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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30
Reduced Rates via Iron Mountain nv.
to CroSSCtt. tri,

Account Annual Conference A. NJ.
e. Church. Nov. 81 to Dec. 5. 1915,
Rate of $3.95 for round trip will ap-
ply from Pine Bluff tickets on sale
Nov. IS and %, good returning Dee,
6.
d. q. PAYNE,
11-24-5t. Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30
TAYLOR q COMPAN Y.
For Insurance on Cotton Call
Phone 1882.

Ladies' gloves and ties cleaned free
with all orders. SNEEDS, phone
2216. 11-19-1m
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30

DR.. E. c. McMullen, office, room 8,
Merchants G Planters Bank building.
Residence, Ills West Fifth avenue. Of
fee phone 6S1; residence phone 1874.
11-12-1m
Ask our drivers about laundering
your rag rugs, any size, American
Excelsior Laundry Co., phone 146. t..
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30

Reduced Bates to Warren, Ark. Via
Iron Mountain Ry.
Account Conference A. NJ. =.
Church, Nov. 30 to Dec 4, 1916. Rate
of 1910 for round trip will apply
from Pine Bluff. Tickets on sale
Nov. 2S and 29 good returning Dec.
5.
D.G.PAYNE,,
11-24-5t. Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30
Fire Insurance on Cotton Day or Night
TAYLOR &c COMPANY

Why encounter fatigue and disap-
pointments hunting your wants in
person. when The Graphic classified"
ads will do the work better. #
Awnings and upholstering. Call E.
7. Toussaint, phone 1850 or leave
orders at Knox walker Furn. Co.
Prompt and reliable Insurance Service
TAYLOR & COMPANY
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30
r. Q G. A 4.

Get your Christmas presents early
at Sam Taylor's School Bazaar, Fri
day, Dec. LIST. 11-28-2t
Let us wash your Dlankets---w @
know how. American Excelsior Laun-
dry Co., phone 146. tt
Cur Press Process Is uncxcclied
Amerlcan-Excelsior Laundry compa-
ny, phone 146 tt
Monday Special--A $500 Food
Chopper for soc. Reap & Crawford
Furn. Co. Il
Send your laundry to the old reli-
able, all work guaranteed. American
Excelsior Laundry Co., phone LAG. If
Anyone wishing to buy or sell
jefferson county script. call on Chas.
We'll Supply CO. #
See our Dining Room Suites and
odd pieces, Another car load Just ar
rived. Reap & Crawford Furn. Co. Ii
You can make your choice in the
quiet of your home or office, by hav-
Ing Graphic "classified' ads bring APP
plicants and applications to you II
Monday Special-.5ome early L
You want one of our five disc Food
Choppers for GOO. Reap & Crawford
Furn. Co. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30

T9pEYFUS STORE TALK
SUGGESTING GIFTS TO BOYS
toysh WILDE Pr AY SUITS
bow owouda
Dlavsu ting
CrarieC cham boy chapse etc
A gift tina viii ring
aros hon.A
nural button or lace.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30

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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-30

11-24-5t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03

that much without being supplied. There is to be sure certain amount of liquor sold in the city, but the busi- ness is fraught with peril and the fact that it is so hard to get in Birming- ham explains the "thirst line" which is countenanced by law, the express companies being permitted to deliver a fixed quantity to each consumer every two weeks.
 The report that practically all branches of the city government have been paralyzed by prohibition, that the police, fire, health and other de- partments have been seriously af- fected, is simply untrue. If the publl- cations misrepresenting Birmingham would take the trouble to send an un- biased representative here to learn the facts, they would realize that their attitude is unfair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
SUSAN E. BLOW

