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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
NEW COLONY or DunkARDs.
An Entire rndiana County AIey Re Pur-
 chased by Them,

an Entire Kndiann County 1Iey Re Pur-
 chased by Them.
 The peculiar religious society known aa Dunkards, large numbers of whom have lived in northern Indiana for many years, are eadeayoriug to purchase the entire body of land comprised within Brown oourty, to which they will em. igrate and establish B government ac. eording to aeir own peculiar notions.
 c. B. Eyerett of Fort Wayne is nego. tiating witb many landowners in tho county and has already purchased A1, ,o0o acres, to which 106~fa1nilies will move in few days and form the nucleus of the new settlement The county oon- tains 8 great deal of valuable land and large quantities of building stone, ar 1 as the Dunkards are an industrious peo- pie it is expected that the county witl become in time the garden spot of h. diana
 MT. Everett thinks the sect will have no trouble i'll ultimately acquiring all the land in the county and will put ill. to practice their ideas Of local govern ment The proprietors of the scheme say that neither jail nor courthouse will be needed, and that the election of local officers would be held only to comply with the law, as all property would be held Ill common. = Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
"e hamorous RicxeIa Renairer-

|asss ' humorous Bicycle Repairer. ke,s i'akestraw-Well, look there! kn ns slen that says Bicycle Asy- e.S,.,, nnat cap that that bbe fors
 a bs . hahestraw-Oh! Why, that
 a]a m sor folks that have this here
 kt-p,aze that we've been readin
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
4 Rihia Sled

|al. e trend Of the Listener saw a funny |si', |sis uo"n Tn Maine. At place there, ha,, ,n needn't be named, there lives a |bo 0oy named Jonathan Longfellow. |et 70 q third or fourth cousin of the ks ss anu ne Is great Joy too. One day X, nieha of the Listener was driving ke r,s r,oahs Jonath ans house and saw k5n engaged at a little distance ill lso9al, s uown hill on the slippery crust ma eehihg that was not sled. What
 M. V pe: Evidently the scrutiny of ! hs hpasseiby s was observed by the boy,
 ~ stopped his coasting and called
 pa'iaoiy p,,a I'm sliding down hill on
 oa. Aud il was t..e fact too. He
 isy, l,,, 'he smeeth, leather bound fam
 's, tbs containing the generations of
 f w ,s,1 1Longfellows, and was coasting
 sosos; s'n magnificent success. Boston
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
BENNIE's BABY SISTER.

edge of just what to do first, not only would his baby sister have perishcd ip the cruel flames, but his fathers house would have been reduced to smoider ing heap of black and charred ruins.
 MT. Moran says this is Bennie's sec ond experience. A little over year age his sister and mother, with Bennie, had a narrow escape from death by fire They escaped only by the soother carry ing them over burning door and down q stairway of flames.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
THE DODBERAR MADsToNE8.
They Save Adams From an Awful Death.
 Their sInenI..r l.lssosY.

They save AHalsas From &n 3Wf1l Death.
 Their singnI4r History.
 John Adams of Somerset, ky. who was bitten by a mad dog several days ago, was taken to Stanford to submit to the application of tho famous Dudderar "madstones They were applied to the wound and adhered the first time. Ad- ans, shortl after he was bitten, at- tempted, with extraordinary nerve, to cautorize the wound, and, as he thought, thus burn out the poison He used q charred stick and severely burned his hand
 The Dpdderar m9as1aDcs gre known throughout Kentucky and Tennessee MT. Dudderar told the correspondent that they were brought to Kentucky from Missouri about 1S42 by his father, Samuel Dpdderar, who said that the stones came from tho Inaw of Rocky mountain goat in tho 50 years CT nore that they nave been ill the Dudderar family the stoues have been applied to at least 1 ,000 mad dog bites, and of all the patients only one has died, and in that case the wound vas neglected for IS days after the biting. g.-CincjcAa EnQuircr
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14

