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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
transcripts Filed.

The transcripts in the following
cases have been filed with the SUI
preme Court:
Mrs. Callie Woodruff against the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
Railway Company, on appeal from the
Clark County Circuit Court, in which
suit is brought for $1,000 damages for
personal injury, which the plaintiff
claims she sustained in being elected
from one OF the defendants trains.
Ed Hunter against the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
Company. on appeal from the Clark
County Circuit Court. in which suit
is brought for 1880, also for person
al injuries.
w. w. earned against the same rail-
road, on appeal from the same court,
in which suit in brought for $4,000
for alleged personal injuries.
E.E. Muse against ]. w. Jourdan, on
appeal from the Garland County Cir
cult Court in which suit is brought to
enforce a Judgment for $2,321.84.
City of Helena against c. c. Miller
and George Etoch, on appeal from the
Phillips County Circuit Court, in which
defendants are charged with carrying
on a hotel business without paying
the license.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
TO UNEARTH MEMPHIS.

Memphis, on the Nile, one of the
greatest capitals of the ancient
world, is buried beneath the ground
which is now under cultivation by
the villagers of Mitrahineh, who will
have to be transferred to other plots
and will be compensated before the
contemplated work of excavation
can proceed very far. 1t is estimat-
ed that an expenditure of about 49,
600 annually for Is years will be re-
quired to excavate the temple sites,
apart from the city. The unearthing
of Memphis, which contained the
finest school Of Egyptian art, will
be by far the greatest archaeological
work Of recent times and must re-
suit in vast addition to the worlds
knowledge Of ancient Egyptian his
tory and civilization. The work will
soon be begun by Prof. Petrie, head
of the British School of Archaeolo-
gy in Egypt.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Fix Blame for EIectrocution.

In police court Wednesday after
noon the Little Rock Railway and
Electric Company and the Little Rock
Telephone and Telegraph Company
were tried for violating the ordinance
relating to the proper insulation OF
electric wires, and the manner OF
stringing them The alleged violation
was in connection with the killing OF
a negro who was electrocuted at FIJI
teenth and Louisiana streets a short
time ago by taking hold of guy wire
from one of the telephone company S
poles, which was charged with a cur
rent of electricity. The guy wire was
in contact with an electric light wire
belonging to the Little Rock Railway
and Electric Company and the insula'
ton on the light wire had been worn
away. Police Judge Ratterree held
that the telephone company had
placed it's guy wire there first and that
the electric light wire, which had been
placed there later, was placed toe
close to the guy wire. He fined the
Little Rock Railway and Electric
Company $25 and discharged the tele
phone company
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
BAD ITCHING HUMOR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw
Feet SwolIen-Sleep Broken
Cured in Days by Cuticura.

Some two months ago | had a hu
NOR break out on my limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak, all red, and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were SO swollen that l could not get
my shoes on for a week or more.
used five or six different remedies and
got no help, only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the suf-
fering was intense and during that
time 1 did not sleep an hour at time.
Then one morning l tried bit of
Cuticura. From the moment it touched
me the itching was gone and l have
not felt bit of it since. The swelling
went Gown and in two days | had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley, SO South State ST..
Concord, N. H., May IA. 1907"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
"HeIpfuI Hints" That Hinder.

Many of the helpful hints" followed
by our mothers are now proved utterly
helpful. For instance, no one now
uses moist tea leaves to clean a carpet
or rug, because Of the inevitable STAIN
ing. And salt used on carpet col
lects dampness and rusts the tacks.
Newspapers, dampened and torn. an
swer the purpose much more satisfac-
torily. Rugs sh Ould be shaken from
the sides, for the strain of the weight
on the end is very apt to loosen the
welt
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
State Capital Notes
Violation of the Drug Laws Found.

