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Arizona republican., 1916-03-12
Drama, and The Picture Plays

worthless Indian prince who is strik-
 en dead suddenly According to the
 custom of the country, she is forced
 to give up her life on the funeral pyre
 of her husband Dickinson, an Eng
 lishman. seeing her plight rescues her,
 and takes her to his home disguished
 as a boy servant, In the interim, his
 English sweet heart has arrived from
 F,ngla and he finds his love for the
 little Indian girl waning. She per
 CeiVcS it. but is of the steaGfaSt opinion that he can do no wrong He finally returns to his former sweet heart, and the princess burns herself to death in his bungalow. In addition to this, the other half of the Triangle program will be sam Bernard in Keystone com edy The Great Pearl Tangle,' a pict- ure dealing with the substitution of phoncy gems for real ones. For Tues day only. d play dealing with how life seethes and boilS in a peaceful little town is given in ''The Missing Linlls,,i
 a Fine Arts Triangle Play. Then mana i ger Nace, always on the qui ViVe to | please his patrons. has secured Fatty | ana Mdbel, mednlHS OI course ftOStot | .Arbuckle and Mabel Normand in Fatty | and Mabel Adrift' Fatty is placed right at home in almost his natural | element. that is. the sea The skit
 ahounds with comical situations. and 1 of course this being G:Y state. such | a wet picture should draw we'll We'd neSdaN and Thursday the Arizona will i witness the debut of two stars in the | amazing success of ''So Long. Lefty" in 1 Jane" They are none other than | Sydney Grant and Charlotte Green wood. Both have been successful on 1 the legitimate stage. and with their | advent on the movie stage. are expect | ed to be an even greater success. Jane 1 is a society drama, with any number of ] dramatic episodes.
 ! Lou Telegan, better known as the 1 husband of Geraldine Farrar will be 1 seen at the Arizona on Friday and Sat l urdaN in The Unknown a gripping military drama of the famous foreign 1 legion of the French army, stationed in | Algeria.
Evening star., 1916-08-26

yellow when he Is to infiict the ex-
treme penalty of the law on those con-
victed Of certain despicable crimes.
There is reason for this degrada-
tion of yellow; it came from the fact
that in medieval pictures Of Judas
Iscariot, the artists. that he might
stand out prominently. always repre-
sented him as clothed in yellow.
And SO yellow came to be . symbol
Of dis1oyalty and treachery.
Evening star., 1916-08-26
Yellow.


1t seems strange sometimes how some
things entirely devoid of moral quail
ties get bad regulations. Take the
color yellow, for instance. What con-
tempt we express when we say a man
has q streak of yellow in himl And
who has any use for . yellow cur?
When. early in the sixteenth CEN
Evening star., 1916-08-26

tury, during the bitter war waged by
Charles v of Germany against Francis
I Of France, Charles Duke of Bourbon
then constable Of France and a general
in the French army, deserted Francis
people of France. as a token of their
contempt for this reasonable act.
painted the Petit Bourbon, the house
which had been his homo, q brilliant
yellow.
In Spain. the executioner dresses in
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INSPE TYING FACTORIES,
Deputy Labor Commissioner Begins Tour 10 See That Laws are
 nhsnrvnd

