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Evening star., 1897-03-15
loUng COrbett Matched.

CARSON, New, March 15-A repre-
sentative of the Empire Athletic Club of
Syracuse. N. Y. has matched Geo. Green
0oung CorbetD and Tommy Ryan, the
welter-weight champion for a twenty
round contest on April II. Should Green
lcse his fight with Smith he will still go
against Ryan, and the club will arrange
Evening star., 1897-03-15
Snengerbund.
Carroll Institute,
FIRST GAME.

Totals. -. 7s3 Is 16 Totals " 76O 10 q
The next set of games will be rolled to-
hlght on the Saengerbund alleys between
the Saengerbund and Carroll Institute
teams.
Evening star., 1897-03-15

The amateur continuous pool champion
ship match IN Brooklyn was concluded
Saturday night. and Edward Kirby OF ti,at
city remains the champion. He defeated
Percy Johnson. the New Jersey champion.
in the final round by the score OF 1.aOO
points to 365
Evening star., 1897-03-15
n. and S. +. and w.

The program for the congress al Putin
Bay, July to 10 next has already been
announced by the directors Of the Amer
lean Whist League. The method of play for
the Hamilton championship trophy is diff
ferent from previous years. On TUESDAY,
wednesday. THURSDAY and Friday each
team Will play l. certain number of han Is
with every other contestant for the trophy,
and the two clubs having the highest trick
score will play a final match on Saturday.
IN the preliminary matches the number of
nands shall not exceed torty-two per day.
=" nile in the final match the numner will
be forty-eight.
be conducted under the Mitchell progress
sive system. Preliminary matches will be
played Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday ard
FRIDAY evenings, and Saturday the two
clubs with the highest trick scores will
play match Of forty-eight hands.
Inc pair contest for the Minneapolis
trophy will be conducted under the new
Howard pair progressive system. each pair
competing match against every other
pair at one sitting. There will be six sit
t1ngs, two each on Wednesday. Thursday
ana FRIDAY, and the pair with the highest
Trick score shall be declared the winner
There are number of other less important
matches thirteen contests being provided
for in ALL
Mr.. Milton c. Work. the whist writer and
member of the Hamilton team. gives his
opinion that as conclusive test the new
scheme adopted for deciding the onTests
ior the Hamilton and challenge trophies
Is the worst the league ever adopted.
Albany and st. Paul made the same open-
ing leads In thirty-five out of forty eight
hands In their recent match; in four deals
ed, while in only nine deals was differ
ent suit opened
Evening star., 1897-03-15

Princeton to Play Georgetown.
The Princeton University ball nine will
play Georgetown's team in this city April
Ii and 10.
Evening star., 1897-03-15

TOTALS, I'd tdCN SIIe.
The same teams played match about a
month ago, which was won by the Wo-
mans Cluo by four tricks. The Woman's
Club Is talking of sending a team 20 Put
in-Bay in July.
Evening star., 1897-03-15
Contfnuous Pool Championship.

a meeting between St1ith and the winner
OF this battle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
An Etching of q Busy Town.

"Bay-bee, bay-bee?" called the grimy faced urchin coaxingly.
 The baby with the white coat and the kid gloves looked sidewise toward the curb. It's mother was one of the crowd ill front of the store window and look ing at perfect love of bonnet.
 "Bay-bee, bay-bee?" came the invita- ton again.
 Totteringly the baby approached the curb and smiled trustfully up at the dingy face. The urohin dropped down on his ragged knees. laid the papers he was selling on the pavement and patted tho little kid glove with his red, dirty little hand. Pretty bay beel" he said.
 Just then the mother turned, ran across the pavement and dragged the baby back. How dare you touch her, you dirty little good for nothingl'' she said.
 The urehin grasped his bundle of pa DOTS and rose, digging his toe into the dirt of the gutter shamefaoedly.
 Avg wanP' he said suIIenly.- New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
PINE BLUFF.