Violation of the Drug Laws Found.
Dr. Lewis arrest, was the first re-
store at 613 East Second street, was
fined 500 and costs by Judge Ratter-
rec in Police Court Saturday on the
charge of selling cocaine to drug
fiends, in violation of the law relating
to the sale of cocaine. Information
charging violations in four separate
cases were filed against him and the
fine assessed Saturday morning was
on one count only. The other three
cases have have been continued in
definitely. The law provides that in
case a physician or pharmacist is con-
victed of violating the cocaine law his
license may be revoked. Police Judge
Ratterree did not include that in his
sentence The fine has been paid.
Dr. Lewis arrest, was the first re-
suit of a crusade begun by the prose-
cutting attorneys Office and w. b.
Brooks, city attorney, to put stop
to the intemperant use and sale of
cocaine, morphine and other poison
Gus drugs. Mr. Brooks was one of
the first to take up the work, but the
prosecuting attorney, Lewis Rhoton,
and his first deputy, T. E. Helm, have
taken the matter up and are going to
prosecute it vigorously.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
KNEW WHAT THE JOB MEANT.
Angry Citizen Put Ordeal Up to street
Car Company.

Not long ago there entered the ONCE
of the superintendent of trolley hne
in Detroit an angry citizen, demand
ing Justice" in no uncertain terms,
In response to the officials gentle
inquiry touching the cause OF the oe,
mand, the angry citizen explained
that on the day previous as his wire
was boarding one of the company
cars, the conductor thereon nao
stepped on his spouse's dress tearing
from it more than a yard OF material
81 can't see that we are to olame
for that" protested the superintendent
"Wbat do you expect us to do, get her
a new dress?"
mo, sir, 1 do not" rejoined the
angry citizen, brandishing piece OF
cloth. What l propose is that you
people shall match this materiai.
Harper's Weekly.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Three Swimmers Cross the River.

Athletes, with time hanging heavy
on their hands, are devotlng spare
moments while the river is high 70
breasting the currents, and Thursday
the river was swum three times.
C. A. Bigney, who, after Ed Raj
sure had attempted the feat and fall-
ed Wednesday afternoon, announced
that he would swim the channel, made
his attempt shortly after O'Clock
Thursday afternoon, and was success
full He entered the water near the
power station, at the Iron Mountain
railroad bridge, accompanied by
skiff, in which was George Dale,
fisherman. Bigney had no difficulty
until he reached the second pier OF
the free bridge, the point where Raj
sure had been drawn under on the
previous day At this place he was
caught between the stern of the skill
and a drift and, in order to free him.
self, forced to push against the boat
with his hands. He had hold of the
boat but a fraction Of a minute and
his action could scarcely be construed
as an attempt to rest.
Bigney landed in an eddy near the
Choctaw bridge and aside from being
thoroughly spent, showed no i'll effects
from his swim. He was in the water
just twelve minutes.
At $50 Thursday afternoon, A. I.
Pollard and Ray McWilliams, mem
bers of the Little Rock Athletic Asso-
citation, essayed the swim and made a
successful crossing, unassisted by the
boats that accompanied them. Both
entered the water at the north end OF
the Iron Mountain bridge, McWiliams
emerging from the boat house landing
at the foot of Main street, and Pollard
landing at the Rock street bridge.
They were accompanied by the gaso-
line launch Willywag and two skiffs.
McWilliams was eight minute smak'
ing the crossing and Pollard required
thirteen minutes.
Hundreds of people gathered on the
bridge to watch the swimmers.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04

In view of many inquiries as to the
number of people pardoned by the
chief executive in a year, data has
been secured from the secretary of
states office showing the pardoning
power has been exercised in about
500 cases in that time. Acting Gov
ernor X. O. Pindall, since taking the
governors Office, has pardOned 246
persons. Governor John S. Little
during the short time he was at the
head of the state, pardoned one per-
son; Acting Governor John Ike Moore
pardoned 80 and Acting Governor AL
len II. Hamiter, during the few days
he occupied the chair, pardoned IS. In
all 3O1 persons have been pardoned in
about a years time.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
DOING GOOD WORK In JAPAN
Success Attending Movement to Amel-
iorate the Condition of Fac
tory Employees.

