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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

In another column will be found the
add of NJ. l.. Young, the tonsoTial art
ist. Give. him a trial and you will be
convinced that he is the best barber in
town.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

C. w. Felter was confined to his BET
Wednesday but is able to be out to
day.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Miss Georgia Ochiltree returned to
her home at Orange, after a very pleas
ant visit with relatives and friends.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Very few Mckinley buttons are worn
ia Abberille. There are sixteen Bryan
buttons to one Mckinley button.
That's the way our people take it.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Joe Ferris of San Antonio, shipped
in a car. load of mules Wednesday from
Missouri.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Mrs. Estelle Clark Of Crowley is Wis.
iting at DIR. and Mrs. r. j. Young.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Mrl Louis Thibeaux returned to her
home in Jeanerette, Tuesday, after a
short visit to Mrs. Adonis Leblanc.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Rev. Elast was in New iberia this
week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Eli Wise will go to New Orleans to-
day where be will meet his wife who is
expected home Sunday.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Some of our boys had a very narrow
escape on the banks of the bayou Sun
day evening.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

The cool north wind Monday came
as a warning that winter is coming and
will soon be upon US.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

VIM. Byles Of the Morbaham pianta-
ton visited his cousin, j. S. Ewell sew
eral days this week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

1t is about time for us to hold
meeting of the fair association.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

W. Smith & Co.'S. new add appears
in another column. We advise you to
give them a call and get their prices.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

NJ. T. Gordy went to Franklin last
Friday on legal business.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Cotton is selling at $40 a thousand
with indications of a rise.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Charles, son OF SEVERN Leblanc, left
Tuesday for Bay St. Louis, where he
will attend college.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

We had a nice little shower Wednes-
day afternoon.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Miss Anna Delonde left for Jeaner-
cite Tuesday where she will visit Mrs.
Louis Thibeaux.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

We are glad to learn that Mrs. Sim
onet Leblanc who has been dangerous
ly i'll for some time is slowly improv-
ing.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

About two hundred colored delegates
and preachers are attending the dis
trict conference at this place.
Prof. Barrett of the Arcadia College
at Crowley was in town last Saturday
on business connected Herewith.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

A Bryan Bimetalhsm club wasorgan-
lied last Saturday night at the court
house. John Nugier al elected pres
idcnt and w. @ Pipes secretary.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Euphemon and Valery Leblanc put
a new boiler in their gin this week and
are now ready to gin all the cotton ii
the parish.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

Joe Leguenec was in Franklin satur-
day on business.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-09-05

E. Wise a. Co. received their new
stock Of goods this week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

of places-in particular, at the Wool wich arsenal and at the Sandycroft works. Those in use at the Woolwich arsenal were designed by an officer in the British army and greatly simplify the work of lifting and moving heavy shot and plates of iron and steel. Par ticularly is the electro-magnet of value in lifting heavy shot, as previous to their use workmen experienced no end of trouble in getting sings securely around the shot. It was a long and heavy task, and required the labor of many men.
 Now the electro-magneti is lowered by the magnetic. crane and simply laid on the side of the shell to be raised; the turning of the small lever at the base of the crane switches on the current. and the work is done. Here the new ap- paratus enables three men to do the work which formerly required nine men.
 The construction of the crane and magnet is peculiar, and it's inventors claim that there is less chance of break than when the old-fashioned tackle was used. Indeed, so far as is known no accidents with the new method have thus far occurred.
 The electric crane looks very much like an ordinary swinging crane It is constructed of the best steel, the frame being comparatively light, but of a strength far in excess of any strain which will ever be put upon it. From the base of an upright steel beam a long steel arm projects, first upward at an angle of 45 degrees; then, with a bend upward and outward, it extends for a distance nearly twice the length of the supporting beam. Two steel rods reaching from the top of the beam to the crane act as supports or holds. One is attached to the crane about third of the way from the base and just at the bend, while the other is attached to the upper end of the crane.
 The wire through which the electric current is carried from the battery at the base of the crane to the magnet runs up along the upright beam and across the upper support to the end of the crane, then over small wheel to uiO CAd o1 mlo cnt1ltt lo Wllch IS at- tached the lifting magnet. Duplicate wires are used to prevent any possible accident in case the wire should foul with anything or in any way be broken. The switchboard governing the cur rent is placed at the base.
 In lifting weight of 3,6oo pounds current of from three to four .anperes at from 20 to 30 volts is used. The mag nets vary in size and weight from com paratively small ones weighing 45 pounds to those having weight of 25o pounds, but the lifting power of the magnet is not always in proportion to its size.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

