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The Green Forest tribune., 1899-05-25

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The Southern Baptist Conveu tion meets at Hot Spring next year.
 The roller mill at Jasper, the only one in Newton county, was burned last week,
 Oil has been discovered within a mile of Malvern, this state.
 The state grand lodge of K. P.'s was in annual session at Hot Springs last week.
 Judge Dale of Wichita, Kan, has declared the street cars of that town a nuisance and ordered them to stop rum ming.
 Sam Cook, general manager of the says the convention next year will re- affirm the platform of 1896.
 Seven negroes broke jail at Texar- kama last week and escaped
 Bicycle manufacturers are in $75,- 900 000 combine,
 The Kansas Board of Agriculture re. scinded an invitation to w. J. Bryan to speak there commencement day.
 The Curtis law has been declared by the U. s. supreme court to be constitu- tional.
 The Hessian fly has caused great damage to wheat in Southern Illinois.
 Two cattle thieves at San Bois, 1. T., were publicly fogged, ill accordance with the Choctaw law.
 'Cubans openly boast that they will not surrender their guns to the United States.
 Admiral Dewey has sailed from Ma nilla for Hohg Kong, He is expected to reach the United States about Sep tember 1.
 General Brooke has received instruc- tons that the settlement of the Cuban question is entirely in his own hands, and that the home government will not interfere with his plans.
 Attorney General Jeff Davis has filed l quo warranto proceeding against Gay. Jones to prevent the building of the State Capitol.
 Thunder restored the hearing of John Bell, residing near Terrell, Tex. Disease had left him deaf.
 Prospectors are f1ocking to the new goldfelds in Howard County, Arkansas, where 1t is claimed. rich finds have been made.
 Owing to mistake in the presiden tial proclamation, 5000 acres of land recently thrown open for settlement is not in the homestead boundary, and the settlers are now unsettled.
 The Seneca Indians are preparing for their annual "Feast of the Dead", to be held this year at Coda. What the spirits of the departed members of the tribe don't eat those remaining will.
 Admiral Dewey started for home Sa turday morning He will stop for about two weeks at Hong Kong.
 The facilities of the United States hints for turning out gold coin will be increased.
 Several business men of Perry, Ok. have been arrested on the charge of violating the war stamp tax act.
The Green Forest tribune., 1899-05-25
LAND OFFICE AT HARRISON, ARK.

 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Harrison, Arkansas on May 26. 1899, viz: Eda Jackson, widow of Lem uel NJ Jackson, decd, II k ls694 for the s1a Sc Sec 30, T. 2l, N E 2l w
 He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of Ark John Hampton. ST Omaha, Ark, J T Taylor, Isaac Jack son of Oak Grove. Ark.
 JOHN l. WORThINr \, Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

1aNu ONICe -C HaTrISOh, AfK.
 April IS. 1899. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention that sad proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Harrison Ark. on May 26, 1899, viz: John F. Wilson, II E No. 2Ol74 for the \ 1S Ne. Sec. l4, Tp Is, X R 24W
 He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and utivaton of said land, viz: D s Watson, l. Walker, J NJ Hawkins, T Walker all of Notation, Ark.
 ,JOuS WOKTIIl NGToS Register
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
Art of Leaye-Taking.

A graceful exit from a drawing.room
has always been an art. 1t is in Wash
ington society that leave-taking has
been reduced to fine art, says Wash
ington writer. Nowhere in this country
are visits and visiting made so much a
matter Of business. When the call is at
an end one who is not from long habit
accustomed to formal visiting should
keep in mind the point of leaving, and
when she has said the last thing she
wishes to say, rise quickly and easily
and shake hands with the hostess, max
ing some pleasant, friendly remark as
she does so, and go directly out.
1t is impossible in the rules which
govern all social intercourse to direct
any one how to act under given circum-
stances, because we cannot presuppose
any and every exact situation. Conf
dence and simplicity are the great re-
quisites, and naturalness is the most
potent attraction in any one-man or
woman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
A Hopeful View.

