davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Probate Court Notice.

NOTICE Ia hereby given that the following
~ named Administrators and Guardians have
hled their accounts for settlement with the sew.
eral estates hereinafter named during the No.
yember term, 1901, OF tho Probate Court Of Craw
ford County. Ark
All persons Interested In the settlement ofsaid
estates are hereby notified TO file their excep.
tions thereto, II any they have, on or before the
second day OF the next regular term OF this
Court or they will be forever barred from OK.
cepting to the same or 10 any Item thereof'
John Kibler. guardian OF Mary Lovett, q min.
or, first and hnal account
N. l.. g. Baker, guardian Of Ora Moore, .
minor, first and final account.
James Filpot guardian Of Canada McLen.
don, hrst aud final account
Alex Gooding guardian Of Ora Howell and
James Howell, sixteenth aud final account
-E. l.. Matlock. administrator Of the estate Of
T. j. Testerfnsn, decd, third and hnal account
II. p Howell, administrator OF tho estate OF j..
X. p Howell. decd, first and final account
witness my hand and official seal this 22d day
OF November, 1901.
X. D. CocHRANE
lsEAL1 Clerk Of Probate Court
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Let Him Proceed.
rom the Little Rock Democrat.

From the Little Rock Democrat
In reporting Governor Davis speech
at Texarkans on the night of the 18th
the "Texarksnian said:
Governor Davis says he has fifty
speeches to make over the state In oppo.
sition to Senator Jones. He cares moi
for his official duties and proposes to
neglect them to 70 around and instruct
the people whom they should vote for.
Let him go. Let him make the fifty
speeches. or q hundred II he chooses.
What are "oficial duties to him when
the people need instruction on the sena.
torisl question: Cannot his private
secretary run the oficef And why
should a governor be required to be In
bis Office more than one day out Of fvei
1t 10 irksome to sit In a dingy, musty
old Office, while 1t Is fun and glory to
get out on the stump and instruct the
voters. A prominent lawyer who leans
to Clarke said the other day: "Clarke
will wish that JEFF Davis had never been
born by the first of January" A lead
Ing commercial traveller said: lit will
make Clarke hard work to carry Phillips
Lee and Crittenden II JEFF Davis keeps
on supporting him. i" 1.-THE people be-
lieve In fair play said q leading citi-
zen Of south Arkansas, land when
they see two prominent men, govern
or and an ex-governor, jumping on one
man their sympathies 90 to the one
man. Clarke Is losing heavily every
day as a result Of the combine.
We predict, in the first place, that
Davis will not make fifty more speech
es'' II he does, 80 much the better for
Jones rnd so much the worse for Davis.
There Is a cloud not much bigger than
man 8 hand as yet, but It Is a cloud.
There may be storm. The gods are
watching the men whom they have sim
gled out for destruction.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Club Federation Representatives Hold
Important Meeting at Hot Springs.

Club Federation Representatives Hold
Important Meeting at Hot Springs.
Special TO the Gazette
Hot SPRINGS, Nov. 26.-The Arkan-
sas Federation of Women 8 Clubs, re-
presented by all the officers of the Or
CARNATIONS, held On executive session
in this city today. They arrived on the
early trains and were escorted to the
Arlington hotel, where the business ses-
sion was called to order at 10 O'Clock
by Mrs. Trulock. After the call of or
der and the reading Of the minutes the
resignation of the presiding officer was
read. and accepted by the organization.
Mrs. VIM. Neal of Helena, being first
vice president, advanced to the position
Of honor by the unanimous consent Of
the session, and Mrs. P. D. Scott, wife
of the st. Louis Worlds Fair Commits
sioner was made first vice president.
Mrs. J. W. Crawford Of Pine Bluff was
made second vice president. The re-
ports of the officers and committees
were read and accepted. The question
Of the next place Of holding the session
came up and Fort Smith was selected.
Those responding to the roll call were !:
Mrs. VIM. Neal, Helena, president /;
Mrs. T. H. Barnes, Fort Smith, treas.
urer; Mrs. P. D. Scott, Van Buren,.
vice president; Mrs. P. P. Dowdy,
Searcy, recording secretary; Mrs. p.
H. Williams, Hot Springs, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Fred Hanger Little
Rock. and Mrs. j. M. Prewitt, Forrest
City, directors; Mrs. Folsom, Brinklsy.
chairman of club extension Mrs. Jennie
Besuchamp, Little Rock, chairman Of
home economics; Mrs. F. D. Baars,
Arkadelphia, chairman music and art |;
Mrs. P. H. Ellsworth, Hot Springs,
chairman civic improvement.
The presidents Of all the state organ.
izstions In the Louisiana Purchase ter
ritory having been called TO meet IN St.
Louis In Jan uary and decide on 4 per-
manent memorial for the organization,
this committe today decided to follow
In full accord the plans as outlined by
the Missouri division and cooperate
with them In the erection and maintain.
ing Of a club home in that city. The
business session adjourned ut Q O. clock,
and the ladies held an informal recep.
tim.
After the brief reception the visiting
ladies were ushered into the large din
ing room Of the Abingdon, where. laden
with all the dainties that skilled hands
could contrive, a banquet table was
spread before them. At each plate a
handsome souvenir card Of Hot Springs,
to which was attached q delicate knot
Of ribbon, representing the pink and
white of the Lotus Club and the pink
and lavender of the Fortnightly Club,
designated the position at the table each
participant was to occupy. The repast
was thoroughly enjoyed by all, and the
visitors we're enthusiastic In praise OF
the hospitality Of the local organiza .
lions.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

