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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

This summer will see approximately
100000 worth of road building started
in Mississippi county, Arkansas, ac-
cording to J T. Costen. Appointment at
torney of Osceola. Mr.. Gosten has
been identified with many big drain
age and road improvement projects
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

shoemakng spaghetti
met by the small sidewalk
This leaves lane
bank The banks a
The Italian
supplies Usually she pushes baby the
rrovender The baby
chorus gs luxury AT dusk cooking garlic
the tostaned
street disappear outside
the
air. Then the fireworks
Although the police frked Little thine
not exhausted Maybe the the did
he
the building
stabbmg
After which Little Italy
funeral! 1t only real
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Washington.-Joseph H. Shea q,
Seymour, Ind, was nominated bv
President Wilson as ambassador ~
Chile.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16
Problem of Short Skirts Is Worrying Toledo

oLEpo oToedo policemen startled
ley Kryzsnlak the
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Although cold weather seriously
hurt the plants. the strawberry crop
will be good this year, according to
leading growers at Decatur.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16
Remarkable Catch of the Jacksonville Police

JACKSONVILLE FIAPoice activity which leape
recently sharp
Tested northern tourists MANAGED fleece Jacksonville
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The building and loan associations
seeking reduction of assessments made
against them by the county board OF
the board in the circuit court when
Judge G. W. Hendricks ruled they had
not been barred from getting the re.
auctions in county court by the statute
of limitations.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

If the wife is bad cook. the hus
band = apt to be good roaster.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Mrs Margaret Watts. aged 81, who
lives near Campbell, has spinning
wheel which is 81 years old and which
she has used more than a half cen
fury. Although Mrs. Watts is nearly
blind. she has, during the past two
years, sold s42 worth of thread and
stocks and has furnished socks for her
family.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The Hamburg Budget is compiling
data to be featured in an industrial
edition to be published March %
Five thousand copies will be printed.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

4 team of mules 80 years old own
ed at LaGrue was broken by the death
of one of the animals few days ago
and since that time the other has
shown unmistakable evidence OF grief
over the loss of its mate. He calls for
# constantly in the mule language.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The farmers of the Oil Trough bot
toms, near Newport which were GOV
cred with water, have begun work on
another crop. The Oil Trough Bot.
tom and Big Bottom are the richest
farming regions in this section. and
although the river oyerflows some Of
the lower lands in the early spring
each year, last seasons crop was the
first to be lost from flood Much
wheat has been planted in the low
lands this season and that crop, as
we'll as alfalfa, is reported in good
condition.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16
Editor Saved Him.

81 wrote a poem once
"Was it printed"
mo. the editor to whom I sent It
proved himself true friend"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

H. B. Umstead OF Marion ex-con-
Wet, who was paruoned by Governor
Hays January l, last. was returned
to the penitentiary for term of eight
years by Crittenden county jury.
Umstead was convicted of grand lar
ceny He was charged with stealing
a mule.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The laymen's missionary movement
convention in Little Rock closed with
a meeting at the First Methodist
Church, Eighth and Center streets
Speakers who came here for the con-
vention filed pulpits at various Lit
tie Rock churches.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

wealthy padrones, hurdy-gurdy barons,
bootblack kings and tonsorial counts
have their abode. The only excitement
for the residents is an occasional muir
der, maybe funeral or two day and
perhaps a bomb explosion at night.
Otherwise it is quiet, peaceful spot
to live in.
During the day the streets are
lined with hand barrows the fire es-
capes crowded with children and bed
covering; the stores are small and all
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The Jonesboro district conference,
NJ E. Church. South. adjoWned to
meet In 1917 at Harrisburg. The last
of the visiting delegates has left.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Lon E Wright, 10 years old. son OF
Brice Wright of Grand Union. was
kicked by a horse and fatally injured
last week.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The first organized movement in
Faulkner county toward the eradication
of the cattle tick took place at meet
ing at McNew's chapel. near Conway.
Thirty names We're enrolled as stock
holders in a dipping vat to be erected.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Final arrangements for the con.
struction of the Cotter, Rush and Min
eral Belt railroad were completed at
a meeting of the Board of Directors at
Cotter. A contract for the building of
the road and all bridges, including an
160-foot steel bridge over Crooked
creek, was awarded to the Burke
Brothers Construction Company Of
Fort Smith. The 100000 in bonds IS.
sued by the road have been bought at
par by a Chicago trust company. The
bonds bear six per cent interest.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

