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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16
DIDN'T AGREE WITH HIM.

Just after the new circuit rider of the Oak
Range circuit had finished his first sermon an old
fellow deacon and evidently a man of great
influence in the community, drew him aside. The
preachers face was flushed with expectant pleas
ure.
"Parson," said the deacon, "you seem ter be q
putty honest sort NV Teller"
al hope So" the preacher, somewhat crest fallen,
answered. His heart was yearning for commenda-
ton, for that "frst- sermon approval" which
buoys the aspirations of the circuit rider, an
approval which promises a comfortable station in
q town.
"Yas, hope so, too, but thar some NV yo'
statements that wouldn't be willin' to hang my
hat on"
"What were they, brother? | am sure that
did not depart very far from the bible"
"Oh, ez long ez you stuck ter that ole book you
wuz all right, but you tuck ercasion ter climb
Ouen the field fenced in by rails split by ole Peter
and John. Clim the fence, ez it were, an
sorter sa'ntered off down inter the cypress swamp
NV Satan"
al don't understand you, brother"
"Wall, you tuck ercasion ter say er good deal
erbout ballet box liftin'."
81 said that it was just much of a sin to steal
q ballot box il was to steal horse"
"Yas, parson, an l take issue with you right
thar. / have lifted ballot boxes, parson, but /
want you ter understan' that l wouldn't steal q
hoss. Now, whut do yen say2"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16

M CHARLES EuoESK RANKS.

kneeng alone my darling. while the twilight softly
gray vcicd aud quiet from the coister
wheels
Through grand kneelng alone
bush cngs remble~ your erumhng
burial stone.
Though h dulcd With hearing long years
din 81 life.
can hear voice PLAIN dear when frs called
wife
Hear your fun aud tender ring plainyc
call
Ger the rcapcd cover meadow The days early
q that life as uti Of richness June beneath sky
IF the tropics. heart beats flew hy
How the robins pusnK treble that
swept
Through being closer closer shielding crelt
Wishing nothing. fearing nothing living beam
81 bent above the night sWoop aud
What have fear The haekness darkness here
hide
Il Is hi> and my soul Is satisfied
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16
Such are the fearful, and always-to- be- feared
of q writer's too-sudden popularity.
Cosr Nook, March 3, 1878.

COSY Nook, March 3, 1878.
Mr. DEAR l.: Your extended Monte Video
mail questionings came with breakfast, this morn
ing. Ii Is a treat To hear from you after 90 many
months Of silence, and across so many miles of
deep blue ocean" As the steamer which carried
your letter, was nearly week delayed (by head
winds or other nautical opposition) shall reply,
at once. So am not forgotten by Null
halll That is really clever on his part The
statistical craze of this nimbly figuring English
man has made him a benciactor to political
economists and social reformers, the world over
Commend me to his kind thoughts, whenever you
think he has an hours respite from quarterly or
annual budget. What tireless worker he is
Health abides with us; and I've bought the six
acre meadow lot.
No, haven't been to New York since you
sailed. The books you want, will be
obtained in Baltimore, and promptly shipped by
next packet for the Brazils and Rio de Ia Plata
republics. OF Thomas Dunn English's
first collection OF poems, know very little The
volume was printed about two decades ago, but
very few copies of IL were circulated in fact, for
some other, the edition was ordered 10 be
suppressed DR.. English resided in New York
from 1914 until about the period of Edgar Allan
Poe's death. Then he came to Virgins, where |
made his acquaintance. In 1856 he returned north
and practised physician in Essex, Bergen and
Hudson counties In New Jersey. Ills only printed
drama Is 1.-The Mormons" Other plays Gin Ms }
achieved moderate stage successes. The historical
American ballads from his pen, were written for
Harper's Magazine. | have copies of his romances,
Eighteen Forty Four" and walter Wolfe" lie
is not, in my opinion either a strong a fortunate
writer. At times his narrative verse becomes
exalted, and latent dramatic vigor is detected,
but the common place predOminates, and sensitive
or critical readers soon weary of a sing song
monotony.
From an epistle of shreds and patches, l have
CLEANED the facts, here quoted. When Thomas
Dunn English first came to New York, he was
engaged as the editor OF daily newspaper, and in
the evening of his ife he is still an active jour-
nalst. In ls4S, he established John Donkey,
one of the earliest of american humorous periodi-
Gals; meritorious dUant- co,1eur of the now more
prosperous cartoon weeklies His "Boy's Book of
Battle Lyrics" was issued in handsomely illus
trated square octave 1889 and the volume received
very liberal praise from good natured reviewers.
II c. l..
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16
Written for The Arkansap Traveller.
AMONG HOME AUTHORS.
A Chaplet of Criticism.

