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The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30

own ear-grandmothers and great
aunts-how losely!"
We'll, you'll have to help, miss, and I
doubt II you think it so lovely before
you get through" returned Dora.
You'll be baked beautiful brown
We took an inventory of our stores to
see what there was we could cook by
the fireplace.
"There's sparerib, for one thing,
announced Dora. well hang it up by
string in front Of the fire.
Potatoes we can boil by hanging the
kettle on the hook and chain" said Aunt
Laura.
And the sweet potatoes we can roast
in the ashes l added.
And bake corn in a skillet in the hot
coals.n finished Dora.
"Goody," said l, that's fine enough
dinner for blizzardy day like this. Oh
course, nobody'll come"
But somebody did come, as they usu.
ally do when you think they went;
and who of all persons but Rev. Cyrus
Melton! Dora fairly squirmed when
Aunt Laura brought him right into the
sitting-room, for, of course, she
couldn't take him anywhere else, unless
she wanted to freeze him. So in he
came. smiling placidly, and there was
the rib cooking in front of the fire with
skillet set under to catch the gravy
and there was Dora with her face like
hollyhock, turning a great hoecake
in another skillet, and there was !
prodding in the ashes with long fork
to dig out the sweet potatoesi Not that
il mattered much about me; but some
folks were beginning to observe that
Rev. Cyrus was trifle more attentive
to Dora than the fact of her being one
of his flock warranted, and / knew that
in her eyes he was about as near state
of perfection as a mortal man needed
to be.
He was just riding out, he ex-
planned, to see old Mrs. Hankins, who
was sick, and had been delayed a lit
tie by the blizzard and been on the
road quite awhile; he had brought a
bag of oats for his horse, and had
come up through the side lane and
taken the liberty to put the animal
in our barn to eat his oats, while he
himself ran in to see how we all Jared
this inclement day, etc., etc. ] slid
out while he was thus edfscoursing and
rushed to the parlor with a very for
lorn hope of finding stray stick or
two Left over there, making fire
and ,eetting him into the parlor while
NE finished the dinner. The hope died
as / poled my head into the arctic des-
olation of our best room. 1t was on
the east side, where the spiteful wind
had been battering at it all night,
searching out a hundred crevices
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wouldn't. 1 knew God could see far
ther ahead than we could, and l put
everything into His hands and went
to sleep.
/ Glept so soundly that I was greet
ed The next morning by a savory,
sagey scent of frying sausages COM
ing up the little back stairs before l
fairly got back from the slumber
world. Dora was down in the kitchen
singing Lightly Row" over the bis
cults, and looking as fresh as peach,
with her rosy cheeks and clear gray
eyes. And the stove was drawing
beautifully. And Aunt Laura came
down without a speck of neuralgia
and feeling as spry as girl, to finish
breakfast, while Dora and l went forth
to do the milking. And behold! the
sopping rain had turned into love-
ly, soft snow in the night; not bliz-
zardy snow like the one before the
rain, that blew in everywhere, but a
gentle, fine, thick powder. 1t had
stopped falling now, and the air felt
crispy and bracing. The sun wasn't
shining yet, but there was a mellow
look in the sky, as if it meant to pop
out any minute.
New Years calling was not much in
vogue in our rural district; still, it was
Aunt Laura's way to make n red-letter
day of the opening one of the year, and
always to be prepared for any stray
caller who might chance to appear. She
had a cheerful fire in the parlor, plen-
tiful supply of coffee and cake on hand,
and we all put on our pretty house
dresses and prepared to be happy
whether anyone came or not.
At half past nine pleasant melody
of sleigh bells iingled along, and the
cutest little cutter stopped at our gate,
and here came Rev. Cyrus Melton smil-
ing up the walk. We were mighty
thankful for the contrast between this
call and his last one; but such is the
perversity of man. | imagined he
looked little disappointed at not be-
ing ushered into the cooking regions
again. Still, he smiled very good-na-
turedly, with those jolly brown eyes Of
his, as he fished something out Of his
pocket and handed it 10 ne.
Miss Nettie," he said, Il felt il in my
bones that YOU couldn't get any mail
up here on the Hill all yesterday, and
dropped in at the post Office as came
by this morning, and found you this"
Maybe 1 didn't know what it was.
even before l saw the handwriting on it,
and perhaps l didn't fly to get it and
scamper ont TO the big fireplace and
curl down beside il on a little wooden
stool TO read my letter all alone. Frank
hadn't made a fortune, he wrote me,
and he didn't know as we could have a
big mansion built, but he had dug
enough gold to repair the old house and
make US all comfortable, and he was On
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New Corporations.

