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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-01-27
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-01-27

Much of the drawing
power Of an advertisement
depends on the way it is
worded. Tell as much of a
story as the reader will
want TO know.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
TIE SILVER TEST.

A correspondent OF d highly esteem.
Cd contemporary has established a
new test of the simon pare in pro
ductscf the poets art. She has the
books Of a modest American singer.
that at every page or two l get that
chill down the spine which signals to
me that | am in the presence Of
poetry At last we have real stand
ard of value. Poetry heretofore has
been judged by individual taste and
appreciation. AS a consequence two
opinions upon any particular work III
versification have seldom been the
same. With judgment reduced to
the basis of a common spontaneous
chill conditions will be simplified
Every magazine and every publishing
house will have its susceptible test
medium, and the poet who can not
produce a shiver with his lines need
not stop to argue. The waste basket
or the Office cat for his.-New York
World.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
PHONE AND SHAVE.

An inventive genius who runs a
,unsorial estal lishment in New
Jersey town has made a decided i"no-
walton by installing a telephone in
the BARRIERS chair. The customer may
comfortably carry on long distance
conversation at the same time he Is
Icing doused with the short distance
dialectic of the Establishment.
New Jersey is headquarters for
combination. The STATE has produced
some amazing consultations, against
which the statutes Of all the states in
the union have been unavailing. But
here is business combination that
even New Jersey cannot make stand.
A telephone in BARRIERS chair is
useless unless there is also gag in
the barber's mouth. The man being
shaved might be able to separate his
car from the face, but it is impossible
that he should divide his attention III
two.
If the man getting shaved attempts
10 talk business over the phone an
unearded side remark Of "Sharper'
to the barber regardless of his razor
MIGHT cause confusion and chaos al
the ether end of the line.
If he seeks happy forgetfulness Of
the shaving by holding tender dis
course with his best girl, an applica
ton of the towel is apt to bring from
him a disguised "Too hot!" just II
time for a loving message to be curdl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
NOTICE.

The tax books for the collection Of
the special assessment upon the real
property in paving district No. Q for
the purpose of grading. curbing and
Taving, have been placed in my hands.
All owners of real estate in that dis,
trict are required to pay their assess
ments to me on or before the 4th day
of September, 1905.
If such payment is not made action
will be commenced at the end of that
time for the collection of said assess
ment and for all legal penalties and
all costs.
J. P. ALEXANDER, Collector.
Office corner Fourth and Pine streets
$4,000
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

less time than il takes to write il.
and, although one of the most Studious
and punctual girls of the class, she
was happier for the change.
The father and neither of this girl
aericulturaIist say that their child
takes to such work from a natural
inclination, from which they have been
unable to attract her. She has shown
a fondncss for horses from the time
NAL of the kind, and now she is able
to ride or drive any equine that may
he bridled.
Raises Pickles Enough For 1000 Girls
Last year Miss Dare had under her
own cultivation five acres of corn. Gne
acre of cucumbers, and one acre of
potatoes. This year she made her
own contract with the pickle contract
or. planted two acres. half acre Of
potatoes, and is now working five
acres of corn.
The girl has good ideas about the
tilling of soil. She noticed that an
adjoining farmer was using a cultivat-
or with larger shovels than the imple-
ment which she was making use of
She borrowed big shoveled plow
from her grandfather, and, before her
father knew what she was about, she
had it in her field and was throwing
a liberal measure of soft earth about
the roots of her plants, and taking
out the weeds from depth that com
p]etely killed them off.
fE L. isS " ts.4esy~ - rsHsW-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
BEAUTY OF THE
AMERICAN WOMAN.

