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terprise for promoting the prosperity of Little Rock and the state, and is now rmulRting plans that can but bring about important re suits in this direction.
 In his speech to the Immigration Convention, Col. Roots said that Little Rock might as prop erly be called the city of churches as the City of Roses" and 8 ride through the principal streets impresses upon visitors the conclusion that if tho people be half as pious as their sacred edihces are numerous and imposing. the devil is having hard time of it in the Arkansas Capital.
 Real estate operations in Little Rock have increased incredibly during the last year, the transfers for 1887 being during several months more than twenty times as large as for the same period of the previous year Beginning with March, 1887, the sales have frequently reached nearly million a month, those for April reaching S29,3l0. as against Sj7 l37 for April, 1887.
 During the past year many new manufacto- ries were constructed, four of the largest cost ing an aggregate of S300, 900.
 might run on for twenty columns about Lit tie Rock, but will cut it short by referring all anxious inquirers to the speeches made in the convention, the interviews published elsewhere with Col. Roots and Judge kimball and if these be not enough, write to the Little Rock Real Estate Exchange for further information.
 T. P. GRAsTY.
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Lessons from Autographs.
Baltimore American.

Recent statements about the eco- homie and wise mother of Napoleon shows that he, while always speaking to her in Italian, wrote to her in French. How she ever contrived to decipher his manuscript, if that also developed corresponding contortions ot his signature, we cannot divine, un- less, indeed, as often happens, there is way of reading with the under standing heart as we'll as the affection ate eye.
 Notoriously bad writers like Choate, Greeley and Blazac have always somebody contemporaneous who can readily interpret their hieroglyphics, and when noted western editor furnished copy that any printer might suppose to be ancient Egyp- tian, there was born into the world a compositor in that town who pre- ferred it to copper plate inscriptions, and set it up with celerity and accu- racy.
 Tracing mans character by his handwriting is deceptive, unless we know the mans career by heart and then we divine what is not hidden. At the same time it is not a little curious to follow the convulsions of Napoleon's signature from the obscure time of an artillery lieutenancy to the victory of Austerlitz, the retreat from Waterloo and captivity on that clone, barren isle in the midst of the ocean. 5 We may not agree with the deduc- tions made from the specimens given, but curiosity will be revoked and gratitied iii peculiar way, if nothing else.
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Very Interesting Indeed,

We are glad to call attention to a novel publication, intended for the special benefit of old soldiers, which will no doubt obtain very large de- mand. It is a resurrected newspaper relic, the Vicksburg Daily Citizen, issued July 8, 1868, the day before that city surrendered. The original copy, from which the reprints are ob- tained, is owned by pr. Peiro, 206 Opera House, Chicago, and by him published for gratuitous mailing to all who enclose stamp for postage.
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How Sir Waiter Scott Wrote.
Gentleman's Magazine.


