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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
4 HARVEST OF HUMAN HAIR.
Mnlions of Pounds Evory Year Get TansIss
 lip In Commerce.

Mullons Of Pounds Every Year Get TanEls&
 Up In Commerce.
 Perhaps there is no staple article about which less is known by the ayeT- age person than human hair as an ax- s1cio of commerce. It will doubtless surprise many when it is stated G1.Gt the dealers i'll human hair goeds do not depend on chance clippings here aud | there, but that there is a regular hair harvest that can always be relied upon It is estimated that over t2,000, Uoo pounds of human hair are used annu- ally ill tho civilized world for adorning the heads of women. In Now York city alone over four tons of this class of goods are imported yearly.
 Not little of the hair used in this country, said New York dealer to the writer, "comes from tho heads of American women. and it is fully as fine in shade and texture as the imported ar ticle. We had big harvest during the craze that the fair sex had not long ago for having their hair cut short Many thousands of women who then had their locks sheared have since bitterly regret ted it, as i'll many instances their hair has grown so slowly that they have been compelled to wear wig or 6 switch since tho fashion changed. After tho majority of women reach the age of 80 the hair seems to partially lose it's vigor, and if cut 1t will not grow long again.
 "Two-thirds of the ladies nowadays use false hair more or less. The decree of fashion, or the desire to conceal de- feet or heighten charm, is the reason of course. One woman, for instance, has high forehead and wishes to re- 1uee it in appearance Another has worn off the front hair by continued frizzing and would like to conceal tine fact. Both make use of a front or top piece, with q choice of many styles
 Ladies wigs cost from $20 to $2o0; half wigs, top pieces and switches from s1o to $50, according to quality
 The largest supply of hair comes from Switzerland, Germany and the French provinces. There Is a human hair market in Merlans. in the depart ment of the lower Pyrenees, held every Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk np and down the one street of the viii lage, their shears dangling from their belts, and inspect tho braids which the peasant girls, standing on the steps of ehe houses, let down for inspection If & bargain is struck, the hair is cut and the money paid on the spot, the price varying from 60 cents to $5 in our money.
 "A woman's hair may grow to the length of feet, and 1 know lady who has been offered and refused 5000 for her crown of glory, which is over 6 feet long A single female hair will bear up weight of four ounces with out breaking, but the hair thus heavily weighted must he dark brown, for blond hair breaks under strain of 2 k ounces There are some ,, GOO importers, naaru- facturers md dealers i'll human hair in the United States Washington Star.
 The greatest of all luxGries In central Africa is salt To say that man easa =a.t with his victaals is the same m saying that he is rich man. Munas Park says, tThe leng continued use os vegetable food creates so painful q long tng for salt that no words can sufficient fy describe 1t .
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09

When 1t is recalled that President Mckinley, in his inaugural address, warned the country agaiast "a eiti- zenship too ignorant to appreciate the great value and benefcence of our institutions and laws, it might seem passing strange to some Deo- pie that he is Tn favor of taking into the bosom of his family of States the leper Islands, with a population of 5000 Americans, against S7 7,000 mixed brown, yellow and copper. colored pagans who are densely ig. norant on every subject, know no more about the spirit Of our consti. ton and laws than hog does oi Sansclit And no doubt this em- ineut patriot and statesman will kick like broneho when Louisiana disfranehises that portion Of It's citizenship "too ignorant to appre ciate the great value and beniticence of our institutions and laws. . But Me is prone to dealings in platitedes and catchy phrases. There is nothing manly, firm and earnest in the man, and it is much to be doubted if he has a political eonvie- tion that can not be easily changed by any extraneous force-such as that exerted by Hanna, for instance.
 New Orleans StateS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
NO MORE THoRNs.
Tho Perfection to Which Truitu and Flow.
 CTS Are Developing.


