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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-16
Graphic's Daily Story

He would then have got away, but the
breeze fell, and he was under the guns
of the Courier. The only thing TO the
credit of the Black Devil was the fight
she made against superior force. Cap
, ture meant the halter, and for four
long hours the pirates stood up TO their
work At the end of that time they
had lost eighty men, half their guns
were diSmounted, and the brig had
been huled 50 often that there was
five feet OF water in her hold. She was
still fighting when the frigate ran her
aboard and poured fifty men on her
decks In ten minutes tHey had pos
session.
Little of value was found aboard the
brig a~ size htd just returned to her
cruising ground, lint nIaa> If tie ar
+ ticlr> rrGevcd are u ha found in th"
BRITISH uu@cum today. Sf.a was rezu-
j I9rly fitted out with "a stock Of .mPie-
iui.s, of torturg. Between aeas.s~ tl .fe
Ua~ laf5e =.slr5a IN Ht5eh#oik
a4t close y =~tea.s# #of#zeTea# barrels
of ell St= E=.4 c.zs.. '1=areNs - 5..r
dozen. spiked fa.aIz tss racks and
a.4eIsa~ used #dls=t,... aztu4l II
tterd -. t.zt5H- =ssssS zs.4#s, ~ in 11e t9r-
tal.a=fiHn.
Ha54 Wa0tF5ai4.5J mou af t}e Hir.5te'S
CROW lived 5a =ta<aa prisoners
tiaasg t4em #a~ Aer fourth a. HizA
zaIl5szI5.. y hose Hamp WIS alvarez. He
4Fa> Il man Of thirty. and I greater
lead never Iteed. He #as He last
I#ttI IL 2N1 IN uud Va so severely
wounded sHat f5r some days II WAS d
question whether he would ike o. die
Tie bri4 WAS 81 badly Knocked about
that Size founiercd and the fri&ate
landed the pirates i'll Jamaica for trial
They We're Il staggering. boaStInG. de
liant lot Not one of them would turn
kings evidence. nor did any fear death.
In cold blood, and knowing they
| would be used against Them, the cap
tain. mate and several of the crew
| made statements Which held them up
! as veritahle devils. The captain had
only enga eed in two captures, and both
vessels were English. One had 4 crew
of fifteen and the other OF eighteen
men. lie DtIlSttt lIldl tNtIN lldli l4tt'A
been tortured to death and that some
of them had lived six hours after their
torture commenced. He said that with
his own hand he had cut off the ears
toes and fingers of Il merchant captain
and then spiked him down on his own
deck with no less than fourteen ship
nails.
The mate had been With the brig
from the outset Of her career. 1t took
him two days to make his confession.
. All the implements of torture were In
his charge and he was the one who di-
rected their application. He said he
had been the death of 16O English,
| French and American SAILORS, and there
was sufficient corroborative evidence
| to prove that he was not boasting.
The trial of the pirates lasted about
two weeks, and they We're given two
more in which to prepare for death.
Not one of them weakened in the
slightest. and they sang songs and
jolled with each other as they went to
the gallows NJ QUAD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-16
HEALTHY PLANro
Resuiee the Most Careful Attsatlsa -
Well ~ Good Soil.

Did you ever see a rosebush which
despite the most beneficent environment
Of soil-of sunshine-and of atmosphere,
seemed never to achieve a healthy
growth.
A ton OF manure will not help a plant
that has a canker eating out its heart.
You must destroy the cause before you
can remove the effect.
You cannot cure Dandruff and Bald
ness by rubbing on hair lotions, and
rubbing in vaseline, etc.
You must look to the cause Of the
trouble-it's germ at the roots of
your hair which causes 1t to fall out.
Newbro's Herpicide destroys the germ,
and healthy hair is the sure result.
Sold by leading druggists Send 1oc. in
stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co..
Detroit Mich.
For sale /. h. B Coon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-16
Cost of Worlds Arnaments,

The armies and nayies of Europ.
absorb twelve days earnings yearl,
Of the entire world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-16
Smallest Microbs.

