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TO THE Residents of Pine Bluff AND VICINITY

The City Market will re.on.t Monday, October I, to retail ey. Y clusively a high grade ot Nelso, Morris & Company's weste,s dressed fresh meats, fine sausage, canned meats, packing house dsI. cacies, Lard, Breakfast Bacon. Dried Beet and Sugar Cured Hams, A. C. L. Haase & son Smoked, Salted and Picked Fsb also Fine Fancy Fresh Fish from Lake, River and Ocean, Kalans zoo Celery, New York Counts and Baltimore extra Select 0yt. CTS, Dressed Poultry, Wild Duck, Quail and Rabbits in season Pickles, Potatoes, Cabbage and Caulifower. And expect bF courteous treatment, intelligsnt service, prompt delivery and charging reasonable prices, to merit a continuance of your valu. ed patronage.
 R. P. HOLMES, Prop,
 2Io West 2d Au'
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THE WORM TURNED.
Story of a Man Who Cultivated Nice
 Disposition.

Seory or a Man Who Cultivated 6 Nice
 Disposition.
 Do you see that woman going out?' said the man in the dry goods house whose business k is to make things 'aa right" with dissatisfied customers "she's only one of em. I have a score CT more every day. She's kicking about q dress. We've altered it twices and she still thinks it doesn't quite it her in the back It's a hard job to look pleasant and be perennial1y agreeable, and I never knew but one man whe could do it. He was the complaint man in a big store-a friend of mine and he held the place for twenty years. He never failed to say the right thing and was the most perfect jolly that ever was. He knew how to com piiment woman as to form and con- plexion in way that never was equal ed. His smile was the envy ef all the salesmeD in the place. It had a win- ming sweetness about it that was sim ply irresistible and never failed to. van qulsh the most desperate kicker One day an uncle of my friend died and left him $40, 1000. A few moments after the news reached my friend an old pa- tron of the store came ina woman who for years had been noted as kicker, but whom it had been my friends duty and pleasure to make sat- %zfed with her purchases. She had bonnet in her hand and was kicking about the shape, the trimmings and everything in way that was calcu- lated to carry terror to the stoutest heart. zso.' said my friend, you don't like this bonnet. You don't like any thing about it. Well, don't blame you. It don't suit you in any way, and 1t can't be made to suit you Of course 1t can't. And there's no bonnet on earth that can be made to suit such pfg-faced, disagreeable woman as you are, anyway He had repressed his natural feeling for twenty years, but the worm that had been trodden upon through two decades turned at last He then put on his hat. and the place that had known him so long knew him no more forever. ."-~Ex.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
THE RAISING Or o5rRIcHEs.
Give Farms Now Carried on m the
 United States.

Five Farms Now Carried on the
 United States.
 There are now five ostrich farms in the United States-two in California, one in Texas. one in Florida, and one in Arizona. The last named, although the youngest. is the largest and moss dourishing in the country It is lo- cated near Phoenix. and the Salt river valley seer. eell adapted 90 the Af- rican ostrich. No protection whatever is required for the birds during the winter. They graze the entire year in tae fields, the same as horses and cat tie, and are healthy and thrifty The man in charge of the Arizona farm, who spent 15 years handling ostriehes in South Africa says the birds do just as well in the Salt River valley as in Africa, and that the climatic and other conditions surrounding them here seem as well adapted to their requirements IS those existing in their native home. After the birds attain the age of tour weeks tPere is little danger Of t1eir dying from natural causes for many years. lt is not positively known how iong an ostrich will live under normal conditions, but there are birds on South African farms which are believed to have reached or passed the century mark, many of them having been in captivity there over fifty years Most people have the idea, obtained, prob ably, from their old geographites when they were children, that the female ostrich, after laying her eggs n a nest scooped out of the desert sands, GOV CTS them up with the sand and leaves them, trusting to the heat of the sun to hatch them. This is not the fact. The birds always pair off during the breeding season, the male bird making the nest by resting his breastbone on .ne sand and turning slowly round and roInd, scratching the sand away with his feet until shallow hole is made, some three feet in diameter and about q foot deep. The female then lays, usu- ally, 15 eggs, and the birds take turns sitting on them, the female sitting during the daytime and the male at night, except that the male allows the female about an hour in the middle of the day to feed, when he takes hei place on the nest.-Boston Herald
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CENiys IS EccENTRIC.
AS Is Proved by Some Recent Doings
 of Actors

