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The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19
CHAPTER VIII.
In Which | Understand the Feelings Of
a Ghost.

Ghost.
So, I surmised, I had been under
ground a whole day and two nights,
and this was the morning of the sec
ond day after Calypso's disappearance.
What had been happening to her all
this time Ny flesh crept at the
thought, and, with that daylight steal
ing in like living presence, and the
sound and breath of the sea, my an
guish returned a hundredfold.
AS / stood on the little rocky plat
form outside the door through which l
had burned my way, and looked down
into the giimmering chasm beneath,
and heard the fresh voice of the sea
huskily rumbling and reverberating
about hidden grottoes and channels,
all that Calypso was to me came back
with the keenness of a sword through
my heart. All there was my treasure
AS had known when my eyes first
beheld her-compared with which that
gold and silver in there, whose CLEAN
had made me momentarily distraught,
was but so much dust and ashes.
Ardently as / had sought it, what was
it compared to one glance of her eyes?
What if in the same hour, / had lost
my true treasure, and found the false?
At the thought, that glittering heap
became abhorrent to me, and, without
looking back, I sought for some way
by which I could descend.
AS my eyes grew accustomed to the
dim light, / saw that there were some
shallow steps cut diagonally in the
my way to find myself in roomy cor
ridor, so much like that in which l had
seen Calypso standing in the moonlight,
that, for a moment, l dreamed it was
the same, and started to run down it,
thinking indeed, that my troubles
were over-that in another moment I
would emerge through that enchanted
door and face the sea.
But alas instead of broad shining
doorway, and open arms of freedom
widespread for me to leap into, came
at last to a mere long narrow slit
through which I could gaze as a man
gazes through a prison window at the
sky.
The entrance had once been wide
and free, but a mass of rock had fallen
from above and blocked it up, leaving
only long crack through which the
tides passed to and fro.
was still in my trap; it seemed
more terrible than ever, now that l
could see freedom so close, her very
voice calling to me, singing the morn
ing song of the sea. But in the caverns
behind me, | heard another hooking
song, and I felt cold breath on my
cheek, for death stood by my side
a-grln.
1.-THE treasured" he whispered, 81
need you to guard that. The treasure
you have risked all to win-the treas
ure for which you have lost-your
treasured You cannot escape. Go back
and count your gold. 1T is all good
money! Ha! hal it is all good
money!"
The illusion seemed so real to me
| that l cried aloud 81 will not diei
will not die l''-cried it so loud, that
anyone in a passing boat might have
heard me, and shuddered, wondering
what poor ghost it was wailing among
| the rocks.
But the fright had done me good.
and / nerved myself for another effort.
If only ! could wriggle past that con-
traction in the middle, should be
| safe. And if stuck fast midway But
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19
FOR HURRIED READERS.

Fayetteville-The little son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dane Crane Of this place
is in Springfield for treatment at the
Pasteur Institute The little fellow
was bitten by his pet bulldog which,
upon investigation, was found TO have
been mad.
Helena.-The Order of the Eastern
Star. which has been working under a
special dispensation for some time,
has been granted charter from the
grand chapter.
Little Rock. NJ. Huey, convict
eed of Involuntary manslangbter in
Crawford Circuit Court, and sentenc-
ed to 80 days in the penitentiary, was
pardoned by Gov. Brough.
DISQUALIFICATION Massey, 2 far
mer living on Tinker Mountain.
north of Russellvine. was killed bv
the accidental DISCHARGE of a Colts
AS nistol, which ne was carrying.
Piggott- Construction of flour
mill to cost approximately $4,000 has
been started at Greenway. three miles
south of Piggott. The mill will have
a capacity of so barrels.
Bentonville. Edgar Brumfeld,
the seven-vear-old son of the Rev. S.
w. Brumfeld. was painfully injured
by being kicked by loose horse near
his home.
McGehee.-The Rev Hugh Robert
son, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of McGehee, has purchased a
Curtiss plane and is making fights
here.
I.owell--Col. Joseph r. Davis of the
famous fighting Second Division ar
rived at his old home here, and has
been visiting relatives at Fayetteville
as we'll as here.
Hope.-W. A. Talley, 70 years old,
who has been a resident of Hope for
seevral years, was found dead in his
bed here.
Mena-Motor cars will be utilized
in handling mail and passengers on
the new rural route TO be established
between Mena and Womble.
Helena. - Mariana is to have free
city delivery of mail after March T.
Postmaster Claude ]. Cctter has been.
advised by the postoffice department
at Washington.
Russellville. c. w Dodd, editor
of the Weekly Tribune, has moved his
plant into the new brick building he
has had erected on Terrence street.
Van Buren,. Twenty-Five men
were sentenced to the penltentiarv
during the November term of the
Crawford County Circuit Court
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CHAPTER vII-continued.

