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FROM TIE PLANTATION.
S. c. Alexander & Co.'S. Cotton L.t-
 ter to Eastern Correspondents.

Pine Bluff, April, 8.-Yery little cottvn now remains on plantations throughout the river and bottom country and none at all in the hills.
 Farm work ot all kinds is mere backward than for years past. and April finds planters repairing fenc- es, breaking down cotton and corn
 stalks and dolng work that Is usua,- ly done in January and Feordary. Everything points to a bad start this year; continuous bad weather
 has caused general damage to the
 seed, and in the opinion of farmers with whom we have talked on the subject this will result in bad stands. Supply merchants are not eager for
 business: they feel discouraged at the outlook and are contracting their business in the s4pply lipe as m lch as possible. Most of our mer. chants are still behind with collec- tions and are trying to close up ac- counts now that should have been settled in October and November.
 The farmers themselves oe course feel blue, and several who usually plant cotton largely have expressed to us the determination not to plant bale ot cotton tlis year; we thlnF
 that 10 per cent will prove to be a very conservative estimate for the reduction in this State; we believe that it will be more than this for the reasons given above and the further fact that the weather continues un- favorable; labor is not plentiful and it will be simply impossible to prop erlY prepare the ground and plant as much cotton as put in last year.
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LIEUT.. MORGAN.

First Lieutenant Stokley Morgan, of the Flagship Olympia, and who was h tae battle Of Manila, will be in Pine Bluff Monday. He is now on furlough, beng the guest of his father and family at Camden. He will be the guest of Mr. Jeff Hicks while Tn our midst. Lieut.. Morgan IS son of Col, Asa $. Morgan, of Camden, who is well and favorabIy known throughout the State.
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WANTS BACHELORS TO RE
 ELECT.

Say, now, you bachelors, when you are comfortably seated in your room this evening and are enjoying 8 smoke, just take a few minutes in which to think of what it means for one to do what you are doing. You are the end of line of decent run hing back into the ages, for how lol.g a period no one knows, but, to say the least, for great many cen- turies. Like the links of a chain your ancestry traces itself back through generation after generation, and here you are at thls end of the chain. You are the last Ink. Are you gong to eLd this cham with yourself? Are you gou going to be the last link in chain which might go down through the centuries? Serious thing, my bachelor friend, to be responsible for ending a chain that has taken millions of years to make thus far.
 Change your position in your
 easy chair, take another puff at the fragrant cigar, and think some more. Just follow out in theory for all men the practice of your own life, and see what it would lead to in fifty years. You know this earth swallows her population more than twice in a century, and f all these married fellows on whom you be- stow your selfish sympathy had done the same that you are doing there would be but few people left at the end Of fifty years. Streets would become almost depopulated, the ways of commerce would be grass grown, and even the hotels and fashionable boarding houses would no longer have the ranks of bache- .er-as~- Iron a-.ca to. rs:cu:t
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DIED.

KELLY-At Grady, Ark, Friday night, April ', 1899, Donnie Kelly. the six year old step son Of Mr. Fred Wood.
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Mrs. Henry Cook anu :. have been the guests U this city for the past se's, .,.| left for their homeiin 'iN uTday.
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Charley Parker, a son carpenter, was locked up4 thorities here Saturday oA' of carnal abuse. The v. his arrest WAS sworn ou' Smith. of his city.
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Miss Mary Lindsey lS Y ' her home on Lakeside. :" her speedy recovery.

