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CITY PLAGUED WITH EELs.
In Now London she Water Supply Ks Filled
 With Them.


 Early in the forenoon one day lately all the electric street cars which had been whizzing about the town of New London suddenly ceased to go, and for & time no one was able to discover what was the matter.
 The precise facts ill the case were that s laundering big eel four feet long, per haps. and two or three inchas&hick, had wriggled out of the supply pond of the workssinto the water main, thence sailed along into the small service pipe and had got into tight fix in that tube not many feet away from the boiler that makes the dynamos go Eels, though supple and agile, are. not suitable to grind mp into steam; thence the sudden arrest of circulation in the electric sys- tenn of New London. The lake from which New London gets its water is five or six miles away among the hills to tho north, soft is evident the eel journeyed all that way through mains and service pipes bent on his mischiev GUS erraud to tie up the electric car lines of the city.
 "6ueh another plague of eels was never known as that which affiicts New Lopdonors this season, said one resent full but somewhat resigned citizen "Neyer was anything like it. A man would think that Konomoc lake was mixed up in about equal parts of eels and wriggles, with some water. Why, we have .eels on tap all the time have sem faT breakfast, dinner and supper. And then it's the uncertainty about it all that Is driving us all to drink strong drink, I mean. Why, you can. turn your water faucet any time, day or night, and it's just about even betting whether you get eels or water, or both You top eels anyhow, sooner or later.
 "Oncesin a great while you get fish, other kinds, such as sinners or daee and now and then a fair sized perch, mostly all small ones, but for steady thing it's eels. Of course when the fish and cells are sizable ones. why, you can cook 'em for supper and so get even with the water department, but then it's not exactly pleasant to dosyour fish ing in that way, Let man get up in the night, for instance, and go to his faucet in the dark for a drink, and you can judge for yourself how unpleasant it is not to be certain whether it's wa ter or cells he's drinking. Blast the thingsl I got one almost swallowed my self the other night-it was small one, though-before I discovered my mis- take It's horrible situation. "-New York Sun.
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DIVIDED BY A SKUNK.
Seventeen 0aeer Charges In sult For
 Divorce.

Seventeen Queer Charges In a Suit For
 Divorce.
 Sarah k. Gould, in petition for di- vorce from Chessman D. Gould of Leeds, Me. specifies IT charges, among which Is that. to annoy her, her husband plac- ed dead skunk ill her clothes closet. Other charges are that he threw spit toon at her; that he seized the dishes upon the table and violently broke them; that he turned the flour barrel bottom side up in the pantry and the four upon the floor; that he angrily broke the sewing machine; that he show eled dirt on the floor she was washing i; that at times. instead of buying sugar for the family, he bought it for himself and kept it locked up and brought it to the table for his own use 1; that while the family were without soap he kept soap fer himself locked up in his own room 1; that he told her that it would be the happiest day in his life whom he could dance over her grave that he hsbitually kept his room locked, so that she could not enter it,-New York World
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THE President of an Ohio cole

THE President of an Ohio college where students of both sexes are admitted, has lately reprimanded several young men and girls for ''sparking, and hopes by such means to extinguish the incipient flames of love; which shows that there are some things learned at academies and universities not prescribed n the curriculum. A college president may not know, but the greenest rus tic can tell him, that sparkling may be carried on in presence of a thousand spies, who never "get on to it." It has deaf and dumb lam guage of its own, imperceptible to all beholders, and Illuminated by "a light that never was on sea or shore. The professors may as well essay to drive the young grass blade back into it's germ or "dam Niagara with fence-rail" as try to freeze out the budding flower of preference in the hearts of the future fathers and mothers of our glorious Republic.
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Finest strawberries the market af- lords at l.. E. Goldsmith & Go.
 1dtf
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WE acknowledge the receipt of a

WE acknowledge the receipt of a copy of The Yelloio Pine Record, issued by the Wilson Printing Com pany, of this city, and edited by Messrs. T. J. Wilson and George w, Ritchie. It will henceforth be issued monthly and is two columns wide in book form. It is devoted to the yellow nine and lumber industry of this State, and has an open field with no competition. We congrat- ulate the editors and publishers on their first issue and wish them suc- cess in their enterprise.
