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The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.

RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
ST. L. I.M.&s. Try.
GOING EAST.
"a sa4, Mail and Express go a. m.
"a ssl, Mail and Express, s4a p, m.
Ne III Local Freight, is the only freight that lat
~. NN'I.s Messengers Leaves Van Buren, ZOO a. m,
cArrics wood cc0mmodatiOn--Leayes Van
IAN for Greenwood every day except Sunday
puteo6 ?. s.o6 D. IN. L j ROGERS Agent
ST. L. KS. F. FRIsco).
GOING NORTH.
~ 200 p; m.
e. " Local Freignt 305 p. m.
M ~ GOING SOUTH.
-. Express :. LOO a. m.
e. e. lS p. IN.
e. Local Freight 800 a. IN.
~ T,.ius 81 and 80 run daily except Sunday bal
.uce run daily.
No. vestibuled. Connects at Paris Tex. with
T. GssTsTas. Has Pullman Sleeper to Dallas via
~ ,n.y;s and Free Reclining Chair Car to Cleburne
- - Paris and Dallas.
No Connects at burrton kans. with A. T..
"a Mexico, Arizona and California Has free
oS1,ninr o% chair cars Monet TO Anthony,
Tsns and Burton, Kans. and Pullman sleep
-..Monett to BURTON kan lnlOuRn Pullman
sioeners Burton, Kans to Pueblo, Denver, Og-
~ ~ ii Paso Los Angeles, San Diego and San
Svsnu,,csco Connects at st. Louis with all lines
~ north and southeast. Has Pullman Sleep.
=, ior ST. Louis and free reclining chair cars
oSk Louis.
No. 3. Has 1ree heciii'ns ehaif ear W fafls,
l1as's n from Monet every Sunday morning has
.hrcngh Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car to Los
IrSeIes Cal, without change, via Burton, AL
huoucrquc and BarstQw.
W. Vestibuled-Connects at Burton, Kan
IN 4. 4. & s. +. for points in Colorado, Arizo-
~ iNavada, Wyoming, UtaL Idaho, MoItana
wilmington and California. Has free reclining
.hsr cars Monett to Cleburne Tex. via Wichita,
th,ough Cherokee Strip and Oklahoma, Pull
nan sleeper and free reclining chair car Mo-
M TO BURTON Kas. Connects at St. Louis with
II lines for the east. north and southeast. Has
irse Reclining Chair Car to St. Louis, Pullman
Sleepers, Monet to St. Louis.
Through tickets on sale to all points, For
further Information, call on or address
NJ. c. HARTuNG,
Ticket Agent
EUREKA SPRINGS RY
Passenger, Mail and Express.
LAVA eeligman $50 a. m.
isr's lsnve At Eureka Springs ln2oa m.
Lave Eureka Springs 4;52 p m.
arrive at Seligman 5:f2 p IN
Freight and Accommodation.
Leave seligman 6:l5 p M
Arrive At Eureka Springs rs p. m
Leave Eureka Springs l33 a. m
Arrive at Seligman SOB a. m
F NJ. RIcHARpsos. Agent
POWELL CLAYTON, President and Manager
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WAN BUREN, SECULAR UNION-Meets
LIST and 3rd Sunday OF leach month at Up. III.
Ia Board OF Trade Hall. Everybody invited
W. Y. SToEcKER Secretary
100 F-Crawford Lodge No g. meets at its
i Lodge Room over Crawford Co Bank every
Friday night. J. II. Lowrey, n. G; W. T. Mer-
rill sec'y.
Wan Buren, Encsmpment No. 10, meets End
y and 4th Monday nights in each month,
Y. Merrill, C. r.. j. n. Lowery, s. W, NJ. w.
brewery, II. r., w. 7. Denton J. W., Chas Rib
unR Treasurer; Chas. Is. Fontaine, Scribe
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09
EUREKA SPRINGS R'Y.
psssenSer Mail and Fypress
THE CHURCHES

