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Sharp County record., 1902-08-01

Miss Lee Adams returned tc
Newport Saturday, after spend
ino several days here with hei
sister.
i. G. Ritchie and family re-
turned Monday from few days
visit with relatives and friends al
Ash Flat.
Deputy sheriff G. c. Clear
will likely return home in time 10
assist in the proceedings OF Cir
cult court.
Shelby Justus was laid up
for a few days with a slight at
tack of bilious fever, but is out
again now.
Albert Sheppard OF Ash Fiat
has the thanks of this moral
weekly for the price OF a year s
subscription.
Charles W. Wasson Of Bates
VILE was here several days this
week looking after business and
meeting friends.
DR., John M. Watkins was at
Ash Flat Saturday taking in the
picnic and looking after some
business matters.
The Best pre,cty.isr for Malaria,
Chills and fever is bottle OF
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t is
simply iron and quinlne IN tasteless
form. No cure-no pay. frlce
80 cents.
Rev. ]. W. Butler of Gala
mine failed to fill his regular ap-
pointment here last Saturday
night and Sunday.
"A marriage license was
issued Wednesday Of last week TO
]. P. Eason and Miss Willie Rog-
ers, both of Bengay.
Circuit clerk H. B. Hill has
been quite sick for the past few
days. His friends hope he wall
be out again shortly
The colored people have a
school in progress just west OF
town, conducted by a Sulphur
Rock colored woman.
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
8 MxAvr
This signature is on every box Of the genuine
Laxative Bromo.Quin Tablets
the remedy that cures q cold I'm ora daS

Road overseer D. D. Berry
has force of hands at work to.
day on the bad hill leading out
from this place to Franklin.
The wind last Friday blew
the roof from G. W. Shaver's
barn, and also blew down a con-
siderable portion Of his fence.
Mrs. G.. G.. Clear visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James G.
Sims, five miles east of Evening
Shade, several days recently.
Miss Mamie Watkins of La
Crosse and Fred Watkins of Lit
tie Rock are visiting their broth
er, DR.. John M. Watkins, and
family,
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
A Cure for Cholera nfan-
tUm.

Last May, says Mrs. Curtis Baker
of Bookwalter, O., an infant child
of our neighbor's was suffering from
cholera infantum. The dictor had
given up all hopes of recovery. /
took a bottle of Chamberlains Cohc
Cholera and Dlarrhoea Remedy to
the house telling them | felt sure 1t
would do good if used according 20
directions. In two days time the
child had fully recovered, and Is
now [nearly a year since] vlgoaous
healthy girl. l have recommended
this remedy frequently and have
never known it to fail IN q single in>
stance. For sale by Snow.
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
What a Tale 1t Tells.

If that m,rrow of yours shows a
wretched, sa!low complexion, a jaun-
diced look, moth patches and blotch
on the skin, its liver trouble; but DR.
Kings New Life Pills regulate the
liver. purify the blood, give clear
skin, rosy cheeks, rich complexion.
Onlv CSC at Shows,
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
H. Davis and j. S.

! -Jonn ii. Davis ana j. %.
Cunningham Of Kings Mil, Sharp
county, were before Commissioner
j. W. Parse, yesterday, charged
with interfering with a homestead
right of a citizen in that county.
Davis was held in bond of 5000
to await the action of the federal
grand jury. Cunningham was
discharged. .-Batesville Guard.
Hon. H. F. Auten, insurgent
republican, will address the citi-
zens of Sharp county at the fol-
lowing places and dates, in the
interest of the candidacy of Hon.
C. D. Greaves for governor:
Cave City, August IA, 1 p. m.
Evening Shade, August Is, 1
p. m.
Hardy, August 16, II a. m.
Hon. Sam H. Davidson has
received a letter from the Mis-
souri, College of Law, Of st.
Louis, offering a free scholarship
for one year to some young man
in this county who desires to be-
come a lawyer. This is an op-
por5unity for some ambitious
young man to secure one years
course at this law school without
cost.
The best phys,e--Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Easy
TO take. Pleasant in effect. For sale
by Snow.
Assessor Harrell heard the
candidates for governor speak at
Black Rock Tuesday. He says
Davis and Myers are raking each
other over the Goals to a fare
you well, but that Myers gets
very much the worst end of the
argument. Insurgent Greaves is
not allowed to engage in debate
with the other two candidates,
but he follows them up and al
ways manages to get in some hot
talk when the others get through.
The board of director has
employed the following teachers
for the next term of the Evening
Shade High School: Prof. T. D.
Trett, principal; Mrs. T. D.
Trett, 1st assistant; Mrs. Dollie
McCord, End assistant. Prof.
Trett comes highly recommended
as a teacher, and Mrs. McCord
has given satisfaction in the
school the past two terms. The
next term of the Evening Shade
High School should be a pros
porous one. The school will open
about October 1st.
The picnic at Ash Flat last
Saturday was a decided success.
It is estimated that two thousand
people were on the grounds, and
a more orderly crowd than that
was never seen. The good peo-
ple of Ash Flat and vicinity had
we'll filled baskets on hand, and
if any person present failed to
satisfy his hunger, the fault Ger
tainly was his own. The sing
ing contest attracted much at
tention. The banner was awarded
to the Possum Trot class. AT z
O'Clock in the afternoon the ball
game between Ash Flat and Eve
ming Shade began, and a larger
portion of the crowd deserted the
picnic ground for the ball ground.
Everybody seemed to enjoy the
day.
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Sharp County record., 1902-08-01

