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firural Amrmb y of Arkansas.
HOC9S.
Mono'at. December 7th.
Brooks moved to postpone the con
■{deration of the resolution instructing
the eonimittoe on education to report
a bill dispensing with circuit superin
tendents until to-morrow morning.
Frnno desired to dispose of the
matter at once.
The motion prevailed.
Fenno gave notice that lie would
introduce a bill amending the revenue
law and reducing the state tax from **
to J^th per cent.
A memorial for the relief of certain
securities for a defaulting deputy
sheriff of Marion county was referred
to the appropriate committee.
Petition asking for tlie time to he
fixed for holding the county court of
Sharp, was read and referred.
Smith presented the claim ol the
assessor of Columbia county and asked
its reference to the committee on
claims with a view to consider the
propriety of covering the case with a
general law as a similar state ol allairs
existed in every country.
French favored such reference as the
auditor was not authorized to pay for
■two assessments in one year, and the
new revenue law had required a second
after the first had been performed.
So referred.
Brooks introduced a resolution invi
ting the ladies to at tenet the session of
the houses. Rules suspended and
resolution adopted.
Gray, of Phillips, was put on the
judiciary committee to fill the tempo
rary vacancy of Hodges.
Wishard gave notice of the intro
duction of a bill to change the time ot
holding the probate court of Yell
county.
.. ..lor. .r I run of the i II t rod UC t 'toll
of a bill to preserve the peace.
A bill defining bow chattel inort
gages should be filed, was referred to
the judiciary committer.
The following bills were intodured :
Bill amending tbe revenue law.
Bead by title and ordered printed.
Bill to amend the law dividing the
• tale into ten judicial circuits, and fix
ing time of holding courts. 11 o ter red
judiciary committee.
Bill to regulate the hunting and kill
ing of ling*.
Bill to regulate labor and to provide
for the-punishment of escaped con
victs.
Bill requiring persons holding two
or more offices to resign all but one.
Bill to regulate elections, fixing the
term of office in cities and villages,
regulating the collection ot taxes, etc.,
in the state, was read and referred.
A bill to repeal the law, in reference
to the granting of pardon and Amnesty,
was read a seeon 1 time.
Fenuo favored its indefinite post
ponement.
Withdrawn and referred to the judi
ciary committee.
Bill to protect stock raisers, refferred
to agricultural committee.
Bill to amend Sec. 3,_of an ad to
assess and co’Iect taxes, was read ami
referred to the committee on public
expenditures.
The bill exempts personal property,
to the amount of SdOd, from taxation.
Senate hill allow the modifying ot
railroad lines, was read, and the usual
number ordered printed.
Senate bill authorizing the holding
ofau extra session, of the circuit court,
in Sebastian county, was amended as
recommended ivy the judiciary com
mittee, and ordered engrossed.
Senate hill, to amend (lie charter ol
the Little Bock and Fort Towson rail
road company, was read and ordered
printed
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Fitch ; was referred to judiciary com
mittee.
House joint resolution, asking* tin
approval of the title to certain swamp
lands, was referred to Judiciary com
mittee.
H>>usu bill making an appropriation
of $25,030 was passed.
The hill HUth arizing county collec
tors to collect 10 per cent of llie taxei
in greenbacks was put upon its final
passage and lost.
Adjourned.
I
BOl’SK.
Thursday. Dec. 8.
Tlie house was occupied in the dis
cussion of the school law. It went inti
committee of tlie whole immediately
after Hie reading of the Journals, auc
extended remarks were made oil tin
sn&ject in hand by Messrs Brooks am
Bjitler (rad.,) and Jflchols (deni.)
The discussion arose upon an amend
ment to strike out from a resolution di
reeling the committee on education ti
report a hill amending Hie school lav
so as to dispense with the assistant, su
pcrintendenls, words which in eflcc
would leave it optional with the com
mitlee to make Hie change suggcstei
or any other in their discretion. Iiitli
course of his remarks Mr. Brooks an
nounced himself a* opposed to the cir
cuit superintendents because li
thought them impracticable and be
cause Hie $30,000 required for their sal
aries might be saved, or made tovieh
a better return.
