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The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
OBITUARY.

On Saturday, October 4, 1914, God saw fit to visit the home of Elder w. H. Horton and son and took from them the loving wife and mother. She was born June 13, 1857 and was mar ried July 30, 1875. They have spent 38 years, one month and four days to- gether, and to say she will be missed and the pleasure of the home forever destroyed would not be saying too much. She leaves an aged husband and four dear boys, Dr. Neal, Edgar, Ralph and Lisbon Horton, to mourn her loss. The home is so lonely and the bereaved are sad, but we would ask them to weep not as those who have no hope. I humbly ask Gods blessings to overshadow them and the other kindred and friends, and may her boys take the advice she has given them, and they some day can prove to the world by their lives that they still remember mother.
 7 T. G. Kessinger.
 Guy, Ark, Oct. 9, 1914.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
HUMAN SYSTEM NEEDS ONION
odorous Vegetable Has Value Far Be- yond That of Drugs That Arc
 In Common Use.

Many people imagine that to e1. press liking for onions denotes a vulgar taste, but this much despised vegetable has many excellent quail. ties. It contains large quantity of uirrogenous matter and uncrystalliz- able sugar with a pungent sulphuric oil If children were encouraged to eat onions, many an illness might be prevented, and many a doctors bill saved. If baby has cold, or seems croupy, frequent doses of onion syrup will give wonderful relief The syrup Is obtained by cutting the onion into slices, and covering each with brown sugar, and putting one on the top of another in a basin.
 In a sick room you cannot have . better disinfectant than the onion. It has a wonderful capacity for absorb Ing germs; dish of sliced onions placed in sick room will draw away the disease; they must be removed as soon as they lose their odor and be- come discolored. and be replaced by fresh ones. For those who can take them, raw onion eaten just before retiring is very benef1cial-it acts as 8 tonic to the nervous system. purifies the blood, helps digestion. and very often prevents insomnia. - Family Doctor.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
CONWAY GIRL MAKES
 A FINE IMPRESSION
MISS CLARK'S READING AT TEXARKANA RECEIVES
 HIGH PRAISE.

Referring to a reading given at Texarkana Friday night by Miss Meredith Clark, daughter of MT. and Mrs. George w. Clark of Conway, the Four States Press says:
 An audience that nearly filled the auditorium of the Arkansas high school greeted Miss Meredith Clark, the expression teacher of that school, in her recital last night, given to in troduce herself and her work to the people of Texarkana. She was assist ed in her program by Miss Cora Cook and Mrs. Pratt P. Bacon, both of whom are we'll known to Texarkana audiences.
 Miss Clark has a pleasant person ality and pleasant and gracious manner that made good impression at once. Her readings showed ability and study. The program given was high class in every respect.
 Miss Clark showed great ability in her quick transition to various char acters. She impersonated Cigar ette," the army girl in Under Two Flags" the death scene being espe cially strong. Her next number was a scene from AS You Like It," fol- lowed by a bit of comedy, Keeping a Seat at the Benefit" The speech of Lawyer Buzfus from "Pickwick Pa pers," and Pauline Pavlovna" were we'll received. No encores were given.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
At The Theatres
THE GRAND.

"The Old Maids Baby" Vita graph comedy, heads the offering to- night at the Grand. Bunny loves Flora, the old maid, but cannot under stand the waste of her affections on her lapdog. The dog tears his hat and his gloves and he considers it a pest and an intolerable nuisance. When she passes her dog off as her baby, he is frantic and gets the con- ductor to throw it off the train. He relents and restores it to her. She is so grateful, she is willing to en- trust her future to him. She now wears solitaire ring on her engage ment finger and the blissful day is set
 "A Practical Demonstration" a Lubin drama, and "An Elopement in Rome," Kalem comedy, concludes to- nights bill.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
Cube Root of Evil.

paint the tragedy in Eden. He shook his head
 "I cannot paint the serpent he said; it has too many curves" Then he added in q melancholy tone: There is but one creeping thing that find myself privileged to use as . model"
 And what is that?" they asked eagerly.
 ''The angleworm."
 Whereupon he took down his two: foot rule and his table of cubes and went to work.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
NOTICE.

