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The log cabin Democrat., 1917-04-04
NOTICE.

All persons found keeping hogs in
pens on their premises in Conway
after April A, will be brought before
me and dealt with according to the
law. j. c. Dawson, Mayor.
The log cabin Democrat., 1917-04-04
AWARDED FELLOWSHIP.

Prof. Beverly Paul Clayton of Cen
trail College has received notice that
he has been appointed to fellowship
in the department of history of the
University of Chicago for the 1918
term. He will probably be granted a
leave of absence from Central to &C
cept the position.
The log cabin Democrat., 1917-04-04
Personals

For cut flowers can Mrs. J. A
Pence.-dtf
Mrs. S. G.. Smith is visiting in the
City Of Roses.
For Sale-Second- hand furniture
Phone 50R.-d3t
Furnished rooms FOR rent. See j
d. Dunaway.-dtf
Mrs. Anna Prince-Pittman is spend
ing today in Little Rock.
W. B. Stark is business visitor
today to the capital city.
Get your eyes tested at Robinette's
and get satisfaction.-dlt
DR.. f. T. Williams of Greenbrier
was in Conway this morning.
Let us Wash and Polish your Car.
Home of Chevrolet
National White Rose Gas is Gas.
Home of Chevrolet.-167- eod3t
Supt. J. P. Womack transacted
business in Little Rock last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas l.. Daniel of
Palarm, are Conway visitors today.
For Rent-Six-room house in Hank
rider addition. Geo. Shaw, Jr.-dtf
When you want your horse shod,
go to j. w. Holt, the old reliable.-tf
Rubber-tired buggy, brand new, for
sale, cheap. Marcus Kuykendall. -d3t
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VALUE OF GOOD READING.

Good reading supplies the mind
with it's proper food; it increases our
knowledge Good reading inspires
the heart and stimulates our will to
action. Good reading satifies our
longing for the great and beautiful.
Cultured men of all times have I'M
derstood and appreciated the value of
books and reading. Aristotle, the
great Grecian philosopher, paid H.
600 sestercia for few books Of Speu-
sippus. He read with avidity the
books which his royal friend, AleXan-
der the Great, sent him. Alexander
himself kept copy of Homer under
his pillow so as to have it at hand
every morning. st. Jerome carried all
his books with him into the desert
and guarded them as his greatest
treasures. The great Bossuet daily
read the books Of the old Fathers of
the Church and found in them his
highest inspiration. Abraham Lin
coin had no chance to go to school,
but books were his dearest friends
and the founders of his future great
ness. The author Of the Imitation of
Christ" Thomas attempts, said that
he had nowhere found greater
pleasures than in 'hoekens and
''boekens," which means in the woods
and in books. Thus we see that the
intellectual giants of all times have
loved books.
Good reading supplements and Of
ten replaces the school, The school
| cannot do more than teach how to
study, lay the foundation, give hints
and impart the rudiments of science
Books read outside the school must
| enlarge and deepen the knowledge
| acquired. Many men who in their
youth did not have a chance to go to
school, or at least not to college, have
by diligent and perseVering reading,
| reached astonishing high positions
in the world Of letters. A good ex-
ample of this kind is Louis Veuillot,
| the famous French Catholic writer
and defender Of the faith, who could
only attend the primary school of a
| he was thirteen years old At that
early age he entered the office of a
| lawyer as clerk. His fellow
| clerks were very active young men,
who in their leisure hours studied
the great masters, wrote and per-
| formed dramatic pieces and sought
in every way to enlarge their knoWl-
edge. Louis read all the books his
friends procured for him carefully
and with pen in hand and grammar
| at his side. He was hardly seventeen
when he began his journalistic ca
reer. When twenty-five years old he
made a journey to Rome, was con
verified to Catholicity, and from that
| hour his genius, his pen and his heart
were dedicated to the cause of God
and His Church. He soon became
editor of the "Univers," and remain
ed the great Catholic leader until
his death in 1883. And what besides
his natural talent had given him his
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clad in black and deeply yelled, who
offers her services to the poor couple.
Thus she addresses them:
| will hold him at the font;
Care he shall not know nor want,
Pain, nor grinding poverty.
Palaces shall be his dwelling
Halls of light and jeweled splendor
Sun and moon and stars excelling.
Yet his heart shall still be tender
For the lowly mother, father,
For the dear ones that abide:
Till the sundering veil divide,
Till his earnest prayer shall gather
The beloved to his side.
The parents hear and believe: they
entrust their infant to the strangers
arms; the baptism is accomplished,
but straighway after
To the sun he scarce had known
Gently closed the little eyes;
Softly ceased the little. breath.
Godmother has brought her own
To a home beyond the skies;
For the Godmother was-Death.
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THE SYMBOLISM OF FLOWERS.

