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Middletown transcript., 1883-01-19
ARKANSAS LAWS.

The laws of Arkansas may not differ
materially from the legislative enact
ments of other states, but legal con-
struction and the extent of wayward
range granted to judges in this State,
viewed from the rigorous standpoint of
an old common law Judge would seem
to possess points of grave difference, if
not directly conflicting features when
compared with decisions rendered in
the east.
An Arkansas gentleman being with
out money, attempted to travel on
railway train without price. When
the conductor called for his ticket. the
gentleman replied:
e have no ticket, in fact, belongto
that class of American gentlemen who
don't have to have tickets.'
Then the conductor insisted upon re-
ceiving money. 81 have no money!"
declared the man. "T belong to that
class Of citizens that don't handle very
much revenue
"I'll have to put you off, - said the
conductor, as he pulled the bell ropes
'I greatly desire to travel on this
train," pleaded the Arkansas gentle
man. 1 have been frank enough to
make the humiliating confession that l.
have no money. Many man would
not have made SO generous an acknow-
Judgement, and l think that courteous
interchange Of frankness and commend
able openness of declaration demand
that you should let me ride on this
train.'
This piece of logic, though delivered
with warmth and with some evidence
of elocutionary training, failed in it's
intended effect, and the gentleman was
elected from the car. Shortly after
wards, he brought suit for damages,
and aftera long and interesting hearing
of the cause, the judge deliverer the fol-
lowing charge to the jury:
1.-THE plaintiff boarded the train for
the purpose of travelling a short dis
tance. He had no money, fact which
he frankly confessed. There was
plenty of room in the car, so the plain
tiff was in no ones way. The train
is in the habit of travelling the road,
in fact, it has to go along there. The
train would have arrived at its destin-
alton just as soon if the plaintiff had
been on board The machinery would
not have been worn out any more by
hauling the plaintiff. The president
of the road would not have been in the
least injured. And now, in view of all
these facts, that the train had to go
anyway; and there was plenty of room
in the car and that the train would not
have been injured by the plaintiff, 1
charge you to bring heavy judgment
in favor of the plaintiff, and that as a
healthful example to all parties concer-
ned, the conductor be sent to jail for
six months, and also that the clerk of
this court furnished the president of the
road with an account of these proceed
ings, together with an opinion that he,
the president, don't live far enough up
the creek to tramp on the coat-tails of
this court. Arkansas Traveller.
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Sistellansoas Sdper's s.
PLAIN
TRUTHS

