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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09
WEALTH TIED UP IN DIAMONDS.
Vast Amounts Expended Yearly on the
Seintillatino Things.

Ii is astonishing how much of the
world S wealth is locked up in dia.
monds, things which are of no earth
ly use to anybody except for the mere
purpose of ornamentation. The money
spent for diamonds every year would
build fleets of peace and war, equip
and pay armies, almost wipe out pow
erty in city slums, endow hospitals
and schools. build railroads and create
great Libraries. Every now and then
some American woman has trouble
with the customs authorities over the
duty on jewels, the value of which rep
resents sum sufficient for an Ordi-
nary man to raise and educate a large
family of children.
Millionaires and crowned heads pos
sess diamonds which represent idle
wealth sufficient to build whole streets
of model tenement houses for the
poor. The diamonds belonging to the
German empress are valued at ST.,
100000
The crown jewels of England,
largely made up of diamonds, exceed
in value $15.OOO,O00. The imperial
crown alone contains 2,7S3 splendid
diamonds Besides this the King and
queen possess diamonds to the value
of about million more dollars, which
are their private property. The crown
Jewels of Russia represent about $780,
600, 900 No one knows just how
much the diamonds possessed by the
sultan of Turkey are worth, but they
represent many millions. Many ma
tive princes in India own diamonds
of great value. The gems of the
gaekwar of Baroda, consisting largely
of diamonds, are valued at $15000,O 900.
Among his treasures is a carpet made
entirely of diamonds and pearls, all
matched and blended. Many churches
100, III Tie Clu WOl w. etAS iANAi Ia >'AN>
monds. The largest diamond in the
world. the Excelsior, found at Jaggers-
fontein in 1898. is $50 valuable that
special syndicate has been formed to
stand the expense and risk of cutting
it.
A large part of the worlds gold, too,
is locked away in royal treasure
houses in the form of dishes or orna-
ments. In the Kremlin are many
great gold dishes so heavy that
strong man cannot life them ana
MANY millions of dollars worth CT
gold made into ornamental forms.
The gold dinner service at Windsor
castle is valued at S4,000,000 and
golden peacock with jeWeled tal
there is valued at $40O,000' In the
treasure e-nouse of the sultan at Con
stantinOple are tons of gold plate ana
great golden bowls filled to the brlm
with rare pearls. Gold in every form
which the ingenuity of man has been
able to invent is scattered about IN
snlendid confusion in the palaces by
the Bosporus. The shah of Persia has
Golden ornaments and diamonds stow
ed away in his palace which, turned
into money, would enable him to bulla
railroads and open up his country to
civilization.
No crch thing as summer com
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09
SPIES III TINE Ct PEACE

commercial traveller eXeftes suspic-
ion. The Russians now insist upon
all 'commerciais4 being licensed and
taxed; moreover the Intelligence de-
paftment has found the orders for
goods obtained by it's Travellers some
what embarrassing.
AS a buying agent the spy has also
worked well. No Briton can now go
across the Caspian TO purchase or
even just to amuse himself, without
his letters being opened and the com
panJ he keeps being carefully noted.
Elsewhere than in central Asia the
inquisitive foreigner is likely to be
detained as a suspect if found near a
dock yard, arsenal, fortress, masked
battery or military undertaking of any
kind. The real tourist may excite
suspicion, and no doubt many of the
people arrested are innocent, but oc-
casionally spy is captured and u.s.
ually, of course, is liberated after in
quiries
Foreign consulS are apt to be much
more energetic, emphatic and positive
when a government agent is taken
| than they are when the innocence Of
the parties held is so apparent that
| 1t needs no proof In ordinary cir
| cumstances, when the spy is known he
| thereby becomes innocuous, and he
| knows it. If discovered the impolite
! Russian way is to forbid him to enter
the country or to declare he comes
from plague-infested port or that
he is Roman Catholic or Jew.
Put on the Wrong Scent.
The polite way is to offer him a
guard Or helpmate or companion The
spy is then shown what he must see
and as soon as he has seen and re.
ported the various military disposi-
tions are changed SO that the informa
tion he obtains is worse than useless,
being actually misleading.
The polite British way is to take
the recognized spy around the golf
links and give him pegs of whisky
and tell him soft stories as he sits on
stool enjoying (?) interminable regi-
mental cricket, then to send or take
him home a happy, talkative man,
+~1J
happens when a Russi ian vessel calls
at Perrin ''for water" or Russian Off
GERS show themselves curious as to
the forts at Alden.
Many are the lodges resorted to by
British agents in order to avoid being
'sspoofed" by their Russian hosts.
Their common way is to hunt in coup
les, each Independent of the other, so
that if one is taken the other may still
succeed in getting through with the
work This plan has other advan-
tages.
The eastern races make adept spies.
Russia S agents, when out of uniform.
betray their calling by being so well
informed, which is unusual in Russia,
as ii takes a clever educated man to
detect them and there are few such
among the class Of people the agents
frequent in the east for they pretend
10 be merchants, veterinary surgeons,
peddlers and even vagrants.
In the far east in the matter of
espionage, Japan has the game almost
entirely to Itself. A Japanese can
readily become so good an imitation
of the Chinaman Manchu or Mongol,
that the Russian cannot identify him
and the Chinaman who does will GER
tainly not denounce him.-London Ex-
press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09
Dysentery Cured Without the Aid of
Doctor.
a Doctor.


