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The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Outlook that the Year 1904 will be the
Greatest on Record in the Mining
Industry Of the United States.

Conditions warrant the assertion
that the mining industry has an out
look for greater prosperity this
year than ever before, Interest IN
mining has had a healthy, steady
growth during the past year and the
industry is growing in popularity
and is more and more receiving rec
ognition as the safest and most
profitable, offering an ideal field for
investment, Many repentant spec
ulators have learned wisdom after
repeated experiences during the. past
few months, and with what has
been saved from the wreck in the
prick given in speculative bubbles,
are turning.t to mining where there is
no longer any question as to the
earning power of capital. There is
no competition in mining and the in
dustry of mining is the main sup
port of all others and completes with
none. The financial rulers of the
country during the past year have,
many of them, turned to mining and
their money has been turned loose IN
many unexpected mining sectionss
The names of conservative bankers,
well known throughout the country,
who for years perhaps have used
their influence against investments
in mining, during the past year have
been equally as earnest in the organ
ization of mining companies, and
among the names of officials arsN
well known bankers. Railroad mag
mates and magnates of all classes
with money bags open have eagerly
sought mining investment fields, de-
sorting the shrine of speculation to
purchase with their money the favor
of and swear allegiance to the king
of all misunderstanding The hand
writing on the wall has appeared
and proclaims that the safest posi-
BILE field for capital is mining. Intel
ligent investors should follow the
example of the bankers, railroad
and oil kings, and invest
a little at least here and there in
good propositions that evidence
good management and are hssssrz..l q
veloped by skilled experts. There's
going to be mighty rising of the
tide this year of 1904 in mining, bar
gains won't always be found, audi
those who ride on the crest of the
wave will reap the results. Capital
is going into mining and greater
output will result, development will
be FASTENED and the mining industry
will be more prosperous than ever
This is the sign of the times, the out
look for 1904.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

Colds have been quite prevalent in
this section.
A doctor contemplates building
and locating at Pedlo.
A. M, Sloan is preparing to build
a nice residence at Pedlo.
Mr.. G. M. Brown, our worthy
postmaster, is building a residence
at Pedlo.
Uncle Marion Fullbright, G, M.
Browns baby, Mrs. Selridge ana
DR.. Johnson, of Everton, have been
dangerously sick.
Two weeks more of our fall and
winter school. We now have one of
the best districts in the county and
Pedlo's future as a leading school
center is quite promising.
Those articles by Hayman and
Derrieux are worthy of the careful
consideration of all true Americans.
They treat of matters of vital inn
portance to the common or produc-
ing class of people.
If any readers of the TIMES know
of a buyer of railroad claims, please
send him around. | think he could
buy quite lot of them at % cents
on the dollar and perhaps less-good
and reasonable claims, too.
All progressive people should be-
advocating good roads. The roads
through here now are eye sores
to immigrants and investors aud on'
account of their bad condition aEe a
great inconvenience and tax on
citizens of our county.
T. ]. Estes has been shipping
fine cord wood of late, and hal
a lot still to ship. He has ais
ed a residence and restauranta
store at Pedlo, and is now PREF
to accommodate the travelling
trade.
Hurrah for canning factories, e
and vegetables, and ]. c. Floy-
congress. GRANGPt Il
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
II the Japs Lose.

Despite the lesson of the Boer war.
the Japanese did very little open ar
der and extended formation work in
their last maneuvers, but operated
in solid masses as trim and right an
gled as though shaped with spirit
level, When Field Marshal Marquis
Yamaga was asked if Japan would
not change her tactics to suit the
conditions of modern fighting, he re-
Piled:
Japan will reveal her tactics in
battle. Be sure that they will be
those necessary to insure victory"
This was not the self-conhdence of
the unbeaten warrior, but the ex,
preston of the only spirit Japan
knows, for she never considers defeat
even as a remote possibility.
On the sea officers and men are
spelling for fight. From the crews
of the huge Mikasa and her sister
battle ships down to the men on
such craft as the White-naped Grand
aud the Dragons Lamp-torpedo
destroyers-they are swearing by ev-
cry ancestor that, if let loose, they
will sink or capture each consonant-
ly named Russian warship in the
Pacific And do they not contem-
plate a possible defeat? Yes, but
capture no. Never will a Japanese
ship, high or low, 90 into port a
prize
When the turrets are jammed and
the big guns dumb, when the screws
are still and all defense is dead and
done, the men chosen by lot before
the beginning of action will from
their station in the heart of the ship
perform "the last full measure Of de.
votion' in exploding the magazines,
and the sixteen-petaled chrysanthe-
mum on the imperial standard will
go deep down in a weller of blood
and steam and smoke till, "streaked
with ash an sleeked with oil, the
lukewarm whirlpools close. Ion.
don Mail
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Pruitt Plekings.

