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Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24
A Fable.
A donkey that


A donkey that was fond Of hay
Possessed large and classic bray.
Which he unlimbered to the breeze
And Jared the whiskers from the trees.
rogrish and mischievous roam
Said: What charming tone!
If | could warble in that way
I'd give a concert every day"
The silly donkey heard the praise
And started In to bray some brays;
He sang in &c" and "Haw" and %"
And several other letters too.
The sound that floated on the air
Was like a sawmili on tear
A farmer. sleepy and obtuse.
Said, Jumping Christmas what's broke
loose?"
Then down he took his trusty gun
And said "I'll see what can be done"
He filed the donkey full Of salt
And brought the music to halt.
The morals plain to any man
Don't sing though some one says you can
Up to Date Execution.
Jobs-Jones is the most tender heart
ed man in the world.
Jabs-Can't stand it to see any one
suffer, l suppose.
Jobs-I should say not. He wants
the legislature to abolish hanging and
allow the condemned criminals to eat
grape seeds and die of appendicitis.
The Coward's Excuse.
The fellows yellow quite bit
Who Journeys down the line
And swlen he gets bumped charges It
To woman song and wine
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24

MCBRIDE & WIN Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24
WANTED.

Wanted-Girl for general housework,
410 South First st.eet.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24

The difference between an artist and
q photographer is about So dozen.
Evening times-Republican., 1903-12-24

Wanted - Position by barber Ad-
dress H-23, care of T.-R.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
HELD FOR $1,000, 900 sWINDLE.
New York Police Take Prisoner From
Sumptuously Furnished Rooms.

New York, July 24.-Charles Vein
man, who lives in sumptuously fus-
nished apartments in Euclid Hall,
Eighty-fifth street and Broadway, was
arrested today. Weinman is alleged
by the police to have been interested
in the American Finance and Mortgage
Company. whose Offices were closed
July Is. after the hurried departure of
Alfred R. Goslin for Europe. Goslln
is said to have been the head Of the
scheme. The Federal Securities Com
pany and the Independent Guaranty
and Trust Company also ceased to do
business about the same time. Other
arrests are expected to follow the
capture of Weinman.
When the doors of the American
Finance and Mortgage Company were
closed it was supposed that the total
losses of investors would not reach
more than SEQ 900 or 100000 but now
the police believe they will total sew
eral hundred thousand dollars and
may even exceed 81 600 900 This
money was paid in by thousands OF
persons of slender means, who We're
lured by promises of Is per cent. pro-
Ht a month. or 1S0 per cent. pro9t
year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24

of which has not yet been fixed, says
the Little Rock Democrat.
This is a deserved compliment to
the Green Light Guards, and Will be
duly appreciated by them Although
the oldest and one of the most popular
companies in the state, they have not
bcen very active for more than year
But with the reelection of Capt. Nc
DowelI on June they are again i'll
tie field for the honors, and are e&-
peetad to get them. They need moe
men to recruit the company UP 10 the
maximum strength of siXtyhve, and
cordially invite young men OF soon
moral character to send in their ap-
plications They drill at their armory
in the city park on Monday and Fri
day evenings Of each week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

The tax books for the collection OF
the special assessment upon the real
property il gravelns district No. l
TOR the ose OF gra, elng and curb
irg has ncnn placed in my hands, All
owners Of real property in said dis.
trict are required to pay their assess
ments to me on or before the 18th day
OF August, 1903. II such payment is
not made action will be commenced
q, the end of that time for the collec-
tior of the said assessment, and for
legal penalties and costs. Given un-
de1 my hand this 18th day Of July,
1903. r. ROBINSON. Collector.
Aug. Is.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
SAGE OF WHITEHALL DEAD.
Was Ambassador to Russia Under
Pres,oenI Lincoln

