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Newport, Ark. Phone 167
PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE.
The hot sun is doubly dangerous
if there is a mass of undigested food
in the stomach. Foley Cathartic
Tablets give prompt and sure relief.
They act gently but do their work
thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and benefit j
the liver. For indigestion, bilious- j
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—,
Walker’s Pharmacy.
Cut out coupon and mail
today to
Business Men's League
Hot Springs : : Arkansas
SHARE OUR SUGAR ■
WITH THE ALLIES;
British Get Two Pounds a Month.
French Pound and Half,
Italians One Pound.
GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL.
All Nations Permit Use of Sweetening
for Home Preserving Purposes.
America’s new sugar ration of two
pounds a month per person is equitu- |
ble when compared with the sugar ra- :
tion enforced by rigid governmental !
order in England, France and Italy, na- !
tions with which we are sharing sugar. ]
Each Allied nation—in the matter of
sugar consumption—is sharing on near
est possible equnl terms the hardships
imposed by greatly altered conditions
in the world sugar situation.
Formerly classed as a luxury, sugar
is now a war time essential. The fair
and just division of this essential is
in the hands of the various Allied
food controllers.
The United States Food Administra
tion has asked this nation to observe
a voluntary sugar ration of two
pounds per person a month.
In the other countries at war with
Germany sugar is one of the scarce
articles on every menu—whether in
the households of both rich and poor,
or in the hotels.
England today lias a sugar ration
of two pounds per month per person.
In France the ration is a pound and a
half and in Italy it is one pound a
month. And the prices in allied coun
tries are from two to three times as
high as in America. .
If you go to a hotel in England or
France these days and order tea or
coffee they serve absolutely no sugar
with it. If you want sugar you must
bring it with you.
In England it is allowable to use
one-seventh of an ounce of sugar in
the preparation of each luncheon. In
France many persons carry little sac
charine tablets about with them for
use in hotels and in England rich and
poor must take their sugar with them
if they wish to have sweetened tea
while visiting friends.
Before the war started France had
625,000 acres devoted to sugar produc
tion. By 1017 the French sugar acre
age had decreased to 180,000 acres.
Today the French man or woman with a
sugar card has no assurance whatever
that he or she will be aide to actually
buy sugar. To buy it, one must first
find it.
Italy Has “State Sugar.”
Especially drastic regulations govern
the use of sugar in Italy. Its manu
facture, distribution and sale are close
ly controlled, and in part actually
taken over by the state.
Saccharine is permitted to be sold
and used as a substitute for sugar and
the government manufactures a mix
ture of saccharine and sugar called
"State Sugar,” which is largely used.
German Sugar Ration Adequate.
Germany, before the war, produced
a great surplus of sugar and exported
large quantities. Today the Germans
have virtually gone out of the export
business, but have plenty of cheap
sugar for home use.
Wholesale prices prevalent in the
Allied nations, according to informa
tion received by the United States
Food Administration are as follows:
England, 10 cents a pound; France,
12 cents; Italy. 26 certs.
While these high prices are being
paid abroad the American wholesale
price is being held at IVz cents.
Reward Not Always to the Great.
A London bookseller’s catalogue an
nounces a copy of Browning’s first
book for $2,200. Yet, when it was
printed, in 1833, through the assist
ance of the poet’s aunt, Mrs. Silver
thorne, the poet would have been glad
to have sold a copy in its little drab
boards for a few shillings. The reason
it is worth so much money now is that
few of them have survived, and this
particular copy is described as im
maculate. There may not be money in
poetry for the poets, but if the poet
only is thoughtful enough to become
great his early trifles may bring a
flood of gold to some happy possessor. ,
Hot Springs, ArK.
The Wonder Spot of America.
FOR MALARIA, CHILLS, I TVER,
RHEUMATISM AND OTHER CHRONIC plsORDERSj
Owned and Controlled by U. S. Government.
High up in the Healthful Ozark Mountains.
Delightful Balmy Days. Cool, Sleepy Nights.
T3 A 1TVTT TAA The latest analysis by the U. S. Govern
U1V1 ment of these wonderful Hot Springs
Waters were found to be highly Radio-active.
TOURIST RATES—Low tourist round trip rates now in
effect on all railroads, from all points in America. Insist!
on this rate.
