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Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
Warned to Leave.

It is said a number of negro ten ants near England have been noti- fled by unknown men to leave the codnty, and as result many are preparing to comply with the no- tice. The attempt to expel negro renters is supposed to have been occasioned by landowners recently raising rents from $4 and $5 to $6 and $7 per acre.
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
The Alphin-Lake Failure.

IiiC 1dilttIc u llle Alpulu-Ldkc Cotton company, of Little Rock and Gl Dorado, which caused the Bank of Little Rock to suspend payment, owing to the firms paper held by that bank, has been the topic of general interest among business men over the State since tho failure was announced.
 The actual liabilities of the cotton company will not be known until thorough investigation of the affairs are made. MT. Lake, it ia said, has admitted that the fail nrc was due to cotton speculation. The books of the Fl Dorado Com press company, which, it is alleged, issned the supposed fraudulent re- ceipts upon which the Bank of Little Rock loaned its funds, and of which E. II. Lake is president, are said to be missing. John Tor 1entine, the shipping clerk of the compress, who Is alleged to have : signed the receipts as shipping clerk, is said to have left Fl Dora do ten days before the failure and his whereabouts are unknown.
 There is much sympathy ex- pressed for J. s. Alphin, the senior lnember of the firm, who, it is be- lieyed, knew nothing of the condi- ton of affairs until the crash came, Mir. Lake was the active manager of The Alphin-Lake company, MT. Alqhin being engaged in other |'business, and gave the cotton firm but little attention. He stands high with his neighbors, and his honesty Is unquestioned. The bills of lading the Iron Mountain issued on the compress receipts, were signed by an agent in Little Rock, and those of the Arkansas South ern, aggregating $66, ,000, were signed at Fl Dorado. MT. Lake says his losses will not reach half l million and says at the proper time the book of his firm will show the actual losses MT. Lake isfa mar about 27 years of age, and removed 10 Fl Dorado from Greenville Miss, in 1897, and engaged in tht business of buying cotton. In 1SSe he formed a partnership with Mr Alphin and continued in the cot ton business. In the fall of 1901 he removed to Little Rock, anG the Alphin-Lake Cotton compan, was incorporated. In 1889 MT and Mrs G. W. Lake. his parents also removed to Fl Dorado. IT this year the Lakes, father, moth CT and son, organized the Union Dry Goods company at Fl Dorado which business proved successful The Ell Dorado Compress company was incorporated in 1899, Mr. Lake being president Mir. Lake is married and the father of two children. He owns elegant homes both in Little Rock and Fl Do rado.
 | Attorneys for the railroads and banks concerned will proceed through the courts to protect their clients as far as possible. The Little Rock Trust company, which temporarily ceased payment to pro- tect its depositors, has resumed business. Senator-olect James P. Clarke has been appointed receiver of the Bank of Little Rock.
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29

Senator Logan is one of the best versed horticulturistss in the state. as well as a level-headed lawmaker. He is vice. president of the State Horticui- tural Society, which meets in anuat session at Green Forrest February Ia.
 Mir Patterson is the author of pro- posed amendment to the constitutio8 increasing the number of associate jus tices of the supreme court from five ts six The amendment also provides that the courts shall then be divided ints two sections. the chief justice and ths two oldest in the service to be No L and the second division of the balancA
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
SATURDAY, JANUARY a4.

Representative Gathers bill to better protect shippers. was among the meas ures passed in the house. the senate not being in session.
 Bills were passed raising the salaries of the county judges of Chicot. Benton. Prairie and Yell counties House Proceedings.
 II. B. No. 30 (Slaughter). Taxing ped dlers of patent medicines $50 per an- mum, was discussed and referred to the committee on practice of medicine
 MT. Perry introduced bill for the ap- pointment of the governor of an agent to attend at the general land office of the United States at Washington at least ten months out of each year, ex- cluding July and August. to give his immediate attention to any and all bus mess that might come before said of flee affecting in any way the interests of the citizens of Arkansas. such as the issuing of patents on both mineral and agricultural lands. Appointee to re- ceive salary of $1.S00 per annum.
 Mir Futrall introduced II. B. No 164 prohibiting the sowing of coco or John son grass in this state.
 H. B. No. (Gather). to protect ship. pers of freight. making the initial com pany liable for damage. was read third time ; Mr Gather explained that the bill was intended to protect small shippers whose losses are not large enough to justify entering suit
 The bill passed. ayes S4. .
 H. B. No. 67 tMoore of Phillips), was read third time and passed.
 The object of the bill is to cure de- fects in attachments and to protect in~ nocent purchasers.
 II. B. No. 9 (Dixon). fixing salaries of officers of Izard county was taken up and passed. It makes the maximum fees and salaries as follows: County and circuit clerk. $1.500 sheriff and col lector, $2,000; assessor, $400 for assess ing realty and $500 for assessing per sonal property.
 Adjourned till Monday
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
FRIDAY, JANUARY as.

