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The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

portant as the railway systems, the
statement being made by them, and be-
Ing easily understood, that there is not
an ounce of any commodity hauled over
the railroads that is not first transport
ed by wagons over country roads or
city streets. It does not matter If the
commodity is manufactured articles
that are loaded on cars at the factory;
the raw material has first to be hauled
to the factory. But the greatest haul
ing is done in the farming districts and
there it is that good highways are most
needed.
The subject has not been given the
attention and support it deserves, as
yet, for the simple reason that private
capital cannot become interested in the
building of common roads since there
would be no income from the invest
ment such as there is In railways.
Municipal, county, state and the ma
tonal government have not had the is
sue brought directly before them in its
full significance because It is necessary
to first educate the people to the neces-
sites of the movement. This Is what is
being done by the wheelmen at the
present time, and 1t must be said to
their credit that they have enlisted the
sympathy and support Of all the prom
inent farmers organizations in the
movement. With the two classes work
ing together it is only question of
time until the movement will be made a
political issue and then will come the
desired improvements.
The argument offered in favor Of the
improved roads is, that they lessen the
cost of repairs, make it possible to haul
the largest amount of goods with the
smallest animal power, save time and
increase property valuations. No rail-
road company would expect to do busi-
ness If its tracks and roadbeds were in
such condition as to make it either i'm
possible to use the tracks at long SEN
sons of the year, or in using them have
to lose great deal of time and have i'm
mense repairs to make; and yet that is
what the farmers and others using the
common roads are doing in compara-
tive way every day in the year.
They make the most impracticable
attempts at road building and repair
ing, and then wonder why there is no
profit in their products, which have
been hauled over bad roads at the great
est expense. 1t has been estimated that
in the states where the stone roads have
been built the cost of transporta-
ton has been decreased to 20 per cent.
of the former figures, and that the
roads pay for themselves within few
years. 1t has been further shown that
the amount lost in the different ways
mentioned will more than pay for the
building and repairs of these roads ON
the annual assessments made for them,
or that 1t costs no more each year to
have good roads than it does to have
bad ones.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
Curious c-,to~.

In China it is the custom for guests at din
ners to run around between the courses. This
is supposed to keep the diners digestion in
good condition, but the nervous hustling
American needs something else, and there is
nothing better than Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters. If a man or woman 10 suffering
with constipation, indigestion or any stom-
ach trouble, it's their fault il they don't get
well. Hostetters Stomach Bitters will cure
them. See that a private Revenue Stamp
covers the neck Of the bottle.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
Plain Bu.in e.s Proposition.

"The state can get more out of her
convict labor by placing it on the pub
lie roads than in any other way, and
would be decidedly more profitable to
letting them remain in jail in idleness,"
says the New Smyrna tFla) Breeze.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
Against Slang.

"This slang is very annoying" said the
solemn gentleman. "You remember that
time my house was entered by burglar!
Well, l yelled 'robbers' with all my might
and the people thought ! was yelling rub.
indianapolis Journal.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
w1RE-FENcE CORNERS.
curely Is Neither Very DIM
cult Nor Expensive.

There are many ways of securing the
corners of wire fences. Weighting, an
choring, bracing, guying, ETC., are used.
1t is neither difficult nor expensive to
put in corners for a wire fence (whether
barbed. woven or plain) that will not
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

The Best Prescriptfon for ChiIIs.
and Fever is bottle Of GRovE's TAsrELEss
CHILL ToNlc. It Is simply Iron and quinine In
Q tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price.50c.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

LAwyer-sYou say that yod vsre = ~
saloon at the time Of the assault inferred
70 in the complaint :" WitnessI wast
4: H. b.ss..s.r Y ~ yGs s.. 4
don't know what he called Il bat ! tosk
what the rest did Boston togstsks \ x Z
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
Inference.

