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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-06

MT. J. A. Smith, the cotton mill promoter, is in the city today, and will take up the work where it was left off and see if the people here really want factory or if they were just monkeying about it. If we ex- pect to make this a city we must build factories and that is all there is to the matter. We should let Mr. Slmth know that We intend to do about the matter.-Texarkana Texar- kanian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
Son Sends Father to Cell.

David Nollinger, of No 9O6 Second
avenue, with Il policeman's aid, the
other night forced his 64-year-old IA
Their to 90 to the East Fifty-fifth
street police station. and there had
the old man put behind the bars.
81 have supported him at. my home
for i2 years." the son said, his eyes
full of tears, land whenever he got
hold of any money he got drunk and
abused my wife and children. This
afternoon he collected a laundry bill
for my wife and came home intoxi-
Gated, beat my wife and children and
smashed the furniture. 1t breaks my
heart to send him away, but he is de-
stroying my home, and l have to do
it,"
All the way to the station the old
man had Pleaded for mercy. The son
had only cried silently and said moth
ing toll he addressed the sergeant.
The father, finding his appeal for pity
Of no avail, became abusive as he was
led away to 4 cell.-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
NEWS, POINT AND COMMENT.

think no evil" and keep outside
the saIoon.-National Advocate.
Cincinnati is now claiming to be the
greatest whisky market in the world.
The wholesale trade there announces
that the year will be the heaviest the
city has ever had.
Four states, Colorado, Illinois, Louis
lana and Massachusetts, have passed
laws making it unlawful to sell CO..
caine without the prescription of IL
censed physician or surgeon.
The French house of deputies has
passed a bill which forbids the man.
ufacture or sale in France OIL absinthe
and other alcoholic liquors which
are pronounced dangerous" by the
Academy of Medicine.
Closely Affiliated. -Murphy-"O tell
yez. Flaherty, tn saloon is tn poor
mons cloob Troth, Oh don't see how
he could git on widout it." Flaherty-
He couldn't! Nv there wor no saloons
there'd be no poor in."-Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
GOOD WINTER GAMES.
There Are Many That VIII Help to
Make Fun and Enliven an other
wise Dull Party.

We all know very many games to
play; the trouble is TO think of them
at the right minute. If you are going
to give a candy pull or a cobweb party
it is well to have a good many games
thought up beforehand, alternating the
romping games with the quieter ones
in a little programme so that there
may be no awkward pauses.
Have you ever been to swap" par
ty? Each one is supplied with four or
five little bundles, wrapped so that no
one else can suspect the contents. The
bundles may contain anything from
tinsel ball to sunbonnet. Each one
praises up his own property, without
telling what it is, and the swapping is
carried on with great show of bargain
ing. When everyone has snapped the
parcels are opened and the one who
has made the poorest swaps must tell
a story or suggest game, or in some
way entertain the company. After this
come other games, with apples and
nuts for shments.-Cincinnat En-
quirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21

boxes, cigar boxes; and one man could
find nothing better than a piece OF
stove pipe which he nailed to tree. so
high that the carrier can just reach it
by standing up in his cart. The owner
of this box has to come on horseback
TO get his mail or else bring ladder.
Another box is a gourd with hole cut
in one side, and hung from the limb Of
a tree.
Besides all these, there are number
of Uncle Sans own iron boxes, placed
by the government along the country
roads and from these the carrier col
lects mail each day just as it is done
in the city.
There is great advantage about the
life of rural delivery man. He is al
ways welcome wherever he goes. At
nearly every house along his route
some one is watching for him to appear
with his bag of letters and papers. He
hasn't much time to stop, but each one
has word for him and he is generally
loaded up with a choice assortment OF
messages from house to house all along
the way. On the whole, when il doesn't
hail or rain or freeze too hard, ths
rural deliveryman must have a fairly
good time jogging over his route
Little Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
AN ANT FAMILY.

