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Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-15
Fighting for His Own.

A short time ago two highway rob.
hers from LiverpooD attacked an old
ScOtchman on the Glasgow and Car
Isle road, with the intention of rob-
bling him Of all he had. The Scotch.
man being a strong, powerful man, let
out right and left, knocking the two
ruffians about numerically; but, being
two to one, he was soon overpowered
and his money taken.
After they had got clear away, one
thief said to the other,
"Tm blowed il he hasn't nearly
broke my Jaw"
al reckon" said the other, "that
he's broken ono Of my ribs at least;
but never mind. How much did yer
get off himp"
After searching among some but
tons the reply came
1.-TWO ha'pennies!"
Good heavens!" cried the other.
holding his ribs. "How would he a.
fought for sixpence !''--Answers.
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knock down. The man admitted thai,
he had taken the package from o
stranger whom he met on the high.
way. He was confronted with the
club and Wray's corpse. but put on II
bold front and denied all knowledge
Of them. Finally, however, he con.
fessedt to The drover that he had Drained
Wray and stolen the package from
him, afterward taking refuge in n
roadside inn, where he found an OPP
portunity to examine and learn the
nature of the plumber. Then he
grew restless and ventured ont in the
storm, and in an attempt to cross the
stream missed his ford and thus came
to meet the drover.
There was nothing left to explain
the abstraction from the custody of
Tarbot of the genuine package aud
the substitution of the counterfeit
except that Wray himself had designed
the scheme and carried it out as he
pushed Mr.. Tarbot toward the bell
pull, and that in making his way not
toward home, for that was in con-
trary direction, but TO some place
where he intended to conceal the
money, he was met by the rufllan who
murdered and robbed him. This
wretch gave the name of George Rain
ton, and under that he was convicted
of the murder of Wray. 1t was after.
ward commonly asserted that his real
name was that of a distinguished
Northumberland family, and that
through their influence the sentence
was committed to transportation, and
that lie was allowed TO escape punish.
ment altogether on condition of his
quitting the country. "A. Beckwith in
Brooklyn Citizen,
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over Two Hundred OTsprinx.

Mrs. Sallie SILVER, who lives near
Albany, Ga, has $50 living children,
grandchildren, great.grandchildren
and Observation-Disclosures In
addition to these, seventy-fve of the
old lady's descendants are dead, max
ing thetotal number $40. The 235th
link in the old lady's lineage came last
week, and is the cause of objection on
her part on unique grounds. She
asserts that as she considers it her
duty to visit each relative once in two
years, the overwhelming circle draws
on her strength more than she can
spare.
Mrs. SILVER is III her nineticth year,
but enjoys remarkably good health.
She can walk several miles without
experiencing unusual fatigue. Her
mind is clear. and the weight of
nearly 100 years has left little impress
on her erect carriage. 'She is u per-
feet mine regarding local and state
history, and is great favorite as a
raconteur, The remarkable progeny
for which Mrs. SILVER is responsible
sprang from the seven children born
to her and Manning SILVER, who died
i'll 1855 at the age Of sixty years. The
oldest child is seventy and the young.
est forty.three. From this stock has
spread out, in fan-like array, the inn
mense family, probably unrivaled in
numbers in the south. Each descend
ant having family receives visit
from GRANDMOTHER SILVER in regular
rotation. She completes the circuit
once in about two years, and makes
but n short stop under each roof.
Her coming is always regarded as an
event OF great importance, and each
household takes vacation on the
occasion OF her visits. st. Louis
Globe.Democrat. -,
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DOWN THE CHILKOoT PASS.
Tuck Up Your Clothes, Sit Down on tho
Snow and Slide Thine Ono Minute,