What are flowers good for? For re-
ligious symbolism. The Bible is an
arboretum, a divine conservatory. To
illustrate the brevity of the brightest
human life you will quote from Job,
"A man cometh forth as a flower and
is cut down." Flowers have no
grander use than when on Easter
morning we celebrate the reclamation
of Christ from the catacombs. And
SO twist all the festal flowers of all
the churches of America with all the
festal flowers of chapels and cathe-
drals of all Christendom into one
great chain, and with that chain |
bind the Easter mornings Of our lives
with the closing Easter of the world S
history of the resurrection!
Rep T De WIT Tolnddge.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
ST. THEoDoTus, MARTYR.

Theodotus was an innkeeper at
Ancyra, in Asia Minor. He was a
married man, but given to prayer and
modification, and on fire with zeal
for souls. He led many sinners to
penance, many Jews and heather to
the knowledge of Christ; and God set
His seal upon his sanctity by mira
cles, for his prayers healed the sick.
In the persecution of Diocletian he
confirmed the faith of the confessors
by prayer and good advice. He made
even his occupation an outlet for his
zeal. His inn was a place of shelter
for the Christians; and he furnished
the bread and wine for the Holy
Sacrifice, at time when by a special
edict of the Emperor all that was sold
in the market was contaminated by
heather rites.
1t was his zeal for souls which won
him the crown of martyrdom. Seven
Christian virgins had been apprehend-
G., I'D Theodotus remained praying
for them, till he got the news of their
victory. Next night one of these
virgin martyrs appeared to him, told
him how to recover her own body
and those of her companions, and
assured him that his own end was
near Ie did indeed recover the
sacred relics; but in doing so he was
betrayed by an apostate Christian.
He died in the year 303, after awful
torments, strengthened and confirmed
by Jesus Christ, Himself the jealous
Lover of souls.
God rewards our prayers for our
brethren by inspiring them to pray
| for us in the hour of our need. Be-
| fore Theodotus went to his trial God
permitted him to spend a long time
with his brethren, who prayed that
| he might finish his course with joy,
and then parted from him with many
| tears. Their prayers strengthened
him for the combat, and enabled him
| to labor even in the midst of his
sufferings for the souls of others. He
was torn with hooks and burnt with
| torches; vinegar was poured into his
wounds. See" he said, chow Christ
| can make a man Of low condition vic
| torious over princes" And pointing
to his wounds, he told the people TO
look at the sacrifice we must offer
| for Christ, Who first suffered for us.
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HER BETTER NATURE.
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
John r. o'Leary.) ..

Tap, tap, tap, came the old familiar
Just as he had finished mathis and
lauds for the day, and, without any
further hesitancy,-not even awaiting
the accustomed Come in in swept
Mary, the housekeeper, quite uncere-
ANONYMOUSLY; she seemed so unusually
jubilant this morning that the good
priest surmised something quite be-
yond the ordinary to have happened,
for never in all his years as pastor
of st. Columbkille's, had he beheld so
triumphant a smile spread over the
usually stern features of his pune
tilious and austere domestic.
1t was the dictum of the whole do
cese that this particular Mary held a
very conspicuous place among the in
dependent ones of her kind, and, not
infrequently had she received the
appellation of "old vixen" This espe-
cially was the case among the younger
generation of Father Toms parish,
who made many and varied comments
on Mary's pugnacity; but, whatever
che truth of these accusations may be,
suffice it to say that she was a fear
less character and not in the least
susceptible to intimidation; it was
even said of her that, if the occasion
required, she could strike fear into
old "Nick" himself. Few escaped her
poignant TRADES, and the more SO, if
they had been lax or careless in their
religious duties.
During his seminarian days Father
Tom had devoted himself most
studiously to his books; he had at
tended annual retreats and had lis
tened TO eloquent missionaries in their
terrible descriptions of hell; he had
read the Lives of the Saints and many
other holy works, but never, as he
himself frankly admitted, did he
realise what a dreadful place he'll ac-
atually is, until one day he was passing
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.>-&HD>

