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"Jod"oijBraiHBpoi‘snsdB| j -ojd ‘BaoqjjoDnoj ‘spouad pnjuiBd ‘sotjTJBptSojai pu sojno pus ubSjo Ajoao dn sauoj paB snoqjSuajjs ‘s]B9q ji -p o o q \ 113 JO ijtOBAIA PUB JOSlA ‘qjIBaq aq; uBtaoji paSEinoosip puB t^boav oj S9jojsoj ji *8sinn Aub jo joj -oop Aub UBqj jajjoq ei JI ’sjaiEidinoo 0;eot0j jo spniq pB joj ojhd joqjo Aub jo panod b qjjoAi si (bbobubj siEtnaj s.0|jsj0p)) 'd 'J "O 3° aonno pB jBqj anjj Aiuibjjoo si jj ‘saoS SuiAbs pjo aqj sb ‘ajno jo ptmod b qjjo.w st N0IJLN3A3H NflO NV GREAT DECEMBER SALE AT We have just returned from our third Fall Trip; this alone should signify what we are doing, as heretofore one trip was sufficient. We have bought out on this trip several houses of good standing, and bought goods so low and under their value that the old cry of due on the dollar is left out. Call on THE WOLF. He is always with you. and will stay with you as long as you stay with him. Below are a few quotations and prices: Blue Suits, square cases, lot 472, $10.00 Suits, this sale $5.75 Lot 133 Black Silk Mixture, imported goods, $12.00 Suit, this sale $7.50 Lot 4779, handsome Black Cheviot, silk lined, $15 Suit, this sale $10.00 A handsome line of Checks and Striped Suits, which are the latest $10 and $12 Suits, this sale $5.50 to $6.75 100 Children's Suits, two and three-piece goods, from 75 cents up 100 Ladies’ Plush Capes, nice, fancy trimmed, Full case $2.50, this sale $1.45 1000 Mackintoshes at sacrificing prices, from $1.20 up Do not forget that we carry a full line of Shoes, Millinery, Dry Goods; also a line of Shirt Waists from 50 cents up ALMOST ANY STOVE! will work; it is the quality of the work that tells; the story. Beckwith’s! Bound Gas is a stove of quality; for over 25 years it has led the procession, simply because it was made “on honor” You! You can have the best by coming to us, and it will cost you no more than one that is said to be “just as good,” McGaughy Hardware Co. If you intend to make a present to the one you love, go to Friedman, The Pawnbroker, and he can sell you a Lady’s or Gentleman’s Watch, solid gold or filled, that has been left in pawn, which are as good as new, from $5.00 up to $15.00; worth double the money and are guaranteed to keep good time. Solid gold plain or set rings from $1.25 up. Remember these are honest goods and will come up as represented. Guitars, Violins, Banos, and Accordeons Will sell at wholesale price for 5 days only. Remember the Place. The Licensed Pawnbroker. 211 Main Street. Art Calendars. Advertising Novelties. Adams-Wilson Printing Co. NATURAL TRAP, Death Gulch Captures or Asphyxiate/ Many Wild Animals. Death gulch is a small and gloomy ravine in the northeast corner of the Yellowstone national park, says Appleton’s Monthly. “In this region the lavas which fill the ancient basin of the park rest upon the flanks of mountains formed of fragmentary volcanic ejects, while the hydrothermal forces of the central portion of the park show but feeble manifestation of their energy in the almost extinct hot spring areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river, Cache creek and Miller creek.” Although hot water no longer flows from these vents, “gaseous emanations are now given off in considerable volume.” “On Cache creek, about two miles above its confluence with Lamar river, are deposits of altered and crystallized.” In the travertine, with pools in the creek violently effervescing locally. This is due to the copious emission of gas. Above these deposits the creek cuts into a bank of sulphur and gravel cemented by this material, and a few yards beyond is the debouchure of a small lateral gully coming down from the mountain side. In its bottom is a small stream of clear and cold water, sour with sulphuric acid, and flowing down a narrow and steep channel cut in beds of dark gray volcanic tuff. As coming this gulch the sides, closing together, become very steep slopes of white, decomposing rock.... The only springs now flowing are small pools of water issuing from the base of these slopes or from the channel bed, forming a thick, creamy, white deposit about the vents and covering the stream bed. This deposit consists largely of sulphate of arumina.... About 150 feet above the main stream these oozing springs of acid water cease, but the channel of the gulch remains the same. The odor of sulphur now becomes stronger, though producing no other effect than a slight irritation of the lungs. Climbing through this trough, a frightfully weird and dismal place, and occupied by only a tiny streamlet and an appalling odor, we at length discovered some brown furry masses lying scattered about the floor of the ravine about a quarter of a mile from the point where we left Cache creek. Approaching cautiously, it became quickly evident that we had before us a large group of huge, recumbent bears. The one nearest to us was lying with his nose between his paws, facing us, and so exactly like a huge dog asleep that it did not seem possible that it was the sleep of death. To make sure, I threw a pebble at the animal, striking him on the flank. The distended skin resounded like a drum head, and the only response was a belch of poisonous gas that almost overwhelmed us. Closer examination showed that the animal was a young silver tip grizzly (Ursus horribilis). A few drops of dark red blood stained his nostrils and the ground beneath. There proved to be five other carcasses, all bears, in various stages of decay; careful search revealed oval areas of hair and bones that represented two other bears, making a total of eight carcasses in all. LITTLE KNOWN INDUSTRY Oyster and Clam Shells Do Not Go to Waste. A singular and but little known industry is carried on in this city in the sale of oyster and clam shells, says the New York Tribune. The dealers in this commodity pursue their calling in so unostentatious a way that it attracts no attention. From the eating houses where oysters and clams are consumed the year round, the shells are collected by persons who either carry on that business for themselves or are in the employ of the wholesale dealers. It seems