Fridays St. Louis Republic con tains full.page write-up of Pine Bluff, from which the following ex- tract is made:
 Pine Bluff, the capital of Jeffer- son county, was incorporated in 1856, the same year that the terri tory of Arkansas became state. The population at present is about 14,000, having more than doubled within comparatively recent years. The largest per cent of increase, however, has been since 1890, and is attributed i'll large degree to the showing made by this county at tine Chicago exposition.
 While Jefferson county, with two or three exceptions, is the banner cotton producing country of the United States, producing annually about 30, 1000 bales, and, as has been already shown, beats the world in the quality Of this staple, cotton is not king in this county, but is only one of the many items which go to make Pine Bluff one of the busiest and most prosperous cities of south era Arkansas. Her lumber manu- featuring interests are immense, and the receipts for timber shipped out of the county from this point are far in excess of those received for cotton. Pine Bluff not only handles nearly all the cotton pro- ducedIwithin her own county, but considerable quantity from adjoin- ing counties, which do not enjoy the same facilities for handling and shipping tat are had here. It is estimated that this city ships annu-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

and skin diseases are frequently not skin diseases at all. All the lotions and bleaches and creams and powders in the world won't make good complexion if the digestion is wrong. If the stomach is sour, and the liver torpid, and the bowels constipated, the skin will show it. No use trying to treat the skin for such a condition. The only way to relieve 1t is to cleanse the sys- tenn and purify the blood As long as the heart is pumping impurities to every part of the body, just so long these impurities will show through tue skin.
 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Is good for the complexion because it makes the whole body hea.thy--because it clears and purifes the blood, makes the digestion strong and clears out impurities of all kinds. By increasing the ability to assimilate nutritious food, and by the ir- fusion of Its own ingredients, it enriches the blood and so makes solid, kSaIEtY flesh. It fills out the hollows, rubs out wrink- les and substitutes for sallowness a rosy, healthy glow. There is no mystery about it. T. isn't miracle. It is merely the re- suit of combination of rational natural common sense with expert medical knowl- edge. 1t cures diseases of the lungs liver, stomach, bowels, skin and scalp, simply because all these diseases spring from tue saine cause "a disordered digestion aud consequent impure blood. Don't let preiu- health. Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Dis covery will positively cure you, If suffering fom diseases named above.
 If you want to know hundreds of great medical truths, send 2I cent stamps to cover cost of mailing oaly, and we will send you FREE a copy of Dr. PieTce's Ioo4 page book, Common Sense Medical Ad. viscr.n Address, WORLDS DIsPENsAny MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

ally an average Of 65,OOo bales of cotton.
 A visitor here at any season will find the streets full of pedestrians and the market places crowded with farmers wagons. The fact is that Pine Bluff is the trade center of vast area of fertile valley country, embraced in Jefferson and adjoin= ing counties. The business men are enterprising, and while already prosperous they are wideawake and ready to lend helping hand to any contemplated business enterprise in the way of manufacturing and other institutions calculated to benefit the city.
 The location of Pine Bluff ou the banks of the Arkansas river, which is navigable the year round, and on the highest point, for 100 miles east, where it empties into the Mis- sissippei river, could not be improv- ed upon. The presence of two trunk lines of railway, one running from northeast to southwest, and the other from northwest to northeast, through the country, offers unex- celled advantages in the way of outlets and transportation facilities.
 The wants demanded to make Pine Bluff city of 50, GOO people within the next decade are chiefly two things. More factories and manu- factures, and more small farmers. Much more is dependent upon the latter than is usually allowed. Factories and manufactories are not only offered unusual induce. ments by the citizens of Pine Bluff to locate here, but they also have at hand the raw materials, such as the best cotton in the world and every variety of the finest timber, and, that, too, with a minum cost for transportation to the factories.
 There is room for thousands of farmers who will cultivate from 50 to 150 acres of ground, and give their attention not to cotton, but to fruits, berries, vegetables, dairy and poultry products. The demand for these will increase right at home, as Pine Bluff grows and becomes more of a manufacturing center, which it promises to be. Farmers may buy the raw land today at as small cost as can be found any where, and if in very few years they are not successful the cause will be with themselves. The most successful farming ventures all over the country, and they have invariably been successful, are those that are undertaken on the basis of varied crops and small acreage. The Germans especially have made a great success in this direction.
 Pine Bluff as city is modern from every standpoint. She has street ear lines, electric lighting, fine telephone exchange, a perfect system of sewerage, efficient fire and police departments, prosperous
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

