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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31
HOW STURGEON IS CAPTURED.
Russian Cessaoks Fish Through the Ice
 of swift Rivers.

or Swift Rivers
 To fish while mounted on the back of a horse probably would be beyond the capacity of gentle Izaak Walton of delightful memory, yet that is the way sturgeon is captured in the frozen rivers of the Tral mountains. Rus sian CossacEs fish in large bands. They galIop along until they reach the point in the river where the current has it's swtftest flight There they dismoHnt and cut into the ice unti! they have cleared a small pool of water which extends across the rapid current al= most from one bank of the river to tue other. A net is then sunk to the bottom of the stream and stretched across it at the open pool. so that not a single fish can swim beyond it's meshes. Then the horses are mount ed and the Cossaeks turn back and ride along the edge of the river for about four or five miles. Then the band wheels about and gallops rapidly along the ice covered stream, making picture that would delight a Sebreyer or q Fromentin. Hhe loud eanaoHade caused by the beating of the horses hoofs on the surfaee of the ice terri fies the sturgeon and they swim quick- ly in advance of their pursuers, tum- bling finally in sWarms into ths net that waits their capture.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31

Picture DIouidings of the lat est styles just received It Fran J. Murray'.s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31
ARKANS AS RIVER
 PACKET co.

HtD NOWLAND, Pros, g aen. MnNt'.
 C. E. PHTLPoT General Ager. Boat Leaves Memphis every Tues day at ! ?. III
 Boat leaves Pine Bluff every Fri day at Il. III.
 We make lowest rates from and to all points.
 Telephone No. 66.kfor general in rmation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31

nR, A. ". TROUPE. Pine Bluff. Ark U Office Hours, to D. m. Telephone
 efice with Anderson Never Drug Store
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31
MANN-TANEERSL DRUG co
 Pine Bluff. Ark.

Take the place and attitude which belong to you. and all men will ac- quiesce
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-31

Leave Pine BluH 1.l0 D. nt.. arrive Chicago T i+3 next day Only one ehaHge; through Eeepers.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL BILL.

The Nicaragua bill is having a rocky
road to travel in the attempt to get 1t
the senate. Many senators are
taking a shy at it in the shape of amend
ments or substitutes, which thus far
have been successfully warded off by It's
champion, Senator Morgan: The latest
amendment, offered yesterday by ALI
son of Iowa, set the senate to thinking,
and in a mood to adjourn for the day.
The amendment, or rather a new sec
ton Of the bill, provides that the secre-
tary Of the treasury shall be authorized
to borrow on the credit Of the United
States from time to time, when neces
gary. such sum or sums as may be re-
quired to provide for the payment OF the
treasury warrants authorized to be is
sued under the provisions of he act, and
shall issue bonds of the United States
| Tor Sucn DuFcIdSc DIT q rate VI AhISiSot
not exceeding 8 per cent per annum,
principal and interest to be paid in gold
at the pleasure Of the United States
after 20 years from their date. The
bonds shall be sold at not less than par
and shall first be offered to the people Of
the United States.
Senator Allison's amendment seemec
to take the senate by surprise. No &C,
ton was taken upon it yesterday. Unit
it be disposed of, the people are left t.
guess whether the amendment was Of
fered for the purpose Of killing the bill
or to guard it against possible defeat
1t goes without saying that the proposed
bond issue will not meet the approval Of
many who have thus far supported the
measure. Senator Alhson's amendment
will be watched with great interest by
the people of the country.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
A CORN CRUSADE,

