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oysters-the finest in the world served in all styles at A. J. Mitchell's Pal ace Confectionery, No. POS Main street. 10 I dtf
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BORN.

hANFv~in this city. on tue night of ttetobeR21. 1896, to Mr. aud Mrs. Mo. Mani a daughter. Today the happy parents are receiving tue congratu- tatioIn oi their many friends.
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The case of the State vs. !. D. Tucker is before the Circuit Court to- day. Tucker is charged with being an aceessoryto the killing of Andrew Carson.
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Capt. c. T. Robinson has returned Aom u business trip to Gummins.
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Mir. and Mrs. ". E. Jackson, 0 Toronto. are in the city.
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Choice Flowers and Plants.

Choice assortment of palms. ferns and other plants. Blooming chrys- anthemums. loo different varieties: all kinds of bulb stock for Winter and Easter bloomings. Cut flowers q speciality. MRS. c. A. STARR.
 10 lsdlm Bellwood Greenhouse.
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Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy Co operate. Cure Indigestion, bill unsness. 2ae.
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Mrs. c. J. Flynn, Of Texas, is here pn a visit to her mother, Mrs. Me Crary,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-22

X. 5. Gartey, oI Clarendon, segistered at the Arling gton.
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Attorney A, E. Grace has returned home after alegal visit to El Dorado
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George H. Pettigrew of Fayetts vile, is d Pine Bluff visitor today.
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Frank Graham's local minstrels at Ilie opera house tonight.
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Es0R RENT Furnished rooms torrent over tho office Of Johnson X Roberts. 10 22a2w
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VINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC.
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Try Cyeola--the new drink-at Mltcheil's.
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Messrs. J.W Tucker. J. W. Walker and L. N. Clement are prominent visitors to the city today.
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& OsT-An ice-wool shoulder shawl. on Third avenue south Main street or " aixsh avenue. Finder will be liberally re-,
 ss9eA on rsturning sane to l.. care this 1e 2edst
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FOR SALE--Good, gentle horse suitable for sa . tamlly or delivery business. Address
 this office. 10 p d6i
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Advertise Your WI

AHfANTED--To rent, two or thres
 WV rooms. in good location, lor4 keeping. Address, "J' GRAPHIc'
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
Stars and Distances,

In all the heavens, with the exception of
passing meteors or meteorites, not one
body occupies a position closer to earth
than the moon, which is some $40, 600
miles away-yery far, of course side by side
with any earthly distances, but mere
fraction side by side with other astronom-
ioal distances. Next to the moon our
nearest occasional neighbor is Venus, and
then Mars. Both Venus and Mars, how.
ever, are often farther away from US than
the sun, which remains always at some
where about the same distance, roughly at
from 80, 900, 900 to 90, 100000 miles.
This dividing space between sun and
earth is of great Importance in thinking
about the stars, and it should be clearly
impressed upon the mind. Next to the sun
in point Of nearness come the more distant
planets-Jupiter, which is about five times
as far from the sun as our earth is; Saturn,
nearly twice as far as Jupiter; Uranus,
nearly twice as far as Saturn, and Nep-
tune, nearly three time as far as Saturn.
Al these planets belong to our sun; all
are members of his family; all are part of
the solar system. The size of the solar
system as whole, consisting thus of the
sun and his planets, including our earth,
may be fairly we'll grasped by any one tax
ing the trouble to master two simple facts.
They, are these, that our earth is roughly
about so, 900, 900 miles away from the sun,
and that Neptune, the outerinost planet OF
the solar system, is nearly 30 times as far
distant from the sun as our earth is.-
Chambers journal. r
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That WAS All.
one -

A young girl who is always trying some
new thing was present once when the doc
tor set a neighbours broken arm. She was
sure that she knew exactly how it was
done and rather anxious to put her new
knowledge into practice. Some time later
a hen out in the chicken yard broke it's
leg. The girl directly announced that she
meant to set it land make it as good as
new." Accordingly it was put into a
plaster cast and left for the proper length
Of time to knit. When the day came to
take off the cast, the girl ran out to the
henhouse in great eagerness to see the re-
suit. Presently there wasa scream that
brought every member of the family to her
side. The chicken was jumping miserably
over the ground sidewise instead of di-
rectly forward. You know q hen S leg has
a crook. Well, she had crooked it the
wrong way, that was all.-New York
TiInes
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
Running the Cataract.

