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The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18

Connections made at Fort Smith with Stages
for all points in the Indian Territory; a. an
Buren, with the st. Louis 4 San Francisco
Railway to all points Forth and northwest; ~
RusselIville with the Dardanelle and kusseii-
willie Railway for Dardanelle. ut Argenta Win
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway for all points north and all points fn
Texas; also at Argenta with the Memphis ana
Little Rock railroad for Memphis tnd points
east. At Little Rock the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railway connects with the Little ROCK
Mississippi River and Texas Railroad, forming
the "Arkansas Valley Ronte,' the only line
between the Mississippi River At Arkansas
City aud the Great Northwest. Connections
made at Pine Bluff with the Texas ana 81
Louis Railway for all points In northeaster ana
southwestern Arkansas, and points In Kexss;
at Arksnsas City with all steamboats, on the
Mississippi River for New Orleans, VicksPurg,
Memphis, st. Louis, Cairo. Louisville, ana
Cincinnati. This is the short line betwcen
Little sRock and all points south. east ana
northwest
For nformatio as to rates on freight and
passengers, address - wO0DsoN'
Toe Little Rock and Fort Smith Ry., has for
sale II 600 acres OF the most productive land
in the world. Large quantities Of the best
cotton lands for sale in the lower Arkansas
/, Valley. All kinds OF hard and soft timber Is
| foundi in abundance in the country traversed
! by this Line. For Information IS to land and
| Immigration. address TIM. GIBSON,
Land Commissioner.
! NOTICE TO PASSENGERS:
| On and after Sunday Dec 18th. 1885. passen
/ ger trans will be run as follows between Fort
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
Say, .No.o

"Aiice, what will you say whel
they offer you wine at dinnery' ask
ell Dick.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18

FOR CATALOGUE.
than any - book. Describes
breeders, incnl,ators, etc
! cent. prO11t IN 70 k~'.-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
Indian Picture-Wr1ting.

Let us see how an Indian of North
America goes to work to write.
Suppose a wild Indian belonging to
the great clan whose members call
themselves the Turtles, makes a raid
on a village of huts and wigwams
owned by enemies belonging to the
widespread clan called the Bear CLAN
Suppose it has taken the Turtles three
days of hard travel through forests and
over the hills to reach the Bears. By
means of their crafty spies, they find
that the brave men of the Bears are
away hunting moose, and that most of
the squaws and pappooses are either in
the fields of maize or in the woods,
where the berries are ripe, and only a
few old men and women are left be-
hind to keep watch over some ponies
and oxen. Then the Turtles, each
clutching his bow, creep on the village
under cover of the woods, and with a
terrific yell rush at the wigwams The
old people run into the bushes, fright
ened almost to death, as you can well
imagine. Then the Turtles gather up
all the ponies and oxen, drive them
off, burn all the wigwams they can,
and hurry home with the cattle. Now
these sava@es think they have done a
fine thing in robbing their neighbors
Of their cattle and plundering and
burning their homes, as does one great
nation Europe, when, hike our
Turtle chieftain, badly counseled by
wicked and ambitious men, it robs an
other of a great province, and forces
the wretched people who dwell there
to obey the laws of nation they dis
like. And they wish to let other In
dams know what clever robbers they
have been. So the Turtle chief chooses
piece of smooth, cream colored birch
bark. chews up little tobacco to serve
as ink, plucks twig of soft wood
for pen, and with the tobacco Juice
draws the following pictures
First comes turtle, and it is a very
big turtle, because he thinks that he
and his clan are very great personages
indeed. Then he draws as many wav-
ing lines, to represent bows, as there
are Indians in his party, and perhaps
the same number of Indians with top
knot; his lines bend forward to show in
what direction the trail went. Follow
ing these, rising sun stands for day.
break, and three lines under it mean
that three days went by IN going to the
Bears. Next, he puts down as many
funny little pyramids as there were
Bear wigwams, and draws them upside
down to show that they were destroyed.
After that, he draws, as well as he can,
wee, wee bear, very small, in order
to slow his contempt for the bears.
Finally, he draws with the greatest
care as many oxen and ponies as he has
captured, because he is chiefly proud OF
this part of his exploit and wishes all
the world of the woods to know what a
great and successful robber he is. He
does not tell that the Bear braves were
away when he surprised the camp, and
probably does not care to tell that part
of the story. We may understand it
from the absence of any sign for scalps.
Had there been resistance and men
slain on either side, the exact number
of dead would have been noted by
drawing just as many human figures
without their heads.-St. Nicholas for
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
A Sporting Mans Superstition.