The blood is the foundation of
life, it circulates through every part
OF the body, and unless it is pure
aid rich, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the only sure and quick way to drive
il out is to purify and enrich the
blood.
These simple facts are well
known, and the highest medical
authorities agree that nothing but
iron will restore the blood to its
natural condition; and also that
all the iron preparations hitherto
made blacken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
Browns IRON BITTERS will thor
oughly and quickly assimilate with
the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part of the system, and it will
NOT blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi-
lively nat injurious.
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THE FALLow FIELD.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down;
The night mist shroudeth the sleeping town
But if it be dark or if it be day,
4 4 u the tempests beat or the breezes play,
Still here on this upland slope lie
Looking up to the changefuI sky.
Naught am but tallow field;
Never a crop my acres yield.
Over the wall at my right hand
Stately and green the corn blades stand,
And hear at my left the flying feet
Of the winds that rustic the bending wheat
Often while yet the morn is red
list for our masters eager tread.
He smiles at the young corn's towering
He knows the wheat is a goodly sight,
But he glanees not at the fallow field
Whose idle acres no wealth may yield.
Sometimes the shout of the harvesters
The sleeping pulse of my being stirs,
And as one in a dream seem to feel
The sweep and the rush of the swinging steel,
Or cstch the sound of the gay refrain
As they heap their wains with the golden
grain.
Though on every tongue your praise Is loud.
Our mother Nature is kind to me,
And am beloved by bird and bee,
And never a child that passes by
But turns upon me grateful eye.
Over my head the skies are blue;
have my share of the rain and dew;
! bask like you in the summer sun
When the long bright days pass, one by one,
And calm as yours is my sweet repose
Wrapped in the warmth of the winter SHOWS.
For little our loving mother cares
Which the corn or the daisy bears
Which is rich with the ripening wheat,
Which with the vioetis breath is sweet,
Which is red with the clover bloom,
Or which for the wild sweet-fern makes ROOM
Useless under the summer sky
Year after year men say l lie.
Little they know what strength of mine
give to the trailing blackberry vine;
Little they know how the wild grape grows,
Or how my life-blood fiushes the rose.
Little they think of the cups fill
For the MOSES creeping under the hill
Little they think of the feast spread
For the wild wee creatures that must be fed:
Squirrel and butterfly, bird and bee,
And the creeping things thatno eye may see.
Lord of the harvest, Thou dost know
How the summers and winters go.
Never ship sails east or west
Laden with treasures at my behest,
Yet my being thrills to the voice of God
When give my gold to the golden-rod.
JULIA c. R. DoRR, in Harper's Magazine
for February.
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AN OLD WOMAN in st. Louis saved
S11OO out of the hard earnings of thirty
years, and the other night lost the
money in the street. The newspapers
described her pitiable grief, for she was
completely frustrated by the loss, and
when she read one of these accounts
she felt still worse, for she said she did
not want the whole world to know her
trouble. But when a boy came in with
the money, and explained that he had
found out it's owner from the papers,
she thought better of journalism.
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THOMAS W. PIERCE, Of Texas, who
made his millions from railway opera
tions, has given $25, 900 church to the
town of Dover n. H. The church,
which is known as the Pierce Memorial
Church, serves as monument to his
parents, once residents of Dover.
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Five men leaned up against the bar for
nightcap. One drank whiskey because
the doctor ordered it; two others drank
a hot scotch because they couldn't sleep
wink without it; a fourth drank
brandy for his cholera morhus, and the
fifth man drank whisky because he liked
it. And there were only four liars in
the crowd. Robert J. Bewdette.
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A PORTLAND PAPER tells story OF
a wealthy but parsimonious Maine man
who, two or three days before his death
awoke in the evening, and turned to
the watcher at Jig DeU5Ide, .dSh6d !.
g How much do they give you a anightP''
"Two-dolIars-and-a-half," was the
reply. g Well you needn't come any
more; can't stand such sum as that, ="
and he didn't
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The difference between the two
grades of tenement-house life in New
York, is that the better element lives
in row Of flats and the lower in a flow
of rats.-Rome Sentinel.
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OVerCOat or Suit

For Yourself and your Boys. We
have decidedly the best stock of Cloth
ing ever brought to this town and it is
being sold at very small profit.
Gents Furnishing Goods.
A splendid assortment Of medicated
Red Flannel and Red Knit Shirts and
Drawers. White Merino Shirts and
Drawers. Bleached and unbleached
Cotton Flannel Shirts and Drawers.
Blue Flannel, Red Flannel, Gray
Cloth and Cotton Bicycle and Double
breasted Overshirts.
The celebrated Pearl Shirt, laundried
and unlaundried. Percale and Calico
Shirts.
Boots and Shoes.
We have added to our stock a line of
Mems Boots and Shoes, which we are
offering at smaller profit than is usu-
ally obtained.
Rubber Goods.
Mems Gum Boots, Siberian Caters,
Buckle Arctics, Imitation Sandals. Plaid
Back Reversible Gossamer, and Heavy
Dull Finish Gum Coats, Leggings, &c.
A full line of Stiff and Soft HATS.
Fur, Plush and Cloth Caps for Men
and Boys.
Buckskin, Dogskin, Kid and Yarn
Gloves.
Yours truly,
PHILIP LESS.
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KANSAS CONIICALITIEs.

People living in drouthy Kansas can
not be too careful in selecting presents
for each other, if they desire to keep on
living in that State. A young man
residing at Abilene, sent young lady
of his acquaintance jumping-jack, on
Christmas day, with very unfortunate
results. She expected to be surprised
by something that was better suited to
her taste. Her brothers, several in
number, regarded the present in the
light of an insult. They did not ask the
donor to explain what, if any, symbolic
meaning was attached to the present,
but proceeded to a p&ger-meeting,
where the doomed man was possibly
preparing himself for a land that is
even fairer than Kansas, and opened
fire on him with their pistols, notwith-
standing there is a law in Kansas which
makes it very serious offense to dis
turb religious assembly while at wor-
ship. The young man who had pre-
sented the jumping jack, like the often
ded young lady, herself, was slightly
wounded. We forgot to mention that
on being interrupted at his devotions,
the wounded young man got up from
his knees, with a pistol in each of his
uplifted hands, and, before the benedic-
tion was pronounced, he killed and
wounded four of the five brothers of
the young lady. No doubt the young
man was restrained to some extent by
the fact that he was at a prayer meeting
to disturb which is regarded as a really
serious offense in Kansas. This little
incident shows that the Kansas young
ladies have feelings, and that those
feelings can be trampled under foot by
sending them jumping-jacks that it is
not safe to disturb Kansas man when
he is saying his prayers with two re-
volvers on his person.-TeraS SgiftingS.
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A WEDDING INTERRUPTED.

