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The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1907-02-15

For Rent.-Two good farms,
apply to j. w. Pickens, Dota,
Ark.
We pay cash for chickens, eggs
and country produce. N. A.
Speed & Co.
Good new kodak, never been
used, for sale cheap. Apply at
The Journal office.
For corn, hay, oats, bran, alfal-
ia seed, ETC., figure with the New
ark Lumber Company.
You can get The journal and
the New Idea Womans Magazine
both one year for $1.25.
r. L. Buck and family left Sat
urday for Cooper, Tex, where
they expect to make their future
home.
Miss Margaret Stockard of
Magness spent Saturday and Sun
day in the city, the guest of Miss
Virginia Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Garfield Wayman
arrived home Saturday from
pleasant visit with relatives over
in jackson county.
P. X. Baker of Sui p h u +
Springs, Tex, will read The Jour
nal six months through the kind
ness of O. L. Baker.
O. L. Baker, one of Black
River townships from i s n g
young citizens, was looking after
business in town Saturday.
The Crescent Shoe Company of
Batesville has filed certificate
with the secretary of state show
ing that it has been dissolved.
You can get the best groceries
and fresh meat of all kinds at the
n. A. Speed and Company. Tele-
phone your order and it will be
delivered.
You can always get something
good to eat at Galloway's restau-
rant. Meals % cents. Short Or
ders at all hours. Also nice clean
beds and up-to-date accommoda-
dations.
The American Fence is so we'll
known that we sell it to great
many parties who write us to ship
them these goods. Barnett Bros,
Mercantile Company, Batesville,
Arkansas.
Wanted-Ten men in each state
to travel, distribute samples of
our goods and tack signs; salary
$50 per month; $500 per day
for expenses. Saunders Co., Dep
artment P, rs Jsckson Boulevard,
Chicago, His.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1907-02-15
Rising From the Grave.

a prominent manufacturer.
VIM. A. FertwelI, of Lucama. N.
g., relates a most remarkable ex-
perlence. He says: 'After tax.
ing less than three bottles of EIe-
trio Bltters, | feel like one rising
from the grave. My trouble is
brlght's disease, in the Diabetes
stage. | fully believe Electric
Bltters will cure me permanently.
for it has already stopped the
liver and bladder complications
which have troubled me for
years" Guaranteed at Sturdi-
wants drug store. Price only SOC.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
SAVED BY SILENCE.

Two soldiers, who belonged to a
body of troops crossing the Western
plain in 1852. started out 20 capture
a buffalo. A herd had been seen
about mile distant, their horses
were in good condition, and, says the
author of Five Years q Dragon, ="
they had every reason to anticipate
good sport.
They approached the herd at a
walk, and were within easy pistol
shot before the buffalo saw them.
Then one of them, named Peel, went
TO the west, the ether to the east
Peels companion haC dropped his
first buffalo when the voice Of Peel
rang out, Get on your horse!"
No time was lost, FOR looking east,
he pointed to fifty or more Indians
in a half-circlo half mile away,
their left wing so far advanced that
retreat to camp was cut off.
Consultation was brief. Peel led
the way down the hill and circled
round thickct, carefully selecting
the firm bulialo-grass sod so as to
leave no trail, and drew into cover
the Indians woro sure TO come down.
There they sat on their horses.
pistols in hand. They had no future
plans; thcy might have TO fight
death under that blun: they would
do Whatever circumstances seemed to
dictate.
They had not long TO wait. The
Indians came rafting down the rocl,
trails leading into the bottom, send
ing out their blood-curillug war
whoop at every jump. They seemed
TO think that tho fleeing men would
try TO escape toward camp, and be
enyelopcd i'm the circle; did not think
that thoy would do anything but run
for their lives, which would be sure
death One brawny brave drew rein
at the foot Of the trail where the mon
had come down, raised himself I'm the
gtirrups. and looked sharply toward
them Peels companion, believing
they were discovered. raised his pis-
lol to shoot; but Peel quietly reached
over, end placing his hand on his
comrades arm, gently pressed Il
iown.
In moment the Indian was on to
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
TALES OF
HORSES AND RIDERS

