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Sharp County record., 1906-12-07
Early RecOllecti0ns.

Maj. Enoch O. Wolf of Frank
I'm, an old settler and Confeder-
ate veteran, is writing a series Of
EARLY Recollections" for the
Franklin Record.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07

DR.. H. E. Ruff, member of the
Legislature from Randolph coun-
'ty, is a candidate for speaker Of
the lower house. And there are
many others.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07

There will be one Republican
in the next Arkansas senate and
four Republicans in the lower
house. The Democratic counties
of Fulton and Stone will have
Republican representatives.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07

Michael Burke of Newark, Ohio,
aged 106 years, who had never
been ill a day in his life, died a
few days ago as the result of
being kicked by horse. This
only shows how unlucky some
folks are.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07
THE RECORD
BY CLAUDE l.. COGER.

Congress began it s annual
grind Monday. President Roose-
velt's message to that body is in
the Records supplement.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07

E. A. Randolph, convicted in
lizard county on the charge of
malicious mischief and fined $50,
has been pardoned by the gov
ernor.
Sharp County record., 1906-12-07
Death AT Melbourne.

Mrs. Florence Smith, wife of
DR.. Il. L.. Smith of Melbourne.
died last week of consumption.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
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1t is authoritatively stated that Rev
Thomas Dixon. Jr, of "Clansman"
fame, is writing a new novel. The
scenes of the novel are said to be IL
the State Of Louisiana, just preceding
the civil war.
Tn his new book, "The Wooing Of
Folly" James D. Ford will genially
satirize the vulgar rich Of New York
in a series Of sprightly letters. The
title has a double meaning, Folly being
lie name Of the heroine, as well as OF
the pleasures which she and her newly
rich family seek in the metropolis.
Truly humorous stories are very
scarce, and when an author appears
who has the true sense Of humOr the
public is quick to give him hearty
welcome. Such has been the expert
ence of Mr.. Ellis Parker Butler, the
author Of the little gem of humor,
pigs is Pigs" He is about to issue
another book through the house Of
Robert B. Turner & Co. containing
eight delightfully."- funny stories, emit
tied PERKINS Of Portland; Perkins
the Great"
Il am inclined to think that Pepys,
when it is all said, is the greatest of
the Londoners-a fuller, more intense
" alive Londoner than either Johnson
or Lamb says e. Y. Lucas in "A
Wanderer in London" perhaps he
wins his pre-eminence rather by his
Iittleness, for to be a Londoner in the
highest one must be rather trivial or at
least be interested in rriyialities. John
son was too serious, Lamb too magma
tive, to compete with this busy secre-
tary. Neither was such an epicure of
life, neither found the world fresh eV-
cry morning as he did. 1t is as the cpl
cure of life that he is so alluring. His
self-revelations are valuable in some
degree, and his picture of the times
makes him perhaps the finest under
study a historian ever had; but Pepy's
greatness lies in his appreciation Of
good things. He lived minute by min
ute, as wise men Go, and ne extracted
whatever honey was possible. Who else
has kept his mind so open, so alert?
Whenever Pepys found an odd quarter
of an hour he sang or strummed it
away with a glad heart. Sam
uel Pepys was a superb artist in liv-
ing. He was a man of Unsuitable m
quisitiveness; there was always some
thing he considered pretty to see.'"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

~ UTH WING generally thought
ISX LenOx fairly bearable.
lit vas built on the regulation
lines of a small Middle West town, wide,
lonesome looking streets, a few stores
set around indiscriminately a huddle
Of houses, then an expanse of vacant
lots, constant Illustrators of the West
ern thrift which leaves room for a
boom. even il thereby, in manner, it
has to tuck down its coat tails and sit
on its feet.
Here and there a big gabled, pOrti-
coed house reared itself from among its
humber neighbors. with something the
effect Of a store tooth inserted among
natures stubs in an ancient mouth.
When it was green, or when it was
white it wasn't so bad; but that even
ing, as Ruth stood on the wooden plat
form in front Of the store and looked
at the prospect, she made up her mind
It was unspeakable; the general mer-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

