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The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21

Public opinion, skillfully formed up on models fashioned in Mayor Cort. wrights municipal laboratory, dealt handsomely with the little group of widely-heralded visitors-the Icon gressional committee" When it was whispered about, some days before the suspicious arrival, that the visiting lawmakers wished for no public dem onstration of welcome, it was resolved, both in the city council and in the Commercial club, that the wish should be rigidly respected.
 Hence, after the farewell banquet at the Commercial club, at which even the toasts had ignored the official mis- sion of Mayor Cortwrights guests, tin gling curiosity still restrained itself, said nothing and did nothing until the train had stormed out on the begin ming of it's steep climb to War Arrow pass. Then the barriers went down In less than half an hour after the depar- ture of the visitors, the Spotlight of fee was besieged by eager tip hunters, and the Metropole cafe and lobby were thronged and buzzing like the compart- ments of an anxious beehive. Harlan stood the pressure at the newspaper office as long as he could. Then he slipped out the back way. There was light in Brouillard's 8 office on the sixth floor of the Niquoia build ing, and thither he went, hoping against hope, for latterly the chief of the reclamation service had been more than usually reticent.
 What do you know, Brouillard?" was the form his demand took.
 "Go to Cartwright" suggested the engineer. He's your man."
 Just come from him, and couldn't get thing there except his admission that he is buying instead of selling"
 Well, what more do you want ? Haven't you any imagination" ?"
 Plenty of it, and, by Cad, I'm going to use it unless you put it to sleep! Tell me few correlative things. Brouillard, and I'll make noise like going away. Is it true that you've had orders from Washington within the past few days to cut your force on the dam one-half?"
 The engineer was playing with the paperknife, absently marking little cir cles and ellipses on his desk blotter. and the ash on his cigar grew full quarter of an inch before he replied:
 Mot for publication, Harlan. I'm sorry to say"
 "But you have the order?"
 "Yes."
 Good. Then I'll ask only one more question, and if you answer it at all l know you'll tell me the truth Are you, individually, buying or selling on the real estate exchange?"
 Brouillard did take time, plenty of it. Harlan was a student of men, but his present excitement was against him. Otherwise he would have interpreted differently the sudden hardening of the jaw muscles when Brouillard spoke.
 "Tm buying, Harlan; when l sell 1t is only to buy again"
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21

The newspaper man rose and held out his hand.
 You're man and brother, Brouil- lard. and I'm your friend for life. I'm going to stay until you give me the high sign to crawl out on the bank. Is that asking too much?"
 No If the time ever comes when have anything to say, I'll say it to you. But don't lose sight of the if and don't lean too hard on me. I'm a mighty uncertain quantity these days, Harlan, and that's the truest thing I've told you since you butted in. Good night'
 Mirapolis awoke to full sense of it's opportunities on the morning fol- lowing the departure of it's distin- guished guests. By ten o'clock it was the talk of the Hobbies, the club, and the exchanges that the reclamation service was already abandoning the work on the great dam. One-half of the wOrkmen were to be discharged at once, and doubtless the other half
 