Tuck Up Your Clothes, sit Down on the
Snow and Slide Slime One Minute.
In letter from L. G.. Patterson,
dated at Canyon City, Alaska, he says
This is great country, and am
glad l came, but the living is more
than tough. / was under the impress
sion that l knew something of camp
life, but this is an entirely new exper-
fence. l am located at what il is char
ity to call Canyon City--a camp where
the Dyea-Klondike Transportation
company boards the men who are
working on its tramway. This is the
first day since my arrival, 10th in.
slant, that l have seen the sun. II is
not extremely cold the mercury ranges
from zero to 30 degrees above), but it
is nearly always cloudy, and the wind
blows hard most Of the time.
"A few days ago went to the sum.
NIT of Chilkoot Pass. From this place
(six miles north Of Dyea) it is seven
miles to what is called the foot of the
summit, and it seems like forty when
you walk it; but after so much has
been accomplished, ones troubles
have just begun. The ascent is, say,
800 feet, and almost straight up. 1t
would be impossible to make the climb
but for the snow, which is, on an av-
erage, forty feet deep; this provides u
footing, and it required more than an
hour for me to make the summit,
where a level stretch of about 100
yards interviewed before the second
climb, much sleeper, was made, which
landed me on the real summit of Chill
koot Pass.
"When ready TO leave, and it was
not long, the Indian guide said do as
1 do and proceeded to tuck his
clothes under him. seated himself in
the snow on the edge of tho slope, and
away no went down the side Of the
mountain. followed. The expert.
ence was exciting, and after crossing
the level plateau, took another slide,
reaching the bottom in less than q
minute, while it had required more
than hour to mount. In Watching a
man descend it looks for all the world
like cloud Of snow shooting down the
and the victim lands at your
feet; such Is the Chilkoot Pass. Two
men were frozen to death on the sum.
NIT last week. New York Sun.
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A Stairway Plated with Gold.

Gold has been used in house decora.
ton, but here is something which in
splendor exceeds anything ever seen
in an American house--a gold plated
railing, The railing of the spiral
stairway and the balcony in George j.
Gould's new house at Lakewood, N.
j., will be plated with the most pre-.
cious Of all metals.
Much has been written about the
splendors Of this palace which the
young millionaire is building down
there among the pines. The foremost
architects aud artists have contributed
to it, but this stair rail and balcony
will surpass anything of the kind ever
attempted in this country. There are
legends Of palaces where the soft light
was reflected from lamps of solid gold
and shades of aabaster. This dwell
ing down ut Lakewood will equal in
splendor the palaces described by the
romancers who wrote the "Arabian
Nights" Aladdin might have pictured
such hallway as that which forms
the entrance Of the house at Lake
wood. No slave OF tho lamp could
have called into being so splendid an
apartment as the hallway of this mod
ern palace.
There are MAJ beautiful stair rails
Of wrought and polished iron in the
houses of New York's mllionaires.
Some Of these rails have gold plated
ornaments, The stair rail in tho
Gould house will surpass all these, for
II is gold plated from the first step OF
the stairs 20 the last wreath Of the bal.
cony front. New York Herald.
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French Monuments.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is said
to, be in imminent danger OF falling.
All the monuments In the French city
are reported to be in bad condition,
including the Pont Neuf. The Eiffel
tower is said to breathe" or wave
back ward and forward.
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The Real Owner.

81 have called, Mr.. Jingle" said
the tax collector, Ito ask you TO pay
this bill for taxes on your house.
Take it around to the back door
and ask the cook" said Mr.. Jingle.
'H you'd lived here twenty-four
hours you'd know, sir, that she owns
the house. I've abdicated. "-Har.
per's Bazar.
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Englishman-I say, ye knaw, what,
the bookage to Boston
Railroad Ticket Clerk-The what.
age?
Englishman--The bookage. ye knaw
the tariff. What's tn tariff
Ticket Clerk--I haven't time to talk
politics. Lewiston Journal.
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Osaka has been called the New York
OF japan. With tho manufacturing
villages that cluster around it, il has
= population OF about 1000, 200.
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Missouri has an annual output Of
timber rated at about $1,000, 900
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-23

WOULD like to have
the Christmas time
l remember now
so well;
So many things for
gotten that would
be a joy to tell;
Not a gath'ring In
a meeting house
with a a d e d
Christmas tree
Such things are COM
mon now-a-adays,
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FORREST CITY, ARK FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 23 1885,
smiles OF their guests. her happy face
lifted in gratitude.

