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The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
bAIAWAkD CROPS.

Frank S. Adams, whose duties as chiei
of the division of m arkets, department
of agriculture, takes him all over the
State and at frequent intervals, says in
regard to the appearance of the crops:
The apples in the vicinity of Augusta
are very light and the crop will be small.
In York county the crop is good and re-
ports from Massachusetts and New York
say that the crop there is good,
Corn is very backward and if we do
not very soon have some corn growing
weather fear the sweet corn crop will
be nearly failure. We had SO much cold
and rainy weather earlier in the season
that the corn is not in its usual good con-
dition at this time
The hay crop on the clay loan is not so
good as last year, while it appears all
right on the higher land. | should judge
that the entire hay crop this year would
be about 10 per cent short of last.
The potatoes in the northern part of
Aroostook seem to look better than in the
southern part. In general find that the
crop will be about 20 per cent short of
last year. Many poor stands are seen
If they had existed last year we natural
ly would have laid it to the borax that
did so much damage, but this year it was
caused by the heat and dryness in May
planting.
The hay crop in Aroostook is about
normal. The oat crop is looking we'll.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
MEASLES

A remarkable decrease in the plumber
of deaths from measles in Maine during
the past year, has been brought to light
in the compiling of vital statistics for
1919 by the Maine Department of Health.
There were but four such deaths during
the past twelve months as compared with
102 measles deaths in 1918. The death
record for the past year is further re-
markable in that decided decrease is
noted in every disease except cancer and
whooping cough.
Measles as we'll as the other so called
''children's diseases" is not necessary
and must not be treated too lightly.
Thousands of mothers are now coming to
understand that it is nothing less than
criminal TO wilfully expose their children
to measles Just "to get over with"
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
Americas Might- Airship

In September we may look out on the
Atlantic for the coming of the best and
biggest airship in existence. And it will
be the property of America, though built
by the British experts who have been
most successful with dirigibles. The en-
tirely satisfactory flight of the R34 from
England to Newfoundland attracted the
attention of our government to the stand
ard of excellence which had been estab-
lished by the Vickers concern, and led to
an agreement for the building of an arr
ship that would surpass the largest and
most powerful of its predecessors. Thus
it is that the immense vessel, temporarily
named the R-38, which is under construc-
ton at Bedford, England. will upon COM
pletion be handed over to party of
American air force officers and men and
be piloted by them under our own flag
over the ocean to New York. The crew
of fifty-five men, under Commander Louis
Maxfield and 1t. Pennoyer, have arrived
in England and received a cordial well
come from the officials of the British air
ministry at Howden, who are arranging
for their visitors course of training that
will familiarize them with the details and
qualify them for the handling of the novel
ship which they are to navigate to the
United States
It is evidently no small airship that
needs and carries a crew of fifty-five
Compare her with the famous R-34.
whose length was 639 feet, lifting capac-
ity 80 tons, and range 4134 miles, The
length of the R-38 is 694 feet, inches,
her normal lift is 1927 tons, her full-speed
range is 500 miles and her cruisinG-speed
range 94OO miles-the nominal full speed
being 81 miles an hour and the cruising
speed IS. But from the 2400 horsepower
of her six engines there may be obtained
a maximum speed of seventy one miles
an hour. Who said Pacific2 Naval avia-
tors have hinted at the flight to come. If
our mighty airshlp satisfies expectations
on her first voyage, we shall not be sur
prised to see her quickly headed across
the continent, over the water to HAWAII,
and then with one 'leg" more to land
ing on the shore of Asia.-Boston Herald.
This airship will cost more than mill
lion dollars, taken from the pockets of
American taxpayers and sent to England
for national toy which will not be of
any practical benefit to anybody. Not
long ago four airplanes left New FORK for
flight to Nome, Alaska. A big army
train consisting of some 80 trucks is
making three months trip from WASH
ineton, D. c., to California. If we had
a National budget law there would be no
lump sum appropriations and Messrs.
Baker and Daniels could not thus spend
millions of public money wastefully. We
may be wrong but we think the common
sense of this country wishes the govern
ment to practice rigid economy, at least
till Liberty bonds are worth in the market
more than they are now.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

