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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-31

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 MEYER .soLHsoN. City Editor. =---=------------------
 CITY ITEMS.
 County Judge $. C. Martin has re turned from Dumas.
 WANrED-Boy with pony to de- liver the Daily Graphic. 31 Nil. ". Bruce, of Dallas, Texas, is autogra phed at the Trulock.
 Ask Hugh Nestbrook what he knows about" OxA donor." 3S Miss Roelia .Solmson will receive the Mascot Euchre Club this after noon.
 If you ant your prescriptions de. livered quick send them to Walker Drug Co. MT. Gillian "Dsdo Lawton went to Stuttgart laat niaht aud is spend- ing the day al the fair
 Messrs. T.P. Nafre9 anl Q p Phillips, Of Little Rock are at the Tfal6ek.
 Fl EGTI0N kE1 URNs Vffl be re- ceived al Pefdue's cotton fxchange alI night N3Wmher 6 Admission free and ail are invited. 36
 Nessrs. W. T. Payne. If sherrIG, end l. W. Walker asf 3Grnegstone, are business visitors ia lie city C. day.
 FOR SALE 4 C orse power en- zine, good as new. at bargain. Apply to or write the Adams Wilson Printing Co.,. Pine Bluff, Ark. tf Mr. Hugh Lynch, popular citizen of Deeherd. Tenn, was visitor in Pine Bluff last night. He was at the Trnloak while here.
 Quite crowd of young society people of this city will go to Stntt- gart ThnrsdaY. Pine Bluff Day. and attend the fair.
 WANTED-Posit,en as bookkes D. CT. Competent young man would like to keep t set of books in the evening, Address II, care Graphic B Miss Bridget Brennan has resigned her position as apprentice ia the millinery department at the Kauf- man Bazaar.
 Mr. W. II. Qnigg, of Little Rock, the hustling and well known Cotton Belt official, is paying the city visit today.
 A. W. Farcum and a party of ss1i veyors from Pine Bluff are nere for the purpose Of surveying eoustruc- tion work south on the Cotton BeE. -Jonesboro Journal.
 
 Cleanse the liver and bowels. and regulate the sSstenlshy using PR1cK- LY ASH rlTTERs. It creates and sus- tains energy. Sold ty Walker Drug Co. 2w Lsz T. Fies went through the Elks lodge Tuesday night. Some eye wit nesses say tbat he went through Il e air on the goat. His riding that ani- mal is said to have been immense. A party If young society people enjoyed an "eveuing at bo wing IT thr Bowling Alley Tuesday night The affair was a complete success. Full mention in the society columns Of Sundays Graphic.
 Mir. Ed F. Rosenberg is now the hustlipg manager of Holland X Lam peIt's new opera house. Ed is an old hand at the business and will doubtless give our people good se; vice in sthe way of long list of good attractions.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

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-. VI ~ ~ "tsa.H e, i'seIr III d
because this anniversary Of The =; =,
of Indenandence bad hro,gbt - Lar =
dorlla a,,;,.orsa,,,. [1assoJ :, -
nared dac;Sions
II m;cbt he. sba f,,+ .s f-oa .h.roo,.;,.
bird s;1ginr o,,r - i, ~ ,,asat
go .4' ~ - ous 'Ast ~ Tue peaeH liee,
her. She rested her head aga;,,st the lash
and smiled out on the dewv lawn
There, at the corner of the nortieo float.
ed the blessed ola stars and strines ana bv
lie si5a tIrtters5 - C,,,l,a,, 81 WI
liberty all Tie way through. She closed her
shining eyes to think; the flags loated side
by side near Santiago last Fourth. The
noise OF battle was again in her ears the
wounded were borne past, the surgeons went
by, and the suppressed groans OF brave men
came back; but through it all came a plead
ing intonation: Pray that may live for
mothers sake!
Cornct p'ayer" No. !, who had risen with
the dawn, was now returning from walk
in the orchard, and as he passed the case
ment he looked up. For moment his face
| was TRANSPORTED with great joy He for
got that this was the Fourth of July; he
forgot that he belonged to the Union City
cofnet Dand; he forgot everything but that
ne hao FOUND her.
Tapping gently on the pane, he called
softly: Nurse Marie"
She started violently; the sweet repose
lied in twinking and she looked wildly
around the room. Had the dream been SO
vivid that his very voice became part,
Or?
A movement outside the easement drew
her attention; she turned quickly to look
full into the splendid eyes" once more.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