take one of the white cocoons that
look like grains of rice, and run down
into the house with it, as fast as pos
sible. Then she will come back for
another, and pretty soon there will
be nothing left where you turned over
the stone by the narrow roadway,
leading down to Ant Town.
The ants are very busy workers,
and when you see little heap of dirt
in the path you know that they have
been making a new room or digging
out a new roadway, and this is the
earth they have brought up while
they worked.
There are a great many different
kinds of ant folks. In some cities the
masters and mistresses are very lazy,
because they keep slaves to do all the
work.
1T is so warm and sunny to-day
we must bring up the babies for an
airing" said one ant slave to an
other, as they met in one of the halls.
"You bring them up if you want
to, but | have too much to do. First
I must go with my sister slaves and
find food for breakfast. Then we
must feed our masters and mistresses,
and afterward go out and harvest
the grass seed for winter" SO they
hurried along and the first brought
the babies up to the warm, dry cham
Der near the top OF the ground.
The ant cows are tiny green bugs,
such as we often see on our house
plants. Their milk is like honey, and
the ants are very fond of it. The ants
know that these little cows would die
when the weather grew cold if no one
looked after them; so when fall comes
they drive them into the COW sheds
they have made, and feed them all
winter, the same as we do our cows
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
| A MORAL TALE.

There was once a boy in Kalamazoo
Who used to insist that he never would do
The things he was told he had got to;
But of contrary mind would persistently
fly
In authority's face. and was minded to
try
The things that his mother said not to.
Now hold your ears hard, lest it happen
you rue
CAS- once did the boy from Kalamazoo,
Such high handed way with the mater!
And bark to the fate of this boy who'd
rebel,
For his lachrymal glands had occasion
to we'll
As he shouted in vain for his pater
His mother had told him, as mother tells
(For mothers though here or in Kala-
mazoo,
Are very much like one another,
That when it grew chill on a November
morn
His thick winter overcoat had to be worn
And the boy with a scowl said: "Oh,
bother!"
And then. unobserved, the boy took his
cue,
This bad boy speak of from Kalamazoo,
And slipped out of doors quite uncoated
And thought himself clever and shouted
in glee;
His morals, alas! so elastic could be,
l regret that they have to be noted.
Now it CHANGED on that day, with much
hullabaloo,
bear had come down into Kalamazoo,
And the town in alright had stampeded
But the boy knew it not, and when in
the street
He met with Sir Bruin he couldn't re-
treat
His legs weren't sufficiently speeded.
my boy, you look cold! Your clothes are
too few"
Said this bear, with a wink, IN Kalama-
zoo;
Now isn't my coat better suited?
No overcoat on! Now l really opine
You'd find it more comfortable inside of
mine;"
And this statement was never refuted
And now | have told all that ever I knew
OF the boy and the bear and Kalamazoo
For l never have heard how it ended.
So let us all hope that the boy disagreed
And his pater, who found him no worse
off than freed,
Also found that his ways had been
mended.
Waldo, in Good Housekeeping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
THE RURAL POSTWAR.
de Works Hard for Small Pay, Bus
Enjoys Life and Is Welcome
Wherever He Goes.

If you like driving 90 or % miles .
day in all kinds of weather, this is the
very thing you want. To be sure you
will have to furnish your own, horsa
and cart out of salary of $500 year,
but if you can be satisfied with a
chariot like the one in the picture, that
item will not be likely to cut a large
hole in your income.
This particular man is a Pennsyl-
vania mail-carrier. At nine o'clock
every morning, except Sunday, he
starts out from the village post office
and all day long he is driving a about the
country delivering and collecting
mails. His route follows the main
roads. but branches out now and then
to this side or that, in order to reach
some district where a number of fam
lilies are clustered together. In one
place he makes trip of three miles to
reach group of homes, coming back
to the main road not over 500 yards
from the point where he left it, Every
house has mail box near the roadside.
where the carrier can reach it without
. OdN VI his cart. sometimes,
where several families live at a dis
lance from the road, half a dozen
boxes, each marked with its owners
name. will be found nailed to the side
Of a convenient barn and here the car
rier leaves the mail and the farmers
come each day to find their letters and
papers just as safe as if they had
hitched up and driven some two or
three miles ITO the post office after
them.
There is no end of variety in these
rural boxes. Some of them are care
fully made and painted, but more of
them seem to be simply the first thing
that happened to come to hand. There
are tin cans and soap boxes, cracker
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
BOGUS SNAPSHOTS.
Pictures of Wild Animals That Have
Been Taken without Incur
ring Any Danger.

