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The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

And Austria gives the Serbs some
 raps?
 What care we what the kaiser does? Our bald spot shows a little fuzzl Houston Post. What care we though the allies lose, Or Bill, the kaiser has the blues; Or who doth fight, or who doth run? We picked horse to win and wonl
 Birmingham Age Herald. And what care we for Wilheim's note Or if dath gets the sultan's goat We rode a jitney, and did not Get kill upon the self-same spot.
 Memphis Commercial Appeal. Missouri's well-known slogan ap- pears, by the grace of the weather man, to have been altered to read I"Blow Me!"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 With the oificeholding bunch m Memphis, everything seems now to be altogether lovely Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
 One of the things that we never could understnd is why anyone would prefer one Mexican revolutionist to another.-Florida Times Union.
 Nearly as a mere pertagrapher can size it up, the German note comedies everything we didn't demand.-Nash- vile Tennessean.
 Just to help liven up these dull times why not nab Villa and put him in the same cell with Huerta for flve minutes Charleston News and Cour- fer.
 Billy Sunday will not attend the Chicago Christian Endeavor meeting because his party will not be furnish ed a special train. Billy advocates tourist trains for his converts.-Nash- vile Banner
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15
WE WILL SELL OUR
 STRAW HATS AT ACTUAL COST
w. E. WALLER

UON EKNUK ISSUES
 THREE PARDONS Little Rock, July 15.-The following pardons were granted Wednesday by the Governor
 Albert Goshen, Pulaski county, rob- bery, convicted in April, 1915, and sen- fenced to six years.
 B. M. Mouser, of Lafayette county, convicted in February, 1915, of dis turbing the reace.
 Sam Gibson, of Hampstead county convicted in April 1914, of pandering, and sentenced to two years.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

Get a shave with comfort at the East Side Barber Shop. Advt. tt. We will deliver The Daily News to you each afternon for ten cents per week.
 Try Crisco We have it in large, medium and small sizes.-Douglas Brooks X Co. Advt.
 For Rent House newly papered and painted. close in all conveniences. H. B. Mckenzie. AdVt.
 A. B. Ohphint, travelling freight agent of the Mo. P. I. M. R'y is here today.
 Hamilton's High Quality bread re- ceived today Douglas Brooks & Go.
 Advt.
 Money to loan or in1- proved farms. R. L. BIakeiy. Advf. tf
 Still cutting hair and shaving at the West Side Barber Shop.-you are next.-Cragan & Cummins Advt.
 Read "The Master Key" in today's episode and it will be shown at the Gem Saturday matinee and night.
 L. A. Markham, extension agent of the Prescott & Northwestern railroad, is over at Morrillton today attending to business matters and will return to his home here tomorrow.
 H. E. Askew, of Bluff City, was here today and paid The News office a pleasant call MT. Askew is one of this papers first subscribers and he never fails to pay his subscription.
 Chas. Chaplin, in "The Tramp" two reel comedy at the Gem this even- ing is one of the best and funniest pictures ever shown in the Gem thea tre. Admission 10 and 15 cents-you will be pleased.
 The jury failed to agree in the case of Stingley versus the Prescott & Northwestern railroad and was dis missed this afternoon. They have had the testimony of the case under con- since Tuesday.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15
s F TIN GS

