The Newark journal.
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 38.
passing of the horse
VVestern Farmers Discarding the
Horse For Traction Gaso
line Engines.
‘‘llio farmhand’s finish is in
plain sight,” said a man who had
just returned from the West, re
ports a New York paper. “And
the farm hor»e is headed down
the same pike. In their stead is
coming (lie lilt le choo choo engine
of the traction type.
“Out in the prairie region the
tendency is all toward lug farms,
j he agricultural unit out there
lias been the quarter section of
100 acres.
“Few of the fanners are satis
fied now with such a small hunch
of laud, and they are reaching out
all the time for more. Wheat
nrd corn have been topping the
market at such prices that nearly
every fellow is crazy to go into
raising them on a good lug scale.
And I hey have the money and the
intelligence to do it and to do it
pmlitably.
a*t»
'Fight here is where invention
comes on. On the ordinary farm,
where two or three men with the
fame number of teams ot horses
can do all the work, it isn’t really
necessary to call on the machine
man for artificial aid, lmc when
the farming is done on a big scale
itpiys better to buy a traction
engine. These are not the ordi
nary big clumsy attachments to
threshing outfits, but compactly
built little fellows, with gasoline
as t lie mot ivc power.
•'Willi then: there is no need of
getting out at ungodly hours in
the morning to feed and water a
lot of animal.-.. Five minutes’
work tills ihe tank and makes the
machine ready to do vour plow
ing, l arrowing or cultivating.
•'"he first cost of these engines
js pretty steep, from $1,000 up,
but it costs ler.? to run tnem than
it does to feed horses, and they
never get balky. They la -1 long
er than the average workhorse
and they do ten times as much
work in a day.
"Out in Nebraska 1 ran across
a fellow with a gang plow, live in
a row, in died to one of these
little engines, and it was steadily
moving across the 100-acre field
tearing up the sod at a lively rate.
Tins same man told me tli.it when
it came to harrowing he tacked
mi two or three big ones and did
the job in a fourth of the former
time.
‘’When it comes time in the
Fall to thresh the engine is coup
[WOMAN’S RELIEF
I A really healthy woman has lit
jtle pain or discomfort at hie
I menstrual period. No woman
I needs to have any. Wine of
ICardui will quickly relieve those
[smarting menstrual pains and
[the dragging head, back and|
side aches caused by falling of
fthc womb and irregular menses.
WINE°fCA?19U1|
has brought permanent relief to
1,000,000 women who suffered
every month. It makes the mcn-|
strual organs strong and healthy.
It is the provision made by Na-J
ture to give women relief from*
the terrible aches and pains which
blight so many homes.
Greenwood, La., Oct. 14,1S00.
I have been very sick for some time.
I was taken with’ a eevoro pain in my
side and could not pet any relief untL
I tried a bottle of Win” < f Cardui. Ito
fore I had taken all of it I was relieved
I foe-1 it my duty to say that you have a
wonderful medicine.
Mita. M. A. VouNT.
j Fr.r' A,-;rc S7I(| iitfraiur--. address. pivin? nymp
I torus,“The Ladies’ Advisory 1 ippartmem, Toe
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Clutuanooga, Tenn.
led to a separator and tl>e job is
done in shot order. If it is
necessary during the winter to
grind feed for the cattle it is the
work of hut a few minutes to tire
it up and start the mill. When
grain is to lie hauled to market
several farm wagons are attached
and the procession moves off.
“There is scarcely a thing about
farm work that these machines
will not do, and they ate growing
mote popular every year. The
average farmer thought the actfie
of comfort and perfection had
been reached in the sulky plow
and the riding cultivator, which
saved him many weary steps, and
it lias not been without consider
able trouble that he has been in
duced to take up the traction en
gine.
“Hundreds of these ar^ now
being manufactured and sold every
year. It doesn’t take long to
learn this, and the cost of keep
ing one running is only a few
cents an hour.
“Sixty-cent wheat and 50 cent
corn are making western farmers,
where 30 bushels of wheat and 50
of corn is an average yield, inde
pendently rich. A hundred acres
of wheat is an ordinary Hold, and
this alone is enough to net a good
income oh the investment.
*'A hunch or critic will pay tlie
expenses, and his other crops are
velvet. Tire result lias been to
run up tlie price of land.
“Tracts that sold for $25 two
years ago bring $40 and $45, and
$50 land of past years is easily
marketable at $50 and $(!0. The
liTe is much easier, the work is
not nearly so hard, nor the hours
so long.
