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The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06
Mir. Talmage's Matrimonial Sermon.

New York Corr. Rochester Democrat
 Talmage has preached four sermons on wediock without affecting the matrimo- nial market in the least, and 1 do not think his discourses will be of any avail, however long they may be continued. Such talk never hits any one. As the young man remarked, "I have heard Talmage's three sermons, but so far he has not reached my case" Talmsge, ike other preachers who attempt this subject, loses sigh, Of the all.impor.ant fact mentioned thus by Shakespeare
 But love is blind and lovers cannot see.
 The great drama,ist also presents the same idea in words little changed:
 Things base aad vile holdiag no quantity,
 Love can transpose to form and dignity.
 He also tells us that love is not only blind, but also little brain-cracked, and therefore must be beyond even Talmage's sermons. How neatly this idea is ex- pressed:
 The lover. lunatic and poet
 re of ina gination all compact.
 One sees more devils than vast b ell can hold; i; This is the madmsa the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen 8 beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06
Care for tie Children

Children feel the debility of the changing seasons, even more than adults, and they be- como cross, peevish, and uncomfortable. The blood should be cleansed and the system invigorated by the use of Hoods Sarsaparlla.
 Hast Spring my two children were vacci- hated. Soon after, they broke all out with run ming sores, so dreadful thought should lose them. Hoods Sarsaparilla cured them con- pletely and they have been healthy ever since. I do feel that Hoods Sarsaparilla saved my children to me-" MRS. o. L. THOMPSON, West Warren, Mass.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06
Purify the Blood

Hoods sarsaparilla Is characterized by three peculiarities 1st, the combination of remedial agents; 2d, the proportion; Sd, the process of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result is medicine of unusual strength, efecting cures hitherto unknown. Send for book containing additional evidence.
 Floods Sarsaparilla tones up my system, purifes my blood, sharpens my appetite, and seems to make mo over" J. F. THoMPsoN, Register of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
 "Hood's Sarsaparilla beats all others and is worth its weight in gold" I. HARRINGTON, 130 Bank Street, New York City.
 Hoods SarsaparilIa Sold by all druggists. sl six for sS- Made only by o. I. HOOD & CO, Lowell, Mass.
 100 Doses One Dollar.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06

dSainSt tTcc.
 "You mean that you have been asleep, and let them stray, you villain. will rub your back against a stick 1 answered, feeling very angry, for it was not a pleas ant prospect to be stuck up in that fever trap for week or so while we were hunt ing for the oxen. 'Off you go, and you too, Tom, and mind you don't come back till you have found them. They have trekked back along the Middleburg road, and are dozen miles of by now, I'll be bound. Nov, no words go both of you
 Tom, the driver, swore and caught the lad hearty hck, which he richly deserved, and then, having tied old Rap tein up to the disselboom with q reim, they got their assegais and sticks and started. would have gone too, only kAew that somebody must look after the wagon, and I did not like to leave either of the boys with 1t at night. l was in very bad temper indeed, although was pretty we'll used to these sort of occur rences, and soothed myself by taking a rifle and going to kill something. For . couple of hours I poked about without seeing anything that could get q shot at, but at last, just as was again within seventy yards of the wagon. | but up an old lmpala ram from behind a mimosa thorn. He ran straight for the wagon, and 1t was not till he was passing within few feet of 1t that could get . decent shot at him. Then pulled, and caught him halfway down the spine; over he went, dead as doornail, and q pretty shot 1t was, though l ought not to say 1t. This little incident put me into rather . better temper, especially as the buck had rolled over right against tho akerpart of the wagon, SO l had only to gut him, fix
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06

