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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23
Voiced Her Grievance.
During the Dayton flood a 20

During the Dayton flood a good old lady of color" was rescued with two white women from the deep water and put on the roof of a barn for safety After the boatman had rowed away the white women both offered prayer for their future safety, but the colored woman sat by in stolid silence One of the white women, turning to her, said: Pray, woman, pray Do some thing to help.' The old woman clasped her hands, knelt4on the roof. rolled her eyes upward, and said: ''Deah LaWd, yo' once promised us long time ago dat dey nevah would be no mo, floods. Now, Lawd, what does dis var mean?"
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finding new uses for things once thought useless and thrown away. What is waste to one industry be- comes raw. material to another-be- comcs wealth, comfort, even beauty. The thrifty folk have learned this and have put their knowledge to a practical use.
 A striking commentary on the value of waste materials which some one has rightly characterized as "mat- ter in the wrong place. is the account of the second annual banquet of the National Association of Waste Ma terial Dealers which was recently held in New York. Many people were ignorant that such an organiza- ton existed. They had heard vague ly perhaps that there were many mil . lionaires recruited from the ranks of junk dealers, and that one or two fortunes were built up in such way but the news that the above named organization does an annual business of $70,000,000 in things once thrown away was staggering. Such state | inert. must give the thriftless some
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Are You Too Eat2

If you are too stout don't take fat. reducing medicines. Cut down on your diet, get out-of-door exercise, and you will assume normal lines and re- duce to normal weight. Avoid sweets, eggs, cream, fat meats, and especially potatoes. Live mainly on lettuce, spinach, cabbage, lean meats, young onions, celery, tomatoes, etc. Take salted toast instead of bread and but ter. If you cease to give your body fat-making foods you will cease ere ating fat cells. It is no trick to reduce if you practice self-denial.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23
ITALY AND THE WAR.

Italy's men will have to do some tall Alpine climbing to get into Austria. It is bound to be costly task. for the Austrians have lot oi leavy guns and ammunition scat tered along the passes. Some of the rasses are so narrow that only few men can pass at time. The job IS such a terrible one that one wonders why the Italian populace was so anxious 10 take it in hand. Whatever territory Italy might win will pc
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Mother Love.

When the first baby comes most fathers regard it as little, red, wrig- gling lump of humanity, but in the mothers eyes it is the most wonder full being that ever came into the world and she wonders why God was good enough to give it to her.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

Chicago packers sold 1o,ooo'Ooo nounds of canned meat to the British government in one week. We hope 1t isn't the remainder of the stuff that was sold to the American government by tha patriotic packers in 1893.
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non,t Re A .(ira,mh.n

Many persons acquire reputation for crankiness and grouchlness when their dispositions .are' not to blame. Peevishness, irritation, mor- bidness, biliousness, melancholia most often are the result of impaired digestion and torpid liver. Foley Ca
 thartic Tablets make you light, cheer full And energetic. Mann Pharmacy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

Tte Graphic gladly publishes free 0t charge notices for churches, socle- ties, fraternal organizations and clubs when the events are not ln- tended as moncy-makers. If there ig attempt at protit-taking, notices of the events are advertisements, and will be charged for accordingly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

The Santa Fe railroad reports it is in fine condition, doesn't need any more money, is doing plenty of busi- ns ss, and is in every other way O. K. Tn Santa Fe is some advertiser, too, if should be remembered.
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Crowds along the route are going to fall over themselves in doing hom- ge to the liberty bell on it's way to San Francisco. Xet there are thou sands of persons who visit Philadel- uhia some. time in their lives and fail to visit the liberty bell ill it's own baliWick.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

One way to start more wars, we know now, is to let the people vote on the subject just when they al'a ex- cited and know One-tenth of the facts. Half the time it requires the methods of a respot to hold them in check. Vest the tribal flame of long ago has not quite died out.
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LuSitania-InSurance

Over a Million Dollars Accident In- Surance was carried by passengers lost on the Lusitania. You may need the protection offered by one of our Accident Policies-De prepared. k. ii. Nj. MILLS ~ SONS,
 3cy-3O4 Citizens Bank Bldg.
 Phone 29.
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Let Us con- slider, some in- teresting ex- amples of the utilization of h i t Il e r t c wasted mate rials.
 Waste may a Il d ofte il d oe S become wealth. Stu- dents of chem lstry are an- alyzing waste products con stantly nd
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

That Nebraska farm hand who in- herited $7,000,00O and couldn't be found for three years probably was locking for 50 cents he had lost in a haystack.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

A learned writer says that a gooc- natured person usually knows when he has grouch. So do his good natursd friends
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These who go into wall street do So after full warning and 1t IS thelr own fault if they are blown up.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

President Wilson's statement that iAnl:ricans have right to travel i'll safety should apply to the New Haven railroad.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-23

An editor suggests that the Chica- geese be called ChiCagC-AmeriCans. Ihey arc so differ:nt from the rest Of us, to be sure.
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ADAMS PRINTING co.
 (InCorpOratod) C0rner Main and oarraQLe Streets.

