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GLADSTONE NOT IDLE.
The "Grand Old Man" will Make
New Translation of Horace.


NEW YORK, March pa London
dispatch says; Notwithstanding his
retirement from the premiership Mr..
Gladstone does not propose to re-
main idle. In a letter just received
by Samuel Westall, the famous
book dealer OF the metropolis.
the venerable statesman, WHO'S now
on the continet, says that he is abont
to undertake some new TRANSACTIONS
OF Horace, and asks that he be for
wardcd all the TRANSACTIONS that Mr.
Westall can get together. There
has been a material Improvement in
the trouble with his eyes during the
past two weeks, and he can now
read and write without difficulty.
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LABOR PARTY.
ntlependent Labor Party in England
III Raise 100000 for the Ex-
penses of Labor Candidates
for Parliament.

|NDoN, March, 22.-The admins
We council OF the Independent
pr parry at meeting today de-
70 raise fund OF $40, 900 for
Election expenses of labor candi-
= far Parliament. A list OF
pteen such candidates, to be
mated in the chief manufacture
and labor centers, was APP
led, and a supplementary list
fifteen Others was laid over
further action. The council
Ptca resolution disclaiming
Pnnection with the principles and
ives OF anarchists carrying on
I propaganda in constitutional
Rtries, and declining to hold cor
|ondence or any other connection
such elements.
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Belt are to be eomplimented on their
efforts to get their passengers
through. This trip will be an ex-
pensive one, yet the Cotton Belt does
not propose to delay its passengers
il it can possibly be avoided
1t was reported that the Valley
train south this morning could go
no further than Warner, hut tele-
phone message from the Valley depot
states that the report is Incorrect.
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HON. s. NJ. TAYLOR
ralk- of His visit to Washington city

Talks OF HIS Visit TO washington City.
This morning a GRAPHIC reporter
called on Hon s. NJ Taylor and had
q short interview with him in regard
to his recent visit to the Capital City.
MIR. Taylor said he saw Hon. Cliff
ton Breckenridge while there and
had several conversations with him.
:" He stated to me" said MIR. Tay-
lor, that This duties in Congress
We're never more arduous and that
he was kept constantly busy. know
that ne is,for even while | was there
/ learned that he was constant
reference on questions pertaining to
the tariff and all it's bearings. :
Did YOU know" said the re-
porter, chat we had heard here
that President Cleveland had stated
that he would veto the Bland seig-
niorage bill?"
Yes, : was the reply, but it is all
a mistake. The day before / left
Washington Mai. Breckenridge and
Secretary Carlisle called on President
Cleveland and Maj. Breckenridge told
me that President Cleveland said he
intended to examine closely the bill
and that he would either endorse it
or veto it within the time-limits pre-
scribed by law. The impression is
with the leading Gongressiona lights
in Washington that the President
will sign the bill The Republicans
are apparently indifferent as to the
course he will pursue. think the
bill will become law.
Mr.. Taylor said he had an oppor-
tunity TO be present at the Breckin-
ridge-Pollard trial. but that he did
not feel sufficiently interested as TO
attend. He said that the feeling
against the Kentucky Congressman
in Washington is very bitter.
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ARKANSAS FLOOD.
COTTON BELT AND IRON NOUN.
TAIN TRAINS TIED UP.
The River Is Falling at Fort Smith
and ON stand-srin at Little Rock.

