the CHILD AND THE BIBLE.
Writer in Appleton's Makes Sugges
tions Worth Considering.
The Bible is not a dreary hook. It
is a cheerful book. It is not a dull
book. It is an intensely interesting
book. Not all parts of it are appropri
ate reading for children. \N hy should
they be? Some parts are not even fit
for children to read. Bible literature
must be given to children with dis
crimination. just as should any other
literature. Your boy will be just as
much interested in Bible stories as in
any other stories, unless you frighten
him away from them. Also you will
find that he wants the real Bible
stories, not somebody's imitations. If
he sometimes prefers "Diamond Dick
-—The Boy Pirate," or its like, it
doesn't show that Bible stories do not
interest him. It shows simply that you
must use some tact in competing with
the author of "Diamond Dick.” The
Bible stories do him good, and "Dia
mond Dick" does ubt. Naturally he
does not want to be done good to all
the time, any more than do the rest
of us.
Instead of making him memorize
the Bible for punishment, let him
memorize carefully selected passages
in place of some other work. He may
not thank you at the time, hut he will
some time. It will give him a heritage
of pleasure and profit upon which he
may draw at will for the rest of his
life. Don’t give him the idea that
every Bible story is a moral lesson.
Some Bible stories are no more moral
than some newspaper stories. If you
confuse the moral and tlie historical
your boy may grow up in doubt as to
whether an Amalechite is a sin or a
man. No matte r what the theologians
may have said to the contrary, it is
not sacrilegious to treat the Bible
sensibly. In fact, it seems to us sac
rilegious to treat it any other way.
Perhaps you were made wretched in
your childhood by having the Bible
unintelligently crammed down your
throat. Perhaps you were made to
memorize whole chapters by way of
punishment. That that was not the
best way to make you fond of it, never
occurred to your parents. They had
never heard of child psychology. Per
haps you were threatened with hell
unless you believed every word in the
Bible true in its narrowest, its most
literal sense. Perhaps you remember
family prayers where your father read
from the Bible in a dreary monotone
while the rest of you sat in awed
silence. From all this dreariness you
wish to protect your child, and no
wonder! But that is no reason for
depriving him of the real Bible.—Ap
pleton's Magazine.
Improved Matrimonial Conditions.
Dr. L. C. Haliburton, the noted Kng
lish statistician, was discussing in
New York the statistics of marriage—
marriage statistics are his specialty.
“The last statistics,” he said, “show
us one pleasant change, one grand im
provement. Aged men of wealth are
no longer marrying beautiful, mer
cenary young women as frequently as
they used. In fact, these marriages
are becoming in this country so rare
that the newspapers don’t hesitate to
comment very forcibly upon them. I
approve of these cruel comments.
They keep such mockeries of mar
riage down." Haliburton smiled grim
ly. “In a little town in Herts last
month,” he said, “a millionaire of 79
married a young and pretty milliner
of 22. The local paper printed the
next day this editorial paragraph on
the matter: "Six months ago. when
Mr. Blank's venerable wife died, his
children and grandchildren feared
that he would go crazy over the sad
bereavement. Their fears have now
come true.”
Submarines for Sponge Fishing.
Illustrations, together with a full
•description, are given in a Parisian
journal of a novel type of submarine
intended for the sponge fishing indus
try on the coast of Tunis. The vessel
is built wholly of iron and is 16.4 feet
iu length by 5.24 feet in diameter, the
general form being cylindrical, with
hemispherical ends. It is intended to
carry two men, and is fixed so as to
■enable the vessel to move along the
.sea bottom. An electric lamp with
reflectors fixed in front will serve to
illuminate the bed of the sea, and a
glazed spy-hole in the bow of the ves
sel enables the crew to seek out and
gather the sponges.
Spokes and Tires.
John D. Rockefeller has one virtue
■yrhich even his greatest critics won’t
deny him: He doesn’t affect public
dinners. The secret of this abstinence
he recently confided to his family
physician.
“In the first place," he said, “I
can’t eat much, as you know.”
“But you don't have to eat at such
feasts,” protested the doctor.
