The Newark Journal.
_ O. F. CRAIG. Editor.
NEWARK- - i ARKANSAS.
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CANAL IS 2,500 YEARS OLD.
At Least the Corinthian Was Under
Contemplation as Long
Ago as That.
“Speaking of canals,” said the
engineer who had been talking
about Panama, “a very interest
ing canal, and one not much heard
of, is that connected with the gulf
of Corinth and the gulf of Aegina
in Greece.
“It's some older than any we
have in the western hemisphere,
also, for I'eriander, tyrant of
Corinth, proposed to cut through
the isthmus as long ago as GOO
years before Christ. Superstition
stopped him, however. .
“Julius Caesar and Caligula
took it up again when Rome had
hold of Greece, but it was too
much for them. Then came Nero,
and he went at it with vigor, but
the work stopped when he died.
“Others kept pounding away
at it for the next several hundred
years, but it was not until 1881
that real work of the Nero en
ergy was put upon it. Then Gen.
Turr, aide-de-camp to Victor Em
manuel of Italy, organized acorn
pany and worked on til! the mon
ev gave out in 1800. the chief ob
stacle being some kind of flint
which dynamite couldn't break.
“About |10,000,000 was spent
np to 1800. and then Mr. Syngros
took hold, organized a new com
pany, with $905,000 working cap
ital, and finished the job in 1893.
It is only about four miles long,
but it is 09 feet wide at the bot
f |
tom, about 80 feet wide at water
line, 20 feet and three inches
deep in water, and it is cut nearly
all the way through solid rock,
rising at some points for 209 feet
above the canal.
“It is like a canyon, and ships do
not take kindly to it. the entrance
being bad, a strong wind blowing
through it as through a great air
shaft, and there is at times a
strong reverse current.
“It is an interesting trip
through the canal, and it saves 123
miles of very rough water and 20
hours of time; but so far skippers
prefer to go through the peninsula
rather than through the canal,
though with some changes which
will be made it is believed the
canal will become of general use
as soon as a few ships begin to use
it and remove the prejudice now
existing against it.”
The Aristocracy of Pork.
When Theodore Parker first vis
ited Cincinnati, at that time the
recognized leader among west
ern cities, he said that he had
made a great discovery—namely,
that while the aristocracy of Cin
cinnati was unquestionably found
ed on pork, it made a great differ
ence whether a man killed pigs for
himself or whether his father had
killed them. The one was held ple
beian, the other patrician. It was
the difference, Parker said, be
tween the stick 'ems and the stuck
’ems; and his own sympathies, he
confessed, were with the present
tense.—Atlantic.
Kite-Flying Animals.
Animal locomotion sometimes
shows itself in forms not unlike
kite-flying and parachuting. The
“parachuting animals*’ are mam
mals—flying squirrels of various
kinds—birds (the pigeon), rep
tiles, flying fishes. Among .the
“kite flyers” are spiders and flies.
-—Natural History of Animals.
Aftermath.
“Why are you so quiet this even
ing, dear?” she asked. “Are you
thinking about how wo became en
gaged last night?”
“Yes,” he answered, with a deep
sigh. “You see, Pm perfectly so
l)er to-night.” — Chicago Daily
News.
Mexico’s Silver.
For 300 years Mexico has pro
dueed one-third of all the silvei
mined.
BE WARNED.
Heed nature's warning's! P*in tells
of lurking disease.
Backache is kidney
pain—a warning of
kidney ills. Urinary
troubles, too, come
to tell you the kid
neys are sick. Con
stant weariness,
headaches, dizzy
spells, days of pain,
1 nights of unrest are
danger signals
warning you to cure
the kidneys. Use
Doan’s Kidney Pills,
which have made
thousands of perma
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Frank D. Overbaugh, cattle-buver ami
farmer, Catskill, N. Y., says: ‘-Doctors
told me ten years ago that I had
Bright's Disease, and said they could do
nothing to save me. My back ached so
I could not stand it to even drive about,
and passages of the kidney secretions
were so frequent as to annoy me greatly.
I was growing worse all the time but
Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and I
have been well ever since.”
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr. Overbaugh
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
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sale by all dealers; price 50 cents
per box.
The Value of the Japanese Yen.