Z Little Rock, Feb. 5.-E. l.. McKin ,lfy, deputy labor, commissioner, be- gan tcur of the state Wednesday, making @ thorough inspection of all saw mills, factories and mercantile establishments, also laundries, wi E especial reference to thsiE. observ- lafseesa saf laes 4lapssi- i've. txstAessasp4 p'oyment of labor. It. is estimated tat this work will require about two months. It is tho first time com plete inspection has been made. Especial attention will be given to labor conditions and th2 safeguard ing of workmen. All establishments will be included whsre more than five are employed.
 Commis ssicner Clary says that everywhere the work of the bureau is being received with favor, and that he does not expect any trouble. The employers of labor throughout the state have been accepting his good cffiCes with favor and cordiality, and are always ready to make any changes that are reasonable when their at tcntiCn is called to them.
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which my father used to make when asked that question.
 Interviewers used to get him to reminisce on the early days of the play, when smoking oil-lamps and gas-burners formed the only means of illumination in many an "Opry House" in which he played. Then they would ask him how many times he had played Uncle Josh.
 Father used to beam good-natured- ly at the questioner and reply:
 My boy, how many seeds has a |fg?"
 It is the only possible answer to the question.
 FIRMLY convinced of the fact that F there is in "The Old Homestead" a A certain universal appeal which will make it just as popular in years to come as it was on the day that it was first played, the idea presented itself of holding the play in abeyance for several years-until the generation of theatregoers who remember the origi- nal Josh Whitcomb had passed away. Then good character comedian could be starred in the production and would undoubtedly prove success full in the role.
 Like everyone interested in the amusement business, my attention has been called rather sharply to the tre- mendous growth of the motion pie t"r" Though I witnessed some of
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|of some of the productions of his own organization and told me of the millions who are reached every day through the wonderful Paramount plan. As I sat and marveled at the progress which the photoplay has made, and realized the possibility of reaching the whole world through this great medium, my former plans dwind1ed in significance and jmpor tance. Why wait for so11se nebulous future Co arrive which sswould be propitious for the relauIic hing of the play, when there stood before me the opportunity to immortalize it for all time by means of the photoplayo
 Then, having given my consent to I ias tie is'', prodpctiol m ia grew r zpid the enthusiasm of the finn men be- came contagious. Accordingly, I was only too glad to offer to the producers the facilities of the old home in Swanzey as the setting for the rural part of the drama. Thus, though 1t will lack the presence of the author whose name is linked with it, "The Old Homestead" in film form will have the advantage of the stage pres- entation in the reality of the settings. For, instead of painted canvas rep resenting the farm, it will have as setting the old farm and homestead it. self.
 A ND in the case of the scenes in "A the third act which takes place be- A fore Grace Church, the same ':lng holds true. Goatcher painted a very realistic picture of the old church for the original production, but understand that the film men have already staged those scenes before the church itself.
 I have every reason to believe that the film will be invested to the great est possible extent with the atnos- phere of the original production as I have supplied the company with all the information possible concern ing the traditions which clung to the play, and have furnished pictures of all the stage characters from which the silent interpreters were able to model their respective make-ups.
 Of course it would be preposterous for me to say that I am looking fc.- ward to the presentation of the photo- play with the same keen anticipation which my father felt before the first night of the stage appearance. But I am safe in say'"S that l never have been and never will be SO deeply in- terested in any photoplay as I am iu "The Old Homestead"
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Frank Hopkins in the first New York production of the completed play at the old Academy on Aug. 30, 1888. 1 remember very we'll his tenor voice rang out clear and strong in the dou- ble quartette that sang "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?" be- hind the scenes. It is rather curious coincidence that an Irish comedian should write rural drama and that one of the actors in that rural dramas first presentation should become one of the foremost Irish comedians of his time.
 D URING the several years that
 elapsed between the first sketch, A which was called Josh Whit comb" and the completed play, "Old Homestead" there were many changes made in the story. Beginning in February as a twenty-minute sketch. with two scenes, by spring it had ac. |cumul@tcd "Roundy" and Tot" bootblack and crossing sweeper, re- spective!y. While in Chicago in the season of 1S76-77, second and third acts were added as the popularity of the play increased. II. its expanded form, "Joshua Whitcomb" travelled all the way out to San Francisco and re- turning swept the country before 1t. In September, 1878, the play was pre- scented in the old Lyccurn Theatre in New York for the first timc-.just ten years ,,cfore the sequel ot the
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By FRANK THOMPSON

the stage, but Mir. Whitcomb lived to see the play become a popular in- stitution. Aunt Matilda was really a sister of Joshua Holbrook, o1e of the sweetest and most lovable characters l have ever met, who was known to all Swanzey as Aunt Rhody."
 @Y. PRIME had his flesh and blood \ original, but since he was known
 all over Cheshire County as the big gest liar 'in them parts" as Uncle Josh would say, perhaps his name were best omitted. Though the other char acters in the play had no actual in- divldual models as their bases, they were a composite photograph of the types which abounded in the com munity. They are not all dead yet, after these thirty years.
 It IS more or less common knowl- edge that the play was written in its original form as one-act sketch while my father was suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. That was in February of the year 1875, while he was playing an engagement in Harry Martins Varieties, in Pitts burgh. The sketch had its first pub lie performance in this theatre. Strangely enough, until he wrote this playlet, the actor-author had specialize ed in playing Irish comedy parts.
 And that, by the way, reminds me that Chauncey Olcott, perhaps the best-known Irish comedian on the stage today, appeared in the role of
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"The Old Homestead" started upon its celebrated career.
 The Old Homestead' in its final version was written while the whole Joshua Whitcomb" company was on tour through Pennsylvania, i'll 1885. It was in April, l8So that the second play was presented to Boston at the Boston Theatre Strangely enough, though the Hub City had not taken kindly to Joshua Whitcomb," when that play was first presented in its expanded form, it was warm in its praise of the new play, to which 1t never failed to accord cordial well come upon each succeeding visit.
 In the beginning of this article, referred to the sentimental and busi- ness reasons which at first deterred me from consenting to permit the Fa- nous Players Film Company to adapt the play as Paramount Picture" l have perhaps succeeded in at least suggesting some of the sentimental reasons-here are just few business considerations:
 |DURING its existence, the play cir |I cled the globe three times, and ill
 the old Academy of Music alone it cleared $1, ,5O0,O0O in four years at pop ular prices It is scarcely too much to say that the proceeds of that play built the present Palace Theatre in New York. As for the number of times that it was presented, l am always reminded of the rejoinder
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GiGO Rewar.s $1ON

