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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
ARE WOMEN sTINGY7

There Is a fine old maSculine preJu- dice that women, as a class, are stingy. The whole question hangs closely on to the power of earning money, and the woman who makes her own life and her own living, is rarely guilty of the vice of parsimony. The horrors of a rigid domestic economy are usually practiced by wives to whom a weekly dole for housekeeping is handed out; women who, not possessing a penny or their own and having no pin money settled upon them at marriage, are tempted to pinch and scrape in order to put something by for themselves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
MAGNIFICENT LAz1NEss
A Now Orleans Tramp Holds the R,
 for Ease

1 for Ease.
 At about noon a fat and health
 looking, but phenomenally tattere
 tramp sat furtively dozing on a bent
 in Lafayette square. says the New Or
 leans Times-Democrat The ne tablet of the goedetic survey
 nounced that he was in exactl,4s
 tude 20 degrees 56 minutes 59
 and longitude 90 degrees 4 min
 seconds, but the fact disturbed%A.
 not. Leaning back luxuriously, he ap- peared to be bursting from every seam of his dilapidated attire, and as he | passed in and out of cat maps he nodded solemnly, like porcelain man. darin. His legs were crossed and his suspended foot was incased in a shoe from which most of the forward por- tion of the sole was missing, exposing his bare and dirty toes from below. It was held to his foot by a string tied around his instep; in fact, he was lit- orally Ion his uppers," circumstance which bothered him as little as the goedetic tablet. Presently, in one of Ai4o Welh44iS ldlCl t4S5 uE GSDltu q udkI% smoked cigar stump lying on the pave ment about a yard from the bench For a moment he surveyed it calmly dispassionately, almost judicfally. Then he executed a remarkable strat- fgic movement. Without stirring the upper portion of his body, he slowly unerossed his legs. lowered his foot accurately and deliberately over ths treasure troye, gripped it in a convuI- s11ye clutch of his toes, reversed tho snotion, raised his foot, carrying with it the stump, crossed his legs, lan- guidly stretched forth his hand and secured his prize. A gouty clubman, who was out for constitutional and who had watched the proceeding from another bench. was lost in admiration. "Why the man is wonder!" he ex- claimed to a friend. There is some. thing magnificent, almost supernatural in such laziness as that! He has ele- would be thousand pitles if he were disturbed for match I must offer him one!" The sealtx. elubmap arose with difficulty, hobbled down the walk. and, drawing silver m3atch-case from his pocket, extended itl with a polite bow. The tramp manifested 10 sur- prise, but slowly extracted a match and ignited the stump Tanks. hs murmured, and closed his eyes. He is superbP said the clubman when hs rejoined his friend; "he is a record breaker He is the laziest man in the world:"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
WHEN COMPANY COMES.
How the Country Host ess May Entertain
 Most Agreeably.

How the Country Hostess May Entertain
 Most Agreeably.
 Begin to enjoy yourself when your guests arriye-in fact. before they arr rive" is Mrs. John B. Sims advice in the Ladies' Home Journal. Do not try to serve such an elaborate dinner that the work of getting it ready will draw so upon your physi- cal powers that they will be strained to their utmost endurance. When your visitors arrive greet them with hearty handshake; make them feel that you are ready for their coming; speak of the pleasure that you hope the day may bring; compliment them on their good appearance; notice the necbwear, the dainty handkerchief; be thoroughly interested in each and every one. When the time comes for you to prepare the dinner and place 1t upon the table leave your guests as gracefully as possible. If the dinner be not too elaborate and the mental atmosphere be clear and bright your friends will come again. Eat to live and not Live to eat should be the motto of every household.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.