Il am JGst up from a hard spell of
the flux' (dysentery) says Mr. T. A.
Pinner, well known merchant OF
Drammond, Tenn 81 used one small
bottle Of Chamberlains Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy and was cured
without having doctor. l consider it
the best cholera medicine in the
world" There is no need of employ
ing a doctor when this remedy is used,
for no doctor can prescribe a better
medicine for bowel complaint in any
form either for children or adults. It
never fails and is pleasant to take.
For sale By W. L. Dewoody & Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09

There are many things ahou, each
other which nations would like to
know. In order to discover What they
must know. but are not allowed to.
civilized states employ military spies.
They may be military on naval at
taehes. duly accredited to an embassy
or secret agents who are sent to re
side or travel in those districts from
which information is required by the
intelligence department. The WORK
Of the first class is not unimportant,
but it is not risky The officer may
not overstep the bounds of common
honesty. and rarely, if ever, attempts
to achieve anything secretly.
He is closely watched and knows it.
If he becomes a strong center of at
traction he may divert the attention
of watchers from some secret agent
who is possessing himself of the par
ticulars the attache is ostensibly so
anxious to acquire, but is successfully
prevented from securing. The at
tache is useful as clearing agent.
Spies become possessed Of facts which
are of no real value to those who en-
ploy them. but are assumed to be
worth much to the agents of other
countries and an exchange of "pieces"
is effected. Sometimes apparently
useless information is sought simply
for it's exchange value. For instance,
some years ago two British officers
created considerable annoyance in
Russia by their persistence in hanging
about the district in which the autumn
maneuvers were to take place. 1'ney
were invited to join the staff-the
British attache was there-but this
honor they declined.
Had Seen Everything.
Then representations were made at
the British embassy, where the Off
GERS were unknown, and subsequently
they disappeared for a time, only to
be discovered at the end Of the man.
euvers in one of the five great fort
resses which protect the west frontier
of Russia and the one that had been
the center of the military operations.
hnon Dpnccior off
GERS their position would have been
dangerous and an unpleasant interna-
tional incident might have occurred.
The Russo-German frontier is nothing
to Great Britain, neither is the Fran
co-German. We exchange the first
.'piece' with Germany for the second,
and the second with France for lit
tie bit of news about Russia in Asia
which India believes to be important.
And thus we get home.
Each country has its own peculiar
sphere of interest to which it deyotes
it's greatest attention. Great Britain
has so many that properly speaking,
it has none. But India is always
alarmed as to Russia, and agents
British and native --Of the Indian de-
pertinent are ever busy seeking parti-
culars likely to be of service when
we have to defend an empire from
Alden To Heng-Kong. Most of the In
dian agents in Russia are officers of
tie Indian army, but, needless to state,
they do not travel as such. Some af-
feet to be tourists Of an innocent but
inquiring turn of mind; some go as
commercial travellers; some lean to
religious propaganda, while others col
lect curiosities.
Pose as Commercial Travellers.
These agents have been so energetic
and so prolific in their disguise that
in the south of Russia, the bona fide
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09
In the Realm of Society !
+i4s. ~

