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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-01-20
BEST LONSDALE CAMBRIA 8 1.3C

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full of bargain EmbrOiderieS.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-01-20
new WASH GOODS.

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Simpsons 81 Percaes .....................- 4c
Best Shifting Prints. 3c
Best Penangs ever made in new Spring styles,
never sold DOR less than l2lc yard, now llAc.
During this sale only big line of the cele'
bated Toile DE Nord and A + c Ginghams.
all new styles, at &c yard.
Thirty Pieces Silver Star Madras in latest
patterns. A beautiful fabric for Waists aud
Dresses and exquisite colorings; l,4c yard.
Bates Seersuckers, the best wearing and
washing material. We offer % pieces at l24c.
We offer 80 pieces of one of the finest quail
titles of Zephyr Ginghams in solid colors and
new fancy styles; last sold at lSc; for l34c.
Madras Cloths in extra fine quality and 10
beautiful styles special at 2jc yard, cheaper
grade at l2lc
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A MEETING HEN SOME BUSINESS TRANS.
 ACTED.
PEACE IS MUCH DESIRED
Eight Thousand Filipino RiHens, Entrenched on the Three Sides
 of Bacolor.

Manila, May 11.-Reports reeai,l ed from the insurgent line, wbios however, have not been con6rmoa say that meeting of the FiliDioa congress has been held at San Isidro There was no quorum present. hui in spite of this fact some bushes, was transacted. The report said although those who attended wers mostly partisans of AguinaIdo. ! strong desire for peace was express ed.
 Maj. Gen. MacArthur will prob.. bly, remain at San Fernando unsI fresh troops can be forwarded to him from this city to replace some of the volunteers who have becons exhausted from the long campaign Filipino rifemen to the number d 5000 are entrenched on three sides of Bacolor. The Americans, how ever, gre fully able to hoIj the city If Mondays attack was ! specimen oi the enemy's fighting ability.
 The United States Philippine com mission has been considering pro. vincial constitution for the i8laudd Negros which was framed by Cd. Smith and leading natives. HB largely modelled after the coa8ttu. tion of California. While it ba many good points, the commissa will probably recommend uniform government for sall the provinces This constitution, it is intended will give the natives self-gOVera ment, co o-operatlng with the militia ry regime. Work on the eonstitl tion has been apportioned to ti1 several members of the Philippl4 commission. The report of Proi Schurmana will give attention D provincial and municipal govern ment; Col. Charles Denby will cor sider the organization of courts and Prof. D. c. Worcester will ingesIi gate tribal, physical and conner cial features in the islands. Altl'I members of the commission are col sulting with native experts.
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LEVEE BROKEN
Considerab e Damage is Expected
 and Some Excitement Preva ent

This afternoon news to the effect that the levee at Mud Lake on Nr. Jno. NJ. Gracie's plantation had broken was being handed about town. This news created some little excitement, and it is thought con siderable damage will be done in consequence of the break.
 The extent of the break and an es- innate of the probable damage is impossible at this writing to obtaln. h fact, no particulars are to be had just now. It has heen given out that break in thelevee has occur red, and that is about all the infor- nation that has been confirmed This of itself though is enough to create considerable fear and anxiety on the part of those interested in that section.
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TWO CITIES. DIFFERENCE IN CUSTOM AND BUlLD-EL PASO
 AND JUAREZ. AMERICAN AND MEXICAN. As 10 Methods and Manners 0b- taining Beyond the Rio
 Gfande.
AMERICAN AND MEXICAN.

