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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
BOOTS HAVE FAD THEIR DAY.
The Trade Badly Affected by the Increased
 Wear of Shoes.


 The diminished use of boots is a mat ter of concern to the manufacturers of them and to the producers of heavy leather and heavy calfskins. Twenty years ago the calf boot industry was a leading one in New England.
 Whole towns were studded with fac tories which produced calf boots exclu- sively. For a decade the sale has been gradually falling off, and today it is of hardly any importance.
 A few manufacturers of shoes include boots as speciality, but the demand is too light to amount to much. When calf boots were more in vogue, manu- facturers consulted the partialities of the cowboys, to whom price was a sec- ondary consideration.
 The legs were frequently corded with silk stitching. The star and crescent and other fanoiful ornamentations were inlaid on the legs of tho boots. Tbe soles were inlaid with copper, zinc and brass nails. The cowboys no longer pay $15 or $20 for pair of boots They want substance instead of show. But they were not the only wearers of calf boots. They were extensively worn. Many men prefer them today, though the number is growing less The old fashioned stoga boots were formerly sold in large quantities. They are we'll nigh obsolete There followed a demand for lighter and more stylish article. A kip boot of lighter texture was pro- duced about equal in appearance to the best calf boot, but this, too has fallen somewhat into disuse Where there were 20 factories producing boots ex- dlusively, there is now but one. Even the farmers are using heavy shoes in- stead of hoots and if it becomes a ne- cesslty to wear long legged boots they buy rubbers
 Twenty years ago the entire product of Salem and Peabody was heavy boots and brogan leather Today there are less than half Q dozen tanners making it. Brogans and plowshares are indis- pensable in many sections of country. but there are comparatively few exc1u- sive manufacturers of these now.
 The Creedmore Dom Pedro, English eioS ana Sfeolo ConBFeSS are supplaAGlnS them. The decline i'll the consumption of calf boots affects the tanners of calf skins. It is @ question what is to be done with heavy skins. The tanners must necessarily buy more or less of them. They cannot select light and me- dium weights exclusively, and if they tan them they feel no certainty of be- ing able to dispose of them in the fin ishod state There is nevertheless use in this world for whatever is good for anything, and there will be some way of disposing of heavy oalfskins, though for the moment it appears difficult to point out the direction into which they will bo moved. d.-Shoo and Leather Re- nnrter
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What to Leave Q Son.

If my choice were free would rath- or give my boy the memory of fairly shappy and untrammeled life up to 20 and leave him nothing then but con- sequent reasonable optimism, an un- sapped courage and disposition to re- gard money as a means rather than an end than keep him constantly face to face with specter of possible poverty, fill him full of premature cares and leave him $5, 900 or $25. 900 year and no memories. or well ground, healthy tastes, or world to live in indeed except such as he commonly sets out to make for himself under these circumstances, which is worse than nothing. -Scrib- ner's Magazine
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In the Hest.

Kentuckians are always proud of their state ill whatever department of human labor they may hold. Not long ago widow went to see a marble cut ter to get tombstone for her late hus- band. She selected plain one from his stock and gave him an inscription to put on it.
 Can do that. ma 'am," he said po- litely when he had read it.
 "Why not?" she asked in surprise ''I'm paying for it. J
 "Yes, but 1 can't put that on. stretch my conscience a good many times in what l put on tombstone, but l ain't going to tell a plain lie when l know it. ''
 The widow was greatly shocked and insisted on his explaining what he meant.
 Well, ma 'am," he said. ''you ve got here gone to better land, and that ain t so ma'am. There ain't any better land than Kentucky "-Detroit Free Press.
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USE OF DRY GOODS.
An Increased Consumption Now as Com
 pared With Former Years