 Thackeray says: "Could we know the mans feelings as we'll as the authors thoughts, how interesting most books would be-more interest ing than merry" The mood in which Walter Scott wrote "The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of heroic reso- lution combating against acute phys ical suffering, which seemed so serious as to threaten life itself, while it was so severe and painful that but few would have had determination enough to carry on through it imaginative literary work. He was compelled to employ the services of amanuenses, and William Laidlaw and John Bal lantyne wrote to Scott's dictation. Ballantyne was the better amanuensis, because Laidlaw was too strongly stirred with admiration and delight, and exclaimed, as some fine passage was being dictated to him: "Gude keep us a'l-the like Q that eh, sirs oh, sirsw Scett's disease was called cram, though later the better physi- clans might have given the complaint another name. The date of the "Bride" was April, 1919. Three novels-"The Bride of Lammermoor," "The Legend of Montrose" and "Ivanhoe"-were thus dictated, but when health re- turned Scott resumed his practice of writing with his own hand. Goethe, on the other hand, early employed the assistance of an amanuensis, and con- tinued the practice until the end. Sometimes Laidlaw begged Scott to stop while the poets audible suffering filled every pause. "Nay, William," said the afflicted author from his sofa of pain, "only see that the doors are fast. would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves, but as to our giving over work, that can only be when am in woolen." Scott often turned upon the pillow with a groan of anguish, but usually con- tinued the sentence in the same breath. When dialogue of peculiar animation was being dictated he sometimes got up and walked up and down the room, as it were, acting the parts. Such were the feeling and the pains of the man while the heroic author composed "The Bride of Lammermoor," and Scott assured Ballantyne that when the book was first out of his hands in a complete shape he did not recollcct one single incident, character or con- versation that it contained. Small wonder that
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clayed subsoll. This soil blows easy. and any good blow SCOUTS" we'll
 Besides the numerous creeks on Grand Prai- Tie, good pure water can be procured in great abundance by boring from twenty to sixty feet or by drive wells sixty to ono hundred feet.
 Persons desirous to reach Stuttgart, Goldman ana other points in the Grand Praine region of Arkansas, will find the Wabash good road to travel. making connections at St. Louie with the St Louis. Arkansas & Texas, populariy known as the Cotton Belt Route Mir. J. St Koslowsky, the General Immigra- ton and Land Agent of the St Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway. wAa formerly Secretary of the Wisconsin State Board of Immigration. and was at one time prominent newspaper man in Chicago on the stah of the nlinois Staats- Eei- | tuRg.
 All kinds of building material is kept for sa,e at our railroad towns on the prairie. Good pine and cypress lumber is worth $1l, and dressed and matched flooring and ceiling SIS to $l7 per !. % feet shingles. q. 50 to @ per 1000 brick, g per 1000; nails, N per hundred weight - From . ctvcsiar tssGsd by the -CottoM Belt
 Special attention is called to the adveraise. 1 ment in thts issue of Parker q Woftken, banks | ers, brokers and real estate Agents, Little Rock. Ark. They have been Tn b1siness many years and no firm In the stAte bcars better reputation: They mean all they cay, and those desiring information about Little Rock or the state generally about loans, securities, 1 hAnklng. brokerage or real estate may write them freely and b cure of prompt repfies and courteously given advice.
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is doing world of good acauainting people at distance with the advantages alike of ArkAn- sas and Arkansas capital.
 had occasion to talk with Mir Ed. w. Parker, of the firm of Parker & Worthen who are bank CTS, brokers and heavy handlers of real estate and he told me that Dr. David Dale Owen, the great geologist. had pronounced Arkansas coal superior to any known western coal for manu- featuring purposes, where durability, intense heat and reduction are required. Speaking of the banking interests Of Little Rock, Mir. Par ker stated that they were in c most healthy condition. furnishing immense sums of money not only for cotton transactions but other meri- torious enterprises, the aggregate capital and surplus of the four institutions being over S7S5,- 0o0 with assets of g, 500 900. divided as follows
 First National Bank, Logan H. Roots. Presi- dent. F. K. Roots Cashter, capital and surplus over $316.00 total assets exceeding q, ,s57,00
 The German National Bank tA United States despoaitoryl John G. Fletoher, President, c. T, Walker, Cashier, capital and surplus over S275,- 00O resources, q. .S68 952. sl ct the end of l8S7
 The Exchange National Bank, capital and surplus over s1ai, ,000S total assets over 60 000
 Parker 6 Worthsn, bankers. do not publish stAtements, but have the best reputation fol prudence and fair dealing, enjoying fair shsxs of patronage as bankers and brokers, to say nothing of their large real estate intsreats and their prounise in thsir Advsgtissmant to pay ths sxpsnsss M persons who come tu Arkansas C invsst1gates Ghould their statsments turn out tc have been overdrawn. may be implicitly relied upon.
 TT. Paxksr while ysry careful and conser vssfvs fn his stAtsmsnsA is full of zeal and en
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Written for The ArkdnsdW Trdueier.
 AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON.
BY BRUKE MOT.

