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The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
POLK MILLER

Polk Miller the famous humorst
and dIalecteIan, will appear at
Ghio's opera house November 10,
Miss Estclle Wallace, who assists
Polk Miller and Oscar T. SIsson this
season, Ia a little QuaReress and
Mr. SIssons Melee, She has a splen.
did mez2ossoprano voice aud Is as
dainty and pretty on the stage as a
Dresden doll When not on the
stage she uses "thce" and thou
as Is usual with the Quakers, and
says It Is often the case on thestage
that 1t Is with great difficulty she
keeps from using this form Of
speech
Miss Wallace wears a dress, In
her sketch with Mr., SIsson, "Cous
sin sllas'a Visit from the Country
this is made over from a dress worn
by her great great grandmother
and she presents d picture AK pret.
" aa the dress la quaint,
Polk Miller Oscar SIesoo and
Miss Wallace appear together III a
character sketch, in which Mr. MIL
ler plays the part true 70 life, Of
Uncle Daniel and sings soups
tells stories aud opItk the bauIef'
III real oIdslashIoned style
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
MUM" FAIR NOTES

Mr. G, c, Brengle, the Texas
druggist, also Williams & Williams
will have pretty girls dispense SOU
yinirs each nightof the fair
All cut blooms both roses and
"mums' must be in position We'd
nesday by 1 o'clock
The merchants making exhibits
Of holiday goods, are displaying
quite a congcnial rivalry as to Who
shall have the pre.tiest exhibit,
This Is very encouraging for the
ladies'
Who said there would or wouldnot
be a baby show In connection with
the Mum Fair2 Who knows2
The band boys have come to The
assistance of the Floral Society
and offered their services grjtis,
which act Is certainly very mich
appreciated
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15

The Van Buren, papers wrote col
umus Of stun, crying for an electric
light system, aud at last got It..
and now they are heaplng abuse
upon the plant because the lights
tail to burn to suit the Ideas Of the
editors We have long since learns
ed that electric lights are as liable
10 flicker as any other lights and
these lights will not do TO depend
on entirely our people here have
their buildings wired and pIpod aud
should the electric machinery fall
the gas Ia turned on and we have
nothing to kick at. Van llurea
will learn better after awhile than
TO kick at an electric light plant be
cause the lights 20 out between
acts,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
Music for Everybody Make Your
Home Cheerful,

We make It easy for you to buy
Pianos and Organs and all other
musical instruments, We get IN
struments from thirteen Of the
leading factories and can make you
better prices and terms than any
other music concern In this part Of
the country If you think Of buy.
Ing we will make 1t to your interest
TO call aud see our instruments or
write for catalogue aud prices.
Prompt attention given to orders
for plano tuning,
j, w, LAauLEY's Music tlousg,
220 Vine st. TeSafbana, Ark,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
GOLD STANDARD,
secretar Gage Will Urge It's Perma-
nent Adoption,

The Government Official, publish
ed at Washington, D, G, says;
"Mr Secretary Gage is reported
on Tuesday to have read to the
cabinet the recommendations he
will send to Congress when it meets
in November The full text of his
essay on currency reform will not
be given out until then, but the
substance Of it is supposed to be
well known He will recommend
the permanent and unequivocal
adoption of the gold basis; the re-
tirement of groenbacks, treasury
notes and silver certificates, all Of
which government paper Is to be
taken up by a. gigantic issue Of
bonds the extension Of the nation.
al banking industry and It's
protection and a commercial sale
Of the silver bullion in the treas.
uyn
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
10 Cure Gatafrh

DO not depend upon snulh. lobils
Iuuls or other local applications.
| Calarfh Isa constitutional disease,
land eau be successfully treated
only by means of d constitutional
remedy IiBe Hoods safsapafIIla,
which thoroughly buHdos The blond
tud removes the ttrotuIous tWnts
which cause taliffh The great
number OF testimonials from those
who have been cured Of ealaffh by
Hoods SaHdparIlla prove the uaes
auaIad power Of lhIs medicine to
conquer lhh disease, n troubled
with ealafrh give Hoods sarsapas
filia d fair trial at once,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
Postal Telegraph