The following new corporations have
fled articles with the secretary OF
state:-
The Yelville Zinc and Copper Com
pany of Yellville, Marion county, capi-
tai stock $50, 900. Corporators: s. b.
Smith, E. b. lett, X. L. Estes, A. W.
Estes. John + Estes and Alex c. Hull.
The olney Lumber Company, of Par
agould, capital stock 5000. all of which
is subscribed: Oflicers:- Eli Meiser,
president; R. NJ. Martin, vice president;
G. r. Meiser, secretary and treasurer.
The Webb Queensware Company, OF
Fort Smith, capital stock, $40, 900. The
directors are b. w, Webb, NJ. Montague
and w s. Webb.
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about windows and door to hurl the
fine, powdery snow through. There
were drifts, varying in size, on the pi-
ano, on the chairs, and a dainty white
powdering all over the carpet, which
the wind had puffed in under the door.
You could fairly feel the gale whisk-
ing about your ears. There wasn't
scrap of wood nor chip in the
wood box. Relinquishing wild idea
of chopping up a parlor chair or two
to make a fire of, scooted back to
the sitting-room chilled to the bone.
Dora, putting as bold face upon
the situation as possible, was bringing
in dishes from the dining-room and
setting the table right under the eyes
of the minister, who was chatting
away as serenely as if he hadn't
driven us all frantic by his ill-timed
call. Aunt Laura had levied on her
cellar goodies and produced preserved
ounces, apple Jelly, picked peaches
and ehow-chow, so the dinner wasn't
so frightful The only thing l was
ashamed of was the corn cakes; they
were so big and clumsy, and Dora had
crumbled the edges in turning them.
But that good man seemed to think
we had a banquet. and even the corn
cakes didn't sc begging so far as he
was concerned.
We all made merry over our predic-
ament as we told him how il hap
pened, and he ioked about it, too, but
shook his head n little, and said it
oughtn't TO go on that way. He pro-
eeeded upon his errand soon after din
ner. and we went about our work with
what spirits we might 1t wasn't more
than two hours after he left that
Uncle Jink. dilapidated old eolored
man. appeared with n yoke of steers,
which he left in the lane while he
came plodding through the snow to
the house.
"Heerd y'all was ont O wood" he
grinned. so | lowed I'd come an
snake up a few logs n split fer de
fi'place n whack up some fer de
cook n stove"
ITS very kind of you, indeed" said
Aunt Laura, for we are in great need
of wood-only I'm afraid | can't pay
YOU for it to-day. Uncle"
"Dass all right-dass all right" in
terrupted Uncle Jink: don't vail
boddah bout dat-dass all right" and
he scuffed away. leaving lis little
mystified. for il was not quite ike
Uncle Jink to be so Indifferent about
compensation for his good deeds.
"Of course Mr.. Melton went and told
him to come, and either paid him or
agreed 10 II we didn't" eNpounded
Dora. and looked as il She were ready
to fall in n heap.
ut was very good Of him IL he did"
said Aunt Laura.
"GOod-yes; but who wants to be an
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Educators in Srssion.

The Western Arkansas Teachers AS
soc;at;op met in annual convention at
Little Rock December Goth, with 10
teachers in attendance Hon. IT, L.
Remmel delivered the address of well
come, and the response was by Proi. a.
v. Smith, of Springdale. A resolution
favoring some sort of normal lnstfuc'
tion as a necessary part of the state
school system was adopted. The follo"-
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
wear: President, Miss Lima Reed, OF
Fayetteville; vice president, A. v.
Smith; secretary, Miss Gatewood' Oh
Lonoke; treasurer, Major II. H. faf-
ham, of Little Rock.
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BRIEF MENTION.