Tennessee Centennial and Interna- tional Exposition at Nashville, Tenn, May 1st to Oct. 30th. 1897 For his occasion the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets asfellows: April 2S to Oct. l5 inclusive. final re turn limit Nov. [. 1897. rate $lS.70; A pril % 10 Get 15 inclusive, final re- turn limit 20 days from date of sale, rate $l3.70: April 29. May 1. 6. H. l3. IS. 20. 25. 27: June l. 3. <, 10. 15. F, 22 24 20. July |. 6, s. i3. l5. 20. 22. r. 29; Aug. ?. 2, 10, F. r. l9. 24. 2G, 3l; Sep 2. [. 9, II. l6. 2i, g. 2S. 30; Oct. {, F.. l4. 19. 2l and 26, final limit return ten ,iaNs from date of sale. rate $lO 0o.
 H B. MlzELI..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
njsbon,s Crown Starts a Fuss.

A faction of a colored Baptist church of St. Louis has issued circular leS. ter to tke churches warning the breth- ren against Bishop Albert Mack, who IS evangelizing the state. The criticisma are caused by the eccentricities of the bishop, who wears black gown and 3 crown that inspire ave among the col ored folk. Bishop Mack threatens to have the authors of the letter sent to the penitentiary If they don 't-quit their foolishness. 7
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14
MARBLE HOUSE FOR SALE.
Potter Palmer Hay Purchase the Wander.
 bilt Mansion nt Newport.

Marble House, the S2, GOO, 0o0 palace at Newport which William K. Wander bilt built as birthday gift to his wife, may, it k rumored, ho bought in by Potter Pa'r~r of Chicago. When Mrs Vanderbilt secured ] divorce and mar. ried Oliver T. P Belmont, itawas said that she would retain the Newport house, but since then she has changed her mind and the place is for sale The traditions of Marble House are so close ly associated with the Vanderbilt family. and more especially with her first hus, band. that Mrs. Belmont. much as she would like to keep the big white palace, has concluded to sell
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-14

Mushroom Investment Companies seour.
 ing Fortunes In Indiana.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

course the territory involved goes
to the Government. But the
muddy, murky stream goes right
on shipping land to neighboring
states or sending it down to the
Eads jetties or the gulf.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
CURIOUS FACTS.

No person under sixteen years
of age is permitted to enter the
alter or tavern in Heligoland.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
Wanted An Idea IT. s? : ;s!ss

Write JOHN WEDDERBURN CO., Patent Attof.
neys Washington, D. c.. for their 81 800 prize o6ee
and list Of two hundred inventions wanted.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

A caterpillar is SO greedy that
in one month it usually devours
six thousand times it's own weight
in food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
MURDER ENCOURAGED.
From the Minneapolis Journal

From the Minneapolis Journal
The Chicago Tribune's tally of muir
ders in 1896 would seem incredible and
unthinkabIe at first; but when one re-
calls the murders he has read of in the
newspapers through the year and re-
fleets upon the halting of justice in SO
many of our states, the total of 1862
murders doesn't seem very surprising.
1t isn't large, considering the fact that,
in the vast majority of American cities
and towns, liquor saloons abound and
are not even compelled to close fore and
aft on Sunday, as required by law, but
become the localities where plots for
the commission of crimes are planned
or the scenes of bloody murder, il is on
ly a wonder that there were not more
murders, taken in connection also with
the fact that the pistol-carrying ha bit
still has vogue to an alarming extent
and that anybody, man, woman or
child, can go and buy revolver with
out a particle of hindrance, although
there ought to be stringent laws regu-
lating the sale of all shooting or stab
bling tools, as well as the laws which
in most states regulate the sale of poi
sons and explosives. Moreover, there
are few cities in the country where II IS
really safe to be out at night on foot
on account of the paucity of police pro-
lection or the inferior watching powers
and inclina tiOns of existing police for
ces. So long as there are scoundrelS
abroad who will kill a man in cold blood
from his pockets, there is peril to the
| honest wayfarer at night.
But there is a very dark phase of this
| subject to be considered There were
but 122 judicial hangings to offset the
formidable list of murders, and it is not
very surprising that this absurdly light
amount of judicial punishment was sup
! plemented by 131 lynchings, 122 in the
| south and nine in the northern states.
/ That was falling off from the 235
| lynchings of 1892, but it is a terrible
| record and it is humiliating to confess
| that Minnesota figures in the 1886 list
| of 131 to the extent of two lynchings,
| the perpetrators of which have not been
| brought to justice. Minnesotas record
| is insignificant compared with those of
| Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and
Florida which contributed between them
| so per cent of the entire number OF
| lynchings There was no excuse, il
| there can ever be said to be any excuse
! for lynchings, for the lynchings in Min
nesota, where murder is generally dealt
| with judicially as it deserves.
| The chief difficulty in this country is
| that murder rather receives encOura ge-
ment by the facility with which new
trials on mere technicalities can be OBJ
/ tanned after a murderer is convicted
/ and even sentenced to be hanged. Pro-
ceedings are stayed and postponementS
| allowed through several years, during
| which the murderer not infrequently
|
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
CALVE AND PADS.


