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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-01
Tom Days Column
THE VILLAGE POET

phid totenl
An from the rising Of the sun unta It's
going dotcn
The ne,os of all the unipersc aoiH center
IN the street
Whose aodls rcsound ,cith cheering an
the tramp Of marching feet.
Grandfather IN his easy chair tciH tell
us ,ohdt tcds done
when Lincoln called for volunteers 'tcay
back IN '6f
An hoto the young defenders rose, three
hundred thousand strong,
An regiment on regiment took up the
bdttlesong.
Hen tell as Of their martial look the day
they marched dtcay,
An net he nercr saU the sight that's
spread for as today.
For achat icere all the uniformed blue
1carriors he sdio
To these ten thousand youngsters toho
are heroes "in the ro,c"p
A unitorm's a bldndiShment, just that an
nothing more,
An cren guns are commonplace an
Spcak too loud Of 1cdr.
But 1cherc's the sight in oil the tcorld
such sympathy ealists
As earnest, eager fighting men ,Ctth
nothing but their dstsp
The chcrron and the golden lace tDiN 1cin
the thoughtlcSs fair
an rake the faded memories of grandpa
in his chair,
But here Is noble pathos eren Lincoln
nerer SdtC--
Ten thousand marching youngsters tCho
are heroes "hi the ra,c."
The Saturday of Saturdays In Philadcl-
phia toton!
An from, the rising Of the sun until its
going dolcn
The netcs of all the unirerSc tciH center
in the street
Whose rols ,csound 1oith cheering an
the tramp of marching feet.
ON the other hand, there are places
in the world where the news is rather
scarce. Ballygawley, in County Tyrone,
is quiet enough. yet the regular corre-
spondent in that town for the Tyrone
Courier found all these items there:
Workman's Return-Im sure all Bally-
gawley and district will be glad to learn
that the able and skilled workman in the
person of b. J. MCrory has started to
work at the carpentry usual. We
know he is able to take his place at any
time.
Sligo ladies at Ballygawley-Last week
2 Understanding young ladies from Bally-
mote Co. Sligo, in Miss Mary Orr and
Miss Madge Doherty, friends of Rev. ].
f. Fairbanks and Mr.. Watson. pension
officer The Grange were subject to a warm
reception on arrival here On Friday. A
grand garden party was held by Mr.. and
Mrs. Watson at the Grange, many visitors
being present
Stylish and fashionable wedding-On
Thursday morning the End inst, a stylish
and attractive wedding party motored
into Ballygawley and put up at Mr.
James lrwins establishment, the Diamond
bar The bride who was young Belfast
lady caused much attraction from her
beautiful dress. The groom was
popular young Tyrone man from the
neighborhood of Beragh After spending
some time at Mr.. Irwin's the happy couple
TOOK their departure amid loud cheers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-01

SEE Jarvis A. Wood, with a Poor
Richard Club napkin tucked under his
white beard and smiling jovially out upon
his companions at table: "A report comes
to me of young man in New York who
was so keen for exemption from service
in the army that he had nearly all his
teeth drawn shortly before he was called
for examination. But the surgeon who
looked him over began at the bottom.
Flat feet said he rejected"
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-09-29

Clarence R. Anderson gave much owl
dence last Sunday evening in his mastery
address, that he is a thinker as well as
an attorney at law. If he prepares his
court papers with as much thought and
logic as did he the paper, which he read
on the occasion mentioned above, then
sooner or later he will develop into one of
the eminent lawyers of the Northwest. Ad-
hitting the weak points in his race, but
proving the members thereof quite capable
of developing into just as strong minded
men and women as are to be found among
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-09-29

the meeting it will hardly be her last. Mrs.
Young is graduate Of Oberlin and is quite
qualified to make herself useful as well as
ornamental, and it is hoped that other pro-
gram makers will utilize the talent she so
clearly demonstrated last Sunday evening
that she possesses
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
The American Cotton Industry

