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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
An Ode TO March.

Poor March. $3.50,
Poor clustering. frigid. temp'rate. torrid
March,
Amused by all mankind,
Also by women.
Perchance you blow the snow your pre-
decessOr left
an vain attempt to get II OFF the EARTH
Into the eyes OF men. VINO straish'"ay
CURSE
Hang such a month"
Or. falling with your might 10 bring the
spring
You turn your beamIng eye upon the
snow
And straightway it is mud.
Then. woman. viewing her bcdrdgg.cd
Denied the comfort of profanity
Resignedly plods on her way. and signs,
"Oh, well. It's March.
Poor March
But do not let their SANDER trouble you
And. March. for heavens sake
Don't stay away.
Not ali mankind will curse your buster
and your mud
True friends you have. who would your
absence mourn
I'm one OF them
We view with grateful hearts your car
nest u.als
To do the spring hocse-cleaning for the
Earth.
And clear up winters mss.
go do not let your anger at abuse
Cause you to take year on You have
friends
And. March. a'note OF mines due April
first.
And there are others.
III. 1. Dunlap. In March Ev'ry Month.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10

The public will have an opportunity TO
witness the new method OF photographing
through solids at the electrical exposl-
ton, to be held in New York city In May
in connection with the nineteenth con
vention OF the National Elecf-.c Light
Association. Mr.. Edison has generously
offered TO send to the exposition his most
powerful and approved apparatus for
making shadowgraphs. and his own corps
OF laboratory assistant 10 o1erate 10
same. Mr.. Ellison has succeeded In max
INK picture through eight inches OF
yellow pine. and he anticipates no t-nu-
BILE whatever in making instantaneo:s
shadowgraphs. Mr.. Edison will also send
to the exposition his large collection OF
experimental apparatus and designs per
tanning TO his numerous inventions. much
Of which has never yet been shown to
the public.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
ISAAC SYcLE & CO.
For the benefit Of the hun-
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not be waited on i'll Mondays
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5Oc. yard: s5c. quality.
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skirts and suits. IN tan, brown. and gray.
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75c. Gilt Belts. zoe.
Shirt-Waist Sets-cun buttons and three
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
The "Lily Whites .

The Lily Whites" IS the name OF a
new political organization in this city.
which has recently been formed under the
leadership of the white Republicans i'm
this city. who are making quite a num-
Der Of proselytes Of Democrats. who are
weakening in their party allegiance. II
the Democratic leaders are not careful
the Lily Whites will form a factor IN city
politics at the coming elections.
dria Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10

Charles Baker. Of Pana. ILL.,. wishes
that he had sold his farm for the extrav-
agant price offered him when he found
that four-foot vein OF gold-bearng rock
the other day. HIS gold turns out 10 be
mica.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10

IIlll Ai'
unlucky number
This que<tloil
was lately adj
dressed 20 q
large number Of
railroad. army,
navy. police ANA
lire department
authorities. and
many replies have
4t.I....r.I.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
SEPARATE SKIRTS

Separate Skirts. made OF extra quality
figured lustre. lined throughout velvet
bound. very full and flowing. s3.is: -
value.
Beautiful Skirts, fun and lined through
out. made Of diagonal and figured Mo
hair N.5s.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
PRETTY LINEO OF WASH GOODS

Striped and Figured Organizes. ex
quislte effects. lie grade " lie. yard
IL pieces good Check Muslin. &c. kind.
for &c. yard.
case Sheer Book-Fold India LInon.
&c. yard.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-10
IS THIRTEEN UNLUCKY?
The Opinions Of RalIrcadmsD, Police and
Fire Fighters.
SOLICE FOR THE SUPERSTIllOUS.
In tho Experience Of Men Of iiairs, Th'r-
teen seems About a. Good ne Any other
Numbcr-Intcrcstin Interviews ou
The Subject.

lcon,rIsht ~. Ion rha TImos)
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11