“I’m aware of that,” replied .1. D.,
“but you do have to sit through the
speeches, and if there's anything I
dread it’s that sort of thing. To my
mind an after-dinner speech is like a
bicycle wheel; the longer the spoke
the greater the tire.”
IN ADVERTISING A CITY
Up-to-Date Methods Must Be Em
ployed to Ering Capital.
In this day of progress and of ad
vertising, not alone do business firms
i realize t>e importance of publicity,
but municipalities find it essential to
tell the world of advantages they
possess for the homeseeker and those
seeking business locations.
A few- years ago, the city of St.
Louis commenced the raising of a fifnd
of $400,000 for the purpose of ad
vertising in the newspapers and maga
zines, by pamphlet and otherwise, tho
growing Importance of St. Louis. Den
ror. Col., raised a fund of $100,000
which was employed in general a.lver
| Using and the paying of lecturers to
■ visit various parts of the country
wiih stereopticon views showing pic
iorially the industries of Colorado.
The business men of Kansas City re
cently inaugurated a campaign to call
the attention of the world to the great
resources of that town and the trib
utary country. In Kansas City sign
boards are used freely to tell of the
many things that Kansas City posses
ses and which are not possessed by
other cities. The visitor to the town
is impressed by the information con
veyed to him from these sign boards.
Such striking statements as "Do you
know that beans are cheaper in Kan
sas City than in Boston? They are."
It is a fact "Flour is cheaper in Kan
sas City than in Minneapolis." Other
sign boards tell by comparison that
taxes per thousand dollars of valua
tion are lower In Kansas City than in
numerous other cities, aiui attention
is called to the number of miles of
fine boulevards in the city.
Another means employed is the use
of full page advertisements in the
daily papers of the leading citizens.
These advertisements are carefully
prepared presenting various maps,
showing the advantage the country
possesses over other cities in differ
ent industrial lines.
It appears that this plan of adver
tising can be most successfully fol
lowed out by the enterprising men of
any city. In the smaller towns where
there are not great opportunities for
manufacturing, advertising to the peo
ple showing the benefits to be derived
from patronage of home institutions
could be profitably carried on. There
is no town so small but that it can be
helped by judicious advertising.
Every town wherein a weekly paper
is published there is a means of giv
ing publicity to the advantages pos
sessed by the place. The home paper
Is one of the most telling and force
ful advertisements any town can have.
Every advertisement of a home insti
tution speaks for the enterprise of
the place, and to strangers illustrates
the spirit and enterprise that is pos
sessed by the people. It is always
well to bear in mind that seekers for
homes and for business locations never
pick out the dead towns. A small
town where the people are enterpris
ing often holds forth to the prospec
tive settler greater opportunities than
do the larger cities.
D. M. CARR.
Are Amenable to Reason.
Farmers are usually amenable to
reason, the same as any of the rest
of the human race. They do not buy
of peddlers or catalogue houses be
cause they want to snub their own
hofi“ town and home merchants, but
because the article is brought par
ticularly to their notice, embellished
with a How of convincing language
calculated to impress them at once
with the superior merits the article
so presented and with the alleged fact
that they are saving considerable
money by buying in that way.
The fact that the article is not su
perior and is really considerably
higher priced does not appear, for the
reason, perhaps, that the local dealer
has never taken the trouble to adver
tise his wares, or has never called
the farmers into his store and shown
them the article, made comparisons
between it and the peddled article
and showed them that he, the dealer,
is actually the one who is saving them
motley, not only in the first cost, but
In repairs and wearing qualities as
well.
There is too much of a disposition
on the part of most dealers to take
it for granted that their customers—
or those who might and should be
their customers—know all about their
stock, its qualities and-prices, as com
pared with those that may be put up
to them by the peddler or the mail
order man. Instead, they should make
it their business to throw a flood of
light on these questions at every op
portunity. In other words they should
advertise, in the way that thqir judg
ment and experience dictate, or in
various ways, so there will be no ex-4
euse, at least, for any possible cus
tomer remaining in ignorance.
