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Lame back, swollen joints, sore mus
cles, rheumatic aches and pains, ar
most often signals of kidney trouble
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p kidney trouble sufferers. They ban
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WARNING ORDER.
In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Arkansas.
’ E. M. Edgar, Plaintiff
vs. No. 3331.
Hattie Edgar, Defendant.
The Defendant, Hattie Edgar, is
hereby warned to appear in this
' j Court within thirty days and answer
| the complaint of the Plaintiff, E. M.
’ | Edgar.
Witness my hand and the seal of
! said Court this 13th day of August,
: 1918.
, (Seal) R. W. Bandy, Clerk.
By J. B. Parrott, D. C.
J. H. Johnston is hereby appointed
attorney for non-resident defendant.
FOR SALE.
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j Two heating stoves (for wood), one
j sewing machine and one davenport,
i practically new. 618 Main street.
Phone 409. 85d6t w3t
Estrayed— From Mrs. Kemp’s
place at Johnstown several days ago
one dark mare mule, fresh sheared,
grey streak on breast, animal is
about 8 years old, weighs about 800
pounds. Will pay $15 reward for in
formation leading to recovery of an
imal. Write or telephone John Sink,
Johnstown, Ark. wl?2t.
666 cures Malaria, Chills and Fever,
| or Bilious Fever, by killing the para
j site causing the fever. Fine strength
ening tonic. 14wl0t
The more you help the men at the
j front the quicker the end will come
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
Mrs. Frank P. Wood, Box 18, R. F.
D. 2, Morrill, Me., writes: “Foley
Kidney Pills help me so much. My
husband also has received much ben
efit from them. He was so lame he
could not stoop over and now he feels
no pain.” Lame back, sore muscles,
stiff joints, rheumatic aches and
pains quickly conquered by Foley
Kidney Pills.—Walker's Pharmacy.
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
’ marshal of the city of Newport, I
’ have taken up the following live
stock, to-wit:
1 One red and white muley cow with
^ blazed face, underbit and overbit in
> right ear, swallowfork in left; three
milk teats.
One Holstein yearling heifer, un
derbit in right ear, crop and split in
left.
One black horse mule, no shoes,
roached mane, weight about 850
1 nounds. 8 vears old.
One black horse mule, no shoes,
roached mane, weight about 1,000
pounds, 8 years old.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and in
default thereof I will on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918.
offer for sale at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, in front
of the city hall in the city of New
port, Akransas, between the hours of
10 o’clock a. Yn. and 3 o’clock in the
afternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN, ,
| 94dl0 City Marshal.
| CAUGHT COLD AT PALM BEACH.
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against summer colds. Helen R.
Sanders, G26 2nd Av., W. Palm
Beach, Fla., writes: “My severe
cold on the chest was relieved by Fo
ley’s Honey and Compound.” This
fine old family remedy can be de
pended upon to relieve summer colds,
hay fever, asthma and croup.—Walk
er’s Pharmacy.
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Delightful Balmy Days. Cool, Sleepy Nights.
T? A nTT TIM The *atest analysis by the U. S. Govern
UIV1 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.
Bniinei* Men’* League, Hot Spring*. ArK:
Please senti me immediately with
out cost, illustrated booklet of Hot
Springs.
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MYTHICAL STONE OF SCHAMIR
Legend Says It Was Employed by Solo
mon in Building Famous Temple
at Jerusalem.
Schamir Is a mythical stone whose
specialty was that of .extreme hard
ness, insomuch that there was no sub
stance that it would not cut. King
Solomon used it In noiselessly cutting
and shaping the metals and stones for
the Temple. Solomon was reputed
to have dominion over Djinns, and he
employed these men in building the
Temple. Unfortunately, they made so
much noise with hart.mers, saws and
ax that the people of Jerusalem could
not hear each other speak. Therefore
Solomon directed them to cease their
work and inquired whether the metals
and stones could not be shaped and cut
without noise. The reply was that
this could be done with the stone of
Schamir. Now it was Sachr’s cus
tom to pay a monthly visit to the land
of Hidjr and drink a certain fountain
empty. So Solomon sent a winge^l
Djinn, who drew the water from the
fountain and filled it with wine. Sachr
drank, became drunk and was bound
In chains. The captive was promised
his liberty on condition that he would
reveal the place where the stone that
would cut and shape the hardest met
als could be found. Sachr told the
king to take the eggs out of a raven’s
nest, place a crystal cover upon them
and see how the raven would break it.
Solomon did so. The raven, finding
its eggs covered, new away ana re
turned with a stone in its beak, which
it dropped on the crystal and cut it
asunder. The raven was asked by Sol
omon where the stone came from, and
was told that it came from a mountain
in the far west. The mountain was
found, a numbe” of similar stones
were obtained, and with them the
Djinns hewed the stones for the Tem
ple in the distant quarries and
brought them to Jerusalem, where
they were laid noiselessly in their
proper places.