What is said to have been one of
the most surprising feats of horse
manship in all Ireland is credited to
the late empress of Austria. After a
desperate chase fox leaped the wall
OF Maynooth College, where the stu
dents were meditatively pacing to
and fro. AS the fox scurried across
the ground the young ciericals were
about to take up the chase them
selves, when beautiful woman, SUI
perbly mounted, cleared the wall in
pursuit OF the quarry. 1t was the
empress. DR.. Walsh. the present Ro-
man Catholic archbishop of Dublin,
received his unexpected guest with
gracious courtesy. The chase had
taken her through deep water, and
her wet clinging garments suggested
the desirability OF a change. But
there was not shred OF female attire
at Maynooth College, so the empress
threw over her shoulders an academ-
ical gown belonging to DR.. Walsh.
In exchange for her wrap the empress
pressed upon the future archbishop
diamond ring, and upon her return
to Austria she sent to the college a
superb statuette in solid silver of st.
George and the Dragon, and for DR..
Walsh vestments of silk and gold
worked with shamrocks in green
silk.
Here is n story of a wonderful
jumping horse as told by an English
journalist: "a California cowboy
was taking steers to Leadville and
had camped for the night on Bear
River near its junction with the Lit
tie Snake. In the middle of the
night something occurred to STAN
pede the cattle. The man mounted
his bronco and rode hither and thith-
er on the flank of the herd until
their fright had died away. Four or
five times the rider felt his horse give
tremendous leaps and with daybreak
he discovered the cause. The cattle
had climbed on to a level plateau
which is intersected by a canyon four
miles long and from 1900 to 1000
feet deep. Its walls incline toward
each other at the top, where the dis
lance is fifteen or twenty feet. In
riding the man had kept the steers
circling about this plateau. A dozen
VI IuSlu nc lOuuu, nau 1aIlen down
the canyon and been killed. Hoof
marks showed him that the great
jumps made by his horse were occa-
stoned by the animals clearing the
canyon each time it came to the TAX
ing-off spot"
Gertrude Page, author of Life in
Rhodesia," tells of a very intelligent
South African horse: Smoke is this
delectable animals name, and in all
Rhodesia for character and endur-
ance he probably has not his equal
One tells OF how he carried him up
kopje like n house side, looking
round occasionally to make sure his
rider had not slid off his back. 4
was too busy keeping my seat to see
how he did it, he explained, but he
must positively now and then have
hung round trees with his forelegs.'
Another will describe how he steps
over a little ledge a few inches wide,
across river without turning n hair
or calmly manipulates stepping
stones like q human"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
WHOLE NO. 1929.
ESQUIMAU FEAST OF THE DEAD
BY J. G. FRAZER.

The Esquimaux OF st. Michael and
tho lower Yukon River hold a festi-
val of the dead every year at the end
OF November or the beginning OF De-
| cember, as well as a greater festival
at intervals OF several years. At
these seasons food, drink and clothes
are provided for the returning ghosts
in the aashim, or clubhouse, OF the
village, which is illuminated with oil
lamps. Every man or woman who
wishes to honor n dead friend sets
up lamp on n stand in front of the
place which the deceased used to oc-
cupy in the clubhouse. These lamps.
filled with seal oil, are kept burning
day and night until the festival is
over. They are believed to light the
shades on their return to their old
home and back again to the land OF
the dead. II any one fails to put up
lamp in the clubhouse and to keep
it burning the shade whom he OF she
desires to honor could not find it's
way to the place. and so would miss
the feast. On the eve of the festival
the nearest male relative goes to the
grave and summons the ghosts by
planting there small model OF a
seal spear or of wooden dish, &C
cording as the deceased was a man
or woman. The totems of the dead
are marked on these implements.
When all is ready the ghosts gath
er in the fire pit under the clubhouse,
and ascending through the floor at
the proper moment, take possession
OF the bodies of their namesakes, to
whom the offerings of food, drink and
clothing are made for the benefit of
the dead. Thus each shade obtains
the supplies he needs In the other
world. The dead who have none to
make offerings to therl are believed
to suffer great restitution. Hence
the Esquimaux fear to die without
leaving behind them some one who
will sacrifice to their spirits, and
childless people generally adopt chill
dren lest their shades be forgotten
ct the festivals.
When person has been much dis
liked his ghost is sometimes pur-
posely ignored, and that is deemed
the severest punishment that could
be inflicted upon him. After the
songs of invitation to the dead have
been sung the givers of the feast take
n small portion of food from every
dish and cast 1t down as an Offering
to the shades; then each pours a lit
tie water on the floor SO that 1t runs
through the cracks. In this way
they believe that the spiritual es-
sence of all the food and water is
conveyed to the souls.
The remainder OF the food is af-
terward distributed among the peo-
pie present, who eat OF it heartily.
Then with songs and dances the
feast comes to an end, and the ghosts
are dismissed to their own place.
Dances form a conspicuous feature
OF the great festival of the dead,
which is held every few years. The
dancers dance not only in the club
house, but also at the graves, and on
the ice If the deceased met their
death by drowning.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
HOW THE WRECKED ACT.

