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were seen showering such a blessing that the whole world would feel it's life giving power.
 The major key of the gospel has always been all t9o world, and the only limit Jesus has put upon it was all the world, and nothing else can contain it.
 The way we say a thing dstermins the meaning We wish to convey. I Was impressed with this faet5 when one summer evening a mother with a Htte crippled boy came visiting us. Sde was very tender and gentle with the little afflicted fellow One day she was seated oa the porch and I could hear the tip tap Of the un- equal steps Thelittle fellow paused and said, Mama, may l go into the yard and play2 She, absorbed in her book, answered carelessly, T don'f care. Still I could hear the
 tip tap of the little shambling un- equal steps as he walked around her,
 then leaning against her lap said
 Mama, say it dood. She, catching
 the heart-hunger of the little one answered, go play, my darling, 2 and he went away happy
 Thou shalt and thou shalt not in the Old Testament Scriptures bear with them volumes of authority. We are ftightenedatSainais thunder and shudder at the curses Of the old Jewish law But ] am afraid we fail 10 catch the spirit Of command our Savior wished expressed in the sweetness end tenderness that cluss ter around the words that fell from His lips wreathing and draping them in folds of tenderness gentle as the zephyrs that lifts the droop- ing vine at our window.
 "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and will give you rest, swings down the centuries, pleading and soothing as the eroon= ing song of the anxious mother IS she tries to still hefeverish tossing of her sick child in the silent watches of the night.
 The knocks Of thc iamost cham bers Of our hearts with fingers ten der and torn from Che nails of the cross Of Calvary and says. Go vel into all parts of the world and preach the Gospel to every creat- ure, 2 and our eyes are blended and our ears deaf and our hearts sad dened and we see not, hear not and ] feel not the presenceo of the heavenly visitor
 Worldly pride and ambition have choked the doorway like tangled ! ivy leaves and Inc creaking hinges f slowly admit the kindly guests, | and some day, l am afraid, will | stand unshrouded in His presence, i and lay down at His feet nothing but leaves.
 Oh woman! ours is B busy life, ard i often cares weigh heavily upon us, and we are prone to exclaim, who is sufficient for these things But Be has said, To, ] am with you always, and we have much to re- joice over in the dawnof the twen tieth century ander the stars and stripes Of our glorious Republic. l Cherished pg the grandest chiYalry on earth American manhood guarded and protected on all sides, yet with unlimited freedom, let us study well the ground on which we stand If ever this glorious country is numbered with the nations that forget God, it's doom will be sealed
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A CHANGE IN OWNERS.
Esquire R. D. McGaughy Purchases the H c. McGaughy Hard-
 ware Stock
ware Stock

Saturday the H. c. McGaughy stock of hardware again changed owners, Mr. ]. S. Mcdonnell having sold same to Esquire R. D Me Gaugby, of Altheimer We learn that the gentleman will continue the business in Pine Bluff, with Mr. Ii, c. McGaughy as manager
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THE LAPS PROTEST
Against The Proposed Annexation
 Of Hawaii.

