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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06
THE SOUTH-THE ELDORADO OF
AMERICAN ADVENTURE
BY Richard III. EdmOnds.
Editor Manufacturer Record

The sixteen Southern States have a
population of 33000,000. In 1880 the
United States had population of 3d.
100000. AT thdt time, and very justly
SOL the United States was regarded
as one of the greatest and one of the
richest nations in the world. The
South of today, with 100000 people
is in many respects very far ahead
of the United States in 1880. with 50,-
100000.
The people of the South have $780,
100000 more in individual deposits in
the banks and trust companies of this
section than the people of the United
States had in similar institutions in
1890.
The South is mining almost twice
as much coal as the United States
then mined. 1t is producing four
times as much petroleum, its output
last year having been 100, 1000, 900 bar
rels, against 26,000,000 barrels for the
United States in 1880.
The South has $7O0,000,000 more
capital invested in manufacturing
than the United States had in 1880,
and the value of its agricultural out
put exceeds by some hundreds of mil
lions of dollars the total agricultural
output of the United States in 1880.
The South has far more capital in
vested in cotton manufacturing than
the United States then had, and is
consuming in its own mills about
twice as much cotton as was then con-
sumed in the mills of the country.
The value of exports from Southern
ports is only few million dollars less
than the total export trade of the
United States in 1880.
The South expended last year upon
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06
The Dangerous Fly.

The house-hy stands at the bar of
modern science under indictment as
the filthiest and most dangerous of
all household pests. Practically all
the flies found in the house are born
in manure, piles, garbage cans, or,
some other equally obnoxious accumu-
lation of filth. They carry dirt of all
kinds on their feet and deposit it
wherever they happen to alight. They
are natures scavengers to be sure,
but they accomplish no good in the
house, and do vast amount of harm
they ought to be banished
If an adult female fly can be des-
troyed before she lays her eggs we
will have killed not only the actual fly
but 100 to 600 potential flies due in a
very short time, and if this female fly
can be caught in the spring we will
have apparently saved the world from
almost a calamity. Let everybody
get busy and kill all flies in sight,
Chairman c. l.. Com.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

1t is seldom that citizen is permit
ed to land the Democratic nomination
for a state Office without opposition
hence r. G. Mcdaniel of Arkadelphia.
is getting in Hall of Fame all bv
himself without having to make a
campaign for the office of State Treas
urer. Mr.. Mcdaniel is a comparative
newcomer to the Little Rock political
family, and his acquaintenceship over
Arkansas, except with the people who
visit the Capitol, is not especially
large. He was first representative
from Clark county, then served a
short time in the office of the Secre-
tary of State, going with the Tax
Commission as secretary, and then to
the office of the State Treasurer as
deputy. Mr.. Mcdaniel is short of
statute, but long on ability and will
make the state one of the best Off
Gals it has ever boosted.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

The most gratifying announcement
ever made by an Arkansas railroad
comes from C. L. Stone, the Passen-
ger-Traffic Manager of the Iron Noun
tain, who has given orders that no
more copies of the "Slow Train
Through Arkansas" may be sold on
Iron Mountain or Missouri Pacific
trains. The order includes all books
of this class, for the railroad officials
look upon Arkansas as their banner
state, and they intend to put a stop to
the libel which is being committed by
the alleged humorous writer's.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

William F. McCombs, chairman of
the National Democratic Committee,
Arkansas product and intimate friend
of President Woodrow Wilson, is COM
ing to Arkansas to address the annual
convention of the Arkansas Bankers
Association, which will meet in Little
Rock in April. He may be accom-
panied by Secretary McAdoo of the
United States Treasury, but no accep-
lance has yet been received from this
high official. The speakers will dis
cuss national issues, from the stand
point of the administration, with the
Arkansas Bankers.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06
ARKANSAS RESOURCES

Too much cannot be said about de-
Hoping the resources of our State,
hd that these resources be developed
home by home capital and home
|bor, especially the latter. Mr.. Carl
Bear one of the live wires in the
FvelOpment of Arkansas, in recent
dress before the Chamber of Com
Fee in Little Rock, said:
|"When Arkansas can take its raw
|Rterlals, such as oak timber, valued
50 a thousand feet, average, in the
pump, and convert it into a finished
mmodity of $40 per thousand feet
ferage, and hold the entire $40 in the
pie and distribute it among the la
ferS and other citizens of the state.
Will have solved a part of the great
oOlem of the high cost of living, and
Will have changed the great city of
.ue Rock from a trade center to an
paS'rlal and enterprising city, not to
exceeded by any other city in the
buth."
iHlS Is no new argument but it is
always worth repeating until we
50 thoroughly imbued with its i'm
rance that we will not only preach
w W. 90 our uttermost to practice it.
'"S me OF argument is not only
OF the State as a whole but it
~ n OF the individual counties in
S@te. Much will be gained in our
tuSflal development when we learn
aSe 'ne products of home in home
VlieS and with home labor and
save cost of transportation and
r' uaie used to have these products
yea at distant points.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

