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8sra Out ehNs 3iH ndee.

Beef was very scarce in LadysmfG iur!ng the siege, but General Sir Ian Hamilton. then colonel. Insisted that -horse Is nOt half bad when properly cook ed and when one Is used to It. In fact" he said, concluding a discus sion. II have a joint cooked tonight, which 1 hope you will all sample. or course, there's beef, too--tCnight!" Ev cry one at the table preferred the beef. with ths exception of Colonels Ward and Ian Hamilton, who ostentatiousiJ carved generous slices from the horse aesh" The dinner was nearly over when one of the servants whisper ed 8 communication to Ward. Up he sprang
 T'm distressed. gentlemen" he nn
 lounced to the startled company ~ 4i!y mistake has been made. Those oints were mixed up somehow, and You have been eating the horse. rm really annoyed. But I hope you'll be conv.nceJ now that the meat Is splen, did eating sll sure you all seemed to enjoy IT," ,ances were exchanged; uustaches w.... tw!rled Nobody seem, nd ready w!t.l response. Then 2 voice from the bottom of the table p,ped up: "Oh. don't distress yourself. Tard thought some mistake had been made, so just changed those fishes as they stood on the sideboard q was you and Hamilton who had the aorsefesh all rightl'
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Nobody Ever "at" London.

A case of irregularity occur. In ! a ablegran that announces from New York tha residence of & certain ac cused person lat London" You wilt perceive at once the ahsurdity of those words--"at London" A New Yorker may want to get at London. but those wto live there live fin London" And 1t is one of the triumphs of London and language tthough most irregular, that no one is ever "at' London. You can drop of "at' Paris on the way to anywhere, and you may spend the win ter "at" St. Petersburg or "at' New York. You may change cars 'at" Chi cago. But there comes moment when the English language gets irregular. Is 1t when the fifth million Is passede Nc Engltshman was ever lat" London Ii would be as irregular as being at Asia or "at" heaven.--,London Stand ard
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Domestic Bliss.

They had been trotting in double harness for seven long, weary months. and the honeymoon had bumped the bumps for fair.
 ''John," she said, as she dished out the breakfast food, 'sI need a little pin money this morning."
 What did you do with the S5 l gave you last week?" asked the man who had promised to love. honor and pay the freight
 'Oh, don't remember" she replied. Its 50 easy to spend s and have nothing to show for it.''
 "Rlght you are" sighed John. That was the amount paid the minister for marrying us."-Chicago News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
Iceland From Lava Wall

The general impression that Iceland ,s a cold country is a false one says . writer tn Travel Magazine. In Reyk' ,avik. the capital ot the island. one day perched myself on one of the lava walls and looked at scene of summer warmth and beauty. Familiar cows and cats and hens were busy in tho sunshine. Children, thinly clad, were playing about with shouts of merri ment. Potatoes were in full blossom. and cabbage and various veget: bles added to the sense Of homelike comfort But such days are oases in vast deserts of rain, for 1T Iceland Tn summer ls aot cold 1t Is not comfortable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
A Corsjcao Vendetta.

Lecturing on ''The Land of the Ven detta" at the Royal Geographical so- ciety's headquarters. the Rev. I. T, Norgate said he had discovered h. stances of vendetta being started ID Corsica through a pig getting into an other mans field, and this had caused the loss of perhaps hundreds of lives and had made two families deadly enc mics for upward of 300 years. The men who carried on such vendetta would scorn to rob any one of six penny piece. London Globe
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Tongue Twisters.

Among brief tongue twisters the fol- lowing are hard to beat: "The sun shines on the top signs;' ''She says she shall sew sheet;;" ''The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick" Some of Shakespeare's lines offer pitfalls to the rapid speaker. In Midsummer Nights Dream" we find, "When lion rough in widest rage doth roar." and in the same play
 Oh, Fates, como. come!
 Cut thread and thrum;
 Quail, crush. conclude and Quell.
 London Chronicle.
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aetty's Gift.

