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The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
School Land Sale!

NJotice Ia hereby given that pursuant 10 Pc
~ uticn to me directed, and under and By
authority conferred on me by law, win on the
first day OF the next July term, 1902, o. the Craw'
ford County county court, which VIII be on the
7th DAY or JULY, A. D. 1902.
at the 'front.' or Main street entrance to the court
house-in which said court Is held-within the
hours and upon the terms prescribed by law
Offer for sale the following described school
land in Crawford County, Ark. to.wit:
The Northeast quarter OF the Northeast quar-
ter, Northwest quarter Of the Northeast quarter,
Southwest quarter Of the Northeast quarter.
Southeast quarter OF the Northeast quarter,
Northeast quarter OF the Northwest quarter,
Northwest quarter Of the Northwest quarter,
Southwest quarter Of the Northwest quarter,
Southeast quarter of the Northwest quarter,
Eorthwest quarter of the Southwest quarter.
Northeast quarter Of the southwest quarter,
Southeast quarter OF the southwcst quarter
Southwest quarter OF the southwest qust!ef'
Northwest quarter OF me Southeast qnarter'
Northeast quarter OF the southeast quafnr
Southwest quarter OF the Southeast quarter,
and Southeast quarter OF the Southeast quarter
all In Section Bixteen Q6), Township Twelve
(iO, North. Range Twenty eight (2s). west
Said sale will be for cash In hand TO the hlgh.
est bidder provided the amount offered 10 Q,
least three. .fourths Of the appraised value o.
said land, and provided further that no bio
viii DO accepted Tor less than u d per acre,
Witness my hand this sd day OF June, 1901
J. A. PirC0cK
Sheriff and Ex.0flicio Collector.
by r. B. wisTsEY. d. s.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
JUDICIAL TICKET.

For Circuit Judge,
JEPTHA II. EVANS.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
ROBERT J.. ROGERS.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
Hoods C0rsdDdrill0

This great medicine has wrought the most
wonderful cures Of all diseases depending
on scrofula or the scrOfulous habit.
H0op's PILLS are the beat cathartic.
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
CQtQrrh
Il 9 constitutional disease.

1t originates in a scroiulous condition OF
the blood and depends on that condition.
II often causes headache and dizziness.
impsirs the taste, smell and hearing, AZ
fects the vocal organs, disturbs the stomach.
II is always radically and permanently
cured by the bloOd.purlfying, Alternative
and tonic action OF
The Van Buren press., 1902-06-28
Democratic Ticket.
For C0ugressman-Fourth District
JOHN s. LITTLE.

STATE TICKET.
ELECTION. Sept 9. I902b
For Governor.
JEFF DAVIS,
For Secretary OF State,
]. W. CROCKETT.
For Auditor.
T. C. MONROE.
For Attorney General.
GEO. W. MURPHY.
For Treasurer.
H. C. TIPTON.
For Land Commissioner
y. y. CONWAY.
For Commissioner Mines, Etc.
4. G. BRADFORD.
For Railroad Commissioner,
B. B. HUDGIHs.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

street. For some reason he instantly
connected the feeling that he was being
watched with that light DR.. Window
left his apartments and struck across
the park to Fifty-seventh street. On
the north side of the street facing the
pleasure ground was block of brick
residences. 1t was nearly midnight
The houses were as black as Calcutta S
Hole.
Window paced up and down for an
hour. No light appeared. He started
homeward, made a hundred yards
stopped and looked back. Recent eX-
periences had unStrung him. He saw
something now that staggered him.
From one of the houses light was
streaming through two circular win
dows set in the same horizontal plane
just under the roof. The appearance
was that of two great eyes staring red
ly out into the blackness of the night.
A heavy curtain began to descend over
one window. 1t had the seeming of a
big eyelid slowly closing To the ply
clans highly wrought Imagination 1t
seemed as though some monster of the
night was giving him a leering wink.
The light died from both windows.
Window mastered his nerves and went
home and to bed.
In the morning he stood in front of
the house once more. The windows
were there and Window noticed their
unusual size, and that each was com
posed of little round panes set in metal
sashes as are cathedral windows. After
that he went to the place often. All he
could find out from the nearby trades
men was that an old man and his
daughter lived in the house and kept no
servants. ''They have been there but Il
short time" said the grocer.
The time being fixed, Window dis
covered that 1t was but few DAYS
prior TO the night that he first felt that
he was being stared at.
One-half hour after midnight, Nov. g.
1885, DR.. John Window was returning
from visit to the bedside of a patient
on Everett avenue. An irresistible i'm.
pulse made him walk toward the
house with the eyes" THE eyes are
Shut" he muttered, as he stopped d.
rectly in front of the house. At this In.
slant the front door opened and a glr]
rushed out. She almost ran into Win.
dom. The pickering street lamp show.
ed him face. 1t was beautiful face
but pale and tear-wet. Its owner might
have seen nineteen years. AT the sight
OF Window the girl sprang back, fright
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

