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C.s~ius and Misfortune.

Honlri Val ! bext,gar: ltlautus turned a mil; Terence was slave. Boetus .iei ia iaIi. Faui 6orsnesu t.,d iuur. teen trades and yet starved wi.h them all; Tassn was often in distress fe. 5 shi..ings; Bentivoclio was refused a,r issi: n into kc-oita. Ee hiN self hna erectca: cervaatcs eied If hu:l.e., &sri Vage'as left Lis body to the pAysi ciass to ray his Ge..;s sv fr as ths l:nEey would go; Stl U',;.5eT Daie:.;s died on t@e seaIolG: SPts3ser. tie ca;srafins,. ,.f>d in want; tac death c Collins was through neglect. first ca,.
 Ing mental dcrangement. Milton S,l,
 hts- copy of Paradise Lest" for s75 2. three payments and finished his life f,. ssscurity; Diytien lived sn poverty am, distress; Otway died in the styce-. Steele lived life of perfect warfat. with tha- baili,fs; Go,dsmiti's "Vis@-s of Wakefield" was sold for a triffe = save hifA from the grip ef the la- Savage dicu ia ari>un at Bristol. whe9s, he wcs confined for debt of s,a Butler lived life of penury and dies poor; Chatterton, the child of geniss and misfortune. destroyed himself.
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AGREED 10 LET
 SUBSCRIBER OFF
Upon This Contention the Tasting In. dustrial Company Lost it's Suit Against $. k. Matthews-Sanitary
 Milk Subscribers Involved.

| In the Jefferson circuit court yes terday a jury found for the defend- ant in the suit of the Tasting Indus trial Company against S. E. Matthews ! in which the company sought to con- pei Matthews, tas stockholder in the Sanitary Milk Company, of this city, to pay the full amount of $100 worth of stock, which he subscribed for when the milk company was or ganized here.
 Attorney Irving Reinberger repre- sented the plaintiffs in the suit and Attorney A. H. Powell the defendant. The jury found for the defendant af- ter Attorney Rowell offered a conten- tion that Matthews, after subscrib- ing for the stock in the milk company had requested the agent organizing the company for the Tasting Indus trial Company to scratch his name off the subscription list which the agent agreed he would have the right to do i if he saw fit.
 Judge Grace instructed the jury that if they believed such an agree ment had ben entered into, they should find for the defendant. The jury then returned it's verdict for the defendant in the case.
 Similar suits were filed by the Tasting Industrial Company against H. D. Rogers, R. A. Rogers, J. w. Stewart and $. w. Webb, other stock holders in the company, to collect the amount of their subscriptions. In the absence of the defendants, H. D. and R. A. Rogers, judgments were entered against them, but Stewart and Webb both compromised their cases and they were dismissed.
 There were one hundred subscrib- CTS for stock in the Sanitary Milk Plant Some of them paid their stock subscriptions. Others did not do so and suits were filed against them to collect same by the Hast:ng Industrial Company, to which the Sanitary Milk Company is still in debted in the sum of $3,500. The milk plant is not being operated at this time and has been financial failure.
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THE GRAPHIC'S CONTEST.

The Graphic's recent Free Trir Contest was the largest thing of it's kind and the most successful battle of popularity ballots ever pulled of in Arkansas and it is indeed gratisy- ing to the management of the Graphil to know that 1t has given perfect sat isfaction, even to the young ladies who were so unfortunate as to not The fairness in which the contest was conducted throughout and the absol- ute businesslike and up to date meth ods used in featuring it has won this paper much commendation on all sides.
 w. F. Dixon and o. ]. O'Dell, the two young men who had charge oi the contest and who have been in the business for many years, hand ling contests for some of the largest newspapers published in this coun. try. did themselves proud in theil work. They are energetic and cleya, young men and their progressive ideas and fine business dealings made them many friends in this city duria az their brief stay.
 While the Graphic has benefited nicely by the contest in that j: has added to its local influence and .,op- ularity, the real benefits will be de- rived by the advertisers of the city who will be enabled through this pa per to place it's ads and special bar gain sales in the home of practically every reader of a daily newspaper in Pine Bluff and much of its surround ing territory, This paper can | past of the largest circulation of any daily paper in Southeast Arkansas. It's actual daily circulation at this time is $500 of which 2,50o are left in the homes of Pine Bluff The remainin., one thousand copies of the paper are placed in homes surrounding Pine Bluff, including all of the smaller towns and villages as well as many homes on rural routes leading out of and into Pine Bluff, before the break fast hour.
 The magnitude of the recent con test conducted under the auspices of he Graphic can easily be imag nel when it is stated that more than four million votes were polled in the recent contest, adding 1000 new sub scribers to the Graphics already large subscription lists.
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loo lonQ WinceG.