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Of Susan E. Blow, who introduced the Froebelian system of education for chil- dren under ' years of age, now known as the Kindergarten, it may justly be said that "her works do follow her. There are now more than 400 cities in the United States with l1ndergartens in con nection with the public schools. These in- fant schools begin the mental develop ment of some 100000 little ones. under the care of about 5000 teachers.
 Froebers idea, worked out in this sys- tenn, was the development of the mind through voluntary activity, directed through sympathetic training of the child mind. It was one of the modern move nents away from the old coercive, drivins method of schooling, in which the will of the child was not to be led but con quered.
 Miss Blows merit lay, not in being the first to try the system in America. The first experimental kindergarten on this side the Atlantic was opened in Co., lumbus, O., by Caroline Louise Franken- burg, in 1858 But Susan Blow. by inter- esting Dr. William T. Harris, then St Louis superintendent of schools, made the city of St. Louis pioneer in the inaugu- ration of the F'roebelian method as per inanent element of the public school course. And afterward, working for the love of it. Miss Blow spread her views in many other intellectual centers. Hel name will live as a leader in the menta development of the young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03

fishes the dispatches of the Associated Press, the worlds greatest and most accurate gathering organization.
 Sensationalism may win ephemeral praise, but after all in this day and time the public wants facts and wants them presented in the dearest and most concise manner.
 It is the publication of the Asso- ciated Press dispatches and the care exercised in presenting every item of news that makes The Age-Herald so superior in it's field.
 And then there are it's magnificent special features. Did you read that powerful editorial by Dr. H. M. Edmonds yesterday? He took the Birmingham Gentleman Bandit" as his theme and in masterful manner showed how unreal and insubstantial are the train bandits apparent success and prosperity. It is sermon that every parent should read to his son.
 The Rotogravure Section of The Sunday Age-Herald is the greatest single newspaper feature ever pub lished and no other newspaper in the south provides it's readers with this but superb example of newspaper enterprise. Yesterdays section appealed to every class of reader, for there were war pictures, industrial pictures, society pictures and fashion pictures and miscellane- ous illustrations of wide appeal.
 Yesterdays Age-Herald contained 572 separate and distinct advertise ments, occupying 2630 inches of space
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
FAMOUS MEN IN WAX

New York Correspondence Plttsourg
 Dispatch
 The Eden Musee has been resurrected at Coney Island. Visitors to this resort will see the crowned heads and rulers of the warning nations of Europe in silent ccnclave with 100 of the other great men of history. They will all be there as viv- idly and as really as the arts of sculp- ture, modelling, portraiture and costumlng can make them, silent but life-llke dele gates to the new Eden Musee congress Of the worlds greatest assemblage Of wax figures All of the old glories Of that famous institution in Twenty-third street are to be revived, multiplied, modern1zed and transfgured. Contemporary nor rors,' with even more amazing realism, will divide attention with cotemporary history, for the celebrated Chamber of Horrors will disclose the scenes and participants in the most celebrated crimes and executions of the past few years. The murder of Rosenthal at the entrance to the Metropole, with the gunmen in the very attitudes of the deadly moment of assassination. each face and figure as true to life as science and skill can make them. A perfect duplicate of the execu- ton chamber at Sing Sing with the cleo tric chair and all of the mechanism at- tached. and portrait figures of the eXecu- toner, electrician, guards and witnessing physicians in attendance, might seem enough of "horror' for this ultimate ex- hibition of realism. But sitting in the chair, strapped, hooded and seeming to wait for the first shock of the deadly cur rent, the figure of Lieutenant Becker, said to be a perfect image of the unfortunate officer, will be shown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
SWEET SINGERS OF CONGRESS