and ON StanG-stiii at Little Rock.
The Arkansas river registered this
morning at O'Clock at Fort Smith
l614 feet; at Little Rock. % g feet with
u rise OF . inches since yesterday
morning at 8 o'clock, or in twenty
foHl' hours This shows decided
falling off and We need have no fears
OF an overflow.
Government reports today say
that the river will come to Il stand
Still this afternoon atLitlle Rock and
as the Indications are for colder
weather, the rainfall will be greatly
diminished This will be eonsoling
news to our citizens for somuch rain
fail this week has tended to paralyze
business in all branches, besides il
has set the farmers back in their
work.
News has reached the city that
100 feet Of the Cotton Belt road-bed
on the west side OF the Saline river
bridge, has been washed away and
that the river is rising at the rate OF
an inch an hour Traffic is entirely
suspended on the Cotton Belt south
of this city. This will be the third
day since an engine has passed
south ON that road. There is no
communicative whatever between
this city and 'reXarkana by rail and
great number OF railway employees
are now idle on account of the dis
turbed condition OF the road.
1t is confidently believed that if
we have no more heavy rainfalls, the
water will srOn pass off the track Of
the Cotton Belt and the road-bcd
will be put in proper shape imnedi-
ately thereafter. Extra gangs will
be sent out from this city and the
work to be done will he pushed night
and day until completed The trains
from the north end OF the Cotton
Belt are making regular trips to the
city but go 10 further south All the
trouble seems to be located in the
Saline river bottoms.
The passenger trains on the Valley
road are coming in on time although
/ they have been compelled to pass
through a food OF water along the
Louisiana end OF the line All south
/ bound Iron Mountain trains are tied
up at Little Rock and the city is
crowded with belated passengers.
Hot Springs has been shut out
/ from the world now for thfec days,
and the visitors in the city from All
over the country are greats dis.
/ tressed at not receiving their mail.
I LATER NEWS.
Tie train. on the Iron Mountain
for Texas left Little Rock last night
at $3.50 and for Hot Springs at 1890
Trains on the Iron Mountain arr
running both north and south today
The Cotton Belt road this after
noon at 1:30 sent out a passengel
train from this city via AltheimeI
over their branch to Little Rock
4 from Little Rock they take the Irol
Mountain to Texarkana. and tonigh
the train will leave Texarkana 10
, kingsland. 1t WILDE a long trip blu
owing. to the break III the Gottol
Belt roadbed in the Saline bottom
this route becomes necessary.
The management OF the Cotto,
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GOOD FRIDAY.
The Public schools of Chicago wii
Close in Honor of it,

CHICAGO, March 22.-Good Friday
will be recognized in this city temoi-
row by the closing for the first time
OF all the public schools. This is in
accordance with aresolution adopted
at the last meeting of the Board of
Education
The Evangelical and Hebrew mem
hers OF the Board made a bitter
fight against the action, but were
over-ridden by small majority, and
in consequence the schools will close.
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KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Ftate Convention of North Carolina in
Session at Greenville.

|sEENvILl-E, n. G., March PA
|ely attended state convention of
|iNniah' $ OF Labor was called to
r. this morning with I. A Wilkes
|idilig, Steps will he taken
lard g better organization Of the
r. N the state. 1t is probable
resolutions will be introduced
BRING the return of Mr.. Powderly
ne leadership of the order, while
nc same time expressing con
pee N General Lester Workman
ereign.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
The Downie Lectures.

Yesterday afternoon Prot. Downie
delivered a snperblY illustrated lee
ture on the Worlds Fair. Last eve
ming the subject was Napoleon and
the Revolution. Both lectures were
largely attended by appreciative
audiences. The Illustrations were
splendid and the comments instrue-
tive and pleasing.
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Call.

The Democratic County Central Com.
mittee Of Jefferson county is hereby
notiiie that there will he a meeting
Of said COMMITTEE at the city of Pine
Bluff Saturday, the 9th OF March
1884, at O'Clock p. m. at the Court.
house Signed,
u. Orto, Chairman,
NJ T. Roberts, Secretary
City papers please copy.
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New YORK, March %. Cotton
opened for May, 742; closed. 40
Middling. 9.16
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NEW ORLEANS. March 22.-Cotton
opened for May. 70s; closed
los Middling. 3-16
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LIVERPOOL, March D. Cotton
opened and closed for April-May
402.40l. Middling, 4Kd.
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II you did, you can see
it over again by clipping
your coupons from the
DAILY GRAPHIC, six
of which, with 10 cents,
will entitle you to Is
views.
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JIM CORBETT.
shanp'on Of the World win Partici-
ness a Roxing Match FOR the
Benefit of the Poor.

-rHiA, March 233.-Thc big
Fund benefit ever held in
will take place tonight
strial Hall, and SO
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COTTON MARKETS.

REPORTED BY e. c. HOWELL, MANAGER
HAafMETT GROCER CO., COTTON
FACTORS.
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$50
SUPERB
Photographs.