incredible how large an area of ground can be covered many feet deep with the conglomeration of shell and foreign matter that is unavoidably collected with it, and apparently amalgamates without destroying the characteristics of the harder material. Seeing a number of carts loaded with shells moving toward the same point would induce the supposition that more reclaimed land was being filled in with material that would exclude the possibility of such land ever being used as a market garden; or it might be taken for granted that another dump heap was allowed in some of the still unoccupied upper west side lots. But if curiosity should lead to investigation it would be found that the carts were bound for a big yard at Fifty-fourth street and the North river, where they deposited their loads. Every autumn the yard is so filled up that a considerable hill of shells is formed. This being excavated from the bottom as loads are again carried away leaves the mass with the appearance of having been geologically formed, and offers a curious sight to the uninitiated. How the shells are used is one of the most astonishing things to those ignorant of the value of the material for anything except filling in streets and making beach drives, such as that one famous in the history of Savannah. But this shell suffers a curious change. It is sold to the gas-works and is used as a purifier. Look at your tongue. Is it coated? Then you have a bad taste in your mouth every morning. Your appetite is poor, and food distresses you. You have frequent headaches and are often dizzy. Your stomach is weak and your bowels are always constipated. There’s an old and reliable cure: Don't take a cathartic dose and then stop. Better take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good free movement the day following. You feel better the next day. Your appetite returns, your dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, your tongue clears up, your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer give you trouble. Price, 25 cents. All druggists. “I have taken Ayer's Pills for 35 years, and I consider them the best made. One pill does me more good than half a box of any other kind I have ever tried.” Mrs. N. E. Talbot March 30, 1899. Arrington, Kans. As an extra precaution every school should be run in connection with an eating school. Do You Want a Stylish Fall Suit? Then Call at Scull's and inspect his new line of woolens for Fall and Winter Wear. You Will Find Displayed all the Latest Novelties of both Foreign and Domestic Weaves. Fit, Quality and Workmanship of all goods strictly guaranteed. W. W. Scull 217 Main Street, A FIRST CLASS DRUG STORE is a boon to any community, where anything in the line of high grade toilet articles, rubber goods and sundries of all kinds can be found, and where physicians’ prescriptions and family recipes are compounded with scrupulous care, and from pure, fresh drugs. Everyone in Fine Bluff knows that it can always be found at the Mann-Tankersley Bing Company. 'HEAP 'OLUMN WANTED—A good barber and an experienced lunch counter man. Apply at Third Avenue Hotel, near Court. Lost—A small ladies’ gold watch. Name Edith engraved in watch. Lost on Sixth between Tennessee and Main streets. Finder return watch to Kaufmen Bazaar Co. and receive reward. If you want a good barber, try the New York Store. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern California and New Year rates: One late for the round trip within distance of 600 miles. Dates of sale, Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and Jan. 1, 1900. Final limit, Jan. 2, 1900. Holiday excursion rates Southeastern State— Dec. 20. 21 and 22. Good 30 days. Rates, one first-class fare for the round trip. H. N. ATWOOD, Agent. Cotton Belt Bulletin. PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO Via Cotton Belt Route Leave Pine Bluff 1:10 a.m. arrive Chicago 11:45 a.m. day. Only one change; through sleepers. Southern Educational Association, Memphis, December 27th to 29th, 1899. Rates:—One fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. Dates of sale: Dec. 20th and 20th, 1899. Return 1st Jan. 2nd 1900. National Live Stock Association, Fort Worth, Texas, January 16th to 18th, 1900. Kate, one fair for the round trip. Dates of sale: Jan 14th and 15th Return limit: Tickets will be good for return leaving Fort Worth any day from Jan. 17 to 27th inclusive 1900. Christmas and New Year’s Local Holiday Rates. In 9-1900, Kate, one fare for the round trip to points within distance of 200 miles of selling station. Minimum rate, 50c. Dates of sale: Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1899, and January 1. Return limit, January 2, 1900. Ninas and New Year’s Holiday Rates between Firdyce and stations north and Memphis, Tenn. Rate, one fare for the round trip. Dates of sale: Dec. 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 1899, and January 1. Return limit, January 2, 1900. Christmas and New Year’s Holiday Rates 1899-1900 Round trip rates to points on the St. L. S. W. Ky. Co., of Texas, within a distance of 200 miles from Pine Bluff. Rate, open rate of one and one-third fares for the round trip. Dates of sale: Dec. 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, and Jan. 1. Return limit Jan, 3, 1900. Art Calendar. As usual, the ADAMS-WIL SON PRINTING CO. Will have a full line of calendar samples for the year 1900. Our samples include a number of artistic productions and German Imports. DON'T ORDER FROM ABROAD PATRONIZE HOME PEOPLE Our canvasser will call upon you shortly with a full line of samples and something to please everybody. Wait for Him. Arkansas Midland Railroad Lands, 50,000 acres of good timber lands for sale. 2,000 acres of cleared lands for sale, along the line of the Arkansas Midland Railroad. Free sites for factories and mills. For farms or timber lands, address, G. T. UPDEGRAFF, General Freight Agent, Helena, Arkansas. Why go humping around with 3 when you can get instant relief in a 10c. ton of Postum? Positively Guaranteed in effect. Compound on earth, and a stamp and the Johnson Laboratories, St. Louis, Mo. S. W. Culpepper, Druggist. 