The inhabitants of the Canary Gauiag themselves oppressed uy he, Ssnt to the goyeruur Of Galio4 of their head men as an ambaS-. They advised him not to lose t:l In long winded talk. He promise l kept his word. He took with !, large number of sacks. and. a. at the town where the governor on the circuit. he opened one ot i before him. saying only these V "it Is empty. Fill it."
 The governor ordered this sack the lest to be filled with meal. ht said to tho speaker: You had ne to tell us that the sack was .inr; : that 1t was necessary to fill l. should have readily guessed that other time he briefer in yuur tal Bon Nivant
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MIR. ROOSEyELT'S NEXT MOVE.
From the Commoner::

From the Commoner:
 What will MT. Roosevelt's next move be? The election returns are certa'nly discouraging to those who have regarded him as presidential possibility. A man must be very en- thusiastic supporter of the ex-presi- dent not to see in the returns a warn } 1ng against any attempt to violate 1he precedent against a third term IT. Roosevelt's pc sonal popularity 6ae suffered a severe blow, or possi- bly, the people now see that his per conal popularity was exaggerated Nothing Is more easily magnified than personal popularity, and nothing is no likely to be 'sunderstood. I man is strong or weak in proportion np tho strength of the weakness O .he things for which he stands. A
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ttf' itufH ID |. HH tuIiSIIdu ltaSH- i ing. ''Mhe,c is Art?'' and R4:rfrc,. ton
 In these books he set forth pro- gIessively and fearlessly has views of true living. They were much more at varance with the views of the
 Russian Government. Tolstoi ex- pected to be persecuted directly for writing them The government how ever, went no further than to sup press some of the books, to mutilate @tners and Q banish some of his | friends. The government has insplr- ed the publication of books combat ting the ideas of Tolstoi. Recently the author went even further than preaching through novels and ad- | q essed himself directly to the Czar in letter III which he predicted g. renewal of te terrors of Niilism and the horrors Of the prevention of Nihil- ism by messacre if the Czar did not manifest change of heart.
 A frequent visitor at Tolstoi's home thus described the distinguished au- thor at work. He has always been hard but spasmodic worker. There are times when for months he will hardly put pen to paper, but when he has a task in hand that interests tlm he will work with relentless purpose and absorbing zeal. When he is actually working no one dares interrupt him-even his wife makes it a rule not to disturb him."
 For many years Tolstoi refused to accept payment for his writings; he gave away much of his property. These things, as we'll as his love for associating with the poorest peasan- tty, were not altogether pleasing to his wife.
 Tolstois chief literary work in the last years of his life was an exclu- sive autobiography, on which he spent hours of steady work nearly every day. He was a strict vegetarian and almost total abstainer, drinking only sip of wine at the urgent advise of his physician who had been prac- tically member of the household and always within call for more than four years.
 The publishing of his novel Re surrection" in 1901 earned the count communication from the Greek Catholic church and two years ago. on his eightieth birthday, the Holy Synod addressed a circular to all be- l1evers stating the the count was a
 pagan and that all true believers should abstain from participating in the celebration of his birthday if they wished to save their souls from the wrath of God.
 Within year of his death, Tolstoi rode out regularly on horseback, and when the weather was not too cold he bathed often in the river near his home. He was opposed to both anar- chism and socialism. He once said he believed the salvation of Russia depended upon the peasant owner- ship of land the application of the sin gle tax system of Henry George Henry George and Garrison were, in his opinion, the two greatest Am ericans. He opposed the Russo Japanese war vigorously, blaming Russia chiely for it. He prophesieG that the Duma would not accomplish anything, referring to it's members as
 'babblers.''
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Lco;< Into &, co.

