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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03


NORTHERN the negro doctors,
NEGROES lawyers and preach
ers OF the north who
presume to speak for their race, boih
north and south, rave nothing 70 say
in repreh ension of the murderer May
field and the monster Wilson, but are
loud in their denunciations Of the Dan
vile mob which lynched the one and
sought to kill the other This vas also
the case when negroes were lync1ed
at Belleville. H.. and at New asgle,
Del.
We hear coed dea! of ineeadiary
talk from these educated negroes aboIt
waat they would do and what =othe.
negroes should do One Cnica=o
preacher, it will be. remembered eoun
seled his hearers to sell Their coats
and buy guns. He did not counsel
them, nor do others of his class counsel
them, to avoid the crimes which lead
to lynching There is al apparent, if
not intentional, assumption that the
negro enjoys some sort of prerogative
by which he may commit these crimes
without being answerable for them.
Tie Graphic is quite sure that such
an attitude can only result disastrous
ly, and regards with alarm the dispo-
sition Of what may be called the pro-
fessional negroes TO defend or at east
20 apologize for the brute: Who have
brought reproach upon their race. Il
IS to be noted that the spirit OF rae
hatred is spreading throughout tn
north. and with rapidity tat Is
alarming to contemplate and the ut
most conservatism rather than any
tendency toward irritation is neces
sarv if catastrophe that can not DC
contemplated without horror is to be
averted.
The leaders OF the negroes will be
guilty of a fatal error If they Go not
abandon their present attitude Of de
Tending the criminals Of their race
Destruction, sure, swift and awful,
! awaits the race that pTecipitates cen
fict with a superior race
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03
Jail Fumigated.

The county jail was thoroughly III
migated and renovated sunday. Two
suspicious cases developed Friday
evening in the Jail and, while il was
proven only a scare. the ja;ler, MI
Holland, decided to stay on the safe
.ide by thoroughly fumigating ana dis
injecting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03
Fordyce Frisco Survey.

Mr. F. D. Randall, locating engineer
nf the Rock Island system was in town
Monday and told Robert Holderness
that he was right in behind Terrence.
the preliminary surveyor, and that
they were pushing toward Crossett at
lively rate. In his opinion we will
have the Rock Island road in Fordyce
in less than eighteen months
Chronicle-Enterprise.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03

ttG udl lids l!lc lOl1OW-
FARMHOUsEs ing interesting par
agraph on sub ject
which has not received much attention
from the scientists who make spe-
cialty of such uojects-insanity OF
women who spend their lives on the
farms
Statistics go to show that IS per
cent OF the women sent 20 the insane
asylums come from farmhouses. MANY
are easily frightened. many grow NOR
bid by reason of heir treadmll life
and lack of wholesome recreation and
many lack proper medical attention
when it is necessary and by reason or
ignorance and poverty fail to seek re-
lief until the mind suffers with the
body"
Any observant person will have no
trouble in discovering that what the
Journal says on this subject is too
painfully true. But when one gives but
casual study of the monotonous life
OF the farmers wife. he will not won.
der that the larger per cent. of insane
women come from the farm homes
1t is true that the busy whirl of the
city is very wearing on the physical
being, but it is a kind of panoramic
existence which affords enough va
riety to give relief from the long wears
OF sameness which is the lot of the
woman on the farm. It is said that
there is no more contented indnnend
ent and happy people than tnose On tie
farm, but that assertion is us1e. j1y
found in magazine stories written bv
city resident who knows nothing
OF the farm except as cleaned from
brief vacation from the cares of city
business, and is not sustained by sta
tstics. The man on the farms gets
much more of the real pleasures of
life than the woman. His mind is en-
gagged IN his work and that affords
man the necessary means for keep
ing the mental faculties we'll balanced.
1t is not the man of employment who
suffers mental breakdown as a rule.
Employment in an honorable vocation
IS the great mental catholicon. The
larger per cent. of insane men come
from the idle, the prof1igate. the vi
cious. and those who strive TO earn a
competence by other means than
through one of the legitimate channels
of business.
The woman on the farm has her
household duties to perform the same
as the woman in the city, but the city
women has something new almost ev-
cry day to relieve her mind from the
monotony of her small surroundings
in the he me. No such change is at
forded the woman on the farm. 1t is
the same routine, day after day, week
after week, month after month. year
after year There is no variety She
can not go out of an afternoon to wit
ness ball game or to attend a matt
nee She can not attend the theater or
church sociable on an evening She
has no next-door neighbor with whom
she may spend an occasional hour and
indulge in little gossipy and innocent
conversation to relieve the tedium of
her existence. All the things which
are necessary 10 relieve the mental
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03
IS to enter the bonds OF matrimony'