When the attention of the Graphic V called tO any mis-statcmeAt 0f facts, 1T t9 any error concerning any man sr thing, correction will cnesrfally he nade
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Useless Hope.

"Well, did you get quantum sufficit at the Smiths luncheon?" Certainly not. This town is local option"
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
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But Luke Lowell thwarted and discour- aged though he was in his first bold bid for the fortune he had believed was within his grasp. had no intention of shouting his secret from the housetops. He realized it's senly value was in his keeping 1t, and being paid. and heavily. to keep it. He must find some who would pay-this some would be Blair Stanley, he did not doubt.
 But if Blair Stanley's mother had refused to traffic with the sinister gypsy, she was shrewd enough to surmise the secret that had become living thing again after 1y> ing dormant for eighteen years.
 Why had her husband set of alone to meet his death in the mountains the day after Col. Stanley had died. eighteen years ago? Why had pr. Lee adopted the gypsy womans daughter a few months since? Why had this gypsy woman returned after all these years, in the guise of a woman of means. and taken Stanley hall? Why had she come with proofs of Blair's guilt of the murder of Dr. Lee, and proffered her silence in exchange for social recogni- tion by the proud families of Fairfax for this girl?
 And now that this gypsy woman was crazed. and all fear of her sons guilt being known, for tho time being at least, Mrs Stanley resolved to take advantage of situations she suspicioned them. If this girl was the real heir. the missing heir of Stanley hall. of which there had been vague whispers for years. why not prepare for and fortify against any possible dis grace that might threaten through her sons rash and dreadful deed-the murder of Dr. Lee?
 Mrs. Stanley resolved to make friends $ with Hagar's supposed daughter If Ar thur Stanley, so-called, not the right fuI heir. Blair Stanley was. But this left the girl heir to Stanley hall. and all could be conserved and all be well if Blair might return and marry Esther. Even though
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

: the tramps who had attacked the camp with him and might have escaped unhurt from Quabba's landslide. Luke stole away 4unobserved, and his thought was to make his fortune from his knowledge of the. Stanley secret-the knowledge he had gained from the docuHent in Hagar's strong box. Luke Lowell realized at last the source of the dead Matt Harding's gypsy wealth that now Hagar's. and which since Hagars sudden affiiction no one knew the hiding place of.
 One thing Lowell felt sure of was that this wealth had not been decreased under Hagar's stewardship while sane Wherever the treasure was 1t not in Hagar's brass bound chest. Only documents were in that chest. c.c they were treasures of themselves. For c,is of these old papers especially had set -orth plainly the fact that Hagar's long dead husband, the greedy Matt Harding, had t-aficked with the great folks of Fairfax in his flesh and blood Here was fortune to be obtained by him. self. as it had been obtained by Matt Hard ing. Luke Lowell thought. And he limped away unseen from the destroyed gypsy camp. and trudged resoluteIy to Fairfax, some eight ten miles away.
 There was no one at Stanley Hall to pay him for keeping telling the Stanley secret. but Luke Lowell knew enough of the Stanleys and their feuds to realize his best market would be with Blair Stanley's mother. If Arthur Stanley. so-called was f1aEarS son, gypsy changeling, then Blair Stanley was the real heir to the Stanley earIdom to which, according to the old family tradition. the heir was com manded to carry tho diamond from the sky
 But at the portals of the home of Blair -Stanleys mother. the proud, cold widow would hold traffic with the sinister gypsy who c1amored at her threshold with 9 secret to sell She ordered him to be- gone, and professed no interest in the ware
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

