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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
OYSTER FISHING IN FUTURE.
Submarine Boats win Make She Blyalve
 More Accessible.

Submarine Boats Will Make She Blvalve
 More Accessible.
 The submarine boat will revolution. 3ze the oyster industry. When in Ches- apeake bay cruising the old Argonart frequently settled down on oyster beds and. with the permission of the owners, procured all the oysters desired by reaching down through the sea door. The new Argonaut can employ this method of gathering oysters, rising to the surface when her divtng-room is full, or send out divers, who can place the oysters collected in buckets or re- ceptacles, which those on the surface can haul up. When bays and rivers are frozen over and 0ystermen cannot ply their trade the Argonaut can go under the ice. Fishing can also be carried on easily on the bottom with nets, for the fish have no fear of the object they evidently consider a whale, and swim from every direction toward the glare of the electric lights shining through the ports. Sponge fishing will engage the attention of the first sue- cessful submarine yoyagers. Good sponges are becoming dearer, for the supply in sE How water is running short. The divers cannot go deeper Khan twenty-five feet, and the best sponges are found in deep water. To this deep water the Argonaut will go and, gathering the finest sDonges, put them on the market at a price no great CT than that paid for the common va. rieties. She will also try pearl fishing, now conducted at an enormous expense of life, for by strange freak of na- ture= pearl oysters are generally found In localities where bad weather pre- vails and hurricanes and typhoons are frequent These the =8rgonaut, under the water, need not fear, and her div CTS, insead of gathering up the oysters by the single handful can gather them by the bushel.-Lppincott.s.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
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4 native Maori chteftain, the des. cendant of eannibal kings, is now com pieting lis medical education in Chi. cago. Cannibaltsm ended in his tribe, he eays 1hen Bishop selwyn converted his gra nafather; but he tells some stories 3f t which have distinctly humorous flavor. For instance: It is said that once a chief captured q mis- sionaFy who was anything but a tooth some mofsel, as he was old and thin, and looked as f his flesh would be tough. The missionary warned the chief that he would not make 8 good dinner and pulling Up his trousers. cut a slice off the calf of his leg and offered 1t to the chief The chief tast- ed ft. sad ae didn't like it, and passed it ta asaahief The sub tasted it, made fsee, and passed 1t on. The 4a aa3 look bite of it spa The missionary was re- }eas he had gone 1t was dis ee he A4He i cork leg.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
HATS OF OUR ANCESTORS.
Changes That Rave Taken Place i
 Manufacturing Heaagear.

Changes That Rave Taken Place in
 Manufacturing Headgear.
 Speaking of the hat business. said veteran of the business to the local historian. most wonderful changes have taken place since 1s50 h olden times soft felt and derby hats were not known, and it was as late as 1843 when silk dress hats were first intro- dueed in this country, this being a French invention, and all silk plush used for hats in the world was, up to this time, made in France. When Kos auth came to America he introduced the soft felt hats, wearing one him. self It did not take American matters long to take up the idea, and in less than one year old and young Ameri- cans covered their heads with Kossuth hats. They were in shape nearly the same as tourist hats now. only being trimmed up with a nice, long ostrich plume. Along about 1858 an English tourist came along with the derby hat, and in very few years they became the general headgear in the country, and up to the present date the demand for soft hats and derby hats is nearly evenly divided. In those days all the best class of soft mats were imported from France, and stiff derbtes from England. This, how ever, has taken a material change, as American hats are now sold in all parts of the globe, and it is a known fact that we produce the most tasty and best hats made. Before the ar rival of Kossuth and the English tour ist, however, the Americans did not go bareheaded, but contented them selves with mapped otter and mapped beaver hats, for the more expensive, and the so-cal1ed seratch-up or brush hats for the cheaper. Brush or scratch up derive their name from the fact that nap was raised on them by means of stiff brush constructed of whale homes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
FORTUNES IN HARD WOODS.
Biz Advance in Thei1 Values During
 the Past Tear.

