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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-30

Holiday EXCuFhlOuS, Ao lhH Soulu-
 eastern States, Dee. 2l and 2; one
 fare for the round trip.
 Christmas and New Year holiday rates fsg8- fsq9-To points on the Iron Mountain Railway with 200 miles distance We sell ound trip tickets for one fare. Dates of sale Dee. 24. 25. 26. 3lst. Jan. 1 and 2; final limit on all tickets as sold above will be Jan. 1, 1899.
 Southern Educational Association, New I.O Orleans. La, Dec. 2T to go, 1898. For this
 occasion the Cotton Belt will sell rouAd
 trip tickets at one fare, plus S2. Tickets
 on sale Dec. 9. 2G. 21. 1898. Return limit
 January 9, 1896.
 Southern Educational Association meets at New Orleans La, Dec, 27 to 30, 1898--FOr the above occasion the Iron Mountain Ky. will sell tickets to New Orleans and return for 815.25 Tickets on sale Dec, 9, % and 27, with a final return limit of Jan. 9. This rate is open toall.
 Change in time table of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Ky, effective Dec. 4th-Train 224 leaves Pine Bluff at6:55 D. m.. direct connection at Little Rock for St. Louis Memphis and the east. Train 221--for the South Monroe, Alexandria and New Orleans, will leave at Il a, Ill. Train 222 north bound. will leave at 4:55 D, m.; St. Louis. Memph,s and the East Train 223, Little Rock accom- modation, will arrive at 5:30 D, III,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-30
deternininp

Before determining definitely what sort of government the new island possessions shall have, it is first necessary to ascertain what sort of a government they are fit for. There is no hurry.-Kansas City Journal
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

From the report of the state railroad
commissioners. it appears that while
the gross dividends Of all street railway
companies in the state for the past
year exceeded those Of the previous
year by $162.S96, and while 50 companies
paid dividends ranging from to 10 per
cent, there We're AZ companies that paid
no dividend whatever Only one of the
paying companies got up to 10 per
cent dividend; two paid . per cent eleven
paid s per cent, three Z per cent and
fourteen paid per cent. The average
rate Of dividends on all outstanding
stock was 500 pei cent, as compared
with 5.S7 for the previous year. This
calculation, Of course, reckons the
&,244,922 on-dividend-paying capitah
When the dividend-paying capital of
S2S, 49, $50 alone is considered, the aver
age rate Of profit is 6 81 per cent, as
compared with $50 for the previous
year. This is a good showing, but it
seems hardly an exorbitant profit, con-
sidering the risk incurred and the
amount of money that first and last,
has been sunk in street railway enter
prises. 1t may, however, help to con-
firm the growing belief that conser-
vatively-managed street railways are
among the safer of investments that
are now available for persons of mod
crate means
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

