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The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
OAKLAND.

Charlie Barentine and wife of Cabot spent Saturday and Sunday with the latters sister, Mrs. J. s. Brockington.
 Wess Shirley has moved in our con- munity.
 Mrs Pendergrass and children wis ited relatives at Saltillo Saturday and Sunday
 B. D. Brockington carried cotton to Little Rock Thursday.
 J. w. Mitchell and wife were visit ors at this place Sunday.
 Thos. C. Adams and wife of May flower were here Thursday and rent ed room from w. T. Black for the four months of which he is to teach school this winter.
 The rain which fell Saturday delay ed cotton picking for a few days.
 J. c. Adams was here Friday and reported work would soon begin on his new residence which is to be erect ed near Cabot.
 October 13.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
lfA Naturalist Painted.

If were to paint the short days of winter should paint two towering ice- bergs approaching each other like promontories. for morning and eve. ming, with cavernous recesses, and . solitary traveller wrapping his cloak about him and bent forward against the driving storm. just entering the narrow pass. l would paint the light or taper at midday. seen through . cottage window. half buried in snow and frost. In the foreground should appear the harvest. and far in the background. through the pass, should be seen the sewers in the fields and other evidences of spring. On the right and left of the approaching ice bergs the heavens should be shaded oif from the light of midday to mid Nght with It's stars, the sun being low In the sky.-Henry David Thoreau.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

tions; but for the man who makes cotton, corn and oats his staple crops, it will undoubtedly pay to divide the cultivated land into two equal parts, one of these to go in cotton and the other to corn and oats, with cotton on the corn and oat land the following year and the grain on the land that grew cotton. In this way, with peas in the corn; peas, beans, or lespedeza following the oats; and crimson clov- CT sown in the cotton middles in the fall, there is no reason why our lands should not make 40 bushels of corn and a bale of cotton per acre with less commercial fertilizers than we are now using.
 Other work that should be planned now is the tiling of that low, wet spot down in the field; stopping those washes on the hillside and building broad terraces wherever needed; and removing the stumps on the newly cleared land.
 When we have systematized our farm operations, installed a rational plan of crop rotations, and made our farms the businesslike plants, both in production and marketing, that they should be, we will have taken long step toward putting the farm on a profitable basis.-Progressive Farmer.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR.

These bright fall days find the av- craze southern farmer busy in the harvest fields, and large part of our time and efforts are necessarily taken up with this work; but at the same time, let us not forget that autumn is the logical time for planning our farm operations for the. next 12 months. Unquestionably one of the serious de- fleets of our farming system has been a lack of adequate plans and the ten dency to do things in a haphazard way, which is equivalent to doing them in an unprofitable way.
 One of the things to which we hope Progressive Farmer readers will give immediate attention is that of estab- fishing a well defined crop rotation that can be adhered to for years. It is said that in European countries such systematic rotations are followed that the farmer can tell just what crop grew on a particular piece of land 10 years ago, and what crop will be planted on it 10 years hence. Of course it is needless to say that in the south perhaps not one farmer in a thousand has his plans so systematic ally laid.
 What rotation shall be followed must of course be determined by the individual farmer and his local condi-
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
Trading Stamp Idea Upheld,

Tho court of appeals M Maryland in State vs. Caspary holds that a law prohibiting the trading stamp business is unconstitutional and void as amounting to the destruction of a law. ful business. The court held that the legislature may not under the guise of protecting lawful interests interfere with private business. It rules that the issuance of trading stamps Is not tainted with an element of chance nor violative of statute prohibiting the dealing in trading stamps for any thing uncertain or undetermined at the time of the acquisition of the stamps. The court cited the following language of the New York court of appeals in People vs. Gilson: Such a regulation of trade Is in our opinion not only unwise but unlawful, because 1t is necessary neither for the health. safety nor welfare of the people and which in its operation would be op- pressiye and burdensome."
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
Cora Bellies Team.

Cora Belle's team would bring . smile to the soberest face alive. Sheba Is tall lanky old marc. Once she was bay in color, but the years have added gray hair until now she Is roan. Being so long-legged she strides along at an amazing pace which her mate. Balaam, . little donkey. finds 1t hard to keep up with. Balaam. like Sheba, Is full of years. Oncs nis glossy brown coat was the pride some Mexican's heart, but time has added to his color also, and now he is blue. His eyes are sunken and dim his ears no longer stand up in true donkey style. but droop dejectedly. He has to trot his best to keep up with Sheba's slowest stride. About every three miles he balks, but little Cora Belle doesn't call it baking, she says Balaam has stopped to rest, and they sit and wait till he is ready to trot along again. That is the kind of lay out which drew up before our door that evening.-The Atlantic.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
EIiuht of Flies.

