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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

The fraternal Identification carls
sold by R. H. NJ. Mills & Sons and ad-
vertised elsewhere in the Graphic, are
an innovation in Pine Bluff and are
proving very popular. Fraternal iden-
tification cards have sold rapidly
wherever introduced, and, Judging
from the sale they are having here
Pine Bluff is no exception.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

Judge s Il. Allen of Little Rock
is Il i.ltLr IN - .'itv
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07
NEW CORPORATIONS.

The Powell Mercantile company Of
Roe. capitalized at $4,000, was incor-
porated. The company proposes TO do
a general mercantile. grocery commits
sion and cotton business
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

Miss Matte Loving mas retIrnC 1
from a visit to friends in Cam lea.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

If you are interested in commercial
education call at James Practical Bus
mess College. No vacations. Open
to both sexes 7Sq
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

The board Of directors meets next
Tuesday evening in conua a.ion With
the membership committee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

WANTED--To buy medium-sized
safe, cheap. Address, B, care OF
Graphic. oao
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

Keep your eye open for tic late Of
.Mr. Dicks return to Pine Bluff Ask
the secretary about Mr.. Dick.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

The Pine CITY Bedding comrany OF
Pine Bluff. With a capital stock of
60 500 fled articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state. In
cornorators: w. ]. Galbraith, presi-
.1ent: J. H. Atkins, w. S. Beard.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

The Missouri Pacific Oil company
filed articles of association with the
state secretary. Capital stock, $780,
600, all of which has been subscribed.
st. Louis and Harrison, Ark, are the
headquarters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-07

Articles of incorporation of the Mcr-
chants Transfer company of Searcy.
We're filed at the secretary of states
office. The capital stock is $4,000,
S100 600
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

the suffering children of the very poor.
There is not a state in the union where
the laws in regard to child labor are
not broken. Children who ought to be
in school are working in factories,
mines and stores. This is not only a
crime against childhood, it is a peril
to the state. 1t is providing for the
future a class of citizens degenerate,
both physically and mentally. If the
state provides free public schools, on
the ground that a republic must have
intelligent citizens for its own safety,
it is equally right and important that
ii should be made possible for those
children who need ii most to take adj
vantage of those schools.
"A great many parents are selfish and
avaricious, and put their children to
work when it is not actually necessary.
Such cases should be corrected by the
enforcement of the factory laws, which
is what the Consumers League is try
ing all the time to secure. The state
should step in to compel parents to con-
slider the welfare of their children if
they will not do it otherwise. But in
the cases of poor widows it is an actual
hardship to remove the child from its
work. Very often it is only by the
labor of the children that the family
can be kept together. The only other
Is the up Ol lHe
family and the placing of the children
in asylums; always a regrettable
thing.
But this view of the case does not re-
move the responsibility from the Shout
ders of society. Society has no right
to strap such burden as that on the
back of a little child. The child has
the same right to it's education as the
children of more prosperous parents,
and society will suffer in the future if
it does not fulfill that right. At any
rate, we are going to give those who
profess to be friends of education an
opportunity to show whether they are
willing to put money where it wifi not
show in great buildings or famous be-
quests, but will silently transform the
lives of little children"
Mrs. Kelley has secured the Coop
GRAFTON of the National Humane Socie-
ty in this work. At its convention Just
held nAlbany at her request it Gre
ated a committee on Protection of
Working Children, selecting as chair
man Mrs. Totten of Washington, D. c..
This will enlist the numerous local hu-
name societies all over the country in
the work of enforcing child labor laws.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs has taken this for it's special
work during the next two years, so that
there seems a general rallying of hui
name forces for the protection of the
child.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09
STRANGE BURIAL
ROBES ORDERED
The Undertaken With Artistic Tastes Tells Of Some Novel
Experences.-One Woman Who Insisted Upona
Set Of Fine Furs.
Set Of Fine Furs.