The maise growing states of Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and
such an exhibit at the ensuing Paris ex-
position of then staple product as will
open the eyes of Europe and other hungry
nations to the value of corn as an article
of human food. Congress did not appro-
pirate enough to cut much of a figure in
making a corn exhibit, SO thes states
named will go it alone to show what they
can do for their corn fields. Corr bread,
corn pone, Johnnie-cake, corn meal mush,
corn meal ~fritters and corn dainties OF
every kind will be the object lessons to
tempt the palate and cultivate the taste
of European visitors at the great ex-
hibit. ?
One of our late ministers to Copep-
hagen gave out the startling information
that not a pound of corn meal can be
found in all Scandinavia. 1t is evident
those Scandinavians need fixing. They
don't know what is wholesome, healthy
food for man and beast. They don't know
the fattening, strengthening qualities of
corn. They are ignorant of the stimulat-
ing effects of properly prepared corn
juice. They seem to be ignorant of the
fact that it will cure snake bites, and the
cravings of hunger. There are, doubt
less, many other Europeans who are
ignorant of the value of ndian corn as
a food product.
There is no question that indian corn
or maize advanced the settlement Of
America many years. The pilgrim fathers
would have been starved and the first
settlers in Massachusetts been wiped out
altogether if they had not secured some
corn from the friendly Indians at hand.
America owes much to corn, though
Americans owe nothing to the corned.
These facts should be impressed upon the
n~on-corn-eating S~candinavians and 9TH
ers in Europe whose palates ave never
been tickled with an old-fashioned hoe
cake or whose brains have been muddled
with nothing better han lager, or Scan
p~hilanthropic corn crackers who propose
to ~inaugurate a corn crusade against
EurODe.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
THE ARTIST ABROAD.

In the matter of showing cuts of promi-
nent men, the st. Louis Post Dispatch of
the 18th inst, ~appropriates the blue rib
bon. besides gobbling the bread and cake
cart and the big dog under the delivery
wagon. In its issue of that date the Post
Dispatch presents what purport to be
bust portraits Of w. A. Clark and Marcus
Daily. They are dandies-we mean the
cuts, not the originals. They appear side
by side, cheek by jowl, as it were, appar-
emily ready to fall into each others arms
in one long, drawn out, smiling, loving
embrace. The features Of each are as
true to nature as is their attitude. Mr..
Clark is closely shaver, excepting a wavy
mustache that would be the envy Of a
New York ward heeler or an Italian dude.
His features are built after the Spartan
style Of facial architecture, square-jawed
and massive the whole wearing a look
tina may mean. I feel a bite, or 1 don't
care a continental who likes me.
Mr.. Daily is adorned with full, flowing
whiskers, and a big, bulging mustache
which partially conceals his opened lips,
his wide-awake piercing eyes being some
what softened in their expression by the
Roscoe Conkling lock which falls down
from his curly hair and clings to his high,
narrow forehead. Mr.. Daily looks az
though he was a little doubtful Of hav-
ing a strangle-hold on someone. He
wears a stand-up collar while Mr.. Clark
rejoices in a rundown. No two pictures
have appeared during this or any other
decade more unlike the originals. There is
a clear case of libel against the Post-Dis.
| match.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

we will not get enough money abroad to
settle our trade balances and pay the in
terest upon our bono issues.
Pursuing the subject he points out that
we owe England alone five billion dol
lars. Now, if allowed to use silver and
treasury notes freely at home, we may
pay the interest upon this enormous gold
debt. But with gold as the sole standard
for all debts, domestic and foreign, and
when all the staple crops with which we
must pay are measured in gold, and
cheapened by such measurement, col
lapse is inevitable. The only remedy
for such inevitable collapse, and our only
escape from it's dire effects is he free
coinage of silver at 16 to 1.
No debtor nation, and ours is a debtor
nation of agricultural exporters, can
Ion survive a gold standard. Gold is an
aristocratic metal. 1t is exclusive, and
appreciates itself when it measures arti-
Giles of commerce. 1t counts silver among
the mudsills of our social, political and
governmental structure, and is averse to
placing a money value upon it unless
measured by it's own Importance. The
country will wilt under it's lash. 1t is 16
to 1 for the whole country or a financial
bust up"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
SILVER NIGHT SCHOOLS.

A committee of prominent eastern
bimetallists has prepared problems which
explain the question of bimetallism in
the simplest way by means of the rudi-
mentary rules of our common school
aritbmetics. These problems are pub
lished upon leaflets, to be used at silver
night schools, which are extending rap
idly in the eastern agricultural, none
tary and commercial centers. The OBJ
iect of these schools is to enabl students
to unite t~houghtfully and earnestly upon
a. line OF political action which will cor
rect the wrongs that have been and are
now being lone through the agency of
the gold standard men. The schools are
somewhat novel in their way, but are
doing a vast amount of good to the cause
of silver coinage. Their teachings will
be largely felt during the presidential
campaign of 1900. The schools are work
ing in a quiet, effective way. The head
quarters of these silver night chools are
located at Chicago.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
SIXTEEN TO ONE OR BUST.

