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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
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r. W. Etter is sick at his homo
on West Second avenue
Mrs. Sarah Be~nath is convale S.
cent after an attack of la grippe.
Mrs. e. NJ. SchobeI, who has
been sick for several days, is> i'm
proving.
Don't forget your order for
XMAS Candies. Now is the time to
leave your order at Bedells. tt
Miss Bessie Goser is quite sick
at her home, No. 1921 East Seventh
avenue.
See that wonderful guaranteed
Brass Bed at Tedstrom F'urn. 60.
Special price for cash--Monday and
Tuesday. IL % st.
Come early Monday if you want
one, $40 worth for $3.50 or $500
worth for $195-Reap & Crawford
Furn. Co 1t.
&C. NJ McVay and Miss Orie Mae
Heflin yesterday secured marriage
license from County Clerk c. NJ Nj
thol.
Xmas presents--Our Special for
Monday-$400 worth for $3.50 and
$500 worth for .95.-Reap & Craw-
ford Furn. Co. 1t
See our window for our Monday
specials. $500 worth for $3.50 or
$500 worth for 1.95.-Reap & Craw-
ford Furn. CO. 1t.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
The "Ideal Gift Store" Bedells. II
CHEAP. RATES.

The "ldeal G!it store" BedeliS. II
CHEAP RATES.
Watch for the Pine Bluff Special and
Extra. IL 10 6t
Many people are joining our Rug
Club at $500 cash and $1.OO per
week. Reap & Crawford Furniture
Co. u
Anything that you wish In the
way Of toys or fireworks can be
found at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
HARDWARE co. II
II tired while shopping, visit our
home-like rest room. Goldberg's SELF
Royal Blue Shoe Store. II
Three tines as much light for
the same money with Buckeye Mazda
Lamps. We sell them at cost and
have just reduced the price 20 per
cent. The Pine Bluff Company. tt
Chatting dish and fire sets Of
brass and jron-You can get these
fire sets in all the latest ornamental
designs at Fox Bros. Hardware Co.,
Retail. 12-1 I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
A CALL.

The Democratic Congress siOnal
Committee of the Sixth Congressional
District of Arkansas is hereby called
to convene at the Court House in the
chancery court room at the city OF
Pine Bluff at IL o'clock (noon) on the
twenty sixth (26th) of December, 1872
to take action with reference to nam
ing a Democratic nominee to be elect
ed on the Fifteenth day Of January
1913, to fill tn evacancy created by
the resignation of Congressman Joe
r.. Robinson.
JOHN NJ. ELLIOTT,
MEYER SOJMSON, Chairman
Secretary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
ELEPHANT JURY SEEMS
UNABLE TO REACH VERDICT

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 21.-The jury
in the case of Gardner Oliphant,
charged with murder, retired at 8
o'clock tonight without returning a
verdict 1t was given the case at 1925
p. m. Oliphant shot and killed James
Shepard, negro, on October 5. He
claims self defense.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22

Never before had we the success
that we are now hav ng in our steam
dyeing department. C'ayel's Drv
Cleaning and Dye Works. #
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22

TURNER BEDDING FACTORY
Wholesale manufcturere of all
grades mattresses and pillows. Long
distance and local phone 1876.
6-21-1m. PINE BLUFF. ARK
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-12-22
NOW Is THE TIME

