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The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29
Prohibition Deferred.

Albany, N. Y.-The New York As sembly. by vote of 110 to 35, decided to defer action on all pending prohi- bition bills.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29
Haia,s Morning Report.

London=Powerful enemy attacks. delivered with great weight of infan- try and artillery, have broken through the British defensive system west of St Quentin, the war office announces
 The British troops on the northern portion of the battle field are hold ing their positions.
 The British west of St. Quentin are falling back in good order to positions farther west. Very heavy fighting with fresh enemy forces is in prog ress.
 The war office states that there are prepared positions behind the British. to which they are falling back.
 The statement follows:
 Heavy fighting continued until late hours last night on the whole battle front. During the afternoon powerful hostile attacks delivered with great weight of infantry and artillery, broke through our defensive system west of St Quentin Our troops on this part of the battle front are falling back in good order across the devastated area to prepared posi- tions farther west.
 Our troops on the northern DOT, tion of the battle front are holding their positions.
 "very heavy fighting with fresh hostile forces is in progress
 With the British Armies fin the Field.-Fghting is steadily growing in intensity as the worlds greatest battle developed.
 The regions of Nurlu. Morg, Merca- tel, Neuville and Vitasse have been the scenes of colossal struggles. Brit ish rear guards performing miracles in the face of far superior numbers.
 It was reported this morning that enemy infantry had pushed down across the Canal de Ia Somme and had driven forward against the posi- tions to which the British had re- tired German cavalry was seen ad- vancing behind the infantry.
 There was small doubt but that the attacking forces intended to make a supreme effort to rupture the British line in this sector.
 The Germans this afternoon were pressing the attack hard on the Brit fish right flank near Ham, while on the northern end of the battlefield there has been desperate fighting since yesterday about Mory, which changed hands several times.
 All night. under the stars and a brilliant moon; all day, under the sprinkling sun-dindenburg' legions hurled themselves against the valiant British, whose withdrawal continues in perfect order, despite the most frenzied eoffrts to break their line.
 German and Bavafian stormtruppen (storm troops), sandwiehed between divisions of Prussian Guard and grenadiers, were flung with Hohen- Zollern fury along roads and across open. sunlit fields. regardless of losses.
 The slopes of the hills from Arras to Lafere are groy with dead.
 Call after call was sent to the Brit ish artillery to train all guns on the German masses moving over the open country.
 Airplanes, skimming low, machine gunned huge marching bodies of men, too big to miss.
 The hardest fighting continues agains the British right, though the battle rattles ceaselessIy throughout a 59-mile line.
 Huge Austrian high velocity guns are constantly attempting harrass- ing fire, far behind the lines.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The State Highway Commission and the Penitentiary Commission reached an. agreement by which 75 conyicts from the state farm at Cum mins will be sent to Carroll county to be employed on road work
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29
No Papal Consistory.

Rome.-There will be no consistory until the war is over, Pope Benedict said
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Two cars of eggs are shipped out of Searcy every week by Goodwin K Jean, and the supply for local use is quite sufficient and the price down to 25 cents.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Supreme Court at last will be given the opportunity to pass upon the validity of the order of the State Board of Health requiring school chil- dren to be vaccinated which order has been contested in several coun- ties.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Junior Red Cross of the Searcy High School made it's first shipment to division headquarters last week.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Liberty Lead and Zinc Com pany, operating the Willett mine on Hall mountain, six miles west of Cot ter, put a 150-ton concentrating plant into operation last week. The first run was a success.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

More than $37,OOO was recommend approved by the State Highway De partment for state aid to Arkansas highways.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

A franchise for an electric light plant at Delight has been granted to B. F. Ryon of Texarkana, who will begin the erection of the plant with in few days.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

A registered Duroc-Jersey pig. two chapter by w. E. Hodges of Vilonia, sold at public auction at Conway for $36.50.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