While walking along a railroad
track near Corning Will Chandler was
struck and fatally injured by a lump
of coal which fell from a passing
train.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The Hobbs Mining Company, cam
posed of Crawford county men. has
been organized Its first shaft is being
sunk about half way between Hobbs
and Rudy The company has leased
several thousand acres of hill land on
which it intends to prospect for oil.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

P. e. Garrison. who operates sew
eral farms near Warren, and who
makes a speciality of raising pure-bred
Berkshire hogs. has just received an
order for several of his fine pigs from
Park College at Parkyille, Mo.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

None too optimistic outlook of the
fruit situation in the Ozark region for
spring is taken by w. F. D. Batter.
president of the State Horticultural
Society and Northwest Arkansas
Fruit Growers Society. Unfayorable
weather during January and a drop of
25 per cent in the prices being re-
ceived for storage apples put a crimp
in the hopes of fruit growers, but still
they are facing the 1916 season with
determination, according to Mr. Bat.
jer.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

The Baptist church congregation at
Cabot will begin the erection of So
600 brick church where the present
Baptist church stands. A $4,000
'brack schoolhouse, which has been un-
der construction for some time here Is
near completion The newly installed
electric light plant is in prosperous
condition and has recently added sew
eral street lights.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Investigations made by Secretary
w T. King of the Public Service Bu-
reau concerning the so miles of lig
mite coal lands in Ouachita county
warrant him in stating, he says, that
this coal can be used as fuel for fur
naces and factories by means of
specially designed frebox known as
the "combusto." The coal does not
burn readily unless placed in such a
position that the smoke and gas can
be consumed while intensely hot.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16

Earle is to be made one of the pref.
tiest towns in Arkansas by Mayor w.
?. Hicks and the Woman's Civic
League \ week OF cleanup cam
paign will be ordered for the end of
March, Three prizes are to be offered
in contest for the best kept back
yard and premises The railroads
will be asked to establish parks about
the stations and the spirit of improve
ment will be general
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1916-03-16
Life and Death in New York's Little Italy

NEW YoRKone Of the most interesting this the
" Third
cred sixth andd Eighteenh this
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07

An impressive Illustration Of afrec.
ton felt for the faithful "war-time"
Negro BY the whites Of this part Of the
South occurred near Demopolis, in the
heart Of the BLACK belt Of Alabama,
recently, says the Birmingham (Ala.)
Age-Herald, when the body Of Ben
Coleman, an old Negro bodyguard of
members Of the Coleman family, was
tenderly borne to the grave by six
prominent white citizens, all sons of
Confederate veterans, and laid to rest
In the Coleman family cemetery in a
grave piled high with choicest floral
tributes.
More than 100 prominent men
and women attended the burial.
Many Of them wept over the old
Negro's casket, and the highest trib-
utes Of affection were paid the men,
DRY Of the ex-slave.
Ben lived on the Coleman place
before the war between the states.
When the conflict opened he entered
the Confederate service as bodyguard
to Capt. Cruise Coleman. For four
years he was faithful to his master,
and several times served in the ranks.
When Captain Coleman was desperate
~ wounded the Negro slave carried
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
Health Insurance Urged
by Uncle Sam to Prevent
Illness Among Workers.

