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PAGE FOUR THE FORT SMITH TIMES Wednesday Evening, March 4, I99- in il SPRING HILL, ARK. tainiiig money under falso pretenses. He will do. Only four men are now living who were present on March 1, 1801, when kansas voted to secede from Uie union. They are Judgo Jesse N.

C'yjKjrt, THE FORT SMITH TIMES Established 1SS2. TUE TIMES COMPANY, Publishers. J. Henry I. R.

Arbogast 15 North Eighth Street. Bell rhono 2S1 fan Phono 87 Fort Smith People Are Pleased to Learn How It Is Done. It's pretty hard to attend to duties With a constantly aching back III VtimZl 4 i If xi1 if 1 1 au 1 1 1 1 I 1 XX VC 15 ji While "Capt Bill" is "breathing" ij jj Progress, Hunt lor the Sidewalk, liirh cmrT ntfpr in fhp ntrfiirp 1 ui uim v- utvvi 111 vii iviut ll i. C-J i.L-' L.i. I aim 11 yuii uuu i niiu uiem wnai 5 would vou think ot that? i for office- TAKE THE BRIDLE OFF, Stephens News: "Take the bridle off and let iMj'ital come into Texas." The abi ve language was used by the speaker of the Texas lious.) of repre- recently, in a speech against that ilas oMegibl.itiou tnul seeks to impose such hardships 011 capital as to make its advent into that state almost prohibitory.

Judging from the tendency of present day legislation, it is a timely suggestion and while somewhat radical, probably, in it meaning, yet it contains a sentiment that should be sown broadcast over this land. What is true of Texas is true of Arkansas and the whole southwest, ilere in our own siaie me nam nines cry is milium, universal and our people are waiting puticntly and anxiously for something to turn up that the wheels of business and commerce might again be put in motion and money become easy and plentiful. Hut instead of that time com ing it seems that fate is set against usunil capital that would come in and flow through the. avenues of legitimate business and industry is laying idle and laughing at our folly. Can a reader of the News in this entire territory point to one single industry or enterprise cither in railroad building' or manufac turiii" of any kiiid, that is sending out a single dollar to add to the comfort of the people or to the wealth of the coun try and state? Yet we are told that ours is a country 01 weai possummcs and that our wonderful resources have never been touched, which is true.

The onlv source of revenue and money get ting here is cotton and we all know how fast we get it from that source. It does not pay the debts of the coun try let alone furnish a surplus to put into motion the life and development of the people and our country resources. Why then should we not complain of business stagnation, dull times and a scarcity of money and bewail our own personal condition and adverse cir-eumstaces? It is perfectly natural under the circumstances that wc do so. There are millions of money honest, legitimate money that is looking for investmentand would come into our state if its lawmaking bodies would show it that consideration and protec tion it needs and demands while per-formiiiL' and functions for which it was designed and intended. But instead of that every man who enters the state witFT a collar and necktie on and flour ishes fifteen cents for investment, is a marked man and the legislative mill is nut in motion to treat mm as a com mon enemy to the commonwealth or load him with burdens he cannot carry and the result is he ever afterwards a-ives the stale a wide berth and a name that is known to every eagle on tne American dollar.

We do not believe in taking the bridle otf and turning tne state "over to the financial buccaneer for pillage, but we do believe some wise anil conservative policy should be adopted whereby honest cauilal can come into the state and perform the work of building and developing our resources and to bless mankind without having to fight its way into every proposition it seeks to touch, We want more money in this country we will never get it as long as we hold a club over the heads of those who would be generous enough to invest it in our midst. Lot us. become more neighborly with the financial world and see if it won't help us. We believe it would. That fellow Sumptcr at Hot Springs is entitled to a place by hinisch.

Defeated in his first race, discredited by tho senate for an attempt to secure that which did not belong to him and al. most buried beneath an avalanche of ballots at his second attempt to reach office, he sights around to ascertain what possibility of success there would be in a contest before tho senate with an opponent who distanced him more than a thousand votes. Ideas of the proprieties which should govern public men seem to be lacking ill Mr. case but his nerve is certainly colossal. Carrie Nation uack liome again, ami of course has 110 little to say about how she found things in the old country.

England she declares to be a hot bed cf vice, with all the political parties under the influence of the ruin so-called, lint altogether she did nut have a bad time. (She got into the police court once or twice, made a number of speeches at the usual rates of admission, and incidentally sold a great many hatchets. iys the Memphis Commercial-Appeal: According to our "Daily Health consumption kills 138,000 persons a year in the United States. There are only 2,800 killed annually by alcoholism, or about one-fiftieth as many as aie dfc st roved by tuberculosis. Yet we pay a thousand times more attention to the drink question than we uo to the problem of consumption, which is now regarded as a preventable disease.

