The Newark journal.
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY MARCH 14, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. II.
YANKEE METHODS.
Bow a Cuban Hat Been Benefited by
Following Them.
In the province of Havana, after
the departure of the Spanish army, a
tobacco planter, named Gonzalez,
found himself penniless, hi* family
scattered, his plantation destroyed,
and his home and storehouses buined.
He had been one of hundreds of vic
tims. Leaving only the waste ground
behind, he had fled with his family to
escape the further rage of the Span-<
iards.
Happy even to have life as his sole
heritage of the conflict, Gonzales set
about rebuilding his fortunes. He
managed to borrow $300 from a friend
in Havana. He bought a pair of heavy
boots, a few tools, a horse, and some to
bacco plants. He made his way
through a wilderness to his former
home. There was nothing but a
growth of weeds and heaps of fallen
stones and charred timbers fora wel
come; but with energy born of neces
sity, he began his herculean task. He
cleaned up part of the ground and
planted it. While he was giving na
ture (which is kind in Cuba), time to
rest, he felled some large palm trees,
meantime sleeping in the open air by
night. After awhile he built of the
palm tree lumber a storehouse for his
tobacco, lie lived in a part of this
house, where he dried the tobacco
leaves and prepared them for market.
At odd times, he did more clearing
and more planting. In all this he was
absolutely alone and unaided. He
had not made a place for his family,
his old laborers had died or were a part
of reconcentrado populations, and
there was little or no help to la? had,
. even if he could have paid for it. So
he toiled on with hope for his compan
ion, cs many like him were doing in
various parts of the country. The re
siilt of his pluck is to be seen to-itey in
a flourishing plantation, in the ini
provcment or wntcn he lias ^jx*nt
$ti.OOO, paid out of the rtet-ipU for
Ills crop, which lias also yielded
enough for hie living excuses. and
has provided a home for his reunited
family.—Emilio Nunez, Civil Gover
nor of Havana, in Success.
NOVEL ADVERTISING PLAN.
Wsshlngton Restaurant Man Gave Out
Four.Dollir Notes in Cbanze.
The officials of the secret service
bureau in Washington were kept busy
the other day in explaining the use
of so-called $4 notes by the proprietor
of a local re-asuurant. The report
had been circulated that the propri
etor was violating the law. The‘‘$4
notes" consisted of sheets of four$l
hills, just ss they came from the
press at the bureau of engraving
and printing. Shortly before the hol
idays the restaurant man circulated
an advertisement in which he offered
the greatest of holiday novelties, “new
$4 notes." ile announced that in giv
ing change to his customers when
bills sufficiently large to warrant it
were tendered him he would give each
of them a new “$4 note.”
The card w as a draw ing one. The
shrewd host was besieged with re
quests for the new notes, and the de
mand soon exceeded the supply. A
great many persons really expected to
get $4 notes. Others know that such
could not be the case, for the reason
that the government had never issued
anv notes of that denomination.
Quite a number expected to find the
whole tiling a hoax and were sur
prised when they learned that the
man was giving out “$f notes" in ac
cordance with his advertisement, that
is.sheets containingfourfl notes.
Several persons •assumed that he wa6
violating the law, and reported the
matter to the secret service bureau.
Each of them was informed by the se
cret service officers that there was
nothing illegal in the restaurant man’s
action. The secretary of the treasury
is allowed by law to give out sheets of
four $1 note- before they are out, to
persons of good standing who may
desire them as curiosities orsouvenirs,
in exchange for other money repre
senting the face value of the notes.
Valuable Corundum Discoveries.
Corundum is fiiet cousin to the
sapphire and the ruby, but lacks their
brilliance of color and transparency.
It is a mo i excellent abrasive mate
rial, better than emery, which is im
pure corundum, in that rc-speci, but
hitherto its rarity has made it too
high-priced for general use. Recently
valuable deposits of corundum have
been found in the mountains north of
Kingston, Ontario, and it is hoped
they will furnish a large Rupply of th<$
mineral. Traces of sapphire have
been found among the deposits, but
as yet no specimens of the precious
blue gem have revealed themselvea.
Bat* Does No Good.
Hatingyourenemiesmakesyou un
comfortable, and does your eneniie*
no harm.—Atchison Globe.
THE LlO.t OF TEL VIA E.
Rrsa Bonheur’s ferociom-Lookinj Pst
Kvp Visitors Away.
