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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
Sour Crap os.

The Commercial does not use steam it prefers to give it's patrons iIi job printing the cost of the steam luxury by low prices in printing .-Commer- ciAl, Nov. b.
 So steam is a luxury, according to the logic of our contemporary. But 1t will be hard to get the world to believe it. Steam is q luxury be- cause 1t costs something, hal ha! But is it q luxury when 1t multipiles the productive capacity? Whatever increases the productive capacity decreases the cost of the article maa ufactured. The Adams w ilson Print ing Co. DOES use steam power, in consequence of which it's productive capacity for printing perday it equal to the combined press capacity Of all the other printing offices In town. And as a result of these uneqnalled and superior facilities for getting out work, the Adams-W Wilson Printing Go. eau dc tie work cheaper and better than any of its competitors. If you don't believe it, come around. The Commercial does not use steam = hal hal sour grapes.
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WITH A HAMM FIR.
A Boy, Uuder Strong Provocatiop, Strikes and Seriously Iojures
 MeddIinG Negro.

Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock, Frank Nelson, aged sixteen, a white boy employed at Robinson's $ tin shop on East Barraque street, hit deaf and dumb negro, known about town as dummy" :" over the left eye with hammer seriously in- turing him.
 Nelson was busily engaged in the shop when the negro entered and commenced meddllng with the tools and in other ways rendering himself obnoxious to the workmen-young Nelson and man named Woods that had just commenced working there.
 Young Nelson did not know the negro and motioned for him to get out of the shop. The negro raised the heavy hickory stick, which he al. way carries, in Q threatening man. her and the hoy thoroughly irighten- ed, picked up a, hammer that he had oNCh HSlIie3 HI uis 8O4 ht anu SAl uGh him on the forehead jusG over the left eye. The negro dropped to the floor, bleeding profnsely, utin few moments recovered sufficiently to walk to his home. From the doctors reports thissmorning he is. however, in a very precarious condition.
 After striking the blow, the fright ened boy then fled and despite the efforts of the police, nothing, as yet has been learned of his whereabouts He is well-liked by his employer and though, having been here but n short time, he has gained many friends in Pine Bluff
 Dummy" the old negro, is an odd character abolt town For years his bent form has been seen on ouI streets. He is regarded as harmless but to strangers and to children es. peeiaIly he is regarded with horror and aversion. Some time ago he en- tered q prominent home in the East end and after being fed. because tht lady of the house wouldn't give him dine fer 8 drink, badly scared her by his guttural exclamations and the way he brandished the heavy hickory stick-his constant compan- ion and the one which so frightened young Frank Nelson.
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ECKHAM CAPTURED.
He Was Taken In at Topeka For AL
 legged Embezzlement at NAdeau.

He Was Taken In at Topeka For AL
 legged Embezzlement at NAdeau.
 Topeka, Nov. 16. United States Mar shal Stone has received a telegram from Albuquerque, N M, notifying him of the arrest of H. B, Eckham, formerly Of the firm of Nadeau &5 Go, of Nadeau, Kans., who is wanted for an alleged em- bezzlement of $40,o00 It is alleged that Eckham, before disappearing some time ago, borrowed $500o each from four Kansas banMs to use, as he said, i'll mak- ing change and cashing checks for h. dians. He next visited several Indian reservations and secured $l6 900 in gov ernment checks which he exchanged for bills of large denominations. He is said also to have taken $4000 from the firms store and rostoffice at Nadeau. A re- ward of 5000 was offered for his arrest.
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MARRIED BY A MAGISTRATE
MT. q. E. Davenport and Mrs. Lucy N. Nichols Preferred Quiet.
 Wedding.

Tuesday evening as Squire" Gar rett was calmly puffing away at his old cob pipe, Ire was suddenly sur prised by the appearance of MT. C. B. Davenport and Mrs. Lucy Nichols, who informed the old gentleman that they had come on 8 cupid' s mission.
 He immediately tied the knot and the pair went on their way rejoicing
 The contracting parties are prom inent in East side social circles, and to Mr. and Mrs. Davenport the Graphic extends its heartiest cen gratulations.
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A PECULIAR REMEDY.
Something About the New Dis- cOvery for Curing Dyspep-
 sfa.