 could come from Washington.
 Appealed to by mob of anxious in- quirers, Brouillard did not deny the fact of the discharges, and thereupon the city went mad in a furor of specu- lative excitement in comparison with which the orgy of the gold discov- erers paled into insignificance Curb" exchanges sprang into being in the Metropole lobby, in the court of the Niquoia building, and at dozen street corners on the avenue. Word went to the placers, and by noon the miners had left their sluice-boxes and were pouring into town to buy options at prices that would have staggered the widest plunger otherwhere, or at any other time
 Brouillard closed his desk at one o'clock and went to fight his way through the street pandemonium to Bongras' At table in the rear room he found David Massingale, his long, white beard tucked into the closely buttoned miners coat to be out of the way of the flying knife and fork, while he gave lifelike imitation of man begrudging every second of time wasted in stopping the hunger gap. Brouillard took the opposite chair and was grimly amused at the length of time that elapsed before Massingale realized his presence.
 Pity a man has to stop to eat on a day like this, isn't it, MT Massingale?" he laughed; and then: How is Steve?"
 Massingale nodded. "The boys comin' along all right now. They're sayin' on the street that you're lettin' out half O your men-that so?" Brouillard laughed again. Yes, it's true. Have you been doing something in real estate this morning, MT. Mas singale?"
 All could" mumbled the old man between mouthfuls. But I cayn't do much. If it ain't one thing, it's an- other. Bout as soon as I got that tangle with the Red Butte shelter strengthened out, the railroad hit me. ?
 "How was that?" queried Brouillard, with quickening interest coming alive at bound.
 Same old song, no cars; try and get 'em tomorruh, and tomorruh it'll be next day, and next day it'll be the day after. Looks like they don't want to haul any freight out O here" T see," said Brouillard, and truly he saw much more than David Mas
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
LITTLE ROCK BOARD OF COM. MERGE ENDORSES ARKANSAS
 ON WHEELS" TOUR.
COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED
Tour as Planned Would Extend From Little Rock to Washington, D. C., Via Southern Route, Returning
 Through Ohio and Illinois.
Little Rock


 T. E. Wood. chairman of the Arkan- sas Railroad Commission, and resi- dent of Marianna has announced that he will be behind the project to ad- vertise the products and resources of Arkansas by running again this fall another Arkansas on Wheels" tram.
 According to MT Wood, the train will be composed of twelve car all steel equipment, consisting of four ex' hibit cars, commissary car, dintiS car and six Pulfmans for the accom- modation of one hundred representa- tive, progressive citizens of the state and one of the best bands in the state It will be the finest exhibition train of the kind ever operated through the states. Associated with Mir Wood, will be MT. w. B. Folsom of Brinkley, who ran train of this kind in 1910, 1911 and 1912 and from which Arkansas received magnificent results both from an immigration and financial standpoint
 The project has been endorsed by the Board of Governors of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and other commercial associations ana leading business men throughout the state.
 The trip as contemplated will cover a distance between two thousand five hundred and three thousand miles. and while the exact route has not yet been determined, it is more than like ly Southern Lines will be traversed on the going trip and Northern Lines on the return, making many stops in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The first step after leaving Little Rock will be made in Memphis and among other princi- pal cities of the Union that will be included in the itinerary will be Bir- mingham, Atlanta, Raleigh, Richmond, Washington, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cin- cinnati, Indianapolis, Vincennes, Ter re Haute, Cairo.
 It is proposed to have every coun. ty in the state represented on this trip in person and by exhibit, if pos sible, and to make of it not only a national, but an international exposi- tion. At Washington City, the train will be parked for two days, and it Is the intention of the promoters, ac- cording to Mir. Wood, to have the farm immigration agents of the carriers and the representatives of the foreign societies located in New York, phila- delphia and other seaboard cities to visit the train for the purpose of viewing the exhibits and meeting the citizens of the state. In this manner, 1t is anticipated that Arkansas will be placed prominently before those who will have in charge the tide of immigration that is sure to flow to the States as soon as the war subsidies in Europe.
 This will be the biggest statewide advertising ever attempted, and has for it's primary justification and cause the locating of more capital in Ar kansas and securing of more into-si- gence on the farms thus securing to all classes of business, isdustrial and commercial enterprises the beneficent results that will necessarily follow.
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
Alaskan Gold Mines.

The firEt gold mining in Alaska was in the Juneau gold belt. More than $6O,OO0,00 worth of gold has been produced from this region. Most of this gold has been taken from the mines near Juneau.
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
Fortunate Accident.

"That there least boy of mine, Bear cat, takes after his maw's mother" stated MT. Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. Its lucky thing that he wasn't born two-headed boy, or he'd shore battle himself to death. Kan sas City Star.
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
Remarkable Echo.

