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-Z--si A GREAT ENTERTA INVENT
Will be the Elk's Minstrel at the
 Opera House, June 18th.

Editor, orator, actor. Such is Maj. Charles Gordon Newman, who, through his devotion to the noble principles of the order of E5ks. has consented 10 take part in their benefit performance, which will take place next Wednesday evening at the Opera House, when he vii rem der an act from King Richard IlI," and in doing so will give our lovers of tragedy a true imperson- aeion of the late Junius Brutus Booth as "Glostel" in that famous play, as only Major Newman can. The few of our people who, many years ago, have had the pleasure of seeing Major Newman on the stage will no dcubt be more than pleased to hear that he will again appear before them, aad the GRAPHIC heartily 'congratulates its readers for the treat that is in store for them, and as the balance of this performance will be strictly up-to- date, and as 1t is given fer the bene- fit of one of the most charitable or ganizations o4 earth, We trust that the house will be crowded. The program is as follows
 PARTE. First presentation of the grand first part en- titled, "The Roya Reception" His Royal Hghness., ........Jas Langford Pages ....... ..... Frank Bloom, Arthur Mehlnger. Attendants at Ieception-Messrs. Hammett, Rowland, Hut, ToTJet, Leverenz, Armstrong. Wright, Saunders, Bell, Bowling Roan.. Nc EWen, Philpot, Nowell
 Visit to His Royal Highness of the Kings ot Minstrelsy y'a-AIessers Rosenberg, BenteB, Kaufman, Bloom. Kerwn and Bloom. Overture Back Among the Gid Folk Once gain
 REPRODUCTION. .4I Want Dem Presents Baek'' .... ............. Edwin r, Rosenberg t.As Your HaiC SSrows White dedicated t9 Dr. Vaughn of Little Rock .............. i'll N@wland .sAl Coons Look Alike to Me''.-........ ......... -........-.-... Wm. (Fields) Kaufman Cute Little Shoes and Stockings
 
 Lime Kiln Club ,'........... Abe IDonnaty) Bloom Take Back Your Gold'' d''......... .Branscn Hammett Ambolena Sun 5=........Wil tWtlson) Benton Come Back zto Your Mother, Madge''. ........
 ..-......--.-.-......... .dhos. MeEWen "Youll Have to Choose Another Baby, Now Ed PTdsgrose) KerWin You're So Good, Daddy ..... iE Armstrong Eli Gresn' Cake Walk" E. E, NGibson) Bloom
 Quartette.
 First part to conclude with oVr military sue, cess. song and dfill Company $. Scenes from King Biciard Ill., by Mai Charles Gordon Newman aad Ulysses Althei- mer.
 PART II
 Herman, the Great, tH disguise Our FaEorite, Arthur MehliRgsT, in new selec-
 tions-
 The world s famous. Geo. ROWE, FEATHERS Harry
 Horizontal Bar Experts
 Selected fCornet solol. Earl Armstrong. Holland Pedstal Dance Vowel
 Song and Dance, Miss Freda Kruer.
 Monologe up to date, E. J. Kerwn Alfred (age 0 The Woods (age 8 Edna The whole to conclude with Dark Town Comedy, entitled
 A GOOD RUN FOR YOUR MONEY. Admission, 90 cents; children % cents; gallery, 9 cents, Tickets on sale at Edwin F. Rosen berm's.
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Nomens' tore.en Missionary Conference

MOmens' Foretgn Missionary Conference
 The good women of the First Methodist cl.ureh and Lakeside church are busy making preparations to entertain the W@man'* Foreign Missionary Conference which begins here next Wednesday evening at the Hirst Methodist chureh The. ex- lsect about seventy-iSe-dele4.;t and visitors in attendance.
 Their sessions are "pea t0 the pub lie day and night.
 Rev. O. F. Goddard returned Missionary from China, wall preach the opening sermon.
 Rev. John line, wis" g@es out as Il missionary to China about Septem- Der will preach the annNal sermon at al on Sunday during the con ference.
 ReG. ii. B. Hill returned nlissiOn- ary k on the progronltne aa+0.
 Mrs. M H. NJ Mills will lilake the address of welcome on the part of the auxiliary societies of the city which will be responded ta by Mrs. Couch, .E Magnolia.
 Miss EM.ma Moss on behalf @f our young people will welcome our guest and will be responded to by Miss Kettle Holmes Ca grand-dangh- ter of Maj TiIlar), of Little E9ek.
 Master Clifford Brewster and seven girls will extend Il welcome en the part pf the juvenile missionary socie- ties. Response will be made by Master Glenn Robertson and Miss Alice Howell.
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Ma:eer Charlee iordon NeWansn !

