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The Prescott daily news., 1917-05-05
Gray Ewes.

Like quiet morning waters are her sysA Softened by shadows to @ deeper gray, In whose untroubled depths no image lies Of any thought less calm, less pure
 than they. But for the gradual smiles that dawn aa
 day,
 Lighting the dim recesses where they
 rise,
 Like quiet morning waters are hst
 eyes, Softened by shadows to deeper gray. Silent they are. yet eloquently wise Of visions splendid that no words con-
 vey; AS If once having looked on Paradise Still were they loath to turn their gaze
 away. Like quiet morning waters are her eyes, Softened by shadows to deeper gray- -Ethelwyn Dithridge in The Readsxo
The Prescott daily news., 1917-05-05
NORMAL BOARD WILL MEET
 TO ELECT A FACULTY

Little Rock, May 5.-The Arkansas Normal Board will meet again next Tuesday to elect faculty and president for the Normal. It is inti- '"ted that an Arkansan will receive
 e position.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-05-05
Yhe PRESCOTT DAILY NEWS
 Published by The News Printing Company

Entered as second class mail mat Ter November 4th, 1905, at the post
 office at Prescott, Ark, under the act
 f Congress, March 3. 1879.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
THE GREAT RAPOLI
 A SHOW IN HIMSELF

A vaudeville show in himself is a fitting characterization of The Great Rapoli, who is appearing at Keeney $ this week in the headline act. Rap oH does 9 number of things in clever style. He is 8 cartoenist, a juggler of skill. an impersonator and a mu- sician, displaying efficiency in each. His act is one of the best attractions seen here in months. Another en- tertaining speciality is the piano and singing number. given by Hendrix and Padula, pair of entertainers of con- siderable skill. The Musical Kleises also contribute considerable towards the success of the show.
 Topping the photoplay program for the balance of the week will be "The Victoria Cross" Lou-Tellegen play ing the leading role. There will be other film attractions.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
SIDE TALKS
Branded.
BY RUTH CAMERON

If you knew that if you let your self be mean or selfish or sensual or grasping or unamiable, you would have to wear a sign in big letters, branding you as such, don't you think it would make you a little more careful of your character?
 We'll, to many folks, the people who deserve it do wear just such a sign.
 Four of us sat opposite a couple on the trolley the other day. I saw each one of my companions give them a swift glance. When we got off the car, someone said "Too bad that nice-looking young man should have girl like that!"
 Her Face Rocked With Meanness.
 "Yes." said another. ''her whole
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
OH, COME SEE PAPA
 WITH THE MODELS!

. "Henny and Papa With the Models Is funny scene that. takes place dur ing the action of Rose Sydell's fa- nous London Belles," the attraction all this week at the Grand theater. Papa finds that his son knows lot of things about home life that he hadn't even dreamed existed. Henny in this case is Johny Weber,. the fea- tured comedian with the Campbell show, and he is playing in unusually fine form this season. The two-act burietta, "A Trip to Washington . serves to introduce many clever vau- deville specia1ties and the costumes worn are a work of art from the best known Parisian modistes. Frances Cornell, the famous English Music hall singer appears this season, and Miss Rose Sydell herself, is person ally present. Miss Pullman brings down the house with her clever work. The Gayety Trio, Lew Thall and William Campbell, are others among the principals.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
THE DUMMY" NEXT
 ON LYCEUM STAGE

From a Broadway theater at two dollars seat, to stock at fifty cents in two years is a very unusual record for a real metropolitan success. How ever, that Is precisely what MT. Nay Tor has done with 'The Dummy Founded on the Barney" stories which ran in Golfers Weekly, this unusual play by Harriet Ford and Harvey OHiggins, enjoyed long. successful run at the Hudson theater in New York.
 The Dummy is enjoyable because the authors have veered off at every possible opportunity from the groove worn we'll by all the many crook plays of this and other seasons. The play takes unexpected turns and is lighted by a shrewd and pleasant humor. It l is 8 crook play in which the crooks are not so very crooked after all. There is not revolver shot or so much as a telegraph. but just small messenger boy from down Hudson street way in hot pursuit of some kidnappers because he wants to make a showing as a "detectuf." MT. Naylor says Lyceum patrons will like l ."The Dummy better than Rolling
 Stones and there is every reason to
 believe it.
 If one likes to see beautiful play
 which is at times so pathetic as to bring tears to the eyes of the strongest and then again so humorous so as' to make the most blase of theatergoers
 smile. Don't fail to see ''The Dus:
 of the Earth It is play in which
 old childhood days are renewed and
 one that makes you wish you were a
 boy or girl once again. play such as this is seldom seen acted as realas-
 tic as this one is and all the credit
 is due to the actors and Director Nay
 Tor for the excellent manner in which
 the play is produced.
 Sunday evening ''The Glory of Yo-
 landa" will be shown at the Lyceum featuring Anita Stuart. Don't fail to see this extraordinary photoplav showing how the Great White Flame of Purity burned in the Soul of a | Russian dancing girl.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05

