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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

The ST. Louis Post Dispatch gives
the following account of the arrest of
Mrs. Benia Potter, a Pine Bluff wo-
man, the details of which were relat-
ed in Saturday mornings Graphic:
Through blunder, Mrs. Benia Pot
ter of Pine Bluff, Ark, sister-in-law
of Mrs. Nellie Sanderson, 1896 Laclede
avenue, has been detained by the po-
lice in st. Louis since, 10 o'clock
Thursday morning, because she
gained entrance to her relatives
home through a transom, when she
found the house locked up.
Speaking over the long distance tel
ephone to the Post-Dispatch Friday,
from Jacksonville, Mr.. Sanderson said
Mrs. Sanderson has sister named
Potter in Pine Bluff, and that he has
no doubt she is the st. Louis prison
er.
She Has Been Ill.
Sanderson says Mrs. Benia Potter
has been i'll and asks the police to no.
tify Hamp Young, her brother, in
Lonoke, Ark, to come and get her.
Capt Mansfield of the Newstead
Avenue Police Station believes Mrs.
Potter to be the sister-in-law of Mrs.
Sanderson, and it is probable she will
be released from detention at Central
District.
boards with the Sandersons, was
aroused early Thursday by the pres
ence OF woman in the house. He was
sick and had not gone to his office.
Fucker telephoned to a drug store
next door and told Fred Hoffman, a
boy, to notify the police.
Sergt. LAWN and Officer Burton of
the Newstead Avenue Station, arrest
ed the woman, who appeared indig-
nant She was taken to the station
and held until Friday, when she was
taken to Central District Station in a
patrol wagon with several other pris-
onerS.
The prisoner told a Post-Dispatch
reporter at headquarters that she is
the widow of Mrs. Sanderson's broth
er.
Mrs. Potter says she is 81 years old
Stopped to Wash Hands.
Il came here from Pine Bluff Tues
day night she said. and stopped at
hotel that night. Wednesday morn
ing | started out to Mrs. Sanderson's
| didn't know they We're out OF town
or that my father-in-law was dead
l knew he was old and feeble. though
When / got to the house, tried the
front door and couldn't get in. Their
tried the back door. 1t wouldn'
open. so decided to climb in ovel
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
An Advertising Hint.

General movements toward q certsir
purpose on the part Of disconnected re-
tail stores dealing in certain line OF
wares are difficult to undertake. Yet
the trade papers of the country are
inaugurating many of them with some
signs Of success. The general mer
chant in small town finds his most
dangerous competition in the grca'
mail order stores of the big cities, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch These mcr
chants are now being urged to acquire
stock in the local newspapers to in,
crease their home advertising and s.
prevail upon the home newspaper te
refuse to advertise the mail order q,
adjustments. In many places this anti.
mail order crusade has been united
with the town boosting propaganda
and the people are being urged 10
spend their money with the home
stores. If this movement should coi4
dnue to grow, it may have decided
effect upon the destiny OF the retail
mercantile business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
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Permanent discomfort of
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cures Rheumatism Rheumatism, whether chronic
will vegetable remedy possessing properties
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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
W0mAn'S ARREST
WAS A BLUnDER

the transom After | got in l stopped
in the kitchen to wash my hands.
They were dirty from removing the
screen to get in.
'"The noise of the running water
was heard upstairs, and Mr.. Fucker
called down, saying, Who's there?' l
said, Mrs. Sanderson's sister-in-laW.
Who are your He said, I'm boarder.
I didn't know Mrs. Sanderson had a
sister-in-law. l said, L didn't know
my sister-in-law had boarder'
Just then the policeman came and
I let him in. He had no business to
arrest me. \ I'M not burglar
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
Where They Play Today.
.Argenta at Hot Springs.

