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The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

A Chicago paper says that Bill Nye is not a success as a lecturer. It must be then, that MT. Nye fails to open his mouth when he arises before an audience, for everything he says is interesting. True genius has ever been at disadvan- tage when drawn up before the public.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

doan like de man whut passes me in de road widou, Speakin. be dog dat won, neider growl nur wag his tail ain | no a'rthly CT count
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

No CT mount O help from de neighbors will keep some .aea On das feet. Yss kain't fatten CT stump suckin' hoss.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30
REPUBLICS uNoRArEFuL.

A Man Who Knew that Fira, 9MtKeana. .. ;As pcl.ss Fesce Would he the Lowest Othes that Could
 be Offered him,
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

In de bus ness o' life, CT mar m as cider go up UT come down. Oar aint no stand still. De sun doan stay al twelve CT clock more den CT mint.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30
PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY.

No pu ,son is lazy case he doan van, money, but becase he doan wan, ter ~aTL
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

Eight men outen ten Is sorter 'cIined ter be hippercrits, not 90 much case da wants ter be, but case da thinks da, eberybody else is an da, da mus keep up wid de times.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-30

DAF's e good deal O hiPPercTitness bout de passon whui fuses ter eat es dove case fat btrd 6oan' de Ian' fur Noah Er dove ain't no better sAsishsd den whea, jes' behin' de patridges, he is e heppin' to pull up de young con. Ef had de dove whu, toan' de lan' woaldn' ca. him, but all de uddeT oGes mus look cas fur me.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10

simply hung down in clusters. In the win dow of the office they were to be seen in thick punches. Bicyclists were in several instances compelled to alight, so thick was the swarm; and at the auction mart, at the bottom of the town, the tray in which the money was taken was covered an inch thick.
 Politicians in England will have, it ap- pears, the temperance question to deal with, and if it proves annoying to them as it has to the politicians of this country they will wish it had never been heard of Pro- hibition leaders in England imagine the road to political power has been opened to them by the new Franchise bill There are. they claim, in the United Kingdom fully two mil lion adult total abstainers. Of these the great bulk are men who have just been en- franchised. Thus, one Good Templar lodge in the North of England, cited as an example, has more than one hundred members, and whereas under the old registry it only had five votes, under the Franchise bill it will have seventy. Political Prohibition organ izations are being formed wherever possible, and they will show their power at the coming elections. They have no especial regard, however, for the man who put this power within their grasp. Says the Grand Worthy Chief of the Good Templars: 'Most of us honor the Grand Old Man for his work and worth, but in his temperance views he is re- garded as a Grand Old Woman. His beer bill of 1880 only made matters worse, and his wine act of 1860 resulted in terrible in crease of intemperance :"
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
Ayub Khan.

London Globes Teheran Correspondence
 Now let us see what Ayub Khan says. Ayub Khan is still confined to his house. The special precautions taken to prevent his escape are half dozen policemen kept in his house, and picket of soldiers at the gate. Ayub says he has no wish whatever to escape. He never leaves his house, although he has permission to ride about wherever he likes, on condition of not passing the gates of the town He is at present in an almost contin- ual state of "keif"-in ordinary parlance, under the influence of alcoholic drink With the help of arrack, five or six women, some dancing boys, tomtoms, and tamborines, he kills his time. His puffed-up face, his dull, glassy eyes, his thick and heavy sensuous lips, show the demoralizing life he leads. Some of his followers see with dismay that he is fast becoming wreck. Ayub curious ly enough, speaks well of the English; he hates the Russians. He often says that if he were assisted he could hold Herat against the Russians better than anyone else. The inhabitants of western Afghanistan would receive him with open arms. He has strong party at Herat; the Turkomsns of the debata- ble grounds are, on account of relationship. his friends of the four Ainaks, only part of the Jamshidis, whose chief fell by the hands 0f Ayub, are against him. The HeS= arsbs are also in his favor. He attaches no importance to the country along the Heri= Rud as far south as Zblfltar; but, strongly iii favor of the "buffer" policy, he thinks that this pass should be held by ths Afghahs, Akrebat Clemin-i=Beed and all Panjdeh, from the junction of the Kashk and MHrg hab rivers upward, should certainly not De given up to Russia He, too, calls these places the gates of Herat Has he been stuaying Mr Maryina
 Ayub is convinced that the Russians will soon go further south, that the Amir will and can do nothing to arrest their advance, and that Herat will necessarily fall into Russian hands in very short time hence. The Amir and his people are not at all liked in western Afghanistan. Afghans say openly that the Amir is a Russian pensioner and that he intends selling Herat to the Russians. The different tribes in western Afghanistan are at present not united, and would, even if they resisted, fall an easy prey to Russia under Ayub, though, they would unite and fight like one man. The Afghans know that England has no idea of annexing Afghanis- tan. Russia, however, wants to conquer and annex. In conclusion Ayub thinks he would make very fair "Prince of Herat." On the day of his arrest Ayub was taken to the cita- del; in the evening of the same day orders were given that he was to be removed to some small and isolated house. He was. however, removed to the house he previously occupied. If it be remembered that Ayub's house is situated in a street three
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
Try and See. : All Gloves :?
 Yes, All!

