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sPANlARDs WEAR BUTTONS
Express Their War Spirit by Peculiarly
Marked Badges.

Henry d, Pierce, relative of the late
Vice President Hendricks, who has Just
returned from Europe, says that in all
the cities in Spain he saw persons wear.
ing buttons much the same as they are
worn here
These badges show a small dog run.
ming away. The dog represents Cuba
and is SO marked Following the dog al
full speed is an immense pig, which is
marked with the word America. -
Following the pig in turn is large
fne ball, running after the pig and evil
IDENTIFY highly infatuated. The pig is
supposed to be III lning away from the
bull, which is goring him with his horns
in most energetic manner. The ball
is marked Spain.
Mr. Pierce added that in every con
eeiYable way the hatred of the Spanish
people for the United States is made APP.
parent He thinks that the Spaniarda
are only too anxious for an opportunity
10 get into fight with this country. -
Chicago Times-Herald.
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WAGES IN CHINA.
In Spite Of Their Lowness the oelestials
wax Fat.

In Spite of Their Lowness the Celestials
wax Fat.
How Chinese workman manages to
support his family and remain sleek and
fat on the wages he receives is an ever
lasting mystery to the European and
American The Chinese are q people of
marvellous economy. They will support
a family, furnishing food, clothes, shell
ter, from a small garden which they
call a farm, but which in America
would not more than furnish an Amer
lean family with early vegetables.
In cities the laboring men receive the
merest pittance In Canton, where Ia
borers are better paid than in other parts
of China, skilled workmen live on these
wages: Shoemaker, 81 per month";
blacksmith. SIS per mouth; fine ivory
carver, SIP per month; tailor, So per
month; fine embroiderer, Sd per month;
designer, SO per month; silversmith So
per month.
The Chinese are superstitious, and
the workmen support, in addition to
their temples and pagodas and priests,
which receive more in proportion than
the churches Of Europe and America,
idol makers, geomaneers, fortune tell
ers, physiognomists, soothsayers, astrol-
ogers and interpreters of dreams, who
exist by thousands and coin all the mon
ely they want. Another thing which
makes money for a certain class is the
Chinese custom of burning great guam
titles Of spirit money imitation
coins, which are supposed to be legal
tender for dead relatives One city
alone employs 100, 600 people in making
this cash for ghosts
Peculiar superstitions embarrass the
workman. For instance, carpenters and
builders have to exercise great care in
selecting ridgepole for house. 1t
must have neither cracks nor knots, and
IN it a small hole must be made and
filed with gold leaf and the whole
beam PARTED red This insures good
luck for the owner of the house.
The tea trade employs thousands Of
persons. The laborers receive from 50
to $40 per month, according to their
grade Of ,@oria. Chicago News.
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HER SIXTH MARRIAGE.
-Four of Mrs. Linter.s Ex-Husbands Were
Ushers at Her wedding.

Four of Mrs. Linter's Ex-Husbauds We're
Ushers at Her Wedding.
The marriage of Mrs Eleanor B.
Linter to her sixth husband occurred
last Tuesday at the Church of Emanuel
at Providence, and four of her ex-hus-
bands acted as ushers. The entire mar.
ital batch would have been present, but
the fifth man met with an accident and
was confined to his bed
Contrary to the ordinary run Of such
affairs, the lady and All her former hus-
bands are ON excellent terms. They ara
also great friends of Mr. Augustus
Thistlewood, who is the abundantly
married lady's sixth husband.
Mrs. Thistlewood was Miss Eleanor
Riblet before she was first married. Her
husband was a Cleveland man. He is
the one who is hurt, but he sent her
wedding present and invited her and
Mr. Thistewood to spend their honey
moon at his place. an invitation which
has been accepted.
In every instance the lady has obtain
ed divorce without opposition and
without losing the friendship of any of
her spouses. She convinced them all
that they were not we'll mated, and
every one of them accepted the situation
gracefully and retired respectfully, with
proffers of assistance at any time when
called on.
Husband No 2 is a Mansfield man.
Arthur K. Singleton; No. is Hiram
E. Kramp of Rochester The fourth
man is Albert Edward Derbey, gu Eng
ishman, and the fifth is Walter Z
Deyenish Linter of Newcastle, Pa.
It will be the turn of the last to take
Office as president of the Eleanor B.
Riblet club, which was organized few
years ago by the first three ex- husbands,
each Of whom has served term as pre-
siding officer None but men who have
been husbands of the lady are eligibls
for membership. They dine once a year,
and their ex.wife is never absent from
the annual dinner in her honor, The
dinner for 1896 would have taken place
earlier, but was deferred until the night
before the wedding.
The bridegroom elect would like to
be present, but the ironclad rules of the
society bar him out until he becomes an
ex-husband, and when that will be is
not known. The average term of Mr..
fhistlewood's predecessors was ten
months There are no children. None
of the ex-husbands has married again.
They acted as ushers at her wedding,
and at the meeting it was moved and
voted that at all future weddings of this
lady the club will act as ushers; also
as pallbearers in the event Of her death
--EeW Ycxk san.
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CoURlERs BACK NUMBERS.
No Longer Any Need to Co Through En-
rope With Them.