Special Correspondence to the Graphic;
 Rl Paso. Texas, May 8.-The dif. ference between aR American and Mexican city is very apparent upon a visit 10 Juarez, a city of 10000 population just across the Rio Grande river from Fl Paso. The two cities are not more than mile apart and are connected by mule street ear line, but they are 8 half- century apart in the matter of methods, manners and customs. The differeneeis especially illustrated in the matter of streets and private buildings. On the American side of the Rio Grande river is a modern city, with broad streets and sub stanlal brick business houses from one to four stories high, with all modern improvements The resi- dences are also of brick with well kept lawns, and present most inviting aud attractive appearance. This is Fl Paso.
 On the south side of the river is the Mexican town of Juarez. It's streets are narrow, unkept and un- inviting, while it's houses are of adobe. The Mexican sticks to his adobe hut as he does to his burro. Modern methods have no attrae- tions for him. He refuses to be modernized. Here and there is an occasional brick business house or public building in Juarez, but it either belongs to an American, the railroads or the Government. The native Nex1can, in sight of modern city, lives as did his forefathers-in an adobe hut, and he refuses to get out of it. Even on the north side of the river in the Mexican district of Fl Paso the Mexican lives in an adobe house. Any other kind of a place Of abode has no attractions for him.
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SENATOR JONES
In Departing for Europe LsaV"
 Word to Ais Friends.

Before taking his departure Y Europe a few days since, oena@ ) James K. Jones, in a letter to v B. W. Green, of Little Rock, sa''
 My friends have been so Sy, @ and faithful and have manl''"' their kind interest in such V'fs r. to comfort me greatly and gfSllI me beyond expression. NY l'u,| .,s and the friends around me hersD. beer more faithful and conS''Dg| careful of mt than it seemed v it was possible for people to De. ], man living appreciates more v. oughly than l do these eylaen0" esteem and affection, If 1t 5 will of tke Almighty that ] s1' % ,,. spared some years yet I shall ,,l| deavor in the future to do my as I have tried to do in tte past am conscious, however, that lIs p I done the major part of my ny ,luI work, and if it is the will "s| 1sI Eternal T An that it shall oS .'s minated I shall not repine nor ~ p plain, though I would be tha''' E be restored to health. ..,.r
 No mau living has had '..s .S better friends than l have @ l,I,t man living owes more to 0ls
 than I do to mine,
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TEACAERS' INSTITUTE
Sum of $2,0O0 Placed at Disposal of
 Superintendent Doyne.

Through the kindness of Dr. Curry agent of the Peabody fund, the sum of $2,000 has been placed at Superin- leEdent Doyne's disposal, to be used in conducting teachers institutes in Arkansas this year. The foll wing circular issued from the State De- partment of Education by Mir. Doyne is selt-explanatory:
 To the County Examiners of Ar kansas: Through the kindness of Dr. J. l., Nj. Curry, the sum of $2,0O0 has be"u placed at my eisposal for institute work among the teachers of the state. Since the recent legis- lature failed to make any appropri- atiOn for the conduct of noSmals, sections 5956 and 7073 of the school la1 become active again. 1 shall endeavor to arrange for an institute lasting one week, in as many coun- ties as possible. and trust that you will endeavor to secure the attend anc6 Of the teachers of your county at the institute most convenient for them.
 If the teachers of your county have decided to have a normal and pay for it themselves, please notify me as to time, place and instructor, as I shall try to aid them. if it cal be done without interfering with the work as outlined for tue State. Please answer promptly, as I hope to arrange for the work to~ be done in June, as far as possible.
 Respectfully,
 J. J. DoYNE,
 Superintendent.
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Now and then a bit Of advice is picked up from the wayslde that, if needed by those for whom it is in : tended, very often would prove a blessing free of all disguise, The following few words taken from q passing pen might be carefully weighed, with no disadvantage to the weigher: "BoYs with their hats on the back of their heads and long hair hanging down over their fore heads, and cigarettes and smutty words in their mouths, are cheaper stuff than wornout snoes. Nobody wants them at any price. Men will not employ them and women will not marry them. They are not worth their keeping to anyone and they never will be able to keep them selves. If anybody happens to read this description let him take a good look at himself and then do as his conscience tells him"
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cans went over to see the bloody sport, but returned disgusted.

