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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
Little Cushions.

There is fad for little cushions.
The woman who likes to be ideally
'cor!fy" in her lounging chair keeps
half a dozen of them in convenient
corners She sticks one down in he'
neck, another under her elbow, another
at her back and the others wherev'
she may want them at the momen
All are about ten inches square and
downy. They snuggle up against any
tired nerve and are vast improve
ment over tnn larger cushions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
s1oI&,Stalii: Trouble.

sam Tate at one time owned q big
cotton plantation Oh the Mississippi
river. Once Tate called on the GOV
"luor OF Arkansas and said, "Governor,
if you're not too busy this morning Id
iike to have ii pardon,
who for
For myself"
"Ah, for Yourself, And what for?"
"Killing n ni-ger''
"When did YOU kill him.
"Oh, haven't Killed him yct-tllou@lit t
I'd Get a pardon in advance, SO Ia ne
wouldn't be ANY trouble @aout it"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
Jobbers, Wholesalers and
Manufacturers
OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
FOX BROS, HARDWARE CO.
HARD WARE.


FOX BROS, HARDWARE CO.
cutlery Mill Supplies All shipped
Fair Dealt satisfied
in Of Is
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24

-. a t,a"sn nol 49,. no.. r1n:..
= is IL srit.' y p".,S3,lr',. Il l4..le..-4.
Alatarial ant! mofliol W as=; 4.s,l g.
'.o make if Il l.i# :, * es'' -,
.2~"atnAss fHem t..osa N..a in. .=:9,s.i=5'=
from :low"}+ ars! sens IA. f',,'4 =.
y SympA+Antic nat"~nS VIII IN t1fair 9:
arriSn of sympathy can sIy a,s'i' IL.
tyranlly of thp broom and the ;Wir
f,uty oI cndirSs Selni}litnG
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24

mere ian,i.arj>"l axes. but inirts of
! the SEA With channels binding us To the
| great ocean beyond" And the tides Of
| power which enter ON souls are from
| the eternal world. Rev Charles G. Al
berfSon. M"thod!St. G"r:,lan:ow,'. IA
All suiH"iency of the Gospel.
" hat. after ali Is Worth WuIt III this
world? What. think yon, is l)"ttting
the enthusiasm of an Immortal i:;iii:
Only that one idea w,,icl, is big enough
and worthy enough to embrace, all 9th
or conceptions. Such is the gospel
What themes II offers to the earnest
man for solemn and sublime rln,iue!,c,
The most sublime subjects are prcSen.
ed. the most important interests ar.
discussed. the most tender motives are
ursed.-Rrv DR.. w W. Lundr,lm.
Baptist. \ tllnta. Ga
DcvcloDment of Character.
Character is not born; it is developed
1t springs not up in Il night. as Il .Jo
mains gourd; it grows gradually. I.y-
man Beecher once said 1T took forty
years. when some one asked him the
question, How long did it take to
write that serrnon?' Ry that Mr.
Beecher meant that every years work
was a preparation for the following
years work. Every act Of our present
day is dependent in more ways than
one upon the actions Of our past.-Rev
DR. Frank De Witt Talmage, Presby-
terian. Chicago
Fruitfulness of Theology.
Theology never saved a man yet and
never will 1t is useless waste of pa
per and printers ink. Any man can
understand the gospel. The men who
write theology do not understand it,
hence the fogs. Turn to the simple
Come" of Christ Jesus Come" is
worth more to human soul than all
the theology of our great church. 1t
was never intended to be preached
Who cares for it? Listen, bishop
elders. Tell your young men to burn
their theologies and take the words of
Christ. The fool can't err there Chill,
dren understand. Rev. William B.
Leach, Methodist. Chicago.
Living For others.
What gives character to your life is
the law that lies behind it. How does
your life center? II it centers in self.
it is not obesing the law Of its natur"
and mlst he dWarfcd and stuntpd
Your business is dragged down into 4,
mean ana sor,lid thing. You cannot
climb to any high honor that this law
OF SpltShN"ss Will not make that honOr
contemptil Il. But if Your life eenters in
others, if it oheNs the law Of Christ,
there is no business so poor ard little
that this law Will not @lorify it, If
your life is bound to The bench or -
1he wheel for The good of others. if yo,!
are y slave that they may be free if
YOU :,re struggling under burdens that
Their burdens may be li"htcnetl, thcn
your dull and uninterpsting business
is tiHnsf@ured into y holy sacrament
Rev Dr. Henry Everston Cobb, Dutch
Reformed New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
The Horne Is For Use.

