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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25

A few claims paid during month of August by Kimball & Saunders, mana gers Great Eastern Casualty Co.,, of New York
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25
DR. c. D. SMITH,

Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Calls night or day answered prompt ly. Office at Alexander Bros. store, corner of Fourth and Pine street. Old phone 529. Residence, 1207W. 9th ave. old phone 109.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25

If . man smptles his pafss into his head no s00 1a1 tahD 1 0oO him.- Franklin
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25
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Tornado and
 Hail Insurance

Two of our the-very-best and larg- est companies, with assets of over $31, ,060,000, are writing hail in con- nection with tornado insurance. Let us write Jou policy at once. The rates are very low.
 The ssorm 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. B. wise and insure with uS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-09-25

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Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Pages in the Senate Mimic Bic Men

be able to clarity the question. Ac.
cordingly he approached his seat and
called out: "Mr. President"
The irrepressib]e Billy" was not
taken back. "The chair will recognize
the senator from Wisconsin," he said,
as he brought down The gavel and nod.
ded to Mr.. Spooner.
The ease and poise af the youngster
startled Senator Spo6ner, and it was
nearly minute before he could con.
troll his twinkling eyea.
rs It not out of ordcr." he asked.
TO permit SO many senators to ad.
dress the chair at the same time?"
1T is decidedly out of order," said
the piping voice in the vies-president's
chair.
THE point made by the senator from
Wisconsin is well taken. The senate
will come to order"
In the house of representatives there
are % pages, and in the senate 16.
According to the regulations. no
page can be under IL years or over
16 years of age.
The position of senate page pays
a salary of SIS a month when con.
gress is in session, and, like all other
employees of congress, these young.
sters receive an extra months salary
every year.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
May Go to Penitentiary in Barrel

said it was an attempted robbery. The
police. because Albert had been in
trouble before, insisted ON a two-years'
sentence. So, following the custom
OF the jail, he sold to other inmates
of the cells his possessions save a
torn and frayed pair of trousers. a
tattered shirt and a worn pair Of
shoes. His mother brought him
some dainties and left him. She could
not bear to come back and see the
lad. mancled and leg irOned to the
long chain. Neither did the boy wish
her to come to see him 20. He
dreaded the scene. Their appre.
hension was not necessary.
Then the state decided there were
extenuating circumstances in the case
and in order to look the facts over
again, and with view perhaps to pa
rolling the boy, the sheriff was asked
not to take Albert with the thirty
eight other convicted persons to the
penitentiary.
But what am I going to do?" he
asked Jailer Wolf, surveying his gar
ments.
They were just sufficient to prevent
him appearing la Adam. The taller
laughed good naturedly and told the
story of how Albert had divested
himself in order that the State should
not get any the better of him and
how he would have to attend services
Sunday in q blanket
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
ut Aids Auctioneer in Realty Sale

Suddenly there was a lull in the
proceedings. Bids were slow and thu,
raises" came dribbling along in
small amounts. Auctioneer Warner
couldn't understand it. He began to
think that his success as 4 forcefuj
auctioneer was to be short lived.
True, it was his first experience.
but he had started out with such a
rush of business that he was con-
graduating himself. He looked at tta
desk where tabby had been.
She had deserted her post. ThS
seemed to explain the situation. A
hurry call was sent for the cat.
Scarcely had she resumed her place
on the auction desk than the bidding
livened up. Prices went soaring ana
the former enthusiasm was revived.
"And the cat came back" some ono
remarked.
After the sale was over it waa
agreed by all, including Mr.. Warner.
that. tabby was responsible for mall
ing the days sale successful.
Several raises of from $25 to $50
were admitted by the "emergency
auctioneer" to be due to the presence
of the cat. She will have a prominent
place in the future sales of the board.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
TRAINING The FEEBLE STEPS,
Cent School Was a Worthy Ancestor
Of the Kindergarten.