face simply reeked with meanness."
 II don't think I ever so so many mean lines in so young a face," said the third.
 Evidently to these three people (and to mel that girl was as plainly tagged as if she had worn a sign about her neck.
 When sin is in the soul" some one has said. 'it leaps out upon the face."
 And that doesn't mean just big sins like murder and adultery, it means any crookedness of the soul.
 How many people one knows whose sour souls have leaped out on their faces and written discontent there in big, ugly letters! ss "DiScOntent' Was Written on His Face
 When shut my eyes and recall to
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05

The very deep collar is not chic; new dresses are finished in some in teresting flat and simple fashion around the neck.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05

mother-in-law abruptly rising, ''there are few more detestable men in the world to my notion than Harry Un- derwood. Of course, you have to tn- vito him here if you entertain his wife. But you mark my word, Rich ard, you will some day bitterly regret that you ever brought that man into your home."
 A Strange Shock.
 My mother-in-law swept majestical- ly out of the room. Diclxy waited until she was we'll out of earshot be- fore indulging in the fit of laughter which I had foreseen was coming when his mother made her dramatic prophecy.
 Gee! mothers a cheerful lady to have about the house, he said, when he had finished chuckling. Do you suppose she'll treat Harry to another of her tantrums?' he asked, anxious ly, moment later.
 ''No, I don't think she'll do any. thing worse than treat him with the frigidly she always uses toward him. I replied.
 "Oh. we'll, he's used to that Dicky returned, in relieved tone At any rate we've got to take what ever comes now. It won't be long now before they arrive.'' And. indeed, it was less than ar hour before their taxi swung into thu driveway.
 Lillian's head and face were SC swathed in veils that did not realize what the change in her appearanc, ! of which she had warned me was until l was alone with her in my room. which l intended giving up t her and her husband while they stayed. Then, as she took off her Ina; and wells I almost cried out in aston
 ishment-for at my first, unaccus toned glance. instead of, the rouget and powdered face. and dyed hair which to me had been the only un. pleasant things about Lillian Under. wood, the face of an old woman looked at me, and the hair above i ! was gray!
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
$lO0 Reward. $l0O

Tho readers of this paper will be one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all it's stages, and that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby de- giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting na- ture in doing it's work. The proprie- tors have 50 much faith in the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure! Send for list
 Address: F. J. CHENEY ( CO, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05
"A DAUGHTER OF THE 7,
 GODS" AT PARSONS

Ninety per cent. of the multitudin- ous scenes of William Foxs picture ! beautiful, "A Daughter of the Gods. the ''stills'' or stationary pictures.
 would furnish fit canvases for the art galleries of the world. The painter who could have conceived, set and executed in oils a scene from mer- maid bay, an interior of the sultan's s
 palace, showing the bath and beauties
 of the haren, Miss Annette Keller
 mann wandering like a lost Eve in
 the woodland or the multi-colored
 battle scene before or the burning of the Moorish capitol, would have taken his place with Turner for color Van Dyke for costume, Whistler for fea- ture, Raphael for form.
 It is sincerely hoped that an inven- tion will be made which shall serve to perpetuate such valuable ribbons of film as go to make, up "A Daughter of the Gods" Imagine our delight if we were given to see the original models of the Venus de Milo, the Apollo Belvedere, the Winged Victory and other standard examples of an- tique art, in natural, out-of-doors ac- tion in and about the seashore, the
 
