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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26

When an emergency arises where
dessert must be prepared quickly, open
n can of peaches, apricots, raspberries
or any available fruit. Put it in rather
large kettle with "a close-ftting cover.
While il is heating mix one pint of
prepared -four, with one beaten egg and
one scant cupful of milk. Drop this like
dumplines in a stew over the fruit,
cover closely and steam from ten 10
fifteen minutes. Unless the fruit is
juicy, there is danger that il will burn
on the kettle while the dumplings are
cooking. Serve the dumplings and
fruit together with sugar and cream
or with a hard swice.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26
FIRED TO DO HIS WORRYING.
Man from Missouri Made bargain.
for II Cost Only Six Dollars.

Man from Missouri Made bargain,
for 1t Cost Only Six Dollars.
He looked tired and worn out. His
eyes were red and swollen from weep
ing, and his sunken cheeks plainly told
of ceaseless care and worry. A man
not more than 40 years of age, he looked
every bit of 60. He had been arrested
the other day and arraigned before JUS
tice Martin charged with disorderly
conduct.
81 don't know what to make of him,
your honor" said the officer who made
the arrest. "IIe is hanging about the
banks in the central part of the city
and seems to fear some impending
doom. He refused to give his name.
and as a last resort thought I would
bring him before you"
"Your honor, sir" meel1ly spoke the
prisoner, 81 am worried, just as the
officer says. The frequency of bank
troubles and loan association break
ups, coupled with the stringency of the
money market, have well-nigh driven
me crazy. / have done everything pos
sible to overcome my trepidation and
nervousness, but my recent losses have
too strong hold on me. Several days
ago | met a man who seemed to appre-
ciate my condition. He informed me
that he would ease my mind and cause
me to recover my buoyant spirits.
Eagerly | grasped his outstretched
hand. He directed me to n place on
South Clark street where | was told
that l would meet a person known as
Prof. Ongwee, who was the sole owner
and proprietor of worry office"
"a what?"
"A worry office, sir. met the pro-
fessor, your honor, and, on looking over
his price list, learned that he would
worry for me for So day in ordinary
cases or Sc a day in serious or eXtraor-
binary cases. In desperate ones he
would sweat blood for sos. paid him
| Sc. For the time being felt compare
lively at ease. l left his Office as happy
and clipper as a soul-lilting bird. Not
n care on my mind, and l. really felt
sorry for the poor professor who was
doing all my worrying so cheaply. But
| it lasted but a short time, and soon fell
back into the old trough of despair, and
/ perhaps have acted a bit strange of
late. | don't blame the officer, sir, but
if l could get back to my people perhaps
could forget"
On his promise to leave the city the
/ prisoner, who was afterward learned
TO be addicted to opium, was allowed
/ TO go TO his home. which was said to
be in Warrensburg, Mo. - Chicago
j Times-Herald.
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tt.t I'D Il - --- i
removing it. If it is accompanied by
insomnia, that must be treated by it
~self. Cheerful surroundings and the re-
moyal of the cause of worry are essen
III, but they are outside the imme-
Safe province of the physician. Those
who are with the person afflicted, espe-
cially the one who has given cause for
jealousy or who is suspected of having
given cause for it, are most seriously
concerned with that part of the treat
nent. And the necessity for it should
be impressed on them strongly, because
they must bear in mind at all times
that extreme jealousy may lead to in
sanity-and it may even lead to muir
der"
rs not revenge the most frequent re-
source of the jealous?"
YES; but there are two kinds of re-
venge. There is the passive revenge or
revenge of Indifference; and there is
the active revenge or revenge of re-
taliation. The latter is the less fire.
quent, perhaps, and to that we owe the
fact that more crimes are not traced to
jealousy. However, the revenge of re-
taliation is very common. If jealousy
does not excite revengeful feeling, it
causes despair, which, if very great,
threatens the mental condition of the
sufferer"
And if the cause of jealousy is
real?"
There are two methods which can
be followed. The cause of it can be re-
moved with or without confession. TO
make clean breast of it is the heroie
remedy, but it is often the better. If
the provocation is fancied it is always
possible to correct the false impression.
Men who are harassed by jealous
wives should remember that love is the
very pivot of woman's life. Take her
off that pivot, and her mind and her
whole being are thrown into confusion;
too often her life is wrecked"
"And are there any physical attri-
butes which distinguish the insanely
jealous?"
mo. The disease is too general; 1t is
too nearly one of the common charac-
teristics of the human race to show
any mark that would distinguish one
man from another. As | have said, it
is one of the most universal emotions.
Everyone has felt It in some degree.
It is not insanity, but that it is closely
allied to insanity is demonstrated by
the fact that almost all insane men and
women are Jealous. They are often
jealous of the possession of a particu
lar seat, of the amount of attention
shown to another, and so on. Very fire.
quently, in extremely jealous persons,
symptoms of insanity appear, think
altogether that extreme jealousy IS
more often a manifestation of insanity
than cause of it; but that jealousy
will lead to insanity if not checked is
beyond question"
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26
A TRAGEDY OF THE HAREM.
The Su1tnn's Revenge on Faithless
Odalisque.