But alasl they did not begin till
some six feet above my head, and the
way was sheer. How was / to reach
the lowest rung? The rock was too
sheer for me to cut steps in, as l had
done farther back. l looked about me.
Again the luck was with me. In one
of the caves / had noticed some broken
pieces of fallen rock. They were ter
ribly heavy, but despair lent me
strength, and after an hour or two's
work, had managed to roll several
of them to the foot of the ladder, and
with an effort of which I would not
have believed myself capable-had
been able to build them one on top of
another against the wall. So, l found
myself able to grasp the lowest rung
with my hands. Then, fastening the
lantern round my neck with my neck
tie, prepared to mount.
The climb was not difficult, once /
had managed to get my feet on the
first rung of the ladder, but there was
always the chance that one of the
rungs might have rusted loose with
time, in which case, of course, 1t would
have given way in my grasp, and I
should have been precipitated back
ward to certain death below.
However, the man who had mortiSed
them had done an honest piece of
work, and they proved as firm as on
the day they were placed there. Up
and up | went, till / must have been
forty feet above the floor, and, then,
as l neared the foot, instead of COM
ing to a trap door, as / had conjec-
tured, / found that the ladder came to
an end at the edge of narrow ledge,
running along the ceiling much as a
clerestory runs near the roof of some
old churches. On to this l managed to
climb. 1t was barely yard wide, and
the impending roof did not permit of
ones standing erect 1t was dizzy
situation, and it seemed safest to
crawl along on all tours, holding the
lantern in front of me. Presently it
brought me up sharp in narrow
recess. Tt had come to an end.
Yesl but imagine my joyl it had
come to an end at a low archway
rudely cut in the rock. Deep set in
the arehway was stout wooden door.
NY first thought was that I was
trapped again. but, to my infinite sur
prise and gratitude, it proved to be
slightly ajar, and vigorous push sent
1t grinding back on it's hinges. What
next? wondered. At all events, was
no longer lost in the bowels of the
earth; step by step, was coming
nearer to the frontiers of humanity.
But | was certainly not prepared
for what next met my eyes, as /
pushed through the low doorway with
my lantern, and looked around. Yes !!
indeed, man had certainly been here,
man, too, very purposeful and bust
nesslike. / was in a sort of low mar
row gallery, some forty feet long, to
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19

Newport-The Newport Baptist
Church contributed its quota in tina
Sf7'ooo,o0O campaign. The countys
quota was $4,000 and the local
church was given a quota of $4,000
which it raised the first day of the
drive with a surplus of 5000.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19

Newport-F'ire originating in the
restaurant of George Marks DESTROYED
tour small business buildings On
Front street and caused a loss of an
preximately $4,000. Firemen work
ed for six hours before extingushing
the blaze.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19

Batesville. J. w. Williamson.
has hog weighing 1,05O pounds He
states that it is his intention to feed
the hog until it reaehe sthe 1900.
pound mark, thus breaking the record
OF any hog raised in the United
States.
The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1919-12-19

Arkadelphia.-Clark county is 50,
per cent short on this years cotton
crop, according to the figures of gin.
nlng reporter, w. S. Burton, whose
November IA report shows only 5,243
bales, as compared with 1O,543 bales
to that date last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-10
CONVERSION OF HISTORIC
{. BUILDING RECALLS FAME
Wonderful "House Of Tiles" in
Mexico City to Be Reconstructed
Into Typical q. s. Drug Store.