We do not always realize when we
are helping another. Perhaps just at
the time when we feel sorry and dis
couraged, because we can do so little,
our influence is making some one
kinder or drawer or more pure in
heart. If we are trying our best to
somebody somewhere, even though we
know nothing about it,
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THE SPLENDID GoDMoTHER.

In an apologize by Jean Reboul, .the
baker-poet of Mines two poor peas
ants are represented as in great dis
tress; they cannot find a godmother
for their infant; the priest is waiting,
but no one will accept SO humble a re-
sponsipility. Suddenly appears lady
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position? Chiefly his indefatigable
and methodical reading, by which
he gradually mastered literature
theology, philosophy, Latin and the
natural sciences.
.rs. christian FanlHD.
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till it is too late, or put off their con-
version, till they fall into the hands of
the living God
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Old Age

The Youth who sees the feeble Sire and
signs: 'Ah, shall the years conspire to
bring me aches and fretful means and halt
ing gait and palsied bonesl Shall l 60
grumbling on my way, unmindful of the
golden day, as glum as yon old bearded
guy shall be bent and gray, shall l, who
feel my life in every limb some day have
eyes as blear and dim?'' The Youth who
thus will muse, ali, me! how very seldom
do we see. The heat of Youth but seldom
fears the chills of life's last wintry years.
For thus with Youth it often goes, he seems
unwilling to suppose later day will find
himself forlorn and feeble on the shelf.
Though many are the old he sees and notes
their lame rheumatic knees, their hairs all
silvered Ger and few, their teeth wherewith
they cannot chew, he sees them every day
or so, yet somehow never seems to know
that he upon a later day will be as old and
bent as they. Yet even so perhaps it's best,
for should he wall and smite his chest, for
all his signs and means and tears he could
not stay the speeding years. He's wise who
wears peaceful ph'z whatever time of life
is his.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Unique Farm Product

In France there is 6ve-hundred acre
farm devoted entirely to the production of
small trees from which umbrella handles are
made. Naturally, the trees used for this
purpose must be quite small, so the farm is,
in reality, large nursery. Ash, oak,
chestnut and maple are the principal kinds
of wood grown. A year after planting, the
saplings are cut off close to the ground so
they will branch out, and the several shoots
are kept free from stems. The following
season, incisions are made in the bark and
various designs are worked in, for strange
to say, when the wood is finally stripped,
the markings appear, nicely engraved.
The small limbs may be bent and twisted
into ornamental shapes while still growing,
but most of them are perfectly straight and
are shaped in factories. 1t is unique
branch of agriculture and the proprietor of
the farm has amassed considerable wealth
through the marketing of his queer pro-
duct-Er
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Are Wooden Shoes Coming
Into Vogue Again?

In view of the abnormal condition of the
leather market not only in our own country
but in every country of the world it is with
much interest that we receive the suggestion
which has been made in London for solving
the boot-supply problem. A noted clog
maker doing big business has recently told
a representative of the London Evening
News how clogs are coming more and more
into vogue.
Hundreds of London school children are
now wearing clogs, which cost about three
shillings pair, (abou, 70 cents) and London
County Council school teachers have been
providing clogs for ill-shod pupils. who
have been paying for them by weekly in
stallments of ) pence.
The price of leather, states writer in the
paper mentioned, suggests that the city man
of the future will clatter to business in his
clogs. "For country wear one can buy an
elegant pair of lace-up clogs at quarter of
the price of equally efficient boots. ;"
Apart from the attention that they would at
tract, there is no reason why these should
not be worn in town. There is nothing
undignifed in the clog worn by the Ian
cashire or Yorkshire textile worker, it is
pointed out, and not few of the captains
of the British textile industry wear them.
-Eo
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Tolstoy no Music Lover

