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Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-09
IN MEMoRIAM.

Two years ago, or op the 7th day
of February 1906, the founder and
editor of this paper passed away and
today there are thousands who mourn
the loss of Charles Chiffon Moore.
His death was a serious blow to the
Blade. Many of his friends doubted if
it could survive the death of that gal
LAM captain, who had stood at its helm
through stress and storm, in fair
weather and foul, and to be candid,
while determined to do the best we
could, we had misgivings in the same
direction. Its appearance today and
its steadily increasing associations
suggests that the storm and season of
doubt has safely passed over and the
Blade will soon be out of the troubled
waters.
During the two years of our
editorship we have been constantly re-
minded of our shortcomings as COM
pared with the greatness of him who
gave the Blade its existence. 1t has
been one of the ambitions entertained
that we make the Blade a perpetual
monument to his memory. And yet,
Just as the course has been fraught
with danger and toll we can view the
future with greater complacency, we
dai, contemplate it with greater and
brighter hopes in that the experience
gained has been profitable in many
ways.
1t is with profound reverence and
a feeling of love and respect to
Charles Chiffon Moore that we pen
these few lines to his name and men,
Dry, demonstrating to those who, with
us, gave him their love, that although
he is gone he is not forgotten.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-09

god does not exist.
The Atheist simply stands in a neg
alive attitude. He regards the world
of phenomena as being sufficient unto
itself and does not see the necessity of
referring to an underlying and all
comprehensive unity. To this critical
mind nothing can possibly have an
ultimate origin or destiny. An adj
mission that any ultimate existed at
either end must necessarily imply de-
sign and the Atheist can perceive no
design. A close study of natural phe-
nomena fails to reveal any dramatic
tendency in the succession of events
and there is no reasonableness in the
universe of matter save that with
which human fancy has unwarrantbly
endowed it. And yet in all this inf
mite diversity the Atheist can perceive
order and precision, whereby like
causes will produce like events, but he
reasons that it is so because it could
not be otherwise and this immutability
is the bed Ock of modern science.
One of the insurmountable diff
culties that cOnfronts the Theist is his
inability to describe or explain his
deity and to bring within human I'M
derstanding and conception what he
means by god With the ignorant
and uneducated the god theory is
presented in legendary form wherein
the deity is accorded human attributes
and passions, and when narrowed
down to it's final analysis this is the
only idea of an intelligent deity for
all other notions presented or OBJ
tainable are too vague to have any
value so far as an honest investigation
is concerned. For this reason all at
tempts to study god, to seek god and
to find god out from the workings of
the physical universe, have met with
repeated Encouragement and at last
the idea of god completely 'ritters
away and is reduced to an emp,.v alb
straction.
We are justified, by fact, in the in
ference, that every known idea and
every conceivable theory Of god exist
ing in the mind of man today, proper
ly denominated as orthodox, have
been acquired by inheritance and not
by investigation. Persons holding
these requests look with dread and
misgivings upon any study of the
question Confront them with fact
which seems to contradict their ideas
of the god theory and they will at
once question the fact and refuse to
investigate their theory. Welded to
the old notions they quickly sound the
alarm and honest investigation is de-
neid even intellectual liberation.
These live in perpetual dread of the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
What a Mans Beard Tells.

'You can tell some of mans habits and read some of his traits of charac- ter from his beard" said the old bar. Der. "1f man spends his days at desk beside a window his hair and beard will grow faster on the side to- ward the window. Plants and boards both flourish under the influence of sunlight. Why, one of my customers found the effects of the side light so pronounced that he changed his office desk to face the window. Another in- teresting fact Is that. when a man Is up late or works long hours, he needs shave oftener than if he took the usual amount of sleep. That's because in being awake he keeps the vital proc esses of his body in greater activity than when asleep. The growth of the hair depends largely on the circulation of the blood, and the heart slows down when we sleep."-Kansas City Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
The Cause of Snorino.

