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The Newark Journal.
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY JUNE 20, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 25.
MARK’S DANDER ROSE
Was Cartooned as Chief (bstrucor
of Canal Legislator, and
Got Hot About t.
The dander of U<cle Marcus
Hanna rose on him.he other day
because he was catooned as the
chief constructor of obstructions
to the ismian cam! bill. He de
nounced such a representation ot
himself as a libel and declared
that he has always desired the
canal and las fuvoied the Pana
ma route 'or mgineering reasons
only.
But the fact remains that Mr.
Hanna is obstructing canal legis
lation by the adroit scheme of
raisiug a dead-lock in congress
over the route question. He
knows as well as he knows the
curves of his dollar-inark that the
people want a canan, and that
they are perfectly willing to trust
the selection of the route that, in
view of all considerations, may be
found best. They are willing
that the piesident of the United
States should, upon expert evi
dence, arbitrate that detail. But
in the meantime, they demand of
'(ingress that it keep the solemn
pledges of both the political par
ties by deciding that there shall
be a canal and providing the ways
and means by which the president
.can determine, secure and begin
work on the route,
Mr. Hanna cannot successfully
throw dust mto the eyes of the
whole people on this subject. He
has got ‘-a nigger |n the wood
pile” and the general public can
see his heels sticking out—and
each of them boars the initials of
the transcontinental railway
combine.
As to the I ananj.i route, bcia
tor Morgan has thoroughly tested
the title to it and found it, defec
tive and no one doubts that Sena
tor Morgan is a surer legal au
thority than Senator Hanna. And
a^ to feasibility, Senator Harris
pronounces the Nicaraguan muto
far safer and hotter than the Pan
ama route, and Senator Harris is
a genuine civil engineer, while
Senator Hanna is only a political
engineer.
Should congress suffer Senator
Hanna to embroil it over routes
and defeat canal legislation at this
session it will have a hard reck
oning to make to the people this
coming campaign.
With an organized lobby trying
to defeat the hill it will be ne
cessary for the friends of the
measure to keep constantly on the
alert. Victory will come only
through vigilance. Those who
are now advocating the Panama
route are the ones who have here
tofore been opposed to all legisla
tion upon the proposed canal and
it looks rather mysterious, to say
the least, that they should now
be so zealous in advocating the
Panama route, which the govern*
ment cannot adopt with any de
gree cf safety. Nothing is of
greater importance to the south
at this time than tho building of
the isthmian canal.
Ready to Yield.
“I used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve for piles and found it a cer
tain euro,” says S. R. Meredith,
Willow Grove, Del. Operations
unnecessary to cure pile* They
always yield to DeWitts "Witch
Hazel Salve. Cures skin diseases ;
ull kinds of wounds. Accept no
counterfeits. J. I. Sturdivant.
Over-dose of riorphine.
Lonoke, June 14.—Hon. J. E.
Gatewood,a well-known youny at
torney here, died at 2 p. m. today
from the effects of an overdose
of morphine. Dr. Gumming at
tended the sufferer and worked
diligently to save his life. Mr.
Gatewood had not been feeling
well for seveial days, and in
seeking reieif through morphine,
he tools an excessive dose. No
inquest will he held.
Spring Fever.
Spring fever is another name
for biliousness. It is more seii
ous than most people think. A
torpid liver and inactive bowels
mean a poisoned system. If neg
lected, serious illness may follow
such symptoms. DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers remove all danger
by stimulating the liver, opening
the bowels and cleansing the sys
tem of impurities. Safe pills.
Never grine. “1 have taken De
Witt’s Little Early Risers for tor
pid liver every spring for years,”
writes R. M. Everly, Moundsville,
W, Va. “They do me more good
than anything I have ever tried.”
J. I. Sturdivant.
The Baby Had Been Used.
A boy baby arrived at a certain
house and a visitor said to a little
girl in the family:
“Do you like the baby?”
The little girl said she did, but
would have preferred a lady baby.
“Well,” the visitor replied
“maybe you can exchange it.”
“No, 1 don’t think we could,”
said the little girl, “because we
have been using it seven or eight
days. ”—Ex.
A Real Friend.
“1 suffered from dyspepsia and
indigestion for fifteen years,”
says W. T. Sturdevant of Merrv
Oaks, N. C. ‘‘After I nsd tried
many doctors and medicines to no
avail one of my friends persuad
ed me to try Kodol. It gave im
mediate relief. I can eat almost
anything I want now and my di
gestion is good. I cheerfully rec
ommend lvodol.” Don’t try to
cure stomach trouble by dieting.