Hagar recovered her faculties. she must re- main silent to Blair's guilt were he Esther's husband, thought Mrs. Stanley. As for Arthur Stanley, so-caIled. there was slight fear of his returning and asserting his claims to the Stanley earIdom and the diamond from the sky. The shrewd mother of Blair Stanley guessed now the true cause of Arthur's flight and continued ab- sence. It was because he also had learned the Stanley secret
 At Stanley hall Esther, made a woman and resolute by all the tragic occurrences that of late had befallen her. resolved 1t was her duty to examine further into the documents in Hagar's brass bound box. Esther had endeavored vainly to lift the cloud from Hagars mind by earnest inc Quiries and kindly beseechings. But. as one in a daze, Hagar would only rouse from her reveries and moan, My son. give me back my son. my little babel"
 Then Esther read the documents The proof was plain. She was in her rightful place at Stanley hall, for she was Either Stanley. But she resolved. through the love she bore for him she had known as Arthur Stanley, that she would take the secret to the grave She would spare Ar thur the shame she knew his proud spirit would feel What to her was place and position here in Fairfax among a proud people who. so far their women folk were concerned. had ostracized and ig-
 
 Yet when we young we have our hopes and dreams. Esther's hope and dream was the return of Arthur. the shar- ing of the secret with him. and his love. Then all would be we'll So it was that Esther not wholly surprised when Blair Stanley's mother called at Stanley hall and proffered her friendship and as sistance. There condolences ex- changed between them. Esther suspected that Blairs mother vaguely knew. but in her loneliness, and having no friend save the humble though devoted Quabba, Esther was glad to accept the proffered friendship of her austere kinsw oman, though neither spoke of the tie.
 Mrs Stanley suggested that Hagar be taken to Richmond for treatment for her mental afIliction. She also insisted that Esther should go to Richmond and be in troduced into the best circles there by Mrs. Burton Randolph.
 Quabba had been left behind at Stanley hall, but Quabba suspicioned that BlaiTs mother was an old foe with a face of friendship. As always, he resolved to guard Esther with his ever eager though humble efforts, and Esther and Hagar with Mrs. Stanley were not long in Richmond before the faithful Quabba followed.
 Mrs Randolph had suggested to Blair's mother, when she found Mrs Stanley de- sired her sons return. to consult with that astute private detective, Tom Blake, in set ting the claims that against the reckless Blair in Richmond
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

Blake effected conference between Blair's mother and Abe Bloom, the gam bling housekeeper, who held the bad check for s2OoO he had cashed for Blair. and who the most pressing claimant against him. At this conference, although the accusation was not made, Mrs. Stanley soon surmsed that Blake and Bloom knew of Blairs guilt of the murder of Dr Lee
 It was from Blake and Bloom, through the agency of the inky thumb print on the bad check, that the guilt had been es- tablished, his mother soon inferred. She aNso surmised that it from this source Hagar had obtained her proofs. In her
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

fact that he had been the genius of the landslide. It had been fatal success. He affected the philosophy of the gypsies in the matter. and agreed with them that somehow good had come out of the gen eral destruction, even 1t were only their riddance of the interruptions Luke Lowell and his rufan rabble, the tramps.
 Acknowledged as their princess and reiGninS over them regent for the af- fIcted Hagar Esther appointed a head man from the gy psics In the place of the de- posed and panished Lowell. and returned with Eagar and QuGbba to Stanley hall, which was still held by Hagar on the terms of lease she had taken from the receiver in bankruptcy for the Fugitive Arthur Stanley still fleeing from justice. wrong fully under the onus of being the murderer of Dr. Lee.
 Luke Lowell. when he recovered coi sciousness drew himself from tho hollow beside the righted van. He had no in- tention of endeavoring to rejoin such of
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

the train had panted up the grade ,ho desert He had meant to warn tho tr7aa- men of the robbers lying in wait for .ho7l, but they had imagined him IesDerslf, single handedly attempting a holduD and had thrown him off
 His horse, as all horses he handled. ro-od him. The faithful and arfectionate cra-...., reused him by nosing at him Arthur. t.alf stunned, mounted his afectionate .3ur footed friend and galloped after he srarn At the top of the grade the ambushed a- bers halted the express with an obstr..c ., on the track too great to De cislleI -v T., engineer endeavoring to pass throu-A -
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

