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The Cellar In sprfngtime.

Be lavish in the use of lime. Char coal also is an excellent disinfeetant and purifier. An open box of it makes good cellar ornament. Admit draft of fresh air daily, however cold the weather Do not let rubbish accumulate. If your de- sire for hoarding old things is irresisti- ble, gratify it anywhere but in the eel lar. If you have furnace in the cellar, insist upon it's having a cold air box. The heated air which fills the up stairs rooms is more healthful If drawn from outdoors into the furnace than if sup piled from the cellar, however clean and we'll ventilated the latter may be. Good Housekeeping.
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The New Woman In the schoolroom

An undergraduate of a woman's col lege says that she notices curious dis tinction between the way the older wom- en teachers talk to the girls and that in which the younger ones address them. The former always imply that the pupils will marry; the latter seldom seem to take matrimony into their calculations at all They plan their classes futures for them as if there were no such thing as the masculine gender in the world, but the old time teachers, even if they are spinsters themselves, are not so ad- yanced as this. Philadelphia Times
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A Challenge.

The following was handed in at the GRAPHIC office last night for publiea- tion:
 To the Editor:
 "Please publish this in the morning issue of your paper:
 Harry Sheldon has arrived in Pine Bluff and is willing to fight any TO or 12O-pOund man in thecountry; anu is willing to fight Billy Pool at any weight or time he chooses Sheldon means business; first come, first served. HARRY SHELDON, Champion l10-pound man of the South.
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We beg to our return to Pine Bluff to stay to live and to conduct irSeass ewelry business We have confidence, because know the good people of this vcn not here 10 rival local ratemity--Who are our rendsbu in the broadeSt to cover the field against foreign competitions to give loo cents of value for every dollar spent with us and guarantee that covers every transaction counters Our stock will be complete as soon as we can accomplish it, including
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At l:30 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was sounded caused by slight blaze on the corner of Fifth and Georgia
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The Iron Mountain Railway will sell tickets at lowest first-class rates for theround trip to Dallas, Tex, on account of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in that city on May Is to 26.
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Quite party of young people will go to Lake Dick one day this week to enjoy q picnic.
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Henry Duncan, the well known young lnmberman of Duncan s Switch, spent Saturday in town.
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Thirteen girls of the present senior class of Vassar college have been award ed honors which signify that their work throughout the four years course has exceeded a certain standard.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12

Numbers of our citizens are going to Sulphur Spring today on pleasure bent
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Pennsylvania is to have it's State Fed eration of Women's Clubs. The District of Columbia has a fourishing fedora tion It looks as if the subfederation idea were to be the permanent one, the national organization remaining merely a governing council.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12

Over 40, 900 women are attending the various colleges in America, yet it has only been 25 years since the first col lege in the land was opened to women.
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Sacrificing the Shawl.

The once fashionable and still valua- ble cashmere shawls of our grandmoth- CTS time are being sacrificed to the scis- sors at last and made into sleeves, bod ices and bias folds, appearing with black or with dull red brocade silk foI very rich afternoon gowns for elderly women
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French maids are not so popular with fashionable women as they were, and English ones are to considerable ex- tent taking their place.
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Ask the stock Jefferson and Arkansas counties whether HOLMES buys common stock because they cheap, whether he than they bring St Louis, Chicago City if necessary for the privilege of selecting the best
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Miss Mary Dennis, pastor of East Park M E. church, Indianapolis, open ed the Indiana senate with prayer on one morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-12

