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The Spectator., 1915-07-30
Praises Result @
 Diversi6caion

II have never seen soil in any state or country. except in strict ly tropical countries, that seems tQ produce such luxurious vege- tation or grow SO prolifically almost every form of field and garden product as does the soil of Arkansas" said G. H. Bath rick of Battle Creek. Mich, vice president and sales manager for the Nichols & Shepard Co.,, manufacturers of farm machin- cry. who is in Little Rock in the interest of his company. It is his observations were based on what he saw on his trip from Memphis to Little Rock.
 MT. Bathrick told E. J. Bod man of the Union Trust Co.,, chairman of the Arkansas Pro- itable Farming Committe. the profitable campaign was effort and money well spent.
 ''Itswas thru the consistent, well directed campaign for di- versifed crops that my company was attracted to Arkansas. and his first visit to Arkansas and that other big farm implement concerns are drawn to your state" he said. Since coming here. Arkansas appears to me a state wonderful in agricultural possibilities. l believe that next to Texas this state is making the greatest general development of any state in the Union. l Ishould clsas Texas. Arkansas and Mon- tana as the states now heading the hst in material progress.
 The manner in which the diversification campaign was conducted. the team work and cooperation manifested, combine tQ commend the results obtained.
 This Arkansas coil. it seems t0 grow everything that is put into 1t. Thru eastern Arkansas ysatsrday saw fields of corn a 6As q any l have ever seen. ln'growth 1t was . little short of phenomenal. All along the rout the vegetation is luxuriant. al- unQpt tropical.
 "With . soil of this class. well
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
Yard Long Bean Pods

There is a bunch of bean pods in The Spectator office which at once attracts the attention of visitors on account of the ex- traOrding length. the longest being about twenty inches long.
 These beans were grown by Mrs. Creed Hunter, near Lon elm. They were not quite ma tured when pulled or they would have been longer. Mrs. Hunter says some grow fully thirty inches or longer, and are called the yard long beans.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
Can't Afford It

The other day a merchant said
 he couldn't afford to advertise
 in his home newspaper. If the mans views were not distorted,
 he would see that he couldn't afford not to advertise. Refus- ing to advertise is his most ex- pensive extravaganza. That same merchant will spend hours
 telling of the unfair" competi- tion of the mail-order houses
 who are his most aggressive and dangerous competitors, yet the
 methods employ ed by the mail order houses which succeed are the very ones which the mer- chant refuses to use. The mail order house, first of all, is an advertiser. Advertising is the
 life of its business. Every
 magazine that enters the small town and rural home carries the ad of the mail-order house. Ex- pensiye catalogs are printed showing the illustrations of the actual articles. Occasionally sheets are scattered broadcast over the country as a special
 "come-on" for the bargain hunt
 CTS. Instead of doing these things in a smaller way thru the columns of his local paper, the who can't afford to sits down "cusses" his tough luck and wonders why he can't get the business. He never thinks he has a better op- portuity to. o.reach the people in his neighborhood than the mail order house has. It doesn't cost him as much as it does the he can draw the peo- pie to his. store and show them the actual article he is advertis- ing. and when they buy. they can take their purchase home with them instead of having to wait several weeks for it. Ad- is an investment. It should be charged to your sell. ing cost. Figure what percent age you have to pay to advertise, then base a fifty-two weeks campaign on the computation. You can't lose. You can't afford not to advertise!
The Spectator., 1915-07-30

J. J. Simmons, one of our old Hogan township friends, made us a pleasant visit today.
 Born to MT. and Mrs. L. T. Turner a baby girl, on last We'd nesday.
 Mrs. O. M. Bourland came down from Van Bnren Wednes- day and IS her sister, Mrs. J. T. Donnell's guest.
 Mrs. Dora Massie and daugh- ter came Wednesday from Bar ling and are visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Hacker.
 Wanted The five-gallon oil can that was taken by mistake from the Variety Store last week.
 Miss Edna Hancock is sales lady at Montague Co.'S. in the absence of Mrs. Sid Forrest who is taking her vacation.
 R. H. Randolph. one of West Franklin's most progressive farmers came down today and is spending the night with old time friends. He made us . call while here, and we always en- joy his visits.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30

