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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-11-01
pussins lt the Wrons Way.

Putting lt the Wrong Way.
 sNany speaker 3is lauded as hav. og . inc command of language o1 1hom 1t might better he said. that 'hts language has . command of him. He NAs tho same command of language' hat . sidar has of . horse that b Qnpiug Gvay vikh hina~-Whatalx
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-11-01
SACKS WANTED

HIGHEST CASH PRICES WILL BE
 paid for cid or secondhand sacks. l have arranged with.S local dealer to take all these off my hands at fair prices. Call me over telephone 519, Bob McGehee. S02 East Twelfth ave- nua 9-1 I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-11-01
coe,yDp Mol

~D1d Ae kiss yoa when he pro. posed? ~Certainly: l wouldn't con- sidas any hut sealed proposala."
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

came back from Europe, and he's
never been anywhere since. l don't
believe he ever goes to his mothers.
There's Mr.. McVeigh In the doorway
we'd better be going.
Once again In the carriage tney
were soon clear of the last stragghng
shanty. and speeding along the pale
ascending road. The silence that
held the trio before their arrival at
Rocky Bar again fell on them.
Wrapped IN overcoats and rugs Bill
Cannon appeared to slumber, every
now and then-as the wheels )olteu
over a piece Of rough road-bed-shak-
en- into growing wakefulness. Nc
Weigh also rolled sleepily in his seat.
occasionally leaning sidewise to spit
over the wheel. Only the girl seemed
alert and wide-awake, her face cram
ing out from the shadowed back seat
her ewes strained to pierce the OBJ
| scurity and see for the first time the
LANDSCAPE Of foot-hill California. OF
which her father had SO often told
her.
McVeigh looked back over his
shoulder, saw the bright eyes under
the hat-brim, and said softly:
THE Silver Crescent stamp-mill.
The last big mine we'll see"
The ascending road crept along the
edges of ravines whence the sound OF
running water came in clear cllnk
ing. dived down into black caverns
of trees unlighted by the feeblest ray
of star-shine, and then climbed II
been able to see plainly she woulc
have noticed the change in the foil
, age, the disappearance Of the smaile
shrubs and delicate interlacement
! naked boughs, and the mightle
, growth Of the pines. soaring shaft
devoid of branches to great helgh'
Boulders appeared among their roots
straight falls of rock edged the roa
y like the walls of fort.
: McVeigh turned and caught tn
: bright eye.
- Seems like your paw must thin
lot OF what he's heard about ID
y new strike at Greenhide to come
= this way" he whispered.
. Il guess he does, came the
Spouse in the same key.
- 1T sort Of stumps me to know WI
% you came along with him." he CONT
ued, his eyes on the horses. but lea
:, ing back to catch her answer.
~ "Mightn't l just want to see u
country"
Dc well. mebbe you might, but
Ii don't seem to me that you're seei
. much Of II tonight"
W He heard her smothered laugh. sh
II his glance back to his horses. al
W then turning back to her.
You're a lively girl, amt your
= said.
ne 81 don't feel very lively just
III this minute. I'm cold girl, the co
VI, est in California | think"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
FISH INTOXICATED ON BEER
Brewery Output Emptied Into stream
Causes Chaos Among Pts
catorial Tribe.

Mendoza. Ill.-There will be no more
fishing in the Mendoza creek TOT
months to come. It is improbable that
the fish will be able to see the bait
for several weeks. The banks recent
" were lined with hundreds of dead
fish and the creek was full OF others
dead drunk.
Because of failure to pay the gov
eminent tax the Mendoza brewery was
closed and 1851 barrels of beer were
emptied into the creek.
An hour later conglomeration OF
queer sounds arose from the creek
from the mewing of cat fish 10 tne
deem bass of the bass. Several tur-
ties we're seen disporting themselves
absurdly on log and three bullfrogs
staggered arm in arm down nam
street. until taken into custody by a
policeman. They couldn't hop. despite
the fact that they we're full of them
Many of the fish imbihed too freely
and climbed out on shore, where they
were fatally Frustrated by the heat
Those who survived followed the peer
down stream in large schools.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
BOKHARA IS VERY PRIMITIVE
Interesting sideIights On Life OF an
Almost Unknown People Under
the Cars Rule.

