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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
Electrifvino the Rhine.

The river Rhine is being turned to good use by the electricians who are erecting power stations along it's banks, says tEc San Francisco Chronicle. At Angst Wyhlen a big power station has been established for which the com pany erecting it will pay to the Swiss canton $13, l24 for tte concession, an annual tax of >i7254. and supply 52o0 horsepower electric energy at cost price to the canton authorities. The conces. sionares also ohligate themselves to pay S24, 125 toward the erection of a new bridge over the Rhine. The rrin
 cirle of making those who use water pay for the privilege Is well establish ed in Swit"' .,"uA. where great care is taken [" 'ye "cNt anything resembling a monol''5.,..::...;,,.. ] of a na fDv&l benefit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
JAP TARs AT LINES TOWN.
Little Warriors Critically Examine Guns and Cutlasses 6. t1e Far.

E
 Guns and Cutlasses a. tae Far.
 Five hundred Japanese s.i.'..s froi. the cruisers Tsokuha and ChitAse. nnW a part of the James town eAF.,sit.o J, naval rendezvous. recently invA..",. 1hv exposition grounds. says a Nut..l.. (Va.) special dispatch to the New lotr World. Everything that the laps cai0t across was closely scrutini%"tI. Thc. not only looked at, but handled, felt and 1smelled things.
 They were more interested in the government exhibits than anythiN else, and when they reached the army and navy exhibit of guns swords cut lasses, etc. there was a wild scramble to get, their hands on them regardless of Hands off, signs and the admoni lions of guards.
 The guards were swept off their feet as the curious little warriors made a rush for the implements of war. They made critical examination of the curve in sword or the mechanism of the modern rife.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
BEES AS LAND PROTECTORS
Woman's Novel Scheme 10 Keep
 Greeks From Trespassne.

Keeping a party ot Greek iahorc"s employed hy railroad off of her 'aa.d by means of bees was the novel idoa of woman living several miles from Jennil">. O. T., says tbe St. LoHi< Post Dispatch. All ether means hay tnc failed. her husband being prevent td from driving the men off with q shotgun hy t.e authorities, she recent. ly put her plan Into execution.
 Taking a number of hives. she placed thcm at intervals along tha fence next Go the railroad. When tipe came fer the lahorcrS to quit work they immoGi etcly stated 10 climb over tue fence In so doing they disturbed ihe heeS which SWai'N:cd out and stunc then; on all parts of the body. Hardly one escaped without feeling tEe stin. of one of the hcCs. Thc f.ccs Of many cf the men were swollen to twice tEejl natural size. and if was severa! days before some of them were alic tu rc turn to work. But ;uey have not tres passed on tIe land since. ;;l.E0u.M the bees have been reiAaNeG.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
>. DOINGS IN PARIS ~

ed an enormous revolver at his head and as if by magic dozen armed apaches surrounded the car and rob- bed the passengers who were ordered to throw up their hands
 4 man, Gurnet, who refused to do so was shot and severely wounded When the police arrived the apaches had disappeared with their booty. One was afterward caught, but it was found impossible to hold him because of lack of evidence, all the passengers having been too badly scared to rec nize any of the highwaymen
 the famous dancer La Goulue, who is now a lion tanner, is the heroine of the day after having worsted full grown lion with her bare hands when it was about to kill her twelve year old son.
 La Goulue's menagerie was on show at the gingerbread fair in Paris and the courageous woman had sent for a photographer to photograph her and boy in the lions cage. Just as they the boy and buried its teeth in his left arm and side.
 La Goulue rushed at the brute and forgetting all about her whip, beat it off with her bare hands, forcing the enraged beast back against the bars of the cage until she and her son suc- ceeded in making their escape.
 When the boys wound had been bandaged she once more entered the cage and administered and unmerciful thrashing to the lion, which thor oughly subdued slunk away and crouched in corner.
 The well known writer M Anatole France relates that he recently cate chised a number of little girls in a Paris school on French history. To his question Who Was Joan of Arc?" One twelve year old girl applied:
 Jean of Arc was born in the Rue DomYemy About that time a lot of English came over to France ana took possession of the Orleans railway station. So Joan, carrying a little banner in her hand, took the omnibus to the station and drove out the Eng fish, Unfortunately a pig who liked the English and was on their side pushed Joan into a fire of wood.
 The pig presumably is the French Bishop Cauchou who presided at the trial Of loan of Arc and sentenced her t9 ke turned.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
T. E. Reeds BirthpIace.

