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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the part nership heretofore existing, and known as Valley Grocery, is this day dissolved by mutual consent:
 J. w. Meeks having purchased the entire interest of s. M. Meeks and Mrs. J. w. Meeks:
 J. w. Meeks assumes all indebted ness of the firm by the terms of his purchase and is entitled to collect all debts due the firm. and will continue
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17

Richards & Pringle's Famous Geor- gia Minstrels have probably made more people laugh than all the other minstrels combined. All those con- panies that sprang into existence soon after the birth of the Georgias have long since been forgotten.
 The public was quick to distinguish between the real and the imitation. and the management of this company in turn appreciated this confidence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17
Mullikin's Sale q Big Success.

The big sale at Mullikin's depart sment store, which has been in prog iress for the past ten days, has been successful in every way and the big vest thing of the kind, Mr. Mullikin Asays, he has ever had in the way of a sRale. It became necessary last Friday 70 order a bill of goods by express to
 Teplenish the stock so as to be able s1o furnish their customers with goods
 t the sale price.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17

. Phesalve, carbolized, is good for 6 lDurns. It penetrates the pores, draws
 0ut inflammation, and is healing. It I4s also good for cuts, sores and bruis- ss5 Sold by Dr. McCammon & Son, ]16 Main street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17

and have ever striven to give that which was best and high class and most desired
 That the policy of giving the public it's moneys worth and more is the best policy, thirty years of prosperity amply proves.
 The date of this companys appear ance at the Elks Theater is next Sat urday night
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17

For rent. two front rooms, up- statrs. Apply Mrs. King White. 3-9 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-17

the business at the present stand, in the name of the Valley Grocery, and will be responsible for all contracts Witness our hands this 18th day of August 1909.
 J. w. MEEKS,
 s. M MEEKS.
 MRS. J. w. MEEkS. S-17 24 q & TIA
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
What the Railroads Spend.

The men on railroad engines in the
United States when times are busy
draw in wages $53,000,000 a year.
Last year the sum was cut to $45,-
600, 900. The business Of the coun-
try lost sS,000,000 in this one item,
says the Los Angeles Times.
Every mile OF new railroad built in
the country costs first and last $685.
900, and if the building Is 5000 miles
it puts into circulation $75,000,000.
If the building is 5000 miles there
goes into circulation $150,000,000
The coal used on IN engine in a
year costs on the average of $4,000.
Last summer there were 100000 idle
cars in the United States. Counting
thirty-nine to a train, this would be
5000 trains. One engine to the train
would curtain the coal used by a
value Of $12,500,000. That coal
means almost all wages. So does the
building of new roads.
If the conditions should last for a
year, these three items would make
a total of nearly 500, 100000 lost to
wage-earners, assuming that only
half as much road is built as would
have been if times had been good.
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worn. Valenciennes Is always cor
rect, embroidered landings are many
and plain net trimmed with bands of
net embroidered in Oriental ,colors
makes one of the novelties of the
early spring, while this model Is
adapted to each and every material Of
the sort that the season has to offer.
1t can be used with equal success for
the odd waist and for the entire
gown, and it can be worn either with
a high wasted skirt or with a belt.
The blouse Is made with front and
backs, which are tucked and joined
to the shaped yoke. The collar is
scanned to the neck edge and the
pretty, gracefully shaped one-piece
sleeves are tucked on indicated lines
and cut in points over the hands,
their special feature being found in
the fact that the seam is so arranged
as to be quite invisible, while the
sleeves conform perfectly to the shape
of the arms.
The quantity Of material required
for the medium size is four and a
half yards twenty-one or twenty-four,
three yards thirty-two or two and an
eighth yards forty-four inches wide
with eleven and a quarter yards OF
banding and one and a half yards Of
edging.
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Why Streams Are Disappearing.

