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The Springdale news., 1904-12-23
ROAD NOTICE.

Notice is hereDy given that on the first day of the January term, l90o, oi tbe Washington County Court of Washington County, Ark, the same being the 2nd day of January l9oo, there will be presented to sald Court a petition signed by more than lo res ident freeholders of said County, the substance of said petition being a prayer for an order for, and the laying out. opening and the establishment oi nuhlic county road in said county, described aS follows: The place CT De- ginning being at the point where the puhlic county road between Sectlons 27 and 2S. in Township l6 North' Range 90 West, in said county lhlef- sects the pubic county road futluine east and west In Sald seculous' tlle same being at a point al the 'u0nedsO corner of the northeast guar CT oi tile southeast quarter ot sald sect9ou - thence running south With the Sectl9h line 100 rods t0 the southeast corner section 33. Tn said township ana range thence east So rods to the northwest corner nf the northeast quarter ot the northwest quarter of section ,. lh township T. north in Sdld fdugc: thence Seuth f60 rods the soutli"eab corner of the southeast quarter ef ihe northwest quarter, there to intefNett with the Wellington Gap pubic ratas for an inteImedlate lfefmlnaiI P7Ihtt thanea vast WIfh sald Nediugtaa Gap road S0 reds He he neft h~est corner af the southwest quarter Of Seetlnn , for an intermediale beginning p2Inis thence Sa4tn WIih the section IIae i.53 rods ta q point IL rnds south of the northeast eafaer at tHe SE ef t5e SE #af section l6 in township =Ll ID sad fanee:=theHrr III I soalb"e9lef5F direction along and With q p49lie traye ed faad. abaH 53 rods LHefe 12 interSect WIt6 the Johnson and sim Springs Haaae eoaatl f9ad aud ahlea IS The pace af termination aI aaf5 pro posed H1ad. aHa GHaJ s3la pf#p Naa rBaa 0i5l be "a feet iH @laHH 6f f8e fest class and # great raa## at#al'
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ALfRED LAWN has purchased the Huntsville Democrat and took charge Wednesday. He seems to-be the only man who has ever been able to gieeIIunts- vile and Madison County people anything like readable paper and deserves better support than has been given him. He has the best wishes of The News.
The Springdale news., 1904-12-23
EUREKA SPRIX5S

The p.rt>.s ~y~tem operates Utge-i eject. .t==5- tts#-ti stiII-. 4 aI es.i Ct. nail uuutr tHr management ot tIe0l
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The Springdale news., 1904-12-23

pr. Weayer's Treatment. sgup PaFfies the blood Gefaae heals skin eraptons.
The Springdale news., 1904-12-23
4 Pleasant Pill.

No pill is as pleasant and positive as De eWitt's Little Early RiSerS. De. Witt'S Little Earty Risers are 50 mild and effeetIve that children delicate ladies and weak people enjoy their cleansing effect, while strong people say they are the best liver pills sold Sold by II. X. Daily.
The Springdale news., 1904-12-23
Your Druggist Sells 1t.

.faa HHpite.a paiar paSsenEef e8a46ftarea the EIa foaf4 running between lndian4Hais. Ind aaa Springfield, Ono, Safs fhat he would noB 6e aIf4e t5-dle F He#had Hat used nr Gald0eti's syrup FepSiH, which eared mmat T serious Case af stomach and 5UelHaabie. Ear safe bg ]. F N ~5H.
The Springdale news., 1904-12-23

FN-GoY J. F. EAGLE died Tuesday at his home ifi Little Rock after an illness s=of several days. Gov. Eagle Vas ole o# tile great and good of the state and his death is distinct loss.
The Springdale news., 1904-12-23
HKIs

SID GAFBE4T, formerly county clerk of Madison County, has gone b Porter. IT. to#Spend I few months, and in Mdrch will go 10 N arlington ds Congress man FioYd,s private secretary.
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$ E. E D T 1 M E.

Ue experienced farmer has learned that some grains require far differ ent soil than others some crops need differ enthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right ] time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer about mis- take made in the spring. Decide before the seed Is planted. Che best time to reme- dy wasting conditions in the human body is be- fore the evil IS too deep rooted. At the first evil dence of loss of. flesh Scott s Emulsion should be taken imme- d-ateIY. There IS noth- Iag that will repair
 sd tissue more
 replace lost ]
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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
ktna Ixopold,s $4,000 Rua.