H. S. Lyle of Subiaco has forward ed to the Red Cross chapter at Fort Smith an ear of white corn that has II red grains formed in perfect cross.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

o. E. Piety, manager for the Bol- finger Oil Company of Terre Haute, Ind, has resumed drilling in the we'll brought in last year on the Denton farm, F miles west of Waldron.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Dr. c. w. Garrison, state health of ficer, announced on his return from Bigelow, that campaign for control of malaria will be conducted in that vicinity this summer.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Piggott Civic Club in an effort to make the city more healthful has issued a statement to school children stating that during the next few weeks 10 cents per 100 will be paid for all house flies killed and delivered to the committee.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Engineers of the State Highway De- partment began a survey across Null berry township in Crawford county for the proposed Bankhead Highway.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Red Cross benefit at Pea Ridge netted over S41.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Executive Committee of the Farmers Union of Arkansas selected Little Rock for the next annual meet ing of the union, August 6-9.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Crocheting while she walked to school near Mountain Home, little Miss Robbie Dearmore slipped and feil. The needle was pushed into her side and she was seriously injured.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

John H. Page, commissioner of az riculeure, received an inquiry for large body of land for colonization. The land most desired is large tracts of cutover land or small partially i'm proved farms in one community. Those who have such lands will be placed in touch with the prospective buyers by applying to MT. Page.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Warren High School building burned with loss estimated at s100. GOO. The property was insured for $25.000.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Governor Brough appointed John H. Whorton of Fl Doado as lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment. Lieu tenant Colonel Whorton was about 60 days ago commissioned as major in the new regiment.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Merkle-Hines Machinery Con- pany of Kansas City. Mo, filed cer- tificate announcing that it had ceased to do business in Arkansas.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Liberty Loan organization in south Franklin county is being com pleted. County Chairman J. s. Smith has made all of his appointments and his helpers are organizing the county.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

The Clear Creek Gas and Oil Con- pany of Fort Smith brought in o,- 000,000 gasser on the Kibler farm, quarter of a mile north of Kibler. This is the company's sixteenth well.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president. will sing at the Army Y. M. c. A auditorium at Camp Pike Monday, April s, it was announced.
The Monticellonian., 1918-03-29

Marianna and Lee county will be unpopular places for loafers and other undesirables if the notice served on them in a circular issued by Sheriff Arthur Cotter, a copy of which was received at the governors office, is carried into effect.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
Notes

Mr.. Charles HOpklnSOn IS making an
interesting exhibition at the Arden gal
lery Of his portraits and marines, show
ing twenty-five or thirty oils and al
most as large q group of water colors
He commands respect by his sincerity.
There is no straining after effect in his
work, no emphasis placed upon the
decorative pattern" to which so many
of our modern portrait painters are ad-
dicted. In his two best paintings. the
'Prof. G. H. Palmer and the "Miss
l.. c. Putnam" the particular traits he
reveals are sympathy in characterize
ton and kind of suave thoroughness
in workmanship. He is uneven, fact
which might have been concealed from
us it he had not made his exhibition a
little too freely retrospective. There
are too many paintings here. Some of
them are unworthy of a man of his
talent. But he manages to throw the
lesser works into the background.
When we are looking at the two por-
traits just cited, or at the spirited
sketch of "Mr. James Hendrck," or at
the captivating III. II. and Her Sister,"
or at the sparkling marines, we think
only of his fresh point of view, his
pleasant color and his exhlarating
! facility
The Levy gallery makes an exhibition
of collection Of some thirty odd paint
ings recently bought en- bloc from Mr.
Sanden-paintings by the late A. H
Wyant, D. W. Tryon, J. Francis
Murphy and the Canadian artist
Horatio Walker. 1t is an exceptionally
brilliant group of landscapes, domi-
mated by one masterpiece, Wyant's
"Wayside Pool" but maintaining q
pretty high level throughout. The
Tryons are of both early and later
periods, and embrace some lovely illus
trations of his delicate art. There are
eight or ten Wyants, every one of them
breathing the sweet sylvan spirit of lis
robust naturalism. The "Wayside
Pool" is a glorious picture, the kind of
thing that neither Diaz nor Rousseau
could have bettereds
At the Enrich gallery there are
paintings by "the lesser known mas
ters," old pictures which make no pre-
tence to importance" but frequently
have sterling, though modest, merit.
John Thomson, Of Duddington, an OBJ
scure landscape man of hundred years
ago; Allan Ramsay, Joseph Highmore,
Alessandro Magnasco, Angelica Kauf-
mann, Guido Reni and other mediocre
names are not unpleasantly repre-
sented. The most arresting piece on
the walls is vivacious sketch of a
Rubens-like motive by Pieter Eastman.
The Eclectics, which is to say Walter
Griffin, George Luks, Philip l.. Hale
and other painters, with Mahonri
Young, Solon II. Borglum and other
sculptors, are having an exhibition at
the Folsom gallery.
The Kraushaar gallery announces a
show of new paintings by Mr.. Augustus
Vincent Tack. Water colors by Mr.
Clifford Beal are at the Macbeth gal
lery. The Reinhardt gallery shows re-
cent portraits by Mr. S. Montgomery
Roosevelt. Decorations and paintings
by Mr.. Maxiield Armfeld may be seen
at the Arlington gallery.
At the Anderson galleries there viii
be placed on view next Wednesday {
collection Of duplicate cngravings, etch
ings, woodcuts and Autographs from ths
Boston Museum, to be sold on the even
ings of February 19 and 20. The cata
logue runs to more than four hundred
numbers.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

