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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-05-11

Don't miss the rare Treat, Mr..
Crawford, the Shakespeareian
Reciter at Union Baptist Church
week of May 20.
Mr.. Lincoln Nelson and wife
and son, of St Louis, are the
guests of their parents, Mr.. Chas
Nelson and family of e. Carpen-
ter street.
Rev. II. L. Smith, of Quincy,
was in the city for a day or so
this week.
South grand avenue is to be
paved from 9th st to 18th.
Mrs. Thos. Warrick. of Cairo
has arrived in the city to join her
husband and are making their
present place of residence at 225
West Washington st.
Mrs. Ed Lee is yet confined to
her bed.
A Farce Comedy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

The announcement has peeh made by the Washington war de- partment that there are 13,O0O,0oo men in the Un1led States that are available for mii1iary service and on the strength of that announce ment the Baltimore Sun has been speculatIng as to what proportion of that nmber are actually avail able as warriors. The Sun has come to the conclusion that as Un- cle Sam has become physically soft since the days of Washington only small proportion are capable or taking the field and proving them- selves useful in campaign in the event of war The Louisville Cour' ier-Journal takes a different view of it. however, for it says if there should be an occasion to prove the mettle of the American of the TWeil- tieth century chere can be no req. sonable doubt but that he wou]c measure up to the standard estab. lished by the Americans who follow ed Washington.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
LEAGUE MEN MEET
 TO FIX SCHEDULE
Ban Johnson Thinks the Coming Season Will Be the Best Rase- ball Men Have Ever
 Seen.

New York, Feb. 25.--Members of the big baseball leagues, ready for their annual spring meeting and the ratification of their. schedules for the coming campaign, began to ar rive in Kew 1orK yesterday and by nightfa11 most of the delegates were in town. The American League delegation rom the west was the first to appear.
 In the party were President Ban B. Johnson, Charley Comiskey of Chicago. Robert l.. Hedges of St.. Louis, John l.. Bruce, secretary of the national commission, and Joe Cantillon of Washington. They were quickly followed by Ben Shibe of Philadelphia. All register at the Fifth Avenue hotel. where the American League met today. Kill ford of Cleveland, Navin of Detroit and Navin of Boston reached the city early today.
 At 6ciocS the delegates went into executive session.
 President Johnson said his league had no business of import ance to transact other than the adoption of the schedule and the discussion of routine matters apper-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Having expended much thought, time and money in experimenting with the electric locomotive, the New York Central Railroad compa- ny, through it's general manager, has made known the fact that it is now fully convinced that it is the locomotive of the future. Experi- ments of different Kinds were made and all of them proved more than satisfactory. It saves money and it speeds the time of the train. Alto gether it is a novel but valuable innovation
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Our merchants are entitled to some protection, says the Smithville Times. They are. All merchants are. A mutual aid society between the people at large and the mer- chants will prove of inestimable value to every consumer where it exists Buy what you want to buy at home, whether this be from the merchant or printer Money spent at home is like bread cast upon the waters; it will return many days hence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
DA BOY FROM ROME.

Today ees com from Eetaly
 A boy ees leeve cen Rome, An he ees stop an speak weeth me
 I weesh he stay at home. He stop an say "Hello." to me,
 An wen he standin dere l smell da smell of Eetaly
 Steell steeckin cen hees hair, Dat com weeth heem across da sea
 An cen da clces he wear. Da peopla bump heem cen da street. Da noise ees scare heem too. He ees so clumsy cen da feet He don know wat to do. Dere ees so many theeng he meet Dat ees so strange, so new. He sheever an he ask eef here Eet ees so always cold. Den cen hees eye ees com tear He eeS no vera old An oh hees voice ees SOun so queer I have no heart for scold! He look up cen da sky so gray,
 But. of hees eye ees be So far away. so far away,
 An wat he see l see. Da sky eet ces no gray today
 At home cen Eetaly. He see da glada peopla sect
 Where warma shine da sky Oh, while he eesa look at eet
 He ees beegen to cry! Eef no growl an swear a beet
 So, too my frand, would l. Oh. why he stop an speak weeth me,
 Dees boy dat leeve cen Rome An com today from Eetaly!
 I weesh he stay at home! T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard and
 Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
AS TO CONGRESSMAN"