The ancient wearers of the sock and buskin had many draw backs to con tend against. The strellers who sol emnly performed their parts on the insecure boards of a cart must have felt at times that. they were leaving altogether too much to the imagina' tion of the open-m -mouthed auditors. Yet we have no reason to believe thai they ever cut short a tragedy because of these unpleasant restrictions, nor that they fudely drove away in the midst of mutilated comedy. It re- mains for the later-day actor, with his wealth of realistic surroundings, to flare up over trif1es and bare his quivering nerves before a presumably sympathetic audience. Miss Julia Arthur stops her performance and de- nounces the murmur of a chatterlng box party. Actor Richard Mansfield throws up his hands in disgust and rings down the curtain because of a sputtering steam pipe. Perhaps he felt at the moment very much as the oldtime actor did when greatly an- noyed by the crying of an infant child. Breaking off abruptly, he advanced to the footlights and grayely observed: Unless the play stops, the child can not go on." MT. Mansfield, however said nothing-at least, nothing audi ole to the audience. He tacitly con- fessed his unwillihgness to match the ordinary vocal pipes against the va pory sort, and rang down the curtain. Genius has always borne reputation for eccentricity, but only in later years has it burst through the en- vironments of time. and place, and professional obligation, and domi- aated it's chosen field. The musical genius warbles or thrums at will; the actor treads the boards at will. Per- haps this independence of action will mark the other professions iu time, Genius has become, in a measure, a petty autocrat, and as long as there are serYile necks for it to pirouette upon, it may be expected to show still further proofs of unpleasant eccen. tricity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
a,o,D CENSORSHIP IN AUSTRIA,
Newspapers in Francis Joseph's Domai@
 Must Not Speak Too Freely.

Newspapers in Francis Joseph.s Domals
 Must Not Speak Too Freely.
 The editor of small provincial pa. per in Austria was in great difficulty to find a fit subject for his leading article. having been too intent upon other business or upon pleasure to provide one. The last moment had come ana the editor WAS in despair. He tortured his brain in vain, when he suddenly was inspired by happy thought ana dashed off the lines: After carefully perusing the leading article written TOT the present number by one of the ablest of our contributors, we have ar rived at the conclusion that it nay be misinterpreted by the authorities and regarded as an attack upon the gov ernment. We ourselves consider 1t to be perfectly innocent, but, as we are unwilling, for our readers sake, as well as for our own, to have our news paper confscated, we have very un- willingly, though, as we think, pru- dently, resolved to withdraw the arti- cIe. This must serve as the apology to our readers for the blank space in our present issue" The journal was pub .ished in the evening. and the sly ed flor. after performing this little piece of stratagem, left the office in high humor. As soon as he arrived in the office next morning clerk came up to him, with doleful expression, and said, "Herr Redaktor, the paper Is confscated by the poliee!" For what reason?' asked the astonished editor. .For malicious ridicule of the institu. tions of the Austrian empire by the omission of the leading article, res piled the man.-New York Press,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
Henry Clay and the Hunter.

When Henry Clay was stumping Kentucky for reelection, at one of his mass meetings an old hunter of wide political influence said: Well, Harry, I've always been for you, but because of that vote (which he named) I'm go. in agin you" Let me see your ritle,' said Clay. It was handed to him. 'Is she a good rife?" Yes" Did she ever miss 1re?s Well, yes, once. , Why didn't you throw her away?" The old hunter thought q moment and then said: Harry, Fl try you again" ," And Harry was elected.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23

Dining Room Nscessjti..
 are here in Ora,, variety. We have a fine stos, sls'' tables, chairs and sideboards s@ w T are making special prices pa's "s a quaftered oak sideboard, bessI ssa ed glass mirrors By examjp;ss ss our sldeboards you will see t5s bargain we are offering. Y Bluff City Furniture co
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
Catholic Priest on Cuba.