= twenty-five Of every 1000 employees
in American industries are constantly
incapacitated by sickness.
The average worker loses about nine
days a ye,lr on that account.
Mucn Of this loss Is preventable
waste. The waste can be reduced by
a system of governmental health in
surance.
These are the conclusions reached
by the public health service, after an
investigation Of working conditions In
the United States. This Is what the
service says about health insurance:
ANY system Of health insurance for
the United States or for any state
should have as its inception proven
ton Of sickness as one Of Its funda-
rental purposes.
This country should profit by the
experience Of European countries
where prevention Is being recognized
as the central idea necessary to health
insurance If health insurance is to at.
tain its greatest success In improving
the health and efficiency of the indus
trial population. t--.
= "A governmental system of health
insurance can be adapted to American
conditions and, when adapted. will
prove to be health measure Of ex-
traordinary value"
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
TURTLES AS TONNES PETS
British Soldiers on the Ti0ris Amuse
Themselves With Captured
Tortoises.

London.-During lulls in the fight.
ing on the Tigris British soldiers of
duty found it very hard to amuse
themselves. according TO Edmund
Gambler. the British press representa-
tive In Mesopotamia.
At one time when the British force
Intrenched near Ell Hannah. because
the Turkish position was too strong to
be taken by direct frontal attack, the
soldiers found themselves on q narrow
strip of ground with the Tigris on one
side and q salt marsh on the other.
The soldiers enjoyed bathing in the
salt marshes, and a favorite sport was
catching tort0ises. A Tommy Atkins
would tie string around the leg Of his
pet and put him up on the parapet of
the trenches to Craze while he fought
the enemy.
The pet of one Of the soldiers, a
Scotsman, found too little food on the
parapet, and died. The body Of the
victim was gravely buried by the SOL
diers with an identification disk about
its neck.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07

can get anyone to marry them" Her
teacher laughed her out of her seri
BUSINESS. Yes they should" she In
sisted. ITS essential for the race
and evolution in the world"
One of the glories which Miss Kel.
Ter delights in is the glory of her
family. 4 great-great-grandfat of
hers was one Of the first colonial gov.
ernors Of Virginia-one Of the Spots.
woods. and this is a cherished name.
She is a cousin of the southern hero,
Robert E. Lee. and counts the Adam
ses and the Everetts on her ances-
trail tree.
Her mother. Mrs. Katherine Adams
Keller. Is with her, busily darning
stockings and mending shirtwaists.
A sister, Mrs. Mildred Keller Tyson,
lives in Montgomery, Ala, her native
state, and a brother, Phillips Brooks
Keller. is an engineer. Miss Keller
was a student and admirer OF Phillips
Brooks when she was nine years old
and she insisted upon giving her
brother that name, her mother said.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
MACAINEPl
Handles From 10000 to $1,000
Seedlings in a Day.
New Invention 10 Being Used Under
Direction Of Officials Of the United
States Forest Service.

A machine which plants 10000 TO
$1,000 forest tree seedlings q day Is
now being used at the Letchworth park
forest and Arboretum, in Wyoming
county, New York, according to OIL
Gals of the forest service who are act
ing as advisers in the work. Previous
~ the planting has been done by hand
at the rate of 1000 to 1900 trees each
day per man. Il.
The machine was designed to set out
cabbage and tomato plants, but works
equally we'll with trees. 1t Is about
the size of an ordinary moving ma
chine and is operated by three men
and two horses. One man drives the
team while the other two handle the
seedlings. The machine makes furrow
in which the trees are set at any de-
sired distance. and an automatic device
indicates where they should be
dropped. Two metal-tired wheels push
and roll the dirt firmly down around
the roots. This is a very desirable
feature, it is said, because the trees are
sure to die if this Is not we'll done. Two
attachments make it possible to place
water and fertilizer at the roots OF
each Seeding. Another attachment
marks the line on which the next row
Of trees is to be planted.
No cost figures are available yet, but
officials say that the cost will he much
less than when the planting Is done
by hand. 1t is stated that the machine
can he used on any land which has
been cleared and 1t not too rough to
plow and harrow.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
MUsSEL SHELLS IN DEMAND
High Waters Which Cut Down Normal
Supply Has Caused Scarcity, Says
Bureau Of Fisheries.