“This has had the good effect
of making the farmers’ sons more
content with life on the farm,
ai d many of them go down to the
state agricultural schools and take
a course in scientific agriculture,
returning better farmers and bet
ter citizens.
“The rural free mail delivery,
with its facilities foi keeping in
touch wi'h the life of the outside
world, and the bicycle us a sub
stitute for the carriage are also
helping in the work of popular
izing agriculture.”
Take Care of the Stomach.
The mail or Homan whose <1 i
geslrm is perfect and whose stom
ach performs its every inaction is
never sick. Ivodol cleanses, puri
ties and sweetens the stomach and
cures positively and permanently
all stomach troubles, indigestion
and dyspepsia. It i> tlie wonder
ful reconstructive tonic that is
making so many sick people well
and weak people strong by con
veying to their bodies all of the
nourishment in the food they eat.
Rev. J. II. Ilolladay, of Holladay,
Miss.,wntes-‘Kodol has cured me
I consider it the best remedy I
ever used for dyspepsia and stom
ach troubles. I was given up by
physicians, Ivodol saved my life.
Take it after meals. J.I.Sturdivant
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, 1). (J., have made a hig
cut in the price for obtaining
patents. Inventors who desire
to save money and get tho best
work should write them while the
cut prices prevails.
Lingering Summer Colds.
Don’t let a cold run at this sea
son. Summer colds are the hard
est kind to cure and if neglected
may linger along for months. A
; long siege like this will pull down
(the strongest constitution. One
Minute Cough Cure will break up
! the atluck at once. Safe, sure,
; acts at once. Cures coughs, colds,
! croup, bronchitis, nil throat and
: lung troubles. The children like
i it. J. I. Sturdivant,
Happenings? Local interest.
Zed Griffith transacted business
in Newport Monday.
W. A. May ban orders The Jour
nal sent to Mrs. S. E. Davis, of
St. Joe, Tex.
Sam Boyd, of Elgin, was in
town Saturday and subscribed for
The Journal.
The “full dinner pail” seems to
have been cancelled by order of
the beef trust.
C. L. Merriwether, of near Sul
phur ltock, was transacting busi
ness in town Saturday.
The estimate of the corn crop
by the government statistician
gives 39.3 bushels for each inhabi
tant.
W. M. Magness was transacting
business in town Saturday and was
a pleasant and substantial caller at
this office.
Misses Oretha Robertson and
Laura Morgan spent Tuesday out
in the country, the guest of Miss
Zenobia Wilson.
G. W. McMillin recently deposi
ted the necessary coin with the
treasurer for a six months exten
sion of his subscription.
Prof. C. I. Pickens, of Hazel
Grove, was in town Monday and
was a pleasant caller at this o ffice.
He will hereafter read The Jour
nal.
Squire Tharp came down Satur
day from Batesville, where he is
serving as one of the commission
ers of accounts, to spend Sunday
at home.
For Sale — My entire lot
of household goods, one good
gentle buggy horse, one buggy
and harness, one cow and calf. ,}.
A. Wilkes.
Prof. Walter Fife, of Oil
Trough, was a pleasant caller at
this office Monday. He has just
closed a successful term of school
near Alicia.
I)r. C. C. Gray of Black ltiver
township has some deposits of
phosphate and marble convenient
ly near the Rock Island railroad
survey being made through that
township.—Batesville Guard.
Those who are circulating the
petitions for license say that they
have met with very few rebuffs so
far. This would seem to indicate
that the people would rather have
a high licensed saloon than a blind
tiger.—Newport Herald.
Sidney Pickens of Black River
township and Albert Sims of
Jamestown, two of the brightest
young teachers of the county, are
applicants for the appointment of
county examiner. Tire appoint
ment will be made at the next
term of the County Court.—Bates
ville Guard.
The race trouble at Eldorado,
111., breaks out again. While the
soldiers were on guard at a negro's
| house a mob set lire to the barn
and then shot at the soldiers. A
pitched battle ensued, but, so far
as known, no one was injured.
The militiamen have been ordered
in the future to shoot to kill.
The cold snap in the North and
Northwest has caused alarm among
the grain men and the farmers,
who fear the unmatured corn crop
may be heavily damaged. Frosts
| are reported in several States.
Corn went up 2 cents a bushel at
Chicago, where there was almost
a panic on the exchange when the
; frost reports came in.
The blind school and the deaf
mute institute will not open up
this month, as was expected. The
opening of both institutions was
j postponed by the state board of
! charitable institution on account
of the new building, which is in
course of construction at the deaf
mute, and which will not be ready
! for occupancy until that date. The
new buildings which fire being ad
ded to the blind school will also
not be completed and the openings
were postponed to the fifth Wed
nesday in October, the 2!ffh of
that month.—Arkansas Gazette.
