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THE C. 0. D. MAN
He Tellr How He Caused Strike and
Then Called 1t Off.
n my wanderings ever the land as
dilapidated gentleman l have
of course mot IN with all mia Saa

q dilapidated gentleman l have
of course met up with all phases
of human nature" said the G. 0.
O. man as he pocketed his quarter and
settled down for Il talk. Il can't say
much for it in general. l have found
nine tenths of the people selfish to a
degree. and rarely have | found any
thing like sympathy. The fact seems
to be that everybody, from the tramp
UP, is on the make.
Il WAS thinking the other day of a
little incident that occurred to me in
Pennsylvania two or three years ago.
AS | entered the gate of a farmyard
the We'll caved in on the farmer who
was digging it. The beams and
boards went over him in such way
as to prevent his being Smothered, but
at the same time held him fast There
was no one around but his wife, who
had just got off sick bed. and the
nearest house was two miles away.
didn't lose any time going after help.
l got a shovel and began digging, and
it took five hours Of the hardest kind
of work to release the imprisoned man.
The first thing he did was to fall upon
my neck ana offer me half his posses
sionS. His grateful expressions contin-
ued for half an hour. and then we sat
down to a very plain supper, and he
began to cool off. BY the time we we've
through he said to me:
.''You dug me out of course, but l
was in no great danger and could have
waited unit. tomorrow. I want you to
know that appreciate your work, but
1 do think you ought to pay me ut
least 10 cents extra for this supper
II had the money, and l paid and
left. He offered to let me sleep in the
COW shed and furnish breakfast at
reasonable figure. but thought it best
to jog on.
AT another time. in Ohio farm
1er's team ran away and threw him out.
and he broke his leg. l caught the
horses, got him into the wagon and
drove him home. Then l went for the
doctor, drove to the village druggist
and sat up with the patient all night.
He was profuse in his thanks. telling
me that l should have home with
AAAl AOA Il ytdI, Dul W Hell uuU lC0l tue
stock and milked the COWS next morn
Ing and was ready to tackle the wood
pile he called me in and said:
al have been thinking things over,
and guess you'd better move on. Pro-
visions are very high this fall. and my
wife says you have monstrous appe
tite. Here's Is cents, and hope you
will go into some business and quit
7tramping.
att was bit tough on me-" smiled
the c.. 0. D. man. "but no more than
I might have expected. I walked off
without taking his money. and he did
not call me back
ut was in Indiana that applied to
a factory one day for work, having had
enough Of the highway for awhile. The
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-31
New York Evening Journal.
A TheOlOgical Poser.

An eminent divine, discussing the la
Dor question with friend, had an in
terested listener in his little boy. Dur
ing pause in the conversation the
child said earnestly:
II suppose. father, that even God has
to have workmen to help him to do all
he has to do. Are the angels Gods
wOrkmen?''
The minister, smiling at the childs
serious interest in the great question Of
the day, laid his hand kindly on his
sons head and said. Il think they are,
my son.
Father" said the boy, do you sup
pose that the angels ever strike ?'-New
York Times
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-31

One of natures remedies; can not
harm the weakest constitution: never
fails to cure summer complaints OF
young or old Dr. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry.
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An illustrated Lesson.

"You must never mock anybody, Bob
bic"
"Why not, MAJ"
because it's very naughty, and mock
ers always get themselves into serious
trouble"
They get eated don't they?"
'Why, what put such an idea into
your head?"
ner last night. ma."-Cleveland Plaix
Dealer
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Experiments in "Tie silks".

A syndicate comprising English cap
italists has been formed to promote
the sale Of "tie silks" composed Of 50
per cent wood pulp and so per cent
artificial silk Samples are being SUBJ
mitted to the wholesale neckwear man
ufacturers and considerable expert
nenting is taking place.
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.~r1ost Annoying.

Tess-Yes, my engagement ring is
lovely, but the jewelers. name isn't on
the box it came in.
Jess-That doesn't signify that it isn't
a genuine diamond or
Tess-Of course not, But if l don't
know the jewelers. name how am | to
find out how much George paid for it?
philadelphia Press.
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w. -. DeWoody G. 60. Will Buy it
Back.

You assure no RISK Wien you buy
Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. WI. DeVroody & Co.
will refund your money il you are not
satisfied after using it. 1t is every.
where admitted to be the most sue
plants and the only one that never
fails. It is pleasant, safe and relia.
BILE.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-31

We are now located In our new Of
f1oe at 305 West Second avenue. op-
posite the Pine Bluff Mercantile COM
Of our friends and patrons and also
be glad to receive new ones.
p. B. LIGHT A...D WATER co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-31
Fast Warsh,p for France.