King Leopold Of Belgium owns one
rug that cost comfortable fortune in
ITSELF" said J. +. Caldwell, who rep
resents an Eastern carpet manufac
tory. Il have seen the rug, and it is.
a beauty. King Leopold paid e15,-
Geo, OF, $4,000, for it. l saw the rug
when IT. Was on exbih ihitton in,<N Vienna.
It was made in the Orient, and is:
land tufted. Its age is its principal
value, and it has been under the feet
of royalty for probably century. The
rug is very large, measuring probably
GO by IS feet.
Few rugs like that come to Ameri-
ca, though the millionaires frequently
pay as much as $4,000 or $4,000 for
some Few carpets are imported, as
they can be made much better by ma
chinery than by hand, and America
excels in all machine made goods
Large numbers of handmade rugs,
however. are imported every year from
Turkey, Persia, Arabia and all parts
CT the Orient. We have no labor cap
able of competing with" their rugs. -
1 ou;sville Courier-Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
SET CRABS TO CATCH CRABS.

shrewd Jersey. Fishermen Made Big
Catch by New Method.
They were sitting in the genera,
store in the seashore resort of Avalon
telling the usual Jersey fish stories
1t was Ezra Cresses turn, and he spur
the following yarn:
Some springs ago the crabs was
scarce on account of the hard win
ter. Every summer I made business
of shipping crabs to the city, but the
spring l speak of it seemed as though
the crabs had all died. You know
that the ice kills the crabs and those
what's left alive always keep in deer
water the following summer. Well, !
tried my best to get some crabs. !
went along the bank of the creek with
a net; I f1shed with large chunks OF
neat, and I tramped around to all the
salt ponds on the meadows. But ii
wasn't any use. Finally I thought I'd
try new scheme. So I got a couple
of large crabs and tied a long wire
about their shells. Then l took them
10 where the creek runs into the sound
an anchored each crab in the water.
After that I sunk several large pieces
oI meat.
Next day." continued Cresse, 81
went to my decoys and caught 300
crabs. -f,hfiadefphia Press. '--"-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
they'd a. took advantage of a cripple1'

