COMMENCEMENT DAY.
Again the little schoolhouse looms
A thing of teeming life and Joy;
(Again Its door Is open wide
To laughing girl and roguish boy.
There's buzzing In the hallway where
The little dinner pails have landed
Like tiny ships returning home
From ports with beaches golden sanded.
The dainty nankeen pantalettes
1 Vie with the knickerbockers trotting
Adown the narrow aisles the while
The pedagogue is swiftly jotting
There on the old blackboard his screed—
; Ah! Time, you never can erase it—
"Life is earnest. Ilfs Is real,”
Ah me, again 1 turn to face it.
There on the front row touching toes
Upon the floor—heels cannot reach it—
The short-legg'd lads and lassies sit
Awaiting fame; ah! who shall teach itt
'Arranged behind the rearward desks,
Desks carved by many an artist slyly.
The robust grown-ups of the farms
Exchange warm glances swift and shyly.
The cluttering feet are stilled at last,
Each whispered message has been
spoken;
The pedagogue taps on his desk
With his grim awe-inspiring token.
Then silence falls; there know ledge stands;
In him it centers and intenses.
IHe holds the key to ope the door.
The old-time country school commences.
•■-Horace Seymour Keller, in N. Y. Sun.
BY A. A. MILNE.
Alone James did it. 1 have told
him since that 1 owe him a debt of
gratitude which 1 never, never ran
repay. 11 is reply, that he would
rather I owed him something,
which I could repay, touched me
■deeply, but had no other immedi
ate result.
1 must give you his name in full:
Harnes Arthur Hrocklebank. l’er
Imps some day will tind me teach
ing my children to lisp that dear
name at their mother's knee. 1 his
is what they do in novels, though
J should not think “iirocklebank
allows of much scope for lisping.
Still. 1 here it is.
It was at a fancy bazar. Most
of us at the hall were helping in
some way. Our dear hostess was
selling—what are those things
that ladies buy? - while her
daughters had sweet and scent
and tobacco sta 11s and so forth. 1
thought at first that I was the
only unemployed one until James
strolled up.
“Hello,’’ he said; “you’re doing
nothing.’’
“I wanted to help,” I explained.
44My idea was to keep a tobacco
nist's stall, and then one could
smoke cigarettes all the time.
The assistants in shops always do
that to advertise their goods.”
“<)! And 1 suppose assistants in
sweet-shops eat sweets all the
time?”
“Of course.”
“Have you ever thought,” said
'James, reflectively, “what a tired
time the right hand man of a
butcher must have?”
“Look here,” I said, “did you
come to talk rot like that to me?”
“No; 1 want you to have your
fortune told. There’s a palmist
here.”
“Hut I haven t a fortune.
“You don't want one. Half a
crown’s enough.”
I went with him under protest.
It was a very dark tent into which
we plunged, and I could see no for
tune teller.
here is she?” I asked, impa
tient \.
“The other side of the curtain,”
said fames; “hut you mustn't go
in. Vou put your hand through
there, and she is on Hie other side.
Of course, if she saw you it would
spoil everything.”
“Who is it?”
“Never mind.”
1 put my hand through. Some
one took if, and it seemed as
though she were going over the
lines of my palm with a pencil.
“Don’t do that—please," 1 said
“It tickles.”
There was a light laugh from be
hind the curtain.
“You are very ticklish,” said t
Voice.
“That isn't palmistry,” I remon
fit! 'ted.
“You are also quick-tempered
slew minded, thin-skinned—”
“Fat-headed, go on!” I said, bit
terly. “.lust you wait till 1 set
you.”
“I’m awfully sorry,” said th
vo re, “I don’t think I have th
ri; u 1.
u -e you haven't. It’s th
le
Oh, 1
i was looking at it upside down.
You nr<* modest, clever. athletic
and of an artistic temperament.”
.James laughed unkindly.
“Did you laugh?” asked a voice.
“Certainly not!” I replied. “I
wouldn’t think of such a tiling.
But you’re only saying things I
know already. Won’t you tell me
: my future?”
“You will be married within a
year.”
1 gasped.
“Did you gasp?” asked a voice.
“That was the impression 1 in
; tended to convey. But are you
sure?”
“Quite, quite sure. The line of
the heart says so.”
“Heart lines, old chap!” said
Jim, nudging me.