At busy, opulent Newark (Which is
abor's metropolis in New Jersey there resides
noted and most interesting literary character
Thomas Dunn English is now seventy years of
age
He lisa native of Philadelphia lineally descended
from William Penn's original Quaker settlers at
Burlington on Delaware.
In 1sS9-just half a century ago-he graduated
as a doctor of medicine, from the University of
Pennsy vania
-Four years later he temporarily dropped physic
and began his spasmodc career as LAWYER
Writing for the newspapers and periodicals of that
era had been his esthetical recreation since 1886
When many amiable friends toasted the twenty
fifth anniversary of his birth, the song of ben
Bolt" already favorite in every household in
America and England. lie wrote it for the New
York Mirror in lS43.
It's pathos and tenderness captured the peoples
hearts "lIome, Sweet Home" had a rival in the
affections of sentimentalists. This is the mind
treasured first starza of the ballad that made
Thomas Dunn English famous:
Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt
sweet Alice with hair 50 brown,
Who wept with delight when YOU her a smile,
And trembled with fear your frowns
In the old churchyard the valley, len Bolt
In corner, obscure and alone.
They have lifted a slab of the granite, 50 gray
And sweet Alice lies under the
Nothing startlingy poetical in that! But the
tune fitted the words, and the simplicity of the
words embalmed pretty, domestic melody which
is yet remembered, and often hummed and
whistled by those nom iconoclastic gentle folks
who think old songs are the best
Ii is very perilous courtesy to felicitate Bret
lIarte on the undying notoriety of his "Heathen
Chinee" The male and female war relics of
Columbia, South Carolina, have quite as ,cay7n an
admiration for grim-visaged Tecumseh Sherman
the general himself, has for the very numerous
author of Marching Through Georgia"
To congratulate DIR. English, therefore on the
paternity and success of "Ben Bolt" is liberty
which he has long emphatically resented His
disgust and Impotence are, perhaps, fully war
ranted for has he not had that metrical indis-
cretion of his youth dinned and screeched into his
ears ten thousand times and more? Will it ever
cease to haunt him? And the graceess easy
swinging travesties upon its modest verse! What
of these grotesque spectres? Behold this specimen
of humorous ghastliness:
"Dont you remember lame Sally, Tom Dunn
Lame Sally, with lop- sided lung,
Who looked like q clam when you gave her a grim
And went into fits when you sung7
In the old goose pond in the village. Tom Dunn,
Where the gosngs used to swim.
Lame Sally went fishing wet, rainy day
And, by mistake. tumbled In"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16

A correspondent of the London Telegraph says:
Gan American will spit on the floor in q minute"
1t doesn't require 80 much time as q minute FOR an
American to spit on the floor. The English news
paper, having failed to prove that we not civil
lied, Is now attempting to fost the odium Of slow
ness upon u.s.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-16
A GREAT BOOK.
81. w. WHEATLY.n

Author (tO publisher)-"I have a novel here, sir,
that will SELL"
Publisher-"Not to me-"
"But, my dear sir, it is full of realism"
"Bah! !"
1.-THE descriptions good"
"Fudgew
1.-THE character drawing is excellent"
"Bahl'
"The heroine is beautiful"
Fudge"
"And indecent"
Publisher (excitedly)--"I want it. Name your
price, my dear genius You have, doubtless, writ
ten great American novel,"
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