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Entered at the Post-offiee at Pine gluff. Ark, as second-class mail matter.
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A Song Of LoVetLIna,

 Here's a song of lovetime- All the world is light: There's ripple on the river, And suns and stars are bright. Here's a song of lovetime- All tho world is sweet, Rainbows round the heavenA Flowers at your feet Here's a song of lovetime-- Sorrow in eclipse, Little children climbing To shs mothers leaning lips Here's song of lovetime-- Chorus of tho birds And just the sweetest music To the sweetest human words. Hare's song of lovetime-- Ended all the strife And heaven that is beamtng With sweet, eternal life. Frank |. Stanton in Atlanta Consultation
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4 Hot Summer Coming.

Sergeant Dunn, the New York wealth CT expert, says that we may expect a hot summer, according to the rule of temperature averages. He shows that there has been a deficiency of 28e de- grees since Jan. l and declares that "the weather is bound to even up. - St Louis Globe Democrat.
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ExSEeRETARY FOSTER, who ran the finances for Harrison, talks about the ''incapacity of the Demo- cratic party" The devils rebuke Of sin is as the sermon on the Mount to fbia
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Gov. MoRroN, of New York, is be- ing coached, as he thinks, for the next Republican Presidential race. The probability is that he is merely being used to hold his State Delega- tion whilst unfriendly candidates are being horned off. For instance, Platt has it in for Harrison.
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Cantrell Springs water will be de livered on ana after the 10th of April fresh from the springs every morning. Parties wanting it will please leave their orders at the GRAPHIC office
 5 dtf ARCH NIyEN.
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No MORE turnip seeds are to be franked out from the Agricultural Department, but under the new law only such seeds as are rare and adapted to promote the general far ming and horticultural interests. The scandalous practice of the past is to be abolished.
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THE first issue of the Gazette with ith new Mergenthaler linotype ma chimes appeared yesterday and the paper presents much improved ap- pearance. When our ship comes in the GRAPHIC will put in about two machines just to keep up with the procession.
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Iris suspected that New England is for Reed for President superfci- ally only. Hale and Frye and the original Blaine men would salivate him in a minute, if they had the chance, and then one of them would step to the front for second place.
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PINE BLUFF, ARK, May l9, 1895.
LARGEST DAILY CITY GRADUATION,

Gov. WAITE's new paperin GoIo7- rado declares ia nightmare ot horror pursues us; we look around and see a shapeless trouble" Evi- dentiy the Governor has got lem.
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| jealous of the slightest stain upon his I'M
Improbable integrity. The other passion
a carefully hidden but almost idolatrous
| love for his son. There had been one other
passion, but she died.
| Within month of his coming the
young lieutenant was The most popular
man at the post. He sang, he danced he
rode, and he played cards. He also drank
rather more than was necessary.
| Within two months it all palled upon
him. Deadly ennui took possession of
him. The great sunlit barren plains
stretched out interminable. There were
no Indians even to break the monotory.
The iron routine of one day followed upon
another with what seemed to him stupid,
trivial and meaningless regularity. So he
stopped singing and dancing, and went on
playing cards and drinking. Another
thing that annoyed him was his fathers
suppressed but uncompromising disap-
proval. Inward the colonel's soul writhed
that his boy should blemish his record as
soldier in this way; he did not doubt
| his courage should the time come for prov
| ing it, but in the meantime to show him.
self weak and foolish man was almost
unbearable. He could not understand the
boy, and he said nothing, which was per-
haps unfortunate.
| Three weeks went by and the young
lieutenant was deep in debt to the captain
of another company, a sneering, black
| faced fellow, who had risen from the
ranks; gaining his promotions for the last
fifteen years for acts of daredevil bravery.
He was not pleasant man to owe to, par
| 4; 10 IL tor cy1ra of hoir rr
able to pay up when the notes fell due.
Another month and things were no better.