TIE grip bacillus IS the smallest mi.
erohe yet discovered which affects
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-16

For sale :, l.. B coon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-03
Tie Last Straw.

Amanda Johnson had for years, in consid- eration of fair sum. done the washing of Mrs. o. l.. E. Detch, of Chelsea square, with pride, promptness and precision. 'Manoa had no superior as laundress, and, as events disclosed, no inferior a mathematician.
 Miners in the coal regions struck for higher wages. Coal became scarce 1n- stantly metropolitan dealers added ten cents on the busheI to the price of the commodity. 'Manda, with remarkable mathematical per spicuity. at once doubled her charge for weeks washing Mrs. Detch declined to ln- crease the old fee by more than half Tbereupon, with painful po,iteness on both sides. mistress and laundress severed Tor eyer their business relations.
 Mrs. Detch was terribly cut up. To at once engage another laundress was, asleep or awake, the sole purpose of her existence. hut she knew not in her excitement where to seek her, The laundries ruined her bits of feminine fnery, and nobody could give tablecloths that glossy. smoothness when ,Manda. with the taste of an artlst, hau never failed to give them.
 In this extremity Mrs. Detch did an nn- accountable thing. She begged her laundry ,oan of all men in the world, to recommend o vvasherwoman-a washerwoman not con nected with his esta tablishmentl And ms recommendation, which he magnanllnous.y nroffered. threw her into nt or uhcon- trollable despondency.
 He recommended Amanda Johnson!
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around. Only few days before thls she had been offered several hundred dollars for the horse, but had refused to part with him. One of the farm hands protested that the animal was only playful and not vicious. but she would not listen even to his offers to purchase him
 The man led the horse away, gunshot was heard soon after in the direction of the Forest, and 1t was supposed that the horse had been killed.
 Not long after the horse appeared in Keene Valley in the possession of the man who had onered so much money for him. It was more than year before Miss Newman learned of the deception that had been prac- ticed upon her, and then she brought suit against the farm hand.
 Miss Newman demands answering loyalty from those who serve her, whether in the house or in the fields. There is something feudal-like in the protecting care she ex- tends over those in her employ and the faith fitness that she expects in return She has set the examp.e of industry and looks to her employees to follow 1t.
 It Is her custom, now that she is not able to enter the fields with the men and assist in the harvesting, to sit at the window of her home and watch the work of the men, per haps a mile away, through powerful ned glasses.
 Miss Newman asserts that her cows are mixed tour times day, twice by her em- ployes and twice by strangers, she having been aroused in the night by disturbances in the pastures and found upon investigation robber in the yard mixing her cows by the light of lantern.
 Equal to, If not greater than, her interest in her farm Is her interest in the little white church by the crossroads in the outskirts of the little village of Newman, which was named after her The church Is more than mile from her home, but Is separated from her lands on.y by me public highways. The church has been dedicated to the people who live nearby.
 Here Miss Newman regularly each Sunday afternoon at three o'clock conducts a Sunday school and has been keeping up the custom for many years; some of the children who now attend her Sunday school are the chil- dren of boys and girls whom she used to teach
 Miss Newman has been close student of the social conditions which surround the youths and young women of North Elba. She is unutterab.y opposed to dances In the
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Where there Is a lack of repose in tn, chest one sees the gait such as seamen have rolling from side to side. or. aiming to cor rect that the opposite fault may be ac- quired, that of holding the hips so stimy that the whole body appears painfully rigid and constrained.
 As one steps forward the weight should fall upon the balls of the feet, first one and then the other. This gives elasticity to the movement. The exercise of walking ought 10 lay up for a woman stores of health and beauty; but when she comes down hard on her heels with each step she takes only nervous evils follow, because of the jar to Internal organs and to the spine, that chain of bones which carries In 1t the delicate spinal cord on which the comfort power and harmony of the body almost entirely depend.
 Starting with the three principles well in mind no woman should stop short of two mile walk a day. That Is very little for some more would perhaps be better for all but the feeblest The weak, unaccustomed to walking, should begin with few blocks at first, gradually increasing the distance as strength is gained.