President Schurman, of the Philippines
Peace Commission seems to be very
amiable gentleman, OF an optimistic turn
OF mind, and, to judge from results, O
slender diplomatic equipment.
He takes very hopeful view Of condi-
tons in the Philippines.
Mr.. Schurman says that Aguinaldo's
following is confined to the Tagalos, who
occupy the southern part of Luzon and
constitute one-half it's population. OF
the entire population of the 800 islands
the Tagalos are about one-sixth. He
saws that the Filipinos generally are sus-
ceptible of considerable culture and that
the education of two generations will
make them approximate the japanese in
most essentials. The Tagalos are the
dominant race of the islands, and, while
the other natives are in some instances
in alliance with them, generally the Others
are coerced into that relation. He con-
siders Agunaldo the nucleus Of the re-
bellion, and, while he avoids all illusions
to military or governmental problems, it
is plain that he believes that if Aguinaldo
and his small cotterie of agitators were
captured the insurgents would not only
lay down their arms, but would be glad
to do so.
OF the trade outlook, Mr.. Schurman
says that the 5000 900 inhabitants Of
the islands will become consumers OF
American products at once and will con-
tinue to be for long time. They are,
he says, the only people of TIE orient who
are likely to import from America and
Europe for any considerable period. On
the matter Of investments he says that
the islands of Mindanao is especially
field for investors. having a healthiul
climate, immunity from storms and
earthquakes, great vegetable and min
eral resources and a tractable popula:
ton.
Summed up, the views of Mr., Schur-
man are that the Philippine rebellion is
not widespread and may easily be
crushed that the commercial advantages
from the islands are great; that they af-
ford field for investment and invited
American emigration.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
Stevensons Humorous Description of
His Voyage to America.

Newport, U. S. A., September, 1887
My dear Henry James-Here we are at
Newport in the house OF the good Fair
childs; and a sad burthen we have laid
upon their shoulders. | have been i'll bed
practically ever since came. caught
cold on the Banks after having had the
finest time conceivable, and enjoyed my
self more than | could have hoped on
board our strange floating meuagerie !;
stations and monkeys and matches made
our cargo; and the vast continent of
these incongruities rolled the while like a
haystack; and the stations stood hvp-
Noticed by the motion, looking through
the ports at our dinner table. and winked
when the crockery was broken; and the
little monkeys stared at each other in
their cages, and were thrown overheard
like little blush babies; and he big mon
key, Jacko, secured about the ship and
rested willingly in my arms, to the ruin
OF my clothing; and the man of the
stations made a bower of the black
tarpaulln, and sat therein at the feet OF a
raddled divinity, like a picture on box
OF chocolates and the other passengers,
when they were not sick, looked on and
laughed. Take all this picture and make
it roll till the bell shall sound unexpected
notes and the fittings shall break loose
in our stateroom, and you have the voy-
age of the Ludgate Hill. She arrived in
the port of New York, without beer, por-
ter, soda, water, curacao, fresh meat, or
fresh water; and yet we lived, and we re-
greet her.
My wife is good deal run down, and
am no great shakes.
America is, as remarked, fine place
to eat in, and a great place for kindness;
but, Lord, what silly thing is popular
ity; envy the cool obscurity OF Sherry
wore. If it even paid, said Meanness
and was abashed at himself-Yours
most sincerely, r. L. S.-[From 1.-THE
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson" in
the September Scribners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
The Story of a Vase.

The sojourn in Peking of the German
Minister, like that of most OF his col
leagues, has doubtless been characterized
by complications and worries of no light
nature, but his term of office has not
lacked its humorous side at the close.
Baron Won Heyking was commissioned
by the government to present the En-
press Dowager with a pair of valuable
vases and pair of table lampsin the name
of his Imperial Master, and in due course
day was appointed for the presenta-
ton. The costly gifts were conveyed to
the Palace by Tsungli Yamen runners,
and with carelessness not precisely ex.
ceptional in China, one of the precious
vases was broken in transit. In great
trepidatiou some OF the members of the
Tsungli Yamen thereupon waited on the
German minister and asked to kindly alter
the wording of the address accompany
ing the gifts so as to read two lamps
and vase" This the minister very natur-
ally declined to do. The officials then
asked how much it would cost to duph-
cate the broken vase, as if the minister
would order another they would gladly
pay for it. Baron Won Heyking smiled
at the idea OF vase that had taken three
years to make in the Berlin National
Porcelain Factory, being duplicated in
this off-hand manner, and pointed out
the unfeasbility of this childish plan.
The Tsungli Yamen Ministers evidently
did not place much credence in this state.
ment, as it is next related that they Wis
tied the store of Mr.. Kiernlff in search of
vase that might correspond fairly well
with the one intact. Needless to say they
were unsuccessful. AS last resort they
got hold of Baron Won Heyking's inter-
prefer and found means to induce him in
translating the address to substitute
lone piece" for the dreaded lone pair" of
vases, trusting to the German minister's
imperfect knowledge of Chinese to escape
detection, and in this way the difficulty
was bridged. We may add that our
authority for these particulars is the
Kuo-wenpao. From Peking we learn the
breakage was not concealed from the
Empress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
How is the collection gro wing p

