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SPECIALS Pure Pork Sausage. Dill Pickle. New Barrel kraut. New ENaporated Fruits. New Grits. New Whale Wheat Flour.
 THE LLOYD GROCERY co.

Mrs. NJ. c. John, of Moscow. was in the city yesterday en route to Fordyce to visit her parents for a few days.
 Mrs. l.. c. Saunders and son. Luen, will return this afternoon from New York, where they have been spending the summer.
 Miss Hattie Knox is in the city from LiS1le Rock, and is the guest of Mir and Mrs. s. Y. T. Knox, on West Second avenue.
 Mrs. J. 4. Hinton, of Bellbuckle, Tenn, arrived in the city yesterday and will take up her abode here for three or four months.
 Mrs. J. Earl Shoup and children have returned from Louisville, Ky, where they spent a pleasant three months with relatives
 Dan D. Shaw, of Brownsville, Tenn, will arrive here this afternoon to join his wife, who has been the guest of relatives for a few days.
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If you reed good knife go to Cleveland- Matthews Hardware Cos. big sale of manufacturer S samples and you can get your pick of hundreds of fine knives all sizes sand shapes for 42 cents. worth 7;c to $50.
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FOR SALk-Lots one and two blk, 4S, Tannehill and Owen addition size 240 by 195 containing room dwelling, with two halls and bath, barns, wood and coal house, chicken house and store house, 16Xa2 Tile well water connection and electric lights. Will take small dwelling and lot in ex- charge See F c. Smart o13 w. Bar raque 10-S-tf
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Hcttcr Times Ire Coming

and better bread can be had at '''s1 west 2nl, a. Skidmore Bakerf 3aefe are two kinds of doughnuts. saE 5k'd# noore's, the kind that s just right. hs sack fnll for a nickel or a disne 3 do1
 Fresh every day exee1H sanrda> s= Fresh every evening except Snnaay a# Rolls every evening 5 p. m Bol!he'i ham by the slice Drive by or seaohs No Old phone o7S. i''t .''z z'sa
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Daughters of the king.

The Daughters of the King met Thursday afternoon with Mrs, w. C. Dallenbau9h at her home Eleventh o'clock. The meeting was strictly q business one and the feature was the election of delegates to assembly ill Little Rock, November 3o. The fol- lowing delegates were elected: Mrs. Nilcock and Mrs. May Tomlinson. Jordan.
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Chitd dron Cry
 FOR FLETcHER'S c A s re RIA

Pcopc> Savings Bank and Trust Co. are now members of the Pine BiuM Real Estate Exchange. List your property. farm lands and timber lands for sale with us 9-29dlmo
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Call at OUT store anGh- ln; spect one of the largest stocks of Heaters, Eanges and Cook Stoves in the citr7 Prices exceedingly reasorls1 ble. Reap X Crawford Fur niture Co.
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Leai-Ste;lrlll:,ll.=

Howard Leaf, a popular employe of the $. A Rosenberg book and cigar store on West Second avenue, was recently married in St. Louis to Miss Lovina Stearman, one of the most prominent society girls of Olney, H. MT. Leaf formerly lived at Olney He and his bride are now on their way to this city to make Pine Bluff their home
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HOSpitaI Association.

The Ladies Hospital and Renevo- lent Association met yesterday after noon at the Y. NJ. C. A.. but nothing definite w:ls done, so the association will meet this morning with Mrs. M E. Smart. All the ladies are request ed to be present at this meeting
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GREAT NEWS
 FROM CHINA
|. .ad, in China Asks to Have Letter
 Published Telling How Cardui Help

