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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Fresh Air.

Every house should be thoroughly ventilated the first thing every morn- ing, so as to allow the atmosphere of the previous nightto escape. This can be done by first airing one part, then another. By doing. this a house can also be moro easily warmed. When there are many persons collected in a room care should be observed to keep few inches of the window open from the top, every one avoiding sitting close to it or under it, as, after a time, when there are many collected together the atmosphere of the room becomes impregnated with their exhalations, and the air is thus rendered impure. By perfect ventilation there is a uniform amount of oxygen, which is the vital part of the atmosphere, and which is necessary to our very existence, main- tained. Who has not noticed the dis agreeable feeling produced on going from the fresh air into a room with many persons, in which the ventilation is imperfcct2 At night, also, fresh air should be admitted into the room, for it is, if anything, more necessary that there should be plentiful supply of oxygen. We have often been asked the ridiculous question, if enough air did not come in through the key-hole. Certainly not. That is not fresh air. Make it rule always to sleep with part of your window open from the top, avoiding it's blowing on you. Fresh air never hurt any one, for by it we live. It is the want of it that injures. Persons seem to forget that they spend one-third of their lives in their bedrooms. We frequently see man building house bestowing all his attention on the plan of the parlors, while the bedrooms are, to great ex- tent, and in some instances, entirely neg lected. It had better be vice versa.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
NUMBER S1.
A Horse Dath.

In recent number of the Turf, Field and Farm was a communication suggest ing that a bath, after the manner of the Turks, would be an excellent thing for fitting horses for hard service. Its effect on the human system have been satisfac- torily tested and as there is h good deal of human about the horse, it is inferred that the influence of the bath may prove equally as beneficial! to the quadruped as to the bipcd. It is possible that the bath may be made available for the cure of many diseases of the horse which are now regarded as beyond the control of ordinary medicinal agencies. At all events, while using the bath preparatory to contests of speed, it might not be amiss to subject some of the crippled or ailing of the family to similar treatment. What is good for the health and vigor of the sporting animal can scarcely prove otherwise than useful to the roadster or farm drudge suffering from the effects of oyer-exertion or hard usage.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Horses i'm Battle.

The extent to which charger can apprehend the perils of battle field may be easily underrated by one who confines his observation to horses still carrying their riders; for, as long as a troop-horse in action feels the weight, and hand of a master, his deep trust in man keeps him seemingly free from great terror, and he goes through the fight, unless wounded, as though it were a field-day at home; but the mo- ment that death or disabling wound deprives him of his rider, he seems all at once to learn what battle is-to perceive its real dangers with the clear ness of human being, and to be agon- ized with horror of the fate he may incur for want of hand to guide him.
 Careless of the mere thunder of guns, he shows plainly enough that he more or less knows the dread accent that is used by missiles of war while cutting their way through the air, for as often as these sounds disclose to him the near passage of bullet or round shot, he shrinks and cringes. His eyeballs protrude. Wild with fright, he still does not most commonly gallop. home into camp. His instinct seems rather to tell him that what safety, if any, there is for him, must be found in the ranks; and he rushes at the first squad ron he can find, urging piteously, yet with violence, that he too, by right, is a troop horse-that he too is willing to charge, but not to be left behind-that he must and he will "fall in." Some- times a riderless charger thus bent on aligning with his fellows, will not be content to range himself on the flank of the line, but dart at some point in the squadron which he seemingly judges to be his own rightful place, and strives to force himself in.
 Riding, as it is usual for the com mandcr of regiment to do, some way in advance of his regiment, Lord George Paget was especially tormented and pressed by the riderless horses which chose to turn round and align with him. At one time there were three or four of these horses advancing close abreast of him on one side, and as many as five on the other. Impelled by terror, by gregarious instinct, and by their habit of ranging in line, they ''closed' in upon Lord George as to besmear his overalls with blood from the gory Hanks of the nearest intruders, and obiige him to use his sword.- Kinglakc's Invasion of the Crimea, Volume ".
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
From the Louisville Courier.
 Tennessee Crisis.

