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COUNTY OFFICIALS
 PETITION FOR FLAG
County Judge Cheek Requested to Ar- range for "Old Glory" to
 Float Cycv Courthouse,

Jefferson ccu,7>y officials will pre- sent a petition to County Judge l.. D. Cheek today asking him to purchase and place on the front dome of the courthouse an Aincrican flag, to the end that others may dc likewise, and to inspire love of country. mani- fested in the manner desired by our governor"
 The movement was started by Sheriff R. H. Williams yesterday morning when he read in The Graphic Governor Brough's proclamation designating next week as prepared ness," and asking all to make dem~ onstration of loyalty.
 The petition to be presented to Judge Cheek is signed by R. H. Will Hams, sheriff; c. M Nichol, county clerk; J R. Parson, treasurer: F. M. Reeves, circuit clerk; w. B. sSorrells, circuit judge; John M. Elliott, chan cellor; T. G. Parham, prosecuting at torney; F. T. Fucker. assessor, and J. I. Norris, pastor of the First Pres hyterian church.
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ROAD COMMISSIONERS ORGANIZE

Little Rock, April 3.-The commits sioners of the Little Rock -Batesville road district met in the office of the state highway commission on Tues day afternoon and elected Eugene Cypert of Searcy, chairman: and Y. J. Raney of Neward, as secretary J. c. l.. Goforth of Cabot, T.. l.. Mason of Bradford, and c. w. Connor of Lit tie Rock, the other commissioners, were present.
 The state highway department was requested to make a preliminary sur vey of the route, and the commission adjourned until April 16, when the commissioners will again met in Lit tie Rock and make a trip over the proposed route. The district is 125 miles in length, and it will probably take four days to make the trip. 1t is estimated that it will cost $5OO,OO0 to build the road the commissioners have in mind.
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By HAMILTON M. WRIGHT.

CRISTOBAL, Panama Canal Zone, March 00.-Prodigious works of steel and concrete have not alone made possible the Panama Canal, the greatest engineering achievement of all time, but have entered into the construction of the h:.ge piers, wharves, dry docks and coaling sta tions, breakwaters and other com ponent parts of the Panama Canal Zone, ranking both Cristobal and Balboa as among the fine ports of the world, and the entire area as the most stupendous of show places be- meath the stars and stripes.
 Hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete and vast supplies of steel have been used in the construction of accessory equipment to the Panama Canal, that, in it's nature, is as monu- mental as the canal itself.
 The equipment is constantly being added to and improved.
 An entire battleship fleet can be coaled here.
 The largest dreadnaught in the world can go into dry dock.
 The huge foundries and repair shops can restore any broken or damaged part of warship or mer- chant vessel.
 The commissary department, which purchases $12,000,000 of supplies an- nually, could outfit a navy with food ard other necessaries for cruise around the world.
 Tho entire Canal Zone is in a con- 'tant state of progression and the many improvements are tremen- ious addition to the wonders of trip to Panama.
 The efficient work of the Panama ' Canal organization touches upon
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f $29, 9,327 ,504.22; the total revenues were $27 ,339 1888 .89.
 A new trade is developing through the Panama Canal. It has become a point of transit for passengers be- tween the United States, the Pacific coast of South America and even Buenos Aires and the River Plate country on the Atlantic. Through an arrangement made by the United Fruit Company, whose fleet is the largest flying the American flag, with three steamship companies oper- ating along the Pacific coast of South America, man is able to make the 1 trip between New York and Buenos Aires going by way of Valparaiso, Chile, and the Trans -Andean railway with a thousand miles less travel than if he took a steamer straight between the two points via the At lantic Ocean.
 Today the steamers of the three lines, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, the Campania Sud Ameri- cana de Vapores, and the Peruvian Steamship Company. come to the Pacific entrance of the canal and go
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every phase of human activity. Libraries, schools, foundries, railroad yards, clubs, hotels, play grounds, lighting and water systems, military barracks, plantations, a penitentiary, cold storage plants, are administered by the government. Private bene- ficence is also present and in this respect a marvellous work is being done at Balboa by the Young Wom- en's Christian Association, which maintains building where food, rest and entertainment are provided.
 Of supreme interest are the two huge coa2ing plants located at Cristobal and Balboa respectively. The plants have total emergency storage capacity of 100000 tons of coal. Their normal capacity is 5C0,- 900 tons. The Cristobal plant, on the Atlantic side, covers nineteen acres. It can unload coal, brought in for storage, at the rate of 1900 tons per hour. It can reload at the rate of 2,400 tons per hour. Ships can dis
 charge and receive coal at the same time at this plant, the unloader wharf being at one side of the pier and the reloader wharf being at the other side. The plant has approxi
 mately one-haf mile of berthing space for vessels to moor alongside, with 8 depth of wa CT of forty-one feet at mean sea level. Giant nov ing bridges, known as stocking and retaining bridges, span the vast coal piles and are visible long dis tance away. The coaling plant at Balboa is approximately one-half the size of that at Cristebal The un- loader wharf is $50 feet long; the re- loader wharf 750 feet long. A fea- ture of both plants is the sub aqueous or under water storage of coal. The sub-aqueous .'coal bin" at
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ELECTION DAY IN WiCHIGAN

