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The Marshall republican., 1900-11-16
Nee ordC lemmens

Rev. Hugh 5. McCord, a young
student at Missouri Valley College
was married to Miss Luvenia Glen.
mems. daughter Of Rev. l.. NJ.
Clemmens and wife of this city on
Wednesday evening. Nov. i4th, at
the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, Rev. Il. Il. Morris perform.
ing the ceremony.
The friends Of the contracting
parties were very much surprised,
when a few minutes before time for
prayer meeting, they received an
invitation TO be present. at this
wedding which occurred at seven
O'Clock in the presence Of the fac.
ulty and a limited number Of friends,
Prof. l.. $. Place presiding at the
pipe organ.
The groom has been a student a,
Missouri Valley College for four
years, coming here from his old
home in Mississippi. He is a gent.
al. pleasant gentleman, very popu.
lar with all who know him.
The bride is we'll and favorably
known in our city. is assistant mu.
sic teacher at NJ. V. G. and is mum.
bered among u most cultivated
and elegant young ladies'. She
wore upon this occasion a hand.
some brown camels hair street suit,
with trimmings Of fur. anda lovely
hat in different shades Of brown
and brown gloves.
The groom wore the usua, black.
Immediately after the ceremony
| Mr.. and Mrs. Mccord. were driv.
Ell to the home Of the bride on Col
lcge Hill. They will 70 to house
keeping at once and vii; make
Marshall their home. until Mr.. Nc
Cord finishes his course. when the!
will go to Cairo. Mo-. where he is
pastor Of q church.
The REPUBLICAN, wishes to be
numbered with the many friends
Of the popular coup.e in extending
congratulations for IA long and hap
nv life.
The Marshall republican., 1900-11-16
Davi>Deer

Mr.. s. G.. Davis and Miss Jessie
NJ, Deer. both Of Little Rock. were
married on Wednesday. November
18th, at the probate Office by Judge
w. ID. Bush.
The Marshall republican., 1900-11-16
PRIVATE" JOHN ALLEN.


"ONbsSsObs - ~ WV "
When the roster Of the new con.
gress is made up the name Of Joha
Allen, Of Mississippi. will Ike miss.
ing. After eighteen years Of ser.
vice. he has decided to retire to
private life.
During all the years that he has
been in the house Of representa-.
tives. Allen has been recognized as
the wit Of the body. His influence
upon Legislation has been small. for
the reason. rs he says himself. that
he established early in his career a
reputation M a humorist. From
that time on no one would take
him seriously. and. as q conse-
quence, lie earnestly advises all
young vel who enter politics to
avoid posing as wits.
Allen tells many funny stories
about himself. One Of his funniest
experiences. he says, happened at
the Ponce dc Leon Hotel in Flor
ida. Ten years ago he visited this
famous resort, ard. after register
ing. was shown to a suite ot Ooms
on The parlor floor.
"Whcn,h The bellboy disappeared"
Mr.. Allen says. II looked around
ana il struck me nj first that I had
bumped ny against a pretty good
thing. Why. do you know. the
carpets on those floors must have
been real velvet aud abou, six
inches thick. They had silver.
mounted hair brushes and combs
and fancy fxings till you couldn't
dress. ard the size Of that room
was about the same as the corne
lot that we used to play town ball
on when ! was a boy. New. | amt
n very rich man. and when I got to
thinking about it., | began to get
scared.
"John. old man. ! said to my
self. you'd better investigate This
thing before you 20 any further
So ] sncaked down to the bar.room
and, laying IS cents on the bar.
asked Tor drink Of ~whiskey. The
bartender gave me the wiskey all
right, but he said il was 80 cents,
paid II. and, going "ver to the CT
gar counter. ! hauled ont a nickel
and asked for a cigar. The young
man told me that he didn't keep
anything less than 25.cen,ers. Then
! stepped back to my room and
rang tor a hell hoy. When he
came up, ! gave him a half dollar
and said: Son. don't say any.
thing 10 anybody, just go down
and rubber around a little and find
out how much they charge a day
for these rooms You see. ! was
getting uneasy. That boy came
back IN abOut ten miuutes and told
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
THE UNREAD ARTICLE

