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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-05
FOR RENT.
Dwellings,.

 No. 2o07 West Fifth Ave, rooms. No. 1910 West Pullen St., rooms. Nc. 70S Hickory St., , rooms. No. 6l9 Hickory St, 3 rooms. No. 1103 West 9th Ave, rooms with hall and bath. No. 1918 West 3rd Ave. rooms. Sth Ave, and Poplar, f 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, 3 rooms. No. 260S West 18th Ave. rooms No F 16 Fir St., rooms.
 No 1922 Fir St., 3 rooms. will give you the very best re- suits obtanable on your property if placed in my hands as all business re- ceives my personal attention.
 Remember I also write Fire, Acc!- dent and Steam Boiler Insurance and issue Surety Bonds
 CHAS. HANCOCK, Fire Insurance. Real Estate
 and Loans. OFFICE. flS PINE STREET.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-05
SYnpathy.

He-It was frightful moment whetl I received your letter telling me |. the insuperab!e obstacle to OUT n.af rage I would have shot myself. hut I had no money to buy a revolver She-Dearest, fl only you had let ma know w-Simp!icissjnus
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-05
A Near ErienS.

"All the dust flies up my noSe.'
 "Weli. Cholly, maybe the city vi pay you to parade the streets lef- haps, instead of sweeping it would he better to clean them by Il vacuum proc s."-Kansas City Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-05
Tornado and
 Hail Insurance

Two Of our the-very-best and larg est companies, with assets of over S31 100000 are writing hail in con- nection with tornado insurance. Let Us write !ou policy at once. The rates are very low.
 The storm 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. Be wise and insure with us.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-05
All the piHerence.

My wife is very bad" said man at the Bloomsbury county court.
 "You mean she is very i'll. l hope she is not bad" replied the magistrafe sympathetically.- y.-London Telegraph.
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kew. He weighed at least two hundred and
fifty pounds was powerfully built, and wore a
vicious countenance. We were alone!
| began to realize my apparent danger IN
stinctively reached for my gun-to find it
had been left in my grip at the hotel. He ap-
preached the small table by which l was seated
and took a seat opposite. His aspect was SIN
ister. stern, betraying no excitement.
We conversed on general subjects few min
utes. Meanwhile the room was rapidly grow
ing darker. Finally the Mexican preached the
all important subject with
"Seiior has said to peoples about these?"
No | replied, "l never mention such mat
tiers outside"
peoples know, navar No peoples see Senior
enter tonight. No peoples shall see Senior go!
1t shall be much dark before he goi' And !
imagined l could feel his leer No peoples
know! So Senior and shall settle these case
for sells. See9 Government know not ing
Peoples know noting. Just Senior and !. :"
What do you mean3" | demanded.
These, Sefior'' 1t was almost dark; but l
could see him place his hand in his breast
pocket He was reaching for weapon, and
evidently my time had come!
Out came the hand, and in it what seemed
~ to be either short dirk a small pistol in
the darkness | could not tell which. With a
quick movement he showed it directly toward
my heart.
tad needed the promptlngS OF impulse
should have either put up defense or tried to
escape Better judgment prompted me to do
neither. Evidently the man meant to intimi-
date and extort from me promise not to re-
port his case. No doubt he would vouchsafe
the cheerful assurance that if | violated my
promise he would lay for me next time visited
the town. / remained still and awaited devel-
opments.
What say Senor7 Shall helm not settle
ment? Shall Senior not make me more trou-
bles?"
As was framing reply he suddenly lighted
a match with his left hand, held it aloft, max
ing the weapon held in the other hand clearly
visible
The weapon revealed was-a small roll of
five-dollar bills
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was the youngest of four brothers. They all
slept in the same room and sometimes changed
beds; but none of the others was ever bitten.
Cattle and horses are attacked always at
spot on the spine just back of the shoulders,
where the hair separates in starlike spot.
This. in the case of horse, is just where the
front end of the saddle comes, and the attack
therefore makes vast deal of trouble where
everyone rides horseback. A majority of the
Brazilian horses and nearly all the cows are
bitten by these plaques.
Fortunately, the pests are mostly confined
to the forest country. They give compare
lively little trouble in cities and villages, though
the construction of houses makes it impossible
to keep them out. In cities tiles exclusively
used for roofs, and in the country palmleaf
matching and all kinds of bats come and go at
pleasure. One rarely goes to sleep without from
one to dozen flying about the room. They are
nearly all harmless and are welcome because
they catch insects. They all look so much
alike that one does not know which to at
tack
How the genuine vampires eluded scientific
research SO long is mystery. The species was
not positively identified until the visit of Oar
win in the Beagle; it was in the '7O's, think
And there is not at the present day. SO far as
can learn, single we'll authenticated case re-
corded in the natural histories of true YAM
pre being captured while feeding human
being"
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MONKEYING WITH THE VOCABULARY

