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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15
How the Bodouins conquer Thirst.

In an article on "The Rescue of Chinese
Gordon in the Century, General II. Z. Coils
ton, late Of the Egyptian general staff, says
an the 'waterless land, water is the para
mount question. If it be asked how large
body Of Bedouius like the $1,000 who nearly
destroyed the British squares at Tamai, man
age to subsist, the reason is plain. In the
first place, they do not need the enormous
trains required for European army. They
are the most abstemious of men. Each man
carries a skin of water and a small bag of
grain, procured by purchase or barter from
caravans. Their camels and goats move with
them, supplying them with milk and meat,
and subsIsting upon the scanty heritage and
the foliage Of the thorny mimosa, growing in
secluded wadies. These people could live
upon the increase of their Aocks alone, which
they exchange readily for other commodities;
but being the exclusive carriers and guides
for all the travel and commerce that cross
their deserts, they realize yearly large amounts
Of money. As to water, they know every nook
and hollow in the mountains, away from the
trails, where few barrels of water collect in
some shaded ravine, and they can scatter every
man for himself, to Gil their water skins On
my first expedition, near the close of the three
years drought, l reached some wells on
tirely dry. 1t was several days to the next
wells. But my BedOuin guides knew some
natural reservoirs in the hills about six miles
off. So they took the water camels at night
fall and came before daylight with the water
skins filled. An invading army would find it
hard to obtain guide, and even if they did,
they must keep together, and could not leave
the line of march to look for water. Besides, the
Bedouins, accustomed from infancy to regard
water as most precious and rare, use it with
wonderful economy. Neither men nor ami
mails drink more than once in fOrty-cight hours.
As to washing, they never indulge in such
wasteiul nonsense When Bedouius camo to
my camp water was always offered them.
Their answer would frequently he, "NO,
thanks; l drank yesterday" They knew too
well the importance of keeping up the habit
Of abstemiousness. No wonder they can sub
sist where invaders would quickly perish
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15

Mrs. O'Leary's cows heels passed into his
tory as the cause of the great Chicago fire,
thereby attaining fame second only to that
Of the wretch who fired that Ephesian dome,
or Nero. who burned Rome so that he could
fiddle by a warm fire. The innocent destruc-
ton occasioned by animals seeking food or
coming in contact with iufammable substances
Carelessly left in their way is much more fire.
quent' than would be expected. In 1856 the
FIRE in the Sultan's Palace at Scutari, Asia Mi
nor, was caused by some rats gnawing phos-
phorus, winch they discovered under floor
Matches are frequently dipped in paraifin wax
OF which rats and mice are very fond, and fire.
quently carry matches to their holes for the
purpose of gnawing of wax, and coniagra-
tion ensues, Lieutenant Gilmore, Of the navy,
records an instance where the ship Rer@ge
was fired by rats nibbling at matches, aud
one Of the presents sent to the Museum Of the
United States Institution was a rats nest and
young. The nest was set on FIRE by lucifer
match, ignited by the old rat that she worked
into her nest.
Cats and dogs have inadvertently and unin-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15

knitted or crocheted, may be made to
look as well as new if they are carefully
rubbed in flour Cover them with flour
and rub gently if washing until the flour
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15

march.
Russia makes annually l26,O00OOO birch
and lockwood SPOONS far the Gantral Asia
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15

ssPaPer, Pens Ink D-Fseioris. aad Information on
CIR. AUCKLAND.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15
GcnrraI Embellishments.

DENJ. F. STEVENS, Pms. jos. NJ. GmUESs, SIC Y.
GEg. W. THONrsoN. SUIT. OF AGENCIES.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-15

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The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
That Book Agent and the Treat
Use on the Horse.
of the Democrat