Being house day in the senate, but little business was transacted in this branch beyond reading of bills and re- ferring the same to the proper com mittees.
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
Wife Murderer Dead.

Robert Etley, who murdered his wife and tried to kill another wo- man at Clarksyillc, died in jail from a self-inflicted wound. Etley met his wife and Alice Blackburn on the street. He shot his wife and after she fell he turned her body face upward and shot her two more times. He then fired point blank at the Blackburn woman, who knocked his pistol upward. The murderer attempted to escape, but when he saw that he could not do so, he placed the pistol to his head and fired shot that proved fatal.
 Susie Johnson, a mulatto, was placed in the penitentiary last week by the sheriff of Conway county to serve term of one year for horse stealing.
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY al.

After the morning sessions both houses met at noon and balloted on United States Senator, then adjourned to attend the good roads convention
 Besides the matter of electing sen ator but little business was transacted by either branch beyond the routine
 The Senate.
 Being local bill day. a number of such measures were disposed of.
 A message from the house announced the passage of H. B. 29 (Parks), au- thorzing the appointment of commits sioners to ascertain the position of Ar kansas troops at battle of Vicksburg
 MT. Huddleston introduced s. B. 6S to regulate the sale of alcoholic li- quors. It provides for a state board composed of the governor. attorney gen eral and secretary of state. with sec retary and purchasing agent. the latter to establish and supply all dispensa- res in this state. Each dispenser is required to make weekly reports to the purchasing agent. who in turn is to report to the board quarterly
 MT. Brown introduced S. B. 69, which permits the grower of grapes to sell wine on to premises where the fruit is grown. in quantities not less than
Woodruff County news., 1903-01-29
THURSDAY. JANUARY 22.

The most important business of the days session was the announcement of the standing committees by Speaker Moore.
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Ralnh Maldn Emerson.

P.rhaus the most sensible and ,at-fac-
tory way OF commenorat ting the hundredth
anniversary of Emarson's birth is to pub
lsh a special edition Of his works.
such as Houghon, Mfflin & Co, have
undertaken in The Centenary Edition of
Emerson's Complete Works" 1t will carry
Emerson and his message TO more people
than will ever look on monuments to him
or on halls OF philosophy at Harvard. Mr..
Edward Waldo Emerson, the philosophers
son. is too modest to call himself the editor,
but he has written a biographical sketch,
has revised the text and has provided
copio,ls notes, gathered from the journals.
the correspondence, "reminiscences and
works written about him" 1t is difficult
to imagine what more an editor could do
The first eight volumes of the edition
will contain the essays printed in Emerson's
lifetime or these the first two, now be-
fore US, are entitled. Nature. Addresses
and Lectures" and Essays. First Series.
The ninth volume will contain Selected
Poems" and the next three, lectures and
other prose pieces, not printed during
Emersons lifetime. These twelve volumes
are promised for this year. Emerson's
literary executors, however. believe that
they have unpublished manuscript enough
to make two or three volumes more, and
this is promised later. though the date of
publication cannot ba SET. the material
will come chiefly from the journals
Emerson kept for fifty years.
In typography, in paper. in makeup, The
volumes are admirable. They ara not
dear and every one should b. able 10 pos
sess an American classic, who vas the
leader in American thought in the nine
teenth century.
A further contribution to the literatu re
by people who had the opportunity to see
or to speak with Emerson il made by MIR.
John Abee in three ESSAYS, under the rather
misleading title, Remembrance Of Emer-
son" tRobert Grier Cooked The first, A
Day With Emerson" does contain remnis-
cences though they are perhaps more of
Mr. Albee than Of Emerson. The others
are apbrecia,onS of "Emerson's Influence
on Young Men" and OF Emerson as an
EssayiSt
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On Health.