THE young nephew had come in from the
country after the harvest days were over to
get peek at some of the sights Of the great city
Uncle was busy at the office; but the young
wife took him out the first day for visit to
the Geological Gardens.
well, Charlie" said the husband to the
youngster on their return, how did you like
the monkeys? Were they funny?'
why, we didn't see any monkeys" was
Charles mournful reply. Aunt Marjorie
couldn't find them anywhere"
No, Henry, said the wife, / couldn't and
we almost walked our legs off looking for them
too. But, Henry, there's one queer thing
Why does the director of the Zoo have his
house right in the middle of the menagerie7'
Il didn't know he had" was Henry's
surprised reply:
well, there's a building with sign on it.
'Primates House. Now, Primate' is French
or Spanish or Italian English or something
that means Director I'm sure"
Henry loved her too much to expose her
ignorance either publically or privately; but
Charlie saw all the monkeys next day under his
uncle's guidance.
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A GOVERNMENT field deputy
"A internal revenue collector. 10
By Teddy Barr

"A internal revenue collector, To-
Gated for a number OF years IN
the great wild and woolly Southwest, IN re-
Spouse to an inquiry regarding his official duties,
replied as follows:
Yes, there is an element of danger in this
work; yet not so great as IS generally supposed.
As rule, the average Mexican saloonkeePer has
great respect for his Uncle Samuel. Only oCca-
sionaly does violator of the law offer vlo-
lence. He is more likely to offer a bride in an
indirect way; that IS, to throw out a hint and
if the deputy is dishonest he will meet the
proposition halfway.
l was once at the town of San-something,
inspecting the stock of liquors in a Mexican
saloon where there was barrel about half full
of whisky which | found tested eighty-four
proof. The stamp on the package, also the IN
dentation on the bung stave, indicated ninety
proof:
"Herei" called to the saloonkeeper. How
much water did you pour into this whisky!
Il navair put watair in whisk, gentleman"
/ hat othair barrel helm cheap whlsk, just
little. pour helm in these barrel: SO sell
othar barrel empty, gentleman.
"Ah!" said. Then you rectiher.
No one but rectifier can do what you have
done without violating the law.
then explained the situation best /
could, impressing upon him the fact that he had
committed grave ottense, subject to heavy
fine and imprisonment; but, as it seemed to
have been committed through ignorance, l
SnOulu ADVISE IIl 10 pay d IeCtILeI leA,
which, with the penalty, amounted to one hun
dred and fifty dollars. l should recommend to
the department that the tax stamp be issued,
followed by no prosecution, and without doubt
that would settle the matter. Otherwise, its
being my sworn duty to report such cases, his
punishment would be severe. He promised he
would think the matter over and see me in the
evening.
THAT evening when sitting in front of the
hotel conversing with another guest, the
Mexican in passing asked me to come to his
saloon | assured him that | should be there
in a few minutes.
1t was late twilight when arrived at the
dramshop, which was located near the suburbs
of the town at the foot of dark canon.
The liquor dealer was seated in front. He
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By Dewey Austin Cobb

