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F0X-HAR TO
 SELL BUSINESS

Negot ations are pending for the sale Of the business of Fox Harris Machine and Supply Company, of this city, to the stockho ders of the Camden Hardware and Mill Supply Company, of Camden, and w. w. Bond and W. w. Taylor, president and vice president respectively, of the Camden firm, are in the city for the pUrpC:e of couferring with the stockholders of the local company. The Camden men will meet the of ficeTs of the FCX- liar. is Company Saturday at which time the deal may be closed.
 The oX-Harris Machine and Sup ply Ccmpany has been in bus ness here for the past several years. The stock owned hy the firm is housed i'll building 2t Fourah avenue and Louisiana street. It is stated that if tae deal IS made George P. Darby, fcsmer manager for the local com Dany who recently purchased stock n the Little Rock branch of the Camden company, will remain in Pine Bluff as manager of the local house.
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FOR SALE.

A most excellent tract of land COT sisting of 69 acres, situated on Mo. Fadden road, miles north of cour1 house, with the following improve ments:
 One nice broom residence, with au S-foot hall and pantry; 1 barn, Lot fenced with wire; fine well sof' water; one cotton house and chicker house, one acre in orchard, consistin, of peaches. apples and plums; 3i acres Is in cultivation and the re mainder consisting of white oak, pit oak, pine and red oak.
 This is pne of the incest little farms anywhere around Pine Blul and since the crop has been gather ed it can now be bought for $210, upon terms of one-half cash and bal ance within 12 months at 8 per cen interest. Apply to
 s. M. TWISE.
 Exclusive Agent
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CHIEF JUSTICE FRAZIER
 DID NOT GET IF

The case of Abdallah M Ike, Syrian. who was arrested recently m a charge of embezzlement, pre- ferred by John Solomon, another Syrian. was continued until next Sat urdav by Magistrate J. A. Frazlef yscterday. Through Mikes lawyer Attorney s. J. Hunt the case mad been practically settled once but solomon was not satisfied and the case will be tried before Jury. solomon claims Mike obtained goods from him and has not paid for them. Occasionally the syrians would forget what little English they knew and che time when the gen d. chief justice of the Pine Biun SUI ' nreme bench asked Solomon ques- tion the foreigner replied:
 "Yuszif shi yab.'
 "The case is cont nued uneli neN' esturday "roared the judge we v;,, trv the case before a jury or imnorted ducks. Now. the whore hunch of you get out" and the chlel ius.ice wiped his perspiring fore head with the end of his Prince Al bert.
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FLORIST FINED S95
 IN POLICE COURT

c. A. Starr, the well known flor who lives near Bellweod cemetery, was the chief defendant in police court yesterday morning, on charge of disturbing the peace hy fighting Judge Stewart fined him s25. The officers were called to the house early yesterday morning by the wife anl daug ugfater.qaAeeerd ng to the DO. ice the trouble arose over the em- ployment of a negro servant by Mrs. Starr. Starr insisted that there were enough women folks around the house to do the work and started to run the negro away when Mrs. Starr mterfered. Then the fight started in which Mrs Starr and her daughter got the wtcwsl, of it. They immediate ly called up police Headquarters and Officers F veash and Shults arrested Starr.
 Other cases were minor ones as followg: Ed Riley, negro, violating city ordinance, s5; Lillie Altheimer violating c ty ordinance $5; Wiley Bsif, disturbing the peace. by fight ing, s10; Louis Harris, leaving team unattended, $2; Joe Henry, negro, leaving team unattended, S2; J. II. Evans, white, leaving team unattend ed. s2; James Long, negro leaving team unat tended, $3; Ed c. Griffith. white, drunk and disorderly, $5.
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Paving District No. IS.
West Barrauue St.

