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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
Kicked Into . Fortune. A.. Deco. A..
NeE Psrces Scws.

Three years ago Frank Martin was as worthless and lazy vagabond as could bc well produced --one of those who never missed a meal or paid n cent. He resided at place called Era, In Alturas county, Idaho. He had no occupation, and aponged his living from his brother, who had a small ranch and kept the post office by the roadside.
 One day his brothers wife requested Frank to cut her some wood. He re- fused, whereupon she beat him out of the house with rolling pin and for bade him to ever enter her doors again.
 Sad and dciectcd at the condition of affairs, Frank walked up hill in the rear ot his once happy home, until within short distance of It's summit, when he sat down upon a flat rock, at the same time stretching out his legs and bracing his feet against q small boulder in front of him, He had not been there long when the boulder un- der his feci gave way and went rolling down the hill.
 Frank raised himself and listiessly followed after the rolling stone, and, picking it up, was surprised at its weight and general appearance. He showed the stone 10 some miners soon after, and they pronounced it horn silver ore of the richest character.
 Thereupon Frank prospectcd the place and soon found a ledge which paid big from the start, 70 that in less than a month after opening the mine MT. Frank Martins check was worth its face from e3,000 to 5000. He had hosts of warm friends indeed, his friends were rcd hot--reaching from Houston on the north to Biackf0ot in the centre, and Haiiey and Salt Lake in the east.
 One evening, after delivering . ship i,eBt of his oFs to the reduction 1crks at Hailcy, Mr. Martin dropped into s restaurant snd ordered square meal. He was promptly served by . comedy waiter girl, and, being in . somewhat hilarious mood, challenged the girl 10 marry him then and there. She ace cepted his proffer, . justice Of the peace was sent for, and the twain was made one.
 Six months later he sold the mine for e55y000. By drinking and gam bling he has reduced this sum to shout si 900, and his wife has petitioned the probate court to have guardian sp- pointed for him.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
An Ar,is,'s Clever Scheme.
noaton lIoFAld.

Everybody has heard of Frank Mll- lot. He paints picturcs and writes magazine articles In tilne of peace, but when war Ia sonS he becomes a"war correspondent and ls likely to turn up in tho Soudan, the TransvaAl or the Balkans But there was time when he was not known. He sent pictures to exhibitions, to be sure, and good ones, but no one paid any particular attention or said anything about them.
 One day he conceived aa idea. He painted a picture ot lady in black sitting on bright red sofa against a vivid yellow ground, Tho effect was Just a trihe startling. Friends who saw 1t in process of production ex- postulated with hlm and asked him what he was going to do with It. They werc simply as,ounded when he announced that hc was going to send 1t to tho exhibition. They laborcxi with him, but In vain. They told him that the critics would "wipe the floor" with him.
 "They can't do that without men- tioning mo-" sAid Frank, quietly, sand they've never even done that yet."
 To the exhibition tho picture went. It killed everything within twenty feet on either sitie oi 1t, You couldn't hclp looking at 1t. 1t simply knocked you down and held you thero. The critics got into towering passion over 1t. They wrote whole columns about 1t, They exhausted tho English language in abusing 1t. They ridi- culed the committee tha, permitted 1t to be hung, They had squibs and gibcs about It, but every time they spoke of it they mentioned Frank Millct. He suddenly became the beat known art lat In town. Somebody, because of tho stir it had made. bought the pio- ture at good price and removed it to the seclnaion of his own homo.
 When tho next exhibition took place, Frank had another picture rpady, one of a very different sort and very good. hut no better than others which had been exhibited before. The critics had much to say about lt. and "noted with pleasure tho marked im- provctnent" that Millet had made, "Rn evidence" as they modcstly put IL, "of tho value Of criticism, even though se- ycrc, to a young artist" And tho ma jority of them never saw that Frank had simply compelled their attention by clever trick.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
Raiiroading in the Air.