It had been stated that theseassistan
superintendents were performing nsor
of missionary " labor fit going abou
their respective districts and awaken
iog au iuterest iu the public mind o:
i
iUi* (wbjrct *ef eduifftfi&rt. He knew
something of missionary 'work and to
; say the least an expenditure of $10,000,
or even a less sum would effect that end
far more effectually. The member of
this body, public men and the press of
of the stale. Irrespective of party or
politics would perform this labor. We
wanted something efficient and practi
■ cal. A minister of the gospel once ask
ing a parishioner to pray was told to
' do it himself as he was paid for it. The
| work of creating an interest in the
( minds of the people could be more ef
fectuallv accomplished than to look for
its accomplishment to ten high-salaried
! officers. He did not believe that by a
I hot-bed contrivance an effective school
system could be sprouted in a short
j time. It must grow up with the coun
try. and its perfection would be the
! work of years. The people were sen
sitive on the finance question, and the
coining among them of these officers
would tend to excite prejudice. The
object sought by the superintendent
system could be more thoroughly ac
complished by selecting co-workers
front among the people.
The speaker was eminently practica
ble in his remarks, and was listened to
with deep interest.
lltttler, of Helena, followed. The
! present law was a compilation of the
school laws of eight states, foremost
among those known to be most thor
| oughly interested on the subject of ed
ucation. It had cost a former conimit
i tee that prepared it, much patient la
j bor, and he was opposed to setting it
aside.
butler's remarks were extended, lie
quoted some I.atin. .and exhibited more
zeal than practical sense, plainly mis
understanding tin* points ot objection
made by tbe speaker who preceded him.
Mr. Nichols (dem.) said he was a
representative of tlie ku-klux democ
racy. so-called, hut he failed to have
the scull and cross-bones. He had been
i interested in tne work of education ail
his life, and was anxious for an efficient
' school system in Arkansas. He had
obtained and carefully perused the
. I.n.,1 I .. 11* d ill* PlillllC’ll.dllia VllIV
York uiul Massachusetts—three of tlie
leading states in educational matters—
and failed to find a provision corres
ponding to this extraordinary feature
of our school laiv. The system of our
country superintendents had been
found to work satisfactorily, and tlie
labor that now cost $30,000 per annum
j could be far more effectually accom
plished without expense. Ke could
vouch for his district. An efficient,
therouglt man could be found in each
: county, who would faithfully perform
! the duties incident to the position
without charge, and the same was true
throughout the state, lie wanted tin
1 public expenditures reduced in every
possible way.
Mr. Nichols is an excellent debater
: and an attractive speaker. Ilis view
I of the matter was practical and carri
ed great weight.
Brooks followed by way of rejoinder
! to Butler, going over the whole ground
with a force that carried conviction to
every mind. The amendment was voted
down and the original resolution pass
ed the committee of the whole with but
| lour or five dissenting voices.
The speaker then took the chair, and
the resolution passed the house.
Adjourned.
j Proclamation for (be Governor.
YY'hekeas. The secretary of State has
least up and arranged in my presence
the votes cast for representatives in
j the forty first congress of the United
j States, at an election held in this state
on the third day of November, \. l»
! ISfiS, as shown by the returns of the
clerks of the county courts of the vari
1 ons counties in this state.
Now. Thekkf.ike, I. Powell Clayton,
tl 1 T II I Uli Ul kMC OIIIIIUI III v « O IVll ill
ine as governor of the state of Arkan
sas do hereby proclaim that the lolloiv
ing named persons, to-wlt:
Logan li. Hoots for the firs' district;
A. A. C. Rogers for the second district;
Thomas Boles for the third district:
are respectively and duly elected to
represent the state in the house 01
representatives oftho forty first con
gress of the United States, it being
; shown by said returns tlint they have
received the highest number of votes
cast in their respective districts at said
; election.
In testimony wherof, I have
hereto set my hand and caused
[seal] the seal of the state of Arkan
sas to be affixed at Little Rock
; ’ this, the 5th day of December.
i | A. ,D. I8fi8..
I 1*0WELL CLAYTON.
By the Governor, Governor.
RoBEur J. T. White,
Secretary of State.
J! Depend on Youuself-—Most young
men consider it a misfortune to bf
( born poor, or not to have capital
enough to establish tlisniselves at theii
I outset in life in a good and comfort
able ^business. This is a mistaken no
tlon. So far from poverty being si
misfortune to them, if we may judgi
from what we daily behold. It is really
a blessing ; the chances are more than
ten to oue against him who starts with
I a fortune Most rich men's sons die ii
poverty, while many poor men’s sont
( come to wealth and honor. It is i
blessing instead of a curse to have tc
( work out their own fortune.
