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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
CUT GLASS,
WATCHES.
SllVERWARE,
CLOCKS,
NOVELTIES, CHINA and
JEWELLERY,
Thought Celebration In Order.

Daniel Mason. the former law part.
her OF District Attorney Jercme has
as his managing clerk young LAWYER
named John Comfort Recently eli
ent called at Nason's Office and, find.
ing both out, was landed by the Office
boy in e p!a alton this written tele.
phone message:
Have Dc presented with a son
ana heir. VIII not be town for day
Or two: send up Comfort"
The cheat. rot knowing the name
81 Nasonss associate, and thinking the
son and heir to be Nason's. went inn.
nediately and acted upon the sueees.
zion by purchasing couple of bottles
OF choice old GIealivet. which he die.
patched to NAson's house with tho
message: Congratulations .na
compliments as we'll as comfort.
New York Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
"NatjonaI ProSperity."

Rev. James NJ Hawley preached on
National Prosperity at the First
Methodist church Sunday morning,
patriotic theme having been selected
because the day was Washington
eSting talk and it was much appreciate
ed by those who heard it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
A VILE SLANDERER.

4 certain engineer on the Cotton
Belt slandered ne shamefully by tell
ing a Wilful lie before some ladies at
the last Odd Fellows supper. | want
him to know. and want them to know
he is vile slanderer and wilful liar
If ! hear any more word from him. |
will make him sign a liebll. have
the evidence
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

Lee-Sasser.

Marriage license We're issued by
County Clerk Bloom today to Mr.. Rob
ert s. Lee. age forty-one. and Miss
Minnie SaSSer. age twenty tWO both or
Bearden Mr. Lee formerly resided
in Pine Bluff. and was bartender in
Wares saloon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
Youths Sweat Memories.

Among the other sweet memories OF
youth that Lucky Baldwin might PUT
in his front yard is tie school teach
er who used to whip him. The or
binary boy would be satisfied with
great riches could he cnaia the stern
pedagogue to the front fence ard gloat
over him in his de- lining days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

not equal to the demand.
Nearly 500 900 bicycles were manu-
factured in 1896, but the price deelin
ed 40 per cent. in the next two or
three years. and the supply was in
excess of the demand.
''In 1898 the membership Of the
League of American Wheelman was
1O3 000; it is now $3.50. In 1898 there
we're in the United States fifty news
papers devoted to cycling: now there
is only one.
Five years ago our boulevards and
! parkWays We're crowded with bicycle
riders; last summer there We're COM
/ para1ively few on the streets or boule-
wards. Five years ago to be fashion
| able was to ride a wheel: last sum
rler to ride a wheel was to be tnfash-
| ionable.
"'Fhe bicycle has fallen from its high
| popularity Wheeling has ceased to
| be a hobby. and ranks simply as an
| ordinary recreation. Most of the cap
! ital invested in bicycle factories has
been turned into other channels The
sales of wheels are not onetWentleth
as large as in 1898 and the member
ship of the league has declined i'll the
sane proportion.
There were twenty bicycle stores
in Chicago in 1898 where there is one
new. Of the many bicycle clubs in
| 1898 only one maintains its organlZa-
ton now. The local sales of wheels
lecined SO per cent. III five years.
NO other reactionary movement IN
American trade is so sweeping and
striking as this passing Of the bicycle
The greatest cause for the decline
of the bicycle is that they are entirely
too expensive for a vehicle of no
greater durability than the bicycle. and
the same cause is going to be TIE re
suit of a tumble on the part of the
automobile. They cost entirely too
much for the service that can be
! had With them.
LET Nh Bryan is reported
| BRYAN as saying in New York re
bOLT Gently that he would not
SuDDOrt the Democratic
| candidate III l.,D4 unless he should be
! nominated on the Kansas City plat
| form of 1900 and pledged to its main.
tenance as the Democratic creed. The
next Democratic candidate for presi-
dent will stand upon and defend the
! platform adopted by the Democratic
| national convention of 1904. The
| Democratic platform then adopted will
supersede the Kansas City platform
and be a genuine confession Of Demo-
| cratic faith.
Mr. Bryan's position is preposterous
! because he insists that the Democratic
platform of 1896 and 1900 superseded
which the greatest Democratic nation
| al victory since the civil war was
| achieved
The Democratic national platform
| of i9oi will be the platform on which
| the candidate for president will stand
and which he will defend II Mr. Bry-
an chooses to boil The candidate and
platform il will be his own matter and
imE1a1erial to the Democrats Of the
country at large.
Well wager a ten cent cigar to a
stogie that TIE fellow in Pine Bluff
Who wants To pay the state $4,000
more than was paid for the Cummins
ACE hasn't got $4,000 to save his
.oul.-Jonesboro Enterprise.
What if he hasn't dollar of his
AWn, but can put Mp the money ac-
Grdin2 to his offer. what difference
Hould il make to the state? MI
,auld is a reliable man and could
AXE his proposition good. It mat
2rs not with the Jeff Davis squirrel
leads" whether the proposition comes
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
Forests in GERMANY.