rails. This Is the custom st,u
execution days small cvrowds ana "
wait until the flag goes IN ans V0lect
disperse. As for old Tybnrn ~ tAea
nave all traces of the old nO' only
ground been swept away. hnt iiAtecutau
now one of the most fasbionoh, ste d
OF arlstocratic Hyde Park Eu" e para
OF the handsome carriages e'y one
Marble Arch and entering tba tAs
Drive rolls close to the spot vha, Long
stood the busy gallows. 'e once
'0Oo hanged in One Rel.
How old Newgate is mo zig
1t was used as a prison as for AuoWS
llSS' and prbably antedates that a n az
by many years. Many times has q, t1'lOc
reouilt, the last time following m zen 3
popery" riots of $780, when r. sDe no
ture was plundered and burned 'u !,
prisoners being set free, to ioin we
maddened mob. During tho ro,a. 'ue
Henry VIII. historians say that . 30 oO OI
Executions LOOK place at Newgate 81,
Ihomas More writes in his ITton,. :, o''
twenty thieves might be seen h.nsl a'
from a single gibbet and hanai-
We're almost of daily occurrence =
these good old days, which some =, -. =
misguided moderners would wisb ). w
call, the theft of loaf or the snarir. :.
a Eare on game preserve was mint,
ed with death! Torture. too won
sorted to, and men and women go
ped naked, were put upon the ract ~
I'll the bones and joints were torn osuu
der. There were many other metbod,
OF torture, and brandings and mutjla.
ton were of frequent occurrence.
Executions at Newgate were carri.a
out often in a bungling manner. Often
the condemned would not be strapolsa
and the eXecutioner would catch bola
of the victim and add his own wecht
to that Of the suspended unfortunate
This usually made the crowd hilarious
Nor was it the rabble alone who on.
joyod the degrading spectacle. PeOpe
of fashion would pay as high as sos for
good vantage point in a window On.
posite and frequently would spend tbe
night there so that no detail of the
spectacle might escape.
1t was a ribald, reckless, combatye
brutal mob who witnessed the execu.
lions. Fights were common and spec.
tators often had their limbs broken and
their teeth knocked out! These dread
full public executions were carried on
until 1868.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
SIR ELLIS AsHMeAD- BARTLETT
American Born Member of British
Parliament Is Dead.

American Born Member of British
Parliament Is Dead.
Che recent death in London of Sir Ell
lis Ashmead- Bartlett removed one Of
the three American-bOrn men in tho
British Parliament. The other two are
Francis A. Claiming, of the Claiming
family of New England, and Ashmead-
Bartlett Burdett- Coutts, a brother of
Sir Ellis and husband of Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts, whose name he adopted.
Sir Ellis Ashmead- Bartlett was born
in Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1849. His grand,
parents on both sides were natural
born British subjects. His father, Ell
lis Bartlett, of Plymouth, Mass, was
graduated from Amherst College and
married daughter of John King Ash
mead, of Philadelphia. On his fathers
side Sir Ellis was a lineal descendant
from two of the Pilgrim fathers, Rob-
ert Bartlett. of Sussex, Eng, who sail
ed to New England in the ship Ann in
1923, and married Mary the daughter
of Richard Warren, who had sailed In
The Mayfiower in 1920. On his moth
er's side he was a descendant of Theo-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