that. Finally, she concluded that since
the coveted furs were bound to create
discord so long as they were above
ground, nobody should have them. but
that she would settle the rivalry and
spite the whole brood of schemine
nieces and cousins by wearing the furs
herself to the end of the chapter.
THE relations fumed and fused
over this dictum, and if they had
their way probably they would have
refused to carry out her instructions.
But the old lady had foreseen this
tempest in the family teapot and had
taken the precaution to instruct her
post-mortem toilet to a disinterested
outsider, who had nothing to gain by
disregarding her wishes Threats and
adjurations had no effect upon that
hard-hearted sartorial executor, so we
put her ladyship away on the hottest
day of summer bundled uEln enough
sealskin and Persian lamb to keep her
comfortable on voyage to the north
pole.
"One of the oldest whms I have
ever been called upon to humor was
that of the man who insisted upon
going to his grave wrapped in the ira
dftional winding sheet. He sent for
me several days before he died, and
explained his fancy. 1 misunderstood
him at first; l thought he meant an
ordinary white shroud. I could re-
member the time, away back in my
boyhood days, when it was the Gus
tom to clothe both men and women in
those flowing white robes, and 1 took
1t that he was simply little old
fashioned and wished a reversal to
primitive customs. But he quickly
corrected that impression.
" I don't mean anything of the
kind he said. I want to be buried
in a sheet-a plain, everyday, white
sheet
For once my curiosity got the bet-
ter of my good manners.
I'll do as you ask, of course I
said, but will you kindly tell me why
you want to be dressed in that PEI
culiar style?'
THE old fellows answer fairly stag
gered me.
Bound to Become a Ghost.
Because I'm going to do a good
deal of haunting when I'm through
the flesh, he said, and I'm going to
take the sheet along with me, so there
viii be no delay about getting down to
business. I'm going to leave lots of
people behind who have been playing
me mean tricks all their lives. I've
never been able to get back at them
IN my present state, but Just YOU
wait till get clear of these letters
and if I don't haunt them good and
hard and make them wish they'd done
the square thing by me when they had
a chance, it won't be my fault
couldn't make out then, and 1 haven't
been able to make out since, whether
the old chap was downright crazy or
just eccentric" concluded the under
taker. Anyway, it was not my bust.
ness to investigate his mental condi-
ton. My business was to bury him
in sheet, so long as he asked me
to and was willing to pay for it, and
l performed my part of the TRANSACT
ton to the letter"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

A great host of travellers are making
their way South; a huge army well
coined by the best and most discerning
entertainment, untroubled with bag
gage or time tables. They aren't mil
lionaires disporting themselves in pro-
vate cars. They are much more inn
portant to the worlds enjoyment-just
birds. Everybody in northern habi-
tudes sees them go and sends fare
we'll after them, but few concern them
selves with the destination TO which
they wing their energetic way. But
bird lovers know all these things and
send a sympathetic thought to other
friends of birds to whom the winter
means the coming, not the going, of
the melodious tribde.
The migration in the autumn is SIM
ply matter of necessity, for food sup
ply and is much more soberly I'M
dertaken than the spring migration.
Then they start joyously with their
new clothes all spick and span, and
with their songs in their threats. Like
true gentlemen the heads of families
start ten days in advance of their
wives.
In protected places in the eastern
and middle states few birds may be
seen all winter, but they are rare, ex-
cept the junco, chickadee or titmouse
and nuthatch.
AS the birds which summer in Can
ada and the north woods start on
their migration to South America
great variety of transient birds may be
seen in points between remaining for
few weeks. and it is then that the
bird lover has an opportunity, when
the trees are nearly bare. to study
such bird friends as those that sum-
mer in the deep woods and winter in
the tropics. The days are precious,
indeed, and with a pair of opera
glasses and an outfit suitable for
tramping over fields and boys, many
new acquaintances are formed before
one bids them Goodbye, or "auf weld
ershee.'
The beloved and brave robin, how
ever. may be be seen throughout his
range, which is from the Atlantic
to the Rockies. and from Man.
toba to Mexico. He is the bird of
the morning" and rests from the ar
duous toll of the summer of providing
wornS for the fthree or four broods
of hungry babies. He has also the
responsibility of sounding the reveille
in the morning and of awaken
ing all the other birds to their daily
mathis. The robins and blue birds win
ter in the Middle states 10 the Gulf
states, and in New Mexico the robins
have been seen covering an area sew
eral hundred feet square, two and
three feet deep. on this occasion It
was late In the winter when there
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