they'd a. took advantage of cripple7'
tc4 t4< ( Years passed. There came time,
when it was to the advantage of that
part of old Steuben that Uncle Sis
pond should be drained, and it was.
81 The swamps bogs became dry land
and were covered with nice growth
OF timber. One day Uncle ST was
tramping through it, and he saw a
tree with funny-looking object near
the top. = -:
Curious to know what it could be,
he chopped the tree down. Words
can't express the astonishment OF
Uncle ST when he discovered that the
strange object was the skin of tre-
mendous frog, one leg of which was.
fast to and part of the top of branch.
of the tree.
'EUnc1e ST was puzzled, but the min
ute it came to him that the tree was.
willow and that it had been a viii
low tree from which he cut the wood
en- leg for Joshua years before, all was;
plain.
"'It's lost joshua, said he, and hiss
wooden leg!'
And SO it was. The poor frog had
got stuck by his wooden leg in the.
mire of the swamp that day he pad
died over to resume his frogging. He
couldn't extricate himself, and there
he died.
'The willow cutting had taken root
there, of course, and had grown with
the years, lifting Joshua along with it,
and preserving his skin with the tam
min in its sap. Uncle ST had thought
the world OF Joshua while alive, and
so l always thought it was queer the
use he put the skin to after he took
it home. He sewed up the mouth and
used the skin for a feed bag for
years.
"Wonderful, wonderful, how willow
will take root and thrive! Simply
wonderful"
The Hon. Lafe Gleason couldn't
deny it. and Col. Ed Gilmore, seeing
there was a frog in Col. Jones's throat,
sent Sharkey, the proud waiter, with
a wireless message to Jimmy Gray at
the high ball 'refectory-New York
Sun.
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me tnat the older man grows the
less sense he has in his head"
Next day, as ascertained by Aunt
Jane from an upper window, Joe Kid
der dug post holes by the raspberry
patch. Aunt Jane observed that he
was not making the dirt fly to any
appalling extent, but he worked like
a man whose thoughts were else-
where, and he took rest every few
minutes to glance at the old red
house.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon she
went down stairs and said to the
-daughter~who sat on the front piazza
with a book upside down in her hand:
Kate, want you to 60 down along
the pasture fence to the crook and
gather raspberries for supper Pa says
there are heaps of them down there.
Take that two-Quart tin basin bought
the other day.
The girl, started of. Her mother.
looking after her, saw how little am
bition she had, and chuckled to her.
self:
You'll come back walking on your
heels, Miss Lady, or I'm no prophet;
and / shouldn't wonder If there'd be
four of us to supper instead of three"
To give Miss Kate due credit. she
did not know that Joe Kidder was at
work there, SO she had no part to
play. She wandered along in an aim
less way until she reached the rasp-
berry bushes, and then she began
gathering the luscious fruit.
She had been at work ten minutes
when Joe, Strengthening up to rest his
back, detected her presence.
His heart gave jump and a sud-
den weakness took him in the knees.
His first idea was to rush to the fence
and address her, but he suddenly re-
membered that she had been aggres-
sively independent, and that he owed
something to his dignity.
Two minutes later she had discov-
cred him. Her first thought was to
walk away, but she did not propose
to let Joe Kidder think she was afraid
to face him; therefore she began to
hum a tune as the berries fell into
the dish.
It was an awkward, embarrassing
situation for both. Each was dying
to make up, but just how to begin
proceedings was the puzzle.
A poor, innocent rabbit solved the
difficulty. He was hidden under the
raspberry bushes, and when Miss Kate
got too close to him he bolted. The
noise caused the girl to scream out.
Joe rushed to the fence.
What is it, Kate-whst is it," ..s; b
She pointed to the rabbit lopinS
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Stumpfng around the place first rate.
ing along down to the pond like a
rubber ball fred out of a cannon.
soused in and struck out for the
swampy part where the big and sassy
frogs lived, and where no man could
get, while Uncle ST just stood and
stared after him with bulging eyes
and open mouth.
Joshua's gone crazy!' said he.
The strain has been too much for
Joshua, and he's lost his mind!'
And that's the way it looked, too,
but it wasn't SO, as Uncle ST discov-
cred when Joshua came sailing back
by and by, having in tow frog al
most as big as himself with the fan
nel-baited hook in it's jaw!
Joshua had made up his mind that
he'd had about enough of the sass of
those frogs out in the swamp, and had
rigged himself up with hook and
line, swum out and flashed the flannel
under the noses of some of 'em,
hooked one and lugged it home. He
brought in twenty-nine that after
noon.
There were pickerel in that pond,
think told you. I should say there
was!
"One day Joshua was returning
from a frogging excursion to the
swamp, fetching in a prize, and when
it was half way home Uncle ST saw a
big splash in the water in his wake,
and saw Joshua give tremendous
hump to himself. He came right on,
though, and landed his catch; but his
left leg was off at the knee.
Zone of those pickerel had fastened
on as much of Joshua as it could get
into it's mouth and tack it along.
Uncle ST was a handy man, and as
soon as he saw what allied Joshua he
cut stick off of a tree and fastened
it on to the frog as a wooden leg. The
wound healed up, the skin grew down
over the wooden leg, and in a few
days Joshua was stumping around the
place first rate:
His swimming days were over,
though, and with them his usefulness
as frog catcher was gone, although,
unfortunately, Joshua did not think
SO himself. and one day Uncle ST al
most fell in faint when he saw that
frog seated on a big slab and padding
over toward the swamp, his frog
tackle with him, and his wooden leg
sticking out in front of him like a
veteran of the wars =
'somethin' will happen to that un-
compromisin' frog VT, sure as settin'
hens!' said Uncle 81, soon as he could
catch his breath. ri :,.<@ H.. i !
= He was right. Day after day for q
week Uncle 81 gazed out over the
pond toward the swamp, watching for
Joshua, but Joshua never came back.
"'I knowed them aggravatin' frogs
over there was p'tson mean, said I'm
Gle 81, at last b but who d "a =, thunk
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
The Woman Across the Sea.

O, her lips were red and her skin was
brown,
This woman across the sea; =
And her hair a glistening, sable CROWN.
This woman across the sea;
And she loved man, aye, she loved s.
AS only a true Mestiza can,
But the frOwn of fate was on her plan.
This woman across the sea.
O, the: days were long that he called her =
sweet,
This woman across the sea;
And she loved the dust at his very feet :
This woman across the sea;
For his skin was fair and his eyes were :
gray,
And ne laughed in his careless, soldierS.
And told her tales, as soldiers may,
This woman across the sea.
No priest came there to bless her love-.
This woman across the sea:
She thought him true as the stars above,
This woman across the sea:
But he went away and she waited long,
And crooned to his child a mother-song.
And worked and toiled and thought no.
This woman across the sea;
O, the man she loved forgot her name,s-
This woman across the sea;
Forgot her face, forgot her shame,
This woman across the sea;
kind
He's bound to her with ties that bind
So he laughs at the one that he left be-
hind,
This woman across the. sea.
Robert v. Carr, in St. Paul Dispatch.
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1mqI ZRUF NIT :MZ0
pA@ N00k2yZEH J 2 e
6\.~>1 HZ4ZE or Old 5zZAEW
0@@ By M7T ILYkNJ

