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Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

There is six hundred mil
lion dollars wasted annually
in this country on account Of
bad roads. This is eight
dollars each for every man
woman and child in the gov
eminent, This tax that our
people are paying for bad
roads costs one fourth of the
entire annual products Of the
farms of the United States.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

We appreciate the fact
that some Of the editorials
Of the RECORD have found
their way into the columns
of a number of our eX-
changes, 1t makes us feel
that we are saying some.
things that the brethren of
the press recognize, and ap.
preciate. For instance there
appeared in the REloRD, is
sue Jan. 9Th. 1897, a short
comment upon the injustice
of our present road law, re-
curing boys Is years of age
to work ten days each year,
This the editor wrote upon
his return from an Intellectual
effort to attend the Gircuit
court at Hardy, lie was
deeply impressed with the
terrible conditions Of the
roads and with hat, ovcrcoat
and gloves on wrote the little
item, 1t found its way into
the Little Rock papers and
several others throughout
the state, properly credited,
but we have noticed in the
Stone County Democrat that
the same appears credited to
the Washington Telegraph,
How this happened we do not
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

know. but call the attention
Of our brother Democrat to
this fact in order tuat he
may not be imposed on. =.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
T He RECO RID
More Industries.

has come when our people
must look to the develop.
ment of other resources IN
the state than that 0 +
farming is being recognized.
While Arkansas is a good
agricultural state and will
ever be, her people can no
longer neglect the other
great advantages which
now lie dormant, without
losing advantages whlch
will forever leave there Ell
fects upon the future of
our history, Under t h e
present conditions there is
no money in growing corn
and cotton when we buy
every thing which is made
in the factories from other
states. The result Of this
is in one respect that when
the boys who grow up on
the farm arrive at young
manhood, see that the farm
offers but little reward for
a b or, try ON e
thing else, the law, medicine
or some other sphere, which
is equally crowded, Or they
conclude that in some other
cline their fortune can be
made easier; and thus it is
that the farm and the state
is annually losing some Of
the strongest and most
promising young men. The
state cannot uford this
when there only likes the
hand of industry applied to
her resources to create OPP
portunitles for young man,
to build up comfortable
homes and snug little for
tunes.
The remedy is to manu-
facture at home within our
borders what we consume,
instead of sending out of the
state large sums which
never return,
These was at lie asst $500,
900 worth of goods bought
in St. Louis and Chicago
in the year 1896 by the
merchants of Sharp county
which can be manufactured
right here in our county and
sold to the people at the
same price which they pay
for them when bought in st.
Louis. In the first place
here is a very large sum of
money gone from our people
which will never return, to
the great centers Of trade
to augment the immense
fortunes already filched from
the toilirg masses, 1t does
not stop there. This same
money is used to buy the
elections. in order to con-
tinue these great money
Kings preep,inence. Thus
it is the very money, which
our people ought to keep at
home and can by the proper
development Of the resources
which God has blessed us
with, has become a COZ pting
fund to prostitute our re-
public to serve the selfish
ends Of money sharks,
Every father who has son
and daughter, every mother
whose heart strings are
already torn and bleeding for
her boys welfare, every pa
triot who loves the "land of
the free and the home Of the
brave" should rise up and
protest against this neg,
ligence we are guilty Of in
letting these resources lie
untouched and paying as a
penalty for that neglect by
sending many OF our boys
4 yay from home into other
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

The RECORD favors the
enactment Of a law "by
which al, classes and interests
in the state shall bear the
burden Of taxation for road
purpose in proportion to the
benefits de rived
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
Notice FOR Publication 1869.


Dec 10, lSW,
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has flee notice Of nls intention ia
m,kolnn prom y support olhW claim, and
mat sad proof VIII be nude before the County
CLERK OF smlD County, NJ Evening Shade, ArE,
ON jNny, 5Jlh 1897, wa
John Y Anderson
II u No- l1sll, Tor the hlror sw or sce,D,n
y twp lOurbW " '''''"
, llr names the following witnesses Ia proyo
hls continuous rcalCngc upon and rnilhnlInr
Of said mO viz ''"''''
John Anderson, cave Clg Aik, FRANK 'i&'nrrG
BongUy arr, '''''"
ID ncWus
koBBipI
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
Notice For PGbIiCati0l-... 1909

