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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-27

arriving CT Sunday wear, or for the evening parties which college girls may enjoy once iH awhile The grow ing girl will not demand many dresses, but should have a necessary variety
 The school girl should not wear heavy satins, broeades and jewels, and the rich and heavy 1aces that their mothers wear. But they should wear the soft wools in plaids and mixed goods, and also the plain goods. These are pretty for everyday wear, and for best dresses and party dresses there are many light weight cloths, the cashmeres, chal- lies and wool veilings, and also the soft sllks in the pretty light shades. Some Of he pretty evening dresses are made e China silk, crepes and silk mulls, be- ing trimmed with fine Nalenciennes lace ribbons and narrow black velvet
 For a girl Of l6 a pretty afternoon or holiday dress Is made of a fine soft pale lawn cloth, and made up with shot green and golden brown silk which on the skirt forms VauDyke piping on level with the knees, with wee silk covered button set in each point around the piping, deep pointed yoke of she silk on the bodice with straps orer the shoulder of the cloth, and the wee but +nns m ihe srans. with dark green
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-27

C1TAHE tragedy and romance that
 gave to the Philippine insur-
 u gents their Joan of Arc was among the strangest in all history. Dr. Jose Rizal, the son of q native agri- cnlturist, early displayed unusual abili- ty as a student at the Jesuit's college in Manila. After graduating there, SO great had become his thirst for Rnovl- edge that he continued his studies in first Madrid and afterwards in both France and Germany. In Madrid he received the degree of doctor Of medi- cine and doctor of philosophy. While pursuing his studies in France and Germany he became imbued with de sire to better the condition of his couu- trymen, not with any feeling of disloy- alty to the ruling power, but 10 agitate and secure the disbanding of the cler- ieal orders and the removal from the hands of the friars of the strong infH- enee which they eXerted in the political fortunes of the islands.
 Upon his return to Manila, where he became the president for time of the university, he also became the leader of the anti-clerieal party, and as suel was despised and hated by the friafs and their party. He was accused oi treason and without trial was sen. fenced to banishment to the island ol hlndanao for four years. Still he re lnained loyal to Spain, but decided anti-clerical.
 While here an American citizen, tray cling in the east with an adopted
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Doctor and Patient.

Dr. Browu-Aren't you rather inconsist- ent? You told me the other day that you are ten per cent better than you were when you first consulted me, and now you have come here and want me to take 20 per cent. off my bill
 Convaeseent-But I am not here this time for my health.-Boston Transcript.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-27
nnM It Is nnne.

Keep her trade!" he said when asked about the woman who wanted every thing below cost. Why, of course I keep her trade. It's easy when you know how. I just quote prices to her about ten per cent higher than they should be so as to give plenty of lee way for the bargain she always wants to make. Chicago Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-27
An ounce of Prevention.

Doctor friend of mine has assured me that sucking lemons will prevent sea sick ness. Is that true?"
 Yes, provided you sit in the shade of a tall tree while you suck the lemon. Stand ard and Catholic Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-27
Slightly prninnIcnn-

Hewitt-There goes an awfaily home ly woman.
 Jewitt--I don't think so.
 Hewitt--Wen. perhaps I'm preju- diced; she's my wife.-ToNn Topics.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07
THE GIANT AND THE DWARF.
A Tale That Shows How Brains May
Conquer Strength.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
There came to a certain kingdom, every
year, a great giant, who had never met
his match for strength, and challenged
any one to wrestle with him. But no one
dared to face him, and so the giant in
sisted on taking away with him all the
treasures that his strength enabled him
TO carry
This had gone on for so long that the
King feared the time would come when
all the precious things of the realm would
have found their way to the.giant's home,
which, report said, was magnificent pal
ace, filled with the trophies that he had
won from various monarchs, who, like
this King, had to bride him to depart
when no one would meet him in a wrest-
ling match.
So when, as the year rolled around the
giant presented himself at the gates of
the city and demanded an opponent or a
reward. the people were not surprised bur
they were surprised at what next hap
pened.
First however, you must hear about a
certain poor woman in the kingdom, who
had a crippled son. She loved him as only
a mother can love her unfortunate child,
and she used to tell him of the giants
visits. The boy had never seen this great
man. for, being himself a dwarf, and the
laughing stock of the unlkind community,
he spent his time in the woods back OF
his mothers home, and away from the
crowd that always greeted the giant.
But he pondered over his mothers tale,
and over the trouble of the kingdom and
he determined that a way must be found
to rid it of its enemy
when even a weak person desires a
thing strongly a will arises that often
accomplishes great deeds; and so il befell
that one year when the giant came, the
dwarf stepped forth from among the
amazed people. and declared his willing
ness TO meet him.
How indignant the giant was, words fail
to tell He thought he was being befooied,
until the dwarf said:
Before we wrestle. let US give tests of
our strength
Hal har laughed the big man then. and
picking up a stone, he pressed il between
his fingers and squeezed moisture from
it.
THAT is nothing" cried the dwarf. and
he look a sponge which he had concealed,
and apparently squeezed more water out
Of the stone.
The giant then angrly caught up anoth.
er stone and threw il with such force that
1t was ground to powder. But the dwarf
took stone, which he concealed, and
threw to the earth a handful of -four.
So amazed was the giant that he said:
Il win not fight with you, but instead,
| beg you to give me the hand Of fellow
ship, AID then come with me and we will
live as brothers together"
The dwarf readily held out his hand. and
it was all he could do not 10 cry out for
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07
SOME GREAT EXPLOSIONS.
Seven Tons of Powder DisIodgcd
100000 Tons of Rock.
From Casters Magazine.

