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The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT
 MAY BE GREATER

Little Rock, Aug. 26.-Oficial fc ures are not yet available. but the in. dications are there will be an increase in the per capita apportionment of the School Funds this year.
 There is now in the common school fund in the state treasury, S1,315.85O.- 35. Two counties have not vet naid in their school tax, St. Francis and Independence, and they will increase the fund about $35,00O On Sept. the interest coupons on the school bonds will add another$34, ,0O0. This will make total of about $1 ,3S0, ,OOO, compared with gross amount of s1.- 358,4O3 last year, out of which S5O,00O had to be taken for state aid. This year there will be no state aid, but all will go direct to the schools.
 The Department has just completed the enumeration for the state show ing a total of 649,O65, an increase of 13.6O3 over last year. The per capi- ta in 1914 was $2.05, and it will prob ably reach $2.13 this year. The ap- portionment is to be made Sept. 1.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
oNE OF THE BIGGEST PROB-
 LEMS IN ROAD BUILDING

One of the most important ;to,ns m road construction is drainage and the greatest difficulty the road builder mas Is keeping his ditches open after they have once been nronerlv con. SCructed. There are at least one thousand farmers in Nevada County who, annually, cut the briers and bushes out of the fence corners. reset thelr old rail fences and dunn all the rubbish into the road. Of collrse OH thls junk soon gets into the ditches they being the lowest part of the road. drove about six miles out on one ot the most important roads in the county one day. 1 think I would not be over-stating the facts if were to say that there are two miles of this road on which the ditches are so badly clogged by the method mention ed above that the road is literally rulned. There are about two thou sand farmers in the county who would
 SNNP 'o pun q ldil out Ol lnC Qltch. Of course you would say that is the road overseer's business. That's true. But here is the bargain the road over- seer would like to make with you nelghbor. He is willing to construct the drainage ditches and go over the roads with his grader whenever nec- essary to keep them open but he wants me to tell you that he loses his tenn per when he has to stop too often to pull the old rails, and bushes that grew In your field out of the dtches. He thinks you would not have so much cause for complaint at his slowness In doing the work if he did not have to do his work over so often on ac- count Of your carelesness.
 l am sure you didn't mean to do it but you did it just the same. Now let me make just this suggestion. If ev- cry farmer who has field along the road side will go at once and remove all the rubbish from the ditches, or the place where the ditches ought to be, along side of his farm it will work wonder in Nevada County. Then if you will sware everlasting vengeance on the man who next obstructs the ditches you will have dcne much to- ward improving the highways.
 J. M. THOMAS.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
Can You Tell Why

Everybody wants to be governor Of Arkansas?
 A beer wagon always makes more noise than a bread wagon?
 So many people dot the capital ti
 Eight nations can't whip three.
 The Russians didn't have pity on newspaper readers when they named their cities?
 A friends who borrowed ten al- ways scoots around the corner to avoid meeting you?
 That vulgar moving pictures are the most popular?
 Any honest Democrat is afraid ot an honest primary election law?
 Nobody is ever married" by coun- try correspondents, but are alway united in the holy bonds of matri- mony9"
 Any mob should be called "order- ly?"
 The Germans are the only nation who know how to use submarines!
 Some people persist in owning au- tomobiles who cannot pay their gro cery bllls9
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
SUPERINTENDENT COOK
 ELECTED FIFTH TERM

Little Rock, Aug. 26.-Hon. George $. Cook, State Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction, has been reelected for the fifth consecutive terms as mem Der of the Executive Committee of the National Educational Association now in session at Oakland, Calf. The po- sition held by Mr. Cook on the Execu- tive Committee is the only elective place on the Committee, all other members being ex-officio. He has also been elected director of the N. E. A. for Arkansas.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
"The 'cOpperheads' Again"
From the Westliche Post.