ne hinted he mad for sale
 Ellen Stanley was, in her austere way. as interruptions in her family ambition even her husband, the grim cold Judge Lamar Stanley, had been. But she would have no traffic with such as Luke Lowell. She realized only too well that once such a creature had her in his power. even u confldant, his dominion would be. as is always the dominion of the ignorant. brutal and untenable. So BIairs mother dismissed the chagrined gypsy in cold dis dain. She would be no confederate and yet the victim of the eXactions that she in stinctively knew would follow any associa- tion with any secret with him.
 eff you have any secret to sell take 1t to some other market" said the Widow Stanley with cold hauteur. Unless you leave my premises this instant shall have you arrested and committed for attempted blackmaili Shout your secret from the housetops if you please./ I am not con- cerned.
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

l.sa ia Elc,.mond society received in Stan Icy hall
 A negro boy hunting owls finds in q nest in the top of tree the Diamond the Sky, which Cuabba's monkey had taken up there and deposited for egg which h. had stolen.
 Blair Stanley beats Hagar the head with poker, takes from Ter tie finger print photographs tlat establish his guilt and fees. leaving Hagar balanced in mind. At Stanley hall Hasar still tally unbalanced. cries for her child but nobody gives any c-eGcncc to what she says. In the whil Marmaduke Smythe to inform young Arthur Stanley that he Is heir the Stanley earl dom and the Warwickslire estate. Learning of the accUsa lions against Arthur, Smythe says that the estate will fall to th, next of Kin. Blair Stanley. and find him home Mrs. Burton Randolph in R.chmoni- Esther and Iasar leave Stanley hail. acco.; an-ed by Quabba. who drives or the sinister Luke Lowell. Blair. taking chances of detection, ;urrs up fin Richmond lured by the ad Vivian Mars;1n for he promises to get the diamond from tn sky If she will be his wife Vivian also cnl!sts the llocm brothers gamblers and Blake, detective. to get the jewel. The jewel itself. in Arthur's old dress suit is found by the trG:p Strap Mc(ee who is later murdered and robbed of 5Ae hi the Chinese den of Lung Hi Later Lung Il's Elac thief steals the jewel from the eye of a Chinese idcl
 Blair. having invaded the den and stolen the lia- 1nand. yivian's promise marry him ice the cOu,iry. Just tte minister is about to pro noulice t-eur and wife detective arrives. de- rnards the diamond. and Blair the of Hr. Lee Bat Flair is quick him, floors the detective =ad he and Vivian. having effected dis Gu-ses escape outgoing train. In the time Luke Lowell leads revolution in the camp, which results n Esthers learning the Stanley asl that Arthur is her brother. Luke Lowell. driven from camp b. the syIses, attempts to take posses sion by force with horde of tramps but Quabba illustrates the attempt V hurling stone down the mo-nta.usde and deIolshing the camp. Arthur. hearing plot rob the Overland limited, attempts tc prevent it by t-,in- catch the rides alongside it, but lie Is from the platform falls iazensbie by the track Vivian Blair t.e train
 found that Luke Lowell evidently had been only stunned and not killed. at first supposed. For when the gypsies returned, after making rude shelter tents away from the rubble of the landslide for Esther. Eagar. and their children and women folk. no trace of Lowell could be found He had recovered consciousness. it evident. and had stolen away. fearful of the vengeance of his former Romany asso- ciates.
 Quabba deemed it best to keep secret the
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

~ ELECTED as he with his de- fN formity. ouabba, the huachbacl,-1o
 -- of the sunny face and happy heart was as agile and sinewy as the
 monkey Clarence. his companion on lis way through the world. But nov tae nunchSack is neither sunny of face nor happy of heart A wild tremor of fear, anxiety. and remorse shakes him in an ague of terror and confusion.
 Sending the rocking stone. pried from the perch where it had swayed for cen turies. had only meant death for all below. thought Quabba Instead of saving his young and old mistress and his gypsy friends from the raid of desperate trampS led by Luke Lowell. Quabba now deemed that he had destroyed those he had loved. as we'll as their enemies.
 But as he ran pantinG down the mountain side Quabba that some of the gypsies. warned by the chatter and roar of the land- slide the massive. bounding. loosened. rock ing stone had started. had fled to safety. He saw some half score of gypsy men and women toiling rapidly up the opposite slope of the valley from the destroyed gypsy camp. Through the dust that settling in a cloud over inc debris and rubble where the camp had stood the straining eyes of Quabba could mark the ragged figures of some of the assaulting tramps limping away from the scene of destruction. as bootless as they had come.
 
