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itt BATESVHJLE mm Gao. & Truvatbaw, PnaMaal. A. C.Wilkemon. Editor. 1 ft*" 11 ~~— Eatorud «t the Batesville, Ariu, Fate office as second-elaas mail natter. Ono MonVl L———... 485 twelve Months ....._._ 8 M Where delivery is irregular, please uake immediate complaint to the >ffice. Phone 26. a IT SEEMS RATHER ACCIDENTAL Commenting last Tuesday on H. A. Enochs’ presentation of the case of the men in the pending controversy over railway train service wages, the Herald remarked that “a question of fact” was raised by Mr. Enochs’ al legation of a “tendency toward keep ing men on continuous duty for six teen hours, tying up freight crews on the road between the fourteenth and sixteenth hours whenever it is possi ble,” and under conditions in which they could not obtain proper rest. It further remarked that it ought to be statistically demonstrable as to whether such infringement of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the six teen-hour law is so frequent as to in dicate a policy, or so infrequent as to bo regarded as merely occasional and accidental, and pointed ouCthat such a showing is vital to the contention of the men that their demands are not so much for 25 per cent higher wages as for more humane hours. J. W. Higgin, in a letter printed re cently, cited official figures showing a great decrease since 1913 of train crews kept on duty more than six teen hours. The Herald has now re ceived figures that seem more re sponsive to its question: “What per centage of train crews arc thus tied up on the road where it is impossible for them to really rest?” ’ Exhibits made by the western rail roads in the arbitration of 1914-15 with the engineers and firemen show that out of 5,949,635 trains run only ( 38,888, or fifty-ni^e hundredths-of V i. fy e^at; eareeded tbe sixtyntour limit, and that only 35,491, or six tenths of 1 per cent, were tied up to avoid infringing the law. In a sim ilar arbitration in 1913 the eastern railroads showed that in the month of 1912 of the greatest number of such cases only 5,554 out of 295,343 toini run, or 1.87 per cent, were tied Wid only 2,311, or .seventy-eight hundredths of 1 per cent, were out more than sixteen hours. Taken in connection with the de crease from 261,332 men in 1912-13 •called upon to work more than six teen hours to 59473 such cases in -ti4-15, these figures seem to show that the railways cannot be justly ac cused of anything in the nature of the policy imputed to them by Mr. SPRING Furniture Spring Means Brighten Up Your Home You will want some new furniture to help do the brightening. We purchased furniture, rugs, etc., extensively with the anticipation of a big Spring business. Our reputation as sellers of good substantial furniture in your assurance of selecting here reli able goods. Little Prices and Reliable {Furniture go hand in hand 9, thin store. e Easy payments allow all tojhave good furniture. A. L CROUCH rom QftßDrr is good. J u, • : : , r Enochs, and that aach drtentfoas are largely accidental. In fact, the offic ial figures show that out of the 59,000 men so kept out in 1914-15 about 33,000 were the result of collisions, derailments and other occurrences which relieve from any charge of vio lating the law.—Chicago Herald. JOHN TALKS ABOUT HIS GUBERNATORIAL BOOM. Metropolitan papers outside the Hate are taking interest in our can didacy for governor of Arkansas. All this solicitude is unsought by us. A big democratic daily of Mississippi says that we should be elected because we have managed to run a republican mper more than a year without itarvin^to death. We deprecate the lint that it is difficult to live in Ar cansas. Our state is a fruitful, bountiful, prolific land. Curious peo ple make long trips to see a single born child in Arkansas. Twins are as common in this state as niggers and mosquitoes in Mississippi. Our paw paw and mast crops are the wonders of the earth. Our ever-blooming can didate subsists on nuts wild fruits and game. If he succeeds in the elec tion he takes the oath of office and then goes after another term. If he fails he turns to the sweet acorns and toothsome wild onions for another heroic trial. Great is Arkansas. O yes a republican can run a newspaper in Arkansas easier than a democrat can go after his laundry and watch Vastus in Mississippi.