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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1009 I
DFFENDERS OF XlGtlT
A man jrroininent in public life in
Illinois made the following1 declara
tion in a recent public speech on
“Good Government:"
“I am especially anxious to empha
size deeply tin* importance of support
ing local newspaper enterprises, and
of rewa big abi •. ab’lv the work
done by the local editor. You cannot
keep this country in order, you cannot
regulate or keep down its finely organ
ized rn ■ lity, unh-ss you have in
every little town, anu it possible in
every little village, the local editor,
who is a moral policeman, using pub
licity as his club.
“If you kill the local editor hv neg
lecting his advertising columns, you
deprive the locality and the country
at large of ti. ■ most important feature
of ’public lefense and good govern
ment. You harm the community, as
you would harm the farmers if you
went systematically to work starving
their watch dogs to death.
“The local editors are the watch
dogs of the local neighborhood, and
in addition to that they are the real
defenders of the public: they do a
work that a 1; .ndful of metropolitan
newspapers cannot pretend to do.
“Fortunately, they give you a good
r turn, th best return of your adver
tising investment, when you advertise
with them wisely, and they will grow
in power and prosperity with the
growth of intelligent advertising.”
A good country road is always to be
desired and is a source of comfort and
convenience to every traveler. Good
roads attract population, as well as
good schools and churches. Good
roads improve the value of the proper
ty, so that it is said a farm lying five
miles from market, connected by a bad
road is of less value than an equally
good farm lying ten miles away from
market connected by a good road. A
larger load can be drawn by one horse
over a good road than by two over a
bad one.
Society must protect itself, and can
do nothing more effective than to
ostracize those who violate the laws of
good conduct. Every man owes it to
himself and to the world to conduct
himself honorably; and when this is
not required, the community is not
dealing justly with itself nor the of
fenders, and is placing a premium on
misconduct.
GET A HOME OF YOUR OWN
Every laboring poor man should
buy himself a small tract of land, if
no more than an acre, or even a town
lot, if he can't buy any more, and go
to work to build himself a home, evesr
if he can build nothing but a two
room house. Work and economize
and get that paid for, and then work
to make the necessary improvements.
A little here and a little there will,
in due time, produce you a home of
your own and place you out of the
landlord's grasp.
Fifty dollars a year saved in rent
and the money it costs you to move j
and sjnft around and the loss of time
and furniture, will pay the interest on
a five hundred dollar mortgage on a
home and enough over to enable you
to gradually reduce the debt to noth
ing.
Any man can buy a modest home
in this way. Why not risk it? If you
fail you are no worse off; and if you
succeed—as any careful man is sure
to do—you have gained a home and
made a good start toward putting
yourself in comfortable circumstances.
LOCAL PAPER IN THE HOME
The local newspaper should be
found in every home. No child will
grow up ignorant who can be taught
to appreciate the home paper. It is
the stepping stone of intelligence in
all those matters not to be learned in
books.
Give your children a foreign paper
which contains nothing about any per
son, place or thing which they ever
saw or perhaps ever heard of, and
how can you expect them to be inter
ested?
But let them have the home paper
and read of persons whom they know
and of places with which they are fa
miliar, and soon an interest is awak- !
ened which increases with every week
ly arrival of the home paper. Thus a
habit of reading is formed, and those
children will read the papers all their
lives and become intelligent and well
posted men and women, a credit to
their ancestors, and strong in their
knowledge of the ways of the world.
Whether in city or country, housed
in its own magnificent building, or
pining in a delapidated mountain
sniU'K, wiui iiiuusaiius amuiru,
with barely a baker’s dozen, the
Sunday school is today considered
the strategic center of the great church
militant. The Sunday schools of the
United States alone are attended by
about 11,500,000 pupils and 1,500,000
teachers. Given a voice in affairs of
church or state, this would represent
no mean influence. The latest statis
tics of the Sunday schools of the world
show 22,738,523 little Christians work
ing their way through the grades of
Bible study, learning the needs of the
mission field and being graduted into
church membership.
The Sharp County Record is thirty
one years young, having entered its
thirty-second year last week. Coger
and the Record make a team that is
hard to beat, and The Journal hopes
they may live to surpass Rockefeller,
both in age and in the size of their
bank account.
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THE HAN WHO HAS j*
A BANK ACCOUNT 1
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The man who has an account at the Bank lias many
advantages over the one who carries his money in
his pocket — he learns to save the small sums which
the man who carries his money in his pocket spends
for the hundred-and one things he does not really
need and could get along just as well without.
He pays his bills by check, increasing his credit,
and always has a receipt. He takes good care of his
account and increases his credit at the Bank.
He can. at any time, tell where his money goes and
see where there is a possibility of saving a little more
for business purposes.
Unless you have a Bank account, right now is the
time to start. Come in and do it today.
MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS BANK
L. S. Arnold, President
A. A. Henderson, Cashier
A sad-faced editor, with fringes on
the bottom of ins trousers, and the
wind sighing mournfully through his
whiskers, sat in his sanctum thinking.
Presently a shadow fell across the
room and a shrill voice demanded to
know if he was the editor. “Yes sir,”
said he with a look of alarm. The
owner of the voice mopped the floor
with the editor and went his way.
Thank heaven! exclaimed the editor
after he had gathered together the
wreck of his former self and had
straightened up the furniture, ‘‘life is
still worth living: I expected he would
tell me to stop his paper.”