The fact that I am going to marry at
last seems to surprise my friends. l am
not so old that happiness should turn
away from me or that I should forego
the pleasure of accepting after all these
years the gifts that she is willing to be-
stow upon me.
This is the second time that l have met
Mime. Dervilly on the road of my life. l
have loved her since she was a young
girl. named Marthe Rambert. and my
stupid timidity prevented my telling her
the state of my feelings. To tell you
what l suffered when she married Der
Willy would not interest you. That suf-
fering was cruel. and after II years
have not forgotten it. That is the reason
l have never married. Having lost the
one woman l could ever really love, l
have preferred to keep my freedom and
dream of her.
1 have already said that when she was
young and within reach my timidity
served me very badly. Once every. two
weeks her mother introduced the young
people of our set. and not for an empire
would l have missed even one of those
opportunities for seeing the charming
daughter OF the house
1t may have been that my fortune, in
ferior TO hers. inspired me with honor
able scruples. or that i thought it impos-
like my own. or that it was merely an
exaggerated modesty which caused me
to hold my tongue. At any rate the day
arrived when / was told that Mile. Ram
bert had been asked in marriage and had
accepted.
With death in my heart I went to
make my last call and offer my congrat-
ulations. Oh. the misery of my mind as
I waited in the drawing room! My heart
hpnt TO SufTpc: tiou and I felt choke5 ar
the idea of talking, of saying polite
things about future happiness when I
felt like nothing but sobbing out my own
love and grief.
She. too, seemed troubled; she was
nervous. her face was pale and her eyes
red az though she had been crying.
We had tea. and / thought I would
drop ,ny cup my hands trembled SO. Her
mother was with us. and to me that mat
tered nothing. as I would not have dared
To say anything which she might not
hear. We sat and talked. though l
have not the faintcSt idea now of any
thing that was said. Marthe, l remem-
Der, took up n magazine. and for several
moments appeared deeply engrossed in it,
conversation.
When / rose to go. she handed me the
magazine. open at the place where she
had been reading. saying:
"Read that article. You will find it in
teresting, l think"
/ turned down the leaf without looking
at the page and made my farewells as
briefly possible. l was sure that Mar
the pressed my hand. AS I walked
home l reflected that her conduct had
been singular. and i do not know what
wild hope sprang up in my heart. That
hope was doomed to a sudden death, how
ever. Ina ginc my feelings when l open
ed the magazine and found the article
which she had advised me to read cnti-
tied:
1.-The Examination of Insects
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
A Turn at Flowing :
The Boy Didn't Like the Work, but
Enjoyed the Attendant Sport.
BY Ernest McGaffy.

"Do you really want to try your hand
at the DIow?" was Uncle Toms remark
after breakfast was over.
I'D like to see if L could" said the
boy. .'eyen if I get sick of it before
night
"An right was his uncle's reply.
But you can't carry the gun with you.
The mules would stampede"
"Why, what would there be to
shoot" said Aunt Fanny
"Oh. there's blackbirds and kildees
by the barrel" said Uncle Tom.
III take my bean shooter" said the
boy. land get enough birds for a potpie
by night"
So. with a pocketful of buckshot and
his rubber weapon. he was ready for
the fray The farm WAS one of 24O
acres. 1t was rolling country and
fenced in by the old fashioned barbless
wire fences The soil was dark loan
and easily worked. There was sand
enough so that Il pillow would scour
fairly we'll and there We're no rocks.
The boy had watched his uncle plow
the day before, and it did not seem
very hard work. So, with Il light pillow
and the old team, he started in with
considerable confidence The reins
were crossed over his shoulder and I'M
der his arm. and the novelty Of the job
appealed to his curiosity. He grasped
the handles and started the team with
an assuring "Git up His instructions
were not to hold the plowshare too
deep in the soil or he would be hoisted
into the air by the combination of the
lines around him and the leverage of
the earth's surface. and for the first
200 yards he ginSerly scraped along al
most on top of the ground.
Then he remembered that this was
not blowing. and he ''h'isted' up the
handles and dug into the bowels of the
earth 1t was long pull and n strong
pull and a pull all together as lie re
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

