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The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

Remember, you can get groceries
such as sugar, coffee, lard, -four,
meal, etc, at Mrs e, l., Meek's
postoflce confectionery, at bottom
prices, lZ-zl
When the New Year is ushered in
our committee were appointed to
collect funds for the new bridge,
should go to work and make up the
money and haye the work finished.
Mr.. Pomp Edwards, who left
here last year for Mena to take a
position with Mr. Gallagher re-
turned on Christmas day and will
remain until New Years, visiting
relatives and friends.
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A big ball was given at New Lew
isville last night. A colored band
from this city made music for the
occasion. Messrs S, M, Hardin, W.
Ingram, Mrs Maye Conualy, Misses
Sadie Rodgers, Josie Jearies and
Vernia Virgins attended
----s -------
For Rent. Jan lst, the Blythe
place near the city, good two story
residence, thirty.three acres Of
land, good orchard, vineyard, etc.
It is now occupied by N, l., Davis.
For further information, apply to
1927 4, 10, WEBER
Rev. 9, w, Daniels was invited to
GAINESVILLE, Texas, to perform the
marriage ceremony Of a brother
preacher and cIass'mate-R Rev,
Smith at that place, He accepted
the same, and we know he did the
lob In an impressive manner
Mrs. Juliet Churchill, who mar
RED a Mr., Goodrich, on his sick bed
and from which he did not recover,
has been awarded a one-third in-
terest in his estate as a dover, Mr.,
Goodrich was a very rich man and
his widow Is we'll provided for even
with a one.third Of the estate,
As will be seen elsewhere, the
Ladies Maceabee camp formed here
Yesterday Is excellently olllcered
and will be one Of the strongest or.
carnations in the city We shal
look to see a good camp in the neal
lutuIe-one In which the best ma
tehal Of the city Is enrolled
We regret to hear OF the serious
illness Of the infant child Of Mr.
and Mrs. F, w, Mullins, Mrs M
had gotten ready to speud the hol'
days with her parents at Tyler
but on account Of the little one'i
Isitkcss had to remain at home,
", O, Lawrence who sells tobacco
for Christian PEPPER 90, was on the
street today giving away samples
He Is regular Santa Claus whei
he comes and the kids around tow
call him papa" when he Is glyml
out samples Of tooth pick or natur
al leaf
Mr. whitley manager OF th,
street car line, eontemplates th,
calling In Of all FNrE 'fOANsponrA
uoN ON hls line for the cominl
year He wishes TO make goo,
showing Of receipts 30 rs to Ell
courage the plan OF building a ne'
road,
The editor returns hIs very bea
thanks 10 hIa friends Measra
Sharpe n Brewer, the live aud en-
terprIsIng gents furnIshefs, for
real nice Christmas present In th,
shape Of some beautiful linen hand
kcrthlcrs Mr. Brewer knows how
to make an editor happy
There Ia tL0OO on exhibition al
ISmith Drug Co.. a guarantee that
the play tonight at the opera house
Ia as good as any that ever appear
ed here and II anybody Ia dhaatls
fled their dollar will be returned
latter the play Don't miss this
ATTRACTION
Talking about pretty show wins
dows, we want to remarb that ~
| .....yt. .,I t4Ltu ana "A tpH hHVf
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

One would think that a matri-
monial bureau was being run in
O'Dwyer & Ahern's store, as the
past few months, three OF the
clerks there have taken themselves
wives. First Mason, then Stern
and now Sansby We learn that
there is auother clerk Nashing his
teeth because his girl has put him
off for another year,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

W, IABAN
1897 3 Gen, Delivery city,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

Go to NJ. Kelly ir's, for Cape
God efahberrIes,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