moralized state of the cotton market
following the outbreak of the Euro
pean war The average production
Of lint per acre in 1915, as estimated
by the department of agriculture, was
40 pounds, as against 200 pounds in
1914, 1872 pounds in 1913, 1911 pounds
in 1912, and POS pounds in 1911.
Among the more important cotton
growing states. the highest average
yield, 260 pounds per acre, is shown
for North Carolina, and the lowest,
1852 pounds, for Oklahoma. The high
est average yield for any state, $50
pounds, was reported for California,
where irrigation is practiced. Under
especially favorable conditions. and
with improved cultural methods, the
Weld in some localities approaches
bale to the acre. and there is good
reason to believe that with the more
general practice of intensive and
mere intelligent farming it will be
possible to bring about a large in
crease in production without any gen
eral extension of acreage.
Consumption and Exports.
During the year ended July 81, 1916,
the American consumption of cotton
and iinters amounted to 727S,o29
bales and the domestic exports to g.
1910 bales, and stocks held in the
country at the end of the year totaled
8 ,4O3,256 bales. The quantity con-
sumed in American mills was the
greatest on record, but the exports
were less than for any preceding year
since 1904.
The exports of cotton for the past
three fiscal year show great varia-
tons, due principally to the war con-
ditions existing during the last two
years. Exports to the United King
dom totaled 3.5S1501 equivalent 500
bales in 1914, 3.919,749 in 1915. and
276O,324 in 1916: to Germany, 1854
324 in 1914, 294,194 in 1915. and none
in 1916; to France. 1.139,399 in 1914,
692,699 in 1915, and S90,376 in 1916;
to Italy. 1857 in 1914. 1927, 400 in
1915. and S36915 in 1916; to Spain,
297.339 in 1914, 464504 in 1915. and
340,246 in 1916; to Belgium, 227,474 in
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Missed a Sale,

1T seems to me-" said Main street
stationer, that everybody's writing or
debating letters these days. Nine Gus
toners out of ten who come in here
ask for postage stamps. This morning
a woman was here browsing around.
She looked over the entire stock. l
thought I had a customer. After she
finished the rounds she remarked: oh,
1 nearly forgot. Have you any post
age sta1nps? said yes and asked her
how many she wanted. She handed
me wrapped newspaper and asked
how much l thought it ought to have
to carry it to it's destination. I
weighed the darned thing and told
her cent would be sufficient. Is
that alp she said. We'll, I have
one cent stamp in my pocketbook. I
thought it would come to more Thank
you very much. '"--Richmond Times
Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Business Based on Service.

Modern business is built up largely
on guarantees. People don't trade with
folks they can't trust. That business
is getting freer from traps and hooks
is due largely to guarantees, some of
which assure you of satisfaction or
your money back. Others promise long
continued service and free repairs.
while others give a free trial till you
make up your mind you want to buy.
The idea Is to help you get your full
moneys worth and to make you feel
safe in buying an article on which you
are not fully posted, but which you
want If it suits you.-Farm and Fire
side.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
COLLINS TURNER IS
GIVEN SEVEN YEARS
Hampton Jury Imposes Seventeen
Term on Tinsman Merchant for
Killing Of Joe Hunter.

Collin Turner, merchant of Tins
man, who was accused of the murder
of Joe Hunter there about year ago,
was found guilty of manslaughter,
and sentenced to serve seven years,
by jury yesterday morning, at the
conclusion of the trial, at Hampton,
Calhoun county.
Attorney T. Havis Nixon returned
from Hampton last night, where he
assisted Prosecuting Attorney JOS.
Mahoney in conducting the case for
the state The defendant had Smead
Powell, Judge Mcknight and Charles
Poole as his counsel.
A brother of Turner, convicted in
July of being accessory to the, killing,
was pardoned recently by former
Governor Hays, on condition that he
leave the state Of Arkansas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13