of his high. clear song, he stops sud-
denly and gives a discordant 'tchay"
and then continues his solo where he
left off. 1t is as if a violinist had
broken his string, while playing a
beautiful melody. The thrush of the
black cap has now gone to Cuba and
Central America to join his kinfolk,
for it is said that the "cat-bird was
a hooking bird before he fell from
grace"
There is an unusual stir in the bird
world just before the autumn migra-
ton; there seems to be the usual bus
tie and suppressed excitement observ-
ed in families when about to take a
journey. One wonders what it is all
about for there were no trunks to pack.
or lunches to prepare, cabs to engage
or time tables to consult. Possibly
it may be due to the very idea of the
long perilous trip through wind and
rain, with the eye of the man with
the gun ever seeking them out.
The migration to the South for food
supply does not seem so strange, but
why the birds should make the long
journey at the very time where insects
and berries are to be found where they
are, has not been fully explained.
Neither is it known why the male birds
go North a week or ten days in ad-
der is reversed in the Southern mi
grafton.
Some ornithologists believe 1t Is the
return of the nesting season which
takes them on their long journey, and
F. c. Chapman, that authority on
birds, says that it is paralleled by
the migration of shad and salmon and
other fishes to their spawning
grounds"
In those localities where the ther-
mometer drops far below freezing the
brave chereful chick-a-dee, who can
be depended upon, be the weather foul
or fair, lisps out his "chick-a-d -dee!"
"chick-a- da-da!" his very cheerfulness
becoming infectious.
When this tit-mouse takes on the
cares of family he goes to the deep
woods and there pre-empts the desert
ed nest of the woodpecker, or a con-
venient knot-hole, and reduces his song
to the merest tinkling strain. He is the
bird of a joyous heart. All birds are
not, for some are pessimists from the
sad experiences of bird tragedies, and
the struggle to live, but regardless Of
storm of misfortune, the chick-a-dee
is never discouraged for the morrow.
To those disposed to look on the dark
side of life the wise man might say:
GO to the tit-mouse, thou pessimist!"
There is always left to the bird lover
the opportunity to take to the woods
even in those localities where winter
has spread its blanket of snow over
field and fen. One may see the desert
ed home of a robin, or the adobe house
of a wood thrush a few juncos may
cheer winters tramp, and that aero
bat of birds, the white-breasted nut
hatch, may be seen head downward
hunting out insects from the bark.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

have always maintained that every
man ought to go to his own funeral
dressed like a gentleman" said the UNI
dertaker with artistic tastes, according.
to the New York Times. mo matter
how many hard knocks he has had to
stand all through life; no matter If
he has had to shift along with only
one suit to his back and that a hand
me- down; when the struggle is all
over and done with, he ought, 1 say,
to make his last appearance dressed
in the fashion. The world owes every
man at least one good suit of clothes.
and if it doesn't pay it's debt before
his death, it ought to see to 1t that
the account is squared afterward.
Women are more given to freak
burial clothes than men. Sentiment is
largely responsible for their fantastic
IDEAS They have an special predi-
lection for wedding gowns. I have
known women who had been married
thirty or forty years to cherish that
one precious dress through all the ups
and downs of life that they might wear
it again on the last great occasion.
These gowns look awfully old-fashion-
ed and have a musty odor appropri-
ately suggestive of the grave, after
having been done up in lavender and
tissue paper for so many years, but
vanity no longer plays a part in the
scheme of the old ladies existence and
style to them is a small matter COM
pared with the qualification of senri-
ment.
'''It brings good luck to be buried in
wedding Clothes one woman told me
shortly before she died
Good luck to whom? asked. How
can that possibly benefit anybody? 1t
certainly cannot be much of a mascot
for the mourners, and the deceased is
done with luck. both good and bad
My answer puzzled her good deal.
l don't know for whom she said but
1 do know that it brings good luck
'She evidently believed it, too. for
when her time came she was laid away
in wedding outfit that was complete
even to the slippers and bonnet. The
lncongruity of that headgear as an
accessory to a burial toilet was enough
to make an angel weep. 1t was an
enormous, high-crowned, white silk
affair, fully fifty years old, and was
fearfully unbecoming to her emaciated
face, but her relatives had promised
that she should wear it. and thew were
courageous enough to keep their word.
Buried tn Suit of Furs.
Il buried another woman not long
ago dressed in a complete set of furs
Spite, not sentiment. was at the bot
tom of that exhibition of bad taste
The furs were very costly, and there
had long been bitter dispute among
the female members of the old lady's
family as to who should wear them
after she was done with them. AS the
time of her departure drew near the
quarrel over the prospective ownership
waxed hotter. The old lady herself,
was sorely perplexed over the merits
of the various claimants. Now she in
clined toward this one, now toward
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