smiles Of their guests, her happy face
lifted in gratitude.
THANK God!" said Mrs. Pentland
"this is one social event am not called
upon to chronicle"
Amen" said the city editor.
How like story" said Mrs. Wealth
erell; "one of those good, old-fashioned,
wholesome love stories am so hungry
to read. BY the way, can anybody tell
us what has become of the old-fash-
ioned love story?"
Like the day of miracles, my dear.
1t has passed." Elizabeth Pentland's
cynicism was acquired before she met
the city editor.
The telling, you mean; but love
not a bit of it. It's as young and as
full of vitality as this King of Love
Feasts-Christmas itself"
Mrs. Weatherell was one of those rare
women at peace with self and the world.
despite the fact that the latter per-
sisted in believing her wretchedly un-
happy AS pretty woman as one
meets in long days walk was Mrs.
Wetherell; nature and art fitted her to
shine in brilliant society. But Mrs.
Wetherell's beauty was of the spirit as
well as the flesh. Never was she known
to complain. The husband whom the
world dubbed miserable failure was
still to her the Prince Charming who
won her heart when she was toasted
the loveliest girl in her set
AT five and forty Mrs. Wetherell
judged all marital relations from her
own vantage ground-the love that is
eternal. 1t was this refreshing, Ar
cadian strain in her nature that at
tracted and held the affection of Eliza
beth Pentland, whose knowledge of
''men and things" had come from hard
knocks with the world.
II am sick unto nausea," sighed Mrs.
Wetherell, "of the problems involved in
the modern love story. How refreshing
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-23
CONSOLIDATION.
Three branches to be Merged Into Ono
Line The Chicago, Kansas
City Gulf

New York, Dec. 21.-Presdent A. f..
Stillwell of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
q Gulf, said yesterday that arrange
ments had been concluded for a con-
solidation of the company's three
northern branches, the Kansas City &c
Northern, connecting the Omaha, Kan
sas City d Eastern, and the Omaha &c
ST. Louis. The consolidation will prob
ably be known as the Chicago, Kansas
City & Gulf. Trackage rights will be
obtained over roads entering Chicago,
so that only 10 miles of new track will
have to be built
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-23
A PRACTICAL REDUCTION.
The Pennsylvanis Road deavoring to
Meet Competition by Granting
Extra Accommodation.

Philadelphia, Dec. 21.-The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co. yesterday an
nounced that, beginning next Monday,
tickets will be sold from New York to
Chicago, via Washington, with ten
days stop over privilege at the ma
tional capital at the same rate now
charged for the direct route. This will
be reduction of S4, and the cut will
be made in order to meet competition
in this direction by the Baltimore &
Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio roads.
At Chicago, and at all other cities
between that city and Columbus,
tickets for New York will be sold
with the same privilege. On the east
ward trip stop over is also allowed
in this city. The Pennsylvania rail-
road will also sell tickets from New
York TO Pittsburgh, with stop over
at Washington, at rate of $3.50, and
from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, by
the same route, az S11.50
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-23
NO. 13.
A SLIDE ON THE CHILKOOT.
Sig Persons, Including a Woman and
Her Two Sons, Killed In tho
Avalanche.

Seattle, WASH, Dec. 2f.-The steam-
er Al Ri, which arrived here yesterday
from Alaska, brings meager particulars
OF an avalanche on the Chilkoot pass,
In which at least six persons were
killed. Five bodies have been recov-
cred, as follows:
Mrs. Darling and two sons of Lake
Linderman.
Bert Johns, Juneau.
Harry Shaw, of Skaguay.
The slide occurred on December 9 at
Crater lake. about one mile beyond the
summit on the Lake Linderman side.
Had Arranged to Join Her Husband.
Mrs. Dariing's husband was at Lake
Linderman, and she had arranged TO
join him with their two sons. who had
almost reached manhood. Shaw was
Skaguay man, who had business at the
lake. Bert Johns, of ofJuneau, was but IL
years old, and the reason for his TAX.
ing the dangerous trip does not ap-
pear. He was friend of the Darling
boys. The name of the sixth person
has not been ascertained.
Made the Trip In Opposition to Advice.
Contrary to the advice of old timers,
who realized that the trip was dam
gerous one in regard to the storms, the
party set out with light outfits. 1t was
storming very hard when they crossed
the summit, but they succeeded in
reaching Crater Lake, where the bliz-
zard forced them to camp, although il
was but seven miles to their destina-
ton. While encamped there tons of
ice and snow mixed with rocks and
timbers swept over them evidently
without warning. and went on down
the valley, leaving them buried under
several feet of hard snow.
Their bodies were found three laws
later by searching party. The bodies
were not bruised in the least.
Peculiar Condolences.
A peculiar coincidence is that the
news of the snow slide is brought by
the same steamer that brought word
of the terrible slide last spring, in
which nearly sixty persons perished.
Another coincidence is that the two
slides occurred just about the same
distance from the summit, but on op.
posite sides.
Feet and Hands BADLY Frozen.
just before the AL Xxi left Skaguay
e. Bald Mills, of London, England, and
+. +. Smith, of Melbourne. Australia,
arrived from Lake Atlin with their
feet and hands badly frozen. 1t ID
feared that Mills will lose both feet.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1898-12-23
WILL EvAcUATE JANUARY /,
Transports Are Duo 1T Havana to Garry
Away All Remaining Span
ish Troops.