Farm and Ranch
 Motion pictures are being used to teach hygiene to the less civilized Philippines.
 Opossum farming for the fur of the animals has passed the experimental stage in Australia.
 A steel ship will carry about 20 per cent more freight than one of the same size made of iron.
 Military training is compulsory on all male citizens between the ages of 12 and 25 in New Zealand.
 Though is conducts the whole bank ing business of the British govern ment, the Bank of England is not state department.
 Throughout the world one-fourth of all children die before the age of six, one-half die before they are 16 and one person in 100 lives to see 65.
 The sturdiness of Andalusian horses is attributed to the fact that they feed on a species of wild cloves which grows only in the Spanish province of Cadiz.
 It has been estimated by a Berlin scientist that the commercial value of the electricity in flash of Tightening lasting one-thousandth of a second is l29 cents.
 A ton of water from the Atlantic ocean when vaporated yields S1 pounds of salt; ton of Pacific water, 70 pounds; a ton of Arctic or Ant arctic water, S6 pounds; a ton of Wa ter from the Dead sea, 1S7 pounds.
 The turkey, so far as records are known was introduced into England in 1924, brought probably from the port of Cadiz, where ships trading with the Orient were accustomed to call. In nearly all countries, inclusive of Spain, and even Turkey, itself, this bird is called the Indian fowl"
 Miss Honora Whalen of Erie, Penn sylvania, the first girl to be graduated from the school of agriculture at State College, recently announced to her friends that she was going to under take the managemnt of her fathers ranch in South Dakota. She has com pleted the four-year course in agron- omy. Two years before entering Penn state, Miss Whalen came east to study home economies. She believed that no girl should attempt farming-"a mans work, she termed it-until she could perform the woman's duties in the household. Consequently, Miss Whalen mastered sewing, cooking, household management and the chem istry of fooda before starting her az ricultural career. Miss Whalen spent her early life on the westrm ranch she is about to superintend. It is her plan to raise beef cattle for the eastern markets, shipping them from her ranch to farm she will acquire in Northeastern Pennsylvania. There they will be fattened for the markets says the Philadelphia North Ameri- can.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

Jack and Jock go round the block, But not to hunt for water; The tigers blind so cool and kind, Oh, that's what they are after.
 -Ex.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

The East Side Barber Shop em- ployes union barbers. Try them.'
 Advt. tf
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15
STOMACH TROUBLE
 FOR FIVE YEARS

taking other medicines. decided to take his advice, although did not nave any confidence in it.
 l have now been taking Black Draught for three months, and 1t has cured me haven't had those awful sick headaches since began using it.
 l am so thankful for what Black Draught has done for me-"
 Thedford's Black Draught has been found very valuable msdicinc for de- engagements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely used by young and old, ard should be kept in every family chest
 Get package today.
 Only quarter. ln
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

The turkey, so far as records are known was introduced into England in 1924, brought probably from the port of Cadiz, where ships trading with the Orient were accustomed to call. In nearly all countries, inclusive of Spain, and even Turkey, itself, this bird is called the "Indian fowl"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

Just to help liven up these dull times why not nab Villa and put hlm in the same cell with Huerta for five minutes ?-Charleston News and Cour- fer.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15
Majority of Friends Thought Mir. Hughes Would Die, But One Helped Him to
 Recovery.

Pomeroyton. Ky.-ln interesting ad- vices from this place, Mir. A. ]. Hughes writes as follows: 'I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at time, that thought surely l would die.
 tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good.
 l got so bad, could not eat or sleep, and all my friends, except one, thought would die. He advised me 10 fry Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

Nearly as mere pertagrapher can size it up, the German note comedies everything We didn't demand.-Nash- vile Tennessean.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

One of the things that we never could understnd is why anyone would prefer one Mexican revolutionist to another.-Florida Times Union.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

With the officeholding bunch m Memphis, everything seems now to be altogether loVely.-KnoXville Journal and Tribune.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

Missouri's well-known slogan ap- pears, by the grace of the weather man, to have been altered to read "Blow Mew-Cleveand Plain Dealer.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15

A ton of water from the Atlantic ocean when vaporated yields Sl pounds of salt; ton of Pacific water, 79 pounds; ton of Arctic or Ant arctic water, S6 pounds; ton of wa ter from the Dead sea, 1S7 pounds
The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-15
pr. Samuel B. Gee
 SPECIALIST

PRESCOTT. ARKANSAS.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
CHAPTER XVIII.
Dark Hollow.

