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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24
WOMEN ON FARMS,
Extent of the Help Which New Eng
land Wives Give.

The women are true helpmeets. Not
only do they do their own work, but
they are able and willing to milk the
cows and assist with the hay getting
and in other ways lend a hand out of
doors in emergencies. Some of them
even exc out the family income by little
ventures of their own, such as raising
hens and bees and gathering and mar
keting spruce gum, beechnuts and blue
berries. There is no servant-girl prob
lem, because there are no servants.
When sickness or some other real disa.
bility neeessitates female help in the
household a neighbours daughter is
called in. She is, of course, regarded,
and in every minutest particular treat
ed, as member of the family; it could
not be otherwise. The children are
trained to bear their share of the family
burden, so far as it can be done with
out interfering with their schooling,
and the very school terms are arranged
with a view to conflicting as little as
possible with farm work. When the
children grow up many of them &c
out into the world to seek their for
tunes Chat, within reasonable limits
is law of nature), but there is nothing
like an exodus of the rising generation
no approach to a depletion. Plenty oil
ambitious, vigorous young men stay
behind to arrange themselves in life
as their fathers did before them, chop
ping in the woods winters and filling
the few acres they have been able to
purchase with their winters savings
summers. Furthermore, there are
plenty of desirable young women happy
and proud to cast their lots in with the
young men and do their share of the
drudgery necessary to establishing q
home. Thus new farms are cleared
out of the woodland and the old farms
are kept up.-Atlantic.
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hood. the fraud and the degradatioo
which morphia produces in its slaves.
"But ] have carried my eXperimei I
beyond my power OF control. and to
such an extreme degree that am now
dying as though poisoned by morrnia,
when have not used the drug in any
form. | have done this by the exercise
OF my knowledge, imagination and will.
Il feel that slnot live. and | write
this account 10 you who have studied
the mind and nervous system in their
normal and abnormal relations: feel
ing assured that, influential rs you
know the principle Of suggestion to be,
this will give you a new idea Of its
awful and irresistible power. | have
acted tremendous lie. and am fitly
punished. There is a limit 10 the eff
forts Of those Who would advance sci
eIce, and that limit is truth.
'The daily record of my perceptions,
reasonings, emotions and solitionai i'm
pulses. with their alterations. you will
find in a package which will reach you
by mail tomorrow. Ny last thoughts
on earth are devoted 10 the inquiry:
Which Is the more TO BE- deprecated:
the formation Of habit by indulging
in a vicious appetite, or. by perverted
imagination and will. TO create ali the
morbid phenomena of that habit. and
finally 10 die from the condition thus in
dueed2
Il pray you 70 beg j to forgive
me for the distress my experiment has
caused him. He has been so forbear-
ing with me that | reproach myself
most grievously for the pain and dis
gust l have made him suffer. | have
endeayored TO make some reparation
by giving him the whole of my estate
You will find the will in the package,
duly executed.
when you read these lines shall
have persisted through a misguided
zeal, but with the full conviction that
wicked thoughts and impulses, if yield
ed to, may become an abiding principle
in ones mental organization. How
necessary. therefore. to keep the
thoughts pure and good. not only that
an evil nature may be avoided, but that
noble one may be produced. Z. L."
HE was insane." exclaimed Mary.
wnen she had, with many expressions
of establishment and horror, finished
reading the paper. NO one but lu-
matte could have acted in this way.
Don't you think he was mad, Frank >"
Il don't know" | replied Perhaps
he was, and perhaps he tells half
truth. Suggestion is powerful factor
with all of us. ] can possibly form an
opinion when | have read his diary.
At present ! am inclined to think that
he was victim to the use of the drug,
and his story is pure falsehood, one of
the vagaries of diseased BRAIN
Youths Companion.
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COULDN'T SPANK HER SON.
He Was Father Himself and Would
HIVE nccn Glad 40 ObliGe.

