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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
HELD At FIRST CHURCH


Fourth quarterly conference and
the last one for the current church
year was held Tuesday night at the
First Methodist church, with Rev. j..
A. Sage, presiding elder in charge.
Reports from various of the church
departments showed that the affairs
are in fine condition and that con-
siderable progress has been made dur
ing the year. Marked increase has
been shown in the work of the Ep-
worth League. Annual election Of
officers for the coming year was as
follows: .ass
Stewards-Geo W. Lindsay, H. B.
Strange, H. A. Mccoy, T. F. Cad.
berry, r. J. Custer, j. C.. Chestnut
C. H. Burks, j., B. A. Johnson
George W. Wall, O. p. Keadle, A.
w. Mills, NJ. p. Russell, R. E.
Davis, J. c. Reno, J. M. Lemons
w. w. Taylor, c. H. Moore and G..
I. ling.
Sunday School Superintendent.
r. Sanders, Jr., assistant, r. G.
Custer.
District Steward-C. A. Hing.
Lay Leader-Drx ]. M. Lemons
The appointment of S. F.. Hines
was confirmed as president of the
Epworth League.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
coBANA COFFEE

When you buy Coffee why not got
the very best. It costs a little more,
but what q difference We have Just
received a fresh shipment iof the
CELEBRATED CeBANA COFFEE
Nothing better-Let ug seal you out
a can today. Don't forget HO.VA.
TEA. The HOWELL GROCERY CO..
Phones 574 and 1927.
1922 I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
CORSAGE BOUQUETS

for the opening of the new Hotel
Pines. American Beauties, GarnaN
tons, Lilies-of-the-Valle Killarneys
and violets. Leave your order early.
The Davis Fforad Co., phones 80 and
1893. 1871 st
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
CARD OF THANKS

Through the columns of the
Graphic we wish to sincerely thank
our many friends who SO faithfully
helped us during the recent illness
and death of our little baby.
dit Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. Doast.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
SACKS WANTED

HIGHEST CASH PRICES WILL BE
paid for CID or secondhand sacks. l
have arranged with local dealer to
take all these az my hands at fair
prices. Call me over telephone SO,
Bob McGehee. S03 East Twelfth ave-
nue.. 81 I'm
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
THOS. HARDING
~o1r{kAn%

COS SOUTHERN TRUST BUILDING
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
have until recently been associat-
ed with Chas. L. Thompson, architect,
Little Rock, and have had charge of
considerable work In Pine Bluff.
go d OF
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06

Many of the best people in the
city are buying our Rugs on Club
Plan now. Won't you? Reap &
Crawford Furniture Co. IT,
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06
A One Who Known.

~ OUo VINO N00W0s
Hgg-Does your grocer cell his ap.
ples BY the barrelf gbgs-Well, they
come In barrelA but what be sells
them By = the top layer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06

Duty and Fante
Duty wen done u noble: Il prop
city advertised Il 70 fama."-0eoreo
Horace Lorimer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06

JUST ARRIVED
Bulbs direct from Holland. Fine
assortment Of Narcissus, Hyesinths,
and Daffodils.
MRS. G. A. STARR, Florist.
1915 I'm. Phone 3e1.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-06

thD do of building bank account
Or yoursslt just because you feel
Ut you are unable to do it-isnt the
hselilssnt way Of dealing with the
lAattes.
r ycu are money Garner you can
have bank account II you want it
raally want II. II you want it enough
. foreeo the pleasures Of the Small
PufChase* temptation.
10 other one thing Is keeping 90
many people from getting q start
from accommodating q competence for
old -, e. this Small Purchase
Itenp1 Mon.
Como n and let n, explain to you
- eaey 4 = 70 start An account al
! ~ III you can add to the &C.
4 - = nv tine ana n any amount
1s s 34H
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-02
Misunderstood.

A youth who was rather proud Of
his vocal abilities attempted to rem
der in public 1.-THE OWL" but friend
afterwards told him that the music
was not suitable to his compass, and
that he should get the song IN the
key of c. The youth, eager'to take
his friends advice, went to a music
shop. 81 want The Owl in c." he
said. every sorry" replied the sales
man, 1--WE have not The HowIing
Sea- but we can give you Rocked
in the Cradle Of the DeePP"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-02
UNEXPECTED SUCCESS

