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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-21
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

C1OsfnK Stock 0uotnfions. Money on call firm at per cent; prime mercantile paper. 5h96 per cent; ex- changes, sl5o. .2sS. .ssl; balances. E,2s4,A4 Closing prices.
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
TO FIGHTTHE BOIL WEEVIL
Department of Agriculture Will Send
Experts to Fight the Pest

According to the Department of
Agriculture the cotton boil weevil
has invaded three counties in Ar
kansas, namely, Miller, Lafayette
and Columbia, and plans for a
campaign of determination have
already been decided upon. Three
experts will be sent to the scene
at once to combat the enemy. DR..
L.. @. Howard, chief of the Ento-
mology Bureau at Washington,
who is in charge of this kind of
work now in Texas, will be sent
to South Arkansas at once to look
over the situation. The depart
ment has nearly $50, 900 with
which to fight the pest and while
much of this will be spent in Tex
as, Louisiana and Mississippi, the
Arkansas allotment will be liberal
and strong effort will be made to
check the progress of the weeyil.
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
SHOOTING AFFRAY AT BEEBE

Beebe, Oct. Ed Turnage. a
prominent citizen of this town,
was shot and dangerously wound
ed by Ed Stearnes today about y
O'Clock. Stearnes used a pistol
and fired five shots, two of which
struck Turnage. One bullet en-
tered his right side, passed around
his ribs and lodged near the back
bone. The other entered his right
hip and ranged downward to the
knee.
The shooting took place on
Main street, near Mason's corner.
Bystanders say that Turnage drew
his pisol after he had fallen and
tried to shoot his assailant, but
that his pistol failed to fire.
Stearnes has been paying some at
tentlon to Turnage's daughter, to
which Turnage objected, and this
brought on the difficulty. Starnes
was placed in Jail at Searey.
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
TAKES HIM SELFTO THE PEN
White County Man Went to Little
Rock Alone to Begin Sentence

James Traitor of White county,
under sentence for 1--WE years at
the penitentiary on a charge of
murder in the second degree went
to Little Rock Friday and walked
into the office of Attorney Gener-
al Rogers and announced be was
ready to begin his five year SEN
tence. Traitor was convicted at
the January term of the White
circuit court on a charge of killing
a man named THOMPSON, near
Searcy. He was sentenced to 10
years in the penitentiary on a sec
ond degree murder An appeal
was taken to the Supreme court
and the sentence was reduced to
FIVE years. Traitors attorneys
moved for new trial and this was
refused few days ago.
Traitor went to the penitentiary
Friday evening and began his SER
vice.
At the time of tile killing Trail
or was drunk. He and Thompson
were friends, but became involved
in dispute, and Traitor stabbed
him.
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
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The readers of this paper will
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Family Pills for constipation.
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
ARKANSAS RICH IN GOOD CEMENT
Deposits of Material For rlanu-
facture of Portland Cement
Found in This County

Government experts in recent
report on the Portland cement re-
sources of the country show that
Arkansas has almost an ineXhaust-
IDLE supply of these materials. and
say that heavy deposits are found
in Independence county.
The deposits, it is stated might
be converted into money making
fields in SO far as the demand for
cement today is greater than the
supply, as is everywhere evidenced
by the greatly increased price in
that commodity within tie past
year.
That this demand for cement
will not be short lived is guaran-
teed by the construction Of the
Panama canal, which will require
millions of barrels Of cement; the
construction of many great irriga
ton projects all over the West;
the rehabilitation of San Francisco
and the great building boom gen
orally Already many states
share in this great industry, which
during the past twenty years has
grown from STRIPPING of some
S23, 900 to over $50, 100000 Ce-
ment has become as Indispensable
to the builder as iron and steel.
Arkansas greatest claim as Il ce-
ment producing state lies with
its immense deposits Of lime and
chalk. There being seven vari-
cites, namely, Izard limestone,
Polk Bayou limestone, St. Clair
limestone, Boone limestone, Pit
kin or Archimedes limestone,
White Cliffs chalk and Saratoga
chalk. All the limestones occur
northwest of Il line drawn through
Pocahontas, Powhattan, Jackson
port, Searcy, Little Rock, Benton.
Arkadelphia, Prescott, and Texar-
kama. Southeast of this line there
! is absolutely no material for CO.
ment manufacture.
The report says that lizard lime
stone occurs in independence, IL
ard, Stone, Searcy. Marion and
| Newton counties. 1t is found in
quantity on all the main branches
of Latferty creek, and ranges in
thickness up to 200 feet. In a
few places it appears in almost
perpendicular bluffs, but more
commonly in deep terraced slopes.
The finest exposures are along tie
tributary flowing west from Cush.
man known as Blowing Cave creek;
in the rayine in the north part of
section 13, township IA north,
range 6 west, are areas especially
noteworthy both for the quantity
and quality of the Izard limestone
exposed.
The largest and most conspicu-
Gus outcrop of Izard limestone
west of Penters Bluff is on Wilson
creek, in the northwestern part of
the Batesville quadrangle. At the
base Of the bill on each side Of the
The Newark journal., 1906-10-12
A Badly Burned Girl