breakfast, your father has fairly fallen in
love with that young cornet player; he was
a soldier in Cuba, you know; and think
myself he is the incest looking fellow | ever
saw"
Marie groaned in establishment; then a
spirit of mischief flashed from her eyes.
ut may be that Cupid has indeed folded
his wings over the Sweetands and it may be
he, the cornetist, will fall in love with me.
/ move you, mother, that you invite him to
spend the remainder of the summer with us
and thus checkmate our bonnie Harvey Nell
lis
This outburst was not like Marie What
had come over her? Mrs. Sweetlands
paused over the mullins ring she was filling
to think.
'Why, my daughter" she said, in dep
recating way, "if you cannot care for Har-
vey, there's an end of it, no matter if father
and do like him"
The revulson of feeling in Marie's bosom
was wonderful. of she could not care"
Well, she never could. The circumscribed
horizon widened and lost itself in the valley
of rest.
"Mother!" she sobbed, 81 am awfully
thankful to get rid of Harvey Nellis with
out disappointing you" Then she slipped
away to the front parlor to have little
happy cry and rest her nerves.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03


Yes, dearest; when you knelt by me III
that awful hour felt above all the pain
that our lives flowed together. / have TOLD
mother about it many times, and she alway,i
says tearfully: Find her, Heston, find her,
can't your"
Mares face was like the sunshine as she
released Il, herself and proudly looked him
eTnne sGur Sund 81 did not ssyS
would
70, yes" he answered. "See! I limp a
little And he took turn about the room;
but l have regained my health and am well
and-so happy!"
He was close beside her now, and she
said in hushed manner: ''This day is the
anniversary, dear, the Fourth"
Il had forgotten everything but YOU" he
answered; then reverently: 1T is; SO diff
ferent, but not more loyal" Then he turned
and saluted the dear old flag as it hoated out
on the summer air.
Father, mother" began Marie, as they
went out to breakfast, this young soldier
whom You both fell in love with last evening
belongs to me-" She put her arm through
his contidingly and hid her glowing face on
his shoulder.
Whats" exclaimed..s.lr. Sweetland.
dropping the prog ESQ., sef the day and
coming around the eoiher of the table.
WHAT" echoed Mamma Sweetland
after him, rising from behind the coffee
urn. Marie, do explain!"
After Marie had explained, they gradual
~ recovered from their surprise. And Mr..
Sweetland, who had been thinking deeply,
burst out with: ~. II. Merrill; named after
your father. Bless my old eyes! Why, my
boy, I fought alongside your father under
Sherman
But the surprise was reserved for the
countryside people, when the first cornet OF
the Union city band came into the grounds
with Marie Sweetland on his arm. Then
everybody composed romance dating back
to "last year at Santiago" but most of them
were awfully "at sea"
When the Union City band started for
! home that evening the first cornet did not
go; he handed note to the second cornet
for his mother instead.
And the note read in this wise: Mother,
dear, l am not coming home for week !
! have found Nurse Marie; and she is royalty
true to me! Three cheers for the old flag,
mother, and the loyal girls of the blessed
land of the free!"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
strictIx DnaInesa,

He held the maideps LITTLE hand.
But ne'er spo. i word of love;
Ths counter ssae between them, and
i!e was fitting on her glove.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
THIs was the third of July? Yes;
with one elbow on the corner of the
gray lichened post, she stood by the

NHIS was the third of July? Yes;
with one elbow on the corner of the
gray lichened post, she stood by the
gate gazing down the old clay road
in the blinking heat.
Tomorrow would be the Fourth; yes,
but she was not thinking of it as the ami
versary of independence, as couched in the
Declaration Not one in all the countryside
knew that Marie Sweetland meant to keep
the day differently from most people.
She was patriotic; she had proved that a
year ago down in Cuba, but she had proved
more. And she meant to be right royalty
loyal all her life to the love enthroned.
People said that she was not the same
vivacious Marie since she returned from San
tiago that she had been hitherto. There was
more than neighborly gossip in this observa-
ton and none knew it better than she did,
for had she not left her heart with the oc-
cupant of cot No. 20? But nobody knew,
not even he; SO of a necessity there it would
end.
At the foot of the long hill the old clay
road crossed a rustic bridge and the bridge
spanned brook which had all it could do
to keep the troops of willows and alders
alive that huddled along its sides and bent
over for a cool breath.
Somebody was coming around the bend
just beyond the bridge. Yes; that was
father and Cell. Father would always be a
soldier and boy, and she smiled a little,
thinking of other soldiers, as Cell arched his
neck to the music of several tiny flags flap
ping from his bride.
The elbow slipped off the lichened post
.'They are late" she said, folding her hands
in her big apron after the quaint fashion of
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

