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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-26
SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE.
or DAI'S NEWS IN FdsHTONABLE
RICHMOND
Interview with Mr.. T.. '. Tsrhune--Her
Literary Prospects .orthe Coming Year.

An interview with AIRS. r.. V. Torhune.
who is the guest of her brother. Mr. 8.
II. Halves. was a pleasant experience 1t
is not generally known that Mrs Torhunc
Is here ia obedience TO her physicians
orders. AS the result OF varied work in
the lecture field. and In the literary one,
she was theatened with nervous collapse
prior 10 her visit. For that reason she
has been compelled 10 decline "a number
OF invitations TO lecture while here. and 90
cancel all engagements OF that nature tor
January ana February. Mrs. Ierhune
came TO Richmond on the 9th, ana viii
remain here for about two weeks longer,
then visiting Washington and Philaoei-
pna She has been compelled while here,
owing 10 the state oil her health, 10 de-
cline all social invitations also, ana hef
friends were the more erdthed at her
presence with the receiving party) al
the reception last night at the Westmore-
and Iier Improvement IN health has
been rapid during her stay here.
Yesterday she received the interviewer
I'm sunny sttins-r0on. lokng south
from the second floor OF the Halves
residence Il hope you viii excuse me
for bringing you up here. she said.
am equal, as yet to SO little oxertion.
n was delightful 10 talk 20 writer
OF her distinction under these informai
conditions. The facts above as TO health.
were first secured. Then 10 the question
as TO literary work zone during the last
wear. Mrs. Terhune said. My he. as
usual has been very busy ON. My
regular literary work-essay writing Tor
pcriodicals-h gone straight along. in
spite OF the warninS Of my doctor but
my principal work has been the pTepara-
tioh Of my National Cook Book. which
/ puhlisbcd in November last Christine
(my daurhtor. Mrs. HcrrclO was my cole
IaIorator in that "Ah.' said the inter-
viewer Richmond remembers Mrs Her
rick very sleaeautiy Those 'hanng
Dish Glasses at the Exchange were very
ploasant." Christine brought home
charming recolloctions Of Richmond too.
was the response. What special literary
work do YOU expect 10 undert7kc'-for tbs
voar2" fWen I have now under cons u
Grafton n literary project. which viii
take me abroad. although j cannot speak
confidently OF that now.
Mrs. Torhuno then chattod brightly ana
pleasantly about newspaper life in New
york. and her own amusing experience ni
that Connection I'm spite oil IeDgn.
health. She still gives en- expression or
vigor that Us sustained 10y iN'i.
voice New York is her nome I'D WIZ.
Tfor summers arc spent az her country
Place 'SunnYnank VIM" ~
hours ri de from Ne" 'o'N
..o
Mistlotoo Ball take lhls oppu' '"-','s
express their hearty mans TO- $500 i,S.,I
Sydnor tuha''F' lo' ~. ~, -. tt,o
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-26

The Committee ON Finance will meet
next Tuesday night, February I'd. 40 7.l0
o'clock 90 consider the budget for 1884,
All Interested Zoo the matter are invited
90 Dee pre-. emit.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-26

NJ. Green Want. Mr. stern TO Pa, rha,

vi. Green Wants VIZ. Stern 10 Paw That
sum for eftmnt ION Of Character.
In the Law and Equity Court yesterday
Alr. William Green brought suit aesIns.
Mr.. Samuel Stern for 5000 for delana.
ton OF character Ar. Green was tn .r1-
ploye Of Mr. Barney Myers. the tailor
and Mr.. Stern is alleged 10 have stated
that on various occasions Mr. Green am
propriatel certain articles OF clotbin,
belonging 10. Ar. Myers 10 hls own u.s..
This NJ. Green denies and hence the sum
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-26
your most humble servant.
MARTHA IEEFERgON "

