off and the ammunition all
hoisted.
straight to where the Haitian Repub-
lie Law the little Yantic-She was an
auxiliary boat-steamed, and as the blue
jackets swarmed over one side of the
old steamer, the Haitian guard went over
the other 1 know. for / was there and
saw just two pairs of bare feet disap-
pearing.
The other vessels of our squadron
kedged into position. covering the Desa-
lines, a brig-rigged converted fruiter. and
the Toussaint L'Ouverture. converted
French gunboat and as soon as this was
done an armed launch was sent ashore
with an uitimatum for the surrender OF
the Republic and a demand for damages,
agcreaating $3JUOVO. The Haitian gov
ernment was given three hours to decide.
BY and by the armed launch sent
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Mole St. Nicholas,
Which Would Make
an Excellent Naval
Base. Is to Be Kept
From European Power:
Interference of This
Country in Haitian
Affairs Has Always
Involved international
Diplomacy - Wash
ington Policeman Who
Was With Gunboats
That Interfered in One
Haitian Trouble Tells
How Matter Was Set
tied.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

vettes, and the incident is minor one.
Histories differ. and diplomatic reports
are diplomatic" reports. So here is what
one able-bodied man-o'- war s-man remem
bers of the mission of the Yantic. the Os-
sipee and the Galena- The "A. b.. IN
question now wears the blue of IL Wash
ington policeman. He is a sergeant, his
name is Edward Curry, and he Is as
signed to the sixth police precinct. From
here on it is mostly his yarn:
:: !.
Gen. Hippolyte and Gen. Lesitime
could have fought out the old fight be-
tween black and mulatto in Haiti forever
il it hadn't been for the Mole st. Nicho-
las. AS it was the two Of them had been
pickering and plotting for long time.
the Nicaragua canal was being discussed
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Each time the United States has been
called upon to give Haitian matters seri-
Gus attention there has been involved a
deep undercurrent of international diplo-
macy: and IN 1857. at the time of the
I.egitime-Hippolyte revoldt. the United
States came periously near being placed
III the position OF aiding gun-runners in
their hlibustering efforts on behalf of the
revolutiosists.
The present difficulties N Haiti, over
which the United States is keeping a
Jealous eye, are all due to financial
stringency. France and Germany are the
chief creditors. the French having opened
the ball few months ago by sending a
cruiser to Port au Prince to enforce the
payment of s2O.GOO owed to one of her
citizens Failing at first. in his efforts
To wrest the money from the Haitian
goverrment. the French commander
calmly attached a line to the entire
Haitian which Consisted of two
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Any moment the trouble might burst out
afresh. and it was therefore a busy and
prosperous time for that almost extinct
breed, the oldt-ime take-a-devil s-chance
sort of filibuster.
In and out of the Haitian harbors
slipped fly-by- might craft under the flags
Of Denmark. Spain and the Dominican
republic with cargoes of machine guns
and rifles labeled Sewing machines and
mill machinery, to stop which perilous
and profted occupation Legitime, the
dictator established blockade with his
navy, then consisting of an old converted
French Sunboat, the Toussaint LOWER
ture. which was called locally the Two
Thousand Overshoes," and a brig-rigged
fruiter which had been armed and re-
christened the Desalines. The L'Ouver-
ture mounted four-inch guns
Among the wild crew of seafare1s who
navigated the old Spanish main was one
Compton. in command OF a steamer
known as the Haitian Republic which
was owned by Il Boston company. Os-
tensibly she carried commercial cargo
to Haiti and was to bring back 6, lading
of rum. She reached the island, and
when clearing from the harbor of ST.
Marc ran afoul of the Haitian blockade.
Suspected OF having been engaged in run
ming nitrailleuse, the deadly little Hotch-
kissllke machine guns. the Haitian Re-
public. Compton on her bridge. was over
line over her hatches was brought wal
lowing. prisoner into Port au Prince.
There pflZe court condemned the
steamer as a Sun-runner, although her
commander and crew. virtually prisoners
OF the de facto government, were per-
mitted restricted liberty ashore
Now. because the ultimate victor in the
Haitian troubles would control the Mole
st. Nicholas, the eyes of a great nation
L thousand weary miles away turned to
the captured Haitian Republic and her
suspected cargo
But diplomatic resources for obtaining
the release of the steamer were soon ex-
hausted, and without fuss or feathers
three gunboats, the Galsna, flagship: the
Ossipee and the Yantic, manned by officers
ana men whose names We're destined to
later stahd high upon the navy rolls, left
the Cniteo States and turned their little
gray noses southwark, The squadron was
commanded by Rear Admiral Luce. The
executive officer OF the expedition was
Rear admiral William II. Reeder.
young Heuten nant in the expedition. after
ward became Rear Admiral William j.
Barnett. who died in charge of the naval
observatory. Then fhere was Senior
Lieut.. Alexander Sharp. who afterward
commanded the Vixen at Santiago. and
who was nephew of Gen. Grant well
as Young midshipman. catcher of the
squadron's base ball nine. known in later
years as Rear Admiral John Hubbard.
Little attention was paid to the cruise
of the gunboats, t%o Of which were cor
Evening star., 1914-07-26
CANoE CLUE

