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The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
BLOSSOMS THAT DO NOT MIX
Florist Tells of a Few Thinqs He Has Learned in His Business of
 Handling Flowers.

The florist drowned as he took up an order for table decoration That will never do," he muttered. After calling up the customer and suggest ing a change, he told his new clerk a few things.
 You must never take an order that calls for mixture of mignonette and roses" he said. "A centerpiece of those two flowers wouldn't last half through the luncheon. They simply wilt one another. I don't know why, but they cant get along together.
 Tt is true of many flowers. Pansies, for instance, last twice as long as if they are not combined with any other flower, and the same may be said of violets Jonquils and daffodils, on the other hand, seem to get new lease of life if you combine considerable green with them Carnations will go all to pieces if you combine them with roses, although the roses do not seem to be affected.
 "It is more striking in combinations of green with flowers. If you try to use an entirely different type of foliage from what the flower is used to, it won't last so long So I never put feathery foliage with lilies of the valley, for you know it's natural foli- age is thick leaf. l never use thick leaves with carnations, for their foli- age is of the feathery type. It isn't as though the flowers fought, but they seem to grieve at being misunder- stood"
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
GRATED ON JURY'S FEELINGS.
oratorIcai Flight We'll meant' But It Did Not Tend to Help His Client.

Accordlng to an Indiana lawyer tho verdict of the jury in oaso .r,oa L., that state was distinctly influenced bv all unfortunate break made by a youthful attorney in his closing ad. dress.
 The defense put forward had heen that the defendant was an imhecile and consequently was unable to dis. tlhgulsh between right and wrong. In ms summing up the young lawyer made clever use of this point: but. when about to close, expressed him. self in this extraordinary manner.
 Gentlemen of the jury. gaze upon this unfortunate defendant. Regard. gentlemen, that receding forehead. the significant angle of those ears the lack-iuster expression of those eyes. Need l remind the gentlemen of the jury that these are unmistak. able evidences of Natures deprivation of the power to distinguish right from wrong? Ignorant of this distinction between right and wrong, gentlemen of the jury, how can this poor i'm beetle be convicted of the charge brought against him? Why, gentle men, this unhappy man is like two year-old child-he neither knows why be does thing nor how. Therefore. gentlemen, it is with peculiar pride l reflect that, such are the institu- tions of this, the greatest and most glorious of all nations, that my client, imbecile though he be, today stands for trial by jury of his peers!"- The Sunday Magazine.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
WILL BORE ANOTHER WELL.

pnmerville, Aug. 5--Not at all ,;scourag ged because two wells have been sunk to depth of nuor n 2OOO feet without commer- oiol results the company invest igating the oil fled near here is ..,ronariur to sink another well ac cording to statements of reliable parties. Leases on the land have been renewed and drilling work will be continued.
 There are many indications +bat oil and gas exist here in having quantities. It is thought that it will be possible to bore the new well deeper and locate the product.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
THEORIST IN DEEP TROUBLE.
He Cannot Understand Why Things Disappear When They Are Not
 in Constant Use.

Did you ever notice," asked the the- orist, how a thing will disappear if you don't use it for awhile? Leave it around your room for awhile and it will vanish"
 Easy enough said the practical man. The servant sweeps it into the wastebasket"
 Not at all" said the theorist. "Try the experiment of having two of any thing and use one, and the other will disappear. I mislaid my pocketknife few weeks ago and bought another. found my old one that night and car ried both in my pocket for awhile, al- ways using the new one. In the course of time the old one vanished-van- ished magically from my pocket"
 You dropped it, said the practi- cal man.
 Why didn't l drop the new one?" asked the theorist. And why is it always that way? I had a new key made for my office desk, under the i'm pression that there was something wrong with the old one There wasn't CT awhile the old one, which I didn't use, vanished off the key ring
 At home I use an eyeshade for reading at night. l had two, one light and one heavy. Lately I have been using the heavy one alone, keep ing the light one in a drawer To-day l opened the drawer and found the light one gone. Do you think the maid opened the drawer so as to find some thing to sequester for the waste basket?"
 ''Bosh!" said the practical man.
 Try it." said the theorist,
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05

time. rsaye went back to his rooms with very mingled feelings. How could he raise the necessary money? That was the question which puzzled and worried him. To his great sur prise he met a friend who had just arrived from Belgium, and in des- pair begged him to lend him enough to buy the wonderful instrument. its large sum to pay" said the friend, and 1 haven't enough money with me- Would you lend it if you had?" asked the violinist. Yes" was the reply. Look here, then," said Ysaye, you deal in diamonds?" Yes" Then leave few diamonds as security and get me the precious Guadagnini " Ysaye's friend was surprised at the proposal, but realizing the earnest ness of the request, consented to do so. Tn this way" says Ysaye, "I was married to my first love among the fiddles-my Guadagnini."
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
An Honest Boy Rewarded.

