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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
TO THE Residents of Pine BLd AND VICINITY l

The City Market will re.c,,| Monday, October I, to retail s| clusively a high grade of N,l1 Morris & Company's west,,| dressed fresh meats, fine sau,ap1 canned meats, packing house id cacies, Lard, Breakfast Baco Dried Beet and Sugar Cuu| Hams, A. C. L. Haase & so1 Smoked, Salted and Picked Fx| also Fine Fancy Fresh Fish lro3 Lake, River and Ocean, Kalan| zoo Celery, New York Cou11 and Baltimore extra Select 0ya CTS, Dressed Poultry, Wild Dqd| Quail and Rabbits in seaso1 Pickles, Potatoes, Cabbage al Caulif1oWer. And expect | courteous treatment, intellg.7 service, prompt delivery ad charging reasonable prices 1 merit a continuance of your ua ed patronage.
 R. P. HOLMES, Prop
 4Io West 2d A1
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PiokoNs AND THE CHINESE
How the Ce1estiaIs Make the Bird'
 Eager for Circling.


 The Chinese have made pigeon fyins She decoying game that it is because shay like any kind Of playing fol keeps says St. Nicholas. Even 1T kite-fying, they fiy little hooks to theil kite strings and try to pull in each other's kites, and count it fa1r to keeI any kite that drops into uheic yards They will tell yea that kite or strange pigeon that comes tc your place, If given up, takes away youl family luck" So you must tear the kite and keep the pigeon. Hut when you see the town daneies saunterine out with their fans and bird cages to watch the noon kite flying. critieis. ing the fiocks and their tactics, and arguing the fine points of decoying you guess that family luck" has very little to do with their game. To deeoy strange pigeons, pigeon keepers must first train their f1ocks to "fiy in spir. als, '-that is, to rise steadily in circles without straying far from the home roof. Pigeons naturally fly together ir circles Even wild pigeons whee about in flocks before struggling off to the fields Chinese make their birds eager for circling by keeping them shut up in a wicker house built on the ground around the dovecote, and they cure their birds of struggling by pelt- ing them with pebbles when they try to alight anywhere except on one spot --the ridge-pole of the roof facing the wicker house. The flock must alight here in a bunch, and immediately walk down to the caves. This is done to bring any strange pigeon among them down within sight of the grain, which is then scattered on the floor of the wicker house. Pigeons are fed only after flying, for unless hungry, they are lazy and manageable. Their food is millet. sorghum seed or corn. which their keepers use to get as much work from them as possible. When there is much flying and calling down to do, they are usually fed with millet, which is so small that 1t keeps them eating long time without filing them. At other times their food is sorghum seed. Corn is not very good for pig. cons, but they are so fond of it that pigeon keepers usually have 1t on hand to call them down when they are al. >~.>s-- S
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
A Cats Long Jump.

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch: How far can cat jump without hurting itself was partially exemplified in Brooklyn. A pretty white cat ran up tree to get away from dog. and at last craWled out on 8 small branch at least sixty feet above tae ground. The branch was not much more than 2 twig, and the cat could Eact turn around. She sat up there on ......a swaying limb and meowed. At last el le twig broke. and down came the cat. She alighted on the ground on her feet, looked around for moment. and then bounded away. Which shows that sixty-foot drop es not hurt a Brooklyn cat, what 1t might do to cats of other places.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
Rays Find False Teeth.

Albert Brown, an aged and paralytie citizen of Paterson, N. J.. was out and In set of false teeth for two days. He swallowed them Sunday, and as he could not speak the whereabouts of the artificial grinders was mystery. It was decided that since he could not have walked away with them and could not have thrown them away be. cause of his paralyzed condition. he must have swallowed them. The K rays discovered tbs missing set of mouth upholstery snugly reposing in the upper part of the esophagus They were successfully removed and clamp cd to their proper position.-~New York Journal.
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Lew Wallace on the Sultan.