A writer in ar agricultural paper
argues that this country must have free
silver coinage at 16 to 1, or bust. His
reasons are not without substance and
force. He points to the fact that with
over $500, coo, coo in gold locked up in the
national treasury to maintain the price
of the yellow metal, and with money
daily leaving the regular channels Of
trade as a result of a seemingly neces-
cary bono issue, wheat, cotton, and all
other American staple soil products must
be forced down to bedrock prices. He
does not say that the past year demon
stratcs this proposition, but he holds
that the first year Of good crops abroad
will see prices Of agricultural products
In this country take q tumble. and that
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
at Chicago.

Stanton of the senate, and Cooney Of
the house, both Of Cascade county, have
introduced in their respective bodies a
full-fedged initiative and referendum
bill. It's provisions are drawn upon up
to-date populist lines and would meet the
approval of such eminent statesmen and
stateswomen as General Weaver and
Mary Lease. The measure will, doubt
less, feel lonesome in those bodies of old
line democrats until accompanied by one
providing for state ownership of all
transportation and telegraph lines, and
like small enterprises within the confines
of Montana.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The twelve labors of Hercules pale
into insignificance beside those imposed
upon the authorities at Havana, to put
the city in a proper sanitary condition..
The cleaning of the Augean stables was
child's work compared to the cleaning of
the streets of Havana upon which 1000
men are now employed. The Spaniards,
evidently, never regarded cleanliness, as
next to goodness, or even bearing a dis
tant relationship to each other.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
WORK AHEAD,

The legislative assembly is blocking
out enough work to consume every hour
of it's 90 days time, saying nothing about
]untangling the senatorial embroglio. A
few days must be consumed in a~rtisti-
cally n decently burying the direct
legislation proposition. The road law
must be adjusted upon lines in harmony
RELOCATING the care of our public high
ways to parties who can handle them
at the least expense and to the greatest
good of the taxpayers.
The bounty law will demand the
closest attention of our law makers.
There are several very important mat
tiers to be considered in connection with
1t. Tt will be observed that Montana can
not build a horse-high and hog-proof
fence around her area to keep all the
stock-destroying animals of Idaho, Wyo-
ming, North Dakota and the British pos
sessions from trespassing upon our broad
ranges to enjoy a breath or two of
he~alth-giving, life-giving ozone and a
few feasts upon rich, juicy steaks, but
her legislative assembly can inject a
clause or SO into the law which will dis
courage the breeding and herding of such
animals upon our borders for the pur-
pose Of raiding our state treasury with
their scalps or skins. Incidentally they
may furnish a few boarders at Conley &
McTague's hosiery among those whose
appetites are not destroyed for foreign
wolves and coyotes. The whole matter,
however, may be safely left to the judg-
ment Of those who will be most affected
by the pains, penalties and benefits of the
measure.
The bill providing for the future as
%signnent of wages should be handled
with care. 1t is a measure which may
cut both ways. The assignment Of wages
for the payment of an existing debt ap-
pears in line with justice, but the as
signment of accruing wages for a deb
which may be incurred, does not look
just right. All creditors should stand
upon an equal footing, and every debtor
should be protected in his efforts to sup.
port himself and family. Assignment
laws are sometimes fearfully and won.
derfully framed. One that permits {
debtor to assign to a preferred creditor
will open the door to a lot of rascality
The legislative assembly should keep al
eye upon that assignment bill.
There will probably be many bills in.
troduced in the present legislative assem-
bly, which will require discernment am
much thought to dispose of properly.
few may be good, others bad, and man,
Indifferent. Davy Crockett's rule of &C
ton is a good one to govern members il
their disposition of these bills: BE sur
you are right; then go ahead"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The Samoa embroglio promises to in
yolve Great Britain, Germany and this
country in no little trouble. The throw
ing of the German consul u of a
Samoan court house by the British and
United States consuls will arouse the
phlegmatic Teutons to something more
lively and interesting than beer gardens
and smoking meerschaums.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

