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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-09

The Pittsburg Post says that the
country Is flooded with circulars from
~. L. Green. president Of the Connecti-
cut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
appealing to voters to turn against the
Democratic candidates on the national
ticket, saying that should free coinage
succeed 1t will give the option to dis
honest insurance companies to cheat
their policy holders. But why have any
dishonest insurance agents?
Tammany's hearty endorsement of
Bryan and Sewall. together with the
sweeping Democratic victory in Alaba-
INA will have very encouraging eff
sxsct on Democrats all over the country.
and when the campaign is opened in
Madison Square Garden. New York on
the occasion Of the official notification
to Mr Bryan or his nomination, they
will 40 Into the fighht feeling that with
determined efforts they will elect their
national ticket in November. says the
yew Orleans Etates.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-09

ALL WOOL KNEE PANTS SUITS
THE WEAR-REsIsTING soRT-A1ADE
FROM GOOD STOCK. CHOICE DE.
SIGNS. ALL SIZES, INCLUDING AGE
10. REINFORCED PANTS. TAPPED
AND RIvETED BUTTONS.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-09

WASHABLE KNEE PANTS SUITS.
MADE FROM EXTRA GOOD QUALITY
BROWN DUCK, DOUBLE BREASTED
JACKETS WITH PEARL BUTTONS.
PANTS TAPPED. AND ARE MADE
WITH ALL OF THE BEST IMPROVE
MENTS. SIZES ANYWHERE TO AGE
Is. AS LONG AS THEY LAST.
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Ozark Region Favored.

The Ozark fruit region in Missouri and Arkansas gets a splendid advertise ment in the late horticultural reports from Washington and elsewhere. With shortage in the apple crop in very large part of the United States, and a considerable portion of Missouri and Kansas in particular, the new orchards of the Ozark country are bending under their loads ob the best fruit that has yet been produced there.
 Not only will there be good crop of apples in this highly favored section, but of peaches there will be an abun- dance-a bountiful yield of the most luscious to be found anywhere, not ex- cepting the famed staple of Delaware.
 A great deal has been written of the peculiar adaptab bility of both soil and climate in the Ozark region for fruit raising. It may have been taken by many to be merely for the purpose of booming investments in real estate, but there was more than that in it. No where else in the whole country can be found conditions more favorable to the production of fruit than in the broad stretch of highlands reaching from southeastern Missouri to he borders of Indian Territory in Arkansas. It is a fact that apples and peaches in particu- lar are produced there which have a superior flavor to that of the same va rieties grown almost anywhere else that can be named. And it is also fact that the conditions of soil and eli mate there are such as to warrant less danger from pests and disease than eau be found in other localities.
 The future will see a vast fruit gar den in this region which will bring many millions of wealth annually, and the wise who are looking for place in which to enter upon such d business will make no delay in getting foot hold there.-Kansas City Mo- Journal, July 21.
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THE WELSH LANGUAGE.
Antiquity ot the Literature of the Earl,

