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Flea Dressing
 Business of
 Mexico Dead
War in Europe Makes Dressing of Pleas for Mar
 ket Unprofitable.

Juarez, Mexico, uJne i5.-War in Europe has crushed another small business in neutral country. Dress ing fleas for market is no longer profitable business in Mexico and the little insects have disappeared from the show cases of curio stores that line Calle Comercio in this rambling border town.
 Dressed fleas were long a staple ar ticle in the stores and shops here fre- quented by tourists. In little boxes, no bigger than the blunt end of lead pencil, there adorned fleas could be seen through reading glasses in all the glory of their wedding or christening finery. Mexican women toiled for days dressing these diminu- tive insects, using the point of nee- dle to attach the bits of bright cloth and lace to the bodies of the, wee pests. Through the miscroscope these dressed fleas appeared as miniature persons with hats, dresses and suits covering their tiny form.
 When the United States govern ment limited passengers to persons on necessary business, the tourist travel to Juarez ceased and, automatically, did the demand for dressed fleas.
 Jumping Mexican beans, another of fering of the curio stores, have ceas- ed to be sold for the same reaso.. Hundreds of these little, wormy beans were sold to travellers from the Uni- ted States when the port was open.
 Drawnwork, pottery, hand carved canes, mantillas and Mexican con- factions are rapidly disappearing from the shops and many of these curio stores have closed their doors since the tourist embargo became ef-- fective.
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could have looked into his eyes and have heard his vibrating voice as he spoke with such intimate knowledge and conviction"
 Huts Homes for Soldiers.
 Dr. Mott urged that activities at the American rest camps overseas be expanded. He told of his visit to Aix les Bains, some times called Americas "Blghty."
 "A man is given seven days leave at the end of every four months" !" said Dr. Mott. "I understand this time is not allowed to accumulate. Sc these men will not be allowed to get home for their vacations. What a Godsend it is that the Y, M. c. A. in cooperation with the government, is placing at their disposal fo rthose days everything that is best in Amer ican life-everything in the new way of recreation and inspiration and ev- erything in the way of nerving the men for the great ordeal to which they returne."
 Dr. Mott revealed that Germany has placed the ban on the Y. M. c. A. Germany has passed the word about that we are not to be permitted to stay in Russia," said Dr. Mott. "Some Americans have wondered whether we should not withdraw the American secretaries from Russia. The only other people have heard suggest that were the Germans" In his address, Dr. Mott showed how the Y. M c. A. was watching after the American soldier from the time he enlisted or was drafted up to and including the day when he gets in actual fighting. The "Red Triangle" man is everywhere to be of service to his pal-The American soldier.
 Among those present were: B. H. Baker, publisher, Cleveland Plain, dealer; A. c. Bedford, president Standard Oil company; Edward Box, editor. Ladies' Home Journal; Morti- nor Schiff, banker; Richard Colgate; L. A. Brossett; Cleveland H. Dodge; M. H. Dodge; General T. Coleman Du Pont; John J Edgar, of Atlanta; Wm. Fellow Morgan, Wm. Cooper Proctor, of Cincinnati; LeRoy Percy, formerly U. s. senator from Missis- sippi; William J. Shepherd, George Otis Smith, Washington, D. C.; H. H. Timpken, Canton, Ohio; Rodman Wanamaker; Bishop Luther B. Will son William Sloan, Bruce Barton, James B. Forgan of Chicago; Ralph w. Hareison of Pittsburg; E. S.. Hartness, George w. Perkins, Arthur Curtis James, Herbert L. Pratt, F. J. Kingsbury, s. s. Kiesge of Detroit; James H. Rockhard, of Pittsburg; c. w. McAlpin, Cyrus M. Mccormick, of Chicago: Alfred E. Marlinp. Samuel Mather, of Cleveland; E. B. Leach man, of Cincinnati; Gov. Carl E. Mil ligan of Maine.
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To The WOMEN