We will renovate your old mat
resses, cover them with the latest de-
signs of PLAIN OR FANCY TICKING
and make them like new a: reduced
price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The true Kansan is much like a Gu
cumber. insists the Marquette Tribune
makes his hardest fight after he is
down
The better man becomes acquaint-
ed with himself, the more charitably
he judges others. thinks the Pratt
Union.
Most people are probably willing to
agree with the Pratt Union in its opin-
ion that chicken show is different
from circus.
The government is talking of coming
z12 CENT piece, notes the Sabetha
Star, and it adds: You can Just smell
the cigar that would go with it.
Strange. remarks the Rose Hill cor
respondent of the Douglass Tribune,
how many people date their sickness
from some time when they attended
church
Sam Ream, of Holton. told the Sig
nal that 1t got so cola at his house
the other night and the mercury went
down so far that it pulled out the nail
on which the thermometer hung.
'Croaker," one of the contributors to
the HOltOn Recorder, notifies the SUI
fragists that while he may vote for
woman suffrage, he declines to take off
perature gets above zero.
High school note in the Alma Sig
nal: Quite a number of pupils with
some Of the teachers went skating
Monday When you ask one of them
what kind of a time he had ne says:
Just fine; only got my feet wet and
sprained my ankle
Adam Shick, who is a farmer near
Lawrence. is said to be the only man in
Kansas who can set type in Greek
notes the Holton Recorder, and it
adds; We don't know about that but
we do know that the editorials set up
by some of the editors are Greek to US.
An excellent suggestion from Mrs
Kelley in her part Of the Toronto Re
publican: The papers say that jackrab-
bits and antelOpeS are robbing cattle
in western Kansas so that they are
starvingi Seems as though the state
ought to provide for its wild wards
better than that The farmer finds him
self rather in a hole when he has to
protect things without receiving pro-
lection from them in return. We would
suggest that Prof. Dyche start a relief
train at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

been found to fill the magazine with
greater effectiveness and satisfaction
than had been the case before the sys-
tenn had been introduced into the edi-
torial room. There is a monthly mag
azine that calls into its offices at inter
Vals members of a group of writer's
who have been on its contributing list
Tor many years and asks them what
they have got on their minds" or, in
other words, what ideas they may have
that may be turned into the form of
articles and stories for the publica-
tlons use Numerous other methods
that the magazines pursue in taking
the initial steps toward filing them
selves might be cited, but a further
intimate elaboration of illustration
seems unnecessary. A survey of the
situation in its entirety reveals the
summarizing facts that magazines to-
day are being filled more and more as
newspapers are flIed=by assign
ments more and more by the mem bers
OF regularly employed staffs=or. if not
STATS, = by groups of associated free
lance contributors. more and more
through direct business contracts or
friendly affiliations with writer's pos
sessed of reputation or gradually
mounting ability-and less and less
through the propitious accidents of the
United States mail. - George Jean
Nathan, in the Bookman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
SAYS UNCLE CIV

If some of US should insist upon trav-
cling according to the principle upon
which we plan our careers we would
refuse to ride in street cars because We
cannot soar in aeroplanes. We try to
fly high when we can't earn carfare-
The result is experiences that enable
us to see the sorry side of the joke
about Darius Green and his flying ala-
chine.
Highly developed talent and sound
Judgment are two of the absolutely
necessary requirements of real success,
and that combination never disdained
simple, fundamental tasks No maj
has ever found the way to greatness
except by building his magnificent su-
perstructure upon q foundation of lit
tie things cemented by industry BY
no other means can any man, no mat
ter how gifted he may be, gain the
skill and breadth and grasp necessary
to deal with large affairs. This is ma
lures immutable law, and none has
prcspered who has ignored it. 1t lays
its hand upon the babe who must creep
before he can walk; it brings ruin and
confusion to the man TYho, having de-
spised little things, would be master
of great ones.
begin at the bottom and work UP"
was the trite but true advice of our
nard- headed forefathers who conquer
ed the land and gave it solid business
ideals IN that homeIy sentence is the
sum total of human wisdom on the
subject of career building. These men
know the value of training, discipline
and minute knowledge of their tasks.
The business theorist has been able to
suggest an idea or two, but has never
been able to improve on the system as
q whole. while the get-rich-quick graf
ter, in sowing the seed of discomfort
with sound methods, has succeeded only
in driving home the point of this old
fashioned advice by the force of an I'M
Happy example.-(C Copyright, 1912, by w
r SWi1JiamS)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
I'D YER Using TALKS

