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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Two Women.

woman there was. and she was rich
For Fortune had given her gold.
(And a pitiless heart and cold)-
Who ruled Ger a throng Of money made
friends
Like a queen in the days Of old;
And she was fattered with subtle grace
BY these selfish seekers tor social place
Who never did aught but for selfish
ends:
But why should they love her when she
too sought
Her selfish pleasures without a thought
OF the aches and pains that her pleas
ures wrought.
For she was as heartlass a 5 she was
rich.
A woman there was and she was poor.
But her heart beat warm and true,
In 4 way most womens do
/ said she was poor. All, no. not she,
She was rich i'll kindly sympathy
AS many and many man can tell
Who conquered himself through her kind
ly spell
And rushed back to life with hope re-
With noble aims and high thoughts Inn
And begirt with a noble hariihood:
And she was loved for her own sweet
self,
rThough lacking She was of gold or
pelD,
BY rich and POOR, by high and low.
BY everything that love could know
Ah, she was not poor. She was most
rich.
Victor Reese.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
TELL TALES AT SCHOOL.
How Family Skeleton Became Known
to Teaci7cr

How Family Skeleton Became Known
to Teacher.
"Yes," said the pink checked school
ma am, you'd be surprised at the ar
rly Of family skeletons 1rotted out for
the te~cners inspection by the pupils
of every primary school. Ali the trials
and triJu:..ti;.ns O: , family are retail
cd to - / acat: sometimes il
most c'.:i9"-' -'''"sSng i13ilicn. For in
stance. tl:4 rss&t:s lesson the other
day WIS s.a.o :p:s,2body's pet dog
and h04' s.iii. y Il; n.ast"r loved it.
Iit1,@ ,,,..!I...s Saith was moved to
say:
"N'e got & Cog 20 Our house-it's
got mancH cwf;.l. Papa wants to kill
it. bat mamna said she'd get a
divorce ii he, be such cruel brute.
then papa lie kicked the dog and
mamma size throwed the sugar bowl
and went and has 'isterics and the
doctor came and"
II shut him Off at that point. but
Willie routed me moment afterward
oy saying:
"Oh, teacher, your cheeks is just
like my mamna's. D'you rub red stuff
on every tav. ''-Portland Ore,
sns,ie~
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
WOMEN SOLD az AUCTION
How DamseIs of Babylon Were Once
Disposed Of.


Disposed Of.
An auction of unmarried ladies used
to take place annually in Babylon. In
every district they assembled on a
certain day Of every year all the vir-
gins OF marriageable age. The most
remarkable was frst put up, and the
man who bid the largest sum OF
money gained possession OF her.
The second in persona appearance 'ol-
lowed, and the bidders gratited them
selves with handsome wives accord
ing to the depth of their purses. But
alas! It seems that there were in
Babylon some ladies for whom no
money was likely to be offered, yet
these also We're disposed Of so provi-
dent We're the Babylenians. When all
the beautiful virgins We're sold, the
cr1er ordered the most deformed who
would marry her with a small sum.
she was at length adiudged to the
man who would be satisfied with the
least, and in this manner the money
arising from the sale of the handsome
served as portion TO those who were
either Of d;sa 3rea25 bic looks, or that
had aNy other imperi"c ton This Gus
tom prevailed about $40 years before
Christ.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05

,enge sad voice near him, some
here. but Willie Boy couldn't tel
whether il was by his side. above him
or within.
''W-h-hat?" he falered
'sEia, ha. ha.
Willie BOY looked up, around. ey>'r:
where any person could possibly ho
mt no one could be seen
See here. yon had better NOT tsy
yCUr tricks on me atn not in a good
E1mor. and Won, stand it." threat
eGed VII Boy.
" Ha ha, Ia,
},Ah@"e az ,nu, anyhow
Il ara here. What d fool you arr
Willie Boy, Y9u needn't look-=yoal
cant find ne. But | wouldn't try fhat
V ay Of getting even any more. N:tti"
Boy"
II don't know that 1t is any of yGHf
blsn ass. said Willie Boy trying to
be fierce. hut beginnin" to tremhle
oh yes il is. Il is because il is
Your own business, Willie Boy. Jl-t
think, In your efforts to get even You
have lost three of Your lives already.
You better dry MP. Willie Boy
lips were trembling. de was almost
ready to CRY.
And you have only nine lives. al
told" resumed the voice. "Thr@e tron
nine leaves how many Willie Boy"
But Willie Boy stayed to hear NJ
more His heart was humping so n
couldn't stand it any longer, and ilS
ran to be with someone who co'i'
protect him. And in spite Of his dream
+, that he had been abused, forgetting
all he had said and thought. he RAJ
to his mother in his trouble. So man,
boys do
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Worlds
Fair
Rates


