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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
A CALF IN THE ROAD.
It's Disastrous Effect Upon Coastini
 WheelWoman.

It's Disastrous Effect Upon a Coastina
 Wheelwoman.
 X calf, a bicycle and the young lady were the principal actors in little ,comedy few days since, the scene oi which was laid in the vicinity of New York Mills.
 The young lady and the wheel wer bowling merrily along one afternoon when they came to the top of hill which offered fine opportunity for ( coast Accordingly, the young ladys fleet went up on the rests and the wheel started for an untrammeled cruise down the incline. The coast was clear with the exception of calf standing iinoffensively in the road about haIi way down the hill.
 Had it been mouse, in all proba ;bility the fair eyclist would have al ''once dismounted and gone around tS another route or stopped into some house for assistance, but being only q harmless calf that would in all proba' bility make room at once at the ap ,proach of the young lady and her wheel the latter kept steadily on.
 The calf, however, apparently had different views concerning the right oi way and calmly stood his ground. The wheel had now gained quite an impetus .and despite the frantic efforts of its rider it struck the astonished calf witt "a vim, and in some unaeeountable man. ner the young lady brought up on heI hands and knees, with her head be tween the calf's hind legs. This was too much for the latter. as we'll as fol the fair cyclist, and he moved off in 3double-quiclS time, leaving the wheel and it's owner to reorganize and con. tinue.-Utica Daily Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09

bon. They pass up and down the table where the boxes are set. putting one piece, neither more or less, from the trays they carry into each subdivision of the box. The candy must be handled delicately, and for the most part with tongs. Then the waxed paper is folded over, the top put on, and the box wrapped and tied After that it is sealed and stamped with the makers name and guarantee.
 Ordered goods-wiel<er gilt baskets, satin bags and dishes of Minton or Crown Derby-are filled as the pur- chaser chooses and packed with the same nice care. Every shop has store room, kept delicately cool but in the finest will find nothing more than three days old-that is, of the choice fancy bon bons.
 Once upon a time the process of can dy making was summed with two words sugar and skill; but candy in these end-of-the-century days means very much more. Whatever the world yields of flower or fruit, of nut or spicy essence, has been laid under tribute for the sweets of our time.
 A candy factory has very much the look of any other factory-except that It is, in every part, kept scrupulousIy clean. The machinery, too, may look a thought more incomprehensible than the ordinary bands and pulleys, and shafts and cog-wheels. But there is no mistaling the use of the big, deep, beautifully polished copper kettles. Sugar is put into them, barrel at a time, with more or less water according to it's ultimate purpose. A steam jack ct comes two-thirds up the side of each kettle, and steam cooks the contents thereof without the least possibility oi burning or scorching. If the syrup is to be creamed-as it is, three times in tiye-it goes from the kettles straight to the creaming mill, where big curved iron arms beat and twirl it into a white | light foamy mass.
 Next the cream is packed down ir big tubs, and set away to await malzine up. That is perhaps two years ahead since cream improves wonderfully fol good keeping. The big candy maker: have tons and tons of it always in stor age. But that is not surprising whe1 you remember that single factory il the height of it's season uses daily nor, than half ton of pure chocolate fo flavoring its goods.
 To make up the cream, girls si about steam table in which dozen O twenty small kettles are sunk fiusl with it's face. In them the cream i heated, and worked smooth and semi fluid. Then it is ready for the '.dip ping" which the girls do by means 0 q bit of twisted wire The walnuts 0 | dates, or whatever is to be dipped. ar
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09

amber wine had been frozen into hail.
 So much the casual customer sees. One who inquiries into the reasons and processes of the shop, will find, after q little questioning, that the owner of it is big manufacturer as well, and that there is very much more to this faery merchandise than what immediately meets the eye. As for example, the pat tern maker. He stays at the very top of the building-where he has a factory in miniature. Usually he is Parisian, and always an artist of the first water. Often he speaks no English; but he hardly needs it, so eloquent are his eyes and fingers. His domain is pattern of cleanliness. The copper kettles shine, the marble moulding slab is immaeu- late, and so are the great mans big apron and white starched cap.
 From his havors. sugar, fruits and nuts he is forever evolving new colors aud combinations, His experiments are
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
Made the Best of the Situation.

