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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
A CRACK SHOT.
The Excellent aarIsmanship of Hunter
 Mha Had Exnerience.

The Excellent Craftsmanship or HeiiecN
 Who Had Experience.
 Al old member of the South Noun tain Rod aud Gun club WAS talking or a few solemn and inspiring truths for the benefit of se7eFal younger members.
 When l was q boy. he was saying,
 I was abont like other boys, l guess, oulv [ think 1 had better notions than some have 1 know of now. Now, there's my son ''-
 "Oh, ;" interrupted one of the listen CTS, you don watt to take a boy hand- ieapped like that 2
 Don't yon worry about me, 7 re- tofted the veteran. "That boy will be ali the greater for winning with the handicap. Let me tell you about his marksmanship. One day last winter he went out with me to hunt rabbits, and the luck was poor. We had been out about forr hours, and all of sudden areat big rabbit like q calf jumped up right at his feet-the boys feet, mean and the boy kicked him one ill the ribs and knocked him out in minute. Well, we were three or four miles from home, and we thought we might as well take up our game and tote it i'll and como out again when there was something more in sight. We jogged along, the boy carrying tine rabbit ill his game bag, till somehow it kind of came to and was about to get away, when noticed 1t,
 Here, said I, thinking of some thing, it won't ever do to take that eg1oine and tell the folks you kicked it to death. It's got to be shot, and We might as well do it now as any other time
 So I getsan.t q string and ties it to the rabbits Fad leg, and l hangs him on the limb of a tree, and the boy gets off about 50 yards with q rife to make it kind of sporty, and, after sighting long time, bang goes the gun, down comes the rabbit, and the way he skin. Ded cut for the short timber was a eau tion to winged fowls, for hltfairly flew. looked it the rabbitte an about sec. end, and then sazed GU thatf992y.
 .#'Wlzatin tksnder.- l bel, .tE hen l. lEtel4e.. ..te.. 5..e. ht.s
 Oh. i say, pop. he saidi,s did you see my craftsmanship? That string to lbe rabbits hind leg wasn't thicker than | alarming needle, and blamed if didn't cut il eff clean at 50 yards with arife Have yeu gotta record like that, guy nar%
 Had F Of course hadn t, and that A Aoy bad just eone 10 work and missed >pfhat rabbit aud by a chance cut the string and let the cottontaiI get away, that WAS alL But what could say after thgt craftsmanship snap le dropped on me- Nothing, and ] had to let it go at that Now, what have you get to say to that boy s handicap: saylo Washington Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
Bees Brains.

The brain of the honeybee has re- gently been studied by Dr Kenyon of Clark university more thoroughly, it is said, than ever before It is thought that the source of bees power to adapt itself intelligently to it's sur- roundings has been discovered ill certain peculiar objects ill its brain called the mushroom bodies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
TWO =ECLlP8E8 THIS YEAR.
The Sun Win Be Darlsened in Febrpar,
 and June.

Two eGlipses of the sun me scheduled for the year 185i The first one will take place, the astronomers say. Feb. 1. 1t is what is known as an annual or ring eclipse, which means thst the mooD will pass across the sun s center Ill such way that if an observer were in a ia. yorable position he would see . large black spot in the face of the chief lumi nary, with wide ring of light about 1t. The eclipse will be visible to North America south of line drawn through Boston, Memphis and La Paz, Lower California. IL will bo best observed in this country from the southern states.
 The second eclipse is due July 9s and will be visible in all parts of tho country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
4 Jat I,lac.NEaccoon

Ell Koch killed the first black raccoon ever seen near Portsmouthl O., while hunting near Otway The animal had uot q single white or light eolored hair Even the rings on the tail were absent It has excited considerable curiosity among the loeal zoologists, and the skin will be mounted by a taxidermist and probably sent to the Smithsonian insti. teti0a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
Medical Students.

ratio of medical students to tho ation Ill this country is abont # great as it is in Europe. Ihe Of this curious difference Is Eh ihe greater ease with which Il ean te obtained ill tho United 'ae medical schools of Europe
 much more complete previous
 ieil aad compelling the students 2 9 q longer course If study he z Y e!igible 10 2 degree.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23

