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POlUer Co. Has Sold
 North Ark. Holdings

Pine Bluff, Aug. 30.-Announce- ment was made today of the sale by the Arkansas Light and Power Company of all of their Missouri and North Arkansas holdings. Pub lie utilities worth a half million dol lars are involved in the deal. By the terms of the transfer Pankey & Wahl of Charlottesville and Brown & Billings of Blytheville acquire the light and power and ice plants at Charlottesville, Mo-, and Blytheville, Ark, and also at Kennett, Mo. The light and power plant at Hayti, Mo-, also is purchased. The purchasers gave an equity in the South Cen tral Arkansas properties of the Ar kansas Light and Power Company for the four plants. H. c. Couch, president of the Arkansas Light and Power Company said the deal was made in order that the com pany might centralize it's holdings near it's big power plants at Pine Bluff and Picron. The Missouri and Blytheville plants were in a way isolated from the company's main holdings, which include the public utility plants in a score of central Arkansas cities.
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UNIVERSITY ATTENDANCE
 3343 FOR THE PAST YEAR

Fayetteville, Sept. With a to- tai attendance of 3343 students talk ing regular work and special short courses at Fayetteville, and with a nonresident correspondent student enrolment of I'll during the past year, the University of Arkansas has become an institution which func- tions practically all the time. In- struction at the university was con- tinuous, except for a few days be- tween the terms, from the begin- ming of the regular session in Sep tember until the close of the sum- mer school the first of August. A Farmers Short Course was held at the university during the third week in August, and even though no courses are offered for the next few weeks, the research and ex- pertinent station work is being car ried on without interruption.
 One thousand and fifteen stu dents were registered for regular work in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Education, Agriculture and Engineering during the fall, winter and spring terms of the university, and sos students took full time work during the summer school Three hundred and fifty farmers came for Farmers Week last De- cember and a 1,045 were enrolled for the Summer Short Course. Dur ing |, the Summer School 425 stu dents were enrolled for the special courses offered during the Rural Life Conference, the Cotton Grad ing Schools, the School of Citizen ship for Women, and for the vo- catlonal courses in engineering. The
The courier-index., 1920-09-03
OUR NEW DAILY RECKONING


 "No," declared the young husband fervently, 'I can never forget my wife's birthday. It falls on the day that Babe Ruth made his 28th home run."
 Sure" said the shipping clerk. "Sure I had a vacation. 1 was femme see-I was away from Babe Ruth's eighteenth to his twenty fourth four-bagger."
 "Given under my hand and seal," read the lawyer ponderously, Ion this day of Babe Ruth's thirty-first home run in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty"
 Detectives are Investigating the odd disappearance of William Wog- gles," thus a police report. "Mr. Woggles was last seen on the day of Babe Ruth's twenty-ninth home run, or, according to the old form of reckoning, on July 15."
The courier-index., 1920-09-03
Couldn't LedUe
 House in Four Months
Delaney Takes Tanlac And Is Now Back At Work Again Feel
 ing Fine.

"When I began taking Tanlac 1 mad been confined to my house for four months, but 1 never felt bet ter in my life now" said William Delaney, well-known employe of the City Street Department and who lives at 427 Fairview Ave, Seattle, Wash.
 "I had stomach trouble and in- digestion so bad that everything l ate disagreed with me-" continued Mir. Delaney. "Gas would form after meals and cause me to have the worse sort of cramplng spells. I actually suffered so much dread ed to eat at all and 1 never dared touch meat or anything heavy. also had rheumatism all over my body and it was so bad Tn my arms and legs I could hardly get about at all; then my nerves went back on me and 1 could never get a good nights sleep.
 'I heard so much good about Tan lac that I decided to try it and it just seemed to be made especially for my case, for every one of my troubles left me so quickly 1t was really amazing and 1 am enjoying better health now than l have in years. I have a ravenous appetite, eat anything I want and sleep like log every night. l have gained a lot in weight, too, and put in big days work on the job every day I feel like a different man in every way and Tanlac deserves all the credit for it"
 Tanlac is sold in Marianna by all leading druggists.
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school year was marked by many additions to the course of study by the broadening of the scope of the General Extension Division and the hold of a School of Citizenship for Women, and by the growth of the activities of the College of Agricul- ture under the direction of Dean Knapp.
The courier-index., 1920-09-03

