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HE WON THE WAGER.
lieutenant Took a Mean Advantage of
 His Colonel

Lieutenant Took Mean Advantage ot
 His Colonel.
 One day the officer commanding a Sussex volunteer regiment met one of his lieutenants on the rifle range.
 The lieutenant was shooting, and he "called" each shot as he fired with out waiting for the markers to signal the result.
 "You're pretty good guesser," said the colonel. "Why don't you admit you're guessing where those shots land?"
 "1'll bet you box of cigars, " said the junior officer, ''that l can call 20 shots correctly in succession.
 "Takenp said the older warrior, who was nothing if not sportsman.
 The lieutenant fired.
 Miss" he announced, and red flag from the target told that this was correct.
 Another shot.
 "Miss," he declared. A third shot, Miss again." he said Fourth shot. Fourth miss" announced the young officer. Another shot. Miss, again sang out the lieutenant.
 Hold on there, put in the colonel. "What are you trying to do? l thought you were going to fire at the target"
 q am trying to win my box of eig- ars," said the lieutenant.
 Don't fire any more," said the colonel; "they're yours" = London Tit Bits
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The Weekly
 Arkansas Gazette

one year to any address or different address for s1 Is, or the Weekly Gazette six months and the map for 7oc or the Weekly Gazette three months and the map for soc.
 This map shows the location Of every town and river in the state so it be found at a glance. Shows all the lines of railroads, and has map of the world on the reverse side-the most complete map oi Arkansas ever gotten up,
 Remember, this offer is good for only 60 days,
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A Remarkable Turquois.

A solid block of turquois, weighing 1,500 csrats, was recently taken from the mine near Lajara, the first and only one yet discovered in Colorado. It is of rare beauty and is one of the finest specimens ever seen by western experts. The mine from which this remarkable specimen was taken is To- cated in little volcanic hill, one and a half miles west of the Rio Grande river, and ten miles north of the line
 President and Mrs. Mckinley have taken up their residence at Canton, O., for the summer.
 Thousands of deaths are reported in the large cities of the country daily from the intense heat.
 On the 3d inst. over thirty deaths and 200 prostrations from the heat was the record at Philadelphia.
 The last of the volunteer regi- ments were mustered out of service at San Francisco on the 1st inst.
 Over $3o0,0oO have been contrib uted by Americans to aid the Boers in the war with England.
 It will take China forty-three years to pay the $270,ooo,0o0 in demnity demanded by the powers.
 A single stroke of lightning killed eleven boys at Chicago, who had taken refuge from the storm under railroad bridge
 It is probable Pekin, the Chinese capitol, will be governed by natives under the foreign domination of an international protectorate.
 In a fight between officers and a gang of negro miners in Campbell county, Tenn, three of the latter were killed and six wounded.
 Lieut.. Downer, of the First in fantry, and one private were killed in the island of Samas, P, l., in a skirmish with insurgents last week
 It Is estimated the reduction in tax on articles under the war reve, hue bill, which went into effect on the lst inst, amounts to $44,0o0, ,000 annually.
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MUCK rlludy.
 o. o. Florence is visiting here for few days.
 E. Q. Bryant, of Enola, was in the city Friday.
 ]. w. McPike, of Faulkner, was in Conway Friday.
 Eupion Oil makes a clear, steady light Buy it at Menty's. 3tf
 MT. and Mrs. w. R. Sturgiss are visiting friends at Austin.
 The latest in collars and ties al ways on tap at Wilson Bros. 2t
 Prof. A. F. Riley will canvass for Central College this summer.
 Miss McKie, of Cotton Plant, is the guest of Miss Nettie Murphy.
 Miss Gertie Douglass has re- turned from a visit to Little Rock.
 Miss Hettie Dunaway has re- turned from visit to Little Rock. J. M. Jeffries and T. F. Jones were in from Chadwick Thursday.
 Burn Eupion Oi1--the safest and best. For sale by c. N. Menty & Go. 3tf
 ]. l.. Vaughan, constable of Pa larn township, was here Thurs day
 R. s. Purifoy and MT. Garret, of Holland, were in the city Wednes- day.
 Men flannel coats and pants at greatly reduced prices at Wilson Bros. 27-2t
 l. G. Lille has moved into Hor ace Knowltons place on Prince street.
 MT. and Mrs. James Ligon came in "Wednesday night from Texas. MT. and Mrs. ]. E. Campbell have a boy at their house, born July 7.
 G. A. and w. T. Maddox, of Mt. Vernon were on our streets Thursday.
 Prosecuting Attorney F. E. Brown and wife left Thursday for Des Arc.
 State Capitol Commissioner J. E. Martin was in Little Rock last Wednesday.
 NJ. M. Hawkins, of the Arkan sas Democrat, Little Rock, was in the city Monday.
 The Conway Printing Co. is getting out an attractive folder for Central College.
 Miss Bertha Hil1iard, who has been ill for some time, is reported very much better.
 Miss Inez Foreman, of Webber Falls, I. T., is visiting Miss Mary Harton in this city.
 B1ackberries, SC quart. Sweet and fresh-hone grown.
 24tf C. N. Menty.
 Judge G. M Chapline and sten- ographer T. c. Trimble returned to Lonoke Thursday.
 Mrs. Duke and Miss Daisy Ste phens are visiting in Conway this week.-Clinton Journal.
 Some big values in shoes on our bargain counter at 50 cents on the dollar at Wilson Bros. 27-7t Esquire J. A. King fined Ed Alexander, col, SI for driving his team into another wagon.
 There was no meeting of the town council Tuesday night on ac- count of lack of quorum.
 George A. Freeman and wife, of Little Rock, are here visiting the family of Dr. A. E. Moore.
 A. ]. Witt is having his scales moved from the street to his va cant property on Oak street.
 Ladies, misses and childrens Oxford ties and strap sandals at bargain prices at Wilson Bros. 2t ]. s. Graham was i'll town from Greenbrier Wednesday. He was appointed jury commissioner.
 Wilson Bros. have the largest line of mems and boys shirts ill Conway; they sell 'em cheap too.
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Popularity Contest.