1t was in the early part of September and
the fat plains stretched out parched and
arid, the sun beat down piteousIy on the
treeless little post, and the money to the
captain had to be paid tomorrow. 1t was
certainly disagreeable situation, but they
played hard and drank hard and the
young lieutenant almost forgot that to-
morrow was coming.
| But about 1 o'clock in the morning
| there was row, and before many hours
the whole post knew what was the matter.
1t does not take long for news to travel
among few hundred people, particularly
| so interesting and exciting a Bit as this.
For this gay young fellow, this dashing
young soldier, this son of the stern old
martinez of a colonel, had been caught
cheating at cards, and was disgraced for
1 ever.
The news got round and finally reached
the colonel. 1t was brave man who told
him. He waited an hour, and then put
ting pistol in his holster he went across
to his sons quarters. There was no an
swer to his knock, so he opened the door
and went in. The boy was sitting at the
table with his head buried in his arms He
did not look up when his father spoke,
my son, there is but one thing for You to
do. You know what tits" and he laid the
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save? I don't know, nor do I really care.
l only know we are entitled to it, much or
little, and more than that. l know we can
get it if we demand, and persistently and
unitedly demand, and demand it simply be-
cause it is right, for this Nation means to
do what is right in the main.
The idea that money is thrown away
when put out on public works is babes
idea. The great empires of the globe, like
England, Germany and France, pour out
money like water when oppressed by hard
times. The Red Sea canal, the Man
chester, the great seaport OF the Mediter-
ranean-these are examples for us to TO l.
low, if we are too weak to lead.
Anyway, we have got to open our mines
once more. The population of California is
not increasing as it should. Something
good, courageous, great, should be done,
and done now. 1t is ccwardly, contempt
ible, to let men die in the mud like rats
each year and do nothing. 1t is a sin and
shame to have the old miners turned out
and kept out of their mines in their last
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some remarkable characteristics. The
troops of the Twelfth Regiment of infan-
try, at Laval. subsisted without the slight
est inconvenience or difficulty for forty
hours on the nut, executing meanwhile
march of thirty-eight and a half
miles in thirteen hours and fifteen
minutes. Similar experiences have been
noted at various military posts. The gen.
eral reports show that kola allays thirst
and hunger and enormously Increases
muscular strength, while instead of being
attended by a bad after-effect it regulates
the system in many and vital ways. An
experiment was made with the kola nut at
Fort Sheridan, when two soldiers under
took to walk to Minneapolis and back, a
distance of about twenty five miles. The
walk was taken in the hot sun. One SOL
der fed only on kola and the other ate and
drank as usual. The kola proved the
more satisfactory diet. The soldier who
had partaken of ordinary diet came in
almost oyeAcome by the heat and thor
ougkly tired and stiff from the long walk.
The other man, who had but recently left
a sickbe0, and had not fully regained his
strength, was much the fresker of the two
and had suffered but little from the heat.
He said he never felt better, and he thought
the walk had done him good. He ate two
of the nuts on the way to Minneapolis and
two on the way back, and he sat and rested
while his companion ate and drank. He
had not felt the need of other food. While
these cases are well authenticated mill
tary authority OF great experience advises
extreme caution in experiments with kola
nut, which, he says, is not by any means
SO harmless and so free from reaction as it
is made out to be by persons interested in
ifs sale
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fully open and keep open, the mines. What
man will say that the wolf of want would
have ever been heard at our doors if these
mines, even in the shiftless way in which
they were being worked, had been kept
open? And what man can say where our
Nation would have been to-day had CaTi-
fornia never poured out her hearts blood
ruined her rivers, given her right arm
and her left arm to defend the Nation
Stands Scotland where she did? The
National capital would be to-day at Rich
mond, New Orleans-anywhere except at
Washington-if indeed, we even had any
Nation at all
Therefore, having saved the country, and
at such sacrifice of life, limb and fortune,
shall we now hesitate to respectfully ask
that this nation show some equity and at
the same time gain vast profit and honor
The population of Glasgow when the
trust company was formed to open the
Clyde was but little above that of Sacra-
mento County to-day, but Glasgow is now
one of the greatest cities of the globe.
