SONGS NEEDED IN PICKINC
Champion Negro Cotton Worker It
Invariably a Fine Singer —
Rhythm Increases Speed.
“The champion negro cot toe
picker of Texas, who can pull a
bale of cotton from the bolls it
two days, must be a good ginger,*
Maid a man who sfieut his early lift
on the farm, to a New Orleans
Times Democrat reporter, “elst
!he could not pick that much col tot
in so short a time.
“A report from the Waxahachie
■district says his best day’s work
this year was 844 pounds. That’s
pretty good cotton picking. 1
dare say he sung a few lines while
he was reaching for this record.
No negro can pick cotton without
■singing. Whenever you see a n<*
gro pulling his sack tip and down
cotton rows in silence you can bet
lie is not doing much picking. lie
may get out of the field with 17H.
or inavbe “0(1 pounds, but lie will
not set tlie world on lire as a pick
or of the staple.
“Singing is a part of the game
and when you find a negro who bo
gins to sing and holler as soon as
he bends over the row you may
know thereby that you have a
good hand. The negro, as a rule,
works by music. In no other line
of activity is this fact so notice
able as in the cotton patch. Fleiv
js when* the negro must sing if In
would meet with any satisfactory
measure of success. It is no loud,
discordant howling, either. It is
music, the like of which you can
not hear at any other place, or tin
tier any other circumstances, a
low, soft hum. delicately intoned,
rhythmic, mellow, soothing, and
all the while the negro’s bod.v
swings to and fro over tin* cotton
row as with his nimble fingers he
pulls the long white locks from
the boll.
“1 have known si great man'
cotton planters who would noi
hire si negro cotton picker nnles*
he was satisfied that the negn
sang sis he worked. It is si eiit iom
is
thin? that pickers of this typo
have more time for the humorous
bantering and jawing so common
among this class, than the men
who work in silence. The sinking
negro does not work as hard, as a
matter of fact, as the silent negro.
This is because he works more rap
idly. The song he sings seems to
1 make the machinery run more
smoothlv. and so lie accomplish
es more in the end than the quiet
fellow, and has some time for the
foolish talk of the cotton patch be
sides.”
COUNTED BY ELECTRICITY.
Machine Does the Work of Eight Men
in Sorting and Wrapping
Money.
Almost everv one, from the mil
lionaires of Wall street down to
the humblest bootblack, has felt
the necessity of making money
4uickly and easily, the counting of
it being a matter of secondary im
portance, says the New York Her*
j aid. However, the coin of the
realm was produced, whether in
the form of bright copjier pennies
or one thousand dollar gold cer
tificates, it would seem like throw
ing tin* gauntlet down to fate to
object to counting them. Yet
there art* times and conditions
when men long for a machine ca
pable of counting their money for
them. Hence, the electric motor
■oin counting and wrapping ma
iliine.
The object of such it device is ob
viously to facilitate the rapid and
accurate counting and bundling of
coins of all descriptions, from pen
nies to dollars, since there are
many lines of business which neces
sitate tin* employment of a large
staff of clerks whose sole duty
heretofore has In-on the perform
ance of this laborious task.
The machine counts and wraps
Yoins at the rate of seven every
second, or 4L'(i coins every minute,
! and does this continuously as long
as the motor runs and coins are fed
i into the hopper. The coins are
wrapjied compactly at the rate of 1
from «*it to twelve bundles per
J minute, according to tin* size of
, the coins.
Since an expert is only enabled
to count and wrap 50 coins a min
ute manually, it will be seen that
the machine will do at least as
(much work as eight men. It is
true that each machine requires
an operator, whose work consists
of a mere cursory examination of
the coins, to see that there are no
plugged pieces, iron washers and
lead slugs mixed with good mon
»y. The speed of the machine is
limited only by the ability of the
operator to detect the spurious
coins. When the machine is in op
eration the coins are laid upon a
| table to facilitate examination,
when they are dropped into a hop
per, whence they slide through a
I conduit down into the act ive mech
anism, where they are pushed into
a row. When the last coin h: s
oeen forced into its place by a re
ciprocating push bar the coins are
automatically transferred from a
buncher to the wrapper while a
new row is being brought into po
sition.
As the coins reach the wrapper
a roll of paper is fed by three driv
ing rolls placed around the bundle
of coins. 1 ty a rolling motion the
paper is wrapped around the coins
twice, when it is cut off by a V
shaped knife. The next and fin
ishing process is turning in the
'projecting edges of the wrapper,
which is done by incans of crimp
ers, drawing 1 he edges in opposite
directions, and finally turning out
i a smoot.hly rolled package held
‘firmly in place without the useof
paste.
As the inventor facetiously re
marked, flip reason a coin count
ing and wrapping machine had
never before been invented was
because inventors never had mon
ey to count. The business of the
inventor of this particular device
was to collect, count and bundle
pennies taken in by weighing and
other slot machines.