No harem has been more prolific of
romances, tragedies and comedies than
that of Abdul Hamid H., the sultan of
Turkey. One of the most beautiful
women who ever oflieiated for him in
the capacity of wife was a Bulgarian
girl, who had been taken by force from
her parents and presented to the sui
tan as a birthday gift. The real name
of this beautiful Bulgarian is not
known, but she was called in the harem
by a Turkish word signifying pearl of
light. Among the sultan's slaves was
a very handsome young Christian Span
lard, who had been captured by the
Moors, and who was employed in the
garden of the seraglio. There he was
seen by the Pearl of Light, who fell
desperately in love with him. One day,
as he was working among the flowers,
a eunuch passed by and dropped note.
Picking it up, the young Spaniard,
whose name was Carlos, found that it
was from the Pearl of Light, and that
she told him that two eunuchs would
presently come to convey him to her
apartments. The Pearl of Light
watched her opportunities carefully,
and whenever a favorable one present.
ed itself she had the young Spaniard
conveyed to her apartments. This
might have continued indefinitely had
not one of the eunuchs turned traitor
and informed Abdul.
Abdul's rage knew no bounds, and
for a time he was like a maniac. Dur
ing the next interview OF the Spanish
slave with the false Pearl of Light, Alb
dul and some of his officers rushed in
upon the guilty pair. Carlos was seized
and strangled Immediately. The beau
tiful Pearl of Light was held close
prisoner in her apartments until after
dark. Then she was enveloped in a
sack, heavily weighted. and was con-
veyed to boat. which, having received
its burden, shot out from the water
gate Of the sultan's garden into the Bos-
phorus. When some distance out from
the shore the boat stopped and the sack
containing the beautiful, living form Of
the peerless Pearl of Light was lowered
overheard by means of a rope tied about
the mouth of the sack in which she
was inclosed. When the iron weights
with which the sack was loaded had
held her under water so long as to make
It certain beyond the possibility OF
doubt that life was extinct the sack
was again drawn on board and the boat
rowed back TO the garden of the sui
tan. The sack with it's lifeless burden
was borne into Adults apartments in
the palace, and there, i'm his presence,
the remains Of the beautiful Pearl OF
Light and those Of her paramour were
cut up into small bits and fed to the
dogs.-st Louis Globe Democrat.
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TABLE TALK
FIR. and Mrs. Junius Have n Little
Jnwing Match.


