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The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-04-04
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The Coronation of the Queen
Witnessed by an Immense
Crowd.
HN IDEHL DAy HND NIGHT.
The Merchants Display and Mid
way Attractions at Their
Best.

The second day and night gate re-
ceipts at the fair, was doubled and
thribbled over the amount taken in
on Monday and from the interest
taken by the large crowd last night,
it is thought that to-day's and to-
nights receipts will even 60 beyond
the two days just passed.
Yesterday and last night we're
ideal weather ones, and no one
could hardly stay away from the ex-
hibits even should they SO feel in
clined. The gates were not opened
for paid admissions until the after
noon and night but when they we're
thrown open the crowd serged
through and took in everything in
sight of an entertaining nature. At
night the Queen was to be crowned,
that she might wear the diadem of
authority in to-day's parade, and it
was around the band stand where
the coronation ceremonies were to
take place thai the crowd gathered
en- masse.
At $50, Mr.. Morris Sheppard,
who was who chosen as the knight
to deliver the speech andsto crown
the Queen, arese and delivered a
beautiful tributed to lovely woman
hood, extolling their virtues and
naming none of their sins. Ere
quently he was interrupted with ap-
pIause and yells of "Long Live the
Queen. " As soon as the crown was
placed on the head of the lady, the
Sheppard Fussileers fusildaed, and
every wry neck fife and wheezly
flute and discordant bell in the Mid
way set up noise to attract the
crowd. The crowd dispersed, many
going through the gates of the Mid
way, while others went back to the
booths. The Queen was escorted
through all the shows by a couple
of Elks, and she seemed to enjoy
the sights of all she beheld.
The shows were all at their best
last night, the electricity having
been chained down to the bidding of
the operators who managed them.
The evening was a delightful one
alike to the Elks in a financial way
and the visitors one of pleasure.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-04-04
NOTE OF WARNING.
Poor Men Advised to Remain Away
From Cuba.

Washington, April 3.-The War
Department has has been obliged to
sound note of warning to restrain
overconfdent Americans from flock
ing into Cuba without resources,
General Wood has made this a mat
ter of special representation OF
Secretary Root. He reports that
there are quite number of such
Americans completely stranded in
Cuba, whom he is unable to relieve.
His suggestion was that the depart
ment authorize him to ship them
back to the United States on the
army transports, but so far Secre.
tary Root has not been able to see
hnw he can do this.
According to the advices received
by the department, Cuba is no place
for man without money. With
some capital, there is large oppor-
tunity for returns, but otherwise
even willing workingmen and clerks
cannot secure employment, and
must soon come to grief. Secre-
tary Root mentioned the fate OF
some Of the Americans who had
gone to Cuba as parts of alleged
COLONIES" as particularly hard, and
If 1t shall appear proper to extend
relief at all II may be that he will
authorize those who are now suffer.
ing In these colonies to be brought
home In the transports.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-04-04

We have assurances from Direc-
tor General Mccartney that If any
immoral show is on the ground at
the Midway, and will be reported TO
him or any other Elk, it will be sur
pressed. The Elks wish to give clean
shows.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-04-04

Marshall Casey reports the city
quiet and no robberies from report
ed things who are said to follow ND
street fairs, He has severakspeclal
deputies and fears no high way
robberles during the iair,
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BuiIding the vile Bridge.

IFrOm the New York Tribune
The task of damming the Nile is one
that possesses interest for the general
public as we'll as for the civil engineer,
and enough Roadway has been made
with this colossal undertaking since the
cornerstone was laid, thirteen months
ago, to reveal the methods employed
and to fo~reshadow the probable success
of the scheme, although as yet only a
small portion of the work has been
done.
The place selected for the dam is near
Assouan. just below the first cataract
and five hundred miles up the river from
Cairo. At this point the Nile is more
than a mile wide. AS projected, the
dam will be a mile and a fifth in length.
Portions of the foundations will be car
ried to a level sixty-five or seventy feet
below the crest of the work. The dam
will be seven meters, or twenty-three
meters, or more than eighty feet, wide
at the bottom. Now, If the river were
one unbroken stretch of water from
shore to shore it would be a more diff
cult job to blockade it than it is. For
tunately there are many islands in the
stream, most of which are submerged
at the highest stage, u which at low
water stand out cOnSpicuOuSly and
break the river up into several channels.
There are really seven channelS in all,
but two are high and dry at very low
water, and only five required serious
consideration.
Two great Zines of work have thus far
been pursued. One was to dig down on
the Islands to bed rock and place sec
lions of the foundation there. A great
deal of this preliminary construction
has been completed both on the islands
and in the two channels that are left
dry at low water. Both of the latter are
on the eastern side. The other part of
the work was to begin to stop the pas
sage of the water through the low wa
ter channels. Up to date four out of
the five have been closed. The one at
the extreme west is still open.
The plan pursued here was as follows:
Parallel with the proposed dam. and
both below and above it, temporary
barriers were extended from shore to
island, and from one island to the next.
The down stream barrier, or .tsudd,"
was usually constructed first and the
upper one later. The lower one was
composed of huge blocks of stone and
the upper one of sand bags. No attempt
was made at first to render the rock
sudds watertight. Their chief object
was to check the flow of the current
enough to leave an area of comparative
Iy calm water above.
The upper sudds, however, were so
compact that no water could leak
through. This feobject having been
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England's Great Black Army.

