Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-11

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the poorer classes knew very lf,la l about the western continent. When l was boy vas one morning at t.le Hotel des lnyalides. in Paris. with l.y father He was spe0I.ing in French 1 with pensioner. Presently my father burst into q laugh. asked him what he was laughing: at He said that he had told the Frenehnan that he was an American. No" replied the old soldier; Americans are all black
 Some years ago an American wild west show visited Budapest. s:Hilerc were the usual fusilades, ir@.ividual shootings and stagecoach robbcries. The people who saw them got an idea that all Americans shot, and shot to kill, on the slightest provocation. l spent few days at the place soon aft CT tie show had passed on, register ing from my home Toledo 0. The day after my arrival l saw some citi zens over the register debating ill an excited fashion about just where in America Toledo was, whether it was on the Atlantic or Pacific coast, one man declaring that it was ill the Allegheny mountains, the region of the fiercest tribes of cowboys. Suddenly catching sight of me- they scattered like a flock of birds among which a stone had been thrown. The same evening l attended per formancc in q music ball. A little deformed girl, with pale cheeks and great, daring black eyes, was sclli, programmes. A waiter moving aeros:. the floor with half a dozen glasses |. beer poised on . tray above his head, not seeing the child, ran her down. The six glasses of beer went crashing on t}lp i.oor, and the waiter fell on tIe girl .Es =z;1a ed Lc rose ia lis iHrita- tioa h gave her q cuff, saying, Take If.at fe@ setting :a isaT HaE."
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 Was the most reMaIl.;.b.. e5s..s ha"e ever had the Eaa8. t3 s.s-:.e.9su I1aced it is the oalE slt5 45z5 - my otherwise Uncycatfui Ifn There W&s q 4;i!. Stz.= :4e tables nea@e-t ise ta .@o-- o no way, The mea knoa.e=. ove2 t#et chairs, jumped across tabltt: he W,a men shriekCd; tGe children (,he# t2Np their children to such places abr8a3 cried. Those nearest the door blocked the opening ill a vain effort to get out all at once. had my eye on the poor little programme girl and t9 prevent her being traInpled upon pit an arm about her to protect her.
 The manager elme fighting his Way toward me and when hc get nea@ enough shonted 10 me: DO not sAoot. Everything you require shall Ee done What will appease you:' It suddenly occurred to ne to tHHn the score t2 account for the little PFC . Gramme g:sl I'm not going to kill any one ! said, "bl!t have a suggestion to make. { Let ua take up a collection l0r tAi4 poor little girl, who received a cuff Sne ! did not deserve" had my n0rtemonn0ie. not q rcyolv- l CT, in my hand and, opening t, took out i bill, dropped it in my hat and gave # | to the manager. He stoed on chair 1 and as soon as h. could make himself heard said:
 "Iho American will not fight if we take up collection for the programme | girl. Let US ransom Carl Steffcns, the waiter who offended him. Carl is q poor man and has a large family"
 With that he went around with the 1 hat. Every person in the assembly | considered that he was bound to dis, 1 gorge as he had seen stagecoach pas 1 sengers disgorge to road agents in the Wild west show. When the hat came 1 pack it was brimful of bills and coins l The manager handed it to me, and, 1 pouring its contents into my handker- chief, handed it to the child. The 1 manager got on a table and cried:
 The American is appeased. Now go quietly to your homes'' The people shrank Away-that is, ] tnose who were left, for | aoodly num-