London. Interesting sidelights on
the life of the almost unknown people
under the rule Of the car in Centrar
Asia were given by Miss christie, F.
r. G. S, one of the first to be elect
ed to that body. who has recently re-
turned from a journey to Bokhsra
THE eleven gates of Bokhara. SAID
Miss Christie, ARE still shut every
night al shutdown. and the watchmen
parade the streets after dark beating
drums TO show they are awake. The
people were very friendly. The BOX
hara idea of justice was direct and
to the point They took the con-
demred persons 40 to the top Of the
tower and then threw them down.
Once was enough.
THE caravausary in the queer
town was similar to those usually
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
CHAPTER II.
A Younu Man Married.

That same evening. at the nour
when Bill Cannon and his daughtei
we're setting out from Rocky Bar
Dominick Ryan was walking up van
Ness Avenue toward his mother
house.
Dominick did not know at what
hours balls of the kind Mrs. Ryan
was giving that evening were sup,
posed to begin. 1t was nearly three
wears since he had been participant,
in such festal gatherings. he hau
not been at a dance, or dinner oi
a theater party since his marriage
He had heard that these functions
as people now called them, began lat
or than they did in his day. stop
I ming by a lamp he drew out his water
ten o'clock. 1t was later than m
expected In truth, as he had seer
the house looming massively from IL
less imposing neighbors, his foot MAJ
Jagged, his approach had grown $40"
er and slower. 1t was his mother
homo once his own, and as he dre'
nearer to it his reluctance TO ente
grew stronger, more overpoweringi
oppressive.
The stimulating unquiet OF festivf
was in the air. Round the mouth
the canvas tunnel that stretched frol
the door a dingy crowd was assen
bled. staring in at nothing more Il
spiring than the blank visage OF tn
oiosod Mortal At every passing foe
step each face turned to the stree
hopefully expectant of the first CUES
The whining of catgut strings. swe
3 by tentative bows, struck on DON
hicks ear as he pushed his WI
I through the throng and passed up q
+ tunnel. Before he touched the b.
the door swung back and man-st
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
HANG UP GIRL TO BEAT HERR
Georgian Is Charged With inhuman
Punishment Of His Young
Daughter

Augusta. Ga.-Charges that he las
tened a chain around the neck OF his
fifteen-year-old daughter, suspended her
from a meat hook in his butcher
shop and beat her with the butt emo
of a whip until the blood flowed from
her wounds, were made against }. >.
Johnson in the recorders court.
Policeman Moore, who arrested
Johnson. stated that he was called by
neighbors who heard the girrs
scream. The policeman said that when
he reached the market he found John
sons daughter, Nellie. suspended
from a meat hook. suspended by a
chain which had been wrapped twice
around her neck and locked. Moore
said that the girls arms and neck
showed evidence Of severe beating.
She was exhausted when released.
johnson said he whipped MS
daughter because he could not con-
troll her. His case was continued. One
of the specific charges against him IL
assault with intent to murder
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

who had gone to the balcony railing
and was looking out into the dark
ness, cried:
why. papa. snow!"
slow. laborious loops the 'bare bull
warks of the mountain. Had the girl
The information seemed to startle
every one. The men crowded from
the doorway and balcony into the
street. McVeigh set down the bags,
and. turning his weather-beaten face
to the sky. uttered a smothered ejac-
ulation Of a profane character Can
non came forward to where his daugh-
ter stood and looked into the black
ness beyond. The girl had drawn OH
her glove and held her bare hand out
then stepping back to the light Of the
window. she showed It to her father
The white skin was sprinkled WITH
snow crystals. =.
Sure enough" he said in thought
full voice. We'll, 1t won't be the nrs
time I've been showed up In Ante
lope."
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

found in the east long ago. The little
rooms look out over small balcony
into the yard. Underneath the rooms
the cattle are kept
"All the buildings, with the excep-
ton of the mosques and the towers,
are built of clay, and the method or
the builders is simplicity itself. A
wooden framework is put up, and IN
the spaces between the wooden
boards are pressed sun dried balls OF
mud. Then over all comes more mud'
and in very short time a house Is
built and ready for occupation.
Miss Christie was fortunate enough
to see the emir going to mosque ana
she also photographed him, when Is
considered something of a feat, for
no one ever knows which of the
many mosques he intends to enter IL
was a Friday. and a crowd OF SUP
iects gathered near the mosque WITH
in a few yards of the palace.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

