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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16
 BICYCLES FREE
Eighty-Five Three-Months Subscribers to the Daily Graphic Entities Any Boy or Girl to SJO0 Bicycle
 Free,

There are many deserving boys and girls in Pine Bluff and surround ing country who are not able to pay the enormous price charged for q bicycle, yet whose lives are almost miserable because they have not one of these modern luxuries and conyen- fences. The GRAPHIC has come to their rescue, and now makes them an offer whereby they can get one of the bess machines made for d few hours work q day for q short time only. The offer is as follows.
 To every person who brings i'll eighty.fve subscribers to the Daily GRAPHIC fora period of three months, or one hundred subscribers to the Weekly GRAPHIC for a period Of one year, will be given any Monarch bicycle shown in their 1895 95eatalogue, the valne of which is $100.
 The price of the Daily GRAPHIC is 65 cents a month. or $195 for three months and the Weekly GRAPHIC is $50 q year. All subscriptions are payable ill advance and no credit will be given the solicitor or no name registered on the subscription hooks unless accompanied by the subscrip tion price. Proper blanks for solicit ing will be supplied at the GRAPHIC office. This offer applies only tonew subscribers and to parties who are not taking either the Daily or Weekly GRAPHIC at the time this offer is made. However, subscriptions may be turned in by one person and cred ited to another, thus allowing friend to work for friend, or one person, should he fail to get the required number himself, to dispose of them to some other person. Get to work early boys and girls, and you will find it an easy matter to get the re- quired number.
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COST OF 4 CROP.
Attempt to Get Exact Figures on Cotton
 and Wheat.

Allusion was made on Saturday to the experience Of 8 western man who has been keeping careful account of the cost of his wheat crop and finds it much less than the usual estimate Rather curiously a dispatch few hours later to the New York Evening Post described a similar ex- pertinent with similar result by cot ton grower ia North Carolina. The ac- count of the southerner is more valuable than that of the western man, because he goes into details as to the way in which his accounts were kept, and while there is no reason to question the conclusion of the one, there is internal evidence of the correctness of the other.
 The southerner, S. NJ. Shaw, who is de- scribed as well known and prosperous farmer of Richmond county, N C.. says that he has raised cotton for 80 years and has kept his account with it for 17 years. His object in publishing the experience is to combat the notion current in his neigh borhood that cotton cannot be raised at less than or 8 cents pound, actual outlay, and that there is therefore, no profit in the business unless it can be sold for from 10 to 12 cents pound. Mir Shaw first gave the record as to actual outlay in two years which are taken as specimens 1890 and 1891. In the former the cost excluding taxes, wear and tear of stock and rent or interest on the farm, was 3.54 cents pound and in the latter 3. 99 cents a pound. He estimated the value of his farm, wear and tear of stock and combin- ing the results, compared the total cost with the price at which he had sold the cotton. This was 8.76 cents in 1890 and 5. 50 cents in 1894 He finds that at the latter price the crop paid him profit of 6.5 per cent, and as he had put in the farm at two-thirds of the price he was offered for it four years before, he figures that there is no profit to him in cotton below 6 cents, but that price covers every kind of outlay and 6 per cent interest on the in Yestment, while everything beyond that is genuine profit from the crop-that is, cot ton costs him cents a pound to raise and market instead of 8 or 2 cents, as his neighbors suppose. His inference is that s Scents is a fairly good price.
 Ne do not doubt that Mr. Shaw s figures and conclusions are correct, as far as he is concerned, but, as was suggested on Sat urday, it will not do to ignore the person ality of the grower. AIr. Shaw evidently farms on business principles. He says himself that he does not believe any one in North Carolina can raise cotton cheaper than he, so that what he really shows is the cost under good management and favorable conditions. Until the millen- ninm arrives the greater part of every crop will be produced by men who are not so well equipped fer the work or so careful to make outlay useful. Therefore the average price of the crop will be greater than Mir. Shaw finds 1t to be It is not his computation, but poor human nature that is responsible for the discrepancy, but i; will always exist, and the cost of produe- ing crop will always be rather more than expert and businesslike men find 1t in their own experience. Hartford Post.
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Done Ravin.