Imperial statistics for 1900 show
taat Germany lad 1860 ,92t acres of
"ood; in 1883 there were 34,353,74S
acres, and in 1893 34,47s,296 acres.
Ire hcnres for 1900 thus show an In, 4
crease, as compared with 1883, Of 21s..
17S acres.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
NJ F. CONNETT. .

Northern capitalists are at Eureka
Springs to inspect mineral lands.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

FAMILIES answer through the
Baltimore Sun to what
President Roosevelt had to say about
the raising of large families and what
this travelling man says is SO near the
facts in the case that nobody can slip
around them Very easily:
In letter to Mrs Won Worst, the
President Roosevelt strongly con
demns the shirkng of parentage and
calls it race suicide. complete or par
tial.
Mr. Roosevelt, from his standpoint
can Very we'll take this view. Having
inherited a large fortune and being
president OF the United State, he does
not have to worry where the daily
bread comes from, nor does he have
to look with fear and anxiety for the
future of his children. They are all
we'll provided for But how about q
man like myself. Of about his age
with a family2 Having had a good
travelling position. | provided nice
home for my family and everything
went we'll until one day the trust came
along and bought out the interest OF
my firm | then had to accept posi-
tion With the trust at little over one,
half the salary | was receiving, or
quit We are getting along the very
best we can, but the future looks very
gloomy for me now. I don't care much
about myself, but what is going to be
come of nv little ones2 | don't wish
ed to be classed among the .pessln1lsts,
but | wish someone could tell me how
things are going to turn out for the
future Can my children make an
honest living? have always tried 10
do NV best but | was robbed OF the
means to support them decentiy. just
haeause four or five men in New
York who had millions one day,
thought they had To own the concern
I travelled for If this kind OF mefe
ing interests continues there certain
" are going to be only two classes lii
our cOuntry-the rich and the poor,
II is all right for the rich man to raise
a large family. but the poor man Is
best Off without it. At best he is only
raising lot of tools who are SubJec'
to the dictates of some one who is Try
ing to crush them. Mr.. Roosevelt
should supplement the preface to Mrs
Van Norst's book by stating that tae
rich people should raise large families,
the poor people should raise small
ones. or. better still. none al all. lhat
will better meet the views OF those
who hav already felt the sting OF mo-
nopoly.
These are plain facts. and none can
contradict them. Time has dealt Sc
yerelv with the middle classes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

FOUND-A telescope grip in a cot
ION field near the city limits. Own
er can get it by going to the Barrow
garden. East Sixth avenue, and de
scribing the grip and contents and
paving for this advertisement. A E.
Graves 100
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

+ 1t eould give offense to the most
st lsitive. The most cordial and broth
c.!y feeling was shown from beginning
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

PASSING The newspapers dn3
or THE magazines are haNln@
RlcycIE much to say about the
passing of The bicycle.
There was never anything which
reached such high pinnacle in popu'
lar favor in so short time as the bl-
cvele. bat its popularity was meteone,
as there was never ANYTHING so unnl-
versauy used as the bicycle was
few years ago that has fallen into such
disfavor as has the rubbertired-two-
wheeled vehicle for quick transit. The
following interesting facts and figures
are from the Chicago lnter-Ocean:
There were 800 bicycle factories
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

One of the mos; pleas ami features
# the revival al the Presbyterian
hurch. which closed last nig.l1. WAS
s.e very noticeable absence OF all sec
arian narrowness Ministers and
embers OF other churches We're pres
At and assisted throughout the meet
& and not thing was said or done
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

