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WHY THE OLD FLAG FLOATS
“When the empty sleeve or the
sightless eye
Or the legless form I see,
I breathe my thanks to my God on
high
For His wachful care o’er me;
And I say to myself as the cripple
goes
Half stumbling on his way;
I may brag and boast, but that
brother knows
Wliy the old flag floats today.’’
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MISS CLEVELAND TO WED
London, Dec. 20.—The engagement
is announced of Esther, daughter of
Grover Cleveland, to Capt. Bosan
quet of the Coldstream Guards. Capt.
Bosanquet is a son of Sir Albert
Bosanquet.
Miss Cleveland came to London in
June of last year, after having quali-;
fied as a nurse and instructor of the i
blind, and took up the work as a ]
volunteer at St. Dunstan’s Home for
Blinded Soldiers.
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WHOLESALE DEALER
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flour and meal.
Special attention given to
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TERMS:—CASH
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ARE THEY WEAK OR PAINFUL?
Do your lungs ever bleed?
Do you have night sweat*?
Have you pain* in chest and sides?
Do you spit yellow and black matter?
Are you continually Hawking and Coughing?
Do you Have pains under your shoulder blade?
Tkaae Are Regarded Symptoms of
LUNG TROUBLE
You should take immediate steps to
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Try one bottle and see for yourself
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A full month's supply, which formerly
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the benefit you have derived after
using one full bottle, ask the drug
gist for your money back.
Good druggists everywhere have
Lung Germine, or can get it for you
from th' ir wholesalers.
THE SOUTH AND COTTON
(Commercial Appeal)
The Philadelphia Ledger, under
date of Dec. 7. prints an editorial
based upon an advertisement in the
Commercial Appeal, in which adver
tisement a planter insisted on the
growers sticking to forty cent-cotton.
The advertisement was made the
basis of an accusation that the south
is hoggish in its demand for the
high price of cotton and that the
south is unpatriotic.
The advertisement In question was
put In by a planter, and the views
he expressed wrere his own.
Mr. Theodore Price, in his paper,
takes up the advertisement editorially
and'argues that cotton ought to be
worth about 19 cents a pound.
The Philadelphia Ledger first says
that cotton ought not to be 40 cents
a pound, and. second, that the south
! is unpatriotic In holding cotton for
40 oents a pound, and that the south
i is unpatriotic anyhow.
The crop is enormously short this
I year. At the present writing few
believe that the crop will be over
! 11,000,000 bales.
Mr. Price’s reasoning that the crop
already ginned will be supplemented,
as it was in former years, is not
sound.
In the south the crop was late, and
in a great part of the belt the frost
was early.
The cotton crop this year is as
short as was the wheat crop.
The elements that go into the mak
ing of cotton are enormous.
The cotton crop was grown on
meat at 30 cents, on corn at $2 a
bushel ayd wheat at $2.50 a bushel.
Based upon the cost of production
the price for the better grades of
cotton ought to be 40 cents rather
than 30 cents.
Middling cotton In Memphis today
I is quoted at 29 1-2 cents per pound.
The farmer will make little more
money at this price, considering the
enormous price of feedstuff, than he
did in the old days when cotton was
12 1-2 cents a pound
The south is not holding the cot
ton, but the south is in a position
where speculators and others cannot
shut off credit and force the dump
ing, even of a small crop, on the
market at one time.
The south would turn loose every
bale of cotton at the present price
if there was transportation to take
it out of the country.
It is not true that the southern
people demanded of their senators
and representatives that they give I
them protection.
This paper has insisted that the I
government has as much right to fix I
the price of cotton as it had to fix |
the price of wheat.
If the government has the right to
fix the price of one thing" it has the
right to fix the price of all things
as a war emergency measure.
The cotton is here and can be
bought at present prices. The cotton
planters and holders refuse to let,
the price be cut in half and become
bankrupt.
There has been less greed on the
part of the south than any other
section. We have had a few dem
agogic politicians who fought the
war. but they have seen the light.
In proportion to the population
the south is doing its part.
There was a generous response to
the call for volunteers.
The response would have been
greater in numbers if the negroes
had been permitted to volunteer.
Considering the number of volun
teers in proportion to white popula
tion. one would find that the south
did better than any ether section of
the country.