The San Francisco Alta says :-"You
want to know what ] call lucky omen,
eh That's just as the idea strikes me-
When 1 was in New York last summer
l used to count white horses. Say l
would be standing at the corner of Full
ton street and Broadway, I'd take out
my watch-when | had one-and time
myself and count the number of white
horses that turned from Broadway into
Fulton street during five minutes time.
l sometimes would go on the odd num-
bers and sometimes on the even. Like
this: If / made up my mind on even
horses, and an even number went by
during the five minutes. Then would
be lucky, and vice versa"
''Did it always turn out lucky for
you in case these horses passed as you
desired ~
mine times out of ten it did. Here
in Frisco, during the blood horse meet
ing, came out one day. While / was
eating my dinner made up my mind to
count the number of passengers on the
cars, and if they came out odd l would
be lucky. 1t came out even. | made
up my mind not to bet, but friend
of mine came to me with an air tight
(sure thlngl and I plunged on it.. Com
ing under the wire another horse stuck
out his tongue and won the race. lost
81 400. So you see ! would have been
right in needing what you call supersti-
tien. The next day I did the same
thing over again. Called it odd and
odd it was. Then was sure of luck,
and had luck. That day I won
So, 500."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
How They Keep Warm in Dako ia.

Of the many hardships with which
the pioneer has to contend, says a let
ter from Dakota, none have perhaps
been greater than that of providing his
family with the necessary fuel for win
ter. Twisted hay has been the settlers
main fuel, for with soft coal at eight
dollars and hard coal at twelve dollars
per ton, but few could afford the lux
ury of coal fire. While twisted hay
is not to be sneezed at as a heat pro-
Queer, still it has had its drawbacks;
not the least of which has been the
time consumed in preparing it. How
often has settler been called from his
work to ''twist just few twists" to
finish baking. None but those who
have been there can have an idea of the
annoyance and loss of time caused by
fulfilling just such little requests. In
winter, if one depends on hay, it is
nothing but twist, twist, twist, and
when the hay is twisted it keeps one
warm feeding it to the stove. If you
sit down to write, you must rise every
period and put twist in the stove, and
if you forget it for ever so short time
you will find yourself sncezing and
catching cold.
But now all that is done away with.
Some enterprising Yankee in the vicin-
ity of Mitchell has invented an attach
ment for cook stoves, which is the Won
der and admiration of the country.
The apparatus is nothing more or less
than a sheetiron boiler, about the
shape of an ordinary wash boiler, only
deeper. To operate it you stuff tho
boiler full of fax straw or loose hay
the flax straw is preferable-and, tax
ing off the griddles over the fre-box of
the stove, you place the boiler upside
down over the griddle holes, and it is
truly surprising what an intense heat it
will emit. One filling will last from
one to three hours, according to the
draught you give it, and you have fire
equal to coal fire for baking and all
other purposes. AS there is an abund-
ance of flax straw in the country fuel
is now costing the people next to moth
ing. One of the leading coal mer-
chants here complained the other day
that they were losing their best coal
customers on account of the "blasted
boiler invention" AS it is not patent
ed and can be made by any timer, its
cost is but $3.50, which places it with
in reach of all A great many are using
their old wash boilers, which do very
well, but they are not nearly as good as
the REGULAR ones
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
The Candle Fish.

