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j. W. SUTTON, Mgr.
First published in Daily Leader Octo
Der 2 1897.
Notice for Publication.

INVNENN NWN
Land Office at Guthrie, o. t., Octo-
Der 4. 1897.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has hled notice OF his
intention to make final proof in support
OF his claim, and that said proof viii be
made before the register and receiver, a.
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OF Deep Fork, and lots and 0. south Of
Deep Fork, all OF NV or sec. 10, ~ IL, RI
east
lie names the following witnesses TO
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation OF, said land, viz:
John Bebcr OF Ingram, o. T. John
Collie OF Ingram, O. r.; JoshdA Lacey, OF
Seavada, o r. and James NJ. Wilson, OF
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Il, Il. Lille 81 Co. received today the
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- UTHRIE Lodge No. g. l. q. OF. meets
- Monday night of each weeA at 1850, Wis
ting ODD Fellows always welc me.
f. w. RITTERBUSCH, n. G.
W BRUCE, Sec'Y lock box l7s.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02

it with their arms. In numbers they
are as five hundred to one of the aristoc-
racy. fhey all deserve to have homes
homes of their own, uHineumbered.
A home means more than shelter. 1t
means roses and vines and shade trees
and fruit. Ask the poor renter who is
bumped abont frompldce to placeeyery
year. Ask his wife and daughters what
they think of home The census puts
down 9o,s90 white families in Georgia
who have homes, and says that 96 per
cent. of these are paid for and have no
incumbranee Virginia has 81 per cent.
paid for; Mississippi and South Caro-
lima 93 per cent each.
Massachusetts has $4,000 families
owning homes, but 81 per cent. of them
are mortgaged. New York has 100000
homes and II per cent. are mortgaged;
and the compiler says more than 90 per
cent. of all the home ineHmbranee of
the United States is in the north At
lantic and north central divisions
only Al e. sper. cent isa entle bones Of the
south Atlantic states. The mortgages
on Massachusetts, homes amount to
$1o2, ,948 JOG. Just think of Illuminate
over it-over one hundred millions of
debt against the common people. Of one
little state having about double the
white population of Georgia. Can they
ever pay it? New York is but little
better, having $215,OO0,o 900. Infaet, the
whole north is eovered.as with a blanket
by debt, and the millionaires are the
owners of IT. Debt! What hard, un.
feeling word 1t is. My old partner was
wont to say il has a harder alliteratiye
following, viz: debt duns, death. dam
nation and the devil. Is it any wonder
that such exponents as Debs and George
and CoXey rise up and plead for the peo'
ple-the common people-the toilers
who have no homes at all? Is it any
wonder that strikes are made and the
people carry blood in their eyes and
desperation in their hearts? Put your
self in their place. if you can, and then
you will feel as they feel.
But. while we sympathize with them,
and pity them, let us be grateful that
we live in this southern land, and are in
the peaceful enjoyment of so many
rich blessings. May the good Lord pre-
serve us from their crimes and their
debtsl is my prayer.-Bill Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
RUFUS SANDERS.
PALMISTRY MADE EASY.
Larl2in Read Her Hand md Then Told
n Friend the Trick.

Larlsin Read Her Hand and Then Told
Friend the Trick.
10, Mr.. Larkin, read my palm, won't
you?o
Larkin, that arch impostor and bluff
er, took her hand confidently and
scowled. After a moment of intense
scrutiny he asked if she was sure she'd
be willing to have him tell what he
saw. She detied him to do his worst.
In the half hour since he had met
her he had formed some general notions
as to what sort of a person she was.
On these as basis he began, touching
vaguely but confidently on the charac-
teristics of her life, her fortune, her
tastes, and, most of all, her heart. She
was inclined to treat the performance
as a joke.
Perhaps I'd better stop" Larkin
said, deepening his scowl.
us your vocabulary becoming ex
hausted, Mr.. Lariin?"
No; but there are things here that
you might prefer not to have mentioned
before company"
She laughed little nervously, and
told him TO go on. After little pause,
lie said slowly:
You are leading a double life. To
those about you you show only one side
Of your nature. Your innermost
thoughts and your true self are as diff
ferut from those you reveal to your
friends as night is from day."
She started to draw her hand away;
then, either from curiosity or brayado,
checked herself.
Half of your life is made up Of a
great regret that turks in your heart
and will not be lived down In time,
perhaps"
She blushed and sprang away. u
didn't think you'd be so mean," she
said.
Il warned you; do not blame me-"
Larkin answered, with a show of IA
tjgue after the terrific concentration
Just endured. She made an excuse to
leave the room.
That's such an easy thing that it
seems shame to do it" Larl1in laughed
after she was gone. THE average girl
is sentimental, and the veteran of Sc
ries of those complications respect
fully referred to as love affairs. Tell
her that she is leading a double life,'
and she regards herself as heroine;
speak of "a great regret and her mind
turns to her most recent affair. Just
put your statements in romantic Ian
guage, and she'll believe you, unless
she's too nearly level-headed. That kind
don't care to have their palms read,
anyway"
How often do you find a girl who
doesn't believe in palmistry, Mr.. Lar
k,n?" some one inquired. But Larkin
had become suddenly busy in extract.
ing a carnation from a bowl, and did
not hear.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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GREAT SAVING.
An Amusing Picture OF the Great Art
list, Turner.