What has most struck me in my
many experiences of shipwrecks has
been the strangely diverse ways in
which the passengers acquit them
selves under intense excitement and
panic, said a lifeboat man to the
writer.
Women cry, cling to each other
and faint, but are the least trouble.
Men often act very strangely. 1 re.
member one man throwing into the
lifeboat a heavy trunk which he
wanted to save, but which we
promptly heaved overheard.
Some men become quite panic
stricken. I've seen strong n,prob-
ably brave enough in other cases,
fighting fierceiy for the life buoys
and thrusting the women and chill
dren aside in frantic endeavors to
leap into the boat first; yet, strange
ly enough, one man who thus dis
graced himself has since obtained
the Royal Humane Society's medal
for saving life at sea, thrice volun-
teering with a scratch crew in aid of
Il distressed vessel.
I've known others who became so
stupefed with fright as to resist all
attempts at rescuing them, begging
to be left to die and having to be
forcibly thrown into the lifeboat.
Some persons frequently become half
demented, and I've known several
cases where they have in a frenzy
committed suicide by positively
jumping headlong into the sea and
drowning themselves. and one man,
to insure his sinking, filled his peck
cts with coal.
Some years ago another passenger,
hearing the ship had struck, went
and drowned himself In the bath
room, anticipating his fate, as it
were.
l remember another case where a
passenger hanged himself in his cab
in just as tho lircboat arrived. Tit
Bits.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
ARKwRIGHT's STRANGE CASE.

ARKWRIGHT'S STRANGE CASE.
Strange, indeed, was the case of
Henry Arkwright, a man of twenty
nine, aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieu
tenant Of Ireland, who more than
forty years ago was travelling In
Switzerland with his family. They
went to to Chamonix; and Arkwright,
though no climber, resolved to as
cend Mount Blanc. A sister went
with him as far as the Grands Mulets
hut. Another party of two also re-
solved upon the ascent. On October
IL they left Chamonix, crossed the
crevassed Glacier des Blossoms, and
reached their night quarters. While
the climbers were absent next day,
Miss Fanny Arkwright busted her
self writing letters. Meanwhile the
two parties set out early and hur-
ried up the snow slopes.
Suddenly ominous cracks were
heard to the right amid the towering
seracs or pinnacles of solid ice. Lie
down." screamed the guides, but the
irresistible wind that goes before a
mighty avalanche caught them all.
Sylvan Couette, the porter, drove
his alpenstock into the hard snow,
crouched on hands and knees, and
turned his bent head TO the hurri-
cane. After eight or ten minutes,
he united the rope about his waist
and began to descend. At one hun
dred and fifty feet below lie came on
Francois Tournier, the guide. He
was dead, his face frightfully mutt
lated and his skull crushed by a mass
OF Ice. The porter, after herculean
efforts, got the body down to the
Grands Mulets.
Thirty-one years passed away. One
morning in 1897 Colonel Arkwright,
a brother of this Alpine victim, was
astounded to receive this telegram
from the Mayor of Chamonix:
THE remains of Henry Arkwright,
who persisted on Mont Blanc in 1866,
have just been found"
The glacier had given up its dead
at last, after having borne the body
of its victim to spot nine thousand
feet below in the ice. Slowly, slowly,
the grinding river of ice gave up
other relics. First came a handker.
chief, then n shirt front, next a gold
pencil case. watch chain, and gloves,
with other odds and ends.-Sunday
Magazine.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
A Disappearing Prairie.

