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ORPHEO BILL FOR
 MONDAY, MARCH ]

Frank Howard, one of the old school of black face comedians, who holds his own with the best. He has worked with all the big minstrels and has worked in this city with Fields and Dockstaders and 1t goes without saying that he will make good.
 Snyder and company. sketch team with comedy and dance, Is an excep- tionally strong team. The contortioo act Is one of the best In his line.
 Loretta and Loretta in German act is exceptionally strong, finishing with musical act. This is another one of those exceptionally strong bills the Orpheo Is noted for putting on. Also 1000 feet of moving pictures and n- frustrated song.
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NEW ROLLING STOCK
 FOR COTTON BELT

Sixteen Atlantic" type engines finest known In the railroad world today, will be shipped to Memphis soon and three dining cars Of the very latest pattern will also arrive here for the Cotton Belt railroad These cars will be much longer than the present timers in service. three of the new cars being equal in length to four of the standard type.
 The investment. which represents many thousand dollars, will mean 8 great advancement in the local ser vice. The three diners will be run between Memphis and Texarkana The new service will be installed by April, and the equipment Is due to arrive some little time before thai date. The purchase marks the ac- tivity of the Cotton Belt in the i'm provement of It's service and tn' handling of it's increased business Memphis News Scimitar.
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The Rose Bud Club.

The Rose Bud Club was entertained Saturday afternoon by Miss Sula Da- lyrimple, at her home in Lakeside She was assisted in entertaining by her grandmother, Mrs. Fry, and her aunt. Mrs. Will Jones. The house was beautifully decorated with potteo plants, jonquils, hyacinths and mar cissus. The following musical pro- gram was rendered:
 Piano solo, "Dixie Land" and varl' ation, Sula Dalyrimple.
 Piano solo, "The Flower Song, Ed die King.
 Piano solo, -Four Leaf Clover Clyde Dixon.
 Recitation, vashta King.
 Piano isolo. Friends Again." Geor gia May List.
 Piano solo, Venetian Gondolas' vashti King.
 After the program the young people
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EUGENE CLEMINGS
 IS BOUND OVER

Eugene Clemings, the negro who SAWS he halls from Liverpool, Eng land. was given a preliminary hearing before Justice J. A. Frezier yesterday and was bound over to await the ac-
 tion of the Jefferson county grand
 jury. He is charged with grand lar ceny in two cases. Attorney Louis d. Moore represented the defendant at the hearing. Clemngs is charged with horse stealing. He is also ac- cused of stealing buggy from Fred Mallet, a negro, who lives in 'the western suburbs of Pine Bluff. The horse is alleged to have been the property of John Mover, another he' gro.
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The I. s. s. Club.


 Miss Leyl Cross entertained the I. S. S. Club Saturday afternoon, at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. M. E. Cross, on Laurel street. Cook ing, sewing and literary work were enjoyd by the young club members. The Allowing program was rendered:
 Son., "As Long As the World Rolls On,'' Miss Selma Martin.
 Recitation, selected, Miss Leyl Cross.
 Muse. Melody of Love" tH. En- glema,n), Miss Annie Robinson.
 Papr, Girls Clubs" Miss Annie May Wilson.
 Musc, Miss Rosa Riggin.
 Recitation, Miss lone Hear1n.
 Musr, When Lights Are Low, n Englenann, Miss Mildred Daniel.
 Delightful refreshments were serV' ed. The next meeting will be hele with Miss Mildred Daniel. The clut members present were Miss 1on' Hearin, Rosa Riggin. Selma Martin Annie May Wilson. Annie Robinson Helen Philpot, Mildred Daniel an' Leyl Cross.
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in the house, from the decorations te

in the house, from the decorations to the luncheon, carried out the rural idea. During the evening barn dance was an enjoyable feature. The refreshments consisted of two del1ci- ous courses. Those present were Misses Emily, Ella, Gertrude and Mat tie Fox, Julia Kesterson, Emma Will bourne, Irene Crawford, Lola Kaiser, Hattie Halsey, Mamie Nunn, Mildred Owen, Req Dansby, Bess Thompson, Rexie Parker. Allie Mae Howell and Catherine Murphy, and Messrs. Hun ter Atkinson, Dick Kaiser. Jim Mo- Cannon, Cecil Baker, Cliff Foster,
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New Spring Mattings.

