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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
CHRISTMAS EXERCISES.
Of the Sixth and Chestnut School
 Thursday.

The Sixth and Chestnut school was a place of great glee Thursday af- ternoon, being the occasion of the Christmas celebration. Miss Callie Jones and her able corps of assistants had arranged and decorated the rooms most beautifully, and the chil- dren enjoyed the occasion to the full lest extent.
 An excellent program was rendered by the school and many compliments are being bestowed upon Miss Jones and her assistants for the excellent manner in which the program was carried out.
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JUDGE KERWIN AT ELKS.

Judge E. J. Kerwin addressed a small crowd at the Elks theater Sat- urda" ight on campaign issues. He drought up his usual arguments on the fee system and other alleged evils of the county government. His audi ence frequently applauded him. Ow- ing to Christmas and other causes, few people attended the speaking, and while Judge Kerwin held his audi ence for perhaps an hour and half there was comparatively little inter- est manifested in the meeting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
BEsIEeED CROWD ESCAPES.
12,ooo People Escape Troops in Mos
 cow-Oniy Few Wounded.

Moscow, Dec 24.-The 12,O00 per- sons who were besieged in the aquari- um since last night forced the iron railings surrounding the building at 9 o'clock th.s morning and effected their escape through an adjacent school house. A few were wounded in their attempts to escape the mili- tary cordon.
 A dispatch from Moscow on the night of December 21 said that 12,000 persons were holding a meeting in the aquarium, when the building was sur rounded by the military and police, whose object it was to prevent the ex- i! of persons supposed to be armed, unless the arms were delivered up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
PACIFIC EXPRESS.
To Be Opened Today for Delivering
 and Receiving Packages.

The Pf<tflc eApres offloe will TO- n ain open today. and all Of the wag- ons will run, make deliveries and re- ceive goods for shipment today. MT. Benton, the agent of the company, Is 10 be commended fo: doing this, as there is much express matter to be handled yet on account of the holiday rush.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24

diate victory is scored or a conflict forced and blood shed.
 In Moscow the striking railroad men and the lower classes, like the cab drivers, who see the bread taken from their mouths by the strike are al- ready at each others throats.
 Some of the strike leaders here, of failure, do not hesat cmfw cmfp already discouraged by the prospect of failure, do not hesitate to say that the decision to accept the challenge of the government while the organiza- tions were unprepared was a blunder, and that it can only be redeemed by forcing conflict which will arouse the populace.
 Several attempts at fred flag deni- onstrations in the Vassali Ostrov and ether industrial districts today were dispersed by Cossacks. A number of attacks were made on strikers by non- union workmen, who fear that the strike will jeopardize the gratuities usually received by them during the Russian Christmas.
 The Circum-Baikal railroad has been destroyed for considerable distance by falling rocks. It is suspected that this destruction is the work of the revolutionaries who are interested in stopping the return of troops from the far east at this time.
 The Russ, evidently discounting the failure of the strike today, declares that in any event, "every defeat of the revolutionists and every victory of the government, means the govern ment approaches it's final surrender
 It is reported here at Pskoff, 162 m les southwest at Vilorsk, on the Warsaw line, a squadron of dragons has been besieged for three days.
 The news from the Baltic provinces continues bad. Fredericksburg has been taken by the insurgents and Kreutzburg is surrounded and stand ing siege.
 The Novoe Vremya today printed a rather provocative article against the Jews, pointing out that for the first time yesterday, a revolutionary mani festo was signed bp a Jewish organi- zation. The paper says that, although the Socialist and and revolutionary organizations have always contained many Jews, never before have they dared to put their names to docu ment.
 The Novoe Vrempa also declares that the rich Jews are taking advant- age of the situation they have helped create and are buying up abandoned estates.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
McNALLY TRIAL
Be Given Preliminary Hearing Next
 "Wednesday.

