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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

4. why have you had no comment
on the defeat OF Mr.. Bryan for dele
gate at large 10 the Democratic
convention from Nebraska" writes
reader. Didn't know how TO ex.
plain IT, Doubtless his prohibition
stand hurt him. Then his brothers
candidacy for the Democratic nom.
nation for governor made people
vote again both Bryans for trying 10
make the party family affair. The
friends Of President Wilson scratch
Ell Mr.. Bryan. Henry Ford got the
votes OF many pacifists who other.
wise would have voted the Bryan
ticket. Then there were the people
who simply were tired OF voting for
Mr.. Bryan every four years, or less.
for something or other. Mr.. Bryan
will be at the convention in st.
Louis next month. and he will be- on
the floor and on the platform and
ION the job" He is not eliminated
and apparently he is not eliminat.
ing apybody.-Reedy's Mirror, ST
Louis, Mo.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
Automobile Language.
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

Language is growing thing. 1t re-
cords the experiences of q population.
Every new form of human activity or in
terest creates a new set of words. Golf
has its peculiar language. Poker and
chess brought number of terms into
general use. such as bluff, checkmate,"
and so on.
The invention which perhaps has most
affected modern life is the automobile.
But not only are millions of people buy
ing. making, tending, driving, and using
motor cars; flood of novel words has
also inundated speech.
The curious phase Of this is that those
who employ these words cannot define
them, although they are perfectly famil-
lar with them. You do not know neces-
sariy how to define word when you
know what it signifies and how to use it.
There is not one cook out of twenty, for
instance. that can give you a correct
definition of "stove." nor two boys in
the whole playground that can define a
ball"
Just for fun have been setting down
in my notebook such words as | have
heard from automobile folk and have
read in motor literature. Not all of them,
of course, pertain distinctly to the auto
mobile, but they indicate how the Ian
guage of this age of machinery is en-
larging.
And, just for fun. suppose you see
how many of the following terms you
understand. or can explain intelligently
to Wellesley graduate.
AT least the list will serve to illus
trate the stream of new material that is
enriching the american Language"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
When Dickens Was
Shown the Door.

Colonel B was the proprietor
OF widely known old house in the
south, which three-fnarters OF cen
fury ago had earned It's reputation
as a we'll conducted tavern. When
Charles Dickens came to America
he stopped at this southern house.
He was hardly settled In his room
before Colonel B was at the
door He assured him that his
horses, his wines. all the lavish hos.
pltality OF a state famed for its
generosity, stood at the convenience
OF the distinguished visitor. Dick
ems received the proffer coldly. In
London one did not accept a tavern
keeper az a social equal. So II was
that he returned the courteous offer
by saying that when he wished the
services OF the innkeeper he would
send for him. For sixty seconds
Colonel B. stood silent. his great
face growing redder all the while.
Finally he stretched out a long arm
toward Dickens.
you go. sir" he stammered.
And do not stand upon the order
OF your going"
The novelist went. And It is 10
be trusted he had learned that the
American hotel keeper OF, that day
and age was not 10 be confused with
his brother In far-or Europe.-Ed.
ward Hungerford in the Saturday
Evening Post
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
Warning to June Grooms.

The wax ladies in the woodwardave. windows
have not monopoly OF all the good things which
60 to make up the charming outside part OF life.
There may be classes and masses Eve have
heard OF such) but the classes are prone to daily
with the privileges of the masses and the masses
are quite as prone to take unto themselves the
foibles OF the classes, so we are rather mixed up
as to dividing lines.
All this is a preamble, an introduction, in fact,
to the two wax works that saw in dry goods
emporium" on Hastings street.
II was a group
A bride and groom.
She was all in the virgin beauty OF white silk.
orange blossoms and veil.
That her hair had grown gray with much dust
and the decoloring effect Of many summer suns.
mattered not; her eyes were CLASSY blue and her
hand was resolutely, II stiffiy, extended 20 re-
ceive the golden circiet that would proclaim her
wife
The groom was immaculate in desert waste
of shirt bosom with one brass stud as an oasis
in the center.
His boots shone gorgeousy; his trousers were
creased with geometrical precision.
No bagginess would ever dishgure those
knees no shine 20 those elbows.
His tie was perfect: his collar high.
Did he have on his face the heavenly, rapt ex-
preston of one who is about to receive In his
arms the person OF his best beloved? Did ne,
perhaps, have the look Of the affrighted bride
groom who feels that he is taking the fatal leap
in the dark into the abyss from which there is
no returning? Did he-but why ask questions
which never can be answered?
He did not have any OF these expressions.
He didn't have any expression at all; because
you see (the bride did not mind. why should
we be criticaD HE DIDN'T HAVE Any HEAD.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