Mir. L E. Jeannin, w'V very ill for the past two 6 entirely recovered and c'' seen at his duties.
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Thereis no hope for the recovery Of Miss Lillian Reed, who is danger ously Ill with congestion at her AoEns oA North Na.RasA.1ssF,
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failure, for, brought into o.. with marriage, it is 2 s4' ,.s the per cent Of scienti6o bs ~ which fail to be sapporta1g ther research is greater Y ' per cent. of failures to a.s ness in marriage; but yos that scientific research b.'. told blessings to hunapi,s respect the scientists. F. theology a failure, for tb, :, it's statements to stand x. time is greater than the x, find joy in married life. ba. N lieve iD theology. So, i, science of medicine is much a failure than marriage is. to experiments of medical m., are fifty failures in the ena, cure patients to one faiIurs endeavor to find happina,s ,. ried life; but if taken si.s' glad to have the doctors ssii you.
 But while businegs failv,.. ply, scien tifc conleeture, wane, religious creeds toa. medical msn fall to do ! what they attempt to do ,.f age with but a small per- failures goes or to bless tb, and to afford to man 3 M love to which he can fee VI, ures in his various pursuit, him heart-sad. No, yoo M take a wrong view wien \ marriage IS a failure, for tb5I ness in the homes of marrbiI forms the larger part of b,l on this earth.
 Stop a thousand men ua street this week and ask \ they are ready to give v| faithful and devoted wives sl Then stop a thousand Won| ask them if they are readI up the men who as loving bI protect tfem, and who as ii fathers provide for their cl Look int to thousands of hE Christmas Eve, when faa mothers, with faces full 0 stuffing the stockings of tb5 ing children, and ask them age $ a failure? Ask the B of toiIers on their way iE week to be greeted py tr1 wives and merry children age is a failure? Stand atE grave and see the tears couH the cheek because a hus0E wife has crossed the mf river and left a heart deaR ask if marriage is a failuF you will find the opinion of majority of the people to
 is not a failure, and you i millions of hearts oratcfulR in a world of toll, of care ness. of sorrow. there is su stitution as marriage, and ,. thing as that loYe Whia shares another's care a
 abroad in another's life thu < purest joy. k
 Go on through life in sil you choose. Refuse to s
 responsibilities of he fOn'
 your money for your oHn
 tion. Travel your round H pleasure. Grow old aDd n'N the love of wife and chlld " the years come and go reH is not in marriage where
 lies, but rather in the sIl B, that help 10 stop the flow N lions, the lives that ne
 the lesson of sharing thell loved wife and children,
 bachelor friends, lies the '.
 no Q.
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5emi- IGlccRlp 6rapbtc,
COTTOA BELT NOTES.
Happenings, Personal and General
 During Last Week.