For skin eruptions, rash .,, skin, prickly heat, chieeer ,saI 5;... sl' sStings of poisonous insests s''' lard's Snow Liniment is an .l tive application. It heals o';, S, Three sizes, BOG, 6Oc and s1 ts| s' bottle. Sold by Harrington
The courier-index., 1920-09-03

The greatest enemy of child life is the tape worm. It destroys health and vitality. The greatest enemy of tape worm is Whites Cream Vermifuge. One or two doses does the work. Price 35c. Sold by Harrington Bros. *tf
The courier-index., 1920-09-03

A gram of radium was bought of the government for $l20,000 by a Buffalo institute for the treatment of malignant diseases.
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OF ONE MIND

A negro who had an injured head entered a doctors office.
 Hello Sam; got cut again, l see."
 "Yes sah, done got carved up with a razor, Doc,
 "Why don't you keep out of bad company?" said the physician, af- ter he had dressed the wound.
 "Deed, I'd like to, Doc, but ain't got huff money to get a divorce" !"
 Pleasure is the cotton we stuff in our ears when Duty calls.
 Thrift is the chain that keeps us from skidding into debt.
 The man who makes no enemies seldom wins admiration.
 The word "experience" covers a multitude of our follies. The price of year of fast living is ten years of regret.
 Debt is the ball and chain of ex- tragavance.
 Miserliness is poverty, Economy is wealth.
 An empty hand is never help ing hand.
 Think of others and lose your egotism.
The courier-index., 1920-09-03

Find out for>yourself about Blue Buckles. To the Ilong-wearing denim cloth, the wide double stitchedl seams. Try on pair. Blue Buckl OverAlls and Coats never bind or rip-are big roomy and comfortable. Solid workmanship i every detail is bound to give you your money worth. All sizes-Men's, Youths, Children's Ask your dealer today for Blue Buckles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
Mccormick Would Shake Up Departments

A BOLITION of the Department of the
"A Interior, creation of two new de-
partments-one to be known as the
Department of Public Works and the
other as the Department of Public Wei
fare-and general reorganization Of
other governmental departments is pro-
posed in bill prepared by Senator
Mccormick, Republican, Illinois. for
introduction at this session Of con-
gress.
Senator Mccormick is now in Eu-
rope and the principal provisions of
his bill were outlined in statement
issued from his office The statement
said that while the bill would be intro
duced early in the session action on it
probably would be deferred until after
the Inauguration of President-elect
Harding.
The proposed Department of Public
Works, under the bill, would include
all important engineering and building
services of the government The de-
partment of public welfare would in
clude various welfare agencies of the
government, such as the woman's bu-
reau, now in the Department of Labor
the pension bureau, now in the Depart
ment of the Interior; the public health
service, the bureau of war risk insur-
ance and the vocational training board.
The Department Of Commerce would
be enlarged so as to increase its use
fulneSs to business,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
PRESIDENT HAD HIS HOBBIES
John Quincy Adams a Stickier for
Regular Hours-knoWn as Stu
dent of Astronomy.

john Quincy Adams was a stickler
for regular hours at the White House.
Promptly at ten O'Clock every night
all lights had to be blown out. He
believed in going to bed early and
getting up early. During the summer
months he arose at four o'clock, and,
accompanied by his son John, who
was his secretary, would hustle down
to the Potomac and indulge in a good
swim for an hour or two, while Mrs.
Adams was overseeing the prepare
ton of a good breakfast for them.
When it became too cold for swim
ming he remained in bed until six
o'clock, and would then take a brisk
walk up to the capitol and back be-
fore breakfast.
Adams was a great student of as
tronOmy, and had a telescope on the
roof of the White House so that he
could study the heavens at night He
planted many trees in the White House
grounds and urged members of oon-
gress to collect seeds and send them
to their constituents
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
Is Russia to Be Saved Through Trade?