~
slopes were covered with rich growth Of bunch
grass upon which the ponies ridden by those alvcntur-
ers who dig gold, fcstcd and thrivcd luxuri-
osy, the impression prevailed that this country would
amount to anything agricultural region, and
not until placer mining had we'll nigh reached its
highest degree of activity that this belief began to be
dspclled As early October, 1863, there were I
marketed at Virginia City and Bannack by Montana's
first farmer, Thomas w. Harris, fat beeves and
several wagon loads of vegetables, mostly potatoes
turnips and cabbage. As they raised some two
hundred miles west of the main range of the Rocky |
Mountains in the Bitter Root valley, in an altitude
nearly thousand feet lower than the valleys of Jcf
crson and Madison, the impression gained strength that
the Bitter Root would have to produce the vegetables
and cereals for those who inhabited the mining guches.
In 1864 station keeper near the Jefferson river,
where the prosperous town of Twin Bridges
stands, planted small patch of potatoes some corn and
beans. Unfortunately he selected low damp alkaline
soil and the result anything but satisfactory The
potatoes very small and watery and their inferi
ority strengthened the report the unpracticabity of
growing vegetables in the Jefferson river valley.
The of 1864 having brought many more
people into the country than could readily find mining
can,s quite number settled in the valley of Gallatin
and procuring seed they planted in the spring of 1861
altogether probably 25O The proving
good their crops grew nicely and the yield per
far superior the lands the settlers had been
toned to in their native states, they much en-
co,raged A thrill of pleasure comes when l call
mind my first pilgrimage to the Galatin October,
1865, and the first cluster Of wheat stacks the
junction of the rivers whose waters form the great
Missouri. The first habation reached was that of
William Rea who with the assistance of his daughter
digging and storing his first crop of potatoes, of
which he had about two they very large and
firm the Weld per being nearly three much
he had been raising his former home in Missouri
supply purchased costing five pcnnyweights in
gold dust per b,,shel, and it considered cheap at
that price, for satcd appetitcs of than years
existence without vegetables. The of Mr. Rea,
MIR. Nichols, P. w. Meadow and few others in
growing crops that season. and the good prices obtained,
induced many to attempt farming. Two years later
the number of settlers in the Gallatin valley had
largely increased while in the valleys of the Madison,
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

Prickly Pear, Deer Lodge and Jeferson numerous log
cabins and little fields had been erected. But the pro-
grcss for the next eight nine years following
quite slow compared with the last decade Very fair
fields of wheat, oats and barley raised by some
while others, owing to the grasshopper ravages and
other causes reaed but small reward for their Labor
1t found that the successful growing of crops was
labor peculiar itself That however we'll one UNDER
stood farming before coming, and however much infor
nation he gained by reading agricultural peod
Gals, to farm proftably in Montana there yet much
to be acquired The interesting science of growing
crops by irrigation had to be learned and it required the
application and experiences of years master it. Most
of the settlers the of some horses and
cattle, and of them had located with the view
principally of stock growing The ranges being fresh
the stock thrivcd and winter with little attcn.
ton and their increase rapid making hay for winter
feed being little thought of except few for the
of saddle animals.
Most all of the farms first located were upon the
lands closest to the streams, and the principal farming
for the first ten upon the low damp SOIL and
this of the Of the slow progress made at
growing crops 1t had been established to the sasfac
ton of the writer by practical experience early as
1867, that best So: for growing cereal crops and
vegetables by irrigation upon the benches or table
ands but it was probably ten later before tho fact
of the superiority of the uplands became generally
(O
the interest of the Rocky Mountain Husbanlman re-
member calling upon ranchman whose lands were
near Warm Spring creek, and the argument he pro-
duced avcrse to taking agricultural paper was that
Montana soil would not grow agricultural products
See that field of oats? said hc the frosts have got
| it and my potatoes not good" My suggestion that
he convert his oats into hay and next year try cuva
ing land the benches with the reply that the
soil too cold and could produce. He could
raise plenty of hay but there market for and
his stock did well upon the range winter and summer
without feeding Two years later the section was
visited and numerous changes noticed. My friend
and many other settlers had wlcncd their fields and
were producing large quantities of hay which being
| marketed at Butte, then now, the most prominent
and rapidly growing silver mining district and city of
the west. Frank Stephens had located farm upon the
uplnds of Lost creek and demonstrated their utility by
growing a splendid quality of vegetables excellent
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
A Wonderful Lily.

One sometimes hears of the wonderful
productiveness of the golden lily-Lilium
Auratum. Lindley. Some years ago al
instance was recorded of one stalk, under
cultivation, bearing no less than thirty.
Ave flowers. This happened at Pitlour,
in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1886. The
record is quite beaten by plant in the
garden Of foreign resident at Karui.
zawa, which is now bearing no fewer
than fifty-seven flowers on one stalk.
rhe stalk itself is six feet high, and to
ward the upper end it fiattens out, the
buds hanging like keys on board. The
upper extremity is cleft. Room is thus
allowed for the remarkable luxuriance
of Towering just described. In The Far
East of Sept. 16, 1872, it is stated: ''This
summer there grew in the garden of Mr.
9. G. Pearson, on the Bluff mo. Ill
Yokohama. two stems from one bulb.
One was fair specimen of the ordinary
Towering of the plant, having eighteen
flowers upon it; but the other, upon
broad, fiat stem, about an inch and
half in width, but thin as lath, had no
less than sixty-three buds, of which
6fty-two were In flower at one time. ~
Japan Weekly Mail.
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THE oENrLER SEX