WASHINGTON, June 19. The Jap anese protest against the annexa- tion of Hawaii by the United States is not considered . serious objec tion, as her relations with England are none too close, and Japan has various complication regarding 'in- land seas, which makes it probable that she will try to curry favor with the United States.
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 cur touchs and alas they will come no more We meet to plan for the future May the great head of the church direct our course.
 These annual meetings are the main springs that keep the wheels of our machinery in notion Ft is not for pastime Chat these busy house keepers have left tbeir homes. husbands and children and come to= eather for fe@ days. We come with hearts aaame with love for the Master and brains busy with plans fer the advancement of lis work on earth
 Itis well that we have specific Work the work was declared on from the beginning, and the woman was in it, sI will put enmitg be- tween thee and the woman. hostile Iity, rancor, hatred and enmity between the woman and sin. The woman who lives by a Bible stand ard makes TO compromise with sin, under it's sway she is satisfied with her rights, it is her Magma Charta
 in all lands, through it she reaiizes that her power is moral; that to her was conGded the mission of disiuter- ested affection By ifs power she was endowed with the germ of ! divine grace which budded and lived under the breath of the Holy Spirit and burst into glorious bloom under the coming of our blessed Christ
 To be missionary is only to be Christian. Strange, how plain it 1 all looks to one whose heart is in it, and it is passing strange how un- important it looks to one whose heart is not in it. I wonder if there lis a woman with us tonight who has never felt the stirring power of a missionary experience. l should be frightened at my moral paralysis and l should go home and kiss the sleeping faces of my children, touch tho baby hands and kneel down by their beds and ask our God to send to my heart the grace to pity and the will to help all the pleading hands that beckon to us from all the lands under the sun that know not her Christ
 The Bible is all freighted with Missionary interests; it walls like minor strain through the lameRta- tions, rings like JOY bells through the Prophets and is stamped down with the facts of the history itself
 Through the mist and glamour of the cycling year comes to my mind a picture of the Patriarch Abraham. resting in bis tent down in the heat of the day 1897 years before the shepherds upon Jedian hills caught the anthem Of the angelic hosts of
 peace on earth, good will to man.
 As he rests in his tent down with that exaltation of sorl that came with the promise fresh from Jehogab. that in his seed all The nations Of the earfh should De blessed, ] do no. believe that as he mused in the silence, his heart was enthralled with the joy he would feel in the prattle of the baby voice that would make music in his home, or that he looked upon the plains Of Hebron that stretched away in yerdant beauty before him, CT that the land Of Alarm 10 the north, the desert of Sharon on the south, the Dead Sea on the west, and the great Medeta rian on the east, were the ciream- scibed limits over which the blessing would fall ike the dews of Herman, but that the windows of heaven
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CUPID AND HIS WORK.
The Little Fellow Has Been Very
 Busy Recently.

The following weddings, among our prominent society people, will take place, as follows;
 STREETr JOHNSON Mr. ". c. Streett and Miss Woodle Johnson, on Wednesday evening, at the resi- dence of the brides parents, Capt. and Mrs. ] B. Johnson, on West Second avenue.
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GOLD EXPORT INCREASING.
Several Millions More to Leave
 This Country.

NEW YORK, June 19- 9--Contrary to expectations gold export is in creasing, and next week there will be several millions more than the amount already contracted for lea 1e the country. A further rise in sterling exchange is expected.
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A LIBRARY DESTROYED.

Iowa CIrY, Iowa, June 19.-Hhe Iowa State University Library building was today struck by lightning and destroyed. Thirty thousand volumes went up in smoke. Loss Sl50. GOO.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
The Horrible Fate of Carl Tomlin-

son.
 REDrIELD, Ark, June l9.-At 9:30 a. m. today mostfrightful accident happened at tLis place, which caused the death of Mr. Claude Tomhnson3 a bright young man, prominent in business and social circles. Near the town was water tank of the Valley railroad. The tank had been condemned as dangerous. This morning inst before a gang Of men were to begin repairing it, Mr. Claude Tomlinson stepped under it, when the supports gave way and the structure fell, crushing him to death
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Mir. Albert $. Jewell, of Arkadel- phia. d son of Rev. Horace Jewell, is ia the city calling on the many friends of his estimable father.
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The First Cotton Roll.

The GRAPHIC, today (Monday) was presented with the first cotton boil of the season. It was grown cil the Jenkins place, by J. L. Grant. It was sent to this office by the firm of $ Bluthenthal < Co.
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GRASr-BRoWN Mr. J. s. Grant and Miss Della Brown, at Altheimer, "Wednesday afternoon, 1t the home of Mr. J. D. Gleary.
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TELEG8APHIC NEVIS.
FLASHED TO THE GRAPHIC OVER
 THE MIDNIGHT WIRES.
Items of Interest From Home and
 Abroad.
RALD WINS AGAIN.

SYRACUSE, \. Y, June 19-Bald beat Cooper again today for the ninth time this season in bicycle race
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0rEEN Nd T0 ARDICATE.

