text: Sto (loiiaH SieMttL dß\ hi,.--. ./• Directory* MK RELIGIOUS K..■„,„,” l HH, ri -|,SP<- 1. 1 K UJ <S&i, l t-undaya IU each " ■is..., pastor. Everybody Invited. ■L.ta-.-s.d.s.l at thv MetUOdlßt church. tcd to conic. Superintendent. orricr.\L. 3* r. :,.-f niqtriet—P D. McCulloch ■congrersman, f inf D » t e Marianna. Lee county Second Dht-D. L. King. ■X.; t..t t.it. iti in=t- --nu • ■^ S X‘>Bth Diet—r. H. Cronauaw. B’sX'r'n,eaTV-R' l'r< v 'imt>ve- *’• Judge—t.. Smith. Clerk—H. Hill. M Sheriff— Jasper Hutchison. |S Assessor—T. A. Harrell. Treasurer—E. L. Dickson, co. Examiners—J. A. Rakin in Southern Vistnct, J.. Kagan in North. ■ THE COURTS. 98 Circuit Court X. Diet—First Monday in January and July. In Dial-Second. Monday In Monday in January, April. ■ “’teXu LS idst-Jn I Monday in March, June, September and December. WILKERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW BATESVILLE, ARK. DR. G. E. CRAIG Physician and Surgeon, EVENING SIDE, ARK., Offers professional service to the citizens and vicinity. W. T. ATKINSON- ATTORNEY AT LAW. Upstairs in the courts of the State and in the Federal court at EVENING SHADE, ARK. J. L. ABEL, attorney. Will practice in the courts, and give full attention to legal business of every kind when employed. Address: Batesville or Evening Shade, Ark. I. J. DAVIDSON, IP. AND EVENING SHADE, ARKANSAS. Agreements of lease, acknowledge notes, affidavit to accounts, Depositions and renewal of mortgages taken. Abstracts of title furnished. Bills of sale, bonds for title, deeds of trust—personalty and realty—deeds, quit-claim, husbands, unmarried persons, wives and children, warrant;, with relinquishment of powers of labor contracts, mortgages—real estate, chattel and crop—and powers of attorney, written and acknowledged on reasonable terms. Applications for homesteads and pre-emptions and donations prepared and patents procured. Applications for redemption of lands from state and petitions to refund taxes erroneously paid. I have had occasion to use your Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine and am pleased to say that I never used anything for stock that gave half as good satisfaction. I heartily recommend it to all owners of stock. J. B. BELSHER, St. Louis, Mo. Sick stock or poultry should not eat cheap stock food any more than sick persons should expect to be cured by food. When your stock and poultry are sick, give them medicine. Don't stuff them with worthless stock foods. I load the bowels and stir up the torpid liver and the animal will be cured, if it be possible to cure it. Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine unloads the bowels and stirs up the torpid liver. It cures every malady of stock if taken in time. Secure a 25-cent can of Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine and it will pay for itself ten times over. Horses work better. Cows give more milk. Hogs gain flesh. And hens lay more eggs. It solves the problem of making as much blood, flesh, and energy as possible out of the smallest amount of food consumed. Buy a can from your dealer. Vote for road tax next Monday. The democratic ticket is good enough for us. Coon Campbell didn't want the governor's office anyhow. Next Monday is the day to vote the democratic ticket. Senator Frye of Maine, who is now in his 71st year, is soon to wed a lady thirty years, his junior. There's one thing about Congressman Hugh Dinsmoye: He takes nothing, has, and is not bluffing... Says the Hardy Herald: "Vote for Jeff Davis for governor; we mean it. And oh, hold your noses; we mean that, too." Perhaps Boss Clayton is shaking in his shoes as the election approaches. It certainly looks a little dark for Marse Powell. By taxation is the most equitable way to build good roads, and the only way by which the country will ever have good roads. Col. George Dent, who is the republican nominee for county judge in Lawrence county, carries a string band with him on his canvas... The Sharp County Record wonders if the Telephone ever weeps over lost opportunities in Hoxie. Does the 'Phone's appeal ance indicate any such grief, Brother? Black Rock Telephone Not a bit. The Batesville Bee declares Big Bottom township is entitled to six hundred votes in the general election. Well, perhaps Big Bottom could furnish six hundred votes at a time other than the general election — a primary, for instance. True, it's none of our business, but somehow we can't help wondering if President Roosevelt has promised to recognize the republican faction of this state that polls the largest vote. — Jonesboro Times. That's As the way the insurgents tell it, Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader, is to return to farming. Aggy should come to Arkansas, where farming land is cheap, and where the legislature, in times of his deepest trouble, was good enough to pass a resolution loaded with sympathy, and all for him. On last Sunday night, Rev. W. E. Thompson, a Methodist pastor at Little Rock, preached a sermon on the “Battle of Billingsgate.” The sermon had a special bearing on the political campaigns