Lancashire vicar was asked by the choir to call upon old Betty, who wns isat. but who insisted !n joining in tf.a solo of the anthem, and to ask he only to sing In the hymns. He shoutes into her ear, Betty. Two been request sd to speak to you about your sing ing" At last shs caught the wor: singing" and replied: Mot to me De the praise, slr. It's . gift"-Pall Mali Gazette.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
Room p,ors on tho Stage.

fn real life room doors always opeE in toward the room itself On the stage, however, room doors, as rula open outward, or away from the roou. Exits are one of the most difficult parts of the actors art, and if he or she had to tumble with the handle. pull ths door toward them. step round 1t ana pass through they would probably make a clumsy dodge of 1t. That ls why. as a rule. doors are constructed to open outward at push.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
ch;n... Troop. Good Runners,

In the drilling of recruits for the Chinese army each man Is required to carry sand in his knapsack. For the arst day he carries two ounces; on each succeeding day hs increases thia amount by two ounces until at last be b carrying sixteen pounds These men esn run at . dog trot for ten consecu
 dve hours and arrive at the end oi
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
aut4ar Than his Pick.

\ story is told of an Irishman whn while walking with his friend, passed . jswelers shop where there were iet of precious stones in the window.
 ''Would you not like to have you packr'
 Mot me pick. but ms shovel" sa't NTko.
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Why sne opened tho L etter.

Willis-Lm sorry your wife opened that business letter sent you. Harris. You told me that she never opened your letters.
 Harris-She doesn't. as rule, Willis, but, you see, you marked 1t ''private."
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A Little Too Youoo.

New BOarder-How's the fare here :? Old Boarder-Well, we have chicken every morning. New Boarder-That's nrst ratei How is it served? Old Boarder-In the eggs.-Brooklyn Life.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
The Boyce Construction
 Company

Are in the field for business and have the most complete moving out fit in the city and do a general build ing business. Also general repairing business. Fix all class of roofs, shin gle, tin and composition Make hign class screens. When you are ready to build, move or repair you do your self an injustice to proceed without getting our estimate Call old paone Il or S97. D. W. i'OYCF.. Mg;.
 THE ROYCE CONSTRUCTION co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28

\ man who makes two jobs grow whore ooo grew before b about shA eese working definition of pats&.- unshv1llo Ameg1caA
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28

Peace rules the day where reason 0ules the mtnd.-C0llins.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-28
2.50 5oO MILE BOOK

Good for bearer locally between points in Arkansas.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
hon. II. c. MOunger Injured.

Hon. H. c. Mounger, recently
appointed Judge of the 9th district,
was injured while jumping from an
automobile twelve miles north of
Utica Friday morning. Mr.. Noun
ger, in company with his brother,
w. D. Mounger, of Natchez and
two other Natchez gentlemen went
to Jackson in an auto last Friday,
Just above Utica the party met
buggy containing lady. The
horse attached to the buggy be-
came frightened and Mr.. Mounger
attempted to get out of the auto
in order to assist the lady when
his foot caught and he was thrown
violently to the ground. The fall
dislocated his elbow and bruised
his shoulder.
He was taken TO Utica and the
shoulder and arm put in place,
and the party came to Port Gibson
the same afternoon.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02

teachers for the class room, the
craftsman's bench and the labora-
tory. / want to see two acres of
ground attached to every rural
school house for demonstration
plots. There the farmers sons
and daughters can spend one-half
the time in the recitation rooms
and the other half time in the field
and laboratory. Then universal
education will mean what 1t should
be with the three RS married to
the three H's-Reading, Writing
and Arithmetic with Head, Heart
and Hand.
JAMES F. McCALEB, M. D.
Cold Springs Plantation, Novem-
Der, 1909.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02

will necessitate a radical change in
all our methods. To accomplish
this there must be an experimental
step. Shall one part of the ships
crew alone try the experiment?
Now understand me, the pro-
ducer does not come as a mendi-
cant and ask your charity; but, not
on the basis of s'GooD COLLATERAL, "
but for the general welfare cause,
the money man MUST SAY, / will
stand by you and share with you
this changed condition and expert
ment- In order to keep your la
Dor we will (using good judgment
and conservatism supply you with
the means to supply them and keep
them at work. This may look like
foolish financiering, but if you look
the situation fairly in the face, it is
your only solution. Choke out or
freeze out the productive capacity
of Claiborne county Cor any like
county, and your banks, your
stores, your mills, your very homes,
will be habitations for owls and
bats. 1t is not altogether ques-
ton of patriotism, it is a question
OF your only hopes of salvation.
Moneyed men and business men,
heed this and all stand together
and pull together to meet the
storm, and together show the COM
mon danger.
"NATIVE BORN"
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
farm Department

