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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-30
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 FIFTEEN CIR SEVENTEEN ROOM house. Gall IJ5t. 1U-22LI
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-30

NUh LQNl NS ON IMPROVED All or Do3 ms at | and !, per .nlll, WltW in svrltca und IIDer;l NtluatioHs'l see N. 5. plerce, roon :5U1 Cltl]c1s -VauK building, lInc bIu1f.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS

->,7'-r|-~~->>~~- '-"~~-->o~- ALL KINDS OF SECOND HAND furniture. We also repair furniture and connect gas stoves. Ewing Furniture Co.,, 3l9 Pine street, phone 241S.
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-30

i2-3U-ti S5 OR 90 ACRES RIVER BOTTOM land, 45 acres ir good stand alfalfa. years. Call 1880 or sec A. Young 30i l,>.,-151rl v: Barraque street. Pine Bluff, Ark WOULD YOU INVEST A DOLLAR A week for ten weeks on chance to make S1,OOO or more? Write for particulars; no obligation. J. A. Carlton, Box 675 Fort Worth, Tex.
 IF YOU WANT WOOD CALL 1G1o. Oak and Ash, from 50c to $500 load Ao. peSttolo; l--1,,>;t MAN AND WIFE TO RENT FART of farm and board manager; large G room house; good water. good creek bottom and upland Write II. C: Cog, dal, IeLEy,-~LS.~- l. F D. No o6.oo-.o1 6. 1925 tt l, 1918 Dodge touring $775.o0, one 1917 Dodge touring %e OO; one 1917 Dodge touring S500oo; one model N Hupno bile, ovcrhauled. new top, repainted S775.oo; one little six Paige, over. hauled, new battery. new paint. good buy at $700.00: one Chevrolet touring, repainted at $275.O0; one 1918 Chevro- let touring at $315.00; one sport model studebaker six. driven less than 6,ooo miles. finished in Cadillac blue. q bargain at sS50O0: one 1917 velie c., touring. motor overhauled, repaintel, good top at $625.00: one Cadillac tour ing $SO0.o0, Al shape; one Stoddard Dayton touring. $150.O0 All the above cars can be purchased for one third cash down, and balance in 10 monthly payments. McGchee Motor Sales Co.,, l14 West Barraque St. Phone GOA.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
A BIG FOUR ,

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 9N NvER Pasha, believed to have IH filched s112,o0o,ooO from the Turk ~. ish empire before his vamoose, is said to be living among the Tartars in Transcaucasia. Talaat is supposed gen. orally to have decamped with part of the loot. The two, soldiers of fortune, to ern
 ploy an English expression less exact than the French "chevalier dindustrie"
 were, like Lenine and Trotzky, under the protection of the German Empire while they were plundering their fellow coun- trymen Former Ambassador Gerard has made the two Turks we'll known to American readers. Few novelists have presented characters more clearly drawn
 Few real life scoundrels in high places have matched Enver and Talaat as strik. ing figures in the worlds Rogues' Gal lery Compared with them the petty pii ferers of small southern republics, the dictators of brief career who have filled their pockets in the hope, sometimes real ized, of escaping with both pockets and throats uns1it, have been, in the vernacu- lar of the turf, the veriest pikers. TO get away with a million is to command respect among thieves. To steal $lO0,Oo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
TO BE LARGEST THEATRE

From the Chicago News.
 Chicago will soon gain the distinction oe having the largest theatre in the coun- try. Plans are being completed for the erection of six-story building with a frontage of 225 feet and depth of 125 feet, in Cottage Grove avenue, for theatre phr- poses only. Ire theatre will seat nearly $500 people, surpassing the seating space of the Hippodrome in New York, it is said. and will be erected by Samuel Katz and Abe J. Balaban, directors of the Ri1 viera, at a cost of 100000
 Negotiations are being made with mov- ing picture producers to make this the atre the premier presentation house Of the middle west The theatre is to built along French architectural lines, with play rooms for children and women's rest rooms. The lobby is to be five stories in height and will be patterned after the chapel of Versailles, the room next to the peace conference chamber The stage will be as large as that of the av- craze dramatic theatre, and according to S. Katz, a scenic artist will be employed to paint scenes for each picture pre- sented. A 50-piece orchestra will furnish music and a chorus is to be organized. It is expected that the theatre will be l ready for occupation by next April.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31