admirers with a genial good humor'
- entered into conversation with |
them. his manner marked by an easy
familiarity, which swept away all
shades OF embarrassment, ana are"
the men around the stove, eager 10
respond to his questions as to the con-
dition and prospects OF the locailty.
The talk was becoming general ana
animated. when the ancient man re-
turned and announced that the colu
lunch" was ready and to please step
after him into the dinlng-room.
This gaunt apartment, grimly IN
adorned and family illumined, an oc-
casional lantern backed by a tin re-
Hector projecting a feeble light into
ifs echoing emptiness, was swept OF
all intruders, and showed a barn-ilke
baroness Of wall and loftiness OF roof.
Lines of tables, uncovered between
thanking wooden benches, were ar
ranged down its length. Across the
end of one Of these a white cloth was
spread and three places set. JAKE
McVeigh, less innocently democratic
than the hotel proprietor, was about to
withdraw from the society of his dis
tinguished patron and seat himself In
seemly loneliness at an adjacent
table. when Bill Cannon's voice arrest
ed him.
What are you going off there for
sonny, as II you were leperE come
over here and sit side of u.s."
Cannon, his overcoat removed, wa:
seen to be a powerful, thick-set man
with a bulkiness that was more
l matter of broad build and muscular
development than fat. His coat set IL
upon him and strained at the buttons
It had the effect of having worked u
/ toward the shoulders, noticeable Il
the clothes of men who are deer
I chested and sit bunchily. He had
short neck which he accommodate
3 with a rundown collar, gray beart
clipped close to his cheeks and squar
3 on the chin, and gray hair, worn ratf
- er long and combed sleekly and VIII
i out parting back from his forehead
In age he was close to seventy, bu
the alertness and intelligence OF
a conouering energy and vitality wer
in his glance, and showed In his NOV
" ments, deliberate. but sure and full
precision. He spoke little as he al
le his dinner, leaning over his plate an
responding to the remarks OF n
% daughter with an occasional monosy
o. liable that might have sounded cur
o. had it not been accompanied with
Oh lazy cast of his eye upon her that WI
Us as full of affection as a caress.
W The young lady, who had also p
y off her outer wraps, still wore her hs
which was wide-brimmed and cast
q. shadow over the upper part OF n
face. Below it her hair showed a fin
bright blonde, giving forth sill
Nv CLEANS in the lamplight. To the pee
ing heads in the doorway she seem
y; creature instinct with romant
rs. charm, which was expressed in su
i'd delicacies of appearance as pea
white throat, a rounded chin, and II
I'd that smiled readily. These graces,
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

want he had never seen before muir
INJURED politely in low tones:
"Gentlemen's dressing-room first
floor to the right"
Dominick stood uncertain. He was
only a rare, occasional visitor at his
mothers house, and tonight the hall
stripped for revelry looked strangely
unfamiliar.
"Gentlemen's dressing-room frs
floor to the right" repeated the ser
want, and Dominick became aware o.
the mans eyes, fixed on him with
CLEAN of uneasy scrutiny SHINING
through cultivated obsequiousness.
Where is my" he was going t
say mother" but checked himself
amending it with. Where is Mrs
Ryan,"
The servant Indicated the open dool
way to the right and Dominick passe
in. Through the vista of two room.
their connecting archways uncut
tanned, he saw the shining spacious
ness of the ballroom, the room hi
mother had added to the house wbe
Cornelia, his sister. had come out
AS he entered he saw his mothe
and Cornelia. They had been stan'
ing in one corner, Cornelia adjustin
the shade of an electric light.
His mother was standing beside hs
watching the arranging hand. 81
was sixty-eight years of age and vel
. stout, but her great wealth made
, possible for her to employ dressma
ers who were artists and experts, ar
her Partisan costume made her loo
: almost shapely. 1t fell about her
some jetted furnishings. With the
shifting CLEAN the CLINT Of diamon'
|, mingled. She also wore pearls roul
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

That made him laugh, too, but ne
turned back to his horses, saying with
quick considerations:
81 guess you are. Come. boys. TO
the horses, we've got to get move
on. We can't let this young lady
catch cold.
The horses quickened their pace
and there was no more talk. An hour
later the first broken lights OF Ante
lope sparkled along the road. The
old mining camp. in hollow between
two buttresses Of the Sierra, lay shut
tered and dreaming under the star
light. A lamp-lit window, here and
there. showed the course OF Its strag-
Cling main street, and where the no
tel stood. welcoming rays winked be-
tween the boughs of leafless trees.
As the thud of the approaching
hoof-beats woke the echoes sudden
| violent barking of dogs broke out
! Antelope was evidently not as sounc
asIeep as 1t looked. At the hotel, es
pecially, there was life and move
ment The bar disgorged throng o.
men. and Perley, the proprietor. hat
TO push his way through them to wei
come his midnight guests. Antelope
though remote, was in telegraphi'
communication with the world. AM
che operator at Rocky Bar had wire'
Perley TO be ready for the distin
uished arrivals-news that in hall
hour was known throughout tn
town and had brought most Of tn
unattached male population into tn
hotel.
lake Mcveigh was pulling the lut
gage from under the seats and Car
non was interchanging the first gree
inc. With his landlord, when the CIR
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