In some mountain locations galler- ies have been cut directly into the rock, the cliff overhanging the road way, and the line being carried in horizontal cut or niche in the wall.,, The Oroya and the Chimbote railways, in South America demanded constant locations of this character. At many 5 points it was necessary to suspend the persons making the preliminary meas
 urements, from the cliff above. The, engineer who made these locations tells the writer that on the Oroya line the galleries were often from one hun , dred to four hundred feet above the
 base of the cliff and were reached gen. erally from above. Rope ladders werei used to great advantage. One sixty. four feet long and one l06 feet long, covered the usual practice, and were. sometimes spliced together. r These ladders could be rolled up and carried about on donkeys or mules. When swung over the side of cliff and secured at the top, and when prac- ], ticable at the bottom, they formed a
 very useful instrument in location and onstruction.-FroHs "FeGks cf En- gineermg," 6y Stdte Engiaeer John
 B0gdrt.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

"That Miss Jones is a nice looking girl, isn't she?"
 "Yes, and she'd be the belle of the town if it wasn't for one thing"
 "What's that?"
 "She has catarrh % bad 1t is un- pleasant to be near her. She has tried . dozen things and nothing helps her. am sorry, for l like her, but that doesn't make 1t any les disegreeable for one to be around her.0
 Now if she had used Dr. 6age's Ca- tarrh Remedy, there would have been nothing of the kind said, for 1t will cure catarrh every time.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
JIJu'S R0maucE.

The town of Gibson, in Indian Ter ritory, is located ou the Verdigris river, an arm of the Kansas. It is also on the border line of the Creek and Cherokee countries, and is nine miles distant, by wagon road, from the mill itary post of Fort Gibson. A few miles to the south the town of Mus kogee furnishes its share of local ex- citement, and is the telegraphing point of many sensational killings. To the east, just twenty miles, Tallequah offers the most decided touch of me- tropolitan life that the residents of Gibson and vicinity can reach with a day in the saddle. Some eight or ten houses, including the store that holds the postoffice, one or two general gro- ceries, the hotel and railroad station building, make the sum total of Gib- sons claim upon the gazetteer.
 Duties incident to the writer's as- sociation with an eastern paper made a stay of several days at Gibson neces- sary during the early part of last summer. There was 8 delightful novelty in the surroundings and re- freshing vigor in the rude simplicity of things and people-character was more rugged. Truth seemed more direct and tenderness held more tears from the very contrast with its set- ting. The great vines climbed and in- terlaced the walnut timber that skirted the pretty stream; birds of brilliant colors were on every side, and the rank luxury of the grasses seemed in har- mony with the buxom outlines of the Indian girls that ripened early, un- conscious of the richness of their health.
 The cowboys came to Gibson on their skittish ponies and dashed away again after bucking start. The In- dians and half breeds, in their som- breros, shirts and leather brooches, came hzily up and moodily departed in the twilight-to the stranger per- picking enigmas of the gloaming, themselves the lingering rays of . great . people whose light has almost gone.
 On one quiet evening of that memorable week, memorable for it's great quiet, the proprietor of the inn was standing with the wri- ter on the porch. The conversa- tion had been upon his half breed daughter-the wife of . full blooded Greek. The girl, with pan of salt, was sprink.ing 1t upon some big stones that were in the meadow, just in front, and the sober cows were com ing up to lick it.
 "Yes, we always give lem salt when it looks4 bit like rain. Am when they smell the damp in the air they come as reg'iar as can be to get it.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

ically at the cylinders that formed the ballast. Then he picked up loose washer that was there, and, like boy, sailed it of into the field. Ba. he couldn't shake off the heaviness of his mood.
 "I don't know how it happened, but when she was about twelve or thirteen she quit asking me questions about Boston am New Orleans aR people, am
 commenced to tell me things-history an old stories. remember one about 6 girl named Charlotte Corduroy, that
 killed . Frenchman in . bath tub. Did you ever hear that? Yes. We'll, l guessed you had, but there was lots of things like that, an then-then-"
 "What, Jim?"
 "Then-I was trying to think how to tell it-but when I would try to teii her any yth;sg, instead Of looking interested like and her brown eyes get tim big, like they used to, I'd catch
 her laughin' quiet like, jest as if she'd
 read 1t % much better than could tell her, am every vacation she seemed 90 much bigger am 90 different that l
 began to stand of like, an once went to call her name an I called her Miss Bella, jest as if I'd never knowd her when she was baby or carried her on my saddle when I went to bring in the cows, or anything like that" 1You called her Miss Bella?" HYes, am ever since that, whenever Eve forgot to say Miss, and it's only
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14
A Great Relief.
Lincoln Journal.