local as well as national, proved an insvrmountable handicap.
 Considering the obstacles they had to contend against, Zone Director Ben I. Rapport and the men and women who worked faithfully to make the campaign a success deserve the high est praise for their efforts. If large donations were not forthcoming, they at least reached the purses of the rank and file. Thousands of people gave small sums, according to their means, and testified to the regard in which the Salvation Army is held. While not large in the aggregate, the amount raised was essentially popular con- coming from people in all walks of life,
 MT. Rapport and his co-workers la bol cd with commendable zeal and it was not their fault that the campaign did not produce the desired results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
RRnCKDoRFF-RANTZAU
co,,, v, erce and Finance,

From Commerce and Finance.
 Maurice Francis Egan, who was our minister to Denmark for many years, and who is to go to Italy as American ambassador, says Count Won Brock orff-Rantzau, chief of the German representatives at Versailles, is uncan- nily clever.
 If we are to accept MT. Egan's judS- ment Brockdorff- -Rantzau is a Mach'a- velH, a Talleyrand and Blsmarch rolled into one human form.
 MT. Egan knows the German pleni- potentiary. MT. Egan also is a pretty fair observer and has the advantage of being in position to speak from personal knowledge of men and things European, while. from this side the Alt
 antic, we appraise persons only by their acts.
 If we are to gauge this German diplo- matist by his conduct at Versailles we cannot agree with MT. Egan. A gentle man is a gentleman at all times and under all conditions The count acted the boor at the first meeting with the peace delegates.
 Germany needs friends. He provoked nntagonism to Germany. His failure to rise as the others did when they ad- dressed the assemblage was an insult. rIis manner was an affront. MT. Egan likens the county to Tal- feyrand What a contrast between Brockdorff- -Rantzau at Versailles and 1 Talleyrand at Vienna. The abbe went | to Vienna as an unwelcome visitor. ! With marvellous skill and incompara- ble suavity and adroitness he played upon the weaknesses and the animosi- ties of the British, the Prussian, the ! German, the Spanish, the Russian and l the Austrian statesmen. France was | to be cut and slashed, rendered i'm I potent Before the congress ended Talleyrand practically dominated the august gathering. Never did he make | misplay. France came out of the congress not victim, but almost a | victor
 Where can Germany profit by such arrogance and blatant bravado as Brockdorff exhibits?
 1 It is an insult to Machiavelli to liker 1 him to- the German representative 1 Machiavelli never was a blunderer, but
 always the smooth, 8 crafty worker quick to take advantage of opportun ity, but never offending unnecessary
 MT Egan might be excused for tht
 Bismarck comparison, for Bismarcl
 had no polish, little of refinement, eve
 was coarse always living up to his till
 of a man of blood and iron.
 | Germany has more to gain by hoE
 esty than hostility. Germany's pro
 gramme when Germany expected tt triumph was for a stern peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31

The skipper of the good ship Mary lit tie dreamed when he set out from Nor folk that he was headed straight to fame
 sk < 5. Testimony adduced in the Ford noet suit indicates that Henry is not as bad as he has been painted.
 x x # It speaks well for American war he- roes that So far few, if any. have been coaxed into vaudeville.
 E < S It's really too bad that Harry Hawker couldn't open his mouth without putting his foot in it.
 # x # Politely, but firmly, Switzerland mas informed the Allies that she is still neu- tral.
 x x x So far Sergeant York has kept his mo- desty against overwhelming odds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
DANISH MARY

By Percy Mackaye, in New York Times Twas Danish Mary picked them up Out of the air and sea;
 A shoddy, ,trudging lollypup
 A-trapseing slatternly. The cry rang north. the cry rapI
 south;
 ''The vanished-where are they?" But Danish Mary shut her mouth
 And sshuffled on her way. R s.Ho. Hawker-Grieve!" e!"-on flyia scud s.t Esss
 Called Kingdoms and called kings: But the Danish Mary chewed her cud In drowsy maunderings.
 Now Lost" cried West. and Lost Till "Perished" like a pail, Turned bonfire-light and homing fea$
 More dark than funeral. And toward the hollow sky rose pray
 And dirge of steeple-chime: But what should Danish Mary care?5
 She takes her own sweet time. And bawls to Lewis Butt: .It,s me. {
 I've picked lem up-your men" "What-Grieye and Hawker?" Sure
 And she
 Goes shambling on again But lightning engines flash and fisS
 For news that reaps renown, The jacl<ies swarm from bay and bid And race to run her down. tki And win, and bear her prize awayA While Mary turns to prowl \ Once more where slips the dump. sS spray
 And slaps her on the fowl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
THE LAUDER MYTH