Office: Corner Braraque and Chest
nut Streets.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24
JAS. w. ADAMS, General Manager
GEO. n. ADAMS, Business Manager
FERNANDEZ MAY, Managing Editor

Entered at the Postoffice at Pine
Bluff, Ark, as second class mail mat
ter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

Drummond and company, III East
Second avenue.
Safes and locks opened and repaired
Keys of all kinds Oh hand. All
work guaranteed. II
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

President Roosevelt had to say about
the raising Of large families, and what
this travelling man says is SO near the
facts in the case that nobody can slip
around them Very ga Sily.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-02-24

end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-16
SEEDS OLE D-rssENsIoN.

A quarrel between the firms which sup
ply the Department of Agriculture with
seeds is now in progress and their difficult
ties will probably be taken up by the pres
ent session of Congress. 1t appears that
some of the firms are inserting advertising
matter in the packages sent TO farmers.
This. naturally offends other companies,
and as a result the whole system may be
reformed.
1t would be a good thing were it aban-
doned altogether. Why should the govern
ment send free packages of common seeds
to the farmers of the country? The results
may have paid for the expense in the early
long ago ceased to be the case. There is
other far more important work for the de-
partment to do, and the money now ex-
pended on beans and onion shoots might
we'll be applied to other things. The intro
ducuon of new plants not now grown in
the United States, but which are capable of
culture here and will repay experiments, is
of great Importance. Not long ago Secre-
tary Wilson exhibited at Washington some
dates which had been raised in the South
west and which were far superior to those
imported from foreign countries. The cul-
ture of dates is entirely new in this coun-
try. but it may develop into a thriving in
dustry. There are other food products with
which the department would make ex-
periments on a large scale if there were
more money at its disposal. This money
should be taken from the sum now spent
on big consignments of common garden
seeds.
Several years ago Secretary Morton rec
commended that free seed distribution be
done away with. His advice was not fol-
lowed, but many improvements were made.
Before his time the seeds had been fur
nished by a single firm and this resulted
III more or less bitterness and criticism.
Many of Secretary Morton's proposed re-
forms went into effect; perhaps it would be
we'll If the remainder of his advice should
be followed.
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BOLD MAN is SM00T.
The Utah Senator VIII Beard the
LiOnesses in Their Den.
New York Press.

New York Press.
AS If to beard the lioness in her den,
United States Senator Reed Smoot is COM
ing here with all of his family to live I'm
the very center of the feminine movement
10 strip him of his toga because OF his
Mormon religion. He smilingly made this
announcement. With Mrs. Smoot he came
here to meet his wife's mother and sister,
who arrived from Germany on the Kaiser
Wilhelm III.
Senator Shoots resentment against the
''agitators' who are trying to Gust him
from his seat in the Senate is as soft as
his well modulated voice. Goodness. he
SAYS. he has been misunderstood by the
eminent women who are bent on depriving
him of the honor his State has thrust upon
him! He is not riled by their attacks. He
believes they are sincere In their work, but
are laboring under a Misrepresentation OF
the facts and swept along by the general
adherence Of anything Mormon. a peculiar
hobby of the busting East.
They should see his home life, he argued.
and meet his wife and half a dozen pretty
offspring before they condemn him TO polit-
zeal ostracism. His life is an open book. ne
plaintively murmurs as he invites peru,al
OF its lily-white pages -
eff | have ever wronged Aman. dom Ill
to a woman or been aught save kindly to q
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