Of the many artists who have de
picted on canvas the tawny royalty of
the king of beasts, few indeed have
omitted thepreeauticn of maintaining
strong bars between themselves and
their models—unless, indeed, the
models were no longer living. The
story is often told of the dinner party
given by Sir Edward Landseer, at
which the guests were startled by the
entry of a stolid butler, who inquired
respectfully, in a perfectly matter-of
fact tone:
“Beg pardon, but did you order a
lion, sir? There’s one downstairs,
just come, sir.”
There was. indeed, but it was safe
ly dead, and the body had been sent
around from the Zoo as a complimen
tary offering from the authorities to
Sir Edwin.
It remained for a woman artist,
Ho-a Bonheur, to own her own lions,
make friends with them and caress
and handle them with absolute fear
lessness and impunity. Indeed, at
one time, says the Youth’s Compan
ion, she accorded her great pets the
freedom of her house and garden at
By exactly as if they had been dogs;
but this libe-rtv she was later obliged
to curtail out of deference to other
people’s nerves, although the lions
never abused it or manifested the least
ferocity.
| It was certainly hard for the casual
caller to arrive expectantly at the
gates of the chateau and behold, as
soon as the latch clicked, a huge yel
low lion rear itself upon the terrace,
stretching in a sleepy and amiable
yawn a pair of jaws that could easily
bite a man's head otf.
“Oh, it is only one of Mile. Rosa’s
lions," a neighbor—with intent rather
to tease than to reassure—was once
heard saying toan alarmed visitor who
still hesitated on the safe side of the
fence. “Monsieur need only be care
ful not to step on its tail; the tip is
black, and one does not readily observe
it. It is a frendly animal—quite
friendly. I assure monsieur—though
I do not know how it would behave
if sfepped on. One might do well to
go tiptoe."
On another occasion a note from an
admirer of the artist's work, a dis
tinguished man not know n to her per
sonally, was delivered at the chateau.
“Mademoiselle,” it ran, “I had
promised myself in passing through
By the pleasure of seeing the lion of
the place. I have seen the lion of the
place, mademoiselle, and I therefore
offer upon paper the tribute of my pro
found regard to the lion of the place
I no longer expect to see."
THE SKIPPERS OF THE LAKES.
Do Thinji That Would Make a Sea
Captain's Bair Turn Graf.
It was the fog alone that bothered
them. Swift currents and narrow,
crooked channels have few terrors
fora lake skipper, aslongashecan fee.
Give him the use of his eyes,says Wil
liam Davenport Hulbcrt; in Frank
Leslie’s popular monthly, and he will
i make good time “wherever the
ground is a little damp," and
carry several thousand tons of
ore along in his trousers pock
ets. The seemingly reckless way
in which he pushes his M)0-foot
ship around sharp comers and over
shoal? w here (here is not a foot of wa
ter between her keel and the rocky
bottom, finally bringing berilptoher
own wharf without power, without
thinking of calling in a tug to help
him, is enough to make a sea captain’s
hair turn gray. Not that he likes it,
exactly; not that he wouldn't much
| rather have open w ater and clear sail
ing all the way from Duluth to Buf
falo, if that w ere possible. But it isn't
possible, so he takes thing# as they
come and does the best he can w ith his
! tough proposition. And a remarka
bly good best it is. His busines- i- to
TO DEHOCRATIC VOTERS
Hon. Chas. Jacobson, private secretary to the
governor, authorizes The Journal to announce that
Governor Jefferson Davis will address the people of
Newark on Monday, /larch 17,
Let everybody turn out and hear him. A cor
dial invitation extended to all.
i hustle, and he does it w ith all hia
might. Even when the fog shuts him
in, or a blinding snowsquall cornea
howling dow n the great lakes, it is to
be feared that he does not always slow
| low n as he should. The season of nav
igation is short, the iec will soon be
making, and the owners willbejump
; ing on him if he doesn’t make his trips
n time. “Can’t stop for a trifle of
fog. Let’ergo!”
Volcanoes as Cooking Store*.
The Maoris of New Zealand cook
their sweet potatoesand other vegeta
bles in volcanic heat. There arc a few
volcanoes in New Zealand, and some
| of the Maoris live up in the moun
tains near them. They make the vol
| .'anoes do several useful things for
them, but the queerest is cooking.
In Criminal Caa»s.