there and 1 wanted her to see what good
housekeeper I am"
TOO badl / hope"
Eyes. We fairly few to the station, with
out bite of breakfast-to find that our
train had gone"
''Mercy, what dreadful time And you
had asked all the Others too. What could
you do?"
"They had missed it, too. The next train
did not go for an hour and a half and we had
to wait in waiting-room which was as hot
as your mother-in-law's temper. Conse-
quently, long before we started, the children
were crying, the lovers had quarreled and
the married men had gone out singly to ask
the agent if the train was on time. We were
off at last, and l hoped our troubles were
over"
"And weren't they?"
"Mercy, no! We had to change cars at the
junction, and, when we were once more on
the way, we discovered that everybody
had thought that everybody else was attend
ing to the baskets and they were still in the
baggage car of the train we had left"
But you could telegraph back for them?"
I'VE did. An excursion train had run into
the one we had left before it had gone four
miles and the contents of our baskets, which
were in the only car wrecked, showered the
landscape for quarter of a mile"
How perfectly dreadful! Was there no
farmhouse near your stopping placer"
"There were two. In the first, there were
three cases of measles; the second was de-
serted by its owner and in possession of two
fierce bulldogs! Albert and some of the
other men suggested that the women and
children remain at the picnic ground and the
men divide into two parties, one to scout for
I provisions, the other to fish, in the hope OF
supplementing some kind of a NEAL
That was an excellent idea. Surely"
''The idea was all right. The members of
the scouting party were lost for two hours
and ate up everything they had succeeded in
procuring for us. The others found that
! they had fishing rods, baskets. lines, every
| thing but hooks-and that on the banks of
stream literally choked with fish,"
well, l hope that was all!'
"Not quite. a shower came up, the only
one within radius OF a hundred miles, and
drenched us to the skin. Our return train
was two hours late, and nobody would speak
| to anybody else while we waited"
"And you gained nothing by all that long
day in the country"
ooh, yes, we did. We gained enough ex-
| perience to prevent us from ever going on
another Fourth of July picnic as long as we
| live!'' ELISA ARMSTRONG.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

| carrying his bank, we have heard no sound
from them, while the uproar in the streets
has been deafening. Surely, you must ac-
| knowledge now that understand children"
"Of course, dear. Such good children as
| they are, too, and so clever. Why, Arches
| mechanical talent ought mercy, what is
| that?"
Merely the Van Jones children again. 1t
Is wonder if the family is intact after this.
l shall just step over to see if there is any
thing can do, and remind Van Jones at the
same time that my theory is the only success
full one. When he sees our children in their
usual health in the morning, while his are
minus few fingers and toes, he will-why,
here he is, now! Sorry if anything has hap
| pened to your boys my dear fellow; my own
are sleeping the sleep of the innocent and
| uninjured, and"
My boys are all right, thank you," was
the reply. you are somewhat mistaken as
to the whereabouts of your own, however"
Impossible. They went to bed two hours
ago, each with bank containing one dollar
towards Christmas purchases. On that day
shall open the bank myself, and"
Il fancy that will be hardly necessary.
Your son Archie succeeded in doing that
some two hours ago. The explosion you just
heard was the result of some purchases he
and his brothers had made. The doctor,
who happened to be passing, is now engaged
in attending to them. DO not. however, be
alarmed, Mrs. Smitherton; he assures me
that Archie can get along very well without
eyelashes and eyebrows and that Clarence
and Johnnie will doubtless be in the full pos
session of the use of their respective fingers
and toes by Christmas"
The Glorious Fourth.
Teacher (class in history)-Now, Patrick
Henry Butts, what happened on the Fourth
of July?
Master Butts enthusiastically. Ne lit
tie brudder got his eye bowed out, and pop
singed of all his whiskers Puck.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

