davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-11

Tommy Burns is some sore on Mike Schreck, the Cincinnatti heavy weight, and in a letter to New York friend says: Some day I am going to surprise that four-flusher Schreck by accepting his challenge, and when I do get in the ring with him, I'll give him a beating that he will never forget" .. .... -.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-11

are to carry on a general mining and refining business. acquire, lease, purchase and hold lands and to locate mining claims and to dig, bore prospect and mine for oil, coal,
 asphaltum, sulphur, salt cement, clays and all other valuable earths.
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SOME PASS IDEAS.

A legislator from a southeastern
county, in giving his ideas concerning
certain legislation to one of his county
papers, made this statement CONCERN
ing the anti-Dass movement:
with the present small compensa-
ton allowed members of our legls-
lature as per constitution adopted IN
1851, do not think L would IaVor an
anti-pass law, for 1 do not look at the
giving or taking of a pass with such
great horror as some goody-goody
people do. I have had pass since
two years ago and know that 1t mas
never Influenced me from doing my
dutv to my constituents the same as
though I had no pass. With me this
idea is preposterous. Surprising a
friend of mine should extend an m
vitation to me to ride with him In ms
buggy Cor automobile, if he is rich
enough to have one) and I should &C
cept his offer, is it to be supposed Tor
an instant that 1 must do some dis
honest act resulting benef1cially TO my
said friend, who owns the buggy, ana
detrimental to other friends may
have in our community? The idea is
simply ridiculous"
But supposing the member were
employed by one of two competitors
in business. Would he consider it
honorable to accept favors from his
employers competitor. given him to
weaken his loyalty to his employer?
Just now there is a contest between
the railroads and the people, and the
legislators are the employees of the
people to safeguard their interests in
this contest. Is it fair for legislator
to put himself under obligations to a
railroad under such circumstances? If
he is an honorable man will he accept
a courtesy that he cannot repay in
some way?
As to the first proposition in the
statement quoted--that legislator
ought to be allowed to accept passes
because of the meagerness of his
saIary-it might just as well be argued
that he ought to be allowed to accept
brides for the same reason. 1t must
be admitted that the pay of legislators
is too small, but the remedy is to re-
sign or get the people to increase the
pay.
Legislators who wish to keep their
passes always insist that they are not
in the least Influenced by them. If
this be true, why are some railroad
officials working so hard to head off
an effective anti-pass law? Why should
railroads be anxious to give something
for nothing-so anxious that they will
make a hard fight for the privilege?
How can any man accept pass with
out feeling more or less under obliga-
tons to the giver for it?
On the other hand, the man who re-
fuses the pass is not under obligations
to the railroad, neither is he liable to
do the railroad an injustice by trying
to prove to himself that the pass does
not influence him.
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sentative of the sentiment of Kansas as
whole. It's members come from all
parts of the state. The sentiments that
IL Misses are in disfavor with the ma
jority of Kansas people, and when it
applauds it usually means that Kansas
is applauding. Therefore when the
Kansas Day club so pronouncedly re-
jected Mr.. Challis' anti-prohibition SEN
timents last night. it indicated that the
people of the state as a whole feel the
same way on the subject.
Mr.. Challis is undoubtedly a brill
liant young attorney and he has been
ty attorney of Atchison county He was
contemporary of Herbert Hadley in
the state university few years ago.
and both were among the university
leaders in those days. Each has since
had an opportunity to enforce laws.
Mr.. Challis is probably as we'll en-
dowed mentally as Mr.. Hadley, but he
has not made the mark that Hadley
has. 1t requires no reasoning here to
tell why
When a whole community" says
Mr.. Challis. when whole communities
unite in disregarding law, that law
is as well as repealed"
Let us see. Did not eight or ten
states once unite in disregarding GER
tain laws of this country? But man
named Abraham Lincoln said those
laws should be enforced, and there has
been no question about it since he en-
forced them.
The people of Kansas are for pro-
hfbition and against the saloon, and
they have decreed that the state shall
be the unit on the question rather
than the county. the city, or the in
dividual.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many an innocent picture has been
framed in guilt.
Needless to say the seamstress is
never needle-less.
The man who wins always feels that
the right will triumph.
1t is because a plain duty is plain
that it is never attractive.
Don't try to convince the mother of
a first baby that we are all born equal.
In some circles a gentleman is
man who gets drunk with a dress
suit on.
The minute a man begins to feel
that he is very popular he becomes
bore.
We all appreciate the good things
of life, but few of US want to be the
good things"
himself isn't throwing any dust in
other peoples eyes.
Fortune sometiems knocks at a
mans door only to find that he has
gone out to seek her.
The reason the average man is often
funnier than the professional humor-
list is because he doesn't have to be.
1.-The proper time for a man to
marry" says the Cynical Bachelor, sis
when he hasn't anything else to worry
him.
Everybody seems to be here for his
health" remarked the new arrival at
Hot Springs. Eyes, everybody but the
hotel proprietor" replied the guest
who had been there three days.
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USE GOOD SENSE.