How is the collection growing?"
"Oh, first rate; only want four more
to complete my first half Dozen"
i'm IS the humorist of the party.
How long do you reckon to stay
here?"
Its all question of funds. Our
capital is melting, of course, though we
look at every tckey and buy nothing
that we can do without. So far we have
managed to have meat every day, and
have not had to do without single
NECESSARY, and our expenses work out at
los Cd per week for three. We are in
splendid health, and even if at the end of
another month things have not improv-
ed we shall be in much better position
than If we had tried to ride out the storm
in johannesburg. AT any rate we have
preserved our self respect, our health and
our clothes, to say nothing of having
kept out OF politics and saved Jim from a
drunkard's grave"
And then we had dejeuner-the very
ilnest meal have ever eaten in the weld,
cooked in weld style, and consisting of a
good thick bean soup, followed by an
Irish stew and stewed peaches and coffee.
The conversation over the meal and for
some time after consisted OF an attempt
to figure out the exact cost OF the meal
per head. We should have got at it all
right but for Jim, who having once been
a storekeeper on a mine, insisted that
the proper way to arrive at net cost was
to allow Tor original capital outlay on
entire stock.
We worked on these lines till the blank
leaves and edges OF all the reading mat.
ter in the tent had become an eruption
Of figures, and when we had agreed it
at 49sd per caput, Jim refused to assent
on the ground that reduction must be
made for depreciation of plant.
When the party had escorted me into
the frightening shadows and over the
hills to Krugersdrop, they returned tc
finish calculations, and prepare to face
the watches Of the night over coffee anc
cards. From the Standard and Dig
gers News, Johannesburg.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
Draining the Great Lakes.

Some time in November the Chicago
drainage canal will be opened to receive
the water of Lake Michigan and to
allow it to flow through the Illinois river
into the Mississippi says the Pittsburg
Despatch. When this event comes to
pass there will be manifested, in Detroit,
Cleveland, and other lake ports, much
trepidation lest the lake level shall be SER
iously reduced and inland commerce Grip
pied. Serious gentlemen of a nervous
temperament will probably pass harrow
ing days and nights on the lake shore,
watching for the water to go down. If
it fails to fall they will doubtless suffer a
kind OF disappointment, at least a vexa-
ton, tor they have drefully predicted
that fall it must when that drainage gate
is opened.
The outcry against the drainage canal,
heard now for two or three years from
places all around the lakes has been pro-
voked partly by local Jealousies, partly
by chronic tendency, in many men to
find fault with strenuous enterprise of
any sort. A few easy figures, presented
by capable engineers, show that there is
not bit OF danger that the lakes will
empty themselves into the valley of the
Mississippi and leave their great COM
merce beached in decaying mud harbors.
The St. Clair River carries past Detroit
from Lake Huron to Lake Erie, 225 900
cubic feet OF water per second, yet Lake
Huron holds its own complacently. Over
the rock of Niagara 265,000 cubic feet of
the water of Lake Erie rushes every Sec
ond toward Lake Ontario, yet Erie is not
drained, nor are the residents on its bor-
ders nervous lest it will be. The Chicago
drainage canal is so constructed that. at
its greatest flow, it shall release from
Lake Michigan but 10000 cubic feet of
water per second. What is that be-
side the Niagara? The initial flow through
the drainage canal will be only 5000 Gu
bic feet per second and this is to be in.
creased only in correspondence with de-
cided increases in the population of the
drainage district.
Civil Engineer Lyman E. Cooley. in
the Marine Record, says that flow
OF 10000 cubic feet of water second
through the Chicago drainage canal
would produce the effect of diminishing
the flow through the st. Clair River Az
per cent. In other words, the lake level
may be reduced two to four inches. This
is insignificant in comparison with the
fluctuations Of the lakes between high
and low water. In the dry season Of late
autumn Lake Michigan is sixteen inches
lower than during the wet season of the
spring, more or less, according to the
character of the season, and still naviga.
ton hourshes. 1t is probable the casual
observer will be unable to note any
change in the lake level when the drain
age hoodgate is lifted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
Worlds Largest Grapevine.

1t has been already announced by tele-
graph that old age is telling upon the big
grapevine in Ell Montecito Valley, few
miles from Santa Barbara, says the San
Francisco Chronicle. The vine has the
distinction of being the largest in the
world, but it is rapidly dying, and the
owner OF the property upon which it
stands, Albert MCGEE, has offered it to
the Santa Barbara Chamber of Com
merce. 1t is to be cut down soon and
the trunk and so much Of the branches
as can be accommodated in the building
will form a permanent exhibit in the
Chamber of Commerce rooms. The
original mother vine," as it was called,
died in 1875, and the year following it
was taken to the Centennial Exposition
at Philadelphia, where it was viewed by
thousands as a remarkable illustration
Of CALIFORNIA; productiveness. The old
vine stood near the younger one. 1t was
three feet and ten inches in circumference
OF trunk, and the spreading branches
covered a trellis seventy.hve feet square.
The present vine is only three or four
inches smaller in circumference than its
parent, and it covers nearly as much
space. 1T has produced four tons OF
grapes in single season in its prime. 1t
is now nearly one hundred years old.
When the Montecito vine is gone Santa
Barbara County will still claim the
largest grapevine on earth, for on ranch
in the Carpinteria Valley there is grow
ing thrifty a double vine said to come
from a single stock below the surface OF
the ground. This double vine at Carpin-
terra is over six feet in circumference. All
OF these big Santa Barbara vines are OF
the Mission variety.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
New England EARNS.