81 do wish you'd be prompter to- your
meals, julius complained Mrs. Junius
MS her husband opened his napkin,
I'm quite put out with YOU"
Mr.. Junius .winked softly at the po-
sato he was peeling, and ehuekled
gently.
Out with it snapped his wife; Tets
hear what new kind Of meanness you've
thought Of
ITS Il conundrum,' said Mr.. Junius,
"about you. Why are you like a laup?"
Mrs, Junius stayed the piece of meat
halfway to her mouth.
"There You go Julius Junius." she
cried in an upper key. Il know it weN
something mean for well the neighborA
know that little else ii is that ever you
say to one who slaves her life at home
for you that you promised at the very
marriage halter to love honor and
obey and with all my worldly goods L
thee endow and me thinking it meant
everybody in your drygoods store and
so did mother instead of only two
dresses year and my last seasons
cloak a fright but that's what marriage
does opening the eyes of us poor timid
females and marriage halter well they
may call it or bride either it's all the
same thing about our neclls and SO
mother said the very first time she
came to visit us and you complaining
every night and always leaving the
railroad timetables around with blue
pencil marks for mother to see when
the train left so that her heart was
well-nigh broke and oh you can sit
there Julius Junius grinning like ia
Cheshire cheese but well you know
that Won drove poor dear mother off
months before she intended going and
me with nobody in the world to sit
down anil have a quiet little chat with
Except thc butcher boy and the milk
man who have got SO they leave long
before | finish and even book agents
who come in 10 sell me things get up
and so away before can ask them half
the questions and its all your fault
for well You understand or ought to
that am a nervous delicate creature
needing quiet instead of your sitting
there like craven mummy refusing to
tell me what the answer is when we'll
YOU know don't care else why don't
YOU out with it ard tell me why am
like a lamp. julius Junins2"
ITS because you get put out so
often" explained Mr.. Junius. ready To
dodge in case she flung anything.
But Mrs. Junius only flowed on till
bedtime, unmarried by single comma.
N. Y World.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26
Nuts for Eating.

Nuts are much employed in high
class cookery, but theirvalue seems not
to be recognized by the majority of
country housewives, too many of whom
let the squirrels get them all. Very
delicious dishes are made of ehestnuts.
Any nut makes a cake more delicious.
Nuts chopped and sprinkled over pud-
dlngs, hot or cold, give new flavor and
greatly improve them, while mixed
through custard they make a surpris-
ing change in this simple dish. Stewed
apples sprinkled with chopped nuts and
the core space with jam make a good
dessert, which need be Of no cost eN-
cept for the labor used, and this is Of
only nominal value.-Philadelphia In
o1tircr
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26
smoked HnddocIs in nutter.

Procure a large smoked paddock
take out the bone carefully, and cut
each side up into three or four pieces,
making them as much as possible OF
the same size. Trim each piece very
neatly, removing the flap part, and
having well buttered a Nat tin lay in it
the pieces Of paddock, cover with a
sheet of buttered paper and leave till
dinner time, when all that is necessary
win be to put the tin in a good oven
for about l. minutes. When done dish
mp The pieces OF paddock. one resting
on the other, pour over them the melt
ed butter and sprinkle on the surface
some finely chopped pnrslev-Boston
Cinh<
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26

John Hancock's letter-book, recently
brought TO light, shows the same bold
ness and distinctness of handwriting so
conspicuous among the signatures 10
the declaration of independence. II
also reveals the fact that Hancock.
while q prosperous merchant, cared
nothing for trade in comparison with
his duties as patriot.-St. Louis Globe
Dcmncrat
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26

I've are getting UP a Klondilse club, =
"Where do you go?"
"We're not going at all; we're or
Eonizing TO keep one another from GO
inc. Detroit Tree Press
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-26
Gastronoufc.

an England they enll lady fingers
funeral biscuit
'.Well, they arc generally enough 70
kin O mas. Chicago Record
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-10
From Yesterdays 4:as A. N. Edition.
BIG FIRE RAVAGES BISMARCK.
BEST PORTION OF THE CITY RE
DUCED TO RUINS.