The quantity of gas made in Germany last year, according to official returns, was 25, ss7, GOO cubic feet in the man nfaoture of which 2, 760. GOO tons of coal Was employed. The number of flames iii use was J,735, 900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23

h ten years s1,ooo, 900 has been paid out by the casualty fund of the British Benevolent institution to injured rail- way men and their families
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23

In many parts of Central and South America sensitive plants are so numer- nus that tho course of q man or animal through the undergrowlh may for an kour be traced by tAe wilted appearance of the foliage.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
Antftoxine For Pneumonia.

According to B Brussels dispatch tt The Chronicle, DF Mennes of Louvain has discovered all antitoxine for pneu n4Gnia
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23
HaEaar.

Ihe Cosmopolitan publishes 'new lendering of tho Rubaiyat of Omar |Khayyan aud. declares, referring to .Richard Le Gallienne Us the responsible |hartyi that theso suatrains will assure stu him leading place amene living lsnglish poets. What the literary world 8has been famished for, what 1t has 2rased with intense craving, is new Ncfsion of the Rubaiyat, and what sNould represent its widest dreams is asetsien prepared by the distinguished 1liental scholar, Richard Le Gallieune. #Nho has already given 10 tbe world some sfcstale prose fancies and possesses the 1Dest shock of hair in Great Britain Ii
 is true that tie Rnbaiyat has been 1 done into English by several gentle 8nen of literary ability and respectable |8eholarship. There was, for example,
 Alr Fitzgerald, who bus obtained lit zNe temporary neteriety through some
 Ktry pretty jingl9s ou Omar W inc cup sA2d roses, lut the result was not satis-
 #ciurg either to bIr. Le Gallienno CT to
 fhe editors Of The Cosmopolitan, and to Hhls fact NC are indebted for such lines sK these
 aake to mad wAo eXquisitely turns
 A promising faee to him who, waiting, burns aa hell b hear her answer, 70 the world
 ga leas all and hints what no man ever learns
 Ne believe that we are justified in sagln8 that a man who is burning il |l'F while maid is exquisitely turnine apromising face is what is known eel innaially as hot staff considerably MPlmer than anything Mrs. Wilcox ha5 |HAShed up ln late years. Nc congratu. Raafe The Cosmopolitan on its success in Rhenring MT Le Gallienne's qpatrains, i'aSi we have only words of admiration $af ' Dir. La Gallienne's brilliant idea. afe hope that be may feel encouraged
 y he eager applause of the literary Rnple to persevere on present lines and kakf us other amended version of the neleht poets. Chicago Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-23

There aro 3. .027 knots of ocean dis. sance between Gherbourg and Rirs is- land.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

Ameucan girls who are contem- plating marriages with foreigners of rank as an easy way getting rid of their money, will be interested in the case of Count Pappenhein, of Bavaria, who has brought suit for divorce against his American wife on the ground of abandonment [. It seems that Mrs. Psppe nhein. or Countess PapPenhein, as she prob ably takes considerable pains to call herself, found the continued pay ment of her hus bands gambling debts so wearing on her nervous sys- tenn, that she hurried bac k to Ameri lea, thus giving the talented noble man just grounds for his action She has doubtless paid large sums for the pleasure of figuring as a countess, and with the remnants of her fortune she ought to be able to live comfortable in this country and bring up the little counts and count esses, if she has any.-E1.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

