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In the matter of fishing, it’s
not so much the size of your
catch as the size of the story
that stamps your supremacy as
a fisherman. The best fisher
men are the biggest-.
Sign boards to tell the stranger
which is the way to va1
towns ought to mark the main
road crossings of this and every
other county. All of us get into
strange sections occasionally,
when such sign boards would be j
of great benefit. As the item of
cost is small, Ihei is really no
reason why every county should
not have them.
White river has not been brid
ged here as yet, but the continu
ing prospects of a big crop make
this year the proper time to
undertake this project. Many
of our conservative business men
believe that a steel birdge here
wnen me coxi can ue orougnt
under $45,000 will pay 15 per
cent as an investment. If we
haven’t any home capital that
wants to earn 15 per cent divi
dends, can’t some outside capi
tal be interested in this proposi
tion.
Ice cream, soft drinks, cigars,
etc., are no longer to be sold on
Sunday in our neighbor city of
Batesville. While it is Bates
ville’s business to regulate her
Sunday selling, the writer re
calls the fact that two years ago,
one might buy a cigar in Bates
ville, but not a soft drink on Sun
day, whereas upon the same day,
one might purchase a cold drink
but not a cigar at Newark. Sun
day closing of business houses
is right, but when you get too
squeamish in Sunday laws and
*ry to draw the line too closely,
there is that difference of opin
ion as to what constitutes a
necessity, that you make your
law a joke.
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Senator Smith says “there is a
very considerable lobby at Wash
ington, there always will be and
I think it appropriate,” which is
all very candid and at the same
time true. One might as well de
prive a man of counsel in court
and allow the judge and jury to
blindly reach a verdict as to say,
that no interest affected by leg
islation shall offer proof and ar
gument upon the effects of pro-j
posed laws. Lobbies are all
right, but the means by which i
they attain ends are often cor
rupt, reprehensible and danger
uus. «jusi as an auorney ougni j
to be penalized for jury fixing, so
ought the lobbyist be compelled
to keep within legitimate lines, j
It was the “insidious” work of j
the lobby of which President |
Wilson complained and there is '
very little doubt that he had just
grounds for demanding an inves
tigation. Why shouldn’t the lob
byist be registered as such, that
senators and representatives
may know from whom to accept
favors without obligating them
selves to hidden interests. How
ever the whole issue and respon
sibility really reverts to the peo
ple in electing men to these high
positions whose honesty and
judgment are not to be beguiled,
by influences that serve selfish
and great corporate interests at
the expense and to the detriment
of the country’s general welfare.
Newport now has a health or
dinance which prohibits spitting;
on wralks, floors and in stores j
and public buildings. You may
think it rather drastic and the
regulation ought to be widely
advertised before enforced. For
the force of habit is strong and
the law will doubtless be unin
tentionally broken by many men
before they can adapt them
selves and bear in mind the new
law. This pubblicityfor the new
law, the city is giving by posters,
which are tacked in numerous
places and you will be frequently
reminded. Promiscous spitting
has added thousands of victims
to the “dread disease.” This
law is for your protection, your
family’s and your neighbors’. It
is not a foolish exaction to show
authority, but part of a great
campaign to protect men and
women from a disease that is
responsible for one-fifth of the
deaths in our country and should
enlist our support, not in fining
the first fellow found guilty,
but in acquainting all with the
dangers ofpromiscuous expecto
ration in spreading tubercular
germs and supporting the law a
gainst offenders who wilfully
persist in ignoring it.
Newport’s slow, but steady
and substantial growth assure?
us that we will become a city
and a city without parks ha?
been likened to a desert without
an oasis. The proper time to get
parks is before valuations reach
too high. Newport has severa
a._i _ rl- i _i i i i •
licictr* llltll WUU1U II id I\C dUIIiiid
ble sites. There’s a field foi
philanthropy here and vve woulc
point it out to some of our gooc
blessed with property holding:
than others. Even a small pari
would be a great improvemen
and as a place of recreation foi
the poor, as a playground fo:
our boys and girls, as a gardei
spot to all walks of life, who maj
come hither and be refreshe*
with nature less confined than ii
our small yards and lawns, sucl
a gift would be a blessing. Th<
city of Newport would be grati
fied to receive such a benefac
tion from some of our citizen
who are in a position to do grea
public good.