From the Westliche Post.
 Under promising headline the Post-Dispatch devotes almost two col umns of valuable space to the attitude of the papers printed in the German language on the Arabic case. The Post-Dispatch, in its usual kind and truthful way, seeks to create the i'm pression that the so-o0lled German American Press is ever ready to sac rifice American rights in order to justify Germany. To prove this as sertion, the editorial quotes from var ious comments certain passages care fully and skillfully selected with a view to cast reflection on the loyalty of the papers quoted from-but re gardless of the spirit of the articles as whole. Thus, for instance, the Post Dispatch claims that the Vest liche Post denounces all newspapers that refuse to support Germany's view point as nd-poisoners" while in fact the Westliche Post throughout has been bitterly opposed to radical ism on either side. And We defy any individual or newspaper to prove the assertion that we deny to anybody the right of his honest conviction.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
Mir. Bryan's Craven Gospel

From the Republic.
 Mr. Bryan, as expected has seized |the occasion of the sinking of the Arabic to urge on the American pub Ike those peculiar views which led to |hs resignation from the Cabinet. He begins by admitting all of the conten- |tlOns of the Administration as to the nights of American citizens in transit lon the high seas and ends by urging |the passing of laws to keep Americans oH the ships of belligerents and res train the eXportation of munitions of war.
 In short, Mr. Bryan's policy is a po- lcy of "scuttle." He would advise that We avoid fighting for our rights by renouncing them whenever a bully ing foreign Power threatens them. Shades of Warren and Putnam, of washington and Marion and john raul Jones Think of the bumptious lOliy' according to this view, of the em0attled farmers who fired the sho. heaFd around the worldl
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
THOMAS EDISON INJURED
Inventors Eyes Painfully Burned in
 Laboratory Mishap.

West Orange, N. J., Aug. 25- Thomas A. Edison, while at work in one of his laboratories at Silver Lake near Newark, today, was painfully though not seriously burned about the eyes by the accidental splash of potash solution.
 While his eyes were still smarting when he went home Mir. Edison re- turned to work after dinner and it was stated at his home tonight that he had suffered no i'll effects.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
Two St. LOuisians.
rom the Globe Democrat.

From the Globe Democrat.
 Two leaders of thought and action in separate but in many ways cc-or- mated effort, have fallen out of the line of duty within past two days. Seneca N. Taylor, a member of the St. Louis bar for half century, and nationally prominent as a lawyer iE promotion of movements toward the bettering of evil social conditions growing out of easy divorce and other abuses of multiform laws, completed nearly a decade beyond the palmist's limit before laying down works to which he had devoted himself. DaviG Eiseman of the Rice-StiX Dry Goods C. 1pany, through many years of ser vice in development of the civic and commercial spirit of St. Louis, had been contemporaneous with Taylor in the promotion of it's social ideals.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26

A headline in a metropolitan raper reads: Prominent Physician Who Drops Dead" It is very se,: :ous habit for one to become addicted to, and sooner or later is certain to prove fatal
 Paragraphers are wasting great deal of space on the newest bathing costume. There's nothing to it.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26

What was all that commotion out there awhile ago." asked the Man. aging Editor.
 "Oh, that was only the staff throw ing Ed Bagley down the elevator shaft. When he read the headlines on the war story, Warsaw Falls he remarked that it didn't make as much noise as Niagara Falls.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
WARRANT OF ARREST IS-
 SUED UPON ACQUISITION

Little Rock, Aug. 26.-A warrant of arrest has been issued upon the re- quisition of Gov. Dunne of Illinois for Alva Henderson, who is held in GUS tody by the Little Rock police. c. H. Draper of Lewiston, H., came to take him back. He is charged with the forgery of check for $56, on d Lewiston bank, May 5, 1915.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
GOVERNOR HAYS
 ISSUES AN APPEAL
Ask that Food, Clothing or Mon- ey be Sent to FlOd Sufferers Detachment of Men From
 Jonesbor0 Company are Sent.