financial loss and distress which oc-
Cured would have been unknown.
Large amounts of money are being
expended annually in these dis
tricts in an effort to impress upon
the farmer the necessity of growing
variety of crops and adopting i'm
proved cultural methods; but much
more effective service could be rem
| dered by expending more money to
/ create conditions that would enable
the farmer to utilize more proita-
bly, the crops he is advised to grow.
If we create suitable conditions for
the development of an industry,
favorable results will follow as a
natural consequence. If the south
ern farmer merely changes from a
one-crop system to growing vari-
ETY. of crops and continues to mark
ct these crops in the form of raw
material, there will be little in
crease in the revenue of the owner
or the fertility of the soil.
The eradication of the tick means
the difference between profitable
and Improbable cattle raising. The
history of the cattle industry in the
southern states is conclusive proof
that it cannot prosper with ticks to
contend with, though the natural
conditions are more favorable than
in any other parts of the country.
On the cheap lands of the west,
where cattle are grown at a mini
mum cost, there is a lack of suita-
BILE feed with which to finish them,
! while on the high-priced lands of
the east the farmer finds it more
profitable to purchase western cat
tie to consume his feed, and there
fore only reaps the profits of finish
ing them. The southern farmer is
/ IN position to reap the profits of
the western farmer who grows them
and the eastern farmer who pre-
pareS hem for market. for The
reason thaj - the south VIZ have
he cheap laiuis covered with sHita-
ble grasses and clovers ON which to
grow them, aud, III addition, the
most suitable iced in the country
on which TO fatten them. Ii would
be difficult to combine more suit
able ration for the economical pro-
duction of either beef or milk than
cotton seed meal. corn, silage and
hav, and nowhere can these prod
ucts be grown more cheaply than
in the south.
In order TO get the full market
value of any commodity there must
necessarily be competition in the
buying of it. 1t is owing to the
lack of competition in the purchase
of southern cattle that they are
sold tor nc to &c per pound less
than cattle of less quality from
above the quarantine line, which
means loss of $Ioo to $500 on ev-
cry car of IS head of cattle aver
aging in weigh 800 pounds each.
Concluded Next Week.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
stung For Is Years

by Indigestion pangs-trying many doc
tors and $4,000 worth of medicine in vain,
B. F. Ayscue. of Ingleside, N. c., at last
used DR.. Kings New Life Pills, and writ
es they wholly cured him. They cure con-
stipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache,
Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Bowel
troubles. 25c at ]. A. Shreve's Drug
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
LOokIne ONES Beet .

It's a woman's delight to look her best
but pimples skin eruptions. sores and
boils rob life Of Joy. Listenl Bucklen s
Arnica Salve cures them; makes the skin
soft and velvety. It glorifes the face.
Cures Pimples, Sore Eyes, Old Sores,
Cracked Lips Chapped Hands. Try It.
Infallible for Piles, 25c at I, A. Shreve S
Drug. Store.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
A Call to Capital.

