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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05

General Sir Arthur Cotton, whose
death at the age of 95 was recently an
neunced, was SO Ill in Persia sixty-four
years ago that his grave was dug in
readiness for his death. At the age
OF 1s he went through the Burmese
war, caught the jungle fever many
times. and was, as the old man him
self expressed it. Obliged to quit India
three times under sentence of death"
by the doctors. Twice he had sunstroke
ard once the skin of half his body was
torn off by boiler explosion. After
forty-fve years OF battling with saw
ages and microbes the old man gave
in and returned to England TO die-ae-
cording to the doctors. 1t was the aged
generals firm conviction that by alb
stinence from drink and tobacco he had
placed his lifelong enemy, death, IN
der a tremendous disadvantage.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
what a fatse Report Did.

J. NJ. Sinclair. high sheriff OF Done
gal, Ireland, committed suicide by
shooting himself Aug %, on receipt oil
the announcement that his daughter,
IS years cid. had been drowned in
another part of the county. The lat
ter story now turns out to be false, and
has caused an immense sensation in
the county, where the family is most
prominent. The author of the false
hood, which caused the father to com.
nit suicide. IL unknown,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
JAPANESE BUYING oooDs HERE
Are building Up Home Industries By
the Aid Of chicago Machinery.

the Aid of Chicago Machinery.
Chicago is building up a by no means
insignificant trade with Japan. The
Yankees Of the Orient" are quick to
discern whatever Is of utility to them
IN the mechanic arts, and as a eonse-
quence they are supplying themselves
with machinery for the development OF
their industries direct from the facto-
ries on the shores of Lake Michigan.
III the history of the entire world no
other nation has experienced such a
remarkable growth in its commerce.
with Japan as has the United States.
Japanese official figures give the i'm
portations from the United States in
1893 at 5000, 408 IN and IN 1898 at 40
Q01 ,097 ven Meantime her importa-
fions from England increased fIom 27,-
92s, 62s yen to e2,707.572 yen; those
from Germany from 7.318,194 yen to
25,6t0 96t yen; those from France from
8,305,2 yen to 6,979, 1892 yen, and thoss
from China from 17.095,9 zen to &c..
523, $50 yen. while the only part Of tbs
world which Las experienced an IN
crease at all to be compared with that
OF the United States is the British East
indies, whose increase has becn from
1878, 029 in 1893 to 40.764.244 yen In
1898 Japan's importations have grown
enormously IN the last five years. In
1893 they amounted to 88,257,1 72 yen
and In 1898 to 277, SOP, 166 yen. Mean
time her exports have grown from So
1864 yen In 1898 to 165, 1853, 752 yen IN
1893. Thus the exports have doubled
and the imports have trebled In the pc
Rod under consideration. The dispost-
ton Of Japan Is to look to the United
States for constantly increasing pro-
portion of its supplies. In 1893 the
United States furnished Tess than
per cent of the imports into Japan and
IN 1898 IA per cent, while England,
the principal competitor IN the markets
Of the east, which n 1893 furnished %
per cent OF Japan's importations, n
1898 furnished 22.6 per cent. Not only
have the producers and exporters Of
the United States developed IN the last
few years a disposition to push their
sales IN that country, but Japan herself
Is showing disposition to make her
purchases from the nearest markets
those of the United states-and has
recently established steamship lines
connecting with United States ports.
Japan by reason Of recent events Is the
nearest neighbor to the United States,
aside from those whose territory Is ac-
tually tignous-Canada and Mexico
Her comparatively recent exchange Of
mainland territory to Russia for the
line OF islands stretching northwardly
from her central group brings her ter
ritory to within about 500 miles OF
that OF the United States in the Aleu-
tian chain of islands, while at the
south her newly acquired ISL nd OF
Formosa lies within less than 200 miles
Of the Philippines. Thus not only are
the United States and Japan neighhors
territorially. but their insular posses
eions combined stretch along the en-
tire Pacific coast Of Asia from arctie
20 equatorial waters.a-Chicago Chron
icle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
A remarkable Village.

