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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
A Domestic her.

Joe Jefferson used to tell this one,
I'm the spring of 1902. being in the
Fic.nit. ca West Swanzey. N. r.. !
drove Sver to call on my old friend,
Den Thompson. II happened that
:alled at an inopportune time, as ths
women folk were housekeeping. In
fact. l noticed rs I drove up to the
house that the clotheslines In the yard
back Of the house were laden With
carpets. "a,
Den was very anxious that should
look over his prize fowls, In which he
sook especial pride. We went out into
the big yard back Of the house. A.
Den was pointing out to me his favor
,tes we noticed one old hen going
through some queer antics. She was
peckiag away at something on tn.
ground, lifting It In her bill and drop
ping It again .-.l
What's the matter With the olo
6'd3v. anyway. DEM asked.
Zen was silent for minute. then
ORA wied out:
We'll, YOU see. Joe as she's rath
er domestic sort of hen caliate tas
old girl must be getting ready to IA.
carpet. -" New York Telegraph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
GIsa.s- Fol Old Year.

"Of all soj.a.i> of ali bells. tnnst 40.
smn aud to4s aiug is the I,ra whicl
e.ncs OUT the old year" wro,e Charles
Lamb Il Geecr hear II without a
gathering ~ of my mind to a eon,pn
TIA tion OF 81! the images that have DIFF
osed over the past twclvemonth. all
] have done or suffered performed o.
aeeieeted, III that regretted tiue
"rm 10 know its worth as when Il
JcrSou dies
LonrfelioW, too. LOOKS at thu sriemc
iid" of the sd year, tor he SAYS. in III.
Midnight AhssS For the dying Near
:hroush the woods and mountain uasses
th~ winds Exc 'hers roti
hoy are, chanting soasaf., m uses.
Singing Pray for TINS soul
FRAY, pray
fennySon,S death of the Old Yeoy
however. looks more. TO the New. ea
ind voices the sentiment OF the ;rkin.
"a dead, long live the king" 1t il no,
we'll TO dwell upon the mistakes Of tn.
past
ae was fun Of. joke and lest
fuf all his merry quips are Ger
70 see him die across the waste --r-ss.
s4ss son and heir doth ride posthaste.
But he'll be dead before {tses Go
atssy0 one for hts own. f<i fses4 s..i.
night Is stormy and cold. my friend
he New Year. bliths aud bold. m,
4.
;. . - take his own
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
800 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical frat
ernity. Catarrh being constitution
al disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, acting directly up
on the hood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease. and giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to
'~"n. Send for list of testimon-
tails
}tdrc S.. F. j. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
THE ARKANSAS EDITORS DAY
At the, State Fair Will Be Day of
BoostinaLNot Of "Roastlna."

Hot Springs, Ark. - Especially
Secretary Wadley is planning to give
the editors of the state press a day
at the fair, and otherwise royal
time. He appreciates the liberal aud
inestimahle aid they have rendered
him without charge to make the fair
q, success, He hopes every editor in
the state viii be here With his wife
and children and enjoy the hospitali-
ties OF the fair association. Editors
Day will probably be on the second
day OF the fah, and a great program
Is being arranged
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
Swine Show at the State Fair

Hot Springs, Ark. - tspecial.)-
While the cattle and horse exhibit at
the State Fair in Hot Springs this
year will far exceed all former wears.
there will be equally as great an ad-
vance in the swine show. Letters
from prominent. breeders are reach.
ing Secretary Wadley every day max
ing reservations of stalls Three
breeders at Fayetteville will bring
so head OF fine hogs The manage.
ment Of the fair has a force of men
at work on the grounds rebuilding
the old and erecting new cattle and
swine pens.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
FAMOUS BlRD-MEN TO BE
At ARKANSAS STATE FAIR
Negotiations Arc Now Pending for the
employment Of Harry Atwood, the
Most Daring of Aviators.

Hot Springs, Ark.-(Special.)- THE
management of the Arkansas State
Fair 10 negotiating with Harry N. At
wood for aeroplane flights at Hot
Springs during the six days of the
fair, October 9 to IA. Negotiations are
also pending with the Wright Broth.
efs. the father OF aviation and invent
ors OF the aeroplane. 1t is probable
that Atwood will be retained, as his
recent flight from ST. Louis to the
sea, breaking the worlds record for
long distance cross country flights,
has given him national reputation as
THE King of Bird Men, This will
prove one of the greatest of attrac-
lions, and thousands from all parts of
the state will undoubtedly take advan-
tags OF this opportunity to see aero
planning In Its highest art, and at the
same time take in the great EXPOSE
ton with all its other interesting
sights. 17s d ta 4a
The plan includes two flights daily,
In which the aviator will rise grace
fuly from In front of the grand stand,
circle the mile track. show all the
thrills of the art, short turns, dips,
cut figure Fights, race the fastest au-
tomohiles around the course ascend
to giddy attitudes and descend with
the famous spiral glide. Thus the pa.
irons of the Arkansas State Fair will
for the nominal sum of admission see
the worlds most famous aviator in all
the daring deeds ever performed in
mid air
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01


