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Hot Spring, Ark., August 17.
The fifty-third annual convention of
the International Typographical
Union of North America has passed
into history. Delegates and- visitors
have packed their grips preparatory
to returning home, the last goodbyes
are being spoken, promises to meet
again in Boston next year are being
made, and the souvenir fiends are
making their last desperate dash. It
has been a great convention. The
Hot Springs Typographical Union
has covered itself with glory by the
way it entertainedthe .vistors. This
local union has only sixteen mem
bers, and how they accomplished it
is a miracle. They must have taken
something to keep them going twenty-four
hours a day for the last
three weeks. From the time the
delegates and visitors landed here
until the last one took the train for
liome, there was "something doin,"
and the local committee was respon
sible for it. Receptions at the Ar
lington, "mulligans" in the pine
woods, barbecues at the park, water
melon feasts at the race track,
drives through the Ozarks, the "Pir
ates" Reunion, and a score of other
things all kept the- bunch going
some.
Besides which, we posed for our
picture.
half grown children were clad in a
way that made the women of the
party look sideways. But every
dark face lined up in front of the
cabins was smiling, everybody was
happy, and courtesy marked every
word and action.
"We's got a moughty good school
neah hyar," said one negro " man.
"Ouah chilluns go right rog'lar.
Take youah flngah out'n youah
mouth, boy, 'an' say youah lettahs'fo'
de vis'tors."
And the grinning little boy re
moved his fingers and repeated the
alphabet with a proud air.
"He's only eight y'ears ol' sah,"
said the proud mother. "An' th'
teachah says as how he's gittin'
along mighty peart."
A half dozen cabins were visited
during the afternoon, and -the trail
was marked by the smiling faces of
pickaninnies clutching in their
moist hands the pennies the white
folks left behind.
destination of all prevaricators.
Blankets, indeed! "What wo have
yearned for is iqe; frost, electric fans,
refrigerator beds. .
The "Pirates Reunion" was hold
in a gorge away up- in the pine
woods, and it was worth going miles
to enjoy. The "mulligan" was
boiled to a turn, aifd thq liquid re
freshments up to tho advance no
tices. And yet it was pleasingly dif
ferent from the old days. Well
dressed, prosperous old "pirates"
sat around on tho dry pine needles
and retold the experience of other
days, and when darkness fell a
happy and temperate crowd returned
to town. The printermen have out
lived tho old criticism that used to
be made every time tjio craft was
mentioned.
Just .about the time we got stead
ied down, to enjoying something
along came the photographer and
made us pose for a picture. Then,
next day,"he came around and gently
separated us from a dollar for a
copy of the photograph. And when
you were not posing or paying for
a photograph you were digging up
for souvenir post cards and such
like. This souvenir fad is becoming
something awful to contemplate.
The,, vast cpttonfields, bright with
bloom were a treat to the northern
visitors who had never seen cotton
fields before. This has not been a
good year lor cotton, owing to the
drouth and the heat. The cotton Is
blooming out while hardly a foot
high. Natives assert that it will
make the highest grade of cotton,
but that the yield will be light. ThiB
section Is a little too far north to
Bee the "share cropper" in all his
glory, a great many of, the natives
owning their own farms. But tho
negroes are all "share croppers."
With land that might have been had
almost for the asking a few years
ago, they have been content to "crop
on shares," and their share has al
ways been small enough.
Next year wo go to Boston, and
hero's hoping that all who havo met
hero In Hot Springs will bo alJve
and able to foregather in tho his
toric city". But big as Boston is.
she will have to hustle if she sliows
tho union printers and their wives
a better time than was shown by
this little city nestling In tho Ozarks
But here comes tho 'bus, and we'll
have to hustle 'out tho grips and
catch the train. Then back homo
to the old grind a grind made
easier by a week among tho com
rades of tho old days, and the fpl
low craftsmen of the newer days.