Mr. H. b. Tremaine, of the Aeonan
Co. has been a persistent advertiser for
over twenty years Every year he spends
more money than the year before and al
ways with greater results
His Oft-repeated instructions to his ad-
vertising and sales departments are
Don't devise ways and means to cut
down advertising: anybody can do that
even the office boy. What I want to
know is how we can increase our adVer-
Using to the advantage of the business
October, November and December,
1911 the Aeolian Company spread itself in
a human interest, instructive advertising
campaign with magnificent results
Never did the company do a greater bust
ness.
ness circles during the latter part of 1911.
so many advertisers retrench ed-used less
space-trfed to save. Usually when peo
pie get it into their heads that business
is slow the first thing they do it to give
their best Observation-Disclosures black
eye.
It is therefore very refreshing as we'll
as inspiring to have a man like Mr.. Ire
maine jump into the breach-open up
more ia pfd fire than overland do a won
derful business in spite of the pessimfsts
who claimed that everything was going
to the '-demnition bow vows.
In a long experience and making care
full observations ] have learned that the
man who retrenches in advertising at
any period loses more than he saves.
When he opens up to the throttle again
it takes him a great deal longer to get
under full headway-to get resuts-be-
cause the business that does not con-
stantly remind the people of its existence
is soon forgotten
Advertise all OF the tfrne-not extrava-
gantly. not WastefulIy-but don't give
anybody a chance to forget you.
ITO be ontfnued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

her in his arms as she whispered,
~ ou-'
Il can't carry you off like a thief
In the night" he said after a raptur-
Gus moment. Il shall have to beard
the lion in his den, dear
He'll never consent" she said.
fearfully.
Wait here for me, my Rose" and
he kissed her and went away.
Ten minutes later in the dim study
Two angry men faced each other.
If you do not give your consent I
said steadily. You are killing her
spirltually-no girl can live constantly
with your old gods and survive"
Tomorrow she goes back to India
With me-" said the raging guardian,
you cannot take her away from me.
love her too well to have her hurt"
ct you are hurting her. There
IS no ache like a heartache. Surely
you know that, sir
The old man started as if he had
been stung, then covered his face, Il
want to save her" he said.
Then let her love and be loved
The younger man came over and
put his hand on the bent shoulders.
All that you would have been to the
woman you loved, I will be to Rosa
mond. Can say more than that?"
The face that was raised to his had
in it remuneration, combined with
hope. make her happy" quavered
the old copyrighted 1912, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.l
Trouble hunters never come home
emptyhanded-
And all men are alke-except those who
are different.
He who would achieve fame must pay
the press agent
1t takes a financial artist to draw a
satisfactory check
A hammer sometimes misses its mark.
but bouquet, never
No Cordelia, you can't keep a secret
by putting it on ice
A womans intuition enables her to get
along without judgment
Some women seem to think painted
face should go with a picture hat.
It takes a cheerful man to fool himself
into believing that he is contented-
When a married woman is well dressed
its sign that her husbands credit is
good
And many homely girls popularity
with the male contingent is due to the
fact that she has rich father
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

When a man admits he is a Regular
Devil, he isn't.
There is some difference in being en-
titled to relief. and getting it.
If three years don't seem long to you,
it's a sign you aren't in the army
You may not be able to use your friends
as successfully as a barkeeper can.
AS an actress grows older, she doesn't
have her pictures revised so often.
If a boy is too lazy to work at 1t, it
won't help him much to learn trade.
Don't tell the women. but very few men
want to be known as Model husbands.
Sometimes a fancy can well sell a pref
ty fierce brand of smoking tobacco.
No wonder an Atchison man is rich. He
can't have good time unless he is work
ing
When a robber gets the drop on a
man, he makes money look cheap to the
victim.
An Atchison youth is such sissy there
lingerie.
Some men are so optimistic they can
make sitting up with a corpse a joyous
occasion.
Probably the owner of the largest auto
mobile hopes to have an extension built
on it.
It doesn't always follow that the wei
come" on the doormat is a standing in
vitatiol..
mans winter underwear usually
needs an early spring almost as much
as the dairy farmers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia RecOrd.l

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
All used up-Ceiling decorations.
All things come to him who waits. even
the Weathernan's predictions
Some girls go to church because OF the
hymns, and others because Of the hims.
There seems to be no reason why a
light sleeper shouldn't sleep just as well
in the dark.
You can generally tell how fond a man
is of cabbage from the brand Of cigars he
smokes
The difference between a sinner and a
saint is that one is known by his deeds,
the other by his creeds.
It isn't until after he has been sued
for breach of promise that many fellow
learns to think twice before he speaks.
The trouble with the young man who
begins al the foot of the ladder is that he
Immediately wants to turn it upside
down.
"And so you found the western cow
boys disappointing" remarked the stay
at-home Terribly so,' replied the girl
don even know enough to speak their
own dialect"
What struck you most forcibly during
your visit to the city, Uncle Hiram ?'' ask
ed the Village oracle WALL ruminated
Uncle Hiram, when I cum to in the
hospital I'll be gosh dinged if I could
rec1ect whether it was a trolley car or
one O. them derned ottymobiles."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
Fiction Factories.