(ErOm the New YORK HeraId-)
TT was only the second time 1 had ever
been on the stage" said Nine. Calve. 1T
was at the Theater de la Monnaie, in
Brussels, IA years ago. / had made my
debut as Marguerite. and the next part L
was to sing CherubinO. in La NoZze de
arms''-here Mile. CaIve held those mem
bers out in all their present plumpness-
were very small So were my neck and
my shoulders. and. of course, my legs.
ing in trousers as was. So I went to
my costumer and had him make me a
pair of pads He made them according
to his own ideas. did not put them on
until the night of the performance, and
1 did not realize myself how looked. But
L must have been sight. From the
waist up l was a thin, painfully thin, I'M
developed girl, but my calves were en-
OrmOuS- After the second act the mana
ger rushed around to my dressing room
Where in the world did you get those
legS2 They are certainly not your own
I had to admit that they were not. But
1 said 1 was too thin to appear in trousers
without pads. Don't you know, he said
that q young pretty girl with straight,
pretty limbs is one of the most beautifui
sights in the world2 Take off those pads
and go out in your own legs I took his
advice and dropped off the pads. When
appeared again on the stage I was thin,
but [ was symmetrical, at least. But the
effect the audience was startling I
seemed to see all the people in the house
craninS their neckS and trying to see
what had happened to me during the few
have made such a difference in my ap
pcarance. The conductors eyes nearly
popped out of his head. I never wore
pads afterwards. and I have wondered
what the people must have thought when
they simply saw the change in my ap-
pearance and had no EXPLANATION of it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
COMIC OPERA EVOLUTION.
From the Chicago Times-Herald. ]


1t is not so very long ago that comic
opera became an established form of
amusement in this country, yet in that
time it has. passed through many forms
of evolution. The French operas which
Alice Oates made so popular maintain
ed their sway almost without opposition
save an occasional translation from the
Gilbert and Sullivan came to us and
crowded everything else to the wall.
Offenbach retired gracefully and COM
pletely when Sullivan's melodies became
the rage, and the spirit of imitation
created many satiricaI works of more or
less merit. But when Gilbert began to
satirize subjects so provincial that only
England could see where the laugh
came in, and Sullivan began to appeal
to the skilled musical taste of a few in
stead of composing for the multitude,
managers, encouraged by the large pro-
fits that had accrued from their operas,
began to SkirmiSh for new material in
every direction Francis Wilson was
the first to hit upon new and prOfita-
bic policy. He sought to obtain a good
story constructed on more dramatic
Ody of a popular nature, aimed straight
at the appreciation of the general ear,
and beautify the production with all
that stagecraft and stage art could con-
tribute. Half a King is said to be an
instance of the happy result of his pol
icy The story is described as possess
ing the dramatic quality of a cumula-
tive interest that is sustained right up
TO the climax of the last act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
THE SOLID SOUTH.