The Hon. Lafe, Gleason of Delhi,
head helper of Senate Clerk Whipple
and dispenser in chief of Republican
spellbtnders in New York, had in his
budget of Delaware county wonders
on his last visit to the Amen Corner
at the Fifth Avenue hotel nothing
that he thought so much of as the
news of the cutting down along the
headwaters of the Delaware some
where Of a willow tree eight feet in
diameter which had gone hollow at
the butt and stood as menace to all
who might pass that way.
And the wonder of that tree was"
said he, that it had grown from
stick raftman cut sixty years ago
from willow tree fifty miles down
the river and used as cane to aid
him on his homeward trip to Della
ware county on foot, and which on
his arrival there, he stuck in the rich,
soft soil on the margin Of the river.
There, as it is well known that
willow cuttings will do, it took root
and thrived and became the mammoth
tree now no more. Next to Billy Leary
the willow tree beats all for catching
On spf thriving" added the. Hon,
Don't / know it," remarked Col.
Jim Jones, in mournful memory Of
whom the fishes at the Aquarium
still keep the water salt with their
tears. Don't know it? And the
tannin in. willows! 1t would knock
hemlock out of the market for making
leather, if there was only enough will
lows. Let me tell you something
There were pickerel in marshy
pond up in old Steuben and frogs!
My, my! what frogs.
But the biggest Of these big frogs
lived in collection of sloshy bogs
where it was impossible for anyone to
get at them, much to the aggravation
of all who went frogging in that pond,
and particularly to Uncle ST Stevens,
a robust and honest citizen who lived
near one side of the pond and loved
to gather frogs.
Zone day he caught a pollywog of
dMdZAu5 o1LC, "AANA " as Ju0t pu%IAu6
on the finishing touches to make it a
full frog, and somehow the idea struck
him to take it home and see what It
would develop into. He put it in his
spring, and as it grew he made a pet
of it.
1T got so it knew ST as well as If
he was frog, too, and ST found that
ne could teach it tricks. 1t under
stood everything Uncle 81 said. and
used to 60 with him to the pond when
he went frogging, hopping along at
his side like kangaroo.
"Uncle ST used in his frog-fshing a
piece of red flannel tied to hook,
and his pet frog would sit and watch
him fit it under the noses of wild
frogs and split it's mouth from shoul-
der to shoulder when ST would haul
one in, just as if it was laughing at
the fun.
Zone day the frogs out on those
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Author Made His Own Terms.

In Partisan literary circles they are
telling new story about Eugene Sue
and the queer way in which he used
to bargain over his serial rights. His
mysteries of Paris had just ap-
peared and Sue was the man of the
moment. To him went the editor of
the Constitutional, then one of the
leading French papers, for the pur.
pose of securing the rights as a serial
of whatever new work he had in
hand.
Il shall want $4,000 for it," replied
Sue, payable today"
The editor said he was willing to
pay it, and produced his check book.
Hold on" cried Sue, there is one
condition. understand that you have
the smartest carriage and pair in
Paris. stipulate that you shall send
them every day to my house to bring
me my proofs and fetch my copy"
Though the request was rather an
odd one the editor agreed to it, and,
as the work which he thus obtained
was 'The Wandering Jew" he prob.
ably never repented of his bargain.
Method in Her Madness.
II understand" said the widow to
the maid whose years were rather
more certain than otherwise, that
you are candidate for the Office of
village mayor. What is the salary?"
"Oh," replied the fair candidate.
there is no salary at all: but the
mayor has the authority to advertise
for proposals, you see, and"
"Yes," interrupted the widow, Il
think see''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
81 BERNLCE CHASE