Neatness in tlsa home is one thing and
state of perpetual house cleaning
quite another. Out Of this latter grows
by degrees the feeling that certain
things and apartments are too good for
daily use. Nothing should be bought
which is considered too fine for the full.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24

We are in a changing. failing world.
The eternal verities are faith, hope,
love- These abide when all else ceases.
Rev. r. s. De Bow, Episcopalian.
Philadelphia.
The Only Qualification.
Justification comes from God. Man
might work forever and then not sue
ceed In balancing his account with the
Supreme Being.-Rev. Luther E. Todd,
Methodist, St. Louis.
Discipline and Education.
God is the ideal, obedience to his dis.
ciple is the true education, and the is
sue Of the educational process is sons
and daughters of the living God.-Knv
C. A. Langston, Unitarian. Atlanta.
Ga.
The Element of Uncertainty.
With all our progress i'll ingenious in
vention and mechanical appliances.
with all Our marvellous conquest OF
time and space, still the element Of nnz
certainty is not yet overcome. - Rev.
Henry Frank, independent. New York
The souls Renewal.
Death doubtless is II time OF the
slouyhing off of many bodily t"mpta
tons. but for Il souls renewal Il direct.
positive. inward. spiritual gr;t." is
needed. and the mere dissolution of the
body is not necessarily a sacrament
conveying and continuing this grace
Rev. A. b. KinsoIvinG. EpiscoI,aian
Brooklyn.
Reverence For the Holy Name.
One of the most iluStrious ANA le.:lrn
ed men Of the last century, Newton, in
clinrd his head every time he pro
nounced the holy name of God When
your lips. my brethren, repeat this holy
name. may YOU always do SO With sen
tinent Of profound veneration thank
fulnrSs and love- Rev o y llehss1
Catholic, Atlanta, Ga.
Philanthr"py and K-!i.ion.
We cannot serve our brother men. or
even have desire to DO SO long, apar'
from the service Of God AS pliiian
thropy is the Legitimate product Of Il
Christian civilization so we can 500
that if all other churches and Chris
tliIi I!Si IL ullt'lS VI our I-tfItl We're tlt'-
stroyrd it Woulii not be Ion. before oui.
institutions OF linrcy would Wit',l- alni
decay. Rev + Talbot! EpiSc0p:.iian
Washington
The STA of IniInt.rs.nce.
There are two GLASSES OF WrOnglori'S.
described in the Eii5it rs those Who's"
sins 60 before them 10 Judgment and
those whose sins follow after To the
latter class belong those who are not
only respectable sinners. but those
whose sins are respectable. Inditf,r
enee To the church is Il very Respectable
sin and has an ent1ee into the most
fashionable society y.-Rev. Bruce Brown.
Disciple, Chicago
EIake Every Life Great.
How much we miss by our ignorance
of Gods plan 10 make every life great.
. He would have us live at the highest
tleyel, in the largest relations, in view
of the SuDlimest realities lie would
l.s,t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
The siH nf In.iIners.ncr
aIake Every Life Great.