In New Guiana the village OF Tupu,
selei is most remarkable. The houses
are all supported on piles and stand
out in the ocean considerable dis
lance from shore This is to protect
the villagers from the attacks of the
dreaded head-hunters always looking
out for victims. Other villages in this
queer land are perched up In trees for
the same reason.--Spare MomentA
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
A Great Mans Brain.

The brain of Hermann Won Helm
holtz, who died In 1894, has been care
fully measured, weighed and studied
by Prof. Hansemann of the University
of Berlin. who has recently published
a report on the subject. accompanied
by photographs. The brain exceeded
the average in weight, but heavy
brains are no longer regarded as fur
nishing alone an index Of mental ca
pacity Far more significant are tbs
eonvoiutions of the brain. and these
in HeImholtz's case were remarkable.
the burrows being peculiarly deep and
well marked ii those parts of the brain
which are concerned with mental as
sociations. The frontal eonvo1utions
were 50 deeply farrowed that it was
difficult for the Investigators to follow
the ordinarily recognized assures.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05

Divorces In Engia a q.

In 1861 the population of England
and Wales was about 20,o00.00o. In
that year 25S divorce suits were en-
tered. Ten years later there were 41o
suits among ., 900 900 population. In
1881 there were 61S out of $4,000, 900.
and last year there were s22 out of 3D.
o0o. 00Q
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05

IS = = i ! : Z - -. $50 vtu Ave.
NAN. bis brother. Mr.. George
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
Wedding Houses.

In olden times certain towns and
villages IN England used to possess
a wedding house, where poor couples.
after they had been welded al church,
could entertain their friends at small
cost, the only outlay being the pur-
chase of such provisions for their
guests as they brought with them, the
house for the day being given free OF
navment
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
FlL.IrIC UP SIBERIA.
By Thiz Method Russia Cuts Down Hss
Great Surplus.

Since the commencement OF the
Trans-Siberian railway immigration TO
Siberia has developed with enormous
strides. says the London Leader. Be
tween 1882 and 1885 only $4,000 per-
sons entered the country viz, 50,90s
every year. In 1896 the numbers sud-
denly sprung up to 100000; in 1898
hey reached 205,0O0. The immigra-
ton Is conducted by a committee OF
officials. whose members portion out
me land through which the Few rail-
way runs. Up to the present moment
$1,000 600 acres have been occupied,
and this comprises all the available
agricultural land But. notwfthstanc-
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 rio Of the starving thou
sands in European Russia. There ID
no c1viIizing influence with these fresh
immigrants. The majority are beg
CARS with scarcely more intelligence
than the Asiaties already in Siberia,
The filing up of Siberia by the pres
ent-day process is nothing less than
the useless sacrifice Of thousands OF
napless beings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
sheen and lTater.

do sheep drink" is the question
with which the Westminster Gazette
has started the British silly season. It
has aroused bitter controversy, some
writers standing up for the Psalmist's
and Wordsworth's observations, while
others try to prove that they know
nothing about sheep.-New York Sur.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
Department store Law In Missouri.

The anti-department store law of
Missouri went into effect recently. It
imposes a license fee of from $500 to
$500 a year on all classes of goods
designated by it and sold in any store
giving employment to fifteen or more
persons. The license commissioner,
each city having one, decides whether
the fee shall be minimum, maximum
or intern ate. There are depart
ment stores in Missouri that deal In
ninety and more different classes of
goods At minimum rate, such stores
would be compelled to pay from S27,-
900 year upward In taxes. The small
dealers and merchants in single lines
of goods will fight for the enforce
ment of the law by employing all legal
help possible The department stores
will fight the law, striving to prove
that II L. unconstitutional
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-03-05
Tortured Spanish Prisoners.

