Vol. 3, No. 43.
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday October 23, 1003.
$1 Per Annum
RICHEST IN AMERICA
John I). Rockefeller, the Standard
Oil King-, is the Only I3il
ionaire in the U. S.
New York, Oct. J 7. One thous
and million dollars is the estimate
of the fortune of John 1). Rocke
feller, and this vast sum is multi
plying'so rapidly that even Mar
shall Field of Chicago, himself per
haps the fourth richest man in tin1
United States, and whose fortune
amounts to about a quarter of a
billion dollars, remarked not long
since that it was useless to talk of
, getting rich because Rockefeller
and a few others “have all the mon
ey in the world.
John D. Rockefeller to-day is a
billionaire the only one. 11 is
wealth increases so fast that he has
difficulty in reinvesting it. Like
the whirlpool at Niagara, it comes
in a continuous downpour a Nia
gara of gold but, instead of seek
ing its own outlet, the billionaire's
time is occupied in finding chan
nels in which it may he employed.
Entire railway systems, or e
nough to secure a dominating voice
in their management, have been
purchased in an endeavor to keep
these funds in circulation.
Mr. Rockefeller receives in divi
dends from the Standard Oil not
le^s than$‘20,1100,00 1 annually. He
also controls the National City
Rank of New York, the largest
banking institution in the Cnitod
States, and is a stockholder in
bunks throughout the country.
As to his income from all sources,
some place it at $5<»,000,00o, hut
this is conservative. The interest
on a billion dollars at o per cent
would amout to this much. It has
been established pretty definitely
that his fortune even exceeds this
enormous amount: any one who
knows the Rockefeller methods of
doing business knows also that he
would not be satisfied wit h a beg
garly i> percent, particularly when
Standard Oil pays very nearly f»0
per cent on his investment.
Rut even admitting that 5 per
cent is all that he receives, this,
without compounding, in ten years
■would earn for itself $500,000,000.
1'hese figures may appall, but ev
en they do not tell the story.
Mr. Rockefeller is the most cap
able money-maker the world has
lever known. When other men
make reasonable profits, he sees
opportunities, and seizes them, to
make colossal profits. There is no
doubt that his gain in wealth dur
ing the last five years has outrun
an.\ preceding experience in the
history of the world, and where it
will stop is an interesting specula
tion for other than financial rea
sons.
The Rockefeller millions are not
in the same class with other for
tune'-. Whenever the Rockefeller
“interests”’ see a chance to make
a scientific investment-to add $10,
000,000 or $100,000,000 to their
j power it is taken advantage of.
The other great “interests,” there
fore, stand in fear.
’The Astors have shown, gener
ation after generation, a wonder
ful conserving faculty. 'They have
real estate, which increases and is
stable. But it has never increased
at the Standard Oil pace. Great
|as the combined fortune of the
Astor family is, it can never, un
der such management, reach a
thousand million dollars.
So, too, with the Vanderbilts.
'The fortunes of these men are
like little men’s.fortunes grow big
that is all. There is no great
| science (only prudence) shown in
their management. No great fi
nancial genius multiplies them.
As for Mr. Carnegie, with his
$:Oft,000,000 or >o, ho does not
concern himself to double or quad
ruple it. He has an income of
$50,000 per day, half of which he
manages to give away by working
industriously. He is not concern
ing himself about the future of
; his fortune, having no successor
! to handle the vast sum.
I So, too, in one way or another,
all the great fortunes are subject
to change or to division, or they
will probably cease to grow, ex
eept at a normal rate, after the
activity of sonic one controlling
mind ceases all except the Rocke
feller fortune.
John I). Rockefeller, Jr., has
been in training for years to re
lieve his father of the burden
when the American billionaire de
cides the proper time has arrived.
To him will be left intact the
Rockefeller hoard, and having the
greatest respect and admiration
for his father, lie will be guided
by his instructions.
In the discussion of the unpar
alleled j>ower that Mr. Rockefel
ler holds, as shown by recent finan
cial events, it ought to be said
that no fear has been expressed
that this power will be used to tin
disadvantage of the public. That ii
maybe used to thwart the schemes
of other rich men and great pro
motors—this may be taken fm
granted. It has been used for this
purpose on more than one oeca
sion already, and it will continue
to be so long as Rockefeller or bi
son live.
The continued slump in price;
on the Stock Exchange during the
past eighteen months has suggest
ed the question, “has the Rocke
feller fortune been impaired hr\
this depression?” The answy'r i
that instead of diininishinj^; th
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Mrs. X. J. Ma.vhan visited rela
tives at Newport Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. (). Craig of
Tuckerman spent Saturday here
with relatives.
Mrs. Nancy Pascoe orders The
Journal sent to Mrs. Emma San
ders of Caddo, I. T.
Robert Foster and Thos. Her
rington, Jr., of Black River town
ship were in town Monday.
Dr. II. (i. Logan, the king bee
of Logan township, was transact
ing business in town Monday.
Arthur Cleveland, The Journal’s
studious young apprentice, spent
Sunday with relatives near Char
lotte.
Smokeless powder is all right
but the end of science will not be
achieved until somebody produces
a smokeless cigarette.
