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baltimore Women's College.

The trustees of tho Woman's college of Baltimore recently established two foreign fellowships. each of cash value of S506, which will he awarded annually to graduates of the college. The first entities the recipient to study the classics either iu Rome or Athens. and the other to stady English at Ok ford and to study ip Germany. The first award will be mad5 ill June, 1898. Two other scholarships. each of $500, were also established They will be awarded annually to the two girls standing high est in the graduating class of the Girls Latin school. which is the preparatory school of tlss college.
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FEATHERED DRUNKARDS.
Shocking Depravity on the Part of Birds
 Witnessed by Andrew Lang.


 A queer story is told by MT. Andrew Lang. The incident came under his ON Il notice and occurred under the bridge over the Lochv, below the Ben Nevis Long John distillery. From this tale it is obvious that animals are only sober from lack of wit to obtain alcohol:
 That establishment disgorges into q burn quantity of refuse, no doubt al- coholic. When We crossed the bridge in the morning to fish, the ducks from the farm opposite were behaving in a drunk. en and aisorderly manner-fying, beat ing the water, diving, spluttering and greedily deyouring the stuff from the distillery Their antics were funny, but vulgar By ? o'clock we found the ducks sleeping off the effects of their debaueh. We awakened them, and they all staggered eagerly to a bucket of wa ter, from which they quenched the tor ments of thirst. A small sea bird behav- ed i'll still moro deplorable way. He slowly drifted down the Lochy from the fatal intoxicating burn, nor could peb- bles judieiously thrown at him induce him to take the wing. He tried to dive, making efforts comic and unsuccessful After drifting through the bridge I re- gret to say that Ee returned to the burn and ''took q cup of kindness yet, get. ting all the more intoxicated and drift ing back in a yet more deplorable condi. tion. What 3 lesson, we said, is this to mankind, who, after all, need not speak of their beasted reasonablenessl The wild and tame things of stream and ocean are as unwise as we. :"
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To the Public.

From this date. April 24, 1897, the firm of Hearin X Alexander is dis solved, by mutual consent, Mir. Hearin having sold his interest to Mir. Y. o. Alexander. The new firm. ] II. Alexander X Co, assumes all liabilities and collects all bills due the said firm of Hearln X Alexander.
 FJ LEARN.
 j. H. ALEXANDER. Pine Bluff, April 24, 1887. q 2t.
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Notice to BicycIists.

The bieyelists of the city and all others interested iil good roads, are urgently requested to attend the meeting of the Cycling and Coed Roads Club Ut the Bank of Pine Bluff next Tuesday night at So'cloek sharp. By order of W. D. HEARS, President, \. ". MILLS, Secretary.
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Cotton Bell Itnl.t.

Meeting Independent Order B'ria i Birth, Waco. Texas April ? to 30.
 For this occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets, Pine Bluff t. Waco and return at $16.35 one and one-third fare oD the certificate plan. Tickets on sale April 9 to 2, Return limit May 1S97. E. W. LaBeanme, G. P. x T. A. j. W. Farley, Agt.
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A NEWSPAPER does itself no credit in throwing "cold water on pub lie enterprise calculated to rebound to the public good.
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Quadrenniol Turnerfesten and Gymnastlc Refie ". St. Louis, May 6 to 9.
 For this occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to St. Louis and return at S1ts6t one fare. Tickets on Sale My t to 9th, return limit May l2th lSa7
 l. w Farley. Agent.
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JUDGING from the cartoons in the Gazette of members of the Legisla- ture, the atmosphere of Little Rock must have avery soporific effect at this season of the year.
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About the Same.

''By the way, where is the major nowadays?' asked the mutual friend.
 "He is ill an institution for the treat ment of the feeble minded. :" said the colonel, with a tfaee of acrimony in his voice.
 ''You don sayr'
 Well, sah they don't call the place by that name, sah. But you can see for yo'self taat it amounts to the same thing. IL i.s | wateg cure establishment. sah ~,Ctnninnnti Enquirer
 The most fashionable hat now is th one that does not resemble any other
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snntfern Eaptt.t eonven.ian.