Later, when the boards he had
loosened in anticipation of this hour
we're all removed, they came upon a
packet of closely written words hidden
in the framework of the bed.
1t read as follows:
Whosoever lays hands on this MS.
will already be acquainted with my
crime. If he would also know its
cause and the full story of my
hypocrisy, let him read these lines
written, as it were. with my hearts
blood.
/ loved Algernon Etheridge; | shall
never have dearer friend. His odd
ways, his lank, possibly ungainly, fig
ure crowned by a head of scholarly
refinement, his amiability when
pleased, his Feasibility when crossed
formed a character attractive to me
from its very contradictions; and after
nv wife's death and before my sor
Oliver reached companionable age, il
was in my intercourse with this man
found my most solid satisfaction
Yet we often quarreled, His dog
matism frequently ran counter to my
views, and, being myself man o
quick and violent temper, hard words
sometimes passed between US, to bt
forgotten the next minute in hand
shake, or some other token of mutua
esteem These dissensions sucl
thew could be called-never took plac,
except in the privacy of his study o
mine We thought too much of eacl
other to display our differences O
opinion abroad or even in the presenc
of oliver; and however heated GU
arguments or whatever our topic W
invariably parted friends, till one fate
! full night
O God! that years of repentance
self.hatred and secret immoIation ca
never undo the deed of an infuriate
moment. Eternity may console, but
can never make me innocent of tn
blood of my hearts brother.
We had had our usual wordy dis;
greement over some petty subject
which he was no nearer wrong nor
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20

look here!" And with one awful ges-
tuTe, he stood still-while horror rose
like a wave and engulfed the room
choking back breath and speech from
every living soul there, and making a
silence more awful than any sound
or SO they all felt, till his voice rose
again and they heard:
You have trusted to appearances;
you must trust now to my word
am the guilty man, not Scoville, and
not Oliver, though Oliver may have
been il the ravine that night and even
handled the bludgeOn | found at my
feet in the recesses Of Dark Hollow"
Then CONSERVATION spoke, and NUT
tered cries were heard of Madness!
l. is not we who are needed here but
a physician!" and dominating all, the
ringing shout:
You cannot save me so, father. |
hated Etheridge and l slew him. Gen,
tlemen," he prayed in his agony, com.
ing close into their midst, do not be
misled for moment by a fathers de,
Votion."
His lifted head, his flashing eye,
drew every look. Honor confronted
them in a cOuntenance from which all
reserve had melted away. No guilt
showed there; he stood among them, a
heroic figure.
Slowly and with dread which nc
man might measure, the chances which
had just deVoured his young but virile
countenanCe passed to that of the ia
Their They did not leave it again
SOM" With what tenderness he
spoke, but with what ring Of desola
ton. Il understand your effort ant
appreciate it; but it Is a useless one
You cannot deceive these friends O
ours-men who have known my life
If you were il the ravine that night
so was |. If you handled John SEQ
ville's stick, so did l, and after you
Let us not struggle for the eXecratioI
of mankind; let it fall where it right
fully belongs 1t can bring no stint
keener than that to which my breas
has long been subject. Or" ant
here his tones sank, in a last recogni
ton of all he was losing forever, Il
there is suffering in once proud MAJ
flinging from him the last rag of re
spect with which he sought to cove
the hideous nakedness of an unsuspect
ed crime, it is lost in the joy of dc
ing justice to the son who would TAX
advantage Of circumstances to assum
his fathers quilt"
But Oliver, with a fire which notl
ing could damp, spoke up again:
Gentlemen, will you see my Nfs
Their so degrade himself? He has dwel
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
The Lion of ST. Marks.

The famous winged Lion Of st.
Mark, symbol of the old Venetian re-
public, which was endangered by the
Austrian air attack on the city OF the
lagoons, is one of the most composite
monuments in existence. It is or
bronze with eyes of white agates-
though venetians tell you they are
diamonds-and it is believed to have
ornamented some ancient Assyrian
palace before it came to Venice and
was raised on the top of a column IN
the Square of st. Mark.
The whole figure, as 1t now stands,
belongs to many epochs, renovated
again and again, and the only portion
of the original animal remaining is the
head-except the crown-and part OF
the body. When last renovated IN
1891 the whole lion was found to be a
mass of disconnected fragments bound
together with iron bands.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
PUTS The INTELLECT FIRST
Educator Asserts That Its Training Is
of More Importance Than Is
That Of the Body.