One of the developments of the
modern art of taking" is the manu-
facture of bogus photographs of wild
animals which are supposed to have
been taken under circumstances of eX-
treme difficulty. In fact, no kind of
photography is quite so difficult as
this, because the beasts and birds of
the forest must be approached very
closely in order to make their portraits
large enough on the plate, says the
Saturday Evening Post.
II is all very easy. however. for the
ingenious fakir. who makes his snap
shots by daylight in a geological park,
the negatives or prints being after
ward touched up in such way as to
eliminate any suggestions of wire
fences or other accessories of the out
door menagerie. Having got his pic
lures, he labels them in a suitable
manner. and writes an article to go
with them, describing the eXtraor-
binary adventures and hairbreadth es-
capes which he encountered on trip
through the wilderness. during which
the portraits of these wild" and often
ferocious creatures were taken.
Only a short time ago fakir of this
kind obtained from the superintendent
of the New York Geological park
number of excellent snapshot pictures
of animals in the collection there,
which had been taken by the superin-
tendent's own photographer. TO sup
plenment these he secured a number
of other photographs. similar in char
acter, from the Geological park in
Washington. Then he exhibited the en-
tire lot as having been taken out in the
wilds. For example. a bear in the 10
illogical park at Washington was locat-
ed in the Maine woods. and dear old
billy-goat. beloved of Washington chill
dren, was described as desperate and
wild.
With the pictures he gave a very ex-
citing description of his experiences as
an artist-hunter in securing these mar
velous snapshots.
This is only one form of species of
fraud that has become popular of late.
One ingenious individual, who narrow
ly escaped prosecution awhile ago for
counterfeiting eggs and selling the
bogus specimens to museums and pri-
vate collectors, has recently turned up
with eXquisitely life-like photographs
of birds, which in reality are produced
by the help of stuffed specimens arts
ticaily attitudinized with wires
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
MOSES e. CLAPP,

supporters of Senator Davis, and in 1856
he entered politics officially as attorney
general of the state. He was reelected
in 1883 and in 1890. In 1896 Mr. Clapp
became republican candidate for gov
ernor, but was defeated by Col, Clough.
Since then he has taken little part in
politics aside from his campaign
speeches. During the last campaign
he paid particular attention to state
affairs and is credited more than any
other man with the defeat of Gov Lind.
He is one of the leading attorneys Of
the state and has an enviable record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21

pany. His bland countenance can be
seen in the accompanying illustration,
peering out of the yellow Kid" shaft
house, which is just four feet in
height. He is full of original ideas,
which he carries out with enthusi-
asm.
Bart O'Brien, boss ore sorter and
treasurer of the company, is nine
years old. His position as ore sorter
was given him by reason of his SUI
perior knowledge of mineral. He Is
seen at work in the illustration at the
ore bins of the yellow Kid" which
consists of soap boxes.
John O'Brien is the "head push"
and general superintendent of the
company. In the illustration he is
seen doing the duties of top man."
When not thus employed he works in
and has three levels.
The three O'Brien boys built the en-
tire plant of the yellow Kid unaid-
ed, taking as their model the Morn
ing Glory mine, just above them on
the hill. The entire equipment. gall
lows frame, ore cars, buckets, bins,
screens, dump, bell signals, shafthouse,
tools and implements are exactly like
those of the big mines of the district.
Their father is the superintendent of
the Morning Glory and although they
initiate him in some respects the de-
velopment of the yellow Kid mine
is being carried out on original ideas.
The three young miners live in the
neat frame cabin shown in the picture,
where they retire each night after a
hard days work. The yellow Kid"
mine does not indulge in any night or
graveyard shifts, for the entire force
puts in IL hours of peaceful slumber
that only comes to clear conscience
and tired muscles. 1t is the ambition
of the O'Brien boys to succeed their
father in the management of the
Morning Glory mine and they are rap
idly equipping themselves for this Sc
rious duty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
QUEER LITTLE PEOPLE.
They Have COzy Underground VII
lagos and Their Capital Is
Called Ant Town.