An ncquittal is a sure remedy for
emporary insanity.—Chicago JL)ailj
News.
TOO FINE FOR USE.
£tory with • Mora) lotd by Grandma
Cook.
When Grandma Cook came home
from the picnic she asked with inter
est about thedifferent villagers whom
she had seen for the lirst time, relates
a writer in Youth's Companion.
“Who was the handsome young
woman who poured the tea?’’ she
a.-ked. “A thin, pale, melancholy
girl, very quiet. 1 did not see her
smile once.”
“Oh, that,” said her nlec«,“U An
nie Gordon. “She’s always that way.”
“Has she lost friends? She was not
in mourning.’’
“No. Her people are ail living,but
they are rather commonplace, while
Annie is a girl of ideas and originality
—a!mo>t a genius. She wrote very
good poetry at school. But the Gor
dons are poor. They could not send
her to college. She wanted so much
to go abroad—to see Greece and
Home; but that, of course, was impos
sible. She is a saleswoman in Bryce (
& Pott*’ store. But she is always J
melancholy, as you see her now. She
lives apart, makes no friends, hardly
knows the name of her next-door
neighbor. Always turning over in her ,
mind her dreams. I suppose.”
Mrs. Cook knitted in silence aw hile. 1
“It puts me in mind of Prudence Max
well’s shaw l,” she said. “Did I never
tell you of that? Well, Prudence’s
uncle bought her a real cashmere j
shaw’l when she was a young girl. It
was like a picture with its fine texture
and dull, wonderful colors.
“ ‘Hang it up,’ we all said, ‘on the
wall. Let people enjoy it. Nobody
in the village ever saw such a thing.
It w ill be a pleasure to us all.’
“‘No, indeed,’ Prudence said, ‘it
would fade. I can’t spoil it that wav.’
‘‘So it was folded in tissue paper,
put in a box and hid away.
“Prudence married, but the shawl
was not just the thing to wear,even on
her wedding morning, llerdaughter
grew up. We begged Prudence to
give it to herasa bridaJgift ‘No,’she
said, ‘I will leave it to her w hen 1 die.’
“Well,( she did die at last. Thebox
was opened and the shawl lifted out.
It fell into rags. The moths had done
their work, and all the beauty was
wasted.
“Now, neither Annie Gordon nor
any other girl has a thought too high
or a fancy too fine for every-dav use.
If she would put their beauty or purity
into her talk with her old father and
mother or into her actions in the store,
they would make her life beautiful
and a blessing to the world."
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
Given on the Subject cf Keeping Posi
tion* by J. J Hill.
You can hold your position if you
can fit youself to its mold so as to fill
every crevice. Be like a cake. At
first it :s soft, spongy dough, and i»
poured into a mold which it hut half
fills. As it bakes it rises, and crowds
every dent in the mold. Not content
l
ed. it bulges over the top; it makes a
cake larger than the mold will hold.
So, young man and young woman, be
larger than your mold. After you
have filled every crease and crevice
of your position to advantage, work
out at the top. It is the largest cake
that brings the most money.
Always keep your promises. Your
employer will never ask you to do
more than is possible. Remember
that an unfulfilled promise is as bad
as a downright untruth. Livewithin
your means. Never let a month pas«
that you don’t put something in the
bank. Saving is the the first great
basic principle iD the foundation of
success. Dress neatly and plainly, for
an employer marks a man as a fool
who apparels iiimseif with extrava
gance and glaring colors. Never try
to win the favor of your employer by
slandering your fellow workers. '.Slan
der always sticks. Show kindness to
your fellow employes, but do not let it
be forced kindness, for that deserves
no thanks. Resolve slowly, and act
quickly. Remember, it is better to bo
alone than in bad company; that you
cannot give your employer or yourself
full value, if you try to work after a
night of dissipation; that silence,like
cleanliness, is akin to godliness, and
that a cleur conscience gives sound
sleep and good digestion, and
clothes mu in a si impregnable coat of
mail.—Janas.1. Hill, in Success.
Japan’* Firat Broach of Promiae.
One feature of western civilization
has just made its first appearance in
Japan, wuere a native woman has
brought suit for breach of promise,
hitherto an unknown procedure in
the land of the chrysanthemum. The
lady in question is a wise young wid
ow, who induced her well-to-do wooe.
to sign an agreement that in case
either party wished to back out he
should forfeit 1.000 yen to the other.