A Bangor merchant set trap for mice in his room, and woke LID the other morning to find that he had made a capture. So had the mouse. He was a veritabie Diogenes, and finding that he could not get out, and the night was very cold he reached out, gripped a sock, and hauled it in through a small hole Tn the trap, making q nest of it.
 His Standing.
 Whats he on now?"
 His uppers. Bay City Chat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
To-Day and Yesterday.

If the life led by women half cen tury ago was not actually unhealthy, the conditions were certainly not so favorable as they are now. Fresh air was looked on as a doubtful blessing exercise was pooh-poohed as unneces- sary, baths were not universal, four, post beds were still hung with heavy curtains, draught was sudden death, and the medicine chest was unlocked far too often. The laws of hygiene were little studied as far as children were concerned. The modern child may the day in miniature, but in most in- the day in miniature. but in most in- stances it leads a happier and healthier life, and has twice the freedom of mind and body that was granted to the young of the last generation.-St Louis. Re- public
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sen. into the shopand if they take lle nattern and formula go at once U 0ns factory for wholesale use. 1ee pio nonnced successes are rare; ana IL 10 not too much to say that the inventor Ol taking and entirely new sweet wouio receive from the candy makers inoie than the Roman emperor offered TOT a new pleasure. .ao
 Meanwhile our artist stands peslde the moulding slab with two or three knives handy. They are sharp anu short of various curve and temper. ln front of him above the slab IS a iols hooded gas jet--or rather an iron cyllh- der through which shoot needles of flame. It is perhaps foot above the slab. and heat from 1t keeps lhe candy there worl1ably warm without melting. It is just now a long roll oi pea-green, which the pattern maker IS turning into young peas half open. lie c1+s off a bit from the end, rolls lnto q ball as big as a marble, fiattens It, ana sets other smaller balls in row along tbe middle. A delft wrist motion turns the edges of the fattened bits toward each other-and behold, there is your pea-pod to the life, opening delieately to show the fruit within.
 The peas are an Easter fashion; they will be passee before Thanksgiving. Fashion, you see, has very much to do with the success or failure of such wares. That comes to you more than ever forcibly when you step into the stock room and note the array of fancy baskets, bags and boxes, the cost ot which runs up into the thousands; yet this ultimate value wholly depends upon their catching the fancy of the luying world This is particularly true of the things of lace and satin and fine paper made up for holiday seasons.
 Still these are hardly so interesting as the big, squarish, commercial-looking paper boxes one finds little further on. First rosy young women line them generously with fine waxed pa per-thep they go to others who it into them divisions of stiff paper folded at various angles. For truly fine candy is delicate. It cannot bear even its own weight without crushing, and is packed barely one layer deep, with these im- maeulate lenders between the various components.
 Next the boxes go to the filters brisk young women, each with silver tray holding one particular sort of bon
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
PRoIEc.Tlfle THE HoRsE.
She Method In Vogue in Kansas in the
 Early Days.

