The
NEWARK
One Dollar Per Annum.
NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY AUGUST 22, 1902.
Vol. 2 No. 34.
A LETTER FROM TEXAS
B. F. Cash Writes Interestingly
About Things Connected
With Texas.
To the Editor of The Journal.
As a great many of my friends,
relatives and acquaintances are
readers of your valuable paper,
for their gratification will you al
low me space for a short article
from this section of Texas i
I shjdl not confine myself to any
particular subject, but will write
whatever occurs to my mind. I
have been in Texas 17 months. On
the 2t!th day of February, 1901,
I boarded the train at Newark and
bid farewell to friends, relatives
and native home. I landed in
Clarksville, Tex., Februaay 27.
At the time I left Newark there
was hardly a schoolboy or girl in
that magnificent little town that I
did not know, as 1 had attended a
part of three terms of school there
under Prof. Henderson. I en
gaged in farm work near Clarks
ville for eight months, then mov
ed from there to Upshur county,
which is my present home. Have
been engaged in farming and teach
ing school since I have been in
this county.
The country surrounding Clarks
ville is prairie, interspersed with
scopes of timber. The land is
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you stick to it when it's dr.v. it will
stick to you when it's wet. There
are holes wallowed out in the tim
bered parts that was done by buffa
loes, years ago, so t he old settlers
say. The land is very fertile and
yie.lds bountiful crops. Upshur
county is a pine timbered country
and the land is sandy. It is well
adapted to cotton, fruit, and veg
etables but is not well adapted to
cereals.
Teachers’ salaries are much bet
ter here than in Arkansas and the,
terms of school are longer especi
ally in rural schools. The examin
ations here are more rigid than in
Arkansas. We have an adopted
series of text books here, but ac
cording to my knowledge the sub
ject matter is of an inferior grade.
I have attended two teachers’ in
stitutes and one association since 1
have been in this county. I have
got acquainted with several teach
ers, and find them very sociable.
The people on the prairies are
more of an aristocratic nature than
ia this part of the country, (i ti
mer is the county seat of Upshur
county. It is a business little
town and is growing rapidly, but
w
ework wtecKs
— . a And the constant
men’s none.• ftnA night, Is
care of children, > eyen a strong
\ oft*" to° A^haggard face tells the
woman. A ^!Lorked housewife
story of the °'er n?ed menses,
. and " wa'and falling of the
{ \eucorrhren overwork.
| womb result f ^ rcniedy
Every hous enscs and to
l-;eCse"Sve female organs
rporfeotcondi^- J
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.1 last that the " aYl,er
L-n work »h«t wa ■wine is 1
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nothing to compare with Clarks
ville and other neighboring towns.
It is noted as once being the home
of ex-Governor Chas. Culberson.
He attended the common schools
at that place in his boyhood days.
He is said to be one of the linest
jurists and orators of the state,
and is now one of the United
States senators from Texas. 1 see
his name has been suggested as a
candidate for President, but 1
think he is too far south.
Texas as a whole is a grand state,
over three million people have i
their home in Texas. Of all the
cotton raised in the world, Texas j
raises one out of every four bales.
Texas was first settled at Fort St.
Louis, on the Lavaca river, in 16S5
by Lasalle. Lasalle was a distin
guished Frenchman. He was kill
ed by one of his own men. An
old Missionary Priest dug a shal
low grave, and hurried him with
his own hands. He erected a cross
over the lowly mound. In that
lonely spot was hurried, March
20th 1087, the man who shaped
the destiny of Texas. Like Seb
astian Cabot, his burial place is
not known, but the best authori
ties declare it to be on the Neches
river in Southeast Texas. No
doubt but what the plowman plods
his weary way along over the re
mains of this gallant here, who
lost his life there over two hund
red years ago. Hut as is said by
the poet Gray:
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp
of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth
e’re gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour;
The paths of glory lead but to the
grave.”
Probably there are many old
soldiers in Arkansas who know
nothing of General Albert Sidney
Johnson, more than that he was a
brave general and was killed in the
battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April »>.
ls<>2. lie spent a good portion
of his life in Texas, lie was born
in Kentucky in 1803, and gradu
ated at West Point in ls3d. He
served in the Black Hawk war and
soon after entered the army of
Texas and became secretary of war
for that republic. lie passed
through the Mexican war, was af
terwards a planter for a short
time, but again entered the United
States army and rose to the posi
tion of paymaster general- Hav
ing espoused the Confederate
cause, he was appointed a general
and given a command in the West.