A young inah whose eyes hat hs, ,. troubling hin coaSGl.cl a NeN S@. oculist. What yon v'9Et |, ,,a " >.i, the specialist. "is Ia take @ ;!ia cvi. day on the farrv ar in New .Iass..' Long Island any place here you s., see long di 'taaces Look un aa ! ,.o>v tAe river. across N,'las or. II tha ncg9 >o,aes to the west. ss1 oa the taa Q skyscrap per and scaa the harjZes fsss SA.st point taa iaea k 'o @:, ,il -;l loa aSe yoar eyas ;i .,v,s,t dea. al :. ways at close range yoa cana .aes, rav m'1>r c'av n sGsvn tN
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Thorouuhly Prepared,

Al religious service in Scotland the late Lord Kelvin noticed youngsteI accompanying his grandparents and sitting wise as young owl through tsle sermon.
 At the close of the service Lord Ke, yin congratulated the grandfather unon the excellence of the young mans behavior.
 "DuncaG's s Heel threatened afore ua ~ansrS in"
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long as MT. Roosevelt S Influence was not put to the test, his friends believ- cd that he could sweep everything be- fore him, but when the trial came. t
 was found that his support did not in- sure a victory for the candidates whose cause he espoused. In New York. where he dominated the con
 vention and threw himself into the
 campaign in support of the ticket. he
 received the most severe rebuke. In
 Connecticut, where he attacked the | Democratic candidate for governof,
 he was rebuked again. In Massachu- setts and in Ohio, where he made per- sonal attacks upon the Democratic candidates, his blows were harmles 3 if not really beneficial to those whom
 they were directed.
 But with the third term danger re- moved what then? It will be very easy for Mir. Roosevelt to regain his prestige if. announcing that he will not be a candidate, he enters upon a campaign to secure the nomination of real progressive. The election re- turns show that sham progressiveness will not fool the people. Real pro- gressiveness has been vindicated, but the fraudulent variety is no more ac- ceptable than standpatism. MT. Roosevelt can be power for good if he will g.ve the public chance to separate Mr. Roosevelt's s ambitions, from MT. Roosevelt's advocacy of popular reforms. Just us long as the people have reason to fear that triumph for Rooseveltism means re- nomination, he will be handicapped ill his fight. As soon as he stands forth as an unselfish champion of progressive measures, will be able to crooks of his party. He declared at Osawatomie that the corporations must be driven out of politics. Is he willing to help drive them out? He must not confine his opposition to crooks who are personally unfriendly to him. he must declare war against all political crooks. The doctrine that the worst Republican $ better than the best Democrat will not do for a slogan. He ought by this time to be able to distinguish between the Democrats who are seeking to ad- vance the public welfare and the Wall street Democrats who are trying to make the government an asset in ther business.
 
 It $ not certain that the progress sive Republicans can control the next national convention even with the aid of MT. Roosevelt, but he can help them if he will. He can not aid by helping Mr. Lodge in Massachusetts and other standpatters elsewhere, but he can do it by helping men like La Toilette who have shown their faith in their works. MT. Roosevelt's f'- ture depends entirely upon his atd- tude in the fight now on in this coun- try. It is a real fight between plu- tocracy on the one side and the Denl- ocracy on the other; if he is going to be in the right, he must De wholly on one side, not standpatter in some places and a progressive, in others. He must choose sides, Whom will he serve?
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The Truth Abou. Santa Claus.

l write myself down as one who s,tl believes in Santa Claus. Don't yout Are you one of those very literal folk
 who have their doubts whether they ought to let their children cling to the beautiful old myth?
 Without imagination. without dreams without poetry. this old world of ours would bo d very wearisome place. Its road would Dc sleeper than it is-much like sleighing over bare ground would our progress be as. compared with sleighing over deep. hard packed snow
 The poetic myth of the old saint !Xith bis reindeer and his juggling bells The S1sSn, Gneine.
 The Marquis of Worcester while in prisoned in the Tower of London 10 1856 invented and constructed a per feet steam engine and had it publicly exhibited the same year at Vauxhalt
 In successful operation. Thirty-fous years later, in 1G90, Dennis Papin add, ed the piston to the marquis discovery
 In 1898 Captain Savary devised and built steam engine different in mang details from those made by Worcester and Papin, and in 1705 Newcomb. Cav
 Icy and Savary constructed their ceIe
 brated atmospheric engine. which was
 complete in every detail. The above
 array of historical facts notwithst,nd- | ing. James Watt. who was not borr
 until sixty years after these great lnes
 bad given the steam engine to the
 world. enjoys the distinction of being | thr veritHbe inventor. originator &nf l lut hor If the most useful contriyance l o3 the i.feicu; day Fulton, who li> ed | and worked ill the early part of the l nineteenth century. tS given the credit 1 # heiAg the man who demoast trataa
 Inst stearl csuid te applied to lavl@1
 iio9--thiS tan. in face of tie wei.
 knowl t.is;oti'al fact that De Gury l pruise'itd q s,Sse: ty steam in the bar i 5oI ef Barcelona iQ '543 -St. Jamea i.s2:se
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TO. CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take LAXATIVE PROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if |it fails to cure. E. w. GROVES g.
 nature is on each box, 25c
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
Egyptian Farmiur TooI..

