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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
Not Immune If Under Or
ders to Attack Enemy
Vessels.
THIS FAVORABLE
TO GERMAN STAND
Announcement Of New Position Of
Washington Follows Receipt of Mes.
sage from Gerard-England Ask.
ed for Orders to Merchantmen.

Washington, April 26.-Closely fol-
lowing the receipt Of an important
dispatch from Ambassador Gerard at
Berlin, the state department today
gave out a memorandum of the atti-
tude of the United States on the status.
OF armed merchantmen.
The position taken by the govern
ment is regarded as favorable to the
German contention and the announce
ment is considered to have a most
important bearing on the controversy
between the United States and Ger
many.
The statement is the first official
declaration of this government on the
subject since September 10, 1914
when it announced that merchant
vessels might carry guns up to six
inches in calibre, for defensive pur-
poses only, without taking on the
character of warships.
The position Of the United States
now is that an armed bellgerent
merchantmen under instructions to
attack in all circumstances enemy
naval vessels, or influenced to do SO
by offers of prize money or penalties,
loses its status as a peaceable mer-
chant ship.
Demand on England.
According to the state department
officials, the settlement of the acute
issue with Germany depends in large
measure on the outcome of the
charges of the German government
that British merchantmen have been
ordered to attack enemy submarines.
1t was admitted by Secretary Lam
sing today that the United States has
made a second demand on Great Brit
ain to produce copies of her instruc-
tons to merchantmen, to determine
whether she has given mandatory or
ders in violation of international law.
If the United States decides that Brit
ish merchantmen have been given the
instructions charged by Germany,
this government will issue warning
to Americans to stay off such YES
sells.
Officials see in the position taken
by he United States common ground
on which the two government may get
together.
u. IS. May Concede Point.
According to officials of the state
department if it is proved England
has given orders to it's merchantmentt
to attack submarines without reference
to the practice of visit and search, the
United States will concede that Ger
man submarines may legally attack
such merchantmen at sight.
The state department declined to
give out any information regarding
the contents of Ambassador Gerards
cablegram. Optimism appeared 10
prevail at the department, however,
and this was taken to indicate that
the ambassadors communication had
been encouraging.
Senator stone of Missouri chairman
of the foreign relations committee OF
the senate, was in conference with
the president tonight, on the entire
International situation. Senator
Stone and the white house, after the
conference, both declined to give out
information concerning the nature OF
the conference.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
iMEXICANS ARREST AMERICAN

Douglas, April 26.-Luis Leischer
AN American citizen, has been arrest
ed by Carranza authorities at Can.
anea. Sonora, on charge Of snug
Cling ammunition into Mexico from
The United States. Details of the ar
rest have not reached here. He rep-
resents a firm in Tucson which deals
in firearms
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
TAGGART NOMINATED

Indianapolis. Ind, April 26.-Thom-
as Taggart was nominated by the
Democratic state convention today as
candidate for the short term in the
United States senate.
John w. Kern was nominated for
the long term. Congressman John NJ.
Adair was nominated for governor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
TO OPPOSE LAFOLETTE.

Madison, Wis, April ga confer
ence of conservative Republicans to-
day nominated Malcolm G. Jefferies to
contest with Senator LaFollette fol
the Republican nomination for United
States senator. The primaries will
be held in September.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
AIR RAIDS BECOMING
NIGHTLY OCCURRENCE
Zeppelins Pay Another Visit to Eng.
fish Coast Last Night-Results
Not AnnOunced

London, April 27 Thursday. The
war office announces that Zeppelins
visited Kent on the east coast at
1920 o'clock Wednesday night.
No reports of their penetrating in
land have been received up to 2
o'clock this morning. Because of the
mist prevailing over Kent, it is
thought probable the Zeppelins re-
treated before midnight.
1t is reported that one bomb drop
ped fell into the sea.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
German Views Divergent.