The LEGISLATURE should exercise care
full Judgment and good sense in dealing
with the two-cent fare propositlon-
The public cannot afford to DO the
railroads an injustice, but at the same
time 1t should insist on receiving 1alt
treatment from the railroads.
There is great danger that fiat rate
of two cents a mile on all lines IN the
state could be shown to be unconstitu-
tional, for there are doubtless some
branch lines on which service would DC
maintained at a loss at that rate; but
there are other lines on which two
cent rate would undoubtedly be justi-
fed
In the multiplicity of figures there
is great perplexity. Almost anythlhs
can be proved by figures when mann
pulated by an expert f1gurer A TWO
cent fare can be made to appear rea-
sonable, or it can be proved TO be TOO
low, according to the sentiment OF the
man with the figures, and the average
individual is easily confused. Rallroau
experts probably understand these hs-
ures, and it is up to the members OF
the legislature to make a careful STUDY
them and then make a passenger rate
as low as possible and still be falr 10
the railroads. Neither side can ask Tor
more.
Perhaps the most practical plan IS
that proposed recently by Senator stew
art-that of making the rate depend
upon the earnings of the roads. On
lines whose gross yearly earnings are
s., 900 or more per mile Senator Stewart
would make the two-cent rate enec-
tive. On lines whose earnings are De-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 per mile he
would make the rate 21s cents, and on
lines whose earnings are less than 3d.
600 per mile the present rate snail pc
left undisturbed.
Perhaps the divisions should not DC
made at these exact figures-that is Tor
the legislature to determine-but the
principle of the idea seems just and
fair. There ought also to be some pro-
vision governing the price of mileage
books included.
The railroad men make a strong point
when they assert that the lowering OF
rates on some branch roads will make
1t necessary to curtail the service Inc
public does not desire the service
lessened. Rather, it should be better.
And the public would doubtless be the
loser in the long run if the rates are
reduced to a point that would work an
Injustice to the roads. Careful consider
alton and good sense should govern In
making the reductions.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

[F'rom the Atchison Globe.J
No busy man is as busy as he thinks
he is.
Making a promise is a great deal
easier than making good"
THE Lord helps him who helps
himself" but show the people roar.
One way not to entertain a man is
70 tr.r to interest him in bric-a-brac
A man thinks of a lot of different
things when he marries, but alimony
is never on the list.
The man with an extremely long
beard is prouder of it than a woman is
of a good complexion.
When there is sickness in the family
the neighbors and the doctor never
agree in diagnosing the case.
What has become of the old fash
Toned man who went into grocery
store and inquired: rs your scales
right %
You have probably observed that
the man from your town who loses a
position in another town always re-
signs.
1t is easy to tell who the first ar
rivals at a church wedding were: 1he
women who have end seats In the
pews.
When a woman makes. a dress she
brags: II made it myself" but when
some one says her clothes look home
made it makes her mad.
Sunday is the longest day in the
week to those who are in trouble, and
the shortest to those who are passing
through their period of joy.
When man is sick he never thinks
the doctor takes enough interest in
him, and when he is robbed he never
thinks the police force take enough
interest in finding the thief.
A letter from a woman with chill
dren is mighty uninteresting reading
at this season of the year unless you
happen to be gath ering data on
coughs, Group and chickenpox.
No matter how much a man adj
mires his wife he never gives her
credit for enough mechanical ingenu-
ity to accomplish anything more diff
cult than fitting cork in a jug.
No woman has perfect control over
her curiosity If she can see a messen-
ger boy leave a telegram next door and
not imme diately discover that she
must go over to borrow some butter.
A woman is travelling over the coun-
try delivering a lecture entitled. How
Wives Should Act to Keep Husbands
After They Get Them" Every wo-
man who reads this will be indignant.
When Cain killed Abel it must have
been hard on Eve to have had no
neighbors to come in and prepare the
house for the funeral and run to the
milliner's to borrow a mourning bon
net.
Every one has a pretty long line Of
excuses, but the race for the cham
pionship undoubtedly lies between the
children who want to go to the neigh
boris and the man who requires an ex-
cuse before taking a drink.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