Iron Man" Deaver, manager
twirler OF the Pine Bluff baseball
team, got his bumps yesterday and
the Helena Ponies were not even mer-
ciful The support given Beaver on
this sad occasion was about as rag
ged as anything of its kind seen here
this season. The visitors won hands
down. Mcfarland opposed Beaver
and pitched steady ball, but was
touched up lively at inopportune
times, when hits We're of little use.
Helena 5. Pine ,.
Harry Clayton, Pine Bluffs star
shortstop, was injured, but his injur-
les were not serious enough to pre-
vent him from continuing in the
game. A bated ball took a false bound
and struck him in the face, making
the blood flow for few seconds. He
returned to his position, however and
made a sensational stop of a hard
hit ball near the second bag. The
catch was the most brilliant play of
the afternoon.
To say that the locals had an off
day yesterday would be expressing it
lightly. They made error after error
and boobies and fumbles" were plen-
tiful. Even Big Liz Taylor went to
the bad, pitching a ball to first. after
fielding it, with no one there to re-
ceive it. The Helena lads simply out
batted the home boys at every stage
of the game and long drives seemed
to be their hobby. Right Fielder Huff
swatted the ball with a vengeance, Sc
curing two three baggers and Left
Fielder Benham smashed out clean
two Dagger, scoring Mcfarland in the
eighth, after his team had cinched the
game in the second inning.
One of the two scores recorded by
the locals was made by big Liz
Taylor in the seventh. as base runner
for Lewis. Big Taylor was on second
and Lewis on first. Clayton got in a
chase and Taylor went to third and
home during the excitement. The
other run was secured in the ninth.
Umpire CAMPER put Catcher Con
Harlow on the bench in the third
inning, when Harlow questioned one
of his rulings. Jolly substituted be-
hind the bat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

Arkansas State League.
At Argenta-- r
Areenta ) .
Newport ........ .........3 :
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
4 Curiors C,,i.aoh.

The f"llo'@'". =, ~ IL ,.ttpIed from
tomb III s..v rtc!IliiI of Fora Roya,.
Jamaica: Here lic,l the body Ct
Louis Gladly. ESQ, !; native of Mont.
pellier. In France. which country he
left Oil account OF tie revocation. He
was swallowed Np by the earthquake
which occurred at that place in 1900
but by tie great providence OF God
was. by second shock. flung into the
sea. where he continued swimming Nm.
til, rescued by q boat and lived forty
years afterward"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
Cotton States League.

Batteries-Meridian, Ellinor and
Fuller; Jackson, Veasey and OFT. UNI
pire. Matthews. Game called at the
end of the thirteenth inning on ac-
count of darkness.
r H e
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
CASTORlA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s sssss ss: .. lH4zz5zx

-Lost-Gold breastpin, set with
pearls. Crescent Between Seven
teenth and Olive street and the base
ball grounds or at the Forest Park
theater last night. Finder return to
this office and be rewarded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
srozI IA.
' g.; q: z; Z; :; x: '''''

E. NJ. Wilson and Miss Mayfee
Bailey. both living in this county,
were yesterday granted a marriage Ii
cense at the Office of the county clerk
here.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

VickSburg ....... .......3 J.
observation-disclosures, Frickie and
Collins; Vicksburg, Klawitter and
Krebs. Umpire, Laroque.
r H T.
Gulfport .......5 ~ y
Columbus ......... .........0 /
Batteries-Gulfport, Lively and
Krebs; Columbus, Pylant and Down.
ing. Umpire, Bammert. Game called
at the end Of the seventh inning to
allow Columbus to catch train.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

Two base hits-Benham, Begley.
Three base hits-HOff (O, McFar-
land.
Stolen bases-Lewis, Schmidt.
Sacrifice hits--Lewis, Schmidt, Jol-
ly.
Hit by pitcher--McFarland l.
Bases on balls--Off Beaver 0, Off
Mcfarland /.
Struck out--By Beaver 4, by Nc
Farland 4.
Double plays-kling to Begley.
Passed ball-Berry
Time-2:00.
ITmniro- GomOfar
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28
BASEBALL
How They Stand.

Yesterdays Results.
Pine Bluff 2, Helena 5.
Hot Springs 4, Brinkley 0.
Argenta 4, Newport 3.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-06-28

oatterles-MontSo mefy, McNahelty
and Hart; Nashville, Duggan and
|Seabaugh and Seigle. Umpire, Fitz-
simmons. Forfeited to Montgomery
8 to 0 at the end Of the seventh inn
ing on account of the dilatory tactics
of the Nashville team.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
THE STORY.