In one of the New York police courts the other day a prisoner who had been arrested for drunkenness, and who al the time of his hearing was still some. what under the influence" asked leave to make an explanation. The desired permission having been grant ed, lie said with a lofty gesture: q am neglected to insomnia. 1 am acrusted to the use of old ale to believe my self, and yesterday I happened to inn bribe too great quality of it. It affect ed my brain and I became interoxi- dated.'
 A new fad in New York city is pet turtles, and on these warm summer mornings one can see dozens of chil- dren and women around the ponds in Central Park airing and exercising these curious pets. Some of them bring their turtles wrapped in embroidered blankets similar to those used for pet dogs, and there were names embroid- cred in silk upon them. Cupid, ]" Turquoise" ''Schley." and "Dewey" were in group. Fastened in the top of each blanket is ring to which a chain is attached The turtles are placed on the ground at the edge of the pond and allowed to crawl into the water as far as the chain will permit them. Then they are hauled back and started over again.
 Nansen has settled down as a Nor wegian squire and sportsman, and is now a member of the great land-own- ing class. His possessions, which cost a considerable sum, lie on the borders of Telemarken, to the south of Lyn~ kopf, one of the highest summits of that district. He has become owner of the Sorkiehen Hotel, which was built some years ago for summer tour ists, but will now serve as his private residence. He has also acquired aIs the surrounding farms of Nord-Fek- jansitz, Sud-Fekjansitz Alamanboden and the fields along the shores of the Sorje river. His patent for the rights Of hunting and fishing in the Numedal is taken out for twenty-five years.
 Samuel seull of Mays Landing, N. J., and H. Smith of Utah were both members of the Twentieth regiment, United States army. and took part in the battle of Santiago. They were at- tackled by typhoid malaria after the fight, and were subsequently, sent to the hospital at Ft. McPherson, Ga. Miss Annie E. Thomas, a Red Cross nurse who had volunteered for hospital duty in Boston, nursed both of these young soldiers through their illness. Then she broke down, and they in turn did everything in their power for her. Eventually she went to Kansas, where she owned some property. She then suffered a relapse and died. IL has now been discovered that she was wealthy woman. and by her will she has left to Seull and Smith, share and share alike, hotel in St. Louis valued at S40.0o0,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
 BoI,I,y's Sling.

Bobby was lying on the bank, think Ing what to do next. He had used his sling against several cats and sent them in frantic haste beyond his reach, had brought down a robin with a we'll directed shot, and had sent Tommy Into the aouse with 8 red spot on his face and a protesting howl. Besides that, he had driven bluebird from its nest, broken a window and ruffied the unusually even temper of his big chum Towser. Now he was wonder ing what ne should do next, for it still lacked an hour of school-time.
 He was bad boy, you say? We'll. perhaps circumstantial evidence fndi- cated that, but his mother was in posi- tion to judge, and she did not think so. Was he not prompt in doing his chores, and cheerful and willing in &C., cepting extra work; and did he not insist on helping her wash dishes and sweep and carry water? Sometimes she spoke severely of his "cruel sport but in her heart she substituted another word for it-thoughtlessnes
 The sunlight lay warm upon tha bank, and presently he saw two bugs climbing tiny slope that was bare of grass. He reached out for pebble to throw, but none was within reach, and the game was not worth the exertion of rising. So he lay there and watched.
 He was not quite sure about the bugs, but thought they were the kind that papa told of carrying such great weights If so, they must be regular giants Of strength, and this thought brought ore interest into his eyes.
 One of them was tagging behind the other and moving with a slow, halting motion, as though partly disabled. Perhaps he had been trying to lift a mountain, and the mountain had fallen on him and broken his leg. Bobby chuckled at the idea, and moved lit- tie so he could see better, for now the foremost bug had turned back to his companion, with whom he appeared to be in earnest consultation.
 Tn changing his position, Bobby's hand came in contact with a pebble. but he merely pushed it aside instead oI picking it up to throw. He wanted to see what the bugs were going to do. And then very curious thing hap pened.
 The bit of slope had become too steep for the disabled bug to climb; and his companion, as though appre- ciating the situation, seemed to be studying some way out of the diffl- culty Presently he moved to a posi- tion in front of his friend and flat tened himself as closely as possible to the ground. After a little hesitation. the disabled bug climbed by slow and painful degrees upon his back and was borne up the slope and into the grass.
 Bobby gave low, expressive whis- tie, then lay back upon the grass and gazed long and earnestly at a cloud that was floating overhead. At length he rose slowly. and did not even look at the grass where the bugs had dis appeared. Down upon the lawn be could see a slight futtering. It was the robin he had hurt, and he went down and caught the bird in spite nf its dazed efforts to get away. He car- ried it into the house to his mother. :.
 T shot it, mamma he said. simn1v but with an odd little note in his voire which made her lopk at him or1ckIv
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
The Stolen Baby.

