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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
True Heroism.

A remarkable incident of one of the
Port Arthur fights is the following;
During an attack japanese officer was
shot and lay whole night in trench.
In the morning a Russian soldier en-
tered the earthwork and began to ex-
anime the dead. The soldier himself
was bleeding freely, one of his ears hay
ing been severed He speedily found
the wounded Japanese, examined his
injuries, took him in his arms and car
ried him to the japanese trenches,
where both received a joyful welcome,
and the wounds of both were cared for,
The story is vouched for by Mr.. Villiers,
the English artist with the japanese
army, who made the drawing here repro
duced.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
NEW SLEEPING CAR SERVICE
VIA IRON MOI..:hi,l RCUys

Commencing August Sth, the Iron
Mountain Route will establish througE
daily sleeping car service betweex
New Orleans and st. Louis, via VA
ley Route and T. p on the followinf
schedule:
Northbound.
Leave New Orleans :35 D. M.
Leave Pine Bluff 4:45 p. N.
Arrive st. Louis 7:35 a. N.
Southbound.
Leave st. Louis 8:2O D. N.
Arrive Pine Bluff 10: SO a. m.
Arrive New Orleans 8:55 a. m.
For reservations apply to locay
agent.
H. c. TOWNSEND, G. p. & T A..
st. Lous. M&
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
For Mavor.

TO the Democratic voters city 81
Pine Bluff: hereby announce myself
a. candidate FOR denomination Tor
the office of mayor of the city Of Pine
Bluff. subject to the action Of the Dem
ocratic primaries, January II, l9o3
If have redeemed the promises
made two years ago | think | am en-
titled to an endorsement term, and
if you approve what has been done
and are willing to have more OF TAI
same kind Of Improvement accom-
pished. [ earnestly ask your vote. Re
spectfully, II. KING WHITE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
Beneflcent EARTHQUAKE.

Earthquakes occasionally profit man
kind, as in the case of Ouzoun-Ada. a
town on the Caspian. The port of the
town was visited by an earthquake last
year, and since then 1t has been found
open to steamers which could not enter
it before, owing to the shallow water,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22

Tho Graphic is authorized TO a.
aouce Joe p Alexander as a canJi-
late for the office Of city treasurer,
subject to the action Of The Demo
rattle primaries on Januafv - -%o5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
Respectfully,
JAMES GOULD

ahariH and Ex-OfIeio Collector, Yet
ferson county, Arkan 2s.
Pine Bluff, November 50. 1901.
G&W-j1
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
ANNOUNCEM TENTS.
Police Jud1e.

The Graphic is authorized to al.
ounce w. L. Toaey as a candidate
r reelection to the Office Of Judge CT
he police court Of the city Of Pine
Bluff subject to the action of the
democratic primary elections January
>. l9e5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
Paraguayan Women Weaving,

Nearly all the hard work in Paraguay
is done by women. They till the fields
grow their own cotton, clean and spin
it themselves, and weave it themselves
into homemade fabrics on looms OK
their own construction--Leisu Hour
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
TAX NOTICE..
Tax Collectors Notice