Employe-"Sir, l would like to speak to you a moment upon serious matter.o
 Merchant-"Don't bother me-"
 But -
 "Go away to your work, Ayw
 HI want to ask your consent to my marriage with your daughter, Nellie, and -6
 "Oh, is that 70? Take her, my boy, and may God bless you both. I thought you were going to ask for an increase of salary"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

Are you going to Chicago via Cin- cinnaH or Louisville7 If 70, buy your ticket by the Monon" route. It s the daisy Hne between the Ohio river cities and Chicago.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

Oldboy says that when four women are walking abreast on the pavements they will break ranks for nothing ex- cept . man-with paint pot.-Aet- ropolitan.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

Tramp-"WilI you please give me ten cents to get to Staten Island with?~
 GentlemAn--.Wh hat do you want to go to Staten Island f0r?1
 Trsmp-"I can get job down there for the summer as . wild Indian. "-- Puck.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-07-14

Filing newspapers don't make lem any shsrper.-G Geoygfd Cracker.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-07-11
TOO THIN.

The silly attempts of the Cleve-
landite press to make it appear that
the Chinese in the United States
are publicly rejoicing over the no,ni-
nation Of Harrison could not deceive
. sixteen year old boy in California
Any person who has had an oppor-
tunity to observe the Chinese char
acter soon learns that Mr.. Celestial
10 the most reticent and secrerive
being that walks on two legs. He
is the very embodiment OF diplom-
acy aud his "no savee" covers him
rs \ cloak AMI a mask. Ii, as re-
ported in the Clevelandite papers
some OF the New York Chinese con-
temporaries of the Herald OF that
city and the Examiner OF San
Francisco, have declared for Har-
rison. it's Floods brown stone man.
sion to y peanut shell that they
we're paid to do it by the Nationa
Democratic Comnitiee. When We
see such ultra pro-Chinese Journals
~ the New York Herald and San
Francisco Examiner and Alta go
suddenly converted to the ra5idesi
Of Denis Kaarneyism, We look for
the traditional cat in the meal-bag.
It is but short time ago that the
Herald declared that there were
lsss than two thousand Cinnamon
in the United Sites, ard attempted
% bolster up its statement by statis
x;cs. and in which it's assertion .
vers backed by the Alta in one #
tn usual able and convincing editor
,,ls On how neatly Judges Fiel',
lawyer and Hoffman had knocked
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-07-11
FOR PRESIDENT,
BENJAMIN HARRISON
roF INDIANA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
LEVI P. MORTON
OF NEW YORK.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HARRlAON AND THE CHI.
NESE QUESTION.