MEXICO CITY. July 81. (corre-
spondence of the Associated Press).-
The conversion OF the House of
Tiles" into typical American drug
store marks the passing Of, one Of
the most palatial and unique struc-
lures ever erected in this city of in.
teresting buildings Many persons in
the United States remember the house
as the Jockey Club. the most exclu-
sive and aristocratic place Of its kind
in the republic, but for the past few
years it has stood on a prominent
downtown corner, bleak; decrepit
structure, whose shiny and .gaudy
exterior Of tile gave evidence of its
former glory. Some time in August
it will open for business as a drug
store.
The date when the buildings foun-
dations were laid 10 lost In obscurity.
but 1t is thought that 1t was started
about 1896. Later II came into the
possession of Don Luis de Rivero, q
man of varied career. who was re-
sponsible for Its exterior coat Of tiles.
These latter are of blue, yellow and
white. Moorish In design. and were
made by artisans brought from Tala-
vera, spain. by the Dominican friars
In the sixteenth century. They were
modelled In a special ceramic factory
Ht Pueblo. about seventy-fve miles
distant, and the completion Of this
decoration was the occasion Tor q
public eslebgation,
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THE FARMERS VIEW OF HIGH PRICES: THEIR CAUSE and THEIR REMEDY
T.

permits him to produce, at such
a price as the purchaser sees Mt
to pay him, and he buys his ma
terials in the open market. He
cannot profiteer, and he hates
profiteering, because he thinks he
is the frequent victim; so we unite
with all others in the crusade
against undue profits, but at best
it is but a counter irritant to the
hysteria which affects the body
polite.
The way to cure this hysteria is
to quit bowling and go to work.
Work is the word. The way to
cure high cost of living is to do
more work. II the government
can find some way by which men
who now work eight hours will do
az much work in that eight hours
twelve on the FARM the price of
things viii come down with run.
Or If the men working eight hours
will work two more hours with
out more pay, the price of living
will come down. If people now
holding time-seryice jobs were
fired and made to take hard work
against loafers might also help.
The work of the world must be
done and it is not being done
today. Some taxes would also
help. Eevery tax comes out
of the cost Of production, and the
consumer must pay it. This is the
time to cut the cost Of govern
nent to the quick, cast aside every
new project for government enter
prise. cut out every duplicating
activity. cut down every govern
ment department to the mere
skeleton of what is needed for the
essentials of government. We
want orderly government, and as
little of. 1t as may be. This ap-
plies to states and cities, no less
than the nation.
Shall we NEEDLE with the cur
rency? With the world burdened
with debt beyond the limit of
safety and every debt contracted
on the wartime level Of prices for
the things bought, it would be
and pay debts in doubly valuable
money.
The word is to pay the debts, in
the same value of money, as
existed when the debts were con-
tracted, but to pay them quickly,
to bend every productive effort Of
the world to debt paying. To
work, to produce wealth, to stop
stacking, to stop bowling. to stop
looking for recreation and pleas
ure and profiteering at the ex-
pense of world burdened as
never before in history; to pay the
debt. and then climb down to
safety, that is the task before us.
This was the farmers win-the-
war program; it is the farmers
back-to-safety program.
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STUDY EXPORT TRADE
FOR H. c. |. SOLUTION
Continued from First Pase.)