IF'rom the Atlantic Monthly.1
Owing to certain economic and polit-
ical conditions that are too familiar to
be detailed, the state from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande for a long period OPP
posed a united front to the advance of
modern civilization, waged a protracted
war for the preservation of their own
institutions and the establishment of
their autonomy, and when defeated and
restored to the union on a new basis,
gave their adherence so entirely to one
political party and one set of political
principles as to earn for themselves
the sobrquiet of the Solid South
Now a solid South" would seem to
presuppoSe a homogeneous southern
people coextensiVe with the geograph-
zeal, or rather political area thus des-
ignated; but to draw this inference
would be to make a mistake almost
equal to that made by the European
who thinks Chicago a or hours
ride from New York, and confounds our
eastern and western populations. If the
political opoinions and prejudice be not
taken into account, the typical Charles
tonian will be found to differ as much
from the average inhabitant of Nash
Vile as the typical New Yorker does
from his rival of Chicago. The Vir-
gilman and the Georgian have points of
contact to be sure, but they differ radi-
caIIy in many important respects just
as radically as a citizen of New Jersey
does from a citizen of Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
WILL MEAT BE CHEAPERY
Forty Days Quarantine Against Can
adian Cattle Abrogated.

dealers believe through the favorable
arrangements made by the Dominion
authorities for the raising of the forty
days quarantine on Canadian cattle GO
ing into the United States, they will be
able to build up a valuable export
trade
1t is the quarantine regulation re-
curing that all cattle sent to the I'm
tied States from Canada shall be quar-
antined forty days before permission
can be obtained to sell them, which
brought here the last few days are be-
ing held to ship to Buffalo Canadian
dealers say New York state buyers pre-
fer Canadian animals to those they get
from the west, and it is beloved a large
trade will be built up between Canada
and the eastern states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
ELECTRIC FARMING.


the Boston
Great strides are being made in Ger
many in the way of applying machine
ry to many lines of industry.
But perhaps most remarkable of all is
the application of dynamOs to agricu1-
ture, supplying the three elements of
heat, light and productive energy, as
we'll as labor.
On one of the new electric farms a
turbine drives a dynamo which lights
the barns, yards and dwellings, and
furnishes current of low tension to
work pumps, run straw cutter, lathe,
grindstone, large handsaW and thesh-
ing machine. One machinist attends to
the entire plant, which experience proves
has reduced the expenses of the farm
in considera bic degree.
This new method of farming has all
ready displaced labor to an extent that
IS making farm 1aborers very anxious.
Not only does the electric farmer''con-
pete disastrOusly with the oId-timer but
the electricity. so stimulates the growth
OF his crops by night that he reaps a
double advantage.
When one reflects to what a vast eS-
tent Germany is agricultural the intro
duction of an invention that is to make
thousands of farm laborers unnecessa-
ry seems fraught with serious conse-
QueQceS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
STOUT WOMEN.
TFrOnl II

