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SHE LOVES POLITICS.
1sr. Reeds Daughter Often Helps Her H.
 Iustrious Father.

Miss Kitty, the speakers 19 year-old daughter, is the best politician in the Reed family. She abhors society, par tieularly the AelleM sham -nf1inial SO ciety of the national capital and loves politics. She has made n study of poll tics and most of the public men.
 Her father has blind faith in her judgment and often consults her as to what he shall do. Kitty writes many of his letters for him and does not hesi tate to give her advice. because shs knows it is always welcome.
 Mrs. Reed does not care for political life and would be quite as we'll satis- fled to settle down in her beautiful homo on the hills of Portland. Miss Kitty, cr tho ether hand, is intensely anibI tious. and, as the speaker himself says.
 the ke6nest aud bost politician in tho family. Walter Wellman in Chicago E1mes-Eeraiu.
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THEY FOUND A SAFE.
And Think l Once Held the Famous Mo
 fro,, Ittila

And Think l [ Once Held the Famous 8Tor,
 mon Bibie.
 h the front window of the Pielwiek hotel at Seneca Falls, N. Y, is a small iron safe of ancient pattern, which, a card on the top says, was found in the ground and contained some ancient doc uments consisting Of uaps and charts dated 1920. How it came where it N found is a mystery that no one seems able to explainys
 Gan it be that this safe contained the alleged Mormon Bible that was found in Wayne county and not more than threo miles iom where the safe was found? If 50, pe.haps the story that the famous Biblo was made in England and brought here and plaeed where it was found is true, and that the safe was used in transporting it from tho old country and abandoned after it had sery- ed it's purpose. It was found a mile aud half north of the village of Palmyra, and in proximity to it were a lot Of h. dian relics, as though it had been buried Ill an Indian burial mound, as being the safest place to hide t.-Rochester Post Express.
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opposed to Dangerous Innovations.

The other day proposal was made at q parish meeting; for the lighting of the village of Godsldll. isle of Wight, with eight lamps, which. it seemed, could be maintained at the modest cost of half penny rate once etery three years Up rose farmer named Hollis to oppose the revolutionary scheme To the mind of this worthy man its authors were wanting to turn night into day :" 1T would set bad example tothe young, he continued, keeping them out all hours of the night What they ought to do was to set a good example by going to bed early and getting up early, and he wonld like to hear the cnrfew rung again. '-London Truth.
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Tho Cursed Tower of the Rhone.

The cursed tower is an architectural curiosity. It is almost as far out from the perpendicular as is the tower at Pisa and is far moro impressive, be- caase it stands npon an isolated crag which drops below it sheer to the river in vast preeipiee. Aneiently, before it went wrong and it's curse came upon it, the tower was the keep of the Benedic- tine nunnery of Soyons Most ungallant ly, i'll the year l5G9, the Huguenots cap tured the abbey by assault. and there upon the abbess, Louise Amanze (poor frightened soulD } hurriedly embraced the reformed religion, in dread lest. without this concession to the rather de- cided opin is of the conquerors, still worse mighf come. Several of her nuns followed her hastily heterodox example, but the mass of them stood stoutly by their faith and ended by making of with 1t intact to Valence. Thomas A. JanYier ill Century.
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HIS HEARING RESTORED.
Man Deaf For Years Can Now Hear
 Thanks to SchIatter.

News has been received of a remarka- bic cure effected by Francis Schlatter before he recently left Denver The pa tient was George Milliken, who for the past five years has been resident of Leadville, Colo.
 For many years Mr. Milliken has been deaf, his aftiiction being, it is thought produced by sickness when boy. Hear ing of Sehlatters s wonderful cures. Mir Milliken went to Denver, but the throng was so great that he could not get near the healer Following the example of many others, Milliken passed up his handkerchief to be blessed, and it was returned to him with instructions to ap- ply it to the region of his ailment.
 When Mir Milliken retired to bed that night, the handkerchief was placed over the affected ear, and in the morning when he awoke his hearing was restored. The cure seems to have been permanent, and Mir Milliken aud his friends are overjoyed.
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UNCLE sAM'6 NEW LlFEBoAT
He Has One That Win Not Upset and
 Bails Itself.

