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The sun., 1903-12-27

to his fdgety nature and disposition. The
Duke answered.: AS for Love, he Ii a
damned fool When I came to Brussels
from Vienna in 1885, ! found him Quarter
master General of the army here, and 1
presently found the damned fellow would
instruct me in the equipment Of the army,
always producing the Prussians to me as
models so l was obliged to tell him had
commanded a much larger army in the
field than any Prussian General and that
was not to learn from their service how to
equip any army. thought this would
have stopped him, but, shortly afterward.
the damned fellow was at me again about
the equipment Of the Prussians, 40 was
obliged to write home and complain Of him,
and the Government was kind enough to
take him away from me"
We should have liked to make some ex.
tracts from Mr.. Creevey's account OF the
trial of Queen Caroline, but we must bring to
a close this not ice of these interesting vol
umes. There is no end to the light they
throw on the private political history Of
England during the first third Of the nine
teenth century. M. w. II.
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DOWNFALL or A PAGE.
An Incident That Shook the Dignity OF tho
United states supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Dec 26.-The dignity OF
the Supreme Court was somewhat shaken
the other day through the removal of a
chair from it's customary place.
Itwas during the arguments on the North-
ern Securities suit, and the interest in the
case had brought so many lawyers into
court that it became necessary to provide
additional seats within the rallied space
reserved for members of the supreme
Court bar Chairs were brought from
the Marshal's office and the clerks Office.
and to accommodate late arrival chair
used by one of the pages who sit in the space
behind the Justices seats was taken during
the temporary absence of the youngster
on an errand,
Now this page is OF particularly chunky
and solid build. and when he returned
to his station. and without noticing the abb
sence of the chair, pumped himself down
in the place it should have been, there
was a sound that might fitly be described
as dun sickenng thud. IL was sutflclently
startling to bring one of the digni6ed
Justices to his feet and to cause another
to rise partly from his chair. while even
the AttOrneytiener paused for moment
in the delivery of his argument.
The court officials rushed around back
of the partition with visions, perhaps,
of dynamite bombs CT something OF that
kind and those of the audience sitting
where they could see behind the screeo
craned their necks, but when the offending
page pulled himself together and stood mp,
looking sheepish and rubbing the bruised
portion of his anatomy and at the same time
trying to assume an innocent eXpressloh.
he was greeted with a broad smile that
finally spread over the entire room,
The sun., 1903-12-27
To Have a Chair Of Poultry.

From The ~, Louis GiO5c D'm0t'f
CoiUMBlA, Mo. Dee. 10 How TO raise chiChchs
will be taught at the University OF missouri, lEt
curators have decided to oiIer full course IN
poul,ry raising \ Sho.s ,surSc was oNcrca last
year. but this year the study is 10 be put ON an
equal plane Win the studies In The other depart
ncn,S and iu'i Instructions In the breeding ana
handling OF domestic :oMi- and the prediction
OF eggs VIII he giv---
The reasons for extending the course rs du" to
the Increasing importance of the poultry industry
and the remarkable interest manifested a' the
university last year, when the study was frS' lh'
troduced The records show that II proved 10 he
the most popular course ever offered al Missouri
University. IL proved so Interesting that num-
Der OF the professors enrolled themselves as students
and entered the poultry department. The highest
grades IN the class were made by two mcmbciS
OF me faculty,
Another reason for the extension Of the course
is that the poultry business has become one OF tie
leading Industries IN dt>,uuri, tnr annual income
from the same uo" u.i.. estimated al over S,"H
e0o
The sun., 1903-12-27
SOME NEW BOOKS.
The Creeyey Papers.