whats that button you're wearing?'
asked the young thing. mo Sons of the
American RevolutiOn?'
NO. said the major. Il should think
not. I'm proud Of that button. It's the
insignia, the outward and visible sign Of
me largest military society in the United
States"
whats its name?''
society of the First Man Up San Juan
Hlll.'-Philadelphia Press.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The Washington administration is COM
PEELED, by the exigencies of the situation,
to apply strict censorship at Manila, to all
outward and homeward bound kilograms
containing political news. Cipher dis
patches are denied the Spaniards at the
Philippines, and a graveyard silence is
perserved among Americans when any
thing touching political matters is
timent of the heart at Manila.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

q~uality-for a japanese. The clothing is
nominal in cost and quality, and SO is the
wages of a Japanese laborer. Though
living is cheap in that country, no fears
are entertained that a stampede of
American families will take place in that
direction, particularly from Butte. By
the way, the trouble over there is to get
the $500.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The bus drivers of London tied a blue
and amber ribbon on their whips In MEM
DRY of the late Baron Ferdinand Roths-
child Blu and amber were the sporting
colors of the Baron, who for many years
mad been in the habit of giving a brace
OF pheasants at Christmas to the bus
drivers.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

It Is said a family in Japan can live
comfortably on $500 a year. This sum
will pay rent of a house, the wages Of
two servants, and supply o OF the best
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

heard the island had been annexed to the
United States l felt as if it were already
a suburb of Chicago."-Yonkers States
man.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The force of waves breaking on tn
shores is equal to II tons to the squar
yard.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

And were you homesick in Porto Rico,
my son." asked the Chicago father of his
soldier son.
mo, father, I was not. AS soon as I
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

This is the way in which the "Centralia
(Kan.) Journal editor answer a ques-
ton propounded by a stock raiser: "A
rural subscriber asks: Do hogs pay?' We
know that a good many don't. They take
the paper several years and ave the
postmaster send it back, marked re-
fused Such a breed is usually two-leg-
ged and unprofitable."
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

Blood flows through the bones of very
young children almost as freely as
through the veins.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

There are four Irishmen to every Eng
llshman in the United States.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
The Talk OF the Day.

When Joseph Chamberlain's son, j.
Austen Chamberlain, was first elected to
parliament, an old servan of the family
accosted him, with tears Of congratula-
ton in his eyes. This is a great day, SIR
he said. when 1 think that | helped to
put you grandmother and grandfather IN
their collins, it makes me feel proud of
you this day.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

Kipling sent Captain Robley D. Evans,
of the Iowa, a set of his works, and with
them these verses:
Zogbaum draws with a pencil,
And I do things with a pen,
But you sit up in a coming tower,
Bossing eight hundred men.
Zozbaum takes care of his business,
And l take care of mine;
But you take care of ten thousand tons,
Sky-hooting through the brine.
Zozbaum can handle his shadows,
And l can handle my style;
But you can handle a ten-inch gun
To carry seven mile.
To him tina hath shall be given,
And that's why these books are e n
To the man who has lived more stories
Thar Zogbaum or l could invent.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The pearl oyster begins to produc
pearls when 1t is six or seven years old.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
PECULIAR AND PERTINENT,

1t takes q crocodile so seconds to turn
completely around.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

The indian can see one-tenth further
than the white man.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

Diplomatic Discipline-That naval Of
ficer thinks he knows it all, doesn't hep
asked the German Emperor.
His conduct certainly warrants the
suspicion, Your Majesty"
He's getting naughty and imagines
that he can have his own way whenever
and wherever he pleases."
1T certainly looks that way"
well, 1 don't van to hurt his feelings
personally, but we'd better do something
to hold down his o~verbearing pride. 1
guess I'll put him in charge of one of our
warships and send him to Manila."-
Washington Star.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
A FARlOR MATCH