tu H'i.
 China, Tex..-.publish this letter, as l wish to praise Cardni to all Wo- men who suffer as did. writes Mrs c. J. Coleman.
 II had awful pains every month, almost every female trouble a woman could have, but after took one bot tie of Cardui found reliet and now have taken eight bottles and am al- most well.
 "l suffere dior eight months. before l began to take the great medicine which has almost cured noe.
 T think if is the only remedy in the world for ladies who suffer from fe male trouble.
 No minerals. no poisonous drugs, no glycerin, no ingredient with any possi hlt harmful after-effect, is used in the manufacture of Carlui. the woman $ tonic Cardui acts gently. in a specific manner, on the womanly organs, and has a strengthening effect on the en- tire female constitution
 Ii improves the appetite, aids diges- tion, regulates the functions, steades the nerves, helps to increase nerye force and energy.
 When you need a tonic, take Cardui the wonlan's tonic. IL will help yoIr. Thousands of ladies have written to tell of the good it di, to them.
 Why not YOU Will you try ito
 It cant hurt Xoll.
 It may be just what you need. Step into the nearest druggist $.
 He has it.
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W. H. Rellamy of Altheimer. vas {. visitor in Little Rock yesterday. -se-
 Mrs. T. J. Collier and mother. Mrs. King, arrived yeste rdav from .Althei West Second avenue.s.=
 R. K. Wilson leaves Sunday for a trip south on the Iron Muntain, in the interest of the McGaushy Hard ware Company.
 Miss Grace York has returned to her home ill Annesdale Place at Mem phis. after delightful stay of sev- eral months in New York. Boston anti other eastern points.
 Mrs. Grace Bloom of Pine Bluff. was iii the city yesterday. the guest of Mrs. j. Cohen. Mrs. Bloom has been spend ing the summer in the west-l4ittlA Roek Gazette.
 Mrs. Doyle C. White and children O Washington D. C.. are the guests of Mrs. Whites parents. Mr. and Mrs w. D. Brady. III West Tenth.-Li1tle. Rock Gazette
 Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Moore will re- turn today from St. Louis, where they took in the Centenial. They also wis tied relatives at Cairo, H., while away.
 Lazarus Hirsch. an insurance ad- juster for Little Rock company. with headquarters at Newport, was in the city yesterday en route to Para gould.
 Miss Fay Ellbott, former resident of this city. but now making her home at Altheimer, arrived in the city yes terday for few days visit to her parents.
 T. Lyle left last night for Mar vel, Arkansas, to attend Presbytery From there he will go to Helena tu Attend the synod which will be in session until Friday -~~,~~@
 Mrs. Mark~Fa11en, of Fort Smith will arrive here today to visit her parents, Mir. and Mrs George E, Moore. Mrs. Fallen was formerly Miss Gussie Moore, of this city.
 Rev. Banks, of Star City, left last night for Marvel, Arkansas, to attend the Presbytery. From there he will go to Helena to attend synod which meets at that place next week
 James and Albert Alexander left yesterday afternoon to spend today and Sunday with their aunt, .Mrs. A. R. sheSrill, at sherrili~~M> " O. Alexande twill leave this morning.
 Mrs. Sam G. Leake arrives next week from Fayetteville to visit ha sisters, Mrs. H. E. Williams and Mrs. ]. B. Talbot. Mrs. Leake was for merly Miss Lorena Bum. of Fordyce
 Miss Willie Thrailkill, of Waldo, passed through the city yesterday en route to Little Rock, where she will visit Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Runyan. and go to Conway to enter the State Nor mai College.
 W. K. Petty, we'll known paving contractor, is in the city to submit bid on the contract for the paving of Walnut and Olive streets, which contract may be awarded today Mir Petty has paving job in Mariana. Mrs. Grace Bloom returned yester- day from several months tour of the west, during which time she spent several weeks in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other western points She also visited relatives in St. Louis and Little Rock.
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j. W. Niven of Rison. WIS in the \ city yesterday on business. z=--@s.---.- Hervey Mann who came to this city to attend the Mann-Orto we'd Irving F. Schoss, of New York spent last night in the city with rel atives
 Mr and Mrs. D P. Harris left yes terday afternoon on visit to St. Louis.
 Mrs. James B. FitzhuSh. of Bates vile. is the guest of Miss Hattie Or to on Laurel street
 Mrs. E. G. Love leaves today for Port Arthur. Texas, to be the guest of relatives for some time....-...-.---..----=s. Jesse R. Core .Ir.. is spending Sat /urday and Sunday with his father on his-place at Plum Bayou. --.s@z Miss May Darby is home from Lew isville, Ark, where she has been visit ing friends for several weeks.
 Mrs. Thomas Flemming left yester- day at noon for Memphis, where she will be the guest of Mrs. Vim for a few days.
 Mr and Mrs. R. H. NJ. Mills are visiting relatives in Little Rock, for few days. They will return Sum- day night
 Mrs. " " AIann one of the attend ants of the Mann-Orto wedding. will return to her home in Marianne this afternoon
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Better Than Hts Ptubs.