That only further weakens the
system. Vou need wholesome,
strengthening food. Kodol enables
you to assimilate what you eat by
digesting it without the stomach’s
aid J. 1. Sturdivant.
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Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep buisy during the
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Office, Wash
ington, D have made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while
the cut prices prevails.
Subscribe for the Journal.
Leads Them All.
“One Minute Cough Cure beats
all other medicines 1 ever tried
for coughs, colds, croup and
throat and lung troubles,” says
D. Scott Curtin of Loganton. Pa.
One Minute Cough Cuie is the
only absolutely safe cough reme
dy which acts immediately.
Mothers every where testify to
the good it has done their little
ones. Croup is so sudden in its
attacks that the doctor often ar
rives too late. It yields at once to
One Minute Cough Cure. Pleas
ant to take Children like it. Sure
cure for grip, bronchitis, coughs.
,1. I. Sturdivant.
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Fatal Accident Near Benton.
Benton, June 13.—Grant Iverr
of Grant county, who has been
employed as bridge foreman on j
the Choctaw bridge across Saline
river at this place, fell from the
top of the bridge, a distance of
sixty feet, to the water below,
striking a cross tie as he descend
ed, and when within a few teet of
the wuter struck another peiee of
timber. The water where he fell
is aoout ten feet in depth and he
remained in it tive minutes before
being rescued. The accident
happened about 9:30 a. in. and
the injured man died about 1 o’
clock. He was 28 years of age.
CON DEN SKI) N E WS ITEMS
Happenings of Interest Gathered
From Various Parts of
the Union.
Two sharp esittbcjuake shocks
were felt in Oregon Saturday night.
Anthracite operators look for
ward confidently tc the end of the
strike, and announce what policy
they will persue.
Wall street stocks show grow
ing strength and securities of all
kinds remain firm, though there is
a lack of speculation.
The United States Government
is making a test of the usefulness
of oil as fuel for naval vessels
with satisfactory results.
Harvest hands are in great de
mand m Kansas and the railroads
have made cheap rates to those
going there as harvest hands.
The United States Shipbuild
ing Company, of which Louis
Nixon is president, has purchased
the Bethlehem Steel Works.
A memorial arch to Con federate
dead was unveiled at Columbus,
O., whe*e more than 2,(X>0 sold
iers died in the military prison.
The Japanese exhibit at the St.
Louis World’s Fair promises to
surpass all previous records and
rival that of any European nation.
Twelve persons were injured
in a factory tire at Philadelphia,
and several women only escaped
death by leaping into nets held
for them by tire men.
A Government geologist asserts
that since the seismic disturb
ances in the West Indies the
mountains of Pennsylvania are
several inches higher.
Webster Davis will move to!
New York, to reside. It is stated I
that ho lias received an offer of
$25,000 a year, hut the character
of his occupation is held secret
for the present.
Miss Rebecca J. Taylor, who
was dismissed from the War De
partment because of an attack on
the administration, demands rein
statement and threatens to enter
court with her case.
The house of a mine guard at
Ilnzelton, Pa.^ was wrecked by dy
namite and threats of a similar
fate have been made against many
nonunion men who prosist iu
working in the mines.
The effects of the anthracite
coal strike are widely felt, though
so far the volume of business has
not beeu materially lessened.
Otherwise, prospects for business
in the next few months are nighty
favorable.
The Secretary of the Interior
has upheld a decision of the
Dawes Commission that the white
wives of Cherokee Indians, who
were married before the Indians
were re-admitted to citizenship,
must be enrolled.
A new uniform has been ap
proved by the Secretary of War
for the United States Army,
which substitutes a knickerbrock
er for the long pants and elabo
rates on the khaki style of dress
for campaign service.
A Maryville, Mo., man accused
of forgery, who disappeared some
days ago, yesterday gave himself
up after being in hiding for ten
days. He says he dreamed that
the Sheriff and bloodhounds were
chasing him and lived in constant
mental torture that be perfened
to give himself up.
Wooden Buildings Barred.
Foreman, June lb,—The city
council has passed an ordinance
providing that no more wooden J
buildings shall be erected or re-j
paired iu the business part of
Foreman, making it compulsory
on all persons to build brick <r
stoue structures iu the future.
POWER OF THE PRESS
As People Become More Enlight
ened, Power of the Press
Also Increases.