To the Landowners, Merchants
and Bankers of Claiborne Coun-
ty:
The unsettled condition of affairs
among our people has constrained
me to offer a plan for our agricul-
tural distress. Do not let any fam
lily have more than twenty-five
acres of land. The family labor to
consist of man and wife and one
working boy. l cannot emphasize
it too strongly, THEY MUST WORK
EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR, and do
their duty faithfully to all interest
ed parties and themselves. They
must rotate their crops and make
their land richer and richer every
year, and leave it rich when they
move to other parts.
The plan is, the man and wife
and working boy are two and halt
hands. He must have one mule,
or a pair of mules. The twenty
FIVE acres are distributed as fol-
lows:
10 acres in corn 70 feed stock
and himself.
acres in cotton.
acres in Irish potatoes.
3 acres in sweet potatoes, sugar
cane, garden and poultry.
acres in pastures.
He can get all the peas and hay
and fodder from his corn fields.
Now as the yield and sales from
these diversified acres. The corn,
hay and peas are not to be sold,
and under the new corn culture
any farmer ought to make 600
bushels per ten acres. After the
first year few hogs ought to be
sold, with chickens and eggs, to
buy sugar and coffee, and pay
taxes.
s acres in cotton give 8 bales
at $50 per bale.~---- .-.. $4,000
acres In Irish potatoes
give 900 bu. at soc bu.... $1,000
Hogs, chickens, eggs and
molasses .-+.--.. .--.--.. 25.oo
Total cash returns. $325. oc
Rent of MULE. 25.oc
Total balance ...~.... .--....... 10000
Rent IS acres at So acre. 1890
Total net profits ...-.-......-.... $225.oo
The farmer can prepare himseli
by having a cow from which he
can raise yearling to sell every
spring or fall, or a mare to raise a
colt or mule.
1 am not particularly welded to
any one. cash agricultural products
and every one must adapt himself
to what he likes best and what this
soil is responsive, most productive
| ly to. | merely throw out sugges-
ton that is workable, kfor | believe
that Claiborne county can grow
anything but coffee. The boil
weevil will make cotton production
very expensive, but we must grow
cotton on fewer acres and obtain
better yields
1t is no use to moan over the
past. It does no good. "Laugh
and the world laughs with you,
weep and weep alone" No people
under the sun have been more
wasteful of natures gifts than we.
! If we had kept on we would gone
into bankruptcy and our despaiI
would have been greater than the
realization, and we must practice
the farm economies, for the future
belongs to the south
Yours for living at home,
JAMES F. McCALEB, M. D
Cold Springs Plantation. Nov.2etE
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
Facts Plainly Stated.

Port Gibson, Nov. IS, 'o9.
Editor Reveille:
In this part of the state we are
confronted with a condition thai
requires not only wise counsel, but
patriotic action. The latter clause
might be construed to embrace
''self preservation is the first law
of nature" but often in carrying
out or applying this law in heed.
less or panicky fear, we destroy
instead of preserving. Now, what
l write is no spirit of hyper -criti-
cism, nor bias, but from an earnest,
honest effort to promote and con-
serve the general welfare and sue
cess, to meet and accomplish which
there MUST be a reciprocal and
combined action. every fellow
for himself and the devil take the
hindmost," spells panic and ruin.
We are all bound together. "The
head cannot say of the hand,
have no use for thee" Farmer,
merchant, banker, manufacturer,
and laborer, we are all in the same
ship and must sink or swim to-
gether. The latter element (la,
borer) has this advantages: "Like
unto rats, they can leave sinking
ship" To this feature l wish
mostly to call your attention, and
how to quiet fear and instill conf
dence, and to the business men,
moneyed men, bankers and mer-
chants l most directly address my
self. What you now possess and
control has come to you directly,
possibly, by your business sagac-
ity and good management, but in
directly Gin fact, properly, directly)
from the productive capacity OF
your patrons and customers, who
for the years that have past, while
the waters ran smooth and fortune
smiled, grew the crops that poured
into your Golfers and swelled your
business. Now the storm is on,
the breakers are in hearing, don't
foolishly take the life boat and try
to save your hoard, for in so doing
the life boat will swamp and
the gallant ship you abandon &c
down. When the great civil wal
was breaking out, the U. S. gov
ernment, in order to financially
meet the emergency, issued ar
enormous amount of bonds, which
were to be sold. From such sale
the money needed was to be had
For awhile, through general distrps
and PANIC, it was feared these
bonds could not be sold; but one
Ions. headed and wise hnancier II
| New York made public statement
that at once attracted attention anc
relieved the situation. 1t was tc
this effect: 81 call on the moneyec
men of the United States to at once
buy these bonds and thus enable
the government to carry out it:
purposes, for if we let these bonds
| go unsold and thus discredit the
| government-as we destroy theil
value, WE DESTROY THE VALUE o.
ALL OTHER PROPERTY AND INVEST
MENTs- CHAOS WILL REIGN AND VAL
UEs CEASE"
So I say to the moneyed men II
this emergency, you must come t.
the rescue. Resolutions adopted
by you several weeks ago, in which
you loudly proclaimed your inten
ton to ''stand by the people ant
afford support ON GOOD ,coLLATER
AL, is farcical. q trust you vii
pardon the expression.)
We are confronted with a busi
Iness and financial revolution tha
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04

