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The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

cannot Arkansas, with an equally good prospect of success, go into commer- cial orchardiDg and supply the apple market of some of the northern cities, which of late years have been running so low? The old orchards of Michi- gan, where a large portion of the northern market supply has been com- ing from, are dying and are not being replaced to any great extent. This gap must be filled by some apple sec- tion-why not Arkansas? This is only hint of what might be done, and it is hoped that some enterprising man will take hold of it and show what can be done.
 Should these lines chance 10 be read by any one who is seeking location for fruit growing, we say to you, come to Arkansas and see for yourself. -E. & Richman, Az. Ea. Station.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Thought It Was Benedict.
Texas Siftlnrs.

"Arnold is dead," said Mir. Jones at the breakfast table, laying down the morning paper and slipping his coffee
 "He is dead, is he?" said Mrs. Jones "Died in England, suppose2"
 "Yes, he died in England"
 "I know he went there right after trying to betray his country" said Mrs. Jones, refectively. "Pity they hadn't caught him instead of that Major Andre. He lived long while, pears to me-"
 "Why, who are you talking about?s
 "Arnold-Benedict Arnold"
 "You're way off, mother. That Arnold has been dead over ninety years. This is Arnold the English author"
 "Is that so2 Thought it was Bene- dict. Never read about his death in the newspapers"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
The First American Newspaper.


 It has generally been believed that the Boston Neacsletter, published in 1704, was the first journal printed in America, and this belief has been sup- ported by several books of reference. But a still earlier paper was entitled Pu6ltck Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic, printed, according to its imprimatur, "by R. Pierce for Benjamin Harris, at the London Cof- fee House, Boston," Only one mum. Der was ever issued (bearing date Thursday, September 25, 169O), and of that number only one copy is known to exist-the copy preserved in the Colonial State Paper office in London. The journal was by II inches in size, and consisted of a folded sheet three pages of which were occupied with printed matter. two columns to the page the fourth page being left blank. From the prospectus we learn that it was the publishers intention to issue the paper monthly "unIess any Gut of occurrences happen" in which case it is somewhat vaguely stated that it would be "issued oftener." But God disposed otherwise of this newspaper mans proposal-for it so happened that the Colonial authorities cast an evil eye upon the sheet, deeming it contained reflections of very high nature," and it was forthwith SUD- pressed.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Songs for the Children.

A dainty new book, and choice and pleasing collection of songs for the Kindergarten, Primary School, or Home, is the new volume just issued and entitled "Songs for Kindergarten and Primary Schools" The words and music in this book are entirely new, never having been published be- fore in any form. "Songs for Kinder. garten and Primary Schools" will be sent to any address by mail, on receipt of price, 30 cents, by Oliver Ditson X Co.,, Boston.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Interesting to Travellers South.

The section of the south attracting by it's wonderful development and prosperity the attention of the whole world is traversed by the Queen X Crescent Route Cincinnati Southern and associate roads). Express trains, the fastest in the south, leave Cincin- nati daily at 7:55 8. m. and p. m. for Chattanooga, Birmingham, Att lanta, Decatur, Gadsden, Tuskaloosa, etc. When going south do not fail to procure from your nearest agent tickets which read via Cincinnati and the Queen & Crescent Route. h. quiries promptly responded to by H. Collbran, general passenger agent, Cincinnati.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Companion Pictures.

The historical pictures of the "Ark. ansaw Traveller" and "The Turn O. the Tune," together with the origina dialogue and music of the "ArkansaW Traveller" mailed to any address ol receipt of forty cents. Read & Ben. ham, 29S Dearborn St., Chicago, III.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

Husband-"No meat for dinner to- day? Why? Didn't you telephone to the butcher to send up that roast we agreed upon this morningp"
 Wife-"No, dear; Pm sorry. But the fact is I was studying my memory lesson and forgot all about it."-Low- eU (lMdss) Citizen.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

T. R. Sullivan, the dramatizer of "Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde" :" has writ ten for tho July Scri5nes,s story called "4aestro Ambrogio,n ? which ia said to show the same fine qualities of imagination and style which his pre- vious stories in- this magazine -aThe Lost Rembrandt" and "The Tincture of Success"-so gracefully exhibited.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

A South Carolina girl was mar ried i've times in seven weeks, and is now bothered to know which one of the chaps is her true husband. She has been cent to jail to think it over. -Ench0age.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

Mabel Ca stranger in town)-"Is Maud Hifiy a girl who cares very much for styie?"
 Mamie-"StyleS I should think SO. Why, they say the affected thing eats her very meals of fashion plate !n- Nesc Hdven Nescs.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

"Inquirer" wants to know how some men who have moderate salaries can live so high. It is all in the man. agement. my boy. They fell collectors to call again.--Aaniston (Ala.) Hot Blast.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
A New Book.