The Rev. Charles Warren Cucrier has an interesting article on the his- tory of the church in Cuba in the Conservative Review. He speaks about She appointment of Mgr. Sbaretti, and has little sympathy for those who wanted a Cuban-born bishop. He holds that Bishop Sbaretti's appoint ment was wise one, and that he will be absolutely impartial. and should therefore prove link to bind together the Cuban and Spanish priests. He is tactful and prudent, and his adminis- tration will undoubtedly promote har, mony,
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
WON DEGsfi 0i- L AXE
silIed With Boril;. Acids That Eae
 Boats to Pieces.

Billed With Boiling Acids That Eae
 Boats to Pieces.
 strange lake exists in the center of Sulphur island, off New zea1and It is 50 acres in extent, about 12 feet in depth and 15 feet above the level of the sea. The most remarkable char. aateristie of this lake is that the water contains vast quantities of hydro chloric and sulphurie acids, hissing and bubbling at temperature of 11G degrees Fahtenheit. The dark green. viting. Dense clouds of sulphuric fumes constantly roli off this boiling caldron, and care has to be exercised in ap- preaching this lake to avoid the risk of suffocation. On the opposite side ot the lake may be seen the tremendous blow-holes, which, when in full blast present an awe-inspiring sight. The roar of the steam as it rushes forth into the air is deafening, and often huge powders and stones are hurled out to height of several hundred feet by the various internal forces Of na- ture. A boat can be launched on the iake, and if proper care be observed the very edges of the hlow-holes may be safely explored. Some idea of the strength of the acid-saturated water of this lake may be gathered from the fact that a boat almost dropped to pieces after all the passengers had beer landed, as the rivets had corroded un der the influence of the acids.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
INDIGO IN COLONIAL TIMES.
1t was Looked Upon as Sort of Cur.
 rent Coin.

1t Was Looked Upon as 8 Sort of Cure
 rent Coin.
 The colonial ladies were great gar. deners and the hours they passed with sheir fruits and flowers must have been moments of much pleasure in their busy lives. says Longman's Magazine The most famous of these ladies was the dau Inter of George Lucas,a planter of Carolina, and at the same time governor of Antigua, at which place he appears to have resided, leaving Miss Eliza at home. From Antigua he sent her all sorts of tropical seeds of fruits and flowers, to try if auy would take kindly to the soil Of Carolina. Eliza observed certain hopeful signs with re gard to the indigo and undismayed by repeated accidents to the young plants, at length obtained good crop. Gov. Lucas was so delighted at this un- looked for success that he sent over an Englishman to teach Eliza the whole process of indigo working. The Eng lishman, bearing gifts. seems to haVs been a rather sly and tricky so1
 
 get the better of America2 The youth ful Miss Lucas saw through the Eng lishman's dedges, (his name was Crom- welD, and finally obtained a success ful knowledge and application of the complex and annoying methods of ex- tracing indigo" bounty Of Sd q hound encouraged the planting, ar6 through it's profits more children were sent over from Carolina to be educated at home than from all the colonies put together. Indigo was looked upon at last as sort of current coin, and it is on record that when little boy was sent to school at Philadelphia, he took with him a wagon of indigo to pay hta expenses.
 The Beaatiful Rain-
 Mir. White Washbrush, who was 8 recent eomer, had been finding fault with the rainy weather we have had of late, when he was upbraidAd by Mir. Shine M. Upp in this fashion: Hit doant beeoms you, MT. Wash brush. who had so recently adopted this as you futuh abidin' place, to be makfn' slightin' marks bout de ever welcome rain we have been habin'. You see. de fack is, We who has been residin' long in de natch'ral gas re- zion knows how fully to ,preeiate de blessed influences ob all dis beautiful rain; for if hit want foh de rain wa would hab no natchsral gas to bun. as you see we now hab. Hits dis way: de rain falls in fowin' quantities, an soaks down fru de groun', an fru de limestone an, de birthstone an ons thing anuder; whereumby' comin' in contact wid de Aforementioned ingree. jients. dereby generatin de gas. which Is afterWard lodged in de large natch'- raj resumyor underlyins all dis kentry round about. An nen all we has to do is to insert our hollow gas pipes an de preshus stuff comes foatin' to us In de ready-made condishan in which we now find it. Yes, sab, de rain acts on de nateh'ral earthly ingredients de same as de watah does on de car bide in yo' bicycle lamp. -Indianap. oils News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
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 carpets7 Why not have things fresh and newp 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
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
Horseless carrIage ExhIblt.