4 choice lot of new spring mat t,nps is the offering for this week at Tomlinson & Knox's, and some prlces are made in their Graphic ad that should make them move. other spe- c,als are many beautiful rug patterns and handsome mission clocks.
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euioyed a United States army guess
 ing contest. Misses Gussie Ruther- ford Eddie King, Clyde Dixon and Vashti King cut for the first prize. Gussie Rutherford proved victor and
 was awarded a book. The second prize, a box of candy was won D! Miss Vashti King. Delicious refresh ments were served. The club meets next with Miss Clyde Dixon.
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IT. I. Holderness
 Honored by Governor

H. I. Holderness was honored yes teriay by Governor George w. Don- aghey when he was appointed one or the members of the state emDaimlhs board. The other members are b. Gross, Hot Springs; J. A. Pence Con way. from the Funeral Directors AS sociation, and Drs. J. P. Runyan anu T. p. Sheppard, of Little Rock, from the State Board of Health.
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Meetings at the Temple.

The Junior Chautauque will meet in the TenE]e this afternoon at 2:3O o'clock. Ths Ladies' Temple Society will meet in the Temple Monday al ternoon at 3 o'clock, and the Willing Workers will meet in the same place immediately after the Ladies' Tenn ole Society ajjourns.
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Rural Festival

Rural Festival
 Miss Rexie Parker entertained Sat urday evening, at the new home of her aunt, Mrs. Seymore, with a "Rur- al Festival" It was quite unique entertainment. All the girls present wore gingham aprons and the boys were attired in overalls. Everything
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Lakeside Mission Society

The Lakeside Foreign Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. E. l. Butler, Monday afternoon, at hef home on Lakeside. An election oi officers will be held and all members are requested to be present.
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Masauerade Ball.

The children of the Temple Sab
 bath school will be given masquer- ade ball Monday night at the Blun City Club. The floor will be reserved for the young people until II o'clock
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-28

B. F. Runyan, a merchant Of Mc- Neill, was In the city yesterday
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-28

MT. and Mrs. E. P. Ladd, or L'''lo Rock. are visiting In this ciV.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-28

Mar McCammon, Jim Mcclellan, Ro Lee Byrd, Bart Eddins, Harry Miller, June Coles and Fay Chew.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-28

A ]. McGothlin. of St. Louis, was a business visitor in the city yester'- day.
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Nos itaI Association.

FHOS 1taI NSSOCIHIIUN'
 Tls Hospital and Benevolent As tncision will meet with Mrs. Emi Moss on West Fifth avenue, Tuesday Mtenoon at 3 o'clock. All members are rged to attend.
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| Musical Coterie.

The Musical C ..syts will meet III Professor N. il. HcNeilps studio Tuesday morning 1t S:30 o'clock. I'm nortant business will be discussed and all membe-5 are requested to be present.
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Hole Mission Society.

EHo,e Mission Society. re Home Mission Society of the
 Mir. Methodist Church will hold it's slegdar meeting Monday afternoon at
 i3 o'lock ill the church.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Iron Industry Rooms.

The Wharton Steel Company at
Dover is about to put on an extra
furnace in operation and employ a
larger force than ever before. Dur
ing the depression of the last two
years there was little work done
there. For a long time shere has
been only n furnace in operation,
but the future looks so promising
that the company, it is reported, will
soon resume in many more depart
ments. The Empire Steel and Iron
Company has let the contract to sink
a new slope on Hickory Hill at
Mount Hope, which will tap a vein
never before touched by the COM
pany. The Richard mine, owned by
the Thomas Iron Company, is being
worked to full capacity, and it is
reported there is room at the Mount
Hope mines for many more expert
enced miners than are. available
The Empire company expects also to
start up again the blast furnace in
Oxford, which has been closed for
two years.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
Wouldn't Spare Tree.

The Board of Education put an
end to the buttonwood tree squabble
at Woodbury. by giving the contract
to Walter Leslie to cut it down.
Leslie, to make sure of the job, be.
fore he was besieged by those op.
posed to destroying the tree, soon
had a force of men at work with
saws and axes and in a little while
the stately old tree which stood di.
rectly in front of the new high
school, hiding the arch, which is the
~prettiest part of the structure, fell
with a thud. The tree was found tc
be hollow in the middle, but had
from six to eighteen inches Of good
wood around the decayed part. 1t
measured five feet in diameter at the
butt and will yield several cords of
wood. Several citizens took home
pieces of the tree for souvenirs, and a
furniture maker will make a souve-
mir desk for the school.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
BUMPER CORN CROP FOR 1909
Government Report Indicates a Har.
vest of Over s,00O.0O0,O 900 Bushels.

Washington, D. C.-An enormous
crop of corn, probably for the first
time in the history of the country ex-
ceeding 5000. 100000 bushels, is in
dicated by the monthly report of the
Agricultural Department. Expecta-
tons had been, in view of June's very
favorable weather, for a good report;
and, although it failed entirely to
meet all that had been predicted for
it, the report was considered as gen.
orally fulfilling expectations.
The report on corn had been
awaited with most interest, recent
predictions of an enormous crop hav-
ing given rise to much speculation as
to the actual outlook for the 1909
harvest. From the Governments fig.
ures it is figured that a crop of 81
16~1,174,000 bushels is in sight. The
nearest approach to this figure in any
other year was in 1906, when 2,92T,-
100000 bushels yer harvested.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TESTS
OF NAVAL ORDNANCE TO BE SECRET
Important Experiments Costing 100000 Planned to De-
termine Relative Efficiency of Various Elements
Of Offence and Defence.

ance of exterior armor to the attack
of twenty-one-inch torpedoes. 1t may
develop that the now used will
not exclude torpedoes, in which event
the disclosure would be discomfort
ing, to say the least. 1t would have
its value, however, in showing to
what extent and in what direction
improvements must be installed to
give exterior armor its necessary
power to resist such a form of naval
attack.
1t is also proposed to ascertain
whether the-turrets as now con-
structed and equipped on battleships
will Withstand the impact of heavy
projectiles at battle ranges. 1t is a
question whether there will not be
under such an attack material dam
age to the structure itself, to the
sights, the electric and other gun
gear contained in the turrets. It Is
important in this connection to as
certain whether the sights now in
stalled on the t~welve-inch turret
would be permanently disabled by
six-inch gun fire, which demonstra-
tioH would show whether it is neces-
sary to design a turret that can be
disabled only by heavy gun fire.
One OF the important experiments
will be with movable water planes in
stalled on the sides of a battleship,
operated automatically, SO as to d.
m1n1sh the roll of a vessel, and so i'm
prove the accuracy of gun fire in time
of battle. The record target practice
Of the Atlantic fleet this summer will
be with the vessels rolling, so as to
ascertain IL the target could be hit
under the most adverse conditions at
sea in time of war. It Is also desir-
able to ascertain If under such unfav-
orable conditions it would be posi-
BILE to offset the influence of the sea
and contribute to the stability of the
ship Is a gun platform. 1t is appre-
ciated that anything which improves
craftsmanship on board ship is a di-
rect and vital contribution to the
fighting power of the navy
These are only a few of the sub
jects which will be taken up by the
naval ordnance officers during this
fiscal year. No previous announce
ment will be made of the expert
ments, most of which are likely to be
conducted at the naval proving
ground at Indian Head, Maryland.
The tests will be made solely with
the view of obtaining information for
the Navy Department and no an
nouncement of the results will be
made.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16

toppled into the sea from time to time
with reverberations like thunder.
Water splashed fifty feet high at each
fall and the sight was fascinating.
To-day the glacier assumes a differ
ent aspect. Erosion has worked out
a new bay, which WILSON be charted,
and the glacier itself seem to have
two parts, the live part, from which
icebergs break and fall with tremen-
dous noise, and a dead arm, with land
forming between it and the sea.
This change is due to a hill which
projected through the top of the ice
when Professor Muir was there. Now
that hilltop is a large mountain di-
viding the ice fields. The ice has also
receded four miles in the nine years.
The captain of the first steamboat
piloted in front of this glacier in re-
cent years was presented with a sill
yer service marked in large letters
Muir Glacier" This is without
doubt the most remarkable known
glacier on this continent. 1t has 354
square miles of ice.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16

