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Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
Perfectly Natural.

AS Herbert Cory tells it. he went to
a dinner once where Andrew Carnegie
was a guest.
After the eating was over and the
speechmaking had started" said
Corey. Mr.. Carnegie reached in his
pocket for something and pulled out
handful of small change. A dime got
away from him and fell on the floor.
and at the first chance Mr.. Carnegie
got down under the table and looked
for It."
Did he find it," asked one Of the
ing the incident.
did he find it?" echoed Corey. He
found Is cents!"-Saturday Evening
Post
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13

your medicine had done for her and l
tried it It made me strong and healthy
and our home Is now happy with baby
boy. am very glad that took Lydia
2. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
DO all l can to recommend It. "-Mrs.A.
B. BoscAMP, 5O4 E. Howard Street,
Creston. Iowa
Tons Of Roots and Herbs
are used annually in the manufacture
Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, which Is known from ocean to
ocean as the standard remedy for
female ills.
For forty years this famous root and
herb medicine has been pre-eminently
successful in controlling. the diseases Of
women. Merit alone could have stood
this test Of time.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegeta-
ble COmpOundwill help you,
10 LydiaE.Pinkham MedicineCO.
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for ad-
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman,
and held in strict confidence.
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
WOMAN WEAK
and NERVOUS
Finds Health in Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Creston, Iowa. suffered with fe-
male troubles from the time came into

WOiHallnOOO unul i
had taken Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Com pound. I
would have pains II
/ overwork ed or
lifted any thing
heavy, and I would
be 80 weak and ner-
vous and In 30 much
misery that I would
be prostrated. A
friend told me what
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
Worse.

There's one good thing about liv-
ing In these times. We don't have
any highwaymen."
That's true. But my iceman is Just
Is bad or worse. He's a low-weigh
man"
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13

Rcd Cross Bag Blue. much better. goes
farther than liquid blue. Get from any
grocer. Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13

To believe that a task is impossible
ID to make 1t So
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
Both.

Money talks quoted the Sage.
Yes, and 1t stops talk" added the
Fool.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13

Pride makes some people ridiculous
and prevents others from becoming SO.
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
At NewDOr-

$50 your daughter is down and out?"
Yes; she took the count"
cago Journal.
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
She Wouldn't Soues

She Wouldn't SqueaI.
He-If I squeeze you, will you
squeal?
She-What do you think ! ana
talking doll?
Gilpin observer., 1914-08-13
Where It Counts.

Some matrimonial bonds are very
good dividend payers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
AUTO MAKERS TO
 PAY B|G WAR TAX
Tax on Gasoline Reduced to l Cent a Gallon, and Tax
 on Banks Eliminated.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The senate committee on finance, which is con- sidering tine war tax bill, today agreed tentatively on several import ant items. The tax on beer will be left at a $l 50 barrel as in the house bill Sweet wines will be taxed 20 cents gallon and dry wines s in- stead of 12 cents gallon, the tax to be collected from the seller instead of from the source.
 The tax on gasoline will be reduced to 1 cent a gallon, but it will be SUD- plemented by tax of 50 cents Der horse power on passenger aut0mo- bile sales. Where the manufacturer has outstanding contracts fixing the price of the machine, the tax will be collected from the jObber. A substi- tute committee reported favorably on the elimination of the bank tax and the substitution of tax of cents on bank cheeks and drafts, and a tax of ? cents per $100 or fractions there of on deposit slips.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
Details of Social and Philan- thropic Event Arranged
 at Meeting Yesterday.
OFFER CASH PRIZES
Social and Business Leaders of City Cooperating to Make Event Great Success From Every
 Standpoint.