—Salem Sun. SALE OF STOCK. Notice is hereby given that I now have in the city pound one sow, de scribed as follows: One sow, color black, ear marks split and two under bits in left, underbits in right, weight about 200 pounds. Owner thereof is notified to appear and prove ownership of same within ten days from this date. If not claim ed on or before Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1916, same will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the city pound, in the city of Batesville, Ark., at 10 o'clock a. m. j E. F. DeCamp, Marshal, i March 8, 1916. I , PAINT PLANS Whenever you are ready to do that spring paint ing we are ready to sup ply the materials. —1 Our stock is complete and contains a special paint for every purpose Come in and have a paint talk. Our exper ience may be valuable to you. Terry Drag Company Buff Greve. Thors is a good attendance at our school and scholars interested. Eugene Butler and Miss Linnie Harmon wont to Judsonia, where they were united in marriage. “Uncle Doc” Harmon of this place went to hear the randidates speak at Bethesda, and his friends were glad to see him out. W. W. McSpadden and family vis ited at Oneal Saturday night and Sunday. The roads are almost impassable here. • Mr. Harmon is putting out a num lier of fruit trees. John Hill visited in our neighbor hood last Thursday night. NOTICE. , During the month of March Ed ward R. Baxter’s store will be con sidered headquarters for turnip greens. Therefore if you want turnip greens kindly phone Baxter’s store. Phone -94. Floral. Chester Ferguson and Miss Pearl Pearson were married on the 27th inst. Their many friends wish for this union a long and cloudless jour ney. Mrs. Lovie Bowren fell asleep in the arms of Jesus on February 26. She is gone but not forgotten. She leaves a husband and three small children and a host of friends and relatives to mourn her death. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. The Guard is authorised to an nounce the following candidates for office, subject to the action of the Democratic party: For Congress— A. G. GRAY. TOM W. CAMPBELL. For Circuit Judge— DENE H. COLEMAN. C. M. ERWIN. For Representative— J. K. YORK. , POINDEXTER HILL. SA^ A. MOORE. For Prosecuting Attorney— EARL C. CASEY. Far Sheriff— ( NOAH HARRIS. LAWRENCE RUDDELL. T. F. SHELL. For County Judge— ’ • T. M. WALDRIP. SAM C. KNIGHT, J. A. WILF. For Collector— V. O. GRAY. " BURTON ARNOLD. S. D. LINDSEY. G. O. MAGNESS. For Assessor— T OSCAR T. JONES. W. N. “Nat" HARDIBTER. LESLIE LINDSEY. GEORGE W. WYATT. For Circuit Clerk— GEORGE L. BEVENB. FRANK ADAMS. For County Clerk— ED R HOOPER. — JOE A. KENNARD. " For County Treasurer— W. R. WESTBROOK. For Mayor— A. T. EVANS. V. G. RICHARDSON. NEWTON M. ALEXANDER. For Marshal— E. F. DeCAMP. . PAUL HOLMES. WALTER FUGET. “ EDGAR GEORGE. For City Recorder— T. ALBERT For City Treasurer— A. M. CASEY. FRANK HANDFORD. For Constable, Ruddell Townehip HILL HAYS. D. G. HORTON. For Road Overseer— Ruddell Township. GEO. W. JACKSON, G. M. GILL. W. L. (BUD) WILKINS. For Justice of the Peace. Raddell Towaahip— JASPER K JOHNBOM. R. R. CASK. For Alderman— First Ward— HOMER EDWARDS. WILL LANDERS. Third Ward— . ED CUNNINGHAM. , NEWT McCORD. 40iqpWA IS AN iL DURADJ Rich Alluvial Gold D*koelte Have Seen Found In South American Republic. I In the South American republic of Colombia are .ituated the richest al luvial gold deposits discovered in re cent years, says the Boston Post. I In the far off days of Drake and ! Hawkins this region yielded vast treasure to the intrepid English navi gators whose Mecca was ever the Spanish main. It was Drake who, crossing the Isth mus of Panama in 1572, was the first Englishman to cast eyes on the Pa cific. The greater portion of the 4,000,000 inhabitants who people Colombia at the present time are descendants of the followers of those romantic adven turers, Almagro. Cortes and Pizarro, the Spanish conquistadores who sub dued the natives of South America and who ruled them with a rod of iron till the coming of Drake and the other great English sailors. The present day Colombians are in tensely religious, and their religion en ters into the everyday occupations of the people to an extent never seen elsewhere. At the beginning of any work of im portance a religious ceremony is al ways held, and at the launching of the dredge of the Nechi Mines. Ltd., a company controlled in London, which took place not long ago, the dredge was blessed by the priest in attend ance, as was also the first bucket of earth drawn. IS AN INHERITED DEFECT Physicians Have Found That “Stiff Fingers’* Are Transmitted From Generation to Generation. In the recent procedinga of the Na tional Academy of Sciences, Doctor Cushing of Harvard Medical school and the Peter Bent Brigham hospital, Boston, announced to the academy some results he had found in study ing the heredity of “stiff fingers,” a type of malformation of the hands or feet. He has studied the history of a family which migrated from Scotland to Virginia in 1700, and has found that “atlff fingers" are hereditary with the