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The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-02-26

warned the negroes to leave before
Tuesday night. The night riders
a band of dissatisfied white
farm laborers who, according to the
land owners, seek to drive negro
renters and laborers out of the dis
trict in the hope of obtaining higher
wages or farms at lower rentals.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
YANKEES IN CANADA.
(Boston Record.)

lBOSlOH INcCoiu''
 Among the l5o,000 United states horn farmers in Northwest Canada, the nrosnact of British conscription Is causing real alarm. Many are return ing Others would rejoice at 1alr ,nnortunity to return, but their in- vestments are extensive, thelr iil'er- .sts are fastened to Canadian soh' Tho Detroit Free Press says:
 If the movement gains any conslo- ,rable headway 1t Is certain to give the -anadian northwest blow from WHICH r,,u take 1t decades to recover. IL |, conceded that the United states ,ettlers are among the best In the Dominion and that they have been ,rn,ng the soil into gold, pushing cities ,orward and doing a large snare ol ,ova,onment work. If they are now , leave to avoid conscription 1t VIII be unfortunate for Canada. Even the ,ending of colonies of crippled br1tish .oldiers after the war to Canaoa, as
 
 is proposed by some English philan- ropists will hardly balance the loss.
 In this connection the Montgomery Advertiser regrets that these virile Americans did not heed the call or Southern papers to come South. They could have bought land cheaply. They would have encountered climate that permitted green fields to flourish nine nonths of the year They would have come to a country which offered all of the advantages of pioneer country
 n none of the hardships. And they would not today be living in dread of conscription."
 Our estimable Alabama contemporav thinks it is mot too late yet" for some of these "hardy pioneers to pull up and move down." The op- 9ortunities. it asserts, are greater than they were ten years ago.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
COAL GONE.
(Kansas City Journal.)

(Kansas City Journal) Scientists claim that the coal supply will last 10000 years. We have reason to doubt this statement. Our coal sup ply gave out a week ago, and since then We have followed mariners who burned the ships furniture and then the woodwork of the cabin to keep up the fires In desperate weather Up to date we have sacrificed the following:
 Two stepladders.
 Lawn mover handle.
 Three washtubs
 Flour bin.
 Five suitcases.
 Two trunks.
 Carpet sweeper
 The kitchen table.
 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Kipling's "Plain Tales From. the Hills"
 The refrigerator
 Snow shovel.
 Folding bed
 Complete set of Dickens. The dining room furniture and the hall clock should last us through the present week.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
MEMORY'S HALF HOURS.
Indianapolis News.)


 A day is made up of so many things. A moment is really as nothing. It takes three or four moments to get anything well finished, even drowning or hanging It is the half hours that count most to us as complete but in dividual units of experience. The gar den is bright with half hours of love, some ghostly as the fragrance of the honeysuckle. some as gay and un- ashamed as the color of the gorgeous fragile poppy. There are half hours of disgrace and failure--weeds that will not hide behind the sunflowers and hollyhOcks of brave deeds; and there are the half hours that have been stumbling blocks always-rocks upon which no flowers would grow. There ere half hours of little sorrows which wil not be uprooted and are harmless enough half hours of wholesome joy-great beds of glowing, hardy flowers. The half hours to which We belong are so many The half hour of a morning ride over the mountain top to meet the sum- the half hour of lying in deep grass with face and heart close to the earth, the half hour by a camp fire at sunset, the half hour of great sor- row or great happiness, the half hour of understanding between friends these are not found in the back yard of our memories. They are not mem- ories. They are less transitory than we are. They take us away from our selves and reveal to us something more wonderful and more real. We cannot call them to us, but we cannot fail to answer their call
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
STORING UP FINANCIAL ENERGY
(New York Tribune.)


 The country's visible foreign trade balance for the last three months was s311. 100000. Tn an ordinary year there would be set off against this an in- visible balance of considerable propor- tions. Now the invisible drain Is down to the minimum. The longer the war lasts the more firmly shall we estab- fish ourselves as a nation able to use it's capital for the purpose of advanc- ing it's interests abroad South Ameri- 7a has been cut off from us commer- cially because 1t was dependent, as we were. on European bankers. We can hereafter supply to the Latin -Ameri- can republics the credit needed to stimulate trade with them. We shall owe to Europes great war the best chance we have ever had to make the Monroe doctrine work in finance and commerce as well as in politics.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
TREATING STOPPED IN BOSTON
(Boston Post.)

