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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

happy. As he thought of that time, he sighed deeply She had altered his life when she changed her mind at the last and threw hln over.
 He recalled the jeers of his boyhood companions as they sneered their rough witticisms at him. It vas the way of the country and he could not stand the finger of seorn and had fled That was in the long ago and he hae almost forgotten-until now
 As the train stopped at the little station on the hill 1t seemed as If he had left it only yesterday
 But nowhere was George White, the old agent? A young man filled his place. The driver of the stage was another stranger. Old ED Brown was also thing of the past. None knew the portly middle-aeed man as he strode towards the coach 'Neet .3E T between station and town There was a moments pause, while the driver gathered the mail, as old ED had done so many times and they were off
 Is the rig rattled over the rough roads the man within watched with interest the scenes of his youth Ire town had changed little in the years that had passed
 When the coach paused at the cid homestead the mans eyes filled with tears. A woman came from the house; mother and son were in each others arms.
 On the porch stood his father to Wee come the man home With misty eyes the united family stood. All | hearts were full. The parents heres had been realized and the prodigal l Lad come home
 How could have remained away so lons?" he asked again and again as the old folks hustled about. irvine to make him comfortable.
 And, Charlie, you arc now a bank CT they tell Us" said his mother. You. Who le't us 90 long aso ana the image ui yc,.' -E@t1er at your ase.''
 My Toy" spoke the father "it has cen long time since yon went away 4Gt We gre mighty glad to have you pack again.
 he sons heart was too fu,l for words. There was one question he would like 10 ask tut the words re. fused to come.
 Charlie" questioned his mother, have you ever seen Stella since the | l,ay, ye', won't av'av9 l,cow I ouah. not to speak of this, but must i Mother" All boys anguish came forth in that word As of yore he buried his face in the parents lap and sohbed.
 She stroked his now thinning locks | and the touch was magical Why had 'ee lost his parents for so many years is joy was tco much too good, to
 l.
 have never seen her" he said al U never since the day she prom
 ( be ny wife and hen as quick
 wius ed to marry me
 ,'f pope boy ao you remember |. ~e g Y ?-the one that wore tie esei1s ise L-d nah tn dc ui.a s:efa's ref:eal to keen hcs Gseiai e.
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The Magic Word.

Number please? 370o what? 3700 dear?
 Say, who do you think you are ad dressing? Any more of that and I'll d1sconnect you. You may be able to talk like that to the other girls. but
 strict. business" is my middle name, and tine quicker you realize 1t the bet. ter.
 Don't you little girl me. Get off the wire if you can't act like gentle man. If ycu elbows think girl, can't be lady because she works a switch. board, you're mistaken, that's all. That - of talk don't go with me. for one.
 don't care if you are sorry Get your nun.ler out of. your system or hars up. I've had about enough of you. What2 don't care who you are. Ii you don't know enough to act like gentleman, l don't care if you're John D. Rockefeller.
 What, you got machine? Oh, have yous What isisdo Well,sIll tell you, isEl stusy noW, an,.. lt.i,.ns, tLc ci.ief onesssss 1T is Halle to ba ..$tc.ing abou, sfis tine. Cell ne t.p i. ahoas fifteen minutes.
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ANS0N DISCUSSES ONE PLAY
New York Captains Move in Worlds Championship Ball Series Is
 Analysed by Veteran.

Capt. Adrian G Anson, writing for
 the Chicago Daily News, comments
 on the one play if any one could be
 chosen, which was the deciding one
 in a baseball game Capt Larry
 Doyle's failure to attempt the easy double play he had in sight in the
 fourth inning of the final worlds se- ries ball game and his late throw
 home that let Baker score and kept
 Murphy and Davis oh the bags was the real turning point of that struggle
 In this inning Baker led off with single On the hit and run Murphy pasted long liner to the left field fence, Baker taking third, but De- vore's fast fielding held Murphy at first. Davis hit an easy grcundet into Doyles hands and the latter, with an easy double play in sight, hesitated a moment and then threw home. but too late to catch Baker. Murphy took second on the throw to the plate. While Davis was safe at first If Doyle had tried for double play he could have wired both Murphy and Davis off the bags Then Barry would would have had no occasion to bunt, and more than likely would have been an easy out This would have kept Ames in the game. and. though the Athletics most probably would have won out, the final score would hardly have been the crushing total of 13 to }.
 At that stage of the game. so early In the action. it would have been good policy, in Anson's opinion, to have let that one run in and make sure of getting both the other base runners.
 All Doyle had to do was to throw the ball to first and get Davis. then | run down Murphy between the ibaks.
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Difficult rerm..

