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The Dermott news., 1914-07-23
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From ". +. Anders OF I625 Cleve-
land Street, Waco, Texas,
Who is employed by Hill &
Campbell Grocery Co.
II have been suffering with
bilious headaches and stomach
trouble So bad could hardly keep
on my feet, but | was compelled to
work to support my wife and fami-
w.. One at NV customers advised
me to take G%rigsby's Liv-Ver-Lax
and it would cure me, and to my
wonderful surprise it has entirely
cured me. My physician would
give me calomel, but heaven
knows, | would be sicker that ever,
and would have to lay OFT. | have
no more headaches and feel almost
a new person and know now my
trouble was my liver. | am giving
It now to my children aud | see a
wonderful Improvement. Liv-
Ver-Lax helped me the first day |
took it, and is certainly a working
mans friend" Bordeaux's Durg
Store. Adv.
The Dermott news., 1914-07-23
Gold Cash Prizes.

s. 7. Ford, the president OF the
Board OF Trustees, offers three
gold cash prizes to the persons
raising the highest amount over
tive dollars to apply on a fund for
building a new church. The first
pti.e viii be given bv Pete Scoby,
the second Ivy S. T. Ford, the
third by Ed Buckhalter. Parties
must report the amount raised bv
the 10th OF August, at Brown S
Chapel, NJ. +. Church.
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AMONG C0LORED PEOPLE

Dine Theatre.
Oil, Turpentine, Glass, Putty.
Orr Hardware Co.
Presiding Elder H. d. Brown
conducted quarterly conference
Sunday at the A. NJ. +. Church.
Sec and hear Happy Lock
mart, the man that made the mule
laugh" Thursday night at the
Dixie Theatre.
Dr.. S. c. Coleman left Friday
night tor Prescott to JOIN his wife,
who has been visiting her parents
there for several weeks.
Rev. 4. Gross, one Of the best
known Baptist preachers in this
part Of the state, died at his home
near Hudspeth last Sunday.
Mrs MI. Parker left Sunday
tor T~uskegee to attend the nation
al meeting OF the Order of Mosaic
Templars OF America, which IS IN
session there this week.
Miss Leana Buford died at her
home here last Sunday. The
funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon At the St. Pau
Baptist Church bv the Interna.
tional Order OF Twelve, Daugh.
ters of the Tabernacle, OF which
she was a member.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. II. Dupree and
Mrs. Pauline Hunter LETT Satur.
daY ior It. Smith. They 20 "a
delegates from the Dctmott Chap,
ter to attend the meeting OF tho
grand lodge OF the international.
Order Of Twelve, Daughters o.
the Tabernacle.
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Ichoosep~.tQ "a 10 tbs State. Legs.
lature OF Illinois. He served four
terms. The first thing he did was
to issue a paper saying what d
dreadful thing slavery was.
After he came back from the
Legislature OF Illinois, he became
a lawyer, but be did not take a
ase he did not believe in. Hence
IL became one of the most sue
eessful lawyers OF the Western
states.
Finally q time came for the peo-
pie to choose a president. The
Republicans nominated Lincoln,
the Democrats Stephen y. Doug
las. On election day what do YOU
think-that backwoods farm hand
was placed at the head OF all the
people. But hard times were
coming for Lincoln. The North
and South were on the eve OF war.
Finally the war came, and Lincoln
had only one wish, that was to
save the Union.
While the war was going on
-l - f.
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Abraham Lincoln.
BY CUNTS SINGLETON.