Better ThAN Nto Ptuk. Y \ story is told of m lr1shnnan whe, while waking with his friend. passed fa 3eweieT's shop where there were ' ls4 of precious stones in the window.
 s"Would you pot liks to have your ykkr'
 ''Not me pick, but me shcvei.- said MYte.
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\ man who makes two tchs grow where ons grew before is about the shest working definition of | pet11s<- ,Nashvfilo AEa4kAN
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RAtkERS

\ beautiful lin. from the cheapest to the best. Think of Il solid oak rocker like this for s1,9s, prices 20 as high as 5000. See our window.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-05-09

mier was in the pay OF the Canadian
Government and was secretly work
ing to bring about the annexation OF
Newfoundland 20 Canada.
Another sensational incident OF the
campaign occurred 4 week ago At
Western Bay, giving evidence Of the
bitter political feeling throughout
the colony, Sir Robert Bond was
scheduled 10 give political speech
in the town, When he started TO 90
ashore from his steamer he was met
BY a crowd OF voters in sympathy
with Sir Edward Morris and warned
that the people Of Western Bay did
not desire to hear him, When Sir
Robert persisted in landing the
crowd made rush for him and In
the confusion the ex'prcmier was
pushed overheard He rejoiqed the
steamer and made no further attempt
to land
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A SCRAPPY CROWD
HOT ELECTION CAMPAIGN UP
IN THE SEA GIRL
BAILIWIcK

ST. JOHNS. n f. May s-Fol'
lowing one OF the most strenuous
campaigns in the political history OF
the colony, in the course OF which
many bitter personalities have been
INDUCED in, general election is
being held in Newfoundland today
for members OF the Legislative assem-
bly,. The parties headed respectively
by Sir Edward Morris, the present
premier, and Sir Robert Bond, the
former premier, have straight tickets
up in every district. There are no
independents running,
The present election, which Is the
second to be held in Newfoundland
within seven months, results from
the dead lock in the election Of Nov.
2 last, when the Bond party and Nor
risites each elected eighteen members
Of the legislature. All efforts to end
the deadlock were unayailing,
Gocyruor MacGregor was favorable
to the formation Of a coalition gov
ernment OF temporary character,
and he only ordered a general cleo
ton after all persuasive methods had
failed
The campaign began the second
week in April and soon developed
much bitterness One OF the sensa-
tional features was the arrest of
Walter Baines Grieve, a leading
merchant and shipowner Of this city,
on charge Of criminally libelling
Sir Edward Morris. Sir Edward in
his complaint alleged that Grieve
wrote a letter stating that the pre-
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u AkDOp'
Slowly, but easily. he waded
through the sluggish current which.
at its deepest, rose hardly above his
loins, In a few moments he stood
dripping at my side,
Presently he spoke in husky
voice, with a disagreeable vibration
lin it. noticed that his hands, hang
ing heavy at his sides. were stained
red, and on the front OF his shirt was
red blotch.
you've done true bit Of work
there" he was saying. Yes, | killed
| him like that A good bit OF work"
! He was looking at my sketch, And
II now saw, for the first time, that |
had drawn two men locked in an en-
brace; but it was not the embrace OF
love; for one OF them reaching over
Il the others shoulder, was driving a
knife into his heart The figure show
cd extraordinary enegry; never be-
fore had ! portrayed life so yividly as
in this picture of death. Yet Il had
not been consciously in my mind
"Come with me-I'll show you
where anchored him" continued
the husky voice. He's rotted there
more than twenty years, and nobody
found him. Come"
II seemed he had me by the arm;
and / was in the water felt my.
self sinking in the sticky ooze. | had
no will to resist his influence.
felt drawn along, and though | seem.
ed to know that it was 10 some dire
fate yet could not fight it, | was
drifting, drifting and could not stop.
+ Come along" the voice spoke
again.
The fog numbed my faculties. |
was helpless and bewildered. |
staggered deeper into the sliding
/, water. Come, come"
Hey, there, Mister Hold on sayl
Where ye goin'2 This amt no place
for bathinl Stop, | tell ye!"
There was no hint Of ghostliness
, in that voice; it was sharp and very
urgent / stood swaying between
the two influences
But imemdiately | felt myself
seized strongly around the body and
wrenched back toward the shore. II
was the old carpenter. We founder
ed together, and, losing balance came
down with our united weight on the
clayey bank We picked ourselves
, up, painting, and faced each other
The fog was out Of my brain, and
seemed to be out Of the atmosphere
{ also. A breeze had sprung up, and
the murkiness was drifting to lee
ward, leaving the horizon clear,
l No one but the carpenter was II
sight. "What became Of Jim Puddle
ford" was what demanded witt
my first breath.
y, was much surprised to find tina
the apparition had gone, for | wa!
2 not certain that it was not more thai
t an apparition. I thought it ought t.
be there still beckoning me ant
urging me to come on
Of Sagacious and kindly wrinkle
h gathered in the eyes which the oil,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-05-09
"KIDs" STEAL HORSE.
Youngest Horse Thieves on Record
in Chicago.


