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The Broken Heart.

(An old FavoIitel Now lock ny chamber door, father, And say you left me sleeping: But never tell my step-mother Of all this b tier weeping. No earthly s,eep can ease my smart, Or even awhile rel rieve 1t; For there's pang at my young heart That never more can leave it! Oh, let me lie, and weep my fill Der wounds that heal can never. And oh, kiud heavenl were it thy will, To close my eyes far ever. For how can maids affections dear Recall her lcVe mistaken? Or how can heart of maiden bear To know that heart forsaken! Oh. why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow To one who loved as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow! The look of seorp l cannot brave,
 Nor pity's eye more dreary quiet sleep within the grave
 Is all for which I weary! Farewell. dear Yarrow's mountains
 green,
 And banks of broom se yellow. Too happy has this bosom beea \ Within your arbors mellow. That happiness is fled for ay. | And ali is dark despondinE- Save in the opening gates of day.
 And the dear home beyond thesss 8# -Ho&k.
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.a,nr. on Indes Flnger.

Rings never were more fashionable and if is the latest fashion to wear a ring on the index finger, and this IS quite as awkward as wearing a circlet of jewels on the thumb. The ring mos s,o approved at present to wear on the index finger is large and costly Il consists of ruby surrounded "ltn diamonds. An emerald set in thls same fashion is also in vogue. Wom- en of fashion are also wearing curious ancient rings. many of which cover three fingers. after the style or MFs' wackev and her s27,OOo ring.
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 The cashier Of thriving bank in big western town was doing the talk ing.
 When l began my career in the banking business, he said. "it was in an old established bank in an Ohio city to which my father had been elected president. We didn't live in the town until his election, and moved there wien he took charge After a.Gat nnths' experience I was maoe ant receiving teller, and be- tween tl and my youth, and the fact that m her was president. guess was about four sizes too large for the earth But 1 got over it, and one day when there was a luil and the re- ceiving teller had gone across the street to look after q check that he had taken I popped up to the window and took my first lesson. A rough looking old fellow came that thought was farmer from Hayville. He came straight for me, and said he wanted to deposit some money, It wasn't my business to undertake new customer, but l thought l knew it all, and began to talk to him. He said that he wanted to deposit a cent that day, but had more. Well. gave him the ha ha then and there and told him to run around to the Dime Savings bank and become depositor on the installment plan. also said some more funny things, and after I had had all ths fun there was, he said that while he wish ed to deposit only a cent that day, he would put in two cents next day, and four next, and so on for four weeks. I gave him the laugh again, and told him we really couldn't do small busi- ness like that, and be must be good boy and run along to the penny ante bank around the corner. Then he went away, and I was still laughing when ! the receiving teller came back.
 "I told him what was making me smile, and he looked at me kind of funny, l thought, and went to figuring on sheet of paper without further comment. Presently he handed the paper over to me That old fellow, l he said, is q millionaire. whose bust- ness we have been after for year. Those figures will show you that what you consider is a penny ante bank business would have amounted to something over s2l0.O0O in the four weeks. or 24 banking days, during which he wished to deposit his money. He's a crank, but he's got the cash, all the same. and we want him. Just what effect your able funny business has had upon him 1 can't say. but suppose you go and talk to your father about it. or dc you want me to report it to the cashier and let him see the president?'
 T had cold ehills and collapse and q lot more things during the next five minutes, and then I mustered up cour. age and went to my father with the story. He promptly reduced me to tht ranks and cut my salary 10 per cent and learned a whole lot in the next six months, by which time we had tht old fellow all right. and I was mad, assistant again but ] wasn't the sam. kind of one by good deal"
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How Flilan Clock. Are Made.

The Fipian clock is rather curios- itv: it is made from a hollowed tree trunk, something after the shape of a canoe. This is placed on the grounde x in the center of the towns. At o'clock few sharp strokes upon this hollow trunk with wooden club at- tract the attention, then twelve slow, loud strokes are given. This takes place every hour, the right number of strokes being given. The sound can be heard from one side of the harbor to another.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18
Eour Famous statues.