The monument of Sovereign Belle Walden will be unveiled on Sunday morning, October IS, at II o'clock, at Pleasant Valley cemetery. Every member of Holly Grove No. 95, Wood men Circle, who can attend is request edto notify me at once, so 1 may be able to make all necessary arrange ments.
 (d3tw1t) Rosa L. Hicks, Guardian.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
PROGRAM DISTRICT
 s. s. CONVENTION

The district Sunday school conven- ton will convene at Black Fork Sun day, October 25, 1914. The following program has been arranged:
 Invocation, Rev. Jim Gray.
 Twentieth Century Movement" Dr. H. B. Hardy.
 Sunday School-Origin, Purpose and Results" J. M. c. Vaughter. "How to Organize the County Into District Sunday Schools" Joe Bless ing.
 "Duties of Parents and Children to Each Other" R. G. Dunaway.
 All Sunday schools are requested to send delegates.
 R. G. Dunaway, Chairman.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
To Retain Spirit of Youth,

It has been we'll said that "the old boy needs his playground quite as much as does the young boy. He needs it for his amusement and for his best well-being. More playgrounds for the old boys" means fewer sanar .oriums and still fewer inmates; fewer doctors and still fewer patients; fewer dyspeptic minds and still fewer dyS peptic stomachs and healthier and happier men, women and children: therefore, let us cherish and maintain the playing places for the old and young.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
THE ARKWAY.

Lucille Love, the Girl of Mystery" third installment, will be shown to- night at the Arkway. The story ap- peared in Fridays Log Cabin Demo- crat A synopsis follows:
 Valuable governmental papers are stolen from Gen. Love, by Thompson, follower of Loubeque. In order to clear the name of Lieut.. Gibson, Lucille's sweetheart, she flies to a steamer to restore the papers. She gets the papers, but the ship is wrecked, and the passengers are cast ashore. Loubeque tries various plans to regain the papers. He sets trap and Lucille falls into it.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-12
Arkansas River Bot tom Land For
 Sale

I have a large body of as rich land as there is in the world that I will sell in small lots on long time and at low rate of interest to poor men. don't want to sell one man more than he can pay for, therefore, I think it would be best for no one if he is poor to buy more than 40 acres. Twenty acres of land like this, well improved, would be valuable asset for any one.
 I will sell on such terms that the land can be paid for with less annual than is now being paid for the rent of good land. I have just fin ished draining this land; have about all of it fenced, some of it cleared and all deadened. Any one buying it would have to bind themselves to make certain improvements each year. l would only require the payment of the interest for the first four or five years.
 If you are interested, write me, at Little Rock, Ark, or see MT. G. H. Thompson on the land, about ten miles southwest of Conway.
 c w. Donaphev
Evening star., 1914-07-05