CHICAGO. May s,--Phillip Hag'
geman, four years old and Charles
Drew, FIVE years old, ran away from
school stole horse and wagon and
finally landed in the Chicago avenue
station. According to police records
they are the youngest horse thieves"
ever arrested .....
!. Mrs, II. S, Sweet, with whom the
boys are living was notified and they
were later taken to their homes
Philip and Charles said they stole
the horse lust for fun"
They started on a tour of the city
and in the rounds collected a number
Of boys. AT the time they were caught
by the driver the wagon was filed
According TO the police the boys
are wards bf the juvenile court,
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man fixed on mine.
Il guess too much loncsomeness Is
al's been the matter With you" he
said, That's why hitched up the
nag and came over here to see how
ye was gettin' along"
stared at him foolishly He
reached round to his hip pocket, took
out his pipe and tobacco, and began
to fiji up. "Weather's clearin'l" he
remarked.
/ laid hand on his shoulder; but
| could not say word.
The old man was too wise to talk
much. He saw that was in safety
and then very kindly departed, leay-
ing me alone to come fully to my
senses.
When he was gone, | took out the
Ivory miniature and studied it closely
Did it, after all, resemble my lost
Syrinx'
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iR THE RED FOG Y
By JuLtAN HAvrHoRNE

I'm IuLIAN HAWTH0RNE

sour. Sour, Jim was, and lonesome'
ANY relativesT
The carpenter Spat, thoughttuly'
"Nell, til only one | knowed OF
was a chap tina, blowed into the wi
lage one day, and said he was Jim's
brother. Looked enough like him,
only Jim was strong and sturdy and
this chap looked sort o'Sick Had on
good clos, though, like he was well
of, So we gave him his bearings,
and he went on down this way to the
farm, And nobody never seen HIM
again. nor Jim neither"
What's tha,@ | began to teel
interested.
We'll. the folks figured out that
maybe the brother'd got money and
wanted to divvy.up with Jim, and
that then they lit out together with
mo more words. May be twas diff
rent though. Well, IN be gettin'
along, Does look sort olonesome
here. spite o'the new hxins. So long
Mistern
He was gone, leaving behind him
1.-The odor OF country tobacco and the
prints Of ihs muddy boots on the
lfresh-planed flooring. | stood in the
doorway, and watched him sitting
bent over in his cart driving back to
THE village, the wheels turning slowly
and unevenly in the grass grown ruts'
He became dim and remote in the
dull.red fog and faded quite away.
\ I emptied out my trunks and boxes
and tried to make the rooms them
selves look less like emtpy packing
cases. hung up draperies, distri'
lbuted familiar knick-knacks here and
there, suspended unfinished studies
on the walls, placed my old carved
chests in position set up my easel
| spread on the floor my ragged Smyr'
ma rugs. fshed out odds and end;
OF costumes, and flung over the bach
of chair a woman's robe, which
} furnished the room more than any
) thing else had done. 1t was of pale
blue silk; but the light Of the hr'
which I had kindled on the hearth
! from the debris Of the carpenters
work threw reddish CLEANS upon it
t which displeased me.
!, With half dozen cushions | made
) a divan out Of the chest on the righ
Iof the fireplace, and lounged there
E with cheroot in my mouth. accus
toming my eyes to the aspect and de
? tails OF the studio in which | was tC
5 pass several lonely weeks, and il
which | meant to paint my best pic
!. ture. conjured up the figure o
/ myself at the easel yonder, painting
thinking. imagining, remembering
e paintingl The silken robe on tn
d chair back recalled the model Wit
last worn it--a red-haired girl suppl
:, slim. intelligent, able to absorb tn
E spirit Of a picture
Red haired, yes! But that was il
the early days, before she deserte'
E Pan, and changed his nature; Syrin,
D l used to call her Where was sh
> now2 Had she really forgotten Par
}, or was it fate?
d Next morning ! woke at dawn; tn
n Jog still prevailed; it drew throug
doors and windows and rolled silent
ly about still reddish 1t seemed a
It if my brain were vaporized into thi
It reddish fog, which revolved slowl
D. and silently upon itself in idle cor
IS volutions. Was it really red, or wa
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-05-09

