text: A a i ■ r I \ jk^i^^fci- ■ 1 WIwAm lUKiSMi a iK®B 1 IS i£ : JW§® O®? 1 WS 7/ I z 1 # ML<Ma S; B ut-J W w ®' |b Let Me See Your Eyes «■ ™ £s?® If you don’t need glasses or spectacles M®| you will be told so frankly. If you do v9W A3%S need eye aids you can get them here on a fair pricing basis. The examination will cost you naught. Everything |§Sg| optical at Brassier's. m m I b»ii|w K6e TIMES-JOURNAL Claude Mann, Editor and Prop. Mrs. Annie Williams, Local Ed. Subscription: One Dollar per year Ks-Obituaries, Cards of Thanks, and similar notices making more than ten lines will be charged for at the rate of five cents per line. Entered at the Post Office, Malvern, Ark., as second-class mail matter. Wednesday, April 15th, 1908 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. For Congress—Sixth District— JOE T. ROBINSON Prosecuting Attorney— H. B. MEANS State Senator— \ R. W. GLOVER COUNTY OFFICES Representative D. D. GLOVER Sheriff J. T. MOREHEAD Clerk D. S. BRAY County Judge JOHN W. KEITH Tax Assessor J. E. MEANS Treasurer W. R. COLLIER Surveyor J. T. AULT Coroner J. J. TARVIN For goodness sake, gentlemen, let the cows stay up. Some of us bloated millionaires, can’t afford a fence and we’ve been led to believe we would never have to barricade again. The base ball season is now well under way, and the technical and other terms associated with the sport are as so much Greek or Choctaw to the average man. Still they need not interfere with his enjoyment of our national game. To the new Mayor and Board of Aldermen, The Times-Journal "doffs its lid." We didn’t have time to do it last week. May your administration be free from petty things and may you accomplish much for Malvern is the wish of every good citizen. There are pillows wet by sobs: there are gentle sensitive natures seared and warped; there are old friends separated and walking their lonely ways with hope dead and memory but a pang; there are cruel misunderstandings that make life bare, these are but few of the sorrows that come from the crimes of the tongue. Work is essential for moral well-being. The idle man with time lying upon his hands is almost sure to get into mischief of some sort or other. It is with stagnant lives as with stagnant pools that they breed corruption. Very different, as a rule, is it with the busy man. He, like the busy water, finds that movement ends to purity. The man who owns his home is, in a position that the renter can, never rech. The renter usually finds that his rent is too high, or he is dissatisfied for some reason, and is restless, and discontent stalks before him. He wants to move. He does not take the same interest in municipal affairs, nor is he as solicitous of his neighbors, as the man who owns his home. When you pull down the town in which is your home, you are pulling down yourself and your neighbor. Try and banish from your mind the mistaken idea that all good things are away off in some other locality. Give your town all The praise it can legitimately bear. It certainly will do you no harm and will cost you nothing; and above all, patronize your home institutions—including the printing office. “Advertising is no good,” said the man in old clothes. It never helped me—none.” The millionaire merchant smiled, “That is because you tried it, John.” As the Indian tried the feather bed. An Indian took a feather, placed it on a plank, and slept on it all night. In the morning he growled; “Paleface say feathers heap soft Paleface heap fool, ugh!” A community torn by dissensions rent assunder by strife and contention—the people always ready always to fly at each other’s throats on account of rivalry and petty jealousies—never hope to succeed. The universal brotherhood of man, is constantly deferred and the end of time will appear before this desideratum can be brought about. Less man shall be brought to the realization of this, his dominant, weakness. Let him inquire, “Who is my neighbor?” The Ouachita river bottom farmers are much disheartened this year on account of the many rises, which have retarded their work to a great extent and will cause a large shortage in the yield this fine land is capable of. Every overflow has washed the land to its detriment and after all the hill farmer is better off. It is in the power of the government to relieve the situation to a great extent and our congressman, Joe Robinson, has already introduced a bill to appropriate a large amount to be expended toward improving the channel of the river above Camden. We hope he will be successful in landing this appropriation. The bottom farmers need relief. Thousands of acres of as good land as the sun shines, upon are being made poorer every year by the continuous rises of the Ouachita river. One thing that has contributed so largely to the uprising against the liquor business in this country, is that conviction that unless the public throttles the business, the business will throttle the public. In other words, the brewing and distillery men directly and through their agents, have dictated the policies of this country to a large extent, and have absolutely controlled the affairs of numerous cities. At last it has become too offensive to the people to tolerate. The editor of one of our exchanges defines happiness thus: “You frequently heat folks say they” Wish they were a millionaire. But our idea of happiness is the one that owns 40 acres of land in hills, don't owe a cent, has a wife and seven children, five good coon dogs, a sorrel team of mules, a good shotgun, 47 miles from a railroad and right on a good stream to fish. If