why dtd you hurry SOP he askel
der, when, he had finally caught up
with her, az the foot VI the stairs. Of
the cafe,
do you remembe, how the waiter
prepared to put clean tableeloth OF
our table for fresh guests" she asked
Before we got through 'lsten:u5 y,
The muslc?" .'l==3 -. tlitt
q"Yes." said hei +.
.."Well, then. here. she sait, and
showed him. u large white tablecloth
that had been hidden under her coat
'+.fhis is 1t. ,ue; tail 1t on the window
sill. Serves him right" -
He gazed upon It II ;.,haze,aent.
why didn't veil let me know b.
lueried. ";.l'd 'Afi"nt have taken the
table and walked out With thats~-.
New YORK ross ..ss..,,, e> ....
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
A TRULY GREAT SHOWING
OF Thoroughbred Live Stock at the
Arkansas State Fair This FALL


Arkansas State Fair This Fall.
Hot Springs, Ark. Especial The
Live Stock show at the State Fair
here in October will undoubtedly far
excel all former years The secretary
has been advised that not less than
two car loads will come from Wash
1ngton and Benton counties. Also one
or two ear loads of Jersey cattle from
Hampstead county. From Monticello
a car load of Jersies and Poland China
hogs are coming, while from many
other points shipments will be made
Advices from Texas are that six fine
herds of cattle are coming. and prob
ably MORE The Texas contingent will
probably aggregate IS or 100 head
The show at the fair will include the
following breeds:
Shorthorns, Herefords. Aberdeen
Angus. Red Polled, Holsteins and prob
ably herd of Brown Swiss from In
diana The swine show will include
all the fine breeds adaptable to the
South, From Oklahoma City. Walker
Brothers will bring a stable of l6!prize
winning draft horses and stations. 1t
will afford farmers aud others desir-
Ing to procure the hest breeds of stock
an exceptional opportunity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01

I One fare for the round trip to the
State Fair this year Don't forget it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
Life Saved at Deaths Door.

81. never felt 30 near my grave"
writes w. r. Patterson, OF Yelling
ton, Tex, as when a frightful cough
and lung trouble pulled me down to
100 pounds, in spite of doctors treat
ment for two years. My father, mo-
Their and two sisters died Of con-
sumption and that am alive today
is due solely to DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, which completely cured me.
Now I weigh 1877 pounds and have
been we'll and strong for years."
Quick, safe, sure, its the best rem
edy on earth for coughs, colds, Ia
grippe, asthma, Group and all throat
and lung troubles. soc and $1.00.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01

The poultry department of the State
Fair at Hot. Springs this year. being
under the management. of the State
Branch of American Poultry Associa
tion. with Geo. A. Ashley as superin.
tendent and c. A, Emry as Judge.
promises to exceed, by far all former
shows. Write for eatalog and entry
blanks. and get into the game with
your fine birds
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
Loss Of Time Means Loss Of Pay

Kidney trouble and the Ills It
breeds means lost time and lost pay
to many working man. NJ. Balent.
1914 Little Penna St.. Streator. Ill.,,
was so bad from kidney and bladder
trouble that he could not work. but
he says: II took Foley Kidney Pills.
tor only short time and got entire-
~ we'll and was soon able to go back
10 work. and am feeling, we'll and
healthier than before" Foley Kid
neys Pulls, are tonic In, action, Quick
IN results-a good friend to the
working man or woman who suffers
from kidney Ills. W. L. Dewoody &
Co
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01

Teachers who-desire- to enter ex-
/ hibits in the educational department
. at the State Fair. should write Prof
F. w. Miller, superintendent of the
educational department, Hot Springs.
Ark Catalog will be mailed on re-
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01
NOTICE.

Now is the time to have your flues
and chimneys cleared and repaired
for the winter, before bad weather
legins. Also carpets and mattings
cleaned and put down at reasonable
prices. Also white washing done.
Adam Gay, No. 7o5 w. Barraque St.
s 10 St.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-01

The speed department of the State
Fair this year will be above the or.
dinary- Fine purses for harness races
are hung up. as will be the case for
running raeesas Many of the top
notchers" Of the turf will be on tie
track Write for catalog.
9.rsls M ss.eiAe s.ssf.est
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
Fewer Fourth of July Fatalities