That the fly Is a peripatetic and what the politicians call a good mixer Is well known. The linear extent of his peregrinations Is, however, still a matter of dispute. And as he certainly carries with him and distributes infec. tion, whenever there Is any to be had. the more or less exact determination of his maximum range is of great prac- tical importance. At one time he was thought to be very much of a home. body" never wandering more than a few hundred or a thousand feet from his birthplace. Then observations made in England and elsewhere threw doubt upon this conclusion, and it was finally proved that he may travel at least a mile from home.
 Now comes along Prof. c. F. Hodge with a 600 per cent. extension of the record. and the opinion that flies "are able to travel much farther than is commonly supposed. New York Eve ming Post.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
U. s. GOV. LAND FREE

Under Special Act of Congress the agricultural land in the U. s. Forest Reserve of Arkansas can now be homcsteaded in tracts of 160 acres to each person, free of cost. One million acres free pasturage range where cattle. hogs and sheep fatten eight months in the year without grain. No overflow lands. Country very healthy and we'll watered with running streams. We select these agricultural lands, take applicant to lands and To- cate you. Send 25 cents for State map showing location of Reserve and copy of Special Act to
 A. V. ALEXANDER, Locating Engineer, Little Rock, Ark. (10-1d1m)
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
Sheffield Cutlery Lam

Sheffield is famed throughout tho world for Its cutlery. but this is no longer the city's chief or even second ary industry. In the finest class of cutlery Sheffield probably still excels, but good scissors from Germany are now sold in the English town for less money than the grinding of the com peting article alone costs in Sheffield. me leading cutlery firm, doing . world export trade, operates without the use of telephone, and another, or equal fame, occupies quarters of lhe most primitive character. It is h the production of armaments and snip material that Sheffield now st2nCs 10 tho fore.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
WAYS OF RUBBER TAPPING
Natives of Mozambique Either Uss Inclsion or Cook and Pound
 tho Bark.

There are at present in use two native methods of extracting rubber The first, that of incision or tapping, is followed by all natives south Of the Zambesi Valley. and it produces g high grade rubber known as Mozam' bique pink, second only to best Para on the European market. The other method of extraction. known as pounding, Is generally followed in the Mozambique and other northern die tricts. There the bark Is stripped from the roots of the vines or from the vines and Is cooked over Q slow Are and pounded until the bark Is finally pounded out, leaving a mass of rubber in all stages of crudity This rubber is known as Mozambique rooty. It is classed very low, but A large concern now operating in tho Mozambique district has perfected the system of pounding to the poin of producing a rubber which is rapid ly approaching the classification o' Mozambique pink.
 A strange truth has come to light in regard to the landolphia, and that Is that while vines are frequently killed by incision or tapping, thh seldom happens with the vine which Is cut down almost to the ground after maturity. It Is also a notable fact that large sections of the root of a vine can be dug up and cut of with. out killing the vine. In the Mozam- biQue district there are places where natives have been cutting roots from the same vines year after year. The recognition of this fact will make ap enormous difference in the estimates of the capacity of the forests.-U. c Consular Report
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

THE Beaumont Enterprise thinks it would help some if those of us who cant afford to wear silk hose would go back to wearing cotton socks. Wouldn't that boost the cotton sock market for while?" asks the Enter prise. And how about the wearing of cotton stockings, wouldn't that furth- CT boost the cotton demand?-Pine Bluff Graphic.
 There is no doubt that the wearing of cotton stockings will send cotton at least four times as high as the wearing of cotton socks.-Arkansas Gazette.
 But, still, therell be the same need of supporter of the cotton interests involved, no matter how high the boosting carries them.-Fort Smith Times Record.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
THE CHILD LABOR LAW.

Arkansas will command the respect of the nation. The child labor law recently voted upon is the best, the most sensible and the most protective measure which has yet been passed in the United States, looking to the pro- lection of the children.
 Another notable feature is the fact that it received the largest vote of any of the amendments offered the people of the state in the late cleo tion.
 It has remained for this southern state to face unflinchingly an issue which has been pushed aside and avoided in states of the progressive and enlightened east. It has remain ed for the state of Arkansas to place before the nation a law which should be emulated by every state in the union.
 Our children have been too long neglected. They have been too long exposed to the merciless menace of the labor sharks. It is now up to Tennessee to follow the example so worthily set by our sister state
 The general assembly convenes in January. This should be the first matter of importance to be considered by the members of the legislature.
 At the last session of the legisla- ture a child labor law was enacted, but it was so adroitly drawn that rider made the act unconstitutional and the children of Tennessee are without protection. ..-.,s
 By the initiative and referendum the Arkansas law was passed. It's provisions are quite distinct and it seems to leave no cunning loophole through which, by adroit legal con- struction, the exploiters, of the prohib- tied, kinds of employment may escape from obedience. A child must be IA years of age and have had four years of schooling before it can be put to work at any occupation. If under 16 it cannot work more than eight hours day and cannot at all in connection with theatrical performances or in any specified hazardous occupations.
 Here is striking advance won in southern state, though possibly not in one of those where the stories of mill slavery are most profusely located. The new law is said to be as precise and devoid of crippling provisions as many of the measures on the statute books of the northern states.
 The result was made possible in Ar kansas because public opinion had been educated to appreciate the i'm portance of such measure. Compul- sory education may not be necessary, but in order to work the child must have at least four years schooling.
 Arkansas deserves credit for this wise and Christian legislation.-Com- mercial Appeal.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
NAPOLEON III. IN AMERICA
Real Louie Was Not as DlIapldated n He Has Been Pictured by
 Mark Twain.