]. B. Grier will emigrate to point
near Seattle, WASH, about March l.
Zoe Middleton sold two jacks tins
week to Jas. Dawson, of Alton, l. J.
Mr.. M. A. Oldham, of Oxford
Kans., was visiting with Johnny
Middleton this week.
Mrs. D. S. Pruitt is visiting with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]. A.
Weatherly, of Harrison.
4 ]. Y. Middleton has bought a
5000 farm near Berryyille OF Jas
Dawson, of Alton, |. 7.
CGngman Edwards lately return
ed from the Boston mountains with
a drove of cows and calves.
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The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

The Springfield, Mass, Republican
declares it is a contemplate little
steal which congressman have been
perpetrating on the United States
treasury in voting themselves mileage
compensation for the recent extra
session. They allow themselves, by
virtue of a law which they take the
liberty of stretching, 20 cents a mile
for travelling expenses in going to
and returning from Washington once
during a session of congress. This
is an absurdly cxtravagant allow
ance, since railway charges average
little more than . cents a mile, and
Pullman and eating charges enroute
would not bring the cost altogether
up to more than 8 cents a mile at
most
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
HARRISON. ARKANSAS.
Alive, Energetic City With a Future,

=
Reports continue to come to the
4ader of the wonderful growth of
Harrison the queen city of northern
Arkansas. 1t is a live, energetic,
lPblic spirited and aggressive city,
slowing many elements that enter
4 to a metropolitan town, new
government building for which the
fist appropriation was one hundred
thousand dollars, government land
d hce, electric lights and ice plants,
etc 1t also has a civic improvement
Aib, twentieth century and daugh-
ers of eonfederaey club, board of
kdrities,> public library, two solid
banks with large capital, etc.
Since the Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain roads have entered this
territ DRY the question seems to be
discussed as to which way the trade
HilAturn, Memphis on the south or
Sptlhgheld. There was time when
The metropolis of Tennessee laid a
Just claim to the trade of Harrison
and vicinity, but Springfield being
much nearer and strong rival has
entered that territory to stay. Of
iTil towns in northern Arkansas on
(Which our trade has set heart Harri-
son can be said to stand we'll in the
lead. Springfield Leader.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Broke Up the Meeting.

]. 1t was in the days of "Reconstruc
!, ron" and the Government had tc
fwh, and other means, to in
iu 6 Seedmen to lay up some
thin FOR rainy day
Cd tain Ellsworth, of the = Iowa
cavalry a young man of ability,
was appointed by the Government
officials to fill place on the Freed
men's Bureau, and was located at
Little Rock, Ark. In the fall of "66"
he was ordered to go down the
Arkansas river to put a lot of new
made citizens to picking the heavy
cotton crop the farmers were blessed
kNith that year. When he got
Is got there he found the darkies
we're gathering from miles around,
VERY pigAt, to a place in the woods
Where NY held meetng TN nc'trIy
Daylight. The cotton was needing
picking badly, but there was not a
hand who could be gotten to do the
work.
After looking the situation over
TWO or three days Mr.. Ellsworth
asked the owner of a large planta-
ton, whose cotton was going to
waste, if he could furnish him a doz-
en- balls of candle wicking and a gal
lon of turpentine. eyes, can
furnish them; but what Yankee
trick have you on hands now" "Nev-
err mind the Yankee trick, but soak
those balls in the turpentine and
stick them on sticks to hold them
by"
Y There was large oak tree stand
Gng just back of where the preacher
stood while preaching One of the
Young white men who was selected
to hold the soaked" balls and light
them at the appropriate time, was
located in the top of this large oak
tree. The other eleven were station
ed around the arbor in the edge of
the brush.
The people usually came together
about an hour or two after dark.
The speaker hadg got well warmed up,
and the two or three hundred ne
groes in the congregation were all
attention. The speaker looking up
among the limbs of the oak tree,
called on "the Lawd to send the
Holy Ghost and fire down on the
.brudders and sisters" Just then
Ftiere was keen whistle heard,
which was the signal for the ball in
the tree to be set on fire and drop
ped. The preacher had his eyes shut
and the blazing ball hit him in the
face His eyes flew open and he
jumped about four feet high;
he lit in the brush, and lit running.
The congregation gave yell and
started in the other direction. Here
they met three or four balls offire "
BY this time the women dropped
their babies, and the whole force
plunged into the brush in every
direction, Here they were met by a
second Shower of fire" The con
gregation separated and each one
doing his own yelling looked out
for himself Well, the meeting
was discontinued, and in n few days
the white cotton fields were full ot
black hands and everything went on
lovely. U. Know.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