THERE was dearth in the land, es-
l pecially in that portion of the coun-
try surrounding Gilgal. Successive
crops had failed owing to little or no
rain falling, and the people were much
| distressed. In their impoverished con-
dition they were unable to make the
accustomed offerings to the school of
the prophets located at Gilgal, and as
result the students enrolled there
had but scant living. AS a result of
this, there was much disbursement
and not little murmuring, and it
seemed inevitable that the school must
| close. But in the darkest hour of the
experience the prophet Elisha had
come and had cheered and encouraged
them to hold on yet little longer, de-
claring that il the school should close
1t would be reproach upon the land,
and the religious influence which the
school eXerted would be destroyed.
1.-THE land is apostate enough al
ready without our leading it still fur
Their into forgetfulness of God
Yea, is not the present distress of
the land due to the wandering of the
people from God? And what will fol-
low il even the religious teachers and
leaders are scattered? Rather, let us
wait patiently until the Lord provide
deliverance"
Thus they had been encouraged to
wait patiently, and Elisha had re-
manned with them, sharing their
scanty fare and setting them an exam
pie of sublime faith and patience. And
SO the days had passed. But the sit
uation had grown darker and darker.
To be sure the land was beginning to
bring forth its fruits, but harvest day
was yet far ahead, and the supplies in
the school were practically exhausted.
yes" disconsolately murmured
one of the students to a fellow mem
Der one day after the last bit of -four
in the barrel had been used, .swe
have no more here to eat, and who is
there to provide for our needs? Can
it be supposed that the people who
are likewise suffering should bring to
us what they will need for them
Selves?
But the first fruits belong to the
Lord and to those who minister in the
Lords service" was the response.
True exclaimed the first speak
er, "but what seem the people 20 care
for the claims of God upon them?"
"And for that very reason let us
not by our conduct make it appear
that neither do we fear God"
"But our last meal is gone, and we
shall starye even while we wait"
Thus was there murmuring and dis
couragement throughout the school,
and it seemed as they went supperless
to bed that night that there remained
nothing fer them to do but abandon
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
VALUE OF GOODS.
snap-Hunting Often Means Loss Of
Money and Time.

Snap hunting rarely pays. Peopls
should fix in their heads the fact that
gold dollars can never be purchased
for 80 cents, unless there is 10 cents
worth of gold worn off. The same
with goods. Values must be lowered
either by over production, out of date
styles, or some other circumstances.
Now and then a concern is forced to
sell in order to meet obligations. Then
things go under the hammer, and
there may be chance to get goods
much below real values. But the mat.
ter of buying standard goods at sacri.
fetal prices through regular trade
channels should be carefully consid.
cred. When lot of goods are offered
at cut rate, at so low price that
it is apparent someone must lose by
the transaction, look out for a ''nigger
in the fence" The goods may be OF
inferior quality, and not the kind
respectable merchant would care to
offer to his patrons
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Sound Foundation Required.

There is little use in trying to build
up a great town in a locality where
there is not the material to sustain it,
and where there are only resources
for the support of hamlet. Towns
of importance exist only where there
are certain natural advantages, re-
sources that can be utilized in manu-
featuring, territory sufficiently large
to command extensive trade, or some
other favorable condition. In certain
districts manufacturing must by the
economy of things be confined to
such lines as can be advantageously
produced. In manufacturing there
are many factors. There must be con-
sidered the cost of fuel, the raw ma
terial, the labor and most important
are the transportation facilities.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Factors in Commerce.

