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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
Will Present Here Pageant-Festival
 Gall of Liberty

The Christian Endeavor of the Alexander Memorial Presbyterian and the Christian Churches, are ac- lively preparing for an entertainment to be given on Tuesday evening, July 15. The play, or festival, rather, is '"rhe Call of Liberty,' a patriotic fantasy in two scenes, with about fifty local performers and will be pre- sented under the personal direction of the author, Thomas Elmore Lucey, who is in the city now and will begin active rehearsals tonight.
 Among the characters, all of whom are appropriately and beautifully cos tuned, are Liberty, Columbia, Uncle Sam, Washington, Lincoln, Patrick Henry, and a Salvation Army Lassie.
 Many different nations are symbol ically presented, and the song festival "The Allied Sisters," in victory group, is sai dto furnish a thrilling climax.
 Interpolated in the show are many of the character impersonations, cray on sketches and character songs that MT. Lucey has given successfully on the chautauqua platform for years, and, altogether, it would seem that according to the claim of the young people promoting the affair, that it will be the biggest thing Pine Bluff ever had in the entertainment line They expect an audience of one thous and or more persons, to see "The Gall of Liberty"
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First "White House" of C. s. of A. Gives
 Way for a Garage

Montgomery, Ala, July 1.-The old mansion here at one time occupied by Jefferson Davis and known as the first white house of the Confederacy will be razed shortly and it's site oc- cupied by garage. Permit for the erection of the garage was issued today by the city engineer.
 The building in late years had been used as boarding house and ill usage and neglect had resulted in it's be- coming more or less an eye sore. Many movements for it's purchase as a memorial failed. The mention, at the corner of Lee and Bibb streets, is surrounded by business structures.
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WIDOW, ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. TELLS
 HER L|FE'S STORY
Born in Ireland, Weds Wealthy Louisiana Planter-MisfOr-
 tunes Come With Death.

Chicago, July 11.-Mrs. Vera Ire pagnier, 60 years old, formerly of New Orleans, on the witness stand today in her trial on the charge of murdering Paul Volland, publisher, told story of struggling through 35 years of widowhood. She is to be subjected to little cross examination, the state indicated, and her fate may come from, the jury before to- morrow night.
 She was born in Belfast and came to the United States when she was Is years of age, she testified. She was married to Francois Edmound Treragnier, owner of a sugar plan- tatlon. For four years she had ser wants and luxuries, she said, then a flood ruined their crops and the fam fly moved to Florida. Misfortune continued to follow them, and her husband became ill and died seven years after their marriage.
 There was a small son to care for and she had tried her hand at work as an author of children's books, pri- yate secretary and cook, government work and as a servant.
 ~oHC SVll pOooCSoCu c NCtluCN hSSP- sake, a hand painted miniature of George Washington, said to have beer painted by John Trumbull. Hop ing to have it reproduced, she said she took it to publishers, finally se- curing a contract with Volland for 15O, ,0O0 copies.
 She accused Volland of sharp prac- tices, and after lawyers had not suc- ceeded in making an adjustment, she went to Volland's office on May 5 last, the day of the shooting, and de- manded a settlement. He referred her to his lawyer, and then she de- manded the return of the miniature which she said he refused. "You dog she said she exclaimed, and that when he seized her by the throat and her revolver was discharged accidentally wounding him fatally.
 Her son, John M. Trepagnier, now manfred, lives in New Orleans, she said. She referred to him as "pur- chasing agent flo rthe Mississippi riv. l CT commission.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
Crackers Block
 Travellers Plan

Memphis, Tenn, July 11.-Plans of the Little Rock Southern association club to retire Norman KidD Fiber field as a player but retain him as manager of the team, were blocked today by the Atlanta club which re- fused to agree to the waiver asked and set up claim for Elberfeld's services at the waiver price.
 It was the intention of the man. agement of the Little Rock club to have Elberfeld retain charge of the team as bench manager, his retire ment from the field making room for Ray Kennedy, catcher, recently discharged from the army.
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South Best Place for
 Army Camps-Baker

Washington, July 11.-Questioned today by house war investigating subcommittee about the location of the army training fields in the south Secretary Baker said he had never heard an improper suggestion from anyone about the location of the camps"
 MT. Baker declared the camps were placed in the south rather than in the north solely because better weather conditions obtained there and he add ed that no influence that he knew of was exerted to send the men to the south
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FIVE ACCUSED TRY SUICIDE!

