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The courier-index., 1918-08-09
SAVING AND SERVING

BY economizing in consumption and
with the resultant saving purchasing
the governments war securities the
American citizen performs a double
duty. The citizen and the govern
ment cannot use the same labor and
material; if the citizen uses it, the
material and labor cannot be used
by the government. II the citizen
economies in consumption, so much
material and labor and transporta-
ton space is left free for government
uses. And when the saving effected
is lent to the government more mon
ey is thus placed at the disposal OF
the government.
The more the people save the more
money, labor and materials are left
for the winning of the war, the great
er and more complete the support
given to our fighting men.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
WATTERsoN TO RETIRE
Commercial Appeal)

NOOAuACA OAO1 <ARRO0AI
II is rumored that Henry Waiter
son, veteran editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, is to retire from his
newspaper sanctum.
Mr.. Watterson is easily the fore
most editor of this country, even OF
his time, for two continents have
waited for, and read with avidity,
his discussions OF public events
through the columns of his journal.
Although associated inseparably with
Kentucky, he was born in Washing
ton. During the war between the
states he wrote with his sword for
the Confederacy, serving as chief
of scouts in Gen. Johnston's army.
His early journalistic work was done
in Tennessee, where he edited a
paper in Chattanooga and one IN
Nashville. 1t was not until after the
war that he went to Louisville,
where he built up that Hercules OF
pournlaism, the Courier-Journal, from
the consolidation OF two small papers.
For fifty years he has been the
presiding genius that has made the
Courier Journal quoted wherever
English language newspapers are
read. 1t is his trenchant pen that
has dug down under the veneer OF
things and righted social wrongs
it is his pitiless pen that has impaled
before the public gaze dishonesty and
treachery and snobbery until they
sank away discredited; and it is his
winged fancy that has torn away
the veil OF plodding commonplace and
shown men the roseate hills of hope
and the snow capped peaks OF spirit
ual upiift.
His is a manly sided genius; music
and art and literature, all god mother
ed his christening, and he was given
the world of the fullness of his
| powers.
If he lays down his pen now II
win be white he is still brilliant ant
helpful and influential, and the gooc
wishes of thousands of former read
ers will follow him tenderly into the
retirement he has selected for him
self. So general is the wish that NJ
will send back an occasional mes
sage through the old columns, thai
mis- friends everywhere are saying
sau revoir'' and not good bye"
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
DAMAGED GOODS

Johnny was at the grocery store,
Il hear you have little sister al
|uu house" said the grocer.
Yes sir" said Johnny.
DO you like that?' was Queried.
Z wish it was a boy" said Johnny.
no. could play marbles with him
nd baseball"
"Well,' said the storekeeper, why
|Ont you exchange your little sister
br boy?p
Johnny reflected for a minute,
ben ne said, rather sorrowfully:
I'VE can't now; it's too late
We've used her nearly four weeks. y
Philadelphia Ledger.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
GOAL NOT REACHED

Although not oyerparticular about
her work, Mrs. Circumstances new
maid, fresh from the Evergreen Isle,
was somewhat OF stickIer for pre-
cision in language, $50
as IL after eight yets' asked Mrs.
B of her one moShizly as she
came in from the kitchen on some
errand. ..........s. !. ,sss,,. - -. -.
..Yis, mum, = replied Bridget, care
fully Weighing her words. TITS after
II all right, bat 1t hasn't got there
yet II has five minutes yet to trav-
el."--Christian Herald.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AMEND.
MENT. a4


Providing credit Of state may be
loaned and indebtedness incurred TO an
amount not exceeding two per cent or
the assessed valuation of property IN
state for the purpose of providing
funds to be loaned upon the security
of farm lands within the State or MAX
ing farm loans; providing Governor,
Secretary of State and State Land Com.
missioner shall constitute State Lana
Board having authority to sell bonds
in name of State. place money IN stare
Treasury and loan money TO bona hde
purchasers of farm lands II Arkansas,
and prescribing manner in which snch
loans shall be made and repaid; dee
eating to the Legislature the authoIAty
to provide for carrying out. ADMINISTER
ing and safeguarding the provisions OF
this amendment; providing all provis-
ions of the Constitution of Arkansas
in conflict with this amendment are
repealed,
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
c.pAwAy VISITS WOUNDED