At St. Nazaire the French armored
cruiser Admiral Aube was launched
recently. She IS to steam twenty.
three knots, carry a crew OF 625 men
and will be armed with forty guns
and four torpedo +'@.oe.
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EertainIy Not.

Iaura-I was telling Miss Newrich
about those pretty. cheap washable
suits and advising her to get one, but
she got angry.
Flora-Why?
We'll, l said they We're such pretty
tub suits and she informed me that
she wasn't a Washcrwonann'- Cincin.
natl Commercial Trihuue.
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Enxlish Coronations.

OF all the Edwards who have sat on
:he English throne not one has been
crowned with his queen In Westmin-
ster abbey since Edward l and Flea
nor were crowned there together. that
being the first coronation In me pres
~hbAv
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RENTING PROPERTY

Is my exclusive business. do not
sell, rent nor trade; so by devoting
my entire time to renting property,
can better take care Of your inter.
est. D. w. eoYCE.
Aug. 8.
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YourIsts IN Athens.

Tourists In Athens.
Athens expects to be visited BY
more than 10000 tourists, chiefly Eng
ish and American, during the present
nNrth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-31
Sacred River Of India.

The Indus. the second sacred river
OF India, is LOO miles long. Its wa
ters have always been considered al.
most as holy as those Of the Gauges.
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Not n Gift.

Not n Gift,
"She has the fatal gift of beauty"
''Oh, it's not gift
Mop
Not in her case. It's purchase."-
Brooklyn Eagle.
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rhe Popular Cupid.

On the golf links he's goose,
Hoofs at tennis like d moose
At bridge whist his head is never on the
level.
On the beac he looks guy,
In the ballroom he is shy
But he runs a big Panhard to beat the
devil
philadelphia Ledger
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Taking No Chances.

"Now. George. if you don't eat your
soup you can't have any pie
What kind Of pie is it?'-Chicago
American
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DAMAGE IN NEWARK.
The Passaic Rose Three Feet Above the
Highest Record In Forty Years.

Highest Record In FOrty Years.
Atnoon yesterday the water in the Passaic
River at Newark was seven fest above the
usual height of full-moon tide and three
feet above the highest record in forty years.
The tide was rising until IL o'clock, and
backing up the freshet which was flowing
down the river from nearly half thousand
square miles Of watershed. over which twelve
inches OF rainfall had been precipitated
from the clouds since Wednesday night.
High water came ct 1910 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. Then the stream OF murky water
was flowing st the 1te Of twelve miles an
hour and carrying upon its bubbling sur
face sections OF rotten dock timber.. RATS
OF lumber, barrels full and empty bales
OF hay chicken ooops. pig psns and sections
of picket and rail fencing besides quAntit es
OF loose Arsvood from oarelessly piled
cords which had bosn safe from food for
years. The damage caused by the overflow
cannot be calculated for days TO come but
there 10 public comfort IN the tact that all
OF the bridges between PassAio city aud the
mouth OF The river heid fast and mono Of
the schoonsrs, tugs and bASgss was swept
from It's moorings. although many Of them
were In peril from tho accumulation Of de-
bris around their bows. Tho food began
TO abate before ! O'Clock yesterday AFTER
noon, when the untlerrurient Of tidal flow
abated, and then tie force Of the current
increased.
TIE Bridge sr"t ridge was In danger
at midday eiu lie Plank road trolley line
was held Up again for tho second time In
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TWO SOUND BOATS HELD UP.

