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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY JUNE 13, 1902.
Vo!. 2 No. 24.
A Disasterous Year.
The prophets who Raid 1(.H)2
would be a disusterous year were
right. Nature has not been ro
buisy with her forces of destruc
tion in many years past as she tuts
during the tive months of the
present year. Volcanic eruptions
and earthquakes have destroyed
48,450 lives, storms 704, lama
does 416, cyclones 220, floods 333,
avalanches 228, tidal waves 103,
snowslides 39, water spouts 12, a
total of 50,305 lives destroyed by
nature's elemental disturbances.
If to this total were added the
lives iost by agencies over winch
man has more or less control,
such as fires, mine disasters, ex
plosions, railroad accidents and
vessel wrecks, it would be in
creased to more than 60,000, and
this takes no account of individ
ual lives lost in this country,
which would bring tiie grand to
tal up to ICO,000 lives lost in the
short period of five months.
Ready to Yield.
*'l used DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Halve for piles and found it a cer
tain cure,” says S. R. Meredith,
Willow Grove, 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. 1. Sturdivant.
Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep bui-y during the
summer. Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site C. S. Patent Oflicc, Wash
ington, l>. (’., have, made a big
cut in the price for obtaining
patents, inventors who desire
to save money and get ihe best
work should write them while
the cut prices prevails.
Leads Them All,
“One Minute Cough Cute heats
nil other medicines 1 ever tried
for coughs, colds, croup and
throat and lung tmuhles,” says
I). Scott Curtin of Loganton. I’a.
One Minute Cough Cute is 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
tives too late. It yields at once to
. One Minute Cough Cure. Pleas
ant to take Children like it. Sure
cure foi grip, bronchitis, coughs.
,1. 1. St uruivunt.
l)o People Cause Her Nausea?
Perhaps the doings <,f men and
nations tit these latter days, have
caused our good old mother
Kart It to suffer from nausea, lit
several of the Curnheati i,lands
she hits vomitted tire and brim
stone freely and forced upon the
people there the fate that over
took Sodom and Gomorrahr. We
are told that in the “Cities of the
Plain” the people were given over
to vileness. We are also told
that St. Peirro and Fort de France
were similarly affected. l>ut the
earth’s naussea continues, and
(juakings are felt, rumblings heard
‘ Talk Is Cheap
Through a well conduct
ed Telephone service.
Not only that, but it
' saves and . makes you
money. It is probably
the greatest of modern
conveniences, and it’s
cost is so low that any
body can afford it
Less Than 5c a Day
You Ought To Have One
THE NEWARK
Telephone Exchange,
| C. J. MAGNESS, Proprietor.
laud sulphurous fumes offend the
nostrils more than a thousand
miles from Pelee and Soufrier,
land volcanic ashes have fallen at
various points along our Atlantic
■ and gulf coasts, nearly 2,000 miles
from the point of ejection. Mex
ico and South America are tiem~
bling, and similar tremors have
been felt in our own country.
Verily, these are perilous times,
and men and nations should be
come more circumspect in their
dealings with one another, that
the vulcanian fires may be banked
and the earth and the people
theieof have peuce.—Farm and
Ranch.
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Spring Fever.
Spring fever is another name
for biliousness. It is more seii
ous than most people think. A
toipiJ liver and inactive bowels
mean .1 poisoned system. If neg
lected, serious illness may follow
such symptoms. DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers remove all danger
by stimulating the liver, opening
the bowels and cleansing the sys
tem of impurities. Safe pills.
Never gripe. “1 have taken De
Witt's Little Early Risers for tor
pid liver every spring for years,”
writes It. M. Everly, Moundsville,
W, Ya. “ They do me more good
than mything I have ever tried.”
J. I. Sturdivant.
Bad on the Dishrag.
A government chemist has l>een
out for game, lie secured a lot
of dishrags from family kitchens
and put them through a micro
scopic examination. The result
was an utter condemna
tion of the average dishrag.