A professional artist, who had a
wide reputation for comic pictures,
drew a caricature of a woman's hat
which he thought was overwhelmingly
funny. When he showed it to his
wife, however, she did not even smile.
Don't you like it?" inquired the
artist. Like it?" she replied. "Of
course 1 like it! Why do you waste
your time on those horrid comic pic
lures when you are capable Of de-
signing beautiful things like this?
I'm going straight down to get my
milIiner to make me ont just like it!''
And she did.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-02
NOT TO BE WASTED


In the soft freight, even the
clearinghouse sittingroom looked
coy and attractive. The warmth
and comfort thawed the heart of the
"star" boarder.
In an expansive moment he turned
to the landlady, who was his only
companion in the room. Clasping her
hand fondly, he murmured:
'Wil you be my wife,"
The woman did not start or blush;
no maidenly coyness shone from her
dear, cold eyes, as she replied
thoughtfully:
Let me see. You have been here
four years. You have never once
grumbled at the food, or failed to pay
my bill properly and without ques-
ton. No, sir; I'm sorry, but l cannot
marry you. You're too good
boarder to be put on the free list"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-02
SAFE!

Mamma was dressing when 7-year-
old Freddy burst into the room with
"a laud "Booi"
why, Freddy, DEAR" expostulated
she, you mustn't open my door with
out knocking! l mightn't have been
dressed at all"
I. ooh, this was all right" said Fred
dy. 81 looked through the keyhole
first"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-02
WISE KID!

A little boy of four years of age, on
noticing for the first time lock of
grey hair on his fathers head, asked:
Papa, why are some of your hairs
grey?"
Thinking to drive home moral
lesson, the father answered:
/ Papa has new grey hair every
time his little boy is naughty"
The child seemed lost in thought,
but, after pause, said, gravely:
Then grandpa must have had
awfuIly naughty boys
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
THE DRAINAGE CONGRESS.

Another congress will open its sessions, also for
consideration of of grave national problems in
ST. Louis this week. 1t is the National Drainage
congress- and will consider the question of food pre-
vention in its widest aspects.
One Of the most important addresses will be de-
Ivered by Marshall o. Leighton, chief of the hydro
graphic division of the Geological Survey. MIR.
Leighton is the leader of nationalism in the domain
Of water resources. He believes in new national
ism in reference to this question: just firmly as
Colonel Roosevelt does in the realm of politics. He
would recognize the physically national character Of
the drainage system, and treat it as unity. Years
ago he put forth scheme for nationally planned
constructed and supervised food-water reservoirs on
the upper watersheds of the streams whose confu-
ence makes the Mississippi system. The scheme
looked so supendous, visionary, and expensive that
it given cold reception by statesmen of the river
and-harbor pie-couner caliber 1t was not apparent
just how my district to be assured of its piece
in that sort of scheme.
Mr.. Leighton waited for time and events TO re-
enforce his arguments; and he has been vndicated
Today the Leighton plan is looked upon as practical
and necessary. The address of Mr.. Leighton at ST..
Louis will be of national Importance, and doubtless
will receive national attention
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

serviceabity of the commission form. Whether the
ordinary government of that city is better or worse
than the average of its kind is not material in the
present instance. The important fact is that in the
face of real emergency it has by common consent
been relegated to the discard To have waited for
the fulfllment of its slow processes and to have
borne with other defects which in ordinary times the
patient citizen accepts with merely grimace would
have been impossible. Lives had to be saved, dis
ease fought, hunger satisfied, and business restored
1t was the story of Galveston over again. And
Dayton met the situation just as Galveston met it
by instituting committee of few men and intrust
ing to them the suspended functions of the city gov
ernment.
Baltimore had to resort to Burnt District Com
mission to rehabiitate the area swept by its great
fire in 1904; San Francisco, with board of super
Visors in place of the outworn city council of two
chambers, was in position to work on much the
same lines wnen its earthquake came In each case
the vital interests of the city demanded adequate
instrument TO meet the peoples supreme need.
There could be triling with anything that was
less than adequate.
1t is rather curious that such vast ma jority of
American cities should passively consent to lumber
along as they do under system of government that
they know would not be able to meet any severe
emergency. So long as the grave municipal prob
lens of finance, health, protection of property and
public welfare remain chronic, seem to think
their solution safely be left to political agencies
the keynote of which is responsibility inefciency
and dilatorness.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
CALIFORNIA JINGOISM AGAIN.

One of the largest services that the Taft Admin
isation performed for this country was in its hand
ling of the japanese question 1t was one bright
spot in the dreary record of that Administration S
management of our foreign relations.
California has found way to reopen in part the
disagreeabe and difficult questions tnat have caused
50 much friction in recent years. and the new foreign
administration is confronted with necessity of max
ing policy early The national interest must over
shadow the prejudices and demagoguery that have
too far prevailed in California 1t is quite impossible
TO concede that California is entitled to up the
whole relationship of the country with Japan, over
an issue on which California itself is by means
unit.
If there is not constitutional way to prevent
State passing legislation in violation of our national
treaty obligations there ought to be- The fact that
the legislation may later be held void is not enough
1t is the passage, not the working of such meas
ure as the alien land ownership bill now pending at
Sacramento, that does the damage.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
MAUDLIN SENTIMENTALITY.

1t is not easy to understand the workings of a
mind that views the protest which has arisen against
the appointment of an ex-saloonkeeper in the red
light district of Baltimore to be doorkeeper in the
United States Senate in some way running counter
to any law, human divine, which bids US to hold
up the hands of the fallen and the repentant.
Even Senator John Walter Smith must read with
establishment the fact that some sympathetic souls
entertain the idea tat he is engaged in rescue work.
II is amazing that anybody should be so blind as
not to see that such an alliance between political
power and vice as that disclosed by the Schoenewof
appointment is one of the things that good citizens
are striving most to root out of our political life
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
WHY JEFFERSON DIDN'T.

There has been great rush into the books to
find out how it happened that Thomas Jefferson first
Democratic President, rejected the custom of ad-
dressing Congress in person; custom which the
latest Democratic President is now restoring
If the investigators will go far enough, we opine
that they will discover that Jefferson didn't drop the
''monarchica custom" because he was too good a
Democrat They will learn that Jeffersons short
comings as public speaker, which made him very
sensitive about addressing, particularly bodies COM
posed largely of experienced orators, was assigned
by his contemporaries as one of the weightiest of
his real reasons If Jefferson ever publicly avowed
it, however the fact has not been brought to atten-
tion recently.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
-sg,. .>-~~~>~~>>~-~>~~->~~-
Conquests of Constance
By Alma Woodscard

after while. when yer gettin' kind wv
mushy yerself, yuh want him to be
more adjacent kind uvi guess there
amt no ladies' seminary whatd put IN
voice stamps on lady maxim the ad-
vances. but what're yuh goin' to do
just swallered q young refngeratln
plant?
$50 kind NY dropped hints. delicate.
yuh know. an one night I even went 50
Ear as to squeeze his hand. My gosh!
under-done waffie. So I let Il drop. The
next day / met one NV his old flames
what had grew to hate him, SO knew
her:
Say, what kind NV breakfast food
Is this. anyway? The dub amt got no
emotion.
AN she answers:
OF course not-he amt a workir'
man-he's Beau BrummeL Emotions.
takes that fresh-from,the1faetory rom r finish
off'n EN- WI that ringer shakes any
girl the minute she begins to tie knots
in the towline to make 1t shorteri Don't
I know? Didn't he can me that wayg
Can. eh?' 1 Kissed Well. well see
who's goin' to do the embalmin' at this
little dress rehearsal. we: winp So I
sends Claude around to the drug store
Ter some weapons We wuz goin' 10
dinner that night. There wuz a. taxi
outside an he wuz bloomin' in a brand
new blue serge. Well, sir, I had three
layers Wv grease paint on my map, to
say nothin' NV oily eyebrow black. blue
shading paint. sticky lip rouge an
oodles NV powder Ny hands swuz
drenched in glycerine. with pink paste
thick on the nails an inside NV my
thin shirt waist I had talcum tied In
little gauze packages
The taxi hadn't went more'n a block
an a half when I got took with a
fierce fit Nv temp'rment. I fired. my
arms around his neck in a haIf-Nelson,
an while 1 sobbed out my love I
didn't do thing to him In the transfer
act By gosh, When I got through with
that gink he looked like a cubist's i'm
preston NV sunset at the North Pole!
An when the cab stopped I skipped
out. an sez:
I guess I'm the first dame you've
met with a detachable an adhesive
temp rment, cyril. i hope II learns
yuh lesson I sez. An then I went
home to wash up!''
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
The Beau
BTummel.

is sure some killjoy
Shade from the spirit world
sheddin' its Nile green in
fooence over my rose-col-
ored aura!' Connie began dejectedly.
Once In a month Nv Sundays some
relaxed lightwad "opens up and slides
me a bonus-an'. by gee, it's always got
It's little string taggtn' on behind.
Here's what I got today"
She displayed a small pin of art
gold.
ITS very beautiful" 1 said. enthus-
iastically.
.'Yeh. But If you didn't see Il come
out Nv q box from the right gem mill
with yer own eyes yuh'd "a said 1t wuz
junk. wouldn't yuh"
'T'n buy 1t from you." volunteered.
"No. yuh don't! I'm not askin' fer
charity. Can't yuh let me kick once in
q while? 1t does me good, specially In
the spring. Aw. say. what's the use
anyway? Yuh make yer little bow in
this little life. an yuh do yer little
stunt. In the beginning yuh get stage
fright; then comes the knocks Nv the
NUTS around yuh that yuh gotta buck;
an just when yuh've got over yer ner-
vousness an wiped all yer rivals offn
the scenery, long comes the merry little
cabaret closer, an bump! yer light goes
out fer good. -Aw. gee. what's the use.',
you'll have to stop this soon," told
her. ',or we'll be ordering tuberoses
sent to your address! Come on. brace
UP and get another one OF those shines
out of your system. That'll do you
good
Twas a dark moonlight nicht. the
NIGHT when l met him." she Scotched.
''an the minute he sez 'Chawmed, I'm
sure!' ! tumbed to his wraps. SOME
sheen laid them clothings. i tell yuh!
I never seen so many patch pockets an
buttons an Intermittent seams in my
life, All over him. Just like scars. yuh
know. but nifty!
Well, nv course II adds to yer req to
be seen round with anything dolled UP
like that. so i hooked him. Gee. he wuz
polite, He treated me like a table ]
manners booklet all the time Now that 4
wuz all very well IN the beginnin'; but
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
Little Tales of the Railroads
u1-A MIDNIGHT RACE DOWN A MOUNTAlN
DOWN A MOUNTAIN.

Horseshoe Bend that the engineer look
ed back and saw something ut which
he did not laugh
Over across the valley a lone engine,
with headlight glaring and furnace door
wide open, was numbering down the
grade at terrific speed.
The express had been coasting under
light brakes Now the brakes were
thrown off and steam crowded on. with
a jerk and jump the pursued train
took on speed. Behind sounded the pro-
lcnged signal of an engine out of con-
troll One Of the helpers from the top
of the hill had broken loose.
When the grade was passed and the
express had clattcred through the cut
and out upon the level ground the wild
Machine was a hundred yards behind.
In moment more there was Il crash.
"A thrill through the length of the Fast
Line section. Il pressure tremendous
upon the vestibuled platform. Then
the peril was over.
The collision looscned the caught lev
ers which had made the helpers engi-
nec- helpless. Under control once more
the big freighter stopped, painted heavi-
" for a breathing space. then slid away
into the yards.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

IT was no ghost train which chased
the first section of the Fast Line
East down a mountainside and into
Altoona Pa. one midnight a quar-
ter of a century ago.
Plenty of wind. rain and fog
that night Moreover, the first section
had left the Union Depot in Philadelphia
half an hour late. 1t was mostly a
train of baggage and express cars. but
on the end were two day coaches. The
sIeepcrs were left for second section.
There had been landslide near AL
I,rrippus and three delayed coal trains
had been hurried up the mountain after
The delay, so the first section of the
Eas, Inc found six helper engines walt
ing TO follow down the slope when it
should have passed the top.
You want to keep a move en-" called
ont a helper engineer. Were goin
Ia chase vou down into Altoona yard
ahead nf the second section"
And the man at the express throttle
laughed. The fast train was presently
sliding down the mountain grade with
the steam shut off. 1t was when the
fog shifted off the patch of scenery
lying between the two sides Of the
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
GOOD STORIES
Naturally.

A WOMAN. visiting butcher shop.
N called for a piece of beef The
butcher. in weighing 1t. had
his hand on the scales. The
IaoS. picking up n sharp knife and
nanding 1t to the butcher. remarked: Il
haven't any use for it, but You may
cut II Off and I'll take 1t along. any
Aow Cut il of? Cut what offs"
asked the butcher. Your hand; Jou
weighed it"-NationaI Monthly.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
Contemporary History.

-H HE teacher in the country school
decided to have each one of her
pupils draw some of their
lessons. that they might have
some practice IN this direction.
She therefore recited the story o.
the landing Of the Pilgrims. and afte-
she had finished sine asked that each
nupil draw from his or her own idea a
picture of Plymouth Rock.
The majority went to work. but one
little boy hesitated and finally raised
his hand
What is il. George"
please. ma am. which do you want
us to draw, a hen or a rooster?'-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
COMMISSION RULE AND MUNICIPAL
EMERGENCY.

Efficiency is the claim upon which the case for
the commission form of government rests. 1t fits
particular political theory and its ancestry cannot
be traced in straight line from the Saxon forests
or the forums of ancient Latium Ii represents
merely the aim of modern municipal communities
to do quickly and well the things they want to do.
The story Of Dayton illustrates perfectly the
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
A POME OF PONIES.

Vendor OF the shiny apples.
Standing in the public square,
Why not use bag Of paper
That will stand a little wear.
Yesterday / bought DOZEN"
Hurrying to reach my car.
Rippy-zippy went the paper.
Strewing apples near and far.
In the gutter. on the car-track,
Hithcr. thithcr. in the dust.
Rolled the ruddy. juicy apples,
Just because your bag had bust.
As I picked them. blushins madly,
Came along my maiden fair.
Laughing at my plight. Giuseppe!
You should worry? should swear
ANA PEST.
The Metropolis tNew York..
.Bags7-Ed
May we. however. softsoap the sug-
yestion that two rhymes are bOgey for
a four-line verse; Eth. Ana Pest?
Enter the Fayneless tariff.
How many Jumps. Mr.. Broussard?
Having refused nourishment for sew
oral DAYS, II is not unlikely that the
lad is growing thin.
YoI know whom we mean, of course?
Emma Lean Pankhurst.
G. 8. X.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
THAT
THE CONGRESSMAN.
H'nh SOMETIMES 9 Littl< .ftAe Other

THE CONGRESSMAN.
The Congressman returneth, fresh
And eager for the e1trasesh;
Returns to clog the avenues
And give narcotic interviews.
Returneth to deliberate
On numerous affairs of state;
Returneth for a while, and then
He has to 60 right back again.
But while he's present does he not
Accomplish a terrific lot,
And set the universe abuzz9
He doesn't, but he thinks he does.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
The Stories Of
SFamOus Novels
{ By Albert Payson Terhune
No. 5.-BEN-HUR. BY Gen. Lew Wallace.
Z Il

NO. 5.-BENHUR. BY Gen. Lew Wallace.
n young para
pet
youths weight
officer falsely With
out trial the Jew
and widowed mother = ts&
In battle a
ing Ben-Iiur the heir to his great wealth .EEF
no Of them He found however hi, fathers a steward snonae
once fell handsome
Antioch a
At Antioch BenIur discovered his
sought out shek encanped
his
duel of exciting between the lifelong foes
THE CHARIOT
began There competitors Messaa deliberately
laid him
of o
smanike He'd the vas mp hitheater
galley
hin in
control Little he Messala
flee
W. 49, hoot. ~ ,h 80. ha,od o .ar.s.s.n..s
borne from the arena helpless cripple The duel was over The race
complete
Nazareth
Roman yoke from udea by force
THE END OF QUEST
Two a
wanderers ended and united to his loved
o
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

Don't scoff at your tailor for display
ing fall styles during the previous win
ter. The century of-peace celebrators
are putting the finishing touches on the
plans for the observance Of the peace
centennial in May, 1915.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
And He Was Unhappy.

SCHOOL teacher sdiu to her
~ boys: Now. I am going to give
~ you each three buttons. You
must think of the first as rep
resenting life, the second liberty. and
the third as happiness. In three days
want you to produce these buttons
.,5 roll me what they represent
on the appointed day the teacher ask
cd one of the youngest pupils for the
buttons. II amt got EN- all. he
sobbed. Here's life and here's liberty.
but me mudder went and sewed happi-
ness on me pants
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

Eliminating the suffs-and we're none
too sure Of them-how many Washing
tonians can name the States wherein
women have been given the vote?
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

We have 1t from one versed in such
matters that Congress. despite the suffic
petitions of today, probably will not
pass the nationwide suff bill until Wed
nesday or Thursday, at the earliest.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07
WE CAN HELP EN- OUT.
From report of London mass meeting ad-
dressed by woman suffrage leaders:

About IL 900 persons assembled in Hyde Park. They
made such racket that it impossible for the suf-
fragette speakers make themselves heard The mob
lelted the women with turf. orange pees and other
things One of the speakers struck in the face but
was not seriously hurt.
London being that kind of town, and going in
for that of thing strongly, tell it where
II can get chief of police just to its liking.
The Washington times., 1913-04-07

suff delegate from the Philippines il
Mrs. H. g. Rockaby. from whose
monicker almost anybody should be
able to wheedle a wheeze