But onet upon atime-it waa Christ
mas eve and the weather as cold az
Augius-me and VIII Tom Pickens
started to breakdown dance some
where's up there in the hill country, and
On the way we had to pass through Cy-
clone Streak. Presently we both run
dry and then we drawed straws as to
who would replenish the stock. Will
Tom won and lose. So took the bottle
and went down into dark and lone
some sway, laid the bottle on log, GOV
cred it with four bits, gave one loud,
keen whoop and left it there We
waited a little while, and when went
back down the swamp my money was
gone and the bottle was full of spirits.
well, me and VIII Tom we bit off two
or three little chunks as we driv on
to the party, and when we got there
by gatlins we had to stay Quit the cold
wind two hours in orderment to cool
off and brace up. We didn't take any
more that night We didn't need any
more. We had took two or three little
nibbles and they lasted till next mornin.
DuO We IloiSStNl liiC DOlllC al
amongst the boys one time only, and to
my own personal knowledge our bottle
of spirits from Cyclone Streak brung
on five variegated cases of drunk that
night. And then, by gracious, when we
started off on our return back home
next mornin there was six or seven
drinks left.
"Drivin along way on down there this
side of Deer Creek we met up with Lige
Runnels, and he made out like he was
ravn crazy for drink. We pulled the
bottle from Cyclone Streak on him and
the old man bit Off a tremendous big
plug of it, Then we driv on, but some
Of the Runnels boys told me after that
that old man Lige didn't show up at
home till about daylight the next morn
in, and didn't look natural and right for
three days.
When we struck into the old stage
road up there at Bunk Wcatherford's
Bunk he hailed and wanted to know
what was what. BY this time there was
about four or five drinks in the bottle
and we delivered the goods to Bunk.
As to me ard VIII Tom, we didn't need
no more. 1t come to pass that day that
Bunk took one strong nibble at the bot
tie and then pitched in and made a big
eggnog. Consequentially the doctor
was over there at the Weatherford place
the next day, and by fast and furious
work he brought the family through
without funeral.
THAT was years and years ago, RUFF,
but never will live long enough to for
get that bottle of white ink from Cy-
clone Streak"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
The value Of a Ton Of Metal.

So remarkable are the results OBJ
tanned in the manufacture of wire that
scientist has chosen this subject as
a topic for lecture. Ordinary wire is.
as everybody knows, net at all expen-
sive, but when metal is worked up into
some of the articles in common use,
it's value is enormously increased. At
tention was called TO pinion wire,
which is worth over $4,000 per ton. IL
takes 754 hair springs to weigh one
ounce, and 21000,O00 of them are re-
quired to make ton. These triiles are
not at all expensive per piece, but I
ton of metal worked up into them has
n value of over 100000. The most TX
pensive ton Of metal mentioned was one
which il made up into the tiny instru-
ments used by dentists for extracting
the nerves from the teeth, would be
worth 50, 10000. The relation between
the crude metal and the articles into
which it is made seems not very cless
and only careful computation gives an
approximate idea of what a single ton
of iron Or steel can represent In casa
value IN. Y. Ledger.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
American Chivalry.

For real chiyalry and large-hearted
kindness to women there are no men in
the world like our American men; so
it is with hesitation that ever remind
them Of even minor faults in manner.
When the American paterfamilias goes
to the theater with his household, he
takes a box that wife and daughters
may be comfortable and exclusive, but
he. who has earned the money TO pay
for the luxury, takes back seat in that
box, from where he can see only small
corner of the stage. In the carriage he
rides backward; on the steamer he adds
his rugs and pillows to his wife's; and,
N short, proves his unselfish love in
thousand ways of which men of other
nations are ignorant or neglectful. -
illustrated American.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
LONG RUNS OF PLAYS.
Eject on Actors of Ia Constant Repetition
of One Part.

