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The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08

bFilliancy, considered it doing very weil if he wruee fihy lines of kis aLalla Rookh h week Our cve matchIess Hawthorne vas slow in composing Sometimes he could write only what would amount to half dosen pages . week, often only few lines in the same space of time and, alas, be would fse- quentiy 20 to his chamber and take his pen, only to 6nd himself wholly anable to perform any literary work q fancy this trait of character a peculiarly oa genius The author of Pleasures of HopeS was slow of thought, and conse- ouently his mode of composition vas toilsome in the highest degree. He wrote extremely csuficusly, weighing and sAap- ing the e6ect of each particular line be- fore he permitted tt to stand He used to say thas h;s Gertrude of Wyoming !" vas his best performance, vhile at the same time he expressed himself to the ehec that ii vas sadly in need ot a care ful revision It vas rarely the case that he vas sasis6ed with his poetry. often- times that which he had written al night would be given over to the flames in the morning. But his perseverance was won- derful, and he has left to the world as rare name as any peel of his time.
 Bret Harte, whose creations read as if they had come from his brain without . flaw or hiDdranoc, showing brilliancy Of thought, with the grace of the artist. is still another who passes days and weeks on short stosy os poem before he is ready to deliver 1t into the hands of the printer, which speaks great pr aise for the author of the most strikingly original volumes of prose aad verse that lave ever come before tke reading public So, too, with Bryant. Though, in reality, the sum total of his poetry might be included in small volume SO few are his lyrics, we cannot fail to be impressed with the truth of the statement when we are told that even these few gems sf verse cost our later WordswortA hard toil to bring into being and endow with the splendor of immortality.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08
list the Thing.
Evansville Argus

A dude from Louisville wanted to % ofi and die at Huntingburg the other day He was one of the slimmest ot the slim and his long legs, encased in very ugh, pants, didn't look as if they could cast a shadoW.
 A everybody knows, the Louisville train stops at HuntingSurg awhile, and the passengers ofsen get out and stretch their legs.' The dude didn, have to stretch his legs, but go, out for little exercise.
 Now, Huntingburg has some we'll posted people, but also owns some of the worst country specimens we ever saw:
 As the dude vas walking up and down he noticed that two very ,ough-looking country hunters, each with an old shotgun, were watching him, and he be- came rather nervous, and just as he vas starting back into the car one of them stepped up and the following .onversa. ton ensued:
 "Say, mister, don't want to ax too much, but does them hun you?"
 Docs what hurt me, sah ?"
 Why, them thar pants"
 No, sir, they do not, and assure you they are made in the most ultra fashion able manner in fact, quite Ia mode T replied the dude, as he gazei on them complacenuy.
 We'll, don't know wha, all that thar means, but me and Bill was a-watchin' you, and allowed from the way ye walked they hurted ye, and as they were iis, what we wanted, we allowed we'd ax you for 'em."
 "Oh, no, sah, they don't hurt, but but, as you seem to like them so much I'd much like to know why you took such fancy to them ?"
 Wall, stranger, nov honest, we thought they hun ye, and allowed mebb< ye had another pair, and would give us these, or we wouldn't a-said a word. We axes yer pardon"
 But, my friend, ~hy don't you ex. plain what you wanted them for y''
 "Wan, you sec me and Bill has two hne guns, and they git awful rusty, and we allowed them pants would be the very thing"
 For what? dont understznd.n
 @Why, don't-ye-see, we'd jist split 'em in two and sew up the bottom, and they'd make two nice gun eases, jis' like these yer town hunters has, and honest, now, if ye'd jist go in the car no~ and change 'em, Bill and me will never furgit ye."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08
Truthful Remarks.