The ornamenting of the front seams of the skirt for evening wear is pleas ing relief from the monotony of the godet style
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A new wrinkle is large bow of black satin ribbon tied at both wrists. pr. Prices Cream Baking pnv'ter
 Forty Years the StandarS-
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Palm and Japanese decorated fans,
 one cent each.
 Coffee pots, one quart, Sc, two
 quart, lie, three quart Be each. Dish pans, ten quart He, twelve
 quart 18c, fourteen quart, 2oc
 each.
 Covered buckets, one quart 5c, two
 quarts Sc, three quarts Be each. Bread pans, }, 6, ', s, 9 10 and He. Dairy pans, one quart 3c, six quart
 7e, eight quart Sc, ten quart Sc. Pie plates, eight and nine inch Be,
 ten inch 9c
 Dippers, tin handle 3c, larger 4c,
 one quart 6c. wooden handle 6c. Pepper boxes 2c. Paper pails 25c. Galvanized pals, twelve quarts 3Oc. Wash bowls, seven quart 6e, eight
 quart 7c. Tin cups, pint, Pc. Tin water buckets, ten quart, Tie;
 fourteen quart, Poe, seventeen
 quart 24c. , Muffin pans, six hole Sc, eight nole He, twelve hole Ice.
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Three-quarter domestic 4c. Seven-eighths domestics, 5c. Four-quarter domestic, 6c. Challies Be per yd., worth 43c Better grade. 5c Full line pink gingham etc. Cheapest line of ribbons, lace and
 embroidery in the city Sun umbrellas, all prices. Ladies straw sailor, trimmed and
 untrimmed from l0c up. Twenty pieces good mating, lie
 per yard, worth 15c Fifteen pieces extra gooc mating
 Ice per yard worth 20e. Twenty pieces fancy mating, 5ol9
 per yard, worth 25c Fifteen pieces best quality mating,
 25c per yard worth 35c. One hundred pairs window shades
 all eolors, 39c each, worth 65e. Table oil cloth, yards wide, all
 colors, 16e per yard. 100 dozen mems boys and children $
 straw hats, from Ice up.
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LET JOY BE UNCONFINED.

A clergyman writing in one of the
current magazines complains that this
age is characterized by it's love of pleas
ure; that it is the age of forgetting the
soul. What we seek he says, is to en-
joy. He has heard people go away from
the house of God saying to each other:
How did you enjoy the sermon or the
singing? Was it not a beautiful
prayer" He is unduly distressed. 1t
is not spiritual age, certainly-at
least in the sense that the term was
once understood. People do not spend
much time in fasting and prayer or in
pious meditation. They are not given
to hiding themselves in converts or
monasteries, or to scourging themselves
or undergoing voluntary penance for
their sins. They live their lives through,
some Of them. without having known
religious ecstasy or exaltation. They
do not forget their souls" perhaps,
but they do not engage in conscious
study or cultivation of that mysterious
possession They do not sit in wrapt
contemplation of a future beyond the
grave; they do not see visions nor
dream dreams of spiritual world. Yet
because they laugh and make merry
and care about externals. and enjoy
even a sermon it does not follow that
they are frivolous or unmindful of the
deep things of the world. If they were,
the needs of the world would not re-
ccive attention. and even the complaint
ing minister dees not dare to say that
sorrow and poverty, sin and suffering
in all their many fields are ignored by
these people who smile. If he were to
speak all the truth he would say that
never in the history of the world was
there such an era of public and private
benevolence as this never time when
so many men and women ministered to
the less fortunate Even in the Puri-
tan days. when people attended church
as a duty, when a smile during service
was esteemed sin. and constant medi-
tation upon the soul the only chance
OF saving it-even then, when gloom
was the rule. the sympathy with suffer-
ing humanity was less manifest than
now. The clergyman need have no con-
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Germ Life at it's best is serious and
only endurable TO those who can resist
the pressure of care and grief and con-
tinue to discern the elements of joy.
II they can retain a capacity for en-
joyment of trifes. childlike spirit that
enables them to smile even through
tears. sense of humor that no calam-
ity can destroy, they have the best gift
that life can afford. If they can "en-
joy" sermon in an intellectual sense
or take aesthetic Instead of religious
pleasure in hymn is it not better than
to he bowed by spiritual Woe? There
is no danger that the world will become
too gay and giddy while existence is
what it is. If there is a disposition to
make the best of this life on the ground
that the souls eternal welfare is best
served by SO doing. it is a tendency
that no preaching can check. 1t may
be based on a wrong theory, but one
which at least has merit
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Lincoln's Theory of the War.