and conserved. 10 to 1t. If the forests
of Maine had been managed with reason
able regard for the future, instead OF
being cut off with view of getting the
last possible dollar out of them, we should
have today a stand of growing pine and
spruce instead of vast areas of worthless
growth Here and there in the State are
holdings Of what are called wild lands on
which can be seen a thrifty forest of
valuable young trees which were spared
by the axe, but they are exceptions, not
the rule.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
THE RAILROAD COMPROMISE

The railroad conductors, the engineers,
the fremen, the other trainmen, and the
switchmen each have a union or brother
hood and are known by railroad men as
the .'big five" The railroad blacksmiths,
the carpenters and other trades have six
distinct unions, and there are five other
unions of employees, making in all six
teen railroad unions. There are more
than 100000 railroad employees in the
United States and most of them are
members of some one of the unions Un-
til within the last two years these six
teen groups have acted independently of
each other, but the effort and tendency
has been to unite in a general demand
for an increase of wages. Sometime last
Spring such a demand was made to the
amount of about one billion dollars a
year which would be, on an average,
about $3.50 each. All these unions did
not make this demand and threaten to
strike if the increase was not granted,
but there was sufficient unanimity to
make the demand imperative. This is a
presidential year and, for political rea-
sons, our Democratic administration did
not dare to refuse the demand, neither
did our Republican nor our Democratic
congressman dare to do so. Further
more, they knew that in case the demand
was not compiled with strike would
follow, manufactures would cease be-
cause transportation to and from our fac
tories would not be possible, millions of
willing workers would be idle and tens of
millions would reach, if they did not
pass the verge of starvation. The gov
ernment iockeyed and parleyed and final
ly established Railroad Labor Board
composed of nine men, three represent
ing the brotherhoods, three representing
the interests of the railroads and three
representing the public. This board
made a full investigation of wages in
similar industries, of the relation be-
hazards of the employment, the skill re-
quired ana all other matters connected
with the questions under consideration.
The board reported that:-"Generally
the scale of wages paid railroad employ
es IS substantially below that paid for
similar work in outside industries. i.
''that Justice as well as the maintenance
OF an essential industry in an efficient
condition, requires an increase to practi-
caIly all classes" of railroad men. The
board awarded total increase of about
$626, 600, 600. After three days confer
ence in Chicago the railroad unions and
brotherhoods decided to accept this
award under protest" Time will dis
close whether "this protest" is threat or
merely an expression of dissatisfaction.
Justice has been given them, and if the
brotherhoods threaten another strike it
will be "hold up" and the time will
have arrived when we ought to decide
whether the brotherhoods or the public
should be the supreme power, in the
United States.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

We shall need man with very close
understanding of the problems underlying
our present conditions of unrest. Harding
is closer to the masses of the people and
to their needs than any other man promi-
nent in public life. Like Lincoln, McKin-
ley, and Roosevelt, Senator Harding be-
lieves in the value of united efforts. He
is never lmpulsive, but works out his
problems by consulting with the best
minds of his party. In the White House
he will surround himself with the best
brains and skill the party can afford. He
knows what tremendous responsibilities
will rest on his shoulders.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

A Grecian army has been sent to Euro
pean Turkey and French forces have gone
to Syria in Asiatic Turkey, with rifles,
machine guns and cannon, to present the
beatitude of world wide democracy to the
fanatical followers of Mohammedanism,
of whom in Turkey alone there are about
Is, 900, 900, while in Arabia, Persia, India
and Egypt, which countries England now
practically controls, there are about l75,-
600 600 more. The Sultan of Turkey says
the Mohammedans will never bow the
knee to the mandates of the League of
Nations. Whether this is mere bluster
we do not know, but it is fact that
great unrest prevails in what is known
as the Far East. Affairs there are unset
tied if not dangerous. 1t is fortunate for
us that, thanks to our united Republican
Senators and almost half of our Demo-
cratic Senators in CONGRESS, the United
States is not involved in foreign intrieues.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
THE GOV. COBB SOLD