The sympathies of the whole coun- try were aroused by the recent abduc- ticn from New York city and the sub- sequent recovery of little Marion Clark, a baby twenty months old. Many aspects of this case are worthy of study In earlier days it was com paratigely easy act to steal a child and carry it where it's identity was lost
 while the bereayed parents were left without hope of it's return. Such cases were so common that the accidental re- union of parents with their long-lost children became a familiar feature ip liter4 ture and on the stage. The prompt recovery of the Clark baby shows that, while the world is all the time growing larger, in another sense st is constantly decreasing in size. The growth of great modern cities, and the tree movement of people from place to place, would at first seem to make it much easier to carry out successfully a crime of this kind today than it was in the past, but modern inventions have more than offset these changed condi- tions of society. When this child was stolen, such glare of publicity was thrown upon the crime that no nook or corner of this great country could long afford the criminal hiding place. The telegraph, the steam railroad, the per- fected police system, all lent their aid, out more valuable than all else were the services of photography and the newspapers. The daily journals so faithfully reproduced the baby's por- trait that young woman in a country postoffice, as soon as she saw the strange child, said: "Why, that looks like Marion Clark" The modern daily press has many faults, but occasionally it performs a service so important as somewhat to eondone them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22
Uzar's whin.

The gar has had his special den in the Se-A < .gsburg palace papered with cartoons relating to himself. including a great many caricatures of the most ridiculous sort. If he was Tammany -politician he Mou.d have d real -ctance
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

Positively the Largest, Oldest and Best Train
 ed Animal Show in the World
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

The Loss Supplied.
 Bertha-sThe papers used to say she had countless dollars They never say 1t nov. rlhough." HildaaNo; she's
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

Those Loving Giels. Helen-Jack called me an angel last night Matte No wondar; you are al-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

It is the same with actresses ana singers The princely hospitalities of certain diva are world-famous. Your popular actress, as a rule, would like to have four hands with which tc throw her money about. and she does 1t, indeed, to such effect that mon- ster benefit is usually got up to supply her with tbe neeessaries of life toward the close of her career. It is possible, indeed, that women in this connection. are somewhat akin to gamblers. If they make money with ease-or, at any rate, with not too strenuous toil-they are prone to spend it ill the most toI- erably Iight-hearted fashion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

Mrs. Oliphant, in short, though rifle daring in her expenditure, IS a good type of the open-handed working woman. There are at least two sa- nous English authoresses today whe liye-and entirely by their own exer- tions-like the wives of peers. They have town and country mansions; they go to Italy, to Egypt, to Japan. when the fancy takes them; they drive the most sbowy horses; they entertain like South African milllonaires. To think Of them as mean is to imagine an i'm possibility. They earn large sums ane they are at considerable pains to spend theh as quickly and as joyously as may be.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

FARGO, The smallest performing OCTAVI0 Elephants in the world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-22

The woman who earns, on the other hand, especially one who earns on a large scale, is more often than net open-handed to fault. The case of a naYelist-the late Mrs. Oliphant-is one in point. This courageous pen woman lived always on the fat of the land, travelled en prineesse, sent her sons to Eton and to Oxford and prac- ticed all the amenities of life. Although a good lScotswoman, WE are told by writer in Blackwood that she hated small economies To travel expensive was 'her way She never would trav- el second-class. She had none of what she calls the faculty of economies in her. She stayed at the very best and most expensive hotels; she dressed in the richest of silks and satins.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
DOsTON,s MAYOR REPUBLICAN.
Democrats, However, still Contr"'
Both branches Of City Government.