One OF the curious sights in the
Egyptian harvest season is a modern
threshing machine noisily working In
field adjoining that in which a ma.
tive thresher is treading out the
grain" said Horace F. Coler, of Chi.
cago, who has made a tour of the
world in the interests Of American
farming implements.
"The brown-skinned tiller of the
soil, clad in his flowing robes of white
or the favored dull blue and yellow
combination sitting on the high seat
of the crude thresher, which is
dragged over the fields by yoke Of
patient camels or perhaps a camel and
q donkey. or a couple Of buffalo COWS,
appears to the stranger who sees this
for the first time like the principal
actor In scene worked out by an in
genious mind for stage effect
The native pillow in Egypt is sim.
ply the forked portion of tree or two
pieces Joined together and smoothed
on. q primitive contrivance which may
still be seen in use by Cuban farmers.
The thresher is sledge-like affair
fitted with round crushers Of wood or
Iron and weighted down from the top.
The grain Is crushed into the ground,
and when gathered up tits mixed with
Jumps of mud. but it is said that never
kernel of 1t is lost or wasted.
American farming machinery may
be found In the remotest parts of the
world and where least expected. In
what manner 1t gets there l could not
ascertain. The natives could not en-.
tighten me-"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

teracted by the load ON the carriaRe.
The engine was directly behind the
boiler and consisted OF two 13.inch
single-acting cylinders. The move.
ment of the piston was transmitted
to the axle of the driving wheel by two
ratchet wheels. The engine could be
reversed at will. There was steer
ing gear. and the vehicle proved its
capacity for carrying a load Of two
and one-half tons at speed of three
miles an hour. Napoleon Bonaparte
caused the appointment of commits.
sion OF the institute to investigate
the invention. but the revolution sud
denly put an effectual check on the
further development Of the automobile
1t is interesting to note that in the
matter Of the production Of prac-
ical automobile France led the world
In the eighteenth century, as she now
leads the world in the building Of
racing machines of tremendous power.
DR.. John Robinson is said to have
suggested to James Watt, the reputed
inventor of the steam engine, in 1853.
the idea of building steam-propelled
carriage. Watt. apparently. did not
take kindly to the suggestion. for he
did not adopt It: but in 1874 he him.
self patented steam carriage.
Legs Tried ON Machines.
The first American inventors to
tackle the steam-propelled vehicle prob.
lem were Oliver Evans Of Maryland In
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
TAe Old .Alfalf. Field.

Just why a farmer should insist on;
keeping an old alfalfa field. which has
outgrown it's usefulness, when he might
as we'll seed a new piece of land and
have more Of a good thing, is some
thing do not understand. Doubtless
YOU have land on your farm which has
been growing corn or other grains for
twenty-five or thirty years; there is
nothing you can do to this worn
land which will benefit it more than
seeding 1t down to alfalfa and pillow
up your old field and plant corn or
other grain; in other words. use alfal-
IA as rotation crop. and thus secure
larger yields OF alfalfa, and much larger
yields Of corn and other grains.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

granted to Jean Theson the privilege
of employing little four-wheel car
riage set in motion without any horses,
but merely by two men seated" The
supposition, In the absence OF detailed
drawings. is that the men seated"
propelled the vehicle by strenuous leg
work.
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have in
vented a steam carriage after others
had conceived the idea of propelling
vehicles by steam power The devel-
opment along this line followed close
ly that Of the steam railroad. The
latter, however. appeared SO much
more feasible to the inventors that 1t
was followed and the steam carriage
Idea thrown into the background. New
toms Idea was not original fundamen.
tally, 1t is said. but copied after the
original steam engine OF Hero Of Alex
andria. who broke into the steam.en-
CINE business about 200 B. c. New
toms model was propelled by the reac-
tionary force. or kick. of Jet Of
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
Curine CoIeridxe