Beginning September Is, and
continuing until the end of
the Worlds Fair low rate
excursion tickets to St. Louis
will be on sale Sunday, Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of each week.
The rate IS extremely low
about a cent a mile each
way, days limit. Tickets
good in chair cars and coaches
only.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
"a 8 sy' ,x..s ~. " a.
Bears tho =, ''a M1i G9u Ha4a AHaYs Bought
signature of &ZE1z1Xze:1<zx
liperian vssetas!es.

The most commo vegetables ot
Liberia are the sweet potato. cassada,
yam and tania The cassada is root
Farying in size from six to eight
inches in circumference. When 1t is
cooked it tastes very much like a
fresh chestnut. This root is the vege-
table most extensively cultivated by
tue natives and forms with the rice,
heir chief diet. The teeula Of the
.assada Is made into tapiaca.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Guarantee Bond,
Investment Ctf..
Capital Stock S5OOfsH
Reserve Fund (Jany 1s0D -. 49,. S1a442 so
Capital Stock
GENERAL OFFICES, III Pine St.


but
quality between all classes Write
andin
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Small oil Paint,nqa.

st. Petersburg has n>>.el art ex.
aibition. 1t consists of the smallest
Of canvases and is known as the Ex-
position Misnonne. The largest of the
pictures shown is not much larger
than postal card, while he smallest
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Col dffsh Come Erom China.

Goldfish are of Chinese origin They
were originally found in a large lake
near Mt Tsien-Tsing, and were first
taken to Europe in the seventeenth
century The first in France were
present to Madame de Pompadour.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-10-05
Sliuhtly Twisted.

He-Some one has said that women
are more for dress than men. Do
"a believe it?
shs-Of course not. Women care a
II for dress. but they care more for
N.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
SHlPBUILDlNG FOR NAVlES.

A field of large business enterprise.
as yet unexpected in America, is the
building of frst-class ships of war on
speculation. Within ten years past
there have been five occasions when
anybody with spare battleship or
cruiser could have got two prices for
it. A decade ago and less Japan went
after every warship then on the mar
ket and bought two or three. includ-
ing the Chilean Esmeralda, A few
years before that time the Balmaceda
government in Chile offered the United
States a round price for the Baltimore,
Yorktown and Charleston. Greece
would have bought battleships, could
she have found them, during the war
with Turkey. In 1898 the United States
secured the dockyards of the world for
purchasable ships and got the New Or
leans and Albany from Brazil And
lately the japanese have paid ST,5OO,OOl
for two Italian cruisers that could not
have cost more than s5,000,000, and are
understood to have purchased some
Argentine cruisers besides. Had there
been an American shipyard eXtant, dur
ing the past few months, with n ready
to-move squadron for sale, Russia and
Japan would have hidden 1t up to an
extraordinary price.
Nor would the United'States be bad
customer to look after. A shipyard
employing the best experts and doing
as honest work as the SCOTS did on the
Oregon, could dispose of a good many
vessels at home. An extra knot Sc
cured above the average speed of bat
tleships of its class, for instance, would
be worth hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to it. OF course, in such an en-
terprise, vast capital would be required
but the United States, which will soor
have its billionaires, need not worry
about that.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
DEMOCRATS AND THE CANAL.