The passing from one country into another is a right interesting experience. AS before stated, Fl Paso and Jua2ez are connected by street car line. Across the Rio Grande river is a bridge connecting the two towns. All travel (except over the railroads) between these two points is supposed to be across this single bridge. On one side of the river is Mexican and on the other Americans custom officers. In cross ing, at the Mexican end of the bridge the passenger is given a critical ex- animation by the Mexican officers; in returning he is held up at the north end of the bridge by American officers. At this time there is a quarantine against Juarez on ac- count of a few eases of smallpox and one cannot enter the United States from that point without a health certificate. There is also a good deal of smuggling of opalsI and cigars into the U. &, and the American custom officers are especially vigilant.
 What .have you got?7 said the American officer to the writer as the latter was returning to his native country.
 Nothing but a health certificate, !" was the reply.
 You can pass on," he command ed, and the usually searching investi- gation was escaped.
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ONCE AGAIN
Stuttgart Furnishes Pine Bluff a
 Merry Marriage Scene.

It seems that cupid has wound about Stuttgart and Pine Bluff very strong attraction. Of the exact nature of the attraction we have not been able to acquaint our self. This much onlyIdo we know when the willy little love-god has succeeded in convincing two young people that life without each others soc.ety would be a barren waste-a desert strewn with bitter regrets, and there arises any obstacle to the consummatioG of their hearts most cherished desire anywhere within the shade of tue brides family tree, a picked time and a speedy run to Pine Bluff is made. Quite num- Der of such occurrences have been recorded within the past few months, and as yet no dire calamity has followed in their wake, we see no reason why the good work should
 
 not continue along in the somewhat uneven tenor of it's way. At any rate, the R Rork is coneinuing, as was evidenced to the writer this morn ing when he stepped into the county clerks office and was shown a record of marriage license issued a short while previous to MT. J. A. Harper and Miss Maggie Middleton, both of whom hailed together from the little prairie city-Stuttgart, and who at that time were guests of the Hotel Trulock, and, we pre- sume quietly rejoicing in tbe midst of bhssful anticipation. However this was, at the hour of II in the forenoon, in the parlors of the Hotel Trulock, Mr. Harper and Miss Mid- dleton were transferred from plu- ral into a singular state the two becoming one, man and wife.
 The ceremony was performed in very impressive manner by Rev. s. W. Crutcher. The bride and groom left on the northbound Cotton Belt train this afternoon for Stuttgart to receive such blessings as were being held in store for them there.
 MT. Harper, the groom, is prom irent young stenographer, and the bride is said to he one of Stutt&art's most popular young ladies.
 Tbe Graphic extends both hands ia reorganization,
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The Hon. Jeff Davis says lube Rector is trying to steal bis thun- der, and that Reetor.never thought of the present construction of the antitrust bill, but that he (Dayis) is entitled to whatever credit there is attached to It. All right, boys; anyway to suit the children. The Graphic Isn't hankering after any of the credit. However, if any cred it has been 'diskivered' hanging around loose, we should like to see it bestowed on him to whom credit is due.
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What cruel words some people do write Just to think that any one could be so hard hearted IS to pen such bitter English as this: ''The new spring bonnet is a sumner. It has a cow-eateher in front, a tail : board behind, flower garden on top, with a bunch of grass on one side and birds carcass on the oth- CT s de. The whole is elaborately banded together with crushed rib bons and topped off with a very abundant millinery bill, and it may be thought the wearer thereof is all head, but don't be deluded into this idea until you have at least had a conversation with her. Such ver:- table audaclty in anyone in writing thus is-but hold, what is that go, ing down the street?
Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-05-13

