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LOCAL

! WESSON OIL is strictly a Southern
 pr690et. being made from our own COTTON SEED, highly refined, pure,
 Wholesome and delicious. Try 1t once md you will never go back to HOG FAT.
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aettled Taars.

In Persia tears arc thought to bs . remedy for certain chronic diseases. They are collected in sponges at times of sorrow and kept in bottles by the priests. The antiquity of the super stition Is attested by the mention Of the custom In the Old. Testament esalms 68:e.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

When needing Lime, Cement, Brick pr other buildign material go to the Pine Bluff Brick Company, third and Walnut streets. Phone 230. They will deliver. 11-6-tf.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

Photomicrographs of specialization
 Tor moi various chemical solutions have been used in Europe to provide
 hew patterns for use in various arts. and crafts.
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ORPHEO THEATRE.

Charles Ray. who won a personal triumph in "The Clodhopper', will appear in the biggest role he has yet essayed in the Triangle play, Sud den Jim." the Saturday Evening Post
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

I5uDGN H. R. LUCAS, FORMERLY OF
 Lincoln county: has moved his law \ WelIs Fargo & Co. Will practice in
 Gi m courts. 10-11-1m
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MISSION OIL.
ATTENTION. TOBACCO
 USERS-SAyE YOURSELF

From 75 per cent of your ailments, md many of. your hard earned dol aaFS, byt using No-BACeO, simple n11llh WASh that destroyes the taste oF. t0bacco, Nothing to swallow. No 'relief no pay. Price. $1. BRASHER'S DRUG STORE
 Pine Bluff. Ark. 10-1e.t t-srlm'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

story by Clarence Burlington Kelland, which will be shown at the Orpheo theatre tomorrow.
 Millions have read ~the story, eith- CT in serial pr novel form. concerning the boy who was given $50. 900 by his father and told to play or work. just
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11
Th2 LabOrer


 Who is the laborer: Any man who honestly works, no matter what his task. We are all laboring men if we amount to anything.
 But the day laborer. the man who tolls with his hands, for days wage, he is the man above all others who should strive to lay aside little from his earnings, as saving ac- count at the bank. No matter how small the saving, it will be given as careful attention at our bank as our largest accounts. for the little eavings of the poor man means as much and more to him than the big accounts of the well-to-do. Many laboring men have established ac- counts at our bank and we are es- p6cially proud of the confidence of tAese men.
 { per cent Paid on Savings. Capital and Surplus $500. 900 .00
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". M. n. A. D. T. c.

w. M. 1T. P. A. D. T. c.
 Z [ you are in the market for any thing that Is put on wheels from g plldS to an automobile you can get it II Mailard Wagon Works. 11S North 0lito afreet. 11-11-1m
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BE HELPFUL

, ss :. WEssON OIL is an excellent short ening, delicious salad oil ard an ap- petizing fat for frying -al1s in one handy can. -; VI. E
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

'WEssON OIL is 1oo per cent PURE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

We are ready to serve you with high class cleaning. pressing. and block your old hats. Our work will be so we'll done that it will please the critic. Ciothse we'll pressed aAsA cleaned. Call HOS.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
BASTING OLD BILL BOOZE
IN WISCONSIN.

When the lid went on booze in
Minnesota, by order Of the pub
lie safety commission, those that
thirsted in Winona went across
the river to Wisconsin. The Min
nesota commission, through Sec
rotary Pardee, then wrote to the
Wisconsin council Of defense at
Madison, asking the friendly Of
fees of Gov. Phillip in closing
Sunday sales Of booze on the
Badger side of the Mississippi
river. The Wisconsin governor,
desiring to please, directed dis
trict attorney Urness of Buffalo
county, Wis, to enforce Sunday
closing. It was done and the
natives experienced the first Sum-
day closing in their memories. It
is believed that if those Wiscon-
sin chaps can be sobered up just
once, they will not "Hoch Der
Kaiser" so much as they have in
the past.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01