Col. A. K. Mcclure, in McClure's Magazine.
His Uincoln's) theory of the war was
that the enemy could be fought much more
simultaneously on Northern soil than In
the South, as 1t enabled concentration or
Northern forces and diffused South
ern forces in maintaining lines OF
clared his theory that Lees army was the
heart of the rebellion. and that Richmond
and other important military centers would
be valueless while Lees army was un-
first strongly inclined to censure Meade for
not fighting another battle at Willlamsport
(after Gettysburg) ] saw the President
soon after the battle. and was amazed at
his thorough familiarity with every high
way and mountain pass which the armies
had open to them. AS it was near my own
home, / knew how accurate his informa-
ton was, and he questioned me infinitely
as to distances and opportunities of the
two armies in the race to Williamsport.
When 1 asked him the direct question
Meade had accomplished, he answered me
in these words Now don't misunderstood
me about General Meade. ] am profoundly
grateful down to the bottom Of my boots
for what he did at Gettysburg, but think
If had been General Meade would have
fought another battle" He was extremely
careful to avoid injustice to any of his
commanders, and after fully considering
the whole subject, he excused rather than
justified Meade for not delivering battle to
Lee at Williamsport. Had Meade done SO
great general of the war; but there are few
generals who would have fought That battle
with the forces of both sides nearly equal
and Lee entrenChed.
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voracious reader" It ~ added, and
after he was nifty years of age he learned
Hebrew, in order to be sble TO study the
Old Testament more f,1Ily. His favorite
English author Is Matthew Arnold. He is
man OF the very widest culture and at
tainments. but he Is anxious to share his
knowledge with other people. He has been
engaged Tor the past ten years on a work
which he calls the Library OF the People
In this he Is endeavoring to gather to-
gether the finest thoughts of the best
thinkers or all ages and countries
The book-lover who collected first edi-
tions of Stevenson at the time of their
publication was a wise man, says the
Critic. Published in one-volume editions
and sold at ordinary prices, the twenty
seven volumes. bound in crushed levant
are worth 800 to-day, and scarce at that.
A copy Of the first edition Of Travels
With a Donkey was sold in this city day
or two ago for $50. One of the scarcest
of Stevenson books is not book at all,
but a pamphlet of ten or a dozen pages
the Father Damien letter, privately printed
in Sydney. and distributed among the auth
or's friends. An American collector bought
one of these pamphlets in London, few
weeks ago, and is congratulating himself
that he paid only $50 for it, The letter was
afterwards printed in the National OBJ
server, when Mr.. Henley was the editor of
that journal.
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branch" said the Texas Senator, then
It can call on the judicial branch. We
will then be able to call on the chief
judicial body cf the country to furnish
US information as to why it affirmed the
legality OF the legal tender act" Mr..
Mills may have imagined he was MAX
ing a constitutional argument, but he
was really talking nonsense. He can
not be SO ignorant as not to know that
from the foundation Of the government
it has been the custom of Congress to
request the President to furnish it with
information or correspondence in the
possession of the executive branch of
the government. Generally, the request
is coupled with the condition sif COM
patible with public interests but not
always. The Constitution does not say
that Congress may do this. but it is
part of the unwritten constitution, and
has been done thousands of times. To
say that it is an unauthorized interfer-
ence by one department of the govern
ment with another is absurd. If Mr.
Mills had been looking for an example
of such interference he could have
found a very conspicuous one in the eff
forts of President Cleveland to shape
legislation and bride Congress with ex-
ecutive patronage to adopt his views
and policies.
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affairs Of government millennial con-
dition will speedily come about: it is
said that they are doing the chief part
OF the. philanthropic work of the world:
attention is called triumphantly to the
circumstance that women need not mar
ry now unless they choose. since they
are able to care for themselves. The
new woman, in short, sets herself up as
the possessor of such superior attri-
butes that it can hardly be supposed
she will do other than barely tolerate
imperfect man. But if man. convicted
of his own inferiority, should hunbly
set about self-improvement. the height
he must climb in order to stand on
equal plane with the lofty one she
seems to herself to have reached is a
dizzy one. Really. it will be necessary
for him to emulate the virtues of an
archange! in order to meet the moral
requirements, and as no archangel's
mental measure is on record, the only
available intellectual standard will be
that fixed by the new woman herself
Plainly, man has a long and hard row
to hoe before he can hope to be accept
able to the new woman-that is. taking
her, as before stipulated. at her own
valuation. The "old" mans trick of
abasing himself before the woman and
of calling her an angel will not serve
the new man. The odd woman took
these assertions for what they were
worth-and the deceiving man along
with them. The new woman is quite
sure he is right. which is very differ
ent matter. But there is chance yet
for the man. AS yet the claims of the
new woman to a general superiority are
based upon her own belief in herself,
upon what she thinks she can do in
stead Of what she has done. If man is
inclined to dispute her intended sway.
or wishes for little more time in which
to fit himself for association with her.
he can demand proof of her boosted
ability. He can insist upon seeing for
himself how she can govern and reform
creation generally. To do so may be to
demonstrate anew his cruelty and base
ness. but it is his only hope.
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vile, stating that Edna's personal mail
the day before he wrote was 22,0o0 letters
If the endless chain scheme continues to
develop there is no reason why the num-
Der should not reach 2. 000. coo day provided
the resources of the government and the
railroad facilities of the country are adj
equate to its transportation and sufficient
number of sane men not engaged in col
lecting Cancelled postage stamps can be
found to handle it.
There is reason to believe that Edna is
entirely ignorant of the principle of geo.
metrical progression as taught in the books
yet she has formulated it into scheme
for the collection of Cancelled stamps which
works unerringly as the law of gravita-
ton and as smoothly as a Corliss engine
BY simply writing three letters she has
set in motion moral forces which, If their
strength does. not expend itself or the
operation is not arrested, will inevitably
turn the entire wealth of the United States
IL not of the whole world, into cancelled
postage stamps. Her scheme is as simple
as 1t is wonderful. The three letters that
she wrote stating that she a cripple
ana desired to collect million Cancelled
stamps in order to enable ner to secure
medical treatment were addressed to diff
ferent persons, each of whom was asked
TO send her ten stamps and to write SINH
lar letters to three persons OF their ac-
quaintance making a similar request These
letters would be received by nine persons
each of whom would send Edna ten stamps
and address similar letters to three per-
sons OF their acquaintance. These TWEEN
ty-seyen persons would write similar let
ters to eighty-one persons, and so the ball
would be kept rolling and growing. Each
series of letters m he
every letter was to constitute link in a
chain which was to run to fifty 1t is a
great scheme. Its possibilities are beyond
the power of the finite mind to grasp
careful calculations as to the number of
letters that would be written If every
chain should continue unbroken UP to it's
HIueth INK show that the total number
would be one thousand sextillions, the post
age on which, at 2 cents per letter, would
be twenty-one quintillions of dollars Es-
timating the population of the earth at
l,00O,0O0,OOO. If every man, woman and child
were worth H,00O,000 they could not buy
the twenty-five millionth part of the
stamps that would be necessary to pay
the postage on the letters. Again, if four
sheets of one hundred stamps each weigh
one ounce it would require upwards of
4,Oo0 O00, 900, 100000 of freight cars, carrying
twenty tons each, to transport the stamps,
making no allowance for casing and pack
ing. II these cars were thirty feet in
length making no allowance for couplings,
they would reach from the earth to the
sun and return 1852 times, and the length
OF train containing them all would be
over %, 600 600 600 900 of miles OF course these
figures are entirely beyond the compre-
hension of ordinary minds and really con-
vey no impression whatever, but they en-
able one to form some conception of the
gigantic intellect which invented the
scheme
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THE ssNEW" WOMAN's ESTIMATE OF
HERSELF.