kind of a proposition. They say she
married the boy for money and posi-
ton. and hasn't got either. Della.
who has the money, hasn't given them
a cent since the marriage; made up
her mind, people say, to force Mrs.
Dominick out. She doesn't seem to
have done 1t, and / guess it's been
sort of aggravating to her. Just the
same I'd like to know II she's had
the nerve not to send the woman an
invitation to the ball. That would be
pretty tough"
i've never seen either Dominick OF
his wife," said the girl 1T seems odd
when l know Mrs. Ryan and Cornelis
40 well. But he married the year
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26

gerly deciphered through dimness and
distance, had the attraction OF the
semi-seen. and imagination. thus CIV
en- an encouraging FLIP, invested Bill
Cannon's girl with haunting beauty
II was remarked that she bore no re-
semblance to her father in coloring.
features, or build. In talking 1t over
later, Rocky Bar decided that she
must favor her mother, who, as all
California knew. had been waitress
In the Yuba Hotel at Marysville, when
Bill Cannon. then a miner In the
Freeze-Out, had wooed and won her.
1t was toward the end Of the meal
that. looking at the opposite wall, her
glance was caught by . large cloca
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
FLINDERS or Wells, Whlcn7

Boston.-"It is going to be a choice
between binders for the men
or wells for the women, SAID
the Rev. Frederick Z. Heath,
nastor of the Warren Baptist church
here. discussing the latest dresses
worn by women. He asserted that the
new styles in dress cause disgust 10
the right minded"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
CTo BE CONTINUEDJ
What 70 90 When In Doubt.

Dear me-" sighed the June bride.
81 wish knew what to get for Harry's
supper tonight"
Don't you?" asked Mrs. Longtimer.
I've thought, and thought, and can't
think of anything he'd like this hot
weather"
I'll tell YOU, then. When in doubt
serve him cold boiled ham. That's
what always d."
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
Kills So With Ninth Shot.

Yonkers, n. Y.-Carl II. Nystrom.
fifty-seven, a machinist, used up nine
shots before he succeeded in killing
himself at his home here. After mr.
ing his revolver once he had dumped
the empty shells upon the floor and re-
loaded the pistol Five bullets were i'm
bedded in the walls and ceilings, three
lodged in the mans abdomen and the
ninth penetrated the brain.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-20

membered Hezekiah's laughter at the
mention Of my friend. My smile did
not escape Miss Octavia.
"Just how, may I ask, did she refer
to Mr.. Wiggins?"
CAS- though she thought him the fun
niest Of human beings. She laughed
deliciously at the bare mention of his
name"
1T was not your impression. then,
that she was deeply enamored Of him;
that she was eating her heart out for
himw
Decidedly not. Miss Hollister. She
gave me quite a different idea"
"You relieve me greatly. Mr.. Wig
gins sense of humor is the slightest.
and l should not in the least fancy
him for HeZekiah. And besides. 1 am
not yet ready to arrange a marriage
for her."
She laid the slightest stress on the
final pronoun. 1t was a fair inference,
then. that Miss Cecilia's affairs were
being "arranged::' when they had been
determined a husband would be found
for Hezekiah. l did not doubt that
Miss HOLSTERS intentions toward her
nieces were the friendliest. no matter
what strange devices she might employ
to bend those young women to her pur-
poses.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-20
ITO BE
HUMOROUS Qu|Ps.
Sailors and the Circus.