Seoul, Korea, June 5.-Five Kor cans, who were arrested on a charge of leading a new independence riot in the streets of Seoul recently tried to commit suicide, but were prevent ed bv the police. {! One of the men, Vi Hatsu, is Fl years of age, and is said to be the father of one of the Korean leaders now in Paris. Anoth- CT, An Tai-shyun, is declared to be the uncle of the assassin of Prince Ito, who was shot in Harbin in 19O9
 Anti-Japanese propaganda contin- ues to circulate in Korea.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
Chinese DespOndent
 Over Shantung Loss

San Franisco, July 11.-Chinese pa triots endeavored to commit suicide Sunday in the presence of Hsu Shih Chong, president of China, in protest against the transfer of control of shantung, province to Japan by the peace treaty, according to word re- ceived in message from Peking to H. c. King, San Francisco president of the Chinese National Welfare So- ciety. &4 &
 Three members of a delegation of merchants; teachers and students suc- ceeded in wounding themselves seve- rely before palace guards could stop them.
 President Hsu told the delegation that the treaty which gives Japan control ofasShantung must be signed according to the message.
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Make Themselves Clothes.

Among the animal tailors are tho smooth caterpillars. Naked and un- armed, their extreme vulnerability places them at the mercy of numerous enemies; but many families of them are remarkable for making little sheaths or garments for the protec- tion of their bodies notably the silk. worm, than whom the lilies of the field are not more gorgeously srrayed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
Try Ex-Convict for
 Robbing l.. R. Bank

Little Rock, July 1O.-Floyd Nolan was placed on trial here today on a chage of robbery. He is accused, with two accomplices, of holding up and robbing the Central Bank and Trust company of $3,662, on January 4, 1915. Nolan was recently released from the Texas penitentiary. He was pardoned while serving an eight-year sentence for bank robbery at Hous- ton. Nolan says he will establish an alibi.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
SeIf-Conquest.

Patience and gentleness are not easy virtues when one is troubled within and buffeted without by the days trials and demands. There are many times when the taking of city might mean less to the individual sol dier concerned than the conquest of his own spirit and tongue. There are tense days when carping or unjust word falls on the spirit like lighted match on finder; wherefore We should be the more careful to store no tinler for ourselves, and toss no lighted matches at our fellows.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
MANY TANKS WITH CANADIANS

Archange1, July 5.-EVen II an American soldiers are withdrawn from Northern Russia, as is indicat ed by preparations for the debarka- tion of those troops who have been in this territory since last September, the United States will still have a large representation among the British volunteer troops.
 Of contingent of Canadian flying corps officers who recently arrived, a large number are from the states. At one flying corps mess recently visited by the correspondent were six IoWans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
When Actresses Were Unknown.

In ancient times actresses werA "n- snown. The people of Elizabethan times were perfectly content to stand for young male Juliet. Around about 1856, though, Charles II of England began encouraging women to appear on the English stage, and since then actresses have been appearing all over the world with varying degrees of sue. cess,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
MEXICAN OFFICER A THIEF

San Francisco, July 11.-Theft of $60,000 from the Mexican govern ment is charged against man in cus- tody here today as Carlos c. Garcia, lieutenant-colonel in Carranza's s army. The arrest was made following a de- posit of $20,000 by the man in local bank, and search of his lodgings re- suited in the finding of $6,64O in Mexican transportation corps was sent to Nogales, June 30 to get $6O,- 900 from the customs house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
Rurkburnett Oil
 Field Producing
 Too Much Grease

Austin, Texas, July 11.-Product- ion of oil and bringing in of wells in the northwest extension of the Burk- Burnett oil field in Wichita county was suspended for five days by an order of the Texas railroad commits sion today, pending hearing to de- termine whether the order shall be extended for 30 days because of in- ability of pipe lines to handle pro- duction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12
True Aristocracv

Mere democracy cannot solve the so. cal question. An element of aristoc- racy must be introduced into our life. do not mean the aristocracy of birth. or ot the purse, or even the aristoc- racy Of intellect. mean the aristoc- racy of character, of will, of mind That only can free us.-Ibsen.
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The Church. -Goers.