Every time the writer returns from
a convention of his fellow craftsmen
.the prouder ho feels that for a quar
ter of a century. ho has carried a card
in the oldest trades union, in tho
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PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Wednesday afternoon the writer
and his wife, accompanied by Frank
Kennedy and wife and Mrs. Ingalls
of Omaha, chartered a t-bree-seated
rig and drove out into the Ozark
hills and visited the southern negro
in his native lair, Being a native
of southern Missouri, the writer was
not greatly surprised at what he
saw, but the others will never forget
. the trip. "Whenever a negro cabin
was sighted the driver was ordered
to stop, and the tourists would then
raid the preimises on pretense of
wanting a drink. At one cabin an
iron kettle was found bubbling over
a chip fire.
"Making soap?" queried the
tourist.
"No, sah; dat ain't soap. We do
make soap, sah; but dat is liniment.
Ain't dat lln'ment, Mandy?"
"No, dat ain't :ho lln'ment," was
tho scornful- reply ; of the, negro
woman. '.'DatV sah've fo ring
worms." '
T3Vwr inn Ti ti m a -n TtAtnMH 1tjt S
Mull uuu iiuiuau UU11J&B live in
such poverty and dirt?" aBked one of
the women of the party.
Blesff her innocent heart, amidst
all that seeming poverty and dirt
live the happiest people on earth.
The fuel problem has been solved
for them by nature, for tho woods
surround them on every hand. They
rent their little farms on shares, and
the owners thereof guarantee them
enough corn meal and bacon to keep
them fat. And as for clothing, they
get along somehow, caring nothing
at all for appearances. Some of the
The timber Industry is the big
thing in this section. Such a prodi
gal display of pine and oak timber
would be hard to excel. And as the
train winds through tho Ozark hills
one sees a sawmill in operation every
two or three miles. Down here Is
where the country finds -Its; supply of
material for oak barrels and bridge
timbers. One runs by ricks of
"bolts" ready to be cut into barrel
stavef that seem to bo" miles in
length. Railroad ties by the million
are piled up along the right of way,
and the sight of them leads to the
inquiry, "Why don't the railroads
use some of them and replace the
rotten ties that are still doing ser
vice?" .
.The folding tincup Industry is a
big one in this city. Tjie first thing
the "visitor is told to do is to" buy
an Individual drinking cup. Anc
hour's stroll along the streets will'
convince the visitor-" of tho need
thereof. Every few feet along main
street one strikes a spring that has
been properly piped. And the water
is so hot one can scarcely hold .the
cun. But it is good to drink and
said to be wonderfully healthy. At-
the arch approaching the government
reservation is a "hot air" hole from
which a -volume of hot air rushes
forth with considerable force. But
we haven't needed any hot air or hot
water so far. It has been beastly-
hot all week. The press agent who.
wrote that we would "need blankqts
every night" certainly win not need
blankets when he arrives at the final
I am certain it is safe to prophesy
that the time will come when hos
pitals for infectious diseases will be
empty and not-wanted. I also look
forward to the time when it will bo
as anomalous for persons to die of
scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera, and
diphtheria as it will for a man to
die of a wolf'S bite in England. Very
little, however, can bo done by the
legislature, but everything by the
progress of medical science, and in
a much larger degree by the intelli
gence of the people. Wo must recog
nize that tho saying that every one
must eat a peck of dirt before he
dies is erroneous, and see that dirt is
undesirable. Preventive medicine is
founded upon hard fact, prudence,
and common sense. The mystery of
the ancient doctor, his use of long
names, and his extraordinary pre
scriptions are passing away. Multi
tudes of shelves full of bottles which
surround doctors are also passing
away, and being replaced by simple
living, suitable diet, plenty 'of sun,
and plenty of fresh air. The fight
of the present day is against millions
of microbes, and the weapons are
sanitary regulations, municipal gov
ernment, the sanitary inspector,, ana
the medical officer of' health. Sir
Frederick Treves In American Magazine.
Contnlalnfc the PcclHrn
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of all pttrtlcH mIhco tho
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