A pamphlet on the nature, causes and successful treatment of asthma, bronchitis, catarrh and consumption, by Dr. Robert Hunter, of 1OS State street, Chicago, will be sent free to all persons afflicted on application as above.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

Wintersmith's Tonic Syrup for chills and Fever is certain cure and pleas ant to take. See testimonial in this paper.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23
Arkansas Grapes.

Yesterday MT. Thomas Carter of Lavaca brought to town a section of grape vine which he says is of the Concord variety. The vine was a very old one and was dying, which induced him to cut it. The section brought in measures thirty inches in circum- ference, and MT. Carter states that forty gallons of wine were made from it's fruit last season. This is very large for a tame grapevine to grow, but in our bottoms the common wild winter grape grows even larger, and the writer has seen vines, one of which sawed up and piled, made nine- tenths of cord of wood. The fact has long been demonstrated that Arkansas is the natural home for the grape Fort Smith Times.
 Wiley Jones, member of the Im- migration Executive Committe of Jefferson county, residing at Pine Bluff, is colored man, was a slave before the war-has since accumulated fortune of over one hundred thou sand dollars-owns the street railway and other valuable property, is among the foremost in all enterprises that promise to benefit the public and is re- spected by all classes. Instances like the above (and we have a number in the state) ought to refute the often told tales at the north that the col ored race have no rights at the south.
 At fine live stock show held q short time ago at Marshall, Howard county, this state, a negro owned and exhibited one of the finest horses on the ground-Forest and Fa,m.
 For full and complete information
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

chi,dsso csy sss Pischsr's cassossa.
 -AdA
The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-23

For full and complete information in regard to railroad lands in the state of Arkansas, write Hon. Thos. Essex or Hon. Thos. M. Gibson, Little Rock, Ark, and it will be furnished free.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss c. ELBE has passed a success
full examination in dentistry in Sweden.
DR.. EVA HARDING has been ap.
pointed physician to the new Soldiers
and Orphans Home at Atchison. Kan.
Mrs. JEANETTE THuRBER, herself
good business woman, has offered
five hundred dollars toward the estab-
lishment of a school for the business
training Of women.
Mrs. MERRILL L. GATES wrote the
centennial hymn for the New Bruns-
wick On. j. Historical Club, at its
meeting in commemoration of the rat
itication of the constitution OF New.
Jersey, held in December l6, in Rut-
gers College.
Mrs. EMMA p EWING, professor Of
domestic economy in Purdue Univer-
sity, Indiana, has been engaged by the
regents of Kenyon College, Ohio, to
deliver course of lectures on house.
hold science, during February. to the
young ladies attending that institu-
tion.
Miss VERONA JoRBEAU rescued a
child from the track IN front OF train
at Newcastle, Pa. a few days ago.
while a dozen people stood on the plat
form paralized with fear. The train
passed SO close that Miss Jorbcau was
thrown to the ground with the child in
her arms. but neither was hurt.
LOUISA ALCoTT contributed num-
Der of her books, with her autograph
on the title-page, to the Woman Suf-
fraA Bazaar. Mrs. Susanna M. Salter,
Mayor of Argonia, Kan, also contrib
uted autographs. and so did the five
ladies who compose the City Council
of Syracuse, Kan. They met with a
ready sale.
Mrs. HELEN CAMPBELL is not pre-
pairing Il series of articles on the con-
dition of working-women in London
for London paper, as has been re-
ported, but for syndicate OF American
papers. She writes TO the IVoman's
Journal that she has become much in
terested IN the discussion of Socialism
now agirating England. and believes
that the doctrine, in its best form, IL
correct.
AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, the author
of "Beulah" and other novels, Is be-
loved in the South for the help she gave
tho sick and wounded during the war
Soon after the beginning of the strug-
gle, Augusta Evans rented house and
established private hospital, and
there with her own hands nursed the
sick Of the nighboring camp, which
was called in her honor Gang Ber
~"
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
SWALLOWED A SPIDER.
A Novel but . Marvellous Cars 6sr Ii
lariA

