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An Estimate of Man.
The place to take the measure
of man is not in the market place
or the amen corner, the forum
or the field, but by his own fire
side. There he lays aside his
mask and you may learn wheth
er he is an imp or an angel, king
or cur, hero or humbug. I care
not what the world may say ol
him, whether it crown s him
with bags of gold or pells him
wjjWtfoad eggs; I care not a c p
>(er cent what his religion or
reputation may be, 1! lis babies
dread his home coming and his
better half swallows her heart
every time she asks him for a
five dollar bill, he is a fraud ol
the first water, even though he
prays both night and morning
until he is black in the face, and
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nowis naueiujan umu ne siidivc.
the entire hills. But if his chil
dren rush to the gate to meet
him, and love’s sunshine illumin
ates the face of his wife when
she hears his footfall, you can
take it for granted that he is
pure gold, his home is in heaven
and the humbug never gets
near the white throne of God.
He may be a rank atheist and a
red-flag anarchist, a Mormon
and a muaivump; he may buy
votes in/olocks of five and bet
on th<v4lection; he may deal
them/from the bottom of the
H deej*r and drink beer until he
'^Tan’t tell a silver dollar from a
circular saw, and still be an in
finitely better man than the cow
ardly little man who is all suavi
ty in society, but who makes his
home a hell, who vents upon the
" heads of his helpless wife and
children an ill nature he would
like to inflict upon his fellow
man, but dares not. I can for
give much in th'e fellow mortal
who would rather have the
hate of the world than the con
tempt of his wife; who would
rather call anger to the eyes of
the world than fear to the face
of a child.—W. C. Brann.
v What Boys Are Worth.
Under the heading above the
current issue of the Saturday
Evening Post .says:
“Says Judge Richard S. Tut
hill of Chicago: ‘One day I
went over to the criminal court
building and I found there one
hundred and twenty-eight little
boys, many of them under ten
years of age—just as nice look
ing boys as yours or mine—shut
up in the old jail, four or five
of them in a cell, waiting to be
tried. These boys had first been
placed in a police station, where
they heard everything that could
be heard in Chicago—vile lan
guage and vile thoughts. When
they were graduated from the
jail they were sent out to the
Bridewell, or back to jail to
serve a term; and when they
came out they had learned their
trade—crime.
“That sounds like something
from the Dark Ages; but it was
the standing condition in Illi
nois and other states only a few
years ago. By way of remedy
came the Juvenile Court, found
ed on the idea ‘that children
should be treated with kindness’
! —a very revolutionary legal in
novation! Next came agitation
for a school out in the country,
where delinquent boys could be
kept in wholesome surroundings
and taught something besides
crime.
“After prodigious efforts the
legislature was induced to pass
i bill appropriating twenty-five
thousand dollars for such a
school—provided some philan
thropist would give the State
three hundred and twenty acres
of good farm land for a site!
That sounds like something out
of the Dark Ages.
“To this farm school at St-1
Charles more than two thous
and delinquent boys have been
sent, remaining there an average
of twenty month's. They live
wholesomely in the open, are
taught farming and manual
trades, besides the ordinary el
ementary school subjects. The j
superintendent says that not
over six per cent of them have
resorted to crime after leaving
the school.
“The St. Charles institution is
overcrowded now. The legisla
ture is asked to found a like
farm school in the central or
southern part of the State; and
again the shadow of the Dark
Ages obtrudes. Nobody denies
that another farm school would
be a good thing; but there is
the awful question of expense.
It would cost the State seven
hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars—and there has been grave
doubt at Springfield as to wheth
er Illinois can afford to spend all
that money to merely avoid mak
ing criminals of boys!”
Late Cotton Planting.
Cotton planting will all be late
this year- The ground will har
den rapidly when the rain does
cease and the water gets off.
Run all over the land with a
disc just as soon as the team
will stand on top of the ground.
This will hold the moisture until
you can get your planting done—
will let in the air and will allow
the sun to warm the ground.
| If the ground dries rapidly a
little deeper planting is required,
but shallow planting is best for
a rule. Flat beds are best. High
beds give warmth and air but are
hard to cultivate and mean a de
crease in yield in case of even a
short drouth, and require more
hoeing, which is costly-cultiva
tion. High beds are not only
difficult of cultivation but dry
out rapidly and the roots form
ing in them, running out seek
ing plant food, find the soil too
shallow when they reach the
middles to support the growth
of plants.