Millions of bacillae and fermeut
ive germs weio found in all of
them except one. The chemist
asserts that such articles should,
on no account, be brought in con
tact with any vessel in which any
sort of food i- placed, unless af
ter such contact tin* vessel is
thoroughly scalded, lie says all
dishrags should be submitted to
boiling water and sun shine after
each lining.
A l?eal Friend.
‘'1 suffered from dvspopsia and
indigestion for fifteen years,”
says \V. T. Sturdevant of Merrv
Oiks, N. C. “After I umI tried
many <loctor> and medicines to no
avail one of mv friends persuad
ed me to try Kodol. It, gave im
mediate relief. I can eat almost
anything 1 want now and my di
gestion is good. I cheerfully rec
ommend Kodol.” Don’t try to
cure stomach trouble by dieting.
That only further weakens the
system. Vou need wholesome,
strengthening food. Kodol enables
you to assimilate what you eat by
digesting it without the stomach’s
aid J. I. Sturdivant.
Curious Method of Suicide.
Discussing furious methods of su
icide. a writer in the London Lancet
refers to the case of an American
who determined to gillotine himself.
Reconstructed an apparatus by which
a heavy ax-blade was held in place by
a can of water. In the bottom of the
can was a hole which allowed the
water to run slowly out. and when a
certain amount had escaped the ax
blade was liberated. The operator laid
his head on some support, so that the
ax would strike him on the neck, and
placed a dish"of ether in such a position
that he would inhale it.and so become
unconscious before he was decapitat
ed. The ax fell as he had intended.
A Country of Gates.
A curious feature to travelers in
the high roads of Norway is the great
number of gates—upwards of 10.000
j in the whole country—which have to
i be opened. These gates, which either
mark the boundaries of the farms or
separate the home fields from the
waste lands, constitute a consider
j able inconvenience and delay to the
! traveler, who has to stop his vehicle
j stud get down to open them.
QUEER NEWSPAPER MAN.
Hi* Home Address a Mystery-Fooled His
Fellow Reporter*.
“Ore of the queerest newspaper
men I ever knew," said a veteran news
gatherer, of the Milwaukee Sentinel,
to a bunch of cronies at a lunch coun
ter the other night, “was a Scotchman
named—well,we’ll leave out the name,
for he is still alive and well. We’ll
identify him as John. He was a
graduate of Edinburgh university
and had worked on Edinburgh, Glas
gow and London papers before he
finally floated across the big pond.
Eventually he drifted to Buffalo,
where he alternately worked on the
two principal morningdailies.
“John was a good newspaperman,
but although he was a jolly good fellow
no one really could understand him.
His past was a mystery which no one
had ever been able to penetrate. The
strangest thing about John was that
he had no home address.
'•No one knew where he lived.
When the directory canvasser came
around in the spring John dodged him
as religiously as he would a creditor.
Consequently all that appeared in the
directory for years was: John K——,
reporter, w. 250 Main street.’
“This was exasperating to the new’s
paper crowd. The men burned w ith a
great desire to uncover John’s place
of residence. Early one morning as
he sauntered jauntily up the street
two of his fellow workers decided to
follow him. He led them a long
chase. Out in the suburbs John dis
cern red that he was being shadowed,
so he dodged into a hallway and w hen
his followers came to the spot he
stepped out and bade them a ‘good
morning.’
“‘Ah! on your way heme, I per
ceive. You live a long w ays out.'said
John, sarcastically.
“ ‘Well—yes—er—we do,’ lamely
replied one of the fellows.
“‘Going my way? I live just a
leetle ways down the street; .-aid John.
“'Why, yes, we are,' was the re
sponse.
“So they all trudged along. The
district was a fine one, w it h handsome
houses and a little too high toned for
a person in John's circumstances. Ar
! riving in front of a large brick rc-si
j dence, John turned to the two men
I and coolly said:
“ ‘Gentlemen, I bid you good-night,
j This is where 1 live.’
“Then he stepped briskly around
to the rear of the house, while his
companions stood dumbfounded and
unable to move. When they regained
I their wits they sneaked around the
house just in time to see John vault
the fence and make his way to the
next street. They hurried around the
block, but John had disappeared for
the night.”
