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DOC AND BADGER CHUMS.
Natural Enemies Together
in a Very Entertaining
Manner.
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l^id yon kuowt that many ani
ualjs like to playfaud romp just as
lit tie boyijand gif ds do? You Ivave
all seen the monkeys at the Zoo
Bud how they torment and chase
Dm> another, says the Philadel
phia Ledger, bat did you know,
also, thateved the birds and ani
mals like tbroadger and weusi 1
like to frolic?
A well-known German named
Heckman had a pet badger and a
log wiio used to have great sport
together. "They Ufled to have a
series of gymnastic perform
ances.’’ he writes, “on every pleas
ant afternoon, and their four foot
ed friends came from far and near
to witness the performance. The
game was that the badger, lour
ing and shaking his head like a
wild boar, should charge upon tie*
dogand'strike him in I he side wit h
his bead; the dog, leaping dex
ter ioiisly eii t ircly over the badger,
i waited a second and third at
tack, and then made the badger
diasehinil all around the garden.
“If tlirbadger managctPto snap
the dog's hindquarters they would
ha vie an angry tustle, but never i
real tight.”
hogs and cats very often have
gan e#with their masters, too. as
you ail know. There is a dog in
this city that plays at “hide and
seel;” with his mistress by the
hou '.alt hough she is always the
one to hide.
Tfr/ dog waits until she hides
and (tills, then he chases all over
t he louse looking for her. lie has
not 8 keen scent, so it is a ease of
“s«*e, till you tirnl.” When at last
heWiscovers her hiding place he
junfes and barks and wags his tail
is much as to say: “My, hut I’m u
bright dog to find my mistress.”
The latter can never hide in the
same place twice, however, for the
dog invariably looks in every place
in whieli she has hidden before.
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STATUE IS LITTLE TO POET
Actors May Give Better Tribute to
Shakespeare by Reciting His
Works Well.
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The actors, who show little re
sport to the poet's text, according
to Blackwood’s Magazine, arc* do
(ermim-d tu set up a iuoumneut tr
the poet’s memory. Shillings ar<
dema tided in the pub I it* prints, a mi
‘ l ii\ warn iligs of the past are mire
yarded. ' o man that ever liver
needs the poor honor t hat a stat m
ran afford so little as Shakes
pea re. If you would seek his mon
nmeut, open his book. Moreover
every attempt to celebrate hi?
genius has ignominiously failed
Who thinks of the sad momimeui
in Leicester Square without dis
grace, fan anyone feel a pride it
t lie 4 ast tea garden which has beet
/Arranged, under the very bes
auspices, at Stratford-on A von1
There is but one tribute which tin
actors of England need pay t<
England's dramatist. They’ma;
recite his works with the same re
straint of gesture. intonation am
adornment which interpreted hi:
works in his own day. And if thii
method he not acceptable to them
let them be sincere in their ad
miration, and set up all the slat
lies they can afford to theearpen
ters and scene painters, who an
the real masters of the model 1
d ranut.
Bring On the Turkeys.
It up: i i-s | ha I 1 here are toi
few (iiiatcinalan unis and toi
many boll weevils, and now then
is talk of importing the (luati
malan turkey to help out the out
numbered ants. Although tic
lime sei-ms brief, it might be pos
sible to fatten up a few of t lies
strange turkeys in season fo
Thanksgiving day. Bring then
on.—Cleveland IMain Dealer.
Sinking Rivers.
Several rivers of Australia's ir
tejaor sink into the earth and ar
Jlost. A. recent discovery in th
district of Euela shows that tIn
form subterranean lakes 25 or 8
feet below the surface, and tlies
lakes, if they prove to contain sul
X
tieient potable water. ar** export
ed to lend to the development of
now territories in the Arid region
:n which they occur.
Proof Positive.
Roques—I must have been wins
lally drunk yesterday.
Iloques—Why do you tltink so?
“I found ;t receipted hill from
my tailor in my pocket this morn
•ngr’—Chicago Daily Xo'ch
WOMEN OF LEISURE NEEDED
Are Necessary to the Up-Building and
Beautifying of the
Nation.