Things seem to be improving in Tennessee. A jury at Union City convicted several poverty stricken fishermen for deliberately murdering a fellow-man, and a Nashville jury convicted a couple of rich men who (committed the same crime. The Kansas bootleggers are delighted with the law recently enacted which prohibits druggists from selling liquor, for it throws all the whisky business of the state into their hands. (f course the suffragettes will oppose the proposed tariff law. It puts a duty on tea.

ARKANSAS MOTES El Dorado is making an efort to establish a sewerage system. An experiment in grape culture is to be made near IV Queen bv a California expert in that line. At Harrison last week Gillam Keef broke out of jail hut turned up a cunple of 1 Inter willi Iwtml for hi I appearance at court on a charge of holders, by office-holders, holders. of 7 of )o Sprinjr Hill, March 23. Since spring opened larniers are getting busy with their crops.

They are through sowing oats and are now planting corn. Mr. Thompson and daughter, Miss Frankio, of Huntington, have returned and opened up his school Monday. Mr. Thompson has been absent two week3 and during that time he has been quite in.

Adred Cliaffin who 1ms been very low is up. doing nicely. Jim Johnson of Bonanza is visiting friends here. Mr. and Mis.

Marslyil Terrell are the nappy parents ot a boy that came Sat urday morning. soma of the Woodmen from here, Mr. Bartlett and Mr. Andrew Ge-heb, went to Lavaca with their teams to Mr. 8am Pinkerton's, who is sick and met sixteen other Woodmen and their teams there to break land and plant.

Mr. Pinkerton's crop. On days appointed the 'good people will meet from time to time to plant and plow Mr. Pinkerton's crop until he as able to work. Mr.

Pinkerton has appendicitis but has not been operated on yet. Mrs, J. W. Maddux is slowly improv ing. F.nl Harris, Winnie Steward and Mamie McClellon of Greenwood are vis iting friends and relatives at Mrs.

John son, s. The stork visited the home of Mr, and Mrs. Mario'. Maddux Sunday ngiht and left them a hoy. Key.

Reynolds and wife drove into Fort Smith Monday evening to do some chopping. Mr. and Mrs. T. A.

Phillips and Mrs Willie Smith spent Friday in Green wood. Quite a numb-'r aathered at the home of- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Sat urdav night and had a pleasant time. Ben Williams, our druggist, has the reputation of being one of the best kitp fliera in SmiiiL' Hill.

Miss Xcla Brown of Fort Smith is out snendinsr a few days with her sister Mrs. Will Bugg. Miss Beulah Wier who has been attending school here rettirmd to her home at Steep Hill last week. For your electric work see Western Electric Supply 17 North Eighth street. Both phones.

CHARLESTON, ARK. Mrs. J. J. Foster has returned from a few months' visit at Dermott.

Mrs. O. E. Daniels returned Sunday from a visit to Pine Bluff. Mr.

and Mrs. Mosber of Russellville, silent Sunday in the city. S. D. Hancsworth.

of Conway, spent a tew davs at nome. L. C. Mav and Hugh Miller spent Sim dnv with the fishni" party at l'ort Douglas. Mrs.

W. Xeal has returned from a visit to Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. P.

h. Pyle, of Fort Gib son, are visiting his brothers. The Johnson Co. Fair will be given at the opera house next Friday night by home 'talent. Reg Sadler is visiting his friends this week.

John BIythe of Texas is visiting his mother, -c Paul McKennon made a business trip down the road this week; When you want to buy a horse or a team call Hendricks and Dean, Ninth and Parker. BRANCH, ARK. Ferything quiet around Branch at present, farming somewhat slow, health generally very good. An attempt was made to rob the post office at Ratcliff last Friday night. Fortunately only $2.50 was taken from the office.

Suspects have not been located yet. Henry Graham is very low with con sumption. M. Z. Burt has gone lo St.

Paul, ison county, to look for a farm. Rev. Sanders of Magazine filled his reular appointment here last Sunday. G. M.

Hopkins is having some repair work done on his store and is preparing to have a new dwelling put up at Branch. Miss Ophelia Robiiiaon is teaching a spring school at Branch. Sid Hunter of South McAIester has been spending a few days in 'his locality YOUNG MEN WANTED United States Government Gives Rail way Mail Clerks $800 a Year to Start, and Increases to $1200. Uncle Sam will hold an examination for Railway Mail Clerks in Fort Smith and throughout the United States on May 15. 'Many ambitious young men, with only a very ordinary school education, can readily pass.

