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Braving the World.

This drama win be presented at the Opera-house tomorrow night, and will, no doubt, be greeted with good sized audience. The play IS choek full of comedy, and there is one continuous laugh from beginning to end. Many new speeialties are in troduced, and all the latest and popular songs are sung. That cute little soubrette, Leola Mitchell, who holds the proud distinction of being the smallest in her respective part on the American stage, is prominent among the characters. Miss Mitchell is graduate of the Chicago Musical Conservatory, and in the part of Sprightly in 'Braving the World she has ample opportunity to dis play both her talent for acting and gift for song. At the Opera-housc Monday, January :.
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The usual services will take place at the Main Street Methodist church tomorrow, morning and evening, Rev. A, o Evans occupying the pull pit. The water pipes in tlic church were not busted as reported, and the services will be held in the andi- toriunl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-06

Mr. ". ]. Smith, of Red Springs, \ Q, arrived in the city last night and is the guest Of his relative Mr Clyde Smith.
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saw as Is the strand, ana the old time
desperate waterside characters have, to
a great extent. passed into history.
That impressive waterside scene in
1.-THE Silver King" is no longer true to
life. although at the time the play was
produced it was said that scenery and
characters were copied from existing
places and existing men The man who
wrote that playa melodrana of the
desperate criminality of London-has
now turned his attention to writing
plays which tell Of the immortality Of
another class-those in high life. And
the authors change may hare a signifi-
canoe unruessed. The Thames has been
reformed, as Whitechapel has done re-
marlla bly, well in curling certain kind
Of crime which is born OF poverty; she
has succeeded very much better in
fighting that than she has in fighting
certain other kinds of 'criIne which are
born of luxury and wealth.
Still the Thames is not without its
wickedness. Civilization has not yet
advanced so far as to prevent muir
derer from occasionally throwing the
cdv of his victim into the black waters
the strange stream, and part OF
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A View Fish Story from Florida.

A new hsh story IS related which nay
or may not be true The story goss
that last spring while g party II Allan
tians were fishing az the dead lakes IA
Florida wen-kno-n Atlanta ia~Tsr
lost his gold watch ard \ ssJver dollar
from the boat in which be WAS sitting.
Last week he made another vis!. % the
lakes, and during the frs: days sport
caught al eight~Pourd t-oct His AZ
Constituent can be imagined when ks
found his watch lodged IN The threat Of
the trout The watch yss ru1nir Z and
the tine correct Il being = stem
winder,- the snppoSition Is that n
r.axs.ca,ing his food the watch WAS
wound I'D daily. In addition 20 the
rocke. piece Re found accrued interest
from April -. 1894 We Go not voueh
fo- the correctness Of the story, .sys
the Atlanta Constitution, but presume
I. can be easily s5bs:aatia;-d upon ths
return Of the Atlanta fshirg party nor.
IA Ficri1a
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bother. When It was finally found o-1t
that he was member ot family vel
known indeed. but secretly affected
with an insane faint which had taken
this way OF making itself felt. there
was SIS much trouble in hiding his name
as there had at frst been in unearthlng
It. The fourth victin-and his death
was a real misfortune-vss 4 nan VINO
had been long searched for by the Po-
lice. and who could hare given very
valuable information in most lmPo--
tant criminal case. had he no; killed
himself Just al the wrong moment 80
even the suicides from London bridge
20 20 swell the chorus Of Sir Arthur
SulIivan's song. that A Policeman ;
Life Is Not Happy One
There are a great many suicides from
the other Thames bridges IN lie co-lr~e
OF each year. II all. The Thames Yields
Up - many dead bodies that rs aiEfi =
seem 20 be lined with tragedy. one
water policeman who found ore dead
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do Nou Know.

