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Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

Not a transatlantic steamship com
pany has Friday among the days Of
departure and until quite recently
noneo Of the coastwise steamship lines
had put the unlucky day on its list.
1t would be highly desirable for the
ocean mail service that some steam
ships should leave Atlanuc ports on
Friday, but while the owners are
doubtless exempt from any supersti
ton on the subject they are obliged
to defer to an absurd popular notion,
else they would be apt to find a very
small passenger list and might pos
sibly experience some difficulty in OBJ
tanning a crew Railroad statistics
show that there is less travel on Fri
day than on any other secular day of
the week Experienced travellers are
50 well aware of this they sometimes
do not take the trouble to secure a
Pullman ticket on Friday, as they
are pretty sure to find an empty
berth. philadelphia Record.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

A leading foreign banker says that
there is a disposition to belttle the
importance OF the international in
terest account His records, extend.
ing over a series Of years, show that
fully S11O, ,O0O, 900 ave sent abroad each
year for interest on foreign holdings
Of American securities. To this should
be added from 1900, 600 to $50, 600, q
600 expended by American travellers
abroad OF by the American colonies
In Europesn cities. There is also an
item Of $40, ,OOO, 900 to $50, GOO, 600 for
freights, so that over 5000, 600, 600
have TO be RENTED each year from
this country TO Europe on what may
be properly classed as interest &C.
counts. Boston Exchange.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

Inaprsssiona Of Piano Solo Fro.a = natl
read Mans standpoint
- was lettering around Tie streets
one n'ght, said jim Nelson. ne Of the
old locomotive engineers running into
New Orleans, to reporter. "As ! had
nothing to do 1 dropped into a concert
and heard a sleek looking Frcnchman
play piano In q way that mtdo me feel
all over IN spots. As soon 40 he sat
down on the stool knew by tho way he
handled himself that he understood the
machine no was running. He tapped
sbo keys way up one end, just 90 II they
were gauges, and he wanted to see " he
had water enough. Then l,O looked NJ
ne II he waited to know how much
steam be was carrying. ani the next
moment ho pulled open the throttle and
gsiled on to the main line % " be was
half an hour late. You could hear her
thunder over culverts AMI bridges and
getting faster and faster q ltil the fell
low rocked about in his seat like a era
die. Somehow | thorght Il was old SO
pulling a passenger train and getting
out of the way of special. The fell
low worked the keys on thu middle di-
vision like lightning, and then he few
along the north end of the line until the
drivers went around like a bnzzsaw.
a1d got excited.
About the time l was Gxing to tell
him TO cut her of little he kicked the
hampers under the machine wide open,
pulled the throttle way back in the tend
or. and how he did runl couldn't
stand it any longer and yelled to him
that he was pounding on tho left side,
and II he wasn't careful led drop his
ash pan. But he didn't hear. No one
heard me. Everything was flying and
whizzing. Telegraph poles on the side
OF the track looked like a row Of corn
stalks. the trees appeared to be a mud
bank. and all the time the exhaust Of
the old machine sounded like the hum
of bumblobee.
IL tried TO yell out, but my tonguo
wouldn't move. He went aronnd cuivea
like a bullet. slipped an eccentric, blew
ont his soft plug, went down grades 90
feet to the mile and not controlling
break ret. She went by the meeting
PDlhA AZ hltic hllnulo anu NdAAtnE
for more steam. My hair stood up
straight. because knew the game was
up. Sure enough. dead ahead Of us was
the headlight of "a special. In a daze
heard the crash as they struck. and
saw cars shivered into atoms, people
smashed and nanglcd and bleeding and
gasping for water. heard another
crash as the French professor struck tho
deep keys away down on the lower end
of the southern division, and then
came t, my senses. There be YVES at 6
dead etandstill, with the door of the fire.
box of the machine open, wiping the
perspiratiOn off his face and bowling ia
the people before him. II / live to be
1000 years old, III never forget the
ride that Frenchman gave mo on pi.
ano. New Orl ans Times-D Democrat.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26
The GuIIIotine.