listened. and then without a sound bounded off-and fainted.
 "The lions came back no more that night, and by the next morning my nerves had got pretty straight again; but 1 was full of wrath when 1 thought of all that had gone through at the hands, or rather noses, of those four lions, and of the fate of my after-ox Kaptein. He was splen- did OK, and was very fond of him. So wroth was that like fool determined to go for the whole family of them. It was worthy of greenhom out on his first hunting trip; bat did it neverthe- less. Accordingly, after breakfast, hsv- ing rubbed some oil upon my leg, which was very sore from the cubs tongue, [ took the driver. Tom, who did not half like the job, cad having armed myself with an ordinary double No. I7 smooth. bsrc, the first breechloader I ever had, started. l took the smoothbore because it shot bullet very we'll; and my exper- ience has been that . round ball from . smoothbore Is qaite as effective against . hoa as an express bullet. The lion is soft aud not a difficult animal to finish If you hit him anywhere in tho body. A buck takes far moro killing.
 "Well, l started, and the first thing | set to work to do was to try to make out whereabouts the brutes lay up for the day. About three hundred yards from tho wagon was the crest of rise covered with single miaosa trees, dstted about In . Park-line fashion, and beyond this was stretch of open plain running down to dry pan, or wster-holc, which covered about an acre of ground, and was densely clothed with reeds, now in the ssre and yellow leaf From the further edge of this pan the ground sloped up again to a
The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06

shrugged his shoulders, muttered that was mad or bewitched, and folio we'd dog gedly in my tracks.
 "We soon got to the kloof, which was about 300 yards in length and but sparsely wooded, and then the real fun began. There might be a lion behind every bush-there certainly were four lions somewhere; the delicate question was where. peeped and poked and looked In every possible direction, with my heart in my mouth, and was at last rewarded by catching a glimpse of some thing yellow moving behind q bush. At the same moment from another bush op- postte mo out burst ono of the cubs and galloped back toward the burnt-sut pan. l whipped round and let drive q snap shot that tipped him head over heels, breaking his back within two inches of the root of the tail. and there he lay help less bat glaring. Tom afterward killed him with his assegai. opened the breoch of the gnn, end hurriedly pulled out the old case, which, to jadge from what ensued, must, suppose, have burst and leh portion of its fabric sticking to the barrel. At any rate, when 1 tried to get in the new case it. would only enter half way; and-would you believe k2- this was the moment the Noness, at- tracted, no doubt, by tue outc1y of her cub, chose to put in an appearance. There she stood, twenty paces or so from me, lashing her tail. and looking just as wicked as it is possible to conceive. Slowly stepped backward. trying to push in the new case. and as did 90 she moved on in little runs, dropping down after each run. The danger was immi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
THE CITY IN BRIEF.

Sarah r. L. Beeler, twenty years of age, of
No. 100 South New Jersey street, was adjudged
insane yesterday
meeting of the Woman's State Fair Associ-
alton will be held this afternoon, at o'clock at
the agricultural rooms
Flora Dopavin and Hattie Galloway each
seventeen years old, escaped from the Female
Reformatory last evening
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
William Pete rson and Elizabeth Trusty, Charles
D. Foote and Mary d. Bronson.
The city street car company will run cars for
the accommodation of the visitors to the sum
mer nights festival, at the Shooting Park on
Wednesday night after IL o'clock.
Judge Norton yesterday sent John Weir and
The first pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and the
second to assault and battery. Ernest johnson
was sent to the House of Refuge.
AS specimen of attractive Typography the
business card of Eastman, Schlecher & Lee
cannot we'll be surpassed. 1t is a specimen of
what the Journal can do for all of our enterpris-
ing and sagacious business men.
The New York Alliance Insurance Company
has sued Austin I'll. Brown and others to recover
$46l. 81, said to be due account Of premiums
collected by cleveland & Brown policies is
sued by them as agents for the plaintiff
John W. Murphy has been appoin ted and given
bond guardian of Shirley and Jessie Daley,
legatees under the will of Indiana c. Ricketts,
The bond amounts to $40 OOO James NJ Win
ters has qualified as the administrator of Charl-
ton w. Harper
The Model has arranged for picnic to the
poor children of the city, on Thursday at Beth
any Park. Tickets will be given the children
to-day, upon calling at the store, and the march
will be made from the store at o'clock on
Thursday morning.
A mule team attached to a hay-wagon started
in runaway from Hanson e. Van Camps on
Gn.,f1 ~&ko
had unrestricted passage for several blocks I'M
til it finally brought up at McNabb street In
its course it demolished two buggies. without
injuring the occupants.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
Hotel Arrivals.