While no earnest, thoughtful
person wishes to <; irrel with
the numerous quickening inter
ests that have come into the life
of modern woman, there still re
mains the fact, says the Brooklyn
Eagle that the nation stands in
great need of women of leisure.
Leisure does not necessarily mean
indolence, nor yet luxury, hut it
means a gracious and civilizing
posseHsiou, that is sadly lacking
in most of the busy women of to
day. President Hazard, of Wei
leslev, in one of her addresses,
said:
“There are three w ays in which
women are preeminent: they are
the binders together of society,
t hey are the beaut itiers of life, and
they are the preservers of morals.
As the beautlfiers of life women
are indeed necessary. It is one of
women’s sweetest privileges to
make those centers to which flow
the streams of humanity who are
weary with the tight of life. It is
woman’s privilege to make the
home, and to make it beautiful,
not only to the eye as an artistic
creation, but to tin- soul as a ha
ven of rest. But how is she to do
this if she wears herself out in out
side work—if she has no leisure in
which to plan and execute the
beautifying of home and heart?
To be sure there are many worn
en so pulled to and fro in the busi
ness world that they have no firm
to think of the many things the)
would fain do if the fates had beer
kinder. But aside from thes»
there is a rapidly increasing class
of women who have becofe so ab
sorbed in variousacti vities outsidt
the home, be they social, philan
thropic. or of the “cults,” that tin
type of woman who greets you se
renely in her parlor, as one win
has leisure and the faculty of en
joying it, is becoming more an<
more rare every season. Leisun
is a human need, and women it
particular require it, and if the;
are forced, or force themselves, ti
the verge of exhaustion by at
tempting too much, they canno
fail to lose a certain attribute o
graciousness that is one of th
chief charms of womankind.
THE DECLINE OF LATIN.
Study Not So Closely Pursued anc
1 Coming to Be Considered
Dispensable.
In the day of its pedagogies
, glory Latin was the uuiversa
. tongue of the learned. But hov
changed all this is now! Static
I tical studies show that tiv
, hours a week for a year gives coin
, mand of but a few hundred words
that two years does not doubl
this number, and that commando
the language and its resources i
the original is almost never ai
, tained, but that it is abandons
, not only by the increasing pet
centage that do not go to college
but also by the increasing pel
centage w ho drop it forever at th
* college door, says an extract froi
' "Adolescence,” Ip. <!. St aide
* Hall.
Its enormous numerical ir
‘ crease due to high school require
meats . . . (has) been attendee
perhaps inevitably, by stead
' pedagogic decline despite th
r vaunted nt'w methods, until tun
1 the baby Latin in the averag
hifch-sehool class is a kind of sain
tided relic, a ghost of a ghost, su;
. -gosling Swift's Struldbrug!
. doomed to physical mortality, bu
» shriveling and with increasin
y horror of all things new.
) In 1S!»2 the Gorman emperor eh
?• dared it a shame for a boy toe:
cel in Latin composition, and i
tin* high schools of Sweden and
Norway it has been practically
abandoned.
In the present stage of its edu
rational decadence the power of
its dead hand is strongly illus
♦ rated by the new installation of
the old Roman pronunciation with
which our tongue has only remote
analogies, which makes havoc
with proper names, which is un
known and unrecognized in the
schools of the Euroj»ean continent
and which makes a pedantic affec
tation out of mere vocalism.
That Precious Baby.
There’s nothing like a baby to
brighten up a home. They keep a
light burning half the night at the
czar’s palace, so it is said, since
the new heir arrived. — Boston
Herald
TALK WITH A KAFFIR CT’vT
Much Is Expressed by Grunti i.nd
Short Exclamations—Mak
ing the Chief See.
The amount of greeting among
ordinary Kaffirs is to say: “1 see
you;'" to which answer comes
back: “Yes.” When a native
passes a European in tin* uncivil
ized parts of the country, says Mr.
Dudley Kidd, in “The Essential
Kafir, " he will frequently antici
pate the white man's “I see you,’’
and will start oil' with a loud
“Yes.”
