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The Springdale news., 1898-07-15
Chickens and tggs,

Take your chickens and eggs to Farrar & Smyer and get the highest market price.
 The Fayetteville Telephone Company is having a water motor put in at the central office, which is to be used in the responding to calls. As heretofore the operator has been compelled to use a crank to ring up," but now all he will have to do will be to press a button and the attachment will do the balance. The at- tachment will be a great say ing of time and thereby re- lieve the lmpatience of many who, if they stand to the phone a second without a response, imagine they have been there for an hour.-Fay etteville News
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

She IS a mocking bird. Who1 The "Crown" Piano. She is the only Piano containing the orchestral attachments and i'm itates every stringed instrument on earth.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

She Is guaranteed for ten years, and will last life time Who! The "Crown Piano.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

If you want to save money on your grocery bill trade a, E. l.. Moore's. -.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

With every cash purchase at H. A. Daiiy's drug store you get a coupon, and when you get S1O. worth of these coupons they will be redeemed with a nice valuable present. They are now on exhibition at our store. Call and see them.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Frank White is now running as mail clerk on the cannon ball between Monett and Fay. etteville.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Dr. w. Y. Winton's family was increased Sunday by the arrival of a new girl.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

A No. 1 fresh milk COW for sale ? 1-2 miles north of town.
 c. M PHILLIPS.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

For low prices all along the line go the Bee Hive.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Stop and see the pretty and finest up todate pattern of i'm ported Queensware i'll town at the Bee Hive.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

New, pure, fresh, all the stock at Mathews New Drug Store.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Go to the East End Grocery for Chautauqua supplies. Can feed and drink everybody.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Hundreds of Bargains on 5 and ten cent counters at the Bee Hive.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Have you seen that fancy green glassware at the Bee Hive.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Finest soda fountain ill
 northwest. Ice cream soda
 and all else, Mathews New Drug Store.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Oh say, take your nice, pretty, best girl to the New Drug Store for an ice cream soda.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

For flour at prices a little lower than it can be bought elsewhere in Springdale call on E. l.. Moore.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

16 pounds of best granulated sugar for $1 .0O cash at E. l.. Moore's. No one in town sells it as cheap.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Bottom prices on four at Evins.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

c. Dodson IS doing his own shipping and if you want top prlces for your eggs take them to him.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Speciality of physicians pre- scriptions at Mathews New Drug Store, day or night.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

The grape vine trained to a single stake has never done It's best ln our experience.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

The Democratic, Republican and Populists candidates for governor will make a joint can vass of the state, beginning at Beebe, White county, Aug. ,, and ending at Little Rock September 3. They will be at Bentonville August 9 at II 8. III. and at Fayetteville August 10 at II a. m.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Shoes and slippers at the Bee Hive.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

There was a new arrival at the Arcade Hotel Saturday. It's boy, and Mir. and Mrs. Suttle will see that he has every attention.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Mrs. M. E. Jameson of this place is in receipt of a letter from J. c. Hout, of Sellgman, conveying the intelligence of the death of her husband. Jameson was a member of a detective agency with head quarters at Indianapolis, Ind, and was killed Sunday night July 3, on Cowskin Creek, nine miles South of Neosho, Mo, while attempting to make an arrest. He was shot three times, two of the shots striking his heart and the other his head. Hout is a deputy U. S.. Marshal and was with Jameson at the time of his death. Jameson was a one legged man, and will be remembered by a number of Springdele people. He at one time claimed to be a minister of the gospel.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

For Sale or Trade, Cheap. Steam riding gallery. Can be seen at Chautauqua grounds Springdale, Ark.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

She IS on the platform at the Chautauqua. Who? The Grown" Piano. See her and ask the musicians about her.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15
70 aE2s2s CURE FOR SSl h CURES WHERE AL ELSE FAILS. S3
 Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Cse R1H E0 In time. Sold by druggists. FIT CONSUMPTION e

Brann's Icunoclast for July on sale at THE NEWS office.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Ice delivered anywhere inside city limits free of charge. One door East Of Stowitts X Anderson.
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Rev. C. F. Freeman filled the pulpit
 of Rev. Edmondson at Fort Smith last Sunday
The Springdale news., 1898-07-15

Jas. Lattimer and family, of Will burton, I. T., arrived in SpriBgdale Sunday afternoon on visit to rela- tives
The times., 1898-08-04
Exploiting n situation

