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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
A ouriens postal sr.tsm.

Tn certain parts of Sweden, whers the most absolute confidence is reposed in the honesty Of the people. very in formal postal system is in vogue. Al the mail steamer reaches the landing place a man goes ashore with the let ters, which he places in an unlocked box on the pier Then the passer-by who expects letter opens the box. turns over the letters and selects hLa own. unquestioned by any ono.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
An unrratefuI Father.

Father-in-Law Look here, young man, don't you think it's about tima you were going to work. or do you ex' pect me to support you the rest of your life29
 son.in-Law-'I would be no more than just, after what I have done for you.
 Father -in-Law-eFd like to know what you ever did for me.
 Son Why didn't take your daughter off your hands?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
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 A RIg Sheet of Paper.

The largest sheet Of paper has be produced by an American firm. It| ninety-gIE inches wide, fourteen mt long and weighs over twenty-thr hundredweight This mammoth bu de of paper Is unbroken and witho a hole. The roll has been named Jumbo" and when it was being moved 1t required the united efforts
 twelve strong men to put it in | wagon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
spurnins sfoo.ooo n Year.

Says the London Christian Common wealth: Fred Charrington's temper ance badge costs him about f20,000 a year. At least this is about the income Re would have received had he suc- seeded to his fathers business, instead of going over to the temperance ranks. The work which he organized twenty. four years ago in tent meeting in Mile-end road, Bow, has grown stead fly. till now he has, in the great assem- bly hall, the largest mission hall in the world
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
HOME TESTIMONIALS:

Brazilian Balm cured me of inyeteTate arT which had years qod and the worst 0Tn of gPP h found Brazilian Brazilian Balm and thinks it did her much CA C1i of of hayfe M Cz q very deaf applied st the thing for dyspepsia Noofeg shall could foy4nson aged Cincinnati vas SO
  lying entirely permanently so+o ARD Sz A5z BE- JACKSON C Indianapolis Ind
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
lThe Best Remedy For Fiux.

Mr. John Matthias, well known stock dealer of PGlasKi. Ky. says: After suffering for over week with fiux. and nay physician having fail- ed to ,elieye me. was advised to try Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. and have the pleasure of stating that the half of one hottlecnred me" For sale by W. L. Dewoody X Go.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.


 A woman never forgiYes a maa for looking shabby himselg so she can spend more.
 A woman will love anything that she is with long enough. The proof of this is cats.
 When a woman puts her clothes on. shs dresses; but when she takes them off. she "disrobes."
 I wonder why girl always D4usnes so after she has said that thing was about the size of cigarette.
 Empty two quarts of dried peas in- to bass drum and trim up the outside with pink baby ribbon, and you have he average mans idea of his wiYe's 5 o'clock teas.-Nsw York Rresa.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
 Oh hG6rIuts

she-Ah, how heavenly! I always love Wagner so much. Where is the band located?
 He-Madam, that is not a band. The machine shop and blaming mill around the corner are merely running night turns, ewing to the revival of busi- ness.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
Bear Meat Kept rhreo Years.

Science of Cheesemaklng. There ard many branches of science that are in- tricate and very difficult to acquira and understood, and if there is ona more difficult than another the manua facture of cheese seems to be that one, When we consider the hidden powef Of rennet action, the active effect ol fermentation and bacterial infuencesl the varied unknown conditions ol milk as received at cheese factories and the intricate combinations that any ot all of these form to effect the final rel suit, We see the many difficulties tha cheesemaker must overcome. ID. Mi NePhpfsan
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25

mRM kHM& Y Remedies. Have cured OAOh OS many thousand cases
 called hopeless. In tem days at least two-thirds of all symptoms remov. ed. Testimonials and TEN DAYS treatment free. DR. H. H. GREEH's SoHS- Bo1 K. Atlanta. Ga
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
Why Sheen Have vol.

If you want to ask a sheep whera he got his wool and why, take q dos into a mountain pasture band, and fl the sheep are afraid of the dog they will invariably run uphill, rather than down. You have your answer. Ths ancestors of the domestic sheep, liks wild sheep Of the present day, lived among high mountains and needed their woolly covering to protect thenl against the constant cold of high att mospheres. They chose the high and inhospitable region. to live in because they found the fierce aesh-eating anil mals of the plains too strong for them. A proof of these facts is that wool grows on a sheep the year 'reand.-7 Chicago News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
Aftern atla.