Ballard Smith tells story of North
Carolina wedding. 1t runs this way
1t was in the Carolina backwoods, a
country couple and country parson.
Though a Baptist, the minister wore an
old surplice. When he had finished the
ceremony he said:
cam them uns who God hath
joined''-
"Stop thar, parson," said the groom;
"don't say them'uns, say these'uns!"
John, :" said the parson, ''T tech you
at school, and I say them 'uns."
These'uns,' shouted the groom,
drawing his pistol.
The parson seeing the movement fired
through his surplice and the groom drop
ped dead-winging the parson as he
went down. There was a lively fusilade
of perhaps thirty shots. When the
smoke cleared away a half dozen men
were on the floor. The bride, peeping
over the pulpit to which she had fled
for refuge, gazed mournfully on the
scene and said:
"Them a-self-cockin' pistols is a
playin' hell with my prospeck's -
OF course the story is an impossible
one, and yet said Mr.. Smith "That
is the staple story of the South that is
circulated and believed throughout the
North. While such a thing could hardly
have happened in North Carolina any
more than New York, the average
Northern man smiles incredulously
when you tell him that this perfor-
nance is improbable at Carolina we'd
ding"
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Mr.. HENRY, the owner of the famous
Henry House, hard by Bull Run bridge
on the battlefield, has collected set of
accurate maps of the battle-ground for
the instruction of visitors.
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MARY,
Wife of FRANCIS VIPART,
of Guadeloupe,
died Jan. 8, 1907,

the last u in Guadeloupe being omitted
and placed over the other letters after
ward. The head stone is quite elabo-
rately Ornamented with a funeral urn
and weeping-willoWs at the top, like an
ancient sampler, and elaborate though
rudely-carved columns at the sides. On
the foot stone are simply the words,
MARY vIPART. 1907.
Before leaving I made a sketch of
the spot, with its sere dead ferns, its
tangle of wild-brier vines, crimson
leaved by frost, and the short brown
spires of withered grass growing in
tufts over the moundless grave.
"Ahl life is brief, though love be longs"
and short indeed it was to the lovely
Mary ingalls,, who lived out her love
romance in one brief year, and came to
her long rest in the graveyard near the
village church. Naturally delicate and
frail, she sacrificed herself by unre-
mitting exertions at the bedside of her
sick mother, and a quick consumption
ended all too soon her beautiful and
loving life.
The count was inconsolable after her
death he parted with everything that
could remind him of his gentle wife,
and finding the scenes of his married
life too painful after his short year of
happiness, he left the village never to
return. M. WHITE, in Har-
per's Magazine for February.
Middletown transcript., 1883-01-19

Browns IRON BITTERs effectual-
ly cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
from such wasting diseases as Con-
sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.
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Saved his Child.

~ N. Eutaw St, Baltimore, Md.
Feb. II, 1886.
Gents Upon the recommenda-
ton Of friend / tried BRowN's
IRON BITTKRS as a tonic and re-
storative for my daughter, whom
l was thoroughly convinced was
wasting away with Consumption.
Having lost three daughters BY the
terrible disease, under the care Of
eminent physicians, was 10th to
believe that anything could arrest
the progress of the disease, but, to
my great surprise, before my daugh-
ter had taken one bottle Of BRowN's
IRON BrrrKRs, she began to mend
and now is quite restored to former
health. A fifth daughter began to
show signs Of Consumption, and
when the physician was consulted
he quickly said "Tonics were re-
quired;" and when informed that
the elder sister was taking Browns
IRON BITTERs, responded "that is
good tonic, take It. :"
ADoRAM PHELPS.
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DON'T FAIL.

