The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-06-30

1893 went S43 for to S61 against
and there isn't bit of intoxieants
sold as a beverage in that county
to-day.
Arkansas is pronounced Ark
an-saw, not only by custom based
upon tradition and history, but by
law. Twenty years ago it was re-
solved by both houses of the State
Legislature. signed by the Governor
and published in statute form.
THAT the only true pronunciation
of the name of the State is that re-
eeived by the French from the native
indians, and committed to writings
~ the French word representing the
hd.EHdtaat sHpnfr ~Bpv-pros
nouncedin three syllables, with the
final s. Silent, the "a in each syllable
with the Italian sound, and the ac-
cent on the first and last syllables,
being the pronunciation formerly,
universally and now still most COM
monty used; and that pro-
nunciation with the sound of IA as
in man and the sounding of the
terminal IS is an innovation to be
discouraged"
For sixteen years after this part
of North America became, through
the Louisiana purchase in 1903, a
part of the United States, it drifted
along under the control of the
Indians, Frenchmen and Spanish
adventures. In 1919 it was made
Territory and seventeen years lat
er, just before Jackson went out, Ar
kansas was admitted as a State.
Her first Representative in Congress
was Archibald Yell, for whom the
capital of Marion county, Yellville,
is named Ambrose II. Sewer was
the first Senator.
Arkansas suffered much from the
war but more from reconstruction
when Republican earpet-baggers,
like this country is now sending to
Porto Rico and Cuba, robbed the
generation about them and mort
gagged the coming generation with
debt. 1t will always be a Demo-
cratic State unless the Democratic
party should get a long lease of
power. Then it might go Populist
or any other old thing because its
rsatuxf bred in.the bone aud season.
ed in war an distress, is to be against
the government. Upon this senti-
ment Young Jeff has laid his plan of
battle to break through the ranks
now in control and be Governor.
Nothing but death will keep him out.
He arouses the old heart under the
gray by lauding Jefferson Davis and
Robert E. Lee, and he gets the young
crowd by his dash and wit, He will
be elected but his administration
will not be a good one. He lacks
that conservatism necessary in
thes$days of peace, commercial pro-
gress and internal development.
of all things peace is not what
Davis wants. Ambition and to even
no fancied or real sights spurs him
to assail the old crowd here as Irbv
and Tillman went after the Vance
and Hampton political dynasties in
in the Carolinas. Barton is doing a
little of the same in Kansas.
Harrison is good town with
Seven large church buildings, three
newspapers headed by the TIMES
which is doing a great work for the
town-TMEs, Republican, and Ban
ner; a Normal training school for
girls, court house, electric light, five
hotels, good streets and walks, large
stores, bank with 500 900 on de-
post, three saloons, U. S. land offic-
es, saddle making house not sur
passed in the State, and a progress
i've people. N
By the way, The Spirits good
roads plans wouldn't work down
here Jesse Galley, our driver, told
me that it was an offense punishable
before a squire for a man to work
the public roads between Berryville
and Harrison, and Judging from the
roads. think he was nearer the
Truth than when he told me man
with mule fell off his farm and
were picked up in the gulch mile
below only the yarn "gallus" brok-
en- and elevis pin lost,
THERE'S a hustle about this place
now such as ! noticed in 1872 at
Joplin. Although there areno smelt-