ties to enter the bonds OF matrlmOny.
"A large proportion of women marry
under twenty-One years OF age, and
there is no good reason why a girl
of that age should not be Thoroughly
trained in everything necessary TO the
proper management OF home.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-03

Henry Williams, vic.ating mc1sAJ!
av. So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
srop PERSONAL ABUSE.

The Horton Headlight makes a plea
for the elimination of personal abuse IN
Kansas politics and criticises Congress-
man Curtis for his assertions concern
ing Governor Bailey. The Headlight
says:
In an interview last week Congress-
man Curtis made the statement that he
would not believe Governor Bailey Oh
oath. This was a bad break on the part
of Mr. Curtis. AS governor of Kansas,
Mr.. Bailey holds position of honor anu
trust and all who know the governor
personally will resent the statement. AS
congressman of this district, MIR. Curtis
should be more careful in expressing
such an opinion of the highest officer
of the state. We believe that Mr.. Cur
it's strongest supporters in this district
will censure him for that expression.
As a citizen of Kansas no one man
stands higher than Governor Bailey an1
the contest for the nomination against
a field of strong men in the convention
at Wichita demonstrated this fact.
Governor Bailey is an honorable man,
and although some of his acts as COVER
nor may have been actuated by policy
which those who have opposed him
deemed wrong, no man has ever perore
questioned his veracity and honesty. It
is a pretty serious thing to attempt to
brand a man as a common liar and
when that man holds the highest office
/ in the state, it not only rejects on him
but on the majority of the voters who
nut him there. The Headlight mas al
ways spoken well of Mr.. Curtis bu; De-
lieves that when he said he would not
believe Governor Bailey on oath that he
made a great mistake.
/ In the heat of political contes. men
/ frequently say things that they do NOT
really mean and probably Mr. Curtis
was hot and lost his head for the tins
being and in cooler moments would not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
THE BEST TIME TO GIVE

The late William z. Dodge, the well
known New York merchant and philan-
thropist, made no public requests, says
the Chicago Tribune. His reasons for
this are stated concisely in his will:
Acting from a judgment deliberately
formed and based upon observation of
the inexpediency of testamentary be-
quests to religious and charitable OBJ
jects, and believing it better and wiser
to give literally during my life to such
objects, I make no requests of that
character"
Mr.. Dodge's action in this matter was
justified by his record of generous Civ
ing. He was liberal and well nigh
continuous giver to charities but not
until he had thoroughly Investigated
them and assured himself of their fit
ness. In this way he made no mistakes,
and having given all he intended during
his life. his duty was done. Charity
could make no further demands. What
was left of his estate properly belonged
to his heirs. But there is still more to
be said in favor of Mr.. Dodge's policy
as expressed in his will. By giving dur
ing his life he could assure himself that
his donations were wisely expended and
not frittered away. and that his ideas
were carried out as he intended them to
be. By giving during his lifetime also,
he lessened the possibility of a contro-
versy over his will and of unseemly
wrangles among heirs, which usually
benefit lawyers only.
OF course there are some disadvan-
tages in giving away money during life,
and particularly the disadvantage of be-
ing the possible victim of beggars of
high and low degree and of impostors
of all degrees, but the advantages far
outnumber the disadvantages. There can
be no question that more good can he
done for mankind by judieious giving
than by uncertain bequest, by admins
tering ones own donations than by hav-
ing them to be administered by others.
The disadvantages can be largely
guarded against, for men of means can
take precautions. 1t is not likely that
Mr.. Rockefeller, or Mr.. Carnegie, or Mr..
Schwab, or DR.. Pearsons. or any of the
other millionaires who are giving so
much for various public uses have ever
been imposed upon. In fact, Mr.. Dodge's
policy has become popular among this
1icly recognized and Endorsed it in his
will, it will be likely to attract still
wider attention, and, possibly, imitation.
It is not only true that he gives twice
who gives quickly but that he gives
most practically, judiciously, and useful
ly who gives in his lifetime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
ADE11NA PATHS FAREWELL.