rope with Them.
Up to times within the memory of
living men almost no one Of means
Travelled through Europe without
courier Before railroads were built
and before good guidebooks were print
ed he was almost Indispensable His
tribe survives, but in greatly dimin-
ished numbers. 10 the self reliant tray
eler he is of no use whatever Indeed
he is frequently a positive ineumbranee,
and worse. 70 my mind one of the
great pleasures of travel is in learning
to travel by myself There are satisfac-
ton, pleasure and education IN plan
ming routes, dcciphering time tables.
making bargains, learning by observa-
ton the lay Of the land
The time may have been when
courier could save traveller more than
his cost Most certainly that is not the
case now. On the contrary, as he gets a
percentage on every purchase his party
makes, which, of course, comes out of
the purchaser in increased price, and
as it is often for his interest to advise
the more costly route, the more costly
hotel on the more costly excursion, ha
eats up much more than his wages,
while saving positively nothing. Bean
declares that in two weeks trip in
southern Spain, which he made side by
side with a couple having courier. he
invariably reached the hotel first, got
better rooms and saw all the sights TO rs
good advantage, yet the courier was. of
his kind, an expert The fact is that
travel has become so general, tourist
companies, railroads and landlords have
so we'll studied its needs, books are so
plentiful, that you eouldn't very well
get off the track or have mishap if
you tried. Herbert Luce in '.Going
Abroad. -
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KNOW THEIR POWERS.
The Eternal womanly In the Rough Girls
of New York.

80 ~%te%afs~h " OANeahi3 Az htlG AsOdkn Gifka
of New York.
IN the girls of the rougher tenement
house districts the eternal womanly
wears such disguise of the eternal
gamin that 1t cannot always be reeog-
nized. Their pertness and sauciness are
only sharpened by their precocity and
their tomboy habits of street Arabia.
A reporter recently had occasion to visit
lower Washington street to ascertain
the facts regarding the murder of boy
down there. He was obtaining his in
formation from the boys Of the neigh
borhood, who might have been play
mates Of the dead youth A circle Of
them, together With three or four eirls
Of 10 or j years, was gathered around
him.
A big, huiking youth about 30 years
old arrogated TO himself the place of
spokesman. lie was evidently the ty-
rant, the bully of the street, u young
Bill the Brute, who had not yet ac-
CURED wife to beat and was eonse.
quently an object of great interest to
these misses, whose skirts had not vet
grown down to their ankles. With his
big, harsh voice he sileneed every inter.
ruption of his tale, saying:
Shut up there! L IN tellin this yarn. ,,
OF course this adjuration, which
forms part of the ordinary courtesy Of
the neighborhood, did not quiet the
girls. They chaffed him and the report
er and giggled until at last the speaker
said to the reporter:
Don't mind them. They're nc
'conht. They're aothin hut girls. "
OF course he'll mind us, smarty, =
instantly retorted one of the girls.
Yves the makin's of ladies. /"
1t was the eternal womanly Of street
Arabia. New York Tribune.
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Until few years ago a little Wis
cousin hamlet was known simply as
Hog Back. from the peculiar shape of a
hill near there. said milwaukee,
drummer Finally the citizens held
an indignation meeting to wipe out the
plebeian name and choose n better one.
1t was decided to honor the place by
giving it the name of the Oldest settler,
man named King. Somebody suggest
ed Kings Mills and another Kings
vile, and SO on, but the old man him
self objected. Then it was agreed to
name the town for one of Mr.. King IS
daughters. but he had seven of them.
aud jealousies promptly cropped out.
At last some genius noticed that all the
girls were redheaded and suggested
'Auburndale. And Auburndale it is to
this day. Troy Times.
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AGuRAl IN MAROcCn
The Whole Population of the Town :,
Descended From Renegades -