seemed to be an unusual stir among
them. Evidently preparations were go
ing on for the spring migration.
Where berries are plentiful in the
winter the robins are content to stay,
but the insect loving birds fly to the
West Indies and Central and South
America. The oriole loses his gay col
or and in subdued shader of brown,
he wings his way to Central America
to find a winter home and the gay bob
o-link, now in dull yellow brown, all
streaked with black. flies to the rice
fields of the South. if he is spared the
sportsman's gun, for il is the bob-o-
link, which are killed by the thousands
and served as reed-birds in restaurants
at so cents and 81 plate. Think of
eating a bob-o-link!
Those who are familiar with the roll
licking songsters, in his stylish sum-
mer clothes, all black and white. and
buff, would hardly recognize him in
the South, in his suit so like his quiet
little mate, as the bird that sings over
the meadows of butter-cups and dali
sizes: "Phew. shew. Wadolincon; listen
to me Bobolincon!"
Following the silence of the birds
which prevail in August and part of
coming back to the scene of its meet
ing place. Song sparrows and gold
finches are also heard calling to their
mates and ii seems like a touch of
June. but they are the goodbye songs
which will live in remembrance, I'M
til the spring returns. The meadow
larks remain late in the vicinity of
their resting places and harmonic we'll
with the russell leaves and golden stub
BILE field.
1t is with some hesitation that one
admits a love of the catbird. fearing
that one who is not in familiar terms
with that lively member of the mock
ing bird family. might doubt If ones
soul were really attuned to nature ="
Unfortunately this dapper fellow has a
discordant call note which sounds like
the twang of a loose banjo string
which has given him his name. To a
real bird lover he is the black capped
thrush and nothing less. He is attrac-
tive indeed. in his coat of gray satin
with a beautiful sheen upon it. and
he wears with jaunty air a black cap.
He has long slender tail which serves
him in his flight and also helps to ex-
press his exuberance of feelings. This
tuneful songster is called the Beau
Brummel! among birds and really he
deserves II. However, this merry Jester
does not confine himself to cat calls
for when he rings out his clear flute
like, but vigorous round-e-lay. II is
easy TO accord him place
among our richest songsters 1t
must he confessed that the
birds curiosity and the desire to be
heard is so obvious that the pleasure
N n tra@A Mss ENJOYABLE. In the midst
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09

must be spread abroad. Do
you know there are half
Dozens periodicals which exist
just for that purpose. The charge
is twenty-five to one hundred dollars
a page-cuts extra. OF course the per-
iodicals are not wholly made up of paid
stuff, though II would not matter
greatly if they were. They circulate
mainly among Sons and Daughters, TO
whom pedigrees of any sort are as the
breath of life. There is money in them.
loads Of money. Vanity is a soil one
can depend on to produce a paying
crop.
II am far from condemning the peo-
pie who make them possible The
claims of long descent have always
a social and often a commercial value.
Besides when people have more money
than they well know how to spend,
they could hardly find a more harm
less diversion. Men usually have more
loose money than women, so more of
them pay to get their descent exploit
ed. But women who can AFFORD it are
a mighty good secondhand luck to both
say l."
The speech recalled to memory a
The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-09
UP A FAMILY TREE
Is Where Some Get when They Look
for Ancestors.

rs Where some Get when They Look
for Ancestors.
Pedigrees are no longer priceless.
They have come to be reckoned among
the things for which there are strict
when the passion for them rose to its
present height. Ancestors indeed may
be said to be the fad of the hour.
A man who knows said the other
day. Il agree with Ruskin. About the
strongest Of human passions is the
passion for distinction We Americans
are more and more finding that out
We have had the feeling this long
time-it no doubt large measure ex-
plains our lavish bestowal of titles
You see it is this way-when a man
has got fairly up in the world, he finds
there are other things than those mon
ey will openly buy.
For example | have a friend. who
financially is able to buy and sell me
outright His income is way up in the
thousands, but his business though a
useful one is inelegant-it does not
make him even a considerable figure
of finance. He can only eat so much
food, wear so many clothes, take out
ings in snatches as business permits,
and now and then put swell bet on a
favorite on the big races. That is all
he gets out of his thousands, so il
makes him hot in the collar to see me
socially several cuts above him, be-
cause 1 happen to be the great grand
son of man who did something in
the REVOLUTIONARY able to be a men,
Der of all the patriotic societies, and
by taking part in their deliberations
and being fairly active at their func-
lions, often get my name in the paper.
To my friend that is fame-fame which
he covets Unfortunately. If any genealo-
gcal sharp should get hold of him in
his present temper, he would stand a
stiff price to be provided with an APP
proved pedigree, double-rivetted, and
copper-fastened on to some of our first
families.
Don't say that can't be done. II
is done right along. Don't you know
all about it? Why! l tell you there are
several men who live. and live we'll
by providing people with the right sort
of ancestors. Generally they belong to
several clubs-that gives them oppor-
tunity you see. There they chum with
men who are beginning to be socially
ambitious They are suave fellows and
full of tact. OF course they do their
spiriting gently o, no. They are in
terested in genealogy, you understand
and spend their days in the libraries
studying dry-as-dust books. Quite in
cidentally they discover something
which may be of interest to their as
piring club friends, and mention the
fact casually, then If the fly rises to
the bait, there is apt to be a set nego-
tiation-
Still it is not always the obscure
men who pay. Senator Chauncey NJ
Depew is reasonable prominent-yet he
paid one Of the club genealogists a
thousand dollars and expenses to &c
abroad, and trace the Depew decent
back to Norman knight. and a Nor
man castle. Knowing that / can not
help wondering what Mr.. Waldorf AS
toria paid for his French -Crusading de-
scent from Jacques d'Astorga. But
even when you have got your pedigree
you are not at the end OF expenses. II