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Wtol1no 10 Heip.

Lord Pauncefote suffered greatly rom rheumatic gout In his latter days, and he walked stifily and sometimes mad to use two canes He went one afternoon to make call, and he re- mained quite a long time, so long that the horses got restive. and the groom walked them up and down the street When Lord Pauncefote left the house the carriage was not in front, and. thinking there was some mistake In his orders. he started to walk to the embassy, which was only square OF two. But he had twinges of his old enemy. and the payements were fey. lie was large. heavily tuiit man and he feared fall While Le uas pondering over his dilemma along came young man ill working clothes and the British ambassador. after T courteous salutaiion. asked: Nv friend, will you walk beside me and help me home? It is just short ways. put l am afraid of falling shall greatly appreciate it." The young man looked him over and then sud thickly, "Old gent. am pretty fuu myself. but I'll do the best 1 can-tsa very best I can.''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
A Curious Thermometer,

Otto de Guericke. burSomaster of Magdeburg, made q curious ther. mometer, which was twenty feet long and gorgeous with blue paint and gilt stars. In consisted of large globe fastened to tube both of copper. The tube was bent upon itself to form a very narrow U, in which was placed the requisite amount of alcohol. One arm of the ' was shorter than the other and open at the top. On the liquid was float. to which was at' tached cord passing over pulley, At the other end of this cord was hung gilt angel. its finger pointing to scale on which the degrees were nafnted
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
Preparina For tho Worst.

Both boys had been rude to their mother. She put them to bed earlier than usual and then complained to their father about them. So he start ed up the stairway, and they heard him coming
 Here comes papa" said Maurice. "I am going to make believe l am asleep"
 to get up and put something n."-la- dies Home Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
Where Wives Are Kept Under.

A Chinese Mrs. Caudle is iucon-
 celyable. for she would promptly be returned to her father labeled ''Yoo muchee bh0berry." Only by one means can the lady obtain any right what. ever to use even the mild moral sua- sion wherewith the tactful western wife is wont to turn events to her fix. ing. If as bride the Chinese wona Il succeeded in sitting on any corner of her husbands clothes at the moment when, halfway through the nuptial ceremonials, they first seat themselves side by side she is understood to oc- cupy the, position of mistress in her own house. Even then it generally stops at understanding.-From Things Seen In China" by J. R. Chitty.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
An imaginative Statesman

Imagination Is the greatest moving force in the world In saying this am merely repeating a remark of Dis raeli's, and to prove the strength of hls conviction I will repeat a story MT. Lowell told me when he was minister to England It is the custom of the Royal Academy of Painters to hold a private view of their pictures before the public exhibition. DisraeI walk Ing arm In arm with Browning through the galleries. said What strikes me most forcibly here is the lack of imagination" and he proceeded to enlarsee upon the power of ina gina. tion, declaring it to be the greatest force in the world. In responding to toast at the banquet which followed the private exhibition he dwelt upon the wealth of iu.aglna ton in evidence on the walls about him and agaiu ex- pressed his conviction that ima gina tiOn is the moving force in the world
 Browning repeated Disraeli's first re- mark to Gladstone. who sat beside him. aud 'ie muttered, The devil"- John wbriu..a Iu Atlantic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
FOR RENT.
Dwellings.

No. 2001 West Fifth Ave, rooms. No. 1910 West Pullen St., rooms. No. 70S Hickory St., , rooms. Ne. 6l9 Hickory St., 8 rooms No. 1103 West 9th Ave, 5 rooms with hall and bath
 No. 1918 West 3rd Ave- rooms. Sth Ave, and Poplar. rooms with hall; will be for rent Aug. 10.
 Dwellings (Colored No. 703 Mulberry St., 3 rooms No. 1907 West 9th Ave. 3 rooms. No. 2612 West 18th Ave, rooms. No. 260S West 18th Ave- 3 rooms. No. 12 16 Fir St.. 5 rooms. No. 1922 Fir St., 3 rooms. will give you the very best re- suits obtainable on your property if placed in my hands as all business re- ceives my personal attention. Remember I also write Fire, Acci- dent and Steam Boiler Insurance and issue Surety Bonds
 CHAS. HANCOCK. Fire Insurance. Real Estat.
 aud Loans.
 OFFICE. l13 PINE STREET.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
First Cantalsver SridQe.

