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The Huttig news., 1917-04-21
Early Cultivation Means Bia Crops.

Most of the Arkansas farms have been titled in such manner as to rob the soil of it's humus supply. In this condition soils pack extremely hard from our beating rains and crust heay- fly after a rain followed by a couple of days of sunshine.
 Don't Allow Soil To Pack.
 If the young plants are permitted to stand in hard, packed crusted ground it cannot be expected that they will make the rapid, sturdy growth necessary to maximum crop production. The importance of early cultivation must be so apparent to the thinking farmer that discussion at length is unnecessary.
 Use a Section Harrow.
 The question then is-What is tke best implement farmer can use for early and rapid cultivation? Our an- swer is, A fifty or sixty tooth iron section harrow. It is not an expensive implement; it is one that is needed on every farm at all seasons. With a good team fifteen acres per day can be cultivated The teeth are adjust able so that the ground can be pull verized with minimum amount of digging that would tear up the plants. The section harrow can be used be- fore and after the seeds are up. When a beating rain follows the planting of a crop the harrow should be used just uoy-jr This will prevent crusting, form a mulch for the retention of moisture, warm up the ground, enable the young plants to come up without difficulty and promote their rapid growth. If corn or cotton is not planted on a be followed except on badly drained lands-the section harrow can he safely used after the plants are well up. It is the best early cultivation that can be given such crops. It breaks and pulverizes the whole surface in and out of the row. It kills all the early weed growth and gives the crop every chance for the rapid growth so highly desirable.
 Cultivate With Care.
 Tn narrowing corn or cotton after the plants are up the team should not be driven with the rows nor di. rectly across them. If the rows are followed harrow tooth is likely to plumb the center of the row and tear up all the plants. If the driving is done directly across the rows the whole top of the row may be pulled off f. planted on slight bed or roll ss it should bA Hrive diagonaily across the rows each time Always cross harrow after the first operation Corn may be narrowed until it is so tall that it will break and cotton until it is chopped out.
 &Try the harrow, M. Farmer. It is the speediest, best early cultivator you can use. If you are afraid it will ruin your crop, try r on an acre or two and watch results.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-21

Q Il o u q n. J Il s [
 watch him for tell tale signs. The sin gle man is usually
 polite to the la dies, but not over officious. The mar ried man is over Jealous in his ef- forts to make him. self agreeable to the feminine sex. The single man is not often, if ever, S t a ri n 2 a f CT young girls. The married man sel- dom lets one pass h i m unobserved. Of course he may be inst connaring
The Huttig news., 1917-04-21
A Patriotic Duty To Raise Food Sup
 ply For Family.
By Harry F. Kapp. District Agent,
 Southwest Arkansas.

By Harry F. Kapp, District Agent,
 Southwest Arkansas.
 MT. Farmer, It is your patriotic duty in the present national crisis to raise a food supply sufficient to protect your family and to produce maximum crops on every tillable acre of land. Prices for all kinds of food crops will be high and the government is making plans to market your surplus
 If maximum crops are to be had, attention must be given to early cul- tivation and the proper implements should be used.
 Remember. young plants in the held must have the best opportunity to live and grow if the largest crops are ' to be obtained.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-21
Our Shoes Look Well
and Wear Better

Where else on the earth can you do better than this? A stylish, up-to-date, comfort able, lasting shoe for women or misses, correctly made by the worlds most expert workrnen, at prices which are right.
The Huttig news., 1917-04-21

How can you tell whether or not a mans married? Why it's simple
The Huttig news., 1917-04-21
Tell Tale Signs Mark Benedict
 By LAURA JEAN LIBBY
By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a heritage
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
SOIL FOR THE BUSH FRUITS
Rich Clay Loan Recommended foi
Gooseberries and currants-Sand
Should Be Avoided.