Some newspaper philosopher who has
been hearing a good deal about the
new woman and perhaps observing
her a good deal. is moved to remark
that she will be a fiat failure unless
evolution brings us new man to match
her. There is more in this than mere
newspaper joke. Accepting the new
woman at her own estimate, which is
high. the need OF men who will rank
with her in intellect, morals. manners
and general capacity is at once seen.
For. it is to be noted, as this progress
sive and emancipated woman comes for
ward to take what she declares to be
her rightful and heaven-ordained place
in the front row, she at once proceeds
to speak disparagingly of man as he
Sometimes she declares. without hesita-
ton, that he has made a failure of ev-
erything. himself included; that he can
not govern; that he delays civilization
by his bungling; that he is crude, cruel,
selfish, immoral, and altogether unlove-
ly. Sometimes this tendency to depre-
ciatc the merits of the male creature
who once fondly flattered himself that
he was lord and master of all feminine
creation is by implication only. She
does not disparage him; she merely
celebrates and exalts herself. To hear
her. the only conclusion is that the new
woman is ready and able to take all the
responsibilities of humankind on her.
self. and that man. as an unquestion-
ably inferior creature. can retire to the
background. II is pointed out that
women. as a class. are becoming much
better educated than men: it is assert
cd that when they take hand In the
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The Hungarian Composer Thinks Ne
gro Melodies Most Distinctive