Some South African balloons ostra-
cize the aged among them, refusing to
help or feed them whenever they are
unable to do anything for themselves.
When hyenas plague lions by steal
ing pieces Of the prey, the lion will
throw chunks of meat toward them at
shorter and shorter distances, until
they get within reach of its paws and
are finished by a blow.
IN the Malay Archipelago is a reptile
much like the mythical dragon. 1t has
false ribs that extend the loose skin
and form its wings. There is also a
frog with spreading feet that make a
parachute, which enables it to fit from
tree to tree, and a flying Iemur that
can spread out its whole body like an
umbrella and leap and fly a hundred
feet at a time, from the top Of one tree
to another.
At the "call Of the wild" recently a
st. Bernard dog in a Lake Superior
lumber camp joined a wolf pack and
mated with one of their number. He
used to come into camp for food but
rs his mate would never venture within
gun shot, he carried a part of his meal
out to her. A bull terrier attacked
him near the camp, and he was getting
the worst of it when the she wolf ran
to his assistance, and between them
they nearly killed the terrier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

She began to grow interested IN spitB
of her distress. After a while a ST.
lence fell between them.
Mrs. Wing" he said abruptly.
She jumped nervously, then waited.
do you really think it would be
such dreadful thing for Ruth to mar
~ me?"
Mrs. Wings face was both perplexed
and anxious. Why should they keep
thrusting this thing on her for deciS-
ion?
81 suppose am a selfish, fearful old
body" she said finally. Maybe you
will do better by Ruth than 1 can.
can't do anything but just be good to
her. You can give her a great many
beautiful things to enjoy, and they are
beautiful; when a body has just
starved for them all their lives, they
know how beautiful. They won't
amount to anything, though, if you
aren't good"
There was a tremulous appeal in her
voice.
The young man took her hand rever-
emily.
Il will try" he said solemnly, Ito be
good"
There was another little pause, then
Mrs. Wing continued hesitatingly:
Il can't say yet 1 am willing. Still,
if Ruth wants to risk it, 1 don't sup
pose ought to interfere, do you?"
81 think you might leave it to Ruth.
She is a very sensible girl, Mr.. vii
lard answered gravely.
Then he leaned over and kissed his
prospective mother-in-law on her soft,
pink cheek with a right good will
The Housewife.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

chandise" sign above her occasionally
f,rted extra drops of water down her
neck as she struggled with her UNI
brella. Behind her she knew every
thread in the patterns of the ginghams
and wool goods in the right hand win
dow, while the cut plug tobacco, dried
herring, box Of oranges and peck Of
onions in the other window were equal
" familiar.
The STOW had melted off, leaving the
winters accumulation of debris scat
tered over the black, puddly surface Of
the earth. There was a depressing driz-
zle, through which the Jagged outlines
Of the houses Ioomed blackly against
the murky sky.
Ruth stepped gingerly down on to
the sloppy sidewalk, her skirts held
high. and her straight little nose tilted
quite out Of its ordinary angle. In
spite Of it al, though, her brown eyes
sparkled. and there was a hint of a
smile ON her pretty, firm lips. She
walked as rapidly as she could under
the circumstances down the muddy
streets. and with 4 sigh Of relief clicked
the gate shut behind her.
The low browed little house beyond
the gate looked as sullen as any Of
them. but the light flashed up just then.
and her mother OpeneJ the door
Bless her dear heart!" she said.
In Il gentle. soIicitous voice, ''if she isn't
Just completely mired down. Here's
your slippers an wrapper an every
thing to get right into"
Ruth slipped out of her muddy
clothes and into the soft, clean wrapper,
with 4 little gurgle Of satisfaction.
"Oh." she exclaimed, how good and
respectable / feel"
Mrs. Wing picked UP the discarded
heap.
"How dreadfuny they do smell Of to-
bacc0 smoke. Ruthie deaT." she said,
with as much of a sniff as her mild
voice was capable of.
I'll expect So" Ruth answered. with
a little laugh II believe half the farm
ers I'D the county came in and sat
around the stove visiting. The smoke
was so thick sometimes. you couldn't
tell who they were; ana l couldn't even
stay up 1T my end of the store. jim
has the grippe and wasn't there to-day,
So / had to go oven and help on the
grocery side. There wasn't a very big
dry goods trade, anyway; two spOols Of
thread and some dress Innings. Oh,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
ONE LANGUAGE FOR ALL.
1t Requires More than one Tongue
for the Worlds Sneech