4Tbe delegation of American con-
kemmen spent a busy day visiting
|Hh Major Robert P. Perkins, Ameri-
In Red Cross commissioner, the five
Led Cross hospitals in Paris and its
bcuity The members of the house
representatives were particularly
Iterested in the tent hospitals at
be race course Of Auteuli where
Eery congressman found wounded
|mericans from his own constitu-
kpey."
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
sAEErX pEPosIr BOXES

We have rented more 81 a year
boxes for the safe keeping OF Liberty
Bonds and other valuable papers
than ever before. Where are your
bonds and other valuable papers.
LEE COUNTY. NATIONAL BANK.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

constipation e the starting point
= many serioAs diseases. To be
saitny, keep the bowels active and
PECULIAR, Herbine will remove all
examinations in the bowels and put
4 system in prime, condition. Price
We Sold by Harrington Bros. IT
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

Don't neglect paying your waxss
rent. We are going to cut the water
off II the rent IL not paid BY the
18th of each month Payable nj
Bank Of Mariana -
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
AN UP TO ATE Pupil

Teacher--"Name the five zones. .
RupilTr" Temperate, Incorporate,
FH postal and 0."-Boston Tran
|Gipt
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
BASEBALL AMONG THE ALLIES

gA Z C1LL rN"0No TIE H@Gs@0
The more things the draft officials
do to base ball. here the better it
flourishes in London, according to
Richard Hatteras, OF that thriving
community Mr. Hatteras says the
game is getting firm hold on every
nationality in the British capital.
why recently quoth he, Il saw
a game in which East Indians were
playing. One OF these approached
the plate at crucial moment and
cried aloud,
"'Allah. give thou me strength to
make hit
"He struck out.
'sThe next man up was an Irishman.
He spat on the plate, made faces at
the pitcher, and yelled,
"You know me, All He made
home run. New York Tribune.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
ARKANSAS NOTES

A watermelon donated to the Red
Cross at Walnut Ridge was ratified
and brought 1928.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

Young ladies of Springdale are
making an effort to make enough
glasses of jelly to present at least
one glass to each OF the 325 soldiers
now in training at Fayetteville.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

Roy McCurry of Alpena, who was
a seaman aboard the cruiser San
Diego, sunk by German mine re-
Gently, writes his sister, Mrs. G. W..
Lackey, of Mountain View. that he
had good swim of three hours be-
fore he was picked up by rescuers.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

When little more than boy Julian
Holt left his home near Washington
and joined the army. This was IL
years ago. Since that time his fam
lily has heard nothing OF him and be.
lieved him dead. A few days ago
he wrote to his parents and told
them he intended to make them q
visit. He is now at Washington with
his wife and four children. He lives
in Cleveland, o.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

The Salem Banner says since Al
exander Sanders died and was buried
In the State Line cemetery, some
days ago, his dog has been lying on
the grave and cannot be coaxed
away. Some children tried to feed
the animal, but IT refused TO eat, and
frightened the children away. It
has dug large hole In the grave,
and rests there guarding its master.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
FOR AMENDMENT NO. IL.
AGAINsT AMENDMENT NO. IL.

ne ut Resolved ny the House Of Rep
resenaatavee and the Senate of ths
state of Arkansas, the Majority o,
Roth Houses Agreeing Theretos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
IN A TANK AT CAMBRIA

