One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 26, 1002.
i ItE SNOWBOUND THAIS
V Christmas Story — How Santr
m Claus Hanaged to Save
His Reputation.
The tram, puffing bravely ant:
pushing over the new road intr
the new and sparsely settled north
western part of Nebraska, was
one of that class commonly cal let
•'mixed.” It was made up of i
few box cars, and on the rear was
si combination passenger coach
The compartment ahead was tilled
with Cattlemen who smoked al
most as prodigiously as the htth
engine, and in the rear compart
raent were several woman,a clergy
man, two or three Omaha travel
iugmen ami a newspaper man wht
was going up into the “Hilts” ii
search of material for sketches.
The train was hours behind its
sctiedule time, and the passenger)
were grumbling and growling be
cause those living far up the lint
saw all hope of getting home ii
time to spend Christmas eve will
loved ones disappearing, It wa:
teriibly cold and the frozen snov
{drifted before the fierce norti
wind, heaping up huge banks ot
the curves and tilling the cuts leve
full. Every now and then the lit
tie engine would buck into a drift
shiver and stand still. Then i
would back off, take another rut
and drive still further into tin
drift. Usually the second or Ihirt
effort would clear the track am
the little engine would give i
shriek of triumph and gather speec
for the next one.
it was the day norm eLm list mai
—late in the day, too, for the sui
had dipped far into the southwresi
and already llie chill gray of tin
December twilight was over all
Wind the belated cattlemen m tin
smoking compartment said is not
necessary to relate. Hut they saic
their say in lund language tine
betokened easy familiarity with
the method of expression. Tin
traveling men and the newspapei
limn played ‘‘cinch” and “hearts-’
when not talking about the weath
er, and the women gazed out int<
the g:it tiering darkness and Inokei
gloomy.
Hut there was plenty of lifeanc
jollity in the car. A little, care
worn woman had two children
both girls, the eldest not moia
tlian nine years old and the young
or one about four. They rompec
up and down the car aisle, mak
ing frequent trips to the watei
coolei, and every time the brake
man came in to stir up the tire ii
the little stove they watched hilt
with chil lisb awe for Ins liras:
buttons and jaunty cap. They dit
not make friends resdiiy, bu
when spoken to replied bashfully
and sought refuge with the tlret
niother.
‘“Think we'll get through, olt
many” asked a traveling man o
I lie conductor.
“Don’t look like it. The drift
are getting deeper and we're likeb
to buck into one that will hob
us.
“Well, that’s what we get fo
venturing out the day befon
Christmas,” said another travel
iiigman. I wanted to go hone
for Christmas, but the house or
derod me to Chadron to sell a fei
low who's getting ready to open ;
new store.”
This set the men to talking am
the way they grumbled at not be
jug able to spend Christmas a
lioine was remarkable.
Just as the brukemun came in t<
light the lamps the train slowei
up with a jerk that threw tin
(lassengeis out of their s°ats, hik
fairly made the windows rattle
Then, instead of backing up tor i
yy stall, the train quivered fo
loment, and the whistle gave i
lairing wail. The brakemai
>d out, and when he returnet
ninutes later it was to re
igiit in u drift and tilt
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nearest station eleven miles off.”
When he went in and told the
cattlemen not eyen the thick par
tition and the closed door could
keep out the echos of their luiid
remarks.
“What are we to do?” asked
one of the women.
“We can’t do anything,” replied
the hrakeman. “We’s got to stav
here till a snow plow can get us
out, and that may be twenty-four
hours from now.”
This calamity produced a silence
that wus thick enough to cut with
a knife. Then one of the travel
ing men arose with the remark;
that he had a few tilings to say
that would much better be said
outside.
The idea < f spending the night
on the bleak prairie without sup
per or breakfast was enough to
daze every passenger.
“Wonder what them kid’s’ill
do?’’ whispered the luakeman.
But this query was answered
when the tired mother opened a
basket and began dealing out a
lunch to the little girls.
“Mamma, when will we get
home?’’ asked the oldest,
“Not tonight, dear.”
“Won’t we see papa tonight?”
“No, dear. We’ll have to stay
here in the car tonight, and we’ll
not see papa until morning.”
“liul what will Santa Claus do I
if we don’t get there?”
“Perhaps Santa will wait for
us ” said the mother. “We must
i not think about him, dears, until
I we get to papa.
One of the women went forward
and talked to the mother fora
t few minutes, and apparently learn
ed a part of the family’s history.
, At any rate she told the clergy
man that the mother and children !
were from Ohio, and that they \
were on their way to Chadron, i
where 'lie father had gone nearly
a year lief ore to take up a home
stead.