While we are disposed to believe that
there is some excuse for the anxiety
professed in Administration quarters
in connection with the situation at Ma
Mia, we are also beginning to suspect
that its seriousness and dangers are
being sedulously exploited by the rep
resentatives Of certain important in
terests for the sole purpose of soaring
the American people out of their de-
termination TO add the fruits of Dew
ey's victory TO the colonial possessions
of the United States.
In promoting this object there seems
to be some reason to think that the
anti-annexation:s SITS are dealing very
literally in exaggeration and the even
richer products of disordered ima gina
ton. Not to enter into too many de-
tails, the general aim of the propa-
ganda is apparently to convince the
public of this country that it would
be impolitic to maintain our SOW
ereignty over the imperial territory
that has fallen to US by the fortunes
Of war. because that would involve the
problem Of governing and keeping or
der among several million semi-civiliz-
ed natives.
To be entirely fair about the mat
ter, there is something in the argument
of the opposition. and we have no par
ticular fault TO find because the most
is made Of IT, As matter of business
We can hardly blame the holders of
Spanish bonds for objecting to the dis
appearance OF the last important out
side asset upon which Spain's debt is
secured. In the shoes of Mr.. Have
meyer or Mr.. Searles it is conceivable
that we might object to the addition of
an inferior race to our sociological
museum. especially if that race prom
tsed to produce American sugar to an
The times., 1898-08-04

first year forty cents day, for the
second. fifty, for the first six months
of the third sixty, and the last six
months seventy-five cents. They are
to receive intelligent and careful in
struction from superintendents and
overseers. and be permitted to work
the necessary time in each branch. The
college graduates will be paid for the
first six months sixty cents day, fer
the second half year seventy five cents,
for the first half of the second year a
dollar, and the last half dollar and
a quarter a day. Then thoSa who pass
a satisfactory examination will receive
good situations. They will be in de-
mand wherever there are mills.
In effect, this is much like the New
York Trade School instituted by the
late Col. Auchmuty, except that the
latter qualities the pupils for any trade.
The apprenticeship being shorter and
the work not always remunerative, the
pupils receive no pay. While the mo-
tive of the Southern mill men is chiefly
to qualify persons for good work, in
the interest of the mills, they are also
doing a valuable service to the young
uien and to the South.
The times., 1898-08-04
Industrial Training

The board of governors of the South
ern Cotton Spinners' Association has
adopted a scheme that will have the
double effect of increasing the number
of intelligent and experienced hands
and also enable boys to learn the trade
under the most favorable circum-
stances. One Of the first obstacles in
the way of the success of cotton mills
in the South was the lack of competent
spinners. To import them from New
England was expensive, but often
necessary. The governors believe they
can hereafter find their workmen at
home. The complaint is made that
more young men in the South enter the
professions than can make a living
from professional work. One reason
for this is that the trades are not open
to them. Wherever a trade is prosper
Gus the workInen are organ zed and
prentices to be employed. BY this
means they say they prevent over
crowding and lower wages. The asso-
citation, however, maintains that there
can never be an excess of really eff
cient spinners. and that TO raise the
standard of efficiency is to keep up
the rate of wages.
They intend to use the mills as tex
tile schools, taking in as apprent ces
the pupils in the colleges CT the cotton
growing States. The younger men in
the colleges will be the subject of
contract between the association and
the parents. under which they are to
serve for three years, receiving for the
The times., 1898-08-04
Is 1T AN OLD MANS WARP
Some Interesting Data Concerning;
the Age of Our Fighting Element