Barnes Tormer--He who eniertains th,
fckle public, sir, leads dogs Life.
Stranger--You don't mean to tell me yor
are the, barker for the show?-IndianapoliI
journal. RI
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

1t is surprising how many worthless mel
6od S se0a Su asY
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

To Cure . G,ssA la Oas Nay
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money II IL fails 10 cure 25c.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

"Ah, you do not know how hard it is to
lose ones wife" Hard! My dear sir, it's
simply impossible. ."-Pick-Me
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14
X.e1ass O. Wses~ -

s. Ses "a ps.ss s'f 10 sssss IS is issss i a.
or rev shoes easy. Cnroa sWollea, 5nk,
sweating, aching fsst ingroydae naliss corn6
and bunions. AZ ali ruggises Ay2 shee
xSSss.s 'ssas c 1,,n Trs s JSsasxS Jysss.xs II Eas g.,
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

No employer il doing the right thing by
his employe, according to the employees s
friends.-Atchison Globe.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

The only people who have any excuse fol
having the big head are those who hav,
never had it.-N. Y. journal.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

Hairs Catarrh Cure
Il Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

Piso's Cure cured me Of Throat and
Lung trouble of three years stand;ng.-E.
Cady, Huntington, Ind, Nov. II, 1894.
Some fathers never see their daughters ex.
cepting on pay day.-Atchison Globe.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-07-14

The true dairy COW is an exceedingly
sensitive creature, and is easily affected
by conditions, favorable or otherwise.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

Ag9nt " .. Charles of Stamps, who nas been seriously i'll at the company hospital, is improyino ranid,u
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

around with John having good
 time and indulging freely in the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
A Youthtul Master of Finance.

One of the cadets of a northwestern military academy, but who lives in Chicago, has convinced his father that he Is destined to brilliant business career It is all owing to letter that the young man wrote short time ago. It appears that the father had prom ised the boy he should have any sort of watch he wa ed at the close Of the present school term, Nothing more was heard about the watch until the fat sr received a letter that ran about like this Dear Father: --I have been looking at watches lately and have decided that the kind want will cost you about S350 As watch of this value is hardly of the sort for boy of 15 to carry, and as l will not need watch til after leave school, ] wish to make this suggestions: Prob- ably you are hard up and do not wish to spend $350 for a watch at this time. Four years from now, when I leave school. watches will be cheaper, and it is likely that you can" then buy the same watch for $150. Now the interest on $35O for four years (simple inter est-I ans willing to let you have the
 benefit of the compound at per cent will be sS4. If you will send me the SSf now you need not buy yithe watch till after leave school. In this way you will have the use of the $266 for four years, and at the end of that time the watch will only cost you s150; $50 plus $S4 is $234, or sll6 less than what the watch will cost you now So, you see, by this plan you will make clear profit or this transaction of $ll6. Your loving son. EDDY"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
\ Comedy et Errors.


 There was an accident on a Portland street the other day, and this is how 1t happened A tramp walking ID the street saw a beneyolent-lool5ing wheel man riding down. and started to head him off. Just then dog on the same side of the street noticed eat on the opposite side and made for it. The dog didn't notice the tramp, and the wheelman took no account of the dog. The result was that the dog went be- tween the legs of the tramp and rolled that individual over on his bat@. The wheelman struck dog and tramp and took header over them The wheel man struck frantically at the dog and his blow landed on the nose of the tramp, while the cog made an assault on the tramp, and, missing him, made life exciting for the wheelman. At last they untangled themselves and the tramp and the wheelman trailed bad language one up and the other down the street, while the dog stood and growled at both. Meanwhile tie cat emerged from 8 hole in the lumber pile where she had taken ref e and watched the three with evident inter- est.-Lewiston Journal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

nfes must be taken to save her from com plete mental and physical wreck.
 q was so nervous couldn't bear to hear the sound of my voice when alone says Mrs. Nellie Rrittenhau, of Davenport. Thayer Co.,, Nebr felt as though there was some ono ready to grab me if the least sound was made. 1 really cannot describe the feelings 1 had, but I eaii say I have no such Hgty feelings now and trust I never may again. I was suffering from female weakness and very much from nervous prostratiou.
 q was not able to do anything I conld not sit tip all day. I had not sat up all day since the birth of my baby four months before l began 10 take Dr. Pierce's medicines took one doctor s medicine for four months but did not get along Rt ali so. discouraged. I thought l would try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription aud Golden Medical Discovery I took six bottles of the Prescription and nine of the Golden Medical Discovery and used DF. Piefee's Pleasant Pellets along with the other medicines, and I can say they have done wonders for me.
 T do all my work now and feel better than for two years. had not eaten anything for three mouths except some kind of soup and crackers; now eat anything want. believe I owe my health to Dr.~Pierce's medicines
 Discouraged brokeu-dowu women should write to Dr R., ", Pierce. at Buffalo, N. Y., and learn how carefully lie studies into these apparently hopeless cases. He will send without charge, in plain sealed envelope) the best advice Of a capable, ex- perienced physician
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
AN AUTHOR
Who Wrote Books of Travel, Yet Had
 Never Travelled.