The two-story public school building
at Ola burned.
Bob Jackson seriously stabbed Walter
Davis atB entonville.
A new hub and spoke factory is in
operation at Rogers.
An 1S-inch vein of coal has been found
near Rudy. Crawford county.
A new lodge Of Odd Fellows was in
stituted at Little Rock with rs charter
members.
Federal Judge Williams, at Bates
Vile, sentenced tardy witness to 80
days in jail.
st. Paul's NJ. f church at Beebe was
struck by lightning and destroyed by
fire. No insurance.
The Sloan Springs city council re-
fused to grant 99-year franchise for
electric street cars.
A clever counterfeit silver dollar is
being circulated in Little Rock and at
other points in this state.
Andy Chapman, negro boy about 12
years of age, was accidentally killed by
a Choctaw train at Brinkley.
Fifteen couples were granted mar
riage license by the county. clerk of
Pulaski county within "a hours.
1t is said the furry in the cotton
market last week caused loss of not
less than $4,000 TO Pine Bluff specu-
lators.
Lightning struck the residence OF
S. A. Bond at Rivelee, killing one mem
Der OF the family and injuring several
others.
Six hundred Of the worthy poor Of
Little Rock were given turkey dinner
Christmas day prepared by the Saliva
tion Army.
John Kendricls was fined $40 and
costs on the charge of being drunk and
disturbing religious worship at Lowell,
Benton comfy
Two colored children were burned to
death on the Shepherd plantation near
Judsonia. The mother had left them
locked up and the house burned down
r S Page, one of the oldest passen-
ger conductors IN the employ of the
Iron Mountain railroad died at his
home in Little Rock December 23d of
consumption
Gresham's opera house and C. R.
Parks store at Arkadelphia were badly
damaged by the explosion of dynamite.
touched off near the buildings by Christ.
mas revelers.
J. j. Frey, general manager of the
Santa Fe railway, and General Manager
Yoakum, of the st. Louis & San Fran.
cisco railroad, recently purchasee over
$4,000 acres OF zinc lands near Yellville
Depaty Revenue Collector johnson
and posse destroyed an illicit still
on the Arkansas river ten miles below
Conway. The operator escaped
The Lee county board of tn depv
the report that smallpox is, or has been.
epidemic in that county. The board
reports that few mild cases have ap-
peared, but not single death resulted.
Mollie Breedlove, colored, who killed
her husband in North Little Rock last
summer for which she was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary, has
been granted pardon by Gov. Jones
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Souvenir Lafayette Dollars.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-The Souvenir La
tayette dollars received in Chicago by
the Lafayette Memorial commission
Christmas evening, were taken from
the government kegs at the office of
the treasurer of the American Trust
and Savings bank, yesterday. and the
distribution Of the coins officially be-
gun. Fifteen thousand of the coins
have already been subscribed and paid
for and will be delivered immediate
ly. Ten thousand coins are to be re-
served for distribution in France next
year during the exposition
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And the weela looks dark ard drear'
I'm short Of breath, so ! pant and wheeze,
And shiver and shake. and cough ana
sneeze;
My limbs creak mournfulfy in the breeze
For | am the poor Old Yerf
Twelve months ago I was young and fair;
! ruled the world with a regal air,
And every one welcomed me, here and
there
Without frown or tear
The boys and girls hurrahed Tor me,
And I was as happy as happy could be;
The world around was fair to see
For | was the glad New Year
The merry thrush and the bold cuckoo
Gave me a song and welcome true;
The white puccoon and the violet blue
Peeped slyly into my face;
The tulip gave her rich perfume,
The larkspur waved her azure plume,
The red rose opened her velvet bloom,
My royal court to grace.
The brooklet burst it's icy bond.
The fern uncoiied her greenest frand.
The daisy waved her yellow wand,
To give me welcome meet;
And summer brought her glowing days,
Her bearded wheat and golden maize;
The wild bee hummed. song of praise,
And slipped the clover's sweet.
Then autumn poured her ruddy wine,
And shook the cluster from the vine,
And dropped the needles from the pine,
To scatter In my path
The milk-weed burst her silky pod,
The partridge piped from the tnrfy sod,
And queen of-the-mea1ow and golden-rod,
Bloomed gay in the aftermath.
But now, alasl my time has come;
I'm weak and weary, and cold and numb.
And sour and sad, and cross and glum,
And the world is dark and drear;
No blossoms spring as | pass along,
No warbler sings me a welcome song;
But the bells ring out a merry ding-dong
To welcome another year.
s-zHelen Whitney Clark, in Golden Days.
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Fort Smith chicken Show.