Mr. II. E. Bame, well-known art
critic. writes short appreciation OF
Mr.. Alonzo Kimhall, the illustrator,
in Public Opinion, August 19. Mr..
Kimball has won considerable fame
by his pictures of beautiful women.
most of which have been published IL
Scribner's. OF the American woman,
as an artistic type, Mr. Kimball said
to Mr.. Bame:
"The American woman is the most
beautiful. But her beauty is not in
fault|essness of features. 1t is due,
I think, to her frankness and SINGER
ity in expressing her feelings. She
is not afraid to be natural. Her face
is neither a conventional panorama
of emotions. 1t simply expresses her.
"Why is this? Because of the whole
some freedom of American life. Be-
cause the American girl is not KEPT in
the nursery until she is old enough to
be sent to school, but is permitted to
meet the friends of her parents. Be-
cause she is not over-chaperoned, nor
instructed in superficial occurrences.
Because her future is not to be that
Of the marriage de covenance. She
knows that she can trust the men she
meets. She is frank and fearless. yet
digniied by the consciousness of her
! own freedom. Woman is the only
royalty we have in America"
There is, in Mr.. Kimball's opinion,
no such thing as a typical American
! girl" in art. Different artists, it is
true, have pictured different types
and each has won from admirers a
measure of recognition as the type
But the typical American girl is abonf
So difficnlt to portray as the typical
/ American novel is to write. The
traits of physiognomy and of charact
er that bind us together in American
| life are too general to enable specific
definition.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
Gould TranscontinentaI Line.

The firm of William Kenefck and
company of Pittsburg, Pa, has ob
tanned the contract for the construct
ion of the Western Pacific railroad,
being built by George Gould. The
total contract amounts to $4,000. 600,
and is said to be the largest ever
awarded to one firm. Work will be
started within a short time. Kenefick
and company have sublet the contract
fer the work on the western part of
the road.
With the completion of the contract
the Goulds will have complete sytem
from the Atlantic to the Pacific On
the western part of the line the com
pany expects to spend s25.000 per mile
on the roadbed, on account of the
large number of deep cuts, tunnels
and bridges. The new line will run
between Salt Lake City and San Fran
cisco.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
Work Reinu Pushed.

Ex-Mayor Duley of Little Rock, who
is engaged in the railroad service with
headquarters at Cotter, spent Monday
night in Batesville On his return to
Cotter, from trip through to Garth
age, coming by the Frisco to Hoxie.
says the Batesville News. He reports
rapid progress with the work of con-
struction since the rains ceased, and
that with favorable weather trains
few weeks. Mr. Duley is pleased with
his work at Cotter, and says his
family is well pleased with their resi-
dence there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
RAILROAD NEWS.
+ + + + + + + + + + i
Cotton Belt on Increase.

Tho net earnings of the Cotton
pe,+" as it is popularly called, during
tno fiscal period last past showed such
:. increase over those of several re-
oont wears as to encourage the hope
%at the road has got out OF the un-
n,ofitable and unprogressive rut into
which it fell some years ago. With
hotter earnings and consequently
hetter credit, the road is likely to be
n q nosition to use capital for devel-
on;ng it's territory in the various
ways which company operating in
, comparatively new territory always
finds to it's advantage.
The st. Louis Southwestern Oper-
ates upwards of 1900 miles of road.
The main line extends from Cairo and
Thebes, ILL.,. to Texarkana, Texas.
distance of 419 miles, and is continued
304 miles further, from Texarkana to
Gatesville, with branches to Shreve-
pOrt, DALLAS, rOfl WoItH anu A]uihih'
The company also has trackage rights
over the Iron Mountain from Thebes
to East St. Louis, and from Fair Oaks,
Ark, to Memphis, besides some direct
routes for passenger trains over the
Texas and Pacific. None of these
trackage rights are included in the
1908 miles which the road was operat-
ing at the date of it's last annual re-
rort. OF the total mileage, 625 miles
are laid with 56-pound rails and the
remainder with various weights, most
OF them light.
The company's entire bonded debt
is 9,93S, 500, equivalent to $30,500 a
mile.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
INDIANA GIRL FARMER
WHO WON SUCCESS

