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Hoods Pills cure all Liver Ills. 25 cent
A ROYAL CORNER.
How the Sacred. if Lonely, Precinct Was
 Invaded by an American.

Invaded by an American.
 An American attending wedding re. ception i'll g great house ill London con- graduated bride and bridegroom and passed the usual compliments with the host and hostess.
 There was q great throng of guests, and he could not finger at the entrance of the drawing room when there vera many behind him anxious to offer their greetings.
 Perceiving quiet corner to the right of the bride where a gentleman and a lady were standing apart from the other guests he went directly to it, unwit. tingly coming to stop between two royal personages.
 The American was not aware of the fact that he was face to face with one of tho queen's daughters and had turned his back upon another member of the royal family. He stood quietly looking about, hoping to sec some acquaintance in the company with whom he might have chat, and soon became uneom. fortably conscious that he was attracting attention and that the hostess and bride were casting uneasy glances in the di. rection of the corner where he had taken shelter While the drawing room was crowded, the company of guests with one consent avoided the secluded corner where he ard his two royal companions were stationed.
 An acquaintance in the background perceived his mistake, and coming with in hailing distance motioned to him. He left his two companions in exclusive occupation of the corner. turning his back upon both as he edged his way through the throng, while everybody stared at him. When he reached the spot where his acquaintance was wait ing for him, the stage whisper was breathed into his ear;
 You hava been poaehing on royal preserves. You are privileged charae- ter because you are all American, but no Englishman ventures to turn his back upon prince or q princess. People were staring you out of eountenanee because they took it for granted that you must be q royal parsonage, yet they were un. able to identify you. ]"
 In0 anbWef uiiSub uaN6 bG6u ulauo that every American is a sovereign by the divine right of equality ef free cit. izenship, but this would have been a meaningless pleasantly in all English drawing room, where social etiquette has a sanctity superior to loyalty to democratic principle.
 The American thanked his friend for rescuiRg him from all embarrassing DO. sition, and then stood by and watched the corner where royalty was isolated from too close contact with the world of wealth and fashion.
 No guest approached the royal pair, Their presence WAS an act of eondeseen. sion to the host and hostess, and they remained on exhibition as the patrons of this social function without having their corner invaded. Everybody was careful not to approach them too close. ly and there was general sense of re. lief when they departed and the neces- sity for backing away from them on side tracks was removed = Youths s Compan- ion
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REVEALED BY AN AID.
A Soldier on Both Sides During the War
 Finds Ills Lost Family.

A Soldier on Both Sides During the War
 Finds Ills Lost Family.
 A little two line want ad. ill New Orleans paper has been the means of re- uniting a prominent southern family separated B years, the discovery of man supposed to have been dead since the war all the unraveling of an inn portant government mystery. Alonzo 0. Denson, ,Yho originally enlisted with the Oonfed rate army at Holly Springs, Miss. i'll 1861, but who in 1864 enlisted with the Sixteenth Ohio, Company K, at Cincinnati, was in camp at Washing ton after Lee's surrender He had trou- ble with Lieutenant Cox of the Ohio regiment and was sentenced to be shot Aug. 28, 1865. Ten days before the day of execution he escaped by assist ance of the guard, and, going to New York, assumed the name Thomas A. Jones. under which alias he has sines lived, travelling the world over in search of the family left in Memphis. After years in San Francisco and down the Pacific coast, through all the Central American republics, he returned to New Orleans in 1880 and began the search for relatives. knowing that be left a mother and three sisters. He travelled 75, 900 miles and spent $11 1000 in the search. winding up in Memphis in 1887 with $i1 in his pocket.
 The other day Jones, by which name he was known through these 32 years. was in Monroe, La, and, seeing paper with an ad. from Mrs. J. B. Fenn a thrill shot through him. Recognizing the nEme as that of his sister, Jones ar. rived New Orleans, and publicly an nounceA that he would resume his right name, NC. Denson. He has done busi- ness, carries life insurance policy, bas joined thS Masons, Odd Fellows tae Knights df Pythias and was married under tho isaine of Jones.
 The family is holding q great reunion on Howard avenue The mother. Rebec- ca Denson, Jagged 76; Mrs. J. B. Fenn, Mrs. Young of Atlanta als1 Mrs. Julius Ennermosar, three sisters, the latter having To daughters who are teachers in tue ps5blic schools. are all present at the ssan is 53 years old and s' 4rfssi ts1r>--s
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vii Close on the Fifth.