To call at the Clothing Store of
P. LESS, in the Cochran Block, oppo-
site W. H. Moore & Co.'S, and secure
a bargain in an
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wHIrT1ER's COUNTESS"

Il
Rocks Village, where lived Aunt
Nose,
tale,''
is charming little nook on the Mer.
rimac river, away from the busy lines
of traffic
"a place for idle eyes and ears,
A cobwebbed nook of dreams;
Left by the stream whose waves are years
The stranded village seems"
And it is here that Whittier also found,
amid
sold customs, habits, superstitions fears,
All that lies buried under fifty years."
the incidents for his sweet poem of
"The Countess. " "The countess
was young girl of scarcely twenty
years when the Count Francis Vipart
came to Rocks Village with friend,
both exiles from the island of Guade-
loupe. He saw Mary ingalls,, a beauti-
full, golden-haired, blue-eyed girl, the
belle of the little village; and her
beauty, together with a gentle and
sweet disposition, attracted him at
once. He walked with her along the
struggling road'' which comes down
" over the wooded northern ridge - to
her church, standing near the burial
ground on the land "that slopes against
the west The church is now re-
moved but later in the afternoon of
the day on which we visited the place
we met an old gentleman of eighty who
remembered the church, and the time
when only two slept in the graveyard,
which is now full. He also informed
us that the worshippers were called to-
gether by the sound of a horn.
"The countess was the daughter of
a laboring man, and an L of the house
where she was born is still standing,
said to contain the room where the
event took place, and which has since
been shown to me by the present occu-
pants of the place.
1t is a quaint low-studded room,
lighted with large many-paned win
dows. The L once formed main por-
tion of the original house, but has since
been removed to the rear, and a more
modern structure built in front. In
the best front room stands the first stove
used in Haverhill- an heirloom from
the old doctor, Elias Weld.
I" Whose ancient sulky down the village lanes
Dragged like war-car, captive ills andpains.''
1t is an open fireplace stove, with a
huge hollow iron vase on top serving
the purpose of a heater. The kitchen
of the homestead still remains in it's
condition, an antique VAIN
scoted room, very suggestive of COM
fort for long winter evenings. And it
was here IN these ancient rooms that
the little love romance of Rocks Vii
Iage was lived out.
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Her simple daily life he saw
By homeliest duties tried,
IN all things by an untaught law
of fitness justified.

Her simple daily life he saw
By homelieSt duties tried,
IN all things by an untaught law
OF fitness justified.
For hef his rank aside he laid;
He took the hue and tone
OF lowly life and toll, and made
Her simple ways his own"
There is still living in a neighboring
town a white-haired old lady of eighty
who treasures up with pious care a set
of knives and forks which were a bri-
dal gift from the count to his young
wife and she will relate to the curious
listener how the Count Francis Vipart
established evening dances in the vii
lage for the young people, and how de-
voted he was to his beautiful wife,
=" My MOTHER" said she, knew her
well, and often used to say that she
was the most beautiful girl she had
ever seen, so gentle and kind"
Late in the afternoon of that autumn
day we stood by the grave Of the count
ess, marked by slate head and foot
stones. On the head stone is the in
scriptiOn :
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"True; but no man hitherto, /
think, has suspected me of cowardice,
and as my post is here, here I will re-
main. 1 shall take all measures for
my safety, then meet whatever comes.
In case Of the worst-and doubtless at
this iunctnre my life is threatened
have left all my affairs in shape, and
need only assure you, madame, that my
wife's future has been my first con-
cern ~
"Thanks - she murmured, and bent
her head.
He could not see the tear that glist-
ened on the lashes sweeping the lovely
cheek.
"I have thought of the Countess
Hauptmann, z he continued. " She,
am sure, will be delighted to welcome
you. Will you choose her house ?"
"No."
Whose, then P''
! ST shall remain here"
Middletown transcript., 1883-01-19

The sun comes up and the sun goes downs;
The night mist shroudeth the sleeping town
But if It be dark or if it be day,
If the tempests beat or the breezes play,
Still here on this upland slope lie
Looking up to the changefu1 sky.
National Republican., 1883-03-12
EX-Gov. spRAGUE Ar HOME,
Accompanied by his New wife, who is
the Daughter OF n West virginia Cobbler.

