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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07

too. He knows whar da keeps 1t. He knows dat de ole oman dat's rakin' up leaves gwine ter drap dat rake putty soon an make CT chicken holler. Uh- huh, you better b'lebe de squawl O CT chicken is music ter dat mans soul. David mout CT loved de music O his harp, but dat nigger preacher ain't foolin' wid no harps, l tell you. Oars mo music ter him in CT ole shanghai den dar is CT pianer. He aim foolin' way his time on no mologin. He'd ruther were de squeal O CT pig dat is bein' turned inter traish meat den ter lissun ter de fines brass ban in de country. Yas, sah, Pm gwine back down dar ter poke roun' erwhile. Wall, I mus be gwine. Powerful busy deze days. Mister, wush you'd sing dat song ergin, fur e l tells yer, it sorter makes me feel cuis."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
MMr. Cattleton. l think this affair

"Mr. Cattleton, I think this affair can be smoothed over for dollar"
 "It can be done for less"
 "All right, then, for less. Let me have fifty cents."
 "No."
 "I could get along very well on a quarter. May I look to you for that amount?"
 "You may look to me for any sum you choose but you won't get it."
 "Got any chewing tobacco about you?"
 "No."
 "Give me match"
 "Haven't one."
 "Well (getting up and stretching himselD, I must go. I have always had suspicion that the French drama was hollow and false. Shakespeare would not have made such a mistake. Hereafter l will turn my attention to the Russian Eealists. Tolstoi may not inspire, but he does~not deceive. Is that your cigar stump lyfnythere?"
 "Yes."
 "May take it?"
 "No."
 "There is no doubt about it. The French drama is capering steer with the hollowhorn. Good-day, sir."- Opie ?. Read.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
CHICAGO ILL., AND LITTLE RoCK ARK SATURDAY, ls

stage having been painted AS black board, 1t struck me that it would be a good idea to write in huge charao- ters, with chalk, for the benefit of the audience what tho scene was supposed to be, as tor instance:
 "This Is a lawn with a cottage at the right, fountain on the loft and woodland pasture in the rear"
 Intended to copyright this scheme, but few weeks afterward, being in San Francisco, attended a Chinese theatre. where they tako six months to play one piece and never change the scene. was In company with a wealthy old Chinese gentleman, N tea merchant, who dressed in silks and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day, and could speak better English than Dennis Kcarney will ever learn. l observed that once in while little Chinaman would come on and hang up board with lot of tea box liter ature on 1t. asked the tea merchant what that meant and he said "Why that's the way our actors change the scene. The characters on the board describe it."
 This led me to abandon the scheme of copyrighting my black board idea. The Chinese had been using my scheme, at that date, more than two thousand years. This having been over ten years ago they have now been using 1t upward of two thousand and ten years, and was somewhat antedated in tho natter WW Iiss- cher.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
A VOTE OF THANKS.

1Scene, Kentucky legislature. Mem- Der from White Oak County-"Mis- ter Speaker, I promised my people, sah, that when come here I would do something for the over- burdened tax payers. With coon-skins sellin' slow am feeble at ten cents apiece, and with taxes as frisky as young widder, it pushes us nightly to git along. We ain't disposed to complain, but jest want to state few lacks. When the hog cholera come putty nigh depop- erlatin' our neighborhood, we didn't beg the government to help us, like the folks down on the Mis'sippy river when they git overfowed, but tuck our medicine with silent grin, in which thar want no mirth. MT. Speaker, my folks have hearn that thar's good deal O money banked up in the treasury-in fact, we have hearn that we have got surplus, an' now, sah, we don't want that money to lay thar an rust. We want the surplus O the great commonwealth O Kain- lucky, sah, to be devoted to the build ing O more still houses an'-"
 Sergeant-at- Arms Oabbing the floor with his painted spear -"Mr. Speaker, message from the governor Speaker takes the message and reads.
 "To the General Assembly-Gentle- men: It is my painful duty to an- nounce that Colonel Dick Tate, our state treasurer, is a defaulter to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars, that we no longer have sur plus and that the treasurer has run away"
 Member from White Oak County "Mr. Speaker, ef that is the case, my remarks with regard to the disposi- tion of the surplus air null an void. I now move you, sah, that a reward be offered for Colonel Tate"
 Member from Hoss County-"Mr Speaker, I understand that Colonel Tate has five hundred barrels oi whisky stored in warehouse, and-' Member from White Oak County "Ar. Speaker, recall my motion about a reward bein' offered for Colo nel Tate. In putin away that much whisky he proves that he knows how to provide for his household and shows us that he haint wasted the states money. ther'fo' move you sah, that vote O thanks be give the colonel fur his fursightedness."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
A BRILLIANT BURLEsoUE.

