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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
Engineer Allen Returns.

City Engineer Frank R. Allen. who has been on. leave of absence the past three weeks, returned. home Saturday night, from points north and west. During his 1hsences he attended tAe meeting of the national association Of engineering bodies. His appearance indicatea the trip benefitted him.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
Mclaughlin May Live.

Ozark, Oct. 1S.-Ki Mclaughlin brother of Neal Mclaughlin. now in the state penitentiary, is believed to have a chance to recover from the bullet wounds received Saturday night during a fight with Representa- five Allen Nixon of Jetthro. Mr. Nixon was stabbed in the neck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
FRENCHTOWN LEyEE DISTRICT
 TAX NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the Frenchtown Levee District tax, for the year 1915, will be due November |3. 1915 and unless paid within sixty days thereafter a penalty of twenty five (25) per cent will attach. Under the law the collector has no authority to remit any penalty.
 R. H. WILLIAMS,
 Collector. Pine Bluff. Ark, October ?, 1915.
 10-2-1m
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NOTICE.

Mrs. Stella E. Ragan has returned from the East, where she procured the latest styles and fashions in dress, and is now located at 1902 South Main street in the watkins Flats, where she will be pleased to serve her many friends. Telephone 2122. 10-12-6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

of Randall visited Miss Grace steed Sunday. Y
 Miss Sara Carlton made pleasure trip to Pine Bluff Sunday. Misss Hattie Dial of Kedron pass ed through here Sunday enronte to the Whiteville schoolhouse.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
HEAD BROOKFEDS DEAD.
Robert Ward. Bakery MAgnate and Baseball Patron, Expires
 Suddenly.

New York. Oct. 1S.-Robert B. Ward, president of the Ward Baking company and of the Brooklyn Federal league baseball club. died suddenly at 6 o'clock this evening, ats his resi- dence in New Rochelle.
 Death was ascribed to heart disease
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
SEE MRS NELL KTRCHGRARERI

SEE MRS NELL KIRCHGRABER for new and up-to-date hat frames, and black French velvet. If you have a. velvet hat. Of, last winter. I can make it look like new. I clean aigrettes, birds of paradise, plumes, wings, and fancies. Phone 2O53.
 2-9-6-m
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$ c c | E TY

Mrs. L. D. Lifts, delegate from Burma, stated that immodesty. dis obedience, impurity and foul Ian suase were only few of the immor- al influences of the homes in Burma
 Mrs. w. A. Pendersrass, Japanese delegate, told of the lack of respect of Japanlese men for the purity of womanhood.
 There was very large attendance at the Conference of mothers" yes terday afternoon, and it was consid- cred very enjoyable affair in. every respect. entertaining in high degree as well as most instructive.
 Mrs. K. Oldham of Little Rock is here fo "a visit with Mrs. Frank Tomlinson and Miss Willie Hooker.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
Veterans in Session,

Veterans In Session. . The regular meeting of J. P. Murray Camp, U. e. ", was held Sunday aft -ernoon, in the circuit courtroom at
 the courthouse. There was a good
 attendance. Only routine business
 was transacted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
Wire Causes Excitement.

Wire CauSoS Exc1temonLs F The fire department was called out
 about 8:3O o'clock last night. be-
 cause a fallen Hive" wire was caus- ling excitement and danger at Barra- que and Linden streets. The fire boys
 cut the wire at safe height. and re- moved the danger.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

E Anyone wishing to buy or sell
 Jefferson county script. call on Chas. Well Supply co. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19
Eastern Stars
 Emblematic Quilt Complete.

The emblematic quilt fashioned by members of Union chapter No. 40, o. F, s., for the Masonic orphans home at Batesville, has been completed and will be placed on exhibition today at D. I. Mills drug store. With the emblem of the order, and the name of D. I. Mills, past grand master of Ar kansas and trustee of the home. ap- pears the names of the IA officers of the chapter and those of all members. There are 16S names embroidered in the quilt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

Mrs. H. w. Cook has returned from a four months stay in the middle and far Vest She spent considerable time visiting relatives in Kansas, and later visited the Pacific coast and the San Francisco exposition. Mir. and Mrs. Cook are now at home at 6O2 West Fifth avenue, with Mir. and Mrs. E. M. Goodwin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

Candidates to Altheimer. Candidates for county offices will visit Altheimer tonight in the interes! of their candida cies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

