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Thomas R. Ashcraft

Thomas R. Ashcraft connect Il with the Bank of Pine Blu, has re- signed his position there and Will leave next week for Altheimer, to e. come cash CT of the Bank Of Attn el- mer which duties he will assume about January 1. MT. Ashcraft cane to this city about five years ago. He was connected with the Pine Blll-i Light and Water Company and laber with the Pine Bluff Corporation, un.ll about two years ago, when he became am attache of the bank. He servtd faithfully in the arking house To two years.
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POULTRY SHOW
 CLOSES TODAY Greatest Aggregation of Birds Ever Brought To- gether in Southwest. THE PRIZES AWARDED imported Chicks From England Among
 Those Exhibited-Break
 Camp Tonight.
THE PRIZES AWARDED


 the Jefferson County Poultry Assoc.a- ton, and the annual state show which nas been held i'm conjunction will close tonight after four days session i'll a vacant building at Fifth avenue end Main street. Today will be the best day of the entire four days for visitors at the show. The prizes will kc awarded. The coops of the vari- GUS breeders are now decorated with the ribbons they have won. This will make the displays more attractive to the rninterested visitor at the show. To make the exhibit more simple and interesting the exhibitors since the judging of the fowls have been al lowed to placard their coops. This Will enable visitors to pick the win ners and their owners. The officials announce that negroes are invited to attend the show.
 The exhibitors at what is declared ene of the largest poultry exhibits ever gotten together in the southwest, will break camp tonight The thor eughbreds and theIr thoroughbred owners will go to their homes to spend Christmas, as there is not an- other poultry show in sight until af- ter the holidays. The exhibit has proven a mammoth attraction and a big advertisement for the city and the officials all state that they are highly rleased with the success Of the show. Congratulations and comments are being received daily from some of the best known poultrymen in the state.
 The greatest attractions tonight will be the awarding of number of cash prizes for local amateur chicken ian ciers. These will be cash prizes and the outcome of the awards are being awaited with much interest.
 The three highest scoring birds o1 the show were 95 1-2 each. Mrs. J. J Holmes, of Minden, La., entered White Leghorn bullet, which scored 95 1-2; A. G. Russell, of Pine Bluff entered a White Wyandotte bullet which received the same score, ant w H. Hinkle, of Morr:ltOn, Ark, alst entered ei White Wyandotte hen, whicf was scored at 95 1-2.
 Theo. Jones'. of this city who en tered seven birds, one cockerel aIne six bullets, received a flatterig score CT. one of his pulle.s. The bullet Il mention was a Buff Plymouth Roc' chick, In scoring Judge Savage, the official scorer, gave the bullet a per feet comb, and stated that Ahis was the first bird he had score a perfect comb in twenty-five .rs'a,
 of this chicken is perfectly shaped which makes the bird very valuable Mfr. Jones also received much praise for his other Buff Plymouth Rocks.
 The display of chickens is abou evenly divided between the loca breeders and the out-of-town breeders About as many birds were received from abroad as were entered by loca, exhibitors. The largest entry of birds made by any. exhibitor was ninety This entry was made by A. H. Sock land of Stuttgart, whose entry in. cluded Light Brahmas. Rhode Island ] lseds. White Orpjngtlons and Buff Ply
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A small cottage close in for rent. Located on paved street. Within walking distance of business section.-Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Co. 12 13 4t.
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Open a check account with us, and pay all your bills by check. Then YOU will known where every dollar aoos and what for. This will avoid disputes, as the cancelled check Is receiptA Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Go. l2 l' o'
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Miss Agness H:ll of senatobia' Miss. arrived in the city yesterday afternoon to spend few days here, while en route home from a visit a. Fordyce. Miss H;ll will be the guest of MT. and Mrs. Veo B. Alexander un- tl Sunday.
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WANTED-Farm loans on bottom plantation property Long time and liberal terms.-Cotton Belt Savings & rr,,s+ co. 12 6 At
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--Onr rental list has been corrects ed to the 18th. If you wish to rent a house, ask for one of these Fsts.- Cotton Belt Savings & Trust Go.
 12 IA At.
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A cottage on Olive street for rent Convenient to public schools, modern Cotton Belt Savings x Trnst Co. 12 17 4t.
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-Farm loans wanted on bottom plantation property. Long time and liberal terms.-Cottom Belt Savings & Trust Go. l2 10 4t'
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CORRECTION

Tn the missing letter sentence in the Tedstrom Furn. Co.'S ad in yes- terday's paper there should have been dash before the T" in the sixth word.
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NOTICE.