Denison House: O. G. Wilcox, Cincinnati
John A. Sage New York; Mrs. J..,O. johnson.
Logansport; William T. Cussius. j. A. Buck
ingham and Hardly Daley. Decatur. Ill.
Occidental Hotel. E. G.. Rolpaugh. Hunting
ton; G. S. Wesner, Lebanon; P. H. Brady,
Union City; W. w. Primmer, Kentland; A. M.
Fitch, Seymour; Mark Poundstone. Rushville;
Sam Buffk,.i, Anderson; Leo Husbumm Marion;
D. A. Steady and wife, Young America Ind.
Gates Sexton, Rushvile; j. E. Baker. Franklin;
S. r. Jones. Peru; J. FL. Rogers Madison John
P. Clark, Lafayette; W. T. Colville, Attica
Grand Hotel W. G. Olds. J. W. White,
Fort Wayne; Jeff K Scott, Martinsville; J. c.
Kleiber, Milton; III. W. Hanna, Fort Wayne;
Freeman Cooper, Kokomo; H. M. Campbell,
Hartford City; A. Fl. Brown, F. D.-Jones Michi-
gan City; B. T. Hale. Lee Lightfoot, Point
Isabel; James O. Parish, Shelbyvile; George
Seeger, jr., Charles e. Kurtz, Lafayette FL. NJ
La Toilette, Lebanon; r. T. Gowday, Westfeld;
r. Fendig. Rensselaer,; j. II. Scott, New Al
bany; G. NJ Harter, Goshen.
Bates House: r. S. Martin and wife, James
Scott. Peoria; j. A. Buckingham, Hardy Daley,
VIM. Il. Cussius. Decatur; George N. Sweetland
and wife, Anderson; Ell. G. Tyler, j. G. Caldwell,
K. G. Brockenbrough. Lafayette; A. N. Grant,
Kokomo; S. G. Detchon, " @ Irwin. Crawfords-
Vile; James Lamb, Tolono; j. III. Eeelston,
Newport; j. H. Sessions, Geo W, Ricketts,,
Columbus; 9. E. Doyle, Peru; w. NJ. .Penning-
ton, Terre Hsute; E. B. Hutchinson, D. H. Mon
tony, Troy; j. w. Herminger, Bloomington;
John Soulman, Janesyile e. w. Morris and
wife, Mound City; Thos. Fl. Stark New Albany.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24

the Concord New Hampshire railroad at Con-
cord Under the law, dividends 60 the amount
of 10 per cent can be paid annually, while the
State can claim any surplus net earnings above
that sum. 1t appears that since the corporation
commenced operations the aggregate dividends
have fallen 36 per cent below what the State
permits. and consequently an extra of 30 per
cent can now be lawfully declared. The capital
stock is only 81, 500, 900, while the property of
the road is worth over So, 900, 900, which would
admit of stock dividend of 100 per e at. If that
should be preferred to an extra in cssn. While
the par value of the stock is but $50 per share,
it is difficult to purchase any of il at $l07
Yield to the Wishes of the Dry Goods Men.
The dry goods committee of the city of New
York and the executive committee of the trunk
lines have reached satisfactory agreement in
the matter of Reconsideration of dry goods in the
original and assorted packages. The rate is re-
duced to the basis of so cents per 100 pounds,
New York to Chicago The rate is to continue
experimentaliy until further notice. The action
of the committee is held subject to the approval
of the roads interested, which approval will
doubtless be given. The reduction will be made
under the following conditions:
First--All packages containing goods enumer-
ated. the contents of which cannot be
readily recognized shall be stencled with the
article contained in the package, and also with
the name of the shipper
Second-In case any shipper falsely describes
goods of a higher class for the purpose of cb-
tanning the reduced special thereon, he shall be
required to pay the regular class rate on all his
future shipments.
Third-It is further made condition that the
parties desiring to avail themselves of the re-
duced rates shall unite in the railroad companies
application TO the Legislature at its next session
for the passage of law making 1t a msdemeanor
to misrepresent the nature of any shipment for
the purpose of defrauding the railroad or taking
advantage of honest shippers who correctly de-
scribe their shipments.
Fourth--The regular classification and rates
will be charged on all shipments of dry goods
unless the parties making the shipments have
formerly accepted and agreed in writing to COM
ply with the conditions specified.
The following shows what the new rate will be
from New York to few of the principal points:
Chicago, so cents; Detroit, SO cents; Cincinnati,
"A cents Cleveland, SO cents; Toledo, 80 cents;
Indianapolis, 40 cents This is reduction of
80 1-3 per cent, and applies to Boston, Philadel
phia and Baltimore the same as New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
No Fees.