The birthplace of the late Speaker T B. Reed. wh-Nh is about to be torn down. Is in the heart of Portland s Italian quarter and is now tenement, swavminc with sons and daughters of sunny Italy. says the Kennebec Jour nal. How much they are impressed by the greatness of their surrounding was shown recently when visitor, desiring tc get lonk at the cole bra ted statesnan'S birthplace. asked a hoy if be would show b1m tEe Tom Reed house. "ropma Reed, Tomna Feed You mean rommE Feed. da milka UanT
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

For the Elks' convention at Uallass, Texas, July 12th to 18th, the L. K. S4 H. s. w R. R. in connection with tha, Iron Mountain and Texas & PacifS: railways will operate through sleep ing cars from Hot Springs to Dallaa on July 11th and 12th and from Dallas to Hot Springs on July 18th and 19th~ These sleepers will leave Hot Springs in the evening arriving at Dallas next morning and vice versa. Persons at Pine Bluff desiring to make the trip to Dallas can connect with these sleep CTS at Benton and anyone desiring re- servation on these cars will please communicate with Geo. w. ThornaS
 general passenger agent at Hot Springs. Join the bunch from F3c& Springs and have a good time, d1s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
BLOOD POISON TREACHER0US- S-DANGER0US

Contagious Blood Poison the treacherous of all diseases has its victims almost they realize it's because its first symptom which usually pnnle is so insignificant that does alarm even excite snon But noWlhSandng the outward begnmg S sdous pOson work blood and short lime the patients find themselves diseased from to foot
 The mouth and throat ulcerate, begins to come ont rash breaks out on the body opeoored spots even sores and ulcers appear on the esh Unless the driven from the blood affects the bones and literally life of the sufferer
 There is scarcely any limit the evil powers Conaeos Blood
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
WORLDS FAIR HOUSE.
How a Kansas City Man Is RuiIdi~s
 an OoG Structure.

How Kansas City Man Is euiai~s
 an Odd Structure.
 The Wori, Fair House. the new home which h. E. Dyer is hu.ld.He nn Indcpendenc. avouuc. near EcauIGul,t Station. cast of Kansas City. Mo.. $ to be finished In about a year. says a special dispatch to tie Chicago Inter Ocean. No work on tie building has been done si'sre Mir. Dyer left for l5s home in Augusta, Ga. last fal} NJ that time tl" roof the cxter!er of ,he house and part Of tue ro.ch were fr- ished. Mir. pycr Is cxpco ted to rctrru within a few weeks. and work is to j,e resumed ant continued m the summer.
 Altogether We have spent &toU' eighteen months working on the house. said James 0. Hoeg, tEe srch5tc [. "Some grading was done last winter. but no work on tbe house IS done uA- cept when tir. Dyer is Leve If we have no trouble we expect to finish II about year
 Mir. Dyer formerly lived in Kansas City. He is now president of the eicc- tric light and street railway companjcs in Augusta. His home at Beaumont is being built of material purchased hy him and Mir. IIogg at ,he Chicago ard St. Louis worlds fairs. He purchased the Victoria building In Chicago and the Indian Territory, Louisiana and Alabama state buildings in St. Louis. The house also Is to be furnished with material pllr,. ba Sod sf the (>hitSrO .rd St. Louis fairs
 Each Sunday when the weather is pleasant manv persons visit tht nOuee
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
V .eas Atlantic Liners

Sir N' i Fell, the new president of the lro,i :,nd Steel institute, in Lon
 don. predicted in his inaugural ad
 dress that a century hence, with little or no machinery aboard and scarcely any crew. ships would be sped on their voyages by electricity generated at Nj
 sgara Falls and transmitted wirelessly oyer the Atlantic. says London ca, hle dispatch 10 the New York Sur. This. he aufcd. sounded like strange forecast. bU, i was no more incredible than the scientific happenings since 1897. The world moved ou in a sue. cesson of dreams and their fullilment
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

sufferers took such treatment and when all outward signs pared lett o its only find that the virus had been the blood awaiting favorable opportunity break again
 goes down into the circulation and particle the poison from the blood makes this vital fluid pure healthy does not leave the slightest of the for future
 s. s. made entirely and herbs fields does not contain the least particle of mineral the delicate Of the impair the digestion uate the mebranou tissue lining of the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

The new steamer Mary c. Lucas Joseph Evins, master, leaves for Rosedale, Miss, every Wednesday evening at : p. m. Independent line.
 For further information apply on board. 6-2.6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07
DRESS MAKING.