,riaoe of Miss Efie Maude
,oto1v of Littls Rock Ark
n. D. R. Fones' No. S122 Lucas
- Ct Louis, will take place on
[nesday, August r. in st. LOUIS
,ride.elect has been spending
summer at chautauqua' n. y
marriage will be quiet one
no attendants. Miss Cline Is
.oseossor of a fine soprano voice
hoe given great pleasure to her
J. Of Chautauqua, where she has
frequently heard this summer
is tbe daughter of Rev. c. c.
e, the well known Christian min
ond she is known in Pine Bluff,
ing visited here when her father
engaged in a revival meeting at
First Christian church.
tho soriety minstrels given at the
/ theater Friday night was COM
ko success and the two hundred and
" neople who attended were very
oh pleased with the performance.
chorus singing and solo work
tbe first part was especially good,
Il every number received an encore.
Ick Whiting. former Pine Bluff
h made the biggest hit with I've
Il NV Eyes on You Mont Levey
owed off his excellent deep bass
lice to perfection in "The Clang of
b Hammer" The rest of the num-
RS were all we'll rendered and each
1ger r ceived his share of the ap-
ause from an impartial house. In
g second part Cohn and Mendall.
% young men from Hot Springs,
,de decided hit in a Dutch dialect
etch, The Jefferson Fencibles in
Il uniform formed the background
ring the first part of the program,
ich was as follows:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09

No such thing as summer com
n1aint', where d.. FoWlo1's Extract OF
Wild Strawberry is kept handy. Ma
lures remedy for every looseness OF
the bowels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09
Opening Chorus.

China -Lin-a-Loo, There's Music in
be Air'-The Entire Company.
Madeline ..........F Fred Kennedy
Day by Day. Don Burns
Don't Want No Yellow Coon
49,. .......... B. Cohen
I've Got My Eyes on YOU.
NJ. Whiting
Introduction of Heath and Mehaffy.
She Sleeps in Old Kentucky. -.
:..... ............ .Tol Field
Don't Butt In. ........ Sumner Heath
Her, Her, Her. ......... Bert King
The Kissing Trust" Webb Mehat1y
When Bill Bailey Came Home
...... ......... Bill Benton
Heart Bowed Down" :. Nick Peay
fThe Clang of the Hammer"
'......... ......... Mont Levy
Closing Chorus, "The Stein Song
- : Nhoh w llltIIlS anu OOlllpdly
Second Part-Vick and Terry in
Athletics.
Mehaffy and King, Dancing Special
ky.
COIN and Mendel in Dutch.
Inc grand street parade with all
tne performers in line was given at
4 O'Clock. Lemaire's band headed the
procession with the Fencibles, in COM
mand of Lieut.. Hearn, coming next,
and the minstrel troupe bringing up
the rear.
MISS Minnie Hardy and Mr.. Tom
hardin of this city were married in
last Monday night, Rev. D.
A Stevens officiating. 1t was an
eiopement. Miss Hardy left home on
She was missed by her par
ehts, who did not know what had be-
'ome OF her until they got the telegram
announcing the marriage. She is a
laughter OF B. F. Hardy of this city
ahd has large circle of friends. Mr.
Hardin also lives in Pine Bluff and
IS Well known.
The Riverside Epworth League en-
oyed trolley ride Wednesday night
nere are about thirty members of
ne league, and nearly all of them
anticipated. Refreshments were sery-
ID.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. MCGEE enter
aIhed few friends Friday evening
tt thelr home on East Second avenue
complimentary to Mr.. Gurley Philips
Fames, music and conversation were
eatures of the evenings enjoyment
delicious refreshments, consisting of
rults of the season, were served. At
late hour the guests bade adieu to
helr host and hostess, thanking them
Or pleasant evenings entertain
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-09

Chin-aLin-a-Loo, There's Music in
be Air"-The Entire Company.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
il7TfIz 81 POPULAR
K@ 81 PULPIT

