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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
THE DAYS OF QUILL PENS.

An Accomplished schooImaster's Won
 derful EfFeets in Fiourishes.
 The art Of cutting a quill by adept .quill=driyers9 WAS dying when I first began schooling, says Notes and Quer- ies. Steel pens had been known for some time. but were not in general use. The goose quill pen died a hard death as commonly Iy=used writing tool. Ny first schoolmaster was a frst-rate hand at cutting a quill and he could use it with wonderful effects in fo0rishes. It was his boast that he could fill the first page of 8 lads school book with name, age. date and flourishes-in which were depicted wonderful swans and other =birds-in such fashion that none but experts like himself could tell where the quill pen was taken from the paper for a fresh dip. My last master could neither cut quill nor use one with ad- vantage. Quills as pens remained in use in some houses as the only writ ing tool up to dozen or twenty years ago. Those who can cut a decent writing quill are now few People used to ask for "a quill pen" or "a quil,," when they wanted a pen, and both steel and quill were always called pens" buyers asking for fine or other "nibs" or 'nebs Nowadays nearly all ask for "nibs" when they require pens. The word "pen" has almost dropped but of usage, except to express the pen and holder combined. Persons in- variably ask for box of 'nibs, ap- bearing to lose sight of the fact that nib" or ''neb" is a point and that the points of pens alone are not to be had. One would think that in these days of much schooling teacers would define "pen2 from "point" or nib, but, they, too, ask for "nibs" when they mean apensa Children only knew a pen as a holder and pen combined They ask for "nibs" or "pen nibs," and asked if they do not mean "pers,, the reply is No, nfbs!"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Took the I3nrhec Alnn~

Philadelphia Record: There are par ticular people and people who are par ticular, but it is doubtful if there are any more particular people than a fond ma and pa of pair of little boys who live on North Broad street. These doting parents are so particular that they will allow only one barber to keep the hair of their young sons in trin, and when it came time for the family to depart to Atlantic City the first of this month there was no hesi- tation in engaging the t1nsorial artist to go along. His board has to be paid as well as the amount Of wages he usually earns each week. While he Is at command, however, papa permits the nan of the razor and shears to shay every day. while mamma haa se ad washed every other day, s he barber is not given too much 9oftunity to grow lazy. Still. he lee upon himself as man of leisure, and refuses to associate with the ordinary run of face 1atl4Frers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
The Cn1Ienfinr Mania.

Berlin furnished an extraordinary exhibition of the collecting mania re- gently The German postoffiees uses numbers for the months in stamping letters, and on Sept. 3 collectors de- termined to obtain the usual sequence of hines from district office No. 99, whose stamp on that day would read 999999. A mob of over a thousand persons stood outside the office when 1t opened, so that the police had to be called on to keep it in order and all available help was sent from the gen. eral postofice to handle the mail mat fer. The rush continued during the day and at night the police had to use force to disperse the crowd that was awaiting after the closing hours and to enable the officials to leave the of office. Sixty thousand pieces of mail were stamped during the day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
 THE KING OF PALf.
Surrounded by His Followers. 2 Truly
 Medieval Picture Was Presented.

S"tA"unuoo ss HIS followers, Truly
 Medieval Picture Was Presented
 My first sight of the king of Palf was most imposing, says the Geographical Journal. Having heard of the approach of my party, he came out to meet us. We had stopped the night before at the small village of Jepiroh, beautifully situated on high ground and chiefly re- markahle for the numbers of small green and red parrots that swarmed i'll the guinea cornfelds all round it. It was the only place where I saw them in any quantities. We started off about 6:30, while the heavy dew was still sparkling on the grass, and soon met the head of the Palf contingent. First came 150 boWmen carrying nothing but their weapons and wearing only the smallest of loin cloths. At regular in tefYals among them were mounted of deers. Next came a bodyguard of twenty picked men dressed in red gowns with white plaits down the back and armed with every imaginable kind of gun, the locks of which were ineased
 in leather. After passing these men I came on 9 really beautiful sight. The king had drawn up under the trees on one side of the path, and some forty or fifty mounted followers had arranged themselves all around and behind him. They were dressed for the most part in white gowns but generally with either 2 coIored lining or another coIored gown underneath. Voluminous white or blue turbans covered their heads, and some of them wore very handsome riding boots. though the majority were barefooted. The high=peaked saddles were covered with brightly colored saddle cloths and the horses heads were almost hidden by enormous bri- d1es, covered with tin ornaments, which kept up a perpetual jingling as they tossed their heads about to keep off the flies. On my approach they waved tf1i" spears over their heads with the butt te the front in token of friendship. This, with the king in the center wear ing cap of chain mail under his tur- ban, and lowing with eourtly grace. made 9 truly medieval picture.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
 Iris Always Thus.

