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days, relates how one man who. with his
spouse. had been adjudssd Nsvorthy OF
it, was seized with a secret Ncompunc-
ton in his mind when the words OF
the oath were reciteds to him. and de-
parted without the bacon Another
couple who had been awarded y the
fitch Were deprived Of it by the Judge
because they fell into q dispute as TO
how It should be dressed. One recreant
pair lost it because It was shown that
they had bribed two witnesses to swear
falsely that they had always lived hap
PLY together M
There were several candidates for the
fitch in the early part of the eight
eenth century. but it was seldom won.
Compliance with the strict letter Of the
conditions appears 10 have been more
rigidly insisted on in those days than
now. 4 man and his wife successfully
claimed it in 1863 but after that. accord
ing to Horace Wa1poIe, the custom was
Abandoned for a while. the lord of the
manor holding that the fitch had been
wrongfully claimed and that the occa-
sion was always productive OF idle
ness and riotings.'
Its revival in its modern form dates
back about a score of years when Dun
NOW discovered that there was morey
in it IL properly worked But local sta
tisties do not indicate that the pres
pect OF some day winning the fitch has
any effect in stimulating ularimony
among the skepticai inhabitants OF the
ancient town IN fact, claimants TO ii
from Duanow itself seldom come for
ward When everybody knows every
body II is { very difficult matter for aay
couple TO maintain that their married
life has been without a hitch
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A Half-and-Half Jury.

IN the center of q high platform, in
red robe and full bottomed wig. sits the
Judge. Close to him, on either side.
in little pews just big enough for them
to squeeze into, sit the couples who
claim to have solved the problem of
how to be happy though married. On
the judges right are installed the jury,
six OF whom are maidens and the other
half dozen bachelors. The pretty spin
sters are dressed in white and carry
big bouquets Of flowers behind which
they occasionally hide their giggles and
bushes. Suspended IN front Of the plat
form are the big fiitches OF bacon which
constitute the prizes, each adorned with
ribbons and rosettes
Both the claimants and the donor of
the fitch are represented by counsel in
the bob wigs and robes prescribed by the
etiquette that governs English law
courts The proceedings usually open
with a clamorous demand from those
occupying the rear seats that the better
placed half-crown folk shall take off
their hats, and sit down that a better
view may be obtained OF the proceed
ings. The counsel for the claimants
makes a speech, as humorous as he
knows how. in which he presents the
claims OF the first couple to be tried.
They themselves are LED to tell how they
have managed to I've together without
any Of tie jarring and wrangling that
impaTts variety to the lives OF most
married folk. Witnesses are summoned
TO substantiate their statements.
When the opposing counsel gets his
innings he tries to be funnier than the
man who holds a brief for welded bliss
and makes the most of the opportunities
afforded him by cross-examination. 1t
Is an ordeal which few married couples
wn11Id care 10 undergo for q whole drove
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Caused the Franco-Prussian War
Impressive Funeral For
the Son of Famous
Family.
Kaiser Headed Escort of
10000 Picked
Troops.

Berlin, July s.
~ Prince Leopold Of Hohenzol-
lern, the man who caused the
Franco-Prussian war, few pho
tograpfls existed Most of them.
too were uncommonly bad likenesses.
The accompanying picture, however is
really satisfactory portrait of the
famous member OF the German reign
ing family. who died the other day at
the age of siXty-nine. Prince Leopold
was buried with imposing military hon
ors, the Kaiser at the head OF 10 0Oo
picked troops of the Berlin garrison
lending martial splendor to the obse-
quies of the parsonage so intimately as
sociated with the great struggle Of 1870
1871.
1t was the selection of this Hohenzol-
lern prince by the Spanish cortes 10
I'LL the vacant throne at Madrid that
provoked Emperor Napoleon III to pro-
test and make such Representations TO
Germany that war became inevitable
But although this incident precipitated
the conflict. it is fact that Bismarck
had craftily adjusted European politics
go as TO make the struggle between
Prussia and the allied German states
with the last French empire practically
certain In any event.
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THE OLD HOME