Berlin. April 26.-The Lokal Anzei-
ger quotes statesman as saying THAT
in the present situation Germany
ought to follow nothing but her own
interests.
The newspaper states that Ger
many, while 6e~Gning American
supervision of her warfare must ex-
anime patiently and in just manner,
the American demands, in order to
see how far she can accept them with
out endangering her self-respect and
vital interests.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

Department of agriculture expert
ments have shown that is possible to
make a good quality printing paper
from vacation grass, which grows
prolifically from California and Texas
south to Argentina.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

AS to the present rate of copper
consumption Of about 1000, 900 tons ?
year the present visible supply would
last considerably longer than 20
years.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

About 100000 natives of Siam are
engaged in the cultivation of rice, but
the large increase in the production
of American rice is having the effect
of reducing the Siam crop.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

DR.. ]. William White, sc, noted sur
geon, author and trustee of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. died at Phil
adelphia.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

Thursday, fair, warmer in west nor
ton; Friday. fair.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
Mac Neal Reported Shot.

New York, April 26.-Eois Mac Neal.
leader of the Irish volunteers in their
revolution against British rule, was
reported today to have been shot,
whether fatally. or during the fight
ing, or after possible arrest, is not
stated.
He is professor in the National uni :
versity of Ireland, at Dublin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27
Irish Leader Captured
While Handing Arms Will
Be Executed.
MARTIAL LAW IS
PUT INTO EFFECT
Announcement That ~ ReyOlutiOnists
Killed and As Wounded Causes
Great Ineasiness in England.
Feared Further Trouble Brews.

London, April 26.-Sir Roger Case
ment will be executed within few
days, either by hanging or beheading,
it is stated in high naval circles.
The first story of the capture of the
Irish leader was obtained tonight
from the same source. 1t appears
| that Sir Roger and two companions
were landed on the southwest coast
Iof Ireland from submarine, coming
ashore in small boat. His compan-
ions went ahead to- get an automobile,
which was to meet them by a pre-ar-
ranged plan, but the authorities hav-
ing got wind of the plan, were ready,
and all were arrested Immediately.
81 don't expect to live long now"
said Sir Roger, as the British force
seized him.
1t is believed the German naval at
tack on Lowestoft was intended to
divert attention from the Irish re-
bellion, which is, the result of an Irish
plot in America. Sir Roger Easement
had expected to raise 100000 volun-
teers in ireland for the revolution.
Ship Loaded with Arms.
The German auxiliary vessel, which
was sunk by the British at the same
time that Sir Roger was captured,
was loaded to the gunwales with
munitions 1t is stated semi-officially
that all these went to the bottom Of
the sea with the ship. The auxiliary
came directly to the Irish coast from
either Kiel or Wilhelmshaven. The
ship registered LOO tons. 1t carried
crew of %, all of whom were made
prisoners. The vessel flew the Nor
wegian flag and carried Norwegian
papers.
AS prisoner, Sir Roger crossed
Ireland and the channel into England
without being recognized, not even BY
the military officials who had him in
charge. The other prisoners are being
Intercepted by the British authori-
ties.
1t is stated that Sir Roger has en-
pressed the belief that the revolution
will die out because of his capture.
Others Implicated.
London, April 26.-It is stated semi
officially that Sir Roger Casemen,
when captured, carried documents
duplicating prominent Irishmen in
the revolutionary plot.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27


London, April 26-It is stated semi
officially that Sir Roger Easement,
when captured, carried documents
duplicating prominent Irishmen in
the revolutionary plot.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-27

e. sxsd no @unuool
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
in Red

A philosopher in London Opinion has
SOME views on warm-weather comfort
and happiness that are not altogether
new but are well worth considering,
even on this side of the Atlantic. His
view of happiness, or rather of com
fort, is to retire to rest on a Friday
night and get up on Monday after.
noon. He regards the idea as restful
and economical, but finds that the
household government prevents putting
it in practice.
"Sloth," he says, 1--WE are told in the
copybooks, is vicious, and a moralist
has declared that what maintains one
vice could bring up two children. ]
don't want to bring up two children"
declares this lazy philosopher, "but ii
is pleasant to maintain m vice. Near
~ all the worries of life arise from the
initiative faculty. If duchesses sud
denly developed a taste for breaking
coal with a hammer, the assistants in
drape shops would Immediately want
to do the same-nOt because they en-
joyed breaking coal with a hammer
but because it was the thing"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
Flowers and Leaves.