The papeis mentioned as enclosed IN
this letter were. ] suppose. distrihuted
! have seen none Of them. "rhe PROPOSE
ton Of our sisters OF Pennsylvania" grew
out OF an association OF patriotic wo-
men a Philadelphia. who had banded
fheinselyCs together shore tme before
flr tht purpose OF collie ling contrhu-
tons for tl,o soldier ln tHc field The
first president OF thls association was
Esther dc Bordt. the wife OF his Excel
lcnc,. Joseph Reed. TO whom Washing
ton wrote advising that The &Ol.s1f in gate
Der currency in her hands should lc
expended in the purchase OF shirts ana
Of Refreshments Tor the hospitals Mrs
Reed died soon after tine organization
was affected and her successor was Mrs.
Riehard Bachc. the daughter OF Benj1-
min Franklin When the Marquis dc
Chasteliux went 20 visit this lady she
conducted him into room filled with the
work lately done BY the women OF Phi'a-
0eiphia-zalO shirts says the Marquis.
in enthusiasm, each one bearing the name
Of the woman who made II. Similar as
fociatlons were formed IN New Jersey
under Airs John Dickinson and IN Mary
land. Of what was uonc In the way 81
general Organization IA Virginia l know
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-26
Richmond August s. $50.


Mrs Washington has done me the
honor OF communicating Doe enclosed pro-
position of our sisters OF Pennsylvania
and o. informing mo that Tho same CRATE
1Il sentiments arc displayine Themselves
in Maryland. Justified by the sanction
~ her letter ir handing forward tho
scheme. I undertake win ohcerfulncss
the duty OF furnishing 10 my country
women an opportunity of proving that
they also participate Of those yirtuous
feelings which gave birth 90 it. 7 cannot
do more Tor its promotion than ov en-
closing 20 you some of the papers 20 bee
disposed OF as YOU think proper.
II am with the greatest respect.
fN.T.r.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
THE DREAM SONG,

Oh, the DRIP. drip, drip of the rain, the rain,
The drip. dip. drip of the rain;
The sweet. sad song, the whole night long,
Is sung in my drowsy brain.
In dream l rest in the old home nest,
And my mother comes again
AS came she Oft with a step as soft
As the drip, drip, drip of the rain,
The rain,
The drip, drip. drip of the rain.
oh, the drip, drip. drip Of the rain, the rain,
The drip, drip drip of the rain;
AS 1t weaves the wool of the song on the
roof
With the warp of the sound at the pane.
And my dream-ship sails with the happy
gales
That ripple the broad, blue main.
While the waves. soft-tossed in my dreams
are lost
Mid the drip, drip. drip of the rain,
The rain,
The drip, drip, drip of the rain.
Oh, the drip, drip, drip of the rain. the rain.
The drip, drip, drip of the rain;
Like the drowsy Groom of bees in June
Is the song and the soft refrain.
And drift away through a golden bay
BY the shores of my castled SPAIN
While my soul grows young in the dream
song sung
Mid the drip, drip, drip of the rain,
The rain,
The drip, drip, drip of the rain.
NIXON Waterman. in L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
The "One Lone Niger"

Ny friend and fellow servant, with
that 40 acres of swamp land, puts me
in mind of old DR.. Brownlow and his
one lone niger.
That was way back in slavery times,
and old DR.. Brownlow had one mig
ger-and only one-a long, tall black
rascal by the name of Isam. And Isam
he got into a mighty way of runnin
away from home and stayin out till
he was run down and brung back. At
last one summer day the old doctor
called up his solitary slave.
Listen at me, Isam," says he. "The
next time You git lonesome and take
up a fool notion to run away, want
you to come and tell me about it. Don't
lope Off so blame student and surprisin
like. Let me know when you feel the
spell comm on, and maybe won't whip
you so hard when fetch you back"
Two or three weeks rolled by, and
late one even Isam he come up to the
front gate, took seat on the horse
block and waited there till the old doc
tor rid up.
'Marse Doc" says he, II jest come to
tell you I'm gwine to run away to-
night"
THE native hill you are" says the
old doctor. whats the matter with
you anyhow, you triflin black scoun-
drel?"
"Oh, well, Marse Doc" says Isam,
"durn this here one lone niggerl"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
"a CrYin md n Cussin,o

