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The Delta independent., 1908-08-14

demands for untried, expert
mental, alleged remedies, some
of them for evils that do not
really exist. Most of them are
visibly put in to catch a few
votes here and there of theorists
and doctrinaires, or are simply a
demagogic appeal to the dear
people. None of them was ever
meant or expected to be carried
out. The parties that make
these other platforms are totally
irresponsible; they do not expect
to succeed, and therefore they
will never be called upon to
make good their ante-election
promises.
1t is equally true that the Re-
publican platform is the only
practically progressive platform
of the whole lot. 1t promises
continuation of what are known
as the Roosevelt policies; it de-
mands a revision of the tariff; it
points to the currency commits
sion already at work which is to
give us complete and scientific
method of carrying out some i'm
portant functions of the govern
ment; it pledges itself to do
something for a revival of the
American merchant marine; and,
in general, it proposes that the
country go marching along on
very much the same paths as be-
fore, but forward, not backward.
And this is the only practically
progressive platform for the
very real reason given above-it
is the only one that was meant
for real use-the only one in
tended to be put into execution.
If one OF the other parties
should succeed in electing it's
candidate for President and a
majority of the House of Repre-
sentatives, everybody knows it
could not carry through its poll
cies, any more than Mr.. Cleve-
land could in his first term.
There would simply be a four
years. season Of unrest and un-
certainty, with everybody wait
ing to see what would happen
at the next election-ab as
bad a condition for business as
could be imagined. Any one
who wants progress in the COM
ing four years must vote the Re-
publican ticket to be at all con-
SiStent.
The Delta independent., 1908-08-14
BORROWED EDITORIALS

Mr.. Taft sets forth distinctly
the highly material differences
between the Republican party
and the Democratic party.
The cadets expelled from West
Point for hazing may yet turn
out well if they see the point
that obedience to law is good
thing.
A Southern Democratic paper
says the Republicans of the West
are antagonistic to those of the
East. When this dream ends
next fall, East and West will be
found standing together and
holding a considerable slice of
the South.
London papers are discussing
the comparative merits of Amer
lean and English orators. Has
England any master of eloouence
who can elicit a yell an hour and
a half long, at distance of sew
eral hundred miles, after he has
been licked twice?
By wireless the naval authori-
ties in London are able to COM
municate instantly with over 300
warships at sea within a dis
tance Of several hundred miles.
In ability to concentrate and
feed a fight" the British Navy
is justified in claiming power
full advantage.
At last it has come to pass
that a mugwump organ praises
without inserting a brass pin
somewhere. The New York
Evening Post says that Mr..
Taft's speech of acceptance lex
hibits frankness and common
sense and confirms the former
impressions of his sanity and
courage"
A Chinese fruit grower in Cal
ifornia keeps in his bedroom a
thermometer that rings him up
when it falls to a certain point,
and in his orchard under each
tree is covered pot filled with
crude petroleum, which he lights,
producing a smudge equal to 8
degrees of warmth. Mr.. Bur-
bank is not California's only
fruit wizard.
The Delta independent., 1908-08-14

The collections of the State
Land Board for the first seven
months of 1908 was $274, 473. 92,
showing an increase over the
same period for 1907 of $46,-
241.13.
The Delta independent., 1908-08-14
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
$500 a Year. $1.OO for Six Months.
ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES.
Fifty cents, per single column inch. per month"; Insertion,
Of one week, only IS cents per inch.
Display ads. changed every weeks without extra
charger weekly changes cents per inch additional.
Copy for change Of ads should be supplied later than
"Wednesday noon to insure appearance. .
Locals cents per line each issue; Ianaenb 10 cents
per line for FIRST issue per line each subsequent nser
ton. Headed locals 10 cents per line for the head.
The Delta independent., 1908-08-14
ANONYMOUS POLITICS

When it comes to pass that
person, persons or party, has to
resort to the effect of writing,
publishing and circulating anon
ymous literature, whose state
ments allege charges they are
afraid to back, such persons or
parties ought to have a guardian
The Delta independent., 1908-08-14

