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The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
The Man in the Moon.
Popular Science Monthly.

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 By the Hurons the moon is called the creator of the earth and the grandmother of the sun in the myths of the Ottawas 1t IS an old woman with a pleasant white face-the sister of the day star. The Chiquitos call the moon their mother. and the Navajos make it a rider on a mule. Where the planets are worshiped preference in honors is generally accorded to the brighter and more conspicuous star of the day. But the Botucudos sf Brazil give the higher place to the moon and derive most of the phenomena of nature from it and in Central America and Hayti are also people who hold the moon in no less honor. CuriousIy. these people find their counterparts among tribes of western, southern and central Africa, who rejoice with dancing and feasts at each appearance of the new moon, and expect an improvement of their condition from its beneficial in- fiuence; and they are not SO far removed from the superstitious women of civilized Europe and America who wait for the in- crease os the moon to change their dwelling, to cut their hair, to be married. and to baptize their children. A belief existed among the ancient Mexicans and Peruyians, the Matches of the Mississippi. and the Appalachians of Florida, that the sun was the radiant abode of dead chiefs and braves. To the EsQuimaux of Labrador belongs the honor of having discovered that the moon was the para disc for the good, while the wicked were to a hole in the earth al- though some of the South American In- dians and the Polynesians of Tokelau may be nearly abreast of them in the
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
Barbarie Russia.
Quarterly Review. :


 Of the barbaric features of the old Russia, out of which Peter sprang, the tortures attending judicial processes were the most marked. His father was con- sidefed unusually mild and gentle for a tsar, and indeed, had been named the most Debonair :" but even under his reign there were 6fty official executioners in Moscow, whose hands were necessarily red with their ghastly functions. Every judicial investigation involved the in- fiction of horrible tortures all around :; torture of suspected persons to extort con- fession torture of witnesses supposed to know more than they revealed: torture ct criminals to force them to betray their accompices.
 Sometimes 1t was inflicted ,sy the al- ternatc strokes of rods yielded by couple of executioners, who kept time in hammering away at the bare back of the prostrate victim, as smiths are accustomed to hammer at an anvil. Sometimes bv the horrible fail-like knout, which cut a deep furrow at every stroke, till the back was nbbed and crossed from ton to bottom. Sometimes by the continual dropping of boiling water on the top of the head after it had been shaved. Sometimes by roasting the naked back of the accused over the fire, above which he was suspended horizontally by wooden spit.
 Hanging and decapitation were the most common methods of infiicting capital punishment, when their work had not already been done in the torture chamber: but suspension from hooks through the flesh, breaking alive on the wheel, and impalement on stakes, were by no means infrequent. Even private individuals enjoyed a large freedom to torture and kill their serfs and derend- ants, of which ample advantage vas taken ; and as late as the regency of Sophia, Peters half sister, a special edict vas required to deprive creditnrs of the right to make perpetual slaves of in- solvent debtors, and even to main and kill them at their pleasure.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
THE OLD SCISSORS soLILoouy.