Come where you can have first class work done, such as dress, hat making and decorating of silks. Also do repairing and give lessons on dress-making millinery and the art of painting. Phone 613; 9O5 East Sixth avenue Matte E. Gray S-25-1m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

l am glad to be able to give my experience with your med. lcine, s. s. s. My son contract ed Blood Poison, and had an ugly abscess to form on his leg and he had all the other we'll known symptoms. He tried other medicines without any benefit, and l then had him to take s. s. s. After he had talk en several bottles the improve ment was very gratifying, and so he continued its use. A thorough course of s. S. S. cleansed his blood and cured the disease. The ulcer healed nicely, and he has since been in good health.
 c. OBERCHAIN.
 Taylor. Texas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

We will reduce the price on laundering shirts with cuffs attached from 15 cents to 12 1-2 cents on and after June l, 1908. Amercan Excelsior Laundry. dtf
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

Pojson. It is often transmitted to others by a friendly handshake or from the use of the toilet articles of an infected person. And if the virus is allowed to remain in the circulation, it's blighting influence will be handed down to offspring to ruin their innocent lives.
 Contagious Blood Poison is too dangerous to trifle with. No time should be lost in ridding the blood of this insidious poison; and in no disease is it more important that the proper remedy be used. Medicines which merely check the symptoms for a time and leave the real cause smOuldering in the sys- tenn, have brought misery and des- pair to thousands Faithfully the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

If you are suffer- ing with Conta gious Blood Poison, s. s. s. will cure you, because twill purify your blood, and destroy every ves- tige of the taint. twill act as the finest of tonics to build up and strengthen your sys- tenn, assist it in over- coming the effects of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

 the disease and insure speedy perfect
 We have Home Treatment book describing different stages and of Contagious Blood Poson and containing many gesion that will be helpful in curing yourself With S. We will send this book medical advice desired write charge for either S. S. S. is for sale drug stores
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA, CA
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-06-07