Mir. E. Duncan Sniffen, Park Row, New York, the vell-known advertising agent, makes the following truthful re- marks in the New York Tribune, October 4th, regarding newspaper advertising
 The newspaper IS 90 comprehensive in its scope, 90 universal in administering to the wants of all classes, and of evezy occupation in life; it brings, as it were, the financial and commercial markets of ahe world to our counting rooms, % that it may be truly said that . good advex- usement in . videly-crculaied news peper is the best of all possible salesmen -one who never sleeps and il never veasy, who goes afsex basiness early and late, who accosts the merchant n his store, the lawyer in his otaice, the student in his study, the cultivated woman q the family 6seside, who can be ia . thousand places af oace. and address . million o( people eacA day, saying oaly the best th;ngs q the right sime and h ths bese manDog.
 Nov this typical salssman salls oaly about hia ovn bosiness h his ovn h. taEest and fl in . cso~e, Ae muM, h e. dE to sscnre . hsasiag. be mose css- spicuous than his compseisos4 and ii all dno he ma he e eetrsciveas posGfhae. 1he vosk isvo1ss inseiligsnce, . good desl q ingsnuig, anA esieasl aad roaAy reBouroes b make the sale maSaW q yeseezday heah and invifing today. This ' tAe kisd q nevspapa advsEsisiag thaf t pays b d, ard thst ve undertske so d." Advafisen sAould ssnd fu 2. Dascaa Sai0ea's Advessise1 Reknunre Book, 1884, e it is 6ull q yaluahae h. fosmasioa abost leading newspapen i; thGr dEculasioa, rsses, sac, sec.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08

@No. saA," saii the Rev. Mr. Smith. with the air q oee incalcafiag . lo<(y mosal ~dsds pokaA, Toce. Oere am two rules 70 didn' 'menbaA- Fusa, doan' bet oa anudder mans vink. h den, de vises' q all. doan' take back yo' owa papah at par"
 Mr. Williams vent houe.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08
SYRACUSE N. Iune n

SYRAcusk, ". Y, June I3, TSs3 q snGezed vifh kidsey disease andin tense pss1 h back. O1e boesle relieved and n betfles q HUNTS [Kdney and IvesJ REMEDY oo0pasnsay cnssd 1e.s- H. s Rsocsu, Fuznifuss Dsalsr, Go Salisa S
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08
i" M,p's in the Bud '"
lNew vesk Eveninr poss.,

Sad @ ssy. g-any good thisg ssfaiss to sosAing noss thaa far beginnisg. On the othes hssd is is . mss-.- <.r coagTss- ulsaios that the gyossh of so.Ss evil shngs nsS be also psompsly frusnassd. A large properties q tAe eas0 ef the moss vide-spsead ed fsaai s( dissases- oosssapsios kase sheir inception is nssal cafasTh. DS. Saee's CafauA Rsnedy is pleasaaa. sooehisg asd edectnal. Try it. Is has cuesd thossasds- Al dssggises.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08

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The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08


 laborious research, gathered together the materials which he was to embody in it. would lock himself in his private apart ment, shut out all the light Of day. and then, by the aid ef his ssudy lamp, he would toil day and night oveE the work before him. His sevants, moving Q well his peculiar hahits, would aeaeed to his every want feschisg him the neces- sasy food and drink witA which ts sus- tain his physical nesds, aad thus he would to1 oa aDd oo, unfil fnally, with his task completed, e he thss9ht, he came fogth fom his sekisemGnk, Epaiing more dead tAzn alive. Ba 6vasiah,y his tasx voah noe be aleogeeA~ sa3is- factory to him, aAx all, 6e again he woad seek the soclusioa cf hiD ckambes b re-srrasge and maln nors peslka tkae whirh he had hefoge suppoeed wholly co0paeeaL- Thn, too, vh0 in tho hands of the printer God pity tAe poog psinsezs) he would be e ape e noe to slser, in oae way and aneeh9, the nanascxip1, uafil boeh printer and psh1isA9 were oo the vage q despaix. Kingiake's bsassiful Eothea vas re-vritfsn haA . doses times before t vas given b psbsisAs M consideration Tennysoas snag, Come into the GA<A-~. Aaud,n vas re- vris1ea scue Sly tinne hefose ;s gave complefe safisfacfioa to tbe laureaae, vhile he spenf eight hours day for six veen h ss-sriniag nd giving fnisA so Locksaey Hal, tAough the frA draJk q this esquisils peem occupied 70 dsys h i1s cs0Pssifisa-
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The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-08