People do not get candles from water,
as rule, 1 believe, but nevertheless
there was time when men were in
debted to the ocean for much of the
light that made their homes pleasant at
night. The best candles and oil of your
forefathers' time came from whales.
There is, however, very remarkable
light giver, which is nothing more nor
less than small fish The fish is so
very oily that all you have to do, after
it has departed this life, Is to fasten it
by its tail between two pieces of wood,
touch a match to its head, and pale
flame will arise from the flsh's mouth
that lasts until, like candle, the fish is
slowly consumed.
The useful fish, moreover, is a very
important one to people living on the
northwestern coast of North America.
At certain seasons the Candle-fshes
swarm the bays and rivers in vast num-
bers, and every native man, woman, and
child is engaged in capturing them.
And how do you suppose they catch
them2 They actually comb them in.
The boats drive them in shore, where
each native, armed with a gigantic
weapon with teeth eight inches long,
sweeps or combs them up by the hun
bred
When the boats are loaded full, the
fish are carried ashore, where women
and children take charge of them.
After being dried and smoked, they are
ready for candles. They are also used
as food, and in that case the oil is tried
out and put away for winter use.-St.
Nicholas for March.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
A Little Cherokee Girls Death.

The Tahlequab Cherokee Nation) Id
Uocate says: Miss Susie Wickliff, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Mary Wilkerson and pupil
at the Park Hill Mission School, Chero-
kee Nation, died at o'clock p. m.
Feb. 2. She was quite q favorite with
her schoolmates and loved by all who
knew her. Her mother was sent for
Immediately, but on arriving found her
daughter too sick to remove home. She
seemed to realize that she was soon to
leave this world of sorrow, and called
to her mother and said: "Mother, !
can't get home, can I2'' ''No, think
not. Do you want to go home?" Eyes,
but lam too SICK" and, raising her
right hand, continued: "My heart will
soon find a better home. You must
give me up, mother. Though 1 love
you dearly l will give you up" She
called her mother one morning, think
ing her asleep, but finding her awake,
said: ooh, didn't know you were up
i thought I'd wake you. was with
some little children last night, and |
had on some wings" A few hours be-
fore she expired she said: 81 do not
belong to the church, but have been
praying ever since I have been here at
the mission, two years or more" She
then seemed to be engaged in earnest
prayer, and we heard her say: "Save
us all at last for Jesus sake, amen Be
still-iust listen to them singing-hOw
sweet-as though it was in church.
Thus, seemingly greeted by sweet
music, she ceased to breathe, and her
spirit was borne to its eternal rest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25

THE LIME KILN CLUB.
A Little Speck of TrOuble-It 10 Soon
Settled,
from the Detroit Free Press.1

There was a painful silence as the
regular meeting was called to order,
and it seemed as if something was about
to happen: 1t was noticed that Elder
Toots had frightened look, while
Samuel Shin, Whalebone Howker and
Old Man Davis moved about on their
chairs as if to avoid carpet-tacks. By
and by Brother Gardner said:
"Accordin' to de constitushun of dis
club, wheneber any member feels so in
clined he kin demand vote of de club
on de queshun: 'Hev we or hev we not
lost confidence in our President p r
has now to inform you that Major Ex-
clamation Harrison, an active member
of our club, has demanded in writin'
dat such vote be taken. Dis am de
first time in de history of dis organiza-I
shun dat such a vote has been de-
manded. De Seckretary will call de
roll"
Amidst the deepest silence the secre-
tary proceeded with his monotonous
call, and of the 1873 members present
1877 voted that they had not lost con-
fidence in the President. The excep-
ton was the Major. When the result
had been announced Brother Gardner
said: =.
"My frens, some explanashun seems
to be demanded by desc purceedins.
Three Vars ago de Major began bor-
rowin' my hoe an spade an axe an
wheelbarrer. AS time wore on his
family borrowed sugar an butter an
flour. As confidence increased, l was
axed to lend de Major my Sunday butes
an plug hat, and my wife was axed to
hand over her shawl an breast-pin, .
wheneber funeral was to come off. De
odder eavenin' de Major come ober to
borrow my pink undershirt fur hisself,
and Mrs. Gardeners zebra hose fur his
wife. I felt it solemn dooty to draw
a line somewhar's, an 1 drawed it dat
night on undershirt an stockings. De-
Major went away in huff, and de call
fur dis vote which has jist bin taken
am de result. obsarve dat de Major
am heah in pusson, and p'raps he would
like to state his side of de case"
II hasn't got, muffin to say, 'cept dat.
wish l hadn't done it, replied the
Major from his corner.
every well. Dis chair has no feel
ms toward you. De meetin' will pur-;:
coed wild de regular rowtine of bizness.".
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
A Story of Lew Wallace.