Gen. Lew Wallace. the author oi Ben Hur," and former United States minister of Turkey, said of the sul- tan: T think am better acquainted with the sultan of Turkey than pos Eibly any other American, and I know that he is an honest man and never knew him to break promise. Not a Christian church is burned or mis- sion destroyed but the sultan is the first man to subscribe to rebuilding. know this to be so. Abdul Hamid is a distinguished scholar and a diplomat; if it were not so the Ottoman empire would have been wiped out long ago. sor the hand Of every ruler in. Europe is against him. He prevents them from acting together and: thus pro serves his throne"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
You Ought to Make Up

your mind right now what you are going to have in your home this summer; then you ought to come right along this way, and look over this stock of ours. Are you going to enter tain your friends in the same old chairs. at the same old table, and on the same old carpetsp Why not have things fresh and newl Needn't buy all at once. Get a piece now and a piece little lat CT. If you buy here, the first piece will be as good as the last piece.
 BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
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Anti-Atcoh olic Serum.

Anti-alcoholic serum, says a Paris correspondent, is now an accomplished fact. Dr. Sappelier and Dr. Thebault announced recently to the Academy of Medicine that their experiments, chief. ly upon horses, had been efficacious, and asked for a committee to examine tie practical results of their researches in producing inyincible disgust, not only for spirituous liquors. but for wine and other beverages containing lesser proportions of alcohol.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
FINE COFFEE CROP.
Peculiar Way in Which the Natives
 Prepare the Bean.

Prepare the Bean.
 Coffee is exported from Puerto Rico in larger quantities than is any other native product, and while but little ot 1t finds it's way into the American mar ket under the brand Puerto Rican," an immense quantity, according to Gen. Roy Stone, is sold here as genuine Mocha and Java. The average Puerto Rican countryman. even though his children have neither shoes for their feet, nor clothing for their backs, owns his private coffee patel. from which by occasional pickings, he secures enough of the little round berries to keep the family supplied. The exporting, how ever, is done by large growers-mer who have plantations which cover hur- 6reds of acres. mostly upon the well drained mountain sides. The plants, CT trees" as they are sometimes call. ed, are grown at intervals of from six to eight feet, and after reaching night of about five feet are trimmed off that no strength may be wasted in surplus foliage. The flowers, which are pure white in color, have rich fra grance. Each berry contains two seeds, or beans, and as these are gathered before fully ripened, they are dried in the sun. It is common sight to See coffee drying on bnrlaps, or mats, iD the city streets. The average Puerto Rican has little or no use for coffee mill. He bakes his coffee until it is black, and then gripds it to a powder ill huge mortar. When ready for use it closely resembles gunpowder, tho beverage made from it looking very much like ink. Some of the natives since the close of the Spanish regime, nave learned to prepare cup of coffee on the American plan, but these belong to very small minority of the popula- tion.-Leslie's Weekly.
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 .srhe twenty-four hour system os Keeping time ,las just become the of- ficial standard in France" said MT. Jules Lacori, of Paris, at Chamber lain'S
 'The twenty-four hour clocks are al ready an established institution in Russia, and believe that their official sanction in our country will lead to the adoption of the system on French rail- roads, which would surely lead to the extension If the plan throughout Italy, Switzerland and Spain. should think, considering the manifest merits of the new way, the railways of the United States, which are the most progressive in the world, would soon take 1t up and have doue with the anclent system, SO confusing and misleading through the enforced use of a. m. and D. m. Tbe twenty-four hour clock system is an ideal one for the railways, absolutely preventing all danger through the dup lication of hours for day and night. It Is the cnning system. and [ look to zee 1t iL operation in America In the ssar Sutura Washington Pest
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
Arkansas Midland RaiIIoad Lauds,

5o,ooo acres of good timbe, lands for sale 2,ooo acres oi cleared lands for sale. along the line of the Arkansas Midland Railroad. Free sites for factories and mills.
 For farms or timber lands. ad dress,
 G. UPDEGRAFF,v .
 General Freight Agent,
 sidl Helena, Arkansas
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
Waited for One Cent Change.

