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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
MADE lN MAINE.
Interesting Facts About the Genesis of Spools and Shoe Pegs.

Ahsefesttng Facts About the Gehesis of
 spoois and Shoe Pegs.
 A Oxford county, Me, turns out near
 all the spools on which the sewing
 tread of this country is wound, said
 Wholesale deatcr in such articles to
 e writer. "TEe spools are made from
 bite birch timber. and they are pro. uced by the million in Oxford county.
 here are many other parts of western N1aine, also, where the industry is im- Eportant. There are numerous sawmills ein that part of the state which are kept busy all the year round saving white birch logs into strips 1 feet long and from to ? inches wide and of the same thickness. These strips are sent to tho spool factories, where they are quickly worked into spools by the most ingen- ious labor saving machinery.
 The strips of white birch are fed in- to one machine. and they are not touch- ed, in fact. arc hardly seen again, until the spoolS, all finished for market ex- cept polishing, drop out by the bushel from another machine several rods away from where the strips started in. The spools get their gloss by being rapidly reYolyed i'll barrels turned by machin cry, tho polish resulting from the con. tact of the spools in the barrel
 h the baekwoods villages of OK ford county one sees scarcely any other industry but speolmaking, and every person in the neighborhood is in some way interested in the business The fac tories have been eating into the Maine birch forests for years but there still seems to be enough of the timber left te feed the machinery for many years t. come. Hundreds of thousands of feet ol logs are cut and sawed into spool tim Der annually.
 .'Shoe peg factories are also an im- poftdat bTaach of business once pecu1. far to Maine, although it has of lats been followed to some extent in other eastern states and is spreading to the hard wood forests of northern Pennsyl. vania Maple is used largely in the manufacture of shoe pegs, although white birch is used at some factories Shoe pegs are sold by the bushel and are worth all the way from 75 cents to s bushei, according to quality. Mora than Sl50, 900 was received by Maine shoe peg factories last year for goods.
 "A curious and profitable business has grown up i'll the Maine woods near the sawmills i'll the utilizing of the i'm. mense quantities of sawdust by compres. sion. Thousands of tons of this waste material are bought for mere nothing and are pressed into compact blocks and bales, and i'll this form is finding Il ready market for ltindling and fuel in eastern cities '- Washington Star
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A STORY OF LoNeFELLoW
Mrs. Yieids Tells am Interesting Anecdoss
 Nf the Author.

Speaking ef Longfellew, in her vol ume of literary "reminiscences. Mrs. Jane ]. Fields says:
 His kim iess and love of humor car. ried him through many tedious inte~- ruption. He 9 fously overlooked ti~ fact of the s iuges to which meu and women resosiad in order to get an interview, and, to help them out, made as much of their excuses as possible. Speaking one day of the persons whc cana 10 zee him at Nahant, he said: One man, H perfect stranger, came with au omnibus full Of ladies. He descend ed. introduced himself; then, returning to the omnibus. took out all the ladies. one, two, three, four and five, with little girl. end brought them in. en- tertained them to the best of my ability, and they staid an hour. They had scarce ly gone when forloTn woman in black came up to ne on the piazza and asked for dippvr of water Certainly, 1 replied. and went to fetch her glass. When l brought 1t, she said: "There is another woman just by the fence who ss tired and thirsty. 1 will carry this to her. :" But ahe struck her head as she passed through tic window and spilled the water oa the piazza. tOh. what have l donep' sine said ''If had fiaor cloth, would wipe it up" "Oh. no matter about tne water, ," said, '.it you have not hurt yourself Then I went and brought more water fer them both and scnt them on their way re. freshed and rejoicing.
 ''It woula le both an endless aud un. profitable tasl to recall mere of the cu- riuus experiences which popularity brought down upon him. There is a passage among Mir Fields notes, bow ever, in which he describes an incident during LongfelloN 3 last visit to Eng. land which ahorld not Ee overlooked Upon his aeriyai the queen sent grace ful message and invited him to Windsor castle. wbsre ahe received him with all the honorg, hut he told ne no foreign tribute t0aehed him deeper than the words of an English nod carrier who famc up to the carriage door at Harrow and asked permission to take the hand of the man who had written the Voices Of the Night '
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Honeat hat ente Yan!tee.