To the Editor OF The Times-My
father says that II I do not stop
reading I will get my brain cram:
up his brain7 BARNABY.
An overworked brain may be-
come poisoned by fatigue, but II
the rest OF the body is kept in nor.
nal condition the brain will seldom
show any symptoms OF being over
taxed. Very few persons approach
even a healthy amount OF brain &C.
tivity. Even persons OF the high
est intellectual types have a certain
number OF brain cells which are
never fully developed. SO II Is
probably quite safe for you to keep
on examining your head. The brain
may get quite FULL" so far az the
memory Ia concerned. but the mem
DRY IL not the most important OF
the mental functions.
Exercise your brain, use II as
much as you can't In the only
way OF keeping young with advanc.
ing years.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

century in Egypt. Syria and Pales-
tine.
In Jewish history is mentioned a
disease called "Askara"--the hard.
est kind OF death.
Through later literature run ac-
counts OF many epidemics that
swept practically the whole OF
Europe.
During one epidemic in Italy and
Spain in 1926 more than 5000 peo-
pie. mostly children. lost theiP lives
Many theories as TO the cause were
advanced Brettoneau, in 1926. who
named the disease diphtheris, recog
nized the common drinking cup az a
factor in it's spread.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
From Another Point OF NeLD
BIZ c. T. S.
ANYHOW

Say:
But for our wee DOME Bush
Dreary would this old world seem;
We lose and all papers say
That our pitchers had steam.
Our batters slump, d; not one OF them a
Threatened once the ball park fence;
Yet the writers stand agreed:
"Bushs playing was immense"
We
Watch the score board every night,
Till again the Tigers lose.
And with us out TO our home
Take fresh OF the blues.
Life seems hardly worth the while,
AS we give the kid two cents
Just to read the morrow morn
"Bushs playing was immense"
They
May not cop the rag this year:
They may not win the pennant race:
They may not finish one, two. three;
Maybe bring up In last place;
Nevertheless, though we may fail
In pitching. hitting and defense:
Though we're far from the champeens,
"Bushs playing was immense"
my wife," said an enthusiastic hus-
band on the car this morning, "can make
the finest sauce for fish that ! ever
tasted"
What he meant was, of course, the best
that ever came over the pike
If natural gas is to run out in 25 years.
it would appear none too soon to begin
conserving that which is wasted in presi-
dental campaigns.
The Democratic party met in state con-
vention in Lansing Wednesday. He was
back on the bench of the recorders court
this morning.
Really now, is it necessary to use the
scnoo1 children to get Detroit into an
heroic mood for the Colonel?
However, the country has always been
keen for paradedness.
There is no hope for the Allies. Lieu
nant-General Count Won Moltke admits
it.
That Chicago Judge has reversed his
decision that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.
That doesn't exactly convince us, how
ever, that Bacon didn't.
T. H. Once Again Comes to the Surface
Very appropriate indeed, every time You
eat al the Auto Lunch they put puncture
in your meal ticket.
Did you ever have your attention called to
the fact that a Mr.. Stone lives In Flint and
no sells SPARK plugs?
local AL reads: Wanted boys 10 junp
on autos" Ye gods, haven't we got enough
such pests without advertising for them?
Gasoline is to be had at the price quot.
ed in this column yesterday.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