 CTS Are Developing.
 The limit of improvement is not found in producing fruits of great size beauty and sweetness. There arc other desirable qualities that the horticultur- ist is anxious to obtain, and toward this end he is doyoting his energies One of tho most noticeable trends Of the science of fruit culture is toward the elimination of undesirable organs. The thorns of some of tho citrus fruit trees and tho priekles of such small berry bushes as the gooseberry, blackberry and raspberry are protuhcrances that haye outlived their usefulness and are highly unpleasant. They nos only pune ture the ripening fruits, but they often make harvesting exceedingly inconyen- ient. Gardeners have long wished to do away with these thorns and pricl1les, but 1t is only comparatively recently that systematic efforts have been made to eliminate them.
 The thorns arc conspicuous organs oi our cultivated plants that have ceased to be of any value, for their original purpose of protecting the plants from animals has no force today in the gar dens aud fields. They should have been exterminated long ago Through the careful selection of plants that happen to be thornless, stocks are obtained fo1 n new race of thornless plants Others are noted for the few thorns that grow on them and by judicious selection oi f- q. zr Al work is continued Already gardeners have cultivated raspberry and biackber- " canes that are entirely thornless, and by grating improved varieties on these the desired end will soon be reached The wild orange trees have many more thorns on them than the budded stock. and the wild Florida lemons are fhichly stndded with thorns, while the grafted Ia France have none, George Ethel
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
The nnman .Eleetrle Rnttery.

The superstition that human beings should sleep with their heads to the north is believed by the French to have for its foundation a scientific fact They affirm that each human system is in it. self an electric battery, the head being one of the electrodes, the feet the other Their proof was discovered from expert ments which tho Academy of Sciences was allowed to make on the body of a man who was guillotined.
 This was taken the instant it fell and placed upon Q pivot free to move as is might. The head part, after little vaciilation, turned to the north, and the body then remained stationary. It was turned half way round by one of the professors, and again the head end of the trunk moved slowly to the cardinal point due north. the same results being repeated until tho final arrestation Hf organic movement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09

there is yet no lack of all the remaining ones, yellow and green being well repre-. Rented.
 Very heavy black net over wntor green, mauve sky blue, rose or straw eemposes somo very pretty costumes for those per sons who do not enro for pale eolored gowns The belt and the bows trimming tho costume match the lining in tint
 Today 8 sketch illustrates an effective costume of laurel green cloth, the plain skirt being adorned above tho bins by two horizontal hands Of braid of q darker gre9n The bolero Is covered by horizontal bands of tho braid, which also adorn the top of the close sleeves. The moaiei collar and revcrs are covered with vory narrow ruflles of cherry tafIcta, the stock collar Gnd the belt boing of dark green velvet. The full orayat is of cream Irish point and the wrist frills of cherry taireta. With this gown is worn q hat of laurel green straw, trimmed with cherry tafleta and 6 gold and pnstc buckle. Next the hair aTa placed very dark TAnsies.
 .JUBIc CHoI1EE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
Sleepy Onions.

The London Medical Press asserts that some plants sleep through the rainy season, others during periods of drought, of heat or of cold. Farmers are rather skeptical about weeds ever going to sleep and it is hard to realize that an onion bed is nightly wrapped in balmy slumber. Yet science in this matter is too well fortified to be doubted. --St Louis Globe Democrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
The Message.

President MckinIey's message will be generally regarded as satis factorily definite in it's demand for finance reform and as somewhat vague and tenative in its treatment of the Cuban problem. These two issues occupy the greater part oI the message, although Hawaii, the seal fisheries, the purchase of the Union Pacific railway and the civil service system receive careful atten- tion. As to finance, MT. Mckinley has come closer to the plans out ined by Secretary Gage than had been expected. He lays due stress on the evils arising from the per petual and repeated redemption of greenbacks, which, as his predeces- sor pointed out, constitutes the endless chain drawing gold from the nations treasury The Cuban question he treats with that caution and conservatism which he had been expected to show in handling this problem, l. is to his remarks on Hawaii that the public must turn for firm aud positive express ion of national policy in foreign affairs.
 In brief, the long argument which the President presents in treating Of the Cuban question may be sum- marized as q request to congress to keep hands of and allow the execu- tive branch of government to act unhampered in what ever policy it may decide to undertake. In sup port of this position an elaborate argument is adduced to show, first, that there is in Cuba no such formal and established government as eu- titles the island to recognition as q belligerent; and, second, that no matter what the status Of the Cuban
 government' this nation, in view of Spain's promises Of reform and autonom for the Cuhans, is morally bound to keep hands off and await the fultilIment of the promises. How long the waiting must be he does not intimate, save to say that the nelr future will demonstrate whether the indispensable eondi- tons of q righteous peace, just alike to the Cubans and to Spain, as well as equitable to all our interests, so Intimately involved in thewelfare of Cuba, is likely to be attained.
 It is obvion from all this that the fresldent goes into this subject in such detail and with so apologetic a description of Spans present atti- Jude largely with view to con
 unclng congress that it shonld leave the matter alone and trust to the chief executive and the depart. ment Of State. Otherwise that part oI tne message relating to Cuba, which, briefly, is simply request TOT delay, need not have taken on the character of special plea for Spain and defense for the Spanish plan of autonomy. As it is, the message may or may not convince congress tllat the Presidents opti-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09