Flowers are produced by the sacri-
fee of stem and leaves, which subordi-
nate their own functions to the making
of seed to carry on the species. In the
late summer time, when plants have
Powered and set their seed, the leaf
spirit seems again to assert itself ; and,
in many instances, becomes so strong
that the miracle of its self-sacrifice Is
revealed. One often e e roses, after
producing perfect blossoms, producing
some which push out a small bunch Of
green leaves from the heart; or, per-
haps, the axis Of the aborted stem
grows right out from the middle and
bears a small secondary rosebud. This
secondary rose Is generally smothered
In a calyx more like q conglomeration
Of leaves than any ordinary calyx, the
calyx showing a strong tendency to re-
vert to the leaf form.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
Women and Dishraqs.

When q woman declares that she
"feels like a dishrag," she is dragging
herself down to the lowest level in
still life. We doubt not from the per-
sonal appearance of that handy arti-
Gle of domestic utility that If any life
existed at all In said rag It could not
possibly fall lower or feel meaner
However, woman should offer
herself in comparison with so degrad-
ed an object, for the simple reason
that mankind spurns the dishrag most
vehemently, and as woman exists sole
" for man she should not seek to low
er herself in his esteem. When q rag
takes up its duties in the dishpan it
has reached the tag end of abandoned
hope, the climax perhaps Of q merry
life. But 1t Is not Of its past that /
speak. 1t is Of its present social stand
ing, its vulgar environments and Its
utter self-abandonment. Ills true that
you may feel fatigued to a limp and
loppy degree, but never q you feel
SO utterly wretched and beyond re
demption as d dishrag!-"Zim," In Car
t0ons Magazine.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
The Real
Man
r.
By
Frances Elizabeth Lanpon

vs. ~
Copyright. 1916. by w. G. Chapman.)
':Marie, this is simply awful"
"Oh mamma, mamma, why did you
v e discover it,"
"Lucky I did," snapped Mrs. Leeds.
"Do you wish to have your husband
up to all kinds Of misdoings and you
ignorant of 1T"
Eyes, I do, rather than have my
heart broken. Oh, he is false, false
and I wish I was dead" and pretty
Nellie Briefly, the bride Of a year,
burst into a torrent of sobs and tears.
"Don't get hysterical now" chided
her practical, hard headed mother.
I'VE don't know that its all as bad as
we think. OF course, the evidence
looks conclusive, but we must watch
and wait. Leave 1t to me, I'll soon
know more. Trust me!
This had happened: Mrs. Leeds had
come to visit her daughter. She was
a fussy, meddling individual. She had
come across a coat of her son-in-hw
In his wardrobe and set at work to
sew on a loose button. Then, feeling
something in one of its pockets, she
investigated to find a part of a writ.
ten sheet and a photograph tied to.
gether with a bit of pink scented rib
bon.
The portrait was that of a charming
faced young girl. The fragment of
paper read: II go away believing that
you love me. I shall come back firm
in that same faith. / only hope
my parents will see your proposal in a
more favorable light, for If l do not
marry you I shall not marry any
other"
Both photograph and letter were
crumpled and looked time worm. Ap
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
Made Me RecoiI in Terror.

ny darling Jean, Pierre, Marie, An.
tome, Louis, Philippe and Auguste.
At last l summoned courage to go
to my colonel. "My colonel" I said, 81
am useless here. I am a family man,
and my nerves will not endure this
strain. When I must die, let it be of
apoplexy or measles, not of a Jeanson.
Send me to the rear in charge of the
regimental cOmmissariat supply"
The colonel was an Older man than
I. He struck me in the stomach,
causing a pain most acute.
"We shall teach you, Louis" he said.
'"Tonight you will go out on listening
patrol! !"
I nearly swooned at the brutality OF
his words. l knew what that portend,
ed. The listening post, between the
lines, where the star rockets went up,
disclosing all who were above the
trenches, exposing them to those hide.
GUS shells. I fell upon my
knees.
Mercy, my colonel" I exclaimed.
"Have you no c%hildren?"
Fifteen hundred" he replied
sternly.
I o s and stared at him in hope.
less fear. Fifteen hundred children
And yet he could face this inferno!
"All the men of my regiment are my
children, Louis" he answered. "And
you," he added kindly, clapping his
hand upon my shoulder, 'are one OF
them. So we shall make you a brave
child! Got"
l went with shaking knees. I knew
that it meant certain death. But after
a while an idea came to me, at first
only a dim hope and then a happiness,
finally an ecstacy! l would 60 and
take advantage of the darkness to
crawl away. l would render up myself
to the sausage-eatersl I would be.
come q prisoner.
We started out toward midnight. Ny
teeth chartered as 1 crawled through
the mazes of barbed wire in the wake
OF the little lieutenant, accompanied
by two other men. We all carried
bombs. We had six apiece. II the pin
were pulled out the thing would ex'
plode In fifteen seconds. Merciful
heaven! Father Of sevenl And An
@nette weeping her eyes out for me IN
Parish
It was pitch dark, and when the
hideous rockets went up we flung our
selves fiat upon the ground, and hap
PLY escaped detection. At last w
halted N q traverse. It was twelve
yards from the enemies lines. WI
could hear them talking among them
selves. We listened.
And then. . ! lay there, looking fol
- Ghanca u dart down the trench
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24