The Postal Telegraph'0abIc Com
pany has recently opened offices Al
DALLAS, Sherman, Honey Grove
BoBham, Paris tlafksyille and Ten
arlana, ftxls, bH1 Hope, p'tstC Ct
ArNudclpbla, Hot Sptiups LIT
TILE ROGR, Pine lilur aud lleleua
Arkansas aad MEMPHIS, TENN
This eompanys wires also feael
every important poiat In the tbi
tod States Nnd Canada, South Am
erica and the old world Rates lC
Mexican points reduced 10 half the
price Of other companies
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
Buy Globe OILS

They cost you no more and give
fine light. Have you not favored
the other fellow long enougb2 Ask
your grocer for Globe Oils You
don't belong to the monopolyj then
try a lttIe compctitIonand get your
oil can filed, W, H. Adams will
come with his little wagon and
wait on you, lls0slm
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15
Change Of Badges.

We have been requested to ask
thc members Of the Floral Society
To take their badges TO the aeereta'
ny and get new ones, as the color
has been changed aad the old ones
will not admit the members,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-11-15

kiiau has walled pr from all his
tumputItua, dntp luhururitlnp hIH
steam battery $40 better bread Ia
Che Wefld
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
A TOuQh .JOh.

It took three hours to kill vicious elephant in the vicinity of Liverpool, recently, and in assisting to bring about this result a medical gentleman almost succeeded in composing his own destruction. Charles IT." was the name of the elephant. Two Liver pool physicians were appointed eX- ecutioncrs. They fed the beast on acOnite concealed in carrots and ar senic sprinkled on buns, which it swal. lowed pleasantly and asked for more Then one medical gentleman conceived the idea of loading a syringe with pruSsic acid, inducing the elephant to open its mouth, and squirting the poi son down its throat Charles II. con sidered this great sport, but the doc tor who was operating the syringe, by reason of his interest in the experi- ment, nomentarily forgot the deadly properties of prussic acid, inhaled the fumes, and fell unconscious. The other physician saved his colleagues life with great difficulty, the elephant looking on with deep sympathy. How ever. after Charles II. had taken enough poison to kill two thousand men, according to the doctors, and three hours had passed since the first dose, he suddenly toppled over and expired quietly. Like the other Charles H., he had been an uncon- scionable time dying.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

A London schoOlboy committed sui. eide last month. leaving behind pa, thetic letter saying that he could not stand the abuse to which he was sub. jected by his fellows at school. There was practically no investigation of the matter except that which elicited the remark of the master that the youth was of very sensitive nature, and the jury brought in a verdict of death while temporarily insane. Youth of all natiOnalities Is proverbially cruel, but the cTueleSt Ot all are the boys of the Anglo-Saxon race. Since the begin nings of education the schools of En- gland have been the scene of a long series of petty tyrannies calculated to develop bullies or to result, as this un- fortunate case did, in suicide. Anyone who has read From Browns School Days" will remember the misera ble servitude which the younger and more timid boys were obliged to live in and the brutal treatment to which they were subjected. This custom of flag. SAhS Lo hpllClO by IuN pSOD1t, and even the gentle Thomas Hughes excused it. It Is supposed to develop manliness in youth. At least that is what the English urge in it's defense. But it does nothing of the kind. Where it does not break the spirit of the boy, as in the case of the unfortunate youth alluded to, 1t is apt to create bullies of the worst kind. In America schools and colleges are by no means so free from cruelty of this sort that England can be condemned unsparingly, but the flag system has never obtained here and never could. It would be impossible for a boy to be bounded to death in this country for the reasons which led the English lad to take his life. It was his advocacy of the Greek cause which got him into such disrepute with his fellows. The partisanship of the sires is not transmitted in this degree to the sons tn this country. The curious thing about the English case is that the par. ents seem to take the death of their boy as a matter of course.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Those who when they read the sprightly ''The Prisoner of Zenda" were inclined to lcok upon the incidents as belonging to the realm of the impossi- ble romance will find that recent events in Bulgaria prove that the deeds of Ku- dOlph and Rupert, Michael and the re- dOubtable Sapt can be duplicated al- most any day in the Balkan countries captain, a prefect of police and a Fendarme have been arrested at Phil ippOpolis on the charge of numbering an opera singer, a beautiful girl named Anna SZimOn. The captain became tired of her and hired the other two to help put her out of the way. She was chloroformed and drowned in the river. The prefect of police has con- fesSed, and says that the captain and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria ordered him to kill the woman. The captain was cadet in the palace and was one of the men who Kidnapped Prince Alex ander of Bulgaria and drove off with him to the sea coast. This he did at Ferdinand's request in order that the latter might succeed to the throne. He recently made a rich marriage, upon W hich he threw the opera singer over. If these details were in the hands of Anthony Hope he might give us some thing beside which the romance of Ienda would appear pale.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
Only Six Survivors

