The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-08-13

tablished through a system of taxa
ton on the present generation? The
answer is simple Let all pay their
share through system of taxation
that gradually eliminates the debt.
The same might be said of our
state. Several years ago the state
undertook to build a state house, a
state normal, a hospital for tuber-
culosis, four agricultural schools
and new hospital for nervous dis
eases, at Fort Smith. All were
established with the exception of
the hospital at Fort Smith, which
had to be abandoned on account of
a very naturally depleted treasury.
All these improvements were foist-
ed upon the poor people of Arkan-
sas, the present generation, to pay
for and they paid it and all this will
go down to the future generation
as monuments of the generosity of
the people of the present time. To
our way of thinking, these vast
improvements, if they had to be
made, instead of being saddled up
on an unwilling people, should
have been made through the instru-
mentality of bonds above spoken
of. The old cry that Arkansas was
overlooked during her reconstruct
ton days with a flood of bonds will
not hold good. Properly safeguard
+ ed, Arkansas can profit by her past
experiences and take up her rank
among the growing and prosperous.
1t means good advertisement, it
means fairness, it means prosperity,
and that is what people like.
Most of the exposition buildings,
istatues, sculpture, etc, are put up
with cheap substitutes that can be
easily torn down. Viewed at dis
lance this cannot be detected and
they present a view of reality and
panoramic beauty. The palace of
fine arts, of machinery, of agricul
ture, etc., are perhaps the finest
collections of their kind ever
known. We saw one gold nugget
valued at $4,000, weighing 50
lbs; one valued at $4,000; saw the
first Mccormick wheat reaper with
wooden bottom and a hand rake
to rake off the wheat to be bound
by hand; saw the first adding ma
chine Ca wooden device); saw five
sides of leather that were split
from one hide; saw the process of
making and manufacturing clothes,
of extracting gold from solid rocks
and many useful things; saw the
bust bronze statues of Christopher
Columbus, Michael Angelo and 9TH
ers in the Italian hall. 1t would
probably take strong walker to
see the whole fair in a week or
ten days and then he would only
glance over the vast spreads. Cali
fornia outstripped all the states in
the matter of exhibits and her dis
play was mostly in her state build
ing-exhibits, vast and in profu-
sion.
Outside of the fair, a visit to
Chinatown, a section of the city in
habited exclusively by Chinese, is
of interest to the travelling public.
They have their stores, groceries,
etc, and for the amusement of the
Greene county people the following
list of firm names is given:
Sing Fat Co., Sing Chong Co.,
WI Sang Long Co., Chew Jan Co.,
Marking Fook Wah Co., Hal Ping
Long Co., Quong Hong Hair Co.,
Pc Sang Tong We Tee Co., Chung
Wah Min Lock Kung Bo Co., Hop
Wah Lung Sing Kee Co.
At the printing office of a Chi
nese establishment the editor was
very courteous and took pains to
show the plant out anuodt. taoin
show the plant out and out. The
printing press was similar to the
revolving Hoe cytaoinshrdlutaoinlu
revolving American Hoe cylinder
press. The type cases are about Z
by 25 feet and are almost in
position, inclined just
a little backward, and two or more
typesetters can work on a case at a
time, going around one another as
they walk from end to end Of the
case. Evidently the Chinese are
not averse to being classed as cur
iosities and are amused themselves
at the curiosity of visitors exhibit
ed around them. In one grocery
store perhaps we carried our curl
osity too far when we approached
one, apparently the manager, who
was holding long pipe fully two
feet long and imbibing freely en-
the Chinese's much-loved pastine,