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THE INDEPENDENT
AUSTIN C. WIL.KERSON
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The United States Employment
Service is asking that the farmers
of the state meet in each school dis
trict on August 23, 1918, for the pur
pose of getting an exact census of la
bor conditions throughout Arkansas
on the farm. Don’t Forget the Date!
This Means You!
Report blanks have been mailed to
evdty postmaster in Arkansas. Have
your chairman or secretary apply to
your postmaster for this blank, pre
ferably before the meeting. At this
meeting we expect you to find out
just how many men will be needed in
your school district to assist in: (1)
Harvesting Rice Crop; (2) Picking
Cotton; J3) For any other Farm La
bor.
Also how many women and chil
dren are needed for cotton picking
purposes, and whether houses or
board can be furnished. Also how
many laborers will be needed in pro
ducing the 1919 crop; how many
share croppers, cash renters, renters
for third and fourth, how many to
take leases. Also find how many
single men and married men with
families can be sent to other dis
tricts, either in your county or in
other counties of the state. Also
how many men in your district could
be sent to the various war industry
plants, even for a short time.
Consult with other farmers, either
personally or over the telephone, at
once, and arrange for this meeting.
By All Means See That Every Far
mer in the District Attends! Again
■ let us remind you that your govern
ment is depending upon you to do
your part to help win the war. This
air is ynnr opportunity—FajMn Line and
| Do It Enthusiastically.
S Address communications to Exam
iner in Charge, Farm Labor Division,
U. S. Employment Service, Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Take a glass of Salts to flush Kidneys
if Bladder bothers you—Drink
lots of water.
Eating meat regularly eventually pro
duces kidney trouble in some form or
other, says a well-known authority, be
cause the uric acid in meat excites the
kidneys, they become overworked; get
sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of
distress, particularly backache and mis
ery in the kidney region; rheumatic twin
ges, severe headaches, acid stomach, con
stipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness,
bladder and urinary irritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid
neys aren’t acting right, or if bladder
-bothers you, get about four ounces of
~ad Salta from any good pharmacy;
ke a 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
i flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them
to normal activity; also to neutralize the
acids in the urine so it no longer irri
tates, thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
is a delightful effervescent lithia
der drink which millions of men and
take now and (lien to keep the
dneye and urinary organs clean, thus
.voiding serious kidney disease.
Why We Should Boycott
Germany After the War,
many's high-carbon wire are going
to get what they are entitled to.
And the wire those pliers cut. How ^
about German wire goods? In wire
and wire articles they enjoyed about:
two and three-quarter million dollars’ j
worth of business every year over
here. There are wire mills and wire j
goods factories here at home who are
a year or two behind with domestic j
orders merely because the needs of
the government come first, and Un
cle Sam is getting their output.
(Concluded Friday.)
JOHN WOODS WRITES
TO HIS MOTHER HERE
FROM FAR-A-WAY FRANCE
This week the Independent receiv
ed a visit from Mrs. Amanda Orms
by and her husband. Mrs. Ormsby
has just received a letter from her
son, J. Mart Woods, who has landed
in France with American forces. He
was one of the brave boys of Jackson
county who answered the first call
and enlisted in Company E here.
The letter follows:
“Somewhere in France,
July 17, 1918.
“Mrs. Amanda Ormsby,
“My Dear Mother: I will write to
you, since it has been so long since
you heard from me.
“I guess you thought I was never
going to write you at all, but I have
been very busy since I got over here.
T like it fine, and am eniovine- mv
self well, though of course I would
have a better time back in the states.
However, don’t worry about that, for
I think I will get back all right. I
will close. Hoping to hear from you
real soon, good-bye,
“Private J. M. Woods,
“Co. F. 307 Ammunition train.
“A. E. F.”
Mrs. Ormby also handed us the
following letter from Mrs. E. M.
Smith, which was written from
Southampton, England, July 15:
“Dear Mrs. Ormsby:
“About a fortnight ago we had
the pleasure of meeting your son.