The telegraph brings us the substance of Brownlow's message to the Tennessee Legislature. It is the most fendish paper that ever issued from the Governor of a State. A hundred thousand white men are disfranchiscd and placed under the brutal dominion of their latc slaves led by Brownlow himself, who lives but to hate, insult and prosecute them. And yet he is not satisfied, but calls for troops with which to make war upon them, and asks for authority to hunt them down like wolves and shoot them on sight. He does not ask for a militia to be used as posse con,itatus to aid the enforcement of legal process and bring offenders to trial. This would not gratify his impish malignity. He asks that the negroes of the State be armed and sent out, to act upon rumor, or the impulses of their own savage natures, to select their own victims, and to be pro- tected by law in what ever they may choose to do!
 If this does not mean war of races it is impossible to imagine such a thing Who believes that it can be inaugurated in Tennessee without becoming general ? Will white men in neigboring States stand composedly by while negroes of Tennessee are hunting down and butchering the white population at the command of madman ? Is it not part of the Radical Presidential programme9 Have they not put Brownlow forward to do this thing in order to have war of races, and to make pretext for using the whole army of the United States in the Presidential election
 Coming at the time it does, when the Radicals have nominated the General of the army, and arming the Southern ne- groes, this move of Brownlow's has an ugly, premediated look about it. It is move which he would not dare to make except as pretext for calling in the army of the United States; for he knows there is enough disfranchised and oppressed white men in Tennessee to grind him and his negro cut throats to powder in a week.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Frofh the Paducah Kentuckian.]
 How Fortunes are Made.

Ask the millionaires how they made their fortunes. Ask the half million aires. Ask the merchant princes, the patent medicine men. Ask the great majority of men who have in the past fifteen years grown wealthy. Ask Robert Bonner of the New York Led ger. Ask that prince of showmen, the great exhibitor of woolly horses and bearded women, Barnum. Ask com mon sense and reason how fortunes are made in this day of progress. The same answer is uniformly given; BY ADVERTISING by spreading business before the people; by heralding goods, wares and merchandise to the world :; by telling customers where business men are, and what they do, and how they do it.
 Ask the same sources, how fortunes are not made. A uniform answer will be given: BY Nor ADVERTISING; by shutting up ones self, ones goods, wares, merchandise from the public; by going down in the well of obscurity and pulling it in after one 1; by trusting that somebody, by accident, will blum der in on one and become customer j; by hoping that an article hid away from the public win be searched for and found among the rubbish of years. Desperate conclusion! The public of this day operate through agencies. What the locomotive is to the freight train, the newspaper is to commerce. It is the mirror of society, and reflects all of its affairs. You talk of your town, and grow eloquent on its advan- tages. You tell the stranger it is so and so. "Very well," says the stran- ger, "what proof have you?" "Wcll," says the old fogy, scratching his head, "wc have-well, we-have nice loca- tion, good streets, pure water, and aver so many stores.' "That won't do," re- joins the cnterprising stranger. "Lct me see the evidences of your progress, the spirit of your people. Let me see the newspaper tho Mirror of Alq pro- gress. Let me see that" Old fogy blushes as he admits that they don't set much store by newspapers, the town can get on without them. They are such an expense. People don't think it worth while to advertise. Public opinion is against it. The shrewd man of the world, just from the great marts of commerce. enterprise and progress, turns away With srothercd laugh and final, good day, sir" No sensible man will conclude that a city that can not, or will not, sustain a newspaper is likely to attract attention. What would the great cities of the north and west be without their daily papers? Pco- pie have not leisure to search through the holes and dusty passages of town for an article they want. They look to the newspaper to ascertain where it may be found. Finding the locality, there they purchase. They go to the lawyer, the doctor, the mechanic, to those only whose names and business appear in the newspaper. Experience has suggested at this day, the motto: If you would succeed, keep your busi- ness before the people.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
From the Buffalo Courier, July 25.1 Return After Thirty YearS' Ban
 iShment.

An old man named Samuel Wash burne, who, during the Patriot war of 1887, was banished for life to Van Die mans Land by the Canadian Govern ment, Thursday evening arrived in Buffalo in search of his relatives, who live at Wales, in this county. The old man is pitiable object, being clothed in rags, and completely broken in health. He was born in 1909, in East Hartford, Conn.,, and in 1880 came to this locality and took up his residence on the Cattaraugus Reservation. In 1885 he went to Canada, and having taken part in the Patriot war in 1887, was banishcd to Van Dieman's Land for life. At the time of his punishment he was twenty-two years of age. Two or three years ago Queen Victoria is- sued proclamation liberating the vic- tims of the war who were confined on Van Diemen's Land, but no provision was made for the unfortunate men to reach their native land. This old man, for two years after his liberation, worked for ten cents a day to raise money enough to bring him to this country. He reached New York two weeks ago, and has managed to get as far as Buffalo. Upon his arrival here he was entirely destitute, but, strange to say, he fell in with an old citizen who knew him when he resided in this locality many years ago, and who fur nished him with means to reach his relatives--a brother and sister--at Wales. He left for his destination yes terday afternoon.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
From the Richmond Whig.]
 FETICHISNl.
A Negro Prophet that has seen
 the Almighty.

A correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette thus writes from Hanover county, under date of 9th of July:
 "Early every morning, every road and by-path of our lovely land was filled with hurrying crowds of men, women and children of the colored race, vending their way to the home of Baylor, the Prophet.
 "Baylor is an old negro, who has seen the Almighty face to face, and talked with him as man talks with man. He knows all things, present, past and future. He has wooden an- gels, good and bad, which he keeps chained in his domicile, who perform at his bidding the most extraordinary feats, and over whom he keeps vigils, night and day. He gives to all who ask it, the body and blood of the Savior.
 "He has constructed chariot in which he sits, and from which he dis closes his wonderful visions and as- founding revelations, and in which he designs to ride triumphantly to Hea- ven, like Elijah of old.
 To this strange being hundreds of the sons and daughters of Africa, for miles and miles around, were speeding their way, puffing, blowing, flaming, scething and sweltering beneath the melting rays ofthe July sun, to drink in the streams of supernatural wisdom, which flow from his Heaven-inspired lips"
 Ifnegro supremacy should last five years Fetichism will become as univer- sal among the negroes as it is among the wild tribes of Africa, from which they descended. Nothing but their constant contact with and dependence upon the whites has kept it under. It is bred in the bone of the African, and, if left to himself it will be certain to break out.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Work or Starve.

This is the law and the penalty from which there is no escape.-Thousands are trying to evade it; some by making their fellowmen work for them, others by depending on money inherited or accumulated in former years, but with out avail. If idle, they starve in the midst of plenty. They may eat to the full, but eating without exercising is against the law of nature, and very soon the stomach refuses to digest the food, the body isnot nourished and the man literally starves though he feel not hunger. The hands, the brain and the heart must work to live. If you dodge the labor oflearning lessons, you at the same time miss the strength of intellect which mental work brings, and the mind will pine for the want of hourishment. Thousands have starved their wits in this way, until they won der how it is that others carry away all the prizes of life.-Many starve their hearts by never exercising them with noble emotions. Selfishness eats into nature like a canker; leaves the man hungry for affection; but love is the price of love, and he that will not work in this field must accept the penalty It is an error to think that work is a penalty imposed on man for having violated Gods command. Mans na- ture is such that activity is the law of his being. Every muscle and nerve calls for employment, that it may re- main in health, and there can scarcely be more terrible punishment then solitary confinement, where the eye, the ear and the hands must remain idle. A slow and painful death will surely result. So then, boys and girls strive to love work and not to shun it.. Through you may be as rich as Astor or Stwart in money, yet your own na- ture will suffer the bangs of poverty without active exercise.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
The Great Lessons,

The first great lesson young man should learn is that he knows nothing. The earlier and the more thoroughly this lesson is learned the better. A home-bred youth, growing tsp 'in the light of parental admiration, Wirh everything to foster his vanity and self esteem, is surprised to find, and often unwilling to acknowledge, the superb ority of other people. But he is com pelled to learn his own insignificance !; his airs are ridfctied, his blunders ex- posed, his wishes disregarded, and he is made to cut sorry figure, until his self-conceit is abased, and he feels that he knows nothing.
 When a young man has thoroughly comprehended the fact that he knows nothing, and that, intrinsically he is of but little value, the next lesson is that the world cares nothing about him. He is the subject of no mans over whelming admiration neither petted by the one sex, nor envfcd by the other, he has to take'care of himself. He will not be noticed until he becomes notiec- able; he will not become noticeable until he does something to prove that he is of some use to society. No re- commendation or introduction will give him this; he mvst do something to be recognized as somebody.
 The next lesson is that of patience. A man must learn to wait as well as to work, and to be content with those means of advancement in life which he may use with integrity and honor. Patience is one of the most difficult lessons to learn. It is natural for inc mind to look for immediate results.
 Let this, then, be understood at starting, that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which young man seeks in life, but essential also to that preparation of the mind requisite for the enjoyment of success, and for retaining it when gained. It is the general rule in all the world and in all time, that unearned success is a curse.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Important from Washington.