Slowly the rich autumnal shadows fall, The scarlet leaves erratically wheel down, The mosses dank now gather deeper brown. The thrifty squirrel leaps along the wall In quest of winter stores; the owl doth call Unto his mate; and from the distant town, Comes sound of bells. The gaudy sumac's
 gown
 darker crimson grows; the crows and all Wild creatures will (save Reynard) soon have
 fled
 To their dark nests. The eastern hills blush
 red
 As, smiling on them, slowly to his rest The sun sinks down this autumn afternoon. The gold and lilac tints now leave the west, And all IS steepcd in twilight and in gloom.
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Fast Travelling South.

Only one night out between Cincin- nati and New Orleans, by the limited express, on the Queen & Crescent Route Cincinnati Southern Railway. } Through cars to Atlanta, Jackson vile, Birmingham, vicksburg and Shreveport, on the fastest trains in the south. Excursion rates to New Orleans, Mobile and Memphis for Mardi Gras. Detailed information from H. Collbran, General Passenger Agent Queen & Crescent Route, Cin- cinnati, o.
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"Was the deceased man of family?" inquired the tombstone agent, as he made a memorandum of the design selected and wrote the inscription in his order book.
 "He had been married three times" 1" was the reply.
 "The motto, At Rest would just it this blank space below the inscrip- tion," suggested the agent, deferen- tally Chicago Tribune.
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10, 1887, the subjoined extracts are taken, which, however, should b. read with this fact in mind that the six months that have elapsed since then have been fraught with a more rapid healthy development in the Arkan- sas metropolis than any previous period in the citv's history.
 Little Rock is now city of over 20, 900 in- habitants. Her public buildings cost ovor two and half millions of dollars. There are more than three millions of dollars invested in vari- ou5 kinds of manufactures. There street railways, gas. electric light, telephones, and all other conveniencea found in other cities of its size. There are twenty-seve churches The public schools have enrolled over 5000 pupils. The commercial transactions of the city for the past year were Sl6,OO0,0OO ana an shown this year over the same period last year. The population of the city has doubled in the past seven years. The public debt is small. The total taxation state. county, city and munieipal-anfounts on the present year to less than twenty three mills on the dollar valuation. Arrangements portion of the SUI cots of the city during the present year. A feature of especial interest to manufacturers Is the new water works, just competed. These are the largest water-wor ks in the southwest. Two large reservoirs, 6GO feet long by 2O0 feet wds, and 20 feet deep, are situated on an elevation 9,O feet above the main business portion of the city. The capacity is 20, 900. LOO gallons an abundant supply for city of coo inhabitants
 It appears from the report of the United States Medical Department that tho rate of mortality at the Little Rock military post Is less than at any other military post in the Union where soldiers are quartered, and 1t is suggested that the fine avera @ temperature which prevails is largely the cause of the healthfulness of Little Rock.
 According to the report of the United States signal service office at Little Rock the average annual rainfall for the last six years was 64. Is inches, and the monthly average temperature for each month for the same period of six years 1881 -s6-was in January 4i.6; February, 47: March. 5s.6; April. 62.9 May. 69.6 June. 75 July, S0.g August, 7S.S September. 725; Octo- Der, GA |; November, 5l.6; December 4S
 very unique article, written by a Kansas City man, was printed in the Little Rock Ga zette of June Il last, wherein one hundred and seven reasons were given why Little Rock is destined to become the chief city of the great southwest, among which appear the follow ing: Because it is at the head of deep-water navigation on the Arkansas river. Because it has abundant iron ore and coal fields near by. Because it has the advantage of overy city in
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STUTTGART.
Concluded from Page Three