sl never felt so cheap in all my life,t sald Short. eas l did one day in a de- partment store. l bought book for e9 cents and while l was waiting for Ii young woman, whose good opinion valued, came up and we began to talk The book was wrapped up and handed to me by the girl at the counter and after short while the young woman eeked: Are you waiting for yous changer l replied that I was but, it tact, hadn't been thinking of it. l wanted to talk to hel. and made that an excuse for staying. After the usua. delay, when it had passed entirely out of my mind, the girl at the book coun. ter stepped up and said: Here's your change, sir. And she held a bright new cent iD her open hand so that the other girl saw it. 1 felt a chill at once and just because it appeared to the young woman that I had been waiting all that tlnie for z. cent got reputation for closefstedness that sp atill stiekiLg to me. ."-PittsEurg News
 Tho Law of Ltbei in Germany.
 More light on the law of libel comes from Germany. A presiding magistrate r'aled that ITO call g. man pig or a dog would be an insult, put to say he was a pig-dog was noffensive-such an an- imal did not exist, and, therefore, ths term could not be described as an in suit" The irritated plaintiff made his bow, adding; Very well, MT. Judge; ,good-morning. You are a schweine- nund!" There was commotion in court, but the magistrate could not Ko back on lis definition of the term.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
EARLY LAMPS AND WtoKs. :.
The Latter Were Commonly the PIth
 of the Rush.

Tue Latter Were Commonly the PIth
 of the Rush.
 1t would be hazardous to ee ljeeture what the first wick consisted of, but Shen we come to consider the iron lamp or "crusie,' we know that the wick commonly used was the pith or the rush, which was gathered and par tially stripped of it's outer green cover ing, cut Into proper lengths, dried and tied up into bundles ready for use. The Iron lamp was hammered out of one piece of iron in stone mold This and the moids are still to be seen in museums, In the hands of private col lectors, and, no doubt at some of the country blacksmith shops. They arc of uniform shape, with some slight va- rieties. The lamp consists Of two cups, me suspended above and inside ths other. The suspender is so fixed and notched as to enable the upper cup. which holds the oil and wick, to be shifted, and to keep the oil constantly in contact with the wick. The lower cup catches the drip of the oil, which can be easily replaced in the upper cup by lifting 1t off until the oil Is poured into it. The upper cup has sometimes moveable lid. There Is remarkable resemblance not only between the iron crusies in this country, but to those on the continent and in Egypt. They preserve the same general shape, but differ iL the material from which they are made. The Pompeian lamps, or at least some of them, might be described as three crusies in one. The cup of the lamp Is the same, but 1t has provision for three lights. The oil used in the Scotch lamps was of the coarsest kind. On the west coast the oil used was, and is still, fish oil. The material for wicks was variable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-07
The Good News SpreaoS

The Good News SpreaoS .,,
 and our bus'11 grows larger, and the pfless l CT, every day. People cops ms from all parts of the city. / ever they need anythingg, g,,. h line, they think of us. Ws furnished more cozy homes we could possibly rlalns ,,l have done it to the ownefS '.' faction, and we can do v thing for you. .,r,t
 FURNITURE F co'
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13

ley should be indorsed or repudlated
The points brought out by Senator
Foraker and dwelt upon by him in his
Youngstown speech were given special
emphasis by President Mckinley in his
letter of acceptance the following day.
Things look dark for Candidate
Yates, who aspires to succeed Hon. j.
e. Blackburn as State Dairy and Food
Commissioner, but the discovery that
the cleomargarine people had brought
about his nomination has resulted in
the State Dairymen's Union, the
State Dairymen's Association, and the
Executive Committee of the State
Grange taking action looking to his
defeat. In resolutions adopted at the
annual meeting of these associations
last week Yates was pronounced as
being incompetent for the place.
The New York Sun makes the une-
quivccal statement that the national
Democratic campaign managers are
back of the effort to bring about a
strike among the Anthracite coal min
ers in Pennsylvania for the good which
they hope may result to the national
Democratic ticket. There appears to
be nothing which the Democrats in
their desperation to secure Office and
bring ruin upon the people would not
resort to- though the suffering among
the miners and their families if a
strike should ensue. would be some
thing terrible to contemplate. The
merchants in the ccal mining towns
say there is no reason for a strike, and
having no sympathy with the move
ment they could not and would not
contribute to their support as they
have done in the past.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13
The Marietta Daily Leader.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1S, 1900