LONDON, June 19.-Tt is given out semi-2flieialy that Queen Victoria will abdieate in favor of the Prince of Wales, immediately after the jubilee celebration.
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BORN

BRrwsrER-Tp Mr. anu Mrs. Oscar Brewster. sunday June 20, ls91, T daughter.
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WARREN RuruERroRD MT. Her- bert II. Warren and Miss Julia Rutherford, Tuesday evening at s.30 o'clock, at the home Of the brides brother, Mr. D. L. Rutherford.
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WEsrBRooK.JoNEs- -Mr. E. L. Westbrook, of Jonesboro, and Miss Clifton Jones, at the Presbyterian Church at 9 o'clock p. m, Tuesday, June 2ath. No cards in city.
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most reliable men from Dawson City say
that no such amount of money will come,
rs it has not been taken out of the ground.
One miner who came down places the
outside figure at $1,000,OO0. El Dorado
and Bonanza Greeks, where the richest
strikes have been made, have been staked
for many miles, but desirable claims are
scarce, and the prospectors are beginning
to scatter out.
Hundreds Of miners are looking toward
the Stewart river, the second largest
branch of the Yukon, and hundreds of
prospectors will undoubtedly be on it's
banks and bars within the next few
months. Although the bars of the main
river have been successfully worked for
the last ten years, there has practically
| been no real prospecting done on the many
| important tributaries. Everywhere that
the explorers and scattering prospectors
have gone in the Stewart and its branches
| gold has been found. On many creeks the
| prospects We're extra good. Several things,
have conspired to leave this field practical
| ly untouched. The question of getting
supplies is a very serious one. At the
same time the few hundred men who have
been on the Yukon up to last year have
found sufficiently attractive diggings near
er to the older districts and closer to sup
| ply DdScS. l. uc luuluuS also lllNe super
stition regarding a powerful and savage
tribe who live on the upper part of the riv-
er and whom they call the 'N1ahonies"
and consequently will not go up the river
any great distance.
From the mouth of Stewart over to the
north fork the distance is estimated at $50
miles, and to the head of this fork in the
vicinity Of 800 miles in all. The south
fork is practically uneXplored. One or
two persons have been on it, and then not
| for Il sufficient distance to determine it's
chara cter or length. The prospectors and
those who have been on the river say that
it carries a larger volume of water than
the Pelly river. 1t is beyond doubt the
second largest feeder of the Yukon. The
| first gold discoveries on the Stewart were
made in 1855 on bars within about 100
miles from the mouth. These were rich.
During the fail, in less than fifty days
time as high as $4,000 to the man was
rocked out. Ia 1856 fully 100 men were
working on the river bars with good Sue
cess. Some went up the north fork nearly
to it's head Each succeeding season the
bars have been worked until now they do
| not pay wages.
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PORTLAND IN PORT.
TREASURE STEAMER ARRIVES
FROM THE GOLD REGION.
She Carried Thirteen Miners Who
FIRING About $575,OOO in Dust and
Nuggets - Earthquake in Japan
Causes Loss of Life and Property,
Gold frorn k1ondvke,.