ine ~ioi1o"lns Was the pest Jul
o' '"en'F-ioui o'os'ap"les willie"
oy Tue ana elsH'n s'aueS
o' Dei"1o'' uol'e oe"oo'. II wa
'eau d. '"S L'"0o'n Dtt'"ua3 PIC.
gram feo' - 19i4
DO you not like to read about a
poor boy who became a Prince:
Would YOU not like to hear a true
story OF a poor boy who became &
greater man than any Prince OF
hinss he story Is about Aora-
ham Lincoln.
There was once a poor carpen-
ter who lived IN a miserable little
log hut on a STONY, Weedy AttIe
hillside, at a place called Nolin :
Creek, Nv. In this little log
CABIN on the twelfth day OF FEB.
1909, a little boy was born. lie
was named Abraham Lincoln.
Ahraham's father could not read
and hated to work. Hls mother
was a smart, industrious woman
who dreamed OF having nice
things but never had them. Lin
coin grew tom a homelY looking
baby to hOmeller boy, He was a
neglected and torlorn little fellow
LIncoln's mother died when he
was only eight years old. Then
he and his sister, Sarah, were
worse OFT than ever. But pretty
soon his father married again.
His new mother was an intelligent
woman who taught him to do the
best with what he had. She
washed him and gave him clean
clothes encouraged him to read
and study.
The lastls what Lincoln liked
best. There were not many books
IN his nvishbothood, but he Dor
rowed all he could. He wrote on
a spade when he could not get
paper. Lincoln did not have much
time TO study, tor he started to
work early and stayed late. He
would take an axe, 90 into the
woods with his father to split
rails for farmers or sit in kitchens
rocking babies in cradles tor
farmers OF their wives who had a
book to lend him. When he was
fifteen Years OF age he vas over
SIX feet tall and stronger than
anvone else in the neishborhood.
Once Lincoln worked on a fiat
boat up and down the river, On
one OF the trips he saw men and
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Town Council

!. J, T Freeman
Ter, +. Delaney
Arthur McDermott, T A
lon. A. Prothro. z o Bynum, )
T.. c. +. Dowden.
hret, q A. Franklin
lal. Alb Parrish
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Send the News TO out-of-town
friends. Only 81 a year, and they
viii be mighty glad to get it.
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Cook on the
Publicity Measure.

proposed measure viii not be
voted on until September II, is a
fact disclosed by County Judge
Harry f. Cook OF Chicot County,
who was in Little Rock Yesterday.
Chicot County is a county
which has already adopted the
publicity method OF conducting
her public affairs, and ludge Cook
is the man who put the plan into
effect. 1t has been working two
years and is pronounced a decided
success.
Act No. 5, the publicity meas
ure, among other provisions will
insure upon its passage the publ
cation in the newspapers OF all the
claims allowed by county courts,
including road claims, as we'll as
all general claims and allowances
made OY the court.
The only objection to Act No.
), pointed out by udge Cook, IS
the fact that, in his opinion, II
does not so far enough, but should
provide for publicity in the affairs
OF levy boards and public schools.
The items of publicity for which
Act No. ) does provide for are a
tull financial report OF every mu-
nlclpal corporation TO be publish
ed twice a year. Annual reports
OF commissioners OF special m
provement districts, one publlca-
ton; report OF county commission
ers OF amount. one publication; a
list of all claims allowed BY
county courts, n publ
cation; the synopsis or brief sum
mary Of all the general laws OF
the legislature as distinguished
from special acts affecting local
territory, three publications: all
general orders OF the railway com.
mission, one publication; and a
summary OF the proceedings OF
county boards OF equalization
showing any reduction OF assess
ments or other changes III the
rate OF assessments, made either
by the county Judge or board OF
equalization after the assessor has
nxed the assessment.
No other legal publications are
t provided for by Act No. in ad-
dition TO those now existing, but
the act provides for reduction OF
50 pei cent in the rate paid for
publishing referendum acts, and
provides that no more than one
halt OF the existing legal rate shall
be paid newspapers for publishing
any OF the matter II requires 10 be
published.
Judge Cook SAID that after two
= years trial the peole OF ChIcot
County could not be persuaded to
discontinue the publication OF
!: their affairs and that no one would
venture to advocate openly the
I dlseontlnuance OF such a publiea-
ton.
Asked concerning the operation
81 the plan OF publicity IN public
affairs In his county and how II
Nas put into effect and how ii
! worked out, Judge Cook said:
Yes, Chicot County has been
a using the publicity method OF
conducting her public affairs tor
the last two wears and with mark
. ed success. Two years ago, upon
t nv recommendation, the annual
ieyying court appropriated 500
tor the purpose OF having publish
r ed, quarterly, all allowances made
: 10y the county court, covering all
general claims, all road claims
and all other allowances made by
the court and issued by the clerk
We hnd it an excellent check
and the people are constantly ad-
, vised OF the disbursements OF then
funds, 10 whom paid and Tor what
purpose. TINS system has a ten
dency 10 make more careful those
presenting claims tor allowance
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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-02-06