An old lane. an old gate, an old house
by tree,
A wild wood, a wild brook-they will not
let me be;
In boyhood I knew them. and still they
cali TO me.
Down deep in my hearts core L hear
them. and my eyes
tearmists behold them beneath
the old-time skies,
Mid bee-boom and rose-bloom and
orchard lands arise.
I hear them: and heartsick with longing
is my soul
To walk there to dream there, beneath
the sky's blue bowl;
Around me, within me, the weary world
made whole.
To talk with tie wild brook of all the
long ago;
TO whisper the wood-wind of things we
used To know
When we were old companions. before
my hearz knew woe.
To walk with the morning and watch it's
rose unfold;
10 drowSe with the noontide lulled on its
heart of gold:
To lie with the nighttime and dream
the dreams of old.
TO tell to the old trees, and to each lis
tening leaf
The longing the yearn!ng. as in my boy
hood brief
The old hope the old love. would ease
my heart of grief
The old lane. the old gate, the old house
by the tree,
The wild wood. the wild brook-they viii
not let me be;
In boyhood 1 knew them. and still they
call to me.
Madison Cawein. in The Criterion.
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OF pigs transformed into bacon. The
judge in his summing up strives to
prove that he can be just as humorou
as the other fellows. Then the case is
given to the jury. They usually deliver
their verdict without leaving their seats.
1t is now generally given for the claim
ants whose merits have been pretty
well established by the grand jury s
investigation. The other couple-there
are seldom moro than two couples-are
tried in the same fashion and usually
with e similar result.
Then the happy couples. whose claims
that they have never Quarreled during
their welded lives no skeptic, II is pre-
sumed. can henceforth dispute, are es-
cortcd by sun-tanned and smock located
yeonen to an ancient pile of stones
where the Dunmow oath. as 1t hac
come down through the centuries, IS
administered to them.
Ycu shall swear by custom OF confess
sion,
That you ne'er made nuptial transgres-
sion
Nor since you were married man and
wife
BY household brawls or contentious
strife
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London. July 8.

London, July s.
7 has been usual for some years past
to hold the famous Dunmow fitch
trials on the first Monday in Au-
gust-August Bank> holiday-but be-
cause of the many counter attractions
that compete for public. patronage on
= that date the committee having the mat
ter in charge have decided that this
year the quaint old custom shall be
commemorated on July 19.
Married life spent without hitch,
Has its due reward In the Dunmow
fitch.
So runs the modern rendering of the
ancient couplet and some two' score
scouples have this year claimed that their
exemplary marital lives entities them
TO the CANNON OF bacon But the COM
1nittee's "grand jury" have decided that
samong all these applicants only two
couples have offered such proof of un-
interrupted conjugal felicity as justify
summoning them to a public trial From
this it may be inferred that the pre-
1iminary investigation is a rather stiff
lone.
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CHARACTER IN TYPEWRITING.

why did you fire Miss Smith," asked
the Boston agent OF the New York
representative OF a hide and leather
firm
I'VE didn't fire her" was the reply
But she has left
Yes: she got married. But how did
you know she had left?"
Il knew that the last ten letters | re
Ceived from this office were not written
by her said the Boston agent. IL
wasn't Miss Smiths typewriting. / could
tell her manuscript If I saw it at the
North Fole. But. then. there is nothing
strange about that You can tell any
body's typewriting if you make a study
of il. II has almost as much indi-
viduality as handwriting. Thr difference
lies chiefly in the manner of hitting the
keys. Almost every operator strikes
certain keys With particular force. while
others are noticeably sighted. Miss
Smith. for instance. expended most OK
her energy on "a e. I and r. The
rest Of the alphabet was treated Impair
italy. but jlst let her come 10 one of
those four letters and she hit it tre-
n.endous thump that made a doubly
heavy impression on the paper. l am
guilty Of the same trick myself. although
| vary the letters and take especial ven
geance on h, l. and n
This emphasis is purely unconscious.
1t may be due to some habit acquired
when learning to write. or to the posi-
ton of the letters on the keyboard nr
possibly to the attraction or repuision
OF certain letters for certain persons L
think the latter explanation entirely
plausible, because IL Is a fact that an
expert can read character from type
writing. Miss Smith for instance. was
amlabie and good looking. All operators
VINO pound d, y. L, and r exception
ally hard are amiable and good looking -
New Yorl. Press
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Eugene Richter. the veteran
Liberal statesman parltamentarfan and
orator has teen stricken With total
blindness in consequence Of long and
painful Illness. His enforced retirement
from public affairs ends an active polti-
cal career of over forty years, and re
moves from the arena of government
life perhaps the most picturesque figure
German politics has ever produced,
with the single exception of Bismarck
Richter will be sixty-seven years old
in July of this year. His chief claim to
fame as a politician is that OF having
been Rismarck's most implacable an
tagonist The Iron Chancellor always
feared Richter as an opponent in the
reichStag. and frequently admitted that
he was the ony enemy whose mette he
respected For decades Richter has held
unchallensed place as the most brilliant
parliamentary orator IN Germany.
lie has always been in opposition, and
although his party. or fraction it
is called in Germany-the ''Fresinnige
Volkspartei" G-iberal Peoples party
has dwindIcd 10 numerical impotence in
consequence of the rise of the social de-
mocracy, Richter's forceful personality
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The Dnuzss or Eikck Zkx1Z.
IT Zz6esP3csMxlAs Tent Winch
Oeats2ooo Spec k1ko7'e