mass. One of these compositions, the
great sculpture hall at the museum,
detaches itself from the rest as pos
sessing special distinction. It is Nc
Kim, Mead & White at their best, in the
noble vein Of the Pennsylvania Station.
On the other hand, looking at these
buildings as a group, one is impressed
by their pedestrian excellence. They
are not great buildings, but they are
good buildings. One discerns in them
no creative magic, no development of
the ancient classical idiom into beauti-
full forms. But they are sound; they
represent academic art in a wholesome
if not brilliant estate. They provoke
one consoling reflection if no other,
and that is, "How much more edifying
the American public building is to day
than it was twenty-five years ago!"
That, by ITSELF is something
The classical motive cleverly pre-
dominates, but here and there are de-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

Hic'-to be respectful-Hic'-to your
superiors.'
''He did say that" Ward again ad-
mitted land in scandalous manner:
He was most ungentlemanlikc. / tried
again to get away from him and he got
perfectly furious"
"And your ompanion-Collins or
whatever you call him asked the
major, what did he do all this time? ?"
"He did nothing and said nothing
He looked dsgusted. He certainly
was disguised"
81 see," said the major again.
"Then Wriggles asked US to show
him our furlough papers" Ward CON
tinued. 1--WE showed them, and they
were in perfect order, with the dates.
the seals, the signatures and everything
else. But he said:
"'These are not right. And you must
go with me to the English headquarters
in Paris
perfectly correct, and that if they
weren't they ought to be. But he an
swered: 'You-you arc an ass. A little
imbecile of an ass. THAT fellow
Wriggles is about as choice in his Ian
! guage as a stoker in the merchant ma
| rine.) And if your comrade is not an
ass he will come also-especially be-
cause he is not an ass
eve started toward the door, and
on the way this stranger. whom he had
called my comrade-Collins, if you pre-
fer-whispered in my ear: He is
drunk. Let US get rid Of him.
But l looked at him with astonisli-
ment, because one. ought never to dis
obey the order of superior officer.
even if he is a drunkard. But called
a taxicab-for the honor of the uni
FORM And in that way we got to Eng
lish headquarters"
"And what happened there" the ma
jor asked. curiously.
There the officer in charge declared
that my papers were perfectly regular.
! Then he examined Collins's. The sig
! natures and the seals were all right
But he looked at the paper against the
! light and asked:
"'You are Lieutenant Collins, are
you? Can you explain to me how it
happens that Lieutenant Collins, of the
Sd Lincoln nshires, is on leave? He
ought to be at the front at this minute
Can you also explain how the paper on
which your permission is written hap
pened to be manufactured in Germany.
1t is not there that the English army
is in the habit of ordering its supplies
My congratulations, nevertheless. The
signatures and seals are perfectly imi-
tated'
Inc stranger grew deadly pale
They seized him. I suppose that he
has been shot by now. They only said
to me, You can go. This will teach
you to study carefully the people you
meet. You will testify before the
council of war, if there is one.
81 went away with Wriggles. At the
door of the office he tapped me on the
shoulder and cried:
"I drink. By God, don't try to
conceal the fact that I drink ! need
my allowance, you understand al
lowance. But when l have my allow
ance [ am a genius. l read through
pockets Hic. And into souls"
This story modified in a certain de
gree the sentiment of the mess with
regard to Wriggles.
''It is beyond question" the subal-
tern suggested, "that he will never be
a gentleman. But, after all, he is
very funny fellow"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

