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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06

to me, suspiciously about and sad;
Well are yau tired of your job?,
had to admit that it VAS getting a bit
tedious, but he laughed and said that
he'd raised my wages to $40 a week
right off. And he did But at last.
one night about midnight, as | lay
tossing never coud sleep more than
six or seven hours in tWenty-four-l
suddenly heard his voice right at my
elbow II asked if | was asleep, and
when said no, he told me he'd like for
me to step into his laboratory. III
give you another raise he said, If
you'll do something for me in the day
time He had a lot of plaster of paris
and showed me how to make it into
kind Of paste, like clay and he gave
me a jug of acid and lot of Old
pewter and showed me how to polish
up the metal. The next morning l
noticed that his door was open and |
judged that his intention was for me
to get busy. That day was Saturday,
but | didn't find my envelope in its
usual place. But | had some saved
and wasn't worried, now that had
something to occupy my mind.
"Broderick didn't show up for an
other week, and then, finding his doors
locked | concluded he had returned.
My hands were all stained UP with
tie acid and my finger nails We're
chalky with the plaster but ! found
my envelope that morning and two
weeks pay--thirty dollars-and all in
gold | was surprised and delighted,
you can bet. and that day at dinner
walked over 10 the avenue and bought
myself a new overcOat | got back to
the fiat, my fat had commenced to
call it, but | wasn't there ten minutes
before there was a ring at the bell.
| went to the door and saw two men,
one TIE clerk who had sold me the
c, orcoat and tie other a strapping big
lrishman., with a fur cap and his coat
collar turned up. I asked them what
they wanted, and for answer the big
man put his foot in the slightly opened
door and pushed in. The clothing
clerk looked pretty scared and guess
| did too, but the Irishman sat down
and explained the whole trouble.
Yer silver amt so bad lookin',' he
said. but yer gooid's a dead giveaWay.
Where's Yer layout?' I didn't under
stand fully until he began to search
the house Broderick's back rooms
were a ounterfeiter's den, and on my
hands were the acids and plaster of
his trade | never saw either my en-
plOyer or his wife afterwards. but
when it comes to an easy scapegoat,
| think I've got the whole world beat.
john H. Raftery, in Chicago Record
Herald
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06
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The
Graphie's 8
BrOderiCk's Great Invention

The convicts had the freedom of the
"bull-pen,' or exercising room, duriIG
the holidays, and No. 1T, who was in
for defalcation, had been explaining to
No. 302, how easy it was for lot of
gambling directors to make a bank
cashier scapegoat for their misdeeds.
''Talking about scapegoats, said
302. Il think can beat your expert
cnce all hollow. 1t happened like this.
I'd been in town about four weeks,
looking for a job, tramping the streets
all day and reading all kinds of adver
tisements. Finally | answered one
with M 13' or something like that to
it, and in few days got a letter ask
ing me to call at an address in Blake
street was down to my last dollar
about then and it didn't take me half
The man who let me in was a square
jawed, solemn-looking chap wearing
dresser like a man with a lot of money
He took me into the parlor and | SAN
right off that the place was furnished
to beat the band. He wanted to know
what | could do, and | had to admit
that had no trade unless you could
call bookkeeping a trade. DO you know
anything about chemistry or geology
or mechanical engineering?' he asked.
OF course | didn't. but | said that
thought could learn to help around
at any kind of work. DO you know
anything about tools, or Inventions?
ne asked me, and when | said no, eS-
pecting to hear him end the deal. he
surprised me by saying, Well, be
lieve you're the very man I'm look:a3
for
"He explained that he was an in
ventor and had been busy for some
time on contrivance that would revo-
lutionize certain branches of trade
and make him enormously rich. His
name was Broderick, he said. and all
he wanted me to do was to assume the
ownership Of the contents Of the flat
and keep visitors and everybody away
from the two back rooms. He said
that if did exactly what he wanted
for three months he'd give me a bill
ef sale for the furniture and effects
of the place besides s. week wages
to be paid every Saturday. was ~
stay in the flat all the time eXcept
while eating my meals, go to bed not
later than 10 at night and never open
up the rooms till i'll the morning.
The two back rooms. a kitchen and
a dining room. he reserved for himself,
saying that nobody but his wife should
be admitted to them under any cir
cumstances. He admitted that he and
his wife boarded in another place.
and that he was compelled to make
arrangements of the kind mentioned
for purposes of absolute secrecy. i
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06

