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The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-10
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The subjects for sermonic discu ssion
on Lords day, December l2th, at 1890
am. will be "The Supreme Object Of
Preaching, and at $50 pm. "The Sign
Of Jonas
Special music for both services.
The next prayer meeting topic is
"The Beloved Deciple." Jno. 13:2l-27,
2 l:3-7.
A cordial invitation to the general
public is extended.
l.. A, Hussosa, Pastor.
A very p~leasurable event which we
have to chronicle this week was the
birthday party given by MIR. John
Polnicky At his residence on Elm street
on last Tuesday evening to n goodly
number of lady and gentlemen friends
and neighbours. The occasion was the
43d anniversary Of that gentleman's
birthday and as usual he and his esti.
mable wife left nothing undone which
would help to make their guests stay
pleasant. Light refreshments were
served and the evening spent in the
peasantrys general to such occasions.
Durisg the evening the host was the
recipient Of a watch chain and charm
and other presents, tokens Of regard
from his assembled friends.
Mr.. Hardin Norris. clerk If the drug
store of r. Shoemaker, Perry, H., says:
"a man came into cur store the other
day and said, Il want a bottle of that
stun hat saves children's lives. read
in the News about it. The children
! may get sick when we can not get the
doctor quick enough. It's the medi-
cine you sell for Group" He alluded
to ChamberlaiA's Cough Remedy and
bought a bottle before he left the store,
For sale by II. +. Grice.
Pains in the chest when a person has
a cold indicates a tendency toward
pneumonia, A piece of flannel damp
ened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm
and bound on the chest owe the seat
OF pain will promptly relieve the pair
and prevent the threatened attack {
pneumonia. The same treatment will
cure a lame back in a few hours. Solt
by II. +. Grice.
1t is not what is grown on the farm
but what is sold from it that mskes tn
profit. As a rule the time to sell is Il
soon AS the product il ready for tn
market. When all sides Of the ques
ton of holding is measured this will b
are ready and a buyer is found. Wher
ever a product is in demand, then
should be sold.
Some enterprising cuss up in Sarp
county is going among farmers buyin
/, chickens and other small articles usI
=. ally found on q farm, and then tender
r the unsuspecting tiller Of the soil
confederate bill, receiving back Il
{ change in good money. A mar wi
will be taken in on a game of tn
character needs no consolation.
;. j. II. Smith writes combined insu
=. ance for a term Of five years at 3 Pr
cent. On schools houses, churches IN
farm property on the installment pla
Drop him n card at Red Cloud, Neb.
Is Perfectly harmless, but very powe
o full is Economy Boneset Cordial"
IS remedy par.excellence for all forms
d ndige stioH. For sale by G. l.. Coffin,
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-12-10

Now that good times have come and
good audiences greet amusement COM
panies at the opera house, you hear
from all sides the general kick in re-
gard to the poor accommodations Of
the house. That the comfort of pat.
rons Of the house could be bettered
goes without saying, With a little ex-
penditure of money a raised elevation
of seats could be secured, and going a
little further and tearing ont the front
partition or a portion of it good venti'
lat,on could be obtained. The DROP
curtain which bears the advertisements
of persons who have long since gone to
heaven or are shoveling coal in a less
comfortable place, might be removed
and one more pleasing to the eye put
M. Such shows as the Beach & Bow
ers Ministries drop about forty or lift,
dollars for the privilege of showing IL
the opera house and it would not take
many such to pay for the improve
ments. An opera house run on
the right principle is a monrl
maker, and sooner or later II something
is not done for the comfort OF the pat
rons they will refuse 10 attend and
stock company will result who Will pa
M a groand floor opera house bull
upon modern ideas and for the coaifor
OF its patrons.
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DEMOCRATIC IIcp0RE.