Havana, Dec. 21.--Gen. Castellanos
informed Brighten. Clous yesterday
that the evacuation of Havana would
be complete on or before January l
next. Fourteen transports are due to
arrive from Spain during the next ten
days. There are 10000 Spanish troops
still in Havana and it's environs. but
the last few thousand will embark
simultaneously.
This information was particularly
agreeable to the Americans, because
all Spanish troops who remain here af-
ter January / will have to be pro-
tected.
The Eighth and Tenth regular in
fantry regiments have been ordered by
the United States evacuation commits
sioners from Quemados, and they will
report here for duty to-day, under the
command of Gen. Greene. All the sea-
coast batteries on the west, including
La Reina, will be occupied by the
American troops by Thursday. The
men will camp in tents, with details to
guard the forts.
Commodore b. Cromwell reported to
the United States evacuation commits
sion yesterday that he would take over
the arsenal and naval property OF
Spain in Havana after January /, and
be captain of the port.
The Spanish immovable property, ac-
cording to the inventory, is estimated
to be worth about $5,O00,000.
The inventory is huge document,
containing many hundred pages of
manuscript and gives full details of all
the Spanish property in Cuba.
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neighbors. One of his studio windows
looked almost impertinently into a
ballroom of the most imposing house
in the row. To Hillhouse's surprise,
his mirror one day reflected its occu-
pant, who riv,ted his attention with
fascination almost as irresistible as
that which wrought the ruin of Paul
Pry." Betram paused. The interest
In his auditors eyes urged him on.
"She was a frail little woman" he
said, at length, with certain faded
splendor, the splendor of brilliant au-
tumnal flower that defies drought
and frost, and with color and perfume
of its own, holds sway long after its
garden companions lie withered and
dead. She rarely went out save in the
flush of the morning or late In the twi-
light. Her room, like herself, bespoke
faded splendor. discernible even from
Hillhouse's studio. A window-garden
of old-fashioned bloom and plentiful
ly-stocked bookcase that crowded the
small apartment almost to suffocation,
absorbed her days.
Certain hours she was wont to sit
in the window, an open book in her
lap, her heavily-fringed gray eyes lost
in invisible worlds. know not whether
itwas the style of her dress-the white
null fichu, closed on the low bosom to
fall in graceful folds to the hem of her
voluminous dark skirt, or the outline
Of the coiffure. so like the mode preva-
lent when Hillhouse was the Beau
BEummel of his world-that attracted
his attention; but the sculptor soon
found himself modelling her delicate
profile. Hillhouse, it goes without say
iIg, was bachelor, in whom the wine
of youth was scarcely less beady at so
than in the flush of youth"
Just such chap as our own Be.
tram" interposed Pentland.
"Hillhouse's faith, devotion may say,
to the ideal in life, as an art" continued
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it would seem to meet once more in
print love on the old familiar grounds"
Fancy" laughed Miss Dashaway,
sketch artist of Good Form, 1.-The tag
end of this century wading through
Jane Austen!"
Notwithstanding the speed and
spirit of the times" said Return Be-
tram, a sculptor who had outlived his
contemporaries, consequently his fame,
material for Jane Austen stories is not
wanting in our own day."
mo, not while you are with us, Be-
tram" chuckled the city editor, replen-
ishing the patriarchal chiseler's glass.
The ox-like eyes of the sturdy little
sculptor, dilating with the youth that
in art is never old, blinked knowingly.
"Betram has a story he is bursting to
TELL" cried the city editor. MRS. Weth-
erell has given him the cue. l wager
choice public is about to be supplied
with a revised, annotated. up-to-date
edition of Jane Austen"
Imagine Jane Austen of the Latin
quarter!" smiled Mrs. Pentland, with
an encouraging nod.
For once the clever Mrs. Pentland is
in error" said the sculptor, settling
in his chair with the ease of raconteur
sure of one telling arrow in his quiver.
Nothing could be more remote from
the Latin quarter than this story which
the drift of the conversation makes so
timely. To be candid, my chief pur-
pose in accepting Mrs. Pentland's hos
pitality was to recount Hillhouse's ro-
NANCE"
HE was my best friend" continued
Betram, encircling the table with a
second significant twinkle; II may say
a lifelong friend. About year ago
Hillhouse was called to Darlington to
work on the equestrian statue of which
you may have heard. He took a studio
in back bay house that had outlived
not only prosperity but gentility. The
studio confronted formidable row of
dwellings in very similar state. These
houses were occupied for the most part
by dodgers and mealers of various ages
and colors and conditions of servitude.
In intervals of inspiration, and they
were not infrequent with Hillhouse, he
fell, between whiffs of his pipe, to spec
ulating on the daily occupation and the
heart stories Of his heterogeneous
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THE HAWAIIAN BILL.
The Measure Somewhat Modified by the
House subcom mmitteo-Some of
the Changes.