If some men wore to quote the we'll known psalm the.7 would nave to say' .I was glad to make excuses when they said to us. let us go into the nouse of the Lord.'" The they re- ferring probably to the women of the house, or the church-going neighbors.- Exchange
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-12

Who could doubt that this lit- tie girl is made of sugar and spice and everything nice" She looks it. Her delectable little frock is made of rose-painted or- gandie-with the bodice and pic. ot-edged sash of plain pink in the same material. And all her ruff files are finished with narrow val lace. Her floppy hat is more 'ci the same.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Right There
With the WaIiOp

They picked him up about morning
They got him back of the lines into
little hospital, and when it was safe
to do so they had me taken off and
sent ME with him. Wasn't l proud.
| had done my bit They won't write
any poetry about me, but l was right
there with the wallop. If it hadn't
been for me and my millions of broth
ers-well, the Huns might have gone
on casing and gassing until they had
gassed around the world and gassed
themselves on the return circuit righ:
out of Potsdam.
When Bud and I got home he put
me on to show the folks up in Bidde-
ford how we looked. They said we
looked like-well, you know how those
New England folks talk-but anyway,
Bud said, "You take it right from me,
this little old Yankee gas mask is the
real goods-he saved my life-no, not
once, but dozen times-he's a little
fellow, but when he was on the job the
Huns couldn't stop us!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

We went through several more of these
lawn parties" and each time he would
say: "Old Top, you sure are win
ner"
Later the real fun started. The Huns
began gas attack, using a new type
of gas-and they thought nothing
could stand up against it. But I had
no fears, for | knew what I was made
to do and | was going to DO it. With
the gas came Big Berthas and Little
Berthas, with i few Gretchens and
Hildas thrown in Poor old Bud He
got shot in the leg good and proper,
and down he went, but me with him.
Now is my time, thought I, now is my
time. If he ever needed you he needs
you now. Alta Boy" l said, don't
get nervous; if you can only duck
their rotten poison you'll live to tell
Mother all about it."
Buddy lay there for hours. He got
d little fuey-he talked and he ram
bled Gosh! l thought, if I can only
pull him through! And did I do it >
Listen'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Uphill Work for
Social Service

In recent years social service actvi-
ties CT an organization in the Yangtse
Valley composed of foregn-traincd
Chinese women have taken the form
of demonstration lectures on child
welfare. These gatherings are at
tended by Chinese women Of the higher
classes, who, it is hoped. will guide
public opinion toward-a realization -as.
undernourished, overworked and dis
eased babies cannot develop into
strong, healthy men and women. Some
OF the leading spirits in this movement
are DR.. Mary Stone, sister to DR..
Phoebe Stone Of New York City. and
Dr. Ida Kahn. The former is gradu-
ate Of Rush Medical College and Of
Johns Hopkins. DR.. Kahn, also a ma
tive Chinese woman. is a specialist in
Oriental diseases.
further resul. Of child labor and
the consequent lack of child games in
the silk-producing section, as elsewhere
throughout China, is the absence Of
team spirit. This defect is national
characteristic. The Chinese adult.
like the Chinese child, mus star-cr
he won't play the game at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
Not Nice
Trenches

