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The Newark journal., 1902-10-17
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Miss Annie Bateman, of Jackson county, is visiting her cousin Miss Dora Long this week.
 Hon. T. H. Dearing orders The Journal sent to his brother, U. F. Dearing, of Wynne, for one year.
 NJ. $. Fisher has full and com plete stock of everything and will save you money on anything you need.
 Rev. G. w. Spurloek, of nope, will commence q protracted meet ing at the Christian church tomor- row night.
 Frank Long, formerly of Sul- phur Rock, but now of Oil Trough, was shaking hands with friends here Wednesday.
 About twenty five families from Indiana are making arrangements to move to this county and settle in Stubbs township soon. Bates vile Bee.
 The many friends of l. J. Moore, of Sulphur Rock, will be sorry to learn that he is quite sick at Hazen, where he is at work for the Choctaw railroad.
 N NJ. Wilson, who received the indorsement of the voters at the March primary for road overseer of this township, has been ap- pointed to that position by the county court.
 Mize & Co.,, the photogra phers, have secured a new tent and will remain in Newark two or three weeks longer, if business justi6es it. Come in and see samples and get prices. Satisfaction guaran- teed.
 The building committee of the State charitable board has formal ly accepted the four buildings for the Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute, authorized by the last legislature. The buildings just completed cost S69, 800.
 Squire H. T. Drennen, of Mag ness, was attending to business in town Wednesday and favored The Journal office with q pleasant call. He reports everything quiet in his neighborhood and that help to gather the crops is greatly in de- mand but hard to get.
 When The Journal began busi- ness in Newark Uncle" Ben Adams was one of the first men to come in and subscribe and pay a year in advance. He drove around by our office Tuesday, renewed and paid another year in advance. That is the kind of subscribers that the newspaper men appreci- ate.
 Among the many ex-Confede- rates of this place and surrounding country there is no truer believer in the principles of right involved in the rise and fall of the Confed eracy than our esteemed friend T. B. Jackson. Mir. Jackson served four years in the Confederate army and endured many hardships and privations in that memorable struggle. But, like all other good citizens who took part on either side of the conflict, he now views the matter philosophically and 1 smile of pleasure may often be seen to fit across his countenance as he relates some of his thrilling experience during the times when 1t took courage and cool heads to | accomplish results.
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17

Attorney General Murphy has delivered an official opinion that, in case of tie in an election, there is no vacancy, that the pre- sent incumbent holds until his sue cessor is elected and qualified and that the governor has no authority to appoint. This knocks out the legislative appointment recently made in this county. The opinion was made public yesterday and will be published in full in The Journal next week.
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17

The ParagouId Soliphone inti- mates that the republican party in Arkan sas has swallowed itself and gore off to the woods to think the matter over. Well, that was a wise act in goirg off to the woods for if it should happen to have to Yomit 1t would be necessary to climb a mighty tall tree to keep it's nose out of the corruption,
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17
FRIDAY, OCTOBER IT, 1902.

It would be a decided improve mept if the State Republican would discard it's home-set matter and use plates altogether.
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17

If a salary of $l ,00o will send better men to the legislature, as a great many of the newly elected members claim 1t will, why should they favor a thousand-dollar sala- "? It is plainly evident that they have not applied the proper amount of reason to this argu- lnent, for if a thousand dollar sal ary calls for good men, at least three fourlhs of the present mem bers would be disqualified for re- election.
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17

A copy of the Christian Pilot, recently established at Black Rock by Borden & Lemons, is on our table and is neat little paper. Rev. Borden held protracted meeting here during the Summer and will be pleasantly remember ed by many of our people. He is ii good preacher and we wish him abundant success in the new field
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17
BLUFFING DON'T GO.

It seems 10 be 10 secret that the grand jury has been investigating
The Newark journal., 1902-10-17

Newport Is grappling with the sewer problem. It took Brother Waterman, of the News, a long, long time to convince the New port people that they ought to have sewerage, but he seems to have won the fight, as he always does in any thing he undertakes, and it should be gratifying to him to know that his labor is to be crowned with success. But we will bet two-bits that there are people ill Newport who will say that the News has had no influ- ence in bringing this great enter prise to successful conclusion.
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 The editor of the Sharp County Record wants The Journal to dis iinctly understand that he does not use slang and is somewhat of an angel himself. But, as we un- derstand it, angels are, as cur republican bretheren say of the trusts, divided into two classes good and bad. At least we have read something about the devil and his angels and as our brother failed to state which tribe he was a member of, we naturally inter that his certificate of membership bears the seal of Ills Satanic Majesty, and 1t would be no sur prise to learn that hIs monthly dues are six or eight months in arrears even in that tribe.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