Honesty is appreciated-even among politicians. During a recent political convention in North Carolina a news. boy named Cicero Alexander sold a paper to delegate who gave him dollar and was to wait for his change
 The boy on returning, could not find his customer and began to cry, The chairman of the convention, impressed by his honesty, announced the matter before the whole assemblage-the re. suit being not only that the man who had the change coming to him let the boy have it. but a collection of S19.3i was taken up for him by the dele. gates. Some one shouted that the youngster should be made state treas. urer and by unanimous vote the con. vention recommended him for chief page in the legislature. Exchange.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
Biography of Edward MacDo -:=:: ..c. lates s~=-= =xamp;es of the Mas
 ter's Caustic Humor.

In biography of Edward MacDow- ell by Lawrence Gilman, the writer quotes some of the famous musician s Wltticisms. On one occasion he had been told of a performance of his composition, ITO Wild Rose" played by a highschool girl on a high-school piano at a high-school graduation fes- tivity. We'll" Mcdowell remarked, T suppose she pulled it up by the roots!"
 Some one sent him about this time, relates Mir. Humiston, a program of an organ recital at which this same Wild Rose" was to be played
 He was not pleased with the idea, thinking doubtless of a style of per formance which plays Schumann's s 'Traumerei' on the great organ dia- pasons. He remarked simply that it reminded him of hippopotamus wear ing clover leaf in his mouth"
 A member of one of his classes at Columbia, finding more unoccupied space on the page of his book, after finishing the exercise, filled up the va cancy with rests. When his book was returned the page was covered with corrections-all except these bars of rests, which were inclosed in a red line and marked:
 This is the only correct passage in the exercise. Youths Companion.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
CELEBRATION AT POCAnONTAS.

pacohontas, Aug. 5--A big eel ebration is in progress here to- day in honor of the visit ofCon- gressman w. A Oldfie.d and three government experts who are making a tour of the Second Con- pressional District in the interes of good roads and better farming Several hundred dollars were donated by the business men of the city to provide a big free dinner free entertainmet and the like. Farmers are present from all parts of the county.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
DEAL WITH THE LEADING FIRMS OF ARKANSAS HOUSES OF LITTLE ROCK FILL YOUR WANTS:

AUTOMOBILES and Supplies. Tedford Auto Go.
 ARCHITECTURAL Iron Work, Steel nels, Trusses. Thomas-Fordyce Mfg. Go.
 ARKANSAS BRICK AND MFG. co. Brick, Rock, Cement, Lime, Plaster. BLANK BOOKS. Democrat Printing and Lithographing Go. ofice Furni- tnre, Fine Stationery, Bank Supplies. BOILERS, Engines, Sawmills.. Wehr- fritz Mfg. Go.
 BoNDs AND STOCKS For Sale. Great Western Oil, l5 Delta Consolidated, IS. and others. o. L. Eaton, P. o. Box 2o6.
 CONSULTING ENGINEERS. Lund & Hill. Sewers, Waterworks, Power De- velopments, Bridge, Levee and Drain- DICKINSON AND WATKINS, Ensi. neers. Surveys, Waterworks, Sewers, Water Power. Levees, Drainage. DUDLEY E. JONES co. Machinery and LITTLE ROCK BOILER AND IRON Boilers, Tanks, Smokestacks, Iron MANTELs AND FLOOR FILING. Crsw. ford Paint and Paper Go. DR. LYMAN RASCHBAUM. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist. South ern Trust Building.
 SHEET MUSIC and Musical Instruments. Classical and Popular Music, Musical c. B. Stewart, 301 Hollenberg Bldg.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05

Little Rock, Aug 5-The Sur preme Court is expected to rendea' a decision in the State Capitol case today. The argument was finished at 11.3O o'clock yester- day morning and the court took the case under advisement. The decision will dispose of demurrer filed by Judge B.ackwood for Chancellor Martineau of the Pulaski County Chancery Court to the petition for a writ of prohi- bit,on filed With the court by the counsel tor the governor and State Capitol Commission to pro hibt Chancellor Martineau from enforcing his Itemporary injunc- tion to restrain the governor and commission from doing any fur thPr work on the capitol.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
souaht by klna George in 1z7t.

Bought by King George in 177t.
 The old house standing on the cor. ner of Batavia and Roosevelt streets. New York. one of the few buildings left intact as a relic of colonial times, is about to be torn down to make way for an apartment house. The house, bit altered, has been standing since the middle of the eighteenth century. It is one of the landmarks of the Fourth ward. Tn the year 1771 King Geor.e III. bought the house and prop erty for the sum of e75. The deed of sale. with the signature of the king attached. is now in the possession of the present owner, Thomas Farrell of 72 West One Hundred and Thirty seventh street. An option on the prop erty has been given for about $100,00O -Exchange.
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05
YSAYE GOT PRECIOUS VIOLIN.
Renowned Virtuoso Owes Possession of Instrument to the Generous
 Act of a Friend.