Continued from First Page)
OF materials in this country may be ex-
pected to be less.
The exports from the United States
Tor the year ending June 80, 1918, to-
tailed $5.919,711,371., The exports for
the year ending June 80, 1919, totaled
lnan the previous year. These are the
ngures of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce.
The bureau subdivides the exports
Tor the months of June, 1919 and
lsis. respectively. as follows: Crude
sl5i: oos.oos ' and s 81 ss7aSe food"
stuffs In crude, condition and food
animals, $S0.680.2s6 and $19,137.726;
Ioodstuffs partly or wholly manufac-
tured. $275.461, $50 and s130,S67. SOL !;
manufactures for further use in man
sumption. s291.130.141 and $164,254,-
OIL; miscellaneous, $663.65O and ST.
3y7,!95; foreign merchandise export
cd; $2o,571.S56 and $s.151.406.
the me bureau also, gives figures for
that tia In June. 1913. they totaled $685.
0SS'77S. and in June. 1918, $3.50. $780,
OIL. While there has been an In
crease in imports. therefore, the in
Srease ID very small compared to the
increase In exports. The total imports
OF foodstuffs amounted to about 1885,
0oo.00o, as compared to about $751;
O00. 900 exports.
The countries Of Europe are seek
ing particularly supplies of foodstuffs,
cotton and cotton goods. leather and
leather goods and clothing. II In said
that they. are willing to pay almost
any price for them. II 10 human
nature forl the American manufac-
turer and producer 20 seek the best
hut with American consumers clam.
orinw for these articles 10 becomes the
part Of the government. u IN believed
~ many. 20 see that too large .
share q these eeo1e Aess not leave
tneoe so1DaeGb = =.
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in the fact that the hysteria breaks
out just two days before a vast.
organized propaganda for the ma
tionalization Of the railroads in the
control Of the men who get their
wages from the railroads makes its
outstanding demand to the Presi-
dent and Congress?
The grange states the farmers
view en- masse, without fear of con-
tradiction, when 1t puts itself
squarely on record against the gov
eminent operation of the railroads
under any plan which will give the
men who make their wages from
the railroads two-thirds control OF :
the management. The grange states
its own view, officially expressed in
the formal resolution Of it's national
assembly, by restating its demand
for strict government reguiataons and
asking that when the roads are re. J.
turned to their former owners ini
accordance with the act Of Con-
from overcapitahzation and misman-
agement be corrected"
+ -
The farmers are also curious as
to the source Of the erroneous view
of the public that the guaranteed
price Of wheat is the cause of high
miner. says this is true. Senator A.
j. 'Gronna, a farmer. says it Is not.
The facts are that no farmer can
get 1925 for his wheat, very few
farmers being able to get 81
bushel. out of which they must pay
for sacks at about 40 cents a bushel
At this price this year millions of
bushels of wheat will be produced
at a loss to the grower. No wheat
grower except those favorably To-
Gated as to soil and climate can
grow wheat at profit today.
The guaranteed price of wheat
was put on to keep prices down.
not up. The farmers defy disproof
world price" of wheat today. The
export and import restrictions of
the supreme economic council,
England, France, Italy and other )
importing nations aiding and abet- &
ting, prevents any free market for
wheat.
Here and now we pledge the
American farmer to make no OPP
position to removing all guaran-
tees and all restrictions; this in
wolves removing European restric-
lions over which the United States
has no control But were these
happen to wheat would make the
pork market look like piker. We
tremble to think of the result. The
American crop-On the paper esti-
mates OF the bureau of crop report
inG q billion and a quarter billion
busnels-is shrinking like snow
ball in the hot place. Kansas re-
ports a shortage of 80 per cent
from the earlier estimates, only 6
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Washington Representative of the National Grange
BY T. c. ATKESON,