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Failed To Carry Home'.
William Jennings Bryan i
one of the greatest of all Ameri
can citizens; many people con
sider him the greatest living A
merican. He is the acknowledg
ed leader of his party, and wa
three times the nominee of tha
party for the highest office ii
fhe land. He has the distinc
tion of having received mon
i votes for president than an*
other democrat has ever re
teived. He now holds the high
est position in the president’;
cabinet. Yet—Wiliam Jenning;
Bryan failed to carry his pre
cinct.
Many people believe Theodor*
Roosevelt to bo the greatest liv
ing American. He served th<
country almost two full terms a:
president: one term by electioi
of the people. He is the recog
nized leader of a new party
which in its infancy buried tin
old wing of the republican part*
beneath a perfect avalanche 01
votes. He is today a leader anc
a power in the nation—_ Yet—■
Theodore Roosevelt couldn’t car
ry his own county.
What’s all this we hear aboul
the man who fails to carry his
his own county from those whc
preach the things that are mosl
convenient instead of the things
that become sound doctrine? It
would be a peculiar sort of reas
oning that would consign Willi
am Jennings Bryan and Theo
dore Roosevelt to the scrap-heap
as unworthy of office or honors,
Yet, under the rule we hear urg
ed lately, these two men, with
millions of friends and powerful
nation-wide influences, should
retire to the junk pile and hang
their heads for shame.—Sharp
County Record.
A Weakness That Should Be
Cured.
A bill is before congress which
would permit the president to
veto single items in appropria
tion bills without affecting the
bill in toto. While there seems
to be no feature of the constitu
tion that provides for such a
measure, the contention i< made
that it is warranted by the ab
sence of anything that would
prohibit it.
This bill was inspired by the
fact that the sundry civil bill,
which contains appropriations
for many matters of importance
to the country, has been hung up
for a month or more in a confer
ence committee of the house and
senate because it contains a
clause that prohibits the use by
the department of justice of any
of the funds appropriated in the
prosecution of labor unions or
farmers for violations of the
Sherman anti-trust law. One of
the last acts of President Taft
i was to veto this bill because it
•contained this iniquitous clause,
j; nd in doing so he gave reasons
; that cannot be successfully con
troverted. President Wilson al
, so hesitates about signing the
! bill unless the obnoxious feature
be eliminated, though he has in
timated that he may do so pro
vided the conference committee
insists upon the passage of the
bill m its original form. He is
reported to have remarked that
anv nrovision of an appropria
tion bill, which itself has a life
of only a year, cannot make any
. modification in “substantiative
■ law,” furthermore, that there are
| ether funds that can be used by
[ the attorney general for prose
i cuting any violation of the Sher
; man anti-trust law that may oc
; cur . This is an argument which
• a majority of people will wish
■ that our president had not made
i for while sophistry may please
- for the time being, common
i sense will not be blinded to the
i fact that the provision legally
i exempts certain classes of our
? people from prosecution for acts
. which in other people would be
. criminal.
: It is not to be assumed that
t labor unions or farmers’ organ
izations are engaged in violation
of the anti-trust law, or that
I they will violate it. Combina
tions among producers and wage
; earners for the purpose of bet
' tering their conditions are legit—
' imate and commendable, but
' that is not the point involved.
‘ The clause in the sundry civil
! bill would establish class distinc
: tion—it would be class legisla
1 tion in its most objectionable
form.
Laws are intended to bear
equally upon all people. When
’ they fail in such application
‘ then they are not just, and what
is not just is not law.
1 And besides this, there are
several other features of the bill
over which there is contention.
We believe the measure to
' which the disagreement over
the sundry civil bill gave birth
1 should pass, not only that it
1 might be the means of correct
ing such errors as have been
' above noted, but for other rea
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sons. At every session of con
gress the appropriation bills,
always the last measures to be
considered, are loaded down with
“riders”, many of which con
tain jobs. If the president, in
order to destroy these jobs, ve
toes the bill, the public serv
ice is crippled. If he approves
the bill, the government is rob
bed. The dangers from this
source could be obviated by a
law that would authorize the
president to veto single items
without disapproving of the
bill in its entirety.