Fifty-five millions sterling was the sum in
volved, vast sum in those days. But the
profits, to say nothing of the good done, have
been great from the first. The bonds are and
have been ell along at par with those of the
empire, and they had no such grand
stream as this of ours. know the Clyde
we'll, the home of my fathers. A
cousin there told me he could re-
member sitting in the wagon with
his father waiting for the tide to go out
so as to drive across the Clyde near Glas-
gov. But now the proudest sea ships
grind their steel prows against the granite
walls of Glasgow. Look at Germany to-
day, with the new canal to the Baltic, the
Elbe opened to Bremen and every great
ship that sails the once muddy and ma
larious Elbe paid to come and paid to 90
by the enterprising and unconquered
enemy of all the Caesars.
l tell you candidly that despite ali our
brag we are forty years behind the age out
here. There are only two or three places
in the State that we take any great inter
est in at all. Only last year we allowed
hundreds, thousands of men to go hungry
up and down the land hunting work We
hoped they would leave the country. /
reckon some of them did We not only
were cutting off our own fingers, but
serenely bleeding to death.
Meantime year after year the once proud
and shining Sacramento River has come,
all tears and mud, to the doors of our capt.
tai, knocking and knocking and knocking,
like an unheeded old tramp, asking the
way to the sea. 1t is simply shameful,
pitiful, deplorable to see this once glorious
river, with all its tender traditions, tear
ing like mad through the orchards, homes
of hard-toiling men, to find its once peace
full way to the Golden Gate. And no one
to guide or help, only to daml
How much money will it cost this Ma
ton, which California gave her very life to
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Sacramento and San Francisco. We must
have a sewer before we build house.
There are four reasons why the classic
old Sacramento River must be opened,
opened as the Clyde is opened to the
granite piers of Glasgow. The trust COM
pany which opened the Clyde from Green.
ock to Glasgow had but one good reason
commerce. Here we have not only that
one good reason for this great work before
US, but the health, the lives of the brave,
good people of the great heart of California
are at stake. Yes, 1 know no one likes TO
be told that the mud has made malaria
from one end of the land to the other; but
it is the cold, ugly truth; mud for months
and then malaria till mud comes again.
That is fact.
The third reason is the boundless wealth
of lands to be recovered and protected.
This alone is enough. The California
Nile cries for it.
The fourth, and indeed the first reason.
is the mines. The mines must be opened
and the river must be opened in order 10
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By a turn of chance father and son
were thrown together in one of the West
ern frontier posts, the father as colonel in
in one of the four companies quartered
there. When the order came which had
brought them together, after the three
years which had gone by since the boy left
West Point, it brought great but silent
happiness to the stern and gloomy old SOL
der and a light-hearted pleasure to the
young man; once more he would be with
"dear old dad" and besides, life must be
rather exciting out there. and altogether
worth a mans while. And so he packed
his traps in double-quick time, as soldier
must, and was off in twenty-four hours.
The meeting between the two was strange
one. Effusive and very gay on the part of
the young man, who made no effort to
conceal his delight; stiff, even cold, on the
part of the old man, whose very heart
quivered with joy, and on whose stern and
bronzed face light came which the boy
did not even see.
The colonel was not popular man.
Hard and cold, rigid in the performance of
his own duty, and with little sympathy
for failure on the part of his men, he was
respected and, IN a certain sense, admired,
but not loved; sternly just according to
his own light but narrow and intolerant.
With two passions-the exaggerated, hide
bound honor of a soldier who believes his
profession to be the only one; the honor of
strictly honest and very proud man,
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SHEEP RAISING IN Notwithstanding
to the story of sheep-raiser from Georgia,
who has been telling all about his calling,
the life of sheeprun in that State must
be full of variety. He says the profits on
sheep-raising vary much more than they
ought and they could be brought to a
higher and more uniform average if sys-
tematic sheep husbandry were introduced.