The following beautiful poem, bright in Aumor and tender in sentiment. was written several years ago by A. w. Kelly tParmenas Nix i, and first published in the CssfEyy, then Sy,sssys Msge-iss. The brilliant author &ied last June. He sleeps in Green Lawn cemetery, Franklin, Ky.-ED. TRAVELLER. am lying at rest in the sanctum to night The place is deserted and still To my right lie exchanges and manuscripts
 white,
 To my Ieft are the ink and the quill Yes, the quill, for my masters old-fashioned
 and quaint,
 And refuses to write with pen: He insists that old Franklin, the editor saint, Used quill and he'll initiate Ben. tloye the old feilov-toge,her for years We have managed the Faymer's Gazette, And although am old, I'm his favorite shears And can crowd the compositors yet. But my duties are rather too heavy, think, And oftentimes envy the quill As ii iazily leans with i.s nib in the ink While I'm slashing away with will. But when was new-I remember il we'll Though score of long years have gone by The heaviest share oI the editing fell On the quill, and think with sigh Of the days when I'd scissoi an extract or
 two
 From neighboring editors leader, Then laugh in my sleeve at the quill as it flew In behalf Of the general reader. Tam being paid off for my mcrrimcni then For my master is vrinkled and gray, md seldom lays hold el his primitive pen Except when he wishes 10 say. We are needing some money to this
 machine
 Or, That last load of wood that Jones
 brought US was green,
 And so knotty !, couldn't | be split" He is nervous and deaf and is getting quite
 blind
 Though he hates 10 acknowledge the
 latter)
 And I'm sorry 10 say it's a puzzle 10 find Head or tail to the most of his matter. The compos!tors plague him whenever they The result of a luckless cndeavor. sas the darling old rascal jns. lays i, to me, And make no remonstrance whatever. Nes. I shoulder the blame-very little care For the jolly composior's jest. Fer think of a head with the si,yery haiE That will soon, very soon be d, rest He has iahored full long for the true and the
 good
 Mid the manifold troubles that irk us His only emolument raimcnt and fsod, And-a pass, now and then, to the circus. Heigho from the past comes memory
 brigh;
 Of lass with the freshness of clover Who used me to clip from her trcsses one
 night,
 A memorial lock for her lover That dear little lock is still glossy and brown But the last is much older and latter. And the youih-he's an editor here in the
 toHs-
 I'm employed on the staff of the latter am lying at rest in the sanetum 10 night The place IS deserted and still The stars are abroad and the moon IS in sight Through the trees on the brow of the hil . { Clouds hurry along in undignified haste And the wind rushes by with a vail Hello. there's d whopping big rat in the
 paste
 How I'd like 10 shut down on his tail
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
Lincoln as a Badger-Bzi,er.
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 An amusing incident in the unwritten history of Abraham Lincoln is told by the Hon. Ward H. Lamon, Of Denver.
 While the gentlemen were law partners in Illinois. and before Lincoln was thought of for president Of the United States, they happened to visit an agricul- tural fair in an inland town of Tennes- see. Lincoln was in high spirits, and seemed bent on fun. While casting about for such amusement as the exhibi- ion afforded Lincoln discovered an st- traction in the shape of a turned-down flour barrel containing badger.
 "Fifty dollars for a dog that will haul the badger out of the baIrelw shouted the red-faced man who owned the outfit. " Fifty dollars, say, to the dog that can haul out the badger. v
 There were few takers of the badger mans offer: but the luckless dog-owners who invested twenty-five cents in the ex- pertinent invariably lost, for the badgers teeth were sharp, and every dog that entered the stronghold came out in a jiffy.
 MT. Lincoln hit upon happy thought. Taking Ward to one side, they found a lank countryman with still tanker mastiff.
 "Wsnt to make fifty dollars with that dog ?" asked Lincoln.
 "Course do," responded Hayseed.
 The dog was bartered for, and as Lin- coin approached the badger-man, elbow ing his way through the crowd, he said !:
 I'll invest quarter at your game, sir" :"
 The badger operator looked at Lin- coln's hungry dog and smiled, as he took the silver quarter.
 Lincoln caught the dog and led 1t up to the barrel. Hastily grabbing the mastif, he threw 1t into the barrel t'other end first There was pause only of second, and then followed lively scrape.
 Hold on there." cried the manager. Fair play"
 But he was too late with his reaon- strance. Out sprang the badly frightened dog, with the badger sticking to his hindquarters. The crowd parted, and away went the dog and badger into the inner held of the race-track. The badger stuck like brother: teams ran away: women tainted, and the crowd roared.
 The countryman owning the dog was paralyzed, as was the badger-owner. who set up great howl, and was mad enough to fight.
 .' Produce your fifty dollars" said Lin- coin. to the badger-keeper
 :" Foul play. foul play,'' cried the chagrinned gamester, and I'll never pay it."
 Here is where Lamon came in service ably. Catching the badgers friend by the neck, he cried:
 Give up the fifty dollars or I'll wallop you.''
 Lannon's herculean proportions were too much of an argument, and the money was handed to Mir. Lincoln, who in turn gave it to the coun,yman.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
A Man Who Believes in His Paper

lkentucky State Journal.j Why, great goodness Barbor, are you alive ?"
 Of course l am, or wouldn't be here.n Why, thought you were dead and buried.'
 " All mistake, sir.''
 Well, you was dead, wasn't you ?" Not as know of,
 Well, by George, don't believe that |; tor my paper stated plainly that you were run over hy the cars and killed, and my paper tells the ruth.1
 That vas another Jim Barbor." Oh. Weil maybe that my be so. I'll inquire into the matter"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
SALT RhEuM And Every Species of Itching and Burning Diseases
 Positively Cured.