generally work at night. he explained
nay brain and hand work better then
and besides I'm pretty sure not to be
disturbed. go home about in the
Crning
Il told him I'd try to please him. and
We struck a bargain. | was to tell
everybody that had bought the fiat S
contents and that Mr. Roderick had
moved away. Ii looked like a very
snug layout, and as he insisted that
there was absolutely nothing for me
20 do except to tend the place as il
it were my own. keep all visitors eN
cept his wife out and never mention
the secret nature of his business.
was delighted with the place. Then
as a matter of good faith he led me
into his locked rooms. They looked
like machine or jewelry shop, all lit
tered with tools, cigar boxes, jugs,
bottles and barrels. He + ! convert,
ed the gas range into kind of black
smiths furnace, and | noticed that the
windows We're boarded up on the in
side. He gave me bunch of keys
and showed me the magazines, in the
front rooms and bookcase full oi
books, all novels and told ME to &c
try fnC wool,
1T went all right for the first two
or three days. and then | began to get
the door at the end Of tha ball which
led into his laboratory. and the empty
house, with no company, began u get
on my nerves. | didn't know an.bodf
in tONn but Mr.. BrOsieIi@k had express
ly forbidden ne to have company.
Sometimes in the night when | could
not sleep | could hear vague sounds
of tinkering from his quarters, but /
didn't see hill again for nearly two
weeks. On Saturday morning | found
my wages in a small yellow envelope
on the hall seat, and that night, about
g O'Clock Mrs. Broderick-thc Wife
came to the door | knew her at once
because She called my name, said chat
her husband had gone ont of tow!
for few days and that she hal no
key To t0a rear entrance. | t0lt' her
that ha0 n0ne either but she insist
ed tat try my best to let her into
Yer husbands laboratory. | did try,
but faiieI and she went away very
fuch a:...os,.G3, :!,.e;;.ght after asking
me if any visitors had called and If
any letters had come for them. No
body had called and no letters ever
came. Even Broderick let himself in
in and out by the back door of the flat
never came into the forward rooms,
and, so far as | could discover. never
came to the building at all in the
daytime.
After I'd been there about month
he came in one night by the front
door, looked caustiou-ly and, It seemed
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06
EO0SnE ELT AGAINST II
-ISAFPRoYC6 TIE CoMSCLtoA-
TION or CHLAf40MA. AND TIE
lNDIAN TERRITORY.
,4e Plainly States That }7is Reasons
Are Political ard he VIII Veto
gevesidee's Bill.

Washington Jan -Fre~ident Roo
"vclt does not favor the consolidation
of Oklahoma and Indian tcrittHicy in
to one state and it's admission 10 the
Union He expressed himself plainly
ON that point this afternoon To a sena-
toriaI caller. Hc went furthar, and
strongly intimated that if the BeNer-
ld@e substitute for the house onnihit5
bill should be passed he would veto
the measure.
The presidents reason for opposing
the amalgamation of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory. as expressed today,
are purely political. Oklahoma alone
is Republican. The Indian territory is
largely settled by immigrants from
Arkansas. Missouri and other Demo
cratic states. Is consolidation With
Oklahoma would make a Democratic
state. with a present majority of from
| 40 000 to $4,000. which would steadily
| increase It is net desirable to admit
! surely Democratic state. when the
admission of Oklahoma alone would
mean Two additional Republican sena-
tors
The attitude Gf the president will
prove embarrassing to the Republican
| leaders. who are seeking to defeat the
omnibus statehood bill by a compro-
mise measure providing for tie dd
mission of Oklahoma and the Indian
territory as one state. They are still
further bothered by the presidents S in
timation that he Will not approve the
omnibus bill if it reaches him for sig
nature.
AS it now stands the statehood fight
promises to be long and bitter. Sena,
tor Quay those favoring the omnibus
bill undoubtedly have a majority and
can pass the bill whenever a vote is
reached. The policy of the leaders
must be to prevent a vote until suffici-
ent strength is coaxed away from Mr..
| Quay to leave him in the minority.
The omnibus bill may thus remain
as the unfinished business for the en-
tire session and prevent important leg
islation, including an antitrust bill.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06
NOTICE ITO STOCKHOLDERS.

The eleventh regular annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Pine
Bluff Brick company will be held at
the companys Office between the hours
the 9th day of January, 1908, for the
purpose of eleeting directors for the
ensuing year, and for the transaction
of such other business as may come
before the meeting.
A. BREWSTER, Secretary.
Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 20, 1902.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06
NOTICE ETO STOCKHOLDERS.