Some years ago a typographer was
sent out from Washington to make a
survey OF what was then Payne
Prairie, Florida, a bit of land about
eighty-five miles in extent. The sur.
vey was made and the prairie de.
scribed. Three or four years later a
new surveying expedition found that
this land had been transformed into
body OF water, and it was put on
the map as Lake Alachua. 1t de-
voloped that this lake-prairie plays a
DR.. Jeykll and Mr.. Hyde game with
itself, sometimes appearing a. ono
and sometimes as the other.-Chi-
cago Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

Where the sunbeams will filter and splash
on the road,
And a'song will come lifting TO tighten the
load,
On the long rugged sleeps, whateer I go
thro',
so with the dream of the sunshine of
you.
shall go thro' the years till the sun sinks
to rest
Meath the gold.burnished skies in the des-
olate. West,
Where the flood gates opc wide to the
River of Sleep,
Where there never il wailinr and eves
never weep;
L shall go with song ever rife in my
heart
That flows with the freedom of waters
that start
From earth's purest spring. Like a mari.
ner's star
You shall guide me forever-wherever YOU
arei
will +. Griffin, in Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Extreme Caution.

What number Chestnut street did
you say your house is. Miss Walslng-
ham?" asked the young man who
had been introduced that evening and
whom she had asked to call.
We'll" replied Miss Walsingham
with a little hesitation, "the house on.
one side Of us is numbered 81 and
that on the other side IS number rs.
--somerYiile Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
SUNSHINE OF YOU.

have plodded the ways of this brimy old
world,
Mid the Ahives and the marts of the mil
lions hurled,
L have tasted its sweets, have supped of
it's gall,
And I've fingered and dreamed where the
rose petals fall;
1 have bent to its hopes-and many have
failed
AT the fates that bcfell me I've angcred
and rallied;
But what do they matter, lost hopes end
the rue,
30 long as the heart knows the sunshine
OF you?
1t matters but little what skies may look
down,
Or whether the hopes, long cherished, have
flown;
No matter how gloomy the mantle to-day,
There will come, sure as Fate, rift in the
way
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
Couldn't Supply II.

Il see you advertise everything for
the baby?" said the man entering the
child's bazaar.
ayes, this is tho place." said the
hoorwalker. what do you want to
get?"
Well, what want to get is some
thing that will get up out OF a warm
bed on a cold night and walk the floor
with cross babyI "--Yonkers States
man.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
Good Guess.

ono man I'm EOS Is over six foo..
One i'm 100 women carries life in
gurancC.
ono man succeeds iu business to
eight who 60 bankrupt
There is ono sudden death among
women TO eight among mon
one cold is taken out OF doors
where nine arc taken indoors.
ono I'm each 1000 couples lives to
celebrate the golden welding 49,
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

tho west. showing by his actions that
he had not seen them.
The way now seemed clear, and
they quietly walked their horses up
where they had gone down a few
moments before, turned south, and
gently trotted back toward camp.
No fresh meat cheered the camp that
night, but they had new adventure
to talk over.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20
DEED OF A GALLANT NOBODY.

DEED Ot' a VALIANT NOBODY.
1t is not always the Information
carried by the recognized aides-dc-
camps TO and from the commanding
officer in battle which is OF highest
value. There was o supreme moment
during the battle of Waterloo when
the Duke of Wellington was left alb.
solutcly alOne-and that not when
he was running the risk of capture by
sailing through the onomy's lines. It
simply meant that every galloper
had gone his way, each with his
message. At this moment a stranger
rode up to the duke and quietly
asked "Cau / be of any use, sir?"
The duke took one glance at him,
and unhesitatingly answered: "YOu
take this pencil note 20 the command.
ing officer" pointing to a regiment
I'm tho heat OF tho battle. The
stranger took the note and galloped
away with &C., through the thick of
tho fight. He delivered &C, but what
happened to him no man knows. The
duke always declared that TO be one
OF the most gallant deeds that had
ever come under his notice 10 was
done without prospect Of acknowl-
edgment or reward. and neither at
tended IT'S successful accomplish.
ment.--London Standard.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