(WeSl bdTfdQu0 Ol.J The tax books for the collection of special assessment upon the real prop erty in Paving District No IS in the ciyt of Pine Bluff has been placed in my hands.
 All owners of real property lying in the district are required to pay their assessment to me within thirty days from this date.
 If such payment is not made action will be commenced at the end of that time for the collection of such assess ment and for legal penalties and cost. Given under my hand this End day of April, 1912
 A. G. RUSSELL, City Collector, Office, City Hall, 9 a. m. to 12 m.
 4-3 I'm.
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FOR SALE.

One 5-room residence. all modern convcniences, cor. 10th and Cherry St. on ear line. A bargain if sold at once.
 1 lot 60X190 cor w. 9th. and Plum St, on paved street and car line. Has sewer and sidewalk. A very desir- able building lot, cash or terms.
 1 lots, cor 22nd and Elm St, sew CTS, block from ear liue. Cheap for cash or terms.
 If you contemplate buying, selling or renting property it will pay you to see me at once.
 TIiOS. SMITH. Real Estate, Loans aud Investments Phone 537. 105 1-2 w. 2nd. ave. 3-19 I'm.
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FOR RENT
 BY BRYAN -McNEW
Real Estate Agency


 106 Pine St. Phone 971 ll5 Main Street, , oom modern $22.50 132o W. lth, 6 rooms, story,
 mod rn, ................... $22.50 1903 Cherry ................. $t2.50 S 1-2 POS Ga, rooms, city
 water .......-........-.... $500 9o3 w, 14th, , rooms, large barn,
 chicken pens, modern house $25,0o 9t2 Main, store and one room, $1o00 106 N. Pen., 3 rooms, city water, $S.50 1000 E. Gth, store and 1 large
 rooms ..................... $20.o0 l10 E. 5th, five rooms, c.,y
 water ........5.......... $l6'o 1892 Linden, rooms, city
 water .............,........ $123o 302 W. 9th, 3 rooms, w 1-2 mod ern ......=...... ...........-...=.= Sl9.00 2oe3 W. II, 1 rooms, garden
 spot .................. $12.5o 32o Walnut, , rooms, modern $fS00 322 Walnut, , rooms modern, S20.o0 I'll Beach, ] rooms, G ty water, $l2.oo 1S15 E. Barraquc, 1 rooms, city
 water ......... ...........s.- 4lo'oo 91O Oak, , rooms, near high
 school .................. 9io'co
 FOR SALE
 On corner 14th and Elm, five room modern house. large barn, ch cken pens. Lot 12ox15i. Sell 12 cash, balence easy payments. price $3S09 Six room p-to-date cottage, corner lot on East 9th, near school and church, will sell $100 down; $25.0o per months at per cent Lot SSx 15t. Price .............$ $Z9oo House with 6 rooms, corner State and 18th avenue, room house lot 120x120, both electric ghts and gas. Price ........... .S2|o9 so acres la.-s 5-S mile from end 'f Main stseet pike, room house, new, 20 acres clear and under fence, good barn; bargain. in this land.
 BRYAN & McNEW 4nc 1,; Phone 971
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USUALLY ONE DOSE
 ENDS INDIGESTION
Heartburn, Gas Dyspepsia and Soar. ness Vanish and Your stomach
 VIII Feel Fine.

Il your meals don't fit comfortably, UT you feel bloated after eating, and you believe it is tas food which fills you; if what little you eat lies like a lump of lead on your stomach: # there is difficulty in breathing after eat'i,s oructations of sour, undigest- cd food and acid, heartburn, brash or belehing 4f gas, you can make ug your mind that yon need somtthing to stop fGod fermentation and cure indlge. ton.
 To make every bite of food you eat aid ia the Eoursament and streng14 Of your body, you must rid your stom- ach of poisons, excessive acid and stomach gas, which sours your entire meal-i1terf res with digestion and causes so many sufferers of dyspep- sia, sick headache, biliousness, con- Stlpati0n, gfiping, etc. Your case is no dliierant-you are stomach sui ferer, though you Eay call it by some other nam your real and only tfou- is that which you cat does not di- gest, but quickly fernents and sours, producing almost any unhealthy con- Gition.
 A case of Pdpe's Diapepsin will cost fifty cents at any pharmacy here, and will convince any stomach sufferer five minutes after taking single dos that Fermentation and Sour stomach is causing the mis " of in d gestion.
 No matter if you call your trouble catarrh of the stomach, nervousness, CT gastritis, CT by any other name always remember that a certain cure is waiting at any drug store the mo. ment you | eide to begin it's use.
 Pape's Diapepsin will regulate any eut-of-order stomach within five mia. utes, and digest promptly, withou' any fuss or discomfort, all of any kind of food you eat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