I'm afraid that prima donnas lack of mathematical knowledge is going to get me into trouble" said the man. ager
 You are obliged to accept any terms she makes?"
 "l am. But 1t was little thought less of her to insist on my signing contract to pay her 10l per cent. of the gross receipts"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20
A Waste of Time.

Doctor she asked. in pleading tones. do you think 1t will be neces. sary for me to have an operation?
 On. l hardly think so." he replied
 inere! told my husband 1t wouldn't be any use coming to you. My next door neighbor has doctor who has prescribed three operations TOT her during the past year"
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rhs sxnnathl...

Gloomer-You were so kind and sympathetic the last time told you my troubles l want tt thank you for that now I've got another--
 bloomer-Oh. pray d1n't mention it.-Cathoac Standard and Times
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

ayI@1SAsNsssSJerT ulGn Oi kAt t4tt < tNtt~ tS-.,..'ss3f.I.3 t=-.s ment, was the way the
 world adjudged the {! nancier. Yet there were whispe rine5 of youthful romance and early de parture from home No one eve: dared broach the subject and 1t had long since been forgotten.
 As Charles Steagns gazed into the fire in the library of his home, the fickering light seemed to recall days of the past, In fancy he saw again his boyhood home, his parents and ac- Quaintances. How little they had been to him for so long time
 sQuarterly stipends he had supplied to the old folks, yet he had never needed the call they sent out for their only son.
 As the man sat musing, he spoke aloud:
 S6"I believe I am getting sentimental ] think shall surprise the old folks and pay them visit for Christmas" 8A thought meant an act with Stearns. His mind once made up, it took much to change it. His decision sAX iSt1i II Ao AliC III tC. llG GO !Gdt gave him pleasure. He could hardly await the sine when he was to start.
 He bought presents for the old folks He remembered his fathers delight in watches. One of the finest to te had went into the satchel for him. The silk Tor new dress made up portion of what he planned for his mother.
 It was long journey to the old Homestead. The ,sain srel o"ward and each rnc.rent made the mal nc: anxious to see his people and the o'f place again. But suddenly a thought :oecurred to him and his face llancEed He had forgotten; Stella Harrington might still be there.
 All the memories of the past were swept as,ae ard he thought only O. her.
 Once she had promised to mel.e hia
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-12-20

TEARNS, the man Of af- fairs, was a far diifer- eut individual as d win ter's evening found hi3l deep in the;i s. ..s.
 man of hut littl euti- ment, was the Way the
 World p0iil1ipea tha i.
The evening world., 1911-03-29
MRS. ANNIE BARTLETT WE'D.
New York Woman Bride In Paris
of Capt. Antonio La DcgR.

PARIS, March 2o.-Mrs, Annie X. y.
Bartlett OF New York and capt, An
tonic lie Daga, who is attached to the
household OF the King ~ Italy, were
married to-day. The civil vcremony
was performed by Mayor Marechal OF
the Eighth Arrondis omeut and the mp
'!sls W"r" subsequently solemniZed hy
the Abbe lloyher' a. the Church of 81.
Pierre de challot.
The witnesses for the bride were u.
y. Curran and Miss !. Kelley. and for
Tho grpom Charles Loeb and Regis Mas
son Dc Torey,
The evening world., 1911-03-29
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
TOO UGLY TO DIE

