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“Spencer will make a hit.”
Notice—If you have rheuma
tism and are content with your
suffering, that’s your business.
If you want medicine that will
cure you, that’s our business.
Jacocks the druggist. 03
The ladies of the Christian
church, will have at their linen
sale Thursday, April 27, all kinds
of novelties that will be service
able and pretty, and will also
serve ice cream and cake.
> For cleaning, pressing and re
fHr pair work take your clothes to T.
W. Shaver’s shop on Second
street, recently purchased of
Mortensen Bros. All work care
fully and promptly attended to.
Judge M. M. Stuckey has re
turned from Marianna, where
with George W. Murphy he rep
resented John V. Roberts. The
failure to convict was a great
triumph for the defendant’s at
torneys, who made very eloquent
- ._plqasjfojr their client.
A report reached town Tues
day that a wild man was seen
Sunday near the railroad bridge
across Bull creek, north of town.
A party of men, headed by con
stable Doss, made an investiga
tion but failed to discover any
strange individual. —Beebe News
After being out twenty-two
* hours the jury in the case of
John Roberts at Marianna is said
to have stood nine forjjjacquittal
and three for conviction. There
will be no further action at this
term of Court and the |verdict or
rather failure of the state to se
cure one is a great victory for
the defendant.
Bell & Maynard have opened
a neat restaurant in the rear
-of the Grand Central Hotel, the
dining room of the old Planters’
House, to be known as “The
T ittln flam * * p^nl'a f
best of everything to eat and
good service will continue to up
old the reputation of “The Lit
tle Gem” as a first-class regular
and short order eating house. 87
NEGRO WOMAN
KILLS HUSBAND.
Little Rock, April 18.—Joseph
Stanfield, a one-armed negro,
was killed by his wife, Roxie
Stanfield, at an early hour Sun
day morning at his home here.
According to all information
'V. available Stanfield came home
under the influence of liquor and
,jeded to fight his wife, the
alt being that she took a
_ small pocket knife and stabbed
death.
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A;t marshal
KILLS A NEGRO.
Augus April 18.-Henry
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'thought to be
RAILROAD MAN.
Hoxie, April 18. The dead
man found alongside the Iron
Mountain track Saturday, name
unknown, had an envelope in his
pocket addressed to John Char
tus, Springfield, Mo., care Frisco
hospital, postmarked Amherst,
Mass. The coroner’s jury has
not decided how his death was
caused, but it is the opinion that
he fell from a freight train.
! PRISONERS BREAK
JAIL AT ROGERS.
Rogers, April 14.-Three pris
oners, Tim Wilson, John Land
ers and L. McGill, broke jail at
Bentonville Sunday night. Sheriff
Hickman and his deputies are
making an effort to recapture
them, but no clue has yet been
made as to their wherebouts.
They were all charged with car
rying pistols.
SHE WAS ALL PREPARED.
So That When Hobson Sneezed Hi*
Good Wife Was Bight There
with the Bemedy.
Mr. Hobson sneezed and Mrn Hobson
remarked that he must have caught
cold. Mr. Hobson is one of those men
who hate to have a fuss made over them.
He has been trying to Impress that fact
4n his wife’s mind for 20 years, relates
the Chicago Daily News.
“What makes you think I’re taken
O’ * Vi n d nm n ndnd Lr !• 5 f O Kl V
"You sneezed,” replied Mrs. Hob
son.
"That doesn’t signify—’’ He paused.
“But It does ‘signify.’ It Is one of the
first signs of a cold. You went out with
the ashes this morning without a thing
round your neck.”
“I always do."
“And now you’re caught cold.”
Mr. Hobson returned to the reading of
his newspaper without replyirig. In a
few moments Mrs. Hobson said:
“Henry.”
“Well?”
“You’re got to do something for thal
cold.”
“Can’t I sneeze without being accused
of a cold? Is there any law against
sneezing, or do I hare to get a permit
from the health department?”