Cor. J. D. CONWAY, of Hampstead county, has been appointed Judge of the Eighth Judlcial circuit to fill the unexpired term of Judge k. D. Hearn, lately deceased.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
Catching at a Straw.

They say cows age can be told by the rings on her horns, he said apropos of nothing in particular.
 "i 1t is evident, she returned, with a certain wistfulness. that. it is not eonsid- cred improper for COW to set engaged every year. --Ghiengn Post
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
Wouldn't stand Ii.

The uniformed guard at the entrance of the Field Columbian museum stopped the man in tho brown suit who was about to go in through the turnstilo. ''I can't let you take that cane in- side, he said
 ''Why not?' demanded the other.
 It against the rules. Yoa'll have to cheek it at that window
 "What will that cost?'
 It will cost you cents. 3
 The man i'll the brown suit hesitatctl. This is the Field museum, isn itf,' De asked
 "Yes "
 Marshall Field s?'
 "Yes. He's the nan it s named for. ) Well, I'll bo ovorlastingly gumdast- cd if I'll stand itl don't care for the nickel, but l bought this cane of Mar shall Field, by jocks, and Im not go. ing to pay him for keeping it half an hour while look at his old showr' And he went away, uttering dreadfrl things. Chicago Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
rhe short stops of tho Train.

Sustained journey speed, from end so end of run, is not merely matter of high speed hetweon stations. It involves also making the station stops short The moro stops there are the more im- portant is promptness at stations. The obsoryant man who travels much can not fail to notice tho effect on trainmep, on station men and even on passcngers of hahitual fast running. All hands get trained to alertness and precision of movement It is Il fine thing to watcn the handling of very fast train at station It is invigorating to sec the speed without haste of the inspectors and the baggagemen, the quick and smooth change of engines and the cut ting off of tho dining car I have seen the other extreme on a Southern rail road, where tho easy going conductor ran past flag station and then backed down a mile to let off one passenger His serene indifference to time did nos make me feel any safer on his train Engineering Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-09
FASHIONABLE CoLORs.
aauss, essyen and Lawn h sIue. r2sa.
 aFauve md Creon.

Wauvc and Gre0n-
 White takes first rank this year in fash sonable favor. II is in tic majority tt ais social functions. Next comes the cenbi- nation of hlanl and white, which is varied in thousand ways. Very pale, soft gray Is among tho chosen tints also. and pale blue, mingled with white, the latter talk ing the form of embroidery, lace, nousss- line de soie or other trimming or acces- sorry. Nnuve is dominant color also and fs seen in nil shades and all materials, mousseline de soie, gauge, crepon, lawn orepo do chine foulard and taffeta It ie also employed frequently as lining un- der transparent white goods, for more than ever as summer advances are sheer fabrics made over silk Pink likewise furnishes & number of pretty and seasonable costumes, ss does pale green. If these tints prevail.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
r.. NJ. MccoLLUM. EDrron.