lax t0ileClOr NOllGS
Notice is hereby given that for the
purpose of receiving taxes for the
ear 1904. will attend at the voting
precincts Of the several townships
f jefferson county, Arkansas, at the
laces and on the dates herein spec
flied respectfully, to-wit:
Plum Bayou township-Sherriil,
Tuesday. January 3, 1905.
Dudley Lake township-Tucker,
Wednesday, January 4, 1865.
Pastoria township = Pastorla,
thursday, January 1905.
Bolivar township-ka,lfman's store.
Friday, January 6, 1905.
Niyen ownship--Watson, Chapel,
-cnday January 9, 1905
Boay township-Cornerst0ne, Tues
.ay January 10, 1905.
Cid River ownship-English, We'd
.esdav. January II, 1905.
Villemont ownship-Gocio.s store,
Thursday, January II. 1905.
jefferson township = Jefferson
'prings, Saturday, January 4, 1908.
Plum Bayou township-Altheimer'
Monday. January 1G, 1905.
Huntington township-Wabbaseka,
Tuesday. January /, 1905.
Roberts township-Humphrey
Wednesday. January Is, 1908.
Victoria ownship-Fairte, Thurs
ay. January 10 1903.
Melton township-Lada's Mill, Fri
lay January 20, 1895.
Rich!ard township-Lin#ood Sat
rday. January u, 1903.
SDring toWnship-Lee Springs,
.onday. january %, 1905.
Harraque township-kearney. Tues
IS, January 81, 1905.
Earraque township-Rediield. We'd
nesday, January 25, 1895.
Whiteville Observation-Disclosures,
Church. Thur day, January 90, 1903.
Talladega township-Iocust Cot
tage. Friday. January -, 1905.
WASHINGTON township-CrenshaW
Springs. Saturday, January 2S. 1903.
Vaugine township-Court House
Monday. January 80, 1905.
fA11 taxes are due an the tirzt Mon
aay in January, and Must BE PAID OIL
or before April TO- 1893 to aTold pea
| lty.)
From January 8 until April II, l99',
he Tax Books will be open in my Of
flee each day tSunday except
ed3 for the reception OF taNeS
for 1904 without pena!ty. Al
ter April 10 the law adds p
Ter cent penalty and addItloha'
costs on each delinquent, and the
jhoo&s remain open fer such collection.
SPECIAL NOTICE-Owing to the
great rush during the last thirty
laws of tax paying | do most earnestly
roanest any who may have lists tha.
F., hoy desire to leave in the office tor
later date to hand them in not later
han March 10th. as no lists viii b.
eceiyed for future work after tha'
date. If this is done it enables tn
ot,ice TO handle the work to 4 better
advantage to all parties alike.
Respectfully,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-22
For Creep Holiday E%cu"e'

T0T UT'-1D F70T0a7 ~ .
To Peasts in Texas and Lanisi9aa.
Missouri. Arkansas Illinois, Ee.fHo'
Igdian and Oklahoma Territories, @.'h
the Southwest. see any Texas All r.
cific accent. or write L. !. TufaeG gea
oral passenger agent, Dal'as, Texas,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20


Allison has been in the senate now
for over 80 years and prior to March 4,
1873, when he took his seat in the
chamber at the north wing of the cap
itol, he had been member of the
house of representatives for four con-
crosses, so that legislation comes to
him now by instinct and he can accom-
plish more without apparent effort than
many others can accomplish with much
straining and strenuousily. He is IS
years old now and he has been in con-
gress since he was 81.
Allison has greater facility in shap-
ing legislation than any other man who
has been in either house or senate in
many years: He has positive genius
for parliamentary phrasing, securing
by an apt word or sentence exactly the
legislative result which he desires. On
a conference committee, where so much
of the important legislation of congress
is really framed, Allison is irresistible.
Without exciting antagonism or SEEM
ing to be insistent he almost invariably
secures exactly the results which he
sets out to obtain. With q smile and a
suggestion he touches unerringly the
hidden spring which opens up what
looks to his antagonist as a compro-
mise, but which in truth results in pre-
c1sely the aim he had in mind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

