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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

TEX.&FT. SMITH TIME TABLE.
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY II, 1895.
Arrive. Depart.
No 2 500 p m No l 1000 m
No 4 600 p IN No 100 p IN
Trains and run daily except Sunday.
Trains and will do local work be-
tween Alene and Winthrop.
W. A. WILLIAMS, Genl Supt.
TEXARKANA q SHREVEPORT RY,
Arrives 4:45 p. m. Departs $50 m
BEN COLI. m. Man.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

Complete in style, fit, and quality
are our new mems shoes.
SHARPE & BREWER.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

Best line OF cigars and tobacco in
the city at Mrs. E. L. MeekS post
Office corner confectionery. 2 %
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

40 pounds of pearl meal for 35cts
at T. ]. Hobgoods. 21l If
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

Have your watches and clocks re-
paired by the old reliable jewler,
T. l.. Schuster. 1925
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

Insurance in force, 500, 900, 900
Death losses paid, 3,5oo,ooo
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-03-03

Feed and seed oats at extra low
prices, at W. H. Wells & Cos,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
RUINED BY A CONTRACT.
An Iron Founder Undertakes Something
Outside of His Line.

An Iron Founder Undertakes Something
Outside of His Line.
The founder of the Vendome column
in Paris met with financial ruin in his
contract. The French government,
when it decided to erect the notable
column, entered into q contract with an
iron founder, says the Philadelphia
Record. He knew nothing whatever of
modelling or casting in bronze. The
government agreed to supply him with
cannon captured from the Russians
and Austrians during the campaign OF
1905, in quantities sufficient to found
the monument. The contractor, know
ing nothing of the phenomena which
the fusion of bronze offers, found when
two-thirds of the column was com.
pleted that he had used up all his metal
Sufficient bronze had been given him to
complete the monument, and he was
responsible for the entire amount.
Finding himself faca to face with bank
ruptcy he melted up his scoriae and
mixed the metal with cheap refuse
which he purchased, and so completed
the founding. The castings, however,
were found to be so full of flaws that
the work was stopped, and the founder
ruined. The holdings of the different
parts of the bas-relief were so badly
executed that the chiselers who repaired
the defects removed no less than 20
tons of bronze. They received fortheir
labor e12,OOO, to which was added the
70 tons of bronze, which became their
perquisites. The whole transaction was
very, very French.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
KING RUNS TWO HOTELS.
A German Institution Which Dates
from Peter the Great.
Although a Sovereign Ruler, King VIII
liam of wurtemberg Is Not Too Proud
to Pose Before the World as
Boniface.

Queen Victoria is about to confer the
Order of the Garter upon hotel keeper.
True, the hotel keeper is king, but he
is none the less a boniface. 1t is his
majesty William of Wurtemberg, and
the hotels which he owns are the Mar
quardt," situated right opposite the
iroyal palace at Stuttgart and the
"'Riesig," located under and over the
arcade of the Konigsbau. In running
these hotels as a source of profit to his
private exchequer, the king of Wurtem-
berg is merely continuing the tradi-
tons of his predecessors on the throne.
There is a story as old as the time of
Peter the Great in connection with this
peculiar source of royal income.
1t seems that the car, who was deter
mined on retaining his incognito in
travelling through Europe, absolutely
declined to take up his quarters at the
royal palace at Stuttgart, but insisted
on going to an inn. Having learned OF
this prior to his arrival, the Wurtem-
berg sovereign caused all the hotel and
inn keepers to remove their signs. Over
the principal doorway of his palace he
had huge sign hung out, stating that
there was cheer for man and beast at
cheap prices, and that the name of the
hotel was the Konigsbau.
On the cars carriage and retinue en-
tering the city, the positions, previous
ly instructed by the Wurtemberg Of
fcials, drove straight to the palace, and
there, standing at the main entrance,
was the sovereign, fat and burly, ar
rayed in q traditional costume of a
boniface, with white apron and cap,
while the various princesses, princes,
mobiles and dignitaries of hiscourt were
costumed as walters and mattresses,
hostlers and other servants. Peter the
Great, greatly amused by this witty and
kindly manner of humoring his wishes,
entered thoroughly into the joke, which
was kept up until the following day,
when he proceeded on his journey.
Noticing that the position mounted
on the wheeler of his travelling carriage
was man of singularly unkempt APP
pearance, his clothes ragged and COW
cred with mud, he made the remark to
one of his attendants that there was at
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
APPLICATION OF A FABLE.
A Sleeps Skin Hides the Form of q HUI
man Wolf.