\ H. y Martin former representative
ieli County and next term a
wl. OF the Senate from Faulkner
d' "n''e counties, had his little Joke
.'aring himself a candidate for
, ~sD Senator Mar
h. h Knew that there was no such
h NV ~, MED his pledge as a candi-
| veli H. : nao the state law expounders
''s sa as members of the State Dem
' tts, Central Committee scratch
nam. ueads to see whether or not
h I Iat IS should go on the ticket. He
Fner s a'a' 1t was a joke. and the
ssf' had h. good laugh n at tboi, Ho DC,
Eet i mad his name gone on the
spy ~. would have been the first time
N o ssate that a man was elected ,d
vop gl'e9 : which did not exist. and
pa i bsra nave been elected, for h" he
"ad no opposition.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

a slight conception of the rapidity of
material development and wealth ac-
cumulated throughout the South dur
ing the next ten or fifteen years.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06
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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

N+h;rg is so contagious as enthu-
II is the genius of sincerity,
SLAP trutb accomplishes no victories
|ahu - -Bulwer.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

the maintenance of its public schools
$9O,OOO,0O0, or $12,0OO,OOO more than
the United States with its $4,000, 900
people expended upon public educa-
ton in 1880.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

Those who would study the future
of the South with view to asccr-
tanning something of the rapidity os
its development should fully under
stand what the old South was doing
in material activities before 1860,
what it lost by the war and the pow
erty following it and what the South
has achieved since then; and to these
facts should be added a knowledge of
the uniqueness of the South's re-
sources for the support of dense
population. Not until they have done
this will they be able to form even
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

ton in 1880.
Comparisons of this kind showing
how far ahead the South is in MANY
respects of the United States in 1880
could be given almost without limit
these are sufficient to indicate the
general situation. 1t is a little diff
cult Tor US sometimes to quite grasp
the fact that in bank deposits, in in
dustrlal pursuits and in agriculture
as well as in public education the
South of today ranks so far ahead
of the United States in 1880. The
total wealth of the South of today
is less than that of the United States
in 1880, because the South has not
yet had time to accumulate vast
wealth out of it's achievements in
industry and agriculture of recent
years. 1t is, however, rapidly piling
up wealth which, within the next few
years, will amaze the country by its
magnitude.
In studying the future of the South
and planning her financial and rail
road operations in connection there
with, it would be we'll for these facts
to be borne in mind. But these sta
tistics, amazing as they are, are not
half so interesting for the story they
tell of what has been done as for the
light they throw upon the future.
Every careful student of the material
resources and development of the
South knows that this section, not
withstanding the progress made, has
scarcely begun its development when
compared with the growth which will
be seen within the next ten of fifteen
years. All that has been done has
been really the sowing of the seed for
the great harvest which this section
is now preparing to reap.
The South has only begun to util-
ize its raw materials. 1t has only here
and there opened up its coal mines,
its marble and granite quaries, and
its ironma4ling resources. 1t has
only commenced within the last few
years to get back to that agricultural
condition which existed prior to the
war, when there was well-rounded
agricultural diversity. 1t is only with
in the last few years that the Central
South, from Maryland to the Missis-
sippi river has been raising as much
corn and live stock as it did in 1860,
when the population of this section
was only third of what it now is.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

Best Treatment for Constipation
"My daughter used Chamberlains'
Tablets for constipation with good
results and l can recommend them
highly" writes Paul B. Babin, Brush
ly, La. For sale by Hesterly Drug
Store.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

other sections are hearing the come
nome" call of their native land and
many of them are returning. Many
from other sections are beginning
their southwark march in order to
share in the amazing development
which they see is to come about in
this section They want to he part
and parcel of it and to reap some Of
the harvest Thus the whole condi-
ton has completely changed. And in
stead of having to make heroic eff
fort to keep its own people at home
and to draw men and money from
ether sections, as was the case for
twenty-five or thirty years, the South
now finds abundant employment at
home for its own people. 1t finds tens
eff thousands from the North and West
annually moving southwark, and it
finds that the capitalist is searching
out in every direction opportunities
for investment in the South. The pro
moter seeking capital for a new erter-
prise no longer has to argue with the
capitalist that the South is a good
place in which to invest money All
that he has to do is to prove that his
own particular enterprise is a good
one. The outside capitalist is fully
impressed with the fact that this IS
the most richly endowed section of a e
world and that it is "the coming Ell
dorado of American adventure"
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