japanese factory girls are employed
by the thousands under the most
calamitous conditions. They have
no opportunities for education and
the majority therefore can neither
read nor write. They are housed in
insanitary, crowded, and immoral
lodgings, with inducements to wrong
on every side. The most successful
attempt to better their lot has come
in a factory girls houle under the
control of a missionary board, but
originated and directed by Shiujiro
Onerto, a japanese business man.
Government inspectors have ex-
pressed amazement at what has been
done, and have mentioned it in their
reports so that it has become a model
for the entire nation. In conse-
quence a cotton thread spinning fac
tory in Kyoto has recently erected
a dormitory for its 400 operators
and provided it with school rooms,
dining and reception rooms, and a
Buddhist chapel, where services are
held once a month.
During the five years of the origi-
nal factory girls home it has housed
over 500 girls, much to the gratitude
of parents and girls.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Weather Data For June.

Data compiled from the records OF
the Little Rock Weather Bureau Gov
ering the last twenty eight years,
show the mean temperature of June
to be rs degrees. The warmest June
was in 1881, when the temperature
averaged 81 degrees and the coolest
was in 1903, with an average OF II
degrees. The highest temperature was
102 on June 80, 1894, and the coolest
81 degrees June /, of the same year,
The average rainfall for the month
is 4.04 inches. The prevailing winds
are from the South.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
FIGHT FOR PURE MILK.

The club women in Massachusetts
are fighting against the movement
to lower the milk standard in that
state. This fight is said to be win
ming more recruits to the cause of
woman suffrage than anything that
has come up in the last ten years.
Mothers have come TO agree with
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in
asserting that politics which affects
the purity of milk and water is mot
outside the home, but inside the
baby"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
COMPANIES Enter State.

The Bond Guaranty Company, in
corporated under the laws of Texas
has filed a copy of it's charter and
articles of incorporation and agree
ment with the secretary Of state The
company claims TO have $350,000 as
sets and $4,000 liabilities. Ashley
Cockrill is named as its agent in Ar
kansas. Offices will be in Little Rock
The Empire State Suprety Com
pany incorporated under the laws o.
New York, has filed a copy Of its char
ter and articles of agreement with
the secretary of state The company
claims to have $1,284,4 6669 assets
and 1901, 1888 Sc liabilities, and to have
$1,000 invested in Arkansas. Gordon
II. Campbell is named as its agent in
Arkansas.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Company Enters State.

The Frisco Ore Mining Company,
incorporated under the laws of Mis-
souri,, has filed copy of it's charter
and articles of Incorporation and agree
ment with the secretary of state. The
company claims to have $4,000 assets
and liabilities amounting TO $4,000,
and 81, 900 invested in Arkansas. The
company names L. R. Haggard as its
agent in Arkansas and will have its
Off ces at. BateSVille.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
SIashed With a Knife.

William Holline and E. NJ. Perkins,
employees of the Little Rock Electric
Company, at 115 West Fourth street,
after quitting work Saturday night
went to Fourth and Scott streets,
where they engaged in fight in
which Holine cut Perkins on the left
hand and arm with knife. Both cuts
were severe, although not dangerous.
Perkins was taken to the city hospl-
tai where his wounds were dressed.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04

A pardon roster is being compiled
in the office of Governor X. o. Pindall
Every four or five months roster is
made up, which is referred to by the
governor when he is petitioned for a
pardon. By glancing at the roster ne
can tell whether he has acted upon
the case before him.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Reuuisition For Austin.

Acting Governor X. o. Pindall Sat
urday issued requisition papers on the
governor of Illinois for the person of
Charles r. Austin, wanted in Howard
county to answer to the charge of EN-
bezzlement. w. P. Williams of How
ard county will present the requisition
papers.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
clRcUMSTANTlAL EVIDENCE.

"Cholly Clymer is only parvenu,
and yet you told me he was in high
life"
so he is. He passes the greater
part OF his existence in the thirtieth
story Of a skyscfaper."
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Company Dissoives.

The Buford-Pan Mercantile Com
panv of Mammoth Spring has filed
notice with the secretary of state that
it had dissolved and desired to sur
render its charter.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Coal Company incorporates.

