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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

landed in small boats at various points to
meet the natives as they line the shore.
The captain of the schooner and others
endeayor 10 persuade the natives to 60
aboard the vessel and often success crowns
their efforts; at other times more strenu-
Gus measures, Mr.. Kendall says, are en-
ployed. Few natives from New Guinea
are selected Tor this work since their
pc to the interior is easy, while those
from other islands have extremely limited
opportunity to get away.
There is sem blace of a contract for
three years made between these poor
slaves, as they are in fact" said MIR. Ken
dali, ''and the agency, whereby the natives
are to be housed and fed taro and rice
and for their weekly services receive the
munihcent stipend of two sticks of infe-
fior tobacco, one-quarter of an inch square
and six inches long, twenty-six to
the pound. at a cost of 80 cents
also one clay pipe (all the natives
use tobacco, both male and female).
Every month a lavalava is adde d to
their wages. This consists of two fancy
cotton bandana handkerchiefs, used about
the loins as their only article of covering
by the men, and in many instances used
by the women in the same capacity. After
the expiration of this contrac: the native
laborers are furnished with trading box,
consisting of such articles as best suit
their idea for disposal among their fellow
creatures. But, though they, in their
ignorance, consider this a gift, in reality
it has been paid for by their labor many
times over.
"The manner of preparing the grou nd
for the planting OF copra is very simple. !"
said Mr.. Kendall. The natives grub
with large hoe the trees, which nre COM
paratively few, and none are large. Vast
tracts of land are covered only By grass or
berry bushes arising from the burne d
district, which these nomadic tribes have
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forty-eight years from 1640 to 1888. Fred
erick the Great was on the throne forty
six years and this was about the most i'm
portant reign in the annals OF the king
dom. Frederick William Ill reigned for
forty-three years U797 1840).
Peter the Great holds the Russian rec
ord, forty-three wears, from 1852 to 1745.
1t was of this ruler that Voltaire said !:
He gave polish to his people, and was
himself a savage he taught them the art
of war of which he was himself ignorant; :;
from the sight Of small boat on the
river Moskwa he created powerful fleet :;
made himself an expert shipwright, sailor.
pilot and commander; he changed the
manners. customs and laws of the coun-
try. and lives in their memory as the
father of his country. Chicago News.
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NEW TO-DAY,
FREE TO EVERY MAN.
THE METHOD OF A GREAT TREATMENT
FOR WEAKNESS OF MEN.
WHICH CURED HIM AFTER EVERY
THING ELSE FAILED.

