Mules and Horses
We Are Selling Them Cheap
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Carload of Missouri Mules, good
stock and at prices that are right.
We also have a fine lot of horses
] and mares—fifty animals in all. | i
Also have a young gray jack. 5 years old and i
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Tennessee bred for sale.
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i Look at my stock before buying.
EARL SEATON
116-118 aWlnuf Street NEWPORT, ARK.
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Jacksonport.
Mr. and Mrs. Danby and fam
::y of Proctor have moved to oui
city and are occupying one ol
tile Anderson cottages on Muir
' seet. These are excellent peo
p’e and we always welcome thi~
bind of citizens to our little city.
McCurdy Hughes spent a few
days in Memphis last week with
friends.
The contract was let by the
new council Monday night to S.
0. Massey for the new city hall
to be completed by the first of
June, and it will be built of con
crete blocks and will be a credit
to a town twice the size of this
place. It will be two stories, the
upper floor to be used for the
mayor’s office and lodge rooms.
The first hall game of the sea
son was play d here last Satur
day, when the game was called
in the third inning on account of
a serious accident. Will Cliild
; ers and Walker Stallings, in try
! ing to catch a foul, collided, run
j ning at full speed and looking
I upward at the ball. The last re
* intimate acquaintance with all
the intricacies of the highest
' court of life, that there is any
record of. To the curous
. scholar there is a fascination
■ about the name of Shakes
peare, and a wonderlust as to
j whether he really did exist, and
;write, and build those literary
monuments accredited to him;
yet it must be admitted that if
! we appeal to cold reason and dis
card the elements of faith we
I will find it difficult to believe
that a man of Shakespeare's op
portunities and early environ
| ment could have performed such
a wonderful task, and we need
I not go so far as to brand him
i "a drunken and illiterate clown,
I who could not write so much
i
| as one letter of his own name,"
| as has been done by Sir lalwin
' Durning-Lawrence, in a recently
published and. we must admit,
an enormously convincing bro
I chure. He writes on “The Shake
|
speare myth," and anyone read
ing it dispassionately, if indeed
human testimonv and ingenious
t
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Mr. Farmer
j Times are changing. Progrc-sive farmers deposit their money
in a good hank. They pay their bills by check and get a receipt
in that way. Lots of reasons why you should have a bank ac
count with
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1! It is the business of a banker to know about those things.
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port we had from the two boys,
they had undergone their opera
tions nicely and were doing as
well as could be expected.
The Leroy-Danby Hoop Mill
is a new addition to our fast
growing city. They expect to
begin operations Monday with
a crew of forty men and boys.
Misses Alice Cathey and
Maude Blount spent Tuesday in
Newport, shopping.
Mrs. Sarah Smart, mother of
Mrs. E. S. Dyke, and a higly re
spected old lady of our town,
died at her home here Wednes
day morning at four o’clock of
old age. At this writing the fun
eral ararngements had not been
made. She leaves one daughter
and one son here, Mrs. E. S.
Dyke and Jim Smart. Burial
will take place at Robinson cem
etery Thursday at one o’clock,
the funeral being conducted by
our beloved pastor, Rev. F. H.
Champion. In the death of Mrs.
Smart the town has lost one of
its most faithful members, the
church a loyal and devoted sup
porter, society a wise councellor
and her children a good Chrism
tian mother.
One of the fastest games of
ball ever played on the local dia
mond here was pulled off Sun
day afternoon between Newport
and Jacksonport Tigers. This
was a fast game from start to
'fininsh but the Tigers defeated
the visitors by a score of 12 to
7.
The council and mayor are
heartily in favor of Sunday ball
and we will try to have a game
every Sunday afternoon. The
same teams clashing here next
Sunday that played on last Sun
day. The ground will be put in
i good shape and two grandstands
will be built. The band will also
play before and after the game.
Scott Roberts, a tinner, with
the Skinner Bros, of St. Louis,
left for his home in that city
Wednesday night. He has been
' here several months doing work
for the U. S. Cooperage Com
! pany and made lots of friends
| while here.
The Shakespeare Myth.
Of course, it does not matter
the smallest infinitesimal wheth
er William Shakespeare ever liv
ed, or breathed or had his being
or whether he ever wrote a line
! or acted a part. The works call
! ed his are here, and a world as
' set that has been varyingly ap
praised ; but these works are us
ually conceded to be the greatest
since the “Birth of Time, and
the most wonderful produc
■ tion of the human mind which
the world has ever seen. It is
contended that they evince
the ripest scholarship, the
most perfect and comprehensive
knowledge of law, and the most
! deduction go for anything worth
while, cannot fail to smpathize
with him or to have hisfaith sha
ken in the gentleman of Strat
I ford. Sir Edwin goes elaborate
j ly into a discussion of the sub
ject, and cites numerous author
ities. He maintains with great
firmness that of the six signa
tures supposed to have been
Shakespeare’s not one of them
was written by him, but by
j clerks to lawyers and canveyanc
ers. The Baconians will wel
come Sir Edwin’s appearance in
the list of those who belie'.
“the wisest, brightest, meanest
of mankind” is the real author
of the immortal plays. The list
of those who refuse to believe in
I Shakespeare is a long one and an
i influential one, and Sir Edwin
! has added to it. Lord Palmer
i ston longed to see the explosion
i of the Shakespeare illusions.”
|
iLord Haughton agreed with him.
i Neither Byron not Disraeli lie
I lieved in Shakespeare. John
| Bright said that any man tha'
j believed Shakespeare wrote
(“Hamlet” or “Lear” was a fool.
Prince Bismarck said in 1892:
“I cannot understand how it
were possible for a man, howev
j'er gifted with the intuitions of
genius, to have written what was
attributed to Shakespeare, un
less he had been in touch with
1 the great affairs of state, behind
the scenes of political life and
also intimate with all the social
courtesies and refinements of
thought which in Shakespeare’s
time were only met in the high
oaf oiroloa” • and our own Mark
i Twain, after diligent research,
I wrote, after referring to Shake
| speare as a “tar baby”: “About
jhim you can find out nothing.
! Nothing of any importance.
Nothing worth the trouble of
stowing away in your memory.
Nothing that even remotely in
dicates that he was ever any
thing more than a distinctly
small trader in a small village
that did not regard him as a per
son of any consequence, and had
forgotten all about him before
he was cold in his grave. . .We
i can go to the records and find
out the life history of every re
nowned race horse of modern
times—but not Shakespeare’s!
There are many reasons why,
and they have been furnished in
cartloads (of guess and conjec
ture) . . but there is one
that is worth all the rest of the
reasons put together, and is a
bundantly sufficient all by itself
—he hadn’t any history to tell.
There is no getting round the
deadly fact. And no sane way
has been discovered of getting
round its formidable signifi
cance.”—Memphis News-Scimi
tar.
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