A writer in the Cleveland Leader tells
the following story of General Lew
Wallace: ''When Wallace left Constan
tinople he was presented with an elegant
painting entitled "The Greek Slave, ;
When he arrived home it became noised
about that he had a Greek slave. of
great beauty of form and feature, in his
house. The Hoosiers looked askant.
whispered of scandals, and the rumor
was soon on the street that Mrs. Wallace
was jealous of the Greek maiden. One
old citizen, more audacious than the
rest, appeared at the Generals residence
one afternoon and asked to see him. He
was given a cordial welcome and after
a short conversation, during which he APP
peared to be i'll at ease, he hesitated,
stammered, and said: General, there
is considerable talk about you going on.
The people say you nave Greek slave
in your house, and / have been dele
gated to find out the truth of the mat
ter Yes, | have Greek slave, replied
the General; come into the parlor and
will introduce her to you The blinds
were thrown open, and the beautiful
picture, in all its loveliness, dazzled the
eyes of the old man. He had nothing
more to say, and soon the gossips of
Charlottesville were assured that there
was no cause for jealousy in the Wallace
household"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
Two Generous Wall Street Men.

The Philadelphia Press says While
MIR. Cammack stopped at the Windsor
he was regularly shaved by certain
barber there, who was as attentive as an
Oriental slave. When the barber had
a chance to buy shop and start in
business on his own account, Mr.. Cam
mack let him have 50, 500. This was
generous, but it is not surprising in a
man who, it is well known, once lent
Jay Gould $4,000, 600 without so much
as scrap of paper as security. The
barber story about Mr.. Cammack recalls
one about James r. Keene. One day.
when in the zenith of his financial
power, he hurrie lily hailed rickety
looking coupe, more intent on getting
up town quick than on going in STYLE.
The man was shrewd and attentive, and
pleased the Spectator. Mr.. Keene be-
came steady patron, and one day dunn
founded the cabman by presenting him
with handsome new coupe and fine,
strong horse.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
THE MILLING OF CATTLE.
Fighting Hornets as well as Caring 70
Wild Cattle.

Next to a stampede, says a Western
correspondent, the cowboy breads the
taking of a herd of cattle across a
stream. The cattle are taken across in
punches of twenty five or thirty. The
cowboy strips all his clothing off, and
swims his horse along with the cattle.
Sometimes the bunch may be taken
across and landed on the other side
without any trouble, but the cowboy is
always expecting to have a case of mill
ing on his hands before he gets the
bunch across. I have before now brought
a bunch of cattle safely to almost within
reach of the opposite shore, when the
sudden appearance of jack rabbit on
the bank would scare steer, and back
he would turn. In moment the who'll
bunch would be swimming wildly round
and round, in the middle OF the STREAM.
This is called milling, and 1t is the work
or hours to break up the mill and get
the cattle started for the shore again.
In doing this it is often necessary for
the cowboy to plunge from his horse
and swim about among the cattle, often
getting on their horns or astride of
them The water is generally filled with
running ice, but the sun is scorching
hot. The bunch drifts down stream
sometimes for miles before the milling is
broken. The cottonwood trees along
these streams are usually loaded with
hornets nests. The moment hornet
secs the cattle floating down the stream
under the trees he drops down on them,
followed by numbers of his fellow col
onists, and they plant their stingers
wherever they drop. have been so
badly stung while fighting mill that
my head would swell so that l could not
wear my hat. A raid of hornets gener-
ally breaks up the milling of the cattle
attacked, for the animals can't stand the
stings and they make for shore. Many
a good cowboy has been drowned in try
ing to break up mill in mid-stream. 1t
is not uncommon for a party to spend
three weeks or a month in getting a
herd of 4, 900 cattle across a stream.
These are only few of the hardships
cowboy has to undergo in doing his
work Besides these he has to fight hos
tile Indians and bands of white marauders
who frequently seek to stampede herd
and run off a bunch of cattle before the
cowboys can prevent it. He finds
another dreaded enemy in terrible
prairie fires The days and nights that
he is sometimes compelled to spend in
battling with these are filed with I'M
told dangers.
A rancher expects his cowboys to de-
fend his herds with their lives, if neces-
sary, and cowboy would as soon think
of killing his mother as to desert his
herd, even in the face of certain death.
The delivering of herd safely at the
dead line is not sufficient to satisfy its
owner. Every animal must be HEAVIER
by large percentage than it was when
it left the ranch, If the herd has not
been handled with good Judgment on
the trail, such a result will not follow
The rule is that the cowboy must fatten
his cattle on the trail, no matter how
thin he may grow himself.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
Alb. PUL1AR, Enfield, King William