l''!r first rnnta!prer va;!ruad bridge ts tlls. r',e aer.',:s il,. irtl, of Forth Il: Qn"ens Ferry > 'otland It Is nearly oiie and huff niles in length Fifty one iii;.i.and tp.,s of stea, Were. used III it's construction employing as many as .','s'h m"a ai cue time. It cost $.t; 'H"GhO and iftysix lvt-s. Ile work men began at either end and worked toward tie center When they net and undertook the last connection 1t was found that he two ends lacked ! small fracion of an inch of reaching far enough to allow the insertion O. the bolts that were to complete the span. For a time this was a puzzle. but was finally solved by an ingenious workman who suggested expansion by artificial heat, and 1t was forthwith supplied by means of burning kerosene oil under the steel girder.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT
 Large, airy. bath, electric lights three blocks from business. 515 West Second avenue If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03

FOR RENT-TWO NICELY FUR nished rooms for light house-keep-
 ing light, gas and bath. TOO Walnut
 street. o-olol
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03

FOR RENT-FOUR ROOM HOUSE, S23 Poplar street. Rent $12.5O city water, also well. Apply 91O West
 Eigth street. S-2S-6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03
Tornado and
 Hail Insurance

Two Of our the-very-best and larg- est companies, with assets of over $31 100000. are writing hail in con. nection witk tornado insurance. Let us write !ou a policy at once. The rates are very low.
 The senrm season has hardly be- gun and yet the losses so far have exceeded any previous year in the history of our state. The wise will profit by the experience Of others Re wise and insure with uy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-03

BUY LOTS IN HIGHLAND ADDI-
 tion: $50 each. t5 cash, $5 per month. Geo. B. Moore, 110 1-2 Main.
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No Applica ants.

Lincoln. sick with varioloid orre, turned a grim face to his doctor ou" day and let rueful smile appear.
 Do you know. doctor." he remarked, "it's an i'll wind blows no one good I've got something at last that the office seekers don't want"
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
PRESIDENT AS A PREACHER
"a Soft Answer Turneth Away
Wrath" Is His Text.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-In the pulpit
of the famous Mormon tabernacle in
this city, where four years ago Theodore
Roosevelt, then president, preached a
long sermon on right living and the
duties of good citizenship, President Taf,
faced an audience which he said inspired
him to try to follow in the footsteps
of his predecessor and deliver a preach
ment
Mr.. Taft did preach q sermon-text
and all. The immense audience in the
fag-draped edifice, the splendid musical
programme of operate and patriotic Sc
lections, the enthusiastic cheering as
President Taft appeared and the quick
response of the audience to points which
he endeavored to impress upon his hear
ers, inspired him, the president declared
with higher thoughts of country and
patriotism.
The presidents sermon was an appeal
for amity between the people-for at
tributing the best rather than the worst
motives to the action of others when
possible to do so and not to harboI
hatred or luminosity.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
COOK WILL SUE PEARY
ISLANDER ONE CHARGE, TAX
ING OF STORES ANOTHER.
Peary's Charge That Cook "Gold
Bricked' People Is Basis of
SANDER Proceedings.

New York-Frederick A. Cook, dis
coverer of the north pole, is preparing
to bring suit against Peary for Islander
and the transportation of Dr. Cook
stores at Etah. This action is being ar
ranged in view of the reports that Peary
has placed his case against Dr. Cook
in the hands of lawyer.
Because of the attitude of the two ex-
plorers, it appears to many of their
friends that he courts and not the scien-
tifice societies may decide who discovered
the pole.
DIR. Cook refused to discuss impending
legal proceedings. He did not deny that
proceedings would be brought, but he
left the talking to his secretary, who
said:
"Dr. Cook has been in consultation
with Mr.. Bradley, the financial hacker
of his expedition. They are perfectly
willing to meet any attack made by
Mr.. Peary, but l am not free to say
whether or not such an attack will be
forestalled by legal proceedings"
will Dr. Cook charge slander?''
81 will not say"
"Will he charge that Peary took his
stores and furs and sold them"
There are affidavits bearing on thes.
points"
"Will the proceedings be brought by
DIR. Cook or by Mr.. Bradley"
81 should say that DIR. Cook will take
charge of his own affairs"
From another source it was learned
that DR.. Cook is preparing to charge
Peary with Islander in saying that he
had given the public a gold brick i'll
saying that he had found the pole, and
that two other charges would be made
in connection with the alleged seizure of
Cooks stores.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
BIG JUMP IN COTTON
HIGHEST FOR THE SEASON
SINCE CIVIL WAR.
Spot Prices 10 to 20 Cents-Crop's
Indicated Value Greatest
Ever Known.