•SrThe man who took a hold stand
i, resolved to bring it back.
The CMkroach.
BT JOSH BILL1B0S.
The cockroach iz s bug at large.
He It on* or the luxuries or civili
zation.
He iz easy to domeatlkate, yielding
gracefully to ordinary kindness, and
never deserting those who show him
proper acts of courtesy.
We are led to beleave, upon a closs
examination ov the outer crust ov these
fashionable marriage between the bru
nette plssmireand the “artikilus bevo,”
or common American giass-hopper.
Ho don’t leave the place lie wuz born
at upon the slightest provocation, like
the vagrant flea, or the ferocious bed
bug, and until death (orsome vile pow
der, the invensliun ov mnip knocks at
his front door, he and hiz brother and
stster may be seen with the naked eye,
ever and anon calmly climbing the
white sugar-bowl or running foot
■'pecs between the butterplates.
The cockroach iz born on the fust ov
May and the fust ov November, semi
annually, and iz reddy for use in fifteen
days from date.
They are born from an egg, four from
each egg, and consequently they arc all
ov them twins. There is nosuch thing
in tlie annals ov natur as a single cock
roach.
The maternal bug don’t sett upon
the egg as the goose or lien doth, but
leaves them lie around loose, like a
pint ov spilt mustard seed, and don’t
seem tew care a darn whether they git
ripe or not.
But I never knew a cockroach egg
fail tew put in an appearance. They
ate as sure tew hatch out and run us
Kauada thistles, or a had kold.
The cockroach iz ov two colors, sor
rel and black. They are always on the
move, and kau trot. I should say, on n
good track, and a good day, cluss tew
three minutes.
Their food seems tew consist, not so
much in what they eat as what they
travel, and often finding them dead in
in my soup at my boa'-ding-housc, I
have cum few the conclusion that cock
roaches can’t swim, but they can float.
Naturalists Imv also dcclaired that
the cockroach has no double teeth.
This iz aai important 1'nekt, and ought
tew he introduced into all the primary
school books of Anterika.
Hut the most interesting feature ov
this remarkable bugg is the lovciyuess
ov their natures. They kan't bite nor
sling, nor skratch, nor even law back.
They are so amiable that I huv even
known them tew stuck in (he butter,
and lay there all day, and not liollow
for help, and aktually die at last with
i broken heart.
To realize the meaknoss ov these un
complaining little fellers, let the phi I -
osophick mind just for one moment
compare them to the pesky flea, who
light upon man in hiz strength ami
woman in her weakness like u red hot
shot; or tew the warbling ipusketoC.
wild from a Nujersev cat-tail marsh,
with hiz dagger in his mouth akeing
for blood; or—borrow ov horrow !—
to the midnight bed-bug, who creeps
out ov a crack uz still and az lean az a
shadow, and hitches on tew the bosom
j of buty like a starved leech.
Evry man has a right tew pick hiz
I playmates, hut az tor me, I hud rather
! visit knee-keep among cockroaches
than tew hear tiie dying embers ov a
| single muskeeter's song in the room
jineing, or tew know that there wuz
ju-t one bed-hugg leit in the world,
| and he wu* waiting for mi kaudle tew
go out and me tew pitch into bed.
In conclusion, lew show that l aiul
fooling, I would be willing if I had
them, to swup ten fust-class fleas any
time for a small sized cockroach and if
the feller complained that I lmd shaved
him in the trade, I would return the
j cockroach ana swear wo waz oven.
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We Do Fade us a Leaf.
As the (rials of'life thicken, and the
dreams of other days fade one by one,
in the deep vista ot disappointed itope,
: the heart grows weary of the struggle,
and we begin to realize our insignifi
cance. Those who havo climbed lo
j the pitinacleof lame, or revel in iuxury
jUiuf wealth, go to the grave at last
! with the poor mendicant who begs
| pennies by tho wayside, and, like him,
; are soon forgotten. Generation alter
i generation, says an eloqucut modern
i writer, have felt as we feel, and their
! fellows were as active in life as ours
are now. They passed away as a
vapor, while nature wore the same as
pect of beauty as when her Creator
commanded Iter to be. And so like
wise shall it be when we are gone.