the diyinest is education; and this is
shown by the whole course of Gods
government, from which all the great
alarms and portentous yisitations have
been eliminated The earthquake and
the fire, the whirlwind ami the tempest
have given their terrific lesson; and
now we have the silent but penetrating
teaching Of the Holy Ghost.
We might we'll pause TO put ourselves
a practical question. Have we, individ-
ually and collectively, increased our
teaching in the proportion In which
our power has been increased? We
have increased our money power, our
intellectual power, our social power;
we build palaces, we write books, we
serve In parliament, we mix with the
men who lead the civilization of the
day. Have we done the work of Chris
tian teaching upOl he extending field,
or as power has CINE into our hands
have we hidden ourselves in it as in
proud castle, and forgotten that when
power ceases to be an educator it
ceases to be blessing to its possessor?
1t is possible that we may be delud-
ing ourselves with the Imagination that
if we had more power we should teach
more. Young men may think so. On the
other hand, some may torment them
selves by the fiattering fancy that their
power is in excess of their present
sphere of education. Let us throw our
selves back upon first principles if we
would escape the influence of such sug-
gestions. If men are unfaithful in lit
tie they will be unfalthful also in much.
Where mites are withheld. pounds
would not be given: "the whole realm
of nature" would never be surrendered
by the hand which keeps back the
lone box of spikenard very precious"
As for our small spheres, does not the
Master know just where we are and
just what we are doing? Can he not
find the corner in witch we teach, and
set us in larger school when we are
fit for it? Let us be faithful up to the
measure of our power; and God, who
is not unrighteous to forget our work
of faith and labor of love will call us
to wider dominion and honor when 1t
so pleaseth him.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18

He might have done more things, but
never could he have done better thing
or a greater thing than to please God
Enoch lived in the worlds childhood,
outside the fierce light which falls upon
men in public life. He was true TO con-
science and character lin the daily
round Of the common task"
The word Enoch means initiated
initiated into divine fellowship. He was
an entered apprentice in the free ma
sorry of the Infinite and Eternal, Yet
Josephus says he went home to God
and there was no record of his death
He was an humble man raised to
heaven by pleasing God, while angels
fell from heaven by displeasing God
To succeed as God counts success re
quires no artificial human distinction
rank or station. The highest of all ap-
prevail lies within the reach of the ma
jority and not the few.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
All Over the State.

At West Superior Lulu Wright Knight
was shot and killed by John W. Steele,
an employee of a local livery.
Miss Rosena Anna Gauske died of
consumption. aged 81. She was the
youngest daughter of August Gauske, 4
retired farmer Of Beaver Dam.
The will of julius II. kimDall was filed
for probate in Kenosha. The will dis
poses of property estimated % be worth
100000, and all of it is left to the
widow. By this will four children Of
the deceased b., former marriage are
cut off. and they probably will contest
the will.
A head-on collision just across the
Michigan bridge from Marinette result
ed in the destruction Of two locomotives
The crews jumped just in time to save
their lives and fortunately no one WIS
injured. The two trains. one a Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul and the other a
Wisconsin and Michigan freight, met On
curve and the engine crews did not
know Of their danger until they We're so
close there was only time TO reverse the
levers and jump.
Louis Surbuch, foreman for the Bell
EAf lllOit company 44<iA itAH i'E JUN ii
in two places below the knee during n
friendly scuffle with one Of his compan-
ions at Mellen.
lid. Henry Lexius. charged with en-
''zzlement and arrested in Milwaukee
lately, was discharged in Circuit Court
in La Crosse and the case dismissed. The
complaining witness has removed from
the city md desires 10 drop the case.
Lexius is the father Of Anna Lexius-
Yohkers, the Milwaukee laundry girl,
who claims to have b en- presented with
$4,000 by man whom she befriauIed.
Russell Row Of Baraboo accidentally
shot himself while Gaming revolver
The ball entered his body about one inch
bove his heart an5 little hope is en-
{, rtained for his recovery. lie is about
10
BOYD Wells. formerly resident If
Appleton, is winning high honors for
himself in ti;a Conservatory Of Music at
Berlin, Germany. where he is compier-
ing a course in piano instruction. Il is
the yearly custom Of the president II that
institution 70 give the six pupils VINO
have made the most progress during the
year three months tour in various Eu-
ropean countries. Mr. Wells Is one Of
the honored ST. this year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
Or. Gosson1's
Oxygen Tonic Tablets

They famous for their building power where the
blood is depleted or where the nerves are in dis
eased condition, or the action of the bowels the
working fthe digestive organs are in any way sloth
full dilatory in performing their work. Perfect di
gestion and regular action of the bowels certain
where this remedy is taken according to directions,
and many cases may be cited here, wherein serious
illness has been averted by their They act d.
rectly on the organs and conditions that prevent
stomach trouble, ward off sick headaches and dis
tress after eating constipation and build up the
entire system. Call and get FREE SAMPLE BOX
AND BOOKLET.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
Hydrophobia Among sheen,

Farmers residing in the town of Bris-
tol fear an epidemic Of hydropaobin
among the sheep of the county. A short
time ago a mad dog passed through that
section of the county and bit a number of
sheep. In one flock. belonging to Viii
liam Stevens. FIVE sheep already haze
gone mad and, breaking from their pas
lures, invaded other ilocks As soon as
possible the afflicted sheep were killed.
but it is feared that thousands of sheep
have been bitten. In some eases other
animals were attacked and it is feared
that the infection is widespread
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
Girl Uses Hatpin.