On account of Christmas and New Years falling on Sunday the Banks Members of the Pine Bluff Clearing House Assn will close Monday, De- cember 26th, 1910 and January 2nd. 1911. '.s.say; Pine Bluff Cltar'ng House Assn.
 By M. B. Bloom, Manager 12 IF 13t
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A check account furnishes you with ready means to transfer mon- ey to others in the safest way Ope1 an account with Us today pttoI Belt Savings & Trust Go.
 12 10 6t
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FOR UMBRELLA FIXING.
 I. Glicksberg. the umbrella man, Second and Walnut. opposite tele- phone office. U I'm
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A car of White Crest flour just received. Best Flour Made."- Mccain Gro. Go. 12 1t
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Cups Awarded.

Silver Loving Cup offered by the Jeserson County Poultry Association for the best ter birds of one variety. Open tb members of the association; i; von by, Mrs. J. J. Holmes of Mndeii,
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seawell's Pharmacy "Where You Get What You Cal
 For." BOTH PHONES 12o MAIN ST. Registered Prescriptionists Druggists' Sundries, Stationery, {, Fine Candles, Soda Waters
 Cigars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
Weak SPOT in His Defense.

A religious worker was visiting a
southern penitentiary, when one pris-
oner in some way took his fancy. This
prisoner was a negro, who evinced a
religious fervor as deep as it was
gratifying to the caller.
"Of what were you accused?" the
prisoner was asked.
"Dey says 1 took watch an
swered the negro. 81 made a good
fight. / had a dandy lawyer, and he
done prove an alibi wifi ten witnesses
Den my lawyer he shore made a
strong speech to de jury. But it want
no use, sab! l get ten years"
Il don't see why you were not ac-
Quilted said the religious worker.
well, sah,' explained the prisoner,
+dere was shore one weak spot bout
my defense-dey found de watch in
my pocket"-Tit-Bits
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA

mo tongue can tell how 1 suffered
for five years with itching and bleed
ing eczema, until I was cured by the
Cuticura Remedies, and am so CRATE
full l want the world to know, for
what helped me will help Others My
body and face were covered with
sores. One day it would seem to be
better, and then break out again with
the most terrible pain and itching.
have been sick several times, but
never in my life did experience such
awful suffering as with this eczema. I
had made up my mind that death was
near at hand, and 1 1onged for that
time when I would be at rest. Ihad
tried many different doctors and medi-
cines without success, and my mother
brought me the Cuticura Remedies, in
sisting that I try them. I began to
feel better after the first bath with
Cuticura Soap, and one application of
Cuticura Ointment.
81 continued with the Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment, and have
taken four bottles of Cuticura Resolv-
ent, and consider myself well. This
was nine years ago and I have had
no return of the trouble since. Any
person having any doubt about this
wonderful cure by the Cuticura Rene
dies can write to my address. Mrs.
Attic Etson, 80 Inn Road, Battle Creek,
Mich, Oct. 16, 1907
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

for 100000, profit of half million,
or 500 per cent. on his capital Surely,
you say, when this is possible, a yearly
average of only "a per cent seems
very small.
But suppose a big 'insider" starts
out at the age of 40 with speculative
capital o. 10000 600 and cleans up two
per cent. month until he is 65. The
writer knows an outsider" who has
larger capital than this, whao Is Oe7rsag
40 and who has made several millions
in the last year. If he can make
pawnbroker's profit the next 25 years
how great fortune will he have?
Over two billion dollars, The income
from this would give him SS0,000,000
year the rest of his life. If young
Jack" Morgan could have started at
Is with S1O,000,O00 and made "a per
cent. profit a year for so years he
would amass $470, 900, 00O, 900, or more
than the total wealth of the United
States and all Europe. Even an as
sured ten per cent. yearly profit in
speculation for SO years would multi
ply $1O,OO0,OOO to more than billion,
or more wealth than any man has ever
amaSSed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
MARRIAGE.