The Hitchcock conferences"
have caught on there is no
doubt about that. The whole
country is now organized as it
never was before; and these con-
ferences have brought about a
spirit of cooperation and general
interstate good will such as has
not often if ever existed in pre-
vious campaigns.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
800 REWARD, 500

The readers of this paper will b.
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science haN
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known tt
the medical fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease requires
a constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation of the disease
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials.
Address F. T. CHENEY & CO. Tole-
do, Ohio
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for eonsti-
patton. lis I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
HASKELL INDIANS
WILL MAKE TOUR

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 14.-The
redskin basketball players OF Has
kell Indian school at Lawrence,
Kan. will make a long trip, begin
ming today and ending on March 16,
during which they will play their
red brethren of Carlisle.
a lengthy card has been prepared,
as the Haskell Indians have arrang-
ed for games with the Kansas City
A. c., Bloomington, Quincy, the
University of Chicago, Wabash, De-
PAW, Indiana and Rose Polytech>
mic. Sandmsky, Tiffin, Ada and
Allegheny college, Carlisle at Pitts
burg and Louisville, st. Louis and
Missouri universities. The team be-
gan practice on December 20 UNI
der the direction of Coach Forrest
C. Allen land has given promise OF
successful play.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
At Trinity Church.

Corner Third avenue and OaA
street. Sunday service February
16, 1908, the Sunday called Sophia
gesima. or the third Sunday befors.
Lent. Sunday school $50 a. m.,
Dr.. Junius Jordan, superintendent.
Owing to the absence of the rector.
Reverend Walter Davenport Buck
ner, LII. D., the services will b.
conducted by Reverend George Cor,
don Smeade, LII. d., rector OF
Christ church, Little Rock. Litan2
and holy communion at II q. m.
A cordial invitation is extended to
the public to worship with US.
There will be no night service.
Gilbert Lee, Alien McCabe and \.
p. Hawkins of Little Rock, /. b,
Beard Of Memphis and Claud SnideT
Of Louisville, KY. prominent IN
surance adjusters, were in Pine
Bluff yesterday calling on their 20
cal agents.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
AT CHURCHES.
st. ,Joseph's Catholic Church

Masses: Sundays-7:30 and 1890
a. m. Week Days-6:30 and a. m :.
Sunday School-2:30 p. m.
Sunday Night Services--Devotions,
sermon and benedictiOn, 7:30.
Baptisms-3:3 p. M. on Sunday
Societies = Knights of Columbus:
FIRST and third Mondays, West Second
venue. Promoters of League Of
Sacred Heart, pastors house on last
Wednesday of each month, $3.50 p. m.
Ladies' Altar Society. on second Sun
day of each month, in chapel of st.
Anthony after second mass. st. Jo-
seph's Cemetery Association, on fourth
Sunday of each month in st. An
thongs Chapel after second mass.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
OF THE
SABRE TO MEET

New York, Fen. 14.-Colambja
university's fencing team will go to
West Point tomorrow, where the
knights of the sabre at the military
school Will be met and-the Column
bia sWordsmen beleve-conquered.
One of the Columbiara, f. ]. Byrne,
has held the third national sabre
championship for The last two years.
Next Friday TIE Columbia fencers
viii meet Pennsylvania at Philadel-
phia, and on the following day will
cross swords with the Naval acad-
envy at Annapolis. The intercolle
giate fencing tournament, in which
Columbia, Yale, Pennsylvania,
Princeton, West Point and Annapc-
lis will compete, will be held in
New York Mardh q and %.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
20 Fl x -.
n..+,, =, The Kind YOU Have Always Sought
s's. ss ZH42XztzMl
HEADQUARTERS NOW
IN LITTLE ROCK

Notice of removal was filed with
the secretary of state yesterday by
the Henry Marx Company of this
city. The company has decided to
make Little Rock its headquarters
in the future. Henry Marx is pres
ident of the concern, with Ben kauf-
man, secretary. The firm recently
established branch house in 1t
tie Rock. The Pine Bluff store VII
remain here as before.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
CO|V0h~ Oh6tO
Interested Members of Ma
tional Body Want to Be
Dismissed Before Repub-
,lican Convention Meets.
HAVE FISH TO FRY
Selection Is An observation-disclosures
Pending Before the Congressional
BOdy-SOme Statistics ON Past SEES.
sions-May Adjourn BY June !.
HAVE FISH TO FRY
Special to the Graphic.

