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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
The Eagles.

The Eagles met Thursday night in their hail on West Barraque street. Nothing of importance was brought up and after some minor business WAS attended to they adjourned.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
BY RECLAMATION.

Hon. H. King White received the following telegram Friday night from he Commercial Appeal of Memphis: "Convention will nominate Patter- ~r tonight, probably by acclama "
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
MACCABEEs
New State Commander
 Notes of the nrL N

Maine's new state cornmando, S Leonard. is arousing much eptb,sl in the Pine Tree jurisdiction .s1 strong advance in memhorshin :.
 ised under his leadership. Sir r,] Leonard is native of Maine b.,.' a prominent fratcrllalist for ss years and is an enthusiastic N3oo.s having been record keeper of R,, tent for four years. At present hot
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Pine City Odd Fellows.

Pine City Odd Fellows held tnelF regular session Thursday night. but transacted no imporant business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
First Baptist Church.

The pastor. Rev. Ross Moore, VIII preach at both hours of sefVlce. oup' feet of the morning discourse, 1he Philosophy of the Christian L11e. Evening subject, Law ana 'race. Sunday school at 9:3O a. m. $. T.. F 1T. 2 D. m.
 All are cordially invited to attend these services.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Boiler Makers.

The Boiler Makers held their resn lar session Frmiday night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Jefferson Odd Fellows.

Jefferson lodge of Odd Fellows ned its regular session last TArusday night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
lmpenial Pythians.

lmperial-Juliet Knights of Pytnlas aet in regular session Friday night.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Railway Engineers.

The Railway Engineers met in reg mar session Wednesday afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Kn;uht.; Iempiar

The Knights Templar held an Fl session Monday night
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
K. AND L. OF HONOR.

SuiereMc Vre@NliT"F s3. tHP
 Fro.n Various Jurisdictions.
 The position o1 supreme treasurer oi the order is most ably filled by George X. Byrd. through whose hands every dollar belonging to the Knights and Ladies of Homer passes. lie hi's serN- ed in this office sil"e 1897 and during this tin.n has handled millions of dol-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
The EIks,

The Elks met Tuesday night in reg ular session.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
~u11p CJES AND Y. M. C. A.
The Red Men Dance.

, met in regular session Monday hishe
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-06-03
Railway Conductors.

The Order of Railway Conductors
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
FOR A BIG CITY BEAUTIFUL.

The Mobile Register has this to say on a subject of interest to all the peo- pie of Montgomery:
 A City Beautiful Club having been formed in Mobile and the seeds sown for the attainment of tho end Indicated in the clubs name, the views of Lucy Maynard Salmon, professor of history in Vassar College on the ideal city of the twentieth century, have a local in- terest Her model town would have clean. shady streets, recreation piers, no bill-board3. attractive squares in place of disflguring vacant lots, road side benches for pedestrians back yards that are floral visions of beauty and window boxes that would brighten dull walls. She would make provision for education, association and recrea- ton to keep boys and girls from the streets. Without some movement alorg this line the Nassar teacher apprehe1ds a period when cities will turn to cur few laws, "as negative means of deal- ing with conditions that ought never | lead to the home beautiful as well as | civic lmpt ovements.
 While there may be more or less of idealism in Miss salnron's plans they are none the less commendable. It and working up to them that best re- suits are attained. When utilitarianism joins idealism and both work together for a common end there is hardly any 1 limit to human achievement. It was said of some ancient city that the reas- on 1t was so cleanly was because every citizen swept In front of his own home So we may say that one way to make Montgomery a City Beautiful is for all the people to keep their own premises nice and clean.
 But individual. unconcerted effort will not accomplish all that is deslra- bIe. The authorities of city in thelI official capacity should take the initia- tive by demanding and enforcing clean Illness. It Is not only a question oi esthetIcs but of safety. Filth and trast and dirt breed disease as well as dis. gust. "Cleanliness is indeed next tc godllness," quotes John Wesley fol. lowing out the idea of Francis Bacon
 But they were referring to cleanlInes, of the body. We are pleading for civic cleanliness, and for the duty of tho civil authorities to improve. beautifJ and cleanse wherever they have con
 trol.
 But it is not to the city government
 that we must altogether look if WI
 are to have the City Beautiful, for it' means and powers are limited. It. i'
 to the individual citizen In part ant
 more largely to the Civic Improvement Societies that we must turn for the ac-
 complshment Of what is desirable ir
 this respect. An organized Society ] whose members work in harmony to.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27