leaving on the three battle-ields OF
Worth, Reichshoffen, and Froschwei-
Ter sixteen thousand dead. wounded.
and missing soldiers of France.
About seven o'clock that morning
a gaunt, leather-faced Prussian officer.
immaculate in his somber uniform, en-
tered the room without knocking.
Monsieur, have the honor to hand
you a copy of regulations. | am the
provost marshal; all complaints should
be brought to me. A list of the inhab-
itants of Morsbronn will be made to-
day. You will have the goodness to
declare yourself-and you also. mad
anne. There being other buildings bet
ter fitted, no soldiers will be Quartered
in this house"
The officer evidently mistook me foI
the owner of the house and not 8
prisoner. A blanket hid my hussai
trousers and boots; he could only see
my ragged shirt
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make the fullest reparation-even if
it means my death"
The unhappy Countess looked at me.
1t goes hard with a woman when her
guide and mentor falls.
IF you return to Paradise, in Nor
bihan, as we had planned,
may I CO." he asked. humbly, "only as
an obscure worker in the cause? l
beg, madame, that you will not cast
me off,
So he wanted to go to Morbihan-
to the village of Paradise? Why?
The Countess said: 81 welcome all
who care for the cause. You will never
hear an unkind word from me if you
desire to resume the work in Para
disc. DR.. belmont will be there; Mon
sieur Tavernier also. hope; and they
are older and wiser than I, and they
have reached that lofty serenity which
is far above my troubled mind Ask
them what you have asked of me:
they are equipped to answer you"
1t was time for another discord from
me, so said: Madame. you have seen
a thousand men lay down their lives
for France. Has it not shaken your
allegiance to that ghost of patriotism
which you call the Tnternationale'?
The Countess turned her troubled
eyes to me.
What | have seen, what | have
thought since yesterday has distressed
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-02-06
BOYS LIKE TO OWN THINGS
Give Your Son Possessions That he
May keep" and He viii Treas
ure Them.

The average boy believes firmly In
the principle of the private ownership
of personal property. He would rather
be the sole possessor of broken
handled knife with no blades than a
pearl handled, four-bladed affair In
partnership, asserts Thomas W. Lloyo
in the Mothers Magazine.
In fact, the desire to own something
to possess property-is inherent IN
all mankind. And mothers should en-
-deavor to foster this desire. 1t will
not only increase the boys happiness,
Int will teach him the value OF acqui-
sition within proper limits. He
should have his own playthings, his
own tools, his own books, his own
clothes. and a place OF his own In
which to keep them.
A boy who is permitted to do this
will take better care of things than II
owned in partnership, and he wlil
learn eagerly to have place for MS
things and to keep them in their
Mace. And this is a valuable lesson.
Do not make younger boy wear his
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CHAPTER vi.
The Game Begins.