MOTHERS YIELD TO SCIENCE
Cradle and Crooning Song Both Things
of the Past—Baby Must No
Longer Be Rocked.
The cradle and the crooning song
have gone. Today science says that
no mother must rock her baby, either
in cradle or in rocking chair. True,
the mother may cuddle her cherub
while sitting, and the occupation,
therefore, while still sedentary, is
also stationary.
One ventures much when he takes
issue with science. Nevertheless, there
were cradles in those days when the
earth grew giants. The men of Bunk
er Hill and of Brandywine all were
rocked to sleep in infancy; so were
the men of Lundy’s Lane and of New
Orleans, and likewise, the men of Cha
pultepec, Buena Vista, Gettysburg and
Peachtree Creek. Sturdy soldiers they
made, and although in this day it per
haps ought not to be said, there are
none sturdier fighting anywhere, even
though these latter-day warriors were
uncradied and uncrooned.
Why the Leaves Turn Red.
An examination of the withered
leaves of the autumn foliage at the
time of their turning red shows that
they contain more sugar aud less
starch than In midsummer. Leaves oi
evergreens, however, lose their red
tints with the return of the warm sea
son, and reassume their green color.
In these plants—i. e„ the holly and
ivy—the sugar of the leaf is trans
formed into starch in springtime.
From these observations two infer
ences can be drawn—first, that the red
coloring substances are probably oi
the nature of the glucoses, being in
most cases compounds of tannic sub
stances with sugar; second, the chiei
physical conditions for the formation
of the red color are sunshine, which
on the one hand, enhances the assimi
lation and production of sugar, and, on
the other hand, quickens the chemical
l process that leans to the formation oi
the coloring matter, and, furthermore
a low temperature, which prevents the
transformation of the sugar intc
starch. In otner words the red tints
of autumn are the dir. t product oi
the meteorological conditions prevail
ing during that season—i. e^ sunshine
and low temperature.
First Gold Certificate.
It is contended that the existence
of piracy in the Mediterranean led tc
•the creation of the first gold certifi
cate.
Rome bought wheat in Egypt, while
Egypt was forced to pay tributt
money for the maintenance of the Ro
man army. To ship gold for these pay
ments was to tempt the pirates who in
fested the eastern Mediterranean. II
was probably some able financier who
thought of the scheme of having the
wheat importer take his gold to the
Roman bank, which had a branch in
Alexandria, and get his certificates,
which the pirates would not dare to ga
into Alexandria to cash.
The Egyptian tax collector got his
certificate from the Alexandria bank
and sent it to Rome, where It was hon
ored.
Not Qualified to Speak.
“Good advice that fellow was giving
you.”
“Maybe.”
“He warned you not to gamble In
stocks.”
“Oh, I heard him. But his words
would have carried more weight with
me if I didn’t happen to kr.ow that he
cleaned up half a million that way
himself.”—Birmingham Age-Herald.
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FIND CITY TRAFFIC PROBLEM
Authorities Have Hard Task Finding
Ways and Means of Doing
Away With Congestion.
The busiest street traffic point In
the world is where an expert would
guess from a map of the metropolis,
the New York World remarks. Centra!
park splits Manhattan; as the north
western section is larger than the
northeastern the busiest point neces
sarily is Columbus circle, where Dep
uty Commissioner Harriss finds that
39,210 vehicles passed in a ten-hour
day, ns compared with 28,735 at the
Ititz corner of Piccadilly, London, in
12 hours in 1914.
No other New York point quite
comes up to London’s maximum; hut
Uie sum of 17 busy corners in each
city gives 274,305 vehicles in 12 hours
in London. Several of these corners
give an impression of greater conges
tion than Columbus circle, because
there is at that point room enough to
use the circulating system of regulat
ing traffic, impossible at most cross
ings.
Dp to a certain point busy street
corners are a matter of pride, showing
business activity anft wealth of pleas
ure cars. Then they become a prob
lem. Since the city must grow, there
is but one thing to do with congested
traffic: Scatter it.
For economy and efficiency the ad
ministration of the city should be cen
tralized. Its provisioning and its in
dustries, its narks and boulevards for
pleasure driving, its factories and
steamship wharves must be decentral
ized, scattered among the boroughs, if
traffic delays are not to become intol
erable. City zoning plans, new mar
kets, new wharves, new and broad ave
nues are all ns necessary as police
regulations to keep the activities of a
great city from being blocked.
ALASKA HAS GIGANTIC CLAMS
“Razor” Bivalves That Attain a Length
of Eight Inches Are Plentiful in
Northern Waters.
Any new source of food supply is im
portant in these days, and the govern
ment fisheries bureau is greatly de
lighted at the discovery of the vast and
hitherto unknown beds of clams off
the coast of central Alaska, not far
from Cordova. One bed is 60 miles
long and from three to five miles wide.