Luncheon Fad.
Among the new social fads Is that
of serving a poached egg on a small
square of toast to each guest at lunch
eons and teas. This has long been an
F.nglish custom and has lately been
introduced in New’ York by society
women who have just returned from
London.
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STATE NEWS ITEMS
Trains are now running into Ileber
over the new Missouri and North
Arkansas road. %
A. T. Talbot, a negro, was shot
and killed by his son at Seotts, a
small place near Lonoke, a few days
ago.
The Prohibitidbists of Arkansas will
hold a convention in Little Rock, July
8, for the purpose of electing1 delegates
to the national Prohibition convention.
The six-year-old son of Fred Francis,
living near Gravette, accidentally shot
and perhaps fatally wounded hi-> two
year-old sister Tuesday while playing
with a pistol.
The entire family of William Moore
of Bonanza is suffering from poison
ing contracted in eating stale meat.
The beef had been left too long in a
refrigerator. The younger members
of the family will recover, hut the re
covery of the father is doubtful.
Prof. ('. H. Bateman of Imboden,
recently elected principal of the South
Jonesboro school, was seriously and
possibly fatally injured in an accident
which occured while he was playing
ball Sunday afternoon at Imboden.
He was injured in the stomach and it
is feared that a blood vessel was
parted.
BURGLARY AT COTTER
Saturday night Ik-tween midnight
and early morning some one broke
into the depot at Cotter and blew the
safe ojK-n, taking all the money they
could find, about $4, and in their haste
overlooking about $10 more. There
is no clue as to who the robbers were,
more than it is thought to have been
the work of the floaters that have been
laying around Cotter for some time.
We have just received a car load of
handsome to)) buggies, run-a-bouts,
surreys, and spring wagons, which we
will sell during our semi-annual sale
la-ginning July 1st (which runs for JO
day) at greatly reduced prices. Wolff
Goldman Merc. Co., Newport, Ar
kansas. 7-10
We do not need money ourselves,
but the fellows we owe want us to
pay. Pay your subscription and help
the other fellow out.
ASSESSOR'S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that 1 wall
attend in person, or by deputy, at the
usual voting- places in the various
townships of Independence county,
Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a
list of the personal property of each
resident of said township and the per
capita tax of such as are liable to pay
the same for the year 1908, on the days
and dates s|>ecilied below:
Big Bottom township, at Newark,
Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4.
Magness township, at Magness,
Monday and Tuesday, July <i and 7.
White River township, at Sulphur
Rock, Wednesday and Thursday, July
8 and 9.
Ruddell township, at Batesville,
Friday, Saturday and Monday, July
10, 11 and lJ.
At my office in the Court House at
Batesville, July 14 to 24, after which
which time all persons failing to assess
will be subject to penalty.
You must assess in person. Hach
person will have to swear to his or her
assessment, and each person will be
required to give number of school dis
trict. School directors will please
furnish list of tax-payers at precinct
on first day of assessment.
J. .1. Caldwell, Assessor,
Independence < ounty, Arkansas.
ADVERTISED LETTERS
The following is a list of letters re
maining uncalled for in the Newark
postoffice July 1, 1908.
Mary Brumley
B. T. Clark
Mary Daggett
Mary Green
Grace Hamilton
Mrs. K. Miller
E. Miller
G. S. Mansell
R. Meriwethers
R. T. P»)>e
A. Stogsdill
E. J. Schmitt
T. ,T. Selvidge
Mrs. Sue Taylor
W. A. Williams
If not called for in 30 days will be
sent to the dead letter official Wash
ington. I). C. When calling for above
letters say advertised.
T. M. Hakhelson, P. M.
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jnd(ed ae much by the quality of
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kind of printing for you at this office — the kind that stimulate* business pride, and kelp*
your credit wrth the outside busiaera world.
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Spalding Base Balls,
Bats and Gloves.
Also have a fine lot of
Fishing Tackle, Trot
Lines, Staging, Minnow
Buckets, etc.
Call on us before pur
chasing anything in this
line.
We treat you right.
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