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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
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Ienox, Mass.-Almost from time im- memorial there have been golden rod dinners at Lenox to usher in the au- tumn. Some of the prettiest of these entertainments have taken place this season at the golf clubhouses. where woodbne, climbing over the broad porches and slowly turning from green to crimson. adds to the brillianey of every occasion. Recently tea was served on the heels of an afternoon on the links and attended by many who never yet have suceanibed to the fas- cinations of the game. The large, low reception room of the clubhouse was hung with scarlet bittersweet berries and trailing vines of the wild white cle= matis Sheafs of feathery golden rod filled the wide old-fashioned fireplace, while huge vases of blue succory and deep red cardinal flowers stood in every nook and corner. Broad yellow ribbons looped back the curtains, and the place was filed with the soft, brilliant hues of September. The guests wore flowers in profusion. as Is the seasons pleas ant fashion, and the younger ones had decked themselves with ieweled belt buckles in the shape of bicycles, or golf or tennis or yacht club pins, according to their individual bents; for every body at Lenox has one fad in athletics, if not a choice assortment.
 There was great deal of blue in the women's dresses and a great amount of cream and brown. Some of the frocks were corded on the hips, after a style that promises to be much in vogue this autumn. These skirts were gathered into the waist and arranged, in most cases, with hem trimmings. Other gowns had guipure laid round the foot of the skirt or about the hips The bodices were more intricate than we
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
TRADING IN WAR sPolls.
How Clever Yankees Profit by the
 Wreck of Cuban Industry.
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 Other nations extremity is usually Uncle sam's opportunity With his customary euteness and foresight he has availed himself of the distracted state of Cuba to makemoney in a rather odd way. When the war in Cuba had been raging for some time and the in dustries of the unhappy island were at a standstill it occurred to the astute manager of the Nassau smelting works that there was money to be made by purchasing the wrecked machinery that lay rusting in the fields and factories of Cuba while the engineers and plant CTS to whom the plants belonged were fighting for freedom against the Span ish soldiers. The idea was acted upon at once. Six months ago there left for Cuba an expedition which consisted of 75 men, whose only weapon was an unlimited credit upon which to draw for the purpose of buying up the en- tire machinery of the island at the cheapest prices for cash.
 The Spanish authorities at first locked upon the expedition with suspicion, and at one time it seemed as though the en- tire contingent of peaceful traders
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
ARMY STATIONERY.
4 Comparison of the Issue of War
 Times and That of To-Day.