membered it afterward, and it ended
by his being slung over the tops of the
pillow handles and deposited in the dirt.
The pillow had been turned upside down
in the furrow, and his hat had been
scraped off by the lines. The near
mule beamed on him pityingly, and his
back felt as if part of it had been pull
ed out and thrown away. Then he rec
objected about not digging in too deep.
So he braced himself and took hold of
the plow handles again. y long stretch
of comparatively level ground assisted
his efforts, and all went well for some
time. 1t was q vast and awful dis
lance across the field for the first fur
row. and his uncle was n mere specIl
at the other end. When he got to the
end of the furrow, he found the wire
fence, and beyond was a limitless ex-
panse of rolling prairie stretching
down to the timber line of the Tarkio
river. Outside of the fence were sew
eral burrows. which, his uncle had eX-
planned, We're to keep the prairie fires
from coming in and burning the fence
posts.
He turned the mules and started
back on the blowing. The loose loan
broke under his bare feet. and the fur
row crumbled down and arched ahead
of the pillow like the back of an angry
hog There was steam. light, misty,
almost impalpable, that rose up from
the cloven hide of the old brown earth
Far in the west bank of white clouds
lay furled in the blue skies. He held
the plow more steadily now, and when
the share began to sink too deep he
eased it up without jerking the point
free from the furrow.
The turning point was reached again.
end again he halted. From the line of
cottOnwOods that fanked one side of
the field came down "A troop of black
birds, clacking and gossiping in their
quest for grubs. bugs and angleworms
First in size and importance were the
gorgeous purple grackles. or crow
biackbirds. They were the autocrats of
the bIa ckbird tribe and most important
and busy when engaged on fora gine
expeditions such As these. They were
followed by the more sober hued COW
blackbirdS in great numbers. and as
the team drew away ana the burrows
line heightened out the scouts Of the
expedition came i'll close TO the plow
The boy had already got his bean
shooter within easy reach, and as the
birds lined along the furrow he stopped
the mules.
The nearest blackbird was a big pur
pie gracllle- The boy drew the rubbers
back, a bullet flew as the rubber bands
snapped. anil the blackbird doubled ur
in the fur"ow with a bullet in his
breast. Putting in another bullet. the
boy took another shot at the next bird
which had not noticed the almost
noi>elcSs effect of the shot. Fair and
trTse the second bullet went to it,
mark. and Il second blackbird dropped
to ihe shot. Going back. the boy pick
ed up the two birds, and the rest scat
tered ;,r"k along the furrow. Putting
tue lines across and under he started
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

Needless to say. l never read the arti-
Gle The book kept, however, with two
other treasures from her: one a little
photograph. the other a faded rose. The
three l put away together, and I felt
bitter toward her who had Knocked me in
my sorrow.
The years passed. and I did not try to
see her again. though 1 still thought Of
her always In ten years her husband
died. and | heard that she was coming
back to Paris TO live. She did not come,
however and heard of her from time
to time at first in one place and then an
other. The years passed, and L was con-
stantly expecting to hear that she had
married again. for rumor had it that
there was many man who would have
been glad to make this beautiful Nine.
Dervlly his wife.
At last. five years after her husbands
death, she came to Paris. I met her one
morning on the Bots. and she recognized
me- but bowed very coldly. In the ID
years that I had not seen her my own
bitter feelings had vanished, and at sight
of her all my old love famed up. Re
turning home that day. / went to the
drawer in my desk where 1 kept my
souvenirs of her and drew out the photo
graph. 1t was yellow and faded, but
could see only the sweet face, scarcely
Younger and not so beautiful as that of
day. In the girl there had been promise;
in the woman there was fulfllment.
The magazine lay there. and I took it,
wondering for the thouSandth time why
had been advised to read an article on
insects. Turning to it, / decided to
read it through for the first time. As
my eyes followed the lines l noticed lit
tie marks under certain words. marks
evidently made by finger nail. Excited
ly seized a pencil and paper and wrote
down the marked words in their order
and finally had before my astonished
eyes this sentence:
Tomorrow ut + o'clock I will be hero
You and you alone can prevent my mar
rage"
Without waiting to Dress 1 sought out
Nine. Dervilly's hotel. found her alene
How my explanation was made 1 do not
know. l was no longer timid: my tongue
flew over the love I had felt for her a
girl. over all the years of constancy to
the present. She had her confession to
make too. She told me how l had be
trayed myself on that last visit. and that
she determined TO give me a chance
TO speak to her alone. She had felt
shamed and unhappy when l had not
come the next day, thinking. OF course.
that ] would discover her message i'm
mediately.
We are to be married in August.-E.-
change.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