OUR esteemed neighbor, the Hoi
Springs News Is eminently correc,
In the following, although Col. Charley
Gordon Newman Of the Pine Bluff
Commercial persistently states that
Clarke will have an overwhelming ma
jority In jefferson The News warns
aspirants for congressional honors In
this new district to cut loose from the
JEFF Davis-Clarke, etc., combine. II
will be unable to deliver a single county
In the new congressional district to
Clarke, and In the reckoning those can.
didates who play the role of tail to the
Clarke kite will inevitably share the
fate OF the Clarke kite. Benton Demo
crat.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
A Great Medicine,

II have used Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and DiarrhDa Remedy and lind
II to be great medicine, " Gays Mr.. L.
s. Phipps Of Poteau, Ark. 1T cured
me Of bloody Aux. I cannot speak too
highly OF II. " This remedy always
wins the good opinion, II not praise, Of
those who nse II. The quick cures
which II effects even IN the most severe
cases make Il favorte everywhere.
For sale by JouS O'KANg. Druggist.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

A FORT SMITH travelling man, who
has just returned from trip over West
ern Arkansas, says that 1t Is wonderful
how the tide is turning against Davis
and Clarke. MEN who have been
Davis warm friends ever since he en-.
tered politics are now against him and
say they will have nothing more to dc
with him." declared this gentleman.
"They are simply disguised with hi
recent exhibition of idiocy. I do moi
believe that Clarke will get ten pei
cent vote in western Arkansas. Sena,
tor Jones need not worry. News
Record.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Reliable and Gentle.

"A pills q pill, says the saw. But
there are pills and pills. You want q
pill that Ia certain, thorough and gentle.
Mustn = grippe. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers All the bill. Purely vegetable.
Do not force but assist the bowels to
act. Strengthen and invigorate. Small
and easy 10 take, CRY DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

JUDGE JEPTHA EVANS Of Logan county
declines the proffer of Governor DAVIS
support for supreme judge and will ask
q reelection as Judge of his circuit
Batesville Guard.
Perhaps Judge Evans fears that the
governors friendship is of the fatal
kind. Fort Smith Elevator.
Judge Evans knows a dead duck
when he sees it-even IL 1t does fluttel
after its neck has been wrung.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

wANTED-sEvERAL PERSONS OF CHAR.
Acter and good reputation In each state lone In
this county roquir6dl 70 represent and advertise
ID financial standing, Salary 9ls w0okly with
expenses additional, all payable Ia cash each
Wednesday direct from head Offices. Horse and
carriage furnished, when necessary. References.
Enclose self.addressed, stamped envelope. Man.
ager, $40 Caxton Building. Chicago,
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Notice.!