A bulletin recently issued by Di-
rector Sam. L. Rogers of the bureau
OF the census, department of COM
merce, and prepared under the super
vision of Mr.. William NJ. Steuart.
chief statistician in charge of the in
curry, shows, for the American crop
Of 1915, a production of HOGS. 173
running bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales equivalent to H.
800 bales Of 500 pounds each,
gross weight. worth $627,940O00 to
the growers, and of 4,992O00 tons of
cottonseed. worth $167, 100000: and
for the cotton year" ended July 81.
1916, a consumption of 6.397,613
bales (exciusive of liDters). exports
of 5,S95,672 bales. net imports of
42O.995 bales, stocks on hand at the
beginning of the year of 3,139,7 09
hales, and cotton spindles active at
some time during the year to the
Number of 32.So5,SS3
The production of ,inters from the
crop of 1915 was 944,640 running
tales, the quantity consumed during
the year SS0.916 bales. and the ouanti-
ty exported 2a5.43S bales. For the en-
tire world the production of lint cot
ton destined for factory use was 49,
$4,000 and the mill consumption 81
oil 900 bales of 800 pounds net
weight The American crop of 1915
fell below that of 1914 to the extent
of 4,943110 equivalent 50O-pound'
fales, gross weight, or more than 30
per cent, and was less than that OF
anv preceding year since 1909.
Texas alone produced 3,227,4S0
equivalent 5o0-pound bales, or nearly
90 per cent of the total American
crop of 1915: while four state.-A1a"
hama, Georgia South Carolina, and
Texas. each with an output of more
than 100000 bales-together pro-
duced nearly two-thirds of the crop.
Acreage and Yield Per Acre.
According to the revised estimates
of the department of agriculture, the
acreage from which the crop of 1919
was harvested amounted to 31.412,0Oe
the smallest since 1907. This re-
duction in acreage was due to the de-
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Tie campagna.

The Campagna is the great plain sur.
rounding the city of Rome, rolling gen.
thy down, like a quiet sea, over the
bones of dead cities from the noun
tains to the Mediterranean. 1t is a low,
desert level tufted with rusty grass and
haloed by mist of romance and ma
laria. 1t is one of the most historic
and most unhealthful bits of country in
the world. A slow, subtle beauty be.
longs to it, which has taken powerful
hold of some and which others never
feel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
GETS LIFE SENTENCE
FOR RAPE OF NEGROES

TeXarkana, Jan. 12.--Life term in
the state penitentiary is Rel Edwards
penalty for his role in the wholesale
holdup of negroes ana the alleged
rape of two negro girls, near Ash
down, several weeks ago
Edwards, who claims TeXarkana as
his home city, was convicted and sen
fenced Thursday in the Little River
CIRCUIT court at Ashdown.
Trials of Hot Springs Blackie and
Willis Roberts Of Ashdown. alleged
companions of Edwards in the esca
pade, will be opened next Tuesday.
The trio was charged with holding
up one at a time. "a negro laborers,
and with attacking two negresses.
nine and 10 years old, respectively.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Burninu Gas in Tea}<ettles,

Spanish peasants living in the cork.
oak region use homemade gas OBJ
tanned from cork refuse. AS described
by one authority, the process con-
sists in filling several large teakettles
with the waste bark and placing each
In turn over the fire during the eve.
ming, burning the volatile gas as 1t es.
capes from the spouts. The carbonic
residue forms the fine black brown pig
ment known to commerce as Spanish
brown"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Beam in the Eye.

Many child, as well us some old
er persons, has puzzled over that
"beam" in the eye of which the New
Testament speaks. It is not always
understood that this means beam OF
Bernhard, in his wood cuts illustrat-
ing the Bible, published at Lyons in
1868, to picture this beam as one of
wood, rectangular in section, and sew
eral feet in length!
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Island Ruined by Goats.

st. Helena, famous as the island
prison of Napoleon, was at one time
covered with thick forest. Cattle did
not do there, and goats were imported
to give meat and milk for the settlers.
They soon ran wild, and betook them
selves to the hills, where they multi
piled by thousands, and browsed on
the young trees and shrubs. Today
the island is little better than a des-
ert.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Change of Scene After Grief.