MONEY IN THE ZUYDER ZEE
Over $5,000,000 Said to Be Waiting
for a Finder Under Hol
land Waters.
Ever heard of the North sea el
derado? Well, if you take a sub
marine trip round the Zuyder Zee
you may run against $5,000,000 or
so, of which should you take it
along to Lloyd's, you are legally
entitled to half, which will be your
salvage dues, says Stray Stories.
Underneath the sea lie the re
mains of tin* treasure ship La Lu
tine. which sunk and lost all sate
one of its crew in 1700. Its cargo
w as money, which was being sent
by merchants in the city to Ham
burg.
At the time Britain was at war
with Holland, and by the law the
boat was claimed by Holland as
prize money, and though it lay at
the bottom of the sea she had a
perfect light to it.
The first thing that happened
was for some Dutch fishermen lo
start diving for the treasure.
After several plucky operations
thev rescued $27S.5nO.
Then 57 years passed, and. save
for a few futile efforts, nothing
was done to try to rescue the re
mainder.
The Dutch government, after
the war. resigned their elaini to
this submarine gold mine, and left
in open to onyone to salve the
treasure, on the understanding
that half was to go to Lloyd's.
In lS57.it Duteh company, sifter
over 50 years of delsiy and dispute,
was formed and set to work, suc
ceeding in two years in getting
$220,000.
Restricted to the King.
Only the king of Korea may rear
goats in the “Land of the Morning
Calm,” or have rouudcolnmus and
square rafters to his house, or
wear a coat of brilliant red. Only
the king may look upon the faces
of the queen's hundreds of attend
ant ladies, or have any building
outside of which there art more
than three citqpa.
LOCAL MARKfc I KtrUK i.
Carefully corrected every Thurs
day afternoon.
Apples, dried, per pound..
Beans,dried, per bushel...
Butter, per pound...
Eggs, |>er dozen.
Corn. j>er bushel.
Cotton, lint, per pound....
Cotton seed, per ton.
Molasses, sorghum, per gal
Potatoes, Irish, per bushel.
Potatoes, sweet, per bushel
Turnips, i>er bushel.
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2.25
.20
.10
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10.00
.45
.50
1.50
.50
W. N. LEWIS
Solicitor For —
Monuments,
Headstones,
and Tablets.
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\W soli you a 7'wont straw hat
for 5o cents or a Si.25 hat for
*1.00. Frod 1). Whiting Co.
FIRE INSURANCE.
W. N. LEWIS,
— Phone No. 14; :s rin^s —
Madness, . . Arkriisas.
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BIG ODD LOT SALE
We come to you with another odd lot proposition. The sales on these goods will all be your
own way. in these lots you may not find your size, for, as we say, they are broken lots. Yet if
you can be suited, the price is chopped to an extraordinarily low figure. While the assortment is
daily growing less, there are still many desirable things left. We especially invite you to come to
the store and see for yourself. It will interest you to know what we are trying to accomplish for
the people of Newark. Get on a cash basis and you have done much toward bettering you condition.
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UNDERWEAR.
Men’s underwear must go. Nothing
reserved. Men’s elastic seam drawers,
the best 50c article on the market, will
go at 40c. Men's Balbrigan underwear,
always sold at $1 a suit, now goes at
80c. Ladies’ light-weight summer un
derwear at special low prices. Ladies’
vests at 4 cents each. Special value in
a high class vest on sale at 20 cents.
SHOES.
You very likely have paid from $1.50
to $5 for a man’s Shoe. When you buy
them here you get your money’s worth,
no matter what price you pay, this we
guarantee. In our $2.50, $3 and $3.50
Shoe we have goods of merit; shoes that
have been tried and gained a reputation.
Our Walk over shoes are the ones we
bank on, at $3.50 and $4. We guaran
tee the service and fit while you get
more com ort than is obtainable in any
other shoe of the price in America.
PARASOLS.
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It is wonderful, the sales we have
made in Parosols since we inaugurated
the first price-cut. We have a nice as
sortment left, however, that must go in
this odd lot sale. Our $3.50 silk para
sols will be closed out at $2.50; the $2.75
ones will go at $1.75 while they last,
and we have others at $1.50, $1.25,
$1, 75c and 50c. White silk parasols at
actual cost.
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$ We are going to give to Newark something the town never saw in the way of a Special Ribbon *
$ Sale. If you need Ribbons now is your opportunity. We are qoing to make nine lots of these
& goods, ranging in price from 1c a yard up to 23c. Take advantage of this opportunity and buy a $
xfc supply of Ribbons. Many other goods not advertised here, at prices that will meet your approval. >*\
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\ij Whiting & Co., Tillar, Ark.; Cheairs & Co., Winchester, Ark.