The famous novelist. Rudyard Kipling, is now an u. D., that degree having been recently con- ferred on him by the McGnl Univer- sity of Montreal. Some years ago, when Mr. Kipling's name was just beginning to float out upon the wings of notoriety, an eminent writ CT said of the young novelist that he would one day be known as great writer if he did not essay to be a man of letters. Whether or not Mr. Kipling has essayed so much we know not, but it seems this hon. or is blowing his way; or is it that the McGill University wanted a lit tie free advertising, and thought this a good way to obtain 1t.
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Adobe is simply sun dried mud. It is native mud mixed with a little water. moulded into pig cakes and then sun-dried Sometimes a little straw or gravel is mixed in to make it more durable. These big cakes are then laid on top of each other and held together by kind of nor tar. The houses are sometimes given layer of plaster on the out side which gives them the appear anee of stone buildings. but this is only the case with some business houses and the residences of the more wealthy The common herd of Mexicans from one end of Mexico to the other, live in common adobe huts, about 12x16 feet square, with fiat roof, no floor, except the native soil, sometimes a small window but more frequently not.and an opening for a door.
 But there are and have been adobe palaces in Mexico. Nothing is better suited to this dry climate than the adobe building. There are a great number of them on the American side. The Mayor of Fl Paso, who belongs to an ancient and honored family and occupies the ancestral home, lives in an adobe palace built before Texas achieved her independ- ence. In the center of a large orchard and surrounded by modern brick houses, Mayor Wagoffin's home presents a unique appearance.
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The Mexican is fond of bloody sport. He loves a bull fight or a cock fight. To witness one or both of these is his usual occupation every Sunday afternoon. Yesterday Sunday bull fight was scheduled for Juarez, but owing to the quaran- tine on this side of the river it was postposed. In the absence of the bull fight, however, there were sev- c-@! cccs fshts, ..41 several Ameri-
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School children are taught to be- lieve that the Rio Grande river is full of water and flowing all the year. That is tue nearer the gulf coast, but it is not true here. Most of the year it IS as dry as an Arkan- sas creek in summer. time. At this time it is a running stream but can be waded across at this point. It does not furnish enough water for frrigating purposes. A Fl Paso the Rio Grande river, which makes the dividing line between the United States and Mexico, is no wider and not as deep as Bayou Bartholomew, in Jefferson County, Ark.
 In consequence of the fact that it is dry most of the year the American custom officers find it absolutely impossible to entirely prevent smuggling.
 J. W. ADAMS.
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Entered at the Post-office at Pine Bluff. Ak. .ass ssecoadcIass maHmatter

The Warren Sentinel speaks truly when 1t says: "A broad.guaged man never falls out with you over an honest difference of opinion. It is only the narrow-minded who ad- wise boycotts and such like against the man who dares to have an idea of his own. "
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NOT A CANDIDATE.
Superin ntendent

Cincinnati, May 10.-1n a letter re- ceived here from John Sherman, ex Secretary of State, in reference to the rumors that he will be q candidate for governor of Ohio, he says.
 II am not candidate for govern or anc do not wish my name men, tioned in that connection, and would not accept il if nominated.
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In Juarez is an ancient adobe church. It was built by the Span iards over three hundred years ago. It occupies a commanding position overlooking the town. Except for its antiquity, 1t possesses but lit tie to interest the visitor.
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Mir. Joe Plastow, of New ho,s o,ssl rived in the city yesterday s,utb and will visit his sister anu Rob in-law, Mir. and Mrs. Adau soa, fer sGme timss
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MT. Williams, of the firm of vii. Hams & Madding, at Warmer, was a Pine Bluff visitor today,
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-04
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
Fron the Cieveland Plain Dealer1

(F'rOm the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
During the early communion service at
one of the uptown Episcopal churches last
Sunday a rather singular thing happened.
The chancel is low and the roof is shingled
over, and while the service was proceed
ing a woodpeckec alighted on the shingles
and pecked so loudly that the sound pen
etrated through the church. 1t came at
intervals, sharp and clear, until at the
very close of the service the bird few
away.
The attendance was not very large and
it was observed. that ore lady, a rather
elderly person, did not join in the rite.
This seemed a little singular, because it is
strictly COMMUNION service
She fingered after the audience had
passed out, and then approached the
young women of the congregation who
care for the chancel andsits decorations:
tie confused over the details of your ser
but I scarcely expected. to find innova-
tions. If it had been one of the very high
churches 1 shouldn't have wondered. Re
ally, it confused me so that didn't quite
know what to do
Pardon me- interrupted one of the
girls. but l am at a less to understand
what you refer to-
Why" said the elderly lady. ct want
to know what that tapping signal was
that the rector gave-it came at every
third cOmmunicant, you know
When the girls. could collect their
church, quite overwhelmed with con-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-04
Central African Meteorites.
TFrom the London Standard ]