Some women are just a trifle timid about going to a bank to transact business. And why? Simply because they are not familiar with the rules of bank ing. This shouldn't be so, and, indeed, this isn't SO with thosa who come to this bank: for NC aim to make every traasaction SO clear and 50 plad6. that deal ing with a bapk soon becames to them an /eAsy habit.
 We apprbeiate the patronage of women/ Their business with Us is already large and steadily increasing. If you are not now patron, then please consider this an invitation to- become one.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16
MOBILE HOSPITALS
 FOR USE IN FRANCE
Motor Trucks With Traflers Will Car. ry Surgeons, Nurses and Relief
 to Men on Battlefront

Washington, June 15.-Mobile hos 'pltais, mounted on motor trucks and trailers and equipped with nurses who will eat and sleep on the road, and every other facility necessary to pflng the operating room to- the wounded men, are being organized by the army medical department. Miss Dora E. Thompson, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, is organizing staffs of 5O nurses for each unit who will go up to within five miles of fighting lines when their caravan responds to the emergency calls it is designed to meet.
 Each unit is planned to be eauival- ent to an evacuation hospital and besides living quarters for the nurses and transport space for their supplies, the five sections of motor trucks and trailers will be in themselves tem- porary hospitals. The nurses, each given the field kit of an officer, will be prepared to camp where night finds them. or dine from the trailer kitchens as they go along the road. Ten of them will be assigned to each station of the unit, and the sections, put together, will constitute every de- taif of an operating hospital, from sterilization plant to X-ray equip ment.
 Miss Thompson now Tlaces the to- tai enrolment of the Army Nurse Corps at 10000 and anticipates that the number will mass 10000 before the end of the year There are 5000 now wearing the uniform abroad. and more in every camp, cantonment, and em- 'barkation point in the United States. In addition. one group of 24 are on duty in dispensaries maintained at Washington, caring for the health of government employees whose number now runs 10 the tens of thousands In various executive buildinss. fifteen emergency stations have been estab- lished for first-aid work. and much service has been found necessary.
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LEGLESS SOLDIERS
 LEARNING NEW WORK
Engfishmpn Whose Sight and Hands
 Are Perfect are Being Taught