onto terra firma again just as it was
 getting light; SEQ a. m. is the time I should make it. still leading the tank, I got to the appointed spot on time. "One minute after I arrived hell vas
 let loose
 Shall we who live to tell the tale ever
 forget it?
 We all realized that never in the his- tory of the world had there been fight like this.
 This time it was our hell, prepared i so cleverly was the Hun artillery con-. cealed But at the very minute ap- pointed, our barrage started. It doesn't sound much on paper, but guns were strewn along the line, batteries touching l each other The tanks pitched in and
 led the infantry upon that successful day.
 "My job was to cut wire, which l did without a hitch. What a sight within an hour! The artillery and the cavalry were then coming forward. The tanks
 had made it possible for all this, and it filled with pride to see how we had hacked through. The so-called IIin-
 denburg line crumpled up.S Some of the enemy were slaughtered; some fled some gave themselves up. Just before we started one of my
 men was outside and got a stray bullet through his knee-my first and last cas- ualty Well we chased the enemy like fox hunt Thousands gave themselves
 up. As you know, our casualties were very slight.
 "At one spot in the Hindenburg line I had great difficulty with my enormous machine in avoiding the prostrate bodies of the men killed and wounded, but wended my way in and out between the fallen somehow By o'clock in the aft ernoon I had gone as far as l could with the petrol and other material it takes to run a tank, and I came back to a prearranged point. In the long run back, we had many casualties. We got so far advanced that we came onto
 the enemy batteries before they could
 skedaddle Some of their guns knocked
 our tanks out at point-blank range. One
 of their batteries gave attention to me,
 but l was not badly hit All the Hun
 batteries were captured and the guns
 were used the next day against the
 enemy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18

From the World Outlook. NNHE original Americans of the far | north are brown instead of req S and are not Indians. Their name, Eskimos. which they dislike, means eat
 CTS of raw fish" But they haven't been
 driven yet to change their name by cook
 ing the fish.
 Tbe Eskimo woman could easily put
 forth a good excuse for not cooking all
 the food her family eats, because she mas
 so many other things to do.
 After she has helped build the igioo, she
 takes her place beside her husband m
 fishing. This means going out and chop-
 ,,;ns n hole in the frozen ocean and keep
 ing if open by swishing around rein-
 deer horn ladle with one hand while holding a line baited with red flannel
 with the other
 When the family wants change of diet or some new clothes, she goes out to help hunt seal, walrus. whales. deer and caribou.
 She may be physically stronger than her modern American sisters, but she has the same love of adornment and wears over her fur parka or coat bright calico protecting shirt often decorated with fancy patchwork borders When she joins the polar bear hunt however, she must wear white-white drill trousers over the fur ones that both men and women wear, and white snow shirts to match the landscape and the sky.
 ] But the Eskimo woman's chief adorn-
 ments are half-chewed-down teeth which
 she gains in this fashion: When she has come in from days hunt and crawled through the various doorways of her l iglOo, each made smaller than the ons outside to keep out as much cold air as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
Stand By the Government

T7 HE administration has brought the home
 II to every man, and child in America.
 There still many who do not realize that at that sacrifice that the nterrup ton of normal activities and habits that each must bear his particular share of the burden
 Desperate situations demand desperate remedies It the patriotic duty of every loyal citizen to stand behind his ment to confde in the wisdom of his trusted officials and give his hearty cooperation to aid in meeting crisis you must get mad get mad at the Kaiser Get mad that you will be willing to do anything make any sacrifice put end the horrible and demorazng at the earliest possible moment
 If coal the present greatest help toward whipping ser, let's coal
 If few days of sacrifice inconvenience are necessary get coal to the ships which feeding supplying boys over in France let's make the sacrifice gladly willingly without whining that demoralizes deprives ot few dollars If the Kaiser to this war wouldn't be any business left to worry about
 Our present duty is to fall into n shoulder spr march forward with the boys there fighting battles whose trials and sacrifices to ours are the mountain to the mole hill
 Away with this croakng about discomfort
 Let's show the kind of stuff really made of in these stern times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
ALL ABOUT KHAKI

From the Washington Post.
 What is the origin of khaki? To whom is the army indebted for it? Khaki is said first to have been adopted in British India, in 1S4S, by Sir Henry Burnett Lumsden, who had been asked to equip corps of guides to collect intelligence and to conduct an English force on the northwestern frontier of India. The cloth used was light cotton drill, as suited the climate in Hindustan, and took it's name from a native term, khaki, ; which means in the Urdu language dusty" being derived from "khak'' or dust. Thus the term applied to the color Of the cloth rather than to the material. According to the dictionary, is is pro- nounced kaykee by the natives, but the English pronounce it is kharkee, and this is the correct pronunciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
STRONG WOMEN OF THE NORTH