William C. Rogers. chief of the Cherokees, will
probably be the last to hold that position. He
has little Cherokee blood in his veins, being
nearly white.
The German government has awarded the title
Of exec ency'' and has admitted to member
ship in the Prussian Privy Council Professor
Won Behring of Marburg, the famous discoverer
of diphtheria serum. This is the first time such
an honor has been bestowed on a physician.
The imports into Germany from Japan
amounted to 81. 236. 400 worth of camphor. silk
goods. raw copper, fish gut, rice, straw bands,
dressed animal skins. peppermint, menthol. plant
wax, etc., while Germany exported thereto
sugar. wool and wooden goods. chemical and dye
products, iron and ironware. cheap cotton goods,
small machines. etc.. to the amount of S11, $751;
400.
Pumpkin pie is not, as ii is generally supposed,
of Puritan origin and straight American pedi-
gree, although the rich New England product
is a Yankee invtSntion. As long ago as the reign
of GOOD Queen Bess," the "pompion" was
known as a table vegetable. But the pie of that
day would hardly suit the epicure now. The
usual way OF treating it was by removing the
seeds and soft fiber from a hole made in it's
hard side. filling the space with apples and bak-
ing 1t until the apples were tender.
The administration of the Cars army has
just placed an order with a st. Petersburg firm
for the immediate construction of twenty-five
kitchen railroad cars to be used for the troops
in Siberia. These cars are to be ffty-six feet
in length and 101s feet wide. and each car will
be able to turn out meals for 200 soldiers. Each
car Is to be equipped with a refrigerator. four
cooking stoves and a large water tank. Similar
kitchen cars were tried last year on the Man
churian and Eastern Siberian Railroads, and
they are said TO have given the greatest salts
faction.
Fourteen years before any newspaper was pub
lished in Paris-namely. in 1600-there appeared
In Strasburg the first number Of a journal that
claimed to be the leading newspaper in Europe,
and printed the following extraordinary title:
Full account OF all the principal and memora-
BILE events which have taken place or will take
place during this year 1900. in upper and lower
Germany. and also in France. Italy. England.
Scotland. Hungary. Moldavia, Turkey and other
countries. All the news will be edited as care
fully as possible. and will be printed exactly as
received"
]. Pierpont Morgan's great rival In the iron
world is Miss Antionette Bertha Krupp, heiress
to the great Krupp gun and iron works In Ger
many. Miss Krupp probably is the richest
young woman In Europe. She Is the elder OF
the two daughters of the late Baron Alfred
Krupp. His last will and testament made her
heiress to all his millions. including the sur
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child throughout, my whole life" said Sem
ator Smoot, ~ have yet TO be awar OF IL.
/ have lived as a God-fearing citizen. plain
in habits and home-lovfng. i have done my
duty as i saw 1t, and l feel with a free
conscience that my record will bear the
Senator Smo0t likes New York despite its
hostility to Mormonism. He promises 10
return soon, and, with Mrs. Smoot, display
his courage by taking up the iowiy labor OF
aversion OF landlords to children Will deter
the senator from becoming a metropolitan.
II should like 10 have my children edu-
Gated here" explained Senator Smoot- 1T
may be a bit announcement TO make the trips
from Washington and back. but New York
is worth the trouble.
II know all about what has been said
regarding the number of my better halves"
continues the senator. but the nice part OF
IL is that IL is not true. i know. and every
real pith OF the whole controversy Is the hue
and cry against anything Mormon. They
are prone to say, Hit him, he's a Mormon
and has no friends and rest content with
that as a cause for any sort OF a fight.
Il bear no I'll will TO these women who are
lighting me. / do not blame them, but 1
say they are caught ND and carried away
by a hue and cry, and they don't know
how false are the allegations against me.
IL il were possible / would like 10 have
these women take a peep some time into
my home. IL they could see my home life
and see my children and meet my wife I
do not believe they would waste more time
signing petitions and organizing anti-Smoot
societies"
Mrs. Smoot listened attentively while her
husband made out his own case. She 10
tall. neither a blonde nor a brunette. grace
full and dignihed. She has a motherly face
and took pride in exhibiting the photo
graphs or the Smoot children
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kissing the Book.