GO0seberries and currants are very
much alike and whatever is said OF the
one is also applicable to the other. A
rich clay loan is best for them, and
the exposure of the plantation should
be toward the north, if possible, as the
ground on such an exposure does not
dry out as quickly as any ether ex-
pOsure. Sand should also be avoided
in setting out a plantation, the cut
tings should be not less than eight
inches long, and placed vertically in
the soil, which should be made very
rich with rotten stable manure.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16

have taken root between the rows, 1t
is advisable TO pillow up the center of
the rows, leaving the younger plants
to form the new row.
Strawberry plants produce the heavi-
est at the first seasons fruiting and
decline very rapidly after that time.
For this reason, 1t is advisable to re-
move the old plants and give the
younger ones a chance to develop. The
old plants can easily be told from the
young plants by the roots. Old plants
have dark-colored roots, while young
plants have light-colored. Also, the
crowns of the old plants become black
and elongated, while on the young
plants the crowns are short and light
colored.
Good fruit growers will ordinarily
not fruit the beds more than two sea-
sons, 1t being cheaper and more profit
able to set out new bed. But where
only limited ground is to be had, the
renovating system above described car
be utilized to advantage.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
Horticultural.
RENEW OLD STRAWBERRY BED
Young PIsnts Should Be Given Chance
to DeveIop-Heaviest Crop From
First FruitIna.

Ry u. p. sANDsTEN, Colorado Agri-
cultural College. Fort Collins, Colo)
AS soon as the picking season Is
over, the strawberry bed should be
moved and raked of. The dead
leaves around the old crowns should
also be removed and burned. The
rows are generally crowded with
plants In the center, and these should
be thinned out and the rest thoroughly
cultivated with the hoe. Then the
beds should be given a coating of well
rotted barnyard manure worked into
the ground, and liberal supply Of
water applied.
In many cases where the rows are
heavily matted and the young plants
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
numbers.
Nothing Unemployed.

Nothing Unemployed.
"Talk about people who put every
thing TO use. Mrs. Blank is the limit"
SIS shei' 'Why, that woman would
use the family skeleton for a dress
form. Boston Evening Transcript.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
Neglected Colds Grow Worse.

A cough that racks aud irritates
the throat may lead to a serious
chronic cough, if neglected. The
healing pine balsams in DR.. Bells
Pine Tar Honey-Nature's own rem
edy-will sootte and relieve the irii-
tation, breathing will be easier, and
the antiseptic properties will kill the
germ which retarded healing. Have
it handy f Group, sore throat and
chronic bronchial affections. Get a
bottle today. Pleasant to take. At
all Druggists. 25c.-Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
HONEYMOON
IS SPOILED
Business" Revealed, Bogus
Millionaire COnfesses To
Robbery and Murder.

Los Angeles, Jan. 12.-Jack Bau-
darian, formerly Of the United States
marine corps, arrested in Chicago for
passing forged checks, confessed to-
day, the police say that he and Albert
j. Griffith, Los Angeles policeman,
held up stages near San Diego, COM
mitted other crimes in this city and
that they are the men wanted for the
killing of Drew B. Milligan. Two men
recently held up Milligan in his auto
mobile, robbed him and shot him,
Griffith is charged with the recent
$4,000 express wagon robbery in
this city.
Barbarian was taken into custody
at his apartments in a fashionable no.
tel, where he was spending his hon
eymoon with girl of good family
who declared she was ignorant of her
husbands business. The man was
reputed millionaire by those about
the hotel familiar with his luxurious
living.
Barbarian said he enlisted in the
United States marine corps at San
Diego in April, 1916 He said he met
Griffith on the streets there while the
latter was on sick leave and Griffith
induced him to desert
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
YOUR LAST CHANCE.

Recently we published in these col
umns an offer of The Youths Com
panion and McCalPs Magazine, both
for a full year, for only So. 10, includ-
Ing a Mccall Dress Pattern. The
high price of paper and ink has
obliged McCall's Magazine TO raise
their subscription price February to
10 cents a copy and rs cents year
so that the offer at the above price
must be withdrawn.
Until March 81 our readers have
the privilege of ordering both publi-
cations for full year, including the
choice of any 15-cent Mccall Dress
Pattern, for only 81. 10.
The amount of reading, information
and entertainment contained in the
fifty-two issues of The Youths Com
panion and the value of twelve month
ly fashion numbers of McCalls at
s2.1 offer real bargain to every
reader Of this paper.
This two-at-one-price offer includes;
l. The Youths Companion-52
issues.
2. The Companion Home Calen-
dar for 1917.
3. McCal's Magazine-12 fashion
numbers.
A. One 15-cent Mccall Pattern -
your choice from your first copy of
McCall's = if you send a 2-cent stamp
with your selection.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
st. Paul ST., Boston, Mass.
New Subscriptions Received at this
Office.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16
RABBIT TRAP MADE OF TILE
Tee, Having Smaller Opening. is Sci
in Ground With Large End Pro-
jecting Cover Provided.