list, Turner.
Among the many stories tola OF the
penurious little barber, the father OF
the famous artist. Turner, there is one
which presents an amusing picture OF
the old gentleman. lie had charge OF
Turner gallery in Queen Anne street,
London, where he caused many
visitor to stare at him with amazement,
by his funny habit of jumping up and
down on his toes.
Soon after Turner moved to Twicken-
ham a friend met the old barber, walk
ing along Queen Anne street, looking
most diseonsolate. The cost of riding
up every day to open the gallery
weighed upon him SO that he could not
get the thought of it out of his mind.
A week later the same friend met the
old man again, and instantly discovered
that he was in high spirits.
''Why, look here" said the elder
Turner, ioyfully, 81 have found a way
at last of coming up cheap from Twick-
enham. | found out where the market
gardeners bated their horses, and
made friends with one of 'em, and now,
for the price of something to wet his
whistle, he brings me up every day in
his cart on top of the vegetabesl"
The peculiar amusement which the
painter derived from the sight of his
father, enthroned on heap of vegeta-
bes, can well be imagined. There was
warm affection between the two men,
in spite of occasional differences of
opinion, and when the father died in
1890, Turner mourned his loss deeply,
and was so depressed in spirit that he
was unable to paint for two or three
months. The old man was buried in
Covent Garden church, and Turner
erected a monument there to the men,
ory ofboth father and mother.-Youth's
Companion.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02

life l ans ~illin to put my record be-
fore the church and show down with
any man in the crowd. / am as good
Methodist as any of you, but when
git good mad | will cuss a little unber
knowanee to myself. Is it agin the
rules of the church for man to engage
in few cuss words when nothin else
would do the case justiee?'
Why to be certainly, of course
says the elder, "it is dead agin the rules
for member to use cuss words under
any surroundin calamity"
We'll, that amt my understandin of
the situation" says Drury. q have
been hearin of cussin Methodists all the
days of my life, and my notion is that
most any of them will cuss a little
when you stir 'em up and git em good
hot. | don't feel like | am anything
but jest another cussin Methodist"
"4ou have got that down all wrong"
the elder went on, "and you will have
to read upon the rules in orderment to
walk upright and keep yourself IN the
fold. Amt you ready now to say you
got wrong, and you are sorry for it, and
won't do so no more?'
Not as anybody knows of, breth-
ren," says Drury. Seems to me like if
a man jest can't worry along without
cussin little around the edges that is
a case in pint between him and the good
Lord. | have found out that my main
est weak pint is for cussin, but yet
feel like l am as good a Methodist as
any man in the crowd, and hundred
common men couldn't throw me over
board from the Old Ship. Methodist,
Methodist is my name, and Methodist
will die"
But, nevertheless, notwithstandin
heneelorth thereof, as Drury went on
from bad to worse with his weak pint
for cussin the church come together
and throwed him overheard and the
Old Ship sailed proud and steady on her
way.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
From PILLOW to Post.