NTETHODIST ChURCH-Preaching every
M Sunday at IL 0 a. IN. aud at 7;30 p. NJ.
PRAYER meeting every Wednesday night
T. J. REYsoLEs. Pastor.
The Kings Daughters meet the first Wednes-
day In each month.
Nus MATT WALLACE, Pres.
Sunday School every Sabbath at g3o in the
forenoon. DIR. H. y. JOHNSON, supt
TAIRsT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-services
II on second and fourth Sundays In each
month at II H. IN. and at p. In. Prayer meet
us every Thursday night
REV. 4. II. VESABLE, Pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at 9. a. m.
j. w. Corr, supt.
NP. CHURCH-Preaehing every Sunday,
" morning and evening, Sunday School
4 every Sunday morning. Prayer Meeting
Wednesday evening. W. G. GENTRY, Pastor.
DAPTlsT Gil HURCH-Preaehing every sun,
ID day at II a. IN. and ut s p. IN. Sunday
school every sabbath at s:3t a. m
HARVEY BEAueHAsr, Pastor.
NHRIsTIAN CHURCH-Snnday School meets
" every Sunday at l:3G p. III. at the Old sehoo
Presbyterian Church DAVE SSoDGgAss, supt
vrRINITy CHURCH-Serviees every Sunday
| at II a. m. and Sp. IN. Celebration of the
Holy Communion the First Sunday in the month
II II 4 m every other Sunday at q. IN, sun
day School every sunday at G3b a. IN. Seats free
and everybody cordially invited,
REV q. w. FLOWERS Rector.
CATHOLIC CHURCH-Mass on the lst and
~ I'd Sunday in each month.
REV. J. MAuREL. Pastor.
The Van Buren press., 1893-12-09

rather high of late.
The PRESS extend to Bro. Colburn
ofthe Ozark Democrat its sincere sym.
nathy in the loss of his office and 9TH
ar belongings by fire last week. Just
as we expected, he reappeared with
the Democrat this week as though he
had not lost anything, and we hope
he will so III be under his own vine
and fig-tree again.
Mr.. John Sharp, of River Township,
we see by tho Daily Venture has an
nounced his intention of becoming
candidate for sheriff at the next cleo
tion. Mr.. Sharp ran once before for
the nomination and made 1t quite in
teresting for his competitors. lie mas
many friends.
| Anv one purchasing sl50 worth OF any OF
orr PLANT ALTON REMEDIES will be entitled
to .he Memphis Appeal Avalanche weekly untii
Ion 1s 1894 or 81 90 retail will be furnished the
Memphis scimitar weekly for the same length
of time These remedies are guaranteed to cure
or money refunded by merchant Oh whom pui-
obased PLANTATION PHARMAcAL Co..
AS Second St.. Memphis Tenn.
Mr.. F.B Holmes, representing Prot.
cox of Little Rock, State agent for
Comnlete School Chart and McGuffey's
Reading Char, published by the Amer
loan Book Co., made US a call on We'd
nesday. He is now travelling through
the county in theinterest OF Proi. COX.
Tbe T charts are endorsed by Prof. } ii.
shinn, State supt. of Public instruo-
tion who says they should be in every
school. A late law gives school dis-
Irict authority to buy only such
school requisites as are recommended
bv the Supt. We received one OF the
charts from Prof. Cox, some months
AGO. of which notice was made at the
time.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22

A New York fashion correspondent
of Southern paper gives out the FOL
lowing.
A lady writes: ST have read your
letters for long time, and have often
envied you the opportunity you enjoy OF
seeing the beautiful things you describe.
/ used to think when read of those
charming dresses and parasols and hats
at Lord & Taylor's, that theirs must be
one of those stores where timid,
nervous woman like myself, having but
few dollars to spare for seasons
ouGf1G, would be of so little account that
she would receive little attention; but
when you said, in one of your letters a
few months ago, that goods. of the same
quality were really cheaper there than
elsewhere. because they sold more
goods in their two stores than any other
Arm in New York, and that because
they sold more they bought more, and
consequently bought cheaper, I deter
mined, if 1 ever went to New York, ]
would go to Lord & Taylor's.
"That long-waited-for time came in
the early autumn, and I found myself
standing before that great entrance,
with those wonderful windows at either
side. / summoned my courage and
entered, as suppose tens of thousands
OF just such timid women as I have
done before. My fears were gone in an
instant. The agreeable attention put
me at my ease at once, and / felt as
much at home as though I were in the
little country store where my people
have traded for nearly quarter OF a
century.
"And now, as wear the pretty things
I purchased, or see them every day and
find them all so satisfactory, I think of
my visit to this great store as the
brightest part of my trip to New York. +"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
A Portiere Made of Shells.