The passenger steamer Governor Cobb,
for many years on the New York, Massa-
chusetts and Maine summer runs of the
Eastern Steamship Lines out of Boston,
was sold Monday to the Peninsula & Oc-
bidental Steamship Co. The Governor
Cobb will be delivered about Sept and
placed permanently on the Key West and
Havana service on which she had been
operated on charter during winter months
for several years.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
Childr en- Cry
FOR FLETChER'S
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pay

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ing Don't wait until you begin to notice bad effects
it whenever there the slightest symptom of trouble
It can't do harm, and will aid your digestion
times.
After short time you will be pleasantly surprised
your general condition. With your stomach liver and other
organs working properly all the tme you will greater
interest in your work blood will be and you will
be less tired at night after a hard days work.
Start using this well-known old standby TODAY Get
bottle from your dealer SOC for 60 teaspoonu doses "
Medicine Co., Portland, Maine.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

Investigations made year ago showed
that in 40 different industries, labor was
not more than 70 per cent efficient as
compared with normal standards. Re-
ports from the same industries shows
the hour production per man has in
creased. This increase cannot be said to
be remarkable but it does indicate that
is the efficient man who keeps his job,
and it is the inefficient who loses it, when
business is slack,
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

The United States Secretary of Agri-
culture says that the National forests of
Alaska contain 100000, 900 cords of pulp
wood and that by proper cutting and con-
servation they can be made to yield e.
600, 600 cords per year as long as pulp
wood is needed. Well, Mr.. Secretary,
these are national forests" and it is
your business, or part of your business,
to see that they are properly managed
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
Costly Drug Found in Oil Pumped Pro 2
Texas Field

Ichthyol, rare and costly medicinal
drug, formerly secured from Europe
though small quantity has been found
in Wyoming-is now being taken, ac-
cording to report, from an oil we'll in nor
thern Texas, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine in an article in it's August is
sue. After extracting the ichthyol, a
good cylinder oil is left.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

Senator Harding, Republican candidate
for President, in his speech of acceptance
made it clear that he was for America
first. Governor Cox, the Democratic
candidate for President, after his inter-
view with MIR. Wilson made it perfectly
plain that he was for wisconsin first
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
BURIED ALIVE

Mr. Bryan has dug up his buried
"heart" and to his surprise it was not
dead 1t was the same old Democratic
heart which has as many lives as a cat
He restored it to that part of his stomach
known as the cardiac region, and fer
vently exclaimed, II am Democrat"
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
THIS SOUNDS GOOD

An increase of 100000 bushels in
the country's wheat crop as compared
with last month, with total forecast of
800, 100000 bushels; prospective corn
crop larger than last years and larger
crops of oats, barley, white potatoes, ato-
bacco, flax and rice than were grown a
year ago. were the features of the gov
ernment's crop reports issued Saturday
by the Department of Agriculture.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

To lift the country out of its present
condition of chaos will require not only
most able man, but man of soundest
judgment, keenest intelligence and plenty
of plain common sense. Such man is
Harding.
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
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The Republican journal., 1920-08-05
QUOTATION.

Time goes you say? ah no,
Alas! Time stays, we 60.
Or else were this not so
What need to cham the hours,
For youth were always ours.
Time goes you say? ah no.
Austin DobSon
The Republican journal., 1920-08-05

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
Mysterious Women
 Worry Vienna Cops