An Increased Consumption Now as Com
 pared With Former Years.
 Itshould be remembered that 60 years ago the market for dry goods, taking the words in large sense, was much less extensive than at present A great deal of linen, cotton and woolen cloth was made ill families, and mems cloth ing was largely prepared by domestic seamstresses. Homespun was still much worn. Men and boys who were not af. f1ieted with rheumatism did not wear undershirts and drawers, and the core spending garments were not used by the other sex till after 1895.
 Carpets were unknown among the 7s poor so years ago, even in the rustic form of those made of rags. It was aft or this date that parishioner of Dr. Lyman Beecher, seeing neat and gay rag carpet i'll the pastors house. in- quired solemnly if he thought he could have all this and heaven too. Ingrain and brussels came into use among the middle and lower classes in cities about 1880 and ill the country 10 or 15 years later. Cotton goods were very dear in 1890, but have steadily been sinking ever since as the facilities of manufae- ture have improved.
 Ready made clothing 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was only to be found in seaports or in those places where there was likely to be at any time an influx of baokwoodsmen, boatmen or miners. The stores were then familiarly known as "slopshops, " and the garments made very little pre- ztense to fitting. Countless varieties of cloth and multitude of accessories in the dry goods trade have come up with in the half century. Before that the supply was seanty. Men and women in society in Jefferson's time were we'll dressed. Their velvets, their lace, their satins and their gloves would compare with those of today or were even finer, but the great mass of the people had few varieties of material to choose from and made no pretense of following the fashions. They could not. Nov York Prioo Current.
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TAME BLACKFISH.
They Come Up Readily to Take Live Min
 nows From the Attendants Hand.

They Come Up Readily to Take Live Min
 nows From the Attendants Hand.
 The blaokfsh in nature is shy, but in / captivity, with kindness, it is easily tanned. In one of the pools of the oity's aquarium at Castle Garden there are a number of blackfish, including some 15 inches long and weighing two pounds, that will take food, live killies, or min- nows, from tho hand The killie is held just under the top of the water and the blackfish comes up and takes it, some moving a little warily as though inves- tigating first so as to mako sure that it was all right, and others coming up with confidence, taking the fish from the fingers and swallowing it with a smack.
 Sometimes a minnow escapes from the fingers or from the fish that is try ing to take it and darts away for safety with two or three blaokfish, sometimes more, after it. The little minnew sticks close to the edge of the pool and to the surface of the water. It is thus protect ed on one side by tho wall of the pool, and at the surface it can swim faster than it's pursuers, and being so much smaller it can turn much quicker than the blaokfsh. It may go half the length of the pool. hugging the wall, and then dArt across the pool at right angles, with the big blaok1ish still after it. So long as the minnow keeps to the top it is safe, but if it goes to the bottom the chances are greatly against it. In deep CT water the bigger fish can do better than the smaller fish.
 Weakfsh sometimes become very tame in captivity. Ono has been known to lift it's head four inches out of water to seize live killio held in the hand. New York Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
Some Explanations of the Oceans Salt.

The Pythagoreans held that the sea was salt by reason of tho tears shed by Kronos, father of zeus. According to tho old Hebraic tradition, the ocean was originally great body of fresh water, but which was made salt by the abun- dant tears of the fallen angels. One sect of Buddhists believe that Lots wife that is to say, the "pillar of salt" which was once the wife of the humble gentleman named above-lies at the bottom of the ocean in a certain narrow strait, and that once each year the wa ters of all oceans flow through that mar row channel The Talmudio writers say that 1t was never salt until Moses wept repentance after breaking the tables of stone.-St Louis Republic.
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Was Obliged to Go.

Hello, Harkaway, arc you still in town? I thought you had moved out west and gone into the mining busi- ness. "
 "No. I didn't go That scheme fell through.
 "Then you are not going to leave us?''
 ''Oh, yes Pm getting ready to move.
 "Where are you going?"
 ''I haven't decided yet. But I've got to go somewhere. Higgins. The boys in the clubs belong to have given me half dozen farewell dinners, and as gen. tleman and man of my word I can t stay here any longer after that "-Bal- timore Herald.
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Votes Not Worth Having.

