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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
A Eiaht In the Air,

w. E. Webb, the author of Buffalo
Land" tells this cat story:
The chicken hawk Of the west is II
savage and dangerous enemy, but once
one Of these air pirates got worsted. J
was sitting in front of the doctors of
fee when hawk shot down with Won
derful rapidity of wing-so fast that
It's shadow seemed hardly to reach the
earth before it's body. 1t bounced upon
the doctors favorite kitten, which lay
asleep on the grass, and made off with
1t. At an elevation of about fifty feet
puss recovered from its surprise ana
went to work for liberty. Its feline
mind was exercised to astonishneEt
and wrath Twisting like a weasel
its claws came uppermost, and to n?H
straining gaze sight presented itsel.
much like feather bed being ripPeJ
open in Midair. The amazed haW!.
received neW light ell the subject 81
prey. let 90 and made off like 4 badly
pluckoi goose. but the cat came safeI.
to earth-on lis feet,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
A Elohtina "Super."

The following little gem was one OF
the experiences Of Mr.. Benson, the
shakespearean actor:
Mr.. Benson made professional visit
TO Dublin, and the rehearsals included
the due training Of a body Of stage
assistants to represent the hurried"
" retracting supporters of Richard
"Crookback,' when that monarch sue
cumbed to the onslaught of Richmond
on the field OF Bosworth. On the night
of the first performance OF the tragedy
the army that was to fly stubbornly
refused to leave the field or to &C
knowledge being yanquished, but turn
ing upon the forces of Richmond gave
them a severe drubbing. Nothing coulG
be found to tame them to q proper
submission till one Of the rank anf
file" said:
look here, Mr.. Benson, if you want
Us to be beaten, you must put O,C"n
nor" 0he leading "bruiser" Of the
parity "in Richmonds army!--Pea1
sons Weekly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21

On one of the daily trips Of youns
Westinghouse from Schenectady to IL"
foundry at Troy his train was held III
by bad wreck. Two freghts hat
come together in a head-on collision o.:
q piece of straight track. The engl-
neers had seen the danger plainly, but
by the time the hand brakes We're
brought into play it was too late The
young man allowed these facts to sink
into his mind. Then he said to one Of
the train hands:
"If the engineers had been able TO
control their trains from the cabs, the
wreck could have been prevented,
couldn't it"
Control 'em how?"
"Brake them
eyes. They had lots Of time
That was enough. The air brake was
conceived Amid the piled up wreck
age the thing that was to make the
name of Westinghouse familiar to cv-
cry schoolboy the world over was call
ed into being. 1t did not come In its
perfected form, but the idea itself had
germinated.-Paul LatZke In Every
body's.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Imitation OF EhonY.

There are two processes. says the
Carriage Monthly. in use In the iniia
ton Of ebony. Take a fine grai.:e.
piece Of wood, use French black poi.
ish, made black with fine coloring ma;
ter. or good air drying black yarniS,
may be applied. This, however, give
only a superficial coloring, and whct1
the edges wear off the light colored
wood shows. The other method Is t.
wash three or four times any dens;
wood with a boiling concoction Of log
wood, allowing 1t to dry between eacl
application. Then wash with solu
ton Of acetate Of iron, which is made
by dissolving iron filings in vine@ai
This stain is very black and penetrate
into the wood so that ordinary wea!
and chipping will not show the origina
color
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
A Story Of WheweiI,

Sydney Smith said Of the great Or
Whewell, master Of Trinity college
that Science was his forte and Or:
niscience his foible." On one occa
sion two fellows Of the college, think
Ing to get beyond his range. read u,
the subject Of Chinese metaphysics am
then disputed about 1t in the doctor's
presence. He listened In silence for d
time and then observed. "Ah, see
you have been reading paper which
wrote for az encyclopedia Of sci
ence."
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Never Loses His Head.

Many years akN. when William J
Stillman Of New York city was re
porting a disturbance In Greece FOL
the London Times, a report was sen,
out that he had been beheaded. One
Of his friends, hearing the report, tele
graplleu to the correspondent this 1ues
sage: "Rumor here that your head has
been taken of. Is 1t true?" 1t was
not until the message had been sem
that It occurred to the sender that I!
the rurnor were true Stilman wo,l!,i
be the last man In the world to speak
about 1t. But the message reached
Stilman, and this was his reply: M !;
dear boy. newspaper man neye'
loses his head"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
BEES AS LAND PROJECTORS
Womaa5 Novel Scheme to keor
Greeks From TreSpassing.