partures from it, Messrs. Day G.
klauber have. Of course, adhered to
the old English style in their hand
some buildings for Princeton Univer-
sity. The brick architecture Of the
Colonial period is emulated by Messrs.
Murphy e. Dana in their delightful
scheme for the Loomis Institute. The
Italian Renaissance is represented in
another building to be cited at this
point Messrs York e. Sawyer's
structure for the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, and that, by the way, registers
high light in the show. Again we
must remark that it is not a great
building. Momentarily, even, we are a
little dubious about the balance struck
between the rusticated stages of the
FACADE and the simpler surfaces above
them. It is not the most convincing
balance in the world. Yet the build
ing, in the main, stays graciously in
the mind. 1t is not dull. That is. we
are afraid, the epithet extorted by such
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

A foreword to the catalogue leads off
with an unimpeachable sentiment, as
follows: "The Architectural League
Exhibition is held annually for the
dual purpose of offering to the archi-
tects and those in the allied arts the
opportunity of presenting their recent
work to the public and Of giving the
public the opportunity of keeping in
touch with the progress Of those arts"
So much for art. Then comes practi
cality: "The entire cost of presenting
the exhibition is betrayed from the
income derived from the advertise
ments in the catalogue, space taken in
the supper room and galleries by the
exhibition of materials and craftsman
ship, the fee for admission and the sale
of the catalogues, and any deficiency is
made up from the funds Of the league.
This exhibition is in no way source
of income to the league" That, too,
as a "business proposition" is equally
uninfpeachable. And yet we say, "The
pity of it," Why should the league
have to concern itself with ADVERTISE
ments or "space taken in the supper
room" or any other such matters? Why
not revert to architecture in the old
fashioned sense, the art of building
pure and simple, the art of the artist,
passionately expressing himself in the
most personal terms of his craft
Would the public then refuse to come
to his exhibition? Perhaps. Then in
that case, if the architect has so COM
pletely lost his hold as an artist upon
the public, he would have a very simple
remcdy--he could put up the shutters.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

exhibition which incline us to question
the permanent validity of the exotic
motive. When Mr.. Morris Italianizes
this feature or that Of his elaborate
design for Mr.. j. C.. Baldwin at Mount
hlsco, or makes the great music room
on the same estate look like page out
of Nash's "Mansions," we cannot but
recognize the broad effectiveness of mis-
gesture. At the same time this and
other episodes in the exhibition wake
the suspicion that the line between an
architectural and a scenic ideal is verv
easily crossed-so easily that the de-
signer may be himself unconscious of
the transition. Perhaps the most vivid
instance is supplied by Mr. Paul Chal-
lin. He shows photographs of his work
at Hero Land and for the fiesta in Mac
dougal Alley and with them some
illustrations of the Florida estate he
has devised for Mr. James Deeriny. All
three contributions are significant of
the same taste. 1t is decorative. plas
tic, operate, what you will, but archi
| tecturally speaking it leaves US cold.
There arc unusually generous examples
of landscape architecture in the exhibi-
tion, schemes by James L. Grccnlcaf,
Eyre, Wilson and McIlvainc, Ferruccio
Vitalc, Mary Rutherford Jay, Charles
Wexford Leavitt and others. They
show the increasing attention that is
being given to this art, and the increas-
ing proficiency in it of a surprisingly
large body of practitioners. But not all
Of the members of the new school arc
keeping to the safe ground of, say, Mr..
Leavitts beautiful wid-howor garden
at Red Bank. There are signs that the
theatre, as it were, is creeping in, that
the scenic idea to which we have re
ferred is coming more and more into
vogue. 1t has its merits, in the right
hands. There are masterpieces in Italy
tho Villa Lante, at Bagnaia, for cx-
ample which might have been laid out
for drop scenes in a theatre. But in
our American environment the motive
Is dangerous, TO say the least.
If architecture has outstripped al
the other arts in the United States
1T is for reasons very easily stated
1t has enlisted the energies of some
men of genius and more men of great
talent 1t has been peculiarly sup
ported by a vast national prosperity { Y
No modern European school of archi
lecture has had the demand for nev
buildings that we have enjoyed But il
Is even more important to reckon viii
certain less ponderablc influences
Architecture has been subjected witt
us to sterner discipline than has beer
enforced upon either painting or sculpt
ure. Its leaders have made more o.
training, of exact knowledge, and, abov,
all, they have given closer attention e
the transcendent matter of taste. VIII,
did McKlm move heaven and earth tc
get the American Academy at Rom,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

