The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
O. F. Craig. Editor
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907
The man who gets mad at what the
newspaper says about him should re
turn thanks three times a day for what
the newspaper knew about him and
didn’t tell.
I'resident Roosevelt is said to he
greatly pleased with the state wide
prohibition feature of the Oklahoma
constitution, which, it is said, is one
<nf his strongest reasons for approving
the document.
Newark is a live, wide-awake town,
■while Newport, as a business center,
is as “dead as a door nail,” judging
from the way the merchants of each
town are going out after business
through the columns of their home
papers.—Pocahontas Star-Herald.
In the early days of railroading in
this country no restraint was laid on
any employe from drinking and many
of them were intemperate. Now rail
roads are virtually temperance socie
ties. Many companies will not per
mit any employee to be seen entering
a saloon, nor under any circumstances
to drink intoxicating liquors.
Prof. J. .T. Doyne, superintendent of
public instruction, is sending out all
over the state an address to the school
directors and friends of the education
al interests of the state. The address !
is gotten up in a neat twenty-page;
pamphlet and contains a number of \
chapters relating to subjects bearing
on education. Some space is devoted
to a chapter under the head of “Value
of Education." “Necessity of Educa
tion,” “Taxation of School,” Educa
tion as an Investment,” “Universal
Education, ” “Educational Sentiment.
“Consolidation of Districts,” and
many others of similar nature. The
latter part of tin* little book is devoted
to plans for schools suited to the needs
of the various section of the country.
Arkansas is just now undergoing a
great educational awakening, and The
Journal hopes this little book will
serve to further stimulate school offi
cials, and tht? people generally, along
educational lines.
Life is too short to be overshadow
ed by gloom. Let us live bravely and
cheerfully, as well as indrustriously
and dutifully. The true heart recog
nizes the duty of happiness and faces
■ life with a certain courageous gayety
Ithat solves many doubts and scatters
the clouds of woe and disaster. Let
I us cultivate the habit of cheerfulness
and know that when we cjuench the
innocent joy of a fellow creature by a
word or a frown we are deliberately
destroying a part of the world’s most
precious treasures.
Today, the day of frenzied finance,
when it seems that all the world is
bent solely upon making money and 1
more money, the world’s best-selling
book is the Bible. It takes a tremen
dously successful novel to sell 40,(MM)
or 50,000 copies in a year, hut, on an
average, this record is beaten by the
Bible every day in the year. A state
ment recently published in the New
I York Times, saysthere were sixteen mil
! lion Bibles sold last year. The Ameri
can Bible Society alone has nearly
500 men selling Bibles in savage and re
mote lands, and through the instru
mentality of this one organization
nearly nine million Bibles were sold
last year. _
The Newport Democrat says “Dr.
Jno. H. Dye, the noted evangelist, was
in Newport Saturday, going to New
ark to do missionary work.” This is
is another sample of how well the
Newport papers keep up with the times.
Dr. Dye accepted a call, three months
i ago, to preach here on the first Sun
day in each month and was coming to
! fill his appointment. But the Demo
j erat would shock its readers if it
i should happen to publish anything
| while it is news. They have become
so accustomed to Waterman's way of
wearing his headlight on the wrong
end that they don't expect anything
better of him. But its well they don’t
—you can't expect to take an old broken
down, sweeneyed and spavined stogie
and make even a good plow horse of
him, much less a good roadster.
Newport is still adding to her repu
tation as a tough town, and its getting
to\he point where it is dangerous for
a man to go there. A man can hardly
go there without being held up and
robbed, and the puny and fruitless
efforts of the officials and citizens to
suppress this wa ve of crime does not
speak very well for her people. In
fact Newport is morally rotten,
through and through. The highest
ambition of her people is to get money,
regardless of whether it is honestly or
dishonestly gotten, and it is this greed
for gain which has permeated her en
tire population to such an extent that
the more vicious element, having been
forced to it by the trend of their breth
ren in immaculate shirts and high
collars, have adopted harsher means
and less gentlemanly (?) methods than
their more refined (?) brethren.
