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The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
Food Value of Milk.

A New York authority contends that one quart of milk is equal in food value to any one of the follow ing:
 Three-quarters of pound of beef. steak.
 Three-ffths of q pound of ham.
 Four-ffths of pound of pork chops.
 Eight eggs.
 Three pounds of fresh codfish.
 One pint of oysters.
 Two pounds of chicken.
 By comparing the prices of the ar. ticles named one may arrive at T fairly accurate value of milk as a food at present prices.
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
No. 666

This is q prcscriptioo prepared especially for MALARIA or CHillS q FEvER. Five or six doses will break any case. and If taken then as . tonic the Fever will not return. lt acts on the liver better than Calomei aud does not sripe or sicken. 2Ss
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
GINGLES' JINGLES
SAIESMANShlP.

Is salesmanship easy? No. not on your life, it's always hard work. garnished plenty with strife, and would you be hep. spear this tip as a hunch, you must know your biz and you must pack a punch, and know that the line you are selling is right. This confidence you must take into the fight. for if you lack faith in your line and your self. you futter and buzz. and you're shooed on the shelf. But granting that you have the knowledge you need. you're wise to your goods and you know you'll succeed Remember. if you would annex your wealth. you must by all means take good care of your health; it's we'll not to make smoke shop of your face, and don't play tho bone-head by going the pace. In short, you must all the time be at your best, for salesmanship hands you the real acid test. 'Tis only the Attest make good in the game. The road is no place for i. :. ,s%s snss that &c~* S1G
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
FLASHLIGHTS

The worst kind of failure is the failure that Is the result of only half trying.
 You can always tell what n man thinks of money by the things he will do to get 1t.
 Don't brug about yourself. As good as you are you don't stand alone in your class.
 Laughter won't cure an ail- ment, but by gosh. 1t won't make 1t any worse.
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
Epworth League

Program for next Sunday: Leader, Helen Bartmess Topic, Applying the Golden Rule to Life. Song Prayer Scripture Lesson. Matt. VII. 1,l2 Song Responsive reading, Psalm XXlN Piano Solo. Bessie Morris Recitation of the poem The Daily Course Helen Evans Song Reading of Program League Benedietion
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
Both Cooking.

The New Wife-I want some apples. please.
 GroCer-Cooking apples?
 The New Wife-I don't under stand.
 Grocer-We have two kinds-cook- ing and eating.
 The New Wife-Oh. well, l want send some potatoes, also of the cook ing variety,
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
MRS. HUTCHINSON
 With The Novelty Next Door to Post Office Dermott, Arkansas
AMONG COLORED PEOPLE

Items of interest among colored people should be left at the Palace Drug Store or at this office
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
lntercepting His Family.

I'm thinking seriously of starting n moving picture theater.'
 "Well. there's good money in that business
 "It isn't the money I'm after. But I would like 10 see my wife and chil. dren once in while"
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
Farm Loans.

Persons desiring to borrow on inn proved farms. from five to one hundred thousand dollars, on ten years time. at 6s Q per annum interest, with privilege of paying principal or any part thereof annually. will please write
 N. E. Scott.
 Lake Village, Arkansas
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19

 As he the Belle "Tm just the singsho,"
 T wouldn't there' his telling quite likely to -" md he |. .prIntc have fo m.
 Copyright 1916 syndicate. Inc) Ne
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
To Clean Aluminium.

Steel wool and neutral soap are good for removing discolorations from aluminium. Boiling in clear water to which spoonful ef vinegar has been added. is also effective.
The Dermott news., 1917-07-19
Different Viewpoints.

"When l saw Smith last, he was growing over his new car"
 When I saw him last. he was growing under it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
THIS WOMAN NOW
 WORKS EVERY DAY Takes Tanlac and Is We'll and Strong After Sixteen
 Years Suffering

Since taking Tanlac I have gained 10 Npounds and am actually doing all my 71ousework for the first time in 20 years, declares Mrs. J. D. Fergason of 2O2l Ninth avenue, north, Nashville, Tenn. f For 16 years or more I suffered witE stomach trouble and paid out thousands of dollars for treatment, but kept get ting worse all the time. Everything l ate would make gas that would affect my heart and shorten my breath and I had to live almost entirely on milk. For the last three years I had gotten so bad I had to stay in bed most of the time and my nerves were so torn up couldn't t bear any noise around me- It looked like a hopeless case and I was given up by my family and friends.
 Then I decided to try Tanlac and to my surprise I began to feel better in a few days. I have gained 10 pounds so far and all the pains in my back and sides have disappeared. My hearl stopped fluttering and I have no more smothelng spells and I can eat and digest things I haven't dared to touch for 15 or 20 years. I am now well and strong and able to do all my housework
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs drug store and Patton-Pope Drug compan~: In Ensley ty D. w. Morris Drug company; in Bes- semer by Pegram- Patton Drug company, and in North Birmingham by Walker Drug company.-Adv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