Arrangements for the cotton charity ball to be given at the Hotel Pines Thursday evening, October s were completed at a meeting yester- day afternoon, and the personnel ot the patrons and the committees in charge presage that the charitable 7hilanthropic and social events will be the most successful of the season
 Crum, Britton & West have offered to contribute $25 to be given as prizes for tle best costumes made of cotton materials. Fifteen dollars will be given as the first prize and $10 as the second
 The idea is to encourage the wear ing of materials manufactured of cot ton grown in the South. rather than import silks and satins from foreign countries. The object of the ball is to demonstrate to the young women of Pine Bluff how prettily and be- comingly they may attire themselves with cotton fabrics, and at the same time help the poor and distressed .who are in great need.
 The gentlemen are also expected to wear cotton wherever practicable. and thus further the cause.
 An admission fee of 75 cents will
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
STRIKE A NEW
 TRAIL IN THE
 NEW HAVEN CASE Evidence Unearthed Show ing Looting Proclivities of
 Small Inside "Ring." NELSON ALDRICH IS IMPLICATED Believed That New Haven Had Sold
 Small Lines at Big Prices.
 Both Roads Being Robbed.

New York, Oct. 2-The department of justice, which is probing the New Haven iniquities, have struck a trail it was learned today, that is expected to reveal comparatively small in ner ring of high financiers who have built up the New Haven into ire mendous monopoly in order to secure vast fortunes for themselves.
 Attorney General Gregory is said to be more interested in what these men got out of the New Haven wreck than in the technical methods by which the alleged conspiracy was consummated.
 It was said there is evidence that times their value and the excess pro- fits were distributed, not among the stockholders of the purchased com panies, but among the inside ring which manipulated the deal.
 A hint of how millions were divert ed into the pockets of mysterious in- siders was made by the interstate comm"rue commission in commenting on the New Haven purchase of the Rhode Island trolley lines. The com mission said:
 "To acquire control the New Haven expended in money and securities S24,35O,336. This was done after a conference between MT. Mellen and former Senator Nelson w. Aldrich.
 "This transaction seems such an extravagant purchase as makes it a matter of interest just who owned the securities of the Rhode Island Se- curities company. This information could be furnished from the stock book of that company, but it was learned that these books had been burned"
 Seeking Immunity.
 Some of the directors of the New Haven are said to have approached the prosecution with protests of in- nocence.
 No director has done this directly. In each case intercession has been made impersonally, and in a most way, with the result that it is said the government has dug all the deeper into the records of these high financicrs.
 The point has been raised that many of the directors voted for transac- tions of which they had little if any personal knowledge. Matters were presented to the board, they said, so welll prepared by Mellen and his fel- low executives that the vote was talk en without more than formal dis cussion.
 Charles s. Mellen. former president of the New Haven, testified again to- day before the federal grand jury, and was so far from finishing his story that he was asked to resume next Tuesday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
AISNE BATTLE i '..DEPENDS i;;i:i'i:il UPON i a
 ROVE FIGHTING Terrific Fighting Continues, With Germans Desperate ly Assailing Allies. BOTH BIG ARMIES
 ARE REINFORCED Briti>I, and Indian Troops From India Take Places in Fighting Line,
 Which Is Being Constant
 ly Extended.

Paris, Oct. 2 1l D. m.)-Thc folloW- ing official stament was issued to- night:
 "On our left wing one of our de- tachments which was moving forward from Arras has fallen back somewhat to the north and east of that town.
 North of the Somme we have ad- vanced beyond Albert.
 Between Rove and Lassigny, the enemy undertook violent attack. which was broken by our resistance.
 Calm prevails along the rest of the front' aA
 The report states that the ap- breaches to St. Michael are now free of hostile forces on the left bank of the Mouse.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
PROS ORGANIZE
 TO WAGE FIGHT Committee of 5 Named to Direct Campaign Against Licensing Saloons. USE PRINTERS INK Plan Is tG EndeavOr to Induce Resi-. dents to Refrain From Signing
 Petition Asking for
 License.
USE PRINTERS INK