N no " FOlb AsOVAS oa AGA AhtN
 Never Travelled.
 New Orleans Times Democrat q used to know man, said New Or leans bohemian, who made living writing stories of travel for boys He had never been out of Missouri in his life, but he was famous for the graphic fidelity of his description of foreign lands. His reference library consisted of exactly three works: An encyclope- dia, set of United States consular re- ports, covering four or five years, and copy of Woods Natural History. ," If the scene of the story was to be laid for instance, in Borneo. he would be- gin by reading the Borneo article in the encyclopedias then he would turn to the consular reports and look up all the odd and interesting matter he could find touching that particular island, and finally he would get description of it's animals from Woods He wrote at an old table on which was glued map of the world. covered with sheet of glass. This was constantly before his eyes, so he couldn't go astray on geography, and, as I said before, his descriptions were marYels of accuracy. He could draw better and more re- alistic pen picture of foreign countries than travellers themselves. People thought that he had been a great globe trotter. and, crazy as it sounds. I be- lieve he actually got to thinking so himself The last time I saw hir2 he talked about Afghanistan in the easy off-hand vein of a personal observer. If I hadr'r happened to know that he had been living in St. Louis all his life I would have sworn he had been there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
WHY THEY DO IT.
Some queer Things Done by Pets and
 inc Reason.

Some Queer Things Done by Pets and
 the Reason
 Did you ever see your dog walking around and around in a circle? or course you have. but l don't expect you know why they do 1t Years and years ago, more years than you can count, perhaps, the dogs were all wild, like their cousins, the wolves, and had 3o beat out hole in the grass or the snow before they could lie down. And the dogs have done the same way ever since. They had to keep their noses clean, too, so they could smell the rab- bits and other animals they ate. a long ways off, so they never let their noses touch the ground, going to sleep r h their noses resting on their paws.
 G they have done that ever since. fse cat is always washing herself and | known to be the eleanest of all the aimals. Well, away back long ago the cats had to keep clean or the little ani- mals she waited patiently for would smell her long ways off and Kitty would have had to so hungry. And cats ,e the same today.
 MRS. LowNDEs BUFFERS BREAD She Is Kept Busy Because of Curious
 Fancy.
 Mrs. Lloyd LoV .ldes. wife of the gov ernor of Maryland, is engaged in the beneheient work of curing whoopius cough at Annapolis, says the Baltimore Sun. It would be better, perhaps, to state that Mrs. Lowndes is kept busy responding to the appeals of curious folklore fancy of southern Maryland. In the household philosophy of that section it is gravely stated that if the mother of twin children will butter piece of bread for patient suffering with whooping cough the little ons will be speedily relieved upon eating it. Two of Mrs Lowndes sons ase twins. WhoopiHg cough is now prev alent at Annapolis. These two state ment z Ye an index to her present troubles. Anxious mothers of late have been appealing to the lady of the executive mansion in season and out of season. No social function is too important to be interrupted by them The door guardian is constantly bring ing in Macedonian cries for pieces of buttered bread. Mrs. Lowndes Is tos kind hearted to refuse to respond to this curious superstition, and has used in tn way many pounds of the de- licio butter that is brought to the execuTiye mansion from the governors fine fa n near Pempey Smash, Alls- gany county.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
Weak Eyes are Made Strone

linn vision made clear. stys removed and granulated Ids or sore yes of any kind speedily and effectuallg rured by the use of Sutherland'a Eagle Eye Salye. It's put ap ia tubes. and sold on a guarantee by all good druggists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22
How .rsmpesa.ure Affects avoty.