Memphis, Tenn.-Following u burst of
enthusiastic buying for bulls, cotton in
New York advanced to the highest prices
for the time of the year since the civil
war, the October delivery selling at
1897 and the December at 1912. On
1903, which is known as the Sully year,
cotton sold near II cents, but not until
March, when the bulk of the crop had
been marketed from the farms and the
world was convinced that the yield was
really very short. This season the reali-
zation that the crop is small has come
much sooner, and hence the high prices
at the beginning of the season, when,
according to all precedent, prices should
decline.
If the crop this year is as small as
1o,50o,000 bales, which is the extreme
of the low claims made for it, and
compares with a crop of 13,S25,O00 bales
last year, at the present price it would
have a value of approximately $780,
100000, which is more than any cotton
crop in history ever brought to the
South
The Memphis spot market is excited,
not to say wild. The mddling uplands
quotation was advanced IA cent on the
day to 13 Is cents, but actual sales are
being made in many instances much
higher than this. Receipts of what is
termed creek" cotton are bringing not
less than IA cents and as high as IA 1-2
cents. Staples range to 20 cents. With
in the past two days a factor sold $50
bales at 16 cents, which had been held
on the instructions of the owner for
three years becaue his fixed price of 16
cents had not been heretofore obtainable.
In the afternoon cotton was put out on
factors tables at 20 and % cents.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
252 BODIES ARE FOUND
MANY STRIPPED OF CLOTHING
AND ARE UNIDENTIFIED.
Relief Expedition Feeds Over 900
People Who Were In Starv-
ing Condition.

New Orleans, LATHE total death roll
from the hurricane of last Monday is
now 252. And that represents only the
known dead Searches now being made
by relief expeditions in the stretches OF
marshes and lowlands in Terre Bonnie
and LaFourche parishes will undoubtedly
reveal more casualties.
A section gang working on the Louis
vile railroad found thirty-six bodies be-
tween Dunbar and Claiborne, all of them
being almost stripped OF clothing, and
with nothing to identify them
The islands on the southeast coast Of
Louisiana and the lowlands nearby were
visited, and while there was great de
struetion of boats and houses, there was
no loss of life there.
A. Cardona, who went on relief eX
petition in the lower stretch of Bayou
LaFourche, going as far south as Lee
vile, at the mouth of the bayou, reports
an awful condition existing there. He
says they fed 500 people, who were in a
starving condition, without homes and
without clothing.
He also reports that at a point on the
Terre Bonnie side of Bayou LaFourche
near the mouth, seventeen members OF
family were drowned in one house, and
that the neighbors surviving had to burr
the wrecked building and cremate the
bodies to avoid disease.
He says that the drowned cattle, hogs
and other animals are beginning to pu
trify now that the water has receded
and that the atmosphere is very foul.
There are thousand refugees in Hou
ma, who are being cared for Relief
is being sent from New Orleans to Hou
ma and Congressman Broussard has APP
pealed to the federal government to have
Col. Foote, the local army commandant
detailed to take charge of the relief in
that section.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
PATTEN CLEANED UP MILLION
Says Cotton Is Going Higher-After
Control of Fleecy Staple.