The English schoolmaster OF long
ago preferred spelling the rod to spoil
ing the boy. When Samuel Taylor
Coleridge was about 10 he went to q
shoemaker and begged him to take him
as an apprentice. The shoemaker, ke-
Ing an honest man. returned with the
boy TO Bowyer. his master. who got
into great rage. knocked Coleridge
down and turned the shoemaker out Of
the grounds.
Why have you made such q fool Of
.yourself?" he then demanded.
Il have great desire to be shoe
maker" Coleridge replied. land hate
the thought Of being a clergyman"
why so?" asked the master.
Because, to tell you the truth, sir"
said the boy, Il am an infidel"
For this, without more ado, Bowyer
logged Coleridge wisely, as he after
ward thought; soundly. as he knew at
the time.
1T was my one f1ogging, and 1t was
Just" Coleridge aiterward owned. ANY
arguing or sermonizing would have
gratifed my vanity and confirmed me
in my absurd views as II was. all my
infidelity was thrashed out OF me, and
! got heartily laughed at besides.''
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08

She had hung the little wooden pig
gin under the drip of the spring and
1t was full and running over. But
when he had lifted 1t out for her, she
rinsed and e,nptied it.
| Il just set 1t there to cool some" she
explained. I'm goin' up to Sunday
Rock afte' huckleberries. Come and
so long with me, Tom"
He assented with willingness as
eager as 1t was unaccountable. If she
had asked him to do much less rea-
sonable thing, he was not sure that he.
could have refused.
And as they went together through
the wood. spicy with the June fra
grances, questions like those of the
boyhood time thronged on him. ahd, he
welcomed them as return of at least
one of the vanished thrills-and was
grateful to her.
When they were fairly under rho
overhanging cliff face of Sunday Rock,
she darted away. laughing at him over
her shoulder. and daring him to follow
her along dizzy shelf halfway up
the crag; narrow ledge, berilous for
mountain goat
This, as lie remembered later, was
the tlrntng-point In her mood. In i'm
agination he saw her try 1t and fati:
saw her 1.-THE, shapely beauty living
broken and mangled at the cliff's foot:
and in three bounds he had her fast
locked in his restraining arms. Sh.
strove with him at first, like wres-
Ting boy, Laughing and taunting him
with being afraid for himself, Then
Tom Gordon, clean hearted as vet,
did not know precisely what happened.
Suddenly she stopped struggling ana
lay painting in his arms, and quite us
suddenly he released her.
Mani" he said, In swiftly sub
merging wave Of tenderness. 81 didn't
go to hurt you!"
She sank down on stone at mis-
feet and covered her face with her
hands. But she was up again and
turning from him with eyes downcast
before he could comfort her.
Ito be continued
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-06-08
sitting Hens and Chtck,.

SitttnR Hens and Chicks.
It is good plan to use small coop
for each sitting hen. Place the nest in
the rear of this coop and have food
and water and a dust box In front, SO
she can come off and exercise when
ever she pleases, but a Slated front
to the coop will prevent her from re-
turning to the wrong nest.
1t is always best to set two or three
or four hens at the same time il 1t
can be done, Then the eggs may be
tested out at the end of the first week,
and the good eggs all placed under as
lew hens as advisable. the other bid
dies being reset. Or, If one does not
care to test the eggs. he can wait until
the chicks have Matched, and give all
the chicks to a part of the hens and
reset the others at that time. Two
hens can brood as many chicks as
three can usually hatch, although fif.
teen or eighteen chicks are enough for
any hen. The quietest and most gentle
hens are the ones that should be trust
ed with the chicks. while the others
are sent back to setting. This way
one can use his best mothers and get
the greatest amount of good service
from them. Dust the hens when first
set and again Just before they hatch,
SO that vermin will be killed and the
chicks may hatch without being i'm
'mediately beset by a swarm of lice to
hamper their growth.--Agricultural
Epitomist.