Lexington, Ky, July 24.-Generai
Russia under President Lincoln. noted
abolitionist and author, died at his
home. Whitehall, Madison county. at
$40 o'clock Tuesday night. Death
was due to general exhaustion.
Gen. Clay was born October 19, 1910,
in Madison county. He led stirring
life, which beg n to tell on him Of
late. He believed a conspiracy to as
sassinate him had been formed and
some years ago fortified his home,
clusion that ended only a few weeks
ago when the courts appointed COM
nittee to take charge of him and his
effects
His children are all at his bedside.
fathers house or seen him in years,
because of his peculiar hallucinaton
that they are in a vendetta sworn to
Kill him Clay was one of the most
picturesque figures in American poll
tics in the sixties. His home at
White Hall has been guarded by arm
ed men. A loaded cannon sets in his
hallway and his room is a vertable
arsenal. gathered for the purpose OF
| yepelling an attack of the imaginary
,endettE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
WOMEN CAN NOT SERVE AS MEM.
sERs OF BOARDS OF coUN.
TY EXAMINERS.
Opinion Rendered by Attorney Gen
eral Murphy on Request Of
Superintendent ainemon.

At the request Of superintendent OF
Public instruction Hinemon Attorney
General Murphy has rendered ar op;n-
ion in cn interesting matter
Recently the county Judge OF Ran
dolph county appointed as county eX-
aminer MIS-. Johnson, and question
was raised as te whether woman
was eligible to serve in this position.
Col. Murphy gives it as his opinion
that those who rased the question
We're in the right
His letter to Mr.. Hinemon follows:
II this date, stating that Mrs. John
son has been appointed county exam
my opinion as to whether a woman is
eligible to this Office, | regret to say
Digest of School Laws page 2l, she
is not, not being an elector. (Section
l. Art 3; Sec 3, Art 19, state consti
tuition
Another opinion of Importance to
the teachers of the state and those
interested in school matters was CIV
en- at the same time by the attol ney
general, at the request of Mr.. Hine-
mon. 1t has to do with the appoint
ment of county examiners, and is as
follows:
81 have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication OF
this date, asking the opinion of this
office as to whether when the appoint
ment of a county examiner by the coun-
" court is not made at the first term
thereof. next after the gene al elec-
ton. but at subsequent term. the
appointment should be for the term of
two years, or only for the unexpi: ed
portion or term Of two years, follow
ing the term when the appointment
should have been made.
1T is my opinion that the appoint
ment cannot be made to extend beyond
the first term Of the county court next
following the next general election,
and consequently that it must be for
the unexpired term This necessarily
results from the requirement OF sec
! ton 1000 of the digest, that the county
court OF each county shall, at the first
term thereof, after each gene:al cleo
| ton appoint, etc. A different con
struction would enable the county
! court to nullify this requirement.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24

We are now located In our NV
nee at 3O5 ', est Second aVen''
,osite the Pine Bluff Mercantl'e
pany. where we will be glad 70 ~.
of our friends and patrons ane
be glad to receive new Ones
P,R LIGHT AND wATEH W
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
HOW MANY.
How many bowls to make a boulder
How many shoals to make a shout

How many bowls to make boulder!
How many shoals to make q shouI-
der9o
How many lambs 10 MAKE llama?
How many drains to make a drama
How many bats to make bartIe2
How many rats TO make rattle?
How many folks to make a focus?
How many c.oaks to make crocus?
How many quarts TO make quarter
How many ports 10 make porter?
How many fans to make phantom?
How many banns to make bantam
How many aches to make an acre?
How many fakes to make a. takr?
How many wraps to make rapture?
How many caps to make a capture?
How many sums to make a summer
Hcw many pIums to make q plum
mel?
How many hicks 70 make nickel?
How many picks to make pickle?
How many eapes TO make a eaper2
How many tapes to make tapir?
How many tons to make a tunnel?
How much fun TO make q funnel2
Ingersoll in St. Nicholas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
Ruined the Old Mans Practice.