In view of the inquiry which It La
Spanish government into the charges
of torturing prisoners In the classmates
Of Montjuieh, in Spain. it may be Of
interest to set out some of the items
in the Indictment made against the
authorities It is said, in the first
place. that a reward of 10000 pesetas
was offered to any jail official wha
could extort an avowaI of guilty from
a prisoner. Acting under this stimu-
1us the jailers are stated e have
forced the wretched creatures under
their control to run round their cells
day and night for eighty hours at a
stretch, heavy whips being used to
keep the victims awake. The officials
are also said to have deprived them OF
all food save salt stock fish and ardent
spirits, confession being the price OF
a glass of water. Not a few paid it.
slaked their thirst. and, it is contend
&c, were summary shot. Il is further
alleged that wedges were driven under
the nails OF the prisoners with ham
meFs an0 allowed TO remain uHllI Tue
nails sloughed away. Even more nor.
rible mutilations are stated not to
have been uncommon. One of tha
most cruel devices was, it is affirmed.
a machine like a divers helmet, fitted
with a tube allowing the victim to
breathe, while a screw compressed
slowly the sides and top, thus produc-
ing inconeeiyable agony. One prfs-
oner, Moras, is stated to have Under
gone this torture more than once, and
to have bees driven mad by Il.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21
prixe, 10 Veteran servnpt..

Prizes to servants who had served
their masters a long time were dis
tributed in Austria on the occasion of
the emperor's SEVENTEEN birthday.
Twenty-one prizes of SIS each were
given for serving 80 years. Among
the recipients were valet of II years
of age who had served his master 46
years; nurse 72 years old. who had
been AZ years in one family; a maid
of all work, n years of age, whose
record was Al years, and a cook,
kitchen maid and a maid of all work,
who had each stayed in one place 80
years.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

fort. 80 we climbed back into our
canoes and pushed out into the water
a ways to watch it. For some time
Frazer sat without saying word, and
we rather wondered at his silence, for
surely the fire recalled some history
of the forest as he knew it.
But it came in time, and for half an
hour we watched the flying flames and
listened to the story of another fire
that had started quite as modestly
as this one had, and equally as mys-
teriously.
at must "a been 40 years ago." be-
gan Frazer; I'm so come next winter,
an l wuz only bout ~ er less then.
when tn lumberin' camp on TIL Ottawa
burned out in fire like to this one.
Pap was workin' fer Jim Clark on the
Ottawa then, an had TUX me along
in TIL fall in TIL hopes O. gittin' job
fer me, too. He got tn job all right,
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

Mark Twain lays great stress on
the pause just before the point, in the
use of which he regards ArteInus
Ward and James Whitcomb Riley as
the greatest adopts. For instance,
Artemus Ward would say eagerly,
excitedly: 81 once knew a man in
New Zealand who hadn't tooth in
his head"-here his animation would
die out: a silent. reflective pause
would follow, then he would say,
dreamily, as if to himself: "And yet
that man could beat a drum better
than any man l ever knew"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

"In is minutes every lumber jack
in tn camp wuz out, an Jim Clark
wuz a-ravin' at 'em like he wuz mad,
but they couldn't never a-put out that
fire. 1t stretched along to tn north
morn a mile. There wuz lot O. snow,
but tn trees wuz all dry an TIL snow
never seemed to stop it at all. We
piled up big snow banks in front O. it,
not having water, but tn snow never
even checked it. Fore an hour that
fire wuz a-jumpin' hundred yards at
crack, an we knowed we wuz in fer
it, but we KEEP a-fghtin' it jist TIL
same.
Pap seemed jist as crazy as Clark,
an got right in amongst tn fallin'
trees, an finally one O. them trees
caught him. l wuz over to another
place then, but when / come back they
told me bout it, AS fer Jim Clark, he
went plum crazy, an besides lost every
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21
TALL PINE INDIANS.
Among Ethnologists They Are
Known as the Wa1lapais.
An Interesting Tribe whose History
Goes Back Many Centuries-The
story They Tell of Their
Origin.
Especial Arizona. letter.