BOSTON, December 12.-After spirited
campaign. the Republicans won a great
victory in the municipal elections to-day
Thomas A. Hart defeating ex-Congress
Patrick A. Collins, the DeIocratic nomi-
nee for Mayor by 1904 votes. The totai
vote was: Hart Republican,, 1850; Col
Inns Democrat. IS ,76l.
The Democrats. however, stu control
both branches Of the city government;
the Board Of Aldermen by somewhat
increased majority. The Board stanGs
eight Democrats and five. Republicans.
The city. as usual. voted for license.
The Republican victory was In great
Measure due to the "knifing' OK Mr. Cot
Inns by the supporters OF John J.. Murphy'
who were severely disappointed at their
favorite's defeat in the caucus.
STREET CORRESPONDENTS
Al late hour the Boston returns IN
dicated the election OF John IL. Duane
memocraO for Street Commissioner over
Fdward w. Presho Republicam py
small plurality. $3.50 o., 90 -.
votes had favored the eight-hour law ior
city employees .,.s T., oroo.tpe,
seven of the eight members Of the School
Commission.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
The Printing Paper Trust.
New York WORLDLY

a demand will be made upon Congress
at the coming session for repeal or the
duty on wood pulp and a reduction OF the
tariff on printing paper, which will test
the sincerity OF the Republicans In say
ing that they are opposed TO dutico
which foster trusts and protect monopo.
lies IL will be shown that neither Of
these duties Is required for tho protec.
ton OF American industries. as our
manufacturers actually make paper so
much cheaper than II can be made elee-
where that they export IL and boast Of
their ambition TO control the paper trade
OF the world. IL will DO shown further
that the international paper trust ownA
nearly all the available spruce timber In
tho United States. and controls all or
nearly all the water supply contiguous 10
this pulp wood. In It's needless greed 10
is destroying our protected forests.
and thus not only exhausting the pulp
material, but impairing the water supply.
The real protection 10 our forests VIII
come through admitting free the pulp
made from the almost limitless supply Of
spruce In Canada, British America, ana
Northern Europe. The duty on paper II
tax on intelligence. premium upon
monopoly, the bulwark OF trust Ie
Congress shall permit this exactson TO
continue there Is no rcbbsr tax that neel
fear disturbance.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
4 board of Pnrdons.
Baltimore Evening News)

(BdtlmOre Evening NeHs.)
one OF the questions OF new legislation
for Maryland that are meeting with some
discussion In the columns Of the county
papers IS the appointment OF a board OF
pardons. 20 take from the state Execu-
tive the burden OF this serious and Inn
pOrtant matter. The Frederick News
thinks it Is something that ought TO have
been done long ago, and gives as a rea-
son for II that the Governor ought NOT
TO be required 10 receive and hear appn-
cations for pardon and investigate the
facts himself. duties which 70 considers
TO be entirely out Of the line OF 4 chief
executive. IL is too great a burden upon
him, whereas a board OF pardons, com
posed OF well-chOsen citizens OF the State.
could perform the detailed labor Of in
vestigatiOn much better and make such
recommendation 80 tho Governor as they
much Of the labor If not of the response
bility. The News calls attention 10 the
fact that Governor Bowndes and other
governors before him have asked for the
relief that could DO provided by the APP
pointment OF board OF pardons. and
that I'm a number OF States, notably Penn
sylvania and louisiana, the plan has
been tried with satisfactory results.
A constitutional amendment ~ neces-
sary 10 create board Of pardons I'm this
State. which leaves the Legislature AZ its
coming session merely the duty OF fran
Ing an amendment TO be submitted 10 the
vote of the people al the next general
election in the State. A number OF the
county papers are urging the members
from their districts To urge and vote for
such an amendment. They are awakening
a sentiment IN favor Of the change THAI
will probably result In its being made.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
NEGRO EXHIBITS FoR PARIS.
contributions from Educational In
sfifutiOnS in the south.