The govern ment wants voung men over 18 with common sense, to take examinations for railway mail clerks and carriers and the Governent Positions Bureau, of Rochester, K. with its peculiar knowledge of tho requirements of the examinations, can tit any young man in a very short time to pass. A governent position means steady vork, good pay, and a yearly vacation. There is time to prepare for the May examinations, and any reader of The Times can get full mtormation now1 to proceed, free of cnargo, by writing The Government Positions Bureau, 544 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y.

GET the best painter you 1 1 1- 1 kuuw; mm me od you want done tell him you want Devoe Lead-and-Zinc may be you'll get a good job. If you're sure it's Devoe, you're sure the quality's right. Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint is the name for paint quality. Fort Smith Art and Wall Paper Co, Agts. 807 Garrison Ave.

1 of White; A. H. Ciuriguii, ot Hemp tiud Judge M. L. Hawkins of Ashley, "eral Klcmous of Drew.

feiipcrinteuJciit M. M. ltichey iius enc out orders to all of the agents of Uie Arkansas division of the lion Mountain urging tliem to use till efforts to secure the enforcement of the bill prohibit inj the drinking of liquors on bouru in. senger trains or depot platforms, 'I'll is act makes it unlawful for parsons to drink intoxicants on nasbeiiiiur trains or for ny person who is a nussunyer 011 any train to get off at 11 station ifud drink liquor wane upon the platform and then return 011 board tlie U'ain looking to the pas-sage of the tin 1111 bill the News puts it this way: Well, we will have some more politics." Pruhibitioii of the 'blown in the bottle" brand, will, be -voted on iu July. Though prohibition lias lieen monu mental failure in states where tried unI local option ha been, to the least, fairly succcssiul, there is a probability that this state will vote prohibition.

rcrhaps, as bemitor Jngalla is reported to have said of Kansas, "The prolus will have all the law they want and the an-tis will have all the liquor they w-nt," which makes a happy solution of the whole question The Stephens News, which is always prying into the doings of woman, makes mention of this one: "Two capricious young ladies of planned to have some fun when a certain vouiir man called to spend the evening. They thought it would be great sport to imitate everything be did. When the young man entered the parlor he blew his no.se which each of the girls promptly imitated. Thinking it a peculiar incident the young man proceeded to stroke his hair. Both girls followed.

Then he straightened his collar. They did the same, and a few dimples and smiles be gan to appear in spite of them. Now it was the young man turn. He was positive of his ground and calmly stooped down and turned up Lis pants." OKLAHOMA NOTES Several persons who possess an abun dance of both- energy al'd credulity art; dipging for $125,000 in gold which they have been told is buried near Durant. An Ardmoi'e officer chased a negro whisky peddler all over the town; but whether to arrest tho fellow or secure his supply of booze lias not yet been made plain.

The location of the secondary agricul tural schools' is causing the hoard no little vexation in -placing them. -The law- provides for' four of these boards and about forty towns arc putting in for MuskOie is suffering from the in cursions of burglars. The Times-Demo crat says it is a very unpropitious night when from four to' eight private resi dences do not receive visits from this style of gentry. Ivcpresenlativc Cope of El lleno fig ures that he made $10,000 for Oklahoma iu thirty minutes when his amendment to the 'bill appropriating if 100.000 for the state printing out the amount to $120,000. Major JMeCall said, however, that Cope was a demagogue.

An exchange in a humorous vein, de clares that when some of the Oklahoma pie hunters" now lining up for federal patronage are mentioned in the news papers, one lias to turn over On lus side to shake off the impression that the territorial days are not still in flower. Oklahoma 11, Four prisoners escaped from the ICllis county jail in Aruett this week by saw ing olf the lock to the door. Three of them did not leave town, though one. William Lee. was in jail on the charge murder.

These three prisoners broke jail on February 11. 17, 20 and March four times in all. the terms of the school land bill passed at the recent session of the legislature fifty-five per cent of the state's school lands, or about acres, valued at $111,000,000, will he sold by the state school land commission. Sections thirteen, sixteen and thirty-six are exempted from sale. The Muskojeo Times-Democrat, lo Therein mire catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few 5 ear was supposed to be Incurable.

For a great many years uoctors pronounced It a lrcal disease and prescribed Iocs! remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced it iucurable. Science has pr.ven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. HU's catarrh cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney Toledo.