A game of chance in which the
chances are about even. The man
leads at first, but after leaving the al
tar he usually follows breathlessly in
his wife,s trail. The rules are very
confusing. If a masked player holds
you up some night at the end of a long
gun, it is called robbery, and entities
you to telephone the police, but if your
wife holds you up for much larger
amount the next morning at the end
of long hug, it is termed diplomacy,
and counts in her favor. In this, as in
other games of life, wives are usually
allowed more privileges than other
outiawS.-Judge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
A GOOD CHANGE
A Charge of Food Works Wonders.

The wrong food and drink causes
lot of trouble in this world. To
change the food is the first duty of
every person that is i'll, particularly
from stomach and nervous troubles
As an Illustration: A lady in Mo. has,
with her husband, been brought around
to health again by leaving off coffee
and some articles of food that did
not agree with them. They began US
ing Postum and Grape-Nuts food She
says:
For a number of years / suffered
with stomach and bowel trouble
which kept getting worse unutil was
very ill most of the time. About four
years ago I left off coffee and began
taking Postum. My stomach and
bowels improved right along, but was
SO reduced in flesh and so nervous that
the least thing would overcome me-
Then I changed my food and be-
gan using Grape-Nuts in addition to
Postum. / lived on these two prin-
cipalIy for about four months Day
by day | gained in flesh and strength
until now the nervous trouble has en-
tireiy disappeared and I feel that I
owe lay life and health to Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
.Husban is 73 years old and he was
troubled for a long time with occa-
sionai cramps, and slept badly Finally
/ prevailed upon him to leave off coffee
and take Postum. He had stood out
for a long time, but after he tried
Postum for a few days he found that
he could sleep and that his cramps
disappeared. He was satisfied and has
never gone back to coffee
Il have brother in California who
has been using Postum for several
wears: his whole family use it also be-
cause they have had such good results
from it,
Look in pkgs for the little book. 'aThe
Road to Wellyille'' There's Reason
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
genuine rues and 1ui OF human
interest
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
HAS COME INTO HER OWN
SPinster of To-Day by No Means the
Grabbed Old Maid of the
"Comic" Papers.

The day of the typical grabbed old
maid is passed. Even the comic pa
pers have ceased to make fun of
spinsterhood in this guise. Her place
has been taken by the Independent
woman who quickly enough finds her
own niche in the world, and who gen
orally has plenty of common sense to
spare for the benefit of others.
The old maid of to-day finds a
whole realm of interest awaiting her,
and plenty of work which she cares
to do. No longer is she condemned
to solitude and a cat, no longer is
spinsterhood regarded as a term of
reproach and looked upon as con-
dition to be ashamed of.
Look at any of the big charities,
any of the numerous boards of man
agement, and you will see the old
maid triumphant and at her best, hap
by enough in her work and her eff
forts to help humanity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
The Learned German Boy.

During the civil war George Der
ker, a German boy about 16 years old
who had enlisted as a volunteer from
Pennsylvania, was slightly wounded
-'Dumpy,' as he was called, always
wore one of those old-fashioned Ger
man hats, which caused lots of fun
for his comrades.
Mai. Mcdowell, his commander,
happy over the victory of the day.
and ever ready to have fun with the
German boy, who could not speak
English very plainly, said to him as
he saw him sitting near stove in
the hospital with his arm in sling:
Dummy, remove that helmet
"Das hell mitt? Das hell miti
vat2" said the German boy rather
embarrassed.
"The helmet. that hat" said the
major
de hell init your hat" said the
German boy, getting angry. This
made everybody laugh, even the
wounded, who had listened to the
versation.-National Monthly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
Dreams Are Too Rosy.