! Tlte heavens will be as bright over our
‘ grave as they are now around our
path; tlie world will have the same
attraction for offspring yet ut.born that
t site had once for ourselves, and that
she has now for out children. Yet a
little while and all this will have hap
pened ! Days will continue to move on,
and laughter and song will be heard in
the very chamber in which we died,
and tlie eye that mourned for us will
be dried, ami will glisten witli joy ;
and even our children will cease to
1 think of us. and will not remember to
lisp our name.
• • •
KjrJuhuny—Ms. you said there's a
time.for all things,didn't you? Moth
I er—Yes, dear, why do you ask ? John
ny—Because I want to know tho prop
or time for hookiug sugar out of the
i sugar-bowl,
Domestic Recipes.
To purify lard from salt which it of
ten contains, and which is sometimes
added to increase its weight, it is only
accessary to melt* it with two or three
times It* weight With boiling water,
nnd when still in a liquid state, agitate
it well and set it a side to cool. When
lard is wanted for ointment or pomades
it is always dcsiiable to free it from
all traces of salt.
Pickle fob Beef —For one hundred
pounds of beef take three quarts of
salt, half a pound of brown sugar, and
two ounces of ground black pepper,
mix in water enough to cover the meat;
let it boil; take oft’ the scum; tvhea
coo! pour it over the moat. Salt beef
should nil hr used up by the first of
May, as it does not keep well in warm
woather.
To TrY-oUT Lard.—A fanner's mode
of trying leaf lard, oue whicli produces
few scraps, is to add to every ten pounds
of rough lard a tablespoonful of sale
ratus during the process of trving-out.
We have tried the experiment, nnd can
epe^k from our ow'n experience. In
Irving-out seven pounds of lard there
was less than a quarter of a pound of
scrap-waste.
To Cure Bacon Sides.— Sail well
with good sail, three spoonsful of rod
pepper, pounded, to a half bushel of
salt. After lying in salt five or six
weeks, hang up and smoko well with
green hickory wood. Keep them hang
ing in a tall close smoke house until
used.
To Prevent Fading in Domestic
Calicoes when Washed.—To each ten
gallons of water in which the goods
are to be washed, add a mixture of one
ounce of common salt dissolved in one
gill of cold water, with three tahlc
spoonsful of beef gall. By this process
the colors whicli in domestic cotton
goods are exceedingly apt to fade, may
be rendered permanent. This mixture
however, should he added to the. water
at each washing, in order to insure
success.
To Prevent RnsT on Plows.—A cor
respondent of the Rural World gives
tlie following, wlu^li lie says he Inis
tried suceeMl'ully; it is simple and
worth adopting: "None but the plow
man knows the advantage of having a
bright plow. The writer lias tried a
great many articles to prevrnt plows
and other agricultural implements from
rusting. There is nothing so good and
handy as patent axle-grease. I have
have used tallow, paint, and Japan
varnish, but the axle-grease is always
convenient and easily applied.'
Preaently.
Never say you will do presently
what your reason or your conscience
tells you should be done now. No
man ever shaped bis own destiny or
the destinies of others, yvisel valid well,
who dealt much in piesenties. Look
at nature. .She never postpones. When
tlie linfe arrives for tin- buds to open,
they open—for the leaves to tall,,they
fall.—Look upward. The shining
worlds never put otf their risings or
their settings. The comets even,
erratic as they are, keep their appoint
ments; and eclipses are always punc
tual to tlie minute. There are no de
lays \u any of the movements of tint
universe which have been pre-deter
iniued bv tlie absolute will of the cre
ator. Porcrastination among the stars
might involve tlie destruction of innu
merable systems; procrastination in
ilie operations of nature <m this earth,
might result in famine, pestilence, and
the blotting out of the human race.
Man. however, bring a free agent, can
postpone tlie performance of his'duty ;
and lie does so, too frequently to his
own destruction. Tlie drafts drawn
by indolence upon tlie future are pret
' * ««» uc uisumnM ru. iuriivV IIIfXV
vour banker. Do not say you will
economize presently, tor presently may
bo bankrupt; for llmt you will repent
na«l make atonement presently, for
presently you may be judged. Dear
in nVnd the important fact, taught
alike by the history of nations, rulers
am} private individuals, that in at least
tl/beo cases out ot five, presently is too
late.
To Make Cow* Give Milk.
A writer, who says his cow gives all
the milk that is wanted in a family of
eight persons, and from which was
made two hundred and sixty pounds
of liutter this year, gives, the follow
ing as his treatment. He says: “If
you desire to get a large yield of rich
milk, give vour cow, three times a day,
water slightly warm, slightly salted, in
which bran has been stirred at the rate
of one quart to two gallons of water.