s.onc the furrow again. Again the
bird. dew up. and again he got two
shots at them, getting one bird and
5ust grazing another. When nc got tc
tlan opposite end of the field. he found
a couple of inquiSitive kiidees rummag-
ing about and winged one of them
with his first shot. y long chase over
the drying burrows of the previous
days plowing secured the bird.
Going back he had several more
shots at the blackbirdS. which seemed
TO grow boIder and hungrier as the
day advanced. He seldom missed
them and i'll one instance killed two at
one shot. the bullet striking one bird q
CHANGING blow on the neck and winGing
second bird in the bunch.
The blowing grew more and more
tedious rs the day heightened out, and
the boy WAS never hungrier in his life.
He had brought his dinner along. with
Il bottle of milk to wash it down, and
he could tell pretty well from the sun
when noOntime came. From his line
of burrows he could see his uncle toll
ing across and back. never stopping for
anything, Il brown figure in the brown
stretches of upturned earth.
He made up his mind that blowing
was desperately monOtonous work and
that 20 pillow a straight furrow was
something that only came from long
practice. He had stake stuck up for
his benefit ut each end of the field, but
his pillow either wabbled or the mules
eewawcd' frightfully, for before
nOontime came he found it necessary
to lift the pillow up and cash down GER
tain inlcts and estuarieS of land which
had not been cut on account of the per
yerSity of the burrows. by the time
the sun had swung into line for about
12:3O he had come to the conclusion
that all a boy needed to piOw well with
WAS Il pair of iron legs and u knowi-
edge of how to draw a furrow straight.
He unhitched the team with some diff
Guilty and gave them feed of oats on
the bottom of the sack. Then he got
out hts own dinner of bread and but
ter, meat and pickles, and fell on 1t
like a famished coyote. He was very
tired. The dirt had got into his finger
nails, crept into his curly brown hair,
grimed his neck. filed his ears and en-
FILTERED his boyiSh soul. His curiosity
was thoroughly satisfied. He had be
come satiHted with the exercise; lie
wanted to hunt.
However, he remembered that it
would be cowardly to give up until
night. So he started in to hitch UP the
mules again after taking Il decent rest.
Fortunately he could do this without
having to summon his uncle, and he
congratulated himself on being able to
hitch and unhitch q team. The pillow
again WAS driven into the loan, and
once more the burden of hanging on to
a pair of slippery plow handles with Il
couple of energetic mules Striding
along in front was begun. The black
birds and kildceS. aliured by the feast
of pale Grubs and salmon tinted fish
worms, came again to the burrows, but
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
THEY MOVE US.

The touch Of hand, the glance of an eye.
Or word exchanged Nth the passerby:
A glimpse OF q face in crowded street,
And afterward life is incomplete.
A picture painted with honest zeal,
And we lose the old for the ideal;
A chance remark a songs refrain,
And life is never the same again
friendly smile and loves eInbering spark
Leaps into flame and illumnes the dark;
whispered BE brave to fellow men,
And they pick up the thread OF hope again.
Thus never act or word or thought
But that with unguessed importance is fraught,
For small things build up eternity
And blazon the way for destiny
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
He Was There.

Oud mistakes are sometimes made
by printers. A noted minister had oc-
casion to write his manuscript for the
printer. and in the course of it were
these sentences: is there no balm in
Gilead? Is there no physician there?'
The composition set it up: us there
no balm in Goliad "a town in Texas:
Is there no physician there? Then.
on the margin OF the doctors proof.
the officious fellow put for his infer>
nation. DIR. T. III. Mott is still in Co
liad."-Mcmphis Scimitar.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

whats the matter with cook?"
"Oh. somebody gave her an umbrella
with Dresden china handle. She for
got herself and smashed it.''-Detroit
Free Press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.