Somebody who has been looking up sta
tistics regarding the age Of our fighting
men discovers that this Is an old mans
war. at least so far as the generals Of
the army are concerned. The recruits
are almost all young. but three or four
of the most prominent generals-Shafter
Wheeler and Young-are over sixty years
of age. In the Civil War II was DIFF
ferent In 1851 the veterans OF the United
States Army were Sumner. sixty-four, and
Mansfield, fifty-eight Sumner was reliev-
ed from active service at his own Request
soon after the battle of Fredericksburg;
Mansfield was killed at Antietam. Hooker
was forty-seven; Meade. forty-s-x;
Thomas. Mcdowell, Ord. Buell.. Sherman
and Mitchell were all in the forties- Grant
and Pope were thir;y-nine and Hancock
and Burnside two years younger. WIKI
Sheridan was only thirty, and Wheeler,
on the Confederate side, was only twenty
five. Lee was fifty-four. and Stonewah
Jackson but thirty-five. The rank and
file of the army was rather mixed The
recruiting offices were less strict in their
examination of applicants. and they did
not refuse TO take a man who was mar
ried, or who was just inside the age
limit.
There is precedent both for old generals
and young generals. Napoleon and Well
ingtoR both won their fame at a compare
lively early age. and both were about
forty-five at the time of the battle Of
Waterloo. when the career of one was
virtually ended Won Moltke on the
other hand. was over seventy at the TIM
of the Franco-Prussian war On the
whole. 1t seems as if successful cam
paigning depended more on the man than
on his age. A young man will sometimes
take chances when an Cd man will not.
from sheer impetuosity of youth; but on
the other hand. young commander
sometimes hssitates when the old man
knows that that would be death. For
instance, there was Wheeler at Santiago
When the question Of retreat came up. he
passed this word down the line: 1--WE
are uncomfortable. but the Spaniards are
more uncomfortable than we are" And
the Americans held on like grim death
The times., 1898-08-04
Opposed to National Expansion

An English correspondent said not
long ago, writing from Tampa, that
the American soldier was a compound
Of the Engaishman and the Dutch
Boer. Those who know anything of the
Boer think this is rather dubious
compliment That individual has his
good qualities, chief among which are
a certain stolid bravery and a large
development of conscience, but his OBJ
stinacy, his ignorance and his supersti-
ton are beyond belief A story is told
of rich but bigoted Boer who. when
he saw the electric car run up the hill
at Port Elizabeth, said that those quail
flied Engianders had got ho!d of some
thing else that God Almighty knew
nothing of. This sort of ignorance is
considerably worse than that of the
wondering, admiring savage. for the
latter has an eager curiosity to make
the acquaintance of the new marvel
and become as the white man. The
Boer does not want to know anything
more than he already knows. He is
satisfied that the two lids of his B bile
contain ali the history and all the re-
ligion of the world, and that he
thoroughly understands it ALL His
motto is. Whatever is, is tight, so
long as it is not new" He refuses to
avert blood murrain or the potato
blight because these things are per-
mitted by God. He is an excellent ex-
ample of conscientious provncialism
run to seed.
The times., 1898-08-04
Five Dollars or Thirty Days.

Among the driftwood of anecdote
that comes floating in from the Santi-
ago campaign is a story OF Roosevelt.
He came around to tent where one
of the ubiquitous correspondents was
sitting, and said, i swore today" The
statement elected some surprise-pos-
sibly because of its subject matter, pos
sibly because Col. Roosevelt had taken
the trouble to make it. He went on:
"A captain riding off n-cool disregard
of orders, 1t was enough to make the
sweetest-tempered archangel use Ian
guage. What / said, or rather below
ed, was: What in hell are you doing?
Good God. wheel into ine!' What /
might have said was. Really, my dear
sir. do you not observe that you are
acting III direct opposition TO my in
structions? l beg that you will nor
march your troops into Kamschatka.'
Well" concluded Col. Teddy" de-
murely, ''one always thinks afterward
of what one might have said"
But as yet there is no Guggenheimer
law in Cuba.
The times., 1898-08-04
THURSDAY. AUGUST 4. 1898.
The Peace Negotiations.

At late hour last night it appeared
that practically an agreement had been
and Spain. A reply to the note of this
Government had been handed TO the
President earlier, and it was discussed
by him and his Cabinet on an evening
trip down the river. When the party
returned, the Secretary of State drove
at once to the French embassy.
No official information was given out,
but it is believed that basis of agree
ment has been found, and that the
conditions proposed in the American
note have been accepted in Madrid.
From all that could be learned up
to the hour Of going to press the pre-
sumption is that the treaty Of peace to
be negotiated after the preliminaries
are out of the way will involve the
surrender by this country of all the
Philippine Islands except the city. bay
and immediate environs of Manila.
Even that modest hold in the archipel-
ago. as We are advised, is to be made
subject to action by peace commits
sion.
We shall be in better position to
treat of this grave event when the
facts are officially promulgated. This
morning we can only say that there
is too much reason for fearing that
President Mckinley has been badly
advised and overpersuaded by the ele-
ments seeking to rob the American
people Of the fruits Of Admiral Dewey S
victory.
The times., 1898-08-04
FIGHTING JOE WHEELER.
The Famous General Tells How Snn-
tfago surrendered