All our facbric Gloves are marked down. We have a few too many. We bought too many fine gloves, and we now must sell them by making them the same price as cheap gloves, which are not worth half as much. To simplify matters we make of our gloves but four lots. 1st, all our finest gloves, fine silk and all lengths, black and colors, which were $I.oo, $1.25 and upwards, are made 75c. 2d, all gloves not in the first lot Goo, 75c and upwards, are put in at SOC. sd and 4th, all our other gloves, ranging from soc to Goo, are divided in- to two lots at 25c and soc.
 Nothing is kept out. Better pay us 25c, 38c, soc or 75c, and get gloves worth having, than to pay the same price for cheap grades.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
sDecadentism,s in Paris.

lrEOhi IilS LOHuOH
 A new word, s'decadentism" has been added to the French vocabulary. It signi- fes kind of fashionable pessimism, with literary or an artistic gloss. In short, it is to the Caroism of the salons what the north pole is to the south. Caro is the Academi- elan whose lectures at the Sorbonne have been followed for some winters by the most cultivated femmes du monde and the least fast cocodettes. He sets up to give them a reason for at least believing in god of some sort. His deism does not really come to more than this; and give faithful, if per haps slightly free translation of 8 saying that fell from his lips in his lecture room. The atmosphere when he teaches is heavy with the scent of ilang-ilang. Caro-, to speak in figure, has undertaken to down Schopenhauer for his fair disciples in crys- tai vase with rose water. He is formed by nature to speak smooth things, and yet he manages in his Aux of words and highly fin ished periods to make strong points. No Frenchman in out the pulpit has such a following of rich and distinguished women to all of whom he is philosophical director, who supplements their spiritual one. He breaches dainty sort of self f-abnegation or Lady Bountifulism the remedy for Scho- peahauer, who teaches that life is purpose less nightmare. The decadent is pessimist of elegant tastes and large income. His pessimism, 1 fancy, has it's origin in luxur1- ous dejeuners and diners de trente-six plats. The heaven seems to him hung in black, and he is too inert to bestir himself against the ills from which he suffers; everything is a bore. The sight of real gayety exasperates him. He goes to morphine parties, where he can slowly and certainly obtain his quietus with the aid of the syringe Pravaz, with which the drug is injected into the blood. Then be gets into the semi-lethean condition. The deeadent has no strong objection to any thing in life except living. When he takes to morphine he knows he must keep on with it to the end. There's no use ill trying to pull himself up. The need for it as he goes on grows more imperative, and the relish for the sort of enjoyment produced is keener.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.