Detroit, MicE., April 2.-All indica- tions point to light state election vote today at the Spring elections in Michigan, with the possible exception of those cities and towns where local issues have stirred up interest. Only a few minor officials are to be voted on by the state at large. Grand Rap ids holds it's first election under the commission plan of government. De- troit votes on the proposed annexa- tion of territory Kalamazoo is to de- eide the Sunday theatre question and in various other cities there are local issues at stake that has served to stir the interest of the voters.
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through the canal to the wharvesV Cristobal. There they meet tN United Fruit steamers on oppositH sides of the wharf. The lines reachV every port of any size on the west coast of South America, which are thus brought into direct touch with our Atlantic and Gulf ports. The trip to Buenos Aires saves time over the old way and is infinitely more Tlntefest;ng.
 More and more is the Panama Canal becoming ar. objective point for tourists. Thrice have the Shriners been here in force. The steady influx of small parties is con- stantly increasing. Those who de- sire may stop at the fine hotels oper- ated by the government, the Hotel Washington at Ancon or the Tivolj at Balboa. In all Uncle Sam operates about twenty hotels on the Canal Zone. The commissary and hotel de. pertinent supplies about 65,O00 peo- pie daily with food, clothing and other necessaries. There are about 5000 white employees on the Canal Zone and 19,0OO West Indians. There are 5000 soldier lads here, but ultiA mately there will be 25,OOO.
 Today the Panama Canal Zone is spic, span and orderly. A ride through the locks by ship and then back by train along the line of the huge waterway with glimpses of the shipping or of great forests of dead trees half submerged and covered with orchids, as a vision of a pri- meval world, is popular way of seeing mankind's greatest engineas ing work. .. s-.>---- 1s
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Cristobal is 3oox500 feet, with the bottom twenty-four feet below see level.
 Then there are tne big dry dock available either for the navy or me' chant shipping. The largest WE vessel in the world could enter tllt great dry dock at Balboa at the Pa cifc terminal of the canal. This dry dock is the second largest in the world and the largest in the Amer icas. 1t is 1000 feet long, 1iO feet wide, and has 8 depth of 35 feet over the blocks at mean tide. The dock at Cristobal is 300 feet long and 4s feet wide, with depth at mean high water of 13 feet 6 inches over the blocks. Both docks are closed by naitre gates similar to those used on the Panama Canal locks.
 Coming into Cristobal today the visitor of a fev, years ago is amazed
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'CLARATi0N OF WAR BEFORE CONGRESS ADJ0URNS TONIGHT
! (Continued from page one.)

Pmodities among the people gen Fly. Its aim will be to be ahead o3 (e with problems oe wartime dis Pution. 4,. I'M he council, whose members later ended the cabinet meeting, decided fonfer every day of the week, with possible exception of tomorrow. activities, which have to be ap- wed by the president, and, in some es, by congress, have begun 70 |ch every problem, and are aimed |make the United States most ef- ent for the conduct of the war.
 Increased Taxes of Wealthy.
 tentative plans by which the great ps of money needed by the govern ht may be raised arc in course of paration and were gone over roughly in the cabinet meeting. revenue raising power lies ex- lively with the congress, and the Pident can only advise. Ways of Fiding the money which were er consideration today included an SooC u lue SACeSS pIClilS CdA,
 ering the limits of incomes ex- pt from taxation, increasing tha ertaX under the income tax law, leasing the internal revenue taxes
 some articles and placing stamp es on some articles not now in- led in that list. The general idea D place the taxation most heavily those most able to pay. It is rea- d, however, that some of the nec- Try funds will nave to be raised bond issues, in the. form of popular scription loans. It was estimated Dne cabinet member that $10,0OO,- poo in small interest loans can be
 ed quickly in the United States. pposition has developed to the ? of guaranteeing foreign bond
 ef, but it appears probable that
 Nnited States having Aaised ley in this country, could pur- SC bonds of one or more of the ,nte allies at low interest rates,
 in that way furnish the amounts which they may further their war plans.
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NAMES $. (. V. CHAPERONE.