A book that deserves to be classed with
the Croker Papers" for the light it throws
on the political and social history OF Eng
land at momentols epoch is presented
in the two volumes called the Creerey
Papers CE. p. Dutton & Coz. This s a
selection from the correspondence ana
diaries of Thomas Creevey, Nj. r, who
was born in II 8, entered the House OF
Commons in 1902 and died in 1888 in the
snug office Of treasurer of Greenwich
Hospital. The selection has been made
..- the Rt. Hon Sir Herbert Maxwell who
tells us that .he extracts now forthcoming
represent scarcely more than fftleth
OF the materials committed to his hands
by Mrs. Blackett-Ord whose husband was
the grandson Of Mr.. Creevey'S eldest step
daughter Most of the letters now pub
lished we're addressed to the writer's step
daughter, Elizabeth Ord whom he urged
to preserve the correspondence. expressing
the belief that ain future times the Creevey
Papers may form curious collection.
Curious they unquestionably are, for the
writer had an active and inqustive in
tellect, and ne was the repository of in
Vulnerable condolences from persons OF
both sexes, as to which he was not always
scrupulous in observing the seal of secrecy.
1t is evident. indeed, that, had not the
editor exercised the privilege Of excison.
some of his revelations would have needed
to be described as a chronique scdndaleuse
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ILL.

Like all who ever made her acquaintance.
both Mr. and Mrs Crcevey speak enthusi-
astcally Of the unfortunate Mrs. Fitz-
herbert, whom the Prince of Wales had
married in 1855 or 1886 In a letter dated
AZ Brighton early in November, 1905, Mrs
Creevey tells her husband: Mrs. Fitz-
herbert came before u and has literally
only this moment Ipast o'clock left me.
We have been all the time alone, and she
has been confidential to degree that almost
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I v

As a Foxite Whig, the writer of these
letters detested both of the Wellesley
brothers, and could scarcely be convinced
that the younger was not perpetrating
a series of great bunders in Spain, until
the French had actually been driven out
of that country. On June 3. 1912, Marquis
Wellesley had been invited to form Gov
ernment. He tells a correspondent: as
one to laugh at our poor, foolish party
having 40 obviously and so fatally for them
selves played the game Of these villains,
Wellesley and Canning, or is one to cry
at the neverfailing success of rascalty
in this country? Oh, how glad am that
I had no hand in making this madman
Wellesley preside over tine destinies Of
this country, to sacrifice the thousands OF
brave lives that he will assuredly do in
Spain and Portugal, and TO torture by pow
erty and privations the thousands that
will feel the effects Of his extravagance
in England" In ctober Of the same year
there is an interesting reference to Yelling
ton. 1t may be remembered that Marmont
having been defeated at Salamanca on
July %. 1912, Wellington occupied Madrid.
But, on Oct. II, he was forced to raise the
siege of Burgos and to begin his retreat
upon the Portuguese frontier, which part took
more of the nature Of disaster than any
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The sun., 1903-12-27

In a letter dated Oct 2, 1903, occurs the
.rst mention of one with whom Creevey
-as destined to be long and intimately
associated The letter is penned by Cree
vey's friend DR.. j. Currie, distinguished
physician and leading citizen of Liverpool
Currie complains Of Brougham's criticism
of book published by Lord I.auderdale
.The review Of this book IN the Edinburgh
Rertep is every way unfair and foul 1t is
by scatterbrained fellow, one Broughain,
who wrote two volumes on colonial policy,
the two practical objects of which were
to abolish the slave trade and to propose
that we should join our armies to those of
the French for the e1irpation of the negroes
of St Domingo. He has got a sort of phio-
sophical cant about him and a way of
putting obscure sentences together which
seem TO fools to contain deep meaning,
especially as an air Of consummate petuiance
and confidence runs through the whole.
The sun., 1903-12-27

After the first abdication of Napoleon
in 1914, the Emperor Of Russia, the King of
Prussia and other royalties came to London.
Among the French ladies' who visited the
British capital at the time was Nine. de
Stael. Lady Holland writes about her to
Mrs. Creevey: The great wonder OF the
time is Nine. de Stael. She is surrounded
nv all the curious and every sentence she
,itters is caught and repeated with various
commentaries. Her first appearance was
al Iy Jerseys. where Lady Hertford
also was. and looked most scornfully at
her, pret ending her determination not to
receive her. as she was an atheist and
immoral woman. This harsh resolve was
mitigated by an observation very agreeable
to the observer-that her personal charms
have greatly improved within the last
twenty years. She Mime. de Staen is
violent against the Emperor, who, she says,
is not nance n'est point un homme,
ndis un susieme'-an incarnation of the
revolution. Women he considers as only
useful pour produire les conscrits,' other
wise, 'c'est ure cidsae 1u'n roudrdit sup.
primer She is much less ugly than
expected; her eyes are fine, and her hand
and arm very handsome. She was fun
mering Sheridan upon the excellence of
his heart and moral principles and he in
return upon her beauty and grace,
1t is well known that Napoleon. when
after Waterloo he took refuge on board
The sun., 1903-12-27

