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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
WIT AND WISDOM.

The hard places in life are never made
any better by growling.-Ram's Horn.
The reason the day breaks is because
1t is made SO light. A. W. Bulletin.
Don't cast sleeps eyes at girl; she
may think that you are mnttonhead.
Chicago Daily News.
There is nothing a eur dog seems TO
enjoy more than whipping a thorough
bred-Atchison Globe.
LET US have faith that right makes
might; and in that faith let us dare to
do our duty as we understand it. Lin
coin.
do you ever try to tell peoples oc-
equations by the clothes they wear?'
Occasionally. For instance, if | see a
man with blue suit on, helmet on
his head and baton in his hand, I'm
willing to bet he is policeman. st.
Paul's.
Editor-"In Smiths obituary wrote:
He met his death like HERO and it
comes OUT lie met his debts like q
hero" Foreman-"Tm very sorry"
Edtor-"I wouldn't care so much, only
| do so hate anything that smacks OF
adulation of the dead. Detroit Jour
nal.
Mrs. TT am worried because my
husband is keeping something from
me, and | don't know what it is" Mrs.
S.-"My husband, too, is keeping some
thing froG me, and | am worried be-
cause | do know what it is" Mrs. t.
"Indeedl What is it?" Mrs. SIT is
money" -Tit-Bits.
Modesty.-I do not know what l may
appear to the world; but to myself |
seem to have been only boy. playing
on the seashore, and diverting myself
by now and then finding smooth peb-
BILE or prettier shell than ordinary,
while the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.-Sir Isaac
Newton.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. Graat Allen has written a good
guide book fer Americans visiting Eu.
rope.
According to newspaper paragraph,
efforts are being made in Augusta, Ga,
to raise money for a monument 10 Paul
Hamilton Hayne, the southern poet.
1t is said there are 3,424 known lam
guages and dialects in the world. OF
these 937 are Asiatic, n African and
1,624 American.
While in Shanghai, China, Prince
Henry of Prussia attended ball given
in his honor and received gold and jade
art works valued al $4,000
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has three brothers,
all living within a few miles of Fred
ericksburg, Va. They are Maj. John NJ.
Lee, Capt Daniel NJ. Lee and Robert
Lee.
The eastern correspondent of the
Bookman gives Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon's in
His Steps" as the second best selling
book in March, only Quo Vadis" going
beyond it.
The German playwright, Gerhart
Hauptmann, has joined the ranks of
inventors by deyising bicycle which
can be Immediately transformed into a
tricycle..
Seventeen daily and weekly papers
are published in Japan in the English
language, and more than 100 on the
Asiatic continent, while in all these
countries there is only one German
paper.
Mark Twain is still the literary lion
of Vienna. No kind of an entertain
ment is complete without his presence.
He is the fad, not only of the English
and American colony, but of Viennese
society as well.
Mrs. Paul, the woman who has charge
of the street cleaning in Chicago's bust
ness district, has made herself popular
by arming her men with hand sprinkle
lers and keeping the dust laid at street
crossings.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

eve were all sitting around the hvtel
in Honolulu" said Purser McComb, of
the Australia, swapping lies and sto-
ries, when some one started the joke
that each man present was to tell a
moral story OF set up the drinks. Every
body agreed except CamaTinos, Greek,
who was in the fruit business there, and
reported to be quite wealthy.
II know lots in Greek, said Cam
arinos, but | don't know any in Eng
lish.'
Greek don't go here, Camarinos.
What do we know about your language
You may be giving us a FIJI and we be
none the wiser. You must tell it to us
in English, my son
"Camarinos looked puzzled when his
turn came to give philosophical max
i'm. He put his finger to bis forehead
and then said suddenly, with a bright
'ook: Il have one
Let us have itl'was the cry.
Well, don't know il / get him
quite right he responded.
"'Oh. let's have it,
Well. then, il is this: A brick which
goes this way waving his hands to
and fro, catches no grass
There was a good laugh. and Il was
voted that eamarinos had told the best
story that ever had been heard in Hon.
olulu OF elsewhere San Francisco
News letter
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
'gia. Not long after I settled in