Major Charles Gordon Newansa I has consented to appear in the ElAs' entertainment as the Duke of tiloster, in Shakespeare's King RicLard III. and Mr. Ulysses <. Altheimer asking Henry VI. The richest costumes have been procured f,om St Louis, and this will be one of the attractive features next Wednesday evening at rihe opera hoUse.
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Nnfice t.n XetrranS.

). El. Murray Camp. U.C. Y will meet at the Court House. Tuesday evening at < T.. Ill. This will be the last meeting ef the camp uetil after meeting at Nashville. Tenn. Badges Will be givea out at this meet. All members are urged to attend By order of E. E. BENTON,
 Commander. SArSDERs, Agdt.
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T+nnes.ee Centennial Exposstr"n.

At Nashville, Tenn, May lst to Oct. 3lst. lSsti.
 For the above occasion tkeCotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff 10 Nashville and return as fellows:
 Class ''A~-These tickets will be on sale April 24th and daily on and after April 18th. to aud including sOctobei l5t4, 1897. with final return limit Nov. 1th. lN97. at$lS.7d.
 Class "B=Tickets OH sale April 29th and daaiy thereafter to and in- cldding October 18th. with return limit uf 20 days from date @f sale at $lj 70.
 Class ..C',-Tiekets on sssle April 29th and every Tuesday and Thurs day there;ufte to and including Oct. 3sth with return limit of 20 days fe,om date of sale at $l000.
 | N. FARLEY. Agent.
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st. Josep,,.r ca,I,o,sc Church.

The services it thisehurch mill be 0pusually iup 'sssive today, nnd the attendance at the various services will be large. Al 7.ss0 d. III. the first eommurion class. of t@ enty. will be received. At ld:.90 Is3shop Fitzgerald will confer tie rites of conformation 0n.a class of farty-six, and atsS ?. m. thc enrolment of a class offfifty in the seapular will take place.
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The First Methodist Church.

Rev. 4. Q. Evans. the pastor. will fill the puli,it at the First Methodist church today. Good music, free seats. and hearty welcome to ,to strangers and visitors
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Rtyersiae Met,,e.,lst t1knreb

phe above house eff worship is now located on Esst Second avemae, and today Presiding Elder .frthn Dye will preac@ iW it a9 both morn ing and evening. and aE the evening service will preach a sermon fore'hil- dpen. Tie public K cocdially bnvit- eti to hear him.
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sIr. A&sie Knox, who has just finished a special course of study pre- pacatory to secretaryship in '. N, c. '. Wigi lead the Epworth League prayer meeting at the First Metho- dist chHrch~today at 4:39 pr m. All fprate&
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CHURCH NOTES.
Chrisnan Church .

pev F. E. Sapp will conduct ser vices at his church today 1t the nsual hol1s.
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Mir. Tim Holland, after a prolong- ed visit to his brother. MT. NJ. Hol- land. left Friday afternoon for his hnms at Snnth Rend. Ind.
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sIxth Avenue Isapslst Church

At11 a. m. regular services, with sermon by the postor, will take place. At the evening services q number of converts will be baptised.
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Lakeside Methodist Church.