wards the accomplishment of good purpose, aided by the willing efforts of citizens and property owners can do wonders.
 There are few cities which offer more or better advantages than Montgomery. The surface of the land is such that drainage can be made almost perfect. good water for cleansing and sprink- ling is abundant, and the climate prac- tically all that can be desired. Nature and art have laid good founda.lo IS up- on which to complete an almost ideal city. One who will take the trouble to go about the residence portions Of Montgomery will find r,any beautiful homes. Large yards filled with flow CTS, we'll kept lawns, and clean prem ises make some of thess homes aifnos- ideal in thoir beauty.
 But these are shiaing examples or what may be accomplished. They are oases in the desert. beautiful islands in the ocean, fair flowers in a wilder ness. They show so we'll what can be done that they should encourage others to initiate them. Almost any home Tn Montgomery can be made "a thing of beauty and joy forever" It is not an absolute necessity that one should be florist, botanist or an artist. Some knowledge of flower culture, powers of observation and determina- tion are the factors in the work of beautifying the city. What one can do can be done by others under like con- ditions. The city. the Society and the individual must work in harmony for a given end. Almost every woman would be glad of a pretty flowor yard and would have 1t if she could get little help from husband. father or brothers. And 1t is to the finer taste, the better conceptions of the beautiful and the natural desire for neatness of our women that we must look if we are to get, what we ought to have, city that will be the pride and delight of our own people and the envy of oth- CTS.
 And while we are about 1t may we not add plea for our City of the Dead? Oakwood Cemetery, where rspose the remains or 50 many OL tuo poSs anu truest of Montgomerys long years of citizenship is not all that it ought to be- There is much of unsightliness and neglect there. There are many lots whoso owners are not able to improve and beautify them. There are many buried there who have no living rela- tives or representatives here. Perhaps the city authorities have no authority or right to interfere in these cases, but there Is something that can be do2s Nice walks can be built and kept up throughout the grounds, and care can be taken that all portions of the cem- etery shall be kept claen and preserv- ed from dissertation. We know that the city has a large expense account and that much money is being spent for building up and improving our historic Capital, but we plead for improvement and greater care for Oakwood, for we all have an interest in 1t and ail should feel pride In having it well kept.
 The determination to secure 100000 population in 1910 is in every way a -praisew orthy one and it can succeed. With 1t, however, let all determine that the big Montgomery shall also be the City Beautiful.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
SUNDAY. MAY s7. 1906.
TT CAME roo LATE.

The announcement that a first copy of Poe's poems badly printed and poor ly bound. recently sold for fifteen hum dred del1ars, is notable instance of the irony of fate, and leads The Chat tanooga Times to say:
 Fifteen hundred dollars to the ill-fat- sd author might have been his salvation at several periods of his life. Possibly the tardiness of public appreciation of genius has much to- do with the flood of penny-a-liners the presses are turn There may not be many Poes living today, but there are many who could do something worth future if there were only prospects Of realizing on the same in the prssAnt; but they are not many who are willing to drudge theil lives away simply for the fame of hay ing 1t said that some future old book dealer had realized s1,500 on one oi their first editions.
 Such has been the fate of genius in more than one instance. Some of the greatest of Englands poets lived gle against want, but whose poems now sell for prices that would have seemed like wealth to the authors. In our own land Poes case is a most mo- table one. Ills entire life was practi- sally a battle with grinding poverty and privation. There were times when he and his "girl-wife" had not enough to eat or wear, and when 1t seemed that actual starvation must be their end. That he may to some extent have been lmprovident is not doubted, but IL Is & fact nevertheless that his marvellous genius was so little appreciated in his day that he and his often suffered for the bare necessaries of life.
 As The Times says. the sum of flf- teen hundred dollars at some of the dreariest periods of his career might have been his salvation. What Is more 1t might have been the means of pre-. serving the life of his young wife whose end was hastened by want, de. privation and despair. That sun small as some modern writers would consider 1t for book of poems. would have enabled Poe to provide for hii family and have given him hope ant courage for his work With relic from want would have come relief O. mind and no one knows what he nigh have accomplished under better anC happier circumstances.
 Of all sad words of tongue or pen.
 The saddest are these: "It migh
 have been."
 says Whittier. and we have ofteI thought of the expression when reading of Poe's unfortunate career.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
Save The Children.