"You married me for my money" What of it? You married me for my beauty"
 well, both securities have deprs- eiated. Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-25
Bismarck Had an Enormous nrat,


 1t has been estimated that Bf an&rck's brain was the heaviest
 gscord. At least that is the decisi1 of German anthropologist, He iudg from measurements of schafer,s b,d of the great chancellor that his bra1 must have weighed 1,867 gm. lover ounces). CuYier's brain weighed \ RI gm.;; Byron's. 1907 Rants. .651 schiller's. 1880, and Dante's 1 .420. Tl average for a Wellrbuilt European m is given as 1880 gm, 5Hj Condensed Milk The New YorI Commercial says the quantity of cod densed milk made in the United Stata is assuming immense proportions, anl yet the demand far exceeds tho sud ply. No accurate statistics are cd tainable, but the latest estimates givl an annual product of 100000 case4 about half of which is consumed d home. The remainder is exported anl the demand Is constantly increaslnd Japan, China, India and the HaWaiial Islands are large buyers while the pod abilities for extension of trade witl Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippinsl are attracting the attention of ship pers.--EK. 5ga9 zf9ee
 Bear Meat Kept rhfee Years. One of the interesting studies to perl sons who have never seen large quan| titles of game is a visit to a big coll storage plant where it Is stored. i'd one place in New York city there Id an old bear. as natural as when firsl killed, that has been in cold storaga for over three years. Every variety of wild game is represented in the bi ia cold storage plant. ~
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10

ly cut down the receipts of the Office of
district clerk, while the county clerks
still receive q satisfactory remunera-
ton for their services, it would be well
for the district clerks to take some
steps toward discovering . remedy for
the evil, and suggests q suitable means
would be for the district clerks to pre-
pare BILL and present it to the leois-
lsture taking away from the county
clerks Office the issuance of marriage
licenses and turning il over to the dis
trict clerk, increasing the latter's
salary, sadly depleted by the fee bill,
by $500 or even $500 year.
The Dallas term of the court of cri-
minal appeals will begin next Monday
and continue for three months. The
docket is long and exceedingly bloody.
The fifth assignment, which is made up
of cases which come from outside Of
the 100 counties in the Dallas district
has SO cases on it. OF these, 81 are for
mauslaughter and murder, the penal
ties range all the way from five years
in the penitentiary to death. W. A.
Hudson, clerk of the court, says this 10
the bloodest docket the court.has ever
had. He says that heretofore cases of
theft have largely outnumbered those
for any other offense. II is proper to
say in this connection that the number
of murder cases on appeal from the
counties in the Dallas district, is not
greater In proportion to other cases
than it has been In former years.
Times-Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
Ell PAso DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1899.

representative from that district, has
left for Austin to be present At the as
sem bling OF the legislature. He has a
bill already prepared, which he intends
to introduce, providing for the exter-
mination of the prairie dogs. He IL
armed with petitions from large num-
Der of citizens In this part of the coun-
try, asking the legislature to enact
SOME law that will bring about the ex-
termination of the pest.-Ex.
The great .Pecos Valley of Texas
embraces an area of thousands of
acressawaiting the practical investi-
CATION of far seeing capitalists all over
the world. The sturdy emigrant with
his covered wagon, his brawny arm
and his determined industry, is al
ready with US. and his com pauious will
soon follow by the hundreds. They
are cordially welcomed with all the
old time western hospitality. But as
q rule they have limited capital, and
their movements are necessarily slow
in developing the marvellous possibili-
ties of the country.-Pecos News.
The gallows has already been erect
ed on which must hang Fred Sawyer,
an old Dallas boy, who was convicted
of criminal assault some time ago on .
white woman at Ennis. The friends of
Sawyer have been unremitting in their
zeal to get the governor to interfere
aud commute the sentence to imprison-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
HER DEARFRIEND