The most famous statues in history are the Colossus of Rhodes, the Sphinx and the vocal statue of Memnon at Thebes, and of these the last is the most remarkable, in consequence of it's property of emitting sounds when it's lips were touched by the rays of the rising sun so that it seemed to greet the coming day. It was originally 8 portrait model of King Amenophis III, and was one of a pair of statues be- tween sixty and seventy feet high, carved out of single blocks of sand stone and transported from the quar- ries to Thebes, whereas the Sphinx was carved from the living rock in the place where it now stands.
 Of statues not so well known the most remarkable is that of Bu'dha at Nara, ear Kioto, in Japan, which was erected A. D. HOO. It is made of bronze, and is fifty-three feet six inches high and more than twenty eight feet broad across the shoulders. On it's head are 966 eurls, and the i'm age is surrounded by a glory or halo seventy-eight feet in diameter, on which sixteen images eight feet long are cast. Two smaller images, each twenty-five feet high, stand in front of the larger one. The total weight of metal in the main figure is about 450 tons, of which 800 pounds consist of gold
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

Nurse-"Ncw. Miss Fife, you must be very kind to your sisters little baby and love her very much"
 Fife (much hurt)-"No, I won't. It's too bad. Father calls baby his blessed grandchild. and only calls me his little Fife. Why, I'm five times the size of that mite!"-Judy.
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ARKANS AS RIVER PACKET co

SD N0WLAND, RFes' Q Ven. hhkE'.
 6. F. PHILPoT General AgeEl Boat Leaves Memphis every Tues day at , p. III
 Boat leaves Pine Bluff every Fri day at ll g. m.
 We make lowest rates from and to allpoints.
 Telephone NJ. e8.nor general.in rmation,
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Professional.

nk. c. D, SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon and U Dentist treats all diseases of domestic animals. Office at Brewster's Stable. Teie Lhone, old 4; new 129
 All Calls Night and Dav
 Answered Promptly.
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P erfect Content

is bound to be yours when you get ieside of one of our taultlessly laundered collars, cuffs or shirt. The color and finish are exquisite, There are no frayed edges or torn button holes to annoy you from any work done at this up-to-date laundry.
 HMERICHN-E EXCELSIOR
 Laundry Go.
 ats t1aest narraous St.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

Pmff City Lumber Co, m manufactur- e, and dealer in all kinds of lumber. also sashes, doors, blinds, and all kinds of ipteIior and exterior finish Everything it reasonable prices.
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REMIT WITH ORDER.

Rules or Measurement. Breast measure over vest close up under arms.
 Waist measure over pants at waist.
 Inside leg measure from crotch to heel.
 Send these measurements with yOur order.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

soue to waco, Texas. where they
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

1FRsoNs visiting Hot springs can secure secure E good private board close co pam h9usss at reasonable rates by applying to Rev. !, A. Dickson. l0f Wilmington ave. 491
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to all reDt c0IieeFissns placehs ..a.. -.-- :.
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ron RENT -Hease No. go Walnut street
 r situated between tue two railroads. ef1s up r. M. Bridges. new phguc No. ilo, ai
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TFOR SALE Two wheels si5 each; horse rss BarraQue street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

rOR RHNT-House No 900 West 3nd aye- F nues bath room. eistern water Wefhss Sc. Apply to Mrs. L. Moore. 90 fth avenue old phone 2bs. h
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CTRAYED--One large dapple-grey saddle - mare Finder will please return same Co Brewster X Hensleeis livery stable an re- eeive pay for trouble. 14e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-18

nIAN3 FOR sALE--Genutne James M
 starr make, cost &l55. Cabinet grand, large sizs. full octave; very little used. ln- uufre ht this office @0
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
DOW AND THE LIMBURGER.

now invited to supply the City Prison, the
City Hall, the School Department, Fire
Department Police Department and all
the offices with all the material they may
need for the year commencing July l.
This is the most ticklish job | have
struck yet" said the Mayor. ''One needs
to be many kinds of an expert to do jus
tice to all the merchants who want to sell
goods to the city. | know but little of
sulphuric acid, and less of blankets for
prisoners. AS to potatoes, cabbage and
onions, l feel at home, having for years
been in the commission business. | also
know a little about chickens, but l see
that no chickens are supplied to the pris-
oners."
The Mayor took up little package
very carefully and called to Secretary
Jackson to come and open it, The secre-
tary has spent much OF his life in the
mines, and is not easily upset. The little
package, which the Mayor viewed with
suspicion, was the loudest thing on ex-
hibition 1t almost talked. But every
thing was explained when the secretary,
after a good long sniff, said "Hmburger."
Monte Clement, the City Engineer, is
better posted on samples of mud from
Lake Merritt than on soap, and he face
tiously remarked that this department of
the samples be referred TO Mr.. Dow. The
engineer, however, is quite willing to fin
ally pass on the merits of axle grease and
the curryCOmbS.
A few small bottles were handled with
great care. They were samples of some
drugs required for the prisoners and the
horses in the Fire Department.
Not long ago a special flume was con-
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
CITY HALL BONDS.
The Last Payment to Be Made on
july l.