The prospective bridegroom broke the
engagement.
BREVITIES Or' rOX
Blobbs—“Do you believe in the ef
ficacy of prayer?" Slobbs—“Well, 1
believe that if you pray for rain it’s
bound to come, if you pray long
enough."—Philadelphia Record.
Repartee—“Can you make four rev
olutions in the air before alighting?"
asked the curious stranger of the cir
cus acrobat. “Say," replied the acro
bat, “I’m no South American repub
lic!”—Ohio State Journal.
At the Noon of Night.—Pa (from
upperlanding to daughter, enter
taining her “steady" in the parlor—
“Gladys, what time is is?" Gladys—
“I don't know, pa; our clock isn’t go
ing." Pa—“How about George?"—
Richmond Dispatch.
Progressing. — Buffer—“How is
your son getting on with his paint
ing in Paris?” Binabroad—“Splen
didly! That boy will be an artist some
day; why, he can almost paint pictures
now so that you have no idea of what
they are."—Ohio State Journal.
Mike—“Shure. an’ thot was sad
about poor Micky, wasn’t it?” Pat
—“Faith, an, Oi didn’t know inything
was the mother with ’im.” Mike—
“He got tin days yesterday for steal
ing an eight-day clock. Poor Micky;
he thinks he got two day.- the worst
of it.”—Indianapolis News.
The Rector's Daughter — “My
father feels it very much, Mrs. Barker,
that you should leave the church
every Sunday just before the sermon.
Don’t yon think you might try and
stay in the future?” Mrs. Barker—
“I dursn’t do it. miss. I do snore
that dreadful when I'm asleep.”—
Punch.
In A. D. 2002.—“Teacher,"said the
bright little son of the poor billion
aire, “is it true that the multiplica
tion table 100 years ago began with
the very lowest units?” “Yes," raid
the kind teacher, “in those early days
it didn’t uegin twice one million is
two million, as it does now.”—Phil
adelphia Press.
WANTED THE FULL COURSE.
The Foreigner Wn Bouni to Fo’low the
Amerieen to the End.
It was in the dining-room of oneof
the leading hotels in Milwaukee. At
one of the tables sat an American,
| who, to judge from his appearance,
; was well to do, while opposite him sat
a man who, as his accent indicated,
was of foreign birth. Jle was not
quite so well dressed as theother, but,
: if actions and general demeanor are
any criterion, lie had recently come
into possession of considerable w ealth,
which he was try ing to spend as be
fits a man of means.
The American was ordering &
course dinner, which he began with
oysters. Apparently the foreigner,
feeling that he could afford it, had
made up his mind not to miss any
thing good to eat, so long as money
could buy it.
“Give me some oysters. too.’Vaid
he.
X°xt the American called for soup.
“I’ll take some of that, also.” said
his vis-a-vis, when the latter had
brought the soup.
Fish, porterhousesteak with mush
rooms, chicken and many other
things calculated to tickle the palate
of an epicure were brought on and
consumed. Mr. Newly Rich keeping
a close watch on the American’s
dishes and asking for the various ar
ticles as fast ns he saw them placed
before the other.
TheAmerican, thoroughly annoyed
by the apishness of the would-be
swell, now decided to make an effort
to end the matter then and there.
"\\ aiter. ’ said he, beckoning to
that functionary, “send me a boot
black.”
“Bring me one, too,” said the for
eigner; “I don’t know what it is. but
bring me one, anyway!”—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Sleep and Longevity.
A new theory of longevity has made
number of waking hours nlloted to
him,” says the originator of the idea,
“and the fewer he uses up the longer
will hi.* life la.-t. “If therefore, he is
content to sleep for the most of his
days there is no reason why he should
not live 200years. Headducesthe
case of the negroes as an illustration.
The chances are that the only truth in
this theory is the well-recognized fact
that eight-hours’sleep is not sufficient
for most mortals, and that those who
habitually take less shorten their lives
by so doing.
Japanese Houses.
Japanese houses in the larger cities
are of one general shape, two stories
high, and put together by a curious
method of mortising, at which these
people are adepts, not one nail being
used throughout the construction of
j the building__
GROWTH OF SUBURBANISM.
! __
A Modern Phase of City Life Rapid'y
Developing.