The eastern section of New England,
for the most part, escaped serious in
convenience caused by the second severe
storm of the month and of the winter.
Up in Vermont, however, there was a
repetition of what Massachusetts, Maine
and New Hampshire had to put up with
earlier in the month. Drifts twenty feet
high caused by drifting snow would be
esteemed somewhat of an inconvenience
even in the northwest. Besides, there
was fierce and cutting wind that taxed
physical endurance to a degree.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Those who have been disputing as to
the relative strength of the Spanish
navy and the American will be interest
ed in the dispatch sent to the New York
Herald by it's Washington correspond
ent. According to this writer, it is adj
mitted in Washington that the loss of
the battleship Maine makes our navy
distinctly and indisputably weaker than
that of Spain. The conflict of authority
on this point heretofore has been in
some degree owing to the different bases
of calculation. The fact is, however
that while the Spanish navy was I'M
doubtedly inferior to ours year and a
half ago, the royal government has
been steadily Strengthening 1t ever
since that time, while our own
congress, by its lingo debate,
has not only given Spain every reason
to prepare for trouble, but has also per-
sistently refused to appropriate money
for promptly finishing the warships that
had been contracted for and were in
process of construction, such as the IL
linois, Alabama and Wisconsin. 1t is
only to be hoped that the country is not
fated to suffer seriously from this puer-
lie folly. Eighteen months ago or there
abouts, Spain had only three armor-
clads in commission, with which to OPP
pose seven that our government had
afioat in the Atlantic, Our vessels of
this class were the Iowa, Indiana and
Massachusetts, first class battleships;
the Maine and Texas, second class bat
tleships; and the armored cruisers, New
York and Brooklyn Since that time
Spain has hurried three of similar class
into commission, a fourth is almost
ready for service, and two 7O00-ton ar
mored cruisers will be on the seas in a
few months. These will make a total
of nine, while our line of battle has been
reduced to six by the loss of the Maine.
Naval officers, however, still insist that,
boat for boat, ours are still the superior
and there may be some comfort also in
the lesson which Capt Mahan has
drawn from the history of the British
navy; that is, in times past, victory has
oftener depended upon the character OF
officers and crew than upon the number
and size of the vessels. Spain, further
more would be at a disadvantage in
having to cross the ocean and to depend
upon Cuba or upon transports for her
coal supply, and Cuba might be taken
from her
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Ex-Gov. Chamberlain hit out from the
shoulder when he addressed the Yale
alumni in this city. There was no mine
ing of words in his ridicule of the "all-
perWading Yale spirit of self-satisfac-
ton" .the endless, indiscriminate laud-
alton of Yale" his criticism of the meth
DDS of teaching English as "a positive
scandal or his disparagement of col
lege athletics in. general and Yale ath-
letics in particular. There is a heresy
about all this that is startling. The
speakers unconventionality and frank
ness are refreshing, even if one does not
accept all his statements as accurate.
Nevertheless, "self-satisfaction'' and
the tendency to -glorification at am
alumni banquet are scarcely traits that
are enjoyed only by Yale men and man
Tested only at Yale banquets. They are
characteristic of the genus, and Yale
will not feel aggrieved on that account.
But Gov Chamberlain's remarks about
athletics would probably be received
with more satisfaction by the alumni Of
any other college than of Yale. Coming
from Yale man to Yale men, they are
hereical indeed, and what will be the
answer of the smart men of the college
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Horses, Too''-Terrific wind bowls a
horse over in Worcester.
I'm Hub Markets. Worcester Fam
lily markets" and Deaths"
PAGE 4.
Loss Of the Veendams-ocean liner
wrecked in mid-ocean but passengers es-
cape.
'Lincoln's Birthday fittingly observ-
ed by Worcester Young Mems Republi-
can Club; the day in other cities.
Province Notes and Among the
PAGE 5.
WORCESTER AND NEW ENGLAND.
FIFTY Years a City',-Illustrated re-
Prospect Of Worcester in 1S4S.
County Finances"-How the money
was expended last year
REV. w. T. Sleeper"
''Mrs. j. c. Hutchins' sudden
death in this city.
Purchased Molokai''-Arthur e. Nc
Clellan Of Grafton one of the men.
PAGE G.
Editorials" "Out and About and
"The Most Noted Woman in Paris
PAGE Z.
--latest Worcester county news from
special correspondents.
PAGE s.
WORCESTER COUNTY TOWNS.
Only Town on Map''-Leicester COB
bles up the whole appropriation for
state roads
ball.
PAGE g.
ITO Gust Old Board'' Shrewsbury
1nVKr oil NfY
ITO Fallen Heroes of proposed
soldiers monument for Uxbridge.
George o. Brighamo'-Death of
prominent Westboro citizen
Destructive fires in Marlboro" and
"Oakham."
Slater memorial building dedicated in
Webster"
PAGE TO-
THE Court House"-Illustrated de-
scription of new building.
National Architectural Plans and
specifications Of a $4,000 house
"W C. T. u VS. YaIe"4-The society
resolves that the college is a bad place
for young men.
PAGE II.
''Dou You Know St.VaIentine@'- How
Valentines day got its name.
Home''
Story-"On a Klondike Cliff"
PAGE IL.
A page of illustrated humor.
PAGE 13.
Sons of Eli banquet in Worcester
and pay their respects to the w. c. T.
u. resolution.
Boys Stole the Money''-Boy thieves
IN Worcester market had a high old
time,
PAGE a.
Short stories from everywhere.
PAGE 10.
Pugillstic feints and blows.
Our New Navy
PAGE &c.
Peoples savings''-Returns Of The
savings banks of the state show in
creased prosperity among the people
Held at Southbridge woman
threatened by maniac with an axe
Veteran Operator of Spen-
1T Is Uncle Tom'-E. S. Pierce of this
city buys 2:l4A record PAGER.
Copies of the Massachusetts Spy. 70
pages weekly, issued this CITridav1
morning, may be obtained at the Snv
office in wrappers, all ready for mailing
Send copy to your friend who mas
moved away from the city.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

