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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-06
First Methodist Church.

Services morning and night at this house of worship, by the pastor, Rev. r. Y. Ramsey. Subject for the morn ing discourse: "The Proper Food for the Soul.' For the evening service the pastor will take the following for his theme: Seek the Old Path The morning and evening offertory will be sung by Mrs. Payne Ramsey ot Lit tie Rock. Mrs. Ramsey is the accom- plished daughter-in-law of Reverend Ramsey and her sweet voice has been heard several times in Pine Bluff. Sunday school at 9:30 sharp. Prep arations have been made to have a missionary rally at this hour. Recl- tations will be given by Misses Lorlne Hart and Vera Clement. Several songs will be rendered by the primary de- ! partment and an effort is being made to secure some other special music. The entire collection from the Sunday school on this day is for the cause ol missions. therefore all should be there with their nickels, dimes and quarters and help the good work on. Every body invited and good time guaran teed.
 Epworth League meets at 3:3O p. m All invited.
 Prayer meeting Wednesday 1:1o m.
 The Evangelical Lutheran Trinit
 Church.
 1120 East Sixth avenue. German services 10:45 a. m.
 English services 7:30 D. m.
 Sunday school 10 a. m. All are welcome. . W. (. Schl ader, pastor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-06

making good. ."-The BroWnsvllle, Grenn.) StatesGraphic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-06

Mrs. Gabe Meyer has returned from Port Gibson, Miss, where she was the guest of her daughter, Mrs, Maurice Kahn, for several weeks.
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salary in the city, and who purchases a
country home. rashly give up his job and
expect to make fortune out of the ground.
While the expense of country life is small,
the return from agricultural labor is also
small. Those wonderful stories of fortunes
made from few acres are the records of
rarely exceptional experiences. Some men
sell $500 worth of Bermuda onions on one
acre of ground and others make money
rapidly in the poultry business, but they
have peculiar advantages and training. 1t
is in the minimizing of expenditures that
country life best pays.
A city income and a country expense
would seem to be the ideal condition. There
fore, the best thing for some city workers
to do is to have a country home, near
enough to the city to enable them to work
in town. and to make the farm" merely a
side line" at least until it is on paying
basis.
A danger to avoid is the reading of lit
erature supplied by certain gifted "immi-
grafton agents." With the data they sup
ply any man take a soft pencil and a
pad of paper and figure himself out for
tune in a few minutes. You take two hens
and rooster or "a pair of Angora goats"
and "a thousand ginseng plants and apply
the rules of geometrical progression. Presto!
you are soon bloated plutocrat.
But the great American hen, gifted as
she is, knows nothing about geometry and
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CITY AND COUNTRY HOMES.
Some of the Advantages Of the Latter
Described.

To live. three things are essential-an
income. friend, and home The great
est of things is home, and home cannot
be rented it must be owned.
People who own nothing often boast that
at least they pay no taxes" But fact
robs them of even this poor consolation.
Whoever buys anything pays taxes THE
consumer pays the tax is automatic. When
a man spends dime, 9 mills Of it goes for
taxes; that Is the municipal and state tax.
If he pays rent he pays his landlords taxes,
which are tackled on" Also he pays the
butchers bakers and candlestick makers
personal taxes, and their landlords taxes.
He can escape paying the landlords tax by
owning his own home.
No man who has a country home need
starve, even though he loses his job. He
can subsist after a fashion, and a very
good fashion If he Is alert and Industrious.
1t isn't necessary, it is not even expedient,
for the ordinary man to own big farm,
in order to make a living out of the soil.
Intensive rather than extensive agriculture
best serves the interests of the amateur
farmer. who, as rule, is remarkably lazy.
Let not the man who is receiving a decent
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Gently been so disastrous to the market
value of stocks and bonds. Tenants of all
kinds" said he. whether for retail whole
sale commercial office purposes, are
readily found.
The value, therefore, of real estate in
the business section particularly is held
stable and continually advancing in value.
Every Improvement made in the city. no
matter of what character it may be, whether
if is a new bridge to be built. new factory
erected or a new home. further adds to the
intrinsic value of that portion of the city,
which is strictly speaking. the business
center; particularly in the growing section.
The high esteem in which business prop
erty is held by its owner is testified to by
the fact that it is a most difficult matter
for the agent to induce him to sell at any
price for ne not only now receives a good
income from his investment, but he has the
assurance of a large increase in value, due
to the rapid and continuous growth of the
city"
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USES OF CONCRETE.
Also Its Abuses-Need Of a City. In
spector.

