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The Russellville Democrat., 1892-07-14
HE RETURN 10 RACE.
An Interesting study Of Human Character
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 teristies.
 We commonly call life the years that lie between that vague and un- remembered moment of birth and that incredible and distant moment of death. This is but a kind of convention, for really what we mean by our life is that which is con scious and individual If we do not mean this individual period we may logically count our life as beginning in past generations of our kin, aud if we do mean the individual pc riod we are not quite logical in counting as part of our life those latter years in which we return to our race and are less ourselves than our race.
 Members of a family resemble each other physically as they enter middle life, and still more as they approach old age; and this will ap- ply not only to brothers and sisters, but to cousins and distant relatives. Who, indeed has not remarked the curiously close resemblance borne by members of family to each other in death, when, the individual will and intelligence being past, the type is left to assert itselff
 remember striking instance of the resemblance of relatives in mid dle life. I stood once at a window with the blind half drawn down and saw lady passing on the opposite side of the street; the blind hid her nearly to her knees. I said to my self, ''how that persons motion re- minds me of Mrs. L--. If she had not been ten years in her grave l should say that 1t was she. l pulled up the blind. The lady who was passing was well known to me. She was a not very near cousin of Mrs. Ls, whose resemblance to her had never before noticed. It had probably earlier been unappar- ent.
 The physical return to race has it's strong mental correspondence. Ordi- nary people in middle life become more like their race than like them selves, and in old age sometimes 1t is the race alone that exists in them.
 It would seem that individuality is more apparent than real, for 1t is al least of short duration, and the test of greatness is in the vitality of this individuality, the power to en- dure a few years longer than the common-long enough to effect something. Yet even in the great est this separateness is short lived, and ordinarily out of the threescore years and ten twenty are spent in ripening to consciousness that at last bursts the bonds of race to live its own life for twenty years, and the thirty remaining years are spent in gradual return to the bonds from which the individual had freed him. self.--The Cosmopolitan.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENT
 TO HE Ial1sitgEiaa d tha sss.a ai Arksas.I

JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2)
 Resolved by the Senate and House of RcpreseB-
 tativee of the General Assembly Of the State
 Of Arkansas majorityof all the Members
 elected to each House agreeing thereto:
 That the following article shall be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution Of the state Of Arkansas, which, when agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House and adopted by m sJority of the elect election for Senators and Representatives. shall become part Of the said Copsutution, namelyi Every male citizen Of the United states, or male person who has dee sred his in tenti0n of becoming citizen of the eame, ol the age Of twenty one Years. who has resided in the State twelve months, in the County str months, and In the precinct or ward one montf next preceding any election at which he may propose to vote, except such persons as may for the commission Of some felony be deprIve5 Of the right to vote by law passed by the Gen crai Assembly, and who shall exhibit poll tax receipt or other evidence that he has paid his poll tax at the time of collecting taxes next preceding such election, shall be allowed to vote at any election in the State of Arkansas. Provided, that persons who make satisfactory proof that they have attain cd the age of twenty-One years since the time of assessing taxes next preceding said election and possesses the other necessary qualifca- tons, shall be permitted to vote; and provided further, tnas tbe said tax receipt shall be so marked by dated stamp or written endorse ment by the Judges of Election to whom ft may be first presented as to prevent the holder thereof from voting more than once at any election. Approved April [, 1891.
 In conformity to law. hereby give not ice that at the next general election in this State foF Senators and Representatives which Is to be held on the 9th day of September, 1e92 the foregoing proposed amendment to the Constitution Of this State will be submitted to the electors for approval or rejection. Each ciector upon deUositing his ballot is required t0 vote "For the Amendment-' or Against tbe Amendment"
 Witness my official signature and seal of Of fee this lat day 0f February, iS92.
 fSeal) B. E. CHTsM, Secretary Of state.
 1T. B. ARMISTEAD D, Deputy.
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THE VILLAGE COW.
Don't Make the Mistake of supposing She
 Lacks Intelligence.

