The Newark Journal.
O. F. CRAIG, Editor.
NEWARK" - , ARKANSAS.
GREAT FIELDS OF LAVENDER.
Growing Old-Fashioned Scent Has Be
come a Large Industry.
London society folks' devotion
to lavender water as a perfume
is increasing rather than falling
off, and in consequence 1hn culti
vation of the fl agrant plant from
which it is distilled is becoming
moribund more general through
out the country. This delicate
scent was in high favor with the
women of the English and French
courts hundreds of years ago, but,
oddly enough, its present popular
ity with the fashionable world
dates from the time, not a great
while back, when Queen Victoria,
having become acquainted with
lavender water under rather pic
turesque circumstances, fell in
love with it, says an exchange.
A century ago the perfume was
distilled from lavender blossoms,
chiefly by the titled ladies them
selves, who grew it in their gar
dens and distilled tin* oil in small
quantities during the autumn
months. Prepared in this way, it
was, naturally, very rare and ex
pensive, and as chemically manu
factured scents came to be placed
upon the market the use of lav
ender water almost died out ex
cept among the old fashioned
country people.
About 12 years ago, however, a
Miss Sproules, living in the pic
turesque Surrey vilageof Carshal
ton, about 12 miles from London,
conceived the idea of sending as
a present to Queen Victoria a bot
tle of home distilled lavender wa
ter. The queen aeeepted the gift
and was so delighted with the
perfume that shecommanded Miss
Sproules to supply her constantly
with the scent. Of course this
caused a great demand for laven
der water to arise amongst the
society ladies and the perfume be
came very fashionable.
<>r/iorH^ponred in upon Miss
Sproules. and her modest garden
soon became inadequate to meet
the demand for the purple laven
der blossoms, so sin* took a ten
acre field, planted it with lavender
and went into the business on a
large scale. So great has this in
dustry grown that in the neighbor
hood of Mitcham and ('ai-shairon
over (MM) acres are devoted to lav
endergrowing, one field atone con
taining 60 acres of fragrance.
Lavender is planted in dumps
a yard apart and must grow three
years before it flowers. Its flower
is purple and it grows as tall as
wheat. It is reaped by harvest
ers armed with sickles and the
flowering stalks are thrown into
great copper stills and boiled for
several hours. This causes a vol
atile oil to arise which is collected
in a cool chamber and afterwards
refined. Essential oil of lavender
is worth about $15 an ounce, near
ly its weight in gold, and one drop
is sufficient to make an eight
ounce bottle of perfume.
1 ue women who go about Lon
don's streets selling lavender just
as it comes from the field are om;
of the most picturesque of the
citv's street sights. As long as
the season lasts these women and
girls are at the big markets bright
and early for their day’# supply
and before the morning is far ad
vanced their jieculiar chanting
cry sounds through the residence
districts. Two cents buys a gen
erous bunch, which American vis
itors often buy to scatter through
their baggage just before sailing
for home so that when they come
out of the hold at New York
their contents will be saturated
with the delightful fragrance.
Largest Tree in Switierland.
The largest tree in Switzerland
is to be found in the lielechthal,
perched on the mountain side, at
a height of 45U feet. At the base
it measures in circumference 40
feet.
PARTED FROM HIS EAY.
Ne\y Kind of Confidence Game That
Was Recently Worked.
A slick confidence game was
played upon an unsuspecting Bal
timore county farmer by a well
dressed stranger, who cairn* out
ahead to the tune of $.‘18. The
trick was a comparatively new one
and was worked to perfection,
says tin* Baltimore Herald.
Luke E. Sheppard, a farmer,
brought a load of hay to flu*mar
ket, which, while being weighed at
the Northeastern hay scales, was
sold by his commission man to
Selimeisser's exchange and livery
stables, in Highlandtown, for $5)1.
Before he started for his destina
tion Sheppard was accosted by a
smooth looking stranger, who rep
resented that he was from ihe
commission office and that the
programme had been changed.