Rabbits may be trapped in order to
rid grounds of 'them, or for food pur-
poses, by the use of the tile trap shown
In the Illustration. A tee, having a
smaller opening of six inches, is set
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-16

IN the ground with fhe large end pro
Jeeting. Rocks are placed around II
aud II is provided with a. cover. Sew
eral extensions are attached 10 the
slx-ineh opening and the end permit
ted 10 project slightly from the
ground. Rocks are also placed ab0ut
this opening The rabbit enters the
trap az the small opening and Is free
TO come and 80 from he burrow. BY
closing the small opening. the quarry
may be taken out at The large OPEN
ins.-Popular Mechanics Montlsly. ,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
CHARGE MARK reed WITH VIRTUAL GRAFT 4

it. How was it done? But wait
till we hear from Paris"
THAT reminds me-" | said, sit
ting up suddenly, I've got to ca
BILE to Paris myself, on some bust
ness for Mr.. Vantine.'
Not connected with this af-
fair"
"Oh, no; his shippers over there
sent him a piece of furniture that
doesn't belong to him. He asked
me to straighten the matter out. y
l rang for the hall-boy, asked
for a cable-blank, and sent off the
message.
Godfrey was about to go when
my telephone rang.
"Hello," | said taking down the
receiver.
as that you, Mr.. Lester?" asked
a voice.
yes"
This is Parks" and | suddenly
realized that his voice was unfa-
miliar because it was hoarse and
quivering with emotion. could
you come down to the house right
away, sir?"
"Why, yes" | said, wondering
ly, 'if it's important. Does Mr..
Vantine need me?"
1--WE all need you!" said the
voice, and broke into a dry sob.
For heavens sake, come ,quick,
Mr.. Lester!"
"All right" I said.
"Shall come, too?" asked God
frey.
Perhaps you'd better" l
agreed. at sounded pretty seri-
GUS"
Three minutes later we had
hailed a taxi and were speeding
eastward toward the Avenue. Five
minutes later we drew up before
the Vantine place.
In another moment Parks had
dragged us to the door of the
room where we had found the
Frenchman' body. ''In there.
sir!" he sobbed. ''In there!"
The room was ablaze with light.
and for an instant my eyes were
so dazzled that I could distinguish
nothing. Dimly / saw GOrfrey
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry of thousands
since DIR. Edwards produced Olive
Tablets, the substitute for calomel.
DIR. Edwards, practicing physician
Tor IL years and calomels old-time
enemy, discovered the Olive Tablet
formula while treating patients for
chronic constipation and torpid livers
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel. but healing, sooth-
ing vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the Keynote" OF
these little sugar-coated, olive-colored
tablets. They cause the bowels and
liver to act normally. They never
force them to unnatural action.
1t you have dark brown mouth"
now and them bad breath-a dull,
tired feeling--sick headache-torpid
liver and are constipated, you'll find
quick, sure and only pleasant results
from one or two little DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two eyerv
night just to keep right. Try them.
a0c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
Mystery Of the Boule Cabinet
BY BURTON Z. STEVENSON
Copyrighted by B. E. Stevenson)

Continued From Our Last Issue.
That don't tell us much" said
the latter, and gave the card tC
Godfrey. l looked over his shoul
der and saw that 1t contained g
single engraved line:
M. THEOPHILE D'AURELLE
Except that he's French, as
Parks suggested" said Godfrey.
What | should like to know
said Godfrey after a moment, lis
this: If this fellow took poison.
what did he take 1t out Of?
Where's the paper, or bottle, or
whatever it was?"
Maybe it's in his hand" sug-
gested Simmonds, and lifted the
right hand.
Look here" he said, and held
the hand so that we all could see.
1t was swollen and darkly discol-
ored
See there" said Simmonds,
something bit him." and he point
ed to two deep incisions on the
back of the hand, just above the
knuckles, from which a few drops
of blood had oozed and dried.
With little exclamation of sur
prise and excitement, Godfrey bent
for an instant above the injured
hand. Then he turned and looked
at US.
This man didn't take poison, I"
he said in a low voice "He was
killed."
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spring forward and drop to his
knees.
Then my eyes cleared, and
saw, on the very spot where d'Au-
relle had died, another body.
l remember bending over and
peering into the face
1t was the face of Philip Van
tine.
Lester, look here!" cried God
frey's voice, sharp, insistent. He
was holding something toward
me.
1t was the dead mans hand he
was holding. And on the back of
it, just above the knuckles, were
two tiny wounds, from which a
few drops of blood had trickled.
And as l stared at this CHASTITY
sight, scarce able to believe my
eyes, | heard a choking voice be-
hind me, saying over and over
again:
1T was that woman. done it! 1t
was that woman done it"
Continued in Our Next Issue.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
CHAPTER w.
The ThuuderbOIt.

