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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
THE RAISING OF osTRrcHEs.
Five Farms Now Carried on in ths
 United States.

Five Farms Now Carried in ths
 United States.
 There are now five ostrich farms tD tie Uni3ed State5-two InZ California. one in Texas, one in Florida. and ons h Arizona. Tas last named. although the youngest, is the largest and most fiourishing in the country. It is io- cated near Phoenix, and the Salt river valley seems well adapted sa the A. riean ostrich. Nc protection whatever is required for the birds during the winter. They graze the entire year in she fields. the same as horses and cat tie, and are healthy and thrifty. The man in charge Of the Arizona farm, who spent 15 years handling ostriches in South Africa, says the birds do just as well in the Salt River valley as in Africa, and that the climatic and other conditions surrounding them here seem as well adapted to their requirements as those existing in their native home Alter the birds attain the age of tour weeks there is little danger or sseir dying from natural causes for many years. It is not positively known how long an ostrich will live under normal conditions. but there are birds on South African farms which are believed to have reached or passed the century mark, many of them having been in captivity there over fifty years, Most people have the idea, obtained. prob ably, from their old geographites when they were children. that the female ostrich. after laying her eggs in a nest scooped out of the desert sands. cov- CTS them up with the sand and leaves them, trusting to the heat of the sun to hatch them. This is not the fact The birds always pair off during the breeding season, the male bird making the nest by resting his breastbone on inc sand and turning slowly round and round, scratching the sand away with his feet until shallow hole is made. some three feet in diameter and about i foot deep. The female then lays. usu- ally, 15 eggs, and the birds take turns sitting on them. the female sitting during the daytime and the male at night, except that the male allows the female about an hour in the middle Of the day to feed, when he takes her place on the nest.-Boston Herald
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
GREAT SALT LAKE
so Living Thing In It and No Danger
 of Being Drowned.

The water of the Great Salt lake. Utah, is clear and transparent, with 3 bottom of fine white sand and mar gin of incgssted salt. It is one of ths purest and most concentrated primes in the whole world It's waters give sus' tenance to no living thing, there Is not the smallest insect CT worm ts
 tighten She most timid hather, and the bathing is the most perfect sea aathing i'll the whole of North Amerl- e or in Europe No human body can sink in f. One may actually walk the water. nc matter how deep it is. Your body aill persisitentiy rise up. tha shoulders above the surface. or you nay even sit down in it. It's wonder ful buoyancy must be experienced to he realized. No knowledge of swim miEg is necessary; one may enter the lake without the slightest fear; all you have to do IS to lie down and float. But 10 swim lin it. that is an@ other thiRgi When your hands are put under the water to take a stroke. your feet. like Banauo's ghost will not go down. It $ impossible to keep more thda one end of your body under water al q time. You cannot swim. but if you are q man you eaa float on your back. with your arms crossed under yoar head, and smoke your pips ef cigar with as milch ease as if fn yoHr own room. Tho water is so sat teat 1t cannot be swallowed without great danger Of strangulation; small drop in the eye, too, gives much pain. But, Tn spite OF all the dangers, bath ing in the Great Salt lake is refreshing snd iHxigorating. notwithstanding that the body must be rebathed in fresh water afterward to remove the im- mense quantity of salt which adheEez to the skin II is hard work to make any headWay, even against the smallest waves. Nearly half a million people bathe in the Great Salt lake every year; they come from al over the world, and tourists are beginning to realize that Salt Lake City and the magnificent surroundings present the greatest scope of novelty. ard is des- tined to be 2 leading watering place.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
HOW COLOR AFFECTS INDUSTRY
One Reason Why American Machinery
 Is Not Mora Pop aIar.

One Reason Why American Machinery
 Is Not Mora PopAIar.
 A gentleman who has traveled much and has very large interest in Amer lean export trade said, in conversation che other day, that the principal draw back to a wider extension of American commerce in certain parts Of the world is that manufacturers in the United States do not sufficiently study the wants, the customs and the tastes O. their prospective customers. For ex- ample" he said, a certain American firm sent some electrical goods. which were decorated in green, to Japan. They did not sell any. No Japanese would bring such things into his house: it would mean an invitation to the evil deities. Green is an evil color in Japan. What Japanese wants iz red things. Upon this simple matter of color rests the failure of that mann. facturer to succeed in export traden 4 German eml lover of labor si [. T like American machines so far as their performance of their work is con- cerned, but they demoralize my men. They come here in sober colors of paint and with no bright parts The men who attend the machines do not have any brass to keep clean or any surfaces to rub. and they get lazy The German workman needs to be kept busy with things of this sort" Here. now, are some practical instances of what the American manufacturer must ] learD before he can attain the widest success in the new field Of foreign trade. Do not send to Germanay cata- logues in the English language or to Japan things decorated in green, or to the isthmus of Panama anything with blue spots ill 1t. It looks as if we need in this country a commercial kinder garten in which such information as the above may be taught to those of a curious and inquiring mind for their everlasting ben it and profit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
The=SHk IndusHy.