banking institutions, commodious building blocks, handsome opera
 house, with a seating capacity of 800; well paved streets, handsome residences and school
 buildings and an excellent city The officials are among the best of her business men. Besides she ranks well up for Q city of her population in the manu- featuring line.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
A Voice Erp.A the Ranks.

A-savin of my eowttry2 We'll, I guess I've
 done my sharal I've tended every meetin that they got up
 anywhere, I have helped tho oratory by rema1kin of
 ''Hoorayl" An I've singed my hair an whiskers at tho fire
 works display keep a-doin ies' tho best I can, But it's all fur disappointment thet plan, Fur republics is ongratefui, An I'm gittin sorter hateful, Where uster truly ,eve my feller man. A-sayin of my eountryq Amt sot up late an
 talked. When seed there was aprospeek of my party's
 getting baked? Ain't argyed long an earnest fur this land so
 Ieoud an free- An wasn't Asa Billings made postmaster
 stead O mel Yet never fail ter rally round an shout, Though l think it's somethin to complain
 about,
 Thet they don't give any pensions Fur a-goin ter conventions An yeliiS till yer lungs is tuckered out
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
He Was Sure.

"Drummers, sometimes called oom- mercial travellers, are, like ministers and doctors, fond of ehaffing each other.
 "I'ye q great story to tell you, boys, said drummer to 8 group in the eorri- dor of the Iroquois last night. "I don t think any of you ever heard me tell it before ,
 Is 1t really good story?" asked one of the party doubtingIy.
 Tt certainly is. ,
 "Then I'rl sure you never told it be- fore "-Buffalo Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
Suspicious.

"Does your husband eyer talk in his sleep?''
 "He appears to, but have my doubts about his being asleep. Most of his talk is about how dearly he loves me and how highly he regards mother. "-Cin- cinnati Enquirer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

GEN. G. w. CURTIS LEE, who suc- ceeded his father, Gen. Robt. E, Lee as president of the Washington and Lee University, has resigned on ac- count of Ill health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

THE Omaha Savings Bank sus- pended last Saturday. This is an- other evidence of Mckinley pros perity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

Wm. A. HAMMoNps, vice. president of the defunct Illinois NationalBank, committed suicide by drowning last Saturday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

A RECEIVER has been appointed for the Little Rock and Mississippi rail- road with view of Iextending it to Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

A COW has been known to recognize the picture of calf, and the tiger is said to be drawn to trap by the pic ture of companion. The timid horse, however. takes no notice of a picture, and the cat will not spring at painted bird.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

TIE Cuban fillibuster, "Com. modore' founded off the coast of Smyrna last week. Nearly all Of her crew was lost.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

The ordinary annual crop of silk in China Is estimated at about 21, 900, 900 pounds, of which over 60 per cent is consumed in the country where it is produced
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

THE Pine Bluff GRAPHIC published tip top, neat aud attracti Ie Christmas edition that was credit to the city and the enterprising managers. -Rison Bdsoo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

THE holiday issue Of the Pine Bluff GRAPHIC was credit to Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, as well as it's managers. s.-Lincoln Ledger.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

MooRINaspoRT, La, was almost swept from the face of the earth by a cyclone last Saturday afternoon. Five persons were killed and every house in the town demolished, save two.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

Entered at the Post-office at Pine Bluff, Ark, as second-class mall matter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
Cupid breaks his