Mobile Herald.
 The demand that child labor condi- tions throughout the country be chang ed is general The demand comes with equal force and the same argument from the east and west. the % north and and in the mills is not sectional and the demand for its abolition is not sec- tionaL
 cried out against the practice in this state of working little children in the cotton mills for long. hours and for small pay; the churches have raised their voices against this worst species of slavery and the humane instincts of all classes and creeds are indignant that such conditions continue to exist.
 In another column on this page will be seen an able article on the subject from a southwestern paper, the Hous- ton Chronicle. A short time ago The Herald reproduced an article of the same intent from an eastern paper. In both of these articles the pictures drawn are of conditions actually exist ing. There is no attempt to exagger- fiuences of this white slavery.
 The question in Alabama has taken a political phase. MT. Conner IS an em, ployer of child labor He has defended question on the stump
 Dr. Cunningham, his opponent for the is sv, nf ebd n abos in the co9on factories. He recognizes and has repeatedly said that such en,, vironments as are forced upon small children in the factories of this and other states in the country are stunting and dwarfing to the minds and bodies Of those children and he has also ex- pressed the opinion that the state Is re- sponslble for the little ones ar least to the extent of the enactment and en- forcement of such laws as will prevent these evils.
 The Herald would commend the ar ticle from The Houston Chronicle to the most careful consideration. Of It's readers, and would ask that they go further Into the subject and see If the indictment therein contained can not be brought also against Mir. B. B. O. mer, the public apologist for child Ia bor in Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
MT. cOmer's Inconsistency.


 Sincerity and consistency are two principles the people of common wealth have right to expect in any and every candidate who aspires to be its chief executive.
 That MT. Conner Is sincere Is a moot ed question, and that he Is inconsistent is easily proven, and so clearly, too, that any attempt to deny Is ridiculous.
 In all of hls speeches Mir. Conner ad- monishes the people to beware of the railroad lawyer" for he Is, says MT Conner, inimlcal to the interest of the people whenever the railroads are con- cerned. and that he Is "unclean," "un- clean" In other words, the lawyer who is retained as counsel by a railroad is without honor and principle and must necessarily. therefore, be opposed to those things which are for the public 8 good. We do not believe any such Conner believes It. Why? for the sim pie reason that his Environments" speak differently, and Mir. Conner says ones environment is the whole thing; to cheap labor, Visit the cotton mills of MT. Conner any evening about the quitting hour, and then say If you think he Is opposed to cheap labor! See the army of children, many Of tLern lit. tie tots; look at their wan and pinched features hopeless in expression; HnIbl- tionloss, other than to earn nero pit tance in order that they may live. oh.
 
 labor-especially the class that is em- ployed in his mills, and which Is coln- ing him thousands of dollars every year. Is MT. Conner consisten: in his statement that he IS opposed to eheap labor-to child labor? 1t is up to the fathers of Alabama (yes, and the moth CTS, too, for they are a power In any cause when they assert itl as t0 whe:h- CT or not they endorse the high priC- ed" labor conditions as exemplified In the cotton mills of the S;otc
 In this canvass for President of the Railroad Commission, Mir. Conner told the people % elect him and he would see that there was d material reduc- tion In freight rates Tho neople had confidednce in Mir. Corners statement and elected n:n to the head of the Railroad CommtssiIn. He has utterly failed to give the relief he promised when a cald'dtte. and says he can not do anything with Tunstall and san ders on the Commission, but comes again before the people and says 'elect me governor and I'll do things" MT, Conner knew when he was q candidate for President of the Railroad Commls- sion that Tunstall and Sanders were not in harmony with his views on the rate question, and knowing their posi- ton as he did his statements to tha
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
The Role of Dictator.