“What did you say?” asked the
voice.
"Nothing,” I answered. “W hat
you heard was a hitherto honored
and respected friend being kicked.
But 1 say. tell me. Vv hen shall 1
he engaged?”
"Before the end of the week. ’
“Hi! Jim, quick!” 1 shrieked.
“What’s the day now?”
“The thirteenth,” said Jim.
1 shot a glance of scorn and
loathing at him.
"Soitv, old man," lie said, hur
riedlv. “It s Saturday.
"Whv—fjood Lord—then I shall
get engaged to-night!"
-Why not ?" asked Jim.
-W hy not? () you idiot! She's
not even in the house. She’s in
London."
-Who is?"
"Who?—why—O, nobody. You
see what i mean. There's nobody
in t lie house t hat—”
"It's no frond," said James, with
a grin.
"You’ve given yourself away.
I turned back to the curtain.
"Are you still there?" 1 asked.
"Are you there, are you there, are
you there, are you—"
"I've finished, thank you,” came
the voice.
“Hut are you quite sure about
being engaged by the end of the
week ?"
"Quite, quite sure," said the
voice, ;i little shakily.
James and I went out.
“Who is she?" 1 asked. “I didn’t
recognize the voice."
“O, she’d take good care about
that."
“Well, anyhow, it's impossi
ble."
We entered the refreshment
tent and drank things. Jim tried
to be facetious about ray rapidly
approaching engagement. He
even misquoted poetry to me.
Things about love and so on.
“Did you make that up your
self?" I said, wearily. “It’s very
bad."
“Why, it’s Shakespeare, man,"
he said, indignantly.
"< >. thought it was you.”
“I don’t mind having it," he said,
and ordered a third drink. "Kind
ly observe the new Swan of
Avon."
“Are swans such great drink
era, then? I didn't know/’
“You’re in a nasty, horrid tem
per, and I shall leave you,” said
lirocklebank.
I watched him go through the
door of the tent. Some one was
coining up. He went on and spoke
to her. It was a lady. He came
back with her and brought her up
tome. Hood Lord! If was Kate!”
“He'll give you tea,” said James.
“1 must go. Good by.”
He raised his hat and went off.
“It is impossible,” I said.
“Well, what’s the matter?”
asked Ivate. “Aren’t you glad to
see me?”
“Go away. You're in London."
“I’ve just lliis moment come.
You knew I was coining, didn’t
you?”
“No, I've hardly seen anyone
I’ve only just come myself. Why
what train—”
, “Never mind the train/’ saic
Kate, hurriedly; “I want sonn
- tea.”
1 We had tea. All the time 1 was
wondering if I dared “to put it ti
* t he i ouch, to win or lose it all.” A
? last I took out a penny and fosse*
if. If it inrned tail, v l*v, then, si
I
all, who am 1 to blast thereputa
tion of a respectable, and, f<>
aught I know, beautiful palmist?
“I don't know what von an
talking about,” complained Kate
“Kate,” I said, impressively
“it's written on nry hand”—and
showed her ni.v hand—“that
shall get engaged to day.”.
“Is that what they call short
hand?”
“It’s palmistry. The Imp 0
heart has done something exuber
ant.”
“Well, I hojte she’ll have you,’
said Kate.
“Do you think she will?”
“You should ask her.”
“I am,” 1 said, and I took he:
hand. “Dear, do you think sin
will?”
“I don’t know,” said Kate, look
ing down. “Perhaps she might.1
“Only perhaps? Kate, sa>
you’re sure she will.”
“Quite, quite sure,” said a voice
Something in the words strucl
me. She looked up at me with n
smile. Then I began to under
stand.
“Kate!” I.cried.
“Isn’t it a beautiful day?” saic
Kate.—Black and White.
HABITS OF THE JAGUAR.
Interesting Chapter on the Mos1
Stealthy and Ferocious
of Felines.
* -
The trails of the jaguhr art
many, but they nearly all lead to:
river, for water appears to b(
more needful to tlu* tiger than t<
any oilier member of the eat fam
ilv. And this is not that Jie ac
tually drinks more, so far as I ear
learn, says awriter in Outing, bin
rather because along the water
ways he tinds an easy and ahum
ant food in the river hog, in tin
small deer that come down t<
drink and in the tisli that swin
plentifully in all these streams.