Tho readers of this paper will be pleased 10 learn that there is at least one t::eaded disease that science has been able to cure in all it's stages, and that As Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure low known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being 9 constitutional disease, requires d constitutional treat anent. Halls Catarrll Cure is taken in formally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there- by destroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up 'he constitution and assisting raturc :n doing it's work. The proprietors Nave so much faith in it's curative pow CTS that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure. Send eor list of testimonials.
 Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CC.. Toledo. Q.
 Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
 sTake IIalls Family Pille for constipation.
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New York Cotton.

New York, Feb. 5-Ths cotton mar ket showed renewed irregularity at th opening today, first prices being a point higher cn September, but gen rally 1@6 points lower, with May selling at 12.O1 and July at 12.12c on the call. Liverpool did not meel yesterday local decline, however, while there appeared to be rather less nervousness over the interna- tional situation and prices did better during the early trading On cover- ing, trad2 buying and New Orleans and Liverpool buying. The volume or d; ;mand was net large, but offerings were smaller than they were yester- day, with May working up lto s12.16c and July to about 12.16c during the ea-ly session.. The steadier ruling of the stock market probably helped c.tton and there was little Wan street buying. Ek.s
 The market sold higher, but evis den.ly sentim nt. was unsettled and the market later eased off under re
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the one-reel films many years ago, their crudeness rather disgusted me, and it was not until very recently that I again attended motion pie ture performance. This was at the personal instigation of Adolph Zulior, the president of the Famous Players Company, whose suggestion that l tender to him the rights to the play had first seemed, l am frank to say, almost an insult to my fathers mem ory.
 But MT. Zukor insisted, and finally induced me to attend the performance
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FIT was some time before I could see EI ,my way clear to consent to the con- 6A verting of "The Old Homestead" in- 6to motion picture, as 1t seemed best hfrom sentimental and business req ssons to preserve its unique status as Ia play. It scarcely seems possible that Sany play ever written could have quite fthe same sentimental value to the sfamily of the author as Denman EThompson's has had for his heirs. z Particularly is this true .in my own Tease, as l also had the pleasure of ap- bearing in the production with him.
 The very nature of the subject, its association with the old home i'll Swanzey and the fact that some of the characters depicted in it were actu-
 ally prototypes of my fathers own neighhors, makes the play much more
 than a mere successful theatrical en-
 terprise and gives it truly hallowed
 association. The present old home on the New Hampshire farm was granted to the Thompson family as one of the
 sixty to whom the township of Swan
 zey was dcedcd by the Massachusetts
 authorities in May. l735, and though my father was born near Girard, Pa,
 he returned to the old family seat so early in his life that he was essentially a New Hampshire youth. My grand father, :n whom the love of old New England was ever alive, despite the fact. that the paths of opportunity
 seemed to point to the then newer country, never failed to inculcate into his boy the sturdy and old-fashioned nobility of mind and heart that were traditional among the people of New
 England. THE statement that some of the
 characters in the piece were really
 | drawn from life was looked upon,
 when the play was produced. as being a press yarn, but it is absolutely true.
 Joshua Whitco1nb himself represented
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Liverpool Cotton.