that would not be happiness, unalloyed we would like to know where you would go to find it. An aggressive business policy on the part of our business men, reaching out for everything within reach encouraging all would-be comers, expending money when a two-fold return is reasonably certain, it would seem is one of the ways to best build up a city. A town is what its people make it. It may slowly grow by the little accretions that accidentally fall within its influence, or it can be pushed into vigorous and rapid growth by the aggressive activity of its business element. Easter comes somewhat later this year than usual, and this an advantage in that, it permits of more profuse floral decorations in the churches. It is a beautiful custom this of bringing the bright, glad flowers into the sanctuary to perform their part in services which so fittingly express the joy, gratitude, and hope of worshipers evoked by the wonderful fact of the resurrection. As one looks upon the flowers with their bright hues and their fragrance, he realizes the beautiful analogy they present to one of the greatest truths of Christianity. The old man may not recall all the experiences, all the struggles, and triumphs of his early manhood but every feature of his childhood home, every little playhouse that he helped his sister to build, is a photograph of his heart’s tablets and can never fade away. Perhaps the golden light of eternity will not dim the brightness of that picture. What else the heart may forget, it cannot forget the place of its birth; it cannot forget the little broken cart, the sled, and the knife, the sister’s fond caress, the brother’s generous aid, the father’s counsel, the mother’s anxious prayers. An exchange says a colored citizen was brought before a police judge charged with stealing chickens. He pleaded guilty and received sentence, when the judge asked him how he had managed to lift those chickens right under the window of the owner’s house when there was a dog loose in the yard. “Hit wouldn’t be no use judge,” said the negro, “to try to ‘splain anything to you all. If you were to understand it you like as not would get your hide full of shot and not get no chicken mother. If you want to engage in any rascality, you better stick to the bench where you are familiar.” A perfect town is that in which you see the farmer patronizing the home merchants, the laborers spending the money they earn with their own tradesmen, and all animated by a spirit that will not purchase articles abroad if they can be bought at home. The spirit Of reciprocity between man and the mechanic, tradesman and laborer, farmer and manufacturer, result every time in making the town a perfect one to do business in. “Perfection” should always be desired, even where attainment is barely possible, we presume, but a perfect town must be denominated a great rarity. Until we reach a more advanced stage toward the millennium than has yet been gained. Lots of men prefer the DOUBLE-BREASTED STYLE. If you are one of them here’s the suit for you; the new Varsit double-breasted; lots of vigor and style in it; and the quality that makes the name of HART SCHAFFNER & MARX so sure a sign of reliability in clothes. We can show you a variety of good clothes; new Spring models in suits and overcoats; smart, stylish, new goods and beautiful patterns. This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes. Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffner & Marx. W. M. Reaves & Company There is such a sacredness about all citizenship, and especially American Citizenship, that every attempt to interfere with its rightful exercise should be resented. That a man’s vote may be solicted and that legitimate arguments, may be used to gain that vote few will question, but there should be nothing in the form of undue influence; that should not be generalized on any consideration. Whether a man is voting for a town constable or for a president of the United States, the principle that his vote is his own is to be recognized and honored. For all those dissipated maids who have as yet been unable to secure a “Merry Widow” hat, the following: Advice how to make one at home is given free of charge. Take one buggy wheel. Superpose on the hub one deep granite sauce pan, first snipping off the handle with an ax. Stitch on cover of wine-covered velvet from your season-before-last coat suit, put on a three inch binding around the brim of canary colored taffeta silk from your grandmother’s party dress. Rip 19 yards of box rucking off your shirt waist box and wind same about crown. A soup ladle and joint fork will give a jaunty effect if used as hat pins. Gum Versus the Rag. An exchange thinks $60,000,000 spent on chewing gum annually is a large sum to be wasted on a treadmill unattached to any productive machinery. But when a woman is chewing gum she finds it difficult to talk, and that’s a blessing not to be scorned.— Washington Post. The Dictates of Common Sense. There is one plain maxim, to which I have invariably adhered through life; that in every question in which my liberty or my property were concerned, I should consult and be determined by the dictates of common sense.—Lord Chatham. Prohibition Impossible In England. The differences among medical men have more than a personal or professional interest. They prove that it would be utterly futile in this country to attempt to make the sale or consumption of alcohol a penal offense.