Also Its Abuses-Need Of City. In
spector.
The revolutionizing influence of cement
| in the building industry is now generally
recognized. Millions of capital have been
| invested within ten years and Yankee in
| genuity has been exercised to the fullest
| to devise ways of using the new material
| and machinery for cheapening it.
We hear that one-twentieth Of the earth
| Is mari and rock and sand and gravel, and
| that in sightliness, strength. durability and
! the ease with which it may be utilized
concrete beats anything else known.
Doubtless everything claimed for 1T is true.
We are even willing to concede that the
| huge stones Of the pyramids, the placing
| Of which in position has puzzled the engi-
| chanical appliances which we can't repro
duce, but were carried to the heights in
| bags and built up in molds on the spot.
But If concrete has done wonders and
promises to do more, it has also opened the
way for fraud of new kind To become
a success it requires expert treatment.
More than that, it requires honest treat
ment.
1t permits the smearing of a surface with
deceptive plaster which conceals eff
fectually the vicious fraud beneath. I'm
scrupuious or careless, contractors may
use clay instead of sand, gravel instead of
broken stone, mud instead of cinders, and
only half as much cement as is necessary,
without fear of detection until long after
tHe "ork mas peeh accepted anu pdiu lol.
We may conceive of a situation in which
hordes of dishonest contractors would
build fair city that would crumble into
dust within year two. We cannot
conceive Of a situation in which hordes of
contractors will be voluntarily honest.
The increasing use of concrete, there
fore, presents a problem of serious import.
1t is no longer a question of skimped paw
ing foundations bad sidewalks; it is a
question of buildings. The cities should
take action. Safety demands 1t. 1t would
not be amss to have all forms of concrete
work officially inspected and stamped. 1t
would be pertinent for the city to pre-
scribe the proportions of the material that
enter in concrete used for various pur-
poses.
1t would be pertinent for the city to see
that the proper formula was used in each
case, for careiessneSS on the part of con-
tractors employees is to be guarded against
even when the contractors themselves de-
sire to give square deal.
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cadent Their merchants complain of lack
of business, mechanics find scanty employ
ment, building has ceased; the farmer who
has accumulated a competency and wishes
to live sin town" builds his new home in
some large city. instead of in the place
near which he made his money. The
longed-for factories, which it was thought
would be attracted by the advantages of
the site, do not come. immigration passes
1t by. AS the citizens look at the beautiful
country around them they wonder at the
vagaries of fate.
But the secret of it all lies in the use
to which that beautiful country is put
Inquiry will reveal the fact that it has all
been absorbed in a limited number of big
FARMS say of from 100 to 80 acres each
The laborers who supply the needs of these
farms at seed time and harvest are tran
sients. There is no rural population sur
rounding the town sufficient to furnish it
with business on which to thrive Let the
merchants and business men devote to the
breaking up of a portion Of these farms
into small places portion of such effort
as they have valnly spent in endeavoring
to secure the location in their town of man
ufacturing enterprises, and the cure of
.decadence' is found. Each big farm"
heretofore occupied by a single family, be-
comes the seat of from twenty to one hum
dred families. dwelling on crofts Of from
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the Angora goat does not always know
the common rudiments Of arithmetic. He
will not multiply. without careful training.
He must go through a kindergarten course,
along with the. owner, before he becomes
valuable.
In any agricultural undertaking, consult
Uncle Sam before going ahead He will
cheerfuly give good advice.
Dreary isolation is no longer the lot of
the country dweller. Transportation IA
cilities, mail deliveries, telegraph and tele-
phone bring him in direct contact with the
pulsing life of the great centers. And
there rs no longer need for him who elects
to make his living from the farm to work
sixteen hours day. The farmer, from
an unskiled laborer, is graduating into a
professional man. And the nearness Of mar
kets makes 1t possible for him to have a
little ready money all the time, where
he formerly had but one or two pay days
per year. The diaries will buy his butter
his chickens and eggs for cash when he
chooses to do so.
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Tent and House.