Ohio, Is the only constliutlonal cure on the market. It Is taken Internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon-ful. It acts directly on the Dlood and mucous surfaces of the They offer one hand red dollars for airi case it falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F.

J. cheriev Toledo, Ohio, Sold by Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation SOFTNESS OF SEALSKIN. Rivaled by Human Hair Where Dandruff In Eradicated.

Sealskin is admired the world over for and glossiness; and yet the human hair Is equally as soft and glossy when healthy; and the radical cause of all hair trouble Is dandruff, which la caused by a pestiferous parasite that saps the vitality of tho hair at Its root. Nowbro's Herplcide Is tho only preparation that is fatal to the dandruff germ. Without dandruff there Is no falling: hair, but a luxuriant rrowth of glossy, soft hair Is certain. Seourinff the scalp won't cure dan-drufT. Kill the dandruff germ.

Thousand; of women owe their beautiful suits hair to N'ewbro's Herplcide. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c. in stamps Tho Herplcide Detroit, Mich. One Dollar Bottles Guaranteed.

WHITIOW CaLDWeLL DITTO CA- Aguta, I With annoying urinary disorders. Doun'a Kidney Pills mako work easier. They cure backache. They cure kidney ills. J.

A. Ooleman, 100 North Second street, Fort Smith, says: "Oftsn when lifting much of which is required in my occupation, I would have to give up on account of tho weak and lame condition of my back. I also noticed that the kidney secretions were liighly colored and too frequent. I was finally led to try Bonn's Kidney Fills, procuring tliem at the Palace Drug Store, and in return for the good they did me, 1 can recommend them highly. I shall always speak in their favor when an opportunity presents itself." For sale by all dealers.

Price 50 cents. Foster-Mi lburn Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. enienibcr tne name Doau's and take 110 other. show that Oklahoma is different in all respects from other states, says: Even Oklahoma's absconding bank wreckers are more lamest than those of other states. After four days of remorse they return lb? money, benevolently assim dated and beg for forgiveness.

A. W. O. Sango of Muskogee, who has aspirations for an appointment in Liberia, is one of the veterans of the famous "liattle of Lamiiiig's Hall." His excuse for not drawing his gun more quickly was that the sight caught in Ins shoestring as he attempted to draw the weapon from his trousers pocket, The roads bill passed bv the Oklahoma legislature is not the kind of good roads bill that was talked of at the beginning of the session. It is what might be called a rural measure, and makes no provision for the improvement of high ways from a state-wide standpoint.

One of its mam provisions is that all section lines shall be public highways. The Muskogve Times-Democrat charges that the contract for a new water pump at the Hyde Park station at that eitv was awarded through lie nietl ium of a poker game. Of course tne un successful bidders who bad no repre sentative at the game are indignant, and the more shrewd of the Musko geealis are wondering if something more than a pump did not ass at the same trial ot skill. The wedding of Miss Lillian Frances Haskell, daughter ofc.Alic covernor, and Leslie (I. Nibloek, editor of the Outh- rie Leader, March' will be a notable affair.

The ceremony will be conducted by JMhew J. Kane, chief justice ot tlie supreme court, and the event will trans pire under a huge in the executive apartment of tho state house. The military and personal staff of the governor will be prominent in the function, and will officiate as ushers and at tendants under the direction of Adjutant Oeneral F. M. Canton.

Company I. of Outline will be on auard at the state- house to give eclat to the occasion. After the ceremony there will be a re ception and a big feeo. and then the happy couple will start off for a swing around a circle embracing Havana, San Juan. St.

Thomas. Bermuda and other points in the West Indies. Selah! Direct action Gas Ilange. Only safe Gas flange made, Gas Cook and Heat ing Stoves. See them.

AYERS CO. MISSOURI RAILROADS WANT TO COMPROMISE ON FARE SI. Louis 24. Executive and traffic officials of Missouri railroads having headquarters in St. Louis dis cussed today the arrangements for es tablishing a passenger fare of 2 1-2 cents a mile, and in the issuing- of 5 2-cent rate mile book.

The meeting ad jouriied until tomorrow, when the sug gestion of having a committee go to Jefferson City to confer with Oovernor Hadlev and Attorney General Major will be acted upon. One of the most important railroads operating in Missouri objected to the compromise with the state, and declared itself in favor of the rate. The protest of one road, only, may not prevail us most of the roads are inclined to a view of making concessions to the state in the matter of restoring the ll- cent rate. Ring Hendricks and Dean when you want a good rig. TRAIN BLOWN 0 TRACK Fierce Tornado in Kansas Derailed Rock Island Freight Other Property Damage- Topcka.