MT. Tavenner of Illinois was bette beeled He gave the House John Boyl O'Reilly's
 I am Iiberty-God's daughter!
 My symbols-a law and a torch! and then swung into Tom Moore witt The minstrel fell-but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under, and wound up with
 Pray come and unfold the strange secre
 to me, And tell what an Irishman means by
 machree, the authority for which he somewhal vaguely fixed as "the lines of the poet"- a form always used in Congress whe1l the library neglects to send over the aus thors name. To MT. Mckenzie of Illinois 1t api peared that this legislation embodied tho sentiment contained in ''the following lines," the authors name having beer. torn off by the messenger: Breed us more men, ye daughters of toll Ye alien mothers in far off lands; Sire them strongly, clean brawn and bone For we sift from the chaff the whea
 alone,
 When they come to die at our hands. And three verses more. MT. Hood oi North Carolina thought that Wide open and unguarded stand our
 gates,
 And through them pass wild a motley
 throng-
 Men from the volga and the Tartal
 steppes, Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho. Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Keit and
 Slav,
 and r solid lines of other kinds of people Yet this debate had run through two days and several volumes of poetical an. thology before the expected happened Somebody was bound to do it, but no- body could do it under the rules of poet ical and congressional courtesy until MT Kahn of California rose, because Mir Kahn of California had drawn the prize and it remained for him to demand of the House:
 Rreathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,
 This is my own, my native land!
 (Applause.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
In the Cultural Atmosphere

This week is to witness in Birming- ham unusual stir in alumni circles. It is to be week of enthusiasm in the cause of education; a week of discus sion and of planning for the advance ment of schools, colleges and uni versailles.
 The Sewanee alumni will lead off tonight with social affair in honor of Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Ten nessee, who is an esteemed and elo- quent exponent of the highest ideals of southern culture. He has been a mighty factor in the upbuilding of the University of the South at Se- vance and every Sewanee man, whether he be in Birmingham or in one of the towns or cities of Tennes- see, naturally feels as a brother to him.
 Alumni associations are today the mainstays of university progress and in no alumni society is the alma mater spirit of devotion more distinctly in
 evidence than it is among the Se-
 vance "boys'-many of them men
 now prominent in business and pro- fessional life. The esprit de corps is characteristic and everything Sewa-
 neean tends to stimulate and keep alive the finer instincts of those who ever came in contract with the famous l seat of learning.
 On Tuesday two hundred or more educators of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, will convene in Bir-
 mingham, and on Thursday, Friday
 and Saturday the Alabama Educa- tional association will hold it's an- nual convention here. This will be indeed red letter week in Birming- hams cultural life, and all the educa- tors and all the representatives of universities and colleges will be ac-
 corded a cordial reception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
Spirit of Caution Develops

"A needed spirit of caution is develop ing m nearly all departments of trade and finance, says Henry Clews in his weekly financial letter. ''The violent rise in certain commodities, the mad rush of orders for many manufactured products. the complete exhaustion of supplies in other commodities and the unreasoning eagerness of buyers created a situation so extreme and unprecedented as to seri- ously raise the question, Is it not time for pause? The war is of course respon- sible for these extraordinary conditions, which are additionally complicated by the unusual uncertainties in home affairs.
 "A glance at the pace at which we have been travelling is suggestive. For many weeks bank cearings in the United States have been running at about 50 per cent and more ~in excess of last year; the greatest ratio of increase generally being at eastern financial and manufacturing centers Approximately half of these cearings are at New York, and the in creases have been largely due to finan- cial and industrial activities created by the war, which must stop or change their direction when peace comes. According to Bradstreets index number, commodity values on March 1 had risen 31 per cent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
HOTEL LOBBIES
Hospitality Praised

This is the first time l was ever in the south, and l am greatly pleased with the people and the country said Matthias Gross of Minneapolis, who was registered at the Tutwiler yesterday. "The hos pitality of the people or this section is unexcelled, and l am particularly struck with the metropolitan air of Birmingham and other southern cities l have visited.
 Since time immemorial the impression has gone abroad that the people of the south had much of manana' in their makeup; that they believed in putting off until tomorrow that which was not absolutely necessary to be done today. l have found it different The people here seem to be alive to every situation, and as businss men l have not found better in the entire country.
 T have been in the west and the breezy manner of the people there, tc- gether with their open-handed hospital ity, is much like 1 have found in the south. Judging from what l have seen, I should say the westerner really is a first cousin to the southerner. They both are very much alive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
Uses Novel Law Book