Six new headlights are being Dult in the tin department.
 Engine 1I3 is now receiving new jacket made of planased iron.
 The machinery in the tool room has been painted q pretty white. Engine 200 is now in the round house receiving new set. of eyeliu- ders.
 MT. II. M.Doty has been appointed travelfnR engineer Of this entire sgs- tem.
 Mr. Beui. Brickhous', q machiniss here. Is confined to his home with fever.
 The freight traffic on the south end has been aourishing for the pa z week.
 A large swinging craue has been erected in the blacksmith depart- ment.
 The siiap boys were given one hour to vote on election day, from to 6 o'clock
 Quite q number of boys here at- tendJd the O. E. C. hall in Jonesboro last Tuesday night.
 Conductor Chas. Q. Harris has re turned to Maiden, Mo-, after few days visit in our city.
 Mir. Arthur StaiDback has resumed his duties Tt the shops after an ill- ness of several days.
 Mir. Mack Hunter, Of the tin and copper department. is spending a few days at Shreveport.
 Mir. Beno Altheimer is now the efficient stenozranher in Master Mechanic Galbraith's office.
 Mr. Arthur Deraux, young black smith who left here some month q ago for Kentucky where he Intended making his future home. has return ed and can again be seen at bis fire in tue blacksmith department.
 Material has been ordered for another new engine, which will be built in the boiler department.
 Mr. Morris Brown. of Jonesboro hns accepted a position in the black smith department at these shops.
 The Altheimer passenger train is now equipped with all the latest inn provements, and the coaches are all rev.
 Mir. c. H. Travers, a distinguished Cotton Belt agent at Birds Point, Mo-, has returned home after short visit here.
 Mir. Frank ScoonoYer. chief stenog- rapher in the superintendent office, has eturned from brief trip 10 Memphis.
 Mr. John Davis, who was called to Mobile last week on account of the death of his brother, uill re- turn home today.
 Mir, George Opel has resumed his duties in the tin department after several days visit to his horle in Marshall. Texas.
 Mir. Chas. Nelson, a machinist who worked several months ago at these shops, was here last week shaking hands with his many friends.
 Mir. Elliott McDanieis, who has been Hctiog as 7oad clerk in the sup erintendent's office, has returned to his old home at New Lewisyille.
 Mir. Jim Numy has returned from lengthy trip to Big Springs. Tex. and has accepted position as blacksmith at these shops.
 The work in the blacksmith de- partment is very rushing and two new forges have been added.
 This road intends to run an exeur- sion to Galveston, Texas, in the near future. and if they do we pre-. dict large crowd out of thls city.
 Mir. Walter Sellers, formerly or this place but low !w:th the Arkansas and Louisiana road, was spending a few days here last week. with hls family.
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guests. You are helping to check the flow of humanity. aud if all otn. CT men initiated your course this old mother earth would be upon the market for rent ia 1899, if not be- fore.
 SINGLE MEN LACK COURAGE.
 Take another puff at the cigar aud use your gray matter little more. Be honest now. Is it just thing to allow these women, who, with a wealth of love, wait to bless mans heart and home, to go on toiling separately and waiting in vaiu? Has it occurred to you that there is another kind of courage beside that shown at Manila? Has it occurred to you that it is a manly thing for one to take wife t0 love and to protect? Has it occurred to you that society cannot afford to lose it's home fife and that old bachelors are rot the kiad of material out of whie1 homes a.e made? Alter all, the man with the tic cpaiI is ten times more of a man than you are. He shares the strength O. his arm ard the love of h1s heart with a wife and children. Hels a colaborer sin the cause of humanity and you are not.
 "IfI marry shall have to give up living in my present style and l shall .ose lots of good times" That is it. Doesn't the selfshress show clearly enough in these words? True, you would give up some things, but you would gain more, Farmers have Q practice of giving up large quantities of seed, but they fod it a paying inves tment.
 Now you are free to go where you please. You have your surplus money to spend on cigars, the dra- ma, and upon anything which takes your fancy. You can pass the time very pleasantly with the young la dies who enjoy your company, but who probably entertain the idea that in your atten tions to them you mean more thaa to while away your time in gossip. Yes, in this bacbe- Tor fife of yours you rid yourself of . great many cares, too.
 But are you living? Is it living to spend your life at a hotel or to gayIY pass your evenings at the club? Is it living to go on through life and not to know the joy of a home of your own2 Is il living to have no wife aud children in whom to find happiness2
 WHERE HAPPINESS IS FOUND
 Whats that? Marriage IS a failure. <" Lots of divorces, you say? Pardon me, marriage is not a failure. 1 challenge any mar to show that it is, Statistics contra dict it. Happy homes give it the lie. Marriage is one of the greatest of successes. It can be said without fear of successful contradiction that tEe majority of married people get more joy out of their married life than they do from anything else on earth. Marriage failure? By no means. Far, very far, from it. You bachelors rotice particularly the divorce cases of which you read, you select the articles written against marriage, and as support to your argument against the married life you point out those homes in which there is unhappiness. But you are in the wrong. You can as truly say that web of cloth is failure be- cause of one broken thread h it's long stretch of yards as to say that these exceptional cases of uahappi- ness and divorce prove that mar ried life, taken as whole, is fail- are
 Fix your minds eye upon the di- vorces which have been allowed in this cnnntru cllrirnt tla ,ann4
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Nox Scores the Bachelors
 For Not Marrying

