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The Springdale news., 1906-05-11
JOHNSON.

to order, so quite bit of grunb- ling is heard because corn plant ing and blowing, and berry ripen- ing and 50 on has been set back on account of the cool rains and light frosts-but the folks who grumble ought to be thankful that they are not as bad off as the people who suffered the visi- tation of earthquake and fire away out in the land of gold where the earth is taking ague shakes every few days now.
 ]. X. Ritehey shipped the first crate of strawberriee from John son last Tuesday evening and the number of crates have been in- creasing every evening since un- til yesterday when the Fruitmen' $ Union loaded d refrigerator car and will get out another car today and by the m1ddle of tile week the big rush will get under way If the weather warns up. The berries are grading up well, and the out put promises to break previous records.
 The local berry growers have secured George N. Brooks, of Springdale, to inspect the berry shipments this season. Ben Johnson IT,, and Riley Maxey are loading the cars, Elmer Be ment attends to the crate busi- ness, while quite a force of shed workers help to make quick, sys- tematic work in handling and loading the fine lot of prize Win ming berries which go out to the markets of the north and west under the faney label of the Johnson Fruitmen Union. Man ager |. S. Waves and secretary G. W. Hays are giving their per lsonal attention to the business and are busy a> bees.
 
 H. (. Rush, of Los Angeles, Cal, came III yesterday and will spend the berry season here. He resides in California, but Is the head of great commission house at Detroit, Michigan. and he in- tends to buy berries here for his house. He spent ten days here last season.
 Prof. Marcus Mccall, of Eureka Springs, Ark, made d short visit over to Johnson last Sunday via the Frisco.
 Mrs. Will Walters ofSpringdale, spent several days of last week with her sister, Mrs. K. NJ. Lieh- lyter.
 Uncle Jacob Johnson returned Sunday from Bentonville where he had been to consult cancer specialist who had been treating the cancer that has been troubling Uncle Jacobs right hand. The danger period las passed and the specialist gives Mr. Johnson the assurance that his affilctlon will soon be over and that there will scarcely be scar lett where such a sore now troubles him.
 Dr. D. C. Summers of Elm Springs, came over last Tuesday and performed very dellcate op- eration on the lids of John Bos- wells eyes. He was assisted by Dr. Cowgirl of Johnson. MT. Boswell IS getting along splendid Iy and thinks that his trouble with his eyes will be cured when the results of tile operation has been attained.
 Birthdays come only once a year, and Mrs. Will Broadrick was given q surprise dinner by the neighbors last Sunday in hon. or of her 64th natal day. She was not looking for company and was rather vexed when folks be- gun to drop in an hour before dinner time, so she hustled out to get dinner for 'enD and they managed to keep her occupied long enough to get the dining room table already fixed oil with
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i DrOdQrlCk nurIltd III lo SeI the table, twas a debatable ques- tion whether to laugh, cry or get mad, for she was greatly sur prised. Say, AIully's birthday is away next January!
 ''Tecumseh," of Elm Springs, better known as Jas. Nenable, spent several hours of last Tues day over ill the reservation with Nully.
 II. c. Streight, of Omaha, Neb.. was one of the big commission men who were conflabbing With the officers of the local berry un- ion during the days Of last week.
 The local ladies have postponed the weekly meetings of their club until after the close of tie berry season..
 Yes, there was light frost yesterday morning, and never knowed it to fail fellow met Mully and says T told you SO, but just wait until tile 18th and you'll see d frost. What are We going to do with such q te1- low as that> He says that t al- so thundered on the 25rd day of a certain winter month, and that It will also frost on the same date this month. He had better go out to Roosevelt county, New Mexico. and locate on q claim, = and that reminds Mully that may be the name of that county Is why these Arkansawyers are get ting so dead gone on the country out there. Roosevelt county, huh. the name sounds alright. but many days hence the hills of old Washington and Benton eoun- ties will be far more eagerly sought for by those who are rush ing away to the "Staked Plains, . but you have all heard the story of the "Prodigal Son.
 No, no, no, Johnson folks have no tune to fritter away with side shows nor divers kind of agents who are perambulating through to reap a harvest of shining coin from the berry pickers. F rof. Le Noir had an audience of four last Thursday night, so there Is Likelihood that he Is aware of the fact that his spirits and fun- ny men etc, are not very agree able entertainers, or else lie thinks that people here cannot appreci- ate talent of such "a high grade as that displayed by his artists.
 Well. not q ticket Was sold from Johnson for the Kansas City excursion last Saturday evening. Mully expects that the Frisco will have to offer some S2.9S or $500 eXcurslon rates, and then folks will think they are getting a bargain, and will come running like they use to dc before big .'sales days" and slaughter prices brought the penny piece in general use
 Will Pearce, of Purdy, Mo-, is a familiar scene in Johnson this week. Will is down here to look after the berry crop on the Pearce farm northwest of Johnson.