POWDER
Awarded
Highest HonOrs, Worlds Fair
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
THE TEXARKANIAN
r. @. WOOTTEN, City Editor
----------------
TUESDAY, DEC, 49, 1897.
s--------------.----------
LOCAL. AND PERSONAL.
Velvet finish photos, Patterson's.
The streets are drying up nicely |
-
Port wine at 80 cents a gallon at
Ghios
Capt, Lemons of Boggy Ark isl
here today,
-----sas- -sa-=-H--s
Buch wheat -four and maple syr-
up at Mike Kely's,
r, n, Phelps, a lawyer at Rocky
Comfort, is here today
------
Palace Drug Store for pure and
fresh drugs and good attention
The Rosebuds danced at the
Mariposa club rooms last night,
Take your girl out to see Fablo
Romani tonight 1t Is a good play
We learn that some Of our socie-
ty people will receive on new years
eve.
Looket de size, Of 'em, 80 cents a
quart,
btt, OYSTER BAY,
w. X, Larkin of Oak Ridge, Lap
is here today registered at the
BeneHed,
The best brands Of cigars, and
tobaccos at the p0stollice eonlec'
tionery Mrs. u, D. MEEK
Go TO w. II, Booth, the up.to.
date furniture man. aud buy your
baby christmas buggy 2ltt
Rector Lloyd will have services
at the Sc, James Episcopal church
on the night Of the 3lst, from II
until IL,
See the photographs OF tho prlp.
eIpal aetora In FabIo R9manh now
on the display at the most promt
nent corners,
Jim Prestridge aud j NJ North
have gone TO st. Louis TO see the
"old Man They will be retained
to trayel next year,
The Henry George fund TO be
presented TO his widow has reached
$4,000, II will be greatly aug
mented before given her.
Five drunka and downs were bee
fore the Mayor yesterday on the
East Side, aud they contributed TO
the city fund Just VI cash
The program for the eS Copled'
crate entertainment In being disc
tributed today, The reserve seat
board ls advertised to be at Louis
lIcllbron's
Broad Sc, does not have the ap.
pearanee II presented on the day
before Christmas and the trade is
very light we arc told by those who
have goods Tor sale.
WANrfp bour neat appearing
ladies', one or two months Salary
sl,00 per day, Address
~ LABAH,
1897 3 Cen, Delivery city,
MIR hen Soreby aud MIsa Melissa
Gray we're united IN marriage on
the goth In this city Here ls cur.
hand ben, may you aud yours live.
long aud prosper
styles Hagland was ON the slrcel
today announcing his horse auction
styles would make a good political
speaker with the voice he has.
hinged on TO his Jaws
Report came 10 here this morn
Ing that Mr. Dick fowery had been
killed, al Spring Hill, La We iB'
yestigated the fumof aud believe
there Ia nothing Ia It,
Nj q o. Glass OF New lluslou
returned TO this city last night
from Austin, Texas, where he cap.
tufed himself a bride, aud is now AT
the Benefited hotel He will take
his bride 60 his home al Boston
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

IIO0d-a TIIIs enfe alI lIver IIIsl
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

If you want a good gallon OF
Sherry Tor 30 cents, 90 to Ghio's,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-12-28

Fresh oysters and celery at NJ,
Kelly Ifs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23

me the other day, that this new charter
was quite too complicated for his purposes,
and that when his constituents wanted any
thing done he should make 1t his business
to take the matter straight TO the LeglsIa-
ture. With several scores OF polltlclanS
from New York city districts sitting IN
the state Legislature, there will be no pup
lie sentiment strong enough TO prevent tHe
resumption of the present and long~conr
tinued practice of State Intervention. II
charter. the municipal reformers Will not
wait for the next municipal election, put
will hurry to Albany with movement TOT
getting the bad commissioners leSlslated
out Of office If good men hold the relns
of authority in the metropolis, the boss
ter. and incidentally to legisIate the good
men out of office. -.
This prediction that the Albany shortcut
Will inevitably be used has striking con-
firmation already; for no sooner had the
new charter been approved by both houses
of the Legislature, in the latter days of
March than there were taken up for con-
sideration great public improvements for
New York city. and also for Brooklyn, in
Volving expenditures in the aggregate OF
probably $50, 600, 900. One OF these special
measures was bill creating board OF
commissioners to have full control of
prOposed boulevard system for the upper
part of New York city. several practlcStl
politicians are named in the Dill as com
nissioners and are given authority to
for an indefinite number or years, each
commissioner to draw q large salary from
the date of the passage of the act. Ihere
is no urgency about this matter, ana no
one can deny that it is intended to take TINS
critically important public enterprise. out OF
The hands of the street department and
Board of Public Improvements, as provided
for in the new charter
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THE TONGUE OF THE FUTURE.
Remarkable Extension of the English
Language.
Leslie's Weekly.

