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Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
GENERAL LEES MOoEsTY.

A month or 80 after his surren-
der General Lee went one day to
the store near his home in Pow
hatan County, Virginia, which
also served as the postoffice.
Everybody in the town was in
stantly eager to see him, and in
few moments the store was
crowded. The general was talk
ing with the proprietor about
crops and other matters and ap-
parently unconscious of the fact
that the gathering of the resi-
dents was due solely to his pres
ence, Suddenly he realized that
everybody was watching him and
modestly said; "But I see I am
keeping you from your many
customers, Pardon mel" and
at once withdrew.--The Ladies
Home Journal,
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
a NO ACCOUNT FELLOW,

"I'm afeared," said the old
man, with a downcast look. "T'm
afeared that John is jest one o.
these no. count fellers that never
comes to any good. You know,
him an Bill fined the army at
the same time"
eyes"
can Johns been in every
battle that Bill has"
eyes"
"Well, Bills had a leg an a
arm shot off, an is now takin' of
his ease, an a-helpin' of the
family on a fine government PEN
sion that'll last him through life
but John hain't lost 30 much az
one ear-been all through the
thiolcest of it, an hahn t even had
a tooth pulled"
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
WHERE sae LOST 1T.

There is a handsome young
woman in Washington who had
the misfortune to fall down stairs
a few years ago, so badly fac
turing her knee that the limb had
to be amputated. The young
woman, who walks with the aid
of crutches, is not in the least
sensitive about the matter. One
afternoon recently she Got into a
street car, bound for the hill. and
found herself in the same seat
with a sharp-eyed woman, who
seemed to take a whole lot of in
terest in her and her cruthes.
She scrutenized the young wo-
man 8 face carefully for a couple
of minutes, then turned her at
tention to the workmanship of
the clutches, which she took the
liberty to handle curiQusly.
Then she looked the young wo-
man over again, and leaned over
to her, Dye mind tellin' ne
how you lost your Ieg?" she
asked, raspily. 'Not in the
least, " responded the young wo-
MAI, amiahIy, 81 lost it in the
battle of Gettysburg"
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
GOOD ADVICE.

Robert Burdette has a son he
ig pleased to call Telemachus, to
whom now and then he gives
pretty sound advice. Recently
he said to him:
Get away from the crowd a
little every day, my boy. Stand
to one side and let the world run
by, while you get acquainted
with yourself, Ascertain from
original sources if you are really
the manner of man people say
you are; if you always tell the
SQUARE truth in business deals, if
your life is as good and upright
at eleven o'clock at night as it is
at noon, if you are as good a
temperance man on a fishing
EXCURSION as you are at Sunday
School picnic, if you are as good
boy when you 60 to the city,
as you are at home, if, in short,
YOU are really the sort of a man
your father hopes and your sweet
heart believes you are. Get on
intimate terms with yourself, my
boy, and, believe me, every time
you come from one of these pri-
vate interviews you will be a
stronger, better, purer man.
Don't forget this, Telemachus,
and it will do you good.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
AN EYE TO COMFORT.

A Georgia Moonshiner wrote
home from prison;
"BiIl; the government havin'
fell foul o me, I am in here to
stay awhile, an bein' here, want
to be al comfortable as possible.
SEN me my fiddle, my two clay
pipes, the Songs of zion, three
gallons o corn liquor, an Bum
vans Pilgrims Progress. An
Bill-koep the old still a goin' till
I kin tackle her ag'inr-Atlanta
Constitution.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
ADVERTISE

Makes no difference what your
business is, in order to get rid of
your wares, whether potatoes or
poetry, dry goods or legal advice,
peanuts or paragraphs, you must
get your name into everybody.
ears and eyes, and to do this
there is nothing like original
4S~spaper advertising Invent
iTIS>s, adaptability, promptness
Of decision, must direct your
blows, and if you can't find mar
kets, make them, Dart at new
ideas that will boly you above
the waves OF the commonplace
Jed Scarboro.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17