 guished Quabba could mark that the fleeing gypsies had paused half way up the oppo- site slope and had nerved themselves to return to their submerged. annihilated camp. With an aching heart and great burning sense of reproach for his rash decd that had worked such i'll when he had meant but good. Quabba could that Esther and Hagar were not among the hysterical gypsics returning to the scene of destruction
 When Quabba reached the heaps of stone and wreckagc that had been the camp site he found the gypsies already gathered in group to where the van of Hagar lay over turned and haif covered by a mass of rocks ard earth. Th... his heart beat again with 1oy as he heard the voice of Esther. tremu- lous yet brave for all that, issue from be- meath tho van If you are friends, save rs" was Esthera cry Strong and willing hands toro at the heope5 up rock and rub bls and strained and litted at the van.
 eson the van was raised from over the ce-.sy its very overturning had supplied. Thero were Esther and Hagar trembling hut rahurt save for few minor scratches nd bruises, but in the bottom of the cavity lay tho bulky form of Luke Lowell. stark n..e l.seIesS. Kindly hands drew Hagar end Est.:c- out and Ouabha fell at their Sest tutoring tncohercu. sclf-accusations ninglo6 with equally :rcoherent thanks gfvings. kindly hand threw a coat acre the innn.mato face and form of the gypsy outlaw.
 The saving of gypsy lives was due to the p-ovid.ntial fact that tho onslaught or the ms-acding trRmps led by Lowell had driven Shs gypsiss from the danger zone where fSe avalcnohe of stones and earth had struck tho oanp. How many of the invad- ere 1sy StriSd beneath the settled land slide the philosophical sypsies neither cx<oe TOT sought to ascertain It was later
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
SPECIAL NOTICE:
svNors:s o- PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

bitter feud, enEendcgel aa heirloom, " the 6lamond f.on th Sky" ce~tl in me;eoc hy eests has e1ss.ed hstxeen Col. Art.ur Stanley and h.s cousin. Judss Lamar Stanley. The feud is a1g- ly the ca that tAe succession to the Stan ly carbon .p r slaaI laly come an American family. wAe7 h's wlce dies after having given birth to a dau=lt-- Col. Stanley buys anl substitutes heir !.,~a gypsy hog. Three years later the GyTsy nc-he= s.eel= the coonel's daughter. who is being res-sI i secret and ohtins possession of the - d-a-r.c tle s.-v' and 6)cCment that holds the see=et O. lie false heir
 WI n tho daughter Esther Gtnnley. whom HaSar has sr,aa to love, s.-ws up H4s-r retcsas to vir- silia y,-b ser hoping to right tLe w-1as done her aAI that SLe has done. S-e obtains the consent of Dr. Lee. c.l. St2nleys cd friend. ad-t Estlle- Iis Fq-saier in th, hope that HeSars the rupsosel t,ivr Staaiey II. will fall 1T love with Esther 4ni sic will bcca--e mistress Of Stanley naI vL.ch Is Ter .i-lt Dr. Lee e1ac.s as his con ditio1 "a lc te'o n custody th' ratc:ul dlaaoad Dr Le, -S1rrs l.--ar that her Is prodeate, gHat Fsthr~ Lot sle hopes for the best. Arthur f-lls Esther. Cocs lis l. on companion. Blair Ss.,.- tls cousin. wosl h- the rIsIIful her e1-l1om the secret known.
 h cnfe-' steal the diamond from Dr. Lee.
 :Ar the 6sath of the oi doctor Arthur Stan lcy as-ur-s Cc of t.c murder In the ho;e taat Le ~iE h,a-els escaie and that Blair will iv' ctraleatc- i.c4 At a tournament Arthur. wLo has le-t where he Las teen worLiag incoS- n.to Blair and crowns Esther Queen of Love Au5 Beear- Blair. jealous ot the honor which he wisa-i lo confer uron vivian Marston. an advcn- tu-ers l-trays Arthur. While the sherifs being inform T Quabaa. organ grinder. handerfs the shcri@ Flair and thus enables Arthur to escape.
 Artnv-. finding that clubman wLo has been hunt Ing a- the bounds n killed by the limb of a tre-. ci-n-es apparel with him. and when the posse rides s dead body Is taken to Stanley hall fire it -ee-azed that il Is not Artur's- Arthur thus e,n,-s tac posse. In the meantime Tasar. through a de5 erire. has secured finger prints which esa ih Rialrs suilt aad Artlur's innocence Of tle HnFie- Ise r-s..Jses Blairs mother not 10 divulze her .ecr,t on condition Hagar and Esther esa5-