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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-31

espectfully represent : organized company Of one hundred ablebodied men in the city of Little Rock, which will sup
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-31
To Lombard Santiago.

KEY WEST, May 3I.-Adyices from the American fleet that effort will be made draw the Spanish squad Santiago To this bombadment of Notifications Santiago will be ordered
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But When Cervera's Ships Saw Schley's Squadron, They Steamed Back to
 Cover.

NEW YORK. May 31 q D. m.)-A dispatch here say three of the Ceveras ships tried escape from Santiago but sighting Schey's squadron, went back to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-31
For the Cruiser Newark.

CHICAGO May 3IOne hundred naval reserves leave for Norfolk tomorrow for the cruiser Newark
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-31

I knew that I could raise a good cnnnnanv here in Pine Bluff. having
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more to the front for this road, and
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
PAWNER BROKERAGE.
One of the Tricks Used 10 FOOL the
.sSuckers."

The Boston lawyers have many inter-
esting cases in which pawnbrokerage
plays an important part. The follow
ing incident, told by a lawyer, illus
trates trick that is practiced fire.
quently:
1T must not be taken as an axiom
that the pawnbroker himself is stran-
ger to guile and to ways that are dark.
There are many instances of dishon-
esty. Whoever reads the Sunday jour
nails will see numerous announcements
like this: Diamond necklace; cost,
81, 500; circumstances compelled me to
pawn it at IS for $500; ticket sacri-
feed. Address -, New York III
you address accordingly, and If the adj
vertiser considers you fit subject for
an artful game, he will wait on you with
tale of woe and the ticket. The price
OF the ticket should be $3.50, for the bril-
liants are most valuable; but the final
price will be partly left to you; only
please examine the gems at once, be-
cause the owner is in desperate straits.
You examine the pledge ut the pawn
brokers', paying 80 cents for the priv
ilege. The diamonds are certainly dia-
monds although of n shape and quail
ity known to the trade as rose dia-
monds), ard, rather than spend five or
ten dollars to compensate an expert for
going for you to examine them, you
conclude to advance ten per cent. upon
the ticket and make it your own.
THE holder refuses ut first, but final
ly yields, and departs with $50 of your
wealth, and leaves you the owner of the
property, subject to the pawnbroker's
lien thereon. You then redeem them,
which costs you $3.50 more, and, on talk
ing your prize to dealer in diamonds
you learn that the entire piece of jew
eiry is really worth, and would be sala
BILE at, the sum of $3.50. -
"Dd the skillful and well-informed
pawnbrokcr then really lend $500 on
collection of stones worth only $3.50?
Not Mt all. lie probably advanced $50,
possibly 5000, and made out n ticket for
$500, agreeing with the borrower to di-
vide the profits on the redemption of
the ticket by third person. But you
could not hope to prove this, either
from the books or from the admissions
of the parties. The person with whom
you dealt belongs to Il fugitive class of
citizens; he at once disappears. The
pawnbroker exhibits entries to corre-
SDond with the tickets. boston Post.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
BULL MOOSE AT BAY.
An Adventure That Came Near End
Ing In Catastrophe.

| a correspondent, writing from Me-
cunoma, Muskoka, gives an interesting
account of an adventure which he had
with moose a few weeks ago. while
employed in making Il toboggan trail
through one of the pine forests in that
section of the country. While engaged
at work he came across moose yard,
and on looking round saw ono of the
giants Of the forest" about 20 yards
distant. The story of his encounter is,
perhaps, best told in the correspond.
ents' own words:
after a moment" he writes, 1.-The
moose turned and walked behind hill,
which, though not high, was steep. L
ran TO the top with all speed, hoping
to get n view of the lordly creature as
he made his way through the bush.
could not see him at first, but, on
looking down the steep incline, there
he was, not ten yards away. lie turned
to make off, but, striking his ribs
against the projecting limb Of a small
hemlock, he was thrown down and
me.
1T was now my turn to run, for the
moose charged at me, expressing his
rage by fierce below. In turning 1
stumbled, the ground being very I'M
even, and his feet nearly came down
on me as lodged among some trees.
tried to strike with my Ratchet, the
only weapon had, but did not succeed
in injuring my pursuer. With some diff
ficuty I at last got out into the deep
snow, where my snowshoes were of more
use to me. The moose>still pursued me,
roaring at intervals, and one who has
not heard moose roar can form but
little idea Of the terrible believing
noise. After several attempts In strike
me with his front feet, he stopped and
stood about 20 yards away, paving and
roaring. | eagerly seized this opportu-
nifty to climb tree, and soon after
the animal turned and made off. or
all my adventures in the bush. and they
number few, the one have Just re-
lated came the nearest to being my
DEATH"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
SCHOOL FOR PARROTS.
How Birds Are Educated In a Large
London Establishment.