On the publication in 1922 of O'Meara :
Voice from ST. Helena" our author made
a memorandum of a conversation held with
the Duke Of Wellington in the autumn of
1918, Immediately before the withdrawal
OF the army of occupation from France
Mr. Creevey said: well now. Duke, let
me ask you. don't you think Inwen very
unnecessarily harsh gaoer of Buonapa
at ST. Helena? 1t is surely very disrep-
utable to us to put any restraint upon him
not absolutely necessary for his detention. "
With his usual expletive, Wellington replied
by God! don't know. Buonapar,e il
30 damned intractable a fellow, there is
no knowing how to deal with him. To be
sure, as to the means employed to keep
him there, never was anything 40 damned
absurd. l know the island Of st. Helena
we'll. looked at every part of it on my
return from the East Indies" Wellinet on
then described three or four places as the
only ones by which prisoner could escape,
and declared that they were capable of
being made inaccessible by a mere handful
of men. MIR, Creevey then said that, from
what he had seen of Love at Brussels in
1914 and 1915, he had deemed him the last
man in the world for general officer, owing
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
EXPENSIVE RABBITS.
The Costly Game Preserve Of Fa-
nous French Writer, and
NciHhbOr's Trick

An amusing story il told by the Cour-
rier des Etats-rnis concerning Guy de
Maupssshnt, who once maintained
near his home q rnhbit-warren OF n
few acres in the midst OF cultivat ted
fields. The enterprise was II source
of plentiful income tO the Normandy
peasants, who took the opportunity
to plant choice vegetables in the ad-
joining fields, Then they demanded
large compensation FOR the alleged
damage done by their neighhor's rah-
bits. Every year De Maupassnnt had
to pay heavily. and the peasants be-
gan to feel that n rabbit-warren was
an excellent neighbor,
After few years, however, the own-
er of the warren began to grow tired
of the arrangement. lie rcckoned
that under the existing state Of things
the few rabbits he shot cost him about
$50 each, which was rather too much.
even for an enthusiastic sportsman
so he determined to destroy the game
preserve.
II was not much trouble. There
were only four or Ave burrows in the
enclosure. and few ferrets soon
killed all the occupants.
One night, after all the rabbits had
been destroyed, the owner happened
to visit his former preserve, and de-
tected man skulking along under
the trees. with large bag on his back.
De Naupassant at once jumped to the
conclusion that the man had come to
steal wood. When he challenged him,
tho supposed thief took to his heels,
leaving the hnck behind him. 1t was
found to be filled with rabbits of both
sexes.
the man was no thief, but n ncirh-
Dor Of the writer, who. shrewdly rca.
soning that there could be no more
damages if there were no rabbits, had
thought it advisable to restock the
wal L- ----------- - 80 -~
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
OPPORTUNITY.

Outside the castle walls one called for aid,
a pas. Who Caair- with a lutte inside
Pe.IsG from the close barred easement
hall afraid
"F.sl uy .y, .-Cy door | must ablde'
lie sad. while y - tie strls.ss Eis hhSefs
arr.geG
And sN>etiy chin.ed hiS young voice with
,ne lutte.
1.-THE windows here, you see. are strait ana
high,
Yet fear not friend. boldly to give thy cry
II guards are deaf l wot thou art not
mute"
And then again that shout rang through
lhe air
1t came to knight and squire who sat at
pay,
And one cursed at the warders. wondering
where
They uuaffed their wine ard drowsed the
tim- away,
.rd then cue " = prince - smile dil swear,
, tod Of wnsi lie Gad oLGUrec II siege
her 5oast,G Of his sWor- arJ shit ID,
.asscd his 4ice, and cI.sd: TO none
yield
in Willingness to serve my king and liege."
end yet once more that cry of bitter ned
II pierced the inner ciUsst OF the king,
Who at the sound Of anguish ran with
spsed.
Leaving his graybeIrds at their council
ing
or war. and state, Of church, and priest.
and creed.
And oped gate, and drew the man half
dead
Within the walls Had we but known
cried all
In sore dismay, "it was the princes call"
''Ye knew it was a mans" the old king
said.
Anime NJ. L. Halves, in Youths Compan-
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

