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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

peautiful, bewitchin@ May, How shall one describe her? As the fanci- flll village poet, her devoted adnirer. eec]ared .sThe pencil tha1 would nant her charms should be nlatie of sunbeams and dipped in the dewy heart of q fresh moss rose. Whether flis same bundle ot beams and frae= rant rose-dew would have done full justice to her eloquent loeeliness We cannot pretend to ..ay-hayins never attempted the use of any brnsA less calthly than are made of hogs bris~ ties. nol. any cofors more refined thaa | preparation from eoehiHea1.
 Her eyes are blue as heaven, the heaven of when is va1m,-intense and glorious hues seem deeDening as You gaze. and Her hair floats ill exquisite disorder over her happy face and round white shoulders now slistenine, s1oWin" in the stln= light, like wreaths of afossS gold. and now in shadow. bathing her graceful neek with soft brown waves that lcoks like si!ken floss. changing for Bushes and djlnples play hide and seek on hef face. fief lA1-her rich. sweet lr-=s slightly carved just enough 10 show that there is rfide as well as love in her hsslat She is indeed q spirited ereattlf@. Her form is of d fairy moulding. hu perfect though "pette' : and 2 her :. motions graceful as those of the Alphine chamois.
 II is meet that the seasonal name sake of this lovely creature should come with that division of time which marks the severance of this disagree able wintry weather and the approach CT summer period a period of most delight to all Fod summers imperial reign is not one long-drawn sigh of nain-albeil it is the season of wil1ed collars. cellulod shirt fronts. per spring briskets and all that sort of thing Aside from the red ant crawl ing up your pant leg or the picnic flea hopping about in your socks. we have the ftly-fizzing soda fountain, the song of summer birds and last, but not least. the musical voice of the tenderly eowned and eharmihgly sweet girl graduate.
 And this is particularly the season when she goes forth to conquer-to flourish like q blooming morning glory or even like a whole grove of green bay trees. We wish her well. After being coored up in the narrow enclos= ,re of school walls for many long, weary months: she now proceeds to don her cap and gown and appear up. on inc scene to rule-Or love.
 Commencement is here--the essay ist, the statesman and the orator Ill fhe embryo now engage our attention and e]oquence. blue-fre bathos and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
COM E|::NCE EN !
Twentv.One Graduates Receive Their Diplo-
 mas at High School Exercises Friday Eve
 ning at the Elks Theatre..-E Eloquent Ad- dress Delivered by Hon. Roy D. Campbell

pathos stand not dumb iii the pres ence of the joyful revelry. The days of scfeol are now closed and the young are now permitted to ee forth and test the strength of their new crop of wings.
 But the sweet girl graduate. Shs holds the center of fha stage against all her masculine competitors just HoW-Pei hars fer the once oniY. Sic k rea bsi &- 5ss 5.9s5 aud moves among Hs tasay. and all lil. lies fair hsfof2 hsr. And We will forget the droNsS season for the fiale being while ve get ia readiness ta HI OUT Lat and yield sweet al1eeianee to her sway. We would wreathe hef hfe" with d crown of the choicest flowers We would pour out our prayers upon her pathway and batila her head i'll q rain of summer meteors.
 May her journey along tfe hish"at of life be as smooth as the stream that through the meadow flows; as cheerful as the sweet sunshine o1 May whose unfailing ray from it's calm throne of blue lights every day: max har dreams be attnned to the al- l. orefos of the tWinllline stars as they sfne at creations dawn. In brief m.y the flowers of happiness and #arOsperitv@ blossom every lNWHefe LOT her
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atZCenventon..

At an important meeting of the eX- ecntiVe committee ef tlIe Good Roads association Saturday night arrange monts were made to push the work rapidly and vigorously.
 For some time things have been on d standStill. for tue reason that q cer- tain decision of the supreme court of Arkansas practically annihilatn@ sev. eral amendments to the state cOnsti- tuticn seemed likely 10 cause a con stitntonal convention. But since thls the matter has been decided and no such convention is to be called. And furthermore since the state Good Roads convention meeting at Fort Smith is to be held in June it became necessary that forward steps be taken at once hence this meeting of the eX- ecutive committee.
 Tn addition to the delegates publish ed from Jefferson county. Rev. J. ;. Hawkins as member of the state ex- ecutive committee, assisted by others of the local organization, selected quite d number of the very best cit izens of the congressional dlstrlc1 to attend the state convention as dele. gates. Ml. Hawkins received the fol. lowing letter from the president o1 state association:
 Rev. J. $. Hawkins, Pine Bluff, Ark. Mv dear Mr Hawkins: You are selected for he program of the Ar kansas Coed Roads convention. to be held here June i3 and l.. Please write me giving the subject you pre- fer. You are expected without 1ali, and vou will receive free entertain mont while horc. Ii will be well Tor v0u 10 be thinking of some appropfi- ate resolutions for the convention. Remember that We consider you one of the leaders of this movement, and that we cannot do without YOU.
 Your friend.
 WI. X. FAEGONfiR.
 Pres. Ark. Good Roads Assn.
 Nr. Hawktns's subject will be: La bor and f.e4fslati8H as Relates to Roads.
 The class of men taking hold of the movement now shows to any thought faui ulln the certainty of success.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