Painful diseases are bad enough. but when
man is slowly wasting away with nervous
weakness the mental forebodings are ten
times worse than the most severe pain. There
is no let up TO the mental suffering day or
night. Sleep Is almost t i'm possible, and under
such strain men are scarcely responsible for
what they do For years the writer rolled and
tossed on the troubled sea OF sexual weakness
until 1t was question whether he had not
better take dose of poison and thus end all
his throubles But provdential inspiration
came to his aid i'll the shape of a com bina ton
of medicines that not only completely restored
the general health, but enlarged his weak,
emaciated parts to natural size and vigor, and
he now declares that any man who Will take
the trouble 10 send his name and address may
have the method of this wonderful treatment
free. Now, when l say free mean absolutely
without cost, because l want every weakened
man to get the benefit of my experience.
am not a philanthropist, nor do l pose as
an enthusiast, but there are thousands of men
suffering the mental tortures of weakened
manhood who would be cured at onca could
they but get such remedy as the one that
cured ME. Do not try to study out how I can
afford to pay the few postage-stamps necessary
to mail the information, but send for it and
learn that there are few things on earth
that, although they cost nothing to get, are
worth a fortune to some men and mean a life
time OF happiness TO. ost OF US. Write to
Thomas Slater, box 2283, kalamazoo. Mich,
and the information will be mailed in plain
sealed envelope.
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case lace. The waist will be made with
needle and thread, and the skirt will dip
on one side. Every one will be wild over
her new green glass breastpin. Mrs.
Biinky will wear switch, and have her
weather-eye open for beau.
Young Miss Manzanta Jim will be
dazzling in red and white, made in a style
of her own, and it is whispered she has
new shoes. Her hair will be dressed la
curling-iron, and she will carry handker-
chief If she doesn't forget it.
Mrs. Vanderwerthenheime OF Up-the.
Gulch intends to wear her old polka-do OF
wrapper, und ven dose Pete's don't let
her in she smashes der whole compood e
on der nose. Mrs. helm r
will have chip on her shoulder and fire
in her eye.
The gentlemen will wear clothes. There
was some talk of excluding washed over
alls, but as men are necessary to pay the
fiddler they may come any way that is
lawful.
Halfbreeds are not to be admitted if
they will stay out. and Indians may sit
on the fence and watch the 4Q(0) go by.
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ESlTTLE is thought, as we daily gather
1AH around the 'festive board'' to par
@ take of the delicacies of the menu.
now they are obtained or how great dis
tance they come from. In illustration OF
this statement the experience of f. NJ.
Kendall, Californian, in respect to one
article of delicacy will be interesting.
Having learned how much profit could be
acquired in the cultivation of "copra," or
cocoanut, the greater part OF which is
raised IN the northern part of the island
OF New Guinea, Mr.. Kendall sought the
ADVICE OF prominent officials of the Ger
man Government, and encouraged by
their representations concluded to enter
into the pursuit. He accepted as part
ner one who was an active member of the
agency. on the island.
Mrs. Kendall accompanied her husband
on his expedition, and was the first Ameri-
ean woman to place her foot upon the soil
OF this portion of New Guinea.
How the South Sea Islands first became
inhabited by kanakas is a mooted ques-
ton. 1t is thought by come that refugees
from the Malay peninsula and adjacent
islands crossed over in canoes and by
lapse of time their original traits of char
acter became obliterated and gradually
became those of the present Inhabitants.
Another theory urged with more peril
nancy is that Punishment from Mexico
drove strange people 20 seek an asylum
in those vast wilds. This theory is par
TALLY sustained by the discoveries in
Mexico of war implements and coverings
for their person similar to those now used
by the Kanakas.
Although much effort has been made to
Ciyllize these peoples, but little success
comparatively has been attained, as each
island embraces a separate tribe, distinct
in itself and hostile to the others
Nature seems to have particularly IA
vored the island of New Guinea for the
raising OF cotton and copra, but the Ger
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of seventy three years, from 1642 to 1715.
This reign is regarded as the most bril-
liant in French annals and exercised a
fascination over all Europe. "Dd you
think was imm ?" asked the King on
his deathbed of mis- sorrowing attendants.
The Spaniards boast justly of the reigns
of some of their sovereiLns. James of
Aragon ruled sixty-three years, from 1918
to 1875, while Pedro " and John II ruled
respectively fifty-one and ffty-four years.
From the time Spain was consolidated. in
I479. eight kings ruled whose reigns aver
aged ;hirty-five years.
Alphonso 1 occupied Portugars throne
for seventy-thre years u112-l1S5) and he
is regarded as the founder OF their inde-
pendence by the Portuguese. Other Por-
tugese kings reigned ior forty-three, forty
four and forty-six years.
The reigns of several of the Prussian
kings have been very long. Frederick
William, the great elector ana founder of
the Prussian military power, reigned
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

"lords of the manor" Thus at Brough-
ton, on each PAIN Sunday since time
immem orial, the so-called 'gad whip"
memorial service takes place. The
lord of the manor, leaving his pew
in the chancel, advances TO the steps
thereof and cracks heavy carriage
whip three times, while the rector is
reading the first lesson. At the beginning
of the second lesson he approaches the
parson with his whip in his hand and
purse with gold pieces ted to the other
end of the lash. This he waves thrice in
the air and then holds the whip so that
the purse hangs directly over the priests
head until the conc usion of the chapter,
when the priest takes possession of the
purse and reverently places it on the altar.
Volumes might be written about these
queer manorial customs, the origin OF
most of them being lost in antiquity.
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A Bishops S Storu.