Grim, forbidding old Newgate pris-
On, London, which in the course of its
long period of existence has housed so
many men and women condemned 10
destruction, and around which have oc-
CURED many remarkable scenes of hor-
ror, is at length to be torn down. Sew
eral times before the historic prison S
impending doom was announced, but
now the work Of demolition has actual
ly begun. Old Bailey, the scarcely less
famous court house, which adjons
Newgate. will also be RACED, and upon
the whole site thus obtained new court
buildings Of modern type will be
erected.
NewgGte's history is packed unusual
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
The HOUSE WITH THE EYES
2 n the year 1895 DR.. John Window,

lS7N the year 1895 DR.. John Window,
III big, 2S and bachelor lived IN
apartments overlooking Jackson
Park from the south. DR.. Window was
troubled. He thought some one was
looking at him. Thought it? He knew
1t.
The doctor had turned his largest
window opening onto the park. 1t was
at night after he lighted his library
lamp that the curiops sensation that he
was being stared at came over the ply
stefan. When he went into the next
room the feeling passed off. He was n
nervy fellow, the doctor, but after a
week of the thing he began to get
creepy" Every night somebody's eyes
were going through and through him.
1t was either that or else he was losing
his mental balance, and that DR.. Win
dom wouldn't admit for a minute.
He examined the walls of the library
and thumped them hard. They were
solid. There was no transom over the
door leading into the hall, and there
was a key in the lock that fitted per
fectly. He went to the window. 1t was
thirty feet from the ground. The near
est house in the line of sight was at
Fifty-seventh street, a mile and a half
away. No Peeping Tom could be in a
tree, for the trees had been cut down
to make room for the fair buildings,
and those planted since the eXpositon's
structures had been RACED were little
more than saplings
Window began taking nerve tonlcs.
Then he pulled himself together and
quit. One night he looked from his Ii
brary window far off into the blackness
that hung over the north end of the
park. He saw faint light in one of
the houses in far-off Fifty-seventh
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

dore Lehman, who was the compan-
ion of William Penn. Sir Ellis was
educated at Oxford Later he was ad-
mitted to the English bar He was
civil lord Of the admiralty under Lord
Salisbury's administration of 1885 and
knighted in 1892. Sir Ellis had been
in Parliament twenty-five years. He
represented Eye from 1880 to 1885, and
since the latter year had been returned
from Sheffield. His death was the re-
suit of an operation for appendicitis.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
Furniture Plans.

For all important houses noWauap
a careful plan is drawn up for tne pls
posed position of every important p'.ss
of furniture, with color dra"ms
where necessary to show the en..s
and by this means Edward ana al III
andra were able to judge of the resS sa
beforehand. 1t was Mrs. Astor w.
first introduced the interior plan nv Nv
among Americans with splendid nous y
hold furnishings, her own NeWpoi' ~. Tvs
New York mansions always Deins ~
arranged to a dot Having once I'm sou,.
mined on the most advantageous e' &.
position of a drawing ROOM iOi IN
stance, woe betide the Servants
misplace an article or "disconpS .toa
the harmony Of the tableau'-
Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

CAcA SET the IdDlO
In rapid motion. Spencer describes
what would happen in his recently pup
lished book, Facts and Comments
He says: THE effects of rotation
would be first faintness, and then III
sensibility-an insensibility soon maus
permanent If rotation was continue
For when, after a few revolutions a.
considerable speed, the brain has Deel
emptied Of blood. as well as the ascenu'
ing aorta and in large measure us
heart, cessation could not be follo"ea
by back-fow from the lower paris v
the body sufficient to re-establlsn wv
actions of the organs thus thrown Ou'
of gear; and, unquestionably, cohlinu
ance of rotation for some time WouiO
make revival altogether imposslDie
Death, almost immediate and cerIAil
ly painless, has been caused. ID eApeN
ments already made with dogs, uSins
similar appliance.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