Long runs, like most things, have
their good as well as their bad points.
Good, because constant repetition SO
Identities one with the character imper-
sonated that it becomes second nature
to feel and act it. Iteration may in
the end make one mechanical, but at
least it insures certain technique,
which, when inspiration fails, rescues
the work from crudity. Joseph Jeffer-
son once told me that, in THE Rivals
he had always gained an effect by pull
ing off the fingers of his gloves separate
ly and deliberately to accentuate GER
tain words; but that under inspiration
he would throw technique to the winds
and have the glove off with one jerk.
Who that has ever seen his bob" can
forget those brilliant green gloves and
the fun he got out of them! On the
other hand, the evil effects of long runs
are indisputable.
Prominent among them is n general
mental WEAKNESS which often causes
one to forget the most familiar lines
and turn blankly to the prompter's
book or to some friendly actor for the
words. This happened to me several
times, notably in 'The Winters Tale, y
in London, where, after playing it 100
nights, / had to be prompted in several
OF Hermione's great speeches. Edwin
Booth, during his long run of Hamlet"
at his own theater, frequently called for
the lines. An actor who was in his COM
pany told me that Booth turned to him
one night and with look of consterna-
ton asked what he was to say next.
His mind for the moment had become a
blank. The actor gave him the word.
Booth began the speech, faltered again,
was prompted second time, but, find
ing it impossible to continue, called
cut, in a loud voice: "Ring down the
curtain"
Many other examples might be cited
tc show how weary the brain grows
after acting the same part six or seven
times weekly for 100 or 200 consecutive
nights, with only the rest of Sunday
to distract the mind. Another evil Is
that toward the end of long run the
actor of any heavy or engrossing part
is likely to feel the impersonated char
acter and its life slowly dispossessing
his own. During the hundred nights of
'Romeo and Juliet" at the Lyceum
theater l became so imbued with the
sulferings of Juliet that | continually
spoke of them in my sleep.-Mary An
/ ierson's Memoirs.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
He Changed His Breath.


That brings to mind one day last fall
when Black Jack Virgins, from Cyclone
Streak, changed his breath on me. We
struck up together in town that day and
nothin would do Black Jack but l must
write out 4 speech for him on free :.ii
yer at sixteen to one.
But in the main time Black Jack had
smoked his old pipe and ct parched
COOLERS and drunk corn whisky till he
didn't know anything for certain and
his breath was tremendous bad.
He put his arm around my neck and
talked so clost and confidential like till
naturally couldn't stand it.
II am 16 hands high, l weigh 1877
pounds, / wear number leven shoe, my
name is Black Jack Virgins and l hail
from Cyclone Streak" says he with his
mouth in three inches of my face.
THAT perfectly all right with me, Mr..
Virgins, as to the size of your shoe and
what you weigh and where you come
FROM" says /, "but for the love of our
common country and the great cause of
free silver at sixteen to one, go and do
something to change your breath-eat
raw onion if you can't do no better"
And then, long-sufferin reader, what
do you reckon come to pass between me
and Black Jack Virgins, from Cyclone
Streak? Dad blame him, he got raw
onion and ct it to change his breath,
took another drink, come back and
locked arms with me and preached free
silver at sixteen to one for three mortal
hours.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
The Lady from Cyclone Streak.

But it was given unto Deacon Joiner
to bring on the most gonebyest con-
fusionment you ever beard tea Of with
lady from Cyclone Streak.
1t would seem like the lady was goin
to place somewheres up the railroad
on visit to her kinnery, and she had
went from Cyclone Streak over to the
station to take the train. She had a
baby with her, and likewise a shotgun
which she was talin to some of the men
folks of the family.
1t also came to pass that Deacon
Joiner was also over at the station that
day, and if any man loves the women
better than the deacon, he will have to
eat a few to prove it. So when the train
blowed the deacon he sidled up to the
lady from Cyclone Streak and told her
he would be pleased to take the baby
and the gun and help her on the cars.
The lady was more than willin. But in
the main time it turned out that the
lady never had seen the railroad train
before, and when it dashed up TO the
station she made break and dashed
off down the road towards Cyclone
Streak The deacon he took after her
at full speed, with the baby in one hand
and the shotgun in the other, hollerin
at everybody to stop that lady. But the
lady didn't have any shotguns and
babies to tote and she left the deacon in
that race like he was hitehed to post.
About that time the high sheriff
come ridin up the road. He saw the lady
runnin and heard her screamin. He
saw the deacon after her with q baby in
one hand and a shotgun in the other,
He arrested the deacon for assault with
intentions of murder, and before he
could git the facts straight the lady was
two miles down the road and turnin
the wind for Cyclone Streak. But the
sheriff then got on his horse and went
and brought the lady back. She took
the baby and the shotgun, which made
the deacon feel a whole lot better. But
she didn't 60 nowheres on the railroad
train. And from that day TO this IL you
want TO make Deacon Joiner foamin
mad ell you have got TO do is TO say
somethin about the lady from Cyclone
Streak RUFUS SANDERS
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11

have likewise also heard tell OF
them pleasant places in regards to
which have sometimes spoke-Possum
Trot, and Huckleberry Ridge, AMI
Weayer's Woodgarden, and fuckers
Mill, and the Panther Creek settlement.
But when the crops are laid by and the
fish won't bite, if you want to take few
days off and make the time pass quicl;
and pleasant pack up your buds and
come with me and we will go over into
Cyclone Streak
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
FAST RAILWAY TRAINS.
Few Realize the Tremendous Speed at
Which They Travel.

