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of southern whites sorely oppressed it fits the changing scenes of the story like a flowing, beautiful gar ment. The marriage of this music to the film best of all entitled the producer to his well-earned laurel of having created a new art, a new kind of grand opera, so to speak, that had not even been conceived before.
 Among the distinguished princi- pals are Henry B. Walthall the dis tinguished Alabama actor whose fam fly is historically connected with the story, in the role of the Clansman; Lillian Gish and Elsie Stoneman; Mae Marsh and Miriam Cooper as Flora and Margaret; Ralph Lewis as Congressman Stoneman; Joseph Hen- aberry, Howard Gays and Donald Crisp as Lincoln, Lee and Grant, respectively George Seigmann as the mulatto Lieutenant-Colonel of South Carolina; Walter Long as the rene grade negro Gus; Raoul Walsh as Wilkes Booth; Mary Alden as the octoroon housekeeper Lydia; John McGlyeen and Ernest Campbell as the good negroes, Nelse and Jake; Elmer Clifton and Robert Harron as the young soldiers; Spottiswood Aiken and Josephine Crowell as Dr. and Mrs. Cameron and many others
 The production to be seen here is identical in all respects with those of New York and Chicago Two bag gage cars of equipment and con- pany of fifty people are carried en tour. The latter includes a large symphony orchestra of expert mu- sicians Others in the party are a stage manager, complete crew. two picture machine operators, together with optical experts to readjust the theatre projection, and sittings to the latest scientific focal requirements.
 Oct 6.
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IT PAYS TO RENT ADDITIONAL
 LAND SAYS A. D. McNAIH

Twenty owners who operated their own farms near Marianna, Ark, last year on an average of S5 acres of crops made an income from labor and management of $1,179. Thirteen owners who rented additional land and who operated an average of S5 acres of crops made corresponding income of S1,674. and 16 renters, having an average of 62 acres of crops, made labor income of $1,379
 On this sui vey as on a previous one at Jacksonville, Ark, it was found that tiose owners who rent more land all make more for their ate only their own land and more than do the renters In this case the straight owners and the owners who rented additional land had the same area in crops-S5 acres-so that the superiority of the latter was not in- fluenced by the sizes of the farms. but by other factors.
 Analysing the matter we find that the owner-renter, as we may call the owner who rents additional land, tended five acres more crops per family and one and a fraction more acres of crops per mule than did the straight owner and this agrees with figures from the Jacksonville survey. The owner-renters appear to have been little more efficient in their labor than have the straight owners.
 The 16 renters made smaller laboc income than did the owner renters, but larger one than the straight owners, notwithstanding the fact that they had only 62 acres of crops apiece against S5 acres for the straight owners. From the labor
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factors and events pass in review before the thrilled spectator.
 The love interest of the play is based on the friendship between the Camerons of South Carolina and the Stoneman's of Pennsylvania, two families involved in the struggle Ben Cameron the gallant clansman of the Dixon stories, appears again in the role of romantic hero; the piquant northern girl, Elsie Stone man, as the heroine MT. Griffith took most of the scenes in the great out-of-doors, where nature painted the back grounds and army men di- rected the battle campaign. The mo- table indoor scenes, like Ford's thea tre on the night of the tragedy, the Carolina legislature of 1870, are ex- act facsimile of the originals. Alto gether, it is the first time in art pro- duction that history in the large has been presented in living pictures. To do this, many times the amount of the time, energy and expense usually devoted to amusement enter prises had to be used. Eighteen thousand people and three thousand horses appear in the picture, which cost approximately S500,000 to pro- duce.
 Of equal importance to the scenes is the music that interprets them. It consists of an elaborate symphonic score arranged after Griffith's sug- gestions of the musical motifs for the leading characters. Now grave, now gay; now sounding the loud diapson of war, again sweetly harmonizing loves signs and rhapsodies; anon bringing back the old plantation melodies, or the crash of riot and rapine, or the welcome Ku Klux Klan call that fell so gratefully on the ear
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WORLDS SERIES FACTS