1t Requires More than One Tongue
for the Worlds Speech.
No living language can become to-
day the vehicle of intercourse for the
whole civilized world, and it is absurd
to look for such a thing, says Nc
Cures. The acceptance of any Ian
guage, were it English or French or
Spanish, German or Dutch, Russian
Or japanese, would Immediately not
only crush the pride Of the other ma
lions but would give to the favored
people such an enormous advantage in
the central of the political world and
such unreasonable preference in the
worlds market that no healthy nation
would consent to it before its down
fall
For that reason the
chances were never worse; the spirit
Of strenuous, yet friendly, rivalry be
tween the nations IN the markets Of
the world was never more wide awake,
and the feeling of national honor was
never purer and nObler. The more tho
hopes for international arbitration be-
come realized, the more all nations Of
the world become sincere friends; the
more they are eager and ought to be
eager tC keep clear their own individu-
ality, together with their own rights
and duties, their own successes and
responsibilities. Andrew Carnegie's lib
erality may build a palace in The
Hague IN which a concert of the most
enlightened nations speaks justice
through its tribunal. But Andrew Car
negie has not the power to elevate his
simplif1ed spelling board in Madison
avenue to the height Of a tribunal far
superior to any Hague court a tri-
bunal which shall decide that English
ought to become the one international
language, because the English-speaking
nations have "the most progressive civ
ilization"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
CHARM OF THE czARINA.
She Is a Beautiful Woman With
Winning Majesty of Presence.

She Is a Beautiful Woman With
Winning Majesty of Presence.
The general appearance Of the
Czarina may be fairly well known in
this country, although fewer pictures
have been published of her than any
other crowned head. But no picture
that l had seen gave any idea of how
she really looks seen thus face to face.
Perhaps this may be for the reason that
much of her beauty comes frt a ex-
quisite coloring and that there is about
her a subtle charm impossible to pie
ture and difficult to describe
She is very tall and very slender,
vet most finely proportioned Her
features are almost Greek in their reg
ularity and the natural expression Of
her face struck me at once as a sing
ularly wistful and sweet sadness that
never went quite away even when she
smiled Her hair is strikingly beau
tiful and Iuxuriant, long, heavy, glossy
and brown-gold in color. Her eyes are
large, soft, Iustrous gray-blue, with long
lashcs, and l painted them cast down,
as they nearly always are, for she is
shy and hardly ever looks up without
a blush.
Yet with all the Czarina's bIushing
shyness her bearing impressed me with
a sense of something much deeper and
graver than mere admiration for
beautiful, graceful woman. It Is diff
cult to define just what this impression
was, but it may be termed majesty,
for lack of a subtler term, and the feel
ing of it increased during the entire
time that / was privileged to enter her
presence, although no one could have
been kinder OF. more simple in all that
She said and did.-Century Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
VILLAGES BURIED IN SAND.
Winds Work Great Havoc Along
the Shore OF North Carolina.

Winds Work Great Havoc Along
the Shore OF North Carolina.
The prevailing winds from a little
west of south have rippled the hetero-
geneous sands on Hatteras, just south
Of the cape; on ShackelfOrd, at its
southwest extremity, and on the south
west side of Smiths island. These
wind ripples, started in sands exposed
by the removal Of a strip Of forest next
the shore, have grown in size to great
sand waves, which are advancing on
forests, fields and homes. AS the sand
wave has advanced it has taken up
several feet Of the loose soil over which
it has passed, undermining houses, lay
ing bare the roots of dead trees and ex-
posing the bones Of the dead in the
cemeteries.
Diurnal winds from the sea have
piled the sands into small, wandering
dunes and hiIlOcks and even sometimes
into sand waves, which are marching
steadily and shOaIing the waters of the
sounds. At Nag's Head a large hotel,
constituting a solid obstruction, soon
had a sand wave built up a short dis
lance in it's rear, until the level Of its
roof was reached, when the wave
moved forward and engulfed the hotel.
In the immediate neighborhOOd two
cottages suffered a similar fate. Here
the land gained on the sound $50 feet
in ten years.
On the northern end of Hatteras ISL
and a fishing village had been similarly
buried, while the sand had entirely
crossed the island at several places
north of the cape. This movement OF
the sand was started just after the
civil war by the cutting Of trees next
the shore for ship timbers, and the
section is still known as the great
woods, though not a stick Of timber
stands upon it to-day. Pimlico sOund
for two miles from the Hatteras shore
is growing steadily shallower from the
deposit Of brown sand.
On Smiths island a pilots village
has been buried beneath the sand wave
for a number Of years, but this has
been recently resurrected and its houses
are again occupied. On Currituck, be-
low Caffey's inlet life-saving station,
the sand has advanced entirely across
the land, and one man, moving before
the advancing sand, has at last built
his house on. piles in the sand.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
RemodeIed.