The Rev. r. I. Bell, a highly es- teemed minister residing in Weeds port, Cayuga Co.,, N. Y.9 in a recent never been anything that 1 have taken that has relieved the dyspep- sia from which Ihave suffered for ten years except the new remedy called Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Since taking them l have had no distress at all after eating and again after long years can sleep well. Rev. F. |. Bell, Weedsport, N. Y., formerly, Idalia, Colo.
 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is q re- markable remedy, not only because it is certain cure for all forms of indigestion, but because it seems 10 act as thoroughly in old chronic cases of dyspepsia as well as in mild attacks of indigestion or biIiousness. A person has dyspepsia simply be cause the stomach is oyerworked, all it wants is n harmless, vegetable remedy to digest the food and thus give it the much needed rest.
 This is the secret Of the success of this peculiar remedy. No matter how weak or how much disordered the digestion may be, Stuart's Dys- pepsia Tablets will digest the food whether the stomach works or not. New life and energy is given not only to the stomach but to every organ and nerve in the body. A trial of this splendid medicine will convince the most skeptical that dyspepsia and all stomach troubles can be cur ed. Tine tablets are prepared by the +. A, Stuart Co.,, of Marshall, Mich, but go popular has the remedy be- come that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets can now be obtained at any drug store at 90 cents per package. Send for book on stomach diseases free.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
naatlls nt Huntsville.

Huntsville, Ala, Nov. 16.---The fol lowing deaths at Camp Wheeler are re- ported: Private Leoanardy. company G. First Florida infantry, spinal menin gitis; Private James Hopkins, company I. sixty-ninth New York, pneumonia Private Limblad, company H, Eighth infantry, typhoid fever; Private North ern, troop A, Tenth cavalry; Private Kidd. troop O., Second cavalry, pneu monia.
 Private Slagler, Sixty-ninth New York, set fire to the provost guardhouse and county court house at an early hon this morning but the flames were extin guisned by the department. Slager was arrested.
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ANSWER PREPARED.
Spanish Evacuation Commission Ready
 to Reply to Americans.

to Reply to Americans.
 New York, Nov. 1G.-A dispatch to The Herald from Havana, says:
 General Parade has informed General Butler that the Spanish commission was ready to give it's answer to the Ameri. can uitimatum presented at the joint session nearly three weeks ago. The re. suit will be joint session at the Ca. mara Insular this morning at 8 o'clock. The Americans confidently hope that full agreement on the date of evacuation will then b. reached. General Butler called on General Blaneo 10 intercede personally i'll behalf of the insurgent Colonel Ballacoa, who was captured with General Ruis Rivera. Ballacoa is in the Cabanas, not as Gen. Butler supposed, prisoner of war, but held on the charge of manslaughter. General Blanco said the case was at present. before the Madrid supreme court.
 Dr. O'Relliy who has been ordered to report i'll Washington will leave for the north by Wednesdays boat to Tampa Dr. O,Reilly will urge upon the admin istration the immediate necessity of es- tablishing an American hospital and the organization of sanitary brigade for cleaning the city A careful estimate has been made showing that the surface of the city in the streets and yards may be cleaned and disinfeeted at a cost not exceeding $2o,O0 When it is consid- cred that the expenditure of this sum will mean the saving of American lives, it seems more than criminal that it has not already been done.
 Beyond building temporary docks on the Marian beach, nothing has been done to make ready for the American troops. Considering the number of commissions and officials that have in- spected and reinspected the camp sites, lodged the yellow fever and fled at the approach of that disease, what has been accomplished seems insignificant.
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DOES NOT BELIEVE
 POSSIBILITIES ARE OVER.
General Merriam Seems to Think When War Is Resumed Several Coun-
 tries Will Be In the Fight.

San Francisco, Nov 16.-General Merriam is quoted as saying:
 "It would not surprise me to see ne- gotiations between the United States and Spain broken off. If the work of the commission proves fruitless it means a renewal of war. If Spain refuses to accede to our demands it will show she has secured substantial hope of assist ance from Europeans Should Germany take hand in this matter, England will follow suit, aud then I look for France to put her finger in the pie. D
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
Contest slayden's Election.

kn,otonio, Nov. 16.-George H. the defeated Republican candi-
 congress in the Twelfth dis nounces that he will contest the
 p' dlmes l.. Slayden, Democrat. carried the district by upward plura.lty over Noonan. Noonan l his contest on the ruling Of the |ofn2y general, that the placing ans name on ballots headed 'ratlc ticket" would be illegal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
Katy station Held Up.