Special to the Graphic.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 14.---Already
the time of the adjournment OF the
present session Of Congress is being
discussed. The utmost limit OF the
session thus far fixed is the 1st OF
June, because it is realized on all
hands that Congress ought to con-
clude it's session before the assemb-
ling of the Republican National Con-
vention.
Particularly interested in that con
yention are at least one cabinet Of
dicer, the vice-president Of the United
States, the speaker of the House OF
Representatives and three senators.
All of them are candidates. In addi-
ton, every man in the House on the
Republican side of the chamber is on
tip-toe, because each one OF them has
a campaign of his own to look alter
and a good many of them have con-
tests for the nomination in their dis
tricts.
On the whole, therefore, it appears
that an early adjournment not only is
likely. but will be forced by politi-
cal conditions. The candidates and
their friends desire them to catch
their breath after the session has
been concluded before they go to Chi
cago to attend the convention. The
indications now are that the nomi-
nation will not be run away with by
any candidate, so there will be plenty
of work for all to do when Chicago
is reached.
In 1896, the Congress did not adj
iourn until the session of the conven-
ton at st. Louis were to begeln and
some of the faithful members did not
reach st. Louis until the convention
actually was in session. But the sit
uation then was entirely different from
what it is likely to be at the ap-
proaching convention. Then Mckin-
1ey's nomination was assured Moth
ing but national calamity could
have prevented it. This year there
is likely to be the liveliest contest
that has occurred in q political con-
vention in quarter of a century.
Everybody interested will want to be
on the ground early.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
ADJUSTMENTS.
LION AND THE MOUSE.

Much Of the comedy in "The hon
the Mouse" which Henry 3. Har-
ris will offer in this city soon, is
furnished by the Hon. Fitzroy Bag
ley, the private secretary to Ready
Money Ryder" Bagley has secured
his position chiefly because of his
knowledge of the social code, and
one speech where he delivers with
evident pride is that he spent foHr
years as third groom to the bed
chamber of the second son OF Eng
lands Queen At the Elks theatre
Friday, Feb. 81.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
Minstrels Next Tuesday.

George Primrose and his merry
Ministries will be seen at the Elks'
theatre Tuesday, February 18th for
enc night only, presenting bur
Icsque on our national game OF
baseball and is said to be one of the
biggest hits seen in years. Besides
this there will be several other nov
el features which will be the most
novel ever seen with an organiza-
ton Of this kind.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15

medal, as the Russians bestoW num-
erOuS trinkets on the professional
reinsmen that compete on their
tracks.
Finally, there is {; handicap for
horses bred outside of Russia, which
virtually means America, from
where most of the fast trotters over
there have been obtained. Native
get the best of it in the interna-
tional race, and even those who are
only partly bred from foreign strains
must concede two seaO1:l; - The
home product.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15

Rev. Scarborough, the evangelist,
will preach both morning and night.
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock there
will be a great mass meeting Tor
men. women and children. All are
cordially invited. The revival has
been greatly blessed of God and we
are praying for the closing days 20
be the greatest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
Ohio Street Baptist Church.