Some peoples notions of Hodges ideas of politics are illustrated by the soliloquy of laborer on his way to the poll: "Yes, yes, Gladstone was great man, but I main think he was too cute for us poor folk When votes was worth a fl'pun note, he kep un all to hisself, and now, when they ain't wuth far den, we all has unl An, he was main too clever for usl" Do he marches in and votes for tho squire. re.-London Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
AN OLD PRussIAN DISH.
"Beerflsh" Is Alleged to Re Good When
 It Is Served steamIng Hot.

ssBeerflsh" Is Alleged to Be Good When
 It Is Served steaming Hot.
 There is dish dear to every Prus- sian's heart, which may be, however, absolutely new Tn this country. All Germans may not know it, as it is not made in south Germany except in iso- lated cases Beer is not its chief ingre- dient, but it plays an important part in the makeup.
 The dish is known as beerfish, and the German carp, praised of epicures, is herein treated ill a manner worthy of the fish. It must be made with half beer, or, in the absence of this, with weiss beer and porter. The fish is cut, or squares. Three or four cuts across the fish are all that is necessary. Of course the fish must be cleaned
 A large glazed pot is used A layer of large onions is placed on the bottom of the pot. On this are sprinkled various spices; then layer of substance call ed fish pfefferkuohen, which has moro or less fish. substance ill it and can be procured at any German grocery or deli eatessen store; then layer of sliced lemon; then carp. This is repeated until the pot Is full
 A layer of onions is placed on top and beer is poured into the whole mass until all the interstices are filed It is cook ed for 90 minutes over slow fire, mean time adding a spoonful of vinegar and another of sugar. Beerfsh is delicious
 .9.-z hot But it's good qualities do not end here, for after it is cold it offers allure ments which make it hard to decide which way it tastes better, hot or cold, Philadelphia Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
Fight Between Bull and Alligator.

heard an interesting story of fight between an alligator and big bull on the shores of Lake Okeechobee. Alliga- tors are quite numerous ill that lake, and it is little visited by white men, though Seminole Indians fish and hunt there. Herds of cattle roam about through that section of the state, and the bull in question belonged to one of these herds. It was drinking at small inlet on this lake when it's nose was caught by an al= ligator. The bull managed to free itself by pulling the gator partly out of the water It then lowered its horns and caught the gator, throwing it on the bank. When the bull made another at tack, the alligator struck the bull with it's tail and severely hurt it. The bull managed to tear hole in the abdomen or soft spot of the gator, but on anoth- CT charge tho gator broke one of tho legs of the bull by blow from its tail. This disabled the bull, and the gator managed to break another leg in the same way, but the saurian soon bled to death, and the bull, when found with it's two broken legs, had to be shot, Florida Letter.
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The Heaeiy Pin.

Whats that you say, my boy?
 The teacher says you are as sharp as needle?
 We'll, probably she meant to oompli- mont you, my boy. l have no doubt she did, but remember that needles always go into things with their eyes closed You don't want to be like that.
 Now, there's the pin. The pin has head. you will notice, which prevents it going in too far.
 Be like the pin, my boy. -Roekiand Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
Stanley J. Weylnan.

Stanley J. Weyman, thonovelist, prac- ticetl in London as barrister for about ten years and with fair success. He never really liked his profession, how sver, and was a poor speaker. Mir. Wey- man writes slowly. He considers a thousand words day sufficient He hunts once week during the season, is an unmarried man and lives with his mother and sister.
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Avoided the Subject.

Winks-Did McKick have much to say on the subject of railroad monopoly while you were thereF
 Minks-Well. no You see, just after called. oartman drove up with box for him. The railroad freight on it for 100 miles was a quarter; the oartman's charge for hauling it six blocks was 50 cents.-New York Weekly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14

"Soots, Wha Hae, was by Burns. It was written on a dark day while the author was on journey. The tune is Hey Tuttie Taittie, an old march that is said by tradition to have ami mated BTuoe's men at Bannockburn.
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Better.

tI should have you know, sir. that I am a Londoner, as was born in Lon- don.
 But I. sir. was born in Cork, and I am Corkeri' i'-Boston Globe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14

Many towns in Europe have local hol- idays commemorative of some impor- taut event in their history.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14
THOS. GREEN. City Bill Poster and AuctioueeI

Personal attention given to tue posting up and distribution of advertising matter of eV- cry kind, including samples, etc. Charges reasonable. Office at 4. J, S.ewart's, J. P. IA East Barraque street
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-14