The announcement that Adelina Patti
is actually and positively to make her
concluding and final farewell appear
ance in this country must excite interest
among those who have heard this fair
woman and remarkable artist sing the
fiorid music of the old operas in the
past, comments the Brooklyn Eagle.
No doubt, too, she will be a subject of
curiosity among younger generation
that knows it's Wagner, but has yet to
hear a technically perfect performance
of the Italian melodies. Taste has
changed in the years since Patti was a
familiar figure here, and neither the
italian opera nor the miscellaneous con-
cert thrive with us as they did, but Pat
it's success has been partly that of per-
sonality, partly that Of method. and
these often survive change.
OF one thing we may be sure: that if
this singer keeps her voice, as many as
sure us that she does, those who attend
her concerts will hear such singing as
cannot be heard elsewhere. The bawl-
ing through an uDroar of drums and
trumpets that Wagner requires does not
tend to lengthen the life nor preserve
the temper of a voice. and in Patti we
have a delicate vocal instrument, as ac-
curate as a tuning fork, as flexible as a
flute, as sweet as violin. She viii be
welcome as long as she chooses to keep
up her farewell tours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
ouAKER REFLRcTIo us.
Iron the Phi

IFrom the Philadelphia Record..1
It's often hard work to collect a debt
of gratitude.
1t is mere contrast that makes some
men seem great.
Smoke sometimes comes in volumes as
well as books.
A Kensington dealer advertises HIS
shoes at 81 a foot.
A girl is never really in love unless
she loses her appetite.
Even in blue blood you will often ind
a streak of yellow.
The pangs of conscience may OFTEN
arise from an overloaded stomach.
Adam was the first man to dispense
with the services of a mother-in-law
The man who puts his best foot for
ward is the one who gets there with
both feet.
Any woman will tell you that trying
on dress is also trying on the nerves.
If every man kept his own counsel
there wouldn't be enough lawyers 10 go
around.
If fellow doesn't amount to much he
generally insists upon letting you know
Wigg-"You may say what you please
about Skinnum, he's brick" Ways
''Gold?"
Blobbs-"This In and About the City.
column looks sort of sick today" S1obps
well, it's always under the weather.
See?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

some man is married who never said
outright to the girl beside him 'fWill
you marry me?'
They are telling of an Atchison man
who gave a compliments to a clerk who
worked for him and the next day the
clerk asked for an increase In wages.
We are never sorry when a man is
held up in a saloon; on the contrary,
we hope his wife will hear of it, and
hold him up again when he gets home.
This is the season of the year when
the fairy tale is told in an advertise
ment of a stove that will heat ten
rooms all winter with one little lump Of
coal.
Some people have a rocker time in
life than others. There is Henry
Raidt, Of st. Joe. fer instance: Yes
terday, the doctors cut fifty-seven gall
stones out of him..
A change is good for every one which
is the reason the average housewife
shifts the bed and bureau from their
positions: it is the only change of seen
cry she gets.
Newspapers are often abused after
this fashion: A man started card
room back of a cigar store. The men
played high five there, and the propri-
etor made great talk about the local
papers because they did not print the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10

