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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

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t5s above occasion taa following re- III
rates ana afraHgemeota aae 49,
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.a95ent sHea en- application 10 IN
5lIce.
Toms. NE a81 setura. &r.Gi
sate1 Of sale Oe,o6er TO 8. =inctu
i've; limit for return Octobel l.,
Specia4 'egzursioa to Hot Springs
md Rat5ai.. Sepfemt,er 5.-rhe Iron
Mountain Railroad " sell tickets %
Hot Springs and ree,- at one rat
Of 500 Tickets on sale September
Sth. gool returning until September .
Good gnns on sp cal train only return
N any resuar train Grand military
,lcan pnent and nara4 on Monday.
September :.
Summer Rates to Mt. Neho, Ark,
md Return-The Iron Mountain Route
viii sell round tri, tickets to Mt.
Nebo, Ark, a re- IN; rate SI.oo
tickets on sale daily good returning
Until October 81.
II. N. ATWOOD. Agt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

tober to S, inclusive Return limit
october ~ 1903, for leaving last
stop-ovcr point Stop-oycrs wiz be-
allowed a pressure wlthin final ffmt
after oenins first Colorado common
aolnf en route GTriuda,i. Pueb.o. Ce.
zf&'t7 Springs. DGuger5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

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30 visitors Excursion. s. LoDis.
Nv ,rg9st 2l-Ihc sale ol round i19
o ~. Visitors excursion tickets +
i'o 'aasy authorized to territory sseei-
asi'SI ~ Serein. at TIE lollowus aares aa5
nsu rsn5sIts. Telrieor4--gs5 al
'lr ,a4s in Estate Of Indtai-a Ea a5H
.oinfe 3o !, oIio On and = ~
'~agiaaIz ' lIae drst@o tafeash
l- 1,s5v Columbus. Washington
wilmington =aaa= =eiaeiana5.l ..l5a -
aoisviI.a. Ky. Rate. .eEaa. ra=s
.n5 @ oas s..I..=iares taf lie faaaaz5..s
n,tqs Of sale septemaes#
sr5 oef65e..6. f9oa. L
.%frtr lsaoa4s from =da4z=. =.5#zss
ssyigg ae.0laagion an taa esz..#a ~
massage IN both directions.
va+ieas4 Ifi4atfan Congress- l25=ee
above occasion tic fol.44-as ea.aa
irp rate ana afrangea1ea afe=aas#=
e~ize5 t9= ogden and SAL aase
Utah one fare=fof= tie 80 aaa
Dates Of sale septamue. =. - aa9
A. Rearsa Iaait-fi .lssz a
good fer ret0rn IeaNi4@ 7zde1 -
Salt Lake GHy any ,az ta aaa. 81
ending October Is. SOB 'qH-evors-
Tickets will bear ooaan = passage
Tmi aelI going azd raaslz3a& east
Of Colo aao COMMON POI 544i8llad5
Paebl9. lz.oraao Springs #ae9cr1
but stoo-o9ers will be i.e,la.s#z0: Al aa5
west Of these points en- soles 1H5p
and including septemaes .. and ca
return within aral limie & October 4.
1909. In casea where seop-aseHs ase
gsante0 an RETURN tsip. 4 eastss e.
tending re::s s...a transit 5fsa].5 viii pc
attached to contract a .ast toa-o4er
point
East Texas Industrial Carnival and
lruit Show, Palestine, Texas Sept.
l. to IS, 1903. Cottoa Eel. viii sell
tickets al one fare plla s. round
trip Tickets on sale september 13,
IA and Is. 1903. Return limit. > days
from date of sale.
Rayenden Springs and return. far
s7.75 tickets on sale June l to Sep
tember 80: limit for return Octobe
j..
Annual Meeting Sovereign Lodge,
No. 2491 Baltimore, Nd, September
21.26, 1903. For the above occasion
the following round trip rates and ar
rangements are authorized to Baltl'
fof the round trip Dates of sale, Sep
tembe- l. Is and 10. Deposit of tick
ets--Retvl portion Of tickets must
be deposited with the joint agent at
Baltimore Immediately upon arrival
and fee OF twenty-five cents paid at
such time Return lilnit-Septembe
2S, 1903, for leaving Baltimore.-Ex-
tension of limit-Arrangements have
been .4ade whereby original purchase:
eli tickets can secure y -tc..sicn fos
leaving Ba.ti-.ore to & Gste act later
thai ,Jctobc: 8, 1908, by allowing
tickets to -elnain on deposit with the
!.o-.t gent. An addition charge OF
N.O0 will be made for this extension.
n. =. MIZELL, Agent.
Hot Springs, Ark, Sept, 7,13-For
the above occasion the following round
TRIP rates and arrangements are au-
thorized 10 Hot Springs. ARK: Rate,
series i, cne fare for the round trip.
Dates q sale, September 8, 70 and Y,
Series 2. open rate Of ole and one
tnnd fare for the round tHi.1. Dates
OF sale, September Z, 8. L aHI t3, Re-
turn linit-All tickets will bear return
unit of September a.
ST. Louis. Mo, October 5-10-For the
above occasion the following round Trip
rates aud arrangements are authorized
10 st. Louis: Rate. one fare for the
round trip. Dates OF sale, October
10 y jnriuciVn Pot11rr limit OcTO-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