bury, marks n stride ahead of the cot
tage work by which his name has chief
ly been made familiar. This brick
structure of his is charmingly de-
signed. The house has physognomy
a friendly. welcoming air. It's Geor-
gian Colonial style is handled as
though the architect had made it his
own.
The great problem, of course, for the
user of the historic styles is the prob
lem of conquering them or leaving
them to proclaim only their origin.
There are times when the strict Italian
ism of an American dwelling involves
no reproach. There is, for example,
Mr.. Eugene Lang's italian Villa of
Paolini Gerli," as the catalogue aptly
has it, Erected at Bronxvillc, a loca-
tion which somehow seems to spell in
congruity, we are nevertheless taken
captive by the intensely Southern
charm of the thing. Yet there are
other, more important, schemes in the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10

specimens of ecclesiastical architecture
as stray into the exhibition. There is
one attractive piece in the imposing
reredos designed by Mr. Goodhue for
St. Thomas's Church, and sculptured bv
Mr.. Lee Lawrie, but the church work
as a whole is in no wise beguiling.
The most interesting exterior, Mcssrs
Cram & Ferguson's Wheaton College
Chapel, is an indubtably accurate ver-
sion of an old New England type, but
it is terribly cold, muscle bound af
fair.
Urban architecture in it's domestic
aspect receives one triumphant illus
tration at the hands Of Mr. John Rus
sell Pope in his drawings for "a City
Residence" as yet unbuilt The draw
ings themselves, appearing in the usual
welter of photographs, make by their
singularity winning appeal; and as
the design is studied it discloses a
very fine quality. The style is drawn
from eighteenth century France, but
this mansion, lifted on terrace
stretching the length of city block,
justifies its isolation through its fine
proportions, its severe elegance, its
fusion Of grace with dignity-al en-
pressed with an indefinably personal
touch. Here is true architecture, a
house with character, and, in spite of
its great scale, with charm. This lat
ter trail is to be signalized in certain
contributions of Messrs Cross &
Cross, designers of the Links Club
upon which the SAVIOR Of things Geor-
gian has been set as in a patina-and
of the beautiful wrought iron grilles
transforming a couple of small houses
in East Sixty second Street. McKim
Mead & Whites house for Mr.. New
bold must also be mentioned here for
its pure Renaissance quality. But the
city dwellings as rule arc not in the
least thrilling. We turn for refresh
ment, as we seem to have turned in
many another year, to the country
houses. These, as usual, too, are the
morN successful as they are thc less
ambitious. At their head we woult
place the house for Mr.. Morawctz al
Syosset, by Deiano & Aldrich, {
study in simplicity in which reliance
is especially placed upon linear fac
tors and questions of spacing. This
again, like Mr.. Popc's big city house
/ has character, it is 81 work OF ponderee
/ design, and yet in its simple style it is
almost casual. The casual motive, b,
which we mean the natural, spontane
GUS effect, is we'll exploited by Mr.
/ Lewis Colt Albro in two or three capi
tai farm buildings, and it is used te
good purpose by Messrs Davis. McGrat(
Il klessing in their alterations al
/ Glen Cove, by Messrs. Walker e. Gil
lctte in Il house at the same place ant
by Mr. #. II. Lyon in several English
cottages, though these last contribu
tions are trifle heavy-handed. Mr.
Aymar Embury, in his house ut Water
New-York tribune., 1918-02-10
The Misadventure of
Lieutenant Ward
By Pierre Mile

Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright. 1918 by The Tribune Association)