Twenty-six home runs have been scored in the worlds series played between the National and American league champions since 1903.
 The White Sox hold the record for errors in a worlds series game. They made six in one game against the Cubs in 1906-and won the game.
 sss.
 Catcher Hank Gowdy of the Braves hit for the remarkable average of .545 in the 1914 series, which the braves won from the Athletics.
 Boston holds the attendance record for a single worlds series game In the Red Sox- Brooklyn game at Bos. ton on Oct. 12, 1916, the attendance reached 42,620 persons
 While a member of the Athletics, Frank Baker. now with the Yankees hit two home runs in the Athletics Giants series of 1911.
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 Frank Isbell the old White Sox first baseman, made four two-base hits and scored three runs in a game of the 1906 series between the Sox and Cubs.
 Pitcher Babe Adams of Pittsburg won three games from Detroit in 1909, virtually pitching the Pirates to the worlds championship
 Christy Mathewson, while a mem Der of the Giants, pitched three
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standpoint the renters were more of. ficient than either of the other groups, for they tended more acres Of crops per man, per family and per mule than the others did.
 Concerning the yield of cotton per acre the owner renters stood first. with 359 pounds of lint per acre, the straight owners second with 322 pounds and the renters third with 2S3 pounds per acre. It is the more remarkable, therefore, that the rent. CTS oyercame the handicap of low yields of cotton and corn and came out with larger labor income than the straight owners. The efficiency Of the labor of men and teams went Tar Tn accomplishing this result.
 The labor income, which is given Tor each tenure group, is the income retained after all farm expenses were paid, after the rent was paid or the rental value of the farm de- ducted and after allowing eight per cent on money invested in teams. implements, stocke feed and supplies.
 All these farmers had an income rom capital invested in addition to their labor income.
 The work of gathering the forego- ing information was done in CO., operation with the extension division of the University of Arkansas.
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"The Birth of a Nation ,

David w. Griffith's epoch-making spectacle. "The Birth of Nation" " following it's record breaking runs in New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, will be seen in one of it's original produc- tions at the Majestic Theatre in Marianna on October 10 and II, mat inee and night.
 This work, partly from the nature of the new art, partly from the oppo- sition aroused, has excited keener curiosity than any other offering of the current season, and the extra ordinary advance sale indicates that the playhouse will not prove nearly large enough to accomodate the eager throngs.
 The Birth of Nation" tells by film and music the story of nation reborn through the storm and stress of internecine strife. Instead of the four to six scenes of the conven- tional play, it's technique permits of filming literally thousands of scenes, and covering a wide range of history and characters Slavery, the prime cause of the war; Lincoln's call for troops to subdue the Southern states; the balls on the eve of Bull Run, and the first triumph of Confederate arms; the devastation wrought by Sherman's march and the awful or deal of the siege of Petersburg; Lees surrender to Grant at Appomattox; the assassination of the Federal presi- dent; the harsh radical policy to the stricken south; the uprising of the ku Klux Klan. and the overthrow of the carpetbagger regime-these great
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How would you like to paint your house with white enamel? This is what we propose to do, and it will last THREE TIMES as long as lead and oil paint. Call at Turner's and let T. E. Hobbs explain this wonder ful new paint to you. 3t
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If your child is pale and sickly, picks at the nose, starts in the sleep and grinds the teeth while sleeping it is a sure sign of worms. A remedy for these parasites will be found in WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE. It not only clears out the worms, but t restores health and cheerfulness. Price 25c per bottle. Sold by liar. rington Bros.
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If you want Beautiful Straight Hair send 25c for sample box of Proxi, the wonderful hair straightener. Agents wanted. Proxi Co No. 5S, Collinsville, H. 29p
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HERBINE is the medicine that cures biliousness, malaria and cosstt- patton The first dose makes you feel better, few additional doses cure completely. Price soc. Sold by Harrington Bros. II xavf
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A REASONABLE QUESTION

Editor-''Haye you submitted these poems anywhere else first?"
 Poet-"No sir
 Editor-"Then where did you get that black ?"-Judge.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
COAL PROBLEM IS LOOMING UP VERY OBVIOUSLY Railroads Are Effected in Hard Place: National
 Defense Officers
 Are Puzzled. COAL COSTS THRILLED Serious |nroads Being Made into Revenues
 and Efficiency Is
 Threatened.
COAL COSTS THRILLED