The room in the turret was now
swimming in smoke and lime dust;
could scarcely see the gray figure of
the Countess through the powder-mist
which drifted In through shutters and
loop-hole, dimming the fading day.
light.
And now wagon-loads of French
wounded began to pass, jolting over
crushed helmets, rifles, cuirasses, and
the carcasses of dead horses.
Then the sad cortege Of prisoners
formed in the smoke, the wounded
leaning on their silent comrades, ban,
daged heads hanging, the others erect,
defiant. supporting the crippled or
standing with arms folded and hel.
meted heads held high.
And at last they started. between
two files Of mounted Uhlans-Turcos,
line infantrymen, gendarmes, lancers,
and, towering head and shoulders
above the others, the superb cufraS-
siers.
Under the window soldiers began
shooting the crippled horses; the
heavy flash and bang of rifles set the
countess trembling again.
Until the firing ceased she stood as
though stupefied, scarcely breathing,
her splendid hair glistening like mol
ten copper in the red torches glare
Soldiers began to come and go in
the room; some carried off chairs for
officers below, some took the pillows
from the bed, one bore away desk
on his broad shoulders.
The evening had grown chilly;
was cold to my knees.
A soldier offered to build me a fire
in the great stone fireplace behind me-
and when I assented he calmly
smashed a chair to kindling-wood
wrenched of the heavy posts of the
bed, and started fire which lit UP the
wrecked room with it's crimson glare.
The Countess rose and looked
around. The soldier pushed my long
chair to the blaze, tore down the can.
opy over the bed and flung it over me-
stolidly ignoring my protests. Then
he dumped out with his muddy boots
and shut the door behind him.
For a long while l lay there, full in
the heat of the fire. half-dozing, then
sleeping. then suddenly alert, only to
look about me to see the Countess
with eyes closed, motionless in her
armchair, only to hear the muffled
thunder of the guns in the dark
A few moments later clock in the
hallway, struck nine times. At the
same instant a deadened cannon-shot
echoed the clamor of the clock. 1t
was the last shot of the battle. And
when the dull reverberations had died
away Alsace was lost province. Mac.
Mahon's army was in full retreat
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the enemy, hand to hand, seemed to
revive the fury of the armored riders.
The debris of the regiments closed
up, long, straight sabers glittered.
trembling horses plunged forward,
broke into stiff gallop, and passed
through the infantry, through the rent
in the barricade, and staggered away
across the fields, buried in the smoke
of a thousand rifles.
So rode the "Cuirassiers of Mors-
bronn." the flower of an empires chiv-
airy, the elect of France. So rode
the gentlemen of the Sixth Lancers
to SILVER their slender spears against
stone walls-for the honor Of France.
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me dreadfully," she said. "I have
tried to include all the world in a
broader pity. broader, higher. and
less selfish love than the Jealous,
single minded love for one country"
"You saw the cuirassiers die in the
street below" repeated, with the OBJ
stinacy of limited intellect.
"Yes-and my heart went out to
them" she replied, with an emphasis
that pleased me and startled Buck
hurst
Buckhurst began to speak, but |
cut him short.
"Then, madame, if your heart went
out to the soldiers of France, it went
out to France, tool"
"Yes-to France" she repeated, and
saw her lip begin to culver.
Wherein does love for France con-
fict with our creed, madame?' asked
Buckhurst, gently. ''It is only hate
that we abjure.'
She turned her gray eyes on him.
Il will tell you: in that dreadful mo-
ment when the cavalry of France
cheered Death in his own awful pres
ence, loved them and their country
nv country!-as l had never loved in
all my life. And | hated. too!
I hated the men who butchered them
-more!-I hated the country where
the men came from; hated race and
country and the blows they dealt, and
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! the evil they wrought on France-my
France! That is the truth; and real
| ice it,"
After silence Buckhurst said: "All
your creed.
What" she said, "does not hatred
of the stranger impair my creed?"
ut will die out and give place to
reason
when? When I attain the lofty,
dispassionate level I have never at.
tanned. That will not be while this
| war endures."
"Who knows?" said Buckhurst.
gently.
said, abruptly: $50 you are not 60
ing to denounce me to the Prussian
provost?"
He lifted his well-shaped head and
gazed at the Countess with an adj
mirable pathos which seemed a mute
appeal for protection from brutality.
THAT question is a needless one"
said the Countess, quietly. 1T was a
cruel one, also. Monsieur Scarlet"
81 did not mean it. as an offensive
question:" said |. II was merely recit-
ing a fact, most creditable to Mr..
Buckhurst. And if it be true that Mon
sieur Buckhurst desires to atone for
for what has happened, then it is per-
fectly proper for me, even as pris-
oner myself, TO speak plainly. Is it
| not my duty, as a guardian of national
interests, to point out to Mr.. Buck.
hurst his honest errors? Certainly it
Is, madame, and this Is the proper
time'
Turning pompously to Buckhurst, I
fancied I could almost detect sheer
on that inexpensive mask he wore-at
least hoped l could, and said, heay-
ilyI
Monsieur, for number OF years
there has passed under our eyes here
in France certain strange phenomena.
Thousands of Frenchmen have, so to
speak, separated themselves from the
rest of the nation.
France is only a name to them;
they were born there, they live there.
they derive their nourishment from
her without gratitude. But France
is nothing to them; their mother-land
is the Internationale!"
1 was certain now that the shadow
of a sneer had settled in the corners
of Buckhurst's thin lips
Believe me, madame, the time is
coming when the whole world will rise
to combat this Internationale; and
when the mask is dragged from it's
benignant visage, there, grinning be-
hind, will appear the same old Spec
ter Rouge torch in one hand, gun in
the other, squatting behind barn.
cade of paving-blocks."
1 wagged my head dolefully.
81 could not have rested had / not
warned Mr.. Buckhurst of this" said.
sentimentally.
Which was fairly well done. con-
sidering that was flguratively lament
ing over the innocence of the most
accomplished scoundrel that ever sax
in the supreme council of the Inter
rationale.
Buckhurst looked thoughtfuily az
the floor
Your earnestness almost converts
me-" he said, lifting his stealthy eyes.
The Countess appeared weary and
perplexed.
"At all events she said, 1--WE must
do nothing to embarrass France now;
we must do nothing until this fright
full war is ended"
After silence Buckhurst said, But
you will go to Paradise, madame"
Yes" replied the Countess. list
lessly.
Now, what in Heavens name al
tracted that rogue to Paradise?
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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older brothers clothing which the
latter has outgrown, if it can be avoid
ed. Of course in some families,
where every cent counts, this cannot
be helped. Every boy, and we speak
from experience, hates to wear an
others clothes He wants his own.
Give him his own bureau drawer
and at least portion of closet. and
teach him habits Of orderliness and
system in the care Of his possessions.
These habits are easily learned when
young, and their value to the man OF
business Is fncalculable.
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Lies Ills and compensations.