FROM easier 8 MdSdZle.
Among the many incidents which are on
record, one Of the most notable is that of
the explosion of ffty-fve tons OF blasting
gelatin, which was being unloaded from
a railway train at Braamfontein 300 yards
west Of johannesburg, in South Africa,
on Feb. 10, 1896. and which was exploded
by an end-on collision. The result of the
explosion Of this enormous quantity of one
of the most powerful explosives used was
to produce a crater 800 feet long, IS feet
wide and 30 feet deep in soft ground /;
ing 100 pounds, the superficial explosion Of
this 90 tons Of explosive gelatin eXcaVated
about 10000 tons of soft earth. Besides
this there was a total destruction Of ali
buildings within a radius of 800 yards,
while from that distance to $50 yards all
the buildings were shattered and the roofs
were battered in up 10 about 1000 yards.
But all these buildings were built chiefly
Of corrugated iron and mud and therefore
were of a most unsubstantial character.
On the other hand. we have In the United
States the blowing up Of the Hudson river
palisades at Fort Lee in 1898, when the ex-
plosion Of two tons Of dynamite, placed in
chamber in the rock, brought down 100,-
900 tons Of rock; the blasting at the Dlnor-
vic quarries, Lamberis IN the same year,
when two and one-half tons of gelatin
dynamite placed in chambers Of the dixie
overthrow 10000 tons Of rock and the
destruction Of the famous Talcen Mawr,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

In 1895, when seven tons of powder poured
into two shafts dislodged a mass of rock
computed TO weigh from 125,000 to 200. 600
tons From this we find that the dyna-
mite on the interior al Fort Lee was over
forty times as efficient as the explosive
gelatin on the surface at Johannesburg,
while the powder at Talcen Mawr was
over forty-two times as efficient. Il is,
hence, not surprising that the superficial
explosion of the 300-pound charges of gun
cotton thrown by the Nesuvius' guns at
Santiago during the late war between the
United States and Spain produced no Sc
rious structural damage. and simply har-
assed the enemy by their frightful re-
ports, which occurred at infrequent inter
walls and unexpected times
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS

is due nor only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but
also to the care and skiliwith which
it is manufactured by scientific proc
esses known TO the CALIFoRYIA Fro
SYRUP Co. only, and we wish to inn
press upon all the Importance of pur-
chasing the true and original reme-
dy. AS the genuine Syrup of Figs is
manufactured by the CALIFORNIA
FIG SYRUP Co. only, knowledge of
that fact will assist one in avoiding
che worthless limitations manufact-
ured by other parties. The high
standing of the CALIFORNIA FIG
SYRUP Co. with the medical profess
sion, and the satisfaction which the
genuine Syrup of Figs has given to
millions of families, makes the name
of the Company guaranty of the ex-
ceilence of its remedy. 1t is far Ia adj
vance Of all other laxatives, as 1t acts
on the kidneys, liver and bowels
without irritating or weakening
them, and it does not grippe nor nau-
seate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name
OF che Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. M.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07
T0-DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast for Savannah and vicinity until
midnight Feb. Z. 1899: Clearing and
colder
Washington Forecast for Tuesday:
For Georgia: Clearing and colder; much
colder in extreme southeast portion; winds
becoming fresh to northwesterly.
For Eastern Florida: Rain in northern.
fair in southern portion; colder in extreme
northern portion; fresh southerly winds,
becoming northwesteriy in northern por-
ton.
For Western Florida: Clearing: much
colder; winds becoming fresh northwest
ery.
For South Carolina: Rain. followed by
clearing, except on the coast; colder; fresh
winds, becoming northwesterly.
General conditions: Rain is falling In
the interior of Georgia and North Carroll
ma and on the Atlantic coast from VIII
mington to Norfolk, while at Washington
aud Philadelphia snow is falling. Rain
is also falling in the Lower Mississippi
valley and snow in the Ohio valley at Gin
cinati and Pittsburg. In the west aud
Northwest generally clear weather pre-
walls, it is also clear on the Southeast
Atlantip-coast, while on the Gulf coast it
is cloudy.
The temperature continues high on the
Southeast Atlantic coast, while on the
North Atlantic the temperature changes
are slight. 1t continues cold in the West
and Northwest and in the lake region
The heaviest rainfall was at Augusta
2.76 inches.
Yesterdays Weather at Savannah
Maximum temperature, $3.50 p.m.S0 degrees
Minimum temperature, 8 a. M. 60 degrees
Mean temperature ................72 degrees
Normal temperature ..............5 81 degrees
Excess of temperature ............21 degrees
Accumulated excess since
RED ...'........ ...,,,......,...62 degrees
Accumulated excess since
jan. 1 ..........,. ..........s..... .48 degrees
Rdlhlah ...... ......... ............. Trace
Normal ......... .,........... ......... IL inch
Excess since Feb ................. .O5 inch
Excess since Jan. ................. .H inch
River Report-The hight of the Savan-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