A correspondent in The Washington Herald objects to the use of the word "Congressman, maintaining that there is no authority for such word, and that it's use ought to be discon- tinued. Congress" says the corre- spondent, "is not composed of the indi- vidual senators and representatives, but of the two houses provided for, the one of which represents the people directly, and the other the states in their sovereign capacity. Nowhere in the constitution is there named such a being, created in the last few years, as Congressman Everywhere it is necessary to mention them or any of them, the constitution speaks of senators and representatives.
 Perhaps this is technically correct, replies the Herald, but it is not, for all of that, of sufficient conclusiveness to demand the abrupt dropping of the word discussed. In Webster die tionary, the word Congressman is given, and it is stated to mean "a . member of either house of congress especially the lower branch. That looks as if it might be proper to use the word Congressman without vio- lating, any of the sensible proprieties of the language. And this would stil follow, to our way of thinking, ever though the definition as set down in Webster's be so recorded as an indi- cation of popular usage.
 We do not believe that it is neees' sary to ( arry to an extreme searcl for the ultimate niceties of speech il ordinary, matter-of-fact writing ol speaking. Sloventy English is ineX. cusable, but strained and suited Eng fish is not the only alternative. Words coined at certain periods-like the word trust" for instance-have be- come, by reason of the stamp of pop ular approval, such words as may bt used in conversation and writing witl entire propriety. It may be a grave crime against the English language to split nfinitives--indeed, it is. il Boston-but it is not worth while tt split hairs in arguing the case to; far.
 In conversation. and in writing, i seems to us, an ordinarily conserva tive view of this question is the best The use of the word Congressman may not be tecbnically correct, bu since it appears in dictionaries of re pute and standing, and has been sane toned by years of popular usage, WI can see no possible objef ftion to it employment.
 This is a young healthy country with good red blood in it's veins. grows, and it's language grows with it
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
THE HOTEL CLERK.

Who is th emost envied and bedia- monded among men? The hotel clerk. Who runs away with our heiresses ? The hotel clerk Who gets the straightest tips on the stock market? The hotel clerk. Whose pride goetll not before destruction, and whose glory is never dimmed? The hotel clerk S. So runs the accepted cate- chism. Now, a truth-seeker in Chi cago rises to say that the average ho- tel clerks chance in life is trifle less than nothing. He can't marry, for he is compelled to live in the hotel, and his wages won't pay his wife's board. Even as a bachelor he finds it hard to save money. When he reaches the age limit-not a high one-he is dis plaq led by a young man. There are then three things for him. He may become night clerk in a country ho- tel job that he rose from years be- fore; he may be put in charge of a check-rOom, and look to tips for most of his pay; or he may try to get other work, using up his savings meanwhile, and end his life in the almshouse. Not a cheering conception, and practical ly useless to the humorist.-Collier's Weekly. .
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

There was organized in Washing ton some weeks ago an anti treating club, but it is believed the raise in the salary to be pald congressmen. nas had such ten dency to minimize the practice of economies in that city that the club will fall by the way-side. In fall- ing if should not be un-a-wares the gutter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Ridgway's the lately launched weekly magazine that undertook to maintain about a dozen and a half publishing places in as many differ ent cities, is dead. It didn't pay in fact, it lost it's owners about a half mi,1ion do1lars-so they have concluded to wind up it's affairs and let it die.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

The Graphic is decidedly in favor of a municipal light plant as we'll as water works. While about it, make a clean job of it. What Pine Bluff pays annually for half lighted streets and an inadequate water ser- vice would more than pay the inter- est on the investment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