Kecp!s@ q party Of Greek labor2H@
employed by railroad Oft OF her lana
by means Of bees was the novel i3e@
of q woman living several miles from
Jennings. - T., says the st. Loui
Post Dispatch. All other means haT
Ing failed. her husband being prevent
ed from driving the men OF with d
shotgun by the authorities. She recent
~ put her plan into execution
Taking number of hives. she placed
them at intervals along tAe fence neXt
to the railroad. When time came 70:
the laborers to quit work they immedi
ately started to climb over the fence
In so doing they disturbed the bees
which swarmed out and stung them
on all parts of the body. Hardly one
escaped without feeling the sting OF
one of the bees. The faces of many OF
the men were swollen to twice thel
natural size, and it was several days
before some of them We're able to re
turn to work. But they have not tres
passed on the land since. although the
bees have been removed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Wireless Atlantic Liners.

Sir Hugh Bell. the new president Of
the Iron and Stee! institute, in Lon
don. predicted In his inaugural ad
dress that century hence. with little
or no machinery aboard and scarcely
any crew. ships would be sped on thei,
voyages by electricity generated at Nj
agara Falls aud Transmitted wirelessl:
over the Atlantic. says a London ca
bic dispatch to the New York Sun.
This. he ADDED. sounded like strange
forecast. but it was no more incredible
than the scientific happenings since
1907. The world moved on in a sue,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Ants the Ideal Communists.

It would perhaps be pushing meta
phors to an unwarranted extreme to
speak Of dignity of labor" in connec
ton with the occupations Of ants. But
II by the phrase we mean that labor
Is the honorable lot Of all citizens. and
that all labors Of whatever sort are
upon the same level Of responsibility
then we might venture to apply the
saying even to the labors Of an an:
bill. For therein all are workers, from
the newly fedged callow to the veterar
Of a second summer.-Henry McCook
In Harper's.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
T. q. Reeds airthnIaee.

The birthplace of the late Speaker T
B. Reed, which is about to be tori
down. is in the heart Of Portland
Italian quarter and is now tenement,
swarming 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 look at the celebrated
statesman's birthplace. asked boy =
he would show him the Tom Reed
house. "Tomma Reed, Tomma Reed
You mean Tomma Reed, da milSa
man"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
WORLDS FAIR HOUSE.
How a kansas City Man Is Bui;si1s
an Odd Structure.

d
an Odd Structure.
The Worlds Fair House. the new
home which d. Is. Dyer is building on
Independence avenue, near Beaumont
Station. east Of Kansas City, Mo, is
to be finished In about year, says a
Ocean. No work on the building has
been done since Mr.. Dyer left for his
home in Augusta. Ga. last fall. At
that time the roof, the exterior of the
house and part of the porch We're fiji
ished. Mr.. Dyer Is expected to return
within few weeks, and work is to be
resumed and continued in the summer.
Altogether we have spent about
eighteen months working on the house.
said James o. Hogg, the architect.
"Some grading was done last winter,
but no work on the house is done ex>
cept when Mr.. Dyer Is here. If we
have no trouble we expect to finish In
about year"
Mr. Dyer formerly lived in Kansas
City. He is now president Of the cleo
trio light and street railway companies
in Augusta. His home at Beaumont Is
being built Of material purchased by
him and Mr. Hogg at the Chicago and
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 purchased at the Chicago and
St. Louis fairs.
Each Sunday when the weather is
pleasant many persons visit the house
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
An Epitaph

In little churchyard near Llany my
mech, Wales. is tombstone with these
tines upon it:
In crossing Ger the fatal bridge
John Morgan he was slain.
But 1t was not by mortal hand.
But by a railway train.
John Morgan was the huntsman to
the Tanatside barriers and paid the
capital penalty for taking short cut
along the Cambrian line.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
should be read carefully every person who reads the
GRAPHIC or any other newspaper.

We desire to call the attention of all our subscribers
to paragraph Of Section 1876 Postal Laws and Rngua-
tions:
"a reasonable time will be allowed publishers to
renewal of subscription but unless subscriptions
expressly renewed after the terms for which they
paid within the following periods: Daies, THREE
MONTHS, weeklies within NINE MONTHS they shall
not be counted in the legitimate list of subscribers and
copies mailed account thereof shall not be accepted for
mailing at second-class postage rate.''
The foregoing law is self explanatory It makes it
absolutely binding on the Graphic to stop every sub
scrpon to the Graphic that is past due nine months and
less renewed within reasonable time The regulations
went into effect January 1905 but owing to the fact
that previous notice had been given publishers
have been granted reasonable time to notify all such
subscribers and give them chance to renew before
stopping their paper.
Hence, we earnestly call upon every of our sub
scbers who past due to either call and settle mail
the amount to extend his subscriptions required
by the Post-ofice department.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
lnteIlioert STRENGTH.