Of all ways of expressing senti
ment. grunting is the favorite,
and the Kafir grunts with great
eloquence. His simple grunt can
express a whole wftrld of senti
ment. After hearing natives ex
press so much by grunting one
cannot avoid thinking that pigs
might learn to speak.
Kafirs have very many exclama
tions, such as "Vo!" when they
wish to show contempt; “Haul"’
when they show surprise;
“Wow!" and many other similar
utterances.
In visiting a chief it is rude to
s|>enk tirsl. Accordingly, when we
visited a Kafir king we sat in si
lence and pretended not to see
him. At length he looked up at us
and said: "1 see you,” and the ice
was broken. Wo grunted approv
al of the sentiment and said the
, proper things. When tin* ques
tions began to be a little too per
> sonal we told our native servant
to fetch the blanket we had
brought with ns in order to open
, the chief's eyes.
W hen we gave the chief the
. blanket he looked at it and gave a
, grunt which was one of moderate
and guarded approval. He felt
the qualities of the blanket with
• his fingers, placed it to his skin to
, see how warm it would be; he then
showed it to his councillors and
asked them bluntly wha t t hey sup
posed it had cost When he was
satisfied that it was better than
1 any kept by local traders, he gave
another grunt of approval which
plainly said: "Thanks; I think
I that on the whole it is not bad; l
] 1 Ye seen bet tor, but it will do all
t. same.”
hen he said in words: “Now
, TTi v<‘s are open and I can see
. y<>'' In fun I began to chaff him
id : “Well, if you can see us
nov rill you tell us what vou can
, see' '
j " iff tis light came the an
"I shall know what I see
j wh the night is cold and I wrap
the lanket about my body.”
native never commits himself
, if ! ■ can possibly help it. After a
lit e more desultory conversa
, lieu tl> chief thought it was time
11 -• indaba, “to hem up the
s of i lie talk with the thread
made from Hie sinew of an ox,” as
their expressive phrase runs. So
we hemmed it up.
' Queen’s Oaks at Windsor.
Many Knglish havf
v ''lmson oak trees in Windsor for
" est wheron their names, with tlie
dates of their choice, have beet
•' commemorated by means of brass
'• plates. In different parts of the
1 forest, with seats around them
'i are oaks bearing the names oi
Queen Fdizabeth, Queen Caroline
* Queen Charlotte and Queei
Victoria. “Herne’s Oak.” men
u tinned in the "Merry Wives o:
T
Windsor” as being in Windsor
Park, was destroyed by a gale on
August 31, 1863._
Two Strausses.
Never ,was there worse confu
sion caused by similarity of names
than between Strauss, the tone
poet, iind Strauss, t he composer of
i he celebrated “‘Blue 1 )anube” and
many other waltzes. W hat makes
the muddle more amusing is the
fact that the two Strausses are
quite intimate with one another,
and when the tone poet is congrat
ulated— as he often is—on the
success of the waltzes he did not
write, he at once sits down and
humorously relates his experience
in a letter to his frind.
When Gamblers Should Quit.
The London Sketch says a pro
fessional betting inan should go
out of business when 50 years old.
After that age a man makes mis
takes. Between 50 and 05 he
stands to lose 75 per cent, of what
he accumulated before50.
Bearing His Cross.
Little Boy—Don't you get awful
tired doin' nothin’, mister?
Languid Larigan—Terrible;but
( never complains. Everybody has
their troubles.:—Stray Stories
solves NEEDED IN PICKINC
Champion Negro Cotton Worker Is
Invariably a Fine Singer —
Rhythm Increases Speed.