Following is what an exchange
has to say about newspapers and
their influence:
It is frequently asserted that
the newspapers have no influence
with#the masses in shaping public
issues, Mothing is further from
the truth. The press is more in
fluential today than at any time
in the history of the world, and
there ate more newspaper read
ers than ever before. But the
tiuth may as well be admitted;
not all the people are newspaper
readers. There is an ignorant
element in every community, and
it is more easily influenced by
prejudice than bv reason. This
element is made up of a shiftless
class who are antagonistic to any
one in better circumstances than
themselves. It is hard to reach
these people, hut the political de
magogue can do it more readily
than anyone else. This is fre
quently aecomp lished and then
the skeptical in the more intelli
gent classes raise the cry that the
newspapers have lost their in
fluence. An honest, fearless
journal will always have a strong
influence with the masses, and it
may he said with every assurance
of veiitication that the future will
give the press a much larger
sphere. Ignorance must event
ually give way to he more enlight
ened methods of up-to-date jour
nalism and the time will come
when the great masses will lie i»
verteratc newspaper readers.
Then it will be more difficult to
fool the people, or any consider
able per cent of them, and politi
cal conditions will be greatly im
proved.
Notice of Examination.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a public examination of
teachers at Butesville, Ark., the
19th and 20th days of June, 1902,
to ascertain the professional
qualifications of all persons de
siring to teach in the public
schools of Independence county.
J A. Wilkes,
County Examiner.
A Tale of the East.
I believe this forgotten story
will be of interest to the readers
of your paper:
Just before their capture, in
173(>, and when little girls, Mans
Ann and Elizabeth Lansing were
sent by their father, who was a
man of very large means, to fetch
the cows home. They having
played along the Potomac river,
knew nothing dangerous, where
Indians hid themselves. When
their capture occurred, they could
hear the voice of their father re
peatedly calling for them, but cir
cumstances beyond their control,
stopped their possible escape and
response to him. They were ha
rassed with difficult problems, in
which fair chances weie sought
to run away in those days of their
capture.
At last the solution of the prob
lem failed and they, sharing with
their colored companions, tlieir
joys, starvations, naked condi
tions and horrible adventures |
along the eleven years period, did j
all in their power to charm, and
serve the savages cheerfully. In 1
case they felt that gentlo mtlu-1
ence, and it’s effect was marvelous, 1
they stopped a slaughter awaiting
the poor girls.
The object of the Misses Lan~
sing’s perseveiance, continuing
for 11 long years, was an unfailing
hope for repeated calls for them
to come home at a distant day.
At lust the fact of the discovery
of the two whites in the midst of
the Indians, was announced to a
fort, where, at a distant day,
Washington, D.C., became a town
and i.s now the great capital of
the United States.
Everything possible for their
delivery from the savages was
successfully done in the purchase,
by the U. S. Government, of the
fort, where Maria Ann became the
wife of one of the soldiers, and
her life as a nurse was a course of
tender and devoted ministration*
to the sick soldiers.
A chronology of my ancestors
is as follows : Old Mr. Lansing
was the father of Maria Ann and
Elizabeth ; Maria Ann was the
mother of Isaac Smith ; Isaac
Smith vv.is the father of the
writer’s mother, Mrs. llurriot
Barnes.
Isaac, having an inclination for
frontier life, moved to Kentucky,
♦hen a howling wilderness. 11 is
terrible adventures are too numer
ous to mention in this letter.
The writer was born in a howl
ing wilderness, where Bridgeport,
III., is now a nourishing city. In
the days of the writer’s boyhood,
the use of the axe about timber,
a log house or a small farm, were
signs of a true civilization in the
gloomy wilderness. Though a
native of Bridgeport, when at
school in early childhood, I was
from Otiowa, Illinois.
Furry Barnks.
Newark, Arkansas.
The Journal, $1 per year.
BIRDS MUCH ASTRAY.
laitanm of Their Ineipeclod Ap
pearance Oat of the Kej£
ular Seanoo.
Individuals among migratory fowls
and birds have their peculiarities just
us men have. They are sometimes
found in out-of-the-way places out of
season.
Last August Itichard Strayhorn was
seated near a cattle tank in a pasture
of llee county, Tex. The sun wus with
in half an hour of setting.
The tank was possibly an acre square
and had two feet of muddy water in it.
The temperature was close to 100 de
grees in the shade.
Strayhorn was waiting for doves. In
that country doves fly to the tank for
water late in the afternoon. They
come in dozens, and as they are ex
ceedingly swift they make excellent
shooting.
Suddenly hearing a splash, Stray
horn looked up. He was partly shield
ed by the overhanging limb of a mes- \
quite.
lie saw swimming some thirty yards !
away a couple of small brown objects
which puzzled him. If the month had
been August and the full heat of south
ern Texas in the jjiir. he would have
said that they w-efe teal. Those birds
were not due, however, for more than
six weeks, and he put them down as
hell-divers.
