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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Senator HOnr Discusses Imperialism
as 1t Was In 1875 and as
II Is I'm 1901,

Senator George F. Hoar turned the
recent Evacuation Day exercises al
Boston, Mass. into a protest against
imperialism in his address at the
banquet of the South Boston Citizens
Association. After dealing with the
events of 1776, he said;
"Our fathers felt that whatever other
conditions might exist, they were a
free people. For that they fought and
for that they were ready to die. They
held that the government of one people
by another is always and under all
circumstances bad government, and
never can be in the nature of things
good government.
"They enjoyed everything that enters
into the definition of liberty but one.
They had trial by jury; they had Mag
ma Charta, and habeas corpus; they
enjoyed in general the ancient rights of
Englishmen in freedom and in honor
they had king, the object of theil
willing allegiance.
but they knew that there was nc
liberty where taxation exists without
representation; where one people makes
laws for another to obey, and that there
Is in the nature Of things no liberty
without independence. 1t was for this
that they fought. 1t was for this that
they died-some of them.
1T was for this that they drove Eng
land out of Boston. The evacuation
of Boston was not simply that one flag
went up over the old Province-house
and the old state house that soldiers in
homespun followed down to the wharves
other soldiers In red coats.
"On the eighteenth day Of Mach
1776, repubicanism under George
Washington drove Imperialism under
Sir William Howe out of Boston, never
to come back. And that Is the lesson
of this anniversary.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

THE Punishment Of negro criminals
TO Africa Is strongly advocated by
Bishop Turner Of the African Methodist
church. who has been conducting SER
vices among the negro churches Mt Ma
con, Ga. He thinks the United States
government should send oil negro Grim.
inals to Africa. He deplores the fact
that this country has no steamship lines
to Africa. He thinks southern ports In
the United States would profit u great
deal by the commerce that would thus
DO built up.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
SIXTY MILLIONS.
Secretary Cages Estimate for the
Surplus This Year.

WASHINGTON, Aril s. --Secretary Gag
estimates that the surplus for the pre-
sent fiscal year will be over sixty mil
lions, notwithstanding reductions Of
income during the next three months.
This large sum will, however be locked
up in the treasury in company with the
millions already there; it will not be
used in buying bonds, thereby reducing
the interest on the public debt; nor in
making deposits In the banks. So, at
least, declares the secretary in an inter
view just published.
This is striking commentary on the
opposition of the president to any
reduction in war taxation to greater
extent than $50, 900, 900. The United
States is rich, but no country can stand
the locking up of such enormous sums
without suffering from the consequent
diminution of its circulating medium.
Bankers and men who have money to
lend, will of course, profit by money
being made scarce, and by the conse-
quent high rate of interest, but the
people will suffer correspondiugly.
This. however, may not be regarded
as an altogether unfortunate circum-
stance by Secretary Gage, who closes
his interview with these words:
ITO put the matter in nutshell. If
it be a choice between buying bonds at
an artificial price and letting funds
accumulate in the treasury, the latter
will occur, nor will the department
advertise for offerings of bonds. To do
so | am satisfied would be fruitless.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Sale!

NOTICE IA hereby given that under and by
~ virtue Of n decree rendered In the circuit
court of Crawford county, Arkansas on the 10th
day OF July 1900, In an action then pending In
said court, on the chancery side between Little
Rock " Fort Smith Railway plaintiff, and X. n,
London, defendant tho undersigned special
commissioner VIII on
SATURDAY, MAY dth, 1901,
within tho hours for judicial eOlce NJ tho front
or Main street entrance 10 the Court llonse IA
the CITY Of Yam Buron, Ark. Offer for sale and
sell III public outory 70 thp highest bidder on d
credit OF three months the purchaser 10 give
note with approved security aud bearing Tutor.
eat NJ pcf cent per annuln from date Of salo
until paid, the lands described In said decree,
situated In Crawford county, Arkansas, t0,wlt
The southwest quarter OF the Southwest quar-,
ter Of section No, q, In Township No, II North
OF Range No, "a West
Said sale to DO made IN default OF payment Of
sl21b6, with interest md costs edjudged against
said defendant u, " london. and declared to
be- n first lien upon said real estate
W. Y, SApLfh Special Commissioner
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
David Bennett Hill on DemOcacy