Descending the first cataract of the Nile
Is perilous proceeding. The sides Of
the rapids are walled with solid but not
smooth rock, and the water is thrown
with frightful impetuosity from either
side toward the middle. At every few
yards there springs up diagonally huge
wave, and as these side waves meet they
form series of still larger ones, which go
in deep and heavy ridges toward the bot
tom. In sThe Nile Withouta Dragoman"
Mr.. Frederic Eden describes his experience
In running this cataract in a dahabeah Or
houseboat: @i% ga
THE ohattering men were one and all
impressed to silence. IA moment more,
and our boat was rapidly running along
the central ridge of water. The men
strained with their utmost force at the
oars. A few seconds more, and the vessel
began to bound under us in a way 1 hope
never to feel repeated. Each wave, as it
struck under the stern, drove her already
too depressed head still deeper into the
water.
Elm the waves came, leaping into the
bow, and up they went over the rowers,
rendering their oars useless and threaten
ing to drive the boat bodily under Down
we plunged, and when we should have
made the turn to the right the largest
wave of all hurled us forward so straight
that we made full at the wall of rock in
front. Before we could touch it another
wave struck sideways on the stern of the
boat, and, washing up over the deck Of the
cabin, turned US short round. For an in
slant we were within foot ofythe rock !;
then the eddy drifted US round till we lay
with our head up stream.
"a yell of delight broke from every
one"
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

he'd ought to go, old as he was, SO he
went into the Sixth. Maybe you We seen
book written about the captain Of
Company K of the Sixth. 1t was Com
pany K he went into-him and Ephe,
And he was killed at Shiloh, just as it
always seems to happen. He got killed
and his worthless brother come home.
Folks thought Ephe would have liked
to marry the widow; but, Lord! she
never had no such an idea Such bait
as he was compared to his brother! She
never chirked up, to speak OF, and now
she's dead, too, and Ephe he just tod
dies round, takin care of the children
kind Of he dry nurse; that's about
all he ever was good for anyhow.
Ny name? Oh, my names Ephraim-
Ephe they call me for short-Ephe
Dodge. Abe was my brother.
THE END.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
Tbs Surgeons MIra0l6.
By JOSEPH KIRKLAND.
[Copyrisht, 1895, BY the Author.l


Copyright, 1895. BY the Author.1 +
DOR Abe Dodge
That's what they called him, thoueh
he wasn't any poorer than other folk
nos SO poor as some. How could he he
poor, work as he did and steady as he
was? Worth whole grist of such bait
as his brother, Ephe Dodge, and vet
they never called Ephe poor-whateyer
worse name they might call him. When
Ephe was off at show in the village,
Abe was followin the pillow. drivin a
straight furrow, though you wouldn It
have thought it to see the way his nose
pointed: In winter, when Ephe was
takln the girls to singin school Or
spellln bee OF. some other foolishness-
out TIL after o O'Clock at night, like as
not-Abe was hangin over the fire,
holdin book SO the light would shine
frst on one page and then on the other,
and he turnin his head as he turned
the book, and readin first with one eye
and then with the other.
There, the murder S out Abe couldn't
read with beth eyes at once. If Abe
hOOAS0 StIG@5IlU tSiICeeS LAO SOuluu St0
the furTow-nor anything else, for that
matter. His best friend couldn t say but
what Abe Dodge was the cross eyedest
cuss that ever was. Why, if you wanted
to see Abe, you'd stand in front of him,
but if You wanted Abe to see you, you'd
got TO STAND behind him Or pretty near
it. Hornely? Well, if you mean down
right 'humbly,' that's what he was.
When one eye was in use the other was
out OF sight, all except the white Of it,
Humbly amt no name for it. The girls
used to say he had to wake up in the
night to rest his face, it was so humbly.
In school you d ought to have seen him
lock down at his copybook He had to
cant his head clear over and cock up
his chin till it pointed out of the win
der and down the road. You'd really
ought to have seen him; you'd have
died. Head of the class, too, right
along, just as near to the head as Ephe
was to the foot, and that's sayin good
deal But to see him at his desk! He
looked for all the world like week old
chicken, pee1in at tumblebugl And
him al grown man, too, for he staid to
school winters SO long as there was any
thing more the teacher could teach him.
You see, there WASH t anything to draw
him away; no girl wouldn't look at
him-lucky, too, seein the way he
looked.
Well, one term there was a new teach
er come-regular high up girl, down
from Chicago. AS bad luck would have
it, Abe wasn't at school the first week
hadn't got through his fall work. So
she got to know all the scholars, and
they was awful tickled with her-every-
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
HIS FATHERS ADVICE.
A Gentleman of the Old School Tells his
Son What Is Due to Woman.


