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PINE BLUFF. ARK.
 JUNE 14. 1898.
MR. BECK BLOOM ],


 City.
 SIR:-I have just been put to the pains and trouble of translating a communication addressed to me and signed by you and published in this mornings Press Eagle, under the head of an "Open Letter" Your comnnnica ton is couched in a strange language tu me, and one with which 1 am entirely unfamil- far, ns l do not remember to have read anything like 1t before. But gather that you have Il complaint to make about certain publications in the GRAPHIC, and 1 write to ex- plain to sou that said publications were not my compositions. but the sworn affidavits of reputable eiti- gems relative to certain conduct of yours in the present campaign that needed some explanation. For in- stance, published Il sworn affida- yit from Squire W. N. Bridges rela- tive to certain visit you and one Joe Pilkington made to his home several miles from this city in the dead hour of midAight, and on which occasion, you endeavored to persuade him to give you his proxy as member of the central commit tee, and failing in this that you re- tired and then your confederate stepped up and offered him sum Of money. These were Squire Bridges statements and not mine, and his affidavit las not been denied. Were his statements true? If not, then you should have exculpated your self and employer from Squire Bridges sworn charges.
 remember also to have published sworn affidavit from Mr. w. T. | Me fadden relative to another trip you and Mir. Joe Pilkington took to the residence of Dr. B. k. Donelson l for the purpose of obtaining proxy and also Il ballot box. Was NIT. Me Fadden's statement also true? If not. you should exculpate your self and employer from any blame arising from such conduct.
 Asa public newspaper, the GRAPH Ic performed it's duty by publishing g your exploits. They were so singu- lar and remarkable. for of all lhe good people of Jefferson county it strikes me as being queer-and alto- gether worthy of publication i'll newspaper-that you and Joe Pli- kim ton should be the only citizens that would go abroad in the county in the hour of midnight and across raging waters in search of proxies. Did you doit? If you didn't, why don't you deny 1t and support your 1 denial with the statements of wit nesses equally as creditable as those who have made the affidayits against you? If they have spoken 1 truly, then you have only your saady conduct to answer Tor l Whatever record you have made, you have made for yourself. Anc you must stand and be judged by your own conduct and bear the con. sequences of your own acts. Thank God, I am neither responsible oI have to answer for them.
 - From these you cannot escape by venting your spleen on one who has simply turned on the effulgent rays of the GRAPHc's Sealehlight o Truth, and held your cond1otq up tc I the scrutinizing gaze of the wo.ld. I You must stand or fall by y9nnl record, and you cannot escape 1t.
 J. w. ADAMS.
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S,SATE OFARKANSAS,

COUNTY OF JEFFERSON} PERSONALLY THIS DAY appeared before the undersign Edgar Brewster A. Brewster personally we'll known on oath
 That neither of them either before after the recent pri Jefferson County Arkansas May 7h 8o8 them pay pay Henry Winters of the said election Melton Township hundred dollars any money anything of value connection with said election or for any purpose whatever.
 EDGAR BREWSTER,
 A. BREWSTER. Subscribed and 0 before this I4th day of June, 1898.
 F. B. FLANDERS
 County Clerk.
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Lets all of us go to the washing on the 16 and see if I am not cor rect. Hoping the sewerage from the tubs will not swell the Arkan- sas river like it did on the Eth of May. l am most respect.
 ]. w. MEEKs.
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Annual Sunday school Convention Helepa, Ark, June q, to 26th. For this occasion the Iron Mountain will sell tickets to Helena and return at one and one-third fare on the cer- tificate plan. Limit June %.
 Ii. B. MIzEl.L, Agent.
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Ips vote in the last pri- .s 545, giving him the vote him in Melton township,
 ,ted for Mccoy. And it
 less in IT. ursday's second
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An Affidavit as to Statement by Mr..
 Henry Winters.
STATE OF ARKANSAS.
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON

PERSONALLY this day appeared before the undersigned M. Danaher who being duly sworn, on oath states
 On about the 8 day this month heard conversation beteween Edgar and H. Winters which conversation neither before primary election held the 7 day of May I8o8 Jefferson County Ar kansas any did Edgar Brewster offer pay him any money anything value whatever connection with Mr. Winters also stated in said would make affidavit that effect because the parties the said election had been him about he had told them that he would make affidavit that they would his signed ton with the matter M. DANAHER. Subscribed and sworn to before this
 14th day of 9R, 1898.
 FEB. FLANDRES
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H. BRINGMAN, Agent.

Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor of the world. Hot Springs, Ark, June IA. to IS. 1898. For this oc- casion the Iron Mountain vii! sell tickets to Hot Springs at one and one-third fare on the certificate plan Limit of certificates June g, 1893.
 H. E. MIZELL, Agent.
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Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor, Hot Springs, Ark, June 10 to IA. For this occasion the Cotton Belt route will sell tickets at one and one third fare on the certificate plan. Dates of sale June 13 to 16. Return limit June q. 1898.
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 For seven years.'' writes Mrs. Louisa A1- thurs, of Ostwait, Iredell Co, N. G. "I suffered untold agony from female weakness. I then commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- seription and improved very fast. It saved my iife'' Only 2I one-ccnt stamps to cover mailing of a free paper-covered copy of Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. Gloth ! binding 3I stamps. Send to Dr. R.V. Pierce Buffalo, N. Y.
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vour weather eye on Samp. 'schley, but at all times lose watch on the tricky N. o
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liar will very |e abroad in the land next
 bv Look out for him.
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giklc RAILROAD.
icnn |s'a Arrives to Start the l Work.

harison, the street rail. ||Oter' arrived in the city ! Today he Is making
 us and completing plans u'eulate construction of
 new electric street rail, sa' plant. All the ma
 oeeh ordered and Is en- sp'' said this morning to spofter that work would
 " anl without delay.
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k out for false reports cir Inn the day of the primary.
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x, EsDDlNc BELLS

RsoDiNC BELLS
 ''rs' 4. ]. Lochein. of nave Issued invitations IaRe Of thei.' daughter, a''chlen, to Mr. Harry 0a'ch event will occur June 2S, 1898, at s ''F Temple. corner Fifth Both of these par. ,'own in Little Rock Y" Jewish society cir p,.' went will be largely ne BlutHans. In ad. Ia rale wishes health, Prosperity.
 Y today.
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DATES who would resort to ribery or ballot box stuffing |ot be elected to office. -P.
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sr.
 |you are neighbor, for once. shon I Ii ". stated that it |rong tot d cs.naldate to buy n ballot box lots and then |o pay for them after &C., ping his defeat and that bld do him DO good. Press does this mean? The Press bould not speak in riddles. | |refer to Phillips remark, } Sunday morning after the
 that Mccoy was holding pilot box (Boliyar) and that Hps) had a ballot box (Mel Ein the woods too, and that D Mccoy was ready to show
 he (Phillips) was ready to
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A REPLY

To an 0psn Letter from One Buck
 Bloom.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12

lation OF the capital. Was &c not possible
to rapidly mass the two corps OF Vinoy and
Ducrot 20 crush the few thousand men of
the advance guard7 The moral effect Of
such n stroke would have been stupendous.
But In this FIRST engagement under the
walls OF Paris the deplorable system was in
augurated and invariably followed in all
subsequent operations around Paris. fighting
without a fixed objective, forcing new troops
not sufficiently habituated to hghting, and
on the contrary, when a serious object was
in view operating with insufficient numbers
aud inadequate ARTILLERY.
On the 18th of September. when vinoy's
corps fell back, the Prussian investment be-
gan. the various railroads were cut and at
3 o'clock in the afternoon the last train from
Paris for RDuen left the st. Lazare station,
From every direction the German masses
poured into the country; the prince or Sax
ony advanced from the north, %saluting st.
Denis with a thousand %trumpets; the prince
of Prussia rode up from the south through
Fontenay aux Roses and woke Aunay woods
with the hurrahs of his horsemen.
Two vast crescents formed the circle; tho
ring was soldered at Versailles in the east;
the other gap closed at st. German
Then on the 10Th of September Ducrot was
attacked in the south, nanked, driven pell
nell under the ChatiHon redoubt. where the
great forts of Vanves and Montrougo
shielded him. At 4 o'clock the few cannon
GERS spiked the last guns in the unfinished
Chatillon redoubt and retired. Claimant,
Villejuif and Meudon swarmed with Prus-
sian cavalry. Night came and Paris knew
that It's southern key had been stolen when
Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-12