.aN 0AN L.
 Robert McNally. the usKzu anNTl3 with shooting two other negroes In the Star saloon several days ago, will have his preliminary hearing before Justice J. P. Knox next Wednesday McNally has secured the services of Hon. T. Havis Nixon to defend him. Gr. Nixon is one of the ablest crim- inal lawyers now practicing at the To- cal bar. and his employment in this case means that most stubborn fight will be made in McNally's de. fense.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
For Men Nnlx

make clothes for men only. Fit and workmanship guaranteed. Eiseu kramer, the tailor, above Citizens bank, Second avenue, corner Pine street. M..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24

Riga, Thursday, Dec. 24.-Oficials, owners of estates, priests, doctors and others of the better class, are arriving here under the escort of the garrisons of their respective localities leaving all the government and private prop erty in the hands of the revolution ists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
FIREWORKS PROCLAMATION.
Mayor White Limits Action of the
 Small Boy.
Mayor White has isslo1 the fol. lowing proclamation:

Mayor White has lSSlod the fol lowing proclamation:
 Notice!
 Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 23, 1905.-To A. J. Stewart, Chief of Police: You will enforce the following regulation with regard to the use of explosives during the holiday season:
 The use of such explosives will be absolutely prohibited in the follow. ing localities: At the cotton. yards warehouses and congresses, all lum' Der yards and blaming mills, the part of the city in the fire limit.
 Given under my hand this 23d day of December, 1905.
 H. KING WHITE, Mayor.
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BIG HOLIDAY TRADE \

>2T@1T3sTANpI&a THERE WAS so MUCH BAD WEATHER oN THE EVE OF CHRISTMAS MERCHANTS HAD A FINE eysi. NESS AND ALI A PLEAsED-soME PRETTY WIN. DOW DISPLAYS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-24
THE REBELS IN CONTROL

GOVERNMENTS PROPERTY HANDS, AND BETTER CLASSES HAVE FLED-sUccEss BALANCE PRoLETARIAT ORGANIZATIONS MARsHALiNG ALL THEIR FOR cEs.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Panama Philanthropy

In the September number of Apple
toms Booklover's Magazine, Harold
Bolce. the political economist makes
the statement that for us to build the
Panama canal at this time is pure phi-
lanthropy; but he adds that we can az
ford it.
1.-The fact that America has not se-
cured this commerce chat of South
American countries on the Atlantic) is
sufficient proof that we as people do
not care for it. Had we needed South
Americas trade we would have obtained
a large share of it. But a few hundred
millions of dollars is a small sum COM
pared with Americas internal COM
merce, now estimated to be worth over
twenty-five billion dollars annually. Nor
should the American business world be
staggered at the cost of the canal at
Panama, which we are building for
mankind One weeks domestic trade
in the United States would pay for two
5000, 900, 900 canals and leave enough of
a surplus TO purchase controlling in-
terest in Suez and dedicate that water
way to the world"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

couldn't talk plain? l didn't, but L ike
it, rather ,
You see, mother of that kind
seems somehow nearer to you than the
regular, old kind.
She is always playing-our mother is
and when she thinks we are not look
ing she plays with Daddy. Our room
opens into theirs, you know. and the
other morning, when Dottie was asleep
in her crib--I don't sleep in a crib, OF
course, cause I'm six and mine is a
regular bed-but Dottie was asleep ana
I could see from my bed into mother S
room. Daddy was fast asleep, too, but
mother was awake, cause L could see
her eyes open, and from the way they
looked, with the brown part all in the
corners, 1 knew she was going to DO
something. Well, she did. She pulled
a feather out of the pillow and began
tickling daddy's nose.
First he just moved as If 1t was too
much trouble to wake up, as p'raps IL
was only a fly and would go away.
But it didn't go away for Mother
tickled harder, and Daddy slapped 1t
with his hand 'thout opening his eyes.
Mother waited few minutes before
doing is some more until Daddy was
fast asleep again. Then she gave
good big hard tickle, and Daddy woke
M entirely. But Mothers face was
tucked in her pillow and she played
she was fast asleep, though l could
see the corners of her mouth moving
Ike you do when you're only pretend
ing asleep and you know some ones
looking at you. Now did you ever hear
of a mother doing funny things IKE
that before? Daddy stared hard at
her hut she looked so like little girl
fast asleep that he couldn't believe she
did it. But / saw her, you know
honest Injun-and there was no mis-
Mother time when daddy was dress
ing Mother ran away with his necktir
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

