Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-11-27
From TNesdays Daily.

From T9esdays Daily
 Mr. j. V, Ramsey, of English. is q visitor to the city today.
 Mir. A. Kaufman, of Plum Bayou, is in the city today,
 MT. Geo. NJ. Beck, of Fayetteville, Ark, is visiting in this city.
 Hotel Trulock will serve an elegant Thanksgiving dinner today.
 MT. Oscar Spellman is down from Little Rock today.
 Will Crenshaw left today for Der mot to visit his parents.
 Dr. o. c. Hankison is at Noble Lake today.
 The petit jury was excused Wednes- day afternoon until Friday morning. It was damp day for the police court this morning, Not single case was tried.
 MT. William Young, of Hot Springs, Is a guest of the Trulock to- day.
 Capt. Bob Adams Is in town to- day. He bought q ticket to the Pa tr0llman's ball while here.
 MT. J. A. Miller came up from Plum Bayou yesterday afternoon and is registered at the Trulock.
 MT, W. H. Langford will make q business visit to Searcy the latter part of this week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tom Collier, Jr', of Altheimer, witnessed the Creston Clarke engagement last night.
 Mir. Gullodge, who Is at the Infirm- ary suffering from a fractured skull, is improving.
 MT l.. Hirsch, an insurance man of Newport, Ark, is in the city ad= iustlng the losses by recent fires.
 Mir. Frank Wittenberg, an expert bookkeeper from Little Rock, is in the city. He Is opening the books for the new oil mill.
 Miss Owen Hogg will go to Al- theimer Friday morning to spend several days with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Hogg.
 One ticket to the Patrolman' ball will admit a gentleman and us many ladies as he can bring with htm. Buy your tickets early and avoid the rush,
 The oyster supper given by the Daughters of the King" for the benefftot Trinity Episcopal Church in the Withers building last night was largely attended and liberally patronized.
 Chief stewart and hls men nave been inspecting the premises around the city hall to see where room can be built for the patrol wagon and horse that they expect to buy from the proceeds Of the ball next Tues day night.
 Mir. H. D. Palmer, deputy circuit clerk of Lincoln county, left today for Warner after a business visit to this city.
 The Patrollman's ball will be given at the Bluff City Hall next Tuesday night. A great many tickets have already been sold.
 Miss Lillian Murray Knott, who appears next Monday night, Novem- Der 18th, with "McFee's Matrimonial Bureau, that funny Irish farce, Is acknowledged to be one of tLe most beautiful women before the puplic, possessing a clear, highly cultivated soprano voice, which Is said to be the best ever heard in farce comedy.
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 Bad Story Telling.
 If Oscar Wilde's assumption were to be taken seriously, that ali fiction Is ly- ing, 1t might account for much that afflicts readers, since the lack of morale affects the intellect, and what is done without conscience is apt to be done badly Of course all fiction is not lying, as all killing is not murder. but 1t is sad fact that many writers of novels