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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11
or Pine Bluff Girl {h party at Capital.

fhe Little Rock Gazette Of yester-
 had the following society note:
 Miss Louise Brewer entertained
 h a delightful informal dance last Eday evening in honor Of Miss
 ,,de Young of Pine Bluff, who is Hing Miss Ruby Pritchard. The bse was made beautiful by large
 uets of cut flowers. Games and 6cing were enjoyed by 26 young bple. Music by the Misses Young, les and Sawyers was greatly en- ked, At a late hour cooling re- shments were served to the Misses
 ooks Young, Margaret Sawyers, |rguerite, K'atherine, Nellie May Clara Davidson, Annie Mae rley, Louise and Inez Whitcomb, Eene Burlington, Aletha Jones, by Pritchard and Maude Young I Me:srs. Paul LaDue, Travis Ris- Jack Howe, Ed Stewart, Everett lilly, Guy Griffin, Al Pratt, Charles kd, Arthur Oates, Garland Ware, Ink Perry, Will Mullens and |ude Liggon, and Messrs. and Mes hes Adams, Davidson and Mrs. w. Smith,"
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PERSONALS.
DssisN by Nay Xanion.

J. Ed Cheek, special agent for the l.ron Mountain, is here for short visit
 Joe Durham left yesterday for San Francisco and other points on the
 Pacific coast.
 Attorney George Holmes, mayor of
 Rison, spent yesterday in Pine Bluff
 on legal business. c. A. Barnes returned last night from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La, where he has been for some days
 on business matters. Jake Dixon, an employe of the Iron Mountain, was taken yesterday to the Iron Mountain hospital at Little Rock where he will undergo an operation for appendicitis. Neddo Marine, who recently under went an operation for appendicitis at
 the Davis hospital, has shown such Improvement that he was removed yesterday to his home in West Sixth avenue, in the Holderness ambulance. Mayor Handbook returned yester- day from Little Rock where he spent several days.
 o. D. Tucker of Little Rock is here on business Isaac Allen hes returned from near Eagle Mills, where he had gone because of the serious illness Of his
 mother, who has now so improved that she is up and around again.
 John l.. Mills returned yesterday frcm La Grange, Mo-, where he spent
 few days with Mrs. Mills and her mother, Mrs w. J. Galbraith. James Cross went to Grady yester- day to spend few days. Morgan Toney spent Monday in the
 city with his parents, MT. and Mrs. w. M. Toney. returning to Hum-
 phrey yesterday. Willis Adams is convalescent after several days illness. Lawrence Phillips of Altheimer
 was in the city yesterday. Master Arnold Sanders, who has been visiting his mother. Mrs. Thos. Fleming, of West Fourth street, re- turned yesterday to his home at Eagle Mills.
 Masters Creed Caldwell and Met Caldwell left yesterday for Camden where they wll visit relatives for sev- eral days.
 A. w. Harrison, general sales mana ger of the Cape Girardeau Port land Cement company, is here from his Missouri home, the guest of w. S. Sitlington.
 Robert and Francis Lynch, son of |J. T. C3Shorty') Lynch. a we'll known and popular Cotton Belt con ductor, are here from Maiden, Mo. visiting cousin. G. H. Moore. in West Second avenue. Conductor Lynch was transferred from Pine Bluff about six years ago, after years of service on the Cotton Belt out of this city. w. T. Hamilton, who has been critically i'll with typhoid-pneumonia l at his home. 821 Nebraska street. for several weeks, is reported to be i'm ! proving.
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Maenesla In Sea sheIIo.

Chemical analysis of starflshes. sea xrchins and erinoids, collected from all parts of the world. show that tho skeletons of these animals contain much magnesia. The amount present Is found to vary with the temperature of the water in which the creatures lived. The percentage of magnesia is highest in those specimens that lived In tropical waters and lowest i'll forma from the icy geas of Greenland and the Antarctic, with regular grada' ton between which even shows the local effect of cold ocean currents upon fife at the sea bottom. The in vestigstions suggest that the skeie tons of these animals have the compo sition of the manganese limestone or dolontte, and 1t Is possible that they furnish clues not only as to the climatic conditions under which umestones are now formed, but also ss to the temperatures of the oceans in different regions of the earth where. during different periods of geologic history, great deposits of magnestau limestone were formed
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Friendly Fish.