A cent school is so called because
the children who come to it bring
each one cent, clutched tightly in a
little hand, or knotted in the corner
of handkerchief, daily Offering. If
the cent is forgotten, or lost on the
way, the child goes home for another,
that is all, and has scoldins for care
lessness into the bargain. The littlest
children go to it-used to go, rather,
for indeed this should all be in the
past tense rather than the present,
the cent school being a thing of the
past and, as one might say, a great
aunt of the present kindergarten, an
old woman from the country, who is
rather plain in her ways. Eunice
Swain would have thought a kinder
garten foolishness. Her children did
not come to school to be amused, but
to work. She put them on benches in
her big kitchen, because it was warm
there, and sat in the dining room door
and taught them, or chastised them,
as the spirit bade her. She taught the
three Rs, and manners, and truth tell
ing, and, above all, humility, impress
ing on these infants daily that they
belonged to generation, not of vi
pers exactly, but Of weaklings.-L H.
Sturdevan., in Atlantic.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

HICAGO.-1f All Sing. hero of
u Bret Harte's world-famous poem,
were to pay visit to Chicago within
the next month or so. he would fine
himself able to enter Chinese hotel.
hand his grip to Chinese bellboy.
aftix his signature to Chinese regis
ter, eat Chinese meal and sleep in
a Chinese bed.
Also, he would be able 20 read a
Chinese newspaper, to be awakened in
the morning by Chinese servant, to
call for cup of real Chinese tea and
eat a dish of breakfast food hailing
not from Battle Creek but Canton.
And he could hear Chinese orchestra
playing Chinese popular songs
For Chicago IS to have Chinese
hotel, the first in the city operated On
the ''Oriental Plan." It is to be as
complete and as modern as the best
American hostelry. Everything in it
is going to be Chinese, from the guests
to the chop.sticks in the dining-rocm.
Everything will be designed to make
Ah Sing or pny other oriental guest
feel perfectly at home.
The now he4sl win be located In tho
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

TWELVE years ago, when Senator
! elect William O'Connell Bradley Of
Kentucky, was governor of that state,
q youth who at IS was carrying the
editorial burden of q weekly newspa.
per in country town in Illinois drift
ed into Frankfort on bicycle trip.
There wasn't much to see in Frank
fort except the state capitol, SO he
went up there.
It was the young editors first in
spectton of state capitol, and his
eyes were open for everything.
Naturally the sign Governors Of
nee" interested him, and he quickly
decided to call on the governor. He
sent In his card and presently the
,doorkeper returned and said: 1.-THE
governor will see you."
Then did the visitor really wish
that his curiosity about the governors
office hadn't got the better of him. 1t
would be manifestly improper to In.
trude on the governors time with.
out some motive, and still the young
editor couldn't think of any motive
On the way to the inner Office he de.
cided to take the governor into his
confidence and confess that there
wasn't any cause for the visit, except
q small matter of editorial courtesy
Prompted, no doubt, by that spirit
that has made him the head of his
party In the state and that enabled
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Hobo in the Presidents Private Car

were so crowded that they couldn't
have looked healthy to the most op.
timistic of tramps. But there was a
Pullman, and it looked nice and dark.
and so the wanderer strolled in and
hid himself.
1t was Letcher, one of the porters.
who found the visitor crouched in a
dark corner of the tiny kitchen. He
made dive for the man and got him
in a clinch. Then he called his fel.
low porter, Anderson. The two of
them had the tramp so scared that he
could hardly see by the time the
secret service men came in and pu1
him under arrest.
At Bridgeport the tramp was turned
over to the police. He tried to saw
that he was brakeman on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford road.
but the trainmen knew better. Mr..
Taft slept right through it, and never
knew thing about it until the next
morning
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Hotel for Chinese Planned in CHICAGO

heart Of the Chinese Industrial center,
at 112 Federal street The lease for
the building has been applied for by
the Cinnamon behind the move to
establish their own hotel.
1--WE expect to get the lease within
a week. said Louie Sing, a Clark
street merchant. Operations will be-
gin at once. Several Chinese lodges
and organizations are back OF the
scheme. 1t would be a great thing for
cur part of the city.
would it pay? Certainly. My coun-
trymen are given to spending money.
Thousands of them visit here yearly.
1t would be fine thing for them"
Many Chinese visitors here, unable
to speak English, cannot get rooms
at local hotels, and the new oriental
plan" building is designed to accom-.
modate them.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
East for Their Ancestors.