1t is said that a week ago Capt. Sigs-
bee declared his aversion to taking coal
on the Maine in Havana. mot that I
suspect amy one in authority" he is
quoted as saying, ''but there is such an
irresponsible rabble here in Havana
that it would be an easy matter to get
a couple of sticks of dynamite in the coal
bunkers without our knowing it" This
story is told as an illustration of the
alertness and caution of the officer 1t
would be hard, indeed. if so capable an
officer as Capt. Sigsbee was believed to
be, should have his career of usefulness
thus damaged by disaster so complete
as that which has destroyed the Maine
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

DIR. Charles Forbes of the United States
marine hospital service has been finding
horrible things in the dregs taken from
communion cups. DR.. Anders and DR..
Forbush of Philadelphia have had sim
liar success, and the list of foreign sub
stances discovered includes tubercle ba-
cilli, cellular matter, various sorts of
bacteria, besides mucus, dirt and fibre.
All these things appear in connection
with the report of the Indiana state
board of health which has recommend
ed the use of individual communion
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

A noteworthy feature under the new
tariff is the temperance Of gold in the
custom house receipts. AS late as Sep
TENDER last, there was only one per
cent of gold in the returns from coIlec-
tors, but in October the amount rose to
8 IL per cent, and in November to 8
per cent. In December the gold re-
ceipts jumped to 81 per cent, and they
have been only slightly less than that
during the present month. This helps
to swell the total of the gold holdings
of the treasury, and is an indication Of
the large amount of gold held in the
country outside of the treasury, as well
as of the public confidence and the in
disposition to boarding
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
OUT RND ABOUT.
Al BEAUTY SERMON FROM THE
WINDY CITY
Cold Creams and How to Use Them
Useful Hints on the Care Of the
Complexion Notes from the
Churches-"The Music Lover"-Bric-
a-Brac.

Skin foods are made the text of an
interesting article in a recent Chicago
Times-H Herald which may prove of use
directly or suggestively to the ladies Of
Worcester. Frequent application is
made ito us for advice on some of the
topics touched upon here, so that we
must believe that the care of the com
plexion is a matter of more concern
than either the ladies or their complex
ions sometimes reveal. To those, then,
who have already been aroused to a
sense of interest in this matter the re-
ceipts and advice given below may
prove valuable; while those others who
still treat their faces in the same man
ner as any other given area of their
skin, may profit by the reminder that
wise use of water, soap and some
good cream will work wonders in pre-
Serving" an already satisfactory com
plexion.
Here is a much-treasured formula.
says our skin-doctor Of the Tlmes-Her-
aid
Cold cream:
Oil of sweet almonds, so grammes.
Sperm oil, grammes.
White wax, 10 grammes.
Mix and add:
Rosewater, Is grammes.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
THE WEEKLY SPY.

Page summary of the more complete
Massachusetts Spy this week:
PAGE l.
--latest local news and dispatches by
Associated Press.
PAGEe2.
CITY AND STATE.
Court Calendar proceedings of
the probate court
Paper Making -Instructiv address
Of James Logan before the Worcester
Grange.
"Ho! for Dudley''-A franchise grant
ed for electric road by Webster select
men. City news items.
PAGE 8.
over $50 Men Dead"-U. S. battle
snip Maine blown up in Havana harbor.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18


The New York Journal, which has
long and laboriously insisted on having
war with Spain, now insists that the
Maine was blown up by Spaniards, pre-
sumably by government officials, for it
prints picture showing how it might
have been done with a fixed torpedo
or mine connected by wire with the
Spanish Notifications ashore. 1t further
suggests that the Internal machine was
in position when the Maine arrived in
Havana harbor, and that she was deli
berately and carefully placed directly
over it. In accordance with this profess
sion of faith, the Journal has posted
with Wells, Fargo & Co. $4,000 as a re-
ward for evidence leading to the detec-
ton of the perpetrators of the outrage,
and has cabled the offer to the various
European capitals. Now here is a
chance for some enterprising Cubans TO
swear the whole Spanish cabinet to per-
dition. 1t might be said in passing that
if there has been any treachery Of this
sort, it is as reasonable to suppose that
it was done by Cubans, hoping that sus-
picion would seek to fix the blame on
the Spaniards and provoke war, as
to suppose that twas actually done by
the Spaniards themselves.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