TFrom the Chicago News1
Don't expect to find horse sense in an
automobile.
One taste of success is better than a
mouthful of defeat.
It's easy to make men believe the things
they want to believe
theatrical star by any other name
would be just as self-important-
There are many touching incidents in
the career of a chronic borrower.
Never judge a man by his stylish
clothes; perhaps his wife paid for them.
Some men treat their wives kindly be-
cause they are afraid to do otherwise.
Heaven will possess small attraction for
some women If there are no bargain
counters.
The cheapest thing in California is sun
shine, and the cheapest in Kentucky is
moonshine.
Some men are born small. some shrink
and some others never find out how small
they really are
If our good intentions could only be
used for paving material In this world
what a saving 1t would be for the tax
payers!
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HYHAWKER JOT.S

The Clay Center Times notes that the
railroads are getting just as much ad-
vertjsing space in the newspapers since
January 1 as they did before, but now
the space is devoted to telling how
many were killed and injured in the
wrecks.
"Sabetha." boasts Ralph Tennal. els
sneaking up on Hiawatha. We may not
have a girl studying voice culture with
Jean De Reszke in Paris. but we have i
girl who is going to sing a leading part
in three day sacred cantata in Bald
win. KAN
Representative Fraser comes from
Clay county Commenting on his anti
Sunday baseball bill, the Times says:
ut is understood down here that Cliff
ton could not play baseball well enough
to break the Sabbath anyway, SO the
bill must be aimed at Clay Center"
The Salvation Army will shortly dedi-
cate a new building for its work in
Wichita. Ex-Governor Stanley will pre-
side. Only 20 years ago a detachment
of the Salvation Army was locked UP
wise prosecuted for holding street meet
ings. The world do move.
Noting that only two of the state sem
ators from the Third congressional dis
trict voted against the tariff revision
gresham Campbell the desirability of
revising his late lamented campaign
speech" or the people of the district
may decide on a revision of their repre-
sentative in congress two years hence.
Abilene Reflector: The death of ex-
Senator Alger recalls a visit he made
to the Fifth district in the early nineties
when J. r. Burton was the Republican
nominee for congress. He made two
speeches for the Republican ticket. He
was also having some sort of a scrap
back east and a newspaper man who
met him at Manchester and rode with
for the Associated Press will never for
get the loneliness of the Michigan mill
Honaire. After he returned home he
sent Mr.. Burton cordial letter telling
him in the unequal contest against Pop
ulism in this district. With it he sent
a check for $3.50 which he begged Mr..
Burton to accept as a gift from him
self and Mrs. Alger. Mr. Burton has
often said that this was the only con-
trfbution or gift ever made to him t.
assist in his political campaign.
Some Sabetha girls once made up a
list of definitions of Kansas towns, the
names of the towns to be guessed from
the definitions. Here they are: Very
bow legged-Great Bend; thin monas-
tery-Abilene; the price of yeast-Leav-
enworth; colored swiftness-B1ue Rap
ids; why Mrs. Smith went-Smith Cen
ter; expounders of the gospeHParsons;
pleasing to the sight-Fairview; de-
scendant of a sneeze-Atchison: A sire
a circle and a term in sfnging-PaoIa:
what the blue stocking woman is seek
ng-Independence; what we get when
the coal is out-Newton: what the coal
mercant should do-Ottawa; what we
secure If he does it right-Holton; an
extremity, a height and a sigh-Tope-
ka; a masculine, a girls name and a
circle-Mankato; what the American
needs to secure a duke-Price: went
to my first to secure my second-I4aw-
renee; what some folks have to do for
a living-Russell; what happens when d
"a n IN G ont 1rlrx-r
Falls; my first, not wearing the second,
got the tfird-Manhattan.
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NOT FOR THE SALOON.

