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The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
Arkansas Rice Belt.

An extensive area in Arkansas lying north of Arkansas river, east of the Ozark hills and west of Crowleys Ridge, has in the last twelve years undergone an im- portant tranformation through the introduction of the growing of rice, irrigated with water pumped from wells.
 Prior to 1904 the principal oc- eupation of the rather thinly scattered population was lumber ing and stock raising, the soil and subsoil being poorly drained and in general imperfectly adapted to the cultivation of the common Ameri- can crops. In that year an enter prising citizen of Lonoke county, who had seen rice growing on sim liar soils in Louisiana, conducted successful experiments with this cereal in his home county and started an industry which in ten years has grown so that it covers an area of over 100000 acres and yields a crop of 5.zOO.OoO bushels annually. As only a small per centage of the land adapted to rce growing has been put under culti- vation. the industry may be said to be still in it's infancy.
 The area is nearly level, most ly timber covered lowland but con tains a considerable proportion of open grassy prairies forming irreg- ular patches of large and small size in the interstrean areas.
 By combination of natural processes operating on vast scale there was thus produced set ot conditions almost ideal for the culture of the worlds staple foods. By pumping the water from it's comparatively shallow un- derground storehouse and spread ing it upon a soi! previously regard ed as of little agricultural value, nourishment is provided for great numbers of the earth's inhabitants.
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
The Boil Meevi!.

See him first. If you don't you are certain to see him later, ac- cording to c. G. Becker, entomolo- gist at the U. of A. experiment station. One pair of boil weevil now will by August IS be the pro geniters of an army of weevils sui fieient to destroy all square, formed on a z5 acre field. This loss can be largely avoided by f1nd- ing the first spot in the field that shows Weeyil infestation and stop ping it before it has spread widely It is much easier to catch few ir the beginning than to catch mill ions later Watch for the very first appearance of the weevl (tne f1ared squares tell the story) anc then pick up and destroy the fiared Squares. It won't take much time If begun with the first appearance, but if delayed until the WeeVils are humorous the loss will be great and the expense will be heavier. Get the first weeVils and save thous- ands of bolls.
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
Use Arkansas Goods.

Why not put our patriotism to a plain, practical test and always ask for Arkansas goods. Two tbous- and girls will soon begin to can to- matoes. Thousands of farmers wives will soon begin to can va rious vegetables for their use and will have some to sell. There are several excellent canning factores in Arkansas. Let Arkansas cities buy Arkansas canned gooGs. Then let us all buy goods in Arkansas, furniture, wagons, and everything made in Arkansas in preference to things made elsewhere. In many towns there are small shops that make useful articles that are not bought readily by the townspeople and farmers. A man in Arkansas a few weeks ago went to a store to buy a garden fork handle and was sold a handle made in h. diana when there was factory in that very town making handles just as good and probably the handle he had to buy was made of Arkansas wood. Ask for Arkansas label
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
Coal in Arkansas in 1915.

A large part of the coal produced in Arkansas is used for locomotive fuel, so that retrenchments in op- erating expenses by the railroad companies and competition with fuel oil from near by fields have se- riously interfered with the output of coal in Arkansas.
 Sebastian county, which pro- duces about 70 per cent of the to- tai for the state. decreased more than quarter of a million tons. whereas all other counties record
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
State of Ohio. City of Toledo. lNo.Iara

J,
 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of +. J. Cheney & Co, doing business in the City of Toledo County and State afore- said, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of Decem- Der A. D. 1886. 4. W. GLEASON,
 tSeaD Notary Public.
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System. Send for testimonials, free.
 FJ. CHENEY x CO. Toledo, O.
 Sold by all druggists. Toe.
 Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
NOtiCe.

The Union Saw Mill Company will pay $5O.OO as a reward to any one, not in it's employ, who will fur nish information from which any person shall be convicted of depre- aatlng or trespassing upon the tim- Der of said Company.
 This lst, day of February, 1906.
 UNION SAW MILL Co.
 By F. w. Scott,
 Secy. and Treas
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
Methodist Church Services.