That the Santa Re route (St. Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita 20 ST.
Louis, without change. leaving Wichi-
IN at 1910 a. m. and 1875 p. m. srriv-
ing in st. Louis at $50 p. m. and 80 a.
m. The equipment OF these trains IL
first class IN every particular. consist
ing OF elegant reclining chair cars (seats
free and Pullman Palace Drawing
Room Sleepers.
If you are going beyond St Louis re-
member that connection with all snes
for the east. northeast and southeast IL
made in the magnificent new Grand
Union depot. st. Louis. the largest and
handsOmest passenger station IN the
world.
For sleeping car berths and all in'or-
nation relative 10 rates. routes. etc.
call at Santa Re Route ticket office. is
North Main street. or Douglas Avenue
station. C59 y
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of the misera bles who wish TO leap into
eternity. Scores OF suicides jump from
It every year, and it is a tradition in
Scotland Yard that its suicides are the
ones which always give the greatest
trouble to the police. They seem to
generate puzzling mysteries. One night
last winter four persOns-one woman
and three men-jumped from London
bridge between the hours Of midnight
and five a. m, and each one bothered the
police. Ordinarily suicide is not much
bother. 1t is simply necessary for the
patrolmen in the police boat to catch
the body with boat hook, tow il
ashore and turn 1t over to the tender
mercies of the coroner. But sometimes
1t Is not 40 simple. One of these sui
cides, for instance, was the wreckage
which had been left In the wake of
young nobleman's dissipation, and 1t is
always nuisance in England for
young woman of that sort TO kill her
self. 1t attracts public attention TO her
and to the aristocrat's dissipation.
That is certainly enough to bother the
police. Another of that nights bits OF
human fotsam was a man who had the
bad taste TO write long letter 70 the
papers showing that he had been lit
orally driven TO his death by the laws
of England, which would not permit
him TO make a living, yet insisted on
sending him TO Jail IL he did not clothe
his children well enough TO permit them
TO appear at school. The third was
well dressed and OF a finely bred APP
pesrance. His identity was q grea:
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part OF either bank which has not its
story and its interesting story, too. L
have seen the Thames SO covered with
pleasure craft from bank TO bank that
comfortable rowing was impossible,
and the scene gay with the bright col
ors of merry making women's clothes,
was like the flashing of kaleidoscope.
But l have also seen it when, fog
wrapped and covered by the gloom OF
night, it flowed along noiselessly and
smooth, like a stream of oil, dark, sin
lister and self-contained, disturbed only
by the FLASHING oars of policemen who,
in their darting skiffs, were looking for
two things-crine and death. They
found them. They ever fsd them.
To no part of London has greater
effort toward reform been devoted
than to the Thames. There have been
times when along it banks the most
desperate and cunning of the biggest
city's criminals have nightly gathered.
In those days barges al anchor in the
stream and ships at the docks were
forced TO guard their property as ii
they were in place where law and
order did not exist. l am told that
more than dozen murders were done
by Thames thieves in one week years
ago, and then a drunken man was al
most certain TO lose his valuables and,
like as not. his life, if he ventured near
to the strange river that flows through
London.
At that time the banks for great dis
tances were lined with the old Thames
arches, over the feet of which the river
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tleP Haven't you got any news at alp
What have you got, krantz|
Nothing new, sir, but that I've got
description of the Teller"
What is he like? asked the chief.
"'He's a short why man, with a small
black mustache and goatee.'
That's the man that was seen In
Flapuigans saloon three days ago. put
in Thompson, eagerly.
"Zat is re man l haf heard o; In
Bleecker street this morning, acting
YER suspiciously,' chimed in Monsieur
Villefort.
"'He been lima da Mulberry streeta
yesterday morning. added Maroni-
Then why in thunder don't you
get himY Numbered the chief. Get
out, you chumps, and bring that man
i'm
Weeks passed. The detective. were
always close upon the man, but never
came up with him.
Tive got close ciev at last,
shouted Thompson as he bolted into
the Office one afternoon. The mans
been seen around this neighborhood.
I~e got a witness outside to testify TO
that
"'Bring him in said the chief.
Thompson left the office He returned
accompanied by the man and bis four
brother detectives
1.-The man you are looking for is .
short, why, dark man, with a black
mustache and goatee,' began the wit
ness.
a man standing by the chiefs desk
turned at the moment. The witness
face went crimson The detectives
trern bled from head 20 foot.
Gentlemen" said the chief. this
pointing to short, why, dark man,
with q mustache and Fostee) il Mon
sieur Houchard. the celebrated French
detective
BY gosh exclaimed the de.ectives,
hes tie man we've been shadoryingr
Then they fled solemnly out Of the s.-
fee and resigned from the force"
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Stop of at Las Vegas. Hot Springs
and Grand Canon OF the Colorado river.
The first named is a most delightful
resort in the Rocky mountains OF New
Mexico, with mineral waters. hot
baths, invigorating climate and varied
scenery. After June 20 the splendid
Montezuma Hotel. refltted and under
new mana cement, viii luxuriously care
for YOU.
The Grand Canon Is reached by a
half-day's stage ride from railroad sta
ton at Flagstaff, Arizona. The trip
Is comfortably made at moderate cost.
Everything you have seen dwarfs In
comparison with this Titan OF chasms.
Niagara would be swallowed up in ~.
and Pixies Peak appear insignificant
If placed In the Canon's dark depths.
For illustrated books descriptive OF
either place. inquire OF nearest agent
Santa Fe Route. or address - r Ni~h-
olson. G.. Z. A. Monadnock BID. Chi
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ran al high tide. and which, on the
ebb. were the resort Of the whole city's
poor and wicked / have a picture IN
my possession which shows hundred
outcasts sleeping on the stone flooring
between the pillars OF one Of these
arches. and there is no doubt that this
picture is faithful representation Of a
scene which actually and nightly oc-
CURED in the old days-and the old
DAYS have not gone for many years
But that was before the DAYS Of the
metropolitan police Now great float
ing dock al the side Of Victoria en-
bankment is the headquarters OF one OF
the most perfectly disciplined and ,hor-
oughly competent bodies Of police in
the whole world. The arches have been
replaced by this very embankment and
the others which. ike il. line the
Thames with solri stone walls Sur
mounted by pleasant driveways, OF
staid business streets. The docks are
as well patroled by the officers OF the
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GREEK NET GREEK
Supe Byrnes Tells OF .
Mystery and q Man.
Four OF New York's Fly Detectives shadow
Man Employed To rnravsi the
Meadowb-ook Mystery - Al
Amusing Denouemene

