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WANTED:-Several u

WANTED:-Severa trustworthy gentlemen or ladies to travel in Arkansas for established, reliable house. Salary $7S0 and expenses. Steady position. Enclose reference and self addressed stamped en- velope. The Dominion Company third floor, Omaha Building, Chicago, III. III w6m
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Mr. John ]. Whitaker, represent ing the Monticello Fair Association, is iii the city.
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tnlS Apfli l, lcJo.
 r. E. FLANDE x. Clerk. [sEAL. By l.. T. SAILEE, D. c,
 As to the matter of errors, l will not deny that I am human, and hence liableamSerr-so is Mir. Brew ster. have not had time to make an investigation of his record in this respect but q hasty glance discloses the fact thatin his delinquent list for 1893 he returned ;i certain man as '.dead." The gentleman in question, is yet very much alive, and is, and was then, working here in the city. I took the list and collected his tax for 1893, and also for 1894, and | expect to eaiiect t s9:. isseas;, ;;iiiiGss; siG should really die or move away.
 In conclusion l call attention to the fact that under the present Dem ocratic county administration ex- penses were reduced by more than Sl GOO per month during the first year, as shown by the following re- port of the County Commissioners: To the Circuit Court of Jefferson County,
 Hon. John NJ. Elliott presiding
 We, the Commissioners of Accounts for Jefferson county, do most re spectfully report that we have, as required by law, made D thorough and complete examination of the books, accounts and vouchers of the several county officers, and present the ollOwing as the result of our in- yestigation, to-wit:
 We feel gratified to be able to call your attention to the reduction in the general expenses of the county for the past year, which amounts to.
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in round figures. about $l2,ooo.

We do most respectfully submit this as our report, this Sept. Is, 1896
 R. D. MCGAuGHY.
 V. 0. ALEXANDER.
 J. E. TRUTocK. Upon this record and my general conduct of the office, l present my claim to renomination for a second term, according to Democratic usage. with full confidence in the fairness and judgment of the Demo- erats of Jefferson county.
 Respectfully,
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Thos. H. Kavanaugh. of Westson. was Pine Bluff visitor yesterday.
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Mir. R. Holmes and wife. of Kings land, paid our city visit yesterday.
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Mr. C. L. Dooley, prominent cit izen of Rives, was in town yesterday.
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"Beautiful Cinderella will be pre- sented at the Opera House on the 17th.
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Mir. Wm. Hawthorn, of Harlow, was a Pine Bluff visitor Monday.
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Sunday morning, at the Main Street Methodiit church, the pastor, Pey. A. 0. Evans, preached an ap- propriate Easter sermon to a large congregation. In the evening the monthly song service and church conference was held The music was of a high order. The report of the Secretary showed that thirty-fiye children had joined the Sunday school in March The pastor report ed fifteen sermons preached during the month, and l35 pastorial calls made. The report of the Board of Stewards showed the affairs of the church in good condition.
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Easter services at the various churches of the city were largely at.
 tended Sunday. The beautiful day and the special services brought out large congregations. Dr. Minor c. Baldwin, the great New York organ ist, attracted large crowds to the Presbyterian church both morning and evening, and his special musical concert of sacred music at night was enjoyed by an audience which tested the full capacity of the house.
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From Mondays DailY.l

Only few more days remain in which you can pay your taxes.
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$3,OS7.0G.

which is nearly twice as much as their entire collection on this ac- count. These are plain facts; unde- niable facts. For proof read the fol- lowing table from the record, eerti- fled ny the Clerk:
 Comparative statement of collee- tions made on personal delinquent lists by A G. Yhompson, Collector from Nov. l. 1892, to Nov l, 1891, and by c. H. Triplett, Collector from Nov. l, 1891, to Nov, to April |. 1896.
 A. G. THOMPSON COLLECTED:
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Bal. in favor of Triplrtt s30s7 G6 I hereby certify that ihe above statement iscorrect, as appears from the records in my office.
 Witness my hand and official seal this April 3, 1896.
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pense to the delinquent tax payers. Does Mir. Brewster wish it to be un- derstood that if elected Ire will not obey this section of the law in cases where the delinquent has no visible property and refuses to pay his tax cs?
 Again. the records show that dur ing Dr. Thompson's two years in office he collected of delinquent per sonal taxes total of $2.9l426 have been in office seventeen months, and taking the same lsI,G except that of lS94) after Messrs. Thompson and Brewster had declared them worthless and uneollectible, 1 col lected $G,00l .92. or a difference in my favor of
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FIGURES WON'T LIE! THAT IS, IF YOU MAKE THEM RIGHT. BUT THEY CAN BE USED TO DECEIVE
 THE PUBLIC WHEN SKILL
 FULLY MANIPULATED.

