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MOBILIZATION PLANS OF COUNTRY MAPPED OUT

with the compensation board, which will allot the emergency appropria- ton.
 The Council of National Defense. and the advisory committee were in session virtually all day considering reports on what had been accom- plshed. It was stated that an of ficial attached 10 the committee, a re tired business man Of wide expert ence, recently had spent several weeks in the quartermaster's depart ment going over the army purchasing system. As a result of his study. h. has reported to Secretary Baker that he was filled with admiration for the efficiency, zeal and adequacy of the service
 Contracts for quartermasters sup plies such as clothing, shoes, tentage, etc, have been placed up to the limit Of the available fund with provision for the automatic extension of the orders on large scale as soon as this connection it was stated officially today that the country is in a bet ter posion to get quickly an adequate supply of army rifles than ever be- fore in it's history.
 The general military budget 10 be laid before congress is expected to include many army measures which allied at the last session and which are now being restudied and co-ordi- mated. The nature of any recommen- dations as to conditions in army or ganization such as the adoption of universal service policy has not been disclosed.
 A possible new element for the con- sideration of the national defense council was called to it's attention during the day by Richard M Bissell and Wilbur F. Mallalieu of New York, president and general manager re- spectiyely, of the national board of fire underwriters The board has of fered to organize and direct for the government the working out of broad plan for dealing with fire pre- lyention requirements The theory on which the suggestion was based was that campaign of incendiarism might follow an outbreak of hostili- ties with Germany.
 The underwriters have detailed in formation as to fire fighting facih- ties throughout the country and highly trained corps of engineers and inspectors. These agencies were placed at the disposal of the govern ment. together with all the adminis- tratiye machinery of the organization. to meet any emergency. Secretary Baker referred the matter to the ad- yisory commission of the council ioT consideration
 Returning congressional leaders have begun to lay their plans for whatever the president may recom- mend at the extra session and today Chairman Kitchin called the house ways and means committee to meet next Wednesday, While the primary purpose is to consider organiaztion matters, the governments fiscal siru- 'ation is sure to be discussed. Mem bers are talking among themselves of Ia huge government credit to the al lies, but any action to that end will await the presidents announcement of his program.
 On Monday Representatives Flood of Virginia. Ragsdale of South Caro- lima and Harrison of Mississippi, members of the forei2n affairs com mittee will confer with Secretary Lansing The specific question to be discussed has not be revealed
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1 New York March 24.--Resolutions declaring that overt acts, however brutal, do not afford adequate cause for war to a republic whose essen tial relation to international affairs I is summed up in the words 'concilia- ton, arbitration and democracy '" were adopted at a mass meeting held by the Emergency Peace Federation tonight in Madison Square Garden as a protest against war
 "This IAass meeting" the resoiu- tions said in part, protests against The proclamation by the metropoli- tan press that a state of war exists between the United States and Ger many; protests against the campaign Of misrepresentation prompted py those who would profit from plunging this country into the abyss of war; protests against the systematic inflam- nation of the public mind by hysteri- cal preparations for war.
 Statistics show clearly that to .Send q considerable army to Europe would involve such a drain on our food resources as to plunge us into The famine conditions of Europe. The idea that war would bring any real prosperity to The country at large is la cruel Illusion even, though doubtless some individuals or industrial groups may profit for a time.
 "le, on the other hand. the United States should adopt the suggestion of certain financial leaders and use it's money only, not armies. we should find ourselves a.s a nation merely an 'appendage to the financial system of London and New York City, there be. ing already bonds, sold and unsold, covering thousands of millions of dol lars awaiting endOrsement by the gov .ernment of the United States.
 ITO undertake to protect by force any part of the European war debt involves the protection of the entire debt and tends to encourage war for the extension of loans.
 We oppose as undemocratic and
 nimical to moral and political liberty every form or conscrption or eompul- sorry military training. In such train ing we see the effective tool of the militarism now devastating the earth.
 For ourselves we respectfully urge that instead of entering upon the mis- cry, distress and desperation of in- ternational warfare, the government of the United States appoint a joint high commission to meet deputies of the imperial German government ana by joint agreement to settle the ques- .tions involved.
 eff meanwhile any nation proflers
 It's friendly offices in mediatlon-x step which by The Hague convention to which We are party can never be .considered an unfriendly act--we re- urge that such mediation he accepted in a friendly spirit and .any proper adjustment of the contro- yersy he welcomed
 If such adjustment prove impos- s.hleg~we further urge that our gov. ernnlent then defer the settlement of our just claims i'll after the Euro pean war.
 Finally, we demand that congress should in no case issue a declaration Of war nor declare the existence of state Of war without first considering the result of a previous advisory ref erendum.'
 The meeting was attended, by con siderable disorder. Persons who took exceptions to some of the remarks of the speakers were elected from the garden, in spite of protests by those
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cF PENNSYLVANIA
 RAILROAD DIES SUDDENLY.

