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sweep and high chinchilla collar that Fred
ordered made for me the very day we were
married. I must be wearing that jolly
little red cloth toque caught up the
side with some of the fur.
oh. yes, l knew l was more than a year
behind the times when l got them, but
a successful actress wears what she pleases
and the rest of the world wears what
peases her, too. Besides, fashions don't
mean so much to you when your husband
tells you how becoming-but this has moth
ing to do with the bishop.
Yes the bishop, Mag!
l had just said, Nance Oden-' To my
self l still speak to me as Nancy Olden;
it's good for me, Mag: keeps ME humble
and forever grateful that I'm so happy.
Nance, you'll never be able to carry all
these things and lift your buful train, too
And there's never hanson around when
it's showing and
And then / caught sight of the carriage.
Yes, Maggie, the same fat. low, comfort
able elegant sober carriage, wide and we'll
kept, with rubber-tired wheels. And the
| two heavy horses, fat and elegant and
sober, too, and wide and well-kept. l
knew whose it was the minute my eyes
| lighted on 1t, and Couldn't just couldn't
| resist it.
The man on the box-still wide and we'll
| kept-was wide-awake this time. l nodded
| to him as 1 slipped and closed the door
after me.
'TIl wait for the bishop" I said with
| a relocated assurance that left him no
alternative but to accept the situation re-
| specially.
Oh DEAR dear! 1t was soft and warm
| inside 1t had been that long, long-ago
| day. The seat wide and roomy. The
| cushions had been done over-I resented
| that-but though different material, they
were still darker plum. And instead of
7 Quo Vadis, the bishop had been reading
| Resurrection.
| took it up and glanced over 1t as I sat
| there; but. you know, Mag, the heavy
weight plays never appealed to me. don't
! go in for the tragic-perhaps / saw too
| much of the real thing when 1 was little.
| At any rate, it seemed dull to me, and
| / put it aside and sat there absent-mindedly
! dreaming of a little girl-thief that I knew
/ once when-when the handle of the door
| turned and the bishop got in, and we were
! Off.
Oh, the little bishop-the contrast between
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him and the fat. pompous rig caught me
He seemed hitler and leaner than ever ms
little white beard scantier, his soft eye
kindlier and his soft heart
"God bless nv soulr' he exclaimed jump
ing almost out of his neat little boots, while
he looked sharply over his spectacles.
| What did he see? Just a relocated ghost
dreaming in the corner of his carriage. IL
made him doubt his eyes-hiS sanity.
don't know what he'd have done II that
warm red ghost hadn't got tired of dream
ing and laughed outright.
Daddy 1 murmured sleepily
Oh, that little ramrod of a bishop! The
blood rushed up under his clear, thin papE
like skin. and he sat up straight ana soi-
emn and awful-aWful as SUCH 'iiis
bishop could be.
Il fear, miss, you have made mistake
he said primly.
| looked at him steadily.
Won know | haven't l said gently.
That took some of the starch out of HIM
| but he eyed me suspiclously.
| ''Whv don't you ask me where l got the
| coat, Bishop Van Wagenen?' SAID lean
| ing over to him.
| He started. ] suppose he'd just that mo
| ment remembered my leaving it behind
| that day at Mrs, Ramsay's.
| Lord bless me!' he cried anXlous'y'
| You haven't-you haven't again
| mo. I haven't" All, Maggie, dear. 1t was
| worth a lot to me to be able to say that
| no to him. TT was given to me. Guess
| who gave it to me?
| He shook his head
My husband!"
| Maggie Monahan, he didn't even blink
| Perhaps in the bishops set husbands are
| not uncommon, or very likely they doh
know what husband ike FREQ opeFhlul-
| Ter means.
II congratulate you, my child, or-or did
it-were YOU
then" / cried Cant you tell a difference,
bishop?"I pleaded. Don't l look like a
an imposing married woman now? Don't l
seem a bit-oh, just bit nicer?"
His eyes twinkled as he bent TO look
more closely at me.
you look-you look, my little girl, ex-
actly like the pretty, big-eyed, wheedling-
voiced child l wished to have for my own
daughter.
| caught his hand in both of mine.
Now, that's like my own, own bishop!
I cried.
prim rather scared little school boy that
somehow, yet-oh, / knew he must feel
kindly to me! felt so fond of him.
You see, Bishop Van Wagenen." be-
gan softly, II never had father and"
BLESS me, But you told me that day
you had mistaken me for-for him..
The baby! 1 had forgotten what that old
Edward told me-that this trusting soul
was to do? 1 tell you, Mag, it's no light
thing to get accustomed to telling the truth