Vienna, Oct. 9.-The swarm of mys- terous women who have made their appearance in the capitals of cen tral and Eastern Europe have begun to attract the speculative attention of the Vienna newspapers. Perfectly dressed and nearly al- ways of more than ordinary pulchri- tude, they seem to travel unhinder- ed over frontiers where the average traveller is treated as suspect. On crowded trains with the most limited first class accommodations, usually taking week to secure, they always
 have the choice compartments at a moments notice and in hotels with long waiting lists in Warsaw, Pra- que, Vienna, Belgrade Bucharest and other cities, they find rooms waiting them.
 They travel from country to coun. try on smoothed ways and frontiers present no terrors to them.
 The newspaper belief is that they are principally engaged in smuggling
 valuables and securities and foreign moneys under high protection, if they are not espionage agents or possibly combining the two.
 There is not first-class hotel in this capital that has not its coterie
 of these mysterious persons who come and go irregularly and who can be seen by the traveller first in one city and then another.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13

of H. B. Strange, Trustee, and Peo- ples Saving Bank and Trust Com pany, Vs. Lucy Burford Purvis and Walter M. Purvis, the undersigned, as Commissioner of this court, will on the
 3RD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1920, during the hours for judicial sales, offer for sale at public auction to the highest and best bidder, at the front door of the, Court House, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, upon credit of three months, the undivided one> half interest of Lucy Burford Pur- wis in and to the following described land, situated in Jefferson County, Arkansas, to-wit:
 Lot 2 of the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section IS, Township 6 South, Range 9fWest of the Fifth Principal Meridian as shown by subdivision made by the County Surveyor of Jefferson Coun- ty, Arkansas.
 The purchaser of said land will be required to execute bond with ap- proved security for the purchase price, and lien will be retained up- on said land to secure the payment l thereof.
 WITNESS my hand this 18th day of October, 1920.
 s. F. VAULX, Commissioner.
 10-13-20
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
BIG EATERS GET
 KIDNEY TROUBLE.
Take Salts at First Sign of Bladder Irritation or Back
 ache,

The American men and woro, must guard constantly against kid. ney trouble, because we eat too much and all our food is rich. Our blood is filled with uric acid which the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become slug gish; the eliminatve tissues cloc and the result is kidney trouble. bladder weakness and a general de- cline in health.
 When your kidneys feel like lumns of lead; your back hurts or the urine is cloudy, full of sediment or you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; if you suffer with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells ,acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather is bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of lad Salts; take q tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder disorders.
 lad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure, makes delightful efferves- cent Whitewater beverage, and be- longs in every home, because nobody can make a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. adv.
 Dr. A. H. Sellars, Osteopath, Citi- zens Bank building. Adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13

last year when that nasty fall had to come now. It will round out his va cation beautifully to have little gayety after his exile out there.'
 Barbara wrote as her friend insist cd She did not say what a pleasure it would give her to have him with Ter at the camp in the mountains but every bit of the invitation came 1 through he rfrom Mrs. Beckley He witt. Surely he would be able to add "a .fortnight'or more to1,his vacation which he had taken so conveniently at a time when she had been led to believe he was head over heels in his work That thought becafe Bar bara's obsession. She nursed it all the time she was at Bar Harbor: And she knew he and those men were hav- ing the time of their lives.
 Not that she was killjoy. Bar bara De Haven never had been that She merely was displeased because John had been unwilling or unable to make his convenience suit her desire but had found it easy to arrange things beautifully to suit himself She had no inkling whatever of her husbands threatened illness.
 The only thing poor Barbara knew and this she thoroughly understood was that she had been unhappy ever since that weekend at Newport when he had announced in a matter of fact way that he was going across the continent on a jaunt. For the fact that he had done it and the ac ocmpanying incidents of their new attitude toward each other had been sufficient to bring her wretchedness
 She got the fear that one day she might know just what Mrs. Beckley Hewitt meant by her enigmatic ref erence to her own life and that of her
 husband. She expected that her friend was not happy in that satisfy ing way that wife expects.
 Tomorrow-She sees Clinton Dawes
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
By Kathleen Fox
LXXXVI She Does Not Understand Him