ibid you never hear the story OF tho
Meadowbroo mystery?" asked Super
intendent Byrnes. fitting back IN his
chair, to New York Journal.reporter.
It was after the days work was done,
and the chief OF police had well earned
the brief respite from the ceres and
worries Of bis office.
The superintendent was once noted
as great reconteur, but his manifold
duties leave him little time nowadays
to indulge in spinning yarns OF the
good old days"
1T was years and years ago. OF
course" went on the great thief
catcher, IN answer 70 the reply Of his
interviewer, and it isn't talked OF low.
Some murder had been committed One
of those crimes, not uncommon, even IN
these DAYS. when a criminal having no
friends or abode, simply disappears,
leaving no clew whatever to go upon.
well, the Meadowbrook murder was
one of these.
THE police followed every ciev.
They secured the district for one scrap
of evidence against some one. 1t all
came 10 nothing.
SAT last the chief Of police called in
the services of very celebrated French
detective. who happened TO be in this
country on a visit Without notifying
the rest of his force for fear they might
relax their vigilance he put the French
sleuth on the case.
"A few scanty clews had in the mean
time been picked up.
1.-The chief sat in his Office pu,zlins
his brains with plans, when an idea
struck him. He rang the bell. 1t was
answered by the messenger. Round
up all the detectives in the house and
send them here he said.
I'm few minutes the door opened
and Detectives Hansen, Krantz, Mo-
riarty, Thompson. Villefort and Meroni
entered. They nodded to the chief and
awaited his pleasure.
Look here said the chief.
1.-THE FIVE detectives looked in awe.
"'Look here repeated the chief.
why don't you fellows get out and hus-
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man after another every night for a
week was weak enough to go mad
from the horror of it, am told A
city which has thirty thousand unem-
ployed should train its officers better
than that.
The most dramatic suicide Of late
years apparently gave a hint to the
man who devised the ballet at the EN-
pire music hall, where the scene, which
must have occurred before the two
victims jumped into the water. IS
nightly acted in pantomime, although
on the stage OF the music hall the
episode has happy ending 4 wife.
driven to desperation by her husband's
gaInbling-he daily robbed her of her
small earnings so that he might spend
them at fine card table-wrapped he,
seven-year-old daughter to her breast
with her thin, old sl,swl and jumped
into the Thames, thus shutting out not
only her own unhappy life, but also
that of the child whom, she loved, but
whose wants her unnatural husband 4
craze Tor gaming would not permit he.
to satisfy. The doctors said that the
little one would soon have died Of star
walton, anyhow.
But suicide Is not the only crime
which the Thames ripphngly laughs at
day by day and slowly, heavily ap
proves with its long, black swells at
night. Despite the metropolitan police
and the progressions of the county
council, there are still thieves bold
enough to hide along its banks by day
and prey upon its shipping in the dark
ness. An instance OF that turned upnos
very long ago. The Thames barges are
numbering old craft. built TO sail slow.
II along between bridges at high tide,
with masts which can be lowered when
it becomes necessary to pass beneath
the low arches that so frequently span
the Thames, and with great fat bot
toms which permit them TO lie comforts
ably ard without harm on the mud bed
of the river when the tide Is out. Tho
life of the barge is lazy one. They
are frequently without any especial
home, going from place te'place as busi-
ness calls them and oferino-a snug
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No Rotation.