In the far-ofr days of Henry III, it Is
said. the custom which IS thus COM
memorated had its origin: According to
the somewhat legendary story associat-
ed with it, a young man and a girl, in
the plain dress of the English yeomanry
of that period, presented themselves be-
fore the prior of Dunmow and asked his
blessing on their marriage
The prior, pleased with the youth 8
respectful tone and the blooming beauty
Of the bride, consented. AS the last
words of the blessing were spoken a
brawny servant OF the priory came
tranping past, carrying on his broad
shoulders heavy fitch of bacon.
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Bisrnarck's Old Foe Goes Blind

pire in 1871 He has been reelected con-
unuously ever since
Besides his parliamentary and party
activity, he has found time to write
copiously and TO edit the daily organ Of
his party. the F'resinnige Zeitung. pub
lished at Berlin Much of the reichstag-s
interest for the public Will be lost, now
that this picturesque figure has dis
appeared, and his bitterest antagonists
grieve that the sad fate of blindness
should have overtaken Richter at the
end OF his long and strenuous career.
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Nicknamed "The Rabbit"

Prince Leopold took active part in the
war which he thus brought about, and
served with the crown prince, later En-
peror Frederick Ill He was popularity
known In the army as 'tDas KarnickeT'
(the rabbit. a German colloquialism de-
noting any one who Starts things" The
prince at the time of his death held the
rank of lieutenant general in the Ger
man army. He was a brother OF King
Charles OF Roumania. and is also sur
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Kaiser WilheIm-is a supposed candi-
date for the throne Of independent Nor
way, and Of the future independent state
Of Hungary. Eitel Friedrich, the most
popular member of the kaiser'S set Of
boys, has been studying the Hungarian
language for four years, and report has
1t that il is with the object Of some day
landing on the throne OF the northern
half Of Emperor Francis Joseph's dis
affected dual monarchy.
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vived by three sons, one Of whom IS
Crown Prince Of Roumania (Kins
Charles being childless). and another.
Prince Karl Anton who Is returning
from Manchuria where be was German
military attache with the Japanese
army
Particular interest attaches at the
present moment to the career Of Prince
leopold, as another Honenzollern-
Prince Eitel Friedrich second son OF
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Brihed the Witnesses.

Some queer stories have been handed
down about claimants for this strange
suerdon of connubial bliss. One of them,
which might commend itself to less
scrupulous winners of the prize in these
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110w the Anclent Custom ofGY7nS q
Cannon Of Bacon toCoypke4s Who Ps,oye
That zHeyHune. .Hexer QDuSxeZedDvz1
TkeirHea1edLipssLyeSkizZC ChSeryed In
Quaint tEssexNZZ1qe,

rty upon it. 1t is for that reason,
rather than any desire TO encourage
matrimony and connubial felicity that
II keeps it up. 1t Is with the expecta-
ton Of being amused that most of the
spectators fork out their shiilings and
half-crowns and the trials are now con-
ducted with the idea or getting all the
fun possible out of them. But the sem
blance of judicial proceedings are fol-
lowed with farccal solemnity.
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Remember the Prior of Dunmow."

Take yonder fitch to mend your
wedding cheer. my children said the
kindly priest. "and remember the prior
of Dunmow.''
The seeming yeoman rose to his feet
with the bearing of a noble and haught-
lily shook out from beneath his coarse.
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Berlin, July 6.

Berlin, July 6.
" JIDESPREAD sorrow has been
AN caused throughout the
v Y Fa -hefland by the news that
Eugene Richter, the veteran
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~ oV. GEORGE H UTTER, Of
4 Rhode Island, is a Seventh
Day Baptist. and therefore on
the last day Of the week the
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The Dhurs0N Oath ~

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Newport daily independent., 1905-11-09
OFFICERS Ax1 DiaEc roRs.