The pastor. Rev. Saunders, will nraach at his church today, morn 5no and evening. All persons will he given q cordial welcome.
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Tetter. salt-Rheun1 and Eczema

The intense itching and smarting inel dent to these diseases is instantly allaye0 by by applying Chamberlain s Eye anc have oeen permanently cured by it. T. is equally efficient for itching piles ane a favorite remedy for sore nipples chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-13

Ms Jennie McGain returned home Friday from two weeks visit to reIat an frien lS st Fordyce.
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e.,spfederate Veterans Ke-Uoion at Nash
 vitle. Tenn

This k to advise that all tickets sold to Nashville aeeeulit of the Ge0feder- ate Veterans Rel as elsewhere stated in these columns,an extension of ten days will be granted aa all tickets deposited with joint aeesat of ternsital lines at Nashville. on ag he fore Jase 26 When parties are realY to returlI tickets Will hereturneA t0 them bear extension limit.
 ]. W FARLEY. Agent
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Dr. Cady,s Condition powders 4y.

just what a horse needs when in bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier an4 7ermifuge, They are not food but medicine and the best in use to put q horse in prime condition. Price 25 cents per package.
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v,rs, presbyterian Church

The pastor, Rev. J. |. Caldwell, will conduct the usual services at his church today. bosh morning and evening. -
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Tennessee centennial and Internn.

Tennessee CentenniaI and InterDa- tional Exposition at Nashville, Tenn. May lst to Oct 30th. 1897 For his occasion the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway willssell round trip tickets asiolloa :: April 2S to Oct l3 inclusive. final re- turn limit Nov. :, ls97 rate $lS 70; A pril 29 to Oct I5 inclusive. final re- turn limit % dnys from da'e of sale. ralp $13. 70: April 29 May 1 q. II. F.. IS. %. .5. T: June l. ,. X. It l5 F, 22 4. 70. lnlv 1 6. X -. l5. 70. 22. 27 29; Anc T. ], 10. l2. r.. lg. 24. 26. 3l; Sep. , g. IA. l6. 2l. g. 2S 30; Oct 7 r.. II. l9. 2l and 2G. final limit return ten days from date of sale, rate $10 05.
 H. E. MIzEtI..
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Mir. 4. ;. KnoX has broken the record between Sulphur Springs and town, ask NJ, Cash about it.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

chances of his doing such a THING fo,
it must be remembered that there is nc
possible way of hedging anybody about SC
securely that he cannot do mischief if he
is determined to do it. A mayor is the one
conspicuous officer of the city govern
ment. Everybody watches him. His
term of office is but one year. Now
would any mayor possessed of ordinary
common sense attempt to defeat any work
which the people wanted done by any
such method as Mr.. Verrill suggests
Evidently not, and for two reasons.
First, because every mayor desires a re-
election, and therefore wishes to stand
well with the people. Secondly, because
such obstruction would be merely tenn
porary at hest. A few months and the
mayor would be turned out of office.
The danger is that the mayor will be over
anxious to please the people. The danger
is that he will be too ready to yield to
what is or appears to be popular de-
mand. The danger that he will plghead-
edly hold up public works under this sec
ton is hardly worth talking about 1t
is trifling and insignificant offset to
the great advantages that will arise from
compelling him to assume the response
bll1ty OF seeing that every contract or
dered is made on terms that are fair and
just to the city
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