That the public sentiment of Kansas
is against the saloon was again demon
strated at the banquet Of the Kansas
Day club last night when James NJ.
Challis, of Atchison, denounced prohi-
bition as "a most senseless measure"
and advocated the legalizing of saloons
in communities that wish them. His
carefully prepared brief for the defense
in the case of State VS.. Saloon called
forth vigorous protests from the audi
ence, while Governor Hoch, when called
upon to present the prohibition side
was cheered tremendously.
The Kansas Day club is fairly repre-
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Reading Newspapers.

Some women think the usefulness of
a newspaper is having plenty of old
papers in the kitchen to put on the
shelves or wrap bundles in, says the
Woman's National Daily, of st. Louis.
They never glance inside paper; if
they do, it is to read some trivial stuff
which children say or take a hurried
glance at the society column.
Not long ago one woman saw an ar
ticle headed "Sankey and Moody" a
narrative regarding past glories of the
two men. She did not read the article,
but threw down the paper, exclaim-
ing: "Sankey and Moody, Sankey and
Moody! 1 get Disguised reading about
these old pugilists."
If one woman had read books lit
tie more very likely she would not have
been the innocent cause of some
laughter one evening, when some one
asked her if she had ever read Enoch
Arden. She looked wise, yawned. and
replied: "Oh, yes; but 1 don't believe
he ever went to sleep and slept for
twenty years!" One lady of the top
notch of society realms reads not,
neither does she observe, but her To-
quacious spirit cannot be surpassed.
Evidently she is easily amused, for she
made the remark that there was moth
ing she enjoyed more while on a trip
to Chicago than standing on the bal
cony at the hotel, watching the street
cars come pro and con.'-Y onkers
Statesman.
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Rowena

a-brac on the mantleI" Rowena
glowed with enthusiasm.
"And a low round table and read.
ing lamp added Dwight. delightedly.l
The voice of the ever-present jani-
tress broke in on them. 81 think
you'd like it, she observed. Its
just the place for young married cou-
pies"
Rowena gasped and retreated.
Dwight followed.
Dear he besought. you know it's
exactly as she says-it's- meant for us.
and no one else. All. Rowena, won't
you say that the light which shines
through these windows will be our
home light? Won't you say that every
night at dinner time the woman love
will be waiting here to welcome me?
Won't you say" and there was mirth
in his voice as well as tenderness.
won't you say that our fat hunting
is over?"
Rowena hesitated.
"I don't know" she began demurely.
CT hadn't meant to lease my heart so
soon, but since-since SO desirable a
tenant has applied. it seems only right
to oblige him with a permanent occup-
ancy, provided he keeps it in good re-
pair!" Copyright, 1907, by T. c. Par
cells.)
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as United States senator. Senator
Benson was not given time to make
an enviable record as senator; in fact,
he made no record at all. Had he
been gwen sufficient time he would
undoubtedly have made an enviaole
record but the "exigencies of politics.
If not the hoodoo of the Lane success
sion, decreed otherwise, just as 1t mas
in the cases of other good men VINO
have been cast aside in like manner
in this succession.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

In the many lists of the six most
popular books that are printed, why
is the pocketbook never named?
We note by glancing through recent
issues of the county seat papers that
the county commissioners are, as usual
at this time of year, either noble pat
riots rewarding merit where it is due,
er base scalawags. using the public
funds to pay political debts. the point
of view depending on how the county
printing was awarded.
Wonder why we never had a cigar
named in our honor" soliloquizes
Lots of cigars have been named that
by people to whom they have been
given to smoke.
The other day the United States
senate had to close it's doors while
Tillman talked. With Tillman and Jeff
Davis both in the senate the doors will
have to be kept locked most of the
time.
The parole OF DR.. ]. c.. Brownf1eld
from the penitentiary recalls a story:
He was sent to Lansing for giving per-
jured testimony in the Jessie Morrison
case at Ell Dorado. Now Brownf1eld
had no interest in the case whatever.
He simply "butted" into it by telling a
story about what he knew of IL, and
then went on the witness stand and
swore to it. The court decided that
Brownfield did not know what he was
talking about and sent him to the PEN
itentiary for seven years for perjury.
An old acquaintance, who did not
visited Lansing and, much surprised
to see Brownfield there, said: Hello,
Doc, how did you get in here" "Oh,
I just butted in" replied Brownafeld.
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The Kaiser,s Hurnor.