In a few days the last bond for the con-
struction of the City Hall will have been
Cancelled. the last payment of interest
made, small surplus remaining IN the
sinking fund will be transferred to the
general fund and the huge structure.
which has required more than q quarter
of century to erect, and has cost the
taxpayers over 5000 600 will stand com
pleted and free from Indebtedness. The
FiranCe Committee of the Board of Su-
pervisors met yesterday and recommend
ed that the transfers asked for by the
Treasurer he made. which will close up
the City Hall fund. with a small surplus
to be turned into the general fund Fol-
lowing is the communication of Treasurer
Truman:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors. City
and County of San Francisco-Cientlemen
There is in the treasury to the credit OF the
sinking fund City Hall construction bonds,
ss79S 70; coupons City Hall construction bonds.
s2S55 II, making total TO pay. interest and
bonds, 81 l54 49. There unpaid twenty
bonds of $500 each, due June /, 1899. sl00
and interest unpaid due July !, 1899, $500; total
TO pay, s103 300.
I respectfully ask you to authorize me to
transfer from the coupon account to the sink
ing fund City Hall construction bond account
s1201 IS. This will enable me to pay the bonds
due, and after paying the bonds and coupons
outstanding will leave in the coupon City Hall
construction bond account a surplus of 1854 49.
which can be transferred to the general fund,
all the bonds and coupons for City Hall con-
structon will have been paid. Yours very
truly, l. ]. TRUMAN, Treasurer.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
IMPATIENT
E|RECRACKER
MADE TROUBLE
Premature Fourth in
a Big Store.
DESTROYED MUCH PROPERTY
WATER QUICKLY WINS IN A
FIGHT WITH BOMBS.
Assistant Chief Lawton Has a Mar
row Escape From Flying Mis-
siles-Insurance Men
Are Satisfied.
DESTROYED MUCH PROPERTY
WATER QUICKLY WINS IN A
FIGHT WITH BOMBS.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call

sos Broadway, June %
Some impatient frecrackers in a store
at Washington and Ninth streets opened
UP the 4th Of July celebration in this city
to-day, and for some time threatened the
destruction of a large business block.
The store contained immense quantities
of fireworks. and when the alarm was
turned in the whole block was mass Of
smoke and for long distance could be
heard the cracking, bursting and shoot
ing of innumerable crackers, bombs, tor
pedoes. red devils and all other inventions
that are necessary to celebrate Independ-
ence day.
The Fire Department lost no time in
getting TO the scene, no difficulty being
experienced in determining the exact To-
cation of the fire. For several minutes
the cannonading kept up. and after one
chemical engine was exhausted Chief Ball
decided that the fire was too threatening
to fight without water a stream was
turned on and the large notion store was
soon out of danger, the damage being
confined TO that section that was stocked
with fireworks.
The activity the fireworks displayed
while tumbling into the burning mass at
tracted everybody for half q mile around,
and the exhibition of pyrotechnics was
carried into. the street by the tiremen who
packed out boxes of exploding torpedoes
and fireCraCkerS. Assistant Fire Chief
Lawton had very narrow escape from
being struck on the head by a large iroG
pot. 1t was hung up in front of a case
of torpedOeS. The whole case went up at
once and sent the pot flying across the
store, the handle tearing a hole in the
chiefs fire hat.
No one knows how the fire started. The
clerks in the store were first attracted
to it by seeing lot Of firecrackers in the
rear exploding themselves. few sec
onds later the rear of the store resem-
bled the heights of San Juan and the
sulphur and smoke and flying missiles
drove everybody out. The frecrackers
were simply bursting with patriotism and
off they went. This little exhibition will
probably cost the insurance companies a
couple Of thousand dollars. When the fire
was over, j. S. Naismith, who carried a
/ large part of the risk, congratulated Chief
Ball on the manner in which the dan
gerous fire had been handled and on the
small amount of goods damaged COM
pared to what might have been sacrificed
by an incompetent chief.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
WILL ELECT DELEGATES.
Forty Third District Assembly Demo
cratic Club Adopts Resolutions.

