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Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Senator Berry flatly refused TO
talk politics while in Little Rock
last week. 1t is refreshing to
note that there is a statesman
who will wilfully throw away an
opportunity to get his name in
the papers. Such a thing is
hardly consistent with politics of
the present day.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Senator elect J. NJ. Vaughters
OF Faulkner county, in writing to
one of his constituents, asks for
information as to the needs of
the people in matters of legisla-
ton, and concludes with this
confession: 81 do not know
more than two men ought to
know and am willing to learn"
1t is safe to say that this gentle
man will make q reliable member
Of the general assembly.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

We stand corrected. The Har-
dy Herald is for W. ]. Bryan for
president in 1904, with Tom John
son as a second choice. Then
that spoils the thing, for we had
hoped that the Herald and limbo
den News would get together on
one proposition at least.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Last weeks issue of the Wal
nut Ridge Blade contained por-
traits of the directors of the Bus
mess Mems League, which has
been doing good work for the
town. The Blade is a progress
i've paper in everything except
state politics.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
OFFICIAL.

conoressman, First District-P. D. MsCuiiocn
Ssidcnce Mariana, Lee County,
Senator, Second Dst-D. h. hihS'
udse, 18th Judicial Dist-ohn McCa'sp'
Evening Shade. <,,,A,r
Pros. Atty 10th Dlst-P. II. CrshSAA" E
Pocahontas. ;,;.,,
4 SHARP CoUNrY-Representat illiam IL
Founders.
Jadge-J. Smith.
Clerk-H, Hill.
SberiG-Jasper Hutchison'
Assessor-J. A. HarreIl.
Treasurer-E. L. Die erson,
Co. Examiners. A. atkins IN Southei
district, j. .Ragan in Northern.
THE Courts,
CiS6diS Court, n. Dist-First Monday IN Jan. a.
nary and July. In S. DIst-Second Monday Ill
County Court-$d Monday in january, APRIL
uly and october. ,,or,,
Probate Court S Dist-2nd Monday in March )
June, September and December.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Arkansas Gazette says
there are four candidates for
president Of the next senate, and
omits the name of Senator David
l.. King of Sharp county, who is
worthy of the honor, and who, in
the eternal fitness of things ought
to have the place.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

An exchange declares it was
mighty cheeky in the Paragould
Soliphone to wind up a column
article, inviting everybody to at
tend the fair, with a campmeeting
exhortation to its delinquents to
call around and cough up.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Many exchanges are predict
ing that if the next general as
sembly abolishes the per diem
system and places the members
of the legislature on a salary, the
salary fixed upon will not be less
than a thousand dollars. And
that's about the size of it.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Hon. John H. Keel, the tall
statesman from Jackson, says he
will vote to place the members Of
the general assembly on a salary,
provided the legislature can agree
on a reasonable and just amount.
Aye, John; there's the rub.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

D. M. Ferry, the famous seed
man of Detroit, Michigan, came
within a scratch of being endor-
sed by the republicans for United
States senator last week. 1t was
a hair breadth escape for Ferry.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
Judge E. M. Merriam. one

Judge E. M. Merriam, one of
the representatives from Pulaski
county, favors the erection of a
new state capitol at a cost of one
million dollars, but favors the
erection of the building even if it
should cost a reasonable amount
above that sum. Judge Merriam
knows that the old bat cave now
used as a state house is a dis
grace to the state OF Arkansas,
and correctly wants to get rid Of
il
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Drew County Advance
boasts that it is the only paper in
the state that carries no patent
medicine advertisements. The
Walnut Ridge Blade is mean
enough to note that the Advance
carries three columns OF saloon
advertisements.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

If that fellow Matheny, down
in independence, is as mean as
the Newark paper paints him, he
is tough and no mistake. But
then the Newark paper seems to
have soured on the country, even
Jeff Davis.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Imboden News believes if
a few county officials in Arkan-
sas, who have been found short
in their accounts, were allowed to
suffer the penalty, one would not
hear of so many official shortages
over the state.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
The Newport News was preach

ing consistency to a contempo-
rary last week. 1t is not clear
Just what the News knows about
consistency. 1t ought, however,
to be able to tell how it feels to
flop something less than a dozen
times during a political campaign.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Senator Alymer Flenniken of
Ell Dorado has announced that he
will oppose the proposition to
place the members Of the legisla-
ture on a stipulated salary.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Ben Foreman of Texarkana,
one of the most active insurgents
in the late campaign, says the
fight on Claytonism has just be-
gun. Well, the democrats don't
care, and it doesn't seem to be
worrying Marse Pow either.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