The Memphis Morning News is
not yet a year old, yet it has 3
circulation of nearly 10000 cop
les daily. The News has been a
success from the start, and its
highest success is not yet at
tanned. Its columns contain the
News, and it is strictly a Southern
newspaper.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

on some mems pants bear a
darker grade Of mud than Is
found in most fields.
The families of DR.. Tlbbles and
Newt Hutchison are all that
have had smallpox, and they are
all we'll. Their residences have
been thoroughly cleansed, fuml-
gated, disinfected and any and
all things done as the law directs,
as set forth by the self-constl-
tuted board of health located at
Center, Ark.
The smallpox in this commun-
ity is a thing Of the past. No
cases have appeared to those
who imagined they had a chance
to get the disease, and no one IS
complaining now. It's funny how
some people get cranky. over
half of the people IN this
community were never within
three miles Of a case Of smallpox,
and some Of them have suffered
moro than they would with a
genuine case Of the disease
Some localities have gone so lar
as to insult as good men as the
county affords by claiming that
they had no regard for others
and seemed to want to scatter
the dread disease, when in fact
they had not been exposed It's
a clear fact that no self-rc5pect-
ing man or lady will ever try to
spread contagious disease Of
any kind, but will work tn other
way.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
A. B. Arm,

everything for a farm Of
acres, worth scme S12,OOOMI
900.
81 trust him implicitly. +
cannot read or write. He ha
a wife who is as trustworthy Z
he is"
Later on he said Of the pq
sition of the African Methdl
Bishop Turner that the leg
should be induced to gO0A
rica:
Chow many Of them van
go? | do not know, and ceralS
there is no law 10 make them
and congress cannot pass Ohs
'JOe does not want to gO-
Joel do not know whetherl
long 10 Joe or Joe belongs tols
Anyhow we have been tOgf
for thirty years, and we N
agreed to live together unal1
or both Of us die, and when
away, if | 60 first. | know h'7
shed as sincere a tear as al
body. | would die to pfOtect1
from injustice or wrong"
In this bit of sentiment Senll
Tillman touched upon pA1
of the relationship between I
races that is not dreamed "
the philosophy of those O'nSl1
bigots who presume 10 pOl',
way Of duty to the ooa'l' ~ |
people in their dealings VIII
negro.
There is no vestige Of in'ln'
ity, cant and maudlln pFs'i
about this utterance OF llIIul U
1t is the genuine sentiment OIL
heart of hearts. A Sen'ln'
which he holds in common "
all Southerners Of like des''
and environment, All men "
and bred in the South can una'
stand what he says for there
few of them who do not en''''
the same feeling for some WV y
more Of the colored race 'l''
PROCESSES for Joe Gibson. l.,
Who is Joe Gibson,s W "
friend, Ben Tillman OF iD'''
Roosevelt?
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

An exchange is authority for
the statement that the Hon, Gus
tave Jones of Newport is likely
to become a candidate for cong
ress, and also that he would
prove an acceptable congress.
man. We have no doubt but that
as congressman Gus would prove
very acceptable to Gus, but the
people and Gus doubtless often
differ.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
POUGHSEEpSIE.

The dog-wood blossoms are
dustin. "
Health is about back to the
normal state.
News items seem to be scarce
in this locality.
jim Norris and A. j. Tompkins
lost some fence by fire this week.
Robert Willett has come back
to the best country in the whole
world.
Pulling the bell-cord over a
narrow-gauged mule is the busi.
ness of the day.
Tho infant son Of DR.. W. 0.
Tibbles and wife was buried at
the Spots graveyard as a result
VI Stiidiipo"'
The wheat crop never looked
finer at this time of year, but the
acreage is less than usual. Oats
are coming up good stand.
A. j. Tompkins is supplying
some Cave City men with corn.
There is more in this country,
boys; come along when you need
it.
W, H. Kelly and his father
landed a new set of blacksmith
tools in town the first Of the week
and occupy the Dement, shop on
Main street.
The fishing company is in
creasing daily, and the halt-soloS
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
DOES TILLMAN HATE TIE NEGRO!
(Memphis is News