Son What Is Due to Woman.
SIN the hour of trouble any woman has
right to claim the assistance of any
man. said tho gentleman of the old
school TO his son. "She should not be
backward in doing SO. She is really con-
ferring favor upon him when she seeks
his aid It is piece Of delicate f1attery to
the man for woman to ask his assist
ance in any matter in which she is inter-
ested
sit Is an Acknowledgment of his superb
GRITTY and Of her dependence, and the man
who does not like 60 be depended on by a
woman died great many years ago. Prob
ably he never was born.
Precedence Is another ri. hit that legiti-
ma5ely belongs to woman. Man may come
second If he chooses, but with man woman
should always be first. Therefore, my son,
if at any time and anywhere you be in the
society of woman, in the expression of
fulfillment of wish she is to have the prec
edence.
"This may cost you some self sacrifice
but in the end you will be amply repaNl
by the approval Of your conscience. 1t will
not, however, do to take this proposition
too literally. In time of danger or trouble
of any kind man should take precedence.
To woman belongs the joy and peace and
safety Of life.
"Wonan is also entitled to the widest
charity. Never take woman too literal
ly. OF a rather hysterical nature, she is
apt to do and say things that may appear
to have sinister meaning, while they are
really as innocent as they can be imagined.
Therefore, allow woman the widest lati-
tude, much wider than what you claim
yourself and when in doubt always give
the woman the benefit of the doubt. She
may be led into some extravaganza of
statement, but she is entitled to have it
covered by the widest mantle that charity
can afford. ,tae
Never condemn her for anything too
hastily. Rememb Der that charity is her
birthright. Philadelphia Press
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
HOMAGE TO BRAVERY.
Two Good Stories of the War Times OF a
Generation Ago.

Il eRO GOOu SEOt1SS Oh INC @A~A~S1 - -
Generation Ago.
The Rev. Robert Wilson Of St Luke's
Episcopal church says
ain 1883 I met in Richmond Colonel
Mccoy of Pennsylvania who had been a
gallant wearer of the blue. We got quite
chummy over a mixed wood campfire,
and, wishing to put him at his ease told
him the story Of kershaw's magnificent
Reconnaissance at fredericksburg, which
can never be too often repeated. An order
" had arrived in hot haste with a COM
mand for General Kershaw to have the
enemy reconnoitered at all hazards from
knoll which was swept by the fire of the
sharpshooters of both armies Every bush
and tree had been cut away by the storm
of bullets, and it looked like certain death
to the man who should attempt it Calm
ly singing his feldglass and turning
over his command to the next officer in
rank, Joseph B. Kershaw rode slowly up
to the death trap into which he would not
send any other man. The sight of his he
roic action as he sat amid the whistling
minies, sweeping the opposing ranks with
his glass, was too much for the ohivalry
of the Yankee commander, and the order
went down the Federal line, Cease firing
on that officer The rifles became silent,
the reconnaissance was finished, and, rails
ing his cap in acknowledgement General
Kershaw quietly rode back at "a walk, I'M
harmeda' ef
'It was splendid incident, . remarked
Colonel Mccoy, 'but l can cap it with a
personal experience of the chivalrous dis
position of your men. l was on General
Meade's staff near Richmond, and one
morning, with the general at our head,
we rode down to take q look over the riv-
er. AS we turned sharply out of the bush
es and came out on the bank, we found
ourselves in point blank range of Con-
federate picket drawn up on the other side.
A volley would have eMMtied every saddle,
for we were entirely atNheir mercy, but it
would have been murder, for they could
not cross and capture us. Recognizing
General Meade, the commander of the de-
tachment ordered his men into line, and
they presented arms. We raised our caps
in grateful acknowledgment, rode slowly
back into the bushes, and as soon as we
were fairly out of sight put spurs to our
horses and soudded back to the camp as if
the devil was after as. Charleston News
and Courier.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
THEY GOT THE LION.
l1ei'ing Adventure of Two Colorado Min
ers In Their Camp.