watered and. a climate such Jas Arkansas has, agricultural de- velopment is most natural. Add to these conditions the movement to get away from the one-crop system and the industrial prob- lem for the state has been solv- ed.
 Crop diversification is the big thing. It is also the logical thing. Why should the farmers, in a state like this. perfectly adapted to corn. hay and similar products. waste their energy on an exclusive crop? Cotton is a raw material, very little of which is finished in the state.
 But look at what can be done in the raising of live stock, where you have the land plant ed to corn and grasses. This enables you to turn out the fin. ished product, fat, slick cattle and hogs. that bring the highest market prices and on which the price seems to be continually climbing. That is the big field opened to the Arkansas farmer even more than raising wheat. Iowa's greatest crop is rapidly coming to the front to be her hay crop, because it is convert ible into live stock always com mandinq a lucrative price. Yet Iowa has no advantage over Arkansas as a producing state.
 There are indications of an influx of people from other and more thickly settled sections to Arkansas. When they come and see as l have seen, the possibili- ties under diversified farming, they are going to stay.
 The work that has been started by the Arkansas Diversi- fled Farming Committee. with the supplementary facts and figures that are being taught the public will bear fruit of the most valuable sort to Arkansas. It is process that is sincerely and honestly educative and none of it has 0verstated the case" Arkansas Gazette.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
Gasoline Lamp Explodes

On last Wednesday night a gasoline lamp exploded at White Oak Station and severely burned Marion Edwards who was at- tempting to extinguish it. Dr. Rambo was called in to dress the burns, and MT. Edwards was brought home on the early morning train Thursday.
 Marion with Jacob Johnston were employed at White Oak to load peaches.
 Marion was resting easy at the last report.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
The Merchants Burden

Take up the merchants burden. Go pay him as agreed. He stood your friend in trouble, Served you in time of need; And now to wait forever
 On unpaid bills high piled, Of never paid up peoples,
 Will starve his wife and child. Take up the merchants burden, His patience has been great; But he too, needs some money, A check would be first-rate. Do not, in sullen silence,
 Allow his hopes to wane- To steal another's profit
 For your unlawful gain. Take up the merchants burden Remember how he came, And filled your wants on credit, To cheat him is your shame. Now, when you are obtaining The funds for which you
 sought,
 Forget not what you promised Go pay him for what you
 bought.
 Take up the merchants burden, It's time that he was paid; Nor blame him if he asks you To keep the promise made. Don't get in crusty humor,
 When he requests a lift But calmly then remember
 You're not SO very swift. Take up the merchants burden, For no matter where you move You'll find there is a way The merchants all improve. So why not settle now
 And live within your means? It gives you a smiling face And stops those awful dreams.
 Picked up.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
MARBLE Hill

Uncle Bud Smith was called away Tuesday night. Was bur jed at the Harman cemetery Wednesday. He leaves a wife and one son to morn his loss.
 Mrs. Tippit is very sick at this writing. Hope she will re- cover soon.
 Miss Audie Harmon visited Miss Lucinda Campbell Sunday. Singing at Marble Hill was fine Saturday night. There will be singing again next Saturday night. Everybody come and bring some one with you.
 Misses Omah Baker, Mamie Hosler. Esther Mckinney, Etta Campbell. and Eula.. Ford went to Fair View Sunday. They re- ported a nice time.
 Marble Hill Sunday School is progressing nicely.
 Rev Scott preached at Marble Hill Sunday night.
 Oliver Pickartz and Morris Jones visited Home folks Satur- day night and Sunday.
 Mrs. Morris baby is real sick.
 Old Blue Jacket.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30