Well do l recollect the time when
people talked about Jim Crittenden
the same as they do now in regards
TO Tony Lambert. Every body-except-
in old Misses Crittenden-usedt to say
that Jim was a fool. But finally at Last
sin the run of time Jim he recovered
and got well.
The first time ever saw that boy Jim
Crittenden was over at the Turner ford
on Panther creek. The Crittendens had
then fresh moved into the settlement,
and Jim was a one-gallusted piney-
woods boy, with yellow legs and
frcckly face and pale brindle hair. In
them days If the high sheriff had took
out papers of compliment and searched
the country far and wide to find hard
er lookin case than Jim Crittenden, |
raley do not see how he ever could of
win the case.
Anyhow, it would seem like the old
folks had started Jim off to town that
mornin with his OK cart and a load of
pine wood to SELL 1t was warm day
in the spring of the year, and when l
driv up to the Panther Greek bridge
that unhappy boy was Numbered down
there on the banks of that historic
stream cussin and cryin to beat six
bits. 1t looks like the oxen had
made break and run Off of the bridge
into the creek, turned the wagon over
aud smashed one wheel into kindlin
wood, whilst the load of pine foated
off down stream.
what are you doin here, Bud?" says
{.
jest a cussin and cryin," says Jim.
BY this time | had took in the whole
circumference at the sad surroundins.
well, what are you goin to do about
it, Bud?" saysI.
"Do about it?" says he. "What in the
blue blazes can do about it except to
jest keep on a cussin and q cryin2"
Naturally of course I couldn't mend
the breaks and pick up the pieces. My
heart bled for that long-strferin boy
which you understand / had been over
the same ground my own rusty self
but what could l do, and what did
do? Nothin, only give him two bits
and my pocket knife, and then rid on
and left him Numbered down there on
the muddy banks of Panther creelz-"a
cussin and a cryin."
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
Forty Acres md n Man,

Along in the Christmas Blev Scrog
gins pitched out and laid his plans to
do more farmin this year than any one
man in the settlement. He went over
on Deer creek and rented 40 acres of
swamp land from Maj. Upton, and
made out like he was goin to tend the
whole thing single-handed by his lone
self. But it now comes to pass that
Blew backed down and out before the
major could fix up the papers.
faint no use in talltin about it.
Rufe," says Blew in givin out the facts
to me, sit is too Internal lonesome way
over there on Deer creek for me. Before
I would close up the trade and sign the
papers l went over there one day to try
the business and see if could stand it.
All day long ! cut sprouts and knocked
corn stalks and burnt brush on that
40 acres of swamp land. And honest
to God, Eufe, from sunup to shutdown
didn't see a livin soul or hear a human
voice only when / would cuss little
around the edges or talk to my fool self.
haley do think it is the dadblamdest,
gonebyest most lonesomest place on the
top side of earth.
80 consequentially when returned
back home that night l had come to
stay. By gatlins, wouldn't work that
40 ceres Of swamp land way over
there on Deer creek free of rent and
four bits an acre to boot. Now, if
had some boys big enough to go over
there with me, and tumble around and
keep me company, maybe l mought
stand it. But as you know, Rufe, by
the grace and mercy of a wise and low
in Providence, all of my boys are girls,
and that 40 acres of swamp land is too
internal many for poor lonesome me-"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
Essentials of a Good Dinner.

There are essentials for a good din
nor that money cannot buy. Good hui
NOR garnishes, good will beauties and
good feeling gladdens more effectually
than flowers, handsome china or en-
pensive silver. The finest of viands
pail when the diner is out of sorts with
the world, aud the simplest of fare be
comes a feaet when content waits on
appetite. A lonely meal is dyspepsia
breeder. 4 meal eaten when anger stirs
tine heart is but the anteroom to apo
plexy, and all the costly Punishment OF
the millionaire's table will not save him
anguish of body if he defes the laws OF
Philadelphia Times.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
Give the boy n Chance.

Mind you now, | never have set forth
and maintained that Tony Lambert
amt a fool. But it takes whole lot
of various and sundry different sorts of
fools to make world, and I'll be eter-
nally earned up if we haven't got
'em.
In the next place / will own up that
Tony Lambert is fool to some extent.
Anybody can look at the way he combs
his hair and wears his clothes and see
that the poor boy has got rale bad
case of it. He is the onlyest son of the
Widder Lambert-whieh they lived on
their little farm over there in the hill
country. Now, even to the wilder, she
don't seem to think that every blessed
thing which Tony does is extry bright
and smart, and for u general thing
when one of these good old womanly
mothers can see any soft spots or weak
pints about her own and onlyest son,
you can bet your free silver that the
boy is fool.
But at the same time Tony Lambert
amt fool for the want of brains. He
lS IL lOOl lot lllG luCh VI tftiy
day sense. The good Lord has done
q gracious plenty for that boy, and
from all can see and hear and pick up
in the case, he has got the materials in
him for the maxim of a man by-and-by.
The world and old lady Experience will
have to finish up the joo. They mought
make man, and they mought make
mess OF it. In the main time am willin
more than willin-to wait and watch
and see. When Tony Lambert comes
to be q erown-up man, settled and sot
in all his ways-if he is still food L
will give up the fight and take it all
back and feel sorry that l didn't say
more. But right along pow--in this
pleasant springtime-I am bound to
stand up for the boy. He is young as
yet, and he will grow-for better or for
worse. Give him time. He is likewise
also fresh-most unanimously fresh.
But the kicks and cuffs of the naughty
world and the salt of time may save
him yet Give the boy chance.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Bits of Information Which Mny he
Useful.