When the public reads that 100,000,
000 yen has provisionally been set
apart by Japan for war purposes it may
perhaps put an exaggerated estimate
on that amount. Although Japan has
a gold standard, the yen is of silver
currency, and fluctuates with the price
of silver, so that the moment 100,000,
000 of them means scarcely more than
£ 10,000,000. But even this is an im
mense amount in a country in which
the wages of a skillful artisan are
often not more than 3 yen a week. The
Japanese currency system is decimal.
Thus the yen, or dollar, is divided into
100 sen or cents, the sen into 10 rin,
the rin into 10 mo, the mo into 10
shu, the shu, finally, into 10 kotsu.
Government accounts do not take ac
counts of any value smaller than a rin,
but estimates by private tradesmen
often descend to mo and shu, which
are incredibly minute fractions of a
farthing. No coin exists, however, to
represent these lilliputian sums.—Lon
don Chronicle.
The Moonshiner'* firief.
“I don’t mind the government fel
lows breaking up the ‘still,’ after
they’ve caught me an’ captured my be
longin's,” said the Georgia moonshiner,
‘‘but it breaks my heart to see 'em
stave-in some o’ the whisky barrels an’
let the lieker run!”
“When did that happen?”
“Once or twice. An' thar wuz lieker
enough in one o’ them barrels to make
ever’ poor man in the country feel as
rich as Morgan, an' imagine he wuz in
love with his mother-in-law!”—Atlan
to Constitution.
Can't Deny Hrr*«*lf.
“I thought your wife was going to
Europe?”
"She does intend to, but has decided
to put it off for a month or two. If
she went now she wouldn’t have any
chance to look through the houses that
are to be for rent this spring.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
“If in need of work, don’t come to
the World's fair looking for it,” say
the fair officials. Every berth is taken
IN AN OLD TRUNK
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It.
While the mother was unpacking an
old trunk a little 18 months old baby
got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid
while playing on the floor and his stom
ach was so badly burned it was feared
he would not live for he could not eat
ordinary foods. The mother says in
telling of the case:
“It was all two doctors could do to
Eave him as it burnt his throat and
Etomach so bad that for two months
after he took the poison nothing would
lay on his stomach. Finally I took him
into the country and tried new milk
and that was no better for him. His
Grandma finally suggested Grape-Nuts,
end I am thankful I adopted the food
for he commenced to get better right
away and would not eat anything else.
He commenced to get fleshy and his
cheeks like red roses and now he is en
tirely well.
“I took him to Matamoras on a visit
and every place we went to stay to eat
he called for Grape-Nuts and I would
have to explain how he came to call for
It as it was his main food.
“The names of the physicians who at
tended the baby are Dr. Eddy of this
town and Dr. Geo. Gale of Newport, 0.,
and anyone can write to me or to them
and learn what Grape-Nuts food will do
for children and grown-ups too.” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous lit
tle book, ‘‘The Road to Wellville.’*
PUBLIC WORKS IN JAPAN.
Opportunities for American Trade
Opened Up by the War
with Russia.
If Japan enterprises of all kinds are
necessarily affected by the outbreak ol
war and it is not possible just at present
to report with certainty on any oppor
tunities for supplying materials or ob
taining contracts for the construction
of public or semipublic works. Money
which has been intended for the exten
sion of government railway lines has
been diverted to other uses, and it is
stated that the government will stop
work on all new lines except those need
ed for transporting military supplies.
The Sanyo Railway company had in con
templation the doubling of its tracks
and other improvements during this
year, but whether the directors of the
company will proceed with their plans
under present disturbed conditions may
well be doubted.
The increased cost of labor is already
a noticeable factor in industrial condi
tions and the probability of a continued
rise, together with the difficulty of se
curing workmen, introduces a specula
tive element into contracts for construc
tion which will render them very unde
sirable during the coming season. In
this regard foreigners are at a great
disadvantage as compared with natives,
because they do not know so well where
to look for laborers and the traditions
of the country cause workmen to ex
pect higher wages when employed by a
foreigner.
There may be a considerable demand
for certain kinds of foreign steel and
iron which the Japanese are not yet able
to supply from their own foundries.
American firms desirous of competing
in the business of furnishing these sup
plies will find it to their advantage to
place an agency with a firm already es
tablished in this country and operate
through them, instead of attempting to
negotiate with Japanese government or
company officials by mail from their
offices in the United States.
E. C. BEI-LOXVS.
BEET-SUGAR IN ENGLAND.