Yesterday out in Lansing, the Demo
Gratis of Michigan named a new state
chairman.
They named Albert E. Stevenson, of
Port Huron, to succeed Edmund c.
Shields.
You may entertain an idea that the
Democratic party of Michigan, after a
careful canvass of the men in the party
available for this important party office.
and after considering the names OF a
dozen men qualified by devotion to the
principles of Thomas Jefferson, finally
decided upon Stevenson.
You may entertain the idea that the
Democracy of Michigan has profited to
the extent of having eliminated the
Wood-C Connolly Shields combination, but
FORGET 1T.
Shields steps out, but the old combi-
nation goes right on with Stevenson
right side up in Shields old place.
And forget about anything like care
full selection by the party of successor
to Shields.
The chances are that Shields picked
Stevenson.
We saw Estate Chairman" Stevenson
coming weeks ago when we read an in
terview with him in a Detroit news
paper. in which he said he had been
asked by many in the party to take the
place, but couldn't think of it.
And forget anything about Stevenson
having been selected for his devotion to
the principles of Thomas Jefferson.
Stevenson gets the Craftsmanship, from
the same convention which cheered the
patriotic speech of Congressman Do
remus, who wants another term, be-
cause he is the member of the gang who
came back from the Baltimore conven-
ton with the promise of the jobs for
the boys, in return for Michigan's vote
for Wilson.
''My country It's of thee, and so
forth"
Respectfully submitted.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

OF all The industries In which the
German government Is directly in
terested. the amber works at Kon-
igsburg have been bit the hardest
by the war, according 10 the Ber-
liner Tagebiatt, which. while assert
ing that the situation improved
considerably" during 1918, remarks
that at the end OF the business
year OF 1914 the government had TO
cover a deficit of s2o0.50o. compared
with profit OF $4,000 in 1913.
The production Of raw amber fell
from Az tons. valued at about $685.
coo, TO io3 tons, worth S250.000.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
A Poem q Day
A soNG-sPAnnoVv M NAV

n sONG-sPA0nOw IN NAY.
This 70 her grave: the ground Is
thick with flowers,
violet and cinquefoil and anemone.
here the song-sparrow through the
listening hours
sings from the poisoning tree.
Last year the flowers sprsng UP be-
meath her feet,
When all the world was biiths with
you and May.
And In her ear the sparrow sang as
sweet
Along the odorous way.
But not to mine. since she Is dead.
the bird
The wonted JOY OF spring returning
brings;
Ny empty heart no more IL thrilled
and stirred.
Whatever song he sings.
lonly beside her silent grave she
with mo to listen to the rich re-
frain.
Q vain imagining! o idle dreams.
She will not come again.
Exchange.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

against tubercu-
losis is Just get
ting well under
way. yet records
OF the history OF
diphtheria show
that the disease
was recognized as
early as the first
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
There Approaches the Open
Season for Gulls and Here
u . Tip: Don't Be a Gull

The o6ice dictionary defines gull" as
No11s easily cheated"
r defines "gul catcher" as zone
4 who deceives or traps silly people"
The dictionary doesn't say anything
shout Il, but we happen to know, from
ehssrvstion covering several years and
several campaigns, that gulls are more
numsrous around election time.
- : naturA sequence, the gull catch
( - ~ most active at this season.
1ho marc boats there are on the lake,
/ ~ more probable it is that the fish are
tltine.
The chances are that in past cam
toden years, you have been one of the
enIlk
81 We have.
Most sverybody has.
One becomes . gull 50 unconsciously
\ HIT 10 seldom realizes the fact until he
- bean sulled-
W want to give you chance to get
31rht this campaign year, so we are go
~ = tn you just how the gull catcher
Nugzx
For instance:
3 1he nswspapers Of Detroit came out
~ ~ days ago with the announcement
&1a< u invitation would be sent to Theo-
o Roosevelt to come to Detroit and
1nIEo : Woech.
Il He newspapers printed long list of
rnnnGs Of prominent citizens, Office
Ao1dGs md politicians who, through
1900 xsmarkable process of psychology,
M reached the conclusion all of a sud-
dsn and al at once, that it would be
pretty good idea to have Roosevelt
sco1ne to Detroit and give his views on
the issue of preparedness.
These views have already been given
he public some 'steen times, and if they
hadn't schoolboy would be able to
5Euess them with one guess, but it struck
shout hundred of our citizens at ex-
actly ten minutes after IL, one day last
week, that Roosevelt should come here
and tell Detroiters with his own lips that
we ought to prepare, and remove all
doubt, despite the fact that no such thing
I ever existed.
The newspaper article mentioned the
fact that there was reason to believe
Roosevelt would accept, and we submit
there should have been some such sneak
ing impression because it had been made
known some weeks ago, from the vicinity
Of Oyster Bay, that if Roosevelt was
wanted in Detroit to make speech he
would like to come, providing a speech
prior to the Chicago convention would
not be interpreted to mean he was seek
ing the nomination for president on the
Republican ticket, which, of course, he is.
You will understand better, perhaps,
now that We have enlightened you, how
4 # Is Roosevelt is found on the scene.
The advance copies of Roosevelts
speech are already in the newspaper of
ices Of Detroit, and in type.
As near as we can figure it, the invi-
tation to Roosevelt to come, on its way
I no Oyster Bay, and the advance copies
~ speech, on their way FROM Oys-
~ must have passed each other.
ri ne idea:
- VI. l..
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

Perhaps the Colonel will be able to tell
us when he comes, where those who
stood at Armageddon finally found seats.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
EDITORIAL PAGE

Detroit was the place.
Roosevelt has two speeches he wants
to make.
Kansas City will hear the other one,
and the country. of course, will read
them both In the newspapers.
That Is the real object of making both.
Very often you find in your newspaper
that the president, or some senator, or
somebody else holding high office, has
written somebody out in Podunk, let
ter discussing something like our foreign
relations, or the tariff. or a federal re-
serve banking system, or rural credit,
or something, and you wonder why a
man in Podunk, of whom nobody ever
heard, should be given the consideration
he Is getting.
You can avoid being gull in this con-
nection, if you will only bear In mind
that the president, or the senator. or
whoever 1t was who wrote the letter.
didn't know this man in Podunk or where
Podunk was any more than you do, but
simply happened to receive letter from
the man asking about a point upon
which the officeholder wanted to enlight-
en- his constituents in the daily prints.
And there you are.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

A countrywide campaign against
dirhtheria, similar to that waged
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

Almost every known variety Of
iron ore is found in Newfoundland.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18

Perhaps, when you read over these
words. you will wonder, as l did, wheth-
er you really can talk English "as she is
spoke" by the mechanicians.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
Perfectly Safe.

Bess-And is Freddie In any dan
ger from his compound fracture?
Belle-Not 4 bit. His nurse Is a
fright,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-18
DON'T BE A DILETTANTE.

~ H. ApDiNcToN BRUCE
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25
Notice of Confirmation
of Title

In The Woodruff Chancery Court,
Northern District, Sept.
Term, 1916.
E. @. Kramer, Ex-parte.
Notice is hereby given, that on
this, the 10Th day Of July, 1916,
there has been filed in the Wood
ruff Chancery Court for the
Northern District of Woodruff
County, a petition, by E. c.
Kramer, praying that his title to
the following lands be Quoted
and confirmed in him, to-wit:-
1 The West half of the North
east quarter of Section 26, town
ship z north, range 2 west.
Any and all persons who claim
any interest in the said land are
hereby warned and called upon
to appear in the Woodruff Chan
Gerry Court for the Northern Dis
trict at its September Term, 1916
and show cause, if any they can,
why the title of the petitioner
should not be confirmed.
Witness my hand and seal this
10Th day of July, 1916.
L. w. WINFREE,
Clerk of the Chancery Court,
Northern District Of Woodruff
County.
By T. L. Gardner. d. c. Adv. ct.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25
More Winter Pastures