To make camphorated oil, get ten
cents worth of sweet oil and put five
cents worth of camphor into it. Shake
frequently, and in a week or ten days
you will have an excellent camphorated
oil, good for aches and pains.
A secret given away without price;
If dinner is late, get the table set. If
the plates are only on the table the
most impatient man will possess his
temper over twice the delay that he
would endure if this outward and WISH
BILE sign for the coming meal were not
apparent.
When the new rag carpet comes home
from the weaver's, measure the length
of the breadths. Then run four rows
OF machine stitching across each
breadth. Cut between the rows, two OH
each side, and it will not ravel. In maxi
ing up an ingram carpet the same plan
is advisable.
If you have cooked corn meal mush,
instead of filling the kettle with wa
ter 10 soak after it is emptied, set it
On the back of the stove, where 1T VIII
keep pretty warm, and let dry. In
few hours the mush will have dried
end is ready to peel off, leaving the
kettle so that an ordinary washing will
clean it.
An exchange suggests, as method
of preventing rich cookie dough from
sticking to the molding board, to cover
the board with thin unbleached muslin,
put on without a wrinkle, dust it we'll
with flour, then roll out the dough.
We know a much less troublesome
method than this, and it is very simple.
Don't make rich cookies. Then you'll
have no trouble with them. - Detroit
Free Press.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
An Old Record.

Some of the antiquities of this coun-
try which find their way into the mu-
seums are rivaled in age by 4 living
creature at the Zoo. 1t is an alligator
terrapin, or Mississippi snapper, whose
$50 pounds of substance have been ac-
cumulated in a lifetime of five centuries
or more. At least, that is what the sci
entists calculate, and they say that
there is no reason to doubt that it was
padding around as little turtle in the
Mississippi when De Soto first gazed
upon the river. The giant terrapin
measures about five feet from snout to
tip of taA, and during its residence at
the Zoo it has grown not particle. 1t
is too lazy to move about much, and so
nature has endowed it with special
facilities for catching food. When
hungry 10 lies in the water with its
mouth wide open. and the bright little
red tongue looks so much like a worm
that IL serves as a bait to attract fish,
on which the terrapin feeds.-Philadel-
rhia Record.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

that had their umbrellas up when the
good Lord was rainin brains and COM
mon sense upon the human family, and
Tony Lafhbert's name amt written
there. You can take the measure of a
youngster on his ways and his looks
take him like the hair stands" as the
horse men are wont to say-and then
you can lean back and look proud and
wise and KNOWN like and tell me what
manner of man he will be. And then
l will believe not blamed thing you
say.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

"What in the world is that contrap-
ton YOU have on. each of your pockets
spendly?"
30, that's a little invention of my
wife. l can PIT money in my pockets
but | can't get IL out again" - Detroit
free Press.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

and the way the
world goes, Tony
amt, my hoy, and
SO fur as | know |
am not even serious
ly threatened with
any of his kinnery.
But l have got a
little note book
wherein som e.
times write t h e
n nm, as of nepDla
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

-Palouse, Wash, is short Of wood.
an unprecedented affection, and car
loads of timber are being shipped in
from ncighboring places. What never
before has been known there, coal is be-
ing fed to the fires in the city's pump
ing station.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