LIND Or ICE At LITTLE Rock, aux. !
December 2jh, 1898,
\ office is hereby given that the olowm
Y named settler has 0IednOti1e Of his inter.
ton to make lnNl proof IN sOpp0r. OrhiS claim,
and that said proof wilt lie mate before thu
County Clerk Of sharp couaIy NJ LNening shade,
Ark On Feb, 9Th ls0i, VIZ;
THOMAS d WATKINS,
w., +, go. lS2S3 for the Il : offs r 4, Sec %
Twp II n r west
lie names the following wmessc' to prove his
continuous residence upon aod cultivation OF
sud land, w;
~ NJ, Tonpklns W NJ Edwprds, T j Tomp-
kins, James Norris, All Of poughkrcpsic Ark,
j, j. B&AyEES.
Register.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

Notice Is hereby given that the following
administrators and guardians have Il cd Ihoir aC.
counts current Tor settlement Win 'hcT rcsprCl-
i've estates at the August term, l6jj
ANNUAL,
Calvin Moblcy, Ndnr, est Daniel Pickett
dec, .. .....
Nj, d, Hunter, grdn est. n. A, Hunter dee,
And all persons hlWing exceptions to nlr ind
MIlmg 10 do no on or before the 81 day Of the
November term, 1876 Oft this court, WIN be Tor
ever barred from cNcmptmg thereto,
JASPER Jusrus Clerk
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

John 4 :, Str0nsky and
Martha BATTLES, ---------Dccnla nts
The defendants John A. Stransky and
Martha Battles are warned to appear IN this
court within thirty days and answer the com
plaat of the uluntlr " 4 Edwards,
This january ith lr9,.
jasper Justus, Cler..
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

Notic. Is hereby given that the tol|owlnS
and guardians have flied their
accounts current Tor settlement with their res
pcctiye estates at The November term ISIS towit
A NUAlj
G, W Shaver, Adm list, VIM, ymya Dec
Hugh Spous Ord, Atlantic Lcdlord,
md gllpcrsons hayMc exceptions to file and
falling to do 20 ON or before the Sd dly Of the
Feb. lpm l%f Of this COWt will be forever
barred ilom eNomptmg thereto
jasper Juslus, Clerk
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
~ aFni@g Order.

Sharp Circuit Court
Southern District
- IN Chancrry
W. \. rdwards, ---------.- -~---iMhta
Against
~. Warning Order
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

~ ~ u aaCR shhe our goods ARC cRlivc-
Nv HcaGaDdc, O1'F pr9Cca a5a0sHGesy
Inc s0@cNi ANA 0Ur Business EgscIA.
oas thoroughly satisfactory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
The Christmas vision.