IL 1AOUQOH AUSWeIS-I
The full strength of Great Britain's
indian army is 800. GOO men, of whom
22O. 600 are native and 10000 British SOL
diers. In addition to this military force
there are about 10000 enrolled European
volunteers, and a native police. Off
cered by white men, nearly 100000
strong.
Every regiment is divided into ten
companies. each Of which is usually
as Goorkhas. Sikhs, DOgras, Pathans,
precaution that a combination Of forces
most impossible. The Goorkhas and
Sikhs, whose loyalty is rated the high
est, are, in some localities. permitted to
constitute entire regiments by them
selves.
The pay of the sepoy, or native sol
der. is Is shillings per month, with a
gradual increase after three years good
conduct service. The pension system
is particularly liberal. and is really the
magnet which draws the native re-
cruit. When a sepoy soldier falls in ac-
ton, his wives-and there are four Of
them-are all pensioned, as well as
their young children. AS regards the
artillery branch Of the Indian army.
white men only are employed, both as
commissioned officers and in the ranks.
and the guns of all forts are entirely
manned by Britons.
OF the native soldiers the .Goorkha is
the best. and many English experts
believe that he is the best soldier in the
world.
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The Old Palace of Avigon.

TParis Cor. of The London Telegraph
That old question has been revived
about the medieval palace of Avignon,
g. favorite town with many English trav-
elers to the south and Identified in recent
times with JOIN Stuart Mill, who lived
there. For long years the celebrated
southern city has been used as a bar
racks. The soldiers have not been used
racks. The soldiers have not been
respectful toward the frescos or
the sculptured work ornamenting many
parts of the great. construction, which is
one of the marvels of medieval archi-
lecture. Now the citizens of Avignon
and their municipal councillors seem to be
energetic in their determination to do
something for the improvement of the
palace. and to rescue it from the hands Of
the rough soldiery, who care naught for
the art, history and literature with which
the chateau is identified.
Among the numerous acts of vandal-
ism committed has been the dissertation
and, it may be said. the obliteration of
the mural paintings in the chapels of
St. Johns tower, representing the scenes
in the Baptists life, the Crucifxion and
st. Martial. Furthermore. frescos rep
resenting the Last Judgment and Christ
on the Cross are utterly defaced. General
de Galliffet, Wal minister, has now been
approached on the subject. and has prom
iSed to give it every consideration. The
citizens of Avignon want to turn the
chateau into a museum of religious art,
but this and the building of a new bar
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THE ORIGINAL
WORCESTERSHIRE
~ Beware of limitations
NOSEBLEED.