People never get an encouragement
for doing the Good Samaritan act in the
interests of the public, as the man de.
cided who offered to assist distracted
woman and ameliorate the suffeNngs
of a lot of respectable people on a
suburban car.
The boy who howis was in evidence,
the curled darling of his only own
mother and the terror of everybody
else, and he had kept the ear in a state
of wild excitement and exhausted the
patience of erybody, including his
doting parent.
"Oh, if your father were only here!"
she had said for the fiftieth time, as she
tried vainly to restrain the bowling ter
ror.
At that he stopped bowling long
enough to beat the air with his small
shins, and the woman on the other side
of him remarked audibly that a cage
was the proper place for savages like
him.
''Johnny, DEAR" asked his mother,
won't you be n good boy?"
Roars and kicks from Master Johnny.
"Oh. wish your father were here to
give you a good trouncing this very
minutel" she walled as she struggled
with him.
Then il was that the philanthropist
of the company asserted himself He
had been trying in vain to read his
morning paper ever since he started
from home.
"Allow me. madam" he said. blandly;
II am a father myself. and | win he
happy to chastise your cherub in behalf
Of his absent parent.
"Oh, no you won't. not IL know it,"
said Johnny's mother, rising in her
wrath like a tigress. There amt that
man living dare lay n finger on that
boy-his own father or any other ugly
old catamount who thinks he knows il
all" and she effectually shut OFF de-
bate by going into the next car and TAX
Ing the sweet infant with her.-Chicaqo
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

IA huge cypress tree in Tule, in III.
state of 0axaca, Mexico, is 154 feet +,
circumference.
"A five-cent stamp must adorn everr
day book, ledger or other account beoi
Kept by business house in Mexico
The cells in the Jail at Dover. N II
are arranged in circle and revolva,
so that the inmates can successfully Ca,
the country at all points of the com.
pass.
"A bereayed widower in st. Josen1
Mo-, took unto himself a second WIFI
before his first spouse was buried. Ths
body of No, 1 had been Temporarily
placed in receiving vault.
in Topeka there is a young mar
ried man who really loves his mother.
in-law-loyes her so much that her
daughter has brought suit for alienaf-
ing her husbands affections.
"A can of boiling lard was on tbs
cook stove, and Miss Stella Evans. of
Colorado Springs, put an egg into it to
boil. In an instant the egg exploded
and the lady was spattered with lving
lard.
"A citizen of BuckfeId, Me-. lost
his house and all his furniture by fire.
His neighbors came to his relief by
the presentation of various household
articles, and among them were 40 bed
steads.
"A real estate agent in Newburg. y.
Y, engaged painter to paint house.
inside and out. He gave him the wrong
number, and the wrong house was COM
p1ete1y painted before the blunder was
discovered.
An extraordinary railroad trip was
recently made over the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy, from Chicago to Den-
yer. The distance is ops miles, and the
trip was made in 1,o69 minutes actual
running time.
"A lady In Wilkesbarre, Pa, who
died possessed of considerable proper
~ left il all to female friend who had
been very kind to her-all except one
cent; and this she decreed should be
given tn her husband five years after
her death.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24
AN ISLAND IN THE JACKPOT.
Ii Is Now Part of Minneapolis and ID
Worth Many Fortunes

| Worth Many Fortunes.
AT one of the most interesting games
of poker ever played in Minneapolis,
Nicollet island was put in the jackpot
| by man who thought he understood
the game, but found there were others
who understood it better
Fifty-five years ago Pierre Bottineau
took up claim on the spot where St.
Paul now stands. A year later he trad
ed it for horse and COW, which he
drove away into the wilderness, never
dreaming that the land he had almost
given away would in few years Zoe the
site of great city. For a small sum he
purchased large portion of what is
now the business part of Minneapolis
and put up log cabin on little mound
in the center of Nicollet island.
Half dozen of the old settlers, Bot
tineuu among them, had little poker
club. One evening the stakes kept
growing larger and larger, until every
jackpot contained a small fortune. Mr..
Bottineau had been losing heavily, but
at last was dealt hand upon which he
hoped to regain his losses and win
something beside. lie was given four
queens, and, drawing one card, secured
an ace leaving four kings as the only
hand by which his could be beaten. He
thought he saw one of the players dis
card a king, and he considered his hand
inyincible, and played it accordingly.
Soon all but Bottineau and the man OPP
posite him dropped their cards and re-
tired to watch the game. The table was
hcaped with money and the personal
belongings of the two men. The flicker
ing light of the candle shone dimly on
the flushed faces as they watched each
other warily out of the corners of their
eyes. All of Bottineau's possessions lay
on the table, and it was his bet. He
looked at his hand carefully, and then
said that all he had left was Nicollet
island, which he would bet against 5000
The bet was called, and Bottineau laid
down his four queens with a smile of
triumph. Amid dead silence his oppo-
nent laid on the table, face up, four
kings and a tray. 1t was so still you
could have heard them breathe. Then
Bottineau called for writing materials
and made out deed to the island.
From that day he never touched card
or countenanced gambling in any form.
After drifting around the country he
went to Red Lake Falls and took up a
claim and remained there until the time
3s his death He was employed as a
guide and scout, and was one of the
principal members of the Sibley expedi-
ton. He knew every foot of the north
west country, having traversed it ever
since he was ten years old, when he
guided Lord Sell<irk's colonists from old
Fort Garry. When he died the last of
the old-time Canadian voyagers and
guides, who were such an important
factor in the upbuilding of the north
west, passed away.-Minneapolis Trib-
une.
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A DIFFERENT CUSTOM.
What Is Proper In the United states
Is Not In Mexico.