There Is a funny case Cf international honesty down in Arizona, jest on the line tctEefl flst t6lritory and Mexico 1 Yankfe ta1nltr lives there, one Ana. sa EerIaw y name, and it is his bust. ness to raise chickens. Chicken fee,l is cheap in Mexico and chickens bring fine prices ill Arizona. hut to raise flow Is in Mexico and laiug them across the bound aly e 10 buy the feed and bring it aerCss, Would iavolge the payment of considerable duty, which would eat the profits about as fast as the hens could eat the ce,n As fer smuggling, that Yaa not to le thought of.
 Amasa Is a Yankee and he is so hon. <st that Lis neigtlos say he wouldn't toke advantage tf man ill horse trade But he is also full of Yankee ia- genuity, and after deep ccgitation ho built a long, slim hencoop, one- half 0t it in Arizona and the other ill Mexico On the line there is gate Over tho line there are barns containing feed. 4 feeding time the gate is opened, and the chicken fancier shoos his flock into Rlexico, where they cat their meal Then he shoes them hack 10 the proteu, tion of the American flag, where they digest this Mexican grain. lay thei, oggs and carry OH their family affair4 Mr. Barrow saves about 90 per cent oo his grain and makes about that much on his chickens, and if there is any smuggling done 1t is done by the inno. rent and irresponsible biddies. -WaGti- tiatou fines.
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The Women of Gniana.

The wife of the cooly in Guiana is . woman who is very much to be engied. Every gold CT silver piece her husband receives for his services is beaten inio personal trinkets to be worn by his bel ter half. In this condition 1t constitutes tho cash wealth of the family. It is pei- fectly safe, ;s it is as much as any man X life is worth to touch the tl1nkets SO long as fhe woman wears them These sams wo.aen arc also noted fer their beauty. Their features are straight and perfect. their eyes teautiful ill color and theia folms resieet models of symmetry and grace Dressed ill soft, filmy materials, rich i!l color amt eastern figures, they present strangely oriental aud ssntaaiis appelrsness.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
T1iin End nf Ennlra.

What brings about he end of books: is 1t fire, water, worms. AS every ship launched is hoand to be wrecked, every theater to be burned, the finis of the book is it's reduction to ashes. What be. came of the Alexandrian library? Did the Saracens burn it in GAO? There is thia question asked: Was there any l. brary at Alexandria containing TOO, 900 books? Gibbon inclines 10 the opinion that there was nu such library. Canon Taylor insists that if there had been library it was burned i'll the time of Ju- liua Caesar. Tradition seems to indicate. however, that there vas library ia tho Serapeunl. by no means alarge col lection, but whether destroyed by The. ophilus or Theodosius is not known. is iuoks as if the charge brought againss sho Arabs rested on no foundation. Rer cont explorations of Alexandria, 1895-G, show no traces of the Serapeum. The seaport of Egypt was built on damp foundation, and, granting that there was library. if not destroyed by fire. then the papyri inight have suffered from decay due 10 water Books of to day taken to India. 70 the southern states aud to the West Indies perish throuab miideW. New York Timsa.
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SAILED THE COW TO A FAIR.
And This Cape Colder Captain Got First
 Prize h Special Glass.

Prize In special Class.
 When l was down On Cape Cod, heard an amusing story about an old sea eaptain and his COW Captain Pat terson. after sailing tho sea for more than 40 years, finally retired to a little farm near Barnstaple, where he sertled down, with a horse, COW and two O. three dozen hens. His COW. though 8 lank and rather stubborn creature, was said to come from very good stock, and when the BarnstaRle people took 1t into their heads to have fair Captain Pat terson determined to exhibit his COW.
 But when the day came for driving her to the grounds the COW showed that she had & GliLa Of her own and would not budge step Ssyond the farmyard gate. In V in the old captain rugged at the rope, Fummeigd her sides and push ed her Hanks. The COW wanted to go to pasture and was bound she wouldn't go to the fair
 Captain Patterson's patience was very nearly gene, when suddenly an idea occurred to him. Though he was not strong enough himself 10 force the COW to go to he fair his training sug. geeted something that was Tying the COW to tic gaterost, he went up into the loft oI his barn and threw down an elG sail stepped to ! dory mast Then he put a horse z blanket belt through an iron ring, strapped tic belt around the eows inserted the end of the mast ill the ring and bound the mast to tine side os the COW with some 50 feet of rope.
 The wind blew tquartering, and when the captain united the COW and raised the sail the canvas swelled cut over the cows back, and aVay she went "sidling" down the roadAnooing and plunging and trying toss herself in vain. Captain PattersG GSeized her tail, and using it as 1er guided hei skillfully in thxS direction. With every fresh p9f asVWind the obstinate COW wouleA ba bns lied along faster. Yhiia-fie dust bleyf np in clouds and the. the sail fiapped anl rugged as Captain Patterson hels @he maihsheet with one hand afd A-coW's tail with the other. ag
 It was 3 liaf voyage for both of them, bGt not q long one, and when they came ill sight ef the fair ground every body ran out 10 sec the remarkable sight of COW heinz sailed through the streets like ship. Cheers and laughter filled the air, and when the captain finally whiried his COW around at the gate cfthe fair ground and brought her neatly up into tho wind the shout that arose might have heen heard two miles away.
 Unfortunately Captain Patterson cew did not take cne ef the prizes for olcoded stock, but the captain himself was given il special prize by the fai1 commissioners fer sthe hest advice foI getting halky cattle 10 market "-Out lock,
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4 miracnlous nrnft of l,ishes.