Before we knew it Bud and | were
up in the trenches. They weren't just
as we had imagined-they were the
kind Of trenches no trenches ought to
be. We got used to that, however.
We were there TO fight. if they would
only let us do it, and, to make long
story short, "we done it." We got all
kinds Of fireworks, and then the Klax-
ons started.
When old Klaxy honk- honks it means
that the gas is coming. and then be-
gin my duties. ! chew the Huns gas
in my little canister~and presto
changol eat up ali the poison and
give Buddy nothing but pure air.
Buddy felt kind Of relieved when it
Wan all over and I thought he was "A
bit grateful that he had me with him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

Formerly silk cloth used to be sold
locally in its original colors-pure
white or yellow. The purchaser could
have it dyed overnight. Now, however.
silk is dyed before being placed on
the market. The Chinese use vege-
table dyes, made by secret formula.
Since the European war cut off the
shipment of German dyes to America
millions of dollars worth of Chinese
dyes have been sold for export to the
United States. The most successful
Of the colors are indigo, oriental green
"a shade OF olive and vermilion. The
finest silks, It may be noted in passing,
remain IN China. The next grade goes
to France and the third to the United
States.
Living under the conditions that OBJ
tain in the silk industry the suferings
Of Chinese children of the poorer
classes are hardly equalled in any other
country. Before the Chinese baby. can
attain to maturity it has to contend
with inherited ailments, malnutrition,
unsanitary environment, and perhaps
worst of all-contagiou diseases. Little
wonder, then, that s. per cent of the
total number OF children born in the
Celestial Republic die before they
reach the age of two years and that the
average life of the native in China
is only 81 years.
Nature balances the high mortality
rate in China by arranging early matur-
! ity. The marriage age in the silk dis
trict is fourteen years for females and
sixteen for males. Despite the prev
alence of loathsome diseases, the fer
tillty Of the race is remarkable. While
there are no reliable statistics on the
/ subject, it is safe TO estimate the aver
age Chinese family at fifteen children.
Frequently the number is as high as
twenty-four or thirty. Monogamy is
practised by the peasant class for eco
nomic reasons. When a Chinese can
afford it, he usually marries several
wives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

they would need me, for they didn't
really appreciate that they weren't
going to fight the honest fight of the
open. They had heard of atrocities,
but they didn't care! Don't you have
to catch your rabbit before you can
eat him? They had heard of gas
but the only kind Of gas they knew
much about was the kind you turn
down in the parlor on Wednesday
evenings,
That's where come in. "Gas" is
my first name thrive on it, I have
tin lung! 1 eat it,
In due course l was indicted my
self. 1t took plenty of quick action
to get me started. To begin with, |
may look a little simple, but I've got
to be absolutely perfect or I'm no good
to any one. The gas defence plants at
Long Island City, N. Y, and Philadel-
phia got busy on me right away and
when our boys were ready to get into
the big scrap in earnest | was ready,
with millions Of my brothers. Their
story is great deal like mine, so I'll
speak for all Of US.
They ISSUED" me to a lanky young
fellow from Biddeford, Me. He didn't
| like me very we'll at first, as | was too
much on the job, but l knew what he
was going to be up against sooner or
later. 1t was necessary for ne to
stick close to his head and to pinch his
nose. Out" said I, don't mind that
Buddy, if | don't pinch your nose the
Huns Will pinch your cothes,"
WELL Bud said, Tets see what
you can do, Old Top"
"Come on SEE I. oil take you
through the gas house and If I'm nc
good you can shake me and get an
other" The gas house is a place
where they try me out before they put
me into real action. We came through
flying, and Bud certainly was tckled
He took me off and tucked me away in
my little knapsack, and after that he
treated me like d brother.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