 Breathe deeply of the fresh air as you go along, drink 1t In, hold it in, and let it out slowly. The more air there Is in the lungs the more elastic will be the carriage, and the finer the complexion, the rosler the cheeks, and more bright do the eyes become.
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through her efforts over 200 acres have been cleared
 Her experience with wheat and hard corn was expensive. The fertilizer had to be drawn to the top of the mountain on stone boats by oxen, and the wheat when har- vested was brought down the mountain the same way It cost when made into nou. about $15 per barrel. but Miss Newman huo demonstrated that "cant" was not in he1 vocabulary. The raising of hard corn IS " an experiment often attempted In the Aa Aai.Vn- dacks, but 1t WAS never successful un'li M'ss Newman grew 1t and had 1t ground into corn meal.
 For years Miss Newman worked like man on her farm. She cared for her own horses, did her own driving, assisted the men in harvesting the crops and was active In the various duties of the farm until she fell and broke her hip about two years ago. She Is q busy woman today In the ma 1agement of the affairs of her estate, but she does not engage in the manual labor which character ized her earlier years in North Eba.
 Some of the men employed by Miss New man have found her to be t'notional." She has always been fond of fine horses and would tolerate none that was not of good breed and in excellent condition.
 One fine dappled gray having been stricken with the stringhalt, she instantly ordered 1t to be taken to the forest and killed.
 On another occasion one of her fine horses which had been kept in the barn for some time manifested n playful desire to jump and canter when 1t was again led into the open air.
 Miss Newman pronounced him ''vlcious" and directed that the animal be killed, say ing that 1t was harmful thing to have
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Remote from the activities of the city in which she once bore a conspicuous part, on a farm of one thousand acres, shut in by wooded mountains, lives Miss Anna New man, artist, musician, phianthropist and farmer. No other farm land in the state has 80 high an elevation as Miss Newman's, and on 1t she hns raised the only wheat and hard corn ever grown In that locality. For twenty-six years this isolation has lasted. Before that Miss Newman lived In Philadel- phia, where she sketched and painted and composed waltzes over which her friends raved She had money and social position, and because of this, together with her ar tistic temperament, brilliant career was opened to her.
 She was member of pr. Phillips Brooks church-knew the great man personally. The musical director of the church gave her ln- struction in music, and she was an apt and appreciative student. Dr. Henry Van Dyke is her cousin. and she has other distir- guished relatives Whatever prompted the brilliant young woman to leave her home In Philadelphia, to say farewell to her friends and to neglect the opportunities which were hers is n mystery.
 Romance and mystery envelop this woman as the country folk tell her life Doubtless there is a basis for some of the incidents. but much may be set down to their effort to account for woman of wealth and culture voluntarily making her permanent home in a region rich in material for the artist but desolate for the farmer.
 Incidents of her coming to the Adlrondacks are related by old stage drivers, who delight in discussing the eccentricities of woman whose good deeds are manifold, whose farm sno oI+hourh on an immense scale has not absorbed as much of her thought and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-03
Transplanting Teeth

The last and most ingenious resort ol the dental surgeon is "implantation ,-.nae is. the setting of new teeth Into me Jaw' For this purpose real teeth are empioyeu, and not artificial ones Cocaine having been first applied for producing local anoestnesla, n hole is drilled in the jawbone and Into tnls socket a good tooth, newly drawn from somebody's jaw, Is set.
 If the patient Is young and vigorous the osseous structure soon closes around It, and by the time the gum is healed the tooth Is ready for use 1t should last from three 10 ten years In the case Of an elderly or Tee ble person 1t may be fastened in place by silver wire passing around the jawbone
 The root of a freshly extracted tooth IS covered with a delicate membrane called the ..perIcementum," the vitality of which ma terially assists the combining of the tissues. Unless the grinder is directly transferred the vitality of this membrane must be artl- ficially preserved. One way of doing 1t Is to graft the tooth temporarily into the comh of Il cock that part of the fowl being well fed with blood, us may be seen from us red ness When wanted for use It is cut ont. Ordinarily the patient Is obliged to wait for a while until the dentist has suitable tooth freshly extracted. unless he chooses to hire somebody to sacrifice one.