Of the crowd of members of Parlia. ment who, on Nov. 20, 1887, thronged the bar of the House of Lords to catch a glimpse of the girl Queen opening her first Parliament, only six are living at this day. This fact, standing alone. marks the unparalleled length of Queen Eictoria's reign. The half dozen sur vivors are MT. Leader, who represented Victoria in the first Parliament of Vie toria; MT. Hurst, who represented Hor- slam; Wentworth Fitzwilliam. of Nal ton, now Earl Fitzwilliam; Sir Thomas Acland, of West Sumerset, whose fam fly Is still represented in the House of Commons of to-day by the ex-vice pres ident of the council; MT. Villiers, now. as then, representing Wolverhampton. and MT. Gladstone, the rarest relic of a turbulent political past, and now in re. tirement from public life. Of her first ministers not one is alive.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
LIFE IN A PENAL COLONY.
Delightful Place Where French Con
 victs Are Chartered.

victs Are Chartered.
 "The island of New Caledonia. where l have lived for the past ten years. is a French penal colony" said c. G. Freeman, an English gentleman. "I went there for my health, expecting to stay only short time, but went into the business of raising coffee, for which that country is we'll adapted, and finally concluded to stay perma- mently. New Caledonia is 1,2OO miles east of Australia, and, although within the tropics, has a delightful climate for ten months in the year. During January and February the weather is so excessively hot that one cannot live in comfort. It is forty miles wide by 400 long.
 There are between 5000 and COCO cOnvicts on the island, and perhaps an equal number of ticket of leave men that Is, men who have served out their terms of imprisonment, but who are forbidden to leave, and have to report to the authorities twice year. They are miserable, spiritless lot, these ticket of leave fellows, who work just enough to keep from starvation, and whose highest ambition is to get mon- ey enough for debauch. The convicts are treated very humanely by the French officials. and I doubt if there is a penal settlement in the world where the men have the same care and consideration shown them.
 The c4ffee plantations are worked largely by negroes, who come from the New HebrideS under contract to stay two or three years, the local labor be- ing very unreliable. The pay of the laborerS Is $2 month and rations, rice being the principal article of food. This cheapness of labor is the explanation of the profit in cultivating coffee. If We had to pay the wages current in the United States there would be no money in its production. We export 10 France and are allowed a rebate of one-half of the entry duties, which is q considerable bonus.
 There are few Englishmen in New Caledonia, but no Americans. I believe outside of the consul. The French are very jealous of foreigners and discour. age all outsiders from coming there."- Washington Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