executing Adventure of Two Colorado Min
ers In Their Camp.
Inc mountain lion, remarked an old
lhlner some time ago, sis becoming rare
III che mountains of the west When I
hlsI went seeking after the gold and silver
OF colorado, these animals were rather
pleneiful. They were met in pairs and
were common enough to make it hazard
GUS Ior man to walk in the valleys alone
ana unprotected, particularly after dark.
1 remember on one occasion having a
slight adventure with a lion that almost
scared me out of my wits. With pal,
was working claim in the mountains
near Ouray. Winter came on, and ono
uay, before the very cold weather set in,
we went to the town to get supplies, leav-
ing our little cabin on the mountain alone.
IL came on to snow soon after we got to
Ouray, and we did not get u chance to go
TO the claim for fully week. AS We slow
ly climbed the hills noticed the tVicks of
mountain lion leading toward our cabin
and when we reached the house found that
we had forgotten to close window in the
side. We had lost sight of the tracks, and
the sight of the open window caused me
to forget all about the animal and it's pres
sence. ! started for the window and was
about to put my head into the apartment
when there came terrible growl, and the
next instant a great yellow body darted
through the opening, right over my back,
Its claws catching my buckskin. and rip
ping 1t open to my waist, turning me COM
pletely over and into the snow. My pal
whipped out his gun, and the Internal lion
turned on him, making fearful leap in
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

She thought he arGs squirting for fun.
body always was that knowed her The
first day she come in and saw Abe at
his desk, she thought he was squintin
for fun, and she upped and laughed
right out. Some Of the scholars laughed,
too, at first, but most Of 'em, to do 'em
justice, was leetle took back, young
as they was, and cruel by nature
young folks is most usually always
cruel-don't seem to know no better.)
Well, right in the middle Of the hush,
Abe gathered up his books and upped
and walked outdoors, lookin right ahead
of him, and consequently seein the
handsome young teacher unbeknown to
her
She was the worst cut up you ever did
see, but what could she do or say? Go
and tell him she thought he was MAX
in up face for fun? The girls do say
that come noon spell, when she found
out about IL, she cried-just fairly cried.
Then she tiled to be awful nice toAbe's
ornery brother Ephe, and Ephe he was
tickled most to death, but that didn t
do Abe any good-Ephe was just ornery
enough to take care that Abe shouldn t
get any comfort out Of it, They do say
she sent messages to Abe, and Ephe new
err delivered them, Or else twisted 'em
SO as to make things worse and worse.
Mebbe so, meDDe not-Ephe was ornery
enough fog it.
Course the schoolma'a am she was
boardin round, and pretty soon it come
time to go to ole man Dodge's, and she
went, but no Abe could she ever see.
He kept away, and as to meals, he new
er set by, but took bite off by himself
wleen he could get chance. Course
his mother favored him, bein he was
70 cussed unlucky.) Then when the
Eolks was all to bed he'd come IN and
poke up the fire and peek into his book,
but first one side and then the other,
same as ever.
Now what does schoolma am do but
come down che night when she thought
ne was abed and asleep and catch him
unaWares. Abe knowed it was her quick
as he heard the rustic of her dress, but
there wasn't no help for it, SO he just
turned his head away and covered his
cross eyes with his hands, and she
pitched in. What she said don t know,
but Abe he never said word, only
told her he didn't blame her, not a
mite; he knew she couldn't help it-no
more than he could. Then she asked
him to come back to school, and he an
swered to please excuse him. After a
bit she asked him if he wouldn' f come
to oblige her, and he said he calculated
he was obligin her more by stayin away.
Well, come to that she didn't know
what to say or do, SO. womanlike. she
npped and cried, and then she said he
hurt her feelia's. and the upshot Of it
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
was ne said he'd come, and they shook

was ne said he'd come, and they shook
hands on it.
Well, Abe kept his word and took up
schoolin as if nothin had happened,
and such schoolin as there was that win
teri don't believe any regular acad-
envy had more learnin and teachin that
winter than what that district school
did Seemed as if all the scholars had
burned over new leaf. Even wild, Or
uery, no account Ephe Dodge couldn't
help but get ahead some.
Well, you've heard of Squire Cation,
of course; Judge Cation, they call him,
since he got to be judge of the supreme
court-and chief justice at that. Well,
he had a farm down there not far from
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
The Covetous Man.