GEO. w. DECKER, President. E. M. JOHNSON, Cas1ier.
 A. D. BAILEY, Vice Prest. JAS. L. JONES Asst Cashier THos J. GRAHAM Ed. P. SHoFFNER. J. T. HENDERSON, los M STATION DR. J. M JONES' I. $. STEPHENS.
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him to be a man with courage and backbone, who would impar- tially yet ccurageously uphold the law.
 In the past few years men of stamina and courage have been in demarM by the people, and their good work has been vindi- cated by endorsement and eleva- tion to higher trusts. And we feel safe in saying that ii MT. Erwin is elected he will make that type of official. He belongs to good Jackson county family, is of a pleasant and sociable turn of disposition, and, loyal Dem- ocrat, who will make a strong candidate.
Newport daily independent., 1905-11-09
Candidate for Postmaster.

The present mayor, J. w. Grubbs, on Wednesday began the circulation of a paper en- dorsing his candidacy for post master at Newport, to be pre- sented before the meeting of the Republican state committee at Little Rock in December. The endorsement of the committee will probably determine the ac- tion of the President.
 Mir. w. B. Empie, present postmaster. is not a candidate for reappointment and MT. Grubbs will probably have no opposition in his candidacy. This leaves him a free lance in. the fight for the bigger plums, the federal naarshalships, but it is generally understood that he will support H. L. Remnael for that position in the eastern dis tricJ.
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who have enjoyed many elegant social affairs under he,roof that is soon to be converted into office rooms.
 Until long past the midnight hour the dancers kept time to the splendid music furnished by the stringed orchestra.
 Those present were: H. G. Bum and wife, c. K. Stephens and wife and Marc Jacobson and wife; Misses Estelle Hand- ford, Della Bernstein, Jennie McCauley, Jamie Stephens, Ma bel Stayton, Hester and Jose .phine Phillips, Noreene Kinman, Mary Bailey, Zerlena Meyer, Lucille Baylor; Messrs. Jos. M. Berger,A. Arndt, Charles Car roll, F. |. Dunn, F. P. Skipwith, ,Alcorn Ferguson, Tom Hutson, James Blackwood, J. l.. Bevens, B. H. White, Sam Meyer, Sprigg Foushee, J. T. Ware, Ira Erwin, Will Magoffin, Tom billiard, J. o. Powell and Ed Sprigg.
Newport daily independent., 1905-11-09
Marriage licenses.

Harvey l.. Razor. Grand Glaize, and Fannie l.. Wilkinson, Bradford.
 Walter Ward and Mrs, Katie Tate, both of Oil Trough.
 T. Henderson, Dunnington, and Mrs. Lizzie McDearmon, Cushman.
 B. H. Matheny, Cord, and Rosa Crabtree, Shelbyville.
 Edward E. Jones and Ella Nicholson, both of Swifton.
 J. P. Tharpe and s. F. Fly tower, both of Kenyon.
 Marshall Townsend and John Ethel Tyler, both colored, of Newport.
 John Tucker, Paroquet, and Bertha Whitlock, Newport.
 E. D. Forehand and Ella Dicus, both colored, of Olyphant.
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S1OQ Reward, S1OO.

The reauers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive remedy now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re- quires a constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength 5y building up the constitution ana assisting nature in doing it's work. The proprietors have so much faith in it's curative pow CTS that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi- monials. Address
 F. J. CHENEY & Co.,,
 Toledo, o.
 Sold by all druggists.
 Take Halls Family Pills for
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Trustees Sale of Land.