Graphic. both she daily and the semi weekly up to and including. Septem. bcr 2S
 Special ballots will be given for paid-in advance subscriptions, at the late of one cent each. or 100 ballots for S1. We will give I 900 votes for tion to the daily or 200 ballots for d wears paid-inadvance supbscription to fhe semi-weelllv. Remember that these ballots will not be given except on aid-in- advance subscriptions. and no ballots will be be given for less than one months subscription.
 Votes cast for one person can not he. transferred to another even though the person withdraws from the con test.
 All regular and special ballots must be cast before expiration of date there on or they will not be counted.
 No employe of the Graphic or mem ber of any employees family will be permitted to enter any of the con tests
 The contests close Saturday, Sep tember 29, 1906
 Payment for any subscription long CT than three years in advance will net be accepted.
 Carriers OF agents are not permitted to furnish special ballots to any one, but they may take subscriptions. and when this is done special ballots will be forwarded direct to the subscriber.
 All subscriptions and communica- tions regarding the contest should be addressed 10 the Contest Depart ment, The Graphic Pine Bluff, Ark.
 The results will be announced daily, after the first week: but for a week will be given only every other day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

So that there may be in her home.
 when she returns al night From all the carcs"the business
 car,s-that will be hers 10 fight, One who shall greet her at the door
 with smiles. 10 make her feel There's one that shares within his
 soui her every Woe and veal; heres one at least in all this world
 of ours who's sure to see She does not miss the peffect joys of
 dOmesticitH.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
FOUR MEN KILLED AN EXPLOSION AT DALEVlLLE
 SATURDAY AFTERNOON Force of Tremendous Explosion Felt Plainly at phia-Caused
 by Boiler in Lumber Mill.

One of the boilers in the large lunl- bel nlill at Dalevile, Clarke county. exploded Saturday afternoon, killing feur mon and seriously injuring q number Of others.
 Tie report of the explosion was hroaaht to this city Saturday night by gentleman who was at Arkadel- phia at the time Of the accident. Halext}ae is situated across the Qua chita river from Philadelphia, and the force Of he coneussion was plain- lT felt in that city. <
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
RETURNS FROM TEXAS.

Mir. Fred Schneider has returned rom Mineral Wells, Texas, much lm- proved in health. He will remain at home only d short time, later going f9 Denver for the summer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

Ti4e gam" of ball at Forest Park Friday afternoon between Camden and Pine Blati teams Was Il spirited eHe Both sides B.ased fine ball aa aae seaes= of ? ta , ia f;4of ef tlfa ia= cai teaaH WIi sil0A
 fAe@ locals played fd-bettzt= bali fhat taaA d3zI iH He fifsi &aHe WHi19 he slsitzes v9ed to he stiafBtY aa. SEEE nj H1liIaa{ E5zYS &s5 mast9 IH Ratl6 site.s and il 4ssz ea8aezt=4zzsH worth Hitnessins
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
The High School Exercises.

Every seat WAS taken all the avail able standing room Wls utilized and many persons were then unable 10 2et into tile Izlks thaatafi.l5idaN night to witness tGe commencement exercises of tie oradaatine class of the Pine Bluff high school. which marked the close of he most successful term of that institution in is history
 Continued from pag II
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

Gommencement. What Il world of memories cluster around the word' What q wealth of meaning is convey ed in it's magical name! Most appro- priatelN is it termed commence ment," for here begin the real bat ties of life fer the Noung participant il, ba11nlC
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
Get All That's Coming to You.

You are entitled to it. You will get it if you get your clothes made by Eisenkramer the tailor, above Citi- zens bank, Second avenue. corner of Pine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

F. O. Hopkins and T. D. Newton of Winchester spent Friday night in the city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
Will GIVE FREE MUSIC.

