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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23


FOR Little Rock Democrat,
ACTION printed on another page
of this issue of the
Graphic. the announcement is made
that tie Iron Mountain railroad Off
Gals, in response 10 q request on the
part Of the Little Rock Board OF Trade
and citizens of southeast Arkansas for
better train sesvice. are giving the
matter serious consideration, and it
Is stated that It is very probable that
some service will soon be inaugurated
when will greatly facilitate travel be.
tween Little Rock and Warren and in
termediate points The Democrat
says G1nefal Superintendent W T. y
Ter has two propositions which he
will submit to the Board Of Trade.
orr is TOR a through train between L.
tie Rock and Warren. which will leaFe
the latter place at a m. and arrive
at Little Rock at 12.lo ,. m.=Return-
ing il will leave Little Rock at go
p. m and arrive at Va ren at 8: 10 p.
N. The other plan is to put another
train on the Warren branch. which
will leave Warren in time to make
connection with the Night train at
Dermott Under this plan the tram
would leave Warren at 80 p. m,
make connection a. Dermott With the
VALLEY train, which arrives in Little
Rock al $50 a m Returning this
train leaves Little Rock at $50 p.
n and connects with the Warren
branch train arriving at Warren at
go a. N. Unde. the frstpan pas
sengers from Warren would lose buf
one day Dy the trip, bat would be able
to stay in Little Rock only about three
hours while under the second plan
the entire day could be spent in Lit.
tie Rock, but a part . two night
would be l5st IN making The tr.p.
With ne desire 70 appear imperts-
nent. the Graphic .ises to ask: What
has the Pine Bluff Commercial League
done and what is it now doing to Sc.
cure the Little Rock Pine Bluff Warren
train
1t is tine for aetion II The Com
meretal League mas not made an earn
est. concerted move 70 secure the
train referred to. It is time to make
such move. II the tsafn is secured
Pine Bluff gain by it Will De ten-fold
that Of Ljtrle ROCKS, hence this city
shoulI feel greater concern in the
matter thaa Little Rock and should
not leave the matter Of securing the
train wholly . me people Of Little
Rock and Warren.
As may be seen b. reading the
article from the Democrat persons GO
ing FROM Warren and other points 10
Little Rock b. the proposed train viii
haze only three hours in Little Rock
bat those al Warren and between that
city and Pine Blum may stop off at
Pine Buff and have seven or eight
hours here, practically whole day
TO transact business. and there can
be no doubt but that nearly all OF
them will stop at Pine Bluff instead OF
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23
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a puzzIe for TIE Cnief Justice.

- S@@i~ - .4t@ OtttS! SIoIi~S.
Cliet Justice Melville ". Fuller has
always shown a marked tenderness for
children. and when he visits city is
usually the guest OF some institution
devoted to their interests \ clergy
maa Of the Presbyterian faith was
once showing the justice and his party
2bsut az orphan asylum when the
children assembled and gave an en-
cescainmenr for them.
The Justice responded in speech
which was marked by applause. \
politician who accompanied htm
SPOKE IN laudacory terms Of the adj
dcess but added:
Say Judge was muea pssasAa
with what you said. and know yoa
DO c.enl good. 5g- I'm darned puzzled
abz.=o.5a thing and the more | come
10 his place the more puzzled I an
Ten years ago when first came here
then little fellows was just the height
they are now. Why. in heavens name
dcr't they grow :"
The Justices repl! is not recorded.
New Yosk Times
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23
The Only Thing Lacking.

Failure 10 secure the prisoners was
al that prevented Judge Lynch ana
his juries from doing business in
both New York and New jersey
Washington Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23