Lacks Intelligence.
 "It is a popular belief that the dog Is the most intelligent of all four-footed animals, and that next in the mental scale Is the horse, !" said George Mcdaniel, at the Lin dell. tThat is mistake. The COW knows more than horse or dog com bined are capable of learning. An ordinary town COW who has been ac- corded reasonable facilities for ac- quiring general information, is much wiser than some mon who have been honored with proud positions and expensive funerals. The average town COW can open gate that fastens with time lock, get into the garden and do $50 worth of damage before the exasperated owner can ram a charge of slugs into muzzle-loading gun. l once lived in village where one half the inhabitants kept cows and expected them to forage their living off the other half. Finding the usual gate fastenings of no avail, l added bolt and slept that night SC cure. The next morning every COW in the village was in my garden, and so full of cabbages that cost me $2 a head to raise that they could not go through the gate, and had to knock down panel of fence to let them out. That night added a log-chain and patent paddock and sat up in company with double bar reled gun to watch proceedings. An old brindle she-pirate came up and surveyed the house to make sure we were abed. Then she shook the gate and again surveyed the house. Next she went to work on the bolt with her tongue. In five minutes she had it drawn and started to come in. She looked surprised to find herself still on the outside. Half dozen of her com panions came up and surveyed the new jewelry. Then brindle broke a horn trying to lift the gate off its hinges. They appeared to hold council of war, then an old spotted gourmand inserted horn under the chain, lifted it over the post and the whole drove marched inside. l gave it up and took the gate off its hinges. l now raise all my vege- tables at the lnarket.-St Louis Globe Democrat
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an average; oats fine, but some rust re- ported on low lands
 Sebastian Weather very beneficial to all crops. which are growing fast. Union--Gotton beginning to grow, but somewhat grassy corn about laid by, but very spotted
 Washington crops doing we'll; j; wheat harvested and good yield. Woodruff Rain needed in portions of the county for corn; cotton not suffering, though very small for this time of year farmers up with their work
 Yell Corn about all laid by and is bet ter than expected; cotton generally bad stands.
 Greene The weather has been favorable and much corn has been laid by and cot ton worked out; both look well, but rather late much hay saved farmers are in good spirits and the outlook is bright.
 Nj. F. LOCKE, Commissioner of Agriculture, Director F. H CLARKE,
 Assistant Director
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pr. Mary Walker.

A writer who saw Dr. Mary Walker with all her eccentricities at the Chicago convention says :: Really nothing could be queerer than is the personal appearance of this odd little old woman. Her crease less trousers are of black broadcloth, as is also her Prince Albert coat. From her withered throat turn back the points of a standing collar that is fastened with diamond stud. A black and rod four-in hand tie is or namented with large carbuncle scarf pin set in pearls. A butternut brown overcoat, buttoned gaiters, brown dogskin gloves and silk hat completed her costume as she ap- peared at the opening session of the convention. She is short and very slight and wears bowed spec tacles, which give her a grotesque, goggly look. From some points of view she resembles nothing so much as very bad clothier's dummy {; from others she strikingly reminds one of a gigantic Kansas cicada, strangely colored black and brown, and again she is not like anything that is in heaven above, in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. However, absurd and ob- iectionable as she is, one cannot es- cape feeling of pity that she is so old and so fragile.
The Russellville Democrat., 1892-07-14
MODERN CANOEING.
A sport That is ippIied to Different Pur
 poses.
Commission F II CLARK
n ILARkEY
 Assistant Director.