Brighton, England. May 12-(Cor- respondence of The Associated Press.) Soldiers who have lost a leg but whose hands and sight are perfect are learning diamond cutting and polishing in this Atlantic City of Eng land. They a(e employed almost ex- clusively in an industry new to Eng land and expect before the war is ov- CT to compete on a favorable basis with the more highly skilled diamond cutters of Amsterdam and Antwerp, where in pre-war days there was a monopoly of the business. Two large, modern four-story Buildings are being put up which when completed will employ 1900 discharged soldiers.
 Only eX-soldiers with unimparied eyesight and perfect control of their fingers are taken because everything demands on a mans, accuracy of vis- ion and control of his hands. Even with these qualities it takes a man a lifetime 10 learn the trade.
 First the men pass through train ins. school. When a man is first ad- mitte'd he is nut to work on marbles such as he played with when a boy. ite cuts up ana lpOllsDeS tue ndfDleS as he will later do with the real stones. The marbles gre first e'awn in half and then around into shape on steel disc This serves to give him some idea of the finished shape of the real diamond, but it is impossible to get tho face even approximately correct, owing to the softness of the marble.
 Instead of cutting tho 5S facets or surfaces found on the finished brill iant, the men cut six planes on the marble, and afterward grind the base roughly into the shape of the collet or neck When a man does this skill fully he is given a small diamond to cut, and it is a great day in a mans training when this stage arrives. The feeling tha the has stone worth from $100 to $25o in his possession to cut and polish gives him sense of responsibility.
 While undergoing training the men receive no wages, but they receive government allowance of about $7 a week After they have advanced far enough to be entrusted with a dia- mond they are put on Ia, wage basis of from $10 to $2O week. depending on their ability. Their training usual ly occupies a period of from three to six months.
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cost so much is that prices are far higher over there for everything than they are here and they are constant ly rising. Apparently this will con- tinue to be the case for the duration of the war"
 Can't Delay Action.
 "Still another reason is the urgency of the situation. We cannot say, We will do so much now and so much six months from now Where is the American who is going to say, 'Un- dertake your task gradually; by next year overtake the army The Nation al War Work council doesn't stand for that. We want to keep step with the need and even anticipate it.
 "But 1 suppose the great reason why we will spend anything that is needed is because of the extreme de- votion of these men. One of the boys said to me, I have had it out with death.' That is true of every American boy. They have thought the thing through and are ready to pay the extreme price and that is in every one of these boys"
 "One of our athletics, man of football fame, said, If 1 may put it in football language, the ball is on the five-yard line in the enemy's hands, l dcn't agree with him for l think we are much further back than that, but the ball is in the enemy's hand and it is precarious position. A business man said to me, l have put over my desk this language, Ger many is winning this war" That puts it just about as things are and t stirs me as nothing else does have never been more sure than l am now that the allies will win in this war, but we are going to have to pray far greater prices than we have realized. We are wise to ex a white field iwth the words, "An Ap- pand our operations to this end. We must get more than one hundred mil lion dollars. We must get overseas by September at least 4,00O more one-fifth should be women."
 Tribute to Americans.
 In the course of his address, Dr. Mott paid eloquent tribute to the high character of the personnel of the American army.
 "I know the American army" he said. Moreover, since this war be- gan l have seen every other great army on both sides of this struggle and have seen these armies intimate ly, with the exception of the Turk ish armies and certain armies of the Balkan states.
 q am free to say that with the pos sible exception of the Canadian army and I am not sure I should make that exception-there has gone forth to those Europeon shores, or risen up in those European Islands and on the European continent no, body of men averaging as high as judged by every test, as this army of American young men-the flower of the manhood and the boyhood of this republic"
 "I had luncheon recently with Gen. enarl Pershing, and with great eager ness he ventured to say that in his judgment, not in the history of man. kind has there been body of men averaging higher in personality arid character, going forward on more important errand, and animated by purer motives or higher principles. II wish the whole American people
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

ed and wounds disinfected before they are sent to permanent hospitals.
 By these divisions of the wounded into classes, it is asserted, that great rapidity of surgical intervention is achieved as each specialist deals only with cases needing his kind of skill. Then the patient is removed to the hospital at distance of r/'t more than journey of ten or twelve hours, where he receives attention from an- other specialist working in close CO., operation with his colleague in the advanced ambulance.
 This system of segregation of wounded and cooperation of doctors is said to have produced marvellous results.
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CUTS OFF TOES TO ENTER
 MARINES.

Billings, Mont, June 15.-He was told that ha had too many toes but William Lundborg, an office manager of this city still insisted on enlisting in the Marine crops.
 There was an extra pedal append age on each foot.
 twill you. accept me with only ten?" asked LundbOrg.
 He was given an affirmative an- swer. The would-be sea solder hur- ried to surgeon, and spurning an anaesthetic, calmly watched the am- putatior. In few days he will be wearing the Marine uniform.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16
BADGE OF COURAGE.

London, May 17.-Men of the Brit ish mercantile marine who have been in torpedoed or mined ships are to hav~ a tangible badge of courage awarded to them by the government. It was announced in the house of com mons that the new decoration will take the form of a torpedo to be worn on the cuff of the left sleeve. A bar will be added for men who ara tor pedoed or mined a second time. and further bars for each subsequent oc- casion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16
surgeons
 Save Many Wounded
;,,oe If Thousands Are Saw ed by System Used by
 Allies.