LtrOm the Medical Journal
Nosebleed is so common in childhood
that little account is ordinarily made of
It. Where it occurs repeatedly without
apparent provocation. however. effort
should be made not only to check the
immediate attack but to ascertain the
cause of the trouble. 1t is we'll known
that heart disease, congestion Of the liver
and other conditions affected by, or af-
fecting the circulation of the blood pre-
dispose to nosebleed, and considerable
anxiety is frequently felt lest the nose
bleed Of childhood may be the result of
serious constitutional causes. Most COM
monty the cause is local.
The best means of checking the immed-
late attack is pressure with the finger
on the upper lip. just beneath the ~nostrils.
A small pad of absorbent cotton or a
piece of handkerchief may be placed in
sid the lip and tightly pressed against
the gum from without thus COMPRISING
the two small arteries of the upper lip
that supply the nose These can ordfn-
arily be felt pulsating in this locality.
If the bleeding is profuse or prolonged,
the child should be placed in a restful po-
sition, but with the head elevated, while
ice may be held to the forehead or the
back of the neck. To decrease still
further the blood pressure within the yes
sells Of the nose a mustard footbath is
Of service.
n the meantime. blowing the nose must
be avoided. Plugging the nostrils both
in front and back is a last resort to keep
the sufferer from actual peril
The ~predtsposing causes of nosebleed
are, as has been said, commonly local
Careful examination of the nose by the
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achieved, the lower sudds were tighten
ed up, too. Pumps were then set at
work, and the water was move from
each of the regions inclosed between the
upper n lower barriers For a time
it was feared that crevices in the rocky
bed of the river would allow water to
force its way in.f Had these anticipa-
lions been realized, it would have been
necessary to sink the foundations here
by means of caissons and compressed
air. But the river bottom was tight;
hence in each of the channels except
West Channel it was possible to lay
bare an area where the site of the fu-
ture dam was dry enOug for excaVa-
ton. Little of the latter work has been
done, but that will be easy work. The
chief difficulty lay in establishing the
temporary barriers, or sudds, so as to
exclude the river during further opera
lions. The construction of the first of
each pair of sudds was the hardest, be-
cause the current was altogether be-
yond control.
Starting from one end, a line Of huge
blocks of stone was pushed out from
shore. So swift was the stream that it
would pick up a four-ton rock and car
ry it off like a chip. Occasionally a part
of the barrier would be swept away, and
the railway and steam crane on IL
would go, too. Steady progress was
made, however. and at last the channel
was crossed. In two instances the bar
rier was composed of iron rails and
rock, the farmer being used to tie the
latter together. All of the channel work
is conducted in such a way that nothing
will seriously suffer from being sub
merged temporarily during the annual
rise. Several years will elapse before
the dam is completed.
At the west end of the dam a channel
for navigation is to be left. This will
require considerable excavation, and
four locks are to be constructed. Much
labor has already been expended on this
feature of the enterprise. The dam will
be perforated by 140 sluices at a low
level and 10 at a higher one. The for
mer will have an opening of IA square
meters, Q r 1915 square feet The latter
will have just half that area At last
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with his jaws. turning his head to one
side, like that" Mr.. Newton turned
his own head in imitation of the atti-
tude of the lion.
he trotted along, the feet of the
deer treaked in the snow, forming the
queer tracks that nave so long puzzled
me. l knew always what the tracks
were, but I could never make out how
that deer was carried so that that
more of it did not trail on the ground.
When the lion caught sight of me
it dropped the deer and skunk off into
the sage brush-they are cowardly
whelps.
During last summer I discovered no
less han thirty c~arcasses of deer that
had been killed by lions and bears.
THESE brutes have a way of getting
into the park thai would surprise you.
The south end of the park, you know, is
fenced, purposely to keep them out, and
they can't get in over the Flat Tops,
where the granite walls are precipitate
for fifty to seventy-five feet in places.
But the woven-wire fence was built
through a thickly wooded part, and in
places large trees were taken advan-
tage of as posts. The lions and bears
climb one side of the tree until they
are above the fence, then let themselves
DOWN On the other side."
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TOTES IT TIGER FASHION.
[From the Denver Republican,

IRON the denver RepQDllcdQ.l
George F. ewt has solved a mys-
tery-one that has puzzled him during
all the many years he has been a
dweller in the widest districts of the
Rocky Mountains. He made this an
nouncement to Deputy Game Commis-
sioner Holland yesterday. Mr.. Newton
is superintendent of Glen Beulah park,
a game preserve of 900 acres, situated
in Mesa county, about eighteen miles
northwest of DeBeque, which is leased
from the state by the Glen Beulah Park
association. in which are several Den
Yer spOrtsmen.
For several years l have been both
cred to know how a mountain lion car
ried the carcass of a deer after it had
killed its prey began MIR. Newton.
He paused as if to allow Mr.. Holland or
any one else present to tell him that it
w1s no mystery, but no one spoke Mr.
Newton is the typical mountaineer.
During this interval he held his big
round sombrerO in his left hand n
with the right stroked a few struggling
over his uncommonly white forehead.
He must wear his hat always when at
home, for his face under the line to
which h hat reaches was as bronZed
as an Indians. He sat attentive1y
waiting for a minute or two, then be-
gan:
But I learned all about it just a Ia
or two before 1 left home. 1 had been
up on the trail leading to the Flat Tops;
you know the trail. Holland. When I
was up near Rim Rock, near the end
Of our fence, I saw a mountain lion in
the trail in front of me, and what do
you Think The lion was carrying a
fine young buck, slung over his should
efs. He held to the back Of the deer
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president of the federation. will preside
over the convention despite the recent
death of her husband.
Mrs. James Sidney Peck of Milwaukee
is president of the biennial local board
and is untiring in her efforts to make
the affair a success. She is known as an
all around club woman, not only in her
own city but all over the east.
A western woman who will tai an
acthee part in the convention is Mrs.
w. S. Decker of Denver; she is vice
president of the federation and will pre-
side over a number of the meetings.
Mrs. Decker is better now to Topeka
women however as having been the
president of the Denver Woman's club
for a number of years.
The planning of the excellent pro-
gram was an task and was in
charge of Mrs. Edwar L. Buckwalter,
who was for four years chairman of the
library committee of the Ohio Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs
The women are all working together
to make this convention a success; so
far everything is in its favor and it
promises to be as great. if not a greater
success than any of the previous ones.
Among the noted women who expect
to be present are, Mrs. Robert J. Bur-
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clad Ger Maiestv Came.