Plans for a red-hot campaign against licensing saloons in Pine Bluff in 1915 were formed at meeting held last night at the Y. M. c. A. V. o. Alexander was made chairman of the meeting, and Arthur Mills secre- tary. About fifty were present, in- cluding a number of ladies.
 Chairman Alexander appointed a nominating committee composed of Senator T. c. White, Tracey Mills and D. w. Richey, who selected an exec utive committee of five to direct the fight for the anti-saloon faction. They named as the executive committee B M. Goodwin, H. E. Trulock, H. V. Bah lau. C. H. Moore and J. M. Sowards.
 It is planned to use printers ink exclusively, and inform the public of their reasons for opposing the sa- looms through the newspapers. It. is also the intention to have large cir culars printed, urging the people not to sign the liquor petitions, and to refrain from being drawn into the fight for license.
 Chairman Alexander said that the local Prohibition workers had receiv- ed considerable reinforcement during the present year, and that he did not anticipate as bitter fight as was ex- perienced last year.
 Attorney Crawford made short ad- dress, saying that while the Prohi. bitionists may not have received great reinforcement, during the year sa- loon men have lost more strength.
 It was asserted that the Antis dc not desire a long drawn out fight as was experienced last year, and that every precaution to prevent going through each name at the hearing will be employed. It was also said that if it, appears necessary to go through the same procedure as last year, an appeal would be taken i'm.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
FIGHTING ABOUT
 GERMAN STRONGHOLD

Paris, Oct. 2.--The battle of Rove battle within a battle--the key stone of the German resistance upon which rests the invaders success or failure, was renewed with great viol- ence and desperation today. Vigorous attacks were directed by the heavily reinforced army of General von Kluck against the French and British positions in titanic effort to cut through the allies line and break the northward extending movement, de- signed to turn the German right wing and envelop it.
 The repeated assaults broke and scattered when they reached the sturdy FTapch line, and time after time the Gerh.2.ns were driven back only to return agaifrt2 the attack. The fighting still continues terrific losses are being inflicted N'ae both sides.
 Hour by hour the great steel wall of the allies is being stretched more and more to the northward aed hour after hour the Germans arg eexetending their line to parallel that. Meanwhile, luc rlVdl War ndClIlcS dIc OAttoA ms each other in an effort to find thin spots which inevitably must appear because of the severe stretching 10 which the opposing lines are being subjected.
 French Fall Back.
 The left wing detachment which reached Arras early in the day moved out to meet the invaders and after severe engagement have fallen back to the east and to the north of Arras.
 Ground has been gained by the allies in their advance north of tine Somme river, and the French and British have taken new positions on the north of Albert.
 According to the midnight bulle- tin of the French war office. calm prevails along all the rest of the line, and no new developments are fe-' ported with the exception of general German retirement in the vicinity of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
MADD|NG JURY
 NOT LIKELY ID
 REACH VERDICT Indications Last Night That Twelve Men Were Hope
 lessly Divided,

Little Rock, Oct. At late hour tonight the indications were that there was a hung jury in the trial of J. r. Madding, the young Pine Bluff man accused of the killing of James H. Harrod by running over him with an automobile in August, 1913. At l l o'clock the jurors came into court and asked for further instructions, but no intimation was given as to how they stood It was generally be- lieved that they would be unable to agree upon a verdict.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
GERMANS SINK
 AMERICANS BOAT
Oil Steamer Flying British Flag De- stroyed by the Leipzig Off
 Central AmGrica.

San Francisco, Oct. 2.--The Union Oil company's oil tank steamer Elsinor of San Francisco, carrying oo,0o0 barrells of oil from Corinto Nicaragua, to Fort San Luis, Cali fornia, was sunk on September 19 by the German cruised Leipzig off the Central American coast and her crew landed on an uninhabited island. Thls news was received today by the loca officers of the Union Oil company rom the company's agents at Valpa- irso, Chiloe. The Elziner was com handed by Captain Roberts and flew the British flag.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
SITUATION IN MEXICO SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT president Wilson Decides to Keep Troops There for
 Some Time. 44A oARRANZA WILL BE ELIMIN LATED Rath Conferences "Packed," One for carranza, Other for Villa -Agnas Calientes Meeting the
 Strongest.