declining years; but it was among the
sports of the regency that it took its
great vogue-so much so that the young
Marquis de Sillery went back to his es-
tates and made a fortune manufacturing
the first mark in the world, to which
he gave his own noble name. 1t was
also his vintage name. but he mixed.
Mixing seemed to be so important that
growers who refused to mix We're disap-
pointed-witness the Marechal de Montes-
quiou-d' 'Artagnan with his four hogs
heads In 1716 ne wrote to his factor:
In regard to making my wine spark
ling, many like it to foam and sparkle;
and l shall not object. If it's quality be
not injured. But | would rather have
excellent wine than sparkling wine.''
Later he wrote: II see how wrong
was to permit my four hogsheads to be
made sparkling. Henceforth. do not
speak of 1t. l wish my champagne to be
clear. fine and have a great deal of
champagne perfume
Here was vintage champagne such
as Dr. Wiley and the manager of the
whisky cellars of the British army and
navy stores once declared to be too good
for Americans. The term is unknown in
F'rance-it was gotten up for the Eng
lish. Cherry-colored BouZy. Ambonnay
and Cumiers have fineness and bouquet,
but their transport and keeping are deli
cate Vintage champagnes mean SO lit
tie that the names of crus-like Ay,
Cramant, Avize-are scarcely known or
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Hautevillers Abbey. three miles from
Epernay in the period when champagne
was yet Still wine, without pop or
fiZZ.
1t had always been the wine Of kings
From St Remy to Henry VIII OF Eng
land. by way of Urban II, King Wences-
las Dunois. who rode with Joan of Arc
and Leo y of the Renaissance, the great
ones of the earth loved the special wine
of the Marine. which always had its
champagne taste. though red as port
and fiat Burgundy. In the opening
of the seventeenth century it began to be
the pink of cherry color which the French
call clairet. and in due time Dom Perig-
non became cellarmaster at Hautevil-
lers.
Dom Perignon invented wooden corks
to replace the antique plugs of fax dip
ped in oil: and one season, when the crop
was unequal he had the idea to mix the
juices of different slopes. One soil gives
fragrance. another generosity, a third
corrects the color. and so on. Dom
Perignon found that he could even get a
white wine from black grapes.
Not only the pop, but the entire stand
ardizing of champagne-by types of
great marks instead of by vintages-is
due to these chance experiments of
Benedictine cellarmaster. some go years
ago.
1t might be called the quarter-millen-
mum of Dom Perignon.
Only. the pop rs not quite everything.
And mixing has come to be almost too
handy.
This explains. in part. the spectacular
Jubilee which Rheims. Epernay and other
cities will hold in 1916-17-if the Aube and
Upper Marine will let them. The true
chanpa1De iptereSfS uapf world to
learn a quantity of striking facts. They
think 1t will help them in their business.
The true champagne (Marne) district
grows 81 .ooO. 600 quarts of grape juice per
year. A percentage is lost in breakage
and manufacture Deduct, also, vast
trainloads Of grapes and juice shipped to
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AS the manager sets down the annual
sale at 5000 bottles, a short calculation
shows the average price to have beer,
near 50 per bottle.
Some was dearer. and lot was cheap.
er: but In general. Americans are sur
priSed to find the generous fluid no cheap
er In Paris by night than at home by
day.
A way to judge restaurant values is to
procure the wholesale list of any great
Rheims house and compare its varied
brands and prices. Then another. and so
on Famous firms, whose names are
household words, produce mixtures which
can be retailed in Paris grocery stores at
S1.10, S1.45. S110 and even % cents.
The Russians drink best" said the
Paris manager above referred to. One
day Russian prince drank, all by him
self. a double Jeroboam. one of those
immense bottles containing eight ordi-
nary quarts. 1t is not rare to see
Russian do his five bottles between mid
night and , am
After the Russians come the Ameri-
cans, then the Belgians, English. Ger-
mans and South Americans, especially
the Chileans. The French come last
The German is always calm. polite,
never complains. never beats down
prices" continued the manager. He
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Aube and upper Marine districts-what be-
comes of the remainder of their II 900, 900
quarts?
Nor is this all The world Graves to
drink the wine Of kings, though it be
headachy. fraudulent Cremes de Bouzy
and Ay Mousseux shipped from Saumur.
Dion. Besancon and Bordeaux to Eng
land and her colonies, South Africa and
the two Americas. enough to physic an
army twice a week for a year of twelve
months. Their corks are branded with
phantom firms. Under the auspices of
mythical counts and dukes. they are
labeled as of some chateau near Chalons.
Verzenay. Mailly. Chigny, Moussy, Vinay,
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makes an ideal customer, the high-bor,,.
Well-to-do German. with money to preseni
10 the birds. The Russian is generous and
bon enfant, but at times boisterous and
fanciful.''
The American, II seems. is tyramicai.
yet cold.
The American pays royalty, but hs
must nave the whole establishment as
his feet. The Englishman is watchful
and suspicious. No wonder-he has been
done so often! The South American is
very generous, a grand drinker. bur
noisy, gay to Stiffness and quarrelsome
in the late hours. Most of the painful
scenes in Paris night restaurants are
caused by South Americans. The Ameri-
cans of the United States are not like
that Though exacting. self-centered and
imperious. they are cold and self-pos-
sessed.''
Whom do you have to help out the
oftenest?" I asked.
THE French" he laughed. "A few
nights ago three famous painters lost
the use of their legs. The walters had
to carry them to their taxis"
Another French party desired to Fitch
Quoits with the Sevres dishes They said
they'd pay for them.
No. You will not pay for them" re-
piled the mana ger. but 1 beg Won tn
all the plates you want" The house. it
seems. has special plates for pitching
So they pitched on the sidewalk to the
ediiication of chauffeurs and policemen
The son of an eminent statesman was in
the game.
our breakage is $4,000 a year" SAID
the manager.
Do they save il on their wholesale
champagne bills?
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star., 1914-07-05
A RUSSIAN DRANK FIVE BOTTLES.