The first of 13 lifeboats the govern ment ordered recently has arrived from Port Huron, Mich. It is 34 feet long and feet beam, fitted for oars or sails It ia called the Sandy Hook and will be stationed at Sandy Hook under Skipper Tregonian Patterson's control Six of the new boats are fer the Atlantic coast and six for the Pacific coast and =the great lakes
 The new boat is self bailing, and she cannot upset. Captain Thomas D. Wal ker, an inspector ill the life saving serv- ice, is enthusiastic over her. "Fill her with water, '' he said. and she balls herself out in 15 seconds. She cannot be kept in any position outright side up.
 Fifty persons can be saved in her at a time. She has deck, and the space below is divided into airtight compart, ments. There are air tanks fore and aft reaching above the deck She will not sink until four -fifths of the air tanks are burst, ''-New York World.
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CoRse GrntYinl..

Coffee growing exhaust8 the soil so utterly that the land muat lio faIlow afterward, :" explained our guide, dur ing tour of Jamaica '' The saltpeter has got into the coffee, sah, is the mig. gers fayorite expression when they pull up tree to show you that it is rotten at tho roots. Now, considering that there is no saltpeter i'll the whole island, how and whence they ever got their idea of it's qualities is mystery to me
 The process of preparing coffee berries for market was now briefly explained to me by this kind acquaintance When gathered, rcd and round IS cherries, the berries arc subjected to the only ma chine used throughout tho work This IS not unlike nutmeg grater. or grat- CTS, which free the twin beans inside the berry from their fleshy covering. leaving them clean and blue. They are then sun dried and on the best pIanLa- tions this ia done by spreading them un barbeeues, or cement terraces, sloped so as to allow tue rain to run off quickly, having eutters all around and one raised place ih tho middle. fine beans are rak ed constantly to expose all of them in turn to the sun, but should there be any signs of rain coming ever the sky the whole crop is gathered iWitll haslo into heap In the raised center. and shelter honso on wheels is drawn over the ber floS while tho bad weather ldsts. Last Of all, the berries arc hand picked with care, and tho finest are put aside. Corn hill Magazine.
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Tha SherMood Onartefte.

The vocal talent composing the psesent the third act of Faust" and appear in the miscellaneous part of the program with the famous pianist at the Opera-heuse Saturday night, has, perhaps, received stronger re- cognition from the worlds greatest artists than most of the music-ioving people are aware of. Since appear ing before the public as the Sher- wood Quartette, each member of the company has had fiattering offer to continue studies in Europe with a promise of engagements with the largest companies on the continent. Aside from the remarkable talent which has made each one famous, too much cannot be said in praise Of each after the untiring and ambitious efforts shown to reach the highest standard in the beautiful art. In his selection of the singers Mir. Sherwood exercised the most careful judgment. as shown by results in their work together.
 Miss Jennie Osborn possesses q full, fresh, mezzo-soprano of remark able range. She is wonderfully gifted in many ways and it will he of interest to knOW that sfIe is able to sing any tone called for without the aid of an instrument.
 Miss Mahe.se Crawford, the other lady member of the company has q voice which resembles the worlds famous Scalchi so closely thaz she is known among musiciana as the American Scalchi.
 Mir. Frank s. Hannah. the tennor. although a young man, has mani rested greet talent and the wonder fnl sNeetness of his voice and his magnif1cent stage presence makes him an ideal Fannt
 Mr. ". Alton Derrick in his strong character of Mephistoles, has made
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Tho Irisll iinin.

must allow that 1t sometimes rains in lteland, but Irish rain is not quite like other rain. It Is, as d rule, softer than rain elsewhere, and, if the trntb must be told like rain, so long as one has not to say, For the rain it rainetb every day Irish weather is not So much capricious as eoquettish It likes to plague yoa, if but to prepare yon to enjoy the more its sunny, melting mood
 1t Will weep and wall all night and loi the next morning lie!and k ope sweet smile and seems to say .Is if raining l was yesterday? All. then. TlI ram no more And tho rannols lean and laugh, and tho pastures and very stone walls glisteu; the larks carol nm thelr celestial journey there is nm. gent. healthy smell of drying naat tba mountains are all dimpled with tho iog of life and sunshine; tho Ialo lies ner. iectly still, content to reflect the oyer hanging face of heaven, aud inst wo,,,t your honor buy the stoutest nair os homemade hose from barefooted. hare headed daughter of dethroned kinos With eyes like dewdrops and 2 voice that wonld charm the coin ont of tEe most ehnrlish purse? If on such ,norn ihss as these you do not lose your hear, 10 ireland, itlnust be made af e,ar, M m questionable stuff indeed pl,al. . wood $ Magazine. 'iaeA
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"E plurlbua unam.. on onr coips.