What Is Proper In the United States
Is Not In Mexico.
The man who had been down in Mex
leo trying to buy TIP carload of silver
dollars made for the American market,
and guaranteed worth their weight in
sterling silver, was in town the other
day looking for customers. incidental
" he ran across a Star reporter and
offered to sell him ton or two OF dol
lars. Then the man asked for light
and the reporter, Tipping the ashes
from his cigar, handed it over to the
returned traveller. i
"There's such difference in Gus
TOMS" said the MAN, taking his light
from the borrowed cigar. Now you
notice how politely and thoughtfully
for thoughtfulness is the true polite
ness-you knocked the ashes off your
cigar when you handed it to me to light
mineT
REPORTERS are always polite" sug-
gested the reporter.
"As [ was saying" continued the
man, unheeding, there is such DIFF,
ference in customs. Now, when | went
to Mexico the first time, didn't know
the Mexican code of manners, and
about the first thing did when landed
was to ask man for light. He hand
ed me a cigar with the ashes on. /
thought it was bad manners, but |
tipped them Off and lSindled my weed.
| did that four or five times, and
always got it in the same way. Then
l began to hope some of them would
ask me for light so | could show Mex
leo what real manners were. got the
chance one day, and when man asked
me for light tipped off the ashes and,
with a salaam at least two yards across
in its widest sweep, / extended HIM
the blazing stump. He took it, of course
being too polite to treat stran'
ger otherwise, but he did 1t in way
that showed me something was wrong,
and | began asking question or two.
"The result was that | discovered
what the true form was and what ali
ass l had been making of myself try
ing to teach those old CASTLE soaparcons
what the code cigarro was. My in
structor told me that the thing to do
was to leave the ashes on at their full
and to daintily touch the unlighted eli
gar or cigarette just about the fire line
between the ash and the tobacco. After
that, being no longer in ignorance, to
avoid bloodshed or international com
plications, | never again was flip with
the ashes of my cigar Washington
Star.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24
Disinfccting the Envoy.

When his eXcellency, Mr.. Chung, the
special envoy from the emperor of
China to Queen Nictoria's diamond iu-
bilee, arrived at Port Victoria, b. c.,
it was found that there had been small
poX on board, and the authorities at
once ordered the ship to quarantine for
"a days, and all the passengers to be
tumigated. Mr.. Chung refused to sub
init to such insulting treatment. He
said to fumigate the envoy was prac-
tically the fumigating of the emperor
of China, and the most awful crime
that any mortal could commit. The
Canadian government. the British gov
eminent and the Chinese minister in
London were all appealed to, and the
unfumigated envoy was allowed to 90
free and carry infection even to the
diamond jubilee.-Detroit Free Press.
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Ghe 0an Buren, press.
VAN Blu ZEN, : ARKANSAS.
HE FIELDS oE CLOVER,