The story of the ass who clothed him
self in a lions skin in order to pass
himself off as the king of beasts is well
known, but the tale of the thief who
got inside a sleeps skin to be better
able to carry on his nefarious trade
has yet to be told, says the London
Telegraph. Early one morning two
policemen, who were on duty at the
slaughter houses of Paris, were aston
ished to see sheep endeavoring to
effect an entrance into tho inclosure
where creatures of its kind were dou-
bled when mans hand protruded from
beneath the stolen fleece. Their Curl
osity became intensified and they care
fully followed the sham animal, who
stopped at the pen which inclosed the
real article, and with great GOODNESS
chose the two largest and fattest of the
flock.
Still observed by the watchful guard
ians of the law, this plagiarist of an
ancient fable proceeded to kill and cut
up his capture, and was on the point
of making off with his booty when he
found himself in turn the spoil of the
law and was quickly marched off to
the police station, where he gave his
name as Eugene Lassot. From his &C
count he made good living out of his
occupation by selling the meat to vari-
Gus butchers. For some time, at least,
it is to be hoped, that the animals at
the abattoirs will cease to be sent to
an earlier death by the depredations of
this latest wolf in sleeps clothing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
THE LETTER 1T"
A French Grapholosist Says That It In
dicates the Writer'S Character.

dicates the Writer'S Character.
A French graphologist has discovered
that character can be read from the
letter st" alone. He claims that the
vertical line represents the fatality OF
life, and the horizontal bar the inhu-
ence human will exercises upon this
fatality.
In addition, he claims that the higher
part of the vertical line-that project
ing above the horizontal bar-has indi-
cations of the amount of ideality con-
tanned in the makeup of the writer, and
that the inferior part of this line CORE
spends to the practical and material
part of the mans character.
For instance, the optimist crosses his
is with a line that slopes upward from
the earth to the sky, as it were. The
poet often crosses his is quite above
the vertical line; in other words, in the
sky.
The pessimist crosses his is with a
downward sloping stroke. The line,
which commences at the ideal portion
of the letter, descends little by little I'M
til it is lost among the sad realities of
earthly existence.
The practical man, it appears, always
steers a middle course, and crosses his
is neither in tho ideal nor in the ma
terial, but exactly midway between the
two,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
Nature Plants of Negroes.

"A writer in Progress Artistique, in
discussing the music of south Africa,
says the races living there possess to
an astonishing degree the faculty of
assimilation and imitation. They re-
produce with surprising fidelity the
songs of birds, cries of animals and the
various sounds of nature. Child-people,
they receive in their otherwise obtuse
brains impressions of freshness and
vivid intensity. Their long solitary
wandering upon hills and Prairies, unit
ed with heeting association with for
eigners, results in a species of melodiC
nature plants, as one might imagine,
a developed monkey music.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
BROKEN WIRE.
How the Telegraph Operator Tells Where
the Break Is Located.