The negroes would have volunteer
ed if the government had been in a
position to take them into the army.
But there is a condition that some
of our friends in the east cannot get
over. Mr. Price himself cannot get
over it.
Time was when eastern speculators
and mill owners, and also foreign
spinners, backed by big money, made
a plaything of cotton. The south
was in debt and if they wanted to
drive the price of cotton down they
brought about a demand for monwf
which forced the southerner to sen
what he had at any price in order to
pay out.
They rigged the future market to
suit their greed.
They operated on the theory that
the south was a producer and should
have only enough food and clothing
to keep it alive so it would continue
to produce.
TKo annthprn npnnlp vvprp fnr VAflfR
unable to resist this condition. Fin
ally they got away from the one crop
idea and gradually worked up to a
condition where they did not have to
borrow all the money necessary ev
ery year to grow a crop.
As years advanced the southerners
were able, more and more, to finance
themselves. The southern banker
got stronger.
They were free, white and twenty
one in everything.
They are now in a position to re
fuse to he exploited and some of
our friends in the east cannot hn
derstand this new condition, and
therefore when the south refuses to
sell anything at a price fixed else
where we are charged with being
unpatriotic.
Mr. Price’s proposition that cotton
as compared to other things, is worth
only 19 1-2 cents, falls when one con
siders the price of meat and wheat
and corn and mules, to say nothing
of the price of shoes and clothing.
Put wheat at $1 per bushel, corn
at 60 cents per bushel, mules at $150
for the best, and bacon at about one
fourth the present price, and the
south will grow cotton at ten cents
a pound middling, year in and year
out, guarantee delivery and be sat
isfied with the profits.
Cotton is worth today every cent
that it is quoted at.
PSYCHOLOGY OF JERUSALEM’S
FALL
(Commercial Appeal
) A nation cannot rise higher than
its ideals, for its ideals are the
minarets on the lookout towers of
its civilization. That is why the re
demption of Jerusalem from bondage
to the Turks has sent such a thrill
around the globe; for Jerusalem typi
fies the highest Ideals of a world
that has tried Isis, Jupiter, Baliol,
Buddah and Mahomet through cen
turies of final failure. But the re
ligion of the God of Abraham and of
Jesus of JVazareth has ever and al
ways been the constructive element
in the upbuilding of the truth and
justice and! liberty that have made
the world a habitation for civilized
man rather than a roaming place i
savages of the caves.
No civilization endures that is not
founded on the cornerstone of a
religion of reverence for the Su
preme Power whose creed for its
followers is the everlasting truth as
we find it in the Holy Scriptures.
Egypt tried for perpetuity with her
science pnd her false gods, and went
back to desert sand; Babylon and
Persia rose in the splendor of a
marvelous development that blossom
ed and faded because it was rooted
in idolatry; Rome held the world in
the hollow of her hand and saw it
slip away because there was no
righteousness in her grasp; and even
Greece, with ail her alluring arts
and philosophies, was but a ‘firefly
in the night ’ of the ages because
that "altar to the unknown God”
was not a national altar.
But the civilization that rested on
the teachings of the bible has never
waned. Whiter the light has grown,
wider the sweep of its influence,
because as long as “God is in His
Heaven” all must be “well with the
world.”
Jerusalem, the citv of David, the
scene of the supreme sacrifice of the
Son of God. epitomizes in the minds1
of the uniferse this thought of world
development and eternal life. It is
sordid and soiled with centuries of;
infidel rule but in it are housed the
traditions of Judaism ar.d the holiest
spots of the Christian religion. The
Temple. the Sepulcher, Gethsem
ane. Calvary—golden threads in the
great fabric of eternal liberty and
eternal uplift.
Berlin says, with scorn, that the
city was not a strategic point and
its fall had no military significance.:
But far more important than militar
ism is the psychological effect that
the fortress of the spiritual life of
the world has passed into Christian
hands.
When Gen. Allenby and his army,;
bareheaded and a-foot. marched ,
through the gates of the captured
Jerusalem, a new era dawned in the j
history of humanity.