We have every feature advertised.
Thirty comedians, singers, dancers. Tel
big new vaudeville features. The biggest
n best farce comedy or your
money returned. Tom Browne, the worlds
greatest whistler; the Olympia Quar-
tette; the Kingsley Sisters; Eta Butler;
l.dith Hoyt, James 7. Galloway, Mark
sullivan, Phil II. Ryley and 20 others.
Better than "A Milk White Flag" or "A
Contented Woman"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

Gadzooks-Does your minister believe in
the policy of expansion?
Zounds-I should say he does! His text
yesterday consisted of two words, and he
made a sermon out of it that it took him
an hour to deliver.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

Israel Zangwill says he ono over
heard some Jews discussing HIM. Hes
not clever" said ore. HE is one of us,
and knows all about us. OF course he
can write Of US. But there's Besant.
He's written a book about us, and doesn't
know us at all. That's what I call clev-
lrS
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19

That Kind of a Mantle was a man
women would trust.
Most of them, at least. They always do,
when a man comes aroun and offers to
deliver $40 worth of soap and stationery
for So, SO to be paid down and the balance
delivery.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
Patti
Trouhadours

Greatest and funniest colored show on
earth. Black Patti, Ernest Hogan and 80
ebony ecStasies. All new features. Mirth,
music and melody. Seats-25c, soc, 75c
and 81.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-19
The GRAKD OPERA HOUSE

Three Nights, starting Monday, January
%, Matinee Wednesday,.
The King Laugh Maker, Evans and
HOeX's EVergrccn SUCCESS. "
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-03-15
Admiral Cervera's Watch.

A Kansas volunteer, Lientenans.
w. A.. Belts. now has in his posses
sion the Spanish Admiral Gervera's.
watch aud chain. He obtained them,
from the pilot, Jose Bacs, who
guided the admiral's flagship out Of
Santiago harbor on that fateful morn.
ing Of lsst July 8
When Admiral Cervera had called
for . pilot to volunteer for THE hsz-
ardons task, Bscs was the only one;
to respond The admiral praised
him for his bravery and, taking OFF
his own watch and chain, bad given
them to the pilot on the spot
In the disastrous ssa fight that
followed the pilot Bace xas wounded.
he managed to swim ashore and
made his way to the American lines.
He there met Lieutenant Belts snd
had offered him the watch for money
enough to take him home to BARGE
Iona. The watch is diamond ieweied
and has the coat Of arms Of the ad-
miral's family on the outside Of the;
case and on the inside the name
Pascal Cervers -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-03-15
The colony Of Fitzgerald. in Irwin

The colony Of Fitzgerald, in Irwin
county, is in q Aourishing condition.
as shown By Presiden. Fitzgerald, Of
the colony company His report
shows that the company has margin
Of $109, ,451 above all debts after the
stock is retired Il it is stated to be
the purpose Of Mr.. Fitzgerald, so far
as Le can influence the affairs Of the.
company in future. to employ all the
surplus assets il founding charitable
institutions for patriotic societies and
in building churches. libraries and.
schools. The enterprise was we'll
conceived and. ably managed, Mr.,
Fitzgerald has erected for himself an
enduring monument /; and one Of the.
best that man could have. Georgia
is proud of his city, and hopes there.
will be others Of his kind to come.
into the State and duplicate his sue
cess Columbia Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-03-15
Breaks all Records.
a New Yorker Stands Two
Thousand Volts Of Electricity.

New York, March 7.-Joseph
Hampel, an employe of the Lexington
avenue cable power house, while work
ing at his switchboard. received and
survived an electric shock Of about
1900 volts. The mans body vas
burned black from head to foot; !; every
stitch Of clothing vas torn from him.
and he fell senseless through hole
iustantaneously burned 10 the floor By
the current Hsmpel is expected to
live. The doctors who attended bin
say there is no case on record ofa man
withs.anding sinilar shock. The
accident was caused through Hampe:
trying to tighten loose screw ON the
switchbo and 10 some way creating
q circuit. The enormous power OF the
shock may be judged from the fact that
uotil the circnits we're readjusted all
the cars on the road we're brought 70 :
standstill.