M. L. Haney, one Oh the
commissioners of accounts, went
to Hardy Tuesday to check up the
officers books in the Northern
District.
Assessor j. A. Harrell ar
rived in Evening Shade Wednes-
dav and will remain a couple OF
weeks for the purpose of listing
property.
w. A. Edwards has torn
away his granery which stood
lust west of the Record ofhce,
and will rebuild it on the corner
on the old tobacco factory lot.
"A good rain fell here last
Friday, and this week more good
showers followed, which have re-
freshed everything, and brought
iov to the farmers and everybody
else.
CbamberIain'> CoIlc, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy has a world VIDE
reputation for its cures. 1t never
fails and is pleasant and safe to take
For sale by Snow.
NO arrangements have been
made for a canvass by the demo-
cratic and republican candidates
for office in Sharp county, and 1t
is more than probable that no
canvass will be made.
The Record learns that Hon.
Harry L. Ponder, the gifted
young democrat of Walnut RIDGE
will address the people OF Sharp
county at this place some time
before the campaign closes.
The next October term OF the
county court will be busy and
important one. At that term
the road overseers will be ap-
pointed, the poor farm let for an
other year, and county examiners
named.
james Vance of Grubbs,
jackson county, a former citizen
of Sharp, made US a pleasant call
one day the latter part OF last
week. Mr.. Vance reports splen-
did crops in his part OF jackson
county.
Uncle David Spurlock of
Davidson township is probably
the Oldest citizen in the county.
He was born in Floyd county,
Kentucky, in 1917, and came to-
Arkansas in 1881. He has 100
grand and great-grandchildren.
Henry L. Shattuck of Shellsburg,
Iowa, was cured of a stomach trou>
bic with which he had been suffers
ing for years, by four boxes OF
Chamberlaiu's Stomach and Liver
Tablets. He had previously tried
many other remedies and a number
of physicians without rolief. For
sale bv Snow.
Last Friday H. W. Brown
and G. H. Sangster engaged in a
fistic bout la Fitz simmons-Jeff-
ries, and the next day We're be-
fore Esq. Caleb Evans who fined
them S5 each for breach OF the
peace, and 1 cent each for assault
and battery.
On Saturday, Augusta, there
will be a picnic at the Bacon
spring, three miles southeast OF
this place. The usual amuse-
ments and plenty to eat will be
on the grounds, and a pleasant
day is assured by the people OF
that community to all those who
attend.
IT. W. Shaver, proprietor OF
the Newport Dye and Cleaning
Works, arrived in Evening Shade
yesterday for a visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.
Shaver. Toms shop caught fire
E<.L two
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
NOTICE..
For a Lame Back, ,
Sore Muscles,

will meet the taxpayers of Sharp county at the follow
ing named places and dates for the purpose OF assessing
the personal property of said county tor the year l9o
Township Place Date
Piney Fork Evening Shade July 81 10 aug
J. A. HARRELL Assessor
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01