Washington, Dec. 21.-The Hawaiian
bill was somewhat changed by the
house subcommittee on territories at
its session yesterday. Qualifications
of senator's was modified so that in
stead of property qualification of $2,-
900, property valued at not less than
$1,000 will be sufficient. A similar
modification was made as to the quail
fications for representatives. The COM
mittee will sit during the holiday re-
cess in order to have the measure be-
fore the house soon after reassembling
of congress.
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Betram, "has survived the gross mate
rialism of the times with which ad-
vancing age found him curiously in
and out of tune. Away back in the
golden youth lay his romance-a ro-
nance that unconsciously shaped and
colored his life, lending a perennial
freshness to the man, which he strove
to impart to his work. AS the delicate
features of his unknown neighbor grew
under his deft touch the chords of mem
ory awoke, and Hillhouse had begun
to revel again in that golden past, when
suddenly his model moved.
"A carriage with the livery of an
exclusive world had drawn up at her
door. A lady muffied in sable alighted,
and soon Hillhouse beheld his little
neighbor in the arms of a stranger.
1t was the first visitor that had come,
in Hillhouse's time, to that modest
door. The next day it showed steadily;
but about three in the afternoon his
neighbor surprised him by appearing
at the street door, bonneted. With
rapid strides she disappeared down
the avenue-to appear before he had
smoked three pipes at her favorite seat
in the window. The light fell strong
ly on the profile, which now seemed
rejuvenated by some inner glow. Hill
house snatched the clay and made haste
to finish the interrupted sitting. He
had not worked long, however, until
he was sharing his models quiet mirth.
"A street fakir had evidently in
weighed her into buying a mechanical
toy, such as abound in the streets of
our large cities during the holiday sea-
son. Far into twilight this stately au-
tumnal flower sat playing with the
trivial thing; and the footprints of
time magically vanished from her
sweet face, as she repeatedly pulled the
string, and the grotesque wooden
monkey, with its multi-colored Jacket.
slid up and down the yellow pole.
Through the veil of snowfiakes Hill
house continued to watch his neighbor.
and as her smiles at the monkeys an
tics broadened his outlaws filed the
lonely studio with companionable
echoes. Suddenly there was a rift in
the lutte. The incorrigible monkey
was perched at the top of the pole
and refused to bulge. In vain the sor-
ceress cast her spell. The toy fell
from her hands wreck; disaster, dire