Articles of incorporation and agree
ment have been filed with the secre-
tary of state by the Hackett Coal
Company of Hackett. The incorpora-
tors: e. W. Hoffman, j. M. Spreading
and w. w. Hoffman. The company
incorporates with a capital stock OF
$4,000 of which $4,000 has been sub
scribed.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Preparing Test Case Brief.

Attorney General w. F. Kirby is now
occupied in preparing the brief in the
case of the Lancashire Fire Insurance
Company against Secretary of State
o. C. Ludwig. brought TO test the Win
Sc act.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
State House Closed.

Officially the state house was closed
after ~ o'clock Saturday, Federal
Memorial Day. The state officials and
employees were paid their monthly sal
aries Saturday morning.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
TOO DANGEROUS.

"You must be very careful with
your daughter, Mrs. Comeup. She
has a rapidly growing mentality"
ooh, good gracious, DOCTOR VIII
she have TO have an operation to
cure ii r.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
So, 500 Paid Into Fund.

w. w. Dickinson Saturday paid
$4,000 into the penitentiary fund. The
money was paid for convict labor on
the convict labor contract
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04

Set the allowance against the loss
and thou shalt find no loss great;
he loses little or nothing that reserves
himself.-Quarles.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
capudine Cures Indigestion Pains.

Sour stomach and heartburn no matter
from what cause. Gives immediate relief.
Prescribed by physicians because it is
pure and effective. Trial bottle Zoe. Regu-
lar size 25c and soc at all druggists
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04
Notice of Dissolution.

The Arnold Raines Company has
notified the secretary of state that it
had dissolved and desired to surren-
der it's charter.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-04

Dear mel what an awful toothache
you must have"
Kid (thickly)-Toothache nuthin'!
amt got no pockets in dis suit of
clothes, an have to carry me baseball
in me mouth!
New-York tribune., 1908-11-29

rest and drowsiness that swept over him wOOed
him to lie still and die; but there were still
sparks and remnants of manhood and courage
in him. He shook off his desire to sleep and
strove desperately to rise. Finding that he
could not, he crawled forward on his hands
and knees slowly, slowly working himself
over the snow covered ground, round the
drifts, like great animal.
THERE was no use. Humanity could not
stand the strain any longer. One more
movement he took, and just as he was about
to sink down forever he heard long, deep,
hollow, mOurnful sound He stopped, inter
ested, dimly wondering what it could be
Whatever it was. 1t meant life OF some KIND.
It came from directly IN front OF him. 1t
nerved him to further effort. Summon1ng
the last vestige Of his strength, he advanced
a little farther. The faint notes of a bell came
to his ear There was life and there was res
cuei He could not give up nOwl He wr1thed
forward convulsively, his head swaylng from
side to side more animal ike than ever
Lights appeared in the dull, dead. leaden gray
of the breaking winter dawn He heard that
bell again, the grinding of steel on steel, the
noise of a whistle the deep. sobbIng breath OF
escaping steam He knew what 1t was now.
1t was a locomotive, He lifted his head and
saw lights family He OWNED that it was the
station. the train, the Overland Limited She
would get on ii and go away What mattered
it? And what of himself, There was help,
there was Hfel He actually rose to his feet
and WdNeTGu on by ndppN GllstllCC tllC N'lL-
tour of the ground had caused the space be
tween him and the lights to be swept COM
paratively bare Of snow. 1t was not difficult
walking, vet he staggered ike drunken man
All! the lights were moving before his eyes;
they danced and tlickered The train was 60
ing' He broke into a reeiing run, hoarse whis-
pers on his frozen lips. Too latei He STUN
bed and fell across the car tracks, dImly con-
scous of the lights, of the departing train. He
had Just sense enough and strength enough 20
cry out as he did so. Some one on the station
platform heard his voice. Men came toward
him; he lifted up and carried into q warm
room. Something burning yet delciOuSly re-
viving was poured down his throat.
The woman he gasped out, looking up
in the faces of the station agent and his helper
bending over him.
She took the Limited not minute ago"
said the man, staring at him Curiously. The
train was two hours and half late she'd
never have got it"
shes gone them" gasped the boy
YES"
Thank God she got away" he murmured
as he lapsed into complete Inconsistencies.
There was good stuff in the boy. He was
| glad the woman had escaped in spite of all.
| He did not want another human beings life
on his hands. The red figure alone in the cabin
was enough The remembrance Of him would
be with the boy when the woman herself was
| forgotten.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-29
BOOK ii.
The Awakened Ambition
CHAPTER /.
The Loneliness of Mr.. Gormly