According to the United States mint officials. the words, E Pluribus Unum, " as they appear on our coins, are there without the sanction of law. The legend first appeared upon a copper coin "struck" at the Nowburg { N Y ) mint in the year 1786. The United States was very young at that time and could not afford the luxury of mint, so private individual of the name of Brasher opened the Newburg coining os- tablishment with the intention of turn ing out money of the realm for all eomers Exactly how the words "E Plnribus Unum" came to be used as q motto is not known, but one thing is certain, the Brasher copper coin bear ing that legend and the date of I76G is the most valuable metal disk ever mint ed on this continent, being worth about 2,000, or twice as much as the famous rare dollar of 1894.
 Some time after coining his famous copper with the odd Latin motto as above described Brasher tried his hand on large sized goldpiece, producing the coin known to the numismatists as Brasher's twenty The Brasher ttwonty" was not $20 goldpiece, however, for it lacked $4 of weighing enough, but of late years it has become very scarce and valuable because of the fact that the legend inscribed upon 1t reads "Unum E Pluribus" instead of = D Pluribas Unum D This coin is now valued at $1, ,500- Louis Republic
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The advanced boys of the city high school have arranged an athletic as- sociation and will form base ball and foot ball clubs at an early day. La ter on they will challenge the skhool clubs of other cities, and our people are promised some meinteresting games. Such healthful exercise should be len couraged among school children as a vigorous bodyIis as essential to life as a vigorous mind.
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MODEST FOB COUSINS.
He Acted as Grooms,nan Once. but Won't
 Talk of It.

AaiA OA Ats
 Bob Cousins of Iowa is the most mod est member in congress. Not many ses- sions ago Mr. Mercer, member from Nebraska still i'll the house, married a young lady well known in Washington. Inasmueh as Cousins is an intimate friend of Mercer, both beins born in Iowa, the latter thought is would be an excellent idea to have Cousins act as best mag at the wedding. Bob consent ed. The ceremony occurred After it was over the minister kissed the bride, bridesmaids ditto The bride, supposing the best man would be glad of il similar courtesy extended to him, puckored up her lips to Bob in order that he might avail himself of the opportunity so gra- ciously extended to him.
 When Mir Cousins realized what was expected of him in the premises, he gave one look at the bride, turned so red that even the darkest corner of the church became as light as monday, bolted down the aisle and out of the church, leaving the bride in rather an embarrassed state of mind, to say noth- ing of the mingled feelings of surprise and bewilderment Of the other members of the bridal party and friends.
 Both Mercer and Cousins are in the present congress-, but the latter had rather talk on almost any subject than on certain incidents connected with the wedding of the gentleman from Nebras- ka.-Boston Advertiser.
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IL Nxnnldn,4NT NTnrI,.

It ls often suggested that all that is needed to keep tho gold reserve up to the mark is to make the customs duties payable in gold. But this means pre- miun on gold, as it implies a discrimi- nation against other forms of money. There is besides a law making silver dollars gocd tender for all dues, public and private, except in cases where q contract calls for something else. The Sherman silver treasury notes are by law receivable for customs dues. The law requiring all forms of money to be kept at par with gold would be violated by refusing to receive anything but gold for tariff taxes. Ii is therefore imprac- ticable, without producing the evils we arc trying to avoid, to require tariff taxes to be paid in gold only. The presi- dent has shown how a gold reserve may be made upnecessary-by calling in the greenbacks and sherman notes and re- placing them with bank notes. No better plan is forthcoming. Baltimore Sun.
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A "Pat. Illustration.