A curious instance of tho familiarity If fishes with human beings has been observed in Portland. Ore. at the Uni ted States barge office. The official boat is kept at the end of the wharf Some time ago one of the boatmen began to notice 2 fish about eight inches long. and resembling a carp that seemed to wish to scrape acQuain. .ance. The fish would come up to thu top of the water whenever the man ap. pearej, and did not seem to be at all afraid. After a timo all the men got to know the iish: and began to take friends to see him. At first he might not be in sight. but he would very soon appear and frisk around near tho surface. Once or twice Ee has come % close as to rub his nose against the boatnan's hand, and the I1en ara waiting further developuentA
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Mrs. John ". Lang.

Warren, Aug. 10.-The funeral of Mrs. John w. Land was held here this afternoon, and was largely at- tended, services being conducted by Rev. w. F. Rogers at the First Pres- byterian church.
 Mrs. Lang died Sunday afternoon. It had been arranged to move her to Little Rock for an operation, but when her condition would not allow her to be moved, two physicians were summoned from Pine Bluff to perform the operation there. Her condition was critical, however, and she died before the physicians could reach her.
 Mrs. Lang was 3S years of age, and was widely known and very popular in this section. She is survived by her husband and four children, Miss Mary Sue Price, Tom Price, Louise Lang and Lucy Lang; her parents, Mir. and Mrs. James Jolly. and one brother, Ed Jolly. A son, James Ed ward Price, was drowned in the Sa- line river near here about two months ago.
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Defects In Eyes-

One of the marvellous gifts of the eye is the distinguishing of colors. and here most eyes are more or less de- lective. Many eyes otherwise effec- tive strangely do not convey to tho brain from the Ietina by way of tho optic nerve the reflected rays of light that make tor eithey of the primary colors-red, Niue and green-not to speak of the innumorable intefmedt ates, aIl due to the absorption. refee ton ana transmission of rays of light of varying wave lengths. It might be said shat we do rot see objects ct all, but only the myriad wavelets oS ;uminiferous ether that are reflected frOni them.
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Beginning of "Reutsrs."

Reuters the European news agency, had a curious beginning. Baron Reu- ter long nursed an idea for organizing the supply of foreign news in identical terms to all the newspapers. but edi. tors gave him To encouragement. At last he determined to risk things, and arranged with correspondents all over Europe. When their messages began to come In he took them round perAon- ally to the newspaper offices and Of tered them for nothing, on condition that his name should be printed against them. "Try them for vou month";" he urged. If they not satis fy you. yell. to you 1t signify noth' igg." One editor after another did try them. with such results that when Reuter- preached the subject of sub scriptton rates his demands were red Ny complied ~ith
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PSYCHOLOGICAL.
Baby McCurry Dead,

Will McCurry, two-year-old son of Mir. and Mrs. w. M. McCurry, died Monday afternoon, near Noble Lake, on the Hill plantation, where MT. Me- Curry is manager. The body was brought to Pine Bluff yesterday and was inferred during the afternoon in Bcllwood cemetery, with funeral ser vices by Rev. H. A. Stowell, rector of Trinity church. The body will be disinterred later and buried in llli- nois, of which state the parents of the baby are natives.
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teption for Visitors. katly Enjoyed.

FtVtIVu TUT VISAtVASs
 katly Enjoyed.
 Hiss Evelyn lPerdue delightfully."-
 ertainsd yesterday afternoon be- ben the hours of 4:30 and 6:30,
 h reception in honor of her hse guests, Miss Margaret Gold of t Springs and Miss Dorothy Chal- Fs of Dallas, Texas, at the home of i parents, MT. and Mrs. John Per 2, in Cherry street.
 The guests were received at the tr by Mrs. c. H. Triplett, Jr. The Peiving line was composed of Mrs.
 A. Perdue, Miss Margaret Gold, Ps Dorothy Chalmers, Miss Sarah thop and Miss Evelyn Perdue. Mrs E Triplett, Mrs. w. w. Draper, B. Alex Perdue and Mrs. Clyde 3ith assisted in entertaining the ests.
 Fhe living room abounded in a pro- jon of cut flowers and potted |nts, yellow being the prevailing pr. The dining room was decorat-
 with pink flowers and ferns. Lit Misses Mildred Perdue, Doris |ith, Alene Mccain and Mary Me-
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S . ~ F T Y