It is time to quit talking about the Dun. raven incident. It is all told Dunraven has said all he can say, and there remains no necessity for the other side to say any thing
 The facts stand out all over Dunrayen' statement of the case. They can be sum- med up ill six words:
 'tI came, 1 saw, 1 quit"
 What more is there to be saids-Sew York World
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If the Pope Should Fall III.

1t is reported that the domestic organi. zation of the Vatican is such that If the pope were to be taken fatally ill it would be kept secret for several days. Lately il has been arranged that not even the body servants of the pope can penetrate the so. cret. But the health of the pope at pres ent does not at all justify such proceed ings.-London News.
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THE YOUNG BRECKENRIDGE Marquis de Fonteuoy in New Orleaus Pic
 .ayuUp.l

Marquis de Fonteuoy i'll New Orleaus Pic
 ayune.l
 Mrs. c. R. Breekinridge enjoys the distinction of being the first American embassadress to give birth to child in the capital of country to which her husband is accredited and during his tenure of office. This being the case she has a right to the traditional prerogative of embassa- dresses who thus increase the staff of their husbands mission, namely, of demanding that the monarch and his consort shall act as godfather and godmother to the child. The youthful Breckinridge will, there fore, be held at the baptismal font by the Czar and Czarina and may possibly receive by way of chris tening gift the silver cradle which was formerly presented on occasions of this kind by the imperial or royal sponsors. The only other American lady to be thus honored by the Czar is the wife of the former Ge, man ambassador at St. Petersburg, a daughter of John Jay, of New York. She gave birth to seveIal children while in Russia, and Alexander III and the now widowed Empress off ciated as godparents for at least one of her offsprings.
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Through sleepers to St. Louis and shreve- port

The Cotton Belt route now oper- ates through sleepers to St. Louis and Shreveport in both directions. This is in addition to regularsleepers to Memphis, Ft. Worth and Waco. Makes direct connections in St Louis Union Station for all points reached via the gateway. For particulars address B. H. WILSON, Agt.
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Heaviest Taxpayer In the World.

The heaviest taxpayer in the world is said to be Marinesco- Bragndu, Rouma- nian manufacturer of alcohol His taxes last year amounted to e55o. GOO.
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 IMPORTANT.

We have daily inquiries and de- described below and if you or your friends have such for sale, write us, giving full details, address, etc.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

Mir. Geo. L. Smith, of the Geo. L. Smith Mantel Co.,, Louisville, Ky, writes Feb. 26. 1894: For about a year was a terrible suf- ferer from heart trouble, which got so bad 1 was obliged to sit up in bed to get my breath. l had to abandon business and could hardly crawl around. My friend, Mir. Julius c. Voght, one of our leading pharma- cists, asked me to try Dr. Miles Heart Cure. I had used little more than bottle when the pain ceased and palpitations entirely disappeared. have not had the slightest trouble since. and today am attending to business as regularly as ever"
 Sold by druggists everywhere. Book on Heart and Nerves sent free. Address Dr Miles Medical Co. Elkhart. Ind.
 Dr. Niles Remedies Restore Health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

0EcULlAR in combination, pro-
 portion and preparation Of ingredi- ents, Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses great rdratlve value. You should TRY IF.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

Entered at the Post-ofIice at Pine Bluff, Ark, as second-class mail matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

TIMBER, GRAZING. MINERAL. AND
 AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

Moods Pills are purely vegetable and per tectly harmless. Sold by all druggists. 2se.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-16

PINE BLUFF. ARK. OCT. 16, 1895.
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Hoods siss:;'sii'C Cures

pletely cleansed. The sores stopped running and have not troubled me any nov tor six years My appetite and digestion are good and aEa perfectly we'll I owe my cure to Hoods Sarsa- paFilla."- F. S. KNIFE, Washington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
Raising Beef in the East,