The cities where the little people
live are down under the ground.
Each city is like one great house
with lots of rooms. There are nurser-
les for the babies, storerooms where
the food is packed away, living rooms
and long galleries leading from one
part of the town to another, and up
to the top of the ground. There are
even little COW sheds, where the tiny
cows live in winter.
Some of the little people are black,
some are red and others brown. Go
out in the field and lift up a large,
fiat stone and you will find the gate
way to one of these cities.
The ants, as we call these little folk,
will hurry about ana each one will
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21

The fair young society lady was in
an agitated frame OF mind when she
returned from a shopping expedition
the other day.
why, Dorothy, what in the world
is the matter?" asked her indulgent
husband, who read distress in her
pretty face.
"Oh, dear" she said, i;er voice trem-
bling with emotion. I've lost the re-
ceipt for my new hat"
Well the husband replied. sit is
very easy to go back to the store and
get another receipt. | don't see why
you should let a little matter like
that worry you
st isn't that was the sobbing re-
ply. but I'm afraid that some one we
know will find that receipt and learn
how much | paid for it''-Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
Mouse KILLED by n Ring.

A lady suddenly missed valuable
diamond ring from her finger, and all
that she could remember was that she
had recently washed her hands.
Fearing it had slipped off in the oper-
alton, a plumber was called in, and
all the traps opened, with the hope OF
finding the jewel, but without avail.
Some time later the set bowl in the
bathroom had to be replaced, and
when it was removed, 10 and behold,
crowded in behind the water pipe was
the skeleton of a mouse, and around
the neck hung a diamond ring. The
mystery was then quickly cleared up.
The poor little cerature had Toasted
on box of bran, which the lady used
to whiten her hands, and into which
she dropped the ring. By accident.
probably, the mouse slipped its head
through the ring, and then fed in
alarm. In passing between the pipes
the ring was caught and pinchsd
the mouse's neck, and so it died.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Eight million gallons of rock oil are
pumped each year from under the bed
of the Pacific ocean.
There are 100000 sweat glands on
the human body. each one-fifteenth OF
an inch long, and their aggregate
length is Pc miles.
In 1900 all surgical operations were
performed without the use of anaes-
thetics. The use of chleroform was
not discovered until 1s47. Ether was
first used to deaden pain in 1916.
A firm of Hanau, Germany, has sue
ceeded in welding aluminium without
the use of any metal, solder or acid.
No seam can be detected, and the
welded pieces can resist blows and
temperature variations as well as if
there were no joint. The process is a
secret one.
In spinning carpet material one per-
son does what 100 formerly did, and in
weaving the carpet one accomplishes
as much as ten in 1900. \ fair loom
weaveE a century ago woye As yards of
shirting in a week; now one operator,
tending six power looms, produces
1000 yards.
Glowing reports come from the
sheep-raising district in southern Col
orado. The Arkansas valley is under
irrigation over an area of IS miles
long and 10 miles wide, and it will
shortly become the greatest lamb
feeding center in the world. At the
present time over $4,000 sheep and
lambs are on feed there.
Sir James Grant, an English physi-
clan. attributes some forms of muscu-
lar rheumatism to the presence of cleo
tricity stored in the tissues. He AYERS
that for some years he has treated
cases of this kind by inserting fine
steel needles into the muscles, and
that the electricity being drawn off,
relief comes almost instantly. The
Chinese have an elaborate system of
treatment which utilities this idea.
In 80 years the Calumet and Hecla
Mining company paid dividends
amounting to $70.OOO.00O. and its cor
porate existence will expire April 2l,
1901, and by that time $4.O00,O00 more
will be added. making the largest sum
ever paid in dividends by any mine in
the world. Articles of association for
the renewal of the corporation have
been filed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
BOYS MANAGE MINE.
Youths of Tender Years Conduct .
Mining Enterprise with
Great Big Name.

