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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. ARKANSAS, ERIDAY JUNE 6, 1W2.
Vol. 2 No. 23.
PREDICTS CIVIL WAR
William J. Bryan Predicts That
Internal Stife Between Poli
ticians Will Precipitate
Civil War in Cuba.
“1 predict that Cuba will be the
scene ot civil war, that internal
strife growing out of the dissen
sions among the political leaders
will tempoiarily paralyze the in
dustries of the island.”
Such is the opinion formed by
William J. Bryan, as the result of
his recent trip to Cuba
In an article prepared for pub
lication Mr. Bryan says:
“That the people of Cuba are
capable or sett-government is not
a question open for dispute. Hen
ry Cluy declared, in his defense
of the independence of the South
American republics, that God
never made a people incapable of
self-government; that it was the
doctrine of thrones and a reflec
tion on Jehovah to say that He
created people incapable of self
government and left them to the
government of kings and emper
ors. Clay’s logic is sound.
“Capacity for government is
not a thing to he acquired or to
be bestowed ; it is inherent in the
poople. As individuals differ in
wisdom, in self restraint and in
moral oharaeter, so nat ions differ,
but it cannot lie said that any na
tion lias reached perfection in the
science of government or in t he
ait of administration ; neither can
it be said that any nation is so low
down in the scale of civilization
that it needs a foreign master.
“Cuban independence will not
give the people a government
free from fault, but it will give
them a government as good
as * bey deserve to have—a
gnvernmcTit that will improve as
the people themselves make prog
ress in virtue and intelligence,
“Free government does not
mean that every citizen will have
just such a government as lie
wants { it simply means that the
people will have such a govern
ment as the majority desire, and
that each individual oan present
hi* views to his fellows with the
confidence that whatever :s best
for all will ultimately prevail.”
Ready to Yield.
“I used DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Halve for piles and found it a cer
tain cure,” says S. R. Meredith,
Willow drove, Del. Operations
unnecessary to cure pile- They
always yield to DeWitts \\ itch
Hazel Salve. Cures skin diseases ;
all kinds of wounds. Accept no
counterfeits, J. I. 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- C., have made a big
cat in the price for obtaining
putents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get the best
work should write them while
the cut prices prevails.
Leads Them AH.
*‘One Minute Cough Cure beats
all other medicines I ever trieJ
for coughs, colds, croup and
throat and lung troubles,” says
D. Scott Currin of Loganton. Pa,
One Minute Cough Cuie 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
lives too late. It yields at once to
One Minute Cough Cure. Pleas
ant to take. Children like it. Sure
cure foi grip, bronchitis, coughs.
J. I. Sturdivant.
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The End of the World.
The Seventh Day Adventists
who believe, among other things,
fa the second coming of Christ,
and a subsequent end to the world,
see proof of their beliefs uud Bible
prophecies in the recent seismic
and volcanic disturbances in South
America and the West Indies.
Consequently they are preparing,
by means of frequent prayer and
religious services, to meet their
Saviour and follow him to heaven,
when the world is no more. Daily
and nightly services are being held
in all their churches ; sermons are
preached on the subject by their
pastors, and all members are ex
horted to cleanse themselves ot
sin and prepare to meet their
Maker, They believe that the re
cent calamities are only ttie begin
ning of the fultillmeiitof the Bible
prophecy that mountains will level,
islands will he submerged, and
the earth will tremble before the
end, and they claim that the earth
will be disintegrated and return to
its original chaotic state, and that
all life will be distroyed. Many
of them are making house-to-house
canvasses, exhorting every one to
read the Bible, pray and repent.
It is pointed out by several of
the leaders that about a month
ago, during an assembly in this
city, several men had predicted
that the signs of the end of the
world, as set forth in the Bible,
would begin during the present
month. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Spring Fever.