The Charle ston 6, @ Neies and Courier says Of the election of Me Laurin as tE } Democratic candidate for Senator from that State:
 We regard the result of the pri- mary election as a victory for cleaner methods and better men in politics. Mir, MeLaurins majority is about 5000 The people selected the best man in the field. The Or angeberg county conservatives and reformers worked together and voted together for MeLaurin. In other counties and all over the State the best citizens and staunch- est Dem ocrats voted for McLauriE They could not vote for Evans, they would not vote for Irby. We be- iieve that Mr MeLaurin will make an honest effort to instifv the conti- denee which the people have placed in him. He has great opportun- ity, and we will he much disap. pointed if he does not try to serve his State faithfully. We hope his election is the beginning of new era Of political peace and genuine prosperity for South Carolina. What it means for the future, the future will develop. Bnt it means this much that the end of factional bitterness has come, and that here after no man can win in this State by arraying class against class.
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A Bible Sled.

A friend of the Listener saw & funny sight down in Maine. At place there which needn t be named, there lives a small boy named Jonathan Longfellow. who is third or fourth cousin of the poet, and he is great hoy too. One day this friend of the Listener was driving past young Jonathan's s house and saw the boy engaged at little distance in sliding down hill on the slippery crust on something that was not sled. What could it be? Evidently the scrutiny of the passerby was observed by the boy, for he stopped his eoastihg and called out amiably, I'm sliding down hill on the Bible. And it was tLe fact too He had got the smooth. leather bound fam. fly Bible, containing the generations of all the Longfellows, and was coasting on it with magnificent success. Boston Transcript.
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Women Read Adrsrtl.sn,snt..

It Is claimed, says the Philadelphia Press, that the women are the only read. CTS of advertisements h measure this is true, and necessarily so, for women are the larger purchasers for the house. hold and spend most of the money that is earned by business, professional and working men.
 Even in the larger transactions it will probably surprise dealers to learn how influential a voice women have. The purchase of home is almost invariably determined by the women of the house. hold, and in nine cases out of ten their information as to the situation and de. durability of 8 purchase is gained from the newspapers.
 And every furniture dealer, dry goods dealer, groceryman and keeper of any sort of store knows that he must al peal to the women if he wishes to sell his goods. One of the largest element, in the success of one of the greatest mer chants in the world today is the fact that he knows how to appeal attractiyely through the advertisement to the wom an. Fourth Estate
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 Aiming For Two Reforms.

In France lady with the suspiciously Teutonio name of Schmahl is the head and front of the agitation for women's rights Oddly enough. Mime. Schmahl is an English woman born and bred, her permanent residence in France having only been during the last ten years, However, neither nationality race nor creed offers any gerious obstacle to fem nine cooperation in the task of winning equality with man. As chief supporter of L'Avant Courriere, Mme. Schmahl has succeeded in annexing, as other supporters, two ladies who are as widely apart as the poles ill religious sympathy aud social status. One of these is the dowaRer Duchess d Uzes an aristoerat and fervent Roman Catholic, while the otbRr is Mme Sarah Monod, mem Der of Q well known Calvinistic family at Geneva. Their programme is limited 10 two reforms, which they may hope to compass ii one legislative session. namely. the right Of women to act as witnesses to all legal documents and the protection of the earnings of wifs from her husband 5 interference.
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Rer Wet Day Wear.

4 bright. stylish woman, who has to go out every day ill all weathers to at- tend to dally business, has designed her own rainy Gay costume and wears it with any amount of comfort and pleas uro. It is made of Scotch tweed. the skirt Icing box plaited and the waist made full blouse. The skirt reaches to the tops f the shoes, and rubbers and gaiters are always worn with it. The whole suit is made large enough to slip over the ordinary street gown. the de- signer frequently looping up the skirt of the usual street gown and wearing if under the other.
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"We were told last fall that an appreciating dollar was n National blessing, and yet within Q year the entire Republican press is in ee- stacy because the purchasing power of a dollar has been to some extent decreased. Wage earners were told last fall that . rise in the price of commodities would be detrimental to them, and yet behold how happy Republican spellbinders are because ore great staple, -four, has risen - WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
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THE WORLDS GREAT
 CEREAL CROP.