There is a monthly magazine of
popular" fiction published in New
York@a magazine of wide circulation
whose editor not only assigns
writer's to the task of supplying his
publication with fiction, but also s.as-
signs these writers to the plots It
might be more accurate, possibly. to
reverse the order and say that he as
signs the plots to the writer's but the
fact remains that the fiction for this
particular magazine is assigned for
all the world like a newspaper story
of a fire in a shirtWaist factory
in Broome street, New York, or Fifth
avenue. Chicago Although not direct
ly relevant to the present chronicle, it
may be said for the benefit Of skeptics
that the assignment idea in point has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It is far easier to conceal riches
than it is to hide poverty
X \
Did anybody ever have any better
luck by picking up the pins he comes
across?
No matter how bad the weather
may be. it's a poor memory that cant
recall worse.
The saying that men of brains live
Ions can only be of satisfaction to a
very few.
= =
Fellows in the habit of sending bon
bons to their girls might make more of
a nit these days with their sweet
hearts families by substituting car
tons filled with real butter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

No corruption or bribery attended
the election of Uncle Ike Stephenson
10 the United States senate. according
TO the unanimous report of the sena-
toriaI committee which has been in
vestigating the charges to this effect.
In other words. the 100000 and more
which it cost Uncle Ike to pluck a
Wisconsin senatorial plum was ex-
pended in a perfectly legitimate fash
ion Political preferment is certainly
expensive In progressive Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

Jay the brindle bulldog mascot Of
the battleship Delaware. now lying at
the Brooklyn navy yard, has deserted.
and the 900 men who man the crack
superdreadnought OF the United States
navy are wretched in consequence. It
Is mighty serious thing to desert or
even overstay your leave on the Della
ware, which has a record for high
standard of discipline and efficiency,
and the men keep pretty close TO the
regulations jay, however, apparent
~ has not absorbed the spirit of his
when permitted TO go ashore for a
romps he deserted and nothing has
been seen or heard of him since.
Return and all will be forgiven"
Is the message the men OF the Della
ware have sent out to Jay, but it ap-
parently hasn't reached him yet for
he hasn't reported, and there is no
indication that he means to come
back.
On their 52.O0O-miIe trip between
April and Septemb Der last the men OF
the Delaware collected a lot Of mas
cots, but Jay put all rivals out Of bust
ness six weeks ago when he came
aboard ship He is about a year and
a half old, and was presented to Capt.
G sIles A Cove by woman who
thought that the crack battleship OF
the navy ought to have something
better in the way of a mascot than a
lot OF goats and parrots.
APT oDN1 turned jay over to the
men, and his qualities as a mascot
We're put to the test the very next day
when the bootball team of the Della
ware locked horns with the team from
another battleship. TT e men OF the
Delaware won They won three more
games with Jay barking up and down
the side lines, and after that the other
mascots had to take a back scat So
popular did Jay become with the men
that they made hammock for him
and taught him how TO curl I'D com
Iortably in 1t at night. They also
bought him a collar with his name
and the name OF the battleshfp en-
graved on il. and they fed him the
choicest morsels from the mess.
For four weeks Jay behaved admir-
ably Two weeks ago he developcd a
Wanderlust. which the men attributed
TO the excessive petting he got from
shore folk in the course of the recent
naval review in the Hudson river. ne
was INDUCED TO the extent OF being
permitted to go ashore and nm
around bit each evening, but he al
ways came back.
In spite of his detection. a warn,
welcome awaits the mascot on boar5
the Delaware, and anybody who finds
him and brings him back will win fba
everlasting gratitude Of 500 sailors ~
the United States navy.-New Yortr
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
RY THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