You never know where it'll lead you. Here
was lust clever little lie or two and the
dear old bishop would De happy ana CON
tented again. But no; that fatal habit
that I've acquired of telling the truth to
Fred and you mastered me-and fell.
You know bishop" l said, shutting my
eyes and speaking fast to get 1t over-as
imagine you must, Mag, when you confess
! to Father Phelan-'that was all "a little
farce comedy-the whole business-all of 1t
every last word of itH'
"A comedy
1 opened my eyes to laugh at him; he
| was so bewildered.
Il mean "a fib; in fact, many of them.
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a private room by ourselves? He looked so
big and strong and masterful, with his
eyes half closed, watching me, that l hug
ged myself with delight to think that l.
|, Nancy Olden, had done something for
him he couldn't do for himself.
1t made me SO proud, SO tipslly vain, that
as l leaned forward eagerly talking, 1 felt
that same intoxicating happiness | get on
the stage when the audience is all with me,
and the two OF us-myself and the many
handed, good-natured other fellow over on
the other side of the footlights-go career
ing off on a jaunt OF fun and fancy, like
two good playmates
He was silent minute when l got
through Then he laid his cigar aside and
stretched out his hand to me.
And the reason, Nance-the reason for it
all?" cs
I looked up at him. I'd never heard him
speak like that.
Eyes, the reason. HE had caught my
hand Ss@Lt
"why-to down that tiger trust-and beat
Tausig."
And that was ail?s Nonsense, Nance o.
den, there was another reason. There are
other tiger trusts. Are you going to set
up as lady-errant and right all syndicate
wrongs? No, there was another, a bigger
reason Nance. I'm going to tell it to you
what! y
l pulled my hand from his; but not before
that fat waiter who'd come in without our
noticing had got something to grin about
BEG pardon. sir" he said. "This mes
sage must be for you, sir. It's marked i'm
mediate, and no one else"
Obermuller took 1t and tore it open. He
smiled the oldest smile as he read it, and
he threw back his head and laughed a full,
hearty below when he got to the end.
Read It, Nance" he said, passing it over
to me. .sThey sent it on from the Office
I read 1t.
'Mr Fred w. Obermuller, Manager vaude-
Vile Theater. New York city, N. Y:
from your little protege, Nance Olden, of a
comedy you've written. From what Miss
! Olden tells me of the plot and situate $
| of And the Greatest of These'-your
| titles great--I judge the thing to be some
| thing altogether out of the common; and
my secretary and reader. Mr.. Mason
| agrees with me that, properly interpreted
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XVI
I don't remember much about the first
part of the lunch. l was hungry 1 want
ed to eat everything in sight, and so happy
that l couldn't eat thing.
But Mr.. o. kept piling the things on my
plate, and each time l began to talk he'd
say: Not now-wat till you're rested, and
not quite SO famished."
/ laughed.
"Do l eat though l was starved?'
"You-you look tired, Nance"
"Well," l said slowly, Its been a hard
week"
It's been hard for me, too; harder l
think, than for you. 1t wasn't fair to me to
let me-thnk what / did and say what 1
did. I'm SO sorry Nance,-and ashamed.
So ashamed! You might have told me-"
And have you put your foot down on
the whole thing; not much!''
He laughed. He's got such boyish laugh
in spite of his chin and his eyeglasses and
the bgness of him. He filed my glass for
me and helped me again to the salad.
Oh, Mag, it's such fun to be a woman
and have man wait on you like that! It's
such fun to be hungry and to sit down to a
jolly little table just big enough for two,
with carnations nodding in the tall slim
vase, with a fat, soft-footed, quck-h handed
waiter dancing behind you, and something
tempting in every dish your eye falls on.
It's gay, happy, easy world, Maggie
darlin'. l VOW l can't find a dark corner
in it-not today.
None but the SWEETEST place in town was
good enough, Obermuller had said, for us
to celebrate in The walters looked queerly
at when we came in-me in my dusty
shoes and muSsed hair and old rig, and
Mr.. 0. in his working toys. But do you
suppose we cared?
He smoking and / was pretending to
eat fruit when at last got fairly launched
on my story
He listened to it all with never word of
interruption. Sometimes / thought he was
so interested that he couldn't bear to m IS
a word l said. And then again l fancied
he wasn't listening at all to me; only
inside of himself.
Can you him. Mag, sitting opposite
me there at the pretty little table, off in
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PHILADELPHIA, January