Representative Borum of Shelby
county, Tenn. author of II resolution
adopted by the general assembly of that
state extending an invitation to David
B. Hill of New York to address that
body, has received reply, After ex'
tending thanks for the invitation, Mr..
Hill says previously made engagements
prevent his acceptance and concludes
as follows
"A single suggestion further. There
is much unnecessary discussion about
the reorganization Of the Democratic
party, )" 1t Is difficult to ascertain
exactly what Is proposed by those who
make use Of It. The old party Of Jeffer.
son, Jackson and Tilden still lives and
Is good enough for US, What we need
now is courage, patience, unity and
aggressiveness Let us adhere to the
old-fashioned principles of Democracy
and the future will take care of itself. -
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Well Said.

In the course of his address TO the
legislature yesterday Senator Jones
made 1t quite apparent that he is In no
sense u stakeholder In u trust. His
explanation Of his connection with the
roundlap cotton bale enterprise was
clear and comprehensive. He has never
received one dollar from his holdings in
that company and has no idea when he
will do so, II ever. The senator declared
that his Only income was his salary rs
United States senator, and there was
not an honest man within the sound of
his voice who did not recognize the
truth In what he said. All the years Of
his life he has endeavored to discharge
his duties faithfully, and such u man
can look any honest man In the face
and claim the reward due u faithful
public servant, SANDER and false re.
ports set on foot by envious political
rivals will not injure such u man rs
Senator Jones, for standing face to face
with his accusers he will put them to
everlasting shame and the people will
rise up and vindicate his good name eos
Arkansas Democrat.
We believe like the Arkansas Demo
crat that false reports sent out abou,
Senator Jones and his trust Is worse
than rot and the people when called on
at the primaries will not throw Their
noble "Old Roman overheard at the
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

The WORLD s FAIR COMMISSIONERS
will meet in st. Louis April %, instead
Of April IS, us arranged few days ago.
Monday Senator Thurston called on
Secretary Hay at the State Department
and asked that the 23d be fixed In the
notice to be sent by the secretary, This
request was made by Mr., Thurston
after he had received letters from Com
missioners Belts of Connecticut and
Lindsay of Kentucky, stating that they
could not go to st. Louis before the Goth
at the earliest. The Secretary Of State
readily complied with the request OF
Mr.. Thurston, and the commission will
be called to meet ON the 23d.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Makes Deaf Hear.

! Orris Benson, bright boy OF II deaf
dumb and blind from infancy, never
heard the sound of the human voice,
nor the strains of music, until recently
in New York City. To him the outer
world has been as mysterious and void
as to the famous Helen Keller, though
like her he has been taught much solely
through the sense of touch. In the
presence of several of New York 8 most
distinguished artists Orris Benson
clamped to his head little device like
an attendant wears in telephone ex-
change and in less than ten minutes a
new world had opened to the bow.
For the first time since babyhood he was
hearing and actually repeating audibly
after his instructor such simple words
as MAMA, - Papa, - "Hellol'
Horse and "House Orris Ben
son, at the age when most boys go to
college, was learning to lisp the Ian
guage OF tDe nursery.
By short electrical wire the head
pice was connected with photograph
and into the brain cells where music
had been known only as name rolled
the martial strains of Sousa's STARS
and Stripes Forever.
The boy started in his chair as If
shocked by galvanic battery. His
sightless eyes moved in their sockets
pathetically, like those of wondering
child. His hands, long accustomed to
do the work of eyes and ears alike, in
stinctively clutched at the clamped
head-piece, as if to solve the mystery of
this new and strange sensation.
For an instant an expression almost
of pain passed over his features, then,
with look of strained intensity the lad
settled himself back in his chair and for
the first time in his life listened. His
nimble fingers sought those of his in
structor, and in the sign language OF
the touch he said; Eyes, ! can hear
it, but what is itf
ut is music-a military march how
do you like tY flashed back through
the supple fingers of the instructor.
The strained expression relaxed into
a child-like smile of enjoyment, mingled
with mystiication. The boys fingers
spoke again, and the teacher, glancing
at the experts who sat eagerly watching
the experiment said :" He tells me that
the sensation is very pleasant. -
The electrical device tested with such
remarkable results is one which its in
ventor, Miller Reese Hutchinson believes
will enable all deaf mutes to hear and
not less than so per cent. Of them to
acquire practical use Of articulate
language.
He has already experimental upon
4, 900 deaf mutes in the institutions of
New York, Alabama, Michigan and
other states, and he says he has not yet
found case where he has utterly failed
to convey the sound Of spoken words in
at least rudimentary degree
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

