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The Springdale news., 1912-12-20
FAYETTEVILLE FIRE
Christian Church Burned wetine ~day
 Evening.

The Christian church building at Fayetteville. located on College Avenue, was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. In the alter noon fire was built up in the fur nace for the mld-week prayer meet ing in the evening. and is supposed to have caught from this The loss will. we understand amount to about s25.000. including a new pipe org m which was installed some months ago Only the walls of the build ing were left standing.
 There was Ss,000 insurance on the building and furniture and s2,- 900 on the organ.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

l. T. Lane, as guardian of Eu- gene Rose, who it is charged killed his wife at this place some weeks ago, and was declared of unsound mind and sent to the sanitarium at Little Rock, will sell the personal property of Rose at public sale on December 28.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20
HIGHLAND VIEW
Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas 10 all.
 Many thanks. Wild Goose.
 Miss Floy Oliver Is on the sick list this week.
 Mrs. A. l. Smith has been real sick but Is better at this writing. Jesse Byrd and family of Tennes- see have been visiting at Henry
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

Having somebody to blame things on is one of the greatest of mod ern conveniences.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

Homer Graves, son Of Mr and Mrs W A. Graves, Is critically Ill with bone tuberculosis and it is feared cannot recover. He was taken last week with lameness in oHe of his arms, and the disease has now spread 10 the other arm and one of his legs
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

Mrs. Conger. mother ol John Conger, q painter al Prairie Grove. fell dead on the platform just aft eT descending from the train there this morning She had been here visiting and was returning home It is supposed that she died Of heart disease. Fayetteville Daily, Satur- dav
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

Next week will be good time for you 10 make your reiatives or friends d Christmas present of a years subscription to The Spring dale News, as you can get 1t for q third eli the regular subscription price And 10 many people nothing costing SC small q sum will be more highly appreciated.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

]. T. Craig arrived home Tuesday After closing up his apple busi- IS in Missouri he made a business trip down into Southwestern Okla homa in the vicinity of Fredrieks. He says that is a fine farming eoun- try. and that Ira J. Holloman of this place owns two of the best farms be saw down there.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

l.. L. Haislip will have a public sale of his personal property next Monday at the old w M Haislip place two miles southwest of Low ell, and expects to leave soon for Pocatelo, Idaho, to make his home. He has two brothers working in the railroad shops at Pocatello and he expects to secure position in the same place.
The Springdale news., 1912-12-20

Celsius
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Revolutionary Ghosts Stirred by Abbey

NEW YORK.-Ghosts of a score of
~ Central and South American revo-
lutions were stirred from their Turk.
ing places in the arms-filled corners
Of Westminster Abbey's "what-not"
store, No. 81 Front street, by a fire
the other afternoon. Since 1880 1t
has been possible to get anything
from a print Of eighteenth century
New York to pound of good mixed
tea at 20 cents" in this store. but mu-
nitions of war have been its chief
stock. and IL seamen's gossip means
anything filibusters have had good
reason to know this for more than a
generation.
Westminster Abbey-who got his
strange name because his father.
Jared Abbey, intended him for the
church-watched the progress of the
fire with tear-filled eyes.
Every ones got bug" he said,
"and my bug is my business. had
things in there that you wouldn't
take as a gift, but that | wouldn't
have parted with for any price you
could have offered"
Many of these things were ruined
by smoke and water, but for the most
part the damage was confined to
flags and uniforms from half the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
PLOTS DESERVE A PENSION
Time Fiction Writers Retired Some
That Were Old In the Days of
Ancient Egypt.