showed down . king full Mir Whlffi q fainted. The Rev. Mir Smith poured . glass of beer down his back to revive him, and then, to Mir. Williams horror paid him back all the money ke had won, except that which had been put up by Mir. Williams himself
 What 70 doin' dat for T' demanded Mir Williams, aghast- "Doaa' vant ter rob dat su6erinR mohe," said the Rev. Mir. Smith. "Dids' 70 wunk q me v asked MF. Wil,iana, ~aa' doao dat mean q square divvy oa de vinain':" The Rsv. Nr. Smith vAs silent
 Dsds - v1nk ai msr yelled Ar. Wil1iams-
 Ths Rev Ms. Soith put his lsss O the tahle asd iaaaed back.
 sToot," he said, sveesiy, sl'ss goe . sey oa my lsk eye, an 1t viggies. Dad osss have givn yo' de vToog flip. It an agfn d psowisAans oh rule sixsy-lD' as Uiak ii de nemhah doin' de boftis', as' sf did vink t vas ser rsmin' yo' eb das rule."
 @Cin me back dat thuuy dollahs, den.S said Mr. Wdiiam4 b . tore os ~CanHts said the Rev. Mr. Thaakful SmieA, ~hsd Br9 Whifao he's rod thus1y-six dnliaAs mo- in 70 papah, asd efhe's hoess, hen give yo' sen of It asd call is squas's Mx WhiGo gave Af. Williams anceher en-dcllay O U received from him the week bsfose- Ms. Williams took if in su1fen Gilence.
 "Dads svindlis', ," he said. as he rose to Leave the scom.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
LATER NEWS.

In the Senate on the 18th Senator
Payne's credentials were filed. The bill
for relief of survivors of the Jeanette expe-
dition was reported favorably and placed
on the calendar; also bill fixing salaries
of United States Judges. Among nun1er-
GUS bills introduced was one defining the
powers of the Mississippi River Commits
sion and authorizing the appropriation of
land necessary to its work. In the House
the following were among the bills intro
duced: To limit the number Of naval ca
diets; to provide for leasing desert lands in
Colorado; to abolish the electoral college.
A resolution was offered calling for the
official report on the investigation of Arch
itect Hills office. The Military Academy
bill was reported. A joint resolution -p-
propriating 100000 for the food sufferers
called out considerable speech-making and
was adopted 233 to II.
THE continuance of heavy rains in
the watershed of the Ohio indicates that the
food will probably exceed the worst ap-
prehensions that have hitherto been in
dulged. The high-water mark of last year
lat Cincinnati was passed at one O'Clock on
the 11th, and the rise has kept right on,
with big water coming down all the tribu-
taries. Those who had been most indiffer-
ent began to grow excited, as the entirely
unprecedented flood carried with it ele-
ments of danger never before encountered.
Factories were stopping in the city and
many neighboring towns were almost
drowned out. At Covington, KY, 5000
people have been rendered homeless. The
need for relief grows alarmingly pressing
in numerous small places.
THos. CHENERY, editor of the London
Times, died on the 18th.
Ell MAHDI's troops have captured a
post north of Suakem. General Gordon had
lreached Berber.
A WHOLESALE slaughter of Christians
lin Tonquin is reported.
SEVEN furnaces in Reading, PS,
have started up, after two months idle
ness.
The steamer Nottinghill, recently
Host at sea, was valued at 100000 and had
cargo worth $4,000.
A JOINT committee of the Ohio Leg
lislature will recommend the abolition of
1.-The prison contract system.
The Austrian Reichsrath is threat
lened with dissolution, unless it re-enacts
1.-The anti-socialist law.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's book has been
given to the public. 1t is diary of do
mestic affairs covering period of twenty
Years.
The Anglo-French Commission en-
Gagged in fixing the boundaries in West At
irica has encountered a serious resistance
lfrom the natives. French troops were
landed for protection
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Wareham, Mass, is making the
iron-clad steel nail from muck bar iron
and s.eel scraps, ten dollars ton
theaper than the old iron nail, as strong
as steel and as flexible as iron.-BoSton
Herald.
Tea has been successfully and
easily grown in Georgia for several
years, but no effort has been made to
prepare it for market on scale to at
tract the attention of wholesale buyers,
according to the Savannah NeDs.
Engineering in China has achieved
notable triumph in the construction
If the bridge at Lagang. over an arm
of the China Sea. 1t is five miles long,
built entirely of stone, has 800 arches
seventy feet high, and the roadway is
seventy feet wide. The pillars are sew
enty-five feet apart.
Blindness is steadily decreasing in
England, owing, it is considered, to the
advance in surgical treatment of the
eyes, and to the decline of such dis
eases as smallpox, etc., among chill
dren. For thirty years this atliiction
has gradually lessened; but within the
last decade the Improvement is specially
noticeable.
The latest novelty in Sweden is an
enormous engine which daily produces
100000 boxes Of matches. 1t receives
the raw material (blocks of woody at
one end and gives up at the other the
matches neatly arranged in their boxes,
It ady to be packed. The wood which,
in the course of last summer, was
brought over to Jonkoping to be made
into matches, filled twenty steamers
and eight sailing-vessels.
DR.. Clauston, of the Edinburgh
Asylum, Scotland, is substituting milk
diet for stimulants in treating his pa
tients. In very acute cases, both of
DEF ression and maniacal exultation,
where the disordered working of the
frame tends rapidly to exhaust the
strength, he relies more and more on
milk and eggs made into liquid Gus
tards. This certainly looks like a SEN
sible subst tute for stimulants under
such circumstances.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has been experimenting recently
with a patent which is TO do away with
the bell-rope on passenger trains. The
experiments are being conducted on
The Pittsburgh division, and the patent
is the production of the Westinghouse
Air Brake Company. 1t consists of Il
communication by air pressure with
smsl s hJ whistle jR shs Sab of the spgjRssf.
Quoted will be Independent of that COM
municating with the brakes. The con-
nection between the passenger car and
the air-tube is from the rear of the
coach, near the closet, where there is
button. which is pressed by the con-
ductor when he desires to signal the en-
gineer. -Phitddelphia Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Texas Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 9th.
THE Republicans of Kansas will meet in
State Convention at Topeka April 90 to
elect delegates to the National Convention
to be held in Chicago.
THE funeral of Wendell Phillips in Bos-
ton on the 9th attracted a vast concourse
of people, including delegations from all
the reform movements.
THE steamship Frisia, with the remains
of DeLong and his companions on board,
left Hamburg on the 9th for New York.
REV. j. B. BRUILLETr, rector of the
Catholic Bureau of Indian missionaries,
died in Washington on the 9th. He had
been a missionary among the Indians for
twenty-five years.
THE Ohio Congressional Apportionment
bill, giving the Democrats twelve districts
and the Republicans nine, became law
on the 7th.
Hon. RICHARD NELSON (colored), pro-
prietor of the Galveston (Tex.) Spectator,
was elected from train on the Texas &
st. Louis Road on the 7th because he re-
fused to ride in the smoking-car. He
would sue for damages.
A POPULAR subscription was SUar6eu. AZ
Boston on the 7th to erect statue to Wen
dell Phillips.
MRS. STRATToN, widow of Tom Thumb,
on the 7th applied to the Mayor of New
York for permission to open museum.
REV. W. G.. LANE, of Halifax, N. S., re-
Gently married soldier and his sweet
heart without a license, and after few
days the bridegroom deserted his wife be-
cause the union was illegal. The clergy
man has been ordered to pay penalty OF
two hundred dollars.
The Mississippi River Convention, held
at Washington, passed resolutions on the
7th declaring it the duty of the Govern
ment to so improve the great river and its
tributaries as to permanently secure safe
navigation, and expressing the belief that
the system now being prosecuted under
the Secretary of War was the one most
generally approved.
GENERAL w. T. SHERMAN was on the 9Th
placed on the retired list of the army, hav-
ing reached sixty-five years of age.
CoLoRED citizens of Bloomington, ILL.,.
have issued an address to the voters Of
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
FOREIGN.