Many women find in change of
scene most wise course to follow
when some trouble comes to them. The
old associations but serve to renew
their grief, whereas being in strange
place among strangers they seem to
find new strength. New interests make
claims upon them, and little by little
they become resigned to the inevitable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13

In Paris aerodyna,nic laboratory
for testing mciel aeroplanes vino
speeds as high as seventy-one miles
an hour are produced by machinery
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13

Toronto has the largest industrial
school IN North Amerion. The school
has cost nea,ly $2000,U00. Its audi
forum will seat 1900 people and its
gymnasium is unusually we'll equip
ped
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
First and Second Wives.

The second wife is usually happier
than the first because by that time
. man has got all his bachelor the.
cries about 'how to rule a woman"
and "how to make over q wife" out OF
his systam.-Exchange.
A recess for carrying a nail seat
features now hammer handle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13

Australia's pearl fishery industry is
being held up by the war.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13
Try $50 for Sire Service.
TAYLOR & COMPANY.
Prompt and reliable Insurance Service

your rag rugs, any size, American
Excelsior Laundry Co.. phone LAG. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-01-13

ing sporting rifle than an Ohio man
has invented.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26
EARLY SETTLEMENT IF CHINESE FUSS
 SEEMS PROBABLE

WASHINGTON, June 2g.-EarIy settlement of China's troubles was forecast today in dispatches to the state department telling of the bene- ficial effect of the recent American note. Other dispatches to the Chi nese legation announced the forma- ton of a coalition cabinet including representatives of the secessionists and Picking press reports giving added details of the abandonment of military measures by the southern provinces.
 The new cabinet, according to le- gation adviceS, is to be a coz lition body with representatives of both the
 iih L4- n, .,.lls.A. had unsuccessfully sought for premier after the dismissal of Tuan Chi Jui, notified the legation that he had ac- cepted the post in the belief that the two factions had solved their differ enceS and that peace was at hand. General Wang Shih Chen, former chief of the general staff, is named as minister of war after having been named for a similar position in the secessionist government Admir.' c Sah Chen Ping is minister of the navy
 The American note to China urging
  ences, about which so much misun- derstanding centered, was reported to the departrnnt as having creo-"" 2 very favorable impression in China. clined to follow this country's course of action on the ground that any su., gestions from the outside would be | apt to have a bad effect.
 The settlement of the internal or Q wnI expedite China's entrance into the war, according to opinion here All parties in China are said to have been in favor of war but tC have refused to enter it under the | former leadership.
 1 It will be necessary. however, to await the final ratification of the new parliament, whose election will TO- ~,li-c several ronths owing to tho complicated electoral machinery.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26

and market conditions throughout the world and the necessities of our people at home and our armies and the armies of our associates abroad
 The government is taking, or has taken, steps to ascertain for example, just what the available present supply of wheat and corn is remaining from the crops of last year; to learn from each of the countries exporting those foodstuffs from the United States what their purchases in this country now are, and where they are stored; and what their needs are in order that we may adjust things so far as possible to our own needs and free stocks; and this information is in course of being rap idly supplied.
 ''The case of wheat and corn will serve as an illustration of all the rest. supplies of all kinds. Our trade can be successfully and profitably conducted now, the war pushed to a victorious is sue, and the needs of our own people and of the other peoples with whom we are still free to trade efficiently met only by systematic direction; and that is what will be attempted"
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26
PROBING DEEPLY
 INTO HANDLING
 OF CRUCER CAsE
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NEW YORK, June 25.-The entire motorcycle police squad, some of whose members already have been suspended by Arthur Woods, police commission CT, in connection with the Ruth Cru ger case, were ordered to report at headquarters today with all reports and summons for the last two years All other policemen who saw duty with the motorcycle force during that period, but now are on other duty, were also instructed to appear with their records.
 Miss Helen Cruger, sister of the murdered girl, testified today before Leonard NJ. Wallstein, commission of accounts at the inquiry into the handling of the case, that she received only scant consideration from the officials to whom she appealed to find her sister.
 Henry D. Cruger, the father. also testified that the police had mani- fested little interest in the case. He formally demanded, he said, that AL fredo Cocchis bicycle repair shop be searched and the only search madc was perfunctory.
 Edward Swann, district attorney who is conducting an inquiry said to day that the murder case againsf Cocchi was complete, and if Cocch cannot be brought here for trial, hc is prepared to present complete case against him in the Italian courts.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26