After being injured by a bull Of pc
culiarly savage temper, John Wesson
was under q doctors care for a con
siderable time, and thereby incurred
a heavy bill for medical attendance.
When he was almost we'll one of his
old friends who had called upon him
said he congratulated him on looking
SO well after such a long illness.
Looking well" echoed John. Il
should be looking we'll There's one
hundred and fifty dollars spent in re-
pairs on me lately, and I'm not fin
ished yetw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
CHANGE FOR MosLEM GIRLS.
Educational Advantages offered in
Turkey Signs of an. Awakening.

Educational Advantages offered in
Turkey Signs of an. Awakening.
In Turkey there are 800 schools in
which girls receive education. There
are forty secondary schools having B.
600 girls on their rolls. The learning
Of koran is compulsory and arithmetic,
geography and elementary science are
taught. Teaching has now become a
respectable profession and young wom-
en-. after passing the normal eXamina-
tons. elect to become addresses in dis
tant parts of the empire
Those who are in a position to prose
cute their studies to the highest stand
ard learn the French, English and Ger
man languages, which they speak fluent
". In Constantinople young women
o. nm for the medical profession and
there are more than 500 nurses at the
present day. Female education is not
an innovation among the Mohammedans
of the present day.
Arab and Moorish women IN their
palmy days, when their European sis
ters were STEPPED in ignorance, would
deliver sermons and would profess in
colleges and schools. The present de
pIorabIe position. of the Mohammedan
females Is due to the general degrada-
t.on Of the nation. An awakening is
now taking place in some parts Of the
Mobammedan world and the day may
possibly dawn again when the stain of
ignorance may be wiped off from the
NTohammedan women of this country
with the help of government.-Calcutta
Country and People.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
PROUD OF AN INDIAN STRAIN.

Many Families of This Country Are
of Real American Blood.
At the jamestown tercentennial in
1907 there is to be a gathering of the
descendants of Pocahontas. This will
probably not be a very large company,
but it will be eminently respectable,
and in these days when the Indian is
dropping his tribal affiliations and be-
coming a citizen it will stand for some
thing. POcahontas married John Rolfe
and they had one son. From this son,
Thomas ROlfe, sprang all the PocahOn-
tans who will gather at jamestown
next year.
Socially there has never been any
race prejudice in this country against
the Indian like that which has shut
out the negro. The Spaniards and the
French in the early days on the CONT
nent intermarried with the Indians
freely and the Canadians in the case
Of the French and the Mexicans in
that Of the Spaniards have been the
outcome The intermiXture between
the Spaniards and the red men eX-
tended through Central and South
America as well as through that part
Of North America in which Spanish as
tendency once asserted itself. But
among the English and among the in
habitants Of the United States the mix
ing of blood has always been far less
than it was with the Spanish and
French residents Of the continent
Even among the so-called Anglo
Saxons intermarriages with the aborig-
ines have been more numerous than is
popularity supposed. Much more than
half of the $1,000 Indians, actual and
constructive, in the five civilized tribes
are a mixture Of the white and red
races. More than 1000 Of those theO-
retical Indians are white persons who
have been adopted into the tribes.
Probably the transformation Of the
$4,000 existing Indians into citizens
may increase the mixture of the races
to some extent. Those Indians who
are taking up the white mans burden
are averaging pretty well up to the lev
81 Of the white immigrants, and some of
them are above that level. They are
found in almost every walk Of life.
The members Of the five tribes Of the
Indian territory have been governing
themselves for two thirds Of a century
and are fairly we'll able to hold their
own in any test with the average
whites of any community. John Ran
doIph expressed pride in his descent
from Pocahontas and there are many
white men Of high standing in the west
who are proud of a similar lineage
st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
FAR AWAY.