Mrs. Mollie Porter is having
her residence weatherboarded and
otherwise improved which adds
much to its appearance.
Thos. T. Carter, the Sulphur
Rock insurance mam, left Monday
for a trip to Lawrence, Randolph
and Fulton counties to be absent
about a month.
There are 10,448 Woodmen of
the World in Arkansas. But three
states in the Union, Texas, Mis
souri and Mississppi, have more
Woodmen than Arkansas.
R. R. Poynor and little daugh
ter, Miss Jessie, of White River
township were in town trading
Saturday and made The Journal a
pleasant and substantial call.
The Lincoln (Washington coun
ty) Banner reports that 79 ears of
apples have been shipped from
that place this season, and also a
large amount of dried fruit.
B. F. Owens, a good citizen of
Magness, was transacting business
in town Tuesday and called and
took a guess at the number of
grains of corn in our jar.
it is reported that “Mephisto,”
the daring loop the loop man, with
the John Robertson show which
exhibited at Batesville Thursday,
was killed at the night performance
at Batesville. 11is car left the
j track just before he went around
the loop throwing him on his head
| against an iron railing and break
ing his neck.
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The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that tlieie is
at least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
stages and that is Cat an h. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a consti
tutional disease, requites a consti
tutional treatment. Hail’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of tlie system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer one Hun
dred Dollats for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of tes
timonials.
Address. F, .1. Cheney & Co..
Toledo, Ohio, sold by Druggist.
75c.Hall’s Family Pills arc the best
Took Strychnine.
Brinkley, Oct. 19. —Mrs. Edley
Bartrand, wife of a farmer living
about a mile, from this city, com
mitted suicide yesterday evening
by taking strychnine. The cause is
a mystery, the neighbors and rela
tives say she and her husband ap
peared to live quiet and happy to
gether. The attending physician
succeeded in rallying her for a
I
time, and when asked why she
took the poison she once answered
“trouble,” then she said she did
not know why she took is, and she
did not want to die. However,
the poison had done its work and
she died.
Get a Kimball
Kimball organs are acknowledg
ed to be the best on the market.
You can buy one by paying a
small amount down and $5 per
| month, or one-third down and
balance in six months. See O. F.
Craig, agent.
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As An Investment.
Some body has figured out that
: the average boy who is dependent
upon his parents for a livelihood
until he reaches the age of :?1 years,
costs them £1,000. On this basis
of calculation a brood, for instance,
of six boys, will represent an out
i lay of *24,000 by the time they
getaway from the home roost. The
question naturally arises, does it
pay to raise boys and are there
not other crops that would be
more profitable? If a boy turns
out to be a cigarette fiend with a
breath like a turkey buzzard and a
laugh that would make the wild
untutored donkey feel perfectly at
hoi e in his society, and with an
j untrammeled and unconquerable
desire to avoid work, it is safe to
say that the parent might have in
vested his $4-,000 to better ad van
| tage. But if the bo.\ grows up to
manhood with the lesson well learn
ed that wealth and success grow
only on bushes that are watered by
the sweat of one’s brow, the par
| ents need not begrudge whatever
; they have spent on him, for he will
be a source of increasing pride ami
1 joy to their hearts. When tliey
! grow old and their hands tremble
1 and their legs wobble and then
steps are slow and faltering, thoy
\ have two strong arms to lean up
, on. Rossville Press
THE COUNTRY PAPER
The Atlanta Constitution Makes
Some Remarks About its
General Usefulness.
The Atlanta Constitution which
is one of the most ably edited and
conservative papers in the South
has the following to say about the
country newspaper:
A word once more with those
communities that seem to think an
editor ought to be willing to pub
lish a paper just for the fun of see
ing his name at the head of the
columns and being invited to an
occasional picnic.
The average w’eekly editor usu
ally has his all invested in his
newspaper property. That invest
ment generally represents from
one to two thousand dollars. But
it is worth more to the town than
five times the amount invested in
any other local enterprise. As a
rule the newspaper represents to
the outside world the town itself.
Poor paper, poor town, is the us
ual verdict.
It is, therefore, to the interest of
every town to support a good
newspaper. Not through local
pride alone, but for practical busi
ness reasons. A newspaper is
constantly doing ten times as much
as it could every hope to get pay
for—more than it could charge
for if it would.
The more prosperous a paper is
the more it is able, to do. Show
us a good weekly paper, full of
live local advertisements, with a
general circulation throughout the
county and we will show you an
up-to-date, prosperous, progress
ive community.
And we will also show you a pa
per that is worth five times as much
to that community every year than
the editor manages to make for
himself.
Show us a community that pe
sistently proceeds on the idea tin*
the editor of the home paper can
live on the ‘'pie” that accumulates
in the office; whose official bodies
think it a waste of public money
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He did her no good either. She was so
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already used Dr. Miles’ Nervine and found
it a good remedy for myself I commenced
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she has not had an attack since we com
menced the treatment. She is no longer
troubled with nervousness and we consider
her permanenvlv cured. I enclose her pic
ture. My mother in-law lost her reason and
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thank you very much tor your good medi
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