More than offered by any
other newspaper of the
buildings and chief exhib-
its at the Worlds Pair.
The handsome specimens
of art make Handsome
Souvenirs for the Parlor
or Library.
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PINE BEuFF.ARK March 2l.-Mid-
ding. &c
The morning call., 1894-10-28
VOLUME LXXVI-NO. $50.
50s6a 8lGnl|lR!klnER
06Va z On MS NaEIe soil.

dialects, ard the people. whi e they care
great deal for their own homes and for
their families, have no interest in the
Government and support it only as
a necessary evil. The family and the
clan form the basis of Chinese society.
A great number of the punishments
Of the empire are Inflicted by the family.
and most disputes are settled without re-
course to the courts. Family ties ara closer
in China than anywhere else in the world.
If man makes a fortune his forty-second
cousins from all parts of the empire swoop
down upon him and he has 10 support and
help them. II man gets position he is
supposed to take his own family la first in
the choosing of the subOrdinates, and nep0-
tism reigns supreme. | met while | was in
Canton the Jay Gould Of China. His name
is How Qaa and he Is worth $50 600. 000
He was keeping 400 relatives, and his sis
.ters and his cousins and his aunts to the
third and fourth generation were sucking
the life blood out of his big income. He
was. / Judge. about 40 years old, and as an
instance of how strong family authority is,
he obeys his mother to-day in all matters
of society obligations. and upon being
asked by Consul Seymour to dinner not
long ago he replied:
81 don't know whether / can 60 or not.
l must go first and ask my mamma"
l afterward met his mamma. She was
an old lady. whose eyes shone as brightly
as the diamonds which decorated her cap
and whose feet were no bigger than the
fists of baby. She ruled the whole 400 of
How Qua's relatives. and she was proba
bly, the head of the How Qua clan.
These clans of China are very much like
those of Scotland; every family keeps its
pedigree, and the reason why the Chinese
The morning call., 1894-10-28

l took a photograph of Chinese deed,
by which missionary had bought some
! land at Marking, and which he was carry
ing TO Shanghai to be recorded at the
American consulate, during my trip with
| him down the Yang-tse- -Kiang. 1t
was as big as four pages of this
newspaper. and was covered with stamps
China pays no tax on liquors, and
it is said that the taxes do Dot amount
to IS cents per head of the population. A
large part of the revenue is collected from
the taxing of salt, and there are impnrt
and export taxes collected on goods pas.-
ing up and down the rivers. I saw cus-
toms boats everywhere, and the river
police is quite extensive. The people
understand very well just how much taxes
they ought to pay. They are thoroughly or
ganized, and any radical increase, such as
must come from the present war with
Japan, which is probably costing them
81 100000 day, is almost certain to GREATS
a revolution. | have seen different esti-
mates OF the revenues gotten by the empire
of China and in no case have the amounts
turned into the general government been
greater than $50. 100000 a year. This
would be small amount in comparison
with the indemnity that Japan will prob
ably demand il she is victorious in this
war, and the Chinese Emperor has indeed
tborny road before him.
The greatest danger arises In the char.
acter OF the Chinese as regards social and
tabor combinations. The Government is
perhaps the only disorganized part of the
country. Every city. every state and al
ia nfyaI f,,lH
different unions, and all branches of in.
dustry are banded together. Onr labor
unions are nothing IN comparison with
those of China, and the Government has
TO bow down to them. The BARRIERS united
some years ago and made the Emperor
come 20 terms in regard to the public ex-
aminatioDs for their children. They had
before this belonged to rather despised
class. They stand now as high as any
other people in the empire. One of the
features Of barbering in China is earclsap-
ing. Each barber has tweezers with which
he pulls little hairs out of your ears. or
trims them to suit The Chinese like to
have the backs of their shoulders and
necks kneaded after they are shaved
This takes good deal of time, and the
BARRIERS concluded that it kept them too
busy during the holidays. The union
called its members together all over the
empire. They passed law which makes
it impossible for you to get your ears
cleaned during six certain days of the
year. Ii Hung Chang is great enough 10
slap the cheeks Of the Chinese officials
who call upon him. He makes his gen.
erals get down O. their knees. and If the
Emperor does not take away his big cloth
boots he will continue TO kick them out of
the room. He would not dare. however,
10 do anything against the union of the
The morning call., 1894-10-28
CONCEALlNG DIAMONDS.
Women Who Worry About Their
Gems Hide Them.