The Pine Bluff chapter. D. A. R.
 will have a business meeting at 2:3O Io'clock Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs
 Frank B. Tomlinson, at her home.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

Eugene Bridges, son of MT. and Mrs. P. M. Bridges, is quite sick at the home of his parents in Walnut street.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

Fine lot of Cotton lPoplinS and l,re!lcs, that sell regularly at 35c q yard; Spe. cial Tue sday only, per yard 1Jc
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-19

Silk and Cotton materials for dresses and skirts; all cOI- OTIS and d variety of designs, 6Oc quail. ties. Tuesday, per yard 29c
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ATTENTION WONDER son SALE OF ATTENTI0NE TUESDAY-ONE DAY ONLY a5t
 This Wonderful Sale of Dress yviH remern bered those who patiently awaited such event- buy materials for Fall and Winter Apparel.
 You fMeGrea

Big assortment of Scrgcs, in Blues, Greys, Greens and Black. 36 inches wide. These sell regularly at 5oc and G5c, 0E o for Tuesday only y-------...--- ----.-------O OUO
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
US, AGENT WAS ONE
OF PASSPORT BAND
indictment Shows How Well
Government Operative De.
ceived Alleged PIotters.

NEW YORK. Feb. s.-How q plain.
lhassuning Department OF Justice
agent. Of the un-German name Of
Adams. wormed himself into tho con-
f,dencc Of a body Of Germans in this
city, accused OF trying to defeat the
united states passport laws In order
to snug9le German reservists and
volunteers into the Kaisers armies.
passed as a German. took q German
name and deceived every one con-
cerned until he had landed tho alleged
rineleaders behind the bars. was told
yesterday.
With the returning Of six Indictment
acy." II was divulsed that one OF the
men arrested. who gave his name as
John Aucher. was really Adams.
Adams became the trusted lieutenant
the bnnd. and actually received 5000.
according to the evidence presented
to the Federal grand jury. for his ex-
renses.
The men charged with conspiracy
Is supposed to be in a detention camp
IN ENGLAND; Carl Eurcede. Arthur
Wilhelm Heinrich Sachsse. an officer
in the German reeerve: August r.
Meyer. Walter Muller. and Herman
The passports fraudulently obtained
bore the names. the Indictment charges,
Of Herbert s. Wilson. Stanley r. Mar
tin. and Edgar Lund. A former en-
ploye Of the mayors bureau Of licenses
sold blank applications for passports
the indictment alleges. the Transaction
taking place In the Elks' Club 1os West
Forty-third street. Wedell. under the
name OF Carroll. bought the applica-
tions. It Is charged
The conspiracy was formed on No
vember last. and. the Indictment goes
on to say. Won Wedell opened headquar-
ters at the Eiks' Club. Ruroede. for
the distribution Of the papers, opened
offices at 8 and 10 Bridge street. with
Adams or Aucher acting as his assist.
ant.
Won wedell is believed to have been
passenger on the Norweeian liner
Bergensfjord. which was held up nv
the revenue cutter Manhattan In the
upper hay when II started for Bergen.
Norway.
sachsse. Meyer. Muller. and wegener.
who were provided with the bogus
American passports. were arrested on
the Bergensfjord. but although the ves-
sel was searched Won Wedcll was not
found.
The Norwegian liner was afterward
held up by an English warshir and four
Germans were taken of and placed In
an ENGLISH alien enemy detention camn.
Won Weden is believed to have been
among them
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
GOLD SUPPLY AND WAR

The worlds great wars have been
fought on paper currency. That used
to be one of General Weaver's very
best "points,"' whereby he showed
that gold was a natural-born coward
and incapable Of serving it's country
when the country most needed help;
ruling, in behalf of greed and avar-
ice, when things were going smoothly,
but scurrying for cover when trou-
BILE started; there to wait in ambush
till the economic despair of the COM
munity should afford it opportunity
to sally forth and scoop in the frag-
ments left from the wreckage.
That theory about gold was once
widely held in this country and even
in the Latin Union. 1t is now gone
the way of other interesting falla-
cies, and gold is recognized as the
most efficient soldier that a nation
can mobilize and put into the field.
The country with the gold has it's
economic position guaranteed as
nothing else can do it.
Mr.. James S. II. Umsted contrib
utes an interesting analysis of the
gsld-power of the two sides of the
Great War, which seems to justify
The Washington times., 1915-02-06

that Colonel Harts, in charge Of
public buildings and grounds, has
reported favorably on the project
for limited extension Of street car
lines into Potomac Park: No one
would wish the river front view
msrred by car lines. But q close
approach to the park could be OBJ
tained from points in the vicinity Of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. And though Colonel Harts rules
against that idea, it is hard to see
how line running down Seven
teenth street, passing the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art, Continental Mem
orial Hall, and the Pan-American
building, would impair the parks
beauty.
But even the extension Of the lines
along Fourteenth street, as recon-
mended, would furnish a much need
ed approach to the eastern portion
Of the park. And for that, If Con-
sress 30 wills, thousands of the sum-
mer dwellers in the Capital will give
many thanks.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
A FADING ARISTOCRACY

