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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

Jeff is endeavoring hard to make
that smoky ttue in the Monticello
courthouse a paramount issue in the
guberuatorial campaign.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

Every day there is much TO be read
and heard about Jones. Rector and
Davis. but Clarke seems TO have been
lost somehow in the shuttle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

/ ~ acaNS Ge-sra Manager.
FERNANcSS NAY. Nana5 'ng eol1o'
GEO r.. ADAMS, BUSINESS Manager.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

C6EGMu C6EHR
Advertise Your Wants.
Rates: Three lines, one week, Is
cents, Cash IN ADVANCE.
If you have a House for Rent, or
have anything for Sale, advertise it
in this Column.
If charged will be charged at the
regular loca. rate Of cents line
each insertion.
FOR RENT-Two rear rooms suit
able fer light housekeeping. Apply
521. West Second avenue. 128
EGH sAIE-Neu San Premier
typewriter. ". :! Wills machine Call
at James Practical Bus 1 45s College.
$50
LADIES wanted to work on sofa
pillows. Materials furnished. Steady
work guaranteed; experience unnec-
essary Send stamped envelope TO
Miss McGee, Neddlework departm ent,
Ideal company, Chicago. 1913
YOUR cistern cleaned without
emptying; charges reasonable;
tested free Mckay, 211 Georgia St;
old phone 1876. 124
WANTEDIFat dry COWS; tele-
phone A o. Edwards, new phone
124
FOR RENT-Two unfinished
rooms Apply at 9o3 West Sixth ave
nue.. 126
FOR sALE-All my household
goods l., Dettmer, 216 w 4th St 127
ANY persons who will distribute
circulars for 50 daily should address
Standard Co. Wells, Chicago Steady
position No canvassing. 127
FOR RENT-A nicely furnished
front room, with or without board
316 West Fifth Avenue l27
WANTED-A young man with bust
ness ability to travel. Inquire for l..
Hitler, at Fourth Avenue Hotel, cor
ner Fourth and Chestnut 127
WANTED-Immedi two ener-
getic ladies to travel in Arkansas for
large manufacturing company; $3.50
weekly and expenses to begin Sal
ary raised after thirty days. Treasur-
er 7o2 Star building, Chicago 1873
MIVELAZ Cofo
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

rGR LE-Neu Sm.s.l Premier
typewriter. ". :! Wills machine Call
at James Practical Bus}l 4ss College.
130
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

FOR =REST-Two rear rooms. suit
able fer light housekeeping. Apply
521. West Second avenue. 123
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

S.escr psion Price.
Daily. ore copy. one week ~
DAILY. oce copy. one month. ..... 30
Daily. ore copy, six months ..... so.Io
Daily. oae copy, one year. ..... @.oo
Sunday Edition, one year. S2.oo
Semi Weekly, one year. ...,.... .Sl.oo
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

when lOosing its tleeceS to the sun. IL
floats sunny banner that glorifles
the field of the humble farmer; that
man is marshalled under big flag
that will compel the allegiance of the
world and wiring a subsidy from every
nation on earth.
Jeff's latest whine is that Rector
wouldn't let the Arkansas governor
ride on a handcar with him from
Warren to Wilmar to meet one OF
Jerf's appointments. Col. Rector paid
for the car and had a right to select
his guests for the trip.
See that you get ten pages OF TINS
lssue-TeXarkana Courier.
Whew. Is it possible that anybody
can stand ten pages of the Couriers
boiler plate at one issue?
The Texarkana Courier says Jeff is
behaving himself remarkably we'll.
Heaven forbid. then, that he should
ever get on his bad behavior if he is
doing real nice now.
The senate has enough Tillmans
and McLaurins in it without sending
the pistol toting splitter OF Arkansas
10 Washington as a member OF that
body.
Coy. Davis says that he was "smok-
ed out" at Monticello with a smoky
hue. The people will give jeff sure
enough smoking out at the election.
Wonder if the politician who SAID.
b Jefferson county. anyhow.
don't need it" wouldn't like to have
Jefferson county on March 80
Every day there is much 70 be read
and heard about Jones. Rector and
Davis. but Clarke seems to have been
lost somehow in the shuttle.
Jeff is endeavoring hard to make
that smoky tue in the Monticello
courthouse a paramount issue in the
gubernatorial campaign.
The Clarke fellows are beginning to
whistle to keep up their courage, and
brave as they were.
It's time the Clarke fellows were
whooping it up some more. Next thing
somebody will be asking, Who is
Clarke. anyhow
Billy Neal don't like Billy Bryan,
but be is getting to be rather Bryan
esque in some of his editorial utter
ances.
That little caucus of the ALSO rams
was probably a consolation meeting.
Wonder if DR.. Thompson sent his re-
grets9
Clarke appears to have dropped out
of the campaign with dull thud. He
is now rarely ever mentioned.
Speaking of war records, where was
ex-Gov. Clarke "indurin' of the war"?o
left continues to barnstorm to the
gallery gods
Retains Old Time Hold.
Ii crowded houses and continuous
applause may be taken as safe
criterion. "Arizona' still has its old
time hold upon the pupiic, according
To the Chicago papers. During its en-
gagement at the Auditorium in that
city standing room was at a premium,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-02-26