At Wilmington, N. c, May to II. For this occasion the Miss sauri Pacific will sell tickets Ut one fare for the round trip $2S S0l. Tickets on sale May , and 1. final limit for return, 3o days from date of sale
 II. B. MIzELL. Agent
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lat holds on and sustains losing

that holds on and sustains losing battle.
 Those paeans that have been written in anticipation of victory for the descendants of Jupiter. Miltiades, Marco Bo4zaris and so forth, will have to be laid away, or worked over to fit the uaspeakabie Turk.
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ouadrlenial Turnfest North Ameri,
Gymnastic Union

To be held at St. Louis, May 9th to 9th.
 For the above occasion the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway will sell tickets from Pine Bluff to St. Louis and return at one fare for the round trip, ($1lG1), date of sale May 9th and 9th, final limit for return May 12th.
 IL. B. MMEIL. Agent.
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Pine Bluff, Ark, April lG, ls97. 1
Tennessee centenninI Expedition

Tennessee Centennial Exposition. At Nashville, Tenn, May lst to Oct 3lst. 1896
 For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Nashville and return as follows: Class "A''-These tickets will be on sale April .4th and daily on and after April 18th, to and including October 18th lS97 with final return limit Nov. 7th. 1897. al $lS75.
 Class "B'-Tiekets on sale April 29th and daily thereafter to and in- cluding October 18th, with return limit of 20 days from date of sale at $l37O.
 Class "C''-Tickets on sale April 29th and every Tuesday and Thurs day thereafte to and including Oct. 26th with return limit of 10 days from date of sale at $l0.00.
 l. ". FARLEY. Agent.
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Stockholders, Meeting.

4 meeting of the stockholders of the Standard Comnress and Ware house Company. is herebt called to meet Ut the office of he Secretary on Tuesday, May ls, 1897, at ? T. m for the purpose of electiug seven direct OTIS, to serve for the ensuing year. and to transact any other business that may lawfully come before said meeting. J E. TYR LOCK.
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To Persons Desiring 10 Visit
 Armstrong Springs.

The Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Sparey and return at s ?. Tickets on sale May to October l. 1897. oiooa for return until October 3l, 1897 Stages will meet all trains at Searcy and take passenger to Armstrong Springs for 50 cents or $1 for round trip.
 I. N. FARLEY, Agent.
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ANYTHING that stirs community to progressive and industrial aet!"- ity is good thing.
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SUBSCRIPTION pRlcEs
THE Fair is the thing.

TIE Greeks are all right, but they n ,ed a leader and a fighter at the head of their army.
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Meeting Grand L4age Knights and Ladies
 of Honor.

Of Honor.
 At Little Rock, Ark, May to | For this occasion the Missou,l Pacific Railway will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Little Rock and return at one and one-third fare on the certifi. cate plan, final limit of return May II. H. E. MIzELL,
 Agent.
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The best and 10c cigars to be found on the market at X. ] Mitch ell's. dtf
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Ton RENT-After May 1.the office now occu- | pied by the Pine Bluff Water & Light Co. at Merrill Institute. 4 20 q 6t.
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Spring

li.g ls ~is' Ss 'hs n'isa. i.s- Medicine pure condition of the blood after win ter's hearty foods, and breathing Titi- ated air in home, office, sehoolroom
 or shop. When weak. thin or impure,
 the blood cannot nourish the body as it should The demand for cleansing and iiivigorating is grandly met by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which gives the blood just the quality and vitality need ed to maintain health, properly digest food, build up and steady the nerves and overcome that tired feeling It is the ideal Spring Medicine. Gct only
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&XyANTED-To buy stock of dry goods,
 w clothing, boots and shoes. VIII pay spot cash. Stock must be worth over S7000' Address M. II. R.. this oflce. 10 6t
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Good pasture, with plenty of water 2Ia
 Omiles South of town. Horses Sl. cattle 75c. f l5-d Ct. A. o. EDWARDS.
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Tor sale. ny residence property on Olive st I Lake Side. ata Bargain A. 0. EDWARDS.
 4.1l-d 6t
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A GENTS WANTED1-For War in Cuba. by n Senor Quesanda, Cuban representative at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban patriots. Tn tremendous demand bonan2a for agents. Only Sl.50. Big book, big confess sions. F ny body wants the only endorsed. reliable book Outfit free. Credit given
 Freight paid Drop | l trash, and make S3O0 q month with War in Cuba. Address today. The National Book Concern. a52. 256 Dearborn street. Chicago 42sd1m
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CHEAP &<OLUnN.
 Advertise Your Wants.