There are some plots" in this
years novels which ought to be re-
tired on old-age pensions.
There is the plot in which a poor,
sersecuted nursemaid, or waitress, or
washerwoman-alwa divinely beau
tiful of course-is driven to the deep
est depths of gloom, only to come up
smiling with an aristocratic family
and a millionaire lover.
That plot is as old as Cinderella,
at least, and hasn't been improved on
a whit since the first telling.
There is a plot which consists most
" of mislaid architecture; gloomy
castles with secret openings in the
walls, and underground passages lead
ing anywhere, and doors in the VAIN
scoting that turn on the pressure of a
hidden spring, and all that sort of
stuff.
A goodly share of the stories of an
cient Egypt were based on this plot.
Yet in the year of grace, 1912, other
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

G T. LOUIS. Mo.-Mrs. John C.
~ Muckermann, wife of the first
vice-president of the local ice com.
pany, will hereafter eschew moving.
picture shows.
The last one Mrs. Muckermann at
tended cost, besides the price of ad.
mission, one new $25 hat, black vel
vet, trimmed with small red roses.
The other night. after the Mucker-
mann family had dinner at their
home. at 1854 West Cabanne place,
someone suggested a night of amuse-
ment at the movies" The sugges-
ton was adopted, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Muckermann. with a party of friends,
adjourned to a theater.
The atmosphere of the place was
bad. Mrs. Muckermann stood 1t as
long as she could. and then tainted.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Stop Game of Cards to Get Marriage icens

INDIANAPOLIS, ND.-A suggestion
i from friends that they get married
at once. made half in fun. 1t is said.
caused John Patterson and Miss
Emma Shepp to disturb a penuchle
game in which John Rauch, county
clerk. was playing. They sought
Rauch in order to get a marriage
license, and they aroused Mayor
Shank from his slumbers shortly
after midnight that the mayor might
perform the ceremony.
1t was not a full dress affair-far
from 1t. The mayor was clad in a
pair of trousers, his nightshirt and a
Prince Albert coat, and also wore a
pair Of shoes. which were unlaced.
Patterson and Miss Shepp were out
calling on friends, when some one
suggested they get married at once.
1t was agreed 1t would be a lark"
and an automobile was called
Rauch's home was visited, and he
was induced to leave penuchle
game and go to the court house about
HOO p. m. and issue a license.
Let's get Mayor Shank" some one
suggested.
But the mayor is probably in bed"
said another.
That don't make any difference"
replied the first mo one but the
mayor will do"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
TRIED TO KEEP OUT DEVIL
Houses In Cornwall Were Built by
Vicar Of Parish to Battle
the Evil Spirits.

Some Of the more out of the way
parts of Cornwall, England. can offer
many singular sights to the visitors
None Of these Is more curious. how.
ever, than that which is to be seen in
the small village of Veryan. In the
southern part Of the county. On each
side Of the main roads which lead to
the group of cottages clustered round
the church there are to be seen Ger
tain queer looking round houses. each
surmounted, by a cross. These cot
tages were built with the object of
keeping the devil out of the village!
More than one hundred years ago the
vicar of the parish was certain Jere-
miah Trist. a parson who seems to
have been a most worthy man. though
curiously superstitious. In spite Of
all his endeavors to make his parish
toner's good. 1t seems that the village
folk did not improve very rapidly.
and he decided that something must
be done to right matters Accord
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Show Girls Dance "Bear"

IA INNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Two chorus
Av4 girls danced a ragtime dance on
the platform of the pulpit of the Rev.
G. L. Morrill, in Minneapolis the 9th
er day, Illustrating his sermon on
Praise Him With the Dance" The
most amazing and bold dances were
put on the boards" by the two girls
from a Minneapolis burlesque house
and the audience fairly gasped at this
The Turkey Trot," the Grab
Crawl" the Tortoise Tango" the
Jolly Wobble," the angle Worm
Wriggle," the Grizzly" and all others
known to these two girls Of the stage
were danced.
Then began the Rev. MI Morrill's
sermon.
Now you have witnessed just how
fashionable society carries on when it
gets started" said the Rev. Mr.. Nor
rill. Il admit there Is a decent dance,
a dance helpful to the body, pleasant
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

wise respectable writers are not
Ashamed to drive the 3,0OO-year old
hack abroad in daylight, dragging a
full array of the latest millinery be.
mind them. It's shameful.
Then there is the plot of buried
treasure and a hidden or DESTROYED
VIII, and usually a faithful ghost who
gables spiritual Esperanto till some
knowing creature comes along and in.
terprets.
Next to the exploits of saints and
monks, this was the favorite Mot .,
the alleged stories of the middle AGO.
1t was so hard worked then that -
has walked with limp and a list 70
port ever since, but it is still tbumned
along by hard-hearted creatures with
a typewriter.
An old-age pension for plots. That
is the most obvious need of present.
day literature. But how such a device
would cut the income of many a DON.
ular author!-Chicago Journal.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Woman Faints at Movies and Loses a SIS