Perhaps the greatest of all mysteries,
to the uninitiated, about telegraphy is
the fact that when a wire is broken or
damaged the operator, sitting in his
Office, can tell exactly where the acct
dent has occurred.
The explanation, however, is very
simple. 1t requires force to send cleo
tricity through a wire, just as it does to
pump water through hose. The
longer the wire is the greater is the
force required. This force is meas
ured; but, instead of calling it pounds,
as in the measuring the pressure in a
boiler, electricians call the units of cleo
trical force "ohms."
Suppose a wire between two offices is
$50 miles long, and that, on a stormy
telegraphist knows that when the wire
was sound it takes just 1000 ohms to
send current through, or IA ohms per
mile. He now finds that he can send a
current with only 700 ohms. He di-
vides 700 by IA, and finds that the break
in the wire is so miles from his end.
When the wire is under the sea Gu
rious thing happens. The electricity
decomposes the sea salt, and new salt
is formed on the broken ends of the
wire; and until that is cleared away by
what is called zinc current, acting for
ten or twelve hours, no measurement
can be made.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21

least no mistake as to the social condi-
ton of that man and that there could
be no danger of his being q nobleman
of the first stage. When the position
came to the carriage door to receive his
gratuity and raised his cap from his
head, the car, to his establishment,
recognized in him the heir of Wurtem-
berg's throne, who had assumed the
disguise for the purpose of speeding his
fathers imperial guest.
The king, who will be accompanied
on his approaching visit to London by
his queen, enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the only ruler who makes use of a
single eyeglass, and with this exception
presentsastriking likeness to the prince
of Wales. His beard is of a reddish blond
color, sprinkled with gray. His hair
is likewise of the same hue, and thin on
the top of the head, while the girth Of
the kings waist is almost identical with
that of Queen Victorias eldest son.
The queen, besides being of rare
charm and beauty, is distinguished for
her nerve and her presence of mind, Of
which latter qualities she gave evidence
the other day when her horses bolted
while she was out driving at Stuttgart.
Both the coachman and the footman
were thrown off, whereupon the queen
climbed upon the box, and bending
down over the dashboard, managed to
secure the reins which were trailing on
the ground, and finally obtained con-
troll of the frightened animals.
Her lady-in-waiting was found I'M
conscious from fear when the carriage
was stopped, but she soon recovered,
and beyond q loss of paint from the
wheels of the carriage and few bruises
sustained by the coachman and foot
man, there was no harm done. This is
by no means the first time that the
queen of Wurtemberg has given evil
dence of her pluck. About three years
ago, prior to her husbands accession to
the throne, she was driving with him
to church at Ludwigsburg, when an
unemployed saddler, named Klaiber,
fired revolver at the prince. The bull
let grazed the forehead of the princess,
and the would-be assassin was seized by
passers-by before he had time to fire
second shot.
The queen is very popular. not only
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
snowbans Relied by the Wind.

Passengers on the Flint River divi-
sion of the Flint & Pere Marquette rail-
road who came to Flint, Mich, recently
reported observing a strange phenom-
enon in large, level fields not far from
the city, says the Chicago Tribune.
Hundreds of snowballs, some of them
of colossal size, have been rolled to-
gether, it Is thought, by the action of
the wind. The fields were covered with
them, and nature accomplished in one
night what it would take large force
of boys several DAYS to do
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
GENESIS OF A "CRANK."
The Effect OF Large Ideas Upon Small
Minds.

One of the most interesting of psy-
Geological studies, says the Century, is
the effect of large idea upon small
mind. A large idea entering a large
mind balances and dignifes it; its eff
feet upon a small mind is often COM
pletely upsetting. The man becomes
intellectually top-heayy and unsteady.
When one becomes observant of this
phenomenon he finds much to amuse
and again much to deplore. He is
amused, for instance, to notice the re-
suit of this overlooking throughout a
long career. Where subject is thus
acted upon by a succession of ideas,
each embodying an important truth
which the man is incapable of carrying,
his receptivity to impression proves to
be his bane. The sudden realization
for the first time of a fundamental prin-
ciple makes monomaniac of him. An
other sudden realization of still another
fundamental principle and he is spin
ming off at q new tangent
But there are times when this effect
of large ideas upon little minds is most
mischievous and deplorable. Thus is
bred the race of incurable cranks in
philosophy, theology, art and politics.
The word "crank" has been maliciously
misused for purposes of cynical ridi-
cule, but it is too descriptive name
to be set aside. The congenial crank
is always started on his career of in
utility by this application of big idea
TO a small brain. The most firing
thing about him is his self-compla-
cency, owing to his knowledge of the
fact that better men have been mis-
called by his own accurately descriptive
cognomen.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
Where Tooth picks Are Made.

