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To Name sprins1leld,. Four Hundred.

It has been seven years since Blue Book was printed, and in that time there have been many social changes. Some have dropped out of the charmed circle, some of the buds have developed into matrons, while others are still serving as bridesmaids. And some of the pie beians have acquired property or gained culture and are knocking for admission at society's gate All that is needed is official recognition. We need Blue Book, the stars to indicate the grade of patricians It will be we'll for the com piler to remain unidentified until the book has been published, and then, as in the previous case, to promptly leave town-to go far away and stay away. The Price & Lee company, which has been compiling dry and accurate direc- tories of Springfield. has the temerity to announce that it is prepared to classi- fy Springfield society. The preliminary circulars are out Now is the time to get into line if you want three star grade i'll the Armament of the Four Hundred. The Blue Book enumerator has not started On her rounds yet. En- tertain and go to entertainments. The sheep and goats are to be divided, and it may again be seven years before an other Blue Book division is made Springfield Mass ] Republican.
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AN ENGLISH JAIL cHApri
'iew Of the Prisoners at the snns.~ Morning Snruino Ns

} A View of the Priaona~a :,
 Morning Service.
 AIter breakfast notbipO prol, h
 o unlli the chapel hour. Now those pr;s pus0
 pneis who have gone siek'' are visited
 uy the surgeon or his assistant and ;f
 .he cases are urgent are sent across to tha :,
 in,,finasy ,, ct once. There is no ragnIar
 sel s inspection; the governor or his
 uepuly makes no round; there is no
 saAins or reports, no adjudication of
 paihs and penalties for misconduct All
 .his VIII stand over until Monday: even
 those awaiting punishment. nnless # ;s
 lor outrageous acts of violence or de-
 nance turn out to go with their fellows 10 chapel About 9:30 the chanel hell [lngs for tie first service, that of the Roman Catholics, who in large prisons are usually located" or asdged in one aart of the prison, near their own chapel The bell fer the Church of England sery- Ice follows at about 10 a. m.
 both on marching to chapel and when seated within it the various classes and categorles of prisoners are kept strictly separate from each other. Males and fe- males approach the chapel by different roads, enter by different doors and oo- oupy different divisions, pews or places apart. Among the males, too, the con- Vieted are kept from the uuoonyicted and the destefs from both. The women are generally seated first, behind a screen or within ourtained off, railed m inelosure. They are, of course. yisi- ble to the chaplain, but to no one else but their own officers. Except for their treblo voices heard in responses and hymns, their presence at the service would be unknown. Now and again. however, an attempt to signal or com has been tried by individuals or opposite sexes; when a dry cough. perslstently repeated, in the female pew hnds all answer in another part of the chapel, it affords a shrewd suspicion that friends are trying to use some code made up outside before Imprisonment.
 One other class is unhappily to be found at times in the jail chapel--a very distinct class, but seldom containing more than one representative. This is condemned" man in pris- on whom the extreme penalty has been passed, and who, by the usual custom, is allowed "three clear Sun days before the awful sentence is ae- A condemned convict, al though he is never left alone, being as soelated day and night with two war dens as guardians, is never permitted to see or be seen by other prisoners. Lon don Culver.
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HOW INDIANS MEASURE TIME.

They Fix Their Dates by Sleeps and Moons A and Winters.
 E Our Indians measure time solely by Bays. by sleeps, by moons and by win 6iers. The Indian has no name for any Subdivision of time less than a day. When he desires to indicate 8 shorter period, he points to the heavens, and measuring off a space says, "It was as long as 1t would take the sun to go from there to there. ' A day is from daylight to darkness. sleep" or night, from dark to daylight He has no name for any day, nor has he any subdivision of time corresponding to our week. A moon commences with the first streak of the crescent in the west and lasts un- Ill the next one appears, but the days of
 the moon are neither numbered nor
 narhed. From winter to winter" is
 theTearest approach he has to our term.
 The year commences with the first fall
 Of fsnow An Indian will tell you he is
 80 many winters old. but having no
 months or days he never has birthday.
 The Indians who formerly inhabited
 the southern part of Texas, where there
 sno snowfall, are said to have fixed the commencement of the year at the first "norther, furious and chilling wind that sweeps from the north and is of fre- quent occurrence during the winter months
 No year has any name or number fix ing sequence or point of reference, but each band will designate year by it's most prominent occurrence, as fight with hostiles. death of chief, preva- lence of disease, abundance or scarcity of food, or failing anything marvellous or striking by the name of the stream on which was located the winter camp. But these are mere remembrances, and excellent as is the Indians memory they, after few years, fade into a tumble of disconnected facts without sequence or usefulness. Cincinnati En- quirer.
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Meaning of the Word .omaha.. i.