The Chinese are rapacious eaters at
the feasts which are given in honor
OF their ancestors. At these feasts the
tables groan with all the good things
which the most efficient cooks can
provide-pork, snow white rice, pick
led cucumbers, chickens, ducks and
birds nest soup. For some minutes
before the feast the six or seven nun.
dred men sit at the tables in silence.
Then at given signal begin the clink
ing of chopsticks and the noise Of
tndrawn breaths by which the Chi.
nese cool the hot mouthfuls Of rice
which they shovel down their throats.
Presently, when the hot samshu be-
gins to work and the faces become
flushed, babel Of voices fills the
temple.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

M EW YORK.-The interest in vari-
~ Gus important features of the days
news recently was completely over
shadowed in certain sections of the
city by rumor that great public up
rising against the wearing of rats"
In women's hair has been started, and
that the hirsute rodents were doomed
to extinction.
Down with the rat!" it was a..
serted was to be the battle cry.
The rumor caused CONSERVATION.
not only in several co-educational in
stttuttOns, where the matter came up
for swift and decisive adjustment, but
In department stores and other places,
where mere man had put his foot down
hard on the familiar feminine head
adornment, and there were unmistak-
able rumblings Of a revolution to be
heard wherever the question was dis.
cussed.
The trouble started at the Erasmus
Hall high school. where the assistant
principal. Miss Kate E. Turner. laid
down the law forbidding rats" or
switches" and the following day en-
forcing the law against violators by
forcably removing the offending adorn.
ments.
While these momentous events were
transpiring in the borough across the
bridge. indignation was at an even
higher boiling point in the department
store district in Manhattan. In sev-
eral OF the big stores notices were
posted in prominent places that rats"
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

| T is the custom for the senate pages
! to hold two or three mock senate
sessions every winter. These sessions
are held on afternoons when the SEN
ate is not sitting. and are conducted
with all the solemnity and poise Of
a regular meeting.
One day the youngsters were con.
Quoting mock trial of the Swayne i'm.
peachment case. Billy Amin was
presiding. Another youngster was DOS.
ing as Anthony Higgins, counsel for
Judge Swayne. and was interrogating
a witness. Senator Spooner of Wis
consin, came into the senate chamber
unexpectedly, and, seeing what was
going on, took seat near the entrance
to the cloakroom.
Presently an intricate parliamentary
question arose, and half a dozen pages
were on their feet asking for recogni.
tion. Mr.. Spooner thought he might
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

HlCAGO.-A big Office cat, the pet
~ of the real estate board. was. "as-
sistant auctioneer" at a recent sale in
the exchange rooms, and to tabby
is giyen the credit for many raises
in prices.
George L. Warner of the firm of
Baird & Warner was the "emergency
auctioneer," but before he had become
initiated in his new task the cat ap-
peared on the scene and perched her.
self upon the desk in front of the
"realty salesman"
Mr.. Warner started in as if he had
been in the auction business all his
life. The bids came in fast and in
large sums. All the time the cat peer
ed down at the men struggling to get
a chance at a certain desirable piece
of property.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

molested here. You have q lake on
one side, a high wall shuts of the
road, and beg you tn accept me as
your near neighbor and protector. The
servants at Mr.. Glenarm's house have
been with him for several years and
are undoubtedly Trustworthy. It is
not likely that your brother will find
you here, but If he should've will
deal with that situation when the time
comes!"
you are very reassuring. no doubt
We shall not need to CALI on you. And
I hope you understand" she continued,
that it is not to keep the money that
l wish to avoid my brother; that II it
were wise to make this further d.
vision at this time and It were for
his good, should be glad to give
him all-every penny Of IT,
Pardon me, but the other brother
-he has not made similar demands
you do not fear him." ] inquired,
with some hesitation.
"No-no!" And a tremulous smile
played about her lips. Poor Arthur!
He must be dead. He ran away after
the bank failure and have never
heard from him since. He and Henry
were very unlike. and always felt
more closely attached to Arthar. He
was not brilliant, like Henry; he was
gentle and quiet in his ways, and fa-
ther was often impatient with him.
Henry has been very bitter toward
Arthur and has appealed to me on the
score of Arthur's ill-doing. It took all
his own fortune, he says, to save Ar
thur and the family name from dis
honor"
throughout this recital, and mar
veled at her more and more. Now,
after moments silence, she turned
to me with smile.
I'VE have been annoyed in another
way. It is so ridiculous that 1 hesi-
! tate to tell you of it"
"Pray do not-you need tell me
nothing more, Miss Holbrook."
1T is best for you to know. My
niece has been annoyed the past year
by the attentions of a young man
whom she greatly dislikes and whose
| persistence distresses her very much
indeed"
We'll. he can hardly find her here:
and II he should i"
Miss Holbrook folded her arms
upon her knees and smiled, bending
toward me.
obi" she exclaimed; "he isn't .
violent person, Mr.. Donovan. He's
silly, absurd, idiotic! You need fear
no violence from him."
And of course your niece is not in
terested-he's not fellow to appeal
to her imagination"
THAT is quite true; and then in
present unhappy circumstances, with
her father hanging over her like a
menace, marriage Is Tar from her
thoughts. She feels that even If she
were attached to a man and wished to
marry, she could not. wish she did
not feel SO; should be glad to see
her married and settled in her own
home. It's very dreadful thing, az
you can understand, for brother and
sister and father and child to be ar.
rayed against one another"
! l wished to guide the talk into
cheerfuller channels before leaving.
Miss Pat seemed amused by the
thought of the unwelcome suitor, and
l determined to leave her with some
word in reference to him.
(TO BE CONTINUEDD
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