Antiquity of the Literature of the Early
 Bretons.
 One Breton investigator has affirmed that Welsh was the language of the Ti- tans, while another has explicitly stated that ii was the mother tongue of Sat urn. Jupiter and the other principal gods of heathen antiquity. Upon so obscure point, we may, perhaps, be al- lowed to retain our doubts; nor are we called upon to bow with absolute def erence to the conclusion arrived at by a more modern Cy1nrie scholar, that the scheme of Dante's "Diyina Gommedia" is due to Celtic sources. No one, how ever, would dream of contesting that to the Cymric branch nf the Celtic race we owe the origin of the Arthurian legend.
 We do not know whether 1t will be one of the duties of the Welsh uniyer- sity to endeavor to revive the real, un adulterated Celtic literary traditions, and to purge and purify them from the accretions due to foreign influence. We should be disposed to say that Celtic scholarship will be more beneficlally and more successfully employed in col lecting the indications of the influence exercised by the Celtic spirit over the English language, English romance and English ways of thought during the very period when it was supposed to have been repressed if not wholly de- stroyed. Criticism, too, will have abun- dant work on it's hands in seeking to separate the authentic from the spuri- ous in the alleged writings of the ear Her Welsh bards
 Tn the first year of the century there was published the "Myvyrian Arch geology of Wales," collection of the most celebrated works in Welsh litera- ture from A. D. 800 to A. D. 1400, under the editorship of Mir. Jones, Mir. Edward Williams, known locally as Edward of Glamorgan," and Dr. Owen Pugh. But, though r poems are there ascribed to Taliesin, Air. Stephens considers that 57 of them are demonstrably spurious, and that only 12 of them are probably gem uine-that is to say. belong to the age to which they are attributed. Few scholars, however, would be prepared to challenge the assertion of Renan that the sixth century was the golden age of Cymric literature, though it's first epoch is usually taken from still remoter times and to extend to the date of the Norman conquest.
 But it is not till the second period that we come across the chronicle of ] Garadoc, Il somewhat dry record, recall I ing in it's general scheme the more fa- nous Anelo-Saxon chronicle. To the same period belongs the chronicle of Godfrey of Monmouth. But as, though a WeIshman by birth, the bishop of St. Asaph elected to write in Latin. we pre- sume that his labors, however interest- ing and important, would not be claimed by true Nelshmen as portion of Celtic teraturc.--London Standard
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REVIVAL OF LAND SALES.
The Ozark Region a Favored Section
 of the State of Arkansas.
Experiments in Growing Cotton at the Az rfcuituraI Experiment Station at ray ettevflIe-Other Features of a Great
 and Growing State Discussed.

A revival in land transactions, which was predicted in these columns feW weeks ago, is being felt in the territory .traversed by the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad. Of course the revlval is limited to that section of the state. Thousands of homeseekers and specu- lators have ffocked into the country through which the line of new railroad runs The Kansas City newspapers have done much in the line of advertls- ing the advantages and resources or Western Arkansas and are potent agents in directing public attention to that section of country. But while spe- cial prominence has been given to that particular section, the state in general is beneficiary of the gratuitious ad- vertising designed to call special atten- ton to the attractive features and com manding advantages of that part of western Arkansas threaded by the new railroad Many persons who drift down the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road seeking homes and opportun- ities for investment will eventually find a location in central or eastern Arkan- sas. Besides every line appearing in Kansas City papers relative to the beau ties of western Arkansas, will cause the readers to study the map of the state and when they have the map be- fore them they cannot fail to see an at tractive picture. The geographical po- sition. the splendid water courses, the proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, the railroads traversing the state, the mountain ranges-all these features will exert an influence on every person who opens the map of Arkansas and studies it critically, and also stimulate thirst for more knowledge regarding the land of rich soil, cheap homes, sum shine, fruit and flowers. Judicious ad- vertising will bring the state into fa- vora b1e notice. Premiums on fruit, prizes on minerals and vegetables arti- cles on railroad building, etc., all help in placing the states attractions before homeseekers and speculators. But the weekly newspaper which 52 times q year goes into the northern home is the most powerful medium for diseminat- ing facts and advertising the features of Arkansas
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an indefinite time. Lone ssan,
 ties have always baeA in mnaS pse ,aris- with farmers mainly because Favor extra price paid for the lint o, 0l ths of short staples; but the rela+;.or lssor that of the two do not remain pricea while the difference some eonssant very small. When it is eonsida~asnlas ssasons is the long staples yield less ,so the that short staples, especially on noa a@a the and during dry year, the exfss go0f soils paid for the long staple is saaa pries more than overcome by the sa inaaa 70 De yield of the short staple and as 'tssased th se ference between the price of fba '4e olf. very variable, the length of o stsa, s~o is pears to be matter of little nraaa, p.e ap. consequence in deciding what t.aosical S" to plant on ordinary upland wbara s'ae'y @ ditions are not favorabl to lonn r' ss 2 con or long period of growth. q sbos. ssaple T pie, early prolific variety is nrafasas ,atas s's- and will be found in the main rs.a0le more profitable. On poor. dry soil ~ .,T pc improper cultivation, the lono s4al, "',a varieties are undesirable.p s''ple
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-09
HIGH KITE FLYING IN BOSTON.
Success of Experiments on Blus Hiii--
 Features Of the Sport