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The remark may have been made in fun, but as the woman was Miss Newman, and she elected to make her home in the vicinity, the story got abroad that she was man hater, and even to-day she Is called so by the people of Lake Placid and North Elba. who seem to find an excuse for this in the theory that at some time she suffered dis appointment in love.
 Miss Newman has always been indepen- dent in action. Old Mountain Phelps the fa- nous guide of the Keene Valley and Mount Marcy country, who was one of the first to welcome her to the Adirondacks. had some interesting experiences as chief guide of her party on q trip over Mount Marcy and some nelghborlng peaks.
 .n those days Mount Marcy was regarded as a diftlcult task for a man of considerable physical endurance, and Mountain Phelps was inclined 10 question whether these difficult place Phelps was at the side of Miss Newman 10 assist her, but she said that If she couldn't climb that mountain alone she wouldn't go.
 Phelps wns angered and tramped up the mountain trail for several hours without etvlng further attention to the women until finally he heard squeal behind him ano turned to see Mss Newman sitting in a pool of mud and water, where she had fallen.
 Without waiting to ask her if he might be permitted he grssped her by the shoulders and lifted her to a better footing on the trail She didn't object.
 Miss Newman says that she entered the Adirondack Mountains with the object of making sketches little more than twenty six years ago. After extended travel she de- cided upon the location of her farm. It is on A plateau. surrounded by the highest peaks
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mountains and has found. much to her s0rs row. that some of the yot.lg men who have been students In her Sunday school feli into pad ways at club house in Lake Placid.
 Miss Newman said that she had received offers of money If she would write some waltzes, as she did when she was less deeply engrossed with the affairs of her farm.
 am too busy to do it. she said.
 when 1t was suggested that some one mFIht ind pleasure and entertainment In It, she replied:-
 T am opposed to dancing not as they dance in the city, but as they dance here. used to write music and play at parties at home, but since came here my ideas have changed. These dances lead to everything that is bad"
 For some time she had as a companion a minister's daughter, and at nearly all times she has servant in the house in the person of some member of her Sunday school.
 She Is hospitabe ana charitable In her manner toward strangers if they approach her in a respectful manner. She has many friends among the summer visitors at Lake Placid. who ride over to visit her. The peo- pie of the surrounding country have chosen that remarkable plot of ground where she has raised the wheat for the scene of their basket picnics. She welcomes them and makes them as happy as she can, and they enjoy their outings greatly up there on grassy hillside which commands surpass- ing view of the glorious mountains of the Adlrondacks.
 Miss Newman's features were once beau tiful, but they, with her hands, show the Impress of years of toll and of rough con tact with laborious tasks.
 Miss Newman is q student Her house contains many books and magazines. Her friends send her special publications upon the important topics of the day. For some time she has been devoting her attention at spare moments 10 the study of liquid air and wireless teiegraphy.
 She is familiar with the geology of the region and has climbed the highest peaks of the Adirondacks and penetrated to the depths of the canyons. The only rocks in the Adlrondacks bearing traces of volcanic origin she located in the vicinity of Keene.
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pense of the spine, causing an unnecessary and sometimes dangerous amount of friction there and inducing the sway back car riage, which Is as bad for the back as the stopped forward position Is for the chest.
 Another mistake that Is made like this. sometimes even in gymnasiums, is that of calling too much attention to the feet. To think just how each step should be taken, where and how the foot should be put each time 1t comes down, makes one altogether too conscious of the feet; they become lead CTS instead of servants, carriers of the body as they should be.
 Just three things are necessary to remem Der in any attempt to improve ones walk
 First-Hold the crown of the head well up.
 Second-Carry the chest forward.
 Thir.l-Iet the weight fall on the balls of the feet.