When the old doctor went off on his
vacation he left his practice in charge
Of lis sen. who had but few patients
of his own. On his return the old man
found the young doctor quite unhappy.
Inauisies revealed the fact that busi-
ness wa. very bad; there was moth
ing doing.
But. surely" exclaimed the aston
isaea Old doctor, you must still have
ha. cranky rich fossil around the
corner to look after"
No; cured him three days after
you left home"
What, You darned fool, Why
sent you through college on that case,'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24

WOOD TO DAVIS
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN CORRES'
pONDENCE OF UBERNATo-
RIAL CANDIDATES.
JUDGE Wood Answers Gov. Davis Last
Letter in Very Different Style
to That of Jeff.

Another cha gter in the eorrespon-
dence between Judge Carroll d. Wood
and Gov. Davis over appointments for
speeches was made public yesterday.
says the Little Rock Gazette OF
THURSDAY. This time it is the reply
of Judge Wood to the last letter of
tie governor The correspondence
opened with a letter ten days ago
from Gov. Davis to Judge Wood no
tifying him OF appointments he the
governor had made through invita-
tions from his friends to speak dur
ing the next three weeks, and invit-
ing Judge Wood to be present. The
letter concluded: IF you are not
present | shall discuss your public
record as though you We're present
| preserve a copy of this letter to be
read in case of your absence.
Judge Wood replied that he was
in not ut physical condition to make
the trips and engage in the discus
sions. and would be unable to meet
the governor at any more appoint
ments for the present, as he required
rest and recuperation. He added that
he did not think it was justice for one
man to dictate all of the appointments
nor to have the opening and closing
of every joint discussion. He again
asked that his plan for committee
of friends of both candidates be
adopted, they to select list of joint
dates. He insisted that it was too
early to begin he campaign. and
hoped that operations would be sus-
pended for the present. He conclud-
ed by stating that he left it to Gov
Davis to decide whether or not, in
spirit of fairness, he would state why
Judge Wood was not present.
Gov Davis reply was printed yes
terday. He stated that his appoint
ments were entirely unsolicited, and
were invitations from friends. you
can use your own pleasure as to
whether you come or not he added.
He stated that Judge Wood was well
come to the opening and close at the
debate. He stated that he had heard
that Judge Wood was making appoint
ments of which no notice had been
given him Gov. Davis,) The letter
concluded:
Il shall continue to discuss your
public record just as have done at
places where you have been present
| would much prefer having you with
me, but if you can not come, am
not to blame.
Now comes Judge Woods reply. II
is brief and to the point, and is as fol
lows:
Little Rock, Ark. July %. 1903
Hon Jefferson Davis.-Dear Sir: IL
your reply to my last communication
you say. among other things. that
you have been infoi med by severa
friends that | have accepted invita-
tions to make speeches. at several
points in the state but that you have
had no notice of this fact from me
IL is true that | have had invitations
TO speak at several places, but II
most Of these the letters stated tha
you were also invited. assure yo'
that in every place where I have ac
cepted invitations to speak. and yo'
were not present, no allusion whateV
er will be made by me to the issues
of the campaign, nor 20 you person
silly, for to do SC would not compor
with my idea of that just and fail
treatment which should ever be az
corded q political opponent. Yours
etc. CARROLL D. WOOD"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
GREEN LIGHT GUARDS CHOSEN
As Part Of Provisional Regiment to
Be Sent TO Fort Riley.

Mai Gen. w. II. Haynes of the Ar.
Kansas state guard informed Capt. w.
S. Mcdowell of the Green Light
guards that his company Company c,
Second regiment, A S. g., was the
first company selected to become a
part of a provisional regiment. includ-
ing a band. to be sent TO Fort Riley,
Kan next fan to take part in the an.
nual army m.neuvers, the exact date
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
RENTING PROPERTY

10 my exclusive business. do not
sell, rent nor trade; SO by devoting
my entire time to renting prope rty
can better take care Of your inter.
est. D. w. BOYCE.
Aug. 3.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24
RYAN'S ChiArRHLiNE

Is Gods gift to man. 1t is positive
erre for catarrh OF the head and nose
hay fever. asthma. headache and will
oure cold in one nights time. For
ale at ali drug stores.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24

No. Cordelia, a woman isn't neces.
sarily out OF yarn when she knits her
brows.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-24

It never takes girl long to learn
better than to wear rings on the hand
she is going to put under the dinner
table
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
Living in Hot Water.