Mormonism predominates in
five western states.
One good dose of DR.. Bell j
Pine Tar Honey, on retiring,
stops cough, relieves Group or
cures a cold, and insures quiet
rest and refreshing sleep. 1t is
harmless. Babies love it; all
mothers who have used it recon-
mend it. Good druggists sell it.
When a woman has nothing
else to wish for she wishes her
husband we're different.
If you are unable to rest at
night one dose of DR.. Bells Pine
Tar Honey will give you natural
and refreshing sleep. It stops a
cough and cures a cold quicker
than any other known remedy.
It heals the throat, chest and
lungs, cures la grippe perma-
nently; does not stupefy-is
harmless. Children love it and
old people like it. Druggists
sell it.
Some people are likes circus
bills; a little money causes them
to be stuck up,
V. A. Harkins, Lono, Ark,
says; Have used DR.. M. A..
simmons liver medicine u years
and pronounce it the best liver
medicine made. 1t cures sick
headache, is a good appetizer,
and is, think, superior to Zelin's
and Black Draught, Sold by
Snow the druggist.
When a woman asks you TO be
candid she expects you to be
complimentary as well.
The girls friend, Simmons
squaw vine wine or tablets, cause
natural appearance and regular
monthly return Of menses. Sold
by Snow the druggist.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
A CHRONIC GRUMBLeR.

"Cotton crop a failure?"
ooh, yesI'
Corn no good?"
"None tall"
eaters rotten?"
ever oner'
"Cows gone dry2"
Last one Of 'eml',
"Hogs kilt out?"
"Completet"
"Well, have you got anything
at all?"
eyes, bless God, I've got the
peasIes PUCK.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
CAUSE COZ EXCLAMATION.

In a rattle at Kansas City a
preacher drew a gold-mounted
corkscrew and a noted gambler a
copy Of Surgeons sermons.
Then the crowd grinned, the
parson blushed and the gambler
punched his vocal hits into one
sharp "Wellibedam."
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
KILLING NEAR rExARkANA

Ono night last week Ed Wal.
ker shot and killed Fletcher
5tuckey just south Of Texarkana.
Walker is a candidate for justice
Of the peace, and when they met
stuckey begah to abuse Walker.
Blows followed and stuckey
drew his gun and fired. Walker
then drew a pistol and shot
Stuckey, with the result az told
above.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
THE MORTGAGE.

The mortgage is a self-sup-
porting institution.
1t always holds its own.
1t calls for just as many dol
lars when wheat is cheap as
when it is dear.
1t is not affected by the
drought.
1t not drowned out by heavy
rains.
Itnever winter kills.
Late springs and early frosts
never trouble it.
Potato bugs never disturb it,
Moth and rust do not destroy
it.
1t grows nights, Sundays, on
rainy days and holidays,
1t brings a sure crop every
year and sometimes twice a
year.
Itproduces cash every time,
IL does not have to wait for the
market to advance.
tits not subject to speculation
of the bulls and bears on the
board of trade.
tits load that gals and frets
and chafes.
It is burden that the farmer
cannot shake off.
1t is with him morning, noon
$50. ---.-.. - D 80 p -, -,
and night,
1t eats with him at the table.
It gets under his pillow when
he sleeps,
It rides upon his shoulders
during the lay.
1t consumes his grain crop.
1t deyours his cattle.
1t selects his finest horses and
the finest steers,
1t stalks into the dairy where
the busy housewife tolls day
after day and month after month,
and takes the incest cheese and
the choicest butter.
1t shares the children''s bread
and robs them of half theil
clothes.
Tt stoops the toiler's back witt
its remorseles burden of care
It hardens his hands, benumbs
his intellect, prematurely whit.
ems his locks and oftentimes
sends him and his aged wife
over the hill to the poorhouse.
1t is an inexorable and exact.
ing task-master.
It's whip is as merciless anC
cruel as the lash OF the slave
driver.
It is a menace to liberty, ;
hindrance to progress, a curse tt
the world,-Norton's Monthly.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17

Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle.
Sold by s. G. Medlock 6 Bro,
Poughkeepsie, Arkansas.
A man may be confined but
| not convinced.
The flashing eye, buoyant
foOtstep and rosy complexion re-
suit from the use of DR.. NJ, A,
Simmons liver medicine. Sold
! by Snow the druggist.
Honest is the cat when the
meat is out IF reach.
Walkers Tonic is the link that
picks up the vital force of man
| in his rundown state and binds
him to health and strenth by re-
cuperating the brain, regulating
the action of the hearth and
nourishing the nervous system.
He who pleads his own case
has a foCl for his client.
The reliable cure for Leucor-
rhoea, Ovarian disorders and
falling of womb, 10 Simmons
squaw vine wine or tablets, Sold
by Snow the druggist,
When passenger cars burn up
they all become smoking cars.
Temporary arrangement of d.
gestion, through overwork, worry
or emotional excitement, are
quickly rectified by DR.. NJ. A,
Simmons liver medicine. Sold
by Snow the druggist.
Millinery openings do not nee
essarily mean purse openings,
All dealers in Evening Shade
and J. A, Lamar, Cave City
guarantee every bottle of Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy and vii
refund the money to any one who
is not satisfied after using two.
thirds of the contents. Fhis il
the best remedy in the world fol
la grippe, coughs, colds, GROUP
and whooping cough and i.
/ pleasant and safe to take. |
prevents any tendency Of q colo
to RESULT in pneumonia. Feb
Beauty is a wQman's capital
woman is mans capital,
With a catarrhal affection o
the throat or head, or any pul,
monary ailment, a slight cold o.
hacking cough is a serious
thing to have-it is so seriou,
you cannot afford to have it. DR.
Belle Pine-Tar- Honey will curt
cough or cold in one night. |
will remove the catarrhal affec
ton or pulmonary ailment anC
build up the tissues supporting
the lungs.
People who don't borrow
trouble are few.
! To regulate the menses, stoy
flooding and too frequent appear
ance of menses, take Simmon,
squaw vine wine or tablets. Sole
by Snow the druggist.
A woman thinks the hairpiI
nliphtier than the sword.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
The Great Presidential Campaign Of Ion

The policies of the great political parties beino M
the candidates discussed The voice of the people reco
AZ approaching presidential election will probably decd
nation decade Every citizen study the
tons before the people Now the time tb
every subscribe for the best and most reliable paper %
The Sem-Weeky Republic the Whole field of pobr
While Democratic, publishes the IN regard all nor
without predjuce Its Geographic and cable service
all others It's special features the best, In fact II Ia
for that large readers who afford not ba
daily papers Subscription 81 per Address all order.
THE REPUBLIC, st Iou;s
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
OFFICIAL.


Congressman, First Distrct-P D. aCCaIou
residence Marianne, Lee County. ..,,
senator, Second Dist-A' j VIII Fo GaauIs
udge, 18th Judicial Dist-J0hn D. hc,pN
Evening shade ~
Pros. ATTY 18Th Dlst-R, B. Maxry' h@
moth SPRING y....
snAar Co1Nrr-Representanve--r T. Hem
judge, W. Smith.
llerk-H, Is, Hill.
sheriff. T wilkins Hardy,
A ssessOr--Con NJ sullivan.
Treasurpr-C W Shaver.
Co, EXaminer--J, A. Watkt 8.
THE COURTS,
Circuit Court, N, Dist-Flrst Monday y ~
nary and July, IN :. Dst-Secoad .MonuN
February and August. ,,,a
County Court-ist Monday In January Ap'''
uly and October y..A
Probate Court, ) Dist--lnJ Monday 10 n"''
June, september and December,
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
TORN FROM LOVING ARMS.

victed by twelve good men and
true of the crime of murder,
says Harper's Weekly, every
one in the community agreed
with the jurors except Joe's
mother.
Curious, isn't it, what credu-
lous creatures women are? That
is mediterranean. A wife will
sometimes stick to a man
through the worst that can come
to him, have known one to 90
to the gallows foot and stay un-
til the sun was darkened by the
form she loved in the air. But.
there are somesqrimes that kill
love in wife'5' ''t cart for all
that, though have yet L}a = m
of mother who was not i9g vi
to the end-and beyond it. v
Joe had always been a reckless
fellow among his kind. Only the
old lady in the poor and dingy
! place he called home knew the
better character. To her he was
tenderness itself. Never a harsh
look or an oath from Joe to her
She was up waiting for him when
he came in that night, and his
white face frightened her.
What is it, lad% she ques-
toned soothingly.
Nothing, mother. I fell and
hurt my hand. Can you get me
a pan Of water to wash IMP"
Then she had hustled about
and when she had almost i'm
ished wiping the blood away
from his wrist the door was burst
open and he was arrested for the
murder of d comrade. That old
woman had never told a lie in
her life, but she stoutly faced his
accusers.
"He has bided with me all day
an evenin', " she said. HE has
done no wrong, has my Joey"
And the mans eyes glowed like
Goals, then the divine flared for
ever.
Don't stain your soul with a
lie for me, mother" he said. 81
amt worth it, Come boys: Pm
ready.
She threw herself on his breast.
Her gray hair streamed over his
shoulder.
"The law can't hurt me like
this, whatever it does" He
turned to them fiercely." Get me
away, can ye?'
So they tore him from the low
ing arms. He looked back and
gave strange cry when he saw
her lying on the floor like one
dead, the cold and glarish light
of March falling like a halo
around her.
But she was not dead. Mothers
do not die when their children
need them. Those frail old
hands were the only ones on
earth strong enough to try to-
unlock the chains around him.
She began her efforts for his re-
lease, only to find the tolls clos
ing tighter and tighter around
him,
Then came the trial and the
sentence to DEATH then a Friday
when the old mother sat with her
helpless hands folded in her lap,
staring into the shadows. She
saw her boy as he had been in
babyhood. The little pink feet
battered around her chair; the
sweet voice cooed the matchless
love language of Infancy, She
heard again his songs and lis
tened, with smiles Of pride and
tenderness, to his prayer, All
he was 80 big, and yet afraid of
the dark, Well, she must dag
with the bairnie.
She rose to her feet, still
smiling, A bell struck in the
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
Directory.
RELIGIOUS.