top or underneath the pie. The latter was
my first attempt in the pastry line, and l
feared it might he bit heavy"
so it miss,t. And had you!'
"l-er-don't know. We had warned the
cook to wake us very early, and, when l
heard her moving before daylight, l just
turned over and went to sleep and slept
until Albert walked me, and"
But why'didn't the cook
1T wasn't the cook ! heard; it was bur
glar. He had taken the baskets and left a
sarcastic note concerning the pie"
How awful. What did you do for the
picnc?"
Il went to work and picked up what /
could while Albert emptied the nearest
grocery store. Ii was especially trying be-
cause Albert's old sweetheart was to be
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
RESULT OF A THEORY.
M. Smltherton Proves Concluslyelu That
Mono But Obedient Children Are
Truly Happy.

l(T>HERE is nothing like intelligent
frmness In the treatment Of
children" observed Mr.. Smith
erton. my theory is that they
must be made to obey, and then their own
good sense will do the rest. You see the re-
suit Of that theory this evening"
Very true" replied Mrs. Smitherton,
who always agreed with her husband, In her
opening sentence, at least. "The Fourth of
July does not, however, come every day
md"
Luckily not. All day long, l have been
expecting the Van Jones children to be
blown into such small fragments that the
twins would be even more difficult than
usual to distinguish from each other"
Well, wish you wouldn't display quite
80 much interest, dear; a man who has one
brother physician, another preacher and
third an undertaken really ought not to
display so much interest in possible acct
dents"
"That is all very well, but l warned Va
Jones this morning that my method of
bringing up children was the only sensible
one. I cannot but feel that if an accident
should occur he would see that am right
Our boys seemed to take it rather hard to-
daywhen refused them freorackers, but"
They did" sighed his wife. 81 heard old
Mr.. Clipperton next door calling to Mr.. Van
Jones that he wished his children would
send off a few more cannon crackers to
drown the shrieks of ours because they had
none"
"Ah." said Mr.. smitherton, triumphant
ly, that was before called them into the
library and explained the useessness of
f1recrackers, as well as their destructive
tendency, and put one dollar into each childs
bank, to be taken out at Christmas for the
purchase of skates"
well, am thankful that they are quiet
now, that's all"
"They certainly are. Since they went off
to bed, two hours ago, each one contentedly
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03

Mrs. Smilers. Il was SO sorry that
Tom and l were unable to come. 1t
was just like his mother to want to come to
town for the Fourth, just when other people
want to 60 to the country. She calls that be-
ing strong minded.
Does she? All, well, some women are
born mothers-in-law, replied young Mrs.
hyperion. Il suppose YOU have heard
nothing about the picnic:"
Nothing whatever. Tom says he is sure
your husband must have had very jolly
time, though, because he hadn't word or
smile lett over the next morning. DO tell
NE all about it. l can't feel any worse about
it than do already, So
Il will, dear; then perhaps : well, it was
this way: We We're to meet at the railroad
station, and the train left very early, so we
had vesy restless night. In order to save
time | packed the lunch baskets over night
and then couldn't sleep for wondering
whether l had packed the sandwiches on
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900

Words worthy to be cut in imperish-
able granite and planted along the
wayside of every public highway in
America. "Money is made to be the ser
cant of ma,,-a,,d l protest against all
eori3s thu snthroae money an1 dcbases
mankind. - Uillian. J. Bryaa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
The Day of Explosions.
oh. for a lodge
OH' fVf q 3VUbC
In some vast Wilderness.

In some vast wilderness,
Where one might dodge
This tumult and distress!
Or, II wilderness is not in stock,
Give us boiler factory. where the shock
or ringing hammer echoes day and night;
Or let us curl, all sleepfully and bland,
Inside the big horn of the small brass band
Or let us lay our heads. to shun this gloom.
BY the steam whistle in the engine room,
OR where the big pile drivers heavy thud
SENDS waves OF dreamy song along the
mud
Oh, give us any place, where we may find.
Comparatively speaking, peace of mind!
Washington Star
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
The Womnn,s Part.