Whereas, the Fourth of July of this year falls on sunday. we. the undersigned merchants and business men of Pine Bluff, agree to close our places of business on Monday July ], and allow our employees holiday on said day, July ,, 1897; viz: Gillespie& Bro Co Marsh 65 Atkinson Ferguson&Rusgel Alex Perdue < Co $ H Zolier Golden Eagle Co Arnold Bros L Roth Smith x Owen A E Niven X Co w $ Beard Henry Marx Honnett DryG Go N Claims HanfFurnitureCo Thalheimer < Co Westbrook G Co Angel the Jeweler Gould Galbraith Southern Gro To Alexander Bros J D Milner P B MereantileCo Kaufman Bazaar Fox Bros J F Lloyd L E Goldsmith Mccain Gro Co Isaac Dreyfus Nj Schwartz $ Bro < SIX atzenstein Chas Veil $ Bluthenthal&Co Wolf Nichols J R BrittiaT J B Speers Co A Brewster &Son Smith Go
 R D MeGaughy Bradford X Knox I<astor x Bluthenthal
 JnoH Talbot&Co Bell & Vernon C yoss X Bro D C Burford < Co R H Sterns G5 Co Hammett Gro Co Joe c Meyer Blum Dry G Emp Taylor & Roane Riley X Co
 F s Thompson X Son
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New York Public Libraries.

Tho facts which Tbe Book Buyer pre- sents relating to the circulation of bookG in New York oity through free oirculat' ing libraries cannot be questioned. Soani as is the aggregate number of books tak. en, when compared with the popula. tion, it is nevertheless satisfactory td learn that there are some few free libr1. ries which can show that, as to reade !, they have Lore. The following is from The Book Fuyer's article:
 How woefully New York is behjnd other cities # the country in bringing books within reach of the masses is seen from com ,arison of the free oireulat. ing library @ystems Last year, for ex. ample, ther was circulation in New York of something ovcr 1000, 900 vol. ulnes by libraries that received tot..l appropriation from the city of $65. 1000. h the same year the Boston Public library circulated $50, 900 volumes and received $175, 900 from the city, ths Chicago Public library circulated 1. 150.. GOO volumes {the passion for reading being more general even than ill Bos ton) and T. eived SPA, 900, the Cleve, land Puhllo library circulated 695, 0os volumes and received $50, GOO, and the St. Louis Public library received ths same asannnt for circulation ot 831, 00o
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 POETRY,
What It Is and What It Appears to Ee
 nt Varying A Asycs.