CT. LOU1S.-The law of the State is
- responsible for Albert Kapp. son
Of a poor widow being a Jail prisoner.
The rule of the penitentiary Is re-
sponsible for his being almost without
clothing in the bastile.
Prisoners who reach the peniten-
tiary under sentence, are divested of
their clothes and the garments are
burned Stir" clothes are provided
and in these the unfortunates must
live till their sentence expires and
then in garb furnished by the big
prison they fare forth into the world,
a prey 70. the keen eyes of the
Sleuths.
Every man who is sentenced learns
this from the old.timers ard there is
a rule in the city Jail that men going
up sell all their belongings before they
start because the inscription of Dante
is paraphrased into. "All property
abandon ye who enter here" over the
gates of the prison.
Kapp is a youth. He had some
trouble with man, and the man
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Rats Under Ban In New York Schools

in the hair of employees would not be
tolerated, the penalty for ignoring tho
order to be dismissal.
During the luncheon hour nothing
but the new order and plans for COM
batting it were discussed. In one store
it was decided that committee should
wait upon the manager and ask him
to rescind the order or face a gen.
eral strike.
This is the most outrageous pro-
ceeding ever heard Of" said one
young woman, "and ! think we would
be fools to submit to it. The very
idea of man telling us how to wear
our hair! 1t was bad enough when
the manager said we must wear black
gowns and white collars, but it is 60
ing too far when they tamper with our
pompadours.
why, they wouldn't dare to do such
things in Siberia or China or wherever
1T Is they have czar. for one am
going to wear just as big rat as I
like, and don't care If the floorwalk-
er does report me-"
Thet the last crusade against false
hair au..'nment is not being confined
to high schools and department stores
was further evidenced when the wom-
en- employees of the telegraph c,m-
panies in the city held animated di.-
cussion over the report from Kansas
City tina: A. B. Richardson, district
superintendent of the Postal Tele-
graph Company there, had issued this
order:
"On and after November l all WON
en- clerks and employees must discon-
tfnue the use of rats in their tair.
Please govern yourselves accordingly"
The women employees here were ex-
tremely gloomy over the situation, for
it was prophesied that the order would
reach New York next and that the
much'abused rat" would have to 70.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
WASHINGTON housekeepers are in
w clined to think that T. B. Wither-

WASHINGTON housekeepers are in.
W clined to think that T. B. Wither-
spoon of St. Louis was romancing re-
Gently when he told of negro serv.
ant who has been in his employ for
Is years. It appears that the negro
was given ten days leave and money
to spend for a trip down to New Or
leans, but in three days turned up
again. and here is the way Mr.. Wither-
spoon explains the negro's return,
quoting the servant:
"'You see, sub, it done get mighty
miserably cold night after l lef'
you. and knows dat Miss Kate
(my wife) amt got no business tryin'
to work dat furnace, and I know you
amt gwine to bother with it. Nary one
of you got emmy business with dirty
old furnace, least of all Miss Kate, who
amt got no right to soil her little
hans. couldn't sleep good thinkin'
about it, an dat's why l gifts back
Quicker'n 'spected.'
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
The Barriers Down.

