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The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

The manager of the Border City Ice
& Coal company-Mr. Caldwell-denies
that they have any intention of moving
their plant away from Van Buren,.
Perhaps the threat that another
company would put in plant here in
case of removal had something to do
with their coming to this decision.
Nora Roberts, the colored woman
held for infanticide in connection with
tn finding of the body of child in the
we'll of the Bourland place between Van
examination before Esq. Moore and
was discharged for lack of evidence.
The case will be investigated by the
next grand jury.
While the stand in the berry patches
was greatly cut down by the dry
weather of last year, it is not thought
that this year S shipments will fall very
greatly below those of former years.
The increase of acreage over last year
is so great that it is expected the ship
ments will be quite large in spite of the
bad outlook some time ago.
An unaccountable apathy seems to
prevail among our business men in
regard to forming a board of trade.
Surely they would like to see Van Buren
improve and grow, but this can only be
done through organized effort. Gentle
men see what the Business Men S
League is accomplishing for Fort
Smith, as proof of what organization
will do.
It is said that the Heating Wheel Co. 3.
Middletown, Conn, desire good
agent in Van Buren,. AS the Heating
is known the world over as one of the
finest and easiest running wheels made,
it would seem as though some of our
business men might open correspond
ence with the Heating people to good
advantage. The wheel is ready
seller.
The damage case of Isaac Campbell
VS.. Fort Smith and Van Buren Bridge
Co.. and st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway Co., was dismissed in the q.
S. court at Fort Smith Saturday. This
was one of the suits growing out of the
destruction of the steamer John
Mathews by colliding with pier of the
railway bridge at this point one night
in June, 1892. There were four of the
steamers $ crew drowned, one of them
being Isaac Campbell's S son. Campbell
sued for damages for the drowning OF
his son.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
Burglars Crack a Safe.

Fort SMITH, March 5.-The grocery
store of N. F. Scruggs, on Towson
avenue, was blown open last night and
$3.50 extracted. Sacks of -four were used
to deaden the sound, and though the
door was torn from its hinges and the
safe completely wrecked, the noise was
heard by no one in the neighborhood,
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

The river was on quite a rise this
week.
Bob Brown visited ClarksYille
Sunday.
Will Hawkins went to Little Rock
Thursday.
Monday is ladies free night at the
opera house.
Ye editor arrived Tuesday from
s Washington.
j. D. James was in the city few
! hours Sunday.
Editor Ramsden was up from Mul-
berry Monday.
P. D. Scott returned from Little
Rock Saturday.
Mrs. r. B. Allen is visiting her son,
\ Dan, at Fayetteville
Theatrical attractions all next week
4 at Murta opera house.
The postoffice building has had new
ceiling put in this week.
BoRN-To Mr. and Mrs Geo. Foley,
on March IL, daughter.
w. H. H. Shibley went to Little
Rock Wednesday morning.
Col. Sam Chew returned Sunday
from trip to Logan county.
Mrs. Ed Colgan was visiting relatives
3 at Little Rock the past week.
Harry Wood went on business trip
: to Stilwell, 1. T., Wednesday.
Chas. Beard, of Searcy, was visiting
4 his cousin, Clay Ward, this week.
John Allen has resigned his position
s as night agent at the Frisco depot.
Miss Amy Griffin, of Clarksville, was
visiting Miss Emily Hays this week.
BoRN-On Friday the 9th inst. to
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Abrams, a son.
A monkey and bird show was interest
ing the children several days this week.
q Miss Eretta Cline, of Lamar, Ark. +,
was visiting Mrs. S. A. Miller this
week.
Judge J. V. Bourland, of Ozark was
in the city Sunday visiting Col Sam
s. Chew.
Sheriff Pape spent Monday in Little
Rock on business connected with the
d office.
8 Mrs. l.. G. Locke was in the city
visiting her sister, Mrs. d. W. Moore,
Saturday.
Mr.. Eugene Mayors, of Bentonville,
was visiting relatives in Van Buren
this week.
Mr.. Morelock has resumed work on
his new brick residence on East
Broadway.
j The Chase Lister company will hold
the boards at Murta opera house all
next week
Ollie Laws and family returned from
two weeks visit to Eureka Springs
Wednesday.
ROSES-A fine assortment just
received. Call and see them.
L. GRAF.
Miss Mable Miller returned tC
Fayetteville Sunday after a short visi
to her parents.
Will Peel arrived from Missouri Sun
day night and has accepted a position
on The Times.
Miss Alice Fealy, of Fort Smith, wa
visiting her sister, Mrs. Jno. Kerwin
first of the week.
Col. Ed Somers returned from al
extended trip through Missouri ant
Kansas Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coffee and Mrs. Heall
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jno
Kane this week
Mr.. st. James is night man at tn
Union depot vice Jno. Allen, VIII,
recently resigned.
MARRIED-At the residence of tn
brides parents in East Van Buren
Sunday at o. clock P. NJ. Mr.. l.. b
Huckleberry TO Miss Clio Brannon
ReY. Coward officiating.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
If You Want....