Providing for establishment of more
friendly relations with Russia, for lift
ing of the embargo against shipments
to that country, for extension of trade
and commerce with the Russian peonIe
for arrangement of credits, for any
needed explanations or reparations
which may be due from this country
for our invasion of Russian territory.
for expression of our gratitude to the
Russian people for their heroic part I'm
defense Of civilization, our Fluctuations
to them for having overthrow a des-
potic government, and assurances of
the desire of the American people to
cooperate with them and to assist
them in every proper and possible way
in their efforts to establish institutions
which will insure to them an ordered
liberty"
The idea seems to be that if Russia
cannot be saved from the Bolshevists
she must be saved in spite of Bolshe-
visits. We must find some way of TAX
ing hold of her problem and helping
her tofregain her reason and her feet.
The only means Of approach that now
seems open is through trade.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
Saving Fish That Stray in Flood Time

resources will permit, the yearly de-
struction of food fishes, its operations
being supplemented by those of several
states.
During the fiscal year 1920, more
particularly in the period from July
to November, the number of food fishes
rescued from the Overflowed lands bor-
dering the Mississippi and tributaries
reached the noteworthy total of 1885,
$4,000, all Of which would inevitably
have persisted. This salvaged output,
which was about 1O0,000O00 in excess
of the results in any previous season,
was returned to the open waters in
the vicinity of the points of collection,
with the exception of less than 1,000,-
600 fishes of various species of bass
that were used in supplying individual
applicants or in satisfying the requisi-
tons of fish commissions.
The young fish saved in the 1920 op-
erations, if they had been Matched and
reared in the usual manner at the ordi-
nary fish-cultural establishments,
would have required several hundred
such stations to produce. The entire
cost of the rescue work was only 13
cents per 1000 fish for about IS per
cent of. the output.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
We Are Living in Tenth-Second World

CHARACTERIZE the progress in
- the radio art as nothing short OF
phenomenal" Major General Squier,
chief signal officer of the army, in his
annual report, says that from a tech
meal point of view there has never
been a period when the whole subject
of electrical methods and means of in
tercommunication was in more
healthful state.
General Squier reports that not
withstanding the estimated general in
crease in cost of telephone service
of 25 per cent throughout the country,
the signal corps succeeded in decreas-
ing the cost to the army by 1912 per
cent.
He believes that as matter Of pol
icy, the signal corps should own, main
tain and operate telephone systems at
all permanent activities and announces
that as rapidly as the permanent sta
tus of military posts becomes known
negotiations will be opened with the
telephone companies for the purchase
of war activity telephone systems.
Asserting that with suitable appara-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
philip, I have dreams. The
strangest dreams"
(TO BE CONTINUED.
THIS SHOE FACTORY UNIQUE
Prepare the Walrus Hide for
Foot Coverings.

The most peculiar boot factory In
the world is probably that on the
Belcher islands, small, barren, rock
ribbed group belonging to Canada, and
100 miles from the nearest Hudson Bay
post off the NastapOkas. The shoes
are made by the women of the colony,
and are created from the skin OF
tanned walrus hides. The process that
precedes the actual shaping of the
boots consists of the women sitting in
row with large squares of hide in
their hands, and solemnly chewing 1t
inch by inch until the fat is removed
from the hide. They squeeze the hide
from time to time to loosen it up,
and then go on with the chewing
hour after hour.
For clothing the natives use the
skins of elder duck, with the feathers
worn inside, and while this makes
costume that has not been equaled for
keeping out the cold, the OdOr arising
from the skin Is such that the few
white explorers who have reached
the island urged return to Adam and
Eve costume during their stay.
The first knowledge of the islands
and their inhabitants came when
Robert Flaherty, 81 years old, adven-
tured out in the pay of Sir William
Mackenzie, to locate them on the un-
| certain basis of an Indian legend.
The admiralty chart showed that here
was 20 fathoms Of water where the
islands are. Flaherty returned in tri-
umph to disprOve this.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24