WILL the further consideration OF the
Bynum affair result in any good to the
University, the state or DR.. BynumS
At this stage Of the game will not fur.
ther consideration be u waste of
precious timer In view Of important
matters, Is there any time TO wasteY--
Little Rock Democrat,
II will be no great vast OF time for
the legislature to do justice to DR.. By.
mum for the past injustice done him
by Gov, Dan Jones and others Of the
State University Board, Let the action
OF the legislature be such that the
University scandal will cease, and for.
ever
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

will of lot of cheap politicians, who
cannot hope to win by their own fitness
for the senatorial toga, unless they can
break down the standing of our present
senator. 1t would be crying shame to
retire James X Jones after he has given
mis- life service to his party and the
people of his state The people will
not be fooled when the time comes for
them to speak Rogers Democrat.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

The regular annual meeting and cleo
ton of directors of the Expressmen s
Investment Association was held in Van
Buren, last Saturday. Several of the
foreign stockholders were present and
before the meeting drove out to the
farm owned by the association. ], F.
McGraw of st. Louis was elected pre-
sident; l.. Rooms, Monet, vice presi-
dent and A. H. Harrison, Rogers, secre.
tary and treasurer.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
ATTENTION, YETERANS!

The Frisco Line IN connection with tho Choc
taw Route will soll.tickcts TO Memphis and r..
turn nj The low rate Of sGa0 for tho round UP
for tho Annual Reunion United ConfoderN'g
Veterans Tickets win DO on sale May ~, ~ nnH
~ aud the return limit IL June ith, 1901 Fina,
'nno 10 iooi. by deposl,ing ,hom ON or before
June with Agent IT Memphis and paying eieS
OF 90 cents, MNkeyQnr arrangements 10 20 NV
have good tlmeahd 10 Via the new route Be''
VI service, -.
=, W, FURRY, Agt Frisco Line
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

Mesdames o. M. Bourland and R. w.
Quarles, delegates from the Woman s
Literary Club, and Mrs. p. D. Scott,
member of the state executive commit.
tee, leave Monday for Pine Bluff to
attend the meeting of the State Fedora.
ton.
Gloomy weather has prevailed nearly
the entire week. From Wednesday to
Thursday rain amounting to | 81 inches
fell, which caused all the streams to
take on considerable rise and will
have a tendency to delay the planting
Of crops.
The remains of Hon. Thos. E. Little,
late state treasurer, passed through
here Thursday en- route to Greenwood,
where they were inferred in the family
lot, They were accompanied by !epre'
sentatives Of the state government and
the legislative bodies now in session.
We learn that the SHIRLEY & Wo, d
Grocery Co. will retain part of their
stock here and that the management of
the Van Buren, branch will be in the
hands of Mr.. Il, j. Miller. Our in
formation published last week that Mr..
Miller would move to southern Califor.
mia was not correct,
Hon Randolph Comstock spent few
hours in town Tuesday en- route tc
Little Rock to resume his seat after an
unavoidable absence of five or six
weeks. Mr., Comstock was first called
home by the serious illness Of some
members Of his family, He then was
taken down himself with smallpox ant
as soon as precautionary measures
would allow it he started for Littl,
Rock.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Frisco Line Excursions.

