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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18

D. W. Boyce devotea his time to sentA
 Majestic range for sale cheap if sold in next few days. Old phone 335.
 -Wanted-A good medium size combination lock safe, in good condi- tion Address Imperial Wheel Co, city.
 L0st-Biack female rat terrier. Has collar with "EeMaire' engraved on it. Return to AntIers Hotel and be rewarded.
 -Wanted-Position as experience ed nurse and companion. Good home more Of an object than high wages. Address Mrs. T. Archer, 502 East Second avenue.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18

Ny rental business is your friend, if you have anything to rent. The most rental agency. All inter- ests protected. D. ". Royce. Bell teie- phone No. ,; New telephone No. ].
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18
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TO THE PUBLIC.

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 E judge as 10 now well we nave i. % succeeded. We have yet consid- +' f. erabIe work to do 5o get the ~ + elaborate fountain and fixtures in s.
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 F nest on MONDAY. The merited + % reputation we bear at our Sec s F ond avenue Store will be a guar * E anLee to you that you will be # + served with only the pest of + f. Drinks. Ices, Cigars. Books. < I. Stationery, etc. Our opening will # < be announced later Watch this !. + space for same. + F THE GEM. # f ,. A- Rosenberg. Prop. s @ 311 Main Street. # # The latest addition to Greater < < Pine Bluff. + E- n A
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18
DreYfus Department Store
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DRESS GOODS PRICES.

Inclination and opportunity seldom meer, but here we force them together by the power of prices As the goes forward our price7 go backwarl The season is pretty far forward-1uc prices pretty far backward. These tell the story.
 White Wash Habuta Silk 27 inches wide The reg ulaT BUG SIX, now ,S0c Colored Jap. Silks chiffon finish 27 iuahes vide all colors, were 6sc are now ...,..se.....-,.....4 45c Black Taffeta Silk sofe finish, B. inches wide all silk was sl.oO is now ,............>,...-.... S5c Coored Tafeta Silk splendid quality, right up to the Dreyfus standard 65c per yard is now. 69c Twine Voe, all wool the popular skirt fabric navy and green. was S1.25 is ................. 8oc Cream Voile another favorite for this season, was S125, is now 48c Wool Tafeta 45 inches wide, the price S1.0O is now .....,.-..--. 69c Cream Mohair 36 inches wide, was soc per yard, is now '.....'- ...t......... 4Zc
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18

-Dreyfus' Biz Store has an ad in today's Graphic that will interest the iaides as well as the men. IL will ba to your advantage to read the big bar gains offered by this up-to-date. pro- rressive establishment
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-18
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

D. W. Boyce devotes his time lo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
WHAT OF TIT

The Washington Times claims that there is something more than mere buncombe in the growing feeling among Republicans that tariff revis- ion must be a recognized policy in the party platform and campaign next year. It cites Governors Cummins of Iowa, and Guild of Massachusetts, who were elected Governors of two of the most unchangeable Republican States of the Union though both were. as The Times says. consistent and deter mined advocates of tariff revision. It thinks the name of either on the ticket next year would be an assur- ance that the party favors revision in earnest, and that it will labor to se- cure 1t.
 All this sounds very well, yet the same issue of The Times contains statement from Governor Cummins saying that he considers 1t the plain duty of Roosevelt to withdraw all former declarations regarding a third term and Gay that he will consent to accept a nomination If rendered him with pTdCllCdl A"ANAJ the Governor favors Roosevelt's nom inatfon and that doesn't seem very consistent with his position on the question of revising the tariff, for if Roosevelt favors 1t he Is doing 1t very silently. We know that he has on several occasions In the past had some thing to say in favor of revision, but we also know that of late he has been dumb on the subject. and 1t has been more than hinted that some of the prominent leaders of his party have given him to understand that the less he says along that line the bet ter.
 We know that there Is a strong and insistent demand, not only in tho West. but in the extreme East, for tariff revision, but 1t is also well known that most of the great corpor- ations whose influence and money are required to elect a Republican Presi- dent are very well Natished with the tariff as it Is and want no change. It | enrlches them and what moro can they desire2 The rest of the world may go down in ruin for all they care, provided they are left alone and suffered to continue their avocation as blood-suckers. A platform plainly and unequivocally pledging the party to 0 | material revision of the tariff system now in force. and a candidate square | ly endorsing It. would be more than likely to alienate these rich trust magnates and cause them to withhold
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
DON'T THROW STONES .