In How TO Keep Well" doubleday,
Page Il Coz, Mr. Floyd NJ. Crandall, NJ. d..
set : forth an explanation of modern met ho<'s
of preventing disease, and shows wha'
advances have been made in recent years
in our ability to prolong life and to prevent
suffering He writes for the nor-profes-
sional reader. Recognizing the fact that,
to certain extent. each individual has his
health in his own keeping, and can do much
to preserve or destroy it, DR. Crandall has
endcavored in simple language TO tell the
non professional reader as much as he may
profi,ablv know about the maintenance of
his health and the prevention OF sickness.
II is To The credit of the medical profess ion
that its members have usually been chary
of anything tina, savors of self-advefiise-
ment. And for this reason the duty of
giving popular instruction upon matters
medical has largely been left to the faddist
and the charlatan.
Much light as the author puts ii, is nova
days offered upon medical subjects, but
az il has been truly said the quack usually
holds the candle. Hence he believes that
"the time has come when the medical man
should speak, not in his own defence, but
in defence Of the people. who are easily
nsled to their own hurt He should do
this, not 10y argument and vtuperation
hut by calm statement of facts which
shall set forth what legitimate medicine
has done, not only to alleviate suffering
and disease. but to prevent it's occurrence.
This task have attempted in part to per-
form, and have kept. | believe, strictly
within the pale Of medical ethics, which
are nothing more nor less than the applica-
ton to medicine of the code Of honor of
gentlemen the world over"
The author believes, with DR.. Osler.
that the three most benefcent achieve
ments of the last half century in its con-
tribution toward the practical solution Of
the problems of human suffering were
anRsthesia. sanitation, with all that ii in
cludes md aseDsiS.
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For Ladies' Only.

Mrs. Nanne,te Magruder Pratt has writ
ten a sensible little book for women which
she calls "The Body Beautiful Clhe Baker
L. Taylor Company. Here are some COM
nonsense ideas on the subject OF health
andbeauty and their attainment by nat
ural means. Physical culture, which il re-
ceving great deal OF attention just now
means, in the words OF this author, the
science OF living; how to be strong, mentally
and physically; how to make tn" most OF
ones life: to know what to eat; how to take
care Of the body. how to exercise; no" TO
rest 1t is learning to control ones nerves.
II is the science of becoming acquainted with
ones self; to know how to get the best
out of life" There il no doubt but that
most women desire to be well and strong
and that all desire to he beautiful. Here
they may find the golden rules by means OF
which they may become 80. They are told
that they may accomplish wonders il they
will eat only clean and wholesome food;
drink plenty of pure water between meals;
take the right kind of daily baths; wear
sensible shoes and corsets; exercise reRu-
lary, and do several other things that are
duly set for. The programme is siren
uous one and the pictures illustrating some
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Elphalet Caghorn, was the author OF
pamphlet entitled "A Call to the Careless
This was thus described by DIR. Stanley
who was inclined to be sarcastic on the SUD-
ject of Hampton godliness. "ln this volume
are recorded the ecstatic transports OF one
OF the most blessed Claghorns. Here, with
the Rev. Eiphalet, we may revel in angelic
toys; with him we may, God-hke, gioa'
over sinners damned, and. enraptured
contemplate Flames. Torment and Despair;
here our ears may be- charmed with the
Roars of Age, the Howls Of Youth, the
Screams of Childhood and the Walls OF
Infancy; all in linked sweet ness long drawn
out all in capital letters. And all extorted
by the Flames that Lick the SUFFERING
Damned"
Small wonder perhaps that after reading
this cheerful work Natalie became tem-
porariv insane There is tragedy in the
gradual decentralization of the handsome
professor, her husband, who yields 10 me
Establishments of French siren ana taxes
to drink. Altogether a serious ana sor-
rowful tale
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Harmless verse From Tennessee.