Says the Lowell Courier Citizen: "Boston's licensing board Is following up its campaign against the treating custom in liquor places. It objects now to the distribution of cigars 'on the house. Treating on either side of the bar is about the worst practice in the business. and 1t would be great gain for temperance if 1t could be stopped altogether"
 It can be and Is stopped here, on one side. at least. The requests" of the excise commission. which some disin- formed citizens jeer at as being too mild have all the force of commands with the liquor dealers. A hint is as good as kick from a board of such unobtrusive but tremendous power.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
MEETING NOTICE.

THE NOME BARTENDER'S UNION Local 868, B. 1. l.. of A. (Afiliated with the A. F. of L.) meets every first Sunday in each month at Il a. m.
 kL. NICHOLSON. Pres.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
THE uNLovED RICH.
Seattle P.-I.)

Among the enigmas of curious age is the attitude toward the orulently conditioned, the air of irreverence with which the man in the streets regards Mammon.
 One reads that Andrew Carnegie has spotted the civilized world with his libraries; yet we find no crowds re- joicing in festive procession upon his natal day, as fitting recognition for a public benefactor. The average citi- zen has lost sight of how many mil- lions John D. Rockefeller has return ed to humanity in his various philan- thropic schemes, but even with only the staggering aggregate in terms of dollars, there still lack, for some in- scrutable reason, the tears of joy cours- ing down the cheeks of the lowly and benefited peasant.
 One does not hear fond allusions to these charitable men by grateful voices in terms of Dear Old John," or Good Old Andrew" as the case may be. In- stead, we hang jest upon them, and view them through the distortion of caricature. Their halls of mirth are a mock for the impertinent and their goings and coming fuel for sarcasm of a nation.
 Presumably 1t is habit of the land; the dislike or patronage, the inde- pendence which regards whatever these men may do with their money as only a duty on their part-the portion of their profits which Is owing to civiliza- tion; the unearned increment in prac- tieable form.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
LONDON TEMPERANCE.
Howell Courier Citizen.)

Howell Courfer-Cttfzen.)
 Reports from London on the tenn perance question don't exactly jibe. One Is to the effect that large part of the populace Is mounting the wa ter wagon voluntarily. A wave of temperance is said to be sweeping the city. and the Cockneys are liking 1t so we'll that they will not care for midnight highball, after the war Is over They cannot get 1t now any way. because of early closing. On the other hand. Lloyd George says rum Is doing moro harm in the tight little
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
Newspaper Comment on Hive
 topics of the day

island than all the German submarines, and he ought to know. Probably the truth lies between the two extremes. Some classes may be drinking too much out taking the population as a whole .t is likely that there has been a real sain for temperance
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23
WE CAN % IT.

For first erass work and prompt de- livery phone Main 151 and tho Peoples stsam Laundry will call and get your laundry.
 v. ]. WILLIAMSON, Prsp...
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-23

Reading for the winter. All maga- zines while they last, 50c per dozen. Lomsn eros.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Why a Maids a Maid