At the Fort Smith meeting held last
week the State Poultry Association
elected the following officers: w. H.
Westbrook, Pine Bluff, president; A. g.
Russell Little Rock. secretary and
treasurer; w. r. Gannaway, first vice.
president; Ashley Coclsrill, Little Rock,
c. A. Ford, Sloan Springs, members of
the executive committee. The show at
the above point was well patronized
both by exhibitors and the public.
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Prof. GeorRe NIII1sr

Prof. Geo. G Millar Of Conway, died
at Nashville. Tenn. from the effects OF
an operation performed to relieve a
fractured knee rrof Millar was mar.
ried to Miss Dana Slaughter at Win
chester. Tenn. few days efore his
death lie was a member of the Hen.
dirk college faculty, and brother ot
Prof. A. C Millar
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Recsiyer Discharged.

The rcceivership of the Little Rock q
Memphis Railroad Company was finally
wound ND in federal court December
22d, 1899, and receiver Rudolph Fink
discharged by Judge John A. Williams
The receivership was virtually ended
December 81, 1898, when the Little
Rock & Memphis property was trans
ferred to the Choctaw & Memphis Rail
road Company.
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WHEREAS H. H.w.RIcKEY GOMEZ
Has Not Been Seen for Several DAYS
and His Friends are Becoming
Anxious.

San Francisco. Dec. 27.-The rela-
tives of II. W. Hickey, son of ). ~
Hickey. of the Hoffman house, Ne"
York, are anxious to discover DIS
whereabouts. He was a guest at tiie
Palace hotel for short time TINS
month, and left there, ostensibly, to go
to a sanitarium TO undergo surgicai
operation.. He has not been seen I"
heard from for ten days
The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30
Good Roads Convention.

The Western Arkansas Good Roads
Association organized at Fort Smith
last week. The district includes the
fourteen counties of the western judi
cial district of Arkansas and the Choc'
taw and Cherokee Nations. There were
$50 delegates present Former 'fov,
Fishback presided at the organization,
which resulted in the election OF the
following permanent officers; George
S ngel, of Fort Smith. president; f. IL.
Foster, of Bentonville, first vice-presi-
dent: John Hamilton, of Mena, second
yice-president; 5. A. Williams, of Fort
Smith. secretary; J. r. Mattox, treas
nrer. The several counties elected
their presidents of county organiza-
tions, who, with the district officials,
form the executive committee, whose
first work will be to select delegates to
state good roads convention TO be
ncld at Little Rock at a latter date not
vet fixed.
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Death Sentencs Affirmed.

The supreme .court has affirmed the
death sentence of NJ B Lane, who
killed his wife in North Little Rock
November %, 1898. Lane is very oil,
man and was under the influence OF
LIQUOR when he murdered his wife,
blowing her head off with d shotgun.
The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30
To Inproye MhIte River.

Congressman Brundidge has intro
duecd a bill appropriating $1,000, oOo Tor
the construction in the upper White
river of sufficient number of locks
and dams of suitable size and strength
to afford permanent and continuous
navigation in said river from Batesville
to Marion Shoals
The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30
Mine Inspector Reports.

Mine Inspector Boyd has submitted
his annual report TO Gov. Jones, which
shows the total coal output OF the state
for the year to be 913,743 tons. The
inspector discusses atlength the results
of the strike, which mas been on since
Ia
The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30
ThreN StilIs DESTROYED

Revenue officers made a successful
raid after moonshipers in the Ozark
Cleveland a 40galloD still was de-
stroyed, and Marshall Robbins, the
owner, arrested. A 55-gallon still near
Sang operated by Bill Snakes was rem
dered useless. and Bud Reed was caught
doing busines at plant near Appleton.
Pope county
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.anous,,ed Nv Former Empio,e..