ment for life, but up till now their eff
forts have been unavailiug. Sawyer
has all along stoutly, declared his in
nocsnce and it may yet be his good for
tune to get the governor to show him
mercy. Otherwise he will hang next
Friday at Waxahachie.-Week Ex-
press.
The sudden appearance of the Mis-
eouri, Kansas and Texas railroad
among the great through railroad svs-
TENS of the country, as the result OF
the sale of the Chicago and Alton rail-
road, marks an era in the develop
ment of the vast transportation prob
lens of the west and southwest, says
the Dallas News. From q situation
with reference to connecting lines
more or less restricted the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas railroad moves GU.
into trunk line prominence. 1t is OF
no small consequence to Texas that
the Rockefellers, Vauderbilts and
Harrimans have now joined with the
Goulds in adequately recognizing the
future of the section of which Texas is
q part.
District Clerk B. F. Ammonette, of
Denton, is sending out to district
clerks all over the state a circular let
ter. The letter states among other
things that since the fee bill has great
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
Tuesday night. No arrests have been


Here fs what the railroad commits
sion says to the county commissions in
regard to the assessment of railroad
property: 1.-THE railroad commission
has heretofore and is still ready to
furnish county officials such iuforma-
ton as it has to enable them to assess
railroad property at fair and reason
able valuation"
There Is some talk going the
regular rounds of the newspapers, also
among the Legislators, of a proposed
bill for the Observation-Disclosures asking for
lower rate of interest for Texas, says
the Pecos Valley News. 1t will be dis
approved by the money lenders, aud
will doubtless draw q hard fight from
that quarter.
The Aus lin Morning Statesman was
today pure nased from the present own
ers by com pauy having at its head
ex-State Treasurer w. B. Workman,
who announces he will direct the man
agement Of the plant. 1t is generally
understood that l.. S. Workman will be
managing editor and George w. Mac
donnell, now of the Tribune, will be
business manager. The terms of the
sale are private.-Dallas News.
Hon. John T. Tucker, of Abilene,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
! Neighb0r-
! hood Notes.
Texas.

The Texas Cannon announces that it
will advocate q change in the law,
msking all state and county elections
once In four years.
The Texas Cannon, published month
ly at Austin, Texas, is q new candi-
date for literary houors. The first
number has already been issued.
While pulling cotton from bale on
the square today, q large centipede,
fully nine inches long and quite lively,
was found. It was killed aud exhibit
ed by the cotton buy ers.-Dallas News.
1t cannot be urged that Texas is not
big enough to afford q new constitu-
tional garment. The old coat is ex-
posing some of our.poiuts on which we
can hardly pride ourselves.-Houston
Post.
Frank Daweon, the negro justice of
the peace of Giddings, Texas, who was
called to his door and shot about two
weeks ago, is reported to have died
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
A q. FOSTER,
JAS. e. HILL, r. D. D.,
Ralston Physical Culture and Move
ment Cure.

Consumption can be cured. Obesity. stom-
ach, Liver, and Kidney troubles and all cur
able diseases quickly and without drugs.
Terms $40 per course in class; $25 private In
struction and treatment. Gall and inveStf-
gate, 10 a.. to p. m. Ralston's Hall over
Watson's store, corner San Antonio and STAN
Treatment.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10

DAILY HERALD 15c. per week.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-10
Physician and Surgeon.
2l1H San Antonio st. FL Paso, Texas.
MRS. NORA BOOTHE,
Teacher of Phraslng, Harmony,
SIGHT Reading, and Plano. .

Will begin Monday, Jan. 49, 49, a class in the
above. share Of your patronage solicit
ed. Music Studio: Room Z. Turner Bid
San Antonio st.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18

"Far down on the Earth. do you hear them weep"
Said the children up in Heaven.
''For the dear little boy has gone to sleep,
The shadows fall and the high clouds sweep
Over the Earth we used to live in.
But we'll 60 and open the Gates of Joy,
o! Why do they weep for their dear little boya'
Said the children up in Heaven.
"Fly with him quickly oh angels dear!'
Said the children up in Heaven.
"See! lie is coming. Look there! Look there!
At the jasper light on his sunny hair
Where the yelling clouds are riven
oh! Hush, hush, hush The swift wings fold
For the King himself at the Gates Of Joy,
Is taking his hand dear, tired, little boy!
And leading him into Heaven ~
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18
Old Hickory's Charge.
BY TAROToP.l