Philadelphia, March 24-Simon C.. Long, general manager of the Penn sylyahia Railroad Company. died sud. denly late tonight while returning by train to his home in Merion
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MILITIA GUARDING BRIDGE
 ARE TO BE RELIEVED.

New York March 2l-~Five hundred naval militamen who have been guarding the bridges across the Eas, river will be relieved tomorrow by a force of special policemen It was announced that the change was deemed expedient at this time"
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who occupied seats on the platform.
 The principal addresses were made by Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor Of Leland Stanford University; Prof. Scott Nearing. Joseph D. Cannon of the Western Federation of Miners and John F. SIilholland, father of the late Mrs. lnez Mlholland Boissevain
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RESOLUTIONS DECLARE THAT NO ACT, NO MATTER HOW
 BRUTAL, JUsTlFlES WAR.
CONDEMN COMPULSORY
 MILITARY TRAINING

Demand That Congress Should in No Case Issue Declaration Of War, Nor Declare the Existence of a State of War Without First consid- ering the Result of a Previous Ad- Vieory Referendum.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-25
Failure of Army Appropri- atiOn Bill in Last Con- gross Will Not Be Per mitted to Handicap the Army's Preparations.

Contracts for Twenty Four Destroyers Were Let By the Navy Department sterday----Congressional Leaders Have Begun to Lay Their Plans for Whatever the President May Rec Ommend-
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KNOW DEATH LIST UP TO LAST NIGHT HAD REACHED
 THlRTY.sEVEN.
UNSEARCHED RUINS MAY
 YIELD ADDITIONAL BODIES

Louisville Quickly Responds to the Cry for Help and Sends $t2,ooo to the Stricken city--of the One Hun dred Injured in the Storm, Seventy Five Were Badly Hurt.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-25
A FOR RENT WILL RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered An ad in the Sentinel-Record is almost sure to bring you customer.
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Forecast for Arkansas-Sunday fair, warmer; Monday, fair.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-12-21