From the Denver Republican.
Put the squaw in a tepee and she Is the
neatest of housekeepers. Everything In
one Of these big. roomv tents is in apple
pie order The blankets are neatly rolled
and slowed away under the edge Of the
tepee, leaving the center clear Bright
colored blankets and fine fur robes are
spread about, and a wonderfully beaded
dance drum hangs from one of the poles.
But on the other hand. put squaw in
a house and she is anything but a sue
cess. Go into one of these frame houses
and you will find the mattresses laid along
the floor, with the whole family sprawling
thereon. The cracked cook stove will be
in the middle Of the floor, with anything
but agreeable odors coming therefrom while
the meal is in progress. Outside the bed
steads and springs will be used as chicken
roosts.
But the squaw doesn't let her house
keeping shortcomings worry her. When
she puts on elk-tooth robe. valued at
anything from 81 800 to $1,000, and rides
to the fair or to the agency a Sunday
astrde a beaded saddle, she is a picture
of contentment that any of her white
sisters might envy.
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PANORAMIC VIEW OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE AND SFIE

to supervise the wonderful beauty improve
ment to be made there.
In Denver members of the real estate ex-
change are in accord with the plans of the
city administration to build q system Of
boulevards and parks in the city. Recently
members of the exchange heard George E.
Kessler tell what had been accomplished
in Kansas City by improvements. His
statement that boulevards and parks had
Increased the value of abutting property
from ICE to LOCO per cent In four years IN
spired the real estate men to work for the
same system in Denver.
kessler also appeared before the Traffic
Club and his ideas were well received. His
plan is that there should be one great
boulevard connecting the residence districts
and a chain of smaller ones to the business
district
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Enioys a Big Income.

George f. Kessler of Kansas City. as an
expert on city Improvement plans, enjoys
an income as large the President of the
United States
His total income has been greater at
times AT present his income is as fol-
lows as an expert:
Denver, per year, $1,000; Cincinnati
$1,000; Syracuse. $1,000; st. Louis, worl.. S
fair repairs, $4,000; Kansas City, $1,000;
Memphis. 5000; four educational institu-
lions Sl2 OG0-total $4,000
Denver has just employed Mr.. kessler
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Gentlemanly Prize Fighter.
rom Everybody's.

From Everybodys.
Cartoonists have made US familiar with
the pugilist as type. We know the thick
neck, the granite jaw. the conical head
with ears far back and the face of a simian.
As a matter of fact, no real fighter ever
looked like that. Indeed. In its entirety
the popular idea of a prize-fghter is err
roneous. The prize fighter belongs to a dis
tinguished and gentlemanly cult. He II
rather q Incorporating person, quite on q
par with literary people and much
healthier.
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The Paderewski Puzzle.
James Huneker. in Everybody's.


The Paderewski case is a puzzle for mu-
steal psychologists. He is not the great
est pianist who ever visited America
he is not the greatest living pianist. A half
dozen others excel him in specialties. But
he is more interesting; he has more per-
sonal charm: there is the feeling when you
hear him that he is a complete man, a har-
monious artist and this feeling is very
compelling. Paderewski is "phenome-
non'-using the word in its popular ac-
ceptance.
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BUSINESS PROPERTY.
Good Demand Everywhere for Central
improvements

Agents everywhere are still finding
good demand for central business property.
real estate broker, in speaking of the
business yesterday, said that the improve
ments would continue to advance steadily
and uninterruptedly, notwit hist anding the
depressed money market, which has SO re-
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Hunting's Veterans.
the London Bystander

From the London Bystander.
Perhaps no other sport or pastime can
claim it's votares for longer period than
hunting. Men who are keen riders to
hounds in their young days never lose
their interest in hounds and their doings.
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REVIVING DEAD TOWNS.
Big Farms That Must Be Broken Into
Small Places.

