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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
Two Heroes Remembered.

Jasper county. IndianG was named In honor of Sergeant Jasper of the Revolutionary army because of his spe. cial patriotism and bravery. He was q sergeant in A South Carolina regiment And in the attack on Fort Moultrie, early in the war, the fla estaif was shot off and the flag fell to the bottom of the ditch outside of the works. Jump ing from one of the embrasures, Jasper mounted the colors, tied them to a staff and held them in position under a hot fire until another flagstaff w.s brought. For this commission was offered him but he declined it through distrust of his qualifications. On an- other occasion he and another sergeant named Newton attacked British guard of ten men and released some prisoners the guard were conveying to Savannah. A township in Jasper coun. ty is named Newton in honor of Jas per's companion on this occasion. A county in Georgta and a central square In Savannah help to perpetuate Jas per's name. He was killed at Savannah near the close of the war.
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CLUB WOMEN MEET.

Salina, Kas., April 16.-The annual convention of the Kansas State Fed eration of Woman's Clubs, which open ed in this city today, promises to be one of the most interesting and pref itable sessions it has held. nI ad- dition to the usual amount of routine business pertaining to the affairs of the organization, the convention will be called upon to discuss wide range of subjects relating to the war work now being done by Kansas women. Prom inent speakers from both inside and outside the state will be heard. The large attendance at the formal opening of the proceedings today indicated an unusual amount of interest in the con- venticn. The arrangements made by the Salina clubs for the reception and entertainment of the visiting dele gates are of the most perfect and el- aborate character. The sessions will continue until Friday.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE UNDER WAY

New York, April 16.-With games scheduled to be played in Philadcl phia, New Tor, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, the eight teams of the Nation al league line u" today for the start of the 1918 pennant race. At the western end of the circuit the Pitts burgh Pirates play their initial con- test at Cincinnati and the Chicago Cubs face the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis, The Phillies have the Bos- ton. Braves in their midst at Phila- delphia and the Brooklyn Dodgers will furnish the entertainment for the champion New York Giants at the Polo Grounds.
 Throughout the circuit the league of, ficials and club owners are optimistic over the outlook for successful season despite the war and various other conditions that are figured up on as more or less detrimental to a successful year. Since the close of last season the different clubs have been at work on plans to strengthen their respective teams, with the re- suit that the race begins with a ma jority fthte clubs looked upon as likely contenders for the pennant. New faces will be seen in nearly all of the lineups, but probably the most notable change from the viewpoint of the fan will be the sight of Alexand- CT and Killierf the old Philadelphia stars, wearing the uniforms of the Chicago Cubs.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
LOCAL OPTION IN N. Y. CITIES

New York, April 15.-Thirty- nine cities of New York state are to vote on the liquor question tomorrow, un- der the Hill-Wheeler Local Option Law. It is predicted that nearly all of these cities, including Syracuse with a population of about 160,0o0, Binghampton with $60,00O and Elmira with 45,000 will go dry. The anti-sa- loon element is exerting every effort to win asbig victory in the elections as rebuke to the legislature for it's failure to adopt the Federal prohibition amendment. .s
 Particular interest attaches to the elections to be held at Plattsburg and New Rochelle. A special effort is be- ing made to swing Plattsburg into the dry column because of the barracks and officers training camp located / there. In New Rochelle both sides are making strenuous fight because of the proximity of Fort Slocum. New Rochelle is the city in which the sa- looms were closed for a time, during the first influx of drafted men to Fort Slocun, because of charges of the United States marshal in New York city that liquor was being served to men in uniform.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
NNEGROES SEEK MEMBERSHIP

New York, April 16.-A nationwide campaign for 5O,0OO members, to be known as the "Mocrfield Storey Drive' is to be conducted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during the ten days beginning tomorrow. The ninety branches of the national association will join in the campaign, which has been undertaken as testimonial to Moorfield Storey of Boston the as- sociation's president, in recognition of his services to negroes in the Louis vile segregation case. In that case compulsory residential segregation of negroes was declared unconstitutional by unaninmous decision of the Su- preme Court of the United States. Ne groes and their friends declare the anti-segregation victory to be the greatest legal landmark affecting the negro race since the adoption of the Fifteenth Amedment to the Constitu- tion.
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LANkF0RD SAYS HIS NAME WILL
 BE 0N TICKET
Duvall Bluff Attorney De- clares He's in Race for
 Chancellor.

