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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, F RIDAY JANUARY 9, 1903.
Volume 3, Number 2.
'HE OPERATOR.
of Discourtesy —Ng
Jesuits.
PEtless August night
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placidity of
timed tu pet
pot like to be
Ting. Siccnd
to he asked
'Hello!” said a
Iv mellow vi it e at
the wire. ‘•Hello!'’
with vigorous im-j
%he central pu
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to know win i her
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police bo
courtesy,
at the other
operator wa
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upon as a poli
by his aseociat
he felt 1/tP "^va
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cleared
[will report you to
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ed little gentleman
and friends. Bet
‘up against the real
The next day the s kv
-omewhat, and the operator
paid for a good spread at one of the
leading) restaurants. A prank-play
ing ni< liiher of t he press gang had put
the job up on him.
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VALLEY OF ILLUSION.
Tale of l Sraill Man with a Great Deal
of Vanity.
“It's/ the easiest thing in the
world io get the vanity knocked out
of you* admitted a handsome young
man, Mho is also exceedingly slen
der, si' i1h> Philadelphia Record.
“Taktime, for instance; all summer
long fve noticed a preference in
those!! the fair sex with whom I've
comes contact for my society, a- ii
seemoA, I was particularly im
Ilie fact in thi{ trolley
}1 not trondeywhen I
I've noticed a woman
Ihere a single njan uas
systematically pass
until slys'camc to
here' wa- a pom
rty of great -ire,
lank president, i
one of equal
fcoror. Then a
and then one
he one behind
peculiar though
Tover weight. Quite
But the first woman
plley took the string in
dancing at i very one,
civ. made her wav to
I sat. She was the
emboldened by the
ssessed some fatal at
her a how and
|i let me know why
particular seat.
rt^f>e sure,'said
■r I 'don’t like
up much
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ractiol
begged I
she haj
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she;
sent
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states
bamfc
t he i
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power of resistance of a bamboo (une
eight inches to ton inches in diam
eter, even with a length of 65 feet, is
enormous. Moreover, bamboo is said
not to rot either when in the ground
or in water, while the drier and olde:
it grows the firmer it becomes.
In Vienna.
Organ grinders are not allowed to
play in the morning or evening—only
between midday and sunset.
SHE OUGHT TO KNOW.
A Womaa Who Think3 Her Vermiform
Appendix Is Missing.
While 1 would not care to become
involved in a discussion on the sci
entific phases of such a question,
says D. It. Saunders, in Washington
Times, I, nevertheless, venture tore
mark that it seems to me a woman
ought to know better than any one
else whether or not she has her vermi
form appendix concealed about hei
person. Mrs. Fred Johnson, of Min
neapolis, called in a Chicago surgeon
not long ago for the purpose of per
forming some sort of operation which
necessitated the cutting open of that
part of her mortal frame in which
the appendix lives and moves and has
its being, and now she is suing the
surgeon for having feloniously ab
stracted the article in question. Just
why a surgeon should covet his
neighbor’s or patient’s appendix,and
just why any person should feel it a
deprivation to be robbed of one, re
membering that they are as full of
ills as Mas Pandora’s box, is some
thing of a mystery; but, anyway, Mrs.
Johnson is calling strenuously for
hors. The surgeon confesses that he
told his patient her appendix had
been removed, thinking the news
would do her good, hut that in reality
it is still in business at the old stand.
Mrs. .Johnson, however, denies the
possession of the appendix. “1 can
feel the place Mlicre it used to bo,’
she says, “and it i~n’t there nou.’:
If 1 were on the jury in this case, I
should favor a verdict for Mr>. John
son. It Mas her appendix, and lie:
condition
luroly mean
cd from it.'
of lonesomenes
that she lias beer
ONLY WASTING BREATH.
A Word of Advice to an Over-Positivi
Woman.