TO San Francisco, CAL, and return on account
The farc IL only si78 for tho Round Trip
Ticket SWIM be onsalc July 9Th TO 18th incluaive
Final limit Aug, ~, 1901, Tickets may read VIA
one route and returning via IN entirely dillcren1
yS oPsySM w eS n Nov
Mexico and California 500 und0rslgod for flr'
tbof particulars, This VIII afford u great op'
portunity TO visit California and tho intermc'
diato statoe NJ 4 very small expense, 49,.
y. W, FURRY, Agent Frisco Limo
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

THE LITTLE Rock DEMOCRAT makes
the statement, on the authority Of Mr.,
Geo, W. Chase, that the Morning Star
and Red Cloud zinc mines ut Rush,
Marion county, hay been sold for $26o, :
600, and that so, 900 was paid down,
II Is understood that s95, 900 was paid
down. 1t is understood that the buyers
are the Same parties who propose to
construct u railroad from the Morning
Star 70 Newport,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

PRESIDENT WILSON Of the Arkansas
senate announced that he had appointed
Senators Flenniken and Sengel as the
senate 6 members of the joint commit
tee to correspond with sculptors and
ascertain the price of statues to place
In the inches In the national capitol
two being set apart for favorite sons OF
each state, all of which are filled except
those for Arkansas. Senator Flenniken
Is the author of the resolution.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

Il had piles so bad | could get no
rest nor find cure until | tried De-
Witt s Witch Hazel Salve. After using
it once forgot ever had anything like
Piles. '-E. G. Boice, Somers Point, N.
Y. Look out for limitations. Be sure
you ask for Dewitt S.
II. c.. JOHNSON.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

THE report comes from Washinton
that the big American steamship com
pany chiefly interested In the subsidy
bill Is distributing free passage tickets
TO any senator or representative who
intends or can be persuaded to make the
journey to Europe this summer The
bill will be heard of again in the next
congress. Springfield Mass, Repub'
Ham
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

GOVERNOR DAVIS has appointed Hon,
j. d. Shaver of Mena chancellor OF the
new Sixth chancery district, composed
of Polk, Sewer. Little River, Howard,
Hampstead and Miller. The chancellor
Is the law partner of Hon. Hal G. Nor
wood. He is a son of Gen. Robert G.
Shaver and has served as prosecuting
attorney of the Ninth judicial circuit.
The salary Is g, 900 year.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Save 26c by Buying

McGee's 25c Chill Cure is purga-
tive; you need no other. Largest bot
tie for the money and is guaranteed
to cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist for McGee's 26c Chill Cure,
Tasteless.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

Mrs, CARRIE NATION has submitted a
plan to the city of Medicine Lodge,
which is her home, to run the town for
u week according TO her own ideas, and
unless she improves the moral and bust
ness condition Of the place she is willing
to allow the saloons to come back.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

JERRY SIMPSON, now a cattle dealer
of Wichita, Kas. has decided that he
will run for congress again. He denies
that he is already an active candidate,
but says that IL his friends urge him to
run he will accept the nomination.
Jerry Is now said to belong to the pluto
cratic element, having made an i'm
mense fortune in cattle. He is still a
Populist.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
Get What You Ask Forl

When you ask for Cascarets Candy
Cathartic be sure you get them.
Genuine tablets stamped c. c. c.
Never sold in bulk. A substitutor is
always cheat and a fraud. Bewarel
All druggists, Ioc.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

IT Is unofiicially announced that the
contracts for the extension Of the st,
Louis & North Arkansas Railroad from
Harrison for distance of so miles &c
the southeast In the direction Of Mar
shall, the county seat Of Searcy county,
will be let within the present month
Representatives Of the railroad have
returned from securing the right Of
way In that direction, and this week are
Mt work getting the right Of way for q
spur from Harrison northeast, which Il
intended to tap the mineral districts
OF Sugar Orchard and Dodd City. -
Harrison Times.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

SOME OF tho finest sugar mills IN tho
world, costing $1,000, 600 each, are
found IN Hawaii, and there are planta.
tons IN the island which produce ssoo
worth OF sugar and $500 worth Of rice
to tho acre,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

LATHE HEMBREE. condemned muir
derer who escaped from the Polk
county Jail March Sth, was captured
April 9Th seven miles from Mena while
asleep in the forest.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

on account of so many countries
having turned their attention to the
cultivation of beets for sugar, the mar
kets of the world are becoming glutted.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

The other day Senator Hale said that
''within five years every soldier VINO
has gone from the United States to the
Philippines will be on the pension
rolls -
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
A Testimonial From Old England.