Any one who has reached the age
of seventy-fve has noticed the disap-
pearance of the small brooks where
he played in his district school days,
while larger ones have shrunk to
summer threads, and rivers that
filled their banks all the year are
hardly more than rivulets in summer,
says the Independent. Commissioner
Whipple, of New York State, tells US
that the upper Hudson, in August,
1907, had no more than two inches OF
water where it used to roll a heavy
volume. There is substantial agree.
ment that this change has been due
to the denudation Of our hills and
valleys of the w~ater-holding trees.
It takes a century to grow such for
ests; it has taken half a century to
destroy them.
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UnansWerable.

"Vicious circle" Is a term often
used in the medical world. An ex-
ample of its psychological use applied
to argument may be found in Joseph
A. Scoville's book, "Old Merchants
of New York City"
Tom, the son of a wealthy man,
was a great favorite with all who
knew him, but he heartily detested
business. A merchant Of New York
had hired him as a bookkeeper at a
high salary. Nevertheless, Tom got
into the habit Of reaching the Office
later and later, until finally he got
there about two in the afternoon.
When this state Of affairs had gone
on for a week, the merchant remon-
Strated.
but my dear SIR" returned Tom,
"how can I come any earlier? I don't
get my breakfast until one"
But get your breakfast earlier"
"How can I? I don't get up till
twelve"
Then get up earlier"
"How can l." pleaded Tom, when
I don't go to bed until daylight"
In the face of such convincing ar
gument there was nothing to be said.
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Origin Of the Potato

In consequence of the outbreak OF
the potato disease in the nineteenth
century, botanists have for years
been seeking the original wild species
of this most useful plant, IN order
that by crossing it with the Guilt
waited forms fresh vigor might be In
fused into the latter. The search has
extended over Chile, Peru and other
parts of America, but until recently
no success has been promised. MI.
Sutton, of Reading, England, the
we'll known scotsman, In whose ex-
detrimental gardens a great variety OF
these plants has been tried, has now
fixed upon a wild species, the Soda
mum etuberosum, which has Deen
growing in his gardens for twenty
years, as being the original wild spe-
cies, from which much may be hoped.
The Solanum etuberosum for twenty
wears has entirely defed the potato
disease, and its offspring Is identical
with the commercial potato
Youths Companion.
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A Job For the Armies.

Camille Flammarion has revived
his old scheme of digging a geother.
mic we'll 200 metres in diameter to
ascertain the internal constitution OF
the earth. The imaginative Flam-
marion proposes to find an economic
and almost inexhaustible source OF
heat, to verify the rate of caloric in
crease, to find out If the materials
constituting the terrestrial globe are
in a state of fusion-in a word, to do
nationally and directly what has been
done slightly and a little by chance
up to the present time in mines. To
carry out the work the standing arm
les of the world are to be called into
requisition.-Scientific American.
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A condition of the times, a situa-
ton which has become very trying,
both to manufacturers and adver-
Users, is the solicitation by members
of different organizations for adver-
tisements in their programs, score
cards, dance orders, and for pur-
chase of tickets for these affairs.
We have several times before re-
ferred to this subject at length in
these columns, but it is a matter OF
such Importance and the practice
mentioned is so ~burdensome to those
affected that we think it well to bring
up the subject again.
First, the manufacturer is ap-
preached by a very smiling police
man, with the request to buy n or
two tickets to the policeman's ball,
which is to take place shortly, the
proceeds of which go to the police
men. Next, the fireman appears with
The same request: following him
ZONES the letter carrier, whose organ
.zation is also about to hold a ball,
and is getting out a very handsome
souvenir. and they not only want you
to purchase tickets but also to spend
b certain amount of money for ad-
Vertising in the program. Then the
united order of mail clerks is holding
It's first or second annual ball, tickets
for which you are expected to pur-
chase. Following them probably
comes the city laborers' association
with tickets, only $3.50 apiece, for
the benefit of the laboring a. who
has been out of employment OF who
Is working only half time. To make
this case all the more heart rending,
the man out of work may have been
the innocent victim of spasmodic re-
trenchment in the city government.
Then comes the benevolent order of
railway clerks connected with the P.
d. @. Railroad, who have a delega-
tion of two or three of their members
waiting upon manufacturers with the
request that they buy tickets for the
annual ball, the proceeds of which
are to be used for the benefit of their
mSulUSIS. 1Aea SOmS lAO AiCAShI
handlers Of a railroad whose name
includes that of the largest city in
New York and several of those in
Connecticut, requesting that the So
licited ones purchase tickets for the
annual ball. Following these prob
ably comes a procession Of delegates
from secret orders innumerable, with
requests for donations, either to fairs
that they are to hold or for adver-
tisements in the program for their
field day sports. Another organiza-
tion appears representing that it is
to hold a fine convention and is pre-
pairing a very handsome souvenir or
book with the pictures of all the
reigning members in the same, and a
page for advertising in this book or
souvenir can be purchased at the alb
surdly low price Of S25 or more, as
the case may be, which means that
they are usually willing to take what
they can get, and it certainly be-
hooves the friends of labor to take a
page in the beautiful forthcoming
triumph of the art of letterpress
printing.
1t is useless to go on with the cata-
1ogue of organizations that constant
~ importune manufacturers whose
goods are sold in the retail stores,
but, of course, we must not forget
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A FELINE WONDER
WHICH PLAYS PIANO.
Pet Owned by Girl in Indiana
Takes Delight in Producing
Music From Keys.