III been telling what we
thought we knew about blood
sucking bats; but our conversation had devel-
oped only an astonishing amount of misin-
formation and rreconcilable differences. So
we called in the doctor who had lived some
years in Brazil and asked him to comb out
our tangled ideas.
I'm not surprised at your confusion he
began; "for at one time or another have be-
lieved above everything your questions would
suggest. When was schoolboy, the vampire
bat as large as a crow, had horn on his
nose, and described as sitting on his VIC
TINS feet, tanning him with his wings, while
he worked his pumping apparatus There is
such bat; but when 1t was proved that 1t was
a fruit eater many of us doubted the whole bat
legend along with the old mythology. There is
a bloodsucking vampire, however, millions OF
them.
THE old Spanish conquistadors found proof
of its existence in sore great toes which looked
as if the skin had been delicately shaved off,
Just deep enough to ooze blood; but they never
caught one and naturally laid the blame to the
biggest ones they found which nearly all
vegetarians. The real thing is a small reddish
brown creature, closely resembling bats of the
same color caught here not infrequently.
1.-The naturalist! finds, however some surpris-
ing differences. They have no teeth for any
purpose save for thinning the skin; not enough
for the blood to flow freely, but just sufficient
to enable them to draw it by suction. The
wound rarely bleeds after they leave it. This
teeth sharp as a knife. Their interior anatomy
differs from other animals as well their teeth.
All the other animals SO far as know. have
stomach and necessary organs for converting
food into blood. The true vampire has only
elongated sacklike intestine for the storage of
the blood taken, which requires no digestion
till it is taken up into the circulatory system.
With neither teeth stomach, it has
alternative. 1t must find nourishment ready
made.
This popularity may or may not account
for one very strange thing about its selection of
victims. Cattle and horses are the chief ones.
Not one human being in hundred entirely sat
isles their taste; not half the people who live
among them all their lives are ever bitten. But
if one of family, for instance, just suits them,
they'll follow that person to any part of the
house, and, no matter how carefully he may be
covered or screened, they will find their own
particular tipple.
The stories of their bleeding people almost
to death are true only partly. have known of
one boy who was SO persistently followed that,
while the loss of blood was small from single
attack, after months of the drain he was greatly
reduced in vitality He was always bitten in
the same place,-the end of the great toe,-and
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it became so lacerated that
there was considerable subse-
quent hemorrhage. This lad
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A CLOSE CALL

babe me walk in and take a seat,
which | did. He followed, closed the
door. locked it, and pocketed the
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uALF a dozen of US had
III been telling what we
thought we knew about blood
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Tie trosbles e great Asteh n getting reliable esss
Tie prices paid for CORNING eggs Arssshsst tie year
Tie number # egg sold eaeA nsstA trsssAost he year
Hsw 10 get he nest egg when ethes people get
Whea to kateA chicks that are 10 by winter esys
Hsw to grow juicy breien IN nine weeks
Hsv 10 ni1 de feed that makes the nest eggs
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
POCKET LIFE SAVER
Clarence Hall lnvents a Device
for Miners.
5eiieves His Oxygen Apparatus Would
Have Prevented the Deaths
Of 3c0 Men In the
Cherry Mine.

WashingtOn.-Claren Hall, eXDlO-
sives expert for the government, has
Just announced the invention of safe
~ device which, had it been in use
November 13 might have saved 300
lives at the mine of the St. Paul Com
at Cherry, III. The device is an appli-
ance generating sufficient oxygen to
to sustain life for half-hour or SO
under any conditions of atmosphere.
Had the miners trapped in the St
Paul mine been supplied with this
apparatus. the densest of smoke or an
atmospheric condition entirely devoid
of oxygen would not have killed them
for a reasonable time.
If the ambitions of the men of the
technologic branch of the geological
survey are realized, time will soon
come when every miner working un-
derground will carry in his pocket the
newly invented oxygen gene-ator and
through it be guaranteed a lease of
life for time ranging from half an
hour to an hour while he is fighting
his way TO the open air or waiting the
coming of rescuers. The invention
was made by Mr. Hall while in the
government service. ard his chief, DIR.
J. A. Holmes, insists that the patent
rights on the invention shall not be
enforced, but any man who wants it
may make it and use it at will. This
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24

