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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-06

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr.. Frank D'Arrigo is quite sick,
we learn.
Judge L. A. Byrne has gone to
Denver, Colorado.
The City Democratic Central
Committe will meet tomorrow af.
ternoon.
General Manager W, A.Williams,
of the 7, & FIT. S. Ry. went south
over that road, this morning.
If you want to see how ship is
foundered at sea, 90 out to the OPP
era House Saturday night. 1t is
realistic.
Hon. W. T. Hudgins has return
ed from Jefferson, Texas, and it IS
said he won all of his casCs in the
Federal court.
Two plate glass front, brick store
rooms for rent, at a bargain, Nos.
217 and 219 East Broad street. Ap-
ply to ]. w. GARDNER
Mr.. AL Patton, brother-in-law of
the city editor, came here this NOR
ming and will remain several days.
Mr.. Patton lives at Batesville, Miss.
Hon. Thos. C. McRae has had a
bill passed through Congress, CIV
ing the Arkansas & Choctaw rail
road the right to build through the
Indian Territory,
The ground was frozen this morn
ing, on high places and at crossings.
A considerable fall in the tenn
perature over the days just past of
warmer weather, having taken
place.
If you want stationery of any
kind, dodgers, envelopes, invita-
tions, ETC., etc, come right along
to the TEXARKANIAN job office. We
guarantee satisfaction in style and
prices. If
Some morning in the near future
we will be awakened by the shrill
cry of the postman delivering let
ters at the door. You can bet Tom
McRae is not asleep at the big Cap
ltol, on this subject
II nobody over on the Texas
side OF the city wants to be Mayor,
it will give somebody" a chance to
get IN, and we hope to see some
body" announce soon, and get the
'plum," if plum it he.
For SALE-One Durham COW and
calf, one half Jersey and Durham
cow and one yearling heifer-all
warranted good milk stock, Apply
to JNo A. CAFFREY, brennan ST.,
bet. State Line and Olive. 251w
Cleveland, Wattersou and dozens
Of our greatest men compliment
and endorse the new book, Kings
Of Platform and Pulpit" 1t is now
being sold by subscription in Texar-
kama, at reasonable price don't
fail to buy 1t.
Mr. NJ. B. Goodman is having the
vacant store house, known as the
Telephone building, fitted up for
mistit clothing house, Mr., Goodman
is known here us the former man
ager Of the Famous, and is regard
ed as a good business man.
The Tornado is a tornado of the
Kansas variety. If you want to
see a funnel-shaped cloud, and see
trees torn up by the roots and shot
across the stage ina realistic man
ner, 90 and witness it at the Opera
House on Saturday night,
~
Remember that DR.. r. C. Flower,
the great Boston specialist, will be
at Texarkana on Tuesday, February
11th- headquarters at the Huckins
House. He will give a free lecture
at the Chic opera house, for the
benefit Of the ladies, on Monday
night, the 10th, Ladies should not
miss this opportunity,
-------ue.-------
Mr. Edward II, Gully, an old and
highly respected citizen of Rondo
died at his residence this morning.
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she said to me. although 1t Is evident
to me that 1t must have been some liv-
ing person. masquerading as the ghost
of the czar. The question Is for what
purpose such disguise could have
been assumed, and on this point l con-
fess J feel uneasy. What do you say.
my friend?'
Il shook my head.
~ fear that the first suspicious Of
Boris were correct / replied. and that
the enemies Of his majesty have re-
sumed their Internal schemes. 1t ap-
pears that they have obtained a key to
the garden door. and who knows that
they have not secured another to the
door of the imperial apartments. that
door from which the guard was to have
been removed last night for the first
time? Surely 1t is not by a mere coin
"'de"ce that this strange figure presents
itself in the corridor Immediately after
l.iGniglt, that is to say. at the hour
when the conspira tors had every rea-
son to expect that the page on guard
would have just quilted his post?'
"Eoth mother and son appeared
struck by this view of the circum-
stances. But Boris was by no means
prepared 20 aba0don his belief in the
supernatural character Of what he had
seen.
~ can understand that it Is diff
cult for my mother and you to share
my opinion he remarked. but l can
not believe that any conspira tor could
have succeeded in assuming SO close a
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06
The Ghost of the Win
ter Palace.
By ALLEN UPWARD.

