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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08
THE FOOLISH MERCHANT.

Th lightning bug is brilliant, but
be hasn't any mind, he meanders
through ;he darkness with his head
light on behind. Likewise the foolish
Horchant, whom no one can advise
he declares there's nothin' doin' when
asked to advartise.-Western Pub
Usher.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

Some girls a.. ,dest they cam
gain few p0ul.ds without blushias
about it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

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sea,s the >, I've f'n1 fH; z ;,y3s it'f
signature .@I1-l
s--.s~:. rl..e<.'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

PerhapS the pest OF all morning ap-
petizers in the way of fruit is the
grape fruit.
Never go from a warm atmosphere
into cooler one, without keeping the
mouth closed, so that the air may be
warmed in lis passage through the
nose before it reaches the lungs.
An economical and satisfactory
cream for the hands is composed of
equal portions Of honey, mutton tai
low (clarifed) and lemon juice melt
g. together until of he consistency Of
cream
Sleep should not be erudged. A
hard worker needs eight hours If
the night sleep is broken. It i we'll
70 rise at the hour of wakir ~-a=-
suming always that one feels esh \
second and invited sleep dose litt2 If
any good.
Tender feet should be bath niaht-
L. in q strong solution Of rocl; salt.
They should he driod ard powdered
p=iah heric aeia. TIL aoc1e or stock
nas oue1t te he dipped IN hot sat"-
rated solution Of horic acid and
cried without wriHeinG
1t is said one can liehten the hair
hy taking equal parts of rhubarh
s.alks and honey and sleeping in
three parts of white wine. Let it
stand for "a hours. strain and use as
a lotion, wetting the entire hair, mas
saying and leaving to dry in.
Do not try to sweep an inyaia's
room. but wiring a clean cloth OUT OF
Geld water to which few drops of
ammonia have been added. and caro-
ully wipe the carpet, mating or fiooH.
turning and rinsing the cloth and
changing the water as it gets dirty.
A mouth that that sometimes ap-
Tears blue and livid around the lips
belongs to a person with weak heart.
Especially is this sign marked when
the muscles around the lips appear
TO be tightened so that the mouth
looks as if it were gathered in hard
creases and fast closed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08
.Jobbers, Wholesalers and
Manufacturers
OF PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS.
BLUFF CITY LUMBER COMPANY

LUMBER
BLUFF CITY LUMBER COMPANY
Manufacturers Lumber Lath Shingles,
Doors spec ty Cheap Lumber for cabins
tudngs paune door ia. cheapest
earth
Our beds bedroom suits and
market These two facts
Hold orders until you write
l. O. KNOX FURNITURE COMPANY
dealers Furniture CARPETS, B4sse
Carriages Harness. Sales 2l72l221223 and 30
Barraque. Manufacturers Of Mattresses Of ali Grades
eyDDEPHATT FURNITURE COMPANY.
OFFICE SAl.E5BOOM 423425 MAIN STREET.
pc merchants VILE city n
visit and inspect cur line
FOX BROS, HARDWARE
Leaders Hardware stoye, Nails
CUTLERY and Supplies shipped promptly on re-
Fair Dealing satisfied customer
need anything in your
QUEENsWARE
RYLAND ouEENswARE COMPANY
We crokery, tnware, granite
glassware bar glasses Bucks stoves, lanterns
Headquarters for fancy China At
= l. OWEN.
combination Cash and long
ground
retail of Queenswae Fancy Pottery: Glass
Woodenware, Lamps Cutlery, etc, Your trade solicited.
DRY GOODS
ISAAC oaEvFvs.
Notions Quick delivery and quantities suit
strong point 122. Bluff.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
WESTeRook GRAIN AND COMM ,,vN COMPANY
sell Plaster, Brick Fire
Flour, Salt, Potatoes Bran, Corn,
Hay, Shpsun,
specially.
MARSH AND RILEY.
provisions
Martha
j. A. HOLMES COMPANY, ucorporated)
Wholesale Lime Cement Fire
Fire
FOUNDERS
O!LLEY FOUNDRY COMPANY,
Logging locomotives,
planning mill machinery
Supplies.
A..
Marble and Granite 1f trade solicited
Corner Walnut
BUSINESS COLLEGES
JAMES PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE
Solclts the patronage Of ambitious
Bookkeeping Shorthand Typewring related studies Day
night sessions j. W. JAMES, Bluff Ark.
UNDERWRITERS AND EMBALMERs
HoLpERNEss-sENYARD co.
We complete the
trade that cannot be excee
ed Embam1ng and shipping specially at Tes
graph and telephone orders prompt attention
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