"I don’t see anything foolish in taking
a cold In time,” Mrs. Hobson said, calm
ly. “If you would let me put your feet
in hot water and mustard, and get you to
bed—”*
Mr. Hobson resumed his paper, and aa
he did so he felt an annoying tickling in
his nose. He struggled heroically for
nearly half a minute. Then he sneezed
again.
“There-" said Mrs. Hobson, in melan
choly triumph. “You’re sneezed again!”
“I’re sneezed twice, and I’m not
ashamed of it,” Hobson replied, coldly.
“If I feel like it, I’m going to sneeze
again. I’m—”
Three successire and riolent sternu
tations interrupted him.
“Now will you let me heat that water,
Henry?”
“No, thank you.”
"Will you take some Quinine, then?"
"No."
Mrs. Hobson sighed.
"Sneezes,” Mr. Hobson explained,
are convulsions caused by an irritation
of a sensitive membrane. The Irritation
may be caused by the introduction of any
■mall particle of foreign matter, such aa
a grain of dust. Snuff has been known
to produce a sneeze: so has pepper. You
can get up a fairly good imitation by
tickling the nostrils with a straw. It is
not, as you imagine, an infallible Indi
cation of a cold.”
“I suppose,” said Mrs. Hobson, reflect
ively, “that you would object to an onion
poultice, too?”
Hobson rose from his chair and started
for the door. With his hand on the
knob he paused to say, with dignity:
"I'm going up to my room now. I’vegot
some work to do, so I guess I had better
be alone for the rest of the evening.”
Hobson sneezed twice on the way up1
stalrs. Then the door of his den closed
explosively. Fifteen minutes later the
door opened and Hobson’s voice called
down the stairs: "Maria!"
"What Is It, dear?"
"Say, if you think I really ought to
! take a hot foot bath I suppose It won’t
do any particular harm, whether I’ve
got a cold or not. Would It be troubling
you too much to heat the water?"
' Mrs. Hobson’s voice replied cheer
fully:
"It’s all ready now, dear. I’ve heated
It and got some blankets nice and hot
i When you're ready I’ll bring them up.”
Slight Mistake.
j "Those large bumps,” said the phren
ologist, “would indicate that some o(
your ancestors were eccentric."
“You’re up against it there, professor,"
replied the man in the chair; "they indt.
j cate an eccentric wife. Confine your ex
amination to the small bumps, please."
—Chicago Daily News.
Agriculture in Porto Rico.
Five years ago Porto Rico was with
out any provision for public educa
, tion in agriculture, though agricul
ture is the main industry of the island.
That want has been partly and wiU Im
tulijr supplied.
tl«>yeet Their Idol*.
While repairing a temple, the Chl
-e»e cover up thi: eyes of the idols.
~a order that the (Vities may not b«
.y-“
HONTSHUMANSKULIib
Peculiar Hobby Which Occupies
Leisure Time of a Texan.
Bu Vlaited Manx Laadi and Cram*
tries la Search of the Odd Curioa
and He Haa an Interact
ins Collection.
The following advertisement appeared
in the newspapers of St. Joseph, Mo., re*
cently;
“Wanted—Human skulls! must be la
good condition; will pay liberally for
fine specimens. Apply Hotel M. Charles
W. Jenkins."
Jenkins was a temporary resident of
Bt. Joseph, where he has considerable
realty interests, but his real home is in
Corpus Christl, Tex. He has probably
the oddest fad of any collector of curios
who has ever been a resident of that city.
Mr. Jenkins Is very anxious to increase
his collection of skulls, and In the pos
session of medical students, physicians
and colleges of St. Joseph are specimens
taken from various burying grounds
that have t^en unearthed In the ex
cavations for buildings on sites that
hundreds of years ago were repositories
for the dead of the ancient red man.