"NSbS
Little Gladys Schultz, OF Boonvllie,
Ind, has a pet cat Of which she is
very fond, and which is always al
her feet or near her. Miss Gladys is
about ten years old, and is very as.
siduous in practicing her music les
sons on the piano when she is not in
school, says the ST.. Louis Post-Dis'
patch.
While this is going on the pet cat
Cottie, is either at her side or pur'
ring around at her feet. 1t seems to
like the idea of music, and will of.
tentimes sit with undivided atten'
ton on a chair by the girls side
watching the movement of the girls
fingers along the keyboard.
After leaving the a few days
ago with the cat sitting on a chair.
Gladys came back shortly to find Cot
tie sitting on the piano stool trying
to initiate her example and play on
the instrument. The cat would
strike the keys with her paws and
seemed delighted at the effect of the
tones produced, repeating it several
times, to the delight of Mrs. Schultz
and Gladys, who were looking on,
Since that time it has become a fire.
quent occurrence for Cottie to climb
on the piano stool and give vent to
her feelings in music.
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THE BEGGING NUISANCE
X X 4 X X +

! the clerks who come around and ask
us to take a page and also buy tickets
for their picnic.
Every department store in tho
| country has connected with it a ben-
eft organization for it's employees n
| the officers of these organizations oD-
tain from the manager Of the store a
list of manufacturers from whom they
purchase their supplies, and as the
manager of one of our best known
| and most prominent manufacturing
house writes us, without any COM
junction of conscience whatever these
clerks enclose to every manufacturer
a half dozen tickets costing from
fifty cents to one dollar, with what
they consider to be a very nicely
written letter, stating that they are
very friendly to this particular manu-
facturer's goods, and they would like
to have the said manufacturer buy
these tickets for the benefit of the
aforesaid employees.
Besides the above, which Is really
only a small list, almost every church
organization, either the ladies aid,
or the prudential committee, intend
to run a fair to furnish funds to fix
the steeple, paint the church, or help
out the minister's stipend; therefore,
they are going to run this fair and II
the manufacturer will be kind enough
TO donate some of his goods, and
| sometimes they ask for the cash, they
will see that the manufacturer re-
ceives advertising in return.
We know of n case where the
provender committee of a church
wrote to a person who did not even
attend that church, requesting a tur-
key, STIMULATING that it must be
cooked. Instances that we might
enumerate are almost without num-
Der. It is 'the same old story in the
same old way" The only relief we
can see is for the manufacturers to
| combine and agree not to patron1ze
| all of these various begging schemes,
and for the local dealers in every COM
munity to take concerted action and
]courteously but firmly aus 1t to be
understood that they have taken this
position because it is ~burdensome, a
drain upon their resources, a robber
| of their profits, something which they
cannot stand and continue business.
Internationally the practice of pro.
miscuous solicitation is an abuse n
the good people themselves who carry
it on, usually we'll meaning people in
their community, If the matter were
presented to them would admit that
the thing is wrong and would CO.
operae in suppressing 1t.
There are a great many people IN
every community who jealously guard
their reputation for honesty and recti.
tude, who would be Mortified at the
mere suggestion that they were com.
hitting blackmail, yet there are Vari.
Gus ways of blackmailing people.
Some of these methods were not for
a moment intended to operate in that
sense, but to a person approached for
contributions it appears that he u
do it because he thinks that it will
be for his interest to do SO. This.
while the perpetrator is not con-
scious Of it, Is really blackmail be-
cause the contribution is not made
voluntarily and because the giver
feels that he must.-New England
Grocer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
On Badness.