Savanna, L T., Nov. 16. 6.-The station of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail. way was held up here by two robbers with revolvers. About $20 of the com. pany money and $50 personal money and gold screw bevel open face watch with monogram HI. F." on back was taken from the agent.
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|a|agI It May Change the |@I;lu of Congressman in
 I Tenth District.
P0IgF DECIDED
 B ATTORNEY A CRANE.
a Candidate of One Party e Placed on Any Other
 rhan That of tie b Which He Belongs.

ex Nov. t6 It is not un- < as opinion rendered by At Crane just prior to the |s to the effect that if the
 eandidate appears on tne
 party to which he does not 3 blllot is fsaudulent, will eoa.osr for congress ,....t,sal Crane IsI Il le8 ter rom Il prominent f0 the Tenth dis rtet incioS- l tlese ai.ege | frau uienr bal the name of th , fuEl sileratic ticket ami the Demo- s ot Matagerda county, but s of rhe name of ". s. Rob- .l .atie nominee for congress,
 B lIawley, the Rapa blican ,. was printed twice thereon, |Hot the letter stated that 311 Of mluient ballots were cast in M county alone. 1t is claimed Ed number of similarly affect s xwere cast in other counties of A district, and that there are a 6 plumber of them to give the |fo Robson, should they be @t.
 Rsent indications are that the Hl Dc taken into the courts, and s to be seen whether Attorney |Crane's opinion will be sus- It is an interesting and highly | legal question.
 N General Crane has also re- Imilar complaints of these al- ludulent ballots from a half ees in the state.
 Ing to information received ruling of the attorney general affect the congressional contest Felfth district, as we'll as the lone or more offices in Bexar Repeated requests for further complete information on his hg opinion have been received Icy General Crane, but he has hrther to say other than that in his telegram to Chairman pm of San Antonio on Nov. z. 'ance Of that telegram was that atio ballots containing the |Noonan, congressional candi- void"
 me says that the matter is now E hands of his departments. |onal contests arising from this audlent practice will have to l In congress; other contests
 to be settled in the courts of
 The Australian ballot pro. candidates in the cities, but Intry precints the juggling of
 tickets has been extensively at every election for many
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
Gold In Arizona.

Phoenix, Ariz Nov. 16.-.A ledge of very rich gold ore has been unearthed on the black point at Cerbal. Specimens brought to Kingman are said 10 be more than half gold For many years rlcn float rock has been found in the vlelnl- ty of the discovery.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
.euccles, PHAEToNs AND suRERYs

I have just received a car load oi the prettiest surreys, phaetons and Luggies that has ever been put on this market, and for the next thirty days I will offer them at prices that defy competition. I also carry in stock all kinds of buggy and surrey harness, lap robes, buggy tops, etc. I would be pleased to have you call in and look through my stock wheth.r you wish to purchase or not. Respectfully,
 ". R. BIRMINGHAM.
 Successor to Smith Buggy Co,
 39 Pine Street
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
SHOT THE WRONG MAN.
John Flora Fatally Wounds Jesse Eur
 ton Taking Him For A. B Jones.

Mitchell, Ind. Nov. l6.-Jesse, aged 22, son of Emslie Burton, was shot by John Flora here i'll case of mistaken identity. A feud existed between Flora and A. B. Jones of this place, and Flora mistook young Burton for Jones. Bur ton will die
 Flora after quarrel with Jones wait ed in hiding behind house with 9 shot, gun. Burton who resembles Jones in stature ana dress came in sight. Flora mistaking him for Jones, fired. Flora is in iail
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
NV and Memphis Extension.