Sheriff TripIett's Reply to Candidate Brews. ter's Comparative Statement" Where in He Show How MT. Brewster's Figures are Cooked to Suit
 the Dire Neces@ ites
 of His Case.
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TrpIetts Collections for One Year Exceee Those of Brewster for the Same Time, on General Revenue. $l1.tO4.78, and on Delinquent Personal in Seventeen Months as Against Two Years
 Triplett Leads by $3, ,O8766.
 The Record Talks
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Table showing total valuation of all real and personal property in Jef- ierson county, Ark, assessed for tax ation in the years 2S92 and 1894; Total assessment lS92........$7. .542, ,014 Total assessment 1S94........ 6,670, ,S70 Decrease in lS94..................S 972.O44 l certify that the above statement Is correct, as shown by the records in my office.
 Witness my hand and seal this April 1, 1896.
 F. E. FLANDERS, Clerk [sEAL ] By l.. Y. SALLEE, n. c. He is also careful not to men tion the important fact that for 1892, thirty-seven persons paid State and County license as liquor dealers, to the amount of $27O00, while for 1894 only thirty-two persons paid such li- cense. the amount being $22, $50. As this is q matter over which neither Collector had the slightest control, it is plain to the simplest under standing that Thompson is entitled to no credit for the excess, and that
  the difference-$4, ,650-should be de- dacted from Dr. Thompson's total for that year, 1892; that is from $l42,- 732 .O4, leaving the true amount $13S,- 9s2.O4; or, give me creditfor the same number of licenses (which amounts to exactly the same thing4, and, in either event, the balance in my favor for one year Is:
 Amount shown aboye......$ 6, ,454 IS Difference in licenses..........~ 4,65O GO Total .........................,... II .l04 IS I append the Clerk certificate as to the liquor licenses:
 Statement showing number and amount of licenses collected from H- quOr dealers for the years 1892 and 1891
 Year No. State County Total 1892 37 $l0 100 $lG,9OO $27, 900 1891 32 S,350 140OO 22,35O
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

which will be possessed by The Amherst
expedition. because none Will have TN"
advantage of an entire yacht for the
transportation of the apparatus. Inc
boats cruise is likely to cost something
like $4,000, all for a two-minutes'
glimpse of the phenomena of an eclipse
or such it would have been not many
years ago, when astronomers had to
write out descriptions of and sketch
what they saw. Prof. Todd has arranged
a mechanism by which he can connect
as many telescopes and cameras as hi
may please, and can control their oper-
atoms as Photographic apparatus. He
will make the photographs OF the
corona and total eclipse for pictorial
purposes and to measure the intensity
of the corona and the light in every
part.
Mr.. James present plans are to board
the Coronet with his friends and asso-
ciates about May 1. They will be six
or seven weeks in reaching Yezo. They
will stop only at Honolulu. where they
will remain a week or more. AT Yezo
Prof. Todd and his workers will disem-
bark and set about getting the astro'
nomical apparatus in place,and Mr.. and
Mrs. James, Mrs. Todd. and their
friends will make a tour of Japan, re
turning to Yezo before the eclipse.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
PLANT TRAPS INSECTS.
lures Them with Honey and
Then Destroys Them.
After Dispatching its Victims 1t Reopens
Its Wings and Throws the Skel-
etOn Out-As Rare as 1t Is
Wonderful.