The striking thing about the Cxccu.
tion was the appalling quickress OF IL
all. Action was so rapid from the In
slant the condemned appeared in the
doorway of the prison to the moment
the knife tell that il was almost impos.
sible to distinguish the slight chain Of
incidents. He flung himself eagerly
against the plank, WAS strapped TO it,
and in the flash II glance the plank
was pushed forward on the platform Of
the guillotine. An instant's vision OF
recumbent figure. face downward. In
the same moment a head, with two
staring, wide open eyes, whirled almost
defiantly. as it seemed, and with q
slight zigzag movement to the right
ward, while simultaneously the pinioned
body rolled inert. convulsive, into the
capacious basket. also at the right hand
side of the guillotine. The swittness,
the mechanical promptn' ss Of the bust
ness. fairly stupehed the spectator. II
was impossible to realize that human
life had ended in less time than il would
take tn draw a full breath. The eguillo.
tine had done its work well. There waS
scarcely Il seEse Of horror In the sight,
New York World.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26
aIcAARp rHr non HrAn1rp.


Tive Remarkable Career nnd cunqussis Of
thu Crusader iionarch.
The success Of King Richard Lion
Heart, tsough not complete. was all
the more remarkable When he
landed at Acre In ll9l, he already
had in his gift a kingdom nearly as
large as that which King Guy had
lost-the island Of Cyprus. conquered
by English soldiers sailing IN en- Eng
hsh feet, which the Latins had never
before attempted to take from its so
called emperor, Isaac Comnenus.
II had the same strategical value
then that it still possesses as a place
Of arms"-tO use a military technical
phruse--or base for attack on Asia.
The reconquest Of Palestine in
face Of a united Islam under a vic
torious leader, who was respected for
his austere religious conduct and
trusted on account Of his skill and
genius, was no easy task. but it was
necessary for the prosperity Of the
great Italian trade and demanded by
the public opinion of Europe. Tho
French and English were enemies at
home, and their friendship in the
east was hollow. With such unwill-
ing allies, and IN face Of forces from
Egypt and Arabia. Syria aud MesO-
potamia, King Richard succeeded in
wrestling from Saladln half of his
conquests in Palestine and in restor-
Ing to the Tcmplars and Hospitallers
all the lands and castles which they
had lost in the plains.
His treaty, made after the French
bad deserted, when he himself had
won a great battle, had taken Acre
by assault and had chcsed TIE Mos
lens out Of all Sharon and Philistia
10 GAIA, brought about a condition
of affairs which endured for n cen.
tury after Cypress represented an
addition to the Latin possessions equal
in extent and superior in fertility to
the lands which by this treaty Sala-
din retained. and though the jealousy
of French and Germans led to King
Richards two years captivity at a
time when his presence was sorely
needed in England he WAS recognized
as the champion Of Christendom, who
alone of all the leaders Of the tine
had shown himself equal to Saladin,
and he became popular hero in Eu-
rope and among the MOslculs US well.
Edinburgh Review.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

Shakespeare makes frequent refer
ences 20 the cat in his plays Lady Mac
beth taunts her husband whom he hangs
back from the murder with;
Letting dare not wait upon would.
Like the poor cat T. the adage,
alluding 20 that animals fondness for
fiah--'Whaf cats averse to flsh?'-but
ia unwilliugneos to wet its feet In
catching thcm
Falstan Ecizoa upon another feature OF
the animals character, so detosted by
all wakcful sleopors in towns; 'Soloodl
] am as melancholy as o pib catf When
Morcuho longs for a fray with Tybalt,
he aocosts him; Good king Of cata
would have nothing but one Of your nine
lives That | mean to make bold withal
and. as you shall uso me hereafter, dry
beat tho rest Of tho eight, and there.
upon receives that celebrated 'scratch" "
which was mot 40 deep as a well nor 50
WIDE as q church door. "--Eow York
Sun.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26
The Man Who Tired CARLYLE.

There is story of Carlyle in his old
Rge having taken the following tare-
well in his broadest Scotch of a young
friend who had had him in charge for
walks, aud vino while almost always
adapting himself TO CaIlyle's mood had
on a single occasion ventured to dis
agree with him, Il would have you to
know, young man, that you have the
capacity OF being the greatest bore in
Christendom. The boredom had con-
sisted solely in the rather Negative sin
Of not having been convinced Of the
truth of one Of Carlyle dogmas, Il sin
all the more heinous because, instead Ul
standing boldly up to Carlyle and de-
claring his doctrine utterly perverse,
the companion had betrayed has weak
ness by an apologetic tone.
Now, Carlyle liked disciples, and he
respected antagonists, but he could MI
endure being merely thwartcd without
being thoroughly rouscd. He felt in
that case that he had made no impress
sion at all ON his interlocutor; that hC
had neither won him nor excited him
to resistance. And nothing bored him
so much as that. OF course it is only
exceptionally despotic minds that art
bored in this way.-London Spectator.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