Within the memory of a good many officers of the army, the stationery al- lowance for company and regimentaE purposes, was entirely inadequate, and great economy was necessarily prac- ticed. When a communication came by mail from some superior source dur ing this time, the unused part of the paper, if any, and often the envelope in which it came, was carefully preserved for routine office work in making de- tails, drafting letters, issuing orders, etc.
 Ink powder was provided instead of ink, and sand in boxes accompanied it for plotting purposes. Waters and boxes to hold them were furnished, and a few long feathered clarified" quills for making pens, were doledl out each quarter. A few sheets of buff-colored paper for the manufacture of envelopes, and stick of sealing-wax, completed the issue.
 Later, the war department made con- sessions, regarded as very liberal at the time, and authorized the. issue of 12 steel pens and one penholder in lieu of T bunch of quii.s, and 1na easellesfisess= in lieu of a quire of envelope paper.
 The present issue Is very liberal and the economy of former daysis no longer necessary Military Gazette, Chicago,
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home. If they get free land in a new country where taxes are light they thrive accordingly.
 There is another reason for the Ital- ian preference for South America. Emigrants meet there on fairly even terms the Spanish races, whose Ian guage and ways are more like their own. They harmonize at once. They do not get on so we'll with the Portu- guese element in Brazil, but it is thought that the troubles there are nearly over. The Italian and Brazilian governments are patching up their causes of quarrel, and it is likely that the former power will soon be able to guard the interests of emigrants as carefully in Brazil as in Argentina as carefully as Commentators Rossi's bureau guards over them at Ellis island.
 Because the Italians have gone to Argentina so freely Buenos Ayres Is ] now the metropolis of South America, land Rio is a back number.
 Buenos Ayres has 100000 inhab- &itants, of whom SOC, 1000, it is estimated, Sare Italian. Throughout Argentina they are increasing in numbers and Se1fecting the gradual, bloodless change 7of the finest part of the southern con Mtlnent to an Italo-Ameriean strong 8hold.
 A For one thing, pure Spanish blood is 'fnot so plenty in the nations to the as might be supposed. The Ran nguage is spoken, but in the popu- a'atlon negro and Indian races are a sFery strong element, and the mestijos, E8pr nalt-breeds, perhaps strongest of all. sl ne Spaniards are proud and master p u race, but not recently very prolific
 ne' and there is not much Spanish
 migration to keep up their proportion zn the south.
 mat IS another reason why half AfAlnerlca lle may become Italianized.
 The Italians leave home in such num- spers' with the tacit approval of their s5f osernment, because they are so prolific & iaS there isn't room for them all at
 one, and the government understands
 They are the same sturdy fellows
 iae oyerran the world once, and in the
 'auule Ages showed such marvellous
 ~ IS not 30 years since Italy became
 nation, and already it feels con
 .lslned in it's narrow limits It is -. i. ~ sleek like the English. The pop
 a''oa, no longer kept under by starva-
 1, pesssience, misgovernment, little
 s and the vendetta. multiplies fast.
 iS marriages and a high regard for
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
GOING TO SOUTH AMERICA.
Italians Will Soon Outnamber the
 Spaniards There.
Is This the Race of the Future. .-Re- verses in Africa More Than Made Good on This Contin ent-o asIi-
 ties That Insure Success.
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 "Greater Britain" is in North Ameri- ca. South America is in way to be- come Greater Italy.
 We have seen in the United States Something of Italian immigration. For time the tide set strongly ln this di- rection. Then it turned, partly because of the wide comment made upon the Mafla troubles in New Orleans, but more because of the reports of hard times bere which went home to Italy. In 1895 only 37,851 1people-according to Italian flpures-came here, while something like 15o,o 900 went to South America.
 The best of the immigrants went south and are still going in tIat diree- tion. Of the Sicilians, Calabrians, Aal3rilzzians and Gampanians whom we get, only about 20 per cent. can so much as sign their marriage contracts. Of the Tuscans, Piedmontese, Enilia1s, Genoese, Lombards and Venetians whe % to South America in droves five times as numerous. probably 65 per cent. can sign theif names.
 The better people go south for sev- eral reasons. The cost of passage is much greater, thus turning in our di- rection adventurers with little means. Thrifty people go to South America and take their families with them, instead of coming here and making frequent visits home. Some of the South Ameri- can states give immigrants free land and even temporary aid in building houses and securing cattle and tools.
 The Italians are splendid farmers at
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
1mnortnnce of A1nakn.

Alaska contains about 100000 square miles and is more than 13 times as large as the state of Illinois. The dis eoveries of various minerals, petroleum, etc, in the territory during the next year or two will doubtless benumerous and important. Possibly two terri tories will be created out of the present one. and the bnilding Of cities and rail roads, and the development of mines and various industries, will make brisk times in all that region for severalyears to come
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
Automatic Voting Machine.

A. E. Collins, city engineer of Nor wieh, England, has patented novel voting machine. A row of boxes, each bearing the name of candidate, is supported on a frame. The voter thrusts the ballot, which is of card- board, into slot in one of the boxes, without marking or folding. After a few seconds it falls into a glass box into which all the boxes discharge. The official on the other side is unable to tell by which route it entered or how the man voted. Within 1the slot, in each ballot box, type and iln linked roller print a number on tha back of each ballot. Thus a party'g vote is counted as it is cast. The sit} }iation be- comes more complicated wh9n large number of offices are to be filled.
 The One Thing NeeAfrI.
 "Have you seen those nofkeless baby carriages yet?"
 "No! What I want is a noiseless babv -Tit-Bits.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05