very pale Nile green muslin or of silk. pale green shot with pale pink. Then let there be upon each lapel six, and upon each cuff three, and at the seams of tle dress in front on each side three more extremely military looking tabs of dark-green velvet. Upon trim fig ure the effect is rather smart and mil itary.
 The conduct of a woman on shipboard is a subject impossible to predict; the weather makes a difference, don't you know. But it is easier to foresee that she will go abroad for her annual trip to the London Mecca of the fashiena- bles with at least the determination to be charming during every hour of the voyage when she is visible. Hence she trips up the gang plank in all the glory of picture hat and futtering ribbons; but when the plank is drawn she goes below, to bob up serenely in a long min ute with her curls tucked away under iaunty cap, and plain, close skirt. have seen some lovely ones in mixed greens, varying from light threads to almost blacl1-and with & trim-waisted jacket What agonies one must suffer in tight corset and tight, high collar on shipboard, those whove tried it know; but "to be beautiful one must suffer" as the French philosophers say, and there is nothing to add.
 The fashionable grass linen, very plainly and severely made up, furnishes an ideal summer gown for knockabout use, a return. too, to the linen dresses so sensible few years ago.
 The leather belt is this year shrink ing into more modest size while it's substitutes expand in width. Draped belts of satin and velvet are prime favor ties; narrow leather belts, when still
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

and recalling the pretty Dutch bonnets of some time ago.
 That the short British driving jacket shaped like a soapboX has been smart ened by Parisian genius into very creditable garment, slightly shaped to the figure. though not close, and fitted with voluminous fancy lapels. In other words, it is the same thing, yet absolute ly different.
 That the starched shirt waist, or shirt waist front, barred across in Sing Sing fashion, white stripes on blue or pink, or the reverse, and with barred buttons, is as smart as it is unloyely, and will be this year considerable favorite.
 That very chic, shapely hat, quite low crowned, recalls by it's shape the ..beefeater" and hourglass chapeaux of last year. It is as if the high hour glass crown had been smashed half way down with a brick, when it became the beefeater shape; the next brick fattens it to an inch or so in height and produces a fiat crowned hat, which, with three ''ieh diens plumes on the left, rising from jungle of ribbon bows, is very pretty.
 That boating or yachting hat, plait- ed in dark blue straw, has such q wide, low crown, a wide brim, @ lace bow in front, held by buckle, small black and white feathers and a wreath of roses and ivy leaves.
 There are everywhere round skirts with plain fronts and godets over the hips; the art of skirt cutting has all most been revolutionized within the last few years. The front breadth is cut fiat and quite wide, the fullness be- ing all provided for behind, where it is screened by the skirts of short jacket. or by the basque bob-tails so many gowns now show. X very smart variety of jacket comes square to the waist line on either side, drops in two moderate points in front and at the back overfiows in short but decisive swallow-tail. Such jacket has cuffs with points to match the front, flat gold buttons. moderate lapel, and is worn over starched shirt front. For instance, a dark-green jacket over a white front striped with lighter green. Or dark-blue jacket may be worn over shot blue or white soft vest.
 Starched fronts may have their un- lovely lines disguised by fichu of soft lace falling from the collar and thrust crayatwise into the open front Such vests have visible buttons only about half way up, to leave plenty of room for the fichu.
 Skirts are still mainly plain, but there are slight ebullitions of rebellion from the mode. Many otherwise obedient, indulge themselves in rows of conspic- uous stitching about the bottom.
 Another device is winked at by Dame Fashion. Let there be jacket made, say of almond green or some shade no darker. Let the jacket curl out at the hips in those saucy little basque tails so commonly worn. Let the waist be of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
MAGNETS THAT LIFT TONS.
Growing Use of Acknowledgements
 and Electric Cranes.
An Immense Saving of Labor-No Sings Required = Especially Convenient In Handling Heavy Shot-Safe and Ef-
 fective-D Details of Construction.
[copYRreHr. 1896. ]

By means of the electric crane and the electro-magnet which were intro duced into this country and recently exhibited before the American Society of Mechanical Engineers it is claimed that three men can now do in 15 min utes the same amount of work which formerly taxed the strength of six men for 90 minutes. 1t is found inyal- uable in working with pig iron, heavy castings and immense boiler plates.
 It is believed by engineering experts that these lifting magnets will soon re- place the present forms of the derrick and travelling crane. Preparations are being made to introduce this device in the great Carnegie works at Pittsburgh, and its practical workings are being very carefully watched by at least half a dozen large manufacturers through out the country.
 At first sight, it appears odd that a small coil of metal weighing about 45 pounds can, by that strange force known as magnetic influence, aided by the equally mysterious power of electricity, lift tons of iron with no apparent grip upon the weight to be lifted. It has been proved, however, that such an cleo tro-magnet can lift 722 times it's own weight.
 In England the electric crane and electro-magnet are in use in number
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER.
The Fashions of Spring Shading
 Into Summer Airiness.
Ready for the Summer Resorts-Pretty Wedding Innovations, Yachting and Outing Ideas and After
 noon Toilets.
-[copYRIGHr. 1898. |


