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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
FASTING FOH CORPUlENT PEOPLE
Doctor Declares 1t Is the Natural
Remedy for Too Much Fat.

Doctor Declares 1t Is the Natural
Remedy for Too Much Fat.
In the restaurant nearly everybody
was too fat, and the physicians, in
Guiding all those pendulous paunches
and double chins in sneering glance,
remarked, why will men and women
be disfigured with corpulence when the
remedy is so simple and sure? What
is the remedy? Why, it is, of course,
the natural one that would occur to
an animal or savage. It is fasting.
Let the fat man or the fat woman fast
week, two weeks, three weeks, Or a
month-fast till he or she be thin
enCugh-about once a year. say, and
corpulence, that most unsightly and
Unhealthy condition, would vanish
from the face Gf the EARTH
Il suppose these fools are afraid to
Go this the physician continued, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Record
"They think, probably that before they
would get sufficiently thin they would
starve to DEATH But the picture Of
the Cuban and the Indian famine VIC
TINS answer that fear we'll enough
None of those folks died of starvation
tll there was nothing left of them but
alsin and bone. Fasting would be a
rctv good thing fer fat people to do
regularly. They would then keep al
ways sh9pely. During their abstinence
they would live on and consume their
own fat as hibernatinS animals do"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
Advance OF the SPARROW.

TN much-hated and sometimes ma
.%neA English sparrow is gradually
iaI:ips its way all through the west
IN part Of the country. 1t has been
cen for scme time past in the north
eastern part of New Mexico, and has
recently been noticed at Albuquerque
Thus it seems to be spreading south
and southwest, and may be expected all
over the more temperate part of the
western region.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
TOO READY WITH IT'S ANSWER
minister's Parrot Meant Wen, but the
ke&ult MNs Dtrr.

Result Was Dire
The Rev Dr. 3IeGonHca. formerly
Of Philadelphia, and now OF Brooklyn,
has had q sad experience with feath.-
cred pets. One Of his wealthy parish
ioners is an old lady. She recently
bought a parrot for company. But to
her horror almost the first phrase il
uttered was: = wish the old woman
VAS dead"
When Dr.. Mcconnell called she toll
him about her rev purchase.
Why, Doctor said she. lit keeps
saying all day long: I wish the Old
woman was dead What shall l dor
Il have it," replied the doctor.
have parrot myself, ana he only
knows religious phrases. Let me send
him around and keep him with yours
awhile. Yours will learn his phrases
and then all will so Gil beautifully"
The idea struck the spnster 1avor-
ably and Dr. McConnells parrot Vas
sent round. That very day the two
were put together and the cid lady
settled down Il her rocker with
placid face. Suddenly her parrot
cried out
l wish the old woman was dead
In true Episeopalian form DR.. Nc
Connell's bird answered:
We beseech thee to hear us, good
Lord"
is said the Doctor doesn't call as
often as ne did. His parrot is back
nome. The other is dead.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
HONEST CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE
Unique Announcement Made by a Texas
Editor.


Having examined number Of
strong, well-bound law books and hay-
ing talked to several strong, well-built
lawyers, | find that there IS no law
against it, SO am going to lup for the
legislature, and | hope that everybody
sill vote for me.
However,, any man who 3as con
9eientioGs scEufles aleu- HasiR2 fer
ne VII please sugscriNe Ter tie Demo-
e1.s6 10 r9E uD back G!sya, AID VIII BE
.Q.s.VeH
asa s - il Is va tssis roe with
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s7.#as.ae5 TO. in 6le laa=f aaslsd +
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5 al zpert COW t,4=ee. hst= aeveGthe-
iess, viii rUa=haeaaza ass,-.s 70 az ..ssssl
It's net against tae law.
i ttza G5H"I' ealstz=#a I s=i5aVs aay is
a..es 10 discuss. ,.is'l Hsts,le to meet re
o.l 1i4e atu.ap, al tt,ley have 10 DO is to
notify ne. can't talk much, bat |
Viii make lots CT Signs.
Hoping the best man Will win, l am,
respectfully, JOHN M'LENDON.
Shelby (TeNas) Democrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
Unique Plea for Work.

Loafer-Any chance of job O. work
'ere, mister? Foreman-No. We're
not wanting any more hands now,
Loafer-Well, the little bit O work I'd
do wouldn't make no difference!--
Punch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
BeaN CHILD IN IT'S CRADLE.