Probably no written portrait of the third Napoleon Is better known to Americans than that embodied in the rhetorical apostrophe of Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad" where he contrasts the emperor of the FreneS and the ~ultan of Turkey at their meeting in Paris in 1887 It was thought very fine and stirring at the time. but it is a picture to provoke curiosity and amusement today. Mark Twain described how the future em- peror carried his dreams with him into exile. how he associated with tho common herd in America. and ran foot races for a wager. how he walked his weary beat, a common policeman of London. That he carried his dreams into exile, that his belief in his star never wavered, Is unquestlonably true
 But it is not quite so romantic a figure, not such a dilapidated Louis Napoleon. that we see in the accounts of more careful historians than Mark Twain. For example. there Is "Inti. mate Memoirs of Napoleon IT," by the
 
 late Baron d'Ambes. D'Ambes was not with Louis Napoleon in America, but 1t was from the princess own lips that he claimed he received the impress sions of that visit. Louis Napoleon came to Norfolk. Va. from Rio do Janeiro on the frigate Andromede The commander. Henri de Villeneuve, was very kind to the exile, and the prince thanked him with the words You are obliging a man who will one day be emperor of the French, un. fortunate as he may appear at pres. ent. I shall not forget you" The Andromede arrived at Norfolk March 30, 1887. The prince proceeded straight to New York and dined at Gen. Watson Webbs, where he found General Scott his two brothers-in-lav. the Stewards, and a number of sena, tors and statesmen.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
CENTENARY OF GREAT EVENT.
Natives of India Honored Memory Of Missionary Who. Taught Their
 Ancestors.

Few events grip the hecrt and in- terest of man sufficiently to command, after 100 years, an international.~ or even national. recognition. In purely secular circles the fact that Adoniram Judson landed on Indian shores 100 years ago may excite little interest. but to the Christian world it was an of the Christian church.
 At the opening service more than 5000 native Christians filled to over flowing the two largest audience rooms in Rangoon, while hundreds were turn ed away for want of room.
 The second session was given to "reminiscences of Judson by those who had seen him. It was notable that of the five living missionaries who had seen Judson all were women. These were followed by a simultaneous pray CT service, it having been arranged that at the same hour in America and all Baptist mission fields they should unite with the great centennial gather ing in simultaneous prayer.
 The music of the entire celebration was in charge of two choirs, a Burman and a Karen, which rendered the most difficult English anthems, quartets and solos, to the great delight and admira- tion of all present.
 After three days at Rangoon the scene of the celebration was trans ferred to Moulmein for two days, and then to Mandalay and other places of interest, closing at Bassein on Decem- Der 30.-Christian Herald.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13
TOO MUCH FOR HER PATIENCE
Daughter Was Used to straneers eothering Her Mother, But Hero
 Sho Drew tho Line.

Veteran of three suffragette pa- rades and as many D. A. R. campaigns as she was, she completely lost her poise in an upper Broadway street car, recites the New York Times. A well-groomed woman of at least forty summers and two-slit skirt, left her seat on the opposite side of the car and took that directly in front of tho young veteran and her mother.
 Pardon me- began the newcomer, addressing the elder of the two, I'm in trouble about my canary bird Ho doesn't sing, mopes on his perch. and has completely lost his appetite You look so like a woman who solves her own household problems that I have taken the liberty to ask you about one of mine. What shall do for my ca nary?"
 Take him to bird doctor" snapped the daughter
 Mother and questioner alike gasped in astonishment
 "I don't seriously object when strange women ask my mothers ad- vice as to what they should buy while she Is trying to do her own shopping" continued the younger woman, where to Ind good dentist, how to make . harem skirt out of an old sealskin jacket. or the best way to make bread. She is 50 matronly and good-natured. But draw the line at trying to mako bird doctor out of her"
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

w. T. Hutchens. Nicholson. Ca had so were attack of rheumatism. His feet, ankles and joints were swollen, and moving about was very painful He was certainly in a had way when he started to take Foley Kidney Pills. He says, Just few doses made mo feel better and now my pains and rheumatism are all gone and I sleep all night long" Cree son Drug Co.-Adv.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