The Tax Commission law and the recent visit of the Commissioners to Mobile is leading some of our contem- poraries to talk in a way that may cause them some embarrassment in the future. For instance The oneopta Democrat says;
 The new tax assessment board must be finding something rotten. It has has president of the board says that as- sessments in that county must be brought up to sixty per cent. of their value as shown by recent sales. and In Mobile county about $20,00o.oo0 This assessment board may do some good even If it was created by Co., mer Legislature.
 Now no one disputes the fact that property in every part of the State Is not assessed at Its full value. Some counties may do a little better than others. but not so much so as to jus tify any throwing of stones.
 The Auditors report shows for 1905 the average assessed value of land in Blount county was s2.72 per acre. For the same year the average assessed value of land in Mobile county was $3.17 per acre. This Is of lands out side the corporate limits of Mobile city. There is hardly man who knows of the sand beds of Mobile county who will claim that they should be assessed upon an average higher than the lands in Blount coun- ty. There is no mineral land in Mo- bile county. All the increase in as- sessments will not be placed upon city property which is now assessed much nearer value than any other and in most towns in full up to the commis- sioners requirement of sixty per cent. of value.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
stead as n sensationaiist.

Hartford (Conn.) Times.
 Tn an address in Boston yesterday Editor William T. Stead violently ar raigned the American press for sensa- tionalism. The indictment appears to have been wholesale and indiscrimi- nate The idea of MT. Stead assuming to cudgel the press for sensational tendencies is enough to make a Ken lucky mule stick his head in bundle of fodder and snicker. For MT. Stead Is himself an unabridged edition of in life appears to be to perpetrate sen sations. His pen is built along sensa- tionai lines and his tongue is more sensational still. He loves to disturb to upset to shock He enjoys throw ing bombs into the crowd. He counts that day lost whose low descending sun views from his mouth no new sen sation sprung!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1907.

"A mah named Dick Roe probably kontractlon of the name of our old &egal friend Richard Roe recently sent ko The Scrap Book this inquiry: \ Will You kindly settle a dispute &hat hae bothered some of us for
 kmetime? Here is the question that
 ubles5 us: When a bullet Is fired
 ough a board which goes through
 fhs bullet or the hoie3 If you
 anewer this in The Scrap Book
 wiH save us a lot of worry and
 row.
 The Scrap Book Solomon promptly |end didactically replied that the bull <et goes through first and leaves the hole Rekind, otherwise. after the bull bet had tgone through there would be 'no holek in the board at all," 1t con- 'eludes. That sounds reasonable but <rhen yeu come to apply the inexora- |bIe rules~of logic to 1t 1t isn't quite 'so piain~for there then appear two 'equaIly plausible conclusions. If the bullet had not gone through the board =there would be no hole in 1t, is one |conclusion. If there were no hole in Ehe board the bullet could not go &hrough, is another deduction. We $may say that as a matter of actual |fact Thaa Scrap Book is correct, but fIogic N logic. that's what I say" |wrote the poet, and logic works in both direetions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Today In History

1572-Pope Plus V. died. Born Jam uary IT. 1904.
 1679- Archbishop Sharp assassina- ted.
 French and English. lfs st
 1700--John Dryden, English poet. died. Born 1881.
 1756--Alliance of Versailles.
 175S-- Richard Vaughan hanged for forging Bank of England notes.
 1769--Duke of wellington born. Died 1852.
 1SOs--Charles " of Spain abdicated in favor of Bonaparte.
 1S35--Amos Kendall of Kentucky became postmaster general If the Unj- ted States.
 1s41--London Library founded by Thomas Carlyle and others, formally opened.
 187S--First elevated trains run in New York city.
 18SS--Lord Stanley appointed Cover nor General of Canada.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Oue-Lerxed Gilman an.

