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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-12

THOUGHTLEss-AIen are thoughtless who
! never think; merchants are thoughtless
who never think-to advertise. The Age
Herald Is the medium, thinking men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
HAvANA'S GoLGoTHA.
Mountain of Human Bones Covered Over by the American Forces


 Tn the Colon cemetery at Havana. where the American seamen who per ished in the Maine catastrophe ara buried. in striking contrast to the rev. erence displayed by Anglo-Saxon peo- ples for the burial places of their dead, there has been for more than two cen- turies human bone pit. Exposed to the glare of the sun. the mercy of the rains, there have lain for years the frames Of those who clee lived and loved, says the New York Herald This famous pit was first dug by Don Pedro Valdes, in the year 1902. and from that day to this has been the re- ceptacle for the skeletons of the Gu ban dead. It is 110 feet square and twenty feet deep filed to the twenty feot level. An eight-foot stone wall incloses t from the morbtdly curious, and in external appearance it resem- bles an antiquated Spanish fortress or barracks. The old Spanish custom of renting graves. none being able to buy outright, in Colon cemetery, easily ex- plains the necessary existence Of the 'pia man dies, is buried in q rented grave, forgotten in a short time, tbe rent unpaid one year-his bones are dug and thrown among his ancee- tors in the mass of dead humanity; the grave, being already open, is held to receive the next body. 1 careful es- timate, no record having been kept. puts the number of human skeletons in the pit at 100000 When one realizes that the pit Is nearly 300 years old, and the average life of man is little less than thirty years. Havana's popula- tion for the last 100 years being more than 100000, 1t Is quite plausible that the estimate Is most conservative. In some eases the coffin and all have been dumped into the pit and left to the depredations of the vultre or buzzard the scavengers of Havana. Skulls with long hair still on are not infrequent sights. and in one case q skull still held fast a switch" Midnight ramDles over the heads of these departed have been one of the pastimes of the mor- bldly inclined in Havana. The Amer lean government, ever to the fore in the ways of civilization, has at last filed over the ghastly "bone pit" and the days of luncheon on skulls" are past.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
EARTH IS GETTING SMALLER.
At Least Its Peoples Are Coming Closer
 Together Every Day.


 From the St. Louis Globe-D Democrat: One of the wonders of this marvellous age is the rapidity with which the re- mote quarters of the earth are bef4g brought close together. According to the Russian minister of railroad when Russia's new trans-Siberian railroad is finished the trip around the world can be made in thirty-three days. When Jules Verne. just twenty-five years ago, sent the fictitious Phineas Fogg around the world in eighty days this e7.e,oit was deemed to be as near the
 s7iv impossible as at one time
 at was of putting a girdle
 aDout the earth in forty min G Two American women travel iH . opposite directions, beat Fogg's mythical exploit a few years ago. When the Russian railroad is built, however, the record of their journeys will. iii the comparison, seem like the old stage coach and sailing vessel tray- els do today. With what incredulity would the navigaters of a century ago have looked at the forthcoming Rus sian lime table. The remnant of the fleet with which Magellan left San Lu- car, in Spain. in f519, returned to that port in 1522. Three years, lacking two weeks. were required for the cireum- navigation Of the earth. The first of the British world circlers. Drake, who sailed haIf century later, was as long making the distance. Cook. who made the journey 9 century later than Drake. was two years ten months on the yoy- age. n the century and half be tween Magellan and Cook the time Of the world circuit has been shortened in only an impereeptiBie degree. There had been but little improvement in the speed of the ocean vessels since the days when 0dysseus in his shaIlop, af- ter the Trojan war. started on his re- turn to Ithica. No improvement of consequence, indeed, was made until the days when steam began to be ap= piled to ocean navigation and that was at such comparatively recent date that on May 24, 1S19, the day on which Victoria was born, the first steamboat which ever crossed the Atlantic start ed. leaving Savannah for Liverpool. and taking twenty-sfx days to make the voyage, which would now ba made Tn less than six.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
INSECTS TO IMPROVE FIGS.
They Have Been Introduced in callfor.

