davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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The fire alarm turned in yesterday
afternoon was caused by the burn
ing OF n frame cottage ON West Sec.
ond avenue belonging to Il negro
named Scott Turner. The fire de-
partment promptly responded to the
call and soonex tinguished the flames.
No serious damage was done.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr. Gus Reeves has a violin which
has been owned by members of his
family for one hundred and sixty
five years. The instrument is of
French make and has a sweet and
melodious tone. On several occa-
sions Mr.. Reeves has been offered
large sums for the violin, but he says
money can not buy it.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mrs. Weller, the mother OF Mr..
Meyer Weller and Mrs. Dave Bluthen-
thai, is reported to be very i'll.
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IFrom SUNDAYS Daily.l

Mr.. Jesse Core, OF Plum Bayou. is
in the city.
Mrs. Lee Sumnerfield is in the city
visiting relatives.
Mr.. !. NJ. Smith, OF Redfeid, was
ia the city Yesterday
Mr.. NJ. Danaher left yesterday af-
ternoon for Little Rock.
Miss Willie Halls was reported to
be quite sick Saturday.
Mr. NJ. Cans left yesteday on a
business trip to st. Louis.
Mr.. G. H. HALEY, OF Arkansas City,
is registered at the fruloek.
Messrs. Harry Ray and John
Weille will spend the day in Little
Rock.
Mr.. John NJ. Taylor spent Sahlr-
day ut the State Capital on legal
business.
Master Meyer solmson, after n
short illness, we are glad to state, is
out again.
Miss Gnssie Taggart has returned
from a pleasant visit to friends at
Conway.
Mr.. Frank Tomplinsen leaves in II
few days for Cripple Greek. where he
expects to remain.
Mr.. M. r. Stewart is having two
more neat cottages erected near his
residence on west Barraque street.
Mrs. Weller, the mother OF Mr.
Meyer Weller and Mrs. Dave Bluthen-
+bo1 &, ,.oy,onfo1 - l,o x,o,.v 81
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Bunch Yam Sweet Potatoe Plants.
25 cents for 100, 81 per goo. Special
price on lots of {, 1000 or more.
WILLIAM T. SIMPSON.
d3w3 Box "A, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. NJ. r. Stewart is having two
more neat cottages erected near his
residence on west Barraque street.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. NJ. Cans left yesteday on a
business trip to st. Louis.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Miss Willie Halls was reported to
he quite sick Saturday.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Judge Frank silverman and wife
leave today for Cripple Creek, Colo,
where they will spend the remainder
OF the summer. The Judge says he
expects to return every winter to
Pine Bluff. We are pleased to state
that the Judge and his wife will not
permanently remove from this city.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr. !. NJ. Smith, OF Reddeid, was
10 the city Yesterday.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. NJ. Danaher left yesterday af-
ternoon for Little Rock.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. G. H. HALEY. OF Arkansas City,
is registered at the fruloek.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mrs. Lee symmetrical is in the city
visiting relatives.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Messrs. Harry Ray and John
Weille will spend the day in Little
Rock.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. Jesse Core, OF Plum Bayou. is
in the city.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. Frank Tompllnson leaves in II
few days for Cripple Creek. where he
expects to remain.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

Mr.. John NJ. Taylor spent Sahn.
day ut the State Capital on lega
business.
Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-27

punctured on the way home from
Coney Island. He detached his in
jured tire, and securing a heavy piece
OF rope, substituted the rope for the
tire and made the Journey home, some
eight miles, in safety.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
SUGGESTIONS TOWARD CHILD THE
0L0GY.*
BY CHARLES SPENCER BATES.

PROFESSOR JAMES SULLY is one of
the foremost living psychologists.
In the recent interesting and valua-
BILE work entitled "Studies of Child
hood" the author. with scientific can
dor, does not call these studies a
complete treatise on child psychol-
ogy, but says they merely deal with
certain aspects of ehildren's minds
which have come under his notice
AS one reads the Introductory chap
ters and sees brought into review
the different writers on childhood,
and the many attempts, vague enough,
to follow "the first groupings of hu-
man mind" his preconceived notions
as to the advisability and value of
such studies are apt to undergo a
pleasant change. We have no inten-
tion in this article to approach the
subject in any scientific way, or even
to enumerate the facts that Sully and
others seem to have established.
We have as yet no statistics of
childhood or,as Sully defines it, scare
fully arranged collections of observa-
tions bearing on such points as chill
dren's questions, their first thoughts
about nature, their manifestations of
sensibility." In the absence of such
statistics we are glad merely to collate
a few of the sayings, questions, and
views of childhood and leave to the
scientist and the theologian the more
difficult task of following carefully
Professor Sully in his always inter-
esting and sometimes eminently
suggestive record of observations.
Whether Professor Sully himself has
sat long enough at the feet of child
hood to perceive all the charm of in
fantile ways or whether he is always
correct in his suggestions and suppo-
sitions as to the significance Of these
ways and of childhood's observations
sStudies of Childhood. BY James Sully, NJ.
A., Ii. d. New York: d. Appleton & Co. Price,
$3.50.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
YOUNG MEMS CLUBS.
BY REV. A. c. GRIER.