Leslie's Weekly.
Nearly a century ago the Incompatible
parson. Sydney Smith, was amused by the
enthusiasm of a benevolent old gentleman
who was engaged in the construction of a
universal language. The idea, however, is
even older; but it was not until about a
dozen years ago that a serious attempt was
made to introduce artificial language.
The failure of Volapuk was amazingly sud-
den, at a time when its publications were
most numerous and when number OF per-
sons in every country had mastered its diff
hculties: However in spite OF the 1neVi-
table failure of an artificial language, there
is no reason to doubt that eventually man
kind Will use a single tongue. The fact that
it will facilitate commercial Intercourse Is
enough to insure the gradual extension of
a common language. Unless there is an
tendency, 1t is reasonable to say that the
ultimate universal speech will be English,
however modified by local influenceS-an
improved English in many ways, but still
essentially the language of Shakespeare and
Milton. 1t is not merely, or chiefly, the
qualities of the tongue itself, its feXibility,
and particularly the ease with which it
lends itself to amendment without any loss
of radical strength but the industrial and
commercial energy and the physical vigor
and virility and the intellectual largeness
of the Eng ish stock which warrants the be-
lief that no special conglomerate Volapuk,
but English, will be the language of the
future. The Latin element in our speech
and the Norman element in our character
gives to the one a distinction and com
the other from the dizziness that is the ten
dency of the pure Germanic nations.
Only eighty years ago, within the time of
men still living, there were in all the world
but thirty millions of people who spoke
English. To-day, the people who use the
language as their own. in varying degrees
of excellence or inaccuracy, number 100000 :
000 In other words, in spite of wars and
pestilence and famine, so common in the
first half, they have doubled every forty
years This can be said of the people of
no other tongue. Included among the En-
glsh speaking race are immigrants to the
great Republic. whatever their mother
tongue. since their children inevitably ac-
ouire English, the language of the coun-
try. How much more rapidly the people in
crease who use English than others is seen
in this statement In period OF twenty
years the population increase in the United
States was 63 per cent; in England and
Wales. 27 per cent; Germany, q per cent;
Russia 80 per cent, while in France there
was virtually no change. Already one
fourth of the civilized world Including Rus
STA in Europe) is English speaking-or, if
we include the entire native, uncivilized and
IMMIGRANT population of South and Central
America and Japan, it is q per cent: The
people of Russia proper constitute 16 per
cent, Germany 9 per cent, France per
cent, Austria-Hungary per cent. and Italy
SDoiD abOut 6 per cent. each.
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soThe Band Across the Street"

"a Reply.)
In jingli lg rhyme his trenchant pen
He Yields with vigor grand,
And gibes ard jeers and snarls and sneers
At this poor lonely band.
He sings of 'jumbled jags of sound"
Which to our ears sweet
This poor dyspeptic humorist =
Who loafs across the street.
He doesn't like our melody;
He fancies not tunes;
He finds fault with rendering;
Insinuates we're looms.
And so with frothy wordiness
And much sarcastic heat,
He wobbles through his poem, does
The man across the street.
In base uncultured meter he
Groans through his fearful song.
He had just much space to fill
That's why it is long.
Oh, man! oh. funny man, forsooth!
Your pardon entreat,
But if you do not like sound,
Go further up the street.
Go to, thou human chestnut tree!
Thou living, breathing pun!
Your jokes may wreathe your face in smiles
But on ours there are none.
There's one thing we will gladly do
'Twould be pleasure sweet
And that is, play dirge for you
THE BAND ACROSS THE STREET.
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DINING WITH THE QUEEN.
A Social Distinction, but Not Other
wise Agreeable.
Philadelphia Times.

Enlladelpnla Times. ,-,
That the young Duchess of Marlborough
has filled her place creditably is not dis
puted She is beautiful, cultivated and IN
every wav attractive. The family name
she now bears has rather Migrant faVor
about it to which neither she nor her nus
band have in any way contributed put a
visit as a special guest of the Queen wipes
ont ali family stains and establishes the
position of the American duchess on the
cIeanest and highest plane OF social dis
When it is remembered that dining with
the Queen as the Duke and Duchess OF
MARLBOROUGH did, is about equal to under
going an imprisonment IN MoyamehslhB LOT
the same period, the price paid tor the
honor is excessive. Guests are met at the
Windsor railway station by the royal car
riaga driven to the castle and assigned 10
their apartments, where they must remain
until D. M. when they are called INTO the
long corridor TO await the pleasure OF the
Queen During the waiting period they
NAV he entertained by the lords and ladies
in waiting. Finally the doors are opelf9u
and the Queen announced, and her Majesty
hows slightly in acknowledgment OF the sal
utations of her guests and occasionally Ia
Vors some one with a word or TWO OF or
binary conversation e.
When her Majesty is entirely ready Tor
the occasion she leads the way to the din
ing room and the chief guests occupy the
positions on the right and left OF the queen,
hut dare not speak TO her except when she
addresses them. Dinner ended the Queen
rises followed by her guests, and she some
times honors them by taking a seat in the
drawing room when rev minutes CONVEX
sation may be had with her by some of the
more favored on the list. The Queen then
ends the entertainment by rising, bowling
to her guests and retiring to her apart
ments, after which the guests are free to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
A SIGHT AT SEA.
Fifty-FOur Sailing Vessels Visible a
Once in Mid-AtIantic.