 It is estimated that the Grant obsequies placed in New York purses the sum of $12,- 100000.
 There was good management in New York Saturday. General Hancock, his helpers and the police deserve great deal of credit.
 Oscar Wilde is father, and is said to be happy one. A good lively baby will knock some of the aesthetic nonsense out of Oscar. region were wishing for winter. Such days as yesterday, however, have 8 tendency to reconcile them to their summer lot.
 The Texas authorities hold thirty million of leasing at six cents per acre; yet the cat tlemen of the Indian territory told the Presi- dent the other day that Texas was already fully stocked with cattle. They don't want Texas lands at six cents an acre if they can get Indian lands for two cents.
 were astonished the other day by shower of bloody rain. It was subsequently, ascer- tained that windstorm just before the rain had caught up large amount of red dye stuff at factory in the neighboriRg village of Ka1tenbrum, and the dye, mingling with the rain, transformed the drops of water into apparent drops of blood. This occurrence would have passed for miracle once.
 A Georgia representative who doesn't think bachelors are very worthy members of society has invented a scheme which he hopes will make single life more burdensome to them. He has introduced a bill providing that all bachelors over thirty years of age shall be taxed to tts amount of $2. 50 per an mum, the proceeds to be appropriated to the education of the fatherless children in the place where each unhappy bachelor resides. The bachelors of Georgia can well afford to pay this extra tax, and they will probably not grumble if they are let off as eheaply as this.
 The plant known as sesame bids fair to bs- come formidable rival of the olive. It is largely grown in India and China. It is an annual, maturing in three months from the time of planting, and two crops are grown eaeh year, The seeds are very small, ten Of them weighing only grain, They contain fifty per cent. of oil by weight, while the fruit of the olive has but thirty per cent The imports of sesame seed into France amount to seventy thousand or eighty thou sand tons per annum. The oil is much used to adulterate olive oil, which it closely re- sembles.
 The village of Emsworth, England, has been visited by remarkable plague of flies, which simultaneously covered an area Of one mile At some pIaces it was impossible to move without closing the eyes and mouth. Around every lamp in town the spectacle was most curious. Attracted by the light, thick swarms abounded, and their buzz re- sembled that of hive of bees. At the post office, where the upper portion of the door is open for ventilation and where necessarily the light is kept burning till the early morn ing, the insects covered the sorting boards, letters and bags, and had to be continually swept off with brushes. At one lamp they
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
Drly Gunds.
Everything?
 YES, EVERYTHING !!

Reduced prices until stock taking on every piece of Dress Goods, Silk Goods and Black Goods in our store. We have made a general markdown, not of special styles or lots, but a markdown that covers every thing. Do you want Albatros or Cashmere, or Nuns Yelling, or Plaids, or Checks, or Stripes, or Plain Goods, black or col ored ? Do you want Silks, Velvets, Satins, Rhadames, Ot- tomans or Moires, Summer Silks, Lousines, Checks or Stripes. Everything is marked down, and you can buy of us goods that are reliable and hon. est and that come up to repre- sentation, and that were cheap enough before. These you can buy now still cheaper. We can not quote prices because, as was said, everything is reduced, but we can quote at the counter cheaper prices than you can find for the same goods.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
Monday, August 10, 1885.
FREE TRADE IN LAND.

The English are great believers in free trade-that is free trade for themselves and much hampered trade for othecs. But some Englishmen have not free trade enough, and they have raised a cry which will probably prove troublesome to some other English men. This is ''Free trade in 1and!" which is now vigorously advocated by MT. Chamber lain and others.
 There is undoubtedly need of free trade in land in England, if the prosperity of the country is to be maintained. A step toward it was taken by the Settled Land act of 1882, the object of which was to confer on 'slimited owners as large and effectual powers of using the land to the best advantage as are compatible with settlements existing at all By that act tenant for life has powers for selling and leasing, and other powers of ad- ministration, without any special provision in the settlement, and, subject to certain safeguards intended to prevent abuse and not burdensome, he may exercise them at his own discretion. He cannot, however, sell principal mansion or heirlooms with out leave of the court. His powers cannot be released or bargained away, and no dis position purporting to abrogate or restrain them is valid. The purchase money of land sold under the act may be spent, among oth- CT purposes, in the discharge of membranes or improvements of several specified kinds. Expenditure on improvements is subject to the control of either the land com missioners the court. No power is given to raise money from the land by mort gage, as distinct from sale, in order to exc cute improvements on it, but this can be done under the act of 1864. The settled land act, while permitting sale, contains am pie provisions for the protection of remain der interests. The beneficial title to the set its value, or the increased value given to one part of the land with money obtained by selling another part, remains as before. The tenant for life cannot enlarge his own interest, but he can decide whether those who come after him shall inherit fewer acres, with improvements, or more without i'm provements, or he can even transmit the in terest ill pecuniary form.
 A number of estates have been sold under this act and probably more will be. But it is not sufficient for the wants and needs of the people. If those who would buy small tracts of land if they could are to be encour- aged the transfer of land must be made easy, safe and cheap. And it would be good thing for England if there could be radical change in this direction in her land laws.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
GRATEFUL-CoMFOR EPPS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.