HIVeT hepOTI-IHe night OF Inc 0aNan-
nah river at Augusta, at s a. m. C75th me
ridian time) yesterday. was POS feet, a rise
four hours.
Observa lions taken Feb. 6, 1899 8 p. IN.
Goth meridian tme) al the same moment
of time at all stations for the Morning
News:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

"Note--Minus sign indicates temperature
below zero.
1T, temperature; ~, velocity Of wind.
II. b. Boyer,
Observer, Weather Bureau
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

No money in advance. Weak.
stunted, shrunken and feeble
portions of the body quickly
enlarged and strengthened
Medicines and instrumer.
sent on trial. Medical il
dorsements. Particulars ser
in plain sealed letter Cor
respondence confidential
IL CO.. BUFFALO. ny.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

Col. Roosevelt has six children, the
eldest of whom, a daughter, was the child
of the colonel's first wife, a Miss Alice
Lee of Boston.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07

ERIE MEDICAL CO. BUFFALO MI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
UTAH's AKT INSTITUTE.

In the interest of artists. students and
patrons of art, and all persons through
out the state who are interested, an
Institute of Art has been established
with headquarters in this city.
There will be An annual art exhibit.
the first to be held next month, and
inducements will be offered to Utah ar
fists and to students of art in the state
to put their work on exhibition. This
will be an encouragement to all con-
cened, and an educator of the public
taste in this direction. In the various
lines of art. including art photography,
pictures and designs will be displayed.
and on the whole it promises to be an
interesting entertainment.
Another purpose of the institute is to
establish permanently state collection
of painting. sculpture. fabrics and fine
wares, acquired by donation. purchase
or otherwise. A course of public lee
lures on art to be delivered before the
state institutions of learning during the
year will constitute another excellent
feature OF the organization. The insti-
tute deserves the cooperation of all
artists and lovers of art in the state
and the encoura cement of the public in
general
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
On the Montenegrin Border.
(Church Gazette.)


This little line of stones marks the
limit between the great, heterogeneous,
moribund Austrian empire and the little
mountain region which has always re-
sisted the shark of barbarism and never
submitted 10 the yoke which half Europe
has hardly been able 10 resist. Before
Turkey and all the civilization OF the
middle ages has been impotent; Greece,
with all her traditions and her splendid
past, is impotent today, but this region
amid the bare, gray mountains, with her
simple boundary marked by a few nat
stones. has always kept herself unsub-
iugated by the cOnqueroT / cannot but
have a feeling of exaltation and reverence
as at length we enter Montenegro. Tnere
is, after all. no nation like this. Through
the centuries she has offered a dogged re-
sistance 10 the savage hOrdes OF oriental
barbarism, and her resistance has never
been overcome. Hail, and han again
noble and unconquered land. unique
among the nations of the earth, Njegoush.
the first Montenegrin village 1t is a poor
place though it is. the cradle of the reign
ing family: there are Few scattered cot
tages. with red roofs and without Chin
neys. The only picturesque thing here is
the dress of the people: the red jackets,
the embroidery, the blue breeches. We
draw up at mean roadside Inn The
landlord salutes us with exquisite breed
ing: tall. stately Montenegrin. with a
most gentle face, but bearing, as they all
do. weapons in his girdle; a man. doubt
less. gentle as a child In peace put dar-
ing to the death in time of war On again,
through the deSolate. uninhabited region,
till at last in the far distance We see
the lights of Cettinje-such giimmer;
stars amid the vastness of the mountain
region and the night. An hours journey
yet. and we reach our goal. Ii Is dark
now l see a street of low white houses
flourish we pun up at the door of the one
hotel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
HOW THE ROW BEGAN.