It Is known that the largest churcn
bells may be set in motion by a max
or even boy who pulls the ropes at
tached to them at proper and regular
intervals, even when their weight OF
metal is so great that the stronges'
man could scarcely move them sensibl:
II he did not apply his strength In de
terminate periodical intervals-Heln
AoltZ
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21

you say he accused you Of being
untruthful?"
That's what happened" answered
P1ute Pete, with much Embarrassment
"And lives to tell the tale?"
"Well. you see he used long words
In such roundabout way that he was
out o town betre I had dggsred out
exactly what he Observation-Disclosures
star
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
siamsss Object 70 Walking.

The Siamese, above all nations In the
world, hate to walk. No such mode Of
progression Is tolerated BY 4 siamess
II he OF she can by any means ride. A
Venetian gondolier will walk some
times, even a Hollander will ride on
his rough cart. but Bangkok man
not II he can help 1t. His family boat
for him.-Windsor Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Not Her Full Weioht

Mlstress-Letta, Letta, you'll break
that fragile table with your full weight
on It. Letta-E haven't my full weight
on 1t: I'm standing on one foot.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Not Literal,

"Papa, this paper says a lot OF MEL
In office had their heads cut of. Did
they cut them off with an axT
mo, my boy; with sharp move :
Baltimore American.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Never Did.

Railroad Superintendent-That new
engineer doesn't use much coal. His
Assistant-I know. Ha used to be
1anitor. Eagle. "a,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21

The one who will be found In tria.
capable OF great acts Of love Is ever
the one who Is doing considere'
small onss.-F. W. Robertson.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-05-21
Attentions Ceased.

lis Willie still paying attention to
Tilile7'
mo"
''Dld he Jilt her?'
"No; he married her"-IIlustrated
Bits.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29
STEEL NETS ARE
 A GREAT SUCCESS

Washington, April 2S.-A successful demonstration of a steel net that will protect warships from torpedo assaults was held in Narragansett Bay recently. Battleships are to be equipped with the nets at once and the cruisers and other vessels as rapidly as possible The resistence of the nets to White head torpedOes was regarded as sufiie cient demonstration to their utility One of the torpedo nets was taken to the testing grounds. It was held sus pended by two launches, and the tor pedo boat Marris was used for the demonstration. Running at it's full speed, the torpedo boat fired a White head torpedo within eight hundred yards of the net at a speed of thirty knots. The torpedo struck the net, rebounded and glanced away from the steel-meshed obstruction
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29
THE LITTLE FLY : SHOULD BEW ARE

Washington, April 2S.--N0w that the fly season is approaching, the Wash ington authorities are preparing to wage war on this disease germ carry ing insect. Housewives are being in- structed to observe certain rules which are calculated to guard against typhoid and intestinal bacteria as transmitted by flies.
 It is proposed to put an end to the displaying of meats and provisions in markets and stores unless properly screened. The district commissioners, who are responsible, for the soyer- ment of Washington, have asked by the local health officers to formulate regulations to prevent the sale of meats which have been exposed to attack by flies. In the same way it is proposed to compel owners of sta- ington has many cases of typhoid bins. In past summer seasons Wash ington had many cases of typhiod fever. and it is believed that much of the sickness has been due to the car rying of diseased germs by flies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29
MUCH DEMAND
 FOR LABOR

Denver, April 2S.-As an fllustra- tion of the demand for farm labor and the good prices offered for il, there has been made public the labor scale for 1908, just issued by the Farmers Institute at Greeley, Col. Regular help by the month will be paid $50 and board Extra good men will be kept over winter at s30 and board. The rate for irrigators is fixed at 80 a month. with extra pay for Sundays and holidays.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29
SCHOOL TEACHERS
 GO ON STRIKE

Chicago, April 2S.-Two hundred teachers ill Gallatin county, Illinois, are reported to have signed a strike order to become effective next fall. They demand higher salaries and de- clare that if these are not forth com ing they will not teach.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
 should be read carefully by every person who reads the
GRAPHIC or any other newspaper.