The following letter has just been re-
ceived by a gentleman in Washington
from Mai. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, COM
manding the cavalry division at Santi-
ago:
Hdqrs., Cavalry Division, L. s. A..
Before Santiago, Cuba, July IL, 1898.
Ny Dear Friend:
We have just returned from the concluding
ceremonies OF the capitalization Gen. Shafter and
the other generals, with their stalls, and one
company of cavalry, marched out TO the sub
urbs OF Santiago AT o'clock this morning.
They were there met by Gen. Toral and his
officers and a body of Spanish troops, who formed
line facing troops and presented arms.
At the time the Spanish flag was hauled
down from the palace, and Gen. Toral was aIi-
thorized 20 salute his flag by fring twenty-one
guns Gen. shafter then gave 10 Gen. Toral the
sword and spurs OF Gen. Yara del Rey, who
killed in the fight OF July /. Cen ToTai
then marched his troops back, and all his sol
dies gave up their arms, which We're put III the
arsenal. The entire Spanish army then marched
out and were put IN camp without any arms,
about mile and half this side OF the town.
Gen. Shafter and myself then rode into the town,
followed by the other generals and their stats.
all arranged according TO rank. Ne were CON
drcted TO the palace, where we were intro
and the archbishop Ne were then given lunch
con, and just before II O'Clock regiment. the
Ninth Infantry. drawn up in the plaza fac
ing the palace and as the clock commenced
striking the hour OF II, the American flag twas
my headquarters fag) hoisted over the palace
by Lieut. Miley. Lieut.. Joseph Wheeler, jr.. and
Capt, McKettriek; at the same time twenty zone
guns were fired, and the band, which was stand
ing directly in front of the palace, played the
''Star -Spangled Banner" After it had played a
few other tunes, rode out OF the city in
the same order that in which entered,
leaving regiment 10 sustain the civil author
itics.
Every effort is being made to have the Spanish
troops promptly put on board ship and en-
The times., 1898-08-04
The Cuban Debt.
(From the New York Tribunc.)

Under the common Interpretation OF nteTna-
tional law a conquering nation NAV be held
responsible for the legitimate debts of the coun-
try it conqueTs and annexes. But no such re-
sponsbiity rests upon a colony or province
that by revolution or otherwise wins its indie
pendance from the mother country. as Cuba has
mate Cuban debt, therefore, it would now be
thrown back upon Spain. But it is not 4 regiti-
mate Cuban debt, and it viii not be reputation
for the United States to say it will assume no
part. and that Cuban and Porto Rico shall as
sumo no part of it. Those who contracted the
debt and for whose benefit il was contracted,
are those who should pay it. Upon them rests
the obligation. logical. legal and moral. 1t is
not for the United States. nor for Cuba and
Porto Rico, to make good the deficits in the
Madrid treasury and the pecu!ations Of Spanish
oficeholders for the last thirty years
The times., 1898-08-04
General Merritt,s First Love.

(From the Chicago News-1
AproroS Of the engagement OF Gen. Merritt,
the story of his West Point love has bccu -
vived The young lady was Miss Virginia Bow
lin. whom the general met while a cadet through
his ACQUAINTANCE with the lady's cousin row CeL
VIII ian Proctor Smith. Lieut.. Merritt. in 4
manly straightforward fashion. wrote 20 Judge
BowIin. asking the hand # his dIrghtsr in MR.
rage Pretty Virginia was az cnce ordered back
10 school and commanded never again to think
of her Young lover Her stern fatheT considered
his sixtesn-year-old daughter too young TO thia<
OF marriage Moreover. the gulf was already
widening between the North and the South and
the proud old Yirginian could not bear the
thought that his child should favor a North
ern soldier. No communication was permitted
between the loves Virginia was carefully in
prisoned in the academy. where no miss-ve could
reach her AfteTward she became the wife of
Gen. Jenkins OF the Confedefate army
The times., 1898-08-04
(From the Iron Age. }