Biz AdsaHee in THei9 Values During
 the Past Tear.
 The hardwood business has Increased to such mammoth proportions in the last decade that Chicago is unquestion- ably the largest consuming market fn the world. The receipts so far this year indicate that by January there will have been placed in the forty diff ferent yards fully 100000 900 feet, valued at upward of $50 1000, ,000. The largest consumers of thisvast amount of hardwood are the BIO furniture fac tories, the many piano and organ makers, the agricultural machine man utaetHrefs. the palace car works and the building interests. An inventory completed week ago showed 30,000.- 900 feet in stock at the Pullman yards. European demand for black walnut takes nearly all of the limited supply of that wood. leaving only enough to meet the piano and organ require ments. Indiana and Ohio. the best forest states in the counfry, wasted more of this valuable wood in rail fences and in fires than the value of the remainder of their trees, and those states are now being secured for the rails, which can be made into table legs and similar pieces. One tree near Goshen, Ind, recently sold for S5,d00, and eighty trees brought $20,000 -Four trees shipped to Europe sold for $10,- 000.. The Indiana sycamore is valuable. finishing in bright red with bird's-eye dot. It is used mostly for small fancy boxes. White walnut is used mostly for carvings for churches and finishing for expensive residences. Butternut and chestnut form most Of the codina Chicago Chronicle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
hIikf- Simmer Lin aerl 2.

The silk skiGe has beea pressed de. eidetly cut of service this summer. foI the a8intf5 huttX Ens Ni#5 nave Hctus ns bat lingerie tg match 0E4E the skirts are worn. and aese are made leht Al tha hiH5 wes may eia6aHatez sE t3Hla.1.2ea fl5#e ae5zg n4. be He#e#t eaeH Azefe ii all Ii is he'd Ia place eib8QHs taat tls in aaW a#ef f6e
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
MORE ENGLISH IRON.
Timely Discovery at Kent in the Dover
 Coalfeld.

Coaineid.
 When the coal boring was put down at Dover about six or eight years ago, by MT. F. Brady, on the site of the old Channel tunnel works, there were indi- cations in tie cores of the presence of iron ore in the strata between 500 and 500 feet from tie surface. The indica- tions have now proved correct, says the London Chronicle. h the course of sinking the No shaft bed of valu- able oolitie iron ore has just been struck at a depth of rather less than 600 feet. Tbe seam proves to be no less than twelve feet thick and probably ex- tends over a great area, the quantity being practically unlimited The diam "ter of the shaft is twenty feet and the quantity brought to the surface in passing through the twelve feet amounted to about $50 tons. Samples of the ore have been submitted to anal ysis, with highly satisfactory results, a washed sample of the ore yielding 45.8 per cent of iron. On visiting the col- fiery works today 1 inspected a eonsid- erable bulk of the ore and the mana ger informed me that a washed sample tested at the works yielded between 50 and 60 per cent ol iron The analysis shows that the ore is free from sul- phur and phosphorus. The ore is stat ed to be of much richer quality than the Wealden ironstone, worked in Kent and Sussex a century ago Prof. Boyd Dawkins, in a paper read before the British association in 1894, described D sample obtained from the original boring. From this it appears that this bed of iron ore is identical with that described by Blake and Hudleston at AbbotsDury, in Dorset, where it occurs between the Kimmeridge clay above and the G7ralIian rocks below. It is also practically identical with the val aable iron ore worked for many years in NEestbury, Wiltshire. The ironstone presents very singular physical char acteristies. It is composed of dark brown, shining grams of hydrated OK idle of iron. like mil1et seed, imbedded In crystalline base. partly Of cal- cipm aud partly of iron carbonate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
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Richard sm mitaand H 4#e. af nhi- adsIRhia, Wl'l erect building ia tAat ajty designed b furnish sef aaa 0lay=Hogms f5f such children s may bo brought thele A5as recreation 5g parents, guardians and other caree8b- CTS. The building is to be seYen6y-six 0y ifty-tGo feet and is 70 contain q play room for bad weather reception and toilet rooms. 3 room win cots for tired or sick children. =dlspensary with a trained nurse, a diet kitchen and room with mattresses on the goor for babies to tumble about in.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
THE KfPU.
A Bunch of Strings Used by the Auslenaa
 to Keep Accounts.