There is a pond at Golconda, in India, which is fed by the waters from some hot springs. This pond has an area of two or three acres, and the temperature of the water is about 75 degrees, and in some places where the hot water bub. bles up from the bottom the tenn perature is almost at boiling point. Recently a discovery has been made that this warm lake is literally alive with carp, some of which are more than a foot long. All efforts to catch them with a hook and line have failed, and they will not touch the most tempting bait. A few of them have been shot, and, contrary to the general supposition, the flesh was found to be firm and palata. ble,
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
ALL GAVE HIM PENNIES.
How a Crowd of Urchins Got Even
 with a Conductor.

"All this talk about pennies re- minds me of funny experience l had about 12 years ago, when l was working on the Elizabeth line" said the trolley conductor, according to the Newark News. "One Saturday morning about dozen boys, all of lem in the neigh borhood of ten years of age, got on my car in Elizabeth. They were bound for Newark, and l found out from their talk that they had been to football game be- tween their school and one in Eliz abeth. Their side had won and the whole bunch was feeling es- pecially good.
 "When l collected their fares one boy passed out five pennies. l must have been feeling mad that morning, for I got a little huffy, and let the kid know it. He didn't say anything, but l noticed him some time afterward talking to some of his companions. What he said or did was evidently good joke, for they all began to snicker as if there was something doing. Well, sir, you know we take up a second fare from Newark passen- gers near Waverly, and when l reached that gang of boys to col feet seven out of the bunch showed out the dingy coppers. grew hot ter and hotter as each one gave me his little pile of pennies, and the whole outfit almost passed away with glee as they watched me stack them up and put them away. l was pretty sure that the lad who had given me the pennies in the first place was the one who put up the job, so I went up to him.
 Say, kid,' said, 'the joke is on me. Tell me how you got all the pennies.'
 Well, I'll tell you, mister he replied, with grin. You See, I wanted to get to that game this morning, and I didn't have any 
 money except in my savings bank, so 1 broke it open. There was about a dollar in it, mostly in pen nies, and l brought it all along. You got made when I gave you pennies the first time, and thought I'd pay you back by giving the other fellows pennies to pay their second fare with. Seer
 "I see,' said I, and you're cer- tainly very slick article.'
 That" concluded the conduc. tor, "is the worst experience ever had with pennies"
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
ADVICE OF SETH GREEN.
Tends Strictly to Business and Does t
 Watch His Companion.

Years ago, before that good fel low, practical angler and acute stream observer, Seth Green, passed away, it was my privilege to spend many days with him on the stream, particularly Caledo- mia creek, on which the New York state hatchery then stood and now stands, says Outing. The value of an angling commission with such man is beyond esti- mate. A quotation from a letter he once wrote me will better and more tersely answer the query 1 recently received from a young angler who wants to know "how to fish for trout" than any words of mine can possibly do.
 ''In the first place when I go a-fshing, l go fishing. Idon't hear the babble of the brook; I don't see the futtering bird, nor the silvery leaves, nor the beautiful sky. Neither do l fish anybody else's line. l finsh my own and l don't watch my companion, if I have one. l don't care whether he gets a bite or not. l am attending to my own business and looking for a good place to east. am looking for the fly that is on the wa ter and to see if there is rise. If see one, no matter if it is ten rods away, mark the place and make for it. l don't run, but go quietly along and keep fishing; and when I get within casting dis tance I drop my fly a little short and if l don't get rise the next cast is made directly on the spot on which the trout rose. My fly does not go with thud as though l wanted to hit the bulls eye, but it touches the water as lightly as a fond mothers hand touches the brow of loving child that she loves better than can find words to express. l am just as sure of rise, too, as the fond mother is that the child will roll it's loving eyes to her face with an express sion that says to her: I am yours.' feel that when my fiy drops so gently on the water with. out making a ripple, that the fish is mine."
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
BABY SQUIRREL ovERBoARD.
With Skill and Gentleness the Mother
 Rescued Youngster,