An Oklahoma correspondent of the sound currency committee of the Reform club says that because Of short crops and low prices for two or th1ee years the peo- pie there were grasping at the silver straw, but that with plentiful rains, fair forage crops this season. good stand of wheat on the ground, they look for substantial betterment next crop and arc less inclined to take for it anything but money having tie highest purchasing power" He says: "They are like the Irishman going to join the church and did not know what enc to join. He said everybody admitted the Catholics might go to heaven, but not every enc admit ted that Protestant could. So he would take bis chances with the Catholics. Now, everybody admits gold coin will be geod in any event, but as part of the people have their doubts about silver they, to be on the safe side, when they have something to sell and ship, want the kind of money about which there haugs no doubt. "
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A Plain Basiness Issue.

h an appeal fer patriotic action in congress on the financial question the Baltimore Sun says that "currency re- form ought not to be the warery of any one party. As it is the pressing need, so it should be the urgent demand of the people of both parties. It is simply question If how the business of the country, it's buying and selling. the ex- change of its commodities at home and abroad. can be carried on with the least friction and the least loss. It is the Qnes- ttion off of giving stability at home and abroad to that medium in which the wages of labor arc paid. debts are liaui
 dated snd tho rewards of industry and
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Dominic anhDomine.

Differences that seem very slight in foreign or provincial words may Do very real, and it is important to know and td note them. An eminent New York scholar calls attention, in this line, to an erroneous use of the word dominie" for 'domine" by a recent contributor to The Sunday School Times. He says:
 'The terms dominic and 'domine' both are plainly derived from the Lat in, but do not mean the same thing. The former is a Scottish usage for schoolmaster only, and is universally known because of Dominic Sampson ill one of the Waverley novels. The lat ter is a Hollandish, respectful designa- tion for minister of the gospel only. It is used very generally in the Dutch churches ill this country, but always in q roverent and, indeed, affectionate sense. It appears to me that the two terms should not be confounded, but invariably confined to that application which is required by their historic or igin. .3
 This distinction Is not generally known, although tho dictionaries point 1t out. ut.-Sunday School Times.
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The Worlds Fair Ie, showed TIC baking POs, so pure or so greaf in i'' Z ening power as inc N0y''
Asslenee's Sale.

Notice is herey given ina, VII, @lIl 5si1 Jannary nnn1 Y. isss N x ai nigein sni il, the oS
 Pine Binff Arkansas. betweei, ,.,st .,f md judicial sales, sell to inc hlEiig3h,a .'.ha. ibe bidder On u credit Of three inosisaff: ai lowing personal property e0 0Inallef p machinery. toois, impieinciils am; office iiXtlres ,t,i ah icas.a. N, ssi
 used in and about the operatl2n a,, nj iuyenl as is particularly shown lfptns nss,'s,,it cierl now on file in the office oi lhe faih qhc purc4
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ORIGIN OF LINGO.
How It Came 10 Apply to Advocates of
 War Policy.

War Potlcy4
 The origin nf the word tjingo" is in- teresting at this time, when one is con fronted with it so often. At the time of the close of the Russo Turkish war, which, as all readers of history know, terminated so disastrously for the Turks and caused feeling of apprehension in England that the Russians were bent On taking Constantinople and the ulti- mate dismemberment of the Turkish em- pire, change which could not be toler- ated, the public feeling found expression in England npon the stage in panto- mines and in the music halls by numer- ous patriotic songs. One of these is as follows:
 The dogs of war are loose, and the rugged
 Russian bear,
 Full bent on blood and robbery, has crawled
 out of his lair It seems thrashins now and then will never
 help to tame
 That brute, and so he's out upon the same
 old game. The lion did his best to give him some excuse
 were no use. He hungered for his victim, he's pleased when
 blood is shed,
 But let us hope his sin may all recoil on his
 own head.
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Mrs. Day Mills entertained the ladies at whist yesterday afternoon. A pleasant afternoon was had and Mrs. Mills, as hostess, cannot be sur passed. Among the ladies present were: Mesdames Galbraith, Trulock Pendleton, Lovan, Taggart, and Arnold
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NORTH AMERICAN RENI
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How ms ,

We offer one hundred dollars rega. ri, any case of catarrh that cannot be 'u'' Halls Catarrh Cure a,.,oas
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Martin Lynch. late foreman of the ]. J. Caughlin Plumbing Co, at Little Rock, has accepted position with t. l.. Shoemake, the Second avenue plumber.
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Mrs. Mamie Hicks Riley and little son left for Van Buren yesterday afternoon, where she will visit re- latives for a few weeks.
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4 number of Texas stockstTains are expected to pass over the line Sat urda,y anu sunday.
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OPERA-HOUsF
 " H. NowhANn. Manage,  VIM. H. SHERWOD GRAND
 nONCE:RT (g0MPANY.