We desire to call the attention of all our subscribers to paragraph of Section 436 Postal Laws and Rcgula tions:
 "A reasonable time will be allowed publishers to cure renewal of subscription but unless subscriptions expressly renewed after the terms for which they paid within the following periods Dailies, THREE MONTHS, weeklies within NINE MONTHS, they shall not be counted in the legitimate list of subscribers and copies mailed account thereof shall not be accepted for mailing at second-class postage ratc''
 The foregoing law is elf-explanatory It makes it absolutely binding on the Graphic to stop every sub daily that st due tbree monbs less renewed within reasonable time. The regulations went into effect January 1908 but owing to the fact that previous notice had been given publishers have been granted reasonable time to notify all such subscribers and give them chance to renew before stopping their paper.
 Hence, earnestly call upon every of our sub scrbers who past due to either call and settle mail the amount to extend his subscriptions required by the Post-offce department. .%
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29

A successful cook cooks with Success Flour. 3-15-ti
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-29

Why don't you drink Im0n Brew? It's better. S:g9 :1m
Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-05-02
Aatchez

ii u
Hattiesburg is thriving city Of ap-
proximately $4,000 population. Its
growth is one of the narvels of the
fast expanding South. due to natural
resources such as are possessed by no
other town or city in Mississippi.
Hattiesburg is the center OF the yell
low pine belt of South Mississippi. the
greatest timber belt in the world.
Four great systems of railroad radiat-
ing in seven directions, with numerous
baranch Lines, make Hattiesburg the
Wholesale and retail distributing point
of all this vast country for a distance
of more than fifty miles in all direc-
lions.
Hattiesburg has numerous manufact
uring plants and wholesale and Job
bling houses representing practically
all lines. and the merchants Of the
smaller towns within q radius Of fifty
miles can buy cheaper in Hattiesburg
than in the larger cities, deducting the
difference in freight rates.
The retail trade of Hattiesburg Is
second to that of no city in the State.
Stores are large and com,
plete. Prices are alwS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
SENATOR JoHNsToN,s PoIsE.

From the Washington Herald
Senator Johnston of Alabama is the
only senator who has eight years of serv-
ice assured him. When the late Senator
Pettus of Alabama died there were yet
two years of his term remaining, and
Mr.. Johnston was unanimously elected
by the state legislature to fill out the
unexplred term, and at the same time in
accordance with the instructions given
at the primary. was elected for a full
term of six years on his own account.
His service under the two elections will
extend to March 3, 1915
Senator Johnston is one of the calmest
men imaginable. The testimony of his
him. He takes life as 1t comes, and it
has come along very much to his liking
SO far. Starting out as a rural lawyer,
without means, he rose steadily until he
became the head of various important
undertakings in his state and finally
gift
But" said one of his friends yester-
day, The is the personihcation of eQua-
tntmity, and would be so under any cir
cumstances that I can imagine. In fact
1 don't believe he would express by word,
look, or gesture, the slightest surprise If
the capitol of the United States should
:uddenly develop legs and start on q run
up Pennsylvania avenue"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
WRONG Use of Words.

Certain words in constant use are
written incorrectly by not a few men who
make their living by the pen" remarked
a student THE word tremendous is Que
that I refer to. 1t is used often as
synonym for immense, enormous, stu
pendous and so ON Even in the edi-
torial columns of the New York Sun, a
paper noted for the purity and strength
of its English, the word tremendous is in
correctly used frequently. According to
the dictionary tremendous conveys always
the idea of terrible, dreadful, awful.
Another word l have in mind is
'betray.' Webster defines it under seven
heads and in all but the last the word has
a bad sense. 1t implies treachery. But L
sometimes see the verb used in place OF
display, reveal. Bryant, the poet, used 1t
in the latter sense, but l think it was a
slip of the pen. A good rule. 1 think. is
to go by the preponderating definitions
and not by one at the fag end. Besides,
in the case og 'betray, the etymology
clearly suggests the definition that is
commonly accepted and understood by
the average run of people,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Margin Business Under a New Name

Henry Clews, the banker, read what
the President said in his special mes
sage about transactions on margin,
and he at once decided to strike the
word margin" out of his business, and
to that end he posted at once notice
In his ONCE which reads as follows:
Hereafter customers must make orders
read; Buy 100 shares so and so stock at
100 on credit they to give 10 per cent
satisfactory security on the credit account
as usual
Mr.. Clews says the President cannot
prevent him from selling on credit.
The action of Mr.. Clews as well as the
experience gained In the agrarian leg
islation of Germany serves to show
how difficult 1t is to prevent one set
Of stock 1obbers from selling what they
do not own or another set from buying
what they do not expect to receive.
Paper cotton or wheat and ntho-
graphed liabilities have become such
common evils that some men have
ceased to regard them as evils.
Bucketing has become as chronic as
opium eating or any other known
habit, and the man or set Of men who
can devise a remedy that will wipe 1t
out Will indeed have a nimble wit. No
nation has yet succeeded in eliminat-
ing short selling and the other features
of speculation. Germany tried to do
so, but it is conceded that the laws
which the agrarians pushed through
Parliament have each and all proven
ineffective.