Spring fever is another name j
for biliousness, it is more seii-j
ous than most people think. A
toipiJ liver and inactive bowels
mean a poisoned system. If neg
lected, serious illness may follow
such symptoms. i>e\Vitt’s Little
Early Risers remove all danger
by stimulating the liver, opening
the bowels and cleansing the sys
tem of impurities. Safe pills.
Never griue. ‘‘I have taken De
Witt’s Little Early Risers for lor
i pid liver every spring for years,"
writes R. M. Everly, Moundsville.
1 W, Ya. ‘'They do me more good
tlnn anything I have ever tried."
,J. 1. Sturdivant.
Resented the Question.
Representative Williams of
Mississippi, 1ms a new negro
| story.
“Are you the defendant ?" a?k
ed a man in the court room,
speaking to an old negro.
“No boss,” was the reply. “1
ain’t done nothing to be called
names like that. I'se got a lawyer
here who does the defensing.’’
“Then who are you?’’
“I’se the gentleman what stole1
the chickens.”—Washington Post!
War on Tamale Vendors.
The police are making war on
the lusty-lunged hot tamale veil-'
dors who frequent the residence
districts after bed time. Of late,
the authorities have received
many complaints from citizens
whose slumbers are rudely dis
turbed by the stentorian cry of
r-e-d h-o-t” in the stilncss of the
night. One arrest has already
been made and the offender was
assessed a tine of $a for disturb
ing the peace.—Little Rock (ia
gette,
A Real Friend.
*4 suffered from dvspepsia and
indigestion for fifteen years,”
says W. T. Sturdevant of Merrv
Oaks, N. 0. “After I hid tried
many doctor.-) and medicines to no
avail one of my friends persuad
ed me to try Ivodol. It gave im
mediate relief. I can cat almost
anything I want now and my di
gest ion is good. I cheerfully rec
ommend Kodol.” Don’t try to
cure stomach trouble by dieting.
That only further weakens the
system. You need wholesome,
strengthening food. Kodol enables
you to assimilate what you eat by
digesting it without the stomach’s
aid J L Sturdivant,
AN OBSOLETE CUSTOM.
Usa of Nicknames No Longer Common in
Washington Life.
“An old custom of the old Wash
ingtonians,” said an old-timer to a
Washington Star writer, “has become
almost obsolete in the past few dec
ades. I allude to that of bearing
nicknamc-s, and I am sure that those
of the present generation would le
horrified were they to hear how we
addressed each other when we were
young men. No matter how old a man
was, or what his position, he was
spoken of, if not addressed, by his
cognomen.
“We applied to each other some
names offensive to the subject, but for
the most part they were borne good
naturedly. Even members of congress
were included, and so were high gov
ernment officials. The department
clerks to some extent enjoyed the cus
tom, and while most of them re
sponded to the call of Jack. Bill or
Dick, when an opprobrious prefix was
used resentment followed.
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POISON^S. CONSUMPTION.
Remarkable Results from Injection ot
Formic Aldehyde.
Is successful war being waged on
consumption by poison? The savants
have been experimenting lately in an
entirely new direction in their search |
for a cure fur the disease,, and with '
such results as to raise the highest
hopes. The tubercular bacilli are be
ing poisoned in the lungs by an in- j
genious injection of a solution of
formic aldehyde, and in many cases |
already, it is stated, absolute cures
have been effected. Patients who
were once regarded as consumptives
of the most hopeless class have, fol
lowing the treatment, been accepted
by life insurance companies as “lirst
ciass lives.”
i ne inventor tu tilt new treatment, j
according to the Jxmdon Mail, is- I >r. ;
llobert Maguire, the consumptive spe
cialist and physician to the Bronipton
hospital. Some time ago i )r. Maguire
determined to attack the bacilli in a i
new way. The antiseptics hitherto
used had to be so mild as not to in
jure the stomach, where they under
went such further dilution as to be
practically worthless. So with hypo
dermic injections; while pricking the
lungs was risky and not to be too j
often repeated. Dr. Maguire there-j
upon decided on injection into the j
veins, and after lengthy and anxious
search lie selected formic aldehyde
as the injection. The hole in the |
punctured vein near the elbow is so,
small that it voluntarily heals up j
without treatment after each opera-j
lion.
