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The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04

The ugliest men IN the world, says
one who has seen Patagonians and
Magyars, are the inhabitants of AMMAN.
The typical native is of about the same
hight as the Chinaman. "His skin is
tawny and OF the hue Of black mud that
has lain exposed to the sun until the
process of partial drying has fixed 1t OF
d peculiar darkness. He has fist
Chinese face, with fat, fIabby nose. fiat
narrow forehead and flat chin. His oc-
casional grin is incarnately diabolic."
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04

Make p. o. Money Orders pay
able and address Registered Let
ters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans La.
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Notice for Proposals to let Con-
tract to work County Con-
ufofc

Notice is hereby given that l, James
s. Linzey, County Judge of Pope coun.
ty, will. at the court house of said coun-
ty, at o'clock p. m, March 10Th 1886.
let the contract to work the conyicts Of
said county for the next ensuing twelve
months from the said 10th day Of March
on terms most advantageous to said
county. All proposals should be sealed
and forwarded to the Clerk.
The contractor will be required to
give bond in the sum of$700, condition.
ed that he shall faithfully comply with
the terms of his contract.
JAMES S. LINzEY,
County Judge.
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,aa6--Direct ctory --i606
rourt 9Th Judicial District.
TIME OF HOLDING COURT:

TIME OF HOLDING COURT:
- connty-First Monday IN April and
SovemDce. corxry COURT:
=. mayer. on the 4th Monday II March and
A1sna,,iny AZ in January. July and October.
lst hV"' PROBATE COURT:
- . norer on the LIST Monday IN May and I'd
,,Aa'ioV AZ in January, July and October.
church and Society Directory.
pRESBYTERIAN CHURcH
u y Miner. pastor Preaching every Sab
Il. % a. II a, m. and 1880 p. m. Prayer meet
pay paw overy Thursday ut 1880. p. m. sabbath
NIL ins at 3 A. m. every sabbath
BAPYYST 0HURdH
m womacs. pastor. Preaching every ad
5 p' ab sabbath at II am. and7 30 pm. FRAY
anu anu,eetine every Tuesday night. Sabbath
ee..boole a. m. evory sabbath
METHODIST GHURGH, SOUTH,
nov uastor. Preaching 2d. 3d and 4th
o.days et ii am and 1880 pm. Prayer meet
~, Wednesdays, 1880 p. III. Sabbath school
$50 4. m.
a uETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURcH.
u Jones, pastor. Preaching ist
"a al sabbath. II q. m. and 1880 y. m. Prayer
aa,eeting Thursdays, 1880 p. m. Sabbath school
sa.9 ".
CHRISTIAN CHERH.
pre.chinp the ist and ID Lords Day in each
atI nv IT, u. Dale. sunday School at p.
y, Zach Lords Day. and prayer meeting
Nanday nights. All are invited.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04
Did you Sup

pose Mustang Liniment only good
for horses? 1t is for inflamma-
ton of all flesh.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04
A Clear Skin

is only a part of beauty;
but it is a part. Every lady
may have it; at least, what
looks like it. Magnolia
Balm both freshens and
beauties.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04

There is only one Smith in the
present Congress, but four Joneses.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-04
JonN T. CHI

For sale by J. w. Wells and j. ]
Odan, Dover.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Capital Prize $3.50, 900.

We do hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for all the monthly and quar-
terly drawings of the Louisiana State Lott
troll the drawings themselves, and that the
same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and
in good faith tow ward all parties, and we au-
thorize the Company to use this Certificate
with faces smile Of our signatures attached. In
1 ts advertisements.
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Stkins DIRECTORY.

~ ADARR, dealer in General Mercllan
~. disc and Cotton Buyer.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
The Humor of an Author.