Ivory billiard balls, freshly turned, have to. be treated very carefully, as a sudden change in temperature may cause them to crack To prevent this they require to be placed for at least three months in warm room in order to shrink them gradually and dry true before they are finished and polished.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

cans of 3-lb new tomatots for 25c. cans of 2-lb corn for 25c.
 3 packages Of fresh rolled oats for 25c.
 2 cans Of Boston baked beans for 25c. Mccain Grocery Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

CogarD akers, of Tampa will or ganize to limit the ou'put
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

'"'' 0ODssi1u'Ion IS $I and sI for each month thereafter; Their de. sire to anIarc,o .a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

IF you nao 8 reiepn, office or home, you
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-22

whisky than "Vollmer." It's better than any other and you can have 1t for the sI, assia~ iIns
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
An Added Burden,

was taking my dinner one day at a
mountain farmhouse on the headwaters
of the Cumberland river, and the lady
of the house, who had four children
playing around the front of the estab-
lishment, was inclined to repine at her
hard luck in having so much worlNto do.
Il run this here whole farm, she
said in tone which indicated that she
was ready to resign.
elbow many acres have your in
quired.
"a hundred and forty-20 in wheat,
so in corn, l 0 in medder an paster, an
the balance scatterin an woods. y
scot any stockT'
"Ten head NV cattle, two COWS, six
hogs an work critters fer the place. y
"And you run the whole business?'
"Indeed | do-every hide an hair NV
it," she sighed
Don't you hire some help?'
SIN course but faint hired help
that takes the load Off en- a body" There
was philosophy in that statement, and
l paused a minute.
"Haven't you got husband ? next
asked with good deal of sympathy,
Eyes" she responded very slowly,
"but l have to run him too. "-Wash-
ingtOn Star
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23

ed, and it Is believed that paid up capt.
tai stock of $5OO.00O can easily be secur.
ca. Richard Webber, the wealthy butch
er OF One Hundred and Twentieth street
ana Third avenue. has become interested
ana is booming the project.
Inc people who can least afford it are
tne ones to first feel the rise in the price
OF meat. The poor have already found
IL necessary to either reduce the quantity
OF meat purchased or buy an inferior
quality.
Retail butchers report great and
general decrease in the voumn of their
business, and they say that until the
proposed action is taken they as well as
the public will be at the mercy of the
beef trust.
The idea is to build ah immense abat-
tolr mere and to purchase cattle on the
moor IN the west. 1t is believed the cat
tlemen would sell to the new concern
sooner than the trust.
1T is figured that the increase in the
profits of the big Five" as the trust
composed of Armour, Swift. Morris. Gu
daily and Schwarzschild 4 Sulzberger
Is termed, amounts to $4,000 week in
the local market alone.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
Superstition and It's Effects.

wish that some one would write an
adequate book upon superstition and
its effects, as distinguished from and OPP
posed to revealed religion and its
effects. This curse of the world, civil
lied or savage, deserves worthy chron
icler Walking round the exhibits in
the Agricultural hall, 1t was borne in to
my mind that superstition in all its
hideous phases is perhaps the most con-
crete and tangible form in which the
evil one manifests himself upon earth,
and think that those who have mixed
much with native races will not dis
agree with me.
Here is an instance of its working
which has just come to my notice: Not
long ago two Matabeles were tried at
Bulawayo for the murder of their grand
son, a child of 2. Poison having failed,
the hoy was held beneath the water and
drowned. The crime was admitted, but
the defense raised was that the child
had cut its top teeth first. Such chill
dren being unlncky and the cause of i'll
luck to others, it was customary to kill
them, and a "witch doctor" on being
consulted, had ordered that this one
should be put to death! Well, only
century or so since we did things al
most as bad in England. Rider Hag-
gard in Longman s.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
A DazzTing Array.