But ono by one the days and weeks
Rvd years vSnt by, and then oncst more
! nat up with Jim Crittenden right
there on the banks of Panther creek.
The people around in the settlement
had got up big fishin frolic and picnic
down there at the bridge, and that
boz Jiu De WIS there, With every foot
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

up and coat tails a-hyin. By this time
he was passin out OF childhood and boy
hood into manhood, and ! took par.
ticlar notice that he was tremendous
polite and handy and promiscus around
amongst the ribbons and the calico.
At noontime some. of the ole, men, put
in and got after Jim to make speech
to the crowd, and to the general won
derment of everybody on the grounds
that boy responded like man and put
up rattlin speech. With his big mouth
and freckly face and pale brindie hair,
it wouldn't do to brag on his general
appearments, but people forgot his looks
when they saw the fire in his eye and
heard the music from his throat.
Now, white people, that was years and
years ago. And where is Jim Critten-
den to-day? Bless your sweet soul.
honey, that boy worked and fit, and fit
and worked till finally at last he broke
into congress, and he is right there now
on this blessed and beautiful spring
day.
Garden truck is plentiful at our house.
and where do you reckon we got the
seed? BY gracious, that same boy Jim
Crittenden he sent 'em to US free
gratis for nothin. What he has done
for US he has likewise also done for
hundreds of people in the district.
1t amt for me to say how long Jim
will tarry and remain where he is. But
this much l do know to a dead and
buried certainty, the mortal man that
beats Jim Crittenden in a race for con-
gress will have to stay out later and git
up sooner, and court more women and
kiss more babies than any other Twin
man in the district.
Yet well do l remember when people
use TO say that Jim Crittenden was a
fool. 1t raley mought be better to keep
your eye on these plain American boys
till you can find out for certain what
sort of fools they will be by and by.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
News from the settlement.

Three weeks ago to-day Misses Strib-
blin-Aunt Tabithy, as most everybody
called her-passed over the river, no
doubts at the same ferry where Abra-
ham ard Isaac and Jacob and David
crossed She was the beloved wife of
old man Judge Stribblin, from down in
the Flat woods. They tell me that old
man Judge is now payin his double
breasted regards to the Wilder Sin
gleton. Seems 10 me like they are run
min the human race mighty fast in
these latter days.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

The Lady manager of one Of the
ieading insurance companies IN Cali
forria receives g 1900 year
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01
In THE SETTLEMENT.
Sage of Rocky Creek Talks OF
People and Things.
Various ard Sundry Different Sorts of
EooIs-plain American Boys
Forty Acres and
Man.

They tell me that Tony Lambert is
= fool. Well, accordin to the Scriptures
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

Old man Mart Mayo has now quit
drinkin whisky. At any rates. that is
what hear people say. And ! reckon
it must be so. met up with one of old
Mart's boys-which they call his name
Luther-down at the mill the other day.
! told him how / was monsirous glad
to hear that his pa had quit drinkin
sperits, and ask him il it was so.
"Yessir, l reckon it must be So" says
the boy. prompt and innocent like. u
seed him quit drinkin three or four
tunes this mornin."
RUFUS SANDERS
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-01

will, when they heard dull, muflled
sound, the rope slackened, and
sob. heavens"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-05
GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA.
Over 10. o Drowned and 20. 900 Homeless
Around Pektu.

TACOMA. Oct. 4.-Advices from China give
further particulars Of the great inundation.
Sixty Chinese towns in the district about Pekin
were flooded early in September, driving out
$4,000 people, OF whom over 10000 are esti-
mated to have been drowned. The authorities
in Pekin are directing tho relief measures, and
the people from tho towns nearest the capital
have been permitted to live within the city
walls. Here they have no covering against the
rain, which Is still falling. and great efforts are
necessary to provide them with food. Many
citizens OF Pekin have joined the authorities in
this work. The estates Of many Pekin mobiles,
as well as all the crops In the flooded district,
were destroyed.
The rains which caused the floods commenced
late in July and continued until late in August.
Tho Tungchou. Tientsin. and other rivers rose
very rapidly. Some OF them overlooked and
wiped out villages along the banks almost be-
fore the people knew there was any danger.
The magistrates and people in the flooded dis
tricts spent several days praying for dry
weather. Later the officials at Tientsin posted
a proclamation forbiddinR the slaughter Of cattle
and sheep In the hope OF appeasinR the wrath OF
the gods and stopping the rain. Foreign Con-
suls protested against the meat supply being
thus cut Off. asserting that 1t was n violation of
treaty rights.