RELIGIOUS.
Preachingat tho Methodist church ast IN
bird sundays in enGh. month Rev, " b
Walker pustor Everybody invited.
Preaching ut the Christian church saturdlI
night be fore thu second sunday IN each mcna'
by rh0s. n, MIlhOlland OF Batesytlle.
1'alook At tn. Mathodist church. EVERYDAY
Invited to come. q. J. WlLs0Nl
supernteuddi
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
That ThroDbimg Headache

Would quickly leave you, if
you used DR., Kings New Life
Pills. Thousands of sufferers
have proved their matchless
merit for sick and nervous head
aches, They make pure blood
and strong nerves and build up
your health, Easy to take. Try
them, Only 25 cents. Money
back if not cured, Sold by Snow
the Druggist,
Married are more unselfsh than
single men--they have to DO.
To purify and enrich the blood,
strengthen the nerves and invig-
CRATE the system, use DR.. NJ. A.
Simmons liver medicine. Sold
by Snow the druggist,
The practical man devotes but
little time to preaching,
Monthly and bearing. down
pains, attendant upon irregular
and suppressed menstruation, are
relieved by Simmons squaw vine
wine or tablets. Sold by Snow
the druggist.
Pleasure and action make the
hours seem short.
Weary women need an occas-
ional dose Of DR.. NJ. A. Simmons
liver medicine to strengthen their
nerves and invigorate their sys-
TENS, Sold by Snow the drug
gist,
Salt Lake has a salt palace.
II will not be a surprise to any
who are at all familiar with the
good qualities of Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy, to know that
people everywhere take pleasure
in relating their experience in
the use Of that splendid medicine
and in telling of the benefit they
have received from it, of bad
colds it has erred, Of threatened
attacks Of pneumonia it has
averted and Of the children it las
saved from attacks Of Group and
whooping cough. II is a grand,
good medicine. For sale by all
dealers in Evening Shade and
j, A. Lamar, Cave City.
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17
7. ]. DAVIDSON, NJ
-AND-
al!I t: !':.;' t: A!'''
EVENING SHADE. ARKANSAS

A GREEMENTS OF LEASE, ACKNoWLsp.V,s~ nd
y ments, afidavits To accounts, DepOsltsOan",, a
u renewal OF mortgages taken Aos sis Nm,
title furnished, Bills OF sale, bonus W. s,dI,
dspus OF trust-personalty and realty sis,
gult-cIalm, husbands unmarried perssnsl .,"
land, warranty, with rellnquishnent o. SSD,it
labor contracts, fnOrtaages-rehl esth1s, sud
and arOp--and powers OF attorney, Wr'"'"
acknowledged on reasonable terms. ...,.,oui
Applications for hOmestcnds ana presna,,l
and donations prepared and p1tsnn iron
Applications for rede mpti0n OF lanus ssaa,Iy
state, and petitions 10 refund taxes errV"''
paid. ..anui
Persons who homestead nowIhaye sA .np,tsf,
10 70 On their homestrads from date OF hss"
tnd Recelvpr'a rpcsipta,
tOrrnspundenGs AplirltVd
Sharp County record. (Evening Shade, Ark.) 1877-1976, 1899-11-17

Mormonism predominates il
five western states.
The Conservative, 1899-01-26
Che Conservative.