 There is the present; and it is golf, bicycle, driving-and golf.
 There is the future; and it is we'd dings, yachting, Newport, more golf md more weddings.
 And the gowning of the present and the future is the gossip of to-day. I have noticed:
 That the new sleeve is not carrying all before it, or, rather, the new sleeve diff fers not so widely from the old as, in its braver youth, it made threats to do. That many bridesmaids in June will wear, as did many in April, big hats piled high with plumes and fastened by enormous bow ties of white tnlle under the chin.
 That bridesmaids gowns of pink satin brocade, with bodices of pink chiffon, for maids all brunettes, will march har- moniously with q bridal gown of the usual white satin and point lace.
 That the prettiest opera gown taken from New York to London for the end of the season fhere was in brocaded satin of pale blue and silver with straps of very deep blue velvet over the shoul- ders supporting the very low corsage. That one of the prettiest bonnets of Inc late spring is huge butterfly bow, juttiRg far over the ears on either side
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
EGGS, PERoRATION.
An Eloquent Effort Blended with tn
 Workfngnan and Other Things.

An EIoquent Effort Blended with the
 Workingnan and Other Things.
 "But. talking of blunders, continued the member, reminiscently, to the Post man. did you ever hear the story of Gov. Riggs, of California, and his pleu- ro-pneumonia fad? We'll, it was in the Forty-first congress. Biggs repre- sented a district in Californa and his one hobby was pleuro- pneumonia. The symptoms were most violenti ih the gov ernor at times, but somehow he could never get a chance to be heard on it, Reed persistently refusing to recognize him. He was so full of his subject that one day he told the speaker on the floor of the house:
 ]" I must be recognized on the pleuro- pneumonia bill, for I am going to Cali fornia tomorrow and shan't be back for month. If I am not allowed to speak on it to-day I don't know if the chance will ever come.'
 But Reed, with one of his frosty, Siberian stares, looked over Riggs head and recognized another member. The Californian was mad. He went west the next day and had rot yet cooled off when he returned.
 Reed happened to put Judge Payson in the chair one day and had no sooner turned his back than Biggs sidled Ip and asked Payson to recognize him. Payson promised and Riggs went down stairs to take cup of cold tea to tonic himself for the greaS effort ofs his life, the long-corked-up speech sn pleurc- pneumonia.
 'As soon as the opportunity offered Riggs asked for recognition and was given the floor. As he proceeded he waxed eloquent and simultaneously thirsty. He asked Cluny, his colleague, to bring him a glass of water, and C1uny, under an overwhelming inspir- ation of humor. set glass of gin on Riggs desk. Riggs drank the gin and grew more garrulous still on his fa- gorite subject, while Cluny and his circle of sworn contidants sat and watched the tea, the gin and the pleuro-pneu- monia working out their fatal destiny. like so many schoolboys keeping guard Dn d slow fuse.
 Well, Riggs closed in burst of pyrotechnic eloquenee. He had the eagle beating his mighty pinions and mountain tops bearing witness to his assertions, and about this time the com hination of gin and cold tea so com rletely monopolized him that he closed with a solemn deelaratioE.
 T am. sir, in favor of the poor labor ingman and of pleuro-pneumorda. = Washington Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17

worn, have to be decked with jewels ard set with dainty buckles to be quite smart. Narrow gold belts are as com mon as last year wider ones were.
 Canvas is almost as popular a summer material as grass linen; indeed. is often used with it, the canvas for skirt, the linen for bodice. White alpaca and white serge daintily vary the prevail ing browns and yellows. Batistes and grenadines are to be much worn.
 For bicycle riding, use a short skirt. The bloomers would be in every way better if reason ruled, but in the mat ters of attire feminine reason doesn't.
 The furnished iris of shot silk would seem almost lovely enough of itself, but the capricious fancy of the present spring demands mixture of three colors or preferably with figures and flowers dotting their changing sheen.
 For children, girls as well as boys, there's nothing more pretty and modish than sailor suit with perhaps boatswafn's cord and whistle worn loosely about the neck.
 The parasol of figured or shot silk is more frequently seen in comparative lY plain makes as summer hears and renders shade really necessary.
 Jackets and waists still have the stick-outy effect at the hips rem iniscent of basque days.
 Flowered silk waists are in demand for hot weather afternoon and informal evening wear. ELLEN OSBORN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
Roman Theaters. 1860.