City Of Worcester by . Breakdown, New
Hampshire by the Gale.
The machinery on the Sound steamer
City Of Worcester bound from this city
to New London. Conn, broke down at
clock last evening when she was short
distance past Execution Light and about
six miles from City Island.
The Stonington Line steamer New Hamp-
shire, going in the same direction, happened
to be near at hand and. when she saw that
the City Of Worcester was in trouble. went
to her aid. The wind and waves were
kicki ng up such fuss, however. that the
New Ha mpshire could not get near enough
to throw line TO the disabled boat.
The City OF Worcester had come to anchor
by that time and signalled that she was all
right as far as safety was concerned.
The weather was 80 heavy that the New
Hampshire put back TO City Island. Her
captain said she would spend the night there
He sent word OF the trouble to the Offices
of the marine department OF the New Haven
Railroad. Two tugs we're ordered to 60 to
the City of Worcester.
The New London boat has about one hun
dred passengers aboard.
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wading through muck almost knee deer
and forcing their way through . tangle Of
underbrush Ii not to their liking. They
confine their hunting to the more easily
pene trated swamps.
It is an undsputed fact that the most
successful woodcock hunters are the city
sportsmen They find but little leisure
time to enjoy this kind Of hunting, and when
the chance comes to them they are 80 eager
and enthusiastic that no swamp is toe
marshy or brush grown to halt them. They
get into the woodcook' q favOrite haunt.
There are score Of big swamps between
Tuokahoe and Dennisville, over near the
Delaware Bay shore, where the birds nest In
goodly numbers, every spring, and In all
q these places good shooting will un-
Last full . Philadelphia Sportsman who
was on a quail and rabbit hunting TIP
and did his shooting In the big swamp that
runs three miles through the country
between Sea Isle Junction and Dennisvilie
bagged nins plump woodoock, which was
not 90 bad, considering the fact that he
wasn't looking for that kind Of game.
The, open season lasts until Deo. 10. but
long before that time the birds wiz b far
down South.
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twenty -four hours. II was held up IN
two places: at the Paasaic and HAckensack
rivors. Ben weon the Hackcusack River
and the trestle over the Lackawanna Haii-
road the turnpike was flooded to the s'lis
Of the cars, and at Passaic avenue. Harris " >
the water from the river had flooded harm,
son avenue. Passengers we're transferrsN
at the Passsic bridge, but trahic tetw.eE
Jersey City and Newark was q srenced.
The river overlooked the wharvos oi
the Standard Oil Company and TomrkiIt
4 Co. It the foot OF Fourth aNenCe, Ne~arE
and q quickline storchousc was nTaH~
The line wus fired, and Of the 1000 barre
on hand only half were rescued by trucks
and the cars of the Newark and Pa ersor
brar oh OF the Erie. The Newark flr
Department worried for twelve hours 10
prevent the fire reaching the Oil stills arc
HARRISON, M, Oct. 10. All Of the big arc
HIT IL mills and factories aiorg the Paasaf.
suffered cor siGerably from the oveIn,w on
the river YES erday The Marshall Thread
Works, Clark O. " T. Three Works, Nairn
inonum Works. Staniar 4 Lafey Wire
Cloth Works, Hahn 4 Stumpf Tanrery,
Heahley 4 Farmer Trunk Manufacturing
Company, Campbell Bark Mills. Osborn
Paint Works, David Ha,p0r, Carr Ball,
tie Msrirc EnRiT (o'nIary. Spurr %.
the Driver Harris Company ard tire Mile
End Thread Company oil had 70 r'sr erd
opcIa, iors in their works ~c"' 8" Of hccd'fi
enriro rooms or anticirs'icre OF HOOD
before noon when high tide yrs due.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC CLOSES.
UPSTATE FLOOD MAKES THOU
SANDS or MEN IDLE.