How much we miss by our ignorance
of Gods plan TO make every life great,
/ He would have Us live at the highest
Tleyel, in the largest relations, in view
of the s1lD]imest realities lie would
have us know that our lives are not
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-24
Guarantee Bond and
lnVe Stf17e7t GO.
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Subscribed aid L -. g., oc5 ~
l.eserve Fund t5ano 100 ssst5
Capital Stock
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
STOCKS WERE QUIET
MARKET ALMOST DROPPED INTO
STATE OF STAGNATION.
COTTON RELIEVED TENSION.
voREIGN INFLUENCES DEPREss-
ING, BUT TRANSACTIONS SMALL.

ADorOach of Time for Recommending
of supreme Court at Washington,
and Possibility of an Early Deci-
sion in Northern Securities Case,
served as Possible Repressive
influence Upon Market - Bonds
We're Duh and Heavy-TOtaI Sales
of stocks for the Day Aggregated
224.OOO Shares.
Now York, Feb. 1S.-The stock market
dropped into stagnation to-day. The
unvtllingness of the professional trad
ers 20 follow the selling movement of
yesterday was striking evidence of the
rigid limitations upon the movement of
the current market. Even the traders
are few and timid, and this fact is ac-
cepted as the common explanation of
the immobility of the market.
The way in which some very large
offerings of Baltimore and Ohio, and of
Pennsylvania were absorbed at the OPP
ening gave a suggestion of support of
potential character that may have in
undated the bear element. This sell
mig was pTOIHpISu ny Tue accurate
knowledge that definite advance to-
wards a settlement of the Gould-Penn-
sylvania conflict had miScarried. Wa
bash preferred was also sufferer.
Another snow storm gave warning
Of further impairment of railroad earn
ings of kind which the Baltimore and
Ohio January statement was a discour-
aging example with it's decrease in net
earnings of $7S5,O00 from the preceding
January.
The southwestern railroads have suf-
fered less than others from this cause,
Notwithstanding cold weather in that
section: but this affords a
snow protection for wheat which
has been much needed. This
may have accounted for rela-
4 tive firmness in some of the South
western Changers. United States pre-
4 ferred also showed the benefit of the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
shippinE NIemoranda.

Brunswick, Ca, Feb. 1S.-Arrived,
barkentine Daisy Reed, Mitchell, New
York.
Cleared, schooners ]. B. Drake, Saw
yer Marjorie Brown, thompson; Marie
Palmer. Campbell, all New York.
Sailed steamer Algonquin, Staples,
Boston via Charleston.
Key West, Feb. 1S.-Arrived steam
ers Lampasas, Staples, New York, and
sailed for Galveston; tug Osceola,
Guantanamo. Spoken, schooner Rob
ert A. Snyder, New York, for Tampa.
Punta Gorda, Fla, Feb. 1S.-Clear-
ed, schooner Cordelia E. Hays, Ross,
Norfolk.
Pensacola, Fla, Feb. 1S.-Cleared,
steamer Manchester Spinner; (Br),
Mann, Port Inglis; bark Auguste
(Ger), Behrens. Rotterdam.
Jacksonville, Fla, Feb. 1s.-Clear-
ed schooner Silver Leaf (Br), Salter,
Fort de France.
Steamer Ell Siglo, Boyd, from New
York, reports, Feb. is, fifteen miles
north of Forvey Rock passed Nor
wegian steamer Tiger of Tonsberg,
bound from Norfolk, Va, for Vera
Cruz. 2o
Charleston, S. c., Feb. 1S.-Arriv-
ed, steamers Arapahoe, Kemble, New
York, and proceeded for Jacksonville;
Capac, (Br), Rose, Valparaiso; Apache.
Staples, Jacksonville, (and proceeded
for New York;; schooners Charles K .
Buckley, Rulon, New York; Laura C.
Anderson, Highbee, New York; Gladys,
Tucker, Newport News; Waccamaw,
Price, New York. sns ss8lvvg
Sailed steamer Iberia (Nor), Jackson,
BaracOa.
Philadelphia, Feb. IS. = Spoken,
schooner j. w. Balano from Jackson
vile, Feb. IA, for Portland, on Feb.
IA, Frying Pan hghtship bearing south
west by west, thirty miles with fore
gait gone. British steamer Westover,
for Jacksonville. |
Baltimore, Feb. 1S.-Arrived. steam
er Chatham, Savannah.
Philadelphia, Feb. ,1S.-Cleared
steamer Allegheny, Savannah.
Manchester, Feb. 17.-Arriyed. Baw-
try Savannah.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19