The fight is still on between New Orleans and Atlanta as to which city gets 1ne poorer train service At this distance it is hard to tell which has the worst of it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Each must have room to expand with in legitimate limitations. The final court of appeal is the intelligent thought of the people. When they unite upon an opinion, the case pe- comes res judicata.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
r nAT1v cRApH1c PINE BLUFF TUEs1Az

goods house of Kastor and Bluthen- thai for some time, left today for Dallas. Texas, where he has ac- cepted lucrative position. Mr. Koppels is an expert window dress CT and popular clothing salesman and his many friends wish him success in his new field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
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Mir. Bryan has emerged from the sage bush of Nebraska long enough to announce that he has not chang ed any of his opinions. It has been said that only wise men change t,l61r opinions.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
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The average monthly coal oil bill bys<E1e side of the average electric light bill in Pine Bluff looks like 30 cents Dy the side of five-dollar note. And the Standard Oil com panv is said to be a trust.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

The New Orleans Picayune thinks the President should put his own likeness on the go1d coins of the land, now that he has announced his intention to change the designs. Why not? Everybody has designs on the coin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
s:.a ss:".andDatism has To

S..andpatism has lost much of it's savor. The country is ripe and mellow for a revision of the tariff. In fact wants the present tariff cut just about half way down.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

The Graphic now feels assured that Gov. Vardaman will be defeat ed for the Senate in Mississippi. He is said to quote poetry by the hour.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
tainine to the coming season.

taining to the coming season.
 .The outlook in the American League never was brighter" said MT. Johnson, "and I think baseball will enjoy greater boom this year than ever in the history of the game"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Since being fined S10 for insult ing a woman in New York park. Caruso, the singer, now demands that his salary be doubled.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Call us up by phone when you want any job printing done Both phones; best of work and unsur- passed facilities for neat and artistic work. ADAMS PRINTING co. .i
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
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Mir. Bryan says he still stands where ne always stood But in the meantime the procession has passed on
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
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There is considerable agitation of a Jefferson Davis centenary to be had in June of next year. It should
 be had. He was born June 5, 1908.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
I. c. s

Wanted every person in Pine Bluff who is interested in education. to call at Voss-Nichol Co.,, 3O5 Main street, and see the exhibit of the Internat- ional Correspondence Schools. Cir culars and full information can be had free for the asking.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Roger Sullivan took a prominent part in the Chicago primaries and won.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Mrs. H. King White solicits or ders for all kinds of cakes, rosettes and other pastry. Also all kinds of embroidery and fancy work. Both phones. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Telephone us your order when in need of job printing. Both 'phOnes.
 ADAMS PRINTING co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

"Now be good girl, and I'll give you this penny when l come back"
 Better give it to me now, ma. You might not come kv'-BrOwning' $ Magazine
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Itching, torturing skin eruptions, disf1gure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan's Ointment brings quick relief and lasting cures. Fifty cents at any drug store.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Female detectives should be good lockers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Many ills come from impure blood Can't have blood with faulty diges- ton, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens stomach, bowels, and liver, and puri. fies the blood.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Fight the mail order houses with their own weapons. Advertise. If it were not for advertising the mail order houses would receive no busi- ness Therefore advertise. Local merchants should do this in an ef- fective and business like manner and then there would be less cause or complaint against some people for patronizing mail order houses.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26

Sam Koppels, who has been con- nected with the gents furnishing
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-26
Daily 6rapblc.
THE OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.

Entered at Postoffice at Pine bluH' Ark, as second class mail mater.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
HINTS FOR FARMERS
SEEDING Rape.

The farmer with few head of hogs
should grow an acre or SO of rape. This
forage is especially fine for summer
pasture after clover and other grasses
have died, says the Chicago Inter
ocean
The plant requires a rich, moist seed
bed
For early pasture the seed should be
sown about the time to plant corn.
other seedlings may be made for later
crops up till the LIST of August. When
1t Is sown broadcast it requires from
four to five pounds of seed per acre. If
Bown in drills, from two to three
pounds are sufficient. 1t should be
sewn near the hog lots, so the fences
San be changed with the least possible
trouble. If it is not convenient to fence
the plat, you can cut the rape and feed
SC in the pen.
While rape does not contain great
deal of food elements, it is valuable as
q balance for the concentrated grains.
ut has been found that when fed with
grain one acre Of rape has feeding
value equivalent to 2657 pounds of
grain. One or two experiments show
that young pigs thrive better when
pastured on rape than on clover. The
hogs usually eat more of it than of clio
yer B
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
The Forbidden Letter.