Agents once in the Depot of the
Northern Pacific Railroad the
Starting Point OF the FIre-spread
Thence fR Every Direction With
UncOntrOIIabIe Fury-Every Drug
Store I'm the city Durned-OnIy Two
or Three Groceries Left Standing.
Insurance About Half the Loss.
Bismarck n. D., Aug. Sire destroyed
the best portion of the city of Bismarck
this evening. licking up hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of property.
The flames originated in the agents Of
fee in the depot of the Northern Pacific.
Almost before they were discovered the
entire building and the immense ware
house Of the company was in flames.
Oils and powder contributed substance
and before the flames could be controlled
they communicated to the block OF brick
buildings across an alley, destroying the
Tribune office, Bare's hardware store and
entire row of buildings.
The flames then leaped the street to the
magnificent First National Bank building,
which melted away in a few minutes The
Central block followed, and the James
spread to the postoffice, sweeping over the
entire block and carrying down the
Merchant Bank block, Griffin block and
all the intermediate frame and brick
structures.
The fire then spread across the devoured
Kupitz store and the greater part Of the
block
ba oil nj n
idence block and completely destroyed it.
The fremen were powerless to check the
inroads of the fire, which spread to
scores of buildings, licking them up as so
much waste paper
The origin of the fire is unknown, as no
one was in the freight office when it
started.
1t is Impossible to estimate the loss to-
night
All the wires are burned out the West
ern Union office being one of the first to
go. The railroad Office was destroyed
A temporary cut-in was made to handle
imperative business.
Among the buildings destroyed were the
Tribune Publishing Company, the First
National Bank, the postoffice, The Re
view Office ellie Northern Pacific Office
baggage and express office, the freight
warehouse, Meltons Bank, Boucher &
PhilbriCk.
Every drug store in the city is burned
and all the groceries but two or three.
also all newspaper offices, restaurants, etc.
and the great bulk of the business portion
of the city with several blocks of resi-
dences.
Many people are homeless. The Sheridan
House had narrow escape but was
saved. The line of fire extended from the
Northern Pacific tracks to Thayer on The
north. and to Third street on the wesf.
The insurance may cover half the loss.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-10

of place on the battlefield, and the war
history of the world has no brighter or
humane or heroic page than that which
records their deeds of loving kindness.
am neither a prophet nor The grand
son Of a prophet and yet II seems 10 me
iu the light of passing events, that l must
have had something of a prophetic i'm
pulse, when, in 1883, in an address before
the Georgia Historical Society, a Savan-
nah. ! gav9 utterance to the following
sentiments:
1T is a sublime thought. that here IN
this venerable and historic city of Savan-
nah, where Liberty Boys and Brush
soldiers struggled so long for supremacy
and from which in the late civil
war. went forth the 'bravest of the brave,
who wore the gray the sons of old Eng
land and the sons of New England, now
flnd as cordial a welcome 10 al the rights
ana enjoynents Of citizenship and social
courtesies as would be accorded them 10
Their own great cities of London and Bos-
ton"
Let us thank God in all sincerity for this
assured era of good feeling and fraternal
fellowship. foreshadowng as it does an
era Of expanding brotherhood. No great
Nation lives in the dead Past, or pauses
in the living Present, but presses on with
renewed vigOr into the ever expanding fu-
ture. And what a future is before us as a
nation! How sublime In its far-reachng
scope; how glorious in its eX-
allied purposes; how magnificent
in its mighty sweep Of peaceful
but revolutionizing results. A future, as
believe, that points with an unerring
finger TO one Nation, one Flag one COM
mon Language, and one Supreme Ruler
for this entire continent A future IN
which the old Flag Of Our Union" COW
cred all over With new and brighter stars,
shall spread its beautiful folds over the
whole North American continent and the
islands THAI lie beneath the shadow of
It's far-reaching borders emblem of a
growing and mighty Republics power and
granduer before which all the crowned
heads of The old monarchies of earth shall
bow in profound respect for it will be a
future in which we shall brave, in its
broadcast sense, in truth as well as in
name
A Union Of lakes and union of lands,
union that nothing can sever;
A union of hearts and a union of hands,
And the Flag of Our Union forever
Surely Il must have been such a future
as this that The Hon Robert c. Winthrop
alluded to when he spoke follows Of the
coming second centennial celebration of
Bunker Hill; "A grand second centennial
that is TO stir the blood of millions yet UNI
born, and to be celebrated throughout the
length and breadth of what we hope and
trust and believe will still, by the bless
ings of God, be a free, prosperous, united
and glorious country. What orator will be
adequate to that great OCCASION; what
lips. what language, win be commensur-
ate 10 the theme which that day viii pre-
sent to the contemplation of the world if
we and those who come after us shall only
be true ourselves, to our country and to
our Cod" Sidney Herbert.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-10