 T he k1us-folk for miles around are coming in this week to help local folks in the berry harvest, and Mully would have to use sev- eral columns of the "best county paper in the state" to name all of the visitors.
 w. $. Ennls and wife, ot Van Buren, are sojurning with Mir. and Mrs. ]. McClendon and Mr. Ennis will assist in the McClendon X Co.,, store during the berry sea son.
 The gathering of the faithful at Stony Point was not great jubilee, but quorum was pre- sent and the following handsome delegation was chosen to repre- sent Elm Springs township at the )
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Wasbington County.

News gathered by cur Correspondents.
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THE SHOP
OF MANY
CORRIDORS

The many corridors lead by long rows Of
~s'Iclvss, some of them to curtained recesses,
where n sign declares that the public can
r,r me- admitted without permission Of the
proprietor. Hither come all the writcrs.
dramatists, poets OF note and those worthy
OF note, and with them the cranks, thos e
with astrological bumps. those' with fads
and fanoies.
Detasco browses apoa5 las shelves look
ing for some old book. Tom Watson bluffs
his way into the rear where there are many
piles OF innammatory looking pamphlets,
Mrs. Fred Nye, president OF the Dickens
Society, Is over searching for new Dickens
tpna, and Clyde Fitch, connoisseur Of old
bindir e. and title pages, takes an occasional
look about.
Fer the shop Of many corridors is one OF
tho Oldest bookshops in town. On its
shelves, below and above stairs, is a stock
Of half a million volumes and the proprietor
knows where to find every and any book
that the need or the caprice of the moment
may suggest.
There is a queer atm osphere here, musty
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covered and exploited him, his poems
would never probably have reached more
than a very limited audience.
There are many writer's like him who
nave not been and will not be discovered.
If their books reach the dignity of print
ing and publishing, what becomes Of them?
Just now, with the taste for ~melodrama
30 insistent, the dramatists are poking
about my shelves and are finding rare
treasures, for those old fellows knew how
to write plots, and a good many of them
knew lots besides-how to characterize
how to construct, and much Of the dialogue
Is witty.
what author would you guess to be
the most popular to-day, as he has been
since his romantic tales were first published,
who outranks Thackeray, Dickens, Bulwer
and all the rest, who appeals to the peasant
in his cottage and the King on his throne, to
every class and condition Of society?
Dumas, the great Dumas, stand at the
head! His history is accurate, his plots
original, and he never tires you.
Among the customers of the second
hand shop are people of every nationality
many Scotch, English, of course the Latin
races, and a few We!sh-but there is no
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-11
CROSSES IN CARLOAD LOTS.
The Swamp Thai Made the Fortune OF q
Man I'm West Virginia.

THAT fellow over there is the Watercress
Crnsus," said the clerk in an uptown hotel,
nodding in the direction of the theatre
ticket stand, where a big, fine looking man
Of 40, well dressed and apparently acous-
toned to New York hotel surroundings
was buying tickets for a party Of friends.
Fifteen years ago." continued the clerk,
he was a Door devil down in the noun
tains OF West Virginia, with nothing but
what he could earn as a laborer and no
prospects. One day he went to Baltimore
as a carataker with a load Of cattle.
There he dropped into a barroom and
saw a plateful of watercress on the bar.
He made some inquiries about where it
Camo from, what it cost, DC, and went back
to the West Virginia mountains thinking.
"He knew a piece of swampy ground
where watercress grew abundantly, and
he figured that there might be money in
shipping it to Baltimore. He made in
quiries and found he could buy the ground
for S. an acre. 1t was only a few hundred
feet from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
but the nearest shipping point was four
miles away.
He talked the venture over with the
cattleman for whom he worked and got his
promise to help him. On his next trip to
Baltimore a deal was closed with q commits
sion merchant to handle shipments OF
watercrcss, and the cattle mans influence
with the railroad people was sufficient to
exact a premise to put in a siding long
enough to hold four freight cars.
"On returning home the oattleman adj
vanccd s1CO and the whole swamp was
bought. Within a month the railway siding
was in and the. watercress Croesus was
gathering and shipping a carload a week.
"Croesus repaid the cattleman before
! six months. The next year he put up a
| little shop where his crates were made.
He soon cleared out all the other growth
in the swamp, planted more watercress
and in another year had a solid bed Of
twenty acres. He found that by building
a dam he could extend the swamp over
] nearly 100 acres further down the valley,
! but he didn't build it till he had got the
ground.
"Watercress requires no cultivation and
no notwithstanding out water and
harvesting. 1t produces throughout the
year, and costs nothing but the wages Of
the men who gather il.
"Croesus soon exten ded his market to
Philadelphia, New York and other cities and
his fortune was made. Now he has nothing
to do but spend his income and let the
watercress grow.
mo, he is not the only wateroress pro-
Queer, but l guess he's the only one who
ships it in carload lots and to all parts Of
the coun ~ .
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From The Success Magazine.

'h AN
Col. Henry Watterson tells Of the astonish-
ment and chagrin with which a certain well
known citizen Of Louisville. named jenkins.
read a long obituary of himself printed in a
morning paper Of that city. He at once pro-
ceeded to the editorial ONCE OF the paper.
and. after much difficulty, succeeded in OBJ
tanning audience OF the busy city editor.
Laying a copy of the paper before him. he
observed in a mild. almost humble way, that
he had come to see If the city editor could
tell him anything about It,"
with o snort OF Impotence the busy editor
gTasped the paper and hastily read the article.
TT appears to he an obituary Of one len.
kins, he growled. What Is there IN tell
about. II? What's the matter with you any.
howl" ~"'
..Qh, nothing, especially" responded the
mild Jenkins, only I thought I'd like to
know hoy the obituary came to be printed:
Came to be printed" repeated the editor.
course. Ny paper doesn't print obituary
Perhaps not. as a rule, gently replied the
visitor. but In this case. ] happen to be the
Jenkins referred to-"
Thereupon the city editor began q profuse
apology. We'll print a correction at once"
We'll. after all " observed the mild Jenkins
perhaps 1t would be better TO let Il stand
~ show II to my friends when they try TO-
borrow money Of ms" "
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out. On of these is a volume containing
a compilation Of The newspaper accounts
Of the Battle of Waterloo. 1t is valued
at $3.50. The next treasure is a translation
of Josephus by one Mr.. Lodge, a contem-
porary of william Shakespeare.
There is a great deal of humor about
Joseph,s, " says the proprietor of the shop,
if you only know wher re- TO look forit. Just
remember the descriptions of the return
of some of those old patriarchs after they
had been to war for 2 number of years.
They ind their habitations burned, their
wives stolen, their children murdered, and
then the dear old historian always end
up his bloodthirsty accounts with And
they felt great indignation thereat,' Nice,
wasn't it, to feel that way? Some people
might have been real mad.
Speaking Of the SENSE of humor, there
are thousands Of books of which no one
ever hears, and yet TINT have in them some
special quality which should give them
place on every library shelf. How few
people ever read Sam Slick the Clock
maker by Judge Halliburton. a book that
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From the 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
There is a way TO hold a revolver or
which a more reasonable. accuracy can he
secured than by the manner In which 1t Is
ordinarily held, Mr.. George Clarke. crack
shot, informs me. The usual grasp Of a
revolver Is with the forefnger pressing the
trigger and wen many experts follow ths
method. but 1t is not the best, nevertheless,
and in the case OF one who Is not used 10
haadling the weapon IL not to be advised
The best way TO hold a revolver is with
the second. or middle, finger pressing the
trigger. the foreinger extending along ne
side of the barrel in such q way that 1t Tllll
assist in keeping the weapon steady. Thai
is the great desideratum In endesvoring 70
make a shot with a revolver. keeping re
thing steady. 1t bucks up under the
muscular action required to pull the trigger
with the f~orefnaer, and unless one Is thor.
onghly prscticed the bullet will fly above
the mark aimed at. An expert trains hlll.
self TO prevent this buckinR up, and me
strength Of his wrists is such gained throuSh
fore he decries any other than the forehuent
Of, better results II he followed the m"rnHd
] have outlined,
For inexperienced persons dNsirlnr -
make a pot shot Of an enterprisiug bur4'atI
who may have gained admittanCe =" 80
house, the middle finger pull IL 10 he reGa3,...
mendedh for IL does awav with the buck i
altogether and the bullet, therefore. VIZ
surely follow the aim OF the eye"
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nation so patriotic when it comes to the
question Of the literature Of their country
as the Irish, and their literature is almost
unknown outside of their own nation.
There ia not an Irish hodohrrier who
does not at least own a 10 cent copy of songs.
To the average American, Irish literature is
an UNEMPLOYED country, but it would repay
the search.
Socialist and anarchist cranks? Now,
there is another funny thing. We don't
have them. Notwithstanding the fact that
the question of socialism is ~agitating
peoples minds a great deal, they don't
read about il. Possibly the books on the
subject arc not practical, don't advance
rapidly enough, or it may be that socialism
is purely a matter of oratory.
Here is another interesting item, per-
haps. Where do you suppose most Of the
books on theology are kept? Yes, in the
cellar; tons of them down there. If you
notice the stalls, the shelves and the counters
of most of the second hand places, you will
observe thai they are filed with them.
1T is not because people are less religious
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the most infnitesimal data concerning
them.
You must keep trac tx Of the editions de
luxe, know who has bought them and when
they change hands. A wave of popular
sentiment in a certain direction may create
a demand for a special work and you must
keep in touch with that.
yes, there are many amusing requests,
if one could only remember them all. The
other day a young bride came in and asked
for a good cook book, said she had heard
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
spoken of and asked my advice"
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asked the artist, adjusting an odorous
bunch Of narcissus blooms she wore.
ST have had no others. These two are
the sum total Of my experience with iortuno
sSome Of those who are able to do the
| most remarkable foretelling are not fortune
tellers, but just people who seem 10 nave q
sense which most OF us nave not, saIu a
! soft voiced woman. when | returned 10
town last fall, the pretty VIE OF a y9u tns
business man, who has this gift, PAID me
q visit. ,o- tho
winter, and very much to my mlhu, ouS
my guest told me that l was going 70 move
very soon and that it would be best io Don nhS
get into a tangle Of affairs and then wouio
untapRle them and that / would continue
TO do this for some months, as needeu tne
discipline and that 1t would enable me 20
gst out of the woods, az she put IT, al .he
right place. ru.a %
within three weeks / was obliged 10
move, and / found il to my advantage. l
have been tangling and untapgnng my
Affairs all winter and the end Is not YET.
THE Hindus know about tnel Se t t1lIns KS
what c~lairvoyanoe is and how it is done
she continued, glancing at the trim nttle
Hindu lecturer who was standing al atItn
ton, as a large man, bald and with bristnng
| gray mustacne emphasized wnat ne MaS
bdyluk ny tapping VIZ. P~ ~. 1Ia
with the forefing,r of the other. When tne
question was put to him the young hinou
said: uh
aClairyoyanoe is a simple matter, though
not as yet very well or g1nSraiy pbservad
and accurately tabulated cases prove that
human consciousness is a bigger thing than
can show itself through the brain at any
given time. -
-. o.. t1,tonoA AINzarf Uhn aR a child Der
| formed marvellous musical feats. This is
| knowledge gathered in previous. states OF
existence and stored in the wonder1ul ana
az vet unexplored human cohsciousness'
"Clairvoyance is the ability, 70 proJeo1
| CONSCIOUSNESS, independent Of the body,
and Is a power which certain people nave
gained, as Mozart gained his knowledge OF
music, some In a larger and some IN a lesser
degree. II is q misnomer to call TINS or
any other natural power a gift; 1t Is not q
gift but something that has Deen gaiheo
BY effort somewhere.
aThe discoveries in regard to the inner
conditions Of matter, now known TO exist,
are taking US more and more into the realm
lag OF dynamic forces throwing of tre-
msndous energy, while there is no notice.
able diminution Of their energy.
Some scholsrs assert that they have
attained memory Of former lives. The
exact scientists are now dealing win these
and women faculties and possibilities pre-
vtausly ~unrealized, and 1t is only a matter
Of time when these things will be fully
e1pioitsd. Then faculties we now know
MEe or nothing Of will be. understood and
utilized, as thousands of things are to-day
which a few years g were unknown;
for example, the using Of air waves for the
transmission through space Of thought.
aDid you unde rstand him?" asked the
young woman, soto poce, who had told Of
losing and finding her purse.
Il heard what he said" answered the
artist, smiling as she bent her head to the
odorous narcissus blossoms.
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but because there rave been such millions
Of them printed. A well known doctor OF
divinity told me that he never road a book
of theology that was over FIVE years old
He said that theology wa something like
electricity. 1t had to be brought up to date
to be Of any good.
THE only theology that does not change
ia the Roman Catholic. 1t is q case OF lake
it or leave it. 1t is absolutely anchored"
While the bookshop proprietor is dseo
in the discourse on theology. a near sighted
woman holding a small dog by a string
has come in and bounced with delight on
an omelette tinted book,
Just what l want, she says enthusiast
cally to the clerk and having paid her bill,
patted the do g, smiled on the wife OF the
proprietor, she goes out. All this the
speaker does not see, for he Is busy counting
up theological statistios.
Suddenly she Gomez back, her eyes fam
ing.
This isn't what l want at ALL" she says
sharply.
1T ia true that the light as in all old book
shops is mellow and one can easily make
mistakes in titles" says tho proprietor,
once more the suave seller Of goods, his
divinity o~verpowered by practical prob
le ms,
The misleading title il "Ths Dig Fls1d,'
which the purchaser had read TINS Dogs
Friend" She changes it for "Rab and his
Friends, which is suggested by the dealer.
Some people would have given her back
her money" he explains. THAT would be
bad business. You oan Away 3, II you
know your stock perfectly, find something
! just as good il not better than the book a
fault.
What gives the value to a bookT That
again is where only unlimited experience
can aid one. You must be familiar with
all the catalogues, the famous libraries