the price it should be if Herbert
Hoover's figures can be relied
upon as to what the price should
be. And, in the face Of these
prices, the honest wheat producer
is clamoring for So a bushel for
his crop. When does a man cease
to be a human and become a
hog?
The steel manufacturers can
not deny their war profits. Stock
quotations and dividend declara-
tions prove that. Yet they con-
slider it more imperative to get
iron to the east than they do to
bring coal to the woodless and
coalless northwest. They base
their arguments on patriotism and
the nations needs, from a war
standpoint, but their profits are
not small, all the while.
At Chisholm, soft coal is $40 a
ton, with a discount Of so cents
a ton for cash. At Moose Lake,
less than so miles from Duluth s
coal docks, the school board must
pay SO a ton for it's years sup
ply of soft coal, delivered in the
bin.
Then dear old Congress, in
stead Of putting the big end Of
the burden on Big Wealth, as
wisely proposed, voted to the
contrary, making an excess of
the war burden fall on the things
eaten and worn in daily life-on
the underpaid workers, the peo-
pie of small means and those
who sadly lack what a human
being really requires for health
and happiness.
Where will it all end and
when?
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
PRAYER OF A RED CROSS NURSE

By Susan c. Hearle.
Oh, Comforter Divine of human sor-
row,
Grant that thy fellows on earth
below
A little of thy healing grace may
borrow
To check wars woe.
Grant that our human hands may
never falter
In caring for the stricken and the
sore.
Give us the strength to serve, as at
an altar,
And count our lives as nothing in
the score.
Give us the faith and the clear see
ing vision
70 find, boyand the horror and
the strife,
The courage, the endurance, tie SUBJ
mission,
The spirit that deems honor more
than life.
Oh, Comforter Divine of human sor-
row,
God, who alone can cause the
strife to cease,
Give us fresh strength to face the
coming morrow,
Or grant us peace.
Red Cross Magazine.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01

Where things are going to end
for the man who tolls with his
hands, holds a clerical position or
lacks goodly bank account, no
one seems able to tell. Almost
anything and everything that a
human being eats, wears or uses
in his daily life has advanced to
dizzy heights and promises to go
still higher.
Today, hundreds, if not thou.
sands, of families in St. Louis
county are living on greatly re.
stricted diets, even if not going
hungry. Many a family accus-
toned to a fairly high plane of
living, gets meats only occasion
ally, and half Of the quantity and
variety Of vegetables good health
requires. Butter, mill; and eggs
soon will be luxuries beyond their
reach.
Flour is greatly, in excess of
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
TALES 0FTHETOWN

made his errand known and, In
stead of coming across with the
cash, they put their heads to-
gether in discussion Of the mat
ter.
Thinking that the three mi light
try, to repudiate the obligation,
and throw him out of the office,
Mr.. Hartley kept eyes on a big
iron poker that laid on the floor
under the stove. In those days,
Mr.. Hartley could do his part as
a river driver, cruiser, logger.
jumping a 10-rail fence or fight
ing. He had no intention OF be-
irg bluffed out Of the value OF
his hay.
Just then the elder Day entered
the office, and noticing that the
atmosphere was clouded, asked
the cause. When told about the
matter, he at once commanded
CHe DOOkkeeper u mdhe ou'
check.
The bookkeeper glanced over
his shoulder at the sons and hesl-
tated a little.
"When I tell you to make out
a check, you make it out, :" roared
the elder Day. Quick compliance
followed.
"Here's your check, Mr.. Hart
ley" said the sturdy old lumber
man. "Take it down to the bank,
and if they do not pay it, come
right back to me. You are en-
titled to your pay and I propose
to see you get it at once"
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HIS NORTHERN BROTHER.

minneapolis Journal.)
Just make it two, old fellow,
I want to stand once more
Beneath the old flag with you
AS in the days of yore.
Our fathers stood together
And fought on land and sea
The battles fierce that made us
A nation of the free.
whipped you down at Vicksburg,
You licked me at Bull Run;
On many field we struggled
When neither victory won.
You wore the gray Of Southland,
wore the Northern Blue;
Like men we did our duty
When screaming bullets flew.
Four years we fought like devils,
But when the war was done
Your hand in mine in friendly clasp
Our two hearts beat as one;
And now when dangers threaten,
No North, no South we know,
Once more we stand together
To fight the common foe.
My head, like yours, is frosty
Old age is creeping on;
Lies sun is lower sinking,
My day will soon be gone.
But if our country's honor
Needs once again her son,
I'm ready, too, old fellow
So get another gun.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
RED CROSS KNIGHTS.