Quite often the statement is made
that the revolutionary methods Of the
present time mean the cutting out of
the middleman. There seems, upon
only superficial examination and
study, that this may be true. But
when there is most careful analy.
sis made of conditions, it looks plain
that there can be no system that man
can devise that will take the place of
the middleman. Methods may change.
Even the character and the work OF
che middleman, the distributor, may
change, but there will always be a
place for him. He would be thing
of the past long ago if more econom-
ical means could be found for the gen.
eral distribution of products. He is
the handy man of commerce. He can
not be well relegated to the junk
heap. He is here to stay, and will
stay as long as the wheels of COM
merce and progress turn.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Investment of Surplus Cash,

It appears that any legitimate mon
ey-making proposition need not seek
to sell its stock among the people all
over the land. There is always ample
capital securable for sound enterpris-
es that will pay even five or six per
cent. on the investment. It is well to
beware of the companies that adver-
tise their stocks for sale with the
promise of a rapid advance in values,
and large dividends. If there were a
certainty of these accomplishments
it would not be necessary for the pro-
moters to go beyond the first good
banking institution in their way to
secure all the funds necessary tc
carry on the business.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
RIessina of eood Roads.

The town that has good roads lead
ing to it is blessed Surely there is
no more disagreeable thing, nor any
thing more adverse to the business
interests of place than impossible,
Doggy roads. There is little excuse
for poor roads in the well settled COM
munity. 1t may in the beginning be
somewhat expensive to put the roads
in order, but in the end it will prove
that the saving in wear and tear on
wagons and horses will well repay all
the additional expense. And to the
town good roads are almost vital. The
average farmer would rather drive
three or four miles farther to a town
over good roads than do his trading
when it is necessary to go hub deep
ing the distant houses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
WHAT FOLK CONSUME,
Business Always Regulated by the
Wants of the People.

1t is an established principle that
the consuming capacity of the people
averages just SO much year after year,
and fiuetuates according to business
and financial conditions. AS new
things are brought into use, perhaps
the per capita expense of living in
creases and becomes adjusted to
changed conditions Then it is rea-
sonable to believe that so far as the
consuming capacity of the United
States is concerned it will grow
according to the increase in popula-
ton, and the educated tastes of the
people
Whether conditions that have been
found practical and afford an equitable
compensation to all engaged in trade
are to be continued, or whether the
tradesman known as the retailer is
to be cut out of the game and the
people supplied directly through the
manufacturer and his direct represen-
tative is an important question. One
OF the systems that is far reaching in
its baneful effects is the mail-order
system. About SO per cent. of the
people of the United States live in
agricultural sections. It is from these
agricultural districts that the mail
order houses draw the trade, not from
the cities. The question is whether
1t is best for the masses that these
mammoth houses in the large cities
drive the small merchants out of bust
ness or not? Is it to the advantage
of the manufacturers and the jobbers
that the large houses continue to
grow? The existence of these houses
has nothing to do with the consuming
power of the people. Their existence
does not increase trade an iota. Why,
then, should the people patroniZe
them, and why should manufacturers
and jobbers give them support by
supplying them with goods? 1t may
be that a charge of discrimination
would be made against concerns that re-
fused to sell. The catalogue house
should not have any advantage over
the dealer in the small town, and soon
the masses would discover that there
was nothing to be gained by patroniz,
ing the distant houses.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Old Eli Pretty Young Yet.

One does not always remember that
the first Spanish settlements in South
America antedated the first English
settlements in North America by near.
ly 100 years and that when the Pill.
grims landed at Plymouth there were
already cities in South America that
could boast Of longer history than
Chicago can to-day.
When Harvard, our Oldest uniyer.
sity, was only an idea In the minds of
a few English colonists, the University
of San Marcos in PERI was. a well.
established institution already older
than Cornell is to-day. When Cornell
celebrates her hundredth anniversary
the University of San Marcos, still
aourishing, will be getting ready to
celebrate her four hundredth. When
Yale was founded this ancient uniyer.
sity of Lima was already 131 years old,
or about the same age that Columbia
is to-day.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
SERMONETTE.