steamship Cayo Romano TO London. Eng
land, 1904 tons; schooner George 4. Mo
Fadden, to Baltimore Nd, 100 tons; bark
Baltimore, 10 Baltimore Nd, 3l5 tons;
Steamship Tergeste, 10 Venice, 1899 tons
totals. 2.i35 tons domestic and 1913 IONS
foreign; previously reported, A.1S0. To-
tais, 1898, 26,6l5 tons domestic, 1913 foreign.
The storm that visited Caryvire and III
The western portion Of Washington county
last Tuesday night was terrible in its raw
ages, almost devastating the turpcnuae in
terests. and blowing the growing crop Of
corn 70 shreds in many places. The farm
ers of Holmes Valley will lose the fodder.
] he entire crop of corn is on the ground,
and is likely to be damaged very mItn.
As far as can be heard from. no lives were
LOST. There Is no way of estimating the
loss 60 the turpenule men in Washington
county at present. Thousands OF trees
were blown down and ruined.
w. A. Taylor, assistant pomologtst in
the department Of agriculture in Washing
ton. has been at Orlando for a day or two
looking up grape growing in Florida. He
has been ia several of the Southern states
on his Trip, and since he reached Florida
has visited the larger grape growers Of
This state. From Orlando he proposes 10
visit the lower east coast. His object is
to ascertain what is being done In the
planning and production Of European 'ari-
cites. what varieues are growing and fruit
ing successfully and causes Of failure
where failures have occurred. He also
cooked about among the pineres Of Orl1n-
do and much interested in the progress
of this Industry there.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-10
BABY Foa a MASCOT.
Wee Bit of Humanity Cuts Queer
Cnpers in a Church.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
Central Methodist Church has a mascot.
Now "a mascot is a mascot" to begin
with, this particular mascot is a wee tot
of three, possibly four summers. She is
just little dot Of humanity that belongs
10 everybody and nobody. She Is no high
er than the chaucel rail, but makes her
self at home in the big pulpit-chairs, in
the pews. on the organists seat or any
place where It suits her fancy to be. Her
name is Nellie, and that is all any one
knows. She goes to Sunday school and to
church and visits the neighboTs with the
freedom of a Westerner who scorns re-
straints and formalitles. The people in
the neighborhood do not take kindly to
her informal habits, but the Rev DR.. and
Mrs W. +. Hammer, the pastor, and his
wife receive the little stranger and treat
her with much consideration. The re-
suit is he is very fond of them, and shows
her appreciation in one very promising
way Little as she is, she could give an
"old salt" some points on the modern
methods of swearing, but Dr. Hammer has
told her 1t is not nice to swear, and she
rehglously refrains from swearing when
in his presence, and is his most attentive
listener during the sermon. She may de-
liberately enter the pulpit and climb up
into one of the pulpit chairs or sit on
the steps of the chancel or stand on the
chancel cushion and rest her little chin in
her hands while her elbows rest the on rail
and she gazes intently at The speaker dur
ing half the service, but she hears every
word he says. Yesterday she took her
seat in the gallery and scattered rose
leaves on the congregation below. She
horrifes the staid and formal members Of
the congregation, and more than one has
tried to restrain her and keep her in dig
nified bounds, but they might as well
have tried 10 have restrained the spar
rows Of old that built their nests in the
affairs, told of in the Psalms. Like the
average woman, when she wills she
wills, and there is an end of it."
nellie is a brown-haired maiden whose
straight locks her mother keeps braided
in two tiny braids down her back, or
rather her neck. She is neatly dressed,
and is sun-browned until she is brown
as a berry" She speaks with a foreign
accent, leading those who do not know her
parents to believe she Is either a descend
ant of the American aborigines or of some
European nations or may be of the isles
of the sea.