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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
iNSTRELS MAKING
 kFINE PROGRESS

.~,sd the direction of that charm Vocalist and musician, Miss Vie Harrel, and Professor M. D. jeil, the Temple minstrels had the | satisfactory rehearsal yet held ] night at the Bluff City Club Fine progress is being made by e who are to appear in black face the show will be produced within next few weeks. The end men Ito be Ben Franklin. Mack Ham {; Gurley Phillips, John Gillespie, gSr Solmson and James MaddlnS. 3ng the vocalists to appear are brs. Harnett, Towner, Harrls' hberg, Levey, Walker, Dot Kasior' week and others.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
BRIDGE LETTING.
Pine Bluff, Ark, April 8, 1908.

Pine Bluff, Ark, April 8, 1908. In pursuance to law I will let at the front door of the Court House .n the city of Pine Bluff, at F o'clock noon, on April IS, 1908, contract for build ing a new first-class bridge across Wabbaseka Bayou in Dudley Lake township at Coleman's Chapel. Bridge about 100 feet long. Plans and speci- fications can be seen at the County Clerks office, or at my office.
 JAMES GOULD, 4:9:St County Judge
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
American League.
PRES. CRAIGHEAD MAKES APPOINTMENTS

President Craighead of the State League has appointed his umpires who are Hemptner of Memphis, Hen ner of Newport, and Dan Crotty, vet eran ball player. we'll known in these parts. All are good men and know every angle of the game. The fol- lowing scorers have been made official by the league: Poplar Bluff, Roy Smith: Pine Bluff, J. 5. Wiley; Hel- ena Percy Butterick; Newport, Roy Anderson: Argenta, Henry ]. Miller; Hot Springs, Douglas lIotchkiss.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
lOung Ladies Club.

The Young Ladies Club of the First lethodist church have made elaborate Separation for a tea and shirt waist gar to be given at the residence of 1rs H. l. Holderness this afternoon Qd evening. Many beautiful shirt aists have been contributed, and the lair promises to be very beautiful le
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hoday at 1 o'clock 1he mal1ia-e oI Mss Lucy Hudson and Mf. Ro1eH. T4nce will be solemnized ali rhe lIud- sd residence After the ceremony tly will leaXe-for a visit 10 Nr Hnces relatives in Memphis
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
HisicaI Cotcric.

hhe Musical Cote"ie will hold iJs kular meeting this morning at the T{mple at 10 o'clock. al which time ai excellent program mjer the man a4ment of Mrs. J. |. Norris will De rhdered
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
FOR RENT BY N. T. ROBERTS x
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Two-story dwelling, 627 East Sec ond avenue, rooms, fine location for boarding house, city. water, s2o per month.
 Dwelling 625 East Third avenue, city water, rooms, s15 per month.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15
HkWtI,OrMe Book Club.

AAwthorne Book Club.
 y.se hawthorne Book Club will aeet with Mrs D. \. Kendall this aternoon at 3 o'clock al her home on lakeside
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15

No fountain is complete with drinks W ithOut ImOn'S Brew.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15

All fountains will serve IMOn Brew to you. j::y:1m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-15

A successful cook cooks With Success Flour. 3-lo-tf
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The National and American baseball leagues opened the baseball season Tuesday and tremendous croWds vii messed the opening games in fhe vaf1- ous cities. The results follow:
 National Eca2uc.
 A. Philadclphia-N New York, |; Philadelphia, I
 At Brooklyn Boston. 2; Brooklyn. !: At Cincinnati Chicago. |: tjncin natl. ;.
 American League. At New Nork-Philadelphia .; New York 1.
 Al Boston Boston, ,: Washington. At Chicago Chicago, L.; Detroit, \. Al Clevpland-S Louis. 1; CleNe- land, c.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29