Women who own diamonds have them
always on their minds, and generally on
their bodies. They go about the streets
like travelling safety vaults. The shreNd
observer will frequently see a placid and
decoTous-looking waman suddenly press
her hand on some part of her body not
apparently claiming at eDton, and look
OF anguish pass over her face. This is not
caused by a casual spasm of pain, a mo-
mentary dereliction of some physical func-
ton, but by the horrible thought that her
diamonds may have slipped their moorings.
Some women carry their diamonds around
their necks in chainois bags, like scapulars: /:
others adjust them like porous plasters
around their waists.
Mrs. Thomas Winans of Detroit pinned
$1,000 worth of diamonds onto her corsets.
and now is bewaling their loss. Women
seize the most unlikely places TO stow away
their diamonds when notin use, but do n OF
seem to lessen the chances of loss or anx-
iety. Last winter young woman piuned a
5000 diamond to the bottom of silk skirt
for safe keeping A week later, forgetting
this. she put on The skirt and merrily prom
enaded the town. When she sought to wear
her diamond it was gone. After a week Of
anguish il was recovered by the offer of a
500 reward. She dropped it where Ii had
been picked up. Not two weeks after she
sent il to a strange washerwoman pinned
inside a corset cover. The mental agony
which accompanies such exploits tends to
whiten the locks.
A woman with solitaire earrings of un-
usual value wore them concealed in gold
balls. In a sleeping car these were re-
moved, and she was brought back home in
piteous state of collapse. Another
woman, believing that her person is in
danger from the possession of such valua-
BILE diamonds, when travelling, pins them
in the folds of the window curtains and
hides them under the corners of rugs. The
next morning she has forgotten the pre-
else spot, and after ransackiDg the room
in state of comparative frenzy, and per-
haps losing a train. the missing jewels are
found.
The same woman in Paris hid her dia-
IN onds in a slit in the mattress. The dia-
monds, after a week or so. had made a
tour of the interior of the mattress. Not
being found the maid who attended the
room was charged with theft and detect
ives were called In. A pretty embroglio
was set in motion. when the enterprisng
landlady had the mattress opened and the
diamonds were found. People who do not
own diamonds have this compensation,
and it should not be lightly treated, they
do not have to take care of them.-New
York Evening Sun.
The morning call., 1894-10-28

The Chinese Government is greatly
alarmed over the rebellion that is being
fomented in nearly every state in the en-
plre. The Peking Gazette is full Of the
arrests of members of the Koloa Hui So
ciety. and executions are taking place in
many of the cities. 1t is now death TO
belong to this society, and the heads of the
members are hung up outside of the cities
as warning to others Notwithstanding
this the organization steadily increases and
it is being recruited from the disaffected
soldiers and others of the empire. 1t is said
to have had its origin among the soldiers of
the Human Province, which is one of the
most rebellious of The Chinese states. The
Human men are oted for their bravery, and
hundreds Of thousands of them were em-
plOyed in putting down the TAPPING rebel
lion. After the war was over, NUM- bers
of them were kept on in the reiinues of the
different Viceroys, and notably so by the
Viceroys OF Marking. A few years ago
au attempt was made to dispense with
their services, and some of The soldiers got
together and organ nzed this society. By
others it is said TO have been founded
about sixty years ago. but it undoubtedly
had its great impetus through these men
al Marking. and to-day its mem bership
runs we'll I'D into the millions, and it has
its secret meetings in every city of China.
Il is avowedly against the Manchu Gov
eminent. and its motto is "China for the
Chinese" Its members swear to be faith
full to the society under penalty of death.
BDd each society has its executiOner,
and any member is supposed to
commit murder at the co mmands of
the order. Members are initiated by
the drinking of hot wine mixed with
the smoking blood of cock which is killed
The morning call., 1894-10-28