Sunday school at $50. Preach
ing by Pastor J. S. Rogers. Morn
ing subject, Our Church Coven-
ant" At night there is to be a great
Fellowship Meeting.' Every mem
Der of the church, old and new, is
urged to be present by all means.
You can't afford to miss it. The
B. Y. P. u. meeting at $50.
Baptizing at night also. You and
your friends are invited. The church
has definitely decided to have an
other meeting in April with DR.. w.
II. Sledge to preach.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
BIG TROTTING
EVENTS IN RUSSIA
Several Thoroughbred American
TrOtters Have Been Ente3ed--
$1,000 Purse Has Been Offcrci.
Much of Which Was Subscribed
by the Emperor.

st. Petersburg, Feb. I4.-First
entries closed today for the Inter
national Prize, first trotting event
to be arranged in Europe that is
open to the world. Several Ald::r;-
can-bred horses have been entered
and more are expected before the
final entry day, July IA. The purse
offered has total value Of $4,000
roubles, or about $4,000. A Goa
siderable portion OF this sum w.ss
subscribed by the emperor.
The contest is to take place q,
at st. Petersburg some time in Feb
ruary, 1909, under the management
Of the Imperial Society for the pre-
motion OF erotting in the land OF
the Gear. Very complicated conois
tions govern the event, and thera
are IN all ten divisions of the money.
There an age limit, and all horses
must have been foaled prior to 1905
SldlllOHS IcGlCO DCIOl 1000. StAtii 80
prior to 1898, and all geidlinas ara
barred.
There is sliding scale Of entrance
fees, the lishtest being for those
made up to today, which is SO rcu-
bles and 305 roubles the day be-
fore the race. Any entries made
after today up to July A costs goo
roubles then and the additional
305 the day prior to the contest.
| If any owner comes after that he
has until three days before the
| event, when it costs 5000 roublas
| to enter and the additional 305 two
| days later.
The terms OF the contest viii
hardly appeal to those who like a
sure enough battle between fas.
| horses. The distance is one and q
| half verts equal TO one mile. 11ach
trotter goes two trials alone over
! the course, in which the time is re-
corded and the prize is awarded a.
eording To the fastest mile covered
The hest time will secure first mon
ey. which is 1900 roubes, ana
there ere awards of 500 roub!es
each to the breeder and owner ii
the successful horse.
For the second fastest mile the
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
Revival Still Going Or.

The revival at the First Baptist
church has gone on through raia
and clouds. Souls are being saFat.
each day. There will be services
today and tonight, also tomorrow
with three services, Rev. Scar
borough will have to leave Tuesday
so you should hear him today and
tomorrow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
Lutheran Church.

The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity
church. East Sixth avenue, corner OF
Florida street, will hold German
services at 1915 q. m, English SER
vices at 7:30 p IN. and sunday
school at $50 a. m. All are invited
to attend.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15

the pastor, Reverend r. A. McCIin
took. Sunday school at 8: As a. M,
J. r. Jones, superintendent. The
Woman's Home Mission Society
will meet Monday afternoon at
go
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
HER, THIRD TRIP
OF THE CHESAPEAKE

Washington, Feb. 14.-The -
mored cruiser North Carolina viii
undertake her third trial trip off
the Chesapeake Capas tomorrow
The builders have made many
changes in her valve Adjustments,
which they believe will assure q sue
cessful outcome of the trial
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
WOOD FOR SALE.

All kinds Of wood for sale. Promp
deliveries. Old phone 1920. E. I. Al
bright, Twenty-Second and Main.
Him
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
Carr Memorial Church.

Services Sunday at First ward
school building at II a. m. held by
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-02-15
PINE BLUFF IRON WORKS,
General Founders and MachiniSts.

Brass and Iron Castings and Ma
chine Repairing. Stock Of all stand
ard goods and castings carried il
stock al the time. Locomotives, En-
pines and Boilers Repaired. Long
distance telephones, day, z76; night,
SO Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Note:
We operate our machine shop roth
day AMI night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
TRIBUTE AT CAPITOL
WAsHINGToN'S FAREWELL AD-
DRESS READ TO THE SENATE.