New York-James A. Patten, the new
king of the New York cotton exchange,
returned to Chicago, leaving soaring
market in his wake. Mr.. Patten is cred
tied to have been right" on the short
supply of cotton, to the extent of an
nexing 100000 to his already ample
bank roll.
Il shall be back in November" said
Mr.. Patten before his departure.
Are you satisfied with your visit ?"
was asked.
Every much satisfied" replied the big
grain Spectator.
But there are some lively times ahead
in cotton" he added. 'My going will
not spoil the market. We are up against
short crop and from now ON until
another crop is picked, there is going to
be something doing in cotton. just store
this comment in your head and when !
return, come and tell me | was right
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
HONOR HEROES OF GRAY.
Federal Government Raises Shaft to
Confedsrates.

Salem, n. J.-One of Ae first monu
ments to be erected by the federal gov
eminent to Confederate prisoners of wal
who died on Northern soil during the
civil strife will be raised in the nationa
cemetery at Firms Point, along the Del
aware, below this city, according to O
dispatch from Washington.
The war department has just closed q
contract with the Van Awnings Granite
company, of Boston, for Pennsylvania
white marble shaft eightythree feet high
to be erected to the memory of the brave
fellows in gray who died at Fort Della
ware, near which the national cemetery
is located.
Similar shafts are to be erected in all
parts of the country where other Con
federate prisoners of war lie.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Paw Paw, Mich.
Another Operation Avoided.

Another Operat1On AVO1ueu.
Chicago, Ill. Il want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said / would
die if | did not have an operation, and
l never thought of seeing a we'll day
again. had small tumor and female
troubles so that 1 suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me well woman. Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLINe, II Langdon ST.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
laritjes, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, andnervous prostration. Itcosts
but trifle to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
TAKE PICTURES OF THE SUN
Spots Seen May Have Caused Aurora
Display

Washington-An investigation of a
Photographic negative of the sun taken
by astronomers of the United States
naval observatory here Sunday discloses
the fact that there was one large spot
on the going Off or west side of the
sun, with number of smaller spots
south of the large one. In its present
position it is estimated that the large
spot will disappear from the sun in
about four days and the small spots
probably sooner.
The spot period, according to the Off
Gals, occurs about every 10.1 years, and
this period is now nearing the minimum,
the maximum having been reached about
1904 or 1905. 1t is expected that in the
course of time the spots will entirely dis
appear.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Negro Murderer Lynched.

Live Oak, Fla.-Swinging from limb
in front of his shoe repairing shop at
Perry, Taylor county, the dead body of
Charley Anderson, negro, was found
early Sunday morning. A mob had inn
posed the death penalty as a reward for
the bullet Anderson sent into the heart
of Marshal Hawkins. The place of the
lynching was almost at the spot where
Marshal Hawkins was slain, the officer
having been in the act of placing the
negro under arrest when he met his
death at the hands of Anderson.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Cotton Stocks 1,519,932.

Washington.-The total number OF
bales of cotton held on August 81 in the
United States was 1,519,g32, as against
1,236,059 in 1908, according to a report
by the census bureau Thursday, and Il
514,567 in 1907. The quantity of cotton
held in the cotton growing States on
August 81 last was 702,99s, and in all
other States st6,934 The quantity con
sumed during tae year was 5,0s5,3s0
bales, against 4,539,ooo in 1908. The
number of active spindles in operation
during the year was 27,7Sa,491.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Greer King Not Briber.

Columbia, s. C.-The jury in the case
of James Farnum, the Beer King" OF
South Carolina, indicted for bribery,
brought in a verdict of not guilty. Far
mum was accused of bribing officials of
the former state dispensary and infu-
encing them to make purchases from
him. 1t was adduced in the testimony
that out of business that did from two
and half to three million dollars an
nually, Farnum in six months received
awards amounting to $sS4,000.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Distiller Sues Shonts.

New York-Theodor P. Shonts, form
er chairman of the isthmian canal com
mission and now president of the Inter
borough-Metropolitan company of this
city, has been sued for 100000 dam
ages, according to the World, by Fred
erick Hipsh, New York manager for a
Kentucky distillery company, whose
wifes affections Mr.. Shonts is charged
with having alienated. Through Delaney
Nicoll, his attorney, Mr.. Shonts declares
that the suit is preposterous and is due
to strsngS case of mistaken identity.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
ROASTED UNDER AN AUTO.
Two of Party Meet Terrible DEATH
in Accident.

