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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08

fused shot Stephens.
 After the shooting a large crowd of eXcit d people quickly gathered and it was with much difficulty that the ne- gro was safely landed in jail. No sooner had he been put behind the bars when another mob formed around the jail wl,.. the intention of taking the negro out and lynchinS him. Sheriff Hough spirited the ne- gro away in a buggy and is thought to be on his way to Bedford, Ind.
 The crowd around the jail did not disperse for an hour or more after it was informed that Jones had been taken out of town.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
COTTON BELT
 TO REACH OUT
GOuld Said to Be Negotiating Purchase of Houston, East and West
 Texas Road.

The latest move of the Cotton Belt, the acquisition of the Houston. East and West Texas railroad running from Houston, Tex. to Shreveport. La. where it connects with the branch line of the Cotton Belt, from Shreve port to Lewisville, Ark, where the main line from Texarkana to Memphis passes.
 This information is said to be some thing more than a rumor, owing to the recent visits of Edwin Gould, president of the Cotton Belt, to Shreveport, where, it is understood, he has gone thoroughly oyer the ground and made plans for certain Improvements al Shreveport which admit of no other conclusion than that the purchase of the Houston East and West Texas line is i'll contemplation.
 Amon2 the Improvements at ShrcNe- port is the building of big round houses. which are much too large for thc present Cotton Belt traffic al Shreveport Negotiations are under stood to he well under way Tor the talk ing over of this important feXas line which would be quite an important move for the Cotton Bell, as this line would give I much shorter schedule and much more satisfactory service between St Louis, Memphis and South Texas points than exist at present.
 The Houston, East and West Texas road is 230 miles long and is at pres ent leased by the Southern Pacific. 1t is a prosperous road, as it is direct line to the northeastern part of the state from Houston and passes through a rich agricultural section of East Texas, which is also wei! timber ed with pine forests.
 The above plans bear out the rum ors circulated more than a year ago that the Gould system was seeking another line to South Texas besides the International and Great Northern
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
DAILY GRAPHIC

Montgomery. where soldiers would be put on the train to accompany him and his prisoners To Mobile
 This telegram. it seems. did not reach the sheriff before he left for Mobile by way of Selma The sove@- that he would have placed soldiers aboard the train had the sheriff come by way of Montgomery
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
Mob Is IhWarted.

Bloomington. Ind, Oct S.-Altfed Stephens, proprietor of street lunch wagon, was shot and instantly killed by Edward Jones, a negro, here last night. Two attempts were made to take the negro away from the officers, but the negro was spirited away in a buggy and is now on his way to Bed ford. Ind.
 The negro demanded sandwich without payment and upon being re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08

rett, two negroes who conduct an un- dertaking establishment in that city. It is believed that several other ne groes were in the undertaking estab- lishment and took part in the shoot ing.
 John E. Lindsay and his son were walking along the street at the time. and without any word of warning the negroes opened fire upon the two men with Winchesters The elder Lindsay was truck by several bullets and was instantly killed and his son received shot in the head and arm and it is believed is fatally wounded. Both men lay upon the sidewalk for over an hour, the occupants of the undertak ing establishment firing at every per- son who attempted to take away the two men The police of Argenta were unable to quiet the excitement and a call was made upon Sheriff c. C. kavanaugh, who hurriedly organ ized posse, which surrounded the. house in which the Colum brothers and their friends were barricaded.
 Building Dynamited.
 Sheriff kavanaugh, when he arrived upon the scene, surrounded the building with his deputies. He decid ed to dynamite the rear rooms of the building and call was sent for the fire companies of Argenta Lines of hose were laid and the first dyna mite charge shattered and put out the lights in the building. The second blast opened the rear end of the b:ilding. Several deputies entered the building, but neither of the Colum brothers or any of their friends could be found. At last accounts the officers Were making q dilisent search for the negroes. The officers expect to capture them, and when arrested they will be brought 10 this side of the river aid placed ill jail.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
Fear Repetition or Atlanta Troubles