Washington, D. C.-The expert
ments in naval ordnance, for which
the last naval appropriation act con-
tains an appropriation of 800, 900,
now available, will be conducted in
secret. Fol some time the naval ord
nance officers have been anxious to
conduct certain tests which require
much expense, and which could not
be made out Of the usual allotment
for the naval bureau of ordnance. 1t
was not expected that Congress would
make provision for such a purpose,
largely for the reason that objection
prevailed In some quarters to the ex-
penditure of public funds in direc-
tons which did not always show tang
fble results. 1t was pointed out,
however, that the beneficial effect of
the tests would be no less real mere
ly because new material was not be-
ing acquired. There was much in
the way of theory which it was de-
sired to supplant by actual knowledge
obtainable only by tests. So many
questions have arisen among-the ex-
perts as to the relative efficiency Of
various elements Of offence and de-
fence that they are highly gratifed
to lave an opportunity to settle them.
One of the most important tests is
that which will show whether the
armor now being placed on American
battleships will resist the projectiles
of high power guns at battle ranges.
Guns r o fired in tests at short
range with velocities which are esti-
mated to equal that which would
exist If the distance were what is
known as a battle range. 1t is as
serted by many that the armor will
not serve its purpose. Actual expert
ments in firing at such ranges against
armor supported in the same manner
as on a battleship have never been
carried out, and no one knows what
the actual effect will be.
Another question is whether high
explosive shells will have the effect
claimed for them and whether the
pressure of the gases of such a VIC
lent explosion will blow in the armor
side of a battleship. Then, too, it is
desired to know what will be the ma
terial effect Of such explosives on the
personnel and whether the structure
of the ship will stand it. Connected
with such an experiment is the de-
termination of the maximum depth
to which a twelve-inch shell will pen-
citrate the water at battle ranges and
the effect of the explosions on the
underwater body. Tests will also be
conducted to determine the resist
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
TWO DIE IN n WHISKY WAR.
North Cardinals Attempt to Enforce
Law Leads to Bloodshed.

Raleigh, N. C.-Two officers killed
by manufacturers of illicit whisky
and the arrest of J.. Dannenberg, a
representative of New York, Balti-
more, Richmond and other brewers,
are part of the days record in the at
tempt being made in North Carolina
to enforce, by State and municipal
officers, the new State prohibition
laws.
Persons whom Dannenberg repre-
sented are said to have attempted to
defy the new city license on NEAR
beer" Nan alleged prohibition"
drink, which has had a large sale
for months in North Carolina. Pro-
~hibitionists charge the decoctfon will
'intoxicate, and in one town an ordi-
nance imposing a fine of $50 for
every bottle sold was passed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
MOTHER SHOT DEAD
AS SON FIGHTS THIEF
Mrs. George Staber, of FIatbush,
Killed by Burglar.
FIERCE BATTLE FOR PISTOL
Young Staber Wins and Wounds Bur-
glar as He Flees With Pal
Traces of Blood Revealed Their
Hiding Place.

~
Flatbush, l.. IA shot fired by
one of two yeggmen, with whom Ed.
ward A. Staber, of No. ASS East
Eighteenth street, was fighting for
his life, killed the young mans
mother, Mrs. Sophie l.. Hjousberg
Staber, who stood in the doorway of
her room, on the second floor of the
home about 3 O'Clock a. M, when the
two men entered the home of George
r. Staber, the father, a paper i'm
porter, of No. 127 Duane street, New
York City, and awakened the family.
Edward Staber, who is only twenty
two years old, grappled with one of
the men, although he was unarmed,
and the two men had a revolver and
an ammonia pistol. Three shots were
fired by the man with whom young
Staber was wrestling, and the third
shot, which burned Staber's side, Is
the n which killed his mother.
The man then dropped the revolver
and young Staber picked it up and
fired twice at him as he fed, hitting
him in the arm and in the side. Six
hours later, through the assistance of
citizens, who traced the wounded man
by blood stains and the visits of his
companion, the police got both men,
who admitted that they had been in
the house, but denied having fired
the shot which killed Mrs. Staber.
One of them, a Hungarian, calling
himself John Smith, was found in a
miserable plight in some woods more
than a mile away from the house.
One bullet fired by young Staber had
lodged in the bone at his elbow. The
other buried itself in his abdomen.
The other man, an Austrian, who said
he was Carlo GIRO, was captured by a
Sicilian cobbler from whom he had
borrowed a coat and some shoes.
The entrance of the men into the
Staber home, one of several detached
frame houses in the neighborhood,
the murder and the quiet fight of
the men occupied only a few mo-
ments. The entire family was asleep
on the second floor.
Jimmy marks on the cellar door
and the jamb of the kitchen door
showed that the men had first tried
to enter that way, but later they
AOAOS0 tAAO h4INACA W11QOh tAoICdu.
The men went Immediately to the
southeast bedroom on the second
floor, occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Sta
Der. In the adjoining room were
their two daughters, the Misses
Marie and Emily Staber, the latter
being i'll. Two doors down the hall
Is the guest chamber, which was oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Khorn,
relatives of Mrs. Staber, who were to
have sailed next-day for Germany.
The sons room was across the haIl
from this one
One of the men carried an electric
1ashlight. The ray from this, hitting
Mr.. Staber's face, awakened him.
who's there?" he cried. "What is
the matter?"
keep still and nothing will hap
pen to you," a strange voice replied.
"All we want is the money. If you
give that up, you won't get hurt"
The voice awakened Mrs. Staber.
Her screams alarmed the two daugh-
tiers in the next room, and they be-
gan to scream loudly, arousing the
son, who ran from his room to inter-
cept the robbers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
MUIR GLACIER FREE OF BERGs.
Strange Changes Wrought by a Subterranean Earthouake
a%@ in the Famous Alaska Ice River.

/, Victoria, B. CA recent remark
able phenomenon in Alaska is the
drifting away of icebergs from the
front Of Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay
SO that for the first time in nine years
this famous river Of ice, the most
noted on this continent, has been Wis
tied. In 1889 a s~ubterranean earth
quake occurred at Yakutat and ever
since the approach Of this glacier has
been SO choked with ice that boats
have turned away with their passen-
gers disappointed. Now through some
peculiar drifting Of theice steamboats,
can enter the channel and go neal the
right wing of the glacier, and after
cautiously pushing their way get a
glimpse of the left face.
In the nine years that it has been
inaccessible the glacier has under
gone remarkable changes. When
Professor John Muir, after whom it
was named. visited 1t it had a solid
face two miles long and rising about
ESQ feet above the water line. It was
a live glacier, and great masses of ice
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
BLACK HAND AGENTS SHOT.
Carlo Taresi, a Barber, at New Brigh.
ton, Says They Demanded Money.

New Brighton, Staten Island.-Car-
10 Taresi. a barber, shot and killed
Joseph Zena and seriously wounded
Espesto Parenta near his shop at No.
242 Broadway. He was arrested on a
charge of homicide. He says the two
men were Black Hand agents to whom
be refused longer to pay blood money.
The shooting was attended by a
thrilling chase down the main street
Of West New Brighton. Scores of
persons who saw Taresi kill his man
and bowl over the second with a
charge of lead slugs, which screamed
close to the heads of a crowd of chill
dren, threatened to lynch him. Tare-
sis version of the tragedy, told hurri-
adly, checked the demonstration.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
G. E. Ball Sent to Jail.

Charles E. Ball, theatrical pro-
moter, e~x-treasurer of the Console
dated Copper Company of Mexico,
with Offices in New York City, and
late proprietor of the Consolidated
Skating Rink and Moving Picture
show, at 202 Market street, Pater-
son, was committed to the county
jail on a charge of obtaining $4,000
from William E. Knipscher, a silk
dyer. by fraud. Ball procured his
moving-picture outfit before he ap-
piled for a license. His application
for a license was refused. The firms
that supplied the, material for the
moving-picture show on which Ball
had given a chattel mortgage took
back their property, and there was
nothing left for Knipscher.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
Strawberry Growers Lose.

Strawberry growers of Fairton, Di-
viding Creek and Newport lost more
than $4,000 by the shipment of ber-
ries last season. Agents of a Provi-
dence, R. l., commission house went
through the vicinity in the early sea-
son and made contracts for the ship
ment of the finest berries, largely
through the firm of Campbell & Biz
card, of Newport. Now the farmers
are finding that all of the checks from
the Providence concern which they
had cashed have gone to protest and
they have to make good to the banks.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
Hobby Gone, Killed Himself.

Failure to perfect a non-refllabIe
bottle, the will-o'-the-wisp that has
bafied many ingenious minds, is be-
lieved to have caused the suicide OF
the aged man who was found dead
at Caldwell with a bullet from an
old Spanish revolver, that was
strapped to his wrist, through his
brain. The suicide was identified by
his son, Rudolph Menger, as George
Menger, seventy years old, of 241
South Eleventh street, Newark.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-07-16
Big New Wireless Station.

The United States Government has
entered into an agreement with Cath
DINA Lambert whereby it will here
after have the use of the Lambert
observation tower on the brow of the
Garrett Mountains near Paterson, as
one of the stations for wireless ap-
paratus which are being established
at points of vantage along the At.
lantic coast. Already wireless appar-
atus, strung high in the air, like a
huge spiders web, can be seen miles
away.