They Have Been Introduced in Califor-
 mia After Many Trials.
 The larger part of our fig supply comes from Asia Minor, the Spanish peninsula and the south of France. Those Of Asiatic Turkey are considered the best. Certain insects of the genera blastephaga and syeophaga which fre- aaent the wild fig enter the minute orf- flee Of tho receptacle, apparently to de- postt their eggs, conveying thus the pollen more completely to the stigmas, thus insaring the fertilization and con7 eequent ripening of the fruit By some the nature of the process has been questioned and the better mauration Of the fruit attributed merely 10 tho stimulus given by the puncture of tha insect, as iR the ease of the apple. but the arfans sement of the unisexual flaw- CTS in the figs renders the first theory most probable. < year ago the depart ment of agriculture began series of experiments on the introduction of the insect which fefulizes the smyrna fig, D agent was sent to Europe to obtain cuttings of all varieties of the wild fig and to send over the fruit containing the live insect. By good fortune some of the insects succeeded in penetrating sne closed flowers of the Capri figs and laid their eggs and really established themselves in California. It Is now be- iieved that the insects will continue to breed and that in the near future a fig will be placed upon the market which possesses the same superior flavor as that which has given the imported Smyrna fig it's present popularity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
PREJUDICE MADE PROFITABLE.
Superstition Against Che opal Was Mere
 IY g Jewellers Fiction.


 It is only within a few years that the fashionable women of Chicago could be induced to wear opats, although they are among the rarest and most beauti- ful of gems. But now the opal, long tabooed because of it's supposed un- lucky qualities, is reported by dealers in gems to be once more selling well With this information comes whai purDofts to be the true story of how SC beautiful stone came by It's bad uame.
 It seems, according to the story, that a Belgian jeweler, finding a great de- mand for opals in Brussels, sent one of his salesmen 10 London to purchase q supply On arriving there this emissary found to his chagrin that the object of his quest was the most popu- lar gem in the English capital, and that it's price was proportionately large. Forthwith he conceived the story that opals bring bad luck. He circulated this story diligently, with the surprising result that the much sought stones came to be sedulously avoided, and that their price rapidly declined. In the course of two months opals were ceiling in London for one- third of the price previously asked for them, and the astute Belgian prompt- ly bought up all there were offered for sale; in fact, all the opals that were to be had. Before the superstition he had started had time to reach the con- tinent of Europe, he had delivered the jewels to his chief, and the firm had placed them upon the market and reaped a mammoth profit on the trans action
 The belief in the il]-starred fortune of an opal's owner grew greatly and brought fruit hundredfold. For twenty-five years past the stone has been almost unstable, in spite Of it's beauty Now someone has unearthed, or more probably invented the story Of the Belgian speculator, and the pendu- lum of popular sentiment has begun to swing in the opposite direction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
COST OF THE CUP DEFENDER.
Racing Yacht Has Cost a Handsome
 Fortune to It's Owners.


 A correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal having applied to 1t for information on the subject. that paper answers that the cost of the building of the Columbia has been Variopsly estimated at from $lQ0000 to S150,000, and for Che Shamrock at from $15a,o0o to $20a, ,000 It then adds: "A sum- mary of the cost of the Shamrock, based on estimates from various sources, is as follows: Construction and rig, $200, ,000 pay roH officers and men, including sailmakers and carpen- ters (eight mem, for four months at average of $40, SIP 2,800 provisions for men and officers, at 5 week for eighteen weeks. $7.200; clothing for crew. S1,000; for dry-docking twice, $500. tender at $50 day, for sixty days, $9,000; tugooat at $60 day for sixty days. $3,6QQ; derrick and lighter services, $500, lighter for storage Of spars for six weeks, sG00 freight for spars and sails by steamer, $500; pas sage for thirty workmen3 riggers, etc, s5000; total, $242 500. If the special services of the designer, MT. Fife, and of Sailmaker Ratsey, who came to this country, are a charge against the ac- count, the sum would, Of course, be so much augmented Reorganization shows that the Erin and Shamrock represent first cost of s725,000. The cost of running the Erin increases the expenses to $s75,0o0.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
The skau Gull the Eagles Foe.