The silk industry has had q remark a9le development in the United States ip recent years. In the annual review of the business by the secretary Of the Silk association Il is known that there are silk factories now in 230 towns ip 19 different states, the number Of eg- sabIishments being 750. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut lead in the manufacture of silk fabrics. Peters burg. Va, has been running silk mills Ior some years. We have not accli-
 mated the silkworm, but import the reeled yarn from other countries. In 1899 we imported 73.667 bales. worth s41. .195. .209, the average prics per pound being s4.15. Ne export none Of our fabrics, it appears. but sell all in the home market Al Americans. espe.
 a:a3iY the ladies. try to support ID
 tAei. dress ther title ta 5e the earth,s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
TO THE Residents of Pine Bluff AND VICINITY.

The City Market will reopen Monday, October |, to retail ex clusively a high grade ot Nelson M iris & Company's western dressed fresh meats, fine sausages, canned meats. packing house deli cacies, Lard, Breakfast Bacon, Dried Beer and Sugar Cured Hams, A. C. L. Haase & Sons Smoked, Salted and Picked Fish. also Fine Fancy Fresh Fish from Lake. River and Gee T, Kalama- zoo Celery, New York Counts and Baltimore extra Select Cyst CTS, Dressed Poultry. Wild Ducks Quai and Rabbits in season. Pickles, Potatoes, Cabbage and CaulIflower. And expect by courteous treatment, intelligent service, prompt delivery and charging reasonable prices, to merit continuance of your valu. ed patronage
 R. P. Hol MES. Prop
 2iO V est 2d Ave
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
ARTIFICIAL SILK.
Development of the Industry Now
 Going On by Leaps.
 Now


 The silk worm, with it's comparative ly small output. has now rival in artificial silk and it was to explain the processes by which tnis is produced that Joseph Cash, chairman of fac- tory at Wolston, near Coventry. read paper at the Society of Arts, says the London Mail. Sir T. Wardle presided. Many attempts have been made. said MT, Cash, to produce material resem- bling silk, but only recently have they resulted in a commercially successful fabric. The earliest imitation was brilliancy is excellent for millinery or dress ties, but it's limitations are soon reached, for it can only be spun eer- tain lengths, and it possesses little or 30 warmth. Polished" cotton, .mers cerized cotton and Pandura "stlk," made of gelatin thread, have struggled for recognition in the market, but con- plete victory seems to be reserved to what fs known as #eollodion silk. ]" pro- duced by the Ghardonne method which is elaborate Enormous sums Of money it appears had been lost ere the pres ent success was attained two years ago But now the development of the H. dustry is going on by leaps and bounds 1T Besancon, in France and in Switzer- land. The material has an even great CT brilIianey than silk, but the warmth is not So great It is more durable however. than the natural silk az snown to the ordinary customer.
 Sig "Ie in English Writing.
 Did ft ever occur to you that il might seem very egotistfeal for you to write of yourself with capital s.I' instead of using the small and less obtrasfxe onef The English use ot the capital .I.. is one Of the oldest features of the Ianguage-to for. eigner. If q FreHehman writes refer ring to himself he makes 'je9 fthe French equivalent of sI,) with a small .sj." So with the German, who may ase capitals t1 begin every noun: hs always uses the small si" in writ. ing aieh" The spanlard avoids, as far as practicabIe, the pse of the per sonal Dzoneun when writing in the first person, but he always writes 1s yo,' taking pains, however. to begin tAe Spanish equivalent of our ssvouT with capital In English it is suFe- ] ly big .sI' and little you. as the old sayjng has It.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
Irrigation in sineri,..