Some journals of Leo Tolstoy that have
been published show, among other things,
that he had a peculiar taste in music. He
did not admire Beethoven and he could not
sit through single act of Wagner's "Sieg-
fried Of this opera he wrote: cit is
stupid, unfit for children above seven years
of age, Punch and Judy show, pretentious
feigned, entirely false and without any
music whatever In his home at Yasnaya
Polyana members of the household were
once in the habit of playing necessarily on
four grand pianos, reason enough, one
might think, why he should dislike music
forever. Recalling this, he said "All this
the romances, the poems, the music-was
not art, something important and necessary
to people in general, but self-indulgence
of OTHERS, parasites, who have nothing in
common life; romances, novels about how
one falls in love disgustingly, poetry about
this'or about how one languishes from bore
dom. And music about the same theme.
But life, all life seethes with its own prob
lens of food, distributions, labor, about
faith. about the relations of men. 1t is
shameful, nasty. Help me Father, to serve
thee, by showing up this lie!"-Sslsctsd.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Motion Pictures in China

AT the end of the Russo Japanese war,
says the Los Angeles Times, Mr.. Broksky,
native of Odessa, Russia, came to San
Francisco. After the great San Francisco
FIRE he left the city with an old motion
picture machine and forty or fifty reels of
''junk' film. With that he sailed for the
orient. The motion picture was unknown
in China when he reached there with his
paraphernalia, and he ran into many dam
gers in showing his wares. To the natives
his camera and projecting machine was a
"Magic box He had to pay his first
audience to enter his theater, which, by the
way, was only a tent. In that way he final
ly won the crowds.
Matters were progressing well when
Brodsky one day put on wild west film in
which a band of cowboys appeared on the
screen, charging straight at the spectators
and firing revolvers. The moment that the
audience saw those shooting cowboys bear
ing down upon them they rushed, panic
stricken, from the tent theater, cutting their
| way out with knives.
After that the cautious natives were slow
to come back. But finally Brodsky hit up
on the plan of having a few Chinese come
and examine the apparatus, pass their hands
over the blank sheet that was the screen and
assure themselves that there was nothing to
hurt them.
Gradually he established picture theaters
throughout the country until now there are
eighty of them.
| Once he was thrown into Chinese Jail,
but finally made his escape after getting the
whole populace into the Jail to view his
motion pictures. At another place he was
to have been executed as ''devil,' but he
frightened the people and made them change
their minds by telling them that be could
easily put them on the screen and make
them work there forever.-Er
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
The Loud Mouth

Possibly no pest with which man is af-
ficted, is more trying than the human
species which Abe Potash so fifty termed
''the loud mouth And our present situa-
ton has brought forth vertable plague of
these pests.
Up and down the street they go, scatter
ing rumors and ideas which serve to show
how little they really know regarding the
matters of which they talk. Seldom do
they read, and less often do they reason, so
that those with whom they would argue are
at disadvantage from the start. Like
thirsty cow tied to post, their only method
of expressing themselves, is to below as
loud and as long as lung capacity will per-
nit. No one can help listen, but no one is
convinced.
And, for the victim who may be caught
where he must argue or run, the safest
course is flight, for ip~a>cs0test where lung
power counts onej hundred, and reason,
facts and logic aye nil. he is beaten from
the start.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
To Night

Mysterious Night! when our parent first
knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy
name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet meath curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame.
Hesperus with the host of heaven came,
And 10! Creation widened in mans view.
Who could have thought such darkness lay
concealed
Within thy beams, o Sun! or who could
find,
Whilst flower and leaf and insect stood re-
vealed,
That to such countless orbs thou MAIDS st us
blind?
Why do we then shun death with anxious
strife?
If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not
Life?-Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Opposition
Secretary.