According to Pearson's Weekly there
is school in London where parrots
are educated.
: The parrots academy is conducted
on systematic lines, and resembles in
many of its features an ordinary edu-
cational establishment. In Room
IRE congrcgated the birds to be taught,
screechiug and shrieking in the bliss
Of ignorance. So soon us they have
become accustomed to their surround
ings and little of the natural wildness
that characterizes them has worn Off,
n monitor, in the shape of II parrot that
has mastered the art OF monosyl Liable
utterance, is introduced, and under its
tuition the class begins to show prog
rcss by voicing such simple words as
"les" and NO"
in the upward grade. Bi-syllables are
here introduced, and doublc-wordcd
sentences of i'm easy nature repeated.
The third standard comprises tri-syl-
labic) words and sentences of more
advanced kind.
Thus far the work is of routine
character, the teachers being the birds
themselves. But with Standard ~ the
real work of education begins, and the
bird monitor gives place to the peda-
goSue proper. The blackboard, too,
now comes in. With piece of chalk
the teacher makes the letter "a" on
the board, pronounccs it aloud, and the
birds repeat it, and, in turn, the whole
alphabet, after him.
by the time Standard V is reached Il
parrot of ordinary intelligence can
read and spell such words as cat and
dog" with reasonable facility.
Standards V and VI continue the
process by gradual advances, simple
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
ROCK THROWERS.
or the Tennessee River BottOms-Mnr-
yeIous Fcats of Skin.

There is nothing about Tennessee
river longshoremen to startle any city
raised man, but turn one of them loose
in his native.wilds and give him hand
full of smooth pebbles or rounded bowl
ders, and he'll astonish you.
Folks who have sojourned in the Ten
nessee river bottoms up above Paducah
tell wondrous tales of the rock throw
ers, but the natives themselves look on
these strange accomplishments as Il
matter of course.
The last issue of the Big Sandy
(Tenn) Visitor says in a very matter-of-
fact, oflhand sort of way:
"W. ii. Pierce killed a large hawk with
rock one day last week while sitting
on top Of one of the latest gum trees
in Big Sandy bottom."Nl
Thus the Big Sandy visitor, being ia
miliar with such performances. dis
misses what in any other part OF the
world would be wonderful feat Yet
w. H. Pierce is but one among many.
1t is told as n matter-of-fact that the
sturdy young fellows often go hunting
with no other weapon than a pocketful
of good throwing rocks" All is game
that comes within eyes reach of these
youthful Nimrods. Rabbits they bowl
over with ease as bunny sits in his bed
or hops biithely along in the frosty
cover. Squirrels, killed by flying lump
of gravel, tumble from the forks of the
tallest trees, and wild turkeys OCCASION
ally meet a similar fate. Even wild
Beginning this rock practice in child
hood the average boy of the Tennessee
river bottoms has an arm like Steel an
eye like an eagle and an aim like a
trained sharp-shooter when he reaches
the long pants and chewing tobacco
stage. 1t is said that some of the rock
throwers can hit a bulls eye with a
bowlder two out Of three times at a
distance of 60 feet.-Paducah (Ky.) Wis
itor
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29

of bark on the ice, jumps on 1t,
raises his long and bushy tail for
II sail, and away the whole party goes,
kept in one-dircction by two or three
older squirrels who act as whippers-
in. The turning of the tails to the
right or left directs their course, just
as the sails Of n schooner are trimmed to
her course. When the skaters decide
they have had enough exercise they
run their queer barks on the bank
where they desire to land, and in Il
few seconds the whole crowd are chasing
away at the edge Of the ice. Necacious
mountaincers aver that the squirrels
sometimes hold ice yachting races. Two
or three champions select their pieces
Of bark with unusual care, and go over
them with the utmost care, biting away
with their sharp teeth any little ex-
crecenccs upon the bark so as to make
them as smooth as possible. Then upon
the ice there is high excitement among
the 'deadgame sports" OF squirrel
dom, and they--so these veracious
hunters promptly wager upon the
result their choicest stores of carefully
boarded nuts. When the race is sailed
and the victor has won, to n chorus OF
squirrel squeaks and banks, the prop
erty changes hands, and the losers go
home in Il sad procession.-N. Y. World.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
sPEckLEp SQUIRRELS.
They Live In Georgia and Make leo
Boats OF Themselves.