My husband and I were walking
over the large common, where the
American camp is now pitched, and
feeling sorry for the lonely boys from
your country, we introduced our
selves to your son and a friend of his,
and for an hour or two had a most
enjoyable conversation with them.
Unfortunately, though, we were not
able to do much more for them than
this. We had hoped to have had
them into our home and given them
a little glimpse of home life again,
but within a day or two after our.
meeting they were sent off to France,
and we did not see them again.
“However, we are sure you will be
pleased to hear that your son was
looking and feeling exceedingly well
and appeared to be in the best of
spirits.
“We English folk are most proud
of your American boys. Their be
havior in this country is excellent and
we only wish we could keep them on
this side of the water until the war is
over, instead of sending them to
France.
“May God spare your son to you
and hasten the time when you will be
reunited.
“Yours very truly,
“Mrs. E. M. Smith.”
FOR SALE.
Four high grade coming 2 year old
Hereford bull calves, $60 each; Poole
seed wheat a heavy yielder, $2.40 a
bushel; 13-H. P. traction engine and
boiler, $200; 2-cylinder Wolverine
boat engine, $75.
Will McIntosh,
18w4t. Cow Lake, Ark.
SED IN YOUR LETTERS.
There is nothing that gives the In
dependent more pleasure than pub
HcVnnO’ fVlD lof foro irnn vnnniirn ■fvAvvi
the soldier boys in France. When
you get a letter send it to the Inde
pendent. It’s publication will be of
interest to everyone.
NOTICE.
Will any one having magazines for
the Canteen Committee please phone
to Mrs. G. K. Stephens, No. 155, and
they will be called for.
Mrs. B. H. White, Chm.
Did you read that America is the
leciding factor? Coming from Lord
Milner this statement is momntuous
and America is not coming in—she
has come in—America is in.
The Independent works for you.
Use it as your salesman. It carries
news of the store into hundreds of
homes.
The more you help the men at the
front the quicker the end will come
The government needs your money;
ou need the stamps.
BE PRETTY! TURN
Try Grandmother’s Old Favorite j
Recipe cf Sage Tea and
Sulphur.
Almost everyone knows thatrt®^e 1
Tea and Sulphur, properly compouiia
ed brings back the natural color ana
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked |
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get thi3 mixture was to tnake it. at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at any
drug store for “Wyeth’s Sage and Sul
phur Compound,” you will get a large
bottle of this famous old recipe, im
proved by the addition of other in
gredients, at a small cost.
Don’t stay gray! Try it. No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does it so naturally
and evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with It and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the gray
hair disappears, and after an0Jb®r ap
plication or two, your hair becomes
beautifully dark, glossy and attractive.
Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound Is a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair andla
vouthful appearance. It is not in
tended for the cure, mitigation or pre
vention of disease.
Stamps are not for children only, j
Most of the squandering is done by .
the grown-ups.
“Dash, determination and daring—M
also efficiency”—That’s what ourg
boys at the front are doing. Keep ’eiqjg|
going! War Savings is a message t<*» ■'
the kaiser that will “get over.”
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ARE' YOU INCLUDED HERE?
Many people in Newport are wear- i
ing old style and ill-fitting glasses,.i|
which were fitted years ago.
Style in glasses change as in many
other things. What do you think of
a 1910 model automobile? A 1910‘J|
model pair of glasses are just as.||
much out of style. Keep your old .
glasses for emergency and get fittediii
up with a pair of late model glasses.^
We can fit you correctly in the m w
style Shell Rim Glasses. If you ap
preciate correctness in your^ glasses*.
keep me in mind.
W. D. HINSON,
Optometrist and Optician,
Office: 123 Hazel St.
88 Tues and Fri. 4tl
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(Continued from Wednesday.)
MR. BUYER, IT’S UP TO YOU!