WILL GIVE FREE MUSIC.
 Pine Blnff. Ark, 5-2G-06. Publisher Graphic, City Gentlemen:-I will give to the win rer Of the $i09 0a Kfmball piano offer ed by you. the choice Of any music in the house to the amount of $lo.oo.
 Yours truly,
 $. A. ROSENBERG,
 Stationer anl Bookseller
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
WI. X. FAEGONER.
SUMMONED TO BEDSlRE
 OF MOTHER.

Dr and Mrs. o. W. Clark left Fri cay morning for Nashville, Ark, in answer to 5 telegram announcing the critical illness of the doctors mother.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27
BIG BUILDING
Bridges and Senyard Will Erect a Four- Story Brick Business Block on Ce.neg of Main and Fourth, Now Occupied by Sem yards Valley Saloon.

Reports late Saturday night stated that McsSrs. F. NJ Bridges and Fred SenNatd had consHmmated Il deal whereby tbeX would soon commence the erection Of q HeW Bfiek business b'aeIy. fo1H stories high. OH the cor aeI af Main siiael ala Eputh ave HHe.
 Fhe aife i5 teH eeetE7ied Bt HF
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-27

SenA atdss Valley saloon. and this gen tleman owns the property. but Mr. Bridges oWhs property adioinipa it he HeN building will eXteAa from fae corner oeenpied bH the saloon hack aa Main street to include RoseHbefs's \ cigar store.
 =fs= said fhat= it= Wifl=be T strictly modern up=to.el1te business bloci, ilt cTerX respect
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
His Experience.

Editor National Tribune: We fell in
with the rebels March 5, 1864, in the
Wilderness, and after desperate
struggle We were obliged to fall back,
and while falling back I was hit in the
right leg and taken prisoner. I lay at
Locust Grove four days before I got a
bite of anything to eat I was taken
to Gordonsville and put in the hospital
there, stayed about three weeks, when
they took me to Lynchburg and put me
in the hospital there, where 1 remain
ed until July %, when they sent me
to Andersonville. When those gates
were shut upon me I Just thought my
fate was sealed. and if anyone would
have given me a good square meal and
a clean shirt I would have been will
ing to die. I went in on crutches. and
cooked all I had to eat for three weeks
with the wood of one crutch. About
the middle of October I was taken to
another stockade called Millen, where
/ stayed few weeks, and was then
taken to Savannah and finally to
ThomaSville. The night I reached that
place we met a man with a load of
corn, and each of us got an ear, and
we had a pretty good supper that
night. We stayed at Thomasville till
Dec. 20, then went to Albany. and from
there to Andersonville again, where we
were confined till April IA. We We're
delivered to our own men at Jackson
vile April 27, 1866, and I was finally
mustered out May 2S. 1865, more dead
than alive. My nerves were shattered,
my hipbone sticking thru the skin, my
weight 6S pounds, full of scurvy and
everything else. This is a part of my
war experimentation. w. Irwin, 1925
Eastern Ave-, Cincinnati, o.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
RECENT LITERATURE.

Christian Year Kalendar.-The 1907
Christian Year Kalendar (EpiscopaD
is now ready. 1t contains very COM
plete Church Dictionary, and one would
have to purchase hundreds of dollars
worth of books and spend long hours
in research to obtain the information
which the Kalendar affords at mod
est outlay of rs cents. If you are q
vestryman, layman, a member of an
altar society, Guild or Woman's Aux
iliary Society, or a Sunday School
Teacher, you should have this Kali
endar, being a plain guide to the
reverent and Intelligent participation
in the services of the Church and pro-
motive of strong Churchmanship. Its
cover is printed in red, blue and gold.
on fine white paper. Single copies. rs
cents. Published by The Church Kali
endar Co., No. 1 Madison Ave. and 23d
St, New York, N. Y.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
The Man of the Muskef.