A paragraph in "a local newspa-
per on the importance of displaying
the national colols on the school
buildings and urging the selection of
a color guard of several boys III each
school to raise and lower the tlag
each day calls to mind an incident
which occurred not long since ON the
occasion Of sCme public school exer-
cises. MIR. Harrison hume was max
ing. an address before the pupils, in
which he referred to the national
emblem and the reasons why VIC
should all feel pride III it.
Now he asked, pointing to O
banner at one end of the schoUlroom,
what does it represents What is be
hind the tlagi"
While the speaker paused tempo
rarily boy who supposed that an
answer was expected spoke up
promptly and replied:
The wall Boston Herald.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

Inc Acta Diurna ut aacIent Home is
the earliest approach TO the newspaper
Of which We have any authentic record.
The Acta appeared daily until the down
fall Of the empire, A. ID, 476. 1t was
published under the auspices Of iht gov
ernmeut und posted in some pul 'c
place. the contents consisting OF digest
Of public dockets, a summary ot da y
occurrences and all news of a general
character. -Chicago Tribune.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

The railway marks invented by the
Hungarian minister Lukais viii shortly
DO adopted on all Hungarian railways.
For the future no traveller on Hungarian
railways viii be troubled % stand wait
ing al the ticket Office for his ticket. lie
will be In q position 70 make out his
ticket for himself On a blank card he
will write the name Of the station from
which be takes his departure and ihss -
the station he means 70 g. 10, AZ. 40
viii stick on the remaining onspey GpaOr
GU the card a. many railway marks" AZ
lis Journey will cost The blank cardi
viii DO obtainabls at al tobacco siopa
II London hala.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

The weakest living creature, by
concentrating his powers on a single
object, can accomplish something.
The strongest, by disposing Of his
over many, may fail to accomplish
any thing The drop, by continually
falling. b0res its passage through the
hardest rick. The hasty torrent
rushes over it with hideous uproar
and leaves no trace behind. Carlyle.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

These TaiChinar Mongols ere mucn
given to all forms Of magic. Storm dis
pelling they appear to have learned from
the K'amba Tibetans, but the origin Of
some Of their other practices is not so
clear Certain among them, they claim,
can cause a person to bo stricken i'll or
can even compass his death. After hav-
ing procured few hairs, nail pairing
or something from the person Of the in
tended victim, they make little image
Of him in flour, and in this stick the
relic. Then it suflces to prick tho head,
heart, lungs or limbs of the eflgy to
cause acute pains to bo folt by the orig
inal in tho same portion Of his body. OF
course one mp:t recite certain potent
charms the while In them Jies the Sc
cret Of success / am not aware that this
mode Of bCwitohing a person, so well
known in the western world in ancient
and medieval times, obtains to any
great extent in Asia. Personally have
never met it elsewhere
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

a class Of boys in board school
were beng examined in Scripture.
What can you Tell me about Mosesi"
asked the inspector What sOlt Of
a man was hes" Please, Sir, he was
a gentleman. piped forth a lale
faced, bright cyed lad OF II or there.
about. "Gentleman" repeated the
inspector, with a look Of surprise.
~ nat do you meant"
The little boy promptly replied;
Please, sin, when tho daughters q
JethrO went to the well " draw wa
ter the shepherds came and drove
them away, and Muses. nelped tic
daughters Of JethrO and huid 10 the
shepherds. 'Lauies tiIst, please, gen.
tlsmen. '"-GOod News.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