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Business Men’s League, Kot Springs, Ark:
Please send me immediately with
out cost, illustrated booklet of Hot
■springs.
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uF5 FIFTY CENTURIES AGO
Discoveries Show There Were Many 1
Points of Resemblance to That
of the Present Day.
Translation of prehistoric tablets in
the University of Pennsylvania mu- .
scum at Philadelphia has revealed that
women mayors were regularly cousti- |
tuted public officials in Asia Minor
5,000 years ago. That prototypes of
newspaper men at that remote time,
true to more modern traditions of the ;
profession, occasionally became in
volved in litigations of the present day
“libel suit” character, but generally
were released “on bail” is also indi
cated in the newly deciphered writ
ings.
The translations which concern a
once-powerful. well-organized govern
ment and people of which nearly all
trace has been lost through long for
gotten centuries have just been com
pleted by Dr. A. B. Sayce of Oxford
university, famous oriental scholar. He
copied the tablets two years ago and
took the copies to Egypt, where he
was finally .able to master their time
shrouded messages.
The tablets were the work of Hit
tites of Cappadocians, whose national
boundaries 50 centuries ago extended
from the Mediterranean to the Black
sea and from the headquarters of the
Euphrates into what is now Persia.
Each province was subdivided into
cities, aud these were supervised by a
mayor uuu a preieciress, wnuse pow
ers, the tablets indicate, were co-ordi
nated. In one instance it appeared the
woman mayor had an official status in
dependent of the male head of the
“municipal” government.
An insight into many other interest
ing and hitherto unknown phases of
life in the ancient kingdoms whose
lands comprised the present-day Meso
potamian battle grounds are afforded
by Doctor Sayce’s discoveries.
SEE DEER AS FOOD SUPPLY
Belief That Animals Can Be Domes
ticated and Raised Like the
Ordinary Live Stock.
There has been advocated the
scheme of raising deer as a source of
meat supply in this country. It is be
lieved that deer farming could be
made as profitable as any other live
stock industry.
!t has been pointed out that the Vir
ginia deer and the Rocky mountain elk )
are best suited for this purpose. Elk
have been acclimatized in many parts
of the world and everywhere they
show the same vigor and hardiness.
They adapt themselves to almost any
environment and their increase under
domestication is equal to that of ordi
nary cattle.
It is contended that there are large
areas of rough land in the United |
States, like the Ozarks and the Alle
ghany regions, where elk •'could be ■
profitably raised. The Virginia deer i
is adaptable to almost all parts of this
country and thrives on land unsuited j
to horses.
Animals and Proverbs.
It is singular at first sight how large
ly animals are referred to in proverbs,
but since proverbs are built on men’s
lives and their observations, it is real
ly not so odd.
The docile sheep reminds one of obe
dient children or tractable servants;
the strutting peacocks, with their large
and beautiful tails, of gaudily dressed
women; the rock-climbing goats, of
bold adventurers; the cunning foxes,
of unprincipled and shrewd tradesmen ;
the chirping crickets, of care-free mer
rymakers, and the slippery eel, of unre
liable employers.
This readiness to see resemblances
everywhere shows itself in proverbial
similes and comparisons—the man with
a sluggish mind is “as stupid as an
auka cheerful companion is “as
happy as a clam;” the headstrong
youth “as wild as a buck;” the diligent
workman is “as busy as a bee;” the
courageous soldier is “as brave as a
lion;” the neighbor who is lean and
tall of stature is “as gaunt as a grey
hound.”
Mecca for the Fat.
“Go to Mesopotamia and perspire” is
the reply of a writer in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer to a person who is
searching for a reliable cure for fat. In
that climate a fat person simply melts
and runs down. As early in tne morn
ing as daybreak one awakes to find
himself bathed in perspiration. The
“cool” of the night means a tempera
ture of 90 degrees; by eleven o’clock
the temperature rises to 120 degrees,
and at midday the air simply burns the
lungs. Nobody remains fat in Meso
potamia, and nobody works if it can be
avoided, and Sulim tells me that it
generally is avoided under the pretext
of turning everything over to Allah.
All this fat pilgrim needs in Mesopota
mia is somebody to support him. If
this can be arranged, the fat “takes
care of itself. However, one might re
duce, even in this climate, quite hand
ily while looking for somebody to sup
port one.