Ten years ago, while the writer was publishing a "try- weakly" newspa- per at Visalia, Cal, an amateur dra- matic company from Grangeville came to our town to "play piece" Visalia was the courthouse town of Tulare county, with about 5000 people, and the place was proud of quite neat little theatre, called Centennial Hall. Grangeville was cross roads village in the county, about twenty miles away.
 The company played melo drama, of tho "unhAnd -me- villain" sort, and the performance was the greatest suc- cess that have ever seen in the show business, and have witnessed many different kinds of entertainments on four continents, not to mention New Jersey and the Sandwich Islands.
 If smart manager could get such a company as that and play such piece, he would soon have money to throw at the birds, and writers of burlesque would turn green and wither with envy, and lumber the earth with shriveled remains compared to which "She," after the fire, would be men, tioned as "a lovely corpse"
 The people in the company were dead letter perfect in their lines, and they read them in manner which no pen will ever describe. The nearest approach to such description would be that of small school boy reciting from memory, Mary had a little lamb," or, You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage"
 Plumply, and as though she were delivering a memorized sentence from Virgil, one young lady declared : "Although--there-is - smile - upon-my - face there-is-sadness -in-my-heart- hay - hay hay" and this in a monotone that would have made grist-mill ashamed of itself.
 In one young mans lines occurred the exclamation "s'death," {" and he pro- nounced 1t with the "s" 90 far from "death" that you would have thought that death had fed before 1t.
 The audience screamed with laugh ter in the most solemn places and many fell from their seats in psrox- ysms of cachinnation. As for myself was carried home on a cot and had to be prized out of bed next morning The affair was a roaring comedy built upon the deep foundations of gut teral melodrama.
 Speaking of plays, while was once mastering dramatic company toward Poverty, Starvation, and other outly- ing precincts in Southern Caliscr- mia, our glorious aggregation of stellar attractions and histrionic pIan- cts of less magnitude played in . school house at . place called Pomona -a place which I always supposed was 90 named because there wasn't an apple tree or fruit-bearing shrub within ten miles. We built . sort of stage in one end of this temple of learning, spreading huge horse blank cts for proscenium wings. We had no scenery, but the rear wall of the
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
WAS ACCOMMODATING.


 A weary traveller stopped at way side olapboard storc, among tho East Tennessee mountains, and addressing an old fellow who nodded at him, said
 My dear sir, am exceedingly hungry, having ridden all day with out anything to cat, What have you gotp"
 "Wall, I dunno Ain't took stock lately"
 "Got somc cheese, haven't youf''
 "Did have some, finest you over seed, but the rats got foul uv hit"
 You surely have crackcrs1"
 "Did havc bout CT ha'fcr box uv about the finest crackers In this yero country, but my ole hon got ter layin' In the box, an now she's a-aettin' on tho aigs an has got sich good start that don't want ter interfere with her"
 "Very singular
 "Don't know that it is, fur I've kcp' sto' fur or good while, an have no- tIccd that hon would ru.hcr git in box an lay on the crackers than putty nigh anywhar else. Sccms lika she ken lay better 'i'cars tar bc suthin' crbout the crackers that inspires her"
 "You have some dried hcrrings, l suppose"
 "Yes, some nv the finest ever seed, but, you EGG, the cat has got In the habit nv draggin' 'em over tho fio' at night. She ehaws little bit on one an then on another, an has made some nv 'em look sorter wustsd, still, ef you think you ken find one that's above suspicion, wy, go round thar an hep yo'sc'i."
 "I don't care to take any chances"
 "Jest ez well not, reckon, fur tho fio' ain't so mighty clean an Pm putty sartin that she's drug the most uv them fish around even ef she hain't nibblcd at 'em much"
 "HAve you got any fresh eggsi"
 "Wall, did have some uv ths freshest ever seed, but wouldn't like to risk 'cm now"
 "Great goodness, can't you give me something?"
 "Thar's middlin' nv meat over thar. You might cut you oG few slices and br'ile 'em here on thc coals."
 "I thank you for the snggestion.'
 The traveller cut of several slices of meat and soon had them broiled. After satisfying his hunger, he said
 T don't know what l should have done had it not been for that bacon."
 "Comes in mighty handy when s ieller's sorter haungry."
 "Yes, and although I have eaten many better meal must say that never enjoyed one more. How much do owe you1"
 "NothiR tall"
 "You are surely very accommodat- Ing, but you cannot afford such liber- ality.'
 "Ob, yas, in this case 1 could, fur you see the meat want no use ter me. Old Bill Hinsley'sdog drug 1t outcn the smoke-house luther day an wuz drag gin' 1t 'cross fep, when one uv the boys made him drap 1t. The meat was fotch back ter me ar ez the dog went mad the next day was sorter 'feerd ter eat-w'y, Pm sorry you pear ter be snatched, stranger. Wall, goodbye. When you air passin', drap ts0
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
NOT so MUCH OF A SUCCESS.