0ehenectady's Big Industries Surrender
70 the Rising Waters-Albany Police
men Cover Their Posts In B0ats-LOW
Of Life Reported In Other Towns.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Oct. lo-The works
Of the General Electric Company and the
American Locomotive Company, which to-
gether employ 5000 hands, were Obliged to
shut down to-day on account OF the foods
Both plants were submerged. a. were the
Westinghouse Agricultural Works and the
Alpha Knitting Mills.
The entire western end Of the town along
the river front is under water. which rose
twenty fest The losses are conservatively
estimated at from $4,000 to 100000.
The members OF the fire department
have been rescuing men, women and chill
dren all day. taking them in rowboats from
second story windows.
Several breaks have occurred In the canal
west Of this city and below tho aqueduct.
four miles east. The river and canal are
all in one. 1t is said that navigation cannot
be resumed on the canal this season.
The tremendous flood is already being
used as an argument against the proposed
SlOl, OOO, 900 barge canal. The plans for this
canal provide that the old ditch shall be
abandoned and the Mohawk River used to
Troy.
The opponents Of the scheme In this city
point to the fact that 1t is not within the
range OF human skill to prevent foods Of
this kind, and that had the barge canal
been in operation at this time shipping
would have been wrecked and millions Of
dollars Of damage done to the canal itself.
ALBANY. Oct. l0.-The Hudson River
at Albany tonight showed a rise OF sixteen
feet above the mean low water mark, food
ing the streets in the south end Of the town.
The streets along the wharves and in the
south end are being patroled by policemen
tenement districts are receiving their
supplies OF food and fuel in the same manner.
The Delaware and Hudson Belt Line
tracks between Albany and Troy on the
west side Of the river have been abandoned
all day.
Tho Troy Citizens Line steamboat will
not make the trip to New York tomorrow
night
Division Superintendent Harrington Of
the New York Central Railroad reports to-
night that trains over the Mohawk division
are running On fairly Ky good tine ma, xeD,
out in boat near Delhi yesterday to secure
part Of the contents Of barn which had
been washed away. The craft was over
turned and one OF the men was drowned.
The other swan to tree, where he spent
the night. being rescued this morning.
Morgan Olmsted. liveryInan at Pine
Hill, fell from a bridge over Birch Creek
and was drowned.
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ON foot, picked up the car at the foot OF
the incline near the end OF the bridge
and pushed it up the track. 1t was ratner
perilous work, but the members OF tne
amateur crew wanted to get TO New YORK
and they were willing to take chances
They mounted the car again and worked II
ON. finally getting to Suffern at 10:2 o CLOCK
Yesterday morning. There they got 2
train which, with theferry connection, landed
them 1t the foot OF Chambers street yester-
day afternoon, the first through passengers
from the west over the Erie Railroad IN
nearly forty eight hours. In telling OF
their experiences none Of the pioneers
could say enough In praise OF the conooct
Of Conductor DoremUs.
Although tho Lackawanna was handilnk
It's own and the Erie's suburban tran
pretty generally, it had no through service
ct ali, or rather none beyor d Warrington.
Even tickets that far were sold at the risk
e the purchaser. The Sussex aWision
Of the Iickawanna was tied up. FLOODED
tracks and washouts ear Washington were
the snags to through service.
The New York Central ran its usual
number OF trains, but few were ON time
There u . bad place at Stuyvesent. Two
or three inches Of water are on the tracks
there and trains had to run slowly over ms
place. Tfackwalkers are watching tne
tracks with unusual care night and Gay,
clear to Albany. There are no present
feam Of landslides, but it was sa,d AA
night that Y the rain continues mucn Longer
the Central may have serious trouble.
Tho West Shore was able TO clear up
only its west bourd track yesterday. lnaA
track was used all day all the trains run
ming on delayed schedule.
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MANY MINES FLOODED.
1000 Families Homeless In and About
Scranton. Pa.

SCRANTON, Pa. Oct. IO.-At 4 o'clock
this morning the car barns and power plant
Of the Scranton Railway Company were
flooded and the fires under the boilers were
sxtingutshsd. Since that time street cars
have not run. and it ia doubtful il they will
be going before tomorrow evening.
In addition to nine mines flooded, which
are the Nos and 2, the Coalbrook. the
Ratchet Brook, the Powderly and the
Iarvine OF the Delaware and Hudson
Company, the Richmondale Of the Scranton
Coal Company and the Eriea and the Glen
wood OF the Erie Company, there have
been troubles at great many other COL
heries Of o serious nature.
These include the Dickson and the Von-
storoh mines Of the Delaware and Hudson
Company. The Muskrat breaker of the
Spring Brook Coal Company at Hoosic is
endangered and the engine house has gone
down In the food.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company's dam
at Old Forge broke and the rush OF waters
washed out the Lackawanna tracks there.
Over thousand families, who are home
less In the valley, are being cared for by
neighbors. There will be benefit enter
tainment for them at the Academy Of Music
hero on Monday.
The total loss in the valley is put at
d 100000.
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NEW JERSEY WOODCOCK.
Birds Plenty. but Few OF Them Brought
10 Bag 50 Far This Season.

TucxAHoR, N. j., Oct. lO.-The season
for shooting woodcock opened in New
Jersey on Oct. 1, and number OF sports
men have been through the swamrs along
tho Tuckahoe River every day in search OF
this much przed game bird. In past years
the swamps throughout Cape May ard Cum
berland counties offered the finest kind Of
woodcock shooting. but this season has
brought few birds to the hunters bag.
The summer has been fairly good for their
breeding. and people who had passed through
the swamps where the birds usually have
been plentiful reported seeing them In fair
numbers. In the great swamp that Dor
ders Cedar Swamp Creek, Cape May county,
woodcook find on ideal breeding place. and
the hunter who has made n specially OF gun
trained dog will find rare sport
There are few native sportsmen who
relish woodcook hunting. The labor Of
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AuctlOneer,
SORA SCARCE; CARP BLAMED.
For Lack of Wild Oats, Game Birds Have
Deserted MARYLAND Marshes,