Correspondence of the Democrat
At the request Of several parties,
will give the substance Of the con
versation between Mr.. Jones, the
book agent and Mr. W. M. Mullins,
last fall Mr.. Jones came into the
field where Mr.. Mullins and myself
were gathering corn. He said he
was taking orders for A Treatise on
the Horse and his Diseases. He
wanted Mr.. Mullins order for the
book. Mr.. Mullins told him fatty
that he was not able to take the book
and would not subscribe forit. Mr..
Jones told him the book was worth
SO but he might have it for 81 and
have until he came again to get the
money. Mr.. Mullins declined to &C
cept his proposition and then Jones
said he would like his name Just to
influence others in the neighborhood
to order. Mr. Mullins refused to
sign his name but Jones said he
would sign it for him, and asked him
to touch the pen, saying it would not
bind him TO take the book. The
agent was particular to say that he
did not expect Mr.. Mullins to take
the book, and his name was wanted
simply to influence others to take
the book. Imagine Mr.. Mullins
surprise when another agent came
around in January with an order for
m of Il .o
signed to it. Now, what would you
call this2 Forgery, cheating, swind-
ling or what2 will just say TO all,
never sign your name to anything
just to encourage others. Always
take some COED paper and encourage
others to do SO.
JouN L. GUEST
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
letters from The People
Belts Chapel, Ark.

|
Correspondence Of the Democrat.
/ see in recent copy OF the DEM
ocRAT, an article from Bells Chapel
written by S. c. Robinson and w. j.
Petray. Now brother Robinson, you
say that was unfair and unjust and
that the body has passed resolu-
ton condemning the course that !
took. Now you say that it was for
not paying dues. Now | asked a
good brother the other day if he had
paid up dues, no, he said, nor he
hasn't for nearly FIVE months. How
about that, OH, he was ticket man,
you bet. Now they say that | init
mated that was turned out for not
voting the ticket. | did and | he
llcve it, What Misrepresentation
as they say. What was the resolu
ton of Prairie Grove lodge, "turn
them out" What does your organ
say. purge your lodges, Top off use
less branches" Now your constitu-
tion f0rbids any but moral men, what
about that. Now brother Robinson
you say that there was no i'll will to-
ward any. What misreprescnta
ton OF facts, for you know that there
was, aud is yet. Now brethren, ]
hope that you wont assert such
things any more.
Now brother Robinson, l have
been informed that you didn't want
to sign that reply to my first, now If
this be so | presume that you did
not write it, and | would not signed
it. Now / told yon in my disres.
pectiul letter as you call it, that if
YOU would take the constitution and
go by it that would come back.
Now boys, it is nothing but politi-
cal hinge. and why not dispense
with it until the next election, you
can save thirty cents. Now boys do
that, they will take YOU in then for
nickle and be glad to get you.
This closes the controversy so far
as am concerned.
p. w. AUSTIN.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

COMMENTING in opposition to all
Bankrupt and Exemption laws, a Mr..
p. II. Prince in recent number OF
the Arkansas Methodist, remarks 50
much in truth and to the point, that
we take great pleasure in reproduc-
ing and calling special attention to
what he says:
All bankrupt laws and exemption
laws protect the dishonest man and
Cypress the honest. An unjust ex-
emption law, in an Objectionable
shape was legacy left us by recon
struction. and us soon as the demo
Gratis got hold of the state our legIs.
lators have tried to out do the scar
pet Dagger" in sustaining the unjust
exemption. The exemption laws OF
our state make nineteen men out OF
twenty paupers in strict sense be-
fore the law No people can live
and raise their children honorably
with such '.brand" upon them.
The greater mass of the people are
honest if you will leave them to pur-
sue the proper laws of the great GOO
of Nature.
Honest, industrious men will pay
their debts, if they could only get
what is due them. One dishonest
man schedules and exempts his prop
ersy, and forces ten more honest men
to have to do the same, as one debt
paid often pays ten, for ten other
parties. Laws should be made to
protect honest people, and to stimu-
late bad people to do better. The
general tendency OF legislation in the
United States Tor some time before
the war, and especially since, has
been on the extreme. The time was,
at least, In some of the states to i'm
prison mon for an ordinary debt II
they did not pay. This was one ex-
IRENE, and now another extreme is
in exempting from debt, more than
nineteen out of twenty have. The
reason of this: 1t is cheap and easy
for demagogues TO deceive the more
ignorant masses into believing this
kind of legislation is for Sheir bene-
fit. All monied men can easily evade
the laws and exemptions and usury,
and after all the burden falls on the
poor, which is the benefit that this
class reap from such legislation.
Let our Legislators, both state and
national, see that no bankrupt law is
made, adjust and reduce the taxes,
and repeal or modify and reduce all
laws on usury and exemption, and
leave man with the laws of God to
govern him, adjourn and go home,
and we will be happy people.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