“There is one thing I just won't
do,” said .Jess to her deare-t friend
“and that is—”
"Now, don't.” interrupted tlit
friend. "Never say you will or you
won't. It doesn’t pay, and anyhow
you are sure to do it or not to do it as
the opposite case may be. 1 know
what you were going to say—that yov
won't marry a man who has red hair
freckled face and younger than your
self, no matter how much you care foi
him. I have heard you say it before
Well, now, lot me tell you, if you real
ly don't want to marry him declare
that you will and it will work out ah
right. I know a lady who is very tall
is an American through and through
and who loves to delve into all beliefs
and make a study of them. As t
young girl she declared she’d nevei
marry a foreigner or a Catholic, be
cause she felt the Catholic am
Protestant should never live in the
same house, nor would she even con
sider marrying a man shorter thar
herself. Well, when she did marn
the man .-lie chose was a Spaniard, i
Catholic of the deepest dye, and she
towered at least a head above him
I knew another lady who. w her
a young girl, particularly dis
liked two men in the neighhorhoor
—one bearing the given name of E!
and the other the surname of Jones
Site made a solemn vow that the mar
she married must bear neither ol
these hated names. A dashing
strange young man came to the little
city and not many months roller
around before she was Is is wife. Hi;
name was Eli .Tones. So don’t. Il
doesn’t pay! You are only wasting
good breath.”—Chicago Chronicle.
HIS ONLY NAME IS WOLF.
St. Louis Man Who Has No Give
First Name.
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witnesses to obtain their names. He
got the names of Motorman George
Noels and Conductor C. W. Hickman,
and then turning to the driver of the
demolished junk wagon asked:
“What is jour name?”
“Wolf,” said the driver.
“What's your first name?" queried
the policeman.
“I haven't any,” said Wolf.
“Now, stop your joking. J have to
make a report of this accident to the
captain," said Campbell, “and it must
be done quickly. Come on, now;
give me your full name.”
"I'm not fooling,” replied Wolf.
"1 never had a first name. I can see
no use for one and never wanted one.”
The policeman, still incredulous,
wrote “Wolf in hi< not chock and
went away. Wolf picked up his junk,
which had been sc attered by the col
lision. and summoned another wagon
to haul it away.
SOME MARINE CURIOS
Many Strange Object* to Be Seen in a
Unique Shop.
The love of the ocean as well as of
gam h the rai.-oB d’etre of a little
shop recently opened in this city.
The stock in trade consists of what
may bo termed marine oddities of
sufficient beauty to be available for
domestic decoration. The proprie
tor is a bright-eyed woman with an
extensive knowledge of the treasures
of the Atlantic ocean and the Carib
bean sea.
“I opened this place,” -he said to a
New York Post representative, “on
account of the ever-growing interest
taken by people in general in the
wonderful flora and fauna of the
ocean. 1 deal in what may be called
legitimate specimens, and not freaks
or monstrosities. Among monstros
ities are such things as porcupine
fish, which is a mass of spines with
out any particular beauty. Another
monstrosity is the dried de\il-fish,
which is hideous both in appearance
and association. Among freaks are
natural objects which have been
changed by human workmanship. Of
this a common form i- the embossed
sea coach. These are made in a very
simple way. Slips of paper are
pasted on the shell, =o as to form any
pattern, and the shell is then exposed
to a sand blast. The paper is then
softened with hot watofj^and re
moved. Where it was pasted the
shell is perfee^^ smooth, but else
where
m I L
sir
rom
icw, but is ab
rand so inappro
>e compared to
ose bud soaked
w-inown hay. A
rermaids' laee, a liv
the water near the
rrano, not far from Yen
I beautiful network of this
Tsm is said to have been the
del from which the Venetian a*
4*v.. v
tisans made the early point iace of
Venice. Another interesting speci
men is the pinna and its silky fiibers.
The pinna is an enterprising muliusk
which sails the seas, and when he
finds a rock which he thinks would
make a comfortable headquarters he
spins or secretes long fibers which
contain some gluey substance with
which he attaches himself to the
stone. The number of fibers that
he spins depends upon the force of
the wave at the place lie has chosen.
Where he is in a calm bight protected
from wind and wave, lie throws out a
few thin threads which hold him in
place, hut where his post is liable to
be struck by heavy waves he fairly
surrounds himself with his little fas
tening'. In the latter ease, he looks
on a small scale like the trunk of a
banyan tree, whose roots run out
over the rook soil like the spokes of a
w heel.”
GROWTH OF IRON TRADE.
World’s Production Has Increased at s
Rate to Tax Credulity.
The development of the iron in
dustry of the l nited States, says the
Engineering Magazine, has been
marked with Bin prises. From com
plete dependence upon the old world
the country has leaped to a pre-emi
nence so complete that its rivals be
lieve and tremble. In the great rail
read building period of lsT(j-72 Eng
land furnished the rails and other
materials at price- two or three times :
above those which are now deemed
abnormally high. Then England pro
duced three times as much iron and
steel as the United States. Since
then Germany has challenged the su
preniacy of Great Britain, and passed
her in a decade of remarkable growth.