A musician who fails to get an en-
core never suspects that his playing
/ may be poor, he always feels that the
audience has no Soul for Music.
The name of recently invented
machine for catching people in lie.
IS ''Sphygmomanomete But clev-
er newspaper reporter will answer the
purpose just as well and is easier to
spell.
The Boston chief of detectives ad-
Vocates the garter purse for women
but has neglected to balance the re-
commendation by advocating dark
glasses or binders for the men clerks
in department stores.
The Topeka youth who frisl1ed a
bank and was caught at it, is charged
with having lived beyond his means
From which one might gather that
the police had found proof that his
gas bill was paid.
When some men assert that mo
women ever made a fool of me" 1t
looks like a direct charge against their
fathers.
Everyone likes a man who says just
what he thinks-about someone else.
Hon. J. ]. veatch of Washington
Hon. Veatch is an exponent OF the
chest-warmer type of whisker, but
outside of that he is all right, and the
voters of his district should not hold 1t
against him.
Hon. Stubs reply to Hon. House
took almost a column, but 1t could
be boiled down to a couple of lines
Why didn't he save time and space
by saying: 'Pooh-pOoh,-no one
will suspect ME- of playing politics"
Aviators who have gathered at Los
Onglaze for their annual flitterfest OBJ
ject to the presence of Red Cross
crews on the grounds. And at that
they are right. A Red Cross outfit
is calculated to give aid to the in
jured; few aviators are injured" A
vacuum cleaner on the grounds would
be more appropriate.
Hon. Stubs distinction between
a J. P. mot unfriendly'' and one
friendly is much like a spot that is
not damp and a dry spot.
And in the contest between Jack |
Johnson, Ed O'Neil and Gov. Stubs
to see who can score the most inter |
views in one week, the result seems to |
be a draw. Each scored every day |
of the past week.
Any girl who thinks of bleaching |
her hair should keep it dark
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
THE COWBOYS AND THE PROS
PECTOR

The Two-Bar camp has entertained
A Tninin' Teller as a guest;
He drifted in one night 1t rained-
A prospector who needed rest.
He bunked with us and talked a string
About the gold he hoped to get;
If we had let him run, by jingi
He sure would be a-talkin' yet.
He'd scratched and dug in hills untold,
A-huntin' for the mother lode,
But didn't need such heaps of gold
No more n the burro that he rode.
He couldn't understand why we
Was punchin' cows for ten a week,
With not a thought that gold might be
In every rock or hill or creek.
And we plum failed to make him out
His greed for what he couldn't spend;
He might be right, but I nisdoubt
If such a chap could be friend
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
DAFFYDuS
BY U. NOALL-

If the stove was fiddle would the
poker-p player?
(No, Agnes. Pruning fruit trees
does not necessarily help produce a
crop of prunes.)
If the dew kissed a peach would the
Iemon-squeezer
tSure- And there'd be plenty to
give the lemonade.)
If the drug clerk was in debt would
the bromo?
{Not so much froth in that soda
water, If you please.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22

Champ Clark undoubtedly figured
that he was playing safe in his agree
ment to abide by the decision of the
Democrats of Missouri as to whether
he or Joe Folk should be the
presidential candidate from that state.
Outside Of Missouri not much is heard
of the Folk candidacy. and If Clark
wasn't sure of Missouri he would not
be so willing TO toss his strength in
other states into the waste-paper bas-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
crRA.s ANsWER

The first effect Of Secretary knoxs
friendly warning to the government at
Havana has been salutary. Chickering's
have ceased, following the reminder from
Washington that fractional strife IN Cuba
cannot be carried beyond certain limits
laid down I'm the Plat amendment, ard
most Of the factions opposed to President
Gomez have admitted the folly or risk
ing national independence for the sake Of
party or personal advantage.
That is the part Of wisdom. BY no
other course can Cuba hope to avoid fn-
tervention. much as that would be dis
tasteful to the United States. We are re-
sponsibie for good government in the
island and we cannot avoid our responsi-
bility-
What IS more. the Cubans themselves
do not wish to avoid IL. and have
promptly given evidence OF the Eratifica.-
ton over the fact that we stand ready to
save them from the type OF politicians
that hold sway in less favored lands
washed by the blue Caribbean. All who
have a stake in the industry and pros
perity OF the island-and they CONSTITUTES
the vast majority OF SITS inhabitants-ask
for nothing more than freedom from tur-
MOL and leave to go about their business
in peace.-Philadelphi Press.