Grand Canyon an Inspiration.
An interesting example of the way
the Grand canyon “gets” those who
live a while with it Is found in the
technical, and to most of us the in
comprehensible, reports of the govern
ment topographers and geologists who
studied It for years. Apparently, in
spite of themselves, these men to
whom rocks and canyons are the grim
business of life often interrupt their
dry, technical pages by brief bursts
of enthusiasm, not inspired in the least
by science, but by the pure emotion of
sublimity.
BATTLE AXE.
One by one old landmarks are dis
appearing: J. M. Fortenberry on the
Decker for nearby has recently
torn down the old negro church and
put in its place a neat cow barn and
garage.
Among our improvements, 'twont
do to ignore the repapering, repaint
ing and other finishing touches that
Fred Murray is bestowing on “Jim
A’s” house, causing Madame Rumor
and others to almost know Jim A.
means business in the near future.
The horse shoe bunch who went up
on the 6th, either found the fishing
good, or had few attractions at hon |
as they remained till the 9th, late in
the afternoon. I
With much reluctance we are bid
ding farewell to our recent prospect
of having some late garden veget
ables: the intense heat and hot
winds are rapidly putting a quietus
on all that sort of thing.
W. L. Hinson over from near Mo- ’
nette since last Saturday visiting
numerous relatives and friends, ex
pecting to return the latter part of ,
the week with his wife and children, i
who have been over some weeks. He
reports crops about Monette in fair.
condition, but just ready for a col- '
lapse if not relieved soon by rain.
Program for last Sunday at the ar- j
bor meeting was quite full for 106 in
the shade, dust ankle deep and pro- j
visions high and scarce: still it
was carried out successfully to the j
last item: singing at 10 a. m.; ser
mon at 11; dinner on the ground at
12 m.; singing at 3 p. m.; baptiz
ing at 5; sermon at night.
Rev. T. H. Wright is holding pro
tracted meeting last week and this
with the Elgin church, where we are
informed the interest is growing.
County Surveyor Bowman came up
for the Sunday services and remain
ed over Monday and Tuesday to es
tablish some land lines.
J. W. Lindley’s cattle met with
slow sale and a low price in St.
Louis: too many cattle being rushed
in to market from points where the
range is short and feed non est.
Commission men handling this sale
advise that conditions will likely be
worse in the immediate future, un
less general rains relieve the situa
tion.
Sorry to learn through private let
ter from Izard that F. C. Richie is
I
out of commission from rheumatism,
with prospect of remaining so several
weeks. He was expected here last
week on a visit, and the letter was to
explain why he could not come as
planned.
Some of Wilbur Fitzwater’s
friends are curious to know why he
has lately taken to “biled shirts” and
neckties. Don’t see why they don’t
ask Madame Rumor: sure she could
explain.
Was Sunday the 11th hot? Much
ly. Was it dry and dusty? j Every
body you got a chance to ask said it
was. The overhanging canopy of
glaring blue, like burnished brass,
emitted and radiated effulgent ca
loric in inexhaustible exuberance;
while, under that glaring blue dome,
sweltering and dust-begrimed hu
manity emitted and disseminated
odorific ebullitions in malodorouus
manifestations. Now, if you fail to
get from this description the real
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abridged” dictionary, and had to
use the “Academic” edition. But, to
use a familiar simile,” “it was as hot
as—” well, I need not conclude.
BENGEL.
Hot! Hotter! Hottest and Bond
Dry!
An airplane passed over this place
Friday about 5 p. m., going south
west. The craft was flying close to
earth and was view'ed by quite a
number. The hum of the machine
could be heard distinctly. One lady
described it as looking like a huge*
white bird.
Mrs. Lee Riley returned the latter
part of the v eek from a pleasant trip
to Bradford.
Mrs. Ledbetter left Sunday for a
few days' visit with her son, Wm.
Stallcup and family of near Brad
ford.
Lawrence W. Lowe and wife of
Muscle Shoals, Ala., are spending
their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. A.
J. Jones, the parents of Mr. Lowe.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Higginbotham
drove to Newport Saturday to spend
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Brown, the parents of Mrs. Higgin
botham.
spent only a few hours.
T. A. Ray is improving the looks
of his residence by the addition of a
couple of pretty rooms on the front.