A subscriber asks whom the
Record would like TO see receive
the democratic nomination for
president in 1904. We are for
Senator Edward Carmaok, the
red headed statesman of Tenn
essee.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Mr.. Bryan says about the only
thing that will cause an Office
seeker to withdraw from a race is
fear of defeat. This is a plain
fling at Speaker Henderson.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

There is somewhere between
thirty seven and a hundred pros
pective candidates for speaker OF
the next house of representatives.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Batesville Guard is mean,
very mean. 1t absolutely refuses
to enter into a jawing match with
the erudite hicockalorum of the
Newark Journal.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Many people of Pine Bluff are
objectiog to the visit of Carrie
Nation to that city durin G the
fair. Perhaps they might have
the old girl give a peace bond be-
fore entering the city.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Two Benton county citizens
went into the courts over mat
ter involving only fifty cents.
What a whoppin' crank man is!
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The democrats of Connecticut
have refused to endorse the Kan
sas City platform. Now, perhaps
the Kansas City platform feels
cheap.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Frequently accidents occur IN the
household, which cause burns, cuts,
spralns, and bruises. Fer use in
such cases Ballard's Snow Llniment
has for many years been the con-
stant favorite family remedy. Price
25 and so cts, at Shows drug
store.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Pocahontas Herald is now
an aIl-home- print paper. We
congratulate the Herald ON its
improvement.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

The Christian Pilot has made
its appearance at Black Rock,
with Elders Borden and Lemons
as editors.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Wonder what has become OF
the Ravenden Hustler's matrl-
monial department?
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Little Rock surely is in a bad
way. 1t can't raise money SUI
ficient to hold a fair.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03

Mayor Tom Johnson pumped
morphine into David B. Hills
old presidential boom.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
Directory.
RELIGIOUS:

Preaching at the Methodist ch'lF0n se0OH ~
h;rd sundays IN each msnth he'' - ~
-.tson pastor. Everybody invited
every sunday morning ~
]. Ioct At the Methodist church, EyerS91poS SS2p 10
-siocs az az cnma SrI D. C. SHAVER,
lVlted 10 COME superintendent.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
T. ]. DAVIDSON, Mp.
-s@AND-.
Real !: Estate j: Agent,
EVENING SHADE, ARKANSAS.

GREEMENTS OF LEASE, ACKNOWLEDGE
a ments, afiidsvits to accounts, Dispositions ana
Al renewal Of mortgages taken. Abstracts OF
title Furnished. Bills of sale, bonds for title,
deeus of trust-personaty and realty-deeds
suit-clalm, husbands, unmarried persons, wifes
land, warrants. with REIMBURSEMENT OF dover;
labor contracts, mortgages-rea estate, chatti
and erOp-and powers of attorney, written and
ncknoledged on reasonable terms.
Applications for homesteads and pre- -emptiens
end donations prepared and patents procured
Applications for rede mption of lands from
state and petitions to refund taxes erroneously
paid.
Sharp County record., 1902-10-03
A CHANGE OF SENTIMINT.

Secretary shaw's campaign
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18

growers through the beautiful demo-
cratic policy of free wool. In fact no
industry in this country ever received
such a blow as that administered to
wool growers during the free wool pc
riod of Cleveland's administration.
When the American woolgrowers
are invited to enter into competition
with those Of Australia and the Argen-
tine republic it must be under condi-
tons that are the same in every re-
spect, and as there is no similarity in
them and not likely to be it is believed
some time will elapse before we have
another period of free wool.
The demand Of woolgrowers that
shoddy be marked as such is not un-
reasonable. 1t is a demand that
should be made Of all authorizations.
If people are willing to pay a higher
price for the pure article they should
receive it. They want to know just
what they are buying. If some want
to wear shoddy it should be a matter
of choice entirely. At present manu-
f%acturers are practicing deception,
both on the dealer and the
The Grosvenor bill should become a
law.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18