If the winters are long in Siberia. and very cold, on the other hand, the summers are extremely warm and dry. The small streams of water dry up dur. ing this season, and agriculture suffers much from this state of things. To remedy the evil, the inhabitants of certain districts in winter collect the snow and accumulate it at the bottom of some narrow valley. They press it and make it compact so that 1t will be more resistant 10 thawing At the end of the winter they cover the enormous piles which they have thus formed with branches. straw or earth, in order to protect the snow against the rays Of the sun and the exterior heat Then, when after long days without rain the water of the streams begin to dry up, the snow, in spite of it's covering. commences to melt. and by means Of a ditch made for this purpose tae water which runs down supplies the Flyer un- sn tue return of winter
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
Not the Ei-ht Names.

A saEesman in china#are estab- lishnent is responsible for the follow ing; "A day or two ago. said he. "a lady came in the store and began to examine some fine cups and saaeers. Nothing suited her, At last. however she found some that pleased her. and, smillhg innoeently, said Now. these are very nice, and l ike the way they gre made, wish different names on them Ii could find same gl5h the names want would take them. but ell sse read Ton and Jerry. -"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
Statistics of British Emigrants.

Statistics just issued by the Board of Trade show that during 1899 total of 241, 405 emigrants left Great Britain as compared with 205, I'll in the preyi- ous year. The greater proportion of this increased outflow of 36,060 con- sisted of foreigners. However. these were birds of passage ' nbering 60, o00, compared with 60,000 in 1S98 The number of British emjgrants was over 5000 in excess of that in 1898, and it is remarkable that this was wholly due to an increased exodus from Ireland, 5000 more persons of Irish birth leaving last year, prac- ticaily all going t9 the United States, while the English emigrants were ,0o0 fewer. Of the total number of British emigTants, viz, 146,777, no fewer that g. ,5Sa were bound for the great fiA public. an increase Of 22,o00 as com, pared with 1898, and 16.45f for British North America, a decrease of 1,90e. Australia received 11,4TS, against i0,- G9S. while the outlook of war so sefi- ously checked emigration to South Africa thas the number declined from l9.Ta1 iii 1898 to 14,5gp iass year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
The Good News Spreads

and our business grows larger, and the prices small CT, every day, People come here from all parts of the city. When ever they need anything in our line, they think of Us. We have furnished more cozy homes than we could possibly name. We have done it to the owners satis- faction, and we can do the same thing for you.
 BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
Sleep with the Haar Loosened.
Iron Mountain Rates

TteI M. & 2. Ky will sell tickets from ] 1uff to Kansas City fer flG 25 fOf the ret rfn. ess elet. 1e. F ard II. All tickets liz ssf gas City up to and in- cii eeunt national conYen- tian 4.
 Dallas, sats Fair--s1.9 0 for the round trip. = ofssle. Sept. 26, 2s. 90 Oct 3, lu. FinaI stn lirnif, Oct. b.
 Memphis aesl4., Eiks Carnival and Street Fair--s710 Idr round trip. Dates of sale. Sept. 30 to Get inclusive. Final return limit, Oct. 7
 The | NJ x ' will sell round trip tickets t. Chicago for Slaf0 rom Sept. 50 to Oct inclu- sive. All tickets limited for return passa ge to Oct. 5.
 Summer Resorts. From Pine Bluff to Mt Nehe and return. s7.s0
 searcy sprngs and return. 4.l0
 Ravenden q 7.75 Tickets on sale now and will continue until cfuse Of business. searey Sept. i5i Mt Nebo Ger. 1: RAyenden, sept. g. All tickets limit ed for return passage to Oct 3ti iqO8. Parties wishing to spend h sumner in pife. cool, healthy places should trs the above.
 St Louis Exposition Round trip rate SfI q. Tickets on sale Senf. l6, 1S. 26. .. q Oet, ,. ! 2. Il, lis, All tickets limited for retura=5 day from date of sale.
 st. Louis Fair. Round trio rate. stl 6l. Ilekefs on sale Sept. 30 ta 0et-5 inclusive, with final return lint 0c1s sJh.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
Arkansas Midland RaIIr0ai

 5o,ooo acres of good X, lands for sale. a,ooo aeI.'' < cleared lands for sale. aloss Y, line of the Arkansas nI.' Railroad. Free sites for fa,s. and mills. " For farms or timber land, dress,
 c. T. UPDEGRAFp General Freight Aes.
 Helena, Arks'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16
otton Belt B. lIetin.