Judge Eugene Lankford of Duvall Bluff spent yesterday here conferring with friends relative to his candidacy for chancellor of this district: Judge l.ankford pointed out that the regula- tions adopted by the county Democrat ic committee did not specify that the time for qualifying would expire at noon on April 15, and that under these rules and under those of the state Democratic committee he had the right to file his notice until midnight of the 18th. AS Fl. l.. Sternberg, act ing for him, offered the fee to County Treasurer Parsons, receiving officer for the county committee, and to F. M. Bridges, secretary of the chancery district committee, Judge Lankford said he had compiled with the rules, and expected that his name will be placed on the ticket. He said this is the only county that has assessed can didates for chancellor; that his county would print the names on the ticket without cost to the candidates.
 Judge LankfOrd will make the race, he said, against Judge John M. Elliott of Pine Bluff, who is candidate for reelection.
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What War Doea.

For those who go to war the victory Is not always to the strong nor the race to the swift. One of the seeming. ly paradoxical things taught by the conflict between the states was that recruits who seemed to the ordinary observer to be too frail and small to stand the rigors of war almost unl- formly developed into tough and reli. able soldiers, often more 80 than their bulky and athletic brethren. The test of the battlefield has proved that many man who had been tmid and considered himself a coward was in reality braver than the swashbuckler who had sneered at him back home. Men who have been disgraceful fail. ures in civil life have been converted in the fire of war into leaders of high ability.
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COLORED WOMEN TO
 SEW FOR RED CROSS

Dr. F. P. Lytes, chairman of the colored branch of the Red Cross here, and Rev. G. M. Ellictt, recre- tary, have organized among colored women a Red Cross sewing unit, which will use as sewing rooms quarters in the negro Masonic temple rendered free by John H. Young, GUS todian, of the building and" an officer of the supreme lodge. The officers of the unit are: Alice O'Bryant, chairman; Hampton Lewis, secre- tary, and Dora Adair, teacher of do- mestic science at the Branch Normal college, captain. There are 45 wom' en enrolled in the branch, and they will begin sewing this afternoon
 We will organize others" Dr.. Lytes said last night. My people are anxious to do what they can, and some of the best women of my race are enrolled or will be enrolled in this work"
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Apricot Puddinc.

Make crust as for apple dunn plings, roll out to quarter of an inch thickness and lay on floured cloth 1; spread with two and one-half cupfuls of apricots that have been pared and cut up and allowed to stand one hour covered with one cupful> of sugar, :, roll The pudding, tie it in a bag and Flunge it into boiling water and Soil evenly for one and one-half hours. For the sauce use one and one-nalf cup. fuls of sugar and three-qLarters of 8 cupful of butter, cream together and whip into it one egg; set over ths tea kettle to melt; when thoroughly blended add wine glassful of apricot brandy and nutmeg to taste.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
Fresh Greens for the carary.

Canaries are very fond of lettuce. celery tops and other young and ten der greens, as all birdlovers know. When the birdnan tells us we must not give these things to our pets too frequently the temptation to go con- trary to advice Is strong, for we sym. pathize keenly. An accident showed me the way to gratify ous pets without harm to them, as experience has proven. Some months since, little birdseed was spilled on the earth in a large tub containing rubber plant Soon these seeds spreuted, uHd we hit upon the idea of removing the bottoia from the cage and setting it over the young sprouts. The joy the canaries found in their greens, and the cOnse- Quent discovery tbat the birds were really gaining in health and song con- vinced us that box of sprouting bird. seed was the thing to keep on hand for khem.-Exchange.
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REISENBERG'S CIDER
 CONTAINED A KICK
Jury in Circuit Court Convicts Third
 Avenue Merchant of Violating Liquor Law.