The thousands of abandoned farms of
New England are being purchased by
people from many countries and aredisap'
pearing. The old farms have new value.
The Portuguese, the Italian, and the
Canadian is found in almost every COM
munity, and it behooves the thrifty New
Highlander to receive his Latin neighbor
well. for he has come to stay and vote,
and his many children are to vote. The
outcome of these changes wecannot fore
see. But OF one thing we may be reason
ably sure, that an honest man can have
no more honorable or stable possession
than a New England farm on which no
mortgage remains. accompanied by the
protection Of sum equal to its value in
some solid bank.
So l would repeat, whether in New
England or elsewhere: il you have farm,
keep it if not, get one, for the time may
come when this country will be largely
divided into monopolists, dependents, and
farmers, and the farmer will be the most
independent Of all men and the saving
power of our institutions. The relief
from the perplexing problems Of the time
is simple, honest, character-buiding,
faith sustaining life on the soil.
The permanency of the New England
schools and historical scenery, the assured
stability OF her manufactures, with a
tendency to create the finest fabrics, the
prospective revival of commerce, the
grange and the enterprises incidental to
these conditions make the New England
larm an ideal possession. The New Eng
land farmer who says that the farm is a
thing OF the past is himself but product
of the past. The man who has FIVE
thousand dollar farm in New England,
with five thousand dollars in the bank,
and who will live within his means, is a
millionaire, and his possession and con-
tentment are not unlikely to outlast that
of the millionaire = From 1.-THE Future
Value of the New England Farm" by
Hezekiah Butterworth, in the American
Monthly Review of Reviews, Tor Septem-
| Der.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06

There is more Catarrh in this section
OF the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local rem
edes, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced 1T in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease, and therefore
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. ].
Cheney &Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from ten drops
to teaspooniul. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o..
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
A GreaI Sea Five Hundred Feet in
the Air.

Surrounded by hills and mountains,
away up in New Hampshire, is a great
lake, some twenty-iv miles in length and
with an average width of seven miles,
known as Lake Winnipesaukee.
The shores of this lake is the abode Of
thousands of summer tourists who de-
light in the variety of scenic and social
attractions with which this section
abounds, and the various steamers and
pleasure craft which ply over Winnipe.
saukee bring Weirs, Centre Harbor, Bear
Island, Long Island, Wolfeboro, and AL
ton Bay, and in fact every part OF the
lake, into close communication with all
New England. The steamer, Mount Wash
ington, is commodious craft, making
regular trips over the lake, and which
trip is so decidedly interesting and novel
that one enjoys every moment of the time
taken for the tour. Winnipesaukee is
verv irregular in shape and its surface is
studded by no less than three hundred
islands, some OF them being mere dots
while Manhannock has an area OF three
hundred and fifty acres.
1t is around and about these islands
that the steamer ploughs its way, and
the primitive ruggedness that the shore
line presents is an ever changing piano.
ramic effect that has made Winnipesau-
kee renowned as scenic wonderland.
September is of all times the best to
visit the lake. for the autumn foliage and
the wonderfully clear atmospheric sur
roundings are combination that is sure
to bring delightful impressions.
The Boston g. Maine Railroad pub
fishes a Lake Book which tells of Lake
Wlnnipesaukee and whereabouts Interest,"
ingly, and for two.cent stamp the Cen
eral Passenger department of B. & M.
railroad, Boston, will send it to YOU
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06
New Counterfeit So Bill.

A new counterfeit two-dollar bill has
just made its appearance. 1t is of the Sc.
ries 1891, check letter D., plate Nod, and
is signed by B. X. Bruce, Registrer, and
Ellis H. Roberts, Treasurer OF the United
States Treasury. The portrait of Nc
Pherson appearing on the bill is detec-
tive, the seal is dark red instead Of car
mine, and the parallel ruling under the
Treasury number is poorly initiated.
The paper on which the bill is printed is
thin and the silk fibre is initiated by fine
red and blue ink lines.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-06

A Chicago man owns dog that can't
tolerate whiskers. Whenever a man with
hair on his chin passes this animal he
sets up most doleful howl, and appears
to be suffering intensely. 1tdoesn't mat
ter whether the offender is preacher, an
undertaken or butler-all whiskers are
alike to him.
"Do you believe that thousand years
was ever as day, and day as thou
sand years." 81 believe the latter half
all right enough-Ive just spent the day
at the dentists. > Detroit Free Press.