Americas, Ga.-Two persons were
killed and third was seriously burned
when an automobile, driven by John Nc
Tendon, ran off an eight-foot embank.
ment early Friday. McLendon and Miss
Viola Herman, one of his companions,
were pinioned beneath the wreck in the
car, and roasted to death. Ethel Hill,
another member of the party, although
severely burned, ran screaming to the
city, two miles distant, and gave the
alarm.
Miss Hcrman's neck was broken by
the fall and death was instantaneous,
but McLendon was literally roasted
alive, being unable to release himself
from the car.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
WILL BRING THE BODY HOME.
Bishop Seth Ward Will Be Buried a
Houston, Tex.

Nashville, Tenn.-A cablegram re-
ceived here Friday from Kobe, Japan,
announced that the remains of the late
Bishop Seth Ward of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, who died last
Monday, will leave Kobe on October 3,
and will reach San Francisco about Octo-
Der 22. The remains will be inferred at
Houston, Texas.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

In theory, at least, we imprison Grim
inals primarily to reform them. We
can not conceive that whipping is
conductive to that end. Most con-
victs imagine that they have been
mistreated by the judgess sentence.
1t cultivates and strengthens their
imaginary grudge against society
when they are whipped, and that feel
ing does not help them to reform
when they leave the penitentiary.
Moreover. whatever spark of self-re-
spect may remain must be extin.
guished by the brutality of whip
ping
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
Gas Fields in Danger.

Oklahoma City.-OkIahoma's gas fields
will be Slapped in this generation if it
happens that Cklahoma's legislature will
not prohibit the piping of gas out of the
state, and the big companies are permit
ted to carry out their already executed
plans. This is the opinion of L. L.
Hutchinson, of Norman, the state geolog-
ist who has spent four years studying
conditions in the oil fields.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

Canada proposes a centennial cele-
bration in recognition of the hundred
years of peace that have followed the
war of 1912. That is a happy idea
and one that is likely to find hearty
favor in this country. And why
should there not be commemoration
of century of peace and neighbor-
illness as well as of bloody conflicts?
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

The twentiy-fourth annual session of
the Mississippi Industrial Institute and
College opened Thursday morning with
practically every room in every dormi-
tory filed About eight hundred board
ers are in the school and the number out
in the city will reach fully hundred
more. About two hundred applications
for places have been refused because
here is no available room.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30
1a Children in 1s Years.

Hardy, Ark.-At the Sharp County
Fair, held at Ash Flat, Martin Kissinger
took the premium for the largest family
Mr. and Mrs. Kissinger have been mar
ried sixteen years and have thirteen chill
dren, all of whom are living, and have
never had twins or triplets born to
than
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

The University of Mississippi began
its fiftieth session at Oxford on Thurs
day. The exercises in the chapel build
ing were attended by some four hundred
and fifty students and the general pub
lie. The opening address of Chancellor
Kincannon was full of the greater uni
versity, and was splendid statement
of splendid conditions.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

The czar on his visit to England
was more like captive than a king,
guarded as he was with battleships
and battalions of plain-clothes men.
1t is safe to say the uncrowned Amer
lean tourist gets heap more fun out
European sovereign.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

Business closed July 81 with a cash
balance of $25S.437 900 on hand in the
national treasury at Washington.
There are to be economy and retrench-
ment, which indicates wise manage
ment of the peoples money. But
Uncle Sam has considerable surplus
on hand and his credit is pretty good.
thank you
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

1t seems to be settled now that the
revolt in Catalonia will stop far short
of revolution. But King Alfonso will
want his throne carefully examined
for shaky foundations, at frequent in
tervals, for a long time to come.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Dly HUN lClitic iiios
including intlam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. l began
taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
l can now say ! am
a well woman"
EMMA DRAPER.
The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-09-30

The uniform of the United States
army is to change its color again. A
generation ago it was blue. This
is relegated in favor of olive drab But
whatever color may cover the Amer
lean soldier his heart, his loyalty, and
his courage are the same as they were
in '76, in '12 in AS, in 81, and in '9S.