Author of "Secrets of the Courts of Europe"

ital that any allusion to il would be IN
discreet, and might in fact subject the
person making it to an unpleasant Jour-
ney across the Ural mountains.
Never was the marvellous power or
the police eyerted with more crushing
effect. The rumor died out as swiftly
and suddenly as it had arisen. 1t never
penetrated beyond the inner circle OF
society. and, above all. never reached
the ears of a single correspondent Oh
any journal outside the Russian en-
pire. In the Russian press. OF course
it was impossible for anything to pass
the stern scrutiny of the censorship.
1T is for this reason that the public
Of Europe has never had even an ink
ling of a secret of which, outside the
immediate court circle, l am perhaps
the sole possessor That mere curios-
ity is not one of my failngs, you have
doubtless long ago observed. But in
the interests of France l deemed 1t
necessary to penetrate to the bottom
Of this extraordinary affair, and cir
cumstances fortunately put 1t in my
power to do so.'
"Then you We're in st. Petersburg at
this time?" l remarked, in a tone mid
way between that of an assertion ana Il
question.
Did l not say SOP" returned my
friend. II was not there in any po-
litical capacity. The president had re-
quested me to be the bearer of his per-
sonal congratulations to Nicholas, and
prolonged my visit at the request of
some of those friends whom had left
behind me after my former residence in
Russia.
l apologiZed for the interruption.
"But you are quite right to interro-
gate me-" said the ambassador. bland
ly. l should otherwise fear that my
story did not interest you. AS 1 was
about to tell you, was favored in my
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door Of the room, snatched up the sword
and one of the pistols. and had got
back nearly so far as the threshold
when he was arrested, and his very
limbs were rooted to the ground by the
sight of the figure which passed noise
lessly along the corridor outside.
Imagine a tall and somber appari-
tion, with long black robes sweeping
the floor. the head shrouded in a deep
cowl. from whose recesses cleaned out.
pallid and spectral in the light Of the
room. the features of the dead mon
arch, Alexander I'LL"
At this point his eXcellency pretend
ed to perceive for the first time the
change which had taken place in the
position Of the chessmen.
"Ah! You have moved your king"
he exclaimed. and promptly shifted his
attacking bishop so as to give me a
fresh check. Then he returned to the
narrative.
of terror over, the awe-struck page
ventured to the door of the chamber
and glanced out into the gallery. The
ghost had disappeared as suddenly
and as mysteriously as 1t had come"
"Were there no other rooms off the
gallery into which it might have
passed." demanded, not to appear too
credulOuS. I.
There were none. The only other
door in this part of the gallery was
that which l have already described
as closing OF the imperial corridor.
BE sure that put the same question
myself when my young friend told me
the story. His manner convinced me
that he was not lying, and that he really
believed himself to- have seen the
specter he described.
LAS you know, am not believer in
the supernatural. I sought to shake
the boys superstitious state of mind.
"'What you saw was some illusion,
some trick Of the Imagination, said
to him. t,.,
HE shook his head mournfully.
"I am as certain of what saw as If
1t were before me now.' he replied My
mother will tell YOU that am not SUBJ
ject to Idle fancies'
1.-THE princess confirmed this state
ment with nod Of her head. tt.
I am sure that my son must have
seen something like what he describes
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the government were extensively en-
tertained. The progressive party
talked with confidence of the mild and
enlightened temper of the young czar,
and augured much from the way in
which he had formerly held himself
aloof from the repressive measures Of
his fathers ministers. Fools! AS If
the 'Tchin' ever died, or its policy could
be changed by the mere replacing of
one royal flgurehead by another
However, the result of all this was
that the nihilists relaxed their activity,
and for time there was absolute re-
pose in the Russian capital This re-
pose was broken by strange and dis
turbing rumor. which circulated, OBJ
serve, merely among the exclusive cir
cles of the court. This rumor was to
the effect that the Winter palace had
become haunted. .>..
1T was stated that a ghost had been
seen walking in one of the corridors at
midnight. And there were those who
asserted that the spirit in question was
that Of the dead czar
"As you may imagine, such report
could not be long in attracting the at
tention of the secret police. The result
was very soon apparent. The rumor
itself had hardly been abroad few
days when 1t became silently under
stood In the society Of the Russian cap.
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SULPHUR FOR DANDRuEF,
An Ounce Of Flowers of Sulphur In Quart
of Water.