Mord Roberts, formerly division mas.
ter mechanic of the Iron Mountain rail.
road, now with the Louisville & Nash.
vile, was rendered a banquet by his
former associates and employees at Lit
tie Rgrlx
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Rallrnnh Commission Work.

The railroad commission has gwen
notice that Ola Thursday, January 10.
they will consider the question Of fix
ing a general tariff of class rates or
merchandise transported by railroads
between points Ia this state.
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s,,,ch n, An Electric Car.

Ernest Beck was struck by an electric
car at Fort Smith and probably fatally
Injured Mr. Beck. who is partially
deaf. was standing on the track watch
ing some road work, and did not heat
the approaching car.
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Fatally Burned.

Mrs. +. S. Hamilton, who lived ne6
Cotton Plant, was fatally burned. She
had been i'll and while sitting near the
freplhce spark ignited her clothing,
Before assistance could arrive she was
burned so badly that she died the next
lay after intense suffering.
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Given Auother week.

Washington. Dec. 27.-The COMFY
troller Of the currency has given 'n'N
directors of the Broadway nat'ohaA
bank of Boston an additional week III
which to perfect arrangements for INC
reopening of the institution.
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Eirc nj Tower HiII. III.

Tower Hill, H., Dec. 27.-The 'ts
hotel and J. w. Shelby's dry goods
store were burned. The total loss is cs'
timated at $4,000. Several hotel guests
had narrow escapes from the burning
building.
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tn Exhibit Native Marble.

Commissioned Hill is arranging to in,
stall an exhibit of native marb in the
new depot OF the Little Rock & West.
crn railroad at Hot Springs, and solicits
the assistance of citizens throughout
the state in collecting samples.
The Van Buren press., 1899-12-30
Ancient Astronomy.
gator.

When Nineveh and Babylon were in
the splendor of their might men "a
China were predicting eclipses, max
ing catalogues and giving names to
the stars. But Nineveh and Babylon
were mere mounds of rubbish when
China was great, and to this date the
civilization and life of the empire is
the w Wonder of The world.
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PennIe. As kruger souyenIr.

Kruger pennies are being purchased
as souvenirs throughout Cape Colo1y.
it being assured that no more ot
them will Se coined after the war.
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f WERE always
getting ut 0 I
wood at Maple
Knoll.
1t was the big
fireplace in the
sitting-room that
ateup all the fuel
we could get. I
never so such an
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LAST my time has
nearly come:
I'm weak and weary.
and cold a n d
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And sad and sour
and cross a n d
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-04
THE RULES ARE STRICT.


Washington, July 29.--Ccnsus Direct
or Merriam has completed the prepare
tions Of his official instructions to SUI
pervisors and each of the 80 appoint
ees win receive a copy next week. Mer-
riam wishes the supervisors to impress
upon the minds of their enumerators
that there is to beno back down" after
they accept the tasks assigned to them.
After taking up the work they must go
through with it, whether they like it
or not Census enumerators who tell
what they learn in the performance of
their duties are liable to fine of $500,
the director warns them, and if they
are caught making oaths to untruths
they are liable to go to prison for three
years for perjury and to pay a fine of
IS 100
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-04
AT THE STATES EXPENSE.
WIN BE Brought from san Francisco
to Topeka in "A Body.

Topeka. Kan, Aug. 2.-Defnite steps
will be taken within the next ten days
looking toward the bringing of the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers home
from San Francisco i'm a body at the
expense of the state and the holding
of big celebration in TopeEa in their
honor. Tie railroa = are nov ut work
ON schcme t. bring the troops home
and depe a upon the lcgi at.re two
years hence to pay the b IL for
transportation. GOV. Stanley wants
10 make the reception big,
aon-partisan affair. lie win prob
ably ask Chairman Riddle, of the pop
ulist state committee, and Chairman
Albaugh, of the republican state com
mittee, to name "A committee to take
charge of the arrangements to get the
troops home, The regiment will not
leave Manila until August 10 to 20, and
will not arrive at San Francisco until
the middle of September 1t will take
from two weeks to a month to muster
the regiment out, so that the reception
will not be held until the latter part
of October or the first part of Novem-
har