Fear Repetition or Atlanta Troubles.
 Macon. Ga, Oct S.-What promises 10 be q repetition of the race troubles in Atlanta has broken out in Macon.
 Two prominent young white men. Chas, Adams and William Solomon. were shot at the fair grounds Satur- day night while the grounds were packed with visitors. Adams and Solomon were scoring two young la dies, when a negro, in a very offensive manner, forced his Way between the couples, separating them, A remon- strance from the young men led to ped out a revolver and opened fire on Adams and Solomon, both receiving wounds in the stomach.
 Adams was not seriously wounded, but Solomon's condition causes much apprehension.
 \ mob quickly formed and caught a negro who was supposed 10 have fired the shots While the crowd was bringing him ont of the fair grounds with cries of .ynch him. the po- lice succeeded in taking tie negro from the enraged crowd
 \ white man, who was firing at the negro. was also arrested. but lie Was released at once by the mOb
 The negro was quietly put in the patrol wagon and hurried to the bar racks. The police say that the negro who did the shooting has not been captured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
FIVE

The Majestic Manufacturing com. pany of St Louis, Mo. will baYa Q man at McGaughy ilardwarccamp4ae store all next week who will aiio# you how to bahe biscuits brown toi ara bottom i'll thfa mineHtcs. Dom miss this chance of seeing the great cook. ing wonder
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
LNnched Near Mobile.

Basin. Miss, Oct S.-A negro today attempted criminal assault on Mrs. ketchem of that town. He was fol lowed by a posse and caught fftN miles east of Mobile After being identified. he was lNnched.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08

My child was burned terribly about the face. neck and chest I ap piled pr. Thomas Ecloctric Oil The pain ceased and the child sank into a rcstful sleep."-Mrs. Nancy M. Han son, Hamburg. N. Y.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08

railroad, which extends from TeXar- border The new line will be the means of developing much new terri tory
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08

Brooks Chill Touic deStlay :l5 malarial germs that cause eh1s and fever
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-08
WHITES AND
 NEGROES CLASH. In Four States, and a Grow ing Unrest Shown in
 Many. TROUBLE IN
 LITTLE ROCK. Y ;. < ;. John E. Lindsay and His Son Shot Down by Negroes in Argenta
 Saturday.
WORE TROUBLE Is :, '
 THREATENED IN GEORGIA
Little Rock. Ark. Oct, s, 1906

Little Rock, Ark, Oct s, 1906.
 John B. Lindsay was killed and his son, Milton Lindsay, a policeman was shot in the head and arm in Argenta, on the north side of the river, about S:30 o'clock last Saturday night by the Colum brothers, Robert and Gar
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
INTERIOR OF A MAIL CAR.

don their dear-bought fame as models
of industry and hilariously devote to
sport or idleness all of their time ex-
cept just enough in each day to satisfy
that days hunger. No doubt this tale
will shock and grieve a large number
Of estimable people, but for our own
part, says the Times, it very consider
ably increases such little affection as
we previously had for these tiresomely
virtuous fowl and therefore will We
do our best to believe it. There are
some difficulties in the way of doing
that. Bees, despite their reputation for
intelligence, are evidently about the
stupidest things with wings-merely
animated acquisitiveness, indeed work
ing as hard as an American million
aire to pile up wealth fa- beyond any
possible needs, without single talent
except to get, get, get.
AS fighters, while bees are brave
enough, they are unable to strike more
than single blow against any of their
more dangerous foes, dying themselves
as a result Of it, while the foes, after
bowling with pain for bit, calm down
and hunt more honey. 1t is almost
incredible, therefore, that creature
incapable of seeing the futility of work
carried to an absurd extreme only for
the profit of human robbers should be
able so quickly to draw an inference
from the failure of winter to appear
when expected. almost" is not
quite" however, and we, too, can be-
lieve what we want to believe. So we
will not question the story from Aus
tralia-where everything is possible,
anyhow we hope that somebody
will take few Of our ants down there
and prove that they, also, are indus
trious only because they have to be
that they are not a bit fonder of indus
try than are the butterflies or any of the
sluggards who have always had the
sense to see that between toll to-day
and hunger. tomorrow there is so little
to choose that differences of opinion
on the subject are entirely permissible.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
4 Two-Foot Rat.