ing them to forward a concertina to { man in Newcastle who had lost his leg in an accident The man, it seeced, wal a good player, but had no instrument and was desirous of earning liveli1 hood by his talent He had once done a little job for Lauder in Newcastle and Harry remembered him. 5a A pound note here and a half sow ereign there soon cleared off the rel mainder of the letters; only two, if remember rightly, were not replied to And this sort of thing have knowr Lauder. do not occasionally but very very frequently.
 Sir Harry is, it goes without say ing. a shrewd fnancier. He has made many sound investments. Andrew Car negie and one or two others havt helped him in the way of good things But he has been bitten once or twice and there is no story against that ht likes better to tell than how he was .lambed" for some thousands by a won derful "boy financier" on Wall stree some years ago.
 q thought-and many other monyed men in America also thought-that ,th kid was a heaven-born genius fo finance; but we didn't find out till too late that he was only marvellous lia quite the best I have ever met"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Road In Good Condition

T had such tough luck on vislt 1 tried to make to Eufaula, my nome town, last Thanksgiving Day." salo Mercer Barnett, "that want to say for the benefit of any who contemplate making trip in that part of Alabama in car that by far the best route IS to Montgomery and then by Troy. l had been warned not to try and get through what is known as the Pea river swamp, but Saturday a week ago '1 found it good driving. AS matter or fact the 200 miles I covered between here and the Bluff City was over about as good roads as can be found in the entire state. I was agreeably surprised to find Eufaula in such good shape aIt- CT its fearful cyclone experience sew eral months ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

When they get to the hugging stage of the courtship a girl can learn things from man that he doesn't even know
 There is only one way to end an ar gument with your wife. Agree with everything she says and she will soon quit arguing.
 The trouble with most of the good prohibitionists is that everybody else is too bad to have anything to do with.
 The morning that you have only 20 minutes in which to dress is the same morning your schoestring breaks and your collar button disappears.
 When a woman discovers that it is useless to worry over being so fat she will worry over how terrible 1t would be if she kept on losing until she got too thin.
 Any princess is willing to bet you that her 17-year- old beau has forgotten more than her 37-year-old father ever knew.
 Men are just as foolish about clothes as women It has just about gotten SC you can't tell tired business mar from high school boy. | The best years of an optimist's life are ahead of him. The best years Of pessimists life are behind him. l After a man has crossed a busy thor oughfare he is doggone glad that au 1 tomobiles are not sold on the dollar | down and d-dollar-a-week plan. Size isn't everything. The man iron Rhode Island is prouder of his stat l than the man from Texas is Of his | When you are squaring up with tn 1 fiddler you discover that there isn, such a heluva lot of fun in dancing a you thought there was. 1 Ever notice that smart girl who l wearing an ankle-length skirt ca handle it so as to show you more thai Is displayed by the girl who is wear
 ing a knee-length skirt?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
GETTING THERE

GETTING THERE Let us still be up and doing, Still the goal of life pursuing
 As we go; What we need is more pinch hitters And not quite so many quitters
 Here below. Time has proved the old, old saying That the game of life we're playing
 Can't be won, If we stand around complaining While some other fellows starining
 T'ward the sun.
 ON THE BOTTOM How do you interpret the German whine" Ut sounds to me like the revised version of Deutschland uber Allies g "How's that?"
 Deutchsland unter Alles.'"
 ROUND HER SHOULDERS Mrs. Dubwaite looks radiant" 50 I sec"
 What's come over her?'' "A 5000 set of summer furs."
 DELAYED DECISION Senator Twobble says he is retir- ing to private life for the sake of his family" 'Umph!' ss Maybe he's sincere"
 I doubt 1t He managed to put his family by for 20 years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31