In 1889 the original Panama company
suspended and the same year the MIC
aragua concession was transferred TO
the Maritime Canal Company.
The company dug about three-quar-
ters of mile of the canal and deep
enel the harbor at Greytown. Then
the Nacaraguan government claims, the
concession was forfeited by a discon'
| tinuance of the work.
The special feature of the Nicaragua
route is the great inland sea which
lies in the hollow between the eastern
and western Cordllleras-Lake Nicara.
qua. This body of water is forty-tiye
miles wide, 10 miles long and 112 feet
above sea level.
The plan of the Nicaragua cana
comprises an engineering feat the most
wonderful ever attempted In the 18th
mian commissions estimate of the time
II will take to construct the canal, six
years are given the building Of a dan
across the San Juan river, while two
more will serve to complete the water
way. The San Juan leaves the south
east corner of Lake Nicaragua anC
flows almost east into the Caribbean
sea, The first half of its length from
the lake is almost a continuation o
rapids and waterfalls, 1t is then joined
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

been proposed and surveyed across the
narrow neck of land connecting the
American continents. Only two sur
vive.
1t was in 1S43 that survey was
made of the Panama route for the flrst
time. A French engineer undertook this
work, but with no important immediate
results. He was followed not many
years afterward by George NJ. Totten'
chief engineer Of the Panama Railroad
who estimated the cost of the construc'
ton of the great waterway at SI5,0OO,'
900 to $100,000,000. Subsequently the
United States government also made a
survey, locating a practicable line FOL
an interoceanic ship canal twenty-siS
feet in depth from the Bay of Aspin
wall. in the Caribbean sea to Panama
on the Pacific.
In 1879 Count Ferdinand de Lesseps
the man best known in connection witt
the Panama project, appealed to th'
nations to send delegates to proposed
congress in Paris, to discuss the ques
ton of canal across the isthmus. Ol
May 10 of that year, representatives
of twenty-four countries assembled II
the French capital and on their ad
iournment the Universal lnteroceanl
Canal Company was organized. In
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

Originally the cost of the Nicaraguah
canal was placed at $50,N0,000. The
estimates have steadily risen until at
present the figure is $l0O,00O,O0O. Ihe
first was for 16-foOt canal of narrow
gauge, whereas the latest plans call for
a cut 80 feet in depth and extending
in places to a width of $50 feet In
curves a width of 1S0 feet is called for
and in the harbor at either terminus a
channel of 500 feet wide Is projected.
The lsthmian canal, except in the two
terminal maritime sections, Will be OF
fresh water. The draft of ocean steam
ers is based on salt water weighing "a
pounds per cubic foot. Some large
freight steamers now draw 81 feet OF
sea water and would draw 33 feet or
fresh water. While the government
is about it, therefore, the expense VIII
be gone to and 35-fOOt canal built.
The width of 100 feet will allow all
but the largest vessels to pass each
other. Battleships have a greater beam
than other ocean-gOing vessels OF IKE
displacement. None now in our navy
exceeds in breadth 6S feet, but designs
have been prepared for the next to be
constructed with a beam of 16 feet IL
inches. The largest sized vessels nave
heen used as a basis for determining
the dimensions of the locks, which
have been fixed at 740xS4 feet. If two
monster vessels meet in the canal, one
will have to tie up to the bank, wlil'
the other goes by.
1t is estimated that to complete tl'
Panama canal will require an eXpendl
ture of about S145,000,000. In its pres
ent condition this canal Is valued a
$40 100000 and it is probable that al
the Panama company's works, mach!n
ery and material could be had at th''
figure Its total length Is 46.09 miles
against 1886 miles for the Nicaragua
line. 1t would take twelve hours Il
pass through the Panama If locks ar
constructed; If dug at sea level Du
four hours. A sea level canal cahho
be cut across Nicaragua because OF tn
great height of the lake. Thirty-thre
hours will be required for an averaS
vessel to go across.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

To learn poetry "for repetition" is
doubtless a means of cultivating
knowledge of literature, but schoolbOys
sometimes regard the authors of poems
learned as taskmasters and personal
enemies. This view is amusingly ex.
pressed in a letter which was found
among the papers of the venerable
German poet Geibel. 1t was written
TO him by some schoOlboys Of Lubbock,
and is signed Karl Beckmann, III.
Klasse." The letter is printed in Lit
erature. After stating that two boys
had been fiogged because they could
not learn Herr Geibel's Hope of
Spring" the letter reads as follows:
We suppose you did not think Of such
things when you wrote the poem. The
Herr Lehrer says ii is very beautiful
poem, but there are so many very beau
tiful poems and we are obliged to learn
them. Therefore we beg and entreat
Won esteemed Herr Geibel, make nc
more beautiful poems. And to make
II worse we have to learn the blog
.raphy of every poet, what year he was
born in. and what year he died in. We
write n you because you are the only
poet still living, and we wish you {
very long life.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

