FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME
HOME.
To The Newark Journal:
Among the folk-songs of fifty
and » hundred years ago none
were more loved than this song,
because it touched human sym
pathy, Through it run* the ten
derest pity; its melody is like that
of the nightingale, sorrow. There
is no sorrow so deep as that of a
little child. They tell us of hap
py childhood. So it is. Child
hood is the happiest time, free,like
a bird; but for real sorrow, I think
a child feels more deeply than
grown people. Have you never
seen little faced pinched and agon
ized (
A child’s sorrow this song ex
presses. It is for the sake of the
children, and all that liquor can
mean to them and their environ
ment, that good people pray for j
temperance.
Most of us have read or seen
acted on the state, “Ten Nights in
a Bar Room.” It has been every I
where. “Ten Nights in a Bar
Room” is the drama, “Father, I
Dear Father, Come Home” is the
song. They are one. Every one
has witnessed that scene among
the realities of life. The theme
makes of both, immortal litera-!
ture. What are the immortal
things of life? Childhood and lit
erature. The two blend in this
song and its drama. (I have read
the Greek tragedies, This is one j
of the good American at :mpts at
drama in modern life, because it is
alive.)
“Father, dear father, come home with
me now.
The clock in the steeple strikes one.
You promised, dear father, that you
would come home
As soon as your days work was done.
“Our fire has gone out, our house is
all dark,
And motner’s been watching since
tea;
And poor brother Benny, so sick in
her iirnis,
A lid no one to help her qut me."
Perhaps this father’s appetite
for intoxicants was natural. 1 do
not believe it. His treatment of
his family was very unnatural.
What drove him to drink' Did he
think he was big folks because he
drank' Very easily fooled! Did
he drink to quicken his imagina
tion and intellectual faculties' Is
he so dead he cannot wake up any
other wayi Pity. Did he drink
to drown his sorrow ( Did he for
get his wife, and leave his child
fatherless, or worse, for an hour
or so{ What might happen dur
ing an hour' Perhaps he drank
like a razor-back hog—because it
was good. Him let alone, for a
dog will return to his vomit.
“What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his
time
He but to sleep and feed? A beast, no
more.
Sure, he that made us with such large
discourse, *
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like season
To fust in us unused.”
It is strange that any man would
put an enemy into his mouth to
steal away his brains.
Heredity is a large subject. A
m| *i inherits the color of his eyes
and hair, his size, his brains, and
his desires. Many tilings, indeed,
he acquires.
“So, oft it chances in particular men
That for some vicious mole of nature
in them,
As, in their birth,—wherein they are
not guilty,
Since nature can notchoose his origin,
Ky the o’ergrowth of some complex
ion.
Oft breaking down the poles and forts
of reason.”
Ignorance is the curse of the
country. Because of ignorance,
women may be so selfish or so un
informed in regard to the science
of today that they may foist upon
To Our Friends and Patrons.
The arriv I of new goods for our well selected
Fall and Winter stocks were never larger than
at the present time. Our Dry Goods Depart
ment contains everything in the latest designs
and styles. Our line of Shoes is just what the
family desires — Comfort, Fit and Durability.
We are going to look after the interest of our trade by making
special bargains to all alike. Every article bought from our store
is backed by a guarantee to be just as cheap as any living retail
merchant in the State, and if goods are not satisfactory after you
take them home, your money will be refunded or goods exchanged
for anything you wish. Give us a call, which will be appreciated,
and we promise to stand by our motto of Fair and Honest Dealing.
M. S. FISHER, NEWARK, ARKANSAS.
an unborn soul the curse of appe
' tite. Womanhood! Do not stoop
'to this limbo of vanity. Rise to
your own true beauty.
Ignorance. I do not think con
ceit is wisdom, neither is informa
tion wisdom. Ignorance is the
mother of of intemperance;—look
at this penpicture from Paradise
Lost. The monster depicted, to
me, always represents ignorance,
and the dogs around her waist are
the unnatural desires, the hungry
| longings of man for beauty and
; goodness and truth that have been
! debased by the wrong sorts of feed
ing. These greedy heads chained
to sin were one time angels and
ministering spirits. Before the
gates of Hell there sat what seem
ed a
* “U nman to the waist, and fair,
j But ended foul in many a scaly fold
Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm
j ed
! With mortal sting: about her middle
round
With wide Ceberean mouths, and
rung
a hideous peal; yet when they list,
would creep.
If aught disturbed their noise, into
her womb,
And kennel there; yet there still hark
ed and howled within unseen."
This is, of course, an allegory,
; hut most people think of abstract
things in pictures.
Mus. P. (I. Maonkss.
We have a tine line of genuine
wool blankets, and they are going
fast. Better hurry. The prices
can't be beat. Moore Bros. «£
1 Company.
LOCAL MARKET REPORT.
Carefully corrected every Thurs
day afternoon.
Apples, dried, per pound... .04
Beans, dried, per bushel.... 2.00
Butter, per pound.20
Eggs. per dozen.l‘l
Corn, per bushel.50
Cotton, lint, per pound.10
Cotton seed, per ton.11.00
Molasses, sorghum, per gal. .45
Potatoes, Irish, per bushel.. .75
Potatoes, sweet, per bushel. .75
Turnips, per bushel.50
For corn, hay, oats, bran, alfal
fa seed, etc., figure with the New
ark Lumber Company.
Good LL domestic, five cents at
Moore Bros. & Co.
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BOSTON DRUMMER COFFEE
Is now being sold by us
at 15 cents a package, or
7 Packages $1.
The best Coffee on earth,
for the money!
Shot, Shell g Dynamite
Could Not Have Caused the Commo=
tion We Did Last Saturday!
2.000 YARDS OF CALICO.
Will be sold to our cus
mers, while it lasts, at
4z Cts a Yard.
Only 20 yards to each
customer at this price.
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and many were disappointed because they could not be waited on. We shall try to not let this $
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'jj of this golden opportunity. Calicoes, Dress Goods, Underwear, Sweaters, Caps, Hats, Shoes, Suit ^
*1/ Cases, Trunks, Outing Flannels, Ladies Skirts, Millinery, etc., all goes at money-saving prices.
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CAUSF,
We are in a position to serve you with good reliable
merchandise for less money than any concern in 50 miles
of Newark. We have the buying for three big stores,which
gives us a considerable leverage with the wholesale houses,
and being in a small town with small expenses, cuts down
the profit margin, which is essential in keeping up the big
expenses of stores in the larger towns.
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We buy and sell more Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Dry
Goods, Millinery, Notions, etc., than any concern tributary
— to Newark, hence the right price must do the work. You
can come into our store Saturday, Monday, or any other
day, and find prices o. k., not on “trash,” but good, reliable
merchandise, the only kind we sell. We have prepared for
the advance in prices, and can assure you satisfaction.
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and we guarantee you that much worth of goods for it when you spend it here.
frcd. D. Whiting & Company,
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS.
Whiting & Co., Tillar, Ark.; Cheairs & Co., Winchester, Ark.
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