An interesting story is told of M
 Eugene Ysaye. In his younger and poorer days he was very anxious to secure a Guadagn mini violin which he saw in a pawnbroker's window in Hamburg. Although he had not the wherewithal, he asked the pawnbro- ker to lay it aside. as he might be able to purchase it some day. The man agreed to keen it for certain
The Prescott daily news., 1909-08-05

MONEY MADE IN LITTLE ROCK Raa, Estate One dol ar Makes Two: Often Makes ten. We buy 9nd eel Arkansas and Tex "- f,-.',. Our next excursion to Teyos August 3. Southern Real Est '7 GO.. Little Rock. Ark. GOING ID BUILD? It will be greatly to your advantage to drop mo postal and get a pro- 20.'t'on. Do it today R P Nor risoN Arch tact. N soric Tom pc, Little Rock. Ark.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

Premier Clemenceau has announc-
ed that the French Government has
determined hereafter to
Russia forbid the maintenance of
Rebuked. foreign police in France.
This decision grows out of
revelations recently made of the spy
system employed by Russia in trac-
ing Russian refugees to and in
France, and while it applies to other
nations, of course it will scarcely af-
feet any country save Russia, for no
other nation except that most be-
nighted one pursues political refu-
gees. The decision of the French
Government is most commendable.
To drive the most intelligent and pa
triotic element from the land in
which they are so much needed is
bad enough, without the Russian
diabolism being allowed to pursue it
to other countries.
Recent dispatches have contained
horrible stories of the existence of a
religious CD body in the very heart
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

Floods in the rich farming dis
tricts of the middle West have Sc
riously damaged the crops
High in that section, and the price
Wheat. of wheat and other food
stuffs is apt to be appre-
ciably advanced. $3.50 or $500
wheat would not be improbable in
the near future.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

The Standard Oil is about to in
wade an entirely new field, in the
manufacture of food called
Petrol. Petrol" which is butter
made from petroleum. 1t is
said to be similar to ordinary butter
from cream, but brown in color We
have as yet been spared the knowl-
edge of what it tastes like, but
hazard the guess that well sailed
vaseline would make fair descrip-
ton.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

The mayor of Seattle, Washington,
must be gentleman Of rare diplo-
macy. They have in his city,
Queer as every one knows, a big,
Case. Cosmopolitan fair in progress;
and they also have, as not
every visitor may be expected to
know, local ordinance against
smoking, handling, buying, selling,
giving away, or in anyWise toying
or dallying with the naughty cigar
cite. Naturally, the police have been
much embarrassed, for, of course,
some of the tourists casually lighted
up not realizing that they thereby
became disorderly persons to be in
Quoted to jail forthwith. Asked to
construe the ordinance and to deter
mine in a case whether the letter of
the law had been broken or not, the
mayor held that a cigarette was a
little cigar. Skurrying to the die
tionary, it was found that he knew
his Webster we'll and that paper rolls,
etc, might, or might not, be cigar
cites according to the strict interpre-
tation of the term. So the trans
gressor, in his tenderfoot ignorance,
will probably escape lynching.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS!

To any subscriber of the Jefferson
ian wishing to make an investment
we refer you to Larchmont Farm,
New York corporation, whose adver-
tisement appears on another page.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22
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South suspected of being engaged
American in some vast political ma
Affairs. chination. Recently, the
ship Nantichoke was sup
posed to be proceeding to Vene-
zuela in pursuance of a deep, dark,
f1libuster plot, and now it is rumored
that the former President (and by
all right the present President) of
that interesting country is at the bot
tom of the revolution which is now
spreading over it's neighbor, Colon
bia,-that he is actually financing it!
To furnish the sinews of war in such
a fashion looks like a staggering
proposition, but perhaps in South
America a revolution may cost no
more than one of our Fourth of July
be splendid coup if he did manage,
through the Colombian skirmishes to
regain his control of Venezuela, even
if the Colombian president, who is
now charged with having fled, should
meet with the same exile Castro did.
But the rumor is probably only
Washington gossip. Recently, how
ever, from Santanda, Spain, Gen. Cas-
tro made the following statement re-
garding South American affairs:
The diplomatic arrangements
made by the Venezuelan Government
with the United States, France and
other nations are onerous and hui
initiating to Venezuelans.
''The sovereignty and independ-
ence of Venezuela is weakened by the
treaty with the United States, which
now is in a position to take possession
Of the Venezuelan republic in the
name of the Monroe doctrine.
This shows him to be anything but
a ''has-been" mentally. Every coui1-
try with any class about it has it's
peril so why not Venezuela it's
American peril?" And serve to get
Castro recalled by his country to cope
with the danger.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

of Russia, whose main rites appear
to consist of torturing human victims
principally women and girls-to
death. Certainly human sacrifice is
practiced. The mass of the people are
so stepped in ignorance and supersti-
ton that it is not strange that such
an outcropping of "voodooism"
should have been discovered.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

