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The Springdale news., 1907-12-20

Parties wishing pay Real Estae are urged and be qued furnish proper description Real Estate on thch they wish pay And also ask all the Tax Payers toa the voting precincts ndates named above and pay poss get of the charged against em thus prevenng the of making settlement with many on the asays prior April 10 will leave the last day appointment o'clock ? m. go to the next place - - MneoM
 KIT PHILIPS.
 Sheriff and Ex-Ohcio Collector, Washington Ceny, Ark Fayetteville Ark. Nov 26 1907.
The Springdale news., 1907-12-20

When winds shriek high In fiendish
 glee, And enters winter with his key. Protect yourself. from disease be
 free: Take liollister's Rocky Mountain
 Tea. Nelson, Searcy X Bevers
The Springdale news., 1907-12-20

The hea iaehe of woman Is but that of a man is usually acquired.
The Springdale news., 1907-12-20

Don't expect to strike any man favorably if you aim at his pocketbook.
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Tragically appropriate as the climax
to year OF appalling railroad mortal
ity was the catastrophe of Dec. 30
1905, wherein more than fifty passen.
gers were killed. The explanation was
the usual one, with which the travelling
public is expected to be meekly con-
tent The night was foggy and there
was n mistake In the signals Hence
the collision The much praised block
system lends itself too readily to mis-
taken signals, with their grim sequel
of lives sacrificed. Safeguards that do
not safeguard are coming to be pref
ty costly and gruesome farce. "Oper-
atlng efficiency" is braggart word
with the American railroad magnate,
and 1t Is true that, as factories for CON
centrated profits, our railroad systems
have reached a wonderful perfection,
equalled only by their achievements
as universal Juggernaut. says Rldg-
ways. With grain rotting on the
ground In the Northwest for lack of
shipping facilities, with half n dozen
States freezing for coal while cars for
the carrying OF that commodity are
tangled In extricable confusion. with
high railroad officials bawllng out ex-
plantations that explain nothing, and
excuses that a schoolboy could excel
for lnventlveness with the slaughter OF
helpless passengers going on day after
day, the present methods OF operation |
as devised and controlled by the mas
ter minds" of rallroadlng are matter,
not for gloriiication, but for mourning
and repentance.
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writing was in his blood and he began
to Issue paper called The Rebel,
which was unique institution. 1t was
perlpatetic, moving about as the Union
armies came into range. Usually a
covered wagon was the editorial sane
tum, press and composing room On
one occasion the forms were already
made up, chronicllng Confederate
victory in the engagement which had
taken place that day, when the tide Of
battle turned and before the forms
could go to press the Union army was
routing the Confederates. Watterson
abandoned bis office" and when the
Federals rushed in and seized 1t the
artillery used the type which had been
employed to describe Confederate We
tory by loading 1t into their cannon
and firing it at the retreating army.
Type was scarce In those days and it
was not until several months later,
when a Confederate detachment raided
Union town on the border that Wat
terson's stock was replenished
At the end of the war Watterson
went TO Louisville and was associated
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There Is a cleanliness which Is toe
clean, and is then baroness This Is
recognized by the artlst-phllosophers in
japan whose aim Is to make the home
life sweet and beautiful, Artistic man.
ners In Japan began with the Ell.
quette OF tea-drinking. round which has
developed a domestic ritual Its ex-
pert devotees are called tea-masters.
Some OF the tea-masters have been very
great artists and the founders OF
schools OF painting. One OF these was
Rikiu. A story, told of him In the lit
tie Book Of Tea" written by Il Jap
anese author. Okakura- Kakuzo, Illus
trates the tea-masters' idea of cleanli-
ness,
Rikiu was watching his son Shoan
as he swept and watered the garden
path.
mot clean enough" said Riklu. when
Shoan had finished his task, and babe
him try again. After IA weary hour the
son turned to Rikiu.
Father, there is nothing more to be
done The steps have been washed for
the third time, the stone lanterns and
the trees are well sprinkled with wa