Weak. lis knowledge of the birth of volcanoes,
deficient a sufficient data oi their habits and action, it is
utterly possible for hla ee@4oscae with certainty ther III
tu-e behavior.
The object every scientific o recently visited Mar
Unique and s. EiHeHt data whereby he could derive
knowledge the laws Of tie FhaHome1 and yet they
obliged depend fer taor largely upon the testimony
of evewtnec5 Hzo had scientific book. These vol
prczol many phenomena hitherto uozervcl a. it viii
require months careful study a deduction before the of
the outbreak can be stated
1t is generally presumed that the the
meeting with the hot magma below the immediate
Of the ear causing explosions whereby opened through
which the hot magma through
power of expansion. BUT THE NATURE. OF THAT GREAT
UNEMPLOYED MAGMA OF THE EARTHS INTERIOR
IS TODAY ONE OF THE PROFOUNDEST AND LEAST
SOLVED PROBLEMS CONCERNING OUR GLOBE.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-08-12
VOL LCANOES
BY Professor ROBERT
T.HILL- of the United States
Geological Survey
And the Little That Is
Known About Them

SgS27tE SCIENTIFIC MAN JUST Now IS CONFRONTED
aFhA WiTH ThE QUESTION OF SYMPATHETIC VOL.
g@ci CANc OUTBREAKS AT WIDELY DISTANT POINTS,
III BUT HE CAN 10 MORE EXPLAIN THIS MYsTEEI-
4 ~ OJS COINCIDENCE THAN CAN TIE YOUNGEST
$sI 90 BoHN CHILD CRADLE.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

on himself as does this Territorial
Cooper of ours. The Governor is not
a Dole, but cooper; the secretary is
q cooper, the superintendent of public
works is a cooper, the acting treasurer
is cooper, the commander of the army
and the navy here, is cooper; the
general dispenser of fate in reprieves
or pardons is cooper; the commits
sion, on site for Federal building, re-
port to a cooper; the sender of cable
messages to Uncle Sam is a cooper,
and, if stranger, or a resident should
say that "the dictator must then be
COOPER" the INDEPENDENT would
not say him nay.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27


From the looks of things down Vene-
zuela way, the muddle looms up as
another incident almost akin to the
Hawaiian "steal," which finally cul
minated in the absorption of a weak
nation by mighty power, and that
power the mediator and arbitrator in
the muddle, and the preacher of the
Monroe doctrine" Who shall win
out in the end?-may we ask. Whether
it shall sanction this attempted steal,
or not; as it cannot too soon forget the
steal it made here in Hawaii.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

Boukop'ky, driver for Lovejoy
'& Co had fainting e whils about
20 mount his seat On the wagon this
morning, and while opposite the
firms place of business. The sud-
den drop OF the man caused belief
that he had gone to join the great
msjoriiy but an expert polte officer
discovered pulsstion aud the man
was taken to the Hospital where he
soon recovered.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27
SATURDAY. DEC. 81, 1902.
TOO MUCH COOPER.

If ever there was Territory, in the
United States confederation, that re-
Quired the attention of the President
and Cabinet of that Republic, OF of the
wise men in Congress assembled, it is,
most surely, this midocean Territory
of Hawaii For years past the people
a party of oligarchs, and, although an
occasional murmur was voiced against
the un-American methods of govern
ment in vogue, there being no represen-
tation "of the people for the people
or by the people" yet. the complain
ings seemed never to have reached be-
yond the confines of this formerly pros
porous and fiourishing country. From
change has been made to a form less
constitutional, than that submitted to
so meekly in the past and dictatorial
and absolute rule is now The measure
OF power displayed. The question
might be asked, "and who is the die
tator? The Governor" The answer
would be mo. the Territory has no
Governor in fact, but there is mama
approved by the President to fill the
place, the man is non est, weakling
occupies the position, whose unhinged
bones lack stiffness in official duties"
But there is a Secretary TO take the
place? Alas, no! Our well-beloyed
Secretary has resigned, or, at least he
said he had, so that he might accept
a better income-making billet as Sup
erintendent of Public Works and the
willing Senate of Hawaii confirmed
him in his new position; thus the Ter
ritory is without Federal secretary;
and the Governor is one hundred miles
away, But, the dictator rises, and from
the ashes of a self-eremated Secretary
we find cooper comes. who barrels
up the goyernorship and sits ON top
Some men are born great, some achieve
greatness, but, it is only rarely that ali
ordinary cooper is enabled to thrust
such constantly growing greatness up
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

And SO we plead, to the great and
good friends at Washington, to re-
lieve us here from our too much coop
cred condition, and, if relief is granted
we will raise whoop and voice a
stave or two, of the tar Spangled Ban
ner," when this Territory is free from
the dictatorship of disliked cooper.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

The fulflment of the annexation
scheme engineered by the bright"
minds of this country. and which re-
suited in our being an appendage and
milking COW" for the United States
boodlers, is unpleasantly presented for
consideration, in the figures of the Gus
toms collections for the year ending
June 30th, 1902 and which show that
little Hawaii turned over to Uncle Sam
from customs duties collected, the sum
of $1,2S5, ,454.S0 This sum would have
all been distributed here, as formerly,
but for the annexation proceedings
which made an independent Hawaiian
dependant American.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

There is series of very interesting
day performances now on, before Judge
De Bolt, and in which several prom
inent members of the legal fraternity
take star parts. The angel of the
show is an old gentleman named sum
ner who, but few short Christmases
ago, was blessed with lands and money.
He was legally damned for expending
it and now he damns, legally. the dam
'nable proceedings. The division of the
oyster is "up to" Judge De Bolt; it is
easily disccrnable who will get the
shells.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27
TOPICS OR THR Day.