Prof. Smither says that he suffered
inconvenience from dandruff, and hav-
ing resorted to many means for relief,
among which were alcoholic solutions
of castor oil. and washing of the scalp
with solutions of boraX and carbonate
of potassa, which. latter, although 1t gave
relief from the dandrutf. seemed to inn
pair the vitality of the hair, and cause
1t to become thinner, was finally in
duced from his knowledge of the effic-
acy Of sulphur in cutaneous a ections
to try preparation of an ounce of the
"o-~ere of enl.hur in Quart of water
with the happiest results. ',.
e. LAG suipi.ui was repeatedly agitated
in the water during intervals of q few
days, and .he clear liquid then only
used with which the head was saturat-
ed every morning. In a few weeks
every trace of dandruff had disap-
peared, and the hair became soft and
glossy. After disseminating the treat
ment for eighteen months there 10 no
return Of the disease.
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The reverend gentleman was tnstru-
mental in having two editions Of the
Bible printed In Welsh. besides writing.
translating. and publishing about elev.
ell different theological and devotional
works in Welsh and English. most Of
which have gone through several edt.
tions. His Exposition of the Church
Catechism." divided into five parts. was
much used in Welsh schools and proved
exceedingly useful. The book itself Is
complete body Of divinity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-06

There we stood said mighty Uriel
p. With a myriad angels more.
A new song we sang delighted
When he reached the heavenly shore.
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When he gained the bright new garments,
And the golden harp of heaven,
TO a soul from Cambrias mountains
Warmer welcome ne'er was given. =;
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21

"You told me to bring something
home when / came this evening,
Maria," said Mr.. Billus, who had just
come in, ''and I've forgotten it, as
usual. have so many things to think
of during the day, anyhow" he went
on, with some resentment, that it's
an imposition to burden me with a
trifing commission and expect me to
charge my mind with it all day long.
Now l know perfectly well there was
some little iiggumbob or kielshaw
Won asked me this morning to bring
when l started for home tonight, but
haven't thought of it from that time
to this. What was it? l might as well
take my lecture right now"
81 asked you. john" replied Mrs.
Billus, mot to forget to bring your
head home this evening. Chicago
Tribune.
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A prize was recently awarded by the
Royal society of New South Wales to
the author of paper on "Southerly
buffers" This is the name given in
Australia to storms which begin with
violent northerly winds, whitening like
the breath of a furnace, because they
have swept across the burning sands
of the interior, and bearing clouds OF
suffocating dust. Suddenly, in the
midst of the tempest. the wind swings
round into the southwest or south, and
heavy rain begins to fall, driven before
chilling blasts from the ice-clad re-
gions surrounding the South Pole
Youths Companion.
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Sacrificed a Real Advantage.

The substitute would be of mo-
mentous Importance il there were the
slightest possibility of it becoming a
law. There is no such possibility.
Both the house and the president are
radically opposed to free coinage just
now. Therefore, in taking their pres
cnt course, the silver senators have fol-
lowed will-o'-the-wisp. All CT them
are opposed to allowing the president
to mix up the gold reserve account
with current expenditures in order TO
hide a treasury deficit. This practice
they could have stopped by simply
passing the house bond bill, which the
president would not have dared TO veto.
The cause of silver would not have srf-
fered in the least if they had done SO.
They have thus sacrificed real adrian
tage in order TO secure victory that is
practically useless. All the sam h it
il well for the country that the bond
bill is out of the way. There is now a
chance that the revenue bill will be
passed. That is more important than
the other-N. Y. Recorder.
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ESTABLISHING A PRINCIPLE.

