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Show Bound to Know Something. It is not often that a man between 80 and 40 years of ago tries to make up for tho defects of early training by going to school with a lot of boys and girls. Yet that is what James P. Eagle did, and he has no cause to regret his thirst after knowledge, for it has stood him in good - stead of late. Two years ago tho people of Arkansas elected him governor, and tho other day the Democratic party of that state renominated him for a second term. ) Mr. Eagle was a Tennessee fanner lad, I I born in 1837, who I I worked early aud I I law on his fath-J fath-J I er's acres until I I the civil war . I I hroke out. Then I I he shouldered his I I musket on behalf I I of the south and I I marched away a I I Private. When I I peace came ho ' I I lode back home a I I lieutenant colo- I I Jul. As soon as ''' 1 1 he had arranged personal affaire so james p. eagle. Jhat his family might not suffer he fudged off to school in 1870, a private m tIle ranks of education. After school came college, then public life and politi-' politi-' cu Preferment. His Arkansas friends nd neighbors sent him to the legisla- f the h'we. Next followed his eleva-. eleva-. .n to the executive chair and now he m the race for another term. |