A Sport That is ippIied to Different Pur
 poses.
 Modern canoeing originated with Capt. John MacGregor, a traveller and explorer, familiar with nearly all the waters and boats of the world, who, in his search for novel and attractive means of travel, took up the crude and primitive form of decked paddling canoe once used to small extent on English rivers, and set to work to produce from it craft suitable for his purpose of sol itary voyages on strange waters. The result was the Rob Roy canoe, in which his notable cruises on the Rhine, the Baltic, and the Jordan was made, craft so nearly perfect that after twenty years of de- velopment and improvement it still stands alone as a distinct type of modern canoe. General types by the score and special models by the hundred have been produced, filling in the whole scale from the ten pound paddler to the small cruising yacht, but the Rob Roy of Capt. MacGregor, in the condition in which he left 1t, is still recognized by conoeists as one of the three or four distinctive types of cruising canoe.
 From this little craft and from the voyages made in it, has grown up a pleasure fleet of thousands of canoes while the sport of canoeing has ex- banded and developed into the sev- eral distinct branches of cruising, pleasure padding and sailing and racing.
 Each of these branches has it's host of devotees; the racing canoe, both sailing and dancing, has be- come subject of special study with many ardent racing men; but 1t is in its original functions, as a means of travelling, that the canoe appeals to the largest number.
 Given a watercourse over four inches in depth and six feet in width, the completely equipped cruising canoe offers every convenience for travel which the canoeist can reason ably demand. It is means of COR veyance, it sails, or it's light double bladed paddles carrying him along the watery highway; it is hotel, it's mess chest and it's tiny stove furnishing his meals, while rugs and blankets unrolled from it's capacious interior make snug and comfortable bed in the cockpit; and it is his home, it's neat little tent and its many odd re. ceptacles affording him a place to read and write, and providing room for clothing, books, rod, gun and numberless convenienccs. Depend ing on external resources only for a fresh supply of food once or twice week, the voyage may be prolonged indefinitely, the charm and variety of the last week of a summers s cruise being no less than that of three days outing.-Lippincots Magazine.
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A Monkey's Revenge.

Tie following anecdote clearly H. lustrates the reasoning powers of the monkey tribe. One was kept tied to stake in the suburbs of Havana, in a place where he was repeatedly robbed of his food by crows. One day he laid still on the ground, pretending to be dead. The crows were allowed to steal to their hearts content until the artful simian were sure they were in reach. Instantly he grabbed one by the leg, and, despite its loud calls for help, literally plucked every feather from the luckless bird and then flung it towards it's screaming companions.
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Drove Of a Tiger Win n Stick.

A correspondent in Batavia tells now a surveyor on the east coast of Sumatra got the better of a tiger. He happened to be busy taking bearings through telescope on a water parting in the mountains there, when suddenly the beast of prey stood right in front of the in- strument. A coolie, holding anoth- CT instrument, rolled, from pure ter TOT, head over heels into a neighbor- ing ravine, and the other helpers fled, so that the surveyor was forced to face his foe alone.
 Unarmed as he was, and at loss what to do, he seized his walking stick and mechanically struck at the tiger, when, to his relief, the animal suddenly turned tail and disappeared in the jungle. On the west coast of Sumatra, on the road from Korinchi to the coast, tigers are said 10 have killed last year sixteen travellers. For a while they even stopped the conveyance of coffee from the in terior. The natives, it is added, dare not attack the tigers from superstitious motives. Once, when one of them was carried away out of an armed party, his companions "asked the tiger for mercy" and made no attempt at rescue. The Dutch government, finding this superstitious dread so strong, has been compelled to content itself with building lofty and tiger-proof night shelters for travellers on the oad.-London Daily News.
The Russellville Democrat., 1892-07-14
This May be New to You.

It is impossible to fill glass com pletely with any liquid, from rim to center. The most common fluids such as water, milk or spirit-are attracted by the sides of the vessel into which they are placed so that they rise around the brim, leaving a hollow in the middle. Hence cup filled to the point of overflow with any of these liquids is not absolute ly full though it appears to be so at the edge. Fluids on the other hand which do not adhere, or are not attracted upwards by the sides of the vessel sink round the brim and rise in the center. Thus mercury in a glass forms a convex surface, while water forms a concave.
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About Printers Marks.