French Front, May 21.-(Correspon
 .nee of the Associated Press)-Mar-
 .,, are being performed by the sur
 .oro attached to the various entente .uios By exercising their skill they
 .ve restored to the fighting strength tho allied nations each year since he baginning of the war, whole divis- oms of men who in other wars would ave died of their wounds or would ave been crippled for life.
 The recent gigantic battles, as the ,sult of which more wounded mon han ever before have received sur dcal treatment within short space
 time, have demonstrated the i'm ,ense strides made not only in sur ery but in the methods of removing he wounded from the battle fields nd transporting them to hospitals. effective is the cooperation be- yeen surgeons and physicians at tf,, ront and those at the hospitals in the ear that an immensely larger pro- ortlon of the wounded recover than as the case at the beginning of the lar.
 Men whose legs or arms have been actured by shells now are restored
 their regiments in minimum of |me. This is due mostly to the fact hat they receive prompt antisceptic Eeatment and surgical attention which revents blood poisoning and the stiff ening of articulation. Their recovery
 rapid in the hospitals behind the hes where they can be treated under omfortable conditions far from the erve racking sound of the guns.
 Soldiers have been inspired with tnfidence in the army surgeons in De great battles around Verdun and
 the great German offensive which egan in March.
 Promptness in the treatment of bounded men has been obtained by kgregating them in classes accord hg to the nature of their wounds. his was not generally done at the eginning of the war. The plan then
 vogue was to erect large hospitals 5 near the fighting lines as possible, by ten or twelve miles from the front, )nd to send all cases there for treat bent. When big battles occurred these ospitals were overcrowded and ow- g to the delay in operating there ere many cases of gangrene, tetanus nd other infections that resulted fa- lily.
 The enemy did not hesitate tc mob |ard the hospitals either with the ar llery or from airplanes. Sometimes train load of wounded men would |rrlve only to find all the beds occu- Rled and that they must move on to bother hospital.
 Most of this difficulty now has been Eercome. When wounded men reach e first dressing station or field am- nlance they are divided into categor- P Those slightly wounded are rapid
 dressed and sent to convalescent Pspltals. Those crippled are sent to Elople depots. Men who have been assed go to special hospitals and ose most dangerously wounded are Eaaslerred to hospitals nearby to re- am until they recover or die.
 Those suffering from severe but not fneerous wounds receive prompt Eeatment in the advanced ambu- nces where operations are perform
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16
NEW DISEASE OF WAR

London, June 15.-"Trench mouth" is one of the war diseases which is engaging the attention of British army doctors. Cases of the disease have been for some time under obser- vation and treatment in both the British and French armies. It ap- peared first in the Germany army, where the experts attributed it for a long time to their war bread. Later observers thought it arose from a prolonged diet of canned food.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

The number of American league 300 hitters was increased from fifteen to twenty within a week, while the National held fast to their old squad of eighteen heavy stickers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

'Sacket Harbor N ", has elected la, woman, Mrs. Edward V. s. Mason, as Village President.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

A Woman's Forestry Corps has sbeen organized in England to do log sging and sawmi:l work.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

The New York City Consumer Lea que estimates that $11.70 per week is the least upon which woman can live decently and healthful in New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

Texas women will vote for the first lime in the State primaries next July.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-16

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 on wheat and fiouI/Relieve the rail- roads of this unnecessarily congestion by establishing in your Community one of these wonderful AnErican Midget Mar vel Roller Flour MNs.
The Irish standard., 1918-03-23

on Saturday, March 16, at s p. III. All
Catholic Irishmen and 1rish-Americans
of Chicago should know that they will
find all of the social features found in
fraternal organizations in the A. o. H.,
as we'll as other features of merit
which are found only in the Ancient
Order. You Irish and Irish-American
Catholics who have never been asked
to join this grand old organization
would do yourselves great favor by
inquiring into it's merits, and any of
you in Chicago who would like to join
a live, progressive division, will get all
information from John P. Raftery, of
Division 8, whose address is 1927
Evans avenue. Brothers of this divi-
sion, be sure and attend the grand
musical and literary entertainment in
honor of 1reland's Patron Saint, which
will be given at Emmett Memorial hall
on St. Patrick's Day. Entertainment
commences at 8 p. m.
The Irish standard., 1918-03-23
NOTES FROM CHICAGO.
Chicago. March IL, 191