The name Omaha" bears testimony to the long journey of the people, and reveals some of the causes which brought aboug this breaking up into distinct tribes. 1t is composed of two words, which signify going against the our rent, or up the stream. The Omahas were the people who went up the stream. while the Quapaws, their near or kin, went. as their name reveals, with the current" or down the stream. The traditions of both these peoples say that the parting occurred during hunt Ing expedition, each division finally set tiing in the lands whither they had wandered apart. This epoohal hunt must have been centuries ago, for the ynapaws bore their descriptive name in io4o, being mentioned in the Portu- guese narrative of De Soto's expedition as then living on the Arkansas river, where they dwelt until 1889, when they peded their long occupied lands to the onlfed States -Alice C. Fletcher in Century.
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Not the Place For the soun.

A famous French prima donna when acting delights in big basin of soup. smoking hot and we'll favored with grated cheese. On one occasion she was engaged for few nights at Marseilles, and her first thought on arriving there was to inquire where she could order her favor1te dish. She was recommended to patroni2e humble restaurant just by the theater, and going there gave her order in person.
 At 5 o'clock, as arranged, mine host called his serving maid, and placing a gigantic tureen in her hands told her to take 1t to Mime. C. on the stage He added that orders had been given to let her pass with her bowl, and on the girls assurance that she would recognize the cantatrice sent her off with the soup. Everybody gave way before the servant carrying the sacred meal of the star, when suddenly between the wings she caught sight of the prima donna, who was singing the finale of the first act of "Luoia. /"
 Ravenswood and his betrothed were just about to begin the passionate scene which brings down the curtain when the maid entered and placed the tureen on the messy bank in front of the fountain. Then lifting up the cover and plunging in spoon she exclaimed to the stupe- faction of actors and audience alike:
 Begging your pardon for interrupt ing you, sir. and the lady. but here's the soup. "-London Tit-B Bits.
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The Laws of Nature.

The laws of nature are just, but terri pie. Tnere is no weak mercy in them. oause and consequence are inseparable qua Inevitable. The clements have no oroearance. The fire burns, the water epfoWns, the air consumes, the earth surles. And perhaps it would be we'll for our race If the punishment of crimes tsalnst the laws of man were as inevita- p'e as the punishment of crimes against khe laws of nature-were man as unerr-
 ng In his judgments as nature. Long |ellow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07
Puzaling to yvheeinen.

Take bicycle, balance it with one hand, having one pedal at its highest point, the other at its lowest. To the lower one tie string aud pull it toward the rear of the machine.
 Which way will the bicycle go?
 It will go backward.
 Most people think it will go forward, because the string tends to move the pedals in the direction they move when the machine is going forward. -Phila- delphia Record.
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THE MYSTERY OF A YEAR.