In the Rio de la Plata, just of
Buenos Ayres, is an island when
at one time a number of jaguars
lived and thrived practically or
the fish they caught, for there wai
nothing else on the island, am
none ever heard of their visiting
the mainland, because of its set
tleinent and not on account of th<
distance to shore, for the tiger is i
strong, bold swimmer and ntindi
no river of South America, not th<
widest, if be wishes to reach th<
opposite bank. He is a patient, un
erring fisherman, watching fo
long periods from some vantagi
point, which may be either a fallei
tree trunk extending into th<
stream or at the bank's edge, unti
a victim appears—when with i
lightning blow be hurls the flsl
out on to the bank or clutches i
as he swims past.
While the swampy jungle am
the water courses are his liabital
yet the jaguar will make incui
sions upon dr\ ground if cattle o
horses or poultry offer, and rive
food happens to be scarce or fo
(he t ime being more difficult to s<
•ure. I beard several trustworth
(-counts of cattle and colts kilie
«v the jaguar, though Ins ravage
■e not so frequent as once the
\ re owing to his further inlan
, itat. His method of killin
iiiimats of this size is literally t
-ta’l them up wind, that no seen
nareach the victim, and then t
pi ng on their buck, fastenin
■*e h and claws in the neck; wit
n. Her animals the jagua
p. ings for the neck at once, an
I ■ oars to prefer tbehind quarter
o ihe stomach, which is left fo
tho vultures that are onmipresen
II the open country.
Tigre is a much noisier anims
han any other of the feline fan
ly, particularly at night, an
oams the jungle disdainful r
other beasts in his manifest sup'
iority. And he is without doul
bsolute king of the Sout h A trica
orest; there is literally none 1
'ispute his domain, none eve
orihy to do him homage, for tl
lina, which is fairly plentifu
i is as li • t lo th<‘ courage of his co;
• tion South as in Nori
ing and said: “What are you do
■ ing?” “Making a coffin; that’s
’ all.” “A coffin, indeed, and who is
* it for?” “That fellow over there,"
. pointing to a cot. The lady looked
. and saw that the man was alive
[ and watching what w as going on.
[ "Why ” she said, in a low voice,
“that man is not dead, and per
- haps he won’t die." "Oh, ves,’ in
sisted one of the men, “the doctor
f told 11s to make the coflin and I
- guess he know’d what he giv’
him.”
> _ ■
Great Country for Wheat.
The delta of the Tigris and the
Euphrates, now partially a desert;
, and partially a swamp, contains
, over 5,000,000 acres of land. Per
haps no region of all the regions
of the earth is more favored by
> nature for the production of cere
als. It is claimed that wheat in
its wild, uncultivated state has its
home* in thesemiarid regions, and
that from there it has been trans
ported to every quarter of the
globe.
When They Can.
Some men adapt themselves to
circumstances, while some others
adapt circumstances to suit them
selves.—Chicago Daily News.
The Safety Pin.
The inventor of tin* safety pin
li ves in < 'leveland, tand Ik* lias <t
bigger bank account and more
• public'gratitude than the inventor
of the safety bicycle.—Denver lie
■ publican.
' VESSELS WITH BAD NAMES
Some in the British Navy That Seem (
Destined to Meet with
Disaster.
If one should be so bofd as to
characterize the superstitions
sailor as silly lie would at once de- ,
dure that t here is sufficient reason j
for his belief, and would proceed
. to prove that war vessels named
after stinging and venomous
things have been unlucky, and that
the country should not he so indif
ferent to tlie men who follow “a
I life on the ocean wave” as to or
ganize a mosquito fleet, says the
’ Navy League Journal.
That Snake is regarded as an un
fortunate name for a vessel is
shown by the fact that two of that
| name have been lost, one in 1781
ad the other in 1847; hut no vessel
bearing that name is known to ex
ist now. Serpent, which is only a
substitute name for Snake, is an
( unlucky one also, for the one
wrecked in 1802 was the fourth
I British war vessel of that name to
t meet the same fate. Viper has
i been an unlucky name in the Brit
. ish navy. The first one was wrecked
in 1780, but the admiralty would
j not swerve, and so kept the name
on the list, each vessel meeting its
doom, and the fourth was lost only
recently. The French navy has also
been unlucky with vessels so nam
ed. The Viper, used in the British
service after she became a prize
from the French, was lost in 1703.