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Postal Cards. We have used mil
lions of them to say a brief hello to
th folks at home when we were bn
the road. Postal card holiday greet
ings, postal birthday congratulations,
postal cards that could be written
quickly and mailed with ease when
pleasure and business, magnet-like,
speeded the use we made of our time. j
For the past three years postal cards j
have frequently told brief stories so
direct in their wording that the full
shock of their horror equalled or ex
celled those telegrams from the War
Department which are bringing
home to us the price we are paying
for democracy.
Imagine a postal card teiling that
your son had lost his third finger,
deliberatly cut from his hand that
a Hun might become possessed of the
ring he wore.
Picture the postal that told you of
the burning of the lunatic asylum at
Obourg, Belgium, and of the fright
ful death of the 200 insane women
who were being cared for in that in
stitution.
Read the postal that might truth
fully tell of that French woman 80
years of age who was raped at La
houssove.
Another mail and the postal that
tells of the women and children at
Mons who were forced to march on
their own soldiers, acting as a screen
for the German troopers. Read that
the fifty who refused to go on were
bayonetted. You might receive fifty
postals, each telling of similar acts
which can be verified. Read and
then calm yourself to the statistics
that inform you that before the war
we purchased souvenir postcards and ,
lithographs from Germany to the
amount of nearly two million dol
lars annually.
Do it again ? Surely not while we
are in our right minds. Sign our
names to a postal card made in that,
empire of rape? My God, no, and
that we may never be tricked into
unconscious violation of this just to- ,
unconscious violation of this just re- j
solve. Mr. Buyer, it’s up to you.
In a litttle French village well |
within hearing of the incessant boom i
of the Kaiser’s cannon. Isaac Mar
cosson, that great American writer,
applied for lodging one night at the
cottage of an old French woman.
She greeted him courteously, but be- j
fore she asked him to sit down took
him to the side of her fireplace and .
pointed to the wall. Pinned to a lit
tle French flag were three little met-'
al tags with the identification num
bers of her three sons. Below each
tag was pinned the French Croix de
Guerre. As Marcosson stood at sa- j
lute, paying his silent tribute to the |
immotal dead, and to this brave la- j
dy’s supreme sacrifice, she took from |
the mantle a French wrist watch.
Her last boy had worn it until a Ger
man grenade had ended his brave ef
fort to stem the unprovoked invasion ,
of the land he loved better than life, j
One of his comrades had taken that j
watch from his wrist, wound it up j
and sent it back to the old mother in ;
the village back of the Marne. Itr
was still running when put into her j
trembling hands. To her the ticking
of that watch, said Marcosson, is
the beating of that boy’s heart, and
i «ic? if wxrr?offluo fVio nrtcairin* nf fimp it
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is also registering the passing of
a cursed power that has been allowed
for half a century to prepare colos
sally for the brutal domination of
the world. Is this just another story
to tug at your heartstrings? You
be the judge. Before Germany and
Austria turned loose 'their hellish
; hordes, we imnorted annually from
them over a million dollars’ worth of
clocks and watches.
AGIlions of graves have be'1" '
with brave young men wrho were
alive, happy and ambitious three i
years ago. The wrist watches of
many of these bovs have come back i
! with their little tin tags. There is!
| no necessity for us to buy time-pieces
from these peoples who have so ti- i
! tnntieallv and treacherouslv caused
| the death of the flower of this cen-1
! tury’s man hood. There are plenty
! of good clocks and watches manufae
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j +ured right here at home and in the
J dsvs to come keen that in mind. Mr.
Ruver. von are going into the front
j line trenches to protect us from such
' morebandise. in the name of that
! old Froneh mother, watch your step.
“Music, that sublime art which
' affects the passions bv sound. Few
\ who have not felt its charms and ac
knowledged its expressions to be in
te’,;gjble to the heart.”