A bright-eyed young girl who sat at
the left of the mistress leaned over
and said in a confidential undertone !:
II wonder, mamma, if that tramp we
passed on the road found my stocking.
And do you think he will hang it up
tonight?"
The words of the young girl were
interrupted by startling thing.
Like the wrath of some burned-out
shooting star, a black streak came
crashing through the windowpane and
upon the table, where it shivered into
fragments a dozen pieces of crystal
and china ware.
The woman screamed in many keys,
and the men sprang to their feet.
The planter was the first to act. He
sprang to the intruding missile and
held it up to view. Its loaded" he
announced.
AS he spoke he reversed long, black
stocking, holding it by the toe, and
down from it dropped roundish stone
wrapped about by piece of yellowish
paper. "NOw for the first interstellar
message of the century y he cried, and
-nodding to the company, who had
crowded about him, he adjusted his
glasses with provoking deliberation
and examined it closely. When he
finished he had changed from the jolly
host to the practical, decisive man of
business. He Immediately struck a
bell and said to the silent-footed mu-
latto man who responded: go and tell
Mr.. Wesley to get Reeves and Maurice
and about ten stout hands they can
rely upon and come to the hall door
at once. Tell him to have the men
arm themselves and bring plenty of
ropes and pillow lines. Tell him to
hurry" And then he read aloud from
the paper these words:
To de Gent of de Hous:
Dere is five tuff hoboes kept meself in
de vaken lot near de road war de old brick
piles is Dey got me stuck up wild gun
see and taken dis means of commune
katen. of der lads is gone down to set
fire to de cain field below de hous and
when yous fellers goes to turn de hoes on
it de hole gang is goin to rob de hous of
de money VOC gotto pay off wit say git a
move on We say de kid dropt dis sock in
der rode tel her merry crismus de same as
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aside and spake with him lowly and
mysteriously. He nodded decisively
and then said aloud to Whistling Dick !:
Listen, sonny, to some plain talky
talk. We five are on lay I've guar
anteed you to be square and you're to
come in on the profits equal with the
boys, and you've got to help. Two hum
dred hands on this plantation are ex-
pecting to be paid weeks wages to-
morrow morning. TomOrrow's Christ
mas and they want to lay off. Says
the boss, Work from five to nine in
the morning to get a trainlOad of sugar
off and I'll pay every man cash down
for the week and a day extra They
say: 'Hooray for the boss! 1t goes
He drives to Moo Orleans today and
fetches back the cold dollars. Two
thousand and seventy-four fifty is the
amount / got the figures from man
who talks too much, who got EN- from
the bookkeeper. Now, half of this
haul goes to me and the other half the
rest of you may divide. Why the diff
ference? represent the brains. It's
my scheme Here's the way we're going
to get it. There's some company at sup
per in the house, but they'll leave
about nine. They have just happened
in for an hour or so. If they don't go
pretty soon we'll work the scheme any,
how. We want all night to get away
good with the dollars. They're heavy.
About nine O'Clock Deaf Pete and
Blinky II go down the road quarter
mile beyond the house and set fire to
big canefield there that the cutters
haven't touched yet. The winds just
right to have it roaring in two minutes.
The alarm ii be given, and every man
Jack about the place will be down
there in ten minutes fighting fire. That
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lazily upon convenient lumber and re-
garded Whistling Dick with undis-
guised disfavor.
'Dis planter chap" Dick said, "w'ot
makes yer fink he's got de tin in de
house wi mp"
''I'm advised of the facts in the
case" said Boston. "He drove to Moo
Orleans and got it, say, today. Want
to change your mind now and come
in?"
"Naw, was just askin' Wot kind
o. team did de boss driver"
''Pair of grays."
Double surrey?'
"Yep."
"Women folks along?"
''Wife and kid. Say, what morning
paper are you trying to pump news
for?"
II was just conversin' to pass de time
away. | guess dat team passed me in
de road dis evonin'. OATS ALL"
y
Dinner, two hours late, was being
served in the Bellemeade plantation
dining room.
The talk of the diners was too desul-
tory, too evanescent to follow, but at
last they came to the subject of the
tramp nuisance, one that had of late
vexed the plantations for many miles
around. The planter seized the occa-
sion to direct his good-natured fire of
raillery at the mistress, accusing her
of encouraging the plague.
II don't believe they are all bad"
she said. eve passed one this evening
as we were driving home who had a
face as good as it was incompetent.
He was whistling the intermezzo from
Cavalleria' and blowing the spirit Of
Mascagni himself into it."
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I'll leave the money sacks and the
women alone in the house for us to
handle"
Boston interrupted Whistling
Dick, rising to his feet, "t'anks for de
grub yous fellers has given me, but I'll
be movin' on now. Burglary is no
good. I'll say good night and many
tanks fer"
Whistling Dick had moved away a
few steps as he spoke, but he stopped
very suddenly. Boston had covered
him with a short revolver of roomy
caliber.
"Take your seat" said the tramp
leader. ''Td feel mighty proud of my
self if let you go and spoil the game.
You'll stick right in this camp until
we finish the job. The end of that
brick pile is your limit. You go two
inches beyond that and I'll have to
shoot. Better take it easy, now.'
'It's my way of doin'," said Whis-
Ting Dick. EASY goes. You can de-
press de muzzle of dat twelve incher
and run 'er back on de trucks. I re-
Mains"
"All right" said Boston, lowering his
piece, as the other returned and took
his seat again on projecting plank in
a pile of timber. 81 don't want to hurt
anybody specially, but this thousand
dollars I'm going to get will fix me for
fair. I'm going to drop the road and
start a saloon in little town I know
about. I'm tired of being kicked
around"
Boston Harry took from his pocket
cheap silver watch and held it near
the fire.
''It's quarter to nine," he said.
'Pete, you and Blinky- start. Go down
the road past the house and fire the
cane in a dozen places. Then strike for
the levee and come back on it instead
of the road, so you won't meet any,
body. By the time you get back the
men will all be striking out for the fire,
and We'll break for the house and col
lar the dollars. Everybody cough up
what matches he's got.'
OF the three remaining vagratS, two,
Goggles and Indiana Tom, reclined
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this, for a terror urged him such as
lifts the gazelle over the thorn bush
when the lion pursues. A crash through
the dew drenched weeds on the road
side, clutching, slippery rush up the
grassy side of the levee to the foot
path at the summit, and he was freeI
A SMALL ruffied, brown-breasted bird
sitting upon dogwood sapling began
soft, throaty, tender little piping in
praise of the dew which entices fotish
worms from their holes, but suddeAly
1t stopped and sat with it's head turned
sidewise, listening. And the little
brown bird sat with it's head on one
side until the sound of wh!stling died
away.
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Whistling Dicks
Christmas Stocking
By o. HENRY
Copyright by Doubleday, Page q Co.


TT was with much caution that
Whistling Dick slid back the door
of the box car, for article SIG, city
ordinances, authorized (perhaps un-
constitutionally) arrest on suspicion.
He saw no change since his last visit
to this big almsgiving, long-suffering
city of the South, the cold weather
paradise Of the tramps. Whistling
Dicks red head popped suddenly back
into the car. A sight too imposing and
magnificent for his gaze had been add
ed to the scene. A vast, Incompatible
policeman rounded pile of rice sacks
and stood within 20 yards of the car.
Whistling Dick, professional tramp,
possessed half friendly acquaintance
with this officer. They had met sew
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eral times before on the levee at night,
for the officer, himself lover of mu-
sic, had been attracted by the exqui-
site whistling of the shiftless vaga-
bond. Still he did not care under the
present circumstances to renew the ac-
quaintance. So Dick waited, and be-
fore long big Fritz" disappeared.
Whistling Dick waited as long as his
judgment advised and then slid swiftly
to the ground. AS he picked his way
where night still fingered among the
big, reeking, musty warehouses he
gave way to the habit that had won
for him his title. Subdued, yet clear,
with each note as true and liquid as a
bobolink's, his whistle tinkled about
the dim, cold mountains of brick like
drops of rain falling into hidden pool.
Rounding corner, the whistler col
lided with big Fritz"
$780," observed the mountain calmly,
''you are already pack. Und dere will
not pc frost before two weeks yet. Und
you hat forgotten how to vistle. Dere
was valse note in dot last bar"
Big Fritz's heavy mustache rounded
into circle, and from it's depths came
sound deep and mellow as that from
a flute. He repeated a few bars of the
air the tramp had been whistling.
''Dot p is p natural, und not p vlat.
Ply der way, you peter pc glad I meet
you. Won hour later, und / would half
to put you in a gage to vistle NIT der
chail pirds. Der orders are to bull all
der pums after sunrise. Goot pye."
After the big policeman had depart
ed Whistling Dick stood for an irreso-
lutte minute, feeling all the outraged
Indignation of delinquent tenant who
is ordered to vacate his premises. He
had pictured to himself day of
dreamful ease, but here was a stern
order to exile and one that he knew
must be obeyed. So, with wary eye
open for the CLEAN of brass buttons, he
began his retreat toward rural
refuge. A few days in the country
need not necessarily prove disastrous.
However, it was with depressed
spirit that Whistling Dick passed the
old French market on his chosen route
down tn river. For safety's sake he
still presented to the world his por-
trayal of the part of the worthy artis-
an on his way to labor. A stall keeper
in the market, undeceived, hailed him
by the generic name of his ilk, and
"Jack" halted, taken by surprise. The
vender, melted by this prosf of his
own acuteness, bestowed a foot of
frankfurter and half Loaf and thus
the problem of breakfast was solved.
By noon he had reached the country
of the plantations the great, sad, 81
lent levels bordering the mighty river.
He overlooked fields of sugar cane so
vast that their fartheSt limits melted
into the sky. The sugar-making season
was we'll advanced, and the cutters
were at work.
At certain point Whistling Dicks
unerring nose caught the scent of fry
ing fish, Like pointer to a quail, he
made his way down the levee side
straight to the camp of a credulous
and ancient fisherman, whom he
charmed with song and story, so that
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ORDER OF 81. JO0GPH

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