W. H. ROWLAND, Agent. Boats leave Memphis Tuesdays at 5 D. m. Leave Pine Bluff Fridays at T2 m Freight consigned to Compa- ny's wharfbOat at Memphis promptly forwarded. Lowest rates from and to all points.
 Uptown Office Telephone No. %. Landing Telephone No. 66.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25

sonville.'' I remark viewing the vegetable
death and desolation around.
That's true, answers F., but see
what an aristrocrat is Nature, The large
shrubs in these adjoining yards are cape
jasmines; one is taken, the other left. Now
turn your eyes TO those great arbors OF
Marechal Neil roses. One is budding out,
while the other is dead as Pliny- And the
most peculiar thing about it is that the
dead vine belongs to a poor woman who
depends on her winters sale of roses to
help her live. Why shouldn't the needy
one have kept roses? Before the thaw
there were some pretty pictures on our
streets-froZen spray of fountains, an
flowers caught in ice palaces, the roses
blushin' brighter than ever behind their
transparent walls. 1t was beautiful
sight. and a new one to half the popula-
ton"
Look on that picture. now on this
And on the future. Before May-day the
whole city viii be in bloom The worst blot
on the present is the army of tramps, many
of them professionals. that are overrunning
the State"
What will you do with them?'
1--WE are putting them TO work on the
streets now; but when the jail is full the
question will be A pezzler. Some years ago
1t was seriously proposed to build a monster
lighter and anchor the tramps on st. John S
river Ridicule prevented the experiment.
but I'm not sure it wouldn't be a good
idea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
PeHiSDryGOOdsCO
TRUST In TROUBLE
INTEREST DEFAULTED BY THE CO.
LUMBIA STRAW PAPER COMPANY.
foreclosure Proceedings Begun and a
Receiver Asked For-Three Banks
Forced to Close.

CHICAGO. Jan. 24-Foreclosure proceed
tngs against the Columbia Straw Paper
Company were begun in the United States
Circuit Court to-day. The Northern Trust
Company filed bill and asked for the ap-
pointment of a receiver. Similar foreclos-
IRE proceedings have been begun in nine
different States in which the company has
mills. Inability to meet interest payments
on 100000 in bonds is set up by the bill
as the reason for the proceedings. The
company was organized in January 1893,
with a capital stock of s4o00,OOO, and the
incorporation was taken under the laws of
New Jersey. Most of the paper mills in
the central States were absorbed by the
new company, and a promising business was
transacted for some months. To the panic
of 1893 Is ascribed the first trouble of the
corporation. Large expenditures for i'm
proved machinery were necessary and the
company found itself at length pressed to
meet interest pn the bonded Indebtedness.
The Nqrthern Trust Company. acting for
the bondholders, began proceedings against
the company by sending representatives to
rockford. ILL.,, to take possession of two
mills at that town. 1t Is expected that the
bond and stockholders will meet to
discuss plan of reorganizat ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
SINGLE-TAXER JOHNSON.
Millionaire Tom Blanks Protection
and the Assessment of Incomes.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.--At the dinner
given by the New York Board Of Trade and
Transportation last night, Congressman
Tom Johnson was one of the speakers. He
said, in part
Look at our national taxes. Do they not
treat the trader and transporter who brings
goods from abroad as a public enemy, who
is to be robbed and blackmailed in every
way, and thus in the same way and at the
same time we Cypress the trade which takes
our own products abroad? Do they not
tablish private taxgatherers and black
malers from the giant sugar trusts to the
small official who levies his private
duty the passengers by incoming Steam-
ers? And, finally, as the Lexow committee
has shown, and as every one knew before.
even the police come in for their share OF
protection, even il but a few apples from
an apple Woman's stand. 1t is all protec-
ton. And now we are going to have an in
come tax. All this is stupid; all this is
wicked; all this is destructive of prosperity
and destructive of morals. WHAT is in
reality most heavily taxed in the United
States to-day, and what is going to be
taxed in the new income tax, is honesty and
veracty. We prate about honesty in the
churches and Sunday schools, but If man
robs a bank it is a bare chance IL he is
punished, while if starts bank we
punish him at once fer certainty and
continue to punish him every year. The
only honest tax, the only fair tax. the only
rigntful and natural tax is the s.ngt1 tax.
Mr.. Johnson closed with a vigorous appeal
in behalf of the single tax principle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
nR. wILTsIE on POLICE COURT.
Fayors Giving that Court Authority
to Try Petit Larceny Cases.