A lady who spends her summers at
the seaside has collected about a bush
ell, more or less, Of small, almost fiat,
thin, yellow shells, which abound at so
many points on the coast. With these
she this year fashioned portiere that
is novel and pretty beyond description.
Each shell is pierced with hot wire,
and then strung on delicate wire, so
that the narrow end of one is next to
the wide end of the other. A number
of strings were made in this way long
enough to reach from the floor to the
curtain pole, where they were securely
fastened to strip of plantation cloth
of the same shade as the Shells
Through the fretwork above this cur
tain is draped length of sea-green In
dia silk falling half way to the floor
on the right side.
A less ambitious woman has made a
curious scarf by sewing these shells
in artistic confusion on either end of a
length of Nile green silk, putting here
and there among them bits of golden
brown seaweed. A fringe is made for
each end by stringing shells on green
embroidery silk instead of wire.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
GAVE THE SNAP AWAY

Embarrassment Following the
Brides Acknowledgment.
The natural inference was that they
were newly-married couple.
The motherly old lady in lace cap
and gold eyeglasses who sat with them
at the table of an uptown hotel at din
ner last evening Enthusiastically shared
in the inference, says the Washington
Star. She bestowed upon them several
benign smiles, and finally said:
ION your honeymoon, presume? |
remember mine very well, though ii
was long time ago"
The bride cast her eyes down upon
the plate, but the bridegroom looked
up and blnffed, with well-affected non.
chalance:
"oh, no; we've been married Q long
time.i
The pld lady's eyes twinkled behind
her glasses, the bride FLUSHED trihe
and the bridegroom burned his mouth
with hot cafe au 1ait.
There was silence for q few mo-
ments, and then the bride said to hel
dear one:
"Will you have some olives, George? q
mo, Gwndolen, darling, I don't like
olives.s
oh murmered the bride, confused
ly, ut takes longer than week, yol
know, George, dear, to learn ones
tastes''
Then they both shot swift, shame
faced glan6es at the old lady. The
brides face became very red and hel
eyes again sought her plate The
bridegroom burned his mouth for The
second time, while the old lady's eye:
twinkled merrily.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
Took Time by the Forelock.

The funniest after-election story is
told by Representative Hopkins, of ILL
nois. In his district is the little cross
roads post-off1ce of Ivanhoe, over which
in Cleveland's administration, Ger
man democrat presided. When Presi-
dent Harrison came into power Mr..
Hopkins had the democrat succeeded
by Teutonic republican, who died
about year and half ago. His wife
was thereupon appointed postmistress.
On the day after election the German
democrat appeared at the postoff1ce.
Cleveland has won," he said, with ac-
cents of the fatherland and of triumph
delightfully."- mixed, 'aThe post-ofice is
mine" The widow, knowing that
Cleveland had been elected, and unsus-
pectingly believing that her official ca
reer was ended, did not object when
her predecessor brought big wagon
and carried the entire contents of the
post-ottice over to his store. He has
been acting as postmaster ever since.
Mr.. Hopkins reported the facts to the
post-office department, and an inspect
or was speedily sent to convince the
enterprising democrat Of the error of
his way.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
From the Cape to- Cairo.

The business partner of one Of the
directors Of the company formed to
build the telegraph line from the Cape
to Cairo has given Pail Mall Gazette
reporter some interesting information.
Capital has been subscribed to the ex-
tent of 100000, which is considered
sufficient to carry the line as far as
Uganda The materials are now being
ordered in London, and will be shipped
shortly. The poles are to be of iron of
light construction, in order to outma-
neuver the white ants, who would eat
away wooden poles. From Salisbury
the line is to be carried to Tete, on the
Zambesi, and from thence to Blantyre.
There Consul Johnson will report the
result of his surveys as to the best
manner of proceeding on to Uganda,
and the constructing party will have to
come to terms with the natives and
Arabs by substituting the chiefs and
others Of influence. There will be moth
ing in the way of impenetrable under
growths or rank vegetation to contend
with, as the line will avoid the low
country and keep to the high plateau
the entire distance.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
A Rude Awakening.

He was a dreamy romantic young
fellow from Tacoma, and he was doing
the fair thoroughly, entering into the
spirit of the thing, so to speak, with all
his ability. When the purple shades of
twilight were falling he stepped gayly
into a picturesque gondola, adorned
and propelled by real, live gondolier
attired in blue and white, with every
detail Of the Venetian costume COM
plete. Our Westerner reveled in the
charm of the hour and the surround
ings He threw himself into the spir-
it of ancient Venice and fancied he saw
the bride of the Adriatic lying ghost
like upon the sunlit-tinted waters.
With a Woman's artifce he tried to
tempt the gondolier into song. 1t was
in vain, however, for the solitary boat
man at the stern was evidently think
ing Of his beloved Venice. The young
man from Tacoma at last sought terra
firma and as he scared, rather than
walked away, he heard with horror
the mystical gondolier distinctly re-
mark to his fellow in the bow:
''Oi say, Moike, lind me match,
phase. Chicago Mail.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
CHAPTER XII.