"Yes," said business man, "Single- ton has been wonderfully successful, not particularly on account of any shrewdness but because he s such . close collector. He is undou btedly the best collector In this city"
 "I have heard SO" some fellow re- marked, land l used to believe 1t, but I have found that he is not such suc- cessful collector after ail."
 .H0w so?"
 "Well, you sec, have owed him . bill for quite while and he never hes succeeded in collecting it."
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07

Ministers Wife Cto husband)- Twill you put up the stove to-day, dear?"
 Minister (vexatiously)-T suppose I will have to-"
 Wife-"And don't forget, John, that you are minister of the gospel" -Harpey's Bazay.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26

The latest thing out IN the way of
household game is parloT tennis. This
new and fascinating game is played with
a fat bat and twenty-four balls, eolorad,
counting as follows: Ten white balls
count FIVE; four blue, ten; two red, fif,
teea; two yellow, twenty; two pink,
twenty-five, two green, fifty; TWO gold,
one hundred The balls are PLAYED one
at time, the players object being to land
them by batting into a net, which is
called the goal" The game may be
played individually or by sides II the
latter. equal number of players will be
chosen by the holdess OF tally cards. a
lady and gentleman alternately being
selected and tally cards given them,
numbered in rotation, to designate
them when TO play. Each side will
have three or more innings, to be de-
termined by the host, who shall be the
umpire. TO decide all points in the game.
The side having the largest number OF
tallies of the three innings shall be de.
clared the champions The lady and
gentleman on the winning side having the
largest grand total of tallics will be en-
titled to the grand prizes The lady anC
gentleman on the losing side who have
the smallest grand total of tallies will b,
entitled TO c0mical or BOBBY prize
This game will undoubtedly have grea
run this winter. 1t is not as quiet ant
dignified as the angling parties, but it il
more exciting and will be more popula
among the young people.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
Great Find Of Early Paintings.

Seeking in Lower Egypt, during the pres
ent year, for remains of the wonderful laby-
rinth Of 5000 chambers described by Herod-
otus, Mr.. Flinders Petrie seems to have
found what he sought, with the pyramidal
tomb of its builder, and also came upon a
great cemetery whose existence had hitherto
been unknown. This cemetery covers about
one hundred acres, and dates from the
GrRco-Roman period, one or two centuries
after Christ. From it Mr.. Petrie has taken
hundreds Of mummies, with u vast collection
of objects buried with them. These articles
include Itinerary vases, amulets, toys, a tin
ned copper mirror, a burning lens, a set Of
leather workers needles, u flint knife, and
by far the most interesting of ala splendid
series of portraits, painted upon the cases of
deliberately bandaged mummies, and repre-
senting the living persons whose remains
were placed in these collins seventeen CEN
turtles ago. These pictures will add an i'm
portant chapter to the history of art.-Ar-
kansaw Traveller
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26

Some OF the oldest occupations pursued by
the inhabitants Of this wonderful city of
ours owe their popularity TO their mere SIM
plicity. Unless there was irrefragable proof
to the contrary, no one would believe that a
man could earn livelihood by devising quaint
and curious figures out of old lobster shells.
A business more practical, but none the
less simple, is conducted by man in Frank
lin street. He makes nothing but paste.
which he supplies to publishers of periodi-
calls, book binders, paper hangers and others.
The paste, which is made by steam process,
is supplied in small barrels weighing about
forty pounds A thick crust which forms on
the top preserves the paste and keeps it sweet
for months A barrel will serve for wrap.
ping about $1,000 different copies of paper
and costs ST. This price includes cost Of
transportation. The old barrels are called
for and are usually dirty and soiled. They
are put through a cleansing process by steam
and come out as clean as wban they left thu
cooper's hands This queer business hal
proved a great convenience to publishers
New York Evening Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26