a n & Aaa1
all shining In his face as he sat and
lived parts Of 1t over again with those
men that day. he dubbed with laugh.
ter continually.
The men, thought, seemed little
embarrassed by his open-handed cor
dlality and good fellowship. He him
self evidently wanted to forget the
present, and topive only in the memory
OF those wonderful ranch days-that
free, hardy, adventurous life upon the
plains. 1t all came back to him with
rush when he found himself alone
with these heroes of the rope and the
stirrup.
"How much more keen his appre.
citation was. and how much quicker his
memory than theirs! He was con.
stantly recalling to their minds incl.
Tents which they had forgotten, and
the names of horses and dogs that had
escaped them. His subsequent life, ins
stead of making dim the memory Of
his ranch days, seemed to have made
1t more vivid by contrast
When they nad gone, / said to the
President, 4 think your affection for
those men is very beautiful
How could I help it?' he said.
Still, few men In your station
could or would 60 back and renew such
friendships
Then pity them he replied. He
said afterward that his ranch life had
been the making of him. 1t had built
him up and hardened him physically,
and had opened his eyes to the wealth
OF manly character among the plains
men and cattlemen."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Narcosis bv Blue RAYS.

A dentist at Geneva, DR.. Radard,
after having for several years made
experiments with the narcotic effect
of blue light, has submitted his re-
suits to the Swiss Society of Odon-
tclogy. He claims that complete
narcosis can be obtained if the rays
of blue electric light are brought
to hear on the human eye, while all
other rays of light, particularly OF
daylight, are kept off it. The mar.
COSTS thus obtained is SO complete
that, during the same. little dental!
operations, such as pulling or filling
teeth, ETC., can be executed without
causing the patient the least amount
Of pain. While the effect of the blue
rays is a very strong one, that Of
violet-blue and green rays is less in
tensive. and yellow or red rays show
no effect at all. The inventor is as
yet unable to give definition of the
cause of this remarkable discovery
New York Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
THE NlNE-LlvED CORN.

The corn was killed in early May,
The flood had washed 1t quite away,
And later on 1t died again,
And rotted meath the constant rain.
Once more we tolled its final knell;
The seed had not been tested we'll.
Yet, later 1t began to spront,
Then died. The weeds had run it
And later yet, still thin and pale,
II perishes III a storm of hail
Then came a fierce and burning heat.
1t died that week of fired" feet.
And then the awful smut arrived
And not single stalk survived,
And soon We watched 1t, in dismay,
Dry up and shrivel quite away.
Then came the last and saddest
death;
It wilted meath the frost kings
breath.
Nine times, 1t died; and yet that fall,
We built new cribs to hold it all.
Now tell me is there any cat
With lives enough to equal that?
George Fitch, in the Country Gen.
tleman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29

= H
ance is may be gathered from GER
tain newspaper articles. which as.
sumo that the only purpose of the
forest reserves is to promote irriga-
ton.
This is really only a small part
of their purpose. Mining depends
upon them quite as much as irriga-
ton. The agricultural development of
the Willamette Valley depends upon
them, and SO does the navigation of
the Columbia as well as that of the
Mississippi River. The water. supply
OF Portland is one among many things
whose continuance is involved in the
perpetuity of the forest reserves. The
insincere portion of the anti-reserve
clamor arises from greed, that shame
less and reckless greed which would
sacrifice the future welfare of the
whole country to the immediate pro-
fit of few timber barons.
The reserve policy does not Interfere
with home making in the slightest de-
gree. 1t is the declared purpose Of
the government to open all agricul-
tural land to settlers, and the forestry
regulations permit home makers to
cut timber on the reservation for do
nestle use. 1t is also available for
miners, and the surplus is to be mark
eted in such way as to feed the
lumber without destroying the supply.
The whole aim and object of the re-
serve policy is to develop the States
by building homes. Those who as
sert the contrary are ignorantly or
wilfully blind to the facts. Their
anxiety for homes is a power for
inscriptions cupidity, which would
ruin every home in Oregon and Wash
ington If it were not checked.
Irrigation and water supply aside,
We must remember that our supply
of timber cannot last much longer
unless some of 1t is withheld from
the market. 1t looks large, but it is
actually small, and it dwindles fast.
In shipping it without restraint to
foreign markets we act like a prodi-
gal who squanders his Inheritance.
!, In a few years we must go begging
for what we now cast away with both
hands. Wisconsin, Michigan and Min.
esota have carried to the limit the
folly of forest waste, which the gov
eminent is trying to check here be-
fore 1t is forever too late. Where their
great pine forests once grew those
States have millions of acres of bar
rem land. Would they not gladly ex-
change those desolate tracts for equal
areas of reserved forests? Which
helps more the development of
State. a tract of forest or an equal
tract of uninhabitable desert?-Port
land Oregonian.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
PHoToaRApH1Na MARS.