This Is not for you, because you never snOre. No one ever does snore himself. It is always the otber fellow But you can read this and then tell that guilty other fellow how to break himself of his bad habit. for snoring 1s merely bad habit and as such can be overcome It is caused pli marily by improper brca thing-that k breathing through the mouth inStcal of through tie nostrils so. first of all, care should be taken during walijn. hours to breathe correctly. The habit once formed of keeping the pouh as firmly closed as possible. he will he less likely to sleep with it open Then see that your troublesome snorer has . proper pillow. He should sleep with his head as fiat as possible, for if as head Is pushed forward and the neck bent the tongue drops back agains' the soft palate and forms an obstru
 ton which makes ail the unmusics. sounds we hear when the air is forced past it.-St. James Gazette.
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4 North Atlantic curios1ey.

sa the midst of the north Atlantic there is an enormous field of floating eeaweed which kept It's place presum- ably for centuries,' said an old sea captain. Ut occupies an immense eddy about the f1fty-sixth degree of west longitude and between the twen- y-second and twentyeighth degrees of north latitude. There is great differ ence of opinion regarding the origin of this floating mass. Some believe it to be detached from rocks at considera- ble depth in the latitude where it floats. Others suppose 1t to come from the shores of the northern seas, having been detached from the rocks by the violence of the winds Some again im- agine that 1t comes from the rocky shores of Florida and Mexico, while many others agree with me in believ- ing that it has never had any other than its present place of abode. No one has ever seen it attached to rocks, nor have roots eyer been discovered belonging to It.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
The Vanishing Trick.

Into the grocers shop walked an kn ctent lady with slow and iialt'l2 tread and carrying on her arm a ias ket containing a large earthenwarc Ilut with a lid. Placing the basket on ihe counter, she made various purchases, which she put carefully in the pot, and had her bill made out.
 By the way" she said before paying this, 'do you mind keeping this pot with the purchases in it until I come back and pay for them, as have to buy other things some distance of, and 1t will be more convenient for me to leave the things here till later:'' fThis request was willingly accedcd -&&, and, lifting the pot carefully out o the basket, the old dame placed if With an effort, in corner: then plac ing her basket on her arm. left the shop. Hours went by, day ripened into evening, and evening gave way to night, but the old woman did no. return. At last the proprietor thought of examining the earthenware pot to zee if by any chance 1t had its owners address upon 1t. and great was his as ~tonishment, not unt1nged with dis may, to lind that 1t possessed no bot. 2tom.-London Answers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Tho Last Match Saved rham

The ship had lain becalmed in trop ical sea for three days. Not a breath of air stirred the mirr0rlike surface q. the sea or the limp sails that hung from the yards like drapery carved iii stone. The captain resolved to wal: no longer. He piped up all hands on deck and requested the passengers t, also come forward.
 "1 must ask all of you," he said, ''tc give me every match that you have"
 Wonderingly the passengers and crew obeyed. The captain carefully arrangto the matches in his hands as each mal, handed him his store until all hat :, been collected. Then he threw thei all overheard but one, drew ciga from his pocket and, striking the soli tary match on the mainmast, endea, ored to light it. In an instant a fuli ous gale swept over the deck, extin guished the match and filled the sa:l- and the good ship Mary Ann sp"' through the waves on her course.-- Pearsons Weekly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Tho Earliest Anchors.

The earliest anchors of which VI have any record were of wood. and gradually. through the iron anchor of one hook and the anchor Iu the shape of rake, there was evolved the an chor with the straight thick shank the two curvin. arms with fattened extremities and the long cross stock. The process of storing one of these old anchors was long and laborious one. It was hove close up to the capstan or windlaSs; a man was let down by rope to hook on q huge tackle, by which the anchor was then hoisted, still perpendicular, to stout project ing timber. Then the lower end had to be hoisted up horizontally by an other tackle and the whole made fast In the modern stockless anchor . chain is attached to 1t at the balancing point, and this is passed through 8 pulley at the head of the anchor davit When the anchor is high enough, davit and all swing round until the anchor b over the billboard. where 1t rests and is secured by ehains.-I.ondon Globe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
The Gods Bill of Fare.