The Tucson Star pays a very high compliment to Mir. Patterson. of Apache, in the following terms, to wit: "One of the signs of none but straight goods being delivered to the people by the present legisla ture, Is the striking illustration of Patterson, of Apache county, asking to have his mileage corrected from 55i miles to AZ miles. This is well, and speaks we'll for the member from Apache. Now, let all the other members scale down their mileage to what they would be willing to pay the railroad if fare was collected on the train For a gentleman who has been governor of the territory, the editor ot the Star shows con siderable ignorance on this mileage question. From the earliest history of territorial forms of governments in the United States, this question of mileage has been settled in the same way, and the report of auy committee on mileage by the terri torial legislature has no bearing or effect on the amount paid. The ter ntorial secretary pays the mileage according to government postal map with which be is furnished. by the nearest postal route, and he pays no more attention to auy report from a committee on mileage, than he would an application for mileage from a private individual. The editor of this paper. two years ago, had occasion to explain this matter
 O members who travelled long dis tsuces in order To get to the open ing of the legislature. During his explanation, though, the long dis tsnce mlleaCes were reported, and even his own was reported by the committee, despite the fact that he reported his mileage at l50 miles on the long distance schedule. When the committees from each house re- ported the members mileage 10 Secretary Bruce, he very courteously laid it aside, took down his postal map and figured out tho mileage due each member from it, and paid him accordingly. This was exactly what was done by the secretary of territory during the session of the memorable thirteenth, when long distance mileage was reported by the committee. Any one who has ever read the history of Kansas during its territorial period, will find that this same question of mile age came up there, but was always settled as above by the secretary, the instructions to him being the same as the instructions to secre- tsries during the present time. Why territorial legislatures persist in ap- pointing this useless committee on the opening of each session, is past finding out.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

Judge Locke, of the United States court at Jacksonville, Flor ids, has made a very important de- eision in regard to the violation of neutrality laws, by vessels engaged in flibustering, and one which, if sustained, will permit vessels to en- gage in this business unmolested by the United States. Ills decision was rendered in the case of the Three Friends, which had been libeled for a violation of the neu- trality laws by supplying arms and ammunition to the Cuban insur- gsnts.Ths point raised by the defense was that, inssnuch ss the Cuban insurgents had not been recognized
 by the United States, they were neither a people or a body polite as defined by section 52s3 under which
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

Strikes are the insurrections oi labor. Strikes mean progess, writes NJ. E. J. Kelley, in the Jan uary North American Review, dis cussing, from the workman's stand point the subject of Strikes as a Factor in Progress" The trades Unionist side of the question is el- oquently presented, and the decla- ration made that all strikes, whether successful or not, are beneficial to working people In the long run, for the reason that great labor move ments awaken and interest people who otherwise would never think of labor conditions, or their relation to civilization generally.
 A Chicago genealogist has traced the pedigree of Presideut-elect Me kinley down to Duncan MacDuff- he who laid on to Macbeth, as one Mir. Shakespeare hath it. Here is how the pedigree hunter from the Windy City traces it The Mack intosh clan came from the Mae DuRs, and from that clan came the clan Farquharson. One of this clan, Findlav. had four sons, who took the name MacIsnla, derived from Finlay. From those sprang the clan MacKinley. Of this clan. James, "the trooper" went to Ire land and became the ancestor of a large portion of the Irish Mckin- ley's. His son, James Mckinley, came to America before the revolu- tionary war.-Ex.
 Experiments made with the smallpox patients at Oaxaca, Mex ico, show that honey, diluted in water, administered to the patients. causes postIles of the worst vari ety to disappear and the fever is sad to immediately disappear. If all that IS claimed for the discov- cry be true, it will prove one of the greatest blessings mankind has ever experienced.-Ex.
 The opening pages of the North American Review for January are devoted to 6 most carefully pre- pared paper by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, entitled, "The Meaning of Votes" Poultney Bigelow writes interestingly on "The German Press and the United States"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

the libel was drawn. This was sus- tsined by Judge Locke, and the dis. triot attorney WIS given ten days in which to file an amended libel. The point was one that had never been raj sssd before.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

There IS no patent on goodness. But manufac- turerS do not make
 tea h1ki1g powder
 co1ec hsv1g -g eytracts
 soda and suIgrs so good as Srlillling's BeSk. because most people like to be humbugged.
 For sale by
 The Bashford-Burmister Company
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27

John Sudgden came in from the Jersey Lily mine this morning. He gives 2 =sry good account of that property in its appearance, and says that the property is being handled in a systematic and intelligent man. her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03
THE CITY SCHOOL TAX.
IT WILL PROBABLY BE AS HIGH
AS NINE MILLS.
Necessary to Raise 1922, 600 For the
Public Schools-The City, County
State and School Taxes Make a
Total of "a Mills on Property In
Salt Lake.