Maggie. dear:
I'm writing to you just before dinner
while I wait for Fred. He's down at the
box office looking up advance sales. l tell
you, Maggie Monahan, were strictly in 1t
we Obermulers. That Broadway hit or
NINE has preceded me here, and we've got
the town. l suspect, in advance.
But I'm not writing to tell you this. I've
got something more interesting to tell you,
my dear old Cruelty chum.
I want you to pretend to yourself that
you see me. Mag, as l me out of the big
Chestnut street store this afternoon, my
arms full of bundles. | must have on that
long coat to my heels. of dark, warm red.
silk-lined, with the long, incurving back
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and perhaps touched up here and there,
the comedy ought to make a hit.
Would Miss Olden take the leading role,
l wonder?
Cant you drop in this evening and talk
the matter over? There's an opening for
fellow like you with us that's just de-
veloped within the past few days, and
this is strictly confidential-I have succeed
ed in convincing Braun and Lowenthal
that their enmity is a foolish personal mat
ter which business men shouldn't let stand
in the way of business. After all, just
what is there between you and them? A
mere tri1e; a misunderstanding that half
hours talk over bottle of wine with a
good cigar would drive away.
IF you're the man l take you for you'll
drop in this evening at the Van Twiller
and bury the Ratchet. They're good fell
lows, those two, and smart men, even If
they stubborn sin.
Counting seeing you tonight, my dear
fellow,
Il NJ TAUSIG.'
I dropped the letter and looked over at
Obermuler.
Miss Olden" he said severely, coming
over to my side of the table, have you
the heart to harm a generous soul IKE
that?'
"He-he's very prompt, isn't he, and
most"
And then we laughed together.
you notice the letter was marked per-
sonal?" Obermuler said. He still
standing beside me.
"No-was it?" 1 got up, too, and began
to pull on my gloves: but my fingers shook
so I couldn't do a thing with them.
oh yes it was. That's why | showed
It to you. Nance-Nance, don't you
that there's only one way out of this?
There's only one woman in the world that
would do this for me and that l could take
1t from
1 clasped my hands helplessly Oh, what
could | do, Maggie, with him there and
his arms ready for me!
Il should think you'd be afraid l
whispered. l didn't dare look at him.
He caught to him then.
Afraid you wouldn't care for an old fell
low like me?" he laughed. Yes, that's
the only fear l had. But l lost it, Nancy,
Nancy Obermuller, when you flung that
paper down before me. That's quite two
hours aso-haven't l waited long enough!
Oh Mag-Mag. how can l tell him? DO
you think he knows that | am going to be
good-good! that l can be as good Tor
good man who loves me, as l was bad for
a bad man I loved!
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Porto Ricans to Visit Washington.