Go not to a oovetous old man with any
request too soon in the morning, before he
hath taken in that days prey, for his COW
etousness is up before him, and be is in ill
humor, but stay till the afternoon, till he
be satiated upon some borrower. Fuller.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

Affeotation naturally counterfeits those
exoellences which are placed at the great
est distance from possibility of attain
ment. johnson.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

10 remove warts apply either muriatio
or glacial acetic acid They will soon
shrivel and drop off. Nodes are harder to
remove, but often lunar caustic, slightly
tnoistened- will effect the required results.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
The Illustration.

Editor-Your story is too Ineligible FOR
our readers.
Author-I supposed of course you would
Illustrate it.-Detroit Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

An Arabian coffee sorter realizes about
25 cents for days labor.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
CARD
DIR. f. AUSTIN TENNEY,

Woodfords. 4-~T,'@r
Special attention given to diseases OF the
i EYE and the fitting OF LENSES. Computation
iIee. WIZ call within city limits OF Portlsnd
ana Deerlng on NOTICE by postaI or otherwise
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The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13

Try the PRESS, 80 cts. per month.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-13
His Oath.

Excited Individual entering with nn-
gers and thumbs wrapped in bandages)-
Is this wher. they swear people?
Notary-.Yes, sir. What can I do for
your
Mxc1ted Indiyidual-Give me the book.
I want to take an oath never to put down
another carpet. london Tit-Bits.
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SMALLER THAN EXPECTED.
B usiness Situation Continues to Be
Most Discouraging.

Seasonable Business Generally Reported
Smaller Than in Preceding Years
Wheat Continues High-Bank Clearingl
Light. MEn
New York. December 1s.-Bradstreet's
tomorrow will say, The wholesale
trade continues in smaller volume
than was expected, practically the
only activity in wholesale lines being in
groceries, candies, fruits and nuts. The
weather intertered with the seasonable
business which at many centers is small
or than In preceding years, in that the
larger proportion of purchases are OF q
cheap grade of goods.
There is decrease In demand at At :
lanta and Seattle. At Nashville, Sioux
falls, Savannah and Jacksonville, job
bling lines announce an increase In de :
mand. At almost all other points general
trade remains quiet and unchanged.
with 1e'a nn s Of holiday sS Ss s1psens
tendency Of prices pointed out fort
night ago IL continued. This includes
quotations for hides, which caused boot
and shoe jobbers to restrict purchases,
anticipating outs in prices for shoes,
steel rails with drop of So ton, ow-
ing to the dissolution Of the pool, steel
billets, with drop of 1926 on she fall
ure Of the combination, Besssmer pig
iron, owing to the general tendency Of
iron and steel. Cotton Is lower in con-
sequence Of larger crop than expected,
print cloths, as the product of that staple
and because Ut the large stock of she
same. anthracite coal, Indian corn. oats
and petroleum. Steady or practically
unchanged quotations are reported for
pork, lard. coffee and sugar. Wheat aud
rosin are higher.
The dry goods market 10 quiet for sea-
sonable fabrics, jobbeIs reporting only
a small order trade. Wooden mills re-
port moderate quantity Of orders. At
the south the decline ia the price Of raw
cotton may affect tho country merchants
who are still carrying that staple.
An inoVeased wheat acreage is reported
from California.
The total bank clearings for the week
are increased only about 2 per cent com
pared with last week. When contrastsd
with the corresponding period of last
year. this week S total show a falling of
of per cent; an increase of 6 ner can't
compared with the like week in 1894:
OF IS per cent with the like period in
1898. The largest bank clearinps totals
on record Is for the third week Of Decem-
Der, 1922, 5la, COO, coo; compared with
uHlS Wooh ooooAo, SAoMS IdlIlng on OF
nearly 30 per cent. q
There are 1863 failures reported through
out the United States this week. 90 fewer
than last week and 20 less than In the
corresponding week year ago.
TIL exports OF wheat (flour included IA
wheat, from both coasts of the United
States this week are 8, 524. SEQ bushels.
compared with 2,056, 600 for the GORE
spending week year ago. The exports
Of Indian corn from both coasts con.
tinue heavy, aggregating s14, 100 bush
els, as compared with 2,o57, 900 in the
week year ago.