The Andes photographs of Mars were
made with large planetary camera
which carries with 1t an simplifying
lens, says u. G. Slipher in the Century.
The camera was fastened to the lower
end of the large telescope of eighteen
inch lens and each of the many little
images shown on the plates was taken
separately. The telescope was adj
justed SO that the planet was in the
center Of the camera field; then the plate
holder WAS placed in the carrier of the
planetary camera and set in position for
the firstimage,t the slide then being drawn
from the plate holder. A bulb in the
right hand opened the shutter of the
camera, allowing the light from the
planet to fall on the sensitive plate.
Then bulb in the left hand shifted
the plate quarter of an inch for the
succeeding image and SO on through
the entire series of images taken on one
plate. Sometimes the plate was ar
ranged to shift from right to left ana
sometimes In n vertical direction.
Inasmuch as the photographs were
made at night, virtually no light except
that from Mars reached the plate, and
the latter was not incapacitated by one.
exposure from receiving other sensitive
impressions. About half an hour was
consumed In taking the sixty Images
on some of the plates and eight or ten
plates were exposed In one nights
work. In all about 10000 negative
images were taken.
AS the best seeing" occurs in
flashes" the successive images on the
same negative may differ somewhat In
wealth of finer detail; to the skilled
eye all show the larger canals with re-
markable clearness, though the more
delicate details are lost in reproduc-
ton. OF the 10000 separate images
of the planet none Is destitute of canals
and In some cases as many as twenty
five or thirty canals have been counted
In single image. Several of the pre-
yiously observed double canals show
their duality on the plates taken dur
ing the intervals Of best atmospheric
conditions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Boys, Us. of Barometer.,

Every English schoolboy who can at.
ford 1t has barometer that he keeps
hidden under his bed or in his trunk.
for In all English schools barometers
are strictly forbidden to the pupils
Why should they be forbidden? Why
should they be desired? Through the
autumn and winter the English school,
boy plays football every afternoon,
weather permitting. He must play two
hours each clear day. These two hours
are taken off his recItations. They
make his school, tasks two hours light
er; hence when he knows beforehand
that the next day will be clear he may
spare himself two hours of useless
study the night before. His barometer
pointing to fine" saves him lot Of
toll. But when the Instrument points
to Change" then the schoolboy knows
that there will be no football. He Of
ten sells weather predictions at pen.
ny Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Not Certain About That.

Mrs. yerdigris was enumerating her
various ailments. II haven't kept
track of all of EN-" she said, "but one
Of the first things had was the lum.
bago In the small of my back. Then l
had the infuenzy awful bad. The next
thing was the rheumatic. Since then
I've had neuralgy, nervous headache,
sore throat, Indigestion, breaking
out on my skin and ever so many other
pesky little troubles that can't re-
member" -
at would be- an interesting list
said her sympathizlng nelghbor. "Why
didn't you take an inventory"
"I'm not certain but what 1 did,
answered Mrs. yerdigris. 81 took ever
80 many things. I'll try 1t If you
think It'd help me, but unless It's very
mild just know 1t won't stay on my
stummick. youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
TWO Horse storiea.