Who shall ridicule the fancies of women
as to dress, no matter how senseless they
may seem, when SO ilustrious an author
as Edgar Fawcett fits his apparel to his
employment. Fawett is rich, and can af-
ford to write according to his humor. I
went to Ills residence once to see him.
Thence I was sent away across town into
the tenement house district of the great
east side, where found him in top-story
room overlooking Tompkins square. He
ssGTd that he was engaged on q portion of a
novel located among the toiling poor, and
so he had temporarily hired that apart
ment, in order to breathe the atmosphere
of his subject. Moreover, he wore cheap
suit of clothes, and the furniture was such
as might have appropriately been in an
impoverished family's home. When he set
out to compose poetry, he i2closed him
self in an elegant study in his own resi-
dence, put on dressing gown, simple or
gorgeous, according as he meant to write
naive or florid verse, and thus costumed
himself for his task With such aesthetic
authorization, why shall not our girls i'll
dulge in niceties and caprices of garb9-
"Cncle Bills" New York Letter
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The Boy and the Hornet.

A Boy he Stuffed his ole Clothes with
Straw and put the Dummy in a fence
corner Of the Medder. Bime-by an Old
Hornet came along on his Way home from
stealin' Wool, and as Soon as he set Eyes
on the Boy he said:
sLooks like Thunder Shower off there,
and it won't do for this Boy to get Wet.
He seems like Boy anxious to get up in
the World, and l guess I'll Lift him"
He Lit down on the straw-stuffed body
and Jabbed in his Ole Stinger for keeps,
and he was expectin' to hear Screams Of
agony, when the Boy who had put up the
Job looked threw the Fence and said:
"You needn't be in any hurry to 60 on
my Account"
"Durn my Buttons!" said the Hornet as
he made off; "but that's the last time I'll
try and help Boy up!"
Moral--And G Feller could have any
Amount of Fun with q Cannon if it
wasn't for his mother, who thinks he'll be
Busted Detroit Free Press.
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A Tradition of the Mastodon.

The Pyramid lake region has for ages
and ages been the favorite haunt and
home Of. the ".Piute Indians. The have
many traditions concerning the fantastic
rocks in the lake, its finny inhabitants,
and the caves and canons of the surround
ing mountains; also of great earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions that caused the
ground to spout water to an immense
height. They have tradition that the
country was infested many generations
ago by huge animals that tore down and
rooted up the trees of the nut-pine orch
ards and in other ways made themselves
obnoxious. These animals were of the
size of an elephant or mastodon. The In
dams constantly made war upon them,
and finally the last herd was driven into
Pyramid lake and drowned.
To this day when there Is heavy storm,
and big, black waves are seen rising end
sinking out toward the center of the lake,
the Piutes say it is the backs Of the great
beasts that were driven into the lake in
the olden time The many tracks of ele.
plants found in the state prison stone
quarry at Carson City would seem to
show that there is some foundation for
the tradition. At the same quarry are
found the tracks of tigers, wolves, deer,
large birds, and alse tracks supposed to be
those of prehistoric man shod in mocca-
sins made OF untanned hide. AL these
tracks are in one stratum, under about
twenty feet of super;ncumbered rock
Dan de Quille in New York Sun.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