Deserted Maryland Marshes.
DENTON, Md, Oct. 1O.-The shooting sea-
son on the upper Choptank River for the
sors. or water rail, has been open for more
than two weeks, but few birds have been
killed. Over in sout hern Maryland, on the
Patuxent, where the rail is known as the
ortolan, like scarcity Of the birds is
reported.
These two rivers used to be covered in
the season by rail, and many gunners
from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton and other points paid yearly visits to
them. The birds fed in the marshes, & nd
upon the approach Of boat rose in myr-
lads, aflording in their rapid fight exct-
ing sport to expert gunners,
The main reason advanced for the scarcity
Of rail il that the Choptank and Patuxent
marshes, The favorite feeding grounds
Of this bird, are now almost entirely de-
nuded Of wild oats, the principal food Of
the rail Every year for consider BILE
period the oats have been rapidly dimin-
ishing In quantity on the marshes.
1t Ia said that the German carp, against
which so many deeds of evil have been
charged, Is tn5 Cilubb OI me
of he wild oats crop. III, carp is an in
veterate rooter. and its favorite roofing
ground bout the time he oats are spring
ing up is upon lhase mar his.
III, carp feed upon b tender roots Of
this plant, and what they do not eat they
disengage from the bottom and the plant
dies. Eventually the crop is killed.
The blue-winged teal, which years ago
came here in large mum bers along with
the rail and fed chiefly on oats, has about
disappeared as the rail bird is disappearing.
Year by year as the marshes once thick
with oats have grown them in smaller
quantities, the birds have become fewer
in number and in few years hence the
sora, perhaps, will be a stranger In these
parts because OF irremediable conditions.
One OF the things most regretted by
veteran rail rooters in the languishing
of the sport is their future reputation for
veracity. The champion who tells, in
years to come, of having bagged 1850 rail
birds in single day by himself will be in
grave danger Of losing standing In the
community
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FLOOD CAUSES EXPLOSION.


SoMRRvILLE. N. j.. Oct. lO.-The rains Of
yesterday caused the Raritan River to rise
sixteen feet above It's normal level.
The greatest damage in this section was
done at Bound Brook. where at o'clock
this morning water four feet deep was
running swiftly through the main street.
At 1 O'Clock this afternoon three stores
on Main street in Bound Brook which had
been flooded during the early part OF the
day were wrecked by q mysterious ex-
plosion. They were occupied by Gano 4
Dyer. grocers; Lloyd 4 McNabb, druggists,
and La Rue Brothers. mems furniahers.
The proprietors of the stores and several
customers were in them at the time OF the
explosion. John E. Gano was badly scorched
about the head and face, and three Italians
received bad burns and were hurled into
the street. Justice Brampton. who occu-
pied Offices over the stores, was thrown
across the room and had his shoulder dis
located. Tho plate glass windows in all
the stores were blown out.
The explosion is supposed to have oc.
CURED In the cellar Of La Rue Brothers
store, the floor OF which was torn up. There
was considerable gasolene floating on the
water in the flooded district to-day, and it
is believed that quantity OF this was
carried into the cellar and there ignited by
an electric light wire.
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Car Service Crippled In jersey City.

Water from the meadows at the foot of the
hill flowed into the engine room Of the
Public Service Corporations power house
in Prior street, Jersey City, Friday night,
and uuenched the fires Of three out OF ten
engines which run the big dynamos. The
trolley car service was crippled yesterday
for lack Of power and comparatively few
cars we're operated during the day
were obi iged to walk mile or two to reach
the ferries and last night they had to walk
to get home. Many women rode In state
on trucks from the ferry to the Heights.
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Mr.. Durand's Beautiful Goldfish Swept
Down Into Lake Jrs1ne.

Charles W. Durand Of Irvington, N. j.,
has been breeding fancy goldfish with
triple tails, Japanese ffsh. golden ;des and
other high-priced specimens in his several
ponds below his big ice pond. His whole
stock has been swept into the Elizabeth
River by the breaking Of two Of the three
small dams Of the sub-pond.
The Elizabeth River after escaping from
the Irvington ponds flows through several
little miIlponds into Senator kean's big
pond, called Lake Ursino, at Elizabeth.
Lake Ursino has long contained enormous,
argeImouthed black bass "a s whl s,1N WI have
beautiful goldfish. II any escape the bass
they will 60 into Staten Island Sound.