Cupid breaks hIa bow at the sight of a face full of piin- pies and blotclles. H o ollow she e ks, sunkeu eyes, and d sallow complexion will defy his best intentions. Beauty is more than skin deep. The skin is merely the surface on which is written in plain characters the condition of the body. The skin is ,,Nf o t1.,.o. H.v .k.aif
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

A YOUNG man at Texarkana com mitted suicide because his sweet heart rebuked him for drinking.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
PINE BLUFF, ARK, JAN. 4 1887

JUST as an evidence of Mckinley prosperity, three banks suspended business last Saturday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

It is believed that the temperature of tho earth at depth of 200 miles is not less than IS, GOO degrees F.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04

SENATOR WoLooTT, of Colorado, has gone to Europe to try and pull off that international agreement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-04
DIR. A. w. TROUPE PINE BLUFF, ARK.

Office hours-2 to 1 p. m.
 Office with Anders0n-Meye Drug Co Telephone No. a. Residence No. 917 West Fifth avenue.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
WHY GOOD TIMES WILL COME.

Good Times Circular Issued to Great
Northern Agents by Mr. f. L. Whitney
G. p. & T. A. For That Road.
This circular varies from the one
usually devoted to rates and kindred
subjects.
The conditions for better times in
this country have not been so good for
several years. AS to the proof of the
returning tide of prosperity, the Com
mercial Agencies, Bradstreet and Dun
have gathered evidence based upon
these facts:
The crops are good.
The price of wheat, cotton and other
staples has advanced, which means
millions of dollars for producers.
The crops in foreign countries are
short, which means continued exports
and good prices.
Merchants, feeling the stimulus of
better times, are buying larger stocks
than for several years past.
Railways are having more traffic at
this period than for long time.
Manufacturers are putting their mills
and factories in order for a business
not known for years.
Our exports are largely in excess of
imports which makes us a creditor
nation, giving us the balance of trade,
which for some time has been against
us.
The activity in the mining districts,
with largely increased output Of the
yellow blood of commerce, has strong
tendency to make still better prices.
The general hopefulness among
farmers, which has not prevailed for
several years.
The easy condition of the money
market and large loans seeking invest
ments.
I need not urge upon you the inn
portance of talking good times to your
friends and patrons. Confidence is
with us again, and let us keep it.
F. I. WHITNEY, G. p. & T. A.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
Alphabet of Proverbs.

AlDlaDoJ ITSVefDSs
A grain of prudence is worth pound
of craft,
Boosters are cousins to liars.
Denying fault doubles it.
Envy shoots at others and wounds
herself.
Foolish fear doubles danger.
God teaches us good things by our
own hands.
He has worked hard who has moth
ing to do.
It costs more to revenge wrongs than
to suffer them.
Knavery is the worst trade.
Learning makes man fit company
for himself
Modesty guard to virtue.
Not to hear conscience is the way to
silence it.
One hour today is worth two tomor-
row.
Proud looks make foul work in fair
faces.
Quiet conscience is quiet sleep.
Richest is he that wants least.
Some faults INDUCED are little
thieves that let in greater ones.
The boughs that bear most hang
lowest.
Upright walking is sure walking. :.
Virtue and happiness are mother ana
daughter.
Wise men make more opportunities
than they find.
You never lose by doing a good act.
Zeal without knowledge is fire with
out light Philadelphia Record.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE.
Lung Troubles and Consumption Can
be- Cured.
An Eminent New York Chemist and Scien-
fist Makes Free Offer to Our Readers.