'Malariap'
"Yes, malaria"
'No, sir. lam no more AFRAID Of malaria
than / am Of you,n and as the speaker was
st least ten inches taller than the reporter,
and proportionately broader, his fear OF that
dread malady was probably not excessive.
"Pve had malaria, and I've been cured"
"Yes, but o man can have malaria more
than once"
mot IL he IL cured the way was. About
ten years ago Twas living In Indiana, In
vigo county, near Terre Haute. In those
days a man was regarded rs q stranger
until he had drank about gallon Of whiskey
and quinine, aud shaken down his bedstead
three or four times with the ague. i had Q
rather reticent nature, and 1 suppose 1t
took the climate longer TO get acquainted
with mo than II did the ordinary run Of
men. For had 10 drink about barrel OF
whiskey and take whole pounds OF quinine
before l could get strong enough TO even
shake myself, let alone bed"
Show was curedW
swell, il was a novel cure. / boarded
with Mrs. Dennis, who told me she could
cure me II would take her medicine. Fl
nally 1 agreed. She brought towel and
bound IL around my head so could not see
then she broughta glass Of water, and told
me to take my dose, and Immediately swal-
low the water.
The dose tasted like little ball Of dust,
and as it was going down felt pain
in my throat, as lit had been scratched.
"The next morning Mrs. Dennis brought
a little box and showed me her medicine. II
was a big, hairy, black spider, alive, and the
mate TO the one | had swallowed the day be
fore"
The medicine this gentleman took for ma
laria, may have been effective, but few
would care to try tho remedy. Nor 10 thera
any necessity for it,
Malaria is a poisoned condition Of the
blood produced by bad air and water, which
enter the blood-channels through the
stomach and lungs and other ways, and pro
duce injurious effects on the liver and kid.
| neys 1t is cured by putting the liver and
kidneys in perfect, healthy working order.
The drugs ordinarily used for such pur-
poses frequently do quite as much harm as
| good, and leave tho system in an enfeebled
condition.
The certain and harmless remedy for ma
laria is Warmers safe cure which puts the
| liver and kidneys in healthy action, when
the poison is carried out of the system, and
the serious effects it engenders, pass away
J. NJ. Booth, Springfield, Mass, under date
Of March 2sth, 1887, writes: zone year age
had the malaria-had had 1t more or less
for ten years. | stopped all other medi
| cines and took Warmers safe cure, and i
| cured me- This country is famous for ma
laria, and know Warmers safe cure will
cure it.n
People who live in malarious localities
will find in Warmers safe cure o specific
against contracting this disease. The nal
arial poison can find no entrance TO the sys-
TEN, il the liver and kidneys nre kept in
healthy action.
The gentleman who swallowed the spider
concludes his narrative in the New Yorh
lhdi, aud Erprss by saying:
~ was effectusny cured, but l wouldn'
take another dose of that medicine to save
my life"
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
THE FEATHERGD SERPENT.
The Rerormcr who Developed the Civili-
zation of the Toltecs.

In this spot, SO rich in archRologica
wealth, man is known to have lived for
moro than 800 chroncled years, and how
long previously none can tell, writes
Fannie b. Ward from Tula, Mexico, to the
Philadelphia Record. Tradition says that
at Tula tho great culture hero, Quetzal.
coatl (the "Feathered Serpent "), de-
veloped the civilization that raised the
.Toltecs so far above the level Of their
neighbors.
On the face of nearby cliff his face
is sculptured. and in the market. place Of
massive pillar unearthed from Toll
lantzingo - ancient Tollen or Tula.
Close by Is the famous "Hill
OF Shouting" whcreon Quetzalcoau
proclaimed his mandates over the entire
valley. The Toltecs had lived in Tula
nearly one hundred years when he first
appeared among them, which would make
his advent about the year 700. He was a
beneiicent deity, who took upon himself
the shape Of a man in order to improve
the condition of the people of theearth--a
sort of Toltec Christ. His name is con.
structed from the words quetzal, a kind
of brilliant plumage found In the forests
of Southern Mexico, and coatl, a serpent
also found in tho same latitude. Tradition
paints him as a very tall white man, with
long, full blonde beard, q perfect Euro
pean in complexion and general appear
ance, as different from the Indians among
whom he lived as can possibly bs
imagined.
His stay marked the golden age of the
Toltecs. Here he built those famous
palaces of silver, crystal and feathers, and
here were the celebrated gardens in which
cotton grew in various colors, ready dyed
for tho loom-scarot, green, red, blue and
yellow. In his time corn grew so large
that a single ear was all that man could
carry. Gourds were a. long as n mans
body, pumpkins fathom in circumfer-
cncc, and other fruits in similar proper.
tions. He taught the people many useful
arts--how to cut that precious green stone,
the chalchnite, how TO cast metals, to
reckon time, ste.
Some say that he was native Of the
East snd came from over the ocean. In.
deed, nearly every nationality on earth
has been claimed for him, from Egyptian
TO Irish.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
fIoHrtNo rARANTULAs.
The Remarkable Yarn Related by . Truth
ful California Man.