Mr. ". IT. Sherwood. Ams..
 Greatest Concert Pianist. Miss Jennie Osborn, soprano Miss Ma9el Crawford, eontraIto Mr Frank $. Hannah, tenor Mr. Wm. Alton Derrick, basso Miss May Foster, accompanist. Mrs. Grace Plunpton, accommr
 Seats now on sale. No ad45oe prices.
 The entire third act Of Faas. costume.
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CHoRus.


 We don t want to fight; but, by iingo, if we do We've got the men, we've got the ships,
 we've got the money too. We fought the bear before and while we're
 Britons true
 The Russians shall not have Constantinop1e.
 The song became most popular and was heard on every street corner from every organ grinder and was whistled by every bootblack. Shortly after this the election campaign began in which Gladstone, the head of the Liberals, at tackled the Tory party, then led by the Earl of Beaconsfeld. who was in pow CT. The Tory foreign policy was ridi- ouled, and they were stigmatized by the Liberals as tthe party of bloodshed, glory and jingo
 From the time of this election cam paign. which resulted in the defeat of the Tories and the accession of the 'peace party, " Gladstone s 1880 admin istration, he word ''jingo" has been used to denote an individual or section of party ready to rush, without ma ture consideration, into all the horrors of war Dick Dasher i'll Pittsburg Dis. patch.
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The funeral of Mrs. Leo NJ. Andrews, which took place this morning from the Main Street Methodist Church, was largely attended.
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Rnl Nye,s Play.

Bill Nye has written play in collab- oration with Paul Potter. It is called "A Stag Party. It was acted recently in New York. The following is said to be the funniest thing i'll the production.
 T have admired you. says the hero. from the first moment that | saw you ~yonr eyes, your teeth, your Owego hair.
 What H hat i5 0wego hairG' asks the her. oine, as much puzzled as the audience.
 OMego. says the hero, is where you change for Auburn
 EEiisc audience laughed at that c.ore fban n { cr.x~4 f,s ,,s5 {, {k,x, s,, {3,<
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Dispatcher ]. $. Johnson is on the sick list and Dispatcher +. B. Davis is relieving him. =.
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Dame Rumor has 1t that Mr. Wes- ley Vining, the efficient night yard clerk at the shops, is soon to take unto himself better half
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Mir. George B. Allis came down from Little Rock this morning To be present at the funeral of Mrs Leo Andrews.
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Miss Nellie Hicks will entertain the new social clnb at Hotel Trulock thnight
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Miss Ada Ford, of Jennings. Okla homa Territory. is in the city the guest of Mrs. NJ. l. Mead.
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In 1880 there were 174. 659 hands em =. "A. 4.... ,,,ills il, tha ITnited III ttiN NS7ttNy1f States. In 1890 the number had risen te 22l .5S5.
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Miss Anna Lawton entertained the Whist Club last evening in a trulyde- lightful manner.
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MT. c. W. Wesner, of Cornerstone, is in the city today on busidess.
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Mr. Jeff Hicks left for Camden last night, where he was called on ac- count of the serious illness of the manager Of the ice plant nj that place.
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Mir. Jake simon won the horse and buggy rallied off by Mir. S. Guggen- helm last night. MT. simon threw AT
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Marshall pass. on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, is tho highest point yet attained by railroad in the United States Elevation, 10, S55 feet.
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Dr. D. w Chandler, a merchant of Camden, was q Pine Bluff visitor last night.
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Mrs. Eugene Fies returned home from Birmingham last night.
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Mrs. Will H. Roane is quite sick today at her home on West Sixth avenue.
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MT. George Steinback left for St. Louis this afternoon on business.
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Col. ]. W. Corcoran is in the city today