lock Of hair? But Frank never. ihac
his hair cut in such q place as that!"
mo, but Semplovitch worked for
Chiozzi, the barber on Main street,
three weeks before the murder"
"Andr"
"And he must have gathered a lock
Of Franks hair from the floor after 1t
was cut of, and given it to Jad.
There's your clew, Mr.. James,"
She looked SO happy and pretty that
If she had been five years younger, or
I five years older, I think l should
have kissed her.
"But that isn't ALL" she added.
"What next? ] asked.
"Semplovitch is an animal trainer"
"And keeps birds?" y.
"Canaries, parrots and fnches.
Teaches birds to talk in twelve hours
by covering their cages and using q
monograph"
'Then the parrot must have been
taken out of the house" I exclaimed.
ION the evening Of the murder ]"
she answered.
I followed up this clew. I found a
little girl in a Russian family resid-
ing overhead who had seen Semplo-
witch carrying in a parrot in a cage
at nine o'clock on the night Of the
murder. The parrot lived in Mrs.
Jenkins sitting room, adjoining her
bedroom on the n side, while Franks
ronrn u,o IN tho Othor
The police laughed at my theory, al
though the lock Of hair business i'm
pressed them. The parrot was being
kept in the sitting room as evidence
for the prosecution. And now l con-
fess to a trick I played.
I make this admission with regret,
but l was morally convinced Of the
guilt of Jad and his accomplish. 1t
was necessary to stage the scene so
sc to surprise Semplovitch into a con-
| fession. And so-well, the house was
sealed up, but even a middle-aged
lawyer can climb through a window
with a loose catch upon occasion.
And so, having visited ~Semplovitch
! and gathered an impression as to his
family relations, much to his disgust
and suspicion, l took my monograph
into the sitting room and coached that
parrot five success'"" nights with the
| assistance of sundry suntlOwer seeds.
When all was ready | induced the po-
lice chief to bring Jad and Semplo.
witch into the sitting room by day. l
turned on the barber.
"You took a lock of Frank Jenkins
hair from the floor of ChiOzZi's," ]
said. .....
Taken by surprise, the fellow yet
managed to express blank lack of I'M
derstanding. So l removed the cover
from the parrots cage.
The bird tapped it's wings and be-
gan to Shrek:
"1Take me home! Take me home
Jad's going to kill my mistress! ]
won't say Frank jenkins did it"
Which was not, of course, what 1t
, had heard in S~emplovitch's shop. But
the effect on the superstitious Pole
was electrical. He dropped on his
knees and blurted out a full confess
sion there and then.
Jad paid the full penalty of mis-
crime, and Semplovitch will be an old
man indeed when he m out of the
~penitentiary. AS for Frank and Ma
bel-well, they r pretty happy to-
gether, and the past mas been lived
down.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24