able capacity for high speed One of them could pull at the rate of 60 miles an hour on a piece of level straight track no less than B Pullman cars weighing 40 tons each. Such a train would be more than two-ffths of mile long.
 The six-eoupled driving wheels of these engines are each six feet in diam eter, and the working steam pressure is 200 pounds to the square inch. The cyl finders are of the ordinary simple type, each 21 inches in diameter with piston stroke of 28 inches. This gives trae- tive force, or draw-bar pull. of 27,46o pounds, sufficient to haul train load of 4,279 tons. equal to about 85 of the largest loaded freight cars, at slow speed on level track. No locomotives now running have so large combined cylinder area and steam pressure as these new Goliaths.
 You may make the moving parts of a locomotive as powerful as you please, but unless there is fire box and a boiler big enough to match the running gear your engine will soon be short of steam, with probable showdown between sta tions. This catastrophe is not likely to happen to one of these engines-as long as the coal holds out-for the fire box is ten feet long and3h feet wide, with total heating surface of 194 square feet, while the boiler is five feet two inches in diameter, with tubes which give heat ing surface of no less than 2,298 square feet. Soft coal, of which about eight tons will be put on the tender at start ing, will be the fuel.
 An engine may also have great power and yet be unable to utilize it, owing to insufficient weight on the driving wheels. The total weight of one of these locomotives will be 75 tons, of which 58 tons will rest on the six driv- ing wheels, the remaining IT tons being carried by the four-wheel truck in front. Reckoning the bite or grip on the rail at one-fourth the weight on the drivers we get an adhesion of 141h tons, or 29,O00 pounds, which is 1,540 pounds more than the tractive force of the en- zine, thus leaving good margin for wet weather and slippery rails. The weight of 19 Ia tons on each pair of drivers is also unparalleled in the history of rail- roads. To carry this weight with safety and without heating, the journals of each axel are 81a inches in diameter by Il inches in length. Fancy locomotive journals two feet and 11s inches in cir conference!
 The tenders attached to these en- zines will be worthy of them. Each will carry 4,5oO gallons of water, and when loaded to it's full capacity will weigh 41h tons. This will bring up the total weight of engine and tender to 1171a tens.
 The object of having such powerful engines is not so much to make speed on the level as to maintain it on the grades. The maximum grades, of which there are several from two to four miles long, vary from 70 to 82 feet to the mile (roughly speaking from IA to 11a per cent) and the curves on these from three to six degrees.
 r II MIJILIN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05
Renaons for CongratuIations.

Every man is for duty," said the colonel. Not sick man in the regi- ment. Even the man who swallowed a nickel is in the ranks with the rest, happy as lark"
 .sCongratulating himself. possibly said Mrs. Cobb, who stood near, "that he is a nickel in.'-Military Gazette.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-05

The French race, closest competitor of the Italian, has not nearly doubled in a century, and is now about sta tionary.
 Are the Italians the coming raeef
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
PITH AND POINT.

The acme OF f5alIteness was reached
by a mining superintendent who posted
i placard reading: please do not
tumble down the haft."-Mclbourne
/ Weekly Times.
Delicately Pu:.--'And how did he
de- asked the lad, Who had come west
to inquire after the husband she mad
lost. "Er-bv request, ma'am," said the
gentle cowboy. as mildly and regretful-
/ Iy as indianapolis journal,
-Jones-"Grrur guns, You're get
ting deaf, old maa." Smith--'I'm not.
! could never hear better in my life"
Jones (Producing q watch)-'Cau you
hear that watch rick?" Smith ttri-
|umphantIy) - Distinctly" Jones
"That's queer Tie watch isn't run
ming. Words.
--RcpubIicau Limitations. - Pop
per" said Willie. is this republic"
Yes, my sou." ''NUd can we do as ,vc
pcase?" THAT is the law, unless We
please to do wha, Is wrong" "Is slsat-
ing wrong, pa?" No. indeed" Then
I'm going. Ma said | shouldn't, but II
the law says" lie didn't go.-IIarpcr's
Eazar.
An ENpluuarIou.-Two ladies had
called, and while they were waiting for
their cards to br taken up. they exam
ined the picture. This" said one.
must be one of the old Masters III
yc Place. ma'au,." replied the servant.
y no was stand ne in the door, we're
mistaken. All him pictcr, belongs ill
the missus."--W ashiugton Star.
a certain regiment had "a very
small band, but he commanding oili-
GERS feet were-well. very large. One
day the regiment WIS 10 march out, but
the music was not forthcoming. Where
the deuce is the haud?" qucried the
adjutant. For some time there was no
reply: but when the question was re-
pcated. 4 grrIff voice Was heard from the
Irar rank: Il believe. sor. the colonel
!rod on it be accident. t."-Tit-Bits.
Negro Prisoner Before Justice
Yes. sab. tuk the chicken. ! was
rwiutcr make so-ur chicken pie. and
TUX de cook book and read de direct
shuns. and hit say: Take one chicken
Hit don't say buy one chicken. or bor
row one chicken. hut hit says take one
chicken. Hit don't sax ""hrsa chicken
ter take. 50 jess tux de first one could
lay my hans on followed de direct.
shuns in de book" Credit Lost.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION

Excessive tea drinking shuttors the
nervous system. ~ vrakcHs the brain. -
jures the appetite. destroys the digcs-
tive organs and causes cold feet. So
says New York physician.
Nicola Tesla the famous elccfr clan.
says that nearly all long lived P-rsous
have been great sloePcrs. lie believes
that ii man could sleep IS hours
day, without the aid Of narcotics. lie
might live 200 years.
Patrick AlIiger. an old bachelor. sup
ported himself chiefly by begging n
the streets of Dublin. lie beclmc Ill.
and insisted on wearing D. Is wig and a
nightcap After his death the sum Of
c OBS in bank notes Was found IN
der his wig.
Coffee derives its name from EaTa.
East Africa, where the berry was first
raised. Mocha coffee is 50 named from
a port on the Rcd sea n Arabia, where
it was collected aud shipped. The
first coffee house in Iug'aud WIS
opened in Oxford in l.5I.
In six months whrar N.II shrink In
bulk Two quarts 70 '.o n.sHrl or six
per cent It therefore follows that %
cents bushcl in August. just after ~
wheat IS thrcshcd, is equal 20 one dollar
in the following February.
Just before his death C. jerome
Cary, Of Milwaukee, directed that his
body be crcmatrd and the aahcs n-..d 20
uOuriah certain rose bush. lie fur
,hcr directed t.a, the roses Dc DIS
triJuted among il is friends.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
LAUGHS FOR ALL

Wisdom.-'1 can't see why they speak
of the wisdom of the serpent" "Wel,
you never heard Of a serpent getting its
leg pulled, did you?"-Truth.
Henderson remarks that il some pco-
pie knew how little they know they
would know blamed sight more than
they do know.-Boston Transcript.
Bcckcr-"I see by the posters that
Footlights, the tragedian. travels under
his wifes management" Decker-"So
do most men. only they don't advertise
it."-Tit-Bits.
Another Great Truth.-"We ought to
give the devil his due" Yes. but the
trouble is we often spend on him the
money We owe to other people. Chi
cago Record.
Mother tapprovingIy)-"You should
mt make light Of marriage, my daugh-
tor" Daughter Indignantly II thinl;
it's all right to make light OF q match" !"
Yale Record.
The Wiie-"Doctor. can you do any
thing for my husband?" The Doctor
What seems to be the trouble? "Wor-
rying about money" "Oh, | can re-
lieve him OF that, all righ,."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Nojack-"l am afraid that Rev. DR..
Thirdly's usefulness in his new parish
will be very limited. " TomdiK-"Why?
Isn't he liked?" PERSONALLY he is gery
much liked. but his wife has better
taste in dress than any of the female
members of his congregation. '-Har
lem Life.
Its real pleasure to me to give you
anything" said he. as he forced the
bouquet into her hand. Stay" she
replied. handing back the flowers, you
are like the rest Of the men. All you
care for is your own pleasure. Take the
flowers; cannot consent TO encourage
such selfishness. ."-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
Scnsen of the ScNen

Scientists have discovered that n
wOman's perception of color is cunsid-
erably greater than that of man. On
the other hand. men have as a rule n
much keencr sense OF smell. \ woman's
blindness is undoubtedly
largely due to her education, while she
may also have some innate faculty 20
aid her in thai direction. From girl
hood, however, n woman, in her fcmin-
inc love of dress and attention to its de-
tails, is trained TO distinguish not only
colors, but shades. AS result few
women are really color-blind, though
many have less power of perceiving
some one or two colors than they have of
others. This well-known fact has been
utilized in "A color party where the
prize was bestowed on the person who
correctly named the shade shown.-N.
Y Post
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
FROM MANY STATES.