A. B. PULLAR, Enfield, King William
county, Va, has the following letter in
the papers During the late war party
of United States soldiers belonging to
Gen, Gettie's command came to my
house. One of the men took from my
wife's bosom very valuable gold watch.
Should this man be living, will make
this proposition to him If by lucky
turn of the wheel of fortune he is now
as well off in this world goods as 1 was
at that time, and he will send me my
watch, will charge him nothing for
the use of it these many years. Or if by
an unfavorable turn of the wheel he Is
as poor as l am at this time, he may
keep the watch, and will send him the
old key that belongs to it.
JOHN TURNER, of Livermore, Me-,
over 70, hearty, rugged, once candidate
for sheriff, for years thought to be rich,
is in Jail because he won't pay his poll
tax. He has transferred all the prop
erty to his son, who wants to pay the
So, but the old man refuses to permit
him, and says he is past the age when
men should pay poll tax; that he has
no property; and will make this a test
case as to whether pauper shall be
taxed by town.
w. H MINER, living at Waterville,
Mimi, has a colt three years old, in
whose eye there is live snake. About
three weeks ago Mr.. Miner discovered
what he supposed to be film growing
over the colts eye. He prepared
wash, and some ten days ago while ap-
plying it he discovered the snake. The
reptile is between three and four inches
in length, is of a white, yellowish
color, is exceedingly lively, and appears
to be growing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-25
A WAY TO COLLECT BAD DEBTS.
EImira Uniformed Collection Company
Method of Doing Business.

awe intend to make life very pleas
ant for the man who owes small bills
around this town that he is able to pay
but won't" said the manager for Steu-
ben county of Elmira Uniformed Collec-
ton Company. eve are in the field to
collect accounts from just such custom
ers, and if there is one who doesn't come
down after we have turned all our batter.
les on him, he's man that dynamite
wouldn't rattle.
"The wav the Uniformed Collection
Company works is this Such persons
as desire our services become subscri-
bers to our plan, and pay fee or bonus
of 81. We furnish each subscriber with
blanks which he fills out and sends to
his delinquent debtors, with a statement
of their accounts. The blank is simply
a REQUEST for them to remit the amount,
with the declaration that if they do not
their cases will be turned over to the
Uniformed Collection Company. When
the company receives a case a collector
is sent at once to the debtor to solicit
payment of the amount due. If he still
refuses to pay, we send another collector
who wears a striking uniform, with the
worn COllcClOI III very QlSIluCt 1SbtC4S
on the band of his hat. This collector
visits the debtor three successive days,
at his house or place of business. If the
third visit does not result in obtaining
the money, the collector wears hat on
the band of which are the words, Col
lector of Bad Debts. His orders, are to
call on the debter daily and demand
payment of the claim or claims against
him These calls soon attract the atten-
ton of the neighbors and become the
talk of the town. 1t + as got to be case
hardened old pensioner in the confidence
of his butcher and baker and candle
stick maker who can boldly face more
than half q dozen calls from the gentle
man with the suggestive hatband, and
the consequence is that an arrangement
satisfactory to the creditor is always
effected. We charge the creditor 10 or
Is per cent. of the amount collected, as
the case may be, and everybody is happy
but the man who has come down with
the skids. This method of collecting
bad debts is no experiment. We have
tried it in a hundred different places,
and never lost a case yet. The system
originated IN Canada. We have had
several collectors very neatly done up
by irate debtors, but our men expect
that, and assume all such risks when
they enter our employ. If a collector is
disabled, we put bigger man right on
in his place, and it has got to be very
sultry day when we let man lest easy
while we've got bill against him"