OonlHlOuofe SomerVllle Nicholson, OF
the United States Navy, in letter from
1887 r. ST., n. W., Washington, d. c.,
says:
"Yo,r Peruna has been and is now
used by SO many of my friends and
acquain tances as sure cure for catarrh
that l am convinced of its curative
qualities and [ unhesitatingly recom-
mend it to all persons suffering from
that COMPLAINTS Nicholson.
The highest men in our nation have
given Peruna a strong endorsement.
Men IF all classes and stations are
equally represented.
Ifyou do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DIR. Hartman, President of
Tho Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

In an article written Cor
weeks Sunday EVering Post, foY
president Grover Cleveland u @
his rank and file associates" Of
Democratic party to unite and NJ
advantage of ths opportunities
November. 81 am one of those,
writes, "who believes that therSj
an opportunity for Democratic si
cess in the coming presidential eled
ton. The thorough attachment 4
the party in which l am enlisted ant
the desire for its ascendancy, max,
such a belief exceedingly welcome
They certainly don't create it; it i
built upon an abiding trust in tn,
patriotism and in the intelligence Q
my fellow countrymen."
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

Captain A. L. Mills is another
suddenness. lie is promoted by the
President to be brigadier-general, and
jumps over the heads of 276 cap
tains, 354 majors, 1872 lieutenant
colonies and $50 colonies. Though
a youth who graduated from West
Point in 1879, he will, like General
wood, outrank many men who have
spent their whole lives in the army.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Don't be Too Close.

eve often wonder why it is that
men have not got sense enough to
know when they have got enough
enough property and money" says
an exchange. Here are men by the
hundreds all over the country at so
and 60 years of age worth from
$4,000 to $4,000, owners of the
best farms in the world, working
and saving year in and year out to
make more money to buy more land,
when the very best they can make
of the job is ten years or so to fret
or worry, then a funeral and probat-
ing of will, and a scattering OF
their hard earnings. While every
man should honestly and industri-
ously try to provide for his family
when he is gone, there is little sense
in carrying this effort to the point
these men do. Nine boys out of ten
will make better boys, men and bet
ter citizens to have to hoe their own
row, instead of getting the notion
that they can loaf around until dad
dies. You men and women of sixty,
just plan your business so as to get
as much comfort as possible out Of
your money as you amt long to
stay here, and no amount Of money
viii buy back your youth anc
L..ftI. ~
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

An exchange speaks of a man who
it is said always pays for his local
paper a year in advance. As re-
suit he has never been sick in his life,
never had corns on his toes or the
toothache, his potatoes never rust,
the frost never kills his pears, his
babies never cry at night, his wife
never scolds and he succeeded in
serving three terms on the school
board without being cusssd.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
PRACTICAL THOUGHTS ON FARMING.

| NndtleS kannack, OF Shenandoah
Iowa, is the champion corn husker
OF the world, having stripped POI
bushels in ten hours.
Abner Sanborn, of Berlin, N. H.,
who has to go on his knees, moved
and raked 20 tumbles of hay in a
day. He is in his s0th year.
While few farmers can be elassed
as millionaires, there are more OF
them on easy street" than any
class of men in the nation.
Borrow nothing from your neigh
Dor except his good methods, in re-
turn for which give him your own.
Always earn his good will
1t is estimated that there are about
2o0,000,o00 apple trees in the Unit
ed States and that the average crop
amounts to about $4,000. 900
bushels.
1t costs 81 to feed hen one year.
and possibly more to feed rooster,
so it is plain to see how useless and
expensive it is to carry dozen or
two through the winter months.
Do not think you read enough last
winter to stand you the year around.
Keep reading every day. The world
moves right along. The man who
has not the time to read soon gets
left in the rear of the procession.
Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, has
founded an agricultural collge in In
dla. There is tract of l ,2s0 acres
of land which has been used since
1874 as breeding ranch, tobacco
experimental farm and a model
dairy.
In times past the man who said
nothing and sawed wood won out;
now 1t is the guy who LAYS an egg
and eackles. Work of itself will not
bring the plunks; it is work along
the right line that the world parts
with its long green to pay for. Even
If you make perfect product, you
must tell about it IN order to sell it /
The Santa Fe has become INTEREST,"
ed in one of the largest land and coli
western railroads, whereby it is pro
posed to settle at least 10000 farm
ers on lands in Northwestern Texas.
Although the railroad is not inter-
ested financially in the land, the
management has decided to do all in
its power to assist in the Texas
movement.
Some genius down South claims to
have invented a machine that will
pick as much cotton as % ordinary
hands. If it proves success the
race issue in the Gulf states will be
precipitated into a stage far more
acute than that caused by politics
and social equality" With no cot
ton for the darkies to pick the labor
market would be worse glutted than
a possum in pawpaw patch.
A writer in the Des Moines home
stead says he would rather give 100
feet along one side of his farm to an
electric line than to give the same to
a wagon road. The wagon road
would not be worked and would be
impossible a large portion of the
time, would grow up in weeds and
become unsightly, but the right of
way of a trolley line would be kept
in the best of order and would adj
vance the price of land from to SO
to $40 per acre. l believe the inter
urban lines are the salvation of the
country. 1t unites city and country
in such a way as to get the greatest
amount of good from both condi-
tions.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Advertising Rates