81 reckon my grandfather would have
lived good deal longer than he did if had
never been BORN" observed Grandfather
Steptoe as he sat in his accustomed chair on
the verandah "my mschevous pranks on
the farm were source of great annoyance to
him. He has always saying that the vaca-
tions we're too long In vacation time he
would be counting the days to the beginning
of school, and in school time l would be
counting the days to the beginning of vaca.
ton"
didn't you love to go to school ?" asked
little Susie.
"Not when there was any fun to be had, :"
quickly responded the old man. 81 remem.
Der 1919 was a splendid harvest year.
staid around the farm as usual during the
long August vacation. My grandfather's
broad acres were smiling with the ripening
grain, and his orchards and vines were bend
ing under their burden of fruit. All the
farmers prospered that year. Peace and con.
tentment were everywhere-in fact, there was
such pressure of peace and contentment
that we boys couldn't stand it. Coachy
Johnson was my playmate. Coachy was not
his real name, but we called him that because
his father drove the stage coach. Coachy
said to me on one of those August after
moons: what 90 you say to hltchlng up Old
Hickory in the farm wagon and having a
ride? Now, my grandfather kept an awful
cross bull that he called Old Hickory, as he
had something of the dash and spirit of
Andrew Jackson. My grandfather being
away that afternoon, l fell right in with
Coachy's suggestion. First, we gathered a
lot of sorghum and threw it into the little
enclosure where Old Hickory stood. knew
he was gentle enough when eating sorghum.
he was feeding we brought in the wagon and
got the thlls over his back all right, though
they pinched him pretty tight We tied him
in with straps and ropes, and then fastened
two long ropes to his horns for reins. Coachy
took one rope and the other, and we jumped
into the wagon. Old Hickory had finished
feeding by this time and, seeing the bars
down, walked out into the road then he
began to paw the ground and snort, but soon
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18
From the Other Side of the Gates of Joy

DEDICATED TO THE BEREAvED PARENTS.
r"Oh, what do you think the angels say7'
Said the children up in Heaven!
"Theres dear little boy coming home to-day
He's almost ready to fly away
From the earth we used to live in.
Let IS 60 and open the Gates of Joy,
Open them wide for this dear little boy"
Said the children up in Heaven.
'"God wanted him here, where His little meet,
Said the children up in Heaven.
"He shall play with US in the Golden Street
tie had grown too far-he had grown too sweet
For the earth we used to live in.
He needed the sunshine this dear little boy
That gilds this side of the Gates of Joy!"
Said the children up in Heaven.
$50 the King called down from the angels DOME"
Said the children up in Heaven
INV little darling, arise and come
To the place prepared in the Fathers Home,
The Home that my children live in"
"Let 8 70 and watch at the Gates of Joy,
Ready to welcome the dear little boy"
Said the children up in Heaven,
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18
OTHMAR WARD BARTLETT.
THE SUNSHINE OF KING STREET.

The dawnng of Saturday, November 18th,
saw the taking away from that portion of
King street, between Alapai and Thomas
Square, one Of the sweetest and clevcrest
children it has been the good fortune of any
neighborhood to possess.
Little Othmar was known to all alike, be
they neighbors or strangers, and one of the
happiest and brightest of children.
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18