The children ate their lunch,
. played a while in the car aisle, and j
then began to grow sleepy.
“Mamma, can’t Santa Claus find
( us here on the train?” asked the
oldest. I
I’m afraid not, dear.”
“But can’t lie try, mamma?”
“I'm afraid lie'll look foi us
| where papa is.”
“But can’t we ban*- our stock
ings up here so s if lie comes he’ll
I know it’s us?”
“Yes, hut I'm afraid lie’ll not
. find them, dears.”
But the little ones insisted, and
j two little stockings were securely
pinned to the rack overhead, and
two little heads were soon pillow
I ed on the velvet cushions.
About K o’clock the cattlemen
came trooping hack, having been
I warned that the coal supply was
low and not sufficient to keep two
I stoves going for any great length
• of time- As they came in one \
orawny man happened to see the1
stockings and he stepped in sur-1
. pnse. He didn’t say a word, hut j
I pointed to them and smiled. The I
men gathered in the rear of the !
. compartment and talked in sub- j
, dued whispers. Finally one of
the traveling men went forward
, and talked to the mother, and
when he came hack he told a story
full of pathos. It was the old
( story of a man striving to make a
home on the frontier and encouut
I ering even more than one man’s
share of hardships. But he had
L managed to get enough money to
send for his family.
( “Them kid’s has got to have a
I Christmas !” ejaculated one of the i
, cattlemen.
“That's what!” said another.
Ami then there was sorre schem
ing. One of the tiaveling men
. represented a grocery house unu
{ he happened to have a few sam
ples of confectionery. These
I went into the “pot.” Another
fished up a couple »f pairs of
prettv gloves out ofijns sample
CContinued on taos two.)
H. S. FISHER
S FOR BARGAINS! S5
Capt. L. S. Arnold and John L.
Grosser spent Friday night at
Newport.
Burt Weaver, of Magness, was!
in town Monday and advanced his
subscription six months.
Misses Dora Long and Archie1
Fetzer visited friends at Sulphur
Rock Monday and Tuesday.
Attorney and Mrs. S. A. Moore
left Tuesday for Dos Are to spend
the holidays with relatives and
friends.
Miss Rose McHenry arrived
home from Conway last Saturday
where she has been attending Cen
tral College.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry McDonald,
who live a few miles north of town,
are rejoicing over the arrival of a
son, born unto them a few days
ago.
A citizen of Jacksonport, writ
ing to a citizen of Evening Shade,
expresses great confidence that
the Rock Island will build on the
survey made a few months ago.—
Sharp County Record.
Mrs. \V. D. Jackson and little!
son left Tuesday for Kennett, Mo.,
to spend the holidays with her
mother.
Thos. Jones, of Magness, made
The Journal a very pleasant call
while in town Saturday and re
ports everything quiet in his neigh
borhood.
Miss Archie Fetzer, who is
teaching the public school at Hind
man school house near Olyphant,
arrived home Sunday morning to
spend the holidays.
Oscar 13. Warren, of Black River
township, was in town the latter
part of last week with a drove of
85 line, fat hogs which he sold to
W. T. Magness t*t Son.
We were pleased to receive a
call Monday from our old friend,
,1. J. Caldwell, who has recently
returned from Park, Tex., where
he was in the drug business. Mr.
Caldwell was formerly in business
here, but moved to Texas last
spring. Owing to sickness and
other drawbacks he decided to re
turn home and disposed of his
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business and arrived home the lat
ter part of last. week. He and
Mrs. Caldwell are for the present
domiciled at Sulphur Rock.
A. L. Morrow has been nursing
a sore eye since his return from
Newark. We don't know how he
received it, but they seem to be
fashionable now-days. Dodd City
Enterprise.
We are glad to note that Jack
son & Barksdale are doing a good
business with their new livery
stable. They have 14 horses and
it is a very uncommon occurrence
to find one of them idle.
A colored citizen recently ac
costed treasurer E. L. Dickerson
and asked fora “stickin’ plaster.”
Mr. Dickerson promptly showed
him the clerk's office, where he
procured a license to wed.—Sharp
County Record.
Thos. Smith, the efficient section
foreman, transacted business at
Newport Saturday. Mr. Smith
has been in the employe of the
iron Mountain road lor 14 years
and during that time he has never
failed to draw a check on pay day.
M. It. Leggett, of Moorefield,
has recently bought some more
Big Bottom real estate and his
horse continues to occasionally
graze around the White school
house. It is said that when Mr.
Leggett gets down in this com
munity his horse will go to the
school house in spite of him.