LOST - SMALL LOOSE LEAF leather back book about Eth and
 Florida streets. Finder will re- reive reward by returning same to Bryan McNew Real Estate Agency 7 106 Pine St. Phone ~ 971 A Ct BAR PIN, WITH STAR
 and crescent set with pearls. Was pinned to Persian belt. Lost on
 nue. Finder return to Graphic of-
 flee or phone s731 and receive lib-
 eral reward. s4-2 12t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10
A TEXAS WONDER

The Texas Wonder cures kidne, and bladder troubles, removing gra. vel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheumatism, and all irreg1. larities of the kidneys and bladder In both men and women. Regulate. bladder troubles in children. If no, sold by your druggists, will be sent by mail on receipt of $1.00. Cne small bottle Is two months treatment
 and seldom fails to perfect 8. cure. Send for testimonials from thts anG other states. D. w. Hall, 282t Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold b. druggists. 1O-12-tt
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NOT'ICE!

There will be meeting of the land holders of Villemont, Old River, Plum Bayou and Bogy townships held in this city Wednesday, April IT, fer the purpose of organizing drainage dis trict to include practically all of the land in the townships named. You are requested to be present.
 J. M. Oracle, >, T NJ. Phillips. t Mrs. John F. Sennett,
 l.. W. Clement,
 Ben J. Altheimer,
  sfa Ben B. Veil and others. 4-S 12t. M
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

WANTED - AT ONCE THREE high class salesmen who are cap- able of earning from two to thu ee hundred dollars per month, to work the state of Arkansas, on commission basis, best proposition in the world for the righ man. None but sober, honest men, who can furnish best of references need apply. Apply 52o-21 GitEens Bank k Building, 10 a. m. to F, F p. m. S5oo4 4. Phone SS. Pine Bluff, Ark.
 IT 4-67 If
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Puts End To Bad Habit

Things never look bright 10 one with the blues' Ten to one the trouble is a sluggish liver, filling ehe system with bilious DO son, that Di. Kings New Life Pills would expel. Try them. Let the jov of better 1eel- ings end ''the blues." Best for stom, ach, liver and kidneys. 20 cents a dTuggiStS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

GOLD BADGE BEAR
 ing initials "E. L.' on one side and
 "M D. McNeil, M. E. c. S." on oth- CT Lost at Fifth avenue and Main i5 street. Finder will please return to 2 Pref. McNeil's studio at Sixth ave- 5s nues and Main street and receive
 reward. 4-5 Ct.
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrll
 that Contains Mcrc"ry.

as mercury wlll surely distroy the sense of smell and completely de- range the whole system when enter ing i. through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from repu- table physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can poss bly, derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in- |ternally and made n Toledo Ohio, by F. J. Cheney x Co. Testimonial free.
 Sold by druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
 Take Halls Family Pills for con stipation.
 Mrs. O. Poole went to Little Rock veaterday for a Lr eff visit with
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10
Brings Results-rry onc.