ashore with the demand returned. We
could see the Haitian navy clearing for
action. and the nine hundred American
sailors in our squadron heard the call
to quarters and trained their guns on
the little black gunboats of the enemy.
That was the longest three hours
L ever spent The heat was terrific.
even if it was February. and every man
lay sweltering in his place, for sone-
how the trade winds seemed OFF the
job that morning. The blacks shaved
had just about decided to send in a
few shells as visiting cards. they came
across.
we placed a guard on the Haitian
cargo at that time was rum. 1 didn't
see any mitraiileuse. but then il she
had carried any they would have been
landed long before, any way.
"A few days after that Legitime came
aboard and apologized. and the squadron
fired salute Of twenty-one guns AS he
left the ship. You see. the Mole St.
Nicholas part OF the problem still re-
manned beneath the surface. Capt.
Compton and his men were allowed TO
back to Boston. and later. in 1883.
was given command of a converted sea-
going tug. went back to Haiti. the land
of revolutions and mystery, to become
the commander of the republics navy
He took the tug. built up bulwarks OF
cotton bales. mounted four-inch guns
and mitrailleuse machines. and had a
pretty formidable little sea-wasp under
his command, with a crew of thirty
good fighting men.
His old command. the Haitian Re-
public, was doomed to "A worse fate.
She rolled around in the Caribbean
trade. probably running guns and fill
clustering for juntaS. until the gold rush
of '9S. Then she was sent to the Pacific
coast. purchased by a company. renamed
the Portland and put on the run between
Seattle and Alaskan ports. She was
lost up there somewhere
For more than year the ball started
rolling between Haiti and the United
States was kept in motion. for the SUBJ
merged and carefully guarded question
of the ultimate ownership of the Mole
St Nicholas then. now. remained un-
settled. But France, regarding Haiti
as sort of protectorate. took hand,
and it was generally believed that the
European republic sent to Haiti q
journalist for the express purpose Of
establishing newspaper. whose purpose
it was to oppose the cession Of any part
of the island to any foreign power.
This of course. was regarded as but :
a thin mask to cloak the anxiety of
France over the Mole st. Nicholas fea-
ture of the affair.
So we'll did the newspaper do its work,
laying upon the emotions of de factos
and rebels alike, that when Legitims
tinalIy fled. leaving Hippolyte I'm power.
ST. Nicholas to the United States.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

VI ERICAN inter-
ference in Haitian
affairs is an old
story. And it will
proba bly, be neces-
sary SO long as the
age-old Mole st.
Nicholas. potential
ly Il very excellent
naval base, is to
be kept from the
clutches OF some
European power.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-23
MRS. E. H. SWAIN

Many friends in Ocala and other
parts of Marion, and not a few in dis
tant states, besides all her neighbors,
win deeply regret the death of Mrs.
e. H. Swains who passed away at her
home in Anthony Tuesday afternoons
Mrs. Swain fFforence v. Anthony
was born in Muncie, Ind, July Z, 1850.
She was welded to Mr.. Swain May %,
1870, and for forty-four years they
walked life's pathway hand in hand
They came to Florida in 1876, and
settled on the Jacob Leitner farm six
miles north of Silver Springs. Around
their home grew up the town of An
thony. They returned north for q
few years, but later returned and
have been with US ever since.
Mrs. Swain leaves her sorrowing
husband and the following children:
Messrs. Fred and Earl Swain, OF
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-12-23

Muncie, Mr.. Edwin Swain OF New
York the well known baritone singer,
Mr.. Charles Swain, Mrs. Armstrong
and Mrs. Jack Halton, of Sarasota
and Mr.. H. S. Smith Of Clearwater.
She was woman of high taste and
purest ideals and tie lovely influence
exerted in her own home spread e
many others during her long and use.
full life
The funeral will take place at An.
thony Thursday afternoon. It will be
attended by all the children. her sis
Ger, Mrs. Fannie Anthony of Ocala
and hundreds of sorrowing friends.