BY FARWELL BROWN.
I will be a Red Cross knight!
I will wear the sign!
I will help the godly fight
With the strength that's mine!
Some may blow the stirring fife,
Some may win a sword,
Some may give precious life
Fighting for the Lord.
But at home my task is plain
Not the field for me.
Yet with heart and hand and brain
Soldier may be-! -
I may knit and sew and fold:
may save and give
Pennies, dollars, notes or gold
That our boys-may- live.
Take the Cross and lend a hand
In the goodly fight
Children of gallant land,
Each a Red Cross knight!
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
THE GARDEN COMMITTEE
WAS KICKED AND CUFFED
Over -Four Hundred City Gar
den Tracts Flowed Without
Financial Profit.

A previous issue of the Rip-saw
had contribution from one who
hired ground plowed for garden
purposes. The work was done
by a mule team belonging to j.
Uno Sebenius, chaperoned by a
hired teamster. The bill was
nearly double what the citizen
thought the job was worth,
therefore he called the deal
profitable patriotism" and
looked on himself as a "Sucker. -
Mr.. Mattocks, secretary Of The
Garden Committee, Duluth Coun-
Gil of Defense, under the auspices
Of which over 400 garden plots
were plowed in the city of Du-
luth, expresses himself as fol
lows concerning the work of~the
Garden Committee, viz:
Elm the beginning, the city
undertook to carry on this work
but it got too big for the city.
The matter was placed in the
hands of a committee. Teams
were hired and calls for blowing
were met as quickly as was pos
sible. At one time there were
three teams in the West End,
two in the East End, three at
Lakeside and two CT three at
Woodland and Hunters Park.
We systematized the work as
best we could. It was a diff
cult task to efficiently and sat-
isfactorily handle matters. Many
transfers we hired were unfaith
full or inefficient. Some teams
placed at our disposal were re-
quired by the owners before we
were through with them. Much
time was lost by double travel,
remote plots of ground and gen.
eral inability to do work to
good advantage.
"The Committee bad to pay
for the teams and men. The
best we could do was to figure
out how many pieces of work
had been done, their size and the
cost for teams and men. Bills
were put in after averaging the
costs. Some probably had to pay
more than the work should have
cost, under normal conditions.
We certainly know that, in many
cases, transactions were satisfac-
tory neither to us nor the gar
den owner. But we did the very
best we could. We spent money,
time and took much criticism. It
was a new idea, quickly worked
cut and for the first time. The
Committee learned rauch and
could do much better if it's tasks
were done a second time.
"But, most positively" de-
clared Mr.. Mattocks, there was
no-profit to the Committee in
what was deemed a patriotic
4uoi,ls " -
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THAT MARMON CAR.

Chief McKercher still flies
around in that mammoth Marmon
car. It is sincerely hoped that he
has full and legal right to do so.
It is to be hoped that the car was
purchased exclusively by him and
with his own private resources.
1t is to be hoped that he was not
helped to the car by the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern railway. It
also is to be hoped that the genial
chief is not burning up city gaso-
line in his many and long joy rides
through the city, over the county
and up and down the state. It is
to be hoped, still further, that city
employees are not compelled to
clean, repair and keep in order
this car if it really is private and
personal property, acquired and
owned legitimately.
To date, the people know moth
ing definitely about this car. They
are wondering about it. Chief
McKercher is their servant. They
are entitled to complete Informal
ton. They desire this Informal
ton, as they have in other cases,
with former city servants.
The city commissioners are as
dumb and uncommunicative as the
big Chief. Silence with them
seems to be golden. Silence some
times proves to. be expensive stuff
for a public servant.
If Chief McKercher has clean
coat-tails, his masters, the people
who pay for running this city,
will be more than delighted to
know it. They sincerely hope that
such is the case. If it is not the
case, they will voice their dis
pleasure. And if they are not de-
Gently and fully informed before
long, an accounting as to hand
ling Of some stewardships likely
will be demanded by a no incon-
siderable number of taxpayers.
The boys are listening. What's
the answer?
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been declared on the basis of a
concession of so cents more per
shift, leaving the local food-stuff
monopoly to prey on the CON-
munity, leaving an INSCRIPTIONS
smelling trust to control the out
put, while the question of union
ism remains as undecided as be-
fore,
"Of all the ostriches that ever
buried their beaks in the sands
of time, thinking thus to avoid
danger, the worst is the mining
industry.
eve shall not exercise the de-
mon of unrest either by violence
or by brides. To lynch an agi-
tator or to concede a few cents
per day to his followers is no
way of settling these vital eco
nomic difficulties.
cit is useless to close our ears
to the questions that must be an
swered sooner or later, and the
sooner the better for all con-
cerned.
"Has the worker a right to
combine for collective bargain
ing? Has the mine-owner a
similar right? Is each restricted
to a local combination or may
they form extra-territorial organ
izations, so as to bring secondary
pressure to bear on a domestic
disagreement?
''Is a strike no more and no
less legal than lockout? Has
the employer right to select his
employees, as the employees have
the privilege Of leaving one en-
ployer to go to another? Is
working by contract beneficial to
the Individual and the industry
Should a mine-worker participate
in the profit of the mine-owner
and, if so, should he accept lower
wages when the profit decreases
Should the excessive profit Of a
mining company 60 to the work
ers in that mine or to the State,
whose resources are being ex.
plotted, or should it all 60 to the
share-ho holder?
els it fair that a copper-miner
should receive 1915, while an
equally good gold-miner in an ad-
..acenr district receives only
$3.50?
elm short, is the Devil to take
the hindmost or is this policy of
laissez faire (et alone) to be
corrected by a recognition of
facts and an effort to make regu.
lations that will square both with
them and the sense of fair play
"What we need is a sense of
social justice and a deeper in
terest in conditions that will i'm.
peril our social fabric unless we
give heed to them. To ignore
them is to be ignorant. -
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THE DOG.