A Phenomenal SUGGESTIVE old United States
Hotel at Boston, has taken q new lease of life
under the able management of Mr. Haynes, who
has given IL personality that is felt in every
the few hotels that exhibits it's Kitchen and that
pays salaries sufficient to advertise that no fees
are received from Ruests-thus making hotel life
pleasure instead Of persecution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
The b. & O. Cut in Passenger Rates.

NEW YORK, Aug. % The cut in passenger
rates over the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad by, out
side ticket agents and scalpers continues The
regular Office maintains the $15 rate, which is
reduction of IS from the old rates Scalpers are
selling tickets the basis of $12 to Chicago
and sell only B. & O. tickets The Pennsyl-
yania Railroad Company, il ceems, has not been
injured, as yet by the passenger rate cutting,
as it carries all the B. s. o. passengers to Balti-
more over its own lines and receives full rates
for them from the b. e o.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
The WIN of Mrs. Parry.

The will of Mary A. Parry was probated yes
terday. It gives as special bequest $1,000 to
Frank Wright. Of Chicago . son. The rest of
the property, amounting to about $4,000 is to
be divided equally between Wright and his
brother, Mansur e.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
Better than Our Belt Road.

The old Concord New Hampshire Railroad
Company has so much surplus money that it
is troubled to know what to do with it. The
question as to whetherit is the more advisable to
declare an extra dividend or TO double the CAPT
tai stock Of the company was informally dis
eussed BY some Of the largest stockholders Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-24
The Chioago-Memphis Rate war.

CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-The Generalization in
provision rates and packing house products to
Memphis grows more intense as the rivalry be-
tween the roads becomes more pronounced, and
has proceeded to that point where ten-cents-
per-hundred- pounds rules. At this figure
the Illinois Central is securing all the business
the Louisville e. New Albany being un-
able to follow the cut without
hauling for nothing unless it prorated
with its Southern connections. Tha
Southern connections of the Ohio pool roads bav-
ing appealed to the Northern lines to prorate, a
meeting of the pool freight agents was held here
today. They considered the situation at length
and resolved not to comply with the request, but
to insist upon the full tariff rate to the Ohio
river. This will force the Southern roads, if
they care to meet the Memphis rates, and hold
their business, to shoulder the burden themselves
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-05
Tho Amateur Yachtsman.

aEW.HL-N NLIM--N anH. " - y
I'm bad when at sea, yet it's pleasant to me
But, please understand, I ne'cr lose sight OF
Though harder sailers IRE railing.
II only the ship-that's the yacht-wouldnt
And Seel up and down, and roll over,
And wobble shout until l want to get out
But, bless you! my craft, though the wind is
Will staeger when meeting the ripple.
Until Q man feels both his head and his heels
Reversed, as If full of his tipple.
In vain my blue serge when from seas we
emerge.
] can .ssea keep my less' aud l call out for
OF rum, or of soda and brandy.
A yacht is thing, they say, fit for a king,
And still 1t ts not to my liking.
Ny short pedigree does not smack of the sea-
It's all very well when there isn't a swell.
But when that comes on ! must toddlc
And g0 down below, for a bit of a blow
Upsets my u%n-nautical noddlc.
britannia may rule her " waves-1'm a
To Try the same game; but believe inc,
Though !!Ro catching 1T hot yet to give up my
Would certainly terribly grieve me.
You see, its the rage, like the amateur stage,
Or coaching, la~wn-tennis, or hunting;
So. though, I'm SO queer, l go yachting each
And hoist on the so,ent my bunting.
:. London Punch.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-05