places of interest, including the famous
Notre Dame church; the Palace OF Jus
tice; the Eiffel Tower, which IS soon TO
be pulled down, because 1t no longer
pays; the Trocadero; going under many
of the beautiful bridges which span the
stream and ornament the city.
The latest bridge is the handsome one
known as the ''Pont Alexandra. whose
corner stone was laid by the emperor
of Russia, and the structure erected IN
commemoration of the last exposition.
lust as the Eiffel tower marks one OF
these events and the Trocadero anotnef.
Thus we went from the Austerlitz bridge
to the viaduet carrying the belt line
railway. around Paris, over the Seine.
The railway took US quickly to Inc
Bots de Roulogne, grand park OF sew
eral thousand acres of forest, lakes ana
driveways. A cab gave US a good view
of everything. We got into long pro
cession of turnouts. some of the latter
quite elaborate containing well-dressec
people, of distinguished appearance.
From this park we drove homeWaro, OF
hotelward, passed the imposing Alen -, ~
Triumph, ordered by Napoleon upon one
of his returns from victories. Here we
entered the famous Champs Ulysses
pronounced, if you please. Shanz-eel-
izay'' said to be the finest bouieNdIo III
the world and deserving its reputation.
At the foot of this avenue is the Place
de la Concorde. a broad plaza at the
intersection of several streets, adorned
with columns, lanterns and statuary, the
whole presenting a charming effect.
At six o'clock that evening the con-
cierage, who is the porter of other con-
tinental hotels, handed me the nrst
ca blegran 1 had ever received from
America. He said it had just come tc
This instance is related on account Oh
a wonderful CELEBRITY in transmission L
started out to send an immediate re-
ply, but lost time in fnding the tele-
graph office itself, so that it was nearly
seven before the cable was handed over
the counter to be dispatched. The rec
ords in the office Of the Postal Tele-
gra ph-Cable company in Topeka show
that this ge was filed at four min
utes of eleven and the reply received
Just before two O'Clock The gentle
man who sent the cable told me that
he had sent it just before he had start
ed to luncheon and was astonished to
find the answer on his desk when he re
turned to his office. The rule 1t must
be admitted is that while Topeka peo
pie do not generally receive such quick
replies to their French cables. they do
not usually remain so long away at
luncheon. +. Z. NJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Goose egg sized hailstones have been
falling at Lost Springs.
/ Harrington points with pride to 800
new houses built this year.
Hutchinson is doing some light kick
ing over the inefficiency of its electric
plant SerVice.
For the first time in twenty years
maple worms are appearing on the
trees at Princeton.
The last act of a man who died in
Alaska this week was to admit that he
once lived in Wichita
Wathena may expect a damage suit.
A citizen stumbled on a defective side
walk and broke his leg.
A prosperity item from Salina: "A
prominent woman here lost chatelaine
bag containing 800, and made no par
ticular fuss about it,
A Wathena woman touched her
tongue to a fiatiron to see if it was hot.
From the pinwheel gyrations that fol-
lowed it presumably was.
Ordinarily quarreling seems in poor
taste, but when it prevents the Wei
lington BARRIERS from agreeing on Is
cent shaves it will be overlooked by the
public.
young girl fell from a bridge at
Orr 10 the river sixty feet below. In
stead of the water breaking her arm it
simply broke her fall. She was I'M
injured
A Prescott man wanted to know what
time it was bad enough to steal
watch. The penitentiary whistle will
notify him in the future of noon and
retiring time.
1t Will be news to the many friends
of Cyrus Leland to know that he has
changed front. But it's not in a DO
litical way, simply the front of his
store building at Troy.
The big ears of corn stories are
giving away to the humble beet and
the tuber. A Franklin county farmer
exhibits a 512 pound sweet potato and
an liz pound beet hobs up in McPher-
son.
A queer case of forgetfulness comes
from Sibleyville. A married couple got
aboard the Lawrence plug and forgot
their five-months- old baby in the depot.
Conductor Simpson obligingly stopped
the train VIXEN the loss was discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
CANE RUsH FooLIsHNEss.