An interesting exhibit in the Soutl' Kensington museuY London, illus tratas the omniyorotls nature Of ths cod's diet. Among the fish falling { prey to it's voracious maws we note the young .of the herring. dab. wllitin. and sand eel. Sl!rimps and young loh sters also form :n important item il the cod'S n"n!l. The stlangest part o; the cod's dict porll1 ps is the sea mouse whose thick covering of bristles mign be thought 10 render it unwelcome ts any stomach. Large whelks aud shells of whelks With their indwelling hern'i. crabs are also largely dcyoured. From its partiality to inolIusks, ill fact, tl!' cod may become ;n assistant to c.. shell collector. Woodward ia his "\i.a ual of the Mellnsca' remarks th:
 'some good no. iherm scashel!s have been rescued vsbroknn from the ston, ach of the ccl." London Gia'se.
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1tory Of q Clever Jaekdaw.

In small cottage in Herefordshirt there lived family who owned a yer, large but clever jackdaw which WI. noted for its very witty sayings. One day the jackdaw saw the lid of the stewpot partly of, so thinking he should like meat dinner he went ol,' and caught a frog and put it i'll ti: boiling water in the stewpot, whiy had in some pieces of beef. After til: the jackdaw went quietly back to h.: perch and waited till dinner time. A. went well till the cook began to shata the dinner out before the family.
 Every time she pulled piece O meat out of the pot the jackdaw sai;l That's not mine; that's not mine," ti4 at last the cook pulled out the frog when lie exclaimed in a very triumph ant voice. That's mine: that's mine The shock nearly made the guests fain away. but nevertheless the jackdaN got his meat dinner, while the other did without for change London All swerS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Vvitehersft ln the Nineteenth centur,

Vviteheraft ln the Nineteenth Century. Most people believe that witchcraft among civilized people ended when the "Salem witch mania" ran its course and died out in the year 1892. It did ,as far as America Is concerned, exccr: among savages, but in other countri' :: tue belief .n the superstition did ).ot de until q much later date. even if fl csn he truly said to be dead now T..
 France an old hc@"ar was tortured 1t #ileAth as fate as lS07 on the charge "i being one vhO "cumniUned With eN :. spirits" al!u in Spain q witch W.gs
 burned In .'aiS. l.. 1850 iu France x m; and his wife tar-u:n;9 q Slepn"s" :. " to death. and nothing at all va doneswith them by the criminal tt'',rr> on account of the lingering belief |; sorccry Four years later a witch w;ia
 drowned in England. and ill 1860 on, was burned in Mexico. In 1874 1S.,i 1880 and again ill 1889 witches were
 publicly burned in Russia, and ev.:
 as late as 1890 regular judicial tria a of witches were had in Prussia. Pc
 land and Austria Hungary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
it Was His Doc.

'nobf.e A&sEtd along the country rUa.. Turning a curve, it came suddenly upon a man wi;h |; gun or; his shoulder and weak, sick lookiHa old dog beside him. Tie dog Was d. rectly in the path of the motor car The chauffeur sounded his horn but the dog did not move-until be was struck. After that he did not move. The automobile stopped and one o1 the men got out and came forward He had once paid farmer S1o fo; killing a calf that belonged to anothcf farmer This time he was wary. Was that your dogT'
 Yes"
 You own him?''
 "Yes." Looks as If we'd killed him."
 Certainly looks so'
 Every valuable dogT'
 Well. not so very"
 Will B satisfy youT'
 Yea
 Well, then, here you are" He hand cd $5 bill to the man with the gun and added pleasantly, I'm sorry to have broken up your hunt"
 "I wasn't going hunting" replied the other as he pocketed tho bill. . "Not going hunting? Then what were you doing with the dog and the gun: :' Going down to the woods to shoot the dog'-Youth's Companion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
An Horticultural Surprise.

Eastern visitors to the west ar, generally prepared for any phenomena showing fin the line of agriculture stock raising and the like" says 8 Cni orado man. but once in awhile the, are taken by surprise. A New Ham! shire man who was spending his vaca ton on ranch of relative in Colora do went out one morning to inspect g large incubator in which the youns chicks were matching. In one corner o! the incubator neglected peach seci encouraged by the warmth of the at mosphere had burst, and tiny sprou several inches long was growing ou' of it.
 Suffering Caesar" exclaimed tht New Hampshire man as this caugh his eye. Do you hatch out your peach es in this country% %"-Kansas City In dependent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
An Advsrtisina Hint.