going on to Little Rock. because Of
ne longer time they may have il
P.n- Buff # the second schedule sug-
z-s5=d should be adopted IN tine E@e-
=<za=s to MAKE rhe trip w51E DE- %
--a Ia : no likely - - alae5-
P.a- B.4 4as ~ A. = za.a ~ n
~ aa.en II 10 P.ae B.ltt z-.-s.a a.az
ain t. Warr-n ana no sraaa. saog.4
.asr au-se1s.e ra#seear= II. Les not
.4ave a mater Of 5ach great =a.a for
~ -=el.4 almost wholly 70 the #peop.e
= other a.rl@s 70 secure for u. I-@5
Ne business men get a. moe Or item
ssfzs IN the direction 51d.carza i
hey have not atreaty 5egan . move
.etiTeIg in that va.
NEGRO ON Caes V Keats
RACE one Of the negro Iead-
PROBLEM ers=of this state, VINO
was recently elected
lartonal grand master Of the Mosaic
7empIers Of America concludes his
annual address with the following
very sensible talk on the race prob
lem, and which if needed by the ne
groes will very rapidly solve the prob
em:
1t is the class Of lazy, worthless.
grant men and women Who bring
snominy upon our rae and cause
sssh laws to be made AMI pa ed up
Il the records It is from such as
hese that the worst Influences 60
:, and criminals are made 50 far
:, | can s=e. the race problem is up to
l4e eoio.ed man himself fCr solution
tad to solve It he must work. make
money, buy land and be se.f-sustaln-
.ng. at the same time becoming an
eenorabIe, upright an1 worthy eit.-
.en. Advice and outside help an oniy
clay results and more entangle the
ueatlon. With time an dil:gen
.ersistent efforts, the race viii ri-e
. the plane Of proper appreeia on
Tne south and all America is tie
shite mans county, and If is with the
southern white man ne makes his best
terms; il is there ne makes his money
without hindrance buys his home,
owns his farms and is making himself
5elt as a potent factor IN the CONNER
eial and industrial fed. its Is aim
+ this organization to foster aad euI-
.iEate these thoughts
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23

There's going to be some fun at
AXE Village on July % on that day
10Y Davis and Attorney General MIr-
phy speak from the same platform
at that place
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23

The prodigal son Of the meek anG
fowly hen is a bad egg
Anger Is the thunder lat sours the
milk of humand kindness.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-23
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Orice: corner 7raraque and Chest
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
END OF THE YACHT RACE.

There is one good thing in connection
with the international yacht race and
that it that it is over. Since the first
race it has been evident to every one
that the Shamrock was outclassed and
had no more chance in a race with the
Reliance than a Clydesdale horse would
have with a Thoroughbred
Sir Thomas Upton is a most agreeable
gentlemen and it is said sells a very
good quality of tea but with all his
amiability he must feel that even if he
gets all his money back he has spent on
his yachts, by an increased demand for
his tea in America, that he has made a
very poor out a trying to build yacht
that would compete for the cup that
has been on this side of the ocean for
more than so years.
Sir Thomas says that he is through
and viii make no further attempt to
lift the cup but he probably mistakes
his own mind and the chances are that
he will hes back in America in a few
years with another yacht. But before
he brings over another boat let him
make tests which will determine
whether it is an improvement on Sham
rock III. America has had enough of
these runaway races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
sL1PsHop LEGISLATION.

There is in the statute book of the
state of Kansas this provision:
THE city attorney shall attend all
cases wherein the city is a party in all
courts; he shall draft all ordinances,
contracts. agreements, etc"
If the councilmen of the city of To-
peka we're more careful to comply with
the above requirement concerning the
drafting of ordinances, there would be
less slipshod legislation, and it would be
easy to place the responsibility for such
legal monstrosities as the so-called
Billiard hall ordinance which was
enacted into law recently
Whether or not the responsibility for
the passage of the billiard hall ordi-
nance in the absurd form of its nubli-
cation is due to error of the city at
torney or of the councilman from the
Third ward there may be some dispute.
Each is trying to throw the blame on
the other. But this ordinance, reeking
with radicalism and supported on a fun
damentally erroneous legal construction,
was passed by the council, published,
and it's fallacy only discovered when
certain billiard hall men proposed to
test its provisions in the courts. Law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
ATHLETICS AT WAsHBURN.