Descended From Renegades
Agura is small town surronpaaa
with walls Of from 40 to so feef :,
height and built Of tabia. or oo, -
solidated rubhle. It owes its existena.
to Mulai Ismsil, who held the tbrons
of Marocco from 1T22-l757 One oaTs
alone gives entrance to the place ANA
in this respect, as we'll as in its arch;
lecture within and without, it mncl
resembles the ksor" of the Sahara a.
seribed in the writer's ssTafiifl PIT
it owns one feature of curiosity wbieI
was lacking i'll the desert, for almost
without exception the entire population
are descendants of the renegades ana
Christian slaves of the time of Mnla
Ismail, with the addition of stray rena,
gades who have been sent there since
Probably no such cosmopolitan nlace
exists IN she world, for its 800 or 40o
inhabitants are representative of no les
than 10 nationalities. Each family r..
members and is proud of its origin, tia
Arab equivalent beng applied as sur.
names.
The family in whose home the writer
spent the few days of his visit were
Flemish, while the next door neighbor
ON one side was IN elderly female,
whose father, an Englishman, had be-
come a renegade some so years since.
and who quickly tired of it, leaving a
wife and daughter, the neighbor in
question. The other neighbors were the
descendants of Spanish gypsies, the
head of the family being Absalam ben
Mohammed ell Gitano el Espanoli .
They were particularly proud Of the
"Gitano' GYPSY part of the surname
and begged me not to confound them
with the ordinary Spaniards, Of whom
there were many descendants in Agurai.
The ancestor of this gypsy family was
two generations back. He had left his
country, they naively told the writer
because he was not ON good terms with
his sultan, who wanted to imprison
him, being afraid Of his influence. Prob
ably it was more of an affair of tie po-
lice courts than political intrigue.
The ''Ulad 81 s's Of the
converts }, as the inhabila1ts of Agurai
are called, have entirely, except III one
or two cases, lost the tyre of their En-
ropean ancestry, and through marriage
no doubt, are as largely Rerber in APP
pearance as the wild tribes that sur
round them. They speak among them
selves both Arabic and Berber, and
both, curiously enough, with a strong
foreign accent, easily distinguishable.
They are exempt from all taxation, but
have to serve in the sultan army, where
they perform the duties of cooks aud
butchers. Geographical Journal
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EAITHEuL UNTO DEATH.
swede Spent Two Years IN indicating
His Brothers Honesty.


81 practiced law once in Silyerton.
Colo, y said one of the passengers IN
the smoking room Of the Pullman, and
had a case that struck me as model
exhibition of faithfulness. A Swede
Jas mail carrier over the pass to the
other side of the range. II was not a
long trip, but it was severe one, made
on foot and with the danger in winter
from heavy SHOWS added to its diff
eultV. Andrew carried tho mail for
year, then one day he failed to reach
home. There wers valuable letters IN
his sack, and the inference that he had
decamped was strong. On the night he
should have come into Silverton his
brother, fresh from Scandinavia and
unable to speak English, got off the
stage. As county attorney | had to
break the news to the boy and stood by
while he wept.
Rewards were offered for Andrew,
and [ sent out parties to search the pass,
but to no effect. A miner claimed to
have seen him week later in Leadyille,
but we got no more trace of him. The
brother refused to believe that Andrew
had done wrong and spent his days
tramping the canyons searching for his
brother's body. We tried to get him to
60 to work, but he did not yield until
by his shortness of funds he was starved
to it. In the summer, when most of the
snow was off, he searched again, but in
vain. During the winter he worked,
but when the second spring came he re
newed his lonely trampings up the trail
We thought him demented, but he cared
not for our opinions. One day in August
no walked along at the base of cliff
and saw a boot sticking out from some
debris. He uncovered it, aud his search
was ended. That evening he came into
town with the mail sack, much stained
but intact, and his brothers. coat The
grave he dug, with the rough stone he
afterward put at its head, is up the
canyon yet, II took two years to yindi-
cate his brothers. name, but he did not
begrudge it. When it was done. he went
back to his native land. Chicago
Times Herald.
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AN ANEcDoTE OF LINCOLN.
He Measured Height with Miner In a
Pennsylvania Town.