There is an extraordinary echo in the cathedral at Pisa. If you sing two notes there is no reverberation, but if you sing three they are taken up, swelled and prolonged into beautiful harmony
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
First and Second Wixes.

The second wife is usually happier than the first because by that time a man has got all his bachelor the ories about "how to rule woman and "how to make over a wife" out of his system Exchange,
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
"Just TickIed."

The ktchison Globe youches for the small boy, who, returning from first dental experience, was asked. "Did It hurt?" and replied, No, he just tickled my teeth with his lI.tle auto"
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
sawed-of Sermon.

The average girl is more courage ous than a pugilist. She is usually ready to make match with mas twice her size.
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21

The most humiliating experience that can befall man is that of being tilted in love. The possibility that a woman would not care to marry him never occurs to . man.
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21

There comes time in the life of every young man who ia smothering his soul to gratify his senses and selling his char acter for money, when opportu- nifty is given him to turn about face, to rediscover his ideals and get back to common hon. esty. Has BrouiIEard reached this point?
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21

Will Old Dave MassingaIe go himself to Amy and tell her : what Victor has done to get the MassingaIe mine out of Cort- wright's clutches?
The Pulaskian., 1916-04-21
JoltIno His complaccncy.

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 (TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
e. a. Robinson.

very like our forbears as to just the
defects the New Republic here pun
gently outlines. If we thought more
of Lincoln's extraordinary disinterest-
edness, of his heroic patience, of his
deeply brooding spirit, and less of
those qualities with which we estab-
lish all too readily a rough resem-
blance to our daily selves. we might
get a wholesome and much-needed re-
action from our rafting. self-satisfied
and shallow life without losing our
sense of his reality as human being
having human weaknesses. Especially
keen is the thrust delivered at our
tendency to "the cheap performance
and the easy victory" and its contrast
with Lincoln's tempting reason and
spirit for a great performance and
costly victory"
No great victory was ever pur-
chased cheaply. 1t has always been
paid for in long and costly, though
national optimism. our impatience and
superficiality obscure that truth.
Az Typical American.
But, after all, in the legend we are
making of Lincoln as typical Ameri-
can there is an instinct and a truth
that are not superficial. All legend
making is a profound process of ma
tional self-realization, an intuitive in
carnation of national ideals, and in the
case of Lincoln 1t is based upon the
sincere, the religious democracy of
this great man. The high distinction
of mind. as shown, for example, in the
prose of the Gettysburg grafton, the
moral nobility. the introspective aloof-
ness which were an essential part of
him, only accentuate for us the warm
nearness of his nature to the common
man and the common life. Lincoln
himself held to the mystical concep-
tion of democracy which Whitman ex-
pressed in his poetry and which is the
dream in the heart of Americanism.
The essential brotherhood of man
was an intimate and glowing reality to
Lincoln, not lofty abstraction, and
though we betray it and misread 1t we
must cling to it II we are to save the
national soul.
Idealizing ourselves through Lincoln
is more than self-flattery. 1t is a crude
but not ignoble effort to express the
deepest and most pervasive element of
American idealism.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
At Sea in an open Boat.

business. The wind became stronger as
they got well started on their journey
home and the waves rose correspond
ingly and soon they were unable to
control the vinta in which they had
embarked and were forced to ride
with the storm, which lasted for sew
eral days.
They had a small store of eatables
and some drinking water, but the for
mer was soon exhausted and the water
supply also dwindled. Two of the
men were unable to Withstand the tor
lures of lack of sustenance and died a
few days after the storm abated. They
were thrown overheard and the re-
naming four, almost crazed. endeav.
ored to make land. They drifted and
sailed for many days and at last, when
hope had almost fed, sighted the town
of Basilan. When they arrived they
were so weak that they had to be as
sisted out of the vinta and 1t was some
time before they could give connect
ed account of themselves or of their
trip.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
FRUIT LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
"CaIifornia Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup Of
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love it's pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated. give a
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in few hours all the
foul, constipated waste. sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els, and you have well. playful child
again When its little system is full
Sf cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
csarrhoea, Indigestion, colic-remem-
ber. good inside cleaning should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for so
cent bottle of "Califsrnia Syrup of
Figs" which has directions for babies.
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
LINCOLN