Little Rock, April 3.-tM. J. Glass of Tulsa, Okla., commander of the Trans-M Mississippi department of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, has honored Mrs. w. B. Massey of Hot Springs with the appointmont of chaperone for the honorees of this di- vision at the reunion which will be held in Washington, D. C., in June. Commander Glass announced only the one appointment, but intimated that Arkansas may expect further honors before he is through.
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is passed. No filibuster is expected but administration leaders are fearful some friends of the measure may talk 100 long.
 Adoption of the resolution by the house is expected soon after the for eign affairs committee presents the resolution today.
 Those in close touch with the situ- ation expect LaFcllette, Gronna and Norris, Republicans, will speak and vote against the resolution, and that they will be joined by Senators Stone and Kirby on the Democratic side.
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Figuring colors of Metals.

A method by which numerical values for the colors of metals has been obs tained and described recently in for eign contemporary. The metal sample is polished with emery, and is then photographed through a blue grass screen. The time of exposure, time of development of the plate, temperature of the developer and all other condi- tons must be reproduced exactly in order to obtain comparable results. The density of the resulting negative is measured in Sanger-Shepherd densometer, and the result calculated to a scale in which the color value for silver is 0 and that of copper is to. The results obtained show that m increase of coloration in the metal does give higher scolor figure" but the method can detect no difference between pure and standard" silver silver 92.5 per cent. copper 7.5 per cent and Is only just sufficiently sensitive % distinguish between German silvers having respectively 15 and [ per cent QX s,---...-~
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SUSPENDS RULES TO
 HASTEN LEGISLATION

Washington, April 2.-The house tonight adopted resolution by Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropri- ations committee, providing for sus- pension of the rules at any time within the next ten days, to pass the sundry civil, army, general deficiency and military academy appropriation bills, which failed of passage at the last session. MT. Fitzgerald said that it was imperative to pass these measures without della
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MINERS CELEBRATE 8-HOUR DAY

Hazleton, Pa., April 2.-The 175, ,00O miners in the anthracite region kept a holiday today in observance of the first anniversary of the granting of the eight-hour day, which they won in their agreement with the operators a year ago. Only the firemen, engi- needs, pump runners and others whose presence was necessary to prevent flooding of the collieries remained on duty. Mass meetings were held ev- anywhere to impress on the men the significance of the victory they gain ed by the shortening of their hours. According to the operators, the eight hour day has not curtailed the out mi
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ARGENTA VOTERS FAVOR WAR.

Argenta, April 3.-Judges at two Of the polling places in today's election asked the voters to unofficially ex- press their sentiments as to the dec- laration that a state of war exists with Germany.
 According to figures announced to- night. 96 voters favored the adoption of the resolution by congress, and three opposed it's adoption.
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MeteorItes.

Among the collection shown in the new building of the National museum at Washington is a remarkably nne exhibit of meteOrites. It includes com plete meteorites ranging in size from the merest pebbles to great boulder like masses, and casts reproducing giant forms like that of Bacubirito, which has been estimated to weigh D tons and still rests where 1t fell in Mexico.
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Panama Railroad, and of the forti- fcations, but they can make any re- pairs required by the United States navy or by merchant ships. In ad- dition there are subsidiary buildings, main metal working shops, machine erecting and tool shops, forge and pipe, boiler and steam fitting shops.
 Last year the canal almost paid it's operating expenses. That it will make a profit when normal traffic on the seas IS resu,12 a0 cannot bo dotlbt- cd. The canal cxpenses iii 1olG were
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WOMEN RULE TOWN.

Valley Center, Kan, April s.-This city will be governed by women for the next two years. The ymen's ticket for mayor and councilmen at yester- day's election, according to a count made today, was defeated by the woul- en by large majority. The new mayor is Miss Avis Francis.
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RESERVE NOUL FOR U. s.

Boston, April 3.-The entire supply of raw wool owned and controlled in this city, the largest wool market in the world, was today ordered re- served for government use, by vote cf the Boston Wool Trade association, in special meeting here.
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to see the fine concrete piers and
 wharves. the finest of their type in the world, to which his vessel ties.
 But back, for g moment, to the dry docks, those hospitals for wound cd greyhounds or bulldogs of the sea or sanitariums for those that need physical sprucing up. The great main repair shops are not only de- signed to make all the lock, spillway and power plant machinery and water and land equipment for the maintenance of the canal, of tho
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READY TO SHOULDER ARMS.
Alien Citizens of Chicago Announce
 Willingness to Fight Kaiser.