From the London Standard-I
The fine representative collection Of
meteorites in the department of min
erals in the British museum has just
been enriched by four stones which were
seen TO fall on the morning of January
25 last in native villages on the eastern
slopes of Mount Zomba, British Central
Africa. Two of them, completely en-
crustad and weighing fourteen ounces
and seventeen ounces respectively, are
presented to the trustees by Alfred
Sharpe, G. B., her majesty's commits
sioner and consul general; part, weigh
ing tWenty-nine' ounces, of third stone
by J. +. Cunningham, secretary to the
prOte etOrate, and part, Weighing nine
teen ounces, of a. fourth stone by j. NC
ClOurie acting collector OF revenues. 1t
was about o'clock on the morning of
january % that there was heard at
ZOmha a crash like thunder, the reVer-
berattOns lasting for a few minutes al
terW2rd. The detOnattOn was heard at
ChirCmO, situated about ninety miles
south of ZOmba, and at Fort Johnston
and beyond, a distance of about seventy
miles. in the opposite direction. ZOmba
was thus roughly the center of the dis
trict over which the actual explosion of
the nleteOrite took place. About a. m
news reached the Residency that several
stones had fallen in native villages on
the eastern slopes Of ZOmba. mountain,
which is situated Immediately behind
the ZOmba settlement, and rises to q
nel8nL Oh SIX LnOuSdLQ LGGl dDONS lIlG
sea, the settlement being at 1900 feet
Ten ira ragments in all were found, the
largest weighing five pounds twelve and
one-haf ounces. At one of the villages
the people were found sQuatting round
the stone in a circle discussing the mir
acle," as they called it. No one had
touched or apprOa ched the stone, and
it was still lying where it fell when the
officials sent to Investigate the matter
arrived. The story of it's fall was given
as follows:
"A woman was pounding corn under
a tree within about ten yards of her hut
when the stone fell. The whole village
heard the detonation Immediately af-
terward, and gathered to where the wO-
They were afraid of it, thinking it en-
chanted, and they sat at distance
round it, each giving a version of its
prObab bic origin and meaning" It fell on
hard ground, but, as there were no
rocks about. no difficulty was exper-
fenced in digging it up complete. At
Blantyre, a little before 8 o'clock on the
same morning, a star of exceptional
bTilliancy was seen to pass across the
sky in the direction of Lake Shrwa
(rOughly west to east), leaving a trail
or tail behind it, Immediately followed
by an explosion like a crash OF thunder.
Mr.. McClounie states that the report
was heard with the precision of a can
non boom, while Mr.. Sharpe, who, a
the time of the explosion, was on the
top Of ZOnba mountain, heard one very
loud report: then for some two minutes
a long rumbling or buzzing noise, grad
ually getting fainter and fainter.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-07-04

''I-thought-soi" said Miss Feather
field with a sarcastic laugh.
And the next morning, when Barbara
commenced her round of work, people
looked upon her and closed their doors
in her face.
The next evening, as Miss Begonia
was picking up some scarlet feathers
which the lory had pfucked from the
macaw's head in a bird cage, something
Whirred around her head and settled
a small, fluttering, yellow mass
against the bars of the empty cage.
It was Susette, the Innet canary.
Draggled, weary, half starved, the lit
tie truant had winged its way back to
the prison between whose bars it had
contrived to squeeze itself the day be-
fore.
First Begonia fed and caressed the
bird, then she put on her things and
carried it-once more safe in the cage
down to the Held cottage.
Barbara" said She. here's my Su-
settle. And there's your canary. And
though they're like eIlough to be one
and the same, they're not. And I've
behaved like an old foo1-and you'll be
young one, Barbara, if you bear any
malice against me after I've begged
your pardon, which I'm going to do
now. And I'll go around to the neigh
bors, wherever my wicked tongue has
Wagged and say the same thing. And
you shall come and be my little maid,
Barbara-and here's dollar apiece for
the children and one for your mother.
You'll forgive me, Barbara? %
So the sunbeams brJke through the
cloud of Barbara'S S troubles.