| laughed the next moment. Who
has not been frightened by an unex'
pected reflection in a mirror The
odd thing about this was that a mir
ror should have been left there |
crossed the ereaking floor and ex'
amined it. The frame had been nail
ed to the wainscotiug, One OF the
boards of the latter, below, warped
by heat and cold, had sprung from its
place The ray from my lantern
shone upon some object that had got
wedged between it and the wall.
| picked it out, and was surprised
to see a well-paiuted miniature on
.iyory of woman's head and bust
| took it back with me to the studio,
and there scrutinized it at my leisure,
1t had been injured by damp; but the
feature, the color Of the hair the
whole countenance, might have been
painted from my own lost Syrinxl
Next day felt less inclination for
outdoor work than ever, and the fog
| had got on my nerves. ! detached
1.-The mirror from its fastenings, and
set it up in the studio; in spite OF its
lbleared surface it helped the room
II glowed at my own image in it. and
found no stimulus for vanity.
! Ny chief study Of course, was the
miniature Though the resemblance
Ito Syrinx was unquestionable, il
could only be an accident AT tht
time Jim Puddleford disappeared
ISyrinx could hardly have been born
| And it seemed plain that the nina
lture could be a likeness OF no one
but Jim's wife, who had skipped
with the other chap The womar
would have been old enough to b'
Syrinx's mother,
Her mother? Well, and who wal
the mother OF Syrinx?
Ny mind was disturbed. ! LETT th'
house, following the first path tha
my feet found. Red fog smotherec
round me on all sides. ! stumbled
along on down grade and was sool
at the ford. felt an impulse tc
enter the water but gritted m!
teeth and resisted it.
| seated myself on a grass hum
mock close to the brink and remain
ed inactive for a long time. The op
preston was heavy on my soul.
Half unconsciously, took out o
my coat pocket a drawing and begai
to make a sketch. | had no desigi
in my mind; it seemed as if wer
copying some convolutions OF tn
fog that assumed human shapes
worked very rapidly, with sort o
ferceness. There was a feeling il
me that the drawing, SO long as
kept at it, would withhold me iron
something that / longed, yet dreade'
to do.
###
At length, with start | raised m
eyes.
There was a man on the opposit
shore. Not the tree Of yesterday;
was man. He raised his right arr
in salute He was bearded tall, wide
shouldered; and as he stepped int
! the ford, l saw that he walked wit
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-05-09

The house stood on Slight eleya'
don above wide, level marshes
through which sluggish stream
meandered. The almost iridescent
green Of this expanse was varied in
streaks and patches, by reddish inter-
vals as il nature had wiped her bloody
hands upon her work. Beyond, and
Invisible, lay the sea, betraying itself
IN times Of easterly storm by sound
Of remote, rythmical pounding, Be-
hind the house, which was OF such
elderly date as to appear natural
eutgrowth OF the landscape, rose
Dcl-rihbed uplands, with isolated
rroups of juniper here and yon. The
enIy ueighboring dwellings were
those composing the village, about
four miles away; deeply Futted'
xrass.grown, rambling country lane
connected them with this outpost A
lonely house, the expression OF a
lonely mind. 1t had been painted
red. but the weathering Of many years
had faded it to a peculiar sullen gray
permeated by minute red strands and
spots,
On the October afternoon when |
took possession (two or three rooms
81 the house had been made over, to
serve as living accommodations and
as a studio). a fog was blowing in
from the sea, and che declining sun
was tingeing it with red
The vibrations OF this color, red
have always been unwelcome and in
inical to me; avoid red tones il
nv pictures. 1t IS a temperamenta
aversion. Yet here, in the deeps o
the country. found myself surround
ed hy il. was both irritated anC
depressed BY it. This was not thu
mood from which to evolve my pic
ture Of Pan mourning for his los
Sphinx, which interpreted as th'
Desire Of Life missing its goal; tn
ardent hopes Of youth, becoming a
last like dry reeds, whispering sadl!
besides an idle river, flowing it knew
not whittier.
turned from the landscape to tn
interior. The old carpenter. who ha
made the alterations and had brough
along my luggage and provision!
was unloading the latter from hi
wagon. He was serious man Q
past middle age, with a weeks grizzl
Of beard on his jaws.
1T begins to look more homelike,
said, when he had completed hi
work.
He was now standing in the low
ceiled kitchen, getting his pipe OF
Of the hip-pocket Of his overalls, an
filing it from a small cotton bag. H
looked round meditatiyely, an
scratched a match on his thigh
"Guess you'll feel sort of lonesom
though. nights. There amt no on
Eved here in quite a spell"
who was it that lived here?"
-Puddleford his name was Quit
a spell back; | was young cha
then. But l member Jim Puddle
ford. Tall. broad-shouldered chaI
walked sort o'stoopin'; thick re
beard Lived alone by himself, JiI
did"
Red beard, eh? A bachelor"
Didn't have no wife, anyhow Bt
folks said he'd had, one and tn;
she'd skipped with another cha
ThatII sour man-and jim W;
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have had rs teeth extracted
and two plates made by the Chi
eago Painless Dentists. | am de-
lighted with the work and am
pleased to have this opportunity
to advise nervous women to have
the Chicago Painless Dentists do
their work.
MRS. S. CAKE,