Pennsylvania Town.
In the course of an article in st.
Nicholas Mary Lillian Herr relates the
following characteristic anecdote of
Lincoln:
Once while on his way to Washing
ton as president the train stopped lit
tie time III the town of Allegheny, Pa.
Around the station great crowd gath
cred, eager to see the new president.
They shouted and cheered until Lincoln
had to appear on the rear platform of
his car. He bowed and smiled, but the
crowd was SO noisy he did not try to
speak to the
Very ne.,t to the platform stood a
miner, wearing a red shirt and blue
overalls and carrying dinner pail
Like the rest he had stopped hoping to
see Mr. Lincoln. The workman was al
most giant in size and lowered head
aud shoulders above the crowd.
No doubt he had heard that Lincoln
also was very tall, and, encouraged by
the friendly face, the workman sudden.
ly waved his bare arm above his head
and called out:
Hi, there Abe Lincoln! I'm taller
than you-yes, u sight tallerp
This loud speech sileneed the crowd
by its holiness, and "a laugh arose. But
Mr.. Lincoln, leaning forward with
good hunored smile, said quietly:
my man, doubt tin fact, I'm
sure am the taller. However, come up
and let's measure -
The crowd nude way and the workman
climbed to the platform and stood back
to back with the president elect. Each
put up hand to see whose head over
topped. Evidently Mr.. Lincoln was the
victor, for with smile of satisfaction
he turned and offered his hand to his
beaten rival, saying cordially;
Il thought you were mistaken and |
was right, but L wished to be sure and
to have you satisfied However, we are
friends anyway, aren't we?''
Grasping the outstretehed hand i'll
vigorous grip the workman replied:
Yes, Abe Lincoln us long as /
live y
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FOR SAFE KEEPING.
The Inmates of the Cleveland County
Jail Removed to Camden

On yesterday Wednesday, after.
noon, the six negroes confined in
the Cleveland county Jail charged
with completely ia the killing of 7.
I. johnson, were removed by Sher-
If Dykes to Camden for safe-keep-
ing
There were no immediate fears of
lynching, but so much had been said
by sensational newspapers about
the affair that Sheriff Dykes con-
cluded it would be the safest and
best policy to remove the negroes
until the excitement subsidies.
Passengers in froh Rison this
afternoon report everything quiet
in that section.
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ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT.
Mr.. Isaac Dreyfus to Build an Addi-
ton to His Big Store.

At l o'clock this afternoon ground
was broken for an addition to Mr.,
Isaac Dreyfus store. The addition
will be 30 by 81 feet, and will be an
extension Of the Second avenue en-
trance north to the alley between
Barraque street aud Second avenue.
The new building will be two stories
high and Of brick, and will be solid
and substan tial in every particular.
Mr.. w I. Hlliard has the contract.
We are pleased to chronicle that
Mr.. Dreyfus increasing business
makes additional store-room neees-
sary.
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The Markets.

Both wheat and cotton takes a
tumble today.
Wheert went down about / cents
and cotton was of points at the
close Of the markets today
Wheat for September delivery is
quoted in Chicago at 90 cents: corn.
29S cents.
Midland cotton in New York clos
ed at lilo cents, aud in New Or
leans at Z 3-l6 cents.
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Eishy.

A man who resides on the east side
relates an incident which may be true,
but it sounds fishy.
His boy caught large sucker a eou-
pie of years ago, and since that time he
has been experimenting with his fnny
pet somewhat. The fish has been kept
out of the water so much that it gradu-
ally became accustomed to it, and fire.
quently Topped out of the water itself
and followed the boy around Finally
the boy placed it in a pen and gradual
ly reduced its bathing periods until it
became acolimatized, abandoning en-
tirely its native element. 1t would fol-
low the boy around like dog, and one
day he started over to town across the
swinging bridge with the pet fish flop
ping along after him. But alas for boy
ish hopesl The fish made a slight mis-
cue and topped overheard into the creek
and drowned before the boy could res
cue him. -Punxsutawney Spirit.
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On the occasion OF a special excur-
sion from Shreveport to Little Rock,
Monday, Aug. 80, 1897, the Cotton
Belt Route viii sell tickets from
Pine Bluff to Little Rock and return
at $l00 Special train will leave
Shreveport about 10 O'Clock a. M,
arrive ut Little Rock about 7:3O p. IN
Returning train will leave Little
Rock Wednesday morning at 7
o'clock, arriving at Shreveport
about 4:30 p. NH. Bringman.
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We have just received two car
loads of the celebrated Stude-
baker wagons in all sizes. The
Studebaker took the premium at
the Worlds Fair over all the
leading wagons of the world.
Parties visiting the Nashville
exposition should not fail to see
their exhibit of wagons, buggles
and carriages. For sale only by,
r. M. KNOX g. co.
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Tom Hanley, the young white man
who was badly wounded at a negro
picnic near Kendalrs mill last Satur-
day. and who has been confined In
the Infirmary silce. took n turn for
the worse today and is threatened
with traumatic pneumonia, a not
infrequent but dangerous complica-
tIon resulting from wounds pene-
fraflng the chest.
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CLEMENTS IS CHAMPION.
Pine Bluff Man Defeats Com
ner, of Little Rock, in the
Match Shoot.