AMONG the many modern additions
to church equipment there is none
that has a more substantial value
than the Young Mems Church Club.
1t is open to none of the criticism
that is so freely uttered against some
other forms of church organizations,
and it has proved by its results its
permanent value. 1t is no longer an
experiment. And feeling that there
are many pastors who have not tried
this method of interesting young
men,and through them others, write
this article, at the request of the Ed
itor, in the belief that in this method
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28

PRoF. RYLE, of Cambridge, writes in
the Critical Review, of the second vol
ume in The International Critical Com
mentary, which is on the book of Judges
and is by Prof. Geo. F. Moore, of An6o-
yer Seminary. We turned to the article
with eager interest to find what an Eng
lish scholar and Biblical expert would
have to say of the difficult task of an
American scholar. Prof. Ryle says they
were all wondering what the second vol
ume would be like. After the standard
set by Dr. Driver, in the 6rst volume,
on Deuteronomy, they were much in
doubt whether the second would main
tain the high level on which the series
had been started. American Biblical
scholars are not we'll known in England
and Prof. Moore was practically un-
known.
But all anxieties are dispelled by
the present volume" says Prof. Ryle,
and after mentioning in detail many
excellencies of the book he sums up with
this high praise II think it may be
safely averred that so full and scientific
a commentary upon the text and subject
matter of the. book of Judges has never
been produced in the English language"
Some omissions are noted; but they re.
late to the scope of the treatment and
not to any matter of knowledge or schol-
arship. 1t is probable that If the schol-
ars of different countries knew each
other better it would conduce to mutual
respect. In these days of the diffusion
of intelligence and knowledge, learning
is not the peculiar possession Of any peo-
pie or of one class among any people.
We find it in Presbyterian paper
that DR.. Talmage. when the minister of
his great Tabernacle church in Brook
lyn, never took collection for the Home
Missionary Society. Yet he was in the
combination at the Carnegie Hall meet
ing with the President and with Booker
Washington, to fire the heart of the null
titude with home mission enthusiasm,
and raise money for the Presbyterian
Home Missionary Society. That meet
ing earned the right to be the dismal
financial failure it was.
The accounts given of the great
meeting held in the interest OF the Pres
byterian Home Missionary Society, and
at which President Cleveland presided,
explain the meager financial result. The
way to get money is not to get the crowd
who come to show. 1t is uniformly
barren crowd. Then the meeting was
talked to death. and by men who knew
of Home Missions only at Sc ,ond hand.
A few speeches of six figures would have
been worth all those thousands OF words
by celebrities.
The failure Of the great Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, the stock of which
was quoted at over 200 ten years ago,
brings into prominence again the fact
that when railroads become lean their
officials do not cease to be fat. Unless
their wealth and their income are in the
stock, they thrive on; for the large sal
aries usually survive the shock of bank
ruptcy. If it should be said, as it is said,
that large salaries are necessary to COM
mand the order Of talent required to
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28