The following services will be held at Union church Sunday: Sun day school at 1000 a. m. Preach ing at a. m. and 800 p. m. by the pastor. Junior League at 500 p. m. Epworth League at zoo D. m. A cordial invitation is extend ed to all to attend these services.
 Rev. s. K. BURNETT, Pastor.
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24
A Remedy for Chiggers.

If bath in hot water or in water containing salt or strong. soap, is taken within few hours after ex- posture in shrubbery or weeds in-
The Huttig news., 1916-06-24

Funny. but the anti-prepared- ness folks are still using lightnigng rods.
Evening star., 1916-08-13

current flows southwark along the
American coast. influencing the climate
of New England
The Grand Banks of Newfoundland
are not far below surface of the ocean
as depths are measured. The
Grand Bank, according to MIR Riker.
upon which it is proposed to build this
jetty. and upon which the two great
ocean currents meet. lies southeast of
Newfoundland and is in general nearly
circular in shape, about 500 miles in
diameter at its top, a great plateau or
SAND bank. practically level on tor
rising from the vast depths of the
ocean, about $1,000 feet. or nine miles
until there is only from 200 to $50 feet
OF water over it, 1t is covered general
ly with a fine shifting sand and gravel
ike beach, with somewhat more sedi-
mentary deposits in places, and with
coarser gravel. sand. mud, stone ice
berg deposit and with rock projecting
above the sand in its northern parr'
at and near the site of the proposed
jetty
The engineer who puts forth the hde
proposal says of the Grand Bank:
There are but few spots in this great
area where if the Titanic were placed
on end one-third of her length would
be under water, and her propellers
would be higher out of the water than
the tops of the highest building in New
ork. over an area of about 10 ono
square miles il is much shoaler. from ,
which. although 200 miles from land
ana apparently in midocean, il win
be seen. the depth is not very great"
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what is more. will discover ones soul
to himself, permitting him to take this
out to shake and sun and air it. and
otherwise exercise it in soul craft.
Finally the three set out to see the
country. the big west, climbing the
Rockies, as Mrs. Rinehart herself re-
Gently did. And here the adventure be-
comes. Mrs Rinehart's own, in carica- :
ture with Miss Letitia at her most as
tonishing best in all sorts of resolute
and lauShable endeavors. 1t is good
piece of fun-making. wherein very
enterprising and original old maid takes
off some of the commonest of the fads
and enthusiasms and delusions that be-
set the average of us all.
INDUSTRIAL I'REPAREDNESS. BY C..
f, Knoeppel. author of Maximum
Production in Shop and Foundry,
etc. New York: The Engineering
Magazine Company.
BY virtue of concrete example. Mr..
ktoeppel here makes argument for a
campaign of industrial efficiency in this
country a campaign calculated to merge
uitimat tely into distinct and compre-
hensive policy. II is, as matter OF
course, Germany that furnishes this writ
with a case in point From study.
in detail of the efficiency methods OF
that country, applied first to general in
dustry and second TO war itself. Mr..
knoeppel makes the claim that ade-
quate military preparedness depends pri-
marily upon the scope and stability OF IN
dustrial preparedness. Citing the haif
dozen principles underlying business eff
cheney the writer applies there. first in
turn and then in sum, TO the established
policy and program of Germany. BY
an ample array of authority and specinc
fact he shows what manner and to what
degree the use of these principles has pro-
NOTED the efficiency of Germany in agri
culture manufacture. trade. education.
municipal progress and the whole sum of
national assets. In special analysis Mr..
Knoeppe points the application Of these
principles to the conduct of the war, trac
ing its most conspicuous achievements to
this common source of Germanys many
sided progress The study opens with
Evening star., 1916-08-13
mo Swearin' or Tearin' lit Slips"

VOCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Its Prob
lens and Methods. By II. l.. Holling-
worth. associate professor of psy-
chology. Columbia University. New
York: ID. Appleton Co.
No other act of ones life begins to
compare in Importance with the act OF
choosing ones work. of choosing ones
vocation. Yet. as rule. ii is a hap
hazard choice. depending on all sorts of
accidental circumstances that push one
into field for which he may find him
self to have neither aptitude nor liking
nor promise of success. The one over
topping aim of all education should be
to discover aptitudes and to train for
the vocational life that these dictate.
Nobody in education. however, seems to
be considering this as the prime object
of education In the main. the old dead
level of uniformity is still being sedu-
lously guaded in both education and
later on in industry as we'll, Mr. Holl
ingworth appears to be the first one to
give out any well organized. compre-
hensive plan of discovering vocational
leanings and drifts. or to suggest
methods by which these aptitudes when
disclosed may be systematically culti-
waited to the height of vocational use
fulness This book. the result of.
enormous amount of experimentation
and conclusion in a widely comprehen-
sive range. gives in ample detail the
various methods now developed for dis
covering vocational aptitudes and in
choosing vocations. Psychology plays a
large part in this work. And in this
phase of the subject the writer is prac-
tical and informing, where the tempta-
tion lies to he technical and abstract
A chaper on The Vocational Aptitudes
of Women, by Leta Stetter Holling-
worth. is well worth serious study.
Again. a chapter on The School Cur
riculum as Vocational Test" should
be read by those having curricula in
charge. All those who are in the busi-
ness OF teaching-parents, advisers and
professional teachers themselves-will
find this to be fresh treatment of a
theme that is superior to all others in
the Held of education and vocation
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and an admirably realistic story as
well.
In the Slavic revival that has so ad-
vanced Russian literature and has
awakened the lesser Slavic peoples to
seif-consciousness Bohemia has had
leading and inspiring part. Among
the Bohemian writers Machar stands
conspicuous for the splendid force and
realism of his prose and verse alike.
Machar, like Tolstoy, is an ardent re-
former. a hater of social and political
evidences of this characteristic.
Through Leo Wiener's authorized trans
lations of "Magdalen" and other inn
portant works by Machar. the English
reader has the opportunity now of add
ing this Bohemian writer to the other
continentals-sf his literary acquaint-
ance.
TISH. BY Mary Roberts Rinehart. au-
thor of *, etc. illustrations by
May Wilson Preston. Boston:
Houghton Miffin Company.
"Tish." the heroine of these strenuous
adventures. is Miss Letitia Carberry.
spinster of fifty years or thereabou
Beside Miss Letta, playing fair sec
ond and third to her dashing and in
genious first. are Miss Aggy md Miss
Lizzie, equal in years and far superior
in discretion to Miss Letitia herself.
Miss Letitia's disposition is of the open
work variety Through this all sorts
Of enthusiasms soak into her being,
animating her to startling and unex
pecte,i behaviors. BY virtue of this
particular temperament Mrs. Rinehart
is able to deliver the trio, under the
capfaincy of Miss Le;itia. over to an
amusing buriesque OF adventure. Now
il is the automobile frenzy that seiZes
this modern maiden of fifty years. Then
she falls to the tender seductions of
sad-eyed Syrian youth. These are both
expensive luXuries. Again, Miss Letitia
encounters that every day of the pres
emf moment the spy. At another time
il Is the simple life that lures the spin
sters into the Maine woods to prove
that nature Will, if one throws himself
in full confidence upon her broad bosom.
supply food, covering, shelter and,
Evening star., 1916-08-13