The theatrical entertainments were very good, and the cost of attending them was exceedingly small. While in the leading theaters in London or Paris tnere is usually one great actor or sing CT who overshadows the rest of tho company, in Italy all the actors were more nearly on the same level. Many an evening we have enjoyed an Italian play CT opera at the modest cost of lira (ninepence-halfpenny). In the summer lime when the Apollo and the Valle were closed the Correa was opened in the Mausoleum of Augustus; there was no roof to it but the sky. The perform ance began at five and ended at eight or half-past. The price of chair in the pit was lira. and there was no objec- ton to cigar. The last time we were there the play was Shalespeare's ''Ro- meo and Juliet" The acting was ex- eellent, and the text of Shakespeare translated into Italian was closely fol- lowed. In the Italian theaters then you could for lira have seen Ristori and Salvini in the same plays as they performed in London. where gold had to be paid for entrance e.-Chambers Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
sAGAclTY OF A SCOUT.
Following the Doubling and Twisting of
 Indians for I50 Miles.

indians for 1b0 Miles.
 Everyone who has spent much time upon the frontier has heard of the re- markable faculty of Dolores Sanchez. the famous trailer of New Mexico and southern Arizona. So eminent author ity as Gen. Nelson A. Miles. who has had unusual personal knowledge of the work of trailers and scouts, is quoted as saying that some of Sanchez accom- plishments are more than extraordi- nary and that his powers border on the mythical.
 Gen. Ruger tells the following story of an experience with this remarkable man to show the skill of an expert scout: T was once in pursuit of q lot Of Comanches, who had been followed, scattered and the trail abandoned by company of so-called Texas rangers. On the eighth day after the scattering Sanchez found the trail from a single shod horse. When we were fairly into the rough, rocky Guadaloupe moun- tains he stopped dismounted and picked up from the foot of a tree the four shoes of the horse ridden by the Indian. With a grim smile he handed the shoes to me and said that the h. dian had tried to hide his trail
 For six days we journeyed over the toughest mountains, turning and twist ing in apparently the most objectless way, not a man in the whole command being able to discover, sometimes for hours, single mark by which Sanchez might direct himself. Sometimes losr patience and demanded that he show me what he was following. 'Poco tiem- DO (pretty soon), he would abstract edly answer and, in a longer or shorter time, show me the clear-cut footprints of the horse in the soft bank of moun- tain stream or point with his long whipping stick to some other most un- mistakable sign. Sanchez led us. fol- lowing the devious windings of this trail, for over 150 miles, and only three or four times dismounting so as to more closely examine the ground he finally brought me to where the Indians had reunited. .n-DenYer Field and Farm.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
Good Story of q Beave|

All animals inherit all which in common language g9 name of instinct. A Canadian convinced friend who did Fl in this inherited faculty ln He bought a baby beaver oi and sent it to his skeptlcai IF creature became great IT house, but showed no signs r to build a dam until, one i'' leaky pail full of water was ,l floor of the back kitchen. was there. He was only a z sure, but the moment he saw oozing out of a crack in th scampered into the yard' oiV chip and began building owner was called, and Watcn tie fellow, very much astonlsn' lie saw. He gave orders to na .l. left where it was. and the ln beaver kept at his work lo' when he had built Q solid dan the pail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
Not in stock.

4 woman who was examining lot of freak millinery strewn about big shop the other day came across one quite different from it's fragile, fiowery neigh bors. It was a bulging, bulky mass of velvet with fue, feathers and several pounds of rhinestones by way of trim ming. Well, that's the worst yet. 7 cried the woman, ''the idea of calling such a thing as that a spring hat! It's perfectly absurd. And the hats just as hideous as II is inappropriate, too" .Whereupon a barehcaded woman stand ing near calmly observed: Beg par don, madam, but that's my winter hat you're talkin" about. just laid 1t down while l tried on some spring ones" St. Louis Republic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-17
A Javanese Temple.

The temple of Boeroboadef the largest of the ancient \ Java. These temples consist masses of sculptured stone, enormous mounds covering s two or three acres of ground built terrace upon terrace, " passages running round z! structure, which is conlcal The walls of these passages a of extraordinary sculpture " jeet is often of very indecel ter. The stones themselves mense size, and the whole ls| derful state of preservatlon' of these Mohammedan mon estimated at 1.200 years, ana gantic construction is ascril immigrants from India an' Huge statues of stone, mostly adorn the corners and pinna' temples, to which there IS Il beyond a few small ceils'- ster Review.