Anna Katharine Green's new novel
was dashed OF almost without stopping.
Miss Constance MAIDEN, q young poet
ess, Is the latest recruit on the womans
suffrage platform.
Mrs. Booth, wife Of the salvation
army general, Is slowly dying Of cancer.
She bears her pain with fortituds..
Harriet Beecher Stowe recently said:
81 wish writers of my life would wait
until am dead before they publish their
biographies"
A second Christine Nilsson has sp-
peared in the person of a young Nor
wegian singer OF that name. She is said
70 possess a remarkable voice.
Miss Proctor, Of Lima, o., has patent
cd a process by which Ii is claimed 10, 900
cubic feet Of Illuminating gas can be sx-
tracted from one barrel Of Lima oil.
Mrs. Mary A. Hvermore, the woman
suffragiBt, claims Boston 80 her home,
but spends nine months In the year leo
turing in various parts Of the country.
Apractical philanthropist is Lady For
ester. Of London. Every week she sends
70 ths factory girls Of London over 1900
bunoheE Of flowers gathsrsd from her e.
tAAA
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
IDEAS FOR DRESS.


A new shade OF heliotrope is called
"Florence Nightingale"
New York furriers are showing capes
Of the old time furs, fitch and stone n1nr-
tin.
The reseda and other gray green shades
are now rivaled by a rich, deep, moss
green tint.
Partisan made butterflies are perched
airily on the top of many new French
bonnets and hats.
Fans Of white or pink ostrich plumea
are likely to have the fashionable call
during the coming season.
A favorite cloak for early winter wear
is made Of gray camers hair, with palm
leaf figuring of darker shade.
Much variety is obtained in black cos
tunes at the present time by the use of
figured goods and combinations.
The present rage for rare laces Of all
kinds extends even to those which have
been blackened and yellowed by age.
Dressy short cloaks for babies are of
white sicilienne, trimmed with white
silk cords and white Persian lamb fur.
Plain bodices are often braided to
simulate zouave jacket, very small,
not more than three inches under the
arms.
Fur trimmings upon cloth toques may
be Of light or dark fur, the selection
usually being made with view to con
trast
Short and half long jackets Of seal
plush, heavily braided, bid fair to be very
popular the coming winter with young
ladies.
A combination of two furs,. in alternate
stripes, is feature of the muffs worn
with collars, capes and jackets, similarly
combined.
Embroidered appliques of black cloth OF
velvet, in deep pointed designs, are favor
ite trimmings for colored cashneres and
ladies' cloths.
"Four cape pelerines," which give an
appearance of breadth to slender figures,
are made with two capes of seal and two
of Persian lamb.
new feature In fiat muffs is a rufled
border at each end, of different kind OF
fur. A lining of figured satin shows in
side the frilled ends.--Somerville Jour-
nal
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
RICH IN YEARS.

Raynor Holcomb, of East CRANKY,
Conn.,, an ex-state senator, works a farm
at "a and hunts foxes for recreation.
George w. Nesmith, of Franklin,
Mass, one of the Oldest graduates and
the Oldest trustee Of Dartmouth college,
is so years old,
Mr. Tyron, of Ballston, Ore, has cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday. He
settled in Oregon in 1859, and has sew
enty-eight direct descendants.
Samuel Gardner. of Lackawanna coun-
ty, Pa, is 81 years old, and celebrated
his last birthday by husking corn in the
field from morning till nightfall.
"Grandma" Mary Brown, of Winsted.
Conn, has just celebrated her hundredth
birthday, and is in excellent mental and
physical condition. One Of her presents
on the occasion was a purse containing a
hundred gold dollars
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
THEATRICAL CHAT.