The deaths in the celebration of the national holiday this year foot up 3S, a as against A in 1910, and 62 in 1909. These figures indicate the steady establishment of safe and sane methods of celebrating Independence Day.
 Of this years celebration fireworks led to IS deaths, firearms to 12, gun powder to 5, and toy pistols to 3-to- tai, 3s.
 This total is far too large, and it should be materially decreased next year. This total is not wholly inclu- sive, for a small army was injured on Tuesday last, and some of the in- jured may die.
 The tendency is in the right direc- tion and perhaps the time will come when the list of killed and injured will be reduced to small figures. Powder and fireworks and weapons cannot be handled without some loss of life, but experience shows that the number of wounds and deaths can be greatly reduced without reducing the degree of patriotism a particle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
No Weevil Damage This Year

Alabama will escape this year prac- tically unharmed by the boil weevil. U-iy one boTr weevil has been found in Alabama this year, and this estray was found in Mobile county. A snap per bug is not boil weevil, and out of all the sample bugs sent to the state department of agriculture only one boil weevil has been found. Pos sibly some may cross the state line before November, but they will do lit tie or no damage.
 The boil weevil is nowhere having a prosperous year. They are not ram- pant or prolific in Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi, but no doubt more evi- dence of them will be forthcoming about September 1. The hope is that their advance in eastern Mississippi will be slow, and that Alabama will secure another year of weevilless production. It may possibly be so, for unless the insect pest gains a foot hold in Sumter and Pickens counties this year no great damage will be done by it next year in this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
FRoCK COATS AND TROUSERS

From the New York World.
 By the municipal art authorities of Paris it has been decreed that there shall not be erected in that city any more statues of men in frock coats or in even ing coats. In Rome a number of sculp- tors have declared against statues wear ing trousers. There is an agitation in both these art centers for the adoption by men of form of dress that will be comfortable to wear and artistic to look at either in real life or in marble
 This combined Roman and Parisian movement comes timely to the season of graduation days, when so many young orators and thinkers are inviting us to the question, Whither are we drifting Something less than century ago the women of London erected in Hyde park a statue of the Duke of Wellington as Achilles. There is a Washington in q toga or blanket in the national capital But we have ceased to be classic Who would approve a statue of Roosevelt as Hercules or Taft as Apollo?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
SOME BALD-HEADED TRUTH

From the Shreveport Times.
 A few years ago men snorted at the fashion page in newspapers and maga- zines as a waste of space. Nobody looked at them but the women and the man milliners. But. somehow, men have changed their taste In this regard. You see them studying womens fashions with undlsguised interest.
 Getting refined, aren't they. or at least more tolerant toward the foibles of the softer sex?
 No, unfortunately! You see, fashion plates used to be composed of purely hy- pothetical faces and figures on which the new millinery and gowns were displayed. But now they find the prettiest girls in the country, dress them up in the new styles, photograph and publish them. And men-the sinners !-study the fash ions with the ardor of a struggling dress maker whose fate depends on hewng to | the line of the latest mode. This is the bald-we had almost said the bald-head- ed-truth of the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
Heat and the Price of Corn

In the orn-growing states west of the Mississippi river the drouth and the heat have been intense and all nose unprecedented ever since the present month came in. The corn crop is seriously damaged in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. These are great corn-surplus states. In Kansas City corn has been marked up 5 cents, and in a week September corn has been advanced cents. The lack of water and the high price of corn is forcing cattle to market. Even hogs are hurried to market. Even in Illinois and the states east of 1t the growing corn has been dam aged, and the prospects for a bumper crop have been dissipated. In a weeks time the corn tassels have been changed from green to white, and the plants cannot regain the condition of June even though the heat be moder- ated and rains fall. A material change in the weather in the great corn states is reported to be coming, but it will come too late to repair damages of the hot wave.
 The south has felt the hot wave in a lessened degree, and it's corn crop is still promising. The heat of May and June did harm the early-planted corn, but all later plantings were left uninjured, and they stand in that con dition today. Unless hot, dry wealth CT comes hereafter the south will make a pretty good corn crop. It will not be a record crop. It will not be quite sufficient to supply home needs. Every bushel will, however, put a dollar in the farmers pocket that grew it, and no effort should be spared to care for and harvest this important crop in the south-a crop good for both mules and men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
"LADY KILLER"