In n South Dakota divorce case the
jury was composed of six men and six
women. and OF course there was a dis
agreement.
Charles Dorr, OF San Francisco. has a
wonderful memory. He can recite YER
baIn almost any play after witness
ing it once.
AT Jasper. Fla. 4 dog chased i rabbit,
which dashed into gopher hole. The
dog followed, and rattlesnake killed
them both.
4 New York barber advcrtiscs to
each the tonsorial art in five weeks.
lie permits the novices to practice on his
own face, and is frequently lathered and
shaved 90 times day.
A handsome man in vancebur-. Ky,
3j years of age. has four wives and
three families. He was lately divorced
from his third spouse, and the next
morning was married to the fourth.
= hustling lawyer in Helena, Mont,
needed the sworn verification of legal
paper. so through the telephone he
called up the required person, who wa'
then at Butte, and administered the
fath,
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
THE INCANDEsCENT LAMP.
Infinite skill Required In Their Man



The incandescent lamp consists OF
lilament OF carbon. attenuated to give
high resistance, iuclo~ed in i receiver
made of glass, from which the air is
exhausted, the conductors being sealed
through the glass and connected with
the hlamcnt. Edison searched the
world over for materials for this fila
ment. and hit upon bamboo, which was
imported as dunuugc from the east,
evenly cut into fine spuntcrs. and then
carbonizcd. To produce this lamp the
Edison lamp factory Was established at
Harrison, y. j., now employing several
hundred girls and lacH. and turning out
over 6,OOU,OUu lamps per ycar-the
largest product in The world. OF late
Years 'squirtcd" G.umeut has taken the
place of bamboo. Cotton, or other pure
cellulose, is dig"zicd. much as the hu
muu stomach digests food, into a brown
flaid not unlike thin molasscs, which,
when squirted under pressure through
finely cut steel die or tube, is deposit
ed rs a continuous spiral in IA vessel of
alcohol slowly reyolyed below. The
alcohol washes out the acid, and the
strips. is packed in IA Crucible. subject
ed to intense heat, and charred into
black carbon iilaInents. These are
mounted with carbon paste upon plat
inum terminals, which have already
becH securely fastened into the tiny
stopper of glass. Meantime the glass
bulbs have been made in the glass fac
tories. and into these the glass stop
pcrs are hermctically sealed. At the
end of the bulb there is left an open
tube of glass. In the vacuum-room the
lamps are hung by the conductors to
electrical connections, and The open
tube is connected 10 "A large glass tube
through which is dropping a stream of
mercury from the mcrcuriul air
pumps. This mercury sucks the air
, out from the bulb, and when the air
| is practically exhausted, the current is
turned on TO show whether the vacuum
| is good, and to drive any air out from
| the carbon way. The bulb is sealed.
/ Each lamp is now pat in turn into q
| phctometer, where one girl adjusts the
| lamp TO the photouetric standard,
while another reads of and marks the
| voltage. Kecently an Italian method
| for producing vacuum by chemical
means has replaced. in great measure,
the mercury pump. The variety OF
| lamps made at the Edison lamp works
is extraordinary, at least 1000 kinds be-
ing produced, ranging in illuminating
| power from onc-half candle power for
miniature decorative lighting to above
100 candle power..-R. Il. Bowker, IN
Harper's Magazine.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
yaldins, Kiqnqn & Marvin, Wholesale

Halls Family Pills are the bcst.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
SCHOOL ITEMS.

Germany has q universities. with
1890 professors and 26.50O students.
IT Azhar. meaning "the splendid
situated at Cairo, is the Oldest uniyersi-
~ in the world. 1t is the greatest Mo
hammcdan school, and has clear rec.
ords dating 975.
II is said there is CONSERVATION
among the male teachers of Center
county. Pa, because the school diTec-
tors are preparing to carry out an
order prohibiting teachers from using
70 bacco.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
Nov's This.

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for any case OF Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls CatarTh Cure.
+. J. Cheney & Co.. Props. Toledo. o.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j.
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him perfectly honorable IN all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
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Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Price 75c per bot
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free
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
sprfuR Clearing,

Spring cleaning need not necessarily
be made the drudgery it is if properly
done. Paints, floors, hard walls and
windows may all be cleaned without
rubbing, by wiping over with strong
suds made of Ivory soap and hot. soft
water, then rinsed and dried. \ room
thus cleaned will be fresh and sweet,
with no unpleasant odor of strong
soaps or cleaning fluids.
ELIZA r PARKER
The Holly chieftain., 1897-04-02
what she wanted to Know.

\ certain minister. who is not always
50 careful as he ought to be in making
his teaching aud his practice CORE
sponi, was lately telling some friends u
Story Of adventure. It was d pretty
tall story, and the ministers ten
ycar-oId little girl ua- Observed to be
listening 10 il .rry in'nutly. When hr
finished she fasteur., her widr-opcu
Eyes upon her father, face, and said.
.,ry graycIg: "ls that true. or urr you
preaching now. papa ..'-Tit-RIts.