What might be termed the latest fea- ture of scientific Kindergarten training is the proposition to eliminate "baby talk" from the nursery-in fact, to sweep it off the face of babyland. The reform is based on the fact that par ents are largely responsible for the idiosyncrasies of baby language, and that it would be about as easy to teach the rising generation the proper pro- nunciation of words at the beginning as to wait until they reach an advanc- ed stage In youth. This drill in pure phonics," as 1t is called, may be able to accomplish in time what its advo- cates claim for 1t, but what practical advantage will have been obtained? No one seriously asserts that the lan- guage Of babyland retards the child's learning when greater maturity has been reached, nor that there is any suggestion of permanent effect. The most that can be accomplished, there fore, is to train the baby to avoid the coOing preliminaries in language learning and to make the change ab- ruptly from a fascinating creature that expresses all emotions by protracted howls to a dignified infant that brides itself in its perfection in articulation. A suggestion of what might be possi- ble in this respect has come through the allegedly funny periodicals in sketches of life in Boston nurseries. The imagination can picture the pre- cocious baby calling distinctly for its 'lacteal fluid" But the picture is far from alluring and few people would care to have 1t reproduced at their own hearthstOneS. There are few mem- Ories more dear than the memories of the caressing syllables of baby talk. There are few lives which would not suffer a distinct and grievous loss if those memories were ruthlessly cut off. Are there not enough serious, import ant things in life to engage the energies of people without making attacks on harmless source of universal de. light?
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Not all the puritanlsm of the world is concentrated in and around Boston and leveled at the rejected Bacchante. News comes from Geneva, a place which should certainly be liberal and cosmopolitan in its ideas of art, that one of the masterpieces of the great sculptor ROdin, probably the greatest worker in that line of art since Michael Angelo himself. has been rejected as unfit for public exhibition. In the meanwhile the work of MacMonnieS lies in the basement of the Boston pub- lie library, reviled and cast out by the philistines, but still wearing upon its face that inscrutable smile embodying the organism of the old world and the liberalism of the new.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
Frogs as Soldiers.

Don't imagine these frogs dressed uu in red coats, with swords and pistols. but simply as an army going out to fight.
 ''The frog plays the part of a soldier in Iceland" says a traveller from that country, ''but, of course, it had to be taken there, as Iceland had neither rep tiles nor toads. The frogs fight the mosquitoes. In some parts of Iceland. especially round the larger lakes. the mosquitoes and flies have become so much of a plague that people living around myvath (mOsquito water) are obliged, while working in the fields. to protect their hands am faces by gloves. veils, or masks"
 An English physician devised the clever plan of importing the frogs. As soon as these little croakers got into tba country, the mosquitoes began to di- miniSh.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
Another merchant and importer has

Another merchant and importer has been stopped at the New York custom house with goods in his possession which he was attempting to bring in without paying the customary duty. Like the St Louis man, he, too, says that the articles were intended as pres ents for his family and friends. He says: "I am allowed to bring in a cer- tain amount of perfumery and such ar ticles, and If there should happen to be a few more articles of that kind in my trunks than the law allows it may have been owing to a slight mistake in the orders given to the storekeepers" The few more articles which got into his trunks consisted of f1fty-six pairs of ex- pensive French kid gloves, large num- Der of silk dresses, and a great deal of perfumery and mems furnishings.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

which in spite of comminuted, con- ,ornd fractures, dislocations, and such pther evils as attend q hunting man who "comes a cropper," compelled him +o nIace his arms around her, and raise her head until her sweet red lips were available for kissing purposes.
 ''My Dear Robert: was married to your uncle Richard yesterday, and we leave here for the south of France to- morrow. I did not find what you rep resented; in fact. quite the contrary. When tell you that l have persuaded your uncle to increase your allowance I feel sure that you will not regret my signing myself your affectionate aunt,
 "CICELY MAINTAINING"
 s'By Jovew exclaimed Bob, as he tore the above letter into little pieces, its wonderful what a woman can do."- Chicago Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
First Sapphire Found in Idaho.


 An Idaho miner brought a stone to the Miners bureau which was pro- nounced sapphire of the purest water and the largest ever seen. The gem was nearly cube, being about one and one-half inches thick, one and one half inches wide, and two inches long. It was much water worn, showing plainly the pebbly conformation grad ually assumed by gems found in the beds of mountain torrents, the edges being very much rounded. This is the first sapphire of any size discovered in Idaho. They are frequently found in Montana, and some fine stones have come from there. The owner of this stone is operating placer mines in Idaho. and the stone was found in the tailings and preserved on account of its bright blue color. News of the find reached New York and an agent of Tiffany, after examining the stone, of fered $3,50O for it. The owner decided that if it was worth that in the rough it was probably worth much more, and Is now on his way to London, where he expects to realize it's full value.
 The stone is almost perfect, the only blemish being fracture on one side extending less than one-eighth of an inch into the stone. MT. Taylor, who has long experience ill handling gems, says that in his opinion 1t is the largest known sapphire ill the world, the weight being POS carats. Sap phires are valuable according to their purity, perfectly clear gems bringing high prices, the price, like that of diamonds, being increased per carat in proportion to the weight of the stone.-, Denver Republican.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