One Christmas eve a scholar drear and lone,
Paced DER his tagged court bereaved OF rest;
The god he worshiped him had never blessed;
Descended to him in the darkness dim
The angel of another God who said
In reverent voice, "rhey laid His baby head
Within manager, but they worshiped him."
The scholar answered fretful. ''Yea, 1 know
The One thou enthusiastically the same
Whom. in the end, shameful death o'ercame;
MY mother prayed to Him long, long ago."
whats death?" the angel asked with rising
breath:
And 10! in glory reaching from the sky
Ten thousand like him flashed unstaying by;
whats death?" they echoed passing; Death?
What's death?'
''They know no DEATH" the scholar lonelier now
1--WE men could teach them that, methinks. right
well.
Stay heavenly stranger, haply thou canst tell
What do they know-these other ones-and thouT
The angel spread his shining arms above
And answered, Love And swift again there
came
The fash Of radiant wings like living fame,
AS all the innumerable choir repeated, Lover
The scholar paced his court bereaved of rest;
Mused on the vision sadly. cit must be
In love there is no death. Love- be with me!'
Thus prayed, Christ came and evermore him
blessed
Madison, Ind. Olive Sanxay.
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toes will have fallen off, and the whole leg
from the knee down Will have become little
more than the mere bones covered with
skin. The foot is practically dead and IN
capable of pain: and If the bandaging be-
gan early enough will go into slipper one
inch wide by three inches long. There is
no possibility of ever again developing the
muscular system of a foot so abused.
These examples of the quick recovery OF
atrophied muscular power, or of the rapid
destruction of such power, must not be
taken as a proof that the transition from
four-handed monkeys to bipedal apes or to
primitive man, can have been a rapid one.
The requirement of a character in an IN
dividual by education may be the work or
but few years; in race by inheritance,
the product of many tedious ages. The
deft-toed maker of busts viii bear children
like those OF women around her, with no
perceptible popularity in the feet, as will
also the Chinese mother who is herself un-
able to walk unaided.
Further than this, it must not be forgot
ten that while man in either an aboriginal
state or under the education of stern neces-
lodged in the feet of the manlike apes, that
power has been so diSuSed in its fullneSS that
the bony structure OF his feet is now such
that at best he can only exert pinching
power with the great toe against its neigh
Dor. That toe is no longer placed so as TO
be in opposition to the bulk of the foot and
capable of the same sort of grasping as is
the thumb. But much as the manllke apes
differ from man in this and other particu-
lars it is plain to the conscientious anatom-
list that they differ still more from the
true four-handed monkeys. The gorilla,
chimpanzee, orang-outang, gibbon and their
near allies are to-day claSSed with man IN
the bimana (two-handed) and not with the
spider monkeys, capuchins, ceouses ana
handed) mammals, which amply Illustrates
how important a factor in the classification
of the animal world is the decline and fall
of the great toe and the changes allied
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BLIGHTED by RUSTY CANTEENs.
Effect of a Change An the Whisky ON
the Development of a Coal Field.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
1.-TWO rusty canteens" said the ex-boomer
that 1 am not now receiving a good income
from the sale of the Coos bay coal which
has become so popular in San Francisco in
on to the ranch near Drain / employed a
surveyor to go over my boundary lines and
SET up stone no il.a5, at my corners
small, wiry, dark-skinned individual, who
neither smoked nor drank nor swore, and
was professedly truthful; but his expert
ences had been SO varied and remarkable
that some times found many of his stories
pretty hard to believe. / kept coming on
unexpected Notifications OF his yarns, how
ever, so that in the course of time / gave
him my fullest confidence and when he came
to me during the second year of my resi-
dence on the ranch and said he knew of a
deposit of what he thought was pretty good
coal, Immediately decided to investigate 1t.
81 secured the services Of a coal expert
from Portland. and he, the surveyor, my
son Charles, who had quite a fund of gen.
eral scientific knowledge, a friend from BOs-
ton and myself formed the party OF five
that started out at sunrise one morning
in April, 1888, for the surveyors coal de-
posit 1t was the latter end of the RAINY
season, and the roads were in a very bad
condition, but we were all mounted on good
horses from my own stable and were travel
chief weight we carried was in the whisky
with which we had filled two old army
canteens IN order to be protected against the
Goal of an inferior quality had been
mined on the shore of Coos bay for long
time even then, and considerable prospect
ing for better deposits had been done, SO
that we thought best to conduct our ex-
animation rather secretly. We rode on an
old and almost abandoned government trail
ferrying over the Umpqua river eight times
on fiat-bottomed scows with mooring ropes
at each end leading TO blocks that Travelled
along cable stretched overhead across the
river. The boats were operated by tighten
ing the mooring at the forward end and
loOsening the other, when the current act
ing on the slarting side of the Scov svollld
drive ii forward slowly.
Everything went finely the first dav Of
the trip, and in spite of the. bad going nd
the miserable Oregon mist the entire party
continued In excellent spirits but the next
morning some OF US noticed a queer taste
to the whisky. At the next ferry we pro-
cured tumbler from the ferry keeper, and
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examined some of the stuff through a mag
nlfying glass that Charley always carried
ana lound II contain a great number OF
dark colored particles which had a bitter
taste and when rubbed between the fingers
were gritty and left brown stain our
i Iifst thought was that 1t might be the de-
nperate work Of the surveyor, who was tha
only temperance man in the party but a
trlaI OF the second canteenful, which knew
nad not been tempered with, as / carried
II myself disclosed the fact that II was
also III the same alarming condition, though
not quite so bad.
Our journey from there on assumed a
1lf1erent aspect. Charley, who had been
dashing ahead with the man from Boston
and picking out sheltered spots at which ia
matt a moment and take a drink now rode
depectedly at the head of our cayaIcade
and the expert from Portland stopped his
outcroppings over which he had been so
enthusiastic, and closed up the rear with
out a glance to either side. The surveyor
was the only one in whom no change was
apparent, but l had lost interest in the
stories he was telling, and at length, hs
JUor s a39 o talking KING; The whisky grew
TOO bad even to smell, and Charley, deter
mined to know what was the matter with II
boulder by the roadside, and then taking
up the end OF an Oregon grape root rode
on with 1T a few feet. Then he backed his
morse into the vine trailing behind him till
ne klckcd One of the animals lunges tore
open the canteen, which we saw to bs
nearly eaten through with iron rust.
We arrived at our destination in the
mldule or the afternoon, and made a cursory
examination of the outcrop and were with
the exception Of the surveyor, unanimous in
condemning 1t as unpromising. We left,
after gathering a sackful of coal which
when we tried it that night, did not burn
very Wen, and left large percentage OF
ash, and in the morning we started for
home, leaving the surveyor. who lived not
lar away disappointed but not convinced
that his find was as valueless as we pro-
nounced it, Two years later he succeeded
in getting the location examined again, and
It Is now the center of the new Coos bay
coal region"
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Nature VS.. Gold Hunter. in Alaska,