Tie natives Of Fouiaone of the shet- land islands. make q business of rear ing sKau gulls in order to rid the island of the eagles that commit 90 many depredations The magnificent red sandstone cliffs that skirt the north- western coast became q favorite haunt of the eagles. and in this inaccessible spot they increased so rapidly that they became a terror to the farmers and fishermen who dwell on this iso- lated spot. The skau gulls are also strong and fierce, and the inveterate foe of the eagle In battle the gulls are nearly always victorious. and so the inhabitants of Foula hit upon the novel plan of feeding and caring for skau gulls, which, though formidable to their feathered enemies, are very peaceful and docile when brought ia contact with man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
FILLING UP SIBERIA.
By This Method Russia Cuts Down Her
 Great Surplus.


 Since the commencement of the Trans-Siberian railway immigration te Siberia has developed with enormous strides. says the London Leader. Be- tween 1882 and 1885 only 650,00o per- sons entered the country, viz, 50 909 every year. In 1896 the numbers sud- denly sprung up to 203 GOO; in 1898 they reached 205 0G0 The immigra Eion is conducted by committee of officials, whose members portion out the land through which the new rail- way runs. Up to the present moment 15, ,Q00 GOO acres have been occupied, and this comprises all the available agricultural land But, notwithstand- ing, the Russian government allows thousands of immigrants still to swarm into Siberia, and to go to ruin in the barren and miserable marsh lands, The reason of the governments apathy is due to the fact that the officials wish thus to get rid of the starving thou sands in European Russia. There is no cIvilizing influence with these fresh immigrants. The majority are beg gars with scarcely more intelligence than the Asiaties already in Siberia The filing up of Siberia by the pres- ent-day proceas is nothing less than the useless =sa2cifce of thousands of hapless beings
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
THE LONGEST STAIRWAY.
It Is in the Tower of the Philadelphia
 City Hall.

Gtty Hall.
 4 novel diversion is about to be in- stituted at the Philadelphia city hall Within a few weeks this noble pile. already distinguished as being the highest municipal building in the world, will contain, according to the Press, the highest continuous stair way in the world, and tourists who have hitherto boasted of their mus eular ability in climbing the stone steps of the Bunker Hill monument at i Charlestown, the Washington monu- ment or the monument to Gen. Brock, near Queenstown, Ont, will tell their friends of their feat in ascending the 598 steps which lead from the seventh floor of the city hall of Philadelphia to the landing about the feet of Will liam Penn. Tower-climbing is one of the fads of tourists. Hitherto ths Bunker Hill monument, with it's 400- odd stone steps, and the Washington monument, which has few more, have represented the acme of oppor- tunity for tests of physical endurance Ascent or descent of these steps has g0Ci JOaoIGu Ols dHQ though DOIH so eramp the muscles of the leg that the climber for an hour afterward is hard- ly able to walk upright, the distinction has the requited pain. The building commission, adds the Philadelphia Press, is pushing forward the work on the tower stairway, and within two months it is expected that 1t will be in readiness for climbers. It will extend from the seventh to the sixteenth floor and will contain just 598 steps Of iron arranged about square, central shaft. In which will run an electric elevator. To reach the tower stairway the climber may mount the 245 granite stairs in the hanging stairways at the northern end of the building, thus making a total climb of 743 steps.
 Tn Ctineae.
 h making treaties with China each folz l9n country has chosen it's own name England is Ting Kwo, the d5arishing country; France is Pa Kwo, the law-abiding country; the United States is Mel kwo. the beautiful coun- try; Germany, Je KWo. the virtuous country; Italy, Kwo, the country of justice; Japan is Ji Kwo, the land of the sun but prefers to be called ji Pen. the land of the rising sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
To our Many Friends and Customers:

We want to thank you most cordially for
 the liberal patronage have given
 during just closed, and toreqdest of
 continuance of same during the just beginning We that we will do thing that is honest and Ecnorable to please you We want say oyou that Prescription Depart ; always the hands of registered pharmacists will not have empoya clerk Whe is capable making mistake who is and cra5bed We 10 feel home in in short will do everything merit confidence and gentlemen should gentlemen ladies. We old Telephones and bell for night clerk Everything delivered part of the
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
A Rubber Bag
 Is Essential

,o have in the house in case of sick ness, and the right kind is infinitely superior to the "just as good" kind. The best is what we always keep in all kinds of rubber goods, sundries, toilet articles, proprietary medi. cines, drugs, chemicals and cigars Our fscription department is un- rivalled-our prices always the lowest.
 J. N. BAILEY.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
A Ministers Good Work.