to Buy, Sell, or Exchange Lands
or Town Property, give me mum =
bers,. improvements and price, =
cash or time. II you want to
purchase let me know what you
want. | will sell on reasonable
commission.
VIM, L, TAYLOR.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
THE VAN BUREN PRESS.
VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS.
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.

MISSOURI PACIFIC.
Trains 231, 232 233 234, 243 and 244 will carry
passengers
GOING WEST.
No. 23l. Arr. 245 pm. Arr Coffeyville $50 pm
No 233 80 $40 am. +" Ft Smith 400 a m
No. 24S. 90 1l:25 am. Stops at Van Buren,.
GOING EAST.
No. 2S2. Arr. Ills pm. Arr. Little Rock 7;55 pm
No. 234. 1850 am. q 2:15 pm,
No 244 Lv. 1918 pm. Coal Hill 435 pm
Trains 231 232 233, 234 run daily.
Trains 243 and 2i4 do not run on Sunday.
Through trains make stop of minutes.
GREENWOOD BRANCH.
No S66.. Arr. 1l:25 am. Stops at Van Buren,.
No. 208@ Lv. 1850 pm Arr Greenwood 500 p m
(") Daily. except Sunday.
A. HAYS Agent
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
FRISCO LINE" (sT. L. 4 8. F.)
LOCAL and Personal.

Special Notices in the Local Columns Five cents
Line for first insertion, and fire cents per
line for each subsequent insertion. AH locals
run and charged for at aboge rates until or
dered discoatinued.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
WALNUT.

Parties having good mill and export
logs for sale, Is inches and upward in
diameter, are requested to write us with
full particulars, or call.
Prompt cash paid for all material
when delivered.
Band mills and branch office at Fort
Smith, Ark.
r. a. HONSBERGER,
eiNeHAMToN. N. Y.
IA Address all letters TO branch Office.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
DIR. PIERCE'S-n~
FAVORITE
<k&~PRESCRIPTION
CURES THR WORST CASES.

and ulcers OF the uterus.
She had been doctoring
with every doctor Of any
good reputation, and had
spent lots of money 10
hospitals. but to no pur-
pose. She continued to
get worse. She was
greatly pre- u iced
against patent medi-
cines, but as a last resort
we tried a bottle Of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. We had seen
some Of your advertise
nents, and Mr.. Cun-
mings, a west-side drug
gist, advised us to try a
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

The acreage of potatoes in the vicinity
of Van Buren, this season will not be as
large as last, owing to scarcity of seed
and greater scarcity of money with
which to buy seed.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13
A HARD. WORKING WOMAN

notes all the natural functions and makes
a new woman of her. Uterine debility, IT,
regularity and Inflammation are most Of
ten the cause of the extreme nervousness
and :rritability of some women-the medi.
cine to cure 1t is the Prescription " of
DR.. Pierce. All the aches, pains and weak
uesses of womanhood vanish where it is
faithfully employed DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription is therefore just the medicine
for young girls just entering womanhood
and for women at the critical change OF
rife -
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Abe Bean, (col. J, during epileptic
fit Wednesday afternoon fell against one
of the plateglass windows of DR.. John
sons drug store and completely
demolished it.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

A fall of 42o was recorded by the
thermometer here from Tuesday noon
to Wednesday morning. On Tuesday
the temperature rose to S2o but took a
drop to 40o that night.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

bottle We tried II with the following results ;
The first bottle did her so much good that we
bought another, and have CONTINUED until she
has been cured"
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Ben Moore came down from Fayette-
vile Sunday to take short rest and
reeuperate his health which had been
impaired some by too close application
to his studies.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