It was about eight o'clock thai
evening that Godfrey tapped at my
door, and when | let him in,
could tell by the way his eyes
were shining that he had some
news.
"Well?"
"The stomach was absolutely
normal. 1t showed no trace OF
poison of any kind"
He stretched himself, lay back
in his chair, sent smoke-ring cir.
cling toward the ceiling, and
watched it, smiling absently.
Rather facer for our friend
Goldberger," he added, after a
minute.
whats the matter with Gold
berger? He seemed rather peeved
with you this afternoon.
mo wonder. He's Grady's man,
and we're after Grady. Grady isn't
fit to head the detective bureau
he got the job through pull-he's
stupid, and | suspect he's crooked.
The Record says he has got to
| CO."
wasn't interested in Grady, so
/ came back to the case in hand.
Look here, Godfrey" said, "if
it wasn't poison, what was it,"
But it was poison"
inserted at the hand?"
He nodded.
"Goldberger says there's no poi
son known which could be used
that way and which would act so
quickly"
"Goldberger is right in that"
agreed Godfrey, "but there's a poi
son unknown that will-because it
did. That fellow practically drop
ped where he was struck"
"But you've already said there's
no poison so powerful as all that"
II said we didn't know of any.
wouldn't be so sure that Catherine
de Medici didn't"
what has Catherine de Medici
to do with it,"
"Nothing-except that what has
been done may always be done
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06
CAPITOL BUILDING
GRAB BRINGS OUT
HOT ACCUSATIONS

Floor Leader Reed, IL was
charged, has been lining up votes
for the bill, because 1t involves
the purchase for capitol building
purposes of land owned by him
near the Temple of Justice.
Log Rolling Grab.
Reed is a member of the capitol
commission, which has charge of
spending the capitol building
funds.
Senator Nichols, who led the
fight against the grab, declared
the measure to be lone of the
most dastardly outrages ever per-
petrated in the history of the
state
He declared that the members
of the appropriations committee,
as selected by the lieutenant gov
ernor, consisted of those who had
some particular piece of pork to
get for their districts, and that
the capitol building grab was the
outcome of log rolling and the
agreements of interests.
Senator Carlyon of Thurston
county, spokesman for the bill,
bore the brunt of the attack.
Another bad Feature.
Nichols prophesied that before
the thing is concluded the millions
upon millions of dollars will have
been extracted from the pockets
of the people of the state.
One of the worst features of the
bill, 1t was pointed out, is a clause
which authorizes the Investment
OF state industrial insurance funds
In capitol building bonds, a class
OF securities which has been con-
sidered unsafe for the investment
of school funds.
Knowing that the passage of the
bill was certain, Senator Johnson
tried to have clause attached,
allowing 1t to be referred to the
people.
IF we're not ashamed of what
we're doing, let the people vote
on it," he said. 1.-THE bill Is to be
passed by log rolling methods. In
a referendum 1t would be defeat
ed by two to one vote. I'm sur
prised the emergency clause
wasn't attached"
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again. These old stories are, no
doubt, exaggerated; but it seems
fairly certain that the Queen of
Navarro was killed with a pair of
poisoned gloves, the Due d'Anjou
with the scent of a poisoned rose,
and the Prince de Porcian with
the smoke of a poisoned lamp.
This case isn't as extraordinary as
those"
No." | agreed, and fell silent.
After ALL" went on Godfrey,
at last, there is one thing that
neither you nor l nor any reason
able man can believe, and that is
that this Frenchman came from
heaven knows where-from Paris,
perhaps-with Vantine's address
in his pocket, and hunted up the
house and made his way into it
simply to kill himself there. He
had some other object, and he
met his death while trying to &C
complish it."
Have you found out who he
isl"
NO; he's not registered at any
of the hotels; the French consul
never heard of him. We've cabled
our Paris office to look him up.
But even if we discover the iden-
tity of Theophile d'Aurelle, it
won't help us any"
But, Godfrey" l said, SUP
pose you knew who he was and
what he wanted with Vantine-
suppose you could make a guess at
who killed him and why-how
was it done?"
"Ah!" agreed Godfrey. That's
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