Special Cable to lhe Graphic by Raoul
 de saint Rene. from the Hearst
 News Service
 Paris, June 6.-The city of Lillo has had a narrow escape from furnish ing the world with a sensation quite as Imaginable as the exploits of the famous German shoemaker, Voigt of Koepenick
 of apaches have made the town almost as unsafe as a Western American min ing camp, the police being absolutely unable to cope with the criminals. and when man named Ref, who claimed to have been holding a high position with the famous PinkertOn detective agency in New York, came forward and offered to assist the au- thorities, he was welcomed with open arms.
 Ref offered TO organize a service of Watchmen who would be guaranteed, to prevent the large number of bur glaries from which the town and it's suburbs had recently been suffering, The cost of the watchmen was to be considerably less than that of the po- lice
 The municipal council considered the offer and accepted it. They then made inquiry into the record of M. Ref and his watchmen.
 Ref was found to be an Australian, born in London and brought mp in Brussels and wanted by the police of Brussels and of other places. His of fer of a cheap night watch was the outcome of an ingenious idea for the wholesale burglary of LillO and its neighborhood.
 Ref is now in prison and has doubt less realized that too keen a sense of thing
 A propos of avaches-these modern criminals are becoming more daring in Paris every day, and the people of the suburbs have long ago given up the Idea of leaving their houses at night unless they are heavily armed.
 The other night an electric car was made the object of an attack in true Western American style
 It was running along Rue Lafayette at midnight when the mOtOrman sud- denly discovered the body of a man lying across the track. He stopped the car but had no sooner done so when the body jumped to it's feet ain
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
RECORD MONTH
FOR ROOSEVELT DAM
Mil Produced Over $4,000 Barrels Of
Portland Cement-Workmen Are
Employed Night and Day
on the Job
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ROOSEVELT. Ariz.. April 16.-Msrch
was a record month for all concerned
In the construction of the Roosevelt
dam. The cement mill, which was
built by the reclamation service and
is operated by it's engineers. produced
over 1900 barrels of portland cement,
at cost of $165 each to the govern
ment. The plant is supplying the con-
tractors who are building the Roose-
welt retaining dam and the Arizona
dam.
Spring rains are over and the ques-
tion of foods is eliminated, the waters
of the Tonto creek and the Salt river
will be diverted through the sluicing
tunnel and the work of completing the
dam across the canyon will be con-
tinued. AT present about 800 men in
three shifts of eight hours each are
employed by the contractors.
When completed the dam Will retain
the flood waters of the Salt river, max
ing lake about thirty miles long and
from two to four miles wide. 1t will
have two good sized islands, one just
opposite the dam and the other about
of the reservoir.
The towns on the lake will be Living
stone on the Salt river, or southeast
end; Roosevelt at the dam and Cline
at the Tonic creek, or northwestern
end From the dam to Mesa by the
government road is sixty miles.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
SHOWS GOOD EVIDENCE OF
AMERICAN RECKLESSNESS
CHICAGO Credit Men Hear Facts and
Figures Of Lives and Property
Lost by Accidents and
Fire
BY A ssociatsd Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 16-Chicago's an
nual fire loss of nearly $6,000,OOO. as
against $150,000 for Berlin, city OF
about equal size, and Americas toll or
256 passengers killed in railroad acci-
dents of 1906, as against lives lost
in England. were presented as evil
dence of Americas recklessness in an
address by H. J. Fuger Jr. at the
monthly dinner of the Chicago Credit
Mems association last night.
1T is possible for our people, he
said, ''to maintain a system of insur-
ance, backed by ample assets, at
vastly lower rates than prevail at
present, but not under prevailing con-
ditions. European insurance rates are
much lower than ours because fire
losses are lower. Our per capita fire
loss is twice that of Europe.
Fire losses are but one instance OF
Americas recklessness and waste. We
have destroyed our great forests. we
have almost eXterminated our game
and birds, and we have greatly ex-
hausted our coal and gas fields. We
are threatened now with a race strug-
gle on our Pacific coast. 1t would be
a struggle of industrial and moral
forces. Frugality and moderation are
the most potent weapons officials can
use against us, and the great peoples.
schooled through ages of frugality and
self control of appetite. are the real
menace of our extravagant and reck-
less waste of the people"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
SAYS GRAFT EXISTS
IN CHARITABLE FUNDS
Research Bureau Official Makes Start
ling Statements to Reform De-
partment of Chicago
Wcman's Club
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 16.-The financial
affairs of the average church and the
average charitable institution were
handled without gloves yesterday at
a meeting of the reform department
of the Chicago Woman's club.
1.-THE amount of corruption in the
handling of church funds and chari
table funds among people that you and
I know would be astounding, II 1t could
be brought TO light" said William II.
Allen, an official of the New York
bureau for research.
"If the percentage of malfeasanCe in
office-of borrowing, and the like-in
the churches, in the religious missions,
in the hospitals and similar institu-
tions, could be compared with the per-
centage in the city government of
Chicago, it would be a venturesome
man, indeed, who would say that the
city needs attention more than the
private enterprises.
perhaps a mans wife is i'll; he
asks an official TO let him use little
of that church money. Then the Of
fetal borrows a little for himself, then
he takes 1t again, and so 1t goes. The
$500 on the receipt blank and the $5
entered on the stub is far more COM
mon than the public realizes.