JAS. GOCI =.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
The Most of Them Gone to Towns
or Working on Railroads.
COTTON REPORTS ARE EXAGGERATED
And a Larger Crop will Be Gather
ed than Calculated.
Special to the Daily Progress.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. l.-Cotton picking
will be actively in progress through
out Mississippi this week. The sta
pie is opening quite rapidly, and a
general cry is going up from all sec
tions for more pickers to harvest the
yield. In some counties there is al
most famine of cotton pickers, ow-
ing to the large number of negroes
employed in the towns on public lm-
provements, and in railroad con-
structIon.
The wages being offered at the
start are somewhat higher than
those of last year, and there seems to
be a universal desire to harvest the
the crop and get it to the market as
early as possible. Owing to the rap
i'd opening of the staple, caused by
the extremely hot weather, the sea-
son will be shorter than usual, and 1t
Is believed that the bulk of the crop
VIII be marketed before Christmas.
It is believed, however, that the re-
ports of crop damage on account of
the drouth have been greatly eXag
gerated. For instance, one county
claims to have been damaged twenty
per cent. and this figure is almost un-
believabIe in view of the excellent
reports which have heretofore been
sent in from that county.
Good rains have fallen in many
portions of the state during the week,
giving all the moisture needed for
the stimulation of the late planting,
The rainfall has also been vastly
beneficial to late gardens, sugar cane
rice, sweet potatoes, etc.
A bsunteous sugar cane crop is il
anticipation, and it is expected thai
the output of molasses will be fully
fifteen per cent. larger than that o.
last year. The ribbon cane crop is
especially fine, and one Monroe coun
ty farmer recently exhibited a stall
of this variety measuring fifteen ant
one-half feet in height. From a quar-
ter acre of this planting he will real
ize at least sixty gallons of syruI
worth fifty cents per gallon.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
1t is Believed Will Be Enacted by
the Next Legislature.
BALL PLAYING AND COTTON PICKING
Cannot Be Carried On at the Same
Time BY the Negro.
Special to the Daily Progress.

opeCldl W CHC OoA1y AAO6AC0
Jackson, Sept. 1.-Among the many
measures proposed for discussion at
the next session of the Mississippi
legislature is law prohibiting the
game of baseball during the cotton
picking season, and, notwithstand-
ing the oddity of the subject, it is at
tracing considerable attention from
the press of the state.
The animus of the proposed meas
ure is the fact that the average
negro always commences to manifest
q lively interest in baseball about
the time cotton picking actively
opens, and it is almost impossible to
get them into the fields. In one lit
tie town down in the southwestern
part of the state a few days since
nine baseball games were vigorously
in progress in one day, thus taxing
1872 laborers from the cotton fields,
and at least five times the number as
spectators, rooters, etc.
The nuisance is being complained
of with especial bitterness in the del
ia, and landlords are at loss for
some method to wean their tenants
away from the sport, but the induce
ment has not yet been discovered
which will take the negro away from
the ball game after it has once been
started or is in immediate prospects.
The suggestion is made that gem
eral law should be passed prohibit
ing the game of baseball between the
first of September and the first of
January each year. Interest usual
ly wanes in the sport after the first
frost of autumn, but some of the del
ta negroes keep their ball teams or
ganized throughout the year.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
REPORT OF SECRETARY
Shows I,Io7 Convicts Now in the
Penitentiary.


Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. 1.-The prison board
of control met In regular session this
morning. The report of the secre-
tary shows that 1,107 convicts are
now on hand, of whom 80 were re-
ceived during the month of August.
There were Is discharges, 10 deaths,
Z escapes and two pardons, showing
a net decrease IN prison population
Of 2 for the month. On Saturday q
squad of sergeants conveyed 240
prisoners from the Sunf1ower farm to
the various leased farms in the delta,
and another batch will be moved
during the present week. The crop
reports to the board shows that the
state will have a good yield of both
cotton and corn, although conditions
have deteriorated somewhat during
the past month.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
And the Raise Made by Insurance
Company's Agents at Jackson
HAS GIVEN THE PEOPLE THE JERKS.
Some of the Rates Nearly 100 Per
Cent Higher Than a Year Ago.
Special to the Daily Progress.

special 10 the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. by the reason OF
the increase of rates in Jackson and
other large towns in Mississippi the
insurance companies have put the
people in a cOmbative mood, and as
a consequence the last vestige of
hope for securing a special session of
the legislature has gone glimmer-
ing. The popular impression seems
to prevail that the insurance COM
panies are attempting gigantic
bluff which will fail to meet with the
success anticipated, and as the in
crease of rates render insurance
almost prohibitive, the average
pslicy-holder is in reckless frame
of mind, and cares but little whether
his property is protected or not.
Some of the rates in Jackson are
nearly 100 per cent higher than those
of one year ago. The new century
building, tor instance, the most
modern structure in the city, is rated
at 6.25 per cent, with the promise of
a further increase unless certain con-
ditions are complied with.
The valued policy clause is Obnox-
ious to the insurance companies,
while the public cares but little
about it one way or the other, but the
heavy advance in rates is obnoxious
to the people, and they will not give
further aid in the effort to get a
special session, feeling thereby that
they would only be aiding the insur-
ance trust. The situation is a Pc
culiar one, and 1t is impossible to
| figure out its ultimate solution.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
MISSISSTPPPS FIRST BREWERY
To Be Built at Webb, on the Y. &
M. V. Railroad.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. l. - MississippTs
first brewery is to be built at Webb,
a little station on the Yazoo and Mis-
sissippi Valley road IN Tallahatchie
county. AS yet the prohibitionists
do not believe it, and they are horri-
fed at the idea of beer being manu-
factured in a state where the farmer
is not even permitted to make wine
from his own grapes on scale larger
than for family use. The promoters
of the brewery, however, are going
actively forward with their prepara-
tions, and feel confident that suffi-
cient patronage will be secured for
its operation. Many years ago few
small breweries were located in Mis-
sissippi, but since the state has been
coquetting with prohibition there has
not been a single brewery or distill-
cry in operation.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
A Bsy's Wild Ride For Life.

With family around expecting him to
die, and son riding for life, 18 miles,
to get DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, W. II.
Brown, of Leesville, Ind, endured
wonderful medicine gave instant relief
and soon cured him. He writes: 81 now
sleep soundly every night" Like mar
velous cures of Consumption, Pneumo-
mia, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip
prove its matchless merit for all Throat
and Lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
soc and 81 90. Trial bottles free at
! Tucker & Greer's drug store.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
ALL THE PRIMARIES HELD.
And With a Few Exceptions the
Law Works Well.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. L. The Congress
sional primaries in Mississippi were
brought to close yesterday, and it
is the general opinion that the new
primary election law has proven a
success in all principal respects.
Some features Of the measure have
been found Objectionable, which will
probably be remedied by the next
legislature, but as whole the law is
regarded as a good one, and the ex-
pense on the candidates participat-
ing is reduced to the minimum.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01
THE PRESS WANTS A STATE FAIR
To be Held at Different Places
Annually.
Special to the Daily Progress.

Special to the Daily Progress.
Jackson, Sept. l. The state press
is busily engaged discussing pro-
posed law to be offered at the next
legislative session to make a state
fair an endowed institution, and to
provide fer the holding of fair each
year at which every county in the
state could make an exhibit. 1t is
also suggested that the fair should be
held in a different city each year,
thus giving the principal towns an
opportunity to entertain the visitors
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01

Multitudes of bargains in cheap crock
cry and tinware, at M, Galbreath's.
aug27tf
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-01

Grapes 20 cents a basket, lbs, to
the basket, at Pellgrini's
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.
Everyone on the Watch for an OPP.
pOrtunity to Gain Without
Work or Effort.