A good story is DING the rounds on
Bishop Paret of Baltimore. Some time
ago he was the guest OF an Episcopal
family ill West Virginia. Learn
ing from the Bishop that he
liked hard boiled eggs for break fast,
mis- hostess went to the kitchen to
boil them herself. While so engaged
she began to sing the first stanza of a
hymn. Then she sang the second stanza,
the Bishop, who was in the dining-room,
joining in. When it was finished there
was silence, and the Bishop remarked,
"Why not sing the third verse2" The
third verse?" replied the lady, as she came
into the dining-room carrying the steam
ing eggs. "Ob. that's not necessary" II
don't unde srand," replied Bishop Paret.
"Oh, you see, she said, "when i am
cooking eggs 1 always sing one verse
for soft boiled and two for hard boiled"
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Nobody is to be allowed to carry home
any supper in his pocket, but to balance
that drawback Mrs. Pete will open jar
OF her famous watermelon-rInd preserves.
Z Not more than three couples will have
to use one spoon. Mrs. Pete has reck-
lessly determined to bring out hel whole
bali dozen and all her rare old ironstone
cups.
If any one gets too drunk to dance he
is expected to roll under the bench like
gentleman. "This won't be no low af-
fair"
Those who are not invited are ready to
give opinions as to this waste of money
and time. Your reporter appends "a few.
Exclusive
IF Mrs. Dutch Pete wants to make be-
lieve she is some body it amt none of my
pie.-Nancy Oldbird."
MRS. Dutch Pete haint no business
putin on style with her old dance when
she owes me 80 cents yet on her rag
carpet-Mrs. General Weaver"
II wouldn't go if l could. She thinks
herself better than them that can buy and
sell her any day.-Mrs. McStinger."
IF Mrs Pete had donated the hen to
the pastors family she would be more
certain of saIvation.-Rev. Starvedout."
Mrs. Pete's hens and things is hern,
and she can do as she likes for all me-
Mrs. Short"
Mrs. Pete is jest right. I'd get ahead OF
them Turkey Joe's II it took every old hen
In the yard.-Mrs. Vindex."
The Hungry Hill Echo says there are in
Hungry Hill a dozen people who could
afford hen, but no one there wants to get
her name up.
The puddle will not subside into its
usual stagnant quiet until next Saturday,
when Mrs. Dutch Pete's dance will be a
thing OF the past. OLIVE HEYDEN.
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NATIVES GATHERING COPRA IN NEW GUINEA

times being inimical. The three Danish
kings of England, for example, reigned
only twenty-seven years altogether. Dur
ing the Saxon period fifteen kings ruled
with an average OF thirteen years apiece.
But William the Lion ruled over Scotland
for forty y-aine years (I165-1214). His son.
Alexander ii. relgned thirty-fve years
and the latter's son thirty-sx years.
Charlemagne, the great consolidator OF
the French republic, ruled forty seven years
and Louis TX for fortv-four years, but both
these long reigns were exceeded by Louis
XIV, who reign ned the unprecedented time
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set on fire in their wanderi ngs over the
plains in search of food.
The soil is principally sandy, richly in
termingled with vegetable mold, which
renders its productiveness exceedingly
active. When all is in readiness for the
planting rows are made ten feet apart and
either young sprouted cocoanut plants,
obtained by the natives in the interior or
those without any advancement, procured
from wild trees near at hand, are placed
in the rows.
'tThese plants mature in three or four
years and continue twenty or thirty years
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

@lN the Bill Williams fork of the
H&kk Colorado River, in the western part
@nSN of Arizona, near the junction of the
Rio San Marie IN Mohave County, within
stones throw of Yavapai and Yuma
counties, perhaps fifty miles southeast
from the Needles and fifteen due east from
Planet Town, is the rattlesnake ranch OF
Mark Dorney. A more particular location
of the place-lacking tiresome citations of
range, township and section-could
scarcely be given, for this is yet wild and
unpeopled district Of the Treasure Terri
tory. and guideposts and landmarks are
neither plentiful nor certain. But any
one who halls from that part of the Terri
tory will tell you all about it, because if
they haven't seen it they have heard of it..
OF all the ranches on earth perhaps
Mark Dorney's is the strangest and the
most iearsome. There is always we'll
filled keg of rye or bourbon In the cabin
and usually the door TO the cabin is wide
open. A collateral circumstance is that
the whisky is safe ander all conditions.
When Dorney goes to Planet Town he
leaves the house wide open-to let it air
out, as he facetiously remarks, but in
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
Il Bradley Martin HffaP in Siskiyou
How Mrs. Dutch Pete Of Greenhorn Guch Intends to Oudo
All Rivals in Her Sphere
All Rivals in Her Sphere