Mates, the water tight connection 'tWiXt
my story and the facts
Slowed within my recollection has to do
with circus acts,
For without a bit of aid or sympathy a
big Hindu
Circus juggler named Dab Kadir saved
the passengers and crew.
We had lately left the shipping in the
harbor through the haze
When a norther, wet and ripping. tore the
rigging from the stays.
That is when we lost the compass as the
wormy vessel rolled,
But more vital was the rumpus Of the
circus in the hold.
With the captain mad and bawling. Live
ly, durn ye-mainsl haul"
Honest. mates. it were appalling just to
hear them tigers squall!
Then a running breaker scooped US. and
we got a wicked shock,
For the topping sea had popped us. jam
ming us upon a rock.
Tighten ship!" the captain thundered.
mounting on the wrecked caboose.
How to tighten her we wondered with
them yelling tigers loose.
1t was mutiny to falter-smell of hemp
about the jaws
But we wondered II a natter WASH pleas
anter than claws.
While the crew were thus delaying,
Here's a chance to show my skill!'
We could hear Dab Kadir saying. Light
en- ship I can and will"
''Stow your jaw!" the captain told him.
'Stow your own!" the heather scoffed.
Then into a ball he rolled him and so
hurled him high aloft.
After him the mate went %whooping. then
the bos'n, Pat O'Hare:
e the cook and crew were trooping
one by one into the air.
Up and up that Hindu hurled us. boots
and breaches. head and heel,
Fast and faster tossed and twirled us In
one yelling human wheel,
Then the lightened vessel floated as we
whirled above the deck.
While the heather juggler gloated and
the ship escaped a wreck.
Three whole days he kept us turning in
tho air by sleight Of hand.
On the fourth, while still a-churning. ev-
erybody sighted land!
Chicago News,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-20
The Siege
of the
Seven Suit0rs
By
Copyright. 1910. by Meredith Nicholson
Copyright. 1910. by Meredith Nicholson

was imminent. She said:
"Those + Cecilia's suitors. They
have been to Aunt Octavia's to tea.
They're staying at the Prescott Arms
probably"
They're terribly formal. 1 can't get
rid Of the impression of somberness
created by those fellows. You'd hard
ly expect them to tramp cross country
in those buds. Such grandeur should
go on Wheels"
"Oh. they are afraid of Aunt Octa-
via. She won't allow a motor on her
grounds. and l suppose they're afraid
they might break some other rule if
they went. on any kind of wheels.
She's rather %,exacting. you know, my
Aunt Octavia."
Il was at the Prescott for luncheon
today, and l must have seer these
gentlemen there"
"Oh. you were at the Prescott?"
Almost for the first time her manner
betrayed surprise. but mischief danced
in the brown eyes. With Virgins
confession as to the havoc he had
played with Hezekiah's confiding heart
fresh in my memory. l felt a delicacy
about telling her that it was to see
Virgins that | had visited the inn.
But to my surprise she introduced the
subject of Virgins Immediately and
with laughter struggling for one of
those fountain-like splashes that were
so beguiling.
"Oh. Wiggy is staying there! Do
you know Wiggy?"
know Wiggy, Hezekiah? 1 know
no man BETTER"
"Wiggy is no end Of fun. isn't he?
I've heard him speak Of you. You are
his friend the chimney man. He was
the last man over the stile. Did you
notice that he fingered a moment long
err at the top than the others? From
his being the ninth man l imagine that
he was the last to leave the house, and
he probably felt that this set him apart
from the others. Wiggy is nothing if
not shy and retiring"
A heartbroken. lovelorn girl did not
speak here. She whistled softly to
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-20
PROLOGUE.

Did you ever read a story in
which humor Of the finest and
most delicious sort played the
leading part? Did you ever
tackle a tale which made you
gasp by the originality of its
ideas? Did you ever meet some
utterly impossible persons Who
never lived and never could have
lived and whom you might meet
any day of your life?
They're here, right here in this
story. They have the most i'm
possible adventures and get into
the most impossible situations.
Just as you or 1 might any day
if the stage we're SET just right
for US. Furthermore, they are
very entertaining people, and
they hold the interest from first
word to fins.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-03-20
Very Fond of 1t.

In the endeavor to uplift the race a
friend of ours started in by trying to
smash silly old superstitions. Our
friend believes that negroes are ma
ligned and that many of the stock
jokes about them are not founded on
fact. He has. in fact. succeeded in
proving that Il number of the old min
Strel standbyS are mere SenSeleSS jests
And the other day he interviewed the
elevator boy in his Office bnildiny.
Arthur" he said. there's n silly
old saying that you colored people are
crazy about chickens can't see how
that started. Dc you like chicken?"
"Yassuh."
"Of course almost everybody likes
chicken. l to say. do you like it
better than anything else in the world:
Do you like it so well that you would
steal it if you couldn't obtain it hon
estly?"
BOSS. l likes chicken so we'll dat if
l couldn't git it no other way I'd buy
it!'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.