Hut Its Application Was Little Bit on
the Bias.
Drawing from his pocket lump OF
glittering metal, the long-whiskered
orator held il up for the inspection OF
his audience and proceeded impressive
ly:
my countrymen, here is fiye-doiiar
gold piece melted down. There is just
IA much gold in it as there was before
ii was melted. If the goldbug the >ry
is true, that the government cannci
make absolute money, and that the gov
eminent stamp on the coin adds moth
ing to the actual value of it, then this
piece of metal ought TO be worth five
dollars of any mans money. Is there
anybody insthe audience" he went on,
with kindling eye and in voice thai
made the windows rattle, that Will
give me FIVE dollars for it?'
"Yes, sir" promptly responded a
beefy individual. rising from his seat
and coming forward.
Here is five dollars in silver. Hand
oyer the bullion. It's as good bargain
as want"
The long-bearded orator took drink
of water. Then he looked piercingly at
the man with the silver and took an
other drink of water.
my friend he said, "you are willing
TO exchange five dollars for this chunk
of metal Very good. / don't want
your money. / am merely establishing
| principle. Your willingness to pay
good money for q piece of melted gold
grows out of the fact that you know
you can take it TO the United States
mint, have it coined into money
again, and you won't lose a cent. The
government stamp On that metal. when
it's made into coin, makes it worth five
dollars again. Do you see the point
s;r?" continued the orator, becoming
more confident. do you see the point
It's the government stampl"
"Yes, sir" broke in the beefy individ
ual, taking lump of something white
from his pocket ard rendering it IL
the speaker. "Here's a silver dolla
melted down? How much will yol
give me for it?''
The long-whiskered orator took an
other drink Of water and in yoic,
of thunder proceeded to denounce rh,
crime of 1S73-Chicago Tribune.
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city eovernmens Of Washington, u. Q.

Home-rule in local affairs is vital
principle in our government 1t is en-
trenched in our constitution, which
reserves to local authority every right
not specifically granted to the general
government. Yet in matters entirely
local. in school affairs. in health meas
ures, Washington citizens have no
voice nor control over the expenditure
of single dollar of their taxes. In
other cities the power to correct official
abuses is in the hands of the people;
here, whatever the blunders commit
ted, it is hard to locate the guilty
ones What is worse. though the
guilty be known, the people are pow
erless to rebuke them at the polls.
The spectacle, meanwhile, of a body
chosen to legislate for sixty-five mil
lion people diverted into a city council
dealing with ditch cleaning, care OF
markets. graveyards and other neigh
borhood concerns, becomes more in
congruous each year.
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LET THE EARTH REJOICE AND

farmers sing. With our new hardy
grasses, clovers and fodder plants the
poorest, most worn out, toughest,
worst piece of land can be made as
fertile as the valley of the Nile. Only
takes year or so! AT the same time
you will be getting big crops! Teo-
sinte, Giant Spurry, Sacaline, Latbyrus,
What variety of names! Catalogue
tells you! 9e
If YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND it
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis.,, with 14c. postage, you will
get free their mammoth catalogue and
ten grass and grain and fodder sam
Piles (,yorth $1,000 to get start). They
are fine, the editor believes. (K)
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NEwsrATes AND SOUND MONEY
Admission to the Union Is Hazardous 20
Financial Safety.