How many in Monroe county can
say they were. prosperous the past four
years? Now don't all speak at once
Times.
Nearly every one can say that he
Jared better during the past three years
than he did under the Cleveland soup
house regime. A comparison of time
and prices looms up something like
this:
Do you know that one bushel of corn
will buy 21a pounds of coffee, when in
1896 it bought but two-thirds of a
pound?
That one bushel of wheat will buy
13 yards of gingham, while in 1896 it
bought but 10 yards?
That one bushel of oats will buy six
pounds of rolled cats, while in1S96 it
bought 21s pounds?
That 329 bushels of corn will buy a
binder, while in 1896 it took $50 bush
els?
udl II buShtlS VI wi II W pus q
wagon, while in 1896 it took 344 bush
els, or that 100 bushels of wheat will
buy the same wagon. while in 1896 ii
took 10 bushels?
That Al bushels of corn will buy a
chilled plow, while in 1896 it took 1OC
bushels?
That one pound of wool will buy
Az yards of calico, while in 1896 ii
bought 21a yards?
That nine bushels of corn vii buy a
keg of nails, and in 1896 it took 1C
bushels?
That three bushels of corn will buy
12 yards Of Lonsdale muslin. of which
it took five in 1896?
That SO pounds of wool will buy you
a good suit that it took 109 to buy in
1896?
That 131A pounds of wool will buy a
pair of shoes which it took % pounds
to buy in 1896?
That 3S 1-5 bushels of wheat will buy
a set of harness that it took 80 bushels
to buy in 1896. or that sc bushels OF
corn will buy, while it took 155 bush
els in 1885, or that 100 bushels of oats
will buy, while it took 25O bushels in
1896; or 113 pounds of wool will buy
while it took 227 pounds in 1896?
That everything YOU have to sell
will buy more of the necessaries of life
than the same amount would purchase
in 1896?
In 1886 the implement men were be-
sieged with offers to trade horses and
cows for implements, and now you
never hear of any such offer being
made.-Waterloo Gll) Republican
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13
WOMEN IN DUCK TROUSERS.
Many of Those on Yachts Adopt the
White Bifurcnted Gar
ment.

With the advent of the shirt-waist
men obliterating the barrier between
the sexes have come the women who
wear white duck trousers. Quite
number of them have made their APP
pearance about Larchmont and New
Rochelle recently. So far their pres
ence is confined to private yachts. One
woman who returned the other day
from a cruise on the sound with her
husband confessed that she had eX-
perimented with the new style, and
was well pleased.
because a woman wears duck trou-
sers," saiu she, sis not to be taken as
evidence that she is out for lark.
They are the wives of yachtsmen who
are in the boats with them. The
reason the yachting women take to
the new style is because it is much
cooler, and then our skirts are not
dragging in the water in the bottom
of the boats. as is often the case in
catboats and yaws. | am fond of
sailing, ana must say that | can move
about more quickly in trousers than l
can in skirts"
None of the women wearing duck
trousers have been esen on the beach.
| 1t is quite likely that they will be
frowned upon by Larchmont On. "
society, which is growing very strict.
An order was recently issued which
regulates the length of the sleeves
and legs in mems bathing suits. 1t is
suspected that the white duck women
go out on the yachts and make their
| CHANCES there.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13

Broadhurst Brothers production OF
Auditorium tonight with George c..
Bonface in the leading role. 1t is said
THE Man From Mexico" has the great
benefit of a plausible plot. in which
amusing situations come naturally.
The complications are all simple,
which makes them all the funnier.
Being in them, under such conditions
Boniface finds legitimate exercise for
the dry humor which made him so
popular in other days when he did so
many funny things as Jones" in
What Happened to Jones'" In the
character of Fitzhugh, enc can see the
genuine intention, and the proof that
he is one of the very best comedians in
legitimate way that we have. and he
will yet be accepted as an artist in
higher work. Every line he speaks
tells and clever wit is no inconsider-
able factor of the cause. There is no
resisting BOniface.
"The Man From Mexico should dc
big business for it promises to give
us laughter that is refreshing. and en-
tertainment that has nothing gross
about it.
The company is composed of the fol-
lowing we'll known players who will
assist Mr. Boniface in the fun making
Gus PiXley, M. L. Heckert, F. w. Ber-
nard, Robert Deshon, j. Trew Gray
Arthur Villars, d. H. Landon D. w
Siegrist, Helen Baird, Agnes Burke
Adeline Mann and Mildred Keith.
l.. NJ. LUCHS, Mgr.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13
NOTICE.