the pointeur mounte the bastion and called
the class OF instruction to the breech,
In tho eventSs glow the ramparts burned
bright, the dust IN the street cleaned like
powdered rubi6s rs long, mousy shadows
stretched across. tue grass, soft and veivety
as the bloom or y purple plum.
When Hareweod had finally locked the
shutters he climbed up and unlocked the
sign of the shop, Hide watched him withou;
speaking. He lifted the signboard to his
shoulder and earffed it into the darkened
shop. To Hide It was the last scene in
the prologue Of h drama-the drama OF a
new life just beginning. She went into
the shop and looked at the sign that was
standing upside down against the wall.
cit is one of my landmarks she said
they are all going now, one by one. Yes
terday my Sainte-Hilde of Carhaix fell and
broke on the tiled floor, and l shall miss
tho birds. too" She added hastily: "1
am glad that they flew away; you must not
think that l regret anything
Hardwood, standing close beside her, said
you regret nothing, Hilde?"
After a long while, she answered, Moth
ing-and your"
What have ! to regret?" he said in an
altered voice, unconscious of the axiom and
its rony-unconscious that he stood there,
the mouthpiece of his sex, yoicing the dog
mas of an imbecile civilization. She bent
her head. Her white face rested on his
shoulder. All the million questions that
stir and flutter In a love wrung heart awak-
ened, trembled on her lips, all that she
would know, all that she should know, all
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wood smiled at her and drew her to him..
when did he GOT" he asked.
To-day replied Red Riding Hood. "He
Is q brave soldier"
AS the child spoke her dark eyes glowed.
for at last he had been justified in his
daushter's eyes-this squalid, drunken
father, glorious in the shining garments OF
resurrection homemade uniform with
e%paulets, War. the great purifier, had come
with blessings to Red Riding Hood and the
child OF chance, whom chance allotted to
her father, sewed gilded braid and brave
buttons on her fathers clothes, that he
might be fine among the fine; that he
might no longer be ashamed among men;
that she no longer need be silent when
men spoke of honor and virtue and brave
deeds and the soldiers Of France.
"He will fight until he dies" said the
child seriously.
'Pray God he may not die said Hide
gently.
"He will die" replied Red Riding Hood
with that quiet conviction that makes chill
dren sometimes feared.
Late that night Hardwood, sleeping on
his tumbled bed, was awakened by Bourke.
Jim, there's a man at the door below;
I Red Riding Hoods father is dead"
s"Dead?' repeated Hardwood.
"He was drunk-he fell from the draw
bridge at the Porte Rouge"
Hardwood threw on his coat and went
gravely to the little room where Red Rid
ing Hood lay asleep. Little one" he
whispered. She felt for his hand in the
darkness, clasped 1t in both Of hers and
pressed her wet face to the pillow.
sit was a brave death-a soldiers death, "
he whispered. She wept: 1t was the one
pleasure her father had ever given her, his
death. She thought of the man himself
and wondered why she wept. HARDWOOD,
too. wondered, and she answered his un-
asked question:
Il weep because l have nothing to weep
for. Go, now, and leave me with my happi-
ness"
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that she feared Yet of the million ques-
/ tions she could, not utter one. least of all
the eternal, question, more surely asked and
answered in SILENCE. with her love came
terror, too, lasting the space of a heartbeat,
dying out with q quick sigh, a fiutter Of
silken flashes. "a parting of scarlet lips di-
vinely wistful. rL, ..,,
AS for the man beside her. he stood
thrilled; yet thoughtful, following his
thoughts through the dim labyrinths of his
heart, that beat deeply, heavily, against her
yielding breast. What had happened he
scarcely comprehended. He only knew that
love is sweet. The beginning was already
SO long ago, SO dim, so far away. When
had it been? Had they not always loved?
And if the beginning of love was already
half forgotten, the end doomed wagner still
the distant future promised nothing yet;
a veil of mist, rose-tinged, exquisite, al
though behind the veil something was al
ready stirring, a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he
refused to see. Yet it was there. Hide
felt its presence, unConsciously shrinking in
her lovers arms. and again the questions