LlVcrpE ol, Feb. o.-Spot cotton barely steady; good n$ddling, S.22d; middllng 7.92d; low middlins, 7.5id; sales, 5000 bales; speculation and eX- port. 300 bales; receipts, 11,O00 bales.
 Futures ouist and steady; Fcbru- ary, 1.73d; February March. T.6Sd: Marrh-April 7.67d; April-May 764d; May-June 7.62d; June-j July, 7.o9d; August September, 7.47d; September OgtoE r, 1.36d; October November, 7.30d; NoVcmbcr-DCc mber, 1.26d i; Beccmber-January, 1.22d; January February, 7.11d.
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E o R F E N T c. $. M N EW
lOti PINE STREET

lW PINE STREET PHONE 071 115 Idaho, rooms, close to shops,
 gate, we'll and tank ---------- $50 1909 East Sixth, rooms, high and
 dry $500 2 rooms, 1610 D. 5th, above water $4.OO About 40 acres Bayou Bottom Land,
 house, barn and well: good fence;
 on good road.
 313 Cherry, rooms--- .00 1902 Linden, rooms, nall, lights,
 gas, bath, sink $12.50 l406 State, 6 rooms, modern $15. % Warehouse, near Short Leaf Store, on Ra1lrOad poo 1901 w. 5th, , rooms, modern $20.00 510 E. 18th, 4 rooms, lights and eaS Iz.OU 500 Utah. rooms 1006 E. 9th, 3 rooms. water --$10.00 S06 Nebraska, 6 rooms, modern-$14.0G l21 Georgia, 8 rooms ---------$10.O0 S05 w. 3rd, strictly modern, 6 rooms and hall, house close in----$25.00 1903 w. Barraque, 5 rooms, mod Aern $zO.OO 1120 B. Sth, new modern bungalow, rooms 2O.OO 1908 East Sixth. rooms, city water gas, electric lights ---------$15.00 SIS W. 12th. 3 rooms, city water-SS.00 1114 w. Barraque. rooms, hall, mod
 ern in every respect, close to car line $22.50 1116 East Fifth, rooms. city wa ter $125O 903 w. Second, 6 rooms, hall, modern; will repair toysuit tenant +--- -$25.0O FOR $ ALE
 12Q-acre farm on Dollarway. road, 40 acres in cultivation and under fence; Groom house, well and barn; wire fence; $500 per acre; terms.
 20 acres and up on i,ollarway road. $2.00s. per acre cash down; 50 certs Der acre per month. W
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COTTAGES FOR RENT-ONE FIVE rooms. reception hall and bath, modern, 70S Walnu. $2O; one four rooms and bath. modern, 413 w. 8th
 $17; one four. rooms, gas water and
 lights. 419 w. Sth, $12.50. All in excellent condition. Mrs. Geo E. MoTe, 515 w. End avenue, phone Gel. 1-13-tf
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FOR RENT-MODERN FIVE ROOM
 bungalow. F. E. Renfrow, phone 216 or 9. 2-4-6t FOR RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS;
 modern. Call at BOP West Fourth
 avenue. 2-3-GI FOR RENT-TWO FURNISHED
 rooms for light housekeeping; all
 modern conveniences. Phone 1897.
 318 w. Fifth avenue. 2-2-6t FOR RENT-FURNusHED OR UN.| furnished rooms fer light house.
 keeping, with all modern conyen-
 fences, 2121s Walnut street, phone
 220. 2-2-u FOR RENT OK SALE = HOUSE with all modern improvements; gas, water and electric lights; nos West Fourth avenue. Apply s. C. Veil, Phone 2l61, Hotel Pines.
 FOR RENT--NICELY FURNISHED front bedrsom; close in; all con veniences; close to good boarding house; 3i6 West Fifth; phone 875. FOR RENT-ROOMS FOR LIGHT] housekeeping; every convenience; close in. 523 West Sixth avenue I Telephone 26S7.s = 1-1S-ti! FOR RENT-FURNISHEDs OR UNI
 furnished rooms, newly papered and painted; close in; city watey,] gas. We also havesa 35sacrH farfn1
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New Orleans Spot Cotton.

New Orleans, Feb. D. Spot colt Il quiet and unchanged; sales, on tn spot 7S5 bales, to arriva S70 bales gcod ordinary, 10.12c; strict good ordinary, 1O62c; low middlinS, II lie: strict low middling, 11.37c; mddling, 11.62c: strict niddling, 1.S7c; go d middlng, 12.19c; strict good middlng 12.43c; receipts, B. 2GS bales; stock, 431, ,406 bales.
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New Orleans Cott1n.