At 60 miles an hour the resistance Of
train is four times as great as il is at
30 miles-that is, the fuel must be four
times as great in the one case as it is
In the other. But at 60 miles an hour
this fuel must be eXerted for distance
in half the time that il is at 30 miles,
so that the amount of power eXerted
and steam generated in n given period
of time must be eight times as great as
the faster speed. This means that the
capacity of the boiler, cylinders and the
other parts must be greater with cor
responding addition to the weight OF the
machine. Obviously, therefore, if the
weight per wheel, on account of the
limit of weight that the rails viii carry,
is limited, we soon reach point when
the driving wheels and other parts can
not be further enlarged, and then we
reach the maximum OF speed.
The nice adjustment necessary of the
various parts of these immense engines
may be indicated by some figures as
to the work performed by these parts
when the locomotive is worked at high
speed. Take passenger engine on any
of the big railroads. At 60 miles an
hour a driving wheel 5lh feet in diam
eter revolves five times every second;
now, the reeiprocating parts of each
cylinder, including one piston, piston
rod, cross head and connecting rod,
weighing about $50 pounds, must move
back and forth n distance equal to the
stroke, usually two feet, every time the
wheel revolves, or in a fifth of a second.
II starts from a state of rest at the end
II each stroke of the piston and must
acquire a velocity of 80 feet per sec
ond in one-twentieth of a second and
must be brought to a state of rest in
the same period of time. a piston IS
inches in diameter has an area of 254R
square inches. Steam of $50 pounds
pressure per square inch would, there
fore, exert a force on the piston equal
10 IS. us pounds. This force is applied
alternately on each side of the piston
.eh times in a second.-Ladies' Home
/ Journal.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

-"Do you think you could eat mn.
other piece of pie, Tommy" Il think
7 could, ma am, if | stood up."-Chieago
Dispatch.
Sure Preventive.-"Whyd does Miss
Antique look in the glass so much p
"She is afraid of becoming vain. De
troit Free Press.
old time this summer" Small-"Ahl"
Flipley-"You bet! I'm going to ths
mountains" Philadelphia North
American.
-lIoax-"Does Sillicus know any.
thing about musie?" Joax-"No; he
doesn't know the difference between a
string orchestra and rubber band"
Philadelphia Record.
THAT woman over there looks as
If she were painted Sir, that is my
wife" Il had not finished my sentence.
She looks as il she were painted by
Raphael and had just stepped out of
the frame"
Friend-"Nice wheel you have. How
much did it cost your Cyelist-
Cant tell yet" Friend "How is
that?" Haven't you paid for it yet?"
Cyclist-"O, yes; but | haven't had any
bill from my doctor since.
Dispatch.
"A letter from a lady at an inland
watering place TO her husband contains
the following passage: SIN your last
epistle you sent me 200 marks and 1000
kisses. ] should be glad if, in future,
you would send me more money and
fewer kisses. "-Dorfharbier.
Heavenly. - Mrs. Blossom - Il
dreamed last night | was in Heaven "
Mr.. Blossom-"What was it liSe?" Mrs.
Blossom - IAN immense dry goods
store, and | didn't have to do anything
but shop. And, oh Joe, you should
have seen the bargain counter! Why,
they had goods marked at 90 cents that
would cost a dollar here. San Fran
cisco Call.
"A country hoy who was brought up
in a remote region of Scotland had &C.
casion to accompany his father to VII
lage near which a branch line of rall
way passes. The morning after his ar
rival, when sauntering in the garden
behind the house in which they were
staying, he beheld with wondering eyes
train go by. For a moment he stood
staring at it with establishment, and
then, running into the house, he said:
"Fayther, fayther. come DOT! There's
smiddy ran off wi row O. houses,
an it's ava doom by the back q the
town n-Opinion
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
JACKSON CHANGED HIS MIND.