Denver, Col, October 7-11-For the
ABOVE occasion the following round trip
rates and arrangements are author
ized to Pueblo, Colsado Springs and
benyer Colo.-One fare Plus so cents
ioI the round trip Dates Of sale, DC
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

San Francisco. Cal. October 70.
lSo3-For the above occasion the fol
lowing round trip rates and arrange
menfs will apply in the sale OF TICK
els to San Francisco and Los Angeles
Cal. Rate, one regular filstclass lin
l'ed fare for the round trip. Dates or
sale, October 8, II, inclusive. Return
limit, November 80, 1908.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

kissed her ast nisi.g rs | hurried away
pleasant WiadEp tof an evening. | say.
IF | htd missed isef
| should 1aFe kissed her
I.ldeslA sister
! kiss ! her last night | hurried away.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

II streaa arms tfsht pressed me-
His ffaus ~ . eaHfesseG me.
GaH #9maH - 5laseed BE-
He I#sea #last night ere he went on
his Wy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-07

St. Ions. Ne aH9 set)ra. $ta.GH
4ates Of sale Oelober 4 TO 8. 1ncfu
i've; limit for return Octobcl II.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

Missouri Valley News: The News
would scarcely be doing it's duty If
1t failed to point moral to the young
men of this community by referring to
the successful career of Hon. B. /.
Salinger, the speaker of the X. of p.
banquet Monday evening. We knew
him as waif over in northern Iowa,
when ambitious fire first began to
warm his youthful dreams of future
conquest. 1t was his early ambition
to be lawyer and an orator. With
out friends, or even friendly aid, with
apparently few gifts or graces to sus-
tain him, he forged along the lines
marked out for himself by himself,
and to the surprise of his warmest
friends soon found the opportunity
and became famous as lawyer, ora
tor and statesman. What Ben Sailing
er has done any other American boy
can do if gifted with the same genius
for hard work, self denial and unend-
ing perseverance. .
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

conceded that the mileage of electric
lines will multiply rapidly during the
next five years, hence in few years
they will become important factors in
the rapid and satisfactory carrying OF
the mails. In Ohio SAT miles of elec-
trio railways are reported, some of
them with a forty-mile limit, making
as good time as the steam cars, and as
they run mainly along the common
highways, they get nearer the people
and are the more popular common car
riers of the two. The revenue of the
Ohio lines from this source is $780,
252.42, eight times the Iowa receipts.
But the day of small beginnings is not
to be despised.
There are twice the number of posi-
offices in the United States that there
were in 1878, the present number foot
ing up 1924. The ratio of postal
clerks at the periods named is four to
one in favor of the present, the num-
ber being 9,4S5. The total number of
mail routes of all descriptions is 34,-
Ill, and the length of these routes is
over half million miles, twenty times
the circumference of the earth. And
the magnitude of the mail service may
be the better appreciated If it is in
evidence that these routes are all traY-
ersed every LAY and some of them
80 times a day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
lowALEAps All.