Mr.. JONES of Jackson county in
troduced bill IN the Legislature last
Wednesday which declares that .sthe
amount written in Insurance poll
cies upon real estate property build
ings, should be taken eonclusively
as the value thereof when insured,
and the true amount Of loss when
destroyed" We hope TO see this
bill become law. 1t is exact jus
tlce to make the insurance compa-
nies pay the full amount for which
they have accepted premium, other
Wise they practice a swlndle upon
the people. II they admit an insur-
ance of two thousand dollars, and
collect premium upon the same, In
case of loss, they should be made to
paw the two thousand dollars. The
law should not allow the swinding
process of collecting a premium on
a certain amount which in case of
loss it is possible to settle for sum
80 per cent. less perhaps. The terms
of an insurance contract ought to be
strictly stated and strictly enforced,
and the amount of premium charged
and retained should always be con
sidered the measure of an insurance
company's responsibility. A man
pays per cent. premium on his
property insured for $1,000, which
amounts to $40, and his property is
destroyed. Isn't it an unfair propo-
sition that would allow his contract
to be met by the payment of 5000.
In this case the insurance company
would have collected 4 per cent. in
stead of 2. The law ought not to
permit any such injustice. The
question of man overvaluei1g his
premises ought to have nothing
to do with it, for the company's
agent is on the ground and is SUP
posed to know what he is doing IN
making this contract the same as
other men.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

A MAN is more apt to become a
thief when an opportunity is offered
than when it is not. So, also, man
is more apt to pay a debt when con-
tracted under knowledge that there
is no way of legal escape than when
the law presents him with an oppor-
tunity. A debt paying people is
the glory of any state because they
illustrate the best type of human
character. An honest man is SAID
to be the noblest work of God. The
state should insist in making her
citizenship honest. This she can do
by the nature of the laws she enacts.
These should be severely scrutinized,
and, if any of them are wanting in
the qualities to call the people to a
higher idea Of constant honesty If
ny of them stand in their way to in :
vite them TO looser practice in
their intercourse with men, they
should be ferretcd out and outIawed
wherever found, either in the consti-
tuition or on the statute books. 1t
has come to be seriously doubted if
bankrupt and exemption laws are of
any advantage. One thing the
world knows, and that Is, every ras-
cal who can, takes the advantage of
a bankrupt law, and as between a
rascal and high toned man the ras-
cal will take refuge under the ex-
emption law ten times to where an
hottest one will once. In fact honest
men have very little use for such.
They Will pay their debts any way
while such laws prevent them from
collecting what is due them. The
mortgage law SO much complained
of and maledicted is the counter
part of the homestead. Why wouldn't
it be a good idea for the Legislature
to submit an amendment to the peo-
pie either to abolish the exemp-
zion or cut it down to a low figure?
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

THE tension is OIL the public mind
in regard to the election OF senator,
but no one knows from the lay of
things how soon the tension will be
turned on again, in which event
lock out for Coy. James II. Berry.
The magnanim.ty of his voluntary
Withdrawal from race in which his
prospects were as good as others,
has advanced public appreciation of
the man by many degrees.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

AT this writing January 30th, the
Illinois legislature has been in SEES
sion twenty days, and the lower
house has not yet effected perma-
nent organization. There are II
democrats in the house and rs re-
publicans. One democrat is sick
and the democrats will not organize
so it is claimed until he can be pres
ent to give them the organization.
In this they think lie their chances
to obtain the United States senator
ship.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

RELIGIOUS services in saloon is one
of the strange things in the capitol
citr. DR.. A. X. Winfield held his
second sunday service IN Chappy
Huston's saloon last sunday, and we
are told preached to large crowds.
Very few men could accommodate
themselves to such circumstances,
but DIR. W.. lis the man to meet any
case or set OF circumstances He is
The best impromptu orator in the
state.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
Omen Oklahoma,