Hay fever is one ailment whose
victims are denied the ineffable priv
ilege Of sympathy. Nobody who
hasn't sneezed and wheezed and eye
watered from the same trouble,
seems able or willing to take seri-
ously the woes of the hay fever suf-
ferer. Like appendicitis in the years
when it was rarer and more amusing
than it is now, hay fever is looked
upon as a mild distemper that pro-
vides a large number of people an
excuse for summering at waterside
or mountain resorts. It has been
noted that folk who haven't the
wherewithal thus to assuage their
discomforts generally don't let hay
fever get a very strong grip on
them; hence it has come to be esti-
mated a fantasy to which only the
minds of thoroughly solvent per-
sons are wont to yield.
But the hay fever aristocracy is
menaced. A bunch of fussy doctors
have found how to make serum out
of the pollen Of the fever-inducing
plants, which, being injected into the
August vacationer makes him stop
sneezing and removes utterly his ex.
cuse for the outing.
At any rate, if the cure proves
successful, it will settle forever one
widely mooted question: whether the
hay fever aristocracy really enjoys
its troubles or not. If they all take
the injection, we'll know that their
troubles were on the square; if they
refuse, 1t will be established beyond
peradventure that they have been
taking US,
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
KNOWING STREET LAW

No provision Of traffic regulations
and crossing policemen can form half
80 effective a protection against in
jury and accident in the streets as a
campaign Of education such as is be-
ing carried on by the Washington
Safety First Association.
President w. F. Peabody, of that
organization, made a striking COM
parison when he pointed out that the
deaths during the seven years Of the
Revolutionary war did not equal the
numbers killed in street accidents in
New York city in the last three
years.
The relation of pedestrians to We
hicular traffic Is undergoing a subtle
change. Presumably the pedestrian
still has the right Of way. That
idea was formulated when pedes
TRANS were an overwhelming ma
jority. But whether rightfully, or
not, the pedestrian gets less and
less sympathy as the numbers of
vehicles grow so rapidly. In con-
gested cities, such as New York, the
poor pedestrian has few of his head
on, clear track privileges left.
Safety-first advocates realize that
the only way to lessen the growing
friction between drivers Of vehicle.
and pedestrians is by education Of
both as to their duties in public
thoroughfares. In this city the asso-
citation has done a commendable
work both through the schools and
through citizens organizations in
such education.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
END THE ABUSE

The river and harbor bill rs re-
ported by tho Senate Commerce
Committee carries about $4,000, 900
more than the House bill. A careful
scrutiny of this increase is promised
when the measure comes up for ac-
ton. The House bill carries $38, ,000,-
900, an enormous sum when it is con-
sidered that the Government faces a
vast deficit. In view of that fact,
the action of the Senate committee
is most regrettable.
The Democrats promised economy.
yet there was never any legislation
in which economy was so completely
ignored as in appropriating for river
and harbor improvement. The prac-
tice Of scooping up the public's treas
ure by means of the river and har-
Dor bill has won for that measure
the merited designation of "pork bar
REL" There never was better time
than the present for ending the
abuse, q time that cries for retrench-
ment in the Governments finances.
No one disputes that our harbors,
rivers, and canals need to be i'm
proved and maintained in the inter-
est of commerce. but appropriation
for that work should not be made
the occasion for handing out bonuses
to contractors. Every penny Of
pork" should be eliminated from
the bill, and only bona fide and meri-
torious works receive the Govern
ment's money.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06