Suicide is becoming quite a fad
of late, poison, pistols, shot-guns,
ropes, water, coal oil, illuminating
gas and other modes of escape
from the “slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune” are vieing
with each other for popularity.
In behalf of this habit it may be
! said that it is better that a fool
kill himself than that he destroy
some more valuable life.
There is a furore of excitement
in a public school near Evansville,
ind., because a little orphan girl,
aged ten, who is charged with hav
ing negro blood, is allowed to at
tend. Every child lias been stop
ped from the school on account of
it, and trouble is brewing in the
air. The matron of the school
claims that the little girl in ques
tion is the offspring of French
parents, and that no negro blood
flows in her veins.
“What is a home without a
newspaper f” has been asked
again. To the best of our know
ledge it is a place where old rags
are stuck in the windows, cats
sleep in the flour barrel, chickens
and goslings parade the floor; the
wife chops the wood, milks the
cows, plows the corn, goes to mill
and does hundreds of other things,
while the husband loafs on the
street corners, whittles on goods
boxes, cries hard times till a late
hour, when he gets oil' his perch,
sneaks home with the gable end of
his trousers ripped, and raises cane
with his wife because his ancestors
wore not millionaires.—Ex.
There is more Catarrh in this
section of tho country than all
ether diseases put together, and
until the last few years was sup
posed to 1)0 incurable. For a
great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and
prescribed local medicines, and
by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it iu
< arable. Science has proven ca
tarhto be a constitutional disease,
and therefore requires constituti
onal treatment. Hall’s Catanh
Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney 6c Co., Toledo, Ohio., is
the only constitutional cure on
the market, it is taken internal
ly in doses from 1C drops to u
teaspoonful. It acts diieetly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hund
red dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and test
imonials. Address, F. .). Cheney
& Co., Toledo, O. Sold bv Drug
gists, 75c. Hall’s Family Fills
are the best.
The Gould Party.
President George Gould, of the
Missouri Pacific system, passed
through here Friday en route to
points on the new road being built
up the White river country on a
special train of six coaches. He
was accompanied by his family
and private secretary. President
■ E. T Jeffrey of the Rio Grande
and Russell Harding, third vice
president of the Missouri Pacific,
were also in the party.
Mr. Gould has been out on a
trip of inspection over the entire
system. It was not his intention
to come to Arkansas, but it seems
that he changed his plans at Cof
feeville, Ivan., switched to the
i Valley road and made the trip to
Little Rock. The train arrived
! there about 3 o’clock on Thursday
afternoon and the party immedi
ately went over to the North Side
and spent most of the time inspect
ing the new shops and other im
provements there. The party was
'
in Little Rock only about three
! hours and went from that place
! over to Memphis.
At Memphis their plans were
I again changed and the trip to this
part of the system taken up. They
came up via Bald Knob and pass
ed this place about 8 o’clock Fri
day morning. Their train was
preceeded by an engine, which ran
only about a mile ahead of tiie
special, presumably for the safety
of the train carrying Mr. Gould
and his family.
The engine drawing the special
bore the number 253 and was the
finest one that ever passed over this
branch of the road. Mr Gould
and family occupied the private
cars “Ballyclore” and “Atalanta. ”
The last named is the car that was
used by day Gould when he made
his trips over the road.
The party spent the day along
the route of the extension and
their train passed back on the re
turn trip about 0 o’clock.
Hr. Roosevelt’s Boar.
T. Roosevelt, Esq., shot a pmey
woods “rooter” that was lolling
around mud holes in a New liamp
! shire park, and probably saved
many lives thereby. Suppose the
animal had gone mad and bitten
an innocent babe as it (the babe,
not the hog) was chasing butter
flies about the park ; or suppose
the hog nad been slaughteied to
feed a lot of hungry summer
boarders and these boarders had
eaten of tie* unclean thing and
contracted that terrible disease
known ns trichinosis. Truly,
that was a valiant deed of T.
Roosevelt —Diew County Ad
j vnnee.
Very Peculiar Death.
A young man named Warren
Moore who live* near Powell,
A!o , was killed last Tuesday in a
very peculiar manner. It, appear
ed from the evidence before the
coroner’** jury that he was eating
hazelnuts with his knife, while
i driving aim g the road near his
Imme, that his team got scared
! and in his endeavor to cheek them
j he pulled on the lines with a sud
den jerk and stubbed himself in
the heart. His team ran away,
j but was stopped at a house near
where the accident oceared. It
! was notice that there was blond
in the buggy and when the men
went up the road about a quarter
of a mile they found the lifeless
body of young Moore, with his
knife clasped in one hand and a
bunch of hazelnuts m the other.