in the neighborhood of Montmartre,
employs man for this purpose and
possibly many more do.
One morning l questioned him about
his business. but received only mega
tive answers. He was not cook. nor
washer-up. never left the restaurant,
was not French and had nothing but
what he earned in the room behind
the bar. After much persuasion he
finally accepted an invitation to sup
per in a neighboring restaurant
which he himself recommended as be-
inS "all right" He grew communica-
tive before the meal was over
Il told you to come here" he said.
because | know the soups all right
and the meats not painted. tried to
get job here and failed so | ought
to know. If you come into my kitchen
tomorrow when the patron is away,
you'll see what mean.
DO you see this?" He drew cam
el-hair brush from his pocket and held
it up with pride. That's making the
patrons fortune and I've got to starve
on 10 sous day. dip this into bit
of bad fat and then into bowl of
broth. Broth. indeed. The grease
spots l make are the only traces of
meat that are in it. No Frenchman
thinks broth is worth anything with
out grease spots and the poor devils
that drink that dirty water think they
mean meat. It's not one man in a
.b,, l,,o
brush-and nobody can do it better
than l."
A visit to his kitchen next morning
proved that he was right The soup,
made with water in which odds and
ends of vegetables and crusts of bread
had been boiled, was poured into
bowls as the clients" ordered 1t.
Then. with the air Of a master. the
artist dipped his brush into a lump of
hot fat and applied it to the soup with
such dexterity that little grease rings
such as Frenchmen love to see in
their broth, floated on the surface
Nobody who has not tried would guess
how hard 1t is to do 1t. 1t needs a
light and yet firm hand. or else the
spoiled.
Even venerable seats of learning Of
fer temptations out of the beaten
track to the man hard pressed for Ais
daily bread. l remember once when
etance took me to a university city
near the Baltic sea. being struck by g
very ugly. red-haired. red-eyed stu
aent, who. though poorly dressed. al
says vent around with the riches,
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24

| boys, who treated him with defer
ence which they did not give to one
another. His jokes were always
laughed at and his harangues listened
to. AS this was one of the German
universities where students spend
much of their time drinking and fight
ing duels. his popularity was the more
remarkable. because he drank spar
ingly and bore no visible traces Of
sword slashing.
Later on heard him plead in a
Berlin law court-just as ugly, shock
headed and bumptiOus as ever. But
he pleaded well and won his case. The
counsel for the other side was furious.
The man always was a fraud" he
exclaimed afterwards. He has been
my bad star ali my life. We were at
the same university. The first term
| did nothing but drink. Just before
had to go up for my exams. he called
and said that, if paid him s4OO he
would go up and be examined for me.
| kicked him out l found out later
that everybody who was in funk
about exams. sent up 'Carroty-Hair,'
whose fee was from $500 to $500 an
examination. Sometimes he had three
mems exams. in n term. sometimes
only ones. The last year was up
he had to dye his hair and beard, lest
the examiners should recognize him.
But perhaps the most Ingenious way
of all occurred to citizen of st. Pc
tersburg. who wished to make money
and did not care for commerce. He is
Jew named Chain SZaik. Jews are
not allowed to live within the confines
of that city-a restriction which many
merchants and business men find most
troublesome. The only way Is to get
baptized and many object to this, as
it goes against their conscience.
Hence deal with Chain Szaik to get
baptized for them. When he is sum.
moned for this purpose he takes his
customers passport to the police. gets
over the inevitable red tape and seal.
ing wax formalities with them and
goes to a church. where he is quietly
baptized. After receiving the certiti.
cate of baptism from the priest he re.
turns to the police. has the word
Jew" which brings so maEy disquali
fications with it. struck out-and re
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
Rather Ambiguous.

The Rev Mr. Dozen had not gained
the golden opinions of his congrega-
ton. who were unanimous in assert
ing that he was foolish and conceited.
He considered himself greatly Sian
dered. and. meeting an old German
friend of his in the street one day,
began to retail his woes. ending up by
saying:
Ard the church warden actually
called me perfect ass. My cloth pre-
vented me from resenting insults. but
l think l shall refer to it in the pulpit
next Sunday. What would you ad
vise?"
Mine friendt." replied the German
soothingly. Il know not, but tink dat
all you can do will be youst to bray
for them as usual!"-Detroit News
Tribune.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
Good Work Goina Forward.

