Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-08-08
A NEW WAY OF TELLING THE
HONEST FACTS.
How FatherTime Brought It About.
II stands on Its own Merits in the Richest
Section of Arkansas-Progress and
Growth Fruits of the Efforts
ofIts People.
WRITTEN BY HAL DAVID, EXPRESSING HIS
VIEWS OLE OuR CITY

WRITTEN BY Hal DAVID, EXPRESSING BIZ
VIEWS OF oUR cITY,l
Away back, about the time the
sun first. lighted on the features OF
the nineteenth century, Father Time
whetted his scythe, which bore many
hicks, sustained while reaping hard
customers during 100, inverted his
hour glass, tapped his wings with
BETTING gusto, gazed throughout
the precincts of space with supreme
nonchalance, formed himselfinto line
as the inaugural procession of the
age wherein invention and liberty
were to be twin sovereigns, and
swept across the world.
That Father Time is a great man
no one controverts, and his style OF
dress proves that great men have
eecentt fiicaii ties, and it may lie noted
that cities might with propriety
consider the idea OF adopting Mr..
Times Uniform for their fire depart
mentS.
OF his origin little is known,
although it is said that he started
out d poor boy, later worked in Il
tannery and had married and set
tied on a farm, where he was raising
a family Che might have been a Pop
ulistl when ordained dispenser OF
destiny, and whenever patches as
eend the throne like this, it tends to
prove that he was an American.
Father Time was the oldest globe
trotter extant and ex-ofhcios MEM
Der of the r. =. A., and is intimately
known to many, who called him
pap"
This brief history OF old man Time
is a DEPRESSION. but it may be par
doned when it is considered how es-
ntial tits that the rising youth
should escape total ignorance OF
him, without whose photo, calen-
dars are pretenses, and the potatoes
of the seed pamphlet are watery.
Well,a part of Mr.. Times proclama-
tion for 1900 was given when he.
reached the United States in his jour
ney, was to settle the Southwestern
country, and strengthening the leg
i ons of civilization, laid siege to the
battlements of nature and drove the
artless SAVAGE close behind the heels
OF the retreating buffalo.
The caravans that stretched forth
from the East over mountains and
plain, the rough, dense forests, across
swollen rivers, were composed OF the
persons whose deeds have proven it
right that man should be
known as the grand marshal OF
human affairs and "women' should
be legend Of Goodness and purity,
and that it is printed in the soul OF
the babe before it can stand alone.
These prophets of a Christian life
warmed by the endorsement OF con-
science, quickened by the love OF dear
ones, led by the precepts ofrighteous-
ness, planted the ensign of the faith
on parapets sprinkleG with torture
OF fires put to death incense floats
today.
But victory was the echo OF
moans of dying and anguish OF wild
,ows and orphans, but they are all
clay again and of their mounds our
gratitude is guardian.
Bright in the history OF the great
State OF Arkansas, Respondent in the
annals OF intrepidity, is the Chris
tian infancy of this section OF the
State, and all who walked through
her gardens were guided by happy
compass.
The paths that led to htrriyers did
not turn backward the "paie face
son. The land of milk and honey
appreciation anchored him and set
Elements were formed OF rude hrts
and grand men and women.
The h0ne-founders, elinging to the
trail ofnature and reaching a"spot,
raised their cabins ON a place OF
beauty on the Arkansas river
christened it Pine Bluff and when
the busy hand OF advancement is re-
luctantly stayed for 81 moment, we
see the majestic city OF Pine Bluff, the
busy arena OF $4,000 souls, hurrying
sweating, worrying, fearful lest they
may not earn their rest-on th9
heavenly shores.
These 5000 people are rich-theN
are tenants in common of the bes
city in Arkansas; their children at
tend schools as fine as feudal castles
and can walk in almost every direc
tion from principal street and a tint
sabbath school where the welcome
Knows no creed
There are forests made to fit tn
sidewa lks. with all modern charae
teristics, q natural beauty that. ma
been praised by voice and volume a
home and abroad, with more gen
eral diffusion OF plenty, ana amon'
its Inhabitants more h0me-oWner
than any other city in the land;
people whose hospitality enables IN
new conner to move with as littl
friction as the oldest resident; a eli
mate that has the best trade-ma ark
u low mortality rate, and skies tina
make the italian home-sick. Pin
Bluff has written her own eulog
and to the understanding OF Poop
OF every language.
The travellers that are besettin
the world of trade make it exceed
ingly proper to mention again Il
adamantine base OF local business
There has never been q boom, neyt
been relapse, never a symptom
.prostration in trade or manufactul
when our sister cities were tremblin
on unsafe foundations and bushes
houses closing their doors. It
merchants are highly rated. ri
banks are absolutely not subsle
hunters, but invulnerable instit
tions. created by demand and
larged by peerless management al
good work and insured perpetui
oy trade that nothing but an cart
Quake could divert.