A dispatch from Ithaca, N. Y. last night
says: The Porto Rican teachers who are
attending the Cornell summer school VIII
not remain until the close Of the session.
but will join the teachers who are attend
ing Harvard in Boston on August o. Later
they will be taken to Philadelphia, and on
August y will visit Washington, when they
will be addressed by President Roosevelt.
They will sail for Porto Rico from New
York on August 49,
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A New Serial.

"The Lightning Conductor will make
it's first appearance in Saturdays Star. Is
Is a fine story
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Z. B. Thompson of the Capitol Camera
Club of Washington was elected first vice
president of the National Association OF
Amateur Photographers, organized at the
ST. Louis exposition yesterday.
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to make you believe
His soft old eyes looked at me unbelev-
ing You don't mean to say you deliber-
ately lied?"
Now. that's what did mean-just what l
did mean-but not in that tone of voice
But what could | do? l just looked at
him and nodded.
Oh Maggie, l felt so little and so nasty!
l haven't felt like that since ] left tho
Cruelty. And I'm not nasty. Maggie, and
l m Fred Obermuller's wife, and
And that put a backbone in me again.
Fred Obermullers wife just won't let any
body think worse of her than she can help
from sheer love and pride in that big, clever
husband of hers.
TO be concluded tomorrow.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
NUT VALUES.
yentiOn.

ChcStnu!N are Sta.chy and take the
place of potatoes.
Brazil o" cream nuts are very rich I'D
fat and should bc blended with pc
cans. English walnuts or haZclnuts.
Black and white walnutS as well as
hickory nuts contain nitrogen and oil,
but no starch. Blend with rice or pota-
toes
CoCoanutS contain very little nitro
gen, bat are rich i'll oil The fiber is
difficult Of digestion. The cream and
milk are excellent for salads and
SaIlcpS
Peanuts are very rich in nitrogen and
contain considerable starch and Oil.
When boiled and mashed they are
much better than when roasted anu
ground.
Almonds are really digesters or appe-
Tiers. They are too expensive to be
used alone in large quantities. -Four
or five thoroughly masticated at the
end Of meal will frequently aid In
the digestion Of other foods.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23

f. ech the New York delegation. pre-
~ ed by band playing the Star
ngled Banner, made the circuit of
convention hall The band also
led There Will BE a Hot Time in
OF Town Tonight
oosevelt's nomination was second
by Senator Beveridge of Indiana
pry S. Edwards of Georgia, eX-Gov.
(dley of Kentucky, ]. 3. Cotton OF
lnesota and Harry S. Cummings OF
fyland
t Ito p. m. the clerk began the
of the roll of the states,
Eew Jersey asked unanimous CON
It for the convention to dispense
h further roll call and nominate
Roosevelt by acclamation, which
not meet with favor and the roll
was continued. and the entire
r oil the convention was cast for
tOseyelt.
r. 1:24 p. m. Senator Chas. Fair
pks Of Indiana was put in nominal
p for vice president by Senator Dol
FER of Iowa The nomination was
Bonded by Senator Depew, Senator
Faker, Gov. Pennypacker and ex-
natol Carter of Montana.
Fairbanks was nominated by accla-
ftlon after the announcement had
fn made that all other candidates
b withdrawn.
resolution was adopted naming
F. G.. Cannon as chairman of the
mmittee to notify Mr.. Roosevelt of
nomination on July q, and Elih1l
pot chairman of the committee to
1l1y Mr.. Fairbanks on August ;.
The convention adjourned sine die
2:25 p. m.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
SIX STITCHES SEWED IN BULLET
TORN HEART OF BOY.