fOR fAA N!--=-s2&- i fa eR.s g. = Aya! r and sewer, good coaditton, concrete walks from bu-incss to house. Only 5000 per m5nth to reliable tenant. Mrs. G e. 2. Nj o}
 5l5 w. 2n1 Ave 4-9-6t
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WOMEN - TO SELL GUARANTEED hose; 70 per cent profit; make $10 daily; full or part time; begin ners investigate STRONG KNIT. Box 4029. West Philadelphia. Pa. z
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FOR RENT-ROOlI5 FURNISHED or unfurnished fer light housekeer- ing. Also rooms for gentlemen, 316 w. Pullen St. Phone 1897.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

FOR RENT-ALL OR PART, or unfurnished ten room house, mod ern. Four blocks of court house, on Barraque St. Phone immediate ly 1564. 3 10 i'm
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WANTED - THREE GOOD SALES man for city and country, good po-, sition to right party. Apply 900 Main street between 10 and Il a. m. 4-6-3t.
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FOR SALE--ONE HUNDRED AND sixty acres of land near Pine Bluff. suitable for truck farm. Address l.. s. Care Graphic. tf-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

FOR SALE-HOUSEHOL FURNI- ture and furnishings, including Ma jestic Range almost new, 3 solid walnut bed room sui'ies, leather couch, sugs. Every articles will be sold regardless of eost-Apply 10l7 West Barraque or phone 31.
 4-7-6t
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MEN--1F YOU WANT WORK. SELL guaranteed hosiery to wearers; big
 commission: make S10 daily; ex- perience unnecessary. Address INTERNATIONAL MILLS 303s Chestnut, Phela. IA If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

FOR SALE - EMINGTON AND Smith Premier Typewriters. $25 each. An unusual opportunity. R. II. M. Mills &s Sons, 4-6-6t
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WANTED A MAN OR WOMAN WITH two hundred and fifty dollars cash to take half interest in good estab- lished business in Pne Bluff. Sixty dollars per month rent guaran- teed. Do not answer if you have not the money-AddTess F. care Graphic 4-l-6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

WANTED - TO BUY GASOLINE stove, cupboard, table refrigerator
 and chairs. Must be in first class cond tion. Give price list and ad-
 dress. F. F. care Graphic. 4-6-6t.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-PONY AND BUGGY IN first class shape, pony will work
 anywhere. w. NJ. Will ans, Pine Bluff Corpo &tion. 4-9-G.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

WANTED--TWO EXPE R EN c E D
 lady alteration hands. Apply at the Froug Department Store. 4-3 Ct.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

TEAMS TO HAUL slave bolts at Altheimer. A long
 job. Apply to L. c. Brazil, Althei- mer, Ark. 4-5 tt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

SOLITARY DIAMOND
 bar pin. Liberal reward if re- turned to Pine Bluff Bottling
 Co. 4-4-6t
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WANTED - COUPLE TO TAKE part of newly repaired house, or
 rooms furnished or unfurnished, cheap to right party. Reference exchanged. Phone 1912. 4-7-3t
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FOR SALE-RHODE ISLAND RED eggs and stock. Mrs. W. l.. We
 woody. if
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

To Cure n Gold In One Day. K Take LAXATIVE BROMo QuinlN Tablets. Druggists refund money ' It fails to cure. F. ". anu'As 2 signature is on each box 26c.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

FOR RENT-TWO NECTING
 rooms furnished for light, house.
 keeping. Every convenience S23 Pine street. Old phone 1926 or 1493. i l4@t s1si Az 6t
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WANTED

w WANTED-THREE FURNISHED OR unfuanished rooms west of Main street for light housekeeping by couple with children. Phone 359
 4-9-6t
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FOR RENT7-'fWo CONNECTING
 rooms for light housekeeping. All modern conyeniences. References exchanged TIA w. 9th. 10 I'm
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FOR RENT-T WO OR THREE furnished rooms with modern con
 yeniances for light housekeeping. Mrs. J. s. Perdue, No. 509 West Fifth avenue. 4-2 Ct
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FOR REVENGE FURNISHED room for lady or gentleman or couple. Apply No. So9 West Sec ond avenue sor phone l531.
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HOTEL DIRECTORY
WHAYNE HOTEL