chicago, Marcn IL, 1918.
The next regular meeting of the
Mayo Mems Benevolent Association
will be held in 912 Masonic Temple on
Sunday, March II, at 2 p. m. A de-.
bate on the question of Irish taxation
will be one of the features of the in
teresting program being prepared for
the occasion. All the members should
make an effort to get there in time so
as to get the meeting through early
and give all a chance to attend the
A. o. H. celebration at Emmett Me-
mortal hall. All good Irishmen of Chi
cago are welcome to attend the de-
bates, and all Mayo men or sons Of
Mayo parents are eligible to member
ship.
Meeting Of Division No. 8, A. o. H.
The next regular meeting of the
branch of the Ancient Order of Hi.
bernians will be held in COL Masonic
Temple, State and Randolph streets,
The Irish standard., 1918-03-23
"TO MOTHER ERlN."

In loving memory of her dauntless
and devoted sons who so gloriously Of
fered up their lives and won immortal
fame, nobly fighting meath the flag of
Irish Freedom on Easter Week, April,
1916, that the unconquered soul of our
dear dark Rosaleen might live forever.
God rest their souls in Glory.
To the list of thy deathless heroes
On thy lustrous scroll of fame
Midst the gems of thy soul immortal
Add each dauntless rebels name,
Whose blood has poured into freedoms 8
lamp
And made brighter it's sacred light,
That thou as a nation may ever live,
Unconquered, undimmed and bright.
Not all the wiles of the traitor,
Foul, filthy and rank as hell,
Nor all the might of the tyrant,
Nor the British SIRENS spell,
Could still in thy pulsing bosom
Thy national hope and pride;
Thou called and they proudly an.
swered,
And twas nobly they fought and died.
The Irish standard., 1918-03-23
JUST A THREE-LEAFED SHAM
ROCK.

III a letter today from one far away,
this emblem came to me.
This precious little Emblem of a land
beyond the sea.
1t is not a fragrant lily, no not blush
ing rose,
1t is just three-leafed Shamrock
that grows OH lreland's shores.
Year after year, year after year, over
the seas it comes,
To some of Ireland's daughters, and
to some of Irelands sons.
No matter what shores, the eXiles
roam, you'll find them wear today
The Emblem of their native land, for
this is Saint Patricks day.
In every land on earth today, this En-
blem can be seen.
In every land on earth today, there
are hearts that love the green.
For every land on earth today, has
eXiles forced to roam
From their native Irish shores, the
three-leafed Shamrock's home.
DELLA FAY FITZPATRICK,
1929 East 4Sth ST.,
Minneapolis.
The Irish standard., 1918-03-23
CHRONOLOGY OF HOME RULE.

CHRONOLOGY OF HOME RULE.
Twenty-eight Years Of Fighting for the
Enactment.
April s, 1SS6-Prime Minister Glad.
stone introduced his first Home Rule
Bill. which was accepted, but without
enthusiasm, by Parnell and his follow.
ers.
June Z, 1S86-The Bill was killed in
the House of Commons on the sec
ond reading.
February 13, 1S93-Gladstone intro
duced his second Home Rule Bill.
September /, 1S93-The second Bill
passed the third reading in the House
of Commons.
September 8, 1S93-The second Bill
was rejected by the House of Lords
419 to Al.
April IL, 1912-Premier Asquith in
troduced the third Home Rule Bill.
January 49, 1913-The House OF
Commons passed the Bill for the first
time under the Parliament Act.
January 13, 1913-The House Of
Lords rejected the Bill, 1926 to 60.
July Z, 1913-The House of Com
mons passed the Bill for the second
time.
July IA. 1913-The House of Lords
rejected the Bill by 3O2 to 64.
May 25, 1914-The House of Com
mons passed the Bill for the third and
last time.