more confident tone of trade authorities
over the outlook.
Copper suffered from the renewal of
the copper litigation in the New York
courts.
rally in the cotton market may
have relieved fears of money troubles
from speculative losses by the violent
decline in cotton. Foreign influences
were depressing, but the actual trans
actions for foreign account were on an
Insignificant scale. The approach of
the time for reconvening of the Su-
preme Court at Washington and the
possibility of an early decision in the
Northern Securities case is a possible
repressive influence upon the market.
A slight recovery late in the day was
practically all lost and the closing was
stagnant at the lowest.
Bonds were dull and heavy. Total
sales par value $1,175,000. United States
bonds were unchanged on call
Total sales were 224, 200 shares, includ-
ing Atchison, 1000; Baltimore and
Ohio, 25,400; Chesapeake and Ohio.
1900; Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul,
IL, 600; Erie, IL, 100; Louisville and Nash
vile, ZOO; Norfolk and Western. 5OO
Pennsylvania, $4,000; Reading, $780,
Southern Pacific, $500; Southern Rail-
way, 1000; Southern Railway, pre-
ferred, 800; Union Pacific, 14,SO0; Cop
per, 26,600; Brooklyn Transit, $500:
Tennessee Coal, 900; United States
Steel, preferred, 14,100.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
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Nassau time descriptive booklets and other information
CHARLES L. MYERS Manager Jacksonville.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
Coastwise Exports.

1ar - s"l 30 up I1eAils-
pentine, 103 barrels rosin oil, 55,743
feet lumber, 47O packages lard, 81
barrels cotton seed oil, 1856 tons iron,
2S5, sacks clay, 4,447 cases canned
goods, 726 packages merchandise, 1911
packages domestics, S27 packages vege-
tables, packages pineapples, 79s
boxes oranges, $50 boxes soap, 225
sacks cocoanuts, $50 bundles hides.
Philadelphia: Per bark TilIie Baker
--443,033 feet of lumber. John c.. CAL
houn.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
Notice TO Mariners.

Pilot charts and photographic infor-
nation will be furnished masters OF
vessels free of charge in the United
States photographic Office, in Custom
House. Captains are requested to call
at the office. Reports of wrecks and
derelicts received.
This Office operates time ball on
the roof of the Cotton Exchange, drop
ped daily at 12h. com. COS. (Sundays
and holidays excepted). 18th meridian
time. In case of failure the ball is
lowered slowly minutes after II.
Clarence Hatch,
IN Charge
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
FINANCIAL.
WARE 6 LELAND,
BROKERS'
Cotton, Stocks, Grain,

a. BAY STREET. T.. SAVANNAH.
Members
Chicago Board OF Trade.
New York Cotton Exchange.
New York Coffee Exchange.
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
ST. Louis Merchants Exchange.
Milwaukee Chamber Of Commerce
Private wires to Principal Cities.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
MONEY MARKET.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Money on call
steady, 11s@1% per cent; closing bid,
IL, offered at tx. Time loans, steady
90 and 80 days, 91s@4 per cent; six
months, 4@4h. Prime mercantile pap
er, 4%Q5A per cent. Sterling ex-
change, strong with actual business in
bankers bills at $4.S5. S0@4S5.S5 for
demand, and at $4.82.S0@4.S 80. IS for
go days. Poster rates, 81. S31s and 81. "a
and $4.S61a. Commercial bills, 81. S2Ik
ga .S25s. Bar silver, 59Ac. Mexican
dollars, 46hc.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
Foreign Exports.