The 9th regular annual meeting
of the stockholders of the Merchants
and Planters Bank, Of Pine Bluff, Ar
kansas, for the election of directors to
serve for the ensuing year, and for
the transaction of any business that
may properly come before them, will
be held at the rooms of the asso2ia-
ton in the city of Pine Bluff, Mon lay,
January y, 1908, between the hours
of ten O'Clock a. m and twelve o'clock
noon. A. D. FOSTER,
Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 10. Cashier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06
NOTICE.

Bids will be received until January
10, 1908, from parties to furnish sup
per for Brotherhood of Locomotive
Fireman's ball, to be given January q,
1903. w. C. FISHER,
Chairman Supper Committee,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06

1t sometimes happens that a man
is SO reserved in his manners that
they become rusty from disuse.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-06

You can always get a few pointers
on insect life from the Leehive.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
A Queer Adoption.

About the queerest adoption which
has come to notice is reported from
Maryville, Mo. One bill" Porter of
that town found three young wolves
in the woods near by. lie brought
them home and gave them to his setter
dog, who had a litter of puppies She
Immediately received the whelps into
her family and mourned greatly when
two Of them were stolen. The third .
doing well under its strange condi.
tions.-New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
ma SONG o. THe CAMP.


w -'rN"tH AHN SURE
Iayarl Taylor was born in Pennsylvania
m lel1. Ut Wa. connected with the New
York Tribune l8i050 Most ~ his NE was
spent % travel ln 1853 he Joined pcry's
expedition TO Japan. lie corcspondcd
WIN lhe American papers, and ON hls rc.
turn % This country he lecturcd. From
ls0203 be- lived nj 81. Petersburg "a Score
iary Of The legation there Tie died M Bor-
I'm. where he was United States Minister.
ln 1873 lie has written Of bis travels has
Translated Gocthc's Faust and was be-
udes a poet and novelist.
Give us a song." the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding
When The heated guns OF the camps allied
Grew weary Of bomharding.
The dark Rcdan. in silent SCOT.
Lay grim and threatening under;
And the taWny mound OF the MulakoT
No longer beich'd rs thunder
There was a pause. A gardsmau said;
We storm the forts tomorrow.
sing while we may. another dav
VIII bring enough OF sorrow"
They lay upon the hattery's side,
Below the smoking cannon;
Brave hearts from Severn and from Civic
And from the banks O.. Shannon.
They sang OF love and not Of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glogy;
Each heart recalled q different name,
But all sang Annie Laurie"
Voice after voice caught uD the song,
Until It's tender passion
Rose like an anthem rich and strong
Their batt,c-eye confession.
Dear Cir. her name he dared not speak,
But as the song grew louder
Something uron the soldiers cheek
Washed of the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkenjng ocean burned
The bloody sunsets embers,
While the Crimean valleys learn'd
How English love remembers.
And orcc again q fire of he'll
Rand on the Russian quarters.
With scream Of shot and burst Of shell.
And believing of the mortars!
And Irish Nora's ewes we're dim
For a SINGER dumb and CORY;
Ard English Mary m0urns for him
Who sang of Annie Laurie"
S'cep, soldiers! still in honord rest
Your truth and va)or wearing;
The bravest are the tendercst-
The loving are the daring.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
A curLous surgleal DIscovery.

An old soldier living at Suguy, in
the Ardennes, who was shot in the
war Of 1870, afterward had the bullet
removed. During an operation which
he has just undergone the surgeon
found a penny, dated 1856, deeply en-
bedded behind the bullet scar. Il was
bent, and had evidently been carried
BY the bullet fron the mans pocket
into Sic flesh.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
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i.GzS.@.REgRES.....s.2. J.
AAeI IN F1,t 4