There Is strong demand for mus
sci shells, according to a report from
the bureau of fisheries. The domestic
demand had fallen off previous to the
war and the suspension of exports
caused a serious decline in prices.
But the high water that has prevented
taking as many as usual has brought
about scarcity, and there is now a
strong demand, some shells bringing
as much as $50 a ton.
There was at one time a considera-
BILE industry in some parts Of New
England gathering shells, but that
was more for the prospect Of finding
pearls than for selling the shells, and
the search was carried on with such
intensity that the clam beds were
practically destroyed and only in &C.
casional isolated instances can such
beds be found in the New England
states. The small, thin-shelled clam
that inhabits the small ponds persists
in abundance, but the pearl bearer has
disappeared.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
TRACES "sAFETY FIRST" MOVE
Arthur Hunter Says 1t Followed
Workinamen's Compensation
Legislation.

Montrlair. y. J.-Arthur Hunter,
president of the Actuarial Society Of
America, told the Montclair Heights
Community club that the safety first"
movement was sequel to the adOp-
ton of workingmens compensation
laws.
He suid there used to be a saying
that in the erection of large buildings
it took "one life for every story" He
pointed out that under the compensa-
ton act the Woolworth building In
New York was erected without a fatal
ity.
Unemployment insurance, Mr.. Hunt
er held. should be distributed to men
justly ont of work. but only enough
should be paid to keep the wolf from
the door" in order to prevent people
from lodging employment.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
GAIN IN ALASKA FISHERIES
Salmon Output in 1915 Is Increase Of
443,640 Cases Over Previous
Years Output. -

Fishing returns received from Alas.
ka by the United States bureau of
fisheries show that in 1915 the indus.
try made substantial gains over the
record for 1914. A summary of these
fisheries In 1914 showed total value
of products of S21,242,975, employ
ment given to 21,20O persons, and a
total investment Of $37O3S,632. The
chief feature Of the industry was the
canning of salmon. The equivalent
Of 4,O56,653 cases, valued at $780,
$50, was packed. = 4
Returns for 1916 have now been
compiled, and 1t is seen therefrom
that the pack Of canned salmon In
1915 amounted to 4,50O, 293 cases, val
ued at $1S,65315. This is an In.
crease of 443,640 cases over the pack
of 1914, and is the largest in the his-
tory of Alaska. MI
The halibut, cod and whale fisheries
all showed a considerable increase
in the season Of 1915. %@
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
TREES OLDER THAN PYRAMIDS
Age Of Some Of the Giants in caIifor.
mia Estimated at More Than
5000 Years.

San Francisco.-Oneo of the wonders
Of the ancient world, and probably
the greatest of them, is the pyra-
mids Of Egypt. And yet some Of the
giant sequoias of California that are
now thrifty trees had bark on them
a foot thick when Cheops began build
ing the great pyramid that bears his
name.
Beneath the. shadow of the pyra-
mids Napoleon said to his troops !:
"Forty centuries look down upon you"
There are trees in the grove estimated
by scientists, among them John Muir,
the eminent naturalist, to be eight
thousand and even ten thousand years
old.
The oldest living :.ings in the world
are these giant trees.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
BOY ALONE SAW SEA FIGHT
No One Else in Fleet Witnessed
Whole Dooger Bank Naval
Battle.

London.--In a recent visit by Eng
lish newspaper correspondents to the
grand fleet the most interesting point
elected was the extraordinary sudden
ness of modern sen fighting. There
were instances of fight beginning be-
fore the ventilators were closed down
and the strangest Of all, story of the
battle Of the Dogger bank, where a
boy was sent out to clean something on
one of the turrets and he was forgotten
in the hurry and the turret closed.
The boy lay fiat on the top through
the fight, and he is one Of the few per-
sons, officers and men, in the whole af-
fair who actually saw the battle, and
the only one who could give his whole
attention to the sight, as he had moth
ing else to do. That boy will have
great story to tell when he Is an old
man.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
Uncle Sans Fighters Like
"Heavy" Reading.