BOSTON, April 27-One of the immediate problems confronting the 'pecial committee on National De- tense of the American Railway As sociation, composed of Presidents Harrison, Elliott, Req, Holden, Will lard and Krlttschnitt will have to 10 with the conservation of the coal supply At the present time rail roads are contracting for locomotive coal at $3.15 per ton at the mines IS against $103 few years ago.
 This trebling of the cost of coal s making serious inroads on reve- nues and threatens transportation efficiency. The above committee may tind it necessary to recommend a re- 1uction in train service throughout he country. This may force some inconvenience to the travelling pub lie, but it is only one of the many sacrifices which the people may be called upon to make
 The government should also have the. Immediate service. of the thou sands of engineers who are being employed by the government and state commissions in needless boiler inspections. If the government also should stop work on the big railroad appraisal job it would release a small army of men, who in this time of na- tiOnal emergency could better use
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
PRICE OF MEALS IN CAFES HAVE
 GONE UP SOME
Restaurant Keepers Are Forced To Raise Owing to Higher Cost
 Raw Products.

Have you been patronizing the
 cafes of the city and congratulating yourself that the high cost of living
 was passing you by, as you paid the same old price for your lunch con or dinner, day after day? If you have. get off your foot, be- cause now you will have to come across with more of the coin of the realm.
 The cafes of the city have raised their prices slightly to conform to the higher prices they are forced to pay for their raw products, and the size of the meal set before one is slightly smaller.
 Ham and eggs? Fifty cents"
 How is that? It used to be thir ty-five?"
 "Yes, but you know that the way everything is climbing out of sight we must raise our prices slightly in order to break even"
 The above is a sample of conver sations which may be heard in any cafe of the city at most any time now.
 Pie and other deserts have raised slightly in some cafes, but in one of the local restaurants the price is the same. All dinner orders have been raised from ten to twenty cents pei portion. Roast beef, that good old standby. has climbed until it now costs sixty cents.
 q was forced to raise my prices in order to make living With everything as high as they are al present l get from five to twenty cents more on each order and give them less than 1 used to. A patron gets enough to eat but he doesn't get as much to leave on his plate and it costs him more than former ly, but at that I am not making as much money as I was before the cost of living took the upward shoot" This is the way one restau rant keeper put the matter this
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
AUTO SPEEDERS BEING WATCHED
 FOR ACCIDENTS
Speeding Must Stop and One Government Officer Is Watching: Warning
 Issued Today.

Superintendent of Roads J. c. Hayes today issued warning through the press to all auto own CTS and drivers against speeding on the roads in this vicinity. Recent ly an auto plunged from one of the roads. through carelessness and speedy driving, and other near ac- cidcnts have occurred.
 Mr. Hayes stated that a watch is being kept on the speeding drivers and should any accident occur and anyone be hurt through careless ness, criminal proceedings will most certainly be instituted and pushed through to the limit.
 This careless driving must stop ssnd should anyone be hurt, as is li- able to happen at any time since the good weather has caused the roads to be crowded with women and children out walking, I shall take steps to prosecute the person driving the auto as well as the owner of the machine A watch is being kept and the speeders are be- ing noted. Something will happen soon and some one will be hurt. It will then be too late for anything but regrets" he stated.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
RATIFICATION OF TREATY
 WITH COLOMBIA DROPPED

WASHINGTON. April 27. Elf forts to ratify the Colombian treaty at this time have been in definitely abandoned by administra- tion leaders in the Senate.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
SEEKS DIVORCE |jI
 so HUSBAND CAN
 JOIN THE ARMY

CHICAGO, April 27.-In direct con
 trast to "slackers" who are seeking licenses to wed to escape military duty is the case of Clement Klot- lebafi machinist and a naturalized citizen. Klotleba is married and on that account, it is said, his applica- ton for enlistment was refused last Friday. He is now seeking divorce so that he may enlist, and his attor. ney says that Mrs. Klotleba is sc eager for him to go that she approves his plan. Both are of Austrian blood.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27

their talents as government engin- eers than in counting up the physical
 values of our railroad systems.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27