Tt Varying Ages.
 Ask tho first half dozen people yca meet Whar is poetry?" and the rest tt will be something like this: Five out # the six will look hurt at your springing such a question upon them and say lamely, "Oh, it's when the lines rhyme, you knowP and the sixth will be an. noyed because, for tho life of him, he can't say what 1t is and is afraid you Il think he doesn't know. As to the rhym- ing definition, beware how you accept it, innocent and simple as it looks Ap- piled, it will inevitably lead you to the conclusion that Hamlet and "Evan- geline" aren't poetry, but that Little Jack Horner" is
 The meaning of the word "poetry" varies, too, with our own age. Five. year-old thinks Sing q Song O Six. pence" and Simple Simon the great. est masterpieces of poetic thought; 15 won't look at either, but pores over the 'lngoldsby Legends" the Ancient Mariner, and, for change, the cheer. fuI Burial of Sir John Moore;' % dreams away Sunday afternoons ov Maud, ;" ard privately determines 0 be Tennyson, too, some day, while 25 "hasn't time to read poetry"
 There are two well known poems that always seem to me deserving of our greatest pity - "The Village Black. smith" and "Casabianea !" We giva them all the little disagreeable jobs to do-all the kicks fall to their share, and mono of the halfpenoe.
 If comic paper man is hard up for joke, he falls back upon one or other of them, while the way they arc both hacked and mangled and tortured in the schoolroom alone is positively cruel and, outside it's four walls, all the re- ward they get is general disfavor. to say nothing of social oblivion and derision
 But long after school has been left be. hind the boy of the burning deck and the smith with the brawny arms tura round upon us and take their revenge for all the obloquy and hard work heaped upon them.
 They haunt us and bring in theil train thoughts we woul1 rather not think. We don't so much mind the memories of dingy sehoolroons and irk and tears and smudged copies that they force upon us, or even of half holida. spent in duranoe vile, but 1t is not of these alone that they remind us No They hint at the sad and foolish ignoble days and the long dead loves and hopei and aspirations that have filled our livel since, and we find ourselves contrasting what we ara with what we were-too often, alas, a bitter thought
 After all, the greatest and best poetry is unwritten and will ever remain so. Our sweetest love songs come rippling over the meadows with the breeze that rocks the grasses in the long, soft sum. mer evening"; our saddest dirges moan through the woods in the dark Noyem. Der days. when a damp mist hangs gray and pall-lika over the hills and the ded leaves rustic as though swept by the feet of ghostly funeral train, while foi thrilling dramas and great. grand epicf we need but to look round us into the faces and lives of living men and wom en. Exchange.
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THE Washington Post, on Wed

THE Washington Post, on We'd nesday, had very unique cartoon, in which was represented Queen Lii lying in bed, and her great and good friend, Grover Cleveland, call ing on her as . physician. The truth is that Grover knocked the the old lady out of the box, and in stead of getting $2O,oOo year as provided in the Harrison treaty, she gets nothing. She has this con solation, however, that Grover is her friend.
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JAPAN AAD THE TREATY.

The little kingdom of Japan after having whipped the tomtoms of China is putting on great airs. A formal protest has been made by the Japanese Minister to the treaty which the President has made with Hawaii. It is believed that Japan will carry her protest to the extent of war, in which case she may find an opportunity of ascertaining the differance between American soldiers and sailors and the poor apologies for humanity over whom she gained her late victory.
 That the Senate of the United States will confirm the treaty made with the Island of Hawaii there is nc doubt; in fact there is no opposi tion except from a small eolerie o gentlemen who desire to continue the Western Sugar Trust.
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When They Were Naughty.

There were some queer modes of pun. ishment for naughty girls and boys in our grandmothers days. When stitches went awry i'll patchwork. the small fin gers were smartly snapped with the sinewy forefnger and thumb, the for mer capped with heavy thimbie oi huge dimensions. This was much more severe than the mere telling would i'm ply, and the young culprits soon learned to dread it. Another punishment foi minor offenses WAS to tie the naughty chiid's pinafore over it's head and rap
 ping the victim with stiff busk. suaatched out from tho bosom of her
 9idently carried there for thai
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Gentlnlen

Gentlmen:
 On behalf Of your employees I wish to extend to all who signed the above agreement my earnest thanks to you all and assure you that they, one and all do heartily appreciate your kindness and do earnestly hope. that for this tire you will close a n stay closed for that day Don't let any one wait to see if some other one will close or not, but each act in dependently, and we guarantee yon wont loose anything by so doing,
 R espectfully, etc,
 \. Q. ALEXANDER.
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summer Tourist Rates.

To Mount Nebo. Searey Spring. Ravenden Springs. Ark. commencing June 1st and continuing until Sep tember l5, 1897. the St. 1. NJ. X $. Ky. will sell round trip tickets to -1t Nebo for $7s0; Searcy Springs, $4.25i Ravenden Springs. Ark, $S.75. final init for return October Il, 1897.
 II. B MRELL, Agent.
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Special Assessment.