Now the trend is back to the South
Men who have made success in
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

The statement sometimes heard
that the great development of the
last twenty-five years is mainly due
to an infusion of outside blood and
capital seriously misrepresents the
facts. No man who has that impress
sion can rightly forecast the progress
of the coming years, because he is
viewing the situation from an erro-
neous standpoint.
Since 1865 the Central South has
sent beyond its borders by emigration
into other sections more than $780,
600 of its white people and more than
500. 900 into Texas and Oklahoma.
The comparatively few persons from
other sections who have come into the
South. when given the fullest measure
of credit for what they have achieved,
cannot in the smallest degree offset
the tremendous loss of energy and
power of the 100000 people that
went out of the Central South by rea-
son of the poverty of opportunity fol-
lowing the war and the day Of recon-
struction.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-03-06

For forty years or more the South
was passing through wilderness. It's
people had lost by virtue of the war
the ability to carry on the well-round-
ed diversified agriculture which eX-
listed prior to 1860 The capital was
lacking for reviving the industrial ac-
tivities which before 1850 and 1860
caused a more rapid percentage of
growth in every line of manufacturing
in the South than in the rest of the
country. The amazing agricultural
and industrial progress of the decade
ended with 1860 is indicated in the
fact that during that period the in
crease in the wealth of the South ex-
ceeded by more than one billion dol
lars the aggregate increase of wealth
of the New England and Middle
States.
The engineering and industrial
traits from which the Colonial days
down to the time when the invention
of the cotton gin fastened slavery
around the necks of the people of the
South, were beginning to reassert
themselves between 1850 and 1860
This industrial and engineering trend
of the people of the South has again
during the last twenty-five years been
reasserting itself, and it is to the re-
birth of this inherited trait of char
acter that the tremendous momentum
of this section is due.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
COMES BACK FOR JELLY
ROLLS AFTER IS YEARS

Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs. Jan. 10.-Thrty five
years ago Guy Adams traffic manager
of the Union Pacific railroad. came
west with his mother and some little
brothers and sisters. They spent some
time at the Union Pacific Transfer in
this city. and Mr.. Adams today said:
THAT day. thirty-five years ago. I
sat on stool at the lunch counter In
the Union Pacific transfer and, dang
ling my legs about. took survey Of
the tempting array OF foods. among
which was pile Of jelly rolls. I
begged my mother until she let me
have some but not as much as want
ed, and I vowed then and there that
some day, when could AFFORD it. l was
coming back to Council Bluffs and buy
all the jelly rolls could find. Today I
visited the Union Pacific Transfer for
the first time since that day thirty five
years ago. I found the big station Just
as it was then and so was the lunch
counter and sure enough, there were
the Jelly rolls. bought what they mad
and ate some and gave the rest away. I
have had my wish fulfilled and ! am
happy"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

tab on the state comsaittee ana -
that III money waa properly expended
There was = good deal OF argument
over this II was sugge sted by MI.
Morey OF Waverly- In order that the
raising OF funds might be easier. II
was opposed by Mr.. FRANKIE. former
chairman and campaign manager. and
Wiley Rankin, the treasurer OF the
committee explained the method OF
keeping check on the funds. But It was
suggested there had been at various
times much talk OF misuse OF funds or
failure to have campaign funds, In
other parties Of course, properly ap-
piled.
About twenty Ave counties responded
with pledges for money. The attempt
was to raise 10 cents for each vote
cast for Judge Stevens. Several hum
dred dollars were pledged in this way.
1t was explained that unless money
was secured the work could not be car
ried on.
There were from sixty to seventy
persons present at most of the sessions
of the conference. The speeches were
roundly applauded. especially those de-
nouncing Senator Cummins. Members
Of the conference expressed themselves
greatly pleased.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
STOCK GAME PRESERVE
State Leases Large Tract Of Land Near
Iowa Falls Which Will Be Stocked
With ouails, Phsasants, Partridsss
and Other Wild Fowl.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa Falls. Jan. 1o-D:strict Game
Warden st. John was in the city yes
terday establishing state game pre-
servo of several hundred acres west
and northwest of this city. In COM
pany with Deputy Game Warden H. r.
Martin, he secured leases running for
five years on land along the Iowa river.
This land will be stocked with game
birds by the state and will be pro-
tected by the state game warden and
his deputies. The boundaries will be
marked by the state with signs warn
ing the public against trespassing on
the land with deg or gun and any one
found on the preserve with firearms
whether hunting or not, will be prose-
cuted by the state.
The eastern boundary Of the pre-
serve will be the Foster property in the
westean part Of the city and will in
clude several farms along the river for
a couple Of miles or more and nortn
several miles, embracing a thousands
acres or more. Pheasants, cartridges.
quail and other wild fowl will be placed
on the preserve and protected for five
years with view to eventually making
these birds plentiful all over the state.
This is one Of the first preserves es-
tablished in the state, 1t being the IN
tention to place such a preserve un-
der state jurisdiction in most Of the
counties of Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
Iowa Falls News in Brief.
eciaI RI Times Panuhlicap