New Orleans, Feb. 5.-In the. face Of extremely good cables cotton fell s@7' points on, this market around the opening call today offerings. being Stimulated by the political situation
 Covering by shorts set in and half an hour after the opening the most active months were a point under close. ss- The demand continued until prices
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CUT THIS OUT-IT IS WORTH
 MONEY.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip. enclose with SC to Foley X Co.,, Chicago, Ill. writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for lagrippe coughs, colds and croup. Fcley Kidney Pills. and Foley Ca thartic Tablets. Mann Pharmacy
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Chicago Grain,

Chicago. Feb. 5.-Wheat- rc!, nominal: No. hard, $l.32. Nominal. Oas+\ominal.
 BaTley-70MS1c.
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St, Louis Grain,

St. Louis. Feb. 5.-Wheat-N } red, $1.37@1 .3S; No. 2 hard, nominal Corn-No. ?, 75c; No. 2 white, nominal
 Gats-No. 2, 5Cc No. } white nominal
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F YOU HAD WRITTEN A CLASSIC
 WOULD YOU LET IT BE FILMED
Denman Thompson Author "The Old Homestea Discusses
 Yesterday Mo-" He Says "But To-day, Yes!'

# (Ep1roR's NorE.-Prompted by the new in. Ilerest awakened in his fathers immortal play, issThe Old Homestead" by the forthcoming Fa- nous Players Paramount Picture which marks SIfs transmission to the screen, Frank Thomp- Eson, son and heir of Denman Thompson, has Swrttef a few personal "reminiscences which by Especial arrangement, have been secured by this
 paper. They contain facts never before pub tshed and MT. Thonapson's article should be spf great interest to all who have heard the
 name, "The Old Homestead"
 s& It is interesting to note that, at the time of
 the first presentation of the play in New York
 thirty years ago, A. C. Wheeler, dramatic critic
 of the He,ald prophetically, said: "Denman
 Thompson might have ransacked the world and
 he could not have got a theme that would touch so many American hearts as The Old Homestead.' No of the third or
 fourth generation will fail to feel its charm .and recognize its idyllic truth"
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REPORTS OF
 MARKETS COTTON-GRAIN-LIVESTOCK.

newed liquidation, with May closing at l2.01c. The general list closed steady, with prices nst unchanged to points lower.
 The market closed steady. The range:
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were 1M4 points over yesterdays Close. Fresh selling set in and late it. the morning prices we're at a net loss 5@6 points.
 Cctton closed steady and unchang- ed Q 3 pon $ down. The range:
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a composite character-as it did the names-of Captain Otis Whitcorlb and Joshua Holbrook, both of whom l had the pleasure of knowing as a
 boy. From the former there eman-
 ated the comic side of the character,
 and from the latter the serious. MT.
 Holbrook never had the unique pleas
 ure of seeing himself depicted on
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F OR SALE

FOR SALE-EIGHTY ACRES ON Sulphur Springs pike, 2 miles from city limits, 25 acres in cultivation. Address Owner, care Graphic.
 1-16-tf
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FOR SALE-MODERN HOME, sEv. en rooms, hall and bath. on paved street. near Lakeside church; lot 70x140 feet: beautiful shade; on
 easy terms. If you want an ideal home, see or phone Hollis Real Estate Co.,, phones No. and 112. tf
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FOUND --- ELk'S WATCH FOB. Owner can have same by calling at Graphic office and paying for this
 ad. 2-3-6t
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w A N T K D .

WANTED POSITION AS STEIN osraphcr or bookkecper; refer- cnce given, wiling to start on
 nominal salary. Address r G. care NrapAlr. 2-G-6t
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CLASSIFIED WANTS
 Bring Results -Try One

for rent or sale cheap. Phone 1564 or see MT. c. J. Meyer, 609 w. Barraqu street. 1-11-tf
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LCST-LARGE BROWN CAMEO PIN.
 Please return to 10d4 West Fifth
 avenue and receive reward. 2-2-6t
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FARM FOR SALE-FORTY ACRE farm all under a good wire fence, 20 acres in cultivation; good barn and dwelling; situated near dollar way road, six miles from Pine Bluff. This would make a fine dairy or truck tarm. If you want bargain see or phone Hollis Real Estate Co.,, phones Nos. and 112.
 If
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FOR RENT-ONE ROOM FURNISH ed: large, we'll ventilated; 713
 Main street, telephone 214Y. 12-19-tf
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WANTED-BY TWO YOUNG MEN A nicely furnished room. convenient to or with private bath; must be Il ar business s ton. Address F.
 o. B X 250. 2-J-6t
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LOST AND FOUND.

TOOK IlP-ONE LIVER AND WHITE spotted pointer dog, with long tail.
 For information see R. B. Roben-
 son. at Reap x Crawford Furniture
 Co. 2-6-10t