Evep through the eternal shadows that
encompass the garden, and past the thick
yew hedge, the hot beams of the sun are
stealing.
"A day for gods and goddesses. cries
Griselda, springing suddenly to her feet
and finging far from her on the green
sward the musty volume she had purloin-
ed from the MUSTER library about an hour
ago.
"Perhaps I'll never come back. The
spirit of adventure is full upon me, and
who knows what demons inhabit that un-
known wood? So, fare thee well, sweet.
my loyel and when you see me, expect
| me-" She presses sentimental KISS up
| on her sisters brow, averring that a
brow" is the only applicable part of her
for such solemn occasion, and runs
| lightly down toward the hedge.
She runs through one of the openings
| in the hedge, crosses the graveled path,
and, mounting the parapet, looks over to
examine the other side Of the wall on
which she stands, after which she com
mences her descent. One little foot she
slins into a convenient hole in it, and then
the other into a hole lower down, and SO
| on and on. until the six feet of wall are
conquered and she reaches terra firma
and finds nothing between her and the
desired cool of the lovely woods.
With merry heart she plunges into
the dark, sweetly scented home of the
giant trees, with a green, soft pathway
under her foot, and, though she knows Il
not. her world before her.
II is an entrancing hour. She has stop
ned short in the middle Of broad, greer
space encompassed by high hills, though
with an opening toward the west, wheI
this uncomfortable conviction grows clea
10 her that she is lost. She is not Of tn
nervous order, however, and keeping
good heart looks hopefully around her,
/ Far away over there, in the distance
stands figure lightly lined against tn
massive trunk of a sycamore, that mos
Enthusiastically declares itself to be a mar
: His back is turned to her, and he is bend
I ing over something, and, so far as she ca
3 Judge thus remote from him, his clothin
is considerably the worse for wear.
gamekeeper perhaps, or a--well, som'
: thing or other Of that sort. At all event
/ the sight is welcome as the early dew.
b ITO be cOntinued.I
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

The world Is interested in a fight of
canals, with the center Of attention d.
rected to Central America, that vexa-
tious narrow strip of land connecting
the great American continent For the
first time in eleven years the Congress
of the United States is arranging for
the construction of the isthmian water
passage, with forces ranged in two fac
tions-one holding out for the compile
tion of the Panama canal, begun SO
long ago by the Frenchman, DeLes.
seps, and the other advocating the con-
struction of an entirely new passage
through Nicaragua.
With the new Hay Pauncefote treaty
with England ratified, 1t will be neces
sary to consummate negotiations with
the Central American States. through
which, or along the border of which
the chosen route extends. 1t has beer
maintained that a strip Of land tel
miles in width along the canal should
be bought, but the constitutions of thu
| OeulTdl AiueTICdu OJdles LOiDldulht
such sale, the only way remaining i
to acquire nominal control of the lant
by treaty. We would then have til,
right to police the strip or do anythin;
else we pleased with 1t. 1t Is fac
that sovereignty Of the strip is no
needed. Control is all that is neces
sary.
/. While the proposed canal Is to b
neutral, the United States will hav
the right to close it against an enem.
in time of war; the fact that We guar
antee neutrality not operating agains
the establishment Of Notifications If W
see fit. BY principle of internationa
law, all treaties are abrogated wit
the country with which we are at wal
The new treaty which replaces tn
Clayton -Bulwer treaty with Englan
provides that the United States sha
} do all the work of building the cana
assume the responsibility of Safeguard
, ing 1t and regulate its use by all M
tions on terms of equality without til
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

guarantee of interference of any other
country. 1t is this last clause whlch
gives us the right to fortify the canal
Probably this will never be done, as
the most effective way to control the
canal in time of war is by means of
the navy. 1t is held that If we control
both approaches of the canal, as we
shall do, it will be all we need.
The first effect of the canal Will be
to shorten the time from New York to
San Francisco from sixty to sixteen
days, thus bringing about a great In
crease in water freight, with proper
tionate lessenlng of rates. Further
more, it will bring the ocean shipping
industry into close competition with
the transcontinental railways, thus re
ducing rates all around. Even now II
is cheaper to ship imperishable goods
by water. Loads of freight daily come
into New York from points west of thF
Alleghenies to go out in the coastins
vessels around Cape Horn and up th'
other side to San Francisco.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

they move onward beneath the shade OF
the mighty trees that clasp their arms
between her and the glorious sky-thus
blotting it out.
A sudden turn brings them within view
of the house. A beautiful old house ap-
parently, of red brick toned by age TO a
duller shade, with many gables and over
grown in parts by trailing ivy, the leaves
of which now gisten brightly in the even
ing sunshine.
The coachman, scrambling to the
ground, bids them in a surly tone to
alight. He is tired and cross, no doubt,
by the unusual work of the day. And
presently they find themselves on the
threshold of the open hall door, hardly
knowing what to do next. The shambling
figure of a man about seventy. appeared
presently from some dusky doorway, he
waves to them to enter the room, and
shutting the door again behind them with
a sharp haste, leaves them alone with
their new relative, Gregory Dysart.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24
pROpO sEp NIcARAGUA ROUTE oF TME oANAL.