IT had severe attack of bilious col
ic, got bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, took
two doses and was entirely cured says
Rev. A. A. Power. Of Emporia. Kan
Ny neighbor across the street was
sick for over a week. had two or three
BOTTLES of medicine from the doctor.
he used them for three or four days
without relief. then called in another
doctor who treated him for some days
and gave him no relief, so discharged
him. I went over to see him the next
morning. He said his bowels were in
a terrible fix, that they had ceen run
ming on 50 long that 1t was almost
bloody aux. I asked him II he had tried
Chsmberlain's Collie. Cholera and Dtar-
rhoe Remedy and he said. No wen:
home and brought him my bottle and
gave him one dose: told him to take
another dose in fifteen or twenty mir
utes IL he did not find relief. but be
took no more and vas entirely cured
I think II the best medicine have ever
tried. For sale by all dealers and drug
xista Benson. Smith & Co. general
assntA Hawaiian Ta1ituz.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
STATE OF OHIO BRINGS SUIT.

From the Ohio State Journal OF July
y il is learned that the attorney gem
aral OF that state has brought suit
against the American Sugar Refining
Company for.s some $4,000. claimed as
4 penalty for the company's failure to
return to the secretary of state data
upon which to estimate the amount OF
taxes to be paid by the company inso
The state treasury. The American Su-
gar Refining Company has denied lie
authority of the attorney general II
bring suit other than upon the request
Of the secretary of state, to which the
attorney general has replied, denying
this statement, and claims that as az
iorney general he may act at his own
discretion in such matters. The 1T
coruey general further claims that a.
though the company has no offices in
Ohio, it is not exempt from filing a
statement as basis for taxation. The
American Sugar Refining Company
sought to escape the effect of the law
by setting up the claim that all It's
business in Ohio was done by mail and
hat no representatives were employed
here. The final result of the suit
will be looked for with considerable in
taraSt
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
THE CANE CROP.

While the week under review has
brought US a great deal of rain, there
have been encouraging signs during
the last two or three days of change
in the weather conditions, and the in
dications now point to cessation of
the heavy and frequent downpours
with which the planters have had to
contend for the past six weeks. Dry
weather cannot come bit too soon.
The soil is thoroughly soaked every
where. and while the cane is holding
its color and making growth wonder
fully. it has had too much rain, and
in many places it has been impossible
to give it proper cultivation, the result
being that it has laid itself by and at
tanned size which makes it impossible
for the teams to travel between the
rows, even should dry weather now in
tervene and put the soil in workable
condition Taken by and large, how
ever. the crop is good one, and it has
withstood the excessive rainfall with
remarkable success.
The incidental problem is whether
the cane has sufficient earth to it 10
protect the stubbles in the event Of
severe weather next winter.-Louisiana
Planter.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
Tit-Bits.

Doing is the proper end of doctrine.
Loose living and fast living are the
the same.
Deeds furnish the best answer to
doubt
A feeble faith is better than mighty
feeling.
1t is always easier to forget bad hab-
its than to forego them.
A lie feels easy only when it forgets
that it has a truth on its track.
Crooked men cannot expect to agree
with the straight truths Of the Bible.
The church needs men who will get
out and do the chores, even though
others are raising their snores.
The richest man is not the one who
has the most, but the one who can be
most thankful for the least.
Many a man says the Lords prayer
every day who never thinks it worth
while to try to hurt the devil with his
vote
God is not worshiped in spirit and in
truth in the church that has to 20 into
the show business to raise money to
pay its honest debts
Many a gifted preacher can find time
10 read new book every week who
couldn't find the parable of the prodi-
gal son without a concordance.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
OAHU RAILWAY AND LAND 20.
OUTWARD.