Out of the shadows we see him rise
Face that is haunting and sorrowful eyes.
Scared by his burden and bowed meath
its weight:
Slave TO a mission and shackled by fate.
Poor was the soil where his schooling be-
gan.
Rugged the boyhood that nodded the
Prone with his book by the nIckering
blaze,
What saw he there in the hearth's ruddy
blaze?
Slowly he rose while tho Fates gave no
sign,
Fitting himself for that labor divine.
Deep In the shadows we see him again
Savior and martyr and brother ofsmen!
w. r. Rose in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT.
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Make Il Thick, Glossy, Wavy, Luxur-
liant and Remove Dandruff-ReaI
Surprise for You.

Your hair becomes light, wavy. fuf.
fy. abundant and appears as soft, lus-
trous and beautiful as a young girls
after "Danderine hair cleanse" Just
try this-moisten a cloth with little
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair. taking one small
strand at time. This will cleanse
the hair OF dust. dirt and excessive oil
and in just few moments you have
doubled the beauty of your hair.
Besides beautifying the hair at once.
Danderine dissolves every particle of
dandruff; cleanses. purifes and invig-
crates the scalp, forever stopping itch
ing and falling hair.
But what will please you most will
be after few weeks use when you
will actually see new hair-flne and
downy at first-yes-but really new
hair-growing all over the scalp. II
you care for pretty, soft hair and lots
of 1t, surely get 25 cent bottle of
Knowlton's Danderine from any store
and just try 1t. Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11

delicate and ;nsidious, and 1t is well
for us to examine it coolly. The New
Republic puts 1t sharply away. In
point of fact Mr.. Lincoln was super
ficially man of the people. and funda-
mentally unique, distinguished and
wholly exceptional Individual. In GER
tain salient respects he was the least
typical of Americans. Americans, par
ticularly those of Lincoln's own gener-
alton and neighborhood, were essen
TALLY active, aggressive and objective
men, whose lives were given over to
practical external affairs, who sub
ordinated everything else to the de-
mands of practical achievement, and
whose individuality consisted in living
ordinary lives in an extraordinarily
energetic manner. They were super
fetal, discursive, easy-going, quarrel
some, and wholly incapable of prepar-
ing in advance for any task or respon-
sibility. In all these respects Lincoln
differed from his fellow countrymen,
and upon these differences his emf
nence depends. He was not particu-
larly ambitious. aggressive or practi-
cal. In spite of his lively social feel
ings. he lived a contemplative life, in
which the intellectual interest OBJ
tanned full expression and which at
tanned a high degree of internal con-
centration. He fought hard and well,
but he never quarreled. During his
formative years he quietly but unos-
tentatiously prepared himself for great
enterprises. He trained his mind be-
cause he enjoyed hard intellectual ex-
ertion. His style shaped itself under
the influence of the Bible and Shake
speare. Thus at period and in a
! country favorable to the cheap per-
formance and the easy victory, Mr.
Lincoln tempered his reason and his
spirit for a great performance and a
costly victory. Was there anything
typically American about that?'
Ideas Worth Consideration.
This is refreshing variation from
the canned eloquence" of the Lincoln
day utterance, and it will repay con-
sideration and emphasis, since we are
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
"YELLoW. DOG" is NOT LIBEL
Oklahoma Judge Says In Newspaper
Case That Term Might Be One
of Endearment.