The unanimity in condemnation
that has been elected from mission
workers in reference to
Tardy white girls and women
Confessions. coming in contact with
the Orientals is re-
markable. Bishop D. H. Moore's re-
marks on the subject are fair sam
pie of the expression. Before the
Epworth League Convention at Steu-
benville, Ohio, he said: Knowing
the Chinese character as I do, in the
face of the awful murder of Elsie
Sigel in New York, would not allow
daughter of mine nor any woman,
young or old, to teach in Chinese
missions in the United States Men
should do this work.
LET the work be undone forever
rather than let women attempt to do
it,
The wonder and the Indignation
of the laity grow that such express
sions were not heard before.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22
Summary ofEUents

She left four children, one of her
sons, Jefferson, through a special act
of the Legislature bearing the name
of Davis instead Of Hayes.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

Castro must certainly be a wizard.
One day report has him at deaths
door, and the next he is
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

The conferees from the Senate and
House expect to complete their ne
gotiations the latter
The Tariff. part Of this week. Mr..
Taft has brought some
CONSERVATION in their ranks by his
open insistence upon free iron ore,
coal, petroleum, hides and lum Der, as
well as demand for an excise tax of
per cent. on the net earnings of cor
porations. The standpatters, how
ever, are not so much disturbed as it
might be imagined. The protected
interests have done amazingly well
under the Dingley rates. Therefore,
should Taft veto the Payne-Aldrich
bill, the interests would be pretty
we'll pleased to be as we'll off as they
were before; while the Senate has
sufficiently raised the schedules to
allow for considerable hammering
down and still not get much below
the Dingley duties. The whole thing
is very cleverly staged and played
Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter
of Jefferson Davis, died July 18th at
Colorado Springs.
The Last of the She was the last
Davis Family. member of the i'm
mediate family of
the President of the Confederacy,
and following the death of Winnie
Davis she was made the Daughter of
the Confederacy in her sisters stead.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

Don Carlos of Bourbon has passed
away at his house in Lombardy. This
will doubtless put at
The Pretender an end much of the
Dies. agitation by the Car
lists. Within late
years Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos,
has instigated a good deal of discon-
tent in Catalonia and other dis
tricts, but even before his fathers
death it was rumored that King AL
fonzo had practically effected a re-
Cancellation with Don Jaime. Like
the Jacobin survival the Carlists
agitation for many years has amount
ed to very little, except to entertain
those who enjoyed engaging in a lit
tie mysterious but virtually harm
less plotting.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-07-22

The Nationalist forces in Persia
have held their ground remarkably
we'll. The treacherous
Persia's Shah has been formally de-
Struggle. posed in favor of the crown
prince and, while the re-
bellion is only in progress and as yet
not victorious, the situation looks
more hopeful for the freedom of Per-
STA from despotism than ever before
The Nationalist are growing stronger
all the time, while the Royalists are
losing heavily by assertions, and the
main dependence of the adherents of
the old regime consists Of their allies.
the Russian Cossacks, who have been
pouring over the border into Persia
New-York tribune., 1909-04-30
NORRIS SENDS PROTEST
Tells Aldrich His Name and FTyG,S
Were Used COrruptly.

Washington April 29.-John Norris, chairman OF
the paper committee of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, has written n letter TO
Senator Aldrch informing him that his name and
that of Senator Frye of Maine. had been used In
an effort 10 corrupt employees OF the Laurentide
Pa per Company, of Canada and TO procure afh-
davits about the cost of making news print paper
In Canadian mills. The copy of letter from Allen
Curtis acting manager of the International Paper
Company upon the letter heading Of that company
accompanied the letter as confederation.
Mr. Norris said in his letter that a repre-
sentng himself to II. Purcell of Buffalo, and
asserting that he acted for the United States gov
ernment called at the office of the American Con-
sui General in Montreal and presented letter pur
porting to be signed by Senator Frye to the effect
that Senator Aldrich had directed Senator Frye to
send Purcell Canada to obtain information rela-
tive TO the cost of manufacturing paper there.
Purcell told leading employees of the Laurentide
mill said Mr.. Norris, that he knew their jobs In
the Laurentide mill were in Jeopardy. and ne
them of places in the employ Of the Interna-
tionaI Paper Company If they would give 70 him
the cost figures of the Laurentide mill.
THE American Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton" Mr.. Norris. protests against the use
OF affdavits obtained by bribery and against the
secrecy which has thus far attended the Senate
committees investiga ton"