The clams are quite different from
those common in our Eastern markets,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. They
are “razor clams”—a kind of bivalve
that derives its name, appropriately
descriptive, from its likeness in shape
to a razor.
Razor clams of a related species are
rather plentifully found (though not
great beds of them) in Long Island
sound and elsewhere along the Atlan
tic coast. Nobody ever thinks of eat
ing them, yet they are delicious.
The variety represented on the Alas
j kan coast is of larger size, common
ly eight inches long, and is so good
to eat that during the last two years
great quantities have been put up in
cans for market—the “meats” that is
to say. It promises a fishery produc
tive of much excellent food. Indeed,
there is no other shellfish on the Pa
cific coast that compares with the ra
zor clam as a delicacy for the table.
Zuni Runners.
A short time ago the tribe of the
Zunis held their great annual ceremo
nial feasts and dances at their pueblo
in western New Mexico. For almost
the first time a number of tourists
penetrated the 40 miles that lie be
tween the pueblo and the railroad to
witness the ceremonies, and as a re
sult the Zunis are beginning to be
known to fame. Long familiar to stu
dents of ethnology, their peculiar tal
ents are quite unknown to the general
public.
The Zuni Indians are probably the
greatest runners the world ever has
seen. Their feats in this direction are
such that any man who would try to
- recount them all would inevitably lose
his reputation for veracity. But in
looking at the lean brown boy who will
run down a wild horse or a deer and
uaiuijf uii>c uirs tii uvtri 11, uu«
must remember that the lad has not
only been trained to run from the
time he could first stand ou his little
feet without tumbling down, but his
training really began' a thousand years
ago. He comes of a tribe that has
specialized in running since long before
Columbus was, born.—Chicago News.
In Learned Boston.
A modest advertisement in a Boston
paper announces that if you use a cer
tain brand of pest exterminator “Ante
diluvian ants or any other household
pest cease their obreptitious invasion
of your premises.”
Personally we had no idea that ants
were of such ancient lineage, but per
haps there are antediluvian ants and
others. Anyway, it would appear that
Noah carried a pair of ants aboard the
Ark, and we would like to know what
he did it for.
As much as we dislike ants, however,
it seems a little too much to call them
obreptitious in their conduct. They
are prdbably carrying on in life ac
cording to their best lights, and we
ought to absolve them of fraudulent
intent or of strategy that is deliberate
ly based on the element of surprise.
At least, we can say that he ants are
not consciously ohreptitious.
I But we are not sure that Boston ad
I vertisers are not acting soinewhat ob
! reptitiously when they use words like
I obreptitious and antediluvian in set
ting forth the merits of inse« powders
and pest exterminaUTS.—Providence
I Journal. \
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| WASP MUST HAVE REASONED
Case on Record Where Insect Used
Stone as Hammer to Pound Dirt
More Firmly.
So far as known, only one small In
sect—a wasp of the sphex family—
among the millions of creatures belong
ing to a lower order than man, has
ever employed the aid of a tool ti ac
complish n desired result. The mother
I wasp of this family digs a tunnel in
I the ground, deposits her egg In it and
provides a caterpillar stung to death
or to a condition of paralysis for her
baby to feed on when hatched. The
grub subsists upon the caterpillar un
til it passes through the pupa stage
into the perfect winged Insect. Then
it digs its way out of the tunnel and
begins its life above ground as a
wasp.
But after the mother wnsp has made
its tunnel, and deposited the egg. It
finishes its task by ramming down pel
lets of earth, little stones, etc., into the
mouth of the tunnel. This is the race
habit of these wasps. It is recorded
on undoubted authority that one in
ventive mother, when the mouth of the
tunnel was covered to a level with the
pest of the ground about it, brought
a quantity of fine grains of dirt to
the spot, and picking up a small peb
ble in her mandibles, used It as a ham
mer in pounding them down with rapid
strokes, thus making the spot as firm
and as hard ns the surrounding sur
face. Then she departed, brought more
dirt, picked up the pebble a pun and
used it as a hammer, as before.
NOT WISE TO GO HUNGRY
Writer Criticizes the “No-Breakfast”
Fad Which Still Retains a Hold
on Some People.
A few years ago someone started a
boom for the brenkfastless day as con
ducive to longevity. I know persons
who have clung stubbornly to this ab
surdity, Meredith Nicholson writes in
the Yale Review. The despicable habit
contributes to domestic unsociability
and is, I am convinced by my own ex
periments, detrimental to health. The
chief business of the world is trans
acted in the morning hours, and I am
reluctant to believe that it is most
successfully done on empty stomachs.