A PASSENGER train at Lancaster, Can,
struck a cutter at crossing on the 9th,
killing Alexander Richardson and Will
lam Aynos.
TEWFIK BEY and four hundred followers,
who attempted on the Oh to force their
way from Sinkat to the coast, were cut to
pieces by Ell Mehdi's insurgents.
The Dublin paper, United Lreldna, on
the 7th exulted over the Mahdi's victories
in Egypt, hoped that Baker and Gordon
would meet the fate of General Hicks, and
trusted that the Soudan legions would
soon arrive at Cairo.
THREE editors in Palma, Island of Ma
jorica, have been condemned to eight
years. Imprisonment for violation of the
press laws.
OFFICIAL dispatches of the 9Th from Ton
quin announce that the rebels in the prov
inces of Namdinh and Sontay have been
dispersed with heavy losses. The rebel
leader Dedoc was wounded and took refuge
in Bac-Ninh. Between four hundred and
five hundred rebels were slain. At Scava-
low nests of pirates had been destroyed
and many were killed.
In the British House of Commons on the
Sth Mr.. Parnell moved an amendment to
the address of the Queen, asserting that
the Government policy in Ireland had
caused the prohibition of public meetings
and had interfered with the freedom of
speech. and demanding the immediate
abandonment of State emigration.
NEARLY fifteen thousand striking weav-
ers of Blackburn, Eng, on the Sth marched
to the house of a manufacturer to hang
him in effigy. The police charged the bro
cession, and order was only restored by
the arrival of officers from Manchester.
HUNDREDS of persons suspected of being
Socialists were on the Sth being arrested
at st. Petersburg, Russia.
AN open winter in the Arctic circle is in
dicated by the vast fields of ice encountered
by steamers CROSSING the Atlantic.
A LARGE force of Mexican soldiers was
on the 9th dispatched to Omitlan to quell
the outrages by Indians, who had muir
dered most of the inhabitants. An at
tempt of civil force to put down the rev.
olutionary mob was defeated with a loss
of twenty-five men killed.
De LEsSEPS declared at recent banquet
to the members of the French scientific
press that Roudiere, the French hydrog-
rapher, would soon begin the work of
creating a sea in the Desert of Sahara.
MOB at San Juan, Argentine Republic,
few nights ago killed the Governor and
wounded many persons. Senator Gomez
was found murdered in the bush.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1884.