native town of Racine, Wis. while he
lay in southern prison, awaiting an
opportunity to communicate with those
who we're mourning for him at home.
He was a member of the first regiment
enlisted from Wisconsin and he was
wounded at the battle of Bull Run and
left on the field grievously wounded. A
year later he appeared in Washington
and amazed Senator Timothy o. Howe
by walking into his committee room
and asking for. furlough in order that
he might rejoin his regiment. The SEN
ator looked at him hard: But you are
dead, Bill" he exclaimed How can
you go back to your regiment?" New
ertheless Upham persisted and Howe
took him up to the white house. Uncle
Abe bent a kindly eye on him. mo,
can't send you back to your regiment, -
he said. you have already done every
thing a man can do for his country.
You have fought, bled and died for
her. You are officially recorded as dead
and of course you can't do any more
fighting in this war; l can't send you
back to YOUR regiment, but I tell you
what can do. l will send you to West
Point and make soldier of you''
And sure enough to West Point the
boy went and graduated into the regu-
lar army in the same class with Quar-
termaster General Humphrey and
several others who have made high
rank in the army.
Upham remained only a short time
in the service after the close of the
war and then went back to Wisconsin.
where he settled down and went into
the lumber business, marrying in due
season little girl who had been af1-
anced to him as boy and who had
worn black for him when the news
came to Racine of his demise. She has
to-day the scrap book she made then
containing the newspaper accounts of
the funeral services with the eulo-
gums Of the first Wisconsin soldier
to fall in the war
When Upham was mentioned for
governor there were two others in the
race and it was a pretty three-cornered
fight. The first ballot resulted in no
choice. Then one of Upham's support
ers rose and read from the Chicago
Inter Ocean the story of how he once
died for his country. The tide was
turned his way and he was nominated
on the next ballot.
LOUIS A. cOoL1DGE
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20
Want Our Holp. .

Senator Knute Nelson and Congress-,
man Lind have been appealed to by
the Swedish National association of
Illinois Ito determine authoritatively
and finally where the honor of having
designed the first monitor belongs
In the letter sent to Senator Nelson
and Congressman Lind it was said that
1.-THE entire American people, as we'll
as the whole world, have always be-
ieved that from turret to keel plate.
from rudder shoe to anchor well,
every distinctive feature of the moni--
tor was the creation of Erickssons
brain; every detail was stamped with
evidence of his handiwork"
It is said that the request of a de-
cision is made to silence the impudent
pretensions of false claimants to the
honor of the invention
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

That husband and wife tend to be
equally long-lived or short-lived is the
curious conclusion reached by Prof.
Karl Pearson from a study of dates on
tombstones. 1t is, he says, as if long
lived men generally chose long-lived
wives, and short-lived men married
short-lived wives. This he attributes
to a kind of unconscious selection
persons being naturally attracted to
those Of the opposite sex that have
about the same degree of general vi
tality. That one factor in the result
may be a certain amount of influence
cxerted upon one partner by the death
of the other does not seem to have
been considered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20
Paintings for Capitol.

The state capitol commission has au-
thorized F. D. Millet and Douglas Volk
to paint two pictures to adorn the east
and west walls of the governors re-
ception room. The paintings will be
approximately six feet high and ten
feet broad, and will represent histori-
cal events of the Northwest.
Mr.. Millet will paint picture rcpre-
senting the treaty at Traverse des.
Sioux, after small painting on exhi-
bition at the rooms of the State His
torical society. Mr.. Volk's subject
will be '..Father Hennepin Discovering
the Falls of st. Anthony" and the
painting will be after an old French
engraving in possession of Arch bishop
Ireland. Mr.. Millet will receive 1000
for his production, and Mr.. Volk will
be paid $4,000. The difference in price
is because there will be more figures.
in. Mr.. Millet's picture
The commission may decide to secure
several small paintings for the corri-.
doris surrounding the house of repre-
sentatives. Among the subjects sug-.
gested are lumber scene, represent
ing the growth of the lumber indus
try; a river steamboat of the old type.
the first church in the state; a train of
Red river carts; the old :bloclxhousc
and round tower at Fort Smelling, and
Gen. Sibley's first residence at Men,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

DR.. Schei, the geologist-a member
of the last Sverdrup Arctic expedition
recently delivered lecture before
the Geographical Society of .Christiania
on tho vegetable life of Ellesmereland.
in IS to 10 degrees of northern latitude
and separated from Greenland by
Smith Sound. During the summer
tracts of the lowlands are covered with
Arctic flowers. A mountain slope of
one of the bays was completely covered
with the violet-colored flower stalks OF
the species saxifraga oppositifo1ia In
the rocks remnants of plants were dis
covered, the species of which are found
today in much warmer climes-for in
stance, in Australia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20
"Abide with Me-