hadn't gone more than forty rods before we
saw peddler with an immense pack on his
back coming along. thought the bull would
stop and want to turn round, as some horses
will do when they see thing like that in the
road. But Old Hickory was no horse; he
started straight for the man. Say, never
saw anybody get over rail fence as quick as
that peddler did, pack and all. The bull was
making for the fence. Keep him in the
road shouted to Coachy, and had no
sooner said it than the nigh front wheel went
into the ditch and lay sprawling on pile
of stones. Coachy was pulled from his seat
to the ground, but not hurt bit. was all
bruises. Old Hickory butted the fence once
or twice and then, with head down and tail
up, took fresh start for the village. When
he got there the wagon was smashed to
pieces, and nothing stuck to him but the
thllls and the reins. One wheel got hung up
on the limb of a tree somehow or other. How
village! He upset everything he went
against. reckon that community hadn't
had such shaking up since the British came
over, in 1918. Everybody yelled stop him
but nobody undertook the job. After terror.
izing the villagers, he took to the turnpike,
and not till he had passed the two-mile
watering trough in cloud of dust did they
feel relieved. AS my grandfather was ex-
pected back that evening knew there would
be some excitement at home, so concluded
to stay away till it subsidized. I went home
with Coachy and stopped at his house three
days. Then went hobbling to the farm.
My grandmother took pity on me and fixed up
my injuries, but my grandfather seemed to
feel real sorry that I hadn't broken my neck.
The next thing was to advertise for Old
Hickory. First, a notice was put into the
village paper, and then it was ordered to be
placed in every paper in the Western Reserve.
My grandfather also pasted posters on fences,
pumps and barns within a radius of thirty
miles. reckon every man, woman and
child in the county knew the age, size, spots,
and general characteristics of my grand
fathers bull by heart. The old gentleman
disliked going down to the village after that
because every man he met would ask him:
Have you found your bull yet, Steptoe?'
About month after the unpleasantness he
rushed into the house one day, shouting,
odd Hickory's coming back!' He had got
a letter from man way over in Indiana,
saying he had caught the bull and was going
to send him back by one of his farm hands.
You have heard of people weeping for joy.
WE'LL that's the way the whole family felt
then. That evening my grandfather talked
very pleasantly to me. He was always
kind man when things went his way. Just a
week from that time strange man drove up
to the barn with Old Hickory tied to his
carts tall We scarcely knew him. He
was as thin as one of these tramway horses
here, and as meek as a sheep. well, Old
Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-18

There was not stranger or tourist pass
ing who did not have kindly word to say
for the youngster, and at the Makee Island
concerts and at Waikiki Inn, he was the
most petted of all the children.
In the taking away of this dear child the
light of their eyes.
Othmar was born at Ilaniwai, Waikiki, on
August 20, 1895, thus making him years, 2
months and IL days old.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-26
A Soldiers Lament.

Manila, p. L, Nov. 27-Here is a
sample OF Manila poetry. taken from
the newspaper edited by soldiers
and called Uncle Sam" for which
it was written by F G. Fisher of
the Third Artillery:
There's hollow in my carcass,
Just above my cartridge belt,
There's warming contract pork can
never take;
And in memory L look backward
To the days before the war,
And the pumpkin pies my mother
used to make.
The bugle's blowing mess call,
And the boys are lining up.
Every fellow with his tin cup and his
plate;
Id give the whole caboodle
That the cooks got in his shack
For those pumpkin pies that mother
used to make.
Some nights when am doing guard
Ana walk my lonely beat,
think this army life is all fake:
Ia swap my share of glory,
And every button on my coat.
For one pumpkin pie like mother
used to make.
Some of the boys can only talk
About their absent girls,
But it's mighty little stock in that l
take,
And l do a heap o thinking
Every time the mess call blows
OF those pumpkin pies that mother
used 10 make.
When this cruel war j. over.
And I am home again,
l tell you l wouldn't take a good big
stake
For my first hours operations.
With s knife and fork, and snoon
On those pumpkin pies that mother
used 10 make.
-ED. L. KEEN.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-26
NO HOPE FOR ARMY BILL.
Senator Jones Declares Its Friends Are in
the Minority.

Senator Jones Declares Its Friends Are in
the Minority.
Washington, d. G, Jan. 19.-
Senator James X. Jones of Arkansas,
chairman of the national democratic
executive committee, in an interview
to day gave out positive inforna
ton that the Hull bill to reorgauize
the army could not possibly pass
the senate.
Senator Jones says that no bill
for reorganization of the army on
permanent basis has the slightest
chance of passing the senate at this
session aud it IL therefore utterly
useless, as Mr.. hull aud his friends
know. to send a bill providing for a
regular army of 100000 men to the
senate
The frieads of the bill in the
senate are in a minority" said Sena
tor Jones, land even If they were in
the majority the opponents of such
q measure under the rules of the
senate would certainly talk it to an
untimely finish if it took until the
4th of March"
Senator Jones says that be himself
is in favor of the reorganization of
the line and staff officers. but would
not now vote for bill permanently
Increasing the army beyond the
present number