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 In the Popular Science Monthly Earl Barnes tells why, in his opinion, there are so many unmarried women of marriageab1e age In America It is not because they cannot marry, for although man proposes, woman dic- tates when he shall propose"
 One deterrent influence is the wage earning. or salary earning, woman's pay. Says MT. Barnes:
 Every self-supporting girl must also be deeply impressed with the diff ference between her own economic po- sition and that of her mother.
 Now the girl has her own pay en- velope and in possessing 1t absolute ly she holds the key to life as she de- sires It. It Is not to be wondered at that a young woman in full possession of youth and health finds it difficult to give up a salary which, even if small, is absolutely her own, to accept feudal relation to some mans sal ary, often not much larger than the one she has earned, knowing 1t must suffice for two and probably for more"
 There are cynics who say that the woman who dictates the proposal, by silence and subtlety which provide no evidence upon which to base the charge that she has gone half way, or more than half. is rarely acting upon impulse and sentiment alone. She is more often arranging a detail of her life. Marriage is to be an inci- dent and means to an end. Man, ao- cording to this view. belongs to the emotional and tho impulsive. tho im- passioned, sex. To him marriage-at the time he Is inspired to undertake it --is not a detail of life, but a crown Ing achievement beyond which there is nothing of greater importance
 This opinion sorts with that of the many writers who say like MT. Barnes, that woman who can sup- port herself is averse to marriage un- less it offer financial advancement. There are comparatively few men, at least in America, to whom marriage presents itself as a gainful enterprise. or to whom a proposal to marry does not mean fully as great a sacrifice of pocket money, and financial freedom, ! as 1t does to tho waae-earning woman If pay envelope Is "a key to life as 1 1t is desired" the man who marries | throws the key into the we'll quito as deep as the wage-earning girl can throw 1t. When I was single how my pockets did Jingle" can be sung with as much feeling by tenor or baritone as by a soprano or contralto.
 Men have been uncalculating under 1 the mating impulse and a majority of | them do not complain of fardels borne. or of srunting and sweating under a weary life in which a dime Is as large. and as elusive, as a dollar
 was during bachelorhood. If 1t Is true that the "bachelor maid" considers carefully the compensations of finan- cial independence and individual lib- erty before deciding to marry.-and
 then decides not to do so--the cynical
 assertion that the male of the species
 Is more sentimental than the female
 and less selfish. Is sustained. But ts
 this assertion of womans business
 mindedness true?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

score and ten coats of arms for the Farkers. Heraldio charges include the lion, elephant. stag. leopard and horse. Among different mottoes, are Non nuctu nee fatu ,moN etur''-he Is moved hy neither wind nor wave--"Ande nert just m'-dare to be, just; We dare to be wise" Reward of the faithful is sure3"
 We are told that the. e.coat-of-arms borne by the pilgrim John was gules; on a mount, buck trippant, or chief, azure.
 Crest a buck salient or an old book plate gives another version-sules: a chevron argent, charged with a trefoil slipped, hetween three bucks, salient or
 Crest, a \ buck salient. or, surcharged with an arrow in flight, of the first
 Another Parker coat-of-arms is blazoned by Burke argent, a chevron peau, be- tween three uui1ets sable; on a chief azure, as many bucks heads caboosed, or,
 Chest, a talboSs head, couped, argent, ears and tongue gules. forged with a collar ermne.
 To "one of the Mann Family" who asks for the origin of flis family name.
 Man, meaning manly beautiful, Is a name connected with hero worship, If it's use may be traced to tho Mannus, or "the hero,' of Tacftus. the fabed son of the god Frisco, and founder of the German nation.
 In it's compound forms the name has been in common use since the fourth century. In Donnesday Book. eleventh century, mention ks made of WIllilmus filius Manne-William, son of Mann. He was landowner in the county of Hants, Le Mann, de Mann, Nom, Mon, Men. Manni and Meni are variations of the name found In Anglo-Saxon records. Mano and Manno are old German, Name is Danish, also Minan and Mand; the Ice lor dIp fs lad hr Tn oo, ,.lt Tv,,cr1 1ie, days the name usually appeared as Man. in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies both Man and Mann are used Since the middle of the eighteenth cen tury the more common form is Mann. To c. P. H. who asks whether there is any connection between the Haines family, and the family spelling their sur name Haynes.
 The Haines family and the Haynes family are descended from the same original stock. They are an old Saxon family. and were probably established In England more than a century before the Norman conquest. For when William the Norman landed there they were a strong tribe.
 To D. T. Y. who asks for tho origin of the name Yale.
 Tho name Yale was originally spelled impartially Yale, Yall or Yell, and was the name of a place in Wales. But the founder of the family was Irfsn. His name was Osborne Fitz Gerald, Lord of | Vuy sy-Meawgryn and Consyge -dal-Meri- nath-quite sensibly shortened by Welsh l psychologists into Osborne the Irish-and he settled in North Wales about 125o. There he found favor with Llewelyn Ioworah the Prince. who loaded him with gifts. Plas-yn-Yale, county Denbigh, was one of the grants of land that Prince Llewelyn gave his new Irishborn sub | o,,l neL h- of several families, the Yales among them, and made them his heirs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
ny FRANCES 'CowLEs. THE NICHOL SON s FAMILY