Or boy, msn or woman isquick-
~ out of pain if Bucklen ; Arnica
Salye is applied promptly. G.. j.
Welsh of Tekonsha, Mich. says,
4 use it in my family for cuts,
sores and all skin injuries, and
lind it perfect. - Quickest pile
cure known. Best healing saIye
made. 25e at j. |. Sturdivant's.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
IlIiteracx Decreasing.

The last bulletin issued by the cen
the relative rank of the respective
states has changed with reference to
illiteracy. An examination of the pro-
portion of children between ten and
IA who are unable to write, shows that
IN 1860. six Of the ten states with the
least illiteracy were eastern; in 1880,
three; and in 1900, only two. Cali
fornia, which ranked seventh in 1870
and fourth in 1880, had fallen out OF
the list of states with least illiteracy
in 1900. Native whites of foreign pa
rents make the best showing. The ex-
PLANTATION offered is that they dwell
for the most part in the cities where
the school facilities are good. The ma
tive whites of native parents come
next; after them, the foreign born.
Above them in percentage Of illiteracy
are the Japanese, the Chinese, negroes
and Indians, in the order named. Up
to Is the negroes are more illiterate
than Indians, but gain the advantage
after that age. 1t appears that wom-
en- are more illiterate than men. but
girls less so than boys. This is in
terpreted to imply that 20 years ago
girls had greater educational advan-
tages than boys, but since that time
conditions have been reversed. In
1890, the advantage enjoyed by the
girls extended from ten to 80; now it
runs from ten to "a. The authors Of
the bulletin consider that this points
to the time when females of all ages
will be less illiterate than males. A
commentary on the present method of
estimating progress in terms of what
is called education" has been made
by the president of the Idaho Indus
trial institute. He gives as his opinion
that the average college graduate is
q complete failure when called on to
make his living by manual labor, and
that the whole educational system
tends to create feeling of CASTE He
said further: MANY prominent en-
ployers have told me that the poorest
recommendation a young man can
bring is a college diploma" He ad-
vocates that at least half Of the stu
dents time should be devoted to the
learning of a manual trade.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

her off their hands. One tramp had
his feet cut off, and pa tried to show
MIN how much he would save in shoes
the rest of his life, and that he was
in pig luck. We left Ia at Pousu-
keepsie to settle the cases and went
on 10 New York, and we heard the people
had lynched him, but he showed up
in a couple of days with money LETT.
Now all the lawyers in New York are
after us, with claims. and they haze
attached most everything, and the
show is up against it,
What difference it makes who
wants damages. When we were work
ing the railroad for damages. it was
cinch. and like getting money from
home, but now that the people are
working us for damages, for being
smashed up under our tent, we look
upon it as crime, and tell them it
is an act of Providence, and that the
show is not to blame for a wind
storm But the lawyers can't be
very pious. for they won't believe in
the act of Providence racket, and we
shall have to cough up all the profits
of the season.
Since we got settled in New York Tor
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
Pa Kept Mauling the Lion.

man and woman from New Hanap-
shire in one berth, and when the monk
got in their berth and began to talk
the Newport language, the old MAJ
thought it was me, and he said: Now,
pub. you so away to your pa"
The monk went out, and got into an
other berth. and crawled under the
bunk, and when the woman came i'll
to go to bed, she looked under it ri
see if any man was there. When she
saw our baboon she yelled fire" AMI
the officers OF the boat pulled him gu.
by the hind leg. and tore my pant
leg off. Pa and had to sit up the
rest OF the night with him, and when
we landed him with the show at
Madison Square Garden we felt re-
lieved.
Ono woman on the boat has fol-
lowed us ever since to collect dam
ages from pa. cause his Oldest sor.
the monk. proposed to her. Gee. il
seems to me woman ought to know
the difference between a baboon aud
man. but some women will marry
anything that wears clothes.
The monk took to me so, pa said
] must teach him everything could
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

ager of the Four Hundred show de-
cided to. Danish the baboon, and orr
show sent pa to Newport to buy the
baboon and bring him to our show at
New York.
We had the darndest time get
ting him away from Newport. Pa
couldn't do anything with him, but
he took to me. cause he thought l was
his lOng-lost brother, anG 1 could do
anything with him. We got him IA
our stateroom on the boat, and took
his clothes away from him, cause he
only wears his clothes when he il
being dined and wined, and we chained
him in the upper BERTH He just
raised the very deuce on the way
down to New York. After pa and ]
got to sleep that baboon got my
clothes, and put them on, slipped the
| chain over his head, jumped through
the transom, and went into every
berth where the transom was open
| and chatted with the people who oc-
cupied the berths. There was an ole
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