II you want to hear of squirrels which
know something besides cracking nuts
and climbing trees, ask the average
Georgia cracker" Down in his piny
woods there dwells q tribe OF speckled
squirrels which has no use for those
northern brothers who shut themselves
up in a hole all winter. Instead, they
gather near the banks of the frozen
creeks and prepare for enjoyable skat-
ing, or ice-boating parties. Often when
Georgia countryman is spearing fish
through a hole in the ice, he hears the
squeak squeak" OF score or more
squirrels rushing to the trunk of some
decayed tree. After few minutes OF
incessant chatter the whole party scam
pers up the tree. and then comes the
creaking of teeth upon bark rs they
rip II Off. Before very long the sounds
of gnawing and breaking cease, and one
by one the squirrels descend TO the
ground, each one bearing a piece of
bark. Each squirrel puts his own piece
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
Another Green.

at is true that poet finds inspira-
ton on every hand" said young Qua
train, to his admiring wife. "The SIM
plest things serve his purpose; the most
commonplace, trivial matters he can
turn to sweet and tuneful verse. Now
for instance" Here Quatrain, junior,
aged five, created diversion by stub,
bihg his toe and precipitating himself
and tumbler brimful of cold water
into the old armchair, newly covered
with denim OF cool green shade. Then
while Mrs. Quatrain hurried for cloth
and sopped up the results of her sons
collision with the furniture the poet
betook himself to pen and paper. In
the "Poet's Corner" Of the Flatville
News there appeared the next week a
poem entitled 20 Summer Morn" The
first lines of this tender yet spirited
composition were as follows:
On the green the clear drops spanked,
Strewn by Natures lavish hand.
Youths Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
brothers I'm the Legislature.

A modern instance has come to light
where two brothers sat in the same leg
islature in Wisconsin. In the winter OF
1891, Asscmblyman Louis Rossman, OF
Price county, represented the extensive
district including Ashland. Price, Onei-
da, Forest and Florence counties. His
brother, Assembly Philip Rossman,
represented Clark county. Both were
republicans. Apparently there have
been a number Of instances in which
brothers have sat side by side in the
same legislature. 1t seems to be true,
nevertheless, that Paul and Narcisse
NJ. Juneau, in the legislature OF 1858,
furnished the only instance In Wiscon-
sins 80 years Of history of brothers ma
tive in Milwaukee being elected to the
same Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
"wALkIN HOME WITH MARY"

The moon was silver clear that night.
The snow was pure and sparklin',
And trees and bushes 'gainst the white
Was blots of shadder. dark min.
Each fence rail had jeweled load.
Each twig was gemmed and glary.
And /, along the pastur' road.
Was walkin' home with Mary.
So still. a dog. two mile away.
Could reach us with his howlin',
The tumblin' breakers In the bay
Was plain as thunder's growln'.
My clumsy boot-heels' crunch and squeak
Beside her step so airy,
Seemed sayin': "Now's your time to speak
You're walkin' home with Mary"
The far-off breakers lent their help
BY boomin': Now, young .feller"
And all that dog could find to yelp
Was: Tell her! Tell her! Tell her!'
And every crackin' bit of Ice
Seemed like kind of fairy,
A-givin' me the same advice,
When walkin home with Mary.
And so. swallered down my heart
'Twarn't greatly to my credit,
With all the airth to take my part
But, anyhow said It.
And then that dog shet off his bark;
There weren't a breaker, nary:
The hull wide world stood still to bark
And hear the word from Mary
She answered, and the breakers fell
And roared congratulation;
That blessed dog let out yell
That must a-woke the nation.
Twas thirty year or more ago,
Yet still 1t makes me scary N
To think, what If I'd heerd NO"
When walkin' home with Mary.
~ Joe Lincoln. in L. A. w. Bulletin.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29