A warehouseman at the Oriental
dock, in Baltimore, had the distinc
ton the other day of killing the larg
est rat ever seen along the local water
front. The rodent zeighed nearly
seven pounds. and from the tip Of his
nose to the end of his tail he measured
two feet.
1t was only after a desperate fight
lasting twenty minutes, that the i'm.
mense rat was killed. For some time
scraps of paper and wood in the tool.
room of the warehouse indicated that
a swarm of rodents was at work. Then
one morning the warehouseman en-.
countered the big fellow. With a
broom handle he attempted to put an
end to the rodents life, but the rat
showed fight Back and forth he
scampered. and when cornered he
rushed at his assailant. Once he hid be
hind a coil of rope overhead, and then
he dashed at the mans head. The
latter lodged but the rodents sharp
teeth grazed his face. At last the rat
was killed and measurements proved
that he was the biggest ever seen in
port.
The animal is supposed to be spe-
cies found in South America and it is
believed he came here in a ship, all of
which carry many rodents.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
OUR SUGAR CONSUMPTION.
Beet Sugar Nov More Than Haf the
Worlds Total Production.

Of the more than 1000 million dol.
lars worth of merchandise brought in
to the United States during the last
year more than $50 million dollars
worth was sugar. Sugar formed by
far the largest single item in this larg-
est importation which the United
States has ever made in any single
year.
The lifted States is increasing
steadily and rapidly it's consumption
of sugar. The sugar producers at
home are increasing their output of
both cane and beet sugar, but even
their rapid increase in production is
not keeping pace with the increasing
home demand, and as a consequence
the quantity of sugar brought into the
country increases from year to year.
1t has doubled in the last twenty years,
while population meantime increased
but SO per cent. The annual average
importation during the five-year period
ending with 1885 was 1,031 ,149 tons,
and d''ring the fve-year period ending
with 1905 the annual average was 2,106,
043 tons, despite the fact that the sugar
production at home had grown from
176, ,0S5 tons in 1885 to approximately
100000 tons in 1905.
The United States Is the largest
sugar-consuming country in the world,
though the per capita consumption in
this country is not as great as in the
United Kingdom. The total consump.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23

When you buy Wing Piano, you buy atwhole-
sac. You pay the actual cost Of making Il with
only our wholesale profit added. When you buv
piano, as many still do-at retail-you pay the
retail dealers store rent and other expenses.
Iou pay his profit and the commission or salary
on top of what the dealer himself has to nav r.,
the manufacturer. The retail profit on piano
Is from SIS to 5000. Isn't this worth saving?
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
GhosuY Ashes.

They had just moved in the house
and, as is usually the case, the former
tenants had left much rubbish behind
them.
Gust look" complained the little
woman, "here are three horrid pals
Of ashes in the yard"
"Ah," laughed the big husband,
speak of them with more reverence"
Reverence. Why should I?
"Why, they are the ashes Of the de.
parted"
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
IN IRONICAL VEIN.

prominent citizens recommended by
legislators should accept paltry places
at the foot Of the list was intensely
repugnant to the Senatorial sense. AS
statesmen representing watchful and ex-
pectant constituents, many of whom ex-
ercise valuable influence in behalf of
their party, they could not consent to
closing the door of hope. Every Con-
gressional di"trict has its share of
elderly and highminded students of the
worlds affairs, men who may have been
rudely buffeted by fortune and who
cherish the hope of lodging further
cruel strokes by landing in a pleasant
consulate. They are men who have
done yeoman service for their party,
and often they retain connections that
can not be ignored. Are these to be
superseded and thrust aside by pop
injays? Are the oxen that tread out
the corn to be muzzled? Is the accurs-
ed thirst for gold to commercialize the
honorable office 0f consul, SO long the
haven Of ancient marines tempest
tossed on chartles5 political seas, the
asylum of indulgence, the badge Of de-
cayed gen'iIity?
The Senate Committee On Foreign
Relations will not have Il so. That
committee, consulting its bowels Of
compassion, insists that Congress shall
share with the President the pleasures
of rewarding the faithful with the fat
| test consular places a.. kSlei-Eil-
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
Famous for Artificial Noses.