ter OF the ship Alexander Gibson to take
down the tombstone and place ii over the
grave. 1t was in March, 1893 and Mrs.
Gale herself saw the tombstone aboard
and gave particular directions for finding
the grave. and related the details of the
wreck Of the Oregon as we'll as she had
had been able to ascertain them.
Fred Kinds was passenger on the Glib
son, being bound on pleasure-trip around
the world.
When the GibsOns reached Oano Island
the first thing done was to rescue the crew
OF the ship BowdoD, which had just struck
on the outside reef and was rapidly going
to pieces.
The wreck of the Oregon was still on the
beach and presented a most picturesque
appearance. As she was inside the reef thaL I
acted as a breakwater, she escaped the
force of the big waves. which would have
broken her to pieces. There was no
reason why the hull should not last for
years. All about the beach were scat
tered pieces of lumber and rigging. Al
though the hull was intact the rigging was
in bad shape. The mizzen mast was en-
tirely gone, and tangle of ropes and
broken yards clung TO the portions of the
others that were still standing. A large
piece of sail fluttered from the toreyard.
Oano Island is not very inviting place.
II is almost devoid of vegetation. contain
ing only three palm trees and some small
bushes. There are half dozen graves on
the island with only board or cross to
show what they are. The names of those
who sleep beneath, if they were ever
marked on the boards, have been obliter-
ated by sun and storms.
1t was while the crew Of the Gibson
The morning call., 1894-10-28

for the sake of the order at the command
of its leaders. Their main grievance is
against the Government, and they have
published manifestos against it, and are
doing so now. Some of the chiefs of the
order are said to be travelling around the
country as doctors. and they are carrying
the news of the Chinese defeats, and are
gathering in members wherever they 60.
Their motto is, "Drive out the Tartar"
and it Is said that one branch of
the Triad Society dates back to 1864
A. ID. or twenty years after the conquest.
They have been working to overthrow
the Government ever since, and they
have great hatred of anything which is
not purely Chinese. 1t is safe to say of
the hundreds of millions in China that out
side of the Government officials there are
not 1O0.0O0 Chinese who would fight for the
Emperor. They keep him because they
must have a ruler OF some kind, but they
know he is Tartar, and they hate him.
In every Chinese state capital there is a
Manchu army as we'll as Chinese army,
and the Tartars are neither admired nor
loved. The Emperor, in fact, is like
Humpty Dumpty. He sits on the wall,
and if he should fall, all of his horses and
all of his men can never put HumptS
Dumpty up again.
1t will be surprising to many Americans
TO know how cbeaply the Government OF
China is run. Taxes are lower perhaps
tnan in any ether semi-civilzed c0untry
on the globe. The principal source of rev.
enue is the land tax, aud this varies from
10 to 66 cents an acre. The Emperor nom.
inally owns all the land, but in reality the
people have as much of a right to theil
farms as we have. aud they buy and sell
their real estate, giving deeds for the same
The morning call., 1894-10-28
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

people, who at once became very excited.
Inc old man went into another room apd
Drought ont three larger measures, ex-
actIy the same shape as the smaller ones,
ana evidently part of the same set. All
OF them bore the same government
marx, and there was no difference
to be detected except that those belonging
to the old people were polished until they
looked like silver and were in strong con-
trast to the dirty oxidiZed ones found on
the island In the South Pacific.
"How do you account for these I found
being down on Oano Island 2" asked Mr..
Kinds.
The old man thoughta long time before
be answered and then said: 81 can hardly
believe it, and yet it must be so. These
measures of mine have been in the Cole
family for over 200 years, as near as can
ascertain. can rememb Der them for nearly
eighty years, and my father and grand
father used to refer TO them as old relics.
"Wakeman Cole" continued the old
man, after examining large Bible, was
my great-grandtather Like all the rest
of the family he was sailor, ard made a
great many unusual voyages In his time.
According to this book he sailed from
Bristol in a ship called the Queen in
1850. and nothing was ever heard of him.
Those little measures seem to me like a
voice from the dead, and the more | think
Of it the more mysterious it becomes"
Then l guess these measures must be
yours" said Mr.. Kinds, pushing them
toward the old man and preparing to take
his leave.
mo, sir, replied the old captain, you
can't leave those here. II they belonged
to my great-grandfather, and [ am firmly