the conclusion that for once very
great war may be fought without
forcing paper money basis. If that
be true, it means that economic re-
covery after the war will be faster
and easier than ever before.
Mr.. Umsted analyses the gold re-
sources Of the two sides in the war.
He finds that the allies have now
probably twice as much gold as Ger
many and Austria, and that In Eng
land, the banker Of the allies, the
Bank of England, actually has more
gold available for redemption Of
notes than there are notes in circu-
lation. This is q wonderful finan-
cial position, of course made possible
by some artificialities in the handling
Of exchange and commerce. But no
other country has even attempted to
establish such a high credit. France
is credited with a gold reserve of
AN per cent back Of notes in cir
culation; Germany with 46 per cent;
Russia almost 81 per cent:
Even these calculations, however,
do not point to the strongest part Of
Mr.. Umsted's argument that tho con-
troll Of gold will powerfully help the
allies to win. He shows further that
about three-fourths Of the worlds
annual product Of new gold comes
from the allied countries: Australia,
$54, ,000, 900; Africa, $200, ,000, 900;
Canada, $12yo00,000; British India,
1900, 900; France, $4,000, 900; Rus
sia, see, 600, 900. Most Of the worlds
remaining annual supply comes from
the United States.
Against this, Germany and Aus
tria are not producers Of gold. They
have nowhere to turn for replenish-
ment Of their stocks from the
ground. And the difference between
the power to draw in and utilize
$500, ,000, 900 Of gold as a fiscal stabil-
izer, and the utter lack Of such pow
er, can hardly be oyerestimated.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
OUNCES IN THE LOAF

It seems that there are some
Scent loaves Of bread manufactured
in Washington for which the con-
sumer could better afford to have
the price raised 1 cent, or even 2
cents, than to buy some Of the loaves
that are offered at cents.
The Times bought loaves of bread,
at retail, representing the output of
ten manufacturers. All sell at
cents per loaf. One loaf weighed
10% ounces, another 15N.
Between these, the two extremes
in weight, there were loaves of 11%
12, 12h, 12N, 1917, 1874, 1874
ounces.
The general notion among people
that a scent loaf Of bread ought to
weigh a pound, is based on nothing
whatever. There is no law or regu-
lation here that attempts to fix the
weight Of the loaf; a loaf is merely
a loaf.
1t may also be observed that there
are circumstances in which an ounce
Of bread Is not necessarily an ounce
of bread; it may have a widely vary.
ing content Of moisture in it. The
administrators of the pure food law
have found great difficulty deter
mining food-weight standards be-
cause of this element, varying in
different climates and atmospheric
conditions.
There is mighty little sound rea-
son in protestations against raising
the price Of bread, if the price Of
flour necessitates it. But there is
every reason for insisting that some
standards should be fixed. A loaf
could we'll be labeled with the num-
Der of ounces weight; then the buyer
would know whether It was cheaper
to buy 6-cent loaves one place or
5-cent ones another.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
ACCIDENTS
SHOW HEAVY TOLL
List of Dead Larger Than Wars,
W.T.. Peabody Says in Safe.
ty First Lecture.

Street accidents were blamed for a
heavier toll OF lives than wars by w.
F. Peabody. president Of the Washing
ton Safety First Association. in an illus
trated lecture at Iowa Avenue Metho-
dist church, last night
Mr.. Peabody declared that more peo:
pie were killed in New York in three
years by street accidents than had been
killed In the Revolutionary war. Tho
death toll OF the United States in one
year from awoidable accidents equals
the total deaths Of the civil war. the
speaker said.
J. A. Chamberlain. president OF the
Piney Branch Citizens Association; F.
w. Fitzpatrick. and r. L. Haycock were
the other speakers Boy Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls were present, and chill
dren of the primary grades of West
School sang several choruses.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
The Silver
Lining
Edited BY ARTHUR BAER.

With all the things England has put
on the eontraband list. hash won't seem
the same old hash.
New York's street cleaning depart
msnt doesn't seem to realize that the
best way to remove snow Is to let 1t
lay.
II Is figured that . good. swift camel
could 20 through Virginia with ave
days to spare.
Wonder II Count Boni de Castellane
is knitting socks with the rest OF the
girls.
A story without words is a thing Of
beauty and q Joy forever. but 1t took
Senator Smoot to invent words without
a story.
Texan plan to divide the State into
numerous partitions looks like a das-
tardly attempt to rob Rhode Island Of
its only distinction.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
LET'S EXPORT EN-

