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E. C. Kramer, Editor.
McCrory, Arkansas, Thursday, Dec. 18, 1902.
Vol. ;
-NO. 37.
“The PALACE SALOON”
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A Good Form Gnrdeo.
Did you ever stop to flgurr- u*p uhsi
part of your living eaofc yc*r ooeies
from the garden? If *oi, t’0 jt {.fcis
year. You will be surprised, that Is, if
you have a good garden. If not. you
will wonder why you did not try to do
better. Nothing op*n* a n>au’g eyes
like counting up blessings he might
have had if he had don* Wspart towin
them. The trouble with most of us is
we claim, and think we onght to have,
comforts wo never have been worthy
of. This i« just aa true of garden stuff
us anything,—Farm Journal.
Itnen J(nTw«s!as Ueile.
A citizen of Stillwater, lYir.. is the
possessor of an extraordinarily rare
relic from Norway—a verdict rsn- j
dered by a jury of 1? In June. list. nt. \
Oslo Conrthonse, where Cbi'istiuriia I
now stands. At the bottom of this j
novel verdict hang U strips of sheen
skin, with 12 pieces of beeswax the
size of a small watch, which contains
upon each the seal of one of the
jurors.
Kllltnsc of Scale.
The increased value of sealskins in
1900 induced the lessees of the Pribilof
islands, the breeding grounds of the
seal herds, to kill 18,000 two-year-old
seals, whereas the rule has been not
to kill any seal which has not reached
the age of at least three years. If the
killing of two-year-olds is allowed to
continue it is certain that the seal
herd will soon be exterminated.
Fsittenod Oysters.
Half-developed oysters and bivalves
which are in poor flesh, as a stockman
would say, are now kept In regular
pens and fattened for the market, as
if they were pigs or other live stock.
How Oows Me Bow*.
A western cattleman says that all
cows lie down on their left side and
never on their right unleee the left in
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FIRST WAR IN HISTORY.
Inserljitloits l.ntely Unearthed Re
veal the Fact That Ejcypt Or.ee
Invaded France.
That. Egypt and France held inter
course as early as 4000 B. C. is proved
by the marked resemblance of inscrip
tions found in the two countries, says
the Philadelphia North American. The
excavations of Trof. Flinders Petrie
have brought to light evidence of an
extremely ancient movement between
the land of the Pharaohs and the coun
tries bordering on the Mediterranean.
This communication, like all other
great invasions of history, had its
origin in an effort at trade extension.
The great wars of the eighteenth
Egyptian dynasty were provoked by
surrounding nations jealous of Egypt’s
growing wealth and power. In retali
ation Egypt carried the campaign into
Asia and Europe, and, judging from
the inscriptions mentioned, must have
pushed as far west as France.
Prof. Petrie lias in liis possession a
series of figures found in Malta and
neolithic remains from Brassenpnoy \
in France which are beyond cbance of
doubt the work of Egyptians. They
establish intercourse long before the
period which is generally recognized
ns the beginning of the history of the
countries of Europe.
Rrench of Promh- In .Tnpan.
One feature of western civilization
has just made its first appearance in
Japan, where a native woman has ,
brought suit for a breach of promise, |
hitherto nn unknown procedure in the |
land of the chrysanthemum.
NOVEL CURE FCR SNAKE-BITE
Moeqnltocs Save a Mhu'k Life by
Di-Rwinj* Cut tile I’olsou of
a Rattier.
“Talkin’ about rattlesnakes,” eai<l
an Erie railroad brakeman, acording
to the New York Sun, “did you ever
bear bow the mosquitoes saved a
man’s life up near Gulf Summit, in
Pennsylvania, last summer?
“'Yell, while getting out railroad
lies over back of Summit, Abe More
house was bitten in the feg by » rat
tlesnake. A doctor was at once sent
for and the leg was bandaged tightly
above the wound. It w»s expected
that Morehouse would din before the
doctor could come up there on his
wheel, but be didn’t.. .Tust hk soon
as the log was bared to put on the
bandage, it was attacked by a swarm
of mosquitoes, ar.d when the doctor
arrived be found the man as well a»
ever end lively as a cricket, but the
ground was covered with (lead and
dying mosquitoes. They had sucked
the poison from Morehouse’s wound
and saved his life. This was hard on
the mosquitoes, but I presume More
house’* life was worth saving.”
COCOAKUT PALM IS EANDSOMB
fta Lo nr. Sroerfii! I.eavee Lend •
SCiklne I)M«ty ta the
Santhera Tree.
The coeorsut is one of the hnndsom
<*t palms by it* long, graceful leaves.
It grows luxuriantly as far north ns
Palm Beach. Tin., and a few specimens
m*v he seen a little above that point.
Used to line walks, they present a
l^et'wesque scene, the low hranchee
ourv'ng gracefully overhead. Tbenute
and their development are very inter
estin'*’ to observe. As a long time is
occupied in the growth of the nuts,
they m*y he seen nn the same tree in
many stages. from email, acorn-like
ones to the immense brown-nusked
fellows, all in large bunches. The
flowers, too. for n new crop, may be
included in the collection.
