Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-01

have one to match every suit in shade. Such as these would as soon be seen wearing a cane that was .out of color as a last seasons collar or back num- Der hat.
 Even the vegetable kingdom has been drawn upon to satisfy the craving of the gay young man about town in his desire for the unique The Isle of Guernsey grows a peculiar cabbage, the stalks of which make neat and novel cane. Of course the dealers do not call them cabbage stalks, but put smart handle and a fancy name on them and they are great go. They do the same by the mullein stalk, of which thousands have been sold during the past season. These are a home product, as the best specimens come from New Jersey. They make very de- sirable canes for dudes and young sports, being light as a feather, yet strong, and with very pretty sticks; but it would cause no little consterna- tion to their owners if they, for mo- ment, thought them to be the stalks of the despised plant of velvety leaf. They are sold as "Cleopatras, :" .Bernhardts," etc., etc., but only to the trade as mul- lein sticks.
 Among the lighter canes is the Nal acca, probably so called because it does not come from Malacca, but from q small place on the opposite side of Su- matra In its natural state it is as rich in color as 8 four-year-old meerschaum pipe which has been smoked by an ex- pert The Malaeca is the favorite for a dress cane. The most valued are those cut the full length between the | joints at which the leaves sprout. As l these are scarce the price is corre- spondingly high. Next to the Malacca comes the black ebony for tasteful ornamentation with gold and silver. A very fair imitation of ebony has been made from rubber. The rubber soon turns green, but the fact that it close ly resembles ebony when new has af- feeted the sale of the genuine article.
 For presentations it is now quite the proper thing to have ebony or Malacca canes made to order and surmounted by a silver or gold bust in miniature of the person to whom the gift is made.
 English crab, as it is known among the "Johnnies," is increasing in popu larity and this season some striking de- signs are shown. It is nothing more nor less than wounded oak. In Eng land the gathering of woods for canes has been reduced to a science. The cane gatherer no longer works at hap hazard. In a certain sense he does not work for to-day but plans for future crops. He goes about looking for suita- ble sprouts and saplings to tram and mark for next years crop, and inci- dentally gathers those prepared the previous year. When he finds q young oak that promises to make a good stick, he sits down and patiently gashes and marks it at regular intervals along it's length, taking care to make each gash of sufficient depth as to mark the underwood. By the following year the bark has healed leaving m oval scar that shows plainly on the wood when peeled. Such is the wounded oak, better known as English crab. The gashes can be made to produce some striking and unique designs. Some cane hunters carry little pricl1ing wheels that infict puncture at regular inter- vals. This is varied byt she use of a scroll wheel and dies that leave the imprint of an initial letter, stars, crescents, crowns, Venus-lile figures, etc.
 This season handles made from nat ural wood are more popular than ever before The most desirable of these i, , are made from Pimento and orna- J mented with snake-like turnings of