The "dogs Of war" have been
known. fguratively or literally, at
least from the days of Julius Ceasar.
From ancient times, horses have fig
ured largely in military combat.
Carrier pigeons have been used with
some success by belligerents; and on
one momentous occasion the credit
for saving a city from hostile attack
belongs to geese.
To this array Of military adjuncts,
enters the cat. The Ottoman gov
ernment--no Pied Piper being at
hsnd-has enlisted felis domestica as
the guardian of grain supplies in
Syria against the attacks of mice
and rats, so that indirectly cats are
fighting for Turkey.
Aside from suggesting a some
what palpable wordplay, such an in
novation arouses more profitable
speculations. Why should not an ex-
port trade be developed from Amer
lea in cats, as in horses and grain I?
The crop Of cats in the United States
this year, though no official report is
at hand, may safely be considered
very large, the unemployed and l.
W. W. elements predominating
much physical, if not industrial, un-
rest resulting therefrom. There is
large element of feline undesir-
"Sies, Sc that an export trade might
bo established without fear of invit-
ing an embargo. Even a speculative
market might be encouraged. Final
ly, when superhuous cats in the
United States may obtain remunera-
tive employment abroad, realizing
the socialistic ideal of compensation
directly proportionate to exertion, it
- flying in the face Of natural Laws
The Washington times., 1915-02-06
BAD PUBLIC SERVICE

A New York legislative committee
is investigating the public service
commission Of that State, and discov-
ering some edifying facts. Thus
Chairman McCall-he who was Tam
many's candidate for mayor at the
last election-was found on one oc-
casion to have been for q consider
able period absent from and unable
to attend to the business of his Of
fice; further inquiry brought out
that he was in Albany, looking after
legislative interests Of a concern
controlled by the people who also
control the subway system Of New
York, which is the most important
public facility under the control Of
McCall's commission!
At another time Mr.. Mccall was
unable to attend business Of the COM
mission, because he was in adjacent
room directing important matters Of
private practice Of his own.
The strange fact developed that
the commission was in the habit of
issuing orders to public utilities,
writing them down in the appropri-
ats order book, and then forgetting
to notify the corporations Of their
adoption. OF course, they were not
obeyed; and until very recently no
steps seem ever to have been taken
to enforce such orders, and then only
under pressure of insistent public
demand.
Too many public service commits
sions about the country have been in
recent years falling into just such
easy and acquiescent methods Of do
ing business. They have not been
taking themselves and their duties
seriously enough. Unless there is
reform in these regards the public's
disgust with the experiment Of su-
pervision will presently have crys-
tallized into formidable demand for
more drastic measures, which will
mean a public ownership agitation of
nationwide character. Serious-mind-
ed people will do we'll to realize that
only effective regulation, in which
the corporations shall willingly ac.
cept conditions imposed, will stave
off such an issue.
The Washington times., 1915-02-06

rush from their trenches and charge Us.
Then the Germans wake up. They're
afraid that all the noise means thai we
are charging them. They match US in
darkness. even though they may see
nothing.
The White Light Bomb.
This may go on for ten or fifteen
minutes and then an astonishing thing
great bomb Of white light explodes
between tho two trenches. That's a
bomb 30. Of Of good cheer: even II the enemy
mans wanted to see whether we were
charging or not. And 1t also means
that the Germans are not charging.
These white night bombs have come to
be taken as . signal from the enemy,
from us-that there is to be no charge
and that the nervous sentry who fired
the first alarming shot was mistaken. =.
1t was all mistake. Let's quit
the German white bomb tells US. or
what our white bomb may tell the Ger
mans. And the firing gradually dies
out: silence falls again on the trenches
and It isn't until daybreak that we real
ly begin shooting again.
Daybreak Shooting.
i've never been able to explain the
shooting at daybreak. 1t always opens
up. whether the officers start It or not.
The men do 1t themselves. ] suppose
perhaps they do II to make good with
their officers for what's going to hap
pen at o'clock"
What does happen at o'clock?"
why. they all stop fighting until
breakfast is over. One man after
another lays down his rifle and begins
to cat the food that has been brought
to him. by way the communicating
trenches And you can't hear any
shooting until 8 o'clock. Both the Eng
lish and German officers, by a tacit un-
derstandinE. give their men from to
s o'clock for eating and smoking.
"These English and German soldiers
know each other by face, and even by
name And the astonishing thin is
that they don't hate each other. You
can't keep up that feeling Of blind
hatred between the trenches"
And then the major said an astonish-
ing thing. :,
you'd have to do would be to let the
men have truce or two. They'd get
talking to each other. and suddenly
they'd decide that the whole business
was foolishness. and they'd lay down
their guns and go home"