ter, moss and lichens are shining with
a fresh verdure; not a twlg. not a leaf
have | left ON the ground"
Boy" chlded the tea-master, that
is not the way garden path should
be swept
Saying this, Riklu stepped into the
garden, shook a tree and scattered over
the garden gold and crimson leaves.
scraps of the brocade of autumn. What
Rikiu demanded was not cleanliness
alone, but the beautiful and the nat
ural also.
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Congress- was influential In bringing
about reconstruction, fought the Ku
Klux Khan. supported Greeley and was
the first prominent Democrat to 90 to
Louisiana when hints of fraud against
Tilden We're set ahoat He counseled
peace and moderation during that per
ilous situation and was influential In
preserving peace. He became the chum
of Cleveland, quarreled with him and
called him some of the most memorable
names ever attached to this much
dubbed President. He assailed Bryan
in 1896. organized the Gold-Democrat
movement, and then turned around and
supported Bryan and Parker in 1900
and 1904.
In his general attitude toward life
Colonel Watterson is an Epicurian. Fle
lives freely, and cares little for money,
which he spends when be has it and
when he hasn't. His income has al
ways been large, but his savings small.
He can make thousands every season
on the platform. where he is in con
slant demand, and indeed is one of the
most attractive of speakers.
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Didn't 1t sound AS though the father
were speaking through the son? To
an eager Sunday school class In Cleve-
land John d. Rockefeller, Jr., said /:
You should thank God that you have
to struggle along for your daIly bread
and thus avoid the temptations md re-
sponsibllities that the possession OF
wealth creates or produces If the
| young and wise Mr. Rockefeller thinks
poverty is such a blessing why, In the
! name OF all the saints at once doesn't
he try to get rid OF the more THAI Just
proportion of the worlds money which
he possesses2 If wealth Is such a curse
why is he training himself TO add to
the Unfortunately large holdings OF bis
famllyY The trouble with young Mr..
Rockefeller Is that he Is trying to ape
his father and with long drawn face
and sanctimonlous depreciation deride
the possession Of wealth while bend |
ing all his energies to add to his gold |
en- store. How does the young Mr.. |
Rockefeller know II is more blessed |
to be poor than rich? II he lmagines |
the squalor of the garnet is preferable |
to the luxury OF n mansion why doesn't |
he try 1t for while? If he can find |
more Joy In gnawing tough flank steak
than porterhouse smothered with mush-
rooms why doesn't he order flank steak |
from his butcher? OF all the mushy
talk about the sorrows of riches and |
the joys of poverty the Rockefellcrs
deal out the mushiest. Poverty is not a
crime and It's long ways from being
a blessing. We are all-that is, II we
are worth the powder to blow rs up
with--striylng to escape from its gaunt
clutches and lay up competence for
old age and for our children. We are
striving TO earn little more and save
a little more to-day than we did yes
terday We want our children 10 be !
better dressed than we were In our {
Doyhood days. And up and down this
sad old earth there isn't n normal man I
)r woman who would not gladly for '
'aFe the Rockefeller theory of Joy in I
poverty for the temptations and re- l
that the possession OF '
,reat wealth produces
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daughters that Thy desire shall be to thy husband
and he shall rule thee and since in the vast
majority of cases excepting during the period of court
ship. and often then 1t has been the woman who has
striyen hardest to please the who has sought to
mold herself according to his IDEAL to conform to his
standard In all things Rudyard Kipling says: Men
speak the truth they understand II, they
think men would like to understand it; then they all
act lies which would deceive Solomon and the result is
a heartrendng muddle which half dozen plain open
words would put straight" "As the husband is the wife
Isl OF course, there exceptions, but in the main
there never truer word spoken.
Among the pungent aphorsms in clever brochure re-
Gently published About Men, Women and Fools" is this:
Never marry man to reform him.
Reform him first, and then don't marry him"
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pEADHEAD PASSAGE ON SHIP.
Man Says Many Masquerade as Fire
men on Liners.