1t was shortly after o'clock last night
when President James j. Fagen raped
for order and the members of the Forty
third District Assembly Democratic Club
got down to work. There was a large
attendance and much pent-up enthusiasm,
which found a vent in numberless mo-
tions, substitutes, calls for the previous
question and points of order. That the
meeting passed off so successfully was
due to the vigorous and continual pound
ing of the gaVel by President Fagen AS
a member of the club remarked, if the
gavel had been a bat instead of a small
hammer, Mr.. Napoleon Fagen would
have scored a dozen home runs.
The committee on platform, at its own
request, was given another week in which
to draft a set of bylaws for the club.
The special committee appointed to select
members for the executive committee re-
ported that owing to the fact that every
body in the club desired to be upon the
executive committee it, the special COM
nlittee had found its task too difficult of
solution and asked to be discharged, and
the request was granted; Upon motion
of William Abbott, an advisory commit
tee was appointed to take the place of
the executive committee. The following
members of the club We're placed on the
committee: William Abbott, Samuel Fly
shaker, G. Somerset, j. J. Mcclure and
William Finnigan. Upon motion the en-
rollment committee was abolished and it
was decided that the president shall ap-
point a committee of ten, two from each
district, to secure new members for the
club
Resolutions were adopted providing for
the manner of electing delegates to the
municipal Democratic convention.
The club was addressed by Porter Ashe.
George CabaniSs, J. j. Barrett, w. H.
Humphries and Robert Mann Jr.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
IDA LOVENTHAL'S MURDER.
Woman Killed by Some Person Un-
known to the Coz loner's Jurv.

A Coroner's jury yesterday in the mat
ter of the inquest on the body of Mrs. Ida
Rose Loventhal returned a verdict to the
effect that she came to her death from
an incised wound on the right cheek in
fiicted with a sharp instrument in the
hands of some party or parties unknown.
w. j. Mochel private in Company E,
Eighteenth Infantry, L. S. A, was present
at the inquest in custody of a police Off
GER He declined to make any statement.
The testimony was TO the effect that Mo-
chel while in a private box with the de-
ceased in the Campfire dance dive on
kearny street, between Washington and
Jackson, got into an alteration with her
When one of the walters, j. Clifford
ran into the room he saw the woman
lying on the lounge and Mochel striking
her on the head with a beer bottle for the
contents of which he had just paid a dol
lar. The waiter Wrenched the bottle out
of Mochels hands and broke it upon the
soldiers head. Mochel escaped from the
saloon, but was caught within a DIock by
Policemen Thomas r. Finn and Nc
Grayan and Special Officer Tannian and
Daggett. No knife was found on the
prisoner or anywhere along his path of
flight.
The medical testimony was that the
fatal wound could not have been inflicted
with an unbroken beer bottle and that a
knife must have been used.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
Brief Items of Interest.

OAKLAND. June 23.-Mrs. Gussie Fu-
gel-Crist, a popular musician of this city.
and her husband Julius A. Crist, have
agreed TO disagree. and will hereafter live
apart Such was the announcement made
by Mr.. CriSt to-day. He declares hat
there will be no divorce, but hat being un-
able TO agree upon anything else they
agreed upon this move.
Auditor Breed announces that he will
draw no more warrants on the City
Treasurer until the City Council takes
some action providing for their payment.
The city funds are exhausted for the
present fiscal year.
The Pacific Coast Holiness Association
will hold its seventeenth annual camp
meeting in Beulah Park, East Oakland.
commencing Thursday of next week.
Supervisor John Mitchell returned to-
day from the Yosemite, after three
weeks visit with his family. He has lost
twenty pounds weight through the heat
John c. Forbes has brought suit to
recover $500 from Matilda Henderson
loaned by the Pacific Baptist Theological
Seminary 1t is secured by a mortgage
upon property on Twenty-frst street
The choir of the First NJ. E. Church was
given a trolley party tonight by j. G.
Hill the leader pro TEN. Refreshments
were served and both vocal and instru
mental music were rendered en- route.
The body of Howard Atwater, who was
drowned near Antioch Wednesday, was
brought home to-day. At the inquest held
last night a verdict of accidental drown
ing was returned.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
GARDEN THIEF REAPPEARs.
de Eludes the Vigilance of the Ala
media Police.