The more u e matter of Genera
Harrison's votes upon Chinese re.
striction bills 10 looked into, the
clearer it becomes that the General
voted solely upon legal propositions
involving wha: to his mind, gov
srned and always has been by the
dictates of exact justice, seemed
violations of party comracts. Thus
he objected as . matter of law, OF
honor, Of right. to the attempts
made to either narrow or enlarge,
by legislation, the words Of treaty,
holding that this never can be done,
for treaties would be useless If their
terms could be amended, varied.
enlarged or contracted by legisla-
ton. That is to say, tho words OF
. treaty must stand upon their own
feet and are not capable OF Iegisla-
tive construction that will take them
out OF their ordinary meaning. The
question of the right or wrong, the
wisdom or unwisdom of restricting
Chinese immigration did not enter
into these debates. So far rs Gem
eral Harrison took part. in them,
the consideration was the power OF
tho National Legislature to vary,
enlarge or narrow by Legislation.
the terms of treaty compact.
We now have . statement from
Congressman Morrow, than whom
NO man is better posted on all the
Chinese legislation attempted
or succes sful. Mr.. Morrow is not
the man to make any mistakes in
this matter. He says that not only
il General Harrison opposed to the
unrestricted immigration OF Chinese,
but that lse voted for his, Morrow's,
restriction bill, introduced in the
Senate 10y James G. Fair. General
Harrison did more he was an active
vi the Senate Committee
On Foreign Relations that reported
he bill that, when it came TO the
House, was killed by Representa-
i've Belmont's committee, "becauSe
It vas too severe" and Belmont is
! sinon-pure Democrat, so also were
he majority Of the members of the
1t was this bill, says
hr. Morrow, upon which the new
reaty with China was based. MIR.
Morrow adds that of his own knowl-
,dge General Harrison was with
he Pacific coast in the forty-ninth
Congress upon the question OF re-
friction and is now, and that is
Iufficient, az he we'll says.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-07-11
the Restriction Act into smithereens
and settled the Chinese question
for the Chinese.-Auburn Repubii-
can.
PACIFIC COAeT ITEMS.

| Superior Judge Keyser o
Marysville has decided that vagrant'
are not entitled to jury trials.
An old man was knocked in.
sensible and robbed Of SIS and
some jewelry at Maiysville Friday
night.
-Anschlag, the Garden Grove
murderer, is angry.because the Gov
erpor refuses to interfere in his case.
r. Ayers, a Los Angeles junk
dealer, was dragged tn death near
Ell Monte Sunday by runaway
team.
"A petition has been forwarded
to President Cleveland from Salt
Lake asking that Chief Justice Zane
of Utah be reappointed.
Burglars entered the store of
F. Clewe, at Sonoma, Friday night,
and after cutting hole in the safe
fled without disturbing its contents.
IS. J. Lank was killed at Winnie
mucca Saturday, the yard engine
running over him. He Was an en-
ploye Of the Southern Pacific Com
pany.
The largest meeting ever held
in Eel River Valley was the Repub-
lean ratification gathering last Sat-
urdav at Rhoneryille, Humboldt
county. Cal.
Jerome j. Anderson, an old
man who slept upon a barge at Sac
remento, is missing. It's supposed
he fell into the river and was
drowned.
The murderers OF old man Low
ell are 10 be taken to Ell Dorado
county for trial for murder before
being tried for larceny in Sacra-
nento cornty.
John Geeiles, a settler near /
Aims, Or, was found dead in his
chair in his cabin last Friday, hav-
ng evidently been in that condition
or several weeks.
-Anador Cardoza and Vicente
Martinez 9uarreled at Sacramento.
ind tie latter, after receiving
blow in the forehead. dropped dead
I is thought from heart disease.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-05
THE DAIRY.

BE regular in feeding. watering
and milking. il you would have good
cows.
Prof Roberts, of Cornell Univer.
sity, says that COW that makes six
pounds of butter week on cold water
will make seven pounds If the water be
warmed.
Prof. De Muth. ofDe Paw Univor.
sity, says that food which fattcns q cow
for market will ruin her for milk, and
that hay fed between meals is worse
than wasted, as it clogs the stomach
and interferes with the digestion of the
regular ration.
The average quantity of milk re-
quired for pound of cheese is five
quarts. One hundred pounds of milk
will make ien-pound cheese. The
milk rs 1t comes from the COW Is just
about tho right temperature to mako
cheese. If two milkings be used, tho
nights milk should be cooled Mt once
and warmed in the morning st. Louis
Republican.
Prof. II. +. Alvord. OF Massachu-
sets Agricultural College. believes that
milk Is more susceptible to the inilu-
ence of the air than to the breathing
of the COW. He would draw the milk
in the open air, and thus have 1t thor
oughly oxygenated II the cows be
MIXED in the same air in which they
stand the milk will be bad; but II
MIXED in fresh air the trouble will DO
obyiated.
"A teaspoonful of dissolved char
coal given to COW or animal when
sick will regulate the stomach within
very few moments, and where sickness
is caused by overeaing, or the animal
is badly bloatcd by eating green apples
or in fact any thing that tends to cause
indigestion, it will prove sure and
quick cure. American Ddirymon.
The use of n thermometer in the
COW shed is highly recommended by an
experienced English daiiyman. He
agrees to the Importance of giving
warm drinking water, but says it is
quite as important to keep tho cows in
temperature Of sixty degrees They
consume less food and make more milk
when kept thus comfortable than II
they have to eat an extra bulk to keep
warm. Farm and Home.
Ignorant quacks sometimes treat
cows for disease they call "hollow
horn" giving the unfortunate animals
all sorts of vile nostrums, and, II tho
animal dies, pointing out its hollow
horns MS evidence of the correctness Of
their diagnosis. 1t might be well for
farmers to bear in mind that the horns
of all animals are hollow. more or less,
the cartilage which fills the horn while
the beast is young being changed into
true horn by the deposition of the min.
eral natter 1t is safe to set that mas
down as an ignoramus who calls hollo-
horn q disease.-M T. Times.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-05
VENTILATION AND LIGHT.
Two Subjects OF Unusual Interest ia
Dairy Farmers.