600 is to gain among thieves rare disttnc tion. ss
 Lenine and Trotzky have not yet set oul to cross the Ural range and find asylum among the Tartars, or to take a shortei cut to freedom in some neutral European country. Doubtless when their day i; done and the tale of their efforts al scoundrels upon large scale is told i will be shown that they were as ambit ious as Enver and Talaat, but as figure: in the always fascinating history of thu crimes of men who play dual roles al sta tesmen and pickpockets, Lenine ana Trotzky hardly will match Enver and Ia laat. The snug hypocrite who beats the drum of reform while rifling the neigh bors of their savings never has the dra matic personality of one of Enver's os Talaats kind. The Turk upon horseback has been for centuries the picturesque plunderer. Enver and Talaat upon horse back, as Turkish ministers of state, plum dering their fellow countrymen were q precious pair of scoundrels who deserved. imprisonment, but they were for al that" typical Turks. Lenine and Trotzk5 are typical hypocrites merely, not typicai Russians. They are of the international school of wholly despicable scoundrelisnI which pmtes loudly of the brotherhood of man while animated by selfish purposes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
E < Great Work Done Bv Dr. J. T. Searcy

A FTER serving as head of the GA state asylum for the insane at Tuscaloosa for more than quarter of century, Dr. James T. Searcy has been succeeded by Dr. Dempsey Partlow. The retirement of Dr. Searcy was caused by his advanced age and his desire to spend the remaining years of his life free from the heavy responsibilities he has borne with honor to himself and the state for many years.
 The hospital at Tuscaloosa under the efficient direction of Dr. Searcy was conceded to be not only one of the largest i'll the country, but one of tie most ably managed. It is model institution of it's kind and the high standing it has maintained has been due chiefly to the efforts of Dr.
 
 Scurcy, noted specialist in mental diseases and an executive of the first rank.
 Some years ago a legislative inves tigation was made of conditions at the state hospital for the insane, whicf resulted in a complete vindication oi Dr. Searcy and his management. Dur ing the many years he has been a the head of the hospital it has beer in large measure self-supporting ant has been much more than that, an in stitution where unfortunate men ant women were assured of receiving hu mane treatment, under conditions most likely to effect a cure if tha were possible.
 The service that Dr. Searcy ha performed for the state of Alabam; and the thousands of patients en trusted to his care adds lustre to l; long and useful life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events Recorded May 31. 1899.

General Otis has notified the war de- partment that he will be satisfied if the army under his command in the Phil ippines is kept at maximum of 3o'ooo men, Memorial day is observed in Manila. H
 Cuban officers are still stubborn says a dispatch from Havana. but pri- yates are accepting the pay awarded them by the American government for disbanding and surrendering their arms.
 The hearing of the Dreyfus case pro- ceeds quietly at Paris. M. de Beaupre concludes the reading of his report on the case and asks for a revision of tn. verdict of condemnation and a retria
 by court-martial.
 A plan for mediation between twt nations threatened with war will b. proposed at The Hague today. Sev eral delegates of the great powers ar' reported favorable to the proposal. Since the arrival or hlS 1ldsship' Fl 1 Olympia, at Hong Kong. Admira Dewey's health has improved. but he l | still refusing all invitations of so cial nature.
 Severe fighting is reported betwee Americans and Filipinos on the islam | of Mindanao
 1 Graduating exercises were held las l night at Pollock Stephens institute
 Eleven diplomas were awarded. 1 The corner stone of St. Vincents hos Epital was laid with impressive cere monies yesterday by Rt. Rev. Edwar yP. Allen. bishop of Mobiiv. assisted D
 sCatholic clergy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
There Is No Limit

q recall that when the Woodward building was in course of erection that the men of little faith in Birmingham future stood around and predicted that the upper floors would never be rented' that the town was not big enough TOT such an enterprise," said Robert c. Redus, then came the First National bank, the Brown-M Marx, the Empire, the American Trust, the Title Guaranty, the Farley, the Jefferson County and other office buildings and yet I understand that at present it is hard to get suita- ble space for offices. It is an unw1se prophet who puts any limit on the pos sible growth of this great city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
Salvation Army Campaign
 Was Greatly Handicapped