The city of Indore is modern and
ugly and uninteresting. Apart from
being the prosperous capital of a rich
native state, its chief claim to motor
iety rests upon its hospital, which has
won universal fame by the manufac-
ture of artificial noses. That may
seem very limited industry on which
to build a name. But in India there
are several ways of promoting this in
dustry. When woman comes to the
hospital carrying her nose in a napkin
you may fairly assume that her hus
band suspects breach of the Seventh
Commandment. When man appears
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23

Senator Lodges bill providing for
the reorganization of the consular SER
vice has been shorn by the Committee
on Foreign Relations of its most in
cendiary and detestable features
provision for examining candidates
for appointment, and this still more
Objectionable section:
THAT whenever a vacancy shall
occur in the Office of consul general,
or consul above the sixth $4,000 class.
members of the two classes next below
that in which the vacancy occurred
shall be deemed eligible to be seIecte Z
to fill such vacancy"
This was a palDable attempt to en-
graft the merit and promotion system
upon the consular service, and thereby
to deprive national ta~maters OF their
ancient sacred right to assist the Presi-
dent in selecting consuls general and
highSalaried consuls. A majority of
the committee regard It as the sordid
infection Of cornmercialism into a pure
w political natter. on the flimsy pre-
tence that the consular service IS a
business Institution.
II the Committee on Foreign Rels.
tions had permitted this section to
stand, It would have been an abject. cap.
'tIlation to the force that are sur
reDtitiously rohbing Congress Of its
patronage powers. The idea that
young corsuls that have made good re
cords should be promoted and that
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
@TOO MUCH LAW.MAKING, +"
REPRESENTATIVE BOWERSOCK
or KANSAS CITY, CRITZCLSES
BILL MAKERS.
Says SelfishneSs and Ambition Leao
them Shrough Wilderness of FoIIy
and Buncomb and Valuable Time
is Wasted.

~ ~SuSH oWH0SEnSSS Oh fOIly
ano buncomb and Valuable Time
is Wasted.
Il have long criticised and seriously
objected to the making of so many
laws, and l have long contended that
men are not made good and honest BY
statute" remarked Representative
Justin D. Bowersock, of Kansas, re-
Gently.
"The comparatively indiscriminate
enactment of legislation on all subjects
general, special and personals q
great evil and greater folly. 1 have
insisted that selfishness and prejudice
are at the basis of too many enact
ments, and that human nature and
the settled principles of business and
commerce, honorable competition, and
the results of supply and demand can
hardly be changed by law to any ben
eicial extent.
Corporate greed, cupidity, and cor
ruption can be, ought to be, and will
be modified, curtailed, and brought
within decent limits, to say the least.
No man desires this ore earnestly
than l do; no man will go further
along any reasonable lines in any le-
gitimate and practicable effort to
bring this about, whether it be in con-
nection with railroad rates, Standard
Oil rebates, beef trust, unlawful COM
bination, watered stocks, or whatever
or whoever may burden the consumer
or producer, unduly or unjustly, for
extortionate gain.
"sEqual rights to all, special privil-
eyes to none will not come through
impracticable, non-enforceable laws
drawn on the theory that We have
reached the millennium.
''The ordinary legislator, and his
name is legion. has legal panacea for
every i'll. If he had as much honesty
as assurance. the title of his bills
would be:
"tAn act to make men do business
on earth as it is done in heaven q
contamination devoutly to be wished;
but let us not forget the effect of the
Pope's bull against a comet and the
beating of tom-toms by the aborigines
on an eclipse"
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23

tie wide. The comparatively light
tender and mail car responded instant.
ly, while the heavy baggage and
passenger coaches constituted a drag
that broke the coupling. Relieved Of
this burden the engine, nder and
mail car shot ahead and leaped the
twenty-foot draw, landing. on the 9TH
er side in safety. he engine ca ened
and side-wiped the iron bridge wc-S.
tearing its jacket co tattars and
knocking the cab into the riv~' The
rest of the train, with brakes set au-
tomatically, came 70 a stop without O
foot to spare.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23

tion in 1904 aggregated 2,757, 600 tons,
making an average consumption for
each individual for the year of about
IS pounds.
During the half century prior to 1890
beet sugar formed small proportion,
of the worlds sugar production,
the percentage which beets supplied
Of the worlds sugar product being in
1910 but 43 per cent, in 1850 14:3 per
cent, in 1890 6S.7 per cent, while 1900
showed for beets the highest proper.
ton in the worlds production Of sugar.
67.7 per cent.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-23
Bees Natural Spendthrits.