Into the Ie5totaler.
For years jackson had been total
nbstainer for personal reasons best
known to himself. He and a friend
went a-wheeling few Sundays ago
and stopped at a roadside inn to get
a little refresbment.
Jackson's friend took beer and Jack
son filled his void with lemon soda wa
ter. Jackson's system was so used to
soda that he could stand an unlimited
quantity of the temperance mixture.
His friend soon declared he had enough
hop juice to carry him over to the next
roadhouse, but Jackson insisted that he
should have more.
Don't want any more, jack" said
his friend.
"Then, by the pneumatic tire, I'll
take a drink myself" said jackson.
with sudden determination. The waiter
brought a pony of brandy and after
Jackson had secreted it he was in q
trance.
waiter" he cried, and when that
white-aproned functionary responded,
"bring me three brandies and six
beers"
jackson looked like ready money, 90
he got his wet goods in good condition.
Then he ranged the nine glasses in a
circle and regarded them intently for
half an hour, while his friend looked on
in blank amazement. He didn't drink
any more, but had TO be carted home on
the train by his friend.
Since that Sunday Jackson's. jag"
has been with him, and the extraordi-
nary things he has done would furnish
material for half a dozen farce come
dies.-N. Y. Herald.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
The thimes at MIanIeht.

"Ah, Mr. Smithers, you are not one Of
those tickle young men who love and
ride away"
Indeed, / am not. Arabella," he said,
earnestly.
"And yet" continued the maiden,
cruelty, "and yet they run alright
sraiBs on the elevated. Bay City Chat.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
Ono BOTTLE of Sorry Goods.

"Tallin about the troubles in Cyclone
Streak" says Andy Lucas to me the
other day." that makes me think of the
time W hen me and VIII Tom Pickens got
holt of the onlyest bottle of rale sorry
goods [ have ever saw. never did run
very deep on the still business, you un-
Gerstand, Rufe, but / don't have to stop
and tell you that l have always man
nged 10 chamber up around my share
OF white ink and sperits-of-cats-a-fight-
in. II Jest naturally runs in the blood
Of the Lucas family to love the FIRST
runnins of the corn. Aud it is all good,
better aud best with me. RUFF.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11
CYCLONE STREAK.
The Sage Of Rocky Creek sTellir
Ct the News"
Plenty of Wildcat Stills and Everybody
Kin to Everybody Else Black Jack
Changed His Breath - Deacon
Joiner's Calamity
If you want to see the most lovelest
strip of country on the broad bosom of

the earth per-
haps if you
would love to live
forever and then
turn to sonethin
good to eat, you
will please re-
member tina t
Rocky Creek is
still runnin down
stream and amt
gone nowheres.
No doubts you
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-11

Since writin the above Luke Dledsoc,
a secont cousin to Billy, rid by to tell
me that old man Steve Hawkins is now
talkin through a different hat. The
revenue men come down ON him last
Saturday and called on him for the his
tory of that still. Whereas old man
Steve went over there in the swamp
and examined the shattered fragments
of the thing and then swore by the
livin ard the dead that it was the prop
erty Of old Buck Ridley-the same one
which he had borrowed to make a run
10 years ago this summer. Neverthe-
less, old man Steve had to pack up few
dirty buds and go to Jail.
BY this time things are warmin up
considerable over there in Cyclone
Streak. L am lookin every day to hear
from old Buck Ridley, which, accordin
to the evidence in the case, he is the
man which owns the still at the present
writin. But when you get the next
news | will bet the best mule on the
place that old man Buck never owned
40 wildcat still. Raley l don't reckon
he would know one if he was to meet
it in the gig road.
As everybody knows there ore
stills and stills-plenty of stills over
there in Cyclone Streak. But It
would seem like they don't belong to
anybody in particular. Billy Bledsoc
and the Hawkins boys got caught run
min the machinery and climbin up
around the producements thereof, but
they Jest Mapped to find the ding
thing" If it didn't jest naturally grow
up there out of the ground, l reckon
the last cyclone must of blowed it in
from somewheres up III the hill country
1t may be that the revenue men thin:
they have got dead open-and-shut case
for the government but they don't know
the people of Cyclone Streak. They
may break few kindred ties, and bring
en- general family disturbance, and
blow in a whole lot of time and money
But finally at last they will find out
that that wildcat still has belonged TO
everybody in Cyclone Streak more or
less, but 10 nobody for certain.