A German editor told at a dinner in
New York new story about the Ger
man emperor.
The Emperor. not long ago. he
said, was taken i'll. Two doctors were
called in. They examined the patient
decided that he had influenza, and ad-
vised that he remain abed three days
In the midst of their advice and
talk the imperial bodyguard drew UP
before the palace. Loud hurrahs
sounded from the crowd outside. and
the emperor rose and ran to the win
dow.
lone of the physicians demonstrated.
but the emperor interrupted him.
" 1t is necessary he said with a
laugh, for me to show myself at this
window, for it is stated in Baedeker
and the other guide books that I may
be seen here from the street about this
time every day Los Angeles Times
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HUMOR or THE Day

Borus Struggling author in search OF
give me the partiegiars of the biggest Job
of shoplirting that ever came under your
notice.
Captain of PoIice-we1l remember one
that happened along in the sos A fellow
put a can of dynamite under a little dry
goods store and touched 1t on. 1t cleaned
out the entire establishment.-Chicag
Tribune
tax proposition ?" simply this: Give me
the Income and 1 care not who tries to
collect the tax."-Baltimore American.
"Tompkins says that when he marries it
will be a girl whose intellectual acGonl-
foolish of him to remain a bachelor
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Hungry Hank-,'rd be obliged to. yer
ers'' Hungry Hank-"Not exactly. lady.
or 1 wouldn't be SO hungry; I amt even
got SO much as a chestnut about me-
Philadelphia Press.
A theological student supposed to be de-
ficient in Judgment was asked by pro-
Pray, Mr.. E, how would you discover
by the questions he would ask" was
the rather stunning reply.-Philadelphia
And this said the Tibetan guide. Us
OHe OL our prayer machines. HOW lB-
norantly heathenishv' exclaimed Mrs
Globe-Trotter. And do you not do your
praying by machines?" Indeed, no. We
have a preacher to do it for us."-Cleve-
land Leader.
Willie-Pa, is the Sphinx woman?
Papa-Impossible, my son. Think of the
tongue
Mamma-That's awful old, Jacob.
P Pap s my ~, dear -Four thousand
wonderful.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Groom-You don't seem to like 1t be-
cause the best man looked happy.
Bride-Of course not 1 threw him over
once.--Detroit Free Press.
Yes. Miss Roxley is mad. There was a
certain puppy with a great pedigree that
she wanted her father to buy for her, but
he wouldn't do it, What was tia
French count or German baron p
Catholic Standard and Times.
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A Word or Two.

Coal in China costs only 25 cents a
ton at the mines.
The average widower remarries at
AZ, the average widow at 81.
The firing OF a big gun causes hemor-
rhage in the ears of out of 90 SOL
diers.
There are 100 frog farmers in the
United States. The skins as well as
the legs, are marketabl
In Siam a debtor, after he has put
off payment for three months, may be
compelled to work out the debt.
The Church of st. Magnus the Mar
tyr, in London-and nine other old
English churches-have streets run
ming through them.
Stenographers should remember
that the ink on their typewriter rib
bons is often poisonous, and that, get
ting in a cut or scratch, it might do
great harm.
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Vernont's Ouarries.

Out of the massive marble hills
Vermont has been wrought by labor
and skill, part OF the nations wealth.
Some years ago, it was a common
statement that as much money has
been lost in the marble business as
had ever been made in it, but this is no
longer the case; for, although the test
ing and developing or a quarry is
heavy expense, the business is now on
stable basis. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars have been sunk in efforts to
obtain a marble quarry and the chief
expense is still labor. A quarry differs
from a gold mine in that. however
good the product may be, it merely Of
fers an opportunity to produce stone
on a paying basis, and on a relatively
small margin of profit. In some quar-
ries royalty of cents per cubic foot
is paid to the owner of the land for the
merchantable marble that is taken
away.-National Magazine