A little while. year agone,
 l knew her for q romping child. dimple and glance that skons
 With idle mischief when she smiled. Today she passed me in the press.
 And. turning with quick surprise, wondered at her stateliness,
 wondered at her altered eyes. To me the street was just the same. The people and the city's stir. But life had kindled into flame,
 And all the world was changed for her. watched her in the crowded ways, A noble form, a queenly head. With all the woman in her gaze,
 The conscious woman in her tread. "A. Lampman in Youths Companion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07
GIRLS VALUE PURITY IN MEN
The Receptions, Who Wed Men Of t,a
 &Rorld. Always Repent of It.

fn' rorld. AIways Repent @ a'sp ar q. e' thu
 A young man writes to Edward " Box inQuiring why so many girls seem to prefer the company of young fe]Iowo of slightly plotted character-men who have seen the world-and in many caseS marry them. in face of the fact thot their past lives are known to them Tn The Ladies Home Journal Mr. Box ;tS editor, makes this reply: "Girls-tbat is, the right kind of girls-do not nrafer the company of young men of this sort Doubtless, you have come across in stances where this rule has been other. wise; so have l. But it is all in tha seeming, and not in the reality. Depend upon one thing-girls have as bipb an estimate or purity in man as men have of purity in woman. '''0
 There are, of course, cases to tbe hcontrary, but these are few. Where girls arry men who are known to have led
 pat IS called a worldly life, it is
 generally due to misunderstood
 SnoAaHoo than people
 ns. There IS type of girl who
 peculiar satisfaction in the con-
 oI man who has seen the world,
 en comes to her as the one woman
 her sex who can make him happy.
 sometimes pleases her vanity and
 or conquest. but she is not many
 older before she discovers that she
 satisfied those feelings at very h cost. There is another type of girl who atner fanoies 8 man who is what is aiied fast. But that sort of girl is aInfully ignorant of what is meant by bat word as applied to a man. If she 'ere not, she would be very apt to hange the adjective to vulgar And she natures she finds this out. It is nly young men of upright lives who sn hope to win the favor and love of Its of high motives, the girls who lake the best wives. If, at times, girls 'em to favor young men of another ind, the glamour is simply transitory. IS rare. very rare, that girls better lstincts do not lead her to the higher rade of yenng men. An upright life ever fails of reward. and of the highest sWard, from the hand of woman"
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UniQua PiannE.

All manner of articles in place of wood have been used in the manufac- ture of pianos, says one of the great est English piano makers. Perhaps the most successful of these is paper, of which many pianos of exquisite tone and appearance have been made. The Duke of Deyonshire has one of the finest specimens of the paper piano. this being Of French make, and decorated most or nately with pictures by French artists.
 The duke gave 800 guineas for this, mainly, no doubt, on account of the or namentation l suppose you know that pianos for very hot and very cold eli mates-all instruments for export, in fact-have to be specially made, and in this direction all manner of experiments have been tried. Among others. sort of cellulose, one factor in which is &C., tually common molasses, from which sugar Is made, is employed, and com position made from the chemical treat- ment of gutta percha and leather pulp has been tried Ivory pianos are by no means uncommon, and the dowager Countess of Dudley has a magnificent carved specimen. Pianos of ivory are, I might say, made every year in numbers, but chiefly for Indian princes and rich Spanish Americans. Many pianos of solid silver have been made; indeed, one was only recently completed by London firm for the nizam of Hatdara- bad. and piano cases have at various times been made of bronze, species of aluminium, glass, porcelain and in oom- bination mother of pearl "--Exchange.
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DOG AND STUFFED TIGER.
4 Little Incident From Now York City's
 Varied Street Life.

A Little Incident From Now York City's
 Varied Street Life.
 In Broadway show window, ]" said stroller, there is a particularly big and handsome tiger, stuffed. that have often looked at in passing. l saw in front of this store the other day man who had with him tremendously big, shaggy dog. The man looked at the tiger, and stopped and tried to draw the dog attention to it. But the dog didn t look that way, and, in fact, he didn t stop. He slowed down, just as one man might have done for another who had stopped for moment to look in 6 win dow or to speak to friend, and when he had moved ahead few steps in that way. not finding himself overtaken, he did just as man might have done again. He swung round with the same meas ured tread and came back to the win dow. Then the master. with & faint smile, again invited the big dog to look at the tiger, but instead of doing that the big dog looked up into his master 8 face and wagged his tail, and the mas ter looked down and smiled at his dog i; then the man started on down Broad way, with the big dog wagging his tail, walking along beside him.
 But while the big dog had shown no desire to look at the tiger, had, in fact. shown rather an aversion to looking at 1t, 1t did not appear that this aversion came in any degree whatever from fear. The perfect self possession and the deep and unbroken good humor of the dog were unmistakable; apparently he sim ply didn't care for tigers and didn' t want to look at this one, but it did seem that if it had been possible for the tiger to come to life and step down from the window and around and out through the door on to the sidewalk then the big dog would not have walked away; that there would then have been there on the side walk tho loftiest scrap that Broadway ever saw, with the chances-well, the chances were in favor of the dog. "-New York Sun.
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NEWS HATS.