At a public school at Chetek. Goldie
Anderson, girl of 10. became angry at
the boys for untying her hair ribbons.
and stuck hatpin into Homer Cook, a
boy of 10. The pin struck the boys back
bone and broke off. 1t was not known at
first that any of the pin remained in the
wound, because the girl. when reprimand-
ed, produced a perfect pin. The boy was
n great agony and was taken to the Eau
Claire hospital, where an inch and a quar-
ter of pin was taken out, revealing a bad
abscess. He will be disabled for some
time.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18

he pleased God:
that is, it was gen.
orally believed and
accepted t h a t he
pleased God.
Y ct Enoch was
not divine, but hui
man.
H e w a s t a
statesman, a gener-
al. a prophet, or a
priest, but a simple,
b u IN b | e m inded
man.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18

Racine police have learned the identity
of the young man who was convicta I'd
there last August for stealing mott
cycle from the Wisconsin wheel works
At the time of his arrest he gave the
name of w. 7. James. but the police
have received letter from Mrs. Il. 4.
Mason of Malone. y. Y. who is The
mother of the young man. He is serving
two years in State prison at Waupnm.
His right name is William L. Mason.
His parents are very wealthy. and an f
fort will be made to secure a pardon for
hir,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
WISC0NSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Tobacco Crop of the State-H ydropho-
bia Among Bristol sheep-Girl stabs
Annoying Boy with Hatpiu New
Freight Line to Chicago.

Nearly everybody in Wisconsin knows
that Wisconsin is 4 tobacco-growiug
State, but how many know that WiScon-
sin grows more tobacco than South Car
DINA, more tobacco than Maryland. and
more than Connecticut? Very few. The
following table compares the statistics
of tobacco production during 1902 in
the te~ States which stand at the head
of the list ii tohacco-growing States:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-02-18
GRACE NOT TAILOR MADE.
BV 2ey. H. A. ROudfhaIer.

Christianity is a life, 1t is not a mech
anism. Rituals, creeds religious fash
ions, are factory made 7 religious
fashions are good We DIR, in them
according to our taste, and as they fit
us. We do not wish to do without
them, any more than we want to do
without clothes. But however clothes
are necessary, and however they may
indicate character, they do not make
, character Christian character is home
made; that is, it is heart made, soul
made thought made. will made.
Christian graces are not tailor made,
padded to hide the deformity, cut to
conform 10 figure, sometimes cut to be
lie the figure, fashioned to a rule of the
exterior Christian graces are sown in
the heart where desires grow, and emo
| tiOns are born, and aspirations spring
and motives arise.
| Christian graces are directed by the
/ will that cellular tissue of the moral
and spiritual life, Christian graces con-
form TO =. inward law Of tight and
beauty 'hristianity is the W Irking of
God in thought and soul and heart.
| There sows seed, the pest thought.
the best purposes, the be~t ideals. Then
he invites the will to work with him
to do his good pleasure.
So God is more of a gardener in our
| lives than a mechanic. God not only
| imparts the power of motion as me-
chanic does to wheels. God imparts
| life. The power of self-movement; trem-
bling life in plant. throbbing life in in
sect, instinct life in animal. thinking,
choosing, deciding, wiling life ia the
human.
To be a converter with God means TO
make the things grow he has planted.
They will not grow q themselves; only
weeds do that. But go5d f.uit must be
watched. attended. nourished. 1t is not
enough 10 say Gods viii be done"
The Christian must himself learn Gods
viii. and when he knc ws it he must
do it.
Opening yourself to The Holy Spirit Is
: nly getting the ground ready for the
seed. Much more must be done after
I that or your Christian lie VIII go TO
seed" instead of ripening into fruit.
/ Charity Charity comes from God
and depends on Him. 1t sees God in
the poor. the needy. the afflicted and
THE outcast II recognizes that there
are no classes nor races. but one com.
mon brotherhood.-Rev DR. Conaty, r.
J ?. =