to Keep Accounts.
 Dr Max Uhle, distinuighed Ger man scientist, has been for many years engaged in archaeological ex- plorations in Peru He HOW rat1 ns to that country under the auspices of the American Exploration society, for the purpose Of clearing some of the =unsoIYed problems Of the ancient civ- ilization of the Incas and to complete a collection for the museum of the University of Califernia.. Ha bad made a similar collection for the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Dr. Uhle proposes to remain two years in Peru ito complete his work Among other important discoveries of Br. Uhie is the k!pu, collection of knotted strings of different colors, which were used by the people of the ancient ciyiliza- tions of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for the purpose of keeping accounts. They had no written language and no sys- tenn of figures. Their arithmetic con sisted solely of little knotted strings. Among the primitive villages of the Andes the descendants of the Tncas depend upon the kipH for keeping ac- counts, and Dr. Uhle was So fortunate as to discover them in tae hands of Indian herdsmen, who used them so skillfully that they are able to make R record of every animal. every bushel of feed and article of property that ia =lntrqsted 10 their care The =colors of the different shiDss represent dfffer- ent articles saah as Raf1ey. corn. sheep. rams. ewes, lambs horses. etc. while the knots. by their size and dis tanee from each other, express hun- areds,# tens end units. in such q aaan. ger as to accurately fne'u1e the deef- nalss For example. one of the =l4ipus obtained ny pr ThIe from shepherd near Lake Titaeaea showed that he had delivered 387 sheep. 285r rams 12I Iamhs year old. and e9 stHlI vaaneers she number of bushels of barley that Had= been ased. the number of sheen killed and furnished to the kitchen of the owner =of the flock. and the num- ber eaten by the shepherds. the num- Der that died ofz disease. the number killed sild animals and by aeei= dent as completely and as accurately
 s it he'd all been sci down by 5on9te-ectag bookkeeping.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
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Oregon Indians have curious names
 Recently Ra Indian named Shot His MotAer-ia-Eaw sued 2 warrant Of the treasnry dapa1tMeetl and ether wei Eho~n names are Finds Them and Kills Them. Kis Over Beyond tAe Other 3e9B oa Forehead, Rear Goes ta Other Grounds, Csazs sisten-in=5-a Rogafs aaa in ELS Face. Got Many Ea- em Looks taae eHeuR5. Steals oa sle Camp. Hears Every Way. Strikes ou the Toa as the lead On Top as the House s sAe Mountain, Bull oonE Fa1 Down Does Many Good Things. Kettle TAat Bails. Strikes at Night kIs Coming to the Birds.
 Bird Tail That Rattlas. Charges Madly on the Enemy. Gets Hold Of the Dead, Knot Between the Eyes, Goes to Look at the Prisoner, and Sits in the Aitddls.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
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\ hst has been made Of 6Haaez5as in England where incense is used and which viii therefore He affected F. the recent decision of the afc85ishops. There are 2s9 ia England and perhaps more-the diocese where the ase is most common being London. with for ly-siX churches The northwest of England is comparatively free from the practice,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
aaase u Cannon Ball House Dead.

Paaick Conner is dead at Wiaehes. tel Aa. Ee achieved fame as the oWaez If zae celebrated and historic Cannon HaH heaze This house was aa94=za thfeasa bs q twentx-four pound aal lr0m Mi,ray Ferry fort. on the a.es eta heights of the city. MT 1onner and lis children had jQst left thef ae4s 8t t6e time, and the ball sa5a5a1ed #tbe beds into fragments. Atte1Eard the saat Waa recovered and
 laeel- Ln Lhe aase,ifsa IR t53e outside .,all E a4re # las gHm&saea aee
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-20
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10000 acres of good timber lands for sale 2.ooo acres of cleared lands for sale, along the line of the Arkansas Midland Railroad. Free sites for factories and mills.
 For farms OF timber lands, ad 3ress-
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The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Successor to Hitchborn.

New York, December 30.-The Times to- morrow will print the following:
 There is much interest in the navy over the appointment of a successor to Rear Admiral Philip Hrchborn, chief of the bureau of construction and repair, at the Navy Department, who will be retired on March next.
 Captain John F. Hanscom, now on in- spection duty at the Cramps shipyard at Philadelphia, is at the head of the eligible list, but Captain Francis T. Bowles, at tached to the Brooklyn navy yard, is being strenuously urged for the place. Captain Hanscom will be retired May 21, 1904, while Captain Bowles will remain on the active list until October [. 1920. !"
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
AMERICA PLEASED.
Minister Wu is Somewhat Puzzled as
 to What it Means.