Her husband picked her up I
started for home. A friend sts|
for the Muckermann garage and
out the automobile. He met Mud
mann about a block from the boz
and the two lifted the unconsdu
woman into the car. In the exert
they knocked off Mrs. Muckermar
hat.
Get her hat" said the friend
oh, that'll be all right; get
later. Hurry up for the house
piled Muckermann. and they vhid
off.
When Mrs. Muckermann redI
she inquired for her hat. When 4
that 1t was lying In the gutter q Nd
away she sent a searching party.
Muckermann and his friends
up lanterns and electric torches {
went after the hat. 1t was gons
search until midnight failed to m
the hat and the searchers were q
PEELED to go home and break
news to Mrs. Muckermann.
But, determined to have that
back, Mrs. Muckermann published
advertisement and will pay q ~
reward to the person who bf
back the missing headgear.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
and Tango" in P

to the mind and harmless To N.
but these rag dances that Won ,
witnessed. not at all exaggerataa
make the devil blush, and hs :,
hesitate to introduce them into :,
tory.
There was a time when On.
were made of graceful dancen
today there is a crying deman
statutes against dancing which n
graceful. The dancing whirlp0
society has drawn into its dru,,
depths many of the best craft
ever sailed life's sea. The danu,
have witnessed has degenerate
devotion and diversion into dIx
ton and debauchery. These
dances are animal in name and
ture and often as much more DAG.
ate than the oriental dance as Y
vius is warmer than an icebers
We seem almost ready 10,
naked dance proposed by Plato \
ideal republic. The animal w
libeled. Mr.. Bear and Mrs. n.
were never guilty OF such sntic
doubtless look with surprise
shame at the dances which bear
names"
AS the two chorus girls perrin
these rag" dances, now and ~
coin would fly toward the N
while the big organ of the ch
pealed forth rag-time music IA
company the dance.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

countries in the world; to tenn
and fishing tackle; to teas and
fees jumbled in with ships painl
prints and etchings. and to sons
cient paintings Of greater sent
tai than artistic worth. Some ~
worth Of arms and ammunitioa
capped harm.
Perhaps the most valuable
owned by Abbey come under thb
category.
The building occupied by
was said by the police to be ID
est along Front street For
generations 1t has been kno"
"the shop with the little brass
dlestick," from its trademark.
gun that could hardly carry
than a buckshot, but which Is Of
age and value.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

The couple, accompanied by d
young women and a man, went %
mayors home and with considsr,
difficulty aroused him. Rauch.
liam Brommer. a saloon keeper,
August. Pohlman followed In an
tomobile, wishing to .sse the
Shortly after midnighV the ceren
was performed and the couple
they would leave at once for q
to Pittsburgh.
John was feeling good nd
thought We had better get man
while he felt like It," the mayor
the bride explained.
Immediately after the cereu
the bride exclaimed:
Now that / am married ! an
ing to kiss a fat man." and she d
a member of the party.
The mayor declined to accept q
Patterson is a printer. The bn
home is in Muncie.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Brutus.