"Isn,t + strange said a worried looking woman, that callers always select just the piece of furniture to sit on that you don't want them to? The couch ill our sitting room has num- Der of the springs broken, and one of the chairs is in a rather shaky condi- tion. The other evening two young men called on my daughter We had arranged it So the members of the family would be sitting on the couch and in the broken chair The first young man made bee-line for the couch and the other slid into the brok- en chair when my daughter got up to greet him. To add to our embarrass- ment the chair promptly collapsed. "- Cleveland Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
IMMACULATE DUTCH KITCHENS
The Mattresses =Go Into Them Several
 Times a Day.

saThe Dutch housewife" says the Gentlewoman, "has not her equal in the world as a manager. She is first of all the absolute mistress of her home. There are no implicit reserya- tions as to the kitchen. She goes into it every day, and at any hour of the da4..and the cook who objects is likely tGDbe dismissed for her pains. In that respect, at any rate, maids appear to be more traetable in Holland than with us. And such kitchens they are! Fol I was asked and was taken into three, and each time my visit to them hap pened to be about an hour before din- ner In each case the family to be provided for was fairly numerous-in one case it consisted of round dozen persons, the youngest of whom was 10. The dinner hour is between and 6:30 o'clock, for even in those Well-to-do families the so-called luncheon is somewhat in the nature of q high tea, tue Souehong being replaced by coffee, though not always. 1 was in- troduced then into the kitchen with out the slightest warning, the mistress not having deemed it necessary to ask permission of her lieutenant to visit her domain, even in company of stranger. And the lieutenant, secure of the impeceability of all things in her charge, received us with smile and went on manipulating stewpans, red copper and earthenware, as if she were all alone, and I had an oppor- tunity of looking around. The con ventionaf dresser with the eonven- tional dinner and breakfast service wa{ hot there. instead of which an arp6y of saueepans, strainers, eolanders and the rest such as I have never seen in England. Soup tureens, sauceboat and dishes were inelosed in cupboards, the shelves of which were covered with white linen cloths, trimmeA with lace, all dazzlingly white. I asked how often these had to be changed and was told that four weeks was the regula- tion period.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Iron Mountain Rates.

On aeeeuntaf the z. o. .. " picnic af Big the morning train at Pine Bluff until I:15 a. 44. AyeBtng tFaiu will leave Big Lake II 6 P. III. A big time is expected,
 Ark State Music Teaeaers Association Little Rock. Jnne 12 and la-I. Nj. & :. MitI sell tickets at &i 70 Tor the round trip on June Fl and F. with Hnal return limit laae l4.
 Biennial Meeting General Federal Of WomenAs Clubs Milwaukee. Wis. June t0 S=l Nj x : RYat Fine BluH will sell round trip tickets on.tune , and ,. at s23 6. All tickets lfmite6 forfeFera Gp to and inelud- iag June H. except that by aepostihg tickets with joint gent at Milwaukee 0n or be ore Ja II. the final Emit will be extended to June 30. A1t parties holding tickets must pay joint agency tet of 50e
 Arkansas Bar Association. Fort smith, Ark Ma 29 Ia 3l. Iron Mountain will sell the certificate plan, certificates limited to June f.
 Little Rock District =Epworrh League Gonventi II. tu6s0nia Art1.. May 2 to 21. Iron Mountain will sell tickets at one fare, return al one=fhird fare, on the certificate plan, certificates limited t0 May 39. The st L. !. VI. < s Ky Co. will make the following summer tourists rates Mt Nebo Ark. Sfs0; Searcy Springs. s. 10; Rayenden Springs. 4l .75. Sale of tickets will commence 10 Mt. Nebo md Searey MaY l5 and to RaY enden JnIe l, and will be discontinued Oct. 1, sept. l5, aud ept 34, resp, All tickets to bear fi3al limit of Oct. 3l
 Annual Meeting Confederate Veterans. Louisville, Ky, May 30 to June 3. For this occasion he st.1. Nj X : Ky Wilfsel tickets from Pine Bluff al rate of S11.f0 for the round trip. Tickets on sale May 21 2S and 2a, with hnaI limit for return June s, 1ga9.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
An Indian Golfing Innovation.