With the collegiate term at Washburn
college about to open comes the an
nouncement of the schools hopes and
plans for athletics during the three
months of the football season. 1t will be
several weeks yet before Topeka will
have any football games, but in the
meantime, the football athletes are
working hard preparing themselves to
play the game as it should be played.
When the proper moment comes Topeka
should be ready to show. by a liberal
patronage of the games, that she is
friendly to the school.
Washburn college never opened a
school year under more suspicious cir
cumstances than those surrounding now
Her quick growth upon which so much
remark has been passed during the past
year, is merely transition to meet new
demands and is something for which
years of conservative guidance has pre-
pared the institution. Along with her
general improvement in educational ia
cilities will doubtless be observed an ele-
waited standard of athletics. The stud
ents of the school have tried earnestly
year after year to improve their school
athletics. At times great encoura cement
has been found while again the effort to
support good football and baseball
teams has been uphill business. Topeka
has not, in the past. supported any ath-
letics in the way clean college athletics
should be supported, but perhaps there
has been little clean college athletics.
Football is not the deadly occupation
it has gained the reputation for being
and it is not the dangerous amusement
it once was. Public sentiment against
brutal amusements has eliminated the
objectionable features of the game. as it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
JAYHAwKER Jors.

Fredonia has brought in two new gas
White hosiery has been ,blackballed by
the EsboR maids.
A half score of "skule MANS are
wanted in Jewell county at once.
Weeds on the Seneca townsite hide the
view from the SECOND story windows.
A CRATER at Wichita easily escaped
from the sheriff. He was slicker than
the soap he gave away"
Green ponds along the streets of An
thony seem responsible for several
cases of old-fashioned ague.
A Golf milIiner had money to burn. At
least she is under arrest charged with
setting fire to her stock of goods
A Leavenworth old bachelor hints that
while the pen is mightier than the
sword it isn't in it with a pretty type
writer. s
Cherryvale citizens are given cheer
full invitation by the cemetery commit
tee to take a day off and help fill up the
graves.
The Kansas Sunf1ower'' is a thrilling
romance that mods and bends in the
breezes along the kerosene circuit of the
northern tier.
Work on the Orient line in Harper
county is being delayed on account of
too few frogs to do the work They
might ship in a few negroes or Greeks
The best load of hogs ever on the st.
Joseph market was sent the past week
from Nemaha county. The animals
numbered SO and averaged in weight $50
mounds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04

mercial lines. not properly embraced by
the two principal classes, there were q
failures for $1S2, 745, while in the CORE
spending month last year there occur
red AZ defaults of this nature, and the
liabilities amounted to $1,973,1S OF
banks and other fiduciary institutions
eight suspended with liabilities of $751;
075, and last year the four similar de-
faults covered 81. Jos. $50. Thus, it APP
pears by this partial analysis, that in
the manufacturing industries alone
were the losses more severe than in
the corresponding month last year.
Moreover, when the examination is car
ried into further detail. the result is
still more encouraging. Practically all
the excess over the losses in August.
1902, was provided by a few large fail
ures in iron and machinery, and in the
other manufacturing branches the
showing was as good if not better than
last year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
Diplomacy.

The plump lady scrambled into the
front seat of a Roland Park car.
The seat facing forward was filled,
containing six women and one man.
So the newcomer had to sit on the
other seat. facing the entire car load
of passengers.
AS the conductors bell rang its start
ing ''ding-ding," and the motorman
turned on the current. the plump wo-
man said severely to the solitary man
occupying a place on the other seat:
Il think you might have been at least
enough of a gentleman to offer to
change places with mer'
Il had carefully considered that mat
ter, madame, before you spoke" re-
Joined the man, earnestly, land had de-
cided that for the good of all, we had
better remain as we are. 1t would be
an insult to the passengers back of US
for me to sit facing them and showing
my homelv features after they had
caught even a glimpse of your pro-
nounced loneliness. They would re-
sent the substitution and possibly do
violence to both of us-do you under
stand .
Perfectly. my dear SIR replied she,
with a smile. land 1 wish to impfore
your pardon for having so moderated
your lantry."-Baltimore American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04

A Hotel Man on the Trail of Two
Suspects.