John Muir, in January Atlantic.
Alaska is natures own reservation and
every lover of wildness will rejoice with
me that by kindly frost it is so well de-
Tended The discovery lately made that it
is sprinkhed with gold may cause some
alarm, for the strangely exciting stuff
makes the timid bold enough for anything
and the lazy destructively industrious.
Thousands at least half insane are now
pushing their way into it, some by the
southern passes over the mountains, per-
chance the first mountains they have ever
SEEN sspraWling, struggling, gasplng for
breath as they climb step by step over
rough-angIed powders and thin miry boys,
laden down by awkward merciless burdens
of provisions and tools. Some are going
by the mountains and rivers to the east
ward through Canada tracing the old ro-
mantle ways of the Hudson Bay traders,
others by Bering sea and the Yukon, sail
ing all the way, getting glimpses perhaps
of the famous fur seals, ice Hoes, and the
innumerasble islands and bars OF the great
Alaska river In spite of frowning hard
ships and the frozen ground. the Klondike
gold will increase the crUsading crowds for
years to come, but comparatively little
harm will be done. Holes will be burned
there, and into the quartz-ribbed mountains
and hills; ragged towns like beaver and
muSkrat villages will be built, and mills
and locomotives will make rumblIng,
screening, Disseminating noises, but the
miners pick will not here be followed far
by the psow, at least not until nature is
ready to unlock the frozen soil beds with
the slow-turning climate key on the other
hand the roads of the pioneer miners will
lead many a lover of wildness into the heart
of the reserve who without them would
never see IT.
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Most Famous Canyon in the World.
John Muir in January Atlantic.


1t is abruptly countersunk in the forest
plateau so that you see nothing of il until
you are suddenly stopped on its brink, with
its unreasonable wealth of divinely colored
and sculptured buildings before you and be-
meath you. No matter how far you may
have wandered hitherto. or how many ia
nous gorgeS and valleys you have seen, this
one, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
will seem as novel to you, as unearthly in
the color and grandeur and quantity of its
architecture as if you had found 1t after
death on some other star. so incomparably
lovely and grand and supreme is il above
all the other delightful canyons in our fire
nodded earthquake-shaken. rain-washed,
wave-washed river and glacier sculptured
world. 1t is about six thousand feet deep
where you first see it, and from rim to rim
ten to fifteen miles wide. And instead of
being dependent for interest on waterfalls,
depth wall sculpture, and beauty of park
like floor like most other great canyons, no
waterfalls are In sight. and no appreciable
floor space. The big river has Just room
enough to flow and roar obScurely, here
a weary murmuring, overiaden traveller
irving TO escape from the tremendouS be-
Wildering labyrinthic abyss. while its roar
serves only to mellow and deepen the ST.
lence. Instead of being filled only with air
the vast space between the wallis Is crowded
with Natures grandest buildings sublime
city of them painted in every color of the
rainbow, and adorned with richly fretted
cornice and battlement spire and tower in
endless variety of style and architecture.
Every architectural invention of man has
been ANTICIPATED and far more in this grand
est of Gods terrestrial cities.
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Beecher's Tilt with IngersolI.
Washington Post.