Brutus, the assassin of Caesar, was
not bad man. His head rather than
his heart was at fault. He was mis-
led, not degraded Moreover. morally
wrong al his deed was. it was legally
right. Shortly after the expulsion of
the kings from Rome law was pass
ed authorizing every citizen OF the re.
public to become at once jufge and
executioner and to slay any one who
might aspire to regal power 1t seems
that this law was still standing at the
time of the killing Of Caesar-more
than four hundred and fifty years aft.
er its enactment.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

Canton on the Pearl river. in south
ern China
1t was evening when we left Hong
kong on the Pow An" en- route for
the blue city of Canton, ninety miles
up the Pearl river. Twenty thousand
Chinese are said to live in this har-
Dor entirely, on boats, in -sampans
where shrill-voiced women steer,
cook, scull, raise families, drive bar
night, when there are hundreds of
boats drawn up side by side. their
masts gently raking the air as they
sway up and down, their dark sails
clinging and tapping against the rig
ging, the straining timbers and creak-
action, while the arch of each mat
forms a cave Of light. against which
the whole family is silhouetted as
they cluster about the low. round Ia
BILE to bolt their rice. The light Of the
lantern fails on a circle of yellow
faces. casting strange shadows on the
roof
Guard Against Pirates.
From the hurricane deck we
watched the city lights and the moon
until the one dwindled to a mere line
and the bleak headlands shut out the
other. leaving us only a narrow.
gloomy stream. Screened of from US
by heavy iron bars were the natives.
and firearms were stacked in conspic-
uous places. as protection against pi-
rates. The better class of Cinnamon
sat around on chairs, or laid on mats
beside them. The coolies occupied the
lower deck, thick as blackberries in
August. but they were more suggestive
of rats with their long, black queues
and scuttling. noiseless motions.
When / reached the deck next morn
ing we had passed Lintin island. ia
nous in 1880 as freebooter's haven.
and were steaming past an old Chi
nese fort in the Tigers Mouth. No
sentries saluted; the guns were COW
cred up; but the glorious yellow flag
with the dragon f1oated above. 1t was
here the Chinese had their opium
Party" in 1S41, when the English gov
eminent tried to force them to admit
opium, and the heather Chinee"
dared to think he has a right to drive
their ships out of Celestial waters.
The sun shone brightly on the
muddy river that morning. and on the
numerous bits of picturesque craft
(some man-propelled-men walking
on tread wheels); on the widespread
ing fields and shapely lochee trees;
the Strengthening pagodas (fantas-
tic. hollow towers of brick, about 300
feet high, adorned with numerous cir
cular terraces ornamented with trees
and bushes). In that silvery. hazy
light no one ever thought of pirates.
nor that the little yellow rolls of mat
ting by the waters edge contained un-
welcome little girls left there to die;
but it was sickening enough when we
churned up one as we were making
our landing at Canton.
! have heard friends tell Of their
landing at Joppa and at Pernambuco.
and l have landed at Matras when 1t
was necessary to beat the natives over
the head with strong clubs in order to
get into the mesullah boats to be
rowed to shore; but at Canton the
river was so crowded with sampans
there seemed no place to land at all.
for at Canton 100000 people live in
their boats, and these are lined up
from three to ten deep along shore.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