Oh. S. Taylor, McClure's Magazine. 1867
Soldiers, pass on. from this rage of res
nown-
This ant-hill, commotion and strife,
Pass by where the marbles and 5ronzeS
look down,
With their fast frozen gestures Of
life.
On, out to the nameless, who lie meath
the gloom,
OF the pitying cypress and pine;
Your man is the man of the sword and
the plume;
The man of the musket is mine.
1 knew him; by all that is noble knew
This commonplace hero L name:
I've camped with him. marched with
him. fought with him, too.
In the swirl of the fierce battle flame;
Laughed with him, cried with him,
taken a part
OF his canteen, and blanket, and
known
That the throb of this chivalrous prair-
lie boys heart
Was an answering stroke of my own.
Where he fell, on the cannon-swept
ridge;
That the poor battered body that lay
there in blue
Was only plank in the bridge
Over which some should pass to q
fame
That shall shine while the high stars
shall shine;
Your hero is known by an echoing
name;
But the man of the musket is mine.
I knew him. All thru him the good
and the bad
Ran together and equally free;
But judge as 1 trust Christ will judge
the brave lad,
For death made him noble to me.
In the cyclone OF war, in the battles
eclipse,
Life shook out it's lingering sands.
And he died with the names that hd
loved on his lips,
His musket still grasped in his hands.
Up close to the Flag my soldier went
down,
In the salient front of the line.
You may take for your heroes the men
of renown,
But the man of the musket is mine.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Artistically, the present holiday
number of Smiths Is among tkie finest
magazines of the m5nth. From a Iite--
airy poims of view 1t is more than usu-
ally attractive. The article on Worry
and Drink" by DIR. Saleeby, is the best
argument IN favor of temperance that
we have ever read. Breaking a New
Highway for American Commerce"
by C. H. ForbesLindsay, tells of the
new work that Uncle Sam has cut ont
for him and the great changes that will
shortly take place on the man of the
United States.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Dedicated to the 1th ohio cav, IN
Reunion at Chattanooga. Tenn, Oct. Is,
1906, by D. S. Brown, Sergeant-Major,
7th Ohio Cav, Los Angeles, Cal.
Comrades, there are hundred ways
To the long-lost yesterdays;
To the march thru wraiths of rain,
Thru the fog-mist and the fears,
Thru the wards of wounds and pain
In the realm of other years;
And so we follow Southern streams,
Down and down the road of dreams!
Every comrade is sure to know
Echoing paths to the long ago
Paths that traverse pine-strewn
aisles,
With rifie-pits zigZagging thru.
Trending on to the hitherwhiles-
Where landscapes blended gray ana
blue,
The Southern land of bush and tree,
The ''memory-land" of used to be!
Ho, day dreamers are we all,
And Oft on our listening ears will fall
Camp songs that our comrades sang
When we had no thought of care.
And echoing calls the bugles rang,
Ever softly, sweetly, there
Meath Lookout's towering, cloudland
bridge,
From Moccasin Bend to Mission Ridge.
Thru the mists of marsh and stream
We see the heightened camphreS gleams
And down the winding Tennessee
The marshaling troops of men in gray,
Where Morgan's raiders used to be.
And Wheeler's trojans blocked the
way;
Aye, in Southern glens. where doves
are cooling,
We still hear the sound of far tattoo.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
A Comrades Experience With Rattle
snakes.

Editor National Tribune: In the
month of Ju.;, 1851, / came to Hokah.
Mimi, which was then a wilderness
cut grass for bed. put an old carpet
on 1t and lay down to sleep. In the
morning while eating breakfast a rat
tier crawled out of the bed, which I
killed. turned over the grass. and
found another coiled up underneath.
one day later I came across two rat
tiers asleep. 1 killed them, and one
was very large. 1 cut him open, and
round a full-grown gray rabbit inside
quite perfect, only with the fur a little
loose. At one time was in GriswoId.
Ind, and was going thru the garden
OF friend. The lady of the house put
her little girl between two rows of
potatoes. l noticed that the child act
ed queer, kept putting it's little hand
down towards its lap. then looked as
II 1t would cry. We came up, and saw
one OF the biggest rattlers I ever be-
held crawling across the baby's lap. /
held my breath and waited till the
snake was off, then snatched the child
up. The snake had not hurt it in the
least. 1 held him down with a stick,
while he bit until he bit himself in
two. One day in '55 my wife and I
We're in canoe on a dead lake, when
saw rattler coming. He made for
me, and / struck him several times,
but it had no effect, and he got partly
In the canoe, when I struck him across
the head and paralyzed him. He was
six feet long and had Is rattles. In
81 I was rafting on Lake Pepin, and
while we were eating dinner one day
rattler came crawling towards the
table. Not one of the men had ever
seen rattler before but myself, and
I took stick about four feet long and
killed it. The men all thought I was
fool, and they fully expected to see
the snake jump on me, but had killed
too many to be afraid of it. In one
rattler that I killed in Isabella, Wis, I
found a perfect red squirrel, and the
same Summer I saw a bird fluttering
and twittering on a bush just over n
rail fence. I scared it away, but it
flew right back I examined the fence,
and found a rattler on the top rail.
Did the snake charm the bird? I say
it did. rattler will strike about half
its length. A siX-footer may strike
about four feet. 1t can't strike when
it is straight; it can coil very quickly
and strike. 1t always rattles to give
you warning except when blind. 1t
sheds its skin every Summer; then it
is blind for a while-Wm. H. Ridg-
man, Co. A, Goth Wis, Grand Rapids,
Wis
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
A War Relic.