From the Kansas City Star.
 Every once in a while, something bobs up to show that the slang of today isn't so new after all and that a long time ir the past someone used it, having proba bly, taken it from someone else who lived a generation before
 Just for instance, there is Theophile Gautier who was born in 1911 and who died In 1872. About 1S50 he wrote "Kinl Candaules,'' a story of Greece 700 year. before Christ And in the story there oc CUTS this passage:
 "He did not, as you may suppose choose a philosopher of repellant mien but Gyges, whose renown as { lady killer naturally gave him reputa tion as a connoisseur in the matters O woman"
 It has been said that Gautier had. tn, greatest vocabulary of all writers. Pos sibly he invented lady killer or mayb, they really used the word in TOO B. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
LURE OF MOVING PICTURES

since she lived the present moment so intensely.
 When Yellow Wing and Dick were be- sieged within and Dicks hand was wounded
 "The poor child! How can she bear il? To see the geliebte wounded before ones very eyes!'
 And when the cavalry thundered through the forest
 God give that they arrive swiftly--to be in time they must arrive swiftly" she exclaimed to herself.
 Outside the iron city roared; before the door of the show the pushcart ven- ders bargained and trafficked with cus- toners. Who in that audience remem- bered 1t? They had found the door of escape. For the moment they were in the depths of the forest following the loves of Yellow Wing and Dick. The woman's voice, so like the voice of a spirit talk ing to itself, unconscious of time and place. was their voice.
 Anu for the moment they were permit ted to drink deep of oblivionsof all the trouble in the world. Life holds some compensation, after all. The keener your intellectual capacity, the hiSher your ar- tistic sensibilities are developed, just so much more difficult it is to find this total forgetfulness-a thing that for the spirit is as life-giving as sleep. 4t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
Tuberculosis Camp on Red Mountain

The objections to an anti-tubercu- losis camp on the southerly slope of Red mountain is clearly based on inn aginary fears. Denver is one great tuberculosis camp, and so are other towns in Colorado, and no harm comes to the people with good lungs in that state. Whe9f people say that the camp on Red mountain endangers any ones he9lth they are expressing views tbat mo intelligent physician will in- dorse.
 The city owns the lands now oc- cupied by the Tuberculosis asso- citation. The place is admirably adapted to the use to which it has been put. The need of a camp in which the victims of the dread dis ease can be treated is very pressing. They cannot afford to go to Colorado or Arizona or New Mexico. If the city drives them away from Red mountain they will strike blow at the helpless home victims of the dis ease in question.
 The city commission and the park commission should be humane and considerate. No objection can be fitted to the present location of the camp that could not be applied to any other location. Deal fairly and justly with the association and the afflicted in this case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
Blown Up From Inside

Gen. William H. Bixby, chief of en- gineers, has again returned from the wreck of the Maine, and he unquali- fiedly expresses the opinion that the loss of the battleship was caused by the explosions of her three magazines. No such effect, he says, as that pro- duced upon the vessel could have been caused by an explosion from without. The portions of the ship over the magazines were blown upward and backward. 'No explosion from. the outside" says General Bixby, "could have created like result"
 Who touched off the three maga- zines will never be known--to use General Bixby's own words, What the primary cause of the explosion was never will be learned" The sides of the vessel were blown away and the greater part of the bow was ab- solutely wrecked. The bodies of the officers and sailors who went down with the Maine have not been found, and General Bixby believes the bodies are buried 200 feet or more from the wreck in the mud. -.>
 The coffer dam is serving the pur- pose of it's designers excellently, and the hull will be exposed by easy stages until all of it is open to ob- servation.
 So far as Spain is concerned she stands relieved of blame. The explo- sion was not from without, and Gen eral Bixby does not seem to think that an outside explosion exploded the three magazines inside the ship. The mystery has been increased rather than lessened by the exposure of the wreck in it's every point. The Samp- son court of inquiry stands discredit- ed, and Captain Sigsbee, who had command of the Maine. is by no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
better had the Pullman company put this

better had the Pullman company put. this rule in the form of a request "A few years ago the summer shirt waist for men was introduced as a matter of comfort There was an effort to make the shirtwaist fashionable. Some men of good standing in polite society attended church services and theatres without their coats. Here in Birmingham the shirt waist never obtained I recall one night when a gentlemanly person, wearing shirtwaist but no coat, sat down n the cafe of the Morris hotel. MT. Nabb was proprietor of the Morris at that time, and he had issued orders that no man should be allowed in the cafe unless he wore coat The colored waiter politely in- formed the shirtwaist gentleman that he couldn't be served unless he put on his coat
 "'I have no coat said the man. T am from New York and coats have gone out of fashion there
 "'Yes, ,spect that's so, but we haven't got the fashion here,' said the waiter.
 "A few words passed between the two and then the New Yorker quietly left the cafe, and in little while paid his room bill and left town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-07
TERRIBLE BULL ANTS

From Scraps.
 The most dreaded creature in Africa is one of the most insignificant Man and beast of every size and condition flee before it. This is the bull ant. They march through the forests of equatorial Africa in a long thin column, two inches wide and miles in length. Coming to open treeless spaces they burrow under ground and form tunnels through which they march on. It often takes 12 hours for such procession to pass given spot. Any creature, elephant, lion or man, over- taken by this army, is at-once attacked with a fury it is idle to resist and in- stantly devoured. Tie criminal to tree and leave him to the ants. A skeleton will be all that is left.