At the age of 20 Galileo began to discover.
His first discoveries were of course, clumsy
and poorly made, but very soon he began to
turn out neat and durable discovery that
would stand for years.
1t was at this time that Galleo noticed the
swinging Of lamp in church, and, OBJ
serving that the oscillations were of equal
duration, he inferred that this principle
might be utilized in the exact measurement
of time. From this little accident, years
after, came the clock one of the most useful
of mans dumb friends. And yet there are
people who will read this little incident and
still hesitate about going to church.
Galileo also invented the thermometer, the
microscope, and the proportional compass.
He seemed 10 invent things, not for the
money to be obtained In that way, but solely
for the Joy of being first on the ground. DE
WIS q man of Infinite genius and persever-
ance. He was alse very fair in his treat
ment of other inventors. Though he did not
personally invent the rotary motion Of the
earth, he heartily indorsed it and said it was
good thing. He also came out in a card in
which he said that he believed it to be good
thing, and that he hoped some day to see it
applied to the other planets
He was also the inventor Of telescope
that had nagnifying power Of thirty times.
He presented this to the Venetian senate,
and it was used in making appropriations
for river and harbor improvements.
By telescope investigation Galieo discov-
cred the presence of microbes In the moon,
but was unable to do anything for 1t. l
have spoken Of Mr.. Calico all the way
through this article informally, calling him
by his first name, but feel SO thoroughly
acquainted with him, though there was such
q striking difference in our ages that am
almost justified in using his given name
while talking Of him.
Galileo also sat up nights and visited with
Venus through a long telescope which he had
made himself from an old bamboo fishing
rod.
But astronomy Is very enervating branch
Of science. Calico frequently came down
to breakfast with red, heavy eyes, eyes that
wero swollen full Of unshed tears. Still he
persevered. Day after day he worked and
toiled. Year after year he went on with his
task, till lie had worked out in mis- own mind
the satellites of Jupiter and placed q small
tin tag. 'ch one, so that he would know
1t readily when he saw 1t again. Then he
began to look up Saturns rings and investi-
gate tho freciles on tho sun. Ho did not
stop at trifes, but went bravely on till every
body came for miles around to look at him
and get him to write something funny in
their albums. It was not an unusual thing
for Calico to get up in the morning. after q
wearisome night with q fretful newborn
star, to find his front yard full of autograph
albums
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GdliieOS book sofa TcU on inc Trans.
Galileo was the author Of little work
called u Discarsi Dimas-T -Trazioni Mate
matiche Intorus Due Muove Science" 1t
was q neat little book, of about the medium
height, and sold we'll on the trains, for the
Pisan newsboys on the cars were very affa-
bic, Us they arc now, and when they came
and leaned oil armful of these books on
passengers leg and poured long tale into
his ear about the wonderful beauty of the
work and then pulled in the name Of the
book from the rear of the last chr, whore it
had been hanging on behind, the passenger
would most always buy it and enough Of the
name to wrap it up in.
He also discovered the isochronism Of the
pendulum He saw that the pendulum ut
certain seasons Of the year looked yellow
under the eyes, and that it dropped and did
not enter into its work with the old zest He
Iegnn TO study the case with the aid of his
new bamboo telescope md wicker covered
microscope. AS Il result, in ten days he had
the pendulum on its feet again.
Galieo was inclined TO be liberal i'll his re-
ligious views, and more especially III the
matter ut the Scriptures, claiming that there
were passages III tie Bible which did not lit
ernl!v mean what the translator said they
di,:. This was where Galileo missed it. SO
long as lie discovered stars and isochronisnls
Az. such things rs that he succeeded, but
when hr hrSaa tn foo! with other peoples
frc!igious beliefs lie cot into trouble. He was
crd l., fly from Pisa, We ar" told by the
historian, ;.nd We are assured ut the same
till, ,h;:. Calico, who had always been Far,
fnr .;i:"',. Of uii competitor, i'll other things,
was equally successful rs iieer.
Gaillco received hut sixty scudi prr year
for his salary Il; Pisa and n part Of that he
took iiatown orders, worth only sixty cent?
on the scudi-Bi!l Nye in Chicago News
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Yet They Uphold the System.

Everybody in England knows how lord
is made, that BARRIERS may become lord
chancellors and brewers get baronies; that
political service or trickery, or wealth OBJ
tanned often by questionable means, can
SECURE that nobility which Is denied to
science and letters and art. Yet Froude
and Lecky and May uphold the system,
and journalists with more power than any
duke in the peerage, grovel in their col
umns at the mention Of lord. Nine
tenths of the literary men in England feel
themselves honored when asked to the
tables of persons with less education or
character or ability than their own.
The people who use the pen, inueed, do
more for the continuance of the aristo-
cratic system and the development Of its
perniciou3 influence than any other class
in the community. They spread the doc
trine and intensity the sentiment which
supportan institution more hostile to the
greatest good of the greatest number
rhah any other. that exists in civilized So
ciety. If the men of letters fought the
lords, the lords would go down. But the
men of letters serve and follow the lords;
and the aristocracy flaunt their insolence
ID the face of the world, and take their
superiors in their train to proclaim their
magnifcence, to illuminate their feasts,
and to celebrate the splendor they may
not share. They deserve the place they
accept They recall q description I long
ago read of Russian serf carefully hold
ing the horses of his master who stood on
the shafts while he horse-whipped the
slaya-Adam Badear's Letter.
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Esre Fate Of o Calie Ely.