though. of having added a brilliant
chapter to the staggerer predicted by
Dom Paul.
It is to be hoped that he made the
proper arrangement for ke~nitoscopic
reproductions of his now famous per-
Torrance. The spectacle was too
grand to be permitted to go into his
tory merely on paper. He owes it to
the world that the countless thousands
who were upable to see the genuine
production should at least have the
satisfaction Of seeing it reproduced
through the genius of an Edison, with
all the accomplishments of the leather
ed lunged fakir's loud v~ociferations
and the droning melody of. a hand
organ. By all means let the moving
picture man show us the battle of
Herlbron.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
VIEWED AT SHORT RANGE.

Manila Freedom: The Filipino
q~estion still continues to occupy the
minds of Americans in the United
States. For their benefit, it may be
stated that there is no Filipino cues
ton. It is simply a matter Of time.
We are now, in the parlance of the
theatre, trying it on the dog" That
is, we are cropping about like men in
the dark. The majority Of us came
ove here imbued with American senti-
ments. We have the flag, the nation.
all the elements of patriotism incul-
Gated into us, until we believed that
America must appeal to these people
from the start. After we are here
awhile, a faint glimmer Of light begins
to penetrate beneath. Fineally we
think we know. Then we find hat we
know nothing, ana we start again.
But we start with the advantage gain
ed by experience. In the meantime,
the Spainard sits by and says, 81 told
you So
The only hope is in honesty. If cor
ruption is kept from government. the
end must be what we desire. If we
become corrupt we are lost. 1t is the
duly CT the press to watch develop
ments to this end. They are being
watched. In the end with an honest
government and an honest policy bas-
ed on equity and justice. taking into
consideration the combined %infantile
and devilish character Of cur new &C
QUESTIONS, we will win. Faint hearts
will become discouraged and fall out.
Others will take their places. The
military are always a source Of com
fort. Their religion is discipline. Dis
cipline is like fanaticism.. 1t will push
men. where man, as an individual,
would find it impossible to go. It will
win. Discipline in the civil depart
ments as we'll as the military is what
is needed, if we are to continue with
the civil. Let us look the matter
squarely in the face. Has there not
been a mistaken l%eniency? Is not the
military of the opinion that previous
civil government has been devoid of
results. There is only n answer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
1T is WRO

The verdict returned in the case of
the Bozeman Woman tried for murder
ing her husband by the administration
of slow poison is another example of
the uncertainty which always attends
the findings of a body of twelve men
selected to try and due liberation
make of a cause at issue between a
commonwealth and one of it's citizens
accused OF a crime. How the jury
could arrive at a verdict of man
slaughter, when the testimony was
circumstantial and consequently in
capable OF substantiating any claim
OF justification or extenuation, Meth
er OF which was made. is one of the
things only members Of the jury them
selves can possibly explain. The pres
ence of poison in the organs of the
dead man was proved beyond a doubt.
the only doubt, if any existing being
as to whether that poison was there
because of its administration by the
defendant or whether it accumulated
through other causes, such as eating
decayed and poisonous meat. as the
defense sought to prove. The fact
that the accused was a woman no
doubt had its influence with the Jury.
but in this event, even, the verdict
was wrong. Either she killed her
husband. or she did not. If the iury
believed the former, the verdict should
have been murder pure and simple,
but If the latter was the belief of the
jurors they should have acquitted her.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
at the Billings Postotfice as Second
Glass Matter.
TUESDAY,, FEBRUARY IS, 1902
WAITED o LONG,.

After having been permitted TOR al
most three year to VIGOROUSLY vio-
late their contracts with the state,
the publishing companies that are
supplying the schools of Montana with
books are at last about to be brought
to account and forced to live up to
the terms Of the agreements they have
entered into with the state. Why this
has not been done before only the Of
fcials charged with the duty of pro-
tecting the peoples interests can ex-
plain. To an outsider it would seem
that some of the gentlemen should
have learned long before now that the
publishing companies were not COM
plying with the terms of their con
tracts and that proper regard for the
discharge of their official duties would
have prompted them into taking &C.
ton along the line it is now proposed
to be taken. Mr.. Welch, the present
superintendent of public instruction.
is entitled to a little praise for his
tardy move, but he must not expect
the full measure of approval that
would be his had he begun long ago
to make the Investigations that have
reached the stage where they are to
have their elimination in suits at law
against the ~delinquents. He has been
in office considerably over a year and
during that time could have accom-
plished much more than now stands
to his credit. But. perhaps. it is bet
ter late than never and if he succeeds
in compelling the companies to make
good the amounts he alleges they have
wrongfully taken from the parents Of
the state and in future compels them
to adhere to the terms of their con-
tracts he will be forgiven for his past
laches.
But what about the men who have
preceded him and who must have
known what he now knows and failed
to do anything to protect the people?
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18

and their relations or lack Of rela-
ton to the country which governs
them may be found to contain some
political ammunition, but this has not
yet assumed such shape that it can be
regarded as a very effective means of
winning votes. The trusts and the
tariff, particularly SO far as the latter
may foster the trusts, may yet prove
an effective implement Of political
warfare, but with good times and gen.
eral prosperity prevailing it is far
from easy to c%rystalize issues which
are likely to electrify the country.
Indeed, politics now is simply a
waiting game-a case of trusting en-
tirely to the chapter Of accidents. The
overshadowing issue has not yet heav-
ed above the horizon and the scattered
elements which may bring it to a head
have not yet been grouped together,
o is their tendency in that direction
so manifest that even the closest OBJ
server has been able to seize them.
The very best that can be done is to
watch the attitude of congress and
through it learn the manifestations of
public policies as put forth by the
dominant political party.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
AND INSANE.
To Let Contracts Next Month for
Their Care.

The state board of prison commits
sioners and the board of commission
ers for the insane are preparing to ad-
vertise for bids for the contract to
care for the prisoners at the Deer
Lodge pe%nitentiary and the inmates
of the asylum at Warm Springs, the
term OF the contract being two years.
The bids are to be opened at Governor
Toole's Office March 25, at 2 p. m.
The present contract for the care of
the insane expires April 6, next, and
is held by Mitchell & Mussigbrod.
says the Independent. The contractors
agree to care for, feed and furnish.
medical attention and medicines for
the insane at the price of IS cents per
day per capita. When a patient is
cured or is so materially improved
as to justify the authorities in dis
charging him, he is given a suit Of
clothes for which the state pays SIG so
and a sum of money ranging from SIS
to 500 for transportation home, ac-
cording to the distance travelled. In
the case of ~non-indigent patients, how
ever, the state is repaid for it's ex-
penditures in their behalf so long as
the estate Of the inmate yields revenue
sufficient for the purpose. 1t is found
that the per cen Of non-indigents is
extremely small. There are now very
near 500 patients in the asylum. 400
of whom are men and about 100
women The item of board alone
reaches about $4,000 a month.
The existing contract for the care
of the prisoners in the ~penitentiary,
held by Conley & McTague. will ex-
pire June 16, next. Under the terms
Of this the contractors receive As
cents per day per capita. When a
convict is discharged he receives a
suit Of clothes for which the state pays
SIS, together with S. in cash. The
number of convicts is about Ais to
420, and the item of maintenance
reaches a figure between $4,000 and
$4,000 per month.
The members of the two boards that
are to let the contracts on the 25th of
March are Governor Toole, Attorney
General Donovan and Secretary of
State Hays.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
IN POLITICS,

Denver Times: Senator James K.
Jones, who acquired rather feeting
fame as the under dog in two presi-
dental fights, is inclined to think that
anti-imperialism will be the paramount
issue in the next great national poliri-
cal fight. He has been quoted in Pos
ton as saying that the issues for
which MI. Bryan has STOOD for the
last five years ard more will be care
fully eliminated, but this he now de-
MES, yet warily darkly hints that many
things mays happen in the course Of
the next two or three years-an OBJ
servation which may be warmly COM
mended for it's strict adherence to
truth, eve though it furnishes little
enlightenment to those who sit in
outer darkness.
Nobody mas yet been able to suggest
the common ground upon which the
democratic party may yet unite for an
offensive national campaign, chiefly,
perhaps, for the reason that it is i'm
possible to do So. In congress, so far,
the leaders are simply sparring for
wind. The treatment OF the colonies
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
1T WAS GORGEOUS.