Jake Reisenberg, merchant at State and Third, was convited by jury in circuit court yesterday of charge of selling intoxicating liquor, and was sentenced to one year in the peniten- tlary. He was released on bond, pend- ing motion for a new trial, to be fil- ed bp his attorney Judge E. J. Kerwin
 Reisenberg was accused of selling a cider which contained alcohol, sever ol colored women and one white man testifying that the liquor had made them intoxicated. In Reisenberg's be- half it was stated that the same ar tlcle is sold by other stores, and is not supposed to contain alcohol.
 Zekiel Thomas, accused of grand larceny, was adjudged not guilty by a jury.
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For Blowing Soap Bubbles.

A recent invention has made the blowing of soap bubbles as safe and sanitary as drinking pasteurized milk. No longer need the youngster stea! the soap from the laundry for his bubbles. Instead he uses tiny paper tubes purchased from the nearest drug store. These tubes contain a small piece Of steriliZed soap at one end The tube is dipped in a glass of clear water. Nor is there any danger of the cllllds cutting himself op q broken pipe, as <he tube is so constructed thai 1t collapses under pressure.
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The Best JuGgc of Man.

'In the long run, Il woman SS tiii Bcst iutlGe of q man. A man ncvc! finds out just which woman loved hin 'mtil he is weary of love. Clever re rily true. Middlc-Nged women give tht most joy to their ioveis. That seems very odd and is a circumstance Woy thy of our very closest scrutiny. iu' for some strange reason it remains Summer Only rUlgar lnan bofo2ls woman in love. On the otNcr hand } capacity foY love is rare, like q @ pacity for statesmai!ship CT poetry."' alexander Hardy.
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Ns,ne Fits the Tree,

The largest tree in Japan has nanis which seems to fit its size-cercidi- phyllum juponicum, In its native land this tree grows nearly 100 feet high and produces from the crown cluster of stems With total circumference of 50 feet or more. A specimen of this tree now growing in the arboretum is about thirty years old and has proved perfectly hardy. It is very attractive in the autumn, when the leaves change their color to clear yellow
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CllH and Cave pWe!Iers.

The cliff dwellerS knaw nothing of the use of metals. Their knives were made from the bones of the deer. high ly polished and very sharp, Their household utensils consisted of pottery jars and casks made of fiber and coy cred with substance resembling mod ern varnish. Although the earliest cliff dwellers were prehistoric, cave livers have existed in almost every age of the world. The ancient Horites derived their name from their prac. tice of living in caverns and subter. ranean abodes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
Preserving Flowers.

method of preserving the natu. ral colors of flowers consists in dust. Ing salicylic acid on the plants as they lie in the press and removing it with brush when the flowers are quite dry. Red colors in particular are we'll preserved by this agent. Another meth. cd of applying the same preservative Is to use a solution of one part of salicylic in fourteen of alcohol by means of blotting-paper or cotton. wool soaked in it and placed above and below the flowers. Powdered boracic acid yields nearly as gond results.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
Some Truth in lt.

Have you ever noticed" said the nervous young man, striving to make conversation at the tea table, that ef-oa chelorA as a rule, are-er- much richer than married men ?" "fes." replied the masculine-looking lady, wearing the colors of the ndli- tants. T have." "Ahl And-er-how do you account for it?" "very simply. Poor men marry and rich men don't Men are always reader to divide noth. Ing with woman than somethinrl~
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Little Habits Count,

Great business men get the habit Of being on tilne It is they who know best the value of time and the impor. tance of saving it by being prompt. Yet it may he hard to acquire the fixed habit of always being prompt, but il can be done and it is worth while to do it.. In the commonest things every. one is influenced by little habits tha, we seldom suspect.--Exchange
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New Use for Compressed bir

Blowing cotton fro1D one drpartma to another through suitable tubes the latest employment of compress air in manufacturing plants. In OneD stance a California felt 'nanufactut makes use of compressed air for ~ veying damp wool from the scouf4 clant squeeZers to aneiher bullal across the street, in which are locala the sun-exposed drying rooms lh Hathnd is snid to he claAn ond rans
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Name Made No Difference,

4 little miss was visiting at a nome where two elderly women were stop. ping. One had name easily reJnem- bered, but the other had an unusual one. Upon being presented to them the little girl looked pensive for mo- ment, hut she quickly solved her diff fculty by saying: How are you, Dran- ma B snd Drama MoreY"
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Patha to Happiness.