The following lines shoald be hung VI
in every sitting ROOM OF committed K
memory, and practically used:
In speaking ol others faults
Pray don't forget our own,
Remembering those in house glass
Should never throw stone.
II we have nothing else TO do
But talk OF those who sin,
IT'S better to commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge man
Until he's fairly tried,
Should we not like his company
We know the world is wide,
Some may have faults, who has not,
The old, as well as young,
We may, perhaps, for all we know
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you Of better plan,
And find it works full WE'LL
To try our own defects to scan
Before OF others tell,
And though | sometimes hope to be
No worse than some | know,
NV own shortcomings bid me let
The faults Of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
70 sander friend or Toe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know;
Remembering curses, sometimes like
Our chickens, roost at home,
DJn't speak OF others faults, until,
I'VE have none of our own.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

Hagerman, Aug. 2, 1897.
Snake river is getting quite low.
Still comfortably warm, thank
you.
This week will see most of the
second crop Of hay cut.
VIII Snodgrass and Chas Jones
have arranged for horse race and
have their horses in training.
Insurance companies refuse to
insure any county commissioner
as they say the risk is too great.
Jacob stotz has returned from
the hospital at Boise. He is very
much improved, and in fact is in
better health than for years. If
Jake could be persuaded to take
some nice German woman for a
wife it would be better for him than
TO live the lonely life of a bachelor
Our valley people who went to
the Jubilee at Salt Lake, by rail,
have returned. One party saw Dave
Norwood, the escaped Lincoln
county murderer, on the streets of
the city. He told a policeman but
he would not arrest him without q
writ.
Our new postmaster has his
building completed and has a nice
stock OF stationery, fruits, candies,
nuts, lunch goods, cigars and tobac |
cos. He is as much at home as
though he had been there for years. |
We would suggest that he discharge
Stanley Hagerman, as deputy, and
substitute certain young lady as
deputy, clerS. cook and helpmate
generally. Do it soon Van and
thereby you viii get rid Of that far
away look you have when you are
standing in your office door looking
off to the hills in the north.
Grower.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
BLISS BLASTS.


Prof. Mullins will not teach al
Mountainhome this year. He is at
his fathers home at this place.
w. J. Barger has secured the
Bliss school and his daughter the
Clover Creek school. We wish
them both succe Vs.
Several have the Alaska fever
but will not go unless they can take
some of this hot weather along to
mix with the kind they have there.
Jim Fuller and D, w. Yaden are
both school trustees and are strong
rivals to send the largest number
of children TO school. Jim has nine
and Yaden eight.
Young Mr.. Pickren has returned
from Denver, where he has been for
some time. He, with his father and
mother, will spend the month OF
August in the mountains.
The fruit crop on the Bliss farm
is simply immense. Bolman will
have fair crop and his trees are
all young. Len Wilson's orchard
will have few trees bearing, but
next year he will have a large num-
Der of bearing trees. This orchard |
is about the same age as Bolman's. |
Last week THE JOURNAL spoke of |
certain parties who have fenced up
the roads without legal right, and
advises the cutting of fences SO put
up. This ought to have been com
menced in 1890, when the old
Malad'stage station was fenced up
and no new road made. That road
lad been made by the Overland
stage company in the early '70s. A
ew of the hogs ought to be put
through a legal training and then
hey would stop.
30 Peep.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06

+. w. Horton is the sole agent for
the famous Rock Springs Coal, in Sho-
shone. 1t burns longer, gives more heat
and sells at the same price as other coal
Do you know that j. F. Kenly gives q
written guarantee with all of his work.
to be Just as good as you can get any
where in the Union and at just as rea-
sonable prices.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
EsIRAY NOTICE..

Taken up at my ranch 10 miles north
Of Shoshone. one sorral horse branded
: On left shoulder. John Harder
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06
JOINT REPORT
OF the Auditor and Treasurer Of Lin
coin County.

Showing the financial condition of the
county for the quarter ending June so
1897, the amounts received, the amount
of warrants drawn and paid and the
amount of cash in the treasury.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
A BIG FOUR ENGINE
Makes q Run of Eighty Miles an
Hour Very Easily.