The old home, home away
the cellar the apples in the bin
The paths we to games o play,
The loads OF smelly that trundled in;
The beyond the orchard the path wall,
nOdding daisies, the fields thOusandeyed
The memory yesterdays the birds that to CALL
And another memory-the little girl who died.
blue eyes; oh, true oh, maid of long
a little fellow, loved / loved true;
just a schOolboy fancy, anyone would tell
I you smiling just the used to do
And m and
dusty twisy highway the little country school,
mockng their colOrs
maple bending their shadows the
Oh, ID, girl Oh girl Of
years many years o. gadne years rue
1 was IS 4 little fellow. but loved loved you
can smiling they o
d Bingham aprons and in starcIy pnafore
no a sweetheart O
Some he apples days yore
0 sometimes, say:
Houston
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
The Long-sunering.

Il am going to learn to play on
horn"
Gee! You must have a wonderful
belief in the patience of your neigh
bors."-HoustOn Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26
simply out of the question.

sufferer-Well, what is the matter
with me, doctor?
Physician ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tbs.
sufferer (horrifed) Nonsense, doc
tor! You don't know what you are
talking about! I can't afford to have
aDpendicitis.- Someryille Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

It is a test Of good housekeeper if
she can light a lamp, and the house
doesn't Immediately begin to smell Of
kerosene.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-26

Trains of thought have many head
on collisions.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1906-12-07
NEWSPAPER PLANT ON CARS
Daily II Issued from q Special Sent
Out by Indian Territory
,nss. Citizens. :.

Tulsa, I. T.--What to do with hum
dred million cubic feet OF natural gas,
hundreds Of acres OF undeyeloped coal
fields, and other resources has been .
problem for Tulsa to solve.
At meeting recently held hundred
men volunteered to make an advertis-
ing trip through several states In the
east and assist in the colonization Of tbis
rapidly developing country. and for that
purpose have chartered a special train
and In a few days will invade the crowd
cd districts of the United States.
An entire train OF sleepers and parior
cars has been secured. This train will
carry the party through Illinois. Indiana,
Ohio. Iowa and Missouri.
A baggage car has been fitted up AZ
newspaper office, and for the first time
in the history Of newspaperdom daily
paper will be issued on train. Each
town or city visited will get an edition Of
the Daily Record, which will be filled
with information OF the country 1t rep
resents besides furnishing information
a. to the cause OF the trip.
A brass band OF 80 pieces will be with
the train. and In an ordinary day coach.
with seats removed. will be an exhibit OF
the natural resouoes Of the country sur
rounding Tulsa.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1906-12-07

Tom L. johnson, Cleveland, o., Mayor,
Predicts q Journey on Electric
sv Toboggan Slide.

Cleveland. O.-Mayor Tom l.. John.
son told OF rapid transit In the future
as he believed It would be to the mem.
pers or the Cleveland Civil Engineers
club At their annual banquet. He pre-.
dscted trip from Chicago to New
YORK over sort Of toboggan slide
electric railroad in two hours. II has
long been an open secret that the mag
istrate has been ambitious to perfect
device for annihilating time In rapid
transit. For several years he has been
working on the hobby along strictly
original lines until at last he has
reached q place in his plans where
he ventures a hint az to the method
OF the invention.
The engineers work." the mayor
said. "is one OF the essentials OF mod.
em life. That is, we could not do
without him. For instance. do you
think that we will be satisfied with a
2O-hour schedule between New York
and Chicago! BY no means. Although
wheels and track will not allow
speed OF more than 200 miles an hour.
believe that many OF you In this
room will see the time when two
hours and better between the two
cities will be commonplace. That will
be less than half the speed of a can
non ball. 1t can and will be done
much quicker than you think.
III we can control electricity and
make 1t do the work along a straight
line that 1t does now In circle when
used In what is known as a motor, we
have the problem solved. And 1t Is far
easier than we have heretofore
thought. Then people would be shot
across the continent in sort of shut
tie on slide rails. something like
loboggan slide drawn by magnets. II
10 an early event OF the future"
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1906-12-07
Lack Religious Care,

A daily paper is responsible for tho
statement that single county In Ne
vada. covering 10000 square miller, has
nowhere within Its borders even mis-
sion hall In which the Gospel IL
preached, and yet II has population
OF several thousand people.