ALAMEDA, June 23.-The thief who has
been despoiling the flower gardens Of Ala
media, carrying away wagon loads of
choice plants, vases, garden ornaments
and everything else movable, has made
his temperance. His description has
been given to the police repeatedly, and
the inability of the detectives to appre-
hend him has resulted in severe comment.
a few days ago the premises of William
Pettes, 1904 Lafayette street were visited
and two valuable jardinieres and a num-
Der of potted plants taken. The theft was
reported TO the police and they promised
to make an investigation. The detectives
got no clew to the offender until this
morning, when E. Spencer 867 Cedar
street, reported that his front yard had
been stripped during the night and moth
ing was left. of his beautiful flower gar
den but the holes In the earth, where the
plants and shrubs had grown.
The police promised again to continue
their search for the culprit Detectives
Dennis Welch and Joseph Lawrence have
been detailed on the case.
The thief is apparently in ignorance of
the existence of the Alameda police force,
for each successive Job is nearer the City
Hall. and it is expected that the next raid
will be made on the garden surrounding
the municipal buildings.
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
DEATH GIVES
|, |. REQUA
A CHILLY CALL
7 brown Heavily by a
Runaway.
SEVERELY CUT ON THE HEAD
THE SHOCK MAY PROVE TO BE
FATAL.
Accident Occurred Yesterday Morning G
Near the Nurses Home Which
Was Recently Founded by
Mrs. Requa.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
COS Broadway June %

90S Broadway, June 23
Isaac l. Requa, president of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, was thrown
from his buggy this morning and sus-
tanned some severe-but not necessarily
serious injuries. Mr. Requa was driving
to Oakland from his home in Piedmont
short distance ahead of him Colonel
and Mrs Long, Mr.. Requas daughter,
were being driven by a coachman.
When passing Keller's nursery Colonel
and Mrs. Long saw horse attached
to the empty, broken buggy of her
father dash past. Hastily turning
they found Mr.. Requa being as
sisted by two men to rise from the road.
His head was cut and he said he had
sustained severe shock. He was taken
to the FabiOla Nurses Home, the insti-
tuition which has been recently opened
by the efforts largely of Mrs. Requa
An examination of Mr.. Requa's S Injuries
showed that no bones were broken. but
that he had met with badly lacerated
scalp, a cut over the eye, three bruised
ribs and severe shock to his nervous
system.
The horse being driven by Mr.. Reaua
stumbled, and a moment later started of
suddenly at rapid gait and ran into an
electric light pole. Mr.. Requa was thrown
out distance of fifteen feet and landed
on his head. Being a man of heavy build
and OF advanced age the shock was very
great, and for some hours serious fears
were entertained. A final thorough ex-
animation by the family physician, DR.
Ltliencrantz, however, convinced him
that Mr.. Requa was not seriously in
jured. This evening he was able TO be
removed TO his home. Mrs. Requa, who is
at Castle Crag, left for her home this
afternoon.
Frank. Kelly. one of the men who as
sisted Mr.. Requa to rise, says it was one
of the worst runaWays he ever saw "We
saw buggy coming violently toward us.
its driver saving and trying to curb the
horse, said he ''As he came opposite
yonder electric pole on the opposite side
of the road the horse shied into il and
then shot clear of both buggy and har-
ness and ran down the road to Bohan's
blacksmith shop where. we are told he
was stopped on the sidewalk
The driver at the moment of the COL
lsion with the electric pole. was pitched
out over the dashboard, striking appa-
rently exactly on the top of hfs head.
When we reached him he was trying to
rise and we Were helping him when his
people came up. We expected to find him
dashed to pieces, and We're surprised to
hear him speak, saying oh, my or
something like that"
The. horse driven by Mr.. Requa is a
very fractions animal. and few days ago
ran aWav. while Colonel and Mrs. Long
were driving.