Every cent of public money
spent on county roads is directly
beneficial to farmers and also to
people living or doing business in
the towns. Hence there ought to
be no opposition in town or coun
try to any measure calculated to
improve life avenues of traffic and
travel in the rural districts.—Farm
and Ranch.
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Arkansas Farm Land.
Arkansas farm land is advanc
ing in value by leaps and bounds.
Land that a few years ago went
begging for purchasers at $5 an
acre now finds ready sale at seven
and eight times that amount. One
of the great causes for this, out
side of the natural increase in
population, is the greatly improv
ed methods which are now being
introduced in the growing and
marketing of crops. Where farms
once paid their owners ti and 7
per cent on their money invested,
it is now no unusual case to tied
tracts ot hind which under high
cultivation return as high as 40
and 50 per cent. There are still
large bodies of undeveloped lands
in Arkansas, that only wait for
cultivation and improvement m
order to return to their owners
heavy dividends. To the pros
pective investor in farm land Am
ansas offers today the best induce
ments of any state.—Little Rock
Republican.
Deafness Cannot be Cured,
by loc.-i 1 applications as they cau
not reach the diseased portion of
the eat. Theie is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is b> con
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inil.lined condition
of the mucous lining of the Eus
tachian Tube. When this tube is
inflamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it
is entirely closed, Deafness is the
result, and unless the inflamma
tion can be taken out and this
lube restored to its normal condi
tion, hearing will be destroyed for
evet; nine cases out of ten are
caused by CatarrIC which is noth
ing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces. Wo will give
One Hundred Dollars for any case
of Deafness, (caused by catarrh)
that cannot becuied by Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure. Send for circulars,
free. F. .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio. &gjgpf Druggists, Too.
11*1,1’* Family Pills are the best.
PUSH THINGS
Nothing is “Well Enough” a
We Should Always be flak
ing Improvments.
The fact that men, liko monk
eys, are imitators, does not prove
that they are descended from
catarrhines or Simiadue Perhaps
it proves, merely, that they readi
ly learn from observation and
ample, and really this is mucbfto
the credit of the mrtre intelligent
animal—man. Animals mar imi
tate man, but it is an unreasoning
process from which they learn
nothing. Here is where the man
has an advantage over the monk
ey, and in consequence of which
scientists have added to the gene
ric name ttie specific one of “Sa
piens.” When man imitates man,
be does it for a purpose, and car,
give reasons for so doing, if it
were not for this reasoning and
imitative faculty there would lie
but little progress in human af
fairs. it is true that men are
prone to imitate bad as well as
good examples, but this is not the
side of the question we wish to
discuss. Precept is feeble com
pared with example. It is what
men do, rather than what they
say that works for woe or weal.
But when precept and example
coincide, then the power of the
combination is great. The great
est power on <tilth for the good
f.f the race is that of a good ex
ample. it applies to men in every
walk of life. For want of exam
ples of better tilings farmers iivA
a crude and irksome life, content'1'^ ^
with enough plain food t<» sustain
the physical powers required by
the daily labor, and raiment and
habitation sufficient to protect
against rain and frost, with rarely
a thought or hope for any of the
luxuries of life. It is different
now, but would not be different
if no examples of better living
had not been shown. In a com*
runity we do not trust to >• sin
gle exemplar, however exalted,
but we rather select for imitation
a feature here and another there.
Neighbor A, inaugurates a reform,
(which lie has obseived in some
other neighbor.) We observe it,
pronounce it good, and imitate it.
Neighbor B. does a thing we
prove, and straightway we d<^
same. “Here a little there
tie,’* we are enabled to
late a fund of rational re I
lion that if properly ufl
changes the current of life i^
new channel where we
smoother sailing than w<
thought possible. We huv*^
cases where a single tail
a few years revol
economy in an enj
hood, so that when!
tion prevailed, then
emulation that lias
plane of life from
level of “let wi
to one wire*
enoujJHtiw
The improvement would
inoi # rapid
tied more ready to obsen
adopt that which their judgment
approves. Open eyes are as neces
sary as receptive minds. Farm
life is not what it once was. Fol
lowing the example of people liv
ing in towns, many of the acces
sories of civilization are penetrat
ing the backwoods and making
city suburbs of the legions be
yond. We have seen may wonder
ful transformations in recent years
but the greatest wonders are for
the future. What has been done
is merely a foretaste of that which
we may expect. Free mail dclive
I ry and rural telephones we now
have in many places. And the
time may come wheu we will Lave
good, hard country roads every
where—the greatest improvement
of all.—Texas Farm and Kaueh.
The Journal one year $1.