merely dreamed a dream, one more Of
those amazingly real dreams which
she had learned to accept without pro-
test as phenomena of slumber unavoid-
able, singularIy harmless. and on the
whole rather amusing.
So at least they seemed till this
night when. for the first time, stark
tragedy had stalked unbidden and un-
heralded. rending with ruthless hands
the flimsy texture of illusion and rem
dering the dream more fact to her
than this awakening, more true, and
so much the more terrible
Pressing palms to temples that
throbbed and burned intolerably with
their content of thoughts acrawl with
fright and horror, she made her way
to the bathroom and bathed her face
with cold water, then with cologne
till. in the sensory reaction of stimu-
lated flesh and nerves. she began TO
feel measurably more calm and self
possessed, more Priscilla Maine than
"Leonora"
A twittering telephone recalled her
to the studio. Receiver to ear, she
said, Yes? Who is it?" and heard the
agitated cries of the elderly kinswom-
an whom she called aunt and with
whom she had her home.
Priscilla Where have you been
all evening? I've been half frantic
Why didn't you let me know?"
II haven't been anywhere dear
only asleep, here in the studio. Please
don't be cross, Aunt Esther; / didn't
go to do it, honest l didn't! Mrs.
MOrey left in the middle of the after
noon-she had tea on, or something
AID about half after five stopped
painting and thought I'd lie down and
rest little before coming home"
do hurry. I'll send Arthur with the
car at once"
please"
She donned hat and cloak before a
mirror in whose inSuSceptible depths
she saw, set in her own hat and indi-
vidual couture, the face of the girl
whom in her dreams she knew as Leo
nora; and yet it was likewise the face
Of Priscilla Maine. Vainly with i'm
Fortunate eyes she questioned that
counterfeit of two countenances. How
coulG this thing be? Was she one wom-
an waking and another when she
slept? Was there in her a dual per-
sonality such as reading had taught
her to accept as psychological posi-
bility? Did two natures struggle with
in her. one prevailing in her hours of
slumber, and not always even then?
That train of speculation she was
afraid to pursue too far :. +.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
Joke 5000 Years Old.

Planned by the ancient Egyptians
over 5000 years ago, joke just came
to fruition, writes Prof. Flinders
Petrie, the noted archeologhst. while
we were trying to find way into a
queens pyramid" he says. I'VE dis
covered on rock face door which
was so beautifully and exactly fitted
that 1t was difficult to see the joints.
We Immediately set to work on this,
thinking that we had found at last
an entrance to the inner chamber.
After a considerable amount Of work
we removed the door and found
solid rockl 1t was carefully ar
ranged blind to balk anyone who
wanted to find the entrance into the
royal tombs, and had been made about
2 600 B. G. By someone with a sense
Of hunor."
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warm flood of sunlight which bathed
consideration as wrath Of nightmare.
But it served to pique her curiosity
and, when she had bathed, she took
back to bed what she had written in
the night and read 1t with care and,
toward the close, something like re-
suscitation of those emotions which
she had known during the dream itself
as well as after waking up. In the
end she was aware Of an imperative
need for enlightenment. The thing
had grown too serious, was figuring
too largely in her life; if its influence
was not to prove altogether ill. she
must have comprehension of it's nature
to give her heart courage.
: In all the world she knew but one
person in whom she could conceive II
possible to repose such condolences -.
She took the telephone from the
bedside stand.
Merely to hear that low-pitched,
agreeable voice with its ineradicable
tinge of humor was comforting. Her
clouded countenante was lighted up by
a smile of gratitude--and of affection,
too.
Phillip, dear! Do you know I haven't
seen you for ages?"
"That's brazen plague, Priscilla. It's
your own fault; you will insist on
drenching the springtime of your life
with turpentine and varnish, overlook
ing the most important things entire
ly."
"What do you consider the most i'm
portant thing in life? YourselfT'
'No; you. And next to you, letting
me make love to you"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
Poor Old Nineteenth Amendment in Rad

animate the association and inspire
the campaign. One is nothing less than
the repeal of the Nineteenth amend
ment. The other is the passage of leg
islation to restore estate rights" 1t
proposes to have congress pass an
amendment requiring ratification by
popular vote of all amendments to the
Constitution.
The anti-suffrage association, in an
analysis Of the woman vote in the re-
cent election, says, "the majority of
women stayed at home" and INSTEAD
Of twelve million only nine or ten mil
lion women voted"
an other words" says the analysis,
"only one-third of the 100000 wom-
en- eligible to vote, about which the
suffragists have been shouting for
years, could be persuaded to go to the
polls"
No wonder the N. A. o. T. W. S. is
on the war path.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24