Miss Rose Higginbotham accom
panied Miss Helen Bowles home to
Bradford for a short visit.
Mrs. P. A. Hall and baby, Lola,
left Tuesday for their home in Mo
row, La., after a most pleasant visit
of ten days with relatives and
friends in Bengel. Her brother, Ray,
accompanied her home. \
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OUR SAVED FOOD
FED THE ALLIES
Food Administrator Writes Presi
dent America Conserved 141,
000,000 Bushels Wheat.
CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN.
Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by
844,600,000 Pounds.
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Conservation measures applied by
the American people enabled the Unit- ,
ed States to ship to the Allied peoples
and to our own forces oversens 141,
000,000 bushels of wheat and 844,600,- '
000 pounds of meat during the past
year, valued in all at $1,400,000,000.
This was accomplished In the face of a
serious food shortage in this country,
bespeaking the wholeheartedness and ]
patriotism with which the American !
people have met the food crisis abroad. <
Food Administrator Hoover, in a let- (
ter to President Wilson, explains how ^
the situation was met. The voluntary
conservation program fostered by the
Food Administration enabled the piling 1
up of the millions of bushels of wheat 1
during 1917-18 and the shipment of <
meat during 1917-18.
The total value of all food ship- <
ments to Allied destinations amounted
to $1,400,000,000, all this food being
hmisrht through or In collaboration '
with the Food Administration. These
figures are all based on official reports
and represent food exports for the
harvest year that closed .lune 30, 1918.
The shipments of meats and fats
(including meat products, dairy prod
ucts, vegetable oils, etc.,) to Allied des
tinations were ns follows:
Fiscal year 1910-17... .2.100,500,000 lbs. j
Fiscal year 1917-18.. ..3,011,100,000 lbs, j
Increase . 844,000,000 lbs. *
Our slaughterable animals at the be- *
ginning of tbe Inst fiscal year were not 1
appreciably larger t*han the year be- s
fore and particularly in hogs; they ]
were probably less. The increase in ;
shipments is due to conservation and
the extra weight of animals added by
our farmers. '
The full effect of tliese-efforts began
to bear their best results in the hist
half of the fiscal year, when the ex- .
ports to the Allies were 2,133,100,000 ‘
pounds, as against 1,200,500,000 pounds ’
In tbe same period of the year before. J
This compares with an average of <
801.000. 000 pounds of tot*l exports for 1
the same half years in the three-year j
pre-war period. ,
In cereals and cereal products re- ^
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations have 1
been:
Fiscal year 1916-17..259,900,000bushels J
Fiscal year 1917-18..340,800,000 bushels
Increase . 80,900,000 bushels (
Of these cereals our shipments of
the prime breadstuffs in the fiscal year
1917-18 to Allied destinations were:
Wheat 131,000,000 bushels and of rye
13.900.000 bushels, a total of 144,900,
000 bushels.
The exports to Allied destinations (
during the fiscal year 1916-17 were: ,
Wheat 135,100.000 bushels and rye
2.300.000 bushels, a total of 137,400,000
bushels. In addition some 10,000,000
bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port
for Allied destinations or en route
thereto. The total shipments to Allied
countries from our last harvest of
wheat will be therefore, about 141,000,
000 bushels, or a total of 154,900,000
bushels of prime breadstuffs. In ad
dition to this we have shipped some
10.000. 000 bushels to neutrals depend
ent upon us, and we have received
some imports from other quarters.
“This accomplishment of our people
in this matter stands out even more
clearly if we bear in mind that we had
available In the fiscal year 1910-17
from net carry-over and as surplus
over our normal consumption about
200.000. 000 bushels of wheat which we
_wcre able to export that year without
troneh7ng™~ on our home—loaf,”—iir^
Hoover said. “This last year, however,
owing to the large failure of the 1917
wheat crop, we had available from net
carry-over and production and imports
only just about our normal consump
tion. Therefore Our wheat shipments
to Allied destinations represent ap
proximately savings from our own
wheat bread.
“These figures, however, do not fully
convey the volume of the effort and
sacrifice made d-uring the past year
by the whole American people. De
spite the magnificent effort of our agri
cultural population in planting a much
increased acreage in !!)17. not only was
there a very large failure in wheat,
but also tlie corn failed to mature prop
erly, and our corn is our dominuut crop.