Perhaps the best of all morning ap-
grape fruit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

Watching the clock is but wasting
the time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

Too many expect to conquer tn
devil by concurring with him.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-11-08

Never go from warm atmosphere
into a cooler one, without keeping the
mouth closed, so that the air may be
warmed in lis passage through the
nose before it reaches the lungs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
Is Our Pace Too Fast.

The New Haven physician, who in
recent address before the American
Therapeutic Society, ascribed the
weaknesses of the heart and the circu-
latory system now so common among
certain classes Of men and women to
the high tension of modern life, was
doubtless we'll within the truth. We
keep up fast pace everywhere, in our
efforts to keep in the swim of bust
ness and society, gauging everything
by the clock and rushing from one ap-
pointment to another at literally cleo
trio speed. IF we are actually SICK"
said this physician, unless we are Sc
riously i'll, we fight and wrestle with
the disease. whatever it may be, in
stead Of calmly giving up and allowing
the disease to be temporarily master Of
the ceremonies" And even our chill
dren," declared the same speaker, ARE
early infected with this feverish, head
long haste to do something. They see
too much, do too much, are amused too
much, compete in school too much, are
taught TOO mucn, are awake TOO mucn,
for the welfare Of their nervous sys-
TENS" All this, or something very
much like it, has often been said be-
fore, but the warning needs repetition,
and, perhaps, by and by, some will
hear and heed before it is too late
With all our many and ever-increasing
applications Of electricity, we need to
remember that the laws Of the human
organism remain the same, and the hu-
man machine cannot be run on the
the strenuosity displayed In modern
life is totally unnecessary. Quite as
much could be effected in the long run
by taking things more moderately
Leslie's Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

Just how to make the baby eat is
often a more puzzling question than
what to give it or when to feed it.
Very little children, especially those
that have an early morning bottle, are
rarely willing to swallow anything
solid at breakfast time. This lis, of all
meals, the one that gives anxious
mothers the most trouble, yet there
are some children who have so small
an appetite that their aversion to food
lasts throughout the day. All kinds
Of plans have been adopted by mothers
80 suit the particular child with whom
each has had to DEAL Playing upon
the imagination sometimes succeeds;
again the spirit Of emulation is
aroused, or it may be that the childs
attention Is SO intensely attracted to
something else that it eats mechanical
ly without realizing what it Is doing.
Simple brides or rewards are often eff
fective, but the moral influence of
these is questionable. This method,
however, is better to use than that
adopted by maiden aunt who fed the
boy in her charge scent bag Of gum
drops daily before he could be induced
to take his egg.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

The country as whole is experience
Ing wholesome reaction against the
free and easy divorce system which
has brought so much reproach on
America. States are modifying the
laws which in SO many instances have
practically invited the filing of petit
tons. Courts, responding to the gen
eral impulse, are being more careful
against abusing the discretion lodged
in them-are more vigilant against col
lusion-more insistent that proof shall
be complete. In social life there is a
tendency to go back to the old opinion
which regarded divorce as a disgrace
and visited obloquy OH che divorced
The pendulum which SO long swung
one way is now swinging the other.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

The result of the tipping system is,
quite naturally and inevitably, that
those who pay fees get excellent serv-
Ice, while others are neglected 1t is.
indeed, hard to find any good defense
for the custom, however it Is viewed.
1t is undemocratic because :. draws a
line between the classes that can be
tipped and those to whom a tip would
be an insult. 1t enables the rich, who
do not mind the change out of a bill, to
outbid the poor, who can not afford
more than an extra dime. 1t forces
the public to pay the employees Of rail
roads, hotels, steamships, etc, as we'll
as servants i'll private families the
wages which, should come from the
employer. 1t is well-known fact that
wages are cut down in consideration
of fees and the thrifty innkeeper mere
ly let's his guests pay his servants.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
About the Man.