Oh, for one more happy day,
TO run and romp and play,
Out IN the fields. where over and over
could roll once more in the fragrant clover
Tor never was joy
like being boy.
out in the fields of clover
Oh. for one more barefoot run,
After the long hot day is done,
Down in the fields of fragrant clover.
While by my side my old dog Rover
Runs after the cows
Tho stop to browse.
Out In the fields Of clover
oh, for one more vigorous swim
In the deep old pool where the light is dim
Where down | plunge, over and over.
And when come up smell the clover,
As the wind blows fresh
On my naked flesh,
out from the fields of cloverl
oh, for one more rest at night
With my heart as free and light
As in the days now long passed over
When | played in the fields Of fragrant
clover.
For never was JOY
Like being boy.
Out In tire fields OF clover.
William Reed Dunrog. in Every Where.
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Mahogany RniIrond Cars.

y new train for the queen of six
carriages is now in course of construc.
ton at Swindon, England, and its elab-
crate internal and external decoration
is engrossing the attention of the most
expert artists employed by the Great
Western railway. The only wood used
is mahogany, and the doors of the
queens carriage are so contrived a.
20 allow Of the entrance of two attend
ants, one at either side of her majesty.
Il Is also arranged that the approach
20 the royal salon is to be on level
with the platform. so as to dispense
with any necessity for steps.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

An excellent plain fritter is made as
follows: Boil cup of milk until it is
reduced one-half. Flavor the boiling
milk with a few drops of vanilla, make
a batter that "cleaves from" the sauce
pan. add two eggs and stir in table
spoonful of whipped cream. Roll this
batter lightly on IA Toured board and
cut it into balls the size of English wal
nuts. They will swell like cream cakes
after frying in hot fat three minutes.
Drcdge them with sugar and serve at
once.-N. Y. Tribune.
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MY lADY'S PARASOl.
She should Have n Dozen-How She
Can Get Along with Three.

Parasols have blossomed out into n
variety and fresh importance in the
realm of fashion which is really dis
heartening to all women except the few
who are blessed with unlimited incomes
or a mind above the frivolous things of
life. Fashion DEGREES that the up-to-
date woman must have from six to a
dozen of these expensive trifes to har-
monte respectively with her various
costumes, but with three well selected
she can meet all the requirements of
fashionable dress. One should be of
changeable or foulard silk, or ecru
batiste, another of brocaded silk, and n
third one of chiffon or lace to carry with
thin gowns.
The chiffon parasol is a thing of frills
and fluff, which is a puzzle to anyone
except the ingenious designer who
fashioned it. In this class of parasols
there are various kinds similarly elab-
crate, made of net, lace and gauze, and
the handles are of gold set with Jewels,
with rock crystal and enameled heads
OF tortoise shell or some choice wood.
Elegant brocaded and MORE silks are
used for covering, but there are all sorts
of less expensive silk parasols in plain
colors, plaids and stripes without lin
it TO the variety. Ecru batiste parasols
lined with a color and trimmed with
narrow ecru lace are extremely pretty
and useful as well as good style, and a
lacquered wood handle is sure to be a
desirable choice.-N. Y. Sun.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

England has four instances of the
death penalty being legally carried out
by boiling, TO her discredit. The first
happened in 1882, when a man was
"sodden in a caldron in Smithdeld." In
1881 a special retrospective act of par
lament was passed to deal with the
case Of John Roose, a cook, who had
poisoned some food in the kitchen of
the bishop of Rochester, and he suf-
fered in a similar way. In the same
year a maid servant was boiled to
death at King Lynn for poisoning her
mistress. In 1912 another maid servant
nomed Margaret Davy suffered The
same fate for secret poisoning in three
households in which she had lived. The
horrible nature of the punishment is
partly explained by the fact that
it was only employed against prisoners.
and 10 check an almost unknown form
Of crime imported into England from
the continent. which WIS pecu liar.y alb
horrent 20 the instincts Of the nation
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

The Duchess d'Alencon, whose watch
and betrothal ring were found in the
ruins of the burned Paris bazar, was a
member of a royal house which has had
more than its share of misfortune in
recent years. She was the daughter of
Duke Macmillan of Bavaria and a
younger sister of the empress of Aus
tria and the eX-queen of Naples, and
she had a good deal of the high spirit
which distinguished those two brilliant
ladies before public and private sorrows
had dimmed their vivacity. The en-
press has lost her only son under pc
culiarly painful and melancholy cir
cumstances, The queen, the dashing
horsewoman of the COS, has long lived
an exile from the kingdom which her
husbands weakness did good deal to
forfeit, and now the third sister has
come to tragic and untimely death.
Their cousin, eX King Louis of Bavaria.
committed suicide IL years ago.-N. Y.
World.
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The Rheumatic bachelor.