The country is full of small towns which
have ceased to grow and are already de-
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New Apartment House.

The apartment house 1910 Massachusetts
avenue known as The Brandon, now having
the finishing touches put upon it, was be-
gun just one year ago this month While
this seems an unusually long period for the
construction of a building of this size. con-
sidering the rapidity with which the modern
skyscraper is erected. the owner, Mr. Jas.
Robbins. considers the time well spent, from
the fact that when completed nothing will
be left undone to insure the safety. COM
fort and convenience of the future tenants.
The plans were prepared by Frank H.
Jackson. architect, and the construction
was under the personal supervision of Mr..
Robbins
The first floor contains one four-room
and bath and one five-room and bath apart
ment and the three upper floors each con-
tain two five-room and bath suites.
The entrance on the main floor is through
a wide vestibule with steps and high VAIN
scotIng of white marble. the main entrance
hall and staircase leading to the upper
floors being finished entirely in oak.
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one to twenty acres each. Then there are
several thousand persons for the stores and
shops to serve, where they now serve only
a hundred or two. To small town thus
surrounded new business comes without be-
ing coaxed.
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tiveness are far ahead of a great many
places that are really located in the coun-
try. 1t is thought by some people that an
idea clothed in the Latin language Is more
taking than in plain English. and so the
familiar phrase of rus IN urbe" can be
applied to this city as the country in the
city
OF course this condition is mainly due
to the abundance and the fourshing state
of the trees that border the streets. In that
respect Washington stands alone. not only
among the cities of this country, but of the
world. There may be short sections of
streets in cities both here and abroad where
the trees are the equal if not the superior,
of those in this city. But here the trees
put forth the glory of their fresh bright
garments without regard to their locality or
whether the eyes that to rest upon them
gaze through the plate glass windows OF
the costly residence or through the dim,
drt-statned pane of the howell.
No Glass Distinction.
The same care is bestowed by the mu-
nicipal authorities upon the trees in the
poorer residence sections of the city as upon
those located in other quarters, and the
trees seem to flourish as we'll in one locality
as nthe other. The richness of the foi-
age is spread before admiring eyes without
stint. Nature does not make any distinc-
ton. and in this respect the city authori-
ties have followed her good example. and
W =
must go without regard to who is going to
reside thereon.
This abundance this richness in green
cry which is apparent in season, serves to
embower the whole city so that 1t is diff
cult for any one. however absorbed in bust
ness, to get away from it or to remain
conscious of it. The glory of the awaken
ing of nature is about one on all sides. and
in such striking forms of beauty and of
magnificence that it cannot be ignored,
The Richness of the Setting.
Not merely one street, but hundreds of
streets and, in fact. all the streets in the
city are adorned with trees. On thor
oughfare of such width as Massachusetts
avenue a double row of lndens has been
provided on each side. and now their limbs,
thrown upward and outward. form an in
terlaCing canopy over the sidewalks and
nearly meet in the center the broad
eXpanse of the pavement.
Such spectacle in any other city would
be pronounced magnificent if it continued
for only couple of blocks. but here it
stretches entirely across the city-a dis
lance of about five miles 1t is not sur
priSing that in comments made on the city
the display OF the trees and grass and
dominate. for after all is said and done.
while beautiful residences and fine bust
ness places and comfortable homes are
worthy of notice. yet it is the richness and
the splendor of the setting afforded here
for such structures that constitutes the
chief distinction of this city.
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Due to the Trees.