fCopyrighted 1899, by Charlz Nox Press Blu
 reau.
 New York, April 3 As between the man who, with dinner pail in hand, goes to hard labor every day and earns the money with which to support his humble home where wife and children are, ard the sing,e man whose dollars are used only for him self. I confess I have vastly more respect for the common toiler with his pail
 There is a great deal of selfshness under the skin of some of these bachelors. They pride themselves that they know how to win the game of life. Comfortably housed in a hotel, or with a private family, with niles for all the girls and heart for none, these man look with feel. ings of self satisfaction and of sym pathy at other men whom they call the unfortunate victims of the mat rimonial trap.
 "He's caught, is be?a tbey say, when announcement is made that an acquaintance is about 10 be married. Then these self-contented creatures attend the wedding feast, laugh, chat and eat, and % back to their baekeior apartments congratulating themselves that they are SC much wiser than he majority of their fellows, and smile as they think of their friend who has been caught in the whirlpool Of sentiment hav- ing soon to begin to cartail expens- es, and not being abe any longer to keep up his end with the rest of the boys. On, these shirks of the re- responsibilities of the hsme These towards in the race ot llfel These fellows who are helping to take the foundation stones out of the home fife! Reared within the walls of their own home, cered for by loving parents who themselves bore the re- responsibilities oi a home, these men refuse to pay the debt which tsey owe to humanity.
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guests. You are helping to check the flow Of humanity. aud fl all otn. CT men initiated your course this old mother earth would be upon the market for rent ia 1899, if not be- fore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23

painfully. for a spring and fell into the
river. The spectator held out a stick TO
the dog, but he turned away, and without
a struggle was washed rapidly down
stream.
The deliberate suicide of a valuable New
foundland belonging to a solicitor at Holm
firth is recorded in Jesse's Anecdotes of
Dogs" This dog seemed causelessly mel
ancholy, and tried to drown himself sew
eral times, but was rescued. AT last he,
too, kept his head under water till he died
of suffocation. A Mr. Nicol told Mr.. Jesse
that he had seen a foxhound drown himself
was ready to make oath of the fact.
George Jesse, in Researches gives an
account of a small Havana dog who
drowned himself at Honfieur
T. p. Cobbe tells the following story,
vouched for by a friend: "A very old New
foundland, the constant companion of the
children, and of invariably good temper,
was one day sleeping, when little girl, to
rouse him, gave him a chtld's kick The
dog started from his sleep and seized the
small leg with his teeth. but not sharply
enough to do any harm. The nurse, how
ever, ran up and beat him with her hand
kerchief, soolding him and telling him he
should not go with them for their walk,
and when he tried to follow she shut the
gate against him. Not long after groom
saw the dog trying to drown himself In a
ditoh and pulled him out, shutting him up
afterward in q yard. That day and tho
next he refused all food, but escaped to the
same ditch, where he was eventually found
drowned"
Nearly all records of canine suicides have
to do with drowning. but the last history
and some others-where dogs have been in
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DOG SUICIDES.
Death by Drowning and Starvation
Deliberately Chosen by CANNES.

Death by Drowning and Starvation
Deliberately Chosen by CANNES.
From the London News.
The papers report that dog committed
suicide the other day in the Lake of Como.
He was determined to end his life, for a
man pulled him out when the big dog was
half drowned, and drove him away from
the water. The dog was very handsome,
and the man had been admiring him as the
animal stood gazing into the water. To see
what further might happen, the spectator
returned to the lakes brink, and soon the
dog was back again and in the water, his
head resolutely kept beneath the surface.
Again his admirer pulled him to shore and
made him run off inland, the man returning
to his post of observation, whence, later, he
heard distant splash and recognized the
dogs back. The poor fellow was swimming
fast away from shore. his head. as before,
held under water His rescuer jumped int o
a boat and pulled hard for where the dog
was struggling, but was, to his sorrow, too
late. The lifeless body already loated On
the water. An autopsy proved that the fine
animal was healthy in every organ, and
It was subsequently surmised that the
rash act" must have had a moral
cause.
Clearly, the dog must have been unhappy
and tired of life. Canine suicides have
long been chronicled. About thirty years
ago a wretched old dog was turned from a
thankless masters door. The poor brute
sought shelter in another house. and on
being driven away was seen to stand gaz-
ing at the rapid waters of the Loire. He
lifted himself at last. slowly and evidently
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deep grief for masters death-sbow n
deliberate intention to die by starvation
Inc author of that more than delightful
volume, False Beasts and True" com
hehts thus on some of the cases abova
cited; 1t is hard to resist the conclusion
that If these tales be true the creatt1res
who thus acted both knew what death is
and We're also able deliberately 10 dec,de
tnat Inc snort pain of death was better
than a prolonged one of a miserahla ltFo
Even supposng the dog, however 10 nos
sess the very high mental faculties needed
kor such an argument, the further mani
festation of deliberate will nowerT,,I
enough TO conquer the natural cIinging TO
lie OF all creatures. and TO make the amt
mai resolutely keep his head under water
when few strokes of his paws would save
MIN, IS most amazing" Elsewhere rbis
true cog lover says: las thought is still
thought, IN. whatsoever brain ii is carried
on, ana love is love In every breast which
beats with emotion. we are justified in as
suinlHg mat there is real correspondence
between the mental processes and feelings
OF animals and our own"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-23