The steamer VIM. Druhe has been
doing considerable freighting business
between their point and Webbers Falls
during the present favorable stage OF
the water.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Hoods Pills and Hood Sarsaparilla
for sale at JNo. O'KANs s DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

We hear the cry of 'better roads
all over the country, but it seems as
though it was not going any further
than the "cry. - Why not work the
county prisoners on them2
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Mrs. Blackburn, of Ozark is in the
city this week visiting her sister, Mrs.
DR.. o. M. Bourland.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

The damage done to the compress by
the storm of last week is not as large as
was at first thought, Mr.. Barrett, the
superintendent, thinks that $3.50 will
cover all the damage done.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Miss Katherine Bruun Martin has
returned from an extended visit to
relatives in Kentucky.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

A. A. Clinnkscales was in the city
Tuesday visiting relatives. He has
been travelling through Missouri and
Kansas for several months past, follow
ing his profession as piano tuner.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Jno. w. Keller has excepted a
position at Shawnee, o. T.. and left
for that point Thursday.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

A delegation of members of the local
lodge of the A. o. U. W., visited Fort
Smith Tuesday evening to attend a
lecture delivered by Supreme Master
Workman j. @. Tate, of Omaha.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Mr.. G. X Benson has resumed his
position rs prescription clerk at the
Parlor Drug Store.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Miss Bennie Collins returned home
Tuesday from a several week visit to
relatives in Kansas.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

Opinions differ, but the press of the
West is unit in praise of the Chase
Lister Theater company.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

A shipment of 80, 900 strawberry
plants was made to one party at Conway
this week from Alma. A great MANY
acres of new plants have also been set
out in the vicinity Of that thriving
burg.
The Van Buren press., 1897-03-13

New tomatoes were on the local
market this week retailing at cents a
piece. They came from Texas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The railways of the world carry over
100000 passengers weekly.
-Lenenhock and Humboldt both gay
that a single pound ot the finest spider
webs would reach Ground the world.
The annual value of the human hair
exported from China is said to be about
100000. 1t is taken from the heads OF
paupers, criminals and the dead.
1t is a strange fact that the right
hand, which is more sensible to the
touch than the left, is less sensible than
the latter to the effect of the heat and
cold.
Official estimates of the world raw
sugar product for this year is as follows:
Beet, 4,96O,OOO tons; cane, 2,655,OGO tons.
Stock on hand, 1,15O,OOO tons; total,
$685. 900 tons. Estimated consumption
for ensuing year, 7,350,O00 tons.
1t takes each year 100000 acres of
forest to supply cross ties for the rail
roads of the United States. 1t takes 49,
100000 ties to supply the demand, for
which the contractors get an average of
35 cents apiece, making in the aggregate
$5,250,000.
The British empire owns about one
sixth of the total railway construction
of the world. 1t is about 70 years since
the first railway in the world was com
pleted. Since then 100000 miles of rail
way track have been laid, an evidence
indeed of a very rapid advancement.
The world contains at least four
mountains composed of almost solid
iron ore. One is the iron mountain of
Missouri, another in Mexico, another in
India, and fourth in that region of
Africa explored by Stanley, and there
have been reports of such a mountain
existing in Siberia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01

weeping that he may die, rather than
live his fathers life.
There is a drunkard by a fireless
hearth.
Yonder is dismal street. The snow
is falling. Three little children, bare
footed, half-clad, are huddled in a cor
ner. They are sobbing.
Here is vacant chair, and a mother
is moaning and wringing her hands in
anguish.
See In that cell a wild-eyed maniac
is tearing his long gray locks. He
shrieks! forget it if you can.
And here is a lonely graveyard at
twilight. A grave stands open. a
broken wreck is tottering toward it.
He stumbles in. 1t has waited for his
uncertain footstep. a wall OF anguish
goes up from the old, deserted grave
yard.
Are the visions of the wine glass
dreams of beauty and elight?-Ellen
Carey, in the Lever.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
TRICKS OF THE TRADE.
How Saloon Keepers Encourage
Their sunday Trade.