It Is the most beautiful truth morals that we nave no such thll as a distinct or divided interest trd our race. In their welfare is ours !
 by choosing the broadest paths to Fl feet their happiness we choose \ surest and the shortest to our oVa1 Bulwer Lytton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-17
Queen of Hearts.

The name, Queen of Hearts, was given in the low countries to Eiiza- beth, daughter of James and the unfortunate queen of Bohemia. When her fortune was at the lowest ebb she never lost her. dignity of spirit, and poverty and distress only sendered he, the more an object of admiration.
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The Ideal Army.

Some men think fast, and then s.,t others act and thirk atterward, il at all. One type is deliberatiye. the ether impalsiye. The army of cool-headed officers and het-headed soldiers makes a magnificent military nschine.-- American Magazine.
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Servant Girls. E!asse ReaH

Servant Girls. Please Read.
 A servant girl who was Kind and polite to guest at the nome where she was employed nas been leet a- estate of $200,00o. which is a story with moral sc obvious as to need nc 'on1menr.-San Antonio Ligkt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-07
GROCERS
GIVEN A
WARNING

II. 8. Griggs, Tacoma represen-
tative of the food administration,
today issued a warning to grocers
in regard to the sale of wheat SUBJ
stitutes. This new rule, he says,
is not being generally lived up to.
Under its provisions grocers
must sell with every pound of
white and whole wheat flour, one
third of pound OF substitutes.
With every pound of graham or
rye flour One-fifth of a pound of
substitute must be sold. Whole
wheat flour containing 95 per
cent of the grain is considered gra-
ham for the purposes of the order.
AS to what the substitutes are,
Mr.. Griggs says, there is consid-
cradle confusion. The food admin
istration's list is as follows.
Corn meal, corn starch, corn
flour, corn grits, hominy, barley
flour, rice and rice flour, oatmeal,
rolled oats, buckwheat flour, pota-
to flour, sweet potato flour, soy
bean flour, feterita flours and
meals.
While some dealers have been
announcing that there is not avail
able a sufficient supply Of these
substitutes, the committee is ad-
vised that there is an ample guam
tity on hand, according to Griggs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-07

The Tuscania, British Cunader
pressed into transport service for
the American war department.
carried scattered units Of head
quarters and companies d, e and
F of the goth engineers; 107th
military police; 107th supply
trains; Tooth, 15Sth and 213th
air squadrons, and replacement
detachments and 81 unassigned
officers, 32nd division. The last
included Michigan and Wisconsin
national guardsmen and regular
army engineers.
The first dispatches received
at the war department stated that
of 2,179 troops on the vessel, the
survivors numbered LOO, SO far
as could be learned.
These were landed at Buctanna
and Larne on the north coast OF
Ireland.
Turnout the night and day the
great government wireless was
pressing for news of the disaster
Many Foresters Aboard.
The goth engineers are fores-
tiers recruited for pioneer and
communication work behind the
battle lines.
The regiment is the largest in
Continued OH rage Five.)
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CAMP LEWIS BOYS
on The TuSCANIA