Aho cubJctts VI AhANtNaN w
Dairy Farmers.
Ventilation is easy. Warm air rises.
The air expelled from tho lungs. in
contact with the body of the excrement.
will rise. and collect near the roof,
Though the c,rbonic dioxidc is heavier
than air of the same temperature, by rea-
son Of its being heated as it comes from
the lungs. it will rise to the roof. Let
an opening be made in the roof, and
all the foulness will escape. A lalticed
cup0la will exclude rain and snow,
while not Interfering with the egress Of
the foul air. Even openings just under
the caves, where they will be protected
from the snow and rain. will answer
quite well. 1t 10 better to have, also,
pure air admitted below; but unless
this can be admitted through an under
ground way at least one hundred feet
long, do not admit it at all; depend
upon the pure air entering from above
and slowly sinking. 1t will pay well
to make this underground way for any
considerable shelter. 1t must be at
least three feet below tho surface;
except at the extremities, of course.
For enclosing ii there is nothing more
economical than pine planks. Strange
as it may seem to many, pine altogether
underground lasts better than oak or
almost any other wood. / learned this
some years ago. when / assisted at
various times in exhuming fifty or more
bodies from an old buryins-ground on
my fathers farm. The pine coffinswere
intact, when oak, walnut. ETC.. not so
long in the ground, were rotted. A
barn should always have air-shafts
reaching from basement TO roof
For the same reason that he has an
unusual interest in ventilation, the
dairyman has an unusual interest in
light in the COW stable. Light is as
essential to the health and thrift Of
COWS, as it is to the health and thrift Of
nearly every one Of the higher animals.
But besides this. sunlight is an inl-
portant agent in purifying the stable.
Filth and foul gases breed in darkness;
sunlight is their foe. The more light
admitted into the stable, the less damp
ness and contamination. And why
should there not be an abundance of
light, where glass Is cheap and can be
protected by a few barsP have no
excuse for basement stables so situated
or put so far down in the earth that
they can not be we'll lightcd.-F M.
Stdhl. in Mirror and Farmer.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-05
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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-05
Enriching Milk by Feeding.

There is great natural difference in
cows with regard to the richness of
milk they give, and this is only par
TALLY modified by feeding. jersey cows
make yellow butter and good deal Of
it. according to the quantity Of milk,
even in winter. If the feed be dry and
poor they will not give so much. A COW
that naturally gives thin, poor milk
may be made to give somewhat better
milk by giving her rich food, ms corn
meal or oilmenls. Probably If this was
continued while the COW is bearing
calf the progeny will inherit this tend
encv to put more of the milk into the
cream pot In this way our large milk
ers may in time be bred as equally re-
markable for butter production. There
is hint in this fact also against neg
lecting the feed Of cows while they are
dry and near dropping their calf. 1t
might make trouble with their bags to
feed rich or succulent food at this time,
but this is undoubtedly the best way to
develop good animals for the dairy.
either for milk or butter -Anierican
Cttitiuafor.