EoR sALE-A double seated surrey. cost Sla5 new three years ago, In good conql- tion and will be sold at a bargain, Address .'A A.' care this office dtf
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25

According to the New Orleans Times
Democrat. the Cotton Growers Associa-
ton has once more failed to induce cot
ton planters to reduce their acreages. Ex-
cept in the flooded section, according to our
contemporary, there has been a considera-
BILE increase in number of acres of cot
ton over last year. and if nothing should
intervene to prevent. the crop will be cor
respondingly increased.
It is a very hard matter to bring several
thousand-probably a hundred thousand
planters to one way of thinking, and in
duce them TO act upon one idea. 1t is
not recalled that there has ever been
more than one concerted movement to-
wards reduced crops, and that movement
was only partially successful. 1t is COM
paratively an easy matter to induce three
or four hundred cotton manufacturers to
reduce output, but when il is proposed
that 100000 planters shall reduce output.
the difficulties of carrying out the propo-
sition are almost insuperable.
There is, however, one pleasurable view
of the situation which may be taken; that
while the crop may be increased, and the
prices be probably lowered as a conse-
quence, it will not so seriously affect the
farmers as might have been the case in
other years. The farmers are cheapening
the cost of their cotton wherever it is.
possible to do so. and are devoting more
attention to food crops. The majority of
them, probably, have corn, peas and ba-
con enough of their own raising to run
them the full year. They will not, there
FORE find it necessary to give liens upon
their cotton to pay for western corn and
bacon. They are. furthermore, not
great deal in debt this year. as compared
with three or four years ago. They have
got their affairs pretty well in hand, and
at the harvest time will probably find
themselves in a position TO hold some of
the crop, If it should appear to them to
be advisable to do So
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25

Ambassador Hay is being criticised be-
cause he seems disposed to arrogate to
himself little too much honor in his new
office. He calls himself the American
ambassador" and has had printed on his
official stationery THE American En-
bassy." 1t may transpire one of these
days. probably a thousand or so years
hence, that the representative of this
country will have the right to call himself
by that title. But at present he is the
ambassador of the United States Amer
lea embraces two continents and two do
zen or more separate and distinct nation
al governments
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25
Coming to Their scn.c..

/ 1t appears from the Washington dis
patches that there mas been a charge in
administration sentiment with regard to
| Cuba since the passage by the Senate OF
the Morgan belligerency resolution. A
day or two before the resolution was pass
ed it was printed in the special correspond
ence of some of the leading republican
newspapers that the President was dis
posed 10 take vigorous stand on the Gu
ban question, and that it would be favor
able TO the cause of the insurgents. 1t
was even infimated that he might recog-
nize them without waiting for the passage
of the resolution by congress.
Now the information that is coming is
OF wholly different tenor. II is said the
President Will veto, or disregard, the res
olution even if the House should pass it.
He thinks the Senate infringed upon the
executive prerogative in the passing of
the document and he means to assert the
right of his high office. He also sees in
the Cuban agitation, it is alleged, a delib-
crate scheme of the silver senator's to
break down the treasury and force the
country to a silver basis. Some of the
leaders of the party. therefore, are now
working with might and main to stem the
Cuban lingo tide.
It is practically certain that one of the
first results of a declaration of war be-
tween this country and Spain. or any other
strong government would be to send the
country to a silver basis. destroy values
and upset all Industrial and commercial
arrangements. II week the available
funds in the treasury would be wiped out,
and it would be necessary to issue bonds.
An appeal to congress for legislation to
meet the emergency of war would be an
swered with a silver bill, and If the admin
istration did not feel disposed to accept
that, it would get nothing. The Senate
would give it nothing else. In the Senate,
the rights" of silver are paramount Not
even the needs of the country in the event
of war would be considered as equal in
Importance to the rights" of poor, op-
pressed silver.
The leaders of the administration are
becoming convinced that this Cuban hur-
rah is very serious business, after all. 1t
involves the gravest peril to this country,
lightly and hippant.y as Billy Mason
and bill" Chandler may speak of it. 1t
is to be hoped the administration will be
able to develop enough of true American
public spirit and grit to avert the danger.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25
PERSONAL.