The interrogation mark or "point" CD was originally a "a" and an "o," the latter placed under the former. They were simply the first and last letters of the Latin sword "questie." :" So, too, with the sign of the exclamation or inter jection { ). In it's original purity it was a combination of ''i" and "o," the latter underneath as in the question mark. The two stood for "Io," the Latin exclamation of joy The paragraph mark (D is a Greek "p," the initial of the word para graph. The early printers em- ployed a dagger (t) to show that word or sentence was objectionable and should be cut out.
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The Rnling ra.nion.

Two old fellows, after long sepa- ration, were talking over their earlier years.
 "And whatever became of Maj. Courtley; Beau Courtley' as we called himf" asked one.
 'sDied dozen years ago." was the sad response.
 "What a dandehed chap he was {; loved fine clothes better than any thing in the world"
 "Yes; and yet he died without a shirt to his back 7
 Indeed, is that soi Had he lest everything.
 "Oh, no, he wore paiamas."
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A Lazy Boy.

"That boy of mine doesn't earn his salt, :" exclaimed Farmer Sassa- fras, indignantly, when he returned from holding down cheese box at the corner grocery. II told him to milk the cows, slop the pigs, weed the onions, put up the sheep, feed the horses, cut the kindlin' wood, draw the water an git the meat for breakfast, an here the good-for-
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WHAT AspHALT REALLY IS.

ssThis stuff called asphalt with which the streets of Washington are paved is very curious, said a scientist to a Star reporter. 1t was used in very ancient times. Egyptian buildings more than thirty centuries old are cemented with 1t, and it has been asserted that it was employed in the construction of the tower of Babel. One ingenious crank named D'Eyrinis wrote an elaborate essay 150 years ago at tempting to prove that Noah's Ark was coated with asphalt to make 1t waterproof.
 "The asphalt which covers the avenues of this city today was formed millions of years ago by the decomposition of vegetable matter beneath the surface of the earth. In the carboniferous epoch there were conditions of warmth and moisture, which produced a mar vicious luxurissa1e of vegetation. Plants, gigantic ferns being most common, grew at an astonishing rate, their decay being followed by generation after generation of their successors. Thus were formed vast beds of decomposed material, which became variously metamorphosed by chemical processes. According to the conditions governing they were transformed into deposits of coal, petroleum or bitumen, the last be- ing what we call asphalt. Probably the vegetables beds which were changed into bitumen were laid down in the bottoms of rivers and lakes, where they were covered up by sand or clay and un- derwent the process of decomposi- ton while moistened by water, but without contact with air. One spot where this occurred was in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea, whence formerly great quantities of asphalt were obtained. Very little is got from there now, the most inn portant source of supply in the world being wonderful lake in Trinidad. This "tar lake," as it is called, Is filled with bitumen instead of water, being about mile and half in diameter. Its surface Is so smooth that it looks Ike lake of water, and in hot weather the sun melts 1t to the depth of some inches. The edges of the lake are usually hard and cold, but the asphalt becomes warmer aud softer toward the mid dle, while in the center 1t is quite boiling.
 "A slice of the surface of this lake of asphalt is to be exhibited at the Columbian Exposition. The deposit is thought to have been formed by woody and other vegeta- ble matter carried by the River Orinoco into the surrounding seas, where, by the influence of the cur rents, it was accumulated, its de- composition being effected by vol canic action. The lake is owned by syndicate, which regularly mines the product, and it is from this source that Washington procures its paving material. Recently a rival enterprise has been started in San Bernardino county, Cal, where beds of bitumen have been discovered. It was not until 1888 that the first asphalt pavement was laid in Paris.
 "Asphalt is often found combined with limestone-a very curious mix ture of the vegetable and the mineral. It is believed that this has been brought about by hot vapors de- composing vegetable beds passing through the porous rocks and leav- ing the bitumen behind. "-Wash- ington Star.
The Russellville Democrat., 1892-07-14
Al Ynchiing NeeassitY.