Washington, December 30.-The report that the Chinese plenipotentiaries had been directed to sign the joint note is a source of satisfaction to officials here, as showing disposition on the part of the Chinese gov- ernment to heed the desire of the powers that the negotiations shall be entered into at once and the present unsatisfactory con- dition of affairs be terminated. One-of the principal objections said to have been made by the Chinese to the location of any great number of legation guards in Pekin is that these guards would be menace to the ex- isting Chinese government. As has been already stated in these dispatches the United States government does not desire the absolute demolition of the Taku forts, ready access to the Chinese capital of a foreign force would not be prevented.
 MT Wu, the Chinese Minister, is some what puzzled as to just what construction to place on the Pekin dispatch. All along he has regarded the demands conveyed in the joint note as harsh and severe, and the statement that it had been signed lieve that in all probability what the Em- peror has directed is that the Chinese plen- ipotentiaries proceed to discuss in friend ly manner with the envoys the terms of the agreement with view as stated in the Pe- kin dispatch, to obtain the best terms poss- dhle
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
MRS. NATION THE JOINT NRECK[R
 SAYS SHE WILL MAXI. CLEAN SWEEP

Wichita. Kan, December 2o-Mrs. Carrie Nation, the w. .. T. U. joint wreclSer, has refused h&9i secured by her co-work- CTS. She now says that under no circum- stances will she step out of jail until cleared of the charge against her, and the W e. T. U. committee that had taken up the matter has practically abandoned its efforts to secure her release.
 'As sit alone in this cell and think of how many boys are going to the dogs be- cause of this vile traffic in liquor I am willing to endure anything for the cause" Said the prisoner. ''When leave this , '.rison I will not be conquered. I will go p' to other cities. and there do just what I onftve done in Wichita There are thousands n6f joints and open saloons taking the money and manhood of the young men, and officers stand by and take fines and bribes and allow such awful work to continue. appeal to the people in the east to stop such abuses of the law. I admit that my method of wrecking saloons has been rath- ar out of bounds of sAe general custom,
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
The Best Terms Possible Are
 Asked by the Edict
ESPECIALLY AS TO THE GUARDS
u Hung Chang and Ching Say the Elm peror Wants to Return to Pe- kin at the End of
 February.

Pekin, December 3O.-The Chinese pleni- dd to sign the preliminary joint note and have notified the foreign envoys to that ef- feet
 The Chinese themselves were greatly as- tonished at receiving the imperial instruc- tions
 Neither Li Hung Chang nor Prince Ching had expected success in persuading the court under ten days.
 The Emperors instructions are to agree fully to the note, but to endeavor to get the best terms possible, particularly in the matter of limiting the number of the lega- tion guards and also as to the place where these are to be located.
 The plenipotentiaries are instructed to endeayor to limit the number of army posts along the line of railway to as few as possi- ble and finally to request the powers not to destroy the forts, but merely to disarm them.
 Ii Hung Changs health is bad and 1t is doubtful whether he will be able to do more than afax his signature to an instru- ment delegating his powers to Prince Ching, until another plenipotentiary has been ap- pointed. He was dressed this morning and carried in a chair to the residence of Prince Ching, with whom he held a long consulta- tion Prince Ching then called upon the Doyen of the diplomatic corps, the Spanish minister, Senor De Bologna, and requested him to notify the other envoys that instruc- tionss had been received from the Emperor to sign the note.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
ACCEPTED ALL CONDITIONS.
The Chinese, Want knitary Operations
 to Cease at Once.

London, December 30.-Wiring to the Times from Pekin yesterday, Dr. Morrison says.
 ''The Chinese have accepted all the con- ditions of the joint note They are send- ing their formal acceptance by an envoy and ask that negotiations should com mence forthwith and military operations cease.
 ''Li Hung Chang Is much better although greatly shaken.
 Five expeditions are now operating. Every report tells of increasing unrest The policy of depriving the Chinese of all power to exercise authority is spreading disorder broadcast and forcing peaceful Chinese into opposition"
 In dispatch dated December 2S Dr. Morrison srends a long protest against German harshness, which, he says, is cre- ating instead of checking disorder. He &C., cuses the Germans of raking the country and punishing the innocent and the guilty indiscriminately in order to levy fines for defraying their own military expenses and to form an excuse for continued hostile occupation.
 He also charges Count von Waldersee with a breach of faith on the ground that he gave Li Hung Chang a map defining the area of the occupation of the province
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
\ANOTHER/BRITISH
 P0ST IS CAPTURED
BOers Take 200 Prisoners and Leave Fifty English
 Soldiers Killed and Wounded