 Happily, what looks good from natures
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of the mountains. On the northeast is Scott's Cobble on the east Pitchoff and Cascade while on the southeast, south and southwest are the ranges comprising Big Slide, the Gothics, Haystack, Marcy, Mount Golden and Mount Mcintyre. Immediately south or the farm Is Mount Jo,. while Just back of 1t is Mount Nye. The meadows have an eleva- ton of about seventeen hundred feet above sea level, while one of the foothills of Mount Eye. where Miss Newman has grown wheat and hard corn. has an elevation or more than twenty-one hundred feet above sea level. q prominence which would be called mountain were 1t not in the midst of peaks like Marcy and Mcintyre, which have elevations of b.344 and 5.112 feet. respec- lively.
 Miss Newman owns 1000 acres there in the basin of the mountains valued at about S15,- 000 When she came Into possession stumps approached to the sides of the roadway but
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Tn some respects a woman should walk Just as a man does, with the same steadiness of motion. freedom and certainty of step but at the same time, by lightness of move ment suggesting her more delicate organ'za- ton of living.
 With all the increase of athletic sports among them. fewer women than men ap- proach toward the deal of a perfect walk. Occasionally we see q woman who has gained such walk unconsciousy by long practice out of doors. by dancing and such exercise Occasionally we may see one who has it, Ike rare beauty. as gift.
 Look at that girl said gentleman pass ing with a friend through a street where many children played. Did you ever see such natural grace before? I have noticed her often as l come this way and It IS pleasure to me to watch her.
 The girl passed by, walking smoothly, ouietiv. She was perhaps fifteen years of age. To her face you would not give second glanee her hair was short and not beautiful. but in her wide, low heeled shoes she skinned over the stones of the side walk as a sea gull. tops the sea.
 The girl was beautiful, though her face was plain: every line of her was natural, un- conscious grace It was the perfect har- mony, the whole body expressed in that rare walk that made people in the street turn to look at her carriage and a walk like that may sometimes be gifts of nature, but they are likewise to be acquired by cultivation.
 Several mistakes are frequently made by peop.e who attempt to teach others just these things The first is the oft-repeated direction. Throw your shoulders back. Now merely throwing the shoulders back ac- cemplishes nothing except as it may give the chest little more freedom at the ex-
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strength as the affairs of n little white church near a cross road in the outskirts of the town.
 They laugh over the naughty manner In which Miss Newman declined their courte- sies,
 She was a passenger upon the stage which arrived in North Eba from Eiizabethtown one afternoon. Several tourists were seated on the yeranda of the quaint Inn, which stands there even now, lonely reminder of the days of travel and recreation in the hotels. sprang into prominence. mountains before Lake Placid with its great
 When the six horses came to a stop and woman shook the folds from her skirts preparatory to alighting, n stage driver, young and gallant, arose from his seat upon the veranda and went to her assistance.
 GO away" she is reported to have said "I'il accept nothing from the hands of a man"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-03
May Day Guests LabOred

Being of practical turn of mind, young matron who had to move on May made her hospitality bear fruit along the lines of uti- ity. Her entertainments frequently were of an unusual character. so there was no surprise among her friends when they re- ceiyed invitations to May party at her own address
 The hour for the affair was noted as some what unusual-"from five P. NJ. until you can't stand any more"-but this only whet- ted curiosity The request In the corner that the guests should wear their oldest clothes and bring, in one case. sandwiches: in an other, olives, and in still another, cheese, re- vived memories of surprise parties of chll- hood days and strengthened The desire to at tend
 Upon arriving at the new residence the guests were somewhat disconcerted to dis cover everything in chaotic condition. The hostess. however, beamed upon them from the motey array of chairs, pictures and draperies with such charming smile that they realized that, despite appearances, they were expected.
 1T any had few lingering doubts on this subject they were d!spei.ed when, after re- moving their hats and wraps, they were given slip on which were instructions us to the part they were to take In the picnic. To the girls were given the lighter tasks of arranging books, china aud bureau fittings. The men put down rugs hung pictures and put up beds. Hired helpers did the unpack- ing and carrying away of crates and excel sior, Though she declares herself to be no matchmaker, she takes credit to herself for tue two engagements that were the outcome of this domestic association. No one com plained of fatigue, but the hostess called a hat at nine.