Hell-divers or not, the doves were
not flying in thickly and he took a
crack at them. He killed one of them
on the water. The other, instead of
diving like a flash, leaped into the air
and started away. He downed it with
his left barrel—a long shot.
Retrieving them he saw that they
were genuine blue-winged teal, many
days and thousands of miles in ad
vance of their brethren and sisters.
They were in excellent condition, too,
showing that they had not made a long
continuous flight from the north.
Strayhorn resumed his seat in a
state of great satisfaction and in the
five minutes following missed a dove or
two. Then another st range thing hap
pened. A couple of birds dropped
swiftly to the bank of the tank not 20
yards from him and instantly disap
peared.
He had only a glimpse of them, but
would have been willing to swear that
they were jacksnipe, only no jacksnipe
were to be expected for at least two
months. He understood, of course,
that the pair had squatted, their
brown backs bending with the brown
earth.
He ran his eye carefully along the
flat, bare bank five or six times, and
then he made them out, crouched in
true jacksnipe fashion, legs under,
bellv to the ground, bullet head drawn
down upon the back, bill upon the
breast, only round black eyes gleam
ing and betraying them. They were
not a foot apart and only one barrel
was necessary.
Wheu he got them in hand Strayhorn
saw that they were birds of the size of
jacksnipe with bills like the bills of
jacksnipe and with backs of the Fame
hue; their breasts, however, were a
beautiful reddish brown almost a true
red. He did not know what they were,
but an amateur ornithologist in Bee
ville identified them as robin-snipe.
They had never been seen in that
country before and were, like the teal,
weeks ahead of the time for their
southward flight.
POLITICS AND PORKERS
Raising the Latter is More Profit
able Than Going into
the Former.
The Topeka Capital tells the fol
lowing story, at the expense of
the Kansas politician:
“The bank officer stood with
knotted brow, and worry was writ
ten plainly on his face. Talking
with him was a man, whose repu
tation ns a politician extended be
yond the borders of his own coun
ty. He had held many offices but
he wanted a loan. The bank of
ficial was battling between a desire
to help his friend and his duty to
the stockholders who had put their
funds in his care. The politician
had reached the “ just-a-personal
favor stage of his entreaty and
the bank man was perplexed in
deed. 'fhe loan wanted was only
a small one and for a short time,
but there were past due notes in
the bank already, and the man re
sponsible for the institution’s
funds could not bring his con
science up to letting more go.
Just then a young farmer came
in. He wore overalls, a hickory
shirt, and a slouch hat. The total
cost of all the rainment he wore
would not equal that paid for tho
politician’s trousers alone. The
banker smiled and asked the young
man what he could do for him.
“I need a little more money for
corn to finish up the hogs,” said
the son of toil.
“How much?” asked the bank
er, reaching for the money.
“About a hundred.”
“How long?”
they wifi be ready for market
about the first of the month.”
Better make it thirty days
then.”
The note was nas.de out, the far
mer signed it, the banker counted
out the money, less the exchange,
the young man put it in his pocket
and walked out.
There were tears in the politi
cian's eyes, lie wished right then
that lie had gone to raising hogs,
instead of being a statesman.
The mistake of trying to make
a living out of being great dawned
upon him with an awful force
when he came to compare his cred
it with that of the young fanner.
When that young man reads the
papers lie sees the name of the pol
itician dozens of times. Every
since he was a boy he has read of
that officeholder's glory as a poli
tician. lie has read of how that
man has gone out and held the
people spellbound with his oratory.
He has read of the gatherings of
the factions and leaders at the big
city hotels; and that man’s name
was among them. He has seen
how the men who ‘‘do things”
have taken into consideration
where that man would stand be
fore determining their course.
When the convention gathers
the young man reads how that
man was escorted to the platform,
and how the convention cheered
and yelled at his bright and witty
sayings and his vehement denun
ciation of the opposition. Perhaps
the young man was sweating in
the furrows of the corn field, while
the politician was wiping the
sweat of oratory from the furrows
of his brow. The politician could
sway the throng where the young
man would scarcely know how to
get into the convention hall But
when it came before the bank of
ficial, the young farmer had the
power and could do the swa^ iug.
Read This a ad Cool off.
Cape Town, June 14.—Un
precedented snow storms have
swept over the midlands. Trains
are blocked by six-foot deep snow
drifts at M iauwpom-t The tele
graph W'uvii u,v wOvVii