IFrom the Chicago Chronic1e.1
In spite OF oft repeated injunctions
from medical advisers the stout woman
still persists in attempting to reduce
her weight by using the more or less
harmful-Some times absolutely dan
gerous-patent medicines which she sees
advertised
The folly seems all the more unac-
countable when it is remembered that
natural and health giving means are at
hand for relieving her embarrassment
on account of undesirable avoirdupOis.
If a stout woman really wishes to re-
duce her weight and size, she should
first consult her physician as to the
ways and means of attaining slender
ness without losing strength. She
should not rush into such exercising as
will weaken her; she should not starve
herself; she should not partake reck-
lessly of pills. But she should exercise
and diet, and she may even use drugs
under a physicians direction.
At first if she is not used to exercis-
ing, she should try a half hours tramp
every day. BY a tramp stroll is not
meant but a good, brisk walk, such as
| it is something of a physical exertion
to take-a walk that calls for deep in
f1alations that sends the blood flying
| through the veins and opens the pores
of the skin.
1t should mean enough of an exertion
to start the Precipitation freely To
take it the candidate for slimneSs ought
to be properly attired. She should have
| discarded corsets.
After the walk there should come a
| shower or needle bath and a vigorous
| rubbing down At the end of a week
| the length of the walk may be increas-
| ed five or ten minutes, and SO on until
4 the exercise consumes an hour or an
/ hour and a half.
! Bicvcle or horseback riding may be
substituted for the tramp, but some Wig
! orous outdoor exercise daily is neces-
| sity for the reduction of weight. The
/ dumb bell and Indian club exercise
! strenethens and hardens the muscles
of the arm and chest. and are therefore
| a desirable flesh reducer. Bending from
| the waist forward, backward and to the
sides, raising the legs ana rotating
| them from the hips as centers, and al
| forms of bending are excellent for tht
| Framing of the waist and hips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
WALKING ON THE ICE.
[From the Pbi1adeIpbia mines !


Waiting on the tip of the toe and
cutting the Swedish scissors a figure
recently introduced by European skat-
ers, are the achievements most sought
after by experts on the ice. To skate
merely no matter with what speed is
not regarded as giving sufficient eclat
TO suit the tastes of those who strive
to stand in the first ranks.
The waltz, while difficult, is learned
by many, and requires only persever-
ance, but the scissors, according to an
eminent instructor, is one of the most
trying featS known.
All really fine skating is done to mt
sic. and what is known simply as the
promenade is really a two step, which
must be executed with precision and
nicely to get a good effect The outer
edge and the cross roll are the first fan
cy steps taught, but familiarity with
them is supposed to make all future
effort comparatively simple, and with
two step music the schottische or waltz
is appropriate and is used. Once a Wo-
man can execute these steps with ease
she is on the high road to become an
experts and to reach that state of per-
fection which allows of a long contin-
ued waltz during which only her toes
must touch the ice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
RRoWNING,s POETRY.

CF-ron the PHILADELPHIA American.)
That Browning's works are poetry. and
of a majestic order there is no denying,
but that they are poetical is a claim which
invites some examination This is not the
place for a scientific definition of the art
poetic, if a satisfactory settlement were
possible Enough if take the univer~
sal instinct which stamps as the sterllns
coin OF poetry ali pure beautlIui' en-
nobling or fascinating ideas that are
clearly expressed in musical phrases rms
covers all the forms from singaple rhymes
to blank verse, though there are ringing
rhymes to many blank verses, and un-
rhymed poems that have the soul OF
music. A scarce pe-ceptible line divides
high prose, such as that Of Job. the Pro-
phets, and Milton's, from true poetry, YET
they are distinct modes of expression
Grandeur of thought alone does not turn
prose into poetry. 1t utter itself adec
language may obscure and make Wlsny.
washy piece of brilliant fancy, but 1t
idea holds just its rightful measure OF
words, which must also be right words or
there is sure to be trouble as there Is
iarIy those of the pulpit, try to
pour a trimming quart into a tea
cup. We ordinary work-a-day mortals en-
ioy slipping our poetry in tea-cupfuls,
providing that the tea is tea and the fla
vor of the best. There is no Philistinism
in the confession: why hesitate to out
with it? The bee knows where and how to
find the honey and the quality neither of
honey is limited by the quantity he takes
at a sin The hungry heart finds Its poe
tic food by instinct. the dainty p palate OF, Of
puff paste full of emptiness. In this case
we may vary the smile and put 1t that
no well-ordered appetite or digestive APP
] paratus can enjoy or can long sustain
| health on a diet of condensed food es-
| sences. Browning is so great poet that
Il like a glove. he Straddles the shadoWy
| line that eonfuses poetry, he is Noaoh-
| ian deluge of multitudinous vefbostty.
| and he is the strong quintessence of
! thought, soaring and profound.