Whereas, Fife Snelson and Richard Snelson, by their Deed of Trust, executed on the 18th day of January, 1903, duly recorded in Book Vol. 36 pages 275 and PIG of the records of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust of Jackson County, Arkansas, conveyed to A. w. Smith, Trustee. to secure the payment of certain notes executed by the said Fife Snelson and Richard Snelson to the Continental Gin Company, corporation organ ized under the laws of Delaware, the following described lands situated in Jackson unty, Ar kansas, ts-wit:
 An undivided half interest in and to all of the following described lands, to-wit: Lot No. four (4) of the northwest quarter of section eighteen f1s); lots No, four t4) and CD of the south west quarter of section @, and part of tot No. three (3) cf the northwest quarter of section seven % and parts of lots three (3) and (D of the southwest quarter of section six 6) described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of lot three {3) of the northwest quarter of section seven @, township eleven dD, north range three west, run west eight chains and ninety-five and one-haIf links, thence north nineteen chains and seventeen links, theme east eight chains and eighty-eight and one-half links. thence south nineteen chains and seventeen links to the point of beginning. containing 17.Os acres.
 Also beginning at the southeast corner of lot four of the southwest quarter of section six l0) township eleven 11), north range three t3) west, run thence west eight cha ms and eighty-elght and one-half links for point of beginning, thence run north twenty-one chains and eleven links. thence west eighty eight and one-haf links, thence south twanty-oDe chains and eleven links. thence east eight chains and eighty eight and one-half links to the point of beginning and containing 1875 acres of land, said last two tracts of land being described as divided by agreement between s. B. Fortenberry and Mary F. Sim mons All of the above described lands be'ng m township eleven GID, north range three (3) west and containing in the aggregate 16039 acres of land, more or less
 And whereas, on February 22 1904, the Con tinental Gin Company transferred and assigned all it's rights and title in said notes and aooVe described Deed of Trust to Wilrnans Bros.' and whereas on the 29th day of February, 1904, A. W. Smith having resigned Trustee. the under signed was by Wilmans Bros, substituted to act in his stead; an whereas, on the 29th day of February, 1904, Wilmans Bros assigned their rights and title in said notes and above men, toned mortgage to the Southern Cotton Oil Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey.
 And default having been made in the payment of said notes, at the request of the said Southern Cotton Oil Company, will, as such Trustee, on the
 PATH DAY or NOVEMBER, 1so5 between the hours of 10 a. m. and p. m ,at the front door of the court house. in the city of New port, Jackson County, Arkansas, SELL SAID LANDS to the highest bidder for cash in hand.
 JNO W. STATION, Trustee.
 Newport, Ark, Nov. 9: ls0s "Zt
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NAMED ANOTHER HUSBAND.
Bad Break of Woodruff County Spouse Who Sought to Marry Again
 in Another County.

A couple giving their names as J. w. Fry of Independence coun- ty and Miss" Ida McFarlin from White county, went to the office of County Clerk Arnold Tuesday morning and applied for a marriage license, says the Batesville Guard.
 When Mir. Arnold asked wheth- CT either of the parties had ever been married the woman replied that she had. MT. Arnold then asked whether she had been granted a divorce. and she re- piled in the negative, stating, however, that she had not seen her husband flor more than a year, which she seemed to think would make her marriage to- another legal. MT. Arnold refused to issue the license and warned the couple that they were about to break into the pen itentiary, and advised the woman to apply to the court for a di- vorce. The woman then asked if it would not be sufficient to go to another county and apply for a license, but was advised not to do so until she had secured a divorce. Mrs. McFarlin stated that her husband resides in Woodruff county.
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H. Patterson, lots 9 and F, block 4, Tupelo, Sl25.

H. Patterson, lots 9 and l2, block 4, Tupelo, Sl25.
 Samuel R. Phillips to Clara Neill Phillips, one-third lots l, 2, B, 4, 5, 6 and one-sixth of 7, 8, g, 10, Il, IF, block l, Browns Addition, Newport.
 Julia, Russell, guardian, to A. H. McFadden and Lee Moon, one-ffth interest lot 5 and one- half of lot 4, block 29, Swifton, $1OO.50
 Simeon H. Russell, guardian, to A. H. McFadden and Lee Moon, one-ifth interest in above lots, $160.50.
 s. H. Russell and wife to A. H. McFadden and Lee Moon, one-fifth interest in above lots, $8O.
 H. c. Green and wife to R. H. McFadden and wife, one-ffth interest in same lots, $80. J. B. Coffin and wife to Lee Moon, lot 12, block 29, Swifton, $40.
 Jacob w. Lutes to E. H. Man ley, 50 acres, 28-10-4, $25. Perry Lutes to E. L. Manley, 40 acres, 2S-1O-4, $20O. Martha A. Bleakley, guardian, to w. c. Bleakley, fve-sevenths interest 18-11-2. $429.
 Fannie E. Foushee to Adler Goldman Commission Co.,, 120 acres, 3 and 4-12-3, s1,000.
 R. w. and John Anderson to Fannie B. Foushee, tract in Jacksonport, S1.0O.
 R. w. Anderson and wife to to Adler-Goldman Commission Co.,, 12O acres, 3 and 4-12-3, $l.
 Zoa M.. Murphy to L.. D. Pippin, block 12, Grubbs, $25.
 T. J. Davis and wife to A. J. Cole, 80 acres, 28-1O-4, $45.
 A. J. Cole to J. w. Lutes, 80 acres, 28-1O-4, $50.
 c. West and wife to w. B. Hurley and wife, lot 6, block 3, Newport Land and Improvement Company's Addition, Newport. S1. .OO.