II the Democrats of the Senate, OF
whom there are enough to destroy the
chances of the canal treaty providing
few insurgents stick on the Repub-
lican side, are actually going to fight IL,
the chances of getting a canal may be
called dubious. Historically the Demo
Gratis are for an isthmian waterway.
They declared for 1t more than half a
century ago and have since denounced
the Republican party for not digging IL.
But in the face OF exigent politics they
stand ready, as they have done so many
times before, to throw principles afar
and plight their troth to expediency'
Rather than let the Republican party
add n canal to its great achievements
they would oppose building one; rather
than forego the chance to raise "A NIL
clustering issue against Roosevelt they
would annul the treaty with Panama
and turn that young republic over to
the vengeance of Colombia: rather than
forego the bride of the railroad inter-
ests which are ready to pay the cost
of campaign against Roosevelt, they
would repudiate their own declarations
and let the note-in-hand they gave the
world so long ago go on file protested
II Is a fault of our Republican sys-
TEN of government that on great
projects of world utility and of speclal
domestic advantage, the people ana
their leaders cannot act as citizens
rather than as partisans. For hfteeh
wears the United States was left unde-
Tended either by modern forts or ships
because the politicians did not dare ap
nronriate The Democrats would 90
nothing in Congress to add to the
achievements of Republican adlIlihis-
tration nor to give 1t control of large
bodies OF mechanics and laborers such
as a program of defence-building wouid
call for. The Pan-American conference
was made abortive largely by factiohai
opposition. But for the same bad IN
fuence we should have long ago had
all Samoa. Even harbor Improvement
has become mora or less of political
issue and the organization of the Army
was so until lately, when it emerged
into national favor by sheer force OF
circumstances.
Perhaps, in the present emergency
Roosevelt may engineer the treaty
through the Senate, but with united
opposition there, the prospects could
not be called bright. They are made
the darker because the general election
Is coming on. To be sure the President
has still the authorization of the last
Congress to go ahead and make pur-
chases, but the failure of the treaty
would amount to the repeal of this spe-
cial privilege and the President would
hardly feel free to go on.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
RULE OF MAJORlTIES.

The best doctors are those who not
only deprecate the use of patent medi-
cine instead of their professional pre-
scriptions, but who frankly help one
to avoid drugging his system with any
medicines and to live a wholesome life.
And so it is with panaceas for public
evils. AS long as human passion, ig-
norance, selfishness and greed sway
the actions of individuals, they Will
control the course of any political body,
be 1t nation, state, county, city or
township, which such individuals man.
age or direct. What else can be eX-
pected? To expect temperate, intelli-
gent, public spirited acts from a set of
individuals who do not even know the
meaning of such acts, is to expect figs
from thistles. Such men do not learn
habits of self-restraint, of regard for
the needs or rights of others by the eX-
ercise of power over others. They may
rant about civil liberty, the equality of
mankind and the wisdom of majorities,
they may work Lincoln's famous
words of Government of the people,
for the people and by the people" to
sanction their vicious use of power
over their fellow men; but they do not
change their natures.
Shall we then say that self-govern-
ment is failure, popular institutions
snare and delusion, and that con-
stitutional monarchy supported and
also restrained by an intelligent aris-
tocracy is safer than democracy? 10
say that would be a confession of fall
ure of American institutions. And
with all it's weakness and its frequent
opportunities for corrupt practices, the
Republic is steadily developing power
to restrain domestic turbulence and
corruption, and is gaining each year
more and more respect from the ma
tons of the world.
The fact is, to paraphrase a genial
Kentuckians sentiment, "all whiskey
Is good whiskey, but some is better
than others" all governments have
their inherent faults, but some have
less than others. The rule of one man,
or of a few men, does not educate the
many in the practice of self-restraint
and in showing regard for the rights
of others.
The only saving principle of a safe
democracy Is that intelligence and not
ignorance shall dominate. AS a choice
between evils, some persons may prefer
a plutocracy to a democracy which has
a large admixture of the criminal and
ignorant classes. There Is, however,
no other way of making a democracy
anything else but a rule of the worst
elements in society, by the worst and
for the worst, except for those who
know what civic virtue means to exert
themselves to control the vicious, be
they rich or poor, and enlighten the
ignorant.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
LOCAL BREVIrIEs.
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