24. At Edson. in Sherman county last night, a tornado struck a freight train on the Hock-Island. Xine cars were blown from the track. The storm also damaged several bouses, hut no lives are reported lost.

Communication by telegraph is severed, Kdon is ten niiles west of Brewster, where it is reported the tornado did great damage. AIT wires into Brewster are down. Tiains are reported along the llock Island and Santa l'e to the Colorado line, the ruin accompanied by a heavy wind The whet will be benefited. 'Mrs. Suburbanite I made arrangements with two cooks yesterday.

ITuhliy (astonished) Two cooks! Mrs. Suburbanite Yes; one is to tome tomorrow and the other in two weeks. Pick-Me-l'p. Slab wood for sale. Inquire Box Co.

Both phonei. TERMS OF SUBSCrJI'TION BY CAR1UER One year $3.00 Six months 2.50 Three months 1.2ii One month .45 BL MAIL One yeaar Six months 2.00 Three months 1.00 Ono month .43 Sunday Edition, one year 2.00 Sunday Edition, six months 1.00 bunday Edition, three months 50 Entered at the postoffice at Fort Smith, as Second Class matter. WEDNESDAY 21, A LESSON IN! PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. New York World: The post nnd tele. graph strike in Paris has collated after a determined attempt by organizations of employees of the state to prove that they were superior to their employer, the and to reduce it to obedience.

Never lias the inherent weakness of government -ownership been more clearly revealed. On tiic one hand, there are charges, which are virtually admitted to be true, that favoritism and other serious abuses have pervaded the French postal and telegrapn service ibecause pol. itics has largely Controlled appointments and administration. The conditions are not peculiar to the French people. The further any government extends its operations in tlio direction of public service, or industry the greater danger of corruption it creates.

On tho other hand, the French postal employees and telegraph operators have not only utterly disregarded the public convenience but they have oenly uefied the government's authority. Ecu by po. litical agitators, they have undertaken to rule in their own way and for their own' ends. The strike was a political demonstration intended to intimidate the government into surrendering on their terms. If they the wires and the mails, and brought trade and communication to a standstill they expected that M.

Cleincnceau would meet with such, pressure from other quarters that he would be forced to To the chamber of deputies M. Harthou the minister of public- work, J'Amoug the rights of government officials there is not and never can be the right to strikej that is to say, the right to hurt the whole country in order to bring' about the triumph of claims which arc at least open to debate." Yet the fact is, right or no right, the government did strike. And they were in a position to exercise me greater power precisely because they were government employees. For there may be an excuse for a. private agency failing to do its' work, but a government must Keep its machinery runuimr or confess its uafitness to exist.

Imagine what XUs situation would be if our own government were to take over the railroads of the country, which in employed 1,672,000 men. Under the government Mhose employees would constitute a privileged class which every mischievous demagogue, every self seeking politician and every political uartv Voujd strivoi 4o. conciliate with the promise uf greater privileges. Their organizations would not need to make tne urst advances, tor their support would be worth any price unscrupulous politicians might contrive to make the government pay. Very little encourage meiit would, make them as hungry for favors as office-seekers are for votes.

The corruption. uf would work both ways. In recent years we have seen the Pos tal employees maintaining a paid loboy at Washington and campaigning tor and against candidates 'for congress on the issue of more pay for the carriers. The women teachers have swarmed upon Albany, buttonholed memlers and intrigued at election time to have their own salaries raised. The political ae tivity of the police of this city has been an unceasing scandal.

The more the municipal service is extended and the offices multiplied the more frequent will the occasions for similar abuses and the greater the difficulty of coping with them. Whether it be the city, the state or the nation that enlarges the field of its operations, the growth of the power of 'Political influence must help-to diminish lersonal responsibility until at last the public servants turn stjuarely against the public, as they have done in France, and demand a government of office- What is it? In point of fact, it is the freedom from poisonous and spurious in gredients, the excellence in flavor, that gives to 39 Flavoring Extracts Vanina Lemon Orange Rcse.etc, their wide popularity and increasing sale. The retail grocers are learning that quality rather than price is necessary to retain the confidence of customers and make a successful Business. caicious jj Advertisement. 'FOR "THE WHISKEY WITH A HIHHFCT A 7 A -r- AT Ivvthji1 I HIGHEST AWARD AT Internationa! Pnro Food Exhibition, Paris, Franco; Bt.

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