The Hon. William Robert Moore OF Mem
phis, Tenn sends ~ small volume OF
verses. prefaced with a memoir and en-
bellished with portrait. and entitled odds
and Ends" The verses, he tells the reaoer,
were not written with view to publication
in book form Friends have persuaded
him. Under the heading of memoirs ne
prints la,idatory article from the columns
Of the Memphis Social Graphic, which IN
forms the world that he is, among other
things, zone 'of our most distinguished
fellow citizens" and an active and successful
business man; that he belongs to no secret
society, and that he neither smokes. chews
tobacco nor drinks whskey. he says
some severe things on the subjec, of whls-
key in an apostrophe. OF which we quote the
first s'ahHa
ON demon Whiskry, iaNoritc child OF fc'l.
The ruin thou hast wrought no pen can tel
The singing Viper coils In thy en brace
And polsonS blears and bloa,S the eyes and lace.
The proceeds from the sale of the book
are to be devoted TO charity
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Theology and Fiction.

Tho So readers who like large amount
of religious discussion blended with their
fiction may be interested i'll "Mr tlag-
horns Daughter" d. s Ogivie Publishing
Company, wherein gentleman who takes
the name Hilary Trent has written a
stirring story round the Westminster Con-
fession of Faith Il contend he says in
his preface, "(and the fact, If it be fact,
is aUple justification for this book that
the Westminster Confession of Faith has
driven many honest souls to the gloom
OF unlelief, TO the desperate need of denial
of God; and that to-day very large number
of the adherentS of that confession find it
possible to maintain their faith in God
only by secret rejection of a creed they
openly profess A good deal OF the action
of the story takes place in the town Of
Hampton. which is the seat of a theological
seminary and is thus described by one of
the characters. Hampton is the home of
theology-and such theology! II is filed
with musty professors, their musty wives
and awkward and conceited boys, in train
ing to become awkward and conceited
men"
Tie speaker, however, was an avowed
atheist and man of many grievances.
OF which the greatest was the existence OF
Christianity Hence he was probably
prejudiced His daughter. the amiabe
and accomplished Natalie Claghorn. had
been brought up to share his agnostic views
She married her cousin Leonard. a hand
some young professor at the theological
seminary, and hence the many troubles
that form the staple portion Of the story.
With the possible exception of the atheist
tue CiaShorn family and their associates
wore not what we would call a cheerful
lot. In one chapter, bearing the illuminate
ing caption "The music of the chorus Of
the anguish of the damned" two OF them
discuss Socrates:
Socrates observed Miss Achsah, ia
damned
If you say so, he mus, be- was the
sarcastic rejoinder OF Tabitha Cone
Miss Claghorn with stern gaze at her
companion, opened Hodsess Commentary
on the Confession Of Faith and read: THE
heather in mass. with no single, definite
and unques,ioncd example on record, are
evidently strangers TO God and going down
to death in an ,lnsaved condition" That Z"
She said. "seiti-s Socrates"
Another member Of the family, the Rev.
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of the exercises may move to iaugh'er
the unregenerate reader who has not yet
been attacked by the physical culture
bacillus But the unregenerate will laugh
at anything For our part. having exam
med the pictures showing u lady OF COM
Portable stoutness clad neatly and simply
in a suit OF black tights and practising the
sitting up" exercise, we consider that
these works OF nrt-and nature should
be admired in a spirit Of becoming serious
hess. As for he two pictures IN which we zee
the same lady in the same costume stretched
out ON her back and demonstrating the
beauty of abdominal breathing. We should
have our own opinion of any one who re-
parcleti lhem in a frivolous or ribald manner.
The beauty Of the West Point spread, as
performed by the same energetic enthusiast
must he seen to I've appreciated. This ~
said TO be fine for cultivating balance-and
il looks it-while the exercise of lending
the knee and kicking the shoulder with it
also illustrated is said to I've the real thing
to tone up a sluggish liver. 1t seems az
though any woman who will conscientiousiy
follow Mrs. Pratts rules and daily go
through "a course of her astonishing ex-
ercses deserves to live to a green old age
and retain her beauty to the las,
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ROuxl, on Italy.