The recent " fluctuations !" in beef
show that the farmer performs very
important part in influencing the sup
ply, and that he has the power to re-
duce or increase prices more than has
heretofore been supposed. Looking
over the field the fact appears also that
the prices of beef and the control of the
present supply are regulated at Kansas
City, over 100 miles from the sea-
board. The eastern farmer is COM
PEELED to abandon the cattle business
because he cannot compete with his
western competitors, and our butchers
are forced to buy from those who seem
to have power to limit the supply.
Now, the real party who can regulate
the prices is the farmer. There is no
necessity whatever for the East buying
her beef 80 far from home. 1t is the
farmers in this section who have re-
fused to turn their attention to cattle
raising and who are permitting the
western farmers to have control of the
leading markets. The very fact that
beef is high is proof that the farmers
are depriving themselves of the oppor.
tunity of receiving better prices for
their products than they have been Sc
curing. The dairy interests of the East
keep the production of beef cattle in
the rear. Yet, with the complaint that
prices for grain prevent farmers from
making a profit, no attention has been
given to the fattening of steers. One
OF the drawbacks has been that the
steers on the majority of the eastern
farms are very inferior, due to the fact
that the best mich COWS are not pro-
ducers of the choicest beef animals.
This condition will remain, however,
unless farmers are willing to raise their
calves instead of selling them off at an
early age. A pure bred bull of the
beef-producing breeds, such as the
Herefords, Shorthorns or Polled An
gus, bred to the ordinary dairy cows,
will make wonderful improvement in
the stock, though it is admitted that
nothing will be gained by keeping the
heifer calves of such union, unless it is
to send them to market, as the beef
producing breeds are not as suitable for
milk and butter as the breeds adapted
for those purposes. With wheat as
low as fifty cents, the prices of corn
and oats will be influenced correspond.
ingly, and the best way to sell cheap
gain is in the form of meat. There is
nothing to prevent those who are near
est to the markets from controlling
prices, but in order to do so the beef
must be fully up in quality to that
which comes from the West. 1t is ad-
mitted that the best beef is shipped
from west of the Mississippi, for the
reason that our eastern farmers are
more interested in milk and butter than
in beef, hence the greater uniformity
of the western meat, but present prices
demonstrate that our eastern farmers
can afford to use their cheap grain for
producing beef.-Troy Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
Young Stock In Spring.

With the approach of spring most
animals suffer from violent changes in
both food and weather, and young,
growing stock are less able to endure
this than the fully matured ones. Many
young spring pigs are lost during April
and May through lack of proper prep
aration and care. The narrowing time
of these young animals should be looked
forward to, and instead of letting the
sows run loose right up to the time in
any sort of wet, muddy pen, they
should be provided with clean, dry,
sweet quarters month before the criti-
cal period. In this way they get ac-
customed to their new surroundings
They can be turned out in the yard or
fields in the daytime, but at night they
should be shut up by themselves away
from the rest of the stock. Otherwise
some fine morning fine litter of pigs
will be found half dead in the wet litter
and straw. If kept in good pen the
SOW will gather together the dry straw
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way TO cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian tube. When this tube is in
famed, you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out, and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an infamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that can not be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
f. j. CHENEY & CO.,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
Lime as a Fertilizer.

G. o. Flagg, director of the Rhode
Island experiment station, says: "From
many tests made upon land in various
parts of the state it has been found that
much of the plain land in Rhode Island
is perhaps more acid than it should be
for most profitable cultivation. Upon
land that is acid the application of air.
slaked lime in quantities of one to three
tons, evenly spread and thoroughly
worked into the soil after the land is
plowed for crop, has been productive
of good resulta. If the land referred
to by your correspondent is overgrown
with moss, worn out or fails to grow
clover when sown, should not hesitate
to apply one or two tons of air. slaked
lime per acre and thoroughly work it
into the soil by repeated narrowing.
The lime will probably hasten the de-
composition and make the fertilizing
material in the soil more quickly
available, which would be desirable for
any early crop. The application of the
lime is especially desirable if land is to
be seeded to clover in the near future"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
To Teach a Nervous Horse to Stand.

Many horses have the foolish habit of
fretting and worrying after they are
hitched to a vehicle and are not allowed
to start at once. This may be over.
come often by using the most gentle
treatment - by patting and caressing
them and by making them feel at ease
as much as possible. Kindness is some.
times of no avail, and course of treat
ment or discipline seems necessary.
When nothing else will do harness and
hitch the animal up just as if you were
going to take drive. Put good strong
harness on and hitch to vehicle that
will not be broken easily. Drive TO the
front gate, or whittier you are in the
habit of driving to wait for others to
get in. Be patient and keep quiet when
tbs horse becomes restless. Talk to the
animal and draw his attention from
the surroundings as much as possible.
Take time to make these lessons long
enough and interesting enough to thor
oughly convince the horse that it must
and can keep quiet when in the harness
and hitched up ready to start. If kind
treatment does not do, little chasten.
ing with the whip is beneficial. The
main point is in taking time to make
the lesson thorough. Make it stand
still if it takes whole day to do it.
When you have no time to spare do not
try to give lessons in patience to a
dumb animal that is not supposed to
know as much as you yourself. Ma
tional Stockman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29

prices. As he is a winter dairyman,
and his butter sells in critical market
at the top figures, and is heavy feeder
of silage-ffty pounds day-it dis
poses of the oftrepeated question,
"Does silage injure the milk and but
ter?" The real point, however, that
we wish to make is this: A great deal
is being said in regard to stimulating
the maternal instinct in cows, that the
larger the development of motherhood,
physically and mentally, the better the
COW will be, and that in this develop
ment, allowing the calf to run with its
mother for several days to be caressed,
will stimulate milk elaboration by draw
ing in a natural way from the milk
fount, as affection would be supposed
to cause nature to be more lavish with
it's supplies of nutriment for the calf.
Mr.. George has been believer in this,
but few years since he became con-
vinced that if he was kind to the COW
and fed her literally and exercised a
little COW judgment in the matter the
COW would give her milk quite as CO.
piously to him as to the calf, and there
would be no "taking off the calf" that
usually Wdktb Iut tCuOco1 huu bO"ho
holding back all the milk, or part OF two
or more milkings, and shrinking of
milk as well. His plan is now to re-
move the calf within an hour or two,
at least before it has sucked, and milk
the COW as if no calf was in existence.
He likes the plan exceedingly well,
and there are no scenes incident to re-
moving a calf from its mother after a
strong attachment has been formed for
each other. The cows milk equally as
well, with no holding up of milk; and,
as the calf is fed from the pail from the
start, there is no teaching it to drink,
and its cries are unlearned, and one is
not compelled to introduce the element
of hunger to compel it to drink. We
strongly believe in this practice of Mr..
George, and especially 80 in the case of
heifers with their first calf Then they
only know that there is one way to re-
lieve the pressure of their udders, and
if gentle ways are used and good feel
ing, the little heifer looks at once upon
the mixer as the worthy object of her
maternal affections, and all can recall
incidents without number where the
heifer has seemingly transferred all
her maternal devotion to the person
that feeds and milks her. All who
have tried this plan will quickly admit
that Mr.. Georges plan is less work and
bother, and, in results, even more sat-
isfactory than the older method, and
what is all the more satisfactory, there
is continual peace in Warsaw."-
Practical Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29
Current Weekly Comment.