Peanut SandWiches-Cut slices Of
bread into rounds with biscuit cutter:
spread each piece with little whipped
cream; pound some peanuts quite small
and sprinkle thickly over the cream.
These are delicate for afternoon lunch
cons.
Rice Corn Bread-Add a cup Of hot
boiled rice TO a scant quart OF white
conmeal; beat in q tablespoonful Of
shortening and four eggs, add a pinch
Of salt and a teaspoonful Of soda and
enough buttermilk to make thin bat
ter; bake in deep pan. r
Mock Oysters-Chop one can of cornA
very fine; add to it one taaspoCnful Of
salt, a little pepper, two eggs weH
beaten, one-half cup of -four; the NIX
ture should be stiff enough to drop
from the spoon; fry in hot fat; drain
Oh paper; arrange On a folded naphiR.
Date and Apple Prepare
apples same as for apple sauce, an
when partially cooked add an c1uaf
quantity of stoned dates and stir and
COOK until latter are tender; then press
al through a sieve; return 10 the FIRE
and cook until all are quite dry ard
hrm, then add sugar and butter tc
taste and cook a while longer. uutl
as stid as before. Cool and add the
whites Of four eggs beaten ye-y stiff.
to one and a hale cupfuls Of the sauce
Stir the egg whites in as lightly as
p:ssible to mix. Serve hcaEel in
glasses or turn into a pudding dish and
sprinkle with powdered sugar and
bake in a slow oven for twenty oe
twenty-five minutes. Serve Tith apri
cot, orange or hard saEee. -
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07

at-ffszs1ll-tsa
never may. My husband stood beside
The bed, hls eyes glaring with insanity
and in his hand a large knife. Take
them AWAY DE screamed. The howI-
ble things they are crawling an over
me. Take them away. ! say and he
dourIshcd the knife IN the air. Re
g1rdiess OF danger / rushed mp TO the
bed ANA my heart seemed suddenly to
cease beating There lay my children.
covered with their life blood slain by
their own father! For a moment 7
could not utter a sound. / was liter
ally dumb In the presence Of this terri.
bic sorrow. / scarcely needed the ma
Mae at my slde-the man who had
wrought me all this woe Then / ut
tered n loud scream, ard my wailings
filed the air. The servants heard me
and FASTENED to the room, and when
M husband saw them he suddenly
drew the knife across his own throat.
! knew nothing more / was borne
sensclass from the room that contained
/ my slaughtered children and the body
Of my husband. The next day my hair
was white ana my mind so shattered
| thot knew 10 ONE
She ceased! Our eyes were rivcted
upon her wan face, and some Of the
women present sobbed aloud while
there was scarcely n dry eve in that
temperance meeting. So much sorrow
we thought, ana through no fault OF
her own. We saw that she had not
done sneaking and was Only waiting
to subdue her emotion to resume her
story.
"Two years she continued Il was a
mental wreck; then I recovered from
the shock and absorbed myself in the
care Of my boy. But the sin OF the
father was visited upon the child, and
six months ago my boy of eighteen
was placed in a drunkard's grave, and
as l, his loving mother, stood and saw
the sod heaped over him I said,
Thank God! I'd rather see him there
than have him live q drunkard and I
turned unto my desolate home n child.
less woman-one on whom the hand o.
God had rested heavily.
Girls, it is you wish to rescue frcnf
the fate that overlook me. DO not BIAS
your life as l blasted mine; do not be
drawn into the madness Of marrying +
drunkdrd. You love him? So mucl
the worse for you. for married to him
the greater will be your misery be
cause Of your love. You will marry
and then reform him. so you say. All
woman sadly overrates her strength
when she undertakes to do this. You
are 10 match for the giant demon
drink when he possesses mans body
and soul You are no match for him
I say What is your puny strength
beside his gigantic force? He viii
crush you, too, girls. It is to save you
girls, from the sorrows that wrecked
my happiness that l have unfolded my
history to you. l am a stranger in this
great city. I am merely passing
through it. and I have a message t
bear to every girl in America-nev2I
marry a drunEard"'
can see her now as she stood thert
amid the hushed audience, her darl
eyes glowing and her frame quiyerin:
, with emotion as she uttered her impas
stoned appeal. Then she hurried on
: and we never saw her again. He
words City spoken" were not with
out effect, however, and because O
them there is one girl single now.-Se
iected by Editor J. II. Walsh.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
THE SUMNER Hom-.

