Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-01-13
Sleepy .yassy, Ru1nanla's War
 Capital, Thronqed and Alive
Once Quiet Provincial Seat Now Soothing Hive of War Activities-GroWs From 75,0O0 to 30o,0OO Population Almost Over Night

spiritlesS. with crowds of curious onlookers commenting derisWely on the lack of courage which made free com from military service.
 At the railroad station d long train of cars enters, bearing hundreds of Translvanians captured by the Rus sians from the Austrians and now turned over to the Rumanian mili- tarv authorities for service under the Rumanian flag. The men seem hap py at the prospept of serving the country of their nativity, but are con scious of the grim fate that awaits them if taken prisoners by the Ger mans or Austrians; for II re-taken by the Teutonic forces they will be summarily shot as traitors.
 Not far from the center of the city are the residences of the King and Queen. which in time of peace were the quarters of military com- panies. In keeping with the tenden- cy of the times, they arc severely plain in all their appointments and surroundings, and it is difficult for the visitor to realize that within the plain, rude walls are noused the sovereign heads of a nation. The Queen may be seen almost any day setting out from the royal residence in an automobile, undergaWed and attended only by one of the ladies-in- waiting from the court. The King likewise is a familiar figure on the streets of Jassey. He usually travels by motor. accompanied by one of his generals or military aides. The roy al ramily is much loved hy the peo- pie, and both he and tne Queen minSle among their subjects with q spirit or democracy and catholicity that is deeply impressive tG the vis- itor from other countries.
 Barter Instead Oi Money.
 In the poorer quarter of the pro Nisional capital is a large public mar. kct-place where hundreds of farm CTS and peasants gather daily to dis pose of their meagre wares. Of most striking interest perhaps is the fact that the ordinary method of paying for goods with money has giv ell way i'll many cases to the primi- tive custom of barter and exchange: for in the present scarcity of food in Rumania money has cone to have but little value. At this market place may be seen an itinerant mer chant trading bushel of potatoes for quantity of wood. peasant woman exchanging a pound of butte, for package of sugar, or a farmer swapping d sucklinS pig for few pieces of leather.
 While the city has many pictures que aspects, it is not without its scenes of sorrow and depression Making its way slowly along a mar TOW street is d shabby, Jilapidaetd i boNllhe vehicle, so small that is re Sembles a toy wagon, which tn, i natives generously call a hearSe. alt i which iS bearing to final repose ih, ! body of one of the late residents o the city. Drawn by single horse pltltully decrepit and lame, tn, hearsc is followed by young ma, on foot. Then. in turn. comes crude-cart. on whica sa is seated /. i patriarchal figure. bent with tn, weight of years.
 Tue spectator inqureS the details ! of the Somhre spectacle and is iu formed that u young woman has fail
 ed victim of typhus-that terrihl,
 seourage which has claimed, so man,
 thousands of Rumanian's population