The members of the Democratic
County Central Committee are request
ed to meet at the court house In Van
Buren, ON Tuesday, December II, 1901 Z,
at Q o clock p. M, to appoint day for
holding the primaries.
Other important business will come
before the Committee, and each MEMBER
] urged to be present.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

sWs have heard the idea advanced
lately that Gov. Davis Is u Victim Of a
mild form Of insanity bat the concepsns
of opjnion seems to bs best expressed by
Sut Lovingood' . famous diagnosis--thst
hs 10 "suffering FROM y violent attack
OF damphool. Carroll Progress.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

LATEST advlcss ars TO the effect that
when Governor Davis wrote bis last
letter 10 Ben Crayens u slip OF the pen
made him say "shot~gun' instead Of
,,squirt gun. Fort Smith Elevator,
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
CHAIRMAN CARROLL ARMS

CHAIRMAN CARROLL ARMSTRONG OF the
Democratic state central committee and
Secretary Gray Carroll have called y
nesting OF the committee ut LATHE Rock
for December 18th next Tor the purpose
of fixing thu basis Of representation IN
Che state convention and the transaction
OF suuh other business ~ may properly
ovlDe before the committee.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

An exchange says that u fellow looked
through the bible to find scripture jus.
tifying him In using tobacco and found
but one passage. II Ia found In the
last chapter Of Revelations and 10 the
second sentence Of the eleventh verse
and we'll bet some OF the old sinners
who use tobacco will read that verse
within an hour after reading this para.
graph.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
A Triple Hanging

Smith, Brown and Jones hang all their
hopes Of recovery upon Cheatham s
Laxative Chill Tablets. They will be
around soon shaking hands with friends.
1 90 cts. No cure-no pay.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Frisco Line Excursions,

Tickets on sale daily 10 all regular tolrin
points. Boo the unesrigned II you contcmpla"
d trip.
There are others, Ask the agent about the.
Tho rates arc very low and limits liberal
p. W. FURRY, Agent Frisco Line.
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
Mo. Pacific Excursions.

New YonK Cry, BUFFALO, N. y, and other
Eastcrn cities Special low rates. on sale daily
For further Information, limit route oto, call
on y, J, O'NEILI AGENT
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

Always carries Hunts l.IRh thing w
around with her, says its fine for swell,
ings, tooth-ache, cole, weak back an"
backaohe, cuts, burns, euralgia w.
tarrh, Aunt Lueindy bas sixty-nlnes
grandchildren and ought 10 know whM
she is talking about,
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30

The pardon mill at Little Rock 10 still
grinding, and by the srist produced
toting pistols, selling liquor without Il.
censs, etc. crimes that every enlight.
ened citizen wants TO see punished to
the fall extent Of the lsw-ths governor
seems TO be pandering 10 the criminal
elements OF society and has thereby out.
ragged the order.loving and law.abiding
citizens OF the state, He will find when
no again asks for Office that no has been
barking up tho wrong tree. --Heber
JNcksonlan,
The Van Buren press., 1901-11-30
MONEY TO LOAN
On we'll improved Farms.
Terms Reasonable. Time
Easy.
w. W. COTTON, AGENT.
OZARK, ARK.

NEGRO homesteaders In Oklahoma are
being driven from their homes in spite
Of the efforts of the government to pro-
tect them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
Testing Warnings at Sen.

Twenty-Five years have elapsed
since Prof. Tyndall, at the instance of
the Trinity House corporation, car
ried out a series of experiments at the
South Foreland, near Dover, England,
to determine the value of various
sounds as warnings to the mariner of
his approach to dangerous spots in
thick weather. The result was a large
increase in the number of fog signals
all round the British coast. Much
knowledge has been acquired and
many new inventions have been made
in the intervening period, and a spe-
cial committee of the elder brethren
of the Trinity House, assisted by Lord
Rayleigh and other eminent scien-
lists and engineers have been en-
gagged for some time in making elab-
crate tests of all the latest improve
ments in the different kinds of ap-
paratus for making cautionary noises.
The scene of their operations is the
Isle of Wight. One of their chief OBJ
jects is to determine the relative mer-
its of reeds and sirens as sound pro-
ducers. Much attention, also, has
been given to the trumpet and various
notifications of that instrument.
Other careful experiments are to de-
termine the carrying capacity, in GER
tain conditions of notes of different
pitch, and the effect on the dissem-
ination of sound of the conformation
of the coast line, etc. Another point
to be considered is the question of the
most effective and the most economical
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
Fertility of Sicily.