The lambs who go to Wall street eX-
pect to double their 81 900 in few
days, but if it were possible to double
ones capital only once a year $1,000
would grow in ten short years to more
than a million, and to more than
billion in 20 years.
One of the most fascinating and dan
gerous lures of the plunger is the
pyramid" A speculative pyramid is
a mass of securities bought ON margin
with the paper profits of bull mar
ket. When the bull market collapses
over goes the pyramid and the paper
profits fly away in the storm.
For months and months all the wise
acres of the street have been watch
ing the growing pyramid of a plunger
in steel. He bought, after the panic, a
big block of steel at bargain prices,
and kept buying more out of his profits
as the stock rose from S22 to S95. At
the top it was gossiped that he had a
profit of from $15,OO0,9O0 to $4,000, 900
in steel and other stocks
But he didn't "cash in"
Now that the bull market has col
lapsed, nearly all these millions have
vanished
This plunger's pyramid was built up
in this fashion He bought, we will
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

Grip was first discovered in Eng
land in 1173, since when there have
been more than one hundred epidem-
les 1t first appeared in the United
States in 1927 and went all over the
western hemisphere The last epidemic
started in Bokhara in May, 1889. and
reached the United States in the mid
die of December. Its rate of spread is
exactly as rapid as travel Since 1883
there have been grip epiaemics in
most American cities every winter
lust as there are many mild cases OF
..cholerine' during deadly epidemics of
cholera, so there are many cases OF
had colds in the head. or grip" false
influenza, when true grip is about--N.
" Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

AOY EW YORK-You have an
M idea that man ION the in
N side"-like Mr.. Perkins at
SAGMN Morgan's, or Mr.. Gary of
~H the steel trust, or young
W. Mr. Rockefeller-knows so
much of what is going on
that he can always get in on the big
swings in the market and make money
as easily as rolling off a log. This is
surely the idea you get from reading
all the stories told about the cold
bIooded way in which the kings of
finance manipulate the market and
fleece the lambs"
Do you think one of these insiders
ought to be sure of averaging "a per
cent. on his speculative capital, two
per cent. a month"; pawnbroker's in
terest? This is very little, you say.
With 100000 a year ago a Spectator
could have bought 100000 worth of
steel common, borrowing the other
5000 from the banks, and the could
have sold the stock six months later
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Disaster followed

further misfortune. Disaster followed
disaster, and as he became desperate
in his efforts to get back something
his losses became constantly greater,
until nearly the whole of his immense
pile was buried. Great sympathy has
been felt in Wall street for Mr.. Keene
since his failure
The biographer, like the dime nov
elist, leaves his hero in desperate
predicament, but there isn't even a
hopeful continued in our next" He
forgot to add to the biography that
Keene from that day. 25 years ago,
resolved never to try to corner any
thing Since then he has risen again
in fortune-he has handled big under
taklngs for the Morgans, he has be-
come the leader of the American turf,
and, at 20, he has a greater fortune
than at the height of his plunging
days. But he has quit plunging.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

watched and the more powerful be-
come the men who are your antagon-
lists. Then you discover you are one
man against the crowd. That is why
no outsider can break into the game
and take away a great fortune"
The story of Lawson's own expert
ences as a plunger is proof of this.
Lawson is rich man, but he has new
er made the millions he dreamed he
was going to make, and he never will
not in speculation. When he began
specializing as a young man in the
Boston market he made money very
easily. He was only man in the
crowd then. He followed the copper
boom through the COS and cleaned up
a nice little fortune. When he gained
the friendship and backing of H H
Rogers of the Standard Oil crowd he
thought the rest of his life would be
plain sailing and that he would be-
come as rich and powerful as the big
capitalists in the oil crowd.
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Parallel Case in France.