In the presence OF many senators on
both sides of the chamber and q large
gathering in the galleries, Senator Porter
J. McCumber of North Dakota today read
the farewell address of Washington. I'm
mediately after the Senate had been
called to order and the chaplain. Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, had opened the
proceedings with prayer, Vice President
Fairbanks invited Mr.. McCumber to the
reading desk. In clear and we'll enunciat-
ed tones the senator from North Dakota
read the famous address, receiving close
attention, both from senators and visi-
tors.
The House took no formal notice of
Washington's birthday anniversary, out
1t formed the subject of Chaplain Cou-
denis prayer. He said:
1--WE lift up our hearts in gratitude to
Thee, our Father in Heaven. for this
day, an anniversary which marks an
is not only dear to the heart OF the
American, but to the liberty-loving.
wherever he may be: for who does not
know and revere our Washington, ours
once, now the heritage of the world.
Lie the solitary mountain which lifts
its head sublimely above the clouds and
looks serenely down upon the world. so
he stands solitary and alone. supremacy
great and glorious. spotless in character,
clear in judgment. pure In motive. UNI
swerving in integrty-a patriot. soldier,
statesman a Christian. Through his
achievements he builded for himself a
monument more grand than the mind of
man has yet conceived. We thank Thee
for what he did, yet more for what he
was, and we pray that he may ever he
an inspiration to the patriot the warrior.
the statesman, the Christian citizen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
NEW YORK BANK oLEARANcEs

NEW YORK, February 22.-The state
ment of clearing house banks for the
week. ISSUED at the close OF business yes
terday afternoon, shows that the banks
hold $50, 48e, $50 more than the require.
ments OF. the q per cent reserve rule.
This is an increase Of &l,61e.S25 in the
proportionate cash reserve as compared
with last week. The statement follows:
Loans. s1.14s,969 TOO; increase. $s,7n,-
5OO
Deposits, $1.146,291 400; increase, 3d.
Circulation. sss 1s7, 100: decrease. 1885,.
800.
Legal tenders, $50 ,eee. 600; Increase.
Specie. $2ss $40, 500; increase, $4,s5o, go.
Reserve, $319,O 100; increase, $5.113,-
9OO
Reserve required. $2se,572.s5o; increase.
s., 495 575.
Surplus, $a2.4es.55o: increase. $1,els.-
49,.
Ex-United States deposits, $47,3oo, SIS;
increase. $1,578.775.
The percentage of actual reserve Of the
clearing house banks at the close of bust
ness today was 27.SS.
The statement OF banks and trust COM
panies Of Greater New York not men,
bers of the clearing house shows that
these institutions have aggregated de-
posts Of $739.547 100; total cash on hand,
81 $4,000 and loans amounting to $780,
D31 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
Gets Sentence Of Year in Jail.

George w. Pinckney, colored. was sent
to jail for one year today by Judge Kim
ball of the Police Court following convic-
tions under two charges of petit larceny
and carrying concealed weapons. d.
Preater, q n1achinist on 7th street, testi-
fed that Pinckney came to his establish
ment night before last, jerked chewing
gum machine from its fastenings and ran
with it into an alley, helping himself to
the contents.
Later the accused man was arrested
upon the larceny charge by Policeman
PIERCE of the second precinct, and upon
being searched at the station house an
ugly shoemakers' knife with q long blade
was found In his possession. Investigation
showed that Pinckney threatened num-
Der of people and brandished the knife in
their faces. An additional charge of car
ry1ng concealed weapons was lodged
against him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-22
Liverpool Cotton Prices.

LIVERPOOL. February 22.-Cotton-
Closing: Spot quiet: prices 1 point high
err: American middling fair. GIT; good
middling. 6.41: middling. els; low mid
ding, 5s1: good ordinary. $50; ordinary,
4.s9. The sales of the day were 1900
bales. of which 500 were for speculation
and export and included 1880 American.
Receipts. 10000 bales. including 1890
American.
Futures opened steady and closed quiet:
American middling g.o.c. closing prices,
5.72h: March and April SIS: April and
May, a72; May and June. 5.721t: June and
July. go: July ana August. 5.66; August
and September. 5.58: September and Oc-
tober. 54S: October and November, 1904
November and December. 5.3S.