Only one characteristic distinguishes
the little village of Strong, Me-, from the
thousands of others that are scattered
all over New England. That is the
peculiar industry which serves to sup
port the entire community. Strong is
famous for nothing but toothpiclls, but
is known in the trade as the place from
which come the majority of the tooth
picks that are used in the United
States.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
LUMBEE PRICE LIST.

2x4,6, s, inches, u to a TT, length,
at $40 per NJ.
2x1O, II, inches, II to "a TT, length,
at S12 per NJ.
1x3, 4, &, inches, u to "a TT, length,
at $40 per NJ.
ks, 10, inches, II to "a IT, length,
at $11 per NJ.
1x12, inches, u to "a TT, length,
at $3.50 per NJ.
Ike drop siding at SIS per NJ.
1X4 and Ike D and NJ flooring, at
$14.50 per M.
8x4 and 6 ceiling. at $3.50 per M.
Shingles, 50, $3.50 and So per M.
lift ED. STEVEs & Sons.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
RAfrihufi0n.

Some few years ago a shepherd boy
placed a sleeper on the railway line be-
tween Brighton and Palmer, with the
result that train was thrown off the
rails. One year later to day-almost
to a minute-that same youth was
struck by lightning and instantaneous
ly killed within a couple of miles of the
spot at which the accident occurred.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
Pointed and witty.

A lawyer residing in the north of
England and noted for his laconic style
of expression sent the following terse
and witty note to a refractory client
who would not succumb to his reiter-
ated demands for the payment of his
bill: "Sir, if you pay the inclosed you
will obhge me. If you do not shall
oblige YOU"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21

IN ner nusDand's Kingdom, DuJ also
throughout Germany. She is the sec
ond wife of the king, his first wife hay
ing died, also leaving no children.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
A Walking Encyclopedia.

Lord Bacon was a walking encyclo-
pedia- He was a master of all the
knowledge of his time and remembered
1t TO the minutest detail. He rarely
made note Of anything, trusting to
his memory all the particulars of the
complicated legal cases brought before
him, and seldom was IL found at fault.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
THE SUNSET WOOD CO.'S MIsFoR
TUNE.

To avoid carrying over our
immense stock of wood we will sell
4-foot wood, delivered, at $40 per
cord; stove wood at &.OO. Phone
81. 8 IA If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-21
ATTENTION I

Contractors, Carpenters and Con.
sumers of lumber. Get prices from
VIM. Cameron & 70. before buying.
A4-l2 tt
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30
rhs nsdAo. summer wave.

Now the urban pave Is throbbing
Where the bathing suits displayed,
And no zephyr through the beeches
Takes its course,
And the idle ladies' bobbing
On the wAyside lemonade,
And for rain the tree toad screeches
TIL he's hoarse. til be's hoarse,
And for rain the tree toad screeches till he'I
hoarse.
Oh, the bot waves medly seething
And arsizzling through the landl
An day tAe bulldog dozes
Like the bat,
And happy smile is wreathing
Every bather on the strand,
While the cabbago leaf reposes
In the hat, in the hat,
While the cabbage leaf reposes in the hat
Now the baseball players sliding
Through the dust wave for the plate,
And the standing collars erumblins
Like a streak,
And the swallow is a-gliding
In q circle, all elate,
And the BUNDLES madly bumbling,
So to speak, so to speak,
And the bumble's madly bumbling, so to speak,
Let the hot wave go on booming
On the shore Of summer time;
Bet the vitreous mosquito
Round you whiz,
And the rose continue blooming
In the window for a dime;
Fate can put no blooming veto
On the fzz, ON the hzz,
Fate can put no blooming veto on the fzz
Let the hot wave of the summer
Round the country gayly swing.
Though 1t give it to the tulip
In the neck.
We're as happy as plumber
When the blizzard's on the wing,
For the chowder and the julep
Are on deck, are on deck,
For the chowder and the iulep are on deck.
-R. Z. Munkittrick in New York Journal
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30