John Ford, who, as the English hus
band of Miss Cavendish.B is
related to the Ogden Millses. the Ma.
turin Livingstons and many other not.
ed New York families, talked. at a
quiet dinner at The Plaza, about Eng.
lish society.
New York society,". said Mr.. Ford
lis really more exclusive now than
that of London. In London last sea.
son an episode was narrated that illus.
trated well the breaking down of tho
old barriers.
"'Society is going to the bow.
vows" grumbled a young MARQUIS ct
a Piccadilly club.
"'What's the matter now? friend
inquired.
'Moneylender's wife at a reception
in Belgrave square this afternoon.
said the marquis, wearing all my
wife's emeralds.''
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
He Doesn't Like to Be Written

him to win his fight for the senate
against apparently overwhelming odds.
Gov. Bradley talked to the boy jour.
nalist for an hour. speaking most in.
teresttngly on subjects that could not
fail to interest even youth that didn't
have q news instinct.
The governor described his early ex-
periences as Republican In q Demo.
cratic hotbed, when to 60 to the polls
and vote the Republican ticket was
only one form Of committing suicide.
He told how at one period of his po-
litical activity it became necessary for
all the Republicans of the town in
which he lived to fortify themselves
in house and defend themselves
against Democratic raiders who were
thirsting for blood.
There were so many Of these stories
that the hour had passed before either
the governor s'r his visitor knew it.
and when the boy editor finally ex
cused himself he carried away a pic.
ture bearing the governors auto.
graph.
When Gov. Bradley won his success.
full fight before the Kentucky legisla-
ture few weeks ago the editor, who
had been reduced by lapse of time to
just plain reporter, remembered these
stories of the early days, and wrote
the senator-ele asking the privilege
Of telling them to the whole country.
Gov. Bradley's reply stamps him as a
man who is going to make himself
disliked in Washington II he doesn't
change his mind:
There is nothing that is more dis.
tasteful to me than to talk about my.
self, and you must excuse me from en-.
tertng into an account OF my past ex'
perience as politician. have never
written it up, and never expect to-"
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
British Savings.

In the British postoffice savings
bank in 1907 there were 1871, ,969 de-
posits. OF the value Of S44,217,2S8. and
last year 1S,379,991, representing e44.-
770,7S2. In 1907, 9,30s,247 withdraw
ais were made. involving e46,463,6 3,632.
and last year 9,922.169. representing
G45,395, 400. The interest credited to
deposttors in 1908 was 63.772.755. :s
compared with e3,719,975 in 1907, and
the total standing to the credit Of de.
positors on savings bank account on
December 81, 1908. was Gl6O,G4s,2r4,
an increase Of &3,148.137 in the year
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08

A TRAMP got into President Taft's
~ private car recently, and very
surprised tramp he must have been,
for he was pounced upon by two of
the most muscular Pullman porters he
had ever seen and then arrested by
Secret Service Officer Sloan.
1t was on the Federal express. run.
ming from Boston to Washington, on
the rear end of which the presidents
private car Mayfower was coupled at
New Haven.
The tramp got on somewhere along
the line. There were two day coaches
ahead of the presidential car. and they
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Governments Perquisite.

The French government takes Is
Der cent. of all the money staked at
the casinos of the seaside and other
health resorts on the little horses and
other gambling devices. For the sea
son of 10000 this percentage amount
ed to $943,393, the summer beasop ma
turally contributing the greater part
-over 100000.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
lbsen's Posthumous Works.

Henrik 1bsen's posthumous works
have just been published in Norway.
They consist of collection of verse.
biographical material and sketches of
the plots and morals of his plays, as
wall as the text of the plays as first
completed, the last showing the great
Importance 1bsen attributed to care
full planning of his plays in advance
and to thorough revision.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
This Kind of Servant at a Premium

There is specimen act of an old
time, true-hearted darky, whose first
thought is of the comfort of his EN-.
ployer." If Witherspoon could find
ABOUT a thousand like that servant
the st. Louis man could make a good
commission by shipping them to Wash.
ington.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
Out Of Reckonina.

Mrs. Gotham-1 never caught you
kissing the policeman on this beat.
Bridget?
Bridget-No, ma'am. and you never
will.
Never, Bridget"
mo, ma'am, for he's me hpshaal,>
.-Yonkers Stateama1.
Willmar tribune., 1909-12-08
In Rainy London.

London annually makes use Of 4,000.-
06o 900 umbrellas, one.fourth Of which
aze imported.