Little swear-wheels in form not un- like the Burman prayer-wheels, are now in use on the golf links in Rash mir. They are conducive to silence, as, when one misses a particularly good stroke, one takes the wheel hurriedly from the caddie, and violently turns is a Nottingham Guardian.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
ROUTE

The following special low rate ex- .cursions hay been offered by the =Choctaw Route:
 North Manchester, Iud=-AnH0al Meeting German Baptsts Duukardsl--fickets on sale May 2s and 29, at one fare plus two dol lars for the round trip, and limited to June 10 for return passage with privilege of exten. sion to July 1st it desired.
 Lo isville. Ky Aanual Meeting Of the United onfederate Veterans Re- Union. Tickets will be sold May 2 2s and 29 at an exceedingly low rate for the round trip and w4ll be limited until June 10 for return pass age, with privilege of extension until June 9.
 For rates and other information call on nearest railroad agent, or write J. F. Holden, Traffic Manager, Little Rock, Ark.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Cotton Belt Bulletin. PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
Via Cotton Belt Route

Leave Pine Bluff :10 D. m arrive Chicago Il AS next day. Only one change; through sleepers.
 Annual Reunion Confederate Veterans Louisville, Ky. M 30 to June 3, 1900. Rate, $lt.70 round trip. Dates of sale. May 2, 2s and %. Return limit. June 6. For continu- ous passage in each direction.
 Annual International Convention B. Y. P. U. of America. Cincinnati. Ohio. July 12-16. trip. Dates of sale: duly f0, Il and 12, 1900 Return limit: July F with privilege of eX- tension unti. August 10. if ticket is deposited " h Joint Agent at Cincinnati on or before July If, on payment of fee Of 50 eents
 Summer Tourists Rates. $ ason 1900.
 TO sEARGYz SPRINGs-Rate. sl10. Date or sale. May 15 to Sept l5, 1903. inclusive Return limit Get J, 1900.
 RAyENDFN SPBTNGS-Ra s1z75. Dates of sale. June to Sept, D, f9e0. Return linn it. Oct 31, 19G0,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-21
Dining-Room Necessities

O1EEEK7 ENUOEII lV~~~o . EE~ .
 are here in great variety. We have fine stock of tables, chairs and sideboards. We are making special prices upon a quaftered oak sideboard. be1el- led glass mirrors By examining our sideboards you will see the bargain we are offering
 Bluff City Furniture Go,
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
East COrnville.

G. S. Moody lost one of his big oxen,
last week, the OK got in a mire hole
at pasture. His grit was nearly eight
feet.
Mrs. Flora Otis of Lynn. Mass, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Moody.
CLANCY Foss, wife and two children of
Skowhegan are the guests OF Mr.. Foss'
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Foss.
A little stranger came to the home of
Philander Mcclure the Dist. 1t Is girl.
Wayland Leighton and wife of Athens
were In town, Sunday, the guests of
II. N. Longfellow.
Mrs. Addie Lamb of Skowhegan is
keeping house for c. F. Longfellow.
Miss Abbie Seavey of Waterville is
visiting at the home of our popular
grocer, Allie Smith. l..
Mrs. Anna Runnells from Caribou, has
been visiting friends and old neighbors
In town the past few weeks.
Mr.. Oliver Russell and wife from
Illinois, have been visiting in town,
where they lived fifteen years ago.
Mr.. Guy Moody has been visiting
friends, the past two weeks.
Mr.. B. F. Davis and wife were In
town calling on friends, last week.
Mr.. A. j. McCrllis of Holyoke, Mass.
and Mr.. John McCrilis and wife of
Neponset, Mass, are visiting their father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Darius Nc
Crillis, and other relatives In town.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
Literary Notes.

The political campaingn and the Chi
nese problem are the two most promi-
nent topics in the August Review of
Reviews. In "The Progress of the
world" the editor analyses the platform
adopted by the democrats at Kansas
City. Among the contributed articles
there Is brief review Of the work of the
Kansas City convention by Walter Well
man, followed by personal sketches of
"Mr. Bryan at Home" Theodore Roos-
evelt," by Jacob A. Riis, and "Roosevelt's
Work as Governor" "The Chinese
Revolution" is the subject of well-in-
formed and timely paper by Stephen
Bonsal. Important phases of the situa-
ton In China are also set forth edtorially.
The August Magazine Number of The
Outlook Is also its thirteenth Annual
Educational Number. AS usual, the
number contains many articles OF timely
quality, relating directly to important
educational matters. Several of these
articles are beautifully illustrated, not
ably that by Sylvester Baxter on "The
Cuban Teachers at Harvard University"
the illustration including several photo
graphs made expressly for this purpose !;
and that by Hamilton W. Mabie on the
University Of Virginia, In the series OF
articles Mr.. Mabie has from time to time
written, under the title of "Some Fam
Gus Schools"
The editor of The Century Is receiving
inquiries about the author of "The
Helmet Of Navarro, the historical rom
ance which began to appear serially in
the August number of that magazine.
Miss Bertha Runkle Is the only child of
Mrs. l.. G. Runkel, well-known New
York Journalist, and one of the editors
Of the Library of the Worlds Best
Literature" The present work is a
maiden effort at fiction-writing. She
was born In New Jersey few and
twenty years ago, never went to kinder
CARTON as child, nor to college as a
young woman, has travelled little, and
has never been In France-whicb pos
sibly accounts for her laying there the
scene of her romance.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
ALL THE NEWS
from Somerset Towns
Browns Corner.