General movements toward . certain purpose on the part of disconnected re tail stores dealing in a certain line of wares are difficult to undertake Yet the trade papers of the country are lnaugurating many of them with some signs of success. The general mer. chant in a small town finds his most dangerous competition in the great mail order store; of the big cities, savs the Pittsburg Dispatch These mcr chants are now bcins urged to acquire stock in the local newspapers to in crease their home advertising and 8 prevail upon the home newspaper te refuse to advertise the mail ortler cs tablishments. In many places this ant; mail order crusade has been united with the town boosting propaganda. and the people are being urged 10 spend their money with the home stores. If this movement should con dnue to grow, 1t may have decided effect upon the destiny of the retail mercantile business.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Growinq Flowers In Winter.

A long run of dark days in winter bad for the florists. It matters !i'ei how cold the weather Is. provi'.r there is sunshine, for the heat cait ways be maintained {" thn l'tt'a' point, and with sunshine flowers " bloom Just as freely wien the t''..: mometer shows an outdoor tetEi4.f.- ture of zero as at tue frec::.9. ;"i though of course more money m'St i'' spent for coal. But when, day "1'" day, for weeks at time. clouds o>'r hang the sky, nothing will grow as t should. The carnation buds develo, slowly until they are half open a'i wait for sunshine. and if 1t does nc' come in four or five days the blooms decay. So also 1t is with callas and roses. They will open halfway. then without sunlight, will quickly spoil St Louis GlobeDemocrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
At His Word.

Many postoff1ce names are queer enough to make one desire an explana, ton of them. Sometimes the explana. ton is queerer than the name itself A minister in Cass county wrote to Washington in behalf of the residents of a growing hamlet, asking that s postoflce be added to its institutions The request was favorably received, and he was asked to suggest name that would be acceptable to his neigh. bors. He replied that they were not hard to please so long as the name was peculiar. The postoffice department took him at his word, and Peculiar Is the name of the office to this day. Kansas City Star
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Hoped He WouIdn't Grow.

Awell known member of parliamen' was Addressing an agricultural meet Ing III the south of England and in the eourge of his remarks expressed the opinion that farmers do not sufficiently vary their crops and make mistak. . always sowing wheat.
 One of the audience opposed to hln, politics asked him what crops he would recommend.
 Nverything in turn," he replied.
 Well" said his interlocutor, "it wedes don't come up, what thenS"
 "Sow mustard" said the M. P.
 And if mustard doesn't come ur hat them
 And 70 he went on through whole
 t of crops until, the M. P.'s patience
 ing exhausted, he put an end to hL'
 estloning amid roars of laughter b, ying:N
 Oh. so~ yourself. and hope yo, mt come up."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
leoend of the Moss Rose.

A German tradition gives the origin of the moss rose as follows: An angel came to earth in mortal guise. He sought place of shelter and reposs after his labors of love, but every dooi was shut against the heavenly visitor At length the angel. being very weary sank upon the ground and over him q rosebush spread like a tent. It caught upon its outspread leaves the falling dew which would otherwise have irenched the messenger of love. Walk ing, the angel said to the rose: ''rhou hast yielded the shelter that mar
 denied:
 proof of nav love shall with the abide '' And the gree.> moss gathered about the While the deworops shone like a diadem Browning .he blushing flower.
 -{Yrcle
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Customs of Brittany.

Brittany alone. of all the provinces ~f France, seems to have preserved it's types and Individuality. To be Bre'o,, ia by no means to be French. The e. men to this day chatter in the CeIt.' tongue. The Breton mother when n": at work in the fields sits in the door of her cottage plying the distaf and rec; ing the olG legends and quaint folk songs to the white coifed baby beside her. The Breton woman still wc:.r- the costume of her mothers before her and is satistied d i'll 1t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
A Curious Epitaph,

The following epitaph is copied iron, ! tomb in the vicinity of Port Royal. Jamaica: Here lieth the body of Louis Caldy Esq. native of Mont pellier. in France, which country he left on account of the revocation. He was swallowed up by the earthquake which occurred at that place in 1892. but by the great providence of God was, L., second shock, flung Into the sea. where he continued swimming un. til rescued by boat and lived forty years afterward."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Story of . Greek Saint.