He loves his wife better the more he
waits upon her.
He appreciates his wife more lie she
sometimes fails to meet him at the
door,
He Is most gracious to his wife's
friends when she makes his friends
hers.
He drives tacks into the carpet twice
as willingly if she stands by and hands
him the tacks.
He does the mans work about the
house more willingly il me thinks he is
merely helping his wife to do her
work.
He is most docile when most hatter-
ed and most flattered by being credited
with virtues which he does not pos
sess.
He likes best to do something kind
for his wife Immediately after she has
praised him for being an unusually
good husband.
He is always a little better than he
might be as long as he thinks that his
wife believes that he is a great deal
better than he is.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
Jacks Picturesque Slang.

Although, with clue-garnets and
STUN sails, much Of the picturesque
language Of the sea has passed away
Jacks conversation Is still furnished
with expressions and terms born of
the conditions of his life on the ocean.
His language with his mates is a curl
Gus combination of Bowery slang and
sea-phrases-''Yo use guys come in out
er that boat and bear a handr' as l
heard one young cockswain order-and
| believe that if Shakespeare could have
known our modern Yankee man-of-
warS-man, he never would have put
strange oathS in the mouth of a SOL
der Yet in spite of the peculiarities
of his speech, and his almost universal
neglect of the rule that two negatives
make an affirmative. he can send or
read the most complicated message in
either the Internal ional or naval code
with signal-fags in the daytime. or
by the Ardois system of red and white
electric lights at night through which
our warships hold converse tons with
one anOther.-Century
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

he- the necessary responsibilities, and
how to shoulder them with the pleas
ure and bliss attendant upon happy
and God-blessed marriage" An Inst.
tutionaW church in Boston has in its
parish house what has flippantly been
called counting parlor," but it is
only a pleasant room where the young
people of the neighborhood may gath
er for amusement in wholesome sur
roundings Their homes are so small
that there is little room for a gather
ing Of young people in. them, and If
the church does not provide such
place the young people will go to
dance halls and other resorts where
they will be under demoraliZing infiu-
ences. The counting parlor" Is ne-
cessity in the crowded districts Of all
large cities. What better thing could
there be than that the preliminary ar
rangements for a Christian home
should begin under the oversight Of q
Christian church?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

Juliet's question Whats In q
nameY might be answered in various
ways One could say, Something and
nothing" and both with equal truth.
The name is not the thing and yet
comes to be closely identified with it.
Although merely name, 1t carries
with it history, geography, genealogy
and ecclesiasticism. How aristocratc
the names Of localities are now co0-
pared with those of a century or two
ago. Where once the term field was
applied the demand today is for park.
Our ancestors lived in BroOkfeld, Suf-
field, Springfield, Enfield and Byfeld
We: live in Highland Park, Hyde Park,
Morgan Park or Norwood Park. No
plebeian field" for us. A sign of the
times Is that biblical names are no
longer given to towns, or If they are
it is in honor Of some older town and
not in commemoration of place men
toned in the Bible. Salem, Lebanon,
Sharon and the others we're sacred
names to our ancestors and full of re-
ligious meaning. The era Of the clas-
sizes Is noted in the settlement of New
York State when Troy, Syracuse, Itha-
ca, Rome and other towns were honor
ed with illustrious names, as If to
foreshadow their own eventual great
ness Then the American spirit be-
gan to prevail and the names Of presi-
dents, senators and members Of the
cabinet were transferred to States,
counties and towns. The tie with the
old world was severed, or rather
America was asserting herself and her
individuality as worthy of recogni-
ton.
Doubtless without being conscious
Of it names are given to localities to-
day which indicate the spirit of the
times There is too freqpent repeti-
ton Of names in different States,
which causes great inconvenience
aside from the wearisome monOtony.
There Is the disposition for elegant,
high-sounding names regardless Of
their fitness, and in some cases there
is the tendency to return to more anti
Quated forms. Road now Is aristo-
cratic where formerly street and
then avenue" were the distinguished
terms. Terrace" is affected even
where the word has not the slightest
application 1t carries evidence Of ig-
norance and pretension and is we'll
adapted to the kind of insincerity now
in vogue. Names tell fearful truths
which they were not intended to con-
vey, and, easy as it would seem to
change them when found ill-fitting or
deceiving, they refuse to go. They
still remain to reveal the former pre-
tension, tastes and characteristics of
the people who gave them. The city
or town or street honored with real
ly good name, appropriate in all re-
spects, reflects great credit on the hon.
est persons who gave it. Good names
are about as hard to find as they are
hard to earn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