Paris exposition authorities have ap- oropriated S20,000 toward the expense of the automobile section This vii, be some $6,0o0 short of the estimated deficit The Automobile Club of France has agreed to carry out the program practically in its original form.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
sourneys ASeuna the Earth.

The time required for a journey around the earth by man walking day and night, without resting, would be 428 days; an express train, forty days; sound. at medium temperature, thirtytwo and one-half hours; can non ball, twenty-one and three-fourths hours; light. little over one-tenth Of second, and electricity passing over 2 copper wire. little under ene-tenth ef & aAeond.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
Hf4Ire HrenH

Very many persons, in taking seat, use the edge of it only, with the result that in a very short time they seem to be doubling up, the head bending forward over the chest. The easiest method of sitting erect, and in grace fnl DasitiGa. aa Q s>>eaasaS tsaA ehasa- s= such way that tns lowest pare ee che spine. or backbone touches the back of the seat; then, by causing the shoul- ders also to touch the back, the whole body Is erect and maintains itself, not only without an effort, but with feel ing of support, relief and rest, and that, too without any appreciable ef- fort. Any position maintained by the aid of a brace is forced, and is secured by an injury done to some other part, which not only has to support itself hut aid in supporting parts not intend ed, hence must in tine itself need aid from other sources, ana thus the mis. chief goes on.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co.
Arkansas Midland Railroad tsuds,

5o,ooo acres of good timbe, lands for sale 2,ooo acres ot {: cleared lands for sale, along the llne Il of the Arkansas Midland Na,ifoad. Free sites for factories and mills.
 , For farms or timber lands, ad-
 G. T, UPDEGRAFF,
 General Freight Agent,
 Helena, Arkansas
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-23
A Case of Female Imper.er, ssion.


 4 remarkable case of 1e.ai9a i'm. personation has (aecording tD \ Paris correspondent) just been discovered. A Brittany peasant girl calling herself Anna Fervac, was engaged as a ser want by Nj. Lefebvre, a shopkeeper In the Saint Lambert district. She declar- ed that she had sold her hair to bar Der at Morlaix to pay her fare to Paris. The young servant appeared honest and industrious, but eventually Ma dame Lefebyre, who was frightened al her strange behavior, informed her husband. It then turned out that the pseudo bonne was lad of seventeen who had escaped from prison, and had donned female garb to escape detec- ton. He had betrayed himself by failing sn love with his mistress.
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The Good News Spreads

and our busl'y' grows larger, and the prices ss,| N CT. every day. People come ,ns] s,| from all parts of the city v ND1 ever they need anythingg, g,,l U A,| line, they think of us. we furnished more cozy homes we could possibly name. ., have done it to the owners faction, and we can do 'ns thing for you.
 BLUFF CITY
 FURNITURE co
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-08-08

The aOStract OF aSSeSSment list
was sent in to the State Board of
Equalization last week. That body
will convene on the third Monday
in August and equalize the assess
ments throughout the State, and in
case Redwood county is untouched,
the valuations on which to base the
taxes for 1900 will remain as above
stated. The valuation of personal
property by towns, according to the
board S final return. is as follows:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-08-08
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Topics of Interest Discussed at the
State Capital.