 one or two thousand years from today the. descendants of what are now Am erican school children could be.shown the film that was produced simultan- eously with year of the great Euro pean war, it would throw consider able intimate light on the progress at tained in the>twentieth century. Who can say but that in two thousand years America will be the Greece of antiquity? .....
 If you think your soul and senses deserve a rare treat, a journey through Elysian fields in commemor- ation of this holiday season, take yourself to see "A Daughter of the Gods'' to be shown at Parsons thea ter, Hartford, for eight days, start ing Good Friday.
 You will take home with you a se ries of mental images which will lift you above the humdrum of every day life for weeks to come. Matinees will be given daily.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05

mind a man whom I have not seen for years, two things leap out at me, the ugly lines from nose to mouth and those between the eyes. Both testify to his miserable dissatisfac- tion with life.
 Fretfulness puts crows feet all over a face far more surely than age ever will.
 sensuality, however well-hidden the possessor thinks it to be, will carve deep and unmistakable lines on his face.
 Unbridled selfishness will eventual ly make the loveliest face mean and ugly.
 Arc You Willing to Be Marked.
 Most of us have unbeautiful ex-a pressions now and then. It is only when the unbeautiful is the -habitual trend of of our souls that it marks it. self permanently on the face
 Of course, the converse is true, and a sweet face is one of the rewards of 8 beautiful life. :,
 Are you willing to have your char acter carved on your face?
New Britain herald., 1917-04-05

Coats are mostly straight in front, but backs are almost sure to be flaring
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05

sible In the central empires. where the
villages are full of peasants who not
so many generations ago were serfs,
attached to the land, and who lived
in wholesome fear of the landed pro-
prietors.
This is the first method by which
influence is exercised on the popula-
ton. There is also the restricted
franchise, or circle voting. which gives
the control Of franchise TO h few rich
proprietors
AS a rule. the oldest son enters the
army as an officer and may continue
there; nut If he has not displayed any
special aptitude for the military pro-
fession he retires and manages his
estate. These estates are calculate
by their proprietors to give at least
four per cent interest income on the
value OF the land. Many younger
sons, after short term of service fn
the array, usually as officers and rot
as 'etn Jahriger," leave the army and
enter diplomacy or some other branch
Of the government service, The offices
of judge. district attorney and so on,
not being elective, this career-~as we'll
as that leading TO the position of land
rat and over-preadent of q province
is open to those who because they
belong to old Prussian landed fami-
lies. find favor In the eyes of the gov
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05
SPECULATIVE on FEVER
SEXES DENVER PUBLIC


Denver. October "A speculative
movement of tremendous proper
tions is holding Denver In Its grip
following the rich strike of crude oil
IN the Wyoming fields
Denver brokers declare that every
one. from the domestic servant to
milady herself and from the ONCE
boy to the communities most SUBJ
stantial citizen. is ''oil mad" and
small and large are the sums being
made daily through the advance In
price and value of numerous low
priced oil stocks.
Crowds flock to the two oil ex-
changes. recently established here,
and dealing in certificates th&t range
in sale price from three cents a share
to $40 share run into $3.50. 900 shares
daily. And mere man by no means
has a monopoly OF the daily transac-
tons I'm these oil marts Girls and
women. the busIness-Iike stenog.
rapher and the fashianablv attirsd
mistress OF Capitol Hill home. sit
side by side in the Iadv's department
of the Albany Exchange, In Seven
teenth streett pencil and pad In hand
'buyinu and selling during the three
daily "calls" like experienced hnan-
ciers.
On the street cars, In the theater
lohbies- In hotel corridors, at the
neighborhood gatherings of the folks
in all sections Of the city. "oir' even
tualv is the subject to receive most
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05
POSTAL AUTHORITIES
WATCH PEACE FANATICS

