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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1904.
ISLANDS ON EVERY HAND
Cruise in Northern Waterways Great*
ly Impresses Writer—Contrasts
\ with Other Groups.
Jerome Hart writes in the Chi
«ago Daily News; “1 never heard
auy particular pother made over
Uie number of the Scandinavian
Islands. I had often heard of the
fiords,never of the islands. There
fore, I was surprised when we
sailed through the endless isles ot
granite piercing through steel
colored swirls of sea. For the
islands around the coasts of Den
mark, Sweden and Norway and
thence aeross the Gulf of Bothnia
and the Gulf of Finland are liter
ally endless and they are all of
primitive granite. There an
great islands, small islands, little
islands, islets, rocks, pinnacles
and needles. Thousands of them
are nameless, although all seem to
Tie charted. Coming from tie
North cape down to the coast of
Norway through the Skager rack
the Kattegat, past Copenhagei
and up into the strait betweei
Gotland and Sweden, 1 believe tin
^Hhips must pass through scores
■of thousands of islands. In on.
-group alone lying off Stockholm
the Alands islands, there are o\ei
300 on t he chart.
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groups of islands is that through
which the vessel passes from the
open Baltic sea to the harbor of
Stockholm.” centinued Mr. Hart.
“I cannot even guess how manv
there are in the group. Fora
couple of hours \on steam through
those inland waterways, island
after island—to starboard, t
port, ahead and astern—islands
moving rhythmically around you
-as far as eye can see—in apparent
parallelograms, then lengthen
ing into rhombs, then diamond
wise, like the frc“s in a vast Tali
fornia orchard. The comparison
is not a forced one. for each island
is wooded so that it looks like a
large bunchy tree. Masses of
granite as the islands are. t In
birches and tirs find a footing on
-them in little patches of soil in
the rocky crevices. These islands
are so rocky that the people have
constructed steps of wood or iron
in every direction over them, as
the foothold is insecure on the
smooth and slippery rock.”
Contrasting these many islands
with famous groups nearer home,
Mr. Hart writes: “I had often
heard of the Sr. Lawrence's
Thousand islands, yet when I tirs'
sailed on the St. Lawrence I was
disappointed in the number of is
lands, numerous as they an-.
When I mentioned this to a Cana
diau acquaintance the reproach
"fill reply came from the Canuck:
‘Well, anyway, there are nearly
300 of t hem.’ ”
Best Brain Wins.
The Japanese are well-informed
.and wait steadily with wouderfu
•self-control *iintil their prepara
iions for the grand attack arequitt
complete. It is in brain that they
Tbeat the Russians, whose soldiers
4lie in heaps with their old hero
ism, and who suffer less in mnrnU
from defeat than more mobile 01
better commanded troops. The;
are there to die for the czar, am
they do their duty with a splendk
untlinchingness which rivals tha
of the Japanese.—London Specta
tor.
YOUNG LADY BURNED
TO DEATH AT SEARCY
Miss Addie Norwood Lost Her Life in
a Fire Which Destroyed Her
Father's Barn.
Miss Addie Norwood, daug! tor
of X. ,J. Norwood, was burned to
death in a barn at their home in
the east part of Searcy Wednesday
afternoon of last week. Then1
were only three members of the
family—Mr. Norwood, his wife
and his daughter. Mrs. Norwood
was away from home for the day,
and Mr. Norwood had been gone
from his home about thirty or for
ty minutes when his barn was dis
covered by some of his neighbors
to be on fire. It was soon found
that his daughter was missing, and
it was believed that she was in the
burning building, but it was im
possible to determine whether such
was a fact until the building was
consumed by the flames, when her
charred remains were found in the
ashes. It is not known how the
lire started, but there is a suppo
sition that the young lad.v had
been engaged in burning some
leaves in the yard and that she
caught lire and unconsciously ran
into the barn for safety. This is
merely conjecture, however.
Robbery and Arson at Alicia.
Alicia. Ark.. Dec. 10. People
living at Alicia were awakened
, this morning by an explosion
which, it was soon learned, had
been made in an attempt by burg
lars to wreck the safe in the store
building of Allen A Mosel.v, a
prominent mercantile firm. The,
explosion is supposed to have set
lire to the store, though the rob
bers may have done this to cover
their tracks. While the crooks
secured no booty the store was
soon in flames, and the offenders
made their escape without being
seen.