Aliarhacher, the prigter If Versailles, who
was supposed 10 have inherited 25,G00,000
francs from atestator VINO died in America. is
still playing the part OF q won ier.ng heir. =
1t is stated that the printer really received
over E3 600 from q banker in order to enable
him to go to America. where his property was
awaiting him, and that the new Monte Cristo
has actually sailed for the "SJates.n One
thing, however, IS certain, that ever since
the announcement Of Ailauacher's reputed
good luck the Office of rhe printing establish
ment wherein he worked has been inun-
dated by letters from al parts Of France.
Among thee epistles were 500 communion
tons of all sorts and sizes from women, 80
letters from people who wanted to float news
papers, waxwcrks, wa-erworks, railways,
mines and every kind of financial under
taking: 80 letters from paJentees. % epistles
from poets Offering copies OF their latest pro-
ductions, and nyriad Of Others from trades
men, struggling lawyers, htterateurs, paint
ers, musicians, actors. and "quacks.' The
women's letters were the most amusing OF
all There was the svette and symmetrical
sylph, with golden hair, who had already
been noticed; the widow of a general who
modestly represented herself as of a certain
age but well preserved, still beautiful il
every way, and calculated to assure the felic
ity of millionaire. Then there were dozen:
of demoiselles avec taches and numerou:
damsels without any blemish; laundres:
who loved compositoTs, and a score of MILL
ners, each of whom assn ed NJ Allanachel
that she was ready 10 die for him if neces
sary.-Paris Cor London Telegraph
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
Probably a Mound Builders Relic

A man named A Bradlow, while max
ing an excavation near Muscatine the
other day, discovered and dug out com
plcte skeleton OF p female in perfect
state of preservation, in q sitting posi-
ton. Around the neck was string of
beads, thirty in number, OF a yellow met
al, probably gold, they are in dimensions
from the size of pea up to that of a
hickory nut and of irregular form, The
string, or whatever substance had held
them together, fell to pieces when
touched. Around each arm and above
the elbows were ornaments like those
around the heck, graduated in the same
way, but only half the number in each.
making sixty in all In the skele-
tons left hand was rudely formed
ring about four inches in diameter and
made of stone similar to that o. which
arrow heads are made Some material
cnclrcled the head, but time and decay
had reduced 1t TO an impslpable brown
powder, making itimposslblc to tell what
it had been. To the right Of the figure
we're three vessels Of reddish colored
stone, oval in form and Of different sizes
the largest would perhaps hold gallon
the next about half as much, and the
small one not more than pint. 1t i:
probably relic of pr storic times, ans
will be something to please and puzzle
scientists. Mr. A. took precautions tc
preserve every thing as carefully as pos
sible.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
KNIGHTS NEARLY THROUGH.


Summary Of Assembly Proceedings-Bar-
rvs New Organization.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 26-Saturday's pro-
ceedings OF the Knights Of Labor assembly
were as follows: Gen Worthy Foreman
Wheat nominated the following as MEM
bers of the cooperative board: H. A. Beck
meyer, of Newark, n. j.; John OKeefe, of
Rhode Island; Rudolph kirchman, of St
Louis, and Oliver D. Benoit, of Montreal,
and they were all elected, thus closing this
portion Of the business.
The legislative committee reported in
favor of asking congress to make gambling
in wheat an offense punishable by imprison-
ment and fine; indorsing the Australian
system of voting, by which complete secresy
of the ballot is secured. A proposition to
establish a system of jury trial in the order
was debated without action, and after a
long debate an amendment to the law for
bidding the sale Of liquors at gatherings Of
the knights was referred TO the committee.
1t provides that liquors may be sold at such
gatherings by persons not knights, but nc
knight 'as knight" shall do the selling
The assembly is nearly through its business
and will adjourn shorty.
Barry is active in promoting the new or
der of United Labor, to which he expects Il
bring the assistance OF the trades unions
He left yesterday for Philadelphia, wher,
/ his plans are 10 be perfected
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
Balk-Line Billiard Tournament.