By thorough knowledge of the natural laws
 6p M H tae if e se aen ties of welEselected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with delicatey favored bev- craze which may save us many heavy doctors bills. It is the udicous of such articles of diet that enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun dreds of subtle malades are floating aroundGs ready to attack wherever there is aweak point. We may escape many fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and properly nourished frame. ."-Civil Service Gazette
 Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half pound tins by Grocers labeled thus:
 JAMES EPPS O., Homeopathic Chemists,
 se22tuest3wed1v London, England.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
SAM JONESISMS.
odd Remarks of the Sensational South.
 EVanUeIist.

odd Remarks of the Sensational South
 ern Evangelist.
 I have got religion all over-not the kind that makes me holler in a meetin; niggers have that, and all the chickens they raise are half grown.
 There are lots of odd fellows who would in cannon. They often stick their pockets full of these things, but I'm glad God emp ties them.
 God pity the man who has to go to a big camp-meeting to be happy. He is like a woman who buys a $15, 1000 set of diamonds and a silk dress or other fnery and tries to be happy. That's nothing. It's not the miles you have ridden in sleeping ear, but how far you have walked among the suffer ing.
 Bless you, the best licks you ever put in are the licks on your knees. It's like the engine that can go forty miles an hour, but stops to be oiled, and takes on wood and water. It loses eight minutes, but there it gets up power enough to go sixty miles an hour, and if it hadn't stopped it would have stalled on the next grade. You don't lose any time stopping at God Almighty's wood and water stations.
 You take cake and promise to consecrate it to God. You hold it up and it looks big and fine, but you have got the knife up your sleeve all the while. You promise again to give it all to him, . and then you turn round and cut God off slice, a brown piece of the cover. That ain't consecration. Consecra- tion is when man puts the cake on the table, sticks the knife in it and tells God to help himself to all. You have put cake on the table, sister, but you have never turned the knife loose. That's business. You look like you never did any wrong and never in tend to- If had few hundred wings believe I could sell them out right now. Sister, would you take wing! It will take more than wings to get large majority of you to heaven. You have been singing ''Come, Angel, Bear Me-" and if some of us ever do get there angels will have to take the job. That's no way to do. Where good man dies his head and shoulders are already in glory, and his soul gets there before an angel can fly.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10

yards wide, and then on the other three sides the roof of his house touches the roofs of the surrounding houses, it will be found that Ayub could easily communicate with the outside world if he wished to do SO. The strong guard of four companies of infantry mentioned by the Times of the 25th of May is myth; as I said before, the guard con sists of few policemen and picket of sol diers with rusty guns.
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And ParasO1s.

We don't know what will sell Parasols if these reductions don't.
 Fancy Cream Satin Parasols reduced from $5 to $2.5o, Black Lace Covered $8. 50 to $5, Changeable Silk $7.5o to $3. 50, Carriage Parasols $3 and $2.25 to $I.5o, Carriage Para sols $I.85, $1.75 and $1.7o to $I.
 And Laces, Hamburgs and Rufflings.
 Look out for bargains this week. They will be here.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10

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Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10
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The Oldest Daily Paper Publish ed
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RIP VAN TWINKLE,
A Case Without a Parallel.

In that horrible railroad disaster at Ashtabu1a. Ohio, which everyone remembers, Mrs F. M. Coul- ter was hurled through the bridge 70 feet in the river of ice. Her friend and Messrs Moody and Sankey's associate the sweet singer P. P. Bliss, was killed and she so badly injured and her nervous system so shocked that chronic hysteria followed She was sent to private asylum, where, after long treatment, she was pronounced lncurable. Four years ago a friend sent her a bottle of Dr. Flowers Nerve Pills The effect like magic F bottles taken, and Mrs. Coulter thor oughly cured.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-10

Price $100 per bottle, bottles for S5 Sold by C. S Leete & Co, 297 to 3os State stree jy28