sums in arithmetic being added to the
curriculum and the method of telling
the time taught.
The seventh and last standard is de-
voted entirely to music, vocal and in
strumcntal. Not that parrots are
taught to play the piano. That stage
of development has not yet been at
tanned, but the more proficient of them
are instructed in the art of singing n
song to the pedagoguc's accompani-
ment on that instrument. When this
point has been reached the bird gets
his certificate.
There are only two or three of these
academies in England, and the fees be-
ing high and the business brisk, the
owners are doing well. 1t costs $50
tc secure good education for par
rot, exclusive of extras in the shape
OF food and one or two other things,
and it takes several months, in the case
Of the most forward and intelligent pu-
pills, to pass in all the necessary sub
iects,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
AGES OF ANIMALS.
Elephants Live Longer Than Lions,
Horses or Cows.


AS far as naturalists have been able to
discover, the elephant lives to the great
est age of any of the animals with which
we are familiar. 1t takes % to 80 years,
and sometimes longer, for elephants TO
complete their growth. 1t is recorded
that certain specified animals have
lived more than $50 years, but the statis-
tics on subjects of this sort are neces-
sarily incomplete, and therefore unre-
liable.
The lion is supposed to live 10 years,
although it is claimed that one kept
in the Tower of London attained the
age of 20 years. 1t is not supposed that
he would have lived to that age in his
natural condition.
The horse is short-lived animal, but
when carefully kept and allowed to
spend a great deal of its time in pas
ture, it has been known to live past the
age of 40 years. The trouble with horses
is that they are fed for hard work, con-
sequently their feet and their diges-
ton wear out. Eighteen to "a years is
n very high average age for horses to at
tain.
Cows live IS or 20 years, but they
have very little value toward the latter
portion of this period. save In cxcep-
tional cases.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE MERCHANTS CHOICE.

A merchant. seeking for a clerk
Addressed two boys as follows:
Say, boys. which would you rather be.
Domestic ducks, or swallows?'
81 would rather be a swallow. SIR"
Replied one boy with vim.
For swallows soar above the earth
While ducks just walk or swim:
"And ducks are such slow. stupid birds
Such clumsy. waddling things
They have hard work to walk at all.
And seldom use their wings"
I'D ruther be a duck, I vow!"
The other boy replied,
"Fer all the needs o. ducks. yer see.
Are easily supplied
"They never work. ner worry much.
They jes trus' ter Their luck.
A gently hoatin' down the stream.
oh. wud be duck!'
The merchant turned upon his heel
What need to question more?
And now the boy who first replied,
Is head clerk In his store.
Rufus Clark Landon. In N. Y. Observer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
An Infant PhiIoronhcr.

Little three-year-old Ethel was very
fond of stories and rhymes. She fire.
quently begged her mamma to repeat
them to her and often made some
quaint comment. One evening her
mamma repeated the nursery rhyme:
when ! was bachelor. I lived by. self,
AL the bread and cheese I got put upon
n shelf:
The rats and the mice made such a strife,
was forced to go TO London TO get myself
wife,"
Before she had time to finish Ethel
said:
"Why. how sillyl He'd good deal
better have got a cat."-Chicago Jour
nal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
school Funds in Colonial Days.

The logs for the great fireplace, fur
nished by the parents of the scholars,
were part of the school expenses; and
in many n school when parent was
tardy in the delivery of his winters
load of wood the child suffered by ban
ishment to the farthest and coolest cor
ner of the schoolroom. The teachers
Pay was in any of the inconvenient and
uncertain exchanges of the day: wan
pun, beaver skins, Indian corn, wheat,
peas, beans or any country product
known as truck. Whale oil and fish
were paid to the teachers on Cape Cod.
1t is told of Salem school that one
scholar was always placed in the win
dow to study and also to hail occasional
passers-by and endeavor to sell them
the accumulation of vegetables, etc,
which had been paid to the teacher
Alice Morse Earle, in Chautauquan.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
The F.r,nie uook Arent.

Timkns-There goes woman with a
history.
Simkins-Yes. know; she was in the
Office yesterday trying to sell me a
copy on the installment plan.-Chicago
News.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29
"A Cool Country.