Johnny, didn't tell you to divide those
frecrackers with your sstcr?"
Yes, sir. An did,"
"Shesays you set them all of by yourself"
Eyes, sir, Lut | let her listen to 'em go
off."--N. Y E.orld
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
,rasi1>;ss che l+ols I e..sltss sllIth.
3ugher parts, SO time tends Ga

oes who labored to accomplish great re-
suits. Nothing could appear easier than
that congress of delegates should name
committee to draft resolutions, and what
more natural than that body should in
dorse unanimously the acts of its servant9
Legislative bodies, from the beginning of
lawmaking assemblages, have ever been free
In adopting all manner of resolutions many
OF which reflected no credit upon themselves
and did harm to those against whom they
were directed
Yet 1t is not possible to overestimate the
supreme daring of the members of that CON
tinental congress which named that com
mlttee, and which, later, adopted its report
England was easily first of the nations; the
colonies but handful of people without ex-
perience in war and wanting the means to
prosecute one. There had been few en-
gasements-battles, if one please to so dignity
them-in which American victories were
somewhat problematical. The adoption of
the Declaration was an act of treason, as the
mother country interpreted it, and the dele
gates to the congress 80 understood it..
When one member said to Franklin: eve
must all hang together" meaning that every
member should sign the document, that sage
replied wittily: Yes, or separately"
Still, there was no faltering, or paltering
Il give my hand and my heart to this vote, u
said the noble John Adams, and SO saying
he voiced the universal sentiment of the
body of patriots gathered in independence
hall.
One week later, on spot of ground just in
front of the present city hall in New York
city, George Washington caused the Dec
laration to be read to his army
1t is not possible to estimate the effect OF
this extraordinary proclamation upon the
army and the people. Until its adoption the
citizens scarcely knew for what they were
fighting. That they had grievances they
knew; that they had been wronged and op.
pressed, they had experienced in their per
sons or property, or both; but how thei1
wrongs should be redressed they had not de.
termined. Congress told them. They must
be free, an Independent people, and the eff
feet was electrical. From one end of the
land to the other, the refrain was taken up:
We are free, and we shall fight to keep our
selves free"
Thenceforward there was no hating or
evasion. The people became knitted to-
gether as one man.
The nation was bornin day. This is why
the bells do ring, the bands do play and pa
triotism issebullient on the Fourth of July.
The fatherssin that day cast their defiance
insthe face of Great Britain and thenceforth
the United States became an independent
sovereignty, to be oppressed by no other ma
ten in the lapse Of the ages.
WILLIAM ROSSER COBBE.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
HAD A LOVELY TIME.
A Fourth of JULY Picnic That Left It's
Victims Without Smile for the
Next Day.

([1'VE come to hear all about your love-
lyeFourth of July picnic" said young
Mrs. Smilers. Il was SO sorry that
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
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UlV<NS~MJ HD N~ IA0l Orl1lON OF
SIgSS I'M nation usually is
m SSYh .dlk slow To be more
Nlll|IlMI S\HH precise, it may be
nl|ItI||llk >A|l said that nation
\alIlIVll lIlV has its beginning in
asort of protoplasm
which, by slow
process of evolution, develops into thing of
strength and beauty. The United States
does yioleao5 to this accepted theory, based
upon the teachings of history. This country
shows no stages of progression. AS Minerva
is said to have sprung full-armed from the
brow OF Jove, thirteen small struggling, 10y
al, devoted colonies of Great Britain, quick
asalightning flash, became nation and took
its place as such among the independent
sovereignties of earth.
This was brought about by the rhetorical
genius Of single man, supplemented, to be
sure, with general supporting sentiment
that the time was come for the ripening of
new fruit upon the tree of nations. Three
of the brightest masters of English in the
colonial congress were chosen as commit
tee to draft declaration which should ex-
press the feeling of congress and of the peo-
pie towards the mother country. Jefferson,
youngest Of the three, adroit prestdigitator
of words, did his work SO masterfully that
MS associates Kept their drafts from sight
and accepted the Declaration of Indepen-
dence offered by the youthful Virginian.
1t Is this Declaration which the Fourth of
July is designed to commemorate. The doc
ument contains not one doubtful sentiment
Its English, while sonorous and rhythmic,
is mighty with the strength of perspcuity.
He who runs may read and understand. The
one superruling sentiment is that the OPP
pressed cOOQistS We're and of right should
be, independent and a separate people.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
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Z A TRUE FOURTH OF JULY STORY
+ BY f1ANDA L. CROKER

BY MANDA L. CROKER

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