1he prtet announcement the other day
that the White Star line steamship Ma
tectic. drawing "a feet. had passed over
the bar at liverpool with three feet OF
water under her keel shows that the
great work d removing the chief inn
pediment to Navigation in the Mersey is
nearly accomplished. The engineers OF
the Liverpool dock board state that un-
der the worst possible conditions there
Is a depth of 20 feet Of water over the
bar. the great sandbank having been cut
down no less than nine fent. and tha
debris bodily transported and dumped
taT from the channel on a site where it
can do no possible harm.
During the three years that the work
mas been going on no less than 1883 600
tons Of sand have been removed. Allow
Ing the rough measurement Of hundred
weight Of sand to a cubic foot, II appears
that no less than 7,529. .SS8 cubic Yards Of
material have been shifted. This Is said to
I've a record IN the matter Of dredging
operations. and many other startling fig
ures are quoted.
During a recent week, for instance,
the three fredgers working at the bar
removed no less than 10000 tons Of
sand, machine called the Branokef
alone lifting and dumping l2O. 600 tons ont
Of this enormous total. while Ia a little
over three months almost 900. 600 tons Of
sand were dredged and placed on the
dumping site. Thearrival Of tie Branck
er changed al calculations. the effect Of
the continuous working Of vessel capa-
ble Of filling herself with 5000 tons Of
sand In less than an hour being sauls
thing tTemendoue. -Chicago Tunes.
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

Tl'- mortar and pest still in use In
mos parts Of Asia and al over Africa ia
the prototype Of the modern -four mill
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

"Vailiina, which as H.. ,.a Tor ''fno
waters, is tho namo which tho Steven
sons have given to their beautiful home
In Apia Four miles from the beach and
900 feet above the sea level clearing
was made among the trees, and the
house, a rambling two story structure
painted dark gray and with red roof,
was erected Roomy and comfortable
porches encircle both stories Of the
house, and from the upper, looking north.
ward, can be seen the fine waters" Of
the Pacific At the back are tho green
slopes Of the Apian mountainA There Is
no driyeway TO 'Vailima" from tho
town, the house being accessible only 70
foot passengers on to those mounted ou
lhe suIo footed native horses - + szi1s'
Southwest-sentinel., 1894-06-26

The power Of song is illustrated In .
custom on the railroads OF northern
Florida. Whenever train crosses this
Swanee river the conductor announces
the fact in each car. II any passenger
has never heard Way Down Upon the
Swanee River" this particularization
Of the stream must setm peculiar, and
the Suwanee is like dozen other rivers
10 the same rcgion. and these are passed
without comment from the conductor
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
PUBLIC SPEAKING.

The candidates of the democratic party o
Crawford county, have made the following ap
pointments, to meet the citixens of the varioui
lownships ct the times and places as follows
Jasper Township. At Glenwood, July soth.
Onion Tonwshin at Uniontown, July 31st
Lees Creek Township. at Precinct Aug. lst
1arker Township, 1t Eads Aug. End.
Cove City Township, at Cove City, Aug. Srd.
Cedarville Township, at Cedarville Aug. 4th
Oliver Springs Township. at Precinct Aug 9Th
Cedar Creek Township, At White water, Aug
Vth.
Upper Township at Precinct Aug. sth.
Porter Township, At Precinct, Aug. 9th.
Shepherd Township, at Precinct, Aug. 10th.
Chester Township. at Precinct Aug. 11th.
Winfsey Township. at Precinct Aug. 18th.
Mountain Township. at Precinct, Aug. 14th.
Whitley Township. ct Precinct, Aug. 18th.
Lancaster Township. At Precinct, Aug. 10th.
Lafayette Township st Precinct, Aug 18th.
Rudy Township. at Precinct Aug. 18th.
Vine Prairie Township. at Precinct, Aug. 2Oth
Dyer Township. at Precinct. Aug. 2lst
River Township, at Precinct Aug 22nd.
Ncore's Rock. Day time. Aug. 2srd.
Cross Lanes. at Night Aug 2Srd.
Prairie Grove. Day time. Aug. oath.
Alma Day and Night, Aug. 25th.
Maple Shade, at Night Aug. 9th.
Concord, At Night, Aug. 9sth.
Harsldton, at Night, Aug. 2sth.
IS School House. at Night Aug. 3oth.
st Paul, Day tme, Aug sOth.
Mt Vernon. Day time, Aug. alst
Van Buren,, Day and Night Sept 1st
Time viii be divided with the opposing can.
lidateA By order
PD. SCOTT, CHA1nxAN.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
Green McCurtain, q Prominent Indian,
Advocates Statehood.