And yet the bigger the crook tho
more candid he is when you suggest
an investigation. If l were to invite
the six leading grafters in the United
States to this platform, they would
look you straight in the face and talk
about the beauty of government
and the Mayflower and working for
the poor, and you would wonder why
YOU ever supposed them to be dis
honest"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
JAPANESE DIPLOMAT TO
TRY TO RAISE MONEY
Baron sakatanal Will Attempt to Float
National Loans to Alleviate
Distress Caused by
War
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
VICTORIA, b. c., April 16.-Baron
Sakatanai will leave Japan shortly Tor
America and Europe TO endeavor to
float national loans to relieve the tinan-
cial situation in Japan, according TO
advices received by the steamer Teucer
today. The treasury has only $780,
600 ready money to discharge the first
installment of $5,000,000 repayment
of the war loan. The authorities cal
culate that many of the bondholders
will reWrite their bonds, and to encour-
age them to do so, per cent is offered.
About SS,O00,000 is to be found for
repayment of the installment of the
war loan and the government is also
seeking to secure loans aggregating
$50. 900. 600 in the near future for pub
lie works. including $20.000.000 for rail-
way expansion and kindred works;
S10, 10000 for improvements i'll For
Inosa; $1,000,000 for the far eastern
colonization company, pseudo-goV-
ernmental concern organized on the
lines of the British chartered company
in Rhodesia, to develop Korea; S10,-
000, 600 for Korean public works,
and $20000,000 for the Man
churian railway. The chartered COM
pany for the exploitation of Korea is
roundly condemned by Japan newspa-
pers received by the Teucer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
ROCKEFELLER GRANTS
MORE lime FOR FUND
Oil Maenate Agrees TO Wait Until
First Of Year Before Withdraw
ing Offer for Harper
Memorial
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 16.-The opportu-
nifty to raise 100000 toward the pro-
posed fund of 100000 with which to
erect the Memorial library to the late
President Harper of the University
of Chicago has been extended. The
board of trustees of the university ap-
pealed to John d. Rockefeller for an
extension of time, as Mr.. Rockefellers s
offer to give SO to every 81 secured
from other sources up to 100000 was
contingent upon this latter sum being
raised by March 81, 1908.
The extension of time to January J.,
1909, was agreeable to Mr.. Rockefeller
and he also will extend the time for the
payment of the subscriptions to Octo-
ber 1, 1909.
OF the required 100000 subscriptions
amounting to $157,000 have been re-
ceived. OF this sum the trustees, pro-
fessors, alumni and students of the
university have contributed more than
100000
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
TEUCER BREAKS RECORD
FOR FREIGHT STEAMERS
Crosses Pacific In Twelve Days and
One Hour-Offcers Discuss Chi
nese Boycott of Japanese
Goods
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
VICTORIA, b. G., April 16.-The
steamer Teucer of the Blue Funnel line
reached port this morning from the
Orient and Liverpool. She broke all
records for frcighting steamers across
the Pacific, making the run in twelve
days one hour,
The boycott arranged at Chinese
ports and Hongkong against Japan
causes immense loss to Japanese ship
ping and merchants, according to Off
GERS of the Teucer. At Hongkong there
was the most vehement feeling against
Japan. Coolies will not unload cargo
or coal. japanese vessels, and Chinese
tradesmen absolutely refuse to take
delivery of Japanese goods. Mission
aries have been sent broadcast to
preach the propaganda against Japan
ese, some being dispatched to America,
Japanese papers claim the boycott cam
not be maintained.
Captain Terumine Of the Tatsu Maru
died at Canton soon after the release
of his steamer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
JURY REACHES VERDICT
IN JUST FIVE MINUTES
But One Ballot Necessary to Decide
Ranchmen Not Guilty of Set
ting Fire to Public
Domain
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 1S.-It took
a jury in the federal district court to-
day but five minutes time and one bal
lot to decide that Charles Winters and
Charles Denny, prominent ranch men
of Yolo county, were not guilty as to all
the counts of the Indictment found
against them for setting fires on the
public domain.
Father, mother and children of the
Parks family We're the government wit
nesses, and swore they saw Denny and
Winters scratching matches and set
ting fires in a canyon near the wit
nesses cabin. 1t was claimed by the
government that a territory of S6
square miles was burned over as a re-
suit
The defense, conducted by Attorney
Bert Schlesinger and A. c. Huston, ex-
district attorney of Yolo county, was
a general denial and an attack on the
credibiity of the Parks family.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-17
AWAKENING OF CHINA
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
Prominent Men Identified with Chi
nese Affairs Tell Interstate Mems
Missionary Convention of
Improvements
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 16-That China is
undergoing an awakening much greater
in extent and more rapid in its pro-
gress than that which in Japan has
startled the world during the last gen
Grafton, was asserted by several speak
ers at the Interstate Mems Missionary
convention in the Centenary Methodist
Episcopal church yesterday.
Three of the speakers were the Rev.
w. N. Brewster of Hankow, China;
DR.. John t. Mott, head of the student
volunteer movement in America, and
Bishop ]. w. Bashford of Shanghai,
China. All agreed that I'm the last
three years there had been as great
changes in many lines in China as in
the previous decade. and that the field
for missionary effort is unequaled in
the world.
Bishop Bashford prophesied that at
the present rate OF progress the Chi
nese would soon outstrip us even in
polifical matters. The fight against
opium now being made by the Chi
rese was compared to the fight in this
country against liquor, much to the ad-
vantage of the Chinese.