~When was out west -aid the maA
who runs about the country sellin2
wipdmills. II struck a saloon In .
little mining town that was called the
Civil Service Reform bar"
THAT was rather queer a!t thu
man who stays at home and sells sbo~s-
81 thought 80. TOO, until found ouS
sne reason Of the name / went in To-
get a glass % beer; got IL and lad down
o dollar. The man behind the bar took
the dollar. dropped IL Ia the Til and
picked up h.s newspaper 70 rad
Don't 7 get any change? says l.
TSopc.' says he; this ~ run on evil
service principles. and we don't believe
IN making any unnecessary ehAngA
A. he had shotgun 10 handy reach T
concluded 20 let IL 90 a. that "-Cincin~
natl Tribune
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Commencing April 7th the Grea.
Rock Island VIII run through TWO solid
trains between Kansas City and Fort
Worth daily. Train leaving Kansas
>ity $40 y. III. and Wichita a, 40 a
m. arriving at Fort Worth AT $50 n
n, in time 70 make connections with
an diVerginS lines for all points in
Texas. This train viii carry n throurl,
sleeper 10 San Antonio Texas. also
through sleeper 70 Houston Arriving
G. San Antonio the next morning al
SIS, making the run in Is hours. II
hours quicker than any other line. Ar
.iving a Houston n 5:}5 the following
morning. making the run in - hours
Train number /. leaves Wichita ~ 7.0-
9. m. arrives al Fort Worth tha nxet
morning al $50, making direct connec-
lions Tor all Pacific coast points. also
:0r Houston. Dallas. Galveston and
New Orleans. Fer further information
call a. Rock Island ticket Office corner
Main and Dougles. J. n. PHILLIPS.
l33 ~ City Ticket Office.
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dry on a shelving mud bed, and permit
ted TO remain there until the leisurely
workmen have completed the job o.
fixing it.
One of these old barSes lay all winter
about a mile above where Westminster
Abbey's big gray towers overlooked
the Thames, and It's generally dilapi
dated and deserted appearance attract
ed no especial attention. But one day
the police thought it had lain there
long enough, and rowed up TO see wha,
the number of its license was. A mo-
ment's investigation showed that II
was at that time being used for a pur-
pose which no waterman's license COW
ered-that It waA the resort of a gang
Of thieves Oricklv the officers mazda
away again, intending 70 return that
night, when they were more likely q
catch the whole gang, and when they
could have reinforcements within call
They did SO, and there was a man in
the boat with them who was not a
member OF the Thames police. There
ensued the prettiest fight imaginable,
All the achievements handy were
needed, and when, at last, the officer.
had succeeded In overcoming and ar
resting three Of the ru1fians-three had
escaped-two policemen were badly
damaged 1t was long thought that
one would die, but he will probably
pull through.
The barge had been the headquarter:
of one of the most desperate gangs Of
criminals IN the city. Driven from
Sboreditch By the destruction Of their
old haunts, they had found this old
barge and either begged or forced the
owner to give his consent 20 tying il Up
and permitting them TO make il their
refuge during the winter. At last &C.
counts, indeed, this owner had not been
found. Il is possible that he has al
feady played a part in one OF the trsg'
edies OF mzrder which the Thames
hides SO successfully. and that the
gang began Il. occupancy By ejectin2
the owner from bis barge straight into
the presence of his Maker.
Along this part Of the Thames, how
ever. in the midst OF the better section
Is exciting about IL II is down By the
dOcks-the East India docks especially
that what IS left Of rs Old criminal
life chiefly concentrates. Several uur,
ders were done there last year, and
ships and men innumersbie were
robbed by the thugs and scoundrels
who prey on sailors and their weak.
neSses. Down there. too. women tsks
their part IN the viIiainy Of the Thames
There are many OF them who watch tor
drunken men as eagerly as the police
watch for them. and from whose
clutches i IS unlikely that Jack VIII
escape without having lost his rnone7
and very likely his life as well ous
especially t-utsl murder Of drunken
sailor b. one Of these women and her
ecco1n p.'oss WA frustrated while ]
have been in Bondon The intended
victim frustrated il IN he simplest pos
sible WAY b killing thu woman. and
badly hart ug two men who were fry-
Ing % help her COMMIT murder. II =
3 bad wing 20 underestimate a mans
Circumstances. DAVID CLKvEEr0S-
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ARE YOU GOING TO KANSAS CITY ?
REMEMBER THE MISSOURI PA
W Y CONfr NY