And yet, in the current year of 11)02
the United States of America will:
produce more iron than England and
Germany combined. Indeed, there is
a margin of excess to spare about
equal to the product of France. If
we add to this statement another
fact, viz., that even this vast pro
duction is not sufficient for home re
quirements, and that the United j
States is to-day, in spite of a stiff
tariff, the be-t customer in iron and
steel that Europe has1, credulity is
taxed to the limit.
Exploding Shells.
In 187o an ordinary shell when it
burst broke into from 19 to 30 pieces.
To-day it bursts into 240. Shrapnel
tire in lHTu scattered only 37 death
dealing missiles. Now it scatters 340.
A bomb weighing about impounds 30
years ago would have burst into 42
fragments. To-day, when it is I
charged with peroxilcne, it breaks up
into 1,200 pieces, each of which is
hurled with much greater velocity
than the larger lumps which were
scattered by a'gunpowder explosion.
Wait, by the Ton.
About 40 tons of lettere pass.dailj
through the genera] post office, Lon
don.
AUSTRALIAN SEAFISHING
Icgling lor Schnappcr, Nannygai, Morwong
and Shark.
Sea fishing is the Alpha and
of most fishing of most fishing^M
Australia, says the London Traveled
We leave Sydney harbor about nii<^
light in a small tug. so as to be on
the further fishing grounds at day
break. Now we are out between the
heads, and at last a chilly daw n creeps
aver the -ca. We are at rest, too,
broadside to the rollers, and it is good
to go up the narrow companion and on
leek and find the line.- we left neatly
coiled in cornet!- overnight. The two
leek hands are busy cutting up the
bait, it score or so of mullet yellow
ails and squid. We are ready.and our
eight leads go almost together over
the side, all on the same quarter, so
that the linos may stream clear of the
t ug and of each other. Down they go,
and stilldown.agood40fathoms,and
the moment the lead touches-bottom
we hold on. A moment or to passes
and some one is into a good fish, which
is hauled and played on the thin line
with great care and patience, and
proves to be a silvery morwong of six
or seven pounds weight—a handsome
enough fis’n to the stranger, yet
dubbed, with a sneer, ‘‘wrong color,”
by its captor and bis Australian
friends.
The discontented one seems in
luck’s way, for no sooner had he again
baited his hooks—each line, I ought
>o have said, carries two and a heavy
lead—than he is once more fighting
with an even larger fish, but the line
sheers away ominously near the sur
face, and there is a genera! cry of
“Shark!” as it is indetd seen that one
of thtse white-bellied, shoved-snout
ed brutes has both his hooks. But the
tackle is strong; there is nothing in
reason to part so long as the shark can
not git the line between itsteeth;and
it is at last lifted bodily on the deck,
five feet and more of it, and soon clear
ing breathing space with the great
sweeping strokes of its tail.
The first fish that 1 am destined tc
catch in these strange waters is as cu
rious in name as in appearance. “Xan
nygai” it is called, which irresistibly,
though doubtless good aboriginal, te
min.d- me of the nannygoat, and it is
of a brilliant scarlet, with huge, pro
truding black eyes. Very good eat
ing is this same nannygai, but more
valuable on account of its invariably
indicating the presence of a big
sehnapper. No sooner, indeed, have
1 hauled in my nannygai than one or
two of the party instantly haul in
their lines to see that the baits are
right, and that a good opportunity
may not be lost. For we are not an
chored in one spot. The Pacific is too
deep, the ground too rough, the
swells from the south too sudden and
violent to admit of -ueli a plan. On
the- contrary, we drive with the tide
over the reefs, a kind of sehnapper
battue, and arc- thus enabled to go to
the fish when they will not come to
us. (!ood sehnapper are now caught
on all sides, and 1 must say that my
first really heavy sehnapper warrants
all the hopes that I had based on a
somewhat lor.gand intimate acquaint
ance with his feebler cousin, the red
bream of the English channel.
HAD NO FAMILY DOCTOR.
Cut Little Johnnie Had Medicine to Take
Just the Same.
It was liis first day at school, and he
was landing the lire-of the usual ques
tions asked on so auspicious an occa
sion.