This year the Christmas star will
rico cnftTv nvpr o roH PPmorl frrtm
bandage F'alestine, and the cross,
and not the crescent, will answer i
the tender appeal. When in the
churches of the world there are held
the services of the Nativity, the
knowledge of a captured Jerusalem
will rise like the perfume of some
rare incense swung into the censers 1
of peace to the God of all goodness.
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GERMANY LAUGHS NO MORE
The steady swing of public opin
ion in neutral countries against the
German cause—which is apparent
even where there was a distinct
pro-German feeling at the beginning
of the war—is at last causing appre
hension in the Fatherland, says the
F.ondon Times. It remarks:
“Germany affected to ?augh as
one by one the neutral states, which
i are not great military powers, fell
off from her in horror of her crimes, i
She laughes no more. It is not. in
deed. the moral condemnation of so
many peoples which disturbs her
seared and hardened conscience.
At that she can still scoff. But she
is finding that the raw materials for
her industries in war and in peace
together with no small share of her
food-supplies are under the control
of those who are her declared ene
mies or who refuse to continue dip
lomatic relations with her. She is
beginning to perceive what this may
mean to her.”
Experiments are under way at
Honolulu with the use of banana
trunk fibre in the manufacture of
bags for raw sugar.
The biggest word in the allied
, dictionary-UNITY.
MANY MEN
When they think of LIFE INSERT W
think of DEATH. UUSCE W
Life Insurance I
is not necessarily H
Death Insurance 1
Henry Smith has a wife and three childro n W.
has $10,000 IK) of Life Insurance. n' ^ aljB|
1 Henry was 38 years old when he took this I S
‘ He is now 58 and what is he doing? n8Uraa*|B
His children are grown and have families 0f th •
Henry and Ms good wife are living in comfnJ^HB
proceeds of that $10,000.00 Life Insurance 0n
Life Insurance I
is not B
Death Insurance I
unless you die B
An Investment NOT An Expense S
HONE LIFE AND ACCIDENT CONPjyJ
CHAS. McKEE, Resident Agent, Marianna Ark B
O. F. LACEY, Resident Agent, Moro, Ark. fl
BANK of HAYNES, Resident Agts., Haynes Aril
GOODE RENFROE, Special Agent, Fordyce’Artl
A. B. BANKS & COMPANY, Managers IS
Exeeotive Offices, Fordyce, Arkansas H
A- B. Backs, President Jno. R. Hawpto^fcB
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PECANS WANTE
Wm. FRIEDMAN •« II
ARKANSAS NOW HAS 21,844 |
MEN IN ARMY AND NAVY
(Arkansas Gazette)
Arkansas has furnished more than
an army division for service, accord
ing to figures compiled yesterday in
the office of the adjutant general,
the total to date being 21,844, as
follows: Navy. 1,850; marine corps,
72; regular army, 2.963; Arkansas
National Guard, 6,692; National army
6.525; negroes certified to national
army and subject to immediate call,”
3.742 In addition the Fourth Regi
ment and an Engineers’ battalion are
now being organized. When these i
are recruited the figures till
nearly 24.000. to which will bt
also the rest of the mea l
into service under the selective
system.
Feeding Cottonseed Meal I
To Horses and Mules I
Read the Following from the Progressive Farmer: I
U In traveling over the south it is gratifying to hear such an in- I
creasing number of farmers report that they are feeding two pounds I
of cottonseed meal a day to each horse and mule. This is both econo- fl
l\ mical and patriotic. It pays the farmer and also serves the nation by fl
releasing corn for human consumption. On this point some agricul- fl
tural organizations of the south have printed and circulated thousands ■
of copies of the following statement by t)r. Tait Butler fl
“There are in the eleven cotton states 6,500,(XX) horses and mules. fl
s| If each of these were fed two pounds of cottonseed meal per day it I
would release four pounds of corn each day from the usual daily feed 9
of about 14 pounds, and 200 days of such feeding to all horses and fl
mules would release 100,000,000 bushels of corn for human food—and fl
the mules and the horses would be benefitted by the change. fl
“4 pounds of corn at $1.55 per bushel costs 11 cents. I
“2 pounds of cottonseed meal at $40 per ton costs 4 cents. fl
‘ The feeder would thus save 7 cents per day on each head of fl
11 stock, or a saving of $14 per head in a period of 200 days.” 'fl
I Marianna Cotton Oil Mill 1