Havre and Hamburg: Per steam
ship Cairnisla-3e5 bales sea island
cotton, 117,O19 pounds; 1.136 bales round
cotton, 2SS,019 pounds; POI bales square
cotton, $3.50 pounds; 1850 bales square
cotton, 1,276,230 pounds; so bales cot
ton linters, 25,431 pounds; 1888 bales
cotton linters, 82,SS7 pounds; 1922 tons
phosphate rock; 213 pieces pine lum-
ber 12,S77 feet; 1000 barrels rosin, 5O4,-
go pounds .-Strachan & Co.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
A SPLENDID ATLAS.
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Get a good Atlas to make plain the
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
40 THE NORTH AND WEST

Trains arrive Savannah as follows:
No. 20. daily. from New York, WASH
.rgton and Cincinnati. $40 q. in.
No. 81, daily except Monday, from
New York and Washington, 1919 q. m;
No. 80, daily, from New YORK anu
Washington, $40 p. m. -.
No. 80, daily, from all points WosS'
via Jesup, 1859 p. m.
No. 80, daily, except Sunday, iroI'
the West. via Jesup. AGO p. M ,v-..
No. 81. daily, from all points west
via Jesup. 100 p. m. 49,,
All trains arrive and depart troln
the Union Depot.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE, ETC.
Trains 81 and 80. the SOUTH EMS
PALM LIMITED, Superb solid Pun,
man train between st. Augustine ana
New York, composed of Compartments
Observation, Library and Drawlns
room Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars setNe
all meals en- route. .,s,r
Trains 33 and "a. THE NEW YOhN
AND FLORIDA EXPRESS. Nesei-
buled limited trains, carrying Pullman
Drawing-r Sleeping Cars between
Savannah and New York. Dining cars
serve all meals en- route.
TRAINS 20 and 80, THE Washing
TON AND FLORIDA LIMITED.
Vestibuled limited trains, carrying
Pullman Drawing-room Sleeping cars
between Savannah and New FORK.
Dining Cars serve all meals en- route.
Also Pullman DIawing-room Sleeping
Cars between Savannah and Cincin-
natl, through Asheville and THE Land
of the Sky"
For information as to rates, sched-
ules, ETC., apply to
c. H. ACKERT, @. M, Washington.
D. G.
S. II. HARDwICK, G. p. A.. WASH
lngton, d. c.
w. H. TAYLoE, A. G. p. A.. Allan
ia, Ga.
R. C. BLATTNER, Depot Ticket
Agent, Union Depot. Savannah, Ga.
e. G. THOMSON, G. P. & T. A., Sa-
vannah, Ca, 141 Bull street. Phones
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
MARINE
INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.


Steamship Itasca, Pratt, Baltimore.
Schooner Geo. w. Truitt, Elzey,
New York, cement.-Vessel to Will.
liams & Lassiter.
Schooner Bessie Whiting, Boothwick,
New York, tankage.
Yacht Nushka, Kirby, Jacksonville
en- route to Charleston.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
IN Southern
ON Railway.

Trains arrive and depart Savannah
oy 9Oth meridian time-one hour slow
er than city time.
Schedule Effective. Jan. 10, 1904.
TO THE NORTH AND EAST
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19
Sailed.
Steamship

Steamship Chattahoochee, Bor-
roughs, Boston.
Steamship Lexington. Kirwan, Balti-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19

OLD NEWSPAPERS. 200 FOR rs
cents, at business Office. Morning
News. W
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-19