It is not generally known that there is only one one-legged Chinaman in this city, says the Philadelphia Record. His name is Hop Wen. and he makes a comfortable living as an itinerant tailor. Despite his deformity, Hop carries an ironing board and an iron with him every day in the week; The board, which Is folding affair. is strapped to his back. and he carries over his shoulder. Wen ,he hops ptdT through ugh his peculiar cry: 7 Close mlendid today; clone an help HoP .oU Wsnn sats patronage from only the better class of merchants, who wear American in the back rooms of his patrons places. and uses their tables to press on; Be ing of an artistic turn of mind, Hop is often engaged to work fancy designs oh the Chinamen's silk blouses which they wear on Sunday and special oc- casions. Most of what he earns earns he he saves. and hopes to have enough in and keep his mother in comfort Hops leg was cut off by New York cable car several years ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
'This is My 59th Birthday"
JAMES McCREA.

James Mccrea. who became gresi; dent of the Penasylvania Railroad Company on the death of Alexander cSssatt lsst year. was born in Philse la de.phia May 1, 1s4s: He entered the and assistant engineer qp the Con neIisviils and Sauthern Pennsylvan1i,ai Rsiiroad, which position he held until iS67. The following year he was was employed in construction work on inc Wiimington and Reading Railroad, ana lsss he sn vsiss roaa saI viny with that company until 1871 :. Ia that year he entered the servlSS is Heh S he remained until 1882, filling the posi- tiOns of assistant engineer ana xsnsrsi d,ylsi manager and fourth vice-president of the Pennsylvania lines west or oad Pit1s; vic e. president and one year later ne ne became the first vice-president. In recent years he has peer president or several of the roads belonging to the Pennsylvania system among them the Vandalia line and the Orland Rap ids and Indiana Railroad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
nemocratic Chance in Rhode Island.

New York Evening Post.
 The Rhode Island Legislature has adjourned without electing a senator The Democrats stood unswervingly by Colonel R. H. l; Goddard; and the Republicans divided between Colonel s. P. Colt, and the present incumbent, George Peabody Wetmore. Colonel Goddards campaign has. accomplish ed of either Republican candidate; and both of them, we may add, are unfit for the position. The adherents of Colt and Wetmore were not divided by adherents-we might say mercenaries of two very rich men The question is now referred again to the people and in the election of new Legisla- ture colonel Goddard may conceivably strengthen his position still further. He is certainly the champion of the best element of Rhode Island public life
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Immigrants ComIng West.

News from Europe is that we shall receive more immigrants this year than ever. Forty thousand are said to be now on the seas or at ports awaiting departure. We received in the last two wears considerably more than two millions of Europeans and 1t is no less than amazing that they have, been in some way absorbed in this broad land and that there Is still a greater The most important part of the an nouncement- is that the bulk Of the forty thousand on the way are sched- region, where labor Is at a high prem fI1T -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Creek Roy,n Long Journey.

name requires twenty three letters in the spelling of it, arrived in St. Louis, name and all. last week. after journey he reached the Union station there was tag on his coat which showed that Konstantenos Argeropulos (the name) was bound for the home of his father, way, "and would the officials please see that he reached his destination" Konstantenos was unable to speak a word of English, but he received much attention on the train from Boston to St. Louis. and kind passengers fairly overloaded him with good things to eat. The boy sailed from Piraeus, Greece about three weeks ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
sbake.peare and Football.

Did William Shakespeare ever look on at a game of football or join in one? asks the Herald, of Stratford- rd-on-Avon. J, E. Vincent, the author of book on Berkshire highways and byways. found at North Moreton, in the register there, an entry of murder done by one "ould Gunter," says the Herald. 'Ould Gun ter" it seems, was a football player, or, at any rate his sons were players, for they and some fellows named Gregories fell together by the years (ears) at football Ould Gunter drew his dagger and broke booth their heades, and they died booth within a fortnight after" Savage old man! There was bad blood over football even then. This murder was in Shakes peare's time. in 1898, and football must have been long played then. In later days Charles II. dismissed football "as meeter for, laming than making able players thereof" Can anyone say what was the type of game then
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
.Sidssvaik Pencilings
Descsadants of . sixuer.