Miss Jennie Chase of Belgrade, who
has been visiting friends in town, the
past three weeks, went to Skowhegan,
Friday and returned home, Yesterday.
She intends to enter Colby, this fall.
Mrs. Edda Whitney and daughters,
Pearl, Sadie and Carrie Of Massachn-
sets are visiting their aunt, Mrs. W., X.
Bailey.
Miss Eva Goodwin of Skowhegan has
been taking much needed vacation at
home.
Mrs. L. Z. Crowell and Miss Angie
keaten took carriage drive to Har-
mony and Cambridge, last week, and at
tended the Pomona grange meeting, at
Cambridge on Tuesday.
Miss Etfie Crowell, who was quite Ill,
last week, is much better at this writing.
Moses Horn contemplates taking a
vacation up-river, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler Burrill and
son, Ivory, of Waterylle are in town
visiting friends.
Miss Lottie Jewell has returned from
her visit In Massachusetts. Her uncle,
hr. c. G. Chase of Jamaica Plains, re-
turned with her on his annual visit to
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Chase.
"Ike" Brown created quite a sensa.
ton on Saturday last, by taking pail
with the intention Of going blackberry
ing. When night came he failed to put
in an appearance and he was thought by
some to be lost 10 the woods. Several
men searched for him, Sunday, but TO no
purpose. Along in the afternoon, word
was received that he spent the night at a
house en- the hillside and disappeared
in the morning. He is still roaming at
his own sweet will. Z.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
East New Portland.

l.. F. Gray is threshing grain being
hauled from the fields to his barn.
Grasshoppers are very thick and are a
great pest on some sandy farms In this
section.
Orrin Holbrook> and family are at
Dead River for weeks outing.
Miss Stella Hutchins, daughter of the
late Cyrus L. Hutchins of Erie, Penn,
is visiting relatives In this place.
Miss Lottie Abbott of Lowell, Mass,
Is visiting friends in this place.
Mrs. NiroL Churchill of Madison and
Mrs. A. G. Sawyer of Starks recently
called on friends In our village.
Mrs. George Williams of Boston was
in town, one day last week.
Mrs. F. F. Caswell visited friends in
Freeport, last week, and brought her
mother home with her.
Mrs. Leonard Hutchins is quite sick
with bronchitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Hutchins of this
place will celebrate their golden wedding
Monday, Sept. 3rd, reception from two
to five p. M, at which time they will be
pleased to receive all their friends, who
wish to offer their congratulations. No
presents.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
Twenty-first Maine Regfmental
Association.

The Twenty-trst Maine Regimental
Association will meet in reunion at
Merrymeeting Park, (Brunswick) Maine,
at IL 30 o'clock, a. M. &S~ Wednesday,
August Goth, A. D., 1900. The choice
Of place of meeting by unanimous vote
last year, indicates Its great convenience
for our purpose. 1t is so central ia
location that most comrades by railway
or steamer can have ample time at
reunion by absence from home of single
day.
Tickets will be on sale August 2Sth, at
the ticket officers of the Maine Central
and Somerset Railroads and Kennebec
Steamboat Company's lines; on the
Maine Central Railroad the same price as
last year for round trip. Comrades will
call for tickets, "For Reunion 2lst
Maine, those by steamboat lines to
Bath, all others to Brunswick. The
headquarters of the association will be
at the Casino building from 8 o'clock, a.
M, to 8 O'Clock, p. m, reunion day,
where all information relating to the
association will be supplied. For further
particulars address
JOSEPH 7. WOODWARD.
West Sidney, Maine
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
Fairfield.