limb, We're after him, and that is the
reason for the existence of the motor
cycle corps, if you may call it so, for it
only can cope with this sort of viola
tion.
Careful instructions are given to
these motor cycle men to use the ut
most discretion in dealing with an ap-
parent violator of the speed laws. All
we ask is that the safety of the public
be always considered by the operator of
the automobile. l can realize for l
know by experience how the chauffeur
will be perhaps misled by the change
in speed of the automobile, even within
a short distance. With the same feed
and power an automobile may vary
from twenty-five to thirtytive miles
an hour when going a few city blocks.
much of the trouble from oVerspeed-
ing chauffeurs comes in the night, and
the conditions that then arise are most
dangerous to life and limb. and are
extremely difficult for the policeman to
deal with. This is the growing habit
of the chauffeurs of wealthy people
taking out the cars at night, with
out apparently the knowledge of the
owners, and with other boon COM
panions go out for a long run into the
surrounding country. These men do
'Ot ctuii uii'ii 'AiC S"i HONi VI '4iO
morning, and at that hour they run
their automobiles at the top notch of
speed. They give not only the police
men a lot of trouble, but frequently it
is the case that they have substituted
the number from another automobile
for that of their own, and when traced
it is not that of the actual violator."
Samuel B. Stevens of Rome, N. Y, a
member of the Automobile Club of
America, who drives repeatedly back
and forth over the state roads. pre-
dcted that the establishment of police
patrol along country highways would
drive speed maniac automobilists off
the routes under surveillance. Under
proper restriction he thought the en-
ployment of automobile police in and
around the cities and large towns might
have a salutary effect upon irrespon-
Sible ScOrcherS.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

Mother don't do it at all. l never
heard her yet.
She isn't so awfully old, really.
Mother isnt-twenty-s That's only
four times as many SKIES on my blocks
as [ am, and just two more. Most
mothers / reckon are pretty near hun
dred. | used to think twenty-five an
awful lot when / could only count up
to 1t, but now that / can count fifty y
doesn't seem much at all, and l know,
cause she had a cake just like we do
with twenty-siX candles.
She isn't a great, big, high mother,
either, like the story book ones or
Willie Morton's, next door. l come ur
above her waist, and I'm only six.
never noticed how really little she was
till one day she was standing up by
Daddy coaxing him. Her head was
only up about to his necktie, and he
rested his chin on it, and she tickled
him with her hair. / thought then,
My! mothers are not all so great, big
and old after all!
wonder what Daddy thinks
about it?
He seems to like it just as much as If
she was bigger and don't seem as IL
he thought they cheated him giving
him such a little one. But, honest, l
think little mothers are lots nicer than
big ones. Daddy isn't so terribly old,
either. That is, he hasn't got bald
head or a long white beard like most
daddes, and for all he's so high 1
don't believe he's much older than
mother When he comes home after
Moons from Wall street-that's where
he goes to school, 1 s'pose-he calls
"Babes!' and mother races as hard as
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
AIphOnsO: ROIYiCking Boy or L111beCiIe?