“Who’s your family doctor?" asked
a big boy.
“Haven’t got any,” said the new
boy.
“ 11 otv jolly nice.” n sponded the big
boy. “Why. you don’t have any med
icine to take, then?”
“Don't 1?" was the sarcastic reply.
“That's all you know . My father’s a
dentist, mother’s a homeopath, my
si-tc-r Bess has joined the ambulance
class, grandfather believes in resusci
tation from drowning, grandmother
goes in for every quack medicine
that's advertised, my Uncle Sandy’s
a horse doctor, and”—in a pathetic
tone—“they all of them experiment
on me."—London Answers.
Rera-dy for Smallpox
In the smallpox epidemic of 1871,
Mother Gonzaga, matron of the St.
Joseph’s orphan asylum, ir. Philadel
phia, administered a specific which
State of Ohio,City of Toledo,Lu
cues county.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
senior partner of the
Chaney &
NTe citv of Tolerlr^^^
He city of Toledo,
y unci state aforesaid, and
unt said firm will pay tlie sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and
every case of catarrh that cannot
he cured hy the Use of Hill’s Ca
tarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney,
Swoi n to he fore me and subscrib
ed in my presence, Ibis 6th day of
December, A. D. 1686.
(seal) A. \Y. Gleason,
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catairh Cure is taken in
ternally, and acts d'rectly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
s\ stem.8end for testimoninl.-,free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., T<»|e<h», <>
8 ild hy druggists, 75 , Hall’s
Family Pill> are the best.
The Newark Real' Estate Com
pan.y can sell .your property, no
matter where located. We have
several inquiries for land and if
you have property for sale come in
and list it.
Tried to Conceal It.
h’s the old story of ‘‘murder
will out' 11»i' ^
no cinie. A
ns backache or
-11j• tks it's nothing and tries to
it until lu* lin,illy #i)i ei.ks
down. D in t deceive yourself.
Iii vi Eitclre Bitter.- at ome It
ii is a rcpul it ion for cuiing stout
sell, Iivet an kidney trouhh — and
will tevivify your whole system.
The worst for ns of those mala
dies will quickly yield to the etir
ative |» »wer ot Electric Bitters.
« )nU 50 •, Mid i'll'! mu teed by J. I
Sturdivant druggist.
We have a customer who wants
wo lots in the residence portion of
own, and will pay cash. Price
I must he reasonable. Newark Real
Estate Co.
Rev. Carlisle P. B. riartln.
j Waverly, Tex., writes: ‘‘Of a
morning, when first rising, I often
! ind a troublesome collection of
phlegm, which produces a cough,
and is very hard to dislodge ; hut
a small quantity of Ballard’s llore
liound byrup will at once dislodge
il, and the trouble is over. I know
of no medicine that is equal to it,
and .t is so pleasant to take. I can
most cordially recommend it to
all persons,needing a medicine for
Ith’.Oat or lung troubles.” Price
j 25e,50c,|L.OU bottle at J.I.Sturdi
vants.
(iet a Kimball
Kimball organs are acknowledg
ed to be the best on the mar et..
You can buy one by paying a
j small amount down and $5 per
month, or one-third down and
balance in six months, bee (). F.
Kraig, agent.
If Unwell
Try a50c bottle of Mw-hTTir,1
lhe improvement speedily el
ed in your appetite,ener;
ill and vigor. Wateli howj
ens tlie spirit*.gives freeiT^vrrnir
indigesl inn and denilny? la.-uic1
Store, Ava. Mo., writes,Sept. 10th,
IflUO “I was in liai| health, I ic'd
stomach troulde for 12 month*,
also dumb chills. Dr, J. \V. Mory
prescrihed U..rhiue, it cured me
in two weeks. 1 cannot recommend
it too highly, it will do nil you
claim for it.” Sold !>y J. I. Sturdi
vant.
Cur Clubbing List.
The Journal and any of the follow
ini' papers will be sent one year for
the amount set .ya^ite their respect
ive ran.is. Cash mwff^l^wnpauy the
or Jer to secure these rates.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.. *1.25
Toledo Blade... 1.30
St. Louis Republic. 1.7a
Globe Democrat. 1.75
Arkansas Gazette. l.tt)
T exas Farm and Punch. l <j|
Arkansas Methodist
Home and Farm
Af lanta Const itution,, ]
The Commoner,,.,