Commenting on the theory, now SO
popular, that educators should COnCen-
trate on the training of hands rather
than the training Of minds, if the
young persons Of our land are to grow
into useful men and women, Mary
Leal Hardness, writing in the Allan
tic, gives it as her opinion that ut is
a tremendous fallaCy that the pos
SCISSOR of only the trained hand can
hope with any Well-fOunded confidence
to be included in that desirable COM
pany which is both interesting and in
terested.
''If you could persuade every wom-
an to sweep a floor properly, doubt
much if she could still be guaranteed
an agreeable companion for rainy
Sunday" continues the writer. If
you could teach every white wing in
any city to remove the dirt of the
streets in the most dustless and SAM
tary manner known to science, l still
question whether you would wish him
to come to your library for an eve,
ming of uplifting conversation. And
he would be equally lacking in re-.
sources for self-entertainment in HIS
unemployed hours.
EFF there is anything beneath the,
stars more pitiable than the elderly
man or woman with no intellec-
tual resources from which to draw
occupation and interest, l have not
yet seen it. On the other hand, there
is nothing which so effectively rObs,
the prospect of old age of its terrors
as the sight Of the scholarly wearer OF
whitened hair which crowns head
still vigorous and young through the
happy preservative agency Of a
trained and much-used intellect.
"No mechanical process can guar.
antee to US an interesting life, or
insure US against boredom. But just
because it is something more than a
mechanical process college educa-
ton of the right sort comes nearer
doing this than any other agency we
know-certainly nearer than any drill
in cow-milking or scientific cooking
It's value to us and to the future or
our country is beyond estimation. II
the time ever comes when vital is
taken to be synonymous with lucra-
tive;' when the life of the mind and
the training of the mind are set be-
low those of the body; when intelli-
gence, as a means to a full and sat
isfying life, is superseded by prophy.
laxis and hygiene-then we may we'll
wish that we had listened to a wiser
teacher"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
Servant Problem Solved.

lust to show how lucky are those
parts of France which the Germans
have overrun with fire and sword, an
ingenious German press agent has IN
vented the following story, the scene
of which is laid in what is left OF a
once smiling village in the north or
France. A worthy dame whose house
has survived the gunnery practice OF
the kaiser's artillerymen-possibly be-
cause of its remoteness from the
quaint old village church, now heap
of ruins-is talking to another OF her
species, presumably equally fortunate
in having roof over her graying
head.
you've no notion" says the first
dame, chow clean and in what perfect
order everything is in our house. ]
never in all my born days saw the
place so spic and span"
The second dame mods to show her
natural and proper interest in this bit
of housewifely gossip.
"Tm so glad, my dear" says She
"that at last you've got really good
servant"
Servant" exclaims the first dame
with Gallo vivacity. who said serV'
ant? It's the dear German soldiers
that's billeted in the house. They
done the cleaning!"-New York Eve
ming Post.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20

so continually upon the knowledge
which separated us a dozen years ago
that he no longer can discriminate be-
tween the guilty and the innocent.
Would he have sat in court; would he
have uttered sentences; would he
have kept his seat upon the bench for
al, these years, if he had borne with
in his breast this secret of personal
guilt? No. It is not in human nature
to play such part. ! was guilty-and
| fed. Let the act speak TO" itself.
The respect Cue my father must not
be taken from him"
Confusion and counter-confusion!
What were they to think! Alanson
Black, aghast at this dread dilemma,
ran over in his mind all that had led
him to accept divers guilt as proved
and then, in immediate opposition to
it. the details of that old trial and the
Judges consequent life; and, voicing
the helpless confusion of the others
observed with forced flrmness:
1--WE have heard much of divers
wanderings il the ravine on that fatal
night, but nothing of yours, Judge Os
trander. 1t is not enough for you tc
say that you were there; you must
prove it.
"The proof is in my succumbing tC
the shock of hearing divers name as
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
Worked Both WAYS.