The natural fertility of Sicily il in
deed remarkable. Without the use Of
fertilizers three different growths-
olives, vines and wheat-fourisl in
close proximity. Great sections al
ready artificially watered are among
the garden spots of the world. The
plano del Cappucinni' at TrapaH, on
the western shore, the far-fLmed
"Conca POro," neal Palermo, AMI the
entire eastern coast north of Caania
are sections which surpass in fertility
the favored valleys of Tuscany. Al
ready 0 1000, 900 orange trees, OF two
thirds of the total number grown in
italy, flourish on the island, while cot
ton and linseed, the almond, the olive.
the carob and the mandarin are @ten-
sively raised.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
Titled
Prisoners

The prisoners of England shelter
many titled and aristocratic prisoners.
among them begin relatives of his ma
jesty, the king, who have suffered ig-
nominious penalties at the hands of
the law. Lady Cunning, widow of Sir
Henry Cunning and granddaughter Of
the second Lord Churchill, is serving
a term of several years penal servi-
tude for having forged the name of her
father to notes on which she raised
money from London d~iscounters and
tradesmen. These forgeries extended
over a number of years, and were con-
sidered especially objectionable from
the fact that her ladyship was driven
to commit them not from her reduced
circumstances, but from Indebtedness
caused by betting on the races. Mrs.
Osborne, wife of Captain OSBORNE, of a
crack cavalry regiment, being in desti-
tute circumstances purloined a costly
pearl necklace, which she later sold in
England, and was sentenced to i'm
prisonment with hard labor. Nor was
any greater judicial 1eniency shown
Gwynette Maude, granddaughter of the
Earl of Montalt, who was sentenced to
two years imprisonment with hard la
Dor for obtaining goods under false
pretenses. The Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland, presuming too greatly on
the latitude allowed her rank, de-
stroyed in the presence of the court
a document that would have insured
her defeat in a suit she was conduct
ing. For this she was condemned to
six months Imprisonment. The Count
and Countess Leiningen, distant cous-
ms Of the King, are neither of them
of great credit to their royal connec-
tions. For his many misdeeds the
count is confined in an English pen
i%tentiary, while the countess is serv-
ing time in a Vienna Jail as punish
ment for forgery, blackmail and swim
ding. Still greater degradation has
been undergone by the Warehouses of
Donegal, who has time and again been
sent to Jail, generally for brief periods,
following her arrest in London for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
Still another connection of the English
royal house, the Countess Waldeck,
is now undergoing punishment for for
gerry and perjury under circumstances
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
English Nobility Mem
bers Confined I'm
Prison Cells

that had no extenuating features. No
amount of royal influence could save
her from Jail. Italy has two convict
dukes, chiefs of the famous old 81
Gillian house Of Villarosa, who muir
dered in a most cruel ann a young
infantry lieutenant who was betrothed
to their sister, the Princess Catarina-
The murderer dukes are confined In
the great penitentiary Of Maddalena,
near Naples, which also shelters the
Prince Caracciola, sentenced to ten
years hard labor for the murder OF
his wife. This noble prisoner was once
deserted by his beautiful wife. AS an
effectual revenge he poisoned her with
arsenic. In consideration of his prince
ly name, the murderer escaped with a
ten years term.-Pennsylyania Grit.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
He was clever.

DR.. Guthrie, an authority on milf
tary surgery fifty ear ago, was a
kindly man, though somewhat brusque
in tanner. Sir Joseph Prayer says:
II was his house surgeon, and we got
on very well together. One day, when
we were going through the wards with
a large following of distinguished vis-
itors, foreign surgeons and others, we
stopped by the bedside of an interest
ing case, when Guthrie, found fault
with the dresser for something he had
done. The student ventured to reply
and Guthrie said: "Idare say you think
you are a remarkably clever fellow,
don't your No, sir said the youth.
earnestly, I don't But you are,
though said Guthrie. and passed on"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES

Orders for the re-establishment of
the European station have been issued
by the secretary of the navy, and Rear
Admiral Cromwell has been ordered to
proceed at once to Europe and assume
command of the station. For the pres
ent his squadron will consist of the
cruiser Chicago, flagship, and the
cruiser Albany and the gunboat Nash
vile. The Chicago is now the flag
ship Of the South Atlantic station, but
has received orders to proceed from
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Gibraltar,
and the Albany and Nashville have al
ready left Cavite for Suez, where they
are to receive orders from Rear Admi-
raj Cromwell. ], is stated at the navy
department that one of the newer bat
tleships will be ordered to the Euro
pean station some time in the fall. 1t
is more than probable that either the
Kearsarge or the Alabama will be Sc
lected for this duty. The European
station was abandoned in 1898, just
previous to the war with
Spain.
H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor of
Benguet province, northern Luzon,
who has been ordered to Manila to
submit to an investigation, has had an
adventurous career, according to news
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

scenery Of his state. He alludes to the
fact that there are eighteen mountain
peaks more than $500 feet in height
within the STATE limits and talks with
a pang of remembered pleasure of the
glories of Lake Champlain, which
stretches for 118 miles in length and is
fourteen miles wide. OF all the New
England states Vermont is the only
one entirely u off from the sea, while
at the same time its chief city, Bur-
lington, on Lake Champlain, has a
maritime commerce employing a fleet
of 1000 vessels and amounting in the
aggregate to $12, 600, 900 annually.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