Mems Felt Hats, stetson style, $109.
 Mems Felt Hats, high crown, 79c and 89e.
 Mems Caps in Blue and Black and colors, 25e and 30e.
 Boys Caps, l25c
 Big bargains in Window Shades, Mating, Pictures, Shoes, Pants, Underwear, Piece Good, Lace Cur tains, Etc.
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For ExainnIe.

He-Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat tbsm.
 she--Yes; wdader what wise man made the one gau jast repeated. Strand Magazine.
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Just as He Supposed.

Has anybody hero eorkscrew?" spoke up sharp nosed old gentleman in the sleeping car.
 'I have." was the response from nearly every seat
 "Just as l thought. shouted the old gentleman. And now who will be the first to sign the temperance pledge?"- Providence Visitor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07

On entering a room where many guests are assembled go at once and speak to your hostess before addressing friends who are invited guests The first and last salutation should be to those who offer yon hospitality.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07
Stirred Up.

Our whole neighborhood has been Flrred up, z said the regular reader. The editor of the country weekly seiz- d his pen.
 Tell me all about it." he said. what we want is the news. What lrred it upf'
 Fiowing.' , said the farmer. Pear
 Is Weekly.
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Mardi Gras.

New Orleans, La, February IS. 1896. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Railway will sell round trip tickets to New Orleans at one fare. For further information, etc, call on or address, B. H. WILSON,
 Agent.
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NOTIONS.

Side Combs, 10c, 15e, 1Sc, 25c. Dressing Combs, 4c up to Poe. Fine Combs, Be up to 10c. Safety Pins 2Ac dozen. Pearl Buttons 5, 6, ', 8, Sc dozen. Hat Pins, 5e. dozen.
 Pins, 1c, 24e and 4c paper. Spool Silk, Sc spool.
 Embroidery Silk, ' spools for Dc. Knitting Silk, l5c spool. Crochet Needles, lc each. Sewing Needles, l and Be paper. Hooks and Eyes, 5c gross. Knitting Cotton, 3 balls for Dc. Toilet Soap, 3 cakes for 5c Toilet Soap, better grade, 4c, Dc, Sc, He.
 .Glycerine Soap, 5c and He per cake.
 Laundry Soap, 6 bars for 25c. Toothpicks, 1000 for be- ef Collar Buttons, Dc per dozen. Common White Buttons, 4c per gross.
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What Cross Exsmlnation Can Do.

What Cross Examination Can Do. Magistrate-Your name? Bashful Maiden-Anna Lang. "Religion?'
 Protestant. D "Age?"
 No answer
 "When were your parents marriedf" 'sIn l663. ."
 "When was the first christening?'' ''In 1864 1"
 "How many brothers and sisters have you?"
 Five. ''
 "Are you the oldest?'' "Yes. 7 "Then you are 31 years of age. "Yes. (Sotto voce) I have given nay age away. l am surprised. "-Dorfbar- bier
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07

By act of congress, the enlisted strength of otr army. in time of peace, is never to exceed 20, 600 men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-07

Modern inks date from 1798, at which time researches of DB. Lewis and Riban- court ill the chemistry of ink began.
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Pride, that never falling vice of fools Pope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
CENTER OF THE WORK.
indianapolis Will SuppIant Chicago
as the Working Point.