In the Cripple Creek district near
Anaconda is the smallest gold mine
in the world and its owners and oper-
ators are the smallest persons on
earth engaged in the pursuit of min
ing. 1t is owned by the Yellow Kid
Gold Mining company and is capital
lied at 80 cents. 1t is controlled by
the O'Brien brothers. three in num-
Der, and as a miniature project is
one of the most important and inter-
esting in the district.
Dan O'Brien, five years old, is the
engineer and president of the COM
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
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RIGDON'S MONUMENT.
Spent a Lifetime In Building Ii and
Finally Filled a Pauper's
Grave.

Jonathan Rigdon died very poor,
didn't he, deacon?" l said.
'Yes, they buried him in a pau
per's grave. Poor Rigdon. And he
had big heart" said the deacon.
HE spent his whole life and a big
fortune building a monument to an
other man."
WAS the monument ever finished,
deacon?"
''Yes, and Jonathan did it."
"How?"
"Well," said the deacon. sadly,
Jonathan commenced it early. He
commenced putting money into the
monument at II and finished it at So"
And he gave his whole time to t?'
"Yes, he worked night and day,
often all night long, and on the Sab
path. He seemed to be in a hurry
to get it done. He put all the money
he earned upon it-some say 100000.
Then he borrowed all he could; and
when no one would loan him any
more he would take his wife's dresses
and bedclothes and many other val
liable things in his home and sell
them to get more money to finish the
monument"
How self-sacrifcing!"
eyes. Jonathan sacrificed every
thing for this monument" said the
deacon. "He came home one day and
was about tC take the blanket that
lay over his sleeping baby, and his
wife tried to stop him; but he drew
back his fist and knocked her down,
and then away with the blankets
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
TAKES DAVIS PLACE.
Moses E. Clapp. of st. Paul, Elected
United States Senator by the
Minnesota Legislature.

Moses E. Clapp's career has been
closely interviewer with the politics of
Minnesota for 90 years. He was born
in Delphi, Ind, but spent his childhood
and youth in Wisconsin, where he
studied law and graduated. He came
to Minnesota in 1880, and first gained
prominence as the champion of Sena-
tor Nelson in his first candidacy for
congress. He was one of the earlier
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21

"No," said Mr.. Erastus Pinkley, 81
never wears gloves"
81 has noticed dat yoh hans amt
got de style on EN-" rejoined Miss
Miami Brown.
"Tain' 70 lack O. style. dasn' war
'em on account O. de police. Eff I was
ter kivver dem hans wifi gloves I'd
be arrested inside O. two days fob
kyahyin' concealed weapons. Wash
ington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
His Finished Work

A man who had come down through
drink and had just been let out of
prison told a friend whom he met
that he had just arrived at a conclu-
sion. He said:
"a good tailor will always put the
best-made coat in his shop window,
won't hep"
'Yes," said the friend.
"The shoemaker always puts the
best shoes in the window for adver-
tisement. But you never see a pub
hcan put a sample of his work in the
window; he's got more sense"
lie was right, too. The finished work
of publican is nothing to boast
about, and he knows it!
If liquor and opium are not good for
the uncivilized, will some one please
explain. requests the Chicago Record,
just where they benefit the highly
civilized nations?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
Rapid Transit Police Patrol.

Hartford's new steam patrol wagon,
costing $500, weighs 5000 pounds and
is operated at an expense of 2H cents a
mile. 1t is of ~ horse power and runs
from Is to 20 miles an hour. In five
minutes 200 pounds of steam can be
generated from cold water.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-21
A Relief.

Mrs. Farmer-Git out O. here or III
put load O buckshot in ye!
Chilly Nytes-Ah. mum. It's sech
a relief ter find lady w'ot kin talk
suthin besides dress, golf or automo-
biling !-Judge.