Atsion. N J.. Sept. 1.-TWO men who
have been putting up in one of the old
empty houses here and picking and
shipping huckleberries during the sum-
mer decamped early on Saturday morn
ing and Landlord william P. Giberson
of the ASTON hotel has discovered that
he was robbed of over 5000 in cash that
he had put in a drawer for safe keep
ing.
Today Mr. Giberson came to Ham
monitor and discovered that the two
men had been here, spending money
freely, and had bought tickets for At
lantic CITY.
Mr. Giberson had often bought ber-
ries of the men. and he thinks they
discovered the hiding place of his cash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04

yers unanimously admit that the, ordi-
nance is legally bad to the core.
The billiard hall ordinance is only one
of a large number of ordinances which
might be cited which show the same
kind of defective construction. A coun-
Gilman has some notion of law which
he desires to have passed He talks to
one or two of his friends about it per-
haps. and then draws up the ordinance,
which is presented to the council, passed
up to a committee. reported back and
adopted. If there is a little streak of
political buncoTnb in the ordinance, it
slides through without single ques-
ton from the majority. perhaps.
Another instance which might be cited
is the dollar gas ordinance. Regard
less of the ultimate decision of the
courts, it was rash thing for the coun-
ell to pass a dollar gas ordinance with
out first investigating the cost of max
ing gas. If it should turn out the ordi-
nance is all right. it will be a streak of
good luck If the ordinance is finally
declared illegal by the courts, 1t will be
a bit of hasty legislation which viii cost
the city a great many hundred dollars
in court costs, expert witnesses, and at
torneys fees.
The passage of an ordinance Is a SER
ious business, and the councilmen
should take more pains in the prepara-
ton of proposed legislation, providing
it is honest legislation. If it is merely
a grand stand play to attract popular
support in politics, there should be
relegate it to the waste basket or pigeon
hole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
THE BLOCK "HOODOOED. i"
Three Colored Neighbors in Hospital
Cots.

Philadelphia, Sept. 4.-Colored resi-
dents of the block on Pine street be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets,
Camden, believe it is "hoodooed." and
that Tuesday is its unlucky day.
Two weeks ago last Tuesday. Samuel
Burk. colored, of No. 773 Pine street.
WIS stricken with appendicitis and was
taken to the Cooper hospital.
On Tuesday of last week, Lyman
johnson. colored. of No. us, was sent
to the hospital with an attack of ty-
phoid pneumonia, and Tuesday James
Oliver. colored. of No. III, fell at the
hcorice works. at the foot of jefferson
avenue, and sustained a compound
fracture of his leg. The three neigh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

lFrom the Atchison Globe.l
In trying economy, do not tackle it too
hard.
An Atchison hed carrier is named for
a famous poet.
No amount of money can save a wo-
man from being pigeon-toed.
Another fool notion is to carry flask
of whisky when travelling.
Give a lot of people liberty and they
soon begin taking it from each other.
There are so many prominent men
here lately that it is hard for the pa
pers to keep track of them.
Men who can't take care of them
selves, are always anxious to take big
jobs, and look after the interests of 9TH
ers.
An Atchison editor once said of citi-
zen noted for giving out misleading in
formation: Always read that man by
copy"
Take your gun" a doctor said to a
patient, land get out into the open air"
What's the matter with hoe instead Of
a gun?
When a married woman who has a
good many children cries at a wedding,
there is always some one around to say:
Poor thing, 1 should think she would
cry"
If a man shows a disposition to pro-
vide for old age, and avoid being a task
to others, for heavens sake let him do
it Don't accuse him of being ''stingy,"
when he is simply exercising ordinary
caution.
This is how much excitement your
death will create: Lately, a popular
writer of this gave one of his neighbors
and friends the first news of it, and the
man said: rs that so? Why, l didn't
know he was sick It's too bad"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
Trees Shaped by the wind.

The influence of the wind on vegeta-
ton is the subject of a report by Prof
J. Fruh to Swiss geographers The eff
feet is powerful on trees; even the pres
ence or absence of forests may be de-
termined by the character of the pre-
vailing wind or the conditions that mod
ify it. The wind acts as a drying agent,
giving a special aspect to many plants
When it is almost always from the same
quarter the plants show greater devel-
opment upon one side. Trees are small
Ter upon the windward edges of forests,
and trunks and branches are bent to
leeward. The determinations are most
marked near the sea or in fiat regions.
The cherry, plum, walnut, black poplar,
ash and certain pines are very sensi-
tive to the wind, but mountain pines and
certain frs offer great powers of resist
ance, and these are recommended for
reforesting wind-swept lands.-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
FRE1GHT RATE PROBLEM.