gomo furnishing Hints From an EEpcrt
Decorator.
She rs woman who furnishes sum-
MGR homes for people of wealth. Beus
q woman. she knows far better thau
ten men what Is needed in q home
no matter what man gaycth 90 the
contrary.
Having plenty Of money at her com
maud she can get the be., and the
newest. So her ideas are worth know
Ing. For there Is no law against op.
proprlatlng such Of them as may hfs
carried out at less cost, II oae's meal
are limited. ii
DO not move furnishings from city
home TO the summer abiding pace. II
is q mistake, for the idea Is 20 set away
from the formal furnishing of town
and produce that complete change OF
surroundings which is such tonic 10
tired nerves and bodies.
As a rule, people try to put too much
into a summer home The better way
IS to plan carefully, but to seek to
produce an effect Of space rather than
oyer-crowding.
Do not decorate the walls with gay
Powered papers, as one wants 20 get
away from wall paper in the summer.
Stained or painted walls are the best,
and il of white plaster do them in
burlap, in denim or in mating, dife-
ent rooms in different ways. IL can
be tackled over the walls, hanging as
neatly and as closely as wall paper,
but giving that rich look that one
finds only in studios in town, for Tie
artists all use burlap for thciy wall
1 For the floor grass mating IS OK
cellent for sitting rooms and dining
rooms. or, if the floors be Of hardwood.
there are the rugs Of grass mating Or
| the iute rugs from Japan that come
I in such gay colorings. Mating how
ever, is cleaner than rugs, and unless
there are plenty Of servants, il is
more economical floor covering.
For windows, dotted Swiss and
rufled curtains arc prettiest neatly
hung and tied back so that the sum-
mec winds viii not play havoc with
them.
There should be just a few p.ctarasi
in the summer cottages, and these
should be different from the pictures
in the town house Posters framed
and the popular hunt pictures make the
best pictures for country homes
Rattan furniture is always cool, com.
Portable and easy to move. The NJ
weathered oak is good for a dinjn
room and hall, and there should 30
plenty of commodious piazza chairs
and rattan settees or couches.
For table furnishings in the summer
home nothing is prettier OF more suita--
bic than the blue and white Japanese
china that is SO plentiful just now, hut
which many people DO not care TO use,
because of its ineXpensiveneSs. Yet
this is just what recommends it to the
summer cottaser-philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
Constant Adrertislnr.

The people come to have a feeling Of
personal acquaintance with and friend.
illness for an establishment whose ed.
vertisement they see every day in their
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07
A Thoughtful wife.

Every thoughtful wife has a suspi-
cion that q million dollars may fall
into her husbands lap any minute, and
she has the list of the things she Will
buy then all made out.-New York
Press. -
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07

The carm colony for inebriate women
at Duxhurst, England. has applications
from 5000 women d year in excess Of
the number Ii can accommodate.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-08-07

~ ~G meeting and spoke as fol
= lows:
kzO=5 Married to a drunkard.
!l9L llglIj Yes, I was married to a
dlunKara. Look at me! I am talking
to the girls"
We all turned and looked at her. She
was a wan woman, with dark, sad eyes
and white hair, placed smoothly over a
brow that denoted intellect
when I married a drunkard l
reached the acme of misery" she
continued, Il was young, and Oh.
so happy! I married the man I
loved ard who protested to love me.
He was a drunkard and I knew it.
knew it, but did not understand it.
There is not a young girl il this build
ing that does understand it unless she
has a drunkard in her family; then
perhaps, she knows how deeply the
iron enters the soul Of a woman when
she loves and is allied to a drunkard,
whether father, husband, brother or
son. Girls, believe me when tell you
that to marry a drunkard, to love a
drunkard, is the crown Of all misery. |
have gone through the deep waters and
know. have gained that fearful
knowledge at the expense Of my hap
piness, sanity, almost life itself. Do
you wonder my hair is white? 1t
turned white in q night-'bleached by
sorrow as Marie Antoinette said OF
her hair. l am not forty years old,
yet the SHOWS Of seventy rest upon my
head, and upon my heart-ah! I can
not begin to count the winters resting
there" she said, with unutterable pa
thos in her voice.
My husband was a professional
man. His calling took him from
home frequently at night, and when he
returned he returned drunk Gradu-
ally he gave way to the temptation in
the day until he was rarely sober. /
had two lovely little girls and boy"
Here her voice falt2red, and we sat in
deep silence listening to her story.
my husband had been drinking deep
ly. l had not seen him for two days.
He had kept away from his home.
One night 1 was seated beside my sick
boy; the two little girls were in bed in
the next room into which I heard my
husband go as he entered the house
That room communicated with the one
in which my little girls were sleeping
l do not know why but a feeling OF
terror took possession Of me, and felt
that my little girls were in danger.
arose and went to the room. The door
was locked I knocked on it franti
cally, but no answer came. 1 seemed
10 be endowed with superhumar
strength, and throwing myself with al
my force against the door the loci
gave way the door flew open. Oh, th,
sight! the terrible sightp' she walled
out in a voice that haunts me now
and she covered her face with hel
hands, and when she removed them 4
was whittier and sadder than ever.
"Delirium tremensl You have nevet
seen it, girls. God grant that yol