“I have now in my possession Ml
perfect specimens of human skulls,” says
Mr. Jenkins. “They represent the hu
man of many ages, and 1 find them an
Interesting study Indeed. How did I
come to Indulge in such a strange fad?
Well, In my youth I made a study of
anatomy, and becsms Intensely Inter
ested In the construction of the human
frame. I gradually acquired a taste for
this form of brlc-a-braa.
"I got my real start as a collector oi
skulls In 1887. During excavations in
Bt. Joseph on property In the possession
of my father several specimens of an
ancient race were exhumed, and
straightway found a resting place upon
a shelf in a cabinet In my home. I vis
ited the former home of the mound
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uuuuci iu vuiuiouv auu iuv*ivw|
where other specimens of the ancient
Inhabitants were discovered. They dif
fer materially from the skulls found in
St. Joseph. Then I visited the holy land
fn search of specimens. From there I
drifted to the lands of the Ptolemies of
Egypt. Here some valuable acquisi
tions were made. I have tramped over
the Pampas'of South America, the moun
tains of Peru and Chill, and even pene
trated Into the wildernesses of the Ama
zon, where, in deposits of earth and
■tone, I have brought to light perfect
specimens of human skulls, represent
ing period* which history does not
chronicle.
“In my experiments I have fonnd that
some skulls take on a very beautiful
polish, and I must say that, under the
hand of a skilled artisan, they are made
magnificent These specimens occupy a
cabinet by themselves. I have a number j
of skulls taken from the wreck of the
Galveston storm. I also have specimens
from other disasters on this and other
continents. Five victims of the Mont
Pelee disaster are represented in my
collection. This business of collecting
ikulls Is a great aid in the study and re
tention of important facts in history. I
have in my possession the skulls of men j
at times prominent In the history of ;
this nation. How I came to have them
I do not care to say. However, money
!* a means of gratifying the tastes of
anyone who cares to make a collection
of this kind. Because I have acquired a
(Iking for this work, I spend much time
luring the winter months wandering
about between rows of grinning heads,
philisophizing, after the fashion of the
grave digger in Hamlet, upon the brev
ity of human life.’*
"SUICIDE CLUB” FLOURISHES, j
r«n« Women of Botae, Idaho, Ham I
Organisation and Choose
Vletlma bf Lot.
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Boise, Idaho, nas a fully organized
suicide club. That It la ready for bust- j
i aeas and has already transacted con
siderable business is shown by the fact
that at least three of tts members have
snumeo on oy in* suiciue route wiin
ln a period of as many months.
Ths fact of th* existence of the organ
ization became known to the police la
an Investigation Into the death of Oraee
Ashton, Its latest victim. She died from
morphine poteonlng on a third attempt
at suicide, both of her tftevious attempts
having been frustrated through season
able discovery by friends.
Another young woman friend of Miss
Ashton attempted suicide by taking poi
son. but recovered, and It was through
hsr that the existence of the club was
mads known. The club Is regularly or
ganised with a strong membership—all
young women—and holds meetings at
regular Intervals. It transpires that at
sash meeting a new victim Is chosen by
lot, who Is to “pass off” before the time
tor the next meeting by one of the usual
methods adopted In such easee, the par
ticular mode being optional with the can
didate.
Philippine Poaltfon* Wot Wonted.
Positions In the Philippines seem to
go begging. Several months ago CoL
Edwards, chief of the Insular bureau,
i ealted upon th# civil service commis
sion to certify candidates for 150
teachers' positions paying from $2,000
to $000 per annum. There were few
applicants, fewer took the examina
tion, and only 42 were found eligible
for appointment Another examlna
I tion will, therefore, be held early la
October. The Insular bureau will not
permit women to take the examina
tion for these positions, and the du
ties or pay of pedagogue do not seem
to appeal to the youag men of the
country.
Part of th* Population.
Paris uses 200,000,000 snails as food
annually. And yet, says the Washing*
itar, the town is m< so slow.
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