Muskogee, Okla.-It is not libelous
to refer to man in newspaper ar
ticle as "a yellow dog" according to
the decision of District Judge r. P.
de Graffenried here. Charles Robert
son filed a suit for $4,000 damages
against local newspaper for an al
legged libelous story printed about him.
The attorneys in the case finally sim
mered its merits down to the question
of whether referring to a man as "a
yellow dog" was libel. The court.
after two weeks, announced the de-
cision that to call man yellow
dog" might be SO applied as to mean
term of endearment instead of a
libel.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
LINCOLN, MAN
OF THE PEOPLE
Many Reasons Why He Has Just
!y Been Given the Title of
Typical American.
Firm Believer Always in the concep-
tion of Democracy Which Is tho
Foundation Of Our Nation-His
Many High Qualities Worthy
OF Emulation.

"O save Abraham Lincoln from
deathly apotheosis of the steel
engraving has been a laudable
effort of recent years. OF course
It will not prevent the process of leg
end making which works upon the
earthly reality of every great man, and
in due time leaves MIN a desiccated
abstraction existing for the heavy
boredom of childhood. Even Lincoln.
with his vital, homely outlines, his
intimate. endearing faults. and strong
flavor Of his day, must come to this
turn. But the process may be retard-
cd and ought to be as long as we can
contrive.
One hundred and seven years ago
Lincoln was born. Fifty-one years ago
he was shot by John Wilkes Booth,
and on the next day he died. the first
"martyred president" A great wave
of passionate sorrow. gratitude and af-
fection swept the North. The process
of apotheosis began. Today it may be
observed in the sanctified generalities
OF Lincoln orations, editorials, poems
and articles.
Moved by FIattery.
The central idea OF the overwhelm-
ing majority of these tributes is Lin
coin. the man of the people, the typi-
cal American. Year after year on
February IL and frequently through
out the year we hear this confident
summary and without examining 1t. Is
this mental inertia or are we uncon-
sciously moved by the fiattery implicit
In this idea? An editorial in the New
Republic suggests the latter. The real
purpose of Linco!n-day speakers is not
80 much to eulogize Lincoln. this jour
nal declares. as to fiatter the audience.
'Tf Mr., Lincoln was SO entirely a man
of the people. the people must be very
like to Lincoln"
New View Of Great President.
The reproach has more of justice
than we like to think. The orator is
the courtier of democracy fiattering
the sovereign citizen as grossly as
ever an emperor was fl.ttered. The
nattery OF indirect praise is unusually
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
DENIED KISS; PULLS A GUN
Georgia Tragedy Follows Engaged
Couples Quarrel on Way Homo
From Dance.

Molena, Ga.-Refused a farewell
kiss by Miss Ida Heaton after she had
told him she intended to postpone their
wedding. which had been announced
recently, Levi Stribbling shot at the
girl, but missed. The girl ran into her
hoEe and Stribbling followed. He was
met by the girls father, who shot
and killed him as he was again trying
to shoot at Miss Heaton.
Stribbling and the girl had been to
dance and quarreled on the way
home. Stribbling obtained revolver
and, returning to the Heaton home,
called the girl to the door and asked
for a farewell kiss. She refused and
the tragedy followed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
QUIT MEAT IF KIDNEYS
BOTHER AND USE SALTS
Take Glass of Salts Before Break
fast If Your Back Is Hurting or
Bladder ls Irritated.

II you must have your meat every
salts occasionally, says noted author
ity who tells US that meat forms uric
acid which almost paralyzes the kid
neys in their efforts to expel it from
the blood. They become sluggish and
weaken, then you suffer with dull
misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness. your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids,
to cleanse the kidneys and flush off
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces Of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acids of grapes and lemon
juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys. also to
neutralize the acids in urine. 30 it no
longer irritates. thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, and makes a delightful efferves-
cent Whitewater drink.-Adv.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-11
LIncoIn,s Place In History

Abraham Lincoln was one OF the su-
premely great men of his day. He
grows bigger and bigger all the time.
and a thousand years from now his
fame will be immensely yaster than
1t is at the preesnt time. No man in
all the tide Of time ever filled a more
difficult or trying place than he helt
for four years. and the verdict of his
tory is that he measured squarely up
to his tremendous responsibilities. II
is doubtful II any other man in the
country could have saved the day.