THE calm pond of Siskiyou's society
FIX has been stirred to a turbulent pud.
NgC die by the news of the dance to be
given By Mrs. Dutch Pete of Greenhorn
Gulch next Friday night in the school
house, on which occasion Mrs. Pete has
promised to knock all the spots off the
dance given last month by Mrs. Turkey
Joe OF Cricket Flat.
The sums spent for cheesecloth and
prize box jewels will amount to some
thing, while the grub will be hot stuff
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ment the scene, and she has also gone the
length of wild extravagance IN borrowing
some little flags from the teacher. Mrs.
Pete told your reporter (excusive) that
"she don't mind no expense SO long as
she can put out Mrs. Joe's eye."
Your reporter has with much difficulty
succeeded in getting descriptions of a few
of the most expensive and notable get-ups.
Mrs. Ernestina BlInky, the world
famed heiress of rockpile, will wear a
new dress OF pink cheesecloth and pillow
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Long Reign of Monarchs.

The fact that Queen Victoria is about to
celebrate the sixtieth year of her reign
calls attention to the long reigns of other
monarchs. The majority of these lengthy
rules have occurred in times of national
prosperity and quiet. rude and unsettled
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

Glow worms are much more brilliant
when storm is coming on than at other
seasons. Like many other mysteries of
nature this curious circumstance has
never peen explained.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
Quaint EnohSh Customs.

There is scarcely manor in England
where some queer old custom dating back
to feudal times does not survive, reca ling
the former prestige and glory of Tho
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
Officer Kills a Doctor.

Dr. Oscar Lockhart, young physi- cian of Union township, Ashley county, was shot down in the public road near his home by Deputy Sheriff Merri- weather. ltseems some hogs belonging to Merriweather had got into Lockhart's field, when the latter went to the formers house to ask him to keep the hogs up, but he was not at home. and some words passed between Lockhart and Mrs. Meriweather. In the afternoon of the same day the doctor, in company with young man named Stinson, was walking down the road, when Merri- weather stepped into the road and fired two shots from Winchester at Lockhart, one entering his side and the other striking him in the neck, kill ing him instantly. Meriweather fled and took refuge in a canebrake. He declared that he would not be taken alive
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Fatal Battle With a Fugitive.

A desperate fight took place recently at Palarm, in Pulaski county. between T.. Il. Owens, Perry county deputy sheriff, and a fugitive negro named harrison Curry. Owens was lying in wat Tor Curry, for whom he had bench warrant charging him with assault with intent to kill. Curry had taken a seat Tn the depot waiting room, and when the deputy entered the door and com manded him to surrender. he opened hre with a Winchester. regular bat tie followed between the two. during which at least twenty shots were fired. A shot hred by the negro struck Owens ih the thigh, but some silver coin in his pocket stopped the ball and he was un injured. Curry was shot through the body five times and died shortly. While an unknown negro boy who was In the building when the firing commenced was shot through the heart and expired instantly. The telegraph operator, who was in bed in house a snort distance away, received serious wound in the shoulder from a shot fired by Curry.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
Assaulted His Brothers Wife.

Jesse Brown, who resides near Char leston, Franklin county, was recently arrested charged with committing an assault on his brothers wife July last. Mrs. Brown was alone with her child on the day the assault is said to have been committed, and, according to her version, her brother-in-law came in and dragged her up stairs, forcibly outraged her, and then, at the muzzle of shot gun, made her get down upon her knees and promise not to say anything to her husband about his crime. which she did not do for some time, fearing he would carry out his threat to murder her should she do so.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
Scholarships Awarded.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Jordan announces the following as suc- cessful contestants for Peabody scholar ships: Ralph Gotham, Monticello; J. V. Muller, Van Buren; Hattie Lide, Camden; Cora Duke, Jonesboro; Macon Leiper, Malvern; Eula R. Moore, Clarlls- vile. In the competitive examinations there were about 25 contestants. A scholarship in this institution is worth s100 a year and the students railroad fare from his home to Nashville and re- turn, and is good for two years, beside scholarship students receive from the president of the college s25 on the last days of October, December, February and April
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