their race in the Northern States, urging
conference at Pittsburgh, April 80, to con-
slider the growth of political despotism in
the South.
DoNOHUE, member of the New York
Legislature, went to Montreal to attend the
ice-carnival, and was arrested on the 8 b
for completely in the Fenian raid of 1866.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR Mas approved the
bill appropriating 100000 for the benefit
of destitute Indians.
UP to the 9th over $500 bills, mostly of
private nature, had been introduced in
the House of Representatives at Washing
ton, and less than 20o had been acted upon
by the committees.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-16
PITH AND POINT.

Sam Pine re, oices in the proud dis
tinction of being the leader of a gang
of burglars in New Jersey. At the risk
of DESTROY NO our American forests,
somebody should pitch Pine into dun
geon.-M. Y. Horl0.
mo man." said Richter, ''can
either live piously or d e righteous with
out having a wife" 1t does not follow,
however, that the more wives q man
has, the more piously he lives and the
more RICH eous he d es. .- Boston Post.
The editor wrote: ''The most ex-
pensive drug in the markets. egotinin,' ,
and the compositor made the last word
''egotism The idea is ridiculous,
Egotism has be ONE "a drug in the
market to be sure, but it is the cheap:
.-NorrtSt0aUn Herald.
As a drug clerk the female is not
brilliant success. When you wink at
her across soda fountain she doesn
know whether to put in little Balm Of
Giead in your jda or to hang her head
and blus l.-Bismarck Tribune.
A Connecticut factory turns out
two thousand corsets day. Another
indication of the increasing power of
the press, and at the same time an evil
dence of the staying power of the land
of steady habits and ligneous nutmegs.
Boston Transcript.
"A prominent and prosperous farm.
er Of Michigan is quoted as saying re-
Gently. when | was a boy and
trud ed along to school | was taught to
take off my hat and make obeisance
whenever l net a grown person. How
is it now? Why, a man is fortunate if
he can PASS by S hool-house without
Icing Snowflake d.-Detrot Pos.
An old negro and his son called on
the editor of New Orleans newspaper.
Il wants my son ter work in yer office,
sah.' 'sWhat can he do?' ''Oh! at
fust he KANT do nuthin' but edick your
paper; but arter awhile, when learns
mo- sense he ken black your boots an
sweep de flo. IN 7. Independent.
Mamma, what is meant by little
pitchers have ears ?' asked little boy.
.sWhere did you hear that expression"
demanded tie mother, with considera-
[ lie show of interest. 'Iast night,
mamma, in the diningroom. Nay
was setting tie table. | heard papa
say it TO her just as l opened the door. y
| -Phtla 1etpbiG cal.
While New Yorker was nosing
around Birmingham, Ala, in search of
coal or iron mine at bargain, a ma
We accosted IN with request for ten
ents, and added: ''Only yesterday |
owned coal mine worth $4,000"
"And why dos't you own it to-dayp"
because a nan got me drunk and
coaxed me to trade it for an old mule. ="
"And how VII ten cents help you?,'
"Why, /, want it to get whisky to get
him drunk enough to traae back for a
bl nd dog and an old sh1 tgun. Strang-
er. don't let me lose $4,000 for the
want of ten cents He got it.-Wall
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