New York Mail and Express
Shades of the great Armada said Jack
Nasty Fare to Jack o the Dust. What
does it all mean?"
TN be cleaned next overhaul if know
what it does mean" said Charley Noble,
the galley funnel to his near acquaintance,
doWnwards on top of the fok'sle.
They are still a-coming," bawled the
lockout, and the bridge echoed the query:
what does 1t all mean?"
1t was on the Atlantic transport line
steamer Mississippi in mid-Atlantic. She
was blowing her way to the westward
on May 6, and now it was noon of the 10th.
All the officers were ON the bridge to shoot
the sun, when q single blast of the tin
horn in the hands of the lookout at the bow
told them that there was a sail" on the
starboard bow, Then came two blasts,
then three, and in short period three,
two, one We're repeated again and again.
Just climbing the rim of the horizon to
the westward the officers on the bridge saw
face Of the waves. There were hundreds
of spars among them, and they came up
1t was mast trucks at first, then skysails,
then royals, now topgallant sails, upper
topsails lower topsails and finally came the
hulls themselves All were on the star
board tack, close hauled, with the easterly
breeze bending them over like reeds in
whirlwind. 1t was / O'clock when the Mis-
sissippi met the first of the fleet, a couple
OF huge steel four-masted barks and it
was o'clock before the last had passed
astern In all the officers of the steamer
counted ffty-four wind TANNERS.
There We're ships with painted posts and
lofty skysails, banks with double top-gal-
liant yards, wooden Norwegians with wind
mills, timber men" from "Novey" with
little freeboard and less speed, Italians
with green sides and swarms Of men on
deck, Germans with great black sides and
the smell of petroleum, briggs with LIoyd' q
mark buried that knew more of the law of
poor freights than the rules of the road and
Schooners that went a-fshing on the banks
because there was nothing else to do. All
were headed in the same dlrection-for the
English channel 1t was hours before the
immense squadron was lost to view in the
east offing. Never in the history of the
merchant marine has so many wind jam
mers been seen at one time in mid-Atlantic
The fact that they were together indicated
nd Ic,r,c nnIr.n ,.tr-r
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chat until the hour for retiring. In the
morning they are breakfasted in their
rooms and leave the castle without the
pleasure of seeing the Queen again.
One of the humiliating attributes largely
exhibited by Americans of fortune abroad,
who either marry impecunious titles or set
tie there to gain social distinction BY the
lavish expenditure of money is the AFFECT
recognition of nobility or royalty. 1t has
made the American name leave a bad taste
in the mouths of sensible and self-respect-
ing Europeans, and while but few of the
1000, 900 of Americans guilty of this
pitiable pandering to a nobility that is gem
orally even worse than themselves, the
American character is judged abroad almost
wholly by the vulgar and ostentatious am
bition of our multi miliionaires who study
only to despise the country that gave them
birth and fortune
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23

made in this way at a cost of less than Is
cents per gallon. The manufacture of al
cohol from corn is also very much reduced
in cost, both by reason of improved meth
DDS and the low price of corn. Formerly the
distiller thought he was doing well If he
from a bushel of corn. Now he gets nearly
five gallons if he uses the latest and most
ducing alcohol at a yery low cost. when
coupled with the increased tax, add greatly
to the incentive to illicit distillation. The
gallon and put it on the market without
paying taxes has an immense advantage
over the one who pays $l.10 per gallon in
taxes and adds TO this the cost of this
product.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23

Lippincott's Magazine.