and the American pubic are learning what grand opportunities are here, ready and wait ing for the home seeker. Hundreds of settlers are coming in monthly, and settlers are locat- ing from nearly every section of the west. Evidences of satisfaction abound, and Mir. Leslie Is entitled to much of the credit for bringing about this prosperous condition of things.
 The latest stroke of enterprise and fiber ality on MT. Leslles part was the inaugura. tion of the scheme to donate 2,0O0 fruit gardens to subscribers to THE ARKAEsAw TRAvELER, the result of which will be a tremendous i'm :. petus to horticultural industry on Grand Prairie.
 So much for Thos. II. Leslie, one of the "livest" men that I know of in the state of Arkansas.
 Stuttgart has another dive" institu. tion in the Grand Prdtrie Journal, which was started year ago, and is actively sup ported by the citizens of the town and vicin. ity. Hundreds of copies are mailed every week to persons at T distance desiring for. nation concerning the advantages of Arkan- sas county. Mir. K. F. Maust, the editor, is a wideawake young man who formerly resided at Elkhart, Ind.
 The pioneer of the town of Stuttgart was Mir. Louis Bortfeldt who built the first store
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Notes.

Are you tired of the cold winter? Then seek a home in Arkansas.
 No "blzzards" blow in Arkansas. The climate of Arkansas Is the most salubrious in the southwest
 The school system of Arkansas is the best in the south. It Is similar to that of Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska,
 THE ARKASsAw TRAVELLER will give away two thousand fruit gardens of one acre each see the advertisements
 Grand Prairies towns on the St. Louis, Ar kansas and Texas Railway are Roe, Parkham Stuttgart and Goldman.
 The soil of Grand Prairie is a clayed loam of a brown or chocolate color resting on u
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Consumption Surely Cured.

Oonsumption surely Cured. To the Editor:-
 Please inform your readers that have positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have con- sumption if they will send me their Express and P. O. address.
 Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. O., 1sl Pearl St., New York.
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Angestara Bitters were prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert for his private use. Their reputation is such to-day that they have become generally known as the best appetixing tonic. Beware of commercials. Ask for the genuine article, manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
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thousand tons being shipped annually. It frequently happens that the hay cut from a prairie purchase in single year more than pays for the land.
 Mr. A. Berkele, of whose vineyard mention has been made in another column, is the pioneer farmer of the neigborhood, and owns very commodiOus and hand some residence yard he has Il large number of stands of bees, which turn out quantities of delicious honey
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Owing to the mild and even tempsrature of the Grand Prairie region. the good pure water, and the hreesee that prevail ell summer the portion e the wsstsm country. People suffer tng from pulmonary weakness may greatly pro- long lie by moving hithsx.
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Sympathising Friend (to widow whose husband was blown to pieces by nitro-glycerine) )-"In what part of the oil country did your husband die, Mrs. Driller?"
 Widow (sadly)-"Poor John died pretty much all over it."-LJe.
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timber for manufacturing pur- poses. Because it Is the center of the best fruit-rrowing coun- try in the world. Because of it's high, healthy, well drained situation. Because there is no larger city westward to Califor- mia, nor southward to the Gulf, nor northwa ard for 345 miles. Because real estate Is still low in price, and invites outsiders to invest and cooperate. Be- cause Arkansas. when peopled as densely as Massachusetts. will have over twelve million inhabitants.
 Did space permit should want to print the entire l07 of these interesting "beoauses. :" but any reader desiring the rest of them has only to write to the secretary of the Little Rock Real Estate Exchange, an en- terprising institution composed of leading cit gems, and one that
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and held out inducements to new corners to locate there. The town took a fresh start a year later when Mir. T. c. Malaby came down from Indi. ana and erected 6 handsome residence and. in connection with his associates, a spacious business block. Since then nu- merous substantial structures have been built and others are now going up. The lumber yard at Stuttgart is doing a thriving business.
 The Grand Prairie Real Es- tate Exchange has laid off an addition to Stuttgart and holds out specially attractive in ducements to enterprises cal. culated to promote the pros perity either of the town or surrounding country. No bet. ter investment can be offered than a building lot in Stutt gart at the prices quoted by this exchange.
 Haymaking is one of the lead ing industries of the country A1 iarauf fn Stuttuart aavaral I
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CATARRH CURED.

Consultation at office or by mail, $l.
 Oface hours-9t to II 8. m.; to p. m.; ! to p. m., Sundays included
 Correspondence will receive prompt atten tion. No letters answered unless accompa- to Drs. Mccoy and wildman, 3A8 NRichl- gan Avenue, Chicago.
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A Friendly Act.