(From American Field.)
I've never known dog to wag
His tail in glee he didn't feel,
Nor quit his old-time friend to tag
At some more influential heel.
The yellowest cur I ever knew
Was, to the boy who loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to show
Halfway devotion to his friend,
To seek kinder man to know
Or richer, but unto the end
The humblest dog I ever knew
Was, to the man that loved him,
true.
I've never known dog to fake
Affection for present gain,
A false display of love to make,
Some little favor to attain.
I've never known a Prince or Spot
That seemed to be what he was not.
But I have known dog to fight
With all his strength to shield a
friend,
And, whether wrong or whether
right,
To stick with him until the end.
And I have known a dog to lick
The hand of him that men would
kick.
And I have known a dog to bear
Starvation pangs from day to day
With him who had been glad to
share
His bread and meat along the way.
No dog, however mean or rude,
Is guilty of ingratitude.
The dog is listed with the dumb.
No voice has he to speak his creed
His messages to humans come
BY faithful conduct and by deed
He shows, as seldom mortals do,
A high ideal of being true.
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DULUTH'S SADDEST DAY.

Inc morning sun SnOne Drlgntly
last Monday but it was the sad
dest, most serious day that Du-
luth ever saw.
Seven hundred young men en-
trained for a trip that will end in
the bloody trenches Of battle
Scared Europe.
The flower of Duluth's young
manhood started in quest of the
bloody fleece on the accursed
continent across the sea. The
sons, brothers and beloved Of
those left in this community de-
parted in response to their coun-
try's call. They went bravely,
even gladly, pressing onward,
looking not backward, but leav-
ing behind streaming eyes, ach-
ing hearts and vacant chairs.
Seven hundred went away. No
human agency knows or can tell
how many will come back. No
one knows how many or who will
remain for eternity on the
bloody fields of sunny France,
ravished Belgium or maddened
Germany. But many will remain.
Duluth has promptly, eff
GENTLY and fully done her first
little bit. At last many more of
us realize that this land of the
free and home of the brave is
actually and fully embroiled in
the quarrels of our mother lands.
We are in the fight. Rightly or
wrongly, we are in the fight.
Nothing but suffering, destruc-
ton and death seem satisfying
to the mad nations across the sea.
Our young men have been sent
to aid in and add to the suffering,
destruction and death. They must
properly learn ways and means.
When fully fit, they will face one
of the most ruthless, efficient,
cruel, remorseless foes the civil
lied world ever has seen. They
will face that foe for the one
great purpose Of killing and de-
stroying. That is war.
May our young men who have
been denied their full measure of
life, personal liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness, be given skill
and strength to materially shorten
the spell of continental madness.
May they destroy and kill so
skillfully, successfully and heav-
lily, that feeble reason will again
enter the European mind and
that cry come forth-We Have
Had Enough!
In their terrible task, may
they gain in their regard for law
and order; may they learn chiv-
airy and nurse knighthood back
into flower; may they all return
to us if the God of Battles so per-
mits. But, if few or many fail
to return, may they all accom-
plish a full measure of their mis-
sion.
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DANISH JOHN BARLEYCORN.