TO- %
~ =. LOCAL NEWS. !
10. esssS
;, circuit court next Monday
b ueek.
} Master Johnnie Watkins is
lite sick.
! Hardy is to have a haaieS
C0rnet Band.
C. J. Wilson has been on the
my list lately
LII, P. Stout has been al
hicted with chills lately
Edwards store is taking Its
annual invoice of stock this week
PROF. ]. w. Best of Sidney
was a visitor to town Wednesday
John Wolf has his name
|n,aced on our Evening Shade
fgt.
# Stops The Cough aud Works Of Eas Cola
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
eure cold in one day. No Cure
no pay. Price 25 cents.
Mrs. w. G. Snow sent the
Record a very beautiful boquet
Monday.
DIR. John Johnston of Sidney
was an Evening Shade visitor
Monday.
David R. King orders his ad-
dress changed from Kings Mill
3 to Center.
Evening Shade was well rep
resented at the Ash Flat picnic
Saturday.
Judge Smith held an ad-
journed term of county court
Tuesday.
Mr.. Insurgent Auten is going
to lambast the Claytonites in
Sharp county.
There was a picnic at Willow
Springs, in Strawberry township,
last Saturday.
Owing to high water no mail
was received here by the Hardy
route Monday.
Evening Shade has long been
due Ash Flat a ball game. They
got it Saturday.
-Messrs. Davis and Myers,
candidates for governor speak at
Melbourne today.
The Home Workers derived
a neat sum from their ice cream
supper Friday night.
Mrs. o. G. Shaver is visiting
relatives and friends in Scott
township, her old home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. Taylor
are the parents of fine boy, who
made his appearance the 25th'
70 Cure a Cold il one Day
Take Laxative Bromo.Quiuine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money If it fails to cure. K. w
Groves signature ,s on each box
rs cents.
Mrs. B. M. John returned to
Hardy yesterday after spending
few days with B. F. Jones and
wife.
The gubernatorial candidates
do not speak in Sharp county,
much to the regret Of our citi-
zens.
The commissioners Of ac-
counts say they will not finish
their work until some time next
week.
YOuug IHdV,S life saved.
Sharp County record., 1902-08-01
BASEBALL.

Last Saturday at Ash Flat the
Evening Shade and Ash Flat
mines played one of the best
games of ball ever played in the
county, before a crowd Of at least
1000 people. The final score
stood 5 to 5 in favor of Ash Flat.
Following is the lineup of the
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02

General Miles, who knows some thing of war, no matter if he has many faults. knowing that q cruel war was being waged in the Philippines, made the request which has placed him in bad standing with the republican ad- ministration He wanted to go to the Filipino natives and make war upon them with something different than 'dum-dum bullets. The testimony of many of those who came home from the war was no doubt what prompted Miles to make his request. Some of the evidence given leads one to wonder why the United States should turn I'D its eyes at the cruelties practiced by barbarians. Here is part of the eyi- dence of one. of the returned soldiers: a"As we approached the town the word passed along the line that there would be no prisoners taken. It meant that we were to shoot every living thing in sight, man, woman or child. The first was fired by the then first sergeant of our cOnlpauy. HIS IaISeI WdS d tuS1S boy, who was coming down the moun- tain path into the town astride of carabao. The boy was not struck by the bullet, but that was not the ser geant's fault. The little Filipino boy slid from the back of his carabao and fled in terror up the mountain side. Half a dozen shots were fired after him. Two old men, bearing a white flag and clasping hands, like two brothers, approached the lines. Their hair was white. They fairly tottered, they were so feeble under the weight of years. To my horror and that of the other men in the command, the order was given to fire, and the two old men were shot down in their tracks We entered the village. A man wilo had been on q sick bed appeared at the doorway of his home. He received q bullet in the abdomen and fell dead i'll the doorway. Dum-dum bullets were used in that massacre, but we were not told the name of the bullets. We didn't have to be told. We knew what they were''
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02
HEARD Ia PASSING

The custom house authorities levied duty on Santos-Dumont7s airshsp. Sup pose the inventor had come Ill by the air route.
 Prof Gannet of the United States geological survey says that there is no truth in the common belief that forests influence rainfall and that deforesta- tion tends to increase floods.
 X joint resolution has been intro duced in congress calling for an amend ment to the constitution to prohibit any territory outside the continental limits of North America from becoming a state of the Union.
 Almost every week brings forth q new claimant for the record of the longest straight stretch of railway track. The line from Nyngan to Bourke, New South Wales, runs 126 miles without a curve.
 On an average the right arm is stronger than the left. Recent tests show that 51 per cent of the men have a stronger right arm, It per cent have arms of equal strength and 33 per cent have the left stronger. Women are more apt to have the arms equal in strength because they use both more uniformly.
 The Southern Pacific railway is going to build a bridge forty miles long over 2 portion of Great Salt lake, shortening their line forty-one miles in a distance of 145. The Pacific railroads were originally laid with a view to cheap in itia1 construction rather than economy of running. Hence they are very faulty in modern sense.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02
THE ENGLISH FOOT.