who knows? All the cartes noires and
cartes blanches you desire.
Pretty girls under the grape-leafed
trellises of the champagne jubilee will
tell monsieur the harm Of wine sur
wine. perhaps, Is not bad-but the po-
tato! OF it come pains in the hairs of a
morning. and disgust of living. But this
wine is a wine natural. at per cent or
IL per cent not raised
Perhaps it is from the Aube.
A feature Of the jubilee will be a res
toration of the ruined Abbey of Hautevil-
lers. where. $50 years ago, Dom Perignon
discovered the pop.
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province of Champagne included two
other modern French departments. The
Aube produces "a 900. 900 quarts of Juice.
and the Upper Marne another 37.OO0,OOO
quarts. which l have not mentioned.
When they want to mark their produce
champagne there are difficulties-you
have read about their veritable revolu-
ton. But when their juice is imported
into the Marne district for judicfous mix
ing, ought not the great firms-and little
ones-be trusted?
This is not one of the striking facts
which the true champagne interests want
the world to learn. however. They will
call attention, rather, to the torts Of the
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used. but rather the names of standard
izing firms, both great and little. some
OF which date back to 1874 and 1850.
AS Dom Perisnon discovered, and as
every child in Rheims knows, sparkling
champagne is produced at its best only
by judicious mixing. To make a "grand
vim" they have only to take. in equal
quantities: (a) Juice Of the grapes of
Avize, noted for lightness, freshness and
effervescence; Ob) juice from Dizy-Mag-
enta, famous for vinousness, mellowness
and roundness; (c) Juice from Ay, for
bouquet, brilliancy and go" and, final
ly (d) juice from Verzenay, for both body
and delicate perfume
And thus the wine of kings came tn
earn its new name.
1t is the wine of kings and Americans,
Those who like a fairly 'dry" cham
payne would have Dom Perignon with
them.
The grand old cellar-master made his
chance discovery with natural juices
their own natural sugar, In the bottle
fermentation. made sufficient carbontc
acid gas besides the alcohol Yet when
he tasted the delicious product, he felt
that. could it lack anything. it might
be just tendency toward mere trif1ing
sweetness
So, from the beginning, to the "cuvee"
Drew of juices. they added little cane
sugar srup: and they also found it
facilitated the pop and foam grandly.
Indeed, so does the foam ''eat up the
sugar 1t leaves a sedment-that
in the uncorking and recorking which
every bottle must undergo to remove this
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sediment the '-doser'' has to sweeten il
again, according to the taste and style OF
its class.
Regularly, there are three styles.
DouX (sweetJ, thirteen degrees of sugar.
This is the French taste, for the home
trade, Germany and part of Russia.
Demi-sec. Galf dry), six degrees of
sugar. BY some It is classed as the
American taste-if there be confusion, it
is probably caused by South American
sales.
Sec. dry. four to two degrees of sugar.
1t used to be called the English taste.
While
Brut (crude). or nature is declared by
old-fashioned French to be unnatural
and well named brutal because with
out some bottle dosing with sugar the
wine is of such hardness that only the
extreme find pleasure In it. The brut
really has from 11a to 1 degree of sugar.
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Dom Pergnon became great man.
Why it popped and fixed remained a
mystery to him. as to all the others, be-
cause the connection between carbonic
acid and sugar was undreamed of.
Simply. they followed his rule-of-t thumb
formula: and he repeated. always. what
he had done by accident. in mixing.
shifting. bottling at certain moment
with wooden corks. and so on. Thus they
found wine that would burst from its
bottle and overflow the glass. twice as
dainty and exhilarating as if it had aged
naturally.
Louis XIV got comfort from it in his
Evening star., 1914-07-05

Wonderful moving picture films viii
show the old monk strolling through
those very cellars where he loved to in
spect the orderly ranks of the bottles,
slumbering like an army.
They had always Slumbered.
No champagne, or any other wine, had
ever Weakened.
How did it happen? The invention of
the wooden cork was prime element
The deep cellars Of the abbey favored it.
And Dom Perignon may have checked
active fermentation and converted 1t INTO
latent by chance removal OF CASKS 10
a colder temperature.
Suddenly. the monk thrills.
Before his eyes, a cork jumps from It's
bottle: then another then two: then
three-the wine gushing from the bottIes'
flowing on the cellar floor.
Stupefed. the dom seizes bottle AS
tonishing phenomenon, From its mouth, a
strange foam trembles. unknown, golden,
and he pours a little of the effervescing
liquid to the silver goblet which ne al
ways carries at his girdle.
He tastes. You taste, [ taste. But for
the great connoisseur, it is to weigh the
world. The Benedictine shuts his eyes
He inbreathes the fragrant gases, shifts
down the winged perfumes-aye, to the
depths of his lungs, mingling with the
oxygen of his life, His lips are not yet
wet. yet Dom Perignon trembles-the
sensation is so beautiful.
Now, he takes his first gulp. Tongue
mouth. palate dance beneath the pick
Of the first swallow of sparkling cham
payne In the world. composed of grace,
force, gayety! See, he fears disillusion!
What If the new liquid so agreeable to
the taste. should have a muddy. ugly
look? Nc. Nature has united in the
miracle all her seductions, The wine is
light colored clear-cut. clear as crystal!
upon astonishment-
meteor shower of laughing bubbles
dances up continually. STAR" exclaims
Dom Perignon. I'm drinking stars
1t seems indeed, miracle to the old
monk-the sparkling champagne that
made itself by accident. Because. to the
already rich perfume of the old, fiat wine
Of kings were added Utterly new exhala-
tions, all superb-which no man in the
world, before, had tasted or dreamed of.
Evening star., 1914-07-05