At the Paris exhibition of 1887 the
theatres took in So, 100000 at the exhi-
bition of 1878 $9,6O0,OOO, and in 1888
So, 8,050,0oo.
number OF Partisan women have
sent an address to NJ. Sardou, thanking
him for his rehabilitation of the stage
mother-in.law in "Belle Maman."
Alphonse Daudet's novels have won a
fortune for him, but his plays on the
stage have been failures, and his jealousy
OF Sardous success is set down by his
critics to be intense
Annie Fern, an actress of Boston, has
become champion swimmer, and is now
giving exhibitions there. One of her
performances is correct imitation of
dead body under the water.
Marion Elmore, who plays the part Of
Chuckey, a newsboy, in "The Stowa-
way" was born on the gold fields Of
Australia. Her cradle was q miners
rocker, " and her nursery a tent.
Tony Pastor pays Bessie Bonehill $3.50
week during her stay in New York.
She would not come for less. In London
she appears at four or five music halls
every night and brings her income up
to something like S15, 900 year.
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Miss Gertrude Miller, the little daugh,
ter Of the attorney general, is quoted as
expressing dislike for Washington, be-
cause "the people go out In the streets
with their babies"
Miss Isabella Bird (Adrs. Bishop has
obtained from the maharajah Of Kash-
mir the grant Of piece of land on Which
10 build a hospital Of sixty beds and
dispensary for women.
Marietta Holley, who wrote the Ia
nous Josiah Aliens Wife" papers, is
an extremely beautiful woman, with the
classic profile Of Greek goddess and
masses Of soft brown halr
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
ART NOTES.

The artistic wealth of the Paris mu-
nicipality in paintings, sculpture, en-
cravings, ETC., is estimated at SO, 500, 600
outside OF the great treasures owned BY
the nation.
1t is said that Charles Waltner received
the sum Of $4,000 for his etching of
Rembrandt's "Night Watch" which is,
perhaps. the largest price that has ever
been paid for single plate.
Alma Tadema's house in London.
which has recently been finished after
the artists own model, is said to be all
studios-at least, there are three, and
they are the most importantrooms in the
building,
Caran d'Ache, tho prince of Partisan
caricaturists. is a man of 81 years of age,
tall, fair, of military bearing, and de-
cidedly English in appearance. His real
name is Emmanuel Poirie, and his sigma
ture is simply transposition of caran-
dache, the Russian word for pencil,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
THE LITTLE SOLDIER

"WheE I'm big I'll be a soldier.
That what will be;
Eight tor father, fight for mothsr.
Over land and sear
And before him on the table
Stool In bright array
All his little wooden soldiers,
Ready for the fray.
Then he charged his little cannon,
Singing out With glae,
when I'm big I'll be soldier.
That's what 1 will ber'
BY the flrelight sat the mother,
Tears we're in her heart,
Thinking Of the swift time coming
When they two must part
Soon the shadow fell between them,
Soon the years flew by;
He has left his little mother,
Left her--perbaps TO die.
All the laughter gone forever,
All the sunshine fed,
Only little mother praying
By his empty bed.
Then there came dreadful battle,
And upon the plain
Crept the little mother, seeking
Some one mid the slain
But she never found her darling
In the white moon gleam,
For the little cannon firing
Woke her from her dream.
All dream He stood beside her,
Singing out with glee.
when I'm big Iii oe a soldier.
That's what will bew Temple Bar.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21
Single Copies S Cents
She Had a Cork leg.

In one Of Chicago's public institutions
is bright eyed, witty Irish widow, who
loves joke as only the people from her
country do. In the same institution Is
stolid German professor who rather ad-
mires the pretty widow. The two often
meet and indulge in pleasant chats. The
German professor is married, and is the
lord and master of happy family. The
other day he chanced to meet the Irish
widow and they entered into conversa-
ton, In the course of which the witty
widow borrowed the professors ear and
said: Professor, don't moind telling
you, as you're married man, but
have q cork leg" The professor was
surprised. He said he never would have
thought it, as he had never noticed any
limp. "No," said the widow, "and l
can dance with the best of them" The
professor marveled greatly, and said he
did not see how she could so successfully
disguise it. "Well," she said, "rn tell
you, professor. l have a cork leg be-
cause was born in Cork" This remark
was made last Thursday. The German
professor thought it over until Monday
last, and then he laughed. Chicago Her
aid,
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-12-21

To the "Good name at home" won BY
Hoods Sarsaparilla. In Los ell, Mass
where it is prepared, there is more of Hoods
Sarsaparilla sold than Of all other medi-
cines, and il has given the best of salts
faction since its introduction ten years ago
This could not be if the medicine did not
possess merit. If YOU suffer from impure
blood, try Hoods Sarsaparilla and realize
it's peculiar curative power.