- NE of the theories by which 1t is
n u sought to account for the unusu-
" ally large number of sharks
which have been observed this summer
along the middle and north Atlantic
coasts of the United States is that the
gulf stream has changed its course.
Whenever there is late spring or an
early spring, summer Of unusual cold,
a winter of unusual warmth or an au-
tumn that is above or below the nor
NAL in temperature there are men who
will rise up and offer as an explana-
ton of any of these things that the
gulf stream has changed its course.
The highest authorities among ocean
ographers say that the gulf stream does
not change its course and that it flows
on its genial way. making comfort
able climate in parts of the world
which without it's benign influence
would not be habitable by man.
The suggestion that the gulf stream
has or can change its course usually
brings up for renewed discussion one of
the mightiest and most romantic en-
gineering projects of the ages 1t is
that project for conserving and con-
trolling the heat of the gulf stream,
and ma king over the climate Oh north
eastern America and northern Europe
"by protecting the warm. north flowing
gulf stream from the onslaughts of the
ice-cold. south flowing Labrador cur
rent by the construction of jetty
jutting far eastward into the Atlantic
ocean from the east shore of Newfound-
land. This grand plan has enjoyed the
serious and earnest attention of a great
many of the practical and brainy men
of America and Europe, and at some
time there may be brought about vast
modification of climate for the better.
1t was not long ago that Carroll Liv-
ingston Riker an engineer of distinction
and previous achievements, prepared and
submitted, for the. convenience of the
President and Congress of the United
States, also for the officials of interested
foreign countries and Others, a project
TO prevent the intermingling of the cold
waters of the Labrador current with the
warm waters of the gulf stream and the
resultant benefits, which include the
elimination of fogs and icebergs from the
course of transatlantic steamships, i'm
proved climatic conditions. etc" con-
gressional bill was drafted providing
States Navy. who shall be appointed by
the Secretary of the Navy, with two
other competent persons appointed by the
President. shall constitute a commission
to be known as the Labrador current and
gulf stream commission
1t was the duty of this commissiop
to investigate and report as to the
feasibility and cost of causing an OBJ
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summary of the condition of the United
States. condition of military unreadi-
ness rooted in loosely organized and
inefficient industrialism. Then, by way of
argument and example. he gives this con-
crete and convincing study of Germany.
Quoting freely from cotemporaneous au-
thority. Mr.. knoeppel buttresses his
points from many sources of investigation
and opinion. The study is clear and
Illuminating one. Perhaps the writer does
not emphasize sufficiently the fact that
Germany bestows her benefits from the
government downward. whereas in Amer
ica reforms set in from the opposite di-
rection. from the people toward the gov
ernment. This is a fact that greatly COM
plicates the process for America and one
whose operations are not amplified here
to a degree that offers more than tenta-
tive opening toward any general scheme
of industrial preparedness. AS an object
lesson of German industrial efficiency as
the basis of military preparedness the
study is an admirably suggestive one.
THE WAR FOR THE WORLD. BY
Israel Zangwill. author Of Children
of the Ghetto etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
From about every conceivable angle.
Israel Zangwill here looks out, upon
the war and its effects. With accus-.
toned vigcr and originality and vision
he takes up one after another of these
views and conclusions. picturing. an
alyZing, co-ordinating and forecasting,
to the delight and instruction of the
reader. All the writers are much i'm
pressed with the effect of the war upon
the status of the women. Mr.. Zang
will is particularly illuminating on this
important topic. in which he considers
woman worker as fighter and as
peacemaker. Through the red blaze OF
war he examines religion and the
churches. takes note of the pacif1st. of
parliament and politics, and appraises
the general quality of English patriot
ism From these larger and more ur-
gent, themes he takes up the effect of
the war upon literature-upon the
poets, and novelists. and dramatists.
outlining sketchily the changes that
will inevitably come to the substance.
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End of the Line
i

without in the least letting up in his
primary demonstration of the money
madness in its operations and effects.
\ romance is the medium of this dis
cIosure-that is, if one may designate
a pure, Understanding process as ro-
nance Like q book, Mr.. Hughes
knows his male in the confinement of
. harassing domesticitN. and equally
wen does he know the female plying
her ancient trade of securing ease and
comfort. And. as has been said. he is
,,,lthicss in his treatment. This is
BRILLIANT piece of work. with no hesi-
tations or turning aside from ugly
disclosures or the plainest of plain
speaking OF this paramount subject, to
which Mr. Hughes has applied new
comma andment-"Thou shalt not spend
more than thou earnest
NAGDALEN. BY j. $. Machar. Trans
.ated from the Bohemian by Lee
Wiener professor of Slavic Ian
quages and literatures at Harvard
University. New York: Mitchell
Kenuerley.
This is a beautifully simple and pofg-
nant Version Of the story of Magda-
len. brought up to the present and ap-
piled to the life of a young girl, who,
al a certain point in her pitiful career.
came upon way that appeared to lead
back to The blessed days of honor. and
the friendly comradeship of virtuous
world. The story opens with scene in
the house Of which this girl. with many
other girls. is an inmate. 1t closes
with this girl knocking for admission
Al the door of the same house. She
is back from her quest Of peace in we'll
doing. She has tried the worlds boast
Of human kindness. and brotherhood
and zeal to help those who are in need
Of heIp And she has returned back to
her only refuge. In effect this story is
q fierce arrangement Of the general and
relentless bounding Of women who.
having fallen upon the unforgiva Bile
sin Of their sex. are seeking to re-
prieve themselves in their own sight
and in the sight of the world. finely
STRAIGHT forward arraignment is his.
Evening star., 1916-08-13