Chicago, April 3.--Readiness to fol- low the Stars and Stripes across the sea to the battlefields of Europe was voiced here today by editors of for eign language newspapers and heads of organizations of Bohcmians, Ital- ians, Servians, Belgians and other for eign-born citizens of this country. A call to arms will meet with the solid backing of these residents, their lead CTS proclaimed.
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Same Family Name.

An Irishman was seated in a rail- way carriage next to very pompous. looking man, with whom he com menced conversation in rather free and easy manner. AZ length the pomp- ous one said: My good man, reserve your conversation for one of your own equals. I would have you know that I am a K. c. (king's counsel). The Irishman jumped up and held out his hand. "Begorra. shaker" he ex. claimed, "Oi'm g Casey msself" 1" <
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WILL FORCE VOTE.
'Ollctte Prevents Action in Senate
 Yesterday.

Washington, April 3.-The way was Pned in both houses tonight for
 mpt enactment of the adminisIra- D resolution declaration that a
 te of war exists with Germany, directing the president to prose 'e it with all the nations resources "a successful determination.
 'enatcr LaFollette prevented action the resolution in the senate today, it is planned to keep the senate in sion tomorrow until the resolution
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STEEL TRUST RAISES WAGES.
Increase of 10 Per Cent Given All
 Employees Earning Less than $2,50O.

New York, April 3.-The United States Steel corporation today an- nounced "10 per cent. increases n wages and salaries up to $2500," for the employees of the company and :Fs effective May 1, and sub feet to equitable adjustments.
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High Cost of a Stage Career.

Tank Beverly figures that the labor, care and attention necessary to the training of pig for stage purposes would, if properly applied, produce 100000 pounds of bacon, 100000 hams and a proportionate amount of sausage and leaf lard.-Topeka Capi. tai.
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PARDONS CANCER VICTIM.

Little Rock, April 3.-The governor yesterday pardoned Henry Wool bright of Cross county, a white man, who had served fourteen months of five year sentence for assault to kill, having been convicted March 21, 1916. The pardon was granted on recommendation of the penitentiary physician, on account of the critical illness of Woolbright, with cancer.
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TO LET ROAD CONTRACT.

Little Rock, April 2.-Hugh Carter, state highway engineer, left for Eureka Springs Tuesday night for the purpose of letting contract for the construction of macadamized highway to connect Eureka Springs with Seligman, Mo. The contractors will have the highway completed in time for summer traffic.
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ELECT WOMAN POLICE JUDGE.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 3.-Mrs. Roxana Blalock was elected police judge of DeSoto, Kan, near here, at election, according to re- turns received today. She led her opponent, man, by 10 votes, but was the only member of the women's ticket to be elected, men being named as mayor and councilmen.
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DEFICIENCY BILL
 GOES THRU HOUSE

Washington, April 3.-The general deficiency appropriation bill, one of the four big supply measures which failed of enactment at the last con- gress, was passed by the house to- day under suspension of the rules. The army, sundry civil, and military academy appropriation bills will be taken up tomorrow under the same plan.
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KEEL REELECTED.
Republican Mayor of St. Louis Victor
 hy 9O.OOO.

St. Louis, Mo-, April 3.-Mayor Henry Kiel, Republican, was reelect- ed here today. by a majority of ap- proximately 10000.
 With 263 precincts reporting out of 800, the mayor is leading his oppon- ent, William c. Connett, Democrat, by 11,224.
 The race for comptroller is closer. but Louis Nolte, Republican, appar- ently has been elected over James Platter, Democratic, incumbent, by , majority of about 5000.
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.Jr N. SHEELY.

Supt. La. Baptist Orphanage. If your child is suffering why wait. Get bottle today from your druggist or send direct to us for it--$1.00. Six bottles. $500.
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HOBO HELPS ORPHANS

The Hobo Medio::-.e Manufacturing Company of Singer. La, has favored the orphanage with several cases of Hobo Kidney and Bladder Remedy, and it is with delight that we record the cure of several children from soil ing their beds at night. Wa thank yOu -s
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Let's Them Pass Freely. It has been noticed that the wolf nt the door has no appetite for storks. St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
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 were first made 50 years ago.
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