You will find, if you liavo not tried
this daily practice, that your cow will
give twenty-five per cent more milk
inimediatly under the effect of it, sod
• lie will become so attached to the diet
as to refuse to drink clear water, unless
very thirsty ; but this mess she will
drink almost any time, and ‘ask lor
more.' The amount of this drink
necessary is an ordinary water pailful
rarh time, morning, noon and night.
Four hundred pounds of butter arc of
ten obtained from good stock, and
instances are mentioned where tlie
yield was even at a higher figure.”
-»>•■•>
Ifl^Thc girl who wanted to “kiss
him for Ids mother,” concluded, after
site got a taste, that she would go in
ou her own aocouul hereafter.
An Eloquent Tribute to the Wo
nien of the Soutti.
The following beautiful compliment to
the daughters of Mississippi is from a re
cent address delivered by en. Albert
Pike, in De Soto County, Miss :
Afo there, wives, sisters, daughters of
the men of J/ississippi. I cannot speak to
yon. No angel has touched my lips with
the burning coals from the altar of the
sacrifice. 1 leave to others the fine phra
ses and the empty compliments that you
would not value hat you have dune
iu ihe past is sufficient guarantee of your
heroism and devotion in the future You
have mure than rivalled, you have ex
celled t he women of Saragossa and Verona
and the Hebrew matrons and maideu3
who helped to defend the holy city of
Jerusalem ugaiusi the legions ot Vespasian.
Y'ou will also do your duty in the days,
dark or bright, that are to come You
will teach lliose who love your fidelity to
principle amid all temptations to prefer
honor lo prosperity, and the dangerous
truth to the safe end profitable falsehood ;
constancy and courage, and the manly
and hopeful endurance that befits a limn.
You are the couijuerors who take all men
captive, and whose silken tellers, stronger
than tempered bteol we are glad and proud
to wear Into our souls your eyes seem
like stars, and we bow down and worship,
und in love find new strength to undertake
great enterprises or endure great calami
ties. U ! flowers brought to us by the an
gela from the Garden of Paradise, you
bloom here to bless, to encourage and to
console. \Ve are all your willing slaves.
Age gives no exception from that service:
for, in ihe sad und sober autumn of our
days we still covet the loving smile mid
loving look that can be ours no more
The sober autumn of our days! For you
the bright and glad anticipulioua of ihu
future, the dreams that make youth's hap
piness; for us the memories of the past,
ot joys and sorrows intermingled, of hopes
and loves, and hitter disappointments and
cruel losses, of the days that are no mute.
Our country, also, our own dear Southland
licit yuii iuvo t«i well, lus its memories ol
tile past, of a glad, bright dawn and a
morning mil ul promise, that darkened in
to a day lull uf gloom, terror and disaster
Out of that dalknusstho fares uf our dead
look sadly, and pityingly, and lovingly up
oti us i tiey have not died in vain 'flu
laud they died for shall yet reap tiie fruit
of the gto.it sacrifice. Our country, also,
has its hopes that are not delusive for the
future. To it, tlie sober autumn days
have trot Come—nor evtn those of lii« s
summer. l‘or it, the rosy days of spring
have not departed, though the immurttlla»
planted by angels bloom on many grates
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How nutto Make a Vii.lagbUrow.
— It you wish to keep a town iium
thriving, don't put up any more build
ings than you can conveniently occu
py yourselves. It you should accident
ally have an empty dwelling and any
one wants to rent it, ask him about
three time* 1 lie value ol it. Demuiid a
Shyloefc price tor every spot ol ground
(jod lias given you stewardship over,
i uru a cold shoulder to every inechauic
or business mail who seeks a home
among you. Look at every now comer
with a scowl, liun down tire Work ol
every new workingman. Uu abroad
rather than trade with those who do
business in your midst. Tan to adver
tise, so that people abroad may not
know w lictiier any business is going on
in your town or not. Wrap yuursell
up wijb a coat ct impervious seltish
itcss. There is no more effectual way
to retard the growth of a town than
actions like those enumerated.—-Somer
set Messenger.
tgrTlic uimdens of Chicago have
learned a trick or two from the married
women as to the power ol the courts One
of them kept her betrothed on his good
hehuiviur by threat of a suit for breach ot
promise ll lie was absent from her for
two days there came a note; •'Darluu, if 1
do m>t see you iu two hours 1 shall com
uicuoe the suit Thy adoring Marion '
Naturrlly he went. If she wished logo
to a concert, uud he did not pr. less a will
ingness to escort her, there came a note
“My own Thorney, the papers are in the
hands of a lawyer, faithfully yours.'