When the Norman settlers in Eng land tried to pronounce the name Lin coin they could get no better result than Noncol, which later became Nie- ole. So some authorities on the mean ing of last names explain the name Nicol ini England. And it is fact that the earls of Lincoln, after the conquest of Englandi by the Normans. did call themselves ! the Contes de Nicole. So some ofith Nicholson family in Ameri- ca may be descended from some one who lived in, the vicinity of the city of Lincolna England, in the days when the Norman pronunciation of that name was still insvogue
 The name iis sometimes derived also from the NoNman name of Fitz Nigell in England In other cases the name is derived fromy Nicholas or Nichol
 In all cases, -5f course the last sylla- ble simply signifies son of In the first case it is the son of Ncole. or the son ofl some man who took his name from the location he lived in-the vi cinity of sLincolnt in the second case 1t is the son of Nigell, an offspring of the house of Fitz Nigell. In the third case Nicholson, first borne as a name, designer the son of some man named NichoI or Nicholas. The fam fly of the name in Northumberland and Cumberland. England. traces it's name to Nicholas, but in most cases there is the greatest difficulty in establish ing the real odg gin of this name.
 As the name had many origins, 1t Is not surprising to find that there were many first settler Niicholsons in the YT- of Ca uel Nicholson, who started out in his new-world life hn New Jersey.
 Samuel, with lis wife Ann and five children came fr pm the Parish of Ors- ton, Nottinghams hire. England, In 1875. He sailed on thei ship Griffin with a party of settlers sunder Captain Fen wick.
 Another big family of Nicholsons was established by a Scotch1nan from Der wick on Tweed, who received a grant of land In Virginia near gap in the Blue Ridge mountains known as Nioh- olson's Gap. NThe Scotch. pioneer set fled on his giNnt early fin the eight eenth century.
 Another early ssettler of the name was Edmund Nicholson. He landed in New England-pres1lm from old Fngland-about the year 164S. He died 12 years later. If is very probable that he was a Qua ker. At all events, his wife was a Quaker. and was prose- outed, after her husbands death, be- cause of her religious belief.
 Their children were Christopher 22 years old at the time of his father g death: Joseph. 20; Samuel, 16; John, IA Elizabeth, II, and Thomas '.
 The arms illustrated are describe ed Azure. two bars ermine on a chief ar gent, three suns proper. The crest Is a Hons head erased gules.' ducally gorg- cd or.
 Answers to Correspondents
 To J. F. P. who asks for the Parker coat of arms:
 Burke's Peerage gives near three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

Judge Reeves, that he heard the ques- tion in his sleep. q took 1t as good joke at first" he said sadly but when persons who can't talk United States began to shoot 1t at me, 1t got my goat. Besides. I'm tired of being walk ing billboard for theatrical show. The newspapers and billboards will be pulling me in for that restraint of trade stuff"
 Judge Reeves could hear no more with dry eyes. He cut short the pitiful recital and granted Perlmutter's appli- cation at once. telling him to be sure to write his new name in capital let- ters.
 Three other Waterbury persons have received legal permission recently to change their names. Their respective veasons were George Dammit, Orlando Hell and Frank Huggup.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
has gone 2OO yards it will haxa a...... :.

las gone 200 yards it will have dropped. not l2 inches, but two feet The drop in- creaees by leaps and bounds with the u,s.anee, .,s were there no sights on the rdne a ana you wanted to hit a mark at 2oo yards, you would clearly have to ain, two feet above it.
 This would be awkward, for you would lose sight of the object aimed at, to say nothing of the difficulty of correctly esti- mating a distance of two feet at 200 yards
 The sights of a rife enable vou to keen your eye on the mark although the muz- zle of the rifle is actually pointing above 1t. The movable slide of the backsight enables you automatically to point the muzzle just so many feet above the mark aimed at as Is necessary to counteract the known drop of the bullet at various ranges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Governed by Giants
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American
 Fairmont. W. Va.-Statistics concerning the physical makeup of the officers of West Virginia show that the state is governed by physical giants These facts are as fololws:
 Governor Hatfield is 6 feet inches tall. weighs 2aO pounds. wears a 7h hat and size shoes.
 Secretary of State Stuart F. Reed is { feet inches in height, weighs 210 pounds wears IF hat and 10li shoes.
 James S. Lakin. chairman of the state board of control, stands 6 feet PA inches wears 71s hat and shoes.
 AM of the other officers of the stat( house are over 5 feet 10 inches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