WASHINGTON. December 12.-Thomas
Galloway. special agent on negro edu-
mfol for the United states Commission
% fa Paris Exposition. has recently re-
frr.l from an extensive tour through
r. south for the purpose of arranging
Up exhibits. He said to-day:
Ilave definitely arranged for credita-
PA hibits from several educational in
.lut0ns. showing the work being done
among the colored people. Howard Uni
t-fy. with eight professional depart
ra-s. viii furnish an exhibit showing
rs professional training being done.
mp-on Institute viii exhibit an out
ae ~ the system Of manual training
.h has been developed there. This in
tuition will also furnish an interesting
topographic display
"Ir0m Atlanta University, in Georgia,
J arranged for an exhibit i'm zoology \
class of colored students under a colored
raduate of Harvard College will display,
artistic cOlOring. such statistics as re-
late TO negro population al various pc
RODS. the relative increases of the two
races. the distribution Of negroes, educa-
tion and illiteracy, populism. the owner
ship OF homes, factory employment, etc.
1.-THE Tuskegee Institute. in Alabama
now preparing "a series Of UNIFORM
zed display boards. 10 the surface OF
which small articles are attached. which
..ursscnt the tWenty-eight shops and
cher industries Of that institute.
risk University viii furnish q COM
rn'- -et Of bound volumes Of the history
~ trs institution. through which will be
altered large numbers OF photographs
"Tf. washington col0red public schools
.r preparing series Of modelled groups,
WIFI ur ture figures Of persons, school
houses and surroundings showing by
three .f four groups the evolution OF the
negro sol00l-hOuse from the most primi-
five t.. woods hut to the finely-app0int-
.l and ClmmodiOus COlOred High School
building % Washington.
"Nenv fifty colored men have received
pedals ~ honor in the United states
army and navy, and photographs of these
medals with the official record of the
y-'or0us deeds for which the medals We're
granted. will be displayed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
steyn's story OF stormberg.

PRETORIA. Sunday. December 10
President Steyn has sent the following
details Of the fight at Stormoerg juno
ton:
1.-THE British, with six cannon. attack
ed the Beers under Swanepoel and OIL
vler, and stormed the Beers en-
trenched positions on the kopjes. After
a severe fight, they were compelled 10
surrender.
1.-THE prisoners are Major Sturges six
officers, and 230 non-commissloned officers
and men OF the Northumberland. and
two officers and about go non-commis-
stoned officers and men OF the Irish Fusi-
leers.
1T is impossible to state the number
of dead or wounded British. The Beers
captured three cannon and two ammunl-
ton wagons"
BRITISH TRANSPORT ASHORE.
LAS PALMAs, CANARY ISLANDS
December l2-The British transport Den
ton Grange, with war munitions on board
is ashore outside the harbor, and making
water
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13
Entail Kentucky Feud Fights.

CINCINNATI December ia special
TO the Commercial Tribune from London
KY. says: c-,..o,..
Last night young man named SpiVely
was shot and probably fatally wounded
bv Thomas WhittemOre. near BengetOwn,
CLAW county. Whittemore belongs 10 the
parker faction. and 1t is alleged That
Spivelv is an ally Of the Turner'S. Spye-
Nv had been to London with some friends,
and was returning home when he met
\Vhittemore and others Of his enemies,
and the fight began. He received several
wounds. and was carried 10 his fathers
home i'm a dying condition. WhittemOre
was wounded but how seriously has not
been learned The friends Of both men
are threatening Vengeance
News reaches here from Manchester
that in a fight there yesterday between
The Wilders and the Whittakers John
Wilder was shot through the neck and
fatally wounded. 1t is not certain who
fired the shot.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-13

ienn. 80 feet on east side Tweuty-seyenth
rect between Broad and Marshall
streets, I'm name OF Andrew G. Stevenson,
'Or taxes, $40.
Same to same, G. feet on Hickory street.
northeast corner Webster, i'm name of
William l.. Gordon. for taxes. sl6.56,
Mabel V. Berry TO Lille J. Smith. 70
feet on east side Cherry street between
Main and Cary streets. 81 800.
Josephine Gasser's heirs 70 Mrs. Ma
galeno Sperisen. 20 feet on Fifth street
northwest corner Duval street. $3.50.
Joseph T.. Glenn and wife 20 I.avinia
Burley, 2S feet on Thirty-hrst street, llC
feet from y street. 500.
NJ. r. Riders trustee TO Charles H.
Hunter. 2lls feet on north side Main
street between Locust alley and Fifteenth
street s. 49,
l.. c. Tucker and wife 10 II. b Chalk.
ley, - inches on west side of Twenty.
third street, s2j.