N N unfortunate chain of circum- SS stances caused the Salvation Army campaign in Birmingham to be a failure. The inevitable reaction fol- lowing the signing of the armistice n.itigated against it, the Victory Loan had just gone lover the top" and there were several other projects being placed before the people for their support at the same time that the Sal vation Army was carrying on it's drive to raise $11O,0O0.
 The amount raised was considerably smaller than the quota assessed, about forty thousand dollars, and while it doesn't mend matters to cry over spilled milk, it is to be regretted that a cause so worthy should have failed to receive all and more than it asked The fact that there are other cities some of them much larger than Bir mingham, which made poor show ing, should not be offered as an ex cuse for Birmingham's neglect of ; duty which it should have been ; privilege and an honor to perform.
 Launched at more propitious time there can be no doubt of the over wheIming success that would have at tended the campaign, not only in Bir n,ingham, but elsewhere in the coun try. 4 rapid succession of "drives,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
Hirh school Bows Farm

''The Walker County High school has begun a work that I believe will spread sioner John R. Hornady. There are aoout 50 acres of land around the school which is cultivated by students Every student is required to take agriculture The re- suit is that enough stuff is produced to more than pay the entire operating ex-
 penses of the school Every garden III Jasper is tended by the students. stopped by the school on the way back from Carbon Hil
 Carbon Hill seems to be booming. new school and a new church are being erected. Business seems to be good ana the town is coming along fine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
WONDERFUL


 From the Chicago Herald and Exam
 iner.
 Labor department experts have dis covered that the lower a mans salary the greater proportion of it goes for food and rent
 Astounding!
 What wonders will science be ac4 complaining next?
 Who would have guessed that a cer tain amount of money is larger per centage of a small amount of mones than of larger amount? Bread Ani meat cost the poor man as much a the man who is not poor; and there i a minimum on rents below which tn most ingenious poor man cannot go. Exhaustive studies were made i many cities to get at the amazins truth. It was a very interesting cam paign. The statistics will be printed neatly but not gaudily. and filed ava | for time to mellow. 1 We wonder what it all cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
Elect Efficient Men

s'In my opinion, soldiers and sailors run hing for office should be given due con- sideration if they are capable men, ana men that will fill the place to which they aspire efficiently said Noble R. Beale' chief carpenters mate, United States navy. q do not think man should De elected because he is an ex-soldier or sailor for that reason alone' but Aeei confident that if he is capable man all men who have been in the various branches of the service will support him. However, I do not think any man un- less he is efficient will be elected, be ne soldier, sailor or civilian"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
Taking the Joy Out of Life

q am fond of kidding children" said Solon Jacobs, "and yesterday every boy and girl I met en route or on tbe way home from school, I began to tell them how sorry I was Tor them that school was over. l, however, never found a single one who appreciated my sympathy, but every one I joshed' was joyous over the fact that vacation days had arrived ran across several who were in the dumps because they had to go to summer school to make up their grades, as they had stayed out of school during the flue' epidemic"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
Roses In PrOfusion

up to the recent rains never saw the roses and other flowers more peat tiful or in greater quantities in BIT mingham,' said Hill Ferguson. Tt has been demonstrated that the soil here IS peculiarly adapted for rose culture. 1t is not necessary ,as it is in some local ities,. to put iron shavings around tnem' for here it is already in the earth. am glad to see that each season there IS large increase in the number of running roses planted on fences, hedges and ar bors. We could easily make Birming- ham city of roses if every one would set out rose bushes in quantities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31

BEGINNING THE DAY-Show me the mystery, O Lord, of how l gain by giving. Teach me the lesson or the flowers and streams. which live in the riot of beauty and joy be- cause they give themselves away. Teach me the lesson of all this siv- ing world and of Thy great giving heart. In Christ's name. Amen H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
CAUSE AND EFFECT

From the CnlcagO NeWS.
 There should be no surprise over the report that Germans in Berlin are going barefooted when it is learned that they gamble to the extent of $5,0Oo,Ooo or $6,ooo,- 900 each night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-31
INDICTMENT GONE
+ba Cincinnati Enouirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Who's going to sit up with sick friends or fill the required quota at the lodge now that the stuff isn't for sale any more anywhere in Ohio?