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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-14
DREAMLAND
PROGRAM TO-DAY

Another big three reel detective special
THE MYSTERY OF THE TAPESTRY
ROOM-Featuring Murdoch MacQuarrie
MERCY ON A CRUTCH-Thanhouser, two
acts.
APPLIED ROMANCE-Comedy.
Fine Programs and I0c
Don't Forget Tomorrow-The big 2 reel
Keystone comedy special, "The Court
House Crooks"
Next Taesday-Marie Tempest in the 5
act Broadway comedy, .Mrs. Plum's
Pudding"
Watch for "THE BROKEN CONN.,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-14

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-14

+. NJ. Mercer Of Schulenbnrg il a bust
ness visitor in the city.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
PREJUDICE HURTS
EXTENSION WORK
Arkansas Farmers Should
Lay Aside Doubt and CO.
Operate With Demonstra-
tors, Says G. w. Watson.

Farm work demonstrators under
G. w. Watson, state agent in charge
of the United States department OF
agriculture's extension work in this
state, during the last year made A.
IA demonstrations and Sc, 923
acres were cultivated under super
vision of the demonstrators, accord
ing to a statement issued yesterday
by Mr.. Watson, says the Arkansas
Democrat.
"The time has come in Arkan-
sas when good judgment demands
that we lay aside any doubt and
don the spirit of hearty co-opera-
ton with all those who are paid to
transmit the truth learned by ex-
periments and especially to agree
when we have so many practical ex-
amples of scientific farming in near
ly every community" said the state
ment.
"In many cases prejudice is the
worst enemy to our progress on the
farm. When the truth is shown
good judgment demands that we &C
cept it or abide by the results. Sci
entific advice by the demonstration
agents always can be relied upon"
IS BUSHELS OF CORN AVERAGE.
An average production of corn
from 10000 acres cultivated under
demonstration agents was twenty
eight bushels to the acre, according
to the statement, while the average
for the state fell to eighteen bush
els. An even better record was
made in cotton experiments, fir Oh
2,508 acres of cotton raised under
the demonstrators supervision the
average crop was 1923 pounds to
the acre, against 524 pounds to the
acre as an average for the state.
The dipping vat and the silo are
urged by the farm demonstrators
and under their supervision $50
silos were erected and 266 dipping
watts constituted last year.
The boys corn clubs of the state
have a total membership of 2,100
and the average yield per acre of
corn under their supervision was
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
A Raindrop Explained.

Although drops of falling rain
are known to be almost spherical,
they appear simply as streaks to the
eye. This is because an indefinite
number of images of the drop are
impressed on the retina of the eye
and, owing to persistence of vision
the retention of an imagine on the
retina for a fraction of a second aft
er the object has passed-the eye
gets the impression of a streak. 1t
is this that causes the spokes of
a rapidly rotating wheel to appear
blurred and that makes motion pic
lures possible.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
TO MAKE CHURCH
A VITAL FORCE
(From Fridays Daily Press)

Rev. F. C. Laslette, pastor of the
First Christian church in this city,
lis endeavoring to raise funds to be
used in installing a circulating Ii
brary, gymnasium and shower
baths in the basement Of the church
for the use of the boys and young
men. He has sent out the follow
ling letter:
Dear Sir and Fellow Citizen;
President Wilson says, The small
er town churches have done more
to invigorate the life of the nation
than any single agency The pas
tors of our large city churches
heartily endorse this statement, add
ing that the best and most faithful
workers are boys and young men
from the smaller towns.
"To prepare these boys and
young men for the future and to
develop the best in them, the First
Christian church of Paragould pur-
poses to renovate the basement of
the church for reading rooms, cir
culating library, recreation, gym
nasium and shower bath, which will
be open evenings to improve their
moral, physical and intellectual life.
1t will also afford a rest room for
the families of the farmers as they
come to town to do their trading.
IF you feel that we are meeting
the problem in the right way we
ask your hearty cooperation. | be-
lieve in Paragould for what it has,
its industry and commerce, and for
what it is, it's real values, it's boys
and girls, men and women, its
churches and schools, homes and
sanitarium. | believe in Paragould
for what it is to be, for it's visions
and plans for tomorrow, the town
where no babe shall cry in vain for
air and food, no home be blighted
by the curse of drink, where no ig-
norant one shall stumble for lack
of a guide, no soul be wrecked for
lack of a Savior.
For Paragould that is to be l
will heartily cooperate in the
worthy enterprise of the Christian
church in its efforts to bring about
these results by giving the amount
set opposite my name when called
upon by Mr.. Laslette.
yours for bigger, better Para
gould, F. c. LASLETTE,
Minister"
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS

UNITED Press Specially


Washington, Oct. 13.-Potatoes
as profitable feed for hogs are re-
ceiving attention from agricultural
experts. Department of agriculture
experiments indicate that to 4 IL
bushels of cooked potatoes Us to
20 cents a bushel) will add as much
weight to hogs as a bushel of corn
$50 cents busheD.
During surplus production and
consequent low prices it may be ad-
vantageous for the farmer to feed
potatoes to his hogs rather than
haul them to market.
Potatoes are fed to best advant-
age when cooked or steamed and
mixed with other feeds. Raw pota-
toes, fed alone, often cause "scours. ;"
On the other hand, in small quanti-
ties they add succulence to the diet
and may be beneficial to the pigs.
In cooking potatoes for feeding
hogs. only enough water should be
used to make a mealy mash to pre-
vent burning. The meal should al
so be mixed with corn meal or some
other grain. Skinned milk, tank
age. or meat meal probably adds to
the usefulness of the feed.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22

butchering time. They attract the
attention of buzzards, dogs, ETC.,
which are liable to carry hog cholera
infection.
z. Confine your dogs and do
not keep pigeons unless you confine
them.
If hog cholera appears in your
heard:
Treat your hogs Immediately with
antihog cholera serum, after which
they should be kept on a light diet
and pure drinking water and con-
fined to limited quarters that may
be cleaned daily and sprayed three
times a week with 1 pound of COM
pound cres.l solution to 80 parts
of water until the disease has abat-
ed in the herd To obtain the best
results the serum must be admins
tered before the disease has pro
crossed in the herd.
To rid the premises of infection:
Remove all manure and saturate
with quicklime.
Burn all litter, rubbish and old
hog troughs.
After the premises are thorough
ly cleaned, spray walls, floors and
other surfaces with disinfectant q
part compound cresol solution to 80
parts water). Where hog houses
are small, turn them over, expos
ing interior to sunlight.
Wallow holes and cesspools should
be filled in, drained, or fenced off.
All runs underneath buildings
should be cleaned and disinfected
and then boarded up.
Destroy hogs that do not fully re-
cover, as they may be carriers of
cholera infection.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
WPoRUB' .

she has spent most of her time for
the past year on it. Her individ-
ual record of each member of the
so-called Mengold family recounts
of by most normal citizens. The
survey will be continued until traits
of additional Mengolds are accurate
ly recorded, and an estimate can
be made of the cost to the states
of maintaining such an abnormal
family.
John and Polly Mengold, progen-
itors of one of the worst lines of the
family, came originally from West
ern Pennsylvania. The others were
ignorant mountaineers.
The notorious Jukes family, to
which DR.. Haines compares his new
ly-mapped family, contains total
of 1900 members, of which $40 are
related by blood. Since 1874, when
its tracing was started, record has
been made of ESQ paupers, 40
criminals, with nearly all of both
classes feeble-minded or insane. The
cost of prosecuting or caring for
them is declared to amount to
many millions of dGllars, mainly
chargeable to New York state, where
the family originated.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
Explosions Audible 90 Miles.