ful California Man.
Talking about centipedes, tarantules,
aud all the poisonous bugs and reptiles
that infest the southern deserts" said
Henry Carmello, Of Pomon. to a San Fran
cisco Examiner reporter, II never did see
so many things of this sort as did late
one evening just east Of Pomona in Los
Angeles County, last August. 1t beats
any thing ever read about. Myself and
three or four others were coming from Sill
verton creek, whore we had been fishing.
We were passing over the sandy plain,
where small vineyards here and there
dotted the surface. Suddenly, as we
drove along, one Of the boys
uttered an exclamation OF sur
prise and let his gun go at something.
Then he leaped out and crack went his
gun again, as though straight into the
ground. Again he shot, and to our excla'
nations Of surprise-for we could not di.
vine what he was shooting at-said:
"'Why, therei Don't you see! Taran-
tulasS'
"And sure enough. there they wsrs
thick and fast, upon the ground, crawl
ing hither and thither, as though an army
of them were loose, and devastating the
like a FISH story, but it is true.
That section was just swarming
with these poisonous reptiles. Every
one Of Us began firing. We shot and
shot and must have Killed scores Of them.
Then, by deftly using some sticks we
had, we got about sixty Of them in u
bucket. Fight? You Just ought to have
soen them. At first they wouldn't fight.
We put two or three together and tried to
egg them on. No go. They seemed slow
about beginning to use the poison on
each other. Then we put in some more
ndibegan stirring !them up with stick.
You ought 10 have seen them launch into
each other. The moro we put In the
more they fought, until whom we
had put in the three score have told you
about. aud had tho bgcket half full we
had just a writhng mass of poison. Sting
and tight! My land. how they did do IT.
though. They kept it up for quite long
time, until we got tired of watching
them. The little ones died the soonest
and sank TO the bottom, amidst a mass OF
blood, while the old and big ones stayed
on top.
"At length two old bull tarantulss held
the field. All else had sunk down. These
were two veritable Napoleons. Fightt
You ought to have seen the blood fly,
now. Such awful aud vindictive thrusts
and such merciless belligerants shall
never seeagain il live u thousand years.
The battle LASTED about five minutes more
and then they went down almost to.
gsther. Which was the stronger, more
enduring, or eamier IT would be hard to
say. When they got through we just had
a bucketful of dead spiders. That was
all"
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
AMERICAN WOMEN ABROAD.
Some OF the Difficulties They Encounter
with Foreign Customs.

A year ago the women Of the Ameri-
can colony in Berlin formed a LA
dies Union" Its object is the social
and spiritual welfare Of the Americans
in that city. They are raising funds
TO build union church, intended to
furnish religious home for the hun
dreds OF students who annually flock
to Berlin from America.
Last year the ladies undertook to
have Thanksgiving dinner, with the
customary American dishes. Mrs. S.
5. Fessenden, in the Journal of Educa.
ton, gives a laughable account of the
difficulties they found in the way:
"The kitchen stoves in Germany
are made Of porcelain, and most of
them have only one hole for pots and
kettles. The oven could in no way
be persuaded TO take in an American
turkey; large-sized chicken feels
cramped for room in it. A perplex.
ing question was: How shall we COOK
the turkeys? Three ladies finally
NuluntttItu W SUM anu Duhc hiHc
turkeys each. Pies are an unknown
institution in Germany. In order to se-
cure these, the tins must be made to
order and the mince-meat prepared in
private houses or boarding houses.
The celery for the salad must be
brought from Hamburg; the cram
berries from Dresden. whittier they
were imported from America. BY
this time it became evident that the
Thanksgiving supper was quite a
formidable undertaking, and incidents
ally that German cooking differed
from American in many particulars.
One reStGMrdteur, whose and was SO.
licitcd, after listening to the details,
remarked: you might as well ask me
for slices of the moonr' Another char
acteristically replied: mo, can't
make them, and if | could they would
Mt be fit to eat" The supper. how.
ever, was grand success, and every
one present was enthusiastic in ex-
pressions of appreciation. This en-
tertainment proved strong bond
and during the winter the Ladies'
Union gained steadily in numbers ana
nowprN "
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