WHAYNE HOTEL Srecjal attention given commercial
 men.
 Rison, Ark. + + + .KINGSLAND HOTEL F. M. Knickerbocker, Prop.
 Kingsland, Ark.
  T NEW HOTEL KILGORE. Up-to-date Modern Hotel Rates $2.00 and up. w. M. Carraway, Mgr. - Fordyce, ArA T |
 THE BOGGS HOUSE tf5ztlf Stephens, Ark. Miss Pearl Boggs. Prop. NUNNALLY HOTEL. Comamrcial Mems. Home t's Waldo, Ark. 54 .*.t
 HINTON HOTEL.
 First class hotel.
 Stamps, Ark. 4 r E '
 MULKEY HOTEL Rates $2.00 per day
 LeWisville. Ark.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-oNE LARGE FRONT
 room furnished, modern convent. ence. 311 Olive. Phone 1911. 4-6-6t
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FOR RENT 2 ROOMS FOR LIGHT house keeping, $10 per month, No, s 622 Walnut Stree. 4~7-3t
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C.P. GOULD Practical Surveyor

All kinds of surveying, relocating t iogt or obliterated corners. Establisa rlents of lines Subdivisions ot req estate. The laying out ard dtvtdiE | ID of lands i'll any shape.
 N c. P. COULD,
 Noble Lake. Arh
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10

Mrs. o. Poole went to Little Rock ya@terday for a br eff visit with with friends.
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SEE
BRYAN 6 McNEW

106 Pine fhohe o'l
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
SPOILED A SPANISH PLOT.
Reward Of Dutch Boys For Saving
Annsterdan,'s Stock Exchange.

or the many quaint aud curious Gus
toms, traditions and privileges prevail.
Ing In HOLLAND none Is more extra ordi-
nary than a certain privilege that has
been enjoyed by the boys Of Amster-
dam for nearly 800 years.
At fixed time each summer these
boys gather by the hundreds In the
great square called the Dam. situated
In the center Of the city. Each boy has
"A drum slung over his shoulder.
Facing this square Is the Stock Eek.
change. and on the occasion In ques-
ton. just as soon as the days business
IL over, as many Of the boys as can
crowd into the building. They proceed
10 the floor Of the exchange. where.
pursuant to this odd custom, they are
permitted to march about. singing and
beating upon their drums.
The origin Of this custom, It Is said.
is as follows:
One afternoon In the year 1922 a
crowd Of boys playing In the Dam lost
q ball I'm the canal that I'm those days
skirted one side of the square. One Of
tie mus, Wblic uhAOhS thO
piles on which the building stood,
found instead Of his ball boat moored
In dark corner and loaded with boxes
of gunpowder This showed clearly
enough, what was afterward ascer.
tanned with certainty. the intention OF
the Spanish conspirators to blow up the
Stock Exchange while 1t was crowd.
ed. as 1t was every day, with the lead
ing citizens Of the city.
The boy who stumbled upon the gun
powder at once hurried to the town au-
thorlties with his news. The boatload
Of explosives was quietly sunk In the
canal and the Spanish plot thus frus-
trated.
When the burgesses asked the boy
what reward he desired for the service
he had rendered the town he replied
that so long as there was stock ex-
change I'm Amsterdam the boys Of the
town would like to be permitted to
make the floor Of the exchange their
playground during a certain part of the
year. The request was granted. and &c
the custom survives.-New York Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
Niuhtcaps.