For there's little to earn
and many to keep"
the Chinacized version of Tennyson,
applies with peculiar aptness to the
worlds most famous silk-producing
region--of which ancient Marking is
the centre.
Around Marking children begin to
earn a living wien they are between
two and three years old. There are no
minimum hour laws in Marking, either.
Babies wind silk strands until sheer
WEAKNESS wraps them in sleep. They
waken to renew the endless effort.
Days and years pass on, but the only
change time brings into the life of the
Chinese silk worker is to be assigned
more lab6rious tasks--for longer hours
at stretch.
Little wonder Chinese children have
few games Except for the three
feast days Of the year, there are no
holidays for the non Christian portion
Of the people. And even on the gala
occasions-New Years, and the feasts
of the Fifth and Eighth Moon-the
games are participated in not by the
children, but by the men. Men fly
kites. Children look see.' No need
to mention the games of chance where
by adult males amuse themselves.
Forty-two gambling games may be
played with dominoes alonel
Silk production is so much the raison
detre of Nankingese-esp specially of the
feminine element-that the biography
of silkworm is part and parcel OF a
Marking woman's life story.
To begin with, Notwithstanding
silkworms for productive purposes
originated with woman, an Empress
of China, who, tradition has it, reigned
some $500 years before the birth of
Christ 1t was also woman, by the
way, that introduced cotton culture
into China. Lady Whang conducted
the first experiments with the plant
in the thirteenth century, A D.
Ordinarily, the eggs of the moth
parent to the silkworm are Matched
in the sun. When, however, it is de-
| sired to shorten the incubation period
the eggs-spread on pieces of cloth
are bound about the body of the
farmers wife. Human heat hastens
the Matching process by several days
When incubation by this mode is com
pleted, the woman's body is covered
with thousands of dark gray insects
very similar in appearance to the un-
appreciated 'cootie," but-unlike the
''cootie"-the silkworm does not cling
to the human body.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

punches of rice straw, one worm is
dropped into the centre of each bunch,
and spinning begins. An American
might imagine that it would be en-
barrassing to have myriads of worms
crawling over ones floor. The Chinese
family solves this difficulty by moving
out to the courtyard while the worms
occupy the house.
The youthful silkworm has further
consideration bestowed on it in addition
to being CHARTERED in it's owners home.
No eyes but those Of the farmers wife
may look upon the newly Matched worm
Ii at this stage stranger gazed at the
ultimate producer Of my lady's gown,
popular fancy has it, the worm would
surely die. Then, when spinning be-
gins, great care must be taken lest the
worm should see the uncovered head
Of a foreign woman. If that mischance
should occur, it is believed, the worm
would spin frowzy silk in its envy Of
curling-iron effects.
When the silkworm has spun its
quota of silk in the straw nests the
insect is itself lodged in the centre of
the cocoon thus formed The straw
covering is easily slipped away and the
cocoon DROPS to the floor a sticky
ball of raw silk Should the farmer
wish to reproduce the spinner the
cocoon is kept until the wornl-meta-
morphosed into a moth-bores its way
out. Otherwise the cocoons are i'm
mersed in cauldrons of boiling water
process which, of course, kills the
worm.
1t is at this stage that the women
resume their labors. They lift the
scalded cocoons from the cauldron with
chopsticks, store them for shipment to
factories, or complete the manufacture
ing at home. If the silk is to be hand
woven, baby labor is now utilized in
winding the silk from the cocoons to
spindles. This is done by turning q
crank. Il strand Of silk breaks The
child ties it together again with the
tongue. A Chinese child can knot
threads with its tongue much more
quickly than with the hands. This
preliminary winding is done exclusive
~ by children from two and hall
years up. Girls of ten to twelve are
the most rapid workers. The compen-
sation ranges from fifty cents to one
dollar for thirty days Of about eighteen
hours each
SILK weaving, on hand looms, is main
ly done by men and boy apprentices
The work is carried on night and day
and the apprentices-lads Of twelve
years or so-are required to weave
tice receives in return for his labor
sufficient rice to keep him alive and
a suit of clothing. This suit consists
of loose shirt and pair OF trousers
both made of cotton cloth, and it is
worn as long as a shred hangs together
Should boy fall asleep at his
monotonous task, and, by overturninQ
the bean oil torch that lights the loon
at night spoil the silk he is weaving
the damage is deducted from his wage
The proceas is quite suggestive o
substracting something from nothin,
and having balance over After fou
or five years apprenticeship tn,
worker is paid ten cents per morSh i,
addition to his rice and wardrohs.