The Manchester City News has pub
lished some startling revelations, show
ing the tricks to which brewers and
publcans resort to encourage the Sun
day trade. 1t says:
Sunday is the great day for pushing
the drink business. Sweets, oranges,
cakes, apples, etc, are given to chill
dren. Cigars are given to adults.
Threepenny-bits are placed in a GER
tain number of the pots of liquor. SAN
extra pull at the beer pumps, amount
ing often to 30 per cent. more liquor
than is asked or paid for" is another in.
ducement AT some places all the pint
pots are refilleG free, while at other
places a gallon or two gallons are con-
tributeJ by the bartender for the com
pany in which to drink his health"
The truth of those statements may
be assumed, rs they have never been
denied The City News roundly charges
the brewers with being responsible for
these grave moral and legal offenscs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
RUSSIAN WOMEN.
Not Long Ago They Were Treated as
Turkish Women Are.

1t is curious to think what short
time it is since the emperors of Russia
treated their womankind in the same
way they are still treated in Turkey,
In those days the car chose his wife
from among his subjects and she was
never considered his equal. The mat
ter was arranged in this way: On a GER
tain day the mobiles brought their young
daughters to be looked at, and she who
took the emperor's fancy was forthwith
chosen to be his wife.
The princesses We're kept with the
same strictness as eastern princesseS,
and marriage only changed their place
of residence, but gave them no more
freedom. They We're allowed OCCASION
ally to be present when guests were re-
criyed, to whom they would hand a cup
of wine and then retire TO their apart
mcnts, there being a suite of rooms at
the north side of the palace reserved
especially for them.
Ii they were i'll the room was dark
ened before the doctor was admitted,
and he was not even allowed to feel
their pulse, and when they drove out
the windows of their carriages had
Urawn curtains.
The first czarina who emancipated
herself from this state of slavery, and
so instituted new and happier era for
Russian women, was the beautiful Ma
thaie Neryschki, the second wife OF
Alexis Michaelovitch and the mother of
Peter the Great, and her triumph was
when she obtained her husbands con-
sent to drive with him in an open car
rage to the monastery of Troitzsky, a
proceeding which a. the time occa-
stoned great scandal.
Naturally, when the Russian princes
began to intcrmarry with other Eu-
ropean royal families they were obliged
to treat their wives differently, but it
was a long time before the court of
Russia became rs civilized as the rest of
Europe. Montreal Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
TRYING TO BE FUNNY.
Almost Every Man Has His Pet Joke,
Usually Silly.

Did you ever stop to think" said the
licensed misanthrope, what Il lot of
fools men are?"
Without waiting for a reply-the Ii
censed misanthrope never waits for a
rcply-he continued:
The dreary imbeclity resulting
from the American national disease of
trying to be funny is something awful
to contemplate. Now, | met a man this
morning-a man with large interests
il the city, an operator in real estate. a
b2aker and a prominent citizen He
shouted out to myself and my compan-
ion: Well, you're nice pair to draw
to-, and doubt if he has seen two of his
acquaintances together in Is years
without springing that poor, pale,
shrinking jest.
There's another man who has big
mercantile business down the street
Nho never meets a friend without ask
ing: How does your constitutionality
sagaciate| He's considered Il man of
intelligence, too, and get he's been chirp-
ing that bit of idiocy at everybody he
knows for ten years.
Then there's the head Of a big manu-
featuring firm in the south end, man
of wide culture. a man of the world,
who ought to have some sense, who
was 50 delighted with his discovery of
Nit few years ago that he regards
it as brilliant witticism in itself, and
never loses an. opportunity to inject it
into his conversation with an air that
amounts to demand for recognition of
his mot.
And so it goes. NiEe out of every ten
men you meet have some pet phrase
like that, which has ceased to mean
anything, if il ever did, and which they
fire at the heads of Ill with whom they
come in contact. DR.. Nordau has de-
fined this atfiiction as echoalia, | be-
lieye, but the proper designation for it
wouldn't look well in print Chicago
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
NOTES BY THE WAY.

The most thickly populated country
in Europe is Belgium, and it is also the
most Incorporate.
Stockholm has the largest death rate
from the use of alcohol of any city in
the world. The number of deaths from
this cause is 90 in 1000.
It is said that Mr.. Victor Burton, of
d celebrated brewers firm in London,
having become teetotaler, has with
drawn from the firm, and forfeited
thereby his right to C 100000.
A bill is now pending in the Arkan-
sas Legislature which proposes to make
every incorporate physician in the
state surrender his license, and to have
no licenses issued in future to ply
sicans of that sort.
The following words are from the
president of the Brewers association:
1--WE are organized, not only to control
a capital of $2O0,OOO,0O but to COM
which legislators will discern our
power"
In every township in Montgomery
county, Ind, has been organized law
and order league, the express purpose of
which is to regulate, if not entirely sup
press, the liquor traffic. These several
organizations are in the hands of the
leading and most influential citizens,
and are secret in their work, only two
or three persons of each league being
publicly known. This secrecy as to
membership better enables the leagues
to accomplish their appointed work
and keeps the liquor dealers guessing
whom to look upon as enemies or as
friends. Already the prosecutions have
begun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
TEMPERANCE.
A GLASS OF WINE.
Vision of Sorrow, Sin and Death Seen
in Its Depths