The hay, instead of going to
Selimeisser’s, was logo to the N'a
t ional brewery a t < ’antou, la* said.
“All right,” acquiesced Shep
pard, and in due course of time
the hay arrived at the brewery,
where it was stowed a wav in the
*
big lofts at the plant.
The stranger was on hand when
the hay was delivered, and in re
' ply to questions of the farmer rel
: ative to the money end of the deal,
replied that a settlement would
lie made at the commission man’s
; office.
There was nothing unusual in
that proceeding, and Sheppard
started hack to town with his
empty wagon. Arrived at the
commission office, explanations
followed, and, after working the
telephone, it was learned that the
slippery stranger had invented
the story about the change of
plans, had gone to Canton ahead
of the hay and dickered for its
sale at a bargain cash price, had
been pa id fdS after t he goods were
delivered and had then successful
ly disappeared.
H0E03 GREAT READERS.
Tramps Usually Keep Posted on Wide
Ra*' of Topics.
Many tramps are omnivorous
readers, and they are posted on a
wide range of topics, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean. Inspeakingof
tramp readers a man who has had
a chance to study these peripatet
ic students said the other day:
“You hardly ever find a genuine
hobo that is an ignoramus. You
find lots of nmn who are tramping
because they haven't intelligence
enough to earn a living, but 1 am
speaking of t he real hobo, who isa
wanderer from choice and who
would not work if he had the
chance. These fellows are pretty
wise, 1 can tell you. They can tell
you more about what is going on
in European politics than a college
professor can, and they know al
most everythingthat is comingofT
in our own country for the next
six months.
“ \\ hen you are 1 raveling you
will notice tlit* hobo sittingalong
tin* railroad track reading a
frayed and soiled newspaper.
Often you will sec* them picking
up tlit* loose pages lying in the
streets, and 1 do not believe 1 ever
saw traces of a tramp's campfire
around which there was not left
oik* or more old newspapers,
where they had been cast aside*
after reading. Then the tramps
have* a sort of traveling library,
too, that few people have ever
heard of. If one tramp finds an
old magaxine he* will read it and
then pass it to some other tramp.
It keeps going the* rounds in this
way until if is worn out. If one
picks up a book some place it dhe
service in trampdom for monl’
‘•I never saw a tramp v
fresh paper in his hand, Iv
never run across one o'
derers that did not s’
j careful and const r
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The cl o'"
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AN EVIL IN FOOD THE LAW
SHOULD REACH.
In reference to the use of alum bak*
lng powders Prof. Schweitzer, of the
State University of Missouri, says:
“The deleterious effects of alum and
the soluble salts of alumina upon the
human system, even when used in
small quantities, are too well known
to need relating; their use in baking
powder is dangerous, and should be re
stricted.”
The effects of the continuous use of
alum baking powders are thus summed
up in a medical publication: —
“Alum taken into the stomach re
tards the digestion of the food.
“It is an irritant which inflames and
irritates the stomach and intestinal ca
nal.
“It is an astringent and tends to con
stipate the bowels, which interferes
with digestion.
“It renders the albumen of the food
partially insoluble, and therefore takes
away from its nutritive value.
“It is absorbed into the blood, which
It tends to thicken and coagulate. The
free flow of the blood through the or
gans of the heart is thus retarded.
“Its continued absorption into the
system causes some forms of nervous
prostrations and many of those affec
tions of the nerves from which both
women and men suffer.
“Fourteen grains of alum have caused
the death of a child. Larger doses have
frequently resulted fatally in the case
of adults.
“No drug so powerful and deadly, no
matter in what proportions it may be
employed, can safely be used in any
article of food.”
A FORMIDABLE RIFLE.
With u Clinrffp of Ciirililp Till* Wo*
liun Will Send a Bullet
Ten Miles.