| Gaughy presided at the punch bowl, where delicious punch and sand Wiches were served throughout the evening.
 Mrs. Joe Gocio of Grady spent yes- l lerday in the city. Miss Hennie Cook is able to be up after her recent illness. Mrs. H. D. Foster is quite ill at her hone in East Second avenue. MT. and Mrs. B. F. Ashcraft return cd yesterday from a visit to Rison. Mr. and Mrs. o. E. Mckenzie have returned from a stay at Hot Springs
 Mrs Glen V. Rogers left yesterday for two weeks visit to Memphis, Tsnn.
 Mrs. Harry Sturtzman has gone to Hot Springs where she will spend some time.
 Mrs. Allen of 1902 West Nineteenth, avenue is improved after several weeks illness.
 Miss Sallie Wilson went to Cam den yesterday, for several days visit with relatives.
 MT. and Mrs C. Wofford left yes- terday for a visit of several days with relative at Sheridan.
 -*-
 MT and Mrs. H. M. Ogletree have very sick child at their home, 200O South Georgia street.
 lMr. and Mrs. o. M. Burnett of Mall vern were in the city yesterday. en route to Clarendon.
 Mrs. w. A. Payne left yesterday for McGehee, where she will visit her son, pr. E. A. Payne.
 Mrs. J. w. John and little daughter. Mira Lee, are spending while with relatives at Edwards, Miss.
 Miss Mary Dunner has gone to Texarkana, where she vii visit sev- eral days during her vacation.
 Mrs. John Currin returned yester- day 70 her home in Sweden. after spending a. few days in the city.
 Mrs. D. A Caldwell and daughter, Miss Elizabeth Caldwell, have re- turned from a visit to Hot Springs.
 -+-
 Mir. and Mrs. A. Smith of Jones' boro were in the city yesterday. en route to their home from Little Rock.
 The ladies of the Eastern Star will meet in regular session at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, at the Masonic hall.
 Mrs. c. B. Lee of Warner and her guest. Mrs. E. R.. Yohe of Mount Erie. H., spent yesterday in Pine Bluff.
 Mre I. q. Allen of Fordvce was brought to the Clark Sanitarium' yes- terday where she will undergo treat ment. !, '.N
 Mrs. I. R. Meyer and children. Rertha and Herbert, have returned from Port Gibson, Miss. where they
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spse..cles Known to AneIsnes.

epeetaclee Known Co Aneleneo.
 There are evidences in ancient wr1e mgs that some sort of . spectacle was used ct an earlier period than that in which dc spina lived. but to what extent or with what effect is not known. It Is thought that for some ages the Chinese have employed spec secles for lha relief of defective eye sight and probably they wsre xnovo to the aucients.
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Brakeman Lavender Hurt.

Will Lavender, a brakeman in the employ of the Iron Mountain, was brought to his home in East Second
 avenue Monday night, suffering with contusions, bruises and minor abra- sions, as result of fall from box car of his train earlier Monday, near McGehee. Mir. Lavender's injuries, while painful, are not considered ser ious, and he is expected to be on duty again in a few days. !
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Sounded Funny.

Tho following true story gives des Mghtful glimpse of very little child. The baby, who was just beginning to prattle, was taken to walk in an or chard where some bantams were turned loose One perky little bird stood right in the child's path. craned bis neck and uttered ehrin "Cock-ar doodle-doo" The little girl bent down her head 90 as to be az near the level of the bird as possible and then lisped in the most pleading voice: "Pleafh S1ll you thay thsa ads!nf"
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Thrown Out, All Right.

Mrs. F1atbush-"My neighbor's hus. band and brother were thrown out Of work by the war" Mrs. Bensonhurst ""Slre. that's nothing. know . @oman who had two husbands thrown out of work by blasts-"
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An ice cream social will be held at the forks of the Sulphur Springs road on Thursday night, August 18th for the purpose of raising funds to paint the new church building now being built. Each and everyone is invited to be present. Come and bring your friends.
 The work to complete the building is now going on and it is expected that it will be ready for services in three weeks.
 (Signed)
 J. w. WHITE. l.. c. BOBO, w. H. HANCOCK, H. F. DIAL. R. l.. WILSON. 8-S-9t Building Committee Is 9t
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Drums on Horseback.