An Albanian who has just returned
from the East, where freshets have
been the rule, tells the following about
horse which had been attached to
foot bridge crossing brook, to
keep the structure from going adrift.
The flood finally swept horse and
bridge down stream. Later. the bridge
was discovered lodged against the
bank, with the horse sitting quietly on
the former.
A bystander who had listened In
tently to this tale. remarked quietly:
Il see suthin' similyar oncet."
Indeed? What was it," asked the
story teller,
"Ye see." was the reply, "arter the
boss see was took down stream. no.
buddy ever 'spected to see him alive
again. But he was a, pow'ful sort o
brute, an bout hour arterward we
see him comm up stream a-pullin'
the blame ole bridge arter him!
Albany Evening Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
A LEGITIMATE APPLICATION.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Miss Estabrook's system Of philoso-
ply is SO satisfying to her that she
likes to acquaint others with 1t. Sell
dom, however, does she find SO ready
and sympathetic an acceptance of her
point of view as she encountered the
other day in an adherent of we'll
known peripatetic school of philoso-
piers. She was taking her regular
four-mile-a-day exercise along coun-
try road, when she met tramp to
whom, earlier in the day, she had
given a quarter. The benevolent lady
called after him:
Just a moment, there, my man, If
you please ~
The tramp paused doubtfully..
Il merely wished to state thiit IN
granting your request just now am
wholly free from the common delusion
that any real harm could result to
yon, even supposing that you are act
ually in want and unable, by your own
conscious effort, to extricate yourself
from apparent deprivation of good,
knowing. as do know, that an abso-
Lutte Justice, insuring the individuals
welfare, reigns throughout the cosmos .
The tramp stared, round-eyed, open
mouthed.
Nor do cherish any obsolete notion
of myself as Lady Bountiful.' MY
actual motive in giving the quarter
should properly be classed as selfish
Not having as yet quite fully overcome
foolishly sympathetic temperament,
1 should undoubtedly l had not
given the money-have been annoyed
for some time afterward by mental pic
lures of you us suffering for food. In
short, l did what did simply to make
myself slightly more comfortable.
'srhat is all. merely wished to
explain my motive" added Miss Esta-
brook; for the tramp fingered, gazing
with glistening eyes at the countenance
of his benefactress, where the lines,
with merciless accuracy, reflected her
habitual painstakingness
"Yes, ma'am, anil ketch on all right
now" he said, eagerly, In his eye
no such absent expression ms Miss Esta-
brook Is becoming accustomed to see
in the eyes Of relatives and friends to
whom she conscientiously expounds her
philosophy. can I'm interested In them
inside workin's O. your mind! But say,
ma'am, you'd sure oughter think a
little mite more about them feelin's
o. yourn. l bet you'd feel downright
comf'table al through, fer oncet in yer
life, eff you'd jest make this quarter
dollar"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Heart Protectors.

Many persons are puzzled to know
why policemen wear their badges so
low on their coasts instead of on the
flap made for that purpose. AS q
matter of fact, the badge, or star.
as he calls it, of many a policeman
is right next to his Eeart. Some of
the bluecoats can thank their stars"
for being alive. This little metal
shield has detected the bullet of
burglar or highwayman, and at times,
too. has stopped the knife thrust OF
wonld-be assassins. During the last
twenty or thirty years there are many
cases on record showing that the lit
tie badge has been a life saver. Even
bullets fired at close range, as a
rule, cannot penetrate the shield
That's why a bluecoat always feels
safer in keeping the star at vital
spot. When off duty some police
men wear their stars on their vests,
but always directly over the heart.
They are SO accustomed to the little
protector that they feel uneasy with
out it.-Philadelphia Record.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Divine clamor Appreciated.

The family were gathered in tho
library admiring a splendid thunder.
storm when the mother bethought
herself of Dorothy alone in the nur.
sery. Fearing lest her little daugh.
ter should be awakened and feel
afraid, she slipped away to reassure
her. Pausing at the door, however.
in vivid flash Of lightning which il.
lumined the whole room, she saw her
youngest olive-branch sitting straight
up in bed. Her big brown eyes were
glowing with excitement, and she
clapped her chubby hands while she
shouted encouragingly, Bang it
again, God! Bang it again" Brook
Ign Life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
THE OLD RANCH DAYS.
.~~~

j.
At point in the Dakotas, on the
trip which John Burroughs, the nat
uralist, made to Yellowstone Park with
the President, they picked up the man
who had formerly been foreman on
Mr.. Roosevelt's ranch and another
cowboy friend of the old days; and
they rode with the President In his
private car for several hours. Tile
was as happy with them as school
boy ever was in meeting old chums. "
Mr.. Burroughs declares in his recent
book, Camping and Tramplng with
Roosevelt" He beamed with delight
all over.
"The life which those men repre-
scented" continues Mr.. Burroughs, "and
of which he had himself once formed
part, meant 50 much TO him; 1t had
entered Into the very marrow of his
being. and could see the Joy Of 1t
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Except.