colt, an its L IL she'd make any mar
the best aud sweetest wife you could
find in forty mile of Villisca, but good
land, she can't farm; Sic couldn't
plant a truck patch. An then about
her marryin' any Of these smart young
town fellers that's on the lookout for
the best girl agoin'-why, my Joe-he
haint said nothing to mo about it, you
know, but law me. Miss Ethel she got
to calm me 'Pa" three weeks before
she went back to town. and when she
said good-by, she give me a hug an :.
kiss that l says to Joe that ''he'd stand
on his head to git one like that an
sir, that boy, he looked as if he didn't
care a bit an' didn't grudge mo q
cents worth OF it, an Miss Ethel she
just up and give mo another squeeze, a
peepin' over my shoulder at joel see
her an haw! haw! haw! haw!-Rob-
ert j. Bu1dsN IN Chicago Times.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-05
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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-05

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ct thirty. IS; ut forty, 11.6; ut fifty,
10.8; at sixty, SO. The probability for
. total abstainer is. at twenty years,
~; ut thirty 86.5; ut forty, 2S.8; at
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The Somerset reporter., 1886-11-17

On the score OF morals the German
statesman is irrepcoachable. His affec-
ton for his wife and children is deep, and
in return he is made the object Of con-
slant attentions. His SAUNDERS, his mo-
ments of leisure, and even his amuse-
ments are carefully guarded against in
terruption by his family, who forestall
his slightest wishes, share In his pleas
ures and seek to make him forget his
cares In this respect the PRINCES is in
deed model household. So charming
is his home that the chancellor never &C.
cepts any invitations except those OF the
emperor. He never goes to theatres, to
banquets, or to balls.
Still he is very hospitable, and the
guest chambers ct Varzin and Friedrichs-
ruhe are frequently occupied by distin-
guishcd men. In Berlin he receives the
masculine portion Of the Corps Diplo-
matique' once year, and frequently
gives parliamentary dinners which have
a political significance. The chancellor
is an interesting talker, having an mex
haustible fund Of anecdote which he
draws upon the more readily as he is sure
of the strictest attention. He does not
brook contradiction, and his excessive ir-
ritaoility sometimes leads to unpleasant
scenes, for which, however, he he's the
polteness to apologize when his ill-hu,
NOR is spent.-New York Graphic.
The Somerset reporter., 1886-11-17
AMONG THE RAILROADS.

The Northwestern and Minnesota will be
into Chicago March l.
A large sale of land by the Atlantic and
Pacific company to Chicago capitalists is re-
ported 1t is 900, 600 acres at Sl2 an acre
The Canada Southern company's next
statement will show that 100000 has been
expended for new equipment, ETC., since last
Nav, and u surplus to declare dividend OF
2to 90 per cent
Special freight trains have been placed ON
the Pennsylvania road making twenty-five to
thirty miles an hour. This is done to meet
the demands of merchants who complained OF
slow transportation.
The Canadian Pacific will have a through
line to Boston by May l, and cars will be
running through on that date. The route
will be over the Boston and Lowell, and so
direct from Montreal over the st. Lawrence
at Lacbine. where a bridge is now being
built
In 1865 twenty-one roads between Chicago
and the Atlantic coast cities carried y, IA
tons, and the rate per ton per mile was 2ei9
cents In 1885 the same roads carried lou,
or, O25 tons, and the rate per ton per mile
was 1851 This gives some idea OF the prog
ress of American railroads.
The day of narrow gauge railroad building
seems to have passed away and narrow gauge
roads are being changed to the STANDARD
gauge all over the country. The difficulty
about maintaining the narrow gauge system
Is the necessity Of retrucking the cars tc
make connections with standard gauso roads
or transferring freight, either of which ha'
been found imDracticable