Naco. AriZ., Oct. 2.-The first en- gagement between Villas troops ant inc troops of Gen. Ben Hill, Carran- "a sympathizer, took place at Naco Sonora. at 10 o'clock tonight, lasting minutes One shell struck in town but no one was hit.
 Washington, Oct. 2.-President Will sen and Secretaries Bryan and Dan. iels discussed the Mexican situation today. Afterward it became knowr that the present plans of the admins tration is to keep both troops and warships in Mexico until the situa- ton created by Villas revolt clari- flies.
 Official announcement was made that no troops will be withdrawn until after October II. Also that no time has been fixed for the transfer of control of the port of Vera Cruz.
 Villa Will Control.
 That Mexicos affairs are to be handled by the military element and that Carranza will be eliminated from power is the conclusion drawn by state department officials from re- ports received from Mexico today.
 The CarIanZa conference now on at Mexico City is reported by he de- partment's agents to be packed ln the interest of CarranZa, and it's delihera- tions will be disregarded by Villa ana the military leaders allied with him. It is made up mostly. of civil gover- nors.
 The conference of military chiefs, scheduled for Aguas calientes. is. on the other hand, a Villa conference and, as it's delegates control the mili- tary situation of Mexico, it's decision will have ample force back of them to be carried out.
 That the Aguas Calients conference will be representative is indicated by fact that Zapata mas sent a repre- at Villas invitation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
Spurned. Stabs irI.

Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 2.-Angered because she refused toaccept his at tentions and had engaged the serv- ices of an attorney to prevent his calling upon her, Antonio Correon. a Porto Rican, tonight stabbed Miss Bettie Corners, teacher in school. He then stabbed himself.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
Continued on Page 4.)

Your opportunity to buy fall lace curtains and draperies at sale prices Monday-KnoxjNAlk dit
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
No More Aggie Letters.

Little Rock, Oct. 2.-The postage fund of the department of agriculture is exhausted. There is only enough to mail out this weeks agricultural letter, and there will be no more un- til the legislature makes an appropri- atiOn
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
(Continuec on Page 8

Sale on all Lace Curtains. Portlers and yard goods Monday. Knox Walker. dlt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03

Get Hoosier Cabinet this week for $1 down. Reap & Crawford's 9-S0-5t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
|5,30Q,000 BALES
 IS 1914 ESTIMATE Condition on Sept. 25 73.5 Per Cent of Normal, Says United States Bureau. GINNING PROGRESSES More Cotton Ginned This Year Than Was Ginned Up to Same Time in
 1913, the Figures Being
 3,3Sl ,S3G.
GINNING PROGRESSES

Washington, Oct. "A forecast of 15,300,000 500-pound bales of cotton as the crop of 1914 was made today by the department of agriculture's crop reporting board in the seasons final reporting, which showed the con- dition of the crop on September 9 was 73.5 per cent of normal. This quantity of cotton brings this years crop second in point of size ever grown in the United States. The re- cord is 15,693,000 bales, grown in 1911. Last year 14,156,0OO bales were grown and in 1912 there were 3,7O3,- 900 bales.
 The September 25 condition indi- cates yield of about 200 pounds of lint per acre, which applied to the estimated area planted, 36,960,OO0 acres. would produce 15,463.0OO bales an average of 1 per cent of the acre. age is abandoned each. Allowing for abandonment the condition of the crop indicated total production of 15,300,000 bales.
 Condition Good.
 Washington, Oct. 2.-The condition of the cotton crop of the United States on September g, was 73.5 per cent of a normal, compared with 78O per cent on August 25, 64.1 per cent last year, 69.6 per cent in 1911, and 685 per cent, the average of the past ten years on September %.
 This announcement was made at noon today by the crop reporting board, bureau of statistics, United States department of agriculture, in it's final condition report of the sea- son, the condition being estimated from reports of it's correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt
 Ginning Figures.
 Washington, Oct. 2.-The second cotton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bu- reau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt and issued at 10 a. m., today announced that 3,381, 1886 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1914 has been ginned prior to Sep tember 9. This compares with B. 246,655 bales, or 232 per cent of the entire crop, ginner prior to September 9 last year, 3,O07,271 bales, or 22.3 per cent in 1912, and 3,676,594 bales. Tor 23.6 per cent in 1911.
 Included in the ginnings were B. 292 round bales, compared with 26,- S93 last year, 9,574 in 1912, and 27,- 918 in 1911.
 Sea island cotton included number ed 13,S95 bales, compared with 10,570 bales to September 25 last year; 3,$51 bales in 1912, and 11,SO7 bales in 1911. The figures for Arkansas, showing ginnings prior to September 25, with
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03