For external application the nightcar
is rarely seen. 1t Is first mentioned
during the time Of the Tudors. In the
inventory Of Henry Wills wardrobe
we come across the following item: "A
nightcape Of black velvet embroider'
ed" No wonder that with such gear.
Ing, as Shakespeare suggests. uneasy
rests the head that wears a crown"
Poor old Bishop Latimer was not con
tent with one nightcap. Fox In bis
"Book Of Martyrs" describes him as
follows: "He held his hat in his hand
having a handkerchief on his head and
upon 1t q nightcap or two and a great
cap, such as townsmen use, with broad
flaps to button under his chin They
evidently believed I'm keeping their
heads warm In those days
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
Three Million Wires to an Inch.

Gold has been hammered out to thin
sheets whose thinness is beyond imagi-
nation, so thin a pile one inch high
would doubtless contain 100000 IL oil
were as thin as the thinnest one. But
a platinum wire has been drawn to a
diameter so minute that 100000 side
by side would occupy one inch. The
method was to surround platinum with
silver and draw the mass into finer
and finer wire. Then the silver coating
was dissolved Off with nitric acid, leav-
ing the excessively thin, insoluble
thread OF platinum. Particles OF gold
have been seen In the new ultra violet
light, dark ground rejecting micro
scopes so small that n row containing
100000 would be one inch long. And
there are animals as small.-New York
American.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
EnlloMed Suit.

This curious incident comes from
Suhr, Switzerland: An inspector OF
schools, without any previous warning,
visited the village school and found
the elderly teacher asleep ut his desk
and the children departed, having ap-
parently taken French leave. To give
the teacher great surprise and n bad
quarter of an hour the inspector de-
cided to wait until he awoke and seat
ed himself on bench In front OF the
culprit. The hours passed, and the In
spector himself went to sleep. The
teacher, on awakening and seeing who
was sleeping before him, quietly left
the school for home. Without entering
the schoolroom the concierge locked
up the school and the slumbering In
spector. Several hours later the con
cierge heard a great noise and. arming
himself, opened the door and was great
ly surprised to find the angry inspector
before him.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
NORTH FOSTER

Mr.. Walter X. browne spent Wednes-
day in Providence.
Thirty.four ladies of the II. l. Woman S
Club were guests of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
K. browne, May 35th.
Mrs. Ella Birtwell, who has been visit.
ing her sister, Mrs. w. X. browne, has
returned to her home in Saundersdale,
Mass.
Memorial Day exercises of a very interst-
ing nature were held at Mt. uygeia school
on Monday afternoon. The pupils show.
Ing that much time and attention had
been spent in perfecting their recitations
and readings which were well chosen for
the occasion. Three veterans, Rev. Seares
Young, Samuel J. Goldsmith and Thomas
Tasker were present and ADDRESSED the
children. Hon. Thomas X. browne made
an impromptu speech and read a beauti.
full poem commemorating the memory OF
the soldiers and sailors.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-05-31
WHEN COAL WAS FORMED.
Curious Condition the Earth Was In at
That Period.

What Is said TO be the strangest
period through " Nhich this earth has
passed Is the one that was responsible
for the formation Of coal. The planet
Is described as being at that time fat
and smooth rs to surface and peculiar
as to vegetation. The continents were
just beginning TO rise above the ocean,
and the land had not yet become dry
Mountain ranges had not arisen-from
the swamps. and the atmosphere was
thick With fog. In this state OF affairs
there spr0uted and fourished the
plants which were later to furnish the
world with its coal supply.
These plants grew as big as our
largest trees. taking deep root in the
morass and flourishing like the lush
grasses In moist meadow land, devel
oped into the strange shapes now
found in tropic vegetation. The for
ests looked. scientists state, like dense
growths Of weeds, rushes and enormous
ferns. Some of them grew in the shape
OF cacti, having spines all over them
This kind Of vegetation was very rich
In carbon. which II derived from the
warm. moist atmosphere. Then the
millions Of years rolled by, the forests
OF giant weeds were buried by deposits
OF earthly material. and the chemical
change took place which slowly
changed them into coal. This process
stopped with the carboniferous age. so
that when the present supply Of coal
Is dug out of the ground there will be
no more.-New York Sun.