From graduating class to a corn
cultivator and pickle patch, is the
experience of Walkerton, Ind.
girl, who is able to net $50 an acre
from her work, and she is only IA
years old.
Iona Dare is the name of this
Hoosier lass, and she is we'll named,
for she ventures to accomplish things
at which not only other girls but men,
have failed. Last year the girl and
a man had adjoining five acre patches
of corn. The weeds got ahead, and
stayed ahead, of the man, but the girl
husked forty bushels to the acre as
the result of her work.
This year B. F. Dare, the father.
had planned to rent the land to man,
but the man threw up the chance.
Then Dare told his daughter that he
would break up the ground for her, and
she could do the rest. The corn was
planted near the first of June, and is
over a foot high, and there is
scarcely weed in the five acre tract.
The girl has worked it twice, and is
about to go at it for the third time.
Jumps From School to PIow.
This year Iona Dare finished up the
eighth grade in the WalkertOn school,
came driving home in her white dress
with her diploma, and graduating pres
ents, only to make quick transition.
Sc was out of her little tulle and into
her gingham cultivating uniform in
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
Crop Prospects on Gould Lines.

Interests identified with the proper
ty and who have the best means of
gauging the southwestern situation
say that holders CT Missouri Pacific
stock will see handsome profit on
their holdings. The rains of last week
rounded out the corn crop and it is
believed that it will be by all odds
the most tremendous crop ever ex-
perienced in the southwest. The ter
rltory covered by the Missouri Pacific,
1t is said, will produce more/erain per
acre than that covered by the Burling-
ton and it is expected that earnings
per mile later on will be as large as.
II not larger, than the Burlington's.
Inc coming years earning power of
!. tee Missouri Pacific is now assured,
and beginning with couple of weeks
OF so the hgures are expected to begin
TO loom up large. It is pointed out that
the Missouri Pacific has no preferred
stock and the profits from it's coming
'ramc VIII accrue in the entirety to
the stock quoted on the exchange. In
tnls respect the Missouri Pacific re.
sembles the Louisville and Nashville
and the New York Central. Every car
and locomotive on the Gould lines
Will work night and day for many
months to come.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

ed as sweet milk is curdled by a clap
Of thunder.
Or if he phones his wife, forgetful
low-breasted aside, "A little closer
under the chin,' may involve him in
incredible explanations
The Texas parson who was CRITICS.
ed for eating a sandwich while per-
forming marriage ceremony excused
has privilege. But the man who at
tempts to be shaved, dodge the bar
bers' linguistic onslaught and carry
on a telephone conversation all at the
same time attempts more than there
is any excuse for.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
Orders For Thousands of Cars.

Eastern, southern and western lines
contracted for thousands of new
freight cars of all types. Many of the
orders, especially for coal cars, stip-
ulate early delivery, as coal operators
have asserted that the insufficiency
of cars has prevented prompt move
and distribution Of the output Of
the mines. There are also early deliv
cry orders for ordinary freight cars,
the various roads preparing for a
season of extraordinary business. An
other reason for the contracts fer
freight cars is the purpose of the roads
tc fulfill the requirements of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission with res
pect to airbrakes and automatic coup
lers. The commission intends to in
crease the 50-per-cent premium of air.
brakes in a train to GO per cent or
more, and it has announced a hearing
in Washington on October 1. The
roads have been requested to state to
the commission the average per cent
age of cars equipped with airbrakes
in trains operated during the last six
months. Although the contracts pro-
vide for the building of many thous-
ands of cars, the new cars will be
hardly perceptible in the freight trains
of the various lines. Each of the big
roads has more than 100000 cars.
Roads like the Pennsylvania, for in
stance, have more than zoo, 900 freight
cars in regular service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

no definite information regarding their
plans can be had. They do not care to
talk right now, but a surveyor has
been employed, and it is learned upon
good authority that he will start on
a preliminary survey the latter part
of this week. Paragould needs most
of all a western outlet, and a route
to Newport would largely supply the
missing link to Paragould's railroad
facilities.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
LOOKING FOR SMITH.