The contrast of the campaign meth ods of MT. Conner and Dr. Cunningham was afforded in Mobile county, where 2 campaign for state senator was ln roSe pS over the county, in a taIly-ho with the candidate he espoused for senator ana made speeches in his behalf. Dr Cunningham pursued another course ala he say about local affairs or offer e supgestion as 70 whom the people of Mobile M should elect to represent them in the sta1e senate wisely ns!,,1 assum T, g tbet matter without outside intc"fer- ence. @ If we mistake not. Mir. Conner lost friends. while Dr. Cunningham correspondiusly made friends. A roli- tic;an nlayiug tue roe O; Q dictator is not likely to appeal to tho independ- ent and thinking votef
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27

people at that time must have been in- sincere. Now that Tunstail and Sanders are to be relegated. and two men will be elected whose views on the rate question are probably Identical with might then be doing. that gentleman has no desire to remain on the comnai5- sion-which looks 1fxa desire to shirk esponsibility--but wants to bG elected goyeAor so that he may do has attended him on ths. railroad com mission This !s another illustration of Mir. Corners incoasistency.
 The people are beginning to believe now that Mir. tyonlerfs candidacy for President of the Railroad Commission was merely a primary course in poll tics preliminary to his candidacy for governor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
AInhnmn,a sheep King.
Andalusia News.

Several days ago a de1l was con- summated wherein Me sag. II. A. Hughes of Florala and Lee Williams Of Natural Bridge -purnhasei what are immense flock of sheep of about 5000 head range in five counties, Coving- ton and Geneva counties. Alabama, a'Ld in Walton, Washington aud Calhoun counties. Florida. A. the same time the purchasers secured about sixty hca d of Florida range cattle from Nr. Chance. The cash colsitoration for both sheep and cattle was $I5 090,
 Since making the above deal. MT
 Hughes has bought the T. J. Williams sheep. These two holiing7, together with those he already owned, make MT. Hughes the largest individual sheep owner in South Alabama or West Florida, and after shearing will r!ace a large amount of wool on the market.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
TODAY IN HISTORY.
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 Name Day: Lucian. Sun rises at 4;As'
 i52o-cortez, with 25o men, attacked against him by the Governor of Cuba, consisting fabout 1.40o men, which was defeated and gained over to his party. Thus the adventurer suddenly found himself again at the head of 6 more numerous army than ever. con- sisting of nearly 2,000 Spanish troops, about a hundred horses and eighteen vessels. and great sufficiency of ann
 1e02-The colony accompanying Cos mold fixed upon place of settlement on the western part of Elizabeth Island in Narragansett Bay. On rocky islet in the center of 8 fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting q fort and storehouse.
 1647-Peter Stuyvesant, a man of learning and soldier. the last Dutch Amsterdam and superseded fSieft 1775--Battle of Noddles island near Boston; rhe British defeated by the Americans under Putnam and Warren, who had but three men wounded; Brit ish loss 200, together with an arfnad schooner and some stores.
 1776-Aronld with about 900 Ameri- cans captured the British post at The Cedars without any resistance. and re- took 800 American prisoners.
 1777-Bdtton Gwinnett, one of tne
 