ly full of horrors, even for a prison
which did duty in such cold-blooded
times as the early part Of the eigh-
teenth century in England. Then al
execution was regarded as a sort of di-
yersiOn-only that there was no good
humOr about it. When a hanging was
due at Newgate-they were held in the
open, just outside the walls-croWds
used to camp out all night on the steps
of the buildings round about. Gin was
sold even on the steps of the scaffold,
and it was no uncommon thing when a
criminal who had committed some par
ticularly outrageous offense was led out
for the mob to fling themselves on him
and half murder him before the rope
could be put around his neck. Earlier,
when the prisoners who were kept in
Newgate were executed In Tyburn,
there were even more revolving scenes
Men and women who were being hang
ed were howled at and pelted with
stones and dirt. Others were set upon
on the road to the gallows.
Almost Cheated the Hangman.
One of these was Mrs Brownrigg
She was notorious for her brutality
70 her girl apprentices, but finally
eclipsed even her own record by strip
ping one young girl to her waist, fasten-
ing her hands to ring In the ceiling
and fogging her so mercilessly that she
died from the effects. While Mrs.
BrOwnrigg, who was captured while
trying to get out of the country, was
being taken to Tyburn she was pounc-
ed upon by a mob of women who came
within an ace of cheating the hangman
of her.
The scenes around the Newgate gal
lows grew more violent as time went
on. 70 1907 $4,000 people gathered to
see the execution of two men, and n
the crush twentEeight were killed and
seventy injured. After the hangings
were over the eXecutioner used to sell
the rope which he had used at q shil-
ling or more the inch.
Jack Sheppard was Confined at New
gate after his first capture, but soon
escaped. He was recaptured, loaded
with chains and made fast to a staple
in the floor. Even then he got free
forced six doors, burrowed through n
wall, and then went back to his cell 70
get blanket by means of which he let
himself down from the roof to the
street. They captured him again. how
ever, and he was hanged at Tyburn
while over 100000 jeering people look
ed on. In Newgate Mary Edmonson
also was Jailed. She was hanged for
the murder of her aunt, but many sus-
pected that she was letting herself be
destroyed In place of her lover, who
was supposed to have done the deed.
He was present at the execution and
kissed the girl on the gallows. After
ward he confessed that he had killed
the woman but was reprieved, as the
authorities were afraid to let it be
known that they had taken the life of
an innocent person.
Acted Like Demons.
At this young woman's execution. as
we'll as those of Fauntleroy, the bank
er, and Greenacre, who murdered his
sweetheart, surging crowds gathered
and acted like demons. Finally these
outbreaks got to be so serious that the
public hangings were given up, and
since then they have been held inside
Newgate, black flag being hoisted on
the roof at the moment when the drop
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
A WHEEL OF DEATH.
Herbert Spencer Would XIII Criminals
by Producing Apoplexy.

Herbert Spencer, the most distln-
guished philosopher, scientist and stu
dent of sociological problems of this
age, has advanced a new theory for the
killing of criminals, and on the face Of
it his plan looks plausible. Spencer
would substitute apopIexy, artifcisIy
produced, for all other agencies Of
oath.
His plan would be to place the con-
demned man upon a rotary table, with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

1t has been predicted that in time the
newspaper advertisement will be the
universal and exclusive means Of pub
licity, not only for business but for all
other affairs.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

A man never confesses Ills past to the
woman he marries unless be Is tust the
least bit proud of it.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

Usually, we feel an oppressi0Is have
cause of a lot of little things Nc ns,n
neglected, but which might na''
easily disposed Of
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

Portable Bakeries in France.
The French army portable bakeries,
which make bread from the grain, will
be put on automobiles.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

1t the recent meeting in New York
Of the business men who form the
! Sphinx Club. advertising" was the
subject that was discussed. One Of the
speakers, Mr.. r. G. Ogden, stated that
advertising is as essential as a place of
business. To beginners he said: you
must contriye in the shortest possible
time to let the greatest possible num-
Der of citizens know of your existence.
This is general advertising. Then call
attention to particular goods, which Is
special advertising. Teach people to be-
lieve your announcements.
A few years ago a great deal Of in
| genuity was wasted in foolng people
into reading advertisements. The com
monest plan was to devise newspaper
article which, beginning as a thrilling
story, ended as a fiat advertisement.
Few people, however, read beyond the
point where the advertisement proper
commenced. This method of obtaining
readers soon fell into desuetude, and
! the ingenious advertiser now prints
only the advertisement; but he makes
the ad so interesting that everybody
wants to read it.-Wichita (Kan.)
Eagle.
An experienced New England mer>
chant recently gave expression to his
views on effective advertising, and as
he virtually repeated what so many
others have said his opinions may be
regarded as established principles. He
| declared that st Is the constant, steady
| pull that wins customers" He named
dozens OF concerns that have grown
rich from the liberal use of newspaper
space" while he knew Of mo success
full merchant who did not advertise"
Finally, newspaper advertising is the
best and In the long run the cheapest"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23
FAMOUS OLD PRISON.
NEWGATE, LONDON, AND ITS
MEMORIAL HORRORS.