~N'~Nf-- -
 Early Days.
 of one will stop to consider" said Henry J. Crocker. of the equine show, s'it will be recalled that the horse has always been accorded more protection than any other animal known in the history of America. X person who stole horse i'll early days was hanged tor it, as his value to civilization was above price.
 q think the funniess story ever heard touching on the horse was told me by an old minister who went out on the plains of Nebraska to establish few missions among the Indians and settlers. It appears that after he had been in the state few weeks he was waited upon by long, gaunt fellow who wanted to know if the Gospel lead- CT wanted to join the Brownsville Horsethief club. He was a little sur prised at the suggestion at first, but upon being informed that the objects ol the club were not exactly what the title suggested and that it was an or- ganization for the purpose of protect ins members horses from thieves con- cluded to join and put up his five dol lars admission fee. In few days he received a notification that there would be meeting of the club at a place named and that his presence was wanted.
 ''He was ou hand, and as he was the last one to enter the door was closed behind him and locked. The president of the club banged his fist on the desk and rising said; Members oi the Horsethief club, Si Barton's brown nare has been stolen. Thereby appoint Jack Thomas and Jim Bowers to go on the trail and report next Saturday. The meetin' is hereby adjourned.s
 with as little ceremony as it was opened the meeting broke up and the members departed without further comment. The minister was prone to make inquiries regarding the method of dealing with the issue before the house, but received no satisfactory in. formation. On the morning of the fol. lowing Saturday he was notified to be present again and complied. Arriving at the meeting place he found the same men there again. Jack Thomas and Jim Bowers were there also, having come back the night before. Again the president put his fist on the table with bang and called the meeting to order with: We are now ready to hear the report of the committee of two Bow. CTS got up, threw cud of tobacco be. hind him and answered.: We met the horsethieyes two miles this side of the Kansas line, all of which is respective. ly submitted The meeting is ad. journed, howled the president with an. other smash at the desk, and the mem. bers filed out perfectly contented.
 ''The minister this time was thunder. struck. Did Mir. Barton get his horse tacl1?' he asked
 Certainly responded big fellow
 Well, what did they do with the thieves?'
 'Nothin''
 "'Can it be possible that they will moi be brought to lustice?'
 "'oh, that'll be all right, parson.'
 Well, what did the committee ot two do after they came up with the offenders?'
 "'Left 'em where they fell, for the coyotes
 This, gentlemen," concluded Mir Crocller, shows how the horse used te stand in early days. ."--N. Y. Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
Electric Lights in Theaters.

It is believed that the first electric light installed in an American theatei was Jablochkotf candle, used as a focusing lamp in the old California 1heater, in Bush street. San Francisco in 1878. The managers of the theater as thas siUsa s*eve Msssrs. Barton and Hill, Gen. Barton and Frank Lawfer The play was Antony and Cleopatra Rose Eytinge and Cyril Searle taking the leading parts. A. H. Reece was the engineer in charge of the work. Seven teen years have worked a complete rev clution in theatrical lighting. and to day there is not theater iii the United States which could dispense with the electric light.-N. I. Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-09
Why He Was Sad.

q hear there is an addition to your family. Suppose we have glass of wine on the event. said Gilhooly to a citizen of Dallas, who appeared to be very much dejected.
 Make it two; it's twins, was the re- sponse.-Dallas (Tex.l Sitter.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08
To the Editor of the Press:

10 tne EuIJOT o. Cfte ITSoS.
There are some points too plain to
require argument. Among them are
these:
Tirst-In determining the money
standard 1t is of first Importance that ii
should be az stable and free from ductu-
alton as possible. This is as true oil
money as is three feet yard stick In
trade, or standard Of right and wrong
in ethics.
Seoond-History and experience have
shown that gold is less fiuctuating than
silver. This fact demonstrates the su.
perior value of gold as standard What
in the long run has worked for the best
is best.
Third-If the coinage of silver 16 to 1
shall 90 into effot the result as respects
a standard will in this country be an
untried experiment. Experimenting
with the money standard at best Ia
hazardous, and no man is wise enoughrto
forsee, much less provide against the re-
suit in case 1T shall prove disastrous.
Fourth-In Mexico where the silver
standard prevails the facts are all against
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08
Free Coinage Arguments.
To the Editor of the Press:

To the Editor of the Press:
do not know of any one thing that
exposes the weakness Of free coinsge doc
trine more than the fact that the appre-
citation of gold argument is paraded In
company with the statement that there
money since 1878. These two statements
may be exhibited sido by side az yerit-
able pair of Siamesa twins, but there ia
no connection between the two. Gold
appreciates, becomes more valua BILE, un-
der an inflated currency, such as free
coinage men propose to give us. Anoth.
er Trouble with this position is that 1t is
false, In part, as there has been an enor.
nous increase in the money supply since
1873, and even If true in part, as regal ds
appreciation, it has not had the slight
est effsct or bearing on prices. Mr..
Frank may be good lawyer and good
citizen, but his zeal gets the better of his
discretion when he disoredits the value
of official reports; they are about as reli-
albe as law reports. Here aresfacts taken
from the reports of the United States
Treasury, and they are quite good enough
for the average citizen. They show, con.
clusively, that there has been an enor-
NOUS increase in the currency since 1872.
and that the money supply has really
grown faster than the population.
Money in circulation July l, 1872.
State bank notes, 81, 100 935
Fractional currency, 80, 402, e29
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08