James Avery and John Knox have just finished a garage for Harley Russell.
 Mrs. Fay Townsend is quite sick at her home on Adams Mountain.
 Mir. and Mrs. Whit Martin and Earl went to Ft. Smith Wednes- day in their Ford.
 Rev. J. s. Hacker will begin a meeting Saturday night at Gar Creek.
 MT. and Mrs. J. M. Bill and children went out to Manitou last Monday where they will spend a month. Their friends are gratifed to know that their little daughter is improving.
 Mrs. c. w. Barham left yes- day for Pittsburg, Kan. where she will visit her son, Wallace, for about a month. Judge Bar ham accompanied her to Fort Smith.
 Dr. Warren and family visited home folks in Johnson County the first of the week. Miss Clara Byrd who has been visit ing them for several weeks went with them to her home at liar mony.
 MT. and Mrs. Harley Russell motored to Charleston Wednes- day and spent the night with Edgar Anderson and family.
 Benham Carter went to Fort Smith Tuesday. Little Eliza beth Carter who has been visit ing MrS. heDecca Garter and her little cousins, Thomas and Lillian Douglass, went with him to her home. Benham will return Sat urdav.
 At Mullen X Chanceys' cream parlOr you can see one of Our Medium Priced Pianos. If you are interested in an instrument it will pay you to ask the parti- culars about our line. Selling direct from factory. Insures you new goods at about one-half price. -C. E. Horton. Factory Sales Agent for Baldwin Piano Co. adv.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30

Miss Pearl Garrett will return to Poteau Saturday.
 Miss Earsie Bumpus returned to her home in Sallisaw Thurs day.
 Born to Mir. and Mrs. R. M. Adams, June 3Oth, II pound daughter.
 Prof. H. A. Nickell went to Fort Smith Thursday morning on a few days business trip.
 Mrs. w. M. McWhorter and three children left today for their home in Soper, Okla.
 Uncle John Turner has settled down Tn Ozark again.
 The base ball game yesterday resulted in a score of 2 to 2 in favor of the home team.
 MT. and Mrs. John Knox are moving today into the Littleton cottage on River Street.
 Mrs. Ada Ledgerwood and Misses Blanche and Marie Cherry returned to their home at Paris Tuesday.
 Mrs. F. M. TollesOn and child ren left for Ft. Smith and Charleston Tuesday. After visit ing there she will meet Rev. F. M. Tolleson in Kansas City and they will go to the Exposition.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
Good Meeting

Rev. J. s. Hacker closed a very successful meeting at Pleasant Grove last Monday night. There were two profess ions and will be five accessions to the church. Rev. Wm. Sher- man. presiding elder, assisted in the meeting.
The Spectator., 1915-07-30
NORTH LIBERTY PICNIC

There will be picnic at North Liberty, one-half mile from Barnes postoffice, on Saturday, Aug. 2lst. Every body invited. Program will appear later.
 Committee
The Spectator., 1915-07-30

Rev. J. J. Galloway who has been travelling in the interest of Hendrix and Galloway Colleges came home today.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
THE TEACHER.

Now that the graduates are being
given their well earned and deserved
amount of praise, it would be by no
means out of time or place to give the
teacher small portion of commenda-
ton.
Following is one written by Ebert
Hubbard, the great American philoso-
pher and editor who persisted with the
Lustiania:
cit is a great thing to teach. To
give yourself in way to inspire others
to think, to do, to become--what nobler
ambition! To be a good teacher de-
mands high degree of altruism, for
one must be willing to sink self, to
die as it were, that others may live.
There is something in it that is akin
to motherhood = brooding quality.
Every true mother realizes that her
children are only loaned to her-sent
from God and the attribute of her
mind and body are being used by some
Power for Purpose. The teacher is
training her children to do without her.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
ONLY A DAD.

Only dad with a tired face
Coming home from the daily race,
Bringing little of gold or fame
To show how well he has played the
game,
But glad in his heart that his own
q rejoice
To see him come and to hear his voice
Only dad, of brood Of four,
One of ten million men or more,
Flooding along in the daily strife,
Bearing the whips and scorns of life
With never whimper of pain or hate
For the sake of those who at home
await.
Only dad, neither rich nor proud,
Merely one of the surging crowd,
Toiling, striving, from day to day,
Facing whatever may come his way;
Silent whenever the harsh condemn,
And bearing it all for the love of them
Only dad, but he gives his all
To smooth the way for his children
small.
Doing with courage stern and grim,
The deeds that his father did for him
This is the line for him I pen,
Only dad but the best of men.
Detroit Free Press,
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
DENUNCIATION OF
ALCOHOL.