A number of young girls at Beaver
ville, Ind., have formed a league to
promote refinement among young men
and, among other things, have resolv
ed to marry no man who drinks,
smoke or chews and who does not
take the home paper. Drinking is
considered the chief evil, smoking and
chewing come next, while the young
women assert that when a man does
not take the home paper it is evidence
of a want of intelligence and that he
will prove too stingy to provide for a
family, educate his children and en
courage institutions of learning in the
community._
Editor O. P. Craig has again resum
ed publication of The Newark Journal,
after a suspension of several months,
and a copy of that paper is now before
us, as bright and as newsy as ever.
Bro. Craig is one of the best news
paper men in North Arkansas and we
gladly welcome The Journal back on
our exchange list. Newark is too
good a town to be without a newspaper
and Craig is too good an editor for
Newark to give up.- Pocahontas Star
Herald.
Encourage your boy to enter the
corn growing contest. The boy who
engages in a contest of this kind,
whether successful or not. gains prac
tical training of great value to him.
He is led to work and think and apply
knowledge to the practical affairs of
life, thus giving him a start toward
developing into manhood and sterling
citizenship and learning the real
nobility of toil.
A man over in Sharp county is agi
tating a movement to cut off a section
of that county known as ‘‘Wild Cat
Corner" and attach it to Independence
county. Thats all right, we are al
ways glad to welcome new corners,
but if Wild Cat Corner wants to get a
divorce from Sharp county and come
into God’s country, we shall in
sist on her changing her name.
The church bell —how its melodies
ring’, as its tones vibrate and linger.
The fashionable belle, with a beau on
her string, has a Ireautiful ring on her
finger. A political ring is a very bad
thing —it scoops in the fool and the
scholar: but so pleasing a ring has no
earthly tiling a- the ring of the hard
silver dollar.
Don't claim au ignorance of evil,
but rise up and over it to purer realms
of thought and action, and help your
self and humanity by thinking and
talking" of the good and beautiful
things all about us—the lieautiful
loves, line friendship, noble charities.
Look for good and you will find it.
There should lie at least fifty boys
in this end of the county enter the corn
growing contest. It will be good foP
them whether they win a prize or not,
but there is no reason why some Inde
pendence county boy should not win
the capital prize.
Congress has appropriated twelve
thousand dollars for the purchase and
oare of automobiles for President
Taft. Congress seems to have no
trouble in finding ways and means of
squandering the peoples' money.
People who live along up Thomas
creek should be careful about throw
ing out too much water at one time.
A couple of dishpans full thrown out
at once causes the creek to overflow a
portion of Southwest Newark.
It cost $2 a month for each man.
woman and child in Memphis to run
the city government of that city last
year. Government comes high in
Memphis and is of a very inferior
brand at that.
If the present wave of prohibition
sentiment keeps up, it will soon be in
01 .er for the South to adopt the
water wagon as her official emblem.
Billie Possum is about to crowd
Teddy Bear clear off the stage.
That we guarantee every pair or
shoes we sell to be full vamps, or
We are making very low prices on
all of our heavy shoes and boots
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When you feel that something good
to eat or drink would touch the
spot, you will find no better place
to get it than at Galloway’s--the
old reliable restaurant v *.* *.*
Short Orders at All Hours
('aimed Goods, Fruits, Confectionery and
Softs brinks a Specialty
WE WANT YOUR PATRONAGE AND WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT
R. M.
NEWARK,
GALLOWAY, Proprietor
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“All men should practice what they
preach," says an Iowa editor. That
doesn't apply to us married men; we
are too busy trying to practice what
our wives preach.
The imprint of honesty and right
living is almost always to be read in
a man’s face. Occasionally, of course,
a typographical error is made, but
not often.
It takes orly two things to make a
critic—ignorance and impudence.
Size up the chronic critics that you
know and see if this isn't about cor
rect.
Few people ever have to repent hold
ing their tongues. Most of the trouble
comes from not holding them.
Let the farmer boys enter the corn
growing contest.
J. R. ALEXANDER
LAWYER
Makes a Specialty of Land, Mort
gage and Probate Law
Office on Main Street
NEWARK, :: ARKANSAS
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Phone No. 30 Phone No. 61
PASCOE & POE
Physicians and Surgeons
Office with Newark Drug Company,
Front Street. Phone No 17.
Office hours8 to 12 a. in., and 1 to5 p. m,
A. L. McCLARI)
Physician and Surgeon
-Telephone 65 -
OFFICE IN POSTOFFICE BLDG.
NYAL’S
On a medicine means “It
is right.” We obtained the
distributing agency for Xy
al’s Family Remedies be
cause during all the years
that they have been on the
market they have been found
good That is just the sort of
preparation we want to han
dle-tilings that have been
found good by long trial.
There are over fifty Nyal’s
Remedies—too many to men
tion here, and they are all
good.
Come to us when you need
anything a Good Drug Store
ought to have—it’s here, and
we’ll take pleasure in show
ing how well we can serve
you.
We want your business
and will endeavor to render
you good service at all times.
NEWARK DRUG COMPANY
Jas. B. Ketchem, flgr.
MOW TO CURE SKIN DISEASES.
The germs that cause skin disease*
must he drawn to the surface of theskiu
and destroyed.
zr; MO, a clean liquid for external use,
will do this and will permanently cure
every form of itching skin disease.
* °r sale everywhere. Write for sam*
pie, E. W. Rose Medicine Co.,St Louis.
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