Washington, Oct. 1.-The German
p,opagandists and the peace at-any
price promoters are creating an i'm
mense amount Of additional labor for
the Office of William H Lamar. So
Hector fof. the rostoffice department
The activities of these. undesirable
citizens in the pursuit of their fan
atical fancies have made the postof-
fite department an important adjunc.
of the national police system.
Immense quantities of all classes
of mail are now daily going through
the process of government scrutiny.
with a View to experimenting all lit
eraturc contained in newspapers,
magazines. circular letters and even
first class mail that presents the
slightest suspicion of sedition and
disioyalty
Not a great deal of this matter is
being uneGrthed, out this fact does
not tend to cause a relenting of the
vigilance of the federal officers. who
are constantly on the alert. and daily
increasing the scope Of their search
Everything that is discovered In the
mails to SAVIOR of disloyalty and Sc
dition is being promptly forwarded
to the secret service bureau of the
government for such action as the
instance will merit
The extent TO which these disloyal
and treachtrous fanatics operate, as
revealed by the disclosures of the
postoffice. is SO small that no un-
easiness is felt that there is any
chance of It becoming serious mat
ter in any section OF the country
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05

unable to do anything in the obtain
ing of the reforms within the Ger
man state as at present organized.
Up to the beginning of the war
there was great dissatisfaction among
the people with the order of things.
The people were irritated by certain
direct taxes, such as the tax upon the
matches. and heca use every Protes-
tant in Prussia was compelled to pay
a tax for the support of the church,
unless he made a. declaration that he
was an atheist.
The only class in Germany which
is the Kaufman class. The ruling
class Of Prussian mobiles are not trav-
elers They are always busy with the
army and. navy, government employ
ments or their estates. and, as rule,
too poor to travel The poor. of
course. do not travel, and the kauf-
MANN although he learns much in
his travels in other countries to make
him dissatisfied with the small op-
portunity which he has In a political
way in Germany. is satisfied to let
things stand because OF the enormous
profits which he makes through the
low wages and long hours of the Ger
man workingman.
Lawyers and judges amount to lit
tie in Germany, and we do not find
there class Of political lawyers who.
in republics. always seen TO get the
management OF affairs In their. own
hands
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05
/ HAKn-NORkED GERMAN
! EAkM NOMEN

I In peace times a skilled mechanic
/ In Germany received less than So n
day, for which he wag compelled to
work at least ten hours Agricultural
iabofers in the central empires arc
/ poorly paid. The women do much
OF the work done here 10y ken For
instance, once when STAYING al a no
hlcman's estate in d1ngary | noticed
! that the gardeners we're all women.
atd on inquiring how much they re-
ce,t ed | was told they were paia about
twenty cents a day. The women ii
The farming districts of Germany are
/ worked harder than the cattle In
summertime they are out In the fields
at and in the morning, and Co
lot return until or later at night
For this worH they are sometimes
sad as high as forty eight cents A
day in harvest time Nevertheless.
these small wages tempt many Rus
slams to Germany dur.p; The harvest
season.
At the outbreak of the war there
were, perhaps. $4,000 Russians en-
pioyed In Germany, men, women and
girls These the Germans retained in
a sort of slavery to work the fields
| spoke to one Polish girl who was
working on an estate near Berlin over
which | had shooting rights. She told
nre that at the commencement of tho
war she and her family were working
in Germany. and that since the war
they all desired to return TO Poland.
nut that the Germans would not per
nit It,
This hard Working Of women In
agricultural pursuits tends to stupefv
and brutaiize the rural population. and
keeps them in condition of subiec-
tion 10 the Prussian church, the Prus-
sian system and in readiness for war
Both Prussian junkers and the Ger
man manufacturers look with favor
upon the employment OF so many
women in farm work, because the
greater number of laborers the small
er their wages throughout the country
When | first came to Germany /
OF course, was filled with the ideas
mat prevailed In America that the
herman workingman had an easy
time. My mind was filed with pic
lures OF the German workfngmen
sitting with their families at ia
bles drinking beer and listening
20 classical music. After I had
spent some time in Germany r.
round that the reason that the Ger
man workingmen sit about at tables
was because they were too tired Ia
do anything else.
! sincerely hope that after the war
the workingmen of this country Will
induce delegates of their German
brothers TO make a tour of America.
for when the German workinyman
sees how much better orr the mart.
cans ara he w4ii-fetttrrr TO t;erYnsnv~I
and demand shorter hours AMI hirhn-
wages, then the American viii not ne
nro lght into competition with Ia hnr
+iaves, such as .he German WORKING.
man OF the period before the war
As one goes through the streets of
herhn there are no evidences of pov- !
per cent of the famiues in Rariir
Families living In one room.
The Germans are taken care az ana /
educated very much In the same wav
hat the authorities here look artar
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05
AMERICANS LEAD AS
WEAPON INVENTORS