A London physician speaking OF
people who hear cannonades at dis
tances of from sixty to ninety miles,
thinks the firing is really the
beating of their own hearts. He
admits that in his own case the de-
donations were just as loud after he
placed his fingers in his ears. I'M
agination undoubtedly has had
to do with the matter,
but that it should explain so many
cases seems highly improbable. Ma
val gunnery practice, too, may ex-
plain certain instances.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22

to see them come off with Gets
It," 1t just loosens the corn from
the true flesh, easily, and then
makes it come "clean off, As
hours ends corns for keeps. 1t makes
the use of tape, corn-squeezing
bandages, irritating salves, knives,
scissors, and razors really look RI
diculous. Get rid of those corns
quickly, surely, painlessly,-just
easily,-with "Gets-It." For warts
and bunions, too. It's the goth
century way.
"Gets-It" is sold by all drug
gists. 25c a bottle, or sent direct
by e. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
Sold in Paragould and recommended
as the worlds best corn remedy by
r. c. Grizzard. *tf
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
SICK CHILDREN
LOVE CASCARETS
FOR THE BOWELS
Give Candy Cathartic' for
bad, sour stomach, -.
constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.


Most of the ills of childhood are
caused by sour, disordered stom-
ach, sluggish liver and constipated
bowels They catch cold easily, be-
come cross, listless, irritable, fever
ish, restless, tongue coated, don't
eat or sleep we'll and need a gentle
cleansing of the bowels-but don't
try to force nauseating dose of
oil into the little ones already sick
stomach-it is cruel, needless and
old-fashioned.
Any child will gladly take Cas-
carets Candy Cathartic which act
gently-never. grippe or produce the
slightest uneasiness--thoug cleanse
the little ones system, sweeten the
stomach and put the liver and bow
els in a pure, healthy condition.
Full directions for children and
grownups in each package.
Mothers can rest easy after Civ
ing this gentle, thorough laxative
which costs only 10 cents box at
any drug store.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
HEALTH OFFICERS
TO SUE FOR FEES
State Department Proposes
Institution of Legal Pro-
ceedings Unless County
Judges Act.
(From Fridays Daily Press)


The following story appeared in
yesterdays Little Rock Democrat:
Unless county judges of eighteen
counties allow claims filed by vital
statistics registrars suits to collect
the fees allowed the registrars I'M
der the vital statistics law will be
instituted, according to DR.. c. w.
Garrison, state health officer.
THE failure of the county judges
of eighteen counties to allow these
claims is greatly hindering the work
under the law" said DR.. Garrison.
"a test case recently tried in Craw-
ford county resulted in verdict for
the registrar.
'The department receives many
applications for birth and death GER
tificates and with our files incom-
plete because of the action of these
county judges or the failure of doc
tors to make reports of births and
deaths our work is handicapped.
Information to be used in suits in
which wills are contested, in filing
pension claims and in many crimi-
nal suits is obtained from reports
Iof births and deaths. 4
The eighteen counties in which
the county judges have not allowed
claims of registrars are Arkansas,
Clay, Cleburne, Desha, Faulkner,
Fulton, Garland, Grant. Jefferson,
Johnson, Marion, Phillips, Lee,
Sharp, Yell, Pope, Sebastian and
Van Buren,, according to DR.. Garri-
son.
Plans now are being made for the
annual meeting of city and county
health officers, which iG to be held
in the senate chamber of the state
capitol November % and "a. The
United States public health Service
will detail a surgeon to address the
meeting, and among other speakers
will be a representative of the
United States bureau of vital sta
tistics and several health officers
from other states.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
When You Take Cold.

With the average man cold is a
serious matter and should not be
trifled with, as some of the most
dangerous diseases start with a
common cold. Take Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy and get rid of your
cold as quickly as possible. You
are not experimenting when you
use this remedy, as it has been in
use for many years and has an es-
tablished reputation. 1t contains
no opium or other narcotic. For
sale by all dealers. *29
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22

1915 bushels, while the highest yield
was 142 bushels raised on one acre.
Cotton club membership reached
449, and the number of girls beling-
ing to canning clubs totaled 1,24O.
The statement issued by Mr. Wat
son gives other interesting data on
the work the farm demonstrators
have done in the state and urges
for the cooperation of all farming
interests.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
REMARKABLE CRIME
RECORD OF FAMILY
Fifty-Eight Members Have
Criminal or Asylum His
tories, While Others Are
Degenerates.