DEPARTURES.
For Macon, augusta. Atlanta S:45 am
For Augusta, Macon. AL
bany, Atlanta. Birming-
ham and Montgomery. - 900 pm
For Egypt ........,.1... i 500 pm
For Dover and Dublin. = 500 pm
For Guyton ..............t 5:42 am
ARRIVALS.
From Guyton ............t7: 1850 am
From Dublin and Dover. "10:30 am
From Egypt .............t $40 am
From Montgomery, Birming
ham, Albany, Atlanta,
Macon and Augusta. ...." 700 am
From Stillmore and States
poro u b:OO pm
From Atlanta, Macon and
augusta ............... SOU pm
BETWEEN SAVANNAH and TYBEE.
Trains arrive and depart at Tyhee
depot, Randolph street. foot of Presi-
dent.
Lv. Savannah 49,. $500 am 1880 pm
Lv Tybee ..... 9:5Oam 300 pm
*Daily. Except Sunday.
Sleeping cars between Savannah and
Augusta, Savannah and Macon, Sa-
vannah and Atlanta, Savannah and
Birmingham on trains wing Savan-
nah 800 p. m, and arriving Savan-
nah 700 a. m.
For further information apply or
write to
I w. G. BREWER, c. T. & P. A., 107
Bull street. Savannah. Ga.
The Imperial press., 1904-07-23
MAY GO BY HOLTVILLE

It is rumored that the :. r. will ex- tend the HoIIville branch to Yuma, making that the main line instead of by Calexico The distance would be some what less but in view of its extensive improvements at Calexico and apparent operations already eastward from that place it is difficult to reconcile the two ideas. The distance from Cabarker junction-a common point on both lines to Yuma, would be by Holtville about fifty eight miles; by Calexico, about sixty-three miles By the Calexico route the road would have to go about five miles south of Yuma and then come back again, aside from the possible an- noyance of crossing and recrOssing the Mexican line.
 Some activity of real estate agents east of Holtvlle recently lends color to that theory.
The Imperial press., 1904-07-23
NEEDLES Is INTERESTED

Private capital has proven the fer iility and proluctivcncss ol the lm- Iscrial soils. says the Needles Eye, but following the suggestion oi President Rooscvcl,ss declaration that "privaic ownership of water apart from land cannot prevail without causing endur- ing wrong" the government is thoroughly investigating the conditions with the idea oi taking over all im- pruvcments and water rights without loss to che investor, not for the pur- pose ot creating revenue for the gov crnment, but because the government believes itself better able to contend with the conditions which separate land and water rights might have and to eliminate the power of water corpora ton over purchaser condition.
 The meeting at Imperial aud the re- suits of this investigation are of impor- tance to Needles, for the Colorado river valley at this point is under the consid- tlANlNil Ol NNtN NtAAANlNtTNlNN NiAA NAAN have been withdrawn from settlement. The valley is considered under the plains of the government reclamation service and while the efforts of the commission are at present more active on the lower Colorado, yet this valley will soon re- ceive the attention of the government engineers in completion ni the work which was commenced two years ago. The government dam proposed for Bulls Head canyon will receive consideration as soon as the lower Colorado work is laid out and thoroughly commenced. Probably next year, or perhaps this coming fall. the uncompletcd work of the engineers will be taken up and the thousands of acres of fertile land in this valley will be placed under water at the instance of the government and the land thrown open for location of bona fide settlers.
 "The silent ditch of water,
 With it's laterals and it's mains,
 Will conquer soon the desert-
 People all the arid plains.
The Imperial press., 1904-07-23
Assignment Of Claims

Suggestions by Local Directors of the Water Users Association:
 EDITOR PRESS As there seems to be uncertainty regarding the manner of assigning claims for crop damages in order that suits for their collection may be instituted promptly and properly, it has been decided by the local members of the Imperial Valley Water Users Association to suggest that the follow ing points be observed:
 l. Please assign damages to the Water Go. in which you have stock, or in which your crop is located.
 2. Please make the assignment to read for the amount estimated by the committee that viewed the crop and appraised the damages.
 3. If there are more than one inter ested in the claim, or If n tenant, please state the amount of each claimants share SO that all interests may appear.
 |. Ii the estimate of the appraisers is not satisfactory, or if some mistake has been made please notify the ap- praisement committee of your water company and have the matter rectited.
 By observing these points all claims will be based on the unbiased judgment of conservative men, the expert char acter of whose testimony can be readily established.