Rock. Nov. l6-J. H. McCar-
 slVie Rock an Ben Johnston z |o' lis, Were awar,ie.i the con pf oullaing the Choctaw and ''s railroad extension from Littl. l "lster Junction, l64 miles long. a'faet price Is 5000, ono. Tn \ ana Memphis road recently ac. of the Little Rocx 'mphls and the extension to Wis e.lon means a direct competing Arksnsas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16

@ont, Tex, Nov. 16. The lum- [ulaeiurers of the cities of Lake
 orange, Beaumont and mills on P1ne and East Texas, Kansas City, 4g and Gulf and Beaumont and ol15 railroads have made a joint 'le 5000, ,000,o00 feet of lumber " the government to erect com z quarters for soldiers in Cuba.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16

c11RE. ScROFULA promptly and narnanently by thorough course of Hoods Sarsaparilla. All Ior'is u' sa this painful disease yleia lo ,an aa. : blood puriyifying power ol thls efea medicine. .ho hs+ fa n,
 HOODS PILLS are the best Ia,n ily cathartic and liver tonic. uentle' reliable. sure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
Fire at sloan Springs.

siloam Springs, Ark, Nov. 16.-A disastrous fire occurred here destroying s20. 900 worth of propertp The f-e started in the Carl Grocery company 2 store and burned out an entire block of frame buildings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-16
The A
 AlE5ntssA
 l5saailkSs9 Chief

requirements of com munieation between distant points--speed and reIiabil- ity--are we'll recognized fea- lures of the Long Distance Telephone Service.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
The Gargon's Head.

There is a great store of iron at
Elizavetpol, but it is so heavily associ-
ated with titaniunl, and this is so ex-
pensive to cast off, that it is not believ-
ed it can be proftably worked. AFrench
engineer who studied the Caucasus
products, said that this ore is of so
little value that mountains of it in the
United States are considered worthless,
and passed over by capital. In order
TO work it at all, coke is necessary, and
there is no coking coal in the region.
A Russian engineer, interested in de-
Feloping the country. says that coal
that will produce coke has been found
at place thirty versts from Kotais,
but this has yet 10 be demonstrated.
Kotais, by the way, is the place to
which the Argonauts came, and whence
they brought back the Gorgon's head,
with its flaming eyes, its hair of snakes
and its appearance of fearful ferocity,
the whole being symbolical of the
producing climate and fierce wild
beasts which still render the locality
one to be avoided The coal, which
perhaps gave flame to the Gorgeous
eyes, is in character something between
Ignite and anthracite-a high grade of
Ignite.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Little Danger From Lightning.

Statistics as to the comparatively
few deaths from lightning may not
avail to lessen the nervousness of those
who view every thunder head with
alarm, but they may avail to quote to
children old enough to be apprehensiye
and who may have many summers
ahead of them. Investigations made
a year or two ago showed that of 298
classes of objects of which 1907 persons
confessed fear, lightning was dreaded
by the greatest number. Yet in the
record of fatalities there is very
small record against lightning, as COM
pared with other causes of accidental
death. Statistics prepared by the
United States Weather Bureau show
that for four years the average num-
Der of persons killed by lightning an
nually in the whole country was 1856
More than that number are drowned
annually, in the waters about New
York city, it is said, and many more
than that number annually lose their
lives throughout the country in bicy-
cling. 1t might even appear that one
is in greater danger of being fatally
kicked by horse, or of being killed by
a falling chimney, than of being struck
by lightning.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Bombardment Statistics.

Here are some official statistics to
prove that bombardment is not such
terrible thing after all. In 1901
the bombardment of Belfort lasted
seventy-three days, during which &c.
45S projectiles fell within the city, and
there were but sixty victims killed or
fatally wounded. At Strasburg, dur
ing the siege Of thirty-eight days, the
Germans fred upon the city, mostly at
close range, 1922 shells, with rec
ord of only 300 victims. Finally, at
Paris, where the bombardment lasted
only twenty-three days, 10000 siege
shells were thrown. killing and wound
ing 107 persons.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Bird surgery.

An Italian naturalist reports that he
once captured a snipe which had on its
crest a large dressing of down taken
from it's own body, and fixed to a
wound by the coagulated blood. Twice
he brought home snipe with inter-
woven feathers strapped over the site
of a fracture of one of it's legs. M.
Magnin also records case in which a
snipe, observed to fly away with a
broken leg, was subsequently found to
have forced the fragments into a par
allel position and secured them by
means of a strong band of feathers
and moss intermingled. The observ-
ers were struck with the application
Of kind of fiat-leaved grass which
was wound around the leg spirally and
fixed by means of a sort of glue.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Bismarck,s Bell.