Georgia. Not long after I settled in
McRae | met man whose face seemed
familiar. 1t haunted'me and perplexed
me every time | met him. One day we
got to talking about the war and he
asked me where lost my eye. AT the
battle of Franklin, | said. For min.
ute he looked at me very earnestly, and
said what part of the field and whose
command. | told him and added it
was in a hand TO hand engagement with
some Georgia troops. That was ouf
command he said. 'We fought right
there and 1t was hand to hand and |
shot federal soldier in the eye and we
saw him fall and we rushed on over
him. Now this is no fancy, but fact.
We have discussed it over and over,
and strange as ii may seem, have found
my foe and he is one of my best friends.
Sometimes when am asked which side
| fought on ! say | don't know, for
surely I wouldn't have tried to kill such
good, wholesouled people as these |
have mingled with for the last % years.
Maybe il was some other war | was in.
I said that 10 the Fitzgerald folks not
long ago, and they laughed and one Of
them spoke up and said maybe it was
the old revolution you was in and some
Britisher punched your eye out" Well,
| liked that man, and so does everybody
who knows him. He has no family, but
is rearing and educating three nieces
down here in Georgia. They are good
people who dare come down here from
the north and settle among us. They
keep on coming, and my fear is the good
society people up there will soon be
broken up. l tell you, my brethren,
there are good people in every country
kind people, who would rather do you
favor than injure you. The great
traveller, Livingstone, wrote that many
years ago, and ii is the truth. Our boy
Carl, who has been living in Mexico
for two years, writes that the Span
ards whose more intimate acquaint-
anee he has made are just as nice peo-
pie as be has ever found anywhere. "Of
course says he, "they are for their
country just like we Americans are for
ours, but we don't quarrel nor discuss
the war to any disagreeable extent."-
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
INSANITY AND MURDER.
A Subject That Has Given Doctors
and Lawyers Trouble for
Many Years.

It may be well that man who could
not be called insane, but merely, say
an ordinary member of the criminal
classes, with strong passions and feeble
intellect, would, in the presence of an
opportunity long expected and hoped
for, the consequences of which his
thoughts had frequently rehearsed, be
really for the moment incapable of re-
straining his hand. We should hang
him, nevertheless, without the slight
est scruple; and we should waste no
compassion upon the absence of self
con troll 1t is, in fact, impossible to
frame a definition of responsibility
based upon absence of self-control with
out including all sorts of crimes which
at present are punished by law. For
years back there has been sort of
feud between the lawyers and the
alienists on the subject so that even
the text books speak of legal insanity
and medical insanity as distinct. TO
take extreme cases, jurists have con-
tended that no degree of insanity
should be exempt from punishment for
crime unless it has reached such
point that the person is utterly uncon-.
scious of the difference between right
and wrong at the time of committing
the offense, while medical men have
very generally held to the opinion that
this is not proper criterion, that many
of the insane are fully conscious of the
difference between right and wrong,
and that to enforce such a test means
the hanging of many lunatic. There
can be no doubt that of late years the
medical view has met with a wider ac.
ceptance than it used to do, and that
even lawyers have shown an increasing
readiness to admit the doctrine of ir-
responsibility. But it is very anxious
question, especially in view of recent
dogmas as to degeneracy, how far this
doctrine is to be allowed to go.
The condition of affairs is much more
serious than some people think, and II
is highly necessary that those who adj
minister the criminal law should he on
their guard againstany insidious estab-
lishment of immunity for the violation
of its most sacred principles. In any
case of murder the presumption in
favor of hanging should be so strong
as 20 leave very slender prospect of es-
cape for any man who, prior to the com
mission of his crime, had been thought
fit to be at large. If this condition can.
not be secured, II will become a matter
of grave necessity to take prompt steps
for the incarceration of many people
of evil passions who are now at lib
erty, and to render the utterance of
threats matter to be dealt with by the
alienist as well as by the magistrate
London Hospital.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