Meeting Grand Lodge I. . Q r Batesrille Ark. 0et. 2 One fare for round trips dates of safe Get, 2i. = and 9; return iimi5 Oct. 27.
 0naehita Valley sair. Camden Ark. Oct l9 29f--aate One fare for the round trip with maximum rafh of a 50; dates of sale. Oct 1921: return limit Oct 29.
 Arkansas State Hair-Pine Fluff. Oct 22-27 Rate. one fare for round trip with maxinum rate ef a1.59: Dates 0f sale. Oct 25-29: Return limit Oct 2.
 Texas State Fair. Dal as. Texas. september 2s to October 13, 1aGQ. From all points on th4s Inc. rate ofone standard fare plus s2 co for the round trip. Eatas ei sale. September 26 zs. 3, October and f0 Continuous pass age ia each direction. good te leave Dallas returning not later than October l.. IqeU
 Round Trip Rates to Chicago =-One fare for tie round trip. Tickets ca safe, Sept. 50 to Oct 5inciustxe. Return limit. Oct. s
 National Convention Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo- Oct. II to l6, 1900. Rate, one fare plus E for the round trip. Dates of sale Oct. II, 13 and 15. Return limit, Oct. 20.
 Hemeseekers1 excursion tickets to all points tn Oklahoma and Indian Territories = Dates Of sale. Oct. and II. Nov. and 20. and be-. and Is. Rate one fare plus E. for tine round trip. Return limit, twenty-one days from date Of sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

st Louis Exposition. st Luuis. Mo. Sept. one-thifd fare fer the round trip. nates t f sale. sept. It. k 70. 25. 2 1let. ? l. g. IT, l. Is, 10e0. Return init five days from date of sale
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

Onaehita Valley Fair Camden, Ark. Oct. l5=ee. 1900. Open rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip. Dates of sale. Oct. IA. 20. Return limit Oct q. l900
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

St. Louis Fair. St. Louis. Mo. Oct. 18. 1900. inclusive kate. one fare far the round trip. Dat Of sale. Sept 3a to Oct 5. ineiu- sire and for trains arriving in St. Louis be- fore non of Get. 6, Return lirAie Oct, Sth 1gA4
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-16

RAYENDFN sPRINGs-Rat s7.75. Dates of sale. June to Sept. 90, 19e0. Return lim- it. Oct 3f. 1900
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-17

am up and about. and you are
down. D-n you. guess you are down
for good; l hope So"
While Kennedy and Lee were in the
struggle word was sent to Captain
Cooney that Kennedy had been killed
Inn. ms intensified the excitement among
me reserves. who rushed from the sta.
ton and charged down the street
ON THE RUN.
Wherever negro was seen. he was
on the run whether he had been n par-
uclpant lii the riot or not. This was
thc case OF one who ran out of a side
street near Forty-second street, chased
py mop. The negro ran into Shan
ieys restaurant. one of the fashiona-
DE up town cafes. The place was fill
ed with people, many of whom were
women. The latter jumped from their
tables, and attempted to make exits
Wherever there was an open door or
WINDOW. Thir escorts followed en-
qeaNoring 10 assuage their excitement
ne Slght of the fugitive negro cover
Ell with blood only intensified the eX-
cited condition of the women. who es-
caped from the cafe only to find them
selves in the midst OF a mob bowling
Tor blood. Some of the patrons of the
e&lc. who were dining upstairs, were
with difficulty restrained from jump
ing out of the window.
OFFENDER ESCAPED.
ne negro who had created this
scene escaped in the excitement. but
another negro named Walker, one OF
the theatrical team of Williams and
Walker, was seen on a Broadway car,
dragged off and given q beating. His
companion escaped. but not until after
he had received a severe druhbing
Acting Captain Burns. of the West
Thirticth Street Station. arrived with
q squadron. and arrested four white
men. the first whites OF the riot tc be
arrested. This was after 1 O'Clock in
the morning.
Whenever there were negroes collect
ed together they were swearing ven
Ecance. Fortunately about o'clock
there was 81 heavy downpour of rain
and II is the opinion OF the police that
this did more to dissipate the mob and
quiet the riot than 900 men would
have been able to do.
NEGROES CLUBBED.
At o'clock. when IL was thought
1t was all over. Policemen Hughes and
Jelif. of the West Thirtieth Street Sta
ton. We're assaulted with q shower of
bricks and bottles. thrown by negroes
on the roof of house The crowd
from the street rushed up the stairway
but by the time they had reached the
roof the assailants had descended
through scuttles and had disappeared.
Two negroes were later pulled from un-
der a bed They resisted until dubbed
over the head and one had his nose
C0Y1t;,,,rncl On, 1oo0 q
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-17
WELCOME TO MR.. BRYAN.
HIS NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS
MEET HIM.