BEANs.-Receipts are light, but there is
very little demand and prices lean decidedly
in buyers favor.
OATs.-The market maintains a quiet
tone, but the feeling is firmer, with prices
about one half cent higher than last week.
EGGs.--There was steady deman and
firm market following last weeks report,
but since then the market has gradually
weakened. Eastern extras keep well sold up.
POTATOES. of old potatoes have
fallen off, but the supply is still in excess of
the demand, and prices are generally ruling
low and weak.
LUMBER.-The general improved tone Of
the spruce lumber market continues and
full prices are secured Western pine lum-
Der is in better demand and considerable
southern pine is coming into use.
CoRN.-The market is firmer, with prices
about three cents higher than week ago.
The demand yet continues OF hsnd-to-
mouth character, but buyers in need of
supplies are forced to pay the advance.
CHEEsE.-Receipts for export 1899 boxes.
There is no Improvement to report in the
condition OF the market as yet There is
very little of the new stock that will pass
as extra. Old stock is very dull and has to
be worked off at low and irregulsr prices.
HAY AND STRAW. The market holds
steady for choice hay, with fair demand
in progress. The supply Of lower and
medium grades is comparatively more plen-
tiful than choice and for such the market
is only fairly steady The market shows
improvement on the lower grades compared
with a few months since. Rye straw is
quiet but steady.
FLoUR.-The market at first hands has
experienced heavy boom In prices. the up
ward movement in wheat forcing values up
80 to 40c on the better grades. This has not
brought much business at the advance,
however, as local retailers are giving away
all of the profits, and selling some brands
by the single barrel at % to 40c less than it
would now cost them by the carload.
Where buyers need supplies they are forced
to pay the advance.
BUrrER-Recepts show a marked in
heavy arrivals, and the supply is not I'M
usually large. Demand has been more
active and under the influence of the specu-
lative buying prices have been advanced
full cent, the market closing very firm at
quotations, with some OF the best creamery
held fraction higher. Grades just below
extras have a moderate sale, but common
and medium qualities are dull and un.
changed.
WHOLESOME classes of our domestic
woolens continue to sell in good.sized guam
titles and almost all fabrics are meeting
with a moderate business, but the prices
of everything are so low as to make the
margins almost transparent and in addi-
ton to this the importations of foreign
wooens and worsteds are weekly increas-
ing. The state Of the markets for these
goods during the past week has had ten
dency to stagnate prices on raw wool, ana
no large sales are reported.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29

SPRUCE.
Live Stock Market.

SHEEP AND LAMBs.-Sheep, in lots S1335093
each; extra, s3.5Og5 or from 295c per ID. Lambs,
idBc
MARKET BEEF.-A few choice, IS 259s5o; extra,
e55oqb; first quality. 25d525; second quality
2id4.75; third quality, S3G375.
Mich Cows.-About the usual supply, but not
very active demand. Jones X Johnson sold spring
ers and milch cows, S3S each; Libbey Brothers,
milch cows, S2sG5O S. II. Wardwell, springers,
SiO95O; Z. W. Thompson, mich cows, gas each.
STORE CATTLE.-Working oxen, 260dl45; farrow
cows. 2lnD22; fancy cows S50d70; mich cows and
calves, S2udis yearlings, Seql6 two.year-olds,
SIEGE; three'year.olds, S2Od32.
VEAL CALvEs.-Demand good and prices firm at
last weeks figures Ten calves, weight, 1920
lbs sold at SIC per b 10 do average us lbs at SIC;
S. do, average I0 lbs at SCI 80 do 500 lbs at SIC;
So do, $3.50 lbs, at Sc; 80 do, $3.50 lbs, at SIC
CATTLE.-The business was good and active at the
advance. with an increased supply of Western cat
tie and moderate run from he North and East. A.
Goss sold cattle, 2S70 lbs at 5ac live; H. n. Clark
sold 10 cattle, average | 800 lbs at &c, live.
HIDES, TALLow AND SKINs.-Brighton hides,
51sd7c per h; tallow, 3d4c per III country hides,
5nbhc per n; tallow Yoke per 10; wool pelts,
5gqs5c each; calf skins, 65caSllU. each; sheared
skins, l5120c EACH lamb skins, 25c each; dairy
skins, 3Od5Uc each.