On Tuesday, September 10, the
legal voters of St. Louis county
will have an opportunity to ex-
press their wishes as to the ban
ishment Of Old John Barleycorn.
AS a matter of lifelong policy
and principle, we shall vote in
favor of Punishment and most
earnestly urge all others to vote
the same way.
There are plenty of specious
arguments in favor of Demon
Drink but, sifted down, there is
only the one reason, viz: The
manufacturers and sellers of the
stuff want the money that comes
from it.
Intoxicating liquors, even the
weaklings, wine and beer, and
practically nothing to the real
elevation, improvement and well
fare Of mankind. On the other
hand it is so easy to abuse the
sale and use Of the dangerous stuff
that it's complete Punishment is
sensible and safest.
The terrible war now raging in
Europe never can hope to work
the havoc against mankind that
Old John Barleycorn has since
Noah made an ass of himself by
over-indulgence in wine. Real
civilization never can fully flower
so long as booze is permitted the
run of society.
The temporary loss and hard
ship to those engaged in the
medieval business are as nothing
compared to the benefit to man
kind from the abolition of the
legalized sale of the stuff.
The brewers Of St. Louis county,
in their full-page advertisements,
inserted in every paper that will
accept them, shed tears over the
terrible disaster that will come
from denying the miners and steel
workers beer and wines. Most of
those workers came from Europe,
as did the brewers. If not content
with American progress and
methods, let them return to the
countries from whence they came
and the brewers with them.
The Punishment of John Barley
corn will deprive few profession
al reformers of soft snaps but they
will have to stand it along with
the brewers and liquor dealers.
Their God probably will reward
them and provide an easy job in
some other line.
We have no harsh words for the
liquor dealers. Many of them are
esteemed personal friends. The
evil effects Of handling the stuff
is ample punishment for the worst
booze dealer that exists. We hope
that they can be made to see that
other lines of business are desir-
able and profitable.
Let US not hang back. Let us
have st. Louis county all swept
and garnished for the encourage
ment and even guidance of state
wide prohibition next year.
Come, dear fellow citizens, vote
to Danish the debasing, Destroy
ing, undesirable old wretch from
the county.
THE DISCOUNTED TIMES.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01

A Fremont county, Ia, farmer
received $136.50 for a single load
of corn. That same man easily re-
members when he sold just as
large q load for 500.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01
GILBERT'S FARMERS DAY.

= The fourth annual farmers day
fair will beSheld at Gilbert, Mimi,
on Monday, September 8. The
town will distribute $500 cash in
prizes. No exhibitor in st. Louis
county will be barred. In the
past, exhibits on this occasion at
Gilbert have compared most fav-
orably with those at the county
fair.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-01

Tower, the pioneer town on the
Vermilion iron range, will have
no more Sunday mails. Tower has
been the only town on the ranges
to get Sunday mail
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THE Blue and THE GRAY.
A SOUTHERN VOLUNTEER.
(Atlanta Constitution.)

(Atlanta constitutional
Yes, sir, I fought with Stonewall,
And faced the fight with Lee;
But ii this here Union goes to war,
Make one more gun for me!
I didn't shrink from Sherman
As he galloped to the sea;
But If this here Union goes to war,
Make one more gun for me!
I was with 'em at Manassas
The bully boys in gray;
I heard the thunders roarin'
Round StonewaI Jackson's way,
And many time this sword Of mine
Has blazed the way for Lee;
But if this old nation goes to war,
Make one more gun for me!
I'm not so full O. fightin'
Nor half so full O. fun,
As I was back in the sixties
When I shouldered my old gun;
1t may be that my hair is white
Such things you know must be,
But if this old Union goes to war,
Make one more gun for me!
81. ,&s.~.
I hain't forgot my raisin-
Nor how in sixty-two,
Or Whereabouts, with battle shouts,
I charged the Boys in Blue;
And I say; I fought with Stonewall,
And blazed the way for Lee;
If this old Unions in for war,
Make one more gun for me!