JAMES G. BLAINE said in 1873: 81
believe the struggle now going on in
this country and in other countries
for single gold standard, would, if
successful, produce widespread dis
aster in the end Throughout the world.
The destruction of silver money and
establishing gold as the sole unit Of
value would have ruinous effect on
forms of property, except those IN
vestments which yield a fixed return
in money. These would be enorous-
ly enhanced in value, and would
gain disapportionate and unfair
advantage over every other species
OF property" Who can read the
porphetic words of Blaine, and, in the
light of events transpiring since their
utterance, feel justified in calling him
a crank.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30
BRYAN'S HEAVY MAIL.
Causes Him to Issue a Statement
to the Correspondents.

LINCOLN, NEB, July 2O.-To the
Public; My daily mail has grown SC
large that find it impossible to read
all letters received, and still more I'M
possible to reply at length to each.
Those who are interested in the sue
cess of our cause will appreciate the
situation and pardon me for making
the following suggestions;
l. AS time will not permit q
full discussion of political questions
IN so large number OF private letters
l shall, in order to avoid dlscrimina.
tion, reserve all such discussions foi
public occasions.
2. All offers of services and sug
gestions as to the conduct of the cam
palgn should be made to the national
committeeman representing the var
ious states and territories. All re-
quests for campaign literature should
be addressed to the secretary of the
national committee at headquarters
as soon as headquarters open. i
friends will be kind enough to OBJ
serve the above suggestions l shall b.
able to devote my time more fully tt
the work of the campaign,
W. J. BRYAN.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30

We live in a country of which TIE
principal scourge Is stomaeh-troub!e.
1t is more widespread than any
other disease, and, very nearly more
dangerous.
One thing that makes it so danger
Gus is that it is so little understood
If it were better understood, it
would be more feared, more easily
cured, less universal than it is now
So, those who wish to be cured,
take Shaker Digestive Cordial, be-
cause it goes to thereof of the trouble
as no other medicine does. The pure,
harmless, curative herbs and plants,
of which it is composed, are what
render it SO certain and, at the same
time, so gentle cure.
1t helps and strengthens the stom-
ach, purifes and tones up the sys-
tenn.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents
to $1.00 per bottle.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30

HERE is paragr aph from a speech
delivere by B. F. Wade, OF Ohio, in
the Senate of the United States on
the 18th of December 1867 which we
recommend to the careful and prayer
full consideration of Republicans;
II am for the laboring portion OF
our people. The rich can take care
of themselves. We never agreed to
pay the bonds in gold; no man can
find it in the contract and will
never consent to have one payment
for the bondholder and another for
the people. 1t would sink my party
and it ought to-"
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30

filed with eating sores; my tongue was
almost eaten away, so that for three
months was unable to taste any solid
food. My hair was coming out rapidly.
and was in horrible fix. ] had tried
various treatments, and was nearly dis
couraged, when a friend recommended
S.S.S. After had taken four bottles, |
began to get better, and when I had
finished eighteen bottles, Twas cured
sound and we'll, my skin was without a
blemish, and have had no return Of
the disease. S.S.S.saved me from life
Of misery" S.S.S. Guaranteed purely
yegetable) will cure any case OF blood
poison. Books on the disease
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