L;pplncott 5 Magazine.
Physicians tell us that tea is injurious to
the nervous system. At the time of its in
PRODUCTION into Europe much opposition
was provoked and much written in hostil-
ity TO it's use. Mr.. Henry Savile writes in
1873 TO his uncle, Mr.. Secretary Coventry,
in sharp reproof of certain friends who call
for tea after dinner. instead of the bottle
He calls it "a base Indian practice, which
l must ever admire your Christian family
for not admitting" Another writer, al
about the same date, calls it "a filthy Gus
tom" and adds, Men seem to lose their
stature and comeliness, and women their
beauty"
Dr. Samuel Johnson drew his own por-
trait as "a hardened and shameless tea
drinlIer who for twenty years diluted his
meals with the infusion of this fascinating
plant. whose kettle had scarcely time tC
cool: who with tea amused the evening
with tea solaced the midnight. and with
tea welcomed the morning" So the great
doctor could have feared no i'll effects.
Experience proves that the moderate use
of tea sustans the body under severe mus
cular strain without causing subsequent eX
haustion: and 1t forms an agreeable means
of imbibing the quantity of water neces
sary to human nutrition.
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A DOubter.
Washington Post

I
This is a story which the eldest daughter
of Bishop Oberly tells. She says it hap
pened here in town. She was coming from
the Baltimore & Ohio station one day in q
cable car. Just in front of her sat party
of tourists quite evidently from a rural
they had fallen in with a guide, who pointed
out the sights as they went along
THAT is the Peace Monument there" he
said.
An old gentleman in the party OF bu-
collie aspect, gaZed at the monument with
an interest not unmixed with incredulity.
''Peace!" said he. 'Peacei With all them
women"
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New Yorls.s New Charter.
Albert Shaw, in the June Atlantic.

III tIIV @AtII4HNtNs
The chief difficulty this charter will meet
in practice will be found to lie in that grea
law of nature by which water flows down
hill and everything else tends TO follow the
lines of least resistance. For it should be
remembered that the legislative power at
the state capitol which confers this elab-
crate charter upon the city OF New York
can at any time amend ii or supersede 1t.
"A member of the state Senate remarked to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Rurnl ornithnlnrist.

Bradford Torrey, in the June Atlantic
One of the men at the hotel informed me
that catbirds passed the winter In the mud
in q state of Information. William - had
dug them up and they had come to and
flown away He himself had never seen
this. but he knew. as everybody else did.
that catbirds disappeared in the autumn,
there was not telling how or when. ana re-
appeared in the spring in manner equally
mysterious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Inxurx on Wheels.

The beautiful carriage driven by Mr.. j.
w. Cooper and family is from the stock
of the Whalebone Buggy Company, at 1873
South Meridian street. This is one of the
finest turnouts in the city in the way of
a light family carriage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Skirts

200 Grenadine, Etamine and
Wool Novelty Skirts. Novel
ties are in all colors, anu the
Grenadines and Examines
have assorted cOlored Innings.
These Skirts were made to
sell for 81. Don't miss these G1 ~
They go on sale for. p1'' =
Large Figured Black Brillian-
tine Skirts, Talfeta lined,
Velveteen bound, regular So G1 so
Skirt; tomorrow .............. ~4'O
Covert Skirts Tafeta lined,
Velveteen bound sell every q -
where for $2.9S; our price,. pA' -
Linen Skirts, AZ yards wide;
f5n@ % H,ir qsk you s2s5 for 81.
Another lot of those heavy
eros Grain Silk Skirts re-
fSiysa w 9'6 5f w Ta1 56S sq for S9e
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law. The Japanese youth in the open ports
and commercial cities are all eager to learn
English a passport to wealth, position
and emnlOVment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Hosiery

$3.50 Ladies' Low Shoes........ pI'TO
over twenty different styles to pick
from, in oX-blood, chocolate and dom
COLA. All the new styles and patterns.
Don't miss this chance.
$3.50 Ladies' Chocolate Lace. pA.TO
Ladies' chocolate kid lace, needle and
new coin toe, for Monday only, $l.4S.
8, 20 Ladies', oxford Ties CSC
Ladies' beautiful handmade chocolate
and ox-blood lace OXfords. Good values
at $3.50, but Monday they are 95c.
s. ladies, p,cvc,o Roots 50. %
Ladies' corduroy, in navy blue OK
blood, chocolate, black and green. all
the new stS lie toes. Mondays sale they
are S2.9S
Remember, we have lady clerks to fit
these goods.
50 Ladies aides Green and ox-bloOd $1.08
These goods have been the talk of the
town, and have been great values at 3d.
b1It Monday thew 81