Little Rock, Aug. 26.--The following official appeal was issued by Gov. Hays Wednesday evening:
 Many citizens of our state have been rendered homeless and are now Tn a destitute condition as a result of the disastrous flood along White Rover both above and below the city of New port. Urgent appeals have been sent to me for assistance. In transmit ing this appeal to tLe good citizens of our state, l ask that food, clothing. or money be sent to relieve the suf- fering that now prevails. Anyone desiring to contribute to this worthy cause will please communicate with me and l will place them in touch with the proper relief committee to whom such assistance may be sent for a proper and careful distribution"
 A detachment of ten men from the Jonesboro company of the Arkansas National Guard, under command of Lieut. J. A. Brookins, was directed by the governor to proceed at once to Newport to render such assistance as may be possible.
 Sergt. H. F. Fredman. U. s. A.. stationed here with the National Guard, was dispatched Wednesday ev- enlng at o'clock, to Newport with ninety army tents, field ranges. crude oil, lime, and medical supplies, and about a thousand blankets, prepared to provide shelter for the homeless citizens. Hundreds are camping on hill near town, about the only place above water, but without shelter. The tents will hold eight cots each.
 Gov. Hays also wired the Secretary of War for permission to use the U. $. $. Allen in relief work, and said in his message:
 Water is beyond control. Levee broken in many places. Causeway destroyed and much suffering prevails The condition of the people is perlous and suffering is intense. Unconfrmed reports state loss of life considerable and unless immediate relief can be had great loss of life will result"
 Acting Secretary of War Breckin- ridge wired orders requisitioning the Allen for relief work.
 The city of Little Rock and the Chamber ot Commerce are also active in providing relief and are asking for contributions of money and food.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
BANDITS MAKE $500 HAUL
Pruc (Okla.) Bank Robbed Third Time
 In Year.

Tulsa, Okla, Aug. 25.-For the third time within year the Bank of Prue, 20 miles northwest of here, was robbed today. Two unmasked men armed with rifles compelled the cash fer to give them the money in sight, more than $500.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26

We're shippin' peaches worth million to tn markets East and West, We're raisin' wheat until th' m'llers can't get minutes rest, Our canteloupes an alfalfa crops, sor- plum cane an rice an oats, Far ,reachin' fields O valier corn t fatten our calves an shoats, Our mows a-bustin' full O hay, where tn graspin' mortgaged ie !,-~ Arkansay's acomin', Joys, for sure's you live
 WE'VE
 DONE
 DIVERSIFIED There's many a would-be campaign manager who would find 1t dip.cult to control his own vote.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26

The easiest way to suicide
 If that's the way you lean, Is board boat and try to ride
 Before a German submarine
The Prescott daily news., 1915-08-26
LAUGHS. LYRICS AND LOGIC
 By Clio Harper.

What the Grand Duke Nicholas needs most of all at this time is a Fugitive Slav Law.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-05
COUNCILS TO AVOID NEW LOAN
Finance Committee Will Delay Park
way Payments by Appeals" and
Liberal Interest to Creditors

city Solicitor Ryan's warning that
So'VO'Oo WIN be needed next year TO pay
Tor property taken by the city along the
PARKWAY will have little immediate ef-
iect on municipal finances in view of the
dec sion OF the members OF the Finance
committee of Councils not to place a
loan bill before the voters this fall Pro
vision for a part of this vast sum will
be made among the items that 70 t.
make up the next municipal loan.
IN the meantime the payments can be
delayed by appeals" and in all cases
advantage Will be taken OF willingness 50
TO delay matters displayed by owners
who are satisfied to have the city as Il
creditor at good interest rate. In ad-
dition TO the Parkway, with its great
cost, the ordinance passed last May, ex.
tending the boundaries OF Logan square.
provides for the purchase of SS proper
ties, with an assessed valuation OF S5G7.-
800.
From 1906 to date the entire sum OK
pended on Parkway property has been
N2o2,61 81. The Parkway Commission
has purchased 3l2 properties west Of Lo-
gan square upon the bass of the 1909
assessment, plus 10 per cent There re-
main to be acquired 1888 properties, the
value of which, based on the 1909 assess
mcnt. IS S,2SS,2O0. In all cases where the
city has taken properties the owners. un-
der recent decision of the Supreme
Court, have the right to start proceed
inss TO force the city TO pay.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-05
FISH SURVIVES FIRE
THATDESTROYS HOUSE
Homeless Family Saves Only
Breakfast From Ruins-Ho-
tel Guests Flee Blaze