parently Walter Briefly had loved
someone besides Nellie in the past,
had never told Nellie about it and
| Still cherished those mensentOes Of his
old love.
Nellie tried to keep cheerful and
not let Walter see that she distrusted
him, for, as she came to think of her
own Old-time beaux she did not ON
slider a past flame of her husband so
highly reprehensible, after all. But
her mother stirred up things. One
day she came to her daughter duly
excited. "
"Nellie," she said, "I'm sorry to dis
turb your peace of mind, but 1t is
necessary"
"What now, mamma 7" inquired Mel
lie.
among the letters which came for
your husband this morning n was
addressed in a feminine handwriting.
I steamed it,"
"Oh mamma, never!" cried Nellie.
"And read it. Don't look at me as
if I was a thief. I'm your own moth
er and I'm going to protect your in
terests. 1t a signed Lucia
Davenant, 1t gave her address. It's
in the same handwriting as the scrap
I found in Walters coat and it asks
your husband to call upon her at
three o'clock tomorrow afternoon"
"Oh, why do you resort to these un-
derhanded methodist" walled poor Mel
lie, land what good does it do for me
to know all this?"
swell, If you have any womanly
spirit" retorted Mrs. Leeds tartly, 1T
will lead to your finding out who this
MINK is. Now don't 60 to wearing q
long face so that young husband of
yours suspects that we r advised as
to his misdoings. Tomorrow both You
and I will see this artful temptress."
Nellie was nearly crushed. She
mourned and wept. She could scarce
" keep from utterly breaking down
before Walter. He received his let
ter. read it quietly, coolly pocketed 1t,
looked a trife sad, thu watchful Nell
lie fancied, but he said nothing what
ever az to its contents.
"He's done it-we've got himl''
rather i~mperiously proclaimed Mrs.
Leeds an hour later.
@What do you meant" YEARLY Ques.
toned Nellie.
The letter and the photograph. ]
0nsehsd biz old coa4. ThGg - N4
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
The Leading
Witness

Bu FRANK FlLsON

Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)
Old Mrs. Susan Jenkins murder had
Mortified the town. Suspicion pointed
at once to Frank Jenkins, her nephew.
who, after being repeatedly cut off and
reinstated in the old lady's will, had
disappeared from the scene for sew.
eral years until the week before.
Frank Jenkins struck me as weak
rather than criminal. I could not see
him numbering his aunt in cold blood.
But sentiment was strongly against
him. His only friend was Mabel Arm.
strong, who had helped keep the ne'er.
do-well as straight as it was possible
for him to 60.
The evidence seemed extremely
strong. Frank had been living with
his aunt for a week. The old woman,
who was. irascible, had threatened
him again with the loss of her prop.
erty. So much Jad, the Polish farm
hand, had volunteered through an in
terpreter. Jad was a sullen, ungainly
lout, who could not speak a word OF
English. He had been employed about
three weeks and had come from an
immigrant bureau.
The Reeses, who lived next door,
had heard cries during the night, but
had thought the old lady was merely
angry and scolding her nephew. AT
six in the morning Frank had burst
into their home, shouting that his aunt
had been murdered. She had been
strangled with a piece Of tape, and
there were signs of a struggle in her
room. She clutched a lock of hair in
her hand. It was obviously Franks
hair. The boy was arrested as soon
as the police came on the scene.
Jad. who had slept in the loft over
the barn, deposed that he had heard
nothing.
The absolutely damning evidence,
however, was Phineas'. Phineas was
Mrs. Jenkins parrot. He was swing.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-24
Coward e.; :,
Regiment
*
By
Fl. M. EGBERT


Copyright. 1916. by w. q. Chapman.)
A hero? I? Louis, whom you boys
surnamed Louis the Debonair, because
of my atmosphere of general well-be-
ing? Listen, then, and l shall tell you
the truth about my exploit.
I am not ashamed to say that when
General Joffre ordered me from my
position as typewriter to the commits.
sariat department to share in the
perils of the trenches my first impulse
was to fly. I, a nan of forty-seven,
with a girth larger than I care to think
about, and a family of seven, q be-
loved wife in Paris, weeping her eyes
out, should I then play the hero?
No, gentlemen. 1t was my firm
resolve, from the moment I was or.
dered to the front, that I would be ia.
ken prisoner. Better starve in q
Boche prison camp than lie, a corpse,
upon the plains of Champagne!
A hero? I had less wish to be a hero
than anything I know Of. I must be
taken prisoner. But how? My nerves
were all unwrung by the terrific noise
of the cannonades. The shells few
over us. Sometimes great craters were
formed by the explosion of the hideous
missiles which were called Jeansons.
I trembled, I feared. l could not hide
my cowardice. Nor did I wish to do
SC. I would have been branded a COW
ard forever if only I could have been
restored to my weeping Annette, and