Capt. Edwin P. Walker, Washington
d. c., has a much-valued reiic in a
watch fob abons seven inches long
made ST mother of pearl for him by a
patient in the Officers Hospital at
Nashville in the Spring of 1854. He is
anxious to learn the name of the max
er of the charm Some think that it
was Joel Lipes. of the 30th Ind, who
enlisted from Fort Wayne.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Ainslee's for January has a variety
cf fiction that makes this magazine =
welcome change from the stereotyped
forms of short fiction which have be-
come so wearisome. 1t Is nothing
startling in the case of Ainslee's, for it
has manifestly been it's policy for q
long time to present to it's readers u
program each month that should give
them as much novelty as possible No
one can fail to be entertaind by this
rumber
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

THE Mexican Embassy here has been
officially informed of the selection by
the Mexican Government o: Senior En-
rtuue C. Creel to be ambassador from
Siset country TO the United State. The
new ambassador is expected TO arrive
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
Senate.

Thursday, Dec. 2O.-The Senate lis
tened to criticism of the Presidents
order dismissing the negro troops by
Senator Foraker, who modified his res
olutlon so as to specifically instruct the
Committee on Military Affairs to make
an Independent investigation of the
BroWnsviile incident. AT his request
the resolution went over. Senator Lodge
defended the President. At PAS the
Senate adjour1cd to Jan. 8.
House.
The House, with about 40 members
present, passed one unimportant hin
referred the Presidents message to the
various committees, and adjourned to
Jan. 3, after session of so minutes.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Senator Gallinger had the unique
pleasure last week of introducing bill
to grant a pension TO his predecessor
in the Senate. Henry W. Blair. Mr..
Gallinger entered the Senate in 1891.
succeeding Mr.. Blair, who had made
National reputation as the advocate of
the Blair Educational bill, which was
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Representative Roberts, of Massa.
chusetts. has introduced bill which
Is intended to relieve the soldiers of
the 25th Regiment of Infantry. recent
" discharged from the service by order
of President Roosevelt, from the puni-
tive features of the order. The dill
practically restores to the men all the
rights lost by them under the order OF
discharge, provides that they shall be
eligible to employment in the Civil Ser
vice and that no forfeiture of pay
shall ensue.
The bill. should it come to vote
will have the effect of showing the
temper of Congress on the Brownsville
situation. 1t is believed by. many mem
hers of both branches. and this opinion
is shared by War Department officials
that President Roosevelt will either
amend or withdraw his Executive or
der, making it possible for such of the
men as may prove their innocence 10
Ye-enliSt
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs Nicholas Longworth
had a very narrow escape from a seri-
Gus accident one day last week. They
were going in a hired automobile 10
visit somebody out in the suburbs, and
were speeding around the Chevy Chase
street car loop at high speed when theiI
car collided with the Chevy Chasa
street car platform by skidding, and
busted the front of the auto into a
mass of splinters and steel and rubber
| bands. Mrs. Longworth was thrown
TO the bottom of her auto with consd-
erabIe force and the breath knocked
out of her, while the Hon. Nicholas
was "shook" up some, but no bone:
we're broken. tho Mrs. Longworth's
nerves got a shiver or two.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27
To MY Comrades in Reunion.

Dedicated to the 7th Ohio Cav, in
Reunion at Chattanooga. Tenn, Oct. Is,
1906. by D. s. Brown, Sergeant Major
7th Ohio Cav, Los Angeles, Cal.
The National tribune., 1906-12-27

Col William + Cody, Buffalo BILL
visited the National Geological Park.
few days ago. and inspected his herd
of bison that is on exhibition there.
These animals were formerly employed
in his wild West shows. There arc
IL of the buffaloes in the herd, and
they are highly priced by Col Cody
The Colonel was here to confer with
Government officials on irrigation and
forestry, and while in the city was the
guest of Gen. Eugene A. Carr, U. S. A,
retired