The tax hook for the collection of the special assessment upon the real property District No. 2. for the purpose of paving. has been placed in my hands. All owners of real property lying in the district are re- quired to nay their assessments to me within thirty days from date. If such payment is not made, action will be commenced at the and of that time for the collection of said assessment and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this 7th day of Jnne 1897. II. r. WESTBR0oK,
 60 d4w Collector
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The determined fight for the in- terests of the western wool grower, made in the Senate by Senators Ttfhurston, Teller, Foraker Carter and others resulted in victory for the sheep raiser
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-30

Mr. Foraker did not attend the conyention of the Ohio Republicans. He remained in Washington to sit up with the tariff bill. In the au- tumu he will go to Ohio to sit up with Hanna.
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GEN. LEE, our Consul General at Cuba, has forwarded a letter to the State Department, stating that there are l, 300 American citizens who are now receiving assistance firm this Government from the ap= propriation recently made by Con- QfesS
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Cantrell Springs Water.

On June the 1st I will begin to de
 liver CantrellSprings water through out the city Parties desiring to use this water should notify me al once or iea9e orders at the GRAPHIC office. The price will be 10 cents gallon, delivered. B. k. HARDY. dti
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WE would advise all the sensa- tional newspapers to dispatch all their available Cuban war cores pondents to Ohio, at once. The Cuban question is bound to rage there with all the fury the Foraker- ties and the Hannaites can crowd m
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:

THERE is nothing to prevent Lili= uokalani standing on the coaching lines aud making q noise
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 Arkansas State Teachers Ass'n.- Little Rock, Ark, June s to 3G. For this occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Little Rock and return at one fare-$I 9 -on the certificate plan. Tickets on sale June 2 to g, return limit July 1897. I. ". FARLEY. ct. Act Tennessee Centennial and Interna- tional Exposition at Nashville. Tenn, May lst to Oct. 30th. 1897 For this occasion the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway will sell ronnd trip tickets as follows: April 2S to Oct. l5 inclusive, final re- turn limit Nov. :. 1897. rate SIS. 70: April g 10 Oct l5 inclusive, final re- turn limit % days from date of sale. rate $l3;1o; April %, May I. 6. II. l3.
 .lune l, 3. $, 10 F. r. 2
 - f1. 70. p. 27. %;
 ?, 24, 2ggcf sea e.,
 return len $$l0.G5
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Everyone can afford picket fences now that the Bluff City Lumber Company sells pickets so cheap. 5 a34 d&wif
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17

Back in New York city eighteen men
are pedaling Tor dear life on ak days
contest to see which one can 90 the fur
thertest in that length OF time. The con-
test q cruel one, besides which foot bal
is tame. There may be no knock downs
but there is q steady undermining Of the
muscles and nerves, until the men be
come autometons, spurred oa by theil
trairers, almost goaded in the last Stage
of the race. The average man does vel
to run bicycle at full speed for mile
but these men DO il for nearly two thou
sand niles, not at full speed all th'
time, but at a very rapid rate, and al
ways under fearful strain.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17
Here are some interesting facts abou.


Here are some interesting facts about
Tod Sloan the famous rider:
Ordinarily he weighs 100 pounds, most
OF which is in bis shoulders. He can
ride at 95 or 9s pounds.
lie stands feet Of an inch in his
racing boots.
He has chest measurement Of 36
inches, a leg measurement OF 80 inches,
and his arm, which is Of steel, is 271e
inches long. He wears l41ainch collar.
Physically he has big head, but be
has never shown symptoms of megalo-
mama. He wears a IL bat.
His wrist and the grip Of his hand are
tremendously strong. He 63zglove
He earns $25, 900 to $4,000 year BY
riding and erends it like prince-like
the Prince of Wales.
He has a weakness for fine clothes ant
prediliection for big fat cigars.
He rides on a horses withers anC
never wears spurs.
In HE races he has excellent judg-
ment and cool head.
He went 20 Eneiand 10 ride James r
Keen's horses. At hrst the Englishmer
whose jockeys ride with q long rein
laughed at his position IN the saddle
No0 he is tie most popular jockey II
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17