Iowa not only leads the nation and
the world as corn raising state, but
is now in the front rank as the great
est live stock state in the country. Ac-
cording to the statistician of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
the principal farm animals of Iowa are
worth $277 ,410 ,4S4, or $65, 100000 more
than those of any other state, New
York ranking second.
In the number of its horses Iowa
leads in value and is second to Texas
in numbers. Iowa has 1,0f4,570
horses, valued at 500 each, or worth a
total of 79,760,Ool. Texas has 1,291,-
45S horses, but these are worth only
$3S, ,901, ,293, or less than half the value
of Iowa horses. Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, featured in song and prose for
years as the great horse states of the
nation, are way GOWN in the column
both in number and value of horses
and in individual values, the horses OF
Iowa leading all other states in aver
age valuations.
In dairying Iowa now stands second
only to New York The state has l.
390,912 milch COWS, worth an average
each of $30.03, or total of SAL ,769, ,0S7.
New York's milch COWS number 1876
503 and are valued at $55, $4,000.
OF cattle other than milch COWS
Texas has the most, the total being
S,007,910, valued at $13.70 each and
worth total of s1O9, 9,69S,754. But in
the value of other cattle Iowa leads.
There are 3,574,O12 cattle other than
milch COWS in the state, worth an av-
erage of $23.1O, or a total of $82,544,.
655.
In the combined value of all classes
of cattle Iowa le1ds all other states.
AS a mule producer the state does
not stand high. 1t is seventeenth
with but 1914 mules, worth $3,4OO,-
365.
Sheep growing is also a compare
lively small industry. The state has
only S9S,O4O sheep, valued at $3.58
each, total of s3,211,571. Montana
leads in the number and value OF
sheep.
But in the production of hogs the
state is far and away to the front.
Iowa has 7,43S,655 hogs of an average
value of $8.97 and total value Of $685..
724,735, while Illinois is second with
only 3,747,000, valued at only s35,
S7S. Iowa has twice as many hogs, as
any other state in the union and their
value is proportionately large.
The total given for the value OF
farm animals does not include poultry
or animals other than those desig
mated.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
QUICK ACTION,

Washington Post: Representative
Lacey, of Iowa, has had a remarkable
experience with a book agent, and
thereby learned thing or two.
''The other day received a circular
letter from New York firm" said he,
calling my attention to certain pub
lication, in which happened to be in
terested, and offering to send me a
prospectus. l answered one afternoon
that l should like to see the prospec-
tus.
"The next morning, before / had
risen, a book agent was pounding on
my door and had the time of my life
with him. 1t was the livliest prospec-
tus ever received, and about as quick
work in getting busy as l ever ex-
perienced."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

-Presi, ont Roosevelt was telling a
friend about his mail, which averages
500 or 600 letters day. zone of the
most remarkable letters l ever receiv-
ed" he said, arrived on the morning
the first full accounts of the Mar
Unique disaster were printed in the
newspapers. The writer said he saw
that the American consul at Mar
Unique had been burned to death. He
applied for the place and wound up
with this sentence: 4 make this early
application so as to get in ahead Of
those loathsome creatures, the office
seekers"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
HANDLING MAIL IN IOWA.