There are five times as many people
IN the city of Chicago as there are in
the whole state of Vermont, says the
Chicago Tribune. Perhaps two-thirds
as many people born In Vermont live
outside that state as still reside with
In its borders. Vermont has been des-
cribed as a state composed chiefly of
hills, mountains, rocks, lakes, and
stone quarries. OF it's farming land
200,0 900 acres have been abandoned by
those who formerly titled it and can be
bought for 81 or SIS an acre. Since the
war the population of the state has
practically stood still. Its sturdy sons
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

Underneath the town of Norwich,
England, are numbers of brine springs,
which were used for the preparation
of salt even before the Christian era.
Owing to the immense excavations oc-
casioned by the pumping up of this
brine, the main street of the town is
now to be raised four feet. AS recent
ly as 1892 it was raised five feet, and
again the th%oroughfare is on a level
with the River Weaver, which runs
close by. The property to be lifted
consists of hotels and large shops, I'M
der which hydraulic jacks are placed,
and as the structures are raised wood
en- wedges are inserted. So accurate is
the work done that business is car
ried ON as usual during alterations
and but little inconvenience is expe-
rienced by the families.
Nearly every little local custom in
England can be traced by the antigua
rian back almost to prehistoric times,
and in the interesting tradition that
the sunrise must be witnessed on mid
summer day from the vast piles OF
~Stonehenge is one of these ancient
customs. 1t may have been a habit
with the ancient Britons to do hom-
age to the source of light on this, the
suns greatest day, or the custom may
date back to those red-haired tribes
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26

zen of that state are making most
elaborate plans for the reception of
their returning kinsfolk. In
more than 100 Vermont towns and
cities special and separate celebrations
will be held, and every hillside in the
state will echo with the strains If
Home, Sweet Home" No matter in
what hamlet or on what hillside farm
a native Vermonter was born, he will
be likely to find his old friends and
neighbors gathered together there il
reunion during the week of the Old
Home celebration.
At Burlington, Rutland, and other
large towns of the state, which in COM
parison with the great cities of the
country are mere villages, local asso-
Citations have been formed which will
receive and entertain as their guests
the Vermont associations which are
coming from distant states. Figur-
atively speaking, a beacon fire of well
come will be lighted on every noun
tain top.
To the average man the enthusiasm
of the native Vermonter for the stony
state which gave him birth is hard to
understand. But if he asks a Vermont
man to give the reasons for the faith
which is in him he is likely to be as
tonisheu.
did you ever hear of the Green
Mountain boys?" he will answer. "Do
you remember how Ethan Allen and
eighty-three Vermont farmers sur
prised the great British stronghold of
Fort Ticonderoga and forced it's sur
render in the name of the Great Je-
hovah and the Continental Congress?
Does Grown Point mean anything to
you? Have you forgotten Bennington,
where General Stark whipped the Hes
SLAMS, killing 964 out of 1900 men, and
capturing all their cannon? If you'll
go down home with me in August and
climb up to the top of the Benning-
ton Battle Monument you'll wonder,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-09-26
The Laughing Plant of Arabia.


The laughing plant is a native of
Central and Eastern Arabia. 1t gets it's
name, MOI because the plant laughs,
but because it is the cause of creating
laughter in any one eating it's seeds.
The plant is of moderate size. with
bright yellow flowers in clusters, and
soft, velvety seed pods, each of which
contains two or three seeds resembling
small black beans, which, if eaten,
produce effects analogous to those Of
laughing gas. The flavor of the seeds
is somewhat like that of opium; they
taste sweet, while their odor produces
a s~ickening sensation. The seeds are
pulverized and taken in small doses.
Any n taking them begins to laugh
loudly and boisterously, and then
sings, dances, and cuts all kinds of
fantastic capers. The effects continue
for about an hour, and, when the ex-
citment ceases, the exhausted individ-
ual falls into a deep sleep, on awaken
ing from which he is utterly uncon-
scious of any such demonstrations hav-
ing been made by him when under the
influence of the seeds of the laughing
plant.