Penelope-Well, after all, l believe
the less one knows the happier one is.
Genevieve-That's comfortable phi
losophy. You must be very happy
Golfers Weekly.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

why His Coat Was UnbuttOned.
The thermometer stood ut 10 degrees
above zero.
He had on an overcoat. undercoat
and Il vest. His other garments cut
no ice here.
Although the wind blew a Greenland
gale, his overcOat and undercOat Were
both unbuttoned and tapped ike the
sails of a schooner set wing and wing.
Why did he not button his coats on
this piercing day:
Because he was the Man With a
Badge.
BY eaving his coats unbuttoned PEG
pie could see that on his vest was dis
played his vested right to wear Il
Badge. and who ever saw a man with
such authority when off duty, who
didn't display at least the rim of his
Badge:
No one, because power is sweet to us
all. from the President to the Peasant.
Washington Star.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-26

the boy only took a shot noW and then.
He was doggedly. sullenly, silently
plugging along in the furrow. with the
sand "ritting between his teeth. He
wouldn't offer TO pillow again for Uncle
Tom. Uncle Tom knew what he was
talking about when lie said it was
hard work and dirty work until you
got used to it. Well. he didn't want 10
get used TO it. that was all What was
that story about cells getting used TO
being skinned? Whoa, jimmy; back,
you old yellow crate. YOU,
At shutdown and not until he saw
Uncle Tom turn for the house did the
boy give over. But he had seen the
error of his way. Flowing wasn't VIVA t
it was cracked up to be. There We're
too many sand burS and roots and
crooked burrows and dirt and wrench
es ana backaches about it. There was
too much work about it. Why, when
could believe that he might strap him
self to Il pillow and go to sleep on the
job. But for n new beginner at the
business it was like Jordan, "a hard
road to travel.
Uncle Tom smiled ut the .:rimy, dus-
ty figure of his nephew rs he met him
at the house. How'd YOU like the
ploWing:' lie inquired quizzicaily.
The boy took nine blackbirds and
three kildees from his pockets and,
holding them up. said. Il like that part
of it, Uncle Tom. and all the rest l
didn't like worth Il cent."-Chicago
Record
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-01
TWO SMALL BLAzES.
Fire Departments Have Two Long
 Runs andzDo Good Work.

 The fire department had two more rans since our last issue went to press.
 Friday evering at an early hour they were called to the Lome of Mrs. Brennan on East Second avenue. The trouble was only a burning fue, the stove .havlng exploded. No danage was done.
 Saturday about noon, all alarm was turned in from the residence ot Mir. G. H, Martin on West Fifth avenue. The root of that home was afire but was extinguished with the aid oi only one stream of water. No damage was done to the house. hold goods, but the. bulldog was damaged to the amount of $50. u was fully insured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-01
CHANCELLOR MARTIN
Issues Restraining Order in Plum
 Bayou Leyee Cases.

Chancellor Thomas B. Martin, of Little Rock, Friday granted tenn. porary restraining orders against the sheriffs of Lonoge and Pulaski coon ties, ,enloining them from the col lection of taxes under the Plum bayou leyee district act, approved March 6, 1899.
 The inlanctions were against the collectors and the board of qevee in- spectors, Messrs. $ Geisceiter, 0. P. Robinson aud s. A. Wigglns. Chancellor John M. Elllott, of this city, recently issued a restraining order of the same nature and .in practically Rie same kind' of cases. in fact, the conten tions in all the cases are the same. The final hear ing of the case in Chancellor Mar tir's court ~ill probably be some tiHae in May.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-01

doned John Tucker, of Jefferson county.
 On October "A, 1895, John Tucker was convicted of being an accessory to a murder, which was committed in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for term of 21 years.
 The petitioners, who solicited the pardon said that they had known him for many years, and while it may be true that Ee advised the murderer to do the killing, they make the assertion that the words were more idly than crimi- nally spoken; and that the said Tucker frequently said things that he did not know the full meaning and design thereof; and taking tae fact into consideration that be has served four years for the crime, they asked that he be pardoned. The petitioners prayers were granted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-01

erty of Mrs. Wilkins aud that lady
 valued it highly. Corelll Davis was employed in Bertha's place, but she,
 as stated above, fills little vacant place in the county jail now. The loss of the ring and the circumstan- ces surrounding the robbery were to the police Friday. The Orr woman, when arrested, acknowl- edged stealing the ring, but says she gave Coreili, her successor, the stolen article before she left the
 Wilkins home. Corelli denies this however, and in order that they
 recover the property aud get tls facts In the case. the police locked
 them in jail to await developments.