Gen. Cadorna, who commanded the
Italian troops when they took possession
of Rome in 1870, died recently at the age of
81 years.
Robert Bonner mentions the striking
fact that, when he bought his first trot-
ting horse in 1885, only nineteen horses,
living and dead. had trotted a mile in 2:30.
Now there are more than 1900 in the list.
Senator Mason of Illinois says that it
cost him half of his salary last month to
write letters to office-seekers. And even
then he has to spend some hours every
day in seeing personally office-seekers who
call on him.
DIR. Jameson, according to the Cape
Town Times, will return to South Africa
to carry the Rhodes transcontinental wire
to Lake Tanganyika. The idea is Mr..
Rhodes, and lit seems a happy one for
turning Jamesons striking qualities to
account in the land of his former triumphs
and failure. His many friends hope the
doctor will do better at connecting the
wire than at cutting it," s,
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rho.e cuban ~AmerIcnn..u

/ Congressman Livingston's criticism, TO
/ the effect that the $4,000 appropriation
] for the relief of suffering 'Ameri-
cans" in Cuba would not last more than
! a month, was well founded. Senator
Morgan said there were 600 needy Amer
I leans" in the island, yet on the first day
/ that any part of the sum was available
| It was discovered thai 200 of them could
be counted without the slightest biz of
trouble. The probabilities are that $500
of them will show up before the end of
the month.
The vast majority of these "Ameri-
cans" for whom we are appropriating
money ana inviting d war with Spain.
have in right and justice no more claim
upon the United States than has the man
In the moon. They are about all Delga-
does, and Ruizes, and Agmrres and the
like. There is not a Smith, or Brown,
or a Robinson in the lot. Probably not
one in hundred of them can speak
word of English, and il may be doubted
If greater proportion of them could tell
If this country we're governed by con-
gress, or the coroner, or the king. or the
cortes. They were naturalzed for protec-
ton only, and have been and are using
their naturalization for the purpose of
embroiling this country with Spain.
George Bronson Rea Whites in the Phil
adelphia Record that almost invariably
these quasi-Americans are people who
have had trouble with the Spanish gov
eminent. They never intended to become
residents of the United States when they
took out their papers, and only remained
in this country long enough to comply
with the legal requirements Ruiz the
doctor whose death is being investigated
by the Presidents special commissioner,
had not lived in the United States in
eighteen years. He resided here only
long enough to get his papers, and then
returned TO Cuba.
There IS every reason to believe that
these so-called Americans in Cuba have
been just as destructive to the property
of the bona-fide Americans as have the
Spaniards, if not more so. Knowing that
a war between this country and Cuba
would have the effect of liberating the
island from Spanish domination, they
have shaped their actions to the end of
causing friction between the two govern
ments. They have everything to gain and
nothing to lose from such a war, while
with us it is just the opposite. Yet our
sedate and conservative Senate is froth-
ing at the mouth and endeavoring to pre-
cipitate an outpouring of American blood
and treasure in behalf of these turbulent
and spurious Cuban Americans"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25
The Power of Prnrer.