More than 100000 cats skins are
used every year in the fur trade.
The smallest quadruped in the world
is the pigmy mouse of Siberia
There is now building in England a
cable-earrying steamer, with carrying
capacity of 5000 tons of cable.
Over 200 patents have been issued for
horseshoes, and not one of them has
ever come into general use.
Dresden's new central railroad sta
ton, which has been six years in build
ing, has been opened for general traffic.
The United States is now liberal ex-
porter of hardware, and buys very little
in that line from the rest of the world.
The opinion is attributed to Signor
Palmieri that the recent eruption OF
Vesuvius will prove to be the volcanoes
dying effort.
Within the antarctic circle there has
never been found a Towering plant.
In the arctic region there are 1875 differ
ent species of flowers.
1t is said that one pound of butter
gives working force equal to that OF
five pounds of beef, nine pounds of ota-
toes or ~ pounds of milk.
The cultivation of fax in the state
of Morelos, Mexico, is said to have
passed the experimental stage and to
promise substantial results in a com
merical sense.
1t has been demonstrated that the
explosive power of sphere of water
only one inch in diameter is sufficient to
burst a brass vessel having resisting
power of $4,000 pounds.
The height of various cities in the
United States above sea level is as fol-
lows: New Orleans, 10 feet; New York,
10 feet; st. Louis, $50 feet; Cincinnati,
$50 feet; Chicago, 591 feet; Omaha, 96a
feet; Salt Lake, 4,351 feet; Denver, 5,267
feet; Virginia City, 6,5o5 feet.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

Turkey, partly from necessity and
partly from choice, is the most war
like of the European nations. Her rec
ord from the beginning Of the century
to the end Of 1896 was 81 years of war
to 65 of peace; Spain, with 81 years of
war TO 65 OF peace. has second place;
then comes France, with p years of war
and 60 Of peace. Russia. during the 90
years. had "a years Of war; Italy. %;
England. 81; Austro-Hungary. II; the
Netherlands, "a; Germany Exclusive
Of prussia), 10; Prussia. 10; Sweden. 10;
Portugal, 10, and Denmark. o. There
was peace for European powers in the
periods Of lsl6-1s. 1s4i-47, 1s7o-s1. and
from 1856 up to the war between Tur
key and Greece.-San Francisco Ar
gonauf.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

"Were you able TO sell old Billions a
lot?" asked the superintendent of the
cemetery.
The agent shook his head.
"He was afraid he might not get the
full value Of it, he explained.
"But, hang it all, man has got to
die some timel" exclaimed the superin-
teudent.
That's what I told him, but he only
answered; Suppose I should be lost
at sea Chicago Post.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09
Character Told by the Tongue

II is now claimed that character is be-
trayed by the shape Of the tongue. The
long tongue indicates fondness for talk;
a large tongue frankness and generos-
ity; a short tongue. Discrimination; a
narrow tongue, concentration OF idea.
and The short. broad tongue shows a
capacity for talking, but not for speak
ing the truth.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

An Euglishman has designed a cy-
clist's pocketknife, which has one side
made Of steel with projecting jaw, and
a second jaw with a lever handle pivot
ed in the end Of the knife also contain
ing tire-remoYinr tool.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

Sappington-l once came within an
ace of making $500.
DeQuiucv-How so?
Sappineton-lt was game Of poker;
what needed was the ace Of diamonds.
Judge.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

The women are wearing such thicls
wells that a man has 10 be constantly on
his guard to avoid the mistake Of smil-
ing too pleasantly at his own wife
Atchisou Globe.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-07-09

Browns Jones opposed 70 the SEN
sational newspapers?
Smith-He's not only opposed 20
them, but he doesn't read them.--Puck.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
The Only Placer

The Anchor Saloon is not the
only place where Seattle book beer
and other liquid refreshments are
served but they have way OF
serving drinks that everybody else
do not know of. Will Carlyle and
Charlie Andrews are still on deck
to make their friends and patrons
welcome. Seattle beer on draught
can always be had, as we'll as the
best brands of WHISTLES, ETC., in
Guiding John Dewar's Scotch
whisky, A full stock of other
liquors, wines, ETC., is kept on
hand also. u
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18

Portraits enlarged from small
photos to lifesize. King Bros,
ITO Hotel street.
Singers lead the world. Over
100000 made and sold. High
est awards at the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition for excellence of
construction, regularity of motion,
ease of motion, great speed, ad-
Instability, durability, ease of
learning and convenience of ar
rangement. b. Bergersen, agent,
l61 Bethel street. y
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18

Once patron always a patron
is the motto of those who have
their tonsorial work done at the
Criterion Barber Shop. Some
shops experience an increased
patronage for time, but it even :
tually drops off. The reverse is
the case at the Criterion Shop-it
steadily increases.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
Just Like Gold Coin.