WHAT AMERICA MOST NEEDS
Coming at this time and from such
a paper as the Wall Street Journal, a
paper devoted entirely to financial
matters, the following editorial is
somewhat remarkable, but none the
less true, and proves that even the man
who is surrounded by all the luxuries
that wealth can buy, occasional feels
the need of something money cannot
purchase:
‘what America needs more than
j railway extension, and Western irriga
tion, and low tariff, and a bigg’er
wheat crop, and a merchant marine,
and anew navy, is a revival of pietv,
the kind mother and father used to
have—piety that counted it good busi
ness to stop for daily prayer before
breakfast, right in the middle of har
vest: that quit field work a half hour
early Thursday night so as to get the
chores done and go to prayer meeting:
j that borrowed money to pay the
j preacher’s salary and prayed fervent
ly in secret for the salvation of the
man who looked with scorn on such
unbusinesslike behavior. That's what
! we need now to clean this country of
the tilth of graft and greed, petty and
big: of worship of fine houses and big
lands and high office and grand social
functions. \\ hat is this thing we are
worshipping but a vain repetition of
what decayed nations fell down and
whorshipped just before their light
went out? Read the history of Rome
in decay and you will find luxury there
that could lay a big dollar over our
little doughnut that looks so large
to us. Great wealth never made a.
nation substantial nor honorable.
There is nothing on earth that looks
good that is so dangerous for a man
or a nation to handle as quick, easy
| big money. If you resist its deadly
j influence, the chances are that it will
get your son. It takes greater and
finer heroism to dare to be poor in
America than to charge an earthworks
in Manchuria.”
TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS
If your district needs desks, black
boards or school furniture of anv kind,
call and get my prices. [ handle the
best desk made and can make prices !
as low as the lowest. A. A. Render- !
son, Newark, Ark.
PHENOMENAL SALE
We Are Now Selling the Celebrated
Cooper Remedies
IN IMMENSE QUANTITIES
We claim that the sale of them in Newark is larger than any other
proprietory medicine ever introduced in this city. We are receiving won
derful endorsements of these preparations daily from people who have
purchased them from us.
We unhesitatingly say that we have yet to see a case where they have
not given complete satisfaction.
To all who suffer from stomach trouble and rheumatism who will call
on us we will take pleasure in explaining the nature and remarkable
effect of these new medicinal formulas.
WE SELL THEM AS FOLLOWS
Cooper's New Discovery, $1.00 per bottle, six
for $5. Cooper’s Quick Relief, 50c per bottle
THE NEWARK DRUG COMPANY
i
Good
Luck
TO ALL WHO DEAL WITH
M. S. FISHER
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing
and Groceries
EVERYTHING GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION
You Will Find Us to be the
Lowest Priced house in Newark
With the Same Old flotto of
FAIR AND HONEST DEALINGS
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E. B. CHESSER
Notary Public
Bonded by American Surety Co.,
of New York City
J OFFICE IN BANK OF NEWARK
J. R. ALEXANDER
LAWYER
Will practice in all courts: write lire
insurance for the Capital and
best life insurance
Office on Residence Property
NEWARK, :: :: ARKANSAS
WILLIAM N. LEWIS
Writes Fire, Life and Accident Insur~
ance in Best Old Line Companies
Representing the New York Life and
Fidelity Mutual; the Hartford, Amer
ican, Rochester-German. M ichigan
Commercial, etc.; and the Con
tinental Casualty Company.
Newark, .• .* Arkansas
Don’t Preach About
Home Trade
and at the same time send
your orders for job printing
out of town. Your home
printer can do your work just
as good, and in nine cases out
of ten he can beat the city
man s prices, because he pays
much less for running ex
penses. Ry sending your next
printing order to this office
>ou 11 be better satisfied all
around, and you’ll be keeping
the money at home.
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>See [tie Journal about job printing*