The Evening Bee Publ shing Company
of Omaha, of which Edward Rosewater,
director of the Chicago Associated
Press, is proprietor. says, oditorially:
AS a member Of the Associated
Press the Bee was the first to remon.
strate against the perversiOn of the SER
vice in the interest Of Bryan or any can
didate for the office. The function of the
Associated Press is to transmit the news,
not to circulate campaign literature
and personal puffs.
when the Associated Press appointed
Mr.. Bryan's secretary as its agent to
travel with Bryan and report his move
ments and his utteranoes, IL was to have
been expected that everything sent out
about the Popooratic candidate would be
distorted and magnitied In his interest.
Judged by the reports which Mr..
Bryan's private secretary sent out
through the Associated Press from this
section, the tremendous ovations and
triumphal receptions accorded Bryan in
the East are to be taken with large grains
of salt.
''All the way across Iowa, the iuagi.
native private secretary peopled every
station with thousands and every water
tank and railroad crossing with eager
hundreds giving vent to their exuberant
eu0u uSiHsm. Ouon repOFGS were QOuDG.
less highly gratifying to the silver organs
west of the Rockies, but they were an
imposition upon Association Press mem
bers, as well as upon she public"
With such an opportunity to boom him
self as has been given MIR. Bryan by this
press association he would be good
deal more or a good deal less than human
If he did not use it for all 1t was worth.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08

At the bottom of the Popooratic cam-
paign Is reputation, and gloss 1T ov or
as the silver orators may, it is there
still. Every silver customer tells his au-
dienoe that under free coinage the ma
tlonal debt will be paid in silver which
would be equivalent to.the Reputation
OF third of il and every silver orator
adm1ss that free coinage would change
the standard of measurement and scale
down private debts as well as public
ones third. Free silver Is commended
to the farmer with mortgage on his
farm as an easy method of diminishing
that mortgage. The only thing the sill
yer orator can certainly promise, and
does entirely promise, about free coinage,
Is that 1t will diminish debts About
anything else he speculates. But this
he knows, that the reduction of the
value of the dollar and the making of it
legal tender for pre-existing debts, will
help the debtor class by enabling 1t to
pay it's debts for less than it borrowed
There has been a marked improvement
in business since the Vermont election,
attributable in large measure, undoubt-
eddy, to the fact that the great sound
money voters there allayed the fears
of the timid and brought about a
partial restoration of confidence. Ae-
cordingly, victory for sound money in
Maine will without doubt be followed by
another marked improvement in bust
ness.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08

The Hon. John L. Buffers statement
in his speech at Gray that the question
of bimetallism is involved In this cam.
paign, Ia erroneous. No such issue Is be.
fore thezpeople. The question is simply
between gold nl0nometallism which we
now have, and silver recommendation.
1he Idea that gold can be kept in cir
culation when silver is freely coined al
16 to 1, is preposterous. Twice in the
history Of the United States a vari-
alton between the two dollars OF
less thaa six per cent has proved
sufficient to drive one dollar out of cir
oulation-first gold and then silver. How
can any sane man who is acquainted
with the history Of the eountry's currsn.
cy experiments, expect that the two
metals can be kept in concurrent cir
c@lation with disparity between them
Of nearly 40 per cent.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08

Referring to the "howling an screech-
ing over the woes Of the Western mort
gagged farmer" the Chattanooga Times
(Ind.) says: If the acoount between East
and West along this line could be bal.
aEced, we would hsge o complete reyer.
sal of the alleged robbery of the West by
the East. There has been hundreds OF
millions Of Eastern money sunk by West
ern borrowers. Not 10per cent Of the
losses through this channel has ever
been returned to the East, in the form
Of interest or in any shape. We cannot
too often or too forcibly impress ON the
peoples mind the plain truth of these
matters. The cry 1.-THE East has de-
spoiled the West and South is the falses
and most misohievous form that the
Bryan sectionalism has taken.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08
THE NEW TEXTILE MATERIAL.
A Process Discovered That Makes the Or
binary NsttIe Commercially Useful and
Opens Up New Industry for India.
(grom the London Times.)