James L. FrieI, purser Of the steamer
w. G. Hail. will marry Miss Alice
NOVEL; at Nawiliwili, Kauai, this
evening.
Mr.. Bachelor, new arrival from
Scotland, is an accession to the force
of the Honolulu Iron Works. He is a
cousin of Mrs. Walter Shields.
The Home Rulers appear to be get
ting farther from an appeal in pro-
portion to the length of time elapsing
since the taste of county government.
Geo. H. Williams has received the
Republican endorsement to be appoint
ed sub-agent of lands for Hilo and
Hamakua Commissioner Pratt is also
favorable to him.
There will probably be a meeting of
the Board of Agriculture this after
noon, If James D. Dole comes in from
Wahiawa. With President Thurston
on voyage for San Francisco and A.
w. Carter gone to Hawaii with For
ester Hosmer, there is only a bare quo
rum left on this island.
A movement is on foot among several
influential people of the city to organize
a Temperance Cadet Corps for boys
between the ages of twelve and eigh-
teen years. The movers have request
Kinley, who has been SO successful In
forming boys clubs, to organize and
take charge of the corps.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22

TRIAL ON

The trial of Kanazawa, Yamakawa,
Yonehara and Sekimoto for conspiracy
to defeat the United States laws
against immortality was resumed from
Wednesday in the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday The prosecu-
ton had not rested at the close of the
day. District Attorney Breckons is
prosecuting, while Z. NJ. Watson APP
pears for the defendants.
The jury consists of II. II. Simpson,
w. C. Wilder, Charles Lucas, b. F.
Boyden. Dan Houghtailing, C. S. Des-
ky, w. C. Crook, Jr., b. w. Houghtail-
ing, F. b. Damon, F. L. Waldron, C. J..
Ludwigsen and C. S. Hall.
Amongst the evidence produced by
the United States is statement in
writing by Yonehara, being an account
showing the names of members of the
association who had paid the stated fee
of $40. The object also appears, as
that of protection from the police.
Owing to this trial being still on,
Judge Dole cannot this morning hear
the argument on the constitutional
point raised, on motion for new trial,
in the case of the Japanese convicted
of peonage.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
THE CARS ATTITUDE.

The appearance OF King Edward In
the role OF peacemaker has had the re-
suit OF bringing the Gear in person
into the field of diplomacy. In theory
the Gear runs Russia; in practice he
is diffident gentleman, supported by
the State in great splendor and quite
willing to ease the burdens of Office
upon the shoulders of his Ministry.
Now and then he has shown an initia-
tive as he did when he proposed dis
armament: but in that particular case
he had not gone far before his Min
istry rearmed the artillery branch OF
the army at n cost of many million
roubles. The Car was gibed for In
sincerity by the foreign press, but the
probability is that he was candid In
his desire for peace, but simply let his
Ministers have their way rather than
take the trouble to combat them.
Nicholas II. is not a William H.; he
does not lead a strenuous life; he
means well but will not fight for his
ideas against the united opposition
of his soldiers and statesmen.
At least that Is his record so far
Whether, under the personal inspira-
ton of. King Edward, who seems to
have inherited the late Queens taste
for and finesse in diplomacy, the Car
will develop backbone. remains to
be seen. He has gone so far as to
receive the japanese minister ana tax
things over with him; and a cable
gram from Germany expresses the
view that he may grant concessions
which his proxy rulers have denied.
II he does go, the Russian system of
government will have an experience
which has rarely come to it since the
time of Catherine. Autocrats in name
and in law though they have been, the
predecessors of Nicholas III. were the
slaves and puppets of the Warwlcks
behind the throne. In the old days
when a Gear asserted himself against
his advisers he was quickly put out OIL
the way. The phrase "a despotic pow
err tempered by assassination was APP
piled to his scheme of authority. Pal-
ace revolutions have gone out in Rus
STA and the modern Muscovite method
of dealing with monarch who takes
the bit in his teeth has not been de-
veloped. Perhaps it will take the new
form of moral suasion.
Assuredy the Car, in setting him.
self against the trend of empire in RUS
STA, would have to deal with a colossal
power. He would be like a fence OF
iron palings in front of glacier. EN-
pire to Russia means geographical
progress and expansion; the goal Is
China and Korea first and then all
Asia. Slowly and with glacial mo-
mentum the empire has spread beyond
the Amur and reached the sea at Port
Arthur. Beyond to the westward are
the waiting plains of China and India,
the deserts of Persia and Arabia.
Shall a Car call a splendid progress
to a halt because the King of England
wishes to put off the day of midas
crisis? That is a question which viii
be asked among themselves by the
statesmen at St. Petersburg. What
will the Car do If the question is put
to him? Or will he see 1t coming and
retreat?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22
(From Thursdays daily.)