Fasting as a spiritual discipline is, of
course, quite another thing, but fast
ing by a tired business man under med
ical compulsion can hardly be lifted
to the piano of tilings spiritual. To
delete breakfast from the day’s pro
gram is a sheer cowardice, a con
fession of invalidism which is well
calculated to reduce the powers of
resistance. The man who begins the
day with a prescription that sets him
apart from his neighbors may ven
ture into the open jauntily, persuad
ing himself that his abstinence proves
his superior qualities; but in his heart,
to say nothing of his stomach, he
knows that he has been guilty of a
sneaking evnsion. If he were a nor
mal, healthy being he would not be
skulking out of the house breakfast
less. Early rising, a prompt response
to the breakfast bell, a joyous break
ing of the night’s fast, is a rite not to
be despised in civilized homes.
Football In China.
The Chinese, first as they were Ifi
many things, were first In the field
with that winter pastime we regard
as peculiarly our own—football. They
played football from very early times
at first with a ball stuffed with hair,
but from the fifth century with an in
flated bladder covered with leather.
Even in the earliest days the game
had its own literature, giving the tech
nical names and positions of the play
ers and enumerating at least seventy
different varieties of kicks; but. per
haps the most striking matter so re
corded was that concerning the re
ward of the players: “The winners
were rewarded with flowers, fruit anc
wine; and even with silver bowls ant
brocades; while the captain of the los
ing team was flogged and sufferec
. other Indignities.”_
Checks Little Used in France.
Checks are not much used and ari
but little attempt to Identify the payei
of a check and anyone who eithei
j makes out or accepts an order to paj
does so at his perih The public tai
collector will have none of them, am
the taxpayer has to stand in line will
his bank bills in the back yard or in tin
garret of the precepteur, or else h«
must go to jail for nonpayment. H<
cannot send a check. There is no clear
ing house in Paris. Banks settle theli
accounts with one another by sending
uniformed messengers, who carry cast
through the streets and who stand ir
line before the cashiers’ windows
waiting to get their exact change.—
John N. Anderson In Century Maga
sine.
Aristotle's Prescription.
A balsam for every ill, an ease fox
every ache, is translated by Steele
from the “Secretum Seeretorum," sup
posed to have been written by the
philosopher Aristotle for his pupil,
Alexander the Great. The eoncoctlon
consists of juices of various fruits
boiled down and seasoned with musk,
ambergris and aloes, various highly
expensive oils salted liberally with
powdered pearls, rubies, sapphires,
j amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., all be
ing guarded by appropriate magical
precautions. L
Alexander, however? died at an early
age from excessive imbibing, not of
: the delectable mixtures prescribed by
his mentor, but of the juice of the
grape.
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COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the “Fair
Price Committee’, appointed by the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
' D-S Meat, per pound_32c
Hams, per pound-38c
J Breakfast Bacon, per pound-60c
Smoked Bacon Bellies, per pound_38c
(Pure Lard (bulk), per pound-35c
j 5-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket _$1.50
110-lb. Buckets Pure Lard,
per bucket _$3.00
| Compound Lard (bulk), per
pound _-30c
5-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
'per bucket _$1.35
j 10-lb. Buckets Compound Lard,
per bucket _$2,75
12-lb. Std. Com, per can_20c
j 2-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_15<s . ,
3-lb Std. Tomatoes, per can_25c
Rice, per pound_16c
Std. Meal, 25-lb. sacks, per sack $1.60 “
Cream Meal 25-lb sack, per sack $1.60 eti
Cream Meal, 10-lb. sacks, per sk. 70c
Navy Beans, per pound_20c }
Lima Beans, per pound_20c
Pinto Beans, per pound_15c
Wheat Flour, 24-lb. sacks_$1.75
Corn Flour, per pound_10c
12 ounce loaf of Bread_10c
24 ounce loaf of bread_20c
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson Counuty.
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
the liver. For indigestion, bilious
ness, bad breath, bloating, gas.—■
Walker’s Pharmacy.
PARKER CONVINCED
BY HIS EXPERIENCE ;
“I Can Recommend Tanlae la the
Highest Terms,” Says Well- -
Known Alabama Dentist— Ty
Declares He Is Well Man.
“I am firmly convinced from my ,
own experience with Tan'
| will do all people claim
I am a well man now, aft»
for twelve years until I
Ibc,” is the frank staten
S. J. Parker, a well kno
of Roanoke, Alabama.
“I had a bad form of st
ble, which distressed me
or all these years,” h
“Terrible headaches wpu
me frequently as a result
ated and upset stomach
last for hours. These at
come as often as two and
a week. I lost weight i
although I tried several
approved remedies for t
it resisted treatment and
to go down hill.
“I read about what Tai
ing everywhere, and th<
skeptical about proprie
cines, I gave it a trial. 1
ished the first bottle unti
orable results, and I ha\
to improve unt” my
completely set in order s
er conditions arising fi
been entirely relieved. 1