scared everybody half to death. Sew
eral people were hit by tent poles and
hurt some, and it was the widest
scene l ever saw, and people who got
out alive ran away in the dark. and
somebody said the animals had all
got loose, and some of the peorle
never stopped running till daylight the
n tx morning
Some run into the river, and the AM
balances carried the injured to hos
pitfalls. Pa stampeded with the e.
phalts. az never showed up till noon
the next day. By that time at least
p nIp = I'D filed claims for
DAMAGES, and all the lawyers, from AL
bany to New York, were on our trail
he managers appointed pa to set
tie with the injured, and the way h..
argued with those pe5pe YVES a eau
ton. One old woman was killed. anI
pa tried to show her relatives that as
she was old and helpless, and more ~
| less burden to the family theyfought
! to pay the show sometime for GETTING
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
(M,1 Ma1.y Nmmick

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully quail
fiedto give helpful advice osick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmiclx's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
81 have been a sufferer for the past eight
years with trouble which first originated
from painful periods-the pains were excruci-
ating with inflammation and liberation of the
female organs. The doctor says must have
an operation or cannot live. I do not want
to submit to an operation if l can possibly
avoid it. Please help me."-Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington, D. c.
Her second letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
" You will remember my condition when I
last wrote you, and that the doctor said
must have an operation or could not live.
received your kind letter and followed your
advice very carefully and am now entirely
WELL AS my case was SO serious it seems q
miracle that am cured. know that owe
not only my health but my life to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your
advice. l can walk miles without an ache or
pain, and wish every suffering woman
can do for them. Mrs. Mary Dimmick, Seth
and East Capitol Streets, Washington, d. C.
How easy it was for Mrs Dimmick to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass,
and how little it cost her-a two-cent
stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply!
AS Mrs Dimmick says-itsa her life.
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
of just such letters as the above, and
offers ailing women helpful advice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
MEN, wonrr AND WAYS.

The enemies we forgive are gen.
orally those that are bigger than We
are.
A woman writes letter because she
has something to say or nothing else
to do.
Perhaps truth is stranger than fic-
ton because we don't get SO well ac-
Quainted with it.
1t is the fellow who can't sing who
generally has things offered to him
for song.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

Every woman in Jersey City is tt
receive an invitation to learn how to
shoot revolver. Jersey City, if the
plan of Rev. DR.. John L. Scudder, the
lighting parson" of the First Congre-
gational church and manager of the
Peoples palace. is successful, will be-
come the warmest city in the United
Starss for burglars. DR.. Scudder pro-
poses to install a shooting gallery in
connection with the Peoples palace as
soon as it is completed. He announced
that he will issue an invitation to every
woman in the city to practice shooting.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

We have added to the show the most
remarkable animal that ever was-.a
baboon that dresses like a man, and
cats at a table, using knife and fork,
and a napkin. This baboon has been
playing an engagement with the Four
Hundred at Newport, dining with thu
crowned heads at that resort, but the
COMPOUNDED baboon got to be too hu-
man, and he fell in love with an heir-
ess, and scared one of the Willie boys
that was also in love with her.
His friends were afraid the baboon
would cut Willie out entirely, or get
jealous and injure Willie, so the man
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

that men do, so thought 1t would do
no harm to teach him to chew to-
bacco, cause he could already smoke
he boss canvasman, a great big
chew of black plug tobacco, and the
monk grabbed it, and chewed it awhile,
just before the afternoon performance,
and swallowed it. l knew that ses-
lied the monk, and when the audience
came along by his cage, and pa WAS
trying to get him to perform, as
ne did at Newport, eating dinner like
man, the monk turned pale, and his
stomach ached, and he stood on his
head. and held his stomach in both
hands. and kicked the table over.
Then he hit pa a swat with his foot,
and wound his tail around pas neck,
and laid his head on pas SHIRT bosom,
and was seasick.
Pa said: "Well, this beats every
thing. What did you do to him."
1 told pa l had only been teaching
the monk manly tricks, and pa said:
well, you have overdone it, And
then the Humane society had pa ar
rested for cruelty to animals. But
the monk got over it, and now he
tries to be a masher, and winks at
women, and fiirts with them just as
the men do at Newport.
We thought we were smart when
we held up the railroad for damages
back in Pennsylvania, after the wreck,
but we are getting dose of our own
medicine. At Poughkeepsie there
came up wind and rainstorm that
blew the tent down right in the
midst of the evening performance, and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