"Tlu* champion negro cotton
picker of Texas, who can pull <i
hale of cotton from the bolls ii
two days, must be a good singer,'
said a man wlro spent his early lift
on the farm, to a New Orleans
Times-1 temocraf reporter, “elst
lie could not pick that much cot toi
in so short a t ime,
“A report from the Waxnhachh
district says his best day's worl
this year was S44 pounds. That’:
pretty good cotton picking,
dare say lie sung a few lines whih
lie was reaching for this record
No negro can pick cotton witliou
singing. Whenever you see a m
gro [tulling his sack up and dowi
cotton rows in silence you can be
lie is not doing much picking. II
may get out of the field with 17'
or maybe L’fMl pounds, but he wil
not set the world on tire as a pick
er of t he staple. \
“Singing is a part of the gapit
and when you find a negro whole
gins to sing and holler as soonli
In* bends over the row you
know thereby that you have |
good hand. The negro, as a mil
works by music. In no other lii(
of activity is this fact so notin'
able as in tlu* cotton patch. ITei
is where tin* negro must sing if h
would meet with any satisfactor
measure of sun-ess. It is no lout’
discordant howling, either. It i
music, tin* like of which you car
not hear at any other place, or ut
dcr any other circumstances,
low. soft hum, delicately intonet
rhythmic, mellow, soothing, an
till the while the negro's bod
swings to and fro over tin* cot to
row as with his >imble fingers h
pulls the long white locks froi
tlie boll.
“I have known a great man
cotton planters who would nr
hire a negro cotton picker unles
he was satisfied that tin* negr
sang as lit* worked. 11 is a eurion
tiling that pickers of this typ
have more time for the limnnroti
bantering and jawing so commo
among this class, than tin* me
who work in silence. The singin
negro does not work as hard, as
matter of fact, as the silent negn
This is because he works more ra]
idly. The song he sings seems t
make the machinery run tnor
monthly, and SO he acctlmjilisl
< -■ more in the end than tin* quit
' llow, and hits some time forth
foolish tiilk of the cotton patch In
sides.”
He Could Plod.
•!u.sl before bis death. Williar
i 'dry, the great shoemaker, mis
> sionaj’y and noted linguist, sail
, d>out iiis biographer: “If In* give:
' lie credit for being a plodder. In
, "ill do me justice. Anything bp
i V°ud ii)js will be too much. 1 cai
■ To this I owe everything.1
5 Success.
City Directory.
municipal officers
Mayor, J. H. Holderby,
Recorder. O. F. Craig,
Marshal, Walter Paseoe,
Treasurer, E. .1. Magness, v
Aldermen:- Fred. D. Whiting. W.T.
Magness, Morg Drennen, W. C. Mims,
and C. M. Edwards.
Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
CHURCHES
Methodist church, services at 11, a.
m and i :30 p. m. fourth Sunday in
each month. ltev. C. II. Newman,
Pastor.
Baptist church, services at 3 p. m.
Saturday before third Sunday, and 11
a. m. third Sunday in each month.
Rev. .1. L. Brown, pastor.
Christian church, services first and
third Sundays in each month at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. W. W. Young,
Pastor.
KK ATKRNIT1 ES
Dannelly Chapter R. A. M. meets
third Saturday night. 1. C. Nuckolls,
E. 11. P.: T. II. Rearing, Sec.
Newark Lodge F. & A. M. No. 24*
' meets secend Saturday night. T. .1.
Raney, W. M.;J. II. Jimerson, See.
Newark Encampment I. O. O. F. ltiH
meets second and fourth Thursday
nights. G. A. Ashley, C^P; F. G. Hoyt*
Scribe.
Newark Lodge 1. O. O. F. No. 203
meets the first and third Wednesday
nights. T. J. Kauey, N.G;0. F. Craig
Secretary.
Newark ('amp W.O.W. No. 2*8 meets
second and fourth Tuesday nights in
each month. E. II. Magness, C. C.;
(). F. Craig, Clerk.
Independence Lodge No. 2370 K. >fc
L. (if 11. meets first and tnird Monday
nights in each month. (). F. Craig,
Protector; Zed Griffith, Secretary.
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Railroad Time Card,
WHITE RIVER BRANCH
i St. L. I. M. & S.Ry.
, Trains pass Newark as follows:
GOING WEST.
No. 127.12.50 p. rn.
No. 125.8 00 a. m.
GOING EAST.
No. 128.9.10 a. m.
• No. 120.7.02 p.m.
F. C. Hoyt, Agent.
S. A. MOORE,
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cases and collections a specialty. W
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Office Phone_No. 76.
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