The New York Times reprinted from
a Montreal paper-which doubtless
lifted it from one in London-a most
amiable story to the effect that when
bees are taken to Australia they learn
in a single year the uselessness of stor-
ing honey for a winter that never
comes and that they thereafter aban-
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-05
The Laughless Englishman.

The English seem to recognize and
enjoy their reputation for stolidity and
~taciturnity. The London Globe quotes
an American asking a waiter In a res
taurant:
Doesn't any one Eve laugh hereT"
Eyes, sir" replied the waiter. Some
times we have complaints about It"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-05
VIM. GREEN.
The Dogs Sleep.

Dogs, which are at once the drOwSi-
est and most wakeful Of domestic ami
mails, according to their state of mind
and circumstances, eem to sleep light
ly or heavily at will. Nothing can be
more slow, reluctant and leisurely than
the enforced waking of a petted dog
when it does not wish to be disturbed.
feet if tickled, but not unclose it's eyes,
and finally stretch and yawn like a
sleepy child. But mention something
interesting to the same dog when
sleeping, such as the word walk"
or click the lock Of a gun, and it is on
its feet in an instant and ready for IN
terprise.-London Spectator.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-05
GETTING OUT OF BED.
Take Your Time About 1t and Don't
Shock Your System.

AA~S VA ~ ~ AOOAA =
Shock Your System.
Don't jump up the first thing your
eyes are open. Remember that while
you sleep the vital organs are at rest.
The vitality is lowered and the circula-
ton not SO strong. A sudden spring
out of bed is a shock to these organs,
especially to the heart, as it starts to
pumping blood suddenly.
Take your time in getting up. Yawn
and stretch; wake up slowly; give the
vital organs a chance to resume their
work gradually.
Notice how a baby wakes up. It
stretches its arms and legs, rubs its
eyes and yawns and wakes up slowly.
Watch q kitten wake up. First it
stretches out one leg, then another,
rubs it's face, rolls over and stretches
the whole body. The birds do not wake
up and fly as soon as their eyes are
open. They shake out their wings and
stretch their legs, waking up slowly.
This Is the natural way to wake W.
Don't jump up suddenly, don't be in
such a hurry, but stretch and yawn
and yawn and stretch. Stretch the
arms and the legs; stretch the whole
body. A good yawn and stretch is bet
ter even than a cold bath. It will get
you thoroughly awake, and then you
will enjoy the bath all the more
Medical Talk.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-05
WILD DOGS OF ASIA.
Fierce Animals That Pursue and
Kill Bears and Tigers.

u 1ha IuESuC IL
Kill Bears and Tigers.
The quality of courage possessed by
hunting dogs of Asia appears in a
marked difference of habit from that
noticeable in all other c%arnivorous
beasts. AS a rule, each %ferocious ami
nal has it's natural and favorite prey,
which may vary in different localities,
but is in each case the easiest and most
profitable victim. Tigers, for instance,
are cattle slayers or deer killers, just
as cattle or deer happen to be most
abundant in their district.
LeOpards prey on goats, sheep and,
when they can get them, on tame dogs;
wolves on sheep and cattle, stoats or
rabbits and hares, and weasels IN rats
and mice. But, though the jungles
which they visit abound in defenseless
animals, the wild dog does not limit
his attacks to these. The packs de-
liberately pursue and destroy the black
and Himalayan bears and the tigers,
afording perhaps the only instance in
which one carnivorous species deliber-
ately sets itself to hunt down and de-
stroy another. From their rarity, the
u~ninhabited nature Of the jungles
which they haunt and their habit Of
hunting at night which a probable
suggestion makes the basis of the ear
~ legends of the demon hunter and
"hellequin" at a time when the "red
dogs" still remained in E~urope-obser-
vations Of their habits are rare.-Lon-
don Spectator.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-01-05
Chinese Made the First Paper.

Like a good many other modern In
dustries, that of paper making had its
origin with the Chinese. The papyrus
Of the Greeks and Romans was not pa
per at all, but simply the piths Of the
stem Of a plant cut into strips, placed
side by side and across each other and
pressed into a sheet, to which the nat
ural gum of the plant gave a homo
geneous character. But the Chinese in
very early times made as genuine pa
per, in it's general characteristics, as
that produced by the perfected meth
DDS and machinery of today.-William
R. Stewart in Technical World Maya
zine.