possible, and cooked her family's dinner
 and put the baby and any stray orphans
 that may have elected her house as a
 gloo's upstairs, she sits down by the light of the seal oil lamp and chews leather to make boot soles turn back over the foot SO the top can be sewed
 on. The more the women chew. the fur
 ther down their teeth are worn and the
 more beautiful they become in the sight
 of Eskimo society.
 There is no suffrage question among
 the Eskimo-the woman owns the igloo with the man and has equal voice in the council meetings And there are no vexatious questions
 about property rights to settle. because
 besides the igloo and personal belong ings there is no property. The Eskimos cannot conceive of land IS belonging to any one person. When told how 1t is held as private property in the states" they showed great surprise and one
 old man asked if the white men also divided the oceans in the same way. SEPTEMBER 21. 1870 By Charles Kingsley Speak low, speak little; who may sing While wonder cannon thunders boom? Watch, shuddering, With each day may bring:
 Nor pipe amid the crack of doom.' And yet--the pines sing overhead, 1, The robins by the alder pool. The bees about the garden bed. The children dancing home from school. And ever at the loom of Birth The mighty mother weaves and sings: She weaves--fresh robes for mansled earth:
 She sings fresh hopes for desperate thiags.
 And thou. too; if through Natures calm Some strain of music touch thine ears.
 Accept and share that soothing balm.
 And sing, though choked with pityirE
 tears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
"AND so THEY WERE MARRIED"

From the Patterson CN. Y) News.
 Radiant sun and sparkling snow ush- cred in the 18th, and justly so, for this was Clarence and Iola's wedding day. When young people have trod the path way of righteousness and decorum it is fitting and deserved that the one day of their life should be without a cloud and with promising horizon. The afternoon brought train and sleigh load until the historic home of the bride, where once resounded the cheers and tramping feet of revolutionary militiaman in their gen eral training" was filled with relative and friend-and the attractive ladies in becoming apparel, stalwart men and youth, with here and there q touch of the olive drab or aki''-while the sweet strains of the harp and violin mingling with the merry confusion of voices in social converse within, in sharp but pleas- ant contrast with the sound of sleigh bells without, tended to complete an oc- casion which should occupy page in the book of memory to be treasured by those present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 @ LIVER WARREN drove 8 tank W U at the battle of Cambrai when
 General Byng bit the Hindenburg line in the famous surprise attack. Ol- yer is a second cousin of Edward E. Lent of Freeport, Long Island. And his letter about the battle of Cambrai as he witnessed and felt 1t, follows:
 ''For just two weeks I have been right in the thick of the fray. It seems years. Really the tank corps has justified it's existence and has made great name for itself. Everything went according to plan and the men, officers and all, were splen- did. #
 Well, after great preparations in se- cret training with the infantry etc, we crept up behind our own lines. Mar vicious how it was done so quietly We did that the last moment, the night of November 19, 1917. My own experience I had better start with:
 First of all. my old tank behaved splendidly. I had no mechanical trouble when l called upon it at a critical mo- ment On the evening of the (date cen sored), after dark, about p. m, I started on my last journey before the day." distance of three miles. slipped into big ditch in the dark-I mean my old tank did. l, of course, was out side leading it just like child so I would get it safely there. It was very dark, and somehow or another before could warn my men inside. the old tank slid sideways down an enormous ditch.
 T was disappointed.
 1. T knew the men could get out alright and I also knew it would take three or four hours
 Instead of getting up there in good time for a rest before the dash, would he busy working hard up to the very last minute. We dare not show light pitch dark, the dear old tank standing on it's head, kicking it's caterpillar legs in the air, 10 Tommes sweating in the mud, the black blanket of night over all. It was the very edge of hell. I can't give you the mechanical details for get ting tank out of hole like that, but it is an interesting piece of business. There is certain appliance-after very hard work and the use of that certain appliance, which is bit of British war secrecy we carry with us-I got back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
THE MIDDLE-AcEp MAN