For more than fifty years
has P ERRY DAVISPAIN
KILLER stood the test
against all remedies prepared
to eradicate pain, and today
stands at the head of the list
among the medicines that are
SO essential to keep at hand in
the home.
tits not a new fangIe remedy
nor do the proprietors lay
claim to any wonderful revela-
ton of the ingredients that en-
ter into the manufacture of
this ever popular remedy.
1t is p rfectly harmless, you
need have no fear of becoming
habitually inclined to it's use.
For Collie, Cramps, Dysen-
terry, Colds, and all painful
affections, a few doses will GER
talnly give relief. You cannot
afford to be without a bottle
in the house.
Your forefathers used it
and found it beneficial.
Why experiment with some
remedy that is new and it's effect
on the system unknown?
1t has many rivals but no
equal.
NJ The new 35c. size con-
talns over double the quantity
OF the 25c. size.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
Speak for Themselves.

Sterling bicycles speak for
themselves. They sell without
comparison, They always give
perfect satisfaction and are never
out of repair. Once ridden no
other mount gives the same whole
some enjoyment. Pacific Cycle
& Manufacturing Co., agents. X
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18

The Day Spent In Work on Appropria-
tions for sala ries and PnyroJJs.

The Day Spent In Work on Appropria-
lions for Salaries and PnyroIIs.
The entire two sessions of
the House yesterday we're consum
ed in considering the Appropria
ton bill for salaries and payrolls.
On the recommendation of
Representatives Paris and Gear,
the biennial allowance to Princess
Kaiulani WAS increased from $4,000
to $4,000. These gentlemen con-
tended that this young lady was
deprived of her rights through no
fault OF her own, and was worthy
OF the increased stipend.
The Committee on Health and
Education recommend that salary
OF the secretary of the Board of
Health be reduced from $4,000 to
$4,000 for the period, to reduce the
total payroll of Government Ply
sicians by 1920, the appropriation
for removing garbage by $1OSO,
and that for the segregation of
lepers by S3250. They favor a
slight increase in the salary of the
physician whose duty it is to ex
anime public women, and asked
for further time for the considera.
ton OF the appropriation for De-
partment of Education.
The Military Committee re-.
commend the passage of the
appropriation for support of
Military Pay Roll at Sli0,OOO and
for the support of Prof. Berger's
band the sum of $4,000.
An item of $40 was inserted
in the Bill as a pension to f. W.
Fehlbehr.
The salaries of the two Ha-
walian interpreters in the Supreme
and District Courts were increas-
ed from S2500 to $4,000.
The salary of japanese inter
prefer was reduced from 5000 to
$4,000.
The salary of $500 for the
position of Fourth Clerk First
Circuit was striker out of the Bill.
which does away with that clerk
The salaries of the District
JUDGES of Hama and Lanai 4th
and 9th class were both reduced.
-, The salary of stenographer of
Third Circuit was increased from
$500 to $1,000.
Recess to 80.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
Also
Offer for Sale

Paraffine Paint Cos P Il b Paints and
Papers; Lucol and Linseed oils, raw
and boiled.
Indurine, IA cold water paint in white
and co!ors.
Filter Press Cloths, Cement, Lime and
Bricks,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
W. G. Irwin & Go.
Limited.
Agents for

Agents for
Western Sugar Refinery %. of San
Francisco.
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phila.
delphia, Penn. U. 8. A.
Newell Universal Mill Co. National
Cane Shredder), New York, U. s. A.
N.Ohlandt Il Oo's Chemical Fertilizers.
Alex Cross n Sous, high grade fertil
izers for Cane and Coffee.
Reeds Steam Pipe Covering
Also
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-18
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Minister Cooper represented
the 2 esident's ropo,i ioa t.
raise the biennial salaries of the
Ministers from $4,000 to $4,000
each. He said it was wellknown
that Ministers could make more
money in private occupation.
Minister Damon objected to the
raise, as inconsistent with this
Governments professions of eco
nomy. He gave it as his belief
that this Republic was liable to
have to 60 it alone for sometime
yet.
The House squelched the prop
osition, passing the item at $4,000.
Adjourned at 1926.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-25
CHIMNEY SWEEPS MISSION.
Successful Work Being Carried On in q
London District.