1t has been discovered recently that
there are no bald-headed men in our
insane asylums. Other interesting
facts about bald people are the fol-
lowing:
You never see a bald-headed man
wearing his own hair.
No one ever saw a red-headed bald
man.
Most bald men keep their hair in
their wife's name.
No bald-headed woman has ever
been known to admit.
Bald-headed men never appear in
public with their hair marcelled.
If everybody was bald from birth
the ~hair-cutting industry would be
p%aralyzed.
If a man loses his hair nc amount
of advertising will restore 1t to him!
No woman was ever drawn to q
bald-headed man by capillary attrac-
ton.
Badness cannot be cured by hav-
ing your hair pulled, as you can cure
toothache by having a tooth pulled.
The bear has more hair to the
square inch than any known animal,
and yet there is nothing in the world
that is barer than a bald-head.
There are other interesting facts
about badness, no doubt, but none of
them occur to US at this moment, SO
we will content ourselves with saying
in conclusion that the head Of a bald
man in the front row of the modern
theatre shines like a good deed in a
naughty world.-Harper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
Reflections of Uncle Ezra.
By ROY X. MOULTON.

1t is seldom that a man dies at one
hundred and ten years that we don't
hear he has chawed and smoked to-
hacker and drank forty-rod whisky
all his life.
There was a swap social at the
Hard Shell meetin' house the other
night, and every woman was sup
posed to take something she didn't
need. Mrs. Hold Peters took Hold.
OWN to the passenger rate war, 1t
Is said to be cheaper to go to Europe
than to stay hum, but there are a few
American heiresses who will hardly
agree with this.
William Tibbitts has refused to pay
his taxes because an astrologer said
the world is comm to an end Janu-
airy first, and William wants to save
the money. When William shaves,
he fathers his face with the end Of
his whiskers to save buyin' a brush.
Hank Tumms wouldn't be no hand
to work in a powder magazine be-
cause he has got infammatory rheu-
matiz.-From Judge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
Pioneer Days in Missouri.