-Benton County Democrat.
A Sad Disappointment.
Ineffective liver medicine is a
'disappointment, but you don’t
j want to purge, strain and break
, the glands of the stomach and
| bowels. DeVVitl’s Little Early
Risers neve* disappoint They
cleanse the system of all poison
and putrid matter and do it so
gently that one enjoys the pleas
ant effects. They are a tonic to
the liver. (Jure biliousness, torpid
liver and prevent fever. J. I.
Sturdivant.
The Journal one year Si.
Arkansas Cotton.
Hester’s entton report for the
season just cl<*?ed shows that the
output of Arkansas was nearly a
million bales of cotton. Of this
amount not five thousand bales,
or less than 1 per cent of the out
put, was consumed by cotton
mills in the state. The compari
son with states east of the Mis
sissippi is very unfavorable to the
stale. South and North Carolina
have a demand for cotton of near
ly a million hales, or the entire
output of Arkansas, in exee&s of
the amount raised in those states.
Various reasons are given by the
cotton men of Little Kock as to
the reason for the enormous dif
ference iu the production and
consumption of the state.
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
Mon. Tom Johnson, of Ohio, May
Lead United Democracy
on to Victory.
It is now regarded as a eertaini
ty that Hon. Tom Johnson has
placed himself directly across the
path of Democratic presidential
nomination of 1904. His domina
tion of the Ohio Democratic con
vention was complete, and every
thing that was done was at his
direction and dictation. The speci
fic mention of “Bryan” and “Kan
sas City” is credited to him not be
cause he is or ever has been in love
with “10 to 1,” but because he
wishes to attract to him the Bryan
wing of the Democratic party.
Mr. Johnson stated openly that ho
was not an advocate of the “16 to
1” theory, but at the same time
his platform endorses the tenets
of Mr. Bryan. With such a state
behind him as Ohio and the loyal
friends of Mr. Bryan at his back
he is regarded as a formidable
candidate for the presidential nom
ination. His success in business
and his keen business sense might
serve to attract to him a large
number of business men who would
never lend their support to Mr.
Bryan.
Beware of the Knife.
No profession lias advanced
moie rapidly of late than surgery,
hut it should not lie used except
where absolutely necessary. In
cases of piles, for example, it is
seldom needed, DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve cures quickly and per
manently. Uneqnaled for cuts,
burns, bruises, wounds, skin dis
eases. Accept no counterfeits. *‘[
was so trouoled with bleding piles
that I lost much hlood and stmi
gth says J.C. Phil lips, Paris,III,De
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve cured
me in a short time.” Soothes aud
heals, J. I, Sturdivaut.
Arkansas in a Quilt.
Mrs. Amanda Stephens of De
Luce, Arkansas county, has writ
ten to Manager T. W. Milan of
the Arkansas world’s fuir direc
tory to the effect that she is pre
paring a pongee silk quilt, repro
ducing. with ail possible accur
acy, the exact map of the state of
Arkansas, giving all the riveis,
county lines and county seats.
She offers the quilt to the man
agement for exhibition at the
world’s fail. She ststes that she
is 73 years of age.
The Journal one year, $1
A Medicine for
Old People.
Rev, Geo. Gay, Greenwich, Kafc, (s
past 83 years of are, yet he says: “I
am enjoying excellent health for a man
gf my ace, due entirely to the rejuven
ating influences of Dr. Miles' Nervine.
It brines sleep and rest when nothing
else will, and gives strength and vital
ity even to one of my old age.”
“I am an old soldier," writes Mr. Geo.
Watson, of Newton, la., “and I have
been a great sutterer from nervousness,
vertigo a”d spinal trouble. Have spent
consideiable monev for medicine and
doctors, but witn little benefit. I was
so bad :ny mind showed signs of weak
ness. I began taking Dr. Miles’ Nervine,
and I know it saved mv life.”
Saved me from the Insane asy
lum," Mrs. A. M. Heifner, of Jerico
Springs, Mo., v rites. “I was so nerv
ous that I could scarcely control my
self, could not sleep nor rest, would even
forget the names of my own children at
times. I commenced using Dr. Miles'
Nervine and it helped me from the
first, and now I am perfectly well."
Sold by all Druggist* on Uuarants*.
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind,
Dr.
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