PROVIDENCE, Mar 11.-ExGov. Sprague
and his bride have arrived here. The newly
married couple, upon alighting from the train,
proceeded to hotel, where they partook of
breakfast. This over they went to the office
of the Quidnecll company, Of which the cx-
governor is president A number of personal
friends had assembled and offered them con-
nratulations. After asserting his letters, Mr..
Spraguo and his wife went to the residence of
Mr.. Spragues mother riding there in u street
car. The bride was heartily welcomed by the
venerable lady and by the sister of the BRIDE
groom, Mrs Thomas A. Doyle, wife of the eN-
mayor of providence.
Dora Inez Weed, the bride, was bright,
pretty girl, living in Guyandotte, w. Va, with
her father mother, brother, and three or four
younger sisters. The family went there from
Connecticut nearly fifteen years ago. and for
q dozen years the father earned living by
Cobbling shoes. The brother was II teacher ut
Guyandottc Lately, however, he was under
arrest at Columbus, Ohio, for robbing his
roommate, but was acquitted. His sister, his
elder in years, was present at his trial About
two years ago the father, mother aud sisters
removed TO Ronceverte, w. Va, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, west of
White Sulphur Springs. Mrs. Sprague is the
eldest of the family is moderately well cdu-
Gated, and is accomplished in music. She was
married seven years ago at Barboursvillc,
w. Va, to Mr.. Calvert, well-known travel
ing salesman for A. II. Clark 81 Co., wholesale
groccrs, of Cincinnati, her husband being of n
wcl-known family of Portsmouth, q. His
brother is a lawyer of that city, and is also
connected by marriage with celebrated iu-
rst of Springfield, o. Soon after their mar
riage the couple took rooms at tho Biggs
house. Portsmouth, which were afterward re-
linquished on complaints made by other
boardcrs. She again made Guyandotte her
home, but their married life was not happy,
and several brief separations occurred, There
was great deal of gossip about the wife, and
it eliminated in her separating from her hus.
band permanently. Within u year she re.
turned to her fathers house. A divorce was
granted the Calverts last Monday by the cir
cult court of Cabcll county, w. Va. Mrs
Calvert was fond Of display and of attracting
attention.
National Republican., 1883-03-12
Lnrnl Iiena.

A meeting of colored citizens was held Sat
urday evening ut the Office of the Bee, and
elected the following delegates to the eman-
cipation convention w. Calvin Chase, Fran
els Hall, G. p. Stewart Levi McCabo, and Ed
ward Dickson; alternate, j. Cutler.
From o'clock yesterday to l:25 o'clock
this morning there was not single arrest
made by the officers of the fifth precinct.
This is most remarkable showing, as the
fifth precinct always leads the other precincts
in the number of farrests. Perhaps, instead OF
Wigginss hurricane, storm of piety and vir-
tue passed over the precinct yesterday.
A large party of BaltimOreans will visF the
skating rink tonight and an interesting polo
game will be played by local clubs.
The main sewer, or that portion oY it on
New York avenue, between FourteeIth and
Fifteenth streets northwest burst on Satur-
day morning, and the Washington and George
town street car company had large force OF
men working upon it during the entire day
The work viii not be finished until sohe time
to-day,
In the arrest of Allison, which is mentioned
elsewhere, Special Officer Klopfer deserves
credit for the great assistance he rerIdered in
the apprehension of the thief and theirec0very
of the goods.
An alarm was struck from box % yesterday
morning at II o'clock, occasoned ! by fire
being discovered in house No. lit Eight
street northwest, owned by Mr., GFer an'
occupied by Mrs. Perris; damage about So
| The department. responded promptly
National Republican., 1883-03-12
lady ArtIsts in Paris.

A new and very interesting exhibition is
now being held in Paris. 1t has been organ
lied by the Union des femmes Peintres ct
seulpteurs" The ladies who form this So
ciety consider that in the annual exhibitions
too small place is assigned to the artists of
the fair sex; they have therefore, opened a
salon from which the bearded half of the spe-
cies is excluded. The new exhibition is in
stalled in the main building of the Palais dc
pIndustre, opposite the Place dc Ia Concorde,
The state has placed at the disposal of the
lady artists two rooms that have been hand.
somely carpeted and adorned with baskets of
flowers which attest the taste Of the organ
izers.
The two rooms contain 17S works of art, of
which 1l2 are oil paintings. The president of
the committee is Mime. l.. de Chatillon, who
exhibits q "Jeune Beaute" admirable for its
force and delicacy. Mile, Felicieu Schneider
has sent "La-bas," charming design of u
young Breton motherponting out to her child
Il sail la-Jds just disappearing on the horizon
Evidently the father and husband is ON board
Mile. Berthe FOrmstecker has Dams les
Champs" vigorously painted. The Death oi