God will always make the Of
fering fit the need.
Il Is the good things we pass
along, not the good things which
) we keep, which are multiplied
many fold.
) According to Gods arithmetic
) the more we give the more we
} have for ourselves.
First consecrate thy gift 20
) God and then let him direct in
} the distribution thereof. Thus
shall thy offering be multiplied
) many fold. This devout man of
) BaaI-shaIisha brought of the
! first fruits of his fields that the
man of God might be fed, and 10,
) he hath fed not only the prophet
but the hundred needy sons of
the prophets gathered there.
) It is the first fruits God can
! use, not the left overs.
Too often we make certain our
, own needs are satisfied before
) we are willing to make our Of
|, ferings to God. 1t is this
|, reversal of the Scriptural order
, which not only destroys the
, power of the gift but loses US
, the blessing. Remember Gods
, claims upon you first, and not
|, only will your offering be null
|, tipIied to the blessing of others,
, but verify that which remain
, eth unto thee shall be sufficient
, for thy needs.
"WilI a man rob God?" is
, question asked of old. And the
!, sad answer rings down the
ages: ayes, he will and does"
, But in robbing God man robs
himself. In his blind seIfishness
, he cIings to what he has and
misses the treasures God would
pour out upon him.
Listeni "Rring we all the
tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine
house, and prove me now here
with, saith the Lord of Hosts,
if will not open you the win
dcws of heaven, and pour you
out blessing, that there shall
not be room enough to receive
it,"
There was a dearth in the
land. Why? Undoubtedly be-
cause the peUle had withheld
from God, and had consumed
time and thought and substance
upon the qualification of their
own desires and Iusts. But
there was one man who with
held not from God and blessing
came to that man and his of
fering.
There is a dearth in the land
to-day in respect to the king
dom of God. Why? Because
Gods people are withholding
the first fruits from him and he
cannot send the blessing. If peo-
pie would reverse the order of
their giving, and remember
Gods claims upon them before
they sought to crafty their own
desires and needs, not only
would there be an increase in
the offerings to the Lord, but
the offerings would be multi
piled by God SO that there
would not be room to receive his
blessing.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Good Roads Movement.

The good roads movement has
taken a firm hold in the agricultural
sections of the middle west. Good
roads mean savings aggregating mill
lions of dollars yearly to the farmers,
and to the merchants Of the towns as
well. The prize-offering for sections
of road leading into towns is a stimu-
liant, and once interest is thoroughly
aroused the work demonstrates the
benefits to be hal, and there is little
trouble in having the highways kept
up to a high standard.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
power Of the Home Press.

One of the most powerful influences
of the country is the home press, the
local papers. The editor can do much
for his town II he only viii, and if
he receives the support that he merits
from the business interests of the
place where he may reside. His in
terests are the peoples interests the
peoples success his success.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
For Extending canada's Trade

A special commissioner sent over
by the British board of trade to find
means Of extending Canadas trade
with England reports, says Consul
General Bradley, of Montreal, that 122
of the leading manufacturing firms in
the United States have operating
branches in Canada, and that from
s25, 900, 900 to $4,000, 900 of American
capital is invested in Montreal alone.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Superstition Attached TO Fish

The haddock has a superstition at
tached to it. On each side of the
shoulders, near the gills, it has a
dark spot, tabled to be the impression
made by the finger and thumb Of st,
Peter when he took it up and found
the penny in its mouth to pay tributa
to Caesar with.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Real Cause for Divorce.

In seeking absolute divorce man
testifes that his wife gave him hash
for breakfast and provided the core.
spondent with cocktails ana soft shell
crabs. That's adding insult 10 Al
legged infideiity.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
For Connecting Tracka and p.v;nn

.0'S" sasIN dHIflg.
Wood blocks laid alongside rails are
preferred on asphalt-paVed streets in
Frankfort, Germany, to any other
system of connecting the street tracks
and the paving. The blocks are laid
over the whole space between the
rails and for some distance outsics
the rails.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23
Title Goes with penree.

Unmarried women who dislike the
thought of bearing the school girl title
Of Miss" to their graves will be in,
clined to envy DR.. Yella Reissig, who,
although unmarried, is legally entitled
to be addressed as Frau DR.. Reissig.
The title Of frau, it seems, goes with
the medical degree. Dr. Reissig is now
one of the operating surgeons at the
Vienna hospital.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-23

Foreigners Attending German Schools.
There were 1859 foreigners at the
German universities during the winter
semesters. constituting 8.3 per cent. OF
the total attendance.