Chicago. June 22.-SiX stitches
sewed in the bullet-torn heart of Ed
ward Peltz. a fifteen-year-old boy, it
is believed will save his life. Peltz
shot himself while Respondent over
loss of employment. With death inn
pending at every tick of the watch,
DR. Carl Wagner of ST. IOseph's hos
pital placed the stitches in his heart,
effectually stopping the hemorrhage.
The patients condition is said at
the hospital to warrant belief that he
will recover.
The bullet. which had pierced the
lungs and passed through the heart,
was found in the thoracic cavity and
removed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
lEVEE3# MADE STRONGER

A call va aaHas= F,5.a a.=.s.
in2 OF piar1.ate, ~=-f.-za aHd farmers
in the boara .ao5s T.=t6.5
city July a=5a ~. ~
| the purpOse=af AtH It feVea= IH
proyement dist4lcf =t#=.1 .aofuf vince
will be to rebujh tsa il fetit.H
son county which voc I'm ~ tn
recent high water ara IS aich protect
thousands of rich b9Gaa6lagndss in tie
county. The French eg# wee. Sit
ated a few miles from tHs ct y. IS tha
principal levee to be reiMtIt The call
for the meeting is backed by sheriff
James Gould, Leo. NJ. Andrews Capt.
S. Geisreiter, DR.. J. +. Simmons and
others of the plantation owners in this
| city. The question of formng this
| levee board was discussed informally
at meeting in Sheriff Gould's Office
! "Wednesday, and it was determined
then to start the movement for the
permanent organization. 1t is @eneG=
ally conceded among the planters that
the 1evees which keep the Arkansas
river within its bed are not strong
enough and never have been for they
are broken with each high water such
as that which has just past The OWL
ers Of the farms have lost more mOnev
this year than ii would take to build
high strong levees which would ho!a
against any flood and they have be-
gun to realize that if they must save
future crops, thousands of dollars
must be spent for protection. The call
for the meeting includes all the plant
ers in this section. Plans are being
formed in advance for the organiza-
tion of a permanent levee board.
Sheriff Could this morning issued
the following call for the meeting:
Dear Sir: There will be meeting
in this city at the board of trade on
July II, at 10 a. M, for the purpose
of devising some means to rebuild the
Frenchtown levee. Yours very truly,
GAS. COULD"
This afternoon a conference was
held by Mr.. Gould and w. If. Langford
and some of the officials of the Cottou
Belt road. The officials promise that
the Cotton Belt road will help toward
the sum to be raised to rebuild the
levee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
THE PROH|B TICKET
J. E. WiLMANS OF NEWPORT
TAKES FRONT SEAT ON va
TER WAGON.
Arkansas Peohio,t5onist5 Meet Al -
tie Eock END Marie Cars .aate fer
GGVerEcr.
LESS T4AM Z DOZEN PRESENT.

Les eh4H a adazel. persons N2se pres
oal "Wednesday a. fire state meeting
of the Prohfhitionfsts held in the hal
at representatives at=rhe statehoase.
Little RoeG Tie principal business
OF lbe l4ee t.:ls was tho= nomination Of
q eaHaiaal tor governor. J. E. vii
mans Of Newport va nominated
NJ Hal4aas 4as made chairman
and John N. Parker of Da143anene
secretary Of the meeting
II. ?. Far1is Of Clinton, Mo mem
lsar OF HE Prohibition party,s national
committee, was present and by invita-
ton addressed the meeting
DELEGATES were elected 10 The ma
tional convention al indianapolis on
June ~ as follows. Dr. Chas b Da-
Wis Eureka SPRINGS J. z, Wimans,
Ncwbort John NJ Parker. Dardanelle,
H Brady. Beebe; =Wnl A. Harrison
Beebes ReN J. B. Andrews. Siloanl
Springs; aIternates, j G. FraIlel Eu-
reka Springs: S. 2. Caress. Stuttgart
Mrs. John NJ Pittman. Prescott: Mrs
Vi. \. Dorsey, Newport Mrs. B. Bah
cock, Little Rock.
John X. Andrews OF Sloan Springs
and John N. Parker OF Dardanellt
We're nominated for presidential elect
ofS for the state at large.
Nominations for governor being de
clared in order the name Of J. f. vii
mans 0f Jackson county was present
ed. There We're no other nominations
and Mr.. Wilmans was chosen by ac
clamation. 1t was decided not to nom
mate any other state candidates.
Mr WiImans in acceptine the ten
der. said that he had done all in his
power 10 fight the saloon business in
Arkansas and had met with reasOna
bic success in his locality.
Cadesman Pope of Newport was made
chairman OF the state committee. with
J. NJ Parker of Dardanelle secretary
They were authorized to appoint one
member from each congressional dis
trict
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TO REMOVE COURTHOUSE.