Music outraged. Raise the curtain
of Kulture ever so little and peek at
those villages of France and Belgium
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occupied by the invaders. Before
your ever widening, horror struck
»yes in an unearthly panorama of
Encouraged lust. Villages burning
everywhere, th^ streets strewn with
tth viciously flung bodies of the
helpless inhabitants. From a house
before you comes the terrific shrieks
of a young girl who is being outrag
ed. Suddenly the door of this house
is burst open and an old man is
hurled into the street. It is the
grandfather of the girl whose
screams make your blood run cold.
He is seventy-five years old and has
gone to her rescue. As the forceful
ly impelled body of that courageous
old gentleman strikes on the cobble
stones the crowd of half-drunk sol
diers, on whose belts you see in
scribed “Gott is with us,” begin
jumping in fiendish glee upon him.
Their heavy hob-nailed marching
boots quickly reduce his frail old
body to a battered, bloody mass.
No, Mr. American, these are not
hallucinations of your own imagina
tion. They are actual sights made
hideously clear by burning buildings
which are being wantonly destroyed.
Then you see a load of straw on a
quaint two-wheeled cart coming
down the street. It is stopped. Oil
is thrown over it, and in its highly j
inflamable state the willing hands
of the Huns throw it into a cellar
where a large number of women and
children have taken refuge. And
then, merciful God, a laughing sol
cner oi wnneim, me nruie ui Derua,
scratches a German-made match and
one more absolutely inhuman atroc
ity has blotched the historical page
of a couple of nations whose thin
veneer of civilization has been scrap
ed away in a war that is but a few
days old. Where? Well, the name
of the town was Charleroi.
And from up the street came the
sound of outraged music from stolen
gramophones, accordions and a pian
ola. The officers were singing. A
musical entertainment in celebra-;
tion of a victory.
Before the war, musical instru
ments, gamophone motors, player
pianos; yes, we bought a lot of
them from these twin nations of ra
pine. After the war? In the name
of the angels who sing saddened
music in heaven as -they look down
upon music outraged, no more musi
cal instruments from Germany and
Austria. Stop it, Mr. Buyer. Stop
it for all time. We have the right to
expect it of you.
You may well dread to go on read
ing this, but the straight, plain, hor
rible truths that have come to us
fully verified have been kept out of
print long enough. It is high time
all our people knew of them.
At Merlant the soldiers of Germa
ny amused themselves as might the
archfiends of Hell. Their last act in
the neighboring village of Etre’py
was to club to death an old woman
83 years of age. That particular
group of soldiers seemed to be pos
sessed'of an inhuman desire to kill
old people. They signalized their
arrival in Merlant by tying an old
man of seventy to the tail of a horse
which they beat into a frenzy of ter
ror before thev turned it loose to
drag the old man to his death.
And the barbed wire of No Man’s
Land separated us from those sol
diers. Over two hundred miles of
such entanglements on the western
front. Recently the kaiser’s factories
put out a new wire containing a lot
more carbon than had been previous
ly used in the manufacture of such
product. There wasn’t a single-hand
ed plier in the American army that
would cut it. Word of the improve
ment came to us in America with
samples of the wire our Sammies had
obtained with bolt cutters. The
problem was put up to twenty-six pa
triotic plier manufacturers who met
in New York with a well-known
young army officer. Every manu
facturer present threw his patents on
the table and said to the others,
“Help Yourselves.” One week later
those plier manufacturers met again
and brought with them five Ameri
can made single-handed pliers that
cut the German’s new wire with ease.
The answers are beginning to come
in, and those far-flung entangle
ments are going to be cut just as
surely as the ever-increasing forces
of Americans are going to be in on
the killing. The armies of the Cen
tral Powers have passed their merid
dian. From now on they are going
to taste some of the defeats they have
inflicted.
But we were speaking of pliers.
Before the war they were selling
about two hundred thousand dollars’
worth of pliers in the United States
jach year. Good-bye, business, j
rhose American plier manufacturers
who produced the tools to cut Ger
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