From the New York Mail.
 The theory that man is fit only for
 the scrap heap after he is 50 has been l thoroughly discredited by experience in
 the present war. Military operations,
 more than any other form of activity, demand youth and the impetuous en- ergy, enterprise and aggressiveness that have been supposed to go only with
 youth. In this war these qualities, in- dispensble in the moral makeup of any military leader, have been found mostly in men well past the 60-year line. And yet there are employers who think that at 45 man begins to lose his punch"
 his capacity for aggressive enterprise, his value as part of the human machinery or a business enterprise. Never was q
 more serious economic mistake made.
 The man of 50 who has lived wisely and has kept in touch with the spirit of the time is at his best. To bodily vigor he joins experience and experience means judgment To judgment he joins sense of responsibility and a habit of stead- ness-two qualities of inestimable value in business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A selfish man has remarkable presence of mind. You may have noticed that he never forgets himself.
 Cherish your friends Some of these days you will discover that it is easier to lose a friend than it is to make one.
 How do you like those new military honnets the girls are wearing? Neither do we.
 People turned up their noses at meller- drama when the prices were 10-20-30 But now that mellerdrama prices are $i-$L50- g you cant keep people away from the mellerdramas.
 Of course, it is none of our business. But we have noticed that a woman isn't regarded as well dressed at an evening reception unless she is undressed
 The fact that violin costs s10O0 won't make an old-fashioned man believe that it is anything but a fiddle.
 Lots of divorces are due to the fact that man will set sail on the sea of matrimony before he has raised the wind.
 Every mother knows that if she leaves the baby alone with it's father while she goes out the durn fool is liable to pin it's clothes to it instead of on it.
 After you hear a man praising the property when he has a house to sell you wonder why the heck he wishes to sell it.
 Many girl who refuses to stay single acts the same way when she gets mar ried.
 Every time man says he always tells people what he thinks of them to their faces poor old Ananias rolls over in his grave and wonders why he was selected as the goat.
 There isn't much trouble with married life when both members of the team have sense enough to quit loving each other and begin to like each other
 A fat woman wouldn't look nearly as fat if she wouldn't rig herself up trying to look thin.
 A girls ide.a of a man after her own heart is the one who asks her for her hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
Hs x N Revival of Residence Construction Expected

E7T1HE American Lumberman sees 4 some encouraging signs of re- vival of ordinary civilian" residence construction in the coming spring The conservative journal referred to calls attention to the fact that the outstanding feature of the building situation, so far as actual construction of dwellings is concerned, is the al- most feverish activity in providing housing for workmen employed in munition and other plants engaged in turning out war material.
 It thinks the time is now propitious for home construction of the higher class. The public, it says, is getting used to the present plane of prices of all commodities and begins to realize that lumber and other building ma- terials have advanced relatively less than almost any other articles in gen. eral use. There is no probability of either material or labor declining in cost for long while, and, as the American Lumberman contends, noth- ing is to be gained by deferring the building of residences that have been in prospect for sometime.
 In 1914 when dislocation of business Z was first in evidence as a result of the European war, many handsome resi- Nences that were planned in all large ities, were placed on the waiting list dfthey have been in abeyance ever 'n1 !. It may be several years before Iy substantial readjustment is af- tied. It follows, then, that those who
 b afford to build, and who desire to
 n handsome homes, architecturally
 igned to suit their tastes, should
 'shead. That many beautiful dwell
 will be in construction in Bir-
 Iaam this spring seems certain
 she real estate market will be ad-
 Ageously benefited, to say noth-
 f the building trades in general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
| New York Lack
 ticago's Patriotism?

the surface, at any rate, Chi cago is more patriotic than York. When Dr. Garfield's order was issued, closing down les for period of five days in }ted States east of the Missis- ger, to relieve the coal short great howl went up in New icago members of the state iinistration held a conference hufacturers of Illinois and re-
 were adopted pledging cooperation with the federal nation in whatever action 2 taken to conserve the na- l supply"
 suit of the order from Wash bout nine thousand industries so's manufacturing district hut down and approximately million people temporarily 1t of employment.
 .titude of New York's theat- anagers, who sent a delegation shington to protest against be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
BUT. CAN SHE,

From the Macon Telegraph
 Miss Louise says she hopes to so live that when her time comes to join the down the middle aisle to the flower strewn chancel, none of her catty friends will be able to say, "Well didn't I tell you if he kept on fooling around shed finally hook him?''