Apropos Of the, recent visit to this city
or the distinguished agnostic, Col. Robert
1nRersoIl, WellknoWn WaShingtonian
relates the following incident, which is
salG 10 nave occurred a number of years
Mr.. IngersolI was thrown incidentally
There We're four or five gentlemen pres
ent, all of whom were prominent in the
world of brains. A variety of topics wers
discussed, with decided brilliaucy but 10
allusion to religion. Mr.. Ingersoll was,
OK course too polite to introduce the sub
9ect himself, but one of the party. finally
1ngersoti, made a remark about Colonel
Bob's idiosyncracy, as he termed It. Ths
colonel at once defended his views with his
usual apt rhetoric; in fact, he waxed elo-
quent. He was replied to by several gentle
men IN very effective repartee.
contrary to the expectation OF all, Mr.
6eecner said not a word. The gentleman
who introduced the topic with the hopa
that Mr.. Beecher would answer Colonel In
Sse e at last remarked: Mr.. Beecnesr,
nave you nothing to say in regard TO the
9uesuonE Ihe old man slowly litted
himself from his attitude and replied:
Nothing; in fact, il you will excuse me-
for changing the conversation, / will say
that while you gentlemen were talking my
MIND was bent on most deplorabe spec
tacte winch L witnessed to-day.
What was itY at once inquired Colonel
Ingersoll, who, notwithstanding his peculiar
views OF the hereafter. is noted for his kind
!" Why said Mr. Beecher. as was walk
ing downtown to-day, / saw a poor man
slowly and carefully picking his way
through d cesspool Of mud. in the endeavor
to cross the street. He had just reached
the middle of the filth when big bully;
himself all despatched with mud, rushed
up to him, jerked the crutches from under
the unfortunate man. and left him sprawl
ing and quite. helpless in the pool Of liquid
dirt, which almost enguifed him..
What a brute he vast said tba
colonel. What brute he vast they all
echoed.
Yes said Mr. Beecher rising from his
chair, and brushing back his long. white
hair, while his eyes glittered with their
old-ttme fire; yes, Colonel Ingersoll, and
you are the man. The human soul is lame.
but Christianity gives Crutches to IL to
pass the highway of life. 1t is your teach
ing that knocks the crutches from under II,
and leaves a helpless and rudderless wreck
in the slough OF despond If robbing the
human soul Of It's only support on this
earth-religlor-be your profession. why.
ply II TO youf hearts content. 1t requires
an architect 70 erect building; an incen-
diary may reduce Il 70 ashes. ("
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which they hope to sell for much more than
the dugout, and with a second boat IN tow,
laden with fruit and other produce. More,
over it has been discovered that their lano
is we'll adapted to the culture or TOBACCO
and several men have been sent by the
colony to Buenos Ayres to study cigarmak-
ing with a view to the establishment or
that manufacture al Cosme on a large scale
The vast forests of Cosme are also 10 pe
utilized in the development OF a general
trade in lumber.
In brief. this curious colony has pros
pesed on a purely communist basis, IN ex-
ceptionally favorable natural circumstances.
mantle of SecluSion from the world ana
take part in the ordinary activities OF IN
dustry and trade, 1t will necessarily sur
render it's characteristic advantages and
make itself subject to the very influences 1t
was founded to oppose.
The experiment is being tried, at any rate,
in probably the most favorable spot on the
face of the globe. There is no inner climate
than that of Paraguay and no more fertile
soil Almost anything that Is planted d grows
is splendidly watered and wooded with
evergreen forests. Oranges rival1ng those
of California abound; Nearly, all the nora
ish. To support life in comfort the mimi
mum of exertion is required. 1t can be said
of Paraguay even more truly than 1t was
said of Australia that If you tickle the
ground with hoe it laughs with harvest.
Nor is the climate as enervating as most
ub-tropical climates are reputed to be- On
the contrary, it is inspiring and 1nvlgorat-
ing, as is that of south tropical Africa. 1t
is not only so to the Scotch and English
colonists Of Cosme, but has ever been so to
the native Paragraphs themselves. Had 1t
not been they would scarcely have been able
to sustain themselves through the most
decimating war in the history of the world.
For it must be remembered that for years
little Paraguay fought for national life
against the overwhelming forces of Brazil,
Argentina and Uruguay united. When the
war began Paraguay had more than two
million inhabitants. When It ended she mad
was unconquered In q land of such re-
sources and of such traditions it was fitting
If the venture fails, the fault will not lie at
the door of Paraguay, but at that of the