Chicago, April 3.-For the third consecutive dav
new high record marks for wheat were established
on the Board of Trade here TO-DAY when the Nav
oehvery sold at 81 22k and the July al 81 OS2. per
ousheL The market closed strong at net gains for
the day or shade 1c to 1Ikc compared with the
previous close Corn and oats also closed firm, and
provisions steady.
Extreme bullishness vas manifested il the wheat
plt throughout the entire dav and the volume or
trade was large Traders in the pit we're apparent
y rot greatly disturbed by the suspension OF John
Dickinson Co, announced here before the open
ing OF the exchange inasmuch as the manager Of
the concern here declared there would be no losses
TO the CHICAGO trade. At the same time II was be-
neVed gooC many short sales for the account OF
the firm existed. This proved true 10 some extent,
as there was buying OF wheat for whom it
concern during the early part OF the session, pre-
sumably Dickinson short lines. The market opened
strong and at a wide range OF prices First trades
on May were quoted at 81 202 to 81 21. the latter
ngCfe oelhg the high point made during the Gates
deal in 1905. The July delivery opened at 81 0Sl 70
81 oSi2- The strength at the start due to the
ouilsh situation surrounding the cash grain in this
country and to advance a4d sd Liver
pool. The leading bull the buying side of
the market and this started plenty covering by
shorts Early in the day prices reacted a trihe on
profit taking, bat toward the erd OF the first hour
prices again started upward and before the upturn
10 81 JS&4- During the final hour the market was
bulishly affected by crop damage reports and by
an improved demand for -four in the Northwest.
Fresh reports were received from Ohio telling of
injury to the crop by winter killing" The close
was strong, with May at s. 21ts to 81 294 and July
at 81 0SSs
The market q spasmodic affair trade
being active al times and then inclined to drag.
The tone, however, FIRM all dey. mainly on ac-
count of the strength of wheat. Small receipts.
light country acceptances and an official forecast
for unsettled weather in the corn belt, however,
had effect The close firm net gains
of shade to &C to 2sc, May being at CSC and
July at 667sc.
There a broad and active trade in oats. and
the market scored moderate gains in sympathy
with the strength other grains. Cash houses
bought May rather freely. while shorts We're the
principal buyers of the deferred futures. The
ket closed firm met gains OF &c to sc final
quotations May were at 55H4c 10 567sc, and on
July 4SIac 4sssc
Provisions quiet and steady. Buying by
local packer based a SC advance in I've hogs
the feature Of trade. At the close prices were
2 shade hisher
New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
wuEN MEN CARRIED mUFFs

II We should see a fashionably dressed man
walking IN Fifth avenue. New York City with MS
hands thrust into capacious fur nluh. such =
snectacle would immediately arouse curiosity.
and our imagnation would invent various reasons
to account for this peculiar choice IF apparel
Proba bly, We should first explain II As an adver-
tisenent. but when closer inspection disclosed
no placard suggesting the purchase of = patent
medicine that this was a unique method OF paving
bet would occur 70 Whatever the true ex-
planation might be, IT is not so very long ago
that nluffs were customarily used by most men
and therefore a revival Of this old fashion might
not be impossible
Until late in the eighteenth century in England
f,uv as many men as women carried uufrs. The
purchase OF two handsome nluffs and the prices
Maid are found in the wardrobe accounts Of Prince
Henry Of Wales In 1908 No less sum than seven
pounds sterling the cost Of the more exper-
sive one which consisted Of cloth ornamented with
silver and gold plates. and sixty shillings
paid for the other of black satin embroidered
silk
During the reigns Of Charles I and Charles II
a very curious double" muff was worn This pro
in the form of long. loose cuff attached 70 the
coat sleeves. With the coming OF William OF
orange men carried small muffs attached by cord
a button on the coat or suspended from a rib
bon around the neck
After no mufs ceased TO vars greatly in size
and became uniformly larger although Horace
walpoIe writes of presenting a gentleman with "a
decent snallish mum that YOU may put In your
nocket" However. about 1850 the fashion such
that both ladies and gentlemen frequently carried
pet dogs in their Capacous muhs.
After the year 1855 only men of eccentric habits
The vast majority OF Englishmen's NUNS We're un-
Ostentatious in appearance. though a few of these
men often carried those ornamented with wonder
ful lace frillS.--Harper'S Weekly