Another Letter from John!" eX- claimed Mrs. Beckley Hewitt, one morning as she saw Barbara reading his letter that had come the day be- fore. He is devoted isn't he?" she observed. "That is nice. I am glad he is steadfast. Dear me-" she went on, "i don't hear from Beckley some times for weeks together" s
 Brabara flushed. The letter she third or fourth time. She had reread it in the hope of finding something in it she had missed, something of a personal character.
 "It is the same one I got yester- day." she said, lightly. Ut was rath- CT long and I wanted to be sure I got everything in it.'
 Don't explain or apologize, child" !" said Mrs. Beckley Hewitt. "Get every drop of honey now, my dear, for the bees won't be so busy maybe after while..' !
 Barbara wondered about Mrs. Beck ley Hewitt and inferred that she was not the happiest of women. There were times when her statements in dicated she positively was unhappy. Assuredly she was little cynical though of an optimistic nature as Barbara had good reason to know Was she in love with her husband ? She asked this question over and over
 And was Beckley Hewitt in love with her? That question came also, He did not write to her for weeks to- gether. To her personal knowledge they had not seen each other for nearly two months now, for Mrs Reckley Hewitt had not gone to New York from Newport, having come to Bar Harbor Direct. And he had been in New York all that time.
 "Get every drop of honey now,' Mrs. Beckley Hewitt had said. That was plain enough of course, only Mrs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
The Speeders
Copyright, 1920, by Kathleen Fox

Beckley Hewitt was entirely misin- formed, for Barbara was not finding honey in John De Haven's letters. And "the bees won't be so busy, may be, after awhile" was grimly striking in it's suggestion.
 Would she and John become like Mrs. Beckley Hewitt and her husband Barbara wondered if they would. It seemed to her that they had good start in that direction now and she was still bride of less than year. What might happen in two years, ten: twenty?,,
 Children!. Mrs. Beckley Hewitt had spoken to her again about that. The elder woman was positively importu- nate about it, in a friendly, affec- tionate way, of course.
 Remember, my dear, you give them the best of yourself if you have them when you are young," she had advised her the evening before as they chatted awhile before retiring.
 But Barbara had said she did not want children. She was sure she did not. She knew she was young and beautiful and she wanted to preserve both her youth and beauty. And Children
 John would not ask for them she knew. He simply would not. It would amaze her if she ever did, for that would mean that she had not un- derstood him at all. And she felt that she had understood him we'll.
 Again, foolish Barbara! For she no more understood him as a man really than she knew what he was dolng at the moment in far distant camp. To be sure he would not ask for children, but guessing that much correctly could not establish Barba- ra's understanding of her husband as a perfect thing.
 "Be sure to write John that we shall want him at the camp when he comes home," Mrs. Beckley Hewitt had told her. q was counting of him
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
F.. ST. LOUIS LIVESTOCK.

East St. Louis, H., Oct. 12.-Cat. tie 5000; steers steady; top 17.75; bulk 9.13; yearlng steers and heif. CTS easier; canner cows steady al $50 M 400; bulls and calves steady; good and choice vealers 1875 (n 1850
 Hogs 1000; 25 to 50 cents lower; top 1l.90; bulk light and medium weights 14.9O M 1900; bulk heavies 14.75 G 15.7O.
 Sheep 4,000; steady; top lambs 11.90; bulk 1000 M 115O ;top ewes $50; bulk GG 5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
LIVERPOOL COTTON.

Liverpool, Oct. 12.--Cotton spot in limited request, prices easy; good middling 1882; fully middling 1857; middling 16.S2; low middlng 1902; good ordinary 0.82; ordinary S.S2.
 Sales 5000 bales, including 2,S00 American
 Receipts Il 000 bales, no American
 Futures closed weak: October 150G December 14.78; January 14.73; March 14.45: May 14.23; July 14.03; September 1865.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-13
NOTED DOCTOR DIES

New Orleans, Oct. 12.-Dr. Isadore Dyer, dean of the Medical School of Tulane University and credited with important discoveries in the treat ment of leprosy and malignant skin diseases, died at his home here today aged 54. He had been i'll for some time with heart trouble.