"I am sure,” Mr. Hoover wrote in
concluding his report, “that all the
millions of our people, agricultural as
well as urban, who have contributed
to these results should feel a very
definite satisfaction that In a year of
universal food shortages in the north
ern hemisphere all of those people
Joined together against Germany have
come through into sight of the coming
harvest not only with wealth and
strength fully maintained, but with
only temporary periods of hardship.
“It Is difficult to distinguish between
various sections of our people—the
homes, public eating places, food
trades, urban or agricultural popula
tions—In assessing credit for these re
sults. but no one will deny ttie domi
nant part of the American women.”
A hoarder is a man who Is more in
terested in getting his bite than in giv
ing liis bit.
COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the “Fair
Price Committee’, appointed hy the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
D-S Meat, per pound-32c
Hams, per pound-38c
Breakfast Bacon, per pound--60c
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound_.38c
Pure Lard (bulk), per pound-35c
>-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
jer bucket -$1.50
10-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
>er bucket _$3.00
Compound Lard (bulk), per
sound _30c
i-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
>er bucket _$1.35
0- lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
>er bucket _$2.76 J
1- lb. Std. Corn, per can_20c
l-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_16c
l-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_25c
lice, per pound_.u_16c \
ltd. Meal, 25-lb. sacks, per sack $1.60
>eam Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60
iream Meal, 10-lb. satks, per sk. 70c
4avy Beans, per pound_ _20c
.ima Beans, per pound_20c
’into Beans, per pound_16c
Vheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_$1.76
"lorn Flour, per pound_10c
2 ounce loaf of Bread_,._10c
14 ounce loaf of bread__20c
These prices will be changed from
ime to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty.
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F.
). 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley
Sidney Pills help me so much. My
lusband also has received much ben
ifit from them. He was so lame he
ould not stoop over and now he feels
10 pain.” Lame back, sore muscles,
tiff joints, rheumatic aches and
lains quickly conquered by Foley
vidney Pills.—Walker's Pharmacy.
:aught cold at palm beach.
Southern climate is no protection
igainst summer colds. Helen R.
Sanders, 020 2nd Av., W. Palm
leach, Fla., writes: “My severe
old on the chest was relieved by Fo
ey’s Honey and Compound.” This
ine old family remedy can be de
luded upon to relieve summer colds,
:ay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
ir’s Pharmacy.
‘ARKER CONVINCED
BY HIS EXPERIENCE
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‘1 Can Recommend Tanlac In the •
Highest Terms,” Says Well
Known Alabama Dentist— J
Declares He Is Well Man.
“I am firmly convinced from my
jwn experience with Tanlac, that it
.vill do all people claim for it, aa I ;
im a well man now, after suffering
for twelve years until I took Tan
bc,” is the frank statement of Dr.
3. J. Parker, a well known dentist
}f Roanoke, Alabama.
“I had a bad form of stomach trou
ble, which distressed me continually
or all these years,” he continued.
‘Terrible headaches would come otk
me frequently as a result of a nause-. yi
ated and upset stomach and would:
last for hours. These attacks would’
come as often as two and three times. 4?J|
a week. I lost weight rapidly and,. J
although I tried several of the most,
approved remedies for thij trouble,, _>J|
it resisted treatment and I continued!
to go down hill.
“I read about what Tanlac was do
im' ~ ocprvwh+M-e,- -and though 1 'AnivSM
skeptical about proprietary medi
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i.: 111 trrs, j i l c\ uiai. a uauji v xu*
ished the first bottle until I saw fav
orable results, and I have continued
to improve unt" my stomach is
completely set in order and the oth
er conditions arising from it have ajH
been entirely relieved. I am a well'
man now, and 1 can recommend Tan-* 1
lac in the highest terms.”
Tanlac is sold by all druggists in
Jackson county.
HOW’S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that il
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh S
Medicine.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for til* JJ
past thirty-five years, and has be- jf
come known as the most reliable rem- M
edy for catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Med- |||
icine acts through the Blood on the
Mucous surfaces, expelling the Pol- j|!
son from the Blood annd healing the
diseasased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Ca- '
tarrh Medicine /or a short time you
will see a grpat improvement in your 'J
general health. Start taking Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine at once annd get J§
-’d of catarrh. Send for testimonials
free. gig
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 76c.