regularity which is expected in cer tain traits. Os the more than 300 decendants of the Scotch emigrant about 25 per cent had “stiff fingers'." In families in which neither parent was affected the children were not affected. In fam- Ilies in which one parent, either moth er or father, was affected, about halt of the children were affected with ue malformation. Improved Naval Airship. America’s first naval airship is near ing completion at the factory of an air craft manufacturing plant in Connecti cut. According to the final specifica tions, the airship is to be 176 feet long, its maximum height 50 feet, and its beam 35 feet. Where the fine are at tached. the beam is Increased to 50 feet. The volume of the envelope is to be 115,000 cubic feet, while each balloonette is to have a capacity of 150.000 cubic feet. The weight of the envelope is to be 15,000 pounds. The dead weight of the machine is speci fied as 4,000 pounds, while the lifting effort to 7,800 pounds, leaving the car rying capacity in the neighborhood of 3,800 pounds of useful load. The dir igible to to be driven by a 150-horae power motor through two tour-bladed propellers. The maximum speed is specified at between twenty-five and thirty-live milee an hour, which can be kept up for a period of five hours. The dirigible to to be capable of rising to a height of 5,000 feet. High Cxploelvea. Professor Smithells of Leeds univer sity in a lecture on "High Exploeivea,” said that one peculiarity of them to that you could do anything you liked to them, even kick them with im punity, and they are quite safe until they received the right vibratory shock. A high expfoslve produces from 15,000 to 20,000 times its own volume of gas, and the velocity to at the rate of about seven miles a second, a speed at which one can travel from Leeds to London in about twenty-seven sec onds. If a man. turning a street cor ner, meets a gale of wind blowing at eighty miles an hour, it will nearly upeet him; yet It only travels about forty yards a second instead of seven miles. Thus 150 gales of wind would have to be mot with cumulative ef fect before the velocity of a high ex plosive will have to be encountered. Can Hold the Maker. Motorists who still use acetylene to light their cars may find some conao lation in the fact that if while touring the acetylene tank should explode and blow them tour or five milee off the route, their heirs have an action against the manufacturer of the tank. In Fort Wayne, Ind., the coroner tn a caeo whore two man were killed by the cwploeioe of a tank of thio lighting gas holds that the maker of the tank Io tho yviM rMpoMlMo foor Um Omolimoo DooUi Roto Mlofie Os the duarter-mUUon bueinaae es^ porntMifiß to the United States mem teaa 166,666 ooake loss than MAM a year, and more than 168,08 moke noth tagarML IteiallMto, vbMk*are aa> "aMdHMon^Tlta BwliilLdwiA Rater ee^Mßta2i^4Ate»wry DtoteL For Higlt Class Job and Commercial i | Printing I and Book work The GUARD has Never Been Excelled WE will keep up our standard of good printing and the best grade of stock. It might be well, Mr. Merchant and ’businessman, for you to look over your # stock of printing and set if there is anything in that line that you will need for the first. We will be able to get the work out on short notice and will Appreciate the Business The BATESVILLE GUARD Qorn Belt Feed Mill It grinds corn, cob and shuck all together effecting an immense saving in feed material. It grinds wet corn and new spongy corn better and quicker than any other mill made. Write for Cata logue C. Southwestern Supply Go. Arkansas. Cave City. Rev. Sells of the M. E. church has >een preaching each night at the M. S. church here since Saturday night. Drs. J. R. Stockard and Bee Price, dentists, have been in the city sav ers! days doing work for the people. T. I. Herrn <^f Evening Shade passed through Tuesday, en route home from Batesville. Mr. Ransomer of Batesville will be gin work soon at the Crow mines, w hich he teased. A number of people will be put to Qlothes Pressed Cleaned and Repaired, will call for and deliver, clothes. All wo(k guaran teed. Suits made to order. Herman Guenzel Your Friends Can Buy Anything Except Your Photograph • • r-« % I** I * A L LEWIS, Photograph* Ammmmltte L work at the Ball mines soon. Mra. O. A. Albright and children hi..e returned to Batesville after two weeks’ visit in the City. Mr. and Mra J . Alvis were visiting the family of D C. C. Gray Saturday and Sunday. Pete Ford and family are moving back to the farm on Curia, where they will reside thia year. rvigorettag to Hm Pato and Sickly The Old Standard aeaaral atmatheolas tnnic. qbovx'B TaaTXLsaa chin tonic. cn.-. out '<-I«ria.eafichmlb*MMd.aiKlbni!d.u ■ hr-