AUSTRALIAN SEAFISHING
Angling for Schnapper, Nannygai, Morwong
and Shark.
Sea fishing is the Alpha and Omega
of most fishing of most fishing in
; Australia, says the London Traveler.
We leave Sydney harbor about mid
i night in a small tug, so as to be on
the further fishing grounds at day
break. Now we are out between the
heads, and at last a chilly dawn creeps
over the sea. We are at rest, too,
broadside to the rollers, and it isgood
to go up the narrow companion and on
| deck and find the line.- we left neatly
coiled in eomersover night. The two
Ideek hands are busy cutting up the
bait, a score or so of mullet yellow
tails and squid. We are ready,and our
eight leads go almost together over
the side, all on the same quarter, so
that the lines may stream clear of the
tug and of each other. Down they go,
and still down, agood 40 fathoms, and
the moment the lead touches bottom
we hold on. A moment or to passes
and someone isinto a good fish, which
is hauled and played on the thin line
with great care and patience, . nd
proves to be a silvery morwong of six
or seven pounds weight—a handsome
enough fish to the stranger, yet
dubbed, with a sneer, “wrong color,-’
j by its captor and his Australian
friends.
The discontented one seems in
luck's way. for no sooner had he again
baited bis hooks—each line, 1 ought
to have said, carries two and a heavy
lead—than he is once more fighting
with an even larger fish, but the liue
sheers away ominously near the sur
face, and there is a general cry of
1 “Shark!” as it is indeed seen that one
of these white-bellied, shoved-snout
ed brutes has both his hooks. But the
tackle is strong; there is nothing in
reason to part so long as the shark can
not get the line between its teeth; and
it is at last lifted bodily on the deck,
five feet and more of it, and soon clear
I ing breathing space with the great
, SUUKW Ul mu.
The first fish that I ant destined to
: catch in these strange-waters is as cu
rious in name as in appearance. “Nan
nygai” it is called, which irresistibly,
though doubtless good aboriginal, re
minds me of the nannygoat, and it is
of a brilliant scarlet, with huge, pro
truding black eyes. Very good eat
ing is this same nannygai, but more
valuable on account of its invariably
indicating the presence of a big
-chnapner. No sooner, indeed, have
T hauled in my nannygai than one or
two of the party instantly haul in
their lints to see that the baits are
right, and that a good opportunity
may not be lost. For we are not an
chored in one spot. The Pacific is too
deep, the ground too rough, the
swells from the south too sudden and
violent to admit of such a plan. On
the contrary, we drive with the tide
over the reefs, a kind of schnapper
battue, and are thus enabled to go to
the fish when they will not come to
us. Good schnapper are now caught
on all sides, and 1 must say that my
first really heavy schnapper warrants
all the hopes that I had based on a
somewhat long and intimate acquaint
ance with his feebler cousin, the red
bream of the English channel.
HAD NO FAMILY DOCTOR.
But Little Johnnie Had Medicine to Take
Just the Same.
It was his first day at school, and he
was standing the firc-of the usual ques
tions asked on so auspicious an occa
sion.
‘•Who’s your family doctor?” asked
a big boy.
“Haven’t got any,” said the new
boy.
“How jolly nice,” responded the big
boy. “Why, you don’t have any med
icine to take, then?”
“Don't I?” was the sarcastic reply.
“That’s all you know. My father’s a
dentist, mother's a homeopath, my
sister Bess has joined the ambulance
classy grandfather believes in resusci
tation from drowning, grandmother
goes in for every quack medicine
that’s advertised, my Uncle Sandy’s
a horse doctor, and”-—in a pathetic
tone—“they all of them experiment
cn me.”—London Answers.
Remedy for Smallpox.
In the smallpox epidemic of 1871,
Mother Gonzaga, matron of the St.
Joseph's orphan asylum, in Philadel
phia, administered a specific whicji
UNDER HIS COAT.