The long-loolled for Portland has ar
rived. The ship about which so many
stories have been told since she left ST.
Michael reached Seattle Sunday morning
The Portland carried thirteen miners, and
the total amount Of gold dust on board is
about $575,OOO The miners had brought
only a small part of their stakes and the
size Of the Portland's cargo was disap-
pointing.
The miners on board, with the amounts
of their total mining profits, parts of
which were brought with them, are as fol-
lows:
J. Rowan, $4,000; James Bell, $45, 1000;
Joseph Goldsmith, $4,000; n. w. Pow
ers, $4,000; w. w. Caldwell, $50, 900;
w. Oler, $4,000; G. X. lilly, $50, 900; e.
w. Cobb, $4,000; w. Iahn, $4,000; A.
Buckley, $4,000; NJ. S. Lansing, $4,000;
$4,000.
While the small amount of gold brought
from the Yukon by the Portland was a
disappointment to many, the miners who
returned unite in saying that the country
is fabulously rich. The claims which have
been worked promise well, and in fact
many of them give assurance of proving
very rich. All estimates of the amount
of gold which will be taken out of the
Yukon next year must necessarily be very
rough, as there is no means of determin-
| ing how much work will be done. If men
could be secured to work the claims al
ready located there would undoubtedly
be many millions of dollars taken out, but
the majority of men who go there prefer
to prospect on their own account, notwith-
standing the fact that high wages can be
had.
Statements have been made that the
steamer Portland on her next trip will
bring fully $2,0O0,OOO in gold, but the
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along the coast. For week previously
rains had fallen almost all the time and
the rivers were already very high. The
tidal wave raised them in 80 many min
utes from twelve to twenty feet higher.
The Governor Of Nigata prefecture re-
ports that the Arakawa rose twenty feet
at Naoyetzu. Fifteen hundred houses
We're flooded and thirty people killed or in
jured The waters rose so rapidly that
over 600 people were afloat in their houses
before they knew what had happened.
These were all rescued with boats. Fur
ther down the same river twenty boats
were swept away or wrecked and 1000
filled with water. Nearly 700 houses were
wrecked and inundated in other towns
Reports from province of Rikuzen
state immense waves rolled in forty-fve
minutes after the earthquake and flooded
eight fishing villages. All official build
ings and the railway stataion at Naoyed-
zu were flooded Nine railway officials
We're carried down stream to sea in their
houses. A steamer rescued them, but
many smaller boats were swept away.
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The Duke of Northumberland, the old
est peer in England will be SS years old
in October.
Prince Victor Napoleon completed re.
Gently his Both year in Brussels, when
family gathering took place at his hotel
in the Avenue Louise.
The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at
Trafalgar is still preserved. 1t is mount
ed in crystal locket and reposes in
crimson bag with gold tassels.
The porter Of the Paris bourse recently
died, leaving fortune Of $4,000. Ha-
had been employed thirty years at sal
nry of $240 year. He evidently got rich
on ''tips."
Francois Cope, the French poet and
academcian, who recently underwent a
severe surgical operation, causing grave
fears that he would not recover, is now
doing we'll.
The wife of the Korean minister is well
educated in her own language, and is a
student of the Chinese classiSN She does
not understand English, but iS about to
commence the study.
The Duchess of Cumberland, Princess
Thyra of Denmark, sister of the Princess
of Wales and of the dowager czarina, has
again broken down and been taken to q
private asylum near Vienna.
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EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN.
Great Loss of Life and Property II
RepOrted.

Great Loss of Life and Property Is
Reported.
A great earthquake occurred in Japan
Aug. 10. 1t lasted eight minutes and was
followed by u tidal wave which swept up
rivers, following into the sea and caused
great destruction. Up to Aug. 10 it was
known in Yokohama that over 5000
houses had been inundated or washed
away. Between 100 and 300 people were
known to be drowned or seriously injured.
1t was then too early to estimate the
amount of damage done to railways, crops,
roads, bridges and shipping. 1t was re-
ported from Hosoku that coal mines there
We're flooded by an oyerhowing river,
drowning over 100 miners.
Earthquake shocks on the morning of
Aug. 3 varied from four to sixteen in num-
Der in various places, the movement being
from east to west. Less than an hour
afterward a tidal wave was felt in towns
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FARMERS INCREASED RECEIPTS
Crops Will Bring $5OO,oOO,OOO More
than Last Year.