II wonder" said the fair-haired maid,
"if there shall be any more love when
woman is the acknowledged peer Of
man in intellect"
what" asked the rheumatic bach
elor, "has love got to do with intellect|
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

"Of all the fools l ever heard of. jim
berson is the chief"
'What of Jimberson, pray?"
Because his wife insisted that he
should not stay around home while she
was cleaning house, he thinks her love
for him has waned. Indianapolis
Journal
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

THE chief end of man seems to be to
get something for nothing" said the
young man who was striving to concil-
late his best girls father
TOO true" unused the old gentleman.
For instance, you're trying to get my
daughter for yourself."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

Mother (angrily)-Ethel, ifyou don't
sit still I'll punish you. Why can't you
be patient?
Ethel-'Cause l 'spects it's just as
hard for me to be patient, mamma, asst
Is for ycu.-N. Y. Truth.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-07-24

There are more Greeks in Turkey
than there are in Greece. Turkey in
Europe contains 100000 Greeks,
Greece, 100000, and Asia Minor, 600,
QUO.
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breakfast Dish.

Toast slices of bread, put in pan just
large enough; pour over milk to cover.
drop one raw egg on each slice, a shake
of salt and pepper, two or three bits
of butter on top; bake in hot oven two
or three minutes.-Ladies' World.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-27

MAN Or MANY WivGH dis
patch ttom youngstown. bel say At
tornoy G!ano,pl Robert g. White rnys
tln ha has received lcttera which
alfonyly hcnr out hia first impression
TINT James NJ GuiLy. tho accused muir
doror of Mrs Mary Lewis. Of New
York, ia u second lI"lmcn aud bpn
mist nt the li,al order. i!rnie tho inOl
that G"idN hpn "a wiio now living in
Iloaton. Nj, White says ho hnn lonrncd
that Noldy hnn wivon living inl!toolelvn.
Now York Nown,h. N J. New lIn.
ven. at I'i,trhutg aud Chicago, TIL"
nttntuoy genera! pnyu lao hnn heard
tom Two 81 Hordy'e wivoH. aud
Though th.u,. Inns learned that Nody
lns enl ui riitp altogether Tho nj
tnluo, poue,ai lima declined 10 divulro
iho names at his correspondence. but
ho declares thnt ho Inns PttonE evidence
that thoit olaina p,o legitimate. Mr.,
" hto nnyn II ia his opiniun that Gordy
will eventually hn nhowu "a ho the
mont uotntioun hieomiHi "t tho nEo. II
ia hip opinion that Cp,dy married many
women undor Gulicua namou. In nr'lo,
to pot thom iu;oteptod in lila pchomcu,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-27

cat. NAH MAbDpK'e rpLtrtcAL ftr-
puoffpu Gcl cab Mnddps Of Wnfr,
ton. is ia tho city. The quest Of ihe Ek
ohnnge Hotel Ile is as pnttly. .oniaI
and hauds7mr nH Of old and political
prophet cl the liist water,
one ii his FIRST scta an arriving hsra
was to heenle Star representative TO
a lonelY spot, nnd nIis' dsnpoilinp hun
ul lot II tho local Hews- religious.
social aud polilieal oourngacusly made
The following predictions
That Taylor IGllyson would receive
the Democratic nomination Tor tpvci-
nnt nnI would be overwhelmingly
oleoted
Tint either Judge Sanuel Y Will.
linms. OF WYlhe county, OF eNJndre
l,hen. Of Washington county, would b.
tho next Attorney General of the State.
aud int tho Hon. Henry Fairfax. 81
l.ondnun. could loo Lieut. Governor lor
the asking
Having thus delivered himself he dis
missed The nowspnpo, man with IA prn.
oiuua wnvr 81 his hnrd aud Tho l,reonu
tiuu fu bo nlwnya sure To hnve thing
right boloto lao published It. h,cd
e,ioiahpg stu