skilled on the willow-lined
Merrimac; excursioned along
the Potomac; houseboated on the
Ohio: steamboated past the levees
Of the Mississippi; barged at evening
on the Sacramento; seined in the Co
lumbia; mined on the Yukon; gath
cred rubber along the Congo; shot big
game by Zambesi's cataracts; attend
ed a regatta on the Thames; pulled
grapes on the Rhine hills; reveled In
art by the Arno; been stranded in
the Volga; swan the Tiber; crossed
the Jordan; floated under the Nile
palms; roamed in the palaces of the
Jumna; smelled the CHATS Of the
Ganges and the stencil Of the Hoogh-
ly; hobnobbed with cannibals and
eaten Doorian nuts on the Irrawaddy
all these he may have done and
more, but his river reveries are in
complete unless he has sailed on
Chinese waters: for like everything
else in the Celestial land. its rivers
are not like anything else found any
where else In the world.
Few have had the Joy Of exploring
the great Hoang-Ho or the Kiang; but
those who know the latter put it first
among their river experiences. writes
Sarah G. Morrison. The Yangtse-Ki-
ang. as most Americans call it, is the
third greatest river in the world, over
three thousand miles long and seven
teen miles wide at its mouth at Shang-
hal. where the writer well remembers
its. yellow flood which stained the
ocean for $50 miles from shore.
One may have taken the 700-mile
steamer trip up to Hankow; changed
for a smaller boat and three days
ride to Shasi: then houseboated for
100 miles to Chungking. where one
sees the finest "hongs" on the street
of the White Elephant. 1t is In the
houseboat days that ones adventures
begin and the grandeur of the Yangtse
is encountered. Brown and blue and
white-striped sails of many junks,
with long-queued, chanting crews, dot
the water between needle-spired pa
godas and bold headlands. At Ichang
and the river is a mass of bodied
and yellow-decked native steamers:
war junks with red standards and
pennants and throbbing tom-toms.
Through Mountain Goraes.
During the next 500 miles the river
rises 500 feet as it runs through the
mountains of the Seven Gates and
then the boat fights its way OF
tracks" along over thirteen big rap
ids and seventy-two minor ones. Yet
this region Of perils is annually trav-
ersed by over seven thousand junks,
the average loss being more than
five hundred.
The mountain gorges being passed,
and these are often 1900 feet high.
one finds himself in a rice-irrigated
section, or. that impossible, sugar
cane. sweet potatoes, or tea is the or
der. Here the persistent, peculiar
Chinee lives simply, crudely and pic
turesquely. with no malice toward
foreign DEVILS" phrase never
heard in these parts. Here the head
man Of the village. in silken gown.
offers hospitality of twenty or thirty
courses from a central dish, his menu
including such rare delicacies as
sharks fins. cod-bladders. frog legs.
birds nests and slugs.
But II is given to more people to
take the voyage from Hongkong to
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21

.ingly, after much cogitation, the
famous round houses were built With
these in position, protected by their
crosses. it was urged that the evil one
would not dare to enter the village
and therefore all would be we'll in
Veryan. Whether the good Wears
hopes were realized it is unfortun,
nately impossible to say. but the
houses stand today as a singular In.
stance of an attempt to battle the
powers Of darkness.-Wide World
Magazine.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Uncovered Family Group.

An interesting discovery was re-
Gently made in Edinburgh in the
course Of the demolition of the old
in Roxburgh Place. A vault contain
ing the remains of Lady Glenorchy.
member of the Breadalbane family,
anc the founder Of the original church,
wan laid bare.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
OpuIent Bard.

81 can't understand how tnaI y
wife is able to dress so well. tOo
there was no money in poetry'
guess there isn't; but her husoans
the job Of writing all the adve,s
rhymes for one OF the biggest y
fast food concerns in the coas
Have you seen their new autoro''
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
From cold SIWash.

I'VE are more frivo;ous In er
,ege life than in our snainess.
Fitch said. Still, Hllege ns
MADE business what Il Is. f
ties are a clearinghouse for aoins
ambition. "-Kansas C!SF Sta.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
Had a Good "Take."

One of the latest novels says: He
stoeped a little and printed a round
dozen of swift kisses on her sur
prised lips" Evidently a job print
er.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
To Determine chiId's Fitn...

The. Buffalo health department is tc
have department of child hygiene tc
examine all applicants for child labo,
certificates.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1912-12-21
NANG-TSE RIVER SCENE

NE may have journeyed up
the Hudson; steamed down
the whirlpool St Lawrence;
skilled on the willow-lined
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-21

The term Publican in Jesus DAY
was applied to Jews who served the
Roman government as tax collectors
in Palestine. The name was reproach
because the Jews held to the Abra-
hamic promise that the whole world
should be blessed by them as Gods
peculiar people. They held that this
meant that they should not only be
free from all other governments, but
that they should be masters of the
world. The most public spirited Jews,
therefore, declined to be the agents
of the Roman government in the mat
ter Of collecting tribute or taxes, and
the tribute takers or publicans were
looked upon with disdain as being un-
faithful to their religion and to their
nation.
The term sinner was applied to
all Jews who were careless in respect
to the orthodoxy of the day, for the
orthodox Jew of that time as well as
today took pride: in his religion and
boasted of his holiness. AS, for in
stance, the word 'Pharisee' signifies