Desiring to aid in the dissemina tion of infor. nation concerning the resources of ArkAn sAs, tho J. s. Nerreil Drug Company, of st. Louis, have taken and will mail to select list two thousAnd copies of this issue of TIE ARKAN. SAW TRAvELHR.
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-29
HOW WILL THEY STAND.
Old Sitting Bull is Trying to Make
Trouble With Them.

Special to the Globe.
FORT BENNETT, Sept. 2S.-How will
the Cheyenne Indians stand on the
Sioux reservation bill? is a question
that is now interesting the people of
the West. Your correspondent has en-
deaYored to ascertain, and feels that
the visit to Washington of the chiefs
will settle the question in the white
mans favor. The followers of the lead
ing Indians of Cheyenne are anxious to
have their representatives visit the In
dian department., and if they can be
as represented by the commission, they
WILL SIGN THE PAPERS
in Washington, and upon the return of
the party the balance will follow like a
herd of sheep. This is the status of the
matter in nut shell, and Agent Nc
Chesney, one of the keeDest and most
thorough agents in the service, shares
this opinion, and so expresses himself.
Agent sMcCheSney last year urged the
department to allow the Indians to visit
Washington, as he felt that it would
shaye vast influence and do great deal
towards securing the signatures. When
j the word was received denying them
the privilege they had a council lasting
all night, and when it adjourned great
was expressed. At that
time the Dawes bill was a measure
s'looked upon with favor, but
since that date the Cheyennes
have acted sullen, but the visit East
/ VIII set them in a pleasant mood. Louis
Dewitt, the chief interpreter, who is a
half-breed, but well-educated man,
/ was interviewed on the attitude of the
ipdianss Hs felt that with proper care
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-29

, All these Indians belonged to
tie Sitting Bull band and took
prominent parts in the Custer massacre.
lump and Red Skirt were leading fac
tors, and when taken prisoners were
bioOdthirSty Sioux, and continued to
live in their savage state some
s YEARS AFTER THEIR CAPTURE.
But change has come over the spirit
of their dreams,a and Hump is now recog-
niZed as one of the best and most faith
full Indians on the Sioux reservation.
Four years ago he as taken to Wash
ingtOn and the leading cities of the
East, and was so startled over the large
number of white people he saw, the
mammoth buildings, railroads, steam
boats and navy yards, that upon his re-
turn he called his people together in
council and told them he had
VISITED A NEW WORLD.
In this world white people were as
should his people again go on the war
path against the White Father, the In
dians would disappear as rapidly as the
sunshine gathers up these snow fakes.
lie urged them TO remain peaceful,
work their farms, educate their chill
dren. try and live like the white man
and the Great Spirit would be kind to
them. The speech of Hump had won
derful effect on his people and so
pleased the agent that Hump was APP
point chief of
THE INDIAN POLICE,
position he still retains and fills with
credit. In his camp, located thirty
miles from Fort Bennett, he has over
fifty families under his charge, and as
farmers they are improving daily.
Hump has done well, and there is no
due to his change of heart.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-29

ritOrial, are all in favor o: the Demo
cratic party. The people of the North
west know that they must protect
their own interests in the matter of
tariff reform. The issues of this cam
paign are between the monopoli>t'.
trusts and manufacturers of the East,
who control the Republican rarity on
one side, and the farmers II d nsu ners
of the nation, whose ra,i>c - caam-
piOned by the Democratic party,
on the other. The Republicans, both in
this territory and Minnesota, VII lie
claiming allegiance to their national
ticket, have repudiated their platform.
They hope to deceive the farmers and
consumers of the West into voting for
their nominees by adopting tariff re-
vision platforms. They must he false
to one side or the Other. From past eX-
perience it will not take the people of
Dakota, at least, long to decide which
side the Republican bosses will cling to.
Democrats of Dakota! Do your duty,
and victory is assured.
MARTIN RYAN,
Chairman Territorial Campaign Com
mittee.
OSCAR P.KEMP, Secretary.