Venus Hytrap is the name of very
curious plant on exhibition at the
flower show in the Grand Central
palace at New York. 1t is pretty, I'M
assuming little plant, but with blood
thirsty tastes all out of keeping with
it's modest appearance. The Dlonaea
rnuscipula feeds on flies, mosquitoes,
ants, in fact any insect which comes
within it's treacherous embrace.
1t is not content with unwary insects
which may happen to alight on its
dangerous leaves. but deliberately en-
tees them by exuding a kind of honey
from the edges of the fatal traps. These
little traps are two soft, downy leaves,
which hinge together on one side. They
are fringed with delicate bristles which
look like eyelashes on two very wide
open eyelids.
There is absolutely nothing to excite
the suspicion of an insect visitor, even
the willy mosquito. Lured by the honey
on the edge of the trap the 1uckless in
sect alights on the bristles and pre-
pares for meal. 1t never gets any
further, for at the touch ofthe insects
ieet the bristies fly back like lightning,
and the two leaves come together, in
closing the fly between their walls.
The bristles interlock like the fingers
of clasped hands, thus rendering es-
cape impossible. Under the stimulus
of the prisoners struggles the numer-.
Gus glands on the inside walls of the
trap pour forth secretion which con-
iainS some substance like pepsin. 1t is
~ fact a vegetable gastric juice, and
under its influence the unfortunate in
sect gradually melts away-is digested
hive in fact. When the juices of its
prey have been extracted the trap re-
opens and the skeleton and wings are
thrown out. This is how the plant
lives, although when flies are scarce it
can manage to get along on vege-
tartan diet, which is supplied by the
roots.
Venus fly trap is a perennial plant,
and the leafess stem rises from ro-
settle of root leaves. 1t runs from six to
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

by those who were frequent
visitors at the white house dur
ing it's occupancy by Mr.. Har-
rison and his family. Mrs. Dimmick
now resides in New York, and, it is in.
timated, is the magnet which draws the
distinguished statesman so frequently
to that city. She is the niece of the
late Mrs. Harrison and her presence
added much to the charm of the social
life of the last administration. She was
extremely popular and scarcely less
esteemed than Mrs. Harrison, whose
graciousness and sweetness of manner
won the friendship of all who met her.
Mrs. Harrison died October rs, 1892, and
through the lorg and tedious illness
her devoted husband was greatly as
sisted in his patient vigils at her bed.
side by Mrs. Dimmick.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

ten inches in height and is of very
delicate growth, soon dying of the
slightest injury to it's stem or root.
w. A. Manda. the expert florist, who
has made many collections of the plant
for various botanical societies, says
that it is to be found in only two spots
in the world-around Wilmington, N.
C., and Raleigh, y. C. In ten years, he
says, it will be probably extinct, and
is even now exceedingly rare.
Strangely enough, plant inclosed
so that no insects can get to it, will
live longer and thrive better than one
well supplied with flies. A flesh diet
renders it exceedingly delicate, and
furnishes another argument for the
Vegetarian society. Darwin analysed
the juices of the trap and found that
they resembled the gastric juices in an
animal. giving an acid reaction and dis
solving rapidly small pieces of beef,
cheese, etc.
The muscles actuating the lids of the
traps strongly resemble in their action
those of human being. By making an
incision and dividing what seemed to
answer for nerves in the stalk of the
the trap the leaves became paralyzed
and would not shut. These facts appear
10 show that the Venus fly trap comes
ne3"er to animal life than any form of
,"oetation known.
Many scientists have studied the
plant and say that it undoubtedly
thrives on juices of the slaughtered in
sects. Mr.. Manda, who is an authority
on the plant, says that the idea of the
plant living thus is all nonsense, and
claims that the insects are responsible
for the killing of the plant. The So
called gastric juice is. he sa. ), natures
effort in behalf of the plant to get rid
of the intruder. He is unable to explain,
however, why the fly trap spreads at
fractions TO beguile the insects to their
doom.
Audubon says that lie saw specimens
in Florida of the Dionaea of enormous
size and big enough to digest birds.
Nobody else has seen them. The gen.
eral impression is that he was mis-
taken.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
THE coRoNET's MISSION
dacht Departs for Japan on Scientific PuI
pose Bent.