Our Anglicized Irish-American con-
temporary arraigns the Beers for the
crime of not waiting until the EQglsh
had filled South Africa with-t1oops be-
fore beginning a war made Inevitable
by England's refusal to arbitrate the
differences between the nations. 1t
says: THE preservation of their gov
errment was not threatened. The proof
is that no sufficient British force was
in South Africa or on the way to South
Africa to disturb the preservation of
their government until Dom Paul de-
liberately declared war;
1t is astonishing that any newspaper
printed in this country would give ut
terance to the astounding statement
that the Boer government was not
threatened. Mr.. Chamberlain's ulti-
matum to President Kruger peremptor-
lily repudiated the Transvaals claim to
national independence, rejected every
proposition to arbitrate the questions in
dispute and refused to consider the
Boer governments proposed alleviat-
ing measures.
The British demands have been grow
ing, and very naturally, but Dom Paul
summed the situation up very con-
cisely from his point of view when he
said:
First they took my coat; then my
trousers; now they want to take my in
dependence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17

present administration of catering to
contractors and trading mems lives for
political influence.
No less than a hundred times within
the past eighteen months the Tribune
has declared that this government is in
the hands of thieves and imbeciles, -
who deserve hanging for the manner in
which they have been riding rough
shod over the people and their sacred
rights
These are the politicians who are car
rying civilization and benevolent as
sanitation across the ocean 10 force it
upon the people OF. another continent.
And well may William Jennings Bryan
exclaim: When 1 find a man who is
tranpling the rights of the people here,
do not believe he is going across the
ocean to be good"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
FIGHTING FOR LAND.

Arnold White, in Harper's Weekly,
has a new theory concerning the war
in the Transvaal. He says that Eng
land is not fighting for franchise, nor
for gold mines; she fights for her i'm
perial life"
This seems a trifie far fetched. but
Mr.. White undertakes to explain his
position as follows: If Butler fails to
beat the Beers. India, Australia and
Canada Will take note that the queens
government has been driven from
South Africa by the adult population
of two petty states actually inferior in
numbers to the highly trained army
dispatched by 50,OO0.0O0 AngIo-Saxons
to accept the challenge of the Beers.
Australia, II the British are. beaten.
would become a republic or a series of
republics, since there would be neither
honor nor profit in belonging to the
British empire. Canada would probably
gravitate toward the United States for
the same reason, with a possible civil
war on racial lines, in which France
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-17
OUR URBAN POPULATION.

Notwithstanding the great rush for
the cities of late years it appears that
20 per cent of the population of this
country remains in the smaller cities,
in the towns and rural districts DIR.
Adna Ferrin Weber. fellow in econo-
mics and social science in Columbia
university. and deputy commissioner of
| labor statistics in New York state has
compiled volume of 500 pages giving
the statistics of city growth the world
over. showing that the proportion in
the United States is as stated
The immense area of this country.
the half developed natural resources.
the inadequacy of opportunities and
openings of the large cities make it
| impossible for an agricultural, mining
and grazing country to lose its bulk
of the population in the short time the
exodus from the farm to the city has
been going on.
Another matter DR.. Weber calls at
tention to is that "one-half the urban
population of the United States is IN
/ the North Atlantic states and four
fifths in the territory north of the Ohio
and Missouri rivers, a fact of con-
siderable political and economic signifi-
] canoe, and one that will help To explain
the results of election contests where
the economic interests of different COM
munities come into conflict
Several curious facts are brought out
For instance the statistician shows
that over SC, per cent of the city popu-
lation is concentrated in five states;
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts, Illinois. Ohio In the District of
Columbia, in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, New York and New Jersey
more than half the people live
in cities; twelve other states have
more than a quarter of their inhabit-
ants in cities: fifteen have more than
a tenth, and twelve, most Of them in
the south, have less than one-tenth
North Dakota, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona,
New Mexico. Oklahoma and Indian
Territory have no cities. Iowa has a
much smaller city population than the
surrounding states. and the Iowa peo-
pie believe that the growth Of their
cities has been checked by railway dis
crimi,fations which have favored Chi
cago. st. Louis. St. Paul and Omaha.
as against their own commercial cen
tiers.
But the rush to the cities has never
theless begun. Famines abroad and
good crops at home, renewed mining
activity, a demand for foodstuffs on
account of wars and necessities abroad
have revived interest in rural pursuits
to some extent, and yet the land is
filed with men who despaired of ever
accommodating a competency in the
country. Men have been going to the
cities for a quarter of century as
fast as they acquired fortunes outside,
and others have been fiockng to the
centers of population on account of
the opportunities presented for be-
coming suddenly rich through stock
speculation, real estate transactions
or by accident. The result is that while
our cities do not contain the proper
ton of population found in the cities
of England and Wales it is a fact that
the growth of the larger American
cities has been so much more rapid
than that of European cities that the
rush citywards in this country is go
ing on at an alarming pace.