One inch per year S5. 90. ,nso-,iop
Locals 10 cents per line hrst lhsel.i0"
cents second and ~ cents thei ssi,tnnsL
Snecial position 20 per cent adalllona ..l,,
az Contract for SIX months. 30 pei cent
of annual rate, and for 3 months 30 pr es ani
On contracts for TO 6inehes. ~ pI eef,
of of annual rates. On contracts I0I ~
12 inches SO per cent of OF annual lates
"a to Is inches SO per cent of annna Ia'es
Marriage and Obituary notices, n ~
exceed six lines free. all over that Ahiou"'
10 cents per line.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27
Consumption

Salt pork is a famous old
fashioned remedy for con-
sumption. "Eat plenty of
pork" was the advice to the
consumptive SO and 100
years ago. r
Salt pork is good if a man
can stomach it. The idea
behind it is that fat is the
food the consumptive needs
most.
Scots EmulsioniSthem
ern method of feeding fat to
the conSumptive. Pork istoo
rough for sensitive stomachs.
SCOTS Emulsion is the most
refined of fats, especially
prepared for easy digestion.
Feeding him fat in this
way, which is often the only
way, is half the battle, but
SCOTS Emulsion does more
than that. There is some
thing about the combination
of cod liver oil and hyPophos-
phiteS in Scott's Emulsion
that puts new life into the
weak parts and has a special
action on the diseased lungs
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

In the good old winter time you
hold her little hand to keep it from
freezing.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

"A spender who aheds his affiueuce
over you Is generous man; one who
sheds It over others Is a spendthrift.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-02-27

Hurrah for canning factories, f
and vegetables, and ]. c. Floy~
congress. GRANGt1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

Canadian politics are unlike those in
this country. For instance, one of the
most important questions now being
solemnly debated over the border is
whether ConsuelO Vanderbilt will be
acceptable as mistress of the govern
ment house at Ottawa. 1t is believed
that the Duke of Marlborough, who has
developed, since his marriage to an
American heress, into quite public
speaker and man of affairs, is very
likely to be the next governor general
If he should be appointed, how far will
a possible prejudice against his Ameri-
can wife go to interfere with the sue
cess Of his administration? 1t will be
something for Canada to be very much
ashamed of if it does not give the
former New York girl a most cordial
welcome.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30
A Great Discovery.

The organ of candidate Davis has
made discovery, viz. the Capitol of
Maine is located in Kennebec county!
Hence the state officials. and the clerks
in the state departments, who work in
the State Capitol must, necessarily, be
in Kennebec county! "Ah hal" ex-
claimed the editor in a hoarse whisper
when the sinister significance Of all this
dawned upon him, "Ah ha, at last
have them! They cannot escape me-"
Forthwith he made out a list of state
officials and clerks in the state depart
ments with the amounts paid to each
and headed it What Kennebec County
Republican Office holders got out of
state treasury in 1903" To be sure
there may have been one or two omis-
sions from the list but little oversights
like that may be excused in view of the
excitement that usually attends a great
discovery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-30

In a recent editorial on the State
printing we inadvertently stated the
appropriation for 1904 as $4,000. This
was an error The appropriation for
the present year is $4,000. This is 800
more than the appropriation for 1865.
and $4,000 more than the appropriation
in 1872. There was little legislative
printing done in those years. Very
few of the bills were printed and the
engrossing was done by hand. Some
idea of the growth of legislative BUSH
ness in Maine-which is simply an out
growth of the multiplied interests that
today engage the attention of our citi-
Zens-is given by comparison of the
business done by the legislatures of
1881 and 1903. The legislature of 1881
passed POI bills and &C resolves. The
leg islature of 1903 passed So bills and
14S resolves-and these constituted
only portion of those actually intro
duced and considered in committee
We have already shown in detail how
the work has increased in the older
State Departments and what is re-
quired by the new departments and in
stitutions established in the last quar-
ter of a century.