One of the policemen who stand or
downtown corners saws that vest 2r
day countryman approached him
and said:
"Tm looking for my cousin. Thought
p'rhaps you cud tell me where to find
him. l don't know where he lives eI
what he does
whats his name?" asked the po
liceman.
Smith"
STAND over there on the cOrnei
and holer Smith" said the officer
'Maybe he'll be in the crowd that an
wers."-Kansas Cit Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

The tax book for the collection CT
the special assessment upon the real
property in sewer district No. in the
city of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for the
purpose of constructing sewers in said
district to connect with the main sew
er running through said district has
been placed in my hands. All owners
of real property living in said district
are required to pay their assessments
to me within thirty days from this
date. If such payment Is not made
action will be commenced at the end
of that time for the collection of said
assessment and for legal penalties and
costs
Given under my hand this goth day
Of July, 1905.
J. P. ALEXANDER, Collector.
Office corner Fourth avenue and
Pine street. (7-20)
SPEND SUNDAY IN HOT SPRINGS
ONE FARE ROUND TRIP.
via
PINE BLUFF & WESTERN II. X
Tickets on sale every Saturday and
Sunday, good for return the following
Monday.
For further information inquire a.
depot. or telephone.
H. N. Atwood, Agent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
New Line Proiec+ed

Accoroing to the Paragould Soil
"phcne there are lmors of a new rail.
ROAD from Paragould to Newport, to
be projected by Paragould capita,ists
preliminary survey of the proposed
route IS TO be made right soon. and
II right of way can be secured the
prospects OF the road being built are
encouraging. Just yet the parties
interested are avoiding publicity and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

been received as yet. In 1903 these
countries yielded 100 and 1862 tons,
respectively. The production in 1904
Of the United States, Spain, Austria
and Italy was 1880 tons, 1.O2O tons.
536 tons and 355 tons, respectively
Counting the output of Mexico and
Russia, the worlds production for
1904 will probably amount to 1000
tons.-United States Consular Re-
port
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

LUMBER
sLUFF CITY LUMBER
Shingles Sash
Bills ity. Lumber
cut buildings, buildings panne h
FURNITURE COMPANY.
sui nes, strongest
best made and the cheapest On the market These two
you prices
'uDDeP4A17 FURNITURE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
OFFICE AND sALEsKooM 42s425
street.
7sit and inspect our line
Leaders Hardware sove, wi,e Nails
CUTLERY Supplies. shipped promptly on 70
Dealing" a satisfied .
anything you
ayLANp ouEENsWARE COMPANY.
crockery. tinware granite
w.re stoves.
lamps Headquarters service sv
business day tp the year
Our wholesale department In Dry
inss delivery and quantities
,.r strong 2s Main Pine Bluff.
COMMISSION MERcHANrA
wGsrsRook AND COMMISSION COMPANY.
Lime Cement, Plaster Fire Brick Fire Clay
pl,ster Hair Etc Flour Meal Salt Potatoes Bran. Corn OATS
Hay Chops Meal shipstuh Field Seed.
Carload a specially
FOUNDERS.
plLLEY COMPANY,
engines, boilers s1A
Castings and Machinery
suppueA
BUSINESS Co1LDGDD.
IAMEs PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE -
soicits patronage ambitious and *oms7
Bookkeepirg Shorthand reedudes
,,.nt sasons JAMES,
UNDERWRITERS AND EMBA1xERs.
CO.
We a complete everything in
conhidsr
shipping ecaty at al Tsls
efaph telephone sivsA Dsoupt attentioa.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
MARROW ESCAPE.

my baby said the husband of a
prominent club and society woman,
"had a narrow escape Yesterday"
"lndeed!" exclaimed the friend Of
the family. "How was that?"
"The nurse girl thoughtlessly left
it alone with it's mother for nearly
an hour" explained the husband ard
fa Her.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

What a salesman is TO your busi-
ness, just such is your ad. Each sells
your goods, and you cannot prosper
without both.-Age of Steel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
QUICKSILVER PRODUCTION.

The production of quicksilver il
1904 is estimated at 391 tons. ne4
including the output of Mexico and
Russia, of which NO statistics have
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

Three spectres that threaten baby's
life. Cholera infantum, dysentery.
Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw
berry never fails to conquer them
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25

Having entered into a contract with
an insurance company to insure bag
gage beyond the regular liability of
$3.50 for loss or damage, the manage
sell the extra insurance at nominal
rates, at it's stations and ticket Offices.
than $2,500.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-25
Railroad Notes.