How the beautiful hymn abide with
Me" came into being is recalled by the
efforts which are being made to COM
plete the rebuilding Of the Lower .Brix-
ham church, England, which was be-
gun. 80 years ago in memory of the
author of the hymn, the Rev. Henry
Francis Lyle. AT the age of "a ma
found himself doomed to die of con-
sumption. In sorrow at having to leave
his work unfinished he prayed that it
might be granted to him to write some
thing which would live to the glory of
God when he was dead. His prayer was
granted and he wrote abide with Me-
on the last evening that he ever spent
at :Brixham, after preaching to his con-
creation for the last time. .tsSE
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

Palladium is of a lustrous white COL
or. tits the most easily fused of the
metals found in platinum ore, and can
even be volatilized. A curious quality
which this metal possesses is that
when heated to redness it is porous to
hydrogen gas, allowing it to pass
through somewhat in the same man.
ner that blotting paper permits the
passage of water The silvery white
color Of palladium and it's freedom
from furnishing render it useful for
making scales and division marks on
scientific instruments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

Hon. Bourke Cock the men and the
ran. occasion the floor
of the house may we'll become the
arena for dramatic scenes equal in in
tensity and interest to any of the great
days which once made the popular
branch of congress the center of attrac-
ton for those who throng the capitol.
Bourke Cochran, of course, is giant
among popular orators. It is doubtful
whether lin all American history there
has been any man who could exceed
him as an overpowering oratorical per-
sonality before popular assembly. He
is big of body, big of head, big of
voice, big in magnetism, with a genius
for pharse-making and wealth Of in
vective with which no man of the pres
ent generation can compete.
1t is doubtful whether In all the his
tory of American politics there has
been a more impressive oratorical tri-
umph than that which Cochran won in
the Democratic convention of 1892 at
Chicago. In that year Cochran attend
ed the convention as member of the
Tammany delegation from New York
who were bent upon defeating the nom
ination of Grover Cleveland, and who
united in a written appeal to the dele
gates from other states against Cleve-
lands nomination on the ground that
it would surely involve the loss of the
Empire state to the democratic party
The convention was in continuous ses-
in ho VIII
during the day and far into the night.
The rain beat upon the roof, the great
crowd of 10000 people surged aud
howled and altogether it was an unruly
mob. The sentiment for Cleveland was
dominant and the democratic managers
under the lead of William C. Whitney
had completed the arrangements for
his nomination. For hours the most
effective orators in thesparty had been
appealing from the platform, some in
favor of Cleveland, others against him,
but no matter who they were or whom
they favored they were drowned in the
fury of the crowd. Their oratory was
voiceless pantomime. Then at three
o'clock in the morning Cochran rose
and plowed forward to a place on the
platform. He had not been speaking
two minutes before he had the great
auditorium silent under the spell of his
eloquence and he held a hostile audi
ence there for an hour, while he mar
shalled argument after argument
against the former president, who was
as he described it popular on every
day except election day. Then after
he had concluded his speech the con-
Vention went calmly to work and
placed in nomination the man against
whom he had let loose the floods of his
elOQuence
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

Increased attention is being paid to
the problem of rendering wood and
other easily inflammable substances
fireproof. From reports in the German
press it would seem that the process
of Munich inventor is very success.
full. The timber to be treated is placed
in vacuum, produced by pumping out
the air. The cells are thereby freed
from air, and the wood is then i'm
pregnated under pressure with a solu-
ton of sulphate of ammonia ard borax
ammonia. The color, texture aid dem
stty of the wood are not affected by
the process. - s.. Y 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

1eated by substantial majority. Yet
again he dominated his audience nv
the force of his overwhelming person.
atty and while he held them under the
spell of his eloQuence seemed to be
carrying everything by storm. He
reused cheers of frenzied enthusiasm
from his democratic associates and
from the galleries; and even those IN
the republican side of the house could
hardly restrain themselves from ex-
pressions OF involuntary approval.
Inc glamour of dramatic occasion
disappeared in the cold gray dawn of
the morning after, and even some of
the democratic representatives who had
INDUCED in the most frenzied exclama-
lions OF delight began to wonder seri-
ously what it had all been about and to
recall that Bourke Cochran in the past
had lent his eloquence fully as often tn
the opposition as to them and that he
had only rarely been on the winning
side.
Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, whose in
terruption Of the Tammany orator was
the occasion for stirring Cochran to
his great burst of eloquence, is physi
cally so inferior to the Irish leader as
to make his attack seem almost ridicu-
lous In the retrospect. He has a slen
der figure of medium height, a head
which tips pertly to the right at an
angle OF several degrees, ana a voice
which is thin, and piercing almost to
the point of racking the, hearers
nerves. He is lacking in magnetism and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