~ am aware that there is a preju-
dice against any man who manufac-
lures alcohol. believe that from
the time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worms in the distillery UNI
til it empties into the jaws of death,
dishonor and crime, it demoralizes
everybody that touches it, from its
source to where it ends. I do not
believe anybody can contemplate the
object without being prejudiced against
the liquaE crime.
All we have to do, gentlemen, is to
think Of the wrecks on either bank
of the stream-of death, Of the sui
cides, of the insanity, of the ignorance,
of the restitution, Of the little children
Juggling at the faded and withered
breast of weeping and despairing
mothers. of wives asking for bread, of
the men of genius it has wrecked, the
men struggling with imaginary SER
penis = produced by this devilish
'hiiiS, anu WHeH you tnlHk OF Cne JallS,
of the almhouses, of the asylums, of
the prisons, of the scaffolds on either
bank, do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced against
this damned stuff called alcohol. In
temperance cuts down youth in its
vigor, manhood in its strength, old
age in its weakness. It breaks the
fathers heart, bereaves the doting
mother, extinguishes natural affec-
ton, grasses conjugal love, blots out
filial attachments, blights parental
hopes, brings down mourning age in
sorrow to the grave. 1t produces weak
ness not life. It makes wives widows.
children orphans; fathers fiends, and
all OF them paupers and beggars. It
feeds rheumatism, invites cholera, i'm
ports pestilence and embraces consump-
ton. 1t covers the land with idleness.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
CONDENSED MILK.

Food Inspection Decision No. 15S. is
sued by the United States Department
,of Agriculture, under date of April 2d.
1918, establishing standard for con
.densed milk. as follows:
Condensed milk, evaporated milk.
concentrated milk, is the prodrct re-
Sulting from evaporation of consider
able portion of the water from the
whole, fresh, clean, lacteral secretion
obtained by the complete milking of
one or more healthy cows, properly fed
and kept, excluding that obtained
within fifteen days before and ten DAVIS
after ealving, and contains, all toler
anees being allowed for, not less tna,.
twenty-five and five-tenths Der sent.
(25.5 per cent? of total solids and not
less than seven and eight-tenths per
cent. as per cent? Of milk fat
Under section IL, chapter 196,session
laws 1911, the standards of quality,
parity and strength for foods adopted
by the United States Department of
Agriculture becomes the standards in
this state.
Manufacturers, jobbers and retailers
will be governed accordingly.
Very truly yours,
j. K.White.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03

misery, crime. 1t fills your jails, sup
plies your almhouses. 1t engenders con-
troversies, fosters quarrels and cherish
les riots. 1t crowds your penitentiaries
and furnishes victims for your scat
fold. 1t countenances the liar, respects
the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It
violates obligation, reverences fraud
and honors infamy. 1t defames benevo-
ISLANDERS the innocence. It incites the
father to butcher his helpless off
Ispring, helps the husband to massa-
ere his wife and the child to grind the
parricidal ak. 1t burns up men, con-
sumes women, detests life, curses God,
despises heaven. 1t suborns witnesses,
nurses perjury, defiles the jury box
and stains judicial ermine. 1t de-
grades the citizen, debases the legisla-
tor, dishonors the statesman and dis
arms the patriot. 1t brings shame, not
honor ;misery, not safety; despair, not
hope; misery, not happiness, and with
the malevolence of fiend is calmly
surveys its frightful desolation and
unsatiated havoc. 1t poisons felicity,
kills peace, ruins morals, blights con-
fidence, Stays regulations and wipes
out national honor, then curses the
world and laughs at it's ruin. It does
all that and more. 1t murders the
soul. 1t is the sum Of all villainies,
the father of all crimes, the mother of
all denominations, the DEVILS own best
friend and Gods worst enemy
This article is an extract from
speech made by Ingersoll to jury ir
liquor case.-Ed.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
BANKERS IN CONVENTION.
Members of Associations in -Four
States Hold Joint Meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO-Mem of the
California Bankers association meet
ing in joint convention here with
bankers associations from. Oregon
Idaho and Nevada, went on record
Friday in the closing session in favor
or an American merchant marine. A
resolution urging bankers to assist in
creating a public sentiment of such
character as to cause congress at the
next session to provide a merchant
marine, was adopted. The associa-
lions from the other states Joined the
California body in adoption of reso.
luton condemning laws of certain
eastern states which force their banks
to discriminate against western farm
mortgages.
Officers elected were:
For Oregon-President J. M. Psor.
man, WOODBURY.; vice president, +. l..
Myers, La Grande; secretary j. l.,
Hartman, Portland; treasurer, William
b. TAFT, Tillamock. Executive coun-
ell, e. d. Cusick, Albany; f. G. Craw-
ford, Portland; j. W. Mccoy, Ashland ::
i. q. Montgomery, Baker City; Mark
l.. Tisdale, Il. l.. Sutherland.
For Idaho-President, F. L. Davis.
sugar City; vice-president, G. II. Cof-
I'm, Boise; secretary, Mayor J. II.
Robinson, Boise; treasurer, E. H. Plow-
head, Caldwell. Executive council
Walter E. Miller, Nampa; G. H. Water
man, kamiah; s. L. Reece, Blackfoot;
Crawford Moore, Boise.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
THE MAN WHO ADVERTIsES