The action of the house committee on
banking and currency, in appointing a
subcommittee of three to draft a bill
embodying such principles as had been
substantially agreed upon in the long dis
cussion in the full committee looks more
like business than anything that has yet
proceeded from that able body of men
for there is no doubt that Mr.. Walker
committee averages as high in ability
as any other in the house. The mem
bers to whom the duty of framing bill
has been entrusted were selected by Mr..
Walker, as follows: Mr.. McCleary of
Minnesota, Mr.. Prince of Illinois and Mr..
Mitchell of New York. All, of course,
are republicans, and all are said to be
|" strong advocates of a comprehensive
currency measure which will protect the
treasury from the pressure of the de-
nand notes and the necessity of selling
long-term bonds, and which will provide
an elastic banking currency in the south
and west" None of these men nave
bills Of their own to champion, and for
that reason, as Mr.. Walker observed.
there should be the more reason to ex-
pect an agreement among them.
Whether majority of the committee
will accept in substance what these
three may report, might once have been
doubted, but their very agreement to
appoint such a committee affords some
assurance that they have decided that
time for action has arrived, and their
decision is SO interpreted Their bill
may be expected to get through the
mouse, but not through the senate, how
ever simple and far removed from radi-
calism its provisions may be.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
WORCESTER.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY is, 1sss.

There is Grand Army post at Lima,
Peru, and it bears the name of Abra-
ham Lincoln. 1t also supports an COR
gam" which is called The Peruvian
Outpost" No statement has yet been
made as to whether the boys have been
polled on the pension issue or the ques-
ton of marriage. Probably a poll is
ueed1eSS
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
You'll Rue 1t if You Fail to Secure Some
of These Extraordinary Bargains
Which Are Offered.

We're dead in earnest determination make big hole in
this stock and we've stopped the Every piece OF
Furniture which we're too long acquainted with must goand at
as the worlmen commence new extension today
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
Here's a
Wrapper
Chance

which should set women's feet hurry
ing this way, and pack the wrapper
department to day.
"a dozen Highest Grade Twilled vi
cuna Cloth and Flannelette Wrappers,
splendid styles. perfect fitting goods.
lined waists, big wide skirts, plenty of
fulness in every wrapper no scrimping
anywhere. Usual selling price of these
grades, $3.50 and $1.75. Price today a..
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18
Lining Departm't.
A New
Lining Silk.

If you We're asked to give your idea
of an Ideal Lining for a summer dress,
would you say than it was fabric
silky. light, stiff without harshness and
strong without too much rigidity?
We have it, 1t is called Veritable
Silerin. and it's remarkable fabric,
made il Japan and finished in Lyons:
very liglltAyou could almost send two
yards in a letter-one yard weighs II
pennywe ghts-Troy.
It has a bright, soft, Silly sheen, and
is one of the strongest fabrics you ever
saw II is an entirely new thing, and
is sure to be very popular. we have 1t
in blue, green, cerise and nehotrope'
Price .................... .'.'''
0225C.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

DR.. and Mrs. R H. Southgate of Wor-
cester are in Honolulu, having arrived
there Feb. 1 by the Australia from San
Francisco.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

King. Miss Clara Blood was the plan
list. The young ladies were enthusiastic
ally applauded, and their efforts were a
source of great pleasure to the large
audience present.
Mr.. Burton Holmes has been invited
to the Worcester assembly in Colonial
Hall this evening after his lecture
"Thessaly' is the subject upon which
he speaks, and this is one of his finest
lectures, owing to the fact that it treats
of district rarely visited by tourists.
yet one that has become notable as the
scene Of the recent Turko -Grecian hos
Titles
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Tuesday evening at Z O'Clock the board
of the Webster Square NJ. E. Church
will have banquet, followed by an
open conference, this being the last
quarterly conference Of the year.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