that have been conducted in the state of Arkansas of late. Editor Hodges of the Spring Creek News, he who in politics follows his patron saint like a cur dog slunks after his master, continues to amuse himself by saying things about this paper. In a bum show, editor Hodges could play the heavyweight damphool to perfection. Next Monday settles the question whether Clayton and his lieutenants shall continue to control the pie counter, or whether Auten and his followers will be recognized as the dispensers of that article so dear to the heart of the federal office holder. It is up to the republican voters. Representative Poole of Calhoun county announces that at the next session of the legislature, he will introduce a bill making the office of superintendent of the state penitentiary elective by the people. Mr. Poole believes this to be the only solution of the matter. Gov. Davis is advocating a measure that will place the management of the penitentiary exclusively in the hands of the governor of the state. The Sharp County Record facetiously refers to the head guy, of this establishment as “the smoking editor of the Journal.” For the information of our misguided brother, We will state that, In the editor of the Journal neither smokes, chews, swears, or gets drunk. —Newark Journal. Did the editor of the Journal ever examine his shoulders? Perhaps wings are sprouting there. The populists deny that they have fused with the prohibitionists, and says it is only recommended that all populists vote for Kimball; After searching for a month for a man to carry the populist banner without success, the populist leaders should have been ashamed to force the rag on poor Kimball. They certainly have no respect for the dealings of Bro. Kimball. THE BOAT TAX. There will be no more vital issue before the people at the September election than the road tax, and it behooves them all to consider it well. It has been officially ascertained that 99 percent of the products of the farm must be hauled over the public roads to market, and the construction of the roads to fix the farmer’s profits. Over good roads, farm products can be moved at a cost of eight cents a ton per mile, while in 1896 it cost the farmers of Arkansas 25 cents a ton per mile, to market their crops. The difference in cost to the people of the State between good and bad roads is estimated to be not less than $3,000,000 a year. If the road tax fails, the roads will be again placed under the old law, which, during more than fifty years’ trial, never made a good road. Under this old law, the owners of but 25 percent of the property contributed anything towards keeping up the roads. Seventy-five percent of the wealth of the country contributed nothing. Under the new law, all the property of the county is equally taxed for that purpose. If the tax fails, the labor of 25 percent of the property owners must keep up the roads, if they are kept up at all. Under the new law, the burden is not so heavy on the man who has nothing but his labor, and the wealth of the country largely supports the roads. Of the $12,000 that a 3-mill tax will raise for this purpose, $9,000 would be paid by those who contribute nothing under the old law. And $12,000 wisely expended in good work will make better roads than any five years of the old road-working system ever made. The new law ought not to be abolished because its first trial has not in all things proved satisfactory. It will be amended and its administration corrected in every weak point developed. In this way its benefits will be equally distributed among all the people, and in a few years the county will profit largely from a splendid system of roads. —Batesville Guard. A Physician's Observation. “I have stood by the bedside of hundreds of dying people,” said an old physician at Topeka, “and I have yet to see a dying person shake a tear. No matter what the grief of the bystanders may be, the stricken person will show no sign of overpowering emotion.” I have seen a circle of agonized children around a dying mother — a mother who in health would have been touched to the quick by the signs of grief in a child — she reposed as calm and unemotional as though she had been made of stone. There is some strange and inexplicable psychological change which accompanies the act of dissolution. It is well known to all physicians that pain disappears as the end approaches. And nature seems to have arranged it so that mental peace shall also attend our last lingering moments. Gagged and Robbed. Stutgart, Aug. 22. — Deputy Postmaster Soekland of this place was held up, bound and gagged, Jay robbers about 7:30 o'clock last evening, as he was about to close the office. The robbers then took $500 in money and about $800 worth of stamps and made their escape. Soekland's groans attracted the attention of passers-by an hour later and he was released. The robbers had taken his watch. No clue so far. STATE NEWS. Miller county will build a $30,000 jail soon. Fort Smith has the only shoe factory in the state. The farms in Arkansas are worth over $85,000,000. Rust has appeared in cotton in the State. Pine Bluff has 2044 white and 2031 colored school children. There are 79,000 bachelors and 35,000 old maids in Arkansas. Three children in Helena were Bitten by a mad dog last week. R. R. Smith of Bald Knob has made $780 in two months, pearling. H. F. Westbrook, treasurer of Pine Bluff, died from heat on the 15th. A Perry county farmer owns 400 sheep, and finds the herd profitable. Wing & Co. of New York have presented the blind school with a fine piano. A great revival is in progress at Camden. There have been 250 conversions. The recruiting station at Jonesboro has sent 287 men to the army in the past year. The Ft. Smith broom factory has increased its capital from $5,000 to $10,000. The Conway Log Cabin received a melon the other day that weighed 75 pounds. A pressed brick factory is to be established at Nashville, with a capacity of 60,000 a day. Mrs. H. J. Abernathy of Siloam Springs was perhaps fatally poisoned by eating ice cream. Five railroad laborers at Dyer were overcome with heat Friday, and three died before midnight. Two metallic coils were recently unearthed in a prominent lot in Pine Bluff in which twins were buried in 1861. Pete McLaughlin had his hand badly bitten by a gar while fishing in Lee’s creek, near Van Buren, recently. M. Huggins, a prosperous merchant and farmer of Crawford county shot his wife and killed himself last week. A committee of Clarendon citizens notified the turbulent negroes that they must keep quiet or attend a lynching. Several men at Clarendon were made sick by drinking from a keg of beer. BANK OF EVENING SHADE. INCORPORATED. UNDER STATE LAW. 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Any and all job printing neat ly executed. * —PRICES RIGHT.— EKIJIIIW I, Jasper Hutchison, Sheriff of Sharp county, Arkansas, do here by proclaim and make known that there will be a general election held in the several townships in Sharp county, on Monday St'ptfMihrr.tx 1 > for the purpose of electing one Governor, one Secretary of State, one Auditor of State, one Treasurer of State, one Attorney General, one Superintendent of Public Instruction, one Commissioner of State Lands, one Commissioner of Agriculture, one Associate Jus tice of Supreme Court, one Prosecuting Attorney for the 16th Cir cuit, attwJtidgaJxmllßi IQth JujdioiHPUffcuit. one Representative in the General Assembly, one County and Probate Judge, one Sheriff and Collector, one Clerk circuit court, one County Treasurer, one Surveyor, one Tax Assessor, one Coroner and one constable and two justices of the peace for each township, for constitutional amendment or against constitutional amendment, for whiskey li cense or against whisky license, for road tax or against road tax. The election will be held at the following places in each township: Upper North township at Wirth, Lower North at Shride’s school house, North Union at Armstrong, South Union at J. C. Garner’s place, Jackson at Williford, Hardy at Hardy, Highland at school house, Davidson at King’s Mill, Richwoods at Ash Flat, Lave Creek at Camp Ground, Morgan at Center, Lebanon at Dotson school house, Strawberry at school house Dist. 15, Big Creek at Calamine, Scott at Shavers, Cave at Cave City, Big Rock at Mt. Pisgah, Washington at Powell’s Chapel, Sullivan at Brickie’s Spring, Johnson at Kirk’s store, Piney Fork at Evening Shade. Given under my hand this 11th day of August, Jasper Hutchison, Sheriff, Sharp County, Ark. of beer in the bottom of which they found a dead snake. Rev. H. M. Welch died at Cane Hill Washington county, last week from a carbuncle on his chin. He was 76 years old. John Johnson was arrested near Sonora, Washington county last week for killing his brother two years ago. He has since been hiding in the Indian Territory and had slipped back to his father’s house. A Pair of Fools. Janesville, Wis., August 22.— j Surrounded by forty fierce lions, ligers, bears, panthers, and other wild beasts, Miss Martha Calvin ’and Nels Swain were united in i marriage in the caged enclosure ' of the animal show connected with I the Elks’ street carnival. Justice i Earle performed the ceremony, No. 38 and was so nervous that he never , took his eyes off the beasts. The happy but frightened couple en -1 tcred the cage and stood in posi tion before the animals were al lowed into the ring. Ten animal i attendants stood guard, but, in spite of this the bride nearly I fainted when the first lion enter ed and stood facing her for fully i a minute. Five thousand people ( witnessed the ceremony, and a death-like silence was maintained j throughout the whole till the fri- I ghtened couple were safely out side the barred arena. ’Then congratulations were showered thick, the crowd nearly mobbing, the couple so eager was everyone, to shake their hands. The cou-i , pie was presented with S2OO inj cash and S2OO worth of furniture I I ■ Many Persons I Arc broken down from overwork or liousoholC , cares Brown’s Iron Bitters < rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes ex ccssof bile, aiid cures malaria.. 