A man said to the writer the other
day, why don't you write piece and
roast these college idiots who geg out
and yell and maui each other around III
cane rush when they ought TO be old
enough to know better?"
In order to do college students Jus
tice. it might as well be admitted that
according to generally accepted stand
ards they give evidence of needing d
roast. There is no palliation at the bar
of common sense for a cane rush. 1t
is as plain as daylight, to the minds of
most people. that anybody who VIII al
low himself to be pounded. stomped on,
sat on, mauled torn to pieces and gen.
orally wrecked simply for the purpose
of carrying, or preventing SOMEBODY
else from carrying. a cane, is in need
Of mental treatment.
But from another standpoint, the COL
lege student behaves himself very de-
Gently, when compared with what he
might do. 1t is human nature for peo-
pie to want to have a time" when
thrown in with number of congenfaI
companions. The rollicking travelling
men get together for an annual cele-
bration; the sedate bankers shell OUT
their cash for special trains to San
Francisco; even the clergymen partfcl-
pate in a conference now and then
which includes an excursion of some
description.
Your college student is with congen-
ial companions of his own age nine
months out of the year. In the course
of that time, the freshmen and sopho-
mores celebrate" twice, once with a
cane rush and once with May pole
fight. To be sure. this form of celeba-
ton may not be according to the tastes
of the millionaire banker. but on the
other hand, the student wouldn't give
two cents for a ministerial excursion.
Young blood wants something strenu-
GUS; something which will test it to it's
utmost; and it will find something
which fills this need. If it isn't a cane
rush it will be something else, probably
much worse.
AS long as the college students don't
do anything worse than roll each other
around on the ground and yell. there is
no ground for anybody to interfere with
their way of celebrating
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-10
UNJUST cR1rIo1sM.

Ine u. A. X. or Kansas Is coming IN
for some criticism from outside or the
state growing out of the LimbocKer al
fair. The criticism is unjust, to be
sure, because it grows out of a mlsap-
prehension. In the first place only a
comparatively small number OF mem
bers of the G. A. r. expressed them
selves on the subject of the LimDockea.
controversy. and most of those who
criticised Governor Bailey for his action
took it back when they knew the racts
in the case
But the report has gone forth that the
G. a. r. of Kansas is making fight
on Governor Bailey because he turned
down an alleged pension swindler, who
happened to be a Union veteran, and
appointed an ex-Confederate as a JUS
tee of the peace. AS a sample of the
criticism which is now being directed
towards the Kansas C. A. r. because OF
this report. the following is reproduced
from the Baltimore News:
THE Grand Army of the Republic has
often shown itself in most modifying
light, but it has seldom given a more
disagreeable exhibition of it's shabby
side than is presented in a dispatch
from Kansas today. The Kansas Grand
Army of the Republic says the dis
patch, is after Governor Bailey, whom
it supported for governor with $1,000
votes. The governor is charged with
giving the Grand Army fewer offices
than it deserves. One thing that stirred
the veterans was the appointment of an
ex-Confederate as probate judge of Ri
ley county. A Union veteran named
Limbocker was Endorsed by the Grand
Army, and was turned down because
he was under Indictment for alleged
pension frauds The combination is de-
lightful On the one hand prescription
of a man to the point of exclusion from
eligibility to appointment as probate
judge because he fought in the Confed-
crate army 40 years ago, and on the
other hand support of a fellow who had
the cheek to aspire to this fiduciary Of
flee while under Indictment for fraud
because he served in the Union
army during the Civil war.
These noble Kansas warriors have
doubtless heard of the appointments of
ex-confederates made by Republican
presidents from Grant to Mckinley and
Roosevelt. but their patriotism is made
of sterner stuff. They know that, while
there may be pensions enough for each
G. "A. R. hero to get one, there are never
enough offices to go around, and they
are determined that no person who was
rascally enough to fight for a lost cause
which he held to be right shall be given
any plum that a pension-mongering
union veteran may be after. Indeed.
the commander of the C. A. r. of Kan
sas is quoted as saying: If Limbocker
is guilty of pension frauds, he COM
mitted no greater crime than the man
who once took up arms against his
government This is the sort of thing
which has zone so far toward convert
ing the name of Grand Army of the
Republic into a byword instead of a
term of honor. No doubt an enormous
number of it's members are honest and
honorable men. but some way the pa
triots who look upon the organization
as a pension grabbing and office grab
bling machine have generally managed
to keep their end uppermOSt."