MT. Waterman is son of MT. and Mrs. Gus Waterman of 607 West Fifth avenue. He left Pine Bluff last Thursday for Fayetteville. He was until recently connected with bank at McGehee, but resigned about three weeks ago to assume his new duties at tine University of Arkansas. He is well known in this city, and has many friends here who will be glad to learn of his merited promotion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03
PINE BLUFF BOY
 GETS RECOGNITION
Formal Announcement Made of Alp. pOintmemt of Julian Waterman
 to Chair at U. of A.

Fayetteville. Oct 2.-President Fut- rall today announced the appoint ment of Julian s. Waterman as in- spector in the department of econom- ics and sociology in the university of Arkansas. Mir. Waterman is ar Arkansas man and graduate of the Pine Bluff high school. He holds a masters degree from Tulane and the bachelor degree of university of Mich igan.
 In 1913 he was inspector of econom- ics in the university of Michigan. He took high rank as student at Tulane and Michigan.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03

s1.O0 Jardiniere Stands for 49c Monday at Reap & Crawford's s-3O-5t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-03

tContinued on page five>
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-23
FLORENCE ROBERTS PLAYS
EIiI WHY As ZAZ L

Not until the las, act OF "Zaza" is
1t possible TO realize fully jusi how'
littlc role Of the play has been given
during the preceding acts BY Florence
Roberts. to- present visiting star Of
the Lucille La Verne Company at the
Empire Theatre.
Up 20 this point, Miss Roberts. while
lacking some of the physical qualities
mat we have learned 70 associate with
he nhrt--s tenderness and a certain
sinuosi;v. for Instance, which might
be coupled together and described as
m" !li.tevatc, vulgar, little cocotte OF
inuStc-ha!l singer with 80 certain an
expression Of a definite art, manifested
natural refinement 10 the outlines Of
Tie part, and with such uniformly sus-
/ tainGd conv!ncinEn that she loses
and hides. as well. hHrsclf and her per-
equality in The interpretation OF the
playwriShts character.
Yet ii isn't the playwriph;a charac-
ter or ism, only his; OF course, ~.
or David Belasco. who adapted the
"ral way the qualities of ZaZa but
all the intimate and perfect detail
and il!umes the character Is mere. The
mai IS Withou, f,Glt: but - Il the
;empestuous, temperamentaI. humorous
and tragic traits that belong 10 sordid.
piiifui Zaza may be disclosed ampli-
fed and stressed only by artist-and
~ ''''N 'sS'G! - ct4 al tiSl ti"T
performance as Zaza yesterday estab-
!ishGS that fact very nrlnly In the
minds Of those who saw il.
But. as has been suggested. her art
is lost sight OF In her art until the last
act when her sad, quiet dignity. her
changed and softeued tones and the
pathos Of her face bring instantly 10
mind the art that made the contrast
sharp and unforgettabl"
Miss Roberts is we'll supported b.
the members of Miss La Nerne's COM
i;any, though there is coInparativelv
little for them TO do Indeed, il il so
emphatically Il one part play that its
performance would he bcnefcialiv
shortened by the omission Of several
SccneS written in for comedy well
played AS that comedy undoubtedly is
Miss La Verne herself is htted with
tho Kind of character part in which
she l.. far KNOW. una pproach-
able By any Woman or ouv stage; Mr.
Arnold. barring "A few stumbles in the
iirst act, gave Yesterday an admira BILE
performance Of an Uncrateful role
playing the big scene In particular with
much force; Mr.. Bcrthelet makes the
most OF another character part; Miss
Blakency is most effective and
charming foil for Miss Roberts; Mr.
CroSSman Brown reveals the same sure
comedy sense that made his work ia
Years OF Discretion" so enjoyable, and
a little girl, Myrtle Mouutcustle re
Veals rare talent-and wonderful hair
Mr.. BerthclctS production is of the
character to he expected OF him: the
first act setting is cleverlY constructed