There is proposed" sparring con-
test, on the carpet, which the best of
the local sports are side-stepping away
from. The wouldbe, boxers are two
"unknowns"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27
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,ought and sold,
OBJECTIONS Promptly Accounted ES'
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-27

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month.
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
Infectious Diseases,

One Of the important measures
passed by this legislature relates to
the powers of the state board of health
respecting the care of persons suffer-
ing from infectious diseases and en-
towering the state board of health to
take steps in case of controversy with
respect to the care of such persons.
The measure provides that when con-
troversy arises between municipalities
or between boards of health thereof
respecting the location of pesthouses
or hospitals for the treatment of in
fictitious or contagious diseases such
matter shall be referred to the presi-
dent of the state board of health, who
shall forthwith appoint committee
of three members thereof, which COM
mit.ee shall, upon two days notice to
the parties interested, investigate the
matter and make such order in the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
HEROES AND HEROES.

we give unstinted praise to the man
Who is brave enough to die;
But the man who struggles unf1inchingly
Against the currents of destiny
And bears the storm of adversely,
We pass unnoticed by.
We've pIaudits and tears for him who falls,
Borne down in the shock of strife;
But word of cheer We neglect to say
80 him who plods on his dreary way
And fights IN silence from day to day
The unseen battles of life.
There's courage, grant, required to face
Grim death on the cory field.
There's also courage required to meet
Life's burden and sorrow; to brave defeat;
TO strive with evil and not retreat;
To suffer and not to yield.
Some movements are there in every life
When the spirit longs for rest;
When the heart is filled with bleak de-
spair
When the weight of trouble, remorse and
care
Seems really greater than we can bear,
And death were welcome guest.
But we crush it down and we go our way
To the duties that lie in wait,
From day to day we renew the fight,
To resist the wrong, and to seek the right
To climb at last to the sun-crowned height
And to climb DER time and fate.
And thus-for my heart goes out to them
My need of praise I would give
To those who struggle life's path along,
The host of toll, who are patient, strong,
The unrewarded, unnumbered throng,
Who are brave enough to live
Rocky Mountain News.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22

daybreak and breakfast with the
family; and I was rather later than
usual on the morning following the
night of bad dreams and worse reali-
ties. Mrs. Setter served me, as she
usually did, and Nan was not visible.
knowing the girls excellent reason
for avoiding me, thought little of
it at the time, being swallowed up in
anxious conjectures as to what use
she would make of the stolen letter
and newspaper clipping.
But as the day wore on and still
she did not appear, anxiety became
dread, indefinable and unreasoning,
but mighty in proportion to the por-
tentous possibilities. 1t was to little
purpose that tried to argue myself
into calmer frame of mind; that I
wrought out the problem of chances
again and again in a vain endeavor
to prefgure what would come of it.
At the worst, it appeared, she could
only betray me to Wykamp; or, if jeal-
ousy should prove stronger than
love, hold her knowledge of the
shameful facts as sword over Wini-
fred's head; but, as the event was to
show forth, / reckoned entirely with
out my host, as; one is likely to reck-
on when the inscrutable secrets of
a woman's heart are involved.
The long day brought no explana-
ton of Mans absence. From my post
of observation on the porch I ssu
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22