Lincoln. Neb. Aug. 16.-I,incoln fem
dered handsome welcome to Mi.
bryan to-day upon his return TO his
nome here after an absence of ten
Gays. lie reached the city at 800 =
M, and was met ut the depot by Il
large Concourse of people, who escorted
him to his residence and who. after lis
ten:ng to- speech there and shaking
hands with both Mr.. and Mrs Bryan
only dispersed to meet in the evening
with many Others in Il reception given
III the state Capitol grounds, which
partook of the nature of an official
function.
MIR. Bryan spoke at some length in
his reply to the address of welcome
ilrst expressing his and Mrs. Bryan's
appreciation of the good will of their
townspcople of all parties. and explain
ing why he went away from home To
meet people instead of having them
come to Lincoln to see him. On this
latter point he said:
Il have sometimes been criticized for
BoinS away from home instead of STAY
ing here and having people come to
see me. but / have felt. In the first
place, that people could not come here
ms well as they could go to Canton.
Lincoln Is not in the center Of n thick
~ populated country as Canton is. and
our people have not the means of trav-
cling without cost as they have in some
parts OF the country under some cir
cuiustances. and I have felt that It Is
great deal cheaper for me to go and
see the people than for me to compeI
tnem TO come and see me-" (Ap-
plause).
Mr.. Bryan then discussed national
issues at some length. saying:
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-17

the ministers must be delivered at the
walls OF Pekin. and under such circum-
stances as will meet the Judgment OF
the Hliltary commanders on the spot.
CAPTURE OF PEKIN?
London, Aug. 17.-3:15 a. MA cable
gram to Vienna from Hong Kong an
nounces the capture of Pekin; out the
Austrian Government. like other Eu-
ropean Powers, is still without contir-
nation of this report. An official tel
esram. dated Taku. August H. has
been received ut Rome. which asserts
tnat the attack on Pekin began on
Monday; that Sir Claude MncDonald
the British Minister. has opened com
munication with the relieving force.
ana that the allies have established
their Headquarters at Tung Chau.
Chinese officials I'm Shanghai are re-
ported as admitting that the allies in
iilcted heavy defeat on the Chinese
imperial troops around Tung Chau
sunday and then marched direct on
Pekin.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-17
A GREAT RIOT
IN NEW YORK.
Scenes Nearly as Bad as Those
in New Orleans.
THE POLICE WERE ACTIVE.
a Howlins Mob Rushed About Seeking the
Flood of Negroes Fifty Men Were
Wounded More or Less Seriously, and
Forty Arrests Mado IA Number of Shots
Fired Panic Among women-Hospital
Ambulanccs Were Kept Busy Removing
The Injured.
(By Telegraph to virginian-pnot.)

(By Telegraph to Virgnian-P ilot.)
New York. Aug. 16.-Peace was not
restored in the anti-negro riot district
until after o'clock this morning. Dur
ing the riot it is estimated that 500
police were on duty. and ambuances
from every hospital in West Side were
Kept busy. y police estimate of the re-
suit puts the number OF wounded at
fifty and the number of arrests at
forty. The most determined and des-
perate handt o-hand fight. which oc-
Cured during the riot, was that be-
tween Detective John Kennedy and the
negro Lloyd Lee. Lee acted like
mailman when Kennedy ordered him to
move on. Refusing TO do SO, he said
to- Kennedy:
II know you. You are Thorpe's part
ner. have been laying for YOU" and
at the same time he slashed Kennedy
in the shoulder, intlicting deep
wound, Kennedy pulled his revolver
and fired four shots. One bullet went
through Lees jaw.
GOT y BEATING.
Policemen came running from differ
cnt direction and went in search of Lee
In the search another negro, David II
Carr. got terrible beating. and when
he was taken to Bellevue 1T was found
that he had n fractured skull. a frac-
tured arm and a battered face Ken
nedy was taken to the New York Hos
pitat. Later he was taken to Bellevue.
where he identified Lee as his assailant
When Lee saw Kennedy he Kissed
forth: