The Newark Journal.
O F. CRAIO, Kdltor.
NEWARK- - i ARKANSAS^
MARKING OF BOOKS.
Why a Woman Shows Index to Her
Inmost Character.
“A man is known by the com
pany he’ keeps” has its ofi'set in
“a woman is known by the books
she reads”—truisms that might
have been true once upon a time,
but are not always quite satis
factory in this present age.
A man’s company may be forced
upon him by circumstances, hot
by choice. The books with which
a woman surrounds herself and
among which she browses now
and then may be gift books, pe
rused from a sense of duty to the
donor, from a desire to keep up
with the literature of the day, or
from the fear of being discovered
an ignoramus by the women she
dreads.
It is the book a woman marks
that is the only true index to her
character, says the Albany Ar
gus. This conclusion has been
arrived at after a long and per
sistent study of the sex.
A woman never marks a book
openly as a man does, w ith a flour
ish of marginal notes and refer
ences conveying the impression
that he is conversant with other
books besides this one. He who
has a pencil always handy will
think nothing of using it on any
and alt rwwasimiv
Rut a woman never owns a
pencil. If she does it is a cast-off
stnmp thrown aside by her hus
band or brother. Moreover, it is
never at hand when wanted. She
has always to institute a search
for it, and, as like as not, finds it
in the crevice of her sofa or tucked
away into a corner of her hand
kerchief box.
Do you begin dimly to perceive
what it means for a woman to
mark a book?
Her ardor, which glowed over
certain passages, has had plenty
of time to cool before the recre
ant pencil is found, and unless she
is very much in earnest she will
not use it even then. If she does
you have the inmost secrets of
her soul laid bare before you.
It is like entering the holy of
holies to read books that some
women have marked. It is a vio
lent rending asunder of the veil
which she hangs before the door
of her heart.
The marks with which a woman
scores her favorite passages at IS
will be effaced at 20. and she must
have changed but little to leave
those of 20 uneffaced at 25.
Very young girls will mark the
same passages in Lucile or Au
rora Leigh. "When a woman one*
feels that sin* is not alone” is the
one that receives the heaviest un
derscoring. A little later it be
comes a faint line, and "We muy
live without love—what is pas
sion but pining?” receives the pen
cil's approbation.
Women Chimney Sweeps.
A guild or union of women
chimnev-sweeps has been started
in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Its founder is the widow of a
sweep blessed with six daughters.
All seven belong to the guild and
and are active members. X’o
woman chimney sweep is to be less
than 14 years old nor more than
115, but girl assistants may be ad
mitted at eight years. As soon as
a sweep marries she must lave the
guild. All must sign the temper
auce pledge and be members of
the Orthodox (Greek) church.
Smoking Competition.
At a “smoking club” in Thail
fingen (Southern Germany) a com
petition was held, the object of
which was to smoke a cigar sis
long as possible without letting it
go out. The prize-winner smoked
his cigar 74% minutes, while none
of the other competitors’ records
was over one hour.
RIVALRY OF OLD FIDDLERS.
Pennsylvanians Who Play Only by
Ear Soon to Meet.
Tbe old fiddlers of Garrett
county have challenged the old
fiddlers of Pennsylvania to a fid
dling match, to take place in Cum
berland during the early winter,
says the Baltimore News, and to
be confined to those who play only
bv ear. Tart ini might well take
his honored dust and gather him
self together to join in the fu
rious applause sure to follow each
number. We can imagine Ysaye
venting his enthusiastic admira
tion in good broad Flemish, and
Kocian and Kubelik getting mad
and tearing up their programmes
for pure spite, while Joachim
stood outside and kicked the curb
stone with envious unrest. And
our own Maude Powell—it is easy
to understand how, could she but
hear the mingled melody of many
counties flowing down the hall
like a mountain stream tearing
its way over dead logs and jagged
bowlders—it is easy to under
stand how she might bite her lip
and toss her pretty nose con
temptuously aloft with chagrin at
the realization of her own com
parative1 insignificance. And all
the fiddlers of Pike county, Mo.,
and Bob Taylor, the fiddling Ten
nesseean who won his guberna
torial honors with the bow and
catgut—we can see them all now
demanding their money back at
the box office and drowning their
grief in Garrett county cider.
It would be pleasure to be there.
It would be the sweetest dream of
Elysium to look confidingly up
into the face of the champion
Quaker as he sawed defiance at
Garrett and all its prodigies of
artistic spontaneity. It would be
the delight of a lifetime to see a
sturdy Garrett countyite come
back at him, fearing nothing,
squaring his under jaw to the
task ahead of him and whirling
out “I’op Goes the Weasel” with
an enthusiasm little short of that
which absorbed the wicked soul
of Nero while the imperial city
was burning. Yes, let the old tid
dlers compete, by all means. It
is good for the community, and it
is better exercise than wielding
the scythe.
RUSSIAN ROBES.
Czar and Czarina Don Oriental Mag*
nificence of Other Days.
At the last three costume balls
given in the Winter Palace at St.
Petersburg the czar and czarina
of all the Russian have revived
the Russian costumes of the sev
enteenth century, such as the rude
predecessors of Peter the Great
wore at grand ceremonies, says
tlx* New York Tribune. These his
toric garments, upon which the
rarest diamonds, precious stones
and pearls scintillated among the
silks, velvets, precious furs and
golden embroideries, displayed
oriental magnificence.
The costume of the Empress
Alexandra Feodorovna weighs
nearly 33 kilograms, and the rich
ness of the jewels with which it is
ornamented is prodigious. Con
spicuous among them is one of the
most wonderful stones of the im
perial treasury, and closing the
long cloak of cloth of gold is a
ruby of most remarkable size.
Erect and sacerdotal in these ha
biliments of the sovereigns of the
past, under the massive closed
crown, not unlike the domes of the
orthodox churches, the empress
recalls those ancient statues of
the saints, all studded with gems
without price, that are to be seen
in the sanctuaries of the Kremlin.
The throne upon which the em
peror sits, wearing a kind of tiara
of fur and gems, is the throne of
Alexis Michailowitch, father of
Peter the Great.
Largest Telegraph Pole.
The largest telegraph pole in
England has been erected at Ilfra
combe. It is to be used for wire
less telegraphy experiments be
tween the Mumbles and Ilfra
combe. The height is 11G feet 3
inches. It has been placed at a
depth of G feet in solid rock.
Sound Warn Xot llollotr,
Air. Dennis was endeavoring to the best
of his ability to give the doctor a faith
ful account of ibis wife's symptoms, but
he found it uphill work.
“You say she has a cough,” said the
doctor. “Is it a hollow cough:”
Air. Dennis cast his eyes to the ceiling
: and then down to the ground, but found
no help anywhere.
“It may be a hollow cough,” he said,
humbly, “but there’s a great soobstance
to the sound of it, annyway.”—Youth's
Companion.
The Sunken Rook.
"I positively decline to have that young
Clippercut in my house again. His influ
ence on my son is most dangerous.”
“Why, my friend, he is far from being
a had fellow. He has his follies. I admit,
but how unlike such really vicious men
• s Grogster, Card-flip and Ponybaek!”
“Sir, the only danger of a sunken rock
is that it. is not sunk deep enough.”—From
Ernest Thompson Seton’a “'Fable and
Woodmyth.”
Rends Like n Miracle.
Friarspoint, Miss., Nov. 30.—The But
ler case still continues to be the talk of
the town. Air. G. L. Butler, the father
of the little boy, says:—
“The doctor said my boy had disease
of the spinal chord, and treated him for
two months, during which he got worse
all the time. Finally, the doctor told me
he did not know what was the trouble.
The boy would wake up during the night
and say that he was dying. He would be
nervous and trembling and would want
to run from the house, saying he saw ugly
things which frightened him. After we
liad tried everything else. 1 read an ad
vertisement of Dodd's Kidney Pills as a
cure for Nervous Troubles. I purchased
some and used them until he had taken al
together eight boxes', when he was sound
and well, with not a single symptom of
the old trouble. This was some month®
ago, and I feel sure that he is permanently
cured. We owe to Dodd’s Kidney Pills all
the credit fob his restoration to good
health.”
So Say We All.—AIc.ligger—"You don’t
mean to say you believe in divorce'.'”
Thingumbob—“Well, 1 do in the case of the
man who is wedded to his opinions.”—
Philadelphia Press.
Why Do We Die?
Vital statistics classified show the re
spiratory organs to be the feeble point
in man. Diseases of the lungs arc out
of all proportion in fatality. Take Tay
lor's ('herokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Alullein for coughs, colds and con
sumption.
At druggists, 25c., 50c., and $1.00 a
bottle.
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! ^“Bad luck nebber loafs on de way,” said
Uncle Ebcn, “an’ every time you fit's down
to complain, you gives it dat much mo’
chance to catch up."—Washington Jjtar.
Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. IT. Green’s
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. 1'be greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver
tisement in another column of this paper.
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Edith—“I believe he only married her for
her money.” Edna—“Well, he has eer- j
Uunly earned it.”—St. Raul Pioneer Press.
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Dumley—“By George! I believe Pm the
greatest fool in the world.” Synnex—“That
makes it unanimous.”—Boston Transcript.
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Do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
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F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. I
No circumstances can repair a defect of
character.—Emerson.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain the !
hands or spot the kettle, except green i
and purple.
Candor is the rarest virtue of sociability.
—fcternau.
ANOTHER LIFE SAVED.
Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Md.,
wife of G. W.
Fooks, Sheriff
of Wicomico
County, says:
‘‘I suffered
xv itli kidney
complaint for
eight years. I
felt tired and
xv c a k , was
shortof breath
and was trou
bled with bloat- j
ing after eat
S ing. and my limbs were badly swollen.
One doctor told me it would finally turn
to Bright's disease. I was laid up at
one time for three weeks. 1 had not
i taken Doan’s Kidney Pills more than
three days when the distressing aching
across my back disappeared, together
with the other symptoms.”
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Miss Muriel Armitage, 36 Green
wood Ave., Detroit, Mich., District
Organizer of the Royal Templars of
Temperance, in a recent letter, says:
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“I suffered for five years with
uterine irregularities, which brought
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out any perceptible change in my
condition. In my despair I called on
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I thought this was the least I could
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kept on taking it. I kept this up for
six months, and steadily gained
strength and health, and when I had
used fifteen bottles I considered my
self entirely cured. I am a grateful,
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Female Weakness is Pelvic
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Always Half Sick arc the Women
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h it she is far from being able to do her
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