General Rusk, of Texas, at one
time appointed Johnson to super
cede Felix Hustin (not Houstin)
as commander-in-chief of the Tex
as army. This offended Ilustin
and he challenged Johnson. A duel
followed, and Johnson was so se
verely wounded as to render him
unfit for military duty. After he j
was killed at Shiloh his remains;
were carried to Austin, Tex., and
interred in the state hurrying
ground.
For fcnr that I might tux the
patience of some, I will close. I
hope to meet my friends and rel
atives of Newark and surrounding
country some time in the near fu
ture. Success to The Journal and
its many readers. 11. F. Cash.
Bettie, Texas
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The North and the Negro.
It is a mistake to assume that
consuming love for the negro in
heres in and exudes from people
m the parts ot the country where
the negro is not indigenous—Kan
sas, for instance. The Atchison
(Kan.) Glohe says there are two
strong Republican towns in Kan
sas in which a negro is not allow
ed to live. One is Nortonville
ami the other is Buileyville, in
Nebarska county, the home of W.
J. Hailey, the Republican candi
date for governor- It might lie
added that lynchings and burn
ings at the stake of negroes in
Kansas show that bleeding Kan
sas of today wants the negroes to
do the bleeding.—Gazette.
HEAD AND HAND WORK
Why Head Work Wins in the
Great Life Struggle For
Supremacy.
Head-work is superior to hand
work. The head is the master,
the hands the slaves to do its bid
ding. Hands can neither reason
nor form conclusions, and the
work they do is valuable or u?o
less just as the head is clear and
its dicta obeyed. A clear head
and willing hands form the com
bination that wins the victor} in
the battle of life, and invincible
in every field. To be clear the
head must have the clouds of in
herited ignorance removed by the
application of the x-ray of educa
tion. To be willing servants the
hands must be trained to obeui
enee, alertness and intelligent re
sponsiveness. In military affairs
this truth is fully realized. At
great expense officers are educat
o/l «in.l f i at nod ir. t ho liond.vvm'L
that war demands, and soldiers
arcdiilled and disciplined to rec
ognize and act upon the military
maxim that “obedience is the
whole duty of a soldier.” These
are the head and hands of war.
An army without intelligent and
trained officers become a mob that
is liable to run headlong into de
feat, or by ill-advised action to
bring dishonor to the fl ig. Such
an army or such a mob is incapa
ble of anything praiseworthy.
This theory applies equally to all
the business affairs (if life. It
lias been recognized in some call
ings and neglected in others, and
just to the extent til it it has been
recognized or neglected has suc
cess or failure resulted. There
are men now who sneer at agri
cultural education, contending
that any man knows how to hand
le a plow or a hoe knows how to
farm—that all there is in farming
is hard work and plenty of it.
This means that the operations
of a farm are measured by the
amount ot sweat expended and
that the head lias nothing to do
with it. Such ideas w«re once
far more common that they are
now, for all farmers of intelli
gence recognize the authority of
the head, and obey its oiders.
The result has been to largely re
model farm life, relieve it of its
lonesomeness and drudgery and
raise it to the rank of a profession
wherein learning of the highest
degree may tie made subservient
to the production of crops, then
utilization and marketing, and tiie
satisfying pleasures of rural
homes. The country prospers
just as farmers prosper. Men in
every business measure their
operations by the crop reports,
showing that they are as much
concerned about farming as farm
ers themselves. The man who
opposes agricultural education, if
UUt il IIMII Ul UCJ'lll Willi, 11.13
quired a degree of foolishness
t hat could be overlooked only in
an asylum for idiots.—Texas
Farm and Ranch.
To My Friends.
It is with joy I tell you what
Kodol did forme. I was troubled
with my stomach for several
months. Up#on being advised to
use Kodol, I did so, and words
cannot tell the good it has done
me. A neighbor had dyspepsia so
that he had tried most every
thing. I told him to use Kodol.
Words ot gratitude have come to
me from him because 1 recom
mended it.—Geo. \V. Fry, Viola,
Iowa. Health and strength, of
mind and body, depends on the
stomach, and normal activity of
the digestive organs. Kodol, the
great reconstructive tonic, cures
all stomach and bowel troubles,
indigestion, dyspepsia. Kodol di
gests any good food you eat.
Take a dose after meals. J, I.
Sturdivant.
| SOUTHERN RESOURCES
Among the Southern States That
are Rich in Natural Re
sources is Arkansas.