cent of the $4,000, 000. 900 paid out an
nually in the United States for food
clothing and shelter is spent by wom-
en-" she declared earnestly. ut is
necessary that more efficient methods
be employed. There are certain OBJ
vious ways in which by collective eff
fore we can simplify and improve our
everyday standards of living and at
the same time release q large amount
OF womens time for more efficient work.
with the higher value OF womens
time. less of ii will be spent in for
NAL visiting. i believe in social in
terchange. but frequently from a casual
meeting we sometimes get more of II
friends personality than after hours of
strained conversation. Here in Wash
ington a woman now and then has the
courage to suggest that the Congress
sional Club be made a clearing house
for calls. But the suggestion usually
meets with a protest and women of
the congressional circle exclaim that
nothing can take the place of the per-
sonal visit. so we spend two or three
months of our time whir1ing about
Washington. exchanging pasteboard.
Nevertheless. there is decline in
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SiIencer for Siren,

IN order to lessen the noise of the fog
siren at the Buffalo light station.
which was so great as to be the cause
OF much annoyance in that city when
in operation during times of heavy
fogs on Lake Erie. the bureau of light
houses has installed there silencer.
or sound defiector, to keep most of the
noise away from the city.
The silencer is a saucer-sha ped plate
of steel. fourteen feet in diameter This
shield has vibration-reducing lining
or asbestos board on the face toward
the lake. A space of four inches be-
tween the steel and the asbestos is
packed with mineral wool, the steel
having been suitably treated to pre-
vent erosion from the sulphur i'm,
purities of the mineral wool.
So far the silencer has proved wholly
satisfactory. cutting of practically ali
of the sound of the fog siren from the
city.
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and, more than likely. TO the form Of
their literary output. Through wide
range of topics this strikingly arrest
ing writer cuts a wide swath of anti
German, pro-ally. observation and re-
Election. 1t is stimulating collection
of prose and verse on the subject of the
war in it's multitudinous ramif1cations
and Influences.
POTENTIAL RUSSIA. BY Richard
Washburn Child. author of The Man
in the Shadow" etc. New York: f.
p. Dutton & Co.
This is not war story, though it
touches the war intimately at many
points Rather. is it an after-the war
story, written for the schooling of
Americans on the potentialities of
Russia and for the awakening of them
to this paramount fact of the future.
Mr.. Child went to Russia to study it
on the ground, so to speak, in order
that he might add his first hand con-
tribution of knowledge to what Ameri-
cans should know of thfs rapidly
awakening land of the czar. From a
study of the war itself the writer
gathers those qualities of Russian
character and those facts of Russian
patriotism that are so powerfully af
fecting the country itself in this ma
tional crisis From the resources of
the country ,f<self-from it's prodigious
mineral and agricultural resources. to
which must be added 100000 people
faced toward progress and the develop
ment of this natural wealth-the
writer makes logical deductions con-
cerning Russia's part in the world
concerns of the future. The point of
this many sided and suggestive study
is the opportunity that Russia opens
for America to establish friendship
with nation young as it itself Is
young. with country of similar lati-
tudes and similar requirements. In a
word. Mr. Child urges Russia as the
natural commercial and industrial ally
of the United States finely inform
ing book. broad of view, and rich in
suggestion.