The shortage of corn in mos+
parts of Arkansas ought -
make every farmer anxious -
plant wheat, rye or oats for COW
er crops and for winter pasture
Let every patriotic man in Arb.
ansas urge his neighbors to have
enough winter pasture for all bio
stock and lots Of green stuff f.
pillow under next March. Rive
may be seeded for winter pas.
ture from now on up to the first
of November. in cotton and corn
middles or in other fields. The
Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas and u. s
Department of Agriculture is en-.
gagged with its whole force of liz
people in a campaign for clover
and other winter cover crons
and is grateful for the assistance
of the business organizations Of
the state, the Arkansas Bankers
Association. the Farm Bureaus
of the Memphis and Little Rock
Boards of Commerce, the Rail-
roads and the many other pa
triotic agencies in the State.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25

urge dairying on a large scale he
thinks that every family should
have one or two good mich COWS,
and that these COWS should be
given proper feeding and hand
ling. According to Mr.. Mason
one quart of good wholesome
milk furnishes as much food as
two pounds of meat or eight
eggs. This being worthy of
some attention during these days
of high cost of living.
Every year a large number of
farmers go to the cars or the
store to get their seed corn or
the gin for their cotton seed.
This means poor quality of seed
and reduced yields. In order to
grow the most profitable crop,
good seed, good soil, and good
cultivation must be used. The
average yield of cotton in this
state is only about a third of a
bale per acre and the yield of
corn 1913 bushels per acre. The
value of the products will just
about pay for the cost of produc-
ton of such yields. In other
words just SO long as any farmer
grows yields of that kind just
that long he will not have money
to build a good home or have the
conveniences in the home that go
to make home life comfortable.
Mr.. fitzpatrick says that by the
use of better seed alone the av-
erage yields of the state can be
increased by at least twenty per
cent. During the week a large
number of farmers agreed to Sc
lect their seed corn and cotton
from the field this season. Mr.
Abbey will visit these men and
help them in this work.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25

Only now and then is it neces-
sary to reiterate the denial that
Amendment No. IL would in
crease the tax rate. The people
are becoming we'll informed on
the subject, and most of them
now know that this Amendment
only seeks to remove the restric-
tons which now hamper the de-
velopment of our schools.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25

School books are not paid for
out of the public funds, hence no
part Of the revenue which may
accrue from the adoption of
Amendment No. II will find its
way into Golfers of the text book
publishers.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

Notice is hereby given that I'M
der and persuant to an order of
the Woodruff Chancery Court
for the Northern District, made
and entered at it's May Term,
1716, I will sell to the highest
bidder, at public cutlery, at the
front. door of the Farmers &
Merchants Bank building, at
McCrory, Ark, at two P. M; on
Friday, Sept. 18th, 1916, the fol-
ID wing described property, to-
wit:
East part of Lot No. IL, Block
Six, of the town of McCrory, on
which lot and as a part thereof
is the Farmers & Merchants
Bank building, said building be-
ing brick, 50x25 feet; and includ-
ed in this sale, and as part of
said property, are the fixtures in
tn E said Bank building, as follows,
to- wit:
! fire proof vault, with shelves
arranged in order.
1Nset of bank fixture rail
ings.
l Dalton Adding machine.
Check file.
/ National Safe & Lock Co.,
screw door safe.
l heating stove.
i lot of chairs.
! Todd Protectrograph check
writer.
L lot of stationary including
letterheads, checks, pass books,
ink, and ETC.,
l counter check file.
Book case.
TERMS OF SALE.
This sale will be on credit of
three months.
Notes bearing interest at six
(6%) per cent will be required
for the purchase money.
Witness my hand this August
10, 1916.
(Sigped) JOHN M. DAVIS,
Bank Commissioner of Arkan-
sas.
By GEO. w. BARBER,
Deputy.
The Home news. (McCrory, Ark.) 1915-1922, 1916-08-25

The Devil was in Augusta
Sunday.
If you are not in favor of pro-
viding better schools for your
own town or community, do not
be SO selfish or narrowminded as
to try to prevent others from
lettering their condition educa-
tionally. Vote for Amendment
No. IL, and let the citizens Of
the state have just as good
schools as they desire.