r HAVE just paid long visit to
the Wallapai Indians of Arizona.
A joking friend of mine, who
knows something of this territory,
says there are a number of Indian
tribes here; for instance, there are
the Wallapais, the Havasupais. the
Yamapais, the Pumpkinpies, the
Peachpies and the Applepies, while
to the north are the Uneedabiskits.
The termination, pals, is the Apache
term for people, SO when we hear OF
the Havasupais, and we know that ha
means water and vasu blue, we can
tell that their name signifies 1.-The
people of the blue water" Walla is
the Apache name for tall pine, so
the Wallapais are the people of the
tall pines. And many of them are
tall people. The oldest chief of the
tribe, Serum, generally known to the
whites as Shrum, stands fully six feet
three inches in his stockings (for he
wears stockings and dresses like a
white MANI, while Sus-quat-a-mi gen.
orally known as Wallapai Charley,
stands nearly six feet high, is as
straight as an arrow and has pres
ence that would command respect
anywhere.
This tribe l have named the Bedou-
ms of the Painted Desert, for it is
scattered all over the western por-
ton of that wonderful waste of ex-
uberant color that arrested the at
tention of those old gold-hunting
Spaniards of $50 years ago, who were
the first white men to see this re-
gion, and led them to name it the
Pintado deserto. From Cataract or
Havasu canyon on the east to the
territory of the Colorado river tribes
on the west, and from the Grand can
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

ditta, and the region round about be-
came the nation they now are. Hence
it is that, according to their tradi-
ton, the Paiutis, the Hopis, the Hava-
supais, the Apaches, the Chimchueviss
the Mohave Apaches and themselves
are all part of that great Apache fam
lily, one portion of which has ever
been at war with every other portion,
and which until recently was the ter
ror and bugaboo of all southern Ari-
zonans. In the face of this latter fact
it seems strange that the Wallapais
should have the tradition that the
Apaches left Mattawidditta under the
special guidance and control of Hoko-
mata, the bad god of their people.
Certainly in their dealings with the
whites they have been under the con-
troll Of some warlike and bloodthirsty
power, for until the capture of Gero-
nimo and his band by Gen. Crook
they were always at war against the
hated newcomers.
While the Walapais have posedas q
peaceful people, it is well known that
Serum, Leveleve and Susquat ami have
all gone on the war path against the
whites when it could be done in reason
able safety. A short time before the
train of the Santa Fe railway reaches
Kingman it passes through canyon,
in which, some IS years ago; Serum
stealthily crept upon an unhappy party
of four gold prospectors and slew them
all. Twenty-eight years ago Susqua-
ia mi, with band of braves, rushed upon
a handful of white men who were driv-
ing band of cattle in mid-Arizona. But
they were unprepared for the reception
accorded them. The cattlemen were
not only well armed. but were dead
shots. and in the short and decisive con-
fiict that ensued II of the Wallapai war
chiefs best men bit the dust. And TO
this day, when the leader OF that white
band drinks a little more Arizona
tanglefoot and loosentongue than is
good for him, he swears he will start
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21
UNCUT LEAVES.