That the United States ma
rine is serious in his reading
and does not care for the froth
Of modern fiction, is the report
Of barracks Librarians for the
year Of 1915. Soundings taken
of his literary tastes show deep
stuff" and no bottom, for, Gut.
cots History of Civilization"
found greater favor with ma
rines than any other book in the
various libraries Of the marine
corps.
Although thousands Of vol.
umes Of featherweight best
sellers teetered on the library
shelves, the sea soldiers showed
preference for works of purely
historical or educational value
and Shakespeare outdrew Mar.
ryat, while Fennimore Cooper
ran q bad second to Oliver
Goldsmith. the librarians say.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
WON'T LEAVE FOSTER MOTHER
Quail Refuses to Part With Hen,
by Which She Was
Raised.

Alton, Kan.-Last summer one Of
w. D. Lemley's old hens stole her nest
out on the creek. Evidently she chose
n quails nest, for when her brood came
off there was a young quail In the lot.
The old biddy mothered the stranger
with a mothers care. and though it
often vexed and astonished it's mates
by flying away like the wind, all went
well with the happy family. To this
day the quail prefers to stay among
the chickens, roosts in the barn In bad
weather, and is as tame rs the ordl-
nary pigeon.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-07
TALKS ON Love
and MATRIM0Ny
Miss Helen Keller, Blind and
Dumb, Says All Women
Should Marry.
PICTURES Her IDEAL OF Man
Must Be Handsome, Of Course, but
Doesn't Have to Be Rich or Pos.
10y sess a College Education
Glories in Her Family.

Chicago.-Love Is topic that Miss
Helen Keller avoids in interviews
Yet this sightless and dumb prodigy
who has overcome her human handi
caps-almost-has some unique cpin
ions on this absorbing theme, writes
Harriet Ferrill in the Chicago Trib
une.
She pounded them out on her fin.
gers and the facs of her teacher, Mrs.
]. A. Macy, who has been with her
for Twenty-Five years.
An eager face, lips that are ready
to laugh. and a flashing. alert mind
helped along the Interpretation of her
love sentiments.
II am not telling my love affairs,
she spelled into the palm Of her teach
er's hand. They are not for publ.
cation" although she admitted many
proposals as ''star"-and possibly
one heart affair. There is said to be
certain young man who is attentive
at this time.
vii! Be q Master Man.
The master of the house in ideal
conditions such as are sensed by Miss
Keller in new day is not of the COM
mon species. He will be a master
man, willing to permit his wife to be
the disposer Of the household supplies
and the real boss"
Every household should be ruled
by a bt-cameral governments con-
gress and senate-such as the Unit
ed States gave the Porto Ricans," she
said. THE woman should, of course,
be the house of representatives of the
family. In this government there
will be NO filibustering. I hope. nor
lobbying. -. ..
Thus. the man would propose all
vital measures and the woman would
dispose them. She would control the
disposal Of supplies principally, az
women did among some of the prim-
tive tribes"
This ideal state OF matrimony, how.
ever. Miss Keller does not expect I'm.
til woman Is economically free. So
long as man is the money bags" this
future marriage system will be miss.
ing.
A happy interest flashed in her
sightless eyes when she was request
ed to describe her ideal man.
,"Of course. he will be handsome for
eugenic reasons" she said with .
smile. He doesn't have to be rich.
I am paying my own passage through
the world and am proud Of it.
And the ideal man doesn't have to
be possessed Of college education.
He must be one who thinks straight.
Many men have obtained an educa-
ton by their own efforts, for example,
Mark Twain, one of my ideal men.
For he was broad humanely, tender,
yet strong. and full of humor.
Every marriage should have love
and both man and woman should new.
or lose sight Of the happiness of their
children. The state should pay for
the upkeep of each child; for there is
no greater service to the state than
q woman's gift Of child-a greater
service than the building of war
ship. Besides. warships are no good
without men. Woman furnishes the
absolutely necessary supply-men.
Her services are fundamental in war
time or out of war.
All women should marry II they