There are but two classes of mer.
chants - those who advertise and
those who do not. The man who
advertises has the best of the deal
He keeps himself before the public
- he keeps his wares before the
public - and he keeps their quality
and price uppermost in the public
mind. People talk about man who
advertises, because they know he has
something worth advertising - or he
wouldn t advertise.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
THE FIRST JEW TO BE
ELECTED GOVERNOR

In the interesting PeOple department
of the June American magazine appears
an account Of Moses Alexander, gov
ernor of Idaho-the first Jewish COVER
nor in the United States. "Honest
Nose" they call him, and he is already
hard at work at the job of putting his
state on the same sound basis that his
own private business rests on. He
| came to this country without friends
and parents at the age of IA. Follow
| ing is an extract from the article:
Moses Alexander was born in Ger
many, and when only IA years of age
took ship from that country to the land
of promise. He was slight and frail
of stature, lonely, and without par
ents, but if you could have seen him
then undoubtedly you would have noted
the same luster of eye and determined
set of jaw which are so characteristic
of his personality today. In New York,
where the boy Moses landed, he heard
ringing on every corner the advise: Go
west, young man.
Moses Alexander went west, arriv-
ed at Challicothe, Mo-, and secured a
job in a clothing store at $40 per month
and board. But even at that wage he
proceeded to distinguish himself by saw
ing money, applying thrift, zeal and
untold energy to every nour of his long
hours of daily work. He proved to be
very affable to the public, won place
in the hearts of the people and before
many years was members Of the firm
for which he had started to work. 1t
was at Chillicothe that Mr.. Alexander
had his first taste of political life, hav-
ing served as member of the council
and as mayor Of that city.
In 1891 he again heard the siren call:
Go west. He moved to Idaho and
embarked in the clothing business in
la little shack store on the main street
of Boise. From this very modest I'M
dertaking he has developed retail
business which links itself into a chain
of stores from one side of the state to
the other and even into Oregon. And
yet, even while building up this extern
sive business outside of Boise, he has
had sufficient time twice to hear the
political call For two terms as mayor
he gave Boise such thorough cleaning
up and such a sweeping and busting
that the city machinery when he got
through with it resembled very much
hydro electric plant in operation. He
went on record for efficiency and his
keen ability in applying business meth
DDS to city government.
"And that is what the people of
Idaho expect him to do for the state;
they have confidence that he is the
man who can straighten out the wabbly,
clumsy, unwielding gait of the Gem
state and adjust her governmental feet
to the unasdustomed strait and narrow
path of honesty. For twenty-three
years the people of Boise and the cities
of Idaho which are linked into his chain
of stores have been testing him by
the cling of coin and have never found
him squeezing the eagle. His bust
ness and public life have been built
on honesty, integrity, clearness of pur-
pose and courage of conviction.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
Restored to Good Health,

81 was sick for four years with stom-
ach trouble writes Mrs. Otto Cans,
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. 81 lost weight and felt
so weak that / almost gave up hope of
being cured. A friend told me about
Chamberlain S Tablets, and since using
two bottles of them l have been well
woman" Obtainable everywhere. For
sale by all dealers.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-06-03
NOTICE TO BEE OWNERS.

Notice is hereby given that all bees
in box hives, or any hive not having
combs in frames so that they can be
removed for inspection, must be trans
ferred into movable frame hives on or
before June l, 1915, to comply with
Sec. 8, of the bee laws of Idaho.
j. II. SLOVENIAN,
Backfoot, Idaho
Bee Inspector for Bingham County.