per cent No. wheat. Illinois re-
ports hardly bushel of No. l
wheat in the state. A senator says
there will be-with sound facts
before him-a SO per cent shrink
age from the much heralded esti-
mates. The National Grange a
week ago estimated a % per cent
in the world is short. But the
prices are not going up. The guar
tee is working just as 1t was in
tended that 1t should to keep
prices down. Perhaps that Is wise
craftsmanship.
lions, we firmly believe, would be
such skyrocketing of prices as
to wreck the financial and eco
nomic fabric Of the world.
,-..s ~ II + ---..--,.-.-.
These age facts pm which the
p%S1iG mas 1s ssf. wsieh Ten
known will change the entire
trend Of thinking of the public.
The wheat price guarantee was not
subsidy to the farmer, it was
never asked for by the farmer; the
farmers protested against it for
in it for patriotic motives. The
government control Of wheat is
today giving the consumer cheaper
wheat than 1t can get under any
other terms. except for the gov
eminent to buy 1t and then give it
away in whole or in part.
II the public wishes to eat bis
cult paid for by taxpayers money
socialism pure and simple-that
offers one temporary palliative for
the price of one food item. Wheth-
er the farmers will grow wheat at
$2.26 another year in quantity to
feed the public is another ques-
ton. Two-dollar wheat cannot be
raised with IS labor.
4 4 r 4
The price Of subsistence is high
because the price of work Is high.
Every item of subsistence has had
work done on it, continuously,
from the time it comes from ma
ture. until it is handed over the
cost of the sugar you buy ii in the
cost Of the work done on the ma
terials used to produce the sugar.
Consider the process step by step,
and this becomes apparent. 1t is
true Of every other item Of subsist-
ence. Now, IL the work costs
twice what it cost in pre-war;
times, how can the final cost of the
product be less than twice what
the pre-war final cost was?
A crusade against profiteering
may bring reductions, but this
goes to a very minor factor in
cost.
The farmer cannot proiteer. He /,
sells what his gamble with the
elements and the labor of his
hands. .his wife and his children
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The Gist of the Treaty With Germany.

ing from labor problems, and the
editing and publication in French,
English and other languages of a
periodical paper dealing with
phases of industry and employ
ment Of international interest.
Close relationship will be MAIN
tanned between the labor Office and
the departments of the member
governments which deal with ques-
lions of industry and employ
ment.
Thus we see the major outlines
of a great international movement
for the harmonious solution of the
industrial problems of the day.
We see these problems first out
lined and a flexible program
brought forward and subscribed
to for their settlement. We see
the machinery whereby this pro-
gram is to be rendered practical
the labor Office collecting, studying,
collating and distributing labor in
tel1igence, the labor conference
discussing the problems of the
day, drawing it's recommendations
to the various governments con-
cerned; the governments acting
upon the advice as submitted to
them. The chief reliance of the
members in securing the enforce
ment of such conventions as the
respective governments may ac-
cept will be publicity, with the
possibility of economic action in
the background.
The next article of this series,
to appear in next Sundays Star.
will deal with the clauses Of the
treaty covering prisoners of war,
graves, penalties, guarantees and
miscellaneous provisions. embrace
ing four brief parts Of the cove
nant.
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.HE National Grange is an or
ganization OF. many hundreds
of thousands Of producing


of thousands Of producing
farmers, and its Washing
ton representative is authorized and
directed to speak for these farmers
in matters of legislation. national
policy and public concern.
1t is the. difncult task Of the Ma
tional Grange to interpret the plain
thinking and the hard experiences
of the farmers to their urban breth-
rem. The farmers and their repre-
sentatives have been overlooked,
often. refused. in the fiIiing Of those
places in which their experience
would have been of value In pre-
venting the present acute crisis.
There places have been filled by
men who only thought they knew
what the farmers needed and want
ed, and who made the public be-
lieve their representations, until
item after item Of error and Of
prejudice to farmer interests have
been piled up and accumulated.
These men who only thought they
knew, have sowed the wind; now
they stand. face to face, with reaping
the whirlwind This situation has
existed with special seriousness
during the period of the war; it con-
tinues today; If 1t continues tomor-
row, and lack Of real recognition is
given to farming conditions, and the
necessities. and desires Of farmer
people, there is no prophesying what
the future holds.
SO this appeal. in this time Of
crisis, is first for adequate repre-
syntation for the farmers Of America
in every department and instrument
tally of government which exists
now or may be created, to organize
for the struggle against anarchy,
socialism, boashevism, nationalist
ton or any other wild-eyed scheme
or Utopian idealism which may be
promoted to revolutionize our gov.
eminent or interfere with our plain
and sensible orderly democracy.
1t is very curious to us farmers
why the wave of hysteria over the
high costs Of subsistence should
break on Capitol Hill and the White
House Just at this juncture. It is
our experience that the things which
we need to live cost just trifie
less now than they did at the first
Of this year. Why the howl just
now, at the height Of this production
season? Is there any Significance