kissing the book is more generally prac-
ticed in England than in this country. Wit
nesses have enjoyed for several years the statu-
tory right of being sworn in the Scottish fash
ion. but extremely few exercise it. despite the
frequent objections urged against kissing the
book on sanitary grounds. A witness in the
New Castle County Court has contrived to ad-
here to the practice. while showing his apprecia-
ton of the grounds on which doctors have con-
demned IL. Immediately he stepped into the
witness box he produced a Testament from his
pocket to be sworn on. This precaution was at
once commended by Judge GreenwelI. who re-
marked that he himself would not kiss one of
the court Testaments for Ell, 900. In a court in
another part of the country a Testament has
been so long in use that it is calculated over
200. 600 persons have kissed IT. The officials are
said to have made this interesting calculation
known to the world with feelings of peculiar
pride.-Philadelphi Ledger.
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When DR.. John Cairns went from Scotland to
Ireland for rest and travel in 1864, he was at
once delighted by discovering from the guides
who showed him about that most OF the landed
gentry were Sunday folks"
That's a fine CASTLE he would say, pointing
to a big house set like a crown on some rocky
hill.
'Yis, sorr." said his guide. "'T Sir John
O'Connor's." or Its Sir Rory Moore's." H g
always added. He a Sundah mon."
At last DIR. Cairns grew curious.
What is a Sunday man ?" he asked.
well, sorr. it be a mon that has so many
writs out agin him for debt that he stays shut
up tight in his house all the week, and only
comes out on Sundah. when the law protects
him."
Doctor Cairns's opinion of the landed gentry
underwent a c~hange.-Youth's Companion.
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A Timely

A man whose cardinal goal in life is to make
money will steal. To such a man stealing is a
fine art. upon the possession Of which talent
he congratulates himself. Getting more than be-
longs to him he considers thrift; causing one man
to fail that he may rise he considers self-preser-
walton. He Is not exactly a highwayman-no.
he lacks the criminal chivalry and physical
daring of that class of robber. He prefers to be
a genteel scoundrel, and so works the wax of
his egotism into a being whom he esteems to be
exempt from the ten commandment and i'm
mune from criticism. He is encouraged in this
hallucination by his fellow-townsmen. and as his
wealth expands he rises to a loftier plane in
society, in ommerce in politics, and in religion.
The Schoolmaster.
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Action of Lime on Soil.

Lime has a three-fold action as a fertilizer.
1t is a direct source of plant food; II renders
available inert plant food in the soil; and it i'm
proves the texture of the soil. While lime does
all Of these things. 1t does not fulfill all of the
requirements of 3 perfect fertilizer, and is there
fore classed as an indirect fertilizer. II does
it's best work in rendering available inert plant
food in the. soil. 1t is a sort of stimulus a
medicine. in fact, that needs be given weak.
'puny'' soil. 1t is a strong base and tends to
neutralize any acidity Of the soil. especially that
which occurs in wet. Doggy lands. Lime can
often be used to advantage in improving the
texture Of the soil. In this regard it will tighten
and pulverize heavy, stubborn clays. Tile drain
age and the proper use Of lime are two factors
that can be used to good advantage in the bet
tering of useless clay and adobe soils such as
are found in every State of the Union.-The
Epitomist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-16
THINGS SCIENTIFIC.


Many new factory plants are disca~ding belt
ing altogether and using instead drives" of
Manila rope. says a writer in Popular Mechan-
les. For this purpose the unusual length and
strength of the Manila fiber make it peculiarly
suited.
The remarkable preventative effects on eggs
of silicate of soda is noted by a correspondent
of The Lancet, which paper says: Some months
ago we referred to a statement which had been
made that a chicken had been Matched from
an egg which had been preserved for twelve
months. Our correspondent endeavored to hatch
eggs which had been preserved for three months.
This he entirely failed to do. but he found that
the eggs. even when they had been incubated
for over three weeks, remained perfectly fresh
and could not be distinguished from recently
laid eggs. He points out that IL the preserya-
tive effect of the silicate of soda Is due to the
formation of an ~mpermeable substance I'm the
she'll OF the egg-and there seems no reason TO
doubt this explanation-then it can hardly be
expected that the chick will develop unless some
. method is adopted in order again to render the
shell permeable to air. Experiments in this
direction would be Of great interest"
THE peculiar property of calcium carbid of
rapidly developing a~cetylene gas when brought
in contact with water has led to its utilization
in Germany as an effective means for raising
and sinking submarine boats says The Rail-
way and Engineering Review. Oct. "a. 1.-The
boat is supplied with an ordinary gas generator
and a water tank. whose contents serve as bal
last. II the reservoirs the tank and the reser-
voir OF the generator) are filled with water the
boat sinks. After the introduction of a carbid
cartridge into the gas generator the quantity
Of gas at once formed is sufficient TO force the
water through the lover pipe into the sea. After
opening the cock in the connecting pipe the gas
enters the tank and fills it by forcing out the
water. The apparatus is quite simple and works
reliably. doing away with air and water
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