Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-10-10

line Articles of Luxury.
 |ELD's FAIR, Oct. 10. = Especial. l- 6ugh the attendance for late Sep.em-
 as surprisingly large, the unseason-
 weather threw such a coldness over Eeeting that there is much discussion |e question, Will October be the best |hg The enthusiastic Major Handy ] $ at the idea of there being any ques- kbout it and says: Tt is the uniform |hat the last month of q great exposi-
 X the best. It was so at Philadelphia; Bs still more so at Paris-October |ed by far the largest attendance. And |is sense in it. Many thousands come Short trip, are not satisfied with it, |one and arrange their business for | F trip in cooler weather. Take notice |bat just at tho time the business men q east and the cities should have been |the panic came, and they had to stay |me and watch their fences. And the |Er people-you are altogether mis- B about their being too busy. This is lime, and they are coming. Ask the Lad men about their contracts. Ask hotel men about applications for
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 Where They Come From.
 Is of his statements I know to be true.
 eountry people are certainly here, and
 :re here to enjoy themselves-not to their clothes. Ihave seen more thick And "calicoed" shirts, more jeans
 E and "linsey woolsey" dresses in the |I5slays than had seen in 10 years be-
 I have met at least 30 people whom E here in the summer-come back for Second visit. At the risk of being bnal. must give the record of a coun- |own in Indiana which usually con- nv home The population is scant
 and 285 of it's people have been here. |e are % on the grounds today, and k Still to come (who have rooms con |ed for will make the attendance from | place BIO, or about one-sixth of the l q Population. This and many similar l make it certain to my mind that
 B more than half of the attendance been from within a circuit of 200 miles |annot but notice how eager the coun- Iaaple are to see all the fine jewelry |Seh silks, the fine furniture and gold |ilger ornaments, the great vases and sins and all the appurtenanees of great |th and luxury. We all want the rness'-something entirely foreign to [ommon life, something we cannot see Ine. They keep the Tiffany pavilions he'd from opening to closing, and about | Revolving pointer which carries the ! aiamond they are 16 deep. Another |is about the big showcase where the ks of 2,200 watches, all wound by cleo Ey, ,are running in unison. A smaller, Ter and much more studieus crowd is lad the case containing the historic | hes. To these I paid little attention
 rgt, doubting their genuineness. but |1ination has convinced me that the |ry attached to each is substantially |sct. These are in the Waltham eollec- rst in interest is the watch of Oliver
 agell, for it is a curious fact t
 1s.ell's career is known to more T. sd- |ed people than that of any other man |ngIish history. When boy, noticed hnd explained it by the fact that Quak- |nd Presbyterians predominated among |neighbors, but 1 have since noticed it |ver the United States and now have no anation. The watch is silver cased and |quite so large as an average saucer, RtIeT two saucers joined at the rims. q must have been a healthy man to
 hat around. 1t was made in 164S by |Eel of London. Beside it is the watch |ilham of Orange which was made in |by D French firm, and it is much like
 rdinary gentleman's watch of today.
 Why They Are SkepticaI.
 Pne wantst to hear dry humor, with some ling and sarcasm, by our rural friends, flace to hear it is the Anthropology ling, among the bones and #ssils, Believe in the snakes and lizards, and py an effort swallow the whale, but on hadrosaurus, glyptodon, mylodon, TO- |as, iguanodon and other restored" sters a la Warehouse Hawkins, they bore than skeptical. "All a blamed
 say the men. Jest made up to folks. don't believe such thing
 was," say the women. A funny fea-
 of it is that they consider the name of 'ferhouse Hawkins, who is given as au- Ffy for these restored" creatures, as a
 K or assumed name, and there is some
 ln the sound of it which suggests a |es name. And this reminds me of the lngenious fraud in the showman's lever imposed on innocent westerners. |evolution of 1t was in this wise:
 my boyhood, when the Wabash and
 canal was being cut through the gray fas of Indiana, we heard much of ''gi- bones" being found. They were near
 ways thigh bones, and by comparison
 ocai savants figured out that the val Fas once inhabited by men from IS to fet high. That theory was enforced me by the best teachers known in Fuays. The hint was not lost upon |snowmen, and pretty soon our fiat
 men on their return from New Orleans
 wonderful story to tell of having
 one of the dug up giants.n
 FEY years later saw the fragments of |ine ingenious snowman had taken the
 thorax and thigh bones of a mylodon and pieced them out with
 elal lower legs and feet, with arms from
 ofher monster, and had surmounted 'shole with manufactured head and
 eyes' making what was for pure hid
 ness triumph of art. This giant" |aeated in an immense oaken chair, and
 one skeleton hand a bough about Eet long. Imagination is fatigued in RHtlng the nightmares in which that
 At must have figured.
 Educational Aspect.
 Pn the extreme of credulity the people Facted to the extreme of skepticism, |&laW of mind iS R11t whu reurat it