Favors Giving that Court Authority
to Try Petit Larceny Cases.
County Prosecutor WdltsEe is vitality in
terested in the passage of the legislative bill
vesting the Police Court with jurisdiction in
petit larceny cases.
"a bill of that character is the very thing
we need in Marion county, he said, 'in
fact, it is the only hope OF the Criminal
Court. We now compelled to try all of
these minor cases in the Criminal Court
and the result is that we will always be
kept busy trying these little Jail cases.
There are now on this docket three or four
hundred appeal cases from the Police Court,
but we see no way of getting at them.
Every time the grand jury meets it grinds
out fifty or seventy-five indictments, three
fcurths of which are petit larceny cases.
These indictments are Invariably against
jail prisoners and, of course, we have to
try them first. The fact is it keeps the
Criminal Court busy nearly all of the time
disposing of the cases against men in jail.
We cannot let those prisoners lay there.
It is not only unfair to them but it is
big expense on the county. AT present the
outlook is very discouraging for the appeal
cases that have been on the docket for
year mOre.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
HARRY HAYWARD'S TRIAL.
Miss Ging's Alleged Slayer Says the
Press Does Not Treat Him Fairly.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Jan. 24.--With the
adjournment of court this evening eight
Jurors had been secured TO try the case of
the State against Harry Hayward. The
jury as body is an exceptionally intell-
gent ono. There was little of interest dur
ing the day aside from occasional saliies
between the attorneys and bright replies
from talesmen.
Hayward keeps up his spirits wonderfully.
He takes the papers regularly and reads
the accounts of the trial closely. Speak
ing tonight he said: Some newspapers
seem to be after me for some reason and
are not willing to wait for the trial TO be
on. The law allows me to be fairly treated,
but some of the papers seem TO prefer 70
be unfair, even at the expense or truth
realize that appearances are against me.
but don't see why the papers cannot be
AT least fair in the matter.
In the selection of the jury the State has
used three of its seven peremptDry cnai-
ienges and the defense eleven of its twenty
one. 1t is thought the last four Jurors
will be the most difficult to obtain
There was stir when the trial opened
to discipline several newspaper men for
saories printed about the examination OF
nuy for tha dafsnse arose and denounced
the publications as tissues of faisehood. Inc
reporter of the Journal was summoned be-
fore the court to divulge the source of his
information. He maintained that the infor-
nation was reliable, but averred that he
was under a pledge not to divulse It's
source.
At Las o'clock the Journal reporter ap-
peared at Judge Smiths chambers, where
he was closeted for a few minutes with
Judge Smith and Assistant County Attor
ney Hall. The conference was not long, but
it lasted long, enough for Judge Smith to
give the reporter a talking to-. He was
Informed that reporters We're admitted to
courts of law in order that they might give
the public knowledge of what actually
transpired therein, and not for the sake of
giving them an opportunity TO evoive sen
expressed himself as duly penitent and was
greatly relieved when Judge Smith forgave
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-25
LecisInfixe Notes.

Representative Hanna. of Putnam, who
has been dangerously i'll for some time, was
able to be in the House yesterday.
=, The committee on education alto will go to
dedication of one of the new university
buildings.
W. V. Stoy, one of the pushing merchants
of Lafayette, pledges himself to raise 81 500
for the erection of a chapel if the s1Co00 is
voted for the State Soldiers Home and
he proposes to interest three hundred pee
pie in the project by so doing.
The committee on reformatores has in
vestgated the charges that people are not
allowed to converse with prisoners at the
female refornatory, except in the presence
of an officer of the institution. A lawyer
made complaint that he was unable TO talk
In private with a client at the institution
The matron set up the claim that she was
acting merely under instruction of the
board. She said that the attorney had
come out there with no letter of identifca-
ton and the prisoner did not even know
that he had been employed to represent
her. The committee found that the insti-
tuition needed new boilers BADLY. The ones
in use have been in service for sixteen years
and the committee thinks they are dangers