When Bismarck was Prussian Am
bassador at Frankfort, an interesting
incident occurred to him. At that mo-
ment he lodged in the house of mer-
chant who detested the Prussians.
Bismarck asked the landlord to put
bell in his room. The latter replied
that it was not in the house, and that
If he wanted one he would have to put
it up himself A few days after the
whole house was suddenly aroused by
pistol shot fired in the room. The
landlord rushed into the apartment
out of breath and found the ambassa-
dor quietly smoking large pipe, seat
ed in front of a pile of documents. On
the table was the pistol which he had
Just fired.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
THE YUCCA PLANT.
HAS Great Future Before 1t If Pains
Are Taken to Develop 1t.

Has Great Future Before 1t If Pains
Are Taken to Develop 1t.
The great staple of Venezuela is cof-
fee; but, as the prices are now very
low, it might be well if farmers would
turn their attention to other plants
which give more lucrative return.
The yucca appears to have great fu-
ture before it.
This is very productive plant, and,
although well known in Venezuela, no
one has yet taken especial pains to de-
velop it. One hectare (2,471 acres) of
land upon which yucca is grown will
produce $50 quintals (15.000 pounds)
OF starch, or 200 Quintals 10000
pounds) of tapioca. The plant is east
ly and cheaply cultivated. 1t will
stand bad weather. and the dry season
does not affect it. 1t can be raised on
any soil. The yucca will thrive in the
same soil with peas, corn and beans,
and ground so utilized becomes far
more remunerative than land planted
in coffee. One heetare of titled soil
will produce 800 coffee plants. Allow
ing the maximum yield of coffee per
plant, a hectare will produce quintals
of coffee. On the same ground the
yucca will yield $50 quintals of starch,
exclusive of the other crops, from the
same soil. These other crops will ag-
gregate u bushels of corn, II bushels
of peas, and II bushels of beans. This
will make land in which the yucca is
planted from six to seven times as re-
munerative as when planted in coffee
Means of cultivation are primitive.
Ploughs and other modern American
farming implements are almost I'M
known there.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Valuable Spruce.

Spruce is not commonly accounted a
costly wood, but some of it may be very
valuable. Spruce is largely used for
the tops of stringed musical instru-
ments, such as guitars and mandolins,
the finer grained being the more de-
sirable. The value of rosewood de-
ponds upon its color and quality. 1t
ranges in price from cent and a
quarter to 10 cents a pound. Thirty
grain Adirondack spruce would be
worth more than the finest rosewood.
1t might be that not one such log would
be found among thousand.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
searchIights in Balloons.

Russia is experimenting with giant
searchlights mounted in balloons and
containing electric burners connected
with dynamos upon the ground. The
largest of these yet reported is of 5000
candle-power. At a distance of only
500 yards above the earth it will illum-
mate a circular area 500 yards in diam
eter to the brightness of the day.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
Animals That Never Drink.

There are some animals which never
drink; for instance, the llamas of Pata-
gonia and certain gazelles of the Far
East. A number of snakes, lizards
and other reptiles live in places devoid
of water. A bat of Western American
inhabits waterless plains. In parts Of
Lozere. France, there are herds of
cows and goats which hardly ever
drink, and yet produce the milk for
Roquefort cheese.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
THE WEIGHT OF osMIUM.
Heaviest and Most Infusible Metal in tho
World

Heaviest and Most InfusibIe Metal In the
World.
The heaviest thing in the world is
the metal osmium, the bluish-white
metal with violet luster, which Mr..
Smithson Tenant discovered 80 years
ago in the residue from dissolved pla-
tinum ores. This metal has specific
gravity of 22477, that of gold being
1926, lead 1857, iron 7.79, and lithi-
UNI, the highest, only 0.594. The
French chemist, Jolly, determined that
osmium is likewise the most in
fusible of metals. 1t could never be
made to yield to the oxyhydrogen
flame, which makes platinum and ir-
iridium run like water. But Jolly has
been subjecting osmium to the exclu-
sively high temperature of the electric
arc which Moissan has of late en-
ployed successfully in the manufacture
of diamonds.
Under this fierce heat the rare metal,
ruthenium, which used to be deemed
all but infusible, readily melts. But
osmium remains refractory, there be-
ing apparent only the faintest traces
of fusion. On this account osmium
cannot be prepared in sufficient quanti-
ty to make it very useful in the arts.
But its alloy with iridium, which de-
fies the acids, is of some value, moth
ing better having been found where
with to tip gold pens. Being non-mag-
netic, its employment for the bearings
of the mariners compass has been adj
vocated.