Antonin Dyorak, i'll Harper'S Magazine.
A while ago 1 suggested that inspira ton
for truly national music might be derived
from the negro melodies or Indian chants.
| was led take this view parity by the
fact that the so-called plantation songs
are indeed, the most striking and appeal
ing melodies that have yet been found on
this side OF the water. but largely by the
observation that this seems to be recog-
nized though often unconsciously. by most
Americans. All races have their distinctive
ly national songs, which they at once recog-
mize as their own, even IL they have never
heard them before When a Tsech, a Pole.
or a Magyar in this country suddenly hears
one of his folk songs dances. matter
IL II is for the first time in his life. his eye
lights up at once, and his heart within him
responds, and claims that music as It's own
So it is with those Of Teutonic or Celtic
blood, or any other men. indeed. whose
first lullaby mayhap was a song wrung
from the heart of the people.
It is a proper question TO ask. what songs,
then belong to the American and appeal
more strongly to him than any others?
What melody could stop him on the street
III he were In strange land and make fhe
home feeling we'll up within him. matter
how hardened he might be or how wretch
eddy the sune Were played? Their number.
TO be sure. seems to be limited. The most
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Half loaf is better than no vacation
Life.
"Our engagement is quite a secret, you
know" $50 everybody tells me."-Pall Mall
Budget.
A strong man thinks only about his fu-
ture A weak man things about his past
Oscar Wilde.
The mind is it's own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, hell of
heaven.-Milton.
it goes without saying that the new Sem
ator from New Jersey has lots of sand
Washinton Post.
Wonder how Job would have come out if
there had been telephones in his day
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Robert Wilcox seems to have been
Mr. Clevelands substitute in the Hawaiian
war.-New York Press.
French history is about evenly divided
between the frying pan and the fire, any
way.-Detroit Tribune.
Two women who would exactly please
each other wouldn't, probably, please any
body else.-Detroit Free Press.
1t is more needful to be able to suffer
long and be kind, than it is to preach with
the tongue of an angel.-Ram'S Horn.
\ Ann Arbor seniors have unanimously
voted to raise boards. How they propose
to do it is not stated.-Chicago Dispatch
At the end of this administration the
country will enter upon another period of
reconstructon.-Phila delphia North Ameri-
can.
The encouraging thing in regard to the
present Congress is that it's terminal IA
ciities are definite and sure.-Kansas City
journal.
The American warship is developing a
painful smilitude to the American police
man, who is never around when needed
WaShinton star.