DtZEAiA. "r Sai Rheunl. with its aynnlxtu- itel,- H ing and burning. instantly relieved by a warm
 bath with Ct ristEA soar. and . single appli- caton of trric,E>. the great Skin Cure. This re- peSted daily. with two or three doses Of CUrIcrRA REsoLskNT. the New Blood Purifier. to keen the blood cool the precipitation pure ani unirritafinz the bowels open. the liver and kaneys active will speedily cure Eczema, Tetter. Ringworm. Psoriasis Lichen Pruriius. Scaled Head, Dxndrun and every species "f Itching Scsiy. and Pimp:y Humors oi the Scalp and Skin, when thc best physicians and all known remedies fail.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

GREENviLLE, CALIFORNIA Mi. Harry Williams certi6ss under his notayial seai. thaf Mn A. Williams was suffering with pains n the back, 90 severe she vas un- able to turn and was de2irious. When the case assumed an alarming stage, one application of St Jacobs Oil was made, externally. affer several remedies had been tried and failed The patient sleps soundly until morning and got up entirely cured.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
What a Mississippi Pi,o. Says.

Capt D. NJ. Riggs, who is well known at New Orleans and along the Mississippi river, says: "I have been suffering from dyspepsia for the past Eve years. and from broken rest, by severe pains in the bowels and kidneys. tried every medicine recommended for these diseases, without success. At last 1 used . bottle of Browns Iron Bitter4 which proved per let success in my case" It cures all live, kidney and malarial diseasex
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

g. you left town so suddenly without a word," with look of deep feeling, from her very pretty eyes
 q didn't suppose you cared" begin ing to weaken. "How bright her eyes are," to himself
 "You know care" " in grieved tone i; he is immensely Aattered, he feels as if he had not appreciated her.
 In moment Sara appears, equipped for a walk, she is not acquainted with Creston, and Jennie does not introduce them.
 "Where are you going2" she asks, ss she passes by.
 "To the beach, answers Sara, and goes on.
 "Who is that pretty gid9" asks Jim, "why didn't you introduce me?"
 "Do you mean SaraT says Jennie, in surprised tone, with look which says, "is it possible you call her pretty?" "l am glad you admire her, poor thing" ]" she adds, with a compassionate shrug.
 Why, what is the matter with herr" he asks, in wonder
 "Oh, she is not al all liked" says Jennie, glibly, with wholesale exagger- ation, she is so fearfully dowdy and sarcastic {; and then so frightfully bashful, it is really painful, sometimes, to see her before gentlemen that, you know, is not taking, so she receives little or no att tention. pity her, poor girl, and do what can to make it pleasant for her." with sigh, as though 1t is hard task al best. It would never do to have him go over to the enemy; she must nip this budding admiration.
 " It is like your good nature," he says with feeling akin to remorse, that he has thought so unkindly of her. But then she is very young, not more than sixteen, should judge, and perhaps she will ousgrow her defects"
 "She is twenty; two years older than l." says Jennie, with a slight frown. It gals her very much. that Sara is always taken for the younger, and she never misses an opportunity to tell her cousins age.
 Indeed, so olds' he replies Then he asks her to have drive, to which she gives glad consent. She is bring ing him around again, and every day the silken, subtle meshes, which bind him, are woven tighter, till she becomes neces- sary to him. And at the end of two weeks, Jim Creston leaves Manhattan Beach engaged to the girl, whom he left town to escape. While she, sure of her prey, stays on to firt with the other gentlemen.
 Six months after, Charlie Walters en- ters the club room, with an open paper in his hand. Listen to this, boys" and he reads
 "' MARRIED: At the residence of the brides grandfather, the Hon. William Althorpe, Mir. James Creston to Jennie Althorp. No cards
 "Poor fellow he tried hard enough to escape her clutches
 Great Scott. how he talked about that girl :"
 She married him quite out of hand, eh, boys!"
 Well, should smile, and though say it that shouldn't, she tried it on your humble servant couple of years ago."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27
RsS Tze .fykcnJasg Trsveiey.
 HE WAS THE MAN.
KY HOLLY aoCk.