Place your orders early for seed potatoes at GOLDSTEINS EMPOR- luM. i.nus a27
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27

Todays News Today-in Empire.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
MEXICO PLANNING AN EMBARGO IS A
 DEPARTMENT REPORT

WASHINGTON, April 27. State Department officials hear from relia ble sources in Mexico that the Mexi- can government, at the instance of Berlin it is thought, is planning an embargo on articles of first neces- sity." including petroleum from the British owned Tampico wells.
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
SHORTHAND

You can become SHO ORTH A N Q w WRlT TER in months training. Learn the NEW RAPID" System Endorsed by the leading Business Col leges in the United States
 Four Months Course $4o.0o Enroll now for the summer school
 Q'rivate lessons if preferred)
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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-04-27
RESERVE BANK FOR
 SEATTLE IS CERTAIN

SEATTLE, April 27.-Daniel Kel- leher ,one of the best known local bankers, today telegraphed from Washington, D. C., that a branch of the Federal Resrve Bank would be located in Seattle immediately
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
REGULATE SWARMING
TO INCREASE HONEY
Expert Of Missouri College Gives
Suggestions Intended to AS
Sist Bee Keepers.

Bee swarming is natural and can
not be entirely prevented though il can
be regulated. Some strains of honey
bees, such as the small black bees,
swarm more often than others, though
all strains may be expected to swarm
when conditions are right. To secure
the greatest production of surplus
honey, reduce swarming to a minimum.
BY repeated, swarming many weak
colonies are produced, each Of which
stores little if any surplus honey, and
they may all be so weak that they will
perish during the following winter.
Congestion IN the hive, tree or other
abode, restriction of the brood nest,
over-heating, due to poor air circula-
tlon and the lack of shade, and an
overabundance of drones, are some
factors which tend to encourage
swarming. Leonard Haseman of the
University of Missouri college of ag-
rlculture offers the following sugges-
lions for regulating swarming: Make
the abode of the colony comfortable,
give 1t shade, remove drone brood. pro-
vide plenty Of room for surplus honey
In the supers, and make sure that the
brood chamber is large enough to ac-
commodate the colony.
The tendency to swarm is usually
most noticeable during May. June and
early July and If the foregoing pre-
cautions are taken in time they will
help prevent development of the
swarming fever. If the swarming fe-
yer is once developed by n colony.
swnrming is much more difficult to pre-
vent. The careful removal Of queen
cells every week may help to prevent
the swarm from emerging, but may not
relieve the swarming fever. By remov-
ing nart Of the brood combs rich in
hrooh and giving them to weaker col
ONES In exchange for some of their
combs which have little or no brood,
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
ERGOT is DANGEROUS
POISON TO ANIMALS
No Remedy for "Ergotism" and
Stockmen Should Avoid Graz
ing on Infested Areas.

(By W. w. ROBBINS. Colorado Agricul
tural College, Fort Collins, Colo.)
Ergot is name applied to one stage
of a fungus that works in the heads
of a number of grasses. 1t causes one
Of the Oldest known stock diseases, the
so-called "ergotism."
The ergot stage of the fungus is
abundant in the fall. It forms pur-
ple-black, straight or hornllke, hard
structures about one-fourth to one-half
inch long. These structures occupy
the position o. the grain in the head of
grass. This hard mass is not a degen-
crate kernel of grass, however. The
black ergot masses vary in size and
shape, depending upon the plant at.
tackled. They are largest in rye. Ergot
develops upon number Of grasses.
There is no effective remedy for err
gotism. Hence one should become fa-
miliar with the appearance IF ergot.
and avoid grazing stock on hHdly in
Tested areas an1 also nvoid cutting in.
Tested areas Of ErsHs for hay.
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
DIPLOMAT AS WELL AS SOLDIER