While attending the meeting of the Mississippi legislature a few days ago, I heard a very good story on an unedu- cated justice of the peace," said L. Se- vier, general agent of the Southern Rail- way.
 "A negro was up before the justice on some minor charge, and after hearing the evidence and assuming a judicial look, the justice opened up a book on his desk, looked at it moment and then announc- ed, I decide you are guilty and I fine you $2.69.' Not having the money to pay the fine the negro was sentenced to work out the amount on the county roads at 50 cents per day. As he was led away grumbling, one of his friends said: Mig ger, what are you grumbling about? S'pose the judge had opened that Scars Roebucll catalog at the automobile sec ton instead of in the pants department? You would be working these roads the balance of your life.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
To Reduce Illiteracy

Of the many official boards and commissions established by legisla- tive enactment in Alabama few are accomplishing so much for the public good as the illiteracy commission, of which ex-Gov. w. D. Jelks is chair man, and it is a noteworthy fact that the members of this board serve with out pay. Theirs is work of philan- thropy pure and simple.
 The object of the commission is to minimize illiteracy in Alabama and finally to remove it altogether. After it's first year of service the public came to appreciate the fact that the commission was as practical as it was earnest in the discharge of it's duties.
 Scores of professional teachers and not a few nonprofessionals but per sons who were fully qualified to teach volunteered their services last summer to impart knowledge in the rudiments of education to all adult illiterates who would care to attend the special classes arranged for thelr convenience. The results were most gratifying.
 These special classes were conducted under the auspices of the illiteracy commission and encouraged by the interest which was aroused in the rural districts in this self-sacrificing labor on the part of individuals. Gov ernor Jelks and his associate commls- sioners resolved to redouble their ef- forts during the coming year.
 The commission being without funds, but needing money to pay for books, printing and incidentals, a plan was devised for raising what might be needed by the sale of ''illiteracy but tons" A day was set apart last year as Button Day" in Alabama, and the minimum price of button was fixed at 10 cents. The proceeds from the first button sale amounted to thou sands of dollars and this enabled the commission to proceed with it's work unhampered.
 Another year has rolled around and April 15 has been designated as But ton Day" throughout the state in this good year 1916.
 The people in the cities are easily reached when it comes to raising money, but the Button Day" organi- zation should be so complete as to make sure of canvass in every ham, let and at every crossroads.
 The sale of illiteracy buttons this year should produce not less than $2O,OOO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
RanIxhead Strong in Walker

'In his race for Congress against w. B. Oliver two years ago, Will Bankhead received in his home county, Walker, the largest vote ever given any candidate in that county in a democratic primary" said M E. Kettles, a prominent young at- torney of Jasper, who was at the Morris last night. "The indications now are that in the coming primary he will receive at least 750 majority over Captain Hob son, with possibility that the number will be even higher.
 'I have found numerous former SUD- porters of Hobson who will not vote for him this time. They are not against him, and most of them declare that they are with him for anything he wants at al- most any time but they cannot indorse his postage stamp removal to the Tenth district It had been hoped that the cam paign would~be kept clear of personali- ties, but there now seems to be no chance to avoid the injection of these unpleasant issues into the fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
Information About E. M. Austin

From correspondence received by Dr. Thomas M. Owen, director of the depart ment of archives and history, it appears that the Pennsylvania State college is tanning to erect memorial to the stu dents who went from that institution to the war, either serving in the Union or the Confederate army said A. H. AL ston Jr. Great care is being taken to verify the record of all who are supposed to have served.
 "In announcing the intention of the col- lege to erect the memorial, the institution asks pr. Owen for information concern ing Edward Milton Austin. It appears that he was a student at this college in the year 1866, as a member of the class of 1870. He was born at Shreveport La, September 22, 1S47, and died there Janu-
 ary 8, 1894. Upon the death of his parents he accompanied an uncle, MT. John w. Butler, Sr, to his home in Pennsylvania.
 He was married on November 30, 1870, to
 Sallie Ann Pitts. His army record, of which we have no confirmation, is as fol- lows:
 "'Edward Milton Austin entered the Confederate state service in Eufaula, Ala, light artillery, an arthcer aged 14 years, September 2, 1863; he was in all the engagements of Hoods army from Atlanta to Nashville, and was afterward transferred to heavy artillery at Mobile, and paroled at Meridian, Miss, May, 1865
 "Dr. Owen desires to hear from any per- sons who were acquainted with MT. Aus tin, in order to get further facts concern ing him and his family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03