One paragraph, from the Kansas
City platform which is calculated to
provoke smile on the face of every
intelligent American citizen. reads as
follows:
The failure of the present Republican
administration to enforce the ant i
trust laws already on the statute books
proves the insincerity ofthe high-sound-
ing phrases Oft the Republican platform.
If the Democratic convention had
declared that the failure of every
Democratic administration to enforce
the antitrust laws, ETC., the state
ment would have been quite within
the bonds Of reason and much near
err the truth than any declaration
contained in the platform. The only
national antitrust law ever enacted
which showed evidence of any hon
est intention to suppress or regulate
the trusts was the law of 1890, which
had its,conception and enactment at
Republican hands. That the law
was found imperative was due, not
to any lack Of desire on the part of
the Republicans to regulate the
trusts, but to the fact that the su-
preme court held it to be in contra
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-08-08
WHAT THE BOARD DID.
Sent the Valuation Of the County
to Over Sc, 100000

When the board of equalization
finished it's labors two or three
weeks ago it left a schedule where
by Auditor Tompkins has just de-
termined that the personal and real
property valuation of Redwood
county this year amounts to S., 6O4,
778. Of the total amount, which ex-
ceeds the valuation of the year pre-
vious by about million and half
dollars, 81, 1884, 91 is the value OF
the personal property in the county
and the remainder is for real estate
and structures on real estate, in
Guiding city and village property.
The board of equalization fixed
the land value in the different towns
at from 81 to SO per acre less than
half of it's actual value. In
Charlestown the village of Sanborn
has lots and improvements on the
same which add $1O.287 to the valu-
alton of the township; in Delhi the
village of Delhi has town lots and
improvements on the same which
add $10,279 to the valuation Of
the township; in Homer the vii
village of North Redwood adds
81 ,695 to the valuation of the town;
in Kintire Belview adds only $15,-
OF to the valuation, about one
tenth of the actual town lot and i'm
provement valuation of the town;
MCGEE S addition to Lamberton
adds 81 $50 to the valuation of the
town of Lamberton; Revere adds
Sc, 945 to the valuation of North
Hero: the elevator at Gilfllan s Sid
ing adds $280to the valuation of Pax
ton; Seaforth adds only 50, l48 to the
valuation of Sheridan; in Vail the
valuation is increased by Wabasso
lots and improvements to the ex-
tent of $11 ,439: in Vesta the village
of the same name raises the yalua-
ton $16, $50: while IN Willow Lake
the village of Wanda adds S., 400 to
the valuation. The value of lands
in the different townships of the
county, exclusive of the structures
and improvements, and exclusive Of
village and city property, is as fol-
lows:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-08-08

The value OF lands, including
structures and improvements, to-
gether with the lots and improve
ments in The various villages which
have not been made separate dis
tricts, and of the lots and improve
ments in those villages which are
separate election districts, as well
as in the city of Red wood Falls, is as
follows:
The colored American., 1900-02-24
THE ooLoRED AMER1oAN, wAsH1NaroN, D. O.

ular young violinist, Mr.. Joseph a..
Douglass. At the choice afternoon
concert at Lafayette square Opera
House and at the radiant reception his
work was exceptionally fine, and the
new president of the woman suffra
gists. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, pei.
sonally congratulated him upon his
marvellous talent and skill as an inter.
prefer of classic music.
The Woman's Protective Association
Of which Mrs. Julia Lay ton Ia president
and Mrs. Ida Ida D. Bailey, secretary.
held an interesting meeting Sunday
afternoon, the 18th, at Shiloh Baptist
church. Papers were read by Mrs.
Layton, Mrs. ]. Albert Johnson, Mrs.
J. h. smythe, and Mrs. John F. Cook.
Music was furnished by Miss Jean
Meta Taylor, Prof. John T. Layton and
the Shiloh Baptist choir.
The colored American., 1900-02-24
Among the Churc-es,

The Rev. DR. D. E. Mason, Secretary
of the Livingstone College and Indus
trial School in Salisbury, N. e., was
present last week at Plymouth Church
in Chicago. He attended a prayer
meeting there end made one of bis
characteristic talks. He is the finan cial
Secretary of Livingstone College and az
such has done magnificent work for
the College. It is no surprise to his
friends that a big collection was raised.
More than $500 was given on the spot
for the work and for the future man
agemeDt of Livingstone College. Dea.
con White, a prominent member, led
the band by subscribing 500. The
subject OF d.. Mason's lecture was
1.-THE Immortality of Influence" and
the very handsome and substantial
collection was a proof that he has car
ried bis point.