vessels on all seas. Master" she will
be known officially, although there
seems a certain incongruity in the
term. She is said to be alone in her
honors upon the high seas, but she
must share them on the examiners
books with young Western woman.
who last year won license as master
and pilot on steam vessels on the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers. Her task may
require less knowledge Of navigation
than that of the Philadelphia, but en-
tails as a feat of memory an exact
knowledge Of every bend, bar, snag
landing, island, eddy, cutting bank.
and practically every other feature, at
all stages of water, in fifteen hundred
miles of constantly changing river.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31

Doctors give away more than any
other class of men on earth. 1t is stat
ed that the gratuitous services of ply
sicians last year to one large PhiladeI-
phia hospital amounted to over five
hundred thousand dollars at ordinary
fees. Upon this the Wisconsin "Medi-
cal Recorder" remarks that ''if any
individual or any society had given
half a million dollars to any cause the
fact would have appeared in all the
dailies with large headlines, but this
free work of the physicians has come
to be considered as too common for
notice. And this was only one hospi-
tai in one city. How enormous this.
free work in the whole country must
have been last year" Much of this
free work was necessary and COM
mendable. and much of it was not.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
New Belts in Pretty Patterns.

Quite the prettiest things among
belts that have appeared for a long
time are shown in the accompanying
Illustrations The first an Oriental de-
sign, comes stamped in colors-after
the manner of the cushion tops so pop
ular just now-on background of lin
en- colored crash. This particular pat
tern is tinted in green's, browns, and
dark and light blues, and is outlined in
black embroidery silk. The spider
webs are done in gold thread. Green
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
WIVES WITH CONSCIENCES.
Instances of Little Women Who In
f1uence Crafty Politicians.


tiuence Crafty Politicians.
Very bad men, it seems, may have
very good wives. This inference is
brought home every week by the trust
and fidelity which wives show to hus-
bands accused or convicted Of seri-
GUS crimes. When no one else has
any apparent influence for good over
vulgar, corrupt men, their conduct
shows that some timid inoffensive lit
tie woman can exert it-can bring into,
active play the better impulses that.
have been overlaid by years of unde-
tected wrongdoing. 1t is the suppose
ton nowadays that when boodler
has made clean breast of his mis-
deeds it is because his wife insisted
upon it.
Which suggests that bad man who
is responsive to the appeals of good
wife is not so bad as he is supposed
to be. He had some merit in the first
place, or he would neither have sought,
nor have been able to secure such a
helpmeet While he has turned his
predatory side toward the world he
has shown himself at his own freside
equipped with full complement of
the domestic virtues. He has exempli-
fed that "ethical dualism" which
Thomas Lawson is illustrating with
such JUNCTION in the protagonists of HIS
romantic "''Frenzied Finance"
1t is a shock to precOnceived notions
to realize that hard-faced, cold-eyed
promoter, politician or labor leader,
who will unload worthless stock on a
friend and sell out city or trade
union for moderate consideration,
may get the reputation of model
husband inside his own home and COM.
mand the absolute trust of its mis-
tress. AS the world knows. the hus-
band and wife, he is all that he should
not, and she is all that she should be-
OF course, it is not salutary that she
should embody the conscience which
he has divorced from his own breast.
But it is well that it has not been ex-
PEELED altogether, for through her it
may get chance to vindicate ITSELF
New York Mail.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
up on the right side instead Of the
left, as always heretofore.

up on the right side instead Of the
left, as always heretofore.
Skirt founces caught down at the
bottom in puff effect are new-old.
Every gown has its shoe or slipper
to match and the stocking follows suit.
Exquisitely lovely are the pale green
art nouyeau combs with jewcled floral
tops.
The blouse with strapped front and
long silk scarf pulled through is pop
uIar.
Hats Of moss, with clusters Of red
berries tucked in the green, are love-
" novelty.
Velvet blouses, both simple and elab-
crate, are to be taken into considera-
tion this year.
Gold and silver touches here and
there act as high lights to most of the
evening gowns.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
Boxes for Palms.