From the New York World
 There is no longer any doubt that Fun nyface, the prize ape of the Bronx zoo is murderproof, for he survived the thir- toenth attempt to kill him. If he vera endowed with the fatal gift of beauty the attempts to slay him might be attrib- u'ed to professional jealousy, but he is the ugliest ape in captivity.
 Marigando Aldo, IS, of 2123 Hancock street, the Bronx, was the self-appointed instrument of destruction the police say. Aldo went went to the zoo equipped with several boxes of red headed sulphur ndtches. Keeper Thurman saw the youth standing in front of Funnyface's quarters. Tie boy and the ape regarded each other nalevolently.
 Apparently Aldo could not stand it any longer, for he took several matches from his pocket and tossed them to the ape Funnyface swallowed them without mak- ing a face. Aldo watched for results, but was disappointed. Evidently Funnyface locked OF the matches as very light luncheon. Aldo then threw half box of the matches into the cage. The ape ate a handful and was about to scratch him self when Thurman ran up, waved his arms at Funnyface, and whooped. That no doubt prevented an explosion.
 Chen Thurman grabbed Aldo and led h.m to an empty monkey cage.
 Now, I'll make monkey oflyou for a while" said the keeper, as he pushed the youth into the cage Aand slammed the gates Thurman called Patrolman Befber, whc took Aldo to the Bronx park station on charge Of dsorderly conduct. The youth was asked why he had fed matches to the monkey.
 Because l didn't like his face," was the answer.
 Others who have taken a violent dislike to the ape have fed poisons, such as paris green. to him, but Funnyface has always recovered. They say in the zoo he is too ugly to die. rf'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
Remarks BIrmingham's Strides

"I visit Birmingham frequently and every time l come here l remark the city's strides" said John B. Warren of Chicago, a representative of the Elgin National Watch company.
 This was a small town when I first saw it, but knowing of it's natural re- sources l predicted that it was only a question of time when 1t would be one of the great cities of the United States'
 In referring to the watch making in dustry MT Warren said it had made a marvellous record in this country, and that Illinois had more watch factories than any other state.
 "The company I represent began busi- ness in the 60's-soon after the war, The first year the company turned out only 2000. Now our daily output is 3300 watches. MT. Paul Calame of Birmng- ham, born and reared in Switzerland comes of a famous French family of watch makers and the Elgin company was fortunate enough to secure his serv- ices at the start. He and d few other high class workmen made our first watches by hand. Soon afterwards the company installed machinery, but MT. Calame will always be held in great es- teem as a pioneer in the watch making industry in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
Light Is Better Than RumOr

The reorganization of the oil and tobacco companies respectively have not lessened the value of their secur- ities, and it is not clear that these congratulations will increase compe- tition or change prices. None of the subsidiary companies of the oil and tobacco holding companies have suf- fered injury and no apprehensions of injury to them are anywhere felt They are sound, and they will con tinue to be operated as they have been.
 The proceedings against the Steel corporation are probably more based on it's magnitude and the possibility of what it might do in restraint of trade and in controlling prices than on any overt acts in it's career of the last 10 years. In the 10 years it has sought to cooperate with independ- ents. It has crushed no concern, and it's afaiirs have been made public.
 It is better for all concerned and for the country as whole that the legal status of the corporation should be fully determined by court that recognizes the rule of reason in the application of the Sherman law, At present the big corporation is sub feet to all sorts of rumors and gos- sip. Its 140,O00 stockholders should, and doubtless will, when the first flurries of the market are lost sight of, welcome a final decision and the removal of all doubt and obscurity. A speedy determination of the gov ernment's suit will harm no one or any event, for every subsidiary company of the Steel corporation is able to stand on it's own feet, and 1t will clear the atmosphere and enable the big concern to see just where ''it is at "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31

state is evidently no exception to the rule A salaried warden who is a sportsman himself seems to be the better policy, and no doubt the sub ject will be mooted if there should be an extra session of the legislature, especially if Governor O'Neal is will ing to enumerate it in his list of sub jects to be considered.
 Ducks, squirrels and doves may now be hunted, and after today quail may be, and in December the wild turkey may be sought by hunters, and yet applications for licenses come in rarely. The best observers say that if game is to be protected in this state the county wardens must be placed on a salary and held up to full discharge of their duty of pro tecting all game in their respective counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
Progressives Are Non-Committal