In 1851 there was in Huntsville a
man who pulled teeth for twenty-five
cents, and a photographer who made
daguerreotypes at $3.50 each. Inc
first was called doctor" and the sec
ond professor" They moved in the
highest circles, as being the repre-
sentatives of the sciences and arts.
With deer, birds and all manner OF
game in the woods and fine fish IN
the streams, so cheap that the poor
est larders were stocked with it, the
grocers. did a big business in mack
erel, herring and sardines. The lat
ter we're real daintics, because the
better food was so plentiful the pio-
neers got tired of it.-Macon Repub-
lican.
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The most interesting salt mines in
the world are said to be those at
Wieliczka, in Galicia, which form an
underground collection of streets,
houses, churches and monuments.
Their history can be traced back a
thousand years and they are still
being worked. Tourists are fitted out
with miners shirts and hoods and are
conducted by guides, n to each
three visitors. The first stop is at st.
Anthony's chapel, hewn two hundred
years ago by some unknown miner
from a single piece of rock salt. The
altar has twisted columns and there
are statues at each side, praying
monks kneeling on the steps, and
oyer the altar the crucifXion and a
statue of the Virgin. Smaller affairs
at the sides and the pulpit are carved
from pure salt spar. This chapel was
formerly used for religious services,
but they are now conducted in the
more modern chapel of St. Cune-
gund.
Next comes a great dancing hall,
hung with chandeliers carved from
crystal salt in 1914, in honor OF the
visit of the czar to the mine. There
are statues of salt here, too, a hand
some door and a long gallery. Wis.,
itors often dance here to the music
of an orchestra. Next they go to the
chapel of Cunegund, opened in 1906.
1t is reached by a descent Of forty-six
steps cut in solid salt. The chapel
itself is $50 feet long, forty-ive feet
broad and thirty feet high. 1t con-
tains statues, a beautiful pulpit, al
tars and chandeliers, all of salt. The
Michalowice hall is e%ighty-four feet
long, ffty-four feet wide and 10S
feet high, with a colossal chandelier
seven feet in diameter containing 200
candles. Passing through other beau
tiful halls one reaches the Crown
Prince Rudolph grotto, where the
lights and white carvings are re-
1ected in the water of an under
ground lake. From the centre of the
water rises a statue - Of salt, OF
course-surrounded by fir trees and
%stalactites.
The mines form an oval twenty
two miles in length and half a mile in
central width. The aggregate length
of the galleries at present accessible
is upward of sizty-fve miles, and that
Of mining railways twenty-five miles.
Enormous cavities amounting to 1867
10000 cubic feet have been pro-
duced during the last century below
the town of Wieliczka by working the
rock salt, and as these cavities-kept
np artificially by timbering-are con-
~tinually increasing, the inhabitants OF
Wieliczka some time ago were fearful
lest their own town be exposed to the
risk Of collapsing, and the local
building activity was therefore tenn
porarily confined to the erection OF
wooden structures. Present regula-
lions, according to which these cavi-
ties have TO be filled in, in due course
gradually removed that apprehension.
The mines are employing upward OF
1000 permanent and a number of
temporary workmsn. The working
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Odd Yoke For Gown.

A novel yoke that might be copied
at home, if one has plenty of time
and patience, was made Of small
pieces of the material Of the gown
cut %haphazard fashion, and then
Joined together with fancy feather
and fagotting stitches. 1t reminded
one of an attempt to put a jigsaw
puzzle together, and where the pieces
would not exactly fit in the fancy
stitches we're employed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-05-19
One of Those Foolish Questions.

A certain man, of rather a wag'
gish disposition, contends that hi:
wife has no imagination. A writer
in the Philadelphia Public Ledger
tells why he thinks so. At dinner
one night he CHANGED to mention q
tragic circumstance which he had
read in the evening paper on the way
home.
1t seemed that a passenger on a
transatlantic steamer had fallen over
board in mid-ocean. and had never
been seen again.
WAS he drowned?" asked his wife
cob, no." answered the husband
"but he sprained his ankle, l be-
lieve."
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The Eternal Masculine.

A study of the trouser legs as seen
In the photographs of our most noted
men brings the smile of contempt
from even the most disinterested, and
one wonders if anything could be ug-
lier than the concertina folds of the
clumsy, elephantine outlines that are
there to be seen. Brooches. knick-
ers and kits are all far more artistic
and healthy Tailor and Cutter.
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Embroidery Galore.

Embroidery is being used on all
the newest gowns, and is losing no
whit of it's popularity. In embroid-
cry original and personal touches
may be put on the simple frock that
will give it distinction and, as hand
embroidery is never cheap and can
not be copied by the masses, there is
good reason for its hold on the mod
ish woman's fancy.