mandRo Sucn VdSt. .nnanclai tNteIeete, We
should repeat DR.. Miners remark un-
der similar circumstances; ut ought not
to require expensive talent to run stock
down from 200 to A."
DIR. Geo. Nye Bosrdman is not able
to take cheerful view Of the outcome
of the Liberal Theology" He finds
this theology "harbored in orthodox
churches" to some extent. and he pre-
sages for it history and issue like those
of Unitarians. The latter scheme of re-
ligion he likens to wounded squirrel,
falling from the top of high forest tree,
clinging Intellectually here and there to
twig or leaf, but at last falling help.
lessly and heavily to the ground. So
Unitarianism began it's descent, and has
caught at the Arian view of Christ, at
inspiration. the miracles, supernatural
power, and other like means of rescue;
but not having the strength to hold fast
to any Of them, has "fallen to the dead
level of nature, and reduced Christian.
ity to one of the sciences"
1t is the book of DR.. Gordon, of the
historic old SouthC Church Of Boston that
has led to DR.. Boardman's uneasy refec-
tione and forecasts. He gives a very
fair synopsis of "The Christ of To-Day"
and while he does not show that it is
permeated with Unitarianism. he does
exhibit plainly its Universalism. The
Christ of To-Day is an attempt at theo-
logical mosaic. The pieces are there
but the pattern is indistinct. The Trim
| ity, somewhat fractured, is laid in with
strict humanity, and Universalism in
4 the abstract is mated with orthodoxy in
| the concrete, while the Ritschlian notion
/ of Christ consorts with the doctrine of
evolution. 1t is ingenious and in places
beautiful; but the features do not unite
into face.
| President Thwing attempts to gen.
eralize the answers made by graduates
to the inquiry, What was the best thing
the college did for you? 1t is difficult
undertaking because the answers are SO
various. All agree that the college was
| a great benefit to them; most that it was
| the greatest. But some lay the stress
on the discipline ut supplied; others on
the enlarged outlook it gave to life, and
others on the fellowships and competi-
| tions it furnished. But more strike the
4 one note of the benefit derived from
4 personal influence, than any other. This
testimony comes, too, either from the
smaller colleges, or from those which
| were small when the experience was
gained. If President Thwing should
extend his inquiries to the 300 and more
institutions of the college grade. and
should come down nearer the present
day, his summaries would be at once
more interesting and more useful.
| The advioes now are that Miss Clara
| Barton is given access to Armenia and
official protection in distributing relief.
| All reports agree as to the destitution
and extreme suffering. People by thou
sands can only be saved from starvation
by outside help. Relief organizations
exist in all our larger cities and to these
dwellere in smaller places should send
their contributions, and send without
delay. No large sums are likely to be
given. There is. therefore, SO much the
more need that the Titles which the
i many can give be not withheld.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY, MAR. rs. 1896
a RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY.

CHICAGO, SATURDAY, MAR. 49, 1896
Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
Suggestions Toward Child TheOfegy.
Young Mems Clubs.
Babylonian Life and History,
Page Two.
Memorial Address.
The Japan Mission
Facts and Fancies about Indians.
Noted Men and WOmen.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
Editorial:
Child Theology.
President Cones Resignation.
Trustees of Buchtel College.
Universalist Personal.
Press Notes.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page, Farm. Garden and Dsdrg
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
News OF the Week.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT /. M. ATWOOD, DID.
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IecNTINuED ON FOURTH PAGE.I
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-02


After testing several varieties OF fax
the Mississippi station concludes that
fax culture cannot be made profitable
in that state.
Experiments with oats in Germany
show that varieties most productive on
one kind of coil are most productive on
all kinds; but difference in food con.
tents was found to be due to difference
in soil and not to difference in variety.
The Alabama station finds more than
six times as much nitrogen in cowpea
vines in tine fall as in the same vines the
next spring, after they had lain on the
ground all winter. The clear inference
is that the vines should be plowed under
in the fall rather than let them lie on
the surface till spring.
Examinations by experiment stations
show that American clover seed is
clearer than European, and has equal
vitality. Some European seed was
found to be mixed with finely crushed
quartz, colored to resemble clover seed
and other samples proved to be old seed
colored bright like the new.-Journal
of Agriculture.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-02
FREE SILVER FIRST.
Utah Senators Place Cheap Currency Be-
fore Everything.

Utah Senators Place Cheap Currency Be-
fore Everything.
The new senator's from Utah are the
frankest advocates of free coinage who
have yet appeared in congress. In ac-
cepting their election by the legislature
both Mr.. Brown and Mr.. Cannon made
devotion to the cause of silver the iirst
and chief object of their action. "Of
course" said Mr.. Brown, I'VE are
pledged for silver" While their con-
stituents work, the senators will speak
and vote, land we will try TO vote the
way they work, in behalf of that great
industry" Mr.. Cannon. the other
senator-elect, was even more explicit
and emphatic in his pledge to work for
special benefits to his constituents at
the expense of the nation, saying
among other things:
II shall try to remember at all times,
and on all occasions, the great need to
| the west, 10 make that which we pro-
duce here the life-blood of the nation;
| not merely by one act, not merely by
one outbust, not merely by demanding
that some particular pet bill be passed.;
| but l shall remember at all times, and
| ON all occasions, in season and out OF
SEASON, that which will be my duty,
| to do everything l can to advance the
relative price of silver; and l shall do
it, and l hope that finally the great
goal will be reached which the nation
| demands, that which the west alone
is to-day ,oicing, and which Is to the
good of all, the passage of such legis-
lation as shall make the free coinage
| of silver possible at the ratio OF sixteen
to one. That is the main thing.
1t is such men as these that make up
the majority for free coinage in the
| senate. Their motto is: What do we
care for abroad?" Their object is tc
advance the price of silver for the bene'
fit of their constituents, 10 matter what
the effect upon the nation at large
N V Post.
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ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE.