V
 T read in The Advertiser several days ago of -a proposal to have gen. eral repni6n at the Jamestown expost- ton of the descendants of the signers sid ns aldsrman.sfsct ldsnlalasU w seidie favor ofSuch . gatherir~.
 T think could arran / 1t so that upfcn. Our Rreat-great grandfather. James Wilson, was one of the men bo splashed some ink on the famous document, the Declaration of Indeten- i've other descendants of James Wilson Philadelphia. cousin in Trenton, N. J.. and two cousins in Huntington. and soTe of whom, think. would attend.
 A The Poetic Person's Nature study. Observe, my boy. the Meadowlark! TO you he looks an easy mark: He seems so dow upon the wing That It would be an easy, thing With stick. 70 or stone, or ieaden shot. Why. do 1t simply and you will Plead brain storm or unwritten law And come off free. But larks! Nav, On men the seasons never close; The Game Laws always. though, In
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 Mir. J. H. Lakin. who is seriously i'll at his residence, 214 South Law renee Street, was reported to be slight ly improved last night. Family and still extremely apprenhensive over his condition.
 MT. Lakin was taken violently i'll Sunday morning, and up to last nisnt his condition hsd x 2 seea x unchanged Governor Conner has returned from Birmingham, where he spent Sunday and Monday. Governor Conner mos tored to Birmingham. and returned to
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 Hon. J. A. wilkinson, Commission CT of Agriculture. will leave onnsE today Tor Tor will remain there for several days. Mir. G. R. Moore of Chicago. con. nected with the mechanical depart the guest of his uncle. MEA Charles W. Boyd.
 Mir. T. W. Bradford, of Cherokee. clerk in the offics of the State Treas urer.
 Hon. Walter D. Seed, State Treas urer. is visiting his former homo Tn tuscaloosa w w w MT. J. E. Henderson of Enterprise Is hv SSi,sitsa,g S,s L,g. Montgomery accompanied " "'" m E. @
 MT. L. W. Kolt of Ozark Is at the Exchange, accompanied by his wife.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
nIttnrlr Cnndemned.

Bay Mtnette 1lmeS. II, namite and the throwing of bombs was an art strictly European, that it was a Russian pastime and one In which an American citizen would blush to engage, but 1t seems that Montgomery, of this State. has some human devils among It's population, who do not hes. itate to attempt the destruction of property and innocent life merely for the sake of being devuIsh. No money should be necessary to move the off, oers of the law to effective action m such eases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Indian n Rev,v.I,sf.-

Wounded Elk, a full-blooded Sioux missionary, is organizing a revival movement in New York city. He has wonderful flow of simple oratory besides a majestic presence, The Great Father, he says does not like to look down on the great white way" as 1t that are being wrecked there. New Workers may keep on smoking, as all good Indians smoke, but they should use a pipe. If some of the folks could only sleep in tents instead of being cooped up in their little cage flats. the Sioux evangelist says. the town would be better off. Wounded Elk has a white wife
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01

their votes. money and influence. and could the party hope to elect Presi- dent with such drawbacks? Hardly, and we predict that if any reference to tariff revision gets into the party platform next year 1t will be in such shape that it will mean nothing ans be binding on nobody.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
When the Kniser Kissed Her.

Frederic Villiers tells this story of the German emporer. The occasion was the marriage of the crown prince of Roumania to Princess Marie, the handsome eldest daughter of the late Duke of Saxe -Coburg. After the func- tion the German emporer William IT., was the first to give the bridal kiss. smothered with decorations. and the bride was dressed in a costume which could not bear much crushing. The kaiser, one could see was trying to afraid, in turn, to disarrange his mass of decorations. In moment the emperor was seized with one of his brilliant ideas. He took the pretty blushing bride by the right elbow, tilted her a little toward him. launched himself forward. and, bending over her, imprinted the kiss.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
poDo wn. Absent Minded.