the fur seal pups. They are born about the first of that month and soon after the fathers and mothers betake them selves to the sea. For a period six weeks from birth the pups will not so near the water. When they do they become sea animals and chance at the census is lost So while they are resting on tho land the government takes count of noses.
 The narrow beaches have holes and crevices whence the seals are driven to the open areas where 1t Is an easy mat ter to count them. The last full count
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

last year showed 92,269 pups. while the full seal herd was 2eS,3O5. This census gives as accurate an estimate as the average cattleman has of the animals on his range. The number Is expected to grow steadily until 1t will reach to be- tween 100000 and 100000.
 So We are cultivating the seal as we long nave been the salmon ,and as the Germans have long been cultivating their forests, allowing only so much to be sac rinced every year as may be safely done without menacing the supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
The Rifle Sight

From the London Answers
 The average person, if asked to explain why rife is sighted, would probably pc unable to do so beyond some vague remark about taking correct aim.
 Sights are necessary, because a bullet does not travel in a straight line. but under the influence of gravity and fric- ton begins to drop almost as soon as IL leaves the muzxle. Thus the bullet of our service rife (Lee- Enfield) drops air inches in the frst 100 yards. but when It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18

In Ordering Good. Please Mention THE 1GE-HERALD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Perlmutter Sick of Name
', tbN st' Louis Globe-Demoerat.

Waterbury. Conn.-Yearning for a rest cure after being pestered for months with questions concernGg the health of MT. Potash" and determined to be a free advertising medium no Longer, Louis Perlmutter, an employe of the Waterbury Clock company. ap- piled to waterbury district court for permission to change his surname to Ferry.
 Flows Potash todayT' had beon asked him so often, Perlmutter told
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
His Training

My man. where did you become susk an expert swimmerY
 Way, lady" responded our hero. modestly. T used to be traffic cop h
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
Fur Seal Pups

From tho indianapolis Nsws
 In the Pribilof Islands in the Boring sea the government every year, beginning with August takes . careful ceusus of
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-01-26
IDAHO SPUDS FOR BANQUET
VIII Fill Place on Menu for Real Els.
tate Men.

Three hundred, pound and a half
each, Idaho Rural potatoes, will be the
main item on the menu at the monthly
dinner of the Chicago real estate
board dinner to be held at the Chi
eago Real Estate Exchange of that
city on Thursday, January 2S.
The executive committee of the or
ganization took the matter up with the
Short Line railroad to secure for them
the best potatoes to be had anywhere
asking that three hundred extra fine
potatoes be sent them in time to be
served at the DINER in question.
The officials of the Short Line,
through Mr., Burley, took the matter
UP with Agent Baker at Idaho Falls,
who referred the matter to Jos. A.
Taylor of the same place and Mr.. Tay-
lor furnished the potatoes, selecting
the three hundred, each a prize winner
and with an average weight of pound
and half
This is one of the greatest compli-
ments which could have been paid
That community and the Idaho potato
That in itself is big advertisement
for the Idaho spud and the fact that
the potatoes are to be served at the
monthly dinner of the real estate ex-
change of the city of Chicago is an
other big advertisement and very de-
sirable piece of publicity for Idaho in
general and the Idaho potato in par
| ticular.
| The men who compose the real es-
tate exchange of Chicago are the fore
most men in that line of business and
! it is a good thing to have them become
acquainted with the Idaho potato, q
| good thing for them to learn some
thing of the country where that potato
| is produced, for the eating of an Idaho
! Rural, properly cooked and properly
served, would make friends anywhere
| -Nampa Leader.