The standing of those whose names have been entered in the contest is as follows:
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Farm for Sale.

2So acres 3 miles southwest of Conway. Good house, barn and tenant houses. Will sell all to- gether or divide it to suit purchas- CT. For price and terms apply to
 E. w. HovIS.
 25-tf Conway, Ark.
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An Extraordinary
 Offer.

For the next sixty days will sell or send by mail a mounted map of Arkansas, 2ix36 tprice of which is 5oe,), with 1900 census, population of every town in Arkansas, and
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Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin cures stomach troubles. Sold by Dr. c. J. Hamilton.
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be
 Hanging in every
 Office and home The Arkansas Gazetteis map of Arkansas,

The Arkansas Gazette's map of Arkansas, with 1900 census of every city, town and village in Arkansas
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PARkER'S HAIR BAISAM

Cleanses and beautifIes the hatr. Promotes luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Prevents Dandruff and hair fslline.
 50c. and Sl 100 at Druggists.
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of him just as he entered He struggled TO
rise, but Sister Potters hand restrained
him. He saluted none the less, with a
swift movement at first, and then a drop TO
the counterpane, as il the effort had been
too much for him. His face flushed, and
his breast heaved. For an instant the sis
ter looked at him nervously. The other men
In the room, who were all convalescents,
rose 20 sitting posture. The field mar
shal took them all in with a sweeping.
kindly recognition. and walked to the end
COT quickly. He sat down on the edge and
took ..l the big, red. hairy paw in his.
wen, Miller. he said, I've come to
see you. They tell me you're doing IA
In the SUM-
The man could not reply. His eyes shift
81 rom the neld marshal's face to the hand
.hat was holding his own. Two or three
tunes MS lips moved. but he could not
speak But the little man was talking
again.
And now I'm going to tell you what
We're going to do with you" he went on.
AS soon as you're strong enough. we're
going to send you to England, 10 home.
ana then when you come back you're going
TO get your stripes, for your captain has
spoken very well OF you You were wound.
ed at Belmont, / understand. and at Koo-
desburg. weren't your"
But Private S2oS could not even move
MS head in reply. He just looked and
looked; so the field marshal gave him "a
slight farewell hand grasp then a friend-
ly nod, and with a word that included all
the others and an answer to their salute,
room. INV
AS Tor Private Miller, he looked I'D ct
the sister, smiled a wan smile and tainted
oead away. But when he came to himself
me hrst words he said were these: Dye
Ken the little mon; he took nv hand. A'am
10 get well soon! He took my hand"
AND with that he lay there looking az
the almost useless member. as II It were a
valuable curiosity
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steam rising into the air. We tie our
horses, and, with staff in hand, plunge into
the vapor. We are in the midst of acres of
boiling springs separated by thin walls
upon which we walk looking down into the
terrible commotion below.
Here is a Whirlpool. The water is as
black as ink. 1t boils and steams and
bubbles and spits. It is hotter than the
Shadrack, Meshac and Abednego furnace.
Watch out, for if your foot slips you will
be scalded to death.
Now we are on a great yellow mound
looking into a sulphur pool, the gases of
which almost Sicken we stoop over.
The pool is filled with boiling mud. There
the steam is so thick you can hardly see
through it. Be careful where you step. A
girl slipped into that vat the other day
and came out cooked.
The Donkey Engine.
Look at this hole, see how 1t bubbles up
mud and oil. 1t makes a noise as though
it were run by machinery and the people
have named it the donkey engine.
See the white stuff on which you are
standing. 1t looks like salt You have
passed out of the sulphur hills and are now
on hills of snow, which show out in con-
trast with the boiling mud about you. Pick
up some of the snow or salt and taste it.
How it Fuckers your mouth. Your lips
and tongue W1ther as though you had bit
ten into green persimmon. The stuff is
not salt. 1t is alum. There are bushels of
1t here, but mixed with other minerals.
There are parts of New Zealand where
there are cliffs of alum. and where the
springs flow alum water.
But let us take look at the Inferno We
walk through the steam over q thin crust
of sulphur and look down into great vat
twenty feet deep and SO large that you
could drop Maori house into 1t without
touching the sides. 1t seems to be filled
with boiling paint, and as it seethes 1t now
throws up column Of mud. The scent Is
nauseating. Our stomachs turn and we
give our hands to the guide and beg him