Tho earliest date at which drunaa were carried on horseback in England appears to be 1542. when Henry VIII sent to Vienna tor kettle drums tha. could be played on horseback after the Hungarian manner" Mounted bands were in vogue in the last dec ade of the eighteenth century, tho two regiments of life guards having them in 1895.
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Only Partially Informed.

Tt Is from history that we niost learn to judge the futura." remarked The serious citizen. "YeS," replied tho observer; but every days news re minds us that history b not yet con plotAss
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Wedding
 Conway Today.

Charlie s. Cartwright, foreman of
 J. w. Sanders blaming mill, and bs May L. Camp will be married |s afternoon at o'clock. at Con- N, the home of the bride. MT. Cart , ght secured his marriage license fe yesterday MT. Cartwright will Ing his bride to Pine Bluff, where N will reside.
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stayed for ordinary use, while for ma ternity wear, the rib- bon would be left loose and the size of the bodice ad- justed at need. Here, the negligee is made of a pretty soft silk with a lace frill at the lower edge, but if liked, the body por- tion can be cut long enough to make it provide its own finish at the lower edge and then it could be hemmed, hem- stitched, finished with picot or band- ing or in any way that may be liked. Negligees of the sort are made from all the simple silks and also from the cotton crepes and from alba- tross, from cashmere and from all materials that take pretty, graceful lines and folds, or, if a very dressy effect is wanted, the bodice portion could be made of a lowered silk, while the lower portion is oi a plain silk, or, the upper part could be made of silk with the skirt of crepe de chine or wool crepe. Almost any pretty finish can be used for the edges some women will like lace frills at the | neck and sleeves, y others may prefer rows of banding, either velvet ribbon or applied material, and others again will find scalloped edges and perhaps a little embroidery within, attractive. For im- mediate wear, cotton voile in one of the pretty lowered ef- fleets would make a very dainty negligee, with the bodice arr ranged to form it's own at the lower edge and the neck and ). sleeve edges finished
 with some simple
 lace.
 27 in. wide, 6N yds. 36.
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Daily Fashion alkS <. 'BY2MAY MANT0N
A SMART AND GRACEFUL NECLlCEE

TT would be hard to find neggee than this It eminenty graceful and simple that made few hours The
 skirt gathered the and adjusted under the bodice, en the stitched together form and ribbon
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Mir and Mrs. H. M. Ogletree have a very sick child at their home, 20O0
 South Georgia street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11

lMr. and Mrs. o. M. Barnett of Mall vern were in the city yesterday, en route to Clarendon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11

Mrs. w. A. Payne left yesterda. for McGehee, where she will visit he son. pr. E. A. Payne.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11

Mir. and Mrs. c. Wofford left yes-
 terday for visit of several days with relative at Sheridan.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11

Mrs. J. w. John and little daughter Mira Lee, are spending while wit relatives at Edwards, Miss.
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Miss Edna Westall and Miss Ruth Westall left yesterday for Camden, where they will join a party and spend several days. on Mustard Lake.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-28

man in Great Britain. and 1t never has
been an acceptable definition Of the
gentleman In the United States. To an
American there Is pitlful snobbish.
ness In Ruskin's remark that the prin.
ciples of education propounded by
Plato apply only to "the persons we
call gentlemen-that is to say, land
holders living on slave labor. Yet
Ruskin Is only putting forth little
more extensively than others an opin-
ion often held In England. This opin.
ion Is most concretely expressed in
the tabled dialogue between the Eng.
lish lord and the American girl. which
begins with his tactful assertion that
there are SO few gentlemen in Amer
lea, to which she responded with the
question: But who do you call gentle
menu" And when he explains that
gentlemen are men who do not
work." she retorts swiftly: But we
have lots of those in America-only we
call them tramps!"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-28