Parallel Case in France.
This was but repetition Of the
collapse of the Secretan Copper Syn
dictate in Paris in 1889, when the sec
ond largest bank In France was nearly
wrecked. the price of copper was cut
in two in single day, and private
fortunes were swept away.
keene. veteran of many battles In
the market place, has been a plunger,
but that was long ago. He knows the
fate of the plunger. If you will turn
the pages of very big book of Wall
street "reminiscences, recently pub
Hshed by one of the oldest inhabt-
tants of the quarter, you will find
there related the rise and fall of
Keene, and the biographer concludes
the story in these words:
The manly efforts of Mr.. Keene to
recover his losses only resulted In
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

Many a saint would have less trou-
BILE wrestling with the devil if he
would get out and wrestle with ball
for an hour or two.
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keene's Squeeze in Wheat.

Keene had his fill of wheat in 1884,
when, in an effort to corner the Chi
cago market, he lost millions of dol
in the. New York market. In the col
lapse of the corner Keene bought so
much wheat that he was several years
finding market for it. Some of it
he shipped all the way to the Black
sea- 1t was a bitter 1esson-but it
was worth the price he paid. Several
months after the Saratoga races, when
wheat was selling at the highest price
since the Letter corner, John Gates,
who was running an eleventh hour
bull campaign in the staple, tried to
get Keene TO take a share in his pool.
The veteran operator refused
Gates said he, "if you don't look
out you'll lose all your money in
wheat I've tried it and 1 know if T
had any wheat 1 would sell it,
Gates didn't take the advice. His
campaign collapsed and he took a big
loss Some of his followers were
ruined, among them being a Wiscon-
sin banker.
THE game has changed said
Keene recently to a friend I'm the
early days in Wall street one man
could run a campaign on his own ac-
count and have a fair chance of win
ming. But the days of the big indie
pendent Spectator are gone. The big
banks, the big capitalistic groups, the
undercurrent community of interest
between these interests make the OLD
game of single-handed plunging a
thing of the past"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
laxative Women.

Hewitt-Some men talk and don't
say anything.
Jewett.-Yes. my wife is just that
kind of man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
Tom Lawson's Career.

Lawson is pointed out by the UNI
initiated as the one brilliant exception
to the rule that plungers go broke.
But those who know the story of Law
sons speculations for the last six or
seven years know that Lawson is in
reality striking example proving the
fate of the plungers.
mo one can beat the game in a big
way" Lawson told the . writer at
Young's hotel in Boston one day.
when you start out with no money
nobody knows you. If you have brains
and luck and the temperament for
speculation perhaps you may make
what seems to you at the time great
deal of money. When you have made
several millions the other fellows in
the game begin to take your measure,
for you are then fighting them. Then
the more powerful you become the
more closely are your operations
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12

rheumatism Cured in a Day.
DIR. Detchon's Relief for rheumatism
radically cures in 1 to days. Its action is
remarkable. 1t removes the cause and the
disease quickly disappears First dose
greatly benefits. 75c Druggists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-03-12
"PIuneins" Has Been Fatal.

After Lawson had cleaned up some
millions of dollars as his share of the
profits in the fiotation of the Amalga-
mated Copper Company he started
plunging in the New York market.
Ever since then Lawson's fortune has
been disappearing. Nearly every time
he has tried to make a killing" in
Wall street he has come out with a
loss. And still Lawson is one of the
shrewdest and most daring specula-
tors Wall street has ever seen He
boasts, and not without reason, that
he knows more about the game than
Keene or any of the men of specula-
tive prominence in New York
Rogers made millions in the sale of
Amalgamated to the public, in the
flotation of the Steel Trust, and in
many rich underwriting syndicates-
but this wasn't stock plunging. Rog-
ers it was who, carried away by the
copper enthusiasm of the AmaIgamat-
ed fiotation, thought he could con-
troll the worlds copper market He
put the metal to IT cents in 1901. and
tried to hold it there To support the
market his company held back 20O,-
900 900 pounds from the market The
collapse came suddenly Copper
dropped to IL cents and Amalgama-
ted shares fell precipitously from $3.50
to $33- 1t was then that the big