Magic phrase to interest the sons of
men! Is there another in the English
language which will set the pulse of all
humanity to beating quicker? From
the yokel who "bites" eagerly at the
alluring advertisement promising any
thing from a diamond pin to house
and lot for a two-cent stamp, to the
hard-headed business man who is ever
on the alert to get the best end of
deal and so secure something" for
nothing" everyone is on the lookout
for chance to win without effort, to
gain without work, says the American
Inventor.
1t is business axiom that "some-
thing for nothing is an impossibikty,
and if the expenditure of brains is
counted, the verify of the axiom cannot
be doubted. But apart from thought
and invention, something can be OBJ
tanned for nothing, sometimes, and
never more quickly than by the at
tempt to turn to some useful purpose
the by-product of some process of
manufacture.
Not many years ago the entire pur-
pose of hog in a packing house was
meat. To-day hog resolves himself
into food, into glue, into paint, into
medicine, into musical instrument
strings, into fertilizer, and several
other things too numerous to mention.
The manufacture of coal gas furnishes
ammonia and coke. Many chemical
processes furnish brilliant dyes from
refuse, and the consumption of tar,
q no r.o1 E.
greater for its thousand and one by
products, among which are sugar and
wine, than for any other purpose.
Paper, once rarsst of substances,
now is made from wood, and is shortly
to be made from the waste hulls of cot
tonseed. Fine furniture is made to-
day from a rank weed which until thus
utilized made the land upon which it
grew of no value. Garbage until re-
Gently demanded good prices for its
removal; now it is bought from cities
by contractors who make from it fer
tilizer, and, so it is whispered, stock
for canned soups.
And so it goes. Little of value is
wasted to-day, but that little, in pro-
portion to the whole, is a vast field, into
which the chemical experimenter may
go, with the ultimate goal of riches.
and the certainty, if only the right
course is taken, of finding that will-o'-
the wisp something for nothing, "after
which men have striven. are striving.
and will strive until the world itself
becomes by-product of the universe
and breaks into star dust for the DOS
sible qualification of the astronomers
of some other planet.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04

Sunday school and the teacher told us
about feeding five thousand with five
loaves and two fishes are you going to
send me a box of fireworks like you
did last summer. 1 saw box kite in a
store yesterday and the man said you
can send it up with bunch of crackers
on it at night and make fine sight ]
would like to have a box kite for the
fourth. We are all well at present &
hope you are enjoying the same great
blessing what are roman candles worth
in Omaha.
81 must close don't forget the dollar.
Kiss mamma and the baby for me when
will you send the money. Goodby.
From your loving son."
Of course the boy will get the dol
lar if papa had to sell his coat off his
back. The small boy must have a big
time on the Fourth, no matter what
happens.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04


Then the round, brown, freckled face
of small boy peeped over the rim of
the basket. A woman screamed and
tainted, and Mickey Emmett, the small
boy of Elwood; Kan, went sailing to-
ward the zenith alone in a slender
basket, swinging by four taut cords,
with the upward sweeping bulb of yell
low silk lifting him beyond the sound
of voices and into the measureless
space where the winds are free and the
world is but a silver-striped ball of
green and yellow.
''When looked over the edge of that
baskets" said superintendent Emmett,
telling the story yesterday: 81 didn't
realize that was going up. For five
minutes or more it seemed to me that
the earth had suddenly dropped down
ward into space. l heard my mother
scream and was vaguely convinced that
she had felt the earth dropping under
her and was frightened. 1t didn't oc-
cur to me that / was in danger. I
rather felt that was lucky to be in
balloon at the very moment when the
world fell from its place. I speculated
upon what would happen when the
globe went crash against the moon.
and selfshly chuckled at the thought
that 7, at least, wouldn't be in the
smash-up.
''The only breeze felt seemed to
come straight down from above. I
dropped my cap out and it fell like
pound of lead. Then, for the first time,
I began to realize that I was going up
and the earth was standing still, doing
business in the same old place. For
quarter of an hour the ground below
me looked like concave basin. The
horizon seemed like the high outer
rim, and below me. so far that the peo-
pie looked like small bugs, was the
bottom of the hollow dish. To the
west, like a yellow ribbon, winding
among green fields and forests and
squares of golden harvest field, the
Missouri river lay flashing in the sun.
Lake Contrary. sheet of water four
miles long. looked like the hah-closed,
blue eye of woman. St.Joe, SIN okeless
and spangled with tin roofs and glass,
seemed almost beneath me, like toy
village on a checkerboard, its hills fiat
tened and its streets merely dotted
with crawling specks.
ut must have been past six o'clock in
the evening when the balloon let GO.
The sun was low, and yet before it set
beyond the Kansas plains the world no
longer looked fat. Just as the sun,
monstrous in size and brazen with the
dull color that you have seen at sun
set, struck the horizon, the world sud-
denly assumed the appearance of
globe. The lake below me, now look
ing like silver dime, seemed like
the apex of the sphere, and then,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04
IN FAR-oFF PROVINCES.