There was Just touch OF the pathetic
as well as humorous side to story told
by Col: J. 81. Woodward, of San Fran
cisco. It was an occurrence Of his last
trip from New York to the Pacific coast.
In the cor were two ladies from Boston
"old maids" of the New England school
that is, charming, educated and refined
women. They were going out to the
coast to teach school or get married, and
it probably had not occurred to them
which they would prefer. Among their
baggage.was little pot with Gala lily
in full bloom The plant was not above
eight or ten inches in height. They cared
for the flower as tenderly as If 1t was Il
first born baby. 1t was bittec cold in the
east and there was SNOW or the ground.
The Gala made bright spot in the car,
and they were proud oft. The train sped
along day after day, until one night
when they retired they were told that the
next morning would bring them into the
beautiful San Joaquin valley.
When morning broke the train seemed
to have been transported into new coun-
try. The air was warm and balmy. The
facepf nature was entirely changed The
bleakness of winter had given place TO the
warmth and bloom of spring. The Boston
maidens were awake early: They did not
tire of the scene, but they discovered
something that called them together IN
hurried consultation. They observed every
few miles great ,grnwths of tall, white
flowers They were strangely like canas,
only they were three and four feet tall and
the flowers were simply enormous They
whispered more than once over this spec
tacle, and it was finally understood that
they: recognized the flowers as ca!ias. az B
Then they began tolook, furtively OF their
little plant in the pot. 1t was insignificant
enough beside these queens of the west
ern slopes. Suddenly one Of the women
raisedzthe window; while athe other with
quick movement seized the pot and
quickly dropped it out of the window. IL
was all done in an instant, and no one but
Col. Woodland saw it, and he had too much
feeling for them to say anything about 1t.
Cor New York Tribune.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Good Manners Of the Bostonians.

1t is the little courtesies of everyday
life-no matter where (need it be only ut
ho1ne?), in the streets, the cars, the
churches, the shops, that make people
delightful and leave an Impress on the
stranger. They say about the Bostonians
that there is something about the east
wind that demonstrates itself in their eN-
terror, and al American lady who had
lived many years in the south Of France,
upon receiving call from Bostonian,
wrote: "The moment he entered felt the
old Boston east wind in his manner, but
after while it wore off and he became
quite gcnial."-Boston Transcript.
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END OF THE FIRST ACT.

The lights burned lower; faint perfume
Stole its way through the crowded room.
The boxes were filed
With fair women, who rustled in silks and
laces;
Who looked and listened with eager faces
AS the singers trilled
Their melodious numbers and played their
parts,
And made sad havoc in some soft hearts,
For they sang of love.
Oh, what Il theme
To make the young and beautiful dream;
So they sang Of love,
And this was the scene:
The Burgomaster, with brow serene,
Slumhered and dreamed in his high-backed
chair
While his daughters stood in the moon
light fair
That streamed through the easement and
touched their hair,
arms
OF their soldier lovers; and all the charms
Of the moonlight, the music that rose and
fell
One cord DER the other with dreamy swell
Hthe heart Of the listeners wrought a
spell
For the moment divine.
Was it mine and thine, ...,..,
This passion they counterfeit there, as
well? -. -. 80 ,.... - ....'- .
Thus we once swore with many vow
Many q kiss unremembered now.
Since then Loves story must sure have
grown old,
Sonften you've heard it by others told.
Our love grewrcold ,..cTr: |g.. &
AS our minds grew further and further
apart, ~ .i:Tr',, - '.. =.
Until at the last
Our passion had passed
And left US each with an empty heart
Empty, and yet
felt the agony of regret
AS for moment that sweet love song
Swept with its thrilling measure along.
And I remembered a moonlight scene
With you and 1 in the window nook,
And was saying, "A1y life, my queen"
While your father dozed DER dreary
book.
Was it wonder that real it seemcdf
Was it Il wonder dreamed
Till the curtain fell,
Breaking the spell?
Phil l.. Barker.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
The Cproar OF the NIusketry.