area. All tner navies in the world
could float on its surface, and its
safety against attack may be judged
from the fact that the only entrance
to 1t is through narrow neck three
miles long and hardly more than wide
enough to allow vessels to, pass
through.
The naval station occupies a square
mile Of land, and is one of the most
completely equipped in the world. 1t
Is provided with a first-class ship-re-
pairing outfit, including the largest
dry dock in the world, and has a
coaling plant that cost nearly $1,000.
600, with magazine for naval am
munition that tapped Uncle Sans
pocketbook for 100000. There are
five tanks for fuel Oil. four Of them
containing 100000 gallons each. and
one with a capacity Of 100000 gal
lons-such provision being necessary
In view Of the fact that our newest
dreadnaughts burn Oil fuel.
Such Notifications, so manned, with
q strong navy, will afford San Fran
cisco even more protection than guns
mounted about the Golden Gate.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-28

RN THE past few years the United
States government has spent over
$13,00o,O00 in making Pearl Har.
Dor able to offer adequate re-
sistance to attack from land and
sea. The work is nearly finished
now; and when 1t is done the United
States will possess as formidable and
as important fortress as any in the
world. ,a
Before the steamer approaching
Honolulu from the southwest Is a mag.
nificent concave sweep of land rising
above the clear blue Of the Pacific, and
covered with gigantic trees. Backing
up the whole is long ridge of rugged
and tumbled rock. In the center of
this Titanic sweep nests Honolulu.
To the east, the sweep is terminated
by a tumbled mass of rock-an ex.
tinct volcano, known as Diamond
Head. To the west the view ends
with a frowning mountainside that
hides a beautiful little lake which
nestles behind 1t, reached from the
sea through narrow passage, like the
neck of a bottle--the lake named
Pearl Harbor. Nowhere in the world
is a scene more beautiful and impress.
sive. -.. ....s.7s.,,
Death In the Midst Of Beauty.
Uncle Sans task has been to con-
ceal, In this wonderful Is miles of
beauty, death-the flying. screaming,
hellish death of flame and steel and
explosive. He has packed the hollow
cup OF the peaceful, somnolent old
Diamond Head crater full of coast.de-
Tense mortars, and the Volcano may
renew it's activity with the eruptions
Of flame and steel that belch forth
from the molten Interiors of these
squat, grim engines of destruction.
Hidden among the green Of the trees
are cement pits, from the depths of
which long, trim, coast-defense rifles
rise and peer about, seeking marks for
the tons OF steel and guncotton they
are hiding. Beneath, keeping COM
pany with the fishes, are hundreds Of
steel cans the size of barrels, and con-
tanning high explosives, ready to de-
stroy any vessel riding above them
when the man on shore chooses to
launch their power.
impreonable Defenses.
The Notifications extend along the
coast for distance of Is miles, from
the volcano on the east of Honolulu
to Pearl Harbor, nine miles west of
the city. and consist mainly of a Sc
ries of powerful batteries occupying CO.
mentlined emplacements beneath the
level of the ground. At the base OF
the volcano is a group of such en-
placements called Fort Rugger; at the
other end. guarding the entrance to
Pearl Harbor, is Fort Komehameha.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-28
JUST WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN
Many Definitions Given, But None
That Can Be Said to Be
Satisfactory.

From more or less successful efforts
to define the snob and the bore there,
Is only a step to the more or less un-
successful efforts to define the gentle,
man, says a writer in Scribner's. The
bore and the snob are accusable crea-'
lures, plain to the view Of all men and
reducible to formula. But the gentle.
man is intangible and ultimately inde-
Unable. The bore and the snob are re-.
vealed by their words and their deeds,
whereas the gentleman can prove him
self only by his spirit. II is no won
der that the inultitudinous definitions
shot at this shining mark have failed
to pierce the center. even II one or an.
other may now and again have hit the
margin Of the target.
One Of the more obvious reasons for
this diversity of definition is that the
word has changed its meaning and Is
likely to keep on changing 1t as We ad-
vance In civilization. Once upon a,
time 1t had clear and sharply limited
legal content recorded by Blackstone
In his commentaries; the great lawyer
defined a gentleman as one who bears
coat armor, the grant of which adds
gentility to ones family" This is still
a fit definition of the gentilhomme In
France; 1t is probably not now fully
satisfactory definition Of the gentle