The solution of one in 110.000 of
formic aldehyde is fatal to the tuber- i
cular bacilli. If, then, such a solu
tion can be introduced into the blood
vessels and the lungs sluiced with it,
the cure is apparently accomplished.
But would the heart stand the poison ?
It. was found that an original solu
tion of one in 2,000, which was re
duced by assimilation to one in 100,
U00 on reaching the right ventricle,
could he freely employed, while solu
tions of one in 1,000 and one in 500
have been used with perfect safety.
The lungs are impregnated for the
space of about 25 heart heats, and in
the great majority of experiments the
effect has been pretty much what was
expected. The solution is a pure
germicide, and the bacilli have been
exterminated. The consumption spe
cialists. remembering previous pre
mature conclusions, have a proper re
luctance to calling anything a con
sumption cure until its efficacy is be
yond all doubt. There is. however,
luirdly any other word than ‘'cure”
to dcscril); some of the results which
have been achieved. In many cases,
after only about six weeks’ or two
months’ treatment at the most, such
cavities as had been formed in the
lungs had healed up, and every trace
of the bacilli had disappeared. That
is to say, such a cure had. been ef
fected that if the patient then submit
ted himself to another medical man
ignorant of what had taken place the
latter would indubitably declare that
the patient had never had consump
tion at all. Take an instance, one of
the most remarkable imaginable.
Some time ago a young-man, a bank
clerk, came for Dr. Maguire’s treat
ment. lie was in one of the last stages
of consumption. In less than two
months from that date there was not
a traco of consumption abo;r him,
and, most convincing tee; of all, he
was accepted bv an insurance cilice as
a firA-class life!
‘Lying Bill,’ ‘Ugly Bill,’‘Crazy Bill/
‘Dirty Bill,’ etc., and those v\ith such,
names were easily found ; but, as may
be supposed, ‘Bill’ only was used when
the person was personally addressed.
There was one who bore the name of
‘Peacocky,’ from the fact that his car
riage paaiel bore a gorgeous repre
sentation of the bird. Another was
‘All-over B—,’ from an incident in a
theater. Physical infirmity was the
origin of some nanus, ‘Peglegs’ and
‘Hippity-Hops’ in some sections,
while‘One-eyed’ and ‘Cock-eyed’ were
common prefixes in other places.
‘‘When one realizes that the nick
names are now rarely used, and that in
old times even respectable ladies were
known as ‘(linger’ and ‘Vinegar
Crust’ respectively, because of their
dispositions, he feels that in manners
and customs the community is on the
improve.”
They’re all There.
Take a walk through the cem
etery alone and you will pass the
last resting pi ice of the man who
blew into the nmzzel of a gun to
see if it was loaded. A little fai
ther down the slope is tl e crank
who tiied to show how close he
could pass in front of a moving
train. In strolling about you see
the modest monument of the
hired gi11 who tried to start the
tire with kerosene, and a grass
covered Kind that covers the hoy j
who put acorn cob under a mule's
tail. The shaft over the man who
blew out the gas casts a shadow
over the boy who went to the 4th
of July picnic and ate too much
ice cream. Side bv side
t he
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her corset laced to the last hole,
and the inteligent idiot who lode
a bicycle 'J miles in 10 minutes,
sleep oil undisturbed. At repose
is the doctor who took a dose of
his own medicine and there with
a shoe boxdiivcu over his head
is the rich old man who married
a young wife. Away over there
reposes the lawyer who tiied hard
to defend'the old maid in a breach
of promise suit and the woman
who kept strychnine and powders
in the cubboard. The man who
stood in front of a mowing mach
ine to oil the cycle is quite now
and rests beside the lueakniaii
who fed himself into a 70-ton en
gine, and over near the fence may
be seen the last resting place of
the man who tried to lick the
editor,—Ex.