e. j. Mitchell and G. w. Worthing OF
this town, have filed petitions in bank.
ruptcy.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. Frank Rhoades have
returned from an outing of few days
at Pemaquid.
Miss Kate l.. Hudson, an artist of the
Boston Herald staff, is visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hudson, for a
few weeks.
A number from here are attending the
Advent campmeeting at Lakeside and
the Methodist campmeeting at North
Arson, this week.
DIR. and Mrs. W. F. Byrns OF Wash.
ington, d. c., are visiting the formers
brother, j. c. Byrns, the clother
While here they are registered at the
Gerald.
Miss Caddie Leavitt, who has been
visiting relatives at Madison, for a few
weeks, has returned home. She was
accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. Charles
Haynes of Norridgewock. They made
the trip by team.
The rear of the Kennebec drive reach
ed this town, Sunday, and the last log
has gone over the pulp mill dam.
The first log was sawed In what ia now
Fairfield nearly one and half centuries
ago 1t may be of interest to me to know
that the last log sawed in the village and
the last log that will probably ever be
sawed in the village, was made into
boards short time ago, and at the same
time In the new wooden mill, that sets
near where the first log was saw ed, was
started the first loom that has ever been
operated in the town.
OF course we do not mean to state
that the sawmills in the village are the
only ones In the town, for at Shawmut.
which Ia about three miles from here
and In this town, we have the lumber
firm of Lawrence, Page & Co., which IL
now doing one of the most prosperous,
II not the most prosperous business on
the Kennebec.
The town was Incorporated as the seth
town Of Massachusetts, In 1888, and from
that time to the present, there has been
steady push on the part of all who
have made their homes in the town for
any considerable time to make the first
and fairest and best. There was time,
few years ago, when 1t began to look
bad for the town, but the pluck and
push and loyalty Of her sons has brought
Fairfield out of the rut that threatened
her.
Is there town In all Maine, anywhere
near he'size of Fairfield that can boast
of so much improvement In the last II
years? All the above has been brought
about by the sons Of Fairfield. 1t is an
undeniable fact the boys of early Fair.
field. are with her today. In evidence of
this the citizens of Fairfield points to
Uncle George Kendall, born here 100
years ago, and now living here; There
where else.
The Somerset reporter., 1900-08-23
Regimental Reunions.

The annual reunion of the 18th Maine
was held at Machias, last week, and was
an affair much enjoyed. E. j. Miller,
president of the association, presided.
1t was voted that the next annual re-
union will be held at Augusta some time
during the month OF August, 1901.
Committee on nominations reported as
follows the officers for the coming year:
President, S. w. Lane, Augusta; 1st
vice president, j. II. Knox, Waterville;
I'd sergeant, Chas. W. Brigham, Mime
apOlis, Mimi; secretary and treasurer,
7. Il. Tabor, Bangor; chaplain A. p.
Bickmore, Hyde Park, Mass. musical
director, sergeant A. P. Downing, Minot.
Numerous letters were read from various
comrades who were unable to be present.
The 10Th annual reunion of the old
fighting 9th Maine Regiment was held,
Wednesday, at Dexter. The business
session was called to order by the presi-
dent, Mr.. Charles Frye of Machias. The
election Of officers. resulted in the selec-
tion of the following: President, A. B.
Buck, Foxcroft; vice presidents, James
Stubbs, Bucksport. William George, Au-
gusta; secretary, j. B. Neagle, Lubec;
treasurer, S. L. Haywood, Bucksport.
Governor Powers, o. W. Bridges, w. FL.
Judkins, E. A. Brewster, Dexter, and
p. P. Gilmore, Bucksport, we're elected
honorary members. The election of the
executive committee resulted In James
Stebbs, S. L. Haywood, John Kennedy,
P. P. Gilmore, L. F. Tapley, all of
Bucksport, being honored and the CON-
mittee extended an invitation to the
association to meet for the 21st annual re-
union In Bucksport, which was accepted.
The annual reunion of the oath and
18th regiments of Maine volunteers was
held at the Merrymeeting Park, Casino,
Thursday last. The members of the
18th, present, held a meeting early in the
day and voted to see il the oath would
join with them in forming a regimental
association, and at the meeting of the
"a IN it was voted to accept the invitation
of the % and form the "a 2Sth Regi-
mental Association. The officers elected
for the 24-28th Association for the en-
suing year are: President William r.
Smith, oath. of Fall River, Mass; first
vice president, Alonzo Smith, oath of
Cornville; second vice president, 5. E.
johnson, oath of Gardiner; third vice
president, w. S. Voter, 2S.h of Rich
mond; secretary and treasurer, Edwin
E. Totman, oath OF Richmond; chaplain,
S. E. johnson, oath of Gardiner. 1t was
voted to hold the next meeting at Farm
ington, Aug. Is, 1901, also voted to ex-
tend the thanks Of the regiment to the
railroad and steamboat lines who kindly
allowed them one fare for the round trip.