A sprightly controversy has been going on for some time in the English newspapers relative to the somewhat intimate subject of the young Eng lish woman's foot, or rather her shoes, says the New York Mail and Express. The modern English girl is tall, tall III a sense and to a degree that the Gibson cartoons of the stately Amer ican girl do not exaggerate In the aristocratic set, more often than not. she towers over the heads of foreign gentlemen. Long generations of de- scent from tall fathers and mothers, and vigorous years of outdoor exer- cises have made her what she is very occasionally q six-footer and with hands and feet in due proportion.
 The note of alarm has at last been sounded. It is said that 'the daugh- ters of Anak" are exercising too free ly if they would wear the dainty shoes that are woman's traditional adorn- ment. While the answer is made that the apparent size of the Eng fish girls foot is due to her sensible preference for loose, easy shoes, it is admittedly an incomplete explanation One reason for the growing popular ity of the American shoe in London is that it looks heater and trimmer and decidedly smaller than the Eng fish shoe of the same size.
 But another reason is that the American woman resident in London cannot find an English shoe small enough to fit her foot. One shopper relates in q London paper that the size she can find in a Regent street store were sixes. The exhibition of royal relies recently opened at the New Gallery furnishes interesting tes- timony that a generous understanding is no mere development of the modern Amazonian spirit. The boots worn by Queen Elizabeth as princess, preserved in the collection, are almost as capa- -cious as the slippers worn by George " at his coronation.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02
THE NIMBLE RHINocERos.
Although Clumsy and UngainIy ln Captivity, II Is Lively Enough
 in the Bush

Dr. E. c. Elliott, curator of zoology of the Field Columbian museum, Chi cago, lately spent some days in Wash ington reviewing and studying the large and valuable mass of geological material in the Smithsonian institu- tion, National museum, department of agriculture and the National Zoo About a year agoDr. Elliot wrote and published work of great value on the fauna of North America north of the Mexican boundary and the Gulf of Mexico, which proved a great success, reports the Washington Post.
 During my trip through Africa ex- perienced many surprises, and hardly day passed but what some of my pre- conceived notions were dispelled. For instance, a person contemplating a rhinoceros behind the bars of a stout cage would very naturally suppose that these animals were the most un- wieldy, clumsy and awkward ina gin able, yet nothing could be further from the truth. On the high, rocky and rolling ground of East Africa they are as spry and ni1nble as goats, which animals they very much resemble in their actions. They jump about from place to place with surprising agility for an animal so bulky, and run with a rapidity that is marvellous.
 Tn this they differ from the ele- phant, for the latter, when alarmed, moves off in long, swinging trot. The country that l explored, Somali- land and the lands to the west, abounds in the two-horned black rhi noceros. The very large, white rhinoc- eros of South Africa of the days of Roualleyn ming, are al most if not quite extinct, although the natives told us that such animals were to be found to the west of the country that we traversed. The rhinoceros does not see well, but is very keen of scent, and whenever he scents danger he charges down the wind. They have been known to charge right through caravan, upsetting things on every hand, but continuing in a straight line until out of sight.
 "The hippopotamus was only found in the Shebeyleh river, in the regions that we visited, and was scarce there, but wart hogs were everywhere in ev- idence. They are plucky animals, and one that I killed tried his best to get at me after I had wounded him so badly that he could not use his hind parts. He was magnificent animal as he came out of the bush, with head and tail erect, and snifing the air to locate the seat of danger. The open country of East Africa is the home of the large hamadryad baboon. Every hill is full of them, and the way they scold and chatter when a traveller passes their way would be amusing if it were not for the faet that they are at times dangerous, and believe they would make things interesting for the luckless hunter who should happen to get caught among them without proper means of defending himself" :"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02
A NIGHTS REST IN ARKANSAS.
One Bed Accommodated Family of
 Fourteen and q Visitor.