Crops Will Bring $5OO,OOO,OOO More
than Last Year.
Assistant Secretary Brigham of the Ag-
ricultural Department has expressed the
opinion that the American farmers this
year would receive in the aggregate from
$4O0,O00,0O0 to $5OO,0OO,OOO in excess Of
the amount received last year for their
farm products.
Col. Brigham also predicted that the
increase in the price of farm products
would benefit the laboring element. 1.-The
price of labor" he said, 'did not decline
with the price of farm products, and for
some time the farmer was forced to pay
as much for the services of those who did
his work as ever, while his receipts were
cut in two. Inasmuch as wages did not
decline, I see no reason why they should
be expected to rise to correspond with the
advance of farm products, which are now
bringing only fair prices. Still, the labor
ing man will be benefited by this advance
in prices. The farmer will discharge his
Indebtedness and make improvements
which will require labor. He will pur-
chase more of the products Of labor, put
ting vast amount of money in circula,
ton, and this will create a demand for la
Dor in all lines, and men who have been
without employment, or only partially en-
ploycd, will work full time at fair wages"
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The harvest song this fall is a paean of
real thanksgiving.-Bal American.
The record of the wheat pits makes the
tales of the gold diggings seem tame
Boston Herald.
A waitless messenger boy should be in
vented to go with the wireless telegraph
Detroit Free Press.
A gold mine to start with is becoming
a necessary part of the Klondyke outfit
San Francisco Chronicle
Prosperity, even if it comes with n rusb
won't shovel dollars into the idle, lazy
mans pockets.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The handshake is the thing before the
nominations are made. The grand shake
comes fterward.-Richmond Dispatch.
1t has taken Weyler a long time to con-
vince Spain that he is failure. The rest
Of us realized it some time ago-Chicaeo
Post.
The day of long speeches is past. Brey-
ity is the soul, not only of wit, but of DO
litical popularity, nowadays-Richmond
Dispatch.
One thing that is not booming just now
is immigration, and nobody cares very
much if it does take year off.-Balti-
more News.
1t is satisfaction to reflect that there
is no possibility of readjusting boundary
lines SO as to defect the advantages re-
sulting from the big wheat crop.--Wash-
ington Star.
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CHAPTER xxx.

A year and some months had passed
since the death of the Duke of Nairn
The beautiful, smiling spring had come
round again, and during all this time
the young duchess and Lady Hilda had
resided at Homdale.
1t had not been an unpleasant time.
The world spoke highly of the duchess;
her Widowhood had been time of quiet
and retirement; they had asked but few
friends to see them-their time had been
given chiefly to study and reading. Both
were now accomplished women, and Lady
Hilda often told Lurline little wisdom
sat gracefully on her golden head.
They seldom spoke of the tragedy of
the past or Of the earl, but the duchess
was more grateful to her friend than if
she had saved her from violent death.
81 can never prove my gratitude to
you," she said one day; "it lies too deep
for words. would share my fortune
with you if you would take it; l would
give you Holmdale if you would have it;
but you will do neither of these things
How, then, must prove my gratitude?
may say as the king said, ASK of me
what you will. even should it be the half
of my kingdom, and 1 will give it to
you.
Lady Hilda smiled. ''The day may
come" she said, "when l shall ask a
grace from you-when it does, remember
what you have said"
81 shall remember" said the duchess.
"Ah. Mamie, had you been five minutes
later would have started on that terrible
iourney-and there would have been no
return"
But they spoke of it seldom and tried to
forget it.
The beautiful, pure air, the quiet, the
rest, the early hours, had given to each of
them extra beauty. Lady Hilda had gain
ed in her superb beauty and the duchess
had gained in ioveiiness. Then when the
hedges were all white and pink with haw-
thorne. when the fire of the laburnum
cleaned, and the snowwhite acacia was
in flower, when the roses were budding
and the fair earth lay i'll the golden
lieh+ of the sun, Lord Dunhayen came
to Holmdale.
"You must not be angry with me-" he
said as he bent over the fair hand of
| the duchess. 81 have stayed away from
Won as long as l could. l could not help
myself-I was compelled to come
| She trembled very much when she saw
him; but he was full of hope.
..My darling he said. Il know we did
wrong-at least 1 did, for l tempted you
-bUt we have repented. No harm came
of if. thanks to one who was our guard
ian angel We have repented very sin
cerely-you in silence and seclusion, in
irving to do good. May we not hope now
+h,t heaven has pardoned us? After our
hard suffering, may we not have some
| ,:..,o b.nnineSS? Let us begin our friend
ship--let me be your friend
So If was settled; once more a compact
! ,f frnndship was made between them.
J,dy Hlda was out when he arrived; she
u.,s startled on her return to see him
s.o,tod in the drawing room as though he
boJ been there for years. He sprang to