It w as not many years ago that peo
ple lived in the suburbs as a matter of
economy. Now. says Country Life in
America, they live in these parts be
cause higher ideals may often be at
tained here. From reports personally
obtained from 28 of the largest cities
in America, north, south, cast and
west, it was shown that during two
recent years over $420,000,000 had
been incorporated and spent in pri
vate purchases and the development
of lands adjacent to large cities, for
suburban ojk rations. Over $<>0,000,
000 have been voted and spent by
trolley and railroad companies to ex
tend their services beyond the limits
of these cities. Nearly half a billion
of dollars have, therefore, been in
vested within two years in the pro
pped development of suburban prop
erties. in addition to the millions ol
dollars already so invested.
Dutch Coal Miaasi
In the Dutch portion of the recent
ly discovered Limburg coal field,
three mines are at present raisingcoal
and in 1900 produced 320,224 tons,
I an increase of 107,252 tons over the
previous year. There were exported
to Belgium 40,908 toes, and to Ger
many 143,851 tons.
Lika Falling in the River.
Falling in love is like falling into a
river; it is easier to fall in than climt
<jut.—Chicago Daily News.
Surgeon’s Knife Not Needed.
Surgery is no longer necessary
| to cure piles. DeWitt's Witch
> Hazel Salve cures such cases at
| once, removing the necessity for
dangerous, painful and expensive
I operations. For scalds, cuts,
i hums, wounds, bruises, sores and
. skin diseases it inis no equal. Be
! ware of counterfeits. J. I. Sturdi
vant.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that there
will he a public examination of
I teaeheis at Batesville, Ark., the
20th and 21st days of March, 1002
to ascertain the profession;!
qualifications of all persons de
siring to teach in the public
schools ot Independence county,
.1. A. \\ ilkks, Co. Examiner.
February 22, 1002.
Practically Starving.
“After using a few bottles of
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure my wife
received perfect ami permanent
relief from a severe and chronic
case of stoma-h trouble,” says J.
Ii Hotly, real estate, insurance
j and loan agent, of Macomb, III
’“Before using Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure she could not eat an ord
inary meal without intense suff i
j ing. She is now entirely cured.
| Several physicians and many rem
j dies had failed to give relief.’’
You don't have to diet. Eat any
good food you want, but don’t
| overload the stomach, Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure will digest it for
you. I. Sturdivant.
A Pointer For Inventors.
If you wish your patent busi
1 ness properly and promptly done
j send it to Swift & Co., opposite
i IJ. S. Patent Office, Washington,
D. C. They have no dissatisfied
‘ TT l ItC tUCIIl fok kt.»_
confidential letter ; a postal cv.rd
will bring it. and it may be worth
money to you. See their adver
tisement elsewhere in this paper.
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Could Not Breathe.
Coughs, colds, croup,grip,bron
chitis, other throat and iung
troubles ere quickly cured by One
Minute Cough Cure is not a mere
expectoiant, winch gives only tem
porary reliet. It softens and liqu
fies the mucus, draws out the in
ti imution and removes the cause
of the disease. Abs< lutely safe.
Acts at once. “One Minute Cough
Cure will do all that is claimed
for it” says Justice of the Peace
J. Q. Hood, Crosby, Miss. ‘‘My
wife could not get her breath and
was relieved by the first dose. It
has been a benefit tc all my fami
ly.” J. 1. Sturdivant.
Still Worship riammon.
The speech ot President Mo
Kinky at Buffalo—the last and
' greatest utterance of a life large
ly devoted to public speaking il
1 laminate- the field of tariff dis
■« ussiou with the light of the new
philosophy. Mr. McKinley had
become a somewhat advanced tar
iff leformer. lie read the signs
of the times, saw the tendency of
American manufacturers away
from protection and knew it was
time to forsake the idol. In the
republican eongres, however, they
still kneel in blind adoration of
the ugly image,—New York Times.
For the Complexion.
The complexion always suffers
from biliousness or constipation
Unless the bowels are kept open
! the impurities from the body ap
j pear iu the form of unsightly
eruptions DeWitt’s Little Early
Kisers Keep the liver and bowels
in healthy condition and remove
the cause of such troubles. C. E.
Hooper, of Albany, Lia.,$ays “I
took DeW itt’s Little Early liisers
for biliousness and they were just
: what I needed. I am feeling bet
Iter now than in years." Never
gripe or distress. Safe, thorough
| and gentle. The very best pills.
J. I. Sturdivant.