The hotel clerk told the following
story: Charles L. Davis, the actor, 9TH
erwise known as calvin Joslin," was
in the lobby of the st. Charles, in New
Orleans, when man from Chicago
stepped in front of him and looked over
his head in search of an acquaintance
that he supposed was in the hotel lobby.
Davis, mistaking the Chicago man s
purpose, remarked: "Ah! | see you adj
mire my diamonds. This one --indicat-
ing the stone on his shirt bosom-"cos
he 50, 900. These --showiHg his cuff
buttons-"cost me So, 500 each, and my
wife has a trunkful up in our room"
The Chicago man did not say much,
but that evening, by arrangement with
the head waiter, Davis was placed at
supper alone at a table where there
were several vacant chairs. Presently
several men, all commercial travellers,
entered the dining room, and each one
had large cut glass fruit dish fastened
on his breast, while glass prisms hung
pendent from each coat and vest button,
Soberly marching to Davis table, the
seven men took the vacant seats, and
the Chicago man entertained the actor
with "Ah, | see you admire our dia-
monds. This one" --pointing to the
fruit dish-"cost me $3, 900, COO
These indicating the prisms-"cost
$3.50, 600 each, and we have three car
loads like them at the depot waiting to
be side tracked" Davis not only chang
ed his table, hut went to another hotel
louisville Courier Journal.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
Viola HOrIOc1xer In Asylum.

Hastings, Neb., Aug. 23.--Viola Hor-
locker, the young stenographer who was
arrested here a few months ago. charged
with poisoning Il number of society wom-
Ell in an effort to kill Mrs. Anna Morey,
wife of the lawyer for whom she work
ed. is. it is said. an inmate of the Jack
sonville Ills.) asylum for the insane. She
was committed to that institution quietly
nearly three months ago The facts have
Just leaked out as a result of the county
attorneys efforts to ascertain if the de-
fendant, who was released on $1,000 bail
to appear for trial next month"; would
likely be present. Her lawyers quietly
admit that the girl was practically n
maniac and had been for some time be
fore the crime was committed. She was
taken to Jacksonville and entered in the
ward of the incurnble insane.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
A Swift Bird.

The Mexican road runner has only
two short legs, but he can beat a horse,
a hound or an electric carriage and give
them a handicap start.
Speed is not his only recommends
tion. He eats as he runs, or rather as
the things run away from him. Snakes
are the principal part OF his diet, big
and little, His crop is as elastic as his
legs are swift, and when he wants to
prepare for long journey he coils up a
RATHER or two inside of his neck and
sets out across the Mexican desert with
swiftness that makes it look like a
bunch of dust ON record breaking tour
around the world.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23
THE 7RANSVA AL CRISIS
Parliamentary Paper on the Situation
issued In England.
JAMAICA OFFERS TROOPS.
Entire Regiment Responds When
Volunteers Are Called For-Na-
tive Militia willing to Aid
the White Troops.

London, Aug. 23.--A parliamentary pa
per dealing with the Transvaal crisis has
luSt been issued. 1t details the efforts
OF the Boer government during the past
year to have the question of the sllzclain-
ty of Great Britain submitted to arbitla-
ton ana Great Britain's repeated refu-
sails to discuss the basic point.
The document adds that Sir Alfred
Miner. the governor of Cape Colony
and high commissioner of South Africa,
writing to Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain the
secretary of state for the colonies, last
June, said:
THE way in which the secretary of
state jlggrs with the convention of 1894
is rather irritating to plain man."
The final dispatch from Mr.. Chambers
lain. dated July 49, 1890, to Sir Alfred
Miner conrlrs with the latter's view as
to the untenabe Transvaal contention,
adding that the British government had
no intention to continue to discuss the
question of suzerainty with the Trans
yaal
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-08-23

Arecent discussion at dinner table,
whether "gottln" or "got'' were tho
preferable participle, received a practi
cal solution, at least for the telegraphic
service, from an experience related of a
college professor who preferred ''got-
ten" He had telegraphed to his wife:
"Have gotten tickets for the theater to-
night. Meet me there.
The telegraph operator rendered this
into "Have got ten tickets" etc.
Mrs. Professor was delighted with the
opportunity of entertaining her friends
and accordingly made up party Of
eight besides herself, whose greetings to
the professor at the rendezvous We're
probably more cordial than his feeling
until matters We're explained. He now
makes an exception to his customary
use of ''gotten. -