Everyone is familiar with the "long-
roll" as beaten by skillful drummer; but
the roll of the artillery thunder at Gcttys-
burg was more rapid than any pair OF
Grumsticks. 1t WAS not series OF peals
it was one long roar without break.
Talk Of Joves thunder? The gods OF
Mount Olympus would have sunk down
with terror had they heard such sound.
Nevertheless, the monotonous din had
somnolent effect The writer and num-
bers of his men who were lying low in the
Emmitsburg turnpike, between the op-
posing lines of Artillery, fell into sound
sleep during it's continuance and while
awaiting the expected charge Of the Con-
federates. Yet, heavy aud sustained as
was the artillery fire, from the time,
shortly after, that the; infantry became
engaged the sound Of the cannons was
completely silenced in the still greater up
roar of the musketry.
Through the smoke we, who were con-
tending with the flank of Pickett's
Virginians, could see our brave cannon
eers, many of them stripped to the waist
and with handkerchiefs bound around
their heads, turning the sponge-staff,
loading their guns, pulling the lanyards;
we could see the white clouds rising from
their guns and the Confederate shells eX-
ploding around them, and could see the
Confederate artillery also during this
bloody melee between the contending
infantry, some of their batteries which
had gallantly accompanied their charg-
ing lines, unlimbered within 200 yards
of us and blazing away furiously.
Yet not one sound. Of that, fearful artillery
play did we hear during the persistent
rattle of the small arms.-T. F. Galwey in
Chicago Times.
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Road Across tho Entire Republic.

The origin of the Swiss Confederacy
dates back to 1905 But there is q repub-
lie named San Marina, in northeast Italy,
which sDrang into existence in Al, OF
which little thought hes ever been taken.
The country would not now be noticed,
only that it has been ostentatiously stated
O. railroad is to be constructed which "wiu
traverse the entire republic" This is not
50 stupendous an undertaking, as might
be thought, since the length of the road
will be only twenty miles.-Chicago Her
old
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Manufacture of n Terra Gotta Lumber.

1IitIiUINCIUFc vi 1t 1efK q Soeets 11Ft1f1"o1'
A terra Gotta lumber has recently been
added to the list of mineral building
materials. A kaolinite of good quality is
mixed with sawdust, worked by machinery
into slabs, and is then burned, sawed, and
dressed. It is, in this condition, ready for
market, and is said to be indestructible by
fire, water or gas. 1t is poor conductor,
and suffers but slight expansion or con-
traction by changes of temperature. It's
weight Is put down at one-half that OF
brick. It can be worked with edge tools,
bored, and sawed, and holds nails as
readily rs timber. 1t is also made into
hollow tile and flreproof casing. Semitic
American.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

Each congressman IS entitled to 5000
paper packas es Of vegetable seed, 500 Of
flower seed, 800 Of tobacco, fifty quarts Of
grass, thirty-two of cotton, twenty-eight
of sugar-heet, and twenty each of corn and
sorghum, to distribute among bis constitu-
ents.-Chicago Tribpns
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
go iEic I7lIDiic.

TAKE PLEASURE l. IN An
L nouncing that will run the Ice l5usl-
ness from May lSt, 1856. Customers please
reserve your orders and oblisc.
Yours truly,
JAMS CllAlI.Es /. DiCN9o-N'
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

Now Undertakings in the South.
1t is estimated that fully s36;OeO,oO0 Of
porthern and English capital was invested
h new undertakings In the south in the
first three months Of the current gear.
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x,.zzrv u,ossryG ARos.ND GIVE ,1E: a CALI.
JAMES VAN TASSEL.
T. Sale.

vgNIOROUGliB : Il l. d J l. Il ; l. \
L Calves. One ycarling registered Jer-
scy Bull. Registered Ayrshire licilerS.
Several grade hciGcrs As also several Milch
Cows in milk. Apply to ~
" " L. y. CHISOLM,
RowcsyilIe, S. {.
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BILL NYE ON GALlLEO.
Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts About
I,;g Uorhorlr

SOiu6 GhSIo <Aoooe
This Inventor from Wayback.
Galilei, commonly called Galileo was born
at Pisa on the 14th day Of February, 1864
He was man who discovered some Of the
fundamental principles underlying the move
ments, habits, and personal peculiarities of
the earth. He discovered things with mar
velous fluency. Born, as he was, at time
when the rotary motion of the earth was
still in its infancy, and astronomy taught
only in a crude way, Calico started in to
make few discoveries and advance some
theories of which he was very fond
He was the son Of musician, and learned
to play several instruments himself, but not
in such way as to arouse the jealousy of the
great musicians of his day. They came and
heard him play C. few selections, and then
they went home contented with their own
music
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A two-foot rule: Keep your feet dry.