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Goods called ear and deliyered to all iarts of the. town. ders received atE P. eed’s Drug Store 3 Wall Street. With telephone connection un- m‘ c E. LOCK woon. ARKANSAS DIAMONDS. I Worthless Bits of Quarts and the Duel 'Ihey Caused. In no book on modern dueling have I been able to find even a suggestion of one of the best stories on this subject that I ever heard. Accountable for this are two facts—the incident had its oc- currence many years ago and the scene of it was in a place that, even in this day of railroads, is not overly accessi- ble. I was waiting for a stage in one of the back settlements in one of the moun— tain counties of Arkansas one day last summer, when one of the. old settlers of the community addressed me; “I see in a Leet-le Rock paper thuther day,” he said, “that there’s bin some di’mands found over in Africy." “There’s nothing new in that,” I re- plied. “But the field has been broad- ened, in speculation at least, until the excitement has growu tremendously.” “Wall, I don’t keer none,” the old fel- low remarked. “I ain’t goin’——I only had an idea thet it might be all a hoax like a di’mand find we oncet hed was a hoax.” “Did you‘ think there were diamonds in this part of the mountains?” I in- quired. “Think! We knowed it fer awhile, but after a scientific feller come here, and after a dooel of some size we learned diflrunt.” The old man climbed to the top of a barrel in the one store of the town in which the conversation was taking place, and as he mentioned the duel half a dozen of the loungers who were more interested in me than they were in the old man’s talk, craned their necks and almost in achorus exclaimed: “Tell erbout thet dooel.” Then one of them said: “Yer allus talkin’ about it, but it ain’t offen ye say much more’n it jest happened." The old man appeared to be flattered. He looked at me with the'air of one who had an undisputed position in the com- munity and was proud of it. I took up the cause of the native mountaineer boys who were lounging about the place. “Go ahead with the story,” I said. “W’e’ll have a drop from the proprietdr to wet your whistle properly and then we’ll listen.” “I never talk about thet dooel,” the old man said. “These young rollers hev all heered their daddies ta I; about it, anyhow.” There was a long silence. In the meantime the lank, slip-shod back- woodsman who was running the store had brought out a. bottle of white liquor, better known as moonshine. whisky, with a rusty tin cup, out of which every- one took a drink. One hears much talk of bad whisky sold over bars in large cities, but one never knows what liquid fire and brimstone are until he has had a swallow of the whisky that is to be had at the backwood’s stills of the mountain districts of this country. Revenue officials have cleared out many an illicit distillery, but they exist even now in some parts of the south in a thriving way. ‘ “Them things looked like diamonds, anyway,” the old man remarked, as he thoughtfully smacked , his lips and passed the cup to the next one. “Thet was in the ’40's, I reckon, and the few of us as was here didn’t know much about the country. Our folks had come to the uplands after the sinking of the land over at New Madrid 30 years be- fore, and here they stuck, just as I hev stuck seence thet time. There was no noospapers and no railroads Onct an awhile there was a steamboat and thet's the only way we ever got much word from the outside world. The Pearsoll boys was the liveliest fellers in the settlement, and 01101 a year one of them would go to l\'oo Orleans and sell some of the hides that we got together. When he was down there he’d get ideas of things thet we didn’t know nothin’ about. One of the boys would go one time and one another, and each time thet they went there was a big time around, I’ll tell you. Onct, jest after Ollie Pearsoll hed come back from N00 Orleans, he got to tellin’ about seeing a man who had paid a fortune for a shirt stud. That was the fust time most of us had ever heerd about di’monds. Ol Pearsoll described the things keerfully an’ told us thet they was found only in a few parts of the world. When he hcd got d0ne there wasn’t a feller in the crowd that Wasn’t as worked up as ef he’d heerd a ghost story. While Ollie Pearsoll was stand- ing at one side kinder restin’ after his. talk—reely playin’ the hero—another of our tellers, Bill Sims by name, slipped around to him and took him to one side. I heerd afterward thet he took a leetle stone outen his pocket an’ asked Ollie ef it looked like enny of them diamonds he’d been tellin’ about. I seen Ollie put his hand to his mouth and tell Bill to be quiet, and then they strolled off. together. “I didn’t think no more of it until .the next evenin’, when Ollie come to me all excitement and sed: ‘See here, Tom, I’m in trouble.’ “ ‘What’s up"?’ I asked, seein’ thet it was somethin‘ big. ’ “ ‘You remember what I said about the di’mond last night?’ he went on. ‘Well, Bill Sims has a whole lot cf them out in the new timber, an' he won’t tell me where.’ ‘f ‘Mcbbe. he wants them hisself?’ I said, thinkin’ it all a joke. “ ‘In course he does,‘ Ollie exclaimed, ‘an’ I claims my rights fer havin’ told him what they was. Ef I hadn’t been to N00 Orleans he’d never hev knowed anything about di’monds.’ “ ‘He ought to give. you somethin’,’ I said. “ ‘Yes, and he will—he’ll giv‘e me ha’f, or by— I‘ll know why.’ “Then he went- away. I saw thet thar was trouble up, an’ I thought I’d stop it, but somethin’ happened to keep me busy an’ the next I heerd about it was that Ollie Pearson-and his brother. Pete hed gone over to Bill Sims’ house and took something thet he hed. No- body knowed what it was, but ez I heerd I knowed thet it was some of them di‘monds. I hustled over. to Sims, which was a good two miles away, an’ there I found Bill stormin’ up and down, tellin’ his dad, who died the next year, what he was goin’ to do. It seems thet the Pearsoll boys rode right over to Sims’ place and without goin’ in looked all over the new timber and found the place where Bill’s di’monds was. They put all they could get in a sack and then went cant’rin’ past the Sims shanty outcn pure devilment. Bill sees ’em, but they got away and back home. Thet evenin’ Pete Pear- soll went over to the river to ketch the boat thet was doo about thet time of year. Thet left Ollie at home to fight it out with Bill. The trouble wasn’t long in comin.’. Ollie Pearsoll knowed thet Bill would be over to de- mand his rights, and so be fixed fer him. He loaded the old family gun an’ put it in a handy place. It wasn’t much after sunrise when Bill hallooed out in front of the Pearsoll place. Ollie’s mother went out and spoke to Bill in a pleasant way, but he told her to get in the house, ef she didn’t want to get hurt. He was there to see Pete and Ollie, and he’d see them if he hed to wait till doomsday. While the old woman was parleyin’ 01 came out. “ ‘Git in,’ he said, ‘I’ll do the talkin’.’ “The old mother went to the house, lookin’ with fear an’ iremblin' at the guns the boys carried. “ ‘Air yc goin‘ to keep themdi’mon’s ?’ Bill asked, without iakin’ his eyes od‘n Ollie. “ ‘1’m goin’ to keep my share,’ he said, doggedly. “"You’ve got no share!’ L’ill ex— claimed. ‘They’re all mine; an’ you, like the sneak thet ye air, hev come along an’ stoic them from me.’ “ 'You’ll cut them words,’ Ollie said, and without another word, he turned back intothe shanty. Bill raised his gun to fire; but old Mrs. Pearsoll put up her hand. “ ‘Don‘t, Billl’ she exclaimed. ‘Ef ye must fight, do it fair. My boy ain’t afcard of ye; he’ll meet ye when and where yo say.’ “ ‘On the old camp meetin’ ground, then, at daylight to-morror. We’ll set- tle it all there, onctan’ fer all.’ “He ‘clucked’ to hiscritter an’ rode off in a center. “Some one told me that there was a solentific feller from London prospect- in’ around the country, and I looked him up, and late thet night we slipped over to the new timber back of the Sims place and took a look at the (ii-‘- mond fields. It didn’t take thet man long to bust out in a luff. ' , “ ‘Thet’s a form of quartz,’ he said, ‘an’ ain't worth nothin’. Them fellers down at Noo Orleans will have a. good lafi on Pearsoll when he brings in that bag an’ calls ’em di’monds. Why, ef he had a bag of di’monds he’d be the rich- est man ever dreamt of.’ “When I heard the fellcr say thet I told him of the dooel thet was about to happen on account of the trouble be- tween the boys. We agreed thet it would hev to be stopped. There had been some dooelin’ in them parts before and there was no make-believe in it. As there was no reason fer no fightin’ in this case, we felt it our dooty to in- terfere. “LOng before daylight we went to see Bill Sims. When we got to the house Bill was settin’ in the back room by a knot fixin’ his gun. “ ‘Put it up, Bill,’ says I. goin’ to be no fight.’ , “ ‘Has he backed out?’ Bill asked. “ ‘Haven’t seen him,’ I said,‘but this man here and me has bin over to your di’mond mine, and he says they ain’t di’monds at all. He knows, fer he is from London, where di’monds grows on trees.’ “ ‘Guess you folks is in with the Pear- solls,’ Bill said, careless like, blow- ing down his gun an’ lookin’ along the barrel. ' “Well, we talked an’ pled and ar- gied until it began to be daylight, and then Bill, he got up an’ said he’d hev to go. IVe saw it was no use to say nothin’ there, and we follered. It wasn’t long ’till we got to where Pear- soll was. He hed jest come along, an’ was look’in at his gun when we rode up. “The two men glared at each other fer a. minute, and then Bill blurted out: “ ‘Air ye ready?’ “ ‘Allus ready,’ Ollie replied back. “Then the man from London stepped up and began to talk. I’ve heered preachers thet could talk ye black in the face, but I never heerd none thet could sling language by the side of that feller from England. He used words that. nobody understood, talked about the field of honor an’ the abusin’ of it, an’ the Lord knows what else, but when he got through Bill and Ollie looked kinder disgusted, and Bill said: “ ‘Course we feels glad thet yer so in- terested, but no game like thet kin stop business of this sort. I’ve bin robbed, 1111' I’m going after the robber.’ “ ‘At least,’ said the man from Lon- don, ‘ye’ll let us act fer yer?’ . “ ‘Say the word, ye mean?’ Ollie asked. ‘I don’t see why not.’ “Out there under the trees of thet pretty place on one of the finest morn- in’s I ever see, them two men stood 20 paces apart. The man from London measured off the ground and asked the men to toss up a penny for position. They didn’t know what it meant, but they done as he said. Then he held a handkerchief above his head. “ ‘When I drop this,” he said, ‘begin.’ “He dropped the rag a minute-later and one shot came. I thought thet one of the guns had missed, but when Bill and Ollie tumbled for’e on their faces, I know’d thet the both had fired together.’ i “ ‘This is one time,’ said the man from London, ‘thet science didn‘t do no good before and kaint do no good after.’ ”—St. Louis Republic. ‘There ain't ——The Mississippi and its tributaries drain an area of 2,000,000 square miles. T H E. E v E N: NG G AZ—E’r i: E" THE NEGROES" CURLY HAIR; It Is a. Protection to the Brai'n from the Tropical Sun. ' The flat nose of the African and his large nostrils result from the necessity of inhaling larger draughts of tropical air to produce the same degree of vital- ity, because of its greater expansion; thus the, increased exercise produces increased expansion of the nostrils of a large nose. ‘ The curling of the African’s hair, the St. Louis Republic says, while univer- sal on his continent. is common in every country of the globe. Perhaps this has its scientific solution in the 'fact that the curls deflect the rays of the tropical sun, thus preventing their more severe penetration into the brain. In the transmission of light, it is a law that every intervening object with which a ray comes in contact bends and diverts in another direction. Heat curls every kind of hair and that which is provided in nature for the protection of the brain from injury by the rays of a tropical sun is a cre- ated endowment, which by degrees is becoming naturally transmissible and inherited. The skull of the African, with its pe- culiar thickness, affords another fea- ture of protection to the brain. It is evident that it is the outdoor ex- posure of the working classes that makes their skin so black. It must also be remembered that it is not the skin alone of the men of Africa which manifests deep color, but this charac- teristic is noticed in all the birds, beasts, fish, reptiles and plants. Another fact in relation to this phenomenon is that everything grows less deeply colored as we approach the polar regions. There the white bear is found and nowhere else, while the black bear lives and is now native to almost every other climate. ENGLISH WOMEN IN AFRICA. The Exploration Fad Seems to Be Spread- . . ing Rapidly. Miss Kingsley, the African explorer, it is said, will be setting out before many months to explore West Africa. She is enthusiastic over her travels in Africa, and boasts, in addition to climbing the Cameroons, of having led a party through the cOuntry of the can- nibal Fangwes. The picture which she gives of the Fangwes and their manner of living shows them to be a completely barbarous tribe, and she also tells of a race of savage dwarfs who live in the recesses of these African forests. The case of the Fangwes—since they havc been pressed down fromthe center of the continent—suggests what a world of strange things and beings may yet be hidden away in “Darkest Africa,” Miss Kingsley knew that the surround- ings amid which she found herself here and there meant danger; but she never blinked the danger. If asked if she felt nervous at any time she would say: “Oh, dear, no; Why should I? I knew before I started that I was running cer- tain risks, and I had just made up my mind to them.” , Highest of all in Leavening Power.’— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report We! Baking Powder » Ansonurn‘m punt: , . . African expeditions, says the New York Press, threaten to become fads for rich women. Two young women are now traveling up the Buluwayo, South Africa, by wagon, with all the comforts of the road, including a valet and attendants. Mail coachtravelers who have passed them report that they are dressed in the most approved style; tight-fitting shooting jackets, short-plaited skirts, top boots, rifles at back, with cartridge belts, etc—«alto- gether a charming outfit. FRENCH MOTH ERHOOD. M. Bertillon Advocates a Race of French- men tor Madagascar. is One of the things which is most close- ly studied in France by the savants and statisticians in the government employ and out is the steadily diminishing birth rate. A recent writer on the sub- ject,M. Jacques Bertillon, who has been making some exhaustive researches, says that the reason Why there are so many foreigners in Paris holding lucra— tive positions and doing all sorts of skilled manual labor is that the demand is greater than the nation of itself can supply. In a. pamphlet which M. Bertillon has written on the subject he dwells‘on the necessity of colonizing and developing the rich natural resources of Madagas- car. He closes his monograph with these words: “It is the French woman who holds in her hands the developments of that beautiful and immeasurably rich island. The women of France have few children, and they cannot endure the thought of having them depart for a far distant land, though they will Serve their mother country well by doing so. In the interest of France and of Mada— gascar the mothers of France should bear six children instead of two, and so fulfill the purpose for which they were crest .” POPULAR SCIENCE. It is stated that butter contains 40 times as many microbes as oleomar- garine. The only eclipse visible in North America in 1896 will occur August 22- 23—a partial eclipse of the moon. Dimmick, the great elephant catcher, is authority for the statement that but 24 white elephants have been caught since the commencement of the Chris- tian era. , The East Indian shipworm will in a few months destroy any vessel by eat- ing out the interior of the beams and f. - m A planks. They will be left a mere shell that can be shattered by the fist. ' The belief that the shallower parts of the bottom of the eastern Atlantic are a submerged continent once joined to the mainland seems to be growing. Scientific evidence in support of Plato’s story of a lost Atlantis has recently multiplied a hundred fold. According to Prof. M’Adie, the risk of lightning stroke is five times greater in the country than in' cities, because ordinary dwelling houses in city blocks receive a very considerable protection from the tin roofing, cor- nices, gutters and so on. The timidity of fish afforded one of many interesting discussions at a re- cent reunion of the Piscatorial society. It was remarked that the [big-gun prac- tice on the seacoast, while it would cause" lobsters out of sheer fright to cast one of their claws, would drive millions of fish, into other Waters. No other part of our earth except the Dead sea, uncovered by water, sinks to 300 feet below the level of the ocean: ‘ But here we have a rift more than 100 mils long, and from two to fifteen- broad, which falls from the sea level to as deep as 1,202 feet below it at the coast of the Dead sea, while the bottom of the latter is 1,300 feet deeper still. : Fa PRODUCTS OF MAINE. Eight big bears were killed recently during one hunt by a party of sports- men on the Union river, near Machias, Me. ' It has just been figured out that 106 pairs of twins were born in Maine dur- ing the year 1895. Only one set of triplets is noted. They were born in Lewiston. While digging in the side of abank in Belfast, Me, the other day, workmen found a snake’s nest, containing 39 snakes, located at a point below the surface which frost would be unlikely to reach. ~ Melville E. Ingalls, president of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St.» Louis, and the Chesapeake & Ohio rail- roads, is a Maine man, who began his career as a school teacher. He entered the railway service in 1870, when he was 28 years old. Effects of Higher Education. One of the undergraduates of Girton college, the English, having inadvert- ently changed umbrellas with a. fel- low student, is said to have evolved this note: “Miss -——— presents hcr compliments to Miss —, and begs to say she has an umbrella which isn’t mine;- so if you have one which isn’t hers no doubt they are the (mod ” A POINTER... Is your plate glass or safe insured? If not, call on me and _I will write you a. policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur- ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite. In Case of Fire You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance OI Philadelphia; Phoenix ,of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire 0 Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and' Pacific of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State of Ports- mouth will protect you against the fire fiend. W. ' r—r. 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