If the testimony given by the ship
pers concerning comparative rates IN
the cattle rate hearing before the state
board of railroad commissioners is cor
rect Kansas shippers are paying more
than their proportion of the profits
which arc now being made by the rail-
roads. The freight rates in Kansas, II
is alleged by the shippers, are consid-
erably higher than the rates in other
states. This is, of course, disputed by
the railroad companies although the
shippers figures appear correct on their
fac1-
The increase which the roads pro-
posed, while it may not have been very
great in the aggregate, as the railroad
companies alleged, was still an increase,
and coming at time when the cattle
business is demoralized anyway, the
cattlemen felt that they have a just
grievance against the roads.
But the catt1emen are not the only
ones who have grievances against the
railroads. Freight rates of all classes
seem to be higher in Kansas than else
where. And il the state board of rail-
road commissioners actually has power
to bring about an equitable adjust
state will feel a great relief.
The grain producers are really hit
worse than the cattle shippers There
is far less risk in shipping grain than
in shipping cattle-it is dead" freight,
and the cars go loaded in both direc-
tions-yet the railroads charge far more
for hauling n hundred pounds of grain
from many stations in Kansas to Kan
fhaxy do for hauling the
same weight of cattle.
For instance, the freight rate on
wheat from Salina. on the eastern edge
of the wheat belt, to Kansas City is
cents a bushel. The average car of
wheat contains a thousand bushels
That means that the railroads charge
$50 for hauling a single carload of
wheat from Salina to Kansas City, and
the car goes back filed with farm i'm
plements or merchandise, at perhaps
even higher rates.
This grain rate comes directly out of
the farmer who raises the grain, but
he does not feel it as does the cattle
shipper. The grain buyer simply de-
ducts the freight from the Kansas City
price OF grain, takes out his profit, and
that fixes the price of grain for the
farmer. If the freight were less the
farmer would get Just that much more
for his wheat, so he in reality pays the
freight
The average rate on wheat from the
wheat belt to Kansas City is probably
not less than 10 cents a bushel. so that
the farmers of Kansas are paying about
500 a car freight on every car of
wheat that is shipped to Kansas City.
There will probably be not less than
so million bushels shipped, either as
wheat or in the form of -four. SO that
the railroads will receive about six
million dollars for hauling wheat and
flour alone. to say nothing of bringing
their cars back loaded with merchan-
disc. on which they may receive a still
hi-her rate.
Let the people awake to the situation
and demand an equitable adjustment of
freight rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04

but the stenographer lives from mouth
to hand.
No man has any rights that his wife's
relations are bound to respect.
Many mans good reputation is due
to what isn't found out about him.
Comparatively speaking, a miser's soul
is smaller than boarding house gas
burner.
When the world owes a man a living
1t invariab bly, settles the debt on the in
stallment plan.
In trying to figure out the problem of
life some men subtract what they own
from what they owe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

LFrom the New York Press.
When a woman does not believe in
low-neck gowns the reason is always
plain not to see.
A man bc~ins to want to get married
to a woman when she begins to want
him to want to.
Give man nothing and he will be
thankful it was not less; give him some
thing and he will rage because it was
not more
Women would never make good burg
lars because they would waste all their
time looking under all the beds of every
house they broke into from force of
habit.
Generally when you say something to
woman that doesn't mean anything
you can make her believe it was awfuily
wicked if you act as if you were afraid
somebody else might have heard it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04

r. 9. Dun & Co. report 80 CONNER
cial failures in the United States in
August, involving a total indebtedness
OF $10,S77,T 1872. In the correspondins
month last year there were $40 bank
ruptcies, but the liabilities were only
$S,0eS.525. Manufacturing failures were
241 in number and $7.74s. $50 in amount.
against 21s last year for s2,7s2, $50. In
trading there were 544 defaults with ag-
gregate liabilities of $2,946. 1852. compared
with $50 in August, 1902. when the sum
Involved was $3.33s. 15s. In other COM