to lead US forth. We go out through clouds
of steam loaded with camphor, by the
DeviI $ Punch Bowl. in which the mud is
the color of lavender, and on into the open.
where the green hills and the blue skv
bring US back to earth.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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much like ours save that nearly all are
barefooted. Some would be good looking
were 1t not for the tattoo marks upon their
chins and lips making them blue. Many of
them speak English, and 1 take one for
guide through the cracking, steaming, rum
bling splitting region about me.
Among the Geysers.
She leads me from one wonder to another.
Here is a pool of boiling, bubbling mud
which now and then shoots a column high
into the air. That great round vat with the
white walls is made of the silica and other
minerals thrown up by a geyser; 1t is called
the brain pot. That vast pool in which the
yellow fluid within bubbles and boils is
known as the champagne pool; its contents
stir about just like champagne, and the
gases now and then throw the water up to
height of six eight feet. The walls are of
different colors, here white, there dark red
and there yellow with sulphur. we go to
see the Pohutu geyser, which twice day
for from twenty minutes to three hours at
a time sends majestic column of water
high into the air; and then take look at
the giants cauldron, which bubbles and
boils and seethes, heated by the fires below.
Come and take a trip with me into the
mouth of hell. This is region about
twelve miles from Rotorua. We steam
across the lake sailing over what was evil
IDENTIFY once volcanic crater, then
take horses over the country to Tikitere.
AS we near 1t we see great columns of
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lack of heating arrangements. The wealth
er was cold and every passenger had
travelling blanket which he wrapped
around his feet. 1 had fox skin one, and
to this added my rubber hot water bottle.
L took 1t from my bag and had it filled by
the girls at the tea stations. One young
woman was amazed at the request and
wondered what 1 wanted hot water for. At
last smile lit up her face and she said:
81 understand. You want it for the baby
Cbaby).'
Yes. my DEAR said l. as I handed her
a shilling, but / am the baby :"
That is something like the English they
talk down in New Zealand You hear a
great deal of the Cockney accent. A Is
frequently like ''i or al and you have
to often translate the phrases you hear.
This is SO in the stores. In buying the
foXskin rug 1 spoke of 1 asked the depart
me Mt store clerk where the rugs were kept.
He said: Go through that aisle and down
by the Ices" i could not think what he
meant by 1.-The Ices" and a brief vision
of crawling insects and frowZy hair came
before my eyes until on the other side OF
the store 1 saw some white lace with car
pets and rugs beyond and 1 knew the
ycrng man meant laces. As for the letter
III / have never heard it so mistreated In
England as in New Zealand 1t is always
OH when it should be off, and always off
when 1t should be on. Even the school
children butcher the kings English in this
respect and in everyday conversation the
faults are common. They remind me Of
the blacksmith whom / like to quote when
ever our English cousins talk about such
Americanisms Il guess" The black
smith was discussing the effect Of hunting
versus macadamized roads on the horses
feet, when he said:
Hit hisn't the 'opping hover edges what
'urts the 'orses' 'oofs, but hits the 'ammer,
'ammer, 'ammer on the ard hiron road"
Riding Over Hades.
But to go on to the Yellowstone. AS we
n ne-in Of
They cover the hills and in the valleys rise
into trees like Umbrellas. The whole earth
is matted with them. The tree ferns have
stems as big around as a telegraph pole
and some rise fifteen feet without branch.
Farther south we come into highlands.
We pass through forests, the tall trees
bound around with vines and their wide
spreading branches covered with green
leaves. Many of them are loaded with or
chids. which ornament the living as well
as the dead, hanging down amid the green
leaves and wrapping themselves around the
dead limbs to make them green again.
When we reach an altitude of about
900 feet above the sea we come into a
region of active volcanic energy. The earth
seems hollow. 1t rumbles and grumbles
as our train goes over it. We see steam
coming forth from the cracks here and
there and we wonder if the crust may not
break and drop US into the bubbling boil
ing, Steaming mass which evidently lies
below.
We pass the village of Koutu, which is
almost hidden in columns of steam from
the ground above and sail on by Lake
Rotorua to Rotorua itself.
New Zenland's Hot Springs.
This is the famous health resort of the
south Pacific ocean. The land all about it
is steaming, clouds of vapor go up from
pools of boiling water, each of which has
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Why the Boiler Bursts.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