The remarkable development of the
Rhea fibre throws for the moment all
tariff differences between Bombay and
Chester into the shade. The Indian
government has long been aware that
in this widely spread variety of the net
tie family its provinces possess source
of unused wealth. In 1869 it offered a
reward of G5, 900 for the invention of a
machine OF process which should sepa-
rate the delicate fibre from the bark at
cost consistent with the requirements
of commerce. An offer of $4,000 rupees
was renewed in 1877. Various machines
were submitted under these inducements,
but they failed in regard to the essential
element of cheapness, and after many
trials the offers were withdrawn. They
effeotually attracted, however, the at
tention of experts in Great Britain, Eur
ope and America. Rhea became recog-
nizsd as one Of the most valuable fibres
known to the ancient or modern world.
Its use in Egypt, India and China dates
from before the drawn of history. Rhea
cloth is unrolled from the mummies of
the Nile and unearthed in the burial
mounds Of Assam. The nets and lines
spun from it had, for strength land dura-
bility, no rivals among the fishermen of
Bengal and the Malay Archipelago. As
China grass" it won its way at the be-
ginning of this century into European
commerce.
The difficulty is to separate the strong
| silky fibres of the bark from the outer
cutiole and the tenacious gums in which
they lie embedded. In the past, when
labor was of little account, the wives or
daughters of the husbandmen and fish
ing communities scraped and washed
small quantities Of the bark till, by the
persistent toll Of many days, each family
produced few handfuls of the mpcb-
priced fibre. But the cost Of this manual
process proved an insuperabls diffiouitv
in the adoption of Rhea for modern few,
tile manufactures. DR.. Royle. an indus.
trial adviser to the Indian office. Showed
| that the Rhea flbres are exceeded hv nona
in fneness, excel all others in strenonh
and may be fifty compared to the tr,,nr
of an elephant, which can pick nm a
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-08
STANDARD CLOTHING CO..

It's adoption In this country. In England
whore the gold standard rules the facts
are all In Its favor, and were 1t not so
she would long since have discard ed it.
Fifth-If. as statistics show, the busi-
ness and commerce of the United States
with England is nine times larger than
with all silver countries this necessitates
q gol d standard on our part. To appeal
Z o old prejudioes against England as our
natural enemy, to favor the silverites Is
simply to employ the art of demagogue
on a matter of virtue. It would be
equally sensible to urge our people to
abolish the sommon law, discard the Eng.
lish language, or renounce the Christian
religion.
Sixth-To open our minis to the free
coinage of silver would inevitably food
under the operation of the Gresham law
drive all the gold abroad. If England is
with the gold standard our natural
enemy and bound to be her power to
crush US would thereby be increased
beyond measure.
6eventh-With such flood of silver
money this government would BIZ power
less to attempt to maintain Its parity
with gold and equally 30 as IL was to try
to keep the old continental paper, "the
money of our fathers" at par, an expert
msnt which should be kept constantly
before the public eye.
Elghth-If because this country Is
rich in silver mines the silver standard
il entitled to be adopted as a matter of
justice to the silver states as is claimed
By some, the owners of the copper and
iron mines have superior claim and the
producers Of wheat and corn should
clamor for a 0oreaI standard instead of
one Of coin.
Ninth-Surely If these propositions are
true and voters believe the silver move
ment founded on heresy and fraught with
danger, they should so vote as to stamp
10 out most effeotually, and at the ear
Hest practical moment.
GEORGE B. EMERY.