Columbus, O., Oct. 12.-Fifty-
eight blood relatives confined in
penitentiaries, jails, infirmaries. in
stituticns for feeble-minded or in
dustrial schools. This is the rec
ord of an extensive family of de-
generates traced out during the
past year by the Ohio Juvenile re
search bureau. In announcing the
results yesterday, DR.. Thomas H.
Haines, director of the bureau, de-
clared the family history, already
discovered, was the basis for a rec
ord comparable to that of the no
torious Jukes family, which has
been familiar to sociologists for the
last forty years.
The "Mengold" family-this is
the fictitious name which has been
chosen for the newly traced clan of
degenerate men, women and chill
dren-lives mainly in Southeastern
Ohio and lower Ohio river counties
of West Virginia.
Five generations of the family
have been charted, including 474
individuals. Definite data which
has been secured on 261 of these,
show the following condition of de-
generacy:
Sixty members of the family have
court records. Fifteen have been in
Jail, IA in the penitentiary, 9 in
the infirmary, 9 in children's homes,
8 in the workhouse, 2 in the girls
industrial home, in the institu
tion for feeble-minded and 1 in the
boys industrial home.
Seventy-seven are immoral,74 Grim
inal in varying degrees, So feeble
minded, % alcoholic, II public wo-
men, tubercular, children adopt
ed into other homes, 4 subject to
epileptic fits, insane and 3 tramps.
CATEGORY OF CRIMES.
Crimes of which they have been
convicted include burglary, larceny,
forgery, destruction of property,
bootlegging, operating or being in
mates of immoral houses, intoxica-
ton, riot, perjury, various degen-
crate forms of assault, homicide,
shooting to kill and attempting to
poison husband.
The mentality of most degenerate
members of the family, as determin-
ed by the Binet test is that of chill
dren between and II years.
Most members are living at large,
marrying and producing large fami-
Lies. One man, whom the juvenile
research Investigators call Jasper, is
in the Ohio penitentiary for a crime
against his daughters, one of whom
is in the girls industrial school at
Delaware.
1t was an accidental noting of the
fact that several persons bearing the
same name and later found to be
relatives, were charges of the state
that lead to the investigation, which
started less than a year ago. Starr
ICadwallader recently resigned as
member of the board of admins
tration, which had charge of all
state penal and corrective institu-
tions, made the discovery and urged
the family survey.
WOMAN NAMED FOR TASK.
Mrs. Mary Storer Kostir of Column
bus, young psychological investi-
gator, was assigned to the task and
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
wARDING OFF HOG CHOLERA.

In its campaign against hog chol-
era, which annually destroys live
stock to the value of many millions
of dollars, department of agricul-
ture has issued suggestions to hog
owners to aid them avoiding infec-
ton. Hog cholera is most preva-
lent in late summer and fall. These
deserve particular at
tention now. They are:
To keep hog cholera out of the
herd:
1. Locate your hog lots and pas
lures away from streams and pub
lie highways, and do not allow the
hogs free range.
2. Do not visit your neighbor
or allow him to visit you, if either
of you have hog cholera on your
premises,
3. Do not drive into hog lots
when returning from market or aft
er driving on public highways.
4. Do not use hog lots for yard
ing wagons and farm implements.
5. Do not place newly purchased
stock, stock secured or loaned for
breeding purposes, or stock exhibit
ed at county fairs, with your herd.
Keep such stock quarantined at least
two weeks, and use care TO prevent
carving infection from these to
other pens in feeding and attending
stock.
6. Burn to ashes or cover with
and bury under four feet
of earth all dead animals and the
viscera removed from animals at
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
Slim Pardon Record Saturday.

Governor Hays Saturday issued
proclamations relieving w. r. Ora
dy of Lee county of paying a fine
of 800 for operating a blind tiger,
and Everett Mays of Franklin coun-
ty, fined $50 for the illegal sale of
liquor Mays is Is years old. Petit
lions asking that the fines be re-
mitted were signed by the prosecut-
ing attorneys, the trial judges and
county officials.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22

MINOR REMITTANCES.