[From the London News.l
The unconscious humor of the Irish
mon still lives. "a week Says a cor
respondent a friend of mine was sitting
in Phoenix park. when to him appeared
a ragged old chap. most gloriously in
toxicated. God save the queen, sorr'
said he to my friend. Certainly was
the reply. God save Queen Victoria.' p
reiterated the old fellow. BY ali means.
Send her victorious. happy and gior-
ious!' That's right, SORT I wish she
came to Dublin every year, every month.
every day, sor! Think of what's she's
done for the country: think of all the
good she does to people. Why, look. at
me;here am I. as drunk as hi and new
er paid a penny for it"
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racks will neeessitate a large outlay.
Thus, great difficulties are in the way,
and it may be a long time yet before the
palace of the PopeS becomes a rendez-
vous of intelligent or merely curious Wis
itors from every quarter of the globe The
Emperor Napoleon III promised so far
back as 1859 to apply 100000 francs to the
restoration and preservation as an inter
esting historic relic of the palace. but he
was too fully occupied with other schemes
and projects to carry out his promises
Artists and psychologists are now join
ing the municipal council and citizens of
Avignon in defending the interests of the
old city of the Popes and its splendid
castle, or palace. which rises so majes-
tically from the banks of the Rhone. and
is itself alone well worthy of 2 trip to
Provence on the part of all who are not
so dead to the past as the vandals who
have desecrated the frescos and wrought
other damage which, il is to be feared, is
fr1r
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Strong in Nerve and Muscle.

Nerve force; vigorous, regular action of the stomach, the liver and the
and sturdy growth.
Paines Celery Compound is a wholesome and potent medicine, that will
strengthen and increase nerve energy, cleanse and enrnhen the life blood of the
growing body.
MRS. F. L. SKILLIN, 81 BURNSIDE AVE, WEST SOMERVILLE,
MASS, WRITES: eve always have Panes Celery Compound in the
house and use it for the children when they are rn down II have any
kind If nervous trouble. II builds them up regulates the bowels, gives
n appetite, and makes them strong. I m low giving it to Our little boy
years old, and it is doing hin a great deal of good"
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physician. is therefore, always necessary
in recurrent attacks. Diseased areas in
vessels are spong and unnaturally turgid.
The depression of the child's health
caused by repeated attacks of nosebleed
not infrequently requires attention. If
the trouble is due to systematic weak
ness, attention is to be especially directed
to an Improvement of the general condi-
ton: while if the lungs arc themselves
weak. repeated attacks of nosebleed are
sometimes indications of the need of a
change of climate or of proper physical
exercises at home.
The formation of scabs or crusts, often
attended in childhood with picking of the
nose, must not be overlooked as a cause
of nOsebleed. Watchfulness may be re-
quired to prevent the formation of an IN
fortunate habit. but the affected spots
must also be treated with ointment or
other simple means Of healing.
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about them fellers' chances as soon as !
found out they was a farmers alli-
ance. '-Washington Star.
Mrs. B.-"What conderfuI control
Mrs. V-onBlummer hast" Mr.. blow
do you know?" Mrs. BIT was with
her an hour yesterday and she never
mentioned her children or her serv-
ants.'-Life.
Simply Hadn't Learned Yet.-The
Rev. DR.. Queen, observing the janitor
wabbling about uncertainty on his new
wheel in the street in front Of the
church., called OUT: George, do you
eve take a header?' NO, Doctah
Queen" replied George, with visible in
dignation. Il neveh take nothin'
strongah n cawfeel"-Chicago Tribune.
How It Happened.-'so you were de-
feated for the senatorship?" Yes"
How did it ~happen?" ''Oh, it was a
pure case of forgetfulness. I had my
plans all made, but when I got to the
capitol just before the voting began, I
found I'd forgotten my checkbook. Inc
I hadn't more than $4,000 or $40. 900 in
my pocket. Chicago Evening Post.
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Ign, Miss Alice French Octave Thanet
of Davenport. Iowa, Mrs. William Tod
Helmuth of New York City, who is
noted as a member of thirty-six clubs,
and many others.