When the conscience of a commun.
ity is quickened the effect is much the
same as that which takes place when
only an individual is concerned. There
is a desire for better things in all re-
spects. There is new reverence for
law and new desire to repress the law
less. The determination to have
cleaner streets and more honorable
public officials affects the attitude of
the communities most interested
toward every form of vice and all lax
ity in the enforcement of the laws.
The truth is that the American people
are experiencing a far-reaching moral
revival. 1t manifests itself in differ
ent degrees and forms. but in its es-
sence it is the same in many states and
cities.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
By HON. GEORGE W. PECE
Ithor OF "Peck's Bad g
Copyright by ]. B. Bo wles.J

A Newport Monk Is Added to the
Show-The Boy Teaches Him Some
MANLY Tricks"-The Tent Blows
Down and a Panic Follows-Pa
Manages the Animal Act Which
Ends in a Novel Manner.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
Nav Be Visited in Winter.

1t is expected that the Yosemite val
ley in California will soon be made
as accessible to visitors in winter as
in summer, through the completion
of the new railroad which is being
built from MERGED to the entrance to
the park.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
Sessions of Conores

We are accustomed to speak of the
long and the short sessions of con-
gress, and to anticipate that much
more will be accomplished in the first
session, which begins in December in
odd-numbered years, as is the case
with the session which has just begun.
But 1t is not usually recognized that
the first session of the odd-numbered
congress is more productive of legis-
lation than the corresponding session
of even-numbered congresses-th pres
ent congress, it will be remembered, is
the fifty-ninth, and is odd-numbered.
There are two reasons for this. Two
years ago the presidential election
was pending. Two years hence an
other national canvass will be in pros
pect At such times both parties are
timid, and risk as little as possible
Moreover, the house elected on the
same day that the presidential electors
are chosen is usually of the same po-
litical party as the administration
That elected midway in the term is
often carried by the opposition. If, fol-
example, the Democrats should carry
the house next November, the present
session would prove the only one Of
this administration in which the Re
publicans could have complete power
except for the short session beginning
a month after that political overturr
had taken place. 1t therefore happen:
that in many an administration con.
gress has passed, in the session CORE
spending to the present one, most o.
the important measures which distin
guish that administration. In any
event, therefore, this is the most favor
able opportunity for constructiv,
measures that will come between
March of the years of 1905 and 1909
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
TWO OPEN LETTERS
IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOVEN
Mrs. Mary Dimmick Of Washington tells
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Her Well.

It is with great pleasure we publish
the following letters, as they convinc-
ingly prove the claim we have so MANY
times made in our columns that Mrs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
The Old Excuse.

The sparrow had just shot Cock
Robin.
..Mistook him for a deer while out
hunting" he explained.
This was really the origin of the
time honored custom.-N. Y. Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
Latest Thing at a Wedding.

Mrs Knicker-Was it a fashionable
wedding?
Mrs. Bocker-Yes, indeed; the bride
was attended by . Divorce Of honor.
n. 7. Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28
Twenty-Five Bushels
Of Wheat to the Acre

means a productive
capacity in dollars OF
over $l6 per acre.
This on laud, which
has cost the farmer
nothing, but the price
of tilling it, tells its
own story.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

The Canadian Government gives absolutely
free to every settler 100 acres of such land.
Lands adjoining be purchased at from So
to SIC per acre from railroad and other corpora
TONS
have made their homes in Canada.
For pamphlet "Tweutieth Century Canada~
and al information apply to SUPERINTENDENT
OF IMMIGRATION, Ottawa, Canada or t o the
Agents
Us. CRAWFORD rs West 9th St.. Kansas City. Mo
Mention this paper
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-28

Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass, is fully quail
fiedto give helpful advice to sick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-12-08

formation half Of it without covering
az al There 81 no place where the ore
does uot show up within feW fect q
the surface. It IS within i0Oa feet Of
the shore OF the lake wnere there ID
depth 81 water FROM thirty-6gc "a
forty feet
Already steps are being 'nhtr TO
consolidate the claims aud Is construct
dock. which It is expected viii be
ready FOR shipments In May next The
grade 81 this ore. Mr.. sibthorp states
is equal to the best that Is being pro
duced by the United States Steel cor
poration. being rs high as 20 per cent
Of metallic iron. far within the bes-
semer limit as regards PHOSPHORUS
and with hardly trace Of sulphur.
The fling of articles at Madison to-
day increasing th capital stock Of the
Chicago. Milwaukee q 50 Paul rail
ROAD $3.50, 600. 600 IL declared 10 assure
the extension OF that system 10 the
Pacific coast. Notwithstanding the re-
peated denials OF rumors that followed
the last annual meeting Of the corpora
ton that the capital stock was 10 be