Supper at the old red farm house
where farmer Peter Wheeler and his
wife had lived for score of years
had been over for half an hour.
The gray-haired husband sat smok-
ing his pipe under the cherry tree at
the corner of the house, when Aunt
Jane, his wife, came out to take a
seat on the home made bench beside
him.
"Look-a-here, ma" said Uncle Pc
ter, as he looked out across the gar
den, 1--WE been wondering what's the
matter with Kate. She hasn't been
tall like herself for the past month"
Kate was their 18-year-old daughter
and there were plenty of people who
called her the belle of 1ngham town
ship.
"She got cold and had rash break
out on her, you know" was the reply,
but there's nothin' to be scarf over.
I think these hot days make her sort
O. stupid, too."
It's the first I've heard about a
rash. Kate amt no baby to be hevin'
rashes. tell ye, ma, that gals got
sunthin' on her mind"
"poohi Peoh!''t
Wall, I believe it. She used to be
singin' and whistlin' and cuttin' up
from morn till night, and now she's as
dumpy as a sick lamb. Yes, sir, sun.
thin's worryin' her, and I'm jest goin'
to find out what it is.''
You are jest goin' to let things
alone and not go pokin' around" said
Aunt Jane.
Then tell me what's the matter. l
was thinkin' to-day that Joe Kidder
hadn't been over here for-for-why,
> ma, it must be month since he was
here. Has she and Joe had a spat?"
"All lovers have spats. Didn't you'n
me get mad dozen times over? II
Joe Kidder wants to stay away, no
ones goin' to lasso and drag him over
here"
Il was down in the back field to-day
where he was workin, and l thought
he was purity grumpy. If I'd known
what do know, I'd told him what was
what. He's good 'nuff feller, and
would probably make Kate a good
husband; but he mustn't be growlin'
around like a sore-headed bear. I'll
make it my business to-"
ITO attend to your business, pa, and
that is to keep still and say nuthin'
to nobody but me. When a gals
mother don't know how to carry her
through little spat with her lover,
no one else need try. I forbid you to
say one word to any livin' SOUL"
But I'm her father" protested Un-
Gle Pete, waving his pipe around un-
til the tobacco fell out.
"And that's just the reason you
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
cross the clover field, and Joe con

across the clover field, and Joe con
tinued: Ri: ~ - ~, l., Z, :"
IT didn't know but. what it. was q
black snake. l saw one on this side
yesterday, and-and---" * t-r:G +.
He mounted the rails, but as he
reached the top he paused. Didn't
dignity require something Of him
Wasn't he going ahead too fast?
81 don't think there are any snakes
here" remarked Kate. with her back
to him, "but--"> ~5. =
She waited there and Joe waited,
and by and by a happy inspiration
came to him.
But might help you pick rasp.
berries for support"
'Yeyes." -
An hour later Aunt Jane saw hap.
py pair of lovers approaching, her ba'
sin Of berries borne aloft, and as she
looked from them to Uncle Pete,
working in the garden, she said:
'"The idea of pa mixin' himself up
in lovers quarrel! He'd have sep
arated them forever. When he finds
Joe over here and sees Kate smilin
and gigglin' and that big dish of rasp
berries! Wall, it's a good thing
for Pa Wheeler that he's got me tC
look after him!"
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"Suddenly he made break for the
woodshed, where Uncle ST always
kept his lines and hooks with flannel
on 'em. Joshua went, humping into
the shed, and pretty soon came hump
ing out again.
He had one of Sis lines wound
around his body, just below his fore
legs: with foot or so streaming out
behind, that end having the hook and
the red flannel On it. He went bounc-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
Buildings Of Ancient Greece.

At the recent unveiling of a mural
tablet to the memory of the late Mr..
F. C. Penrose, F. r. S., in the crypt of
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Sir L.
Alma-Tadema remarked that Mr. Pen
roses accurate measurements revealed
how far the Greeks had gone beyond
the use of the straight line into com
prehension of the hidden curve. He
showed, for instance, that the lines
of the base Of the Parthenon were
curved in order to appear straight,
and that columns on the same plane
were made different in size in order
to create more perfect and harmoni-
Gus impression Of uniformity. It was
Mr.. Penrose who directed the strength
ening of the Parthenon after the earth
quake ef 1894 .5ss..s u. = " ~. II 4 ..1: .zsy
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there's a row of raspberry bushes,
amt there?"
"Yes, ma, and by tomorrow l can
pick a quart or more of berries for
supper. I'll take a dish tomorrow af-
ternoon and"
"You won't go within half a mile of
the spot!" exclaimed Aunt Jane, as
she vigorously trotted her foot. You
jest leave them raspberries to me, or
you get no supper tall. It seems to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1904-10-08
Exportatjon of Prunes.

The expectation of prunes from the
United States has grown very rapidly
in recent years, the total number OF
pounds exported in 1898, the first year
in which a record was made by the
bureau of statistics, being, in round
terms, 100000 pounds; in 1902, %,
100000; in 1903, 66,oo0,000 and in 1904
it will amount to about 74,0O0,00d
pounds, valued at about $3,5O0,0O0.