Camp authorities at noon
Thursday named three Camp
Lewis men who, they said, prob
ably were aboard the transport.
They are j. r. Medlin, formerly
an engineer at the headquarters
building; Private Com F. Kalb OF
the machine gun company, 361st,
and Zach Ness, 9Th company,
166th depot brigade.
aero squadron.
A number of Camp Lewis men
are believed to have been on the
transport. Capt. M. d. Welty de-
clared today that Camp Lewis
had sent a number of men from
the 166th depot brigade to fill
out the goth engineers.
George S. Long, jr., member of
company f, goth engineers, was
not aboard the transport Tuscania
when she was sunk. Definite word
to this effect was received late
Thursday morning by his father IN
Tacoma in a telegram from Mr..
Longs brother in Washington,
d. C.
Another Tacoma boy who is a
member of one of the units Of
ficially reported by the war de-
partment to have been on the
transport is II. g. Root, son of
Rev. l.. T. Root.
Root is a member of No. 10O
Other Tacoma men who may
have been aboard are Edward
Balm Gibson, former College of
Puget Sound man. who enlisted
In Seattle last November, and
Private Henry Fourier, who
left Tacoma with Troop b. Word
was received in Tacoma recently
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Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. IA troopship, the
Tuscania, with 2156 American soldiers aboard, has
been torpedoed and sunk with the probable loss Of
210 lives The total of all persons aboard the vessel
was 1897.
From out of the war sone 5000 miles away, this
news today brought sharply before America the grim
realization that Germany at last has struck success
fully at this countrys transport service.
It marked the opening of the long expected Uboat
drive against the increasing lines of United States
troops being sent to the French frontand Germanys
greatest strike of the war against this country.
Germany's attack has netted probable toll of las
u. s. officers and soldiers and 65 Others
AS the casualty list dwindled during the morning
hours hope was held out that later reports from iso
lated points the Irish and Scottish coast will show
even more rescued.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-07
SISTER SHIPS
SUMMARIZED
UNITED Press Leased Wire.l

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Feb. THE Tus-
cania was the last of the Anchor
lines famous fleet of trans-Atlan-
tic passenger steamers. All have
been summarized.
The Pennsylvania, sister ship of
the Tuscania, was torpedoed while
carrying allied troops in the Med
iterranean last winter.
The Cameronian, California and
Caledonian, previously have fallen
victim to the U-boatsp
The Tuscania, which was chart
cred by the Cunard line In 1918,
had several narrow escapes from
submarines. On one occasion q
submarine passed within 20 feet
of her.
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HAD TACKLED
SUBS BEFORE

Omitted Press leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Thous-
ands of American troops have
been carried across the sea by the
Tuscania.
sThe Tuscania was of 14,348
tons gross. Her capacity was p
500 passengers, but with altera-
lions in her accommodations she
could carry many more troops.
She has had several encounters
with submarines and on one occa-
sion rescued As American surviv-
ors of a U-boat attack.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-07

STORY Of
ONE EYE
WITNESS

Nhtfu fress IeHscu WFcJ
LONDON, Feb. .. - The
TuscaHia, warned by another
vessel that had spotted the
torpedo, was In the act Of
turning when the missile
struck, an eye witness declar-. :.
ell to-day.
The eye witness, passenger
on one of the vessels near the
transport, declared the captain OF
his ship saw the wake of the tor
pedo and diverted the course of
his own steamer slightly.
The Tuscania was signalled:
Torpedo coming! Dodge
The transport started to turn
but was caught broadside.
The Tuscania was hit little
astern of amidships.
Most of the passengers on board
the other vessels were not aware
Of what had happened. They
spent merry evening and con-
tinued Their customary entertain
ments.
Another eye witness stated that
the Tuscania sank within As min
utes after she was struck.
He said the destroyers and 9TH
er vessels had surrounded her,
picking up the survivors from the
sea and the l,feboats.
He heard two explosions, the
latter apparently caused by the
bursting of the boiler.
He said he saw the Tuscania's
(which previously had been dark.
ened, suddenly flashed on, that tho
Tuscania sent up rockets, burned
red flares and that her lights ther
lwent out.
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that Fourier had sailed Jan. 20
to join his company in France.
Long was transferred last fall
from the medical reserve corps to
the forestry regiment and has been
in training at the American school
at Washington, d. c. When his
father talked to him there recent
ly he declared most of the men,
bers of the goth engineers al
ready were in France.
Root enlisted in San Francisco
six months ago.