Beatrice Mercer drew nearer to the
half-Open door. as those ominous words
sounded forth
Unless those documents are sup
pressed or destroyed, / am a ruined
man.
A strong man spoke then, but the
voice, while lnournful, bore a token of
pleading deslairing agony.
The listener knew that the speaker
was the father of Raymond Marshall.
What she already knew of his business
complications had brought her to Hope
dale 1t was through the father that
she relied upon reaching the son.
There was the rustling of papers
and then the lawyers voice reached
her ears:
II am very sorry, Col. Marshall, but
/ have NY orders to act"
You can defer action
II would violate my duty to my eli
ents it deferred it a day longer"
Then"
40 morrow l so into court and sub
nit these documents They represent a
personal Indebtedness of $4,000 They
represent your Endorsement for So, 600
more The distressing feature of the
latter amount is that the alleged maker
Of the note denies its validity. In other
words, it is a forgery"
~ groan rang from the lips of the
unhappy loan.
"You are right" he murmured in a
hollow, broken tone of deep despair.
"AIy personal Indebtedness does not
worry lne. ] should never have been
called upon to bear it. for never per-
son;tlly contracted dollar Of it. How
eve., pendry, destitution myself and
family might bonorably endure, but dis
honor. RaveF! If that $2,OOO-dollar
claim is presented in court
You will be accused of forgery"
Which never committed!' cried the
colonel. You believe meY'
Il certainly do, but will a jury Those
documents go in as evidence, on their
face showing you are responsible for
them"
but have explained to you! That
scoundrel OF q partner of mine drew out
of the firm a few months since on the
pretense of lii health He took nearly
all the ready cash, and not until after
he had got safe in foreign land did
1 learn that the alleged valuable as
sets he had left as my share of the
business were only waste paper. Worse
| than the burden of debt, he left those
forged notes. I hYDathecated them:
| Now / am accused of uttering themW
Can you not take them upY" insin-
uated the lawyer.
Impossible! / have vainly tried to
borrow. My son, dependence usually,
has lost all interest in business and
Wanders about half-crazed over the dis.
appearance Of a heartless jilt. No, ruin
| stares me In the faee-wQFse, the pris-
On-dack, dishonor, deathp'
II am sorry for yo4."
That was all the lawyer could say.
| There was dreary lapse of silence
but during its reign the cleaning, scin
| tillant eyes of Beatrice Mercer told thai
their owner was not idle.
She was thinking, plotting, preparing
TO act Her quick mind grasped the
| situation readily, the situation she haG
| anticipated, and which she had CONS
prepared to meet She held the rem
L
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he announced, withdrew, and Doctor
Simms ushered his two visitors into the
room and pointed to chairs. his serious
manner evidently surprising them.
Col. Marshall was the one, his son
Raymond the other The former was
all curiosity and excitement AS to
Raymond, as he sat gazing vacantly at
the floor, his hollow cheeks, haunted
eyes and detected bearing generally
told that the present visit had no inter
est for him.
Doctor Simms!' calculated the colo
mel. why! / came to see"
Miss Leslie ~
Yes"
Miss Leslie is a dying woman,
Colonel Marshall"
WHAT
With an incredulous gasp the colonel
started to his feet.
Yes, she has been i'll for some time.
was summoned yesterday afternoon.
found her fevered, almost delirious
She asked me to receive you"
Doctor, you amaze me! This strange
lady"
HAS an iron will even In death. She
has explained everything TO me. She
insists upon seeing yourself and your
son, even In her dangerous condition
told her that the shock might kill
her, but she insists"
Doctor! / am at perfect loss to
understand this lady's remarkable gen
erosity in my behalf-the mystery sur
rounding her"
Here are the notes she took yester-
day. She babe me destroy them in
your presence"
wait! Don't! really cannot accept
all these favors from a stranger"
The colonel spoke too late. The docu-
ments were blazing on the hearth. He
was free man! A stranger had liber-
ated him from all the financial entan-
clements of the hour.
''Doctor! he painted, "this mystery
Is maddening Who is this LADY,"
You win be surprised when you
know. Come; you, too, Mr.. Marshall"
to Raymond.
ITO no Continual
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
CHAPTER XIII.
A subtle Plot.
IAN is ready 2