The dwelle1s en tte banks of the Neckar, near the goed cid German town of Heiltrcnn. had an experience the other day hich must have reminded them of tEe miraculous draft oi 6shes A few days ago, toward evening, the worthy G,iltroners perceived tlat the Neckar was toward 10th it's banEs one moving mass of ali sorts and con ditions of fish, thronging landward il seeming anxiety to be caught Nor was this tacit appeal at all disregarded, for every mnn woman and child of the vicinity ran oat..with pots and pans, with spades and rakes, and pails ant baskets !o help himself CT herself to q share of fish. Tie explanation of the miracle, which perchance might prov hint to fisher folk. was that the rive had become SO muddy after recent heavy rains that the fish feaud It difficult t breathe ill the ''tbiel water and had approached the hanks for more air. = Westminster Gazette
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
The Wheat King.

The .'wheat Xii ! of the world be longs to Argentina He ia an Italian immigrant named Guazone, and his oroad acres are situated ii the south of the province Of Bn-snos Asres. His crop occupies an area If 0O, gro acres He numbers his worknen by the thousand and each one reeei ses Il certain share of the profits When his season 5 crop is harvested, he fills over 5000 railway trucks with the gain.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
Meek. but Yigorors.

She was the daintest Of the dainty.- face, fgrIe, air and apparel all pro claimed it. To be sure he had not heard her speak as yet, but from the lips oi so pretty little patrieian only pearla md diamonds could fall. IL was strange that she should be at the races unal tended, but that, of course, was but the accident of a moment. Her husband c, brother could not be far off and would eejein her in moment. Time w.llJ oD, though, and still she sat alone Pres ently something happened. One of thr horses stumbled and fell Tie jockey Kas pitched headlong to the ground He lay white and still. The man turned to iuok at her. There she sat, the color flown from her cheeks, her lips parted her eyes wide and staring. He yentnred to reassure her. Oh, 1 don't believe ne's badly hurt, " he said. "Hurt?' shs repeated quick as flash. II only hope he's broke his neck. I had s20 on the little seonndrel. New York Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
Bees Brains.

The brain Of the honeybee has re gently been studied hy Dr Kenyon oi Clark university nore thoroughly, il is said. than ever before II Is thoughl that the source of bees power to adapt itself intelligently 10 it's sur roundings has been discovered i'll certain peculiar objects in is brain called the "muShroom bodies '
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
Mans Superior Ability.

T guess 1 ain't SO coarse. said the patient animal
 "Oh, l don't know, retorted Ba- laanl. You could not make t man of yourself if you talked for j decade, and can make sn ass of myself in five min utes discourse Indianapolis Journal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17

The busiest time on the Atlantic cable k b2tween the hours of 10 and l2 in the forenoon. During that time on all average about 300 messages pass over the cable each way.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17

Japanese theaters have their boxes so arranged that the ladies can change dresses as 1t is not considered stylish for lady to appear an entire evening in one aress and with the same orna- nt.4.llts
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17

The quantity of gas made in Germany last year, according 10 efliclal returns. was 20, SS1.GG cubic feet in the man. ufacture of which ,, ia0. GOO tens of coat was employed, The number of fiamef in use was ,, 7135, GOO
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17

In ten years Sl,o0o. GOO has been pad out by the casualty fund of the British Benevolent institution to injured rail way men and their families
The herald., 1897-12-31
Ingleside Race Entries