In a colored Baptist church of eighteen
members at Gainesville, Md, nearly hall
OF the members are trustees.
The Rev. Eugene st. John of Kansas
we'll known woman clergyman and ad
yocate Of woman suffrage, will go to
Europe to study the problem of municipal
government.
DR.. Abbott remarks in the Quito ok
that Christ repudiates the idea that God
finished his creative work in six days and
then rested.' He presumably bases this
extraordinary statement on the Master
declaration in John. my Father work
eth even until now, and l work. y
Mr.. William t. Ellis, who more than
two years ago went from Philadelphia to
Boston to become one of the editors OF
Golden Rule, has recently returned to the
City of Brotherly Love and becomes as
sistant editor of the periodicals of the
Presbyterian Board of Publication, whose
editor is the Rev. j. R. Miller, ID. ID.
Forward, the young peoples paper, is to
be Mr.. Ellls's especial field.
Extemporaneous speaking of the right
kind, according to DR.. Buckley, the bril-
liant editor of the Christian Advocate, is
'the delivery of thoughts previously con
ceived and adapted with more or less full
ness and precision, together with such
thoughts as may occur and such feelings
as may arise, in an arrangement OF words,
sentences, and paragraphs wholly the
birth of the occasion.
Since LeoXIII. has filed the chair of st.
Peter he has repressed the humorous side
of his nature, which made him greatly in
Il o,,l . xryIs
office of Nuncio at Brussels. Always
severe in matters of propriety, says the
indianapolis journal, he was deeply
offended on one of these occasions by a
Baron who passed him snuff box on the
lid of which was enameled a feminine
figure en- deshabille. Admirably controll-
ing his annoyance, his future Holiness re-
piled: Every pretty. Is it your wife?'
Switzerland has as many as 557 savings
banks, in which /, 196, $40 persons, or more
than third of the total population, are
depositors.
Some one asks what has become of the
mugwumps. Oh, they are around. Most
of them are busy now signing themselves
as Republican blu siness men, to protest
against the Dingley bill.-San francisco
Chronicle.
History is full of instances of civilized
men eating ..horseflesh. When Wurmser,
after Castiglione and Bassano, shut him
self up in Mantua, with $4,000 troops,
half Of whom were cavalry, he, in order
to increase the provisions, had the 1000
cavalry horses killed and sailed.
Professor Henry P. Armsby, dean of
the School of Agriculture of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, says that the agricul-
trral products of Pennsylvania exceed the
total iron ore, coal, and oil products OF
the state by S3,000,000.
The annual earnings of miners in
Silesia, Germany, are, after subtractinp
the insurance, only VIA to 1860.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

The communication of f. N. NJ on
the city finances has a good deal of sound
S ,nse in it. 1t is just as important that
municipality should be able to get
credit as that an individual should
Emergencies arise in the life of both
which cannot be met without great sacri-
flee unless some temporary credit can be
obtained. The city of Portland is so fixed
no " that it cannot borrow money. Nc
matter how great the emergency or how
extraordinary the expense it has no way
of meeting it without putting it into the
years tax list. This oftentimes may be
a heavy and unjust burden. 1t has the
property to pay its debt or enough of
lit to restore the borrowing power. But
instead of using that property for that
purpose, it keeps it stored up in a so
called sinking fund. An individual sit
uated as the city is would convert some
of his assets into cash and discharge
enough of his debts at least to restore his
borrowing power. But the city
goes on year after year holding
railroad stock which can hardly
ssb expected to advance in value, instead
of using it to pay its debt with and there
by bringing it below the constitutional
limit. This seems to us to be poor policy.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

Prof. E. W. Bemis, of Chicago, who is
an expert in this particular kind of work,
compiled the data which appeared in the
report of the bureau of statistics recently
5published in that city and which relates
more especially to it's street railroads
sThe facts set forth regarding the enor-
NOUS profits of the street railroads would
attract attention under any circumstances
and particularly so when the roads are
now striving to get a fifty year franchise
and the right to charge cents fare
during all that time. According to the
report there are today about 700 miles of
surface lines which can be duplicated, ex-
elusive of the franchise of course, for
forty million dollars, probably at less
figure. But assuming that figure to be
correct, then there has been placed on the
lines a capitalization of more than
double that amount, and on all this capt.
tai, except in the case of few new lines
good dividends are declared regularly.
Prof. Bemis states that "that this i'm
mense capitalization without a cores
ponding investment aptly illustrates to
the initiated the unearned increment in
such cases, but deceives the general pub
lie as to the amount of the exorbitant
tribute levied by the owners of city fran
chises. When the dividends get so large
that the men who manage the companies
are afraid to let the amount be known,
they double the stock to reduce the divi-
dend rate or they issue certificates of in
debtedness to stockholders. The public
must be deceived in some way.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13
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The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