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 22.-In the
senate today the house resolution
relating to the Oklahoma lands was
passed after being so amended as to
favor the opening for the settlement
of all lands IN the territory not occu-
pied by Indian tribes,
Let Arkansas join Kansas in a
united demand upon Congress to
throw this Oklahoma country open
to the settlement and take away the
Chinese wall on our western border,
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

We hear good deal OF racket
about what Pope county will do and
how she will vote in the next cleo.
tion on the liquor question, the i'm
preston being given out that she
will vote for license. Of course the
liquor interests taking advantage of
what it thinks favorable conditions
seek to control public opinion to
Its liking. But Pope county has too
much experience of the right sort.
After getting used to short courts
aud the absence OF murders by drunk
men, trltiing expenses and low taxes
which all know can be traced to the
absence OF liquor, she will never
again invoke this power of deviism
in her midst to stir up strife and
start the flow Of blood and fill our
Jail and calaboose and crowd our
court dockets, rum homes, and raise
our rate of taxes. Never, never!
Let us stand firm.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
fulness To the people broadcned and
deepened. He will prove senator
in all that the name Implies.
The man who looks with his eve

The man who looks with his eyes.
hears with his ears and thinks with
his brain, who listers rather than
talks, and 10 public life studies pub
lie men and by them public ques
lions, whose radius is not limited by
one style of thought or one Ehase,
but who looks over the whole field
and takes cognizance of all the fore
es, is the man Of all others to master
the situation. President elect Cleve-
land covers the ground. First in
consultation with Randall, then Car
isle, then Bayard, then Garland and
various other memb ers OF his party !,
perfectly obllvious to all the divis-
ions in democratic thought or if not
ohlivious, independent of them, and
intent only upon the possession Of a
thorough knowledge of the situation
in order to lay the foundations of a
broad, liberal administration, which
should recognize all casts Of demo-
cratic thought and all interests of
this broad land.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

North Carolina, present Chairman
or the House Committee on PatentsS
is mentioned as the probable success
scr of Mr., Butterwofth as Commits
sioner OF Patents. He is thorough
~ fitted for the position, and his APP
pointment to the Office would be
hailed with gladness by all interest
ed in patents. The Patent Office, at
this juncture needs just such live,
vigorous person at its head as Mr..
Vance is. 5. b.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05


Hon. j. X. Jones was elected
United States Senator on last Satur-
day. He was elected on the 30th bal
lot by majority of 90 over Col
Dunn, Gov. Berry having withdrawn
from the race. On this ballot Breck
inridge recelyed 3 votes, Embry in
the senate, and Scott and Tobey in
the house. The contest was a long
and earnest one and when governor
Berry Withdrew he had 81 votes who
proposed to stay with him. If dis.
posed the governor could have kept
up tne fight indefinitely, for his
friends were with him to stay. lie
showed the greatest patriotism in
Withdrawing, feeling it his duty to
take the step to break the dead lock
and permit an election to take place.
Speaking Of Col. Jones the Gazette
says:
BY the action of their representa-
tiyes they have shown not only that
they know him, but know him so
we'll as to demand his elevation to
the highest legislative tribunal in
the world. A gallant soldier during
the late war; a conspicuous member
of the general assembly and presi
dent OF the senate few years after
wards; a representative TO congress
for two terms and elected FOR third
term, his career so iamlliarized the
people with his record and his char
acter as a public man as well as pr
vate citizen, as to single him out for
higher honors. That career illus
trates the force and reward of ablli
", integrity, maniness, devotion to
the public interests and fidelity to
friends. Here is man, still In the
prime OF physical manhood, to whom
have fallen honors received by few.
And il is a mos gratifying reflection
that never were honors more worth
lily bestowed. AS senator Col. Jones
influence will be extended, his use-
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

Mr.. Jno. z. Lowry, who used to
know SO well how to shove quill
down at Hope, and later on managed
SO ably the Arkansas Methodist, and
still later on had the charge of an
important mercantile establishment
IN Little Rock, has now established
himself as Merchandise Broker at
Little Rock, and Of course will be
glad to shove his quill In purchases
for friends who may need anything
in the cities. A truer or cleverer
man does not breathe.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

ALL men of thought and foresight,
agree that the cause of Ireland is set
back by the nefarious methods of
the dynamiters. Dynamite may be
a powerful explosive, but is poor
article of persuasion. Poor Ireland,
poor indeed, when those who claim
to be her friends resort to such con
temptible and internal methods as
dynamite.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
"Reminiscences of a Memorable
Event.