The great picture, the great in
literature, the sublime in music, or
in any form of art, is always such as
the wayfaring man can comprehend,
or it lacks something in real great
ness.-Count Tolstoi.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

I declare that the Joy Of a perfect
abiding love is the greatest this world
contains, and yet If you find not this
love, naught will be lost of all you
have done to deserve It.; for this
will go to deepen the peace of your
heart, and render still truer and
purcr the calm of tho rest OF your
days -Maotcrlinck.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

We are missing the meaning of life
If we slight the little opportunities
for great living waiting for the CLAM
orous, the spoctacular.-Gra Willis.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

All things are literally better,
loyelier and more beloved for the inn
PROJECTIONS which have been divine
ly appointed, that the law OF human
life may be effort, and tho law OF
human judgment mercy.-RusLin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1907-08-20

Palestine has 100000 Jews at the
present time.
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WISE WORDS.

rs the soil, however rich II may be,
cannot be productive without culture,
so the mind without cultivation can
never produce good fruit.-Seneca.
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j. T. Waldo & Cob.
LIVERY AND FEED STABLE,
CRANTsVILLE, w. VA.

Keeps constantly on hands Rsls6
Hay, Chop oto., at reas0nabls fhtbd
Can supply you with = horse, ginkl6
horse buggy, twO-bOrge Buggy 6g6up,
reg, With or without driver, Tor 81 al
or long trip, on ahOrb nbtlee aaa g.
EeaSonsblS prices.
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A beautiful form IS better than
beautiful face; a beautiful behavior
is better than a beautiful form: Il
gives a higher pleasure than statues
or pictures; It Is the finest OF nna
arts. a man Is but little thing In
the midst Of the objects Of nature.
yet, by tho moral quality radiating
from his countonancc. no may abol-
ish all considerations OF magnitude,
and I'm his manners equal the majesty
OF the world. Emerson.
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Just to be true to ones own prin-
ciples, from day to day-elcction day
no less than other days-being open
minded always and hospitable to
new facts, is in the very highest
sense, to live the life of faith. -
Home Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-15
How the Juror Was Fixed

The acquittal of Frank A. Maestretti
when he was tried in connection with
the ballot box frauds IL said to have
been accomplished in part BY more
gratuitous work The colony: liked
Maestrctti and he was then a political
power.
An elderly man Was a dominant per
sonality on the jury, and it was learned
that he was in the habit of visiting a
saloon immediately after he arose, 10
start the day properly with morning
cocktail. Though there was no money
in the undertaking two jury fxers out
OF regard for the then public works
commissioner set to work to gain the
aid OF the bar tender in the saloon. All
bar tenders were willing to give Macs
tretti helping hand.
The cocktails served the patron i'm
proved in quality. 1t was a lonesome
hour for the bar keeper and he pre-
vailed on the juror to parrake of AN
other on the house" The dominant
man Of the fury that Judge Lawlor had
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-09-15

phase OF the coming bribery trial. AS
preliminary bait he has offered $1,000
for every talesman that can be reached
up easy money if luck favors in the
drawing OF venires. and his man. is
merely drawn as a talesman. The
signal will be passed TO the possible
juror to watch for money and he IS
TO school himself for the examination
in court that he might be retained.
Once on the jury the negotiations for
his verdict vote would be opened and
when the deal had been consummated
he would receive the signal.
There is big money in the Calhoun
case says the colony. THAT $4,000
dffer shows that they win turn, money
loose in q. hocd and re are all after it.
This chap is the boldest worker that
we have ever come across He seems
to be working wholly apart from Cal
houn or the United Railroads of1cials.
but we don't care where the money
comes from so long as We get it,
The other graft cases appear to be
regarded as devoid of large casa posi-
bi1ities. One member OF the colony
told me frankly that he had, at the out
set OF the graft prosecutions. expected
to make haul OF $4,000 from them
for himself. not to speak OF the half
for the jurors. IF make $4,000 I will
be content now" he lamented. After
they have few more convictions con-
ditions may Improve" he added, as a
ray Of hope appeared.
My friend announced, as he turned to
depart, that he was going to enjoy a