It is alright to plant on beds,
but first the beds should be pull
ed down by a drag until the field
has the appearance of having
been laid off with a ten inch
shovel between the beds. If
beds are lowered by rollers, har
rows or drags, the seed bed will
usually be in good shape also.
You can plant seed in a corn
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INEXPENSIVE.
KILLSllCE
ON ALL UVE STOCK.
DISINFECTS.
CLEANSES.
PURIFIES.
It baa M may uaaa that It la I
a aaeaaalty oa avary tana.
CURES MANGE.SCAB,
RINGWORM, SCRATCHES
Destroys All Disease Germs
DRIVES AWAY FUES
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planter and space them just as 1
you like if you will first dampen j
them and roll them in a barrel
built upon a frame like a grind
stone, putting into the barrel
dry dirt or ashes. Plant seed
promptly after rolling, because
tho cotton fuzz will return when
thoroughly dried out,
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X lie acaayu gcuciouj *0 iuiv.
due to so much water. In these
sections a fight against the frost
is necessary. A small acreage
well prepared planted in an early
maturing seed, fertilized and
well cultivated, will open earlier
than a greater acreage thrown
into a bad seed bed without fer
tilizer and without sufficient cul
tivation. Good cultivation and
greater quantities of fertilizer
hasten maturity. You get better
opening, a surer crop, more
pounds per acre and if restric
tion of acreage is practiced to
the extent it should be, you get
maturing seed, fertilized and we
greater money returns, and that
is what we plant and reap for.
The remaining land sown in
peas, soy beans and late corn will
improve the soil and furnish the
feed for the crop of 1914 and
make it a much better year than
it otherwise could be for profit
able farming.
JOHN H PAGE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Bird On the Hat.
A Boston professor is reported
to have said that women who
wear song birds on their hats
will never get to heaven.
This is putting it rather
strongly, particularly as applied
to the ultra-vain woman, with
whom a whole bird on the hat is
heaven itself.
woman, by merely wearing a
bird on her hat, denies herself all
hope of heaven, there is no re
straining influence left to pre
vent her going on through the
whole gamut of sins.
It is poor theology, for the
best authorities in this still
somewhat occult science agree
upon one point, and that is that
the punishment of evil deeds
ought not to be reserved for a
future life, but ought to be, to
some degree at least, apparent in
this world. In this the most an
cient Jews agree with the most
up-to-date mental gymnasts of
theology and ethics.
Certainly we have it in our
power now to punish the wearers
of birds. Social ostracism is
something palpable and definite.
The averted look of disapproval
has more effect on the ultra-vain
than have whole torrents of
threats of eternal punishment.
There is dispute about hell;
and the bird-wearing woman can
take refuge in the doubt. But a
few significant looks and a few
significant remarks on the part
of her fnfends bring the penalty
home to the very spot where she
Finds Cure for Epilepsy
After Years of Suffering
“14y daughter was afflicted with
epileptic Its for three years, the attacks
ypting every f*r» weeks. We employed
•everai doctors bat they did her no
good. About n
year ago WO
heard Dr.
.1 lines' Nervine,
and It certainly
has proved n
blessing to o«r
little gtri. She In
now apparently
cured and la os*
joying th# bent
1 of health. It In
over a year elnon
she has had ■
At. Wo cannot
•peak too highly
«g Dr. Miles' Nervine."
MBS. FRANK ANDKRSOX,
Comfrey, Ml—.
Thousands of children in the
United States who are suffering
from attacks of epilepsy art ■
burden and sorrow to their partntM
who would give anything to I Of tort
health to the sufferers.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
it one of the best remedies knows
for this affliction. It has prottw
beneficial in thousands of casts
and those who have used it hats
the greatest faith in it. It is MX
t “eure-ail,” but a reliable remedy
for nervous diseases. You natw
not hesitate to give it a trial.
«tld by all Drugglrta. If Km MtS
fail* tb banaflt yrur Mtatg ll
MIDI CAM SO* KlUUSfc Mb
.g*
is most vulnerable.
And public opinion on this
question is growing in the right
direction. Defense of song bird
wearing never any longer has
the courage to show itself in pub
lic- So much has been said, and
so much is being thought,
against it, that it is scarcely
conceivable that any intellectual
woman should be able thus tc
adorn her vanity without a se
cret blush of shame.