my eyes, and started with me afoot through woods. We went in roundabout way over steep hills, and just before day was led into the Blountsville and oneonta road on the top of the hill just above where MT. Edwards lives This was just opposite from the direction of my home, from Blountsville. The men told me that l was at the edge of Blountsville, and for me to go to the post office, and that Mir. Bynum, who was always up early, would take care of me. So l am here 1 don't know what it all means"
 Thought to be Saints"
 Not a few of the people think that the kidnappers belong to a band of Saints" who have been holding a meeting near Blountsville lately, and claim to hail from Tennessee.
 MT Todd and MT. Tolbert, students of the school here, went up the Mulberry river yesterday and found the old house where the Strong woman was temporarily Imprisoned. The jug of water and Strong note were found on the floor.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31

but something desperate is necessary.
 ''If the people of the east who are for temperance will lend me their moral sup port and influence, with the few hard working temperance women of Kansas we will be able to get rid of the joints in Kan sas, and I don't think they would ever come back. All want is people to help me out of these scrapes when wreck saloons. need money to pay my fines so can get out and go at it again, instead of lying in jail. True, can now get out on ball and go to smashing up saloons again, and I may yet decide to do such work, but I want to make clean sweep as I go and not have fines hanging over my head Aid is what Is needed. Money to prosecute this work must be forthcoming immediately. I will make the saloon men sorry, and in three Months there will not be a joint in the State. point with pride to what work have already accomplished in Medicine Lodge and Kiowa Both towns are devoid of joints because of my work, and no one will deny it."
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Kitchener Says He is Following
 With Small Force
LONDON PRESS IS STILL HOPEFUL
Notwithstanding That Another Reverse Comes With the End or the Gen. tury the Papers Think End
 of t..e War is Near.

London, December 91-The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener:
 Pretoria, December 30, 7:50 a. m-Gen- eral Lyttleton reports that our post at Helvetia was captured yesterday morning by the Boers. About fifty were killed and wounded and 200 taken prisoners
 Colonel Kitchener reports that he Is following with a small force in the track of the enemy, Helvetia being reoccupied by Reeves, who has been reinforced from Bei- fast.
 ''Helvetia was a very strong position on the Machadorp-Lydenburg Railroad, and was held by detachment of the Liverpool Regiment Am asking for further infor- nation
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Imperial Court Will Return.

Shanghai, December 3O.-There are per sistent reports in circulation here that the imperial court is preparing to return to Pekin Chinese advices from the capital say that ninety carts with mules and horses have been dispatched to Tai Yuen Flu to meet and bring back the imperial personages and their entourage.
 It is also asserted that Emperor Kwang Su has summoned Hu Ping Chi, former governor of the province of Shan Si, to Sian Flu to accompany him to Pekin.
 The Mohammedan rising in the province of Kan Su is spreading and the troops of the vfceroy of the province of Hu Nan are alone able to hold their own against the rebels.
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
CHICAGO PREACHER
Says Give the Fllpinos Liberty for
 New Century Gift.

Chicago, December 30.-Prof. M. Man. gasarian, well known Chicago Congre- gational clergyman, tonight delivered a lecture on "The Close of the Century" at the Grand operahouse. He spoke in part as follows:
 Let the American people celebrate the birth of the twentieth century by a memor- able act-give liberty to the Filipinos Victor Hugo used to say that no festival or celebration was complete which did not bring amnesty or pardon to some people, let us pardon the Filipinos for rebelling against our sovereignty, if that is the crime we charge them with, and in addi- ton, let us confer upon them liberty"
The age-herald., 1900-12-31
Imperial Edict communicated.

Paris, December 30.-The Havas Agency has received the following dispatch from Pekin:
 Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang have communicated to the foreign envoys an im- perial edict in which the Emperor declares that China accepts the joint note and au- thorizes Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang to negotiate and to ask for a suspension Of hostilities.
 Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang say that Emperor Kwang Su has expressed the desire that the court should return to Pekin at the end of February"