iacht Departs for Japan ON Scientific Pun.
pose Bent.
The schooner yacht Coronet left New
York for. Japan recently. She is under
charter to convey the Amherst college
scientific party to Akeshi Zezo, Japan.
She is manned by Ia men, under com.
mand of Capt. c. S. Crosby, who has had
charge of her since she was built. She
will sail for San Francisco direct, and
Capt. Crosby believes she will reach
that city early in March.
Prof. David P. Todd and party of
IA Amherst college professors will
board the Coronet there and start at
once for Japan. Their mission is to OBJ
serve the total eclipse of the sun on
August 9. The Coronet was placed at
the disposal of the party by the owners,
ID. Willis James and his son, Arthur
Curtis James. the latter graduate of
Amherst. The Coronet is famous for
her victorious race across the ocean
with the Dauntless in 1886.
The total eclipse of 1896 will have be-
tween two and three minutes OF Dark
ness, and to take advantage of this
astronomers from the United States.
England, France, Germany and Italy
win travel thousands of miles, carrying
fine and umbersome instruments with
them. Not one of the parties, how :
ever, will have the mechanical facilities
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

been written, were imported from Eu-
rope, and are of Carrara marble, carved
in caryatides supporting shells flied
with flowers. This house was bought
for $4,000 by the city from Louis ID.
Crenshaw, and was presented to Mr..
Davis as gift. Mr.. Davis declined to
accept it on those terms, but consented
to make it his residence during his life
time. Upon the entrance of the federal
troops into the city after the evacuation
Gen. Weitzel and his officers rode
straight to this house. and constituted
it the headquarters of the northern
troops. Candy and Ord also used the
house IN this capacity during the period
that Virginia passed through the stages
of reconstruction.
1t is proposed to assign a room to
each of the seeding states for col
lection of relics, and in addition there
will be large room for general mu-
scum and one for a library. The first
of the state collections-that of Geor-
gia-has been received. 1t was pre-
scented to the committee by Mr.. De
'Reune on the S6th birthdayo of President
Davis (June, 1S94). Among the relics
are the cape, gauntlets and sword of
Gen. Lee; the plumes from Gen.
Stuart's hat; the spy-glass used by
Gen. Beauregard at the battle of Man
assas, and the collections from The
various soldiers homes established
through the south, including the Lee
Camp Soldiers home collection, which
contains, in addition to very many rare
and interesting relics, the skin of
Stonewall Jackson's charger. There
are also number of manuscripts and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

third tower was built at Peach noun
tain, a rough wooded hill, something
like 900 feet above the river surface.
At this station the party fingered long
est. 1t was their rule to go away about
November / and not return until late
in May.
When the towers were finished sew
,eral young men in the vicinity were en-
ployed to work large mirrors with long
handles. a stationary mirror stood on
a pedestal shielded from the weather.
The visitors were regarded as lunatics,
blu the work was continued. The ed
itor of the Georgetown News-Democrat
recently spent some time looking into
the matter, and this is the .informa-
ton he obtained:
The strangers were representatives of
what is known in geographical circles
as the Geodetic society, whose object
is to determine the exact shape of the
earth running east and west. There
are two or three north and south lines.
Russia has the longest line ever run,
from the Black sea to the northern linn
it of the kingdom. There is one India
run by England, and France and Eng
land together have one in Scotland, ex-
tending to the Balearic islands. The
United States is the only land with
sufficient east and west country on
which line can be run. 1t is the gen
eral belief that the world is fiat at the
poles. These lines will be used to de-
termine the exact shape of the earth.
It is claimed that next summer mes
sages will be flashed by mirror from
the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
Keeping Cabbage in Winter.

Most people bury cabbage for win
ter use, and if properly done it is the
very best way to Keep them. They
are. however. not easily got at when
the ground is frozen or covered with
snow. A part of the crop may be sat-
isfactorily kept as follows: Trim the
heads very closely, wrap in newspa-
pers and pack in barrels. Set in a
cool cellar and use as needed: they
will not dry out or decay as when
placed in the cellar without protec-
+ ton. If this process is followed, a
quantity can be taken from the ground
at one time --Ta~ ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10

Farmers claim that there is no"mon-
ey in farming" Compared with other
occupations, it is as certain as any of
them. There is not a merchant in this
country or manufactures who does not
meet difficulties IN his business The
farmer makes more money in proper
phn to capital and labor invested than
tuh'erived in many other enterprises.
PM lassas of business men must rely
ueep wg'0st of raw materials and the
fronts demands of the markets, and it
trlmmh added, that, like the farmer,
sur9uolspfits or losses depend largely
Gather also.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
OBSERVATION TOWERS.
Ere cted in Ohio by Members Of
the GeOdetic Society.
\ Line on the Earth's Shape-The One
in the United States Is the Only
One Running East and West
Scientific SpeculatiOns.

Brown county and it's sisters, Cler-
mont and Adams counties, o., have
within their borders three towers,
the erection of which, with the sur
veying, the building and experiments,
occupied IL years of time and cost $780,
900. For some reason, perhaps the COM
parative remoteneSS from news centerS,
perhaps because of the reticence of
those interested in the matter, the story
of these towers down on the mountains
and plains of the counties named, only
60 miles from Cincinnati, has never
been made public.
Three of these towers were erected,
after much surveying, by a party con-
sisting of five men, who wore 4 sort
of undress uniform; lady, the wife OF
one of the party, and another man,
dressed in civilian clothes, who ap-
peared to be the paymaster of the band.
They were evidently persons OF re-
hnement, and they boarded at the best
country houses in the sections in which
they were at work. They were very
pleasant, agreeable people and well
liked by their hosts, but they talked
little, and only of their work. The
farmer people, unfortunately, kept no
record of them; not even their names
being remembered.
The first tower was erected about
three miles from Bethel, Clermont coun
ty, on the plateau. The land through
the southern part of Ohio is several
hundred feet higher than the river.
This tower was 1876 feet high and was
arranged with an interior stairway.
leading to the platform on top of the
structure. The tower was not eXpen-
sive, so far as material was concerned,
but was costly, because the hauling and
the dressing of the timber required
much expenditure.
The second tower was built on Ash
Ridge, in Brown county, ten miles from
the Bethel structure. 1t was 40 feet
above the elevation, and was in no way
different from the Bethel tower. The
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
GOLD STORAGE PLANTS.
They Should Be Established In Every
Fruit Growing Locality.

They Should Be Established In Every
Fruit-GrOwing Locality.
Anent the recent progress in the mat
ter of prolonging the season of fruits
by means of cold storage, Prof. Craig,
of the experiment farm at Ottawa, Ont,
thinks that the time may soon come
when winter apples may not be neces-
sity, as fall apples can be kept in per-
feet condition until the next summer.
This is entirely practicable, but as win
ter apples are quite as easily grown as
summer or autumn apples, there seems
no need of dispensing with either. At
the Columbian exposition in the New
York fruit exhibit there were shown
at the opening of the exposition and for
some weeks after perfect specimens OF
the Sweet Bough, Sour Bough, Fall Pip
pin, Round Sweet and others, and they
kept as long after being removed from
the cold storage as they would have
kept in the summer or fall without hay-
ing been thus stored. In other words,
contrary to the generally accepted idea,
the cold storage in no way impaired
their keeping qualities. 1t would GER
tainIy be very pleasant to be able to
have supply of Primate, Chenango,
Strawberry, Gravenstein and Fall Pip
pin through the winter. The problem
to solve is to make central cold storage
plants in fruit-growing neighborhoods,
where business enough can be secured
to make them profitable, operated by
the ammonia process. Ice methods will
not answer To fill the modern demand
they must be able to freeze fresh meats,
fish and poultry in one room, while
keeping fruit at temperature of 30 de-
grees Fahrenheit in another. It is done
successfully now in large cities.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
CONGRESSMAN HIT.
The New Chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee.

ThO new chairman OF the HOUSE rOEcASh
Affairs Committee.
Robert Roberts Hit, chairman of the
committee on foreign affairs of the
house of representatives. is an ideal
statesman, sufficiently aggressive to
be in touch with the sentiments of the
people, and conservative enough to be
absolutely safe. he is born diplomat,
which gift, supplemented with seven
years experience as first secretary of
legation and part of the time charge
d'affaires in Paris, few months as as,
sistant secretary of state, some years
service on the committee on foreign
affairs in the house, and two years it's
capable chairman. makes him essential
ly the fit man for the place. Mr.. Hit
was born at Urbana, o., January 16,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-10
MAN OF MANY PARTS.
John w. Foster, Soldier, Diplomat, States
man and Scholar.


Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster.
of Indiana. is especially a diplomat.
Almost every administration from the
time of Grant has recognized his special
aptitude i'll this field and has given him
some appointment to foreign courts.
1t rarely falls to the lot of diplomat
to hold more than one position, but Mr..
Foster has had no less than six. Presi-
dent Grant made him minister to Next
co. President Hayes took him from that
court and sent him to ST. Petersburg.
President Arthur picked him out for the
court of Spain and sent him thither.
President Cleveland once sent him on