The Tyler County Bank, of Sisters
vile, w. Va, will take notice that
Shannon L. McCurdy, on the 30th day
of June, 1900 filed his petition in the
Clerks Office of the Court of Common
Pleas of Washington county, Ohio, be-
ing case No. 1851, against the Keystone
Oil and Gas Company, of Chicago, ILL.,,
and the defendant, The Tyler County
Bank of Sistersville, w. Va, alleging
that on the 18th day of December, 1898,
the said S. L. McCurdy executed and
delivered to one ]. M. Childers an oil
and gas lease on 100 acres of land in
Ludlow township, Washington county,
Ohio fully described in said petition.
And that afterwards to-wit: On De-
cember 22, 1898, the said j. M. Child
er for the nominal consideration OF
One Dollar, assigned and transferred
said lease to the Keystone Oil and Gas
Company, of Chicago. Said petition
further alleges that said lease, by rea
son Of an utter want of consideration
therefore, and by its express termS,
was forfeited and became null and void
at the expiration of ninety days from
its date by reason of failure to put
down well on said premises or pay a
monthly rental in lieu thereof. Said
pSlllIOH dllSBtS. lIldI Sdiu Inc
Tyler County Bank, of Sistersyille, w.
Va, claims some interest therein ad-
verse to plaintiffs right in said oil
lease on said 100 acres of land, and
prays that both of said defendants be
required to set up their interest there
in and that they be forever restrained
and enjoined from claimingany interest
in said 100 acre tract or any part there
of or producing any oil or gas there
from or from selling or disposing OF
the same.
The Tyler County Bank will further
take notice that 1t is required to make
answer on or before the 9Th day of Oc-
tober 1900, or judgment we'll be taken
against it.
SHANNON L. McCURDY,
Plaintiff.
w. G. Way, A. D. Follett, his Attys.
Aug. 11-6w-Th
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13
FIRE CANNON AT CLOUDS.
and Meet with Some Degree
of Success.

"An effort is being made in this Sec
tion of France to dissipate hail
storms by firing cannon at the clouds. y
writes Consul Covert at Lyons. Eff
ty-two cannon, manned by 104 can
noneers and their chiefs. have been
distributed over $500 acres of rich
vine land. For the expense of the ex-
pertinent the government appropriate
ed $3.50, the departmental council $26S,
the National French Agricultural So
ciety and number of wealthy vine
growers added $2.3l6 and furnished IA
more cannon. The minister of war
supplied powder for ga cents per
pound. A high point in the vine land
to be covered by the experiments was
selected as the central post of observa-
tion and signal code adopted. When
shot is heard from the central post
all the cannon are fired. at first twice
per minute, more slowly after the first
ten shots.
81 translate the report of the first
firing at the storm clouds this season.
1.-The farmers of Denice were
aroused at 1880 O'Clock on the night OF
June Sc. The storm was severe. The
artillerists, from 40 to so strong, fired
their guns and stopped the thunder
and lightning. In the neigh boring
communes the people saw columns OF
flames rise 200 feet above the cannon
when the shots were fired. At several
places women recharged the cart
ridges
'The wine growers are organizing
to attack the hailstorms in many of the
great wine growing regions of France
The two experiments thus far report
ed are pronounced successful. y writ
er in one of the wine growers organs
says: The results obtained from these
experiments are such that organiZa'
tions will be established at once in al
the places that have heretofore beer
ravaged by hail"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-13

1t is not generally known that in
France it is penal offense to give
any form of solid food to babies under
a year old unless it be prescribed in
writing by a properly qualified med
ical man. Nurses are also forbidden
to use for their charges any sort of
feeding bottle having rubber tube.
These and other equally stringent
laws have recently been enacted by
the French government, for in despair
of increasing the birth rate of their
country they are now doing their ut
most TO save the lives of the COM
paratively small number of babies
who are born.