mastodon thigh bone was over nine inches in diameter.
 There are different theories as to the origin of the salt. pr. Dumble says that for a long time it was supposed that 1t came from large lagoons lying along the Gulf of Meixco. These lagoons were protected from the tides by low sandbars, but the storms filled them with salt water. The hot sun evaporated the water and thus butt up layer after layer of salt. until this enormous to this theory is that sea water Is not pure sodium, or common salt, ana also that there is a great deal of lime and gypsum on top of the salt deposits. Another theory is that the mounds were caused by currents of hot saline aSlFtiors forced lip through the earth. These solutions cooled as they came in contact with the colder strata and the salt crystals were formed. There is no doubt, however, but that the deposits were formed ages ago They date back for thousands and probably tens Of thousands of years.
 Al any rate the United States may feel safe as to its selt supnlv We S",-a Senough salt in different parts of the union to supply ourselves and our chill drens children to any number of gem erations to come, and to enable us to export vast amounts to other parts of the world. Our present consumption Is about 107 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the country. It amounts to about 10 pounds per week for every family, and large part of th $ i~t aA .f'f.~~ si.r'' H7 +he F" tinv of neat and in other preserva- tive works which are now important on account of the war. The salt mined in 1915 was valued at the average price of 31 cents barrel, or in the neighborhood of one-tenth of a cent per pound. We used a little less than $12,000,o00 worth that year.
 That salt came from IA different states. and 1t was sold in all grades,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

and the last the one which Joseph Jel- ferson owned and where he had his win ter home. They are now mining salt on Weeks Island and the block there is said to contain something like G.00o0 GOO tons of pure white rock The depth of the de- posit is unknown The shafts have al- ready gone down six or seven hundred feet and the bottom is still to be reached
 There are vast deposits of similar salt in Texas have before me a report just across the boundary of Louisiana made by Prof E. T, Dumble, who was formerly the state geologist He has investigated the salt deposits near the Southern Pacific railroad, and he esti- mates that they alone contain more than l5,O90, O0oc0 tons of pure salt The Avery Island deposit is supposed to con tain at least 2000,000,0O0 tons, so that we have here along the Gulf of Mexico known bodies of salt which, are enough to give more than two two-horse wa gon loads of salt to every man, woman and child in the world. The Texas de- posts are measured by the depths of the wells already sunk, but none of them has yet been gone through. Tkere are four domes, or mounds, lying down under the earth each of which is known to have minimum thickness of more than 1000 feet. In other words you could sink two Washington monu- ments one on top of the other into these salt beds, and they would not reach the bottom. Mr. Dumble est1- mates that the salt thus brought to sight in the Damon mounds equals more than 600,0Oo.000 tons, and that the great mound at South Dayton. Tex, contains 662,000060 The Damon mound IS 5S7 feet from the surface of the earth, and the Blue Ridge is 645 feet down. At High Island they first struck salt at 1309 rect, and when the drill had gone down to depth of double that, or almost half { mile from the surface, they were still in salt
 Ine Damon mound is on the Brazos rlVer' not far from the Southern Pa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
War Has Upset Civilization
Is. Martin in Harper,s Magazine

E. 5. Martin in Harper'S Magazine.
 This modern life draws heavily on all resources. Three years ago next fall an eminent American historian watched the beginnings of the war of all the nations with forebodings that
 if 1t lasted long enough it would end in the collapse of national credit fol- lowed by the collapse of private credit, and then return to primitive condi- tions. and the support of what life remained by personal agriculture. It has not come to that yet, in this country, at least, but it has made un- deniable progress in that direction Up to lately the opinion prevailed that our civilization, with all its defects was certainly on the right track, and far better and more prominising than any civilization that had preceded 1t. Men saw its incomparable progress in mechanics and scientific knowledge, and it's apparent extrication from dreadful errors that had harassed their fathers fathers. and looked for such multiplication and exchange of com moditieS as would abolish poverty, and for such an expansion of liberty, or der and the rule of wisdom as should presently stabilize the happiness of mankind. But all those expectations have been very rudely shaken. Every \ eAiities tO w AlSIl we tiuStSu lO oiiOOtii the process of universal salvation is now again under critical scrutiny We doubt that this age of mechansms will turn out to be a valid millennium. We doubt that, after all, coal and iron and copper and organization and efficiency are destined to save mankind We see all the resources of science, all the products of all brains and all factor ies. applied either to destroy human ity or to palliate little that destruc- tion. We see the world that the doc tors were basy making germproof suddenly overwhelmed by horrible disease that neither medical nor scien- tific nor theological acumcn at all avails to check. Raging and ravaging. it spreads from nation to nation, till observers call it's course the greatest tragedy in recorded history.
 Mankind is sick. The war, like any other disease. Is symptom. What is going on is a tremendous effort to throw out some poison from the human system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