From the Kansas City Star. H HESE are busy days for the Library
 of Congress. The immigration bill A is up in the House and next to those occasions on which the House weeps for departed members the immigration bill calls for more poetry than any out break of congressional eloquence in re- cent years. The ease with which a mem- Der drops into poetry on this bill would astonish anybody who didn't know he had telephoned over to the Library of Congress before taking the floor and asked them to send the boy over with something neat. That the library exc cutes it's delicate task with considerable skill is shown by the fact that in the course of a long debate congressman rarely collide on their poetry.
 Mr. Meeker of Missouri and MT. Ken nedy of Rhode Island very nearly came head-on in apostrophizing Old Glory, but by rapid back-paddling MT. Kennedy averted the impact. MT. Meeker had chosen as his offering:
 Of all the flags flung to the breeze
 In all the lands beneath the sun;
 Of all the flags on all the seas,
 I claim but one, I love but one.
 Mr. Kennedy's card from the library had brought him over:
 Every race and creed,
 There was no question then of native
 land
 But love the flag and follow it till death, but that was obviously cutting in on MT Meeker, and MT. Kennedy with great presence of mind made a sacrifice play with this pinch hit from the Pleasures of Hope" by the late Thomas Campbell: Hope for a season bade the world fare
 well,
 And Freedom shrieked at Koscusko fell. MT. Nicely of Kansas may have got his application In late that day and found the supply exhausted, for when he rose he was not reminded, MT. Speaker, of the lines of the poet. But if the resources of the library were exhausted, his own were not, for he expressed the hope to the House that the alien in coming to our shores would understand the lines
 My country, 'tis of thee,
 Sweet land of liberty,
 Of the I sing, and the Congressional Record put him down as getting "(Applause)."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
SHE BRooDED. AS IT WE'RE

From the Cedar Falls Record.
 As Mary Ann Kaufman stood Joking out upon her audience, acquainting herseir with it. we realized something beyond her splendid>physique, her perfect outer poise It was the cversoul, that power by which the true artist gains ascendency to the inner realm and finds himself related to all his works" and by which he travels a royal road to particular knowledge ana nower." Not all at once did the singer enter her audience with her upon the "roval road'' of her particular knowledge and power. Seconded by her masterly ac- companist. she played at first with our fancies. she brooded, as it were, over our expectancies, urging them to upward trend. She lured us into feeling our own worth as interpreters of that which she wished to give. And with the advance or her unique selection the audience became hers. ready to rise on the wings of each separate theme. There was the theme which seemed as a veritable sprite or song, with varied mood, now delignting itself in delicate, swaying motion, now reveling in riot of merriment; again dis- solved in mist of tears; and yet again stilled to one thin, sweet note as of a call to solitary cloisters of dreams, or systeries unexplained-and. even yet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-03
Help to Messenger Boys

'The Western Union has just inau- gurated a new policy which will result in saving from $50,000 to $75,000 an- nually to the 5000 messenger boys in the service who rido bicycles said w. D. Stead, local manager. yesterday.
 "The messenger boys of the company who ride wheels own them, and of course pay for their upkeep. By using the wheels they are able to earn con- siderable sum in. excess of what they could if they went on foot. We have iraugurated a plan by which the cost of the tires to the boys is to be greatly reduced. The Western Union has pur- cha sed a large number>of tires which in the future will be supplied to the boys at a figure far below the regular market price. By buying for the many thousand messengers in one order, this saving could be effected. It will be quite a help to our boys"