Paragould learns that a new road
will be built out of that place at an
carly date. The parties interested
will not talk now, but it is believed
that they are in earnest and that the
line will be constructed.
The Arkansas and Western-Kan-
sas City Southern, deal has bobbed up
again. and Judge ]. F. Read of Fort
Smith. attorney for the latter system,
is quoted as saying there is nothing
in it. Judge Read is also president of
the Arkansas and Western, and says
he will remain so and in that direc-
tors meeting will soon be held to elect
a superintendent to succeed F. D.
Hunt, who recently resigned to go to
the Denver, Enid and Gulf
w. B. Smith, secretary Of the Ar
kansas Southwestern Railroad COM
nany, which intends to extend the ST
Louis annd North Arkansas to Garner,
says there is nothing of special inter.
est doing in connection with the move
ment. Reports are received here,
however. that the line is securing
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-23
D'ri and l
BY IRVING BAcnELLER
Author Eben Holden" Darrell Of the Blessed Isles ETC.,
Copyright, 1901, BY Lothrop Publishing Companyj
CHAPTER XN.

II was fine house--that in which
I spent many happy years back In my
young manhood Not. indeed, so elc-
CANT and SO large as this where l am
now writing, but comfortable. To me,
then, 1t had an atmosphere of romance
and some look Of grandeur. Well. in
those days had neither stated eye,
nor govt, nor judgment of good wine.
1t was who gave it the name of Fair
acres that day when. coming out of
the war, we felt its peace and comfort
for the first time. and. dumfounded
with surprise, heard my mother tell the
story of it.
my grandfather" said she, was
the Chevaler Ramon Ducet de Trou-
vile, a brave and gallant man who.
for no good reason. disinherited my
father. The property went to my
uncle, the only other child OF the
chevalier, and he as have told you.
wrote many kind letters to me, and
sent each year small gift Of money.
Well, he died before the war--it was
in Msrch--and. having no children, left
half his fortune to me. You. Ramon,
will remember that long before you
went away to the war a stranger came
10 see me one day--a stout man, with
white hair and dark eyes. DO YOU not
remember? Well | did not tell you
then, because | was unable TO believe,
that he came TO bring the good news.
But he came again after you left us.
and brought me money--a draft on ac-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-23

gored in the hip with bayonet and
we left a young Briton dying on the
shore. We took our prisoners to Paley-
vile, and locked them overnight IN the
blockhouse.
The channel was lighted by a big
bonfire on the south bank, as we came
over. Its flames went high, and made
great sloping volcano of light in the
darkness.
After the posting Of the guard. some
gathered about my father and began TO
cheer him. 1t nettled the veteran.
He would take no honor for his defeat
of the clever man, claiming the latter
had no chance to fight
"He had no foot-rOom with the boy
one side and D'ri & other" said he.
II had only to drive him back"
My father and the innkeeper and
D'ri and l sat awhile, smoking, in the
warm glow of the bonfire.
you're long-headed man. said l.,
| turning to my comrade.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-23

THEY WE'RE CLOSE tP AND STRIN.
ING FIERCELY AS IF WITH BROAD
SWORDS.
to it. although recognized the signal
and knew something would happen
shortly. We had come into the double
dark of the timber when. suddenly.
our hoses reared. snorting, and
stopped. The driver felt for his big
pistol. but not in the right place. for
two hours or more it had been slowed
away in the deep pocket of my gown
Not a word was spoken. BY the dim
light of the lanterns we could see men
all abou, Ms with pixies loomins in tins
dark. For breath or two there was
perfect silence; then the driver ros.
quickly and shouted: who are you
"Frien's q these ere women, saiu
one ! recognized as the corporal Dr.
He spoke in a low tone as he opened
the door
Grace au ciel," l. ,ard one of the
young ladies saying. 1T is DIT
dear old fellow''
Then all hurried out Of the coact
and kissed him.
"Thc captains he not here SAFE
one OF them in French. But TIL ana