It will be remembered that the pro- gressive republicans held confer ence in Chicago, and in this confer ence they indorsed Senator LaFol- lette as the logical candidate fol President.
 Senator LaFollette wobbled sadly over the reciprocity bill, and the Chi cago conference followed in his foot steps. At any rate it was as dumb as the tomb over the tariff question. So far as one can judge from their declarations at Chicago the progress sive republicans see nothing in the Aldrich-Payne-Smoot tariff to con- demn. Silence in such case and at such time as the present means af- firmation. The Chicago conference did declare against "the rule of req son" in antitrust cases in the courts, but it did not have one word to say
 
 against protection for profits.
 Insurgency sprang originally from high tariff rates. Its early victories were won on the abuses and extor- tions connected with unreasonable and unjust protective rates, and yet when it meets as a third party at Chicago it has not word to say concerning those abuses and extor- tions.
 What does this mean? Where does Mir. LaFollette, in fact, stand on the tariff. reform issue? All know where Mr., Underwood and the democratic party stand. They want tariff foi revenue only. Republican insurgency does not seem to be willing to take . stand at all on the tariff question
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
Though Patience bc a tired mare, yet she will plod. king Henry V.
;. Appointment of Delegates

The republican national committee is to meet in Washington December 12 to call the next national conven- tion of that party. The apportion- ment of delegates will be attended to, and if the demand of the progressive republicans should be granted a great revolution in that party would take place. The progressives demand that delegates be apportioned on the basis of republican votes cast in the states.
 This would not only be blow aimed directly against MT. Taft's re- nomination, but it would be a fatal blow to the syndicate of southern postmasters in national politics. At present the southern postmaster is a big political factor in national poli- tics. Under the progressive plan delegate to each SS85 votes cast
  would be elected and Alabama's dele gation, for example, would be cut down from 24 to just seven, and four of the seven would be delegates at large, while New York's delegation would be 102. Under the progressive plan New York would just about off set the southern vote in a national convention.
 The southern committeeman, back ed by the Taft administration, can be trusted to oppose this new out burst of progressive republication. The wings of the southern postmas- ter may be clipped in 1916, but he will then have been an ex-postmaster long time, and he may not be in fighting mood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
Defects of the Game Law

The Montgomery Journal calls at tention to the decrease in the number of licensed hunters. In Montgomery county, for example, only one man outside of the capital city has se- cured a license, and the amount of licenses has fallen from S1346 in 1908 to $365 this year.
 The Journal asserts that receipts from hunters licenses are falling off in all parts of the state.
 No one planes State Game Com missioner Wallace, who is doing all that one man can do to enforce the game laws of the state. The Journal is convinced this state needs salaried vardens. In every other state the fee system has led to inefficiency in the protection of game, and this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
DEATH OF FAMOUS CHuRcHMAN