Especial to The Times.)
OLYMPIA, March 0.-Sensa-
tional charges of influencing
Legislation for personal finan-
cial gain were made on the
floor of the senate late yester-
day against Mark +. Reed, or
ganization floor leader In the
house, during u debate on
substitute house bill 20, the
state capitol building grab
which was put across by a
vote of 30 to 10.
The charges were similar tC
those made last week agains
Speaker Kelly who, as attorney
and director of the Pacific Build
ing & Loan association of Taco.
ma. was accused of using the clul
on building and loan legislation
The capitol building grab, In
volving a direct tax of u mill
and an appropriation of
$1,000,000 for the purchase of
land and the erection of state CAPT
tol buildings, is declared to be the
rottenest piece OF legislation put
over by the session just closing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

! fell to work looking. through the
dead mans pockets.
| There was a purse in the inside
coat pocket containing two bills
five calling cards, each bearing 6
different name, none of them his
On the back of one of them, Van.
tines address was written in pen
Gil.
There were no written docu-
ments of any kind in the pockets,
| the remainder of whose contents
consisted OF such odds and ends
as any man might carry about with
him-a cheap watch, q penknife.
four or five keys on ring, a silk
handkerchief-but not thing to
assist in establishing his identity.
We'll have to cable over to
Paris" remarked Simmonds. Hes
French, all right-that silk hand
kerchief proves it."
"Yes-and his best girl proves
1t, too" put in Godfrey.
His best girl?"
For answer, Godfrey held up
the watch. He had opened the case,
and inside it was a photograph of
woman with bold, dark eyes and
full lips and oval face-a face so
ltypically French that it was not to
be mistaken.
After the others had gone Van
tine and | talked 1t all over.
Lester he said at last, 81
have a queer feeling that the bus
mess which brought this man here
in some way concerned the Boule
cabinet I was telling you about.
Perhaps 1t belonged to him."
Hardly" l protested, recalling
his shabby appearance.
"At any rate, | remember, as
was looking at his card, that some
such thought occurred to me. 1t
was for that reason l told Parks
to ask him to wait"
tits possible, of course" l ad-
mitted.
you haven't seen the cabinet
yet. Come down and look at it."
He led the way down the stair,
passed through the room in which
We had found the body of the un-
fortunate Frenchman, and into hte
room beyond. Five or six pieces of
furniture, evidently just unpacked.
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would have bought quart of milk
apiece for 1870 east >side babies.
But Jake, of course, doesn't know
anything about the starving babies
on the east side.
Jake plays among his costly toys
in the mansion at Fifth avenue
aud 57th street, two miles from
the Ghetto, and never dreams that
a little girl on Houston street
would give her right arm for his
$40 doll-buggy, that it might be
hooked to buy doctors time and
medicine for her baby brother.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

stood there, but, ignorant as l am
of such things, he did not have to
point out to me the Boule cabinet.
1t dominated the room.
But l may as well say here that
| never really appreciated it. The
florid style of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Louis is not at all to my
taste; and | am to little of a con-
noisseur to admire a beauty which
has not personal appeal for me. So
l am afraid that Vantine found me
q little cold.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-06

little Jake could eat IS pecks of
Ispuds every day. A year ago he
could have had 800 pecks.
The Aston baby spends much of
his hard-earned (but not by him.
cash in philanthropic endeavor, &C
cording to Mrs. Dicks expense ac-
counts.
There is, for instance, the item
of half a dozen cigar lighters, at
SO per. These were intended, it
is assumed, as presents for his
'grown-up friends.
This half dozen cigar lighters