For everything you have missed you
have gained something else. The
whole story of earthly existence is
one of compensations. Many gift
we craved and were denied held in
its train ills we are glad to have
been spared. Many sorrow that has
darkened our way, though its mem
DRY may still remain bitter, has
wrought some change OF character or
conditions that we would be unwilling
TO give up. The allotment of joys and
griefs is more carefully measured
than We are accustomed to think. and
the lives of men more nearly equal,
Exchange.
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SYNOPSIS.

9carlett. an American soldier Of for
tune in the employ OF the French I'M
perlal P0nce at the outbreak or the Fran
John Buckhurst q leader of the Com
fnunists and suspected OF having stolen
the French crown jewels. While search
ing for Buckhurst. Scarlet is ordered to
arrest Countess de Vassart and her group
OF socialists and escort them to the Bel
gian border. Scarlet finds Sylvia Elven
of the Odeon disguised as a peasant and
carries her to La Trappe where the
countess and her friends are assembled.
All are arrested. The countess saves
Scarlet from fatal fall from the roof
OF the house He denounces Buckhurst
as the leader Of the Reds and the coun-
tess conducts him to where Buckhurst is
secreted. German Uhlans descend on
the place and Buckhurst escapes during
the melee. Scarlet is wounded. He re-
covers consciousness in the counte.. s
house at Morsbronn. where he Is cared
for by the countess. A fierce battle is
fought in the streets between French
and Prussian soldiers.
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THIRTY THOUSAND REINDEER
 ARE NOW D0MESTICATED

which is constantly Erow:nE StrnnS"r tp allow the white man tn shar" ''l this industry which lh"mis''s [" III { imc hccomc decidedly in"rctNr. Thcr' are many white m"n wl" would cn-
 gage in the business "f raising rein
 rucr for beasts of burden as well ils fn food and 1t k recognized ly the department that there is q large hcti , pcn in this direction. However th,' d, rartment fears and with good rea-
 sur. that the minute inc white Sci i' tirr takes up tho management "t the
 herds the naflvc will hr pushed out oi the only business which m can
 handle with profit to himself. Th"
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T I,,. ,lcpurtmcm recognizes that th' f,.I,lre "f tho Eskim" depends large iy u,mn thc reindeer industry and i' will try Ia keep tho native steadily at ,hc work of raising and protecting these animals for sportati"a pur- l.,srs as well as for food. It has been s.s i'd that the propagation of tho rein deer and the use of the meat "f these animals for food may in tim" hc an element in .thc reduction "f the cost ,- living.
 While il k the present intention T b.. dcportmcnt .o confinc the raising .h reindeer entirely {" the t.skim" "' ~: sk, there is n movement "n t""t
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home closely in order t0 rverr"ine tli,' l.nger range of the more in"drrn rifles of the loyal troops.
 During the attack on the city many bullets fell in the streets of th" town and n number of people wei" killed :nd wounded. including som" foreign CTS. The American legation was ri'l- died with bullets and thc minister and his family were escorted almnrd th" battIeship Montana which is iu the harbor.
 As the revolut ipnary trmI'S fought tlnir way into the town th" govern ment force either fed or went over [, the enemy with the exception If the rcd tr,,,se,,d executive body guard which was defending the presidents pa lace. These soldiers. who are main t. rined for the especial protection of the presidential household. fell back through th. streets and took up a position in the palace from the win dows of which they attempted to hold lh. rrvolut ionary rabble al hay. The presidents guard is commanded by ]. Etge black called General Deslaines and this officer proved terror to the