Plumber Could Make a Pan as Well as
“Wipe” a Joint.
Not long since some plum bers were
sent out to do a job at the house of a
south side resident who was a pro
nounced prohibitionist, says the Mil
waukee Sentinel. It was the boast of
this man that there had never been
a drop of liquor in his house. Imag
ine the horrors of the situation when
the workmen, following their usual
custom, began rushing the can toand
from a neighboring saloon. A mem
ber of the family kept tab on the num
ber of times these men sent for beer
and reported to the head of the house
when he returned in the evening that
11 cans of beer had crossed the thresh
old of his home that day.
lie immediately called upon the
boss plumber and informed him that
he would not permit such conduct and
insi.-ted that he instruct his men that
they must not drink beer in his house.
The next morning the men report
ed as usual at the office before going to
: work and were told they must leave
: their cans in the shop while they were
working on the prohibitionist's job.
They acquiesced apparently and pick
ing up their tools started out. Oneof
the men had, however, put his can in
| side the breast of his. coat and while it
i was flat it caused the garment to stick
i out in a noticeable way.
As he started out the door, the boss
plumber noticing the peculiar Jump,
said; “What is the matter, Pat, have
; you a tumor?”
“No,” replied Pat, “it’s a can-cer.’:
When you are in town don't
i forget to see S. C. Beane's line of
l Ladies hats.
.the declared not only made those tak
ing it immune from -mallpox. but watt
a cure for the disease. Mother Marie
Josephas, now connected with the
hospital. says that the mixture is still
in use there. It consists of one grain
of sulphate of zinc, one grain of fox
glove. mixed with two table-spoonfuls
of water. This again, when thorough
ly dissolved, is added to fourounces < f
water, ami a teaspoonful taken every
hour for 111 hours.
ON THE CLERK.
Office Boy Plays Joke oa the Telephone
Flirt.
There is a true and veracious ac
count of the adventure which befell
the clerk of a well-known hotel in Mil
waukee a few evenings ago, says the
Sentinel. This clerk being possessed
of more personal attractiveness than
falls to the lot of the average man,
has been somewhat spoiled by the ad
miration which has been bestowed
upon him by many women of varying
beauty, until he has come to consider
himself irresistible.
Recently he became enamored of a
young woman who presided at the tel
ephone switchboard of one of the big
business establishments' of the city.
He had never seen her, but from call
ing her up to make necessary business
inquiries he has gradually adopted tho
habit of carrying on an extended con
versation of the quality familiarly
known as “josh.” Now, the young
woman in question, although willing
enough to “jolly” the young man to
an unlimited extent over the’phone,
lias enough admirers, to say nothing
of certain decided ideas about good
form, inhe-rited from a Puritan moth
er, to make her decline the many of
fers of theater tickets and suppers
which the hotel clerk has proffered in.
the hope of meeting the girl who bus
so ehaimed him with her voice.
Now. the office boy in the establish
mcnt wne-re tne pretty girl rulestne
switchboard, is a red-headed Irish lad
with more deviltry to the square inch
than falls to the lot of most yourg
I sters. lie is a devoted admirer of
the pretty telephone girl, and enjoys
her confidence, lie has heard of the
enamored hotel clerk, and has often
been allowed to listen to the conver
sations between them.
The other day the telephone girl
did not come to work and the olfica
boy was detailed to take her place.
At five o’clock the clerk called up,
as usual, and the office boy saw his
opportunity. Adopting a voice £3
nearly like the girl's as possible—andj
he is a clever mimic—he carried on a
long conversation with the young
man, and after much coy deliberation,
consented to meet the young man at
six o’clock and go to supper with him.
That there should be no mistake,he
asked lam to wear an immense red
rose in his buttonhole, and promised
to wear a similar blossom for identi
fication. The happy clerk assented to
this not unusual proposition, and fur
ther agreed to come up to the third
floor where the switchboard is located
and call for the young woman. Then
the office boy confided his plans to
the clerks in the office, who arranged
a little scene.