to provide honest work for uec,
women to keep them from falling-to
give women their own earnings and
the right to hold their own property
and be guardians to their own chii.
dren.
From the Woman Suffrage Associa.
tions have grown the children's coup.
try weeks, the cooking schools, the
colleges for women, the kindergarten
and kitchen-gardens for the poor, the
hygienic lectures for women. the
pamphlets on enlightened motherhood.
moral education and proper modes OF
dressing, the peace congresses, the pc.
titions for police matrons, the appoint
nent OF women physicians In hospitals
and asylumns for women. The latest
phase of woman suffrage is it's identi.
fication with woman's temperance
work and the movements in favor O.
social purity. Woman suffragists are
always ready to lend u hand to help
any good work.
Ihahks TO this blessed gospel OF
woman suffrage, the woman who once
would have keen driven to vicious
life can now earn respectable living;
and she can have a home more artist.
cally furnished, supplied with more
hygienic cooking, and better kept in
every way than her mothers was. She
is better educated, too. than her father
was; if she marries, she will know how
to rear her children, and Il she does
not. she will be too busy to have time
to grow old-maidish.
"But suffragists are not content yet.
They know that their work can not be
fully done until women have tho
ballot Then, and then only, can our
homes be safe-thcn, and then only,
can public morality flourish
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
A New Literary Idea.

Sam Petcrby, who has a great deal
Of literary ability, recently submitted
an unfinished novel TO friend for
criticism. The friend examined 1t, and
upon Peterby asking for a candid opin-
ion, the former said:
What in the mischief do you mean
by killing off all the characters in the
fourth chapter?"
"Hal that's a splendid idea of mine.
In the fifth chapter am going to trot
out all their ghosts and have them kill
each other Of. 1t is going to be one of
the most spirited novels of the day"
Teras SUtiAgs.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

II is significant fact that most of the
women who have achieved fame in art, lit
erature, or 'affairs," have enjoyed vigorous
health This shows that the mind is never
capable of the severe and continued applica-
ton necessary to creative work, unless the
body is at its best The woman who aspires
70 fill an exalted place among her associ.
ates must be free from nervous debility and
female weaknesses DR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription will Danish these, and it is
warranted TO restore those functional har-
monies which are Indispensable TO health.
As a specific for al those cnrcnic weak.
nesses and ailments peculiar TO women, IT is
unequaled.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
Carving the War Into Africa.

The negro children of CAMERON, the
German colony ON the east coast of
Africa, are already prepared to receive
the blessings of German education, II we
may judge from the fact that the teacher
sent there by the Imperial Government
has placed an order Tor large number of
black states and pencils with the Rhen ish
slate factory at Worms. The German
schoolmaster, so they said seventeen years
ago, conquered the French. Is he now
selected to conquer Africa;
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26

A Philadelphia grocer who had
three hams stolen from his store wrote
and pasted up paper which read as
follows: 81 know who stole the three
hams from in front of my store. They
are worthless 10 any one but myself
If returned in twenty-four hours no
arrest" When his clerk opened the
store the next morning the hams hung
outside. They were made Of sawdust
and were only for show.
The Osceola times., 1888-05-26
VOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
WHEN WOMEN VOTE.

When woman suffrage comes, no doubt
twill be q good deal talked about
hut let US see what 1t VIII do.
II lis approved. for me and you.
And first, twill vote the ''Rummies' down,
And drive bad whisky out OF town.
Next, the taxpayers, each and all.
Will vote the taxes, large or small.
Once more-for must needs be brief
Twill be a very great relief
On each election day TO lind
GOOD order and fair play combined;
Rudeness suppressed, profaneness checked,
And "Roughs" restrained by solf-respect;
The day all used in lawful strife
ny every body-and his wife.
--RWidnd Herald.