For a long time after that Drury
Griffin stuck to it and maintained that
he was a better Methodist than larry
durn one" of the men which turned him
out of the church. He got madden and
madder with the men which were hold
in the helm of the Old Ship, till by and
by he give it out that he was goin to
build up the true Methodist church.
One day he went out in the old field
and knocked up pine pole pen, which
he called the True Church. Lie put in
the benches and built a pulpit and
bought a big Bible. Then he fell in
with Parson Zeb Newton-which in
the main time Zeb had been turned
out of the church for ridin squealin
chestnut serrel horse ON the circuit
and Zeb was anonymously elected to be
the preacher of the True Church. But
it seems as if the True Church didn't
draw as fast and furious as Drury and
Zeb lowed it would. Zeb was the
preacher and Drury was the church,
and when it come to pass that they
L
side out and upside down, they helt
a few cussin matches together, and
then adjourned the meetin and quit.
But in the run of time Drury Griffin
iined in with first one church and then
another till finally at last he didn't
have nowheres to GO. lie put his MEM
bership in with the Presbyterians and
went along smooth for awhile, but pres
emily he got mad because they sot
down to sing and riz up to pray" lie
lowed that want in line with his no
tions of religion, so he took out and
quit.
The next thing everybody knowed
Drury was jined in with the Episcopal
church, but he didn't stick there slX
months. | had told the folks all along
that if Drury Griffin ever got any
religion that would keep he would
have to take it in the very light
est form, and 1 lowed maybe he had
now found the proper place at last.
But he soon took up the notion that
dancin was as bad as cussin. And be-
sides that, he said they didn't Go any
thing in the church but read prayers
and sing songs, and Nneel down and
get up, and then get UP and kneel
down. So Drury he "riz and fell with
'em" as long as he could stand it, and
then dropped out into the cold world
oncst more.
To tell the Bible truth, all the
churches and any church was too good
for Drury Griffin. He had been borned
on the other side of every question,
and the mainest trouble with Drury
Griffin was the allaround cussedness
of Drury Griffin. And when his time
come he died out of the church, and out
of sorts, and out Of humor with the
whole created human race.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
A Little Knowledge.

The following answers are given in
reply TO questions asked a certain New
Hampshire school at the beginning OF
the term. These questions were asked
to determine the standing of the pu-
pills, with a view to grading the school:
l. A sentence are words used to
limit or modify the meaning of a
noun or pronoun.
?. is used as the meaning of your,
self; we is for more than one; you an7
other person; US for lot of them.
3. An adyerb is a word used to graft
fly or modify the meaning of an adjec-
tive. etc.
4. A interjeetion is a word that ex-
presses a prize or a notion.
5. 4 verb is a word used TO assist or
assault some person or thing.
G. The boy fell into the pond is q
proposition.
Z. The trade winds come from the
north and are caused by the gulf
stream; they are of great use, because
ships can sail on them.
s. The vice president is the chief
magistrate of New Hampshire.
Q. The sun causes day and night,
when the sun turns on its axis it thus
causes the seasons.
10. The flags and stripes on the flag
mean how the brave men fought TO save
their country chicago Chronicle.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02

Piesens ON sight. But right then if
Asey had started out to shoot every
man that talked like he mought be for
Stribbin and then voted for the other
man en- election day he would be busy
with that large and bloody job even in
to this good day and hour.
Well, in the run of years, old man
Asey got so all-fred mad with the
democrats till he lit out and went over
10 the whigs-which ii come to pass
that the wings didn't to say need him
any worse than the democrats. Now
Asey Stribblin was a man like this. 1t
he didn't see what he wanted he would
ask for it, and, then if the gang he was
gallopin with didn't give it to him he
wouldn't gallop no more. If the party
played his way he would play, and if
they didn't he was ready right then
Immediately to throw his hand to the
pack and quit the game. He soon quit
the wings because they wouldn't give
him anything in sight, and then pres
emily he turned out to be a wild and
woolly know nothin. He stuck to the
know nothins till they went to pieces
but somehow he never could getthe seat
of his breeches creased exactly right so
hecould slideintoa fat office. He kicked
and he cussed and he fumed and he
fused all the days of his life, and
finally come to the pass where he
wouldn't vote for any livin man on
any ticket. Oncst upon time he got
so furious and felonious mad till he
swore he wouldn't vote for the Saviour
of this lost and ruint world if He was
runnin for president on the prohibit
ton ticket.
And Asey Stribblin was yet on the
sunny side of sixty when he died. But
at the same time he died for the good
of his country.
PTTETTq sANDERC
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
Too Many for Himself.