The idea of this game is to try how
many sentences can be spoken without
containing a certain letter which has
been agreed upon. Supposing, for in
stance, the letter F is not to be used,
the first player might ask, rs that a
new game to you?" The second could
answer, "Oh, no; played it years ago
when quite youngster." He might
perhaps turn to a third player and say.
you remember it, don't your" And
the third player might answer, Yes,
but we used to play it differently"
This player, having used a word with
''f'' in it, must pay a forfeit and re-
main out.
The answer must be given promptly,
without hesitation, and the player who
avoids using the forbidden letter for
the longest time wins the game.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
FOR THE CHILDREN
Flower Game.

Distribute pencils and give each
guest a card with the following mum
bered questions on it and room to write
the answers. Each question must be
answered by the name of a flower or
plant. The one giving the most cor
rect answers wins the prize:
l. My first means my second on her
foot Uady's slipper.)
2. A gay. ferocious animal. Dande-
lion.)
8. Farewell to his sweetheart. For-
getmenot)
4. A church official. Elder)
5. A Roman mineral. GV-Ivy)
6. What a fortune hunter wishes to
do. (MarigoldD
Z. Time for afternoon tea. Four
o'clock
8. What father says in the morning.
Johnny
9. My first weapon, NY second
where money is made. (Spear-mint)
10. A fashionable color for evening
wear. (Heliotrope.)
II. Familiar name for a physician.
Dock)
IL. A very precise lady. Primrose.)
Is. My first in the dairy, my second
on the tea table. (Buttercup)
Il. Her pet name for him. Sweet
William)
Is. Comfort In sorrow. Heartsease.l
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Walter Scott's Rebecea.

1t may not be known to many boys
and girls that young lady of Phila-
delphia, Miss Rebecca Gratz, was the
model for Walter SCOTS character of
Rebecca in his great and ever popular
"Ivanhoe.' 1t came about through the
friendship that existed between Scott
and Washington Irving Irving knew
and admired Miss Gratz, and he talked
to Scott SO much about her and in
terms so eulogistic that Scott con-
ceived the idea of using her as proto-
type. The Gratz family is still promi-
nent in Philadelphia-Ch Chicago News.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Homemade Stump Fuller.

Make your own stump machine. Go
into the woods and pick out a sapling
of beech or ironwood or other strong
timber fifteen or twenty feet long and
seven or eight inches through at the
butt. Fasten the log to the stump with
stout chain. Sometimes you can get
good hitch around some big root.
Hitch the team to the outer end of the
lever and drive around the stump. The
twisting will take out a pretty good
sized stump and do it quite easily
Farm Journal.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Memorial Day.

Memorial day was started by the
widows, mothers and children Of the
Confederate dead and then taken up
in the north. There was no general
celebration and no settled date until in
1868 General John A. Logan, COM
mander in chief of the G. A. r., issued
an order that on May 80 of that year
every post, from east to west, should
engage in fitting ceremonies and scat
ter flowers over the graves of their
dead comrades. Later the legislatures
took up the matter, and Memorial
day is now legal holiday in most Of
the states.-C Enquirer.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Selecting a Breed of Hogs.


The we'll known swine breeder, e. j.
Forejoy of Illinois, says that the large
early maturing type OF hog is the work
of many years breeding, feeding, care
and mana cement and that the first 100
pounds of such pigs cost much less
than the next 100 and that the cost of
food in supporting them is but one
fourth as much for the first 100 pounds
as the fourth 100 cost.
The risk is also much less in grow
ing hogs that can be put on the mar
ket at the age of six to eight months
than i'll having to carry them along
well over the winter. To get this or
a heavier weight better raise two crops
of pigs a year from the sows and sell
them at light weight than one crop
carried on to a heavier weight.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
The Cheshire Hoq.