cry and demonstration to take a front
rank among the richest of the distinc-
lively agricultural states Of the union.
1t is not merely full of fecundity as a
corn producing state. That the yellow
staple is the chief cornerstone of it's
power to enrich the homes of the intelli-
gent, industrious and thrifty with every
thing that conduces to the moral and
material happiness and comfort of man,
is admitted, but it hasa broader strength
which consists in a wide range of diver
sity in it's capacity to produce, in great
abundance, all the important staples of
the temperate zone.
And it is in this bounty in variety of
farm products which enables men who
cultivate the soils of Nebraska to find
the next thing to certainty Of fair re-
turns for their labor, if they will but
take advantage of it by a constant di-
versiication of the crops. Winter
wheat has recently been added to the
long list Of others upon which our peo-
pie previously relied. By alternating
this crop with corn, and others, it seems
a reliable statement from experience
to say that land will be the better for
the change, and that the farmer can
scarcely fail, in any season, Of fair re-
turns. One crop failing, he will
almost certainly be safeguarded by fair
success with the others.
The Conservative, 1899-01-26
With regard to
the of
book keeping, a S
THE CARE
OF BOOKS.

taught in the public schools, it may be
said, that, whether it does good or not,
it can do little harm. But there are two
related arts which receive rather too lit
tie attention. The children should be
taught that any books which they may
design to keep should be kept as clean as
possible, and they should be given some
instruction in the gentle art of returning
books, which is of no less Importance
than that of keeping them. 1t is per-
haps not too much to say that many
children have never seen a clean book in
their lives they get them already dirty
from former users, and pass them on as
much dirtier as they can well contrive,
to the next. Each teacher should keep
a reasonably sanitary book somewhere,
and (after learning some other method
herself) instruct her pupils how to turn
over it's pages otherwise than by the We
hicle of a wetted thumb; telling them
many pretty stories, which she can
readily invent to suit her circumstances,
of authentic cases of nostalgia, appendi-
citis, strabismus, talipes and other de-
vastating p%estilences, directly traceable
to that abominable practice.
The returning of books is a matter
which concerns grown people rather
than children. Fortunately, there are
more determined lenders of books than
sometimes held that a man who insists ON
lending you a book, has only himself to
blame if you drop it in the first alley.
The Conservative, 1899-01-26
DIVERSITY OF PRODUCTS IN Ne
BRASKA,


Nebraska is noted the country over
for it's rich and increasing variety of
production from the farm. Agriculture,
horticulture, timber-culture, in great
diversity, constitute the strength of the
young commonwealth in material, in
dustrial and commercial esources. In
all these respects, from having Deer con
demned by a great and damaging pub
lie opinion for many years as being in
capable of successful occupation and
settlement for absolute lack of such re-
sources, it has grown by gradual discov-
The Conservative, 1899-01-26
The pulpit for
IN filled by
II w ard
4 NEBRASKA
PREACHER.

mcEl lllcu ny
Henry Ward
Beecher at Plymouth church is now &C.
cupied by the Rev. Newell Dwight Hill
lis, who is a product of Pawnee county,
Nebraska. From the Christian Herald
and Signs of Our Times, dated January
IS, THE CONSERVATIVE clips the follow
ing:
CDR. Hills is of Puritan ancestry.
His father, before moving to Iowa, was
deacon in the church of Lyman Beecher,
father of Plymouth's famous pastor.
Newell was born i'll Iowa, Sept. 2, 1868.
Subsequently his father went to Ne
braska, where Newell received a com
mon school education and worked on
his fathers farm. At the age of seven
teen he was drawn into the missionary
field, and worked theoretically for three
years, during 1S7S-79-S0, under the di-
rection of the American Sunday School
Union, building up churches and Sun
day schools. He was the general mis-
sionary of the Union in southwestern
Nebraska. AS the result of his labors in
that capacity, many Sunday schools
were founded, and a number of churches
have sprung up. Even in those early
days, he gave evidence of marked abil-
ity as a preacher, and people came from
long distances to attend his services.
During his summer vacations, he went
to Wyoming and did excellent mission
AIRY work among the miners.
His first call to the ministry came
after he had concluded his theological
studies at Mccormick seminary in 1884,
and was from the First Presbyterian
church Of Peoria, Ill. There he con-
Quoted a most successful passionate and
built a large church. His next charge
was at Evanston, where another hand
some and commodious church edifice had
to be built to accommodate the crowds
who f1ocked to hear him. While there
he received a call to Chicago to succeed
Prof. David Swing. His services are
held in Central Music Hall, Chicago,
where he attracts eve larger congrega-
tions than his predecessor. The congre-
CATION is very wealthy, and their pas
tors salary is a princely one. Central
church holds but one service a week,
and it's membership is 50 widely distri-
buted that pastoral work is impracti-
CABLE