From the Philadelphia Inquirer. With the death at Los Angeles of Monsignor T. J. Capel, an exceptionally
 brilliant and romantic career was brought to a scarcely noticed close, The deceased eeclesiastic had lived so long in retirement that the news of his death
 must have Communicated to many an impression of surprise that he had so long survived. Probably most people who knew him at all supposed that he
 died long ago. He visited this city in the early eighties and delivered at the ca thedral a course of lectures on social as we'll as religious topics which at tracted good deal of attention. After
 ward he took up his residence in New
 York and presently disappeared from view under some kind of a cloud.
 A man of fine presence and most ingratiating manners, with melodtous voice and great eloquence of delivery, he was an exceptionally persuasive preacher and he made many conversions to his communion among the higher ranks of English society. That of the Marquis of Butte was the most notable  Cepel admission to Disra eli's novel of "Lothair," in which he figures unuer the name of Catesby. Yet in the end his life, so far as the world can judge, appears to have been failure. ,-.G all his many gifts of person, mind and heart, in spite of his pnquss tionable enthusiasm and devotion there was somewhere in his composition a secret weakness, a hidden defect, which viti ted all the rest.
 It would not be difficult to cite va rious other similar cases in which career which had opened full of promise and which had even gone far to fulfill the expectations it had awakened d. verged at last from the upwar& and onward path and closed amid disap pointment and regret. Anyone who has followed the course of events in Phila- delphia during the last 9 or 50 years #ill be able to recall many instances analogous to that of Monsignor Capel, Instances where talents of a distinctly exceptional nature have been incemps tent to achieve a permanent success. This usually happens where these tal ents are united with a temperam ment of an essentially and intensely emotional Kind so that the feeling rather than the judgment become the arbiter Of conduct.
 ? Eloquence is precious gift, but those who possess it are exposed to peculiar temptations by reson of the sensibility hich is one of it's conditions and they need to be well grounded in principle if they are to endure to the end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
STUCK TO IT
tSN " From Tit-Bits

From Tit-Bts. The skipper was man who had a good opinion of himself and his notions. He had pulled through shipwreck, mutiny and other perils of the deep, but he came a cropper once. For one of his voyages he had shipped a boatswain's mate who bore something of a reputation.
 One day the skipper ordered him aloft to examine a sail on the royal yard.
 '"Talnt safe, cap'n,' protested the boatswain's mate; the foot ropes has got to be fixed first"
 Do as I tell you!" thundered the cap tain "The foot ropes are all right. know they are'
 The man went up.
 Five minutes later he came tumbling down through the rigging from the top of the mast, a distance of over 100 feet.
 With a Lang he landed on the belly os the mainsail and bounded into one of the canvas covered boats.
 The sailors, thinking him dead, crowded about him in a circle.
 To their amazement he sat up.
 His eyes wandered vacantly about until they rested on the leathery face of the skipper, when they lighted up with in- telligence.
 ''Capn," he said slowly, you was mis. taken about them foot ropes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-31
THE pOLIoMYELITIs GERM

From the New York Times.
 pr. simon Fig.iner discovered that infantile spinal paralysis was commit nicated by a germ, but he could not identify the organism by any stain or test. Dr. Marcus Neustaedter and pr William C. Thro demonstrated that tho virulent germs of the disease may be communicated to monkeys from sweep ings gathered in the rooms Of infected patients These physicians agree with pr. Flexner that the disease first ln- fleets the nasal passages and throat and that in them it should be first com bated. Now pr. Samuel c. Dixon, Penn . svlvania's commissioner of health, re- rorts that in his studies of 713 cases of poliomyelitis. during the epidemic of 1910 in that state, he has found an organism peculiar to the "blood of 10 different cases of acute poliomyelitis in children, and in 1S cases of the disease in experimental animals
 "The organism appears as a faintly stained blue rod with a regular cell wall about 10 microns long and about & micron in width. curved at an angle of 50 to 75 degrees at one end, occa- slonally at both ends. At times the curved end is bulbous. Some of the organisms appear to have very finely granular protoplasm. when the highest amplification is employed"
 This germ is found free in the serum taken from patients, as well as in the body of the red blood cells. It's motions
 la artificial l. ly cultivated. It has been found in the blood of monkeys three weeks after inoculation.
 If the germ of this terrible disease or children has been finally identified may be begun systematic ally to find an agent that will destroy it. This may be accomplished through a serum. or by some chemical specific But enough has already been learned of the nature of the disease to make it certain that patients known or sus- pected of infection should be isolated for at least three weeks from it's onset, that everything about them should he disinfected and fumigated, and that members of the patients families should be excluded from schools during the period of isolation and possible incu- bation of new cases. For those in contact with the sick and in communi- ties subject to an epidemic Dr. Dixon recommended, in his recent address be fore the Pennsylvania State Medical society, the daily administration of hexamethylenamine," a drug which now offers some hope of establishing im- munitY"