The youth endured all until sho insisted
on his taking a class in an infant Sunday
school and cut oil his imperial. Then ho
had her arrested for disorderly conduct.
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Winter I*ri:nino—I* it lxjt rious?
— A correspondent of the Rural World
gives his experience in regard to win
ter pruning its follows;
“I believe it is almost universally
staled as a fact, by horticultural books
and papers, that it is injurious to prune
in ii-vci'tj cold weather, and is believed
by most, if not all orchardists, to be
true : my experience, however, proves
the contrary. Last winter 1 pruned
some young trees in my orchard when
they were frozen ; and, ns I wanted all
the wood I could get for grafting, 1
cut evertilling that could be spared,
ami also cut away some pretty large
limbs, so that for the size of the trees,
it was a very severe pruuuiiig indeed—
and it did not hurt them in the least,
and they are just as thrifty and healthy
as other trees pruned in warmer
we tiller: so that in the future 1 shall
take but little lieed of the weather, uud
, pruue when most convenient.”
t Pair of Klaei Intercepted.
When Parson G., of this city, mar
ried liis present amiable wife, they, in
company with Mr. M. and his wife,
started off on a Inidal tour to Cincin
nati. On appronrhiug near the tunnel
on the way, Mrs. M. inquired how
long it was. Mrs. G. laughingly re
plied : “Just long enough for me to
kiss my hnsbnud. Very soon after,
the train glided into the darkness of
the tunnel, when Mrs. M., who was
sitting in the seat just bark of that in
which the bride and groom were ait
ting. was ready to play a little joke
upon the loving couple if they should
attempt to kiss in the tunnel. Mrs. M.
could only sec as through a glass dark
ly, hut with t lie aid of a little fortunate
guessing she was enabled to gently
slip her hand between their fares, just
in the nick of time, and intercepted n
pair of kisses fervent as the love of a
bride of one score and ten and a bride
groom of three score and tive could
get them up. There’s many a "slip
'twixt rttp and lip.” So in this case,
tiie course of true love never did run
smooth. Mrs. M.'s hand caught botli
kisses, nnd she lifted up her voice and
laughed—how could she help it ?
When the train emerged from darkness
into broad daylight, there sat the lov
ing couple, rendered doubly attractive
by the deep and burning blushes which
testified that they bad at. last attempted
a kiss in the dark.—Indianapolis Mir
ror.
Scene In a School Room.
“Fuss class'll jografer!”
“Yetli'm.’’
“Tommus what's the biggest river in
Amcriky?”
“The Totnhigbce. znr—Ike, he keeps
pinchiit me.”
-He pinched me fust, and I pinched
him back again.”
“Take your scat—fuss class in par
sing”
“Yetli’m.”
“A-r-k ark, a-n-s-arkans, ass-s Ar
kansas.”
“Pronounce it Arkansaw—but Tom
inns, you uiut parsiti , you spellm
child.”
*•() yeth'm; Uyrkansaw i« a noun,
objective case, indicative mood, com
parntive degree, third person, and
nominative rase to scissors.”
“Y"u linvn't said what gender. Tom -
mils.”
“Feminine gender.”
“Why?"
Cos its
“Next. ’
■•Cos its a sliemale I"
“Next."
“Duniio, zitr.”
“Come, David, you know."
"Yeth m—why enz it's got Miss
Souri on the norf, Louisa Ann oil the
soul'. Mis. Sippi <m the east,an'ever so
ninny she males on the west.”
"Very well, David you may go to
the head—you're a rising genius, nil'll
make a man before your mother.”
"Yeth'm.”
-<•-*-»
Clo to Steep Karty,
Many children, instead of being
plump as a peach, are as wrinkled as a
last year’s apple, because they dont
sleep 'enough. Some physicans think
the hones only grow during sleep.