+ Washington. Oct 4.-The invention
of the aeropiane. the submarine, the
Lewis machine gun and other destruc-
tive agencies of war emphasizes the
! fact that though Americans may be
peace-loving people they have been
quick in bringing into the world the
most powerful and ingenious weapons
Away back in the days Of the Amer
lean revolution American small arms
were famous. ana these guns caused
General Howe TO write home about
the terrible guns of the rebels" AT
that time Americans were nation
OF gunmakers and gun users, and an
authority has written:
"In the colonial days the residents
of the Atlantic seaboard We're the
greatest users of guns of their period,
and gunmakers' shops were in every
city and town. With little knowledge
of the science of ballistics, these men
perfected the American rifle that was
a factor of great moment in the revo-
luton when welded by the sharp
shooting, keen-eyed men of the coll
onies"
From about 1900 until period near
the time of the outbreak OF the civil
war the jaeger rife, made at the
United States arsenal and rifle factory
Mt Harper's Ferry. and generally
known az the "Harper's Ferry Rife"
stood at the heed of the list for eff
ticiency as a military rifle
1T was an American who invented
the revolver Colonel Samuel Colts
first vital patent was taken out in
1888, but at the beginning the army
and navy officers looked with sus-
picion or aversion upon the device
The Seminole war, In 1887, gave the
inventor his first opportunity, and his
revolver proved effective In terrify-
ing the Indians of Florida
Ii came into use In large numbers
during the Mexican war in the hands
or Texas Rangers. The revolver OF
that period was far different from the
type of today. The powder hand to
he dropped into six holes. the bull
let's then placed on top and rammed
down by a lever; percussion caps af-
fxed back of each charge and the
hammer pulled back after each shot.
Then there was the invention OF
Richard J. Calling, who brought forth
the first serviceabie machine gun OF
the world. A writer on military
weapons has said that lin the Yam
kee group OF Inventors ranks Ell |
phalet Remington, Jr.. OF the same
period as Colt, Maxim, OF Maine. the
inventor OF Engiand'e best rapid Are
gun. and PARROT, who made the great
smoothbores of the last century"
Among Americans who did much In
the development OF heavy ordnance
were Dahlgren and Rodman, inventors
and designers OF the most effective
Dig guns OF the Civil war and Colonel
Bomford, or New York, who designed
and superintendent the building Of the
great Colum bad
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05
the inmates OF a poorhouse or peni.
Tertiary.
GERMAN SELF-MADE
MEN ARE FEW

Such thing as a German railway
conductor rising to be president Of
the road is an fmpossibility in Ger
many, and the list of self-made men
~ small indeed--by that I mean men
who have risen from the ranks of the
workingmen.
The Socialists, representing the clc-
mort opposed to the Conser viEives,
els". a few members of the Prussi.i :
lower house and about one-third of
the members to the reichstag. but
otherwise have no part whatever in
the government. No Socialist would
have any chance whatever If he set
out to enter the government service
with the ambition of becoming dis
trict attorney or Judge. Jews have
not much chance In the governm emit
service. A few exceptions heve hecn
made. Al one time Dernburg who
carried on the propaganda In America
during the first year of the the war,
and who is 81 Jew. was appointed
colonial minister of the empire
In my opinion, the liberalization of
Prussia has been halted By the fact
that there has been no party protest
except that OF the Socialists. The So
clalists, because they have in effect
demanded abolition of the monarchy
and the hlishnet: of the republis
as part Of their program, have been
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-05

consideration. stAid and diginfied
ciersymen seem to be a. keeniy ar
fected by the oil craze as the dapper
man about town.
'sWanted-To exchange city lots
in desirable section, for stock in some
oil company" 10 the tenor of many ads
in local newspapers.
on stocks that were kicking around
town few weeks ago with no chance
Of sale Mt from two to ten cents a
share are being bought mp In large
blocks at greatly advanced prices, and
favorable reports from the fields
where the companies have holdings
indicate that many of Denver's specu-
lative salesladies and business girls
will be sporting Kolinsky fur this