A great advance has been made in
email arms by George E. Rounds, of
Plymouth, Mass., which may have a
•wonderful important bearing on the
armaments of the world and the battles
of the future, for through his sugges
tion the range of the modern rifle has
been greatly increased and its penetra
tion more than doubled.
The result is a finished rifle of the
Winchester model of 1895, short, like
the old civil war carbine, but unlike
them it has a tapering barrel which ap
proaches one-half inch in thickness at
the rear end and is formed of a fine
piece of nickel steel which gives a
maximum of strength. The gun is of
.405 bore, and the cartridge looks like
any other except perhaps the shell is
not choked on the end where the bul
let fits in. Inside the bright brass shell
is a charge of 52 grains of cordite, a
smokeless powder which has long been
in favor by the users of the big British
naval guns, and as used in them re
sembling the long black flexible strings
of licorice found in the confectionery
stores, the strips being bundled into
fagots for the big cannon, which, of
course, is not done in Mr. Round's gun.
Fifty-two grains of cordite, it is as
serted, has the explosive power of near
ly a pound of common black rifle pow
der, and it will drive the 390-grain soft
nose, tin-coated, bullet out with a muz
zle velocity of 2,204 feet per second,
while at. 100 yards range the striking
energy is represented by 3,235 foot
pounds.
From tests made by the Winchester
company, it is calculated the gun fired
at. an elevation of 45 degrees will throw
its projectile a distance of ten miles,
while at shorter ranges its enormou?
muzzle velocity gives it a very fla*
trajectory, amounting at ordinary
ranges to almost point blank shooting.
In the matter of pentration the cordite
leaves the others completely out of
sight. A high power 30-30 sporting
cartridge at 100 yards will penetrate
30 inches of pine, and a United States
government high velocity ten inches
deeper, but this new one at the same
range will bore through 100 inches of
pine wood.—St. Louis Republic.
Hit InveNtmentM.
Now, the visiting foreigner, being
known to be immensely wealthy, was
besieged by reporters innumerable.
“Are you going to buy any news
papers on this side?” asked one who
knew that the visiting foreigner had a
leaning toward journalism.
\ “Well,” he said, “l bought the New
York Herald yesterday-”
Fiftyt, pencils flew over the pages of
fifty note books.
“And ” he continued, “I bought the
St. 1 Globe-Democrat the day be
fo- —”
'ciling and much excite
'ins,” lie went on, "I
iladelphia Times-”
ters rushed for tele
uv,” he resumed, “I
base the Washington
’•altimore American.
I like to read the
of a country. They
a of the conditions
1 they are so bloom
‘heir price per copy,
from 150 fingers,
s broke upon thlr
Lippincott’s Mag
WATCH IN THE SPRING.
And the Pprlnjr In the Watch, lint
the Jeweler Didn’t tirsjp
the Situation,
While pieknicking with a crowd in
the country the other day, says the Jop
lin Xews-Herald, Arch Shade accidentally
dropped his watch in a spring, and quite
naturally it has since refused, to run. He
took the timepiece to a jeweler, and the
following conversation ensued:
"Here s my watch; can you fix it?
"What’s the matter? Did you break the
spring?”
"No; the spring broke the watch.”
The man wondered, but proceeded to ex
imine the injured article.
"The spring is broken, he finally an
r‘ ’'NoGwonder,” said Arch; "I dropped the
watch in it.”
"It. began to dawn upon the jeweler that,
the young man was certainly insane, and
just as he was glancing around for some
avenue of escape Arch explained the situa^
tion.”
Inconsistent.
"I’m so glad you chose the subject of
‘Chinese Women,’” said Airs. Flushly to
Mrs. Gushly. who had just finished lead
ing her paper. "The subject is so inter
esting, 1 never tire of hearing about the
poor things.”
"Mercy.” thought the author of the
paper. “I hope no one else stops to con
gratulate me before I get home. These
new shoes pinch me so I can’t stand it
another minute!”—Detroit Free Press.