Germany. for mixing with the better
class of German champagpes.
France consumes. of this true cham
payne. some 7,O0O.GO0 quarts per year.
The annual foreign shipments average
26.O0OOOO quarts.
Thus are accounted for more than 3d.
OOO,OOO of the 31.OOO.OOO annual quarts:
yet the subterranean cities of the great
firms of Rheims and Epernay contain a
reserve of 9OOO0,OOO quart bottles and
SOOOOOOO quarts in casks.
Not to mention the vast quantity of lit
tie firms.
How to account for It?
1t must be, partly. because the ancient
Evening star., 1914-07-05

greatest champagne festival of history
the quarter millennium OF the wine that
pops.
They will celebrate the pop.
Two hundred and fifty years of pop.
The anniversary Will happen in 1916 or
thereabout: because. while the true date
is being fought out. il is certain that $50
Years ago Benedictne monk named
Dom Perignon vas cellarmaster of
Evening star., 1914-07-05

Otherwise. how could there be an ''ex-
tra-brut?'
Extra brute.
One Of the night restaurants OF Paris
consumes an average of 5000 worth of
champagne per day, year in, year out
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= @'i - - - - -
all corners,
In four cities,
and all summer,
In the perfumed
old towns of the
French champagne
district the worlds
visitors will sam
pie it There will
be. historical pa
geantS and recon-
structiOns. in the
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- :; 80 8
14z1zz1za7NaAka z47E5NlAh&k@z===zz==e: ka,11@z==z==e: - By He
The ,MiSer Who s
Well what do you do wh them-t stained and
faded hours pinced of disfa ngn.es
a rainy day?
They fresh then with PROMISE but moths of Time
have long gnalDed the y gauzes of Fancy
patterns that Imagination boered dued and
raueled.
old as they would not rne and harden along with you
and poured troOe OF ambitions your eager
spoih soul?
And the play days you denied yousef-and the journeys
you postponed into Already?
You tried cheat Nature rights and is YOU who
have lost aH
You thought that you could preserue Yesterday the
canphor of expediency, and hold you
rooted in the tyoughs Of greed
You sought to the fragrances of the
bossomde, to s10eeten and Time
You tried to lock Happiness in strongbox as YOU lock
the STOCKS and bonds for which and i'm
agined would breed dearly bought tuea
compounded its offspring of joyless dollars.
Your pottage pots filled to the brim-why don't YOU
enjoy them?
You might have had smiles tenderness and depotion
in their place, and all this whie
FRANCE PREPARING TO CELEBRATE TT
Evening star., 1914-07-05

Grandiose Fetes Pre-
pairing at Rheims for
the Event in 1916 or
Thereabouts - Ster-
ling Heilig Tells How
a Benedictine Monk
Discovered the Secret
of Champagne - The
Wooden Cork-Where
the Champagne Is
Made.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-08-01
D1 n n e e
Stories -.

An old miser in Athens, Ca, hated
TO part with money, and to the physi-
clan who was bringing him around
from long illness he said one day:
"Ah, doctor, we have known each
other such a long time; l don't intend
to insult you by settling your account
in cash; but have put you down for
. handsome legacy in my will"
The doctor looked thoughtful.
ALLOW me-" he said, ito look at
that prescription again. I wish to
make a slight alteration in It,"
about the most contented man
ever knew" remarked retired poll.
tician, was a Kentucky mountaineer,
who earned about six bits day when
he worked for others, which wasn't
often.
when he worked for himself, II was
to cut wood to keep from freezing. or
to cook his meals, or to hoe patch
of corn Kansas corn king would
pillow in 20 minutes. That left him
plenty Of leisure to cultivate the ac-
quaintance of corps of solemn coon
dogs and smoke long green tobacco.
1T may not strike you as much Of
a life for an heir to all the ages, and
it didn't me, yet he was the most con-
tented citizen of our common country.
(which suggests that contentmenr
may not be so desirable as the philos-
opher intimated. At least man should
postpone it until he gets past middle
age if. the worlds work is to be done. >