—Liverpool Daily Post. Sees Money In Progs. A prominent resident of Shamokin, Pa., who owns a farm near Treverton, thinks in a greater demand for frogs than grain, dairy products or garden sauce, and will devote his attention. To frog raffing on a large scale. A “NIGGER” CROP. “The way we raise cotton, it is a negro’s crop. Grains are the white man’s crop. The trouble is that the farmer is ‘nigger’ to the merchant, and the merchant is ‘nigger’ to the financier. The merchant who does the general advancing business is not a benefactor. The farmer who expects to prosper must shorten his account with his own farm. It has been my observation that the diversifier sets a good table. He is the man who stands for levying taxes for schools, good roads and other things that tend to make a desirable community. If you are looking for a run-down farm, don’t go to the diversifier. Don’t go to him for low-priced land. If you are looking for a man that is ‘agin’ the government and society in general, a knocker and kicker, don’t go to the diversified farmer. It is in him that the hope of the future lies, the hope of the resurrection of a new earth rising out of the old. Through him the mortgage-ridden, soil-depleted, cheerless home will pass away and we shall have fields well kept, good barns, happy homes, healthy children, good schools, good roads and every tie to the rest of the world. It will give broad men, in sympathy with their fellows, and happy women, cheerful with their kind. We shall have that which is purest, best and most ennobling in life." —Extract from speech by Prof. W. R. Dodson, at Dallas, Texas, before the Cotton Convention. Care of Farm Machinery. The farmers of this country buy annually over $100,000,000 worth of farm machinery. There is perhaps no other source of loss so great to them as that produced by the way they care for this machinery. According to statements made by different manufacturers, the farmer would not have to buy over one-half of this amount of machinery, providing he took the proper care of it. As a general rule, the prosperity of a farmer may be estimated by the way he cares for his machinery. Poor care indicates shiftlessness, waste, lack of energy, and the buying of more implements in a short time. Good care, on the other hand, indicates prosperity, development, bank deposits, and long-lived machinery. One of the first essentials to the handling of machinery is to thoroughly understand all parts and to be able to adjust them for best working conditions. By running a certain implement with one or more of its parts out of adjustment, there is danger of damaging other parts by throwing unequal strain on them, besides ruining the part which is not adjusted. The draft of an implement is affected very much by its condition. A dull plow often requires about double the necessary energy to pull it than one which is in good condition. Poorly adjusted implements sometimes pull twice as hard as they should, and in so doing not only wear out the horse, but at the same time do poor work at a loss of time, with damaging results to the machine. Subscribe for The Times-Journal, $1.00 year. KNOCKS THE ROMANCE OUT. Modern farm machinery and methods are more scientific and may bring better results, but they are not so picturesque as the old. Imagine Burns writhing his “Ode to a Daisy” while sitting cross-legged on the seat of a sulky plow! Even the sulky plow may soon grow old-fashioned, and the farmer may be seen sitting on his veranda controlling the movements of his power gang-plow by means of a switchboard. Instead of the typical figure, beloved of artists, of a man casting seed abroad, are now machines, cunningly designed, that make no mistakes, never skip an inch, sow no more thickly in one place than another, and do their stunt perfectly. The potato planter only requires that potatoes be supplied; it will do the rest. It picks them up and apparently looks them over, cuts them in pieces, separates the eyes, removes the seed ends and plants them any desired distance apart. Having dropped the seed, it fertilizes and then tucks it in, like a child being put to bed; then marks off the next row with mathematical accuracy. In the hay field, instead of sweet Maud Muller, is a sulky rake and tedder, that will turn and spread the hay crop of four acres in an hour. — Farm Journal. WHERE MACHINERY GOES. One season without shelter will damage farm machinery more than the wear caused by its use during the season. The action of the weather, which will cause a rusting of the iron and steel, as well as the rotting of the wood parts, will seriously interfere with the working of the machine when it is again put to use. By this exposure, certain parts are very much more weakened and the machine becomes of shorter life. A hot lemonade taken before going to bed will cure a cold on the lungs. Plant more trees and shrubbery. Don't neglect to plant some tree seeds this fall, especially of the nub, bearing kinds. Cut-leaved birch is a favorite tree for planting on the home grounds. It is pyramidal in shape, with drooping branches. The Japanese maples are very beautiful, small trees in bush form with vivid coloring of the cut leaves. Many shrubs are more beautiful in foliage than in flower and some of them carry their fruits through the winter in bright colors. Money in New York Banks. There is enough money in New York savings banks to give $240 to each man, woman, and child within its borders. Egotistical John Bull. John Bull figures out that his country has been successful in 82 percent of the battles in which it has engaged. Unhealthy Occupations. Needle makers and flie cosin the occupations most susceptible to the ravages of consumption. 