Iowa figures extensively in the pos
tai business, and includes railway
routes numbering from 143,001 up to
143,116, lis in all. These include a
mileage of S,5S3.23, and the amount re-
ceiyed for mail service on all these
routes is 81, ,3O5, ,103.7S, just about fair
production of the total sum paid
throughout the country, taking every
thing into account. The most FORUM
ate beneficiary is the G. B. &c @. rail
way, which receives lump sum OF
1924, ,2Sf.95 for carrying the mails from
Burlington to the U. p. transfer at
Council Bluffs, making thirty-two de-
liveries per week. This is regarded
as the "big contract" for which the
Chicago & Northwestern has been
making an earnest struggle. Its real
financial meaning is $1,000 per day,
nearly, and Jones pays the freight
and hires the hands" The Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway pulls in
S65 ,217.31 on the haul from Savanna to
Union Pacific transfer; $45, ,268.13 from
North McGregor to Canton, South Da-
kota, and $45, 1910 from Marion to
Kansas City, Mo- The Rock Islanu
captures $66,1O7.19 on mail carriage
from Davenport to Union Pacific trans
fer, and $5S, ,270.92 from Davenport to
Kansas City, Mo. The Illinois Central
gets S54,843.90 for service between Du-
buque and Sioux City. All of these
lines have branches which the govern
ment uses and pays good stiff rates for
the same. The least amount is paid
to a new road operating between
Oneida and Manchester, eight miles
long, six times a week, $349.26. The
most frequent delivery is between
East Dubuque, H., and Dubuque, 3S
times per week. The mileage in Mis-
souri, is more than 1000 miles less
than in Iowa, and yet the allowance
for mail carriage is $4,000 the larger
in Missouri. In Illinois the mileage
exceeds that of Iowa, 1000 miles, anc
the mail carrying allowance is more
than a million dollars in excess OF
what Iowa receives.
There are five electric mail carrying
roads in Iowa, with a total length OF
go miles, and the government pays $S,'
800 per annum for mail service on
these lines. The largest amount is
paid to the Des Moines City Railway
Co, 27 miles long. s1,6S8.47. 1t is
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
The ROCK ISLAND BOLTS.

The Rock Island road, which recent
ly occasioned CONSERVATION by an
nouncing its withdrawal from the i'm
migrant pool, and it's intention to go
it alone to secure its share of the emf
grant business to the Pacific coast, has
SHE'D another one at the freight and
passenger associations. 1t has given
notice that it will not longer comply
with section of the railroad pass
agreement. This action prohibits the
giving of passes to shippers for the
purpose of influencing traffic.
The railroads in the agreement have
tried to prevent this course by the
Rock Island, insisting that its action
will precipitate system of pass. CIV
ing, rebating, etc, that will be disas-
trous to the railroad interests. The
Rock Islands answer has been that it
has undisputed proof that the railroads
making the protest have been guilty
of doing what they object to its doing,
and have in this way taken business
from it. The Rock Island officials
were told that EIkins anti-rebate bill.
recently passed, prohibits the giving
of rebates to patrons, and claims that
it is so worded as to cover the giving
of free transportation to shippers. The
reply of the Rock Island to this is
that the interstate commerce law now
covers this feature of the railroad busi-
ness, and that it is not lived up to by
the railroads, and consequently it can
not be expected they will obey the
new law. The Rock Island announces
that it intends to do openly and above
board what other roads have been do
ing under cover, and that it has been
forced to do this to protect its inter-
ests.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
ALL HAVE TROUBLES.

If Dame Fortune treats you badly as
you travel on the way,
Do not let that fact disturb you, but
be cheerful all the day,
Never lose your pluck and courage
and whenever she may frown,
Just go on about your business and
she cannot put you down,
Yes refuse to treat with troubles in a
world so bright and fair
You will find there is no reason to be
loaded down with care.
You should tackle your misfortune and
should fight it out alone
Please remember all your comrades
have some troubles of their own.
Just go out and view the landscape
when you're feeling rather sad
For a little of Gods sunshine will be
sure to make you glad.
You can call awhile on nature-ram-
BILE through wonderland
That will charm you with it's beauties,
though you do not understand,
Then your troubles will not linger anu
in fact, you will not know
How and when your troubles left you,
how you lost your weight of woe,
Yet if you are prone to nurse them
and to roam about and moan
Please remember there are others who
have troubles of their own.
If you fight all care with laughter,
then it cannot cloud your sky,
And will quickly vanish elsewhere
will be sure to pass you by.
Go and study souls with trouble
those who have it night and day;
Is it not because they hunt it? That
is why it comes their way.
That each soul must have trouble is
a truth that's oft confessed.
But we need not nurse it always-joy
may often be our guest.
And we do not need to sing it, or go
shutting round and groan.
For our friends and other people have
some troubles of their own.
st. Joseph Gazette.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