REMEMBER THE MISSOURI PA
CIFTC RAILWAY COMPANY
Is the cny line that runs q strictly
WIchita-Kansas City train Leaving
Wichita at s.05 ?. m. arriving at Kan
sas City next morning az 10. This
train is made up at Wichita. and there
fore always leaves on time Nice chair
cars and Pullman slaepers.
Notice the leaving time. and the next
time you go 20 Kansas City take the
Missouri. Pacific. Always on time.
Never late. Fine equipment Leaves
Wichita al reasonable hour and ar
rlves at Kansas City neither too late
nor too early. Ticket Office ia North
Main street Depot corner Second and
Wichita streets
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its advance seems to nave peen the m
crease of the number of self-murderers
who throw themselves into it. Thus
the policemen in the little darting
boats are not without their business.
They often find what they are looking
for.
London bridge-that historic struo-
ture which has been falling down in
the song of childhood ever since Mother
Goose became popular as poetess-
seems to be the favorite springboard
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Notice is hereby given that the part
nerShip heretofore existing between II.
Steinbuche1 and Lewis Steinbuchel
under the firm name Of II. Steinbuchel
& Co., has been dissolved by mutual
consent, the business will he hereafter
continued at the old stand by L. Stein
buchel & Co. 10 1t*
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many watersiders like them made
their pitiful livings by finding drowned
bodies and stealing such small valua-
bles as were left upon them have
passed away, it is still true that the
Thames is full of romance, Is full of
mystery, is full of fascination. From
its upper reaches where that dreadful
schoolmaster cast his victim into the
lock and left him there to die, to its
lower docks, where is concentrated the
vast shipping of the Indias, there is no
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JUMPING OFFPLACE
A Sire am That Holds IN It's Breast
Ten Thousand Tragedies
Crooked, Dark and Devious - London
Bridge the Favorite Springboard OF
the Miserables Who Wish to
Leap Into Eternity.
COPYRIGHT. 1898 J

COPYRIGHT. 1870
Crooked in its course. dark and de-
vious, its gliding tide scarcely less
Shiny at it's food than its Uttered bot
tom at its ebb; full of strange COM
merce in the day, dark with mysteries
at night, bearing on its bosom the yes
sells of dozen nations, hiding in its
breast the tragedy of ten thousand
lives, the Thames flows through Lon
don. 1t is not the old Thames-the
Thames that Dickens knew 1t is the
new Thames, the Thames of which
Dickens son has made a dictionary,
which is devoted almost entirely to de-
scribing pleasures. But although the
days of CATER Hexam and his daughte'
Lizzie the DAYS when these men an
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rar.a.1,as.,. y.1zss.

~vo1ld voz d.. to- ne. dea->-.--
asked her lover, pressing her 20 AlIa
fondly.
Yes. Geo-re.- sc answered. -
would 10 anything for yoz--
Wei, then" sid George. give uP
wearing bicycle biosrn~rs
'-ticorge-- said the hzzzutifcl CIR.
arising. trsruious with .a6ie-unt.or'.
yoE have sozrht 20 trek me ta-o :
promise which CAP aeve- make 81
h over b<:Eeea us.r-Eass-xs IE.0zSs-
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From June 10 10 81. 1895. for the above
melting the Missouri Pacific Railway
company will sell tickets a one fore for
the round trip. Tickets on sale June
l.. God 10 return up to and including
June "a. Missouri Pacific fast train for
Cleveland leaves Wichita at II: as a. m.
arriving at Cleveland second night.
yvening train leaves Wichita at 9.e5 y.
u. Call at the city ticket office. ia
North Main street.