While probably not as fruitful of
have been fought in ancient and mod
ern times, the battle Of Herlbron, how
ever, stands as the most spectacular
of which record exists, ina is if the
London dispatches descriptive of it
are to be relied upon. 1t is doubtful
whether a production OF the BLACK
regard for scenic effects or if a
Kiralfy in his widest dreams ever
conceived a spectacle more calculated
to appeal to an audience than the wild
production that Kitchener put on the
South African stage in his endeavor
to trap the willy Fox Just think of
it! Fifty miles of burning, sizzling,
glazing search lights i!lumining the
welt, the roar of pompoms, the rattle
of musketry and the rev%erberating
thunder of cannon, all contributing
their quota of noise and garish effect,
with real, genuine armored trains
dashing wildly back and forth and be-
tween penetrating rays of electric
light sending volleys into the disorder
ed ranks of the Beers. Opera bouffe
never dared to reach for such heights
of the absurd and a Chinese celebra-
ton never wasted more powder with
less actual results as far as loss of
human life is concerned.
The one man for whose benefit the
spectacle was staged showed so little
appreciation of the efforts of the
manager that he refused to remain
and see the performance to the end.
He had business elsewhere and when
he had seen all he cared for, leaned
low in his saddle and with a mild-eyed
steer to protect his eyes against the
brilliancy of the illumination left the
place and forgot to call for a return
check. AS Don as his absence was
noted the performance stopped and the
tired supers and stage hands began to
clear the stage and sweep out the pro-
grammes and peanut shells, the man
ager meanwhile no doubt ''cussing''
the thanklessness of a man who could
show so little regard for the feelings
of an impressario whose sole aim was
to please his audience and that audi
ence composed of deadheads. But in
his disappointment Lord Kitchener
should not forget that he is not the
first or only manager who has found a
paper house the most unresponsiVe
and the occupants of free seats the
ones to find the most fault with a per-
Torrance. His is the consolation,
49, AsaNLA r7arssl ". Z. -. - - So sss - =
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-18
CANAL HEADWINDS,

Minneapolis Journal: General
Reyes, a delegate from Colombia to
the Pan-American congress and a can
didate for the presidency of that re-
public, said yesterday that Colombia
will give the United States full control
of the canal territory and a guaranteed
title, and is ready to duplicate any
concessions Nicaragua can make.
There is no doubt that the United
States of Colombia wants that canal
and wants it very badly. There is
also no doubt hat Colombia may be
induced to grant the right of way and
control of the territory for a deal less
than a million dollars a year which has
been suggested. Colombia wants the
money, but she would lower her price
on sober second thought, that thought
being the security from diurnal revolu-
tons in the state of Panama, which
would be affairs of the past with the
United States in absolute control Of
the territory. Such control is worth
very much more than a million dollars
to Colombia in the relief she would
have from the activities Of her tumul-
tuary citizens. That can all be ar
ranged very easily, if congress de-
cides to go ahead with due celebrity
ing to the recommendation of the
Walker commission.
And here comes in a remarkable in
stance of the eccentricities of the
American congress-. Congress has ap-
propriated a million dollars for the
use of a commission of engineering
experts, appointed by the president
for the purpose of making an expert
examination of all the possibly avail
able canal routes from Honduras down
to the extreme southern limit of the
lsthmus of Darien. 1t might be infer
red that this expert examination would
settle the question of routes; but it
didn't. The gentlemen who had con-
celved the idea hat there is only one
canal route across the territory con
Meeting the North and South Ameri-
a continents, in spite of the re-
sultlng testimony of the regularly ap-
pointed canal commission, whose COM
potency for the work has not been
questioned, stick to their choice, al
though none of them claims to be an
expert engineer, and give evidence of
obstructive tactics. A half dozen
other routes are proposed. The At
rato-Napipi and the San Bias and the
Darien routes have been trotted out.
again and advocated. just as if the