The English engineer, Elworth, is
said to have found a process for manu-
featuring ozone that is much simpler
than those used heretofore, and per-
hitting of larger production The
atmospheric air is forced into the ma
chine by an air pump and introduced
into the presence of an electric cur
rent of 100 volts. Through electrical
discharge in the apparatus ozone is
engendered, which, under the contin-
ued pressure of the air pump, is forced
from the machine, highly ozonized,
with great velocity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

A few devotees of the whimsical
and the. eccentric are talking of break
ing and training zebras for family
pleasure driving in Hyde Park, Lon
don. Friends of the zebras say they
can easily be made docile and tract.
able in drawing smart wagons and will
afford a refreshing novelty of con-
trasts among the horses and automo-
biles. Quaggas are also we'll thought
of. It's great pity that giraffes are
now so rare and hard to get. How
agreeable a spectacle four-in-hand
team of spotted skyscrapers. imported
from Africa, would afford in Rotton
row!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

IN question. Hazily again, it is known
that he had something to do with car
pets. In fact, he. was a manufacturer
OF them upon a gigantic scale. He en-
ployed workmen by the many hun
dreds. He invested his great income
oVernoWing every rational need in
stocks, bonds, securities, and these in
turn gained in value. He lived quietly,
and to the gay group Of luxurious mil
lionaires who form the 400 he was
unknown, though he could have bought
and sold most Of them twice and thrice
over.
The Smith family has way of sur
prising the wiseacres when money is
reckoned. Just as Mr. Warren Smiths
one million in death taxes alone fas-
cinates New York's imagination, so the
greater estate which James Henry
Smith, the Silent Man of Wall
Street," gained from his uncle, who
died in London q few years ago,
amazed even Brit tain of the older mil
lionafres by paying to the crown death
taxes which appreciably swelled the
national revenue. That one single es-
tate saved penny in the pound to
every man who paid income tax. Just
as Mrs Mark Hopkins Searles' house
in Great Darlington, Mass, when It
was erected, cut in half the tax rate on
every other proprietor.
Mr.. Smith died in Tunis, traveller
for his health. His estate pays lar
ger death tax than that of the late
Cornelius Vandebilt, because so much
OF it is bequeathed out of the direct
line of descent, to employees in the fac
tory, to distant relatives. Direct heirs
pay nothing to the state.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

In the budget of the Secretary for
Finances in Egypt interesting details
for the erection of the railroad from
Berber, on the Nile, to Suakin, on the
Red Sea, are given. The preliminary
surveys and estimates have already
been made, and now the moneys have
been appropriated-in all, 1,770,00O
Egyptian pounds. Work will be be-
gun at once, and it is expected that in
three years the road can be opened to
traftic-a great event, for economical
and political reasons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

Time and the Fourth of July terror
are being taken by the forelock in Chi
cago. According to the telegraph news
local amusement association in the
Windy City has announced that it will
give free firecrackers and torpedoes in
unlimited quantities provided the chill
dren will assemble in the public parks
and Fairgrounds and do their celebrat.
ing under the supervision Of fireman,
a physician, a policeman and a. mem
Der of the association.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-20

A German railroad official has pat
ented device for preventing the de-
railment of trains, designed to de-
crease the dangers of such accidents,
and also those resulting from broken
axles and wheels. A rail is adjusted
on the truck Of the car parallel with
the axle, about an inch above and at
right angles with the rails. Should a
derailment occur, this crossrail will
drop on the tracks, without permitting
the wheels to touch the ground. The
car will then drag along on the cross
rail and stop the train