(Memphis News
There was in Senator Tlllman's
speech on the race question a
passage Of sentiment which was
not reported in the newspapers,
one which if it had been widely
circulated would have thrown a
new light upon the minds Of
those who have been taught to
regard the attitude of Southern
white men toward the negro as
one of cruelty and barbarism. 1t
also might have served to dispel
the impression from certain pref
udiced people that Tillman is a
cruel and remorscless negro
hater, ready at all times to abuse
and oppress the negro simply be-
cause he has the power.
Right in the midst of his vigor-
Gus attack upon the misch;evous
and impossible policy of the pres
ent administration as regards
the race problem, the senator
from South Carolina said;
81 want TO say to you-and !
say it with all the sincerity of my
nature-that | do not hate the
negro.
81 was nursed by black nam.
my, ] have on my farm in Souti
Carolina today a negro man {
about my own age, Joe Glbsol
who has been with me thirty
years. lie has charge OF my
keys and of everything | possess
there in the way Of house, 1urni-
ture, horses and carriages and
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

Hon. Henry M. Cooper died in
Chicago, where he had been liy-
ing for the past year or more,
last Monday, Mr.. Cooper figured
prominently for several years in
the Republican politics of Arkan-
5as, and had been honored with
federal positions.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

The Mammoth Spring Demo-
crat editor says ne is getting out
a paper for the money there Is in
it. A very small portion ef the
world is out for fun these days,
and the Democrat mans an
nouncement comes as no surprise
whatever.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10
ASH FLAT.


Corn planting is still the order
of the day with the farmers.
Miss Mamie Helm of Hardy is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Sidney
Stephens.
Mr Metcalf of Franklin was in
town the first of the week at
tending TO some legal business.
James Lloyd Of near Hardy
passed through our village last
week en- route home from lzard
county.
l. G. Ritchie Of Evening Shade
was here last week at the bedside
Of his father, Isaac Richie, who
was quite sick.
idr. and Mrs. J. l.. OVerton
spent Sunday out at the home OF
MIR. and Mrs. j. C. Hersberger,
and report a pleasant day.
Miss Bessie Turner, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Turner OF
Hardy, visited her grandparents
and little friends here last week.
About ten pupils were added to
our school enrolment Monday
The school continues to grow
under the direction of Prof. d. e.
Billiogsley.
Hon. J. N. Ferguson, who rep
resents Lonoke county in the
house of representatives, is here
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Geo.
Wilkinson.
Simp Holderfield bought a
farm on Strawberry one Cay this
week, paying the handsome
price of 81, 500 for it.
The finny tribe has begun to
suffer greatly. Messrs. j. D.
and Mr.. Phillips tried
them and report several good
bites-from the "skeeters."
The strong wind that blew from
the west last Friday all day did
some damage in our town. 1t
relieved Mr.. Brawley's store Of
its front, and blowed down sew
eral panels of fence.
We are glad to say that Uncle
Isaac Ritchie, who has been con-
fined to his bed for ton days, is
improving and will be on our
streets again soon. He has had
quite siege of catarrhal fever
Wayne Bristow was recently
called to Imboden to visit his
,ather, John w. Br:stow, who is
Juite sick. He returned Tuesday
and says there is no chance for
MS father to recover, which news
we are sorry to hear.
Mrs. W. j. Holloway stepped
IN a loose plank while on the
porch at her homo last Friday
evening which sprang up, strik-
ng her in the abdomen, and in
1icting wound from which a
portion of her bowels protruded.
Dr.. J. r. Garner was summoned
and Mrs. Holloway is recovering
as nicely as could be expected.
Cold DAY,
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

The Clarendon Sun declares
the present general assembly is
way above the average. Per-
haps so, but the Sun fails to tell
US what average it is above.
Sharp County record., 1903-04-10

1t is talked in political circles
that Hon. Joe Short of Fulton
county, president of the state
senate, will be a candidate for
auditor next year.