From time immemorial there had
been law in Apologize, County War.
wick, England, to the effect that the
Mayor had the best of everything in
town, and. for instance, one should
say he had the best coat in the place
he must add the words, Except the
Mayor"
One day stranger came to Apple
gate and had dinner there at the inn.
After paying his bill he said to the
landlord, I've had the best dinner
In the country"
The Landlord-Except the Mayor.
The Stranger Except nothing!
AS result the tourist was called
before the magistrate and fined s1o
for his breaking Of the laws Of the
place, When the man had paid his
fine he looked around him and said.
slowly, I'm the biggest fool in the
town, except the Mayor" Harpevs
Weekly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
A Good pon.

There was an Englishman who i'm
ported a famous wolfhound from Er
rope some years ago, to get rich
catching wolves for the scalp money
offered by the State of Texas-$10
each. Some genuine Texas sports
were invited to witness the first
chase. They followed many miles
through the prairie grass, but without
getting sight of either wolf or hound.
Finally they came to wooded spot,
where suffering native was chop
ping. did you see wolf and a
hound pass just now?' cried the Eng.
lishman. "Ye-e-es, sir; they j-j-jus'
passed" How was the racer" "P-u.
u-rty hot; nip an't-t-t-uck. T-t-the dog
wa-wawas a leetle ahead. '-Roches
ter Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
A PROBLEM.

Here's a problem for you,' re-
marked Jones major to Smith minor
who considered himself exceptionally
smart in answering riddles. IA dom.
key was tied to rope six feet long;
eighteen feet away there was bundle
of hay. and the donkey wanted to get
to the hay. How did he manage it?"
"Oh, I've heard that before!" re-
joined Smith minor. You want me
to say, give it up and you'll say.
so did the other donkey'!"
Not at ALI" said Jones major.
Then how did he did it?"
Just walked up to the hay and
ate it,
But you said he was tied to a rope
six feet long,"
80 he was. But, you see. the rope
wasn't tied to anything. Quite simple;
isn't it?"-Chums.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29

Disaster" is an astrological term
meaning "unfavorable star" one of the
many words that astrology has be-
queathed to the English language.
''Predominant," 'ill starred" ain the
ascendant" are other instances, not
to speak of the expression "My stars!"
Even Influence" is really astrological,
signlfying the flowing in upon human
affairs of the power of some heavenly
body. "Petrel" and 'petrol" both de-
scend from petra" rock. Petrol"
comes directly enough through "petro-
lsum," rock oil, but "petrel" through
St Peter, after whom the bird was
named because 1t appeared to walk
upon the waves.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
Dull for GEORGE Washinoton.

Some legends, especially those with
a moral die hard. A little boy had
told fb, with the carelessness Of
Imaginative childhood, and was re,
ceiving the conventional rebuke
coupled with the threat that the
conventional reward of the future
would not be his unless he told the
truth. won't there be anybody in
Heaven who has told story?' ask
ed the small boy, much interested
mo. dear" answered his teacher.
a venture. The small boy drew
long breath Of deep reflection. "How
jolly dull for George Washington!
he remarked London Chronicle.
The Princess of Wales has sent to
the Church Army of England an or
der for large number of shirts, to
be made by the wives of prisoners
who are under the care of the y
ciety, n
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-01-29
THE NINA BIRD.


There lives little Nina on the hill
of Hindustan,
The most conceited Nina of his mos
conceited clan.
cowry shell he treasures, for :.
cowry may be spent
AS money;--in the market it's a
hundreth of cent.
I'm rich!" the Nina caroled just as
loud as he could sing;
I'm higher than the Rajah!' (And a
Rajah is king!)
The Rajah was offended by this most
insulting lay;
1e ordered out his army and they
took the shell-away.
The Rajah must be hungry" sang
the Nina; don't you see?
The Rajah took my cowry. for the
Rajah envies met"
The Rajah wasn't ready for this meth
cd of attack;
He disciplined his army and they
gave the cowry back.
"rm greater" sang the. Nina, than
the mightiest Of men!
] forced the naughty Rajah to restore
my wealth again!''
The Rajah sat and pondered on his
massive golden throne;
." think" said he, my councillors.
we'll leave that bird alone.
He's rather prone to boastfulness;
his voice is void of charm:
He lacks a sense of humor, but-he
can't dosany harm"
So still the Nina magnifies his
grandeur everywhere;
1t makes him very bappy-and the
Rajah doesn't care
Arthur Guiterman in st. Nicholas.