To his great surprise, George Gormly some
times found himself feeling lonely, and
the Oftener SO he grew older. Every man
who has a natural liking for wornen-and
what true man has not?-yet who has no in
innate friendships with or relations to the other
sex, Is likely to find himself IN that state of
mind sooner or later. The exceptions to this
rule are certain confirmed bachelors whom age
and experience together with a certain habit
of independent self reliance not alwavs the
sole property of the male sex, have rendered
immune to the depression of solstariness
GOrmly was sufficiently aged: he was forty
four. He was sufficiently experienced: he
had dealt with women for a straight quarter
of century. He was sufficiently self reliant
he had built up by his own unaided efforts the
greatest retail merchandise business of his
day and generation. He was sufficiently in
dependent-for he had done it alOne-to have
been above the ordinary feeling of loneliness
Nevertheless he was temperanentallv lone
some, and at this particular moment desper-
ately so.
He had drifted into New York some twenty
five years before, utterly unheralded. unno-
ticed. He had a little money in his pocket.
youth, strength, good looks to accornpanv II.
certain keen commercial ability latent in
his being; and wealth of bitter cvnicisrn in
his heart,-bad from the social viewpoint in
one SO young Che was only nineteen). but
not entirely useless in the business career he
had marked out for himself. He had begun
by filling a small clerkship in a little drypoods
store lie kept at II until he owned the store
and after that larger store on better street
He had developed a genius for trade. and an
executive ability IN accord, until the original
little shop had expanded into a ffteen-storv
building covering a block on the principal
thoroughtare OF New York city. and its owner
had become a power III finance merchant
prince such was George Gormly.
III + was, too, a scrupulouslv honest man He
sold good goods, without deceit Things
were as he represented them. lie established
principles OF accommodation in his dealings
that were unique when they were first in
sttuted IN New York. He made no dishonest
dollars Ills money was good everywhere
because 1t was untainted. His word was his
bond. Even that portion of the business and
speculative world which openly mocks at in
tegrity' IN its heart respected him. lie pros
New-York tribune., 1908-11-29

pered exceedingly, one expansion following
another His methods were legitimate beyond
dispute Eschewing speculation OF any kind
and devoting himself strictly to his business,
he found himself in middle life the head, the
foot, the sole owner, OF the greatest enterprise
of the kind that the world had ever seen
This had not been achieved lightly He had
brought it about because. with absolute single
ness of heart, he had put every ounce OF
strength ard time and talent, which IN HIM
amounted to genius, at the service CT his
affairs Time, talent, and genius do not always
produce such results; fortune still must be
considered IN the game Fortune had favored
Gor1nlv. He had succeeded IN everything
beyond his own or anyone's widest dreams
No one had dreamed dreams for him,-each
one must do that for hInselt.-but the speech
IS figurative and conveys the meaning
He was modest, quiet man, not gwen to
blowing his own horn, except IN 50 Tar as the
advertising of his goods might be considered,
and minding his own concerns until the world
suddenly woke up to the fact that It harbored
a colossus of trade on its surface, and New
York realized that his name was George
GOrrnlv. Keeping out of the hurry and Hurry
of Wall Street; living modestly in his uptown
apartment; a member only OF The Bachelors,
a Verv quiet Subdued, un1ntluentIal, but ex-
tremey comfortable club, IN which even the
thought of woman was tabOOed. 1t was SAID,
owning neither yachts. nor horses, nor racing
machines; keeping sedulOusly out OF the
papers. save by wav of buS1nesS,-Ir was wears
before his fortune became the marvel of the
newspapers and the subject of envlouS and
amazed comment. Indeed, he might have
gone on indefinitely in his mercantile opera
tionS without attracting special attention 70
himself personally. had II not been Tor one
fact That monentous happening was his
meeting with Miss Haldane.