Experiments in Climate and Soil Show
Better Conditions Than Those
of Germany.
A Liverpool sugar expert has been
making a thorough investigation into
the practicability of attempting to
raise sugar beets in this country and
now announces the conclusion that
1,000.000 acres of land in the United
Kingdom are suitable for the purpose.
He has made over 1,000 experiments
to test British soil and climate and
they have satisfied him that these es
sentials are even better adapted to the
production of sugar than those of
Germany.
The first definite project is located
in Yorkshire. The East Riding of that
country is claimed to be peculiarly well
adapted in its soil to the cultivation
of the saccharine beet. A syndicate is
now forming, under the advice of the
expert referred to, for the purpose of
starting sugar refineries in Yorkshire.
Of the sugar now consumed in this
country—all imported — Germany’s
share is over GO per cent, of the whole.
If, as claimed. Great Britain’s soil and
climate are better than Germany’s for
sugar production and 1,000.000 acres of
the British Isles are adaptable'to the
purpose, a prodigious new industry
is at once possible to compensate for
the alleged waning in other industrial
directions. Besides, sugar would be
materially cheapened to the consum
er. It. is not high now in this coun
try (three to six cents per pound at
retail), but since 1901 It has been sub
ject to an import duty of one cent per
pound. The removal of this and the
cost of freight would reduce the retail
price at least one cent per pound, pro
vided, of course, that the cost of pro
ducing the British article be not too
great.
FRANK tv. MAHTN.
“I Have Every Reason to Praise Pe-ru-na,”
WRITES MRS. KANE, OF CHICAGO.
GRACE. EDWARD. MYRTLE, GLiRGE *w> RIEVL5 KA'iE
t71 Jcborit, Chicago, Ilu
Mrs. K. Kane, 173 Sebor Street,
Chicago, 111., writes:
•‘Peruna has been used so long In
our family that I do not know how
/ could get a lung without it. / have
given it to all of my children at
different times when they suffered
with croup, colds and the many ail
ments that children are subject to,
and am pleased to say that it has
kept them in splendid health. I
have also used it for a catarrhal
difficulty of long standing and it
cured me in a short time, so I have
every reason to praise Peruna.”—
Mrs. K. Kane.
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Pe-ru-na Protects the Entire House
hold Against Catarrhal
Diseases.
One of the greatest foes with which
every family has to contend is our
changeable climate. To protect the
family from colds and coughs is always
a serious problem, aad of ten impossible.
Sooner or later it is the inevitable fate
of every one to catch cold. Care in
avoiding exposure and the use of proper
clothing will protect from the frequency
and perhaps the severity of colds, but
with the greatest of precautions they
will come. This is a settled fact of
human experience. Everybody must
expect to be caught somewhere or
somehow.
Perhaps it will be wet feet, or n
draught, or damp clothes, or it may be
one of a thousand other little mishaps,
but no one is shrewd enomrh to always ;
avoid the inevitable catching cold.
There is no fact of medical science
better known than that Peruna cures
catarrh wherever located. Thousands
of families in all parts of the United
States are protected from colds and
catarrh by Peruna. Once in the family
Peruna always stays. No home can
spare Peruna after the first trial of it.
We have on file many thousand testi
monials like the ones driven above. We
can only pive our readers a slipht
plimpse of the vast array of unsolicited
endorsements we are receiving1 every
month. No other physician in the
world has received such a volume of
enthusiastic and prateful letters of
thanks as Dr. Hartman for Peruna.
i Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 Washington
| St., Lansing, Mich., writes:
♦ “Peruna has been such a blessing
| to my only child, as well as myself,
I that / feel Induced to give my testh
* monial. He has always suffered
f from catarrh of the head and throat,
t and I had to use extra precautions
• so as not to have him exposed to
t damp or cold weather. Last year
• he w as taken with la grippe, and
j as It was a severe case, caused me
* much anxiety. No medicine helped
• him till he took Peruna. I noticed
* an improvement at once and in
. three weeks he was a different
• child; the grippe had been com
t pletely cured and I noticed that the
t catarrh was made better. He kept
• taking it two weeks longer, when
J he was entirely well. I now use It
! off and on for colds, cramps, indi
t gestion or general Indisposition,and
* find it superior to any doctors or
i medicine I ever tried. It keeps me,
* as well as my child, In perfect
J health, and I gladly recommend It
* to mothers. .Mrs. A. Hobson,
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