A state colored ". c. T. U. is soon to be organized.
 Female prisoners are worked on the rock pile at Fort Smith.
 Large shipments of Arkansas coal are being made to Illinois, as result of the coal miners strike.
 The Crescent oil mill at Little Rock was recently purchased by Memphis company for s5o,0Oo.
 A Boone county citizen has offered to donate enough marble to build a new state house at Little Rock.
 The Arkansas Sunday-School associa- ton will hold its annual convention at Ozark September 3, 4 and 5.
 A census of school children of New. port, just completed, shows 4S2 white and 456 colored children of school age.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

As to the sugar trust, it didn't need any more prosperity.-Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
 The people will let the admins tration know what they think of the new tariff act when the congressional elections come around.-Kansas City Star.
 When hoodwinked consumers be- gin to step up and pay higher prices for food, clothing, furniture and car pets as a result of the tariff they will probably omit all but the last two syl- fables of the Te Deum Laudamus now called for by the republican party St. Louis Republic.
 Prosperity? Why, certainly. See how much more the American la- borer is to be permitted to pay for the necessities of life. Nowhere else in the world can be found such glorious privi- leges as those of the citizens of the United States under high republican protective tariff.-Tammany Times.
 To the man who is hungry, idle and in despair, it seems a mockery to be told that the country is in the enjoy ment of unexampled prosperity. When good times come everybody will know 1t without being told. Does anybody know of anybody who is resisting the coming of prosperity ?-Columbu (O.) Press.
 -President Mckinley was reported as saying at Canton, O., that the pros pect of good wheat crop means re- turn tc prosperity very soon." This sounds very like fiat heresy against the protectionist faith. It is impossi- ble, according to the economic gospel of which Mir. Mckinley has been the great evangel, that a good wheat crop should bring prosperity. Prosperity can only be the child of protection.-N. '. World
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
A TARIFF FOR TRUSTS.
The Consumer wiu Not Receive Any
 Benefit.

Whether the working man is to bene. fit by the trust-promoting duties of the Dingley law or not, there is no question that the trusts are 10 benefit. The en- hanced value in trust stocks was an- ticipated before the passage of the tariff bill, and reflected by the most astonishing boom in prices seen on the New York stock exchange for many year. This meant the majority of the spectators believed the trusts were to get an open chance to grind the peo- pie, who must buy at trust prices or go without. That grinding of the con- sumer is already beginning.
 The United States Leather company is the legal name of the leather trust. It has $62, TOO of capital, embraces nearly all the big dealers in the coun- try, and can almost control the price of hides. Where it fails to control the price of hides, the people who benefit are the beef packers. Yet the leather trust is to raise the price of leather to the manufacturers in order to be able to pay profits on the money invested in its stock at boom prices. The manu- facturer, in turn. having to pay more for his raw material, must raise the price to the retailer. and he to the con- sumner.
 The leather trust officials have al- ready announced their intention, and it has been estimated that on account of the rise the price of workingmen's heavy shoes. which now sell at SIPS. will advance 40 cents, the price of wom- ems shoes, selling for one dollar, will advance 30 cents; 75-cent children's shoes will advance 20 cents, and farm CTS, who can get their heavy grain leather boots for two dollars, will have to pay $2.50." This must be done be- cause the tariff on hides, which under the Mckinley and the Wilson laws were on the free list. is now Is per cent, and the manufacturer can buy his raw ma terial from the leather trust, leaving the leather trust and the beef-packing combine to fight for the booty.
 The manufacturer will have no more money to pay out in wages except what the trust allows him; the man who breeds cattle will have no more for his hides than the packing combine and the leather trust see fit to give. The people who wear boots and shoes will pay for the years rise from 49 to 63A in the price of leather preferred. That is, they must pay the profits on the $S,- s56,o47 which this rise represents.
 These are facts. Whether it will be made up to the consumers in increase of the wages of the trusts employees is matter for conjecture.-Chicago Jour- nal