Makes q Run of Eighty Miles an
Hour Very Easily.
Much comment has been exerted all over
the country by the new monster looomo
tive recently put In operation by the Big
Four. The engine was built to meet an
emergency. The knlckorbocker OF the Bin
Four has encountered much difficulty the
past few months In making schedule time
with its fast passenger train The schedule
calls for forty five miles an hour. includ-
ing stops, and five cars ,s about the limit
an ordinary engine can pull and make
lime. but the increased passenger service
has been requiring an average OF seven
coaches.
William Garstang, superintendent of the
motive power department iplannel differ
ent locomotives. wheeled engines
we're tried, but owing 10 their peculiar
build could not maintain the terrific speed
required
MIR. Garstang being convinced that the
problem was chiefly one OF boiler power,
decided on tie eight wheel engine, with
plenty of trbctiye weight ana power. anu
enormous boiler capacity, which it was In
tended would be able to make a schedule
time With ten cars. The plans and engines
were the result OF The joint work OF super
lltCnGent biTstdnB, httudhiCti I.nEiHe'i
Lawes Of the Big Four route and the Sche-
nectady locomotive works,
The engines impress one ae being or UNI
usual symmetry Of proportion ana pcatness
Of design, coupled with great power. ms In
dictated by the long, extended wagon top
boiler of large diameter. The leading fea-
ture of this engine. OF course, Is It's inani-
moth boiler. but the general dimensions or
locomotive which can do the work these
engines are called upon to do are OF ex-
IRENE Importance. and represent nm ex-
pendiiure of much study and skill as well
ns money.
The large firebox and the $50 tubes
give heating surface OF 2l75 square feet.
greater than has ever been obtained here
tofore in an eight-wheel engine. No 9gg
on the New York Central has 1897 square
feet OF heating surface. by a peculiar
method OF casting the steel parts OF the
riston, cross heads. main driving wheel
centers etc, about 5000 pounds OF usual
weight was cut Off. The locomotive is 80
high that the safety valves could not be
put en- top OF the dome. and are placed on
the sides.
August 10 remarkable run wns made
| from Cleveland to Gallon with one OF these
engines and thirteen cars. The weight OF
train without the engine was 1.072 900
| hounds. or SAG 1-3 tons; with engine. 2SS.
| G50 hounds or GA tonSl The train made
| The run of eighty miles cn grade averag-
ing eight feet to the mile, In one hour and
| fIfty-five minutes, deducting stops. which
| considering grade end weight Of train, Il
| the most remarkable run ever made.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
can republic have the right to govern with
in the limits of Texas.


in the limits Of Texas.
"a. That they will not cease to carry on
war against said authorities while their
troops are within the limits Of Texas.
20. They hold 1t to be their right dur
ing the Reorganization of the federal sys-
TEN and the reign OF despotism to with
draw from the union and establish such an
independent government, or adopt such
measures as they deem best calculated to
protect their rights and liberties, but they
will continue faithful to the Mexican gov
eminent so long as that nation is governed
by the constitution and laws that were
formed by the government OF political as
ISOLATION. "-Thralls History OF Texas. p.
200. Articles 6. Z. and 8 relate princi-
pally to financial measures.
AS will be seen, separation from Mex
leo was not contemplated but on the I'd
Of March, 1886. a formal declaration OF In
dependence from Mexico was adopted at a
convention of all the people OF Texas,
through their delegates elect" 1t is not
necessary for my purpose to quote this de-
claration Of independence. but the student
may find it in the larger histories. 1t Is
an interesting document.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05

It's Resources; Captain r. NJ. Potter's Fall
of tho Alamo; BARRIERS History of All the
Western States; Newell's History of the
Revolution in Texas; Mallard's History of
Texas: Bancroft's History OF the Pacific
Slope; Yocum's History Of Texas.
Ottawa Ill July. 1897.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-05
FIRST BATTLE FOR TEXAS INDE.
PENDENCE.

(Texan Victory.)
Location - Near Mission Conception,
about two miles south Of San Antonio.
Texan commander, Colonel James Bowie.
Force, 90 men: artillery. none.
Killed, 1: wounded, none.
Mexican commander-General Martin
Perfecto de Cos.
Force, 400 men, artillery, piece.
Killed, co. wounded. 40.
Results immediate-Defeat of the Mexi-
cans. who reiterated to San Antonio.
Results contingent-Animosity Of the
Mexicans against the Texans strengthened,
with a determination on their part to ex-
terminate the Texans or drive them out of
the proyince on the Texan side, precisely
the reverse.