ellie railroad. 1t rises right out of the prairie, and has a height of S9 feet. The area is about 3000 acres. It was dis- covered in drilling for oil. The drills first passed through a bed of gypsum SIS feet thick After that there were sulphur and gypsum, and then the pure salt was reached. Texas also has salt lakes, and there is a great deal of salt mixed with the marshes Of southern Louisiana.
 have been much interested in the story of the salt mines here at Avery Island. The first known of them was when George Washington was still serving as President of the United States. It was ill 1I5l tlrat a hunter and trapper named John Hays found here a salt spring the brine of which was so thick that it could be boiled down into salt.
 It was during the war of 1872, when salt was high on account of our war with Great Britain, that small salt works was erected near tlca salt spring Almost 50 years later, when Judge D. D. Avery was the owner Of the island, another big rise in salt occurred on account of the Civil war. This caused Mir. Avery to make salt by boiling the water. The salt rose to as high as $l5 a barrel, and both Confederates and Federals depended upon Louisiana for a part of their supply.
 1t was at this time that John M. Avery sent negro worlzmen to deepen the wells and one of them clma 4.. saying he had struck a sunken log and could go no farther. MT. Avery investi- gated and the solid bed of rock salt was discovered Since then they have been mining salt here more or less continuously and as result have out lined the great block of salt which have described
 During the excavation they have dis covered the bones of mastodons here and there in the salt, and with them Indian crockery ornamented with circles and an imitation of basket work Some of the mastodon teeth found have weighed over five pounds each, and one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

such rooms and they are connected b% railroads, upon which the pure salt, which has been blasted down with dy
 namite. and broken up with picks, chisels and sledges, is carried upon cars to the shaft.
 There comes a car now. It contains three tons of this crystal white rock. The white shows out in contrast with the bare brown skin of the half-naked negro who is driving the mule. More than l 100000 tons of salt have already been | taken out of this mine It has been blasted out of these mighty chambers, the roofs of which are upheld by posts of solid salt 40 feet thick. The mine is, a vast checker board of such rooms, the squares of which are these chambers with the posts at the corners.
 Now stop and look about you. We seem to be in a palace of silver the walls of which sparkle with diamonds The white crystals throw back the light and every where we look the walls glisten and shine 1 We walk slowly. The carpet of this vast l sub terranean palace is this thick layer of ground salt. It is like walking over | dry, sandy beach, We sink into the | salt half way to our shoe tops. We cannot walk fast.
 | Here is a spot where they have just tin- I ished blasting. Some of the Jumps are as | big as a cart There is one that weighs
  | are sold to the ranchers of Texas and neighboring states A chunk of salt weighing a half ton almost is dropped down into field for the cattle to lick. l During the cotton exposition of about generation ago they showed a statute
 of Lots wife carved out of a single block l of salt from this mine That statute
 was 10 feet in height, but it could easily have been 100 feet high and proportion ately large in other directions
 During my trip through this salt mine
 was accompanied by MT. Dan Avery, l the owner and the son, l think Of the
 man who discovered the great salt de- post He tells me that they have all ready gone down through the salt with diamond drills to a depth of more than
 2000 feet without reaching the bottom. The island is underlaid with great block
 of salt which is about two miles long.
 half mile wide and almost half mile
 deep This salt is joined together in one great rock, and by chemical analysis it lis more than 99.S pure. l have clipped
 off pieces of it. They look like the finest
 quartz and much like rock candy. The | salt crystals are of different sizes Some are as large as a marrow-fat pea, others
 as big as my fist and larger. The salt is
 taken by the elevator to the shaft house, | where it is run through presses and put jup in hags and barrels to be shipped to l the market.
 This is only one of the great salt
 mounds Of southern Louisiana Four others are known to exist the five form ing a great row of mounds, which begin
 at the mouth of the Atchafalaya river and run westward through the marshes 1 at wide intervals apart. The first is Belle Isle, the next Cote Blanche, the third Avery Island, the fourth Weeks Island
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
IN TFEE SALT CAVES OF AVERY SLANTD-By Carpenter