point where the ditch crossed IL, still
running; and when he held on up the
dry bed of the ditch instead of keep
ing to the road, understood his OBJ
ject. By following the line of the
ditch and crossing the canyon on it's
iume above Macpherson's placer,
man on foot might reach the dam
workings in the upper canyon in adj
vance of horseman on the trail.
Again l said it was no concern of
mine; and if Setter had carried his
gone unfollowed by me. Once more
my hand was on the gate-latch, and
once more the warning wind brought
the click of horseshoes on the hard
surface of the road Looking east
ward l could make out the figure of
a horseman rising and falling in
rapid gallop up the gentle ascent
from the schoolhouse. Some vague
premonition drove me to the shadow
of my tree again, and | saw the
horseman as he cantered past; saw
his face and caught a glimpse of the
short repeating rifle of the cowboys
unslung and lying across the saddle.
1t was Macpherson; and Mans long
absence was explained as clearly as
need be. 1t was to the young stock
man that she had carried the proof
of Wykamp's villainy, though to what
end no man might guess. But the re-
suit was before me. Macpherson had
forgotten his promise to Winifred;
forgotten that vengeance belongs to
God and not to man; and was on his
way to call the engineer to his &C.
counting.
1 was in no doubt as to the out
come. 1 knew Macpherson well
enough to be sure that he would give
his antagonist a fair chance to de-
fend his life-and no more. AS I
have said, l saw his face as he rode
past me. There was no passion in
the fixed stare of the eyes or in the
out-thrust jaw. 1t was rather the
cold and unfinching determination Of
mild-mannered man goaded past
endurance, and it was terrible to be-
hold.
At the moment l was sure Of moth
ing but that the tragedy must be
prevented at any cost, and I set out
to run after him as fast as a sick
man might. With presence Of mind
which was entirely mechanical,
forsook the road at the point where
Setter had left it, running up the
dry bed of the ditch which traversed
the small inner valley beyond the
''hogback" on higher level than
that followed by the rough wagon
road. AS it CHANGED, the choice of
the ditch saved my life, though when
1 had wallowed painting quarter Of
mile in the dry sand of the chan
mel 1 was fain to curse the impulse
which had made me forsal1e the trail.
ITO Be Continued
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
To Increase State Income.

A proposition which has met with
great favor among legislators and
other people is that made by Senator
Blanchard that all corporations which
sell capital stock in this state shall
with the secretary of state and pay
the regular statutory fees thereon.
This proposition is meant to affect the
oil and mining companies in particu-
lar, millions of dollars of whose stock
has been f1oated in this state among
investors, and the proposition is de-
signed to compel these concerns to
pay fees before they can do business
in Iowa. Such a regulation would
either drive a large number of these
concerns out of the state altogether
or it would mean an income of addi-
tional hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to the state.
Homeopathy Candidate.
Committees representing the home
opaths of the state have appeared be.
fore the state board of control and
appealed to it to appoint a homeopath-
ic doctor as superintendent of the
Stdle 1usdue dsyluul dG independence.
The present superintendent, DR.. Ger
shom H. Hill, will not ask for reelec-
ton, as it is his intention to enter the
practice of medicine in Des Moines
| the first of next July. The homeo-
! paths present as candidate for the
| place DR.. William o. Mann, of Boston,
formerly an assistant in state hog
pital in Minnesota. DR.. Mann is now
at the head of the Massachusetts
homeopathic hospital in Boston. He
4 is represented to be competent per-
son. The board will not decide fer
| some time.
| TE0NI pDnyvN
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
EsTRANGED COMRADES.
The Quarrel of Two English Array
Officers and Its Touching
Termination.

A touching story of two friends Is
told by William Beatty-Kingston in
his Journalists Jottings." They
were two officers in the English army
who quarreled about some trife, and
although they had been the closest Of
comrades, became, in consequence, en-
tirely estranged. The fact of their
separation was extremely bitter to
both of them, and one Christmas day
one of them received from the other
card bearing dove with an olive
branch.
The recipient kept the message by
him for twelvemonth, and on the fol-
lowing Christmas sent it back to his
fellow officer, who, in turn, laid it
aside for year, and then dispatched
it on the next anniversary.
Through three successive decades,
at each Christmas-tide, the mute mes
senger was regularly sent in token OF
continued friendship, until year
came when it was forgotten because
the present possessor was too har.
assed by financial losses to remember
it. In the course of the Christmas
week, however, his wife came upon the
card, and sent it off to her husband s
friend with a newspaper cutting re.
ferring to her husbands bankruptcy
The returning post brought her let
ter, inclosing a thousand pounds, and
explaining that the sender had just
come into fortune, and that in re
turn for this trifling sum, intended fol
his old friends rescue, he should keel
the Christmas card as his most pre-
cious possession.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-22
REFLECTIONS OF A sPINsTER
Sage Sayings by Shrewd Member
of the Feminine Sex on Vari-
Gus Matters.

Love without confidence is the root
of all jealousy.
Almost all intense natures quarrel
with those they adore.
No man is ever hopeless who retains
even one sweet illusion.
1t is only woman's vanity which
makes her mans inferior, writes Vada
Agnew, in Judge.
A man who marries without love en-.
counters life's costliest game.
When the present becomes hateful
the past seems doubly beautiful.
Life's greatest blessing is to have ab
solute confidence in some one.
Life never ceases to be sweet to the
man who never ceases to be the lover.
Some men are SO sensitive as to il
duce melancholy among their associ.
ates.
The cup of happiness is but sieve
which is empty when it reaches the
lips.
A jealous man usually says: 81 hate
you," meaning Glove you very deeply