CHICAGO, Nov. 26-The fourteen inch
balk-line billiard tournament, open to all
players in the country except Schaefer and
Siosson, will begin tonight at the Madison
Street theatre. The players who will parti-
cipate are Eugene Carter, W. H. Cation,
William Hatley, Henry Rhines, John
Moulds, Frank Maggioli, Frank Ives and
Thomas j. Gallagher. There will be two
tournament games and an exhibition of
fancy shots by Schaefer each night To de-
eide the prizes will require twenty-eight
games. These will be played during the
next two weeks, twenty four being played at
night and four at matinees. The matinee
games will be played Thanksgiving after
noon and Saturday, Dec s. Each game will
be 200 points. Schaefer and Tom Foley
manage the affair.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26

He democratic party has been killed
Sssal times, but somehow or other it
makes wonderful resurrectious. When it
was beaten by William Henry Harrison in
1870 the cry was that the tariff question
had destroyed it. Four years afterwards
1t stood up and elected Polk on the Texas
and tariff issues. In 1S4S the the party
was once more declared surely dead. The
tariff had done it again and Zachary Tay-
Tor was chosen President, yet in 1852 the
democracy put Franklin Pierce in the
White house and followed up its success
by electing James Buchanan. 1t lost the
country on the sectional issues of 1860
1t won in 1884 and now we are again as
sured that the tariff discussion has buried
it forever. But the democracy is a long
lived party, and in 1899 history may re-
peat itself and the control of the govern,
ment pass once more INTO its hands.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26

some OF the democratic and all of the
mugwump papers are declaring that if
Mr.. Harrison proceeds after his inaugur>
alton to make clean sweep of Mr.. Cleve>
lands sppointees the country will be
round ready to sweep the republicans
from power at the next election. This is
AL the verlest nonsense. Every respecta-
oie democrat now holding office believes
that true civil service reform which
.Seto the party in power the controI
- Responsibility of the government
Thai means for the next four years thai
We republicans shall hold the offices.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
Owe MORE VICTIM.
The Fearful Increase of Disaster from
Small Beginnings-A Prominent Ex-
ample and the Warning that
-

Colonel V. Whitman, Of Brooklyn. returned
from his vacation feeling in perfect health. As q
result be was careless. The next thing was a
cold: then pneumonia; then death. Nearly all
physical troubles start with q cold, and this is
Just the season when Il is most easily taken.
Some sudden change checks the action OF the
body, close the circulation. and lays the Pounds
ton Of death. Stop the cold in its start and you
stop the disease. A cold requires the stitch in
time
There are many ways OF attempting to stop a
cold. but al physicians now agree that there II
only one sure way and that lie, by the use Of pure
stimulants. The pores must be opened, the cir
culatiou aroust d and vigor awakened. Nothing
now known to the world does this so certainly a.
Duffy's fure Malt Whiskey. II is remedy
not a beverage. II has been used for year ant
Is the most popular remedy before the public
Doctors, clergymen, and temperance people gen
eraly endorse ii for its health-giving qualitlei
and il has become family necessity.
Rev B. wills, of Meade Centre, Kansas. SAYS
II am Presbyterian clergyman, Doctor OF D1
vinity, not Of medicine but am NOT afraid to SO.
that Duffs Formula and Duuffy's Pure Malt Wits
Ike, are the purest and most effective PREPARATIONS
as medicines, l know Of. and my experience is 4
larve one"
MANY INSCRIPTIONS dealers claim they hsv,
something "just as good" Beware of all sucl
claimants, and secure only the genuine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-26
LOCAL NOTICES.
Ice cream at Krell & Maths

ICE cream ~ hIbll q MALI 5.
Costume notices for children's par>
ties, something new, jus; received at
krell & Maths.
The Frizzell pro rty west of Dauber's
blacksmith shop, will be sold at Masters
sale al p. m, Saturday, Nov. "a
Six room house to rent on Sixth ave-
nue., between Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets. Enquire of E. W. Hurst.
The finest line of candy baskets and
candy boxes to be found in the three
cities; also the finest line of fine French
candies at Krell & Maths confectionery
Families giving receptions and parties
CAL find large and verv fine assortment
OF paper cases, paper napkins, wedding
cake boxes and also some very fine favora
for parties AT Krell s. Maths.
Insure in the Bovlston Insurance Co.,
OF Boston, Mass. organized 1879. As
sets nearly S1000,000 E. W Hurst,
agent Office over Rock Island National
bank.