Jennie Althrope is standing drumming impatiently on the parlor window of the hotel at Manhattan Beach; she is dis gusted by some remarks made by her cousin, Sara James, who is disposed to be somewhat sarcastic on Jennie, who gives her sly digs behind her back.
 Suddenly her face lights up, for her eyes suddenly encounter a young man whom she has "set her cap for," and whom, truth to tell, she has come here to see, for she has heard from a friend that he is at Manhattan. She raps on the window to him, he looks up and bows, rather distantly.
 By love- v exclaims the gentleman with him, Jennie Althrope, didn't know she was here, did you, Jim?"
 l confess, did not, just ran up to Manhattan to get away from her atten- lions, they were getting little too pro- aounced. People began 10 couple our names together" says Jim Creston, irri- tztedly.
 His companion laughs "Well. 1 ad- nit, she was rather sweet on you, but thought you liked it, old fellow"
 What could do? couldn't be rude to the girl"
 You took her around a good deal all the same" says Charlie Walters. !. "She almost asked me several times, s Jim's impatient rejoinder.
 Well, that's hard on you, but know you don't exaggerate, for have been subjected to some other very broad hints myself; anyway you'll admit she is a pleasant companion ?'
 "Oh, yes," assents Jim, then, after pause, she'll marry some fellow in spite sf himself, some day "-he little dreams he vill be the "fellow." @I must ac- knowledge don't admire these girls vho run after the men like to do the running myself, although l know there are plenty of men who do like it, and vouldn't notice girl who didn't take the Initiative; but that's all right, every one io his taste'"
 She is very pretty, don't yeu think so2" asks Charley. -
 1She would be but for her snub nose and rcd hair," says Jim, rather nestled hat Charlie is so persistent in talking of Aer.
 Just then Jennie appears outside, and calls to Mir. Cresson.
 sOh, Mir. Creston, l am SO delighted to see you" she gushes as he comes up. "I| Aad no idea you were here"
 He is 6attered by her manner, how much she thinks of me-" is his inward comment ."Are you?" aloud, ~I have heen here two weeks" in a rather defiant tpne.
 And you never told me you were eoming,s sAe returns, in rsproachful es1A e thoush she has night to how, l
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

lumbermen on the Wolf" and the story teller knocked the ashes out of his pipe and prepared to turn h, while the rest prepared to explore Rat river for ducks the next day, and perhaps go over the very falls where Saw Logs was iashed to the raf.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

VIII NeDonala, s,ss Dearborn St. Chlcaso gratefully acknowledges a sn.c of Sxlt Rhenm o, he.a neck face arms. and legs for seventeen years sne year: not able to help himself for eight years tried hundreds of remedies: doctors pronounced ns case hopeless. permanently cured by CrrrcraA kksoLsE>r tbiaod purifier Internally and e IT. ctRA snd CrTtcuRk soar lfhe great skin cures, externally
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

To preserve peaches whole. Keep a bull dog in the orchard. BOskos Bxlle- fin.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

Chas. mosEht0n. Eaa.. lawyer ss s,.,e sucrt, boston- reports of Sair Rheum "a nder his "h<erv vaton for ten years. which covered fine patient $ body and limbs. and which all krawn methods af treatment had been applied ithout ben eht. which was completely cured solely by she ,sf
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

Ar. Jehn rhael. WIlkesbarre, Pa writex-- have suffered from Salt Rheum for over efrht years at Hines so bad that coula not attend t my nusiness Tor weeks at lime Three boxes Of CtTi- ttkk. ana iour softies RE>oLvKNr. have entirely cured me of eas dreadful disease.
 Sold hy all druggists. Price: CcrIcrRA, 8 cents: hk~oLtkNr- eI-D: soAr. $ censs. POrrrR Dr4s AND CHEMICAL Co.,, Boston. AAss.
 Send fer " new e curs Skan Das~.... -,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

f. U. Drake Es4.. Detroit, Nich suffered natoi6 tortures rom salt Rheum which anrscsr.s ,'n his hands head and fare. and nearly destroyei ms eyes After Inc most careful doctoFfnx and . consultation of physicians failed To relieve him h.. used the e TietR Rs RENEDiEs. and VI as cured mi has remained 10 date.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