In northern Siberia the ground Is
sometimes frozen to depth Of GOO feet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
CITY WILL DECLARE
That Present Street Car SyS-
tenn Is a Nuisance
IF CASH Is NOT PUT UP
BY Monday Night--ProSpeCt
of Long Legal Contest.

On NEXT Monday night the council vii
take some positive steps toward clearing
Up the street railway situation. Just
what the move will be is not known yet
for it is not known what will develop be-
tween now and Monday night.
Mayor Ross and he :oIncn after ex-
kmining the certificate Of 5epostt for
$4,000 sent here from the Hanover Ma
tional bank of New York City, have de-
cIded thai it won't go, and that if any
further business is done with the Church
people the cold cash must be in sight.
BY sort Of common consent matters
have been delayed until next Monday
night in order to give the new company
an opportunity to raise the money and
have it here. If It arrives and Mr.. Church
Is atI4 to produce 1t he will be granted
an extension Of franchise and probably
eix months to 80 ahead and put in new
system here. If not then the street rail-
way committee says these old cars and
thu old track must get off the street and
the old company give way to some one
who will go TO work and put in new lines.
Thel e is where the rub viii come. Just
how TO get the old company, with its old
cars and rails off the street without a
long -uir at litigation is what the street
car COS nmittee would like 10 know at this
time. The cars and the trolleys and the
track C. N by resolution Of the council be
declared a nuisance, and others and pre-
viorss ord inances prohibit. or are supposed
-g.s fr, n.r
V1orate liz hts. But to do that is to fly
into the face Of the old franchise and
contract IN I'D by Batchelder. which pro-
vldes that it shall he good within the
limit of its sspecified term uni PISS the COM
pany fails 10 run its cars on tie streets.
There has been only one dssy since the
franchise has been in effect have the cans
failed to run. and that was by consent of
the council. for repair of some of the
trolley wires. That day would not forfeit
the franchise, and the cars sEre running
every day. often going clear to the end
of the line and back again in the same
twenty-four hours.
However. MIR. Church says that it will
not be necessary for the city togo 10 such
extremes, as he thinks he win be able
20 produce the cash by MONDAY night.
The Batchelder people have been notified
OF the situation and the determination OF
the council TO get the old cars-the entire
Eystem-On the streets. It may be that
some rifle viii break in and that the new
company VIII yet be able to execute their
former contract. There is only one thing
certain about the matter, and Oh al is that
the council VIII take some radical and
s1OsitiIrp items Monday night
II the cars and track are declared a
nuisance every motorman who runs a
car down the street thereafter viii be ar
rested But here Will come up tire legal
complications which no one now can tell
nythjng about.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
CITY IN BRIEF

Alvin H. Gopard Of Kansas City Is here
DR.. c. c. Adams IS reported 70 be on
the sick list.
Mr.. A E. Sweet has returned home
from q short trip 10 Cairo.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. FulHngton are home
from trip 70 Kansas City.
Mr.. Ed. Werrel Of the Santa Fe Offices
is taking a ten days vacation.
Mr.. J. c. o. Morse Of Hutchinson was s
business visitor nere yesterday.
Judge Dale mas returned home from a
short fishing excursion 10 Cairo.
Miss Sophia Klentz IS in s.. Louis pur-
chasing aer fall stock or millinery.
Mr.. J. Smedley Of Garrett was regis
bsred az the Manhattan last evening.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
SANTIAGO NEEDS NO MORE

Washington, Aug 19.-GeneTsl Shafte-
has informed the war department thst
after consulting with General Laxtsn.
commanding the department. OF Santiago,
:; has been concluded rnat 81 vii not BE
necessary 20 send any more troops 70
Santiago for ttle preservation % peace
ard good order. This statement = maze
alta the understanding TIA; the present
m itary force ~iu shortly be reinforced
81 tsc ARRIVAL OF the FIN regular in
fancFy and tae Twen,y-third Kansas vo.-
UnteeEs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20

marked on them the roll call was taken
TO identify their numbers.
Private James lyman. company B. Sew
enrh Illinois. in company with some com
panioas, yesterday rough housed .
peddlar and distributed his wares anon &
the crowd. Private lyman was captured
by the provost guard and under d.rsc-
tons from General Davis VIII be turned
over 90 the civil authorities