In Washington. while residing In a great
city with all the conveniences and comforts
which belong to a populous center. the resi-
dents at the same time enjoy the surround
inss which in point of beauty and attrae-
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-03

directors gt
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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-04-30
L. A. W. GLEASON.
ATTRACTIVE AND USEFUL
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION FOLDER

The Richmond, fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad and Washington
Southern Railway-Richmond-W Washing-
ton Line haye-just issued q very hand
some and useful folder incident to the
jamestown Exposition.
The two outside co Vers show the con
Meeting link" trade mark in appropriate
colors. and the seal of Virginia encircled
by a green wreath with q touch OF
Colonial yellow, in which colcr the
words Jamestown Exposition" stand
out boldly.
The interior contains many historical
and useful references, besides birds-eye
view of Hampton Roads and complete
plan Of the Exposition grounds and
buildings. The work is full OF beautiful
and interesting scenes in Richmond,
fredericksburg and Washington and
other points along the Richmond Wash
ington Line. New maps in colors, oi
Richmond and Washington, the histori-
cal portion OF Virginia between Rich
mend and Washinton and Richmond
and Norfolk, showing the prominent
points of Colonial and modern history,
together with the famous battlehelds
and dates OF the battles OF both periods,
are also included.
The work Is beautifully executed and Is
a splendid advertisement OF this section
as well as the Richmond Washington
Line, the double track link and gateway
between the North and the South, whose
attractive routes, rates and stop-oyer
privileges are fully set forth.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-04-30
JUDGE LOvlNG'S MOTIVE
Friend Says he Believed Girl Had Been Dugged
and Assaulted.

That Judge W. g. Loving, who Killed
Theodore Estes at Oak Rdse, Monday
believed his daughter had been drugged
and assaulted when he killed Estes, and
that he made such statement before
Bal Commissioner Payne. AZ q lk Ridge,
Tuesday, when bail WAS allowed. wa-
vouched for here by "A mutual friend oi
the Loving and Estes families.
Mutual friends Of the Loving and E-te-
families are vi-i,ing both families and
condoling with each In their trouble
There seems To be no bitterness on the
part OF those mutual friends
II Is d, clared the members Of the Estes
family are demeaning themselves with
proper dignity in the trouble and are
willing for the law To take IL course. II
is thought, however. that they viii not
leave anything undone that can he used
To clear the name of the de al man from
the charge or suspicion of having
wronVed Judge Loving daughter Their
sole effort. il il said, will be To show
that Miss Loving WAS not drugged.
Judge Loving has made no further
statement. and it il not believed that be-
will talk again until the matter comes
up for trial.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-04-30
FAU0UIER WANTS SENATOR
Lcudoun Insists Upon Naming Him. And Voters
Win Decide.

At meeting OF the Democratic execu-
tive committee for I.OudOun county June
l3 was set as the date for holding the
county primaries 10 nominate candidates
for the Legislature, county and district
Offices. The COMMITTEES refused to recOg-
nize the right of Fauquier county to So
lect the Senatorial candidate to represent
both counties.
The right To name the Senator has
been conceded to LondOnn for many
years, and Fauquier has named without
opposition the fOater delegate. The
Fanquier committee asked that in the
future this custom be reversed and that
Fauquier be accorded the privilege of se-
Letting the Senator from the district.
The action of the LOudoun county COM
mittee will necessitate the settlement OF
the matter either by county convention
or local primaries.
4. c. Pitcher aud Geo. L. Fletcher, OF
Fauquier. have announced their candi-
dacy for tine Senate, and Major B. W.
Lynn, OF Loudoun, present Senator, is
also an aspirant.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-04-30
DANCE IN STAFFORD
Hemn. Ya.. April "a. 1907.

Hemp, Va, April "a, 1907.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lancaster Limerick en-
tertained number OF their friends re-
Gently by giving country dance, which
began at an early hour with full sets, and
was kept up until after midnight. Music
was sweetly rendered by Messrs Jackson
Estes and Acie Hammett. Cakes and
confectioneries were abundantly served
by Mrs. Walter Limerick and Miss Mamie
Harding. Those present were Mrs.
Walter Limerick, Mrs. Jerry Smith,
Misses Mamie Harding, Belle Burgess,
Maggie, Lizzie and Gertie Harding, Nellie
and Eva Burgess, Clara Monroe, Hattie,
Sadie and Lucy Smith; Messrs. Daniel
and David Limerick. Wallace Harding,
Wexford Raines. George and Frank
Smith, Thomas Watts, Jackson Estes,
Acie Hammett, Frank and Noah Beccom.
Louis Smelling, Jimmy Watts, Josie and
John Smith and others. ViOlets.