It is a matter for concern, says Mee
han’s Monthly, that there appears to
be little or no attempt to propagate
cocoanuts in Florida, even though they
be for ornamental purposes only.
They are far from being so plentiful
M they werelS years ago.
Old ape • l'>r> ca!hunfb’o1 ho**-*
' Oo ' setlof|harness for sn’o
at the News oT:eo.
—A nnvnher one good team r r
tnn’cs, wop -itine- ?,iW\ Id*;, fnv
sale cheap to the man with cast)
''h1 rood security. Anply to T’.
W. Stoker. Jo Iks, Ark,
USING CONVICT LABOR
ft Mlgbt Be Employe^! Advantage
ously In tbe Const ruetlou itt
Permanent Roads.
The coming of the Southern rail
way’s good roads train has, we believe,
done more to arouse interest in the
subject of better highways than any
thing that has ever been attempted
along this line. It has not only afford
ed a valuable object lesson in the prac
tical work of road building, but it has
put the people to thinking on the
problem of how to secure better roads.
This thought has naturally turned to
that class of labor which the state al
ready owns and controls—its convicts.
And the opinion seems to be forming
that some rational, practical plan for
utilizing this labor to this end is the
one to be first considered.
The Journal frankly admits that it
has not as yet given the matter suffi
cient thought to be able to advance a
definite idea as to what is best along
this line, but it has been impressed
with the suggestion that to use the
convicts to build a modern system of
public highways is to be carefully con
sidered. providing such a system can
be made practically self-supporting
end at the same time be free from the
objectionable features which are, ob
viously. involved in this public display
of criminals in stripes.
The first and foremost benefits to be
derived, it seems to us, is in removing
the convicts from competition with
honest, free labor—a condition which,
while clearly objectionable, is no easy
one to solve.
Other states have tried to solve this
problem in various ways, but so far
with indifferent success. If, as claimed,
to turn the whole system over to the
work of building modern roadways is
the solution of it, we take it that
every one will welcome such an ar
rangement.
The proposition to make the system
self-supporting by conducting a cloth
ing, shoe and to-ol factory and a farm
in connection with the system, where
nil long term, decrepit men and women
convicts may be employed in produc
ing supplies for the entire system, and
for this purpose atone, seems, on the
face of it, to be one way of removing
the convicts, as nearly as would ever
be possible, from competition with
free labor, and at the same time of
making the system practically self
supporting.
At any rate, the matter is one that is
going to occupy the attention of our
people from now on, and it may even
be made an issue in future legislative
elections, so that we may reasonably
expect to see the solution reached be
fore very long.—Atlanta (Oa.) Journal,
SCIENCE OF SQUARING.
It Ik I'asy to Lenrn and Should Be
Mastered by All Who Have to
bay Oat Fields.
In lay’ing out fields, it is often neces
sary to have them square and true.
Figure 1 show# tw_o posts six feet long,
which are used to get north and south
or east and west lines. Set stake Xo.
1 nnd plumb it; at 18 o’clock noon drive
stake No. S at the end of the shadow
cast by the first stake for the north
and south line. To get a line east and
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SQUARING METHODS OUTLINED.
west, the secnw! stake tniat be set r.t
the end of the shadow at eix o’clock in ,
the morning’ or night, about March or !
September 20. In squaring buildings
make a triagle of lx4-inch boards, as in
Fig. 2. On one side should be six feet ,
and the other side eight feet. The
other side will then Vie exactly ten j
feet.—John Eckroat, in Orange Judd i
Farmer.
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Cottonseed OS! Industry.
According to the latest census re
ports. there are 357 establishments in
the United States for the manufac
ture of cottonseed O'l, using 2,499.386
tons of cottonseed, costing $2S,632,- i
01C, an average cost of $11.55 per ton. |
The total value of the products from ■
this amount of seed used was $42,411,
S35. The quantity crushed was 53 per
cent, of that produced. The figure*
given are for 1900. It is likely that
owing to the high price of cottonseed
and meal, the figures for this season’s
work will amount to an increase of
about 25 per cent.
Good Roads Promote Trade.
The countries of Europe were for
tunate in having a system of roads es- :
tablished long before the invention of
the sttam railway. In the United
States the rapid extension of railways ■
has caused the roads to be neglected.
Good roads are essential to the pros
perity cf rural districts, ns they pro
mote local commerce and tend to make
the people better acquainted with one
another.—Thomas w U-ox, New York
City.
TO THE COTTON GROWER:
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I am prepaired to do your GINNING and WRAP
PING at 50 cents per hundred. Good service and
prompt attention are given to all my customers.
I am also prepared to do your GRINDING. I ask you to come
and Investigate my worK for yourself. I have one of the best and
cleanest GINS in the county. I solicit a share of your patronage.
JOHNSON,
AN ARTIFICIAL PEARL.
Produced by PlacinK u Hull of Wax
In the Shell of n Fresh Water
Mussel,
A ball of beeswax introduced into
the shell of a living fresh-water mus
sel has resulted in producing the
most remarkable artificial pearl in
existence. It is about an inch and a
half in length, oval in form and pink
in color, and is now the property of
the Smithsonian Institution, reports
a Washington exchange.