SOUTH MoAL1sTER, I. T., June
23.-Green McCurtain, Treasurer
of the Choctaw Nation, a very
prominent Indian and candidate
for governor at the coming elec.
ton, has come out boldly and
publicly, advocating statehood
for the Indian Territory. He says
statehood is inevitable AMI the
Indian had as well commence to
prepare to become a United
States citizen.
The late strike has exhausted
the national funds, leaving the
nation in a bad fix financially and
as the authorities have given
orders not to issue more permits
to non-citizen, unless a rene wal,
the Indian Government will be
compelled to close the schools
and dismiss the greater portion of
the Indian militia. Future de.
velopments are eagerly awaited
by both citizens aud non.citizens.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30

Senator James X. Jones is lust
now receiving a great deal of
praise from the leading democratic
papers of the United States. A
few little sheets in this State.
which are unable to appreciate the
situation and haven't sense enough
to understand the work he has
done and is still doing for tariff
reform, are still giving him a
back-handed lick occasionally.
and are thereby making the peo.
pie OF the state prouder of him
than ever.-Washington (Ark.)
Telegraph.
The Telegraph is published at
Senator jones home, where he is
known and universally beloved;
and as to the few peccadill0 sheets
in other portions of the stale now
disposed to blackguard and be-
little him, we have only to say
that we are sorry for them. The
time will come when they will
want to hide.-Blackburn's Free
South.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
Sad Drowning.

BooNvILLE, Ark, June 26.-A
sad death by drowning took place
this afternoon in the Petit Jean
river near this place. The victim
was Henry Bangs. A party of
young men were bathing in deep
water when one of them took the
cramp and called to his compan-
ions for help. They went to his
rescue and saved him, but young
Bangs became so exhausted by
his effort that he sank and drown.
ed before help could reach him.
He was an exemplary young man,
of good family, and we'll liked by
all that knew him. His death
was a sad blow to his aged par
ents, who have the sympathy of
the entire community In their
bereavement.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
Commissioners Sale!

NOTICE is hereby given That Whereas on
IN the 10th day Of April, 1894, in a suit pend
the Western District of Arkansas, in Chancery,
wherein Topeka Investment n Loan Co. and O..
S. Gieed, Trustee; and Harriet G. Hawley we've
plaintiffs and William d. Gates, Melvin II,
Gates and Margaret L. Gates were defendants.
decree was rendered giving judgment in favor
of said Topeka Investment K Loan Co. for the
sum of 1854 10, and the costs of suit and inter
against said william d. Gates, Melvin II. Gaites
and Margaret E. Gates, and ordering and direct
ing that unless said William D. Gates, Melvin
before April p, 1884, pay to the plaintiffs Topeka
Investment Loan Co, and c. s. Gleed, Trustee
and Harriet G. Hawley, the sum of S36l4.1O with
interest and costs, the equity Of redemption of
William d. Gates, Melvin H. Gates and Margaret
g. Gates in and TO the following property, stu
ated In Crawford Co., State of Arkansas, towit
Sc q, Sec. 3, and part of the Ella of SW4 Sec
g. beginning in the middle of Sec. 3, running W.
Al rods. thence ). 81 degrees 4. "a rods >. II de-
grees e. 2S rods, y. 20 rods down a bluff to the
bank of Lees Creek, W. 10 rods to middle of
crosses the creek, E. As rods to Sc corner SW4
Sec. 3, N. 100 rods, ga l2 thirty-1our and one
half acres Part of the NIP NE NV, Sec TO-
beginning AT NV corner NE Z Sec 10 run L. 100
rods, y. 36 rods, W. 80 rods to branch 16 rods
further to branch, CS rods to fence and "A rods
through the field. lin all l47 rods to middle Of
grave-yarD, thence to middle Of Lees Creek. IN
all 1873 rods; thence up stream to intersect line
where section line on the South side Of Sec. g.
crosses the creek, thence f. on section line to
place of beginning, Az and 4 acrcs all in TIP. 7
Range 80 West, stand forever barred aud fore
closed and that said property be sold to satisfy
said Judgment aud William Falconer having
been appointed Special Commissioner to sell the
land above described:
Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the
power vested in me by said decree, / will, on
SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1894,
sell said lands at public out-cry TO satisfy said
judgment at the Front Door of the Circuit Court
House, in the town of Van Buren,, Crawford
County, Arkansas, to the highest bidder for cash
In hand, between the hours of 10 a, IN. and 3 D. H.
JOSEPH NJ. HILL, VIM. A, FALcoNER
Attorney. Special Commissioner.
The Van Buren press., 1894-06-30
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