SOAP. An Exauisise ros,~. " Bath, and Nursery sausiive
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-27

friends in Oshkosh. It was a trying time. and when the raft pilot said they were only half n :le from the falls, and that ii was time to lash themselves to the raft. Saw Logs felt as though it was the last act of his life. The boys helped him lash himself to log, told him to stay there, whatever happened, and then they re- tired to the rear of the raft to lash them selves, they said, but really to have good laugh All was still, for half an hour, and the raft moved along like a snail, but every minute the man who was lashed to log. felt that the next moment the falls would be reached. But the falls were never reached, because there was none. Half an hour more passed, when the man began to look around from his position, flat on the log. He vas looking for the falls. Then he looked at the boys, who were jumping up and laughing, and then t dawned upon him that he had been sold. One of the boys came along to unlash him, and he asked what all this meant, and he was told that the falls had
 been passed in saSety, and not . man had been lost He vas united, and probably . madder man never lived. He began to talk sassy, bus the boys told him he must have fallen asleep and paced the flls in that condition, but he knev better. Well, the boys made 1t all right with the old mar, who was boy then, and he did not kiIi any of them, but it vas a long time oefuge he could think of Rat river falls without pain. Since thsn he has rot rich, and the boys who played t on him are nov some of the most successful
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-28
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE LABOR
QUESTION.

| We print to-day a communication
from a member of that class which is
even more deeply interested in the
question of cheap labor than the
| planter himself. 1t embodies a view
of this question highly unpalatable
to the employer. but which is enter
tanned here and everywhere else by
an overwhelmingly large majority of
mankind. We publish this commun-
ication as we received it Except for
some unimportant literary correc-
tions) having first ascertained that it
is the genuine production of labor
ing man who is seeking employment
here, but has not had a very lengthy
experience in the country. We COM
mend his outspoken expression of
opinion to the consideration of every
employer. We have heard much
lately of the employers side of the
question-here is the laborers' Some
where between them lies that truth
which can harmonic both interests.
From enquiry we learn that the
origin of the letter which a "White-
man" has sent us is the conviction he
has acquired that the planters do not
recognize the fair value of the willing
labor of a white man in comparison
with the cheap and inefficient work
of imported coolies. The white men
who are willing to work on planta-
tions find the cold shoulder given to
them, and mo one is ready to give
them Except for special worl1) more
than Chinaman receives, or to pro-
vide for them better accommodation
than the piggish quarters which a
Chinaman will put up with. Planters
have indeed not had very fortunate
experience of white labor in the
Norwegians and Germans who came
here under contracts. This is prob
ably why they fight shy of white
labor generally. In this we believe
they make mistake for their own
interests. Of this, however, nothing
but experience will probably con-
vince them, and we are sorry to
learn that there is universal indis-
position among them to make the
experiment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-28
THE CITY OF PARIS.

The letters which have been re-
ceived in town from passengers who
left here in Messrs. Hoffnung & Co.'s
City of Paris, represents the voyage
as having been a delightful one. The
steamer reached Singapore on the
18th August, after passage of %
days. There she remained IL days.
Our Honolulu friends on board, in
spite of all patriotic feeling, were
compelled to acknowledge that Singa-
pore was a delightful place to live in,
and that in house-construction and
modes of living and beauty of sur
roundings, Honolulu was long way
behind-hand. We have been per-
mitted to see letter from Mrs. AllaD
Herbert, who with her daughter,
made the voyage in this steamer. 1t
bears date 29th August, and was
mailed at Colombo in Ceylon, at
which port the steamer touched on
her homeward route. Up to that
time no bad weather had been en-
countered. At Singapore the passen-
gers were sumptuously entertained
by the Hawaiian Consul, Mr.. G. A.
Ranch. The excellent attendance at
dinner was felt by the ladies to be
pleasing contrast to that obtainable
from the average Honolulu China
men. "Twelve courses and five
walters for nine people," struck those
who are accustomed to the ordinary
Honolulu q'aenage as something ap-
preaching luxurious extravaganza.
Mr.. Ranch was very kind and atten-
tive to his unwonted visitors from
Hawaii. Unfortunately the Maha-
rajah of Johore was from home
otherwise the Hawaiian visitors
would have been made acquainted
with the hospitalities of an Asiatic
Prince.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-28
THE LABOR QUESTION.

The editor of the Daily HosOaii0n
Loan Act. All the money which it
provides for Immigration purposes
was spent during the biennial period
and future expenditure for this pur-
pose must evidently come out Of re-
venue, unless indeed that indefinite
item for encouragement of Agricul-
ture" can be utilized for the purpose.
If the planters want to push immi-
grafton of laborers they should pay
for them beforehand as planters do In
FIJI and Queensland instead of ION
deliYerY.u