Iowa Falls, Jan. 10.-Mrs. Lenna
Page, formerly Of this city. was recent
ly married at the home OF her daughter
in Fort Dodge to c. F.. Sperbeck, Of
Swea City. one OF the publishers of the
Swea City Herald. Mr.. Sperbeck was
formerly in the train service OF the
B. C. r. & N. and the NJ. & st. L.
Miss Emma Winterfleld was called to
Salt Lake City. last week, by the SER
ious illness OF her brother, Orrine
Winterfield, but did not arrive there
until after he died.
Charles r. Crane is reported quite III
with typhoid pneumonia.
Mrs. J. W. Diamond. Of Mason City.
has been visiting her mother. Mrs. Pal
mer. The Diamond family recently
moved from Waterloo where they have
lived for many years, to Mason City.
Prof. Gerald Leming, formerly Of
the Ellsworth College faculty. has en-
tered the legal profession and will be
associated with F. NJ. Williams.
Mrs l.. E. Jones and son. Hollis. have
been visiting relatives In Illinois the
past week.
Mrs Enie Ridge has sold her proper.
ty on the east side to Ernest Bucha-
now
Rev T. E. Popplewell has resigned
as pastor Of the Christian church and
will go to Windsor, Mo, to take charge
Of church.
The money received by the park COM
mission from the sale Of the increase
in the elk herd in the geological park
has been invested in $400 buffalo
as companion for "Zeno." the only
buffalo in the park up to this time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
Southern lo,pa Items e

: orr,cers In uniform occurred the city fof
the neddler and arrested dozen sus-
pectr one Of whom proved to be the
man wanted. The peddler is descrIoeo
as being a Mexican, wearing plach
mustache.
Fort Madison. -
Deputy Sheriffs ]. j. Datin ana
George Groves escorted Louis HON!
within the walls Tuesday afternoon OF
the state prison at Fort Madison the
Franklin township farmer at that
moment commencing service upon the
eight wear term imposed upon him oy
Judge Hamilton for the manslaughter
Of Arthur Hirschler. the hardware
merchant Of Donnellson. Hohl was
taken at once to the idle shop. where
all new prisoners are placed to walt
the making of their prison clothes ana
their assignment to regular work
within the walls. He will probably re-
main in the idle shop several days.
Hollis attorneys failed to appear with
the $4,000 bond by the stipulated time
Centerviile.
Following the burning Of barn at
Ludwig Bros. coal mine In Mysuc
Thursday night, with seven head OF
mules, bloodhounds were secured al
Agency and Sheriff Dowif arrested
Frank and William Peek, brothers. ana
Howard Peek, son or William, after
trailing them to their home. Ihree
mine and three school house nres'
presumably of incendiary origin which
have occurred this fall, caused Sherltt
Dowif to secure the hounds and make
a desperate effort to locate the crifni-
nails. Ludwich Bros. have had two
previous fires and charged that the
Peeks are angry at them because they
had them arrested on the charge of
stealing corn.
Ottur.wa.
Tony Malano. a Cuban. employed
at the gas plant on South Vine street.
was injured about the shoulders and
sustained scalp wound Thursday
morning about 9 o'clock when he lost
his balance and fell ten feet from
ladder on which he was working, to
the foo rof the building.
the floor of the building. Mr.. Mallano
was engaged at the time Of the acct
dent repairing a water gas machine
The city ambulance was Immediately
called and the injured man was re-
moved to the Ottumwa hospital. Upon
examination it was found that he had
sustained a six inch scalp wound ana
severe bruises about the shoulders.
This afternoon he IL reported to be
resting easily and seems in fair way
for q rapid recovery.
Washington.
A number Of families were quaran-
tined Wednesday by the city authorl-
ties, by order of the state board Of
health. During the past several weeks
q number Of cases Of chickenpos,
smallpox and other similar diseases
have been reported in this city and vi
cinity. There has been some criticism
that the cases were not quarantined.
Under the advice Of the state board Of
health all cases Of this nature were
uuarantined. This will avert an cpl
demic and Is thought to be the best
solution Of the problem. The state
board Of health states that Washing
ton Ii not the only city thus affected.
but that the whole southern half Of
the state is filled with cities where the
epidemic Is more or less prevalent The
object Of the quarantine h purely pre-
vensive and It " hoped to dissipate
the possibility Of An epidemic in this
city,