At the meeting of the board of educa-
ton which will be held on Thursday even
ing. il is more than likely that the board
VIII take some action in the matter OF the
levy for school purposes this year. It is
believed by many that the sum Will not
be less than mills.
To begin with, the board IS authorized
to levy special tax of IL mills for rails
ing a fund 30 replace the sinking funds
Used heretofore. This IS by special act
of the last legislature, and was enacted
because of the urgency existing.
= 5 authorized ID levy a tax cot eX-
ceedfng 512 mills Tor Fne support and
maintenance of the schools. ana 1 mill for
the purchase of sites and buildings, which
wiz make the levy mills for these pur-
poses. Then there is interest 10 pay on
bonds, and ehis will no dCIbl take 4 mGu
more. which VIII make 9 mills.
The law in relation 10 the levying for
the creation of sinking funds and interest
has no KNIT, SO far as a casual reac<cg
Wan show. True, a lawyer might find
another meaning, but the simple reading
Of p layman would indicate that there
IS no lsnrt.
The board has indicated that It wants
$685. of which S19S, 600 is for support
and maintenance of schools. $4,000 and
over for interest and sinking fund, and
some $4,000 for buildings and sites, and
the ca4ance for the other purposes pro-
vided by law in the special act aforesaid.
Now. if the school board makes this
lew. the teal Sax levy Will be a steep
one There is the city with Z mills, the
county with 311 mills. the state and state
school with ~ nl.Ns. and the school board
with mills. making a ecral of q mills
on property n the city.
50 far as can be ascer tanned, the vaiua-
ton of the city will be IN the neighbour
hood of $3s. OO0.O 900. This wall give a revenue
to the city Of sol Geo. This is far and
away below what was contemplated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03
RAILWAYS EAST AND WEST
The Latest News BY Wire Concern
ing Them.
ALLEGED ACTION OF U. P.
TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE AS
ISOLATION TO-DAY.
S. r. Galloway, Of the Nickel Plate,
Said to Slated For the Presidency
of the Lake Shore-Northern
Pacific Presidency-Death OF New
ton Haight.

Chicago. Aug. 2.-The western roads
We're greatly disturbed today by a re-
port that the situation in the west was
very much unsettled as to commissions.
1t was asserted that the Union Pacific
has been paying large commissions on
Northern Pacific coast business. The
other roads declared that it was doing
this in order to increase its business
in that direction. which has not been
SO heavy since its relations with the
oregon Short Line were severed as
before that time. The matter will be
considered at the meeting of the West
ern Passenger association which is TO
be held in this city tomorrow
A meeting of the advisory committee
OF the Western Passenger association
has been called for Thursday of this
week. The most important matter that
Will come up for consideration is the
withdrawal OF the Union Pacific from
the association. The right of the Union
Pacific TO pull out of the association at
any time it may desire. is not ques-
toned by any of the roads. but they
are very anxious to have it in the fold
once more, particularly as rates in the
association territory west of the Mis-
souri, river have never been in a very
satisfactory condition since the Union
Pacific withdrew. The disturbed con-
ditions of the rates are not attributed
to anything the Union Pacific has done.
but it creates an uneasy feeling among
the other roads to have a powerful
competitor like the Union Pacific on the
outside of the agreement.
The Illinois Central put into effect
today its export rate of 10 cents on
corn to New Orleans. The rate is put
into effect in pursuance of the policy
of the Illinois Central. which is deter
mined to make New Orleans one of the
leading export ports in the country. 1t
has announced that it Will meet any
rate via New Orleans that the eastern
roads see fit to make to the, Atlantic
seaboard.
The Burlington road has decided to
increase it's service between Chicago
and Denver by a new passenger train,
which will leave Chicago daily at $50
p. m. The equipment will be entirely
new throughout, the cars being built
with a wide vestibule and steel plat
forms.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03