 Features Of the Sport.
 The details of the high flight Of kites at Blue Hill observatory show the ex7 pertinent to have beena success in other respects than the altitude to which II was possible to send the kites. This, it has been stated, was upwards of mile and a quarter, the instrument reaching height of 7,20o feet above the levelof the country surrounding tue hill As the meteorograph suspended quite q distance below the upper kites they. of course, reached an altitude 200 or 900 feet greater. The kites were three in number, all of them on this ec- casion of the Eddy pattern, two of them being at lie end of the line and the third some hundreds of feet below. The kites were of large size, two of them being six feet i'll their largest dimension, and the third one a monster of nine feet, presenting some 60 square feet of sur. face 10 the wind. This varied from IS to 31 miles per hour at the surface, and the pull of the wire which held the kites mounted at times to upwards ot 125 pounds, quite as much as Mr. Clay. ton and his. assistants, Ferguson and Sweetland, care to handle.
 The instrument which was sent un was T meteorograph of three elements giving continuous readings of air pres. sure, temperature and humidity, and lt was maintained at it's greatest height for upwards of half hour. The readings of the thermometer show fall in tenn. perature of about 1S degrees between the surface and the upper air. \ short distance above the earth cloud was en- countered, through which the kites rose, coming out into clear weather above In the midst of the cloud, as might be expected. the humidity rose to 100 per cent, this being the reading of the hygrometer, and above thu cloud the air was quite dry, more so than at the surface The record of the instru ment, in it's variations of humidity, af fords a tolerably accurate measure oi the thickness of the cloud, which from the estimate made seems to have been about 2,50o feet. The flight fairly taxed again the resources of the observatory for to secure this great height 1t was necessary to put out 29fs miles of wire Moderate kite-hying is a portion of the regular duties of the men at Blue Hill fer Mr. Roteh has recognized the value of this means Of securing information about the weather conditions Of ths upper air. but these very high flights are little out of the regular order An attempt to eclipse the record will, how ever, be made later in the week, wher Prof. Harrington and MT. Archibald can be present, and again later in the season, when 1t is probable that AIr Eddy will be once more with thc kite. flyers on Blue Hill.~Boston Transcript
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IMMIGRATION FoSTERED.

CanadiaE Government officials Do All in
 Their Power to Promote Settlement.
 For nearly ten years past there have been laws in this country prohibiting steamship companies or their agents from glorifying the United States as a field for emigration. All that a steam ship line is permitted to do is to adYer- tise the port and day of the saiiings of it's steamers. Any attempt to stimu- late emigration by lectures, by can vassing or by the circulation of litera- ture is checked through the American consuls and if persisted in would bring the representatives of the companies into conflict with the federal officers at the emigration port.
 On the part of the Canadian govern ment, on the other hand, every means is taken to glorify Canada to Europe as field for immigration. No government uses printing ink more prodigally than Canada ill putting forward statements and views which it desires made pub lie, and great part of its enormous outlay on printers ink is charged against the immigration department Tons of immigration literature, print ed in all the languages of Europe, are sent out under the auspices of the de- partment. Almost anything which is likely to puff Canada in Europe secures the indorsement of the department and oftentimes is financed from its ex- ehequer.
 The last report of the auditor gen eral contains some examples of how this method of advertising Canada is worked. One of the items is for $500, subven- tion granted to George R. Parkin to aid him in publishing in England his book on the Great Dominion" MT. Parl<in was lecturer for the late Inn perial Federation league. Another item is for the cost of entertaining and de fraying the travelling expenses of two women journalists at Dundee, in Scot land. They were in Canada to describe the country and it's resources for the information of the farm people of Scot land, and their expenses, even to their washing bills, were charged to the im- migration department.
 The press, the platform, the markets and the fairs, the elementary schools, and, in some cases, even the pulpit are all turned to account in Europe. es- pecially in England, in the endeavor to divert the stream of emigration to Can ada.-Harper's Weekly
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-09
NO POLES FOR TRoLLEYs.
chemitx Houses Sustain the Guy Wires
 of the Lines.

Chemitx Houses Sustain the Guy Wires
 of the Lines.
 Chemnitz, SaXony, two years ago ban. ished horses from her street cars ano substituted ihe trolley. In report to the state department Consul J. c. Mon aghan says one of the principal novel, ties of the adopted system is thar nc poles are used. The method of swing ing wires is by means of ornamental rosettes fastened into the woodwork or walls of houses, having projecting hooks to which the wires are attached These hooks are firmly fastened and are tested with seven times the weight they will be called upon to bear. Owners ol houses, without exception, preferred to allow the use Of their houses free rather than have poles on the sidewalk. The streets through which the cars wind their wav are wider than Washington street. Boston, or Westminster street. Providence. The railway tracks, in conformity to the law. are level with the pavement, and accidents to vehicles of any kind are rare. The gauge is narrower than in America, but The cars keep the track and run as rapidly and as smoothly as in the United States. In the heart of the city they run 22e yards per minute, and in the suburbs 330 yards per minute
 The increase of traffic since the intro duction of electricity in Chemnitz has been 60 per cent. The cars have no con, ductors. The motorman is the only person on board who represents the company By doing away with eonduc. tors the company saves 44,000 marks an. nually. The fare is only 10 pfennigs. or trifie less than 2h cents. on all routes including transfers. Should l50. DOC persons evade payment in 12 months the loss would be only 15.ooo marks. Ii would take i50.000 evasions in fare te offset the company's savings by dispens. ing with conductors salaries Among a people who pay for food and drink in restaurants. saloons and gardens on their honor alone it is unlikely the com. pany loses much. Culprits in this re, spect, when detected, are punished by having their names advertised in the newspapers as warning to others Fare boxes are attached to both ends of l the car. so there is no such excuse as difficulty in getting forward "-Scien. l tifc American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-09
Russian Distances.

One gets an idea of the magnificent distances of the ,ezar's realm from learning that Russian general who was in hurry to get to St. Petersburg. from Nladivostok found the time say the route was to go to Yokohama bv steamer, thence by another steamer across the Pacific to San Francisco, by rail to, New York, and by steamer to Europe. The gap between the finished sections of the Transsiberian railroad IS so many hundred miles in length that the general would have lost time in trasersing the wilds of that vast country, where horses furnish all the port.-Chieago Tribune.
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Experiments with Cottnn

The agricultural experiment station at Fayetteville is an institution of great value to the farmers and fruit growers, as there tests and experiments are made by practical and skilled ope- rators, who are under government pay and have every advantage and oppor- tunlty to go to the very bottom of ex- periments they enter into. Last season further investigations were made with cotton, and 1t is deemed proper to pre- sent herewith the result, which is re- printed from the Eighth Annual Re. port, which says:
 EgyPtlan varieties were planted agaln this year, both new seed and seed that grew upon the station last year and the plants that grew from home seed did not differ from those grown from imported seed
 CROSSES. from the crosses made last year between the American and Egyptian varieties produced this year some very fine stalks that seemed to have retained the best qualities of both varieties. The seed will be nlantad again and an effort made to develon something of value.
 AMERICAN VARIETIES. About 25 well recommended varieties or so-callad varieties have been grown on the sta tion and the following final Statements are made of them: The cotton plant under favorable influences is very sus- ceptible of improvement. Fertilization. cultivation and selection are necessary to improve or to keep variety up to any high standard. The difference be- tween many of the so-called varieties would disappear if they were cultivated alike under the same conditions for any length of time. But the differences be- tween the different types such as long staple' short staple, long limb, short eimb, and prolific ren ain for practically
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 Business vs, PoIitfca