The carelessness of a New York phy- Sician subjected him to a distressing humiliation, but revealed form of fla cial establishment of which hitherto little has been known. An upper Set'' of teeth was mislaid and lost. but the novel feature of the incident is the re- ported fact that the upper set'' was of the winning smile" variety. By
 means of this work of dental art it appears that an otherwise moroSe de meanor and possibly repelling mien were transformed into captivating expression. so essential to the success of physician. It is not to be suppos- ed that upper sets are limited to the production of winning smiles.' If the science of dentistry has reached the smile stage it is not too much to believe that all the other varieties of human facial expression can be simu- lated. But speculation on this inter- esting subject must wait until fuller ipvestigation of all the facts Is made.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
To Keen Moths Away

Try putting tansy leaves in the win. ter blankets when packing them away In former generations moth balls were not known, but tansy leaves were free ly sprinkled among the furs, blankets and wooden clothing put out of harms way during the summer months. and such things always came out fresh and sweet in the fall.-New York Sun,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
Lamp Chimnovs

A German firm makes a Iamp in which there is bulb at the upper in stead of the lower part. and in which the upper rim is cut obliquely. This it is said, makes it much safer to blow, a lamp out, and the flame is taller and steadier, so that the light is improved The greater safety in blowing out will of course depend upon the blower blowing from the high part of the SIa antjnU tOD
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Discussing the possibility that the Prince of Wales may be called to the throne, the Savannah Press asserts that ''all talk about the queens abduc- ton at this time, however, Is bosh." We are pleased to be assured of that fact; it certainly would be the height of cruelty to abduct the old lady at her time of life.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Professor John Lawrence Sullivan, the eminent Boston masseur, believes that inside of eighteen minutes by the watch he can convince Colonel Fitz- simmons .lat the latter's notions con- corning scientific assault and battery are wrong.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

The Fort Worth Herald remarks that a New York woman who committed suicide in a church selected an inOp- perfume time and place for self-destruc- tion." True. By the way, what would be an opportune time and place for a woman to kill herself?
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

David B. Hsll takes occasion to sheer at political women without husbands. This comes with decidedly poor grace from a man whose entire family con sists of one.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Senator Vest in a tariff speech the other day referred to cider as 'beV- craze which cheers but not inbriates." All of which proves that the Senator is not thoroughly familiar with the mysteries of applejack.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

The story that the lightning during recent Kentucky thunderstorm resem- bled a corkscrew may be true. The in- dignation of the colonels over the cor ner in bourbon had perhaps been drawn up as a vapOr, which naturally developed a wrathful thunderbolt.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

The announcement that Barney Bar nato's immense fortune has practically been swept away is bound to exert very powerful influence upon the sea son's crop of Barnato widows.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

"An uncomfortable force" remarks the New York Tribune, ''is out of place in a crowded city street" Why not abolish the Gotham police force, then?
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Tn the meantime there will be gen. eraI desire to know whether the fa- nous smile of Theodore Roosevelt is real or of this manufactured variety.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
A Pleasing Rejoiuder

Il declar', it didn't take you no time at all to men dem trowsis. Sis Brown
 No, Brer JimsOn, done it with neat ness an dis patchr'-Clevelapd Plain Dealer.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14

Prosperity is on the jump up in North Dakota. The State has offered boun- ty of 50 cents a bushel for grasshoD- nQra
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-14
EVERY SATURDAY.

Even the owls around Boston hoot "To whomy' instead of ITO whoo! as they do in the West.