In millions of homes Dents Toothache Gum ls n
welcome remedy. Druggists. l5c.
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Consressman Harmer III.

Representative Alfred c. Harmer of Ger
mantown, Pa, who has represented the
fifth congressional district In Congress for
thirty years continuously, with the excep-
ton of one term, is very seriously Ill at
his home from an acute attack of kidney
trouble, with which he was seized on Fri
day night.
1t is stated by his physician that he is
in critical condition.
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MethOd in His Madness

From the Chicagn News
NO.. said the naughty maiden. your
pleadings are useless; do not care to even
talk to you"
i know you DON'T" replied the rejected
suitor, and that is my principal reason
for wanting to marry you"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-02
keNxesEc DISTRICT LODGE.
Good IempIars Held Meetings in Colder
Cross Nall. Wednesday.

/ The Kennebec District Lodge. I. o.
G.. T., was held in this city, Wednesday,
the meetings being held in Golden Cross
hall. The meeting was a good one. a
large number of the members of seven
lodges of the county being present. AT
the morning session the committee on
credentials found "A delegates and 20
alternates present. Twenty.one took
the District Lodge degree.
The following was the choice of the
officers for the ensuing year: District
Templar. H. w. Hunt: d. c.. H. c. Nor
riss: d. V II. Mrs. Asa Libby; d.
Chap. Rev c.. II. Purinton: d. S..
Jennie m. Gerry. D.. A. S.. W.. H..
Hutchins: d. T.. T. w. Longley: d. NJ,
Joseph Dunton; d. d. NJ, Edith Colt:
d. G.. Alvin Bangs: d. S.. Eddie Knight
d. p. c. r.. f. w. Lewis.
The visiting members were given a
dinner and supper in the banquet hall
this city.
A public meeting was held in the
evening with a good attendance. The
following programme was carried out:
Piano Solo, Miss Jennie Gerry
PRAYER Rev. MIR. Shapmdn
Address of Welcome, Percy Hayes
Response. ~ Rev. j. NJ. Bunum
Vocal Solos.
Ii. l.. Merrill and Miss Landers
Addresses by Mrs. Munson. the G. S.
j. r. of Maine. A. S. Bisbee. Rex. A. S.
, Laid. Rev. Mr.. Munson. J. H. Hamil-
ton. Grand Chief Templar Grant Rog-
ers and Rev. A. J. Wheeler.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-02
Hon. and Mrs. !. :. nim'. Second Reception

Hon. and Mrs j. F. Hill entertained
the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives living in all but the LIST and
End Districts. Wednesday evening.
these latter gentlemen having been en-
tertained the previous evening with the
senators. The evening was as pleasantly
passed as by those who attended the
first evenings reception. The State
officials and their ladies as well as a
few prominent citizens were among
those who made up the party
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Change Takes Place.

my nerves were weak and i could
not sleep. l was also troubled with
neuralgia. felt tired all the time.
and food caused distress. After l be-
gan taking Hoods Sarsaparilla l could
eat and sleep, my nerves were stronger
and my health better" Mrs. Charles
f. Cole, Cornish. Maine.