property. The syndicate which pur-
chased the rolling stock last spring
which is composed of Jacob Schiff,
William Rockefeller, D. willis James
Colonel Oliver Payne, Daniel s. La
mont, the Deutche Bank of Berlin,
Lord Mount Stevens of Boston, James
w. Tillnan of New York, James ].
Hill of the Great Northern and others
Will be represented in the new di-
rectory. The announcement will be
made within fortnight and the de-
tails of the adjustment of the relations
between these companies together with
the name of the new president. The
name of the president has already
been selected and is connected with a
western system in which j. Pierpont
Morgan & Co., is largely interested.
The adjustment is one that is regarded
as harmonizing all the differences of
management il the Northern Pacific
and the Great Northern. 1t was the
contention of j. P. Morgan in the con-
ference referred TO that an operating
man should be made president of the
Northern Pacific and that was finally
a greed to. 1t may be stated that ex-
Secretary Lamont will accept the vice
and the responsibilities that
will be entailed upon him by the Office
under the arrangements just COM
pleted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

chicago, Aug. 2.-Liverpooi and Lon
don were still devoting themselves to
holiday pleasures, and consequently
regular market quotations were not re-
! ceiVed from there. 1t leaked out how
ever, that Paris had made another SEN
sauonai advance equal to 25s cents per
Dushel-at least 1t was so reported as
the market was opening here English
country markets were Cd higher. The
receipts here were only 24S cars, against
55S as estimated Saturday and the
worlds exports to Europe for last week
gave indications of being very light, the
Danubian states reporting only 10000
bushels. Those were the points that
the local spectators seemed most i'm
pressed with for time. and caused the
market to start very. strong at X over
saturdays clearing price, and in about
20 minutes TO gain a further 11&c
The prospects of a heavy visible in
crease which developed shortly, forced
sudden change in sentiment Promi-
nent bull leaders appeared as heavy
sellers, disposing of 100000 bushels.
The demand thus filled, a general rush
TO realize set in, and prices declined
to the opening figure, rallying fitfully to
1914.
Half an hour from the close New
York reported rs boatloads, equal to
100000 bushels, taken for export to the
continent.
September wheat opened &c higher,
al TAX, advanced to 1915. shortly after
the opening, reacted to 74% after the
visible statement was finished. and adj
vanced again to 1875, once more de-
clined TO 747s, recovered and held steady
until near closing time at 751s@75A,
took a jump in the last few minutes 10
I51s, and that was the closing quota
ton.
The corn market opened strong.
chiefly, it is presumed, because of crop
damage reports from Kansas. for from
elsewhere the crop was generally well
saoken Of.
The price near the close was within
a small fraction of the best figure of the
day.
Oats opened firm betNse corn did.
sold off a shade later for the same rea-
son, and finally finished up the session
with a slight gain over Saturdays
final quotations.
Receipts of hogs were $4,000. and that
being so much IN excess of $1,000. as
estimated Saturday, that the opening
price of provisions was at sharp de-
cline from Saturdays closing figures
The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-03
AMERICANS VISIT THE POPE.
His Holiness Had Kindly Word Fol
Each.

Rome, Aug. 2.-Thirty-two Ameri-
cans, conducted by the bishop of Wich-
tia, Kan, and Mr.. Throop, attended the
mass which was celebrated this morn
ing in the pope's private chapel The
visitors were afterwards presented to
his holiness, and the latter blessed Mr.
Throop and his family and thanked
him for bringing the pilgrimage. The
pope also expressed the hope of seeing
Mr.. Throoo in March, 1898, with the
sixth pilgrimage.
Mrs. Lilly Bougg presented his holt
ness with a copy of her works The
pope. in chatting with Father O'Keefe
charged the latter to convey his bless
ing to the Paulist fathers. and praised
the great work of the T ! pms.
Father F'idelas prese' ad the pope
with the homage of Cart-nal Gibbons,
and thanked his holiness on the .cel-
lent choice he had made IN the new
rector in the Catholic university at
Washington.
The Americans presented the pope
with Peters pence to the amount of
$500. The pope is in excellent health,
and the pilgrims were greatly pleased
with their reception. His holiness had
a kindly word for each of them. They
will remain here until Saturday. when
they will start for Florence. Marseilles
Ond LOurdeS.