If the citizens of Arlfansos bend their energies to manufactnr;n.. s,a interests and the development of;,sa4 f,,.'ns tries with the same care as tba aus, aasl, of the eastern states have avh;l:i lsp'0 they would soon bring about q nss,u ro,,s.s,' able change in this land of snnsb,as sa and flowers. It is a fact that wo aas s" cuss politics too much and bnsinas. s,s' sas little. As a rule, too much time ;s ~ ss pended In the interest of cand;a.ta. for office and too little in the intaras. of the state. If half the energy. thouobs and time is expended in political dssns. 1. sion were devoted to careful studv .. business problems and schemes for as tablishing mills and factories cbanr. for the better would soon be hroucb. about. All plans for developipp ;ndrs S tries and increasing wealth can h. treated wholly from a non-nartsor standpoint-upon business basis All persons being mutually interested can enter into all discussion with eonol chances and with common interest T. is only just to criticise and point out this mistake which our people long ago made and to which they seem welded that is, of spending too much time in trying to settle national questions and too little time in trying toimproye local business conditions. It is better to de. wise ways and means of earning dollars than to trifie time away in trying to settle the currency question of the na. tien.
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Flower Girls in 1.o,aon.

So seriously has the city of London taken the custom of tie buttonhole bo quets worn by stockholders that if ha. actually given the women who sell flow. CTS recognition. The flower girls, as they are all gallantly called, are per. mitted by the regulations to set down their baskets and sell the flowers around the iron railings opposite the Royal ex change They are among the most re. spected stall holders in the city. They are unifornsly polite, as they may vel be. since they may be said to be on epeaking terms with all the youth end gailantry of Threadneedle street and hrognorton avenue. and they are very !. s's1!aea III. ns the making of boutonni ieres
 hIcaBo Chronicle.
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Cod storage Builllngs.

The importance of cold storage build. ings for the reception of fruit and veg. etables is appreciated by farmers and
 fruit-growers, and the question of es-
 tablishing depets at shipping points is
 being discussed by the press of Arkan.
 sas. Gold storage depots are a modern
 institution. They have become valu. able aid and an indispensable adjunct
 in preserving fruit, vegetables and
 meats for market, and of great value to the producer as well as the consumer.
 To give an illustration, it is only nee-l essary to cite the experience of Dr. Isaac Love, of Mountain Grove, this state, who placed 1,600 barrels of apples in cold storage at Kansas City last fall. At the time of the stor- ing, apples were worth 40 cents bush
 el The apples were sold in May for sSl a barrel at the cold storage depot, and the cost of storing was only 50 cents a1 barrel. It is necessary to add that thel barrels contained 2K bushels, and would have brought in the fall marketl s1 a barrel After deducting cost oil storage there was net profit of sl5el per barrel. This one il 7tance showsa the value of cold storage. ltis not necz essary to send fruit out of the state tOr4 preservation. Cold storage buildngss should be estab blished in the state Wlthin8 easy access to the fruitgrowers so thasz the cost of storage would oe kepH within state bounds. The su01ecs
 should be agitated to successful lssue'
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rhe Lananese PersImmon.

This fruit long since passed the eA1 perimental. It has been produced suVi cessfully in different parts of the s'a'9 for the past ten years. The frait Was introduced into Arkansas from JaPaus The soil and climate. seem pecullat'1 adapted to both Japanese persiinhol and plum. Many fruit-groWers arc ls F ', the opinion that these fruits Wni E course of time prove the most oesna3 ble for market of any fruit now piya duced, owing to their size, beauty richness. The persimmon when flpS E as large as a well-developea 'o'la anSl and closely resembles it Tn l0llu a.'ons color. They will bear transpor'as',v as,n keep well and sell readily. one .4's ~ rsz about the Japanese persinmon' m nd quires a southern climate ana 0aIT Ths| be produced north of latitude :. tn7 tree will grow one or two degrees ,us5 lai ther north. but will not bear na paa fruit. The culture of this eScsr st,s1z fruit is yearly attracting more mo snr a far tion. It can be cultivated oy aps ,s a mer, as it requires but little 'ne u.sd J tention than shade tree pAan's the roas side.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-09
NecassariIx Ahsanf

Strange how few business men we meet at these summer resorts.a
 Well, l suppose it is only their clerks afford sc take ssscss tions ChicaRQ Record