The South is taking part in the
forward movement of the national
prosperity ami will share in the
benefits promised in the profits of
farmers and cattle raisers.
The drawbacks to which the
South has been subjected seem
destined to become of added ad
vantage to it. The years in which
it lay fallow from the industrial
standpoint ctid not destroy any of
its immense natural resources tor
manufacturing, nor did they in
jure materially its natural capa
bilities. On the other hand, it
gave it the benefit of experience
of other parts of the country in
many lines, and the opportunity,
when energies were renewed, to
start fresh with the modern and
nest maenmery.
Some of the results appear in
the textile industry, some in the
economical handling of mineral
deposits and some in the wide
spread interest in scientific lum
bering from Tennessee to Tex
as.
Typical of some other portions
of the South is Arkansas. The
state has already shown what it
can do in agriculture and horti
culture, and its mineral proper
ties, especially lead and zinc, have
[attiactcd practical attention tim
ing the past year.
It is exceedingly well for the
country at large that Arkansas has
been a tiille backward, for now
her magnificent forests of hard
wood and pine will not be ruth
lessly wasted, as were those of In
diana and Ohio, to make a deal
ing for a patch of corn. Giart
oaks will not he felled, rolled into
vast heap and burned to get them
out of the way and oak and hick
ory and walnut trees will not lie
split up into rails for fences.
The hardwoods of Arkansas
form o.ie of the largest bodies of
such timber left standing in the
United States, because the settler
has largely gone by on the other
side and now, when the people
have learned to understand that
one big tree may'ho worth almost
the price of .1 small farm, the
wooded wealth of Arkansas will
he used in a way to benefit the
whole people as well as the own
er.
While a large portion of the
timber being cut goes out of the
State to he worked up, yet indust
ries are increasing which turn out
the finished product.
The furniture industry is grow
ing, and it is regarded as enevita
ble that some day there will he
one or more Southern centers of
furniture making, and that wag
ons and carriages wilt he made in
the state instead of where there is
no raw material.
Slate quarrying, brick-making
and development of deposits of
phosphates, asphaltum and baux
ite ore also occupying the interests
of investors. These changes have
come about with the construction
of railroads,
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Patents at Cut Prices.
In order to Keep buisy during t ho
summer, Swift & Co., the prompt
and proper patent lawyers, oppo
site U. S. Patent Offiee, Wash
ington, D. C., have made a big
eut in the price for obtaining
patents, inventors who desire
to save money and get the host
work should write them while the
eut priees prevails.
Little Man of a Town.
Did you ever see him? Yes to
know him one needs no introduc
tion. lie is the fellow that will
not turn loose a dollar unless he
sees two in its place, he is the fel
low that you meet and have to
contend with when you make a
move in the way of progress, in
any shape he is the fellow that
dies failure, ere the crterprise
begun, but if he happens to have
a lot of anj kind of property
where improvements are contem
plated will hold on to it line giim
death and put such a price on
what ho has that would stagger a
Digger Indian, and yet claim that
he is progressive and wants the
town to improve. Yes ho wants
it to impiove if it will increase
his values but is not willing to
contribute one cent to help.
Like the fellow up in the amen
corner who hollows “amen” every
time some one drops a quarter in
the missionary box lint when it
reaches him he drops a penny and
grunts. The community could
get along without him. lie is no
good. Sum Jones says there are
two kind of hogs (Sam ought to
know about hogs) one that eats
all he can get, and the other that
keeps all he can get.—Ex.
It Needs a Tonic.
There are times when youi liver
needs a tonic. Don’t give purga
tives that gripe and weaken. De
Witt's Lillie Early Kisers expel
all poison from the system and
acts its tonic to the liver. W.
Scott, 531 Highland uve., Milton,
l*a., says; “I have carried De
Witt's Eiltle Early Risers with
me foi several years ami would
not lie witliout them.” Small and
easy to take. Purely vegetable.
They never giipo oi distress. J.
I. Sturdivant.
Don’t Hesitate.
A scientist says that if the earth
was flattened the sea would he
two miles deep all over the world.
After due meditation :*n editor
gave out the following: “If any
i man is caught flattering the earth
shoot him on the spot and don’t
lie partieulai about the spot,
there's a whole lot of us here
who can't s\\ im.”
The Old Home Paper.