I Ihe second \v;is lust ;i year later,
, tlit* third in 17117, and the fourth
was recently lust in a collision off
j Guernsey. •
„ The Dobra. another liritish war
* vessel, was lost recently at the
^ same time as the Viper. Ammij;
0 other vessels similarly named and |
^ which met fates other than in hat
[, tie are the Rattlesnake, in 1781;
r Ihe Alligator, in 178‘J; the ('roco
(j dile, in 1784; tin* Adder, in 184(1;
s three Lizards, two Dragons and
r on,“ Rasilisk. All of these were of j
t tin* liritish navy. The list could
i be made larger bv citing the rec
j ords of other navies,
j. * he Norsemen, who were so fond
^ of naming their vessels against the
,f htws of superstition and using hid
heads of dragons and reptiles !
^ on their high prows, were less tin
,i tot lunate, and these <1 i<I not meet
o with frequent disasters. They did i
u havea belief, however, that it was
e un,n,'h<* and a saerilege to select
s'" h '* aatne as did Lord I)unra ven
v f<H *ils hist yacht to challenge for
h ll“‘ All"'rha’s cup. the Valkyrie.
And this belief was strengthened
\\lien she was sunk by the Satan-.!
iia. l he second challenger, with
(1 s Ti m e, ve } V, nhd
<
Si 10
shot
broken up after
stem .
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MUNICIPAL OKHICKK8
Mayor, J. II. Holderby,
Recorder, J. A. Gibson,
Marshal, Walter Paseoe,
Night Marshal, H. J. Mayhan,
Treasurer, E. J. Madness,
Aldermen:- A. A. Henderson, W. T.
Harness, W. C. Mims, Fred. D. Whit
ng, Morg Drennen.
Council meets lirst Monday night in
:acb month.
CHURCH as
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
n and 7:30 p. m. fourth Sunday in
»ach month. Rev. C. H. Newman,
Pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before third Sunday, and 11
a. m. third Sunday in each month.
Rev..). L. Brown, pastor.
Christian church, services tirst and
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. W. W. Young,
Pastor.
KRATKRNIT1KS
Dannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. 1. C. Nuckolls,
K. II. 1’.; T. II. Hearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 24S
meets secend Saturday night. T. J.
Raney, W. M.: J. H. Jimerson, Sec.
Newark Encampment 1. (). O.F. 1*>H
meets second and fourth Thursday
nights. G. A. Ashley, C. P; F. C. Hoyt
Scribe.
Newark Lodge 1. <). O. F. No. 263
meets the tirst and third Wednesday
nights. T. J. Raney, N. G: O. F. Craig
Secretary.
Newark (.’amp W.O.W. No. 2S8 meets
second and fourth Tuesday night's in
each month. E. II. M ago ess, C. C.;
t). F. < Taig. Clerk.
independence Lodge No. 2379 K. &
L. o| 11. meets liist and tnird Monday
nights in each month. O. F. Craig,
Protector; /.<•<! (iritlith. Secretary.
Railroad Time Card,
WHITE RIVER BRANCH
St. L. I. M. & S. Ry.
Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING WKST,
No. 127.12.50 p. m
No. 125.8 Ob a. m.
GOING KAST.
No. 128.9.10 a. m.
No. 126.7.02 p. m.
F. C. Hoyt, Agent.
S. A. MOORE,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
and Notary Public,
Land titles, administration, damage
eases and collections a specialty. Will
practice in all courts of tho state.
Office in Post Office Building,
NEWARK, - K \NSAKL
A. A. HENDERSON
Notary Public
Makes a specialty of
Writing and Correcting Deeds.
Office in The Journal Building.
Call at
J. QUALLS’
HOOT ANO SHOE SHOP
For Legal Advise.
J. T. MILLER,
Physician and Surgeon
Office Back of John Martin’s Store.
Residence Rhone No.
Ottice Rhone .... No. 7B.
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CITY BARBER SHOP
First class in every respect
Up-to-Now Artists.
Sharp Knives. Clean Towels.
J. L. Grosser Proprietor.
A. I). HOLLAND,
Dentist,
Newport, - Arkansas
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; sale at Hie .Journal ollice.