Damage estimated at more than a million dollars has been done two miles of railroad washed out and sev- eral thousand acres of rich land laid waste and number of towns are in danger as the result of a torrent which carried out the Price river dam irrigation companv's dam twelve miles from Fairview, Utah, yesterday after noon.
 The entire dam is reported today as carried away No towns have as yet been washed out but reports this morning from Price were to the effect that the water is within half a mile of the town of Schofield and that the community is in danger. Its residents are carrying their effects to high ground.
 The entire valley is said to be inun- dated and at least two miles of the Denver and Rio Grande's Price Scho- field branch railroad have been car ried out. Other points on the branch are reported as in danger and more damage to the road is anticipated. Helper, Castle Gate and Colton are also in the path of the flood and resi- dents of those points are seeking ref uge in the hills with their effects but so far as can be learned at this time the flood has not damaged them as yet. ; Hot weather that suddenly thawed the snow on the high mountains of the Price river watershed was the cause of the flood. The thaw precipitated into the reservoir a quantity of water which proved too much for the dam. The flood commenced at o'clock yesterday afternoon when after the reservoir was filled, the spillway be- came inadequate and wall of water commenced pouring over it.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26
CLAIM SA[AZAR
 |S DEMENTED
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FL PASO. June 26-Jose Ynez Sala gar, Villas chief of staff, who surren dered in Pearson. Chih., recently, is demented from the effects of a kick which he received from the heels of a mule while campaigning with Villa near Ojinaga, an American Mormon who arrived here from Pearson late to- day said. SalaZar has been making speeches against the Americans. threatening to shoot any Americans he saw and declaring he would raid an other American town as did Villa. the Mormon added. He is being watched closely bv the government soldiers
 General Francisco Chavez, the spe cial labor commissioner sent from Chi huahua City to Cananea, Sonora. to in vestigate the labor troubles there, ar rived here last night and left for the Sonora copper camp. He will make a report to the government officials in Mexico City regarding the situation there which caused the Cananea Con solidated Copper company to close it's mines and SmelterS.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-26
|NORMONS D|SARMED AND PROPERTY |S
 TAKEN FROM THEM
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DOUGLAS, June 25.-Mexican resi- dents of the Batepito valley in the vicinity of Colonia Morelos, sixty miles southeast of Douglas. disarmed 15 American Mormons who reside there. At the same time they took possession of several thousand acres of irrigated and improved land owned by other members of the colony driven out about year ago. The Mexicans an- nounced they would keep this land.
 This was the text of a report re- ceived by Mormons here late today. It was feared by the colonists that they would also be dispossessed and driven from the country.
 Fl Tigre, an American owned mining camp about seventy miles southeast of Douglas, was formally taken over by MeXicans late Saturday, it was learned today. The Mexicans intend to try to operate the property, it was stated.
 Mining men here, conversant with conditions at Fl Tigre, express the be- ,, lief that the effort of the Mexicans NIll meet with failure as the company will be forced for some time because of the high cost of cyanide of potas- sium to ship most of it's product in the form of ore and attempts to ship the rich ore through here would mean that the MeXieans would be involved in endless legal difficulties, they say
 The supply of food on hand is said to be limited All Americans at Fl Tigre came out last week.
 Antonio Pedrazzini, manager of the Las Chiapas properties near Arizpe, Sonora, received letter today from Sonora authorities informing him that unless two thousand pesos alleged by the government to be due as taxes are paid for, the ranch interests of the company will be confiscated by gov ernment.
 me company's mining property, af- ter having been restored to it a few weeks ago, was seized again by local authorities at AriZpe who are said to be attempting to operate it.
 George Reed, acting manager and a citizen of Great Britain, has been held a prisoner in the camp for two weeks, according to local information.