He-Are you going yachting with us to-morrowi
 She--Yes, if my brother Tom will lend me cap, a jacket, a belt, a shirt, a set of studs, collars and cuffs and a necktie. New York Herald.
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Cobwigger-Brown doesn't talk any more about the big fish he brings home.
 Merritt--His wife has bought a pair of kitchen scales. Nov York Sun.
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Adlai E. Stevenson is another the many Kentuckians who have te come prominent in public life as citizens of Illinois, among whom Lincoln, Yates, Browning and Oglesby are the most famous Douglas was native of Vermont and Grant of Ohio.
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Boys have been ruined because they had to stay at home and turn the grindstone when they should have been allowed to go a-6shing Rams Horn.
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A Wise Woman.

Husband-Where is the hatcheti ' Wife-In the attic.
 "lf you saw it in the attic, why didn't you bring it downf" "I didn't see it.
 "'Then who didf"
 "'No one that l know of. !" ''Then how in creation do you know it's in the attic3n
 "I heard you up there yesterday driving a nail
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 oth the method and results whei grup of Figs is taken; it is pleasap nd refreshing to the taste, and set antly yet promptly on the Kidney .iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys m efectuslly, dispels colds, head sheB and levers and cures habitas aastipation. Syrup of Figs is th AIy remedy of it's kind ever pr acsd, pleasing to the taste and a ceptable to the stomach, prompt i .s action and trulr beneficial in it. siects, prepared only from the most Esaltby and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend i 5 sll and have made it the p'osi opular remedy known.
 Syrup of Figs is for sale in 5Cs d Sl bottles by all leading drug ists. Any reliable druggist vi, nay not have it on hand will prc turs it promptly for any one wh' vishes to try it. Do not accept aDy ubstitute.
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 LOUISVILLE, kY. HEH YORK a.f'
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nothin' rascal has finished up and gone to bed without waitin to put my horse in the stable '-New York Sun.
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No matter how little man wants here below he never gets quite all of it.--Dallas News.
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Surface-Isn't Bighed rather young to be a eynic9
 Rowley-Oh, not He has been graduated year and the world hasn't recognized him yet.--New York Herald.
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ShR FRANCISCO. oAL. LOUISVILLE, SY. Rew YORK a.F.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-11-19
AD.Ia,ed ThankscivInr.

1t was true that the government had
set the day for the first Thursday in
November, but then the government
was not acquainted with the circum-
stances of the town of Colchester. in
his ma jestie's Coloney Of Connecticut
in New England. II il were not pos
sible to have pumpkin pies, how could
there be a Thank giving? 50 the town
had a meeting. and here is the record
of II:
'At Lega town meeting held N Colchester,
Oct -: l7u5. II was voted that lgh srsas there
was Thanksgiving appointed to be held on toe
hrst thursday Of noNsmb and our present cir
cumstances being sJch that u cannot with con.
NenienCy be attended on that day IL Is therefore
voted and agreed by the Inhabitants a. aTorc-
said considering the thing viii not be otherwise
than well resented that the second thursday pf
service"
One is apt to wonder what had gone
wrong that they should so darI;ly hint
at il. ''our present circumstances being
such!' direct descendant of the
town clerk himself told me ho,y it hap
pcned. 1t seems that the town was de-
pendent upon New York for supplies,
and that Sloops made regular journeys
hnck and forth. exchange their prod
uce for imported merchandise. A YES
sci now on its way had on board some
casks OF molasses, without which in
gredient no housekeep"r could make
orthodox pies. The delay of the sloop
was evidently the work of Providence:
IL winds delayed the slocp, and the
sloop delayed the molasseS. and the
molasscs delayed the necessary pics.
why should not Providence wait until
with conveniency" there might lie
Thanxsgiving?-W. i. Mckenzie. in
Christian onion.