This I cannot say certainly, but 1 do
say that those little folks ft ho sit up
late at nights are usually nervous,
weak, small and sickly. The reason
why you need more sleep tlinn your
parents is because you have to grow
ami they do not. They can use up the
food they oat in thinking, talking and
working, while you should save some
of yours for growing. You ought to
sleep a great deal; if you do not, you
will in activity consume all you eat,
mid have none, or not enough to grow
with. Very few smart children excel,
or even equal, other people when they
grow up. Why is this? Because their
(leads, if not their bodies, arc kept to
busy ; so they cannot Bleep, rest ami go
strong in body and brain. Now, when
vonr mother says Susie, or Nancy, or
whatever your name may be, it is time
to go to bed, do not worry her by beg
ging to sit no ‘'just a little longer.”
But hurry off to your chamber, remem
bering that you have a great deal of
slipping and growing to do to make
yon a healthy, happy, useful man or
woman.
Bran for Horae*.
Bran for horses 1 rind an excellent an
tidote to the constipating effects of
corn meal. It is a regulator. Horses
fed through winter upon tine feed are
linble to sickness in spring. This 1
avoid by feeding bran with meal, as it
loosens the bowels. When the bowels
are too loose, 1 feed upon meal “klone
to correct it. Sulphur is given by
some, to cleanse out (lie system in
spring; but not approving the use ol
drugs—considering them more or less
as poisons—I contrive to avoid Iheiu,
believing no horse the better for tak
ing them.—li. B. in Practical Farmer.
Answering the same purpose as
bran, referred to by our correspondent
above, we would also recommend tor
horses the occasional use of carrots.
They keep the coat in tine condition
through the winter, ai d aid digestion
of other food. Ed. P. F.
(^■‘•There, John,that's twice you've
come home and forgotten that lard.”
••Li, mother, it was so greasy that it
I slipped my mind.''
IjrWdiiwn generly respect men in pro
portion as they possess good and worthy
qualities. Women are not foolx ; nor are
all men. It is worth while for every man
to possess something worthy theadmiration
of women ; in other words, to have some
sort of a possession, more or less that is
intrins cally valuable. Good looks e >me of
nature, but almost everything else comes
from man’s own effort. Women have no
respeet for mere dummies and figure-heads
—shells or skeletons—but they like reali
ties- We repeat, women are not fools; al
hough they are near very near them
when in gome men's company
ffs^Out of one hundred cases of double
barreled gun bursting, ninety five can be
traced to defects in the left barel The
reason is simply that the right is most fre
quently used and reloaded, pet haps ten
times to the left one being discharged
once. Every time the right barrel is dis
charged, the gunpowder in the left is
pulverised more or less by the shock,
whioh, therefore, leaves a space between
the charge and the wadding by selling
Naturally, when the left barrel is dis
charged, it frequently explodes. These
^ accidents can he avoided by sending the
ramrod home with one or two smart blows
into the non discharged barrel every time
the other is reloaded.
Women are mistaken when they
suppose a small foot an element of
beauty. A foot should bear a just pro
portion to the figure; if too largo it
argues coarseness, and gives a heavi
ness to the manner, forbidding ease
ami grace of movement. Dress lias
great effect upon the foot, and very
long dresses are not adapted to exhibit
it to advantage. A foot should he
arched, fairly rounded, and its length
proportioned to the height of the in
dividual. It should have a delicate
spring to it, and the ankle should be
rounded and firm.
JgjrAn oid unloved deacon, in his
last hour, was visited by his neighbor,
.— I _ • 1 11 Ilf ..It .1_ ¥ I.__ ......
feel resigned in going,” "Y-e-e-s,” said
t!ie deacon, ‘‘1—I think I—I am re
signed." ••Well," said tlie other, ‘-I
thought it might be consoling to you
to know tImt all the neighbors are re
signed also.”
Just So.—If a drunken man, could,
in the midst of Ida inebriety, be made
conscious of what a contemptible fool
he makes of himself, it would lie apt to
at least shame him into moderation, if
not into a total rejection of the intoxi
cating cup. A drunkard dies not re
alizing ids own degradation, for the
reason that at the time the degradation
is at tiie greatest depth, his senses are
steeped in obscurity.
jegrllow does a horse regard a man?
As the source of all his whoas.
jyfWhy is a mouse like a load of
| ha; ? Because the cat'll eat it,
j ftsgr-The following is Aunt Betsey's
| description of her milkman : “He is the
meanest man in the world.” she ex
claimed. ‘ He skims his miik on top,
then turns it over and skims it on the
bottom.”
I'UOFKSSIOXAL CARDS.