crOm tne CulcdgO chronicle.
When you hear the kitchen boiler crack
ing there is no cause for alarm. There is
prevailing impression that the cracking
Is produced by steam, and that there is,
therefore, an increased pressure on the
boiler at such times. But this is an error
If the boiler is in good condition, with the
water turned on as usual, so that the boiler
is kept filled, the only pressure that it Is
subjected to Is the same as that in the
water pipes, from which, of course there
never Is the slightest danger. And this is
true, no matter how hot the water in the
boiler may be-.
The reason is very simple. AS long as
the boiler is kept full Of water there is no
COCK the water pours out and steam arises
from it because it then has a chance to
escape into the air. In other words rapid
evaporation takes place. But as the hot
water pours out water from the pipes
rushes in to- take it's place, and thus the
boiler is kept full.
The cracking noise referred to is heard
when the water is unusually hot, and is
nothing but the expansion Of the boiler
under the influence of that heat. 1t is in
indeed, the boiler Is worn out or defective,
which is matter entirely outside of what
we are now considering.
When kitchen boiler explodes It is gem
orally because fire has been kindled in
the range while the boiler was empty, IT
happens sometimes when people come back
to town after spending the summer away.
The fire heats the boiler, of course, and
when the water is turned on 1t Is converted
suddenly and violently into steam, and the
boiler cannot stand the enormous pressure.
fortunately, few persons are thoughtless
enough or silly enough to build fire be-
fore opening the cocks connecting the boiler
with the water pipes.
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A Visit to the Wonderland of the
South Pacific Ocean.
LIKE OUR YELLOWSTONE PARK
Region of Earthquakes, Geysersand
Lakes Of Boiling Mud.
WONDERFUL HOT SPRINGS
Copyright, 1901, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
ypecial CorresDcndence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand
Mark Twain says Pittsburg looks like
'Hell with the lid off, 1 have been travel
ing through a part of New Zealand, which
looks like Hell with the lid on" save that
there are thousand and one holes in the
cover from which all sorts Of poisonous
gases, malodorous smells, boiling springs
and other devilish evidences are pouring
forth. l am in the Yellowstone Park of
New Zealand, land of volcanoes geysers,
earthquakes and lakes of boiling mud, a
land In which old Mother Earth seems af-
hicted with perpetual collie and is ever vom-
iting forth hot paint, or belching out steam
loaded with alum.
This region is situated III miles south
east of Auckland near the center of the
North Island 1t covers almost two mil
lion acres. 1t is about thirty miles wide
and 100 miles long, and the crust upon it
is so thin that as you walk or ride over it
you seem to hear thousand devils rum
bling and raging below and feel that there
Is little more than a sheet of brown pa
per between you and Hades.
The Eruption of Tarawera.
The face of the earth changes from week
to week. Great cracks open and new boil
ing pools burst forth. There are frequent
earthquakes and now and then a mountain
breaks forth into eruption. There are ac-
tive volcanoes, and no one knows when
those dormant may not spring into life, as
Mount Tarawera did in 1886. In that year,
on the 1Oth of June, the towns about this
mountain We're destroyed. Several native
villages were covered to a depth of sixty
feet by deluge of mud. Both houses and
inhabitants were destroyed almost as COM
pletely as POmpeii and Herculaneum by
Nesuvius centuries ago. The bottom of a
big lake was blown out and in its place
came roaring crater which sent up a
column of steam to a height of almost
three miles. The earth broke open. There
was one crack nine miles long. New lakes
were formed, clouds of ashes and dust
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Blue VIII BE Worn This snrinr
From the MINNEAPOLIS Times