stung her lips. lis it love-love for me?
Is it truly love? Is it forever? Is it truth
land faith and constancy, forever and for
ever?" Her breathless lips parted, but no
questions passed them, and they were sealed
again in silence.
Hide and Hardwood moved once more
to the door. Night stretched its star
lined tent from the zenith; the moon, en-
meshed in a fathomless film, hung in a
corner, a furnished rim of tinsel, pale as a
silvery withered leaf. AS they stood there
Bourke came through the hall with Yolette,
bidding them hurry, for dinner was over.
Then they went away close together, and
their voices were lost on the dim glacls
where the scented shrubbery spread it's per-
fume through the shadows.
Hide glided silently to her hamber
Hardwood waited for her, standing by the
table where Bourke's and Yolette's plates
had already been removed. Red Riding
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tree and roof, filled the street with restless
chirping that stirred the Gagged birds in the
shop. Linnet answered thrush, fnches
whistled wlstful answers to the free twitter-
ing Of the sparrows; a LITTLE lark rustled
and ruffled; a blackbird uttered a still, thin
plant.
And Hide, who, when her own heart was
free, had never understood captivity, now,
when she listened, understood, and her own
imprisoned heart the plant of
wild Gagged things.
To her half spoken thought he answered.;
together they gathered all the feathered
wild things into one great wicker cage.
The parrots pale eye was yelled in scorn;
the monkey 1outed freedom with a grimace,
shivering and mounting as the hundred
wings beat at the wicker bars.
: Hardwood took the cage; Hide walked
beside him, in ecstasy at the thought of
freedom given by those who know that
something else is sweeter. There was a
shrub in flower on the glacis-some late
blooming bush. starred with waxen bios
SONS, breathing perfume. Under this they
placed the cage.
When Hide opened the cage a feathered
whirlwind circled about her head; there
came a rush of wings, a thrilling whir-r!
and she clasped her hands and stepped for
ward. out over the valley the bird flock
rushed, bore to the left, circled, rose, swung
back on a returning curve, but always rising
higher, higher, until, far up in the deepen
ing evening sky, they foated, and chose
their course, due south.
She watched them driving southwark. Sht
could tell the inches by their undulating
fight, the thrushos, the clean winged star
lings, She sighed contentedly. She hat
opened the door of pity when love opened
the door to her heart.
Look" whispered HARDWOOD, there i!
one little bird that will not leave us"
ut is dead-God forgive me-" ~falteret
Hide. A rush of tears blinded her. Sh'
knelt beside 1t on the grass-a frail mounC
of fluff and feathers, silent and still.
Freedom and death-life is so sweet-s'
sweet she whispered. And somewhere IL
the south, where the others have gone, their
is summer, eternal summer-life-life."
"Winter is Close he answered, somberly
With an unconscious movement he drew
her to him. He bent and searched he
changed face.
The wind. too, had changed. There wa
frost somewhere in the world, and tn
solemn harmony of the cannon swelled wit
the swelling breeze, and the breeze stirred
a broken feather on the dead birds stiffen
ing wing.
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Hood came to the kitchen door with a shy
good evening"" and. when Hide had re-
turned and seated herself, the child brought
dinner and served 1t with the alteration
that serves a shrine. Twice Hide kissed
her, for she needed the love of all, now
that she had given a love. infinite and in
noeent; a love that embraced the world and
life and death.
"Red Riding Hoods father has gone with
the Thirteenth battalion" she said, looking
across at Harewood. II begin to think our
little one will always be with us" The
child listened with downcast eyes. Hare
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Indies and other places. Forty thousand
tons of these rails have been ordered for
the Transsiberian railway. another evidence
that the car is of the opinion that Ameri-
can steel Is better than that found else
where. Russia buys armor for her ships OF
war here and intends to have some up-to-
date ships built in the United States.
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water front that In view Of the Guardians
age she would be- safer used as Q barge on
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