Arkansas Ga2ette.)

The mooted question of the State
championship was settled yesterday
afternoon when she two crack shots,
Geo. Clements, Of Pine Bluff, and
Hamilton Conner, of Little Rock,
met at the Club grounds across the
river in match shoot
Clements won the championship
the score being A to 43
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Rarrie,s Candor.

J. NJ. Barrie is more conscious of his
limitations than are some of his follow
workers of the period. At the repeated
solicitation of his Journalist friends he
consented some time ago to write the
life of the late Alexander Russell of The
Scotsman, but he Immediately relin-
pushed the task when he perceived that
biographical writing lay altogether out
side his particular sphere of work
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No Inventor.

"They do say that every Americas is
a born inventor, said the patriotic
gentleman.
Ny husband, said the fat lady is
an exception. He uses the same old ex-
euses for being out lato that used to
hear my father use. - Indianapolis
Journal.
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Prof. Junius Jordan will go to
Forrest City Friday and will deliver
an address there Friday night. The
school directors OF Monroe county
will hold a convention at Brinkley
Saturday and Prof. jordan has ac-
cepted an invitation to be there. He
also received an invitation to
attend big school convention ut
yilonia. in Falkner county, on the
same day.
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What He PLAYED.

A member of q military band at
certain barraok came to the surgeon re-
Gently with a long face and plaiutiye
story about a sore throat.
'sSore throat. ell, said the surgeon
pleasantly. Let me see. Oh, that's
not so bad. A slight irritation; nothing
more You'll be all right in a day or
two. think you had better take no
risk in renewing the trouble by using
your throat, though, so | will recon-
mend you for fortnight's sick leave
Armed with the surgeon certificate,
the bandman obtained his two weeks
sick leave The two weeks had Just
come to an end when he met the sur
geon ON the parade ground The band
man saluted. The surgeon recognized
the face and stopped.
How's the throat:' he asked pleas
antly.
Its quite well, sir, +" was the reply.
That's good, J" said the surgeon.
p" You can get back TO your duty with
out fear. By the way, what Instrument
do you handle in the band?'
''The small drum, sir " said the mn-
stefan. Chicago News
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A silly youth was Dragging of his
great friends in a mixed company, in
which Douglas Jerrold was present, and
said that he had dined three times at
Deyonshire House and never saw any
fish at table. 81 can't account for it, =
he added. II can, said Jerrold. They
ate it all up stairs :
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The proyerb Necessity is the mother
of invention" can hardly be traced to
one Independent source The idea was
expressed by Persius, the Roman satirist
about 90 A. D., and is found, in the
precise form now quoted, in Richard
Franok's Northern Memoir" (printed
in London, lG94). and in various later
English winters.
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CAUSES EXCITEM ENT.
searcy Stirred Up Oyer the Closing
of the Walker and Murphy
Lakes

SEAEcY. Ark, Aug. 24.--There is
excitement here over
the controversy over the lease OF the
pearl lakes near Bald Knob, and the
legality OF Mr.. Williams lease will be
tested in the courts.
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For the Fail meeting OF the st.
Louis Interstate Merchants associ-
alton, September 1897, the Cotton
Belt Route will sell tickets from Pine
Bluff to st. Louis and return at one
and one-third fare, 1854 on the GER
tifieate plan. Tickets on sale Sep
tember ith and 9Th. Return limit
10 days from date of sale.
FL. BRINGMAN.
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Mr.. Allie Drevfus was, on yester-
day, surprised by a number of friends
who sent him memento of their
friendship bearing the compliments
OF VIII Kaufman, Frank Ragland,
Tracy Mills, Walter Truloek and
Herbert Strange. The present was
an umbrella. 1t was nm old one and
had been found inhe rear of Dreyfus
store.
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Mr.. c. L. Cromwan. representing
the Commercial-Appeal, is In the city
today. He reports a great increase
in circulation since the Fast Mail"
tram through Arkansas.
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kid" Wilson, sport" from
Warner, was arrested by the Police
of this city yesterday afternoon on a
telegram from the sheriff of Lincoln
county. The kid" is charged with
stealing $40 from crap game at
Warner