The center of the Democratic sound
money movement will be transferred from
Chicago to this city during the next few
days. 1t had been thought that the meet
ing of the new national committee would
not attract much of an attendance outside
the membership of the committee, but the
indications now are that there will be a
very considerable attendance OF prominent
Democratic leaders from various parts of
the country. The dispatches state that the
committee accepted the tender of the Den
ison House clubroom as a place of meet
ing, The local leaders of the movement
had arranged to use the assembly room of
the Commercial Club for this purpose.
: John r. Wilson returned last night from
a flying trip TO the northern part of the
State in the interest OF the ~sound-money
movement and brought back encoura ging
news. In Huntington seventy ~ell-know
Democrats have pledged themselves to the
cause and in Peru in one afternoon 126 sig
natures were obtained OF lifelong Demo-
sound-money victory.
Within thirty or forty days" said one
of the leaders of the movement last night.
after the forces now at work have become
fully organized you will see such a change
of sentiment upon this subject i'm the Dem
ocratic party as will prove q vast surprise
TO the men who have been leading il astray
into the cheap-money swamp. / have the
utmost confidence in the honesty of the
average voter and as fast as they find ont
the nature of the humbug that is being
worked in behalf of the silver barons they
Will drop the craze even more quickly than
they have taken IL up"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03
sOUND-MONEY STATE TICKET.
with Shively's COauetting-
POpuiist Demands Growing.

The Democrats 81 Indiana who were led
in the wild belief that the silver craze had
given them an issue upon which they could
win this year are already beginning to
realize that they LAY made a mistake.
The Populists, for whose supper they had
sacrificed so much of principle, calmly
turned them down at their State conven-
ton last week. nominated a straight Pop
ulist ticket. and put the matter of the cleo
tors in the hands of a special committee.
and this committee is now demanding that
ii have at least seven of the fifteen cleo
tors or there shall be no fusion even on
this point. The silver Democrats have not
Jared much better even in the matter of
congressional fusion. They have succeeded
in making a fusion in two districts-the
Fifth and the Ninth-in each of which
they have Endorsed the Pepulist nominee.
There are three more districts in which
neither party has yet made nominations
and the Populists are demanding at least
one Of these. and in the others they de-
clare that the Democratic nominees must
be satisfactory to them or they will not in
dorse them. Nor are they inclined to fuse
on the legislative ticket. unless the Demo-
Gratis will consent 10 drop both Matthews
and VOORHEES, and select a candidate for
United States Senator 10 be dictated by the
dog. or there will be no wagging done. The
Populists are even demanding that the
Democrats pull off Martin Kruger. their
congressional nominee in the Tenth dis
trict, under threat that II Ii is not done
they will nominate a separate man and let
the district go to the Republicans. who
have a normal plurality. Kruger has been
for years one Of the steadfast Democratic
leaders of the district. and IL is not likely
that the Democratic voters there will con-
sent to nave him turned down. On the
other side. the Democratic silver ticket is
now menaced with the probability of a
straigtt-out honest-mol.ey Democratic
State ticket. as well as national ticket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-03

was given to understand a couple OF weeks
ago that II he ~coquetted with the Popuiis.s
and asked them for an Endorsement he
would be apt to find a straight Democratic
ticket In the fed against him. Needless
or this warning. he came to the city the
day before the Popuiist convention and re-
manned until IL was over. and his author
lied agents. John Brunt. S. NJ. Shepard
and other leading Populists. were working
actively for an Endorsement. Brunt Is
known to have had three or four inter-
views with Shively during the preliminary
work before the convention. Now the lead
ers of the Sound-money League say that
the failure of the Populists TO indorse
Shively was not through any lack of anx-
lety on his part TO have IL done. and they
therefore do not feel that they are under
any obligations TO refrain from nominating
a State ticket 1t is true that there are
three or four candidates upon the Demo-
cratic silver ticket who were originally
so~und-money men. but il is felt that they
sold their principles for a mess of pottage
IN the shape of a nomination and the feel
ing against them is even stronger titan
against the original free-silyer howlers.