A story is told by President Pom
care of an old peasant who was very
superstitious. A neighbor said to him
one day;
"That potato you gave me to carry
in my pocket as cure for rheuma-
tism has had wonderful effect. |
haven't had twinge since you gave
it to me"
"There!" exclaimed the peasant,
triumphantly, 81 told you potato car
ried in the pocket was cure for rheu'
matism, and you wouldn't believe me"
Eyes" the other admitted, land the
really strange thing is that it must
have been exercising its influence on
me before you gave it to me, for
never had a twinge before I began car
rying it."
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
The Unity of Life.

There is nothing, think, that
brings home to one more conclusively
the unity of life, and therefore the
unity of knowledge of that life, than
the attempt to study any particular
subject by itself and confne yourself
to it alone. You find very soon that
Won cannot do so. No aspect OF life
can be separated from the rest and
understood even in any small degree
without some knowledge of the rest
of life. No part of life stands alone.
Every phenomenon of life Is the re-
silt. not of one or two causes alone,
hut Of the interaction of innumerable
causes. To get near the understand
ing of only one item you must be able
to estimate more or less truly all the
forces that make life, and the obJec'
five of life. AS with the eddy of a
river, to estimate it you must know
not merely the eddy, but much also
Of the river. its volume and its Speed
the density of its waters, the conhgu
ration Of its banks and its general
direction. The observation of the
eddy only would lead you into the
widest fallacies.-The Atlantic.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
Costa Rican industry.

The decline of the banana industry
in Costa RIGA for several years past
has become very noticeable and its
effects are strongly felt in the bust
ness life of the country, for Costa
RIGA formerly led in the production of
bananas. Plantations have become af-
iected by an incurable disease, and as
a result the largest growing and ship
ping company has found it more prof
table to cultivate new plantations in
other countries, building new wharVes
and constructing new railways, than
to attempt to stamp out the disease
The banana business is therefore
gradually leaving Costa RIGA.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
Guncotton as Bait.

A part of the equipment OF some
cavalrymen just returned to France
from a few days furlough in England
is a fishing-rod and several varieties
of floats But there are others VINO
prefer to fish for the pot in more sud-
den and ruthless manner. Their meth
cd is very different. They operate in
those parts of the canals where roach
and dace are thought-not always
with reason--to be numerous. The
final attack, as in all modern aggres-
sive operations, is opened by the ex-
penditure of explosives. But in this
case the expenditure is not great. A
small wad of guncotton neatly ex'
ploded under water is enough to ac-
count for all the fish within consid-
cradle radius; and few moments
after the discharge the undersides OF
the roach and dace appear on the
surface. The idea was suggested by
the accidental havoc wrought among
the fish by a certain Jack Johnson.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
EeIt His importance.

Many of the New York Fairgrounds
have swings in which the kiddies can
pull themselves up high above the
ground One little boy drew himself
up and gazed around delightedly:
"Oh. can see bird; and there is a
leaf that can almost touch, and he
folded his arms proudly-"Oh, gee. |
feel just IS important as God. "-Ex-
change.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
onnortunity for Americans.

1t is reported to Washington from
Peking by. Commercial Attache Julian
H. Arnold that an American bank
is needed in China if American trade
is to be extended He declares that
there are splendid chances in China
today for American capital, and that
never in the history of China have the
Chinese been better disposed to Amer
lea and things American. Mr.. Arnold
says that there are numerous chances
for Americans to establish industrial
plants, China offering the best field
in the world for cotton manufac'
turing" There are tens of thousands
of miles of railroads to be built; there
are tramways, telephone lines, cleo
trio plants, glassmaking establish
ments. oil mills, and -four mills to be
erected, white there are rich mineral
deposits to be mined and native prod
ucts to be exported.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-20
How Double windows Save Coal

Experiments show that when fitted
with double windows an equable tenn
perature of 70 degrees can be main
tanned with the same amount Of coal
formerly required to maintain a tenn
perature of 60 degrees. 1t is estimated
that the cost of fitting the lower story
OF a mousse with double windows can
be paid for in five winters by the say
ing in coal.