'.All is ready?
Every thing My housekeeper, whom
we can trust, will act as nurse and is
in the next room. / will receive the
Marshalls when they arrive and pave
the way for YOU
Make no mistake"
1t was the afternoon of the day sue
ceeding that which had witnessed Beat
rice MERGERS strange act of generosity
Beatrice herself, in propria persona,
the disguise she had hitherto adopted
now abandoned, lay upon a couch in
one corner of her sleeping apartment.
She was no longer disguised, but
there was o change in her from her
ordinary appearance that was most re-
markable.
Her face looked thin and wretchedly
white, her eyes heavy. AS she lay
back ON the pillow, her labored breath
| ing and hectic cheeks seemed to indi.
cate hot, burning fever.
A hot, burning fever she had, but
produced by artificial means This
ruthless schameT had paused at nothing
to accomplish her ends. To further her
| schemes an assumption of mortal ILL
ness had been necessary, and heI
worthy coadjufor, DIR. Simms, had NOT
preyaricated when he told her that
the contents Of the little phial he had
given her the day previous would bring
ABOUT the result she desired.
These two had plotted well in uni
son, and as he entered the outer room
/ of the suite he assumed that grave
serious expression of face that the aver
age physician wears while attending 3
patient In the last extremity.
He opened the door with warning
poiselessness as there came ! tap final
| ". A servant stood there, two per
sons at his side.
/ sGentleman to see Miss Leslie, sir,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
TALMA0E IS SERENE.
Stories Told About the Divine Do Not
Disturb His EQuanlmity.


Disturb His EQu0nlmfty.
Probably no man in what may be
called public life preserves his equa-
unity so perfectly when stories about
him, with absolutely no foundation
whatever, appear in the public prints
rs does DR.. Talmage.
Two weeks ago a dispatch from
Massachusetts announced that the rev.
erend gentleman had purchased a
blooded pup, of most approved fight
ing qualities, and although the story
was entirely erroneous, no one laughed
more heartily at the idea OF clergy
mans investing in a canine prizefghter
than the pastor Of the tabernacle.
Apropos of this story the doctor told
Of another experience Of his, which evil
IDENTIFY amused him greatly, though
some men would have been annoyed by
it.
II remember" he said, "some years
ago when I left home for the summer
one of the Brooklyn newspapers came
out with long story about how glad
the neighbors were to get me out OF
the way for a few weeks. According
to the story, had purchased cornet,
and life had been rendered almost un-
endurable upon my block by the dole
full sounds which l expelled from the
instrument, often until late at night
I don't remember" added the doctor,
laughing heartily, that ever had a
cornet in my hand. Certainly it never
occurred to me to buy one, or to try to
play one"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
A slight MISUNDERSTANDING.

He had just received letter from
his son at college and was reading it
aloud to his family, when he came to
this passage:
Il am taking lessons in fencing and
as the fee must be paid in advance
will need another remittance"
"Wa'al, now, tlsat do beat ALL said
the old man, what on airth does any
body need to take lessons in fencing
for, I'd like to know? I've been fenc-
ing for forty years and never had to
go to college to learn how"
But times have changed, father
said his wife; fences amt made as
they used TO was when we elm them in
Root Hollow"
That's So" said the old man. ED
don't say eff it's wire fence or a rail
one, but reckon he'll larn both ways.
But yum, l never expected boy
of mine would hev to go to college
to learn fencing. 1t do seem queer"
Then he wrote out another check and
forwarded it by the next mail.-DenyeT
News.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-06-22
A BEAvRR.s rEErH.
How Nature Makes q 0hiseI ThaA
Always Keeps Sharp.

How Nature Makes q 0hAseI ThaH
Always Keeps Sharp.
As In every "snawer' the beavers
skull is armed with two long, chjsel-
like teeth in each jaw, says writer In
st. Nicholas. These teeth are exceed
ingly powerful, and are to a beaver
what an ak is to a woodsman. One
such tooth taken from the lower jaw
of medium-sIzed skull (they can be re-
moved without difficulty, unlike the
most of olirs) Is bent into nearly q
semi-circle and measures five inches
along its outer curve. Only one inch
of this length projects from the skull.
The corresponding one from the upper
jaw is bent into more than a COM
plete half circle and measures upon
its outer face four inches, Of which less
than an inch protrudes from its bono
casing. In width each tooth is five
eighths Of an inch. Examination of one
of them reveals the secret of how
O beaver can perform such feats as
chopping down birch tree sixteen
inches in diameter, not to speak of
softer woods like the Eastwood, of
much greater size. The tooth is COM
posed of two materials. Along the
outer face or front of the tooth is a
thin plate of exceedingly hard enamel;
on the inner, forming the body Of the
tooth, is a substance called dentine,
being softer, wears away with use;
the thin enamel remains comparatively
unworn, SO that the tooth assumes the
shape of keen chisel that never grows
dull The tooth is hollow at the base
for half its length and is filled with a
nourishing substance which keeps it
constantly growing. Thus, not only is
the natural wearing away provided
against, but certain amount of wear
becomes an actual necessity With such
instruments the beaver is admirably
fitted for obtaining it's natural food,
the bark of shrubs and trees.