ance and can stand up under fatigue
that would exhaust men of apparently
greater strength. Although he has al
most reached his majority he follows
still the daily routine laid out by his
mother when, in 1891, his royal curls
were cut and he set out to prepare him.
self for his high place.
His enemies say that, in spite of her
years of devotion, the king is lacking in
respect to his mother, who has given
him such autocratic ideas that he will
not tolerate the least interference with
his kingly conduct even from her.
The kings attitude toward the queen
mother is most severely criticised by MS
political opponents. The king VIII have
it clearly understood that his word is
supreme. and at the most trifling oppo-
sition to his wishes he becomes dicta-
torial. He has frequently spat in the
faces of servants who have neglected
his orders, and where he does not dare
subject his victims to this. indignity he
gives vent to his feelings by employing
all the strongest terms that Spanish
profanity can command
Alfonso's reckless speeding through
the streets of Madrid in his automo-
bile has repeatedly been commented
upon in the Madrid papers, and 1t has
been said that the attempt OF the late
Maura government to compel the king
to stop his breakneck speeding was
the real reason why the cabinet fell.
Premier Maura, at an audience with
the king, pointed out the danger or
using the streets of Madrid as race
course, and the fact that the municl-
pal laws were broken by his majesty.
Alfonso was greatly angered over the
remarks of the premier, and at once
demanded the governments resigna-
ton for impertinence. The resigna-
tions were handed in and new gov-
ernment was formed.
1t is not possible, of course, to say
how much truth there is in such u
story, that could have been known
to only few persons. 1t was indus
triously circulated, however, by the
party opposed to the king. His ene-
mics declared that his arrival early
one morning at garrison near Ma
drd did not come from an interest in
the army, but was due TO nervousness
resulting from a diseased mind. But
they even attributed his personal IN
vestigation of an explosion in the OUT
skirts of Madrid to the same cause.
SO it is evident that the kings ene-
mics will not admit that his eccentric
cities are due to the eXuberance OF
youth.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
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does. She told us we oughter De liior0
dignified, and that she was shocked "
see us sitting on the floor playing wlen
kittens 1t was so funny that Dottle ailu @
1 lust shook, and she stayed dresseu llhS
that till Daddy came home, ana stead
of climbing up on his knee as usu"A s
she made b'lieVe to be Aunt Mlranua
and said how de do, and held out a
funny limp hand in one of his old plack
gloves Daddy tore off the ShaWl anu
bnonet, and pulled her hair down ana
made her Gomez and sit in his lap IKE
she always does. He said he llkeu ms
little girls better'n old maids any day.
on. YES. she can be strict-Mother
can! But in such a nice way. When
we do things we oughtn't to, winch
children can't help sometimes, you
know, she looks as If she was golng
to be punished for it herself, ana DoC
and I can't stand that, we honest can I,
60 we trv our honor bright best to be
good all the time. 1t amt SO awtui
rard, really, when you think it would
make YOUR mother feel bad. It's so nice
to see her smiling and happy that you
somehow don't feel like doing things
to make her look sad. When we tled
the cat and the five kittens together
by the tails we thought it was going
to be the greatest fun, but Mother saw
them all scrambling in different ways,
and stead of laughing .she looked as
if she was going to cry, and Dot ana
| united them as quick as we could:
though we got ever so many good hard
scratches. SO you see how 1t is, you
don't want to be very bad when your
mother is such little one
The other boys and girls can say what
they please and the story books can
go on writing about mothers hundred
years old, and big and high as lamp
posts, but for my part I'd rather have
a little mother just like mine-they're
lots cutter, and you can love 'em more
when they're not so far away from
YOU cross my heart, you can.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

and he began chasing her. She had on
something short, like Dottie wears, and
blue bows on her shoulders. You
ought to have seen her l don't think
you would have believed she was any
body's mother, she was so awful little.
Daddy ran after her as fast as ne could
go. but Mother was quicker; and what
do you think she ended by doing?
Climbing clear up on top of the piano
and sitting there holding Daddy's tie
and laughing so you could hear her all
over the house Really, you can't
think how funny it looks to see your
mother on piano! Daddy had to lift
her down, and both her slippers flew
off when he carried her back to the
nursery, just as he does Dottie ana
me. He said she was a naughty girl
and he'd have to punish her, and pre-
tended he didn't love her any more,
But Mother followed him around ano
kept rubbing her head against him and
then she made b'lieve to cry, ana Dad
dy couldn't stand that. He just cud-
died her up and you could only see the
top Of her head. Whenever Daddy
starts to scold her it always ends that
way, and, honest L do believe Mother
likes to be scolded. She makes him do
it, lots, anyway-that's all know.
Daddy's old maid aunt came in one
day when mother was sitting on the
floor tying the kittens and Dottie and
me up in blue ribbons, and she told
Mother that she ought to be more dig
nified But Mother ran to her with
one of the kittens-the little gray one
with the white tummy-it's the cutest-
and made it kiss her in the mouth, and
Aunt Miranda-isn't that an awful
name?-didn't say any more, though
she looked hoppin' mad and went away
soon. And what do you think Mother
did as soon as she was gone? Tried
to make her hair lie fiat, and dressed
up like Aunt Miranda and came in and
talked to us zacly as Aunt Miranda
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