Toole's theater in London is to be
torn down to make room for an addi-
ton to Charing Cross hospital.
Italy is more celebrated for its thea
tiers than any other country in Europe.
TIE theaters at Naples, Parma and
Milan are the largest in Europe.
On Mardi Gras, with q matinee pro-
gramme made up of Moliere's Lea
Femmes Savantes" md M. de Pource-
augnac," the Coincide Franchise took
in s,S25 francs, the largest sum for one
performances in its history.
Salvin; recently made reappear'
ance on the stage of the Teatro Vale
at Rome at benefit for dramatic art.
lists. The play was "Othello," the
great tr1gedian, who seemed to have
lost none of his power, acting the part
of the Moor to the Iago of Ermete
Novelli.
'Grosse Fortune" Henri Meilhac's
new comedy at the Theater Francois
has had only a success d'estime. II
turns on the efforts of young wife
to win back her husband, who love.
her, but has gone astray on account
of suddenly coming INTO great deal o
money.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-02
wELl.KNowN PEN NAMES.

'Hans Breitman," whose dialect mar.
ratiyes are even now popular, was the
name chosen by Charles G. Leland.
Thomas Wright. who wrote "Alma
Mater" selected the nom de plume OF
"a Trinity Man" from his college.
Julian C. Verplanck, the author OK
political Tracts" chose the name OF
"Abimelech Cody" from its countri-
fed sound. i
ASA Trenchard" was, it is said.
chosen by Henry Watterson as his nom
de plume on account of its homely,
rustic sound.
Gen. Lewis Cass, whose admirable
letters from France have become al
most classic, wrote under the name OF
IAN American"
ELK Marvel" the famous humorist
is no other than Donald G.. Mitchell,
whose "Reveries of Bachelor" ars
even now popular.
George William Curtis once used Z
peu-name. 1t was "Howadji," and
was used as a signature to his travels
In Egypt and the east.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-02
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.
II the Free silverites Got All They Are
Clamoring Tor.

II the Free silverites Got All They Are
Clamoring Tor.
II it were known by the public that
law was about to pass congress or that
at the end of given time law would
pass authorizing what the free silver
agitators are clamoring for, all the gold
money would disappear from circuia-
ton like flash. All the silver dollars
and the paper currency would drop to
a discount of or 10 per cent. within
week, and The tumble would continue
from day to day, until the silver dollars
would speedily be worth no more in
gold than the selling value OF the silver
bullion of which they are composed,
as is the case in Mexico. The bullion
value of the silver dollar of the United
States now is but trifle more than 81
cents. 1t soon would be worth much
less than that under the prospect OF a
huge increase in the production of sill
yer if free coinage at 16 to 1 were re-
solved on by law. Itcould not he carried
into effect, as no one would have gold
coined at that ratio. Those of the free
SlltcT aglldtOIS WIN hafC duy S~A4S~ -
well aware that such would be the re-
suit, and they agitate for free coinage
in The expectation it would bring about
Just that state of things.
Some of the silver miners of the noun
tain states think the 16 tol free silver
decline would rot be sudden but grad
ual, and that before the collapse to the
bullion value occurred they could sell
out their mines. the lean as well as the
| fat ones, thus raking in fortunes and
retiring from the business with pockets
full of gold. That is the powerful IN
| centive which urges them to agitate in
and out of congress for the passage OF
a bill authorizing the free coinage OF
silver at what they know would be an
impracticable ratio. They have no idea
of being able to get double the bullion
value of their silver by sending it to the
| mint.-Chicago Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-05-02

surface. which will strike the clods and
prevent them getting back on the crush
er. To the back edge of the crusher
bolt another 2x4 oak (d) fiatwise, and
bevel the upper edge. To the beveled
surface bolt an old sickle bar. The
guards will have slant enough to let
trash escape, and yet will pnlverize
the ground almost as well as disk hpr-
row. The hooks for attaching the team
can he made by blacksmith. Use
four horses and let the driver ride Oh
the cr:,sher.-W. b. Bolton, in Orange
Judd Farmer.