Gen. Hugh L. Scott is probably
the most unique character in the Unit
ed States army. In the days of the
Indian disturbances on the Western
frontier he gained distinction as an
Indian fighter, and as remarkable as
1t might seem, later became the In
dians' friend and counsellor. He is
familiar with their folklore and talks
their sign language.
Several years ago, when one of the
tribes went on the war path General
Scott was sent to the scene of the dis
turbances and after a few days of
friendly negotiations succeeded in
bringing about peace which the armed
forces Of the state had been unable to
accomplish.
After Villas raid on American
border towns, numbering Americans
and looting their homes, General Car
rama having gained control of the sit
Uation and an American force having
been dispatched into Mexico to run
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
CICuTA IS MOST POISONOUS OF PLANTS

the surface a considerable number Of
roots, and these are eaten by cattle,
with resulting sickness and death.
In cases of the poisoning Of human
beings the recognized treatment is to
give an efficient emetic, followed by a
cathartic. Some form of opium may
be given to control the convulsions
when they are violent. If free vomit-
ing is promptly produced, the patient
Is likely to recover.
1t is obvious that ruminant animals
cannot be treated in this way, for the
effective clearing of the stomach is
impossible. While hypodermic injec-
tlons of morphine may be used to aid
in controlling the convulslons and a
purgative may help in eliminating the
poison, ordinarily the convulsions are
so violent that nothing can be done for
the animal.
So far as live stock are concerned,
about all that can be done must be in
Meade County news., 1917-08-09

the normal emergence of brood is. dis
turbed, which tends to relieve the
swarming fever.
1t should be remembered that the
production of comb honey encourages
swarming more than the production Of
extracted honey. Under present condi-
tions, when 1t is so urgent that more
honey be produced to relieve the sugar
shortage, small as we'll as commercial
beekeepers are urged to produce more
extracted or chunk honey and less Of
the fancy section honey. Bees work
more readily in frames than in pound
sections; and where the honey is ex-
tracted and the empty combs returned
for refilling much more honey will be
obtained. This in itself will materially
help to regulate swarming.
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
ADMIRAL GLEAVES WINS HONORS

At the beginning of our partlcipa-
tinn in the greatest war of history,
Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, COM
manding the convoy which piloted the
large feet of transports, worked in
perfect harmony with Vice Admiral
William S. Sims, who sent out de-
strOyers to furnish additional protec-
ton to our fighting men through the
submarine zone, with the result that
II complete victory was won by our
navy, the enemy scoring not even as
much as a hit against the American
vessels and losing one or more subma-
rines.
News of this splendid accomplish
ment was printed just 10 years to the
day after the story Of the destruction
Of Cervera's fleet provided another
glorious Fourth of July by telling in
detail how one Of the most remarkable
naval battles on record had been won
by the American navy. On the Amer
lean side, though the ships were struck
MANY timac OnlU nno man u,oc EiIIo,
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
9renared hv the United States pepart-

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Cicuta, or water hemlOck, is the most
poisonous of the plants of the tenn
perate regions both to humans and to
domestic animals, yet it is not gen.
orally recognized. The plant is widely
distributed. Unfortunately, it resem-
bles number of harmless plants and
is not easily recognizable. 1t belongs
to the same family as carrots and pars-
nips. 1t has a number Of popular
Names Of which the most common is
cowbane or water hemlock. In the
mountain regions Of the West 1t Is fre-
quently called parsnip or wild parsnip'
Other names, less common, are snake
root, snakeweed, beaver poison, musk
rat weed, spotted hemlock and spotted
parsley.
The plant grows in wet places and is
especially common in some parts OF
the West along irrigating bitches. II
has a thickened rootstock with roots
Meade County news., 1917-08-09
YOUNG PLANT, SHOWING FORM OF RoorsTocx

which sometimes take the form Of a
group of tubers. The cicuta is most
readily distinguished from plants of
similar appearance growing under the
same conditions by the transverse
chambers in the rootstock. These can
be seen by making a longitudinal sec
tion. Further description, except by
botanical terms, isrdifficult, but the cir
cular mentioned presents illustrations
that make recognition easier.
Only tile root of cicuta is poisonous.
Cases of poisoning are more frequent
in the spring, partly because the roots
are more likely to be noticed at that
time and partly because they appear
to be more poisonous then than later in
the season. Occasionally stock find the
roots when they are washed out by
high water in small streams. Farm
ers in their plowing sometimes bring to