When thehotelclerk, arrayed in hi9 ,
best and sporting a beautiful crimson j
rose, entered the door, there, drawn j
up in line, were two dozen young mem ,
with mirthful faces, while coyly I
standing near the door was the o flic a
boy with the biggestiAmerican beauty j
rose, which the combined contribu
tions of the clerks purchased. The ho- 1
tel clerk fled, but the story pursued
him.
Original Meaning of Pagan.
The Latin word for which pagan
is derived originally meant a fountain
J or spring; then the village which
j sprang up around it, and finally the
residents in the village. As Chris
tianity took strong root at first in the
large centers of population and the
worship of the pagan deities lingered
longest in the country and among the
country villages, it come to be under
stood that a pagan or villager, was, in
virtue of his residence, a worshiper of
the old gods, and thus the term ac
quired its present significance.
First Cotton Bloom.
Clarendon, June 7. — Beverly
Dwyer brought in a cotton bloom
today tvhi« h beats the record two
| days. Cropsarein good condition.
The Journal, $1 per year.
An Advertising Moral.
Once upon a time a donkey fell
into a deep hole, and after nearly
starving caught sight of a passing
fox, and implored the stranger to
help him out.
‘'1 am too small to aid you"
said the fox, “hut I’ll give you
some advice. Only a few rods
away is a hig, strong elephant.
Call him and he will get you out
in a j ffy.”
After the f«>x had gone the
donkey thus reasoned :“I am very
•veak Irom want of nourishment.
Every move I make is so much
additional loss of strength. If I
i aise my voice to call the elephant
I shall he weaker yet. No, I will
not waste my substance that way.
It is the duty of the elephant to
come without calling,"
So the donkey settled himself
back and eventual! gave up tbo
ghost.
Long afterwards the fox, on
passing the hole, saw within a
skeleton and remarked :
“If it be tln.t the souls of ani
mals are transmigrated into men,
that donkey will become one ot
those merchants that can never
afford to advertise.’’— Kx.
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Notice of Examination.
Notice is hereby given that them
will he a public examination of
teachers at Uutesville, Ark., the
19th and 20th days of June, 1902,
to ascertain the prctessional
qualifications of all persons de
siring to teach in the public
schools of independence county.
J A. Wilkes,
County Examiner.
Our Timbered Lands.
Statistics have neen gathered
showing the rrectiou of sixty new
saw mills along the Cotton Belt
railroad in this state since 1900.
This is a remarkable showing and
while we have tlie timber resour
ces it will likely continue. Theie
are some of the finest pine for
ests in Arkansas that can be found
anywhere in the South, but most
of them have been discovered by
the lumbermen of other states,
and, in many instances, bought up
by them. The fact that sixty new
mills have been built along ono
railioad in the state is evidence
that we ate furnishing lumber for
other sections of the country.
Some (if these days we are go
iue to realize that our forest res
ervations are growing smaller and
that these timber lands have been
disposed of for less than their
value. In many of the older
states it is now practically i>
sible to obtain limiter for r
mills. The result is that these
slates are being abandoned by the
lumbermen and they are seeking
other and more profitable fields.
Arkansas has offered extraordi
nary inducements to these lum
ber dealers, and t he result is seen
in the sixty new saw mills erected
on the Cotton Belt since 1900.
There is no advice to give in
this instance except to warn the
public against the undervaluation
of the timber lands of the state.
In less than ten years the pine
and oak forests of Arkansas will
be mine valuable than some of
our best farming lands today.
At the present rate of consump
tion the lumbermen will gladly
pay a premium for timber lands
in a tew years. Keep your eye on
the timber lands.
Or. B. A. Washburn,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Special attention tfiven to dis
eases of Ear, Nose and
Throat. Also
DISEASES OF WOMEN.
LATK.-T EQUIPMENTS USED IN
TREATMENT OF ALL
ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES.
OFFICE: New Watson Building,
-Rooms la, 14,15.
HOURS: 10 tO 12 A. M., 2 to 4 P. M.,
7 to 9 p. 3i.
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