T. .11. oiiisoy,
Attorney at Law
AND C. S. CLAIM AGENT,
DEVALL’H VILUFF, AUK.
VUKANSAS having b on added to the ju
risdiciion of the Court of Claims at
Washington, the undersigned hereby gives
notice that he is prepared to receive ami col
iectfall claims held by loyal persons for Stock
Forage, Supplies and Property of any and a!)
kinds taken by Federal officers or soldiers
for ibe use of the government. Come and sec
me. ’Fees moderate. No charge for advice.
sepB-tim
•DP., r. W. ETJUSTET,
Keiug permanently located at lies Arc.
i will continue the practice of liis profession iu
1 all its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Kurnev's Krug Store.
| ____
DR. ROB T. B. TREZEVANT.
Tenders hi* professional service^ to
the citizens of lies Arc and vicinity.
| Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
sepil
B. F. Johnson.
D UUGGIS T,
DES ABO, AEKANSAS.
TT’EEP on hand a largeassortinent of Drugs
|\. Medicines. Paints, <»iU. Perfumery.
Parent Medicines. Wines, Brandies. Whiskey,
for medical purposes, which he will soil low,
Prescriptions and orders filled promptly.
* Terms cash. fcb. lo, 1808.
F. LEPTIEN,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
1AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL
kind* of work in my Hue. Mend
i ing, Cleaning. &c.
-Thankful for past favors, I solicit »<
continuance of the patronage heretofore be
! stowed ou me. fab28-if
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Z. Pi H. FARR,
A.YYOXUTSY AY LAW,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
J. E. GATEWOOD, J. 8. TflOMAS,
GATEWO 0 A THOMAS,
AttQtMtf At RAW
DEI ARC, ARKANSAS.
H. 3?. Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DE? ARC. ARKANSAS.
WILL praotiee in the Courts of the conntie,
of Prairie. White, Jackson, Woodruff end
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where in the State,
septtf. f'
T. E. EMERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL, LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY. ARK.
Special attention given to tLe collection
and securing claims, buying and selling lands,
paylug taxes, examing titles, &c. april 11
A. R. P. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
TV ill practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, amt (lie Circuit Courts of
the ..rentit Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all business entrusted to his
care. janl2
R. »• QAWTT. W. J. BWOXAUGf?
GANTT Sr. BUON ATJGH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to collection of
clams. aprl4
W. J. ROGERS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BROWNSVILLE. ARKANSAS.
Prompt attention given to th- Collection
of Claims, Investigation of Land Titles. Pay
ment of Taxes, itc. my 10
JAMES H. I>ATTEKSON, LUCIAN C. GAC8E,
Auymta. Ark. Juckxonpori, .1 rk.
Patterson & Cause.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Jaeksnnport aid Augusta, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Counties of Woodruff,
Jackson, Independence, While. Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, auti
•"end-to special cases.iu any part of the
State. Address either ofliee " myI8-ly
J. C. JONSOty Office—West Point. Arkansas.
JNO. M. M'HMtU, Uifice—Searcy, Arkansas.
* JOSSOST & MOORE,
Attorney at Law,
SOLICITORS IX CUAXCERY,
—AND —
ueneral Land and Coliteting Agents,
8K.1RCY, ARKANHAH.
M ii.i. give prompt attention to any husines^
in the countie* of Independence. lack son.
Woodruff. Monroe, Prairie, White. Conway
and Van Buren. mar9>
SOL. F. CLARK. BAM W. WILLIAMS
Clark & "William**.
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE MUCK, 4KKWS.4S
WIM. practice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, ooNect debts. and
ai t as Ural K*ta1e anil dtneral *gmts.
Orrtcx—Markham Sireot. near State House
aprili8-tf
TAMES J. GALLAGHEB,
Attot nry at Lnw,
COTTOy PL A XT, WOODRUFF CO. AR
Will practice where called.
s«p28~tf.
WM. B. COODY. D. MC BAS
COODY & MoRAE,
At* At &AW
SEARCY, WHITE COUNTY,
AUKAXHAH.
Will practice in all the Courts of Arkansas
Uiur24
— —j-. _
Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
TENDERS his professional services to the
Citiienn of Dee Aro and surrounding
j country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob
stetrics. He hopes from an experience of
over fifteen years in Southern practice, t„
merit a share of public patronage.
Office one door East of Burney’s iHttg
Biers. urekAlMEi,