-Four fires In different sections OF the
city kept hremen busy early today.
The drug store and residence OF Max
Wciugcr, OF 1850 South 18th street, was
destroyed. Wciager. his wife and four
children were sleeping upstairs when the
hte began. The father aided the family
TO escape over shed roof In the rear.
The loss was estimated at 5000.
After the fire weinger went into the
house to see II he could save anything OF
value. In the bathtub he found a three
pound carp, which he had caught yester-
day, still alive In spite OF it's warm bath.
The fish served as breakfast for the home
less family.
Forty persons we're driven TO the street
in their night clothing at o'clock this
morning by a fire in the johnson Hotel.
a four-story brick structure at 18th and
Spring Garden streets. The fire was
caused by piece OF fat falling on the
stove I'm the basement where an all-niEht
restaurant Is located. No one was in
jured.
when the blaze started Policeman
Bough was in the restaurant eating an
early breakfast He turned in an alarm.
H. n. Johnson, owner OF the hotel, and
Peter Schlay. night manager, ran from
room to room waking the guests. The
loss was approximately $4,000, partially
covered by insurance.
A fire I'm the sawmin OF Watson & Rob-
inson, Queen lane and Greene street, Ger
mantown, aroused residents OF that vi
cinity early today. The blaze was ex-
tinguished with trifng loss. It is be-
lieved to have been caused by a spark
from an emery wheel. which smoldered
in. scraps on the second floor during the
night
Thieves set fire to the grocery and
cigar store OF Sigmund Shonholtz 507
South nth street, to cover traces of their
crime. II is believed by the police. Shon-
holtz rescued his wife, Ray, and their
three children from the second story OF
the three-story brick building after a
neighbor had called him. Five tenants
on the third floor fed.
The fire loss is estimated at $500. The
thieves are believed to have entered by
breaking a gate at the rear of the prop
erty. Shonholtz' store burned two
months ago and two years ago another
fire was started by thieves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-05
COLD SORE EPIDEMIC
MYTH, SAY DOCTORS;
IT'S NOT CONTAGIOUS
Nervous Affections Cause Rash
That Frequently Is Mani
fest on the Lips, Authori-
ties Explain
ONE NERVE ATTACKED

Cold Sores are not epidemic in Phila-
delphia; in fact. they couldn't very well
be- but they are frequently enough seen
Just now almost 10 warrant the use OF
that much overworked and abused term,
physicians said today. The most widely
spread phase of this affiction in the city
is called herpes labiahs. the most obyi-
ous symptom of which is a sore on the
lip.
The direct cause OF the appearance Of
herpes liabilis Is some affection of the
nervous system. IL, as may some day
he demonstrated nervousness is con-
tagious, herpes may then be called cpl
demic, but as yet physicians are con-
tent to consider 1t only in its individual
cases.
AS n rule. an attack was said to be due
TO Inflammation limited to a single nerve
In the wall OF the chest, but more than
one are sometimes affected. The inflam-
nation may also he seated in the NTH
ctanial nerve, and manifest itself as
herpes OF the face. Both sexes suffer
from It equally and young persons are
much more frequently affected than old
Cold appears sometimes to be the cause
and herpes rarely shows itself in those
who arc thoroughly robust. but usually
In those recovering from some acute
disease suffering from some weakening
condition like consumption, or some dis
order of tho nervous system. or in those
who have passed recently through much
worry and hard work.
Sometimes II is a sign of pleurisy.
which is not causing sufficient pain to
attract attention. Herpes may also.
though rarely, be symptom of some
grave disease in the spinal cord or spine
The first symptoms are much like those
OF any feverish attack. The person feels
i'll for several days. has a slight rise in
temperature and vague pain in the side
or In various other parts. The pain
finally settles at point in the side and
two or three days after the first symp-
toms. the rash appears. Minute yellow
blebs are seen on the skin of the neck,
of the sides, or OF the front OF the chest,
or simultaneously on all three, the points
corresponding to the space between one
pair of ribs
These Dlebs increase in number and
spread The pain In this stage is severe.
After one or two weeks most of the
vesicles have dried up and formed scabs.
The skin Is generally healed completely
in two or three weeks, but popularity
about the pain is that 1t may not pass off
when the/eruption disappears, but may
remain for weeks or even months
Physicians said that IL the affected
person be in poor health tonics might
be necessary; IL he be of a rheumatic
constitution, salicylate of soda may be
used.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-05
LANDLORD AND TENANT
ACCUSED OF HOMICIDE
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict
Against Them for Errand
Boys Fatal Fall