A Testimonial From Old England.
II consider Chamberlain 8 Cough
Remedy the best in the world for
bronchitis, - says Mr.. William Savory,
of Warrington, England. lit has saved
my wife's life, she having been mar
tyr to bronchitis for over six years,
being most of the time confined to her
bed. She is quite well now?' 1t is
a great pleasure to the manufacturers
of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy to be
able to publish testimonials Of this
character. They show that great good
is being done, pain and suffering re-
lieved and valuable lives restored to
health and happiness by this remedy.
1t is for sale by JNo. O'KANE, Druggist.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
SENATOR JAMES X. JONES is meetin

SENATOR JAMES X. JONES Is meeting
with very cordial greeting on all sides
by his many friends here. The Hot
Springs claimants to property con
demned by the government twenty
years ago, and whose claims were
ordered paid by congress In the closing
hours Of the last session through the
personal efforts of Senator Jones, will
be especially glad to shake his hand
1t Is his purpose to return to Hot
Springs with his wife IN week or two
and spend some time here. Hot
Springs News.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
WARMING ORDER.

In Justice ]. q. FergueOn's Court
Van Buren, Township,
VIM. L, Taylor Plaintiff
w.
Vim. l.. Anderson, Dofcndant)
The Dofcndcnt VIM L. Anderson, Ia warned
to appear IN this court within thirty days aud
answer the complaint OF the Plaintiff, VIM, L.
Taylor
April H. 1901, j. q, Ferguson, j. r.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
GUARDIANSHIP SETTLEMENT.

Notice Ia hereby given that application will
~ be made nj The May term, 1901, of the
Crawford County Probate Court for Anal settle.
mont of Susan H. ogden Guardian Of Lou May
and Robert oliver King and for the discharge
OF said Guardianship,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

THE president cannot arrange his
southern trip so as to embrace Little
Rock,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13
McGee's Female Tonic and
Combined Treatment.

Something new, For weak, delicate
women, A tablet for local use In con.
pection with Tonic. Price $l.00.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

DALLAS WATR.cK was accidentally
shot and killed near Eureka Springs
April 8 by Tom Scroggins.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

JORDAN BELL. colored, under death
sentence at Arkansas City for wife MUIR
der, escaped from Jail April 8.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

A company is being formed at Corsi
cana, Tex, 10 manufacture patent
fuel compound, The ingredients of the
article are all found In Texas. 1t has
crude petroleum for base, The com.
pound Is compressed into solid bricks,
and the manufacturers assert that 1t
will furnish heat the equivalent Of coal
ut a cost Of si.b per ton, and that II
can be burned in any stove or furnace.
II Is non-explosive and Is light In
weight. The company contemplates
starting factories ut Corsicana and
Beaumont, where heavy petroleum oil
Can DO easily obtained.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

The officials Of tho Agricultural De-
partment Ut Washington are closely
watching MI reports from abroad re-
garding the extent of the foot and
mouth disease, u fatal malady raging
among i've stock In almost every ooun.
try throughout Europe. For the last
three years the outbreak has been
general on the European continent, and
the reports constantly arriving from
vnrious points do not Indicate any
elimination IN Nv extent, The govern.
mcnt, M " has done since tho epidemic
vsached such alarming dimensions, IN
refusing 10 admit any cattle, shoop or
swine, except from che British lales.
This Il dono not only TO protect tho vast
cattle interests OF this country. but also
10 protect our $40, 900 900 or $40, 900, T.
V99 mutual vspolt trade IN cattle,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-04-13

The Russian press Is abandoning that
reserve with which II first discussed the
governments declaration on the subject
Of Manchuria. II now declares the Joy
with which the British press greeted
China's refusal to sign the Manchuria
agreement has merely postponed the
signing Of the new understanding with
China since the convention will be I'D.
vantageous 10 China. One paper says
nOur London friends overlooked the
fact that In dissuading the signing Of
che agreement they have not FASTENED
the evacuation OF Manchuria, but
strengthened Russia 8 position. -