Because of Power" C. W Dillingham;
Company is an interesting story by Fila
Striker Mapes. II treats of many things.
Among others, of the influe noes Of heredity
and their subjugation by the power of
character and will. Marta, the heroine,
was fine young woman. and it is entirely
reasonable that she should have affected
young Mr., Grant Hamilton in most marked
manner al their frs, meeting. She was
beautiful and she had the power of fascina-
ton She was also musician and the
daughter of a Judge. Hamilton was a
LAWYER and he had the habit of thinking
epigrammatically. When he first met her
the thought, came to him that if beauty
is a dangerous rock TO man, fascination
is a perilou- cliff "The rock" he thought.
causes man many fall but he picks him.
self up, goes on his way, and in time. his
bruises heal The cliff is another matter
Beauty attacks, but it does not hold.
The woman who is more than an episode
in mans life has power greater than
beauty-and the Judges daughter had
that power" Later that power manifested
itself in another form. when at the Metro
politan Opera House she played violin
solo in such a way "a to rouse the audi
ence to the expression of an unprecedente l
enthusiasm. As for Mr.. Claiming, who is
the bad man of the story, and who had once
stirred what he author speaks Of as Marita's
Italian blood" to an uncomfortable ex-
tent, he was badly turned down for the
second time on that triumphant occasion.
He threw a cluster of exquisite orchids onto
the stage, but she set her foot upon them
and lifting her bow played the Ave Maria
as no one there had ever heard it played
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in her ear: 'Elgiva! ElgivaF But when
she answered not he loudly walled: Dead
peadl Deadr Then flung himself pros
trate at her side
In the penultimate chapter OF which
we have spoken it seemed as though the
King must surely triumph. He had slain
a large proportion of the rebel host with
his own hand. He was commanding
figure in war. His tall frame tow
cred above the combatants." Baptized
with power, he carried the thames with
him, and struck terror into the foe,
Hand to hand he fought his way up the
steep hillside aud grmily smiled in the
midst of death Hero after hero he met
in single combat and trnmpled IN their
blood as he leaed to meet another. he
oyerthrew Rold, "a wild Northulnbrian
jarl,r and pressed on toward Dunstan,
Then he fell -smitten with many wounds
and pierced with many spears. His last
act was to hurl his sword AT his archenemy
He had the satisfaclo to see ii plunge
deep in the neck Of Dnstan His heroic
demise was attended by a considerable
celestial disturbances "A fash of light
ming lnaped from out the sky a. darkness
closed on Eadwine and lit his soul TO heaven.
A peal of thunder told his welcome there.
The diving sun sank blood red amid yea OF
tempesl,io,is clouds
The astonishing Dunstan lived for thirty
wear. after he had got it in the neck IL
is for the reader to Judge whether it was
quite proper to make saint OF him.
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some Final Bret Harte stories.

Seven tales are included in "Trent's
Trust aud Other Stories" by Bret Harte
Houghtoh Mifflin 4 Coz. They stand
out among the fiction of the day, Who
ever fails to read Dick Doyle's Bust
ness Card" will be guilty of pitiable
offence against himself. Mr. MacNlowre's
Widow" is love story of humor and power.
THE Con valescence of Jack Hamlin' and
a Pupil of Chestnut Ridge" have the
pict,lresulleness and the a,dacity that 1t
was reasonable to expect "Trents Trust
is longer story, and the author wearied
a little in the course of it. but its opening
pages are a model Of narrative interest,
and it is only comparatively that any weak
ness may be ascribed TO II There Is plenty
in this posthumous book that should make
us glad Of the genius that has passed away.
Bret Harte initiated Dickens in the respect
that he furnished forth plain character
with his own eloquent imaginings. He
builded delightfully."- on the merely reals tic
plan. He was a memorable and great
story teller
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before" She was born in Italy OF an Italian
mother and it seems somewhat hard upon
that sunny land that the author shou,a
insist that her Italian blood had necessarily
handicapped her with strain OF anlnaiism'
which she overcame only by force OF char-
acter
Well-known clubmen sent her diamonds
but she merely said scorniully' more
bait, l suppose" and sent them back she
was never known to answer note ana
all her floral offerings were sent I" 'he
hospitals In the cafes of this city young
men spoke of her as "the impossible ana
discussed their failures to interest her with
a perfect frankness. An interesting story
az we have said and one which eventually
il brought to most satisfactory conc'u-