About the most unE0p7:eSt and
changeful man that ever got his washin
done down in the old Panther Greek set
tlement was old man Drury Griffin,
which used to run water mill little
ways below the confluence of that his
toric stream. Drury was a middlin
good farmer and the most bulliest sort
of mill man, and so fur as | know he
always got along mighty wellinregards
to business and the fleetin things of this
vain world. But somehow he never could
get along smooth and easy with the
church. Touchin the church and in re-
ligion Drury was jest simply too many
for himself. He always was church
man to some extent, but he didn't have
the stiekin and stayin qualities. Conse-
quentially he was forever founderin
and floppin around from the fire into the
fryin pan and back again.
He started out when he was a right
young man by tallin stock with the Old
School Baptists, down at Coal Springs
church. Heneeforwards everything
wore along smooth and easy for six
months or maybe little better, but late
along in the summer or early in the fall
of the year they helt the regular three
days meetin at Coal Springs. with din
ner on the grounds and feet washin on
Sunday. Right then and there Drury
Griffin got his bristles up and kicked
out of the traces. He took up a spot
notion TO the extent that he didn't be-
lieve in people washin their feet in pub
lie, and in cold water to boot, and he
wouldn't have nothin to do with the
side show. He didn't make out like he
was smarter than the preacher and Re
couldn't quote any Scripture to main
tain the kick. lie didn't know for GER
tain why, and he didn't give a continen-
tial red. But he jest simply didn't be-
lieve in it and never would believe in it
if he lived nine hundred and ninety
nine years on the earth.
Whereas, the church come together
and sent committee to call on Brother
Griffin and talk a few scatterin grains
of sense into his head if such thing
could possibly be did. But that was all
pluperfect vanity. The more they
talked the higher Drury kicked till
finally at last the committee had to give
him up as a bad egg and a gone goslin.
He still stuck TO it that he was a natur-
al-born, genuine Old School Baptist,
and as good a member of the church as
AIRY man on the committee, but he was
dead square agin the feet washin busi-
ness and jest simply wouldn't take any
in hisn. The committee worked and
worried and fumbled and fooled along
with him for two days on a stretch and
then reported back the general results
to the church. After some short talks
and scatterin remarks from various and
sundry members they took Drury
Griffin by the nape of his neck and the
seat of his breeches, as it We're, and
turned him out of the church and put
up the bars behind him.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
snme Thing In Politics.

Now old man Asey Stribblin was
about as bad eff in politics as Drury
Griffin was with regards to his religion.
Old man Asey didn't have no trouble
touchin the church, but when it come
to politics he was on the other side
every time the convention come to or
der. He started out in life as a scream
ndemocrata and stood on that puncheon
for many years. But as time went on
he took a fool notion TO run for office.
He went in for high constable first,
but most of the votes went to the other
man and the distance flag fluttered
down in Asey's face. He next made the
race for county coroner, and oncst
more luck run from him like a shot and
let in the other man come under the
wire first.
Then presently Asey Stribblin got
sick and sore. He made out like some
body had cheated him outen what was
his by rights. At the same time the
onlvest trouble with Asey was that he
didn't get votes enough to put him in
the office. What is so now was so then
and always will be so. The mainest
thing is the votes. Asey thought every
blessed man that smiled at him and
talked kind and pleasant TO him was a
Stribblin man, and then when the votes
didn't pan out like he had set the fig
gers doSn be let the sap run up and
talked like a silver-tongued idiot, lie
heard that old man Tommy Pickeus
voted for the other man after talkin
like be mought be for Stribblin, and
from that he threatened 10 shoot
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02
aAnother Cnssin Methodist"

By this time Drury Griffin was mad
with the human race in general, but
old Coal Springs church in particlar.
The more he talked about it the madder
he got, till the next news we got he was
foamin at the mouth and cussin like
stage coach driver.
Along in the big protracted meetin
times the next summer, by gracious,
all of a student like Drury Grif-
fin bloomed out in full as a Methodist
and got his name on the church books
over at Bark Log. You must recollect
he was mad with Old School Baptists
and wanted to get as far away from
them as he possibly could jest for spite
which it didn't take him long to run
slap out to the other end of the rope.
1t was a powerful long jump, but Drury
made it with one leap.
Now then, il want many months be-
fore they had Drury up over at Bark
Log charged with the general and fire.
auent use Of United States language,
which was overcomin TO the settlement
and unbecomin to a member of the
Methodist church. To put it pat and
plain. Drury had got worse and worse
and cussed and ruSsed till he scorched
the native air, and old Bark Log church
had spit in her hands and rolled up her
sleeves for business. When they
brung Drury up for trial Elder New
ton took the case in hand aud put in
some straight questions.
Brother Griffin says he, 1T has
come to the ears Of the church that
YOU have been cussin and carryin on
scandlous both in private and in pub
lie. and we want TO hear from you.
Have You got anything TO say as TO
why the church should not visit on
YOU the usual chastisement meted out
10 a weak and wayward member
81 will own up 20 cussin little. often
and on. around the edges" says Drury,
"but as 10 my general moral walks in
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02

Straight goods and the same thing all
the way through. Any man that amt
plum willin to step out and take sides
and pick his flag and then stand to the
guns till the cows come home, and the
chickens fly up to roost, and tie eyenin
stars sing together, is probable to spend
his days in vanity and vexatioa and
wind up with a great fret.
The Van Buren press., 1897-10-02

here in the valley
of dry bones. But
L have yet got to
see a wishy-washy
man that didn't
land himself be-
tween the deviland
the deep blue sea.
and die with his
feathers ruffled up
the wrong way.
1t pays to be