washington correspondence. The
Major by reason of his long service is
thoroughly informed upon parliament
ary rulings and is well equipped to
take care of any proposition that may
unexpectedly arise. Mr. Lacey is an
artist when it comes to dealing with
pension legislation. After the COM
mittee on invalid pensions has thresh-
ed out the numerous cases and re-
ported favorably upon a bill, especially
il the report is unanimous, there is
practically nothing left but to go
through the required forms in laying
aside" reading" and passing" the
bill. However, when hundreds of bills
are to be passed, even when the ma
chinery has been creased and the ne
cessary formula of words reduced to
the smallest possible number, much
time is required to get through big
bunch of bills. 1t is very largely
question OF quickness of speech, of
.fieetness Of tongue. Such a man as
Burton, of Ohio, who talks in delib-
crate manner, would not get through
more than hundred bills in sitting
whereas the last pension day Major
Lacey cleaned up the calendar and
passed nearly $50 bills, an average OF
more than three bills a minute: When
you come to consider that the bill must
be read, that is lts title, name of bene-
ficiary and amount; must be put to the
house, read again and put on its pass
~ hot h4 fxxrfrn
each bill, it can be assumed that the
speaker is doing some lightning talk
ing. Major Lacey was in fine fettle
the last pension day and the process
of passing the bills was very much
like the murmuring of a brook. In
order that he should be able to hold
out for an hour and half it was ne
cessary that Major Lacey should pitch
his voice low and speak in tones but
little above a whisper. In time the
stereotyped lingo became so impress
ed upon the brain that no thought was
required and it was a steady sing-song,
like the droning of professional auc-
tioneer selling Jewelry. There was
no pausing to call for the ayes and
nays. 1t was taken for granted that
everybody was voting aye, although in
fact nobody was voting at all, except
possibly the chairman or the congress
man who happened to be interested in
that particular bill. Nays were never
heard. i
To the spectator in the gallery the
process of passing pension bills must
be mystifying in the extreme. The
speaker stands in his place and rattles
off in low tone of voice, interrupted
every twenty seconds by the reading
clerk, who in the same tone and
numbling the words, a lingo, without
change of infection Probably third
Of the membership of the house may
be seen in the chamber, and they sit
there with their eyes fastened upon a
house calendar or newspaper. The
chamber is very quiet; nobody is say
ing a word and if the visitor should de-
part from Washington without again
visiting the house he'would gather the
Impression that the house of represen-
tatives is a sort of Quaker service.
After an hour and a half of this col
orless proceeding, the end of the cal
endar is reached; the floor leader
moves the house adjourn and there is
a rush for the cloak rooms. Three
hundred and fifty odd veterans have
been made happy.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

Knoxville Journal: Oskaloosa is
likely to build an electric road to Bux-
ton and White City. If Knoxville
don't watch out she will find an inter-
loper in the eastern section of this
county taking away the trade from the
coal fields that properly belongs to
her. Now is a good time to wake up
and realize the opportunity that we
have in this matter of the develop
ment of Marion county coal fields.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26

Two years ago a German boy
bought eighty acres of land near Lew
is in this state for $1,000. Last year
he sold $1,700 worth of corn off of the
ground, and then sold it at an advance
of $1,000 to two other boys. They
raised a corn crop valued at $1,000
this year and last week sold the place
at an advance of $1,O4O. The land
has no improvements except a fence
around it and the price per acre at
the last sale was $5S.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
The Marshalltown Times.Republ

The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can calls on the Iowa Association of
Travelling Men to give it's attention at
once to the enforcement of the present
law and the enactment of another
more stringent in its provisions, for
the protection against fire in hotels.
"There should be means of escape
from every window of a hotel building.
To pass corridors full of smoke and
flame to a ladder perhaps 100 feet dis
tant is a manifest impossibility. Let
the travelling men who are most inter
ested in their betterment take vigor-
Gus action along this line"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-02-26
Strong ground in favor of the

Strong ground in favor of the use
of the Bible in the public schools was
taken by Rabbi S. H. Sonneschein in
an eloquent address at the close Of
the regular services of Bnai Yeshurun
congregation in the temple at Des
Moines the other evening. He urged
the adyisability of the preparation Of
a non-sectarian commission of Bible
readers suited to the different grades,
leaving out those parts of the scrip
lures bordering on the miraculous, the