all. I have been in some of the ~tr lands of Africa. where salt was so scarce that the children sucked 1t like candy and there are regions where salt passes as money. In China salt Is a monopoly of the government and the man who gets a concession for selling it in almost any large district IS Eocn able to lay up fortune. A large part of the salt of China comes from the brine of the ocean. and in the western part of the country. about a hundred miles from the city of Chengtu, there are salt wells which have been pumped for more than a thousand years. Some of the wells are about half mile in depth. The salt is conveyed from them to the evaporating houses In bamboo tubes. The production of the district is something like 3OO,O00 tons per year and it is carried out over the country in boats and on pack animals and on the backs of coolies. The cost of pro- ducing the salt Is about a half cent pound, or about five times as much as the average wholesale selling price of our salt. The salt tax is almost 1 cent per pound. and In addition comes the squeeze" exacted by the merchant who gets the concession.
 There are mines in Europe where they have been taking out salt for seven or eight centuries. I visited some at salzburg, on the frontier be- tween Germany and Austria. where they have been getting out salt since the days of the Romans There is a great mine at Wieliczka. near Crac2w', where the deposit Is more than 1000 feet deep It is 20 miles wide and as long as from New York to Pittsburg. They have been mining that salt for yrora than TOO vaars and it is said that the miners have established a village away down under the surface of the earth. the houses being made of salt rock.
 Copyright, 1917. by Frank G. Car penter.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

from the big Jumps used for the salting of cattle to the finest of dairy and table salts. More than two-thirds of the product came from the salt wells of Michigan and New York. Almost 6,009,- 000 barrels came from Ohio. while the mines of Kansas supplied almost 3.000,- GO. More than ,000,0O0 tons came from California, and there was quite a lot manufactured on the shores of the Great Salt lake.
 The Great Salt lake is six times as salty as the oceans and the Dead sea has far more saline matter than the Great Salt lake. Nevertheless. the waters of the oceans have so much mineral salt that the amount is be- yond human comprehension. The scicn- lists who have made chemical analyses of sea water estimate that every loo pounds of it contains nearly F pounds of salt They estimate that q cubic mile of ocean water contains salt to q weight of 150, ,0e0.0Q0 tons. which would be enough to load 10000 steamers Cf 15000 tons each. They have figured out what would happen if the salts were all taken out of the ocean; that is, if 1t were evaporated and laid down on the bottom of the sea The resul | would be that the seabed would 6e built up with salt to a height of 115 feet, or to a height something like tha; of a Is or History flat. Now the sur face of the land is only about one third that of the oceans. so that if the salt in the oceans were spread out over the land, the earth would be buried in salt to a depth of over 500 feet, or as deep almost as the Wash ington monument Is high. If it were dropped down on the United States it would cover every bit of this coun- try-mountains, valleys and plains-to depth of between one and two miles. and leave enough to form a deep salt bed on all of our outlying possessions.
 Nevertheless, there are parts of the world that have practically no salt al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
PRIZES FOR FALL GARDEN
 ENTRIES AT OCTOBER FAIR
By MRS. J. B. REID

The housekeepers of Greater Birmins- ham have found themselves in the midst of a new industry. Every little spot that used to grow weeds have borne rations this spring. This has been new meth cd cutting the grocery bill and making Athe doctor less prosperous. Realizing 4that such profitable industry must be further stimulated, and in advance of S'lanting a fall garden, the Alabama State Tair has arranged to offer the following prizes to home gardens within the city limits:
 Entries limited to gardens of amateurs of Greater Birmingham, to be shown in one-half peck lots.
 There must be a separate entry for each premium contended for.
 Vegetables should be shown in best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22


 This amount offered will at least pay for the seed used in many gardens, and covers a new series of premiums in the catalog.
 This is the real purpose of an annual exhibit-to bring out the resources of the state and to stimulate industry with competition and awards.
 The period of war is awakening the people to their own capacity-everybody Is trying to do their bit and the stay-at- homes are learning to feed the family. The world is calling for producers and work-willing effort has been the re- sponse. Everything begun this year is with the eye to victory.
 It will be an honor to have blue ribbon for a war garden prize." Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up na- tions more surely than the proudest bat tles"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
With Fingers!
 Corns Lift Off Doesn't hurt a bit to lift any corn or callus right off. Try It!

For q lew cents you can get a small bottle of the magic drug freezone recent ly discovered by a Cincin- nati man.
 Just ask at any drug store for a small bottle of freez- one. Apply few drops up- on a tender, aching corn or callus and instantly all soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose that you lift 1t off with the fin gers.
 Just think, Not one bit of pain before applying freezone or afterwards. It doesn't even irritate the surrounding skin.
 Hard corns, soft corns or corns between the toes, also hardened calluses on bot tom of feet, shrivel up and fall off without hurting a particle. It Is almost magi- cal.
 Ladies! Keep a tiny bot Itle on the dresser and new ter let a corn or callus ache { tu'nA Adv.