by the Rio San Carlos and its size
doubled. Two miles above this junction
is the site of the great dam. The San
Juan in its normal state has a flow
of 10000 cubic feet per second, but in
the rainy season it sometimes mounts
to 100000. To hold back this flood with
a dam 150 feet high, and thereby raise
the waters of the San Juan to the level
of the lake, is the project.
The line of the Nicaraguan canal be-
gins at the Caribbean sea near Grey
town. Taking southeasterly direc-
ton, it passes to the north of a range
of hills known as the Silcos and thence
southerly to a point about a mile from
the San Juan river. Following the riv-
or and at a safe distance from it, the
course continues to the dam, where the
canal enters the river-anl follows 1t
into the lake. Crossing the lake In a
northwesterly direction, the mouth OF
the Rio Las Lagas Is entered. This
stream is followed but short distance
when the canal crosses the continental
divide into the valley of the RiC
Grande and thence to Brito, the Pa
cific terminus.
The summit level-from the CONT
mental divide across the lake and along
the San Juan to the great dam-will b(
nearly 15O miles long. Besides the pur
pose of a long stretch for speed, this
extended level so high above the sea Is
TO control the lakes level. 1t now
Auctuates some thirteen feet. Undel
control 1t will not vary six.
1t has been the general opinion tina
there is quite difference between th
mean levels of the two oceans. Thi
idea is an erroneous one, for they ar
about the same. There is a differenc
In tidal ranges, however, the Paciii
rising eight feet and the Atlantic bu
one foot. Five locks-one of 361a fee
and four of 1917 feet each, will be re
auired to raise the vessels from tn
Caribbean to the level of the LAKE
while four of 2S1a feet each will b
necessary on the Pacific side.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24
TRUE DAUGHTER OF CALIFORNIA.
This One Wanted Recruits for the
"Busted Lung Brigade"

This One Wanted Recruits for the
"Busted Lung Brigade"
western gilrs are charming" said
a young man who accompanied the
Presidential party on the late President
McKinley's Western trip, "but some
times their hospitality declares itself in
disquetng ways Out in Los Angeles
met the prettiest girl I've seen In
years. We were walking in that dream;
like park of the town. Westlake, when
she suddenly stopped and looked at me-
Then, in that brisk way Western girls
have, she said:
"Isn't there something the matter
with you?"
81 didn't know whether it was my hat
or my tie.
"I don't know said. is thereT
Haven't you cOughY she asked.
ono answered. getting worried.
"'Didn't you ever have bronchitis,
or short breath, or stitch in your side,
or pleurisy, or pneumonia, or anything
like thatT she went on.
81 had to 'fess up that hadn't.
"Pm sorry she said, plaintively. 4
hoped you had
81 just gasped and she continued:
"'For if you had, you know, you
could stay out here and join the B. L.
B.
"'What on earth Is thatP asked.
"'Why, the Busted Lung Brigade
Lots of the loveliest men belong to it
Pm so sorry you can't, but land she
frightened visibly) perhaps you will
be consumptiye after awhile
That's a Western girls way of be
ing agreeable" said the young man, ac
cording to the New York Times, "bu
1t struck me as a bit ghoulish."
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-01-24

Another result will be an increase in
the volume of trade. There will be
enough for both vessels and railroads.
Still another and very Important effect
will be motel in the Central American
States. The completion Of the canal
will draw American capital into these
countries, which have hitherto been al
most constantly at war among them
selves. A demand for protection will
De created and the official presence OF
the United States would act as a
wholesale restraint on our hot-bloOded
southern neighbors. 1t Is possible that
the canal will in time bring about Q
commercial union of Central America,
under a protectorate Of the United
States, a result which would be Of the
greatest benefit to the whole western
hemisphere.
Finally. the construction of the canal
4 will give us an immense advantage IN
trade with Soeth America. At present
Germany and England each beats Us il
that direction. Altogether, 1t is belief
ed that the isthmlan canal win prove
to be a greater stimulus to trade thar
any other one thing which could b
accomplished, whether It be decided tt
finish the old Panama canal or estab
llsh an entirely new waterway by tn
Nicaragua route.
Fourteen Times Surveyed.
Since the conception Of the projec
Of a canal across the Isthmus Of pan
anna. no less than fourteen routes hayl