The island Of Sakhalin, the great
penal colony of Russia, has splendid
forests of fir and pine.
Bamboo in Java makes an effective
poison. the hairs on the young roots
being mixed with food.
Kent's county council has decided
that baby carriages should carry lights
at night, as the language of the
statute regulating the lighting of We
hicles is general enough to cover per-
ambulators.
Greek architects have decided that
the Erechtheum at Athens must be
restored if it Is to be preserved. The
reservations will be limited to
strengthening the building and to put
ting in place the fragments about it.
It is one of the traits of the Chi
nese to handle the things they use
very carefully, and hence cheap and
poorly made articles will last much
longer in service than with most peo-
Pile. Goods made in China would be
of little value for use by Americans.
Some of the late Lord Henry Ben
tinck's brandy, which had passed into
the possession of Mr.. II. Chaplin, was
sold in London lately, the 1898 vintage
selling for SIS bottle, record price,
and the rest at from SIS to SIC bot
tie. Hook Of 1861 sold for 500 Q
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04

as the sun dropped below the
sky line, shadows crept about it.
saw, like stars reflected in the
water, the city's lights shining
dimly below. Soon the globe, down
upon which 1 gazed with fascinating
interest, lost all color. The pale lights
round. But yet my balloon, still in the
suns half light, was luminous with a
pale yellow glow.
81 became fascinated with the
sparks of light and streaks of fiery
red that then began to glimmer and
flash in tiny lines and arcs upon the
earth. Sometimes a muff1ed roar like
that of thunder and then the crack
of lesser noises would reach my ears,
and I began to fancy that I was far
above the clouds and was looking
down upon a miniature thunder
storm. But finally 1 remembered
that it was the Fourth. and then /
knew that the disturbed area upon
which I saw so many little darting
lights was ST. Joe and it's evening
display of Roman candles, rockets
and bombs. They all seemed very
trifiing and pitiful to me then, and
1 remembered conceivihg a genuine
contempt for so small thing as a
pack or even a box of .firecrackers.
''Then I noticed that the breeze no
longer blew downward upon my bare
head. 1 watched the bag which had
been rotund and bullying, and saw
that its sides were dented and fab
by. 1 found package of cards in
the basket, advertisements for tine
balloonist, and throwing them out
saw. that they sailed lazily upward.
9" I'm fallingl' murmured, and for
the first time became conscious of
/ the most terrible fear. My hair was
rather long, and stood on end part.
lily with terror and partly from the
upward draught through which 1
was descending more rapidly each
second. The moon peeped over the
eastern hills suddenly, and then I
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-07-04
TIGHT LAcING KILLS.
singular Case Of q Housemaid Mt .
Salvation Army Meeting
I'm London.

Tight lacing, combined with re-
iigious excitement and the heated at
mosphere of Salvation Army hall, at
London, has had fatal consequences
for Mary Edwards, a housemaid.
She went with fellow servant to
the Salvation Army BARRACKS in Porto
bello road, and after entering the
building was heard to complain of the
sudden change in the weather.
During the evening she was called
upon to sing. and began the hymn:
"When ON Earth Life Is Ending" At
the end of the first line she fell back
into her friends arms, and expired
almost Immediately afterward in the
lobby.
At the inquest the doctor who made
the autopsy said that the action of the
heart had been impeded by tight lac
ing, which, together with the heat OF
the hall, had caused the girls death.