1t is feared that the Leahi Home OF
hospital for incurables, will have tC
close on account of the stopping of the
subsidy voted it by the Legislature but
declared illegal by the Attorney Cen
erals department.
C. d. Loveland, head carpenter or
Haiku plantation, died at Hamakua-
poke on Monday night Of heart disease
He was formerly an architect in New
Haven, Conn. His age was 60 or 6;
years and he leaves a wife.
Olaa plantation began grinding two
weeks ago Tuesday, the first cutting
being made the day before. The mil
is working steadily on the years crop
which WILL it is expected, reach a ton
mage quite satisfactory to the company.
Governor Carter Is reported to have
declared, before leaving town, that he
stood pat for county government as
promised to the natives, and would not
countermand his request to Delegate
Kuhio to push the enabling bill in Con-
gress.
Captain Sam. Johnson received his
commission as road supervisor of Ho-
Works C. S. Holloway yesterday. c. b.
Wilson is therefore out. The appoint
ment makes a vacancy at the head of
the garbage service.
Taxpayers will observe the annual
notice regarding the returns of prop
erty for assessment which appears in
this issue. 1t Is important to all, be-
cause If no return be made the assessor
will do the business at his discretion
and there will be no appeal from him
In such a case.
Mrs. George Ross will return to her
home in Hakalau about the first of
February.
Kauai after a visit Of three weeks to
friends in Honolulu.
The Chamber of Commerce will send
Delegate Kuhio photographs showing
the business part of Honolulu.
Captain Niblack, inspector of light
houses for this district, will probably
leave in the steamer Mauna Loa on
February 2 for an inspection of light
houses on the island of Hawaii.
William S. Ellis has been approached
by ocean steamship people, in prelim-
mary negotiation for employing Ha-
waiian Ministries to beguile the tedipm
OF voyages and illustrate, afoat, one of
Hawaii's attractions.
In political circles the recent news
of possibility that Federal officials will
be barred from seats in the Republican
National Convention is being discussed.
Such n rule would shut out Governor
Carter and District Attorney Breckons
from representing Hawaii.
PROPERTY owners at Punahou, in the
vicinity of the burned Robertson home.
are moving to have fire hydrants placed
there and connected with the artesian
wells, There are no less than six gush-
ers in the neighborhood.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22

The modern sky-scraper as it is now
In evidence Will soon be dwarfed by an
Office building which Henry c, Frick
and Bird S. Coler will put up in New
York. Starting at bed rock, five stories,
or eighty feet below the surface, this
structure will rise to height of forty
stories and a siXty-foot tower, max
ing 615 feet above the surface. The cost
of the site will be 100000 and OF the
structure s4,5O0,00O, six per cent net IL
expected of Office buildings in New
York. which would require an annual
earning capacity of this one OF about
$500, 900. To locally realize the height OF
the new sky-scraper IL is only nee
essary to compare with IL that OF
Punchbowl, which, at its highest point
above the sea, registers III feet less
Even the tower of Babel was not Sc
high by nine feet.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-22

The motive of Senator Morgan in in
Producing a resolution providing for the
annexation of the republic of Panama
is not clear. The Senator from Alaba-
ma is stoutly opposed to the Panama
canal and in favor of the old Nicaragua
scheme; but If Panama should come
thus be so arladvanced that Nicaragua
would have no more show. The ques-
ton is, Has Senator Morgan been con-
verified, or is he trying. by dint of a
threatening resolution, TO rouse Pana-
mas suspicion against the American
canal-builders and thus embarrass the
plans OF the Government?