No fear need be felt that the japanese will
endanger the supremacy OF the older manu-
featuring nations SO long as they import the
machinery they require. 1t is only when they have
progressed to the point of designing and making
their own machinery that they really to be
reckoned as factor in the competing markets
of the world The possession OF good machinery
alone will not make successful manufacturers OF
the japanese or any. other race. 1t must be seen
whether they are capable of that development in
mechanical skill which in our own country
amounts almost to genius, and which even here
is not developed without long experience, and
often with the added advantage OF inheritance.
Not only is mechanical skill essential but there
must be associated with it the faculty for coed
business management, for unless mechanical prob
lens can be worked out at a commercial profit
the engineer or manufacturer is not regarded as
a success.
The times., 1898-08-04

Now it appears that Commodore Samp-
son formally turned over the command
of the fleet to Commodore Schley before
steaming eastward to visit Gen Shafter
on the day of Schiey's victory over Ger
vera Sampson appears TO have forgotten
that little incident, but a naval board Of
Inquiry which the great service scandal
viii render necessary is not likely to. 1t
looks very much as if SIMPSONS pru-
dence was only active when in the neigh
borheod of the enemy.
The times., 1898-08-04
An HistOric Engine.

(From the New York Tribune)
Baltimore and Ohio engine No. 3d. which has
Just been laid aside at Grafton, Va. and will
be consigned TO the scrap pile, has quite his
tory. 1t is one of the Ross Winans camel en-
gines and was built IN ISL There only four
of this class. of engines now remaining During
the late war this engine of several cap
tured at Martinsburg by the Confederates and
hauled across the country by pike to Staunton
Va. under direction of Col. Thomas r. Sharp
President John W. Garrett, after the war was
over. hunted up Col Sharp and appointed him
master of transportation, in recognition of the
ability displayed in that unparalleled achieve
ment.
The times., 1898-08-04
GENESIS OF coLLoaUIALIsMs.
The Respectable Ancestry of Many
Familiar ExpreHsions

An amateur phEologist has been hunt
ing up the origin of some of our COL
loquial expressions. He finds that many
company are considered slang. while
others which were slang hundred years
ago or more now move in the best So
ciety.
For instance. here is the phrase bat
tie royal 1t is a stately expression,
and one would suppose it originated in
the Middle Ages with some grandiloquent
chronicler of kings and princes. 1t did
no such thing. 1t was q cock-fighting
term. and was used TO describe a fight
in which three. five or seven birds were
put in the pit and made TO fight till all
but one were exhausted. The original
winner of a battle royal was literally
the biggest cock in the bunch.
Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the
London police force. contributed unwit-
tingiy TO London slang. the words
"peeler" and bobby Everyone knows
that a Mother Carey's chicken is a
stormy petrel and that the bird warns
sailors of approaching storms. but every
one does NOT know that Mother Carey"
Is corruption OF Mater cara, tnat Is,
of course, the Virgin Mary.
Jack and Jill are two of the best known
characters in English fiction. but they
were originally not characters at all.
A jack was a waxed-leather pitcher. and
a gill was a little measure, and that is
how 1t happened that they went after
water. The phrase. 'robbing Peter to
pay Paul." came from the fact that in
1850 some property belonging to West
minister Cathedral-which is dedicated to
st. Peter-was given to st. Paul's Ca
thedral There is another old story, con-
nected with the warning not to buy a
pig in a poke. A countryman once put
a cat in a poke-or bag-and sold it for
a sucking pig. When the customer in
vestigated his purchase he ''let the cat
out Of the bag"
The times., 1898-08-04
a Cabinet Vote.
(From the New York sun.I J

IVIII
II it be true that there exists any serious dis
agreement in the Cabinet the policy Of tax
ing TO ourselves definitely the Philippines
Abraham LineOns method OF dealing with a de-
bated question supplies the model for procedure
now.
According to the late Ben Holiday he Holi-
day, invited by the President TO be present
while the Cabinet considered certain important
measure. The discussion long thorcugh aud
Fery earnest. and at its conclusion it was pl1in
that the Cabinet was unit. At the proper time
the President said: ''Gentlemen we will vote.
Those in favor say Aye
''Aye!" said the President
''Those opposed say No." continued Lincoln,
and every member OF the Cabinet voted No.
The Ayes have it, said Lincoln; and he lvei
to felicitate himself upon the frmness OF his
judgment.