| AT his second German lecture, Thurs
day, at the house of Mrs. Thomas H.
Gage DR. Albert Schinz continued his
presentation of Keller by tracing the
development of his ideas. Keller, after
searching without success for the God
of the idealists outside the world, be-
hind the clouds, finds his God in ma
ture. and subsequently, in his writings
ridicules men who refuse to live the life
of thts earth but are always looking
for happiness in trying to jump out OF
the world. Keller gives a specially large
| part of his thought to the study of wo-
man, whom he holds in high esteem
Marriage, SO he concludes, is not an OBJ
| ligatory thing, for often the renuncia-
ton of matIimony is the best and sur
est way to avoid unhappiness. He him
self never married
Finally, although a thorough opti-
mist, Keller does not overlook the diff
culties of life and the tragedies of life.
His beautiful novel, Romeo and Juliet. ("
may be considered as containing in it.
self the whole essence of the literature
of today. Selections from the CAV; short
novels of Keller were read by DR..
Schinz, who next week will lecture at
the house OF Miss Sargent, IA Ham
mond street, upon Sudermann, whose
name was heard everywhere after the
representation of his new play in Ber-
lin last month.
After an appetizing oyster supper had
been served Thursday night at the
South Baptist Church by Mrs. William
Back. Mrs. William Baker, Miss Marga-
ret Baker, Mrs. Bisette and Mrs. Cook.
a pleasant program of vocal music was
given by pupils of Mrs. May Sleeper
Ruggles, under her direction, being in
part the program given by them in Hol-
den town hall week or two ago. Those
who sang were Miss Imogene Whitney,
Miss Mary c. Bascom of Webster Miss
Sadie Briggs, Miss Edith Howard, Miss
Louise Fisher Mrs. Hollis w. Cobb,
Miss Grace G Allen, Miss vesta Putney
| Of New Boston, Conn. and Miss ]. Viola
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Mrs. Frederick J. Barnard is spending
few days in Boston.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

Horses, Too"-Terrifc wind bowls a
horse over in Worcester.
I'm Hub Markets Worcester Fam
lily markets" and Deaths"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-18

A pleasant afternoon was spent by
the ladies Of the Webster Square M. E
Church, Thursday, at the house Of Mrs
Ward. Later their men folk came tt
the supper served by Mrs. f. L. jerks
Mrs. Conger of Leesville, Mrs. George
Gregson and Mrs. Wilkins, and the
early hours of the evening were spen1
socially.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-01-13
Hurry
ISnnuY Sonthl

The bane OF many a home is hurry,
The father is in such a hurry to get
to his work that II breakfast is not
ready at the exact minute he is out
OF sorts, and frowns, and fretiul
speeches are the result, Then, to
prevent this, mother must hurry to
get breakfast ready and all hurry
to eat II, 80 there is no time for
pleasant good morning greeting
and cheerful chat After breakfast
father takes bis hat and hurries
away. Mother Is In such a hurry
with her work that she has no time
to sympathiae with, advise, en-
courage or mother the children in
any way but hurres them of to
school, So IL goes all day long, and
at night thev hurry of to bed, so
they may hurry up next morning
aud begin the hurry all over again,
This constant hurry wears on the
nerves, brings wrinkles TO the face
and fretful words TO the lips, and
robs life Of half It's comfort and
enjoyment
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-01-13
How,s This.

We offer one hundred dollars re,
ward tor any case Of cdtarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
cure. r. j, CHENEY ~ Co, Props,
Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known
Il, j, Cheney for the last 10 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
In all business transactions and fl
nancially able 90 carry out any Oh.
legations made by their firm,
Wrsr TnuAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.,
WALDlNa, KINNAN ~ MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o,
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in-
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mueuous suelaces Of the
system, Price 75c per bottle, Sold
by all druggIsts Testimonials free,
Halls Family Pillsare the best
The Hunter Transfer and Stor.
age Coo have the only safe andeon.
vcnient rooms In the city, for stof-
age Of your furniture on piano, We
are prepared to store goods OF any
kind, i.ls
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-01-13
Tho Birth Of the Greater New York

With the dawn Of the new year
the "Greater' New York Is ushered
into the world full grown giant,
The problem Of municipal govern
ment is to be put to the supremest
test. Within It's limits is contained
a population equal to that OF thir'
teen Of our sovereign States at our
last census, and as numerous as that
OF the original thirteen States,
Provisions for the life and health OF
this vast multitude of all nations
and climes Is an unsolyed enigma
Thousands Of sufferers in New YORK
and elsewhere are wrested from the
grasp of that agoniaIng complaint
rheumatism, by the timely use OF
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
IN A preventive of malaria aud
kidney complaint, and a curative OF
liver complaint, constipation and
nervousness,