The pleasure seekers who are
flocking to New Orleans to the great
Exposition, make it point to invest
in the World renowned Louisiana
State Lottery, and examine the in
tegrity and correctness of the distrl-
button under Generals G. I. Beaure-
gard, of La, and Jubal A. Early Of
Va. The next (l77th) Grand
Monthly drawing will occur at noon,
Feb 10th, or which, M. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans, La. will give any in
formation.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05

The following paragraph from the
last message Of Gov. Berry in regard
to keeping the conyicts inside the
penitentiary wall, viii be OF special
interest to the people Of this county
and we call upon our representatives
in the Legislature to use their utmost
powers to carry this recommendation
OF Gov. Berry out in full.
Under present contract of allowing
the convicts to be worked outside
the prison walls of the penitentiary,
they have been distributed at vari-
Gus points in the state, principally
in the counties OF Pope, Conway,
Johnson Jefferson and Phillips.
While / am confident that the par
ties now in charge, who have sue
ceeded To the rights by contract Of
the original lessees, have done all in
their power to have the rules pre-
scribed by the board of commission
ers complied with, and to have the
prisoners humanely treated, yet it
has been impossible for the board Of
commissioners or the lessees them
selves to give that supervision ami
attention to the treatment of the
convIcts that their unfortunate con
dition requires. / firmly believe
that the system of working convicts
outside the walls of the penitentiary
is uncivilized, inhuman and wrong,
and that the evils inflicted upon the
state by this system, aic IN no way
compensated by the additional remu
neration it produces. The ohjec
lions to it are many. Where so
many different parties are in charge
some will prove brutal. The I'm
possibility of the board overlooking
them at points remote; the danger
to the health of the convict who is
brought from the northern portion
of the state and placed III the cot
ton field in the heat Of summer; the
increased facilities for escape; the
strong temptation to the lessees to
hire those who have means or veal
thy relatives to their immediate
friends, thereby enabling them to
escape the penalty OF crime, making
the law a farce and bringing re-
preach upon the name Of justice; the
strong opposition OF the people of
every locality to having them plac-
ed in their midst, which is liable at
any time to produce riot and blood
shed the tendency to degrade hon
est labor and the demoralizing lnfu-
ence upon the young men coming in
contact with, and compelled to labor
in close proximity to convicts guard
ed with guns and dogs and some
times secured with chains; all Of
these facts appeal strongly to our
sense Of right and justice, ard should
in my judgment, force us to abandon
a system which has nothing to rec
omend it but its supposed economy,
and adopt one more in accord with
the dictates Of humanity.
Ii it be possible for the general
assembly, with the consent of the
lessees, to make new. contract, by
which the money arising from the
lease can be applied to the building
of machinery, such as will enable
the contractors to employ the con-
victs inside of the walls, l believe
the best interest of the state de
mands that it be done.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
SOME schemers are besettin

N'O7HE SSHcIIOf' ssrS DNoN''''S ~
gress with proposition to lease
the Hot Springs for thirty years.
Wouldn't lot of monopolists and
swindlers be In the hey.dey of their
glory If they could compass job
like this which would enable them
to squeeze millions out of the afllict-
ed all over the land who constantly
resort thlther in search of relief and
health. The last thing congress
should do, would be to let such
hands get hold OF that health resort
for any consideration whatever.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-05
aLApY compositors' are getting

"LADY compositors" are getting to
be very fashionable. Several OF our
exchanges employ them, and the
Ozark Democrat announces that two
charming young ladies are learning
''the art preservatiye OF all arts" IN
that office. OF course lady COM
positor or two, can do much to en-
liven the tedium of newspaper Of
fee, but we do not see how an editor
does himself justice in the unfath-
omable emergency of local poetry
epidemic, when ladies are around.
Perhaps he goes up on the roof and
talks into the aperture of the stove
fine.