The Hungarian Minister of Agri- culture has just issued his annual estimate of the worlds great cereal crop, in which ha places the total wheat yield at 2, 1879, 100, GOO bushels, while the requirements call for B, 275, 750, 900, showing a shortage of 396, 300, ,O00 bushels,; of rye the esti. mate is of deficit of GlS2, 250, GOO bushels; barley, 103, ,500, 900; oats, l59, 800, 900; corn, 162, 500, ,000-total shortage in the worlds supply of the five cereal crops. 1,l05, l50, 300 bushels. Instead of our surplus yield Of wheat being 100000, 900 bushels as has been claimed, it Is now agreed from the most authentic es- inmates that it will not exceed l25, : 000, 900 bushels, with much of that of low grade.
 The enormous exports of wheat but confirms the growing demand of foreign countries for our entire sur plus, whatever it may be, and the farmer who was not forced to sell betoVe the price advanced, or who did not engage his crop at the price then in force, will get faiI price for it, with no thanks to the Hanna Reed.robber-tariff that increases on the price of everything he has to buy, and which has no more to do with the advance in the price of wheat than it had with rescuing the Children of Israel from the murder ous pursuit of Pharaoh and his hosts, when these progenitors of the Mark Hanna tribe were engulfed in the averaging waters of the Red Sea. Memphis Herald.
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eLETELANnS FORT HNE.

The private fortune of ex-Pres- ident Cleveland has been discussed to a more or less extent all over the country, and in numerous instances We have seen it stated that he was worth millions, says the Arkansas Democrat. This is apparently con- tradicted by the following dispatch that recently appeared in the New York World
 TRENTON, N. J., Septemer 7.-- Former President Grover Clevland nearly petriiied the county board Of freeholders today. The board met to adjust the county and municpal tax assessments.
 DThe member from Princeton ex- hIbited the return blank executed by Mir. Cleveland, on which he ae- knowledged that the real value Of bis new home is $20, 1000, and his personal property $l3O, GOO, making sl5O, GOO in all.
 Mr. Cleveland appended remarks that the figures given were as near as he could arrive at, considering the fluctuations of values in securi- ties at present.
 Tue Nashville (Tenn) American says:
 Allowing that these assessment valuations are considerably short of real valuations, and that Mir. Cleve- lands wealth may be properly esti- mated on the rise of s208, 900, that Is very moderate fortune for a man with the opportunities he had 70 accumulate money. His wife had property amounting probably to el00, 900 when they were married. He had $50, 900 for eight years. and did very lucrative law practice in New York in the interim of his two presidential terms.
 If MT. Cleveland's tax returns are correctly given he has not managed well financially. There is no marked increase of his wife's fortune and no apparent saving out of his earn ings. Any man of ordinary busi- ness acumen, with only a normal development of the acquisitiye tai ent, could. by perfectly legitimate means, have accumulated at least half million dollars while occupy ing the positions that Mr. Cleveland has filled.
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ContInneh Settlements

Settlements continued at the July term, 1897 Of the Jefferson county Probate court for confirmation at the October term thereof. Fourth annual sediment of Chas Houson, administrator of estate of Joel E Bryan, deceased.
 Third and final settlement of J. ". Walker administrator of estate of J M Walker, deceased.
 Final settlement of Jeff Hicks eXeeator of estate of Ralph Hicks, deceased.
 Final settlement of Jeff Hicks adminiStra- tor De bonis non Of estate of J | Hicks deceased.
 Second annual settlement of Jeff Hicks guardian Of estate of k FFankHleks, q minor. Final settlement Of Cherry admnistra tor of estate 0f E l. Req. deceased
 First annual sett ement of J l. Goree ad- ministrat0r of estate Of Mary F Goree. deceased
 Annual settlement of Jno O'Connell cura- tor Of estate Of the Ferguson children, minors Final settlement of II l. Holderness ad- mlnistTatOr of estate of Wm Peoples deeeas- ed
 All persons interested in the settlement of any Of said accounts will come forward and file their exception. if any they have, on or before the second day of the next term of the Probate Court Of said county or they will be forever barred from excepting 10 such accounts. or any part thereof.
 Y, E. FLANDERS, County clerk.
 l.. T. Shllee, D. c. 10 l5 4w September II. 1896.
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ThoukAuds Of Elk.


 Thirty thousand elk arc wintering IL she Jackson Hole country of Wyoming, according to the estimate of the game warden, who says that in one herd which he saw the other morning there were 15, ,000 of them, stretching over a distance of six miles. The sight, he said, surpassed anything he had ever seen and utterly amazed him. The elk trai! over the snow was like flint ice, he said, go hard had the snow been packed down The animals are seen by thousands any morning moving along the Snake river from the Great swamp to tha Gros Ven Ire hills. and at night the walls of the calves sgraying from their mothers may be heard.
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THE salaries of the municipal off eers to be elected in Greater New York next November will aggregate $200, GOO a year, but it is in the ap- pointlve offices, numbering 23,000, where the immense patronage at the disposal of the Mayor comes in, and which will amount annually in salaries to $25, GOO, OOO With the power which this tremendous pat, ronage will give, the political party that carries the election wlll in all probability retain control of the municipal Government of New York City for many years to come, be cause it will be able to so strongly entrench itself that nothing short of political revolution can oust it. New Orleans States.
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TnE prosperity boom has struck the big trusts with more force than anything else in this country. Sugar certificates are now quoted as high as 155, and the Dingley bill has advanced them from 110 to this figure, therefore it is reasonable to suppose that Havemeyer and his as- sociates regard the new tariff as one of the most patriotic measures ever enacted by Congress. Standard oil trust certificates were also quoted last Friday at $333 q share, a gain of 13 per cent in ten days. Persons who own stock in these big trusts need not be concerned if the price of flour goes up to $l0 a barrel, and eggs sell for a dollar q dozen. New Orleans States.
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TERF MILD TYPE.
Memphis scimltar


 A most peculiar and encouraging feature of the fever prevailing on and near the gulf coast is it's appar- ent mildness. The death rate so far is much less than that of the levers that we always had in this country more or less. Patients are at. tackled, go to bed, get a doctor and in few days are up again.
 This is not the yellow fever of former years, the rate Of nor, tality ranging from F to per cent, as against l5 to 90 Der cent in the epidemies of 1853, '55, 73, '78 and 79, In those times the patient had fever for seventY-two hours, and if he survived the attack it is at least twelve days before he could leave his bed, even with the assistance of Q nurse, and then if he was not ex- tremely careful he would suffer re. lapse, which in most cases meant death.
 Beyond doubt the experts who have diagnosed the disease as it exists at this time know their busi- ness and their decision is not to be questioned, but the fact remains that the yellow fever they are hand ling is as mild as May morning compared with that uf the past.
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KANSAS has introduced m inno- vation in school teaching The board of directors of Q school dis. trict by formal resolution has authorized male teacher, who is also married man, to kiss all oI his pretty female pupils whom he may desire to embrace and kiss. + is evident that all the fools in Kan. sas are not dead yet.
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For the occasion of the Annual National Prison Congress. Austin, Texas, Oct. 18th. to 20th.. the Cot ton Belt Route will sell tickets from Pine Bluff to Austin and return at one and one-third fare, on the certifl- cate plan. Tickets on sale October 18th. to l7th. Return limit, October 9, 1S97.-H. Bringman. Agt.
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Notice For rublication--seao

Land Office at Little Rock. Ark, Aug. f0. %
 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has flied notice of his lntea- ton to make final proof in support Of hie claim, and that said proof will be made be- fore The county clerk of Jefferson county. at Pine BluH, Ark, on Sept. D. 1897. viz. William Il. Hawkins, II. T.. No. I7992 for the swA of neA, sec. ., 2. $ 10 W. He names the following witnesses 10 prove his continu- ons residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: ]. '. Blailark, Frank Monk, Thomas Cambell. John Hendricks. alI of Fine 4inff. Ark.
 B II dw J.J. BEAVERS. Register.
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THE Republicans in their National platform denounced the Wilson bill as q breeder of deficiencies and de
 manded tariff act that will fur nish adequate revenue for the neees- sary expenses Of the Government. Y" The administration met the de- mand" by the passage of the Ding ley bill, which, in it's very first month, caused a deficit of nearly $15, ,O00, 000 AS a deficit producer the Dingley bill is a bowling success.
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HOLDING ELM BACK.
Why an Enterprising Man Has No Chance
 to Become Millionaire.