Included in the miscellaneous lists
are pardons for various crimes not
included in the classified list, From
vagrancy and Sabbath breaking to
the most henious of crimes are in
cluded.
The number of pardons issued,
added to the number of fines re-
mitted or reduced, makes an aggre-
gate of more than one-half the total
population now in the state peniten-
tiary and on the state convict farm.
The first of the 606 pardons issued
was granted on August 27, 1913.
In 10 instances bondsmen were
relieved. The most notable in
stance was that in which Charles
Bryan and others of Hot Springs
were relieved of bonds aggregating
$500. The men had signed the
bond of a man implicated in the
Fox swindle charges in Hot Springs.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
For a Muddy CoXnlexion.

Take Chamberlain Tablets and
adopt a diet of vegetables and &C.
reals. Take outdoor exercise daily
and your complexion will be great
ly improved within a few months.
Try it. For sale by all dealers.
1923
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
Dependency.

When you feel discouraged and
respondent do not give up but take
dose of Chamberlain Tablets and
you are almost certain to feel all
right within a day or two. De-
spondency is very often due to in
digestion and biliousness, for which
these tablets are especially valuable.
For sale by all dealers. *29
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
Milk Responsible for Scarlet Fever

Sarlet fever is practically un-
known in the tropics and doctors say
this is because so little fresh milk
is drunk there. The streptococcus,
which occurs in large quantities in
most raw milk is always present in
scarlet fever and experts see in that
a cause and effect.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
''Gets-It" for Corns,
SURE as Sunrise!
Any Corn, With "Gets-It" on 1t, Is
An Absolute "Goner.

Yes, it's the simplest thing in
the world to get rid of a corn
when you use "Gets-It," the worlds
greatest corn-ridder. Really, it's
almost a pleasure to have corns lust
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
Take a :
RexaQ9 4tde1Riea
Tonight
Il will act as a laxative in the
morning
Thompson Drug Co.
Burglars Steal Stamps.
7 thompson Drug Co.

Evansville, Ind, Oct. 1S.-(Spe-
cial to The Press) Burglars lats
night gained access to the vault at
the internal revenue departments
office and succeeded in securing war
stamps to the value of 5000.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22

In other cases the bonds ranged
from $3.50 to $4,000, and were
forfeited when the men for whom
they were issued fled. BY the proc
lamations the men signing the bonds
were relieved from paying the
bonds to the state.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-10-22
WOBBLER'S PARDONS
ARE STATE SCANDAL
More Than Six Hundred
Perpetrators of Crime Re-
ceive Executive Clemency
in Two Years.

Little Rock, Oct. 18.-Six hun
dred and six pardons have been
issued, so fines RENTED or re-
duced and bondsmen relieved in 3
cases, in which the bonds aggregat-
ed $13, $50, by Gov. George w. Hays
during the two years and two
months he has been in office. In
the cases where men were pardoned
from prison sentences, as we'll as
relieved of fines, the pardon or
proclamation was counted but once.
Among the sos prisoners released
from the state penitentiary or state
convict farm, 50 were serving sem
fences for murder, either first or
second degree, while A were serv-
ing sentences for manslaughter.
The largest number relieved was un-
der sentences for grand or petit lar
ceny, the pardoned convicts under
these two heads totaling 146.
HOMICIDES LEAD.
hC VI lHCh COhFltICu Vi
homicide who have been given free
dom numbers more than the total
of pardons issued for any other
crime, with the exception of lar
ceny. Forgery ranks next, with to-
tai of &C pardons, and robbery and
burglary with a total of Al. AS
sault with intent to kill also held
high mark in the list. Thirty
one men convicted of assault to
kill were pardoned, while % con-
victed of violations of liquor laws
obtained executive clemency.
The number of pardons issued,
summarized by the crimes for which
the prisoners were convicted, fol-
lows: