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KAISER PRESENT
 AT NANCY BATTLE

Bordeaux. Sept. S.-Le Temps says that the kaiser was present at the battle in the. region of Nancy on Sep tember j, according to statemen, .s- sued by the German army head quarters.
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Mrs. Will Belzner' and daughter. Miss Barbara, of Camden, are Fin the city spending several days with MT. Belzner.
 Anyone wishing D buy or sell Jefferson County Script, call on Chas. Veil Supply Co. if
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NEGRO CONFESSES THEFT.
Zeb Hill Used Trousers Leg as
 Treasure Place.

Zeb Hill, negro about 20 years old, .orrested Monday by Chief of Police J. Frank Stewart, on the charge of re- lieving an older negro of $65, yester- day confessed his guilt to the chief
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-09

and the money was recovered.
 The money was found sewed up in the cuff of his trousers, and several small money pockets were found on the legs of the trousers, where some of the bills were put for safe keeping.
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Amundsen Delays Voyage.

AmuhdSen De1aVS voyage.
 Copenhagen, Sept. 'S-Capt. Amund- sen, in an interview, has stated that under the present circumstances his expedition ot the north pole must be postponed. It will be impossible he says to start before the Spring ot 1916.
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Vote for Act No. 3 and Publicity 1.-THE PUBLIC HAS A The Publicity Committee, Arkansas Pres Association
 

one of the best-known educators and philanthropists of New York, is dead at Port Chester, a subrub.
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Southern League.

Southern League. Montgomery 4,5, Memphis II. Birmingham 1, Nashville 0.
  Mobile 5.4, Atlanta 1-1. New Orleans 6-1, Chattanooga 5-5.
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Educator Dies. New York, Sept. S.-Joseph Milba lk
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RESULTS YESTERDAY.
 National League.

Lavender, Zabel and Archer; Doug lass, Ames and GonZlaes. Ten innings Pittsburg-St. Louis, cold weather.
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American League,
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@utbrfak of european QQaar
at1n Deare Conference at ConStat1fe
Dr. Quick Tells of Situation Abroad When Protestant
and Catholic Bodies Were About to Meet in Effort
to Abolish Strife-Famine He Says, Stares CONT
nent in Face.

nrise. for the orders for mobilization at
once withdrew from every estabiisn-
ment all the able-bodied men liable TO
military service Millions Of families
were left without support and have TO
look forward to the permanent loss OF
the bread winners, for the fatal char,
acter of warfare today is known to all
that of any past age.
Famine at no distant date stares
many parts of Europe in the face
widespread and fatal as no natural
famine in Europe has ever been. Ger
many is surrounded by foes prepared
either to attack her or at least to de-
fend their neutrality. with all their
power. While the rulers Of Germany
apparently recognize no treaty obliga-
lions or solemn pledges Of neutrality
II they conflict with her interests. 1t
may be well questioned whether the
responsible citizenship would justify
such International perfidy.
Ominous, to those who have eyes to
see. were the fields of ripening grain,
many of them partly reaped, abandoned
by the tillers to join the armies OF de-
struction. Who will reap the crops and
prepare the food needed by every fam
lily in the land. to say nothing OF the
armies? Already old men. women and
school children are ordered to the fields
to reap the crops. But what can in
experience and weakness accomplish?
Such were the sights that greeted our
eyes as we gathered at Constance, when
the crisis was reaching its climax. and
that We experienced az we fed on the
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Congregational Mlissinnarp Societies
feel Gfffrts of european 0@ar
American Board, Which Handles Foreign Work of
Denomination, Believed to Have Defdt-Organ-
ization for Aiding Dependent People Also Expects
to Fall Behind

Congregational missionary societies
closing their books this fall arc among
the first to feel effects Of war.
The American board, the foreign work,
handling somewhat more than $1,OOOO00
a year in ordinary times. fears at this
writing that its deficit may amount to
s25, 1000, but its final statement for the
year recalls that the board has a way
of pulling out without debt when things
look darkest. During July and August
1t had to get s2so.o0O or moro than
$50, 600 above its necessities last year.
At its annual meeting in Detroit IN
October the board is to mako feature OF
its work in the near east and in China
both fields Immediately affected by the
present war.
Rev. Dan F. Bradley Of Pilgrim Church.
Cleveland. is to preach the annual ser
mon and five veterans Of the board 8
famous work in Turkey will tell of their
work and its peculiar troubles In three
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TIME TO PREPARE THE COLLEGE RAmGENT WORK PLAY

WASTED bodice buttoning down one side
in Russian fashion and opening high at
the neck for wear with organdie or
hemstitched linen collars. The long
WASTED bodice is divided from box
pleated tunic by. a low sash OF black
satin, tied at one side. The tunic falls
over a narrow skirt, showing neat but
toned boots. This frock is of dark blue
serge and several collars. attached with
snap-fasteners, are provided with II.
For more formal wear the same girl
has a frock of plum-coiored mohair and
worsted mixture. long bodice and tunic
buttoning straight down the back. The
tunic shows about six inches OF skirt
beneath and the bodice is sleeveless,
skirt and sleeves being of black velvet
A sash of the velvet is adjustable py
snap-fasteners. dividing bodice and tunic
Upon occasions a foundation skirt ana
sleeved guimpe OF pym-colored pussy
willow silk with snap-button adjusted
sash OF the same. may be substituted
for the velvet. making two pracucai
frocks out of one model
There will be various entertainments At
college which will demand evening dress.
Int a simple, pretty evening frock Of
modest style will be the requirement. not
a fluffy, coquettish dance frock OF tulle
with a daring decolletage. The soft pussy
willow taffeta In blue. raspberry or oiean-
der pink or In some dainty shade or law
ender. hun or pale green will make =
dainty frock. The skirt may nave sea-
loped frills and chiffon or lace may De
used for the bodice. provided its style
is not too decollete for the student.
For footwear the college girl Will re-
quire heavy-soed trarnping boots OF tan
calf, two pairs of butsoned boots, one
pair having tops Of contrasting maferiai
in dressy style; one pair of evening SIP
pers to match her evening frock ana
pair of smart black pumps for wear on
ordinary evenings with the dinner cos.
tune. 1t is better to provide buttonea
boots than pumps for day wear with an
costumes, for the little freshman Will De
apt to dash out of doors In all sorts OF
weather. perfectly regardless OF her Ioot
covering Sometimes the uncarpeted noo,s
and the halls of large school or col
lege building are draughty also, and the
buttoned boot offers more protect,on 70
wear the various shoes for athletic sports
must be included In the list.
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Mlissionarp to afrira Cells
Of Dangers Encountered III 0Qork
Elder Rogers of Seventh Day Adventists, Now On
Tanganyka Plateau. Writes to Takoma Park
Friends

longing to the Nile or the kongo sys-
tenn. His great desire was unsatisfied.
1t would seem that this important ques-
ton might easily have been answered
had the explorer been spared one more
season. His death came suddenly in
his grass shelter. at Chitambo, in the
swamps of the lower ~Chambezi, about
100 miles south of my present camp.
His greater DESIRE the healing of
the open sore of the world. has been
accomplished fully. Slavery as a traffic
sion in this 'uttermost part of the
world and may we not all hope that
the speedy extension of this gospel of
the kingdom (Matthew 24:14) will
quickly end the reign of sin, the worst
slavery OF all?
las I write I hear from the nearby
village the drum beat calling to beer
drinking and vicious revelery. I just
returned from the village. There saw
what causes US all to pray Thy king
dom come, Thy will be done on earth
saw a woman with her face smeared
with red paint. The paint was in her
hair as well. She had broken beer
pot, in the bottom of which were the
human had seemed lost in the animal
state. She was putting handfulls of
the dregs into her mouth until 1t fell
into the pot. I handed the value OF the
pot-a small coin-to a relative. and
told my kapitao (foreman) to smash the
pot and scatter the dregs. At this the
wild creature ran away amid the ap-
proving laughter Of her kinsman.
Would to God all the beer pots of the
civilized world could be likewise gotten
rid Of But there are some Christians
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That the life of missionary engaged
in pioneer work through jungles in
habtted by wild beasts and subjected
to many privatons is not the easiest
vacation to be sought after is shown
in a letter just received by Takoma
Park friends from Elder Joel c. Rogers,
who is establishing new stations for
the Seventh-day Adventist denomina-
ton on the Tanganyika plateau IN
South Africa Mr.. Rogers. accompanied
by his wife, left Washington shortly
after the general or world conference
Of Seventh-day Adventist held at Ia
Roma park during the spring of 1913,
for the purpose of blazing his way
through the heart of Africa.
The story of his adventures. II sucn
thew might be called. is full of thrills
He tells of lions roaring near MS
camp, how crocodiles had had their
breakfast off of natives and describes
in an entertaining way some OF. tne
features connected with his explora-
lions. He is in the land where ~
Livingstone did so much TO spseao inc
Mr.. Rogers is an ordained minis
ter OF the Adventist denomination,
and has many friends in Washington.
having spent many months here before
sailing for the dark continent.
IT have Just crossed the Chambezi
river. a very small stream here. 1t Is
one OF the sources, the extreme source,
I believe, of the Kongo. 1t Is the
stream of which Livingstone died and
which he wished to determine as De-
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39eafe Centenarp a9lans.
Southern Methodist and Reformed
Denominations Have Approved Effort and Disciples
Will Be Asked in October to Indorse Twill Be
Observed Sunday, February ID, 1915.

A peace centenary committee, repre-
senting all evangelical churches in the
United States, has now secured action
by the general official bodies of Pres
byterians. Methodists (South) and the
Reformed churches. and will apply to
the general convention of the Disciples
of Christ in October, approving CEN
tenary plans.
Action has also been secured by the
Epworth League, the Christian En-
deavor, the Luther League and most Of
the brotherhoods. The committee is
acting through the Federal Council of
Churches.
It has been decided that Peace Sun
day shall be February IA, 1914, the one
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in this village as in the towns of

in this village as in the towns of
christendom.
in looking up mission site. am
going beyond all roads into the native
yesterday 1 suddenly came upon two
notable monarchs Of the African forest.
Entirely unaware of tntruders. l saw the
great trunks sweep In whole shock OF
corn with the easy sway OF their mighty
bodies. I am somewhat keen on forest
sport. and my gun was at hand, but there
was no inclination to aim a cruel dart at
such friend of mankind. l am only
sorry that it was my gun instead OF my
camera that was at hand. At the cry OF
my guide, they went blowing away like
a ship.
"A few days ago. while at the edge OF
Lake Nyassa, l put well aimed bullet
into the head Of a crocodile. The croco-
ollie is mans worst enemy in these parts
and may be said to STAY his thousands
The natives are dragged down into the
lake or river with no hope of escape
In case of escape. it is with wounds, re,
suffering life. The one I got was old
and no doubt could boast OF many vic
Tins.
Lions are heard roaring near our
which. luckily. they prefer to other kinds
of food. Besides. have been told they
are towards and only attack human
beings when at the point of starvation or
when wounded am not seeking TO con
firm these reports; though l do not fear
them in the least. This may be because
my Mauser Is handy, and l know how to
use it on ordinary occasions. at least
MY twenty carriers sleep under the
trees. They are now eating their supper,
their only meal. sitting around their camp
fires. I am writing in front OF my little
tent by a camp Are My native cook is
preparing my supper of oatmeal and
pancakes made of native millet -four.
n latter
little by little before my supply OF i'm
ported -four fails. White flour costs
at the nearest store 25 cents pound.
Sugar costs the same. But the prices
ways approach. Here bread Is lux
ury and cake Is unmentionable But
there are some compensations. House
rents are free, under the trees. l just
bought a pound Of peanuts for cent.
However. one cannot always camp
under the trees nor subsist on PEANUTS
as steady diet
This is a very healthful country.
The altitude Is over 5000 feet, and the
atmosphere is pure and bracing in the
November. Cattle thrive here. except
in the area Of the deadly tsetse fly.
which Is found along the lower river
and in lake districts. Sleeping sick
ness seems to be abating under siren
uous regulations.
L am On Trip from Aoeicoiu' via
Kasama. to Lake Mweni. thence up
Tanganyika lake and then back to
Abercorn. where I expect my wife.
She started from B1antrye about July
Is. My trip will be no less than five
or six hundred miles. and will mean
two months Of camping out am
exercising all necessary hope that I
may continue to have good health. I
sleep under a mosquito net and take
quinine when I feel obliged to-"
The trip Elder Rogers wife is to
| take, as spoken of in his letter, Is 1900
miles in length, and though she will be
compelled to pass through jungles and
endanger her life. she win have only
a group Of natives to accompany her.
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By DIR. SIDNEY L. GULICK,

Representative Of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ In America.
At the very hour when the eighty
delegates Of the Church Peace Con-
ference should have gathered for their
first formal session they were in full
fight for England on the last train
from Constance, while on the date set
for the Roman Catholic conference at
Liege that city was repelling fu-
rious attack from a German army. IN
which nearly 10000 of the flower Of the
land were killed or wounded.
But the Protestant conference was
held, nevertheless. and was not in vain.
Lovers of peace saw afresh the urgency
Of their cause They realized in actual
experience the aruth Of their utterance
that civilization goes forward by credlt
and good will among men, not by brute
force. At the first real suspicion OF
war. all the customary conveniences OF
civtlization-nay, even the necessities
of lfe-vanishes as II by magic. Rail-
roads ceased to run. Tens of thou
sands of travellers were stranded in
the midst OF hostile lands. Banks closed
and not a cent of money could be had.
though men might have thousands OF
dollars duly certified by their letters
Of credit Postal and telegraph service
and all hotels were entirely disorgan-
lied. and also every industrial enter
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well neither you nor have to do 1t.
We have only to take one step at
time. and you are not even alone; nor
would the water drown you If you were
to slip. Come. here is my hand; you
will find each stone in itself quite hr'i
as YOU stand upon It.
Tremblingly the child began what ap-
reared 10 it the perilous passage.
The first few steps were the worst. but.
as they were taken, courage arose and
soon both stood safely on the opposite
bank.
Mother, you were quite right said
the child. .'One step at time was not
lttiicUlt-"
Yes, my dear the mother answered
and remember that in all your future
.e. You will find many more dlfncuii
Undertakings chan crossing this LITTLE
Essss,rn. /enh cannot be accomplished
3D.. single effort
How comparatively few there are who
realize the full significance Of the Mas
te-,s words: Sufficient unto the day Is
the evil thereof!
How many there are who falter ane
sink under the anticipated burdens Of
tomorrow, instead of simply attending
TO the duties OF today.
oae step at a time. We cannot TAKE
tomorrow's step until tomorrow comes
Take therefore no thought for the
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Miss Freshman is doubtless exceeding
ly particular about the raiment which. in
her estimation, forms the nucleus Of her
college wardrobe-the natty and knowing
campus toys in which she will have most
of her good times. These wearables will
include her various athletic outfits. gym
suit, swimming suit, basket ball costume.
rowing costume, tramping skirt and. last
but by no means least. her jolly campus
coat and hat. The campus coat must be
big and warm and comfortable with poe
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one and closing session in London. 1t
filled our hearts with anguish to think
that thousands of troops we had seen
hurrying to the front had been killed and
wounded.
While the preachers Of peace may seem
to the world to have accomplished moth
ing. and the peace conference to have
been a monstrous fiasco. never before has
the need of machinery for maintaining
culable disaster that has overtaken Eu-
rope will prove mighty and drastic
lesson. enforcing. as words never can, the
eternal principles proclaimed by tho
preachers of peace. Disarmament has
will soon be calling for peace. Til
frightful war can hardly fail to advance
the peace cause by a hundred years OF
more. The fallacies of peace through
readiness for war" and peace preserved
by ornaments have exploded with dis
aatrou0 efkocta
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In these days 1t is well to watch close
ly the whole worlds horizon, for vast
changes are taking place. The time
has come to think in large units, to study
world maps, so declares a writer In the
North American philadelphia.
The whole earth is Keeling from the
staggering shock of war even as these
lines are being penned. All the nations
of Europe are fighting. or else armed
COR the fray, and the worlds remotest
country Is affected by this vast cata-
cIysm, this horrible human holocaust
Perhaps 1t Is in this awful school, since
nations would learn in no other, that the
God Of nations is teaching the lesson of
universal peace. After the great powers
nave crushed and spent and exhausted
,ne another, and after the savage art of
var has taken unmeasured toll of the
worlds young manhood: after q fearful
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falling nearest To the exact date when
the present 100 years of uninterrupted
peace between the United States and
Great Britain began.
For all young peoples meetings and
also for all Sunday schools. the com
mittee is preparing patriotic services,
the aim being to have all hold such
services and to have the exercises sub
stantially uniform.
Appeal is to be made later to minis
tiers Of all bodies, whether called evan
gelical or not, to preach sermons on
the Sunday named on the subject of
peace. and to do so even il Europe and
half the rest of the world be actually
at war at the time. The committee re-
ports finding marked interest in the
plans, and even greater interest since
reports came of declarations of war by
the principal European nations.
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years. Educational work IN China coma
Of It IN the very region wherein 5Apan
Is making trouble. In efforts to o1st Dr.
many, will be featured
The American Missionary Associates,
home work IN behalf Of dependant psn-
pies. viz. negroes. Indiana Esqdma11
handling S540, 900 q year Or thereaboufR
fears it viii fall behind IN addition 70 .
small debt carried over from last yeaA.
1t was $1,000 behind when August -
rived with its war scare. and It reports
additional discouragements Gncs thai
date. 1t meets in Providence October 70
to p
In other years Congregational bsnosn-
lent societies meet In the same city -
the Same time. as In KanAaS CITY Ast
year, but this IL the of year, when the
societies meet separately. The Assoca-
ton, In its latest statement, 6toutly de-
niles the oft-Quoted report that there ara
5000. 600 neglected mountaineers In the
south. It says there arc no moro than
80 coo. and that they are far from neglect
ed or forgotten.
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morrow: for the morrow snail tAke
thought for the things Of ITSELF"
Our thoughts should be conferred on
present duties. In discharging them
faithfully preparation Is made for those
that follow.
One step at time. Concerning the
things to come let thy trust be in Him
who cannot erin His love that can
never fail-in His strength that Is made
perfect in weakness.
1t is one step at time In entering upon
the duties Of every new day.
The thing that we greatly fear does
not often come upon us: II 1t does. the
rightly chosen steps Of each day enable
US to bravely meet 1t and cast 1t aside.
The tasks which at distance seem
formidable and overwhelming are readily
fulfilled when reached through the per-
torrance OF each intermediate duty.
One step at time Is the law Of prog
ress. The Christian too often looks as
the child at first did. upon the stormy
waters. instead Of upon Him who walks
upon the waves. To Him must ever be
the prayer: Hold up my goings in Thy
paths. that my footsteps slip not"
In taking one step at q time, the
promise to the Christian has never
failed. AS thy days. SO shall thy
strength be-"
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last train that left Constance for Cologne.
At every station were hundreds seeking
in vain for passage. Soldiers everywhere
dominated. Several refugees who took
our train told Of brutal scenes Of murder
and bloodshed which they had Just wit
messed on railway platforms when sus-
poets protested or resented arrest. In
all probability 1t will never be known
how many were killed, even without the
formally of a court-martial. in the days
preceding the declaration Of war.
At the informal meetings Of the peace
conference held Sunday important bust
ness was transacted. When 1t was GER
tain. late Sunday night, that we should
lar session Of the conference was held,
four important resolutions were passed
and then we adjourned to meet at The
Hague or some other place to be decided
by the committee.
German newspapers were unable to get
or to publish much news. SO We little
knew what was actually happening. But
we learned later how the chancellors of
every nation professed to be working
strenuously for peace while the whole of
Europe drifted helplessly into war. Even
before our train left Constance and sew
eral days before war was actually de-
clared between the nations military re-
prisals and clashings were occurring here
and there. Our train passed down the
Rhine. where serious situations had
promptly developed.
Our safe and relatively comfortable
trip through Germany was In large meas
ure due to the strenuous exertion Of
Pastor Siegmund-Schultze. the only Ger
man pastor to attend the congress. He
came at the special request of Emperor
William, and. by his personal relations
with the emperor and consequent infiu-
ence with local officials. rendered us in
valuable service.
AS We approached the border land we
passed trainloads of soldiers, horses
artillery food for powder" 1t was soon
clear that we would better be entirely
out of the continent. Crossing over to
England. German warships and British
naval patrols justified to US the decision
Of our committee.
On the eventful day that England
declared war on Germany. and Germans
attacked Lege. eur conference held tts