EO BeCOD4S HAAAtloh@3ANt
 Blulnmer is one of our citizens who live well and do nothing. He tolls not. neither does he spin, and yet he and his family live iu comfort that IS not many removes from luxury. This has subjected Hummer to adverse crit icis1n, which fairly lacerates his sensi- tive feelings, and he unbosomed himself to q few friends tbe other evening while they were enjoying the good things he keeps on tap.
 s'There's not lazy bone in my body, '' he began aggressiYely. ''Id rather work than eat, and I've always thought that l had great business head on me. But the records against me. My father set me up i'll mercantile business, and when had balance struck at the end of year there was not enough left to make decent assignment. On his death came into 6 handsome fortune, and 1 just thought I'd show my rela, tiyes how had been misjudged by in- vesting secretly in great southern land scheme. l vert down gleefully to look over my new purchase and gloas over my prospects Most of my real es- tate was at the bottom of lake, and what was on dry land wouldn t raise . hill of corn to the acre.
 My brother got me nice position as travelling salesman, and l had sold whole carloads Of goods at half price be- fore the house could head me off. They told me that I must sell to hold my place, and that was what l was doing. but they discharged me so hard that never got rightly over it. Mother bought me farm, and again started to aston ish my folks by my business shrewd- ness. traded the farm for the state right to 8 patent fence All I got out oi that was 8 judgment against me in a1 infringement case. Mother left me what I have now, with proyiso that should forfeit every thing if l tried to do business of any kind. That's why have no chance to make myself mil lionaire Detroit Free Press.
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Notice for Pub,icat,on.-saoe

Land Office at Little Rock, Ark. July 27. 'o7. Notice is hereby given that the foliowing- named settler has filed notice Of his inten- tlon to make final proof in support of his County Clerk of Jefferson county at Pine Bluff. Ark, on September A. ls9s; viz: Queen Patterson. widow of Jefferson Patterson. decd. H. E. No. lS969, for the E of NEE IVA .oi NE1l and NE14 Of IVA, See. 2l, n ' SIR II w. V He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and eultiya tionof said land. viz: II. Halliburton, Bot Williams, John T. Hoao. Dalbnrt Shelly, alI Of Double Wells, Ark.
 J. ]. BEAVERS. Register.
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For the occasion of the meeting Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge I. 0. O. F., Ut Springfield, H., September 20 -25. the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets from Pine Blum to Spring. field, ill., and return at one fare, plus. Sl.00 Tickets on sale Septem- Der 18th. to 20th. inclusive. Return limit. September 2S, 1897.
 II. BrIngman. Agt.
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MELTED SNOW POWER.
Swiss rowns That Utilize the Mountain
 Streams.

Swiss Towns That Utilize the Mountain
 Streams.
 Besides a considerable number Of large water power Installations Switzer- land is full of small power plants, nearly every town in that land of mountains and waterfalls being well supplied with power from the white coal, " as ths melting snow on the mountain sides haG well been called. When there are no large streams, many small ones are im~ pounded and collected ill reservoirs or the hillsides, and 1t is rare to find q place of any size which is not well lighted by the power of some mountain stream
 At Montreex the electric tramway gets its power ill this way, and from the old Roman town of Vevey to the ma. dieeyal castle of Chiffon one may ride in 8 trolley car propelled by the power o4 an insignificant little stream which may or may not be noticed when climbing up the hillSides just above
 The capabilities of this general util. ization of natural power are beginning to be understood everywhere, and, with the appreciation of the possibilities of the best methods of long distance trans. mission, the development of many moun- tain streams must surely come. There are innumerahle streams, which, while very small. are yet very high. and these can with comparatively little difficulty be impounded aud carried down many hundreds of feet, thus making up foi thei1 lack of volume by the great pres sure readily obtainable, and, either by the use of electricity or compressed air, the power may be transmitted to many points of application with but little loss. --Cassier's Magazine.
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FELLOW JACK.

There is no occasion for alarm over the yellow fever epidemic now raging along the Gulf coast. The eases seem to be we'll guarded and quarantined, and there is no danger of the fever reaching Arkansas, Ii will be remembered that during the seourge in Memphis in '78 iand '79 that the fever never reached Pine Bluff, and the town is in a much better sanitary condition now than then A few cases of the fever scattered over this great big South land of ours need occasion no alarm in this community.