Blue is to be very good color this spring,
and am glad Of it, for there is no tone In
the world so kind to the complexion If one
Is too highly colored or If the skin is not
perfectly clear. Skirts Of rough blue ma
terial with smart Jackets trimmed sparvnpiv
with black and gold braid will be good form
for travelling. A shirt waist of blue and
white polka dotted flannel is q useful and
pretty addition to one Of the blue suits aud
Is most effective when made in simple shirt
waist fashion and worn with a blue ribbon
stock with turnover collar of embroi-
derry or hemstitched linen. A blue serge
skirt and blue and white polka dotta.d
waist with blue ribbon collar and q lace
turnover collar for q finish makes a pret-
ty school suit Tor young girl
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FREAKS OF THUNDERBOITs.
turkish Mountains Seem to BE En-
gagged In an Electrical War.

From the Chicago Chronicle
Prof. Ellsworth Huntington saws that dur.
ing the geological trip through an almost
unvisited part of the Taurus mountains In
turkey he heard of peculiar electrical phe-
nomenon. One Of the natives told him that
one mountain near his village fought with
another mountain on the other side OF the
Euphrates river. The weapons were balls OF
light, which the mountains threw at each
other. Professor Huntington Thought at
first as the region was one of volcanic &C.
tivity in comparatively recent times. and as
hot springs and extinct craters are still to
be seen, that this must be a traditional ac-
count of volcanic eruption. He was how
ever, convinced subsequently that the story
mad Its origin in meteorological phenome-
non.
The story detailed to him by ten or
twelve men whom he saw at five different
places within an area of forty miles was as
follows: A ball of fire would start from one
mountain and go like a flash TO another
AT the same time there is a sound like
thunder. This occurs by night or by day al
though by day no light is seen. Il always
occurs when the sky Is clear and never
when it is cloudy. 1t sometimes happens two
or three times in year, and then again it
is not seen for several years. For the last
Two years 1t has not been seen. 1t hardly
ever happens except in the fall, at the end
or long, dry season of three months One
OF the mountains which he visited was COM
posed of metamorphic schistose shale of the
cretaceous age. Its height is 1850 feet and
its top is comparatively fiat. According to
one account the ball of fire was at first
small, but grew larger as 1t passed over and
then grew smaller again. Professor Hunt
ington believed that in this case the OBJ
server was standing between the two noun
tains.
While meteorologists have not been ready
with explanations of these mysterious light
nings, 1t is mentioned that there are peaks
on the Rocky mountains on which almost
continuous electrical discharges have been
observed. but they pass off into the air
quietly, like St. Elmo's fire and never in
great flashes from peak to peak. 1t is also
known that cloud or a mass of electrified
air that has not quite attained the cloudy
condition may lie between two peaks and
flashes may proceed from 1t simultaneously
to the two peaks in such a way as to lead
careless observer to say that one peak dis
charged over the other. II this should be
the approximate explanation of the Eu-
pirates phenomenon, then IL will happen
only when the wind is in certain directions,
such as to cause the formation Of an incipi.
ent cloud and thunder storm between the
two peaks, and this wind direction will de.
pend upon the relation of the peaks to the
course of the river valley below. So that H
the phenomenon Is attributable to this
source it is not so very rare. On the other
hand, If it is a myth, based upon some his
torical event or some misinterpretation of
ancient names, the explanation will at all
events be most interesting to students OF
history and philology.