Did you ever tun across an old
home paper, say some ten years
old or more ? Did it not prove
extremely interesting as you read
its columns of local news and per
sonal mention? As you look over
its pages the many seemingly tri
vial mentions carry with them a
multitude of tender and pleasant
associations. You wonder why
you prize the paper so little when
it was tirst printed when yon lind
it so full of interest and reflection
after so iiiaiiv years. It is only
when one gets hold of an old local
paper and views its panorama of
the past and reflects on what a
mirror of local events the papeis
are, that you begin to estimate
their real value as a recorder of
current history. You then real
ize how worthy ot support and
patronage the little collector and
recorder of the life and doings of
uMiimuimj w«ib9 ninui 11 i/m
\vec*k to week and year to year it
so carefully portrayed. People
make a lug mistake by failing to
pluieon tile the copies of their
local paper, which in after years
are highly prized and of much in
terest.—Ex.
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A Necessary Precaution.
Don’t neglect a cold. It is worse
than unpleasant. It is danger'
ous- By using One Minute Cough
Cure you can cure it at once.
Allays inflammation, clears the
head, soothes ami strengthens
the mucous membrane. Cures
coughs, croup, throat and lung
troubles. Absolutely safe. Acts
immediately. Children like it. J.
I. Sturdivant.
Clave Negroes a Warning.
Clarendon, Aug. 15.—Shooting
scrapes and lights have become so
! frequent among the negroes that
| the people begin to fear injury
| from stray bullets and last night
a committee of thirty-five repres
entative citizens called on three
of the lcadeis among the negroes
| and told them that the negroes
who next engaged in a disturbance
of any kind will be lynched.
SOLVED THE PROBLEM
Arkansas Han Claims to Have
Solved the Perpetual Mo
tion Problem.
An Arkansas mechanic has in
vented a machine which he claims
means peipetual motion, and his
invent ion is receiving considerable
notice.
The contrivance is described as
being simple in appearance, but
the inventor* J. S. Grimes, says
lie has devoted twelve years to its
development. He first took a
circular peice cat from n thick
hoard and trimmed down the edge
to represent a cin ulnr switch-back
railway, in the center of this
bom cl he fastened a second circu
lar board on a oteel post which fit
into a bail-hearing bicycle axle.
To the top board was fastened,
by means of a rod, a small wheel
which was so fixed that it would
strike at each revolution of the
upper board at a point near the
top of the incline plane of the low
er board, the lower board being
slightly inclined. Grimes then
idnccd a wcialit on too of tlu> no.
per iliac, placed tho wheel at the
top of the inclined plane, released
u and the machine began to move
and continued in motion until
stopped by its inventor.
The machine is started by a
wheel running down the incline
on one side. This takes the
weight on the opposite side away
from the center of gravity and it
carries the machine around until
the wheel stiikes the top of the
ineline again, when new force is
imparted to the revolving upper
disc. The inventor says lie work
ed tor six years before lie discov
ered a way to force the carrier
wheel over tho highest point of
the circular track, although the
distance to overcome in his ma
chine was less than un inch.
.Sune western capitalists have
manifested sufficient interest in
the invention to organize a com
pany to exploit the invention.
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Serious Cutting Affray.
.Mena, Aug. Id.—A seriou%cut
ting affray occurred a few duys
ago at the old Johnson mill, west
of L)e Queen. Tho yard foreman
at the mill, Henry Laid, accused
a farmer’s son ot thut locality of
poisoning a dog that belonged to
him. The boy denied it, and dur
ing the alternation that ensued he
whipped out a knife and made a
slash at Ladd, who threw up his
left arm to ward off the blows,
and received a cut clear to the
bone across the upper muscles.
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A Good Hearted
Man,
or in other words, men with
good sound hearts, are not very
numerous. The increasing
number of sudden deaths from
heart disease
daily chron
icled by the
press, is proof
of the alarm
ing preva
lence of this
dangerous
com pi aint,
and as no one
can foretell
just when a
fatal collapse ^ Kreamar.
will occur, the danger of neg
lecting treatment is certainly a
very risky matter. If you are
short of breath, have pain in
left side, smothering spells, pal
pitation, unable to lie on side,
especially the left, you should
begin taking
M?ieV Heart Cure.
J. A. K reamer of Arkansas City, Kans,
says: “My heart was so bad it was Im
possible for me to lie down, and I could
neither sleep nor rest. My decline was
rapid, and I realized I must get help
soon. I was advised to try Dr. Miles'
Heart Cure, which 1 did, and candidly
believe it saved my life.’’
Dr. Miles’ Remedies nr* acid
by all druggists an guarantee.
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
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