Mrs. T. c. Cross returned this morning to her home at Newport, alter visit of several days at the nome of MT. and Mrs. J. R. Campbell, in this city.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

Misses Minnie Jones and Ethel Martin of Center Ridge, have return ed home after visit to friends and relatives in this city.
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-13

P. J. Rice. drayman and baggage man. Telephone Al or 333.-dtf
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-03

has never flinched in the face of bat
tie. and which viii not fall back now.
The convention was one that gives
promise of better things to come
must appeal to the patriotic sense of
the electorate of this commonwealth.
In it there was no mote of discord
aud no attempt to dodge the live and
vital issues of the hour
The republican party goes into the
present campaign full of hope and
confidence, believing that the people
OF New Mexico will recognize the spir
IL which possesses it and expressed
determination TO carry out those pol
icles which will rebound to the benefit
and the advancement of the people OF
this great growing state.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-03
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
TO HAVE night CLASS
STUDENTS MAY ENROLL IN THE
NORMAL TONIGHT AND FRI
DAY NIGHT

The Normal University will be open
tonight and tomorrow evening to en-
roll students in the night business
department. A discount of 10 per
cent in the tuition fee will be in ef-
feet on these two evening, after
which time the regular fee will be
charged. After the classes are or
ganized it will be suggested that the
class nights be changed from four
times week to three, it being thought
that as much work can be done in the
more limited time as under the pres
ent arrangement. Those taking the
commercial. courses in the day have
OF course, the advantage of taking
academic in addition to the business
courses.
In the Normal there have already
been 30 more pupils enrolled than at
the same time last year, and the in
dications are that there will be fully
100 more during the month.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-03
THE PRICE WE PAY

The account of the American public
for the Fourth of July has been bal
anced for another year. and the price,
as usual, is heavy. Three little boys
died from lockjaw as a result of
Fourth of July injuries; 16 persons,
mostly little girls and small children,
were burned to death by fire from
fireworks; five persons were killed
By firearms, six by explosions OF gun
powder. guns or torpedoes, four by
cannon and five died from blood poi
son resulting from injuries caused by
fireworks. The total number of
deaths resulting from Fourth of July
injuries, according to the twelfth an
nual report on this subject by The
Journal of the American Medical AS
sociation, is 40 and the number in
iured is / 1866, making a total of 1906
accidents resulting from the Fourth
ef July celebrations Among those
injured but not killed, So were totally
blinded, IS lost one eye each, 16 lost
legs. arms or hands, and 81 lost one
or more fingers. This record, which
rcads like a report of European
battlefield. is unfortunately not as
good as that of last year or the year
before. In 1913 only 80 persons were
killed and 1131 injured, and in 1872
while Al persons were killed, only 947
we're iniured-the smallest number re-
ported in the past 12 years. Pennsyl-
vania still leads all the other states
having had 4S7 Fourth of July injuries
to her credit last year, or over 20 per
cent of those in the entire country OF
which 241, or about one-half, occurred
in philadelphia. New York had 2oO
accidents. almost double the number
reported last year. Illinois reported
e5 injuries or more than twice as
many as last year, while Massachu'
setts and Connecticut had respectively
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-03
SANTA fE INTERESTED
IN MESA farmers
PROVIDES INTERESTING 6ULLE-
TINS ON SiLOS FOR THEIR
BENEFIT

The Santa Fe railway Is interested
in the development of the agricultural
lands of San Miguel county, as Is evil
denced by the following letter from
its colonization agent to The optic:
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 1.
Editor Las Vegas Optic,
Las Vegas, N. M.
Dear Sir;-In your issue of August
25 l notice an interesting editorial on
silos being built on the mesa in the
vicinity of Las Vegas.
This department has recently is
sued a very interesting and instruc-
tive bulletin upon "Silos and Their
Uses" and | have mailed you, under
separate cover, a half dozen copies,
thinking you might wish to put them
out among farmers in the Las Vegas
district who are building silos OF
could be induced to build them, and
would be interested in receiving a
copy of the bulletin.
If you can use a further supply to
advantage will be very glad to fur
mesh them upon your request.
Yours truly,
c. L. SEAGRAVES,
General Colonization Agent.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-03
BEAUTIFUL POTTERY

Santa Fe, Sept. 3.-A family of San
Ildefonso pottery makers who came
too late for the summer school, are
established in the patio of the Palace
of the Governors pursuing their native
handicraft and being watched by curl
OTIS throngs of tourists and residents,
Maria Montoya, who is the wife OF
Julian Martinez, and her children. are
the best pottery makers at the will
age. and they are turning out ollas oi
all sizes and shapes, beautifully and
artistically decorated.