When palms have outgrown the or
binary pot, deep boxes will be found
very satisfactory for their further de-
velopment. Let them be about fifteen
inches square at the top, tapering to
about ten inches at the bottom, and
at least twenty inches deep. Twenty
four would be better. In such boxes
the roots can run down, and that Is
what the palm likes. They never
spread out very far, on all sides. If
given a chance to go down into the
soil.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
About Indian Wives.

From the Missouri to the Big Horn
$500 squaw men testify that there is
10 wife like the Sioux woman, because
there is no mOther-in-law like the
Sioux mother-in-law. This is why
tribe will be assimilated by the whites
Facts confirm this prediction. for re-
ports from the reservation are that
more than 800 Indian maidens became
the wives Of whites in the last year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
DopuloT ience.


The sounds emitted by telegraph and
telephone wires have been a subject
OF study by +. Book, who claims to
have made it possible to forecast local
weather conditions one or more days
ahead from the humming. Observa-
tons are made at II a. m. and p. m.
The snail's sense of smell has been
located in the horns by some observ-
ers, but authorities quite as good have
regarded this conclusion as incorrect.
Nj. Young, who has been making ex-
periments to settle the matter, now
claims to have proven that the snairs
nose is distributed over the entire
body.
The new motor forge Of the United
States army is a vehicle 1215 feet long,
driven by "A horsepower gasoline en-
CINE, and carrying oil for travelling 800
miles at 10 to y miles an hour. 1t is
fitted with small machine shop,
blacksmith's shop and saddler's shop,
while it carries spare parts likely to be
needed by light battery on the march.
An auxiliary engine on one side ope.
rates a dynamo, lathe and grindstone.
The deplorable summer waste OF
child life, especially in crowded cities,
calls for scientific attention. A recent
medical writer claims that the cpl.
demic diarrhea that proves so fata,
may be avoided by the following pre-.
cautions: CD Clean milk nipples. (2)
Clean towns, with effective sewage re-
moval, dust collection and disposal and
street watering. (3) Clean homes
with attention to food utensils. cover
sonal habits, and CD destruction or ex-
clusion of flies.
The brief opera tons of the wireless
telegraph service undertaken for the
London Times at the seat of the Russo
Japanese war, and ended by the in.
reference Of the Japanese govern
ment, throw much light on the detec-
tive powers of wireless telegraphy. In
this case the DeForest system was en-
ployed. The land station was at Wei
haiwei, with mast ITO feet high. The
mast on the telegraph ship was 90
feet high. Both Russian and Japa-
nese messages We're received by the
operator, who could easily recognize
the difference in the systems employ
ed. He could tell if a Russian ship
was at sea by listening to the an
swering messages from shore. He
could also tell whether the Japanese.
messages were transmitted from a re-
lay base, or whether the fleet itself
! was at sea.
The question whether America or
Europe has the swifter railroad trains
| is one the answer to which varies from
| time to time with the progress Of
events. According to a comparison Of
schedules for this year, made by the
| Scientific American, the English and
French trains are at present decidedly
ahead of our own. With the exception
of the Empire State Express, which
averages 54.5 miles an hour, and the.
Twentieth Century Limited, SO miles,.
it appears that we have no trains. run
ming long distances comparable in.
speed with many in England and
France. There are 35 French trains
scheduled to run at an average speed
Of 30 miles an hour or more, and 81
English trains that are equally fast.
| Our two fast trains, it is true, go long
err distances and are much heavier, but
they have proportionally larger en-
| gines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-31
Tabs finish many a bodice back.

Tabs finish many bodice back.
Plush is much used in smart head
gear.
Soft fabrics prevail for afternoon
wear.
That Frenchy little velvet bow Is
being overworked.
Warm colors reign supreme in the
complete wardrobe.
A curious red on the crushed straw
berry order is favored.
Hand embroidery on tucks is dainty
for the debutante's frock.
The tiniest fans are of peacock
feathers with tortoise-shell sticks.
1t is odd to note that many Of the
new hats for fall and winter wear lift