If the birds have no rights,
public opinion has; and public
opinion has power, too, that nc
woman's vanity can safely en
I counter.
So there is no need to sit idle
in the hope that the next work
will bring punishment. The
punishment is in our own hands
—Memphis News-Scimitar.
To Entertain Elks Convention.
Arrangements are practically
completed by- the committees ol
the Pine Bluff Lodge of Elks
No. 149, for entertaining the
fifth annual convention of the
! Arkansas’ Elks Association anc
the State Reunion of Elks, which
will be held in Pine Bluff May
22 and 23. Preparations are be
ing made to entertain several
thousand Elks, their ladies anc
visitors, and it is expected thaf
at least two thousand Elks will
be in the big dress parade which
will be held Thursday evening
at 8 o’clock, May 22. In addi
tion to this large number of
Elks the parade will include e
large number of ladies on horse
back, in automobiles and othei
vemcies uecuraieu in uovvers ant
Elks colors. The Elks will car
ry torch lights and it is plannee
to make the parade a magnifi
cent pageant. There will b<
music in abundance as it is ex
pected that ten bands will be ir
the city during the convention
and another delightful feature
is a band concert which will be
held at Forest Park on the after
noon of May 22, at which time a
prize of $50 will be given the
best band.
Nobbv Uniforms.
*
At the last meeting of the
Pine Bluff Lodge of Elks the un
iforms which will be worn by
the local members of the antler
ed herd were agreed upon and
the contract awarded to H. C.
Bluenthal to make them. The
uniform as agreed upon con
sists of a striped coat and
trousers, the coat to be Norfolk
style. With this white caps will
be worn, with purple band and
silver Elks emblem on the pur
ple band. Purple ties and hose,
with white shoes and canes will
complete the uniform. It is ex
pected that the Pine Bluff Lodge
will have at least two hundred
Elks in the parade—Pine Bluff
Commercial.
j u. c. V. SPECIAL TRAINrj
CHATTANOOGA I
For the accommodation of Confederate
and friends the Iron Mountain will run a special tr?,B
from Little Rock to Chattanooga via Memphis ^B >
the Southern Railway. IB^
Leave Little Rock. 2:00 P. M., Sunday, May 25. B 1/
Arrive Chattanooga, 7:00 A. M., Monday, May 2§ B Ka
Round trip tickets at very low rates will be sold :.iavB I
23-26, inclusive, with return limit June 5. Upon pay.B '
ment of 50 cents limit may be extended to June 25,B
Pullman Fare, Little Rock to Chattanooga: I
Standard. Lower Berth-*2.50 B
Tourist. Lower Berth-1.50 B
Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches without adUmpalB
charge—See that your ticket reads
IRON MOUNTAIN fc
Via Memphis and Southern R. R, I
Reservations and information B
may be had upon application to B—
■Wa
local agent or ■
F. E. SCHROEDER I
Assistant General Passenger I
Agent BAg
LITTLE ROCK Mas
Tlnfluenza.
Tbt tin had crumbled la * fray
j last, bat the plum ber «u not f& the
bast nonplused.
"It caught cold." be said. "That's aE
; /lu Is very liabie to catch cold If It
jets In a temperature under 60 de>
pees. As a rule it recovers, but a
in cold often turns to Influenza, and
then the ease is hopeless. Nothing caa
3e done. The tin. loses its luster, d#
eays, and finally crumbles to a gray
i powder Hke this here.
“These tin colds are contagious. A
dn dipper will give a cold to a sauce
oan, and a tincup has been known to
poctumlnate an organ pipe.
‘•Only pure tin catches cold. Pot
ihat reason, when tin is to occupy as
•xposed position or to encounter a
low temperature, we alloy It with
lead. Only alloyed tin is free from
(influenza."
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Two Wekerel on One
A humble and honest
who set hla trap# for pldi
Maine pond the other day 1
make affidavit as follows:
declare on oath that I did
pickerel on o&e hook. The
erel swallowed the bait i
like It Apparently he trlei
It np. At any rate he s]
hook oat under his gills me
off In the water to be gra
second plckereL Thus ther
two pickerel, all strung or
Lewiston Journal
Foolish Query.
A Kentucky girl has been
thousand times and sighs
while an Illinois woman h
arrested for kissing her onc<
state would you rather live
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