Soon to Be Raced to the Ground
Shocking Scenes in the Days When
Executions We're Public-The Popu-
lace Acted Like Demons.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

Advertising is the Golden Gate" to
prosperity.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-23

history is packed unusual
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-11-27
LEAVES OUT THE TUNNELS.
Route of Rock Island Road from So Louis
Into Kansas City Has Finally
m. Been Selected.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov, 25.-The Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
has relocated its Kansas City-St.
Louis line between Windsor, Mo-, and
Kansas City. The new survey, which
has been officially approved, leaves
Warrensburg 10 miles to,the north,
cuts out the three big tunnels which
were on the old line, including the
l,30o-foot tunnel at Chapel Hill, one of
700 feet at DEVILS Hog Back and an
other Of 1000 feet at Blue Cut, near
Independence. The new line takes in
Chilhowee, Holden, Strasburg, Pleas
ant Hill, Lees Summit, Raytown, and
leaving Independence three miles to
the south, enters Kansas City on a
line which parallels the Alton tracks
from the Big Blue river. The survey
has been adopted, and within week
1000 teams and many men will be en-
gagged in the construction of the
grade. Track-laying will follow the
grading as closely as possible, and the
line will be in active operation before
the worlds fair opens for business.
When this line Is completed the Rock
Island will have the shortest line be-
tween Kansas City and St. Louis.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-11-27
SUE FOR VAST SUM.
Minor Stockholders of Central Pacific Road
Want 1OO.OOO.OOO from the Coils
=. Huntington Estate,

New York, Nov. 25.-More than
S199, ee9,e 900 is demanded from the es-
tate of Coils p. Huntington and the
men who were his partners in the
early days Of the Central Pacific
railroad in a suit. brought in behalf
of the remaining minor stockholders
of the Central Pacific Railroad COM
pany of California. through Robert
Cutting. In this suit are charges of
collision, exaggeration of expenses
and fraud against Mr.. Huntington,
Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and
Mark Hopkins. 1t is charged that
these four men so manipulated the
finances and construction of the Cen
trail Pacific, now part of the South
ern Pacific system, that out of $780,
100000 expended in building and
equipping the road, more than $780,
100000 found its way into their pock-
cts.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-11-27
BUILDING UP An ISLAND.
Porto Rico's Secretary of the Inte-
rior Tells of the Work
Being Done.
NATIVES TkUGHT VALUE OF COMMERCE
Sanitary Rules Have Been introduced and
the People Encouraged IN Habits of
Cleanliness-Much Attention To Road
Building and Bridge Construction
Bulk of Public Land IL of Little Value.

Washington, Nov. 25.-The annual
report of W. II. Elliott, commission
er of the interior for Porto Rico, an
nounces substantial progress along
all government lines in the island.
Much attention is being paid to road
building and bridge construction in
order to assure To labor the means
of reaching the markets with the
products of the soil. The Porto RI
cans are being instructed what to
plant and how to cultivate most eco
nomically and profitably. Sanitary
rules and regulations have been in
troduced and the people encouraged
in habits of cleanliness and correct
living and also assisted in matters
affecting trade and commerce ut
home and abroad.
Concerning public lands, the report
says, the various departments of the
federal government will be asked TO
make known their wishes concerning
properties at present occupied by or
needed for their accommodation. The
bulk of the property involved com
prises lands of little present value,
but which may il the island con-
tinues to develop and prosper as con-
ditions now prevailing warrant the
hope, become salable. They need to
be located and their boundaries de-
termined. 1t is hoped that all ques-
tions be settled and presidential ac-
ton secured in time for the legisla-
tive assembly of Porto Rico to pro-
vide for the disposition of island
property at the session to be held
during January and February, 1908.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-11-27
TO PREVENT INTERRUPTION.
Nebraska Bank Robbers Tied the Doors of
Peoples Houses Before the Dyna.
mite Was Touched on.

Bancroft, Neb., Nov. 25.-The Ban
croft bank, owned by ]. +. Turner,
was broken into between two and
three o'clock this morning. The vault
door was blown off, the building bad
ly wrecked, and between $1,000 and
$4,000 was taken. The robbers, be-
fore blowing open the bank safe, took
the precaution TO tie the doors of
several nearby houses to prevent the
occupants from rushing out TO the
scene of the explosion, One citizen
who attempted to crawl from win
dow of his home was driven back at
the point of revolver, One man is
under arrest, suspected of being
stool pigeon" but the principals are
thought TO have escaped TO the Iowa
side of the river.