The Cheshire swine resemble the
Middle Yorkshire in form. 1t is a
medium sized breed, although there are
numerous records of pigs dressing over
400 pounds at nine months of age. 1t
Is a long bodied animal and weighs
pore than appears at first sight. The
quality of the meat IN first class, very
fine grained and, if NOT overfat, very
desirable for bacon Experiments at
the Maine station show the Cheshire
leading in gains per day as compared
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

Each guest is furnished with a leaf,
which is pinned ON as buttonhole
bouquet. If fresh leaves are not in
season, drawings of various kinds of
leaves may be substituted. No one is
to tell what kind of leaf he possesses,
but each is to write down list of the
different varieties he recognizes dec
Grating his neighbors. When these lists
are completed and collected, pin a slip
of paper containing the name of some
tree to the back Of each person pres
ent. In his effort to discover what
tree he represents each may ask any
swerable by Eyes" or NO"
Following this may be contest Of
verse making. Allow a set time-say
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
An Ena!ish Dairy Cow Ration.

An English farmers dairy ration for
q herd Of high class Jersey cows is as
is fed daily, in addition to grass, two
pounds of crushed oats, four pounds of
wheat bran, two pounds of cottonseed
cake, two pounds of bean meal, fifteen
pounds of mangels, ten pounds of cut
hay and eight pounds of long hay per
head.
The grain and cake are mixed with
the cut hay, scalded and fed in the
other feeds, one in the early morning
and the other in late afternoon. The
roots are fed after milking in the
morning, and the long hay is fed after
milking in the evening.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

ten or fifteen minutes-for each per-
son to write a poem or verse, taking
for his subject the tree he represents.
Judges are appointed to decide upon
the best poem, the lists most nearly
completed and the first one to discover
the name of the tree pinned on his
back. Prizes should be nature books,
nuts or small objects made of wood.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

water After washing it spray the
wound with weak solution of carbolic
acid and then dust over it all the fresh
air slaked lime that will adhere. This
treatment should be given every day.
No wrapping or covering is needed.
The same treatment would doubtless
be good in cases where horses get their
pasterns burned or cut with rope.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Fecundity of Swine,

Professor Rommel of the national bu-
reau of animal industry says his inves-
legations show that the sows of the
Poland China breed have increased in
fecundity during the past twenty years.
A ten year experiment shows that
while the PolandC China litters average
7.52, the Duroc-Jerseys average $685.
Farmers Advocate.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

with Yorkshires, Chester Whites, Pc
land Chinas and Berkshires. The Chesh-
ire is a good breeder, producing fair
ly large filters. The native home of
the pig is in northern New York, where
it was produced by crossbreeding of
Yorkshires and Siffolks and native
stock. It is white in color, sometimes
with black spots-Farm Progress.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

A totally color blind eye would see
only shades of gray from pure white
to pure black This is about the way a
photograph shows landscape, and the
gradations of light and shade are the
degree of surface reflection of each col
or independent of it's color waves.-St.
Louis Republic.
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Poultry Notes.

Lettuce affords quick growing and
choice green food for young chicks,
and green food is essential to their
welfare
Do not allow ducks to have access to
water only to drink until they have
passed the downy stage. Put sand
and gravel in the bottom of the drink
ing vessel
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25
Why He Had Been Absent.

Magistrate Ito prisoner)-What, you
here again! l hadn't seen you lately
and hoped you were reformed. How
is it that you have again gone back to
your old ways? Prisoner-Because l
am only just out of prison, sir.-BoD
ViYant
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

Treatment For Barbed Wire Cuts.
The following is said to have been
proved an excellent treatment for
barbed wire cuts: Wash the cut thor
oughly with CASTLE soap. using tepid
Morris tribune., 1907-05-25

at Morris, Mimi, at the close of business
on May 20. 1907.
Date of call by Supt. Nav %, 1907.
Date of report by bank, May "a, 1907.