to exciaim, Oh what fine dinner The
writer has attended wedding suppers,
Thanksgiving dinners, and many grand
teasts, but never before has he seen a
table so loaded down with tempting vi.
ands. The memb rship OF Harmony
orange is small hence this dinner repre-
ented many hours OF skillful toll bya
CHOSEN few. All praise to the particular
" small party OF peaceful patrons, W b ose
patient painstaxing practice. provided
plentiful provisions for the people.
Fellow husbandmen! we should not
expect too much at the hands of ou.
matrons in the way of providing refresh
ments Tor our feasts. but be content with
simpler fare, should circum stances
wisely demand 1t.
A farmers daughter who has lately
crossed liie's bridge on thu road to
matrimony, enlivened the dinner hour
with instrumental music on fine organ
brought from the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Aftermath. members OF our order, A
vote OF thanks was rendered them for
its use
The afternoon session opened with a
song by the Glee Club. Sand Ridge was
then chosen rs the next place Of meet
ing, fret Saturday in January.
a committee on program was APP
pointed, who submitted the following
questions, and named leaders for the
came. Which breed makes the best all
purpose eow7 Which breed OF chickens
makes the best all purpose fowl?
Gentlemen alone were placed on the
fret question witt. Geo L Reese az prir-
eipal leader. Ladies' aions on the sec.
end question, and II you want to know
- - ~-~ ~~-~~~ - tha psxk rna..
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17

There should be no laws fer the col
lection OF debts. II John loans Henry
money what has the state got TO do
with It? Why should the state furnish
the machinery for collecting IL? Let
John take care OF his own affairs. The
state does not compel John to loan the
money, and why should it attempt to
compel Henry 10 pay it? Laws for the
collection OF debts are pnre pattern
ilsm. .-Pendleton E o.
What, no law for the collection oi
debte, therefore no civil courts at all,
for there would be no more reason for
courts OF justice Tor other purposes than
for this. The DEMOCRAT would be OPP
p osed to the innovation, and yet there
is considerable good sense in the propo-
sition. We have, though. 10 take things
as they exist, and not as they should
exist, and hence it can only be that the
government should regulate these
things.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17
Drain Normal Notes


New students eonEiue 70 join the school.
There is . small crop Of amateur poets
being developed 81 the Normal from
whom the world NAV hear later.
Fifteen minute morning exercises are
regularly held in the training school ~
the beginning Of each day, one papil re-
citing iron each room, together with two
rousing school songs
Pres. Barzee delivered psychological
lecture Thursday evening IN the NJ Z.
church 10 3 full house..
Last Monday was city election day for
Drain. at 1 p m. about twenty-hvs
Normal students fled no to the polls to
vote for Q fall set of city officers, nom
mated from their own ranks These
votes, together with = soodly numbel
secretly pledged from out the Normal
would have easily carried the school
ticket. ss but little interest Was mani
tested in the town An3 few votes were
cast. bat Blackstone. Kent, Hills code:
and copies of the election laws were
hurled sith such force and precision 8,
the would be electors and candidates that
the whole force vss commanded to -
treat which soon developed into 9 second
| Bull Run. Moral: '.If you do not sue
eeei try, try again.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1897-12-17
-nd. rerhapsthough he may do
more effective work.

For years the ST. Gothard Tunnel shas
beenifamous as the longest in the world,
extending nearly nine and half miles.
The glory of this tunnel is about to de-
part, as the longest tunnel is about TO
be constructed in England. Il is to be
on the London and Northwest RAILWAY
Company, which has decided to bore
through the steep incline known as Shap
fall, with which travellers TO Scotland
are more or less iamiliar.-Ex