Subscribe for the Journal.
Friendship.
As long as a man is prosperous
and lias money he can’t keep
friends off with a baseball hat.
The moment he i-> unfortunate
and his wealth gone, he is not
only snubbed by his alleged
friends, but they at once begin to
do him all the harm possible.
When a man starts up grade, the
world fails behind and pushes.
When he starts down the world
steps aside and greases the track.
An Old Relic.
The Citizen has a copy of the
tir-A issue of the Arkansas Ga
zette. The date is November •>(),
1819. Wm. K. Woodruff's name
appears in the date line. “Ark
ansas Ter.” appears in tho same
line, in parentheses, 'l'lio sub
seription price was cash, or St
if paid at the end of liie year.
Thu date of the foreign news is
July 3. This means that m those
days news four and a half months
old was new news. Contrast the
present facilities with those of
that time and it is marvelous to
note the great progress. The Ga
zette of that date contrasted the
great advantages enjoyed, along
the newspaper line, with that of
: early Homan antiquities. On that
day (November 2U, 1819), “an
.election was held throughout the
territory or' Arkansas to fleet omr
delegate to congress, one member
of the legislative council am! two
members of tlu* house of repres
en1 at i vt*s to rep resent each eouuiv
in the lir^t legislature of this ter
ritoiy.” The Gazette of today is
the healthful offspring of this
miniature sheet, ami keeps up
with the onward and upward
march of the state. Mrs,I. M,
Stovall of Cabot, wtio is here on
a visit, presented this old relic to
us for perusal. She prizes it
highly as her late husband did for
many years.—N*nrcv Citizen.
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The Journal, $1 per year.
CUTTING DIAMONDS.
What a Jeweler Says of Discovery of a
New System.
“I see in some papers that a new
way of cutting diamonds hasbeendis
coverid,” says a je weler. “There are
almost as many new ways of cutting
diamonds discovered as systems to
heat the bank at Monte Carlo, and
they are about us successful. As a
matter of fact, diamond cutting lias
been reduced to an exact science. The
two best-known systems are the bril
liant and rose cuts. To obtain the
greatest possible brilliance with the
least waste stones are brilliant-cut—
that is, cut with a Hat top, or ‘table/
as it is called. Rose-cut stones are
c ut without the top table and are Hat
in back. A bigger diamond can be j
produced by rose-cutting than by
brilliant-cutting, but it will not pos
sess half the brilliance of the latter.
Ko.-e diamonds aroused largely in in
trusted jewelry.” I
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SHE ENJOYED THE OPERA.
But the Music Was the Least Part of
the Entertainment.
lie—Well, did you enjoy the even
ing?
She—Indeed I did. We went to the
optra.
11 e—Of course you enjoyed it ?
She—Immensely”.
lie—What did you hear?
She—What did I hear? Well, what
didn’t I hear? I heard that N ell "\ an
derdyke is engaged to Tom Drowning
and that .Jack Rentsarelow and Edith
Singleton have quarreled and arc not
going to be married after all. Then I
heard that Mrs. Tenbroke is going to
gc-t a divorce from her husband. Mrs.
Thorndyke has been sued by her dress
maker. The Livingstons have a baby.
Count Cantukount is not a count at
all. The Thompson boys—
IT e—But—
She—Well, don’t interrupt me. I
thought you wanted to know what I
heard?
lie—So I did,but—
She—Well, keep still,then. I—
lie—What I meant was, what opera
dir* you hear?
She—Oh—well, I’m sure I can’t re
member, but I saw the name on the
programme.—London Tit-Bits.
me Silver Lining.
A country vicar sonic tfrne ago took
into his service a youth as home-boy.