The Meridian (Miss.) Gazette con- tains the following grapevine special:
 WASHINGTON, July II.
 The friends of Gen. Grant have learned with great modification, that on his way to the West he visited the Nodaway "Whiskey Springs" near St.. Joseph, Mo-, and after tasting the fluid, il is impossible to induce him to leave it.. He declares he will flight it out on that line, if it takes all the SPRING. ' Resolutions, censuring Donan, of the yindicator, have passed the House, as it is said that he piloted the General to the .place," and showed him how to fix it up with sugar init, and also sup plied tho ice and mint. Washburne will go out immediately to see about the matter, and will be followed by Butler, at an early day, at the head of an Investigating committee. R. E. Bel has been notified and will, of course, protect teaspoons of St. Jo.
 c. RUsALEM.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

THAT's TRUE.-The New Sun, inde- pendent with Radical proclivities, says this:
 eff any positive Democrat feels a pang of regret at the defeat of Mr. Pendleton, in the Democratic Conven- tion, he may console himself with the reflection that ofall the candidates who went into the Convention, MT Pendle- ton is the only one who came out of it with prestige undimmed and power unquestioned. He dictated the plat form and he chose the candidates, and, what is more, heprevented the nomina- tion of any man who can compete with him in 1872. Young Greenbacks still lives, as people will find out by care fully watching the signs in the West"
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

The "elephant beetle" is one of the plaques which has been recently sent upon the mormons. A writer from Utah describes these elephant beetles as follows: "They arc about four inches long. with legs three inches long; their antenn@ are stiff, sharp, and fully four inches long they have short tail, armed with a powerful horn, and their shells are so hard that the weight of a man will scarcely crush them."
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Dr. R. B. SHELBY,

FNENDERS his, professional services to the Il Citizens of Des Are and surrounding country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob- stetrics. He hopes from an experience of over fifteen years in Southern practice, to merit share of public patronage.
 Ofice one door East of Burney's Drug Store. marchas-lS6s-Iy
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

pE-A Western editor, in response to a subscriber who grumbles that his morning paper was intolcrably damp says, "that it is because there is so much due on it,n
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

AG~The radical party does not thank the Louisville Journal for it's scheme ofsalvation. The Journal cannot point us the road to heaven; it tcould perhaps show us the way to hell.--Canton Re- publican.
 Certainly we can; keep straight ahead; there IS no road to put you out. Journal.
 -General Enthusiasm and General Grant do not run on the same ticket.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
Editorial DOn MOts from the
 Louisville Journal.

Beecher tells us that Grant Is "skil- full in using men," That he is skilful in using them up Is sufficiently proven by the bones of the hundred thousand men he used up during single cam pMgn in Virginia.
 A Lowell paper, in Sunday article, intended to be very moral, says "the road to hell has no forks" This may be true, but the route by way of Lowell has plenty of spoons.
 A radical paper tells us that "Gen. Grant will carry into the Presidential chair well-balanced mind.' He should throw away his bottle, that he may carry also well-balanced body.
 Grant never liked Gen. Lee. He was often so rude and unmannerly as to turn his back on him.
 The Congo candidate. He com- menced in smoke and ended in smell.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

gss-It is mark of the soundest wis dom not to pry into secret, and when found, of the puress honesty not to reveal it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

Eg Never decline intercourse with one who has been your friend, without letting him know there is reason for <.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

A distressed family of Freedmen's Bureau officials and Reconstructionists will pay the above reward if found and returned.
 August II, 1868.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

nssThe most beautiful may De most admired and carcssed, but they are l,o' always the most esteemed and loved
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
MARKS.
ONE U. s. GRANT

Shoulder-straps, gilded buttons, a cigar in his mouth and pint flask in his pocket no brains.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
oR. aN

Offers his services to the citizens of Des Arc and vicinity in the practice of medicine. Thankful for past favors, and by attention to business he expects to share liberal prtronage.
 Oflice-At his residence-late the residence of w. G. Firth. sep2l
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

MIR. EDITOR: Please insert the fol- lowing in your paper; Sl,OOO Reyvard!-LOst or Strayed!
 ONE U. S. GRANT. When last seen he was travelling up Salt River.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
w. J. ROGERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BROWNSVILLE, ARKANSAS.

Prompt attention given to the Collection of Claims, Investigation of Land Titles, Pay ment of Taxes. Sc. my16
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11

IT AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL e Il kinds of work in my line. Mend ESA ing, Cleaning, Sc. &
 - ThaEkful for past favors, solicit a continuance of the patronage heretofore be- slowed on me feb2S-tf
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-11
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

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