and circumstance Of her dream. Thus
she found temporary distraction and
ease of mind. Unaware Of WEAKNESS
till she had written the last word, i'm
mediately that was penned she found
herself heavy with drowsiness so
urgent 1t would hardly wait for her
head to find its pillow.
Toward noon she awoke and rang
for her maid. A pleasant languor
tempted to Incidence. She adored
breakfasting in bed, and did so today
with relish somehow sharpened by
mischievous sense of playing truant
of cheating life's inordinate demands.
Recollection of the dream required
tardily and sluggishly, like the images
that reluctantly take shape on an un-
derexposed Photographic film. and
when sharpest and most definite
seemed pale and unimportant in that
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24

the balance of the clip in Reds auto
matte, and sank slowly down upon his
side.
Screaming with horror, the girl fell
back from the window. Red shout
dered past her, climbed out, turned
and caught her by the arm and
dragged her after him, still screaming
like madwoman. She tripped, her
head struck heavily against the bot
tom of the window sash, and the lights
dimmed weirdly and burned out, leav-
ing only darkness impenetrable, and a
strange hush pierced by thin echoes
Of eIdritch shrieks
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24
coPyr,sht 1920 by the Ao+hes,

of the door tremble under a storm of
kicks and blows.
Fear was absent from her temper,
but she was shaken by impotent ex-
ASPIRATION and sad with regrets. This
| meant an end to everything, not
alone to these associations which
barely an hour since she herself had
planned to forsake. but to all her hope
Of happiness with Mario. For she
had not the remotest doubt but that
she, with at least a majority of the
others, would be arrested, jailed and,
on the evidence of completely in past
exploits which the police spy, Harry
the Nut, would be able to lay before
the district attorney, sentenced to a
term of years in one or another of the
state penitentiaries.
And long before she had served out
her term Mario would forget her; or,
even if he did not, would never, never
by any chance, make woman with a
criminal record his wife.
And this was what came of indulg-
ing her keen delight in excitement and
adventure.
If only she had listened to Mario in
Seconds dragged like minutes, and
the door still held. She began to catch
at straws of hope: only three now re-
manned in the room, Charlie the Coke
already with one foot across the
sill. whimpering and mouthing curses
because of inability to crowd into the
press upon the fire escape-Red, and
herself.
The hammering on the door stopped.
She wondered why. Charlie cOntrived
to jam his terror-racked body out
through the window. Red caught
LeonOra by shoulder, roughly enough
if in rare impulse of chivalry, and
tried to thrust her out after Charlie.
But the crush on the platform was
stfll too dense. She heard a dull crash
and, swinging round, saw the door, its
lock shattered by the impact Of a
brawny shoulder, slam back against
the wall. The policeman who had
broken it in stumbled and sprawled
full length upon the floor. The plain
clothes man, Ennis, leaped in over his
PROSTATE body. Her ears were deaf
ened with Reds profane instructions
to get herself out through the window
without more delay. She made a vain
attempt to obey, and had half sue
ceeded when rattle of shots sounded
and looking back, she saw the man
Ennis pitch forward on his knees,
then fall prone. The policeman,
scrambling up pistol i'm hand. received
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-12-24

Creation of an Office in the state de-
partment to have jurisdiction over in
sular affairs and territories such as
Alaska would be provided for. The
alien property custodian's Office and
the division of the secret service would
be placed under the department of JUS
tice. The office of the comptroller of
currency would be abolished and it's
function transferred to the federal re-
serve board.
The Mccormick measure also would
abolish the board of mediation and
Cancellation and transfer its functions
to the Department of Labor, and abol-
ish the council of national defense
and discontinue it's functions.
The measure transfers to the depart
ment of commerce the weather bureau,
patent office, coast guard, lake survey
office, photographic Office, naval OBJ
servatory and inland and coastwise
waterways service.
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tus messages may be exchanged be-
tween any two points on the surface
of the globe, General Squier says we
are in fact living in "tenth-second
world" since with suitable equipment
any radio impulse passes between any
two points within this time
Perhaps the most important of the
many developments worked out DUR
ing the year by the signal corps has
been the putting into practical use of
General Squier's own invention of ap-
plying radio telephony and telegraphy
to bare wires laid in the sea or in the
earth.