Ilrlsrht's Dlsense Cared.
Whitehall, 111., Dec. 7—A case has been
recorded in this place recently, which up
sets the theory of many physicians that
Bright’s Disease is incurable. It is the
case of Air. Lon Manley, whom the doc
tors told that he could never recover. Air.
Manley tells the story of his case ami
how he was cured in this way:
"I began using Dodd’s Kidney Pills
after the doctors had given me up. For
four or live years I had Kidney. Stomach
and Liver Troubles; 1 was a general wreck
and at times I would get down with rav
back so bad that I could not turn myself
in bed for three or four days at a time.
“1 had several doctors and at last they
told me I had Bright’s Disease, and that
I could never get well. I commenced to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills and I am now
able to do all my work and am all right.
1 most, heartily recommend Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and am very thankful for the
cure they worked in my case. They
saved my life after the doctors had given
% pry l.iUoly.
“I notice the bellboys at the hotel are
invariably called ‘Huttons.’ Wonder why
that is?"
‘‘Probably because they're off when you
need 'em most."—Philadelphia Ledger.
Do Nui •.*•>< it >• i»ui \Vni» iu-4>ay.
In this issue of the paper the World's
Greatest Jewelry Establishment, Merinod
it Jaccard's (St. Louis), announce they will
send Free to our readers their magnificent
Catalogue containing thousands of illus
trations with prices of the most beautiful
things in the world in Watches. Diamonds,
Jewelry. Silverw are, ec., etc. Their prices
are the lowest in America for tine goods.
If you are going to make any Xmas gifts
you would do well to seud for it at once.
Stock taking even- day is a great aid
to advancement. Stop and add yourself
up at the close of each day, and tee if you
I have anything to carry over, if you have
nothing but ciphers to carry over, some
thing is wrong somewhere.—Success.
An Old Field Weed.
Many seeing that old field weed, the
mullein stalk, never consider the good
it is accomplishing in curing lung
troubles. It presents in Taylor’s Chero
kee Remedy of Swvrt Gum and Mnilera
the finest known remedy for coughs,
croup, colds and consumption.
At druggists, 25c., 50c., and $1.00 a
bottle.
Tipping—“I’m afraid the lialkers won’t
get along very well together.’’ Fytcher—
"I don’t see why not. They are wholly
in harmony, you know. .She thinks there
is nobody in the world who can come up
to her husband, and he is certain of it."—
lioston Transcript.
To Cure « Cold In One Hay.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
Editor—"There isn’t an idea in this story
of yours. Great Author—”1 couldn't afford,
to sell it to you if there was.”—Life.
T am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption
saved my life three year.-, ago - Mrs. Thos.
Robbins, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900.
A friend is a man with whom you can
go camping twice.—Chicago Tribune.
You can do your dyeing in half an hour
with Putnam Fadeless Dyes.
In bragging of the seed don't forget th«
soil.—Judge.
EVERY WALK IN LIFE
A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three
and a half
miles from
Trenton,
Mo., says:
‘A severe
cold settled
in my kid
neys and de
veloped so
quickly that
1 was obliged
to lay off
work on ac
count of the
achingin my
back and sides. For a time I was unable
to walk at all, and every makeshift I
tried and all the medieine 1 took had
not the slightest effect. My back con
tinued to grow weaker until I began
taking Doan's Kidney Bills, and I must
say I was more than surprised and
gratified to notice the backache disap
pearing gradually until it finally
stopped.”
Doan’s Kidney Pills sold by all deal
ers or by mail on receipt of price, 50
cents per box. Foster-Milbur&^Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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In local treatment of female ills Pax
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Cotton Must Slave
Potash is an essential plant food
which must be added as a fertilizer
or the soil will
become ex
hausted, as is
true of so
many cotton
fields.
We have booh a
giving valuable de
tails about fertilis
ers. We will send
them free to any farmer who asks us for them.
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