From and After January l, 1900.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
~aiian Islands. he sailed about Tie

waifan Islands he sailed about IKE
Ea.s..L.s u -11Y AID ~a2s sxsa1 @1@
.-.As.-< y .4s4g4St Ia Ezze x--2xaz->-
AS N HAWAII rae planters nave n2l1-
rz,rsc an oFxAnlxzuon tor many years
and oRr1ng ! Ee~ years past nzse oesa
aelsvelv engaged Ii experimenting
along the lines of better ana more ecu
uo1ugc results IL cane culture and s1-
gar manufacture, TIE experiment STA
.lon pEoclen there presents some III
lsrenr phases 1Tom those that Viii pre-
sent themselves Ii Sorro tIleo- n tie
hawaiian Islands the labor prooisn
seems ID De one OF TIE chIsE 0aes. vRals
IN Porto hieo there seems TO be IN
apunaaur. II not saper-aozncant. pop
utariou- In HAWAIIAN cane culture irri-
gnuou Is q necessity, while Porto hico
lies slthi1 lae rain 0elE and irrigation
azs tnus Tar excited no fntsreSC
In the hawaiian Islands Dr.. Stubs
Eli doungiess CONSIDER the whole SUD-
iecc matter from : broad agricultural
.,ofnr of view, but he Will necessarily
DC compelled 10 view his mission large
~ from sugar producing point u
view, as that Is the chief industry o1
me Islands. and the INDUSTRY II wnien
ais long experience and great knowi-
edge led To his selecuon oy CoInmis-
sioner Wilson as the oest agent that ne
lepartment could send 10 aawau Tor
me purpose of making the desired III
.ssugaEIons-
PROT S. A. Knapp, OF Louisiana has
oeen selected 10 investigate the agri-
cultural conditions and possibilities &
PORTO rico, and went out 10 that ISL
and in June, where he is now studying
me existing agricultural conditions,
me lines of experimental investigation
which should be undertaken there, suit
able locations for experiment stations,
and the approximate expense OF n
augurating and maintaining the WORK
de will also look into the feasibility Of
inducing cooperative experiments On
the part Of the resident population,
and the best means of reaching the peo-
pie through publications, demonstra-
ions, experiments, ETC. Louisiana
Planter
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
THE LEADING

Hotel Street, next to Y. Il. c. A
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
DIR. STUBS MISSION.

The Experiment Station Record
gives some data concerning the work
upon which DR.. Stubs Is now engaged
In his mission to the Hawaiian Islands
The appropriation to the United States
department Of agriculture for the pres
ent fiscal year provides for the inaugI-
ration Of experiment stations in Ha-
wall and Porto Rico and Commissiorer
Wilson has determined TO consider The
whole matter carefully, and with that
end In view requested DIR. Stubs. d.
rector tf the Louisiana experiment sta
ttcos. to make Z preliminary survey At
a. sUaWwsl cuad1auas in Tho IA
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-05-10
LONE ROCK.

BoRs-To the wife OF Rev. Brown
April 20, daughter.
Rev. Brown has been holding reviva
meetings for couple Of weeks.
Rev, G. II. Clark 10 out In the country
assisting at revival meetings.
Rube Murdock, OF Wagner, was doing
business in our burg Monday.
P.L. Ham got home the first Of the
week from few days visit at Arlington
New Madden and wife have got baby
boy three weeks' old, but by the way be
is not home production.
]. NJ. Williams moved Tom Graves
and family over 10 the Gilman ranch
Monday where they have employment.
Sheep owners report an excellent crop
OF lambs and a heavy wool crop. Shear
ing is in full blast.
A horse buyer visited Us this week and
bought several work horses, paying as
high az 800 for some Of them.
]. b. Goff returned from Portland the
first OF the week. While there he visited
the Portland University where his son
Jesse and his friend Della Ward are at
school. He says the boys are doing
nicely but are quite anxious for the both
OF the month to come when they will re-
turn 10 their homes in Gillian county.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-05-10
Beware of a Cough.

A cough is not disease but symp-
tom. Consumption and bronchitis,
which are the most dangerous and fatal
diseases, have for their first indication a
persistent cough, and il properly treated
as soon as this cough appears are easily
cured. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
has proven wonderfully successful, and
gained its wide reputation and extensive
sale by its success in curing the diseases
which cause coughing. II is is not bene-
fetal II will not cost you cent. For
sale at The Hudson Pharmacy-C. w.
Crosfeld, mgr.