Successful Work Being Carried On in a
London District.
The converted prize fighter or gam
bier is occasionally heard Of in this
country doing mission work, but a
more interesting figure than most of
these is that of ]. T. Kingsbury, a
chimney sweep, who Is conducting a
successful mission in south London.
Kingsbury is fine specimen of the
average workingman. Gifted to an
extraordinary extent as far as oratori-
cal talent is concerned, he is able to
WELD a wonderful power over his fell
lows. He is now known adj over south
London, and wherever the chimney
sweep evangelist Is announced to speak
there is invariably good audience.
The work of the Peckham Rye Mission
has so prospered that the hall is not
only crowded on Sundays, but often
at the week night meetings large con-
gregations are to be seen. There are
hundreds of Christians who fail to
show upon their faces the happiness
lucy ouOulu lCCly puI Ni. iAAhSScuiy
does not belong to this class. He is
known by all those with whom he
comes in contact as one of the happi-
est and pleasantest of men. When
preaching he often eXclaims that in
his younger days he was sweep by
trade and sweep by nature, but by
the grace of God he has forsaken the
latter profession and been cleansed
from the SCOT of sin. Mr.. Kingsbury
has some very loyal helpers, and as
superintendent of his mission he in
sists that all who are willing should
lend a hand. At his open-air meet
ings he calls upon his workers. Some
times a carpenter steps forth, then a
wood hawker, sawdust dealer, sail
or, a clerk, in fact, many kinds OF
trades and callings are represented.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-25
IN A DREAM.
Tho Mine in Which Carey Found His
Gold Was Revealed.

Tho Mine in Which Carey Found His
Gold Was Revealed.
Denver (Col.) special to New York
World: There is no longer doubt that
the big gold strike at the mouth Of
Indian Creek, four miles out of the
town of Golden, is going to prove a
bonanza to the queer dreamer who
made it. There has been rush from
Denver, as we'll as citizens Of Golden
and other towns of the Clear Creek
country, and they have verified it to
their satisfaction. ]. T. Carey, who
made the strike, is confident he is 60
ing to become rich. He is hale, hearty,
bluff, white bearded man Of fifty-seven.
IF | ever become a millionaire" said
Mr.. Carey, II will owe it to the fact
that l was wise enough-some people
might say crazy enough-to stake my
money on a dream and risk everything
I had on it's fulfilment. l dreamed
three times that l was being led to the
scene of fabulous wealth near Golden,
Col. and after the third dream l took
I'D nv tourney from the East, and came
here on the hazard. am glad came"
Carey was born in Niagara, N. Y. He
declares the site of his mine was re-
vealed by the spirit Of his old Indiap
nurse.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-03-25
NEW ENGLAND is GAINING.
East May Now Increase In Population
Faster Than the West.


Faster Than the West.
Er,m The Philad alpha Press.
New England is likely to show a
larger increase in population during
the present decade than 1t has during
recent decades. The total population
of the New England states in 1890 was
4,7OO,745, an increase Of 690,216 over
the census of 1880. But judging from
the known increase in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island between 1890 and
1895 and the estimated increase IN
Connecticut up to the close OF last
year, and approximating the increase
in Maine, New Hampshire and YER
mont, the increase in the population OF
New England during the past seven
years has been at the average rate OF
about $4,000 a year. With the same
average maintained during the next
few years, the total increase in popu-
lation during the present decade IN
New England should be about SO0'ooo'
giving that neighborhood a population
Of 100000 in 1900. The obvious con-
clusion from these figures is that when
the census of 1900 comes to be taken
it will be found that the Eastern states
have grown more rapidly in population
since 1890 than the Western
states. This conclusion Is for
titled by the census taken In
some Of the Western states in 1895.
Iowa barely maintained the rate OF
growth it had made between 1880 and
1890. The same is true Of Minnesota
while the population of Kansas de-
creased. The large increase shown in
New Jersey between 1890 and 1895 is
another proof that the Eastern states
are growing more rapidly than the
Western. 1t is evident that with the
increasing scarcity Of arabic land In
the West the advantages of the Eas1
are being recognized better. The more
rapid increase of manufacturing in the
East is also a factor in the growth Of
population. In short, the census Of
1900 will doubtless show that the Eas'
is no longer building up the West, thai
a smaller number of people are emil
grating from the former to the latter
section, and that the increase in pop
ulation throughout the union is equal
izing itself.