Last summer I was in Norway. and one
of the party was lady who was too del
icate to attempt great mountain excur-
sions, but found an infinite compensation
in rowing along the fringed shores of the
ford, says Rev. DIR. r. F. Horton, in the
London Sunday Magazine. One day we
had followed a narrow ford landed, and
pushed our way through the brush of
birch and alder, making a devious track
which 1t was hard or impossible to re-
trace. Suddenly my companion found that
her golosh was gone. To be without it
meant an end to all the delightful rambles
With the utmost diligence therefore, we
searched the brake, retraced our steps,
recalled each PERCEPTIONS descent of heath
er-covered rock, and every sapling of sill
yer birch by which we had steadied our
steps. But neither the owners eyes, which
are keen as needles, nor mine, which are
not, could discover any sign OF the miss
ing shoe. With woeful countenance we
had to give it up and start on our three
mile row along the ford to the hotel
In the afternoon the idea came to me-
And why not ask our gracious Father
for guidance in this trif1e as we'll as for
all the weightier things which we are con-
stantly committing to his care? If the
hairs of our head are all numbered why
not also the shoes of our feet?" 1 there
fore asked him that we might recover this
lost golosh. And then l proposed that we
should row back to the place. When we
reached the end of the ford and had lash
ed the boat to the shore, / sprang on the
rocks and went, know not how or why,
to one spot, not far from the water,
spot which l should have said we had
searched again and again in the morning,
and there lay the shoe before my eyes,
obvious, as if it had fallen from heaven.
/ think 1 hear the cold laugh of prayer
less men And that is the kind of thing
on which you rest your belief in prayer;
a happy accident. Well, if you are super
stitious enough to attach any Importance
to that, you would swallow anything"
And with a smile, not, trust, scornful or
impatient. but full of quiet joy, 1 would
reply: Yes, if you will, that is the kind
of thing; a trifie rising to the surface from
the depths of a Fathers love and COM
passion"
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The situation i'm kansas.

1t would seem that in a state like Kan
sas, where there was little left but popu-
lists, things would move to suit every
body; but not so. The alrship diverted
public attention for while, for people
who have their necks craned cannot we'll
see what is going on on the ground around
them. But Gov. Leedy came along with
his tin washbasin and for few days sue
ceeded in drowning much unfavorable COM
ment, and then trouble began Mrs Lease
is trying to lead one wing of the populist
party, ex-senator PETER has a string
around another, Gov Leedy still claims TO
be the man of the people" and ex-Sena-
tor ingalls, is trying to figure out where
he 1t at" With this situation of affairs
developing from day to day. Kansas now
finds herself confronted by a question
which is calculated to make deeper and
broader the lines of demarkation between
these different wings of populism and pref
~ soon the state which was once called
the home of populism, will find that il
has several distinct and separate species
of populists within its borders, between
which all of the similarity except in the
one feature Of demagogery, will have been
lost.
The issue Is the prohibition question
with Gov. Lecdy not inclined to enforce
the state prohibition laws. For this reason
ex-senator PETER and Mrs. Lease are de-
nouncing him, i'm spite of the tin wash
basin, and proclaiming to all the world
that he is not of their ilk. A semi-official
announcement the other day made it APP
pear that Gov. Leedy did not intend to
enforce the prohibition laws but would
| allow liquor to be sold openly in the cities.
A mass meeting of the temperance people,
full of Indignation, was the result.
| Gov. Leedy appeared at the meet
ing and made a speech in which he put
the entire blame for the failure to enforce
the laws upon the railroads and corpora
tons, saying that the State Temperance
Association had fallen into the hands of
the agents Of these concerns, and that
they were making of it political weapon
against the populist administration. The
truth of the matter is. Gov. Leedy had TO
say something in his defense after he had
been roundly denounced for his failure TO
enforce prohibition, and he said this.
which promptly called forth from ex-sen-
ator PETER the opinion about the govern
or. II am ashamed of him"
The whole trouble probably is that the
governor has been stirred up by the grow
ing division in the ranks of the party and
is trying to make himself solid with an
other class to counterbalance any little de-
e. l..
opportunity of his life-that tin washba-
sin. Let him get il out, and perform his
ablutions before the assembled multitude.
Such healthy example might turn the
tide in Kansas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-25

Editor Clugston of the Spiketown Bliz-
zard looked out of the front window of his
office, hurriedly grabbed his hat, and
darted out through the back door, says
the Chicago Tribune,
The last issue of the Blizzard had con-
tanned a personal item to this effect:
Our young friend, George Corbinson OF
charlottesville, was in town again last
Sunday. Rumor has it that he will soon
lead to the altar beautiful belle of Spike
town. George is one of the sold young
men of our neighboring city"
Editor Clugston had written it "solid
young men," but he knew it would be of
no use to try to explain the mistake to the
large, athletic young woman, who was APP
preaching the office.
And so, when Miss Euphorbia Licklad-
der, the acknowledged belle of Spiketown,
walked in at the front door a few minutes
later and inquired in a deep, tragic voice
for the editor. Mr.. Clugston was emerg-
ing from a back alley two blocks and a
half away and making for the open coun-
try