Two men are thought to have
done the work. The store and
stock were valued at £»j,0{)0 and
were partially protected. $1,000
insurance being carried.
The Way to Prosper at Home.
Better farming and Isss acreage
si ould be the motto of every
thoughtful soil tiller. Stop mov
ing to new sections to obtain fresh
land, as the land you now have is
doing more for you than you are
doing for the land. Turn up new
soil-, on tin* old farm; put twenty
tons of stable manure per acre, sow
clover, cow peas, soy beans, or
alsike clover, and next fall inocu
late alfalfa seed and sow five acres
of alfalfa, and that will convert
your old lands into a new farm,
and prosperity will smile on you,
Southern Agriculturist.
In a difficulty between an age
man named Doe Field and or:
Hinson near Dardanelle Saturda
^ evening, a brother of Field’s rus|
. ed up and stabbed Hinson in tl
side with a knife, inflicting a dai
: gerous wound.
ARKANSAS MILITIA MAY
ATTEND INAUGURATION
Gen. Haynes Informed That Part of
Regiment, at Least, May be Tak
en to Washington March 4.
There is a possibility that a part
of t'ne Arkansas State Guard will
be taken to Washington to partic
ipate in the ceremonies connected
with the inauguration of President
Roosevelt March 4. Major Gen
eral Haynes, commander of the
state guard, stated recently that
he had received information which
led him to believe that at least a
part of a regiment would be taken
to W ashington at that time.
‘‘It is possible," said General
Haynes, “that an entire regiment
can be taken to Washington, al
though it may be that only one or
two battalions can be taken. In
the latter cast', of course, the best
drilled, best officered and best
equipped companies would be
chosen. Preceding the selection'
of the companies an inspection
would be held and every company
should begin to get in shape for
the trip to the national capital,
where they will necessarily have
to show up with the l>est troops in
the country. Arkansas need have
no fears in this regard, however,
since the Arkansas company car
ried oil the honors at St. Louis.
35,000 MEMBERS IN ARKANSAS
There sire two sets of farmers
organizations in Arkansas, and a
number of other states. One is
the American Sons of Equity,
which held a state meeting in Lit
tle Hock in October, and the other
i> tlie Farmers’ Educational and
Co-operative Union. Each has a
large and growing membership in
this state. The F. E. C. U. will
probably have a state meeting at
no distant day. One of the mem
bers of that union, who lives in
Lafayette county, has started a
movement for a state organization.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Items of General Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.
An improvement district has
been formed at (iravett tor the
purpose ol' putting in waterworks.
Walter, the little son of Mr.
and Mrs. Low, of Fort Smith, b
dead, as the result of injuries re
ceived by the explosion of a can
j of gasoline.
Jasper Norris of Purdy was
kicked on the head by a mule re
cently. Five pieces of his skull j
have been removed since then and
! i
be is recovering.
Low Poevy, who was indicted i
I for murder in the first degree by
, the special grand jury at Van Bur
■ en Monday as the result of thej
killing of Scott Weese in a saloon
tight at Alma, is now confined in
* the county jail at' Van Buren,
- awaiting the convening of circuit
court December 11*.
WIPE OUT ALL LAWS AND BEGIN ANEW
Jefferson County Representative Has Novel Scheme
to Keep the Arkansas Legislature in Ses=
sion ail of Next Summer.
Representative-elect Sterling M.
Miller of Jefferson county will
make an effort to repeal all laws
i on the statute hooks of Arkansas.
In a statement made at Texarka
na recently he said:
“I am going to present a bill in
the Legislature repealing all the
laws now in force on the statute
books. 1 find that the digest is
full of laws that are dead letters
and which no one ever attempts to
enforce. They simply burden the
records and are of no earthly val
ue.
“I would begin by adopting the I
Constitution for the foundation
and then enact such laws as are
necessary. Many acts on the stat
ute books, could, of course, be re
enacted. 1 want to relieve the
records of the unnecessary and
confusing laws which now appear
in them and commence all over
again.”
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