"1 was very much amused and very much instructed recently" said man who lives in the coun- try, according to the New York Mail and Express, "by the antics of mother squirrel in my section, and while I have grown up, as might say, among squirrels and cypress trees, it was a revelation to me. The squirrel had nestled in low, dumpy cypress close to the edge of lake, and the nest was probably 30 or 40 feet from the ground. The mother squirrel hap pened to be in the tree at the time, although l had no occasion to no. tice either the old squirrel or her young until something tragicaI happened in the family. In some way one of the little fellows scrambled over the edge of the nest and fell to the ground. I heard the noise, and, looking in the direction of the sound, I saw the baby squirrel squirming around in great agony and totally unable to get on it's feet. The mother squirrel rushed down the side of the cypress like a streak, and almost in an instant she was by the side of her offspring. She took in the situation at glance and set to work to get the young ster back in the nest. She switched the body around and turned it over and then grabbed it with her teeth just under the smaller portion of the back. In, stinctiyely, I suppose, the young squirrel threw it's arms around the mothers body and after she made sure that the hold was good she started cautiously back to the nest. She reached there safely and l saw no more of the dis. tressed mother nor the youngster. was very much impressed with the gentleness and skill she dis played in handling the injured baby squirrel, and really it was an inspiring scene"
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
WITH NATURE IN THE WOODS.
This Time We Go There, However, Without g Rowling Piece.

I think the day will come, and it Is not, perhaps, so distant as it seems, says Julius Norregard, in Success, when the idea of killing anything for pleasure will seem So strange as to be scarcely credi- ble. The Anglo-Saxon's pro Ferbial pastime of going out and killing something will seem hard py less amazing than the gladia- torial shows.
 An, yes! to know all the birds of the wOod-without gun! With a gun how can one know them, what fascinating knowl- edge man misses! A dead bird A handful of blood stained feath- CTS! Little more than that. Car riOn for the sexton beetle or for the feasting fly. But the living bird-what a vivid, mysterious creature it is, with it's lovely bright eyes, and those sad vowels in it's throat It seems strange to think of what that little head knows, secrets of nature eternal, ly hidden from us. Is not the bird itself one of natures secrets? The woodland, which to us is wilder ness, is to him city, of which he knows all the streets and all of the inhabitants. All the invisible highways of the air are to him like well-trodden paths, and when he darts off in that apparently casual way he very we'll knows whither he is going and what busi- ness takes him. When he sits and whistles by the hour on some swaying pinnacle of the green wood there is some meaning in all beyond the music. That meaning will ever be hidden from us. If we could know it, as Tennyson said of the "fower in the cran, nied wall," we "should know what God and man are"
 If, instead of shooting the bird, scotching the snake, smashing the beetle and pinching the tiny life out of the butterfly, we were to watch any one of these creatures on a summer day, the day would pass like an hour, so packed with exciting experience it would seem. Through what mysterious coverts of the woodland, into what a haunted underworld of tunneled banks and hidden ditches and SC cret passages the snake would show us the way; and we should have strange hearts if, as we thus watched it through it's mysterious day, we did not find our dislike of the clever little creature dying away, and even changing into a deep tenderness towards the small, self-reliant life, so lonely a speck of existence in so vast a world.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
Nordica's First Husband.

Mme. Nordica's first marriage, to Mir. Gower, of telephone fame, came to mysterious and dramat- ic conclusion. With the object of testing his steering apparatus for balloons, Mir. Gower essayed to cross in a balloon from France to England, and was never seen again. The probability is that he perished in the Cha al. but his fate has always been a matter of speculation.
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
JACK JONES,

The Crack Barber, keeps neat and busy little shop. Upper end of Front street. Expert tonso- rialists. Easy slaves and the best hail cuts. Our work pleases.
 "C ome on, ye stubby beards."
Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
CANADA AND THE LAKES.

Special rates via the Iron Mountain Route to points in Canada, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. Tickets on sale to September 3Qth, return limit Oct. B.. 7btf THos. H. REAMEY, Agt.