An Eminent New York Chemist and Scien
fist Makes Free Offer to Our Readers
The distinguished New York chemist
T. A. Slocum, demonstrating his discov.
ery of reliable and absolute cure 70,
Consumption (Pulmonar tuberculosis
and all bronchial, throat, lung and chest
diseases, stubborn coughs, catarrhal
affections, general decline and weakness,
loss Of flesh, and all conditions of vast
ing away, will send THREE FREE BOT
Tiles (all differently of his New Discov-
cries to any afflicted reader Of THE
ISLANDER writing for them.
His New Scientific Treatment has
cured thousands permanently by it's
timely use, and he considers it simple
professional duty to suffering humanity
to donate trial of his infallible cure.
Science daily develops new wonders,
and this great chemist patiently expert
menting for years, has produced results
claimed by any modern genius. His as
sertion that lung troubles and consump-
ton are durable in any climate is proven
by heartfelt letters of gratitude" filed
in his American and European labOra-
tories in thousands from those cured in
all parts of the world.
Medical experts concede that bronchial,
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and certain death.
Simply write to T.. A. Slocum, Nj. c.,
SO Pine street, New York, giving post
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Please tell the Doctor that you saw his
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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
THE BEST CLOVER OF ALL.
Washington's Product Astonishes an Ex-
pert on Grasses.

Washingt0n's Product Astonishes an Elk
pert on Grasses.
Prof. Thomas Shaw of the agricultu.
raj department. of the University oil
Minnesota, who is regarded as one OF
the leading agricultural authorities OF
the country, spent several weeks in the
Sound country last year and was so
astonished and dalighted with the
climate and agricultural possibilities
that he returned this year to enjoy his
vacation here and continue his re-
searches. Just before leaving for his
home in Minneapolis he said in an in
terview in Seattle:
"This section is truly the most won
derful section / have ever seen for
growing forage crops, and it is bound
to be, in time, teeming with cattle and
sheep. So great and varied are the
grasses that forage is afforded the year
round. It is by all odds the greatest
clover country 1 have ever seen or
heard Of In the Mississippi valley
the red clover is biennial, but here
and the discovery surprised me not a
little-I find it perennial. l don't
know how long it will grow without
resolving, but have set several ranch
ers to experimenting and if I live long
enough will in time find out.
Il should like to know how meadow
fescue, tall oak grass and the rye
grasses prosper here. / should think
they would yield wonderfully because
orchard grass, belonging totthe same
class, is a very successful crop.
"The rape plant, which seems to be
almost unknown here, would make an
excellent forage crop for the farmers of
Western Washington to cultivate.
Last year | sent some seed out and the
result was astonishing, The plants
grew eight feet high and bore from
1000 to 1000 pods each, with thirty
seeds to the pod. In England and Ger
many, where the seed is usually grown,
the seed is not half so prolific. One
acre of rape here would fatten twenty
five head of sheep, where east of the
Cascades it would not fatten more than
fifteen. Besides that, sheep could be
turned in to forage on it as early as
February.
''The raising of white clover seed,
think, might easily become a great and
profitable industry here.
another plant which fourishes
wonderfully here is the vetch. 1t is
much like the pea and is good for cut
ting and feeding green IN summer and
ripe feeding winter. 1t could be sown
in the fall and would make extremely
fattening forage for sheep.
cit is strange that the farmers do not
go into hog raising here, where peas
can be grown so successfully
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
APPLES FALL OFF.
Slender Crop in New England---Pacific
Coast Has Plenty.

Slender Crop in New EngIand---Pacific
Coast Has Plenty.
The National Apple Shippers Asso-
citation furnishes an estimate of the
yield for the crop year of 1897, based on
an average of 100 as a full crop. The
figures are given for Canada and the
various states, and are made up to Aug
ust l, as follows:
Canada. 40 per cent; New England
states, 20; New York state, 25; Pennsyl-
vania, 50; Maryland, 60; Virginia, 70;
West Virginia, 80; Kentucky, 60; Ohio,
80; Indiana, IS; Michigan, 80; Illinois,
80; Iowa, Is; Missouri, 80; Kansas, IS;
Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 70; Colorado,
100; California, 100; Oregon, 100.
! The above table shows considerable
falling off in the east, while the west,
particularly Illinois,, Iowa, Missouri
and Kansas, show q decided increase,
both as to percentage of crop and
largely increased acreage i'll bearing.
The 1897 crop will be considerably be-
low that of last year, but about equal
to average crop for the United States