Man Says Many Masquerade as Fire
men on Liners.
Young man athletic In appearance,
called at the World office yesterday and
said he crossed the Atlantic on the
Teutonie without paying his passage or
working for it. He had been well fed,
and, after the arrival Of the Teutonic,
walked ashore unmolested, says the
New York World
He says he is willing to guarantee
that he can return to England and
come back to America in the same way
without the expenditure of a penny.
He says his method of travelling Is COM
mon among panhandlers and the men
who are too lazy to stow away and
work for their passage. 1t is much
easier than to stow away, go hungry
few days and then perspire In the
bunkers passing coal
He says nearly every ship contains
from six to score Of the sub-rosa
voyagers, many of them the scum Of
the earth" made up to look Ike fire
men, with dungarees, rolled-up sleeves,
blackened face, penciled eyebrows,
pipe and a netted towel hung around
the neck. There were twelve of these
dummy stokers on the Teutonlc, he
said If an officer asks them any ques-
tons they reply: I'm on the other
shift, sir"
The young man gave the ocean fire.
men a bad name. These firemen will
never peach, he says, on the dummies
and will share their whack with them
in the glory hole.
Chief Engineer Gordon and his as
sistant on the Teutonic laughed at the
mans stocry. There were no dummies
on the Teutonic," said Mr.. Gordon;
two representatives of the board Of
trade, an American immigration sur
geon and officers Of the ship inspect
every man who comes aboard and signs,
the articles.
Every man is accounted for. Mus
ter, inspection of quarters and the re-
sponslbillty of every engineer for the
men in his watch would prevent stow
Always from remaining undetected.
British fremen are not criminals.
Many Of them live in Liverpool, where
they support their families. They are
as a class looking up all the time In
the stokeholds of many ships you will
find members of amateur athletic ASSOC
some wearing championship
medals for prowess in swimming or
other sports. The athlete is very rare
" a criminal
Almost to man the White Star
iremen are friends on association foot
ball and cricket. They are fond of
their ale, yes, but 50 are landsmen."
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with George d. Prentice on the Cour-
ler-Journal. after be had forced that
brilliant product Of Journalism into
capitalization by establishing rival pa
per. In those days papers like the
Courier-Journal, the Chicago Times,
the New York Sun and the New York
Tribune were synonymous with their
editors. Prentice, Watterson, Story,
Dana, Greeley and others of their type
were always alluded to when the pa
pers were quoted. Prentice died and
wstterson became greater force. For
thirty years he ran the composing room
az well as the editorial department of
his paper. and the politics OF Kentucky
at the same time. He was the arch
partisan, the fiery free-trader who
manufactured doctrine for the other
free-trade editors to reproduce In their
columns. He also made many public
speeches on the labor platform at the
dinner table and elsewhere, and al
ways was the spectacular, grandilo-
Quent performer. He served a term In
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WHITE MAN TURNED BLACK.
Found Roaming in the WiIds of
Australia and Cared For.

| Found Roaming in the WiIds of
Australia and Cared For.
| In the house of detention at Inverell,
under the care of the government of
! New South Wales, there is a genuine
wild man who was captured in the al
most impentrable bush of the island
continent by the mounted police. For
years this curious creature had been
sought, but he had always managed
to elude his pursuers until he was shot
in the leg and fell as a wounded deer.
A strange thing about him was that he
was once white-a European, in fact
Through his long exposure to the ac-
tons of the climate he became almost
black, while his hair and beard Srew
as bushy as that of the aboriglnals of
Australia, undoubtedly the lowest type
of man in existence
He knew no language. which seemed
to demonstrate little contact with other
human beings. After some time his
custodians could prevail on him to ut
ter some sounds, and naturally he was
a past master in the art of initiating
the beasts and birds of the bush from
the shrill cry of the treacherous dingo
to the tinkling of the bell bird that
calls the poor thirsty traveller to where
water is to be found.
In the forest filed with magnificent
ly plumaged parrots and cockatoos and
feathered fnches, with kangaroos
opossums and all manner of strange
beasts and birds, he had spent his life.
lie had probably subsisted since child
hood on berries, wild honey and the
like. He was unclothed and he ran
with the agility of a stag, bounding
over fallen logs, climbing trees like a
native bear and generally living the
life of an unassociated and minated
animal of some unknown and extra
ordinary kind.
mat he had not fallen a victim to
snakes is a marvel, but his agility in
getting up the stems of the blue g,me
md other trees would place him in So
,urity out of the way of the wild docs
which only attack after shutdown ana
,efore sunrise
When he found himself confronted
" men of his own kind, and perbans
# his own blood, he screamed with
error and cried like child. His can
ors treated him with all Kindness and
ound up his wound, which. bannilv
fas unimportant. Then he was con,
eyed to Inverell and fed, bathed and
lothed.
He became less frightened bnt from
hat day to this no one has been ebIa
get at his history or antecedents
That as a child he wandered into
he bush and was lost is the only 90 !
eptable theory. That he must have
cen exposed to the elements for manv
ears would suggest itself because %
lie changed color of his skin.
The 'only genuine wild white mony
ppears TO be slowly gaining confidapca
his captors and even, so far as ono
ay guess, learning to be contentad
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AN OAK OF JOURNALISM.
Col. Henry watSerson, Editor of the
Louisville Couricr-JournnI.


Col. Henry watferson, Editor of the
Louisville Couricr-Journnl.
Twenty-Five years have wrought a
great change In Henry Watterson, as
well AZ In the occupation to which he
has devoted his life Marse Henry was
a potent factor In that potential jour
nalism which did more to mold public
sentiment after the Civil War, during
the reconstruction period and even in
the campaign OF 1880. in which Garfield
was saved from defeat by Conkllng,
than the platforms OF parties and the
utterances OF orators. These latter
were but the echoes of the policies
which the great editors outlined, and
OF these molders OF public thought none
was more influential In Democratic pol
tiles a quarter of century ago than
| Watterson, of the Louisville Courier
Journal. He was a giant of the era
OF political editors. He was ahame
with enthusiasm when the sanctum was
the heart and yitals OF the paper, when
the editorial end of the publication re-
tained an influence In public affairs
which has largely descended to the
counting room since the commercial
ian of newspapers has come unon rho
land. Profit was not the nri,oarv cor-
slderatlon with editors OF the Wotta-
son stamp.
To-day Watterson sin writes >,o,,
and then some utteranca ~ his -
like bngle blast across tho o,,,,,tn'.
and tina populace sits nm and baor, -e,,,,
But the yirility which once marie, 81.
editorials has vanished ond as -.
they sound like an echo ont ~ +ba r,a.4
Watterson Is still courageous v,t,i IT,
turesoua but the ape /, fsst .,,n,l,nn
away from him and the tou-naI,s,,, 20
our dsy n not OF his own Would thot
his wit. his Imagination bis e,no.,or
might be- perpets,tedi
w.ttaro, ,.a 49, ,,,
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attempting to bonnet gown In imitation of her
original But in the field of moneymakng imitation
t!nues to be the sincerest hattery" accepted with
general however the man initiated in his moneymakng
methods afford to smile. Already be proved his
Judgment and has reaped the ready upon It, He
may have exhausted the possibilities of that particular
line Or, all else favorable to the nitator this
ul has wide margin of chance that in his hurry
fall into line Of mttstion the mitstor has missed the
true principles at bottom of the speculation.
Take any farming community where the simplest lines
laid for the local business world In certain
ton perhaps wheat has been years no poa-
toes planted perhaps of dozen crops been
neglected In the planting until the neghborhood has
gotten the staple. But suddenly sets aside
field for Of these neglected crops and plants it, Only
idle interest attracted though the planter may
expended HIS best Judgment upon crop reports markets
and the chances Of favorable Not till all Of
these have been realized In great harvest top prices
however does the spirit of imitation spring up over the
neghborhood 1t will be too late for that seasons
ture but In the following the adventurng farmer
may count scores OF followers In this line whereas
he himself has dropped the idea for another
In the degree with far greater complications the
mtstor Of financial methods in the cities led aStray
Not until some one has made notably successful
In certain line is attention attracted Yet in
all probability before he has made his move as an
lmator the man whose example he is trying to follow
switched to altogether different field of opera
tons!
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Never In the history OF education
was there such a frenzy among educa-
tors TO add courses OF study In the pub
lie schools as to-day. That has had
the natural effect Of physical and men.
tai injury to childhood which II is now
the desire to overcome. Educators
have found that little bodies and little
brains succumb to the strain the theo-
rists have put upon them and the pub
lie school gymnasium is the result.
Children instinetlvely resort to the
kind Of physical exercise best suited to
them II they are allowed to play cut
in the open air. This Is the very best
bodily training they can have. If the
modern educators would not require so
much home study Of the children the
latter would not need physical culture
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Veterans OF Industry" A pretty
phrase and prettily employed. 1t is
what the Danes call the old people OF
good record who are forced to apply to
the authorities for help, No shame at
taches to such application; no lgnoble
dependence, corrosive OF self-respect
attends the life which follows, Such
n person enters the home as a sort of
government pensloner.
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stance. The woman who mnrries man. fondy imagin-
ing by OF his for her she be able
to mold him according to her ideas, makes in 8o999
times OF 100000 great and often disastrous mis-
take. Comparatively few possessed of hyp-
motto power over the who In love with
them, and usdally who not only be subdued
but dominated by feminine influence is Of unstable
a quality retain the oppression IN Its strength when
the controlling presence is r5moved
Tradition and since the beginning of time have
prescribed that the shall be the head of the family
part of the doom pronounced upon Eve and her
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Rest voices in America.

| When Henry w. Savage and Man.
ager Ralph Edmunds were in Paris last
summer gathering a cast for Madam
Butterfly" Jean De Reszke arranged a
little affair" at his home in order that
Mr.. Savage might hear some new
voices. The yankee colonel tells of it /:
In the course of our conversation l
asked De Reszke: Have you any
Americans studying with your
Some" be answered, but l wish
there were more"
"WhyY
Because they are the best. The
finest voices in the world come from
America. The biggest, the purest, the
most dramatic l don't know why 1t
is 50. merely know that 1t is So"
During his visit to the United States
Tito Rieordi said to me: 81 can not
understand the temper of your people.
To me they are paradox. Here in
the United States you have greater de-
mand for grand opera than in any
other country. Here, too, you have the
best supply of natural singers. Yet In
stead Of producing your musical class
les In English, with casts of native
singers, you go abroad and pay enor-
nous prices for men and women with
foreign names and foreign titles. l pre-
sumo that II Is due to the same mex
plicable national characteristic which
dictates the publishing of your menu
in languages which 30 per cent OF the
diners can not read."-New York Sun.
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81 think he weakened his heart play
ing football"
What were his symptoms?"
"Why, he married the girl who at
tended every game In which he ap-
peared. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Some statlstlcian has found that bur
glars stole from the various banks In
this country during the past year to-
tai Of S4,i27. He. of course. refers
only to the thieves who broke In from
the outside TO do their stealing.
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Don't cheer, boys" plalntiyely ex-
claims the New York World. poor
thru Is dyingl" Still, let us not
mourn. II was too feeble and deform-
ed to have wlthstood the buffetings
of this rude world.
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Foolish Stories.

"How do you account for tha vow
that Rockefeller cannot afford ovstersa
Is the oyster so high?"
''The oyster had nothing to do with
the story. That was clearly the work
of lobster,"-Philadelphia Ledger.
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one of the dramatsts threatens to
write play around the fuel famine in
the Northwest II is a safe guess that
the villain will have beard and be
bald-headed
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Even the heroine who by waving her
red pettlcoat saved the fast express
from destruction has had to give mp
her pass. Thus DO the sins of the UNI
just fall upon the just
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The man who cut OF his right hand
because It offended him, It is needless
TO say. was n Bible reader who accept
ed all statements literally.
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The Chinese, it Is said, make 1t a
point OF homer TO pay all their debts
on the first day OF January. That's
the day we begin inventlng new ex-
cuses for not paying ours
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French professor says he is fol-
lowing up clews that Will reveal to him
the mystery OF the creation of plant
life He followed up a strong scent
when he chased down the onion.
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Although snld TO be ''richer than
Rockefeller" Mr.. Weyerhauser seems
to be permitted to pursue the even
tenor of his way. principally because
he refrians from lecturlag his fellow
men on how to be happy though strug-
Cling for n living.
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A Cincinnati church congregation has
decided to pay the pastors wife a
monthly salary. Hereafter there ought
to be no buttons missing from his
clothes.