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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.
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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
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| 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
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A L LEWIS, Photograph*
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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.
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