oh, a wonderful book is the book OF lie,
Whether the binding be rich and falr
With Nominations, and gildings rife
On the finest vellum, thick and rare,
Or whether the bpding be poor, and mean,
Faded and cheap and fimsy withal,
The veriest prose that was ever seen.
To be found for trihe in any stall
And still the discerning spirit grieves
To know that each volume has uncut
leaves.
IT'S wonderful work from a Masters
hand,
Where comedy, tragedy, smiles and tears
Swiftly tread on the shining sand,
AS the scenes are shifted by passing
years;
And there from the light of day are hid
All things beautiful, good and fair,
In the brief Enclosure. from lid to lid,
Whatever the heart desires, is there
But OH how the spirit grieves and grieves,
Ger the pitiful pathos of uncut leaves.
There is fair Success with her reckoning
hand.
And Health, with her rosy and laughing
There is home, and peace, and smiling
land,
Where heart-ache never can find place.
There are beautiful children between the
leaves
the GROWING glory OF mOtHerHoou,
And a wealth of love for each heart that
grieves,
love that is never misunderstood
Yet forever the watchful spirit grieves
Ger the mystery here of our uncut leaves.
For every volume whate'er it be,
Has leaves which never shall see the
light,
Their gracious beauty and symmetry
Are never disclosed to the longing sight;
And lives are clouded, and eyes are DIM
For lack of that which is near to all;
With those uncut leaves they are folded in,
And they cannot respond to prayer or
call
And throughout life the spirit grieves
For only one glimpse of those uncut leaves.
When shall we see that the Author hand
Which fashioned the volume we hold in
fee
With a wisdom cannot understand,
Above and beyond our mastery
Cuts with loving care each leaf
Never forgetting the end in view,
Fills out each story, however brief,
With kind intent and purpose true
And who can doubt that the Author grieves
When we question His love by our uncut
leaves.
Clara Treadway Weir, in Chicago In
terror.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

Won on the north to Apache land on
of bitter alkali water even exists,
there a band of Wallapais may be
found, struggling to gain living by
stock raising, hunting or helping in
nearby mines.
They tell an interesting story of their
origin. Long, long ago, there were
two gods in existence, one Hokomata,
the older, and Tochopa, the younger.
Hokomata was mo good" "all same
white mans devil" as one old man told
me. Yet in the earlier days he and
Tochopa lived together in peace and
harmony at a wonderful canyon, called
Matawidditta, and which is located on
the northeastern portion of Wallapai
territory. Here the two brothers grew
lonely and Hokomata and Tochopa de-
cided to make human beings. And
they took sticks, some long, stout
sticks, with which they made men;
then some long, slender sticks, OF
which they made women; then short
stout and short slender sticks from
which DONS anu SilsS were hAoNS' AhSSS
were all taught by Tochopa what food
to eat, viz, prickly pear or tuna. white
and black seeds, antelope, deer and
Jack rabbit, and they were shown how
to build their "hawas," or houses, of
brush, so that they would be healthy
and comfortable. And Tochopa be-
came their good medicine man, taught
them how to sing songs that would keep
them in health, and generally taught
them in al. good things. The result
was he was greatly beloved by all men
and women. This made Hokomata jeal-
Gus; then he grew angry and he pro-
yoked the men to fight each other. He
taught them to make war clubs, by
taking a heavy rock, fastening it to
the end of a stick and wrapping buck
skin all around it. Spears they made
by fastening deer's horns at the end
of sticks. or by sharpening pieces of
flint and tying them on to sticks with
deer's sinews. And he put hatred into
the hearts of men and women, where
before nothing but kindness and love
existed. The result was quarrels in
numerabIs. Tochopa did al. he could
to stop the fighting, but in vain.
So at last he put q roaming spirit
into the hearts q the people. and
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21

out instanter, hunt out Sussuatami,
and kill and scalp him.
The accompanying photograph OF
Serum's daughter shows her keenly
intelligent woman. She sees the adj
vantage the white people possess In
their education, and, gaining the frieId-
ship of one of the teachers in the gov
eminent school. she secured piece OF
blackboard which she placed in her
house. and there, day by day, she may
be seen laboriously practicing writing.
l asked her where her husband was.
and she mournfully replied: my man
no good. He go away. no want him."
And when found that he was both
drunkard and gambler, as well as an
unfaithful husband. cheered her with
the assurance that she was far better
of without him than with him. Even
the wild aboriRines Of the desert have
tteir ms-ital difficulties.
q. WHARTON JAMES.