The lad, in spite of the reverend gen
tleman’s frequent admonitions, was
so slow in his movements that the
worthy gentleman was at last con
strained to make a complaint to his
mother. “I've spoken to him several
times,” said he, “hut, really, he ap
pears to get slower andslower.” “Yes,
vicar,” agreed his mother, smiling,
“Alfred was alius like that.” "But,”
rejoined the vicar, “it is nothing to
be amused at; at’s a serious thing for
a boy to get iutosuch habits—a mat
ter to worry over.” “I used to think
so myself, wiear,” said the old lady,
“until one Sunday you preached a
sermon adwitin’ us alius to look at
the bright side o’ thing.-, then 1 start*
| td to look at the shiny side of Alfred.
and thinks I,‘Well, hemay be terribly
i steady in his movements, but there's
one comfort: if that there boy hap
pened to hev ben a Lor.-e and cart,
the man as owned him would never be
afraid of beingsummonsed forfurious
I driving.' ”—London Tit-Bits.
His Chief Ambition.
An Atchison young man who gets
up at 5:30 every morning, says his
principal ambition in life is to get
rich enough to throw an alarm dock
through a plate glass window.—At
chison Globe. ----
WILLTHEY EXPLAIN?
Sqire Tharp Asks Some Pertinent
Questions Concerning Recent
Actions of the County
Central Committe.
To 11 jo Editor of The Journal.
The undersigned, a citizen, tax
payer and democrat, of Big Bot
tom township, Independence coun
ty, Arkansas, would respectfully
ask any one, more especially the
majority of the democratic eount.\
central committee, us rendered at
it 's meeting on May 24, 1902, to
explain to the satisfaction of all
true democrats, the grounds for
their actions in regard to the pri
mary of March 29, 1902.
1 notice from the report of the
canvassing committee, consisting
of .1. B. Gray, G. H. Thompson,
L. «J. Brncy and J. A. Kaneaster,
that at their meeting to recount
the votes of the county, the re
turns from the following town
ships had been tampered with, to
wit: Ashley, Barren, Big Bottom,
Greenbrier, Union and Washing
ton.
>\ow, i wouiu iiKC 10 Know up
on wliat grounds this majority of
the central committee base their
decision. This canvassing com
mittee showed by their report that
the returns from six townships
counted out different from the first
returns, but still, this majority, by
their actions of May 24, exoner
ated five of these townships and
said by their actions that Big Bot
tom township (the only one in the
county in the days of need that
never failed to return a safe dem
ocratic majority) was responsible
| for this fraud.
I have conversed with numer
I ous democrats in various town
ships of the county, and I believe,
from the general sentiment of all
true democrats, that an explana
tion is necessary from the parties
who are responsible for this un
democratic act.
I have always voted the demo
cratic ticket since I attained my
majority and have advocated dem
ocratic principles, but if the action
of the majority of our democratic
county central committee of May
124 is democratic, I have been
wrongfully taught.
Hoping that this will not be of
fensive to any one, but that it may
bring forth the necessary explana
tion. and without this explanation
I (and, I believe, all true demo
crats) will believe there ha* been
a wrong done.
Fraternally submitted,
.John T. Tharp.
Tragedy in Texarkana.
Texarkana, May 30.—Hall Wal
ker, colored, proprietor of a neg
ro. boarding house on West Broad
.street, known ns the “Big Four,”
was shot and killed by his wife,
Ellen, this morning. The woman
used a thirty-eight, calibre revol
ver, shotting her victim first in
the mouth, next in the head ami
last through the body.
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Notice of Examination.
Notice is hereby given that there
will he a public examination of
teachers at Batesville, Ark., the
119th and 20th days of Juue, 1902,
to ascertain the professional
qualifications of all persons de
siring to teach m the public,
schools of Independence county.
J A. Wilkes,
County Examiner,
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Account commencement at the
Arkansas State University at Fay
etteville .Tune Id to 19, the Iron
^ Mountain route will sell tickets to
Fayetteville at one faro for round
trip for all stations on the line in
Arkansas. Tickets on sale June
15 to IS inclusive, with final re
turn limit to and including Juue
20.
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