Admission to the Union Is Hazardous 20
Financial Safety.
The people of Oklahoma, New Mex
leo and Arizona arc anxious for state
hood. Bills providing for the admis-
sion of the two latter communities into
the sisterhood of American common
wealths passed the Fifty-Third house.
hut failed in the senate. An earnest
attempt to secure an entrance for al!
three territories will undoubtedly be
made during the lifetime of the present
congress.
On the ground of population Oklaho-
ma, with 275,O00 inhabitants, and New
Mexico. with $4,000 citizens, can pre-
sent a plausible claim. Arizona, with
only 1900 people, exclusive OF Indians,
within it's bounds, has much weaker
case. There are other considerations
of far greater weight, however, which
enter into the problem.
This nation is additionally hospita-
bic to applicants for the privileges AMI
powers of states. The gates of the
union have swung open with fire.
ouency and hastiness which prove thai
the American people cordially welcome
their kinsmen of the west into the full
fellowship of equal Americanism. But
il is obvious that the citizens of the ex-
listing states should consider the effect
upon the national interests which the
admission of impatient newcomers will
produce. Judged by this test, it is evil
dent that the time to usher in Arizona,
New Mexico and Oklahoma has not yet
arrived.
The country has repeatedly seen its
most vital interests assailed and pub
lie confidence in the integrity of its
currency seriously impaired by the
free-silver extremists in the senate.
Senator's from a group of half dozen
western states, each with a small popu-
lation, have been able to hold the bal
ance of power and to dictate legislation
which was opposed by an overwhelming
| majority of American voters. The ad-
mission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma would result in the election
of six ultra free-coinage senator's, and
in the perpetuation for an indefinite
period of the anomalous and disgrace
| full condition of affairs which makes
/ the senate q menace to industry ant
| commerce instead of safeguard.
| Against such contingency the Older
| states have clear right to protest
| The trio of territories now knocking Al
the door have the best wishes OF thu
nation. But until education and expe
rience have transformed majority o.
their citizens into supporters of sound
money, their complete enfranchisemen'
will be an experiment too hazardous Il
be safely undertaken.-N. Y. Adver
| tiser.
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FREE SILVER DEcADENCE.
A Gratifying Failing on In the Demand
for Fifty-Cent Dollars.

The free-silver substitute for the
bond bill passed the senate by the small
majority of seven.
Considering the recent reinforce
ment of the free-coinage side with sew
cral additional senator's from the min
ing-camp and sage-brush states, this
result shows a gratifying falling off in
the craze for 50-cent dollars.
In July, 1890, astraight frec-coinage
bill passed the senate by majority of
1872 more than this. ono. 1t was
rejected by the house by q majority OF
only II, ard the silver-purchase act was
passed as a compromise, according to
Senator Sherman, because the friends
OF sound money did not dare trust to
veto of free coinage by President Har-
rison.
To-day the free-silver fanaticism is
much weaker in congress and in the
COUNT. Not only is its majority in
the senate cut down, but the hostility
in the house would be marked by ma
jority several times greater than that
of 1890. And there is a president in the
white house who would veto a free
coinage bill as soon as he could put his
zen to paper.
The speculative attempt. encouraged
by the president and the secretary oil
the treasury, to depreciate the price OF
"coin" bonds on account of the silver
sentiment in the senate is unwarranted
and scandalous. In 1890, when, as we
are shown, the silver strength was much
greater than it is now, government
fours of 1907 were quoted in the market
at 1911, to 1913 on the 1st of July, be.
fore the vote in the senate, and at pre-
cisely the same figure on July Is, the
day after the Sherman act became c
law. A few days ago the registered
feurs Of the last issue were only one
half of one per cent. below the quota
ton of q week before. in face of the Ger
tain passage of the free-coinagc bill.
The people have faith in their gov
ernment-which is only another wa,
OF saying that they have confidence II
their own honesty. The bonds of thu
United States will continue to be paid
MS they always have been, in the hes
money there is.-N. Y, World.
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This Is precisely the kind of mistake q
man makes II he 'sttrns OUT on the wrong
side of tue road when q vehicle comes to-
ward him. No less absurd is the error of
the individual who takes drastic medicines
to relieve his liver. That organ is on the
right side, and the road to its relief Is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, medicine also
adapted to herelief of dyspepsia, constipa-
ton, kidney and rheumatic ailments and
malaria
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-03-21
Tho Modern Way

Comments itself to the wcIl-informed, to
do pleasantly and etfectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well To cleanse the sys-
TEN and break up colds, headaches, and fe-
yers without unpleasant after effects, use
the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup
OF Figs. Manufactured by California Fig
Syrup Company.
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ave have no use for bear stories,' said
the editor. "OHr readers demand some
thing spicy" ''Well,' said the man with
the manuscript. '.this story is about Gin
Ramon bear '-Sports Afeid.