Vision OF Sorrow, Sin and Death Seen
in Its Depths.
He whose genius and surprising gift
of language might have lent grace to
the noblest theme, but who, having no
faith in God, has devoted his pen to I'M
dermining the faith of others, one wrote
a eulogium of "A Glass of Wine"
No imagery could be more exquisite
no work of painters brush more beauti-
full, than the picture that he summons
pictures that bring to mind the vine
yards of the Rhine, the sunny slopes of
France, the dark-eyed maids of Italy,
wine cellars of old German castles
Bacchus, ivy crowned!
These dreams of beauty and visions of
delight come, he says, to a fancy excited
by glass of wine.
But the first glass is followed by the
second and the third; drunkenness re-
suits, and later, inebriety. What visions
are now painted by fancy?
Pour from the frosted beaker the
sparkling liquid. Lift high the tiny wine
glass. Gaze deep into it's rosy depth
and, 10! in every glass there coils a ser
pent, on every cask there sits a demon,
from every vine-clad hill desolation
walls; and Bacchus, no longer ivy
crowned, grovels swish and besotted!
Look again. Here is a young mother
weeping over the cradle of her babe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01

"Doctah, l gwine AK yo' 70 anudder
of dem ermetic powdars dat 20 glib me
las week wen l done ben sick wild de
spspsy."
''Then you have another attack, have
you, Jasper"
Not, 'zackly. sab, but l done draE
mer pipe down de well, sah, an f'om dc
way dat powdah putform in de case Ell
mersef, | got der right ter t'ink dat
eff | drap it down de well hit gwint
bring dat pipe ter dc surface in erbou
TO seconds, sah."-Soston Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01

According to Prof. Schmiederbers, u
He relates the case of strong dog that
was nearly starved by being fed for a
long time with pure milk. Just as he
seemed on the point of death a grain of
ferratin was added to his daily allow
ance of milk; when, instead of refusing
as heretofore, he devoured it ravenous-
ly, and in the space of two weeks re-
covered his normal health and strength
Albany Argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
The Main Point.

Mabel-Yos. the conceited and pre-
sumptuous thing, told him had never
been kissed by L man, and he promptly
kissed me and said: You can never
make such a statement again"
Clara--Thc idea. He actually kissed
you?
Nabel-Ycs; but, think, he tried to
convey the idea that he was a man.
Philadelphia North american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
Athletes with and without Alcohol

An eX-president of the Cambridge
University Athletic club, whose letter
appears in the Temperance Chronicle,
says: 81 am not tectotaler, but
a very strong advocate of temperance
When at Cambridge, during my first
year, when l did my best times in
long-distance racing, was a total alb
stainer, and trained entirely without
alcohol. During my last two years
drank alcohol occasionally and very
moderately, chiefly in the form of beer,
claret, and sometimes port; but the
stubborn fact remains that | never beat
or equaled the times l accomplished
in races, of very severe bodily strain
when | took no alcohol in any shape or
form. If | were to go in training now
for long race I should be strongly in.
clined to do it entirely on water (as far
as liquor is ccncerned as of yore."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
a Sensitive Spot.

1t is mistake to suppose that tn.
tip of the tongue is the most sensitive
part of the body. Those engaged in
polishing billiard balls, or other sub
stances that require a very high degree
of smoothness, invariably use the cheel,
bone as their touchstone for detecting
any roughness.-Chicago Tribune,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01

Come, Julia, let's come and have a
friendship oyster stew together"
"Friendship oyster stew? What's
that?"
"Why, you'll pay for mine, and viii
nay for yours."-N. Y. Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
AboIishing the knOut.

Car Nicholas is determined that the
law aboIishing the knout in his do
minlons should be observed 4 magis-
trate who recently sentenced a citizen
TO receive 80 strokes has been dismissed
from his post, ami sentenced to six
months Imprisonment with hard labor.
N, y. Sun.