 ence, died of a wound received in a duel.
 1781-Lord Cornwallis with a vastly superior force compelled the Marquis de Lafayette to evacuate Richmond,
 1S11--Richard Penn, one of the pro- prietors, and Governor of Pennsylvania before the Revolution, died in Eng land.
 Canada under cover of the fire from Chauhcey's fleet and carried Fort George by assault. The vanguard land- ed first. consisting Of Forsytns rinemen
 1S13-The English troops under Sir George Provost, attack Sacketts Har~ bor, N, r., but were repulsed. senfstives in Congress. based on the fifth census, in which the ratio between representatives and population was fixed at one representative to A7,700 peo- pie.
 1S4o-Great freshet in the Savannah River region; the city of Augusta and town of Hamburgh submerged; the wa ter rising thirty five feet above low wa ter mark. Tho destruction of property
 1s4l~James K. Polk nominated by the Democratic Convention assembled at Baltimore. Md.,. for President. and
 1S63-General Banks repulsed In his second attack on Port Hudson. La. He also failed in two or three subsequent attacks on the same place /
 1SS4-William Mckinley unseated by the Democrats in the National House of Representatives on contest from the seventeenth Ohio District.
 1S96-Cyclone in St. Louis; 400 killed.
 1902-Chile and Argentina sign 6 peace treaty.
 1905-Com plete victory has rewarded Mayor Weaver's light against the Phil- adeilphia gas lease, the gas company having withdrawn the offer and the lo- cal machine being utterly routed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
Conner Not the Man For GOvernOE.

Opeltka Post.
 mer for Governor. He Is an extrenn" ist and a demagogue and possesses none of the qualifications to discharge the duties of the high office he seeks. He possesses a fanatical and don1in- -eering disposition and would want to control and dictate every department of our State government.
 He is great on promises, but little on performance. ...-.,... =.
 His fiery harangues and appeals to Ignorance, prejudice and passion ana vehement denunciation of every Dem ocratic administration and our new every thinking, intelligent man In the State that he would be dangerous man in the gubernatorial office. Look at his promises when he ran for prest- dent of the railroad commission and what has he accomplished? Absolute ly nothing. He was just using that office as stepping stone to the goVer- norship just as he would use that as stepping stone to the Senate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27

Judge S. M. Adams of Clanton. Chil- ton County. makes formal announce ment of his candidacy for the Demo- ocratie nomination for Commissione- of Agriculture. This is bound to add great interest to the contest for that office He is well known throukt out the tate has served the people in the Legisla- ture and in a high county position and ability and knowledge of public ar- fairs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
nne on Comer.

AndalusIa NeWs.
 Last Thursday night on the way over to Florala, some of Andalusia' s Ali AIT wEc we Were eGiia in favor of cunningham were ask4l to stand up. About two 'hird oi the car came to their rect. in favor of Conner will please stand up." Several members of the party were about to come to their Feet and the voters fell back In their seats; Just the way with the railroads, said one of the party. they will not give the Conner men a show"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
other Grave Issues.

Talladega Mountain Home.
 The Home Is in fos hearty tSa rsy1stiog symPatfing of railroads and ali other corporations. but it does not want to see the rate reform overshadow all others. The education of the white boys and girls of Alabama is the most important is- sue in the State today. Some rate fanatics may not see it that way, but 1t is nevertheless a fact: Al Alabama, n9i, the bovs and girls of school age are taken out of the mills and fields and put in school.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
SIDEWALK PENCILlNGS
An Exposition in 1910.

eJt strikes me-" said a prominent Montgomerian last evening. that the thing for Montgomery to do iS to hold q big exposition in the Capital City In
 We are starting a number. of new movements, the Slate Fair, the 1910 movement, and others. and l. Tor one. believes that a big exposition, would do more for the city than anything now on the tapis could possibly 90. ton of this sort since the one in New Orleans in 1884. In other parts ot the country. they have been holding them: Buffalo had It's Pan- American, Portiand has had it's exposition, Omaha nad an affair of this sort several years ago. and with no more money than Mont gomery have had them. Even James town is going to have an exposition next year. Not only do believe the enterprise could be made to pay di- rect returns financially. but an exnloi- tion of this sort would give the dap1r p.., tai City a prestige which would draw thousands to 1t as working center. From the people who would come rom all parts of the country to see U. there would be a number who would iatef invest or settle in the State or Ala bama. It is true, that the people m lne north. where the country is In locaNties overcrowded, are only just beginning to awaken to the possibilities in the south. But it is also true that never in It's history has the South had so mucn to show in the way of material progress and prosperity as it has today.
 Such an enterprise would take a. least three years for preparation. If 1t were planned to take place In lslo' there would be small difficulty In se- curing the 100000 population we are after py that time"