A member of the Royal Geographica society gives this little story of 2 Greek saint: Our good St. Blazios gave us the phrase drunk as Blazes. for this saint was pleasantly done l( death by having his flesh torn off by wool combs, and so he became the pa tron of the English wool combers. ant Rs high feast was kept up on his da! and the people who frequented the feast were called Blazers so the sayin. grew into the English tongue and re mnins there fixed and useful.''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
The Case of Emeraeney.

While on the marcl, in India the pio- neer corporal of famous Irish regi. ment went to the Qnartermaster for . loan of camel to carry spare tent. but the Quartermaster refused, saying!
 "I have only the cart. and this spare camel alu keeping For a case of emer gency.
 The r':,".ral said. Can't you put the case q: ,l,3crgency on the cart, sir, and tet me. have the camel lY'-Red Letter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
How They Dance In Hungary.

With the exception of the Spaniarti: there Is no nation in Europe tha' dances like the Hungarians. They love 1t with love that amounts to pass".. They not only go in for 1t heart a.a. soul, but they will dance on anytllius in any sort of weather. A paddock. .s village street, q stable yard, the cart. ell floor of q waysde csarda--it is a. the same to them. Not the scorchih4 sun or the whirlng dust or the pnI'iH5- rain or the falling snow will det"i them. They all dance beautifully t"'' It seems to be in their blood.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
)danaent Reversed.

eher-I am sorry to con. phnnle Jones has been vets
 Principal-You must b. Miss Howard. Teach ti., respect you as they do m', 5ll have fewer complaints e say? Schoolteacher-H. Ire the Ekinniest old mai.r klyn Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Werkino ln SteeI Maska.

The workman wore n steel mask with glased eyeholes, a rubber suit rubber gloves and rubber boots, and he carried . pair of tongs of silvery alu minium.
 'In certain departments of the plant" said the dynamite manufac- tursr, "all our workmen are dressed like that They must be. Otherwise they would be smeared with chemicals and splashed with acids that would eat their flesh like liquid f3re."
 But the aluminium tongs"
 ''They are for lifting the gun cotton out of its nitric acid bath. Aluminium is the only metal upon which the nitric acid has no effect"
 He turned to the workman
 "Everything all right, Georger' he said.
 "So, &C.," came sepulchral answer from behind the mask of steel.-New Orleans Times Democrat
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Circumstantial Evidence.

nick Bruce was a famous Adiros. k guide. who accompanied Grove velaud on one or two of his huntin" . nthose mountains. Chick lefs Cleyeland sitting on a log on ming while he went out to drive n deer should he chance to fins
 W1fen he came back he saw hi- lngui1hed employer still sitting or log, ut with the muzzle of his ga, ting directly at the presidentiai ere, shouted Chick, quit tha,
 gastHye! Suppose that gun hac
 o6 ind you had killed yourself
 would have happened to me
 yeeverybo body knows I'm a kt
 canlE ESaturday Evening Post.
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Wasteful Ignorance.

The ordinary waste of food in an English middle class family would be sufficient wholly to maintain q French family of similar station, and the waste of food is at least largely due to the ignorance of cookery which pre- vails among the classes from which English domestic servants are derived London .aIcet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Too Heavy to Keep.

Magistrate (to prisoner)-Misera',it ,it being, not only have you robbed yoGi employer of the fruits of long years Of labor, but you have dissipated it 2' the widest eXtravagance. Prisoner That is true. but couldn't keep tltf stolen money: 1t weighed too heavily on my conscience.-LoiSirs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
A Large Order.

probrietor of a certain restau 'Iea2e 2ed' the reverse side of h. far& to a carriage manufactures prix]s advertisements thereon ther day a customer, in a grea
 raIfainto the restaurant, sat at |; ,and was handed a bill wron: D the Hurried waiter. Iii, ler hut oh his pince-nez, curl',t ,st9he with his left hand ans | a voice of thunder: "Brili-
 y, laudau, two victorias and |;
 lot any funeral cars" Tn
 AQ London Graphic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Try This.

Bill had billboard. Bill also hat | board bill! The board bill bred B. 90 that Bill sold the billboard to p*F his board bill. So after Bill sold li- billboard to pay his board bill the board bill no longer bored Bill.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-07-02
Advice They Heed.

"Yes. I'm going abroad at once. ] gotta go.''
 "Oh. you mustn't let the doctors scare you!'
 "I got this from a lawver."-Wask tngton Herald.