San Francisco Argonaut.
 ding was all over and the brides old father had gone off to the club began to search anxiously among the we'd
 S "What are you looking for, dear?''
 That s2,5OO check of your fathers, ' he said anxiously. T don't see It any
 Poor papa is so absent minded, 7 said the bride He lit his cigar with
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
MheeIbarrow. of Money.


 In an article on the awful famine in China and the meager measures Of re- lief so far taken a correspondent or the North China Daily News, describing the scenes at Tsinkianpu, says: The relief afforded by the officials and others has been in the. form of coin only, some 30 cash Ca cash is worth less than 1-2 cents) day. and wheel barrows of copper 10-cent pieces con tinually pass through the crowds. This man to turn rice and grain merchants. and every alley Is lined with their stalls and booths containing baskets of rice and corn of various quantities and prices Around these the refugees cluster. haggling and bargaining and watching every grain that may be measure with a dull, wolfish glare of the eye such as only starvation brings. neither saw nor heard of any cases of theft or looting;"', The correspon- dent adds: Tt will be impossible to save more than 50 to 50 per cent.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Long Hours on the Farm.

Atchison (Kan:( Champion. .,.a th.v aoRt R9ys en5oy leaye fouTteen sns or fifteen of bitter hard work every day; sS,;.,. they sy don't like. to get up before datyaght stsn sna m zines until after dark in the evening :. The best way to encourage the farmer boys is to treat them as though they sleen in the mornings; call nil-s hours a days work; let them have their eve nines for themselves, without a thou sand heartbreaking chores 10 e9pit- ter their souls and make them old De- fore their time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Corn and Wheat bod.

ii is matter of custom rather than of reason that we should use so much much, ration Practically all the wheat pro- % aueed is converted into food for man If is nrobable that one bushel of corn in fifty raised in this country goes snomaiv when we consider that two bushels of corn can be produced to every bushel of wheat on a given area and that the national corn crop Is TOUT times the national wheat crop.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Passenger Train Derailed.

St. Paul, Minn,, April 30.-A report to the Great Northern Railroad head quarters here says that passenger train No. 1 was derailed at S:45 last night east of Midvale, Mont. The entire train, with the exception of the en- zine and compartment car, was de- rallied A mail clerk and several chill dren on the train were slightly in- jured The cause of the derailment is not known here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Law and order win Prevail.

Montgomery is coming in for her share of trouble from the lawiess eie- .e ment in that city. They are dynamit- ing street cars It is needless to say that such diversions are stirring up inc good citizens of that town as they have not been stirred ap for some time and can sympathize with the Capital City over theirs. But it is sure shot that the guilty parties there will sut- fer the consequences for their crimes and that law and order VIII preVall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Preferred nm American.

Easton. Ia. April 30.-Joseph Boccia, an Italian. was hanged here today for the murder of his wife. She had re- fused to live with him and this, with the fact that she had told him she pre- ferred the compapionship of American men to that of an Italian. caused him to become jealous.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Iowa Covered With Snow.

Des Moines, Iowa, April So-Snow covers the entire State of Iowa for the depths of three to eight inches. In Des Moines and Central Iowa 1t is eight inches, according to Government report. The snow will do much good to grain and pastures. but the damage to fruits and truck gardening is ines timable.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Coke in United States.

quadrupled in the last twenty-five years and is now about S3,000,000 tons. Nine-tenths of all. the Scientific Ameri- Coke Is mainly used for smelting iron ore, in a total production for the United StatsS 01 eA1Reeseoo tons of pig iron last yeaN.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01

The Baltimore Sun remarks. speak ing of the South, that If 1t Is will ing to hitch its wagon perpetually to a meteor merely for the joy of going down to defeat with it's ambitious but luckless idol, then there Is nothing more to be said." The Sun must be casting insinuations on somebody. Guess who7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-01
Stove Plant Destroxed.

Lorain, Ohio. April 3O.-Fire of un- known origin late last night destroyed the plant of the National Stove Com pany. The loss is estimated at s20O.- 900, covered by insurance. Four hun dred men are Idle.