breaches of palace etiquette have
alarmed some of the ministers, who
seem to think that IL king, even at 49,,
should recognize the dignity of his po-
sition and understand that it is impos-
sible for him to indulge in the pranks
permissible to other youths of his age.
Recently Alfonso in passing through
an anteroom in the Madrid palace met
Admiral Chacon, a venerable sailor
king. Alfonso approached the admiral
and said to him;
"What office are you filling now?"
The admiral replied that he was at
tached to one of the bureaus of the
navy department, whereupon Alfonso
answered in loud voice.
"Is that so? Well, my dear Chacon, l
suppose you idle your time away there
just as you did when you were at
court"
The king then raised his hand and
slapped the face of the old sailor, after
which he walked off laughing bolster
ously.
Nearly Was Slapped
Chacon, in relating the incident later,
said:
"When 1 felt his majesty's hand hit
my face it was all l could do to re-
strain myself from disgracing myself
and my uniform"
Another and more serious phase of
this young kings independence of
thought and action is concerned with
the mother who has devoted her life
to his education and rearing. Her care
has made him a healthy sturdy youth,
although he promised to inherit all the
physical weakness of his sickly father.
He is capable of great physical endur-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

rs A FUNNY thing, all the other
boys and girls mothers and the
ones in the story books they read
about are always odd-awfully odd
and they sit around in stiff chairs and
talk in grOwn-up voices, with their
hair parted in the middle and drink
tea with other grown-ups that come in.
But our mother is just as different as
can be. She sits on the floor and
plays with Dottie and me and talks the
same as we do and loves our games.
She races around with us and laughs
whole lot, and never seems like II
grown-up at all. Why one days-true's
l live-Dottie and 1 thought we heard
some one-p'raps the cat-in the jam
closet, so we crept up slowly and
peeked in. And what do you suppose
1t was? Mother behind the door, eating
cakes as fast as she could cram them!
Cross my heart! And when she saw us
she begged us not to tell nurse, so she
wouldn't get scolded. Wasn't that the
funniest thing for a mother? And when
box of candy comes in the house no
one eats more than mother. She just
loves buttercups.
It's the strangest thing, for mothers
usually spend all their time-half of it,
anyway saying don't and telling
their children that if they were little
boys and girls they wouldn't do such
things, which isn't so, for If they were
little boys and girls they certainly
would.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
THE CLEANERS

Out of far fields, through inallumined
With weariness the cleaners bare their
sheaVes,
To their great Master, he whose just
reward
Fails not who knows himself their
And gives to each his due. They came
and stond
Before him, and received, and gave him
thanks.
And one who wore the cleaners coat
bare not
a sheaf He also stood; and for time
he Spake
No word. No word was spoke by any
one of them
He nor his Master, nor his brethren
lie dared TO look, and dared Cat last)
And said, Master, 1 have no shoaf."
and dropped his eyes,
And silence deepened, for the Master
No Word nor did his brethren utter
words.
Then he who wore the cleaners coat
again
Lifted his heavy eyes up to the face
Which smiled upon him as upon
And to the faces of his brethren then.
Which smiled as on the weakness or a
child. -,
All! terrible to merit such smile!
And then he fell before them ON ms
And cried, 20 Master! o my brethren,
Upon me thy unquenched, consuming
hate,
But torment me no more in thy fierce
-Richard Kirk, in Lippincotts.