Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-08

AA@A'0u oioANuIot' HaS HCClQontallN shot in the head by soldier during the last maneuvers. The surgeons decided to perform the operation of trepanning, and part of the mans brain was removed Five weeks af- rewards BlOmquist was healed and resumed his place ill the ranks.
 It was found, however, that certain lnental faculties had suffered as the result of the operation. He has lost all remembrance of letters and fig ures, and could neither read nor write The doctors decided to re-educate him. and in five months he learned to read. write and reckon
 When he finished his military ser vice he was given an army pension. ] Il addition a learned society allowed him a pension of s250 In return for this BlomQuist will submit himself for experiments from time to time.
 Dresden is for the once Cosmo- Eolis. Parthians, Me des, Elamites and dwellers in Mesopotamia-all the races of the earth are here at the Fourth International Congress for Art Education, Drawing and Art Applied t, Industries.
 Bet the different nations are most unequally represented both in the Congress and at the exhibition of work which is it's chief attraction. Germany is, of course, most prominent but America is notably in evidence there is no escaping American art if it is in room, and as to American art teaching, Prof. Leon Montcourt in his brilliant lecture few days ago, in a burst of enthusiasm perhaps little over-generous, though carrying a crowded meeting with him, spoke of the whole progress of art teach ing Of the last ten years as due to American initiative
 By general consent Hungary and Finland--little and subject nations are most noteworthy, the teaching of design in the exhibition of the former country exciting universal interest.
 The Friends of Richard Wagner" who recently held national conven- tion at Leinsiz, are organizing ma tion-wide campaign to perpetuate the Wagner family's monopoly of Par sifal,' which expires by limitation in 1913. Herr Herman Bahr, the dis tinguished novelist and playwright, has volunteered to stump" the coun- tiy in behalf of the movement to have the Reichstag pass a law extending the "Parsifal'' copyright for an in- definite period of years. Herr Bahr's views are interesting for they embody new principles in copyright legisla- ton. The material interests" of con- poser, painter and author, he urges, are already sufficiently we'll safe guarded. What is needed is the pro- lection of their artistic interests" The two dominant parties in the Reichstag-the Roman Catholic Gen. Ire and the Social Democracy, who, between them constitute an over whelming majority-are opposed on principle to class or special legisla- tion of any kind.
 It is not only her navy which Ger many is expanding. She is working out ambitious schemes lf internal development and for years has stead fly been pursuing policy which will end in a vast network of canals over the length and breadth of her empire. The construction of these canals has become an absolute necessity as the government has found itself unable to build sufficient railroads and supply sufficient rolling stock to cope with the ever increasing railroad traffic.
 The building of a vast network of canals and the equalization of the existing rivers is the only alterna- tive to meet the demands of the pub lie, as private steamship companies will then be able to use the canals and take part of the increasing traf- fife off the hands of the government railroads.
 Encouraged by the economic suc- cess of both the Dortmund Ems and Kiel canals, and the assured success of the Rhi-ne-Herne Dortmund Ems den canal, the government proposes to continue building canals and water ways wherever feasible. It is propos- cd to build trans-continental canal duo east beyond Dortmund. All tho rivers running from south to north into the Baltic and North seas are to be joined together by large canal running from west to east. thus bring inx the east and southeast in direct