One Bed Accommodated Family of
 Fourteen and q Visitor.
 Well gentlemen back in the early US, when struggling young lawyer. l left my home in Springfield, Mo. on horseback, one morning in spring for Arkansas, where I was to conduct my first legal case in a murder trial. I shall never forget the fire of enthusi- asm l was imbued with and my Henry Clay eIoquence I hoped to Wield over that Arkansas judge and jury, jogging along the mountainside till it dawned upon me night was near and not a sign of habitation in sight; besides, storm was brewing. l whipped Up my old gray and was soon following a little light, twinkling from log cabin at the foot of the mountain. I rode up. halooed 'hello,' but no response save the strains of The Arkansas Traveller sawed on fiddle came waiting back. The dogs barking eventually aroused the inmates, and in the doorway ap- peared the outline of man with a fid- dle under his chin, still grinding away
 to beat the band' I asked shelter for the night and between intermissions ill the music came the answer, All right stranger; stable your horse and come in The family, consisting of the old man and old woman with twelve children, had finished supper. Still supply was left, and I would have enjoyed that corn pone' and swimming bacon immensely if it hadn't been for that blamed old fiddle. Well. began to take ill the surround ings discovered but one bed in the cab- i'll. Now the dilemma was. where they were going to put me and the six youngsters, as the other six were al- ready in bed and sound asleep. Pret- ey soon I was amused to see the old woman take each child one by one and sit it alongside the wall; then the re- maining six hopped into bed, and af- ter couple of s.sDres from that quar- ter the old man consigned his fiddle to it's calico bag and they, too were taken out of bed and set alongside the wall. He then said to me: Wall, stranger. thar is the bed: turn in while me and the old woman take a smoke.' 1 was soon in there sleeping and dreaming of my client and winning my case, and when I awoke next morning, by love! thare l sat alongside the wall. too, heading the procession, and the old man and the old woman i'll bed sound asleep, ,"-Galveston News.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02

Speaking of the progress made in the manufacture of steamships a writer says that there has been a close relation between the develop ment of the marine steam engine and the improvement in materials. Steam pressures with the compound engine were kept down for time by the in- ability to procure boiler plates of suf- ficient dimensions, but the great inn proyement i'll the manufacture of open hearth steel enabled the higher pres sures. which were used at the end of the compound period, to be used safe ly. The Aberdeen, the first triple expansion engine steamship, used steam of about the same pressure as the last compound ships, namely, 125 pounds, but it was soon realized that if the full benefit of the triple expan- sion principle was to be obtained, higher pressures should be used, and in 9 very short time they went to 150 and 160 pounds, the steel makers meeting the demand for the thick plates of the large dimensions which were necessary. Along with the in- crease in steam pressures and the gain in economy there had been progress along other lines, and the sizes and speeds of the ships had increased so that the machinery of the express steamers in the transatlantic service had become of very large size For q time the largest vessels with the most powerful engines afioat were the steamships Paris and New York of the American line and the Teutonic and Majestic of the White Star line, but these were eclipsed by the Cam pania and Lucania, which were nos only larger vessels but had engines of 30,000 horse power. These vessels are GOO feet long, 65 feet 8 inches beam, and 25 feet mean draught, with a displacement of about 1S,OOO tons. The maximum horse power of their twin screw engines is 1000, which on
 
 trial gave a speed of over 23 knots. The success of tne triple expansion engine and the possibility of carrying still higher pressures led to an early introduction of the quadruple expan- sion engine, where the pressures went up to over 200 pounds. The St Louis and St Paul have twin screw quad ruple expansion engines carrying 210 pounds pressure. More recently the steamer Deutschland, with the largest engines actually afoat, also has quad ruple expansion engines. The Teutsch- land is 663 feet long, 67 feet beam, 2s.5 feet draught and 23,2oo tons dis placement.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02

People talk of being all run down, overworked, out ofsorts generally.
 Nine times ont of ten it is the blood that Is out of order. The blood is the life of the system, you know. lift becomes thin or lacking ill strength the sys- tem naturally suffers-and with Ia weakened system disease finds an easy mark.
 Burdock Blood Bitters is one iofnature's remedies. A purely vegetable compound. It is a blood maker; it strengthens and builds upthe system; drives out the disease by removing the cause.