Nashville, Ark. June 22.-The citi-
zens of the lower part Of Howard coun-
ty have raised the $4,000 required by
law to move the county seat from Cen
ter Point to Nashville and will pre-
sent a petition to the county court on
July 5, asking that tribunal to order
an election on the question. It is pret-
ty generally conceded that the court
house will be removed to Nashville
without much resistance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
Neglect to Cheer Portrait,

Even the formidable army of assis
nt sergeants at arms and ushers who
Ierran every part of the Coliseum
fslected their orders to create a dem
Pstration at a critical point of yes
Frday's proceedings. Either they for,
Pt Or, becoming inoculated with the
|fns Of Indifference which had raw,
yea the delegates, did not care to
Rey' Early in the forenoon First AS,
tant Sergeant at Arms Owen assem-
ed between 1900 and 1000 men who
voluntarily placed themselves un-
his command and addressed this
ern warning to them:
want you men when the portrait
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AN INCEND|ARy FIRE
AT STAR CITY RESULTS IN DE
STRuCTiO@ OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
BUILDING.
Sore H. Feet;}s9 tsau : a.aen ever D.
Noreee1est q =Publc Scdoo'
Feofa Academy
NO c-Ae6ss IN CASE OF FIRE.

T4e ne5l.e se6oo. HiIdiu= was
t9tz ~ seaf city las TUESDAY
4s 4sH lis Very evident tlat the
tire va .. 1neeaafa.Y 9at4iH. The
boiIdiu@ ea4=yaEgod al $iaao5a $1,000.
and 5Hiasarea
L seems tAefe= are tWa factions
Of the patrons Of tie staI City public
school. tie peopIe= Of tho toun being
on one side aud the people living cut,
side he town on tan#other. A6oar tvo
years ago the public school building
was abanloHei and he public school
fought II connection with tin aeagl-
omy there. ~ the recent election of
sehoo! directors he directaGs were III
structed 10 move the public school
back 70 tie abandoned bnilain2. Tho
directors had the house impfoe ed and
otherwise made rtady for the school.
The repairs had just been iinisheH
The patrons who reside outside he
town were in favor Of moving back to
he public school building, and those
! in the town opposed il. The country
| people We're IN the majority and the
public school was divorced from the
academy Il was this which brought
about anita gonisms in The matter. ana
resulting ia some i'll feeling between
the two factions. However. neither
faction has made any charges against
| the other in the burning OF the schooi
building. but it is said that he de-
struction of the building by an incen-
diary has not had any tendency to al
lay the iii feeling already existing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-23
MILES AND JONES'.


Crcago, June 23.-"There has been
wonderful change in sentiment in
onr party ranks in the last ten days
concerning the Presidential nomina-
ton" said Alonzo f. Wilmer chairman
Of the Illinois Prohibition executive
committee.
"MOst all our prominent men have
declared for Gen Nelson A. Miles, and
7 predict his nomination, probably on
the first ballot, at indianapolis next
week.
Sam p. Jones of Georgia. or George
w Carroll Of Beaumont. Tex, will be
given the second place"
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TO COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS

G. W. Mayfield leaves this Afternoon
for St. Louis, where he will complete
arrangements for the opening of the
he cannot definitely announce when
the exchange will be opened until he
returns. The worlds fair handicap,
the big race to be run at ST Louis
Saturday, will be taken at the ex-
change Saturday afternoon in detail.