The following are the entries and weights
for the races to be run at Ingleside track
San Francisco, today. Commissions received
and placed by the Los Angeles Turf club.
Black & Co., at Agricultural Park. Take
Main street cars. Down town office In rear
Of No. 143 s. Broadway. First quotations
received at 80 o'clock D. M:
First race, eleven-sixteenths of mile
Tom Spencer. Himera, Indomenus, Forest
Guard, Sunshine Second. Niihau. St. An
gelo, 105; Texarkana- Henry c., Prince Ty-
rant, los; 7. McHugh, 113.
Second race, y of mile, sellng-Lone
Princess, Miss Prim, Chappie, Fashion
Plate, Mangrum, 1902; Cavallo Kaiser Lud-
wig, 1O5; Judge Stouffer, Lost Girl, Sten.
tor lamar Second. Captain Piersall 107;
Ell Venado, Polish. 10.
Third race, eleven-sixteenths of mile
Raco, Formela. Roulette Wheel, Coils
Joe Levy, 105: Snipsey Abina. ITO; Prince
Blazes, 113; Heritha, Imperious, lis; Main
bar. Ping, lis.
Fourth race, q of mile, handicap-Nic-
nae, 80; Hardly, 9S; Lord Marmion, 1903
May W., 113;. Libertine. 120.
Fifth race, 1-16 miles, sellng--Personne,
95; Bernardllo, 95; Horatio, 9S; Souffle. 104;
Marquise, 104.
Sixth race, 1 mile, purse-Geo. Palmer
%. Rey del TERRA, Oscuro, 9S; Miss Ruth,
1O4; Coda, 104; Cabrillo. 107; Rubicon, 112
Weather clear; track fast.
The herald., 1897-12-31
COLLEGE CHESS
The Tournament Concluded and Har.
ward Has Won

NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-The fourth
round of the Intercollegiate tournament
at chess was begun at the Columbia
grammar school in this city today when
the pairings and openings were as fol-
lows:
Southard, Harvard, VS.. Meyer, Colum-
bia, Guico piano, which turned into an
Evans gambit. Hewins, Harvard, VS..
Seward, Columbia, counter center gam
bit.
Young, Princeton, VS.. Cook, Yale,
French defense.
Dana, Princeton, VS.. Murdoch, Yale.
Dana, who was scheduled to meet Muir
doch, did not appear and SO his college
mate, Carter, took his place. The latter
opened the game with a Danish gambit
Southard defeated Meyer after %
moves.
Seward lost to Hewins after rs moves.
Young defeated Cook after Al moves.
Carter was no match for Murdoch, who
had matters all his own way. The game
lasted for 26 moves, when Carter re-
signed.
Following is the record of the tourna-
ment:
Columbia won 31s; lost AZ.
Harvard won 6R; lost III.
Yale won 3h; lost Az.
Princeton won 2A; lost 5h.
The herald., 1897-12-31
OLD NEW YORK
Will Cease to Be When Tomorrow's
Sun Rises

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Tomorrow will
be the last day of the old city of New
York. The last meeting Of many official
boards of the city have been held. Others
will meet for the last time tomorrow.
When the birth of another year has
been announced by the booming of CAN
non, the Ginning of church bells. the
blowing of horns and footing of whistles,
the town of grander, greater New York
will be a fact. A celebration of the oc-
casion has been arranged, which will
begin tomorrow night at 10 o'clock and
will last until the new city is an hour or
more old.
The front of the city hall has been
draped with the American colors. In
city hall park electric lights red, white
and blue, have been hung. From the
tops of the buildings about the city hall
searchlights will play upon the park.
At the postof1ice the second battery will
be stationed to boom out salute OF
hundred guns. From the borough of
Brooklyn will come another salute Of
100 guns to tell that the marriage of the
cities is complete.
Fire works thrown from mortars in
city hall park will add to the spectacle.
A procession of floats sent by business
houses, theaters and societies escorted
by military organizations, civic asso-
Citations and individual maskers will start
from Unon Square at 10 o'clock. BY mid
The herald., 1897-12-31
THE CLUTE MURDER
An Important Witness Proves to Be a
Lunatic

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30-The pre-
liminary examination of Albert Hoff on
the chage of numbering Mrs. Mary A.
Clute was continued today. Meyer May
was the principal witness. He was Sc
verely cross examined by Attorney
Schooler who forced him to admit that
he had twice been confined in the Napa
insane asylum. He said the police rail-
roaded him to the asylum without a trial
because they thought him too enthusias-
tic in his belief in spirit manifestations.
He said he was no longer spiritualistic
enthusiast, but claimed still Ito have faith
in the matter of spirit manifestations.
May said he had given four automatic
writings to Hoff in the form of messages
from the spirit of Sarah. the wife Of
Abraham. Schooler asked that Mays
evidence be ruled out on the ground that
he was an incompetent person This point
will be argued when all the evidence is
in. May is the man who positively iden-
tilted the coupling pin alleged to have
been used by Hoff in killing Mrs. Clute.
The herald., 1897-12-31
PENSION ATTORNEYS
Are Not Regarded as a Necessary
Evil


WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-Commis-
sioner of Pensions Evans has been Civ
ing some attention to a proposition
whereby the services of pension attor-
news engaged in the prosecution Of
claims before the Office may be dis
pensed with, and their work done by Of
flcials under government supervision.
informally he has been discussing the
matter with members Of the house COM
mittee on invalid pensions, but is not yet
prepared to outline the details of his
plan. The present system. he says, is
wrong, and should have been done away
with long ago. Disseminating the SER
vice Of the attorneys would result In q
great saving to both pensioners and the
government, and liability to frauds in
issuing pensions would be reduced to q
minimum. Under government super
vision the pension bureau would have
direct control Of the persons appointed
to look after the cases whose business
it would be to see that all honest claims
were promptly and intelligently pre-
sented. The commissioner notes the
fact that $13,500.0 900 has been paid out
during the past thirteen years to pension
attorneys by applicants for the prosecu-
ton Of their claims.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Mexican Concessions

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec 30.-Eduardo
Chesio has received concession from
the Mexican government for exploring
natural products of several uninhabited
islands in the Gulf of Mexico, where there
are large amounts of guano, fruits, woods
and medicinal plants, and also for a
sponge and coral collection. It Is under
stood this concession has been offered
for sale in the United States. President
Diaz has approved the concession for
establishing packing houses at various
points in the republic. The department
Of communications and public works
has received 81 plans and specifications
from architects and builders, both here
and abroad, for the new legislative pal
ace, which is to accommodate both the
senate and the chamber of deputies. and
will cost $1500,00O exclusive Of land and
the foundations Of the building. A de-
cision in the matter will be given in jan
uary.
The herald., 1897-12-31
COFFEE DUTIES
Will Lead Venezuela to Ask for
Reciprocity

Reciprocity
WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.-Francis B..
Loomis. United States Minister to Ven
ezuela, has arrived in Washington. He
is on leave of absence from his post and
will advise with the officials on the sub
ject of negotiating reciprocity treaty
and also a parcels post convention be-
tween the United States and Venezu-
ella.
It is said that one of the purposes of
the present visit to Washington Of the
United States minister to Venezuela,
Mr.. Loomis, is to start negotiations for
reciprocity treaty between Venezuela
and the United States. This is rather an
unexpected step, as Venezuela was one
of the South American countries which
did not make reciprocity under the form
er system. At this time, however, Vene-
zuela suffered by having her coffee
practically excluded from the United
States because Brazil and other coun-
tries producing coffee had reduced
duties under reciprocity treaties. This
experience makes Venezuela one Of the
first southern republics to consider the
question of reciprocal treaty under the
Dingley law.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Safe Works Closed

HAMILTON, o., Dec 30.-The large
works of the Herring Hall-Marvin Safe
Company were closed today on order of
Judge Mellon, who appointed S. D. Fit
tou receiver of the company last week.
On orders from the court, Receiver Fit
tou borrowed money to pay all the en-
ployes, and it was announced to the
workmen that the plant would be closed
indefinitely. The order of the court to
continue the business was rescinded by
Judge Mellon and inventory of the es-
tabishment was ordered. l.. p. Clauson,
Jas. p. Cullom and James Graeser We're
appointed appraisers. This action was
on the application of the attorneys of
VIM. and Moses Mosler.
The herald., 1897-12-31
Alta Irrigation Bonds

vISALIA, Cal, Dec. 30.-Superior
Judge Grey today decided the question
of the legality OF the bonds Of the Alta
irrigation district in Tulare county.
holding that the bonds. amounting to
$3.50, 1000, are void. This case was tried
last July and was one of the most Bit
terly contested Of the irrigation district
bond cases. The decision holds that the
assessment Is void except that portion
which was levied for the payment Of the
current expenses Of the district for the
year 1895. G. w. Clark brought suit to
restrain ]. d. Pillsbury, tax collector Of
Alta district. from selling his property
for an unpaid assessment. The issuance
of the bonds was attacked on the ground
that they had been illegally issued.