The Supreme Court has denied the
petition for rehearing in the Trans
Missouri Freight Association case. In
this connection it is worthy of note, that
decision of great Importance to rail
roads is soon expected as to whether the
commission having decided that rate is
unreasonable may say further what is
reasonable. The test case was instituted
by the commercial bodies of Chicago and
Cincinnati against the Queen and Cres-
cent system.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

who is not fitted by good health for
that position and for the responsible
ties of motherhood. If woman suffers
from weakness and disease of the organs
that make wifehood and motherhood pos
sible, she should remedy these conditions
before assuming the responsibilities of a
wife. Otherwise, she stands little chance
OF proving happy and capable wife, and
motherhood will always menace her with
the terrors of death.
A sure and quick cure for all weak
ness and disease that units woman for
matrimony and maternity is found in DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1t acts
directly and only on the organs involved.
1t makes them strong and healthy. 1t
cures all weakness and disease. It pre-
pares for wifeheed and motherhood.
Taken during the expectant period it
makes babys coming easy and compare
lively painless. It insures the health of
the child. Thousands of women have
testified to its merits. Druggists sell it.
81 have found great relief since taking your
Favorite Prescription" writes Mrs. Henry
Barlow of Lonsda1e, Providence Co., R. I. II
was all broken down from nervous prostration.
Since taking yohr medicine have had more re.
lief than from all the doctors medicines-which
cost me more than could afford"
It is hard work to work when poisoned
from neglected constipation. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. =
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

The Secretary of State has been in
formed by one of our consuls in Germany
of successful experiments with railway
rails made of paper. In the production
of these rails wood pulp has not been
found sufficiently tough, but rags, rope
and other stuffs are said to furnish rail
that will be as successful as the wheels
made of similar material, although there
is little economy in their construction at
the present low rate of iron ore.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, MAY Is.

The steamship companies all report an
unusual demand for accommodations to
Europe, and the exodus will probably be
greater this summer than it ever has
been. Bankers estimate that not less
than $50, 100000 in gold will be represent
ed by letters of credit issued to traveller S.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

1t will be seen from his communication
published elsewhere that Mr.. l.. B. Den
nett has discovered another vital defect
in the charter. Like the one he pointed
out last week it was in the old charter
as well as in the proposed one, and
for sixty-fi years its dangerous
character remained undiscovered.
1t consists, as will be seen, in the
power given the Board Of Alder
men to take and hold real estate in the
name of the municipality and for munich
pal purposes to an amount not exceeding
100000 over and above that now held
by the city. This provision first found
place in Portland's charter in 1882, and
in the new charter it is simply perpetual
ed. For sixty five years the people have
lived under it without any catastrophe.
But Mr.. bennett holds that we were all
this time right ON the verge of disaster,
| and were only saved by having a city
council composed of two boards instead
of one. The new charter takes away one
board and consequently down will come
the avalanche. To carry through a scheme
of grandeur under the present charter
| requires the concurrence of fifteen mel
under the one proposed the concurrence
of eleven will be necessary, and in this
difference of four Mr.. bennett sees great
possibilities of ruin by the purchase of
vast tracts of land for park purposes
before the Eastern Promenade is civil
led whatever that may mean.
Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus
mus, with change of tense, would seem
to be happy phrase to apply to Mr.. Den
| nett's criticisms of the charter
up to date. He has apparently examined
| it with great care and industry, intent
upon finding something that he did not
| like, and up to the present he has found
but two things and both of these have
been in the city charter for .65 years
without ever before attracting his atten-
| ton. We are somewhat at loss to I'M
derstand Mr.. benefits purpose in his
use of the phrases apostolic succession, !"
'by the Tiber,' supreme pontiff"
and college of cardinals. :"
Surely Mr.. bennett cannot be try
ing to arouse religious prejudice and
help defeat the charter by dragging in
questions which have no bearing at all
upon it, and which are entirely out of
place in the discussion.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

1t has been a foregone conclusion since
the death of Congressman Milliken that
the next representative of the third dis
trict in the House of Representatives,
would be the Hon. Edwin c. Burleigh.
There is no surprise at his nomination
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-13

In letter from Capt George W. Yer
rill on the city charter we find the follow