Following whirlwind campaign
against consumption in Charleston, the
American tuberculosis exhibition of
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis re-
Gently opened another exhibition
movement in Greenville, s. C. After
January | the work will be continued
In Columbia, S. c., in connection with
the session of the state Legislature.
Efforts will be made to secure an ap-
preparation to fight tuberculosis. An
other exhibition of the National as
ISOLATION has just closed campaign
in Colorado, and is now touring Okla
homa. A statewide fight will be
waged in this state. Later. this ex-
hibition will go to Arkansas.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
Inventor and His Device.

will enable mine owners and miners
to obtain this safeguard against the
deadly gases and the smoke of mine
year Further, it is stated, the device
may be readily manufactured and sold
at a price not above SO cents.
The manner in which the inventor
hit upon the idea of supplying oxygen
to the entombed miner was common.
place in the extreme.
Mr.. Hall was lighting the lamp Of
an automobile when the thought occur.
red to him of generaSng oxygen as
the gases of the lamp were generated,
and supplying that oxygen to miners
to breathe when the air Of the mine
had become contaminated with poison.
Gus gases and smoke as to mean i'm.
mediate death.
He made a device, which consists OF
a water chamber and below 1t com.
partment filled with sodium peroxide.
In an emergency stop-cock is touch.
ed and the water comes in contact
with the chemical. The oxygen is
ReneTaleu. Ills Is pdSSeu through tQ6
water which cools it and then it goes
to the mouth and nose by means of a
hood, such as is fitted to the face
when gas is administered. Thus may
oxygen be supplied that will keep a
man going for half an hour while he
fights his way out of mine that has
been filled with gas or smoke by rea.
son of an explosion or otherwise.
Mr.. Hall, as a representative Of the
government, has visited many of the
great disasters in mines that have oc.
Cured in recent years. At Mononga
where more than 300 men lost their
lives in December. 1907, he found that
the vast majority of the men had died
by slow suffocation long after the ex
| plosion. Many of these had crawled
for great distances on their hands
| and knees, for the miner knows tha,
the best air is near the ground.
If these men. and it is fair to as
| sumo the same in the case OF the
| Cherry horror. had some means of get
| ting air to breathe they would have
lived The figures show that of all
men who die In mines 30 per cent
meet death throught suffocatio>
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
AN EXCELLENT REMEDY.
Will Break Up a Cold in Twenty-Four
Hours and Cure Any Cough That
Is Durable.

The following mixture is often pre-
scribed and is highly recommended
for coughs, colds and other throat and
bronchial trouble. Mix two ounces
of Glycerine. a half-ounce of Virgin
Oil OF Pine compound pure, and eight
ounces of pure Whisky These can be
bought in any good drug store and cas-
lily mixed together in large bottle.
The genuine Virgin Oil of Pine com
pound pure is prepared only in the
laboratories of the Leach Chemical
Co. Cincinnati, and put up for dis
pensing in half-ounce walls.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24

turns 1t to Its owner. who now has the
right to live where he likes Chains
charges are in accordance with his
customers means. Sometimes he
earns several hundred dollars a day;
sometimes he takes but a few cents
or nothing at all. He admits. how
ever. that he is making fortune, with
which he hopes soon to retire, leaving
his trade" as he calls it, to his son,
In the meantime he spends all his free
time in the synagogue. for he is a
most devout Jew. and SO well versed
in Holy Writ that his coreligionists
look upon him as a great authority in
the holy law.-Kajetan Dunbar.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
JUST WANTED A SENSATION
Tender Passion Not the Only Thing
That Prompted Young Mans
Question.

The girl was very rich and the
young man was poor, but honest. She
liked him, but that was all, and ne
knew it, One night he had been a
little more tender than usual.
You are very rich" he ventured
Yes" she replied frankly. Il am
worth 81 $50 900"
And | am poor"
Yes"
"Will you marry me?"
No"
Il thought you wouldn't"
Then why did you ask me?"
"Oh, just to see how man feels
when he loses $1.250,0 Illus.
trated Sunday Magazine
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
A Rare Good Thino.

"Am using Aliens Foot-Easc. and can
truly say l would not have been without
It 50 long. had known the relief it would
give my aching feet think it a rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet
Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence, r.
l." Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Ask to-day.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-24
A Pair of Them,

No. Now mind Johnny said the
mother of a fve-year-old, there's a
ghost in that dark closet guarding the
JAM
No 1.-TWO hours later)-"Oh. nam.
ma" cried Johnny. That ghost in
the dark closet has eaten nearly half
the JAM"