The Green Forest tribune., 1900-05-24
MO state in the southwest, in 1 V proportion to it's size, IS

products than AFRdIlSdS. LII FtA y few instances the scenery more picturesque. Her politicians have always been prominent in national affairs. Her citizens have always been classed as men of forethought and enterprise. Such being the case, it is not to be wondered at that the St. Louis Sunday Post-Dispatch has 9 larger circulation within the bounds of Arkansas than any other newspaper.
 While the Sunday Post-Dis- patch is newspaper of national reputation, it never neglects the interests of Missouri neighbor- ing states. Hundreds of inter- esting articles have been gather ed in this section of the country and not a few of these have come from Arkansas. These have done much to advertise Arkansas in most favorable manner.
 Besides the news and these special features, which are either written by correspondents on the scene or by reporters sent for that particular purpose, the Sun- day Post-Dispatch has a large force of special contributors, a corps of men and women of na- tional reputation, many of whose names arc known wherever the power of civilization extends. Within the last two months, as reference to the files will show, nearly 250 distinguished men and women have contributed special articles on a great variety of sub- jects to the Sunday Post-Dis- patch. Here are a few of the most striking names on the list:
 Chauncey M. Depew, Admiral w. T. Sampson, Israel zangwill, eminent Jewish scholar and au- thor; John Kenriek Bangs, a,sso- ciate editor of Harper's Weekly; Mme. Emma Calve, the great opera singer and emotional ac- tfess; Prof. s. P. Langly of the Smithsonian Institution; Mrs. Cushn2an K. Davis, wife of the Minnesota Senator; Dr. Francis l.. Pattono president of Princeton University; Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale; Charles N. Ell tot, president of Harvard; Sir Henry Irving, William II. Crane, Denman Thompson, Julia Arthur, James A. Hearne, actors; Mark Twain, Bob Burdette, George w. Peck and Opie P. Read, humorists; Bishop J. N. Fitzger- ald, of the ME. Church South; tIamlin Garland, poet author; Rev Madison c. Peters, celebra- ted New York clergyman; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, poet and essayist; Congressman David A. DeArmond of Missouri; E. E. Lee Gibson of Missouri, literateur and poet; John Philip Sousa, famous composer and bandmaster; Rev. E. Heber New ton, hymn writer; F'redrick R. Coudert, authority on internation- al law; Gen. Nelson A.Miles; Gen. o. 0. Howard; Capt. R.H. Collinsof Piedmont, Mo, com mander of Collins Confederate Battery under Joe Shelby; Julia Ward Howe; James Fargo, pres ident of the American Express company; Rev. John P. Child wick, the last chaplain of the battloship Maine; Senator Cullorn of Illinois Stephen Crane; Henry s5ienkiewicz, author of "Quo Va dis?" Rev. T. Dewitt TaJlnage; !er. Fl. s. Tanner, the celebrated faster, and scores of others of equal prominence.
 In political news the Post Dis patch is S camera, giving it all with photographic accuracy and without the slightest attempt to partisan coloring. It gives what the fair minded thinking man of any party wants.
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