The owner and tenant of n building at
81 Arch street were accused Of homicide
today and held without bail for court as
a result Of the death of 14-year-old Irwin
Simpson. 55i6 Market street. who was
killed when he fell five stories down an
elevator shaft in the building on Sep
tcmber 20.
Following bitter denunciatlon OF the
prisoners by Coroner knight. the Cnro-
ner's Jury. which heard the case in City
Hall. promptly returned a verdict against
the two men. They are Max Slapkin OF
NewLold, y. j., owner of the building,
and lgnatius Levy, 22O5 North 18th street,
the lessee.
Gross negligence on the part of 10th
men was alleged by the Coroner Slap
kin was accused of failing to take proper
precautions to prevent accidents in con-
nection with the elevator and Levy was
declared to be responsible for the death
because it was ALLEGED he had employed
the Simpson boy without a certificate OF
employment.
A precedent is said to have been estab-
lished in the holding of the owner and
tenant OF a building on so serious a
charge because of a death caused by ac-
Cident. AS such, said Coroner knight.
the case will be an effective test of the
child labor law and of the law regulating
elevators.
Young Simpson was hired by Levy as
an errand boy two days before the
tragedy occurred. Levy swore in court
today that the lad had given his age as
16 years, but Coroner's Detective Paul
testified that Levy had told him and
another witness that the boy had said
he was Il years old. In either case, the
Coroner declared, the employer was cuIp-
able in failing to insist that a certificate
be brought to him. in obedience to the
State law.
Witnesses said that young Simpson was
last seen near the freight elevator shaf,
and that they heard his cry of fear as
he fell. and found his crushed body al
the base of the shaft.
1t was admitted by 10th prisoners that
signs OF warning had not been placed
at the elevator openings. Paul denied a
contention made by City Elevator In
spector Groves that the safety gates
could be opened only with pressure on
a hidden part of the lock. He said the
gates could be pushed open easily.
Slaplxin said that although he employed
an operator for the passenger elevator,
he had never thought IL necessary to hire
an operator for the freight elevator. The
engineer of the building ran the lift, he
said. The engineer testified that he
operated the eleavtor when he had time
and that at other times various employees
were allowed to handle 1t. He instructed
some of them in its use, but not the
errand boy.
This is perhaps the first chance we
have had TO test the two laws which have
been violated" said Coroner Knight after
the testimony was heard. There has
always before been loophole"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-05
GETS SEPARATION DECREE
Former Philadelphian Wins Suit
Against Husband in New York

separation decree has been awarded
. Mrs. Frances Buzby Mccormick, who
had sued her husband, Robert C. McCor-
mick, an Assistant District Attorney in
New York city. Alimony was fixed at
2 week to Justice Blanchard. in New
York. yesterday.
Mrs Mccormick was Miss Frances
bazoy. OF this city. She had testified in
per suit last June that her husband drank
. excess. maltreated her. publicly re-
phked her for smoking cigarettes and
using salve to redden her lips, left her
sanding In the middle of a ballroom
moor, bitterly resented the fact that she
enee defeated him at golf and told her
mat he was so sick and tired of her that
hs would give anything to be rid of her.
mccormick denied the excessive drink
ns and other charges. He said his wife
~'en referred to him as my second
xmonI She had been married and
dNorced before.
MIS- Mccormick Is the daughter of Mr.
sna Mrs. Duncan Lawrence Buzby. Of
ne Clinton Apartments. Ger brother
.1nrenee. is a well-known ciubman. She
married. Henry A. S. Persch. who was
mployed In riding academy, and thew
seht to California. They soon Separated
" november. 1912. she was married To-