Opposition is an Unreasonable help to
man. 1t is one of the worlds greatest
boons to human success known. AS the
kite rises against, and not with the wind,
so the resistance of opposition will bear man
up to the higher and and grander realms of
life. A headwind is better than no breeze
at all. In sailboat no man ever reached
his destination in dead calm. Nor have
men gained success without their storms.
Great characters have been moulded by
virtue of great opposition. Then let US not
despair because we are confronted by this
imaginary obstacle. 1t is not an enemy,
But friend. Severe opposition is what a
man needs, if he would amount to some
thing. Without it his life is a blank.
Hardship and self-denial and sacrifice con-
stitute the soil from which manhood and
self-reliance are developed. He who can
not endure the storms of life without finch
ing, stem the tide Prometheus-like without
murmuring, will never see the sun at high
twelve; and when he lies down toward the
west, will be overlooked and forgotten!
But he who forces himself against the blow
ing wind with a tranquil mind, steady
balance, and cheerful heart will reach his
goal in triumph.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
G LEA n | n G S
From Our Exchanges

Insurance is compulsory in Germany.
Electricity was invented by a Mr..
Edison.
When gossip meets gossip, then comes
the wagging of tongues.
Don't forget that thing isn't accom-
plished merely because you intend to do it.
1t doesn't take much of genius to de-
wise scheme that won't work.
Many man gets gay when it isn't his
turn to furnish the music.
When girl is pretty why waste time
learning to make bread?
Turn tlattery wrong side out and you
have SANDER.
When a man is satisfied with himself
he begins to shrvel up.
German workmen eat very little NUT
ton, but much beef and pork.
Last year "a, $40 umbrellas were left in
London's public carriages
SO many queer things now happen
every day that people have lost faith in
miracles.
In France the number of births exceed
ed by 9,5O8 the number of deaths during
the first six months in 1908. The figures
for the same period of 1909 indicate that
the deaths exceeded the number of births by
%, 203.
One of the oldest locomotive plants in
Austria is the State Railway Works, in
Vienna. 1t was here that the old locomo-
tive Philadelphia" served as prototype
in the early building of Austrian railway
engines. The locomotive was brought over
from the United States in 1888.
The French government has establish
ed a commission to promote what we call
mechanical farming after the war. This
commission finds that considerable num-
Der of tractors are already in use in French
agriculture work, and thar plumber can be
increased enormously as soon as the war
ends. 1t is looking out now for the plows,
harrows, drills, etc., to be hauled by these
tractors, and seeking mechanical training
for young men and women who must oper
ate them.
The possibilities in this line are very
great. French farms are small, to be sure,
n UGH smaller than the unit area which has
been found most profitable for tractor oper-
alton. But there are no fences between the
fields, one or two good tractors could do the
blowing and harvesting for whole hamlet,
and while the French never talk much
about cooperation and have little formal
organization for it, they are among the
most expert co-operators in the world
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
When All is Done

When all is done, and my last word is said,
And We who love me murmur, she is dead, .
Let no one weep, for fear that should know,
And sorrow, too, that we should sorrow so.
Whe1 all is done and in the oozing clay,
Yelay this cast-off hull of mine away,
Pray not for me, for. after long despair,
The quiet of my grave will be prayer.
For have suffered loss and prievous pain,
The hurts of hatred and the worlds dsdain,
And wounds so deep that love, well-tried
and pure,
Had not the power to ease them or to cure.
When all is done, say not my day is o er,
And that through night l seek a DINNER
shore,
Say rather that my morn has just begun
| greet the dawn and not sitting sun,
When all is done-SeIected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-01
Rules for the Road

Stand straight:
Step firmly, throw your weight;
The heaven is high above your head,
The good gray road is faithful to your tread.
Be strong:
Sing to your heart battle song;
Though hidden foeman lie in wait,
Something is in you that can smile at Fate.
Press through:
Nothing can harm you if you are true.
And when the night comes, rest:
The earth is friendly as a mothers breast.
-Ed,oim Markham, IN Nautilus.