The ball of wax was placed near
the hinge of the bivalve, which being
in a tank of fresh water, was care
fully watched. The irritation of the
wax caused the mollusk to protect
itself by coating the foreign object
with a smooth coating of pearl stuff
—the same material us that which is
used in lining the inner surface of its
shell. In the case in question the
result was an enomnous pearl. Owing
to pressure, however, the wax ball
lost its spherical shape and become
oval in form.
At the end of two years the mussel
was taken out of the tank and opened
and the pearl removed. The wax
afterward contracted owing to dry
ness. which caused the pearl shell to
crack. This accident, while destroy
ing the commercial value of the
pearl, made it possible to observe the
thickness of the nacreous covering,
which is somewhat greater than that
of an ordinary sheet of letter paper.
Tf the pearl were not flawed it would
1 e worth an enormous sum of money,
but even as it is it is priceless as a
curiosity.
WHY WE RESEMBLE ROOKS.
Some Points of Similnrily fleivveen
Hniu«n IleinftH and Fontliered
I5£l»c(ls.
He was standing in the rear end of
a car, where all are friends in the
common misery of having their toes
trod on or hats crushed In, says the
New York Press.
“I’m from England.” he said, ad
dressing nobody in particular and
apropos of nothing, “and I want to
tell you people that we all are only
a lot of rocks. Say, did you ever
watch a eolony of rooks build their
nests in the spring?”
Everybody looked reflectively away.
“Well, I’ll tell you. First a rook
picks up a stick and puts it in his
nest, then goes away after another
one. When he’s gone another rook
flies to his nest and steals the stick.
When he gets back he puts down the
second stick, for still another rook
to steal, and starts out after the
first stick. He doesn’t find it, and
when he gets back to his nest he
finds the second stick gone, and he
starts after that, scolding and swear
ing in rook fashion.
“By this time the other thieves
have been robbed, too, and it only
takes about three sticks to go around
the community and get the whole
blamed community pow-wowlng.
Say, ain’t that human nature?”
Everybody looked reflectively away.
Personally conducted weekly
excursion cars leave Memphis
every Wednesday at9;00a. in. for
Portland. Oregon.
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P ments to see my designs and prices «,
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SAVE YOUR OWN SEEDS.
This Advice Applies Not Only to Amt.
teura and Farmers Bnt Also to
Market Gardeners.
Why not save your seeds? It is
■wiser, better, cheaper, and adds ma
terially to the pleasure of garden
ing-. You desire the best. To secure
that, select the best of that which
suits you the best. There is a great
diversity of taste; some prefer one
form of color, another quite a differ
ent one. This is an individual mat
ter, and in no way affects the prin
ciple. We all have our preferences
as to species. WTe all want the best
defined of a given type. To secure
this result, selection is necessarv. une
selection means choice. It means the
most vigorous plant that produces
the flower or vegetable best suited
to your taste. Save the seeds from
such for future use. Great care is
required to make the selection valu
able. After a choice of plants is
made, the first flower should not be
allowed to seed, as they are never so
perfect as those that conic later, if
the second flowers are all that onu
be desired, if they are improvement*
over those of previous years, careful
ly remove all the undeveloped had :
on the plant, so as to give the bl o:i a
the full strength of the.plan? for ;i „
ripening of their seed. This is the
way all new varieties arc produced,
and the way that others may be. If
a flower shows the slightest change
in color or marking, it is a sure -indi
cation of a new variety. F: cm thi-»
plant save the most marked, ev.-n
though the flower:, in other respects
may not be desirable. Save the flow
er for seed that shows the greatest
change, and do not trust another
to bloom until that seed is ripened.
Follow this up for a few years mid
a variety may be produced of more
money value than the cost of the
whole garden during those years._
Agricultural Epitomist.
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THE G1E&T
Thedford's Black-Draught has
saved doctors' bills for more than
sixty years. For the common fam
ily ailments, such as constipation,
indigestion, hard colds, bowel com
plaints, chills and fever, bilious
ness, headaches and other like
complaints no other medicine is
necessary. It invigorates and reg
ulates the liver, assists digestion,
stimulates action of the kidneys,
purifies the blood, and purges ike
bowels of foul accumulations. It
cures liver complaint, indigestion,,
sour stomach, dicdness, chills,
rheumatic pains, sideache, back
ache, kidney troubles, constipation,
diarrliosa, biliousness, piles, hard
colds and headache. Every drug
gist has Thedford’s Black-Draught
in 25 cent packages and in mam
moth size for fl.DO. Never accept
a substitute. Insist on having the
original made by the Chattanooga
Medicine Company.
i fcelievs Tlisdforti't Mack-Brought
is the best medicine oa earth. It is
good for any and everything. I have
a family of twelve children, and fer ,
four ysers I have kept them oa fcot j
arid healthy with no doctor hut Blssdt
Braujht A. J. GREEN, Uiewara. U.