This is a. weakness in our leg
islative system that should be
cured.—Fort Smith Times Rec
ord.
right childhood is modest
Well-Bred Youngster Doe« Not Think
That It Knows Everything,
Cays Ruskln.
The first character of right child
hood Is that it Is modest. A wel
bred child does not think it can teach
Its parents, or that it knows every
thing. It may think Its father and
mother know everything—perhaps
that all grown-up people know every
thing, very certainly It is sure that
It. does not. And it la always asking
questions, and wanting to know mvre.
Well, that is the first character of a
good and wise man at flifl work. To
know that he knows very little; to
perceive that there are many above
kim wiser than he, and to be always
asking questions, wanting to learn,
aot to teach. No one ever teaches
well who wants to teach, or governs
well who wants to govern; It la an
•Id an ring (Plato’s, but I know not
It hla first), mud as wise as old.
Then, the second character of right
childhood ie to be faithful. Perceiv
ing that Its father knows best what
(s good foi It, and having found al
ways, when It has tried Its own way
against his. that he was right and It
was wrong, a noble child trusts Mm
St last wholly, gives him Its hand,
and will walk blindfold with him, «
he bids It And that Is the true char
acter of all good men also, as obe
flank workers, or sotdtavs under cap
tain* --Rudkin.
'- "'ED TO NEED k DOCTOR
■/a - Ailments of tne Somewhat
'‘"'cled Family as Catalogued
by the Mothe«\
V said tne mother of a
| a. / .vne to the young doctor
I ■ :i ■ ; ridden l»J miles into the
k • > lo in -:he dead of night, ‘we
• •> 7-aat afflicted fam'ly. an
-• 1 iocrnrin* don’t, seem to ds
/ J thought I’d send for yo«
? >ou cotiid straighten us out.
■ . r», she‘3 got something
-■'‘\ her bronical tubes so sh«
, ■ t breathe iike she should. I been
eepia’ a rag spread with gooss
■ • = • rn1 sprinkled with red pepper
siard on her front chlst, but
- -ns to add to her ag’ny Jake
s got a mis’ry alt up an' down hi*
;mi i. bone, an' I been usin' ker-sen*
'“i external an' internal; hut it ain't
< m.. him n<> good. Lizzie Bello, she’*
stun:: ready to give up with plum
bs go m' her sister Nanay has beeB
in' mean for a week. I think thal
’’s sklatlo roomat* that ails Nancy,
mi; she's afraid it s the new disease
hey calls appendeshetus The eld
man has been turrlhfe sllmsy for soma
days, an' Rube, our oldest boy, is aL
broke out with a rash that shews his
blood ain't all right. He had a tur
rlble spell las’ nlgbt, an' I thought
he w.ia in for efeolery infantum. He’i
had it off an’ on ever since be was II
years old 1 reckoned he’d outgrown
It, but it grabs him as hard now that
he’s 24 as it did when he was young
er. Wisht., Doc, that you’d just turn
yourself loose an’ ere if von kia sort
s' at"u!ghtaa u» cu r/’—Jcda*.
THINK TOO MUCH OF MONFK
Many Persona Lose Chance of Happv
Marriage by Exaggerating the
Value of Wealth.
Score* of people lose their chances
of being happily married through mak
tag an unnecessary obstacle of mon
ey. The importance of it is often ex
aggerated. Many a man hesitates to
propose to a girl because of his small
Income. Very often much misery, ml*
understanding, and tangled lives result
from the alienee. More unfortunate
lore affaire are the result of what has
not been said than of spoken words.
When a man has a small, sure in
come, and a prospect of Increase
there la no legitimate reason for his
aot speaking of his love; no reason,
for that matter, to present marriage
People ere so desperately afraid,
(hough, of beginning married Ilte in a
small way. They fear the sacrifice*
which they will be called upon to make
—o* the criticism to which they will
be auujected. Many years of happl
ness are lost In this way. It la such
a mistake for young people to want to
•tart marriage In the state that their
parents are ending IL
7o delay marriage until a "cornfor
table" income is available is to
•ometblng lacking in tb«* love.—An
'■•ware.
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