The range of profits run from 10 per cent,
under no management at all, to %,
so and sometimes 100 per cent on CAPT
tai invested. The prime object in
keeping sheep is wool, and old
sheep, when fat off the native pas
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lures = the woods-are sold for mutton.
The breed is the native or piney-woods,
crossed slightly with the merino grade.
They are worth from 81 % to 50 head.
The wool is sold to the merchants in the
nearest town. 1t is disposed of unwashed
and weighs from three to four pounds per
fleece, according to the season and Ias-
lures. The sheep are sheared in early
summer. Lands sell at from 81 to S. an
acre. The surface Is generally level and
Just rolling enough for drainage. The
uplands are sandy soil. while the valley of
Flint River is a limestone soil and we'll
watered. Almost all the sheep in this sec
ton are turned into the woods, where
they live the whole year upon wild
grasses, wild oats, wiregrass, etc. When
shearing time comes the fiocks are hunted
up, surrounded, sorted and sheared, and
the lambs are looked to, locked and
marked, and everything is turned loose
again to run in the woods until the next
year. The greatest hindrance to wool
growing is the dog. The dogs have to
be watched carefully or they kill
large numbers of the sheep. The pinev-
woods hog also has villainous reputa-
ton. He will not only devour newborn
lambs, but if eve is old or weak he
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the loss from dogs will run up to 10 per
cent, and often more, owing to the prox-
unity of turpentine camps. with their
hordes of coon dogs, which are bred and
owned by the negroes who work in the
camps The remedy for dogs and hogs is
poison and the rifle. The native sneep is
indigenous to the Georgian soil, and hav-
ing such hardy, self-reliant, self-support-
ing, valuable animals to rear, and at such
a low cost for support. the wool-growers Of
Southern Georgia are the most independ-
ent and prosperous sheep-raisers in
Christendom
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NEXT TRIP OF LA TOURAINE.
People Who Propose Going to the Med
iterranean viii Note This.

People Who Propose Going to the Med
iterranean Will Note This.
The steamer La Touraine of the Cam
pagnie Generate Transatlantique French
line) will make second trip to the Med
iterranean and Orient, leaving New York
on February 4. 1886.
The itinerary will be as follows: New
York to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algiers, Bizerta,
Island of Malta, Athens, Alexandria,
Port SAID, Jaffa, Beyreuth Smyrna, Con-
Monte Carlo, Marse.lles, Palma, Malaga,
Gibraltar and New York The whole trip
will last about sixty days. The manage
ment says that the service will be splen-
did, and every luxury possible afforded
the passengers.
All information and particulars can be
obtained at the office of Messrs. j. +.
Fugazi & Co., Pacific Coast agents, 5 Mont
gomery avenue, San Francisco. Cal.
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years. 1t is ruinous to the State, too. We
have the garden of the earth right in the
heart of the State if we but dared to claim
it and plant it.
Were / the State l should begin this
work of opening the Sacramento River,
and at once, confident that the not I'M
grateful Nation would come right along to
the rescue. One thing is certain, we will
never have the old traditional good health
here till it is at least begun; and as certain
is it that we will never have opened the
agricultural possibilities of the State to
the world till it is done, nor will we ever
know how many such mines as the Nor
gan Hill, with it's $4,000 900 annual out
put, we have till we get back into the
mines and look the thing over again, as
did the Morgan Hill men.
Going up the Sacramento on the boat
lately to look things over, although unfor-
tunately we travel most of the river after
nightfall, asked an officer the probable
cost of opening the stream.
ooh, a million; may be two millions"
"Well, now, all have to say is, if it
takes